{"id": "enwiki-00278438-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana Finals\nThe 2018 Copa Sudamericana Finals was the two-legged final to decide the winner of the 2018 Copa Sudamericana, the 17th edition of the Copa Sudamericana, South America's secondary international club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278438-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana Finals\nThe finals were contested in two-legged home-and-away format between Colombian team Junior and Brazilian team Atl\u00e9tico Paranaense. The first leg was hosted by Junior at the Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Mel\u00e9ndez in Barranquilla on 5 December 2018, while the second leg was hosted by Atl\u00e9tico Paranaense at the Arena da Baixada in Curitiba on 12 December 2018. This was the last final to take place over two legs, as starting from 2019 the final will be played as a single match at a venue chosen in advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278438-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana Finals\nTied 2\u20132 on aggregate, Atl\u00e9tico Paranaense won 4\u20133 on penalties, winning the tournament for the first time in their history. As champions, Atl\u00e9tico Paranaense earned the right to play against the winners of the 2018 Copa Libertadores in the 2019 Recopa Sudamericana, and the winners of the 2018 J.League Cup in the 2019 J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship. Atl\u00e9tico Paranaense also automatically qualified for the group stage of the 2019 Copa Libertadores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278438-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278438-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Format\nThe final was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the higher-seeded team (Atl\u00e9tico Paranaense) hosting the second leg. The away goals rule was not applied, and extra time would be played if the aggregate score was tied after the second leg. If the aggregate score was still tied after extra time, a penalty shoot-out would have been used to determine the winner. If extra time was played, a fourth substitution would have been allowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278438-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Matches, First leg\nAssistant referees:Jonny Bossio (Peru)V\u00edctor Raez (Peru)Fourth official:Carlos Orbe (Ecuador)Video assistant referee:Gery Vargas (Bolivia)Assistant video assistant referees:Alexis Herrera (Venezuela)Carlos Astroza (Chile)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278438-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Matches, Second leg\nAssistant referees:Christian Schiemann (Chile)Claudio Rios (Chile)Fourth official:Roddy Zambrano (Ecuador)Video assistant referee:Julio Bascu\u00f1\u00e1n (Chile)Assistant video assistant referees:Piero Maza (Chile)Carlos Astroza (Chile)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages\nThe 2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages were played from 21 August to 12 December 2018. A total of 16 teams competed in the final stages to decide the champions of the 2018 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Qualified teams\nThe 16 winners of the second stage advanced to the round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Qualified teams, Seeding\nStarting from the round of 16, the teams were seeded according to the second stage draw, with each team assigned a \"seed\" 1\u201316 corresponding to the tie they win (O1\u2013O16) (Regulations Article 22.c).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Format\nStarting from the round of 16, the teams played a single-elimination tournament with the following rules:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Bracket\nThe bracket starting from the round of 16 was determined as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Bracket\nThe bracket was decided based on the second stage draw, which was held on 4 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Round of 16\nThe first legs were played on 21\u201322 August, 18\u201320 and 26 September, and the second legs were played on 19, 25, 27 September, and 2\u20134 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Round of 16, Match A\nTied 0\u20130 on aggregate, Santa Fe won on penalties and advanced to the quarterfinals (Match S1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Round of 16, Match B\nTied 3\u20133 on aggregate, Bahia won on penalties and advanced to the quarterfinals (Match S2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Round of 16, Match C\nTied 3\u20133 on aggregate, Nacional won on away goals and advanced to the quarterfinals (Match S3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Round of 16, Match D\nJunior won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the quarterfinals (Match S4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Round of 16, Match E\nDefensa y Justicia won 2\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the quarterfinals (Match S4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Round of 16, Match F\nFluminense won 4\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the quarterfinals (Match S3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Round of 16, Match G\nAtl\u00e9tico Paranaense won 4\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the quarterfinals (Match S2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Round of 16, Match H\nTied 1\u20131 on aggregate, Deportivo Cali won on penalties and advanced to the quarterfinals (Match S1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs were played on 23\u201325 October, and the second legs were played on 30\u201331 October and 1 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Quarterfinals, Match S1\nSanta Fe won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the semifinals (Match F1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Quarterfinals, Match S2\nTied 1\u20131 on aggregate, Atl\u00e9tico Paranaense won on penalties and advanced to the semifinals (Match F2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Quarterfinals, Match S3\nFluminense won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the semifinals (Match F2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Quarterfinals, Match S4\nTied 3\u20133 on aggregate, Junior won on away goals and advanced to the semifinals (Match F1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on 7\u20138 November, and the second legs were played on 28\u201329 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Semifinals, Match F1\nJunior won 3\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Semifinals, Match F2\nAtl\u00e9tico Paranaense won 4\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Finals\nIn the finals, if tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would not be used, and 30 minutes of extra time would be played. If still tied after extra time, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (Regulations Article 28).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278439-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Finals\nThe first leg was played on 5 December, and the second leg was played on 12 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage\nThe 2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage was played from 13 February to 23 May 2018. A total of 44 teams competed in the first stage to decide 22 of the 32 places in the second stage of the 2018 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Draw\nThe draw for the first stage was held on 20 December 2017, 20:00 PYST (UTC\u22123), at the CONMEBOL Convention Centre in Luque, Paraguay. For the first stage, the teams were divided into two pots according to their geographical zones:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Draw\nThe 44 teams were drawn into 22 ties (E1\u2013E22) between a team from Pot A and a team from Pot B, with the teams from Pot B hosting the second leg in odd-numbered ties, and the teams from Pot A hosting the second leg in even-numbered ties. This distribution ensured that teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Format\nIn the first stage, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would be used. If still tied, extra time would not be played, and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (Regulations Article 27).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Format\nThe 22 winners of the first stage advanced to the second stage to join the 10 teams transferred from the Copa Libertadores (two best teams eliminated in the third stage of qualifying and eight third-placed teams in the group stage).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches\nThe first legs were played on 13, 15, 20\u201322 February, 10\u201312 and 18 April, and the second legs were played on 6\u20138 March, 8\u201310 and 23 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E1\nTied 2\u20132 on aggregate, Caracas won on away goals and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E2\nDeportes Temuco won 3\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E3\nLan\u00fas won 5\u20134 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E4\nDeportivo Cali won 5\u20133 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E5\nSan Lorenzo won 1\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E6\nTied 4\u20134 on aggregate, LDU Quito won on away goals and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E7\nTied 0\u20130 on aggregate, Nacional won on penalties and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E8\nCerro won 2\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E9\nTied 3\u20133 on aggregate, Sol de Am\u00e9rica won on away goals and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E10\nGeneral D\u00edaz won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E11\nTied 2\u20132 on aggregate, Deportivo Cuenca won on penalties and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E12\nRampla Juniors won 4\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E13\nDefensa y Justicia won 3\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E14\nAtl\u00e9tico Paranaense won 4\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E15\nSport Huancayo won 3\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E16\nBoston River won 4\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E17\nS\u00e3o Paulo won 1\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E18\nEl Nacional won 4\u20133 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E19\nBahia won 4\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E20\nCol\u00f3n won 3\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E21\nBotafogo won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278440-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Match E22\nFluminense won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage\nThe 2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage was played from 17 July to 16 August 2018. A total of 32 teams competed in the second stage to decide the 16 places in the final stages of the 2018 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Draw\nThe draw for the second stage was held on 4 June 2018, 20:00 PYT (UTC\u22124), at the CONMEBOL Convention Centre in Luque, Paraguay. For the second stage, the teams were allocated to two pots according to their previous results in this season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Draw\nThe 32 teams were drawn into 16 ties (O1\u2013O16) between a team from Pot 1 and a team from Pot 2, with the teams from Pot 1 hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could be drawn into the same tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Draw\nThe following were the 10 teams transferred from the Copa Libertadores (two best teams eliminated in the third stage of qualifying and eight third-placed teams in the group stage).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Draw\nThe following were the 22 winners of the first stage from the Copa Sudamericana. Matches in the first stage were considered for the ranking of teams for the second stage draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Format\nIn the second stage, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would be used. If still tied, extra time would not be played, and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (Regulations Article 27).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Format\nThe 16 winners of the second stage advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches\nThe first legs were played on 17\u201319, 25\u201326 July, and 1\u20132 August, and the second legs were played on 24, 31 July, 1\u20132, 7\u20139 and 14\u201316 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O1\nMillonarios won 5\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match A).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O2\nBotafogo won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match B).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O3\nNacional won 1\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O4\nTied 1\u20131 on aggregate, Col\u00f3n won on penalties and advanced to the round of 16 (Match D).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O5\nBanfield won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match E).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O6\nFluminense won 3\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match F).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O7\nAtl\u00e9tico Paranaense won 6\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match G).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O8\nDeportivo Cali won 6\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match H).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O9\nLDU Quito won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match H).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O10\nCaracas won 6\u20133 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match G).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O11\nTied 4\u20134 on aggregate, Deportivo Cuenca won on penalties and advanced to the round of 16 (Match F).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O12\nDefensa y Justicia won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match E).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O13\nTied 1\u20131 on aggregate, Junior won on penalties and advanced to the round of 16 (Match D).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O14\nSan Lorenzo won 3\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O15\nBahia won 3\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match B).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278441-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Sudamericana second stage, Matches, Match O16\nSanta Fe won 2\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match A).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278442-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Truck season\nThe 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro de Copa Truck is the second season of the Copa Truck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278442-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Truck season, Race calendar and results\nThe Copa Truck is divided into four parallel championships with two stages (South Truck Cup, Southeast Truck Cup, Midwest Truck Cup and Mercosul Truck Cup), totaling eight stages. And a ninth stage, denominated The Great Final, will define the general champion of the category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278443-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Venezuela\nThe 2018 Copa Venezuela was the 49th edition of the competition. It began with the first stage on 11 July 2018 and concluded with the second leg of the final on 31 October 2018. Primera Divisi\u00f3n side Mineros were the defending champions, but they were disqualified from the competition in the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278443-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Venezuela\nZulia were the champions after beating Aragua 3\u20131 on aggregate in the final, and qualified to the 2019 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278444-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Verde\nThe 2018 Copa Verde was the fifth edition of a football competition held in Brazil. Featuring 18 clubs, Distrito Federal, Mato Grosso do Sul and Tocantins has two vacancies; Acre, Amap\u00e1, Amazonas, Esp\u00edrito Santo, Mato Grosso, Par\u00e1, Rond\u00f4nia and Roraima with one each. The others four berths will be set according to CBF ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278444-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Verde\nIn the finals, Paysandu defeated Atl\u00e9tico Itapemirim 3\u20131 on aggregate to win their second title and a place in the Round of 16 of the 2019 Copa do Brasil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278445-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Verde Finals\nThe 2018 Copa Verde Finals was the final two-legged tie that decided the 2018 Copa Verde, the 5th season of the Copa Verde, Brazil's regional cup football tournament organised by the Brazilian Football Confederation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278445-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Verde Finals\nThe finals were contested in a two-legged home-and-away format between Atl\u00e9tico Itapemirim, from Esp\u00edrito Santo, and Paysandu, from Par\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278445-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Verde Finals\nPaysandu defeated Atl\u00e9tico Itapemirim 3\u20131 on aggregate to win their second Copa Verde title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278445-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Verde Finals, Teams, Road to the final\nNote: In all scores below, the score of the home team is given first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278445-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Verde Finals, Format\nThe finals were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, the penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278445-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Verde Finals, Matches, First leg\nAssistant referees:Fabr\u00edcio Vilarinho da Silva (Goi\u00e1s)Bruno Raphael Pires (Goi\u00e1s)Fourth official:Dyorgenes Jos\u00e9 Padovani de Andrade (Esp\u00edrito Santo)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278445-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa Verde Finals, Matches, Second leg\nAssistant referees:Alessandro \u00c1lvaro Rocha de Matos (Bahia)Tatiane Sacilotti dos Santos Camargo (S\u00e3o Paulo)Fourth official:Andrey da Silva e Silva (Par\u00e1)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278446-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa de la Reina de Baloncesto\nThe Copa de la Reina de Baloncesto 2018 was the 56th edition of the Spanish Queen's Basketball Cup. It is managed by the Spanish Basketball Federation \u2013 FEB and was held between January 19 and 21, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278446-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa de la Reina de Baloncesto, Qualification\nPrior to the start of the season, the rules of the Spanish Basketball Federation established that the top six teams classified at the end of the first leg of the 2017\u201318 Liga Femenina, would play the Competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278446-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa de la Reina de Baloncesto, Qualification\nThe two first qualified teams qualify directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278447-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa de la Reina de F\u00fatbol\nThe 2018 Copa de la Reina de F\u00fatbol was the 36th edition of the Spanish women's association football national cup. It took place from 19 May to 3 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278448-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey Final\nThe 2018 Copa del Rey Final was an Association football match played on 21 April 2018 to decide the winner of the 2017\u201318 Copa del Rey, the 116th edition of Spain's primary football cup (including two seasons where two rival editions were played).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278448-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey Final\nThe match was between Sevilla and Barcelona at the Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278448-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey Final\nBarcelona won the final 5\u20130 for their 4th consecutive and 30th overall Copa del Rey title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278448-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey Final, Background\nBarcelona were competing in their 40th Copa del Rey final, extending the record of 39 which they previously shared with Real Madrid, having won 29 titles prior, a competition record. They were the reigning champions, having defeated Deportivo Alav\u00e9s 3\u20131 in the earlier 2017 final at the Vicente Calder\u00f3n in Madrid. This was their fifth consecutive final, a feat never accomplished before, and were seeking a fourth consecutive title, a record shared by Real Madrid (1905, 1906, 1907, 1908) and Athletic Bilbao (1930, 1931, 1932, 1933).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278448-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey Final, Background\nSevilla were competing in their ninth Copa del Rey final, having won a total of five titles prior (1935, 1939, 1948, 2007, and 2010).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278448-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey Final, Background\nThe pairing was a rematch from the 2016 final, where Barcelona won 2\u20130 after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278448-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:\u00c1ngel Nevado Rodr\u00edguezJuan Carlos Yuste Jim\u00e9nezFourth official:Carlos del Cerro GrandeReserve assistant referee:Roberto Alonso Fern\u00e1ndez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278449-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey Juvenil\nThe 2018 Copa del Rey Juvenil is the 68th staging of the Copa del Rey Juvenil de F\u00fatbol. The competition will start on May 13, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278449-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey Juvenil, First round\nThe top two teams from each group of the 2017\u201318 Divisi\u00f3n de Honor Juvenil de F\u00fatbol and the two best third-placed teams were drawn into a two-game best aggregate score series. The first leg was played on May 13 and 14 and the return leg on May 19 and 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278449-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey Juvenil, Quarterfinals\nThe eight winners from the first round advance to quarterfinals, that are played in a two-game series. The first leg were played on May 27 and the second on June 2 and 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278449-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey Juvenil, Semifinals\nThe four winners from the quarterfinals advance to semifinals, that are played in a two-game series. The first leg was played on June 10 and the second leg bill be played on June 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278450-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto\nThe 2018 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto was the 82nd edition of the Spanish King's Basketball Cup, won by FC Barcelona Lassa against former 4-time reigning champions Real Madrid. The competition is managed by the ACB and was held in Las Palmas, in the Gran Canaria Arena in February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278450-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto, Qualified teams\nThe seven first qualified after the first half of the 2017\u201318 ACB regular season qualified to the tournament. As Herbalife Gran Canaria, host team, not finished between the seven first teams, the eighth qualified did not enter in the Copa del Rey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278450-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto, Draw\nThe 2018 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto was drawn on 23 January 2018 at approximately 11:30 and was broadcast live on YouTube and on TV in many countries. The seeded teams were paired in the quarterfinals with the non-seeded teams. There were not any restrictions for the draw of the semifinals. As in recent seasons, the first qualified team plays its quarterfinal game on Thursday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278450-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto, Threat of strike\nIn the previous week of the Cup, the Basketball Players Association (ABP) called for a strike on 14 February, thus trying to stop the Cup if the ACB do not accept their requirements, in the negotiation of the new collective agreement, including the subsidy of \u20ac315,000 from the league to the players' trade union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278450-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto, Threat of strike\nAfter the trade union's proposal, several clubs refused to follow the strike. However, many players are supporting the Players' Association by social networks. Finally, on 13 February, ACB and ABP agreed terms and the Cup would be played normally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil\nThe 2018 Copa do Brasil (officially the Copa Continental Pneus do Brasil 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was the 30th edition of the Copa do Brasil football competition. It was held between 30 January and 17 October 2018. The competition was contested by 91 teams, which qualified either by participating in their respective state championships (70), by the 2018 CBF ranking (10), by the 2017 Copa do Nordeste (1), by the 2017 Copa Verde (1), by the 2017 S\u00e9rie B (1) or by qualifying for the 2018 Copa Libertadores (8).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil\nCruzeiro were the defending champions. They successfully defended their title, winning the finals 3\u20131 on aggregate against Corinthians for their 6th title. As champions, Cruzeiro qualified for the 2019 Copa Libertadores Group stage and the 2019 Copa do Brasil Round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil\nJ\u00e1dson (Corinthians) and C\u00e1ssio (Corinthians) won best player and best goalkeeper awards, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Format\nThe competition was a single elimination knockout tournament, the first two stages featuring a single match and the other stages featuring two-legged ties. Eleven teams qualified for the Round of 16 (the that teams qualified for the 2018 Copa Libertadores (8), S\u00e9rie B champions, Copa Verde champions and Copa do Nordeste champions). The remaining 80 teams played the first stage. The 40 winners played the second stage, the 20 winners played the third stage, the 10 winners played the fourth stage. The five fourth-stage winners qualified for the Round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Format\nIn this season, the away goals rule was not be used in any stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Qualified teams\nTeams in bold are qualified directly for the round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Draw\nThe draw for the first and second stage was held on 15 December 2017, 15:00 at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. Teams were seeded by their CBF ranking (shown in parentheses). The 80 qualified teams were divided in eight groups (A-H) with 10 teams each. The matches were drawn from the respective confronts: A vs. E; B vs. F; C vs. G; D vs. H. The lower ranked teams hosted the first stage match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, First stage\nIn the first stage, each tie was played on a single match basis. The lower CBF ranked team hosted the match. If tied, the higher CBF ranked team would advance to second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Second stage\nIn the second stage, each tie was played on a single match basis. If tied, extra time would not be played and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Third stage\nIn the third stage, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would not be used, extra time would not be played and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Fourth stage\nThe draw for the fourth stage was held on 19 March 2018, 11:00 at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. The 10 qualified teams were in a single group (CBF ranking shown in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Fourth stage\nIn the fourth stage, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would not be used, extra time would not be played and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Final stages\nIn the final stages, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would not be used, extra time would not be played and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Final stages, Round of 16\nThe draw for the round of 16 was held on 20 April 2018, 11:00 at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. The 16 qualified teams were divided in two pots. Teams from Pot 1 were the ones which competed at the 2018 Copa Libertadores. Pot 2 was composed of the five teams which qualified through the Fourth Stage plus the champions of 2017 Copa Verde, 2017 Copa do Nordeste and 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Final stages, Round of 16\nThe first legs were played from 25 April to 16 May and the second legs were played from 9 May to 16 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Final stages, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals was held on 30 May 2018, 11:00 at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. All teams were placed into a single pot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Final stages, Quarter-finals\nThe first legs were played on 1 and 2 August and the second legs were played on 15 and 16 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Final stages, Semi-finals\nThe draw to determine the home-and-away teams for both legs was held on 22 August 2018, 11:00 at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Final stages, Semi-finals\nThe first legs were played on 12 September and the second legs were played on 26 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278451-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil, Final stages, Finals\nThe draw to determine the home-and-away teams for both legs was held on 27 September 2018, 14:30 at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages\nThe 2018 Copa do Brasil final stages were the final stages (Round of 16, Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Finals) of the 2018 Copa do Brasil football competition. They were played from 25 April to 17 October 2018. A total of 16 teams competed in the final stages to decide the champions of the 2018 Copa do Brasil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Format\nIn the final stages, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would not be used, extra time would not be played and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Round of 16, Draw\nThe draw for the round of 16 was held on 20 April 2018, 11:00 at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. The 16 qualified teams were divided in two pots. Teams from Pot 1 were the ones which competed at the 2018 Copa Libertadores. Pot 2 was composed of the five teams which qualified through the Fourth Stage plus the champions of 2017 Copa Verde, 2017 Copa do Nordeste and 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Round of 16, Matches\nThe first legs were played from 25 April to 16 May and the second legs were played from 9 May to 16 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Round of 16, Match 76\nTied 0\u20130 on aggregate, Chapecoense won on penalties and advanced to the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Round of 16, Match 77\nCruzeiro won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Round of 16, Match 78\nBahia won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Round of 16, Match 79\nGr\u00eamio won 5\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Round of 16, Match 80\nCorinthians won 3\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Round of 16, Match 81\nPalmeiras won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Round of 16, Match 82\nFlamengo won 1\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Round of 16, Match 83\nSantos won 6\u20133 on aggregate and advanced to the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Quarter-finals, Draw\nThe draw for the quarter-finals was held on 30 May 2018, 11:00 at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. All teams were placed into a single pot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Quarter-finals, Matches\nThe first legs were played on 1 and 2 August and the second legs were played on 15 and 16 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Quarter-finals, Match 84\nCorinthians won 2\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Quarter-finals, Match 85\nFlamengo won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Quarter-finals, Match 86\nPalmeiras won 1\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Quarter-finals, Match 87\nTied 2\u20132 on aggregate, Cruzeiro won on penalties and advanced to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Semi-finals, Draw\nThe draw to determine the home-and-away teams for both legs was held on 22 August 2018, 11:00 at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Semi-finals, Matches\nThe first legs were played on 12 September and the second legs were played on 26 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Semi-finals, Match 88\nCorinthians won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Semi-finals, Match 89\nCruzeiro won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Finals, Draw\nThe draw to determine the home-and-away teams for both legs was held on 27 September 2018, 14:30 at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278452-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Final Stages, Finals, Matches\nThe first leg was played on 10 October and the second leg was played on 17 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278453-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Finals\nThe 2018 Copa do Brasil Finals was the final two-legged tie that decided the 2018 Copa do Brasil, the 30th season of the Copa do Brasil, Brazil's national cup football tournament organised by the Brazilian Football Confederation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278453-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Finals\nThe finals were contested in a two-legged home-and-away format between the defending champions Cruzeiro, from Minas Gerais, and Corinthians, from S\u00e3o Paulo. Cruzeiro and Corinthians reached the Copa do Brasil finals for the eighth and sixth time, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278453-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Finals\nA draw by CBF was held on 27 September 2018 to determine the home-and-away teams for each leg. The first leg was hosted by Cruzeiro at Mineir\u00e3o in Belo Horizonte on 10 October 2018, while the second leg was hosted by Corinthians at Arena Corinthians in S\u00e3o Paulo on 17 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278453-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Finals\nCruzeiro defeated Corinthians 3\u20131 on aggregate in the finals to win their sixth title. As champions, Cruzeiro earned the right to play in the 2019 Copa Libertadores Group stage and the 2019 Copa do Brasil Round of 16. Cruzeiro were the first team to successfully defend the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278453-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Finals, Teams, Road to the final\nNote: In all scores below, the score of the home team is given first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278453-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Finals, Format\nIn the finals, the teams played a single-elimination tournament with the following rules:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278453-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Finals, Matches, First leg\nIn the second leg of the semi-finals, Douglas (Corinthians) picked up a yellow card and Sass\u00e1 (Cruzeiro) was sent off which meant they were suspended for the first leg of the Finals. Giorgian De Arrascaeta (Cruzeiro) was called-up for the Uruguay National Team and he could not play the first leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278453-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Finals, Matches, First leg\nA goal from Thiago Neves gave Cruzeiro a 1\u20130 win over Corinthians in the first leg. The winning goal came after a cross from Eg\u00eddio headed into the net in the 45th minute by Thiago Neves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278453-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Finals, Matches, First leg\nMan of the Match: Thiago Neves (Cruzeiro)Assistant referees:Alessandro \u00c1lvaro Rocha de Matos (Bahia)Fabr\u00edcio Vilarinho da Silva (Goi\u00e1s)Fourth official:Bruno Arleu de Ara\u00fajo (Rio de Janeiro)Fifth official:Rafael da Silva Alves (Rio Grande do Sul)Video assistant referee:Wilton Sampaio (Goi\u00e1s)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278453-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Finals, Matches, Second leg\nEg\u00eddio (Cruzeiro), booked in the first leg, \u00c1ngelo Araos (Corinthians) sent off in the first leg, and Sass\u00e1 (Cruzeiro), suspended six games, were ruled out of the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278453-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Finals, Matches, Second leg\nIn the second leg, Cruzeiro defeated Corinthians 1\u20132 to lift the Copa do Brasil. Robinho scored in the 27th minute after Hernan Barcos' shot off the post. J\u00e1dson equalized thanks to a penalty awarded with the help of the VAR after a play between Thiago Neves and Ralf within the Cruzeiro area. The referee, after another VAR review, annulled a goal of Pedrinho due to a foul on Ded\u00e9 by J\u00e1dson. With under 10 minutes left, Giorgian De Arrascaeta scored after a pass from Raniel finishing a counter attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278453-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Finals, Matches, Second leg\nMan of the Match: Ded\u00e9 (Cruzeiro)Assistant referees:Rodrigo Figueiredo Henrique Corr\u00eaa (Rio de Janeiro)Bruno Boschilia (Paran\u00e1)Fourth official:Jean Pierre Gon\u00e7alves Lima (Rio Grande do Sul)Fifth official:Luiz Cl\u00e1udio Regazone (Rio de Janeiro)Video assistant referee:Wilton Sampaio (Goi\u00e1s)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278454-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil First Stage\nThe 2018 Copa do Brasil first stage was the first stage of the 2018 Copa do Brasil football competition. It was played from 30 January to 7 February 2018. A total of 80 teams competed in the first stage to decide 40 places in the second stage of the 2018 Copa do Brasil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278454-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil First Stage, Draw\nThe draw for the first and second stage was held on 15 December 2017, 15:00 at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. Teams were seeded by their CBF ranking (shown in parentheses). The 80 qualified teams were divided in eight groups (A-H) with 10 teams each. The matches were drawn from the respective confronts: A vs. E; B vs. F; C vs. G; D vs. H. The lower ranked teams hosted the first stage match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278454-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil First Stage, Format\nIn the first stage, each tie was played on a single match basis. The lower CBF ranked team hosted the match. If tied, the higher CBF ranked team would advance to second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278455-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Fourth Stage\nThe 2018 Copa do Brasil fourth stage was the fourth stage of the 2018 Copa do Brasil football competition. It was played from 4 to 19 April 2018. A total of 10 teams competed in the fourth stage to decide five places in the final stages of the 2018 Copa do Brasil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278455-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Fourth Stage, Draw\nThe draw for the fourth stage was held on 19 March 2018, 11:00 at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. The 10 qualified teams were in a single group (CBF ranking shown in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 38], "content_span": [39, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278455-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Fourth Stage, Format\nIn the fourth stage, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would not be used, extra time would not be played and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278455-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Fourth Stage, Matches, Match 71\nPonte Preta won 3\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278455-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Fourth Stage, Matches, Match 72\nAtl\u00e9tico Paranaense won 4\u20133 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278455-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Fourth Stage, Matches, Match 73\nGoi\u00e1s won 4\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278455-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Fourth Stage, Matches, Match 74\nTied 2\u20132 on aggregate, Vit\u00f3ria won on penalties and advanced to the round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278455-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Fourth Stage, Matches, Match 75\nAtl\u00e9tico Mineiro won 6\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278456-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Second Stage\nThe 2018 Copa do Brasil second stage was the second stage of the 2018 Copa do Brasil football competition. It was played from 14 to 22 February 2018. A total of 40 teams competed in the second stage to decide twenty places in the third stage of the 2018 Copa do Brasil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278456-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Second Stage, Format\nIn the second stage, each tie was played on a single match basis. If tied, extra time would not be played and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner. Host teams were settled in the first-stage draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278456-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Second Stage, Matches\nAll times are Bras\u00edlia time, BRT (UTC\u22122 before 18 Feb. and UTC\u22123 after 18 Feb.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278457-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Sub-20\nThe Copa do Brasil Sub-20 (English: Brazil Under-20 Cup) is a Brazilian football competition run by the Brazilian Football Confederation for under\u201320 teams. In 2017, Atletico Mineiro won their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278457-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Sub-20, Round of 32\nFirst leg was held from 27 March \u2013 5 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278457-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Sub-20, Quarter-finals\nFirst leg was held on 25 April and second leg was held from May 1 to 3 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278457-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Sub-20, Semi-finals\nFirst leg was held on May 8 and 9 and second leg was held on May 15 and 17 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278457-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Sub-20, Finals\nFirst leg was held on May 26 and second leg was held on June 2 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278458-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Third Stage\nThe 2018 Copa do Brasil third stage was the third stage of the 2018 Copa do Brasil football competition. It was played from 28 February to 15 March 2018. A total of 20 teams competed in the third stage to decide ten places in the fourth stage of the 2018 Copa do Brasil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278458-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Third Stage, Format\nIn the third stage, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would not be used, extra time would not be played and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner. Host teams were settled in a draw held on 21 February 2018, 11:00 at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278458-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Third Stage, Matches, Match 61\nTied 1\u20131 on aggregate, Atl\u00e9tico Paranaense won on penalties and advanced to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278458-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Third Stage, Matches, Match 62\nInternacional won 4\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278458-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Third Stage, Matches, Match 63\nAva\u00ed won 3\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278458-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Third Stage, Matches, Match 64\nGoi\u00e1s won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278458-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Third Stage, Matches, Match 65\nTied 0\u20130 on aggregate, Ponte Preta won on penalties and advanced to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278458-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Third Stage, Matches, Match 66\nS\u00e3o Paulo won 5\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278458-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Third Stage, Matches, Match 67\nVit\u00f3ria won 3\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278458-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Third Stage, Matches, Match 68\nTied 2\u20132 on aggregate, Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro won on penalties and advanced to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278458-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Third Stage, Matches, Match 69\nFerrovi\u00e1rio won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278458-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Brasil Third Stage, Matches, Match 70\nN\u00e1utico won 3\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste\nThe 2018 Copa do Nordeste was the 15th edition of the main football tournament featuring teams from the Brazilian Northeast Region. The competition featured 20 clubs, with Bahia and Pernambuco having three seeds each, and Cear\u00e1, Rio Grande do Norte, Sergipe, Alagoas, Para\u00edba, Maranh\u00e3o and Piau\u00ed with two seeds each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste\nSampaio Corr\u00eaa defeated the defending champions Bahia 1\u20130 on aggregate to win their first Copa do Nordeste title. As champions, Sampaio Corr\u00eaa qualified for the Round of 16 of the 2019 Copa do Brasil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Format changes\nIn 2018 season there was a qualifying stage. In the qualifying stage, a total of 8 teams competed in a single-elimination tournament where the four winners advanced to the group stage. The group stage had only 4 groups. 12 teams gained direct entries into the group stage while the other four berths were decided by the qualifying stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Draws\nThe draw for the qualifying stage was held on 3 July 2017, 11:00, at the CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Draws\nTeams were seeded by their 2017 CBF ranking (shown in parentheses). The eight teams were drawn into four ties, with the Pot A teams hosting the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Draws\nThe draw for the group stage was held on 6 September 2017, 21:00, at the Audit\u00f3rio da Federa\u00e7\u00e3o das Ind\u00fastrias do Estado do Maranh\u00e3o (FIEMA) in S\u00e3o Lu\u00eds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Draws\nFor the group stage, the 16 teams were drawn into four groups (Groups 1\u20134) of four containing a team from each of the four pots. Teams were seeded by their 2017 CBF ranking (shown in parentheses) excluding the winners of the qualifying stage, which were allocated to Pot 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Qualifying stage\nIn the qualifying stage, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would be used. If still tied, extra time would not be played, and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (Regulations Article 12).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Group stage\nIn the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking: 1. Wins; 2. Goal difference; 3. Goals scored; 4. Head-to-head (if the tie was only between two teams). If tie on aggregate, the away goals rule would be used (except if both teams shared the same stadium); 5. Fewest red cards; 6. Fewest yellow cards; 7. Draw in the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (Regulations Article 10).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Group stage\nThe winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the quarter-finals of the knockout stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Final stages\nStarting from the quarter-finals, the teams played a single-elimination tournament with the following rules:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Final stages, Seeding\nThe draw for the quarter-finals was held on 2 April 2018, 12:00, at the CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. The 8 qualified teams were drawn into four ties between a group winner (Pot 1) and a group runner-up (Pot 2), with the group winners hosting the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Final stages, Seeding\nStarting from the semi-finals, the teams would be seeded according to their performance in the tournament. The teams would be ranked according to overall points. If tied on overall points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking: 1. Overall wins; 2. Overall goal difference; 3. Draw in the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (Regulations Article 15).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Final stages, Quarter-finals\nABC won 5\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Final stages, Quarter-finals\nSampaio Corr\u00eaa won 3\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Final stages, Quarter-finals\nTied 3\u20133 on aggregate, Cear\u00e1 won on away goals and advanced to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Final stages, Quarter-finals\nBahia won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Final stages, Semi-finals\nSampaio Corr\u00eaa won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, Final stages, Semi-finals\nBahia won 1\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278459-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Copa do Nordeste, 2018 Copa do Nordeste team\nThe 2018 Copa do Nordeste team was a squad consisting of the eleven most impressive players at the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278460-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coppa Italia Final\nThe 2018 Coppa Italia Final decided the winner of the 2017\u201318 Coppa Italia, the 71st season of Italy's main football cup. It was played on 9 May 2018 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome between rivals Juventus and Milan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278460-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coppa Italia Final\nJuventus won the match 4\u20130 with all four goals coming in the second half, winning their fourth consecutive Coppa Italia title and 13th title overall. This was the fifth time these teams met in the Coppa Italia Final, with Juventus winning previously in 1942, 1990 and 2016, and Milan winning in the 1973 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278460-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Coppa Italia Final, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278460-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Coppa Italia Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Riccardo Di FioreGiulio DoboszFourth official:Marco GuidaReserve assistant referee:Fabrizio PosadoVideo assistant referee:Massimiliano IrratiAssistant video assistant referee:Gianluca Vuoto", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278461-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 109th staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1909. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 10 December 2017. The championship began on 21 April 2018 and ended on 14 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278461-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship\nOn 14 October 2018, Ballincollig won the championship after a 2-16 to 1-15 defeat of Blackrock in the final at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh. It was their eighth championship title overall and their first title since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278461-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship\nBallincollig's Cian Dorgan was the championship's top scorer with 0-57.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278462-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Cork Junior Hurling Championship was the 121st staging of the Cork Junior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1895. The championship draw took place in August 2018. The championship began on 15 September 2018 and ended on 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278462-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship\nOn 27 October 2018, Cloughduv won the championship after a 2-12 to 0-14 defeat of Russell Rovers in the final. This was their third title overall and their first title since 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278462-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship, Qualification\nThe Cork Junior Hurling Championship features fourteen teams in the final tournament. Over 70 teams contested the seven divisional championships with the seven respective champions and runners-up automatically qualifying for the county series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278463-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship\nThe 2018 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship was the 13th staging of the Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 2006. The championship began on 8 April 2018 and ended on 1 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278463-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship\nOn 21 October 2018, Fermoy won the championship following an 0-11 to 0-07 defeat of St Michael's in the final at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh. It was their first ever championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278464-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 15th staging of the Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 2004. The draw for the opening round took place on 10 December 2017. The championship began on 15 April 2018 and ended on 29 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278464-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship\nOn 29 October 2018, Charleville won the championship after a 0-15 to 0-14 defeat of Courcey Rovers in a final replay at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn. It was their first ever championship title in this grade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278464-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship\nTadhg O'Sullivan from the Courcey Rovers club was the championship's top scorer with 1-49.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278464-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship, Teams\nA total of 16 teams contested the Premier Intermediate Championship, including 14 teams from the 2017 premier intermediate championship, one promoted team from the 2017 intermediate championship and one relegated team from the 2017 senior championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 58], "content_span": [59, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 130th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the 2018 opening fixtures took place on 10 December 2017. The championship began on 18 March 2018 and ended on 28 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship\nNemo Rangers entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Castlehaven at the quarter-final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship\nOn 28 October 2018, St. Finbarr's won the championship following a 3-14 to 2-14 defeat of Duhallow in the final. This was their 9th championship title overall and their first title since 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship, Championship details, Overview\nThe 2018 championship will see a total of 27 teams compete for the title. These consist of 19 club teams, 6 divisional teams and 2 college teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship, Championship details, Format\nA new format will be used for the 2018 championship. For the first time since 2015, the divisions and colleges will compete in their own mini championship before entering the championship proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship, Championship details, Format, Divisional and college section\nRound 1: Eight teams will contest this round. The four winning teams will advance to Round 2. The four losing teams will be eliminated from the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 100], "content_span": [101, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship, Championship details, Format, Divisional and college section\nRound 2: Four teams will contest this round. The two winning teams will advance to Round 3 of the championship proper. The two losing teams will be eliminated from the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 100], "content_span": [101, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship, Championship details, Format, Club section\nPreliminary round: 2 teams will contest this round. The winning team will advance to Round 1. The losing team will advance to Round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship, Championship details, Format, Club section\nRound 1: 18 teams will contest this round. The nine losing teams will advance to Round 2. The nine winning teams will advance to Round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship, Championship details, Format, Club section\nRound 2: The 9 losing teams from Round 1 will contest this round. The four winning teams will advance to Round 3. The four losing teams will be eliminated from the championship. One team will receive a bye to Round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship, Championship details, Format, Club section\nRound 3: The 9 winning teams from Round 1, the 4 winning teams from Round 2, the bye team and the 2 divisional teams will contest this round. The 8 winning teams will advance to the Quarter-finals. The 8 losing teams will be eliminated from the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship, Championship details, Format, Club section\nQuarter-finals: 8 teams will contest this round. The 4 winning teams will advance to the Semi-finals. The 4 losing teams will be eliminated from the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship, Championship details, Format, Club section\nSemi-finals: 4 teams will contest this round. The 2 winning teams will advance to the Semi-finals. The 2 losing teams will be eliminated from the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278465-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Football Championship, Championship details, Format, Club section\nFinal: The final will be contested by the two semi-final winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 130th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the 2018 opening fixtures took place on 10 December 2017. The championship began on 22 March 2018 and ended on 14 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 14 October 2018, Imokilly won the championship after a 4-19 to 1-18 defeat of Midleton in the final at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh. It was their fourth championship title overall and their second title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nMidleton's Conor Lehane was the championship's top scorer with 2-37.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship, Championship details, Overview\nThe 2018 championship saw a total of 26 teams compete for the title. These consisted of 18 club teams, 6 divisional teams and 2 college teams. Kanturk made their debut in the senior championship while they were also the first club from the Duhallow Division to play in the senior championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship, Championship details, Format\nA new format was used for the 2018 championship. For the first time since 2015, the divisions and colleges competed in their own mini championship before entering the championship proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship, Championship details, Format, Divisional and college section\nRound 1: Eight teams contested this round. The four winning teams advanced to Round 2. The four losing teams were eliminated from the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 99], "content_span": [100, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship, Championship details, Format, Divisional and college section\nRound 2: Four teams contested this round. The two winning teams advanced to Round 3 of the championship proper. The two losing teams were eliminated from the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 99], "content_span": [100, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship, Championship details, Format, Club section\nRound 1: 18 teams contested this round. The nine losing teams advanced to Round 2. The nine winning teams advanced to Round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship, Championship details, Format, Club section\nRound 2: The 9 losing teams from Round 1 contested this round. The four winning teams advanced to Round 3. The four losing teams were eliminated from the championship. One team received a bye to Round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship, Championship details, Format, Club section\nRound 3: The 9 winning teams from Round 1, the 4 winning teams from Round 2, the bye team and the 2 divisional teams contested this round. The 8 winning teams advanced to the Quarter-finals. The 8 losing teams were eliminated from the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship, Championship details, Format, Club section\nQuarter-finals: 8 teams contested this round. The 4 winning teams advanced to the Semi-finals. The 4 losing teams were eliminated from the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship, Championship details, Format, Club section\nSemi-finals: 4 teams contested this round. The 2 winning teams advanced to the Semi-finals. The 2 losing teams were eliminated from the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship, Championship details, Format, Club section\nFinal: The final was contested by the two semi-final winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278466-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Cork Senior Hurling Championship, Team of the Year\nThe All-Star Team of the Year was announced on 5 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278467-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 2018 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League. They were led by sixth-year head coach David Archer and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field. Cornell finished the season 3\u20137 overall 2\u20135 in Ivy League play to place seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278467-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cornell Big Red football team, Previous season\nThe Big Red finished the 2017 season 3\u20137, 3\u20134 in Ivy League play, to finish tied for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278467-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cornell Big Red football team, Schedule\nThe 2018 schedule consisted of five home and five away games. The Big Red hosted Ivy League foes Yale, Harvard, Penn, and Dartmouth, and traveled to Brown, Princeton, and Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278467-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cornell Big Red football team, Schedule\nIn 2018, Cornell's non-conference opponents were Delaware of the Colonial Athletic Association, Sacred Heart of the Northeast Conference, and Colgate of the Patriot League. Homecoming coincided with the home opener against Yale on September 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278467-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Cornell Big Red football team, Schedule\nCornell's 66\u20130 loss to Princeton on October 27 was its worst defeat since a 77\u20130 defeat by Harvard in 1890, 128 years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278468-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Corpus Christi mayoral election\nThe 2018 Corpus Christi mayoral election was held on November 6, 2018 and December 18, 2018 to elect the mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas. The general election, held on November 6, 2018 did not produce a winner (elections for the mayoralty of Corpus Christi require a majority), therefore a runoff was required and held on December 18, 2018. The runoff election resulted in the re-election of Joe McComb, this time for a full two-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278469-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Book Awards\nThe Costa Book Awards category winners for 2018 were announced on 7 January 2019, and the \"Book of the Year\" on 29 January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election\nGeneral elections were held in Costa Rica in 2018 to elect both the President and Legislative Assembly. The first round of the presidential election was held on February 4, 2018, with the two highest-ranked candidates being Christian singer and Congressman Fabricio Alvarado Mu\u00f1oz from the conservative National Restoration Party and writer and former Minister Carlos Alvarado Quesada from the progressive Citizens\u2019 Action Party, gaining 24% and 21% of the votes respectively. As no candidate received more than 40% of the first round vote, a second round run-off election was held on April 1, 2018 and was won by Carlos Alvarado Quesada, with a landslide victory of 60.6% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election\nThe previously dominant National Liberation Party suffered its worst results to date, ending third in the presidential run for the first time in its history with its candidate former Legislative Assembly President Antonio \u00c1lvarez Desanti winning only 18%. Other notable candidates were lawyer and entrepreneur Rodolfo Piza from the center-right Social Christian Unity Party with 16% and right-wing populist Juan Diego Castro with 9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election\nIn the 57-seat Legislative Assembly, the National Liberation Party won 17 seats, the National Restoration Party won 14 seats (although their parliamentary group later splits in half due to factionalism), the Citizens' Action Party won 10 seats, the Social Christian Unity Party won 9 seats, the National Integration Party won 4 seats, the Social Christian Republican Party (an offshoot of PUSC) won 2 seats and left-wing Broad Front won 1 seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Electoral system\nThe President of Costa Rica is elected using a modified two-round system in which a candidate must receive at least 40% of the vote to win in the first round; if no candidate wins in the first round, a runoff will be held between the two candidates with the biggest quantity of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Electoral system\nThe 57 members of the Legislative Assembly are elected using closed list proportional representation through the largest remainder method from seven multi-member constituencies with between four and 19 seats, which are based on the seven provinces. Party lists were required to alternate between male and female candidates, with parties also required to have three or four of their seven regional lists headed by a female candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Presidential primaries, Citizens' Action Party\nThe internal elections for the Citizens' Action Party were held on July 9, 2017. The candidates were two former ministers of the Sol\u00eds Rivera administration; writer Carlos Alvarado, former Minister of Labour and Social Issues, and economist Welmer Ramos, former Economy Minister. Alvarado won by 56% of the votes. Deputies Epsy Campbell, Ott\u00f3n Solis and Vicepresident Ana Helena Chac\u00f3n declined a potential run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Presidential primaries, Citizens' Action Party\nCarlos Alvarado was the first one of the party to announce his intention to run under the slogan of \"I choose the future\" (Elijo el futuro) and ran under a progressive platform, which sought to exalt the achievements of Luis Guillermo Solis's government and promised to continue with it. Meanwhile, Welmer Ramos's campaign focused more on a moderate and conservative campaign, under the slogan \"A citizen like you\" (Un ciudadano como usted) and openly criticized the then government to appeal to those who were upset with the administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Presidential primaries, Libertarian Movement\nThe Libertarian Movement had its first primaries on June 30, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Presidential primaries, Libertarian Movement\nCandidates were deputy Natalia Diaz, and historic leader and deputy Otto Guevara Guth, who will attempt to run for presidency for the fifth time. Guevara won the primary over Diaz by a 10% margin. Otto Guevara's primary campaign was based under a right-wing populist inclination, stating that Donald Trump's presidential campaign had given him new inspiration to run, while Natalia Diaz's campaign promised to bring a new face to the party and offer a new alternative to the party's establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Presidential primaries, Libertarian Movement\nAfter the 2016 municipal elections, the party lost its only mayor and 258 aldermen, leaving it with little power. Plus, due to Guevara's turnabout from libertarianism to religious conservatism, many party adherents created a new party: the Liberal Progressive Party, under former transport minister Eli\u00e9cer Feinzag's leadership; or joined Social Christian Unity Party because of its new liberal stance on politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Presidential primaries, National Liberation Party\nThe internal elections for the National Liberation Party were held on April 2, 2017. The candidates were Sigifredo Aiza Campos, former deputy for the Guanacaste province, then deputy and radio host Rolando Gonz\u00e1lez Ulloa, Antonio \u00c1lvarez Desanti president of the Legislative Assembly, former minister and presidential candidate who was supported by former president \u00d3scar Arias S\u00e1nchez, and former president Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Figueres Olsen. \u00c1lvarez Desanti was chosen as the party's candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 84], "content_span": [85, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Presidential primaries, Social Christian Unity Party\nThe Social Christian primary was held on June 4, 2017 with former president of the Health System and previous candidate Rodolfo Piza winning over then deputy Rafael Ortiz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 87], "content_span": [88, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Presidential primaries, Other candidates\nFormer Public Safety Minister Juan Diego Castro launched his unexpected presidential campaign presenting himself as a political outsider and with a strong anti-establishment and anti-corruption speech. Promising to \"rule by decree\" and with a very loud \"hard hand\" rhetoric (uncommon in Costa Rican politics as the country is famous for its political centrism), Castro has been compared to figures like Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte, and accused of right-wing populism and far-right positions, albeit he rejects the comparisons. He ran as the National Integration Party's nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Presidential primaries, Other candidates\nFour of the minor candidates lean towards the conservative evangelical community. These are former journalist and San Jos\u00e9 deputy Fabricio Alvarado for National Restoration Party, journalist Stephanie Campos for Costa Rican Renewal Party, perennial candidate and San Jos\u00e9 deputy \u00d3scar L\u00f3pez for Accessibility without Exclusion, and lawyer and twice Cartago deputy Mario Redondo for Christian Democratic Alliance a former Cartaginese provincial party but which expanded to the national level. The left-wing Broad Front nominated Alajuela deputy Edgardo Araya (es:Edgardo Araya Sibaja). The far-left Workers' Party chose the trade unionist and high school professor Jhon Vega as its candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Presidential primaries, Other candidates\nThe right-wing New Generation Party chose its founder Sergio Mena as the presidential nominee. Finally, former Social Christian Unity Party's presidential nominee Rodolfo Hern\u00e1ndez (es:Rodolfo Hern\u00e1ndez G\u00f3mez) launched his presidential campaign with the newly formed Social Christian Republican Party, a party formed by former PUSC members dissatisfied with the liberal-controlled Social Christian Central Committee, who claimed the party had lost its Calderonist origins", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Campaign\nSeveral topics like unemployment, corruption, economics, insecurity and poverty are among the main issues that concern the electorate according to polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Campaign\nBut one particular event that cause uproar in the campaign was the \"Cementazo\" (lit. cement hit) scandal. A corruption scandal involving political figures of all the main parties, including candidate Otto Guevara, whose properties and parliamentary office were raided by the General Attorney investigating the case. Some analysts point to the Cementazo scandal as one of the reasons for the unexpected ascension in polls of hardline anti-establishment candidate Castro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Campaign\nDuring the campaign Castro made a series of highly controversial statements that often caused polemic reactions. Among other things, he accused the Judiciary of having some of its female members ascending due to sexual favors, something that sprang harsh responses from female judges and judicial workers. Political figures from other parties reacted with outrage including Desanti's wife Nuria Marin and PAC's vice-president nominee Epsy Campbell. He later clarified that he was referring to one particular case of a known female friend of his.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Campaign\nHe also called for the removal of the prohibition on oil exploitation and gold mining calling those who opposed it \"eco-terrorists and extremists\". Desanti also said that \"extremists should not dictate environmental policies\" but mentioned that he opposes oil exploitation. Both Alvarado Quesada and Araya are staunch opponents of all forms of oil exploration and exploitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Campaign\nA surprising ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights extending all rights enjoyed by heterosexual couples to same-sex couples made after Costa Rica's government lodged a motion for clarification also had an impact on the campaign. The ruling may require up to 22 signatory countries of the Pact of San Jos\u00e9 that recognize the contentious authority of the IACHR to change their laws to legalize same-sex marriage (whether by legislative or judicial methods, or both). Most polls show that most Costa Ricans oppose gay marriage albeit with large numbers supporting it (in a general ratio of 60\u201340%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Campaign\nOpponents of gay marriage were outraged by the ruling, causing an increase in social media support for Christian singer and journalist Fabricio Alvarado Mu\u00f1oz from the staunchly conservative National Restoration Party (a normally small party with testimonial results mostly supported by the Evangelical Christian minority). Alvarado Mu\u00f1oz was, for the first time for an Evangelical candidate, attracting Catholic voters. Nevertheless, Alvarado Mu\u00f1oz' gain also saw a counter-reaction. Social media support for progressive pro-gay marriage candidate Carlos Alvarado Quesada was also notable, particularly among millennials and centennials who mostly support socially liberal policies. Some analysts point to a possible polarization between conservative and progressive voters, or among religious and secular or older and younger generations depending on the measure, which pushed both Alvarados into the second round. At least two homophobic attacks were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 1007]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Campaign\nDuring the run-off campaign, Alvarado Mu\u00f1oz\u2019 strategy focused on linking his rival with the somewhat unpopular government at the time by pointing out its flaws, errors and scandals. On the contrary, Alvarado Quesada tried to distance himself from Luis Guillermo Sol\u00eds\u2019 Administration, but at the same time highlighted its achievements. Mu\u00f1oz also reinforced his idea of defending \"pro-life and family\" values, whilst Quesada insisted in wanting an inclusive country with no \"second class citizens\". Quesada's strategy focused in presenting Mu\u00f1oz as inexperienced and unprepared, pointing out his delay in presenting his second government program as promised and contradictions between him and some of his close collaborators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Campaign\nA series of controversies affected Mu\u00f1oz' presidential run, including accusations of plagiarism on his government program, a delay in the presentation of his party's financial reports, high payments to him and some other high-ranking party members for services during the campaign, etc. But probably one of the most damaging was the content of a book written by pastor and tele-evangelist Ronny Chaves (close collaborator of Fabricio and described by him as \"spiritual father\") calling \"La Negrita\" or Virgen de los Angeles (Costa Rica's patron saint) a demon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Campaign\nSomething that some analysts highlight as hurtful to many Catholics' feelings causing many of them to switch towards Carlos Alvarado. In fact, the Cartago Province which is Costa Rica's Catholic epicenter and see of the Bas\u00edlica de Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de los \u00c1ngeles is where Quesada's support was higher (75%), on the contrary Fabricio won by wide margin in the mostly Protestant province of Lim\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Campaign\nIn the second round Carlos kept San Jos\u00e9, Heredia and Cartago Provinces and all of the cantons he won in the first one, and managed to turn Alajuela and Guanacaste on his favor. He also won, again, the foreign vote winning all ballot booths overseas except Singapore were there was a tie. Fabricio kept Puntarenas and Lim\u00f3n as his strongholds and won in all cantons of Limon, most of the Punteranas cantons, four of the northern cantons of Alajuela (San Carlos, Upala, Guatuso and Los Chiles) and Sarapiqui in Heredia. Abstentionism was less during the second round for the first time in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Polling and voters' behavior\nDuring pre-campaign Juan Diego Castro emerged as one of the most popular political figures with around 51% of positive opinions, followed by Antonio \u00c1lvarez Desanti with 36%, with Libertarian deputy Otto Guevara and former president Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Figueres as the ones with more negative opinions. After the PLN primary in which Desanti won over Figueres by slight margin, Desanti started the campaign as frontrunner for a while with up to 36% support in some early polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Polling and voters' behavior\nCastro was also among the favorites even before he had a party supporting his candidacy (something required by law in Costa Rica as independent candidates are not allowed). As the campaign continued Desanti suffered a constant decrease in voters' intent. Castro remained as frontrunner for most of 2017, but an erratic and heavily controversial campaign begins to affect him losing support in January. PUSC's Rodolfo Piza remained as second in some polls, later replaced by Castro but still in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Polling and voters' behavior\nThe \"Cementazo\" scandal affected heavily the parties involved (PAC, PLN, PUSC and ML) especially during November and December when the Parliamentary Committee investigating the issue made most of its hearings, with all parties facing a reduction on their support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Polling and voters' behavior\nThe IACHR's ruling on same-sex marriage caused a turmoil in the country, with conservative candidate and staunch opponent Fabricio Alvarado showing a rapid increase in support passing from marginal percentages of around 2\u20136% to be in the lead with up to 17%. However, Carlos Alvarado's support also started to grow unusually fast especially in mid and late January with the later polls showing him surpassing other candidates including Castro and Piza, passing from sixth to third in a couple of days, and even in a technical tie with Desanti showing possibilities to go into the run-off. Castro appeared in fourth and Piza in fifth place as of late January. PAC's support historically tend to increase in January and after the debates, but it was also possible that its support came from more liberal voters fearful of a religious government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 907]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Polling and voters' behavior\nAccording to polls Fabricio Alvarado Mu\u00f1oz took most of his support from Evangelical Christian voters who represented around 70% of his supporters, followed by 20% Roman Catholics and 8% with no religion. Carlos Alvarado Quesada, on the contrary, was mostly supported by Catholics with 52% of his voters belonging to that denomination, followed by 29% non-religious and 13% Protestants. Alvarado Quesada was most popular among urban voters with higher education, whilst Alvarado Mu\u00f1oz had strong support by those with only elementary or high school levels of education. Also Alvarado Quesada was more popular among voters under 35, whilst Alvarado Mu\u00f1oz was more popular among women under 35 and voters of both sexes over 55.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Polling and voters' behavior\nA post-election study completed by the University of Costa Rica showed that Alvarado Quesada's success was in part due to his performance in the debates, his campaign and defense of the Rule of law. Whilst Alvarado Mu\u00f1oz' supporters mentioned defense of the traditional family, the fact that he was a believer and being an alternative to PAC. Religion wasn't such an important factor as originally thought, but 71% of Alvarado Quesada's voters mentioned Ronny Chaves' anti-Catholic statements as something \"bad or very bad\", against 35% of Fabricio's voters expressing that such thing was indifferent to them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Polling and voters' behavior\nRoman Catholics were 60% more likely to vote for Carlos Alvarado than non-Catholics that were only 30%. Alvarado Quesada had also much more support from middle and High Classes especially from the urban areas and the Central Valley whilst Fabricio's support came from the periphery and coastal areas with higher poverty levels and where the population is lower and less willing to vote at all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Polling and voters' behavior, Polling tampering\nOne day I'll tell you where the fraud was, every Friday we expected a survey that was false.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Polling and voters' behavior, Polling tampering\nThe last poll of the second round scheduled for March 28 was canceled due to the fact that OPol Consultores' executives alleged that threats had been made against their collaborators. Shortly before this announcement, social media reported that a vehicle registered in the name of the private limited company to which the pollster belongs and led by the director of the company traveled with flags of National Restoration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Polling and voters' behavior, Polling tampering\nAlso the poll published by the Institute of Population Studies (IDESPO) of the National University, the only one that showed a wide advantage on the part of Carlos Alvarado over Fabricio, was questioned almost immediately by the digital newspaper El Mundo questioning its methodology. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal and the University's Council reaffirmed the validity of the poll. The IDESPO poll would be the closest to the electoral result of the second round together with an informal poll conducted by the Los Paleteros ice cream company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Polling and voters' behavior, Polling tampering\nAfter the campaign it was made public that during the second round the Executive Committee of the National Restoration Party had made payments to the polling company OPol according to financial reports submitted to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. Party officials reported that these were political consultancies unrelated to the polls, however, subsequent investigations by the newspaper La Naci\u00f3n discovered a contract for the payment of the six polls that were carried out during the second round campaign, of which five were published by El Mundo. In all of them Fabricio Alvarado appeared as the winner by a wide margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Polling and voters' behavior, Polling tampering\nThey were immediately shared in the social media of the group and the candidate as well as party personalities and allies including deputy-elect and vice presidential candidate Jonathan Prendas and deputy Mario Redondo. Catherina Convertino, general manager of Opini\u00f3n Pol\u00edtica CyC, a private limited company that owns both OPol and El Mundo newspaper, confirmed to La Naci\u00f3n that the second round polls had been requested by Juan Carlos Campos, head of the National Restoration campaign and that they decided to make it public following the debt of the party in the total payment of the contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Results, Legislative Assembly\nThe National Liberation Party retains its parliamentary plurality despite being third on the presidential ticket with 17 seats (only one less), followed by the National Restoration Party obtaining 14, the first time in Costa Rica's history that a religious party gained such large number. The ruling party Citizens' Action became third with 10, also the first time in history that a ruling party is neither the second nor the third-largest party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Results, Legislative Assembly\nHowever this situation will change after a break-up among the National Restoration deputies causes more than half to split from the party a few months after the election, thus turning PAC back into first minority. The Social Christian Unity Party gained one more seat (9).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278470-0030-0002", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican general election, Results, Legislative Assembly\nThe left-wing Broad Front suffered a major setback losing most of its seats passing from 9 to 1, whilst right-wing National Integration returns to Congress for the first time in 20 years with 4 seats, but another schism between the party's leadership and the 2018's nominee Juan Diego Castro causes one of PIN's deputies (a Castro loyalist) to separate. The newly formed party Social Christian Republican gains two deputies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278471-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican protests\nThe 2018 protests in Costa Rica was a civil conflict that took place in the Central-American country of Costa Rica for 93 days, after the trade unions went on an indefinite strike against the tax reform bill promoted by the Executive Branch in the Assembly Legislative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278471-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican protests, Protests\nThe protest movement started on September 10, 2018 and culminated on December 11 of that same year, when the unions of the Supreme Court, the only ones still on strike, abandoned their protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278471-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican protests, Protests\nThe extent of the strike caused severe effects on the provision of services in medical centers, schools, colleges, universities, fuel distribution, trials, hearings and other judicial processes and interrupted the passage through important national routes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278471-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican protests, Protests\nThe strike was constituted as the longest social conflict in the history of Costa Rica, surpassing the general strike of the year 2000 against the \"Combo del ICE\". The magnitude and duration of the movement produced a contraction in the growth of the country's nominal GDP of 0.4 percentage points, generated 13 8billion colones in losses and sparked a national debate on the scope and limitations of the right to strike, because The courts of justice took considerable time to issue the sentences that qualified as legal or illegal the different protests in the different state institutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278471-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Costa Rican protests, Protests\nThe strikes also recorded acts of violence, clashes between police and strikers, attacks on infrastructure and state buildings, including the Costa Rican Oil Refinery and the Ministry of Finance, as well as an attack on the President of the Republic, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, in the middle of a public highway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278472-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cote d'Ivoire International\nThe 2018 Cote d'Ivoire International is a badminton tournament which takes place at Palais des Sports de Treichville in Ivory Coast from 21 to 24 June 2018 and had a total purse of $10,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278472-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cote d'Ivoire International, Tournament\nThe 2018 Cote d'Ivoire International is the twelfth tournament of the 2018 BWF International Series and also part of the Cote d'Ivoire International championships which has been held since 2016. This tournament was organized by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Ivoirienne de Badminton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278472-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cote d'Ivoire International, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament holds at Palais des Sports de Treichville in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278472-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cote d'Ivoire International, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF International Series event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278472-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Cote d'Ivoire International, Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this year tournament is US$10,000. Distribution of prize money is in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278473-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cottesloe state by-election\nA by-election for the electoral district of Cottesloe in Western Australia took place on 17 March 2018. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the Liberal Party member, Colin Barnett, on 5 February 2018. Barnett was the Premier of Western Australia from 23 September 2008 until 17 March 2017, when he was succeeded as Premier by Mark McGowan after the Labor Party defeated Barnett's Liberal government at the 2017 state election in March 2017. The by-election was won by the Liberal candidate David Honey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278473-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cottesloe state by-election, Dates\nThe writ for the by-election was issued by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Peter Watson, on 6 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278473-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cottesloe state by-election, Dates\nThe by-election was held on 17 March 2018, the same day as the South Australian state election and the Batman federal by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278473-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cottesloe state by-election, Candidates\nThe Labor Party announced it would not nominate a candidate for the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278474-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cotton Bowl Classic\nThe 2018 Cotton Bowl Classic was a college football bowl game played on December 29, 2018, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The 83rd Cotton Bowl Classic was a College Football Playoff semifinal with the winner to compete in the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship. It was one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, the game was officially known as the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278474-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams\nThe game featured second-ranked Clemson of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) against third-ranked Notre Dame, an FBS independent. This was the first time that the two programs met in a bowl game; their more recent regular season meeting had been in 2015, won by Clemson. The only prior Cotton Bowl to feature two undefeated teams had been the 1948 edition, which ended in a 13\u201313 tie between Penn State and SMU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278474-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams, Clemson Tigers\nClemson defeated Pitt in the 2018 ACC Championship Game on December 1, then received their bid to the Cotton Bowl with the release of final CFP rankings on December 2. The Tigers entered the bowl with a 13\u20130 record (8\u20130 in conference). On December 27, it was confirmed that three Clemson players, including starting defensive lineman Dexter Lawrence, would be suspended from playing in the game by the NCAA, due to drug testing showing \"trace amounts of a banned substance\", which was identified as ostarine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278474-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams, Clemson Tigers\nThis was Clemson's second Cotton Bowl bid in school history, following its appearance in the 1940 edition. It was also the first Cotton Bowl appearance by an active ACC member since Maryland's appearance in the 1977 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278474-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams, Notre Dame Fighting Irish\nNotre Dame received their bid to the Cotton Bowl with the release of final CFP rankings on December 2. The independent Fighting Irish entered the bowl with a 12\u20130 record. This was Notre Dame's first Cotton Bowl berth since the 1994 edition and its eighth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278475-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 County Championship\nThe 2018 County Championship, known as the 2018 Specsavers County Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the 119th cricket County Championship season. As in 2017, Division One has eight teams and Division Two has ten teams, with two teams relegated and two promoted at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278475-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 County Championship\nThe first round of matches began on 13 April and the final round of matches were scheduled to end on 27 September. Most of the matches of the Championship were played as day matches, although each team played one day-night match during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278475-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 County Championship\nIn September 2018, the match between Somerset and Lancashire at Taunton finished as a tie. It was the first tie in a County Championship game since 2003, Somerset's first tied match since 1939 and Lancashire's first since 1952. By winning their game against Worcestershire between the 10th and 13 September, Surrey took an unassailable lead at the top of Division One, making them champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278475-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 County Championship, Teams\nThe 2018 Championship was divided into two divisions, Division One with eight teams and Division Two with 10. Teams in both divisions played a total of 14 games, with all Division One teams playing each other twice, while Division Two teams played five others twice and four once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278475-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 County Championship, Results\nFixtures for the 2018 County Championship were announced on 29 November 2017, with the previous season's champions Essex beginning the defence of their title against Yorkshire at Headingley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278475-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 County Championship, Results\nIn total, 56 matches were be played in Division One, with 70 played in Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278475-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 County Championship, Standings\nTeams receive 16 points for a win, 8 for a tie and 5 for a draw. Bonus points (a maximum of 5 batting points and 3 bowling points) may be scored during the first 110 overs of each team's first innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278476-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe Banque Nationale\nThe 2018 Coupe Banque Nationale is a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 26th edition of the Tournoi de Qu\u00e9bec and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the PEPS de l'Universit\u00e9 Laval in Quebec City, Canada, from September 10 through September 16, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278476-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe Banque Nationale, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278476-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe Banque Nationale, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player entered the singles main draw with a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278476-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe Banque Nationale, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278477-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe Banque Nationale \u2013 Doubles\nT\u00edmea Babos and Andrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 were the defending champions, but neither player chose to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278477-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe Banque Nationale \u2013 Doubles\nAsia Muhammad and Maria Sanchez won the title defeating Darija Jurak and Xenia Knoll 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278478-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe Banque Nationale \u2013 Singles\nAlison Van Uytvanck was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278478-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe Banque Nationale \u2013 Singles\nPauline Parmentier won the title defeating Jessica Pegula in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278479-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de Cal\u00e9donie\nThe 2018 Coupe de Cal\u00e9donie (also known as New Caledonia Cup) was the 63rd edition of the national cup in New Caledonian football. AS Magenta won the title beating Hiengh\u00e8ne Sport in the final, earning the right to represent New Caledonia in the 2018\u201319 Coupe de France, entering the seventh round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278479-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de Cal\u00e9donie, Round of 16\nCompeted by 12 teams of the 2018 New Caledonia Super Ligue and four teams which qualified from provincial competitions (one from Islands, one from North, two from South).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278480-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de C\u00f4te d'Ivoire\nThe 2018 Coupe de C\u00f4te d'Ivoire is the 55th edition of the Coupe de C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, the knockout football competition of C\u00f4te d'Ivoire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278480-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de C\u00f4te d'Ivoire\nThe tournament began with the preliminary round on 27 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278480-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de C\u00f4te d'Ivoire\nIn the final on 24 June 2018, ASEC Mimosas defeated Stade d'Abidjan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278481-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de France Final\nThe 2018 Coupe de France Final was a football match between Les Herbiers VF and Paris Saint-Germain to decide the winner of the 2017\u201318 Coupe de France, the 101st season of the Coupe de France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278481-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de France Final\nParis Saint-Germain won the final 2\u20130 for their 4th consecutive and 12th overall Coupe de France title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278481-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de France Final, Background\nThe final was Les Herbiers' first. They upset many higher-level teams, such as Lens; however, they did not play any top-level teams en route to the final. Les Herbiers were the third team from the third division of French football to reach the final, after N\u00eemes, in 1996, and US Quevilly, in 2012. Both of these teams lost their matches, to Auxerre and Lyon respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278481-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de France Final, Background\nMeanwhile, Paris Saint-Germain were the three-time defending champion, having been to 15 finals and winning 11. They defeated Angers 1\u20130 in the 2017 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278481-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de France Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric H\u00e9brardHuseyin OcakFourth official:Hakim Ben El HadjVideo assistant referee:Beno\u00eet BastienAssistant video assistant referee:J\u00e9r\u00f4me Brisard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278482-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de Madagascar\nThe 2018 Coupe de Madagascar is the 2018 edition of the Coupe de Madagascar, the knockout football competition of Madagascar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278482-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de Madagascar\nIn the final on 7 October 2018, ASSM Elgeco Plus defeated AS Adema.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278483-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de la Ligue Final\nThe 2018 Coupe de la Ligue Final decided the winner of the 2017\u201318 Coupe de la Ligue, the 24th season of France's football league cup competition, the Coupe de la Ligue, a competition for the 42 teams that the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) manages. The final took place on 31 March 2018 at the Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux in Bordeaux and was contested by reigning champions Paris Saint-Germain and Monaco, a rematch of the previous final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278483-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de la Ligue Final\nParis Saint-Germain won the final 3\u20130 for their 5th consecutive and 8th overall Coupe de la Ligue title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278483-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de la Ligue Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278483-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe de la Ligue Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Nicolas DanosCyril GringoreFourth official:Mikael LesageVideo assistant referee:Amaury DelerueAssistant video assistant referee:Nicolas Rainville", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278484-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Congo (DR Congo)\nThe 2018 Coupe du Congo is the 54th edition of the Coupe du Congo, the knockout football competition of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278484-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Congo (DR Congo), Provincial preliminaries\nThe following teams qualified for the final stage from the provincial preliminaries:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278485-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Congo (Republic of Congo)\nThe 2018 Coupe du Congo is the 34th edition of the Coupe du Congo, the knockout football competition of the Republic of the Congo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278485-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Congo (Republic of Congo), Semifinals\nAS Ot\u00f4ho awd La Mancha [awarded 3-0; abandoned at 2-0 on 26', La Mancha walked off after they had had two penalties awarded against them]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278486-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Faso\nThe 2018 Coupe du Faso is the 32nd edition of the Coupe du Faso (51st edition including earlier cup competitions), the knockout football competition of Burkina Faso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278487-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique\nThe 2018 Coupe du Pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique is the 41st edition of the Coupe du Pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique, the knockout football competition of Mauritania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278487-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique, Semifinals\nACS Ksar abd FC Nouadhibou [abandoned at 0-0 in 50' due to power outage]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278488-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Togo\nThe 2018 Coupe du Togo is the 2018 edition of the Coupe du Togo, the knockout football competition of Togo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278488-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Togo, First round, R\u00e9gion de Lom\u00e9\nEntente II FC (Lom\u00e9)\t \t 0-0 Etoile Filante FC (Lom\u00e9)\t\t[4-3 pen]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278488-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Togo, First round, R\u00e9gion de Lom\u00e9\nCentre de Formation AAFA \t 2-2 AS OTR (Lom\u00e9)\t\t\t\t[4-1 pen]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278488-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Togo, First round, R\u00e9gion Maritime\nOlympique Football Club (Vo) \t 2-3 Espoir Football Club de Zio (Ts\u00e9vi\u00e9)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278488-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Togo, First round, R\u00e9gion Centrale\nTchaoudjo Athletic Club FC (Sokod\u00e9) 1-1 Agouwa FC (Koussountou)\t\t\t[5-4 pen]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278488-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Togo, First round, R\u00e9gion Centrale\nOdalou FC (Kambol\u00e9)\t\t 0-0 AC S\u00e8massi FC (Sokod\u00e9)\t\t\t[2-4 pen]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278488-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Togo, Second round, R\u00e9gion de Lom\u00e9/R\u00e9gion Maritime\nDynamic Togolais FC (Lom\u00e9)\t 0-0 Centre de Formation AAFA\t\t[3-2 pen]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 64], "content_span": [65, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278488-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Togo, Second round, R\u00e9gion de Lom\u00e9/R\u00e9gion Maritime\nEntente II FC (Lom\u00e9)\t\t 0-1 Espoir Football Club de Zio (Ts\u00e9vi\u00e9)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 64], "content_span": [65, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278488-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Togo, Second round, R\u00e9gion Centrale\nAC S\u00e8massi FC (Sokod\u00e9)\t\t 2-1 US Koroki Metete FC (Tchamba)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278488-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Togo, Third round\nAS Togo-Port (Lom\u00e9)\t\t 1-0 Espoir Football Club de Zio (Ts\u00e9vi\u00e9)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278488-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Togo, Third round\nDynamic Togolais FC (Lom\u00e9)\t 1-0 Tchaoudjo Athletic Club FC (Sokod\u00e9)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278488-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Coupe du Togo, Semi-finals\nGomido FC (Kpalim\u00e9)\t\t 1-1 AC S\u00e8massi FC (Sokod\u00e9)\t\t\t[3-0 pen]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278489-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Coventry City Council election\nThe 2018 Coventry City Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Coventry City Council in England. This is on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278489-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Coventry City Council election, Current Council seats\nThe table below shows a summary of the make-up of the City Council before the 3 May 2018 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278490-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Crawley Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Crawley Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Crawley Borough Council in West Sussex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained control of the council, with no seats changing hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier\nThe 2018 ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier was a cricket tournament that took place during March 2018 in Zimbabwe. It formed the final part of the Cricket World Cup qualification process for the 2019 World Cup in England and Wales. The top two teams, Afghanistan and the West Indies, qualified for the World Cup, joining the hosts and the seven teams who had already qualified through their ranking in the ICC ODI Championship. Afghanistan won the tournament, beating the West Indies by 7 wickets in the final. Afghanistan's Mohammad Shahzad was named the player of the match and Zimbabwe's Sikandar Raza was named the player of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier\nThe tournament was initially scheduled to take place in Bangladesh, but in May 2017 it was reported that the event would instead be hosted elsewhere as Bangladesh were close to automatic qualification, and thus would not need to participate in this tournament. Three bids were under consideration: one from Zimbabwe, one from the United Arab Emirates and a joint-bid from Ireland and Scotland, who were the winners of the previous qualifier tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier\nIn October 2017, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that Zimbabwe would host the event. In January 2018, the ICC confirmed all the fixtures and venues for the tournament. At the end of the tournament, the Netherlands (who won the ICC World Cricket League Championship) and the top three Associate Member teams earned One Day International (ODI) status until 2022.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Summary\nHosts Zimbabwe failed to reach the final and missed out on playing in the Cricket World Cup for the first time since 1983. As a result of their poor performance, Zimbabwe Cricket sacked all their coaching staff and their team captain, Graeme Cremer. Recently appointed Full Member side Ireland also missed the Cricket World Cup for the first time since 2007, and for the first time, no Associate Member qualified for the Cricket World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Summary\nFollowing the conclusion of the group stage, Afghanistan, Ireland, Scotland, United Arab Emirates, West Indies and Zimbabwe had all progressed to the Super Sixes, with a chance to qualify for the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Hong Kong, Nepal, Netherlands and Papua New Guinea did not qualify for the Super Sixes, but advanced to the playoffs to determine their final rankings in positions seven to ten. Both Scotland and the United Arab Emirates kept their ODI status until 2022, after reaching the Super Sixes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Summary\nHong Kong, Nepal and Papua New Guinea competed for the final ODI status spot in the playoffs. In the first round of playoff matches, Nepal beat Papua New Guinea by 6 wickets and the Netherlands beat Hong Kong by 44 runs. Therefore, with the Netherlands already guaranteed ODI status at the end of the tournament, Nepal gained ODI status for the first time. With their defeats in the first playoff matches, Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea both lost their ODI status and were relegated to Division Two of the World Cricket League. The fixture between Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea, for the ninth place playoff, was the 4,000th ODI match to be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Summary\nThe West Indies became the first side to qualify for the 2019 Cricket World Cup, after they beat Scotland by five runs by the Duckworth\u2013Lewis\u2013Stern method in the Super Sixes. Tournament hosts Zimbabwe lost their final match in the Super Sixes to the United Arab Emirates, meaning they would need Afghanistan and Ireland's match to end as tie to allow them to progress to the Cricket World Cup. However, Afghanistan beat Ireland by five wickets in the final Super Six match, therefore joining the West Indies in the tournament final and also qualifying for the Cricket World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Summary\nIn the final, Afghanistan's Rashid Khan became the fastest and youngest bowler to take 100 wickets in ODIs when he dismissed Shai Hope. He took 44 matches to take his 100th dismissal, breaking the previous record of 52 matches, set by Mitchell Starc of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Teams\nIt was decided before the 2015 Cricket World Cup that the number of participating teams at the 2019 Cricket World Cup would be reduced to ten. A new World Cup qualification structure was introduced in which the host nation of the World Cup and the top seven other teams in the ICC ODI Championship on 30 September 2017 would qualify directly for the World Cup, with the remaining two spots being decided by the World Cup qualifying tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Teams\nFollowing recent success, Afghanistan and Ireland were promoted into the ICC ODI Championship in 2015 taking the number of teams in the ICC ODI Championship to twelve. Afghanistan and Ireland were granted Test status in 2017 making them the 11th and 12th Test-playing nations, meaning that at least two Test-playing nations would miss the World Cup for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Teams\nThe bottom four teams in the ICC ODI Championship ranking will be joined by the top four teams from the 2015\u201317 ICC World Cricket League Championship and the two finalists of the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two for the qualifying tournament. Therefore, at most two associate teams could qualify for the World Cup, or none if beaten by the Test playing nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Teams, ICC ODI Championship\nThe bottom four teams (9th to 12th places) in the ICC ODI Championship, as at 30 September 2017, did not receive automatic World Cup qualification and are required to play in the 2018 World Cup Qualifier. Qualification by this route was finalised after the West Indies lost the first match of their ODI series against England in September 2017, meaning they were unable to catch any of the teams above them in the rankings by the cut-off date. Afghanistan, Ireland and Zimbabwe, below the West Indies in the rankings, were confirmed as having to play in the qualification tournament before this date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Teams, WCL Championship\nThe top four teams from the 2015\u201317 ICC World Cricket League Championship qualified for the 2018 World Cup Qualifier. After the conclusion of the sixth round of fixtures in the championship, both the Netherlands and Papua New Guinea had qualified. Following the first fixtures in round seven, they were joined by Scotland and Hong Kong. The Netherlands ended up winning the tournament, with Scotland finishing second followed by Hong Kong in third and Papua New Guinea fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Teams, WCL Division Two\nThe top two teams from the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two qualified for the 2018 World Cup Qualifier. Nepal and the United Arab Emirates placed first and second in the round-robin stage, thus claiming the final places in the Qualifier. The United Arab Emirates won the final of the Division Two tournament to go into Group A, with Nepal placed in Group B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Tournament format\nInitially, the teams were split into two groups of five; these groups played on a round-robin basis. Two points were awarded for a win, one point for a no result and no points for a loss. The top three teams in each group went forward to a Super Six round. The results between the progressing teams were carried forward, including the corresponding points and net run rate, while the results against the teams that finished in the bottom two places in each group were discarded. Each team then played the qualifiers from the other group. The remaining four teams (that finish in the bottom two places in each group) played-off for positions 7\u201310. The bottom two Associate Member teams, excluding the Netherlands, were relegated to the ICC World Cricket League Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Tournament format\nThe top two teams at the end of the Super Six stage earned qualification to the 2019 World Cup, and also contested the final to determine the winner of the tournament. If the final ended as a tie, then a Super Over would have been played to decide the winner. In the event of a no result, the tournament's winner would have been the side that finished highest in the Super Sixes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Squads\nPrior to the tournament, Stephan Myburgh was ruled out of the Netherlands squad due to injury and was replaced by Bas de Leede. Zimbabwe initially named Ryan Burl and Tarisai Musakanda in their squad, but they were replaced by Sean Williams and Cephas Zhuwao.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Squads\nAfghanistan's captain Asghar Stanikzai missed the start of the tournament, after having his appendix removed. Rashid Khan captained Afghanistan in Stanikzai's absence. Stanikzai was eventually ruled out of the start of the tournament and was replaced by Afsar Zazai. Stanikzai returned to the squad, after he was declared fit to play, ahead of Afghanistan's final two Super Six matches. Stanikzai's replacement, Afsar Zazai, was ruled out of the last two matches due to injury. Following Afghanistan's match with Zimbabwe, Mohammad Shahzad was suspended for the final two group matches after being found guilty of damaging part of the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Squads\nZimbabwe's Brian Vitori was suspended from bowling, following the match with Nepal. He was replaced by Richard Ngarava. Sheldon Cottrell was replaced in the West Indies squad by Keemo Paul, after Cottrell injured himself during the match against the United Arab Emirates. Ahead of Hong Kong's group match with Scotland, Ahsan Abbasi suffered an injury and was ruled out of the tournament. He was replaced by Kinchit Shah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Warm-up matches\nTen non-ODI warm-up matches were played on 27 February and 1 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Group stage\nThe ICC confirmed the fixtures for the tournament in January 2018. All the matches were recorded as ODIs, except those that involved the Netherlands and Nepal, as they did not have ODI status at the start of the tournament. On 8 March 2018, the venues for the final two games in Group B were switched, due to the anticipated attendance for Zimbabwe's last group match. On 13 March 2018, the ICC confirmed all the umpires for the Super Sixes and playoff matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Final standings\nThese were the final standings at the end of the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278491-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Final standings\nNote: Remaining teams already had ODI status until at least 2022", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278492-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier warm-up matches\nTen non-ODI warm-up matches for the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier were played on 27 February and 1 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278493-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9\nThe 2018 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 was a road cycling stage race that took place between 3 and 10 June 2018 in France. It was the 70th edition of the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 and the twenty-third event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278493-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9\nThe race was won by a British rider from Team Sky, as Geraint Thomas won his first Dauphin\u00e9 GC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278493-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, Teams\nAs the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Four UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 22-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278493-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, Classification leadership table\nIn the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, four different jerseys were awarded. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages except for the individual time trial: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. The rider with the least accumulated time is the race leader, identified by a yellow jersey with a blue bar; the winner of this classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278493-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage. More points were awarded on the flatter stages in the opening half of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278493-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, Classification leadership table\nThere was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a blue jersey with white polka dots. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either hors, first, second, third, or fourth-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. Hors-category climbs awarded the most points; the first ten riders were able to accrue points, compared with the first six on first-category climbs, the first four on second-category, the first two on third-category and only the first for fourth-category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278493-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, Classification leadership table\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born on or after 1 January 1993 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278494-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Croatia Open Umag\nThe 2018 Croatia Open Umag (also known as the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 29th edition of the Croatia Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the International Tennis Center in Umag, Croatia, from 15 July through 22 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278494-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Croatia Open Umag, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278494-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Croatia Open Umag, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 70], "content_span": [71, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278495-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Croatia Open Umag \u2013 Doubles\nGuillermo Dur\u00e1n and Andr\u00e9s Molteni were the defending champions, but Dur\u00e1n chose not to participate and Molteni chose to compete in B\u00e5stad instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278495-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Croatia Open Umag \u2013 Doubles\nRobin Haase and Matw\u00e9 Middelkoop won the title, defeating Roman Jebav\u00fd and Ji\u0159\u00ed Vesel\u00fd in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278496-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Croatia Open Umag \u2013 Singles\nAndrey Rublev was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Robin Haase. This was Rublev's first tournament back on tour after missing three months due to a stress fracture in his back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278496-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Croatia Open Umag \u2013 Singles\nMarco Cecchinato won the title, defeating Guido Pella in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20134).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278496-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Croatia Open Umag \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278497-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Croatian Football Cup Final\nThe 2018 Croatian Cup Final between Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split was played on 23 May 2018 at Stadion HNK Cibalia in Vinkovci. This was the first meeting of the two most popular Croatian clubs in the final since 2009. Dinamo Zagreb secured a domestic double after winning both the cup and the 2017\u201318 Croatian First Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278497-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Croatian Football Cup Final, Match details\nAssistant referees:Borut Kri\u017eari\u0107 (\u010cakovec)Dalibor Conjar (Osijek) Fourth official:Goran Pataki (\u0110akovo)Additional assistant referees:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278498-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season\nThe 2018 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season was the 52nd in the club's history. Coached by Shane Flanagan and captained by Paul Gallen and Wade Graham, they competed in the National Rugby League's 2018 Telstra Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278498-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season, Representative honours\nThe following players have played a first grade representative match in 2018. (C) = Captain", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games\nThe 2018 CrossFit Games were the 12th CrossFit Games and held on August 1\u20135, 2018, at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. The men's competition was won by Mathew Fraser, the women's by Tia-Clair Toomey, and CrossFit Mayhem Freedom won the Affiliate Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games\nA record number of entries was reported for this year's Open, with over 415,000 athletes registering to compete. The Regionals were adjusted this year to reflect the growth of the sport worldwide. Both Fraser and Toomey dominated the Games, with Fraser extending his record margin of victory to 220 over the runner-up Patrick Vellner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Qualification\nThe 2018 CrossFit season was a high point in terms of participation; it recorded the highest number of athletes, at over 415,000, who registered to compete in the Open. Across all age divisions, 429,157 took part in and completed at least one workout. There were six scored event in five weeks (the second workout was split into two scored events \u2013 18.2 and 18.2a). The Open took place from February 22 through March 26. Mat Fraser and Cassidy Lance-Mcwherter were the respective man and woman winner of the Open. Fraser's points total of 97 was 343 points lower than that of the second place finisher Alex Vigneault, the biggest margin of victory in the Open's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Qualification\nThe Regionals were adjusted this year to reflect the growth of the sport worldwide; the number of Regionals was increased from eight to nine, and athletes from 18 regions were funnelled into the nine Regionals. Latin America that was previously merged with a US Regional was given its own Regional, while Regionals in the US were reorganized down to five, and Europe was split into two (Europe and Meridian). The number of qualifiers to the Games, however, remained the same: 40 men, 40 women and 40 teams. The Regionals took place over three weekends from May 18 through June 3, 2018. The Regionals were streamed live on CBSSports.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Wednesday, August 1, 2018, Event 1: Crit\nAthletes competed in a criterium race on bicycles with all competing athletes on the track simultaneously. Patrick Vellner crashed in the event, and finished in 35th place. The event was won by Adrian Mundwiler the men's heat and Kristin Holte for the women's heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Wednesday, August 1, 2018, Event 2: 30 Muscle-ups\nThe athletes performed 30 muscle-ups on gymnastic rings as fast as possible. The event was won by Logan Collins and Kristi Eramo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 82], "content_span": [83, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Wednesday, August 1, 2018, Event 3: CrossFit Total\nAthletes had four minutes to make three attempts at each lift for the heaviest weight. The winning score was the cumulative total of the three heaviest weights in each lift. The event was won by Royce Dunne for the men and by Tia-Clair Toomey for the women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 83], "content_span": [84, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Wednesday, August 1, 2018, Event 4: Marathon Row\nThe competitors used a Concept-2 rowing machine to accumulate 42,195 meters, the distance of a marathon, as fast as possible. The event was won by Lukas Esslinger with a time of 2 hours, 43 minutes, 50 seconds and Margaux Alvarez at 3 hours, 0 minutes, 42 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 81], "content_span": [82, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Friday, August 3, 2018, Event 5: The Battleground\nCompetitors started by dragging \"Rescue Randy\", a weighted rescue training mannequin, across the stadium. After the drag, they climbed two 20-foot (6.1-meter) ropes, each with a different diameter. They then ran a course with eight obstacles consisting of cargo net climbs, wall climbs, monkey bars, rope swings, and log balances. The competitors then returned to the rope climbs and dummy drag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 82], "content_span": [83, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Friday, August 3, 2018, Event 5: The Battleground\nAt the event, both Mat Fraser and Patrick Vellner fell off the cargo net, with Vellner bruising his lungs and required medical attention after the race. The event was won by Cole Sager and Laura Horv\u00e1th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 82], "content_span": [83, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Friday, August 3, 2018, Event 6: Clean and Jerk Speed Ladder\nThe event consists of three rounds of five progressively heavier clean and jerks. The men start at 245 pounds (111 kilograms) and the women start at 155 pounds (70 kilograms). The top 20 athletes to finish the five lifts in quarterfinal round with a one-minute time cap move on to the semifinal round. With a two-minute cap and five heavier barbells, the top five competitors move on to the final round. The final round has the five athletes progress through five heavier weights as fast as possible, or as heaviest weight they can lift in the three-minute time cap. The event was won by Nicholas Urankar and Amanda Barnhart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Friday, August 3, 2018, Event 7: Fibonacci\nA repeat of the final event of the previous year, with only a change to women's event to make it match the number of movements as the men. The previous year, Logan Collins was the only man to finish the event (with a time of 5:29:09), while 27 women finished with the lower quantity of handstand push-ups. The parallettes are 14 inches (36 centimeters) for the men and 8 inches (20 centimeters) for the women. The men use 203-pound (92-kilogram) kettlebells for the deadlifts and 53-pound (24-kilogram) kettlebells for the lunges. The women use 124-pound (56-kilogram) kettlebells for the deadlifts and 35-pound (16-kilogram) kettlebells for the lunges. All must be done with a six-minute time cap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 75], "content_span": [76, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Friday, August 3, 2018, Event 7: Fibonacci\nThe event was won by Mat Fraser, who had taken second in the event the previous year, and Katr\u00edn Dav\u00ed\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir. Four men finished the 2018 event, including previous finisher Logan Collins, and 23 women finished the updated version of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 75], "content_span": [76, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Saturday, August 4, 2018, Event 8: Madison Triplus\nThe event was won by Dean Linder-Leighton and Tia-Clair Toomey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 83], "content_span": [84, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Saturday, August 4, 2018, Event 9: Chaos\nThis event was designed so that the athletes did not know the quantity or movement going into each station. On the SkiErg, burpees, and squats, the athletes were told to move to the next station only when they reached the specified quantity. They were told the quantity of box jumps once they reached the box. The men, who went second on the event, were sequestered so that they could not find out the movements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Saturday, August 4, 2018, Event 9: Chaos\nThe quantities varied between the men's and women's event. The men had 35 calories on the SkiErg, a machine built by Concept2 similar to their rowing machines but meant to simulate a cross-country skiing motion, and the women had 30. The burpees had 30 repetitions for the men and 25 for the women, as well as a higher target for the men. For the dumbbell overhead squats, the men had 45 while the women had 40 repetitions with a 50-pound (23-kilogram) and 35-pound (16-kilogram) dumbbell respectively. On the single-leg squats, the men had 40 while the women had 45. Both sexes had 25 box jumps, but the height for the women was 36 inches (91 centimeters) while the men had 42-inch (110-centimeter) tall boxes. The tumbler was a sand-filled barrel, 400 pounds (180 kilograms) and 300 pounds (140 kilograms) for the men and women respectively, attached to straps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 937]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Saturday, August 4, 2018, Event 9: Chaos\nThe event was won by Patrick Vellner and Katr\u00edn Dav\u00ed\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Saturday, August 4, 2018, Events 10 and 11: Bicouplet 1 and 2\nEach heat performed events 10 and 11 back-to-back with a short rest in between. The order of the two events was voted on by fans to decide if Bicouplet 1 or 2 would be performed first with Bicouplet 2 becoming chosen as event 10. The snatch weight for Bicouplet 2 was 135 pounds (61 kilograms) for men and 85 pounds (39 kilograms) for women. The snatch weight for Bicouplet 1 was 85 pounds (39 kilograms) for men and 55 pounds (25 kilograms) for women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 94], "content_span": [95, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Saturday, August 4, 2018, Events 10 and 11: Bicouplet 1 and 2\nEvent 10, Bicouplet 2, was won by Willy Georges and Camille Leblanc-Bazinet . Event 11, Bicouplet 1, was won by Rasmus Andersen and Kara Saunders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 94], "content_span": [95, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Sunday, August 5, 2018, Event 12: Two-Stroke Pull\nThe event was won by Lukas H\u00f6gberg and Laura Horv\u00e1th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 82], "content_span": [83, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Sunday, August 5, 2018, Event 13: Handstand Walk\nAs fast as possible, each competitor performed 50 double-unders with a heavy jump rope and then navigated an obstacle course while walking on their hands. The obstacles consisted of a pylon slalom, up and down a ramp, up and down stairs, and finished with a handstand walk across a set of parallel bars. Each individual obstacle had to be done without falling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 81], "content_span": [82, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Sunday, August 5, 2018, Event 13: Handstand Walk\nThe event was won by Cody Anderson and Brooke Wells.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 81], "content_span": [82, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Sunday, August 5, 2018, Event 14: Aeneas\nThe event was a \"chipper,\" a workout involving multiple exercises done sequentially without returning (as in \"chipping away\" at the number of repetitions) for the fastest time or as far as possible in the eight-minute time cap. The athletes started with climbing the peg board before moving on the thrusters, a CrossFit movement that is a combination of a front squat and push press in one continuous motion. After the thrusters the competitors picked up a yoke loaded with 425 pounds (193 kilograms) for the men or 345 pounds (156 kilograms) for the women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Sunday, August 5, 2018, Event 14: Aeneas\nAfter 33 feet of carrying the yoke, the athletes had to stop and load their yokes to 565 pounds (256 kilograms) or 405 pounds (184 kilograms) for the men or women respectively. After another 33 feet, they loaded the yokes to 665 pounds (302 kilograms) or 445 pounds (202 kilograms) before carrying it another 33 feet to the finish line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278499-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 CrossFit Games, Individual, Sunday, August 5, 2018, Event 14: Aeneas\nHaving already secured first place overall in the 2018 Games, Mathew Fraser also finished first for this event. The women's event was won by Laura Horv\u00e1th, the 2018 Games second-place finisher overall, while first place Games finisher Tia-Clair Toomey finished second in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278500-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Croydon London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Croydon Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Croydon Council in England. This was on the same day as other London local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278500-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Croydon London Borough Council election\nThis election was the first fought on new ward boundaries in Croydon. The total number of seats remains the same, however the number of wards has increased by four, from 24 to 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278500-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Croydon London Borough Council election, Campaign\nThe Conservative Party released their manifesto first, on 2 April, entitled \"A Council that's on your side\". The manifesto included policies such as planning committee reform, an immediate pause on the council's building company, Brick by Brick, and active Fly-Tip patrols.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278500-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Croydon London Borough Council election, Campaign\nThe Labour manifesto was launched on 7 April, with many street stalls in district centres around the borough. The Labour manifesto was called \"Labour's plan for Croydon\". It heavily echoed the party's 2014 manifesto, 'Ambitious for Croydon', and largely reflected a continuation of existing council policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278500-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Croydon London Borough Council election, Campaign\nThe Liberal Democrat manifesto was released shortly after, with campaigns that included a People\u2019s Vote on Brexit, campaigning to stop the axing of local bus routes, the restoration of community policing and an extension of the night Overground to Crystal Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278501-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Crozet, Virginia train crash\nThe Crozet, Virginia train crash was a railway accident that occurred on January 31, 2018. A chartered Amtrak train named Congressional Special Train 923, following the route normally used by the Amtrak Cardinal and carrying a group of politicians and lawmakers from the Republican Party, collided with a garbage truck at a level crossing at Lanetown Road in Crozet, Virginia, 12 miles (19\u00a0km) west of Charlottesville, Virginia. The train was chartered by Republican lawmakers for transportation from Washington Union Station to an annual retreat at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Several politicians brought their spouses and children with them for the trip; no members of the general public were passengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278501-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Crozet, Virginia train crash, Crash\nAbout 11:16\u00a0a.m. EST (16:16 UTC), Amtrak Congressional Special Train 923 struck the left rear of a garbage truck operated by Time Disposal at a railroad crossing at Lanetown Road near Crozet, Virginia. This caused the truck to rotate counterclockwise and collide with a railroad signal structure next to the tracks. The body of the garbage truck separated from the cab, and the truck's two passengers were ejected. The crossing is protected by flasher lights and gates, which were operating at the time of collision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278501-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Crozet, Virginia train crash, Crash\nAccording to a witness, the train sounded a prolonged warning with its horn as the truck was trying to cross the track. According to an Albemarle County Police Department statement, 28-year-old truck passenger Christopher Foley died; he had mistakenly been identified by some as the driver. Another passenger was airlifted in critical condition, and the truck driver was taken to the hospital in serious condition. Three train passengers and three Amtrak crewmembers reported minor injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278501-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Crozet, Virginia train crash, Crash\nSeveral politicians on the train made statements on the scene to media outlets. Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky described the incident as \"...loud and surprising. Some minor bumps and bruises in this car. We saw debris go by the left side of the train. The part of the truck we can see was decimated. Very relieved when the train came to a stop and still on the tracks.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278501-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Crozet, Virginia train crash, Crash\nSix injured people were taken to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. The hospital reported that one of the injured was in critical condition. One member of Congress, Representative Jason Lewis of Minnesota, was taken to the hospital with a concussion. He was treated and released, rejoining the group at the retreat in the early evening. Representative Roger Marshall, M.D., of Kansas, a passenger on the train, administered first aid and CPR to the injured, as did other passengers and local residents with medical training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278501-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Crozet, Virginia train crash, Crash\nAt 1:15\u00a0p.m. EST, the partially derailed lead locomotive, Amtrak P42DC heritage unit #145, was removed from the train to allow the investigation to continue. The remainder of the train was then moved back to Charlottesville Union Station, where the passengers were transferred to waiting buses to continue their trip to the Greenbrier. #145 was repaired and put back into service following the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278501-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Crozet, Virginia train crash, Investigation and criminal charges\nThe crash was investigated by multiple agencies, with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) serving as the lead investigative agency. The Federal Railroad Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Albemarle County Police Department, Amtrak and the Buckingham Branch Railroad, who operates the rail line for CSX Transportation, assisted the NTSB in the investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278501-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Crozet, Virginia train crash, Investigation and criminal charges\nOn February 21, 2018, the NTSB published a preliminary report on the accident. It said the train was traveling about 61 miles per hour (98\u00a0km/h) when the engineer engaged the emergency brakes. Witnesses said the gates were already down when the truck entered the crossing. According to the lead locomotive's front-facing camera, by the time the crossing came into view, the truck was already inside the crossing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278501-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Crozet, Virginia train crash, Investigation and criminal charges\nAfter completing their investigation, the Albemarle County Police Department announced on June 8, 2018, that the driver of the garbage truck, Dana William Naylor Jr., had been indicted by an Albemarle County grand jury on one count of involuntary manslaughter for the death of truck passenger Christopher Foley. Naylor was also charged with one count of maiming while driving under the influence for causing permanent physical injury to Dennis Eddy, who was also a passenger in the truck. The substance that Naylor was accused of being under the influence of was not named in the announcement, although the NTSB later revealed that he had marijuana and anti-seizure medication in his blood. Naylor was ultimately acquitted on both the DUI maiming and involuntary manslaughter charges in February 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 871]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278502-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube season\nThe 2018 season was the 97th in the Cruzeiro Esporte Clube's existence. Along with the Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, the club also competed in the Campeonato Mineiro, the Copa do Brasil and the Copa Libertadores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278502-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube season\nOn 17 October, Cruzeiro won their 6th Copa do Brasil title after defeating Corinthians 2\u20131 at Arena Corinthians, becoming the biggest champions of the tournament history and the first to win it twice in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278502-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube season, Competitions, Copa do Brasil\nAs Cruzeiro participated in the 2018 Copa Libertadores, the club entered the Copa do Brasil in the round of 16, whose draw was held on 20 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278502-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube season, Competitions, Copa Libertadores\nThe group stage draw for the 2018 Copa Libertadores was made on 20 December 2017. Cruzeiro were drawn into Group E with Universidad de Chile, Racing and Vasco da Gama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278502-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube season, Competitions, Copa Libertadores, Knockout stage\nThe draw for the knockout stages of the Copa Libertadores was held on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 83], "content_span": [84, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278503-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cuban parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Cuba on 11 March 2018 to elect members of the National Assembly of People's Power. Prior to the elections, President Ra\u00fal Castro declared he would not be seeking a new term, and a new President of the Council of State will be elected by the National Assembly. His deputy, Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel, was subsequently elected as the new president. However, Castro remained the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278503-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cuban parliamentary election, Electoral system\nAll Cuban citizens who are over the age of 18 years, and possess full political rights for at least five years prior to the election are eligible to partake within the election. 50% of candidates must be nominated by people from the municipality and elected by direct vote in local assemblies, where people decide who they consider to have the qualities to best represent them. The other 50% of candidates are proposed by nominating assemblies which comprise representatives of workers, youth, women, students, and farmers, as well as members of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. The final list of candidates, which corresponds to the number of seats to be filled, is drawn up by the National Candidature Commission taking into account criteria such as candidates' merit, patriotism, ethical values, and revolutionary history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 895]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278503-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cuban parliamentary election, Electoral system\nVoter requirements are set within article 132 of the Cuban constitution. All voters must be Cuban citizens who have reached the age of 16 years, who have not been declared mentally disabled by a court, and who have not committed a crime. The electoral system is designed to give the winner of the election a majority. To be declared elected, one candidate must obtain more than 50% of the valid votes cast in the constituency in which they are running. If this is not attained, the seat in question remains vacant unless the Council of State decides to hold a second round of voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278503-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cuban parliamentary election, Results\nOn 12 March, the Cuba National Election Commission (CNE) released preliminary results. In a press conference, the CNE reported that all 605 candidates had been elected as Deputies to the National Assembly. Selective votes refer to voters who voted for either their National Assembly Deputy, or their Provincial Representative, but not both.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278504-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nThe 2018 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final was the final match of the 2017\u201318 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei and the 80th final of the Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Romania's premier football cup competition. It was played on 27 May 2018 between Hermannstadt and Universitatea Craiova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278504-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nHermannstadt reached their first ever cup final in the third year of the club's existence. They are the 14th team, and the first in 36 years, to reach the final while not playing in the top league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278504-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nThis was be the first final for Universitatea since 1991, and the first for a team from Craiova in 18 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278504-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nThe winner qualified for the 2018\u201319 UEFA Europa League. They also earned the right to play against 2017\u201318 Liga I champions for the 2018 Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278504-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nThe game was be hosted by the Arena Na\u021bional\u0103 stadium in Bucharest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278505-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cure Bowl\nThe 2018 Cure Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 15, 2018, with kickoff scheduled for 1:30\u00a0p.m. EST. It was the fourth edition of the Cure Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by automotive retailer AutoNation, the game was officially known as the AutoNation Cure Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278505-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cure Bowl, Teams\nThe game was played between the Tulane Green Wave from the American Athletic Conference (AAC) and the Louisiana Ragin\u2019 Cajuns from the Sun Belt Conference. Both teams made their first appearance in a Cure Bowl. This game was the 27th all time meeting against the Ragin' Cajuns and the Green Wave, with Tulane leading the series 22\u20134; this was their second meeting in a bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278505-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cure Bowl, Teams, Louisiana\nLouisiana won the Sun Belt West Division title, earning a berth in the inaugural Sun Belt Championship, where they lost to Appalachian State. The Ragin' Cajuns entered the bowl with a 7\u20136 record (5\u20133 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 32], "content_span": [33, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278505-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cure Bowl, Teams, Tulane\nTulane received and accepted a bid to the Cure Bowl on December 2. The Green Wave, who were co-champions of the West Division of the AAC, entered the bowl with a 6\u20136 record (5\u20133 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278506-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic\nThe 2018 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic was held from October 5 to 8 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. The event was a triple knockout format, and the purse for the event was CAD$50,000, with the winning team receiving $13,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278506-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic\nKerri Einarson from Gimli defeated the reigning Canadian champion Jennifer Jones rink from Winnipeg in the final. The win gave Einarson and her team their 4th World Curling Tour win of the 2018-19 curling season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division\nThe 2018 Currie Cup First Division was the second tier of the 2018 Currie Cup, the 80th edition of the annual South African rugby union competition organised by the South African Rugby Union. It was played between 24 August and 19 October 2018 and featured seven of the eight teams that played in 2017, following Namibian side Welwitschias' withdrawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division\nThe competition was won by the SWD Eagles, who beat the Falcons 36\u201327 in the final played on 19 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Competition rules and information\nThere were seven participating teams in the 2018 Currie Cup First Division. They played each other once during the pool stage, either at home or away. Teams receive four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by seven points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Competition rules and information\nThe top four teams in the pool stage qualified for the semifinals, which were followed by a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Competition rules and information, Financial crisis and withdrawal of Welwitschias\nThe start of the 2018 Currie Cup First Division was marred by financial problems following the South African Rugby Union's announcement that First Division teams' budgets would be cut by 52%. The Griffons announced that they would reduce player contracts to 8-month contracts and the Leopards intimated that they might forfeit away matches to save on travel costs. and there were serious concerns about the participation of teams like the Border Bulldogs and Eastern Province Elephants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 114], "content_span": [115, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Competition rules and information, Financial crisis and withdrawal of Welwitschias\nNamibian side Welwitschias were informed that they would have to pay the travel costs for teams travelling to games in Windhoek, but \u2014 after initial reports indicated that they raised the money with the help of World Rugby \u2014 they could not raise the required funds and announced their withdrawal from the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 114], "content_span": [115, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Teams\nThe teams that played in the 2018 Currie Cup First Division are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Pool stage, Standings\nThe final log for the 2018 Currie Cup First Division was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Pool stage, Standings\nThe top four teams qualified for the semifinals. The top team qualified for the promotion play-off. Points breakdown:* 4 points for a win* 2 points for a draw* 1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less* 1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Pool stage, Round-by-round\nThe table below shows a team's progression throughout the season. For each round, each team's cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Pool stage, Matches\nThe following matches were played in the 2018 Currie Cup First Division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round One\nThe 2018 Currie Cup First Division season kicked off with an away victory for the Leopards in George, beating home side SWD Eagles 27\u201325 in a close affair. The other two matches of the round was far more comprehensive; the Boland Cavaliers scored ten converted tries in their 70\u201312 victory over the Eastern Province Elephants in Robertson, with Zandr\u00e9 Jordaan, Tapiwa Tsomondo and Valentino Wellman scoring two each, and the Falcons also scored ten tries in their 66\u201327 victory over the Border Bulldogs in Kempton Park, where Friedle Olivier and Etienne Taljaard scored braces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Two\nThe Falcons moved to the top of the log after a 56\u201352 victory over defending champions the Griffons. For the second match in succession, Friedle Olivier and Etienne Taljaard each scored two tries for the Falcons, while a hat-trick from prop Danie van der Merwe was not enough for the team from Welkom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Two\nThe Leopards kept in touch with the Falcons, securing their second win of the competition after beating the Boland Cavaliers 35\u201312 in Potchefstroom, while the SWD Eagles outscored the Border Bulldogs 37\u201322 in East London, with three players \u2013 Ruben Schoeman and Marlo Weich for the SWD Eagles and Sonwabiso Mqalo for the Border Bulldogs \u2013 getting two tries in the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Three\nA bye for leaders the Falcons saw the Leopards take over top spot in the competition following their 28\u201321 bonus point victory over the Eastern Province Elephants in Port Elizabeth. Defending champions the Griffons suffered their second loss in a row, being beaten 7\u201332 by a SWD Eagles side for whom Marlo Weich scored two tries for the second match in a row, moving into second place on the log in the process. The weekend's other match saw the Border Bulldogs beat the Boland Cavaliers 24\u201317 in Bredasdorp in their first victory of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Four\nA fourth different team moved to the top of the log in as many weeks as the SWD Eagles moved into top spot following a 36\u201334 victory over the Falcons in a match that saw the teams share 12 tries. The Boland Cavaliers kept up the pressure by also securing a narrow away win, beating the Griffons 48\u201345 in Welkom, with Charlie Mayeza scoring two tries and Elgar Watts contributing 15 points in the match for the visitors, while a hat-trick for Japie Nel and a brace for Cody Basson was in vain for the home side. The Border Bulldogs emerged victorious in the Eastern Cape derby, with doubles from Sonwabiso Mqalo and Sipho Nofemele helping their team to a 39\u201326 win over the Eastern Province Elephants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Five\nThe Leopards returned to the top of the log after beating the Border Bulldogs 47\u201322, with fullback Gerhard Nortier scoring two tries for the team from Potchefstroom. The Boland Cavaliers moved into third place following a low-scoring 20\u20137 win over the Falcons in Lambert's Bay, while the Griffons won the match between the two winless teams, beating the Eastern Province Elephants 35\u201322 with wing Rodney Damons scoring a hat-trick for the winning team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Six\nThe SWD Eagles moved back to the top of the log following a 54\u201328 victory over the Boland Cavaliers, securing a semifinal spot in the process. Seven different players scored tries for the home side, with fly-half Divan Nel contributing 19 points with the boot, while a brace from loose forward Tapiwa Tsomondo was in vain for the away side. Round Five log leaders the Leopards suffered their first defeat of the season, losing 29\u201340 to the Griffons in Welkom, but also secured a play-off spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Six\nThree players scored two tries each in the match \u2014 Tertius Maarman and Barend Potgieter for the Griffons and Gerhard Nortier for the Leopards \u2014 as the Griffons maintained their play-off push by moving up to fifth spot. The biggest victory of the round came in Kempton Park, where the Falcons ran in 15 tries in a 101\u201329 victory over the Eastern Province Elephants to secure the third semifinal place. Winger Etienne Taljaard scored four tries for the Falcons, with Coert Cronj\u00e9, Thabo Mabuza and Friedle Olivier getting two each, while scrumhalf Anrich Richter converted 11 of his side's tries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Seven\nIn the first match of the weekend, the Falcons leap-frogged the Leopards into second place on the log after winning the match between the teams 41\u201335, securing a home semifinal against the same opposition. Anrich Richter contributed 18 points for the home team, while a hat-trick for visiting winger Dean Stokes proved futile. The SWD Eagles secured top spot after a 36\u20137 win over bottom-of-the-log Eastern Province Elephants, with winger Adri Jacobs scoring two tries, and being awarded to penalty tries in the match. The final place in the play-offs was clinched by the Griffons, who beat the Border Bulldogs 40\u20137 with hooker Anrich Alberts getting a hat-trick, and in the processed moved into fourth spot ahead of the Boland Cavaliers who was not in action in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Play-offs, Title play-offs, Semifinals\nTwo home victories saw the SWD Eagles and Falcons progress to the final. The Falcons convincingly beat the Leopards in Kempton Park, with four tries from loose forward Martin Sithole and 17 points from scrum-half Anrich Richter helping them to a 59\u201319 victory. It was a lower-scoring affair in George, where the SWD Eagles won 22\u20136 against the Griffons, with 17 of the home side's points coming from the boot of fly-half Divan Nel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Play-offs, Title play-offs, Final\nThe SWD Eagles won their third Currie Cup First Division title \u2014 following on from wins in 2002 and 2007 \u2014 by beating the Falcons 36\u201327 in George, despite being 15\u201327 down as half-time. Eighth man Wayne Wilschut scored a hat-trick of tries for the home team, with Wynand Grassmann and Marlo Weich getting one each, and Divan Nel kicking 11 points. For the Falcons, Etienne Taljaard scored two more tries to finish as the competition's top try-scorer with 13 tries, while Anrich Richter scored a try and 12 points with the boot to finish as the top points scorer with 105.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Honours\nThe honour roll for the 2018 Currie Cup First Division was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Players\nThe squads and player appearance and scoring statistics for the 2018 Currie Cup First Division are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278507-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup First Division, Referees\nThe following referees officiated matches in the 2018 Currie Cup First Division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division\nThe 2018 Currie Cup Premier Division was the top tier of the 2018 Currie Cup, the 80th edition of the annual South African rugby union competition organised by the South African Rugby Union. It was played between 17 August and 27 October 2018 and featured the same seven teams as in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division\nThe competition was won by the Sharks, who beat Western Province 17\u201312 in the final played on 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Competition rules and information\nThere were seven participating teams in the 2018 Currie Cup Premier Division. They played each other once during the pool stage, either at home or away. Teams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by seven points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Competition rules and information\nThe top four teams in the pool stage qualified for the semifinals, which were followed by a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Teams\nThe teams that played in the 2018 Currie Cup Premier Division are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Standings\nThe final log for the 2018 Currie Cup Premier Division was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Standings\nThe top four teams qualified for the semifinals. Points breakdown:* 4 points for a win* 2 points for a draw* 1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less* 1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Round-by-round\nThe table below shows a team's progression throughout the season. For each round, each team's cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Matches\nThe following matches were played in the 2018 Currie Cup Premier Division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round One\nThe 2018 Currie Cup kicked off with a match between the two teams that finished in the bottom two spots in 2017; the Pumas and Griquas in Nelspruit. The Pumas won the match 42\u201319, with fly-half Chris Smith having a Currie Cup debut to remember, scoring 22 points in his side's victory. In the other match, the Blue Bulls beat the Free State Cheetahs 34\u201312 in Bloemfontein, with their fly-half Manie Libbok scoring 17 points, including his team's opening try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Two\nThe three teams that has byes in Round One all secured home victories in Round Two. Defending champions Western Province got their title defense underway with a 32\u20130 victory over the Free State Cheetahs, while the Sharks beat the Blue Bulls 26\u201310 in Durban; both teams scored four tries in their victories to secure a bonus point. The highest-scoring match of the round was the Friday evening match between the Golden Lions and Griquas, with the team from Johannesburg winning 62\u201341. Winger Courtnall Skosan scored a hat-trick and Hacjivah Dayimani got a brace as the Golden Lions ran in nine tries, with fly-half Shaun Reynolds kicking 17 points. Griquas fly-half George Whitehead scored 16 points for the losing team, who scored five tries of their own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Three\nRound Three saw the Golden Lions, Sharks and Western Province all winning their away games to make it two wins out of two. Western Province remain top on points differential after a 57\u201328 victory over the Pumas, with Sergeal Petersen scoring two of his side's eight tries, and winger SP Marais contributing 22 points through one try, seven conversions and a penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Three\nThe other two matches were closer affairs, with both home teams getting a bonus point for a loss by less than seven points; Louis Fouch\u00e9 scored two tries and 17 points in the Free State Cheetahs' 29\u201333 loss to a Sharks side for whom captain Chiliboy Ralepelle also scored a brace, while Ruan Steenkamp had a memorable match for the Blue Bulls, scoring a hat-trick before getting sin-binned, but ended on the losing side against the Golden Lions, whose eighth man Hacjivah Dayimani scored two tries to secure a 38\u201335 win for the team from Johannesburg in the trans-Jukskei derby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Four\nThe Golden Lions and the Sharks both maintained their perfect record, making it three bonus point wins out of three. The Sharks secured a 28\u201312 victory over the Pumas in the Friday night game, while the Golden Lions scored seven tries in a 47\u201314 victory over the Free State Cheetahs, with fly-half Shaun Reynolds scoring 22 points through two tries and six conversion, with winger Sylvian Mahuza also scoring two tries. The highest-scoring game of the weekend saw the Blue Bulls move up to third after a 45\u201340 victory over Griquas. Two tries from Griquas centre Andr\u00e9 Swarts was not enough as the side from Pretoria scored seven tries to secure the win. A bye weekend saw Western Province drop from first to fourth on the log.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Five\nIn the biggest match of the weekend, two previously-unbeaten sides in the Golden Lions and Western Province met in Johannesburg. The side from Cape Town secured a 65\u201338 win, scoring nine tries in the process with Dillyn Leyds and Sergeal Petersen scoring two each, while SP Marais contributed 25 of his side's points through one try, seven conversions and two penalties. The result saw Western Province move up to third on the log, one place behind the Golden Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Five\nThe Blue Bulls moved to the top of the log following a 39\u201329 win over the Pumas in Pretoria, with Jade Stighling contributing two tries. In the weekend's other match, 17 points from George Whitehead and two tries from lock FP Pelser saw Griquas move up to fifth spot by beating the Free State Cheetahs 52\u201324, a result which confirmed that the team from Bloemfontein won't take part in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Six\nThe Sharks and Western Province both maintained their perfect starts to the season, each winning their fourth consecutive match ahead of their meeting in Round Seven. Western Province secured a 38\u201312 victory over Griquas, with wing Sergeal Petersen scoring two of his side's six tries to move joint-top of the try-scoring charts. Loose-forward Dan du Preez also scored a brace, for the Sharks in their 37\u201321 victory over a Golden Lions side that lost their second match in a row, with Sharks fly-half Robert du Preez scoring 17 points with the boot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Six\nIn the other match of the weekend, Ryan Nell scored two tries as the Pumas picked up their second win of the season, beating the Free State Cheetahs 42\u201314 to condemn the team from Bloemfontein to a winless season, having lost all six of their matches. The Sharks and Western Province mathematically assured their semifinal berths, while the Blue Bulls, Golden Lions and Pumas remained in the race for the other two spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Seven\nThe only match of the round saw the top two sides, the Sharks and Western Province meet in Cape Town. The home side won the match 50\u201328 with SP Marais contributing 20 of his side's points, securing a home semi-final in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Eight\nRound Eight saw a full round of three matches being played, with the first of these finalising the semifinal lineup; the Golden Lions beat the Pumas 33\u201321 in Mbombela \u2014 with both Corn\u00e9 Fourie and Courtnall Skosan scoring a brace of tries \u2014 to end the latter's involvement in the competition and ensuring the Golden Lions and the Blue Bulls advanced to the knockout stage. The Sharks clinched a home semifinal by easily beating Griquas in Kimberley, with wingers Lwazi Mvovo and Leolin Zas each scoring two tries in a 41\u201311 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Pool stage, Matches, Round Eight\nThe final match of the round between the Blue Bulls and Western Province lasted just 40 minutes; after a delayed start in the match due to lightning, some play was possible before the match was abandoned at half-time due to ever-worsening weather conditions. Western Province were leading 34\u20137, and this was declared the final result of the match following the abandonment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Play-offs, Title play-offs, Semifinals\nThe semifinal matches went according to form, with the top two teams from the pool stage and home semifinalists Sharks and Western Province both winning. Dan du Preez and S'busiso Nkosi each scored two tries in the Sharks' 33\u201324 victory over the Golden Lions, for whom Courtnall Skosan also scored a brace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Play-offs, Title play-offs, Semifinals\nWestern Province and the Blue Bulls met for the second week in a row, but unlike the Round Eight match that saw Western Province win in a 40-minute match, this encounter finished 32\u2013all during normal time, with the Blue Bulls' Dylan Sage scoring a try after the final hooter to level the scores and send the match into extra time. Western Province recovered and retained their lead to win 35\u201332 after extra time, thanks to a penalty from SP Marais, who scored 30 of his side's points in the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Play-offs, Title play-offs, Final\nThe Sharks won their first title since 2013 after beating Western Province 17\u201312 in Cape Town. The only points in the first half came from the boot of Western Province kicker SP Marais, who slotted penalties in the 19th and 35th minutes to secure a 6\u20130 half-time lead for the home side. A try for Sharks hooker Akker van der Merwe, converted by fly-half Robert du Preez, saw the Sharks take a 7\u20136 lead shortly after the interval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Play-offs, Title play-offs, Final\nA Marais penalty in the 49th minute restored Western Province's lead, but Du Preez responded in kind two minutes later to restore the Sharks' lead. The decisive score came in the 70th minute, when Sharks flank Tyler Paul scored a try \u2014 again converted by Du Preez \u2014 to make the scoreline 17\u20139. A penalty from Damian Willemse wasn't enough for the home side, and the Sharks secured the eighth Currie Cup title in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Honours\nThe honour roll for the 2018 Currie Cup Premier Division was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Players\nThe squads and player appearance and scoring statistics for the 2018 Currie Cup Premier Division are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278508-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Currie Cup Premier Division, Referees\nThe following referees officiated matches in the 2018 Currie Cup Premier Division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278509-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Curtis Cup\nThe 40th Curtis Cup Match was played from June 8\u201310, 2018 at Quaker Ridge Golf Club, Scarsdale, New York. The United States dominated the match, winning by 17 matches to 3 including all 8 of the singles matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278509-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Curtis Cup, Format\nThe contest was a three-day competition, with three foursomes and three fourball matches on each of the first two days, and eight singles matches on the final day, a total of 20 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278509-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Curtis Cup, Format\nEach of the 20 matches is worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match is all square after the 18th hole, extra holes are not played. Rather, each side earns 1\u20442 a point toward their team total. The team that accumulates at least 101\u20442 points wins the competition. In the event of a tie, the current holder retains the Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278509-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Curtis Cup, Teams\nEight players for the USA and Great Britain & Ireland participated in the event plus one non-playing captain for each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278509-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Curtis Cup, Teams\nThe American team was selected by the USGA\u2019s International Team Selection Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278509-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Curtis Cup, Teams\nTwo members of the Great Britain & Ireland team were selected automatically, the top two in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) as of April 25, 2018. The remaining six were picked by the R&A Women's Selection Committee. Leona Maguire, second in the world rankings, ruled herself out, as she intended to turn professional before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278509-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Curtis Cup, Teams\nNote: \"Rank\" is the World Amateur Golf Ranking as of the start of the Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278510-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cypriot presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Cyprus on 28 January 2018. As no candidate received a majority of the vote in the first round, a run-off was held on 4 February between the top two candidates, incumbent President Nicos Anastasiades of the Democratic Rally (DISY) and Stavros Malas of the Progressive Party of Working People. Anastasiades emerged as the winner with 55.99% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278510-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cypriot presidential election, Electoral system\nThe President of Cyprus is elected using the two-round system; if no candidate gets a majority in the first round of voting, a run-off is held between the top two candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278511-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus Women's Cup\nThe 2018 Cyprus Cup was the eleventh edition of the Cyprus Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Cyprus. It took place from 28 February to 7 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278511-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus Women's Cup\nSpain won the title for the first time after defeating Italy 2\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278511-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus Women's Cup, Format\nThe twelve invited teams were split into three groups to play a round-robin tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278511-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus Women's Cup, Format\nPoints awarded in the group stage follow the standard formula of three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss. In the case of two teams being tied on the same number of points in a group, their head-to-head result determine the higher place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278511-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus Women's Cup, Format\n1st place match: Winners of Groups A and B. 3rd place match: Winner of Group C and best runner-up from Groups A and B. 5th place match: Runner-up in Group C and second-best runner-up from Groups A and B. 7th place match: Third-place teams in Groups A and B. 9th place match: Third-place team in Group C and best fourth-place team from Groups A and B. 11th place match: Fourth-place team in Group C and second-best fourth-place team from Groups A and B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278511-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus Women's Cup, Group stage\nThe groups and schedule were announced on 18 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278512-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus Women's Cup squads\nThis article lists the squads for the 2018 Cyprus Women's Cup, the 11th edition of the Cyprus Women's Cup. The cup consisted of a series of friendly games, and was held in Cyprus from 28 February to 7 March 2018. The twelve national teams involved in the tournament registered a squad of 23 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278512-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus Women's Cup squads\nThe age listed for each player is on 28 February 2018, the first day of the tournament. The numbers of caps and goals listed for each player do not include any matches played after the start of tournament. The club listed is the club for which the player last played a competitive match prior to the tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated. A flag is included for coaches that are of a different nationality than their own national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278512-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus Women's Cup squads, Group A, Finland\nThe squad was announced on 13 February 2018. Mimmi Nurmela was added to the squad on 20 February 2018. Linda Nyman replaced Tia H\u00e4linen on 23 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278512-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus Women's Cup squads, Group B, Czech Republic\nThe squad was announced on 13 February 2018. On 25 February 2018, Lucie Kladrubsk\u00e1 replaced Petra Bertholdov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278512-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus Women's Cup squads, Group C, Hungary\nAn initial 24-player squad was announced on 21 February 2018. A week later, on 28 February 2018, the final 23-player squad was announced, with \u00c1gnes Nagy not travelling with the team to Cyprus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278512-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus Women's Cup squads, Group C, South Africa\nThe squad was announced on 2 February 2018. On 25 February 2018, Kholosa Biyana withdrew and was replaced by Zanele Nhlapo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278513-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus gas dispute\nThe 2018 Cyprus gas dispute is a diplomatic dispute involving the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Republic of Cyprus (in partnership with Greece and Egypt) in the eastern Mediterranean, which began on February 6, 2018. The dispute followed remarks made by Turkey's foreign minister Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu, rejecting a 2003 Cypriot-Egyptian maritime border demarcation deal and announcing the Turkish government's intention to carry out gas exploration in the region. Tensions in the region further escalated on February 9, when the Turkish Navy blocked a drill ship operated by Italian oil company Eni S.p.A., licensed by the government of the Republic of Cyprus, from exploring gas reserves off the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278513-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus gas dispute\n\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu said during his interview with the Greek newspaper Kathimerini that Turkish Cypriots have \"undeniable rights\" to the Cypriot EEZ. Egypt's Foreign Ministry reacted by warning Turkey not to contest the 2013 deal and Egyptian economic interests in the region, adding that any attempts to do so would be confronted. The Cypriot government officials have emphasised that any future benefits are for all Cypriots, including the Turkish Cypriots, but only after a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus problem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278513-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Cyprus gas dispute\nOn February 16, Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi stated that the Turkish blockade of its drill ship, Saipem 12000, was out of Eni's hands and that the issue was being discussed by involved parties. In November 2018, the partnership of the Cypriot government and US company ExxonMobil successfully began carrying out hydrocarbon exploration, escorted by US Navy ships, with Turkey remaining passive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278513-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus gas dispute, Background\nIn the early 1970s, the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) gave oil companies permission to search the island's waters for hydrocarbons, and the first exploration started in 1977. Earlier, in 1974, Turkey invaded Cyprus, leaving in its wake an unresolved ethnic dispute and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) occupying the northern part of the island, which is only recognized by Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278513-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus gas dispute, Background\nIn 2002, the Turkish Navy prevented Northern Alliance, a ship operated by a RoC-commissioned Norwegian company, from exploring the Cypriot EEZ. In 2003, the governments of Cyprus and Egypt signed maritime border agreement delineating their respective EEZs. Cyprus also signed a similar agreement with the government of Lebanon in January 2007. Later that same month, the RoC defined thirteen zones (named \"Blocks\") in its EEZ, and invited tenders for eleven of them in the following months. Turkey, a non-signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, claims Block 3 of the Cypriot EEZ as part of its continental shelf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278513-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus gas dispute, Background\nIn November 2008, a Turkish Navy vessel was involved in a standoff with two ships operated by Norwegian company Petroleum Geo-Services, a day before the Turkish Petroleum Corporation was given Ankara's permission to explore waters claimed by the Cypriot government. Three days later, the RoC found Malene Ostervold, a Norwegian-flagged ship commissioned by Turkey, surveying the region's waters. Ankara believes the Turkish Cypriot community should be allowed to benefit from the island's offshore resources. In 2014, Turkey deployed two warships to the Cypriot EEZ and started conducting seismic surveys in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278513-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Cyprus gas dispute, Background\nCypriot president Nicos Anastasiades responded by suspending unification talks with his Turkish Cypriot counterpart, Dervi\u015f Ero\u011flu. During a trilateral summit with Cyprus in Cairo, Egypt and Greece expressed their disapproval of the Turkish moves. They also outlined plans for energy cooperation in the eastern Mediterranean. Ankara responded by stating that the Turkish Navy would apply the rules of engagement should it encounter any warship in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278513-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus gas dispute, Background\nIn 2015, the Zohr Field was discovered by Eni in the Egyptian EEZ, setting off a gas exploration race in the eastern Mediterranean. Zohr also revived the Cypriot gas industry's potential to be part of regional projects, such as a gas pipeline to Europe. Other initiatives include a pipeline to Egypt's decommissioned liquefaction plants and shipping the produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Egyptian terminals to foreign markets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278513-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus gas dispute, Timeline\nThe 2018 Cyprus gas dispute began on February 6, 2018. The dispute followed remarks made by Turkey's foreign minister Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu, rejecting a 2003 Cypriot-Egyptian maritime border demarcation deal and announcing the Turkish government's intention to carry out gas exploration in the region. Tensions in the region further escalated on February 9, when the Turkish Navy blocked a drill ship operated by Italian oil company Eni S.p.A., licensed by the government of the Republic of Cyprus, from exploring gas reserves off the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278513-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus gas dispute, Timeline\n\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu said during his interview with Kathimerini that Turkish Cypriots represented by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (only recognized by Turkey), have \"undeniable rights\" to the Cypriot EEZ. Egypt's Foreign Ministry reacted by warning Turkey not to contest the 2013 deal and Egyptian economic interests in the region, adding that any attempts to do so would be confronted. The Cypriot government officials have emphasised that any future benefits are for all Cypriots, including the Turkish Cypriots, but only after a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus problem. On February 16, Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi stated that the Turkish blockade of its drill ship, Saipem 12000, was out of Eni's hands and that the issue was being discussed by involved parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278513-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus gas dispute, Timeline\nOn November 16, the partnership of the Cypriot government and US company ExxonMobil successfully began carrying out hydrocarbon exploration, escorted by US Navy ships, with Turkey remaining passive. The Turkish Foreign Ministry responded with a statement in which its spokesman, Hami Aksoy, vowed that Turkey would begin drilling operations of its own in Cypriot waters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278513-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Cyprus gas dispute, Timeline\nMeral Aksener, a prominent opposition leader and head of the \u0130yi Party, addressed the Turkish parliament calling for a repeated invasion of Cyprus saying \"You should know that if need be 'Ay\u015fe will go on holiday again'\", a reference to the code phrase that was used as a signal for the 1974 invasion. She additionally said that \"Cyprus is Turkish and will remain Turkish\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278513-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Cyprus gas dispute, Timeline\nIn July 2019, the European Council adopted the following conclusions on the Turkish drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278514-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 Czech Athletics Championships (Czech: Mistrovstv\u00ed \u010cesk\u00e9 republiky v atletice 2018) was the 26th edition of the national outdoor track and field championships for the Czech Republic. It was held on 28 and 29 July at the Municipal Stadium Sleti\u0161t\u011b in Kladno. The host club for the competition was AC Tepo Kladno. The same venue is used for the annual TNT \u2013 Fortuna Meeting combined events meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278514-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Athletics Championships\nSeveral events were held separately from the main track and field competition. The 10,000 metres took place in Brno on 28 April, the marathon championships were held within the annual Prague Marathon on 6 May, and the 20 kilometres race walk championships were held within the annual Pod\u011bbrady Race Walking meet in Pod\u011bbrady on 7 April. The men's 50 kilometres race walk was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278515-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Lion Awards\n2018 Czech Lion Awards ceremony was held on 23 March 2019. Nominations were announced on 22 January 2019. Toman has received highest number of nominations. Nominations for television categories were announced on 25 February 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278515-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Lion Awards\nV\u00e1clav Kopta was announced as host of the ceremony on 6 December 2018. Visual style of the ceremony was presented to public on 6 December 2018. It was created by Dynamo design.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278515-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Lion Awards\nWinter Flies has won highest number of awards including Best film.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278516-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Open (table tennis)\nThe 2018 Czech Open was the tenth event of the 2018 ITTF World Tour. The event was organised by the Czech Table Tennis Association, under the authority of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It took place from 23 to 26 August in Olomouc, Czech Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278517-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Pirate Party leadership election\nThe Czech Pirate Party leadership election of 2018 was held on 6 January 2018. It will be held after successful 2017 legislative election. The incumbent leader Ivan Barto\u0161 ran for another term. Barto\u0161 was the only candidate and was reelected by winning 276 votes. Only 17 members voted against him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278517-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Pirate Party leadership election, Background\nCzech Pirate Party became the third largest party in the Czech Republic after 2017 legislative election. Party's statutes state that next leadership election should be held no later than 3 months after legislative election. The incumbent leader Ivan Barto\u0161 announced he will seek another term and asked for nomination of Liberec region organisation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278518-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Masaryk Circuit in Brno on 5 August 2018. Fabio Di Giannantonio took his first career victory in the Moto3 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278519-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Senate election\nSenate elections were held in the Czech Republic on 5 and 6 October 2018 alongside municipal elections, with a second round held on 12 and 13 October 2018. The Conservative Civic Democratic Party (ODS) won the election with 10 seats. Governing parties ANO 2011 and the Czech Social Democratic Party were heavily defeated, winning only 1 seat each. The Communist Party lost its last seat in the Senate when V\u00e1clav Homolka failed to be re-elected, meaning the party would be without representation in the Senate for the first time in the history of Czech Republic. The election was considered the first major win for the opposition to Andrej Babi\u0161' Cabinet. Commentators including Josef Kopeck\u00fd also noted ODS confirmed their position as the main opposition party, ahead of the Czech Pirate Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278519-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Senate election, Electoral system\nOne-third of the 81-member Senate is elected every two years, giving Senators six year terms. Members of the Senate are elected in single-member constituencies using the two-round system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278519-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Senate election, Campaign\nThe Senate election campaign ran parallel to the campaign for the municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278519-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Senate election, Campaign\nANO 2011 launched their campaign on 3 September 2018. Babi\u0161 said that ANO was offering many highly qualified candidates, including Ivan Piln\u00fd and Eva Sykov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278519-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Senate election, Campaign\nThe Czech Social Democratic Party launched their campaign on 5 September 2018, focused on social issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278519-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Senate election, Campaign\nThe Civic Democratic Party (ODS) launched their campaign on 7 September 2018. Petr Fiala stated that the election would be a conflict of two worlds, with ODS representing the world of experienced candidates and ANO 2011 representing the world of repeated restarts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278519-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Senate election, Results\nThe Civic Democratic Party (ODS) was the most successful party in the first round, with 11 candidates proceeding to the second round. ANO 2011 had 10 candidates proceeding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum\nFrom 21 May 2018 to 14 June 2018 the Czech Social Democratic Party (\u010cSSD) held a referendum to determine whether it should join the minority government of Andrej Babi\u0161 with potential confidence and supply from the Communist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum\n17,683 party members were eligible to vote and the referendum was deemed to be valid if the turnout reached at least 25%. A decision not to join the government would possibly trigger a snap election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Background\n\u010cSSD won the 2013 legislative election with 20% of the vote and formed a coalition government with ANO 2011 and Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party. Support for \u010cSSD fell during its time in government. The party suffered heavy losses in the 2017 election and finished in sixth place with 7% of the vote. In a subsequent leadership election, the main issue was whether \u010cSSD should join the new coalition government or be in opposition. Milan Chovanec argued that the party should be in opposition, while Jan Ham\u00e1\u010dek and Ji\u0159\u00ed Zimola supported joining the coalition. Chovanec was eliminated in the first round of voting. Ham\u00e1\u010dek then defeated Zimola and became the new leader, and started negotiations with ANO 2011. Zimola became deputy leader. The new cabinet of ANO 2011 and \u010cSSD would be supported by the Communist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 916]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Background\nFormer Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka expressed his opposition to joining the coalition, saying that the previous coalition with ANO damaged \u010cSSD. He also expressed the view that, as ANO 2011 was already working with the Communists and the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy, he only needed \u010cSSD to legitimise his government. Sobotka eventually decided to leave politics, citing his opposition to coalition talks with ANO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Background\nHam\u00e1\u010dek demanded 5 seats for \u010cSSD in the new cabinet, including the Interior Minister and Justice Minister roles. Babi\u0161 offered the party only four cabinet positions, and refused to give \u010cSSD the Ministry of the Interior. Ham\u00e1\u010dek announced on 27 March 2018 that the party would hold a referendum of the membership to decide whether the party would be part of the coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Background\n\u010cSSD persisted in its demands and suggested that it could walk away from coalition talks. Babi\u0161 eventually agreed to give \u010cSSD five seats, but refused to give up Ministry of the Interior. \u010cSSD then ended the coalition talks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Background\nBabi\u0161 then stated that a coalition of ANO, Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) and the Communists was the only option remaining. However, ANO announced on 13 April 2018 that it would recommence talks with \u010cSSD. The Social Democrats agreed to continue with coalition talks when ANO agreed to give \u010cSSD five seats including the Ministry of the Interior, though the final decision would still be decided in a referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Background\nCoalition talks concluded on 7 May 2018, with Ham\u00e1\u010dek and Babi\u0161 finalising the coalition agreement. ANO ratified the deal on 11 May 2018. \u010cSSD announced that members of the party would vote on the agreement between 21 May and 14 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Procedure\nThe voting took place at meetings of the party's local branches, with voting being deemed valid if the turnout was at least 25%. If the turnout was less than 25%, then the Central Executive Committee of \u010cSSD would decide whether the party joined the government. Branch meetings could allow voting only if 40% of members were present at the meeting. If the quorum was not met then voting would not take place and members of the organisation could not participate in the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 67], "content_span": [68, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Campaign\n\u010cSSD Senators, led by Milan \u0160t\u011bch, expressed their opposition to \u010cSSD participation in the new government on 25 April 2018. \u0160t\u011bch noted that \u010cSSD had promised not to participate in a government led by someone facing criminal charges. \u0160t\u011bch also announced that opponents of the coalition would campaign against ratification of the coalition agreement. Ji\u0159\u00ed Zimola criticised the Senators, saying they had misused their media attention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 66], "content_span": [67, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Campaign\nParty leader Jan Ham\u00e1\u010dek originally refused to publish the names of the potential \u010cSSD ministers. Many prominent party members wanted to know the names of future ministers before voting. The party leadership eventually agreed to publish the names of the ministers before the referendum, and they did so on 18 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 66], "content_span": [67, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Campaign\nHam\u00e1\u010dek started the campaign on 14 May 2018 with a visit to the local party in Liberec. He then visited Pardubice, Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9, Jihlava and Teplice. Ham\u00e1\u010dek stated that both sides had a lot of support within the party. Ji\u0159\u00ed Zimola also started campaigning in favour of the coalition agreement. Roman Onderka visited some Moravian regions but did not endorse either side. Opponents of the coalition plans also started campaigning. Ham\u00e1\u010dek stated that he was not trying to convince members to vote to join the government, but to inform them about the agreement with ANO 2011. Ham\u00e1\u010dek met members of the Prague branch on 16 May 2018, and subsequently stated that the majority of \u010cSSD members in Prague supported participation in the new government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 66], "content_span": [67, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Campaign\n\u010cSSD senators led by Milan \u0160t\u011bch started sending letters to \u010cSSD members on 18 May 2018. They warned against participation in a government led by Andrej Babi\u0161 and argued that previous cooperation with Andrej Babi\u0161 had led the party to be marginalised. The \u00dast\u00ed nad Labem regional branch expressed its opposition to \u010cSSD participation in the new government. The Plze\u0148 regional branch also recommended that its members oppose participation in the government. However, the Central Bohemian branch expressed support for joining the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 66], "content_span": [67, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Campaign\nBoth campaign went quiet towards the end of the referendum. In the end 60% of members voted in favour of joining the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Voting\nVoting began on 20 May 2018. 37 of 46 \u010cSSD members in Dejvice participated in referendum. 29 voted for participation in the government while eight voted against. The Bohum\u00edn branch voted against participation. 16% of \u010cSSD members in Bohum\u00edn voted for participation. Voting in Opava and Orlov\u00e1 was close, but a majority voted against participation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 64], "content_span": [65, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Voting\nOne third of the party's branches had voted by 25 February 2018. Turnout was around 70%. Prague, Central Bohemia, Pardubice and South Bohemian regions voted in support of government participation. It was reported on 28 May 2018 that 70% of voters supported government participation. It was reported on 31 May 2018 that 59.5% of voters had supported government participation so far. By 11 June 2018, 85% of party's organisations had voted. Lidov\u00e9 noviny reported that 60% of voters had supported government participation while 40% voted against.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 64], "content_span": [65, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278520-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party government referendum, Voting\nVoting concluded on 14 June 2018, with 58.5% having voted in favour and 40.2% against. The official result was published on 15 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 64], "content_span": [65, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election\nA leadership election for the Czech Social Democratic Party (\u010cSSD) was held in 2018 following the 2017 legislative election. Jan Ham\u00e1\u010dek was elected the new leader of the party, defeating Ji\u0159\u00ed Zimola in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Background\nIn the previous leadership election, held in 2017, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka was reelected as the party's leader and expressed his intention to remain in the position until 2019, when the next leader would be elected. Poor results in opinion polls led to Sobotka's resignation on 14 June 2017. Minister of Internal Affairs Milan Chovanec became acting leader of the party while Lubom\u00edr Zaor\u00e1lek became the electoral leader for the 2017 legislative election. Chovanec announced on 29 July that the leadership election would be held in 2018, most likely in Spring. He mentioned March as a possible date. Lubom\u00edr Zaor\u00e1lek announced his intention to participate in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Background\n\u010cSSD suffered a heavy defeat in the 2017 election, coming sixth with 7% of the vote. Zaor\u00e1lek stated that he did not intend to step down as party leader, but some prominent members of the party including Jaroslav Foldyna and Michal Ha\u0161ek called for a change of leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Campaign\nOn 22 October 2017 Chovanec announced that party's meeting would be held on 7 April 2018. Milan Chovanec and Jan Ham\u00e1\u010dek were mentioned by commentators as potential main candidates. Chovanec was reported to be planning his candidacy. Zaor\u00e1lek announced that he would not run for party leader due to the poor result in the legislative election. Chovanec stated on 28 October that the election should be direct and suggested that the new leader could be an independent. He also stated that he would not run for the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Campaign\nRegional branches of the party were dissatisfied that the election would be held in April and wanted it to be held sooner. On 3 November 2017, it was announced the election would be held on 18 February 2018. Jaroslav Foldyna and Ji\u0159\u00ed Zimola were mentioned as possible candidates. Roman Onderka received support from the South Moravian branch for running for any position in the party's management. Some prominent members of the organisation stated that Onderka should consider running for leadership of the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Campaign\n\u010cSSD decided to allow independent politicians to run for the position, enabling Vyso\u010dina governor B\u011bhounek to stand. B\u011bhounek announced he would run for the position if some members of the party returned to prominent leadership positions, including Ji\u0159\u00ed Zimola, Michal Ha\u0161ek and Jeron\u00fdm Tejc. These individuals stated that they did not intend to return to these positions. Tejc even left the party, saying there was a lack of responsibility for the disastrous result in 2017 legislative election. B\u011bhounek was criticised for his ties with Ha\u0161ek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Campaign\nOn 20 December 2017, Milan Chovanec stated that he might run for the position of leader, and would announce his decision on 18 January 2018. On 8 January 2018, Jan Ham\u00e1\u010dek attended a conference of Mlad\u00e1 Boleslav \u010cSSD. He announced his candidacy at the meeting, saying that \u010cSSD had to fight for its survival, and that the party had to focus on its traditional voters. Ham\u00e1\u010dek received his nomination for the candidacy at the conference. On 9 January 2018, Miroslav Krej\u010d\u00edk announced his candidacy. Mayor of Olomouc Stan\u011bk announced his candidacy on 11 January 2018. He received nominations from three district branches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Campaign\nOn 11 January 2018, Milan Chovanec received nominations from the Plze\u0148-city and Tachov branches of \u010cSSD. He stated that he had not yet decided if he would run, but was considering it. On 12 January 2018, the Ostrava district branch nominated Miroslav Krej\u010d\u00edk and Ji\u0159\u00ed Zimola. Chovanec accepted the nomination and announced his candidacy on 28 January 2018. Chovanec is a supporter of Czech president Milo\u0161 Zeman and was present at Zeman's electoral headquarters when Zeman was re-elected for a second term on 27 January 2018. Chovanec received nominations from the Zl\u00edn and Plze\u0148 regional branches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Campaign\nChovanec and Ham\u00e1\u010dek were considered front-runners of the election at that time. Ji\u0159\u00ed Zimola also announced his candidacy on 28 January 2018. Zimola is a member of a platform called \"Let's Save \u010cSSD\" and a supporter of Milo\u0161 Zeman. He is also considered an ally of Andrej Babi\u0161 and ANO 2011. Ham\u00e1\u010dek on the other hand is supported by a faction that opposes Zeman and supported Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 during the presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Campaign\nHam\u00e1\u010dek received nominations from five regions (Prague, Central Bohemia, Karlovy Vary, Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 and Liberec). Chovanec received nominations from 3 regions (Plze\u0148, \u00dast\u00ed nad Labem and Zl\u00edn). The other candidates received nominations from one region each; Zimola was nominated by South Bohemia, Stan\u011bk by Olomouc region, Krej\u010d\u00edk by South Bohemia, and \u017dateck\u00e1 by Liberec region. Jukl did not receive a nomination from any region. Vyso\u010dina and Pardubice regions did not nominate any candidate. Ham\u00e1\u010dek was considered to be the front runner due to his greater number of nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Campaign\nThe question of whether \u010cSSD should join a coalition with ANO 2011 became the main issue of the campaign; Ham\u00e1\u010dek and Zimola support joining the coalition while Chovanec is opposed. Jan Jukl, Romana \u017dateck\u00e1 and Ji\u0159\u00ed Sokol are also against the coalition with ANO. Chovanec made his opinion public in a letter to party members warning them that participation in the coalition government would hurt the party. He also criticised his rivals Ham\u00e1\u010dek and Zimola. Ham\u00e1\u010dek later published his own letter in which he criticised Chovanec and argued that the party should negotiate with ANO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Campaign\nHam\u00e1\u010dek was considered the front-runner due to his high number of nominations. His main rival was believed to be Milan Chovanec, with Ji\u0159\u00ed Zimola considered the third strongest candidate. Mlad\u00e1 fronta DNES speculated that Miroslav Krej\u010d\u00edk could be the dark horse of the election. Chovanec succeeded in convincing delegates from North Moravia to support him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Voting\nThe election was held on 18 February 2018. President Milo\u0161 Zeman attended the party meeting and suggested that the party should join a coalition with ANO 2011, but he did not endorse any particular candidate. Zeman also warned the party against excluding different opinions within the party. The election was preceded by a debate between the delegates. Michal Picl argued against a coalition with ANO. Kate\u0159ina Valachov\u00e1 said that \u010cSSD should be confident and find its own equivalent to Robert Fico. Jan Ml\u00e1dek criticised Bohuslav Sobotka's leadership and said that Sobotka had only tried to keep his position, and had not presented a program to the voters. He added that the party should elect a candidate with strong ideas. Lubom\u00edr Zaor\u00e1lek said that the new leader should have empathy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 851]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Voting\nThe candidates then made their nomination speeches. Ji\u0159\u00ed Sokol withdrew his candidacy. Ham\u00e1\u010dek stated that he wanted to unify the party. He talked about engaging in discussions with the party membership, and said he would open the party for the people and build a welfare state, and that \u010cSSD should support justice for people. Ham\u00e1\u010dek also expressed the view that the party should negotiate with ANO 2011 about joining the government. Chovanec said he knew he wasn't a perfect candidate, and is different from Emmanuel Macron or Robert Fico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Voting\nHe said that \u010cSSD should not join a coalition with ANO, but should focus on issues of interest to the people, such as executions. Chovanec concluded by saying that he was offering his experience and skills but did not want anything back. Jan Jukl opposed a coalition with ANO, and said that the party should return to trustworthy politics. Miroslav Krej\u010d\u00edk talked about the situation in the party before the 2017 legislative election, saying that he and the party's supporters had not understood the party leadership or their strategy, and the party was unable to communicate with voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Voting\nHe added that relaunching the party was not enough. Stan\u011bk said he wanted to return \u010cSSD to trustworthiness. Zimola's supporters gave pink glasses to delegates, and during his speech Zimola said these glasses were to represent the current party leadership's view of the party's situation, and that they could not see the party's problems. He said that the party was supporting many things their supporters did not agree with, and the party should refocus on problems relevant to its base. He said that the people wanted to take back the state that capitalist elites had stolen from them. He received a lot of applause for his speech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278521-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Voting\nJi\u0159\u00ed Zimola and Jan Ham\u00e1\u010dek advanced to the second round; Zimola received 178 votes while Ham\u00e1\u010dek received 156. Ham\u00e1\u010dek won the second round, with 272 votes to Zimola's 224.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278522-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech municipal elections\nMunicipal elections were held in the Czech Republic on 5 and 6 October 2018, alongside elections for the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis\nThe Czech political crisis in 2018 started, when Seznam News published an interview with the Andrej Babi\u0161 Jr., son of Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161. Babi\u0161 Jr. stated that his father's people kidnapped him in Crimea and kept him there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis, History\nJournalists of Seznam News, Sabina Slonkov\u00e1 and Ji\u0159\u00ed Kub\u00edk, found Andrej Babi\u0161 Jr. in Switzerland, where he lives with his mother. They interviewed him. Babi\u0161 Jr. participated in his father's business involving farm Stork's Nest (\u010cap\u00ed hn\u00edzdo). He states that he was kidnapped by his father's people in 2016 when Stork's Nest was investigated by European Anti- Fraud Office and then kept in Crimea. He stated that his father's employees threatened him. He noted that he was sent to National Institute of Mental Health. Babi\u0161 Jr.'s mental illness was diagnosed by Dita Protopopov\u00e1, who was at the time member of the Prague 8 Municipal assembly, elected for ANO 2011, as a candidate for mayor. She resigned her mandate, when the interview was published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis, History\nOpposition parties expressed shock with reports that Andrej Babi\u0161 had his son get kidnapped. Leader of the Civic Democratic Party Petr Fiala organised meeting with leaders of other opposition parties namely Czech Pirate Party, Freedom and Direct Democracy, Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party, TOP 09 and Mayors and Independents to talk their approach. Opposition then called for Babi\u0161' resignation and decided to cause motion of no confidence. Opposition has 92 MPs of 200. They need 101 MPs to overthrow the government. Leader of Czech Social Democratic Party decided Jan Ham\u00e1\u010dek didn't rule out that his party might leave coalition government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis, History\nAndrej Babi\u0161, who was at the time in Palermo, stated that his son is mentally ill and called the interview a \"disgusting attack\" on his family. He stated that he considers it a campaign against his persona. He refused the statement that his son was kidnapped. Severe Parlamentn\u00ed Listy reported that the interview caused inner turmoil within Babi\u0161' party ANO 2011 as its members were banned to talk about the affair with journalists. Some reports noted that Babi\u0161 might be replaced by Richard Brabec as the prime minister. However, Babi\u0161 announced on his Facebook page, that he will \"Never resign\" and that \"Everyone would do well to remember that\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis, History\nOn November 13, ODS, Pirates, KDU-C\u0160L, TOP 09, and STAN have agreed that they will vote in favor of the no-confidence vote (totaling 70 votes), while ANO will vote against it (78 votes). \u010cSSD, a junior coalition partner of the ANO-led government, KS\u010cM, a party that provides support for the government, and SPD, an opposition party, who was in favor of the idea of a no-confidence vote, have taken an undecided approach (52 votes). On November 15, Babis and ANO had negotiations with the SPD, KS\u010cM, and the \u010cSSD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis, History\nSPD leader, Tomio Okamura, said that he and his party will vote against the no-confidence vote, if the \u010cSSD leaves the coalition. Okamura has said that his party can't join the coalition due to the unresolved case about the kidnapping of his son, but he said he would consider the confidence and supply arrangement with KS\u010cM. Okamura also stated the desire of two concessions, which are the implementation of an SPD-program in the government and the change of certain policies, implemented by the ANO-\u010cSSD government. Negotiations, will continue before the no confidence vote with Okamura, Filip, and Hamacek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis, History\nOn November 15, President Milo\u0161 Zeman announced that Babi\u0161 will stay in the position of PM no matter the result of the no confidence vote, as he would simply appoint him again. Again with intent of letting him govern without confidence, as he would have let his first cabinet rule indefinitely in case of no coalition with \u010cSSD. And also called the interview a \"disgusting hyenism\", citing his personal resentment against Slonkov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis, History\nOn November 17, Andrej Babi\u0161 travelled to Switzerland, to talk to his son and ex-wife. Police and state attorneys \"were not afraid\" that he might attempt to influence them (it is a crime to influence witnesses in Czech Republic) and did not even propose any countermeasures (such as prohibition to meet them). Police instead focused on a case of flowers put by Babi\u0161 as a tribute to Velvet revolution being thrown into a trash bin by a protester, which also attracted considerable attention of Babi\u0161's supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis, History\nOn November 18, Beata Babi\u0161ov\u00e1, mother of Babi\u0161 jr. and Ex-wife of Babi\u0161 sr. posted a video online, where she asked journalists to \"leave her family alone\" and also called her son insane. Earlier, Babi\u0161 junior claimed that his mother tries to silence him and that his father forces her to do so. But later stopped communicating entirely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis, History\nOn November 19, there was a fire in Czech National institute of mental health, where Dita Protopopov\u00e1 worked and where Babi\u0161 jr. was originally declared insane, prompting many to theorize whether the fire was set on purpose to destroy evidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis, History\nOn November 20, PM Babi\u0161 met with the leadership of Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, who provide his government with confidence. After the event, Babi\u0161 left without talking to present journalists and KS\u010cM announced that they will vote against the motion of no confidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis, History\nOn the same day, Dita Protopopov\u00e1, Babi\u0161's adviser on mental health, key figure on Ministry of Heath regarding psychiatric care reform and mayor candidate for ANO in Prague, who originally declared his son insane, which effectively prevented him from testifying in the case of \u010cap\u00ed hn\u00edzdo, left her job at Czech National institute of mental health.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis, History\nOn November 21, leadership of \u010cSSD announced that their deputies will leave the chamber for the vote and not take part in it (this counts as voting no, as motion of no confidence requires majority of all deputies to pass). But also announced that they would support a potential self dissolution of Chamber of deputies and therefore, snap elections. This would take 120 out of 200 deputies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278523-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech political crisis, History\nOn November 23, it was announced the opposition had lost the no-confidence vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in the Czech Republic in January 2018. The first round took place on 12 and 13 January. As no candidate won a majority, a run-off election between the top two candidates, Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 and President Milo\u0161 Zeman, was held on 26 and 27 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election\nIn the first round, voters chose between nine candidates who qualified for the elections either by gathering 50,000 signatures from the public, 10 signatures from Senators or 20 signatures from members of the Chamber of Deputies (MPs). Incumbent president Milo\u0161 Zeman, running for re-election for his second and last term, finished first with 38.57%, followed by former President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161, who received 26.60%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election\nIn the second round, Milo\u0161 Zeman narrowly defeated Draho\u0161 and was elected for a second term in office. Voter turnout was 66.60%, the highest since the 1998 legislative elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Background\nFormer Prime Minister Milo\u0161 Zeman was elected as President of the Czech Republic in 2013, defeating Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel Schwarzenberg in the country's first direct presidential elections. Until 2012, all presidential elections in the Czech Republic were indirect, with the president being chosen by the Parliament of the Czech Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Background\nAccording to polls conducted in 2016, Zeman was the front-runner and his chances of re-election were considered high, although it was speculated that Zeman's candidacy would be determined by his health. Zeman announced his candidacy on 9 March 2017. There was speculation that both the Social Democrats (\u010cSSD) and ANO 2011 may endorse Zeman, but neither party did in the end. Some commentators speculated that Zeman could be elected in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Background\nOn 23 August 2017, the Speaker of the Senate announced that the first round would be held on 12 and 13 January 2018, with a second round being held on 26 and 27 January 2018, if required. The deadline for nominating candidates was scheduled for 7 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Candidates\nIn order to qualify for the ballot, candidates must gather 50,000 signatures from citizens, or the support of twenty Deputies or ten Senators. The candidates must file their applications and signatures 66 days before the election, following which the Interior Ministry will verify a sample of the signatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Candidates\n19 candidates submitted themselves as candidates. Only nine of them met requirements for registration and became official candidates: Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161, Pavel Fischer, Petr Hannig, Marek Hil\u0161er, Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek, Ji\u0159\u00ed Hynek, Vratislav Kulh\u00e1nek, Mirek Topol\u00e1nek and Milo\u0161 Zeman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Candidates, Official candidates\nNine candidates gathered the required number of signatures and had their candidacy approved by the Ministry of the Interior. Candidates are listed according to number allocated by the Ministry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Party endorsements\nUnlike the presidential election in 2013, no major political parties nominated an official candidate. This was attributed to the increasing distrust of political parties among voters. The established major political parties, such as \u010cSSD, ODS, TOP 09, and KDU-\u010cSL, were reluctant to risk being defeated in the presidential election, while the protest parties, SPD and ANO, were broadly supportive of Zeman. Opposition parties were also wary of official endorsements of other candidates. In contrast, marginal parties such as Suverenita, Prav\u00fd blok, DSSS, and SPOZ nominated candidates to become more visible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Party endorsements\nIn the first round, Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 ran with the support of the Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party and Mayors and Independents. Milo\u0161 Zeman ran with the support of Freedom and Direct Democracy and the Party of Civic Rights (SPO). On the day before the vote, ANO 2011 leader Andrej Babi\u0161 also endorsed Zeman. In addition, Topol\u00e1nek was endorsed by centre-right ODS and the Freeholder Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Party endorsements\nParties which did not issue any official endorsement included the Party of Free Citizens (Svobodn\u00ed), TOP 09, the Green Party, the Moravians party, the Communist Party, and the Czech Pirate Party, though several individual politicians endorsed candidates privately. The Social Democrats experienced an internal split over which candidate to endorse, leading to no official party endorsement, but different groups within the party endorsing either Zeman, or Draho\u0161.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Party endorsements\nIn the second round, Draho\u0161 received further endorsements from ODS and TOP 09.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, Early campaign\nSenator Zden\u011bk \u0160kromach was the first candidate to announce his intention to run, in 2015. In response, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hal\u00edk announced that he would run for president if \u0160kromach did. This led former president V\u00e1clav Klaus to announce that he would run against Hal\u00edk if he was running without a strong rival. \u0160kromach, Hal\u00edk and Klaus all finally declined to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, Early campaign\nOn 21 May 2016, former minister Michael Koc\u00e1b issued the \"Krom\u011b\u0159\u00ed\u017e Proclamation\", with the intention of finding a strong candidate to run against Zeman. Koc\u00e1b suggested Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek, who declined the movement's support but did not rule out running. Hor\u00e1\u010dek mentioned his possible candidacy in April 2016 and some polls indicated that he would be the strongest possible contender to Zeman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, Early campaign\nMarek Hil\u0161er launched his campaign in July 2016, with the slogan: \"Marek to the Castle.\" He said he would finance his presidential campaign through a transparent account. Hil\u0161er has negative opinions of Russia and China, and also supports helping immigrants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, Early campaign\nMichal Hor\u00e1\u010dek officially launched his campaign on 3 November 2016. A week earlier he had moderated a meeting at Old Town Square, which was considered to be the actual start of his campaign as it was meant to coincide with official celebrations of Czech Statehood Day. Hor\u00e1\u010dek stated that he wanted his campaign to be based on respect for all people and all opinions. He also said that he believed he could win in the first round. TOP 09, STAN and KDU-\u010cSL were considering supporting Hor\u00e1\u010dek before his campaign started, but none of them did in the end. Hor\u00e1\u010dek also entered into a dispute with TOP 09.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, Early campaign\nOn 21 December 2016, Institute for Democracy 21 launched an interactive web game to choose a presidential candidate. Everyone who voted was allowed to cast three positive votes and one negative vote. Ji\u0159\u00ed P\u00e1nek started as the winning candidate, despite having ruled himself out of running. As of April 2017, Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 is leading the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, Early campaign\nIt was reported in January 2017 that Czech political parties had decided to cease preparations for the election until Zeman announced whether he was seeking re-election. Zeman discussed his possible candidacy with close colleagues on 31 January. One of them stated that Zeman was likely to run for re-election, and would announce his decision on 9 March 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, Early campaign\nOn 9 February 2017 Hor\u00e1\u010dek announced his team of his advisers, including Magda V\u00e1\u0161\u00e1ryov\u00e1, Dana Dr\u00e1bov\u00e1 and Pavel Pefko. In response, Zeman said that Hor\u00e1\u010dek \"never says what he thinks. His advisers will talk instead of him.\" Zeman attended the SPO Congress on 11 February 2017, at which SPO leader Jan Veleba assured Zeman that the party would support his reelection campaign if he decided to run. Zeman visited hospital for a preventive examination after the congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, Early campaign\nOn 9 March, the Krom\u011b\u0159\u00ed\u017e Proclamation started gathering signatures for Marek Hil\u0161er and Petr Kol\u00e1\u0159.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, March 2017\nZeman announced his candidacy on 9 March during a meeting with his supporters, and confirmed his decision the next day in a press conference, saying that he had been persuaded by the support of the people. He commented that he did not consider himself the favourite in the election, and also said he would not run a political campaign, attack his rivals, or participate in debates, but would gather the 50,000 signatures required to qualify for the presidential ballot. He also announced that he would appear in a television programme called A week with the President. Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek criticised Zeman's decision not to participate in presidential debates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, March 2017\nOn 13 March, Karel \u0160togl, a former member of \u010cSSD who still has links with the party, announced his intention to run and began seeking parliamentary support for his nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, March 2017\nJi\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161, former President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, announced his candidacy on 28 March 2017. Draho\u0161 said he did not want to be the official candidate of any party, but some party leaders expressed their intention to endorse him. Petr Gazd\u00edk, the leader of Mayors and Independents, described Draho\u0161 as a great candidate and rival to Zeman, and said he believed he could convince his party to support Draho\u0161. The leaders of TOP 09 and KDU-\u010cSL also said they were considering supporting him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, March 2017\nODS leader Petr Fiala refused to comment on Draho\u0161's candidacy but acknowledged him to be a dignified candidate. Leader of ANO 2011 Andrej Babi\u0161 said that he considered Draho\u0161 a respectable person but noted that Draho\u0161 did not want the support of any party. In response to the announcement, Zeman's spokesman Ji\u0159\u00ed Ov\u010d\u00e1\u010dek described Draho\u0161 as \"just a product of PR\". He added that in his view the Czech Republic needed \"a president who will stand by people in situations such as the migration crisis\", not just \"a yes man who can deliver empty speeches\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0023-0002", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, March 2017\nMichal Hor\u00e1\u010dek said that Draho\u0161 would be a candidate of political parties and would have to return their support. Draho\u0161 met journalists at the National Technical Library on 30 March 2017. He described himself as an independent candidate who supports the European Union and NATO, and also stated that he would reject a government that included the Communist Party. He also announced plans to gather 50,000 signatures instead of being nominated by lawmakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, April 2017\nOn 16 April 2017, Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek started gathering signatures, saying that he believed he could collect the required number within a matter of weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, April 2017\nThe Party of Civic Rights (SPO) began Zeman's presidential campaign, under the slogan \"Zeman again!\" The campaign included some of Zeman's close colleagues, though Zeman himself had stated that he would not campaign. First lady Ivana Zemanov\u00e1 was named head of Zeman's campaign team. SPO started gathering signatures on 24 April 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, April 2017\nJi\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 also started gathering signatures on 24 April 2017, with approximately 500 volunteers. Draho\u0161 also announced that his spokeswoman would be Lenka Pastor\u010d\u00e1kov\u00e1, a journalist for Czech Television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, May 2017\nOn 6 May 2017, Hor\u00e1\u010dek announced that he had gathered between 47,000 and 52,000 signatures, with the help of 2,500 supporters. By the same day Marek Hil\u0161er had reached 2,000 signatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, May 2017\nPrime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka announced on 16 May 2017 that \u010cSSD would most likely nominate its own candidate for the election instead of supporting Zeman, due to his actions during the government crisis in May 2017. Zeman's spokesman Ji\u0159\u00ed Ov\u010d\u00e1\u010dek responded that this was not a surprise because Sobotka had always been lobbying to prevent Zeman's re-election. According to some \u010cSSD sources, the purpose of fielding a \u010cSSD candidate would not be to win the election but to weaken Zeman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0028-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, May 2017\nSome political scientists speculated that Zeman's actions during the crisis could discourage voters from voting him and damage his chances for reelection. On 25 May 2017, Sobotka mentioned Minister of Foreign Affairs Lubom\u00edr Zaor\u00e1lek and Senate Speaker Milan \u0160t\u011bch as possible candidates, adding that \u010cSSD may decide on a candidate in Summer 2017. Opinion polls conducted after the crisis by Median indicated that Zeman's ratings had dropped by 2%. The same poll also showed Draho\u0161 as Zeman's main rival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, May 2017\nIn May 2017, during a visit to China, Milo\u0161 Zeman was visibly tired and required assistance from his security detail to walk. His spokesman Ji\u0159\u00ed Ov\u010d\u00e1\u010dek attributed this to his demanding program, including ten days of work without any time to rest. His tiredness was also visible at the subsequent NATO summit, when Zeman was absent for speeches by political leaders such as Donald Trump, Jens Stoltenberg, and Angela Merkel, during which he would have been required to stand. These events revived speculation about Zeman's health, with some commentators speculating that Zeman may withdraw from the election. Zeman's doctors said that his program was too exhausting and recommended that Zeman rest for one or two weeks. Zeman adjusted his program as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, May 2017\nOn 26 May 2017, Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 launched his campaign at a meeting in Opava. He visited employees of a local factory and some retirement homes. On 30 May Draho\u0161 was endorsed by Miroslav Kalousek, leader of TOP 09, though the party itself did not officially endorse him. Draho\u0161 was expected to receive the support of the Populars and Mayors coalition (KDU-\u010cSL and Mayors and Independents).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, June 2017\nOn 1 June 2017, Hor\u00e1\u010dek's spokesman Ji\u0159\u00ed T\u00e1borsk\u00fd announced that Hor\u00e1\u010dek had collected the required number of signatures to stand in the election, but would keep collecting. At the same time Zeman had collected 18,000 signatures, Draho\u0161 had collected 20,000, and Marek Hil\u0161er had collected 5,000. Hor\u00e1\u010dek had been collecting signatures at a rate of 1,000 per day, Zeman and Draho\u0161 at 500 per day, and Hil\u0161er at 160 per day. Hor\u00e1\u010dek had 448 signing posts, Zeman 223, Draho\u0161 230 and Hil\u0161er 14. By 5 June 2017, Draho\u0161 had gathered 25,000 signatures. On 10 June 2017, Karel \u0160togl announced that he had the support of ten senators, including \u010cSSD senator Jan Hajda. Hajda refused to comment on \u0160togl's statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, June 2017\nOn 26 June 2017, Hor\u00e1\u010dek announced his intention to gather signatures for Draho\u0161 and Hil\u0161er, in order to \"make the democratic environment better\". Draho\u0161, who had gathered 30,000 signatures to that point, refused Hor\u00e1\u010dek's help, while Hil\u0161er accepted it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, June 2017\nVratislav Kulh\u00e1nek announced his candidacy on 29 June 2017, as the candidate of the Civic Democratic Alliance (ODA), which would collect signatures on his behalf. ODA leader Pavel Sehnal said that Kulh\u00e1nek was a right-wing candidate, which was something missing in the election. Zeman said that he did not know Kulh\u00e1nek well but remembered him as a successful manager of \u0160koda Auto, adding that he had no problem with Kulh\u00e1nek's candidacy because he believed that it was better to have more candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, July 2017\nOn 1 July 2017, Hor\u00e1\u010dek started working with Ewig Public Relations agency, to help with his campaign. On 4 July, the leaders of KDU-\u010cSL and STAN announced that they would recommend that their parties support Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161. Petr Hannig, leader of far-right party Rozumn\u00ed, announced his candidacy on 19 July 2017. He was endorsed by other far-right parties such as National Democracy. Hannig said that he wanted to continue with Zeman's policies but behave differently.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, July 2017\nBy 20 July 2017, Hor\u00e1\u010dek had gathered 65,000 signatures, Zeman 43,000 signatures, Draho\u0161 35,000 signatures, Hil\u0161er 10,000 signatures (not including signatures gathered by Hor\u00e1\u010dek) and Kulh\u00e1nek 5,000 signatures. Another prospective candidate, Jaroslav Kubera, had gathered the signatures of 15 Senators, enabling him to be nominated if he decided to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, August 2017\nOn 10 August, SPO leader Jan Veleba announced that Zeman had enough signatures to stand in the election. Hil\u0161er had 15,000 signatures at that point, and Draho\u0161 stated that he would reach the required number of signatures sometime in August or September 2017. On 16 August, Ivana Zemanov\u00e1 announced that Zeman had collected 59,263 signatures. Draho\u0161 had at the time over 40,000 signatures. On 19 August 2017, Draho\u0161 announced he had collected 78,321 signatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 74], "content_span": [75, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, August 2017\nOn 21 August, the Realists announced Ji\u0159\u00ed Hynek as their candidate. The party started to gather signatures for his candidacy, and also to ask MPs for support. Hynek said that some MPs had already promised to support him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 74], "content_span": [75, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, August 2017\nOn 24 August, Zeman appeared in public for the first time in two months, to launch the Agrosalon Earth Breadwinner. His spokesman Ov\u010d\u00e1\u010dek told journalists that Zeman's health was not a problem. Zeman criticized EU subsidies for decreasing milk production, which he described as an \"atrocity\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 74], "content_span": [75, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, August 2017\nOn 30 August, Businessman Vladim\u00edr Bo\u0161t\u00edk announced his candidacy, saying that he had already gathered 63,000 signatures. His campaign motto was \"A boy from a village wants to conquer Prague Castle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 74], "content_span": [75, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, September 2017\nOn 24 September, Draho\u0161 announced he had gathered 100,000 signatures. Hor\u00e1\u010dek had 80,000 signatures and Hil\u0161er 30,000 signatures. Kulh\u00e1nek announced that he did not have enough signatures and started to seek support from MPs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, October 2017\nOn 4 October, Pavel Fischer announced his candidacy, adding that he had gathered the signatures of 10 senators, allowing him to run. Fischer announced his candidacy on V\u00e1clav Havel's birthday, and said that he would like to be a president similar to Havel. On 10 October, Draho\u0161 called on the incoming government to draw up a plan for the adoption of the Euro currency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, October 2017\nOn 13 October, Draho\u0161 announced that he would stop gathering new signatures; by 15 October he had gathered 110,000 signatures. However, he continued collecting for almost a month longer. On 17 October Ji\u0159\u00ed Hynek announced that he had submitted his nomination with the signatures of 22 MPs. Hynek said that he had gathered 15,000 signatures from the public, but he had started gathering them too late. On 18 October Kulh\u00e1nek announced that he had been nominated by 23 MPs, and submitted his nomination on the same day. By 26 October, Petr Hannig had received the support of 20 MPs. Mayors and Independents endorsed Draho\u0161 on 31 October, and called for other parties to do the same.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, November 2017\nTerezie Holovsk\u00e1 announced her candidacy on 2 November, asking 44 female MPs for nomination. Marek Hil\u0161er announced he had received nominations from 11 senators. Draho\u0161 submitted his nomination on 3 November, with 142,000 signatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, November 2017\nOn 4 November, media started to speculate that former Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topol\u00e1nek could run for the office. Some media reported that Topol\u00e1nek had asked Senators of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) for support and also discussed his candidacy with the leader of the party. On 5 November, Topol\u00e1nek confirmed his candidacy, stating that he was seeking the support of Senators from all parties. Some Civic Democrat politicians endorsed his candidacy. Leader of ANO 2011 Andrej Babi\u0161 attacked Topol\u00e1nek, describing him as the most corrupt Czech Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0044-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, November 2017\nTopol\u00e1nek's candidacy was also criticised by Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161, who commented that Topol\u00e1nek represented the same thing as Zeman - rudeness and lack of respect for his opponents. He called Topol\u00e1nek's candidacy a \"bad joke\". By 6 November Topol\u00e1nek had gathered enough signatures to run. ODS endorsed Topol\u00e1nek on the same day. Some media commentators and political scientists predicted that he could become the main rival to Zeman. Topol\u00e1nek quickly became the third strongest candidate, overtaking Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek in opinion polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign before nominations, November 2017\nOn 6 November, Zeman submitted his nomination, with 113,038 signatures. Zeman denied speculation about his health and refused to comment on his rivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Nominations closed\nNominations were closed on 7 November 2017. 19 candidates submitted their nominations in time, but on 10 November the Interior Ministry announced that only nine candidates met the requirements for the nomination: Milo\u0161 Zeman, Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161, Mirek Topol\u00e1nek, Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek, Vratislav Kulh\u00e1nek, Ji\u0159\u00ed Hynek, Petr Hannig, Pavel Fischer and Marek Hil\u0161er. The other candidates were disqualified for not meeting the nomination requirements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Nominations closed\nMirek Topol\u00e1nek held a press conference on 7 November after nominations were closed, saying that he wanted to be a \"strong, democratic and political candidate\", adding that he had been motivated to stand by Zeman's meeting with Andrej Babi\u0161 in L\u00e1ny. He stated that \"Zeman should go down in history as the Prime Minister who brought the Czech Republic into NATO rather than as a president who violated constitutional conventions\". Topol\u00e1nek also introduced his team, consisting of Dana Makrl\u00edkov\u00e1, Gabriela Kloudov\u00e1, Dalibor Ve\u0159mi\u0159ovsk\u00fd and Edvard Ko\u017eu\u0161n\u00edk. Public relations expert Jakub Hor\u00e1k joined Topol\u00e1nek's team on 9 November 2017. Hor\u00e1k had managed the successful campaign for the Pirate Party in the October 2017 legislative election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Nominations closed\nAfter the nominations were closed, some constitutional lawyers noted that some Senators and MPs had nominated more than one candidate, which could be against the law. The Ministry of Internal Affairs had interpreted the law as allowing legislators to support more than one candidate, and published this interpretation online, which candidates and Senators then followed. Candidates at risk from the mistake by the Ministry included Topol\u00e1nek, Hannig and Hynek. Jan Kysela commented that he doubted the court would disqualify these candidates, because they would be punishing them for a mistake that was made by someone else.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Nominations closed\nOn 14 November, KDU-\u010cSL endorsed Draho\u0161. Some candidates appeared at the Festival of Freedom on 17 November to commemorate the Velvet Revolution. Draho\u0161, Hil\u0161er and Fischer all made speeches, but organisers refused to allow Topol\u00e1nek or Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek to take part, stating that they wanted to give a platform to candidates who were in accordance with the values of 17 November. This angered Hor\u00e1\u010dek, who had been a direct participant in the events of 17 November 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Nominations closed\nTerezie Holovsk\u00e1 filed a lawsuit against the candidacies of Hannig, Hil\u0161er, Hynek, Kulh\u00e1nek and Topol\u00e1nek, arguing that they should be disqualified because some MPs and Senators had nominated more than one candidate. Holovsk\u00e1 had previously sought nomination from MPs but failed to attract sufficient nominations and was disqualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Nominations closed\nPavel Fischer launched his campaign on 30 November, with the slogan \"I know how to do it\". Fischer said he wanted to return the Czech Republic to the world map. Topol\u00e1nek also launched his campaign on the same day, criticising Zeman's policies and calling for an active role in NATO and the EU. He said that \"the Czech Republic needs someone who knows how to play hard\". Topol\u00e1nek rejected migrant quotas and adoption of the Euro, though he stated that there was no alternative to the European Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, December 2017\nOn 1 December, Draho\u0161 expressed fears that Russia could influence the election, and met Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka to discuss the matter. He also expressed his belief that Russia influenced the 2017 legislative election. The Security Information Service (BIS) released a statement dismissing Draho\u0161' claims. Zeman criticised Draho\u0161 for spreading \"conspiracy theories\". Topol\u00e1nek commented that Draho\u0161 had shown he did not know much about politics, and called for a televised debate between him and Draho\u0161, as that couldn't be manipulated by foreign propaganda. On 9 December, Zeman appeared at a Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) conference and received indirect support from the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, December 2017\nOn 13 December, the Supreme Administrative Court rejected Holovsk\u00e1's lawsuit. The court confirmed that MPs and Senators could sign only one candidacy, but ruled that all candidates could participate in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, December 2017\nHor\u00e1\u010dek attacked the nomination of Communist MP Zden\u011bk Ondr\u00e1\u010dek to head the Permanent Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of oversight over the General Inspection of Security Forces. Ondr\u00e1\u010dek had been a member of the Communist police that attacked demonstrators in 1989. This led Hor\u00e1\u010dek into a Twitter exchange with Topol\u00e1nek, who also disagreed with Ondr\u00e1\u010dek's nomination but described Hor\u00e1\u010dek's comments as \"a theatre\". He noted that Ondr\u00e1\u010dek used to be a member of a permanent commission with oversight over the BIS, which was more serious but had received no comment from Hor\u00e1\u010dek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0054-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, December 2017\nHor\u00e1\u010dek said that he was running to change things and attacked Topol\u00e1nek for his past and for his links with former co-worker Marek Dal\u00edk. He also noted that Topol\u00e1nek had attended the birthday party of Zeman's aide Martin Nejedl\u00fd. Topol\u00e1nek called Hor\u00e1\u010dek's argument \"pathetic\", and mentioned Hor\u00e1\u010dek's involvement in the gambling business. Ondr\u00e1\u010dek was elected on 19 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, December 2017\nDraho\u0161 and Topol\u00e1nek started attacking each other during December. Draho\u0161 accused Topol\u00e1nek's government of under-funding the Czech Academy of Sciences. Topol\u00e1nek responded that the Academy had 6 billions CZK during his government and cuts for its finances came after he left office. For his part, Topol\u00e1nek attacked Draho\u0161 over his statement that he would appoint a cabinet supported by the Communists and SPD, describing this as a U-turn, as Draho\u0161 had previously stated the opposite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, December 2017\nOn 15 December, Pavel Fischer criticised Zeman for not participating in presidential debates. He sent him a public letter and wanted to meet with him for a head-to-head debate. He also said Zeman's presidential campaign was a \"hybrid campaign\", as though Zeman had stated that he wouldn't campaign, billboards promoting Zeman's campaign had appeared all over the country. Zeman's spokesman Ov\u010d\u00e1\u010dek called Fischer \"desperate\". Fischer himself attracted controversy on 16 December when he stated that he would not appoint a homosexual as a judge to the Constitutional Court. He later apologised for his statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, December 2017\nOn 20 December, Draho\u0161' team published a post on social media about V\u00e1clav Klaus's amnesty, which was criticised when it was revealed that Draho\u0161' team had copied a similar post by Hor\u00e1\u010dek. Draho\u0161 apologised and attributed the mistake to an external creative. Hor\u00e1\u010dek commented that it was not the first time Draho\u0161 had copied his campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, January 2018\nIn January, Czech Television started to broadcast spots of all candidates, except Zeman's who refused to make one. Marek Hil\u0161er attacked Zeman for not participating in debates, suggesting that the debates should feature an empty chair to remind viewers of Zeman's absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, January 2018\nMirek Topol\u00e1nek launched the final phase of his campaign on 3 January, saying that he wanted to be a strong president who \"would neither welcome EU migrant quotas, nor beckon to Eastern powers\". He also attacked Milo\u0161 Zeman and Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, January 2018\nThe campaign became more aggressive in the days leading up to the first round. Draho\u0161 attacked Topol\u00e1nek over funding for the Czech Academy of Sciences, accusing Topol\u00e1nek of trying to destroy and defund the Academy. Topol\u00e1nek dismissed Draho\u0161' accusation and stated that cut in funding for the Academy took place after his premiership concluded, supporting his arguments with a graph. Topol\u00e1nek then suggested that the Academy's problems were due to Draho\u0161' poor management skills. Draho\u0161 disagreed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0060-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, January 2018\nTopol\u00e1nek attacked Draho\u0161 over his campaign manager Jakub Kleindienst, due to his connection to past scandals via his involvement in a company with links to former Minister David Rath. Draho\u0161 defended Kleindiest in interviews. Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek was accused of financing negative articles about his political rivals, which he denied. Pavel Fischer described Hor\u00e1\u010dek's tactics as \"dirty\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, January 2018\nPavel Fischer held a meeting with his supporters on 7 January 2017. His supporters started referring to his presidential campaign as a \"Turquoise revolution\". Fischer's supporters were very active on social media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, First round\nBefore the first round, leaflets were distributed in the city of Ostrava containing false claims that Zeman, as the current president, would automatically progress to the second round of the election, so that his supporters would be absent during the first. Similar messages were also shared on social media. The Ostrava police investigated the matter as a criminal act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, First round\nDuring the first round, Milo\u0161 Zeman was confronted while preparing to cast his vote by a Ukrainian Femen protester who repeatedly screamed \"Zeman, Putin's slut\", with the same words painted across her bare chest. She was removed from the polling station by security and arrested on a count of disorderly conduct. The protester was later expelled from the country and sentenced by the court to three months of prison with the sentence being suspended for a one-year probation period. Some commentators speculated that the Femen protester's actions may have contributed to Zeman's re-election, and theories also circulated that the protest was organized by Zeman's campaign team, which the protester denied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, First round\nMilo\u0161 Zeman and Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 qualified for the second round, with 38.57% and 26.60% of the vote respectively. Draho\u0161 won the most votes in Prague, Prague-West and Prague-East Districts, and from voters abroad. Zeman won the most votes in all other districts of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Second round\nDraho\u0161 was endorsed by defeated candidates Pavel Fischer, Marek Hil\u0161er, Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek, Vratislav Kulh\u00e1nek and Mirek Topol\u00e1nek. Zeman was endorsed by Petr Hannig. Ji\u0159\u00ed Hynek said he would publish his endorsement one day before the second round, after the two remaining candidates had answered a questionnaire he would send them. Zeman agreed to participate in debates for the second round. Draho\u0161 received endorsements from the Civic Democratic Party and TOP 09. Draho\u0161 was considered the slight front-runner in the second round. Zeman \"changed his tone\" and emphasized his centrist credentials during the last stretch of the election campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Second round\nDraho\u0161 launched his second round campaign on 16 January 2018. He visited his hometown Jablunkov and was welcomed by his supporters at the Town Hall. Draho\u0161 received a Golden Apple from the mayor of the town and then attended an ice hockey match in T\u0159inec. He was booed by ice hockey fans during the match. Pavel Fischer, Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek and Marek Hil\u0161er decided to participate in Draho\u0161' campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Second round\nThe Friends of Milo\u0161 Zeman Association published an anti-Draho\u0161 advertisement linking him with support for immigration. Draho\u0161 stated that he did not support immigration and opposed migrant quotas. Zeman himself said that he considered the advertisement useless and believed that it would hurt him and not Draho\u0161. On the other hand, he defended his supporters and repeated the connection of Draho\u0161 with immigration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Second round\nZeman appeared in a broadcast on TV Nova on 21 January 2018. He said he would prefer a government of ANO 2011 supported by the Social Democrats and the Communist Party. He also stated that he would be less arrogant during his second term. Draho\u0161 on the other hand held meetings with his supporters in Brno and Ostrava.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Second round, Debates\nOn 15 January, Zeman suggested that he and Draho\u0161 should participate in four debates. Draho\u0161 said that he would participate in only two debates, to spend his time focusing on a personal campaign in regions where he had received fewer votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 74], "content_span": [75, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Second round, Debates\nThe candidates eventually faced each other in two head-to-head debates. The first was broadcast on Prima TV on 23 January. The debate was very aggressive and influenced by the loud audience. Zeman was described as more energetic, while Draho\u0161 was said to be faint and visibly nervous. Experts expressed the opinion that Zeman had dominated the debate and appeared as the victor. Draho\u0161 improved his performance during the Czech Television debate on 25 January. The debate was calmer and Draho\u0161 was considered to be less uncertain than during the previous debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 74], "content_span": [75, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0070-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Second round, Debates\nThe second debate was considered a tie by most commentators. Several experts rated Draho\u0161's performance on Czech TV as weaker than Zeman's. The media lecturer from the Metropolitan University suggested that Draho\u0161 had lost the debate in the opening minutes, while the political scientist from the CEVRO Institute was the only expert who considered Draho\u0161 to be the winner of the debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 74], "content_span": [75, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Official campaign, Result\nVoting was held on 26 and 27 January 2018. Zeman emerged victorious with 51.37% of the vote to Draho\u0161's 48.63%, with a turnout of 66.60%, the highest since the 1998 legislative election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Campaign finance\nNo candidate may spend more than 40,000,000 CZK. Candidates who advance to the second round can spend 50,000,000 CZK (around US$2,300,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Debates\nThe first debate was held on 8 November 2017 at Charles University. Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161, Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek, Marek Hil\u0161er, Ji\u0159\u00ed Hynek, Pavel Fischer, Petr Hannig and Mirek Topol\u00e1nek participated in the debate. Milo\u0161 Zeman refused to participate and instead went to Olomouc region to meet with citizens. Topol\u00e1nek called for defense of Schengen border. Draho\u0161 stated that he wants respect for the rules. Moderator mentioned Draho\u0161's attack against Topol\u00e1nek. Topol\u00e1nek stated that \"it was either written by a woman or PR Mage. I forgave Professor whether I ever took it seriously.\" Audience was allowed to vote who they like the most. Draho\u0161 and Hil\u0161er received the most votes. According to Hospod\u00e1\u0159sk\u00e9 noviny, Topol\u00e1nek and Hil\u0161er seemed as the most civil candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Debates\nSeznam News held a presidential debate on 13 November 2017. Topol\u00e1nek, Draho\u0161, Hor\u00e1\u010dek, Fischer, Hil\u0161er and Kulh\u00e1nek participated. Topol\u00e1nek was considered the winner of the debate. Another debate was held in Liberec on 16 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Opinion polls\nOpinion polls from 2014 showed Milo\u0161 Zeman leading in the first round with between 20% and 48% of the vote. Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek became his main rival during 2016 but was overtaken by Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 during 2017. Draho\u0161 was leading polls for the second round with a 10% lead in September 2017. The margin narrowed during October and November and Draho\u0161' lead fluctuated between 0.5% and 4%. Some polls in late January 2018 showed Zeman with a narrow lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Aftermath\nZeman said that a narrow victory pleases the most people, and that he respected all people who vote. Zeman confirmed that his second term would be the end of his political career, as the election was \"his last political victory that won't be followed by any political defeat.\" Draho\u0161 conceded defeat and congratulated Zeman. He stated that he would not be leaving politics, telling supporters: \"We didn't win but we didn't lose. I want to use the huge amount of energy that shouldn't disappear\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Aftermath\nPrime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161 congratulated Zeman and said that he had believed that the campaign based on attacks against him could not succeed. Leader of the opposition Petr Fiala also congratulated Zeman, and expressed hope that Zeman would serve the interests of the Czech Republic. The leader of Pirate Party, Ivan Barto\u0161, stated that he was pleased about the strong support for Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161. SPD leader Tomio Okamura and acting Social Democrat leader Milan Chovanec celebrated the results with Zeman at his election headquarters. Okamura expressed joy at the result, and Chovanec stated that he was glad that Zeman won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0077-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Aftermath\nCommunist Party leader Vojt\u011bch Filip described Zeman's victory as an assurance of stability. KDU\u2013 \u010cSL leader Pavel B\u011blobr\u00e1dek expressed hope that Zeman would unify the divided society. Miroslav Kalousek expressed dissatisfaction with the result and stated that the Czech Republic had wasted an opportunity for change. Zeman was also personally congratulated by his predecessor V\u00e1clav Klaus. Klaus stated that he was glad about the result but afraid that Draho\u0161' supporters would not accept it. Zeman thanked Klaus for his support and invited him for a drink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Aftermath\nBy the end of February 2018, the Supreme Administrative Court rejected all of about 70 complaints concerning the regularity of elections, ruling that there were no serious mistakes or violations of the election law that could have influenced the outcome of the election. Some of the rejected complaints were then submitted to the Constitutional court, which rejected the last complaint in June 2018, thus confirming the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Aftermath\nAccording to a poll conducted by Median, 54.2% of Czech people were satisfied with the result, and 37.5% were dissatisfied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Aftermath, Analysis\nObservers compared the presidential race to previous elections such as the 2016 Austrian, 2016 United States and 2017 French presidential elections, which saw a liberal internationalist running against a national populist. Though both sides seemed to have roughly equal support among Czech voters, the national populism was represented by clearer ideology and strong leaders, while the liberal message was fragmented and the candidates did not have common themes or language, apart from agreeing on the need for an \"anti-Zeman\" candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Aftermath, Analysis\nAccording to analysts, important factors in Zeman's victory were his strong debate performances and the closeness of the first round results, the latter helping mobilize his base. Draho\u0161 was estimated to have lost about a quarter of his voters as a result of the televised debates. Analysts also pointed out that the support for Zeman came from districts with high levels of poverty, and also from regions dominated by traditional industries, agriculture and the construction industry, while regions dominated by IT services and public administration supported Draho\u0161. Zeman's strident opposition to immigration also worked in his favor, though his major opponents Draho\u0161 and Hor\u00e1\u010dek also voiced opposition to immigration and the EU's migrant quotas, while all but one candidate criticised illegal immigration to Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 874]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278524-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election, Aftermath, Analysis\nAnalysts as well as politicians saw the close election results as an illustration of the deep divisions present in Czech society.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates\nThe 2018 Czech presidential election debates were a series of debates held for the 2018 Czech presidential election. The incumbent president and front-runner Milo\u0161 Zeman declined to participate in debates for the first round. Zeman agreed to participate in debates against Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 for the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Charles University debate\nThe first debate was held on 8 November 2017 at Charles University. Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161, Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek, Marek Hil\u0161er, Ji\u0159\u00ed Hynek, Pavel Fischer, Petr Hannig and Mirek Topol\u00e1nek participated in the debate. Milo\u0161 Zeman refused to participate and instead went to Olomouc region to meet with citizens. According to Hospod\u00e1\u0159sk\u00e9 noviny, Topol\u00e1nek and Hil\u0161er seemed as the most civil candidates. Audience was allowed to vote who they like the most. Everyone had 3 plus votes and 1 minus vote. Draho\u0161 had 333 votes, Hil\u0161er 227 votes, Hor\u00e1\u010dek 176 votes, Fischer 128 votes, Topol\u00e1nek 36 votes, Hynek minus 12 votes, Hannig minus 266 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 88], "content_span": [89, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Charles University debate\nHil\u0161er stated that he doesn't want a president who was involved with dirty politics in past years. Topol\u00e1nek stated that his candidacy is caused by the current political situation. Hor\u00e1\u010dek stated he would disinfect Prague Castle if he is elected. Moderator then mentioned Draho\u0161's attack against Topol\u00e1nek. Draho\u0161 stated that he isn't scared of Topol\u00e1nek and stated that he will most likely explain this to Topol\u00e1nek. Topol\u00e1nek answered that \"it was either written by a woman or PR Mage. I forgave Professor whether I ever took it seriously.\" Topol\u00e1nek was asked if he is a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 88], "content_span": [89, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Charles University debate\nHe mentioned that speculations that his candidacy might be invalid are purposeful. He stated that president should be a strong persona and know the ropes in politics. He mentioned his experiences. He also stated that he wouldn't pardon his former associate Marek Dal\u00edk. Draho\u0161 stated that he wants Prague Castle to be open. Topol\u00e1nek mentioned that he was unprepared for the discussion and can say how he feels about things. Hynek expressed regrets about Realists failure in 2017 legislative election. Topol\u00e1nek called for defense of Schengen border. Draho\u0161 stated that he wants respect for principles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 88], "content_span": [89, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nSeznam News held a presidential debate on 13 November 2017. Mirek Topol\u00e1nek, Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161, Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek, Pavel Fischer, Marek Hil\u0161er and Vratislav Kulh\u00e1nek participated. Topol\u00e1nek dominated the debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nThe introductory part was informal. Candidates discussed whether the new president should be a politician or someone out of politics. Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek stated he believes that the new president shouldn't be a politician. Topol\u00e1nek talked about his experiences when he was President of the Council of the European Union and had to deal with Gas crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nCandidates also talked about Milo\u0161 Zeman. Kulh\u00e1nek stated that Zeman's absence in debates is visible and makes it impossible to defend against his attacks. Fischer stated that Zeman should defend his mandate in debates. Draho\u0161 noted that it is Zeman's own decision to not participate. Topol\u00e1nek stated that he believes that Zeman knows what he does and that Zeman sends a message to voters \"that they should only pick him a rival for the second round.\" Hil\u0161er noted he thinks it is a lack of respect to voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nTopol\u00e1nek was then asked whom he would designate the new Prime Minister. He stated that he would meet Babi\u0161 and told him that he should choose someone else to be the Prime Minister instead of him. He also mentioned that he would call snap election if the third attempt to form a coalition government would fail. Fischer stated he doesn't see political creativity in Zeman's position and believes the president could be more active just as V\u00e1clav Havel and V\u00e1clav Klaus were. Hil\u0161er stated that Zeman is an ally of Andrej Babi\u0161 even though he previously called Babi\u0161 an unreliable person.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nIn the second part the candidates asked questions. Candidates were asked if they believe that the democracy is in danger. Draho\u0161 stated he doesn't think Czech democracy is in danger but believes that Czech people should be vigilant. Fischer believed that democracy is endangered by passivity and by limitations of freedom of speech. Hil\u0161er stated that democracy isn't in danger but he feels danger in privatisation of political power and that Czech democracy might go an authoritaritarian way. Hor\u00e1\u010dek stated that democracy is always in danger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nKulh\u00e1nek doesn't think democracy is in danger and believes that Senate and Constitutional Court can defend democracy. Topol\u00e1nek stated that every democracy is in danger and every democracy has symptoms of self-destruction. He believes that we should always see symptoms of danger for democracy. He stated he sees that personal freedom is secretly being cut while people doesn't realise it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nCandidates were asked why they want to be president. Hil\u0161er stated he is part of generation that didn't live in totalitarian regime and wants to take responsibility. He also stated that he is an independent candidate who isn't allied with political subjects. Hor\u00e1\u010dek promised radical independence and stated he can recognize dirty players. Kullh\u00e1nek stated he accomplished everything by himself and can offer his experience as he spent his life in a factory among regular people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nFischer talked about instability in world and believes that his experience as an ambassador and as an adviser of V\u00e1clav Havel makes him a good candidate. Topol\u00e1nek stated he is a democrat who knows where the Czech Republic belongs. He mentioned that he has a political past and everybody knows what to expect from him. Topol\u00e1nek stated that he learns from mistakes and doesn't make the same mistake twice. Draho\u0161 offered the experiences of a scientist and a manager. He stated he negotiated with politicians and saved the Czech Academy of Sciences. He mentioned he doesn't have a political past.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nCandidates were asked how they would convince lower-class people to vote for them. Fischer stated that he would support justice for everybody. Draho\u0161 stated that there are such people and he thinks that these people are under influence of some politicians. He would talk with them and tell them that laws apply to everybody. Hil\u0161er mentioned that he comes from regions that are less developed and stated that some politicians created Mafia and created these problems. Topol\u00e1nek mentioned problems that made them dissatisfied. He mentioned dissatisfaction with development after Velvet Revolution and with all political representations since the revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nHe mentioned fear of poverty and immigrants. He stated that it will be a difficult and a long job to convince these people to believe in politics again. Kulh\u00e1nek stated that he would make them promises that he would help them and then keep them. Hor\u00e1\u010dek stated that these people are angry at people who don't work and use social system as an opportunity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nIn the last part candidates were asked whether they would confirm a criminally charged Prime Minister. Only Hor\u00e1\u010dek stated that he would. Another question was whether candidates would support a referendum about the Czech Republic leaving European Union. All candidates declined even though Topol\u00e1nek stated that he could consider leaving the EU in future but not in the current situation. Candidates were also asked about the pardon for Ji\u0159\u00ed Kaj\u00ednek. None of candidates agreed with the pardon. Only Pavel Fischer declined to answer as he considers the question obsolete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nCandidates were also asked about Russia. Marek Hil\u0161er, Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek and Pavlel Fischer answered they consider Russia the biggest threat to the Czech Republic while Mirek Topol\u00e1nek, Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 and Vratislav Kulh\u00e1nek disagreed. Hil\u0161er stated that candidates that don't consider Russia the biggest security threat have business interests there. Topol\u00e1nek called Hil\u0161er's words a cheap move. Hil\u0161er stated that Russia is dangerous through hybrid war and could influence a possible referendum about Czech membership in European Union. Draho\u0161 stated that he sees North Korea as a bigger threat than Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nTopol\u00e1nek stated that Czechs are a bigger security threat to themselves because they are unable to build a proper army that could defend the country. He also stated that terrorism and Islamism is a bigger threat than Russia. He stated that the Czech Republic only needs Russian markets but doesn't need Russian imperialism. Kulh\u00e1nek considers poverty in some African and Asian regions the biggest threat to the Czech Republic because it leads to uncontrollable immigration. Hor\u00e1\u010dek stated that he considers Russia the biggest threat. Fischer stated that NATO should take Russian seriously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Seznam News Debate\nThe last question was about security measures at the Prague Castle. All candidates believe these measures are too excessive. Candidates stated they will endorse Zeman's opponent in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Liberec Library debate\nThe debate was held on 16 November 2017. All candidates with exception of Milo\u0161 Zeman debated in Liberec Library. The debate was held by DVTV. DVTV then held a survey on Twitter to decide which candidate was the most convincing. Mirek Topol\u00e1nek received the highest number of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Liberec Library debate\nTopol\u00e1nek stated that the first Czech Republic ends and Second Czech Republic will start. Candidates talked about government formation. Draho\u0161 stated that he wouldn't approach government formation the same way as Milo\u0161 Zeman while Hannig stated that he would approach the same way as Zeman. Topol\u00e1nek stated he considers Andrej Babi\u0161 a danger for progress since Velvet Revolution but would approach him professionally. Hynek stated that he would cooperate with Babi\u0161. Candidates then talked about a case of racist comments to a photo of students from Teplice Elementary. Hannig was the only candidate to not have problem with it. Draho\u0161 stated that he doesn't think Czech people are racist but some politicians spread fear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Liberec Library debate\nFischer was asked about competences of President. He state that he wouldn't touch the constitution. Hannig stated that wouldn't have problem with a Semi-presidential system. Hor\u00e1\u010dek then criticised security measures at Prague Castle. Draho\u0161 and Hynek criticised Zeman. Topol\u00e1nek stated that president's health should be known to public because he is the commander-in-chief of the Military of the Czech Republic. Hannig disagreed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Hynek - Hannig Duel\nJi\u0159\u00ed Hynek and Petr Hannig participated in a debate by Seznam Zpr\u00e1vy on 27 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, University of West Bohemia\nDebate at University of West Bohemia was held on 28 November 2017. Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161, Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek, Marek Hil\u0161er, Ji\u0159\u00ed Hynek, Pavel Fischer, Petr Hannig and Mirek Topol\u00e1nek participated in the debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Hor\u00e1\u010dek - Hynek Duel\nDuel between Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek and Ji\u0159\u00ed Hynek was held on 5 December 2017. According to a survey on Twitter, Hor\u00e1\u010dek won the debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Topol\u00e1nek - Hil\u0161er Duel\nSeznam news held a presidential duel between Topol\u00e1nek and Hil\u0161er on 8 December 2017. Hil\u0161er attacked Topol\u00e1nek for his past and tried to make a parallel between Topol\u00e1nek and Milo\u0161 Zeman. Topol\u00e1nek dismissed his claims and stated that he is not linked with Zeman by political opinions. Topol\u00e1nek also stated he has political experience and knows how politics work. Candidates also argued about migrant quotas. According to a survey on Twitter, Topol\u00e1nek won the debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 86], "content_span": [87, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Sv\u011btozor Debate\nDebate in Sv\u011btozor Kino was held on 11 December 2017. Draho\u0161, Hannig, Hil\u0161er, Hor\u00e1\u010dek and Hynek participated. Topol\u00e1nek, Kulh\u00e1nek and Fischer refused because they had a different schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Draho\u0161 - Fischer Duel\nJi\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 and Pavel Fischer met for a duel at Seznam News on 12 December 2017. Fischer doubted Draho\u0161' competency to be a president. Draho\u0161 disagreed with his opinion and defended himself with sport terminology. There were a surveys on Twitter and Facebook to decide who won. Fischer received more votes. Fischer stated after the duel that he expected a strong rival but didn't get him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Draho\u0161/Hor\u00e1\u010dek Duel\nJi\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 and Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek faced each other in a duel on 19 December 2017. Hor\u00e1\u010dek attacked Draho\u0161' campaign finances and highlighted that he finances is campaign by himself. Hor\u00e1\u010dek also tried to examine Draho\u0161' knowledge of English language. Draho\u0161 tried to attack Hor\u00e1\u010dek for his previous attacks against him. Seznam News had survey on Facebook and Twitter. Hor\u00e1\u010dek won the debate according to these surveys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Draho\u0161/Hor\u00e1\u010dek Duel\nPR expert Ji\u0159\u00ed Mike\u0161 stated that Draho\u0161 was better visually but Hor\u00e1\u010dek had better arguments. He stated that both of them had good showings but the debate showed that Draho\u0161 and Hor\u00e1\u010dek aren't prepared for a heavyweight battle with Zeman. Mirek Topol\u00e1nek is the only candidate that could battle with Zeman according to Mike\u0161. Sociologist Vojt\u011bch Bedn\u00e1\u0159 stated that the debate showed Draho\u0161' handicap as he comes from Academic environment and isn't prepared for a conflict. It could be a problem for him as he will face sharper guys than Hor\u00e1\u010dek is. He still stated that it is hard to decide who won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Hor\u00e1\u010dek/Topol\u00e1nek Duel\nMichal Hor\u00e1\u010dek and Mirek Topol\u00e1nek faced each other in a duel organised by Seznam News on 20 December 2017. Hor\u00e1\u010dek stated that he doesn't consider Topol\u00e1nek an honest man. Topol\u00e1nek disagreed and stated that everybody who knows him and worked with him consider him an honest man who keeps his word. Hor\u00e1\u010dek mentioned Helena T\u0159e\u0161t\u00edkov\u00e1 who was a member of Topol\u00e1nek's cabinet and doesn't think that Topol\u00e1nek keeps his word. Topol\u00e1nek stated that it happened differently and that T\u0159e\u0161t\u00edkov\u00e1 didn't have an idea who is governing about and she had to leave his cabinet because she psychically collapsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Hor\u00e1\u010dek/Topol\u00e1nek Duel\nHor\u00e1\u010dek also mentioned Topol\u00e1nek's coworker Dal\u00edk. Topol\u00e1nek stated that court case with Marek Dal\u00edk didn't seem really correct to him. He stated that he doesn't know what would Hor\u00e1\u010dek do if a friend of his would be sentenced to prison. He then noted that Hor\u00e1\u010dek often use informations from Newspapers and mentioned that politician should be able to face pressure from media. Topol\u00e1nek mentioned that Hor\u00e1\u010dek often calls himself independent because he finances his campaign by himself but these mone come from gambling business. He stated that people lost this moneand didn't give it to him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0024-0002", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Hor\u00e1\u010dek/Topol\u00e1nek Duel\nHor\u00e1\u010dek stated that it is important for directly elected president to be independent of politician and business. He also stated that he is sure that he will defeat Milo\u0161 Zeman. Topol\u00e1nek then noted that Hor\u00e1\u010dek is too emotional. Topol\u00e1nek mentioned that he left politics 8 years ago. Hor\u00e1\u010dek then mentioned affairs linked to Topol\u00e1neks cabinet and stated that many public orders didn't go through tender. Topol\u00e1nek replied that Hor\u00e1\u010dek is very wrong and stated that orders underwent tender but were criticised for its price. Hor\u00e1\u010dek stated that he opposes hard core of European Union and is against migrant quotas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0024-0003", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Hor\u00e1\u010dek/Topol\u00e1nek Duel\nTopol\u00e1nek stated that the Czech Republic doesn't have an alternative to European Union but it is visible that the European nion goes somewhere where the Czech Republic doesn't want to go. Hor\u00e1\u010dek then attacked Topol\u00e1nek for law about Solar panels. Topol\u00e1nek stated that the problem showed up during Jan Fischer's Cabinet and he wasn't even a member of parliament at the time. He stated that Jan Fischer failed to solve the problem. There is a survey on Twitter and Facebook to decide who won the debate. Topol\u00e1nek received more votes on Twitter while Hor\u00e1\u010dek received more votes on Facebook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Draho\u0161/Topol\u00e1nek Duel\nJi\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 and Mirek Topol\u00e1nek faced each other in a duel organised by Seznam News on 21 December 2017. Draho\u0161 attacked Topol\u00e1nek about formation of his cabinet as it was supported by 2 MPs who left opposition Czech Social Democratic Party. Topol\u00e1nek stated that he had to solve 2006 situation when left wing parties and centre-right parties both received 100 seats. Draho\u0161 then attacked Topol\u00e1nek that he failed as a leader of the Civic Democratic Party and didn't defeat \"Godfathers\" within the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Draho\u0161/Topol\u00e1nek Duel\nTopol\u00e1nek stated that Draho\u0161 is wrong and stated he started processes that concluded under leadership of Petr Fiala. Topol\u00e1nek also disagreed with Draho\u0161' statement that his cabinet didn't support science adequately and supported it with a graph. Draho\u0161 still disagreed that Topol\u00e1nek's cabinet should have supported science more. Topol\u00e1nek mentioned that he was head of the Council of science and supported it. Topol\u00e1nek opened a topic of European migrant crisis and mentioned that Draho\u0161 signed under Science proclamation from 2015. Topol\u00e1nek called it an \"invitation letter.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0025-0002", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, Draho\u0161/Topol\u00e1nek Duel\nDraho\u0161 stated that he doesn't consider it an invitation letter and attacked Topol\u00e1nek that he entered campaign late and might have slept somewhere. Topol\u00e1nek countered and stated that he hasn't slept but focused on a topic of migrant crisis very long time and has written many articles for Echo24 but Draho\u0161 most likely doesn't read. There is a survey on Twitter and Facebook to decide who won the debate. Topol\u00e1nek received more votes in both polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, First round debates, First ladies among us\nDebate of candidates' wives is held on 5 January 2018. Bohumila Bra\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 (Vratislav Kulh\u00e1nek), Eva Draho\u0161ov\u00e1 (Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161), Kl\u00e1ra Fischerov\u00e1 (Pavel Fischer), Monika Hil\u0161erov\u00e1 (Marek Hil\u0161er), Michaela Ho\u0159ej\u0161\u00ed-Hor\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 (Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek), Eli\u0161ka Hynkov\u00e1 (Ji\u0159\u00ed Hynek) and Lucie Talmanov\u00e1 (Mirek Topol\u00e1nek).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, Second round debates\nZeman agreed to participate in debates for the second round. On 15 January, Zeman suggested that he and Draho\u0161 should participate in four debates. Draho\u0161 said that he would participate in only two debates, to spend his time focusing on a personal campaign in regions where he had received fewer votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, Second round debates, TV Prima Duel\nThe first duel was broadcast on Prima TV on 23 January. The debate was very aggressive and influenced by the loud audience. First topic focused on government formation. Draho stated that he would not nominate criminally prosecuted Prime Minister while Zeman stated that he will nominate Andrej Babi\u0161 as the victor of legislative election. He noted that Babi\u0161 has not been convicted and presumption of innocence applies to him. Candidates then talked about a ban of smoking in restaurants. Draho\u0161 noted that he would support exceptions for small pubs. Candidates strongly disagreed with each other on the topic of Fake news. Zeman stated that he is against limitations of freedom of speech on the internet. Zeman also attacked Draho\u0161 for his claims that elections in the Czech Republic were influenced by foreign powers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 897]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, Second round debates, TV Prima Duel\nZeman was described as more energetic, while Draho\u0161 was said to be faint and visibly nervous. Experts expressed the opinion that Zeman had dominated the debate and appeared as the victor. According to poll by Median 59% of people considered Zeman the victor while 13% believed that Draho\u0161 won the debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, Second round debates, \u010cesk\u00e1 televize duel\nDraho\u0161 improved his performance during the Czech Television debate on 25 January which was seen by 2.6 million TV-spectators. The debate was calmer and Draho\u0161 was considered to be less uncertain and more aggressive than during the previous debate. The second debate was considered a tie by most commentators. Several experts rated the performance of Draho\u0161 in Czech TV as weaker than the one of his opponent. The media lecturer from the Metropolitan University even claimed that Drahos had lost the debate in the opening minutes, while the political scientist from the CEVRO Institute, on the other hand, was the only expert who considered Draho\u0161 to be the winner of the debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, Polls/Surveys\nThis section lists surveys or polls about who was the most convincing in each debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278525-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Czech presidential election debates, Polls/Surveys, Prezident 21 surveys\nThese surveys use different style. Everyone who voted was allowed to give positive vote to 3 candidates and a negative vote to 1 candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season\nThe 2018 D.C. United season was D.C. United's 23rd season of existence, and their 23rd in Major League Soccer, the top flight of American soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season\nThe 2018 season was the club's first season playing at Audi Field following a 22-year tenure at RFK Memorial Stadium. Prior to the midseason opening of Audi Field, United played four home matches at alternative venues: three at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Germantown, Maryland (one league match and two cup matches), and one league match at the Navy\u2013Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Off season\nD.C. United began the off-season trying to figure out how to replace long-time mainstay Bill Hamid, and try to build a much stronger defense in front of his replacement. The team did have the third slot in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft, but elected to deal the selection for allocation money. The team sent allocation money to New York City F.C. to acquire centerback Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Brillant and allocation money to Seattle Sounders F.C. to acquire reserve fullback Oniel Fisher. The team also acquired Costa Rican fullback Joseph Mora. They traded for Vancouver Whitecaps F.C. keeper David Ousted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Off season\nhowever, the team also had to find more consistent offensive production. They traded for under-used speedy Jamaican striker, Darren Mattocks and acquired another Costa Rican, midfielder Ulises Segura. The team also sought to bolster the central midfield, acquiring young Venezuelan deep-lying central midfielder J\u00fanior Moreno. The biggest move of the off-season was to deal for Atlanta United F.C. 's attacking star Yamil Asad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Early season\nD.C. United began their most consequential season in years, with the longest road trip in team history. Twelve of the first fourteen games were on the road, as the team awaited the completion and opening of their new Buzzard Point stadium, to be called Audi Field. It was a rough start. The team opened with a hopeful draw in Orlando, including a goal by Asad, but that was followed by a 3\u20131 loss in Atlanta. The D.C. side than played their first regular season home game at the Maryland Soccerplex in Germantown, Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Early season\nThe intimate setting and snowy weather made for a unique experience, but the team continued its struggles, surrendering two first-half goals. A thrilling rally, however, netted goals by Luciano Acosta and Darren Mattocks and a hard-won point. D.C. only had the two points from the two draws in five matches in March, and then lost again in Kansas City to open April. They returned to the D.C. area to play a home game at the Navy Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland. Despite scoring in the first minute. United handed the visitors a man advantage when Paul Arriola was shown a red card early in the second half. D.C. had to weather a furious assault by Columbus Crew. Thanks to heroic goalkeeping by Steve Clark, the team hung on for its first win of the year, 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Early season\nThe long road trip resumed, and so did the losing, with a pair of 3\u20132 defeats at the hands of Philadelphia Union and Real Salt Lake. D.C. finally won a game on the road, defeating the lowly San Jose Earthquakes by a 3\u20131 scoreline. The team seemed to be showing progress and earned a 1\u20131 draw in their first trip to Los Angeles to face potent expansion side LAFC. A 2\u20131 loss to Seattle followed as the team failed to defend a 1\u20130 lead after Mattocks had put the team ahead early in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Early season\nThe pattern repeated in a trip to Toronto to face the defending league champions. D.C. actually took a 3\u20130 lead, which they surrendered over the course of the second half. Still a goal by Acosta in stoppage time seemed to have gained a stunning three points, but Toronto F.C. again rallied with a fourth, tying goal before the final whistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Early season\nAs fans of the team looked forward to the opening of the long-awaited, new stadium, speculation intensified that the team would make its biggest signing ever, bringing in English star Wayne Rooney. His signing was announced as June drew to a close. The road trip ended with yet another 3\u20132 loss, to New England Revolution and yet another draw in Los Angeles, this time a 2\u20132 affair against LA Galaxy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Mid-season and a New Home\nThe new stadium, Audi Field, opened on July 14 in front of a sell-out crowd. A goal by Asad, assisted by Zoltan Stieber gave the team its first ever goal and first lead in the new stadium. Wayne Rooney came on as a substitute in the 58th minute, to a roaring ovation, and he immediately raised the team's level. 2 more goals followed, both by Arriola, the last giving Rooney his first assist in his first Major League Soccer match. However, a giveaway in stoppage time led to a goal by Vancouver's teenage sensation Alphonso Davies, spoiling Ousted's bid for his first clean sheet of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Mid-season and a New Home\nRooney got his first start in Atlanta, but he looked out of shape and the team failed to protect an early lead, finally losing by a familiar 3\u20131 scoreline in Atlanta. New York Red Bulls spoiled the second match at Audi Field, as Bradley Wright-Phillips put the visitors on top with a second-minute goal, a lead they never surrendered, despite an uncalled penalty shout for Rooney in the second half. Results did start to come though, for D.C, as they won their next four games at home, and managed a draw in Montreal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Mid-season and a New Home\nIncluded in that stretch was a 3\u20132 win over a short-handed Orlando City S.C. side, as Lucho Acosta scored a hat-trick. For all of Acosta's heroics, though, the name on everyone's lips at the end of the game was Wayne Rooney. Deep in stoppage time, United lined up a corner kick and goalkeeper Ousted pushed forward to try to get the winning goal, to break the 2\u20132 tie. Orlando gained possession and tried to break out of their end quickly to attack the undefended D.C end and get the winning goal themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0007-0002", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Mid-season and a New Home\nRooney ran back as the one defender who had a chance to stop the Orlando breakaway. He wasn't able to beat Wil Johnson to the ball as it rolled past midfield, but Rooney dispossessed Johnson with a sliding tackle. Rooney then rose and dribbled back in the opposite direction before a sending a long pass across the field, into the box, where Acosta was able to head it for the winning goal at the death. The post-game discussion was whether Rooney's effort was the greatest play in league history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Mid-season and a New Home\nThat thrilling finish was followed by the return of Bill Hamid to the D.C. United goalkeeper role. Hamid had struggled in Denmark and was anxious to return to the D.C. United fold. Hamid's return was marked by a pair of solid wins, 4\u20131 over Portland Timbers on the strength of a brace by Rooney that included his first free kick goal, and a 2\u20130 over New England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Mid-season and a New Home\nBut the team then took some steps backward with a hard-fought 1\u20130 loss to the Red Bulls on a hot Sunday night on the road, followed by a tired, sluggish effort in a midweek 2\u20130 home loss to Philadelphia. D.C rebounded, though, with a 3\u20131 thumping of the league leaders, Atlanta United F.C., a road draw in Yankee Stadium against NYCFC, another home win as the team rallied to beat Minnesota United 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Mid-season and a New Home\nThat was followed by a thrilling rematch at home against the Red Bulls, D.C. took the lead three times on goals by Arriola, Rooney and Acosta, but each time they surrendered the lead on a goal by Wright-Phillips. The 3\u20133 draw temporarily left D.C. United 4 points off the pace for the final playoff spot, but with a game in hand over Montreal Impact, whom they would play in their next home match, to close out September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Mid-season and a New Home\nA sell-out crowd watched D.C. United host the Montreal Impact in a crucial match in the race or the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Lucho Acosta got the home side off to a good start with an impressive finish to beat the Impact 'keeper to the far post in the 17th minute. United seemed to back off after that, as the Impact pressed for much of the rest of the first half. United barely clung to the 1\u20130 lead at halftime, giving no hint of the explosive second half to come.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Mid-season and a New Home\nEarly in the second half, Acosta got the ball to Rooney, who picked his way towards the box before blistering a shot to beat the goalie at the near post. In the 61st minute, Acosta got his second assist of the game, as Rooney sent Acosta in through the Montreal defense, and Acosta then crossed the ball for Arriola to poke it for the third goal. In the 78th minute D.C. stretched its lead to 4\u20130 as Arriola beat the goalie to a loose ball and scored his second of the match, and giving Acosta his 3rd assist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Mid-season and a New Home\n3 minutes later, Rooney capped off a 5\u20130 thrashing of Montreal, as a clearance by the Impact goalie came to Rooney. Even from 40 yards out, Rooney had little trouble scoring on an empty net. The final result was the most convincing scoreline for D.C. since a 5\u20130 win over New England Revolution in 2001. In the playoff chase, D.C. still trailed Montreal by 2 points, but now had 2 games in hand to make up those points, and no team was playing in better form than D.C. United. All the good feeling was a little tempered by the news later that starting right back Oniel Fisher had suffered a season-ending knee injury, but the team seemed to be in good position heading into the final month of the regular season calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Close of the regular season\nThe final month of the regular season, October, opened with Montreal posting a 3\u20130 win over Columbus and Philadelphia an even bigger winner over Minnesota. The pressure was on D.C. United to win to keep on the Impact's heel for the last playoff position. Hosting Chicago Fire, D.C got off to a good start but squandered several chances in the first half, including an apparent Rooney goal, waved off for a foul after a video review. When Chicago scored in the 51st minute, it looked as if D.C. would have a long team to rue missed chances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Close of the regular season\nHowever, in the 62nd minute, Arriola, starting at right back, sent a shot in on goal. Rooney scored on the rebound and later added a second goal to claim all 3 points with a successful Penalty Kick in the 81st minute. No ground gained in the playoff chase in this round, but D.C. knew it still controlled its own fate. D.C. would play two home matches before Montreal would again take the field, and a win in either match would put D.C. on top of Montreal in the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Close of the regular season\nThe 2018 MLS season continued even through an international break, with D.C. United playing with a very short bench, thanks to a combination of injuries, international call-ups and a pair of tragic items that struck the team in short order. Paul Arriola had been slotted to start at right back following Fisher's season-ending knee surgery, but the news of the sudden death of Arriola's father meant he was unavailable for the team's two games in over the international break. It was also announced that another potential option at right back, Chris Odoi-Atsem would undergo treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The return of Nick DeLeon from the injured list could not have been more timely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Close of the regular season\nUnited managed two straight 1\u20130 wins at home. The first came against the Western Conference leaders F.C. Dallas. United squandered some chances and seemed destined to settle for a draw, dropping two much needed points in the playoff chase. However, in the 86th minute Russell Canouse scored his first ever MLS goal, with a header that finished off a scramble following a Canouse shot that came back off the post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Close of the regular season\nIn a midweek match against the defending champions, Toronto F.C., United did the deed early on when Wayne Rooney scored a memorable goal on a 40-yard free kick that curled back just inside the post. That left the team needing only 3 points in its final two games to secure a playoff spot that seemed impossible 3 months earlier, when Rooney signed with the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Close of the regular season\nD.C. United clinched their place in the 2018 MLS Cup Playoffs in style, rounding out their 2018 home regular season campaign with a convincing win over visiting NYCFC, extending the team's unbeaten streak to nine games. The first came when Acosta went on a run from the sideline maneuvering through several defenders before cutting the ball to Rooney for a simple tap-in at the top of the six-yard box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, Close of the regular season\nAcosta got the honors on the second goal, as Rooney lost control of the ball about 20 yards out and Acosta stepped up and one-timed a curling shot into the corner of the NYC goal. A second-half penalty kick by Rooney extended the lead to 3\u20130. A late goal by David Villa ruined the clean sheet, but the final 3\u20131 result put D.C. in the playoffs, with a chance to claim the 4th spot in the table with a road win or draw at Chicago in the final week. D.C. was unable to score against Chicago Fire, but a 0\u20130 was enough to put D.C. ahead of Philadelphia into 4th place, and earned a home game in the one-game opening playoff round, against the Columbus Crew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, MLS Playoffs\nPlaying in front of one of the most raucous home crowds in team history, D.C. United took a 1\u20130 lead in the first half, when Brillant pounced on a loose ball in the box, heading it for a goal after a misplay by the Columbus Crew goalie Zack Steffen. However, a pair of defensive errors allowed Columbus to equalize before halftime. Thanks to spectacular saves by each goalie, the game remained even and went into an overtime period. Columbus went ahead early in the first overtime on a header by Federico Higua\u00edn, his second goal of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Review, MLS Playoffs\nD.C.'s season seemed to have been rescued when Nick DeLeon scored on a volley in the 118th minute, the latest goal in a game in team history. However, in a penalty kick shootout, Steffen saved shots from both of D.C.'s top guns, Rooney and Acosta. Hamid also saved one shot and forced former D.C. striker Patrick Mullins to hit the post with his effort. Shooting in the fifth spot, DeLeon put his shot over the crossbar, giving the Crew a 3\u20132 winning margin in the shootout, ending D.C. United's season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Transfers, In, Draft picks\nDraft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only trades involving draft picks and executed after the start of 2018 MLS SuperDraft will be listed in the notes. Pending any trades up to the draft, United had six selections in the SuperDraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Transfers, In, Draft picks\nNotes: D.C. United traded their first round pick (third selection overall) to Los Angeles FC for $100,000 in General Allocation Money (GAM) and $100,000 in Targeted Allocation Money (TAM).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278526-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 D.C. United season, Player statistics, Most goals\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278527-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 D1 Grand Prix series\nThe 2018 D1 Grand Prix series is the eighteenth season for the D1 Grand Prix series. The season began on March 31 at Maishima Sports Island in Osaka, and ended on November 3 at the Odaiba Tokyo Street Course. This season also marked the commencement of the new D1 Lights series, with the preseason match on January 20, at Nikko Circuit, with the season ending on December 1 at the same venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final\nThe 2018 DFB-Pokal Final decided the winner of the 2017\u201318 DFB-Pokal, the 75th season of the annual German football cup competition. The match was played on 19 May 2018 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final\nThe final featured Bayern Munich, the record winners of the competition, and Eintracht Frankfurt, the runners-up of the previous season, making it a rematch of the 2006 final. Eintracht Frankfurt won the match 3\u20131 to claim their fifth cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final\nAs winners, Frankfurt earned the right to host the 2018 edition of the DFL-Supercup at the start of the following season, facing the champions of the 2017\u201318 edition of the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich. Frankfurt also earned automatic qualification for the group stage of the 2018\u201319 edition of the UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Background\nThe match was the 22nd final for Bayern Munich, a competition record. Of the previous finals, Bayern had won on 18 occasions, also a competition record, and lost three times. Bayern's last final appearance was in 2016, where they won on penalties against Borussia Dortmund. Bayern were chasing a league and cup double, having won the 2017\u201318 Bundesliga in April 2018. Bayern had previously completed the double on 11 occasions (in 2013 as part of a treble), a record in Germany, most recently in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Background\nThe final was the fifth for Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes as a player and manager, having come out of retirement in October 2017 following the sacking of Carlo Ancelotti. Heynckes won the final in 1973 as a player with Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach, before losing his next two finals as a manager in 1984 (with Gladbach) and 2012 (with Bayern). Heynckes then won the 2013 final before retiring, securing the treble for Bayern, the first ever in German football. The final was the last match for Heynckes as a manager, with Frankfurt's Niko Kova\u010d taking over Bayern for the 2018\u201319 season. Heynckes previously managed Frankfurt during the 1994\u201395 season, but is not remembered well at the club after being sacked nine months into his tenure following a poor campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Background\nThe match was the 8th final for Eintracht Frankfurt, with a record of four wins and three losses prior. Frankfurt last won the competition in 1988, the last major title for the club at the time, winning 1\u20130 against VfL Bochum. This was the second time Frankfurt have managed to reach consecutive finals, having previously done so in 1975. In the previous final, Frankfurt lost 1\u20132 to Borussia Dortmund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Background\nThe final was the second consecutive for Croatian manager Niko Kova\u010d in his second full season with Frankfurt, previously accomplished by Dietrich Weise in 1975. Kova\u010d took over as manager of Eintracht Frankfurt in March 2016, where he managed to keep Die Adler in the Bundesliga after winning the relegation play-offs against 1. FC N\u00fcrnberg. The match was the last for Kova\u010d with Frankfurt, against his future employers Bayern Munich, where he took over as coach for the following season after signing a three-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Background\nA win would also see Kova\u010d become the fifth person to win the DFB-Pokal as a player and manager, having won the 2003 final as a player with Bayern, previously accomplished by Ludwig Janda (player in 1942 with 1860 Munich, manager in 1956 with Karlsruher SC), Alfred Schmidt (player in 1965 with Borussia Dortmund, manager in 1970 with Kickers Offenbach), Thomas Schaaf (player in 1991 and 1994, manager in 1999, 2004 and 2009, all with Werder Bremen) and Jupp Heynckes (player in 1973 with Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach, manager in 2013 with Bayern Munich).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Background\nThe final was the 138th match between Bayern and Frankfurt, with a record of 68 Bayern wins, 39 Frankfurt wins, and 30 draws prior. Of the prior matches, four had been in the DFB-Pokal, with Bayern winning thrice and Frankfurt winning once. This included the 2006 final, where Bayern won 1\u20130 via a goal from Claudio Pizarro, making the match the 8th final pairing to be repeated (on 11 occasions). Their most recent cup meeting was in the round of 16 of the 2009\u201310 season, where Bayern won 4\u20130. The sides met twice during season prior to the final, with Bayern winning both by a score of 1\u20130 away in the first meeting on 9 December 2017 and 4\u20131 at home in the second meeting on 28 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final\nThe DFB-Pokal began with 64 teams in a single-elimination knockout cup competition. There were a total of five rounds leading up to the final. Teams were drawn against each other, and the winner after 90 minutes would advance. If still tied, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final, Bayern Munich\nIn the first round of the cup, Bayern faced third-division side Chemnitzer FC away. Robert Lewandowski opened the scoring for Bayern in the 20th minute, before Kingsley Coman scored the second in the 51st minute. Lewandowski completed a brace in the 60th minute, before Franck Rib\u00e9ry scored the fourth for Bayern in the 79th minute. Defender Mats Hummels scored shortly before the end to seal the 5\u20130 win. In the second round, Bayern traveled to face RB Leipzig, the runners-up of the previous Bundesliga season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final, Bayern Munich\nAfter going a man down with Naby Ke\u00efta sent off, Leipzig were awarded a penalty after J\u00e9r\u00f4me Boateng fouled Yussuf Poulsen in the box. Emil Forsberg converted the penalty past Sven Ulreich to give Leipzig the lead in the 68th minute. However, five minutes later Bayern equalised through a header by Thiago. After a goalless period of extra time, the match went to a penalty shoot-out. After the first nine penalties were all successful, Ulreich saved Timo Werner's shot to send Bayern through to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final, Bayern Munich\nIn the round of 16, Bayern were drawn at home against cup holders and fellow Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund, who had knocked Bayern out in the semi-finals of the previous season. Boateng opened the scoring with a header in the 12th minute, before Thomas M\u00fcller doubled the lead for Bayern in the 40th minute. Andriy Yarmolenko reduced Dortmund's deficit with a goal in the 77th minute, but Bayern held on with a 2\u20131 win to advance. In the quarter-finals, Die Roten faced third-division side SC Paderborn away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final, Bayern Munich\nComan opened the scoring in the 19th minute, before Lewandowski increased Bayern's lead six minutes later. Joshua Kimmich scored the third for Bayern in the 42nd minute, with Corentin Tolisso adding to the scoring with a header in the 55th minute. Arjen Robben scored a late brace for Bayern to secure the 6\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final, Bayern Munich\nIn the semi-finals, Bayern were drawn away to fellow Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen. Bayern began quickly, with Lewandowski completing a brace with goals in the 3rd and 9th minute. Lars Bender reduced the deficit for Leverkusen with a header seven minutes later. In the second half, M\u00fcller increased Bayern's lead with a 52nd minute strike. Thiago scored the fourth for Bayern in the 60th minute, before M\u00fcller completed a brace four minutes later. Leon Bailey got a goal back for Leverkusen in the 72nd minute, before M\u00fcller completed his hat-trick six minutes later to seal the 6\u20132 win, sending Bayern to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final, Eintracht Frankfurt\nIn the first round, Eintracht Frankfurt were drawn away to fourth-division side TuS Erndtebr\u00fcck. Frankfurt were a man down after David Abraham was sent off in the 23rd minute, but they took the lead 12 minutes later via a goal from Timothy Chandler. In the 72nd minute, Mijat Ga\u0107inovi\u0107 doubled the lead for Eintracht, before S\u00e9bastien Haller scored three minutes later to secure the 3\u20130 win. In the second round, Frankfurt were drawn away against fourth-division side Schweinfurt 05. Haller opened the scoring for Frankfurt in the 14th minute, before completing a brace with a 58th minute strike. Marius Wolf extended the lead five minutes later, before Danny Blum sealed the 4\u20130 win for Frankfurt in the 85th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final, Eintracht Frankfurt\nFrankfurt were drawn away to 1. FC Heidenheim in the round of 16. After a goalless 90 minutes, Ga\u0107inovi\u0107 put Frankfurt ahead in the 95th minute of extra time. However, Marc Schnatterer equalised for the hosts a minute later. In the 109th minute, Haller restored Frankfurt's lead, with the 2\u20131 win enough to see Frankfurt advance. In the quarter-finals, Eintracht were drawn at home against Mainz 05. Ante Rebi\u0107 put Frankfurt ahead after 17 minutes, before an own goal from Alexander Hack saw the lead double for the hosts. Omar Mascarell increased Frankfurt's lead with a 62nd-minute goal, securing the 3\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final, Eintracht Frankfurt\nIn the semi-finals, Frankfurt were drawn away to Schalke 04. After a goalless first half, Frankfurt took the lead in the 75th minute via a backheel from Luka Jovi\u0107. Despite a red card from Gelson Fernandes in the 81st minute, Frankfurt managed to hold on for the 1\u20130 win and spot in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Match, Summary\nRobert Lewandowski came close to putting Bayern ahead after eight minutes, with his free kick hitting the underside of the crossbar. Three minutes later, Ante Rebi\u0107 dispossessed James Rodr\u00edguez, and put the ball past Sven Ulreich after a one-two with Kevin-Prince Boateng to give Frankfurt the lead going into half-time. Eight minutes into the second half, Lewandowski equalised for Bayern, finishing the cut-back from Joshua Kimmich, which took a slight deflection off Omar Mascarell. Eintracht regained the lead in the 82nd minute after Rebi\u0107 completed his brace, getting past Mats Hummels and Niklas S\u00fcle to lift the ball over Ulreich. In the sixth minute of second-half stoppage time, Mijat Ga\u0107inovi\u0107 sealed the victory for Eintracht, putting the ball into an empty net after Ulreich had come forward for a corner in the final moments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278528-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 DFB-Pokal Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Thorsten Schiffner (Konstanz)Markus H\u00e4cker (Waren)Fourth official:Patrick Ittrich (Hamburg)Video assistant referee:Bastian Dankert (Rostock)Assistant video assistant referee:Ren\u00e9 Rohde (Rostock)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278529-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 DFL-Supercup\nThe 2018 DFL-Supercup was the ninth edition of the German super cup under the name DFL-Supercup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal competitions. The match was played on 12 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278529-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 DFL-Supercup\nThe DFL-Supercup featured Eintracht Frankfurt, the winners of the 2017\u201318 DFB-Pokal, and Bayern Munich, the winners of the 2017\u201318 Bundesliga and two-time defending champions of the DFL-Supercup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278529-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 DFL-Supercup\nBayern Munich won the match 5\u20130 for their third consecutive and seventh overall title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278529-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 DFL-Supercup, Teams\nIn the following table, matches until 1996 were in the DFB-Supercup era, since 2010 were in the DFL-Supercup era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278529-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 DFL-Supercup, Background\nThis was the first competitive match for incoming Bayern manager Niko Kova\u010d, who left Eintracht Frankfurt the previous season after leading them to the DFB-Pokal title over future employers Bayern Munich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278529-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 DFL-Supercup, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Dominik Schaal (T\u00fcbingen)Marcel Pelgrim (Hamminkeln-Loikum)Fourth official:Martin Petersen (Stuttgart)Video assistant referee:Bastian Dankert (Rostock)Assistant video assistant referee:Ren\u00e9 Rohde (Rostock)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278530-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 DPMM FC season\nThe 2018 season was DPMM FC's 7th consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the Singapore Premier League. Along with the SGPL, the club will also compete in the Singapore Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278531-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 DStv Mzansi Viewers' Choice Awards\nThe 2018 DStv Mzansi Viewers' Choice Awards were held on 24 November 2018, at Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278531-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 DStv Mzansi Viewers' Choice Awards, Winners and Nominees, Favourite Song Of The Year\nPrince Kaybee (featuring, Zanda Zakuza, TNS and The Soulmates) - \"Club Controller\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278532-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 DV1\n2018 DV1 is a micro-asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object of the Aten group, approximately 6\u201312 meters (20\u201340 feet) in diameter. It was first observed on 26 February 2018, by astronomers of the Mount Lemmon Survey at Mount Lemmon Observatory, Arizona, five days prior to its sub-lunar close encounter with Earth at less than 0.3 lunar distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278532-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 DV1, Orbit and classification\n2018 DV1 belongs to the Aten group of asteroids, which cross the orbit of Earth. Contrary to the much larger Apollos, Atens have a semi-major axis of less than 1\u00a0AU, that is, a period less than a year (Earth).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 34], "content_span": [35, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278532-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 DV1, Orbit and classification\nBased on an observation arc of less than 2 days, it orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.82\u20131.15\u00a0AU once every 12 months (358 days; semi-major axis of 0.986\u00a0AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.17 and an inclination of 5\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins at Mount Lemmon with its first observation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 34], "content_span": [35, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278532-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 DV1, Orbit and classification, Close encounters, 2018 flyby\nOn 2 March 2018, at 05:54 UT, this object passed Earth at a nominal distance of 0.29\u00a0LD (0.00075\u00a0AU) which corresponds to a distance of 112,600 kilometres (70,000 miles). The object also approached the Moon at a similar distance of 133,300\u00a0km (82,800\u00a0mi) the day before. It was the 18th known asteroid to flyby Earth within 1\u00a0lunar distance (LD) since the start of 2018 and 6th closest. Five days earlier, a similar object, 2018 DU, came within 175,000 miles (284,000\u00a0km). However, the two encounters were unrelated and neither of them represent any hazard to the Earth (also see List of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2018 \u00a7\u00a0List).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 64], "content_span": [65, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278532-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 DV1, Orbit and classification, Close encounters, 2018 flyby\nHourly motion of asteroid across sky on 2 March 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 64], "content_span": [65, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278532-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 DV1, Orbit and classification, Close encounters, MOID and projections\n2018 DV1 has a notably low minimum orbital intersection distance with Earth of 23,800\u00a0km (0.000159\u00a0AU), or 0.06\u00a0LD. The asteroid's next encounter with Earth will be on 26 February 2019 at a much larger distance of 51\u00a0LD (0.130\u00a0AU). It closest future approach is predicted to occur on 28 February 2064, then at a nominal distance of 24\u00a0LD (0.0628\u00a0AU).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 74], "content_span": [75, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278532-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 DV1, Physical characteristics\nBased on a generic magnitude-to-diameter conversion, 2018 DV1 measures between 6 and 12 meters in diameter, for an absolute magnitude of 28.4, and an assumed albedo between 0.057 and 0.20, which represent typical values for carbonaceous and stony asteroids, respectively. As of 2018, no rotational lightcurve of this object has been obtained from photometric observations. The body's rotation period, pole and shape remain unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 34], "content_span": [35, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278533-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 DXC Technology 600\nThe 2018 DXC Technology 600 was the ninth round of the 2018 IndyCar Series season, contested over 248 laps at the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. Josef Newgarden claimed his fourth pole and lead Team Penske 1-2-3, while Scott Dixon claimed his 43rd career win and took the championship lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278533-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 DXC Technology 600, Results, Race\nNotes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278534-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dakar Rally\nThe 2018 Dakar Rally was the 40th edition of the event and the tenth successive year that the event was in South America. The event started in Lima, Peru on 6 January and ran through Argentina and Bolivia, finishing in C\u00f3rdoba, Argentina on 20 January after 14 stages of competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278534-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dakar Rally, Summary\nStage 1 left from Lima on 6 January from the Army General Headquarters (the \"Pentagonito\") located in the district of San Borja, and extended 273 kilometers to the south, a few kilometers after Pisco taking the South Pan-American Highway. The competitive section consisted of a loop ran in the last 31 kilometers near Pisco. Among the incidents of the stage, the most highlighted was the serious accident suffered by the Portuguese driver Joaquim Rodrigues when he fell from a dune and fractured a lumbar vertebra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278534-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dakar Rally, Summary\nThe oldest driver, 76-year old Yoshimasa Sugawara of Japan retired in his 35th Dakar Rally participation on Stage 2. The Toyota of driver Alicia Reina and co-driver Carlos Dante Pelayo, both of Argentina, was burned after catching fire during the Stage 3 in Pisco, Peru. Two-time winner Nani Roma of Spain also retired at the end of Stage 3 when he had sustained head and neck injuries in a crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278534-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dakar Rally, Summary\nBig troubles on Stage 4 was for two of the favorites, Nasser Al-Attiyah (Team Toyota) and Cyril Despres (Team Peugeot) that have been significantly delayed. The bikes class leader and defending champion Sam Sunderland was airlifted to hospital by helicopter as he quit the race with a frightening back injury. Also, former Chelsea and Tottenham manager Andr\u00e9 Villas-Boas was taken to hospital when his car crashed into a sand dune, forcing him to retire from the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278534-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dakar Rally, Summary\nNotable retirement on Stage 5 was S\u00e9bastien Loeb (Peugeot Team Total) due to an injury of his co-driver Daniel Elena. In the quads category, defending champion Sergey Karyakin suffered a crash and broke his arm. Initially, Stage 5 in the truck category was won by class leader Eduard Nikolaev, but later Ayrat Mardeev and Dmitry Sotnikov received a compensation time and took first and second stage positions respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278534-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Dakar Rally, Summary\nAfter the rest day, one of bike class favorites Joan Barreda won the Stage 7 by almost three minutes to creep ever closer to the overall lead, but sustained a knee injury. Car class leader St\u00e9phane Peterhansel had a big troubles on Stage 7, hitting a rock that destroyed the left rear corner of his Peugeot and forced him to stop for almost two hours. Despite losing two positions in general standings, Peterhansel come back to fight with Carlos Sainz by winning Stage 8 in southern Bolivia. Stage 9 has been cancelled due to poor weather conditions in Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278534-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Dakar Rally, Summary\nBike class leader Adrien van Beveren could not finish on Stage 10 despite his efforts to keep going after he fell two miles from the finish. Austrian Matthias Walkner takes the advantage of the navigation error made by several rivals. On Stage 11, Joan Barreda, exhausted and nursing a knee injury for the last four days, has withdrawn from the rally despite sitting in second place. Russian Kamaz truck driver Eduard Nikolaev has dominated since the rally start in Peru, but he lost more than 40 minutes on a difficult Stage 11 to new race leader Federico Villagra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278534-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Dakar Rally, Summary\nHeavy rain made conditions bad enough that the bike and quad classes were both cancelled for Stage 12. In the truck class, Kamaz's defending champion Eduard Nikolaev closely overhauled Federico Villagra's Iveco to lead the overall standings by just one second before the last two stages. On Stage 3, Villagra attacked but suffered a mechanical troubles and despite battling on for as long as he could, had to abandon the rally, leaving the Russian in total control. In the same time, 13-time champion Peterhansel crashed on Stage 13, damaging the Peugeot 3008 DKR Maxi and lost an hour and his second place in general classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278534-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Dakar Rally, Summary\nFinally, after last short Stage 14, Spanish Carlos Sainz has won the cars class for the second time, the bikes winner was Austrian Matthias Walkner, the quads winner was Chilean Ignacio Casale, the trucks winner was Russian Eduard Nikolaev and the UTVs winner was Brazilian Reinaldo Varela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278535-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalarna regional election\nDalarna County in Sweden held a regional council election on 9 September 2018 on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278535-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalarna regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 83 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 24, a drop of five from in 2014. The party declined from 34.2\u00a0% to 28.6\u00a0% of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278536-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Transcendence F.C. season\nThe 2018 Dalian Transcendence F.C. season is the 4th and the last season in club history. The club dissolved after this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278536-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Transcendence F.C. season, Overview\nAfter sided with the team last season as the caretaker, Li Guoxu will become the head coach. The team expected their position to be 8th-10th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278536-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Transcendence F.C. season, Overview\nAfter 5 defeats in a row at the start of the season, Dalian Transcendence decided to replace Li Guoxu with D\u017eelaludin Muharemovi\u0107, who worked with Rusmir Cviko as assistant coach in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278536-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Transcendence F.C. season, Overview\nThe team sold naming right to local automobile dealer Dalian Huifeng on 16 July, to compete as Dalian Huifeng Automobile Plaza F.C. hence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278536-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Transcendence F.C. season, Overview\nTranscendence merely prevented relegation in the previous two seasons. However, the team found themselves at a confirmed 15th position after the 28 October defeat, and would regretfully descend into 2019 China League Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278536-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Transcendence F.C. season, Overview\nOn 13 January 2019, Transcendence failed to sign up the salary confirmation file of the 2018 season, and thus lost the license into the 2019 China League One. The owner decided one day later to disband the team regretfully.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278536-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Transcendence F.C. season, Kits\nDalian Transcendence 2018 kits were featured with patterns of ocean tides and waves, sponsored by Joma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278536-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Transcendence F.C. season, Player information, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278536-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Transcendence F.C. season, Player information, Reserve squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season\nThe 2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season is the ninth season in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview\nDalian Yifang experienced a roller-coaster season, starting with a rather confusing status, then constantly improved their performances throughout the season, but faced difficulties again as multiple players are called up by the National training team, and finally made a great salvation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, Confusing Preseason\nYifang remained low profile after the last successful season, but the team decided not to renew the contract with Juan Caro, despite that Caro himself eagerly wanted to stay. On 26 December 2017, Dalian Yifang officially announced Ma Lin, who shortly sided with the team in 2014, to be the new manager, \"under the decision of Dalian Municipal Bureau of Sports\", indicating that the ownership of the team was actually in hiatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, Confusing Preseason\nDalian Yifang moved to Foshan, Guangdong and trained there from 3 January to 12 February, then flew to Jeju, South Korea after the Chinese New Year for further training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, Confusing Preseason\nWanda Group, former owner of the disbanded famous local team Dalian Wanda F.C., was widely reported to take over Dalian Yifang, though the decision was not officially announced. The company sought to emphasize back on Chinese market by selling their major overseas assets including shares in Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, after Chinese government put strict regulations and bans on using domestic funding to invest foreign enterprises and investigated a few companies including Wanda, Hainan airlines and Anbang Group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, Confusing Preseason\nYifang released Ferrari and Boli, while the two-time best scorer Nyasha Mushekwi stayed. Yifang signed Mate Male\u0161 from HNK Rijeka before Wanda took control, but later claimed that he was medically unfit as soon as Wanda brought Font\u00e9, Carrasco and Gait\u00e1n in, thus terminated the transfer and excluded him from the squad, because the 2018 CSL allowed up to 4 foreign players to be registered in one team only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, March\nYifang started the season with a catastrophic 0-8 defeat against Shanghai SIPG in the coming back match. The tactics, performance and substitutions were all chaotic. The manager Ma Lin even used six defenders after conceding 5 goals, but still too weak for SIPG's oppressing tactics. Ma Lin himself had already experienced a similar 8-1 defeat in the previous season with Liaoning FC against Shanghai Shenhua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, March\nIn the following two matches, Ma Lin used conservative 5-defender formation, putting Carrasco in the central forward position and fed him with long passes, but the results were unsatisfactory, as the team was still totally suppressed by the opponents. Nicolas Gait\u00e1n suffered a minor concussion during the match against Beijing Guoan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, March\nThe team made contact with Bernd Schuster to replace Ma Lin during the short break of the FIFA Calendar in late March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, April\nOn 3 April, Yifang announced that Zhou Jun, who had been working for Shanghai Shenhua since 2006, will be appointed as the chairman after his resignation at Shenhua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, April\nSchuster focused on ball possession and passing. He used more young players than the U-23 policy required, which was seldom seen in other teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, April\nYifang won the first match this season against Liaoning FC in the FA Cup. The team claimed that they will focus on the FA Cup, despite the fact that Yifang constantly struggled in the relegation area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, May\nYifang defeated Chongqing Dangdai by Sun Bo's long drive to enter the FA Cup quarter-finals on 2 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, May\nOn 5 May, Yifang surprisingly overpowered the seven-time league champion Guangzhou Evergrande by 3-0, which was also the first league victory back in the Super League. Nyasha Mushekwi proved himself during this match, scoring 2 goals and gained a penalty as the starting striker. With the limitation of 3 foreign players in the line-up, he replaced Jos\u00e9 Fonte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, May\nOn 20 May, Yifang won the critical relegation match against Guizhou Hengfeng. Since Schuster's arrival, the team remain undefeated at home stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, May\nOn 27 May, Jia Xiuquan was appointed as the club's youth training chief inspector.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, Summer Break\nThe 2018 Chinese Super League came to pause longer than usual, from the end of May until July, in consider of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Jos\u00e9 Fonte and Yannick Carrasco entered the final squad to play for their respective national teams. Schuster claimed to improve the team during this period, while the club would seek for new players, especially defensive ones, to improve the squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, Summer Break\nYifang U-19 youth team entered the final round of the U-19 FA Cup, but was defeated 3-4 (0-0) by Jiangsu Suning U-19 in penalty shootout on 28 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, Summer Break\nThe team moved to Madrid, Spain for summer training from 8 June until 29 June. Leung Nok Hang, Duvier Riascos and a few young players had trials with the team. Mate Male\u0161 left to join CFR Cluj. Wang Wanpeng signed loan contract to another local team Dalian Transcendence. On 21 June, Yifang signed Duvier Riascos for one and a half years on a free transfer, as well as Qin Sheng on a half-year loan from Shanghai Shenhua, then extended the contract with Nyasha Mushekwi for two years. Upon their return to China, Yifang signed Jin Pengxiang from Beijing Guoan on a half year loan. Fonte would terminate the contract with the club, as Riascos will take his position as foreign player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, July\nYifang started the second half of the season with 5-0 aggregate victory against China League Two team Sichuan Jiuniu in the FA cup, to enter the semi-finals. Cui Ming'an scored a volley from outside the box in the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, July\nHowever, the team did not gained victory in the league since their return as multiple players could not attend the match. Wang Yaopeng, Zhu Ting, Li Shuai and Zhou Ting all had muscle issues, while Carrasco did not return until 31 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, August\nYifang lost 3 games in a row until the August 1 match against Changchun Yatai. Yang Shanping received a red card as soon as the game started. Li Shuai was called up for China U23 squad to prepare for the 2018 Asian Games, and Yifang gained advantage of using 1 less U23 player than required until 10 August. The losing streak was terminated by a successful 1-0 home revenge to Shanghai SIPG on 5 August. Carrasco scored the only goal after returning from the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, August\nZhu Xiaogang received a severe 6-match suspension for giving the finger to Shanghai SIPG players after the match. Shortly after, Nyasha Mushekwi scored the first and only hat trick in squad this season, to beat Guangzhou R&F by 3-0, but would miss the next match for accumulating 4 yellow cards. This victory brought Yifang out of the relegation area for the first time this season. Yifang defeated relegation opponent Henan Jianye by 2-1. Although Zhang Chong made a crucial mistake to give Ricardo Vaz Te a gift goal, Mushekwi scored twice to bring the team back to life. Much controversy appeared as Schuster used regular startups in the FA cup match against Shandong Luneng, that the team's performance would be limited by frequent fixtures. Yifang obtained a 1-1 away draw from another relegation opponent, Chongqing Dangdai, on 25 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 893]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, August\nNoticeably, on 12 August, FIFA ordered Iraqi club Al-Shorta SC to pay a final $805,000-worth compensation to Yifang. Al-Shorta signed Nashat Akram in 2014 from Dalian Aerbin, but Akram left Aerbin without permission, and FIFA's decided the transfer had violated the rules. FIFA informed the club previously in March, but the club failed to pay the requested $790 thousand at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, September\nYifang scored 4 goals for the first time this season to claim the 4-3 victory against Shandong Luneng. Jin Qiang scored for the first time since the match against Hunan Billows on 25 July 2015. Zhou Ting broke the record of the oldest player to score in the Chinese Super League by the age of 39 years and 208 days, which he had broke before by the age 36 years and 94 days during the 2015 season for Beijing Guoan against Changchun Yatai on 10 May 2015. Carrasco would play for Belgium in the UEFA Nations League. Mushekwi returned to Zimbabwe, but would miss the 2019 AFCON qualification, because he had had a lot of pain in the pelvis area, and would go for a planned examination in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, September\nThe September 15 match against Tianjin Quanjian would be played one day in advance, in consider that Quanjian's AFC championship home match against J1 League team Kashima Antlers on 18 September was moved to Macau due to multiple concerns. With Li Shuai's first goal in his professional career, Yifang won the first away 3-point from Quanjian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, September\nYifang continued the winning streak after defeating Shanghai Shenhua by 2-1. Mushekwi scored twice, including a volley near the goal area. He and Carrasco however, were not chosen for the FA cup away match in Shandong on 25 September, as Yifang headed for exit in the FA cup semi-finals by conceding 3 goals, and was unable to break the 2013 record, when Aerbin lost both matches against Guizhou Moutai in the semi-finals. Although Yifang lost the away match in Guangdong, their points had reached a safer position through September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, October\nChinese Football Association called up a training squad consists of 55 players, from 8 October until 31 December, including Li Shuai, Wang Yaopeng and Wang Jinxian, after released a file previously on 30 September, indicating that Yifang was capable to neglect the U-23 policy from October. These 3 players would miss the rest league matches this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, October\nYifang claimed another home victory against Suning. Mushekwi scored twice again, in addition to a free-kick goal from Carrasco, who would miss the next match for accumulating 4 yellow cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, October\nAs for the 20 October lost in Guizhou, Zhang Chong achieved, as the team officially recorded, his 100th appearance under the team name of Dalian Yifang, since Yifang took actual control of Dalian Aerbin F.C. in July 2015. Qin Sheng strained his muscle in the match, bringing further difficulties to the team's defense line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, October\nYifang lost 2-3 to Hebei CFFC, with Riascos and Cui Ming'an both scored from outside the box. Mushekwi was unable to play as the doctor recommended, and would have a surgery in Madrid to treat the problem that stalked him for the entire season some time later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, October\nOn 26 October, a football forum was held in Bangchui Island Hotel, Dalian. Wang Jianlin, potential owner of Yifang, attended the forum, together with the city mayor, a few CFA officials, and owners of other football clubs in Dalian, to discuss about future development of local football. This was strongly believed to be a sign, that Wanda would officially take over the team in the 2019 season, as they did some 24 years ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, November\nYifang's November started with another critical loss. Zhu Ting scored his first goal in 2018 season, but Zhang Chong made a Karius-like mistake, by throwing the ball directly to Cao Yongjing, thus ruined the match. Moreover, Yifang lost the following desperate match to Tianjin TEDA. The 4-match losing streak pushed Yifang to the brink of relegation. Mushekwi scored his 50th goal at Yifang, but had a heavy collision later with TEDA goalkeeper Yang Qipeng. He bravely volunteered to resume playing after a short faint, but was eventually substituted off. Later inspection indicated that he suffered potential cervical vertebra injury, to miss the next match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Overview, November\nThe last round of 2018 season on 11 November saw a desperate situation, as Yifang, Tianjin TEDA, Changchun Yatai and Chongqing Dangdai were identical 32 points. Any loss or draw would lead to large relegation possibilities, Yifang have to win the game to ensure safety. Yatai striker Odion Ighalo was unable to play due to injuries, while Qin Sheng returned in time. With Riascos's header and Carrasco's killer shot near the goal line, the season-highest 51,666 fans watched Yifang safely ranked 11th as the 2018 Chinese Super League reached its final moments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Squad, Current Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Squad, Reserve squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278537-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Dalian Yifang F.C. season, Chinese Super League, League fixtures and results\nFixtures as of 13 February 2018. Might be adjusted if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season\nThe 2018 season was the Dallas Cowboys' 59th in the National Football League (NFL), their 30th under the ownership of Jerry Jones, their 10th playing their home games at AT&T Stadium, and their eighth full season under head coach Jason Garrett. AT&T Stadium also became the first stadium venue to host the annual draft. For the first time since 2009, wide receiver Dez Bryant was not on the opening day roster, as he was released on April 13, 2018 and later signed with the New Orleans Saints on November 7, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season\nFor the first time since 2002, tight end Jason Witten was not on the opening day roster, having announced his retirement on May 3, 2018. For the first time since 2010, kicker Dan Bailey was not on the opening day roster, as he was released on September 1, 2018 and later signed with the Minnesota Vikings on September 17, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season\nThe Cowboys clinched the NFC East division following a Week 16 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and a week later, improved their 9\u20137 record from the previous season with a win over the New York Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season\nIn the playoffs, the Cowboys defeated the Seattle Seahawks 24\u201322 in the Wild Card round and advanced to the Divisional round, where they lost to the eventual NFC champion Los Angeles Rams 22\u201330, suffering both their 6th straight Divisional playoff defeat and 8th straight road playoff loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season\nAs of 2021, this is the team's last playoff appearance and winning season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Carolina Panthers\nDespite a strong showing from the defense, the Cowboys offense only managed to get 8 points and fumbled late in the game, allowing the Panthers to run out the clock. This loss would start the Cowboys season at 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. New York Giants\nDak Prescott threw his first touchdown pass of the year to Tavon Austin from 64 yards out on the 3rd play of the game. Ezekiel Elliott rushed for his second touchdown of the year. Brett Maher made his first two field goals as a Cowboy. The defense recorded 6 sacks and a fumble recovery. This win improved the Cowboys to 1-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Seattle Seahawks\nThe Cowboys struggled in almost all aspects. Dak Prescott threw 2 interceptions and Ezekiel Elliott had a fumble late in the game. The only highlight was a Tavon Austin touchdown. This loss dropped the Cowboys to 1\u20132 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Detroit Lions\nThe Cowboys bounced back from the previous week. Elliott totaled 240 yards and a touchdown. Prescott had 2 passing touchdowns. Geoff Swaim scored the first touchdown of his career. Maher went 4/4 on field goals, including a 38-yarder that won the game as time expired. This win improved the Cowboys to 2\u20132 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Houston Texans\nThe Cowboys controversially punted in overtime and allowed the Texans to take the ball down the field and win the game. This loss dropped the Cowboys to 2\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nThe Cowboys found their winning ways and got back on track after losing the previous week. The defense got after Blake Bortles and only yielded 7 points. Cole Beasley put up 101 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns. The offense dominated the entire game, and scored 40 points off one of the league's best defenses. This win improved the Cowboys to 3\u20133 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Washington Redskins\nBrett Maher attempted to kick a 52-yard field goal in the dying seconds to tie the game, but it hit the left upright. This loss dropped them to 3\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Tennessee Titans\nThis was Amari Cooper's first game as a Cowboy as he was traded from the Oakland Raiders for a first-round pick, but the Titans pulled away late and won the game. This loss dropped them to 3\u20135 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Tennessee Titans\nThis was also Jason Witten's first return to AT&T Stadium. Witten played as a tight-end for the Dallas Cowboys for some part of the 2000s and much of the 2010s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Philadelphia Eagles\nIn desperate need of a road win to keep their season alive, the game began with Leighton Vander Esch picking off Carson Wentz. The game would be neck-to-neck without the Cowboys trailing. As they led 27\u201320 on the last play, the ball was lateraled to Golden Tate, but was stopped in progress to allow the Cowboys to win. This win not only improved them to 4\u20135, but it also improved their chances of being contenders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Atlanta Falcons\nBrett Maher kicked a game-winning field goal as time expired. The Cowboys improved to 5\u20135 with this win. Rookie linebacker Leighton Vander Esch put up a stellar performance with his 2nd interception in two weeks, which set up a crucial Ezekiel Elliott touchdown run. This was the Cowboys first win over the Falcons since 2009, and first in Atlanta since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Washington Redskins\nThe Cowboys got revenge on their division rivals during the game. Dak Prescott connected with Amari Cooper for a 90-yard catch and run touchdown in the third quarter. With the win, the Cowboys moved to 6-5 and gained possession of first place in the NFC East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. New Orleans Saints\nThe Cowboys defense shut down Drew Brees and the Saints red hot offense, limiting their offense to a season low 10 points and upsetting the Saints. Jourdan Lewis made the game-clinching interception with only 2:08 left to play in 4th quarter to seal the victory. This win improved the Cowboys to 7\u20135 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nAfter a grueling back-and-forth match, the Cowboys won in overtime. This was their 1st overtime victory since the 2016 season, which was, coincidentally, also a 29\u201323 home win against the Eagles. Brett Maher made a successful 62-yard field goal attempt, which was a franchise record for Dallas and tied for the third longest in NFL history. Amari Cooper had his best game as a Cowboy thus far, catching 10 passes for 217 yards and 3 touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nWith the win, the Cowboys improved to 8\u20135, extended their lead in the NFC East to 2 games, and swept the Eagles for the first time since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Indianapolis Colts\nThe Cowboys were shut out for the first time since 2003, the offense couldn't keep up with the Colts defense. This loss dropped the Cowboys to 8\u20136 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nThe Cowboys bounced back at home against the Buccaneers. Jaylon Smith made the highlight play of the game, recovering a fumble from Jameis Winston and returning it 69 yards for a touchdown. With this win, the Cowboys improved to 9\u20136 on the season and clinched the NFC East for the third time in 5 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 93], "content_span": [94, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at New York Giants\nThe Cowboys earned a hard-fought win. The defense picked off two passes from Eli Manning while forcing a fumble for a turnover. Blake Jarwin had the best game of his career, accounting for 3 of the Cowboys' touchdowns. The Cowboys won the game after a game-winning touchdown pass from Dak Prescott to Cole Beasley along with the ensuing 2-point conversion from Prescott to Michael Gallup. With this win, the Cowboys finished 10\u20136. This marks the first time the Cowboys have recorded 3 consecutive winning seasons since they did so from 2007 to 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Postseason, NFC Wild Card Playoffs: vs. (5) Seattle Seahawks\nThe Dallas Cowboys received the ball first after the Seattle Seahawks chose to defer during the coin toss. The resulting drive ended in a Brett Maher 39 yard field goal. The next three drives for both teams ended in punts. However, the Seahawks responded with a 27-yard Sebastian Janikowski field goal, thanks to 66 yards passing by Russell Wilson on the drive. After a missed 57 yard field goal by Maher, Seattle responded by a Janikowski 42 yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Postseason, NFC Wild Card Playoffs: vs. (5) Seattle Seahawks\nDallas responded by a 75-yard drive which culminated in an 11-yard touchdown pass by Dak Prescott to Michael Gallup to lead 10\u20136. After both teams exchanged punts twice, Russell Wilson ran 4 yards into the end zone and converted a two-point conversion to lead the Cowboys 14\u201310. The Cowboys responded with an Ezekiel Elliott 1 yard touchdown run to retake the lead 17\u201314. After another Dallas touchdown drive, highlighted by a 16-yard Prescott scramble at 3rd-and-14 followed by Prescott scoring on a 1-yard run, Seattle responded with a touchdown and two-point conversion to narrow Dallas's lead to 24\u201322. The Cowboys sealed the game when Cole Beasley recovered an onside kick attempt of the Seahawks with only 1:17 left in the game. Ezekiel Elliott totaled a combined 169 yards both through the air and on the ground and also scored a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 936]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Postseason, NFC Wild Card Playoffs: vs. (5) Seattle Seahawks\nWith this win, the Cowboys won their first playoff game since 2014 and advanced to the divisional round. This is also the first playoff victory of the Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Postseason, NFC Wild Card Playoffs: vs. (5) Seattle Seahawks\nThe only sour note on a good Dallas win was a serious leg injury to wide receiver Allen Hurns halfway through the first quarter, suffered after a reception when he was tackled by Seahawks safety Bradley McDougald. Hurns was carted off the field and taken straight to a hospital. After the game, general manager Jerry Jones told the media that Hurns had broken his ankle and fibula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278538-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cowboys season, Postseason, NFC Divisional Playoffs: at (2) Los Angeles Rams\nThe Cowboys defense couldn't contain the Rams' offense. Ezekiel Elliott only got 47 rushing yards. With this loss, the Cowboys season ended. This also extended their streak of road playoff losses to 8 in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278539-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Cup\nThe 2018 Dallas Cup, known as the Dr Pepper Dallas Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the thirty-ninth edition of a youth football competition held in the United States. Competitions were held at every age from U13s to U19s. The U14 and U19 levels also had additional competitions, known as the U14s UDN and the Gordon Jago Supergroup respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278540-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Fuel season\nThe 2018 Dallas Fuel season was the first season of the Dallas Fuel's existence in the Overwatch League. The roster and staff of Team Envy was transferred to the Dallas Fuel on October 5, 2017. Dallas qualified for the Stage 4 Playoffs, but lost in the semifinals to the New York Excelsior. The team finished with a regular season record of 12\u201328 placing them tenth overall and did not qualify for the Season Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278540-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Fuel season, Preceding offseason\nOn September 20, 2017, Blizzard officially announced that Envy Gaming had acquired the Dallas-based Overwatch League franchise spot, consisting of the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278540-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Fuel season, Preceding offseason\nOn October 27, Fuel signed support player Scott \"Custa\" Kennedy. One day later, the team signed main tank player F\u00e9lix \"xQc\" Lengyel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278540-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Fuel season, Regular season, Review\nFuel's first regular season match resulted in a 1\u20132 loss to Seoul Dynasty. They would struggle for the remainder of Stage 1 and end up finishing with a 3\u20137 record in 10th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278540-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Fuel season, Regular season, Review\nBetween Stages 1 and 2, the Fuel acquired DPS players Dylan \"aKm\" Bignet and Kim \"Rascal\" Dong-jun from free agency and the London Spitfire, respectively. During this stage, main tank player xQc was suspended on multiple occasions for various issues. The Fuel finished the stage in 11th place with a 2\u20138 record. After the stage ended, the Fuel released xQc, citing flexibility for additional signings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278540-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Fuel season, Regular season, Review\nPrior to Stage 3, the team announced the signing of tank player Son \"OGE\" Min-Seok. Early in the stage, head coach KyKy and DPS player Rascal would be released after some in fighting between the two. The team's only victory in the stage was over the winless Shanghai Dragons, making their stage record 1\u20139. Also, following periodical absences during the season, EFFECT announced he would not be participating for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278540-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Fuel season, Regular season, Review\nThe team signed Fusion University head coach Aaron \"Aero\" Atkins before the fourth stage began. The Fuel would go on to achieve a season-high 6 wins, including victories against top-6 opponents the Valiant, Uprising, Spitfire, and Fusion. The record would be good enough for a 4th-place finish and the team's first ever stage playoffs berth. In the stage semi-finals, the team would lose 2\u20133 against back-to-back stage champions New York Excelsior, the match marking the end of their season, as they would finish in 10th place with a record of 12\u201328. On August 26, Mickie, OGE, and Seagull were announced to represent the Fuel in the All-Star Game during the league's All-Star Weekend, however, Seagull announced his retirement before the game and was subsequently replaced by Los Angeles Gladiators tank player Bischu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 867]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278540-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Fuel season, Final roster, Transactions\nTransactions of/for players on the roster during the 2018 regular season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278541-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Rattlers season\nThe 2018 Dallas Rattlers season is the sixteenth season for the Rattlers franchise of Major League Lacrosse, and first season the team will play in Frisco, Texas after relocating from Rochester, New York. The league made the move official on November 16, 2017 and also announced that Tim Soudan would not be returning as head coach. Instead, longtime assistant coach Bill Warder would be named the team's fourth head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278541-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Rattlers season\nThe Rattlers made themselves right at home in their new market. The team finished first place in the league at 11\u20133, and also had a 6\u20131 record at Ford Center at The Star. Five of their seven home games were decided by only one goal. The Rattlers hosted their formal in-state rival in the New York Lizards on August 11 in the league semifinal game, where the Rattlers defeated the Lizards 15\u201312. The next week in Charleston, South Carolina, the team was defeated by the Denver Outlaws in the 2018 Steinfeld Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278542-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Wings season\nThe 2018 WNBA season will be the 21st season for the Dallas Wings franchise of the WNBA. This will be the franchise's 3rd season in Dallas. The season tips off on May 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278542-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Wings season\nDallas had an up and down start to the season, posting a 2\u20133 record in May followed by a 5\u20134 record in June. However all but one of these seven losses came to eventual playoff teams. The team posted an 8\u20135 record in July, including winning 7 of 8 games in the middle of the month. The three straight losses at the end of the month were the beginning of a nine-game losing streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278542-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Wings season\nIn the midst of that losing streak, on August 12, 2018 the Wings fired their head coach Fred Williams. The team had a 14\u201317 record and was in the 8th and final playoff spot at the time of firing. Assistant Coach Taj McWilliams-Franklin was named the interim head coach for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278542-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dallas Wings season\nMcWilliams-Franklin posted a 1\u20132 record in her three games in charge. This saw the Wings finish 1\u20137 in August. However, the one win was an important one. The win was against the Las Vegas Aces, the Wing's playoff rivals. The Wings secured the 8th seed in the 2018 WNBA Playoffs by one game over the Aces. The team lost to the 5th seeded Phoenix Mercury 83\u2013101 in the first round of the playoffs to end their season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278543-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dally M Awards\nThe 2018 Dally M Awards was presented on Wednesday 26 September 2018. They are the official annual awards of the National Rugby League and are named after Dally Messenger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278543-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dally M Awards, Dally M Awards\nThe Dally M Awards are, as usual, conducted at the close of the regular season and hence do not take games played in the finals series into account. The Dally M Medal is for the official player of the year while the Provan-Summons Medal is for the fans' of \"people's choice\" player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278544-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Damallsvenskan\nThe 2018 Damallsvenskan was the 30th season of the Swedish women's association football top division, Damallsvenskan. It began on 14 April 2018 and ended on 27 October the same year. Link\u00f6pings FC were the defending champions, having won the competition in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278544-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Damallsvenskan\nPite\u00e5 IF won the series, and so also their first Swedish National Championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278544-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Damallsvenskan, Teams\nNote: 1 According to each club information page at the Swedish Football Association website for Damallsvenskan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278545-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Danish Cup Final\nThe 2018 Danish Cup final was played on 10 May 2018 between Br\u00f8ndby IF and Silkeborg IF at Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, a neutral ground. The final was the culmination of the 2017\u201318 Danish Cup, the 64th season of the Danish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278545-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Danish Cup Final\nBr\u00f8ndby IF won their seventh Danish Cup title after defeating Silkeborg IF 3\u20131, earning themselves a place in the second qualifying round of the 2018\u201319 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278545-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Danish Cup Final, Venue\nAll Cup Finals except the 1991 final (Odense Stadium) and 1992 final (Aarhus Idr\u00e6tspark) have been played in the Copenhagen Sports Park (1955-1990), or Parken Stadium (1993-present)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278545-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Danish Cup Final, Background\nThe Superliga clubs Br\u00f8ndby IF and Silkeborg IF contested the final, with the winner earning a place in the second qualifying round of the 2018\u201319 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278545-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Danish Cup Final, Background\nBr\u00f8ndby competed in its second consecutive final after losing to F.C. Copenhagen in 2017 and their eighth in total. Silkeborg IF made its first finals appearance since 2001 and their second overall. Both clubs lost in their previous final appearances. The two teams had never previously met in a Danish Cup final, and Br\u00f8ndby has won both meetings during the regular season of the 2017-18 Danish Superliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278545-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Danish Cup Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278546-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Danish Darts Open\nThe 2018 Danish Darts Open was the eighth of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Br\u00f8ndbyhallen, Copenhagen, Denmark from 22\u201324 June 2018. It featured a field of 48 players and \u00a3135,000 in prize money, with \u00a325,000 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278546-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Danish Darts Open\nMensur Suljovi\u0107 won his second European Tour title, defeating Simon Whitlock 8\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278546-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Danish Darts Open\nThis was the first PDC European Tour event to be held in Scandinavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278546-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Danish Darts Open, Prize money\nPrize money will count towards the PDC Order of Merit, the ProTour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit, with one exception: should a seeded player lose in the second round (last 32), their prize money will not count towards any Orders of Merit, although they still receive the full prize money payment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278546-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Danish Darts Open, Qualification and format\nThe top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 11 May will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278546-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Danish Darts Open, Qualification and format\nThe remaining 32 places will go to players from five qualifying events \u2013 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Milton Keynes on 18 May), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 7 June), two from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 21 June), two from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (excluding Danish players, held on 21 June), one from the East European Qualifier (held on 25 February), and one to the highest ranked PDCNB player on the PDC Order of Merit on 30 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping\nOn February 19, 2018 at 5:30 pm, 110 schoolgirls aged 11\u201319 years old were kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group from the Government Girls' Science and Technical College (GGSTC). Dapchi is located in Bulabulin, Yunusari Local Government area of Yobe State, in the northeast part of Nigeria. The Federal Government of Nigeria deployed the Nigerian Air Force and other security agencies to search for the missing schoolgirls and to hopefully enable their return. The governor of Yobe State, Ibrahim Gaidam, blamed Nigerian Army soldiers for having removed a military checkpoint from the town. Dapchi lies approximately 275\u00a0km (170 miles) northwest of Chibok, where over 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping\nFive schoolgirls died on the same day of their kidnapping; Boko Haram released everyone else in March 2018, save the lone Christian girl Leah Sharibu who refused to convert to Islam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping, Controversies, Military withdrawal shortly before kidnapping\nIbrahim Geidam, the governor of Yobe State, has complained about the withdrawal of army troops from Dapchi allegedly just hours before the abduction, without informing either the local police or the state government in advance. Initially, the army remained silent regarding this complaint. Days later the army made seemingly contradictory claims attempting to explain its withdrawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 96], "content_span": [97, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping, Controversies, Military withdrawal shortly before kidnapping\nThe army claimed that it had withdrawn its forces from the town due to the absence of evidence of any Boko Haram activity in the general vicinity and that at the time, it had formally handed over Dapchi's security to the police before its withdrawal. In an army intelligence document obtained by the Sahara-Reporters group dated Feb. 6, 2018, an army general expressed concern regarding a possible imminent Boko Haram attack in adjacent Damaturu, 60 miles away, thus calling into question the army's earlier assertion that it had good reason to believe that Boko Haram had left the general vicinity. The Yobe state police commissioner strongly denied the army's claim that his department had been formally informed by the army of the army's withdrawal, and no proof of any such police notification was provided by the army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 96], "content_span": [97, 920]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping, Controversies, Uncertainty regarding number of abductees\nInitially the Yobe governor stated that 94 schoolgirls were kidnapped from the school and that 48 had returned to their parents and that only 46 are still missing. While, Bashir Manzo, the chairman of the Forum of Missing Dapchi Schoolgirls Parents said that 105 girls were missing. The police commissioner of Yobe, Abdulmaliki Sunmonu said that 111 schoolgirls were missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 92], "content_span": [93, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping, Controversies, Comparison to Chibok kidnapping\nAs in the recent Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping, so too in the Dapchi kidnapping, the Nigerian government took days to respond at all, and then responded with several assurances that the kidnappers would be promptly apprehended and that all of the girls would soon be returned safely to their homes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping, Controversies, Comparison to Chibok kidnapping\nIn the Chibok event, four years later still approximately a third of the abductees remained in the hands of Boko Haram, with those girls who have been released, for the most part having been released via ransom payments, and with only one low-level kidnapper having been apprehended and standing trial to date (Mar. 5, 2018). Meanwhile, Boko Haram continues to enrich itself via the millions of dollars thus far paid to it by the Nigerian government in the form of ransom payments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping, Reactions\nThe Nigerian Bar Association urged the Federal Government to suspend boarding schools in Northeast Nigeria. Parents and villagers of Dapchi narrated how the kidnapping occurred and urged the Nigerian government to help them bring back their girls unharmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping, Release\nOn 21 March 2018 the Federal government of Nigeria announced that Boko Haram terrorists had returned 106 of the kidnapped children, including 104 girls who went to school, one girl who did not and a boy. Leah Sharibu wasn't released and her parents told Agence France-Presse that the group would only release her if she converted to Islam. The group dropped them off in the town in nine vehicles. Information minister Lai Mohammed stated that the release was unconditional. But days later, the United Nation stated in its report that the government had paid a huge ransom for the release.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping, Release\nThe fighters after releasing the girls warned their parents not to put them in school again. Some of the kidnapped girls stated that five of the schoolgirls had died on the same day they were kidnapped by the terrorist group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping, Leah Sharibu\nLeah Sharibu, a Christian schoolgirl aged fourteen at the time of her capture, is the only remaining Dapichi schoolgirl still held hostage. After the others were released, some told The Guardian newspaper that Sharibu had previously escaped from her abductors, but was intercepted and returned to her abductors by a nomadic Fulani family. Sharibu was reportedly not released along with the other children, because she refused to convert to Islam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping, Leah Sharibu\nAccording to Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Sharibu subsequently was given to a Boko Haram fighter as a slave. In August 2018 an audio was released of Sharibu pleading for her freedom. In October 2018 her parents revealed that Boko Haram had threatened to kill her later that month, should the government not meet their demands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping, Leah Sharibu\nIn February 2019 social media reports circulated about her death, but were dismissed by the government as politically motivated disinformation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping, Leah Sharibu\nAfter spending almost two years in captivity, in January 2020, many news outlets widely reported that Sharibu had given birth to a baby boy after being forcefully converted to Islam and married off to a Boko Haram commander. Her father, Nathan Sharibu dismissed the report saying that he would not want to hear such news.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278547-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping, Leah Sharibu\nMany sources later reported that she gave birth to a second child late in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278548-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Darling Range state by-election\nA Darling Range state by-election for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Darling Range was held on 23 June 2018 following the resignation of Barry Urban on 8 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278548-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Darling Range state by-election\nWon by Labor for the first time in the seat's history at the landslide 2017 state election, the Liberals regained the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278548-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Darling Range state by-election, Background\nFollowing a large 19 percent two-party swing, Barry Urban was the first ever Labor candidate to be elected to the previously safe Liberal seat of Darling Range in the seat's 64 year history at the landslide state election in March 2017. In November 2017, Urban resigned from Labor and moved to the crossbench to sit as an independent, after questions were raised about his academic claims and his wearing an overseas police service medal he had not been awarded. Urban was referred to the procedures and privileges committee, which in May 2018 recommended his expulsion from the Legislative Assembly for contempt of parliament and misleading the House. Urban resigned immediately after the committee's report was released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278548-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Darling Range state by-election, Background\nLabor originally selected Colleen Yates as its candidate for the by-election. However, on 24 May 2018, Yates announced that she would withdraw from the race, after reporters discovered that she had incorrectly claimed multiple university degrees which she had never obtained on her LinkedIn profile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278548-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Darling Range state by-election, Results\nNinety-two minutes after polling booths closed, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Antony Green called the by-election for the Liberals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278549-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dartmouth Big Green football team\nThe 2018 Dartmouth Big Green football team represented Dartmouth College in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League. The Big Green were led by head coach Buddy Teevens in his 14th straight year and 19th overall. They played their home games at Memorial Field. They finished the season 9\u20131 overall and 6\u20131 in Ivy League play to place second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278549-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dartmouth Big Green football team, Previous season\nThe Big Green finished the 2017 season 8\u20132, 5\u20132 in Ivy League play to finish in a tie for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278549-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dartmouth Big Green football team, Schedule\nThe 2018 schedule consisted of five home games and five away games. The Big Green hosted Ivy League foes Penn, Harvard, and Brown, and traveled to Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Cornell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278549-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dartmouth Big Green football team, Schedule\nDartmouth's non-conference opponents were Georgetown and Holy Cross of the Patriot League, and Sacred Heart of the Northeast Conference. Homecoming coincided with the game against Harvard on October 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278550-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Darwin Tennis International\nThe 2018 Darwin Tennis International was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Men's Circuit and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Darwin, Australia, on 24\u201330 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278550-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Darwin Tennis International, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278550-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Darwin Tennis International, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278550-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Darwin Tennis International, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw by a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278551-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Darwin Tennis International \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMaria Fernanda Alves and Samantha Murray were the defending champions having won the previous edition in 2011, however both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278551-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Darwin Tennis International \u2013 Women's Doubles\nRutuja Bhosale and Hiroko Kuwata won the title, defeating Kimberly Birrell and Katy Dunne in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278552-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Darwin Tennis International \u2013 Women's Singles\nCasey Dellacqua was the defending champion having won the previous edition in 2011, however she had retired from professional tennis in April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278552-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Darwin Tennis International \u2013 Women's Singles\nKimberly Birrell won the title, defeating Ellen Perez in an all-Australian final, 6\u20133, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278553-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Darwin Triple Crown\nThe 2018 Darwin Triple Crown (formally known as 2018 CrownBet Darwin Triple Crown) was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on the weekend of 15-17 June 2018. The event was held at Hidden Valley Raceway near Darwin in the Northern Territory and consisted of two races, 120 and 200 kilometres in length. It was the seventh event of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 15 and 16 of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278554-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davao Aguilas F.C. season\nThe 2018 season was Davao Aguilas Football Club's 2nd in existence and the 2nd season in the top flight of Philippine football. The club participated in the Philippines Football League and Copa Paulino Alcantara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278555-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davao Occidental Tigers season\nThe 2018 Davao Occidental Tigers season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278556-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Daventry District Council election\nThe 2018 Daventry District Council election were held on Thursday 3 May 2018 to elect members of Daventry District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278556-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Daventry District Council election\nThis was to be the final elections for Daventry District Council due to the poor running of Northamptonshire County Council by the local Conservative Party leading to new unitary authorities for the county being proposed. The Caller Report into the running of Northamptonshire County Council suggested that any elections currently scheduled for 2019 be abandoned and elections for the new authorities held in May 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278556-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Daventry District Council election\nThe make up of the council after the elections was 30 Conservative councillors, 5 Labour councillors and 1 Liberal Democrat councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278557-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davidson Wildcats football team\nThe 2018 Davidson Wildcats football team represented Davidson College in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Scott Abell and played their home games at Richardson Stadium. They were members of the Pioneer Football League (PFL). They finished the season 6\u20135, 3\u20135 in PFL play to finish in sixth place. Davidson finished 2018 ranked #1 in the FCS for total offense, averaging 561.9 yards per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278557-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davidson Wildcats football team, Previous season\nThe Wildcats finished the 2017 season 2\u20139, 0\u20138 in PFL play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278557-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Davidson Wildcats football team, Previous season\nOn November 27, head coach Paul Nichols was fired. He finished at Davidson with a five-year record of 7\u201343.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278557-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Davidson Wildcats football team, Preseason, Preseason All-PFL team\nThe PFL released their preseason all-PFL team on July 30, 2018, with the Wildcats having one player selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278557-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Davidson Wildcats football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe PFL released their preseason coaches poll on July 31, 2018, with the Wildcats predicted to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278558-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup\nThe 2018 Davis Cup was the 107th edition of the Davis Cup, a tournament between national teams in men's tennis. It was sponsored by BNP Paribas. In 2018, new rules were introduced for the Group I and II zonal events, with ties now being played as best-of-three sets over the course of two days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278558-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup\nCroatia won their second Davis Cup on indoor clay in the final match held at 25 November with a 3\u20131 win over France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278558-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup, World Group Play-offs\nThe eight losing teams in the World Group first round ties and eight winners of the Zonal Group I final round ties will compete in the World Group Play-offs for seeded spots in the 2019 Qualifying Round. Seedings are based on Davis Cup rankings as of 9 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 37], "content_span": [38, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278558-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup, Americas Zone, Group I\nSeeds: The first seed received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278558-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup, Americas Zone, Group III\nFormat: Round-robin basis. The winner of Pool A will play-off against the runner-up of Pool B and the winner of Pool B will play-off against the runner-up of Pool A to determine which two nations will advance to Americas Zone Group II in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278558-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup, Asia/Oceania Zone, Group I\nSeeds: All seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278558-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup, Asia/Oceania Zone, Group III\nFormat: Round-robin basis. One pool of 4 teams (Pool A) and one pool of 5 teams (Pool B). The winner of Pool A will play-off against the runner-up of Pool B and the winner of Pool B will play-off against the runner-up of Pool A to determine which two nations will be promoted to Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278558-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup, Asia/Oceania Zone, Group IV\nFormat: Round-robin basis. Two pools of six teams. The winner of Pool A will play-off against the runner-up in Pool B and the winner of Pool B will play-off against the runner-up in Pool A to determine which two nations will be promoted to Asia/Oceania Zone Group III in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278558-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup, Europe/Africa Zone, Group I\nSeeds: All seeds and \u00a0Bosnia and Herzegovina received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278558-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup, Europe/Africa Zone, Group III Europe\nLocation 1: Tennis Club Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (clay) Location 2: Ulcinj Bellevue, Ulcinj, Montenegro (clay)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278558-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup, Europe/Africa Zone, Group III Europe\nFormat: Round-robin basis. Two pools of four teams at each venue. The winners of each pool play-off against each other to determine which nation will be promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2019. Two promoted - one from each venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278558-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup, Europe/Africa Zone, Group III Africa\nFormat: Round-robin basis. One pool of four teams (Pool A) and one pool of five teams (Pool B). The winners of each pool play-off against each other to determine which two nations are promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278559-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Africa Zone Group III\nThe Africa Zone was the unique zone within Group 3 of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2018. The zone's competition was held in round robin format in Nairobi, Kenya, from 18 to 23 June 2018. The two winning nations won promotion to Group II, Europe/Africa Zone, for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278559-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Africa Zone Group III, Draw\nFormat: Round-robin basis. One pool of four teams (Pool A) and one pool of five teams (Pool B). The winners of each pool play-off against each other to determine which two nations are promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278559-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Africa Zone Group III, Draw, Pool B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Davis Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278560-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group I\nThe Americas Zone is one of the three regional zones of the 2018 Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278560-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group I\nIn the Americas Zone there are three different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group I advanced to the World Group Play-offs, along with losing teams from the World Group first round. Teams who lost their respective ties competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group I, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Americas Zone Group II in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278560-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group I, Participating nations\nSeeds: The first seed received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278561-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group II\nThe Americas Zone is one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278561-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group II\nIn the Americas Zone there are three different tiers, called groups, in which teams compete against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group II advance to the Americas Zone Group I. Teams who lose their respective ties will compete in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group II, whereas teams who lose their play-offs will be relegated to the Americas Zone Group III in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278562-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III\nThe Americas Zone was the unique zone within Group 3 of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2018. The zone's competition was held in round robin format in Escaz\u00fa, Costa Rica, from 28 May to 2 June 2018. The two winning nations won promotion to Group II, Americas Zone, for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278562-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III, Draw\nFormat: Round-robin basis. The winner of Pool A will play-off against the runner-up of Pool B and the winner of Pool B will play-off against the runner-up of Pool A to determine which two nations will advance to Americas Zone Group II in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 44], "content_span": [45, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278562-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III, Draw, Round Robin, Pool B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Davis Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278562-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III, Draw, Playoffs\nBahamas and \u00a0Honduras were promoted to Group II in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278563-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I\nThe Asia/Oceania Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 2018 Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278563-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I\nIn the Asia/Oceania Zone there were four different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group I advanced to the World Group Play-offs, along with losing teams from the World Group first round. Teams who lost their respective ties competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group I, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278563-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I, Participating nations\nSeeds: All seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278564-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II\nThe Asia/Oceania Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278564-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II\nIn the Asia/Oceania Zone there were four different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group II advanced to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group I. Teams who lost their respective ties competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group II, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group III in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278565-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III\nThe Asia/Oceania Zone was the unique zone within Group 3 of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2018. The zone's competition was held in round robin format in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 2 to 7 April 2018. The two winning nations won promotion to Group II, Asia/Oceania Zone, for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278565-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III, Draw\nFormat: Round-robin basis. One pool of 4 teams (Pool A) and one pool of 5 teams (Pool B). The winner of Pool A will play-off against the runner-up of Pool B and the winner of Pool B will play-off against the runner-up of Pool A to determine which two nations will be promoted to Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278565-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III, Draw, Draw, Pool B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Davis Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278566-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV\nThe Asia/Oceania Zone was the unique zone within Group 4 of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2018. The zone's competition was held in round robin format in Muscat, Oman, from 29 January to 3 February 2018. The two winning nations won promotion to Group III, Asia/Oceania Zone, for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278566-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV, Draw\nFormat: Round-robin basis. Two pools of six teams. The winner of Pool A will play-off against the runner-up in Pool B and the winner of Pool B will play-off against the runner-up in Pool A to determine which two nations will be promoted to Asia/Oceania Zone Group III in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 47], "content_span": [48, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278566-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV, Draw, Round Robin, Pool B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Davis Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278567-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Europe Zone Group III\nThe Europe Zone was the unique zone within Group 3 of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2018. The zone's competition was held in round robin format in two different locations, Plovdiv, Bulgaria and Ulcinj, Montenegro, from 3 to 7 April 2018. The two winning nations won promotion to Group II, Europe/Africa Zone, for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278567-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Europe Zone Group III, Draw\nLocation 1: Tennis Club Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (clay) Location 2: Ulcinj Bellevue, Ulcinj, Montenegro (clay)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278567-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Europe Zone Group III, Draw\nFormat: Round-robin basis. Two pools of four teams at each venue. The winners of each pool play-off against each other to determine which nation will be promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2019. Two promoted \u2013 one from each venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278567-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Europe Zone Group III, Draw, Draw, Pool B (Ulcinj)\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Davis Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278568-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I\nThe Europe/Africa Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 2018 Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278568-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I\nIn the Europe/Africa Zone there were three different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group I advanced to the World Group Play-offs, along with losing teams from the World Group first round. Teams who lost their respective ties competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group I, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278568-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I, Participating nations\nSeeds: All seeds and \u00a0Bosnia and Herzegovina received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278569-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II\nThe Europe/Africa Zone is one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278569-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II\nIn the Europe/Africa Zone there are three different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group II advance to the Europe/Africa Zone Group I. Teams who lose their respective ties competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group II, whereas European and African teams who lose their play-offs are relegated respectively to the Europe and Africa Zone Group III in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278570-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup World Group\nThe World Group is the highest level of Davis Cup competition in 2018. The first-round losers will play in the Davis Cup World Group Play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278571-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs\nThe 2018 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs were held from 14 to 16 September. They were the main play-offs of the 2018 Davis Cup. The winners of the playoffs advance as seeded to the 2019 Davis Cup Qualifying Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278571-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs, Teams\nBold indicates team had qualified as seeded to the 2019 Davis Cup Qualifying Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278571-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs, Results summary\nThe eight losing teams in the World Group first round ties and eight winners of the Zonal Group I final round ties competed in the World Group Play-offs for spots in the 2019 Qualifying Round. The draw took place on April 10 in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278572-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dayton Flyers football team\nThe 2018 Dayton Flyers football team represented the University of Dayton in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 11th-year head coach Rick Chamberlin and played their home games at Welcome Stadium. They were a member of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 6\u20135, 5\u20133 in PFL play to finish in a tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278572-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dayton Flyers football team, Previous season\nThe Flyers finished the 2017 season 5\u20136, 4\u20134 in PFL play to finish in a tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278572-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dayton Flyers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-PFL team\nThe PFL released their preseason all-PFL team on July 30, 2018, with the Flyers having seven players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278572-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dayton Flyers football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe PFL released their preseason coaches poll on July 31, 2018, with the Flyers predicted to finish in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500\nThe 2018 Daytona 500, the 60th running of the event, was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on February 18, 2018, contested over 207 laps\u2014extended from 200 laps due to an overtime finish\u2014on the 2.5-mile (4.0\u00a0km) asphalt superspeedway. It was the first race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, and also marked the first race for the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 as Chevrolet's car for this season, replacing the SS. Austin Dillon of Richard Childress Racing won the race, Bubba Wallace making his first Daytona 500 start finished second while Denny Hamlin came in third. This was the last Daytona 500 starts for Danica Patrick, Trevor Bayne, Kasey Kahne, David Gilliland, Mark Thompson (in his only Daytona 500 start), BK Racing, and D.J. Kennington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Report, Background\nDaytona International Speedway is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the others being Michigan International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway, and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2.5 miles (4.0\u00a0km) long. The track's turns are banked at 31\u00a0degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 18\u00a0degrees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Report, Notes\nThis was the first Daytona 500 race since 1982 where none of the cars were sponsored by beer companies (Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski, sponsored by Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors, respectively, were instead sponsored by Jimmy John's and Discount Tire for the race). Only 40 cars entered the race, meaning no entrants would fail to qualify for the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Practice, First practice (February 10)\nKyle Busch was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 45.058 seconds and a speed of 199.743\u00a0mph (321.455\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Practice, Second practice (February 10)\nWilliam Byron was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 44.625 seconds and a speed of 201.681\u00a0mph (324.574\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Qualifying\nAlex Bowman scored the pole for the race with a time of 46.002 and a speed of 195.644\u00a0mph (314.858\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Can-Am Duels\nThe Can-Am Duels are a pair of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races held in conjunction with the Daytona 500 annually in February at Daytona International Speedway. They consist of two races 60 laps and 150 miles (240\u00a0km) in length, which serve as heat races that set the lineup for the Daytona 500. The first race sets the lineup for cars that qualified in odd-numbered positions on pole qualifying day, while the second race sets the lineup for cars that qualified in even-numbered positions. The Duels set the lineup for positions 3\u201338, while positions 39 and 40 are filled by the two \"Open\" (teams without a charter) cars that set the fastest times in qualifying, but did not lock in a spot in the Duels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Can-Am Duels\nFor championship purposes, each Duel is a full Championship Stage, except there is no playoff point awarded. The top ten drivers receive championship points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Practice (post\u2013Duels), Third practice (February 16)\nDaniel Su\u00e1rez was the fastest in the third practice session with a time of 45.036 seconds and a speed of 199.840\u00a0mph (321.611\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 69], "content_span": [70, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Practice (post\u2013Duels), Fourth practice (February 16)\nDaniel Su\u00e1rez was the fastest in the fourth practice session with a time of 44.296 seconds and a speed of 203.179\u00a0mph (326.985\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 70], "content_span": [71, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Practice (post\u2013Duels), Final practice (February 17)\nBubba Wallace was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 45.696 seconds and a speed of 196.954\u00a0mph (316.967\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 69], "content_span": [70, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Race, Stage 1, Start\nThe 60th running of the Daytona 500 began with Alex Bowman leading the field to the green flag. Denny Hamlin took the lead on lap 1 and led the first 10 laps. The first caution of the race came out on lap 9 when Corey LaJoie blew an engine in Turn 2, and Hamlin was penalized one lap for pitting outside his box prior to the caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Race, Stage 1, Start\nRacing resumed on lap 13. Kyle Busch's tire went flat on lap 30 and had to pit, dropping him from 5th to 38th to get his tire fixed. The second caution came out on lap 52 for a three-car wreck in turn 3. Kyle Busch spun out prior to the same time his tire went flat. The first ten cars did not opt to pit, waiting instead for the end of the first 60-lap stage, the second points-paying stage of the year (the Duels count as a championship points stage, but not a playoff points stage).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Race, Stage 1, Start\nThe race went back to green on lap 56, with five laps remaining in the first stage. On Lap 60, the final lap of the stage, a major pileup occurred on the end of the backstretch, bringing out the third caution flag of the race. The crash was triggered when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. attempted to block Ryan Blaney battling for second. Stenhouse briefly lost control of his car before saving it, but the resulting slowdown led to Erik Jones spinning in front of the field and starting the wreck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Race, Stage 1, Start\nAs the stage ended under caution 2017 Daytona 500 champion and leader Kurt Busch won the stage. A total of nine cars was involved in the melee, including William Byron, Erik Jones, Ty Dillon, Daniel Su\u00e1rez, Jimmie Johnson, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ryan Blaney, Martin Truex Jr., and Kyle Larson. A total of four cars were out of the race, including Jimmie Johnson, Daniel Su\u00e1rez, Erik Jones, and Ty Dillon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Race, Stage 2\nStage 1 winner Kurt Busch was penalized for missing his pit box on the ensuing round of pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Race, Stage 2\nRacing restarted on lap 67. Ryan Blaney assumed the lead on lap 68 and led 26 laps until Paul Menard took the lead from Blaney on lap 94 and led one lap, but debris on the back straightaway brought out the fourth caution of the race on lap 94, from William Byron's car, and Martin Truex Jr. chose not to pit and he took the lead a lap later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Race, Stage 2\nRacing resumed on lap 97. The fifth caution of the race came out for a seven-car wreck in turn 3 another (The Big One) involving Chase Elliott, Danica Patrick, Kevin Harvick, David Ragan, Martin Truex Jr., Brad Keselowski, and Kasey Kahne. A total of eleven cars were out of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Race, Stage 2\nRestart occurred on Lap 109 for a 12-lap shootout to the end of the second stage, which Ryan Blaney won, claiming the ten championship and one playoff point after crossing the line to complete Lap 120.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Race, Final stage\nBack to the green flag with 73 to go, Denny Hamlin took the lead with 28 to go and led 3 laps, and Ryan Blaney assumed the lead with 26 to go and led 26 laps. The caution flew for the seventh time with 9 to go for a single-car spin as William Byron spun out into turn 2, so that meant Joey Logano won the free pass under caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Race, Final stage\nRacing resumed with 6 to go and a major multi-car wreck (a third \"The Big One\") brought out the eighth caution of the race. 2017 Daytona 500 winner Kurt Busch tried to pass Denny Hamlin but contact behind him triggered the melee. A total of twelve cars were involved were Kurt Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Matt DiBenedetto, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ryan Blaney, Alex Bowman, Ryan Newman, Joey Logano, Bubba Wallace, Jeffrey Earnhardt, Brendan Gaughan, and A. J. Allmendinger. The multi-car wreck sent the race into overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Race, Overtime\nThe race resumed on lap 205 of 200 advertised, for a 2-lap NASCAR Overtime. Aric Almirola was leading at the white flag, but a mistimed block on the super stretch forced Austin Dillon to drive into his right-rear corner and turn Almirola into the wall. Dillon drove on and scored his second career NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series victory along with Dillon\u2019s first career Daytona 500 victory, 20 years after Dale Earnhardt won the 1998 Daytona 500 in the same seat. After the September 2017 closure of the deal between Dillon's sponsor Dow Chemical to acquire E. I. DuPont and Nemours (which had been a NASCAR sponsor from 1992 to 2012), this win was the first for the merged DowDuPont, bringing together two major race-winning sponsors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Race, Overtime, Post race\n\"I did what I had to do in the end; I hate it for the 10 Guys\" said Dillon, after a series of burnouts. This was in reference to contact between the two on the final lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Media, Television\nSince 2001\u2014with the exception of 2002, 2004 and 2006\u2014the Daytona 500 has been carried by Fox in the United States. The booth crew consisted of longtime NASCAR lap-by-lap announcer Mike Joy, three\u2013time Daytona 500 champion Jeff Gordon, and 1989 race winner Darrell Waltrip. Pit road was manned by Jamie Little, Regan Smith, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Media, Radio\nThe race was broadcast on radio by the Motor Racing Network\u2014who has covered the Daytona 500 since 1970\u2014and simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. The booth crew consisted of longtime announcer Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and 1989 Cup Series champion Rusty Wallace. Longtime turn announcer\u00a0\u2013 and prodigy of MRN co-founder Ken Squier\u00a0\u2013 Dave Moody was the lead turn announcer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278573-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Daytona 500, Media, Radio\nHe called the Daytona 500 from atop the Sunoco tower outside the exit of turn 2 when the field was racing through turns 1 and 2. Mike Bagley worked the backstretch for the Daytona 500 from a spotter's stand on the inside of the track. Kyle Rickey called the Daytona 500 when the field was racing through turns 3 and 4 from the Sunoco tower outside the exit of turn 4. On pit road, MRN was manned by lead pit reporter and NASCAR Hall of Fame Executive Director Winston Kelley. He was joined on pit road by Steve Post, Kim Coon and Alex Hayden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278574-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike\nThe 2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike was a strike held on April 19, 2018 by nearly 400 school bus drivers in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. Inspired in part by the nationwide teacher strikes in Republican-dominated states such as West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona, bus drivers for DeKalb County School District planned a \"sick-out\" to protest low wages and little employee benefits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278574-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike\nAbout 42 percent of bus drivers in the county participated, causing nearly 60-90 minute delays in students being picked up for school. As a right-to-work state, public sector employees are prohibited in Georgia from striking. The strike resulted in at least 7 bus drivers, particularly ones who helped organize the strike, being terminated of employment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278574-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike, Background\nThe planned sick-out was in response to ongoing pay cuts and lowered benefits for school bus drivers. Per the website, Indeed, the average school bus driver salary in DeKalb County was $23,000, and the starting pay was around $18,000 to $19,000 per year, which is 23% below the national average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278574-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike, Background\nA day prior to the sick-out R. Stephen Green, the superintendent for DeKalb County School District met with over 300 bus drivers about concerns over pay and benefits. Green said he was committed to improving the pay and working conditions for bus drivers, but did not propose anything further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278574-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike, Background\nThe sickout was originally planned for April 19-23, the strike was organized by several bus drivers that went under the labor group name, \"DeKalb County School Bus Driver Solidarity Coalition\". On April 19, about 380 bus drivers participated of the 908 total, causing nearly 60-90 minute delays for the pickup of students. On April 20, that number decreased to 225. The following Monday, the number further decreased to 63.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278574-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike, Response, DeKalb County School District administration\nR. Stephen Green, the superintendent for DeKalb County School District condemned the strike. Green said \"We have been clear from the beginning. We will keep an open dialogue with employees provided they work collaboratively and keep our children safe by reporting to work. Unfortunately, some employees chose another route, and that carries serious consequences.\" On April 20, seven DCSD bus drivers, that were involved in leading the strike, were terminated of employment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 110], "content_span": [111, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278574-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike, Response, DeKalb County School District administration\nGreen claimed the bus drivers in DeKalb County were among the highest paid in the Atlanta metropolitan area. This included pay raises in 2014 and 2015 in the response of longer work days, that drivers receive benefits despite being part-time, and that the county provides a Transportation Leadership Academy to offer career advancement for bus drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 110], "content_span": [111, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278574-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike, Response, DeKalb County School District administration\nThreats of a second strike seemed possible as the Coalition demanded the fired employees be granted their employment back. On April 26, Green said he would host a meeting with the DeKalb County School Bus Driver Solidarity Coalition to discuss a plan to improve pay and working conditions for bus drivers. Leaders of the Coalition said that Green did not invite the leaders of the Coalition and hand-picked bus drivers to shift the dialogue in his favor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 110], "content_span": [111, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278574-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike, Response, DeKalb County School District parents and students\nOn May 2, 2018 a change.org petition formed from the parents of DCSD urging Green to reinstate the terminated drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 116], "content_span": [117, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278575-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Deaf T20 World Cup\nThe 2018 Deaf T20 World Cup was the inaugural edition of the Deaf Cricket World Cup tournament, and was held from 23\u201330 November 2018 for 8 days in India and all of the scheduled matches were held in the city of Gurugram, New Delhi. In the final, Sri Lanka defeated hosts and defending champions India by 36 runs to secure their first ever Deaf T20 World Cup title. Five teams including hosts India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Australia and Nepal played in the tournament. The tournament was hosted by Deaf Cricket Society in India affiliating with the Deaf International Cricket Council. The tournament began with hosts India played against South Africa on 23 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278575-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Deaf T20 World Cup\nIn the final, Sri Lanka batted first and managed to score 145/9 in the 20 overs after being put into bat by India. India were bowled out for 109 runs in 17.5 overs as Sri Lanka claimed victorious for the first time in a major deaf cricket tournament. This was also the third major world cup triumph for Sri Lanka in cricket following the victories at the 1996 Cricket World Cup and 2014 ICC World Twenty20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278575-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Deaf T20 World Cup\nFormer Australian cricket who is also a global ambassador for Deaf movement Brett Lee invited as the chief guest during the closing ceremony of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278575-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Deaf T20 World Cup, Venues\nTeri Gram cricket ground in Gurugram was the only venue allocated to host the Deaf T20 World Cup. is the best earning a", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278575-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Deaf T20 World Cup, Broadcasting\nStar Sports, the Premier 24 hour Indian sport network was awarded the rights as the title sponsor for the Deaf T20 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278576-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election\nThe 2018 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election was a municipal election to the Dehradun Municipal Corporation which governs Dehradun City, the largest city in Uttarakhand. It took place on 18 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278576-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election\nTo the 100-ward body, 60 members from the Bharatiya Janata Party were elected, while 34 came from the Indian National Congress and remaining six being Independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278576-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election, Election schedule\nThe Uttarakhand State Election Commission announced the poll dates on 15 October 2018, that the election would be held on 18 November and that the result would be declared on 20 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 63], "content_span": [64, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278577-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware Attorney General election\nThe 2018 Delaware Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018. The Delaware primary election for federal and state candidates took place on September 6, 2018. Incumbent Attorney General Matthew Denn announced on August 28, 2017, that he would not seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278578-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team\nThe 2018 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represented the University of Delaware in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Danny Rocco and played their home games at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Delaware. They are members of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). They finished the season 7\u20135, 5\u20133 in CAA play to finish in a three-way tie for third place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they lost in the first round to James Madison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278578-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Previous season\nThe Fightin' Blue Hens finished the 2017 season 7\u20134, 5\u20133 in CAA play to finish in a tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278578-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Preseason, CAA Poll\nIn the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Fightin' Blue Hens were predicted to finish in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 67], "content_span": [68, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278578-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CAA Team\nThe Fightin' Blue Hens had five players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278578-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Regular season, Rhode Island\nThis marks the first time Delaware opens with a conference game since 2007 (49\u201331 win at William & Mary).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278579-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware House of Representatives election\nAn election was held on November 6, 2018 to elect all 41 members to Delaware's House of Representatives. The election coincided with the elections for other offices, including U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and state senate. The primary election was held on September 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278579-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware House of Representatives election\nDemocrats consolidated their majority in the House by gaining one seat, winning 26 seats compared to 15 seats for the Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278579-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware House of Representatives election, Results, District\nResults of the 2018 Delaware House of Representatives election by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278580-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware State Hornets football team\nThe 2018 Delaware State Hornets football team represented Delaware State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Rod Milstead and played their home games at Alumni Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). They finished the season 3\u20138, 2\u20135 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278580-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware State Hornets football team, Previous season\nThe Hornets finished the 2017 season 2\u20139, 2\u20136 in MEAC play to finish in a three-way tie for eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278580-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware State Hornets football team, Previous season\nOn November 19, it was announced that head coach Kenny Carter's contract would not be renewed. He finished at Delaware State with a three-year record of 3\u201330.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278580-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware State Hornets football team, Preseason, MEAC preseason poll\nIn a vote of the MEAC head coaches and sports information directors, the Hornets were picked to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278580-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware State Hornets football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MEAC Teams\nThe Hornets had four players selected to the preseason all-MEAC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 78], "content_span": [79, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278581-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware State Senate election\nAn election was held on November 6, 2018 to elect 10 of the 21 members to Delaware's State Senate. The election coincided with the elections for other offices, including U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and State House. The primary election was held on September 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278581-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware State Senate election\nDemocrats increased their majority in the Senate by gaining one seat, winning 12 seats compared to 9 seats for the Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278581-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware State Senate election, Results, District\nResults of the 2018 Delaware State Senate election by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278582-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware State Treasurer election\nThe 2018 Delaware State Treasurer election took place on November 6, 2018. The Delaware primary election for federal and state candidates took place on September 6, 2018. Incumbent State Treasurer Ken Simpler announced on November 2, 2017, that he would seek re-election to a second term. He lost the general election to Democratic nominee Colleen Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278582-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware State Treasurer election, Republican primary\nKen Simpler ran unopposed in the primary and automatically became the Republican nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278583-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Delaware on November 6, 2018. Half of Delaware's executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat and Delaware's at-large seat in the United States House of Representatives. Primary elections were held on September 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278583-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware elections\nIn the general election, Democrats took over all statewide offices and defeated two of the highest ranking Republicans in the Delaware General Assembly. Those races were all won by Democratic women, putting a record number of women in statewide elected offices in Delaware. The Democratic Party became the first party to hold all nine statewide offices in Delaware since the Republican Party in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278583-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware elections, State, Constitutional officers, Attorney General\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Matthew Denn did not run for reelection to a second term in office. The Republican Party originally nominated former chief Sussex County prosecutor Peggy Marshall Thomas, however Thomas later withdrew and the party nominated former New Castle County attorney Bernard Pepukayi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278583-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware elections, State, Constitutional officers, Attorney General\nFormer New Castle County chief administrative officer Kathy Jennings won the Democratic nomination, defeating three opponents, and went on to defeat Pepukayi in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278583-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware elections, State, Constitutional officers, Treasurer\nRepublican nominee and incumbent State Treasurer Ken Simpler, Democratic nominee Colleen Davis, and Green nominee David Chandler (who was also the nominee in 2014), were all unopposed in their respective primaries. Davis won the general election, denying Simpler a second term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 66], "content_span": [67, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278583-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware elections, State, Constitutional officers, Auditor of Accounts\nIncumbent Republican State Auditor Tom Wagner did not run for reelection to an eighth term. Republican nominee James Spadola was unopposed in his respective primary and won the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278583-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware elections, State, Constitutional officers, Auditor of Accounts\nKathy McGuiness won the Democratic nomination, defeating two opponents, and went on to win the general election against Spadola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278583-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware elections, State, General Assembly, Senate\nThe state of Delaware will have various State Senate elections in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278583-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware elections, State, General Assembly, House of Representatives\nDistrict 7Incumbent State Representative Bryon Short did not run for reelection. Perennial candidate Rose Izzo previously ran her campaign for the Republican Party's nomination, but later switched to run for the Democratic nomination. Eric Braunstein won the Republican primary unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 74], "content_span": [75, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278583-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Delaware elections, State, General Assembly, House of Representatives\nDistrict 36After Kerri Evelyn Harris's loss in the U.S. Senate election, many progressive Delaware Democrats shifted focus to support Don Allan in District 36. He was endorsed by Our Revolution, Delaware United, Kerri Evelyn Harris, and U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 74], "content_span": [75, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278584-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Deloitte Tankard\nThe 2018 Deloitte Tankard, the provincial men's curling championship of Nova Scotia, was held from January 8 to 14 at the Dartmouth Curling Club in Dartmouth. The winning Jamie Murphy team represented Nova Scotia at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier in Regina, Saskatchewan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278585-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Delray Beach Open\nThe 2018 Delray Beach Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 26th edition of the tournament, and part of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place in Delray Beach, United States between 19 February and 25 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278586-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Delray Beach Open \u2013 Doubles\nRaven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram were the defending champions, but Ram chose not to participate and Klaasen chose to compete in Marseille instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278586-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Delray Beach Open \u2013 Doubles\nJack Sock and Jackson Withrow won the title, defeating Nicholas Monroe and John-Patrick Smith in the final, 4\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20138].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278587-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Delray Beach Open \u2013 Singles\nJack Sock was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Reilly Opelka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278587-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Delray Beach Open \u2013 Singles\nFrances Tiafoe won his first ATP World Tour title, defeating Peter Gojowczyk in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278588-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Delta State Statesmen football team\nThe 2018 Delta State Statesmen football team will represent Delta State University in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They will be led by sixth-year head coach Todd Cooley. The Statesmen will played their home games at McCool Stadium and are members of the Gulf South Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278588-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Delta State Statesmen football team, Preseason, Gulf South Conference coaches poll\nOn August 2, 2018, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Statesmen predicted to finish in 4th place in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278588-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Delta State Statesmen football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team\nThe Statesmen had three players at three positions selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 93], "content_span": [94, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278588-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Delta State Statesmen football team, Schedule\nDelta State 2018 football schedule consists of five home and away games in the regular season. The Statesmen will host GSC foes Mississippi College, North Greenville, Shorter, and West Florida, and will travel to Florida Tech, Valdosta State, West Alabama and West Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278588-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Delta State Statesmen football team, Schedule\nThe Statesmen will host one of the two non-conference games against Grand Valley State from the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and will travel to Tarleton State from the Lone Star Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278588-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Delta State Statesmen football team, Schedule\nThree of the ten games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278589-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Party (HK) leadership election\nThe Democratic Party leadership election was held on 2 December 2018 for the 30-member 13th Central Committee of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, including chairperson and two vice-chairperson posts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278589-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Party (HK) leadership election\nIncumbent chairman Wu Chi-wai was re-elected uncontested with 189 confidence votes with incumbent vice-chairman Lo Kin-hei re-elected and former vice-chairman Andrew Wan retook the post from Li Wing-shing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278589-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Party (HK) leadership election, Electoral method\nThe Central Committee was elected by the party congress. All public office holders, including the members of the Legislative Council and District Councils, are eligible to vote in the party congress. The eligibility of members electing a delegate who holds one vote in the congress was 5 members. Candidate also needs a majority in order to claim victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278589-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Party (HK) leadership election, Overview\nWu Chi-wai emphasised the average age of 42.8 year-old of the elected Central Committee, which was the youngest in history. Another highlight was former chairwoman Emily Lau running for the Disciplinary Committee, who was elected with relatively low votes of 153 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278589-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Party (HK) leadership election, Results\nThe elected members of the 13th Central Committee are listed as following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278590-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Party for the People leadership election\nThe Democratic Party for the People held a leadership election on 4 September 2018. It was the party's first leadership election since its formation in May 2018 from the merger of the Democratic Party and the majority faction of Kib\u014d no T\u014d. The race was held to choose a successor to interim leaders Yuichiro Tamaki and Kohei Otsuka. The elected leader was slated to serve a 3-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278590-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Party for the People leadership election\nInterim co-leader Tamaki won the leadership election by a large margin against Representative Keisuke Tsumura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278591-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Party of Korea leadership election\nThe Democratic Party of Korea held a leadership election on 25 August 2018. It was the first leadership election since the inauguration of President Moon Jae-in. The elected leader was slated to serve a 2-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278591-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Party of Korea leadership election, Results\nThe ratio of the results by sector was 45% for delegates, 40% for party members, 10% for opinion poll and 5% for non-voting members poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278592-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreaks\nThe 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreaks are instances where an outbreak of the Ebola virus has occurred in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 30 December 2018, to determine a successor to President Joseph Kabila, as well as for the 500 seats of the National Assembly and the 715 elected seats of the 26 provincial assemblies. F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi (UDPS) won with 38.6% of the vote, defeating another opposition candidate, Martin Fayulu, and Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, backed by the ruling party PPRD. Fayulu alleged that the vote was rigged against him in a deal made by Tshisekedi and outgoing President Kabila, challenging the result in the DRC's Constitutional Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election\nDifferent election observers, including those from the country's Roman Catholic Church, also cast doubt on the official result. Nonetheless on 20 January the Court rejected his appeal and declared Tshisekedi as the winner. Parties supporting President Kabila won the majority of seats in the National Assembly. F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi was sworn in as the 5th President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 24 January 2019, making it the first peaceful transition of power in the country since it became independent from Belgium in 1960.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election\nAccording to the constitution, the second and final term of President Kabila expired on 20 December 2016. General elections were originally scheduled for 27 November 2016, but were delayed with a promise to hold them by the end of 2017. This promise was subsequently broken, but after both international and internal pressure the elections were finally scheduled for 23 December 2018. They were, however, postponed for a week on 30 December 2018 due to a fire in the electoral commission's warehouse in Kinshasa destroying 8,000 electronic voting machines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election\nIncumbent President Kabila was constitutionally ineligible for a third term. He and his party, the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy, supported the candidacy of Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, the former Minister of the Interior, who formally ran as an independent candidate. In opposition to Shadary's candidacy, seven opposition leaders, including Jean-Pierre Bemba and Mo\u00efse Katumbi, nominated Martin Fayulu as their candidate for president. However, F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi and Vital Kamerhe soon after broke this agreement and agreed that Tshisekedi should run for president while Kamerhe would serve as his campaign manager and become Prime Minister if he won. They also agreed that Tshisekedi and his party will back a candidate from Kamerhe's Union for the Congolese Nation in the 2023 presidential elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 874]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election\nPreliminary results were scheduled to be announced on 6 January 2019, with the final result on 15 January and the inauguration of the next president on 18 January. However, it was later announced on 5 January that the publication of preliminary results would be delayed, as less than half of the votes have been obtained by the election commission. On 10 January the election commission declared F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi, leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress opposition party, as the winner of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election\nMartin Fayulu, who came in second, has claimed that the election was rigged and that he will challenge the result in the DRC's Constitutional Court. The country's influential Roman Catholic Church, which deployed 40,000 election monitors, has also said the official result does not align with its observations, which place Fayulu as the winner. On 12 January it became known that parties supporting Joseph Kabila won the majority of seats in the National Assembly. The Constitutional Court announced on January 14 that it would review Fayulu's appeal of the result, and would make a ruling on January 19. On January 19, the Constitutional Court rejected Fayulu's challenge of the election results, upholding Tshisekedi's victory. Fayulu claims to be the \"legitimate\" president and has called for protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election\nWhile Tshisekedi had won the election, parties aligned with Kabila secured a majority in the National Assembly and later in the Senate during the March 2019 Senate election. Because of this Tshisekedi's ability to implement policies or appoint a new Prime Minister were limited, and while negotiations have been ongoing to form a new government the President has been working with the former cabinet of Kabila. It was not until 20 May 2019 that he appointed Kabila ally and career bureaucrat Sylvestre Ilunga as his designate for Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election\nThe parliamentary majority faction and President Tshisekedi came to an agreement on forming a new government by July 27, 2019, choosing the 65 members of the new cabinet. Out of those, 42 posts went to Common Front for Congo-aligned candidates, while 23 went to the Heading for Change coalition (Tshisekedi's alliance). The new Ilunga government formally took office in late August 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Background\nOn 29 September 2016, the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) announced that the elections would not be held until early 2018. According to CENI's vice president, the commission \"hasn't called elections in 2016 because the number of voters isn't known.\" The announcement came ten days after deadly protests against Kabila in Kinshasa saw 17 people killed. The opposition alleged that Kabila intentionally delayed the elections to remain in power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Background\nAn agreement reached with the opposition in December 2016 allowed Kabila to stay in office with a requirement to hold elections by the end of 2017. However, on 7 July 2017, CENI President Corneille Nangaa said it would not be possible to organize presidential elections by the end of the year. Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi condemned the announcement on Twitter, saying Nangaa had \"declared war on the Congolese people.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Background\nIn November 2017 CENI announced that elections will be held in December 2018, after previously claiming earlier that month that elections could not be held until April 2019 due to the difficulties of registering voters in a country with underdeveloped infrastructure. Prime Minister Bruno Tshibala confirmed in March 2018 that the election will occur in December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Background\nAccording to the UN a total of 47 people had been killed at protests against President Kabila during this period, which occurred throughout 2017 and into 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Background\nAccording to Human Rights Watch, government security forces used live rounds to disperse crowds of opposition supporters throughout August 2018, stating that the total death toll by then since 2015 was 300 people. HRW also documented attempts by the Congolese government to persecute members of the opposition, such as banning Mo\u00efse Katumbi from entering the country and forcefully dispersing a rally in support of Jean-Pierre Bemba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Background\nIn late December, the government further delayed voting in three cities until 31 March 2019. Those include Beni and Butembo in North Kivu province, due to the 2018 Ebola outbreak as well as the ongoing military conflict, and Yumbi in the western Mai-Ndombe province, where about 900 people were killed throughout December by inter-ethnic violence. In all other regions it will still take place as scheduled on 30 December. This was criticized as these regions are known as opposition strongholds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Electoral system\nAccording to Article 71 of the DRC Constitution, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is elected by plurality vote in one round. Article 72 specifies that the requirements to stand as a candidate for the presidency are being a Congolese citizen and at least thirty years old.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 72], "content_span": [73, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Electoral system\nArticle 101 of the Constitution provides the basis for electing a National Assembly. The 500 members of the National Assembly are elected by two methods; 60 are elected from single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting, and 440 are elected from 109 multi-member constituencies by open list proportional representation, with seats allocated using the largest remainder method to all lists gathering more than 1% of the valid votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 72], "content_span": [73, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Electoral system\nFor the first time, electronic voting machines were used in a Congolese election. This has raised concerns about vote-rigging, particularly after a warehouse fire in Kinshasa destroyed 8,000 voting machines, which represent more than two-thirds of the voting machines that had been planned to be used in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 72], "content_span": [73, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Candidates\nIn total, 21 candidates were approved for the presidential contest, and some 34,900 candidates were approved to run for the 500 national and 715 provincial assembly seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Candidates\nOn 25 May 2018, businessman and former governor of Katanga Province Mo\u00efse Katumbi discussed with fellow opposition presidential candidate F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi, son of the late opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, at the Atlantic Council about fielding a single opposition candidate. In early September 2018, he again called on the opposition to unite behind a single candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Candidates\nAs of August 2018, the country's Independent National Electoral Commission was reviewing candidates. A preliminary list of candidates, including 25 names, was published on 10 August 2018. Another list was published on 24 August, and the final one was published on 19 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Candidates\nOn 3 September, the Constitutional Court of the DRC upheld the national election commission's decision to ban six potential candidates from taking part in the election, including opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Opinion polls\nOpinion polling is rare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to poor roads and lack of electricity. Nevertheless, the Congo Research Group (CRG) released a poll in October 2016 of 7,545 respondents in the country's 26 provinces. The poll found that 33% would vote for Katumbi, 18% for Etienne Tshisekedi, and 7.8% for Kabila.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Opinion polls\nA May 2017 poll of 7,500 respondents carried out by CRG/BERCI found that 38% would vote for Katumbi, 10% for Kabila, 5% each for F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi, Vital Kamerhe and Jean-Pierre Bemba, 24% for other candidates, and 13% would not vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Opinion polls\nA March 2018 poll carried out by the CRG showed Katumbi obtaining 26%, Tshisekedi with 14%, Adolphe Muzito and Kamerhe tied at 9%, Kabila with 7%, and Augustin Mataya Ponyo and Aubin Minaku with 3% each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Opinion polls\nA June 2018 Top Congo FM poll amongst opposition supporters showed Katumbi winning 54% of the opposition's vote, with Kamerhe at 34%, Bemba at 7%, and Tshisekedi at 5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Opinion polls\nIn October 2018, the Congo Research Group released a poll that showed Tshisekedi winning 36% of the overall vote, with Kamerhe winning 17%, Shadary winning 16%, and Fayulu winning 8%, with 5% undecided or not voting. The remaining votes went to minor candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-voting process\nOn the afternoon of 31 December 2018, the NetBlocks internet observatory reported regional internet disruptions in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi and the subsequent loss of connectivity across the DRC. The signal of Radio France Internationale, the country's most popular news source, was also blocked with a spokesman stating that the restrictions were implemented by Congolese authorities to prevent the spread of \"fictitious results\" published on social media and maintain order. The following day, representatives of the U.S., European Union, Swiss and Canadian missions in Kinshasa urged the DRC to restore Internet access.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-voting process\nOn 2 January 2019, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and African Union (AU) observation missions stated that the voting went \"relatively well\" and was peaceful, despite the logistical problems in the DRC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-voting process\nThe Catholic Church in the DRC, which deployed 40,000 election observers, announced on 3 January that by their observations it was clear who the winner of the election was. A government spokesman condemned the Church's statement as \"irresponsible and anarchic.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-voting process\nWestern diplomatic sources speaking with Church officials reported that they identified Martin Fayulu as the winner with 60% of the votes., However, Rev. Donatien Nshole, the church's secretary general, later retracted the church's allegations following a meeting with Kabila on 8 January, claiming that \"we said there was a winner but we did not mention any name nor give any figures.\" Nshole also said that the church now would trust Kabila to lead any transition of power, claiming \"he insisted on the fact that he wants to maintain peace and unity...we want the same.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-voting process\nOn 4 January, United States President Donald Trump deployed 80 U.S. troops to the nearby country of Gabon to stand by in case violence broke in the DRC over the election results. On 9 January, the U.S. embassy in Kinshasa warned American citizens to leave the country due to possible election-related violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-voting process\nOn 5 January, election commission chairman Cornielle Nangaa announced that preliminary results would not be announced on the scheduled date of 6 January, as the commission had only received less than half of the ballots. The following day this was confirmed and no date was given for the publication of the preliminary results, which was criticized by members of the opposition. On 8 January, Kabila adviser Kikaya Bin Karubi denied an allegation made by two aides of Felix Tshisekedi which claimed that Tshisekedi was the presumed winner and that Kabila officials had been meeting with aides of Tshisekedi since the end of the election so Kabila would hand power to Tshisekedi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-voting process\nPolice in anti-riot gear were deployed in front of the electoral commission headquarters in Kinshasa on 9 January. That same day, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and other members of SADC urged the Congolese government to finalize the results quickly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-voting process, Announcement of results\nIn the early morning of the following day, 10 January 2019, after reading the results of over 700 candidacies for provincial elections from across the country, the commission announced Felix Tshisekedi as the winner of the presidential vote. Barnab\u00e9 Kikaya bin Karubi, an advisor to Joseph Kabila, had said that the President accepted the loss of the ruling party candidate Emmanuel Shadary. Tshisekedi vowed to become \"the president of all DR Congolese.\" On 12 January, it became known that the majority of seats in the National Assembly were won by parties supporting Kabila. The C\u00e9ni announced the names of the winning candidates, as well as the total of votes on the national level, but no further info. The announcement, initially scheduled for past the presidential election's appeal and oath, took place while the votes were still being compiled all over the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 100], "content_span": [101, 975]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, Accusations of fraud\nSecond-place candidate Martin Fayulu claimed that the results were rigged later that day, stating \"In 2006, Jean-Pierre Bemba's victory was stolen, in 2011, \u00c9tienne Tshisekedi's victory was stolen. In 2018 victory won't be stolen from Martin Fayulu.\" He also said he believes that President-elect F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi and President Joseph Kabila made a secret agreement. According to foreign diplomatic sources, the Catholic Church had claimed that Fayulu was the winner, and both the SADC and African Union observation missions had also believed him to have been the winner. The Catholic Church in the DRC made a statement questioning the result as well, stating that it did not align with their findings. Tshisekedi denied making any power-sharing agreement with Kabila or his ruling party. Fayulu told the BBC that he will challenge the result in the Constitutional Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 87], "content_span": [88, 959]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, Accusations of fraud\nOn 11 January, Fayulu claimed he received 62% of the vote and said he would challenge the result in the country's Constitutional Court. The Court could confirm Tshisekedi, order a recount, or cancel the results and call for new elections. But Fayulu admitted that he did not believe he would have any success, saying the court is \"composed of Kabila's people.\" He also claimed that \"Felix Tshisekedi has been nominated by Mr Kabila to perpetuate the Kabila regime. Because today the boss is Kabila.\" Tshisekedi's spokesman denied that there was any deal between them. Fayulu officially filed a challenge to the results on 12 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 87], "content_span": [88, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, Accusations of fraud\nA joint investigation by the Financial Times and Radio France Internationale appeared to reveal that massive fraud occurred during the election. FT claimed on 15 January that its analysis of two separate collections of voting data, representing 86% of votes cast, show that Fayulu won the election with 59.4% of the vote while Tshisekedi and Shadary both got about 19%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 87], "content_span": [88, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, Protests\nFour people\u2014two police officers and two civilians\u2014were killed in the western city of Kikwit during protests. The following day, 11 January, at least one protester was killed in Goma. There were also reports of protests in Kisangani and Mbandaka. More civilian and police casualties were reported as protests increased across the country, and thousands of military and Republican Guard troops were deployed to maintain order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, Protests\nOn 18 January, the UN human rights office has said that 34 people have been killed, 59 wounded, and 241 arbitrarily arrested since the announcement of the provisional results on 10 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, International reactions\nThe governments of France and Belgium also issued statements questioning the official result. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian claimed that Fayulu was expected to be declared the winner. Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders also doubted the result, saying that Belgium would use its temporary UN Security Council seat to investigate the situation. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he was \"very concerned about discrepancies\" in the results. In an official statement, Secretary-General of the United Nations Ant\u00f3nio Guterres urged all parties to \"refrain from violence\" and \"live up to their responsibility in preserving stability.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 90], "content_span": [91, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, International reactions\nAfrican Union leader Moussa Faki said that any disputes should be \"resolved peacefully, by turning to the relevant laws\". The Southern African Development Community (SADC) called for the creation of a national unity government in DR Congo, a negotiated settlement by factions representing Kabila, Tshisekedi, and Fayulu, on January 13. The organisation also called for a vote recount.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 90], "content_span": [91, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, International reactions\nThe United Nations Security Council issued a statement drafted by the French delegation urging all sides to respect the outcome of the vote on 15 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 90], "content_span": [91, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, International reactions\nRepresentatives of Russia and China stated that they oppose foreign interference in the DRC election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 90], "content_span": [91, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, International reactions\nA number of African Union heads of state and government met in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on 17 January, issuing a statement that the organization had \"serious doubts\" about the provisional results and calling on the Congolese government to delay the release of the final results. The AU also stated that it would send a delegation to the DRC with \"the view to reaching a consensus on a way out of the post-electoral crisis.\" The delegation would include AU commission head Moussa Faki and AU chairman, the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 90], "content_span": [91, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, International reactions\nThe Congolese government rejected the AU's appeal to delay that announcement of the final results on 18 January, and that the announcement will be made after the Constitutional Court makes a decision. Government spokesman Lambert Mende stated that \"I do not think anyone has the right to tell the court what to do. I am not under the impression (the AU) fully understands Congo's judicial process.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 90], "content_span": [91, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, International reactions\nAfter the Constitutional Court ruling upholding Tshisekedi's victory on 20 January, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa both sent their congratulations to Tshisekedi and recognized him as the next President. AU spokeswoman Ebba Kalondo also issued a statement revealing that the AU agreed to postpone the DRC delegation talks. Kalondo claimed \u201cI can confirm to you that the trip has been postponed. Not canceled.\u201d Other African leaders, including Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the leaders of Tanzania and Burundi, congratulated Tshisekdi for his victory and also recognized him as the next President as well. By January 22, the AU and EU had agreed to support Tshisekedi's Presidency as well. On January 23, the United States agreed to support the court's certification of Tshisekdi's victory and also work with the incoming DRC President's government as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 90], "content_span": [91, 1002]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, Constitutional Court appeal\nFayulu officially filed a court case on 12 January. The Constitutional Court announced on Monday, 14 January, that it would review Fayulu's and another candidate, Theodore Ngoy's, appeal the following day. Proceedings began on 15 January and armed riot police were deployed outside the Palace of Justice in Kinshasa. Lawyers representing Fayulu have said that the poll was rigged and have urged the Constitutional Court to order a recount. A decision is due to be made by the Court on 18 January or 19 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 94], "content_span": [95, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0041-0001", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, Constitutional Court appeal\nThe Court confirmed early on 19 January to Agence France-Presse that the ruling would be made later that day. The Court ruling rejected appeals for a recount, with the verdict declaring Tshisekedi \"President of the Democratic Republic of Congo by simple majority.\" Government spokesman Lambert Mende stated afterwards \"Felix Tshisekedi will become the fifth president of the republic.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 94], "content_span": [95, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Aftermath, Constitutional Court appeal\nAfter the ruling Fayulu claimed to be the \"only legitimate president\" and has called for mass protests. In a statement he said \"The constitutional court has just confirmed that it serves a dictatorial regime ... by validating false results, (and enabling) a constitutional coup d'etat.\" Fayulu also called on the international community to not recognize this result. Hundreds of Tshisekedi supporters gathered outside of the court building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 94], "content_span": [95, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-court ruling\nFollowing the ruling, on January 20 the government restored Internet access in the country, ending a 20-day shutdown of the Internet that began on 31 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-court ruling\nOn 21 January, the day after the Constitutional Court rejected Fayulu's appeal, it became known that Tshisekedi's scheduled inauguration date (22 January) may be delayed by two days until 24 January. It was announced later that the inauguration was postponed, though no official reason was given. Police dispersed a crowd of Fayulu supporters who had gathered to hear him speak in front of his coalition's headquarters. Nevertheless, the inauguration of Tshisekedi occurred on the rescheduled date of January 24, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0044-0001", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-court ruling\nIn a speech Tshisekedi at the Palais de la Nation in Kinshasa called for a \"reconciled country,\" and stated that \"We want to build a strong Congo, turned towards its development, in peace and security \u2013 a Congo for all in which everyone has a place.\" On 28 January the newly elected parliament began its first session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-court ruling\nThe overdue election for the Senate of the DRC occurred on 14 March 2019. Parties aligned with former President Kabila's Common Front for Congo (FCC) won a majority of Senate seats, giving them control of both the upper and lower house of the legislature and potentially making President Tshisekedi's attempts to reform the government more limited. The President's UPDS party won very few seats. That same month elections took place for 23 provincial governors, most of them also won by FCC candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-court ruling\nSeveral months into the Tshisekedi administration, by the start of May 2019 the President had not yet appointed a prime minister or a new cabinet. On 20 May, it was announced that Tshisekedi and Kabila had reached a deal, deciding to appoint the career civil servant and Kabila ally Sylvestre Ilunga as Prime Minister. Due to the pro-Kabila parties having the majority in parliament, they have the constitutional power to nominate the candidate for the head of government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278593-0046-0001", "contents": "2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, Post-court ruling\nOn July 27, 2019, more than six months after the election the President and the parliament came to an agreement on forming a new government, beginning Ilunga's formal nomination process for Prime Minister. Ilunga's new cabinet will include 65 members, of which 42 will go to FCC candidates. Notably, the ministries of Defense, Justice, and Finance will be controlled by the Kabila coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278594-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Denmark Open\nThe 2018 Denmark Open (officially known as the Danisa Denmark Open presented by Victor 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Odense Sports Park in Odense, Denmark, from 16 to 21 October 2018 and had a total prize of $775,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278594-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Denmark Open, Tournament\nThe 2018 Denmark Open was the twentieth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Denmark Open championships, which had been held since 1935. This tournament was organized by Badminton Denmark and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278594-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Denmark Open, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Odense Sports Park in Odense, Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278594-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Denmark Open, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 750 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278594-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Denmark Open, Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for the tournament was US$775,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season\nThe 2018 Denver Broncos season was the franchise's 49th season in the National Football League and their 59th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season\nAfter poor offensive statistics that resulted in a 5\u201311 record during the previous season, the Broncos hoped for improvement at the quarterback position, with the offseason signing of Case Keenum as well as the breakthrough of undrafted rookie running back Phillip Lindsay. Another rookie that made an impact was linebacker Bradley Chubb, who recorded 12 sacks following a slow start. However, for a third consecutive season, the Broncos scored 30 or more points only once, and midway through the season, longtime wide receiver Demaryius Thomas was traded to the Houston Texans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season\nFollowing a 3\u20136 start, the Broncos put together a three-game winning streak, with hopes of turning their season around and competing for a playoff spot. However, key late-season injuries to cornerback Chris Harris Jr. (fractured fibula) and wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders (ruptured Achilles tendon) derailed those hopes, sending the Broncos to a season-ending four-game losing streak and a 6\u201310 record \u2013 only a one-win improvement from 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season\nThe Broncos missed the playoffs for a third consecutive season, suffered back-to-back losing seasons for the first time since 1971\u20131972 and back-to-back double-digit losses for the first time since 1966\u20131967, resulting in the firing of head coach Vance Joseph at the end of the season. Joseph posted an 11\u201321 record in his two seasons as the Broncos' head coach. This was the third consecutive season with one game involving the Broncos getting at least 30 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season\nThis was also the 35th and final season under the ownership of Pat Bowlen, who died on June 13, 2019. This was also the Broncos' lone season playing at Broncos Stadium at Mile High.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Front office changes\nOn July 2, Tom Heckert Jr., who had worked as a director of pro personnel and senior personnel advisor since 2013, stepped down from his position due to health concerns and the expiration of his contract. Heckert was diagnosed with amyloidosis in 2015 and was placed on medical leave during the second half of that season. Heckert died on August 6, 2018, at the age of 51. Former Broncos' head coach Gary Kubiak remained as the team's lone senior personnel adviser until the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Ownership sale\nOn March 21, 2018, the Broncos announced that John Bowlen, the brother of majority owner Pat Bowlen, agreed to sell a portion of his minority stake in the franchise back to the team. The statement released by the team said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Ownership sale\n\"The Denver Broncos have reached an agreement to purchase a portion of minority owner John Bowlen's share of the team, pending final approval from the NFL that is expected in the next few days. This transaction further consolidates Pat Bowlen's majority, controlling ownership interest in the Broncos while keeping 100 percent of the team in the Bowlen family. The acquisition of this share is independent of Mr. Bowlen's succession plan that is being administered by the Pat Bowlen Trust. John has been a great partner for many years, and we are very pleased he will remain a minority owner of the Denver Broncos.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Roster changes, Draft\nDespite early reports that the Broncos would draft a quarterback, plus the draft of several offensive players, the Broncos stayed with Case Keenum, Paxton Lynch and Chad Kelly going into mini-camps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Roster changes, Undrafted free agents\nAll undrafted free agents were signed after the 2018 NFL Draft concluded on April 28, unless noted otherwise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nFor an eighth consecutive year, the Broncos kicked off the season at home, with the Seahawks as their Week 1 opponent. Following an interception of Broncos' quarterback Case Keenum by Seahawks' safety Earl Thomas midway through the first quarter, quarterback Russell Wilson connected with tight end Will Dissly on a 15-yard touchdown pass. The Broncos responded on their next possession, with Keenum throwing a 29-yard touchdown pass to running back Phillip Lindsay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nAfter a 35-yard field goal by placekicker Sebastian Janikowski gave the Seahawks a 10\u20137 lead early in the second quarter, the Broncos claimed the lead with a 43-yard touchdown pass from Keenum to wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders. A 51-yard field goal by placekicker Brandon McManus later in the second quarter increased the Broncos' lead to 17\u201310. At the two-minute warning, Janikowski missed wide left on a 51-yard field goal, however, he got a second chance as the result of an offsides penalty on Broncos' cornerback Tramaine Brock. Janikowski missed wide left again on the second attempt \u2013 from 46 yards out. Three plays later, the Broncos' reached the Seahawks' 26-yard line, and were hoping to increase their lead heading into halftime, however, Keenum was intercepted by safety Bradley McDougald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 890]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nFollowing an exchange of turnovers midway through the third quarter \u2013 a fumble recovery by Broncos' linebacker Von Miller off Seahawks' running back Chris Carson and another interception of Keenum by McDougald, the Seahawks pulled even, with Wilson connecting with wide receiver Brandon Marshall on a 20-yard touchdown pass. Following an interception of Wilson by Broncos' safety Justin Simmons, a 53-yard field goal by McManus later in the third quarter gave the Broncos a 20\u201317 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nOn the second play of the fourth quarter, the Seahawks reclaimed the lead, with Wilson launching a 51-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Tyler Lockett. The Broncos then drove 75 yards in seven plays, culminating in Keenum's third touchdown pass of the game \u2013 a 4-yarder to wide receiver Demaryius Thomas in the corner of the end zone with 11:18 remaining in the game. The play was reviewed by instant replay, but was upheld as the result of Demaryius Thomas keeping both of his toes in the end zone. Both teams punted on their next two possessions, and after the Seahawks were forced to burn all three of their team timeouts, they had one last possession with 1:01 remaining in the game, however, Wilson was intercepted by cornerback Adam Jones at the Seahawks' 40-yard line, ending the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Oakland Raiders\nThe Broncos' offense went three-and-out on four of their six first half possessions. They reached the Raiders' 18-yard line on their fifth possession, which was aided by a 53-yard run by running back Phillip Lindsay, however, a pass attempt by quarterback Case Keenum intended for tight end Jake Butt near the goal line was intercepted by Raiders' cornerback Rashaan Melvin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Oakland Raiders\nThe Raiders took a 12\u20130 lead on a pair of field goals by placekicker Mike Nugent \u2013 a 26-yarder on the opening drive followed by a 46-yarder early in the second quarter \u2013 and a 1-yard touchdown run by running back Marshawn Lynch just before halftime. The extra-point attempt on the Lynch touchdown was blocked by Broncos' linebacker Shaquil Barrett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Oakland Raiders\nThe Broncos got on the scoreboard on the opening possession of the second half, with a 1-yard touchdown run by running back Royce Freeman. The drive was kept alive by an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Raiders' linebacker Bruce Irvin, after the Raiders' defense had stopped the Broncos on third down at the 9-yard line. The Raiders responded on their next possession, with a 20-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Derek Carr to wide receiver Seth Roberts at the 5:31 mark of the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Oakland Raiders\nThe Raiders were held scoreless for the remainder of the game, and the Broncos pulled to within a 19\u201310 deficit, with a 39-yard field goal by placekicker Brandon McManus. The Raiders then drove to the Broncos' 33-yard line, and faced a 4th-and-1, however, instead of kicking a long field goal, the Raiders opted for a short pass from Carr to fullback Keith Smith, which fell incomplete. The Broncos then assembled a 14-play, 67-yard drive, with Keenum diving for a 1-yard touchdown on a 4th-and-goal quarterback draw, narrowing the Raiders' lead to 19\u201317 with 6:02 remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Oakland Raiders\nKeenum's run was reviewed, but upheld by instant replay. The Raiders gained two first downs, reached midfield and forced the Broncos to burn the last two of their three team timeouts, but were forced to punt just before the two-minute warning. Following an offensive holding penalty that drove the Broncos back to their own 10-yard line, Keenum engineered a 10-play, 62-yard drive, culminating in McManus kicking a game-winning 36-yard field goal with only 10 seconds left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0013-0003", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Oakland Raiders\nThe drive was keyed by a 26-yard completion from Keenum to wide receiver Tim Patrick, who evaded tackles by Raiders' cornerbacks Gareon Conley and Leon Hall, who unsuccessfully tried to keep Patrick from scampering out of bounds with both teams out of timeouts. The Broncos' defense thwarted the Raiders' last desperation play of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Oakland Raiders\nWith a temperature of 92\u00a0\u00b0F (33\u00a0\u00b0C), this was the hottest home game in Broncos' franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Baltimore Ravens\nIn their first road game of the season, the Broncos were plagued by several penalties, in a 27\u201314 loss at the Baltimore Ravens. After Ravens' punter Sam Koch has his punt blocked by Joseph Jones on the opening possession of the game, the Broncos grabbed the early lead on the next play, with a 6-yard touchdown run by running back Royce Freeman. The Ravens countered, with running back Alex Collins rushing for a 6-yard touchdown. The drive started at the Broncos' 48-yard line, after Broncos' cornerback Isaac Yiadom was flagged for an unnecessary roughness penalty while on the sidelines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Baltimore Ravens\nThe Broncos grabbed a 14\u20137 lead on their next possession, with a 35-yard touchdown run by wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders on an end-around. However, the Broncos were held scoreless for the remainder of the game. The Ravens pulled to within a 14\u201310 deficit late in the first quarter, with a 52-yard field goal by placekicker Justin Tucker, and took the lead for good midway through the second quarter, with a 12-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Joe Flacco to running back Javorius Allen. The play was initially ruled down at the 1-yard line, but changed by instant replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0015-0002", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Baltimore Ravens\nAfter the Broncos went three-and-out, the Ravens were attempting to add to their lead, but Tucker's 43-yard field goal attempt was blocked by Justin Simmons and recovered by Chris Harris, Jr., who scampered down the sideline for a touchdown. However, Harris' touchdown was nullified by an illegal block penalty on the return by Billy Turner, pushing back the first play of scrimmage of the Broncos' next drive back to near midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0015-0003", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Baltimore Ravens\nThree plays later, the Broncos reached the Ravens' 25-yard line, however, on the fourth play, Ravens' linebacker Terrell Suggs forced a fumble off Broncos' quarterback Case Keenum, and running back Phillip Lindsay was ejected from the game just before the two-minute warning for unsportsmanlike conduct while trying to recover the fumble. This pushed the Broncos out of field goal range, and another field 52-yard field goal by Tucker gave the Ravens a 20\u201314 lead at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Baltimore Ravens\nThe Ravens added to their lead on their first possession of the second half, with a 1-yard run by Allen, which was the final scoring play of the game. The drive was aided by a defensive offsides penalty on Broncos' defensive end Derek Wolfe on a 3rd-and-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Baltimore Ravens\nThe Broncos committed three costly penalties on their next drive \u2013 offensive holding on Garett Bolles that negated a 39-yard pass completion from Keenum to wide receiver Demaryius Thomas at the Ravens' 11-yard line, a holding call on Connor McGovern at the Ravens' 31-yard line and an unnecessary roughness flag on Ronald Leary that pushed the Broncos out of field goal range. The Broncos reached the Ravens' 5-yard line on their first possession of the fourth quarter, but Keenum was intercepted by Patrick Onwuasor, who ran 89 yards for a touchdown. However, the touchdown was nullified by an illegal block on the return. The Broncos had one more possession, but turned the football over on downs with three minutes remaining in the game, and the Ravens ran out the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nAfter an exchange of field goals in the first quarter \u2013 a 42-yarder by Broncos placekicker Brandon McManus and a 33-yarder by Chiefs' placekicker Harrison Butker, Chiefs' quarterback Patrick Mahomes scrambled for an 8-yard touchdown and Broncos' running back Royce Freeman ran for a 14-yard touchdown \u2013 both midway through the second quarter. A 34-yard field goal by McManus just before halftime gave the Broncos a 13\u201310 lead. A 21-yard field goal by Butker on the Chiefs' opening possession of the second half tied the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nA 1-yard touchdown run by running back Phillip Lindsay later in the third quarter, coupled with a 46-yard field goal by McManus early in the fourth quarter gave the Broncos a 23\u201313 lead. Mahomes then engineered a 12-play, 75-yard drive, culminating in a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Travis Kelce to narrow the Broncos lead to 23\u201320 with 6:30 remaining in the game. After the Broncos went three-and-out, the Chiefs grabbed a 27\u201323 lead, with a 4-yard touchdown pass to running back Kareem Hunt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0017-0002", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nThe drive featured a critical third-down conversion, in which Mahomes threw left-handed to wide receiver Tyreek Hill while being pursued out of bounds by Broncos' linebackers Von Miller and Shane Ray. The drive was also marred with controversy, in which the Broncos claimed that the referees missed a delay-of-game call on a critical third-down play. With 1:39 remaining in the game and no timeouts, the Broncos attempted a rally, and reached the Chiefs' 28-yard line with 32 seconds remaining after a 36-yard completion from quarterback Case Keenum to tight end Jeff Heuerman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0017-0003", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nOn the next play, Keenum overthrew wide receiver Demaryius Thomas down the sideline on a potential game-winning touchdown. With 16 seconds left, and facing a 4th-and-10, Keenum completed a pass to wide receiver Courtland Sutton, and Sutton attempted a hook-and-lateral, which was fumbled and recovered by Chiefs' defensive end Justin Houston, but ruled incomplete after instant replay, ending the Broncos' rally attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nThis was the first of two games in which the Broncos wore their alternate navy blue jerseys \u2013 the other was Week 15 vs. the Cleveland Browns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at New York Jets\nAfter forcing a fumble on the Jets' opening drive, the Broncos took the early lead, with an 8-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Case Keenum to wide receiver Courtland Sutton. However, the Jets took control of the game in the second quarter. The Broncos' defense allowed Jets' running back Isaiah Crowell to rush for 219 yards, including a 77-yard touchdown, and quarterback Sam Darnold threw three touchdown passes \u2013 including a 76-yarder to wide receiver Robby Anderson. From the second quarter onward, the Broncos' offense only managed a 30-yard field goal by placekicker Brandon McManus and a 42-yard touchdown pass from Keenum to wide receiver Demaryius Thomas \u2013 the latter of which occurred after the game had been decided in the Jets' favor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Los Angeles Rams\nThe Rams took an early 6\u20130 lead, with a pair of field goals by placekicker Cairo Santos \u2013 a 26- and a 39-yarder. Near the end of the first quarter, quarterback Case Keenum completed what was initially ruled as a 44-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders, who was immediately flagged for a taunting penalty against Rams' cornerback Troy Hill, which would have been penalized on the kickoff. However, instant replay determined that Sanders was ruled down at the 1-yard line by contact, where the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty was assessed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Los Angeles Rams\nThe Broncos were forced to settle for a 28-yard field goal by placekicker Brandon McManus. A 10-yard touchdown run by Rams' running back Todd Gurley was the only scoring play of the second quarter. The Broncos reached the Rams' 28-yard line on the first possession of the second quarter, only to have a holding penalty on offensive tackle Garett Bolles push them out of field goal range. Following an exchange of punts to start the second half, the Rams increased their lead to 20\u20133, with a 1-yard run by Gurley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0020-0002", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Los Angeles Rams\nOn the Rams' next possession, quarterback Jared Goff was intercepted by Broncos' safety Darian Stewart on a deflected pass deep in Rams' territory, and two plays later, Keenum connected with Sanders on a 22-yard touchdown pass near the end of the third quarter. After forcing a Rams' punt, the Broncos reached the 6-yard line, but were forced to settle for a 24-yard field goal by McManus at the 8:57 mark of the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0020-0003", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Los Angeles Rams\nThe Broncos' defense prevented the Rams defense from reaching the end zone, however, Santos responded with a 21-yard field goal to give the Rams a 23\u201313 lead with 3:19 remaining. Without any timeouts, the Broncos reached the end zone in nine plays, and pulled to within a 23\u201320 deficit, with a 1-yard touchdown pass from Keenum to wide receiver Demaryius Thomas with 1:27 remaining in the game. However, the onside kick attempt was unsuccessful, and the Rams ran out the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Arizona Cardinals\nThe Broncos' defense returned two interceptions off Cardinals' quarterback Josh Rosen for touchdowns in the first quarter \u2013 one by linebacker Todd Davis and the other by cornerback Chris Harris, Jr., and wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders received and threw a touchdown pass, in a 45\u201310 rout of the Cardinals. Running backs Royce Freeman and Phillip Lindsay each rushed for a touchdown, and after surrendering a combined 593 rushing yards in their previous two games against the Los Angeles Rams and New York Jets, the Broncos' defense allowed only 69 rushing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Arizona Cardinals\nThe Broncos improved their all-time series record against the Cardinals to 9\u20131\u20131. This was the only game during the 2018 season in which the Broncos scored 30 or more points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Kansas City Chiefs\nFor the second time in the month of October, the Broncos faced their AFC West rival Kansas City Chiefs. A 1-yard touchdown run by running back Phillip Lindsay gave the Broncos the early lead. The Chiefs got on the board, with a 24-yard field goal by placekicker Harrison Butker, a drive that was aided by a defensive pass interference penalty on Broncos cornerback Bradley Roby on a 3rd-and-19. Broncos' placekicker Brandon McManus missed wide right on a 55-yard field goal attempt, one play after wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders was tackled for a 6-yard loss on an end-around.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Kansas City Chiefs\nThe Chiefs took the lead in the second quarter with two touchdown passes by quarterback Patrick Mahomes \u2013 a 9-yarder to tight end Travis Kelce and a 13-yarder to wide receiver Sammy Watkins \u2013 the latter with a missed extra point attempt. The Broncos pulled to within a 16\u201314 deficit just before halftime, with quarterback Case Keenum connecting with wide receiver Tim Patrick on a 24-yard touchdown pass. The Chiefs then increased their lead to 30\u201314 on their first two possessions of the second half, with two more touchdown passes by Mahomes \u2013 a 10-yarder to Watkins, followed by a 23-yarder to running back Kareem Hunt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Kansas City Chiefs\nOn the first play of the fourth quarter, the Broncos responded, with Keenum throwing a 4-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jeff Heuerman. However, the two-point conversion attempt was unsuccessful, which would have pulled the Broncos to within a one-score deficit. The Broncos' defense forced a turnover on the Chiefs' next possession, with safety Justin Simmons intercepting a pass from Mahomes at the Broncos' 39-yard line. However, four plays later, after the Broncos had reached the Chiefs' 39-yard line, Keenum was strip-sacked by Dee Ford, with Chiefs' linebacker Breeland Speaks recovering the fumble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Kansas City Chiefs\nThe Broncos' defense forced a Chiefs punt, however, on the next possession, Keenum was intercepted by cornerback Kendall Fuller near midfield. Following an exchange of punts, and after burning two of their three team timeouts, the Broncos drove 46 yards in ten plays, with a 36-yard field goal by McManus pulling the Broncos to within a 30\u201323 deficit just after the two-minute warning. The Broncos' defense forced a three-and-out from the Chiefs, and the Broncos had one last offensive play, however, with only four seconds left and no timeouts, their last desperation play of the game was unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Kansas City Chiefs\nThe Broncos lost their seventh consecutive game against the Chiefs \u2013 surpassing the team's longest losing skid against the Chiefs since a six-game streak from 1970 to 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Houston Texans\nThe Texans took the lead on their game's opening drive, with a 7-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Deshaun Watson to tight end Jordan Thomas. A 44-yard field goal by Broncos' placekicker Brandon McManus put the Broncos on the scoreboard. However, after running back Devontae Booker lost a fumble deep in Broncos' territory early in the second quarter, the Texans capitalized, with Watson connecting with wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins on a 16-yard touchdown (with a missed extra point attempt). Following an exchange of punts, Booker redeemed himself, with a 14-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Houston Texans\nWith only 22 seconds remaining in the first half, McManus missed wide right on a 62-yard field goal attempt, giving the Texans a short field and an opportunity to score. Broncos' head coach Vance Joseph attempted to ice Texans' placekicker Ka'imi Fairbairn prior to attempting a half-ending 46-yard field. The initial attempt missed wide right, however, Fairbairn's second attempt was successful, giving the Texans a 16\u201310 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0026-0002", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Houston Texans\nThe Broncos took their first and only lead of the game, with quarterback Case Keenum throwing a 12-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jeff Heuerman, which was the only scoring play of the third quarter. The Texans reclaimed the lead early in the fourth quarter, with a 37-yard field goal by Fairbairn. The drive was extended as the result of a defensive holding penalty on Broncos' safety Su'a Cravens on a third-down play. Following an exchange of punts, the Broncos, trailing 19\u201317, had one last offensive possession, and reached the Texans' 33-yard line, however, McManus missed wide right on a 51-yard field goal as time expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Houston Texans\nWide receiver Demaryius Thomas, who was traded by the Broncos to the Texans earlier in the week, made his debut in a Texans' uniform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Los Angeles Chargers\nA pair of first quarter field goals by placekicker Michael Badgley \u2013 from 46 and 45 yards out \u2013 gave the Chargers the early lead. The Broncos grabbed the lead early in the second quarter, with a 41-yard touchdown run by running back Phillip Lindsay. On the next possession, Chargers' quarterback Philip Rivers was intercepted by cornerback Chris Harris, Jr., giving the Broncos the football near midfield. However, on the fifth play of the drive, the Broncos opted to convert a 4th-and-1 at the Chargers' 16-yard line instead of kicking a field goal, but Lindsay was stopped for no gain. The Chargers regained the lead on their next possession, with Rivers connecting on a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Keenan Allen, one play after Rivers was nearly intercepted in the end zone on a deflected pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 900]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Los Angeles Chargers\nThe Chargers took the opening possession of the second half and added to their lead, with Rivers throwing his second touchdown pass \u2013 a 6-yarder to tight end Antonio Gates. However, Badgley missed wide left on the extra point attempt, keeping the score at 19\u20137. The Broncos went three and out on their first offensive possession of the second half, and the Chargers were attempting to pull away from the Broncos on their next possession. However, as the Chargers reached the Broncos' 35-yard line, Rivers was intercepted by linebacker Von Miller on a screen pass attempt, and Miller returned the interception to the Chargers' 18-yard line. The Broncos capitalized three plays later, with running back Royce Freeman rushing for a three-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Los Angeles Chargers\nAfter forcing a three-and-out from the Chargers, the Broncos took a 20\u201319 lead early in the fourth quarter, with Lindsay rushing for a 2-yard touchdown on a direct snap. Quarterback Case Keenum's two-point attempt was unsuccessful, as he was stopped just short of the goal line. The Chargers then drove to the Broncos' 12-yard line in eight plays, and a 30-yard field goal by Badgley gave the Chargers a 22\u201320 lead with 6:51 remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Los Angeles Chargers\nThe Broncos were attempting a rally, and reached the Chargers' 45-yard line with four minutes remaining in the game, but were forced to punt. The possession was extended by a fumble from wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders that was reversed by instant replay and ruled as an incomplete pass, as well as a Keenum interception that was nullified by a defensive holding penalty on Chargers' safety Jahleel Addae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0030-0002", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Los Angeles Chargers\nThe Chargers got the football back, and attempted to run out the clock after gaining one first down and forcing the Broncos to burn all of their timeouts, but were forced to punt just after the two-minute warning. With 1:51 remaining in the game and the Broncos backed up to their own 8-yard line, Keenum engineered a 7-play, 76-yard drive, culminating in placekicker Brandon McManus kicking a game-winning 34-yard field goal as time expired. The Chargers unsuccessfully tried to ice McManus, calling a timeout prior to McManus' first attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe Broncos donned their orange color rush uniforms in the Week 12 matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers, who were victimized by several missed scoring opportunities. On the Steelers' first possession, placekicker Chris Boswell's 48-yard field goal attempt was blocked by Justin Simmons. The Broncos took the early lead, with a 41-yard field goal by placekicker Brandon McManus \u2013 the only scoring play of the first quarter. The Steelers then drove down the field, attempting to take their first lead, with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger completing a pass to tight end Xavier Grimble along the sidelines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nHowever, Broncos' safety Will Parks forced a fumble just before Grimble reached the goal line, with the football going out of the end zone for a touchback. Following a Broncos' punt, Boswell atoned for his earlier blocked field goal attempt, with a 41-yard field goal. The first touchdown of the game came courtesy of a 10-yard touchdown pass from Broncos' quarterback Case Keenum to tight end Matt LaCosse at the 3:33 mark of the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0031-0002", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe Steelers then marched down the field, and were attempting a 19-yard field goal attempt to close out the first half, however, the Steelers' special teams caught the Broncos off-guard, with a 2-yard touchdown from Boswell to Alejandro Villanueva on a fake field goal pass to tie the game at 10\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nFollowing an exchange of punts to begin the second half, the Steelers grabbed their first (and only) lead of the game, with Roethlisberger launching a 97-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster. Following a three-and-out from the Broncos, the Steelers were attempting to add to their lead, however, Roethlisberger was intercepted by cornerback Chris Harris, Jr. The Broncos capitalized two plays later, with Keenum connecting with wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders on a 5-yard touchdown to tie the game at 17\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nFollowing another exchange of punts, the Steelers reached the Broncos' 23-yard line, however, Broncos' cornerback Bradley Roby forced a fumble off Steelers' running back James Conner near the end of the third quarter. The Broncos once again capitalized, with an 11-play, 79-yard drive, culminating in a 2-yard touchdown run by running back Phillip Lindsay. This gave the Broncos a 24\u201317 lead at the 9:22 mark of the fourth quarter. Both teams punted on their next possession, and the Steelers, with only one timeout, had one last offensive possession with 4:26 remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0032-0002", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nJust before the two-minute warning, the Steelers reached the Broncos' 3-yard line, with a first-and-goal. However, on the third play after the two-minute warning, Roethlisberger's short pass intended for wide receiver Antonio Brown was intercepted by linebacker Shelby Harris for a touchback \u2013 the Steelers' fourth turnover of the game \u2013 to seal the win for the Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Cincinnati Bengals\nNeither team advanced past their opponent's 43-yard line through their first three possessions, until the Broncos' fourth possession, in which placekicker Brandon McManus missed wide left on a 50-yard field goal attempt. The first points of the game came courtesy of a 6-yard touchdown run by Broncos' running back Phillip Lindsay at the two-minute warning. The Bengals then drove down the field, however, the Broncos' defense limited the Bengals to a 35-yard field goal by placekicker Randy Bullock just before halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0033-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Cincinnati Bengals\nFollowing an exchange of punts to begin the second half, the Broncos increased their lead, with quarterback Case Keenum connecting with wide receiver Courtland Sutton on a 30-yard touchdown pass. The Bengals reached the Broncos' 30-yard line on their second possession of the second half, however quarterback Jeff Driskel, playing in place of the injured Andy Dalton, was intercepted by cornerback Justin Simmons at the 7-yard line. The Broncos capitalized four plays later, with Lindsay rushing for a 65-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0033-0002", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Cincinnati Bengals\nThe Bengals responded, with Driskel throwing a 30-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Cody Core to narrow the Broncos' lead to 21\u201310. Despite a lost fumble by Broncos' running back Royce Freeman near midfield toward the end of the third quarter, the Bengals' offense did not advance past the Broncos' 47-yard line for the remainder of the game. With 2:49 remaining in the game, linebacker Bradley Chubb forced a fumble off Driskel, and with the Bengals out of timeouts, a 29-yard field goal by McManus with only 27 seconds left put the game out of reach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at San Francisco 49ers\nThe Broncos fell behind 20\u20130 at halftime, and the defense allowed 210 receiving yards to 49ers' tight end George Kittle \u2013 85 of which came on one play, which resulted in a 49ers' touchdown. Placekicker Robbie Gould added two field goals \u2013 a 40-yarder in the first quarter followed by a 29-yarder in the second quarter, and quarterback Nick Mullens also threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Dante Pettis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0034-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at San Francisco 49ers\nThe Broncos' offense accumulated only 70 total yards on their first six possessions (excluding a kneel down before halftime), went 2-for-15 on third down conversions and running back Phillip Lindsay, who rushed for 157 yards against the Bengals during the previous week, was held to just 30 yards rushing. The Broncos finally got on the scoreboard at the six-minute mark of the third quarter, with a 3-yard rushing touchdown by Lindsay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0034-0002", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at San Francisco 49ers\nThe Broncos' offense failed on two 4th-down conversions on their next two possessions, and with only 3:57 remaining in the game, a 1-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Case Keenum to wide receiver DaeSean Hamilton pulled the Broncos to within a 20\u201314 deficit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0034-0003", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at San Francisco 49ers\nHowever, the Broncos' defense was unable to prevent Mullens from converting two crucial third-down pass completions prior to the two-minute warning, forcing the Broncos to burn two timeouts \u2013 the other timeout was lost another on an unsuccessful challenge, and leaving the Broncos with only eight seconds for one last desperation pass play, which was snuffed out by the 49ers' defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Cleveland Browns\nThe Cleveland Browns took the early lead, with quarterback Baker Mayfield launching a 31-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Breshad Perriman. After going three-and-out on their first two possessions, the Broncos got on the scoreboard later in the first quarter, with quarterback Case Keenum rushing for a 1-yard touchdown, then grabbed the lead midway through the second quarter, with a 44-yard field goal by placekicker Brandon McManus. Cleveland responded on their next possession, with a 40-yard field goal by placekicker Greg Joseph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Cleveland Browns\nThe Broncos were attempting to re-take the lead on their next possession, reaching the Cleveland 29-yard line, however Keenum was intercepted by Cleveland safety Jabrill Peppers in the end zone for a touchback. The Broncos' defense subsequently returned the favor, as Cleveland reached the Broncos' 30-yard line just before halftime, however, Mayfield was intercepted by safety Dymonte Thomas near the goal line. After forcing a fumble off Mayfield, a 42-yard field goal by McManus gave the Broncos a 13\u201310 lead late in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Cleveland Browns\nAfter forcing a Cleveland punt, Keenum was intercepted by cornerback T. J. Carrie at the Broncos' 48-yard line on the second play of the fourth quarter. Six plays later, Cleveland capitalized and took a 17\u201313 lead, with a 2-yard touchdown pass from Mayfield to wide receiver Antonio Callaway. With 11:49 left in the game, the Broncos drove 64 yards in 13 plays, and instead of trying to convert a 4th-and-1 at the Cleveland 6-yard line, they elected for a 29-yard field goal by McManus to pull within a 17\u201316 deficit with 4:39 left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Cleveland Browns\nCleveland drove down to the Broncos' 10-yard line and forced the Broncos to use the last two of their three team timeouts. However, instead of trying to increase their lead with a field goal, Cleveland attempted to run out the clock, but running back Nick Chubb was stopped for a 2-yard loss on a 4th-and-1 at the Broncos' 12-yard line. The Broncos reached midfield with 1:12 remaining in the game, however, after Keenum spiked the football on first down and two incomplete passes, Keenum was sacked by Peppers to end the Broncos' rally attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Cleveland Browns\nThis was the Cleveland Browns' first victory over the Broncos since 1990, snapping an 11-game losing streak to the Broncos. The Broncos own a 23\u20136 all-time record vs. Cleveland (including the playoffs). The Broncos wore their alternate navy blue jerseys for this game. This game featured Broncos' linebacker Bradley Chubb playing against his cousin, Cleveland running back Nick Chubb. With the loss, coupled with the Tennessee Titans' victory over the New York Giants the following day, the Broncos were officially eliminated from postseason contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Oakland Raiders\nThe Broncos fell behind 17\u20130 by halftime to the Raiders \u2013 the second time in three weeks in which they were shutout in the first half. On their first possession, the Broncos punted, and cornerback Isaac Yiadom failed to down the punt neat the goal line. Raiders' return specialist Dwayne Harris took advantage of Yiadom's blunder by returning the football 99 yards for a touchdown. The Raiders later increased their lead to 17\u20130 in the second quarter, with a 24-yard touchdown run by running back Doug Martin and a 43-yard field goal by placekicker Daniel Carlson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0038-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Oakland Raiders\nThe Broncos' offense failed to advance past the Raiders' 45-yard line on their first five drives, and on their sixth drive, placekicker Brandon McManus missed short on a 58-yard field goal attempt just before halftime. The Broncos finally got on the scoreboard at the 4:40 mark of the third quarter, with a 7-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Case Keenum to wide receiver DaeSean Hamilton, which was the only scoring play of the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0038-0002", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Oakland Raiders\nThe Raiders responded, with a 12-play, 72-yard drive that consumed 7:20, culminating in a 3-yard touchdown run by running back Jalen Richard early in the fourth quarter. The Broncos once again pulled to within a 10\u2013point deficit, with Keenum throwing his second touchdown of the second half \u2013 a 19-yarder to wide receiver Courtland Sutton. The touchdown was disputed by the Raiders' bench \u2013 thinking that Keenum had crossed the line of scrimmage prior to the pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0038-0003", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Oakland Raiders\nAfter forcing a three-and-out, the Broncos were attempting a rally, however, Keenum was intercepted by safety Marcus Gilchrist, and a 45-yard field goal by Carlson increased the Raiders' lead to 27\u201314 with 4:42 remaining in the game. Without any timeouts, the Broncos had one last possession, however, Keenum was intercepted again \u2013 this time by safety Erik Harris, which ended the Broncos' rally attempt. With the loss, the Broncos clinched back-to-back losing seasons for the first time since 1971\u20131972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Los Angeles Chargers\nThe Broncos hosted the Los Angeles Chargers in the 2018 regular season finale. Chargers' quarterback Philip Rivers was intercepted twice by the Broncos' defense in the first quarter, however, the Broncos failed to capitalize both times. After a scoreless first quarter, Chargers' linebacker Kyle Emanuel recovered a fumble off a lateral pass and fumble by Broncos' quarterback Case Keenum for an 18-yard touchdown. The Broncos reached the red zone just before halftime, but were forced to settle on a 28-yard field goal by placekicker Brandon McManus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 93], "content_span": [94, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0039-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Los Angeles Chargers\nThe Broncos got a reprieve after Keenum was intercepted by safety Jahleel Addae in the end zone, who lost the fumble on the runback and was recovered by offensive tackle Elijah Wilkinson. The Chargers increased their lead late in the third quarter, with a 3-yard touchdown pass from Rivers to wide receiver Mike Williams. The Broncos pulled to within a 14\u20139 deficit early in the fourth quarter, with Keenum connecting on a 20-yard touchdown pass to fullback Andy Janovich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 93], "content_span": [94, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0039-0002", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Los Angeles Chargers\nThe Broncos attempted a two-point conversion, hoping to pull to within a three-point deficit, however, Keenum was intercepted by linebacker Casey Hayward three yards deep in the end zone, who ran down the field 103 yards for a defensive two-point conversion. The Chargers responded and increased their lead to 23\u20139, with a 1-yard touchdown run by running back Austin Ekeler with six minutes remaining in the game. The Broncos had one last offensive possession and reached the Chargers' 31-yard line, but turned the football over on downs just before the two-minute warning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 93], "content_span": [94, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Los Angeles Chargers\nOne day after the game (December 31), Vance Joseph was fired after posting an 11\u201321 record in his two seasons as the Broncos' head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 93], "content_span": [94, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Awards and honors, Pro Bowl and All-Pro selections\nLinebacker Von Miller and running back Phillip Lindsay were selected to the 2019 Pro Bowl, while linebacker Bradley Chubb, cornerback Chris Harris, Jr. and wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders were named as alternates. Miller was also voted to the 2018 All-Pro Team and named to the Second Team. Lindsay became the first undrafted rookie in NFL history to earn a Pro Bowl selection, however, due to a wrist injury that he suffered during the Broncos' second-to-last game of the season, Lindsay did not play in the Pro Bowl, and served as an NFL social media correspondent instead. Sanders did not participate due to a ruptured Achilles tendon that ended his season on December 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Awards and honors, Pro Bowl and All-Pro selections\nOn January 16, 2019, Casey Kreiter was selected as the first long snapper to ever be selected to a Pro Bowl. Five days later, Harris was selected to the Pro Bowl roster as a replacement for New England Patriots' cornerback Stephon Gilmore. Harris was declared healthy after suffering a broken fibula that forced him to miss the Broncos' last four games of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Other news and notes\nOn June 20, the Broncos reached a temporary naming rights agreement for their home stadium. Colorado-based sporting goods retailer Sports Authority previously held the naming rights for the Broncos' stadium from 2011 to 2017, despite going bankrupt in 2016. Shortly after the end of the 2017 season, the Broncos removed the old signage from the exterior of their stadium \u2013 formerly known as \"Sports Authority Field at Mile High,\" and previously known as \"Invesco Field at Mile High\" from 2001 to 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278595-0043-0001", "contents": "2018 Denver Broncos season, Other news and notes\nFor the 2018 season, the official name, which was approved by the Metropolitan Football Stadium District board, was known as \"Broncos Stadium at Mile High,\" until the team came to terms on a new naming rights deal just before the start of the 2019 season, renaming the Broncos' home field as Empower Field at Mile High.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278596-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Denver Outlaws season\nThe 2018 Denver Outlaws season was the thirteenth season for the Denver Outlaws of Major League Lacrosse. The Denver Outlaws were coming off a 9-5 2017 season in which they finished in first place. They made it back to the league championship game, but lost for the fifth time in seven trips. This time, they lost a 2016 Steinfeld Cup rematch with the Ohio Machine, surrendering seven unanswered goals in the fourth quarter for a 17-12 defeat. However, the Outlaws came into 2018 with an 8-6 record and having won titles in back-to-back even-numbered years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278597-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Derby City Council election\nThe 2018 Derby City Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Derby City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour group on the council suffered losses of both the Council Leader Ranjit Banwait and the mayor John Whitby, as well as then cabinet member Sara Bolton, who lost by over 1,000 votes to Conservative Rob Cooper. Labour lost its overall majority on the council, and a Conservative minority administration was formed with Liberal Democrat and UKIP backing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278597-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Derby City Council election, Election results\nAll comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 2014 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278597-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Derby City Council election, Ward results, Derwent\nNote: Derwent ward was won by UKIP at the previous regular election in 2014, but gained by the Conservatives in a by-election on 9 March 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278598-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Derry Senior Football Championship was the 95th edition of Derry GAA's premier gaelic football tournament for the sixteen senior clubs in Derry Football League Division 1. The winners receive the John McLaughlin Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278598-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry Senior Football Championship\nColeraine won their second title, beating Lavey by 1-12 to 0-12 in the final at Celtic Park on 28 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278598-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry Senior Football Championship\nSlaughtneil were the defending champions, having won \"4-in-a-row\" by defeating Ballinascreen 4-12 to 1-11 in the final on 24 September 2017 in Celtic Park. They were beaten by 1-11 to 0-13 by Coleraine on 3 October 2018 in a quarter-final replay. This was their first defeat in the Derry senior championship since they lost to Lavey by 3-07 to 1-11 in a first round game on 16 August 2015. They subsequently progressed through the qualifier system to win the 2015 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278598-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry Senior Football Championship, Competition Format\nThe senior championship reverted to straight knock-out in 2016 and the format continues with some minor alterations. If the score is level at the end of the normal sixty minutes, the match is replayed. If the replay is also level at the end of normal time, two ten minutes halves are played each way. At the end (or close to the end) of each round, a random draw is held to determine the fixtures in the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278598-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry Senior Football Championship, Competition Format\nIn Derry, relegation or promotion within the league system determines which championship a club competes in \u2013 Division 1 teams compete in the senior championship, Division 2 teams in the intermediate championship and Division 3 teams in the junior championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278598-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry Senior Football Championship, Competition Format\n2018 was the last year for this league format as the adult football leagues in Derry were restructured to Division 1A - 12 teams, Division 1B - 12 teams and Division 2 - 14 teams (previously there were 16 teams in Division 1, 14 teams in Division 2 and 8 teams in Division 3) for the start of the 2019 season. Five teams were relegated from the 2018 Division 1 to the new 2019 Division 1B (see section 'Relegations and promotions in 2018' below for details). The 2019 senior championship was competed for by the top 15 teams in the 2018 Division 1 and Banagher, the winners of the 2018 Division 2. Claudy, who finished 16th in 2018, were relegated to the 2019 intermediate football championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278598-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry Senior Football Championship, Competition Format\nA back-door format was used from 2009 to 2015. Four initial \u2018round-robin\u2019 groups of four teams with the top two teams in each group progressing to the four knockout quarter-finals were used in seasons 2007 and 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278598-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry Senior Football Championship, Recent history of relegations and promotions, Relegations and promotions in 2018\nFive teams were relegated from the old Division 1 in 2018 to the new Division 1B in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 121], "content_span": [122, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278598-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry Senior Football Championship, Recent history of relegations and promotions, Relegations and promotions in 2018\nAll the 2018 Division 1 teams except Claudy (who finished bottom) retained the right to play in the 2019 senior championship. Claudy's place was taken by Banagher, the winners of the 2018 Division 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 121], "content_span": [122, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278598-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry Senior Football Championship, Senior Championship Draw\nThe championship begins on Friday 7 September 2018. The draw for the first round was held on Tuesday 15 May 2018. Subsequent draws are held at the end (or very near the end) of every round. The bracket below can only be completed when the semi-final draw is announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278598-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry Senior Football Championship, Quarter-Finals\nAn altercation involving Greenlough players, management and a supporter occurred on the pitch in the aftermath of Greenlough's quarter-final defeat to Ballinascreen. Referee Damien Harkin and one of his umpires were allegedly assaulted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278599-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry riots\nThe 2018 Derry riots were riots and civil disturbances taking place in Derry, Northern Ireland from 8 July 2018, before the Protestant Orange Order parade. It was the first 12 July parade to take place in Derry for five years. Violence broke out in the republican Bogside area in what has been called the worst in the city in \"decades\". The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has blamed the New IRA group for trying to kill police officers. Riot police fired plastic baton rounds, whilst at least 70 petrol bombs have been thrown at them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278599-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry riots\nThe riots have been condemned by senior leaders, including Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald who attended a \"not in my name\" rally. An Ulster Unionist Party MLA has claimed that the republican rioters are \"using children\" to blame the PSNI for the violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278599-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry riots\nViolence linked to the riots overspilled in other parts of Northern Ireland. On 13 July, the house of Gerry Adams in west Belfast was attacked with a home-made bomb. Adams survived injury and claimed that his two grandchildren were standing at the doorway only ten minutes before the blast at 10:50 pm. The house of another republican in Belfast, Bobby Storey, was also attacked the same day. However, no casualties were reported in either of the attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278599-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Derry riots\nOn 20 July, the New IRA claimed responsibility for gun and bomb attacks at police during the disturbances in Derry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278600-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dervish protests\nThe 2018 Dervish protests were a series of protests by the Iranian Dervishes, who are members of Sufi Islam, in Tehran, Iran. The protests started on 4 February, and calmed down the next day. However, protests flared up again on 19 February, where 3 members of the security forces were killed after being run over by a bus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278600-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dervish protests, Background\nThe Gonabadi Dervishes are Sufi Muslims; the Iranian government considers them a threat. Conversion to Sufism is frowned upon by the Shi'a religious establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278600-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dervish protests, Background\nIn January 2012, at least 10 of the group's members were imprisoned in Fars province, and others may be held at Evin Prison in Tehran, including Kasra Nouri", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278600-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dervish protests, Protests\nOn 19 February, the Sufis organized a sit-in protest at a police station, located in the Pasdaran district of Tehran, where one of their members was held. Later, clashes broke out between the Sufi protestors and security forces. Police used tear gas in an attempt to disperse the protesters. Five riot police were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278600-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dervish protests, Protests\nAccording to the Iranian press, police arrested around 300 people, and there have been reports that some of the protesters may have been killed. However, the Sufi dervishes gathered around the home of their 90-year-old leader Noor Ali Tabandeh to protect him from arrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278600-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Dervish protests, Protests\nIn the aftermath of the 19 February, protests, footage emerged that showed several Sufi protesters who were arrested, being tortured by government forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278600-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Dervish protests, Protests\nOn 4 March, it was revealed that one of the protesters had died under the custody of the Iranian government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278601-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Desert Diamond West Valley Phoenix Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Desert Diamond West Valley Phoenix Grand Prix was the second round of the 2018 IndyCar Series season and the first oval race of the season. It took place on April 7, 2018 at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. The race was won by Josef Newgarden for Team Penske, his eighth career win and third on an oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278601-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Desert Diamond West Valley Phoenix Grand Prix, Results, Race\nNotes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season\nThe 2018 season was the Detroit Lions' 89th in the National Football League (NFL) and their first under a new coaching staff led by head coach Matt Patricia. With their loss to the Los Angeles Rams in Week 13, the Lions failed to improve on their 9\u20137 campaign from the season before. With their Week 15 loss to the Buffalo Bills, the Lions clinched their first losing season since 2015, making this also their first losing season in the post-Calvin Johnson era. They also missed the playoffs for the second consecutive season and finished last in the NFC North for the first time since 2012 with a 6\u201310 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season\nDespite the disappointing season, the Lions were able to upset the defending back-to-back AFC Champion New England Patriots 26\u201310 during Week 3, marking their first win over the Patriots since 2000, which was also the first year of the Brady/Belichick era. The Lions were also able to sweep the Green Bay Packers for the second straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. New York Jets\nThe Lions opened the regular season at home, hosting the New York Jets on Monday Night Football. The Lions took an early lead in the first quarter when Quandre Diggs intercepted a Sam Darnold pass and ran it in from 37-yards, but the Jets quickly tied it up following a seven-yard touchdown run from Isaiah Crowell. In the second quarter, the Jets scored 10 more points via a 35-yard field goal by Jason Myers and a 41-yard touchdown pass from Darnold to Robby Anderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. New York Jets\nThe Lions scored the final points of the first half via a 21-yard field goal from Matt Prater, to make the score 17\u201310 in favor of the Jets at half-time. After the intermission, the Lions again tied the game following a 24-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to Golden Tate, for their only points of the second half. The Jets then scored 31 unanswered points for a runaway victory. First three touchdowns: a 21-yard reception by Quincy Enunwa, a 36-yard interception return by Darron Lee and a 78-yard punt return by Andre Roberts. After a 32-yard field goal by Jason Myers, the Jets capped off their lopsided win with a 62-yard run by Crowell, making the final score 48\u201317 in favor of New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 2: at San Francisco 49ers\nIn week 2, the Lions visited the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers took an early lead in the first quarter via a 45-yard field goal by Robbie Gould. The Lions responded with a 30-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to Kenny Golladay, to take their first and only lead of the game. The 49ers scored 10 points in the second quarter via a four-yard touchdown pass from Jimmy Garoppolo to Kendrick Bourne and a 42-yard field goal from Gould.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 83], "content_span": [84, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 2: at San Francisco 49ers\nThe Lions scored the final points of the first half via a 27-yard field goal from Matt Prater, to make the score 13\u201310 in favor of the 49ers at half-time. The 49ers scored 14 points in the third quarter via an 11-yard touchdown pass from Garoppolo to Garrett Celek and a 66-yard touchdown run from Matt Breida. The Lions then added a 43-yard field goal from Prater. The 49ers extended their lead in the fourth quarter via a 36-yard field goal from Gould. The Lions scored 14 points in the final quarter via a five-yard touchdown reception by Marvin Jones and a 15-yard touchdown reception by Michael Roberts, making the final score 30\u201327 in favor of San Francisco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 83], "content_span": [84, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. New England Patriots\nIn week 3, the Lions hosted the New England Patriots on Sunday Night Football. The Lions opened the scoring in the first quarter via a 38-yard field goal by Matt Prater to take a lead they never gave up. The Lions scored 10 points in the second quarter via a four-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to Kenny Golladay and a 25-yard field goal from Prater. The Patriots finally got on the board late in the quarter via a 36-yard field goal by Stephen Gostkowski, to make the score 13\u20133 in favor of the Lions at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 85], "content_span": [86, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. New England Patriots\nThe teams exchanged touchdowns in the third quarter, first a 10-yard touchdown pass from Tom Brady to James White for the Patriots, then a 33-yard touchdown pass from Stafford to Marvin Jones for the Lions. The Lions extended their lead in the fourth quarter via two field goals from Prater, from 32-yards and 30-yards, respectively, making the final score 26\u201310 in favor of Detroit, for their first win of the season. This was the Lions' first victory over the Patriots since the 2000 season. Kerryon Johnson's 101 rushing yards marked the first time a Lions player rushed for over 100 yards in a game since Reggie Bush on Thanksgiving Day in 2013, ending the fourth-longest streak (70 games) without a 100-yard rusher in NFL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 85], "content_span": [86, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 4: at Dallas Cowboys\nIn week 4, the Lions donned all-silver uniforms and visited the Dallas Cowboys. Dallas opened the scoring in the first quarter via a 32-yard field goal from Brett Maher. Detroit responded with a 45-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to Golden Tate, to take their first lead of the game. In the second quarter, both teams scored a field goal, first a 43-yard field goal by Maher for the Cowboys, then a 33-yard field goal by Matt Prater for the Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 4: at Dallas Cowboys\nThe Cowboys regained the lead with a 38-yard touchdown pass from Dak Prescott to Ezekiel Elliott, to make the score 13\u201310 in favor of the Dallas at half-time. The only points of the third quarter was from Dallas via a one-yard touchdown pass from Prescott to Geoff Swaim. The Lions scored a pair of touchdowns in the fourth quarter while the Cowboys had a pair of field goals. First an eight-yard touchdown run from Kerryon Johnson for Detroit, then a 22-yard field goal from Maher for Dallas. The Lions took a one-point lead when Tate caught a 38-yard touchdown pass from Stafford, but the Cowboys won in the final seconds of the game with a 38-yard field goal by Maher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Green Bay Packers\nIn week 5, the Lions hosted their divisional rival the Green Bay Packers. The Lions scored 24 unanswered points in the first half. First a pair of one-yard touchdown runs in the first quarter by LeGarrette Blount. The Lions added 10 points in the second quarter via a 39-yard field goal by Matt Prater and an eight-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to Marvin Jones, to make the score 24\u20130 in favor of the Lions at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Green Bay Packers\nThe Packers finally got on the board in the third quarter scoring 14 points via a three-yard touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers to Marquez Valdes-Scantling, followed by a two-point conversion pass from Rodgers to Jamaal Williams and a one-yard touchdown pass from Rodgers to Lance Kendricks. In the fourth quarter, Detroit scored their only points of the second half via a five-yard touchdown pass from Stafford to Kenny Golladay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Green Bay Packers\nGreen Bay added nine more points via a 12-yard touchdown pass from Rodgers to Davante Adams and a 41-yard field goal from Mason Crosby, making the final score 31\u201323 in favor of Detroit. Dating back to last season, it was the first time the Lions defeated the Packers three games in a row since they did so during the 1990 and 1991 seasons. They went into their bye week with a 2\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 7: at Miami Dolphins\nIn week 7, the Lions visited the Miami Dolphins. The Lions took an early lead in the first quarter, that they never gave back, following a 15-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to Michael Roberts. The Lions added 10 points in the second quarter, via a 29-yard field goal by Matt Prater and a two-yard touchdown run from LeGarrette Blount. Miami got on the board via a five-yard touchdown pass from Brock Osweiler to Kenny Stills, to make the score 17\u20137 in favor of the Lions at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 7: at Miami Dolphins\nThe Lions extended their lead in third quarter via a 28-yard field goal from Prater and a four-yard touchdown pass from Stafford to Roberts. The Dolphins responded with a 54-yard touchdown run by Kenyan Drake. The Lions added six points in the fourth quarter, via two field goals by Prater from 35-yards and 50-yards, respectively. The Dolphins responded with a 24-yard touchdown pass from Osweiler to Danny Amendola, making the final score 32\u201321 in favor of Detroit. This was the Lions' first road win of the season. The Lions rushed for 248 yards in the game, their highest rushing total since November 23, 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nIn week 8, the Lions hosted the Seattle Seahawks. Detroit took an early lead in the first quarter via a 39-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to Marvin Jones, but Seattle tied it up in the second quarter via a 24-yard touchdown pass from Russell Wilson to Tyler Lockett and added 14 more points via a 15-yard touchdown pass from Wilson to David Moore and a 12-yard touchdown pass from Wilson to Ed Dickson, to make the score 21\u20137 in favor of the Seahawks at half-time. After a scoreless third quarter, Seattle extended their lead in the fourth quarter via a seven-yard touchdown run by Chris Carson. The Lions scored the game's final points with another touchdown pass from Stafford to Jones, this one for 19-yards, making the final score 28\u201314 in favor of Seattle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 81], "content_span": [82, 854]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 9: at Minnesota Vikings\nIn week 9, the Lions visited their divisional rival the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings took an early lead in the first quarter via a one-yard touchdown run from Latavius Murray. The Lions responded in the second quarter with a pair of 35-yard field goals by Matt Prater. The Vikings extended their lead via a two-yard touchdown pass from Kirk Cousins to Adam Thielen and a 39-yard field goal by Dan Bailey, to make the score 17\u20136 in favor of Minnesota at half-time. After a scoreless third quarter, each team scored once in the fourth quarter. First a 32-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown by Danielle Hunter for the Vikings, then a 37-yard field goal by Prater for the Lions, making the final score 24\u20139 in favor of Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 81], "content_span": [82, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 10: at Chicago Bears\nIn week 10, the Lions visited their divisional rival the Chicago Bears. The Bears scored 13 points in the first quarter via a three-yard touchdown run by Tarik Cohen and a 36-yard touchdown pass from Mitchell Trubisky to Allen Robinson. The Bears added another 13 points in the second quarter via a 45-yard touchdown pass from Trubisky to Anthony Miller and a four-yard touchdown run by Trubisky. The Lions finally got on the board just before the intermission via a one-yard touchdown run by Kerryon Johnson, to make the score 26\u20137 in favor of Chicago at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 10: at Chicago Bears\nThe Lions opened the scoring in the second half with a 52-yard field goal by Matt Prater. The Bears extended their lead in the third quarter via a 26-yard touchdown pass from Trubisky to Robinson, followed by a two-point conversion pass from Trubisky to Trey Burton. In the fourth quarter, the Lions scored 12 points via a five-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to Kenny Golladay and a 13-yard touchdown pass from Stafford to Johnson, making the final score 34\u201322 in favor of Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Carolina Panthers\nIn week 11, the Lions hosted the Carolina Panthers. The Panthers took an early lead in the first quarter via a one-yard touchdown pass from Cam Newton to Greg Olsen. The Lions responded with an eight-yard touchdown run from Kerryon Johnson to tie the game. The Lions scored the only points of the second quarter via a 54-yard field goal from Matt Prater, to make the score 10\u20137 in favor of the Lions at half-time. The Lions extended their lead in the third quarter via a 32-yard field goal by Prater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 83], "content_span": [84, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Carolina Panthers\nIn the fourth quarter, the Panthers responded with a 12-yard touchdown pass from Newton to Curtis Samuel to tie the game, however, the Lions regained the lead via a 19-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to Kenny Golladay. Carolina scored another touchdown via an eight-yard pass from Newton to D. J. Moore, then attempted to take the lead with a two-point conversion but failed, making the final score 20\u201319 in favor of Detroit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 83], "content_span": [84, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Chicago Bears\nIn week 12, the Lions donned retro-style uniforms and hosted a Thanksgiving Day rematch with their division rival the Chicago Bears. After a scoreless first quarter, the Lions got on the board first in the second quarter via a four-yard touchdown run by LeGarrette Blount. The Bears responded with a 40-yard field goal by Cody Parkey and a 10-yard touchdown pass from Chase Daniel to Taquan Mizzell, to make the score 9\u20137 in favor of Chicago at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 79], "content_span": [80, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Chicago Bears\nDetroit scored the only points of the third quarter via a four-yard touchdown run from Blount, to put the Lions up by four points. In the fourth quarter, however, the Bears took a three-point lead via a 14-yard touchdown pass from Daniel to Tarik Cohen, but the Lions quickly tied it up via a 20-yard field goal by Matt Prater. The Bears regained the lead via a 41-yard interception return by Eddie Jackson, making the final score 23\u201316 in favor of Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 79], "content_span": [80, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Los Angeles Rams\nIn week 13, the Lions hosted the Los Angeles Rams. The Rams opened the scoring in the first quarter via a 24-yard field goal from Greg Zuerlein. The Lions tied it up in the second quarter via a 28-yard field goal by Matt Prater. The Rams then scored ten more points via an eight-yard touchdown pass from Jared Goff to Robert Woods and a 47-yard field goal by Zuerlein to make the half\u2013time score 13\u20133 in favor of Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Los Angeles Rams\nBoth teams scored a field goal in the third quarter, first a 29-yard field goal by Prater for the Lions, then a 48-yard field goal by Zuerlein for the Rams. The Lions reduced the Rams' lead to three points via a 11-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to Taylor Decker. The Rams responded with 14 points in the fourth quarter via two touchdown runs from Todd Gurley, from 13-yards and two-yards, respectively. The Lions added a 35-yard field goal from Prater, making the final score 30\u201316 in favor of Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 14: at Arizona Cardinals\nIn week 14, the Lions visited the Arizona Cardinals. After a scoreless first quarter, the Lions scored the only points of the first half via a 47-yard field goal by Matt Prater, to make the score 3\u20130 in favor of the Lions at half-time. The Lions extended their lead in the third quarter via a 67-yard interception return by Darius Slay. In the fourth quarter, the Cardinals finally got on the board via a 22-yard field goal by Zane Gonzalez to avoid a shutout. The Lions added to their lead with a one-yard run by Zach Zenner to make the final score 17\u20133 in favor of the Lions. This was the Lions' first win in Arizona since 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 15: at Buffalo Bills\nIn week 15, the Lions visited the Buffalo Bills. After a scoreless first quarter, the Lions opened the scoring in the second quarter via a four-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to Andy Jones. Buffalo responded with a three-yard touchdown run by Josh Allen. The Lions replied with a one-yard touchdown run by Zach Zenner to make the score 13\u20137 in favor of the Lions at half-time. After a scoreless third quarter, the Bills scored the only points of the second half via a 42-yard touchdown pass from Allen to Robert Foster. The Lions' attempted comeback failed when Matt Prater missed a 45-yard field goal in the fourth quarter, making the final score 14\u201313 in favor of the Bills. With the loss, the Lions were eliminated from playoff contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nIn week 16, the Lions played their final home game of the season when they hosted a rematch with their divisional rival the Minnesota Vikings. The Lions opened the scoring in the first quarter via a 47-yard field goal by Matt Prater and extended their lead in the second quarter via two field goals by Prater, from 35-yardsand 48-yards, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 83], "content_span": [84, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nThe Vikings responded with two touchdowns, an eight-yard touchdown pass from Kirk Cousins to Stefon Diggs and a 44-yard Hail Mary pass from Cousins to Kyle Rudolph as time expired in the first half, to make the score 14\u20139 in favor of the Vikings at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 83], "content_span": [84, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0016-0002", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nThe Vikings held the Lions scoreless in the second half and extended their lead in the third quarter via a 24-yard field goal by Dan Bailey, then added 10 more points in the fourth quarter via a four-yard touchdown pass from Cousins to Rudolphand a 29-yard field goal by Bailey, making the final score 27\u20139 in favor of Minnesota. With the loss, the Lions fell to 5\u201310 and secured a last place finish in NFC North for the first time since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 83], "content_span": [84, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: at Green Bay Packers\nTo end the season, the Lions visited their divisional rival the Green Bay Packers for a rematch of week 5. The Lions opened the scoring in the first quarter via a five-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to T. J. Jones. The Lions added 14 points in the second quarter via an eight-yard touchdown pass on a fake field goal attempt from Matt Prater to Levine Toilolo and a 13-yard touchdown run by Zach Zenner, to make the score 21\u20130 in favor of the Lions at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: at Green Bay Packers\nDetroit scored twice in the second half, first via a 43-yard field goal by Prater in the third quarter, then via a 23-yard touchdown pass from Stafford to Jones in the fourth quarter, to make the final score 31\u20130 in favor of the Lions, giving them their only shutout win of the season and a 6\u201310 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278602-0017-0002", "contents": "2018 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: at Green Bay Packers\nThis was also the Lions' first shutout against the Packers since 1973, the first shutout against the Packers in Green Bay since 1970, the first shutout for the Lions since 1996, and their first four-game winning streak against them since the 1982 and 1983 seasons. They also swept the Packers for the second consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278603-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Tigers season\nThe 2018 Detroit Tigers season was the team's 118th season. It was the team's first year under a mostly new coaching staff led by new Manager Ron Gardenhire. It was the fourth consecutive season they missed the playoffs, finishing with the same record as the previous season, 64\u201398, but good for third place in the American League Central division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278603-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Tigers season\nIt was the last season for television announcers Mario Impemba and Rod Allen, who had been together since 2003. Their contracts were not renewed due to an alleged physical altercation after the game on September 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278603-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Detroit Tigers season, Uniform changes\nStarting this season, the Tigers changed the classic curved Old English D logo on their home uniforms to match that of the sharp cornered hat logo, which is now larger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278604-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters\nThe 2018 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters was the thirty-second season of premier German touring car championship and also nineteenth season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters since the series' resumption in 2000. 2018 would be the final season for the traditional 4.0-litre V8 naturally-aspirated engine package that debuted in the inaugural reborn season; as the brand new engine package has been introduced for the following season as part of the \"Class One Project\" prospect with Japanese Super GT GT500 cars. 2018 also marked the final season for Mercedes-Benz in DTM due to Mercedes-Benz departing to FIA Formula E from the 2019\u201320 season and thus ended its 19 year participation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278604-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters\nGary Paffett won his second title at the final round of the season with a third place finish, beating previous champion Ren\u00e9 Rast by four points despite a late charge to six consecutive wins by Rast, a new series record. Paffett became the second non-German driver to have won more than one DTM driver title, and thus repeating Swedish driver Mattias Ekstr\u00f6m's feat in 2004 and 2007 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278604-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters\nMercedes-Benz won the manufacturer's championship for the first time since 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278604-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Calendar\nThe provisional ten event calendar was announced on 24 November 2017, and later finalized on 18 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278604-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Teams and drivers\nThe following manufacturers, teams and drivers competed in the 2018 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. All teams competed with tyres supplied by Hankook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278604-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Championship standings\nPoints were awarded to the top ten classified finishers as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278604-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Championship standings\nAdditionally, the top three placed drivers in qualifying also received points:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278604-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Championship standings, Drivers' championship\nBold\u00a0\u2013 PoleItalics\u00a0\u2013 Fastest Lap1 \u2013 3 Points for Pole2 \u2013 2 Points for P23 \u2013 1 Point for P3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278605-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutschland Cup\nThe 2018 Deutschland Cup was the 29th edition of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278606-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutschland Tour\nThe 2018 Deutschland Tour was a road cycling stage race that took place between 23 and 26 August 2018. After a 10 year break, the Deutschland Tour held its 33rd edition and was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278606-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutschland Tour, Route\nThe route of the 2018 Deutschland Tour ran through southwestern Germany, crossing the states of Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Saarland and Hesse, and covered more than 737 kilometers. Due to the hilly terrain, the course was mainly suited for sprinters and aggressive classics riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278606-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutschland Tour, Classification leadership\nIn the 2018 Deutschland Tour, four jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints \u2013 three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The leader of the general classification received a red engraved jersey with the names of more than 1.500 supporters who participated in the route creation. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Deutschland Tour, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 906]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278606-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutschland Tour, Classification leadership\nThe second classification was the points classification. Riders were awarded points for finishing in the top ten in a stage. Points were also won in intermediate sprints; five points for crossing the sprint line first, three points for second place, and one for third. The leader of the points classification was awarded a green jersey sponsored by \u0160koda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278606-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutschland Tour, Classification leadership\nThere was also a mountains classification, for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. In each climb the top three riders earned points; three points for crossing the summit line first, two points for the second placed rider and a single point for the third. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a black jersey with white polka-dots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278606-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Deutschland Tour, Classification leadership\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white and dotted jersey sponsored by Dauner. Only riders born after 1 January 1993 were eligible; the young rider best placed in the general classification was the leader of the young rider classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists in a team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest cumulative time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278607-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dhangadhi Premier League\n2018 Dhangadhi Premier League (known as DPL2, for sponsorship reasons, Ruslan DPL 2) is the second season of Dhangadhi Premier League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league in Nepal. The tournament started on 31 March and ended on 14 April in Dhangadhi. Team Chauraha Dhangadhi were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278607-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dhangadhi Premier League, Teams and squads\nThe 2018 DPL features six team franchises. Kanchanpur Iconics were terminated and they were replaced by Mahendranagar United ahead of the season..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278607-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dhangadhi Premier League, Teams and squads\nThe player draft for the 2018 season was held in Kathmandu on 21 February 2018. 185 domestic players were divided into four different categories. The teams also had to sign two overseas players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278608-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dhivehi Premier League\nThe 2018 Dhivehi Premier League season is the fourth season of the Dhivehi Premier League, the top-tier football league in the Maldives. It is the second edition held according to its new format. The season features ten teams, increased from eight teams from last season; six teams from 2018 Mal\u00e9 League and four teams from 2018 Minivan Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278608-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dhivehi Premier League, Qualified teams, Personnel\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278608-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dhivehi Premier League, League table\nAll ten teams play in the first stage. Afterwards, only the top eight teams play in the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278609-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Diamond Head Classic\nThe 2018 Diamond Head Classic was a mid-season eight-team college basketball tournament that was played on December 22, 23, and 25 at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was the tenth annual Diamond Head Classic tournament, and is part of the 2018\u201319 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278610-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Diamond League\nThe 2018 Diamond League was the ninth season of the annual series of outdoor track and field meetings, organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). It is the second edition to feature the new championship-style system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278610-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Diamond League, Schedule\nThe following fourteen meetings are scheduled to be included in the 2018 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278611-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Diema Xtra Sofia Open\nThe 2018 Sofia Open (also known as 2018 DIEMA XTRA Sofia Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 3rd edition of the Sofia Open as part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Arena Armeec in Sofia, Bulgaria, from February 5\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278611-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Diema Xtra Sofia Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278611-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Diema Xtra Sofia Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278612-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Diema Xtra Sofia Open \u2013 Doubles\nViktor Troicki and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Robin Haase and Matw\u00e9 Middelkoop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278612-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Diema Xtra Sofia Open \u2013 Doubles\nHaase and Middelkoop went on to win the title, defeating Nikola Mekti\u0107 and Alexander Peya in the final, 5\u20137, 6\u20134, [10\u20134].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278613-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Diema Xtra Sofia Open \u2013 Singles\nGrigor Dimitrov was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament because of a shoulder injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278613-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Diema Xtra Sofia Open \u2013 Singles\nMirza Ba\u0161i\u0107 won his first ATP title, defeating Marius Copil in the final, 7\u20136(8\u20136), 6\u20137(4\u20137), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278613-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Diema Xtra Sofia Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278614-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dimension Data season\nThe 2018 season for the Team Dimension Data cycling team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278615-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 District of Columbia Attorney General election\nThe 2018 District of Columbia Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the Attorney General of Washington, D.C. This was the second ever Attorney General election in D.C. history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278616-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Division 1 (Swedish football)\nThe 2018 Division 1, part of the 2018 Swedish football season was the 13th season of Sweden's third-tier football league in its current format. The 2018 fixtures were released in December 2017. The season started on 7 April 2018 and ended on 10 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278616-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Division 1 (Swedish football), Teams\n32 teams contest the league divided into two divisions, Norra and S\u00f6dra. 28 returning from the 2017 season, two relegated from Superettan and two promoted from Division 2. The champion of each division will qualify directly for promotion to Superettan, the two runners-up has to play a play-off against the thirteenth and fourteenth team from Superettan to decide who will play in Superettan 2019. The bottom three teams in each division will qualify directly for relegation to Division 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278616-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Division 1 (Swedish football), League tables, Playoffs\nThe 13th-placed teams of each division meets the best two runners-up from 2018 Division 2 in two-legged ties on a home-and-away basis with the team from Division 1 finishing at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278617-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Divisi\u00f3n de Honor de B\u00e9isbol\nThe Divisi\u00f3n de Honor de B\u00e9isbol 2018 was the 33rd season of the top Spanish baseball league since its establishment and the 73rd Spanish championship overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278618-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Djibouti Cup\nThe 2018 Coupe de Djibouti (Coupe du 27 Juin) is the 2018 edition of the Coupe de Djibouti, the knockout football competition of Djibouti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278619-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Djiboutian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Djibouti on 23 February 2018. The election was boycotted by the main opposition parties, including some of the parties in the Union for National Salvation coalition, which had won 10 seats in the previous elections in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278619-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Djiboutian parliamentary election\nAccording to government figures, the ruling Union for the Presidential Majority won 57 of 65 seats in Parliament. The opposition Union for Democracy and Justice\u2013Djibouti Party for Development (UDJ\u2013PDD) won seven seats in Djibouti city electoral district. The UMP ran unopposed in three electoral districts (Dikhil, Obock and Arta, 18 seats).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278619-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Djiboutian parliamentary election, Electoral system\nPrior to the 2013 the previous winner-takes-all party block vote was abandoned. Instead the elections were held using a closed list system in which 80% of seats (rounded to the nearest integer) in each constituency were awarded to the party receiving the most votes. The remaining seats were allocated proportionally to other parties receiving over 10% of the vote using the D'Hondt method. In cases where no other party received more than 10% of the vote, all seats in a constituency were awarded to the party receiving the most votes. There was also a 25% female quota, up from 10% in the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278620-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF season\nThe 2018 season is Djurg\u00e5rdens IF's 118th in existence, their 63rd season in Allsvenskan and their 18th consecutive season in the league. They are competing in Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen and qualified for the 2018\u201319 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278620-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278620-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278620-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278620-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278620-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278620-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278621-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dockerty Cup\nThe 2018 Dockerty Cup was a football (soccer) knockout-cup competition held between men's clubs in Victoria, Australia in 2018, the annual edition of the Dockerty Cup. Victorian soccer clubs from the 5 State League Divisions, regional, metros and masters leagues - plus the 12 Clubs from the National Premier Leagues Victoria - competed for the Dockerty Cup trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278621-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dockerty Cup\nThe competition also served as Qualifying Rounds for the 2018 FFA Cup. In addition to the two Victorian A-League clubs, and Heidelberg United as 2017 National Premier Leagues champions, the four Preliminary Round 7 winners qualified for the final rounds of the 2018 FFA Cup, entering at the Round of 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278621-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dockerty Cup, Preliminary rounds\nVictorian clubs participated in the 2018 FFA Cup via the preliminary rounds. This was open to teams from the National Premier Leagues Victoria, Victorian State League divisions, regional and metros leagues. Teams were seeded in terms of which round they would enter based on their division in 2018. Heidelberg United did not participate in the Victorian qualifying rounds, as they had already qualified into the FFA Cup as 2017 National Premier Leagues champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278621-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dockerty Cup, Play-off round\nA total of two teams took part in this stage of the competition, with the match played on 20 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278621-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dockerty Cup, Semi finals\nA total of four teams took part in this stage of the competition, with the matches played on 26 and 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278622-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dollar General Bowl\nThe 2018 Dollar General Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 22, 2018. It was the 20th edition of the Dollar General Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by the Dollar General chain of variety stores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278622-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dollar General Bowl, Teams\nThe game was played between teams from the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and the Sun Belt Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278622-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dollar General Bowl, Teams, Troy Trojans\nOn November 29, college football news organizations reported that Troy would play in the Dollar General Bowl, which was confirmed via an official announcement on December 2. The Trojans entered the bowl with a 10\u20133 record (7\u20131 in conference). This was Troy's third consecutive bowl appearance, following victories in the 2016 Dollar General Bowl and 2017 New Orleans Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278622-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dollar General Bowl, Teams, Buffalo Bulls\nBuffalo received and accepted a bid to the Dollar General Bowl on December 2. The Bulls had a 10\u20133 record on the year (7\u20131 in conference), losing to Northern Illinois in the MAC Championship Game. This was Buffalo's third bowl appearance, after losses in the 2009 International Bowl and 2013 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278623-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Donbas general elections\nElections were held on 11 November 2018 by the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. As a result of a war that started in April 2014, these internationally unrecognised entities control parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in eastern Ukraine, which are together called the Donbas region. They previously held elections in 2014. Voters were asked to elect the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic and Head of the Luhansk People's Republic as well as the deputies for two parliaments: the People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic with 100 seats, and the People's Council of the Luhansk People's Republic with 50 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278623-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Donbas general elections, Results\nActing head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik won 68.3% of votes, and acting DPR head Denis Pushilin won 60.85% of votes. In parliamentary elections, \"Mir Luganschine\" (Peace for Luhansk) movement won 74.13% of votes in LPR, while the \"Donetsk Republic\" won 72.5% of votes in the DPR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278623-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Donbas general elections, Results\nNeither the European Union nor the United States recognized the elections, which they said violate the terms of the Minsk Protocol. Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko called the elections \u201cillegal and represent yet another example of Russian subversive activity.\u201d Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov acknowledged Russia had influence on the region's leaders but said \u201cit is not unlimited.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278624-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Donegal Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Donegal Senior Football Championship was the 96th official edition of Donegal GAA's premier Gaelic football tournament for senior graded clubs in County Donegal. Sixteen teams compete with the winner representing Donegal in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship begins with four groups of four and continues with a knock-out format. The draws were made on 24 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278624-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Donegal Senior Football Championship\nKilcar were the defending champions after they defeated Naomh Conaill of Glenties 0-7 to 0-4 in the 2017 final. However, the club had to play the competition without two of its county stars, Patrick McBrearty and Ryan McHugh. On 26 September 2018, it was announced that McHugh had accepted medical advice and would be sidelined for the remainder of the year due to concussion. His injury came while playing for his club in a challenge match against Dublin champions St Vincents in Cavan in late August 2018 \u2014 he received a blow to the head during that match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278624-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Donegal Senior Football Championship\nConcussion had also caused McHugh to spend six weeks on the sideline following a 2018 National Football League game (against Kildare or Tyrone depending on which report you read) earlier that year. The injury meant he could take no part in the 2018 Donegal Senior Football Championship (of which his club were the defending champions), news which was worsened when taken in the context of the earlier loss of McHugh's club and county teammate McBrearty to a cruciate ligament injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278624-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Donegal Senior Football Championship\nThis was Milford's return to the senior grade after relegation in the mid-1990s after claiming the 2017 Donegal I.F.C. title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278624-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Donegal Senior Football Championship\nOn 21 October 2018, Gaoth Dobhair claimed their 15th S.F.C. title when defeating Naomh Conaill of Glenties by 0-17 to 1-7 at MacCumhaill Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278624-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Donegal Senior Football Championship\nBurt were relegated back to the 2019 I.F.C. after just two seasons in the top-flight when losing their Relegation Final to newly promoted Milford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278624-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Team changes\nThe following teams changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278624-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Format\nThe 2018 County Championship took the same format as previous championships in which there was four groups of four with the top two qualifying for the quarter-finals. Bottom of each group play in relegation play-offs to decide which team is relegated the 2019 Intermediate championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278624-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nAll 16 teams entered the competition at this stage. The top 2 teams in each group advanced to the Quarter-Finals while the bottom team of each group entered a Relegation Playoff. This year, all teams played one home match, one away match and one match at a neutral venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278625-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Donegal county football team season\nThe following is a summary of Donegal county football team's 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278625-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Donegal county football team season\nShaun Patton came into the team versus Kildare in the National Football League. He began training in January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278625-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Donegal county football team season, National Football League Division 1\nFixtures for the 2018 National League were announced on 13 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278625-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Donegal county football team season, 2018 Ulster Senior Football Championship\nThe draw for the 2018 Ulster Senior Football Championship took place on 19 October 2017. Donegal won their first Ulster title for four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278626-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dow Tennis Classic\nThe 2018 Dow Tennis Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the twenty-fourth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Midland, United States, on 29 January\u20134 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278626-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dow Tennis Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278627-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dow Tennis Classic \u2013 Doubles\nAshley Weinhold and Caitlin Whoriskey were the defending champions, however both players chose to participate with different partners. Weinhold played alongside Naomi Broady, but lost in the first round to Desirae Krawczyk and Giuliana Olmos. Whoriskey partnered Jacqueline Cako, but they were defeated in the first round by Julia Boserup and Lesley Kerkhove.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278627-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dow Tennis Classic \u2013 Doubles\nKaitlyn Christian and Sabrina Santamaria won the title, defeating Jessica Pegula and Maria Sanchez in the final, 7\u20135, 4\u20136, [10\u20138].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278628-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dow Tennis Classic \u2013 Singles\nTatjana Maria was the defending champion, but chose to compete at the 2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278628-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dow Tennis Classic \u2013 Singles\nMadison Brengle won the title, defeating Jamie Loeb in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278629-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Down Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Down Senior Football Championship was the 110th official edition of Down GAA's premier Gaelic Football tournament for senior clubs in County Down. 16 teams compete with the winner representing Down in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278629-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Down Senior Football Championship\nThe tournament operated a double elimination format for the opening two rounds of the championship, with the winners and early round losers rejoining at the quarter final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278629-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Down Senior Football Championship\nKilcoo Owen Roe's were the defending champions after they defeated Burren 0-13 to 0-11 in the 2017 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278629-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Down Senior Football Championship\nRostrevor return to the senior grade after claiming the Down I.F.C. title in 2017. Carryduff make their senior return after breaking into the top 15 ranked teams (3rd in Division 2 - ranked 15th overall) in the Down football leagues for 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278629-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Down Senior Football Championship\nOn 14 October 2018 Burren spurned Kilcoo's hopes for 7-in-a-row of Down S.F.C. titles when defeating them in the final at Pair Esler by 2-12 to 2-9 and claiming their 14th S.F.C. triumph in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278629-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Down Senior Football Championship\nGlenn John Martin's were relegated to the 2019 I.F.C. after finishing outside the top 15 ranked teams in the Down football leagues for 2018. They finished 5th (ranked 17th overall) in Division 2. Bredagh will replace them after they claimed the 2018 Down I.F.C. title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278629-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Down Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278629-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Down Senior Football Championship, Round 1\nAll 16 teams enter the competition in this round. The 8 winners progress to Round 2A while the 8 losers progress to Round 2B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278629-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Down Senior Football Championship, Round 2, Round 2A\nThe 8 winning teams from Round 1 enter this round. The 4 winners enter the draw for the quarter-finals while the 4 losers play in Round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278629-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Down Senior Football Championship, Round 2, Round 2B\nThe 8 losing teams from Round 1 enter this round. The 4 winners go into Round 3 while the 4 losing teams exit the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278629-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Down Senior Football Championship, Round 3\nThis is the final qualifier round. The four losing teams from round 2A (who won a match and lost a match) play the four winning teams from round 2B (who lost a match and won a match).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278629-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Down Senior Football Championship, Quarter-Finals\nThe 4 winners from Round 2A play the 4 winners from Round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278630-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Down county football team season\nThe following is a summary of Down county football team's 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278630-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Down county football team season, Dr McKenna Cup\nThe draw for the 2018 Dr McKenna Cup was made in November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278630-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Down county football team season, Dr McKenna Cup, Fixtures\nDown's tie against the University of Ulster was postponed due to an unplayable pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278630-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Down county football team season, National Football League Division 2\nDown played in Division Two of the National Football League in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278630-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Down county football team season, National Football League Division 2, Fixtures\nFixtures for the 2018 National League were announced on 13 October 2017. Down's fifth fixture against Cavan was postponed due to 2018 Great Britain and Ireland cold wave. The game was re-scheduled for Saturday 10 March. Due to further snow in March the fixture against Tipperary on 18 March was also postponed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 84], "content_span": [85, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278630-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Down county football team season, National Football League Division 2, Fixtures\nDespite a victory on the final day of the campaign, Down were relegated to Division 3 following a win for Meath over Louth on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 84], "content_span": [85, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278630-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Down county football team season, Ulster Senior Football Championship\nThe draw for the 2018 Ulster Senior Football Championship took place on 19 October 2017 with Down being drawn at home to Antrim in the quarter final stage. Down progressed to the Ulster semi-finals but lost to Donegal in Clones on 10 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 74], "content_span": [75, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278631-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dr McKenna Cup\nThe 2018 Dr McKenna Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the Bank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup, was a Gaelic football competition in the province of Ulster for county and university teams. It is normally held at the beginning of the GAA season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278631-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dr McKenna Cup\nTwelve teams take part \u2013 the nine Ulster county teams and three university teams, i.e. St Mary's University College, Belfast, Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University at Jordanstown (UUJ).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278631-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dr McKenna Cup\nThe draw took place on Thursday 30 November in the Balmoral Hotel, Belfast with the fixtures confirmed following a meeting of Comhairle Uladh CCC on Tuesday 5 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278631-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dr McKenna Cup\nAfter many postponements due to bad winter weather, the tournament ended on 17 February 2018 with Donegal the winners, ending a six-year Tyrone winning streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278631-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dr McKenna Cup, Format\nThe twelve teams are drawn into three sections of four teams, with each section containing three county teams and one university team. Each team plays the other teams in its section once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. A \"scoring-average/points-ratio\" method is used to determine the ranking of teams who are level on section points (as opposed to \"scoring differential\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278631-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Dr McKenna Cup, Format\nThe winners of the three sections and the best runner-up compete in the semi-finals with the two winners meeting in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278631-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Dr McKenna Cup, Group stage, Section B\nNote: This game was originally scheduled to take place on 7 January, but was postponed due to a frozen pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278631-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Dr McKenna Cup, Group stage, Section B\nNote: This game was originally scheduled to take place on 7 January, but was postponed due to a frozen pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278632-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 2018 Drake Bulldogs football team represented Drake University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Rick Fox and played their home games at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa as members of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 7\u20134, 6\u20132 in PFL play to finish in a tie for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278632-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Drake Bulldogs football team\nOn December 10, head coach Rick Fox resigned. He finished at Drake with a five-year record of 33\u201322.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278632-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Drake Bulldogs football team, Previous season\nThe Bulldogs finished the 2017 season 7\u20134, 6\u20132 in PFL play to finish in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278632-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Drake Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Preseason All-PFL team\nThe PFL released their preseason all-PFL team on July 30, 2018, with the Bulldogs having four players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278632-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Drake Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe PFL released their preseason coaches poll on July 31, 2018, with the Bulldogs predicted to finish in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278633-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai 24 Hour\nThe 2018 Dubai 24 Hour was the 13th running of the Dubai 24 Hour endurance race. It took place at the Dubai Autodrome in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and ran between 11\u201313 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278634-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Sevens\nThe 2018 Dubai Sevens is the twentieth edition of the Dubai Sevens tournament. It was the first tournament within the 2018\u201319 World Rugby Sevens Series. It was held on 30 November\u20131 December 2018 at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278634-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Sevens, Format\nThe sixteen teams are drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup bracket where teams compete for the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals. The bottom two teams from each group go to the Challenge Trophy bracket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278634-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Sevens, Teams\nFifteen core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, 2018 Africa Men's Sevens winners Zimbabwe:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278635-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships\nThe 2018 Dubai Tennis Championships (also known as the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) was an ATP 500 event on the 2018 ATP World Tour and a WTA Premier event on the 2018 WTA Tour. Both events were held at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The women's tournament took place from February 19 to 25, while the men's tournament took place from February 26 through March 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278635-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 79], "content_span": [80, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278635-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 79], "content_span": [80, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278635-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 79], "content_span": [80, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278635-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 79], "content_span": [80, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278636-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tec\u0103u were the defending champions, and successfully defended their title, defeating James Cerretani and Leander Paes in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278637-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nAndy Murray was the defending champion, but could not participate this year as he was recovering from hip surgery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278637-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nRoberto Bautista Agut won the title, defeating Lucas Pouille in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278638-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nEkaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina were the defending champions, but lost to Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278638-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nChan Hao-ching and Yang Zhaoxuan won the title, defeating Hsieh and Peng in the final, 4\u20136, 6\u20132, [10\u20136].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278639-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nElina Svitolina was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, beating Daria Kasatkina in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278639-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nKasatkina through the way to her first Dubai final saved match points against Johanna Konta & Garbi\u00f1e Muguruza in her second round & semifinal matches respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278639-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nSince Caroline Wozniacki was defending finalist points from 2017 and chose not to participate this year, Simona Halep regained the WTA no. 1 singles ranking at the conclusion of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278639-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 56], "content_span": [57, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278640-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tour\nThe 2018 Dubai Tour was a road cycling stage race that took place in Dubai between 6 and 10 February 2018. It was the fifth edition of the Dubai Tour and was rated as a 2.HC event as part of the 2018 UCI Asia Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278640-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tour, Stages, Stage 3\nRace leader Dylan Groenewegen received a 20-second penalty for sheltering too long behind a team car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278640-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tour, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Dubai Tour, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints and at the finish of mass-start stages, the leader received a blue jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Dubai Tour, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278640-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tour, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a red jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 25\u00a0points, with 16 for second, 11 for third, 8 for fourth, 6 for fifth with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 10th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification. There was also a sprints classification for the points awarded at the aforementioned intermediate sprints, where the leadership of which was marked by a jersey in the colours of the United Arab Emirates flag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278640-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Tour, Classification leadership table\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1993 were eligible to be ranked in the classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278641-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Women's Sevens\nThe 2018 Dubai Women's Sevens was the second tournament within the 2018\u201319 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. It was held on 29\u201330 November 2018 at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278641-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Women's Sevens, Format\nThe teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup/Plate brackets while the top 2 third place teams also compete in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group play-off for the Challenge Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278641-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dubai Women's Sevens, Teams\nEleven core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, 2018 Africa Women's Sevens winners Kenya:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278642-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dublin Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Dublin Senior Football Championship was the 132nd edition of Dublin GAA's premier Gaelic football tournament for senior clubs in County Dublin, Ireland. 31 teams participate (16 in Senior 1 and 15 in Senior 2), with the winner of Senior 1 representing Dublin in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The draw for the group stages of the championship were made on 21 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278642-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dublin Senior Football Championship\nNo team was promoted from the 2017 I.F.C. due to the rule that no reserve side who wins the I.F.C. (in this case Na Fianna 'B') can be promoted to the S.F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278642-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dublin Senior Football Championship\nSt. Vincent's were the defending champions having defeated Ballymun Kickhams in the previous year's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278642-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278642-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Format changes for 2018\nIn 2018 the Dublin S.F.C. moved away from the straight knock-out format used in previous years. The championship was split into two sections called the Senior 1 and Senior 2 Football Championships. Teams were graded as Senior 1 or 2 depending on their performances in the previous five Dublin S.F.C.s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278642-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Format changes for 2018, Senior 1 Football Championship\n16 teams compete in 4 randomly drawn groups of 4. The top 2 teams in each group qualify for the S.1.F.C. Quarter-Finals, with the outright winner of the S.1.F.C. representing Dublin in the Leinster S.C.F.C. The bottom teams in each of the four groups contest the relegation play-offs with the losers of the relegation final being relegated to the 2019 S.2.F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278642-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Format changes for 2018, Senior 2 Football Championship\n15 teams compete in 3 randomly drawn groups of 4 and 1 group of 3 (due to the withdrawal of U.C.D. from the Dublin Championships). The top 2 teams in each group qualify for the S.2.F.C. Quarter-Finals, with the outright winner of the S.2.F.C. winning promotion to the 2019 Dublin S.1.F.C. The bottom teams in each of the four groups contest the relegation play-offs with the losers of the relegation final being relegated to the 2019 I.F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278642-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Format changes for 2018, Intermediate Football Championship\nAll reserve sides who played in previous I.F.C. 's will now compete in a separate competition among themselves known as the \"All-County Intermediate Football Championship\" (A.C.I.F.C.). All 16 first-teams compete in a separate championship in 4 randomly drawn groups of 4. The top 2 teams in each group qualify for the I.F.C. Quarter-Finals, with the outright winner of the I.F.C. winning promotion to the 2019 Dublin S.2.F.C. The bottom teams in each of the four groups contest the relegation play-offs with the losers of the relegation final being relegated to the 2019 Junior Football 1 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 101], "content_span": [102, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278642-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Format changes for 2018, Junior 1 Football Championship\nAll reserve sides who played in previous J.F.C. 's will now compete in a separate competition among themselves known as the \"All-County Junior 1 Football Championship\" (A.C.J.1.F.C.). All 16 first-teams compete in a separate championship in 4 randomly drawn groups of 4. The top 2 teams in each group qualify for the J.1.F.C. Quarter-Finals, with the outright winner of the J.1.F.C. winning promotion to the 2019 Dublin I.F.C. The bottom teams in each of the forum groups contest the relegation play-offs with the losers of the relegation final being relegated to the 2019 J.2.F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278642-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Senior 1 Football Championship, Senior 1 Football Championship Knock-Out Stage, Quarter-Finals\nSt. Jude's, St. Sylvester's, Kilmacud Crokes, St. Vincent's, Na Fianna, Castleknock, Ballymun and Ballyboden qualified for the last eight of the Dublin Senior Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 136], "content_span": [137, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278642-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Senior 1 Football Championship, Senior 1 Football Championship Relegation Playoffs, Relegation Semi-Finals\nThe relegation semi finals were cancelled as Parnells conceded relegation to the Senior 2 Football Championship for 2019. Clontarf, St. Oliver Plunkett's Eoghan Ruadh and Lucan Sarsfields retained their Senior 1 status and will compete in the 2019 Senior 1 Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 148], "content_span": [149, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278643-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dublin Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Dublin Senior Hurling Championship was the 131st staging of the Dublin Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Dublin County Board in 1887. The championship began on 5 April 2018 and ended on 28 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278643-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dublin Senior Hurling Championship\nCuala were the defending champions, defeating Kilmacud Crokes in the 2017 final and winning their third Dublin Senior Hurling Championship in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278644-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dudley Hewitt Cup\nThe 2018 Dudley Hewitt Cup was the 47th Central Canadian Jr A Ice Hockey Championship for the Canadian Junior Hockey League. The winner of the 2018 Dudley Hewitt Cup represented the central region in the 2018 Royal Bank Cup in Chilliwack, BC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278645-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278646-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dufferin County municipal elections\nElections were held in Dufferin County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278646-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dufferin County municipal elections, Dufferin County Council\nDufferin County Council has 14 members, two from each constituent municipality except for East Garafraxa and East Luther Grand Valley which elect just one member.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278647-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Duke Blue Devils football team\nThe 2018 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in the Coastal Division. The team was led by head coach David Cutcliffe, in his 11th year, and play ed its home games at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. The Blue Devils finished the regular season with an 8\u20135 overall record. They went 3\u20135 in ACC play to finish in sixth place in the Coastal Division. They were invited to the Independence Bowl, where they defeated Temple.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278647-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Duke Blue Devils football team, Previous season\nThe Blue Devils finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 3\u20135 in ACC play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place in the Coastal Division. They were invited to the Quick Lane Bowl where they defeated Northern Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278647-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Duke Blue Devils football team, Preseason, ACC media poll\nThe ACC media poll was released on July 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278648-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team represented Duke University during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Blue Devils were led by head coach John Kerr, in his eleventh season. They played home games at Koskinen Stadium. The team was founded in 1935 and currently plays in the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278648-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team, Background\nThe 2017 Duke men's soccer team finished the season with a 13\u20134\u20133 overall record and a 4\u20133\u20131 ACC record. The Blue Devils were seeded fourth\u2013overall in the 2017 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament, where they lost to Clemson in the Quarterfinals. The Blue Devils earned an at-large bid into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. As the sixth\u2013overall seed in the tournament, Duke hosted FIU in the Second Round. Duke won 2\u20131 and progressed to face Fordham at home. Duke was upset on penalties after the game ended 2\u20132 to end their season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278648-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team, Background\nAt the end of the season, three Blue Devils men's soccer players were selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft: Brian White, Carter Manley and Markus Fj\u00f8rtoft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278648-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team, Squad, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278648-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team, 2019 MLS Super Draft\nDuke did not have any players selected in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278649-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dundalk F.C. season\nDundalk entered the 2018 season as the League Cup holders from 2017, having won that competition and finished as runners-up in both league and FAI Cup. In January the club was taken over by United States-based investors, who had identified the club's European progress as a commercial opportunity. 2018 would turn out to be Stephen Kenny's sixth and final season as manager. He resigned one month after the end of the season to accept the Republic of Ireland U-21 manager's role, and was replaced by his assistant, Vinny Perth for 2019. The 2018 season was Dundalk's 10th consecutive season in the top tier of Irish football, their 83rd in all, and their 92nd in the League of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278649-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dundalk F.C. season, Season summary\nThe new season's curtain raiser - the President's Cup - was played on 11 February in Oriel Park between Dundalk and Cork City - the winners of both league and cup the previous year. Cork City won on a 4-2 scoreline. The 36 round League programme commenced on 16 February 2018, and was completed on 26 October 2018. Dundalk regained their title with three games to spare, sealing the title in Oriel Park in a 1-1 draw with St Patrick's Athletic on 5 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278649-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Dundalk F.C. season, Season summary\nThey went on to win the 2018 FAI Cup with a 2-1 victory over Cork City in the final on 4 November 2018 - the club's fourth League and Cup Double. An opportunity to win the club's first domestic Treble was spurned when a largely reserve side lost the League Cup semi-final away to First Division Cobh Ramblers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278649-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dundalk F.C. season, Season summary\nIn Europe progress was limited when, after defeating Levadia Tallinn, and holding AEK Larnaca scoreless in Oriel Park, three quickfire first half goals in the away leg in Cyprus in the 2018-19 Europa League second qualifying round ended their interest in that year's competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278650-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Duquesne Dukes football team\nThe 2018 Duquesne Dukes football team represented Duquesne University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 14th-year head coach Jerry Schmitt and played their home games at Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field. They played as a member of the Northeast Conference. They finished the season 9\u20134, 5\u20131 in NEC play to be NEC co-champions with Sacred Heart. Due to their head-to-head win over Sacred Heart, they received the NEC's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Towson in the first round before losing in the second round to South Dakota State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278650-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Duquesne Dukes football team, Previous season\nThe Dukes finished the 2017 season 7\u20134, 4\u20132 in NEC play to finish in a tie for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278650-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Duquesne Dukes football team, Preseason, NEC coaches poll\nThe NEC released their preseason coaches poll on July 24, 2018, with the Dukes predicted to finish in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278650-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Duquesne Dukes football team, Preseason, Preseason All-NEC team\nThe Dukes placed five players on the preseason all-NEC team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections\nElections were held in the Regional Municipality of Durham in Ontario, on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Durham Regional Chair\nThe following are the preliminary results for the position of Durham Regional Chair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Ajax\nThe following are the preliminary results for the Town of Ajax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 44], "content_span": [45, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Ajax\nFollowing a ward boundary review, Ajax gained one regional councillor and lost one local councillor for the 2018 election. The overall size of the council remained the same.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 44], "content_span": [45, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Ajax, Regional Councillors\nThree Regional Councillors were elected in 1 of 3 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Ajax, Local Councillors\nThree Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 3 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Brock\nThe following are the preliminary results for the Township of Brock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Brock, Local Councillors\nFive Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 5 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Clarington\nThe following are the preliminary results for the Municipality of Clarington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Clarington, Regional Councillors\nTwo Regional Councillors were elected in 1 of 2 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Clarington, Local Councillors\nFour Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Oshawa\nThe following are the preliminary results for the City of Oshawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Oshawa\nFor the 2018 election, Oshawa re-adopted a ward based system. Voters in each ward elected one regional councillor and one city councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Oshawa, Regional & City Councillors\nFive Regional & City Councillors were elected in 1 of 5 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Oshawa, City Councillors\nFive City Councillors were elected in 1 of 5 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Pickering\nThe following are the preliminary results for the City of Pickering.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Pickering, Regional Councillors\nThree Regional Councillors were elected in 1 of 3 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Pickering, City Councillors\nThree City Councillors were elected in 1 of 3 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Scugog\nThe following are the preliminary results for the Township of Scugog.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Scugog, Local Councillors\nFive Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 5 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Uxbridge\nThe following are the preliminary results for the Town of Uxbridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Uxbridge, Local Councillors\nFive Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 5 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Whitby\nThe following are the preliminary results for the Town of Whitby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278651-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Durham Region municipal elections, Whitby, Local Councillors\nFour Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278652-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 Dutch Athletics Championships was the national championship in outdoor track and field for the Netherlands. It was held on 21 to 24 June at the Sportpark Maarschalkerweerd in Utrecht. It served as the selection meeting for the Netherlands at the 2018 European Athletics Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278652-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Athletics Championships\nThe pole vault was held at Vredenburg in the city centre on June 21, while the 10,000 metres championship was contested separately at the Leiden Golden Spike meeting on 9 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278653-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Basketball Supercup\nThe 2018 Dutch Basketball Supercup was the 7th edition of the Dutch Basketball Supercup. The game was played in the MartiniPlaza in Groningen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278653-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Basketball Supercup\nThe game featured Donar, the defending champions of the Dutch Basketball League, and ZZ Leiden, the runner-up of the 2017\u201318 NBB Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278653-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Basketball Supercup\nDonar won the game 74\u201369, winning its record third Supercup. It was the debut game for Rolf Franke as head coach of Leiden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278654-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Darts Championship\nThe 2018 Dutch Darts Championship was the eleventh of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at the MECC Eventcenter, Maastricht, Netherlands from 7\u20139 September 2018. It featured a field of 48 players and \u00a3135,000 in prize money, with \u00a325,000 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278654-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Darts Championship\nIan White won his tenth PDC title and his first on the European Tour, defeating Ricky Evans 8\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278654-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Darts Championship, Prize money\nPrize money will count towards the PDC Order of Merit, the ProTour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit, with one exception: should a seeded player lose in the second round (last 32), their prize money will not count towards any Orders of Merit, although they still receive the full prize money payment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278654-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Darts Championship, Qualification and format\nThe top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 30 August will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278654-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Darts Championship, Qualification and format\nThe remaining 32 places will go to players from five qualifying events \u2013 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Barnsley on 3 September), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 30 August), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 6 September), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 10 August) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 25 August).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278654-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Darts Championship, Qualification and format\nMensur Suljovi\u0107, who would have been the number 3 seed, withdrew from the tournament prior to the draw. Steve West, the highest-ranked qualifier, was promoted to 16th seed. Erik Tautfest also withdrew prior to the draw. Two extra places were made available in the Host Nation Qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278655-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Darts Masters\nThe 2018 Dutch Darts Masters was the sixth of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at IJsselhallen, Zwolle, Netherlands, between 11\u201313 May 2018. It featured a field of 48 players and \u00a3135,000 in prize money, with \u00a325,000 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278655-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Darts Masters\nMichael van Gerwen was the defending four-time consecutive champion after defeating Steve Beaton 6\u20132 in the 2017 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278655-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Darts Masters\nVan Gerwen went on to win the title for the 5th time in a row by defeating Steve Lennon 8\u20135 in the final, after he was 6\u20132 down in the semi-finals, before surviving three match darts from Daryl Gurney and winning 7\u20136 to reach the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278655-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Darts Masters, Prize money\nPrize money will count towards the PDC Order of Merit, the ProTour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit, with one exception: should a seeded player lose in the second round (last 32), their prize money will not count towards any Orders of Merit, although they still receive the full prize money payment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278655-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Darts Masters, Qualification and format\nThe top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 27 March will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278655-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Darts Masters, Qualification and format\nThe remaining 32 places will go to players from five qualifying events \u2013 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Barnsley on 6 April), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 3 May), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 10 May), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 23 February) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 24 February).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278655-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Darts Masters, Qualification and format\nRob Cross withdrew with illness on the day of the tournament, so Steve Lennon, who was due to face him in round 2, was given a bye to round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278656-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Intelligence and Security Services Act referendum\nAn advisory referendum on the Intelligence and Security Services Act 2017 (Dutch: Wet op de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten 2017, abbreviated 'Wiv') was held in the Netherlands on 21 March 2018, alongside the municipal elections. It was the second referendum to be held under the Dutch Advisory Referendum Act after the 2016 Ukraine\u2013European Union Association Agreement referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278656-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Intelligence and Security Services Act referendum\nA plurality of voters (49.44%) voted against the law, resulting in its rejection. Voter turnout was 51.5%, above the 30% threshold for validation of the result. Although the referendum itself was non-binding, Prime Minister Mark Rutte had promised to take a potential \"no\" vote into account prior to the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278656-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Intelligence and Security Services Act referendum, Background\nThe draft Intelligence and Security Agencies Act 2017 was laid before the States General by the Government of the Netherlands at the end of 2016. On 14 February 2017, a majority in the House of Representatives voted in support of the act, which was then approved in the Senate on 11 July. Although a referendum will be held, the government has indicated it plans for the law to nevertheless to go into effect on 1 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278656-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Intelligence and Security Services Act referendum, Request\nA campaign to obtain sufficient support declarations for a referendum was initiated by a group of students at the University of Amsterdam concerned about the sweeping surveillance powers granted to the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) under the law. On 1 November 2017, the Electoral Council (Kiesraad) announced that a sufficient number of signatures had been collected to trigger an advisory referendum on the tapping law, with 384,126 valid signatures, over 92 percent of those collected, well above the 300,000 required for a referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 69], "content_span": [70, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278656-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Intelligence and Security Services Act referendum, Party positions\nThe referendum comes after the formation of the Third Rutte cabinet following the 2017 general election, with the coalition divided whether to hold a referendum on the law, Democrats 66 (D66) being the only one of the four coalition parties that voted against disregarding the result ahead of the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 77], "content_span": [78, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278656-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Intelligence and Security Services Act referendum, Party positions\nThe party positions listed below are based on the vote of the law in the House of Representatives on 14 February 2017, with the exception of Forum for Democracy (FvD), which was not represented in the lower chamber before the 2017 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 77], "content_span": [78, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278656-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Intelligence and Security Services Act referendum, Party positions\n* PVV announced that even though they voted in favour, they would respect the outcome of the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 77], "content_span": [78, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278657-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Dutch Open (officially known as the Yonex Dutch Open 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place from 9 to 14 October 2018 at Topsportcentrum in Almere, Netherlands, and had a total purse of $75,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278657-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Dutch Open was the ninth Super 100 tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Dutch Open championships, which had been held since 1932. This tournament was organised by Badminton Nederland and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278657-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Topsportscentrum in Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278657-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF Tour Super 100 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278657-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$75,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278658-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch TT\nThe 2018 Dutch TT was the eighth round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the TT Circuit Assen in Assen on 1 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278659-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch municipal elections\nThe Dutch municipal elections of 2018 were held on 21 March in 335 municipalities in the Netherlands. This election determined the composition of the municipal councils for the following four years. The election coincided with the Intelligence and Security Services Act referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278659-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch municipal elections, Background\nIn the previous municipal elections, local political parties won by far most votes and seats. Nationally, all local political parties won 28% of the votes and a third of municipal council seats. Local parties have seen a steady rise since the 1990s. In 2018, Vlieland will be the only municipality in which no national political parties will contest the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278659-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch municipal elections, Background\nOf all national political parties, the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) will contest most municipal elections; the party will be on the ballot in all but three (Rozendaal, Vlieland and Schiermonnikoog). The Labour Party (PvdA) comes second, contesting over 320 elections, albeit on a joint list with allied parties in some municipalities. The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) will participate in over 315 elections, and the Democrats 66 in over 270, followed by GroenLinks in 220, the Christian Union in 169, the Socialist Party in 118 and the Reformed Political Party (SGP) in 99.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278659-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch municipal elections, Background\nThe Party for Freedom (PVV), which had previously only participated in The Hague and Almere, initially planned to expand to a total of sixty municipalities, but has only been able to find suitable candidates in thirty, including Rotterdam. 50PLUS will expand to twenty municipalities, while the Party for the Animals (PvdD) will contest fifteen elections. Two new national political parties will make their entrance to municipal politics. Denk will contest the elections in fourteen municipalities, while the Forum for Democracy will only contest in Amsterdam. Additionally, the latter has endorsed the local party Livable Rotterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278659-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch municipal elections, Background\n45 municipalities did not have elections on 21 March due to mergers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278659-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch municipal elections, Electoral system\nMunicipal councils are elected using party-list proportional representation. The number of seats depends on the population of the municipality, ranging from nine seats for municipalities with a population below 3,000, to 45 seats for municipalities with a population over 200,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278659-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch municipal elections, Amsterdam, Results\nAfter the 2018 municipal elections, the GroenLinks held the largest share of seats on the municipal council, though not enough to hold a majority. As no party held a majority, a left-leaning governing coalition was formed between GroenLinks, D66, the Labour Party, and the Socialist Party, which together hold 26 of the city's 45 council seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278659-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Dutch municipal elections, Amsterdam, Results\nThe new city council elected Femke Halsema, a member of the GroenLinks, to be the mayor of Amsterdam. Halsema is the first women to be elected mayor of Amsterdam, as well as the first member of the GroenLinks to take that position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278660-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dwars door Vlaanderen\nThe 2018 Dwars door Vlaanderen was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 28 March 2018 in Belgium. It was the 73rd edition of Dwars door Vlaanderen and the twelfth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour. It was won for the second year in a row by Yves Lampaert (Quick-Step Floors) \u2013 becoming the first rider to win the race in consecutive years. He finished two seconds ahead of Team Sunweb's Mike Teunissen and Sep Vanmarcke, riding for the EF Education First\u2013Drapac p/b Cannondale team, completed the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278660-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dwars door Vlaanderen, Teams\nAs the race was only added to the UCI World Tour calendar in 2017, all UCI WorldTeams were invited to the race, but not obligated to compete in the race. As such, seventeen of the eighteen WorldTeams \u2013 with the exception of Groupama\u2013FDJ \u2013 competed in the race, up one on 2017. Eight UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278660-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Dwars door Vlaanderen, Route\nThe race was 180.1 kilometres (111.9 miles) in length. There were 12 categorised climbs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278661-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Dwars door West\u2013Vlaanderen\nThe 2018 Dwars door West-Vlaanderen was the 72nd edition of the Dwars door West-Vlaanderen road cycling one day race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278661-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Dwars door West\u2013Vlaanderen, Teams\nTwenty-two teams were invited to take part in the race. These included two UCI World Tour teams, twelve UCI Professional Continental teams and eight UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278662-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 E3 Harelbeke\nThe 2018 E3 Harelbeke was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 23 March 2018 in Belgium. It was the 61st edition of the E3 Harelbeke and the tenth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour. The race was won by Niki Terpstra (Quick-Step Floors), who stayed 20 seconds clear of an elite group, led home by his teammate Philippe Gilbert, with BMC Racing Team's Greg Van Avermaet completing the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278662-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 E3 Harelbeke, Teams\nAs E3 Harelbeke was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Seven UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278663-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EC4\n2018 EC4 is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5\u00a0point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278663-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 EC4, Discovery, orbit and physical properties\n2018 EC4 was first observed on 10 March 2018 by the Mt. Lemmon Survey, but it had already been imaged (but not identified as an asteroid) by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope system at Haleakala on 29 October 2011. Its orbit is characterized by low eccentricity (0.061), moderate inclination (21.8\u00b0) and a semi-major axis of 1.52 AU. Upon discovery, it was classified as Mars-crosser by the Minor Planet Center. Its orbit is well determined as it is currently (January 2021) based on 70 observations with a data-arc span of 3,131 days. 2018 EC4 has an absolute magnitude of 20.1 which gives a characteristic diameter of 300 m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 50], "content_span": [51, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278663-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 EC4, Mars trojan and orbital evolution\nRecent calculations indicate that it is a stable L5 Mars trojan with a libration period of 1250 yr and an amplitude of 17\u00b0. These values are similar to those of 5261 Eureka and related objects and it may be a member of the so-called Eureka family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 43], "content_span": [44, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278664-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2018 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 57th tournament in league history. It was played between March 2 and March 17, 2018. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament Princeton received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278664-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe tournament features four rounds of play. The teams that finish above fifth place in the standings receive a bye to the quarterfinal round. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth seeds, the sixth and eleventh seeds, the seventh and tenth seeds and the eighth and ninth seeds played a best-of-three series with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278664-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nIn the quarterfinals the one seed plays the lowest remaining seed, the second seed plays the second-lowest remaining seed, the third seed plays the third-lowest remaining seed and the fourth seed plays the fourth-lowest remaining seed another best-of-three series with the winners of these the series advancing to the Semifinals. In the semifinals the top remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play against each other. The winners of the semifinals play in the championship game, and no third-place game is played. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278664-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278665-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EF Education First\u2013Drapac season\nThe 2018 season for the EF Education First\u2013Drapac p/b Cannondale cycling team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they are obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final\nThe 2018 EFL Championship play-off Final was an association football match which was played on 26 May 2018 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Aston Villa and Fulham. The match was to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football, to the Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final\nThe top two teams of the 2017\u201318 EFL Championship season gained automatic promotion to the Premier League, while the teams placed from third to sixth place in the table partook in play-off semi-finals; the winners of these semi-finals competed for the final place for the 2018\u201319 season in the Premier League; Fulham ended the season in third place while Aston Villa finished fourth. Winning the game was estimated to be worth \u00a3160\u00a0million to the successful team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final\nThe 2018 final, refereed by Anthony Taylor, was watched by a crowd of more than 85,000 people in very warm conditions. Fulham won 1\u20130, the only goal of the game being scored by the man of the match Tom Cairney in the 23rd minute. It was their first game at Wembley for 43 years since losing the 1975 FA Cup Final and marked their return to the Premier League for the first time since their relegation in the 2013\u201314 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final\nFulham ended the next season in 19th place and were relegated back to the Championship, despite finishing ten points ahead of bottom club Huddersfield Town. Aston Villa finished fifth in the 2018\u201319 EFL Championship and secured a 2\u20131 victory in the play-off final which saw them promoted to the Premier League for the 2019\u201320 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Route to the final\nFulham finished the regular 2017\u201318 season in third place in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league system, one place ahead of Aston Villa. Both therefore missed out on the two automatic places for promotion to the Premier League and instead took part in the play-offs to determine the third promoted team. Fulham finished two points behind Cardiff City (who were promoted in second place) and eleven behind league winners Wolverhampton Wanderers, despite only having lost one game more than the champions. Aston Villa ended the season five points behind Fulham and seven points ahead of fifth-placed Middlesbrough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Route to the final\nDespite dominating possession in the first leg of their semi-final against Derby County, Fulham lost the match with Cameron Jerome scoring the only goal. The second leg once again saw Fulham in control, and with second-half goals from Ryan Sessegnon and Denis Odoi, an aggregate 2\u20131 victory ensured the London club qualify for the playoff final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Route to the final\nAston Villa won the first of their semi-final matches against Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium with a score of 1\u20130. A first-half header from Mile Jedinak secured the victory in a game of few chances. A goalless draw in the return leg at the Villa Park meant Villa won the play-off semi-finals 1\u20130 on aggregate to qualify for the final. Tony Pulis, the Middlesbrough manager, was disappointed that Villa goalkeeper Sam Johnstone was not sent off for handling the ball outside the box with two minutes of the match remaining. Middlesbrough were also denied a last-minute goal which would have taken the tie into extra time when Stewart Downing's direct free kick struck the bar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Match, Background\nThis was Aston Villa's first play-off final, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the 2015\u201316 season, and finishing the following season in 13th position. Villa's last visit to Wembley ended in defeat a 4\u20130 defeat to Arsenal in the 2015 FA Cup Final. Fulham had failed to win seven consecutive play-off semi-final matches, most recently losing out to Reading in the 2017 play-offs. Qualification for the final marked Fulham's first visit to Wembley since their defeat against West Ham United in the 1975 FA Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Match, Background\nDuring the regular season, Fulham had lost to Villa at Villa Park 2\u20131 in October 2017, despite dominating poessession, but won the reverse fixture at Craven Cottage in February 2018. Ryan Sessegnon was ever-present and top scorer for Fulham with 16 goals, while Albert Adomah had scored the most during Aston Villa's regular season, with 14 goals from 41 appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Match, Background\nThe game was considered a \"classic clash of styles\" by the Bleacher Report, pitching an \"experienced and pragmatic\" Villa against a Fulham team \"featuring ample young talent\". Villa's starting line-up had all played in a Wembley final before, and included 37-year-old former England international defender John Terry. Only two of the Fulham team had played at England's national stadium, Matt Targett, for Southampton and Stefan Johansen, for Norway. The Fulham starting line-up was unchanged from their semi-final aggregate win. Ahmed Elmohamady returned to the Aston Villa starting eleven having missed out on the second leg of the semi-finals with a hamstring injury picked up at the end of the first leg, replacing James Bree who sat on the bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Match, Background\nThe final was refereed by Anthony Taylor from the Cheshire Football Association, with assistant referees Gary Beswick and Dan Cook, and Kevin Friend acted as the fourth official. It was widely reported that the game was worth at least \u00a3160\u00a0million over three years to the winners through sponsorship and television deals. Before kick-off, both teams were introduced to former Fulham player Alan Mullery. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, an Aston Villa fan, was supporting from the stands. Fulham were considered favourites to win the match, which was broadcast live in the UK on Sky Sports Main Event and on ESPN+ in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Match, First half\nFulham's Aleksandar Mitrovi\u0107 kicked off at 5\u00a0p.m. in front of a crowd of 85,243 people, in warm conditions. Neither team dominated the early stages, and in the 8th minute, Villa's James Chester was booked for a foul on Mitrovi\u0107. After 15 minutes, the pitchside temperature was measured at 90\u00a0\u00b0F (32\u00a0\u00b0C). Fulham continued to pass the ball around and on 20 minutes, Aboubakar Kamara's looping shot landed on the roof of the Villa net. Soon after, Chester was forced to make a clearance as Fulham began to take control of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Match, First half\nIn the 23rd minute, they made their superiority count and took the lead through a Tom Cairney strike. Sessegnon evaded a challenge from Hourihane 30 yards (27\u00a0m) from the Villa goal, and advanced, playing an accurately weighted pass to Cairney who passed the ball into the net past Sam Johnstone. Half an hour in, Villa claims for a red card were denied by the referee Anthony Taylor for Ryan Fredericks who appeared to deliberately stamp on Grealish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Match, First half\nAlthough Villa briefly dominated the game, Fulham were soon back on top although another foul on Grealish, this time from Denis Odoi, earned the London club their second yellow card of the afternoon. With five minutes of the half remaining, Robert Snodgrass' chipped a pass to Grealish who controlled the ball, only to strike it over the Fulham bar. In the 42nd minute, a mix-up between Chester and Johnstone allowed Mitrovi\u0107 in on an empty goal, only for Chester to redeem himself with a clearance. Two minutes of additional time were played before the half ended 1\u20130 to Fulham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Match, Second half\nAston Villa kicked off the second half and quickly both Grealish and Lewis Grabban pressed higher up the pitch, putting pressure on Fulham goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli. In the 50th minute, a cross from Adomah was met by Snodgrass, but his header was high over the bar. Three minutes later, Grealish's header from another Admoah cross was charged down by Bettinelli. Midway through the second half, a snaking run from Grealish saw him pass three Fulham defenders but his shot was saved. He was then shown a yellow card for a poor challenge on Cairney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Match, Second half\nKevin McDonald's shot on 67 minutes was deflected out but the subsequent corner was headed wide. In the 70th minute, Odoi was sent off after receiving a second yellow card for kicking Grealish in the chest, leaving Fulham to defend their lead with ten men for the remaining 20 minutes of the match. Fulham's struggling midfielder Johansen was substituted off in the 72nd minute, to be replaced by Oliver Norwood. Soon after Mitrovi\u0107 missed an opportunity to double Fulham's advantage, shooting high and wide of the Villa goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Match, Second half\nJedinak was then booked for a foul on Mitrovi\u0107 before Kamara also received a yellow card after time-wasting as he was substituted for Tom\u00e1\u0161 Kalas. A minute later, Steve Bruce made two attacking substitutions for Villa, bringing on Jonathan Kodjia for Elmohamady and Josh Onomah for Jedinak. Scott Hogan was then brought on for Hourihane who was struggling with injury, and Fredericks was replaced by Cyrus Christie for Fulham. With less than five minutes of the match remaining, Alan Hutton was booked for a bad challenge on Mitrovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0010-0003", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Match, Second half\nA late free kick for Snodgrass which he struck wide was followed by the announcement of five minutes of additional time. Hogan missed a chance for Villa before a possible Grealish penalty was waved away by the referee. A Sessegnon free kick was cleared and Villa attacked but with no end product, and the match ended in a 1\u20130 victory for Fulham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Post-match\nThe Villa manager Steve Bruce was unhappy in particular that Fredericks had escaped any kind of punishment for his challenge on Grealish, stating: \"First half we didn't do enough. But a big decision then went against us. The red card was very early and I know we don't want to see a game ruined early, but I was right in front of the incident \u2013 he stamps on him.\" Slavi\u0161a Jokanovi\u0107, the Fulham head coach, said \"It was a really important victory for us and we deserved it. It's not easy to play with lots of pressure, with lots of young players, and on the other side lots of experience\". Tom Cairney was named the man of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278666-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Championship play-off Final, Post-match\nFulham ended the next season, their first in the Premier League since they were relegated in the 2013\u201314 campaign, in 19th place and were relegated back to the Championship. Despite finishing ten points ahead of bottom club Huddersfield Town, Fulham concluded the season ten points from safety having conceded 81 goals, the most in the league. Aston Villa finished fifth in the 2018\u201319 EFL Championship and secured a 2\u20131 victory in the play-off final which saw them promoted to the Premier League for the 2019\u201320 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278667-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Cup Final\nThe 2018 EFL Cup Final (also known as the 2018 Carabao Cup Final for sponsorship reasons) was the final association football match of the 2017\u201318 EFL Cup that took place on 25 February 2018 at Wembley Stadium. It was the first League Cup final contested under the \"Carabao Cup\" name following the sponsorship of Carabao Energy Drink. It was contested between Manchester City and Arsenal, and won 3\u20130 by Manchester City. They would have entered the second qualifying round of the 2018\u201319 UEFA Europa League, but instead qualified directly for the 2018\u201319 UEFA Champions League by finishing first in the 2017\u201318 Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278667-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Cup Final\nThe match was Manchester City's sixth League Cup Final, and their third in five seasons \u2013 qualification for the final also marked the first time Pep Guardiola reached a final with Manchester City. For Arsenal, the final was their eighth total in the competition, and their third of Ars\u00e8ne Wenger's managerial reign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278667-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Cup Final, Route to the final\nThe EFL Cup is a cup competition open to clubs in the Premier League and English Football League. It is played on a knockout basis, with the exception of the semi-finals, which are contested over a two-legged tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278667-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Cup Final, Route to the final, Manchester City\nManchester City, a Premier League club involved in the UEFA Champions League, started their League Cup campaign in the third round, where they had been drawn away to fellow divisional opponents West Bromwich Albion. At The Hawthorns, winger Leroy San\u00e9 scored twice to give City a 2\u20131 victory. In the fourth round they faced Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers at home. The visitors defended well and became the first team to keep a clean sheet against the Premier League leaders. Neither side scored after normal and extra time meaning the tie was decided by a penalty shoot-out. City progressed as 4\u20131 winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 55], "content_span": [56, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278667-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Cup Final, Route to the final, Manchester City\nFor the quarter-finals, Manchester City were drawn away to Leicester City at the King Power Stadium. Midfielder Bernardo Silva scored for the visitors, but deep into added time, striker Jamie Vardy equalised for Leicester from the penalty spot. The game finished 1\u20131 and much like the previous round City needed penalties to progress, winning the shoot-out 4\u20133. The semi-final pitted Manchester City against Championship side Bristol City. The first leg played at the Etihad Stadium saw the visitors take the lead towards the end of the first half, having been awarded a penalty that Bobby Reid converted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 55], "content_span": [56, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278667-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL Cup Final, Route to the final, Manchester City\nKevin De Bruyne equalised for Manchester City and in injury time his teammate Sergio Ag\u00fcero scored the winner to put the team firmly in control of the tie. Bristol City scored twice at Ashton Gate in the return leg, but Manchester City progressed to the final having won by three goals and recording a 5\u20133 aggregate score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 55], "content_span": [56, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278667-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal\nArsenal, like Manchester City were involved in Europe (UEFA Europa League and entered the League Cup in the third round. They were drawn at home against Football League One side Doncaster Rovers. At the Emirates Stadium, Theo Walcott's goal in the 25th minute was enough to settle the outcome in favour of Arsenal. In the next round they faced Championship club Norwich City at home. Arsenal progressed with a 2\u20131 win after extra time after Eddie Nketiah was brought on as a substitute and scored his first two goals for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278667-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal\nArsenal played against West Ham United in the quarter-finals, where at home they won 1\u20130 thanks to a goal from Danny Welbeck. The semi-finals pitted Arsenal against London rivals Chelsea. After a goalless first leg at Stamford Bridge, Arsenal progressed to the final after a 2\u20131 win at the Emirates Stadium due to an own goal from Chelsea's Antonio R\u00fcdiger and a goal from Granit Xhaka. As a result, Arsenal reached the final without leaving London as four of their five games were at home, with the away leg of the semi final being played in London. Their tally of six goals on their way to the final represented the lowest goal-tally of any side to reach a League Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278667-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Cup Final, Match, Summary\nIn the 18th minute of the match Sergio Ag\u00fcero opened the scoring when he ran in on goal and lobbed the ball over the advancing goalkeeper David Ospina with his right foot from the edge of the penalty area after an initial clash with Arsenal defender Shkodran Mustafi who appealed for a foul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278667-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Cup Final, Match, Summary\nVincent Kompany got the second in the 58th minute. A corner from the right by Kevin De Bruyne found \u0130lkay G\u00fcndo\u011fan on the edge of the penalty area, and his low shot was diverted into the net by Kompany with his left leg from seven yards out. David Silva got the third in the 65th minute when he shot low across and past the goalkeeper with his left foot from inside the left of the penalty area from seven yards out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278667-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Cup Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Gary Beswick (Durham)Adam Nunn (Wiltshire)Fourth official:Graham Scott (Berks & Bucks)Fifth official:Ian Hussin (Liverpool)Video assistant referee:Neil Swarbrick (Lancashire)Assistant video assistant referee:Peter Kirkup (Northamptonshire)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final\nThe 2018 EFL League One play-off Final was an association football match which was played on 27 May 2018 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Rotherham United and Shrewsbury Town to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from EFL League One to the EFL Championship. The top two teams of the 2017\u201318 EFL League One season gained automatic promotion to the Championship, while the teams placed from third to sixth place in the table partook in play-off semi-finals; the winners of these semi-finals competed for the final place for the 2018\u201319 season in the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final\nRotherham had reached the play-off final in their first season back in the third tier of English football, having been relegated from the Championship in the 2017\u201318 season. The two clubs had faced one another at Wembley before, in the 1996 Football League Trophy Final. The 2018 final was watched by a crowd of more than 26,000 people and refereed by Robert Jones. Shrewsbury's goalkeeper Dean Henderson saved an early Rotherham penalty before Rotherham took the lead with a Richard Wood goal. Shrewsbury equalised through a second-half Alex Rodman strike, forcing the match into extra time. Late in the first half, Wood scored his and Rotherham's second, and the match ended 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final\nShrewsbury Town ended the next season in 18th place, five points above the relegation zone. Rotherham United finished 22nd in the 2018\u201319 EFL Championship, four points from safety and having conceded the most goals in the division, and were relegated back to League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Route to the final\nShrewsbury Town finished the regular 2017\u201318 season in third place in EFL League One, the third tier of the English football league system, one place ahead of Rotherham United. Both therefore missed out on the two automatic places for promotion to the EFL Championship and instead took part in the play-offs to determine the third promoted team. Shrewsbury finished nine points behind Blackburn Rovers (who were promoted in second place) and eleven behind league winners Wigan Athletic. Rotherham United ended the season eight points behind Shrewsbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Route to the final\nRotherham faced Scunthorpe United in their play-off semi-final, with the first leg being played away at Glanford Park. Jon Taylor scored after 17 minutes to take the lead for Rotherham but Scunthorpe equalised almost immediately through an own goal from Michael Ihiekwe. Joe Newell, a second-half substitute, put Rotherham back in front in the 64th minute after Scunthorpe goalkeeper Matt Gilks was replaced after suffering a knee injury. With two minutes remaining, Cameron McGeehan restored parity once again and the match ended 2\u20132. The second leg was played four days later at Rotherham's New York Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Route to the final\nRichard Wood put Rotherham ahead with a headed goal in additional time in the first half, and Will Vaulks extended their lead with a close-range strike. The Scunthorpe captain Rory McArdle was sent off after receiving two yellow cards and the match ended 2\u20130 to Rotherham, who progressed to the final with a 4\u20132 aggregate victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Route to the final\nShrewsbury's opponents in their play-off semi-final were Charlton Ahtletic, with the first leg being played away at The Valley. The first half was goalless and with ten minutes remaining in the second, Jon Nolan's 20-yard (18\u00a0m) half-volley from a Stefan Payne pass put Shrewsbury into a 1\u20130 lead which they held onto until the final whistle. The second leg was played at Shresbury's New Meadow three days later. A second-half strike from Carlton Morris was the only goal of the game, and the match ended 1\u20130, with Shrewsbury qualifying for the final, winning 2\u20130 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Match, Background\nRotherham United had featured in two play-off finals prior to 2018, losing the 2010 Football League Two play-off Final to Dagenham & Redbridge and the 2014 Football League One play-off Final where they defeated Leyton Orient after a penalty shootout. Shrewsbury Town had also played in two play-off finals, both unsuccessfully. They lost the 2007 Football League Two play-off Final 3\u20131 to Bristol Rovers and then were defeated by Gillingham in the 2009 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Match, Background\nShrewsbury had also lost in two other finals hosted at Wembley Stadium, against Rotherham in the 1996 Football League Trophy Final and League Two team Lincoln City in the 2018 EFL Trophy Final, held the month prior to this play-off final. During the regular season, both teams had won their away games, Shrewsbury winning 2\u20131 in November 2017 and Rotherham victorious 1\u20130 the following February. The play-off final was Shrewsbury's 62nd competitive match of the season. The on-loan striker Kieffer Moore was Rotherham's highest scorer during the season with thirteen goals, despite having left the club in January, while Payne was Shrewsbury's top marksman with eleven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Match, Background\nShrewsbury Town had not played in the second tier of English football since their relegation from the 1988\u201389 Second Division, while Rotherham were attempting to restore their place in the EFL Championship having been relegated in the 2016\u201317 season. The Shrewsbury Town manager Paul Hurst had spent almost his entire playing career at Rotherham, and coming into the game there was considerable speculation in the media over whether he would be taking the vacant position at Championship club Ipswich Town, regardless of the result of the play-off final. Paul Warne, the Rotherham manager, had played alongside Hurst for the club for five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Match, Background\nRobert Jones was the referee for the match, with assistants Neil Davies and Dan Robathan, and Scott Duncan acted as the fourth official. Jones had officiated the regular season fixture between the clubs in which he sent off Shrewsbury captain Abu Ogogo. Rotherham were considered to be favourites to win the match by bookmakers. Shrewsbury Town's starting lineup was unchanged from the second leg of the semi-final win against Charlton with Morris starting as striker ahead of the top scorer Payne. Rotherham United made three changes to the team that defeated Scunthorpe, bringing Semi Ajayi, David Ball and Taylor back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Match, First half\nRotherham United kicked the game off at 3:03\u00a0p.m. in front of a Wembley crowd of 26,218 in hot conditions. After early pressing from Shrewsbury, Rotherham's Ball's cross went close to Newell before Ball himself was brought down by Toto Nsiala. Joe Mattock's challenge on Shaun Whalley drew another free kick, which came to nothing before, on 7 minutes, Rotherham were denied a penalty after the ball struck Nsiala's arm, instead earning a corner. Two minutes later, Omar Beckles brought Wood down in the Shrewsbury area to concede a penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Match, First half\nBall stepped up to take it but it was saved by Dean Henderson, the Shrewsbury goalkeeper who was on loan from Manchester United. On fourteen minutes, Nolan won a corner from which Alex Rodman's shot was blocked. Ball's shot ten minutes later was blocked and the resulting corner from Taylor was gathered by Henderson. Whalley received the first yellow card of the match on 27 minutes for a foul on Beckles. In the 30th minute, Morris headed Nolan's cross past Rotherham's post, but a minute later Rotherham took the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Match, First half\nWood evaded Beckles for the first time in the match, and his header from a Newell corner beat Henderson. Shrewsbury's James Bolton was the second to receive a yellow card, in the 38th minute for a foul on Wood. Richie Towell's late first half shot from 30 yards (27\u00a0m) flew over the crossbar, before the half ended, with Rotherham leading 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Match, Second half\nNo changes to the teams were made during half time, and Shrewsbury got the second half underway. Carlton Morris' early cross found no-one before, on 54 minutes, the midfielder Bryn Morris went down with a hamstring injury after an aerial challenge with Josh Emmanuel. Unable to continue, Bryn Morris was replaced by the striker Payne, and four minutes later Shrewsbury equalised. A free kick from Whalley to Mat Sadler was passed back to Rodman who turned it past the Rotherham goalkeeper, Marek Rod\u00e1k, to make it 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Match, Second half\nDespite seeming to recover from an injury after a clash with Wood, Carlton Morris was replaced on 64 minutes by Lenell John-Lewis. In the 69th minute, Vaulks' shot was saved by Henderson, before Rotherham made their first substitution of the afternoon with Caolan Lavery coming on to replace Ball. Newell's shot was straight at the goalkeeper, and Joe Riley was then brought on for Bolton. Lavery then took the ball in space but his shot curled wide of the Shrewsbury post. With fifteen minutes of regular time remaining, Ryan Williams was brought on for Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Match, Second half\nTwo chances were missed by Lavery before John-Lewis' shot went wide of Rodak's post. Michael Smith then saw his shot saved, and with chances at either end missed, the match went into five minutes of additional time. In the final moments, a Williams shot was saved by Henderson and the second half ended 1\u20131, sending the match into extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Match, Extra time\nFour minutes into extra time, Newell struck a shot wide of the Shrewsbury post before a run from Ben Godfrey was blocked by Rotherham's Emmanuel. Rodman received treatment for a head wound before Newell's free kick was pushed away by Henderson. After thirteen minutes, Shrewsbury's captain Sadler was booked for a foul on Williams. A free kick from Newell was then headed in by Wood off the post to give Rotherham a 2\u20131 lead. Ajayi then blocked an attempt from Payne and Wood cleared, and the half came to an end. Five minutes into the second half, Newell was taken off and replaced by Anthony Forde. Despite chances for both sides, no further goals were scored and the match ended 2\u20131 to Rotherham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Post-match\nWood, the scorer of both Rotherham's goals, said: \"I am speechless. We've come so far from last season, it was terrible. To turn it around in the manager great credit. To get a brace has never been heard of.\" His manager Warne noted: \"They went toe to toe with us, I am really proud of my group of lads. It was a horrendous 12 months last year\u00a0... The only person I didn't want to beat was [Shrewsbury manager Paul Hurst] Hursty, but Hursty will go on to great things\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Post-match\nIt was the first time since 2007 that all three teams relegated the previous season were promoted. After guiding Shrewsbury to their highest finishing position in the league in 27 years, Hurst left the club three days after the final to join Ipswich Town. He was sacked less than five months later after leading Ipswich to one win in fourteen league matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278668-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League One play-off Final, Post-match\nShrewsbury Town ended the next season in 18th place, 5 points above the relegation zone but 23 below the play-offs. Rotherham United finished 22nd in the 2018\u201319 EFL Championship, 4 points from safety and having conceded the most goals in the division, and were relegated back to League One for the 2019\u201320 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final\nThe 2018 EFL League Two play-off Final was an association football match played on 28 May 2018 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Coventry City and Exeter City. The match determined the fourth and final team to gain promotion from EFL League Two, English football's fourth tier, to EFL League One. The top three teams of the 2017\u201318 EFL League Two season gained automatic promotion to League One, while the teams placed from fourth to seventh in the table took part in play-off semi-finals; the winners of these semi-finals competed for the final place for the 2018\u201319 season in League One. Exeter finished in fourth place while Coventry ended the season in sixth position. Lincoln City and Notts County were the losing semi-finalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final\nThe game, which was refereed by David Webb, was played on a hot sunny day in front of a crowd of 50,196. After a goalless first half, Coventry took the lead four minutes into the second half through Jordan Willis. Five minutes later they doubled their lead with a goal from Jordan Shipley. Midway through the half, Jack Grimmer made it 3\u20130 to Coventry. Kyle Edwards scored a consolation goal in the closing minutes of the game, but Coventry won 3\u20131 to earn promotion to the 2018\u201319 EFL League One. It was their first promotion for 51 years since being guided by Jimmy Hill into the 1967\u201368 Football League First Division. Marc McNulty, the Coventry striker was named the man of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final\nThree days after the final, the Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale left the club after twelve years, having failed to agree a new contract. At the time of his departure, he was the longest serving manager in English football's top four divisions. Exeter's new manager and former player Matt Taylor led them to ninth place in the 2018\u201319 League Two table in their next season, two places and a single point below the play-off positions. In their following season, Coventry finished in eighth place in the 2018\u201319 League One table, two places and eight points outside the play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Route to the final\nExeter City were playing their sixth consecutive season in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system, having been relegated from EFL League One in 2012. They had missed out on promotion the previous season, losing to Blackpool in the 2017 EFL League Two play-off Final. For Coventry City it was their first season in the league's bottom tier since the 1958\u201359 season, following relegation from League One in 2017. They had, however, played in a Wembley final the previous season, winning the 2017 EFL Trophy Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Route to the final\nExeter finished the regular 2017\u201318 season in fourth place in League Two, two places ahead of Coventry. Both therefore missed out on the three automatic places for promotion to League One and instead took part in the play-offs to determine the fourth promoted team. Exeter City finished four points behind Wycombe Wanderers (who were promoted in third place), eight behind Luton Town (who finished second) and thirteen behind league winners Accrington Stanley. Coventry City ended the season in sixth, two places and five points behind Exeter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Route to the final\nCoventry City's opponents in the play-off semi-finals were Notts County and the first leg was played on 12 May 2018 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. Described by the BBC's Ged Scott as an \"exciting tussle, which produced an ultimately fair result\", the match ended 1\u20131. After a goalless first half, Jonathan Forte put the visitors into the lead on 49 minutes. With three minutes of the match remaining, Matt Tootle was adjudged to have fouled Tom Bayliss and Marc McNulty scored the resulting penalty to level the tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Route to the final\nThe second semi-final leg took place six days later at Meadow Lane in Nottingham. Coventry dominated the first half with Maxime Biamou opening the scoring with a bicycle kick on six minutes. McNulty then doubled the visitors' lead eight minutes before the break, before Jorge Grant pulled one back for Notts County a minute before half time. Biamou scored his second and Coventry's third mid-way through the second half, and a deflected shot from Bayliss made it 4\u20131 to Coventry. This meant they progressed to the play-off final, winning 5\u20132 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Route to the final\nExeter City faced Lincoln City in their play-off semi-final, with the first leg taking place on 12 May 2018 at Sincil Bank in Lincoln. The home team saw two claims for penalties denied and both sides spurned opportunities to score as the game finished goalless. The second leg of the semi-final was played five days later at St James Park in Exeter. Jayden Stockley put the home team ahead mid-way through the first half and Lincoln's Elliott Whitehouse had a goal disallowed five minutes before half time. Hiram Boateng made it 2\u20130 to Exeter after curling a shot in off the post following a run from inside his own half. Ryan Harley's 25-yard (23\u00a0m) strike extended Exeter's lead, and with a consolation goal from Matt Green, the match ended 3\u20131 and Exeter progressed to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Match, Background\nIn the matches played between the two sides during the regular season, each team won their home game, with Coventry winning 2\u20131 at the Ricoh Arena in September 2017 and Exeter victorious at St James Park 1\u20130 the following January. McNulty was the highest scorer for Coventry with 23 league goals during the season while Stockley was Exeter's top marksman with 19 goals during the league campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Match, Background\nExeter City manager Paul Tisdale was confident in his team's chances of victory, reflecting on their previous season's failure at Wembley, suggesting that his players had \"experience of the build-up, the logistics, the preparations and what it felt like to lose\". His counterpart Mark Robins was cautious noting that Coventry were \"one step away but you don't want to tempt fate\". During the build-up to the final, Tisdale was linked to a move away from Exeter, in particular to Milton Keynes Dons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Match, Background\nHe was the longest-serving manager in England's top four divisions following the retirement of Ars\u00e8ne Wenger, having been at Exeter for twelve years. Tisdale's contract was due for renewal in November 2018 and Richard Foster of The Guardian reported that Tisdale was \"keeping his options open\" in order to make a decision after the play-offs. Steve Perryman, Exeter's director of football was to retire after the final having fulfilled the role at the club for fifteen years. Coventry City sold around 37,000 tickets for the match, substantially outnumbering the opposition fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Match, Background\nThe referee for the match was David Webb, who had officiated Coventry once during the regular season, a 2\u20131 home win over Cheltenham Town in December. He had also officiated Exeter City in the previous year's play-off semi-final at Carlisle United. The assistant referees were Adrian Waters and Dean Treleaven, with John Brooks named as the fourth official. Sam Lewis was the reserve assistant referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Match, Background\nRobins named an unchanged side from the team that won the second leg of the play-off semi-final against Notts County. Tisdale made one change to the Exeter squad, with Craig Woodman starting and Robbie Simpson dropping into the substitutes. Coventry wore a one-off kit commissioned for the match as the club had run out of their regular season home strip. Prior to the match, Exeter fans commemorated their former player Adam Stansfield with a giant number nine shirt. Stansfield had died in 2010 at the age of 31 from cancer and the club retired his shirt for the following nine years. After the players were introduced to a group of dignitaries, the national anthem was sung by Faryl Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Match, First half\nCoventry City kicked the match off at around 3\u00a0p.m. on 28 May 2018 in hot and sunny conditions, with a pitchside temperature of 30\u00a0\u00b0C (86\u00a0\u00b0F), in front of a Wembley Stadium crowd of 50,196. McNulty won an early corner for Coventry but Exeter cleared the ball. In the sixth minute, McNulty attempted a volley from outside the Exeter penalty area, but his shot went over the crossbar. Nine minutes later, Coventry had another chance but Jordan Storey's tackle on McNulty neutralised the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Match, First half\nOn 18 minutes Christy Pym saved a low 25-yard (23\u00a0m) shot from McNulty before a Shipley strike was deflected out for a corner. In the 23rd minute, a cross from Jack Grimmer was mishit by Bayliss, going out for an Exeter goal kick. Two minutes later, Coventry were temporarily reduced to ten men when Chris Stokes was forced to leave the pitch for medical attention after he was accidentally struck in the face by Stockley. Exeter won a corner on 29 minutes but Stockley's header was gathered by the Coventry goalkeeper Lee Burge. On 31 minutes, Harley's strike was also caught by Burge, before Shipley's long-distance shot was saved by Pym. After three minutes of additional time, the half was brought to a goalless end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Match, Second half\nNo changes were made to either team during half time and Exeter kicked off the second half. Two minutes in, a pass from Bayliss found McNulty whose shot from close range was saved by Pym. A minute later, the deadlock was broken as Coventry took a 1\u20130 lead through Jordan Willis who turned and shot from outside the box, his strike curling past Pym. Three minutes later, Coventry made their first substitution of the afternoon with Biamou being replaced by Jonson Clarke-Harris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Match, Second half\nOn 53 minutes, they doubled their lead as a deflected shot from Shipley beat Pym in the Exeter goal. Two consecutive corners for Exeter came to nothing while a 40-yard (37\u00a0m) strike from Shipley went wide. In the 62nd minute, Exeter made a double substitution, with Woodman and Dean Moxey being replaced by Lloyd James and Matt Jay. On 68 minutes, Grimmer made it 3\u20130 to Coventry with a curling shot from the edge of the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Match, Second half\nSix minutes later, both sides made further substitutions, Shipley replaced by Kyel Reid for Coventry and Kyle Edwards coming on for Boateng for Exeter. In the 75th minute, Exeter went close with Harley's dipping shot saved by Burge. With twelve minutes of regulation time remaining, Pym was forced to make a save from a curling Bayliss shot before Jay's long-range strike for Exeter was gathered by Burge. In the 83rd minute, Coventry made their final change, with Jordan Ponticelli coming on for McNulty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0011-0003", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Match, Second half\nFive minutes later Clarke-Harris' shot from distance went astray before Edwards scored a consolation goal for Exeter with another curled strike. Four minutes into additional time, Stockley's header was saved by Burge before another shot from the Exeter striker went wide of the Coventry post. The match ended 3\u20131 to Coventry who were promoted to League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Post-match\nRobins was proud of his team's achievements: \"We've played at a level no one expected us to and the pressure that comes with that is immense. The players have been magnificent.\" His counterpart, Tisdale, said in his post-match press conference that \"it wasn\u2019t the best performance, two very good goals against us and really disappointed\" but also expressed pride in the club and its players for the season as a whole. The Coventry defender Willis said \"It means everything, especially with the season we had last year\u00a0... I've not scored many and they all came last season but this one is definitely up there.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Post-match\nIt was Coventry City's first promotion for 51 years since they were guided into the 1967\u201368 Football League First Division by Jimmy Hill, and the team celebrated the achievement with their fans through an open-top bus tour of Coventry on 31 May, followed by a civic reception hosted by the Lord Mayor. Two seasons later Coventry were promoted again, to the EFL Championship, being named 2019\u201320 EFL League One champions after the season was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Post-match\nOn 1 June 2018, following a failure to agree a new contract, Tisdale left Exeter City after twelve years at the club. At the time of his departure, he was the longest serving manager in English football's top four divisions. He was replaced by the former Exeter City player Matt Taylor, who led them to ninth place in the 2018\u201319 League Two table in their next season, two places and a single point below the play-off positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278669-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 EFL League Two play-off Final, Post-match\nThey reached the League Two play-off final again in the curtailed 2019\u201320 season but lost once again, 4\u20130 against Northampton Town, their third defeat in the event in four seasons. In their following campaign, Coventry finished in eighth place in the 2018\u201319 League One season, two places and eight points outside the play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278670-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EFL Trophy Final\nThe 2018 EFL Trophy Final was a football match that took place on 8 April 2018 at Wembley Stadium, London. It was the final match of the 2017\u201318 EFL Trophy, the 34th edition of the EFL Trophy, a competition for the 48 clubs in EFL League One and EFL League Two, and 16 under-21 sides from Premier League and EFL Championship clubs. It was contested by Lincoln City, from League Two, and Shrewsbury Town, from League One. Lincoln City won the game 1\u20130, with the goal scored by Elliott Whitehouse. It was Lincoln's first cup win in any competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278671-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EMF EURO\nThe 2018 EMF Euro was the eighth edition of the EMF miniEURO for national Small-sided football teams, and the fifth governed by the European Minifootball Federation. It took place in Kyiv, Ukraine, from 12 to 18 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278671-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 EMF EURO, Draw\nThe final tournament draw was held in Ukrainian football federation headquarters in Kyiv on 11 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 19], "content_span": [20, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278671-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 EMF EURO, Goalscorers\nThere have been\u00a0? goals scored in\u00a0? matches, for an average of\u00a0? goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 26], "content_span": [27, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278672-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ESPY Awards\nThe 2018 ESPY Awards were presented at the 26th annual ESPY Awards show, held on July 18, 2018 at 5 PM Pacific at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and on television nationwide in the United States on ABC at 8 PM Eastern/7 PM Central. On May 22, 2018, it was announced that Danica Patrick would host the event, which made her the first woman to have hosted the show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278672-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ESPY Awards, Winners and nominees\nThese were the nominees for each of the competitive awards. Fans were able to vote online at a dedicated ESPN site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278673-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ealing London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Ealing Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Ealing Council in London. The Labour Party increased their majority on the council by gaining four seats from the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278673-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ealing London Borough Council election, Detailed Results, Ealing Broadway\nIn the 2019 General Election, Alexander Stafford was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Rother Valley, in South Yorkshire. He continued to serve as a councillor until 1 April 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278673-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ealing London Borough Council election, Detailed Results, Hanger Hill\nIn the 2019 General Election, Joy Morrissey was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield. She continued to serve as a councillor until 14 April 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278674-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 East Africa floods\nThe 2018 East Africa Floods were a natural disaster in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Somalia, Djibouti, and Burundi affecting millions of people. They began when excessive rains began falling in March 2018 following a year of severe drought, leading to massive flooding, landslides, and the failure and overflow of several dams. Record rainfall was recorded in several areas, surpassing various records set during the 1950s and during the 1997\u201398 El Ni\u00f1o event. Nearly 500 people have lost their lives while hundreds of thousands of others have been displaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278674-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 East Africa floods, Impact by country, Rwanda\nFlooding in Rwanda's hill country has caused major landslides that have killed at least 200 people. Over 10,000 houses have been destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278674-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 East Africa floods, Impact by country, Rwanda\nIn May the Kigali-Gatuna highway, a major road connecting Rwanda to its neighbors, was washed out for nearly a week, cutting off vital trade for the landlocked country. Damages to the roads alone across Rwanda have so far totaled $28 Million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278674-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 East Africa floods, Impact by country, Kenya\nAt least 186 people in Kenya have been killed by the floods due to mudslides, building collapses, drowning, and capsizing. An additional 283,290 people have been displaced. The floods were a contributing factor to the Patel Dam failure on 9 May, 2018 in Solai, Kenya, which led to 48 of the fatalities in Kenya. Four additional dams near Lake Baringo burst on May 26, killing another 5 people and displacing another 10,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278674-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 East Africa floods, Impact by country, Kenya\nRepairs to road damages in Kenya are currently estimated to cost $187 Million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278674-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 East Africa floods, Impact by country, Somalia\nInitial bouts of flooding throughout April and early May killed 5 people, displaced 215,000 people, and affected over 630,000 people in Somalia. Most flooding has occurred along the Jubba and Shabelle rivers, an example of the Somali Flash Flood effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278674-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 East Africa floods, Impact by country, Somalia\nMore floods were experienced between May 17 and 21 as Somalia was hit by Cyclone Sagar, the westernmost landfalling cyclone on record in the North Indian Ocean. 31 people were killed, most of them in Somaliland where 80% of the livestock were also killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278674-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 East Africa floods, Impact by country, Burundi\nIn March, floods in Bujumbura triggered landslides that killed 6 people and affected 12,000 others. Continued flooding throughout April caused a dyke along the Mutumbizi River to fail and ultimately left 1 person dead and 2,573 people homeless. Heavy rainfall throughout May around Gatumba led to massive flooding that affected an additional 12,956 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278674-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 East Africa floods, Impact by country, Djibouti\nDjibouti experienced its worst flooding when hit by Cyclone Sagar, which made landfall on May 19. 20,000 people have been affected and 2 have died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278674-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 East Africa floods, Impact by country, Ethiopia\nIn Ethiopia 98,000 individuals have been displaced, including 26,000 in Dolo Odo alone. Over 165,000 people have been affected across the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278674-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 East Africa floods, Impact by country, Uganda\nIn Uganda, massive flooding in Kampala has exacerbated several public health crises as latrines have flooded in poor areas and standing flood waters have led to greater breeding of mosquitos. This has multiplied a local cholera outbreak that began in February 2018 and has killed 45 people and affected 2000 others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278675-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 East Carolina Pirates football team\nThe 2018 East Carolina Pirates football team represented East Carolina University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Pirates, led by third-year head coach Scottie Montgomery, played their home games at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, and were members of the East Division in the American Athletic Conference. They finished the season 3\u20139, 1\u20137 in AAC play to finish in fifth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278675-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 East Carolina Pirates football team\nOn November 29, head coach Socttie Montgomery was fired. He finished at East Carolina with a three year record of 9\u201326. Defensive coordinator David Blackwell was the interim head coach during their final game of the season. On December 3, ECU hired James Madison head coach Mike Houston as their new head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278675-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 East Carolina Pirates football team, Previous season\nThe Pirates finished the 2017 season 3\u20139, 2\u20136 in AAC play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278675-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 East Carolina Pirates football team, Preseason, AAC media poll\nThe AAC media poll was released on July 24, 2018, with the Pirates predicted to finish in last place in the AAC East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278675-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nThe high-scoring affair features a combined 1,200 yards by the two teams. Holton Ahlers, in his second start in relief of Reid Herring, led the Pirates in both rushing (17 carries for 57 yards) and passing, completing 34 of his 62 passes for 449 yards (fourth in school history to Shane Carden's 480 in 2013, Blake Kemp's 465 in 2015, and Gardner Minshew's 463 in 217) and three touchdowns without an interception. Trevon Brown had 10 receptions for 193 yards (eighth in ECU history) and two of those touchdowns. The second of these tied the game at 31 midway through the third quarter, but the Pirates were outscored 28-17 the rest of the way in the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278675-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, at NC State\nNote: This game was scheduled on October 2, 2018 to replace NC State\u2019s game vs. West Virginia and East Carolina\u2019s game at Virginia Tech, both of which were canceled due to Hurricane Florence. This game will not take place if either NC State or ECU qualifies for their respective conference championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278676-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 East Java earthquake\nOn 11 October 2018, an earthquake struck off the coast of East Java, Indonesia, with the epicentre located off the coast of Situbondo Regency. The earthquake, which struck at dawn, killed 4 people in addition to destroying or damaging hundreds of houses, mostly in the small island of Sapudi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278676-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 East Java earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake occurred at 18:44:55 UTC (01:44:55 WIB), with a strength of Mw\u202f 6.0, 9\u00a0km depth and epicenter location of (USGS) or Mw\u202f 6.3, 12\u00a0km depth and epicenter at (BMKG). The epicenter was located underwater, around 60\u00a0km northeast of the town of Situbondo. Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported 12 aftershocks, the strongest one occurring at 02:22 local time with a strength of Mw\u202f 3.5. BMKG attributed the earthquake to a thrust fault movement of an unmapped fault, adding that the region historically saw relatively low seismicity and that the earthquake was not caused by the larger and more destructive earthquakes in Sulawesi and Lombok.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278676-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 East Java earthquake, Earthquake\nAccording to Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the earthquake was felt in 22 regencies and cities in East Java province, including the provincial capital and Indonesia's second-largest city Surabaya. No tsunami warnings were issued, and none occurred. Attendees of the 2018 International Monetary Fund Summit in Denpasar reported feeling the earthquake, but no damage occurred and the summit continued without significant disruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278676-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 East Java earthquake, Casualties\nThe earthquake killed 4 people, and injured at least 26. As the earthquake struck around 2 AM, many of the victims were asleep during the shaking and could not escape. Three of the deaths occurred in Prambanan village of Sapudi Island and were caused by falling roof shrapnel, while the fourth fatality was in Jember, where a 47-year-old man died after he slipped and hit his head when running out of his house during the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278676-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 East Java earthquake, Aftermath\nNearly 500 houses were reported to be damaged by the day following the earthquake in Sapudi Island alone, with lesser damage in other regencies. Cleanup operations, assisted by soldiers from Kodam V/Brawijaya, began soon after the earthquake. Social minister Agus Gumiwang visited Sapudi later in the day of the earthquake. Governor of East Java Soekarwo also visited the island, and promised that the provincial government would incur the costs of repairing damaged houses, with the provincial administration allocating Rp 23.7 billion (US$1.6 million) for the purpose. The central government also provided benefits of Rp 15 million (~USD 1,000) for the relatives of the fatalities, in addition to smaller benefits from the local governments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278677-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 East Java gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 East Java gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of East Java alongside with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278677-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 East Java gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Soekarwo was barred from participating in the re-elections after having served two full terms. Candidates were former cabinet minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa and sitting vice governor Saifullah Yusuf. The former won the election, securing over 53% of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278677-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 East Java gubernatorial election, Timeline\nOn September 10, the General Elections Commission declared a voter count of 30,963,078 in the province who are to vote in 68,511 polling stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278677-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 East Java gubernatorial election, Timeline\nRegistration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The campaigning period would commence between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278677-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 East Java gubernatorial election, Timeline\nA televised debate between the two pairs was held on 10 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278677-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 East Java gubernatorial election, Candidates\nUnder regulations, candidates are required to secure the support of a political party or a coalition thereof comprising at least 20 seats in the regional house. Alternatively, independent candidates may run provided they are capable of securing support from 6.5 percent of the total voter population (2,012,601) in form of photocopied ID cards subject to verification by the local committee although no candidates expressing interest managed to do this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278677-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 East Java gubernatorial election, Candidates\nThe Khofifah\u2013Emil pair was first endorsed by Demokrat on 21 November 2017, and Golkar followed suit on the 22nd. Hanura declared their support on December the same year, while the other parties joined the coalition in January 2018. Khofifah had been the Minister of Social Affairs in Joko Widodo's working cabinet, although she resigned from that post in order to run. Her running mate Emil Dardak is a Japan-educated doctoral graduate who serves as regent of Trenggalek Regency, although he has not resigned from the post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278677-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 East Java gubernatorial election, Candidates\nMinister of Home Affairs Tjahjo Kumolo had requested for him to step down for ethical reasons, but he admitted that there are no binding regulations requiring him to do so. The pair have stated that their program will involve women's empowerment, involving the reduction of maternal mortality in addition to skill trainings and economic aid for females.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278677-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 East Java gubernatorial election, Candidates\nSaifullah, popularly referred to as Gus Ipul, had served as the vice governor of the province since 2009. PKB, itself having enough seats to run a candidate with no coalition, put him forth as their gubernatorial candidate on 5 October 2017. PDI-P joined the coalition, initially putting forth Banyuwangi regent Abdullah Azwar Anas as running mate until he stepped back following a scandal. The party later appointed Sukarno's granddaughter and two-term member of the People's Representative Council Puti Guntur Sukarnoputri to replace him in the ticket. Despite initially planning to run a ticket alongside PAN, opposition parties Gerindra and PKS declared their support for Ipul-Puti on 10 January 2018. The pair have stated an intention to continue with Soekarwo's programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278678-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 East Kalimantan Governor Cup\n2018 East Kalimantan Governor Cup or 2018 East Borneo Governor Cup (Indonesian: Piala Gubernur Kaltim 2018) was the second edition of East Kalimantan Governor Cup football championship, which was held by the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) as pre-season tournament during 2018 Liga 1 season break. The tournament was started on 23 February 2018 and ended on 4 March 2018. The broadcasting rights were granted solely to MNCTV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278678-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 East Kalimantan Governor Cup, Teams\nThere are 8 clubs participating in the 2018 East Kalimantan Governor Cup. The clubs were divided into two groups, each filled with four participants. Bali United withdrew from the competition due to the absence of their coach and lack of players, therefore PSIS Semarang came in as replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278679-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 East Kalimantan gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 East Kalimantan gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of East Kalimantan alongside with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278679-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 East Kalimantan gubernatorial election\nWith incumbent Awang Faroek Ishak having served two terms, former regent of East Kutai won a four-way race with 31 percent of the votes. Other candidates are mayors of Samarinda Syaharie Ja'ang and Bontang Andi Sofyan Hasdam, in addition to the provincial secretary Rusmadi Wongso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278679-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 East Kalimantan gubernatorial election, Timeline\nRegistration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register earlier in late 2017. The final voter count was set at 2,330,156 in June 2018. The campaigning period would commence between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278679-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 East Kalimantan gubernatorial election, Candidates\nTwo-term former Bontang mayor Andi Sofyan Hasdam ran with the backing of Golkar and Nasdem. Hasdam initially ran with Nasdem member Nusyirwan Ismail, but the latter passed away before the election and was replaced by Rizal Effendi, Balikpapan mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278679-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 East Kalimantan gubernatorial election, Candidates\nAnother mayor, Syaharie Ja'ang of Samarinda, also ran in the election with the support of Demokrat, PPP and PKB. His running mate Awang Ferdian Hidayat was a People's Representative Council member from PDI-P.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278679-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 East Kalimantan gubernatorial election, Candidates\nFormer regent of East Kutai, Isran Noor, received the backing of Gerindra, PAN, and PKS. He ran with PKS People's Representative Council member Hadi Mulyadi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278679-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 East Kalimantan gubernatorial election, Candidates\nPDI-P and Hanura supported Rusmadi Wongso-Safaruddin, who were the provincial secretary and a police inspector general, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278680-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 East Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 East Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of East Nusa Tenggara alongside with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278680-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 East Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election\nWith incumbent Frans Lebu Raya meeting his term limits, People's Representative Council member Viktor Laiskodat came ahead in the four-candidate race, defeating former deputy governor Esthon Foenay alongside Ngada Regency leader Marianus Sae and fellow legislator Benediktus Kabur Harman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278680-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 East Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election, Timeline\nOn 29 April 2018, the province's electoral commission declared that there would be 3,177,562 eligible voters in the province, who were to vote in 9,671 polling stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278680-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 East Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election, Timeline\nRegistration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The numerical order of the candidates were determined on 13 February through a lottery. The campaigning period happened between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278680-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 East Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election, Candidates\nAn independent candidate pair attempted to run for the election, but failed to collect the needed 272,300 identity cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278680-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 East Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election, Candidates\nEshton Foenay had run in the 2003 gubernatorial election, but lost. Later, he became Frans Lebu Raya's deputy between 2008 and 2013. His running mate Christian Rotok is a two-term regent of Manggarai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278680-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 East Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election, Candidates\nMarianus Sae, the regent of Ngada, had been arrested as a suspect for a corruption case by the Corruption Eradication Commission, resulting in him not attending the candidate lottery on 13 February. His running mate Emmilia Nomleni is a provincial councilor from PDI-P between 2009 and 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278680-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 East Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election, Candidates\nBenediktus Kabur Harman, or Benny Harman, is a member of the People's Representative Council, while his running mate Benny Alexander Litelnoni was the incumbent vice-governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278680-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 East Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election, Candidates\nViktor Laiskodat, also a member of the national parliament, headed the Nasdem faction in the People's Representative Council, with his running mate Josef Adreanus Nae Soi being a former national legislator serving from 2004 to 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278680-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 East Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election, Results\nThe Viktor/Joseph pair was victorious in 15 territories (regencies or cities), with Marianus/Emmilia winning in 4, Esthon/Christian winning in 2, and Benny/Benny in just one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278681-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team\nThe 2018 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team represented East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season and were in the third year of their second stint as football members of the Southern Conference (SoCon). They were led by first-year head coach Randy Sanders and played their home games at William B. Greene Jr. Stadium. They finished the season 8\u20134, 6\u20132 in SoCon play to win a share of the SoCon championship. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they lost to Jacksonville State in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278681-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team, Previous season\nThe Buccaneers finished the 2017 season 4\u20137, 2\u20136 in SoCon play to finish in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278681-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team, Previous season\nOn December 8, head coach Carl Torbush announced his retirement. He finished at ETSU with a three-year record of 11\u201322.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278681-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe SoCon released their preseason media poll on July 25, 2018, with the Buccaneers predicted to finish in eighth place. The same day the coaches released their preseason poll with the Buccaneers also predicted to finish in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 83], "content_span": [84, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278681-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll, Preseason All-SoCon Teams\nThe Buccaneers placed five players on the preseason all-SoCon teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 110], "content_span": [111, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278682-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 East Timorese parliamentary election\nEarly parliamentary elections were held in East Timor on 12 May 2018 after the National Parliament was dissolved by President Francisco Guterres on 26 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278682-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 East Timorese parliamentary election\nThe Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP), a coalition of three opposition parties, won an absolute majority of 34 of the 65 seats in Parliament. Voter turnout was 81 percent, five percentage points higher than the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278682-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 East Timorese parliamentary election, Background\nIn the 2017 parliamentary elections there was no clear winner, with the Fretilin party of Mari Alkatiri holding only one more seat than the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction led by Xanana Gusm\u00e3o. Alkatiri formed a minority government with the Democratic Party, which held only 30 of the 65 seats in the National Parliament. However, the government's attempts to pass a budget were blocked, and amidst political deadlock, President Francisco Guterres dissolved Parliament and called for early elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278682-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 East Timorese parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe 65 members of the National Parliament were elected from a single nationwide constituency by closed list proportional representation. Parties were required to have a woman in at least every third position in their list. Seats were allocated using the d'Hondt method with an electoral threshold of four percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278683-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International\nThe 2018 Eastbourne International (also known as the Nature Valley International for sponsorship reasons) is a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 44th edition of the event for the women and the 8th edition for the men. The tournament is classified as a WTA Premier tournament on the 2018 WTA Tour and as an ATP World Tour 250 series on the 2018 ATP World Tour. The event took place at the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club in Eastbourne, United Kingdom 25\u201330 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278683-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278683-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278684-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBob and Mike Bryan were the defending champions, but Bob was unable to compete due to an injury. Mike played alongside James Cerretani, but lost in the first round to Scott Clayton and Joe Salisbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278684-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International \u2013 Men's Doubles\nLuke Bambridge and Jonny O'Mara won the title, defeating Ken and Neal Skupski in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278685-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International \u2013 Men's Singles\nNovak Djokovic was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278685-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International \u2013 Men's Singles\nMischa Zverev won his first ATP singles title, defeating Luk\u00e1\u0161 Lacko in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278685-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278686-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International \u2013 Women's Doubles\nLatisha Chan and Martina Hingis were the defending champions, but Hingis retired from professional tennis at the end of 2017. Chan played alongside Peng Shuai, but they lost in the first round to Irina-Camelia Begu and Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278686-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International \u2013 Women's Doubles\nGabriela Dabrowski and Xu Yifan won the title, defeating Begu and Buz\u0103rnescu in the final, 6\u20133, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278687-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International \u2013 Women's Singles\nKarol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Aryna Sabalenka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278687-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International \u2013 Women's Singles\nCaroline Wozniacki won the title, defeating Sabalenka in the final 7\u20135, 7\u20136(7\u20135). Wozniacki won the title after saving a match point Angelique Kerber had against her in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278687-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278687-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastbourne International \u2013 Women's Singles, Qualifying\nThe top three seeds received a bye into the qualifying competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278688-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Asian Women's Volleyball Championship\nThe 2018 Asian Eastern Zonal Women's Volleyball Championship was the 11th edition of the AVC Eastern Zonal Women's Volleyball Championship, the volleyball championship of East Asia. It was held in Zhangjiagang, China from 10 to 15 July 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278688-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Asian Women's Volleyball Championship\nJapan won the title for the fifth time, defeating China in the final, 3\u20130. Chinami Furuya was elected the most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278689-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team\nThe 2018 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team represented Eastern Illinois University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Kim Dameron and played their home games at O'Brien Field in Charleston, Illinois as members of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC). They finished the season 3\u20138, 3\u20135 in OVC play to finish in a tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278689-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team\nOn November 18, head coach Kim Dameron was fired. He finished at Eastern Illinois with a five-year record of 27\u201330.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278689-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team, Previous season\nThe Panthers finished the 2017 season 6\u20135, 5\u20133 in OVC play to finish in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278689-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team, Preseason, OVC media poll\nOn July 20, 2018, the media covering the OVC released their preseason poll with the Panthers predicted to finish in fifth place. On July 23, the OVC released their coaches poll with the Panthers predicted to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278689-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-OVC team\nThe Panthers had three players selected to the preseason all-OVC team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 79], "content_span": [80, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278690-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tournament\nThe 2018 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tournament is the men's volleyball tournament for the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association during the 2018 NCAA Division I & II men's volleyball season. It is being from April 19 through April 21, 2018 at George Mason University's Recreation and Athletic Complex. The winner receives The Association's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Volleyball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278690-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tournament, Seeds\nThe top four teams qualify for the tournament, with the highest seed hosting each round. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 69], "content_span": [70, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278691-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team\nThe 2018 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team represented Eastern Kentucky University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Mark Elder and played their home games at Roy Kidd Stadium as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 7\u20134, 5\u20132 in OVC play to finish in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278691-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team, Previous season\nThe Colonels finished the 2017 season 4\u20137, 3\u20135 in OVC play to finish in a tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278691-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team, Preseason, OVC media poll\nOn July 20, 2018, the media covering the OVC released their preseason poll with the Colonels predicted to finish in sixth place. On July 23, the OVC released their coaches poll with the Colonels predicted to finish in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278691-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team, Preseason, Preseason All-OVC team\nThe Colonels had three players selected to the preseason all-OVC team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 79], "content_span": [80, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278692-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team\nThe 2018 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team represented Eastern Michigan University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Chris Creighton and played their home games at Rynearson Stadium in Ypsilanti, Michigan as members of the West Division of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 7\u20136, 5\u20133 in MAC play to finish in a three-way tie for second place in the West Division. They were invited to the Camellia Bowl where they lost to Georgia Southern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278692-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team, Previous season\nThe Eagles finished the 2017 season 5\u20137, 3\u20135 in MAC play to finish in fifth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278692-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe MAC released their preseason media poll on July 24, 2018, with the Eagles predicted to finish in fourth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278693-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Washington Eagles football team\nThe 2018 Eastern Washington Eagles football team represented Eastern Washington University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was coached by second year head coach Aaron Best. The Eagles played their home games at Roos Field in Cheney, Washington and were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 12\u20133, 7\u20131 in Big Sky play to finish in a three-way tie for the Big Sky championship with UC Davis and Weber State. They received an at-large bid to the FCS playoffs, where they defeated Nicholls, UC Davis, and Maine to advance to the National Championship Game, where they lost to North Dakota State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278693-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Previous season\nThe Eagles finished the 2017 season 7\u20134, 6\u20132 in Big Sky play to finish in a three-way tie for third place. Despite being ranked in the top 25 at the end of the regular season, they were not selected to participate in the FCS Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278693-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Preseason, Polls\nOn July 16, 2018 during the Big Sky Kickoff in Spokane, Washington, the Eagles were predicted to win the Big Sky by both the coaches and media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278693-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nThe Eagles had three players selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 86], "content_span": [87, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278693-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Schedule\nDespite also being a member of the Big Sky, the game vs. Northern Arizona was counted as a non-conference game and had no effect on the Big Sky standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278694-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eastleigh Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Eastleigh Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect all members of Eastleigh Borough Council. The election was on new boundaries, with the overall size of the council being reduced by five seats, from 44 to 39. The outcome was a decisive victory for the incumbent Liberal Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278695-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 East\u2013West Shrine Game\nThe 2018 East\u2013West Shrine Game was the 93rd staging of the all\u2013star college football exhibition to benefit Shriners Hospital for Children. The game was played at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, on January 20, 2018, with a 3:07 PM EST kickoff; televised on the NFL Network. It was one of the final 2017\u201318 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. The game featured NCAA players (predominantly from the Football Bowl Subdivision) and a few select invitees from Canadian university football, rostered into \"East\" and \"West\" teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278695-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 East\u2013West Shrine Game\nThe game featured more than 100 players from the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season and prospects for the 2018 draft of the professional National Football League (NFL). In the week prior to the game, scouts from all 32 NFL teams attended team practices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278695-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 East\u2013West Shrine Game\nCoaches and game officials were supplied by the NFL. Head coaches in the game were assistant coaches with NFL teams who did not advance to the postseason; Jonathan Hayes of the Cincinnati Bengals for the East team, and Bobby Johnson of the Oakland Raiders for the West team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278695-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 East\u2013West Shrine Game\nThe day before the game, the East\u2013West Shrine Game Pat Tillman Award was given to J. T. Barrett (QB, Ohio State); the award \"is presented to a player who best exemplifies character, intelligence, sportsmanship and service. The award is about a student-athlete's achievements and conduct, both on and off the field.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278695-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 East\u2013West Shrine Game, Players, East team\nSelected players are listed below. Full roster on the official website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278695-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 East\u2013West Shrine Game, Players, East team\nMatthew Thomas opted not to play in the Independence Bowl", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278695-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 East\u2013West Shrine Game, Players, West team\nSelected players are listed below. Full roster on the official website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278696-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Echo Awards\nThe 27th and last Echo Awards ceremony, presented by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI), honored the best-selling music in Germany. They took place on 12 April 2018 at Messe Berlin beginning on 20:15 UTC+1. During the ceremony, Echo Awards were presented in 22 categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278697-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuador Open Quito\nThe 2018 Ecuador Open Quito was an ATP men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 4th edition of the Ecuador Open Quito as part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place in Quito, Ecuador from 5 February through 11 February 2018. Roberto Carball\u00e9s Baena won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278697-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuador Open Quito, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278697-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuador Open Quito, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278698-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuador Open Quito \u2013 Doubles\nJames Cerretani and Philipp Oswald were the defending champions, but Cerretani chose to compete in Sofia instead. Oswald played alongside Treat Huey, but lost in the first round to Alessandro Motti and Stefano Travaglia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278698-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuador Open Quito \u2013 Doubles\nNicol\u00e1s Jarry and Hans Podlipnik-Castillo won the title, defeating Austin Krajicek and Jackson Withrow in the final, 7\u20136(8\u20136), 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278699-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuador Open Quito \u2013 Singles\nV\u00edctor Estrella Burgos was the three-time defending champion and the tournament's only champion to date, but lost in the second round to Gerald Melzer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278699-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuador Open Quito \u2013 Singles\nRoberto Carball\u00e9s Baena won his first ATP title, defeating Albert Ramos Vi\u00f1olas in the final, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278699-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuador Open Quito \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278699-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuador Open Quito \u2013 Singles, Qualifying, Seeds\nThe top two seeds receive a bye into the qualifying competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278700-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuadorian Serie A\nThe 2018 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A (officially known as the Campeonato Ecuatoriano - Copa Lubricantes Havoline 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was the 60th season of the Serie A, Ecuador's top tier football league. Emelec were the defending champions. First stage winners LDU Quito defeated second stage winners and defending champions Emelec 2\u20131 on aggregate in the final (third stage) to win their eleventh domestic title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278700-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuadorian Serie A, Teams\nTwelve teams competed in the 2018 Serie A season, ten of whom took part in the previous season. Clan Juvenil and Fuerza Amarilla were relegated from the Serie A after accumulating the fewest points during the 2017 season. They were replaced by T\u00e9cnico Universitario and Aucas, the 2017 Serie B winner and runner-up, respectively. T\u00e9cnico Universitario were in their 25th top-flight appearance and their first one since 2012, while Aucas returned to the Serie A for their 37th appearance after just one season in the second tier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278700-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuadorian Serie A, Teams, Stadia and locations\na: Guayaquil City played its home matches between February and early-June at Estadio Monumental Banco Pichincha and Estadio George Capwell in Guayaquil due to remodeling works at Estadio Christian Ben\u00edtez Betancourt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278700-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuadorian Serie A, First stage\nThe First stage began on February 16 and is scheduled to end on July 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278700-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuadorian Serie A, Second stage\nThe Second stage began on July 20 and ended on December 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278700-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuadorian Serie A, Third stage\nLDU Quito and Emelec qualified to the Finals (Third stage) by being the First stage and Second stage winners, respectively. The winners were the Serie A champions and earned the Ecuador 1 berth in the 2019 Copa Libertadores, and the losers were the Serie A runners-up and earned the Ecuador 2 berth in the 2019 Copa Libertadores. By having the greater number of points in the aggregate table, LDU Quito played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278700-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuadorian Serie A, Copa Sudamericana playoff\nThe winners qualified for the 2019 Copa Sudamericana first stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278701-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuadorian referendum and popular consultation\nA seven-part referendum and popular consultation was held in Ecuador on Sunday, February 4, 2018, to reform the constitution and consult citizens on issues of national importance. The consultation was announced on October 2, 2017, by President Lenin Moreno. The ballot consisted of seven questions for voters to approve or reject.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278701-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuadorian referendum and popular consultation, Background\nOn the night of September 4, 2017, President Moreno made the first announcement about the Popular Consultation, where he indicated that the possibility of calling it was under analysis. Two weeks later, on September 18, 2017, the president summoned citizens interested in sending questions for analysis and possible incorporation to the consultation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278701-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ecuadorian referendum and popular consultation, Background\nPresident Moreno, without approval of the Constitutional Court, made an executive decree to allow the Popular Consultation. When in 2015, Rafael Correa urged the CNE to execute the Popular Consultation in La Manga del Cura in 2015, he had previously been directed by the Constitutional Court on June 24 to issue the executive decree to hold the plebiscite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278702-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Edmonton Eskimos season\nThe 2018 Edmonton Eskimos season was the 61st season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 70th overall. This was the third season under head coach Jason Maas and the second season under general manager Brock Sunderland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278702-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Edmonton Eskimos season\nThe team began the season with a 6\u20133 win-loss record, but after losing six of the following eight games, the Eskimos were eliminated from the playoffs during their week 20 bye after Winnipeg defeated Calgary to claim the final playoff spot. The Eskimos failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2013, becoming the first Grey Cup hosts to miss the playoffs since the 2016 Toronto Argonauts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278702-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Edmonton Eskimos season, Offseason, CFL Draft\nThe 2018 CFL Draft took place on May 3, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278703-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Egypt Cup Final\nThe 2018 Egypt Cup Final was the final match of the 2017\u201318 Egypt Cup and the 86th final of the Egypt Cup, Africa's oldest football cup competition. It was held at Borg El Arab Stadium in Alexandria, Egypt. It was played on 15 May 2018 between Smouha and Zamalek. This final was a repeat of the 2014 final, which Zamalek won 1\u20130. Zamalek won the match 5\u20134 on penalties after the match ended 1\u20131 after extra time; and qualified for the 2018\u201319 CAF Confederation Cup as a result. They also earned the right to play 2017\u201318 Egyptian Premier League champions Al Ahly for the 2018 Egyptian Super Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278703-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Egypt Cup Final, Route to the final, Smouha\nIn all results below, the score of the finalist is given first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278703-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Egypt Cup Final, Route to the final, Smouha\nSmouha as an Egyptian Premier League team entered in the round of 32 of the Egypt Cup against Egyptian Second Division club Olympic Club on 10 November 2017 at Haras El Hodoud Stadium and won 2\u20131, with goals from Yasser Ibrahim in the 20th minute, an equalizer from Osama Marey in the 80th minute and the winner from Abdel Aziz Emam in the stoppage time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278703-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Egypt Cup Final, Route to the final, Smouha\nIn the round of 16, they met fellow Premier League opposition Petrojet on 8 December 2017 at Al Salam Stadium, and won 2\u20131 with goals from Tarek Taha in the 29th minute, an equalizer from Mostafa Shebeita 4 minutes later and the winner from Hossam Hassan in the 43rd minute. In the quarter-finals, they played against Wadi Degla on 1 May 2018 at Al Salam Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278703-0002-0002", "contents": "2018 Egypt Cup Final, Route to the final, Smouha\nThere was no real chances in the match for both teams, except one powerful shot from Oumed Oukri in the 96th minute that almost sent Smouha straight to semi-finals, but El Sayed Salem managed to clear the ball from the goal line. The match ended 0\u20130 after extra time, and Smouha won 3\u20131 on penalties. In the semi-finals, Smouha faced Al Assiouty Sport on 8 May 2018 at Borg El Arab Stadium. Smouha played against their future new manager Ali Maher, who signed a contract with the club to lead the team after the 2017\u201318 season ends.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278703-0002-0003", "contents": "2018 Egypt Cup Final, Route to the final, Smouha\nSmouha won the match 4\u20133 on penalties after the match ended 1\u20131 after extra time. Ahmed Temsah scored the opener for Smouha in the 72nd minute before Benson Shilongo took the game to extra time after tying up the match by scoring a penalty in the stoppage time. Smouha are seeking their first ever Egypt Cup triumph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278703-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Egypt Cup Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Ayman DegeishMahmoud Abou El RegalFourth official:Mohamed MaaroufFifth officials:Mohamed El SabahyTarek Samy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278704-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Egyptian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Egypt between 26 and 28 March 2018, though Egyptians abroad voted from 16 to 18 March 2018. On 19 January, incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi formally announced he would run for a second and final term. El-Sisi won the election with 97%, according to the official results. A runoff would have taken place 19 to 21 April outside the country and 24 to 26 April within the country if no candidate had reached 50% of the vote. The election had a turnout of roughly 41%, lower than the 2014 election's 47%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278704-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Egyptian presidential election\nFourteen human rights groups dismissed the poll as \"farcical.\" They said the authorities had \"trampled over even the minimum requirements for free and fair elections\", stifling basic freedoms and eliminating key challengers. The only approved challenger to Sisi was another pro-government politician, Moussa Mostafa Moussa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278704-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Egyptian presidential election, Electoral system\nThe president of Egypt is elected using the two-round system. The winner will be announced on 2 April (if no run-off is needed). If a run-off is needed, the final result will be announced on 1 May. If only one person runs for the presidency, he or she can win with a yes vote from five percent of the eligible voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278704-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Egyptian presidential election, Boycotts\nThe Civil Democratic Movement announced on 30 January 2018 that it would boycott the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278704-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Egyptian presidential election, Candidates, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi\nAbdel Fattah el-Sisi is the incumbent president of Egypt. After playing a key role in overthrowing the regime of the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 after massive protests against the latter's rule, el-Sisi retired from his military career in 2014 and subsequently won that year's presidential election. In the announcement of his candidacy, he stated, \"There are people I know who are corrupt, I will not allow them to come near this chair.\u201d President Sisi received the endorsement of 464 members of Egyptian Parliament, approximately two thirds of the body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278704-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Egyptian presidential election, Candidates, Moussa Mostafa Moussa\nGhad Party chairman Moussa Mostafa Moussa, a pro-Sisi politician who had an active role in collecting nomination pledges for Sisi's second term until 20 January, announced that he found endorsements from 26 members of parliament, as well as 47,000 signatures from the public, although he declared his intention to run just a day before the deadline of the elections commission. Moussa submitted his nomination pledges and official paperwork to the commission just 15 minutes before the deadline. In an interview with Egypt Today, Moussa said he was not a \"phony\" candidate, and that he had \"a vision that can be achieved by being part of the system\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278704-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Egyptian presidential election, Conduct\nSupporters of former presidential candidates Sami Hafez Anan and Khaled Ali faced difficulties in registering pledges for them. It was reported that el-Sisi exerted pressure on former presidential candidates so that they would not run against him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278704-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Egyptian presidential election, Conduct\nAccording to Foreign Policy, \"the March vote will in no way confirm President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's popularity among the Egyptian people. This election campaign is merely an extension of the internal power struggle among the military and the regime's security services, and it has nothing to do with democratic mechanisms worthy of the name.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278704-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Egyptian presidential election, Results\nFollowing the elections, it was reported that large number of spoilt ballot papers, possibly more than a million, involved voters crossing out both names and writing that of football player Mohamed Salah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278705-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eisenhower Trophy\nThe 2018 Eisenhower Trophy took place 5\u20138 September at the Carton House Golf Club in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. It was the 31st World Amateur Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 72 three-man teams. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total. Each team played two rounds on the Montgomerie and O'Meara courses. The leading teams played the Montgomerie course on the third day and the O'Meara course on the final day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278705-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eisenhower Trophy\nDenmark won their first Eisenhower Trophy, a stroke ahead of the United States, who took the silver medal. Spain took the bronze medal while New Zealand, who led after 54 holes, finished fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278705-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Eisenhower Trophy\nThe 2018 Espirito Santo Trophy was played on the same courses one week prior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278705-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Eisenhower Trophy, Teams\n72 teams contested the event. Each team had three players with the exception of Gabon who were represented by only two players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278705-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Eisenhower Trophy, Teams\nThe following table lists the players on the leading teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278705-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Eisenhower Trophy, Individual leaders\nThere was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278706-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ekiti State gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Ekiti State gubernatorial election occurred in Nigeria on July 14, 2018. APC Governor Kayode Fayemi who ruled from 2010 to 2014 won re-election for a second term, defeating Kolapo Olushola of the PDP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278706-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ekiti State gubernatorial election\nKayode Fayemi emerged APC gubernatorial candidate after scoring 941 votes and defeating his closest rival, Segun Oni, who received 481 votes. He picked Bisi Egbeyemi as his running mate. Kolapo Olushola was the PDP candidate with Adebayo Clement Adeyeye as his running mate. 35 candidates contested in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278706-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, Electoral system\nThe Governor of Ekiti State is elected using the plurality voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278706-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, Primary election, APC primary\nThe APC primary election was held on May 12, 2018. Kayode Fayemi won the primary election polling 941 votes against 33 other candidates. His closest rival was Segun Oni, a former governor of the state, who came second with 481 votes, Kayode Ojo came third with 281 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278706-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, Primary election, PDP primary\nThe APC primary election was held on May 8, 2018. Kolapo Olushola emerged as a consensus candidate, with Adebayo Clement Adeyeye as his running mate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278706-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, Results\nA total number of 35 candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278706-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, Results\nThe total number of registered voters in the state was 909,585, while 405,861 voters were accredited. Total number of votes cast was 403,451, while number of valid votes was 384,594. Rejected votes were 18,857.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278706-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, Results, By local government area\nHere are the results of the election by local government area for the two major parties. The total valid votes of 384,594 represents the 35 political parties that participated in the election. Blue represents LGAs won by Kayode Fayemi. Green represents LGAs won by Kolapo Olushola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278707-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 El Paso County, Colorado elections\nThe 2018 El Paso County Elections will be held on November 6, 2018. The election includes Assessor, Clerk and Recorder, Commissioner - District 1, Commissioner - District 5, Coroner, Sheriff, Surveyor, and Treasurer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278707-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 El Paso County, Colorado elections\nAll Candidates are from the Colorado Secretary of State Site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278707-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 El Paso County, Colorado elections\nAll Primary Results and General Election Candidates from the El Paso County Election page.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278707-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 El Paso County, Colorado elections, Clerk and Recorder\nRepublican Incumbent Clerk and Recorder Chuck Broerman is running for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278707-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 El Paso County, Colorado elections, County Commissioner District 1\nRepublican Incumbent Darryl Glenn is term limited and cannot run for another term. He is running for U.S. House Representative of Colorado District 5", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278707-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 El Paso County, Colorado elections, County Commissioner District 5\nRepublican Incumbent Peggy Littleton is term limited and cannot run for another term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278707-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 El Paso County, Colorado elections, Surveyor\nRepublican Incumbent Lawrence Burnett is term limited and cannot run for another term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278707-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 El Paso County, Colorado elections, Treasurer\nRESULTS: Republican Incumbent Mark Lowderman was re-elected to his seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278708-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 El Paso, Texas elections\nOn November 6, 2018, El Paso County elected a new member of the House of Representatives of the United States, a new county judge, two county commissioners, five state representatives, four city council members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278708-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 El Paso, Texas elections\nThe national, state and county elections are partisan, and the city council election is non-partisan (there is no primary election for the city, but if no candidate wins a majority there will be a run-off election). The city and county officials elected will serve four year terms, and the state representatives and Congressperson will serve two year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278708-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 El Paso, Texas elections\nThere are several open races, as the incumbent member of Congress, Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat, unsuccessfully ran for the Senate against Ted Cruz, and the incumbent county judge, Veronica Escobar, ran successfully for O'rourke's seat in the House of Representatives. Incumbent county commissioners David Stout (Precinct 2), a Democrat, and Andrew Haggerty (Precinct 4), a Republican, ran for re-election. Stout was re-elected, and Haggerty was defeated by former city council member Carl Robinson. The five state representatives (all Democrats), Cesar Blanco, Mary Gonzalez, Joe Moody, Lina Ortega and Joe Pickett, were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278708-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 El Paso, Texas elections\nCity council districts 1, 5, 6, and 8 had elections in 2018. Michiel Noe, District 5 incumbent, is term limited and could not run again. District 1 incumbent, Peter Svarzbein, District 6 incumbent, Claudia Ordaz, and Cissy Lizarraga, District 8 incumbent, were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278709-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eldora Dirt Derby\nThe 2018 Eldora Dirt Derby was a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race held on July 18, 2018 at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio. Contested over 153 laps due to an overtime finish on the 0.500-mile (0.805\u00a0km) dirt track, it was the 13th race of the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278710-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Elgin County municipal elections\nElections were held in Elgin County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278710-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Elgin County municipal elections, Elgin County Council\nElgin County Council consists of the mayors of the constituent municipalities plus the deputy mayors of Central Elgin and Malahide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278711-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite 10 (March)\nThe 2018 Princess Auto Elite 10 was held from March 15 to 18 at St. James Civic Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was the fifth Grand Slam of Curling event held in the 2017\u201318 curling season. The tournament was held between ten men's teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278711-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite 10 (March), Format\nInstead of normal curling scoring rules, the Elite 10 uses a match play system in which scoring is based on ends won, rather than rocks scored. An end is won by stealing or scoring two with the hammer, similar to skins curling. Unlike skins, however, there are no carry-overs. In the event of a tie, a draw to the button competition is held to determine the winner. In the standings, wins are worth three points, draw to the button wins are worth two points, and draw to the button losses are worth one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278711-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite 10 (March), Teams\nThe top 10 teams in the World Curling Tour's year-to-date rankings as of February 5, 2018, were invited to compete in the Elite 10. If any teams declined, the next-highest team was be invited until the field of 10 teams was complete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278711-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite 10 (March), Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC-6).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278712-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite 10 (September)\nThe 2018 Princess Auto Elite 10 was held from September 26 to 30 at St. Clair Campus Arena in Chatham, Ontario. It was the first Grand Slam of Curling event held in the 2018-19 curling season, and the first time the Elite 10 had a women's division. It was also the last time the event was held, as it was removed from the Grand Slam lineup for the 2019-20 curling season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278712-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite 10 (September)\nOn the men's side, defending champions Brad Gushue won the event, their eleventh grand slam, beating out the new Reid Carruthers rink 1 UP in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278712-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite 10 (September)\nOn the women's side, Olympic champion team Anna Hasselborg won their first grand slam event. They defeated team Silvana Tirinzoni 4-and-2, who were looking for their second ever grand slam victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278712-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite 10 (September), Format\nInstead of normal curling scoring rules, the Elite 10 uses a match play system in which scoring is based on ends won, rather than rocks scored. An end is won by stealing or scoring two with the hammer, similar to skins curling. Unlike skins, however, there are no carry-overs. In the event of a tie, a draw to the button competition is held to determine the winner. In the standings, wins are worth three points, draw to the button wins are worth two points, and draw to the button losses are worth one point. At the end of the round robin, the top six teams (regardless of pool) advance to the playoffs, with the top two advancing to the semifinals automatically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278712-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite 10 (September), Qualification\nThe top 10 men's and women's teams in the World Curling Tour's Order of Merit rankings as of August 1, 2018 were invited to compete in the Elite 10. If any teams declined, the next highest team was invited until the field of 10 teams was complete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278712-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite 10 (September), Qualification, Men\nTop Order of Merit men's teams as of August 1:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278712-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite 10 (September), Qualification, Women\nTop Order of Merit women's teams as of August 1:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278712-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite 10 (September), Men, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Eastern Daylight time (UTC-4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278712-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite 10 (September), Women, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Eastern Daylight time (UTC-4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278713-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Elite One\nThe 2018 Elite One is the 58th season of the Cameroon top-tier football league. The season began on 11 February and ended on 29 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278714-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien\nThe 2018 Eliteserien was the 74th completed season of top-tier football in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278714-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien\nThe season began on 11 March and ended 24 November 2018, not including play-off matches. Fixtures for the 2018 season were announced on 19 December 2017. Rosenborg were the defending champions, while Bod\u00f8/Glimt, Start and Ranheim entered as the promoted teams from the 2017 1. divisjon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278714-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien\nRosenborg won their fourth consecutive title, their 26th top-flight title overall, with one match to spare following a 1\u20130 away win against Start on 11 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278714-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien, Overview, Summary\nBrann started the season well and won eight of their nine opening games. They lost their first match 0\u20134 against Molde in the 15th round. Rosenborg started the season poorly with no win in the first three games, but managed to tighten the gap to Brann. Head coach K\u00e5re Ingebrigtsen was sacked on 19 July although Rosenborg was placed second in the league, two points behind Brann at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278714-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien, Overview, Summary\nOn 11 November, Rosenborg were confirmed as Eliteserien champions following their 1\u20130 away win against Start in the 29th round. They won their fourth consecutive title and 26th top-flight title overall. Molde won eight of their final nine games and finished in second place, five points behind Rosenborg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278714-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien, Overview, Summary\nSandefjord were the first team to be relegated to the 1. divisjon when they drew 1\u20131 against Sarpsborg 08 in their penultimate game. Before the 30th and final round, five teams were in risk of either relegation or relegation play-offs. Start lost 1\u20133 away to Haugesund and was relegated as the second team from bottom. Stab\u00e6k drew 2\u20132 against Str\u00f8msgodset after a goal by Str\u00f8msgodset's Mustafa Abdellaoue in the last minute of the game. That goal made sure Str\u00f8msgodset retained their spot in the next season's Eliteserien, while Stab\u00e6k were forced to play relegation play-offs. Stab\u00e6k won the play-offs against Aalesund 2\u20131 on aggregate and retained their spot in Eliteserien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278714-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien, Teams\nSixteen teams competed in the league \u2013 the top thirteen teams from the previous season, and three teams promoted from 1. divisjon. The promoted teams were Bod\u00f8/Glimt, Start (both returning to the top flight after a season's absence) and Ranheim (returned to the top flight after an absence of sixty-one years). They replaced Sogndal, Aalesund and Viking ending their top flight spells of two, eleven and twenty-nine years respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278714-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien, Relegation play-offs\nThe 14th-placed team, Stab\u00e6k takes part in a two-legged play-off against Aalesund, the winners of the 1. divisjon promotion play-offs, to decide who will play in the 2019 Eliteserien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278714-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien, Relegation play-offs\nStab\u00e6k won 2\u20131 on aggregate and retained their position in Eliteserien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278714-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien, Season statistics, Hat-tricks\n4 Player scored 4 goals(H) \u2013 Home team(A) \u2013 Away team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278715-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs\nThe 2018 Eliteserien Promotion/Relagetion play-offs was the 45th time a spot in the Eliteserien was decided by play-off matches between top tier and second level clubs. In the play-offs, five teams compete for one spot in the 2019 Eliteserien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278715-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs\nAt the end of the 2018 season, Start and Sandefjord were relegated directly to 2019 1. divisjon, and were replaced by Viking and Mj\u00f8ndalen who were directly promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278715-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs, Background\nThe play-offs between Eliteserien and 1. divisjon have been held every year since 1972 with exceptions in 1994 and 2011. They take place for the two divisions following the conclusion of the regular season and are contested by the fourteenth-placed club in Eliteserien and the four clubs finishing below the automatic promotion places in the 1. divisjon. The fixtures are determined by final league position \u2013 the first two knockout-rounds begins with the four teams in the 1. divisjon: 3rd v 6th and 4th v 5th, and the winner then play each other to determine who meet the Eliteserien club in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278715-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs, Qualified teams\nFive teams entered a play-off for the last Eliteserien spot for the 2019 season. These were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278715-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs, Qualified teams\nThe four 1. divisjon teams first played a single game knockout tournament, with the winner (Aalesund) advancing to a two-legged tie against the Eliteserien team (Stab\u00e6k) for the 16th and final spot in the 2019 Eliteserien season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278715-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs, Qualified teams, Matches\nThe third to sixth-placed teams took part in the promotion play-offs; these were single leg knockout matches, two semi-finals and a final. The winners, Aalesund, advanced to play the 14th placed team in Eliteserien over two legs in the Eliteserien play-offs for a spot in the top-flight the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278715-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs, Qualified teams, Matches, Final\nThe 14th-placed team in Eliteserien, Stab\u00e6k, played a two-legged play-off against Aalesund, the winners of the 1. divisjon promotion play-offs, to decide who will play in the 2019 Eliteserien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278715-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs, Qualified teams, Matches, Final\nStab\u00e6k won 2\u20131 on aggregate and retained their position in Eliteserien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid\nA police raid in Ellwangen, Germany, on 30 April 2018 led to clashes between the German police and migrants living there. A second raid was conducted on 3 May 2018, in which 12 people were injured. The case received national as well as international media attention, sparking the public debate about migrant integration and the deportation process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid, Background\nThe migrant reception center \"Landeserstaufnahmeeinrichtung Ellwangen\" (LEA) was established in April 2015 in some buildings of the Reinhardt-Kaserne in Ellwangen, a former military facility. Immigrants who arrive in the administrative district of Stuttgart are brought to this center for their registration, health checks and the start of an asylum procedure. They usually stay for some weeks in Ellwangen, before they are assigned to other towns. The facility was once planned to have a capacity of 500 - 1000 inhabitants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid, Incidents\nIn the morning hours of Monday, 30 April 2018, four police officers went with two patrol cars to the migrant reception center to arrest the 23-year-old Yussif O., an asylum seeker from Togo, who was scheduled for deportation to Italy. They found Yussif O. in the center and arrested him. When the officers tried to leave the site, they were surrounded by about 150 migrant reception residents who threatened them and damaged one police car, preventing the police officers from leaving. Alassa Mfouapon, from Cameroon, co-organized the asylum seekers, \" It would have taken hours for police reinforcements to arrive..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid, Incidents\nThree days later a second raid was conducted with hundreds of policemen to re-establish the rule of law. They arrested Yussif O. In addition, several persons suspected of drugs offences were arrested, and 17 residents were moved of the hostel, home to around 500 mostly African asylum seekers, to other locations. 27 asylum seekers offered resistance, while some were injured, when they jumped out of the windows. 292 people were checked, twelve people were injured in total, among these one police officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid, Incidents\nBernhard Weber, the vice president of the Ellwangen police regional authority (German: Vizepr\u00e4sident des Polizeipr\u00e4sidiums Ellwangen), said they acted because of concerns that a \"lawless area with organised structures\" was developing at the shelter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid, Aftermath\nOn 8 May 2018, the Stuttgart Administrative Court ruled that the deportation order for the man from Togo to Italy was legal. O. then called the Federal Constitutional Court. On 14 May 2018, the Constitutional Court ruled that O. could be deported, and he was deported to Italy subsequently. Die Zeit reported his case and that he arrived in Milan, but Die Welt reported that he was in Rome and homeless; It was discovered by police in Milan that he was not a Togo national and that he wanted to go back to his homeland Ghana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid, Aftermath\nOn 10 May, the inhabitants of the shelter offered a press conference. Alassa Mfouapon said: \"We are not criminals.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid, Aftermath\nOn 11 May, African inhabitants of the migrant shelter in Ellwangen held a small march to protest deportations, joined by \"a few greying activists\" from the Marxist\u2013Leninist Party of Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid, Aftermath\nAlassa Mfouapon, the co-organizer of the April 30th insurrection event, was deported to Italy, but returned to Germany a few months later and now lives in Karlsruhe. In a reportage by public broadcaster S\u00fcdwestrundfunk, it was said Mfouapon might not be an instigator of rebellion, but only a resister who is now back in Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid, Reactions\nMit einem wichtigen Teilerfolg endete der Prozess von Alassa Mfouapon gegen das Land Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. \u201eDie Kammer kam zu dem Ergebnis, dass die gegen\u00fcber dem Kl\u00e4ger im Rahmen der Razzia am 03.05.2018 getroffenen polizeilichen Ma\u00dfnahmen unverh\u00e4ltnism\u00e4\u00dfig waren.\u201c Das betrifft sowohl den Zeitpunkt um kurz nach f\u00fcnf Uhr morgens, als auch, so die Pressemitteilung des Gerichts \u201edas Betreten und Durchsuchen des Zimmers des Kl\u00e4gers, das Durchsuchen des Kl\u00e4gers und das Festsetzen des Kl\u00e4gers unter Anlegen von Einmal-Handschlie\u00dfen\u201c (die Bewohner wurden damals mit Kabelbindern gefesselt und zu Boden gebracht). Auch dass ihm bei seiner Abschiebung nach Italien am 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid, Reactions\nJuni 2018 sein Portemonnaie weggenommen wurde und auch auf Aufforderung nicht herausgegeben wurde, war rechtswidrig. Damit ist das Gericht der Klage teilweise gefolgt! Dieser wichtige Teilerfolg l\u00e4sst auch die damaligen massiven \u00c4u\u00dferungen der gr\u00fcn-schwarzen Landesregierung wie des Bundesinnenministers, die die Fl\u00fcchtlinge als kriminell brandmarken wollten, in einem anderen Licht erscheinen \u2013 denn offensichtlich war es die Polizei, die damals das Recht gebrochen hat!alien am 20. Juni 2018 sein Portemonnaie weggenommen wurde und auch auf Aufforderung nicht herausgegeben wurde, war rechtswidrig. Damit ist das Gericht der Klage teilweise gefolgt! Dieser wichtige Teilerfolg l\u00e4sst auch die damaligen massiven \u00c4u\u00dferungen der gr\u00fcn-schwarzen Landesregierung wie des Bundesinnenministers, die die Fl\u00fcchtlinge als kriminell brandmarken wollten, in einem anderen Licht erscheinen \u2013 denn offensichtlich war es die Polizei, die damals das Recht gebrochen hat!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 993]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid, Reactions\nReacting to the legal proceedings led by Yussif O. and his lawyer, Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) spoke of an \"anti-deportation industry\", working to prevent legal deportations. This was heavily criticized by the German Bar Association, and complaints against him were made by some lawyers. Dobrindt hardened his criticism, speaking of \"deportation saboteurs\". The Left, a German political party, accused Dobrindt of \"poisoning\" the \"social peace\", while Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg deputy Minister President Thomas Strobl (CDU) expressed his support for Dobrindt and called his criticism \"comprehensible\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid, Reactions\nAs a consequence of the case, other CDU politicians, such as Saxony Minister President Michael Kretschmer demanded a reduction in development aid for countries that fail to cooperate with deportations. Armin Schuster (CDU) stated: \"In our constitutional state, there are clear red lines, which are now deliberately exceeded almost daily by asylum seekers.\" He demanded quicker deportations for criminal asylum seekers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278716-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Ellwangen police raid, Reactions\nWinfried Kretschmann (Greens), Minister President of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, thanked the police, adding: \"We do not tolerate any legal vacuum, and this attack on police officers must be punished\". As a consequence of the events, Irene Mihalic of the Green Party criticized plans of the Federal government, especially the Interior Ministry, to establish \"anchor centres\" (Ankerzentren) for migrants, which are planned by the government to organize faster deportations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278717-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Elon Phoenix football team\nThe 2018 Elon Phoenix football team represented Elon University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Curt Cignetti and played their home games at Rhodes Stadium. They were members of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). They finished the season 6\u20135, 4\u20133 in CAA play to finish in sixth place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they were lost to Wofford in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278717-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Elon Phoenix football team\nOn December 14, head coach Curt Cignetti resigned to become the head coach at James Madison. He finished at Elon with a two-year record of 14\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278717-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Elon Phoenix football team, Previous season\nThe Phoenix finished the 2017 season 8\u20134, 6\u20132 in CAA play to finish in third place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost to Furman in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278717-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Elon Phoenix football team, Preseason, CAA Poll\nIn the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Phoenix were predicted to finish in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278717-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Elon Phoenix football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CAA Team\nThe Phoenix had two players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278718-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Emakumeen Euskal Bira\nThe 31st running of the Emakumeen Euskal Bira was held from 19 to 22 May 2018. Raced over four stages in the Basque Country, it was one of two women's cycling events at World Tour level in Spain, together with La Madrid Challenge. It was the 12th event of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278719-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Emerging Nations World Championship\nThe 2018 Emerging Nations World Championship (ENWC) was a rugby league tournament held for Tier Two and Tier Three nations, the third edition of the Rugby League Emerging Nations Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278719-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Emerging Nations World Championship, Background\nSeveral nations that had not qualified, or were not eligible to qualify, for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup planned to contest an Emerging Nations tournament in Sydney in 2017 alongside the World Cup. However this tournament did not get support from the Rugby League International Federation, and did not go ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278719-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Emerging Nations World Championship, Background\nOn 29 March 2017, the Rugby League International Federation announced that Australia will be host the tournament in 2018. The two-week-long tournament will be held in Western Sydney, New South Wales with games taking place in Windsor, St Marys and Cabramatta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278719-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Emerging Nations World Championship, Teams\nTen teams were already confirmed for the tournament by March 2017 with a number of others later also announcing their participation. 15 teams were expected to compete, though Canada, India, Latvia, and Thailand were not included in the final draw, for unspecified reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278719-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Emerging Nations World Championship, Teams\nFour multi-country regional teams will compete in a parallel tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278720-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Emerging Nations World Championship play-off stage\nThe play-off stage of the 2018 Emerging Nations World Championship was a rugby league competition, the second stage of the 2018 Emerging Nations World Championship, which began on 9 October and concluded on 13 October. The teams were split into Cup, Trophy, and Plate play-offs based on their results in the pool stage, which concluded on 7 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278721-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Emerging Nations World Championship pool stage\nThe pool stage of the 2018 Emerging Nations World Championship was the first stage of the 2018 Emerging Nations World Championship, which began on 1 October and concluded on 7 October. The six highest ranked teams were split between Pool A and B, while Pool C consisted of the five lowest ranked teams. The pool stage was followed by the play-off stage beginning on 9 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278722-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Emir of Qatar Cup\nThe 2018 Emir of Qatar Cup is the 46th edition of the Qatari cup tournament in men's football. It will be played by the first and second level divisions of the Qatari football league structure. The cup winner is guaranteed a place in the 2019 AFC Champions league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278722-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Emir of Qatar Cup\nThe draw of the tournament was held on 11 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278723-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Emperor's Cup\nThe 98th Emperor's Cup (\u5929\u7687\u676f JFA \u7b2c98\u56de\u5168\u65e5\u672c\u30b5\u30c3\u30ab\u30fc\u9078\u624b\u6a29\u5927\u4f1a) was the 2018 edition of the annual Japanese national football cup tournament, which began on 26 May 2018 and ended with the final on 9 December 2018 at the Saitama Stadium 2002. The final was held earlier than the usual date of 1 January due to the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278723-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Emperor's Cup\nThe draw for the first four rounds was held on 29 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278723-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Emperor's Cup\nAs a result of its win, Urawa Red Diamonds automatically qualified to the group stage of the 2019 AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278723-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Emperor's Cup, Participating clubs\n88 clubs competed in the tournament. Clubs playing in the 2018 J1 League and 2018 J2 League received a bye to the second round of the tournament. The remaining teams entered in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278723-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Emperor's Cup, Results, First Round\nThe first round matches were held on 26 and 27 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278723-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Emperor's Cup, Results, Second Round\nThe second round matches were held on 6 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278723-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Emperor's Cup, Results, Third Round\nThe third round matches were held on 11 July and 22 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278723-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Emperor's Cup, Results, Fourth Round\nThe fourth round matches were held on 22 August and 26 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278723-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Emperor's Cup, Results, Quarter-finals\nThe quarter-finals were held on 24 October 2018 and 21 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278723-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Emperor's Cup, Results, Semi-finals\nThe semi-finals were originally scheduled to be held on 16 December 2018. However, the semi-finals were rescheduled after Kashima Antlers won the 2018 AFC Champions League, which would have created a scheduling conflict with Kashima's participation in the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278723-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Emperor's Cup, Results, Final\nThe final was originally scheduled to be held on 24 December 2018. However, the semi-finals were rescheduled after Kashima Antlers won the 2018 AFC Champions League, which could have created a scheduling conflict with the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278724-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Emperor's Cup Final\n2018 Emperor's Cup Final was the 98th final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at Saitama Stadium 2002 in Saitama on December 9, 2018. Urawa Reds won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278725-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Empire Slovak Open\nThe 2018 Empire Slovak Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Trnava, Slovakia, on 14\u201320 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278725-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Empire Slovak Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278726-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Empire Slovak Open \u2013 Doubles\nNaomi Broady and Heather Watson were the defending champions, however Watson chose not to participate, while Broady chose to compete at the 2018 Kurume U.S.E Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278726-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Empire Slovak Open \u2013 Doubles\nJessica Moore and Galina Voskoboeva won the title after defeating Xenia Knoll and Anna Smith 0\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278727-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Empire Slovak Open \u2013 Singles\nMark\u00e9ta Vondrou\u0161ov\u00e1 was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278727-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Empire Slovak Open \u2013 Singles\nVikt\u00f3ria Ku\u017emov\u00e1 won the title after defeating Ver\u00f3nica Cepede Royg 6\u20134, 1\u20136, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278728-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Emporia State Hornets football team\nThe 2018 Emporia State Hornets football team represented Emporia State University in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. The Hornets played their home games on Jones Field at Francis G. Welch Stadium in Emporia, Kansas, as they have done since 1937. 2018 was the 121st season in school history. The Hornets are led by head coach Garin Higgins, who is in his 17th season overall, and 12th season at Emporia State as head coach. Emporia State has been a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) since 1991.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278728-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Emporia State Hornets football team, Preseason\nThe Hornets enter the 2018 season after finishing with a 6\u20135 overall and in conference play last season under Higgins. On July 31, 2018 at the MIAA Football Media Day, the Hornets were chosen to finish fifth in both the Coaches Poll and Media Polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278729-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Empress's Cup, Overview\nIt was contested by 48 teams, and Nippon TV Beleza won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278730-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Empress's Cup Final\n2018 Empress's Cup Final was the 40th final of the Empress's Cup competition. The final was played at Panasonic Stadium Suita in Osaka on January 1, 2019. Nippon TV Beleza won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278730-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Empress's Cup Final, Overview\nNippon TV Beleza won their 13th title, by defeating INAC Kobe Leonessa 4\u20132 with Riko Ueki, Yuka Momiki and Mina Tanaka goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Enfield Council election took place on Thursday 3 May 2018 to elect members of Enfield London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party retained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Background\nThe last election in 2014 saw Labour winning a majority with 41 seats, compared with 22 for the Conservatives. No other parties held seats. This was the first time that Labour were re-elected for a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Bowes\nChibah was a councillor for Turkey Street ward prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Chase\nDino Lemonides resigned from the Labour Party and joined Community First.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Cockfosters\nHayward was a councillor for Winchmore Hill ward prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Cockfosters\nGeorgiou was a councillor for Southgate Green ward prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Cockfosters\nSmith was a councillor for Southgate ward prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Edmonton Green\nPearce was a councillor for Southgate ward prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Enfield Highway\nEren was first elected as a councillor in a by election in December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Enfield Highway\nDines was a councillor for Chase ward prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Haselbury\nLavender was a councillor for Cockfosters ward prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Highlands\nLaban was a councillor for Town ward prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Highlands\nEkechi was a councillor for Upper Edmonton ward prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Jubilee\nCaliskan was first elected as a councillor in a by election in May 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Jubilee\nJukes was a councillor for Grange ward prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Ponders End\nAyfer Orhan resigned from the Labour Party and joined Community First.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Southbury\nKeazor was a councillor for Enfield Lock ward prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Southgate\nStephanos Ioannou was suspended from the Conservative Party in 2018, he has since been readmitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Southgate\nCharith Gunawardena and Derek Levy both resigned from the Labour Party, with Levy joining Community First and Gunawardena joining the Green Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Southgate Green\nDaniel Anderson and Anne Brown both resigned from the Labour Party and joined Community First. Anne Brown then joined the Green Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Town\nJiagge was a councillor for Upper Edmonton ward prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278731-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Enfield London Borough Council election, Ward results, Winchmore Hill\nDinah Barry resigned from the Labour Party and joined Community First. She is the leader of the grouping on Enfield Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278732-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open Andr\u00e9zieux-Bouth\u00e9on 42\nThe 2018 Engie Open Andr\u00e9zieux-Bouth\u00e9on 42 was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Andr\u00e9zieux-Bouth\u00e9on, France, on 22\u201328 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278732-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open Andr\u00e9zieux-Bouth\u00e9on 42, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278733-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open Andr\u00e9zieux-Bouth\u00e9on 42 \u2013 Doubles\nNicola Geuer and Anna Zaja were the defending champions, but Zaja chose not to participate. Geuer played alongside Cornelia Lister, but lost in the semifinals to Ysaline Bonaventure and Bibiane Schoofs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278733-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open Andr\u00e9zieux-Bouth\u00e9on 42 \u2013 Doubles\nBonaventure and Schoofs won the title after defeating Camilla Rosatello and Kimberley Zimmermann 4\u20136, 7\u20135, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278734-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open Andr\u00e9zieux-Bouth\u00e9on 42 \u2013 Singles\nAnett Kontaveit was the defending champion, however she chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278734-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open Andr\u00e9zieux-Bouth\u00e9on 42 \u2013 Singles\nGeorgina Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez won the title after defeating Arantxa Rus 6\u20132, 6\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278735-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open Saint-Gaudens Occitanie\nThe 2018 Engie Open Saint-Gaudens Occitanie was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the twenty-second edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Saint-Gaudens, France, on 14\u201320 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278735-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open Saint-Gaudens Occitanie, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278736-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open Saint-Gaudens Occitanie \u2013 Doubles\nChang Kai-chen and Han Xinyun were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278736-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open Saint-Gaudens Occitanie \u2013 Doubles\nNaiktha Bains and Francesca Di Lorenzo won the title, defeating Manon Arcangioli and Sh\u00e9razad Reix in the final, 6\u20134, 1\u20136, [11\u20139].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278737-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open Saint-Gaudens Occitanie \u2013 Singles\nRich\u00e8l Hogenkamp was the defending champion, but lost to Valentini Grammatikopoulou in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278737-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open Saint-Gaudens Occitanie \u2013 Singles\nVera Lapko won the title after defeating Quirine Lemoine 6\u20132, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278738-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open de Biarritz\nThe 2018 Open de Biarritz was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the sixteenth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Biarritz, France, on 10\u201316 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278738-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open de Biarritz, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278739-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open de Biarritz \u2013 Doubles\nIrina Bara and Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu are the defending champions, but Buz\u0103rnescu chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278739-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open de Biarritz \u2013 Doubles\nBara partnered alongside Valentyna Ivakhnenko and successfully defended her title, defeating Ysaline Bonaventure and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Scholsen in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278740-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open de Biarritz \u2013 Singles\nMihaela Buz\u0103rnescu was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278740-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open de Biarritz \u2013 Singles\nTamara Korpatsch won the title, defeating Timea Bacsinszky in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278741-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open de Seine-et-Marne\nThe 2018 Engie Open de Seine-et-Marne was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Croissy-Beaubourg, France, on 26 March\u20131 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278741-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open de Seine-et-Marne, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278742-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open de Seine-et-Marne \u2013 Doubles\nVera Lapko and Polina Monova were the defending champions, but Lapko chose not to participate. Monova partnered Olga Doroshina, but lost in the first round to Anna Kalinskaya and Vikt\u00f3ria Ku\u017emov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278742-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open de Seine-et-Marne \u2013 Doubles\nKalinskaya and Ku\u017emov\u00e1 won the title after defeating Petra Krejsov\u00e1 and Jesika Male\u010dkov\u00e1 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278743-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open de Seine-et-Marne \u2013 Singles\nEkaterina Alexandrova was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Jessika Ponchet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278743-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Engie Open de Seine-et-Marne \u2013 Singles\nAnna Blinkova won the title after Karol\u00edna Muchov\u00e1 withdrew from the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278744-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 England rugby union tour of South Africa\nIn June 2018, England played a three-test series against South Africa as part of the 2018 mid-year rugby union tests. The series was part of the sixth year of the global rugby calendar established by World Rugby, which runs through to 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278744-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 England rugby union tour of South Africa, Squads\nNote: Ages, caps and clubs are as per 9 June, the first test match of the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278744-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 England rugby union tour of South Africa, Squads, England\nOn 29 May, England finalised a 34-man tour squad for their 3-test series summer tour of South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278744-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 England rugby union tour of South Africa, Squads, England\nOn 11 June, Jack Singleton joined the squad as a third choice hooker option and injury cover for Luke Cowan-Dickie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278744-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 England rugby union tour of South Africa, Squads, South Africa\nOn 26 May 2018, head coach Rassie Erasmus named a 43-man squad for South Africa's June Internationals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278744-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 England rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches, English warm-up match (Barbarians)\nTouch judges:Nigel Owens (Wales)Ben Whitehouse (Wales)Television match official:Brian MacNeice (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 90], "content_span": [91, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278744-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 England rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches, South African warm-up match (Wales)\nTouch judges:Alexandre Ruiz (France)Frank Murphy (Ireland)Television match official:David Grashoff (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278744-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 England rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches, First test\nTouch judges:Romain Poite (France)Glen Jackson (New Zealand)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278744-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 England rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches, Second test\nTouch judges:Glen Jackson (New Zealand)Ben O'Keeffe (New Zealand)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278744-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 England rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches, Third test\nTouch judges:Romain Poite (France)Ben O'Keeffe (New Zealand)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278745-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series\nThe 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series was a cricket tournament that took place in England in June and July 2018. It was a tri-nation series between England women, South Africa women and the New Zealand women cricket teams. The matches were played as Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) fixtures, with two matches were played each day. The top two teams progressed to the final on 1 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278745-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series\nIn the opening fixture of the series, New Zealand set a new record for the highest innings total in WT20Is, scoring 216 runs for the loss of one wicket against South Africa, in their 20 overs. Hours later on the same day, England broke the record, by scoring 250 runs for the loss of three wickets, also against South Africa. England went on to beat South Africa by 121 runs to record their biggest winning margin, in terms of runs, in WT20Is.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278745-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series\nIn the fifth match, New Zealand beat South Africa by eight wickets. Thefefore, New Zealand and England both progressed to the final, with South Africa being eliminated. In the following match, New Zealand's Suzie Bates became the second woman, after Jenny Gunn, to play in her 100th WT20I match. England won the tri-series, beating New Zealand by seven wickets in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278745-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series, Squads\nWhen England announced their squad they said that Katie George and Lauren Winfield would only be in the squad for their double-header on 23 June. Natasha Farrant was also added to England's squad for the double-header.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278746-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 English Football League play-offs\nThe English Football League play-offs for the 2017\u201318 season were held in May 2018 with all finals being staged at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-offs began in each league with two semi-finals played over two legs. The teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th-placed teams in League Two competed. The winners of the semi-finals advanced to the finals, with the winners gaining promotion for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278746-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 English Football League play-offs, Background\nThe English Football League play-offs have been held every year since 1987. They take place for each division following the conclusion of the regular season and are contested by the four clubs finishing below the automatic promotion places. The fixtures are determined by final league position \u2013 in the Championship and League One this is 3rd v 6th and 4th v 5th, while in League Two it is 4th v 7th and 5th v 6th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278747-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 English Greyhound Derby\nThe 2018 Star Sports Greyhound Derby took place during May and June with the final being held on 2 June 2018 at Towcester Greyhound Stadium. The winner Dorotas Wildcat won \u00a3175,000 and was trained by Kevin Hutton, owned by Hutton and Dave Usher and bred by Jim Gurney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278747-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 English Greyhound Derby\nIt is the second time that the event was held at Towcester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278747-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 English Greyhound Derby, Final Result, Final Distances\n1\u00bd, \u00be, \u00bd, 2\u00bc, 1\u00bc (lengths) 0.08 sec = one length", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278747-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Review\nThe mandatory first round consisted of 26 heats, with only 35% of the field being eliminated, a percentage that included the 20-1 ante post favourite and All England Cup champion, Droopys Expert, Scottish Greyhound Derby champion The Other Reg and Irish star Clonbrien Hero. Whoops Jack impressed during the first set of heats winning in 29.33 and on the second night Droopys Verve (29.16) and Sporting Dave (29.29) stood out. The final set of heats were the most impressive with wins for Bombers Bullet (29.08), Tyrur Harold (29.29) and Puppy Derby champion Magical Bale (29.07).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278747-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Review\nMark Wallis won four of the first eight heats of the second round with Bruisers Bullet going fastest in 29.05. Bombers Bullet, Whoops Jack and Sporting Dave all won well again but Magical Bale crashed out. The remaining second round heats the following evening saw Dorotas Wildcat and Droopys Biker impress in times of 29.07 and 29.16 respectively. Tyrur Harold was eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278747-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Review\nBubbly Bluebird came to life on a fast track in the third round, becoming the first greyhound to break 29 seconds so far when defeating Bombers Bullet by a head in 28.94. This was followed by Irish hound Crossfield Will, Matt Dartnall's Rising Brandy and Dorotas Wildcat who all impressed winning in 28.81, 28.89 and 28.79 respectively. Sporting Dave and Droopys Biker were both eliminated before the final heat saw the youngster Droopys Verve win in 28.76 and maintain his record of finishing in the top two in every race that he had competed in so far.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278747-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Review\nThe real test during the Derby is the quick run from third round to quarter finals and Dorotas Wildcat passed the test with flying colours winning heat 2 in 29.17. This was then topped by Droopys Verve who won in a fast time of 28.88 defeating Bruisers Bullet by 2\u00bc lengths. Rising Brandy took heat 4 in 29.01.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278747-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Review\nDroopys Verve impressed again in the semi finals defeating Bombers Bullet in 28.91. The race saw first bend bumping which left Dorotas Vic to claim the final qualifying spot. In the second semi final the early pace of Whoopys Jack ensured an Irish runner made the final, Dorotas Wildcat and Bruisers Bullet took the remaining final slots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278747-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Review\nIn the final Dorotas Wildcat made a fast 5.15sec start, which saw him clear of the two greyhounds on his inside, he led all the way comfortably holding off the favourite Droopys Verve. In a clean final Dorotas Vic broke well and held on to third place, Bruisers Bullet ran on well for fourth, Bombers Bullet and Whoops Jack made poor starts and could not recover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278748-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 English National Badminton Championships\nThe 2018 English National Badminton Championships were held in Wycombe Leisure Centre from August 24 to August 26, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278749-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 English Open (snooker)\nThe 2018 BetVictor English Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 15 to 21 October 2018 in Crawley, West Sussex, England. It was the sixth ranking event of the 2018/2019 season and a part of the Home Nations Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278749-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 English Open (snooker)\nThe defending champion was Ronnie O'Sullivan, who defeated Kyren Wilson in the 2017 event. However, O'Sullivan would lose to Mark Davis 1\u20136 in the semi-final. O'Sullivan was highly critical of the venue stating \"The worst part was not the smell of urine... \"This is about as bad as I've ever seen. It's a bit of a hellhole.... I don't know what this gaff is, but I've just done an interview and all I can smell is urine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278749-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 English Open (snooker)\nThepchaiya Un-Nooh made the second maximum break of his career with a 147 in the opening frame of his 4\u20131 first round win against Soheil Vahedi. On the following day Ronnie O'Sullivan made the 15th maximum break of his career with a 147 in the final frame of a second round whitewash of Allan Taylor. This was the fourth time that two maximums were made at the main stage of a ranking tournament, and the third time in just over half a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278749-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 English Open (snooker)\nStuart Bingham won his fifth professional ranking title with a 9\u20137 victory against Mark Davis, who had reached his first ever ranking final at the age of 46, playing in his 28th season on the professional tour. Bingham became the first player to win two Home Nations Series events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278749-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 English Open (snooker), Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season\nThe 2018 English cricket season ran between 1 April and 27 September 2018 and was the 119th in which the County Championship has been an official competition. It featured first-class, one-day and Twenty20 cricket competitions throughout England and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season\nThe season saw men's international tours by Pakistan, Australia and India, with Pakistan and India playing Test matches against England. The South African and New Zealand women's teams also toured England, each playing three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team. The three teams also competed in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season\nThe 18 first-class counties competed in the 2018 County Championship, One-Day Cup and T20 Blast competitions, whilst women's teams played in the 2018 Women's Cricket Super League, 2018 Women's County Championship and the Women's T20 Blast competition. The 2018 Minor Counties Championship, MCCA Knockout Trophy and a new Twenty20 competition were competed for by the Minor Counties of England and Wales and club cricket was played throughout both countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours\nThree men's international sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for the first time in an ODI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours\nThe South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours\nIn addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, Pakistan tour\nPakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, Pakistan tour\nAhead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, Pakistan tour\nPakistan won the first Test match by nine wickets on the fourth morning, playing \"superbly but unspectacularly\" to beat England comprehensively. The match was the first time England had lost the opening Test match of an English summer in 23 seasons. The BBC's cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew called England's performance \"truly dreadful\" and was shocked that England could be \"outplayed so comprehensively by a touring team at home in May\" whist praising Pakistan as looking \"sharper, better drilled and more prepared\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, Pakistan tour\nPakistan's \"focus on basics\", coaching and management were praised by The Express Tribune, whilst former Pakistan bowler Waqar Younis claimed that the win was his country's best at Lord's. Writing on CricInfo, George Dobell's view was that England's defeat was the \"culmination of several years' of ECB policies that have disrespected Test cricket\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, Pakistan tour\nEngland won the second Test within three days, defeating Pakistan by an innings and 55 runs in an \"emphatic victory\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, South Africa women tour\nSouth Africa women played three ODIs against England during June with England winning the series 2\u20131, their ninth consecutive series win against South Africa. The matches formed part of the qualification process for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup and will be followed by a series of Twenty20 matches between England, South Africa and New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, South Africa women tour\nSouth Africa won the first match at Worcester by seven wickets before England levelled the series at Hove after scoring 331 runs. The final match saw another strong England batting performance at Canterbury with Tammy Beaumont scoring her second century of the series as England won by seven wickets. Beaumont was named as player of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, England in Scotland\nEngland played a single ODI against Scotland at The Grange Club in Edinburgh on 10 June. The Scotland side scored 371/5 and bowled England out for 365 to win by six runs, the first time they had beaten England in an ODI. The Scottish score was the highest made by an Associate team against a Full Member side and included a score of 140 not out from Calum MacLeod. Despite a century from Jonny Bairstow, England fell short of what would have been their highest ODI run chase. The match is the England team's only away fixture during the 2018 English season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, Australia tour\nAustralia played a series of five One Day International matches and a single T20 International against England in June. England won the ODI series 5\u20130, the first time they had achieved a 5\u20130 victory against Australia in an ODI series, and also won the T20I match. The series featured a world record score of 481/6 made by England in the third match of the series, a game they won by 242 runs, with Alex Hales and Jonny Bairstow both scoring centuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, Australia tour\nAustralia played two warm-up one-day matches against Sussex and Middlesex at the start of June, winning both. After England achieved an \"ugly win\" in the first match of the series at The Oval strong batting performances saw them win the next three matches, including chasing a target of 311 runs in the fourth match, their highest run chase against Australia. The final match was closer, England eventually chasing Australia's score of 205 to win by one wicket, having been 114/8 in 29.4 overs at one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, Tri-Nation series\nThe England, South Africa and New Zealand women's teams competed in a three-way T20I competition between 20 June and 1 July. England won the final of the series, which was played at Chelmsford, defeating New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, Tri-Nation series\nThe series featured seven matches, six played on a round-robin basis in June with England and New Zealand, the most successful two teams, playing a final on 1 July. The featured three days of round-robin matches, each with two matches played back-to-back. Four of the fixtures were played at Taunton and two at Bristol. The series followed the ODIs played by South Africa women against England and will be followed by an ODI series played between England New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, India tour\nIndia toured England between July and September, playing five Test matches, three ODIs and three T20Is against England. The T20I series was won 2\u20131 by India with the ODI series being won by England by the same margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, India tour\nAhead of the Test matches, which were played in August and September, one first-class match was played against Essex. Before arriving in England, India played two T20Is against Ireland at Malahide, winning both.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, India tour\nEngland won the Test series 4\u20141, winning the first two Test matches of the series before India won the third. England sealed the series with a victory in the fourth Test at Southampton, with India unable to chase a target of less than 250 runs in their second innings, before winning the final Test in September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, International tours, New Zealand women tour\nAfter a series of matches against Ireland in early June and the tri-series in July, New Zealand women played a set of three ODIs against England, with England winning the series 2\u20131. The matches formed part of the qualification process for the 2021 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, MCCU matches\nThe season began on 1 April with the first of three rounds of matches between first-class counties and the six Marylebone Cricket Club University teams. Each first-class county played one first-class match against a university side before the start of the County Championship season later in the month, although a number of the matches were abandoned due to rain or wet outfields.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, County Championship\nThe men's County Championship season began on 13 April and was completed on 27 September with each team playing 14 matches. Each county will play one day/night match spread over four rounds of the competition from June to August. Surrey won their first Championship since 2002 with two rounds of matches left in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, County Championship\nThe runners-up in Division One were Somerset. Division Two was won by Warwickshire with Kent finishing second; both teams were promoted to Division One. The two teams started the final round of matches equal on points and played each other in a title decider, Warwickshire winning to claim the Division Two title. Lancashire and Worcestershire finished in the bottom two places in Division One and were related to Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, One-Day Cup\nThe group stage of the One-Day Cup competition was played in a block of matches starting on 17 May. Teams were organised in two geographical divisions, with each team playing eight 50-over fixtures and the top three teams in each group advancing to the play-off stage. During the group stage teams played every other team in their division with the final group games played on 7 June. A series of play-off matches later in June saw Hampshire and Kent advance to the final which was played at Lord's on 30 June, Hampshire winning the title by 61 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, Twenty20 Cup\nThe group stages of the men's Twenty20 Cup competition was played in a block of matches in the same geographical groups as the One-Day Cup. Group matches were played in a block between 4 July and 17 August, each side playing 14 group-stage matches. The quarter-finals were played between 23 and 26 August with final's day on 15 September at Edgbaston. Worcestershire defeated Sussex in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, Women's County Championship\nThe 2018 Women's County Championship ran from the beginning of May to the beginning of June. It was won by Hampshire, the team's first title, with Yorkshire finishing as runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, Women's County Championship\nEach of the eight sides in Division One of the Championship played seven one-day fixtures, once against each of the other teams. A separate Twenty20 competition followed the County Championship between 10 June and 1 July with teams organised into a different set of divisions. Each Division One team played eight matches, one against each of the other teams in the Division, with Middlesex winning the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, Women's Super League\nDuring August 2018 the ECB announced that the Women's Super League would be expanded for the 2018 season with more group games played. In 2018 each franchise played each other both home and away with 10 group matches per side compared to the five group matches played in 2016 and 2017. The group stage of the competition began on 22 July and ran until 18 August with finals day taking place at Hove on 27 August. Surrey Stars won the competition, defeating Loughborough Lightning in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, Minor Counties Competitions\nThe Minor Counties Championship began in June and ran until September with teams organised in two divisions based on their geographical location. Each team played six three-day matches against six of the nine other teams in their division. The divisional winners Berkshire and Lincolnshire qualified for the four-day Championship Final which was played between 16 and 19 September at the Banbury Cricket Club Ground in Oxfordshire, with Berkshire winning the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, Minor Counties Competitions\nThe Minor Counties Knockout Trophy was played on a straight knock-out basis over five rounds, a change from previous seasons. Cheshire won the final with Devon the beaten finalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, Minor Counties Competitions\nA new Twenty20 competition was introduced in 2018 with group matches played at the beginning of the season, replacing some of the matches previously played in the Knockout Trophy group stage. Counties were placed in four geographical divisions of five teams for the competition, each playing eight matches over four match days, with both matches against an opposition team being played on the same day as a double-header. A Minor Counties T20 competition was trialled in 2015 but has not been played since. The T20 competition was won by Berkshire who defeated Cheshire in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278750-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 English cricket season, Minor Counties Competitions\nThe first stages of both one-day competitions were played at the start of the season with Championship matches moving towards the later half the cricket season. The Finals Days for both one-day competitions was played at the end of August at Wormsley Park in Buckinghamshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278751-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Epping Forest District Council election\nThe 2018 Epping Forest District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Epping Forest District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278751-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Epping Forest District Council election\nThis is the last election in which the UK Independence Party had elected representation on the council after the defection of David Dorrell to the Conservatives, and the defeat of Rod Butler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278751-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Epping Forest District Council election, By-elections, Lower Sheering by-election\nA by-election was held on 19 October 2017 following the death of for Member of Parliament for Keighley, Gary Waller. Conservative, Paul Stalker won with 81% of the vote compared to 19% for the Liberal Democrats. Stalker completed Waller's term was re-elected in 2019 for a full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 86], "content_span": [87, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278751-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Epping Forest District Council election, Ward results\nDetailed below are all of the candidates nominated to stand in each ward in the upcoming election. Most figures are compared to the last time these seats were contested in any election cycle for the Epping Forest District Council election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278751-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Epping Forest District Council election, Ward results\nLower Nazeing, North Weald Bassett and Chipping Ongar, Greensted and Marden Ash are compared to the 2015 ward election held at the same time as the 2015 general election, hence the sharp decrease in turnout, both Waltham Abbey seats contested at this election have been compared to the 2014 local election result due to the fact that UKIP won both at that point:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278751-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Epping Forest District Council election, Ward results, Waltham Abbey Paternoster\nIndependent David Dorrell (elected as a UKIP councillor in 2014) joined the Conservatives in February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 85], "content_span": [86, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby\nThe 2018 Epsom Derby was the 239th annual running of the Derby horse race and took place at Epsom Downs Racecourse on 2 June 2018. The winner was Masar, ridden by William Buick, at odds of 16/1. The race was sponsored by Investec and the first prize was \u00a3920,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, Race synopsis, Entries and race build-up\nThe initial entry for the 2018 Epsom Derby, announced in December 2016, consisted of 448 yearlings whose owners paid \u00a3560 for each horse entered. The number of entries was an increase of 32 on the initial entry for the 2017 race, and included 34 horses from the Godolphin Racing organisation and 58 from the Coolmore Stud. Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum entered 31 horses and 2016 winning owner Aga Khan IV had 20 entries. Three fillies were amongst the entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 58], "content_span": [59, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, Race synopsis, Entries and race build-up\nSix further horses were added at the second entry stage on 3 April 2018, with their owners paying \u00a39,000 to enter a runner. Amongst the six were Tim Easterby's unbeaten colt Wells Farhh Go, two trained by Hugo Palmer and entries from the stables of Saeed bin Suroor and Andr\u00e9 Fabre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 58], "content_span": [59, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, Race synopsis, Entries and race build-up\nAt the final entry stage on 31 May 2018 there were 12 runners declared, with Saxon Warrior odds-on favourite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 58], "content_span": [59, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, Race synopsis, Trial races\nThe first significant trial for the 2018 Derby took place at Leopardstown Racecourse on 14 April when four colts contested the Ballysax Stakes. Three of the four runners were trained by Aidan O'Brien, including the favourite The Pentagon. The race was run on heavy going and was won by another O'Brien runner, Nelson, who beat Delano Roosevelt by half a length. Nelson, ridden by Donnacha O'Brien, was giving the trainer an eighth victory in the race. The Pentagon finished a well-beaten third. Aidan O'Brien said after the race \" \"I was delighted with that. It was tough going out there and Donnacha was very pleased with Nelson and said he stays really well.\" and that his other runners would \"...probably all come back for the Derrinstown Stud Stakes and they\u2019re all Derby horses.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, Race synopsis, Trial races\nEpsom staged the Blue Riband Trial Stakes on 25 April. The race offers a free Derby entry to the winner and had been upgraded to Listed status in 2018. John Gosden trained the winner of the race for a sixth time with Crossed Baton, who took an early lead and held on in the final furlong to beat My Lord And Master by a head. The colt was already entered for the Derby and Gosden commented \"If we get a hot summer he could be back [for the Derby]...he's a big boy but with not the biggest feet and he flows over faster ground.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, Race synopsis, Trial races\nOn 27 April the Bet365 Classic Trial at Sandown Park produced a second trial winner for John Gosden. Gosden's Sevenna Star beat six other colts in a race run on testing going, getting up close to the winning post to beat Charlie Appleby's Ispolini by a short head. Sevenna Star had won his previous race by 14 lengths. Frankie Dettori, who rode the winner, said \"Ultimately you'll see his very best at a mile and a half. He'll get better as the season progresses.\" Gosden, who was winning the race for the ninth time, felt that \" he was only just getting the hang of it in the last part. He could go for another trial, with the Dante Stakes an option.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, Race synopsis, Trial races\nThe 2000 Guineas saw an impressive victory by Saxon Warrior who came home ahead of the outsider Tip Two Win and the favourite Masar whilst Roaring Lion came home fifth. Chester's two Derby trial races saw Young Rascal beat Dee Ex Bee in the Chester Vase on 9 May and the Aidan O'Brien-trained Rostropovich take the Dee Stakes on the following day. The Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial on 13 May produced an upset as a three-horse Ballydoyle entry of The Pentagon, Delano Roosevelt and Nelson was defeated by the Dermot Weld-trained Hazapour, a 16/1 outsider. In the following week York Racecourse staged the Dante Stakes which saw Roaring Lion come home four and a half lengths clear of Mildenberger with Zabriskie in third place. The result effectively ended the Derby hopes of Wells Farhh Go and Crossed Batons who finished sixth and seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 885]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, Race card\nThe final field of twelve saw six Irish-trained challengers matched against six British-trained colts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, The Race\nDespite fears earlier in the week that the prevailing wet weather would result in a soft surface, the race was run in bright sunshine on ground officially described as good. In the early stages Knight to Behold set the pace from Kew Gardens with Hazapour and The Pentagon close behind. The others were closely grouped and headed by Dee Ex Bee whilst Zabriskie and Sevenna Star brought up the rear. The order remained unchanged until the straight where horses fanned out to deliver their challenges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, The Race\nApproaching the last quarter mile Knight to Behold led a front rank of seven horses which included (from the inside) Kew Gardens, Hazapour, The Pentagon, Dee Ex Bee, Masar and Roaring Lion with Saxon Warrior beginning to make steady progress alongside his stablemate Delano Roosevelt. Knight to Behold, Kew Gardens and The Pentagon quickly dropped away, leaving Hazapour and Dee Ex Bee to briefly dispute the lead before Masar swept past them on the outside a furlong and a half from the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, The Race\nRoaring Lion briefly looked like a serious threat in the final furlong but Masar kept on well and won by a length and a half. Dee Ex Bee took second place, half a length in front of Roaring Lion whilst Saxon Warrior stayed on well to deprive Hazapour of fourth place without ever looking likely to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, Full result\n* The distances between the horses are shown in lengths or shorter; nse = nose; hd = head.\u2020 Trainers are based in Great Britain unless indicated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, Form analysis, Two-year-old races\nNotable runs by the future Derby participants as two-year-olds in 2017:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 51], "content_span": [52, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, Form analysis, Road to Epsom\nEarly-season appearances in 2018 and trial races prior to running in the Derby:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278752-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Epsom Derby, Form analysis, Subsequent Group 1 wins\nGroup 1 / Grade I victories after running in the Derby:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278753-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Equatoguinean Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 2018 Equatoguinean Primera Divisi\u00f3n is the 40th season of the Equatoguinean Primera Divisi\u00f3n, the top-tier football league in Equatorial Guinea, since its establishment in 1979. The season started on 26 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278753-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Equatoguinean Primera Divisi\u00f3n, First stage\nDivided into Regi\u00f3n Insular and Regi\u00f3n Continental. Top three teams from each region qualify for the final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit\nThe 2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit (also 2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia peace summit) was a bilateral summit that took place on 8\u20139 July 2018 in Asmara, Eritrea, between Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and officials from the two countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit\nThe two leaders signed a joint declaration on 9 July, formally ending the border conflict between both countries, restoring full diplomatic relations, and agreeing to open their borders to each other for persons, goods and services. The joint statement was also considered to close all chapters regarding the Eritrean\u2013Ethiopian War (1998\u20132000) and of the following Eritrean\u2013Ethiopian border conflict (2000\u20132018) with sporadic clashes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Background\nEritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 following the 30-year Eritrean War of Independence, and subsequent border disputes caused continuing tension between the two nations. The tensions came to a crisis point in May 1998, and Eritrea invaded Ethiopia, leading to the Ethiopian\u2013Eritrean War; this killed between 70,000\u2013100,000 on both sides and left Eritrea with over a third of its territory occupied and more than 650,000 people displaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Background\nIn 2000, the two countries signed the Algiers Agreement agreeing to submit to binding arbitration to resolve boundary and restitution questions. Eritrea was awarded most of the disputed territory by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, but Ethiopia still occupied most of the disputed land as of 2017. The result was a frozen conflict state of \"no war, no peace\" and prolonged tensions between the two countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Background\nEach country accused the other of hosting terrorist movements aimed at fomenting regime change, and both remained closed societies; Ethiopia was an authoritarian dominant-party state ruled by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), and Eritrea is a totalitarian one-party state ruled by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ). Presidential and parliamentary elections in Eritrea have been indefinitely postponed and have never been held since independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Background\nHailemariam Desalegn, Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 2012 to 2018, was unable to make progress toward resolving tensions with Eritrea, and his tenure saw repeated waves of protest against the repressive political atmosphere. After he resigned in 2018, he was replaced by Abiy Ahmed, who promised in his inaugural address to negotiate an end to the Ethio-Eritrean conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Announcement and preparations\nOn 5 June 2018, the Executive Committee of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front announced its intention to accept and fully implement the 2002 ruling of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) established under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration pursuant to the 2000 Algiers Agreement. In a statement, the EPRDF called for Eritrea to reciprocate and implement the peace deal without preconditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Announcement and preparations\nThe decision came as a surprise, representing a reversal of sixteen years of Ethiopian policy. While cause for optimism across much of Ethiopia, in the Tigray Region, under whose jurisdiction most of the disputed territories fall, the announcement sparked protest, including in the disputed town of Badme itself and amongst war veterans. On 13 June 2018 the executive committee of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front denounced, inter alia, the decision to hand over Badme as \"fundamentally flawed\", saying that the ruling coalition suffered from a \"fundamental leadership deficit\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Announcement and preparations\nEthnic Irobs living in the border areas currently under Ethiopian administration organised a protest to condemn the decision to accept the boundary commission's ruling, fearing the division of their community. In a question-and-answer session in Parliament on 11 June, Abiy defended his peace initiative, saying: \"I was standing in [Badme] when we put up our flag, and I cried. Many of my friends who fought in that war, we had to bury\", alluding to his own service during the conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Announcement and preparations\nThe Eritrean government, seeming to have been caught by surprise by the move, refrained from commenting on the Ethiopian offer for two weeks until 20 June, in President Isaias's speech on the occasion of Martyrs' Day. Bemoaning \"two lost generations\" of opportunity, the Eritrean president announced that his government would send a delegation to Addis Ababa \"to gauge current developments directly and in depth as well as to chart out a plan for continuous future action\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Announcement and preparations\nLess than a week later, on 26 June 2018, Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohammed visited Addis Ababa for three days, taking part in the first bilateral meeting between the two countries in over two decades. The two countries agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and exchange ambassadors, and Abiy agreed to meet with his Eritrean counterpart \"in the near future\", although Ethiopian foreign minister Workneh Gebeyehu added that a time and location had not been determined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Summit meeting, 8 July\nAbiy arrived in Asmara, Eritrea on 8 July, where he was greeted by President Isaias at Asmara International Airport. Hundreds of thousands of people lined Asmara's main thoroughfare, Harnet Avenue, to welcome the Ethiopian leader's motorcade. The two leaders and their delegations held an expanded bilateral meeting at the Presidential Palace, announcing that telephone lines between the two countries would be re-connected with immediate effect. Also announced were the re-establishment of embassies, the opening of ports, air routes, and \"free travel\" between the two countries, although what the latter would entail was unclear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Summit meeting, 8 July\nThat evening, the Eritrean leader held an official dinner for his Ethiopian guest at the Asmara Municipality Building, attended by government and party officials and the diplomatic corps, in which the two toasted the end of tensions and heralded a new era of Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia relations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Summit meeting, 8 July\nWe have agreed to bring down the wall between us. Now there is no border between Ethiopia and Eritrea. That border line has gone today with the display of a true love ... love is greater than modern weapons like tanks and missiles. Love can win hearts, and we have seen a great deal of it today here in Asmara. From this time on, war is not an option for the people of Eritrea and Ethiopia. What we need now is love.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Summit meeting, 8 July\nThe Eritrean people have today had the chance to express their true love and emotion for Ethiopians. We can imagine that the decisions the prime minister of Ethiopia took were not easy ones. But we can assure you we will face the future together. We will work as one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Summit meeting, 9 July\nFollowing a coffee ceremony at Isaias's private residence, the two leaders signed a five-point 12 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine, declaring that \"the state of war between Ethiopia and Eritrea has come to an end; a new era of peace and friendship has been opened.\" In the joint declaration, the two countries agreed to resume diplomatic relations and transport, trade and communications links, implement the EEBC's border ruling, and ensure regional peace and cooperation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Summit meeting, 9 July\nAbiy then departed Asmara\u2014again with President Isaias bidding him farewell at the airport\u2014and returned to Addis Ababa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Summit meeting, Delegations\nAbiy was accompanied by Workneh Gebeyehu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Muferiat Kamil, the Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives, Keria Ibrahim, the Speaker of the House of Federation, and Seyoum Awol, President of the Afar Region. Notably absent was Debretsion Gebremichael, President of the Tigray Region and leader of the TPLF, which has been critical of the peace process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Reactions\nLeaders and organizations across Africa and the world welcomed the summit's success, expressing their support for the peace process between the two countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Aftermath\nThe evening of his return to Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy met with United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and briefed him on the summit proceedings. As a result of its successful outcome, Abiy requested that the United Nations lift its sanctions\u2014imposed largely due to the efforts of Ethiopian diplomacy\u2014on Eritrea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Aftermath\nImmediately following the summit it was announced that Ethiopian Airlines would resume flights to Asmara the following Monday, 16 July. The state-run Ethiopian Press Agency reported that Ethiopian Airlines would additionally take a 20% stake in Eritrean Airlines, although as of 9 July 2018 this has not yet been confirmed by the management of either airline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Aftermath\nPresident Isaias made a reciprocal visit to Ethiopia the week immediately following the summit, from 14\u201316 July. Speaking at a state luncheon hosted by President Mulatu Teshome, Isaias affirmed the unity of Eritrea and Ethiopia, saying \"henceforth, anyone who says Eritreans and Ethiopians are two different peoples is one that doesn't know the truth.\" He visited an industrial park in Awassa and presided over the re-opening of the Eritrean Embassy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Aftermath\nOn 11 September 2018, Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia border crossings reopened for the first time since 1998, at Serha\u2013Zalambesa and Debaysima\u2013Burre. In October 2019, Abiy was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work brokering peace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278754-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Eritrea\u2013Ethiopia summit, Aftermath\nMartin Plaut, a journalist specialising in Africa, suggested that the Abiy\u2013Isaias close relationship and meetings that followed in 2019 and 2020, together with the Tripartite Agreement that included Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmaajo), president of Somalia, were used to discuss and prepare a combined military strategy for the Tigray War that started in early November 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278755-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Erovnuli Liga\nThe 2018 Erovnuli Liga (formerly known as Umaglesi Liga) was the 30th season of top-tier football in Georgia. Torpedo Kutaisi were the defending champions. The season began on 2 March 2018 and was ended on 8 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278755-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Erovnuli Liga, Results\nEach team will play the other nine teams home and away twice, for a total of 36 games each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278756-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Erovnuli Liga 2\nThe 2018 Erovnuli Liga 2 (formerly known as Pirveli Liga) was the 30th season of second tier football in Georgia. The season began on 1 March 2018 and ended on 7 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278757-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Erste Bank Open\nThe 2018 Erste Bank Open 500 was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 44th edition of the event, and part of the ATP World Tour 500 Series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria, from 22 October until 28 October 2018. Second-seeded Kevin Anderson won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278757-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Erste Bank Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278757-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Erste Bank Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278758-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Erste Bank Open \u2013 Doubles\nRohan Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas were the defending champions, but Bopanna chose to compete in Basel and Cuevas chose to compete in Lima instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278758-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Erste Bank Open \u2013 Doubles\nJoe Salisbury and Neal Skupski won the title, defeating Mike Bryan and \u00c9douard Roger-Vasselin in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20133. Bryan secured the year-end ATP no. 1 doubles ranking by reaching the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278759-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Erste Bank Open \u2013 Singles\nLucas Pouille was the defending champion, but lost to Borna \u0106ori\u0107 in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278759-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Erste Bank Open \u2013 Singles\nKevin Anderson won the title, defeating Kei Nishikori in the final, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(7\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278759-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Erste Bank Open \u2013 Singles\nThis was Nishikori's ninth consecutive defeat in ATP World Tour level finals. His most recent victory came in February 2016 at Memphis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278760-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Eschborn\u2013Frankfurt\nThe 2018 Eschborn-Frankfurt was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 1 May 2018 in Germany. It was the 57th edition of the Eschborn-Frankfurt and the twentieth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278760-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Eschborn\u2013Frankfurt\nEuropean champion Alexander Kristoff won the race for a record fourth consecutive edition. Michael Matthews and Oliver Naesen took second and third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278761-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Esiliiga\nThe 2018 Esiliiga was the 28th season of the Esiliiga, the second-highest Estonian league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992. The season began on 1 March 2018 and concluded on 11 November 2018. Defending champions Maardu Linnameeskond won their second Esiliiga title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278761-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Esiliiga, Teams\nTen teams competed in the league \u2013 the seven teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the Esiliiga B. The promoted teams were N\u00f5mme Kalju U21 (returning to the Esiliiga after a one-year absence), Tallinna Kalev U21 and Keila (both teams playing in the Esiliiga for the first time ever). They replaced Tallinna Kalev, Kuressaare (both teams promoted to the Meistriliiga) and FCI Tallinn U21 (merged with Levadia U21).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 20], "content_span": [21, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278761-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Esiliiga, Play-offs, Relegation play-offs, Second leg\nJ\u00e4rve won 3\u20132 on aggregate and were promoted to the 2019 Esiliiga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 58], "content_span": [59, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278762-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Esiliiga B\nThe 2018 Esiliiga B were the 6th season of the Esiliiga B, third-highest Estonian league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278762-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Esiliiga B, Teams\nOf the 10 participating teams 4 remained following the 2017 Esiliiga B. The 2017 champions Kalju U21, runners-up Kalev U21 and 4th placed Keila JK were promoted to Esiliiga, while 10th place Sillam\u00e4e Kalev U21 was relegated and Viimsi JK and Raasiku Joker decided not to participate in 2018 Esiliiga B. For this season those six teams will be replaced by 6 II Liiga teams. They are: Lasnam\u00e4e Ajax, N\u00f5mme United, P\u00e4rnu JK, Tallinna Legion, Flora U19 and V\u00f5ru Helios. Only Tallinna Legion and Flora U19 have played in Esiliiga B before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278762-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Esiliiga B, Results, Positions by round\nThe table lists the positions of teams after completion of each round. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278762-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Esiliiga B, Awards, Esiliiga B Player of the Year\nRejal Alijev was named Esiliiga B Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278763-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Espirito Santo Trophy\nThe 2018 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 29 August \u2013 1 September at Carton House Golf Club on its Montgomerie and O'Meara courses in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278763-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Espirito Santo Trophy\nIt was the 28th women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278763-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Espirito Santo Trophy\nThe tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event. There were a record 57 team entries, each with two or three players. One nation, Lebanon, made its first appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278763-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Espirito Santo Trophy\nEach team played two rounds at the Montgomerie Course and two rounds at the O'Meara Course in different orders. The top 27 teams on the final leaderboard, except Norway and France, all played the fourth round at the O'Meara Course. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278763-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Espirito Santo Trophy\nThe United States team won the Trophy for their 14th title and first win in 20 years, beating team Japan by 10 strokes. Japan earned the silver medal while the defending champions South Korea team took the bronze on third place one more stroke back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278763-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Espirito Santo Trophy\nThe individual title went to Cho Ayean, South Korea, whose score of 17-under-par, 273, was two strokes ahead of Jennifer Kupcho, United States, and Yuka Yasuda, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278763-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Espirito Santo Trophy, Teams\n59 teams entered the event and completed the competition. Each team, except one, had three players. The team representing Lithuania had only two players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278763-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Espirito Santo Trophy, Individual leaders\nThere was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278764-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Esp\u00edrito Santo gubernatorial election\nThe Esp\u00edrito Santo gubernatorial election occurred in October 2018, and elected the Governor and Vice Governor of Esp\u00edrito Santo and 28 State Deputies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278764-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Esp\u00edrito Santo gubernatorial election\nThe previous gubernatorial election in the state was held in October 2014, in which Paulo Hartung of the Brazilian Democratic Movement was elected in the first round with 53.44% of the votes, against 39.34% of Renato Casagrande.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278765-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Essendon Football Club season\nThe 2018 Essendon Football Club season will be the Essendon Football Club's 120th season in the Australian Football League. They will also field a reserves team in the Victorian Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278765-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Essendon Football Club season, AFL, List changes\nThree veteran Essendon players decided to retire at the end of the 2017 season: two-time All-Australian Jobe Watson, former Geelong three-time premiership player James Kelly and 255-game player Brent Stanton. After the season Essendon also announced that they had delisted Heath Hocking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278765-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Essendon Football Club season, AFL, List changes\nDuring trade period three different players requested trades to Essendon. The first trade to be completed was that of Greater Western Sydney player Devon Smith, who Essendon acquired with their first round pick for the 2017 draft. Later they also secured Adam Saad from Gold Coast with their 2018 second round pick, before getting forward Jake Stringer from the Western Bulldogs in exchange for two second-round draft picks on the last day of the trade period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278766-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Essex County municipal elections\nMunicipal elections were held in Essex County in Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278766-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Essex County municipal elections, Essex County Council\nEssex County Council consists of the 7 mainland mayors of Essex County and their seven deputy mayors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278767-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Esso Cup\nThe 2018 Esso Cup was Canada's tenth national women's midget hockey championship, contested April 22\u201328, 2018 at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. This was the first time the championship has held in Nova Scotia. The St. Alberta Slash of Alberta defeated the Saskatoon Stars 2\u20131 in the gold medal game to defend their national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278767-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Esso Cup, Road to the Esso Cup, Atlantic Region\nNorthern Selects advance by winning regional championship played March 29\u2013April 1, 2018 at Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 52], "content_span": [53, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278767-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Esso Cup, Road to the Esso Cup, Quebec\nPionni\u00e8eres le Lanaudi\u00e8re advance by winning LHFDQ Midget AAA championship played April 13\u201315, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 43], "content_span": [44, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278767-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Esso Cup, Road to the Esso Cup, Ontario\nBrampton Canadettes advance by winning Ontario Women's Hockey Association championship played April 5\u20138, 2018 at Toronto, Ontario", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 44], "content_span": [45, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278767-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Esso Cup, Road to the Esso Cup, Western Region\nSaskatoon Stars advance by winning regional championship played April 6\u20137, 2018 at the T.G. Smith Centre in Steinbach, Manitoba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278767-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Esso Cup, Road to the Esso Cup, Pacific Region\nSt. Albert advanced by winning regional championship played April 6\u20138, 2018 at Richmond, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 51], "content_span": [52, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278768-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Essonne's 1st constituency by-election\nA by-election was held in Essonne's 1st constituency on 18 November 2018, with a second round on 25 November as no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was prompted by the resignation of Manuel Valls to run for the mayoralty of Barcelona in the 2019 municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278769-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Estonian Football Winter Tournament\nThe 2018 Estonian Football Winter Tournament or the 2018 EJL Jalgpallihalli Turniir is the fifth edition of the annual tournament in Estonia. This tournament is divided into five groups of 6 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278770-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Estonian Small Cup\nThe 2018 Estonian Small Cup was the 9th season of the Estonian amateur football knockout tournament. The tournament began in March 2018, and the final took place in September 2018 at the A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn. Paide Linnameeskond III were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278770-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Estonian Small Cup\nSaue JK won the cup after beating Raasiku FC Joker 2\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278770-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Estonian Small Cup, First Round (1/64)\nThe draw was made by Estonian Football Association on 9 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278770-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Estonian Small Cup, First Round (1/64), Byes\nThese teams were not drawn and secured a place in the second round without playing:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278770-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Estonian Small Cup, Second Round (1/32)\nThe draw was made by Estonian Football Association on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278770-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Estonian Small Cup, Third Round (1/16)\nThe draw was made by Estonian Football Association on 26 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278770-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Estonian Small Cup, Fourth Round (1/8)\nThe draw was made by Estonian Football Association on 23 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278770-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Estonian Small Cup, Final\nThe two finalist were Saue JK, who reached quarter-finals the previous season, and Raasiku FC Joker, who enjoyed third-tier football last year. Both teams are from Harju County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278771-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Estoril Open\nThe 2018 Estoril Open (also known as the Millennium Estoril Open for sponsorship purposes) was a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the Estoril Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. The event took place at the Clube de T\u00e9nis do Estoril in Cascais, Portugal, from April 30 through May 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278771-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Estoril Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278771-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Estoril Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278772-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Estoril Open \u2013 Doubles\nRyan Harrison and Michael Venus were the defending champions, but Harrison chose not to participate this year. Venus played alongside Raven Klaasen, but lost in the first round to Alex de Minaur and Lleyton Hewitt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278772-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Estoril Open \u2013 Doubles\nKyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie won the title, defeating Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278773-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Estoril Open \u2013 Singles\nPablo Carre\u00f1o Busta was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Frances Tiafoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278773-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Estoril Open \u2013 Singles\nJo\u00e3o Sousa won the title, defeating Tiafoe in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278773-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Estoril Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278774-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ethiopian Cup\nThe 2018 Ethiopian Cup is the 59th edition of the Ethiopian Cup, the knockout football competition of Ethiopia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278774-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ethiopian Cup\nIn the final on 29 September 2018, Defence Force (Mekelakeya) defeated St. George.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278775-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ethiopian presidential election\nA snap presidential election was held in Ethiopia on 25 October 2018, prompted by the resignation of incumbent Mulatu Teshome. It was the fifth presidential election of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to elect the country's fourth president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278775-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ethiopian presidential election\nDiplomat Sahle-Work Zewde was elected without contest to a six-year term, becoming Ethiopia's first non-royal female head of state and the first female head of state since the death of Empress Zewditu in 1930.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278775-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ethiopian presidential election, Background and electoral process\nAs a parliamentary republic, most administrative power and the effective ability is vested in the prime minister and his government, rather than the president, leaving the president as primarily a figurehead executive. However, the president retains significant Reserve powers granted by the constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278775-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ethiopian presidential election, Background and electoral process\nA presidential candidate is required to be elected by a joint session of the upper house and lower house of the Ethiopian parliament, the Federal Parliamentary Assembly, the House of Federation and the House of People's Representatives, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278775-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ethiopian presidential election, Background and electoral process\nThe outgoing President, Mulatu Teshome had been elected in 2013 to a six-year term ending in 2019, but resigned for unspecified reasons, necessitating an early election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278776-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EurAsia Cup\nThe 2018 EurAsia Cup presented by DRB-HICOM was the third edition of the EurAsia Cup, a team golf event contested between teams representing Asia and Europe. It was held from 12\u201314 January at the Glenmarie Golf and Country Club in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. The team captains were Thomas Bj\u00f8rn and Arjun Atwal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278776-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 EurAsia Cup\nThe event had a $4,800,000 purse; $300,000 to each member of the winning team and $100,000 to each member of the losing team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278776-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 EurAsia Cup\nEurope won the match 14 to 10. Asia had held a narrow 6\u00bd to 5\u00bd lead at the start of the final day's singles session but Europe won 8 of the first 9 matches and retained the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278776-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 EurAsia Cup, Teams\nOWGR as of 7 January. Yellow background indicates a captain's pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278776-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 EurAsia Cup, Teams\nThe Asian team was selected as follows: the leading four available Asian players from the 2017 Asian Tour Order of Merit as of 27 November, the leading four eligible and available Asian players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of 27 November, and four captain\u2019s picks. The leading four Asian players from the Asian Tour Order of Merit were Gavin Green (1), Shiv Chawrasia (4), Phachara Khongwatmai (5) and Poom Saksansin (6).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278776-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 EurAsia Cup, Teams\nThe leading Asian players from the Official World Golf Ranking were Hideki Matsuyama (5), Yuta Ikeda (37), Kim Si-woo (40), Satoshi Kodaira (53), Li Haotong (57), Kiradech Aphibarnrat (59) and Anirban Lahiri (65). Matsuyama, Kim and Kodaira did not play. The captain's picks were Hideto Tanihara, Kang Sung-hoon, An Byeong-hun and Nicholas Fung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278776-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 EurAsia Cup, Teams\nOWGR as of 7 January. Yellow background indicates a captain's pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278776-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 EurAsia Cup, Teams\nThe European team was selected as follows: the leading 10 available European players from the final 2017 European Tour Race to Dubai rankings plus two captain\u2019s picks. The qualifiers from the Race to Dubai were Fleetwood (1), Hatton (5), Fisher (6), Cabrera-Bello (7), Nor\u00e9n (8), Fitzpatrick (12), Wiesberger (14), Stenson (15), Dunne (16), and Pieters (20); Justin Rose (2), Jon Rahm (3), Sergio Garc\u00eda (4), Francesco Molinari (9) and Rory McIlroy (13) chose not to participate. L\u00e9vy and Casey were chosen as captain picks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League\nThe 2018 Euro Beach Soccer League (EBSL) was the 21st edition of the Euro Beach Soccer League, the annual, premier competition in European beach soccer contested between men's national teams. It was organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), in a league and play-off format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League\nThis season, teams continued to take part in two divisions, the top tier (Division A) and the bottom tier (Division B). 12 teams continued to contest Division A, consisting of the top 11 finishers from last year plus Turkey who were promoted to the top tier. Whilst Division B accommodated 15 nations: 13 nations who did not gain promotion from last season, Georgia who made their debut, plus Greece who were relegated from the top tier at the end of last season. No nations returned after an absence from competing in recent years, however, the Netherlands, who had competed in the last two seasons, did not enter this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League\nA total of five stages of fixtures were scheduled during the regular season. Each team from Division A played in two stages whilst each team in Division B played in one. At each stage the participating nations earned points for the overall league tables.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League\nAt the end of the regular season, according to the league tables, the eight best teams in Division A advanced to the post-season event, the Superfinal, to compete to become the winners of this year's EBSL. Meanwhile, the top seven teams in Division B (the four group winners and three best runners-up) and the team ranked bottom of Division A played in a different post-season event, the Promotion Final, to try to earn a spot in Division A next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League\nThe top scorer of the 2002 season, Alan of Portugal, announced his retirement on 11 June; Alan competed in all 20 EBSL seasons since the inaugural edition in 1998, meaning this year marked the first EBSL season in which he did not feature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League\nThe league also acted as the qualification route to the 2019 European Games; the top six teams of the Superfinal plus the Promotion Final winners qualified to joint hosts Belarus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League\nGermany, the defending Division A team in the Promotion Final, beat Romania in the final to win the event, therefore retaining their Division A status for next season. Russia were the defending champions but were knocked out of title-winning contention in the group stage of the Superfinal, ultimately finishing fourth in the post-season event, just the second time (the other 2005), that Russia failed to finish in the top three. The concluding match of the Superfinal was contested between Italy and Spain, who were looking to end 13 and 12-year waits since their last respective EBSL titles (2005 and 2006). Italy, on home sand, won the match on penalties to claim their second European title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Calendar and locations\nFor the first time, Azerbaijan and Belarus hosted an EBSL regular season stage. It was also the first time since the 2013 season that no nations in Division B hosted a stage, only the second time this had occurred since divisions were introduced in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Teams\nThe following teams have entered this season, in the following divisions (12 in Division A, 15 in Division B).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Teams\nThe numbers in parentheses show the European ranking of each team prior to the start of the season, out of 36 nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 1 (Baku, 22\u201324 June)\nMatches are listed as local time in Baku, AZT (UTC+4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 1 (Baku, 22\u201324 June)\nAll matches took place at the Baku Beach Arena, part of the Flag Square cluster of the European Games Park in Sabail raion, with a capacity of 3,900. The stadium previously hosted the beach soccer event at the 2015 European Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 1 (Baku, 22\u201324 June), Awards\nThe following were presented after the conclusion of the final day's matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 2 (Nazar\u00e9, 6\u20138 July)\nMatches are listed as local time in Nazar\u00e9, WEST (UTC+1)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 2 (Nazar\u00e9, 6\u20138 July)\nAll matches took place at the Est\u00e1dio do Viveiro on Praia de Nazar\u00e9 (Nazar\u00e9 Beach), in tandem with the hosting of the 2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 2 (Nazar\u00e9, 6\u20138 July)\nThe stadium had recently been undergoing redevelopment, increasing its capacity from 1,600 to 2,200. However, one part of the stadium was still awaiting upgrades, meaning the new capacity figure was yet to be fully reached.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 2 (Nazar\u00e9, 6\u20138 July)\nDuring this round, Bulgaria won a stage title for the first time (in either division).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 2 (Nazar\u00e9, 6\u20138 July), Division B, Group 2\nThe Serbia vs. Estonia match was the first goalless draw in the 20-year history of the EBSL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 2 (Nazar\u00e9, 6\u20138 July), Awards\nThe following were presented after the conclusion of the final day's matches. Individual awards apply to Division A only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 3 (Moscow, 20\u201322 July)\nMatches are listed as local time in Moscow, MSK (UTC+3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 3 (Moscow, 20\u201322 July)\nAll matches took place at Yantar Beach Soccer Stadium in the district of Strogino, with a capacity of 2,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 3 (Moscow, 20\u201322 July)\nThis was the eighth time Moscow hosted an EBSL event, drawing level with Marseille as the cities to host the most events in the league's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 3 (Moscow, 20\u201322 July)\nDuring this round, Kazakhstan won an EBSL stage title for the first time (in either division).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 3 (Moscow, 20\u201322 July), Division A\nSwitzerland, Azerbaijan and Poland are ranked accordingly based on their three-way head-to-head results", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 3 (Moscow, 20\u201322 July), Awards\nThe following were presented after the conclusion of the final day's matches. Individual awards apply to Division A only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 4 (Minsk, 3\u20135 August)\nMatches are listed as local time in Minsk, FET (UTC+3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 4 (Minsk, 3\u20135 August)\nAll matches took place at the National Beach Soccer Stadium, part of the Olympic Sports Complex in Pyershamayski District, with a capacity of 1,300.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 4 (Minsk, 3\u20135 August)\nWith construction beginning on 8 June, the stadium was a newbuild, commissioned specifically for the purpose of hosting the beach soccer event at the 2019 European Games; this stage was organised to take place in Minsk to serve as test event for the new venue ahead of the upcoming games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 4 (Minsk, 3\u20135 August)\nThere were no Division B fixtures during this stage; this contributes to the fact this was the first stage to feature just four teams since the Moscow stage of the 2013 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 4 (Minsk, 3\u20135 August), Awards\nThe following were presented after the conclusion of the final day's matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 5 (Warnem\u00fcnde, 24\u201326 August)\nMatches are listed as local time in Warnem\u00fcnde, CEST (UTC+2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 5 (Warnem\u00fcnde, 24\u201326 August)\nAll matches took place on the site of the Sport & Beach Arena on Warnem\u00fcnde Beach, at the purpose built DFB Beachsoccer Arena, with a capacity of approximately 1,500 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 5 (Warnem\u00fcnde, 24\u201326 August)\nGeorgia made their EBSL debut during this stage, the 34th different nation to compete in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 5 (Warnem\u00fcnde, 24\u201326 August)\nEngland claimed the Division B stage crown, meaning they won back-to-back second-tier titles for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 5 (Warnem\u00fcnde, 24\u201326 August), Awards\nThe following were presented after the conclusion of the final day's matches. Individual awards apply to Division A only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, League tables\nRanking & tie-breaking criteria: Division A \u2013 1. Points earned 2. Goal difference 3. Goals scored | Division B \u2013 1. Highest group placement 2. Points earned 3. Goal difference 4. Goals scored 5. Results against 4th place team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Promotion Final (Alghero, 6\u20139 September)\nMatches are listed as local time in Alghero, CEST (UTC+2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Promotion Final (Alghero, 6\u20139 September)\nAll matches took place at a purpose built stadium on Spiaggia del Lido di San Giovanni, with a capacity of approximately 1,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Promotion Final (Alghero, 6\u20139 September)\nThe winners of the Promotion Final earned a place in Division A next season; they also qualified for the 2019 European Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Promotion Final (Alghero, 6\u20139 September)\n(Note two teams were ineligible to qualify to the European Games: Germany, as the team that finished 12th in Division A and Kazakhstan, who are not a member of the European Olympic Committees. In the event one of these teams was to win the Promotion Final, the next highest ranked eligible team would qualify in their place.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Promotion Final (Alghero, 6\u20139 September), Qualified teams\nThe teams in bold qualified as Division B regular season group winners; those in italics qualified as the three best group runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Promotion Final (Alghero, 6\u20139 September), Qualified teams\nThe team in green attempted to retain their position in Division A, having finished bottom of the regular season table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Promotion Final (Alghero, 6\u20139 September), Final standings\nGermany won the event to retain their Division A status for the 2019 EBSL season; this was just the second time in ten attempts since the Promotion Final was introduced that the defending Division A team successfully won it to preserve their top tier membership (the other France in 2011). Consequently, no Division B team earned promotion to the top division and no Division A team was relegated this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Promotion Final (Alghero, 6\u20139 September), Final standings\nRomania claimed the single qualification berth to the 2019 European Games available in the Promotion Final as the highest ranked team eligible to qualify in the final standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Superfinal (Alghero, 6\u20139 September)\nMatches are listed as local time in Alghero, CEST (UTC+2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Superfinal (Alghero, 6\u20139 September)\nAll matches took place at a purpose built stadium on Spiaggia del Lido di San Giovanni, with a capacity of approximately 1,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Superfinal (Alghero, 6\u20139 September)\nThe winners of the Superfinal were crowned 2018 EBSL champions; the top six (excl. Belarus as they qualified automatically as Games hosts) also earned qualification to the 2019 European Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Superfinal (Alghero, 6\u20139 September), Qualified teams\nThe top eight teams from Division A, as per the end of regular season league table, qualified for the Superfinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Superfinal (Alghero, 6\u20139 September), Play-off stage, Superfinal match\n\"I won everything with Sambenedettese [his club team], but nothing compares to this. Before the final penalty, I turned towards the stand and I said \u2018I\u2019ve got this\u2019. I can\u2019t remember much after the save, but I just remember running like crazy all across the pitch.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 100], "content_span": [101, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Superfinal (Alghero, 6\u20139 September), Play-off stage, Superfinal match\n\"This group has managed to perform at a high level for a number of years, but to actually win is something entirely different. It was the climax of everything after Simone\u2019s save and I can say without a doubt that we deserved this victory after all of the sacrifices that we made.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 100], "content_span": [101, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Superfinal (Alghero, 6\u20139 September), Play-off stage, Superfinal match\n\"You have to be proud of the work done.\" \"We deserved to win the final against Italy.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 100], "content_span": [101, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Superfinal (Alghero, 6\u20139 September), Final standings\nFinalists Spain and Italy faced each other for the first time in an EBSL title-decider; both teams were appearing in their second finals (the others 2014 and 2010 respectively) since they each last won their most recent titles (2006 and 2005 respectively). It was also just the second time (the other Spain vs. France, 2003) that neither Russia nor Portugal reached the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Superfinal (Alghero, 6\u20139 September), Final standings\nBy winning the Superfinal, Italy ended a 13-year drought (the then current longest wait of any team with a previous title win) to claim their second EBSL crown; both titles were won on penalties. After nine successive wins, including claiming first place in the regular season, this was Spain's first loss of the season; their wait for a sixth title now continues into its 13th year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Superfinal (Alghero, 6\u20139 September), Final standings\nBelarus' 5th-place finish was their joint best result (with 2016); the sixth European Games qualifier was therefore decided in the seventh place play-off between Ukraine and Azerbaijan, won by the former.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Season statistics, Top scorers\nThe following tables list the top 12 scorers in each division, including goals scored in both the regular and post season events. Note there is no award presented for these season-encompassing scoring feats, the tables are for statistical purposes only. Scoring awards were bestowed per stage, with the primary award that which was presented in the Superfinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Season statistics, Most assists\nThe following tables list the top 10 assistants in each division including assists provided in both the regular and post season events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278777-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Beach Soccer League, Season statistics, Discipline\nThe following table lists the players and teams who received the most penalties for disciplinary infringements in each division in both the regular and post season events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup\nThe 2018 Euro Winners Cup was the sixth edition of the Euro Winners Cup (EWC), an annual continental beach soccer tournament for men's top-division European clubs. The championship is the sport's version of the better known UEFA Champions League in association football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup\nOrganised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the tournament was held in Nazar\u00e9, Portugal from 25 May till 3 June 2018, consisting of a preliminary qualifying round and the competition proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup\nFollowing the qualifying round, the competition proper began with a round robin group stage. At its conclusion, the best teams progressed to the knockout stage, a series of single elimination games to determine the winners, starting with the Round of 16 and ending with the final. Consolation matches were also played to determine other final rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup\nBraga of Portugal were the defending champions and successfully defended their title after beating Kristall of Russia on penalties in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Teams\nA record 58 teams have entered the championship; 26 qualify straight into the Main Round whilst 32 compete in the Nazar\u00e9 Cup / Preliminary Round to attempt to qualify for the competition proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Teams, Qualification\nAs per BSWW regulations, qualification for the 2018 EWC is achieved as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Teams, Entrants\nFor context, in February 2018, BSWW deemed the top four leagues in Europe to be (in no particular order) the Portuguese, Russian, Italian and Spanish leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Venues\nTwo venues were used in one host city: Nazar\u00e9, Leiria District, Portugal. Matches took place at Praia de Nazar\u00e9 (Nazar\u00e9 Beach) on one of two pitches. The Main pitch, otherwise known as the Est\u00e1dio do Viveiro (Viveiro Stadium), with a capacity of 1,600, hosted 79 matches, including all main bracket ties in the knockout stage. Pitch 2, a purpose made pitch, located adjacent to the main stadium, hosted 48 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Squads\nEach club must submit a squad of a maximum of 12 players that includes a minimum of two goalkeepers. Players are to be assigned shirt numbers between 1 and 22 (the number 1 must be reserved for a goalkeeper). Three delegates must accompany the players, including at least one medical personnel. A maximum of three foreign players are allowed to be part of the squad. This was later increased to four, however a maximum of three of these players are permitted to play in a match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Draws\nThe draws took place on May 9 at 12:00 local time in Nazar\u00e9, Portugal at the Biblioteca Municipal de Nazar\u00e9 (Nazar\u00e9 Public Library), conducted by the Mayor of Nazar\u00e9, Walter Chicharro, PFP Director Pedro Dias, BSWW Deputy Vice-President, Gabino Renales and BSWW Head of Competitions, Josep Ponset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Draws, Nazar\u00e9 Cup (Preliminary Round)\nThe BSWW organising committee decided to split the 32 teams into eight groups of four, conducting the draw as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Draws, Main Round\nThe BSWW organising committee decided to split the 34 teams into seven groups of four and two groups of three. Two of the groups of four involve the eight qualifiers from the preliminary round. This meant the draw concerned determining just five of the seven groups of four, conducted as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Nazar\u00e9 Cup (incl. Preliminary Round)\nThe Preliminary Round is open to all clubs who did not automatically qualify for the Main Round as domestic league champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 59], "content_span": [60, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Nazar\u00e9 Cup (incl. Preliminary Round), Overview, Decision to make changes\nThe Preliminary Round has undergone considerable changes. In last season's EWC, five of the eight quarter-finalists and three of the four semifinalists qualified via this route; just three teams in the quarter-finals and one team in the semi-finals was an automatic qualifier / national league champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 95], "content_span": [96, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Nazar\u00e9 Cup (incl. Preliminary Round), Overview, Decision to make changes\nTo protect the competition's original purpose as a championship primarily for Europe's league champions, BSWW made changes ensuring that this year only two quarter-finalists and subsequently one semifinalist would be non-champion qualifiers from the Preliminary Round. Three semifinalists were guaranteed to be a national league champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 95], "content_span": [96, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Nazar\u00e9 Cup (incl. Preliminary Round), Overview, Decision to make changes\nThis was later revised so that only one team in the quarter-finals would be a qualifier, whilst the other seven would be guaranteed to be a league champion. A qualifier was no longer ensured of a semifinal spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 95], "content_span": [96, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Nazar\u00e9 Cup (incl. Preliminary Round), Overview, Format\nThis season, embedded within the wider scope of this edition of the Euro Winners Cup, an additional tournament will be taking place. It has been described as a \"tournament within a tournament\". This supplementary event is known as the Nazar\u00e9 Beach Soccer Cup (NBSC):-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 77], "content_span": [78, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Nazar\u00e9 Cup (incl. Preliminary Round), Overview, Format\nThe Preliminary Round of this year's EWC forms the first stage of the NBSC, taking place from 25\u201327 May:-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 77], "content_span": [78, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Nazar\u00e9 Cup (incl. Preliminary Round), Subsequent rounds, Second group stage\nThe eight qualifiers progressed to the second group stage that took place as part of the Main Round of the EWC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 98], "content_span": [99, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Nazar\u00e9 Cup (incl. 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The matches for the Nazar\u00e9 Cup qualifiers groups (H and I) were released on 27 May once the composition of said groups was confirmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Knockout stage\nFrom Groups A\u2013G of the Main Round, all seven groups winners and seven runners-up (originally, only five from seven runners-up) advance to the knockout stage (total of 14 clubs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Knockout stage\nOriginally, from Groups H and I (Nazar\u00e9 Cup qualifiers groups), the winners and runners-up from both groups were to advance to the knockout stage (a total of four clubs). However the format was later revised; only the winners of each group (two clubs) now advance to play in the knockout stage. These two clubs remain separate from the other 14 in the Round of 16 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Knockout stage\nIn the knockout stage, the clubs compete in single-elimination matches. Consolation matches are also played to determine the final rankings involving the clubs knocked out of each round of the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Awards\n1. Goals scored during the preliminary round were not counted for this award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278778-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Euro Winners Cup, Top goalscorers\nGoals scored in both the competition proper and the preliminary round are counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278779-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroCup Finals\nThe 2018 EuroCup Finals were the concluding games of the 2017\u201318 EuroCup season, the 16th season of Europe's secondary club basketball tournament organised by Euroleague Basketball, the tenth season since it was renamed from the ULEB Cup to the EuroCup, and the second season under the title sponsorship name of 7DAYS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278779-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 EuroCup Finals\nThe first leg was played at the Basket-Hall in Krasnodar, Russia, on 10 April 2018, the second leg will be played at the Volkswagen Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, on 13 April 2018 and the third leg, if necessary, would be played at the Basket-Hall in Krasnodar, Russia, on 16 April 2018, between Russian side Lokomotiv Kuban and Turkish side Dar\u00fc\u015f\u015fafaka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278779-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroCup Finals\nIt was the first ever Finals appearance ever in any European competition of Dar\u00fc\u015f\u015fafaka and it the second ever final appearance in EuroCup for Lokomotiv Kuban, who ended third two seasons ago in the Euroleague and arrived to the finals with a perfect balance of 20 wins in 20 matches. However, the firsts beat the Russian by 2\u20130 in the best-of-three series achieving also the qualification to the 2018\u201319 EuroLeague.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278779-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroCup Finals, Road to the Finals\nNote: In the table, the score of the finalist is given first (H = home; A = away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278780-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroEyes Cyclassics\nThe 2018 EuroEyes Cyclassics was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 19 August 2018 in Germany. It was the 23rd edition of the EuroEyes Cyclassics and the thirtieth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour. It was won for a second consecutive time by Elia Viviani in a sprint before Arnaud D\u00e9mare and Alexander Kristoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278781-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup\nThe 2018 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup was the 46th edition of the premier European competition for women's field hockey clubs. HC Den Bosch were the defending champions, having won their 15th title in the 2017 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup. The tournament itook place from 17 to 20 May. Eight teams from six countries participated in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278782-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroLeague Final Four\nThe 2018 EuroLeague Final Four was the concluding EuroLeague Final Four tournament of the 2017\u201318 EuroLeague season, the 61st season of Europe's premier club basketball tournament, and the 18th season since it was organised by Euroleague Basketball. It was the 31st Final Four of the modern EuroLeague Final Four era (1988\u2013present), and the 33rd time overall that the competition had concluded with a final four format. The Final Four was played at the \u0160tark Arena in Belgrade, Serbia, on 18 and 20 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278782-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroLeague Final Four, Venue\nOn 26 October 2016 Euroleague Basketball announced that the Final Four would be held in the \u0160tark Arena in Belgrade. It is designed as a universal hall for sports, cultural events and other programs. It was the first time the EuroLeague Final Four was hosted in Belgrade, or in the country of Serbia. The Arena's total floor area is 48,000 square metres. For sports, it has a regular seating capacity for fans of 18,386, and also has 70 luxury boxes, which include a total of 860 seats. The arena's cost was estimated at \u20ac70 million. \u0160tark Arena is a member of the European Arenas Association (EAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278782-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroLeague Final Four, Background, CSKA Moscow\nCSKA Moscow finished the regular season as the number one seed, after having a 24\u20136 record. In the quarter-finals, the team played another Russian side in Khimki. CSKA won the series 3\u20131 over Khimki, after a controversial 88\u201389 win in Game 4. In the United League season, CSKA was in second place while battling for the first seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278782-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroLeague Final Four, Background, Fenerbah\u00e7e Do\u011fu\u015f\nFenerbah\u00e7e finished second in the regular season and defeated Kirolbet Baskonia in the quarter-finals. Fenerbah\u00e7e reached the Final Four for a fourth straight year. Head coach \u017deljko Obradovi\u0107 had the opportunity to win his tenth EuroLeague title, a record for most titles by a coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278782-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroLeague Final Four, Background, Real Madrid\nMadrid battled injuries during the regular season, as Sergio Llull, Ognjen Kuzmi\u0107 and Rudy Fern\u00e1ndez missed most of the games. As a five-seed, the team beat Panathinaikos in a controversial quarterfinal series, 1\u20133. The star player for Madrid during the season was Luka Don\u010di\u0107, who led the league in Performance Index Rating (PIR), and was later a top-three pick in the 2018 NBA draft. Don\u010di\u0107's games during the Final Four were televised in the United States, by NBA TV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278782-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroLeague Final Four, Background, Real Madrid\nIn the 2017\u201318 ACB season, Real Madrid was the number one seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278782-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroLeague Final Four, Background, \u017dalgiris\nIn the regular season, \u017dalgiris qualified as the sixth seed. \u017dalgiris won the series over favored Olympiacos, 3\u20131. For EuroLeague Legend \u0160ar\u016bnas Jasikevi\u010dius, this was his first visit to the Final Four as a head coach and also for the club since 1999. In its domestic LKL season, the club dominated as well, as it was in a secure first seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278782-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroLeague Final Four, Semifinals, Semifinal A\nRussian champions CSKA Moscow returned to the Final Four to make it their seventh consecutive semi-final appearance. CSKA guard Sergio Rodr\u00edguez would play the semi-final against his former club, which he won the EuroLeague title with in 2015, as well as the EuroLeague MVP award in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278782-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroLeague Final Four, Semifinals, Semifinal A\nReal Madrid would play its fourth Final Four in five years. The match would be a re-match of the 2017 third-place game. During the regular season, both teams won their respective games at home, with this game being considered a Real Madrid home game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278782-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroLeague Final Four, Semifinals, Semifinal B\nDefending champions Fenerbah\u00e7e Do\u011fu\u015f returned to the Final Four to make it their third straight appearance. Led by head coach \u017deljko Obradovi\u0107, the all-time record holder for most EuroLeague championships won by a head coach, it defeated Kirolbet Baskonia 1\u20133 in the quarter-finals, to clinch a semi-final spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278782-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroLeague Final Four, Semifinals, Semifinal B\n\u017dalgiris Kaunas qualified for its first Final Four in 20 years, as the last time the team participated was in 1999, where it claimed the championship as well. The club beat Olympiacos 3\u20131 in the play-offs, despite not having home court advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278783-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroLeague Playoffs\nThe 2017\u201318 EuroLeague Playoffs were played from 17 April to 27 April 2018. Eight teams competed in the Playoffs. The winners qualified for the 2018 EuroLeague Final Four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278783-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 EuroLeague Playoffs, Format\nIn the playoffs, series are best-of-five, so the first team to win three games wins the series. A 2\u20132\u20131 format was used \u2013 the team with home-court advantage played games 1 and 2 at home while their opponents hosted games 3 and 4. Game 5 was not necessary in all four series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278784-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Euroformula Open Championship\nThe 2018 Euroformula Open Championship is a multi-event motor racing championship for single-seat open wheel formula racing cars that held across Europe. The championship features drivers competing in two-litre Formula Three racing cars built by Italian constructor Dallara which conform to the technical regulations, or formula, for the championship. It is the fifth Euroformula Open Championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278785-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Europe Top 16 Cup\nThe 2018 Europe Top 16 Cup (also referred to as the China Construction Bank 2018 Europe Top 16 Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a table tennis competition held from 3\u20134 February in Montreux, Switzerland, organised under the authority of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). It was the 47th edition of the event, and the third time that it had been held in Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278785-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Europe Top 16 Cup\nEvents were held in men's singles and women's singles, and the three medallists in each event qualified for the 2018 Men's and Women's World Cups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278785-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Europe Top 16 Cup, Men's singles, Players\nQualification was based on the European ranking for December 2017, with seedings based on the ranking for February 2018. Lionel Weber qualified as the host nation representative. Portugal's Marcos Freitas also qualified, but withdrew two days before the start of the competition due to injury. His place was taken by Kou Lei of Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278785-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Europe Top 16 Cup, Women's singles, Players\nQualification was based on the European ranking for December 2017, with seedings based on the ranking for February 2018. Rachel Moret qualified as the host nation representative. Turkey's Melek Hu and Germany's Kristin Lang also qualified, but withdrew before the start of the competition, the latter due to having recently given birth. Their places were taken by Tetyana Bilenko of Ukraine and Viktoria Pavlovich of Belarus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278786-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Europe's Strongest Man\nThe 2018 Europe's Strongest Man was a strongman competition that took place in Leeds, England on 7 April 2018 at the First Direct Arena. This event was part of the 2018 Giants live tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278786-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Europe's Strongest Man, Results of events, Event 3: Farmer's Walk\n^ Krzysztof Radzikowski sustained an injury in this event and took no further part in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278786-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Europe's Strongest Man, Results of events, Event 3: Farmer's Walk\n^ Vytautas Lalas sustained an injury in this event and took no further part in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278787-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European 10 m Events Championships\nThe 2018 European 10 m Events Championships took place in Audi Ar\u00e9na, Gy\u0151r, Hungary from 16 to 26 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278788-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European 10,000m Cup\nThe 2018 European 10,000m Cup take place on May 19, 2018. The races took place on Parliament Hill Athletics Track in London, Great Britain. The event was held together with the annual Night of the 10,000m PB's meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278788-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European 10,000m Cup, Race results, Women's\n* Athletes who competed in the Night of the 10,000m PBs but were not entered for the European Cup. The results of these athletes were not counted towards the final team score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278789-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aesthetic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2018 European Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, the 3rd edition, was held in Tallinn, Estonia, from May 11 to 13, 2018 at the Kalev Sports Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278789-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aesthetic Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners\nDaria Zhdanova, Daria Kuklina, Polina Sosnina, Alina Bolbat, Lyubov Palchikova, Anastasiia Ponikarova, Alexandra Kuznetsova, Valeriya Uryupina, Sofiia Ostrovskaia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278789-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aesthetic Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners\nCamilla Berg, Jessica Hakala, Venla Niemenmaa, Emmi Nikkil\u00e4, Siiri Puuska, Eveliina Rajaj\u00e4rvi, Ella Ratilainen, Riina Ruism\u00e4ki, Pihla Silvennoinen, Milja Vuorenmaa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278789-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aesthetic Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners\nDaria Dubova, Varvara Kasimova, Anastasia Kozhemyakina, Arina Nikishova, Daria Rudnichenko, Evgeniya Shokarova, Vanessa Sim, Kamilia Suleimanova", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278789-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aesthetic Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners\nFurtseva Polina, Skuzovatkina Anastasia, Antoshina Anastasia, Salnikova Polina, Zrazhevskaia Anastasiia, Lazeikina Nadezhda, Smagina Iuliia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278789-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aesthetic Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners\nAaltonen Senja, B\u00e4ckman Enni, Kankaanp\u00e4\u00e4 Tuuli, Koski Roosa, M\u00e4kinen Kaisa, Saarenrinne Viivi, Steklova Kristiina, S\u00f6derling Enni", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278789-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aesthetic Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners\nHandelberg Aino, Ilvessalo Tytti, Kapanen Erliette, Kohvakko Ulrika, Koski Iiris, Lentonen Emilia, Pihlajaniemi Tua-sofia, Rinkinen Emilia, Soini Olivia, Temin Ariana, Uosukainen Matilda, Kangas Angelica", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278789-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aesthetic Gymnastics Championships, Results, Senior\nThe top 12 teams (2 per country) and the host country in Preliminaries qualify to the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278790-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe 2018 European Amateur Team Championship took place 10 \u2013 14 July at the Bad Saarow Golf Club, on its Faldo Course Berlin, in Bad Saarow, Germany, 50 kilometres south-east of the city center of Berlin. It was the 35th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278790-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Amateur Team Championship\nEach team consisted of six players, playing two rounds of an opening stroke-play qualifying competition over two days, counting the five best scores each day for each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278790-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Amateur Team Championship\nTied leaders of the opening 36-hole competition were team Sweden and team England, each with a 27-under-par score of 693, eleven strokes ahead of team Denmark. Sweden earned first place on the tie breaking better non-counting scores. Host country Germany, on fourth place, was another stroke behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278790-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Amateur Team Championship\nThere was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Gian-Marco Petrozzi, England, with a 12-under-par score of 132, two strokes ahead of three players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278790-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe eight best teams formed flight A, in knock-out match-play over the next three days. The teams were seeded based on their positions after the stroke play. The first placed team were drawn to play the quarter final against the eight placed team, the second against the seventh, the third against the sixth and the fourth against the fifth. Teams were allowed to use six players during the team matches, selecting four of them in the two morning foursome games and five players in to the afternoon single games. Teams knocked out after the quarter finals played one foursome game and four single games in each of their remaining matches. Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278790-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe eight teams placed 9\u201316 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B, to play similar knock-out play, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278790-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Amateur Team Championship\nTeam Finland won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating eleven-times-champion team England in the final 5\u20132. Team Finland finished 16th and last at the 2016 championship and was moved to the second division for 2017. They came back to the championship for 2018 and made the quarter finals by a single stroke, finishing 8th at the initial qualifying competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278790-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Amateur Team Championship\nDenmark earned the bronze on third place, after beating host country Germany 5\u20132 in the bronze match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278790-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 European Amateur Team Championship\nItaly, Portugal and Serbia placed 14th, 15th and 16th and was moved to Division 2 for 2019, to be replaced by Belgium, Slovenia, and Wales, who finished first, second, and third respectively in the 2018 Division 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278790-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 European Amateur Team Championship, Teams\n16 nation teams contested the event. Finland, Portugal, the Netherlands and Serbia qualified by finishing first, second, third and fourth at the 2017 Division 2. Serbia, taking part for the first time, qualified since last years silver medalist Norway did not took part. Each team consisted of six players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278790-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 European Amateur Team Championship, Results\n* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by thebest total of the two non-counting scores of the two rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278790-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 European Amateur Team Championship, Results\nNote: There was no official award for the lowest individual score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278790-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 European Amateur Team Championship, Results\n* Note: Game declared halved, since team match already decided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278791-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aquatics Championships\nThe 2018 European Aquatics Championships took place in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Luss in the central belt of Scotland, from 3 to 12 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278791-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aquatics Championships\nThe championships were part of the first European Championships with other events happening in Scotland and Berlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278791-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aquatics Championships, Venue\nThe Tollcross International Swimming Centre hosted the swimming events with the diving being hosted by the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh. The open water swimming competition took place at Loch Lomond, while Scotstoun Sports Campus hosted the synchronised swimming events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278791-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aquatics Championships, Swimming, Men\nSwimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278791-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aquatics Championships, Swimming, Women\nSwimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278791-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Aquatics Championships, Swimming, Mixed events\nSwimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278792-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Archery Championships\nThe 2018 European Archery Championships is the 25th edition of the European Archery Championships. 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Mariya Lasitskene became the first such athlete to win a gold medal, in the women's high jump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278794-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships, Results, Men, Track\nWR\u00a0world\u00a0record |ER\u00a0European\u00a0record | CR\u00a0championship\u00a0record | NR\u00a0national\u00a0record |WL\u00a0world\u00a0leading |EL\u00a0European\u00a0leading |PB\u00a0personal\u00a0best | SB\u00a0seasonal\u00a0best", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278794-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships, Results, Men, Track\n* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278794-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships, Results, Men, Field\nWR\u00a0world\u00a0record |ER\u00a0European\u00a0record | CR\u00a0championship\u00a0record | NR\u00a0national\u00a0record |WL\u00a0world\u00a0leading |EL\u00a0European\u00a0leading |PB\u00a0personal\u00a0best | SB\u00a0seasonal\u00a0best", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278794-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships, Results, Women, Track\nWR\u00a0world\u00a0record |ER\u00a0European\u00a0record | CR\u00a0championship\u00a0record | NR\u00a0national\u00a0record |WL\u00a0world\u00a0leading |EL\u00a0European\u00a0leading |PB\u00a0personal\u00a0best | SB\u00a0seasonal\u00a0best", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278794-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships, Results, Women, Track\n* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278794-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships, Results, Women, Field\nWR\u00a0world\u00a0record |ER\u00a0European\u00a0record | CR\u00a0championship\u00a0record | NR\u00a0national\u00a0record |WL\u00a0world\u00a0leading |EL\u00a0European\u00a0leading |PB\u00a0personal\u00a0best | SB\u00a0seasonal\u00a0best", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278794-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships, Medal table\nThe European Athletic Association (commonly known as \"European Athletics\") does not include the medals won by Authorised Neutral Athletes in the medal table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278794-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships, Entry standards\nEntry standards and conditions were published on 8 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278794-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships, Participating nations\nAthletes from a total of 49 member federations of the European Athletics Association competed at these Championships. On top of this a total of 29 athletes completed as Authorised Neutral Athletes. One athlete (Puok Thiep Gatkuoth in Marathon Men) was announced to compete as part of Athlete Refugee Team, but in the end he did not start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278795-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 10,000 metres\nThe Men's 10,000 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278796-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres\nThe men's 100 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 7 August. Churandy Martina of the Netherlands was the defending champion, Jak Ali Harvey of Turkey was the defending silver medalist, and Jimmy Vicaut of France was the defending bronze medalist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278796-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres, Competition Format\nThe top eight ranked athletes by time during the season who entered the championships were given a BYE into the Semi-Finals. The first round was held on Monday, August 6th. The Semi-Finals were held the day after, and the Final just over two hours after that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 76], "content_span": [77, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278796-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres, Results, Round 1\nFirst 2 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 5 (q) advance to the Semifinals. 7 fastest entrants awarded bye to Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278796-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres, Results, Round 1\nWind:Heat 1: -0.2 m/s, Heat 2: +0.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.2 m/s, Heat 4: -0.3 m/s, Heat 5: +0.4 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278796-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278796-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals\nWind:Heat 1: +0.4 m/s, Heat 2: +0.6 m/s, Heat 3: +0.2 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278797-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles\nThe men's 110 metres hurdles at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 9 and 10 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278797-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Round 1\nFirst 4 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 5 (q) advance to the Semifinals. 11 fastest entrants awarded bye to Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 82], "content_span": [83, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278797-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 85], "content_span": [86, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278797-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nWind:Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: +0.8 m/s, Heat 3: -0.1 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 85], "content_span": [86, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278798-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nThe men's 1500 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 8 and 10 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278798-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Results, Round 1\nFirst 3 (Q) and next 3 fastest (q) qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 75], "content_span": [76, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278799-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 20 kilometres walk\nThe men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278800-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres\nThe men's 200 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 8 and 9 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278800-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres, Competition Format\nThe top ten ranked athletes by time during the season who entered the championships were given a bye into the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 76], "content_span": [77, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278800-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres, Results, Round 1\nFirst 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278800-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres, Results, Round 1\nWind:Heat 1: +0.1 m/s, Heat 2: \u20130.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.2 m/s, Heat 4: +0.2 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278800-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278800-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals\nWind:Heat 1: +0.3 m/s, Heat 2: +0.3 m/s, Heat 3: +0.3 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278801-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres steeplechase\nThe Men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7 and 9 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278801-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Round 1\nFirst 5 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 5 (q) advance to the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 88], "content_span": [89, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278802-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay\nThe Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 12 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278802-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay, Results, Round 1\nFirst 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278803-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 10 and 11 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278803-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Results, Round 1\nFirst 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278804-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres\nThe men's 400 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7, 8, and 10 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278804-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Results, Round 1\nFirst 3 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 3 (q) advanced to the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278804-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278805-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres hurdles\nThe men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 6, 7 and 9 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278805-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Round 1\nFirst 2 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 5 (q) advance to the Semifinals. 11 fastest entrants awarded bye to Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 82], "content_span": [83, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278805-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 85], "content_span": [86, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278806-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 50 kilometres walk\nThe men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278807-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 metres\nThe men's 5000 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 11 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278808-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres\nThe men's 800 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 9, 10, and 11 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278808-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Results, Round 1\nFirst 3 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 4 (q) advanced to the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278808-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278809-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's decathlon\nThe men's decathlon at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7 and 8 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278810-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's discus throw\nThe men's discus throw at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7 and 8 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278811-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's hammer throw\nThe men's hammer throw at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 7 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278812-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's high jump\nThe men's high jump at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 9 and 11 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278813-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's javelin throw\nThe men's javelin throw at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 8 and 9 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278814-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's long jump\nThe men's long jump at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 8 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278815-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's marathon\nThe men's marathon at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place in the inner districts of Berlin on 12 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278816-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault\nThe men's pole vault at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 10 and 12 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278816-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault, Summary\nThe top five European vaulters, all in the top eight in the world, all met in this competition. World record holder Renaud Lavillenie came in ranked #2 in the world for 2018. Pawe\u0142 Wojciechowski collected misses first, then at 5.80m, eighteen year old Armand Duplantis missed once and Lavillenie missed twice before passing, leaving Piotr Lisek and Timur Morgunov retaining a perfect record to that point, with the lead. Wojciechowski topped out at 5.80m, while Lavillenie redeemed himself with a clearance of 5.85m in his one remaining attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278816-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault, Summary\nLisek missed once at 5.85m then passed while Morgunov remained perfect to take over the lead. Lisek, Duplantis and Morgunov all took 5.90m on their first attempt, Lavillenie passed and elected to take his next attempt at 5.95m. At 5.95m, Duplantis cleared first, improving his own World under 20 (Junior) record. He took over the lead when Morgunov missed for the first time in the competition. Lavillenie made his first attempt to move into second place (with two misses to Duplantis' one). Morgunov and Lisek passed after their first misses at 5.95m, taking four athletes to attempt the magic 6 meters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278816-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault, Summary\nLisek missed, then Duplantis made it on his first attempt, becoming the youngest athlete to join the 6 metres club, setting the World under 20 record for the second time in the competition. As the next jumper, Morgunov became the 24th member of the club with his first attempt clearance and he moved into a tie for the lead. Lavillenie missed his first attempt and passed, then Lisek bowed out of the competition with his second miss bringing three athletes to the next prescribed height of 6.05m, a height only five athletes had ever cleared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278816-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault, Summary\nOn his first attempt, Duplantis sailed well over the bar and became the sixth, again improving his U20 record from minutes earlier, the third time in the competition, taking the lead. With his success, it was hugs from all the leading members of the pole vault fraternity, save Morgunov who was on the runway preparing for his next attempt. Neither Morgunov or Lavillenie could clear 6.05m, leaving Duplantis with gold, Morgunov with silver and Lavillenie with bronze. Duplantis chose not to make any more attempts at a higher height. Duplantis also broke Rodion Gataullin's 24 year old European championship record which both he and Morgunov had tied at 6 metres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278817-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's shot put\nThe men's shot put at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 7 August. The qualifications took place at a temporary venue at Breitscheidplatz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278818-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump\nThe men's triple jump at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 10 and 12 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278819-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 10,000 metres\nThe women's 10,000 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 8 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278820-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres\nThe women's 100 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympiastadion on 6 and 7 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278820-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres, Results, Round 1\nFirst 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advanced to the semifinals. The top 11 ranked athletes received a bye to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 76], "content_span": [77, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278820-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres, Results, Round 1\nWind:Heat 1: -0.7 m/s, Heat 2: -0.9 m/s, Heat 3: -0.2 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 76], "content_span": [77, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278820-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278820-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals\nWind:Heat 1: +0.2 m/s, Heat 2: +0.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.3 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278821-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles\nThe women's 100 metres hurdles at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 8 and 9 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278821-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Round 1\nFirst 3 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 2 (q) advance to the Semifinals. 13 fastest entrants awarded bye to Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278821-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 87], "content_span": [88, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278822-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres\nThe women's 1500 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships takes place at the Olympic Stadium on 10 and 12 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278822-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres, Results, Round 1\nFirst 4 (Q) and next 4 fastest (q) qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 77], "content_span": [78, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278823-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 20 kilometres walk\nThe women's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place in Berlin on 11 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278824-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres\nThe women's 200 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships takes place at the Olympiastadion on 10 and 11 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278824-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres, Results, Round 1\nFirst 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) advanced to the semifinals. The top 10 ranked athletes received a bye to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 76], "content_span": [77, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278824-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres, Results, Round 1\nWind:Heat 1: -0.3 m/s, Heat 2: -0.5 m/s, Heat 3: +0.4 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 76], "content_span": [77, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278824-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278824-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals\nWind:Heat 1: +1.1 m/s, Heat 2: +1.4 m/s, Heat 3: +0.2 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278825-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres steeplechase\nThe women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 10 and 12 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278825-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Round 1\nFirst 5 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 5 (q) advance to the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 90], "content_span": [91, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278826-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay\nThe women's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 12 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278826-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay, Results, Round 1\nFirst 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 86], "content_span": [87, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278827-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 10 and 11 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278827-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Results, Round 1\nFirst 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 86], "content_span": [87, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278828-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres\nThe women's 400 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships takes place at the Olympic Stadium on 8, 9 and 11 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278828-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Results, Round 1\nFirst 2 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 6 (q) advanced to the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 76], "content_span": [77, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278828-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278829-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres hurdles\nThe women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2018 European Athletics Championships takes place at the Olympic Stadium on 7, 8 and 10 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278829-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Round 1\nFirst 3 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 3 (q) advance to the Semifinals. 12 fastest entrants awarded bye to Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278829-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 87], "content_span": [88, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278830-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 50 kilometres walk\nThe women's 50 kilometres race walk at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place in Berlin on 7 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278831-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 5000 metres\nThe women's 5000 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 12 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278832-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres\nThe women's 800 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships takes place at the Olympic Stadium on 7, 8 and 10 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278832-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Results, Round 1\nFirst 3 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 4 (q) advanced to the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 76], "content_span": [77, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278832-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278833-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's discus throw\nThe women's discus throw at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 9 and 11 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278834-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's hammer throw\nThe women's hammer throw at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 10 and 12 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278835-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's heptathlon\nThe women's heptathlon at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 9 and 10 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278835-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's heptathlon, Results, 800 metres\nNote: Mareike Arndt and Louisa Grauvogel were involved in a car crash between the second day sessions and were both taken to hospital, which forced them to withdraw from the last event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278836-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's high jump\nThe women's high jump at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 8 and 10 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278837-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's javelin throw\nThe women's javelin throw at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 9 and 10 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278837-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's javelin throw, Results, Qualification\nQualification: 60.50 m (Q) or best 12 performers (q )", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 85], "content_span": [86, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278838-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's long jump\nThe women's long jump at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 9 and 11 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278839-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's marathon\nThe women's marathon at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place in the inner districts of Berlin on 12 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278840-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's pole vault\nThe women's pole vault at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7 and 9 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278841-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's shot put\nThe women's shot put at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7 and 8 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278842-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's triple jump\nThe women's triple jump at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 8 and 10 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278843-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics U18 Championships\nThe 2018 European Athletics Youth Championships was the second edition of the biennial, continental athletics competition for European athletes aged fifteen to seventeen. It was held in Gy\u0151r, Hungary from 5 to 8 July at the Olympic Sport Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278843-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics U18 Championships, Medal summary, Boys, Track\n* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278843-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics U18 Championships, Medal summary, Girls, Track\n* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278843-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics U18 Championships, Medal table\nMedals won by athletes competing as Authorised Neutral Athletes were not included in the official medal table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278843-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Athletics U18 Championships, Participating nations\n1135 competitors (538 boys and 597 girls) from 50 countries are expected to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278844-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European BMX Championships\nThe 2018 European BMX Championships were held in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on 10 and 11 August 2018. The championships are part of the first European Championships with other six sports events happening in Glasgow and Berlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278844-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European BMX Championships\nIn 2018, for the first time, the European championships of four cycling events (Road, Track, BMX and Mountain bike) were held in a single period and a single venue, and the events were part of the program of the first edition of the European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278845-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Badminton Championships\nThe 2018 European Badminton Championships were the 27th tournament of the European Badminton Championships. They were held in Huelva, Spain, from 24\u201329 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278845-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Badminton Championships, Tournament\nThe 2018 European Badminton Championships is the 27th edition of the championships. This tournament was awarded to Huelva following a decision adopted by the Executive Committee of Badminton Europe and made public at the General Assembly of the aforementioned organization that took place in Prague, Czech Republic. The candidature led by the Spanish Badminton Federation in collaboration with the city of Huelva, the Regional Government of Andalusia, the Deputation of Huelva and the Andalusian Badminton Federation will organize the European Championships to be played between 24 and 29 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278845-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Badminton Championships, Tournament\nThe tournament consist of men's (singles and doubles), women's (singles and doubles), and also mixed doubles. 300 athletes from 25 countries will compete in this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278845-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Badminton Championships, Tournament, Venue\nThe tournament will be held at the Palacio de Deportes de Huelva, Spain, also known as Carolina Mar\u00edn Sports Hall \u2013 a facility dedicated to the Spanish badminton player who has managed to find her place on a podium usually taken by Asians. The Principe de Asturias Sports Hall in University of Huelva will be used as training section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278845-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Badminton Championships, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the European Badminton Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278845-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Badminton Championships, Men's singles, Wild card\nBadminton Europe (BEC) awarded a wild card entry to Jan \u00d8. J\u00f8rgensen of Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278845-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Badminton Championships, Women's singles, Wild card\nBadminton Europe (BEC) awarded a wild card entry to Sara Pe\u00f1alver Pereira of Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278845-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Badminton Championships, Women's doubles, Wild card\nBadminton Europe (BEC) awarded a wild card entry to Olga Konon and Linda Efler of Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278845-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 European Badminton Championships, Mixed doubles, Wild card\nBadminton Europe (BEC) awarded a wild card entry to Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Alexandra B\u00f8je of Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278846-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Beach Volleyball Championships\nThe 2018 European Beach Volleyball Championship was held from the 15th until the 22nd of July, 2018 in Apeldoorn, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht in The Netherlands. The draw consisted of 32 men's & 32 women's teams, with 20,000 EUR prize money per gender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278847-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Busdriver Championship\nThe 2018 European Busdriver Championship was the inaugural competition of a bus maneuvering challenge. It was organized by BVG and held on September 22, 2018, at their bus depot at Indira-Gandhi-Stra\u00dfe, Berlin, Germany. 21 teams, each composed of one male and one female participant, competed in an eight-discipline course with three bus types.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278847-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Busdriver Championship, Competition\nThe entire \"lap\" is timed. The obstacle course exists twice (one mirror of the other), so that drivers from two competing teams went head to head at once. 22 duels were therefore run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278848-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Canoe Slalom Championships\nThe 2018 European Canoe Slalom Championships took place in Prague, Czech Republic under the auspices of the European Canoe Association (ECA). It was the 19th edition of the competition and Prague hosted the event for the first time. The events took place at the Prague-Troja Canoeing Centre from 1 to 3 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278848-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Canoe Slalom Championships\nThe men's C2 event made its last appearance at major international competitions after the ICF had decided to pull this event out of the World Cup and World Championship program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278849-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship (darts)\nThe 2018 Unibet European Championship was the eleventh edition of the Professional Darts Corporation's European Championship tournament, which saw the top players from the thirteen European tour events compete against each other. The tournament took place from 25\u201328 October 2018 at the Westfalenhallen in Dortmund, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278849-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship (darts)\nMichael van Gerwen was the four-time defending champion, after defeating Rob Cross 11\u20137 in the 2017 final. However, he lost against Steve West 7\u201310 in the second round, ending a 21-game unbeaten run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278849-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship (darts)\nIt means that Phil Taylor still holds the record of the longest unbeaten run in this tournament (22 matches). For the first in the history of this tournament, no Dutch player reached the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278849-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship (darts)\nJames Wade became European Champion for the first time and won his first ranking major since 2011 after beating Simon Whitlock 11\u20138 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278849-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship (darts), Prize money\nThe 2018 European Championship will have a total prize fund of \u00a3400,000, equal the amount of the last staging of the tournament. The following is the breakdown of the fund:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278849-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship (darts), Qualification\nThe 2018 tournament continues the new system in terms of qualification with the two previous editions: The top 32 players from the European Tour Order of Merit, which is solely based on prize money won in the thirteen European tour events during the season, qualifying for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278849-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship (darts), Qualification\nIn a change from previous years, the draw was done in a fixed bracket by their seeded order with the top qualifier playing the 32nd, the second playing the 31st and so on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278850-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship of American football\nThe 2018 European Championship was the 14th European Championship in American football. The final tournament was played in Vantaa, Finland from 29 July to 4 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278850-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship of American football, Qualification\nThe Qualification for the European Championship 2018 was held in three stages. In the first round, twelve teams played a single playoff round. The six winners and two further teams played the second round, in two tournaments of four teams. Another two teams entered the qualification in the third round in playoff games against the two tournament winners of the second round. Four teams were already qualified for the European Championship 2018. Altogether an all-time record number of twenty teams competed to win the European title in 2018. One team, Germany, did not play a single game due to the national federation of American Football in Germany having an unresolved dispute with IFAF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278850-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship of American football, Qualification, First round\nThe first round was played from August to October 2015. Six of the twelve teams took part in one of the tournaments of the last championship. These were the seeded teams playing against an unseeded team. The seeded teams were the hosts of their playoff game. Israel defeating Spain was the only unseeded team to make it to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278850-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship of American football, Qualification, Second round\nThe second round tournaments were played in 2016. As runner-up and third in the B Group Tournament in 2013, Italy and Great Britain earned a spot as the host nation of one of the tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278850-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship of American football, Qualification, Third round\nItaly and Great Britain, as the winners of the tournaments in Italy and Great Britain, were respectively assigned to play against Sweden and Denmark (fifth and sixth place at the 2014 EFAF Championship), with the winners advancing to the 2018 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278850-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship of American football, Qualification, Third round\nIn June 2017, Italy was announced to have qualified for the final tournament as only one of the four teams without any match played. Finland, who was already qualified, did not appear on the schedule. No reasons were given.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278850-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship of American football, Qualification, Third round\nIn March 2018, IFAF New York announced to have Sweden, Denmark, and Great Britain advancing to the final tournament. Now reigning Champion Germany and Italy were not on the list. Again, no reasons were given. On 28 March, the website American Football International reported that the reason for Germany not joining was due to the teams in the German Football League voting not to change the league schedule to accommodate the European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278850-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championship of American football, Venue\nAll games were played at Myyrm\u00e4en jalkapallostadion in Vantaa, Finland", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278851-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championships\nThe 2018 European Championships were the first edition of the European Championships. It was a multi-sport event which took place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom (with Edinburgh hosting the diving events and Gleneagles the golf) from 2 to 12 August 2018. Around 1,500 athletes competed at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin, whilst at the same time more than 3,000 took part in the other championships in Glasgow. Each European Championship will be organised by the respective federation and host city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278851-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championships, Development and preparation, Venues\nMost of the events took place in Glasgow and its close surroundings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278851-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championships, Development and preparation, Venues\nTwo championships events were hosted at venues in different Scottish cities:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278851-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championships, Development and preparation, Venues\nThe athletics championships event were held in the second major host city, Berlin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278851-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championships, European Championships Trophy\nOn 1 August 2018, at the \"Great Big Opening Party\" in Glasgow, a new European Championship Trophy was unveiled, to be awarded to the nation achieving the most gold medals across all seven sports during the Championships. It was presented by Katherine Grainger, Emma Fredh and Angelina Melnikova on behalf of the seven European federations involved in the event. On 12 August, the trophy was presented to the leading nation on the overall table, Russia, in a ceremony in Glasgow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278851-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championships, List of individual Championships\nThe following Championships have been brought together in the 2018 European Championships:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278851-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championships, Participating nations\n52 nations, plus Authorised Neutral Athletes (Russian athletes competing in the European Athletics Championships under the European Athletics Flag) participated at the European Championships, including:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278851-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championships, Schedule\nThe original schedule was released in February 2017. The schedule was updated in June 2017 based on the Glasgow ticket schedule and again in March 2018 when the Berlin timetable was released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278851-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championships, Medal table\nEach sport maintained its own medal table, but an overall medal table is also maintained, the leader of which won the European Championship trophy. Russia won the inaugural trophy and topped the medal table by gold medals won with 31, whilst co-hosts Great Britain topped the total medals table with 74 medals, 26 of which were gold. A chasing pack consisting of Italy, the Netherlands, co-hosts Germany and France each won over 10 gold medals and 40 medals in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278851-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championships, Broadcasting\nAll of Europe's major free-to-air broadcasters televised the European Championships in 2018. The European Broadcasting Union, which holds the broadcast rights on all platforms, has confirmed coverage across the top five markets, BBC in the United Kingdom, ARD/ZDF in Germany, France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions in France, RAI in Italy and TVE in Spain. Other EBU members already signed up include VRT (Belgium), HRT (Croatia), DR (Denmark), YLE (Finland), RT\u00c9 (Ireland), NOS (Netherlands), NRK (Norway), TVP (Poland), SRG SSR (Switzerland) and SVT (Sweden). The level of coverage is also enhanced by a deal with Eurosport. In total, over 40 EBU members have signed agreements as of April 2018. Discussions are ongoing with broadcasters in the remaining territories in Europe, plus other global territories like China, Japan and USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278851-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 European Championships, Sponsorship\nGlasgow 2018 had five Official Partners (People Make Glasgow, Scottish Government, Strathmore Water, Spar & Eurovision) and Berlin 2018 had six Official Partners (Spar, Le Gruy\u00e8re, Nike, Toyo Tires, Generali & Eurovision) with another tier of Official Supporters across the two host cities. Overall over 56 companies have been signed up to support the inaugural event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278852-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Cross Country Championships\nThe 2018 European Cross Country Championships was the 25th edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was hosted in Tilburg, Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships\nThe 2018 Le Gruy\u00e8re AOP European Curling Championships were held from November 16 to 24 in Tallinn, Estonia. The C Division competitions were held in April in Copenhagen, Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships\nThe top seven men's teams will qualify for the 2019 World Men's Curling Championship. Additionally, the top two teams in the B division and the top two teams in the A division not already qualified for the World Men's Curling Championship will qualify for the 2019 World Qualification Event, a further chance to qualify for the Worlds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships\nThe top six women's teams, not including the hosts, Denmark, who automatically qualify, will qualify for the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship. Additionally, the top two teams in the B division and the top two teams in the A division not already qualified for the World Women's Curling Championship will qualify for the 2019 World Qualification Event, a further chance to qualify for the Worlds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Men, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Wille M\u00e4kel\u00e4Third: Kalle KiiskinenSecond: Teemu SaloLead: Paavo KuosmanenAlternate: Juha Pekaristo", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Men, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Marc MuskatewitzThird: Sixten TotzekSecond: Daniel NeunerLead: Ryan SherrardAlternate: Sebastian Schweizer", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Men, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Jo\u00ebl RetornazThird: Amos MosanerSecond: Sebastiano ArmanLead: Simone GoninAlternate: Fabio Ribotta", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Men, A Division, Teams\nFourth: Wouter G\u00f6sgensSkip: Jaap van DorpSecond: Laurens Hoekman Lead: Carlo GlasbergenAlternate: Alexander Magan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Men, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Steffen WalstadThird: Markus H\u00f8ibergSecond: Magnus NedregottenLead: Magnus V\u00e5gbergAlternate: Steffen Mellemseter", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Men, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Bartosz DzikowskiThird: Jakub G\u0142owaniaSecond: Jeremi TelakLead: Micha\u0142 Kozio\u0142Alternate: Tomasz Zio\u0142o", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Men, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Mikhail VaskovThird: Alexey TuzovSecond: Petr KuznetsovLead: Anton KalalbAlternate: Alexey Kulikov", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Men, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Bruce MouatThird: Grant HardieSecond: Bobby LammieLead: Hammy McMillan Jr.Alternate: Ross Whyte", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Men, A Division, Teams\nFourth: Beno\u00eet SchwarzThird: Sven MichelSkip: Peter de CruzLead: Valentin TannerAlternate: Simon Gempeler", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Men, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Niklas EdinThird: Oskar ErikssonSecond: Rasmus Wran\u00e5Lead: Christoffer SundgrenAlternate: Daniel Magnusson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Men, C Division, Playoffs\nWinner advances to Group B competitions. Loser advances to Second place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Women, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Anna Kube\u0161kov\u00e1Third: Al\u017eb\u011bta Baudy\u0161ov\u00e1Second: Tereza Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1Lead: E\u017een Kol\u010devsk\u00e1Alternate: Eli\u0161ka Soukupov\u00e1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Women, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Madeleine DupontThird: Denise DupontSecond: Julie H\u00f8ghLead: Mathilde HalseAlternate: Lina Knudsen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Women, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Oona KausteThird: Eszter Juh\u00e1szSecond: Maija SalmiovirtaLead: Lotta ImmonenAlternate: Elina Virtaala", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Women, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Daniela JentschThird: Emira AbbesSecond: Analena JentschLead: Klara-Hermine FommAlternate: Lena Kapp", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Women, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Veronica ZapponeThird: Stefania ConstantiniSecond: Angela RomeiLead: Frederica GhedinaAlternate: Elena Dami", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Women, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Iveta Sta\u0161a-\u0160ar\u0161\u016bneThird: Santa BlumbergaSecond: Ieva KrustaLead: Evel\u012bna BaroneAlternate: T\u012bna Sili\u0146a", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Women, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Alina KovalevaThird: Anastasia BryzgalovaSecond: Galina ArsenkinaLead: Ekaterina KuzminaAlternate: Uliana Vasilyeva", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Women, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Eve MuirheadThird: Jennifer DoddsSecond: Vicki ChalmersLead: Lauren GrayAlternate: Vicky Wright", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Women, A Division, Teams\nFourth: Alina P\u00e4tzSkip: Silvana TirinzoniSecond: Esther NeuenschwanderLead: Melanie BarbezatAlternate: Marisa Winkelhausen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Women, A Division, Teams\nSkip : Anna HasselborgThird: Sara McManusSecond: Agnes KnochenhauerLead: Sofia MabergsAlternate: Johanna Heldin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278853-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 European Curling Championships, Women, C Division, Playoffs\nWinner advances to Group B competitions. Loser advances to Second place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278854-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Cycling Championships\nThe 2018 European Cycling Championships were held in Glasgow, United Kingdom, from 2 to 12 August 2018, the championships were part of the first European Championships with other six sports events happening in Glasgow and Berlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278854-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Cycling Championships\nIn 2018 for the first time the European championships of four cycling specialties (Road, Track, BMX and Mountain bike), were held in a single period and a single venue, and the events were part of the program of the first edition of the European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278854-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Cycling Championships, Overall medal table\nIn the table the official medal table of the 2018 European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278855-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Grand Prix\nThe 2018 European Darts Grand Prix was the fifth of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Glaspalast, Sindelfingen, Germany, between 4\u20136 May 2018. It featured a field of 48 players and \u00a3135,000 in prize money, with \u00a325,000 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278855-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Grand Prix\nPeter Wright was the defending champion after defeating Michael van Gerwen 6\u20130 in the 2017 final, but he was defeated 6\u20135 in the third round to Danny Noppert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278855-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Grand Prix\nMichael van Gerwen won the tournament for a second time, defeating James Wade 8\u20133 in the final whilst averaging over 109 for the third successive game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278855-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Grand Prix, Prize money\nPrize money will count towards the PDC Order of Merit, the ProTour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit, with one exception: should a seeded player lose in the second round (last 32), their prize money will not count towards any Orders of Merit, although they still receive the full prize money payment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278855-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Grand Prix, Qualification and format\nThe top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 27 March will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278855-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Grand Prix, Qualification and format\nThe remaining 32 places will go to players from five qualifying events \u2013 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Barnsley on 6 April), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 3 May), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 3 May), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 23 February) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 28 January).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278855-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Grand Prix, Qualification and format\nAdrian Lewis withdrew prior to the draw through illness, and was replaced by a Host Nation Qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278856-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Matchplay\nThe 2018 European Darts Matchplay was the ninth of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at the edel-optics.de Arena, Hamburg, Germany from 29 June\u20131 July 2018. It featured a field of 48 players and \u00a3135,000 in prize money, with \u00a325,000 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278856-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Matchplay\nMichael van Gerwen was the defending champion after defeating Mensur Suljovi\u0107 6\u20133 in the previous year's final, and he retained his title by defeating William O'Connor 8\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278856-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Matchplay\nVan Gerwen also threw the first European Tour nine-dart finish in over 5 years against Ryan Joyce in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278856-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Matchplay, Prize money\nPrize money will count towards the PDC Order of Merit, the ProTour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit, with one exception: should a seeded player lose in the second round (last 32), their prize money will not count towards any Orders of Merit, although they still receive the full prize money payment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278856-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Matchplay, Qualification and format\nThe top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 8 June will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278856-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Matchplay, Qualification and format\nThe remaining 32 places will go to players from five qualifying events \u2013 16 from the UK Qualifier (held in Wigan on 15 June), 8 from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 28 June), 6 from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 28 June), 1 from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 25 May) and 1 from the East European Qualifier (held on 25 February).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278856-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Matchplay, Qualification and format\nPeter Wright, who would have been the number 2 seed, withdrew from the tournament prior to the draw. James Wilson, the highest-ranked qualifier, was promoted to 16th seed. Jim Brown also withdrew prior to the draw. Two extra places were made available in the Host Nation Qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278857-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Open\nThe 2018 European Darts Open was the first of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Ostermann-Arena, Leverkusen, Germany, between 23\u201325 March 2018. It featured a field of 48 players and \u00a3135,000 in prize money, with \u00a325,000 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278857-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Open\nThis was the first event in the PDC European Tour where the format of the semi-finals and final were slightly altered. As in previous years, the first 3 rounds of action, plus the quarter-finals were all best of 11 legs matches, but the semi-finals became best of 13 legs matches, and the final became a best of 15 legs match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278857-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Open\nPeter Wright was the defending champion after defeating Mervyn King 6\u20132 in the final of the 2017 tournament. He reached the final of this tournament, but he was defeated by Michael van Gerwen 8\u20137 in the first best of 15 legs final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278857-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Open, Prize money\nPrize money will count towards the PDC Order of Merit, the ProTour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit, with one exception: should a seeded player lose in the second round (last 32), their prize money will not count towards any Orders of Merit, although they still receive the full prize money payment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278857-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Open, Qualification and format\nThe top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 6 February will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278857-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Open, Qualification and format\nThe remaining 32 places will go to players from five qualifying events \u2013 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Barnsley on 16 February), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 22 March), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 22 March), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 26 January) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 26 January).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278858-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Trophy\nThe 2018 European Darts Trophy was the thirteenth of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at the Lokhalle, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany from 12\u201314 October 2018. It featured a field of 48 players and \u00a3135,000 in prize money, with \u00a325,000 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278858-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Trophy\nMichael van Gerwen was the defending champion after defeating Rob Cross 6\u20134 in 2017's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278858-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Trophy\nVan Gerwen won his third consecutive European Darts Trophy title and his 28th European Tour title in total after an 8\u20133 win over James Wade in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278858-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Trophy, Prize money\nPrize money will count towards the PDC Order of Merit, the ProTour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit, with one exception: should a seeded player lose in the second round (last 32), their prize money will not count towards any Orders of Merit, although they still receive the full prize money payment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278858-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Trophy, Qualification and format\nThe top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 12 September will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278858-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Trophy, Qualification and format\nThe remaining 32 places will go to players from five qualifying events \u2013 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Dublin on 27 September), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 13 September), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 11 October), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 11 August) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 26 August).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278858-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Darts Trophy, Qualification and format\nMensur Suljovi\u0107 and Adrian Lewis, who would have been the number 6 and 7 seeds respectively, withdrew from the tournament prior to the draw. Mervyn King and Stephen Bunting, the highest-ranked qualifiers, were promoted to 15th and 16th seed respectively, which meant an extra two places were made available in the Host Nation Qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278859-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Fencing Championships\nThe 2018 European Fencing Championships was held in Novi Sad, Serbia from 16 to 21 June 2018 at the SPC Vojvodina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278860-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Fencing Under 23 Championships\nThe 2018 European Fencing Under 23 Championships was held in Yerevan, Armenia from 15 to 19 April 2018 at the Yerevan State University indoor sports arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278861-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2018 European Figure Skating Championships were held in January 2018 in Moscow, Russia. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pairs, and ice dance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278861-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Figure Skating Championships, Records\nThe following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278861-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Figure Skating Championships, Eligibility\nSkaters were eligible for the event if they represented a European member nation of the International Skating Union and had reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2017, in their place of birth. The corresponding competition for non-European skaters is the 2018 Four Continents Championships. National associations selected their entries according to their own criteria but the ISU mandated that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278861-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Figure Skating Championships, Eligibility, Minimum TES\nThe ISU stipulates that the minimum scores must be achieved at an ISU-recognized senior international competition in the ongoing or preceding season, no later than 21 days before the first official practice day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278861-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Figure Skating Championships, Eligibility, Number of entries per discipline\nBased on the results of the 2017 European Championships, the ISU allows each country one to three entries per discipline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 89], "content_span": [90, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278861-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Figure Skating Championships, Entries\nMember nations began announcing their selections in December 2017. The ISU published a complete list on 27 December 2017:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278861-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, Medals by country\nTable of small medals for placement in the short segment:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 77], "content_span": [78, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278861-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, Medals by country\nTable of small medals for placement in the free segment:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 77], "content_span": [78, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278862-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships\nThe 2018 European Golf Team Championships was a golf tournament played in August 2018 at Gleneagles, Scotland. It was the inaugural event and consisted of three competitions \u2013 men's, women's and mixed team format. 16 two-player teams took part in both men's and women's competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278862-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships\nThe event was part of the 2018 European Championships, the inaugural edition of the European Championships, a multi-sport event which took place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland from 2 to 12 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278862-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships\nIceland topped the medal table, with a surprise win in the mixed team event the highlight of a campaign that returned two medals. Hosts Great Britain and Sweden both returned two medals, the latter including the gold in the women's team event, while Spain triumphed in the men's team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278862-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships, Format\nThe European Golf Team Championships took place at Gleneagles in Scotland from 8\u221212 August 2018, featuring a 50/50 gender split in the field with male and female professionals competing for equal prize money in a men's team match play championship, a women's team match play championship, and a mixed team 18-hole foursomes stroke play championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278862-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships, Format\nThe field consisted of 16 teams of two players competing in the men's and women's team events, before combining to form teams of four (two men and two women) in the mixed team championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278862-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships, Format\nThe men's and women's team championships featured a round-robin group fourball format, on 8\u201310 August, with winners of each of the four groups progressing to the semi-finals where foursomes will determine the winners, on 12 August. In the group stage, two points were awarded for a win, one point for a halved match, and no points for a loss. Ties between two teams in the standings were determined by their head-to-head result and if teams were still tied for first place then a sudden-death playoff would occur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278862-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships, Format\nThe mixed team championship comprised teams of four (2 men and 2 women) playing in 18-hole mixed foursomes stroke play on 11 August, with combined scores used for team's total score. Ties for medal positions were determined by a sudden-death playoff involving the low-scoring foursome from each team involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278862-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships, Qualification\nQualification for the Championships was via the European Golf Team Championships points tables for men and women, which were based on men's Official World Golf Ranking points and women's Women's World Golf Rankings points earned from tournaments finishing between 10 July 2017 and 9 July 2018 with a maximum of three teams representing any one nation in each event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278862-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships, Competitors\nThe following competitors were announced for the championships. Rank is the Official World Golf Ranking (men) or Women's World Golf Rankings (women) in the week prior to the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278862-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships, Results, Men's team, Pool play\nTeams were divided into 4 groups of 4 teams and played round-robin matches Wednesday to Friday using the fourball format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278862-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships, Results, Women's team, Pool play\nTeams were divided into 4 groups of 4 teams and played round-robin matches Wednesday to Friday using the fourball format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278862-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships, Results, Mixed team\nThe mixed team championship comprised eleven teams of four (2 men and 2 women) playing in 18-hole mixed foursomes stroke play on 11 August, with combined scores used for team's total score. Ties for medal positions were determined by a sudden-death playoff involving the low-scoring foursome from each team involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278862-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships, Results, Mixed team\nSweden 2 defeated Spain with a birdie at the first hole of the bronze medal playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278863-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Men's team\nThe 2018 European Golf Team Championships men's team event was an event forming part of the 2018 European Golf Team Championships tournament being played in August 2018 at Gleneagles, Scotland. 16 two-player teams took part in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278863-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Men's team\nThe event was part of the 2018 European Championships, the inaugural edition of the European Championships, a multi-sport event which is to take place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland from 2 to 12 August 2018. Spain 1 took the title from the Iceland team. The Italy 2 team won bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278863-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Men's team, Format\nThe European Golf Team Championships are taking place at Gleneagles in Scotland from 8\u221212 August 2018, featuring a 50/50 gender split in the field with male and female professionals competing for equal prize money in a men's team match play championship, a women's team match play championship, and a mixed team 18-hole foursomes stroke play championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278863-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Men's team, Format\nThe men's team championships featured a round-robin group fourball format, on 8\u201310 August, with the winners of each of the four groups progressing to the semi-finals where foursomes will determine the winners, on 12 August. In the group stage, two points were awarded for a win, one point for a halved match, and no points for a loss. Ties between two teams in the standings were determined by their head-to-head result and if teams were still tied for first place then a sudden-death playoff would occur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278863-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Men's team, Qualification\nQualification for the Championships was via the European Golf Team Championships points tables based on men's Official World Golf Ranking points earned from tournaments finishing between 10 July 2017 and 9 July 2018 with a maximum of three teams representing any one nation in each event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278863-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Men's team, Results, Pool play\nTeams were divided into 4 groups of 4 teams and played round-robin matches Wednesday to Friday using the fourball format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278864-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Mixed team\nThe 2018 European Golf Team Championships mixed team event was an event forming part of the 2018 European Golf Team Championships tournament being played in August 2018 at Gleneagles, Scotland. 11 four-player teams took part in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278864-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Mixed team\nThe event was part of the 2018 European Championships, the inaugural edition of the European Championships, a multi-sport event which is to take place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland from 2 to 12 August 2018. In a surprise victory, Iceland took the title by one stroke from the Great Britain 3 team. The Sweden 2 team won bronze in the first hole of a play-off with Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278864-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Mixed team, Format\nThe European Golf Team Championships are taking place at Gleneagles in Scotland from 8\u221212 August 2018, featuring a 50/50 gender split in the field with male and female professionals competing for equal prize money in a men's team match play championship, a women's team match play championship, and a mixed team 18-hole foursomes stroke play championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278864-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Mixed team, Format\nThe mixed team championship comprised eleven teams of four (2 men and 2 women) playing in 18-hole mixed foursomes stroke play on 11 August, with combined scores used for team's total score. Ties for medal positions were determined by sudden-death playoff involving the low-scoring foursome from each team involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278864-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Mixed team, Qualification\nQualification for the Championships was via the European Golf Team Championships points tables for men and women, which were based on men's Official World Golf Ranking points and women's Women's World Golf Rankings points earned from tournaments finishing between 10 July 2017 and 9 July 2018 with a maximum of three teams representing any one nation in each event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278864-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Mixed team, Results\n* Sweden 2 defeated Spain on the first hole of the bronze medal playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278865-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Women's team\nThe 2018 European Golf Team Championships men's team event was an event forming part of the 2018 European Golf Team Championships tournament being played in August 2018 at Gleneagles, Scotland. 16 two-player teams took part in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278865-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Women's team\nThe event was part of the 2018 European Championships, the inaugural edition of the European Championships, a multi-sport event which is to take place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland from 2 to 12 August 2018. Sweden 3 took the title from the France 2 team on a second play-off hole - in effect the 20th hole, having finished all square after 18. The Great Britain 3 team won bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278865-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Women's team, Format\nThe European Golf Team Championships are taking place at Gleneagles in Scotland from 8\u221212 August 2018, featuring a 50/50 gender split in the field with male and female professionals competing for equal prize money in a men's team match play championship, a women's team match play championship, and a mixed team 18-hole foursomes stroke play championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278865-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Women's team, Format\nThe women's team championships featured a round-robin group fourball format, on 8\u201310 August, with the winners of each of the four groups progressing to the semi-finals where foursomes will determine the winners, on 12 August. In the group stage, two points were awarded for a win, one point for a halved match, and no points for a loss. Ties between two teams in the standings were determined by their head-to-head result and if teams were still tied for first place then a sudden-death playoff would occur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278865-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Women's team, Qualification\nQualification for the Championships was via the European Golf Team Championships points tables based on Women's World Golf Rankings points earned from tournaments finishing between 10 July 2017 and 9 July 2018 with a maximum of three teams representing any one nation in each event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278865-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Golf Team Championships - Women's team, Results, Pool play\nTeams were divided into 4 groups of 4 teams and played round-robin matches Wednesday to Friday using the fourball format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278866-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Judo Championships\nThe 2018 European Judo Championships were held in Tel Aviv, Israel from 26 to 28 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278866-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Judo Championships, Participating nations\nThere was a total of 368 participants from 44 nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278867-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Junior & U23 Canoe Sprint Championships\nThe 2018 European Junior & U23 Canoe Sprint Championships was the 7th edition of the European Junior & U23 Canoe Sprint Championships, an international canoe and kayak sprint event organised by the European Canoe Association, and was held in Auronzo di Cadore, Italy, between 28 June and 1 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278868-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships\nThe 2018 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships took place in OSiR Zamo\u015b\u0107, Zamo\u015b\u0107, Poland from 20 October to 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278868-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships, Medal table\nRanking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 67], "content_span": [68, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278869-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Junior Badminton Championships\nThe 2018 European Junior Badminton Championships were held at the Kalev Sports Hall in Tallinn, Estonia, between 7-16 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278870-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Junior Badminton Championships \u2013 Boys' doubles\nThe Boys' Doubles tournament of the 2018 European Junior Badminton Championships was held from September 11-16. French Doubles Thom Gicquel and Toma Junior Popov clinched this title in the last edition. Scottish Christopher Grimley / Matthew Grimley leads the seedings this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278871-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Junior Badminton Championships \u2013 Boys' singles\nThe Boys' Singles tournament of the 2018 European Junior Badminton Championships was held from September 11-16. Toma Junior Popov from France clinched this title in the last edition. Irish' Nhat Nguyen leads the seedings this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278872-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Junior Badminton Championships \u2013 Girls' doubles\nThe Girls' Doubles tournament of the 2018 European Junior Badminton Championships was held from September 11-16. Swedish Doubles Emma Karlsson and Johanna Magnusson clinched this title in the last edition. Danish Amalie Magelund / Freja Ravn leads the seedings this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278873-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Junior Badminton Championships \u2013 Girls' singles\nThe Girls' Singles tournament of the 2018 European Junior Badminton Championships was held from September 11-16. Julie Dawall Jakobsen from Denmark clinched this title in the last edition. Hungarian Reka Madarasz leads the seedings this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278874-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Junior Badminton Championships \u2013 Mixed doubles\nThe Mixed Doubles tournament of the 2018 European Junior Badminton Championships was held from September 11-16. Russian pair Rodion Alimov and Alina Davletova clinched this title in the last edition. Ian Spiller / Petra Polanc from Slovenia leads the seedings this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278875-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Junior Swimming Championships\nThe 2018 European Junior Swimming Championships were held from 4 to 8 July 2018 in Helsinki, Finland. The Championships were organized by LEN, the European Swimming League, and were held in a 50-meter pool. The Championships were for girls aged 14\u201317 and boys age 15\u201318.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278876-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships\nThe 2018 European Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships took place in Bratislava, Slovakia from 16 to 19 August 2018 under the auspices of the European Canoe Association (ECA) at the \u010cunovo Water Sports Centre. It was the 20th edition of the competition for Juniors (U18) and the 16th edition for the Under 23 category. A total of 16 medal events took place, 8 in each of the two age categories. In addition, there were two exhibition events. One in the discontinued men's C2 category and the other in the mixed C2. The senior Freestyle European Championships were held as part of the same event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278876-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships, Medal Summary, Exhibition\nTwo exhibition events took place at the championships. The U23 men's C2 event had three boats competing. The U23 mixed C2 event had three entries, but only one boat started. It was a single run competition and no medals were awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 82], "content_span": [83, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278877-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Juniors Wrestling Championships\nThe 2018 European Juniors Wrestling Championships was held in Rome, Italy between July 30 - August 05, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278878-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Karate Championships\nThe 2018 European Karate Championships were the 53rd edition of the European Karate Championships, and were held in Novi Sad, Serbia from 10 to 13 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278878-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Karate Championships, Para Karate\nThe first Para-Karate European Championships was held May 10-13 in 2018. 43 athletes from 15 nations in 6 events was competed. Results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278879-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Le Mans Series\nThe 2018 European Le Mans Series was the fifteenth season of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's (ACO) European Le Mans Series. The six-event season began at Circuit Paul Ricard on 15 April and finished at Algarve International Circuit on 28 October. The series is open to Le Mans Prototypes, divided into the LMP2 and LMP3 classes, and grand tourer-style racing cars in the LMGTE class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278879-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Le Mans Series, Calendar\nThe provisional 2018 calendar was announced on 23 September 2017. The calendar comprises six events, featuring the same six circuits that hosted events in the 2017 season. The rounds at Silverstone and Paul Ricard swapped their places in the calendar, with the French circuit hosting the opening round and Silverstone moving to an August date, once again in conjunction with the FIA World Endurance Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278879-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Le Mans Series, Calendar\nThe official pre-season test also returned to Paul Ricard after a one-year absence, having taken place at Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278879-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Le Mans Series, Entries, LMP2\nIn accordance with the 2017 LMP2 regulations, all cars in the LMP2 class use the Gibson GK428 V8 engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278879-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Le Mans Series, Entries, LMP3\nAll cars in the LMP3 class use the Nissan VK50VE 5.0\u00a0L V8 engine and Michelin tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278879-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Le Mans Series, Results and Standings\nTo be classified a car will have to cross the finish line on the race track when the chequered flag is shown, except in a case of force majeure at the Stewards\u2019 discretion and have covered at least 70% (the official number of laps will be rounded down to the nearest whole number) of the distance covered by the car classified in first place in the overall classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278880-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Marathon Cup\nThe 2018 European Marathon Cup was the 11th edition of the European Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Berlin, Germany on 12 August, inside of the 2018 European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278880-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Marathon Cup\nThe total time is calculated on the sum of the times of the first three athletes arrived at the finish line, but the medals are awarded to all the athletes who have concluded the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278881-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Masters\nThe 2018 D88.com European Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 1 to 7 October 2018 in Lommel, Belgium. It was the fifth ranking event of the 2018/2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278881-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Masters\nQualifying took place on 17 and 18 August 2018 in Preston, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278881-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Masters\nJudd Trump was the defending champion after winning the previous two events, but he lost 2\u20134 to Tian Pengfei in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278881-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Masters\nJimmy Robertson reached his first ever ranking event semi-final, which he converted into his first professional ranking event title, beating Joe Perry 9\u20136 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278881-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Masters, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278881-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Masters, Qualifying\nThese matches were held between 17 and 18 August 2018 at the Preston Guild Hall in Preston, England. All matches were best of 7 frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278882-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 33rd European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held from 9 to 12 August 2018 at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278882-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe competition was a portion of the first multi-sport European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278883-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship\nThe 2018 EHF European Men's Handball Championship was the 13th edition and was hosted for the second time in Croatia from 12 to 28 January 2018. Croatia was awarded hosting the tournament during the EHF congress in Dublin on 20 September 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278883-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship\nSpain won their first title after defeating Sweden 29\u201323 in the final. France captured the bronze medal after defeating Denmark 32\u201329.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278883-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams\nNote: Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278883-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship, Main round\nPoints and goals gained in the preliminary group against teams that advanced, were taken over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278883-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship, Ranking and statistics, Final ranking\nTeam roster: Eduardo Gurbindo, \u00c1ngel Fern\u00e1ndez P\u00e9rez, Valero Rivera Folch, Ra\u00fal Entrerr\u00edos, Alex Dujshebaev, Daniel Sarmiento Meli\u00e1n, Julen Aguinagalde, Arpad \u0160terbik, Joan Ca\u00f1ellas, Viran Morros, Aitor Ari\u00f1o, Gede\u00f3n Guardiola, Iosu Go\u00f1i Leoz, Gonzalo P\u00e9rez de Vargas, Rodrigo Corrales, Ferr\u00e1n Sol\u00e9, David Balaguer, Adri\u00e0 Figueras, Daniel DujshebaevHead Coach: Jordi Ribera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278883-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship, Ranking and statistics, All-Star Team\nThe all-star team and awards were announced on 28 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278884-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship qualification\nThis article describes the qualification for the 2018 European Men's Handball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278884-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship qualification, Qualification system\n38 teams had registered for participation. 37 teams competed for 15 places at the final tournament in 2 distinct Qualification Phases. In each phase, the teams were divided into several pots according to their positions in the EHF National Team Ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 77], "content_span": [78, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278884-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship qualification, Qualification Phase 1, Seeding\nThe draw for the qualification round was held on 22 July 2014 in Vienna, Austria. The group winners advanced to the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 87], "content_span": [88, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278884-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship qualification, Playoffs\nThe draw for the playoffs was held on 23 June 2015 in Vienna, Austria. The winners advanced to the second phase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 65], "content_span": [66, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278884-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship qualification, Qualification Phase 2\nThe draw was held on 14 April 2016 in Dubrovnik. The teams were split into seven groups of four teams. The top two ranked teams from each group and the best third ranked team qualified for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 78], "content_span": [79, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278884-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship qualification, Qualification Phase 2, Ranking of third-placed teams\nThe highest ranked third-placed team from the groups directly qualifies for the tournament. Matches against the fourth placed teams in each group are discarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 109], "content_span": [110, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads\nThis article displays the squads for the 2018 European Men's Handball Championship. Each team consists of up to 28 players, of whom 16 may be fielded for each match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads\nAge, club, caps and goals as of 12 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group A, Croatia\nA 22-player squad was announced on 31 December 2017. The final squad was revealed on 11 January 2018. Two days later, Domagoj Duvnjak has been replaced by Denis Bunti\u0107 due to an injury in the match against Serbia. Ivan Pe\u0161i\u0107 replaced Mirko Alilovi\u0107 on 16 January 2018. Two days later, Marino Mari\u0107 replaced Denis Bunti\u0107. Alilovi\u0107 rejoined the squad on 20 January 2018 and replaced Ivan Pe\u0161i\u0107. Igor Vori and Jakov Gojun were replaced six days later by Tin Kontrec and Halil Jaganjac.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group A, Serbia\nThe squad was announced on 11 January 2018. Nikola Crnoglavac replaced Marko Vujin on 16 January 2018 due to an injury. Dobrivoje Markovi\u0107 was replaced by Darko Stevanovi\u0107 six days later. Vanja Ili\u0107 was added to the squad on 24 January 2018 to replace Milan Jovanovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group A, Sweden\nThe squad was announced on 21 December 2017. Viktor \u00d6stlund replaced Johan Jakobsson on 24 January 2018. Two days later, Albin Lagergren was replaced by Andreas Cederholm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group B, Austria\nA 17-player squad was announced on 26 December 2017. On 15 January 2018, Alexander Hermann was replaced by Thomas Kandolf due to an injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group B, Belarus\nThe squad was announced on 26 December 2017. On 4 January 2018, 17 players were called up and 18 six days later. Hleb Harbuz was replaced by Mikalai Aliokhin on 22 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group B, France\nA 21-player squad was announced on 8 December 2017. It was down to 20, after Olivier Nyokas left the team with an injury on 29 December 2017. The final squad was revealed on 8 January 2018. Romain Lagarde and Luka Karabati\u0107 replaced Timothey N'Guessan and Benjamin Afgour on 20 January 2018. Benjamin Afgour and Luka Karabati\u0107 rejoined the squad in favour of Timothey N'Guessan and Dika Mem on 28 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group B, Norway\nAn 18-player squad was announced on 19 December 2017. The final squad was revealed on 11 January 2018. On 16 January 2018, Joakim Hykkerud replaced Espen Lie Hansen in the squad. Two days later, Lie Hansen replaced Hykkerud. Espen Christensen was replaced by Kristian S\u00e6ver\u00e5s on 24 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group C, Germany\nA 20-player squad was announced on 15 December 2017. The final squad was revealed on 7 January 2018. On 17 January 2018, Bastian Roscheck was replaced by Finn Lemke. Rune Dahmke replaced Maximilian Janke three days later. Paul Drux was forced to leave due to an injury with Maximilian Janke replacing him on 22 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group C, North Macedonia\nA 21-player squad was announced on 14 December 2017. It was reduced to 19 on 10 January 2018. Filip Lazarov was injured on 17 January 2018 and replaced by Velko Markoski. Nikola Markoski was replaced after Filip Lazarov rejoined the squad four days later. Goce Ojleski replaced Kiril Lazarov on 24 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 74], "content_span": [75, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group C, Montenegro\nA 20-player squad was announced on 22 December 2017. Mile Miju\u0161kovi\u0107 was replaced by Neboj\u0161a Simi\u0107 on 15 January 2018. Mirko Radovi\u0107 replaced \u017darko Pejovi\u0107 two days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group C, Slovenia\nA 21-player squad was announced on 14 December 2017. Nik Henigman was replaced by Gregor Poto\u010dnik on 15 January 2018. Patrik Leban and Urh Kastelic replaced Jan Grebenc and Urban Lesjak seven days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Czech Republic\nAn 18-player squad was announced on 29 December 2017. The final squad was revealed on 11 January 2018. Peter \u0160lachta replaced \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1n Zeman on 21 January 2018. Zeman rejoined the squad three days later to replace Michal Kasal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 73], "content_span": [74, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Denmark\nThe squad was announced on 15 December 2017. Peter Balling replaced Anders Zachariassen on 17 January 2018. Zachariassen rejoined the squad and replaced Niclas Kirkel\u00f8kke two days later. Niclas Kirkel\u00f8kke and Kevin M\u00f8ller replaced Rene Toft Hansen and Peter Balling on 28 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Hungary\nAn 18-player squad was announced on 30 December 2017. Uro\u0161 Vilovski and Iman Jamali were replaced by D\u00e1vid Fekete and \u00c1d\u00e1m Orsz\u00e1gh on 17 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278885-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Spain\nA 19-player squad was announced on 14 December 2017. It was reduced to 17 on 30 December 2017. Aitor Ari\u00f1o replaced \u00c1ngel Fern\u00e1ndez P\u00e9rez on 15 January 2018. Two days later, Julen Aguinagalde was replaced by Iosu Go\u00f1i Leoz. On 21 January 2018, Julen Aguinagalde rejoined the squad instead of Iosu Go\u00f1i Leoz. Iosu Go\u00f1i Leoz rejoined the squad on 24 January 2018, replacing Daniel Dujshebaev. Gonzalo P\u00e9rez de Vargas was replaced by Arpad \u0160terbik two days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 64], "content_span": [65, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278886-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's U-18 Handball Championship\nThe 2018 European Men's U-18 Handball Championship was the fourteenth edition of the European Men's U-18 Handball Championship, held in Vara\u017edin and Koprivnica, Croatia from 9 to 19 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278886-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's U-18 Handball Championship, Draw\nThe draw was held on 25 January 2018 in Zagreb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 52], "content_span": [53, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278887-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Under-20 Handball Championship\nThe 2018 European Men's U-20 Handball Championship was the twelfth edition of the European Men's U-20 Handball Championship, held in Celje, Slovenia from 19 to 29 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278887-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's Under-20 Handball Championship, Draw\nThe draw was held on 19 February 2018 in Celje.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 56], "content_span": [57, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278888-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships\nThe 2018 edition of the European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships was held in Kazan, Russia, from 13 to 18 February 2018. This tournament also served as European qualification for the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278888-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships, Tournament\nThe 2018 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships officially crowned the best male and female national teams in Europe and at the same time worked as the European qualification event towards the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals. 53 teams consisting of 29 men's team and 24 women's team entered the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278888-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships, Tournament, Venue\nThis tournament was held at Gymnastics Center in Kazan, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 79], "content_span": [80, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278888-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships, Tournament, Seeds\nThe defending Champions, Denmark, were top seeded for both men's and women's team, while the host country Russia were seeded four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 79], "content_span": [80, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278888-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships, Tournament, Draw\nThe draw was held on 5 December 2017, at the Badminton Europe office in Br\u00f8ndby, Denmark. The men's team group stage consisted of six groups with four teams in each and one group with five teams. The women's team group stage consisted of six groups with four teams in each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 78], "content_span": [79, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278888-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships, Men's team, Format\nIn each group, teams played each other once. The seven group winners and the best runners-up qualified for the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 80], "content_span": [81, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278888-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships, Men's team, Ranking of second-placed teams\nDue to group 7 having different number of teams, the results against the fifth-placed teams are not considered for this ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 104], "content_span": [105, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278888-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships, Women's team, Format\nIn each group, teams played each other once. The six group winners and the two best runners-up qualified for the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 82], "content_span": [83, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278889-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Mixed Team Judo Championships\nThe 2018 European Mixed Team Judo Championships was held in Yekaterinburg, Russia on 18 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278890-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Modern Pentathlon Championships\nThe 2018 European Modern Pentathlon Championships was held in Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r, Hungary from 17 to 23 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278891-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Motocross Championship\nThe 2018 European Motocross Championship was the 30th European Motocross Championship season since it was revived in 1988. It included 16 events and 5 different classes. It started at Valkenswaard in the Netherlands on 18 April, and ended at Imola in Italy on 30 September. All rounds acted as support classes at the European rounds of the 2018 MXGP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278891-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Motocross Championship, EMX250\nAn 11-round calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 25 October 2017. EMX250 is for riders competing on 4-stroke motorcycles between 175cc-250cc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278891-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Motocross Championship, EMX125\nA 9-round calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 25 October 2017. EMX125 is for riders competing on 2-stroke motorcycles of 125cc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278891-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Motocross Championship, EMX300\nA 6-round calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 25 October 2017. EMX300 is for riders competing on 2-stroke motorcycles between 200-300cc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278891-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Motocross Championship, EMX85\nA 1-round calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 25 October 2017. EMX85 is for riders competing on 2-stroke motorcycles of 85cc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278891-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Motocross Championship, EMX85, Participants\nRiders qualify for the championship by finishing in the top 10 in one of the 4 regional 85cc championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278891-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Motocross Championship, EMX65\nA 1-round calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 25 October 2017. EMX65 is for riders competing on 2-stroke motorcycles of 65cc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278891-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Motocross Championship, EMX65, Participants\nRiders qualify for the championship by finishing in the top 10 in one of the 4 regional 85cc championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278892-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Mountain Bike Championships\nThe 2018 European Mountain Bike Championships was held in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on 8 August 2018, the championships are part of the first European Championships with other six sports events happening in Glasgow and Berlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278892-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Mountain Bike Championships\nIn 2018 for the first time the European championships of four cycling specialties (Road, Track, BMX and Mountain bike), were held in a single period and a single venue, and the events were part of the program of the first edition of the European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278893-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Open\nThe 2018 European Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the European Open and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp, Belgium, from October 15 to October 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278893-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278893-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278894-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Open Water Swimming Championships\nThe 2018 European Open Water Swimming Championships was the 17th edition of the European Open Water Swimming Championships (was part of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships, in turn part of the 2018 European Championships) and took part from 8-12 August 2018 in Loch Lomond near Glasgow, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278895-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Open \u2013 Doubles\nScott Lipsky and Divij Sharan were the defending champions, but Lipsky chose not to participate. Sharan played alongside Artem Sitak, but lost in the semifinals to Nicolas Mahut and \u00c9douard Roger-Vasselin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278895-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Open \u2013 Doubles\nMahut and Roger-Vasselin went on to win the title, defeating Marcelo Demoliner and Santiago Gonz\u00e1lez in the final, 6\u20134, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278896-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Open \u2013 Singles\nJo-Wilfried Tsonga was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Ga\u00ebl Monfils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278896-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Open \u2013 Singles\nKyle Edmund won his first ATP World Tour title, defeating Monfils in the final, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 7\u20136(7\u20134).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278896-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278897-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Pairs Speedway Championship\nThe 2018 European Pairs Speedway Championship was the 15th edition of the European Pairs Speedway Championship. The final was held in Brovst, Denmark on 1 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278897-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Pairs Speedway Championship\nThe title was won by Poland for the seventh time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278898-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Pool Championship\nThe 2018 European Pool Championships was a professional pool championship that took place at the NH Hotel Koningshof, in Veldhoven, Netherlands. The event played between 19\u201331 July 2018 was a part of the European Pool Championships; and saw events for men, women, wheelchair competitors, youth and seniors across four pool disciplines: Straight Pool, 8-Ball, 9-Ball, and 10-Ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278898-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Pool Championship\nThe event was the largest pool event ever held in Europe, with sixty tables built exclusively for the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278898-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Pool Championship, Tournament overview\nThe European Championship 2018 was held at the NH Hotel Koningshof in Veldhoven, Netherlands. In a hall of the hotel 60 pool tables were built. Veldhoven held the event for the second time, having hosted it in 2005. The event hosted over 550 players from 37 countries, the most of any European championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278898-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Pool Championship, Tournament overview\nAll competitions were played in the double elimination knockout system until only a certain number of participants remained and then continued in the knockout system. The individual competitions of the men were played in the round of the last 64 in knockout mode (straight pool: round of the last 32), in the women from the round of 16, and the wheelchair users from the quarter-finals. The team competitions were held from the round of 16 (men) or semi-final (ladies) in the knockout system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278898-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Pool Championship, Tournament overview\nThe online news channel Kozoom streamed all matches of the European Championship live in up to 60 channels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278898-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Pool Championship, Results\nJouni T\u00e4hti was the most successful player at the championships, becoming the first wheelchair player to win all three disciplines in a single championships. The following is a list of winners to semi-finalists for all events through the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278899-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rally Championship\nThe 2018 European Rally Championship was the 66th season of the FIA European Rally Championship, the European continental championship series in rallying. The season was also the sixth following the merge between the European Rally Championship and the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. Kajetan Kajetanowicz was the reigning champion but he didn't return to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278899-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rally Championship\nFor the second season, the European Junior Championship was split into two new categories. ERC Junior U27, which totals six events, is for drivers born on or after 1 January 1991 competing in R2 cars on Pirelli tyres. With the best four rounds counting, the winner will receive a career progression fund worth 100,000 euros to use in ERC Junior U28 in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278899-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rally Championship\nERC Junior U28 offers the next step on the rallying pyramid for drivers born on or after 1 January 1990. Again totalling six rounds with the best four scores counting, drivers use R5 cars with no restriction on tyre choice. The champion will get a drive on a European round of the 2019 FIA World Rally Championship as a P1 driver in a 2016-specification World Rally Car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278899-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rally Championship, Calendar\nThe calendar for the 2018 season features eight rallies like the previous season. Rajd Rzeszowski was replaced by Rally Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278900-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Road Cycling Championships\nThe 2018 European Road Cycling Championships was the 24th running of the European Road Cycling Championships, and took place from 12 to 15 July 2018 in Brno, Czech Republic for the under-23 and junior events, and from 5 to 9 August 2018 in Glasgow, United Kingdom for the elite events. The event consisted of a total of 6 road races and 6 time trials, regulated by the Union Europ\u00e9enne de Cyclisme (UEC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278900-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Road Cycling Championships\nThe elite portion of the Championships in Glasgow formed a section of both a first unified UEC European Cycling Championships, and the first multi-sport European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278901-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rowing Championships\nThe 2018 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships for European members of the International Rowing Federation (FISA) plus Israel. They were held as part of a new multi-sport European Championships at the Strathclyde Country Park near Motherwell, Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278901-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rowing Championships, Background\n2018 was the first time that the European Rowing Championships, first held in 1893, were being held in Scotland. Competitions were being held in 17 boat classes with both lightweight and open weight events. Nearly 500 rowers were participating. The host, British Rowing, had nominated a 53-strong team for the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278902-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rowing Junior Championships\nThe 2018 European Rowing Junior Championships took place in Gravelines, France, between 26 and 27 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278903-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rowing U23 Championships\nThe 2nd European Rowing U23 Championships was the 2nd edition and was held from 1 to 2 September 2018 at the Brest Rowing Course in Brest, Belarus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278904-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rugby Champions Cup Final\nThe 2018 European Rugby Champions Cup Final was the final match in the 2017\u201318 European Rugby Champions Cup, and the twenty-third European club rugby final in general.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278904-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rugby Champions Cup Final\nIrish club Leinster defeated French club Racing 92 in the final played in Bilbao, Spain \u2014 the first time it was contested outside one of the Six Nations countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278904-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rugby Champions Cup Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278904-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rugby Champions Cup Final, Match, Summary\nThe game was played in wet conditions, which made passing and attacking play difficult for both teams. Early in the game Racing fly-half Pat Lambie was forced off the field with a knee injury, replaced by French international R\u00e9mi Tal\u00e8s. Racing recovered from this set back to score the first points of the game with Teddy Iribaren kicking a penalty. Leinster responded on 16 minutes when Jonathan Sexton opened their account, also from a penalty. Iribaren reestablished Racing's lead five minutes later and Sexton responded just before half time, to send the teams into the break level on six points apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278904-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rugby Champions Cup Final, Match, Summary\nThe teams were both unchanged for the second half, and the penalty tit-for-tat continued. Sexton was the first to strike in the second half with a converted effort on 53 minutes, before Iribaren missed and the teams remained level at 9\u20139 coming into the final 10 minutes of play. Iribaren kicked his fourth penalty of the day to give Racing back their three-point lead, but Leinster responded quickly with a penalty from captain Isa Nacewa. Nacewa scored another penalty with two minutes left to play to give Leinster the lead for the first time in the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278904-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 European Rugby Champions Cup Final, Match, Summary\nRacing won the kick off and worked down the field, looking for a drop goal to level the match again and bring play to extra time. With clock over 80 minutes the opportunity fell to Tal\u00e8s, who pulled his effort wide to the left to give Leinster their fourth European title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278904-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Rugby Champions Cup Final, Match, Details\nTouch judges:JP Doyle (RFU)Tom Foley (RFU)Television Match Official:Rowan Kitt (RFU)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278905-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Senior Tour\nThe 2018 Staysure Tour was the 27th season of the European Senior Tour, the professional golf tour for men aged 50 and above operated by the PGA European Tour. The season was officially called the Staysure Tour after UK-based insurance company Staysure became the Tour's first-ever title sponsor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278905-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Senior Tour, Tournament results\nThe 2018 schedule consisted of 19 events, including three new tournaments. In addition to new events in Denmark and Spain, the 2018 season ended in the Seychelles after the announcement of the inaugural MCB Tour Championship Indian Ocean Swing. The PGA Seniors Championship which had not been played since 2015 returned as the Staysure PGA Seniors Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278905-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Senior Tour, Tournament results\nThe numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the European Senior Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for players who are members of the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278905-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Senior Tour, Tournament results\nFor the tour schedule on the European Senior Tour's website, including links to full results, click .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278905-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Senior Tour, Qualifying school\nThe qualifying school was played in Portugal in late January and early February 2018. There were two 36-hole \"stage 1\" events with the leading players in these events joining a number of exempt players in the 72-hole final stage. As in 2016 and 2017 there were just five qualifying places available for the 2018 season. With 35 exempt players and a minimum field of 72 for the final stage a minimum of 37 qualified for the final stage from the two \"stage 1\" events. There was a cut after 54 holes with players more than eight shots away from the fifth qualifying place not playing the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278905-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Senior Tour, Qualifying school\nThe following five players gained their places on the 2018 tour:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278905-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Senior Tour, Qualifying school\nMolina beat \u00c1ngel Franco with a birdie at the second playoff hole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278905-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Senior Tour, Leading money winners\nThere is a complete list on the official site .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278906-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships\nThe 2018 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place, for the third time, from 12\u201314 January 2018 in Dresden, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278907-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Shotgun Championships\nThe 2018 European Shotgun Championships was the 64th edition of the global shotgun competition, European Shotgun Championships, organised by the European Shooting Confederation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278908-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Skateboarding Championships\nThe 2018 European Skateboarding Championships was held in Basel, Switzerland, between 31 August and 2 September for street skateboarding and in Malm\u00f6, Sweden, between September 3\u20136 for park skateboarding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278908-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Skateboarding Championships, Medal summary, Street skateboarding\n\u00b0\u00b0Douwe Macare came 4th in the competition, but he was the 3rd placed European, as the third best score was made by the sole competitor from outside of Europe \u2013 \u00a0Argentina's Matias Dell Olio (82,33).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 78], "content_span": [79, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278909-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships\nThe 2018 European Speed Skating Championships were held between 5 and 7 January 2018 at the Kolomna Speed Skating Center in Kolomna, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278909-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships, Events\nFor the first time the European Championship is a single distance championship, with the following distances:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278910-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Men's 1000 metres\nThe men's 1000 metres competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 6 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278911-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nThe men's 1500 metres competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 5 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278912-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Men's 500 metres\nThe men's 500 metres competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 5 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278913-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 metres\nThe men's 5000 metres competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 6 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278914-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Men's mass start\nThe men's mass start competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 7 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278915-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Men's team pursuit\nThe men's team pursuit competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 7 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278916-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Men's team sprint\nThe men's team sprint competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 7 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278917-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Women's 1000 metres\nThe women's 1000 metres competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 6 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278918-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres\nThe women's 1500 metres competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 5 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278919-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres\nThe women's 3000 metres competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 6 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278920-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Women's 500 metres\nThe women's 500 metres competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 5 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278921-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Women's mass start\nThe women's mass start competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 7 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278922-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Women's team pursuit\nThe women's team pursuit competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 7 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278923-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Women's team sprint\nThe women's team sprint competition at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 7 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278924-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Sumo Championships\nThe 2018 European Sumo Championships took place in Plovdiv (Bulgaria). from April 26 to 30, 2018. The European Sumo Federation and the Bulgarian Sumo Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278925-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Table Tennis Championships\nThe 2018 European Table Tennis Championships were held in Alicante, Spain from 18 to 23 September 2018. The competition was held at Centro de Tecnificacion Deportiva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278926-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Taekwondo Championships\nThe 2018 European Taekwondo Championships, the 23rd edition of the European Taekwondo Championships, was held in Kazan, Russia at the Ak Bars Martial Arts Palace from 10 to 13 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278927-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Talent Cup\nThe 2018 European Talent Cup is the second season of the European Talent Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278927-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Talent Cup, Calendar\nThe following races were scheduled to take place in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278927-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Talent Cup, Championship standings\nPoints were awarded to the top fifteen riders, provided the rider finished the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278928-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Throwing Cup\nThe 2018 European Throwing Cup is held on 10\u201311 March at the Est\u00e1dio Dr. Magalh\u00e3es Pessoa and National ThrowingCentre in Leiria, Portugal. It is the eighteenth edition of the athletics competition for throwing events and was jointly organised by the European Athletic Association. The competition featured men's and women's contests in shot put, discus throw, javelin throw and hammer throw. In addition to the senior competitions, there were also under-23 events for younger athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278929-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Tour\nThe 2018 European Tour is the 47th season of golf tournaments since the European Tour officially began in 1972 and the 10th edition of the Race to Dubai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278929-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Tour\nThe Race to Dubai was won by Italian Francesco Molinari, who was also named Golfer of the Year. India's Shubhankar Sharma was named Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278929-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Tour, Changes for 2018\nThere were changes to membership criteria with the reversal of some of the changes introduced for the 2017 season; the number of players gaining exemption from the final Race to Dubai standings reverted to the top 110 and the Access List was scrapped, largely replaced by a re-ranking system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278929-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Tour, Changes for 2018\nThe Race to Dubai points system was adjusted, with all prize money being converted into US dollars before translating into points (1 point = 1 dollar) having previously been calculated after converting into euro. The points for all tournaments were also fixed prior to the start of the season, having previously been set during each tournament week, thereby negating any fluctuation in exchange rates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278929-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Tour, Schedule\nThe table below shows the tournaments in the 2018 European Tour schedule, which began in late 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278929-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Tour, Race to Dubai\nSince 2009, the European Tour's money list has been known as the \"Race to Dubai\". It was based on money earned during the season and calculated in points based on US dollars with 1\u00a0dollar\u00a0=\u00a01\u00a0point, and prize money for all tournaments being converted into points at the beginning of the season. The following table shows the final top-10 in the 2018 standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278929-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Tour, Awards, Golfer of the Month\nThe winners of the European Tour Golfer of the Month award:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278930-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Tour Qualifying School graduates\nThis is a list of the 27 players who earned 2019 European Tour cards through Q School in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278930-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Tour Qualifying School graduates\n2019 European Tour rookie\u00a0 First-time member ineligible for Rookie of the Year award", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278930-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Tour Qualifying School graduates, 2019 Results\n* European Tour rookie in 2019\u2020 First-time member ineligible for Rookie of the Year awardT = Tied \u00a0 The player retained his European Tour card for 2020 (finished inside the top 115). The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2020, but retained conditional status (finished between 116 and 155, inclusive). The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2020 (finished outside the top 155).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278931-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Trampoline Championships\nThe 26th Trampoline European Championships took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from April 12 \u2013 April 15, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278932-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Triathlon Championships\nThe 2018 European Triathlon Championships were held in Glasgow, United Kingdom, from 9 to 11 August 2018. The championships were part of the first European Championships with six other sports events taking place in Glasgow and Berlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278933-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Truck Racing Championship\nThe 2018 FIA European Truck Racing Championship was a motor-racing championship using highly tuned tractor units. It was the 34th year of the championship. Jochen Hahn took his fifth victory in the championship driving an Iveco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278933-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Truck Racing Championship, Championship standings, Drivers' Championship\nEach round or racing event consisted of four races. At each race, points were awarded to the top ten classified finishers using the following structure:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278934-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European U23 Judo Championships\nThe 2018 European U23 Judo Championships were the edition of the European U23 Judo Championships, organised by the European Judo Union. It was held in Gy\u0151r, Hungary from 2\u20134 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278934-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European U23 Judo Championships, Participating nations\nThere was a total of 296 participants from 37 nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278935-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European U23 Wrestling Championship\nThe 2018 European U23 Wrestling Championship was the 4th edition of European U23 Wrestling Championships of combined events, and took place from June 4 to 10 in Istanbul, Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278936-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Union Amateur Boxing Championships\nThe Men's 2018 European Union Amateur Boxing Championships was held in Valladolid, Spain from 8 to 19 November. The 9th edition of the competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, the European Boxing Confederation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278937-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Universities Games\nThe 2018 European University Games was the fourth biannual European Universities Games (EUG). It was held in Coimbra, Portugal from 15 July to 28 July and was organised by the European University Sports Association (EUSA) and Portuguese University Sport Federation (FADU) with the cooperation of University of Coimbra, Municipality of Coimbra, and the Academic Association of Coimbra (AAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278938-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Weightlifting Championships\nThe 2018 European Weightlifting Championships was held at the Complexul Olimpic Izvorani in Bucharest, Romania from 26 March to 1 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278938-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Weightlifting Championships\nSome countries were banned from competing at the championships due to their history of doping at previous Olympic Games. International Weightlifting Federation rules state that any country that had three positive tests uncovered by the International Olympic Committee during re-testing of stored urine samples for banned substances from the 2008 Olympic Games and 2012 Olympic Games would be banned. The banned countries are: Russia, Armenia, Turkey, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and Azerbaijan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278939-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament\nThe 2018 EHF European Wheelchair Handball Nations\u2019 Tournament was the 3rd edition and was hosted for the first time in Portugal from 1 to 2 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278940-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 32nd European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held from 2 to 5 August 2018 at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278940-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Senior, Team competition\nBelgium withdrew before the competition to preserve their gymnasts' health for individual event finals. They were replaced by first reserve Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 81], "content_span": [82, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278941-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship\nThe 2018 European Women's Handball Championship was held in France in from 29 November to 16 December 2018. It was the first time France hosts the women's tournament. The matches were played in Brest, Montb\u00e9liard, Nancy, Nantes and Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278941-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship\nFrance defeated Russia in the final to claim their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278941-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams\nAll 16 qualified teams took part in the previous 2016 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278941-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams\nNote: Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278941-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship, Draw\nThe draw was held on 12 June 2018 at 12:00 at the Maison de la Radio in Paris, France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 49], "content_span": [50, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278941-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship, Main round\nPoints obtained against qualified teams from the same group will be taken over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278941-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship, Main round, Group I\nBoth matches were scheduled for 8 December, but moved back due to the Yellow vests movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278941-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship, Final ranking and statistics, All Star Team\nThe All Star Team and awards were announced on 16 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 88], "content_span": [89, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278942-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship qualification, Qualification system\nFrance as host nation was directly qualified. 32 teams had registered for participation and compete for 15 places at the final tournament in two distinct Qualification Phases. The group winners of phase 1 advanced to phase 2. The 28 teams were divided into seven groups of four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 79], "content_span": [80, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278942-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship qualification, Qualification Phase 1\nThe groups were played in a tournament format from 9 to 11 June 2017. The group winners advanced to the second phase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 80], "content_span": [81, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278942-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship qualification, Qualification Phase 2\nThe groups were played in a home and away round-robin format from September 2017 to June 2018. The top two teams qualified for the main tournament as well as the best-ranked third placed team, where the results against the last-placed team were revoked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 80], "content_span": [81, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278942-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship qualification, Qualification Phase 2, Ranking of third-placed teams\nTo determine the best third-placed teams from the qualifying group stage which qualified directly for the final tournament, only the results against the first, and second-placed teams in their group were taken into account, while results against the fourth-placed team were not included. As a result, four matches played by each third-placed team counted for the purposes of determining the ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 111], "content_span": [112, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278943-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship squads\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation competing at the 2018 European Women's Handball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278943-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship squads\nOn 29 October 2018 every coach had to submit a list of a maximum of 28 players, whom which 16 were selected for the final tournament. Up to six replacements were granted during the tournament. The final squads were released on 28, 29, and 30 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278943-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship squads\nAge, caps and goals correct as of 29 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278943-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship squads, Group A, Denmark\nThe first 14 players were announced on 8 November 2018. Three players were added on 14 and 17 November 2018. On 30 November, Mathilde Hylleberg was cut from the squad, but was added back on 2 December. However, the next day Line Haugsted replaced her.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 68], "content_span": [69, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278943-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship squads, Group A, Sweden\nThe squad was announced on 30 October 2018. On 19 November 2018, Mikaela M\u00e4ssing replaced Johanna Westberg, who missed the tournament due to her pregnancy. On 28 November, Jessica Ryde was added to the extended squad as a 17th player, traveling with the team to France. On 6 December, Elin Hallag\u00e5rd replaced Mathilda Lundstr\u00f6m. On 9 December, Lundstr\u00f6m re-entered the squad as a replacement for Daniela Gustin, who tore her ACL in the main round match against Montenegro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278943-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship squads, Group B, France\nA 24-player squad was announced on 31 October 2018. The final squad was revealed on 26 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278943-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship squads, Group C, Netherlands\nA 22-player squad was announced on 26 October 2018. Due to a back injury, Danick Snelder missed the tournament. The final squad was revealed five days later. The Netherlands began the tournament with just 15 players in the squad. However, on 5 December, Lynn Knippenborg was added as the 16th player. On 12 December, Dione Housheer replaced Angela Malestein. On 14 December, Malestein re-entered the squad ahead of the semi-final, replacing Housheer. On 16 December, Inger Smits was added to the squad in replacement of Martine Smeets who left the semi-final against France with a calf injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278943-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Czech Republic\nA 20-player squad was announced on 3 November 2018. The final squad was revealed on 26 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 75], "content_span": [76, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278943-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Germany\nThe squad was announced on 7 November 2018. Mia Zschocke replaced Kim Naidzinavicius, who suffered a torn meniscus and missed the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 68], "content_span": [69, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278943-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Norway\nThe squad was announced on 6 November 2018. On 21 November, Silje Waade and Ingvild Bakkerud were added in an extended squad, traveling to France with the team. On 26 November, Amanda Kurtovi\u0107 had to withdraw from the squad due to an ACL injury sustained at the M\u00f8belringen Cup, with Silje Waade replacing her. On 4 December, Camilla Herrem replaced Thea M\u00f8rk in the squad due to an injury in M\u00f8rk's hamstring muscle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278943-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 European Women's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Romania\nThe squad was announced on 12 November 2018. A broken hand sidelined previously selected Ana Maria \u021aicu. Cristina Zamfir and Laura Prist\u0103vi\u021b\u0103 also missed the tournament, and were replaced by Anca Poloco\u0219er and M\u0103d\u0103lina Zamfirescu respectively. Eventually Cristina Neagu got injured before the semifinal match and was replaced by Bianca Bazaliu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 68], "content_span": [69, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278944-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships\nThe 69th UWW European Wrestling Championships was held in Kaspiysk, Dagestan, Russia, between 30 April and 6 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278944-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships, Participating nations\nOn 3 March 2018, UWW Europe, which includes 48 nations, accepted applications for the championships. On 13 March, Ukraine and Great Britain announced they would not participate at the championships due to political reasons. However, on 16 April the Ukrainian Wrestling Association overruled their decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278945-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Men's Freestyle 125 kg\nThe Men's Freestyle 125\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, is scheduled to be held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 5 and May 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278946-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Men's Freestyle 57 kg\nThe Men's Freestyle 57\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 4 and May 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278947-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling 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Greco-Roman 130\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on April 30 and May 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278956-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Men's Greco-Roman 55 kg\nThe Men's Greco-Roman 55\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on April 30 and May 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278957-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg\nThe Men's Greco-Roman 60\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 1 and May 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 212]}} {"id": 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and May 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278960-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Men's Greco-Roman 72 kg, Medalists\nIuri Lomadze won a bronze medal but he was stripped of his medal after a doping violation. As a result Daniel Cataraga was awarded the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 74], "content_span": [75, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278961-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Men's Greco-Roman 77 kg\nThe Men's Greco-Roman 77\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on April 30 and May 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278962-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg\nThe Men's Greco-Roman 82\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 1 and May 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278963-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Men's Greco-Roman 87 kg\nThe Men's Greco-Roman 87\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on April 30 and May 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278964-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Men's Greco-Roman 97 kg\nThe Men's Greco-Roman 97\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 1 and May 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278965-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Women's Freestyle 50 kg\nThe Women's Freestyle 50\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 2 and May 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278966-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Women's Freestyle 53 kg\nThe Women's Freestyle 53\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 3 and May 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278967-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Women's Freestyle 55 kg\nThe Women's Freestyle 55\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 2 and May 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278968-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Women's Freestyle 57 kg\nThe Women's Freestyle 57\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 3 and May 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278969-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Women's Freestyle 59 kg\nThe Women's Freestyle 59\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, is scheduled to be held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 2 and May 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278970-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Women's Freestyle 62 kg\nThe Women's Freestyle 62\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 3 and May 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278971-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Women's Freestyle 65 kg\nThe Women's Freestyle 65\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 3 and May 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278972-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Women's Freestyle 68 kg\nThe Women's Freestyle 68\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 2 and May 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278973-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Women's Freestyle 72 kg\nThe Women's Freestyle 72\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 3 and May 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278974-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Wrestling Championships \u2013 Women's Freestyle 76 kg\nThe Women's Freestyle 76\u00a0kg is a competition featured at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships, and was held in Kaspiysk, Russia on May 2 and May 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278975-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European Youth Weightlifting Championships\nThe 2018 European Youth Weightlifting Championships took place in Crowne Plaza Milan - Linate, San Donato Milanese, Italy from 22 to 29 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278975-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European Youth Weightlifting Championships, Medal table\nRanking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 60], "content_span": [61, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278976-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European championships international draughts\nThe 2018 European championships of international draughts were held from 16 to 22 December in Moscow, Russia, over 9 rounds Swiss-system tournament. There were 55 participants from 14 countries, including 17 grandmasters, 9 international masters and 15 masters of the FMJD. Competitions was at classic format and at superblitz. 6 sportsmen qualified for WC 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278976-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European championships international draughts\nThe winner was 18-years-old Michael Semyaniuk from Belarus, silver was for Alexander Georgiev from the Russia, third was Martijn van IJzendoorn from the Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278976-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European championships international draughts, Classic tournament, Rules and regulations\nParticipants played Swiss-system tournament with 9 rounds. To define the places with equal points used of Solkoff truncated coefficient. Time control was 1 hour 20 minutes plus a minute per move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 93], "content_span": [94, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278976-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European championships international draughts, Superblitz tournament, Rules and regulations\nParticipants played Swiss-system tournament with 7 rounds. To define the places with equal points used of Solkoff truncated coefficient. Time control was 5 minutes plus 2 seconds per move. There were 46 participants from 7 countries, including 8 grandmasters, 5 international masters and 12 masters of the FMJD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278977-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European floods\nFrom 4 October 2018 to early November, heavy floods affected Europe. The floods started in the Italian region of Calabria. Then, on 9 October, the island of Mallorca, Spain was struck by floods and in the next days some cities in Southwest France, the region of Sardinia, Italy and some parts of Portugal and the United Kingdom were also struck by flash floods. At the end of the month, Italy was struck again by heavy floods and strong winds. A total of 69 people were killed: 36 in Italy, 16 in France, 13 in Spain, 2 in the United Kingdom and 2 in Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278977-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European floods, Flooded countries\nLater, on 10 October, in the city of Cagliari, Sardinia a woman died when her car was swept away. Her husband and their three children were rescued alive. Another man is currently missing in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278977-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European floods, Flooded countries\nAt the end of October and the beginning of November, heavy floods affected the entire country, killing 32 people, thirteen of whom in the region of Sicily. Several others were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278977-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European floods, Flooded countries\nVenice flooded due to an exceptionally high tide of 156\u00a0cm (5.12 feet) (the 4th highest acqua alta since 1923), leaving 70% of the city underwater. The Dolomites mountain range, an UNESCO World Heritage Site, and most of the mountainous region in the North-Eastern Italy (for example at the Asiago plateau) suffered many landslides and flooding due to heavy rain, with extensive communication and basic services disruption, and a great percentage of its woods was levelled by hurricane-force winds up to 190\u00a0km/h (120\u00a0mph; 100\u00a0kn) during the late afternoon of 29 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278977-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European floods, Flooded countries\nTwo people died when their vehicle was swept away by floodwater in Sainte-Maxime on 10 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278977-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European floods, Flooded countries\nOn 15 October, at least 14 people died after floods affected the Aude region. A bridge also collapse in the locality of Villegailhenc, while all roads were inaccessible in Carcassonne. Damage in the region were about \u20ac200 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278977-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European floods, Flooded countries\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez has said it will take months to return the disaster-hit towns to normality. More than 300 rescue workers were active, including 200 that were searching for a missing boy, that was found dead days later, bringing the final death toll to 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278977-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European floods, Flooded countries\nOn 11 October, Rafael Nadal opened his tennis academy centre to the flood victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave\nThe 2018 European drought and heat wave was a period of unusually hot weather that led to record-breaking temperatures and wildfires in many parts of Europe during the spring and summer of 2018. It is part of a larger heat wave affecting the northern hemisphere, caused in part by the jet stream being weaker than usual, allowing hot high-pressure air to linger in the same place. According to the European Drought Observatory, most of the areas affected by drought are across northern and central Europe. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the severe heat waves across the northern hemisphere in the summer of 2018, are linked to climate change in Europe, as well as events of extreme precipitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, General\nResearchers at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and World Weather Attribution estimated that climate change more than doubled the overall likelihood of the heat wave, and in some places like Denmark made it up to five times as likely. The heat has built up for two months due to slow and weakened jet stream. One possible cause for the jet stream to be slow and weak relates to global warming. In the polar regions, the average surface temperature is rising more quickly than at mid latitudes in a phenomenon called polar amplification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, General\nMany researchers believe a strong polar amplification reduces the strength and changes the pattern of the jet stream, producing patterns like those occurring during the 2018 heat wave. Dr. Michael Mann opined that global warming may be making such heat waves even more likely than the researchers estimated, because at the time of the study the climate models could not fully account for how the jet stream is affected by global warming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, General\nThe extreme heat was blamed for forest fires and crop failures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, General\nAccording to the World Meteorological Organization, the severe heat waves across the northern hemisphere in the summer of 2018, are linked to climate change in Europe, as well as events of extreme precipitation. Results were increase in elderly mortality; severe decline in yields; the biggest algae bloom in the Baltic sea for decades, that has poisoned water both for human and animals use; shutdowns of nuclear power plants in Europe, because the water in the rivers, that is used for cooling the reactors, was too warm; and electricity grids crashing across four continents. The impacts were severe, even in the countries considered rich and well prepared to deal with the impacts of climate change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Austria\nThe west and the north of Austria were worst affected by drought; certain areas in these regions experienced up to 85% less rainfall than the 10 year average. Insurance companies estimate the damage as high as 210 million euro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Belgium\nBelgium experienced the second hottest July since regular measurements started in 1833, with an average of 22\u00a0\u00b0C. Precipitation during July was close to normal at the official weather station in Uccle; most regions however received less than 20% of the normal amount of rain for the month, which was especially true for the western part of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Belgium\nAs a whole, 2 heat waves occurred: the first one between 13 and 27 July (making this the fifth longest heat wave in history) and the second one from 29 July until 7 August. Belgium's official weather service, the KMI, defines a heat wave as a period of at least 5 days with maximum temperatures of 25\u00a0\u00b0C or higher, of which 3 days require a maximum of 30\u00a0\u00b0C or more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Croatia\nZagreb saw 19 nights in a row where temperature did not fall under 20\u00a0\u00b0C (68\u00a0\u00b0F), breaking the previous record that was set in the 2013 heat wave. Despite the lack of extreme temperatures seen the previous summer, the 2018 summer saw temperatures averaging 1.5 to 3.2\u00a0\u00b0C (2.7 to 5.8\u00a0\u00b0F) above the mean at all official weather stations and the year as a whole was the hottest on record in Zagreb, which has the tenth oldest contiguously monitoring weather station in the world, operating since 1861.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Denmark\nThe Danish summer was exceptionally dry and warm, and several records were broken: According to the Danish Meteorological Institute, May 2018 had the highest average temperature ever recorded for the month, beating the old record by 1.2\u00a0\u00b0C (2.2\u00a0\u00b0F) (recording began in 1879), the highest number of sunny hours recorded in the month (recording began in 1920), the highest temperature recorded in Copenhagen in the month (recording began in 1879), and it was the driest May in a decade. June had the highest average temperature in 26 years and it was the third driest since recording began in 1920. July was the sunniest ever recorded (recording began in 1920), and it was one of the driest and warmest ever recorded (recording began in 1879). The night between 30 and 31 July was the second-warmest on record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Denmark\nHeat increases the risk of cardiac arrest and other serious conditions in people with poor health. On 8 August, Statens Serum Institut released a report that showed an increase of about 250 deaths, primarily among elderly, in the summer of 2018 (peak in late July) compared to the norm. A similar increase was seen in neighbouring countries affected by the heat wave, including other Scandinavian countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Denmark\nThe unusually low water-levels in the Guden\u00e5, the longest Danish river, led to fears that the SS Hjejlen would run aground. Because of the drought, farmers experienced a significantly reduced harvest. Outside fires and most types of barbecue grills were initially banned locally and later throughout the country due to the risk of fire. A total of 845 wildfires, both small and large, were recorded from 1 May to 5 July, which is about 500 more than the usual. In July alone there were more than 1,000 wildfires, or almost as many as typical of an entire year. Many foreign tourists, apparently unaware of the record-breaking weather, complained about the lack of air conditioning in hotels, which usually is unnecessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Finland\nFinland experienced very high temperatures and drought, and like its neighbouring Scandinavian countries, several wildfires occurred. Its northernmost municipality of Utsjoki, north of the Arctic Circle, experienced a record-breaking temperature of 33.3\u00a0\u00b0C (92\u00a0\u00b0F) in July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, France\nThe French utility company EDF made known that on the morning of 4 August 2018 it had to shut down reactor number one of the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant. This was necessary because the nearby river which is used for cooling water had reached a critical temperature. The white storks in the Alsace region have also been suffering under the drought and heat waves. The 2018 stork generation is generally malnourished. Many are too weak to fly and crash-land when they leave the nest, resulting in fatal injuries like broken legs or wings. But 2018 did not break any temperature records in France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Germany\nBoth April and May set new temperature records as the warmest April and May since modern record-keeping began in 1881. June experienced continued heat, with average temperatures 2.4\u00a0\u00b0C (4.3\u00a0\u00b0F) above the 1961-1990 mean, while receiving only 57% of expected rainfall; July experienced average temperatures 3.3\u00a0\u00b0C (5.9\u00a0\u00b0F) above the reference period and 52% of the expected rain, making it the fourth-warmest July since modern record-keeping began. The period from April\u2013July is also the hottest and driest on record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Germany\nThe heat also caused the deaths of many freshwater fish due to reduced oxygen levels in rivers and ponds, causing firefighters to pump in more water in order to raise the levels. Near Hamburg, almost five tonnes of dead fish were collected by German authorities. On 26 July, regions in Western Germany hit 38\u00a0\u00b0C (100\u00a0\u00b0F); on 31 July 2018, the heat traveled further east where some regions hit 39\u00a0\u00b0C (102\u00a0\u00b0F). The Rhine and Elbe river recorded high water temperatures causing fish to suffocate, and low water levels made shipping worse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Germany\nThe overnight low in Berlin between 31 July and 1 August was 24.4\u00a0\u00b0C (75.9\u00a0\u00b0F), the city's warmest night since 1905. On 31 July, temperature reached 39.5\u00a0\u00b0C (103.1\u00a0\u00b0F) in Bernburg, coming 0.8\u00a0\u00b0C (1.4\u00a0\u00b0F) shy of the all-time German temperature record set in 2015. Also on 31 July, the country experienced average highs of 34\u00a0\u00b0C (93\u00a0\u00b0F).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Germany\nGerman farmers have seen the drought affect their crops, potentially ruining harvests and forcing many to harvest early. There are fears many face bankruptcy in the event of a crop failure. The German Farmer's Association have asked the government for over one billion euros in financial aid, as the expected harvest of rapeseed is down by 30% on last year and grain down by 20%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Germany\nMany German nuclear power plants reduced their electricity output, as the river temperatures were too warm to safely absorb the full amount of waste heat from their cooling systems without causing environmental damage (such as fish kills).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Greece\nOn 23 July, wildfires started in the areas of Attica, killing 102 people and wounding 172 more, and destroyed or damaged over 1,000 buildings. These are the deadliest wildfires in Greece in living memory. On 24 July a state of emergency was declared near Athens by the government. The cause of the fires is thought to be arson along with the heatwave causing the hot conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Greece\nThe Culture Ministry closed the Acropolis between 2:00 and 5:00\u00a0pm. local time on 23 July, since in Greek law, public sites can be closed if temperatures reach 36\u00a0\u00b0C (97\u00a0\u00b0F) to prevent ill health.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Hungary\nWater levels on the Danube were extremely low, even breaking records in Central Hungary (Ercsi, Dunaf\u00f6ldv\u00e1r, and Duna\u00fajv\u00e1ros)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Ireland\nMet \u00c9ireann recorded the highest June temperature in more than 40 years. An 11-day heatwave was recorded, making it the longest heatwave in 20 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Italy\nA heat wave struck the entire country, while 8 people died in Genoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Latvia\nLatvia has seen fires that have destroyed around 25,000 acres (10,000\u00a0ha) of land including peat bog, scrubland and forest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Lithuania\nThe Lithuanian government declared a state of emergency for drought.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Netherlands\nIn the Netherlands, a heat wave is defined as a period of at least five consecutive days are so called \u2018summery days\u2019 (days on which the daily maximum temperature is at least 25\u00a0\u00b0C (77\u00a0\u00b0F)), of which at least three days are \u2018tropical\u2019 (days on which the daily maximum temperature is at least 30\u00a0\u00b0C (86\u00a0\u00b0F)).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Netherlands\nThe Netherlands experienced a heat wave of 13 days starting with 15 July and to 27 July inclusive, the country's longest since the European heat wave of 2006. The highest temperature of 38.2\u00a0\u00b0C (100.8\u00a0\u00b0F) was measured in Arcen, Limburg, on 26 July. In many parts of the country authorities were planning for measures in case of water shortages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Netherlands\nA second heat wave started on 29 July, lasting 10 days until 7 August inclusive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Norway\nThe Norwegian government has imposed water restrictions and the cost of electricity is expected to rise due to a high dependency on hydro-electric generation. In the Banak peninsula in northern Norway a temperature of 32\u00a0\u00b0C (90\u00a0\u00b0F) was recorded on 30 July 2018, which is considered extremely unusual for a region located north of the Arctic Circle. In the first half of July there have been more than 40 forest fires. Oslo experienced its warmest summer day for 80 years with the maximum of 34.6\u00a0\u00b0C (94.3\u00a0\u00b0F)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Poland\nPolish authorities banned swimming at more than 50 beaches, due to the outbreak of toxic cyanobacteria, forming in warmer waters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Portugal and Spain\nPortugal's average high temperature was above 40\u00a0\u00b0C (104\u00a0\u00b0F) for 3 consecutive days (40.1 \u00b0C, 40.9 \u00b0C and 41.6 \u00b0C, respectively 2, 3 and 4 August) and 6 different municipalities recorded temperatures at or above 46\u00a0\u00b0C (115\u00a0\u00b0F) with 46.8\u00a0\u00b0C (116.2\u00a0\u00b0F) being recorded at Alvega on 4 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Portugal and Spain\nLisbon set the highest temperature of 44\u00a0\u00b0C (111\u00a0\u00b0F) on 4 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Portugal and Spain\nIn Spain, 9 people died due to the heat wave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Portugal and Spain\nThe 2018 heat wave in Catalonia took place from 25 July to 6 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Portugal and Spain\nAfter three very dry years, drought conditions in Catalonia were widespread, but the rain of the first four months of the 2018 was higher than the climatic average and the agriculture recovered from the water deficit. The spring was not very warm and the heat of summer came suddenly. July was warm. The first heat wave did not produce deaths, but the second one was really deadly: the Public Health Agency of Catalonia (Aspcat) estimated that 23 people died from heat stroke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Portugal and Spain\nMost of the deaths were in the same city of Barcelona (eleven), six in the province of Barcelona, four in Tarragona-Terres de l'Ebre, one in Girona and one in Lleida. Ten people suffered heat stroke at home, thirteen on the street and six were at work or doing sport activities. The 'Health care telephone' received 453 calls during the heat wave related to the high temperature. Blood donations fall 40% due to the heat wave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Portugal and Spain\nAccording to the Meteorological Service of Catalonia, the warmest days were 4 and 5 August. On Saturday 4, 42.3\u00a0\u00b0C were reached at the Ebre Observatory (Roquetes, Baix Ebre), 41.4\u00a0\u00b0C at Benissanet (Ribera d'Ebre) and values from 38\u00a0\u00b0C to 40\u00a0\u00b0C were recorded in various coastal areas and even by the sea. On Sunday 5, very high registers were repeated in the same sectors, up to 41.6\u00a0\u00b0C in Vinebre (Ribera d'Ebre).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Portugal and Spain\nThe minimum temperature also stayed very high during the weekend, with some values around 30\u00a0\u00b0C in the Empord\u00e0 coast (NE of Catalonia) and in the center of the city of Barcelona. The automatic weather station of Portbou (Alt Empord\u00e0) registered two consecutive nights above 30\u00a0\u00b0C, with a minimum record of 31.0\u00a0\u00b0C throughout day 4 (0-24h UTC). The night from Saturday to Sunday was exceptional in Roses (Alt Empord\u00e0), since from midnight the temperature did not fall below 31.9\u00a0\u00b0C, although at night it had measured 29.3\u00a0\u00b0C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0034-0001", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Portugal and Spain\nBetween Saturday and Sunday, the weather observer from L'Estartit (Baix Empord\u00e0) measured the warmest night of its 49 years of data: 29.2\u00a0\u00b0C of minimum temperature. The Raval automatic weather station in the centre of Barcelona city did not drop from 29.8\u00a0\u00b0C during the night from Saturday to Sunday and the minimum temperature was 29.4\u00a0\u00b0C on Saturday 4th. Also in Barcelona city, the station of Can Bruixa (31 years of data) measured a minimum temperature of 29.9\u00a0\u00b0C. These high minimum temperature values represent the highest minimum temperature since 1780 in Barcelona city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Sweden\nMay 2018 was the warmest May and July 2018 was the warmest July ever recorded in Sweden. In Stockholm, the previous monthly record of May was 13.9\u00a0\u00b0C (57.0\u00a0\u00b0F) recorded in 1993, while the recorded monthly average of May 2018 reached 16.1\u00a0\u00b0C (61.0\u00a0\u00b0F). In Stockholm the monthly average of July reached 22.5\u00a0\u00b0C (72.5\u00a0\u00b0F), making it the hottest month on record. Sweden also experienced widespread drought.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Sweden\nMore than 50 wildfires, ranging from north of the Arctic Circle to the southernmost county of Scania, occurred and have been called the most serious in the country in modern history by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency. They burned over 25,000\u00a0ha (62,000 acres), with 13,000\u00a0ha (32,000 acres) in its central K\u00e5rb\u00f6le region. On 30 July 2018, the Swedish government offered SEK\u00a01,200,000,000 in financial assistance to drought stricken farmers; one farmer said their losses could be around SEK\u00a0500,000. Extreme forest fires and continuous drought conditions due to high temperatures caused short supplies for animal food, forcing farmers to resort to imports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Sweden\nOn 30 July, the Swedish nuclear power plant Ringhals-2 was shut down, as the temperature in Kattegat sea waters exceeded the design limit 25 \u00b0C for the reactor cooling system. Ringhals 2 reopened on 3 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, Switzerland\nSwitzerland had the warmest April\u2013July period since meteorological records began in 1864. Likewise, 2018 broke the record for the least rainfall in any April\u2013July period since 1864. Fearing wildfires, authorities banned outdoor fires in the canton of Valais and in the Rhine river valley of Grisons. 18 of the 26 cantons have restricted outdoor fires in some way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278978-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 European heat wave, By country, United Kingdom\nFrom the start of June to mid-July the UK underwent their driest summer in modern records. A heatwave was officially declared on 22 June and it caused widespread drought, hosepipe bans and the 2018 United Kingdom wildfires. These series of wildfires worst affected moorland areas of the UK around the Greater Manchester region, the largest of which being at Saddleworth Moor and Winter Hill which together burned over 14 square miles (36\u00a0km2) over a period of nearly a month. On 29 June, Northern Ireland Water introduced the first hosepipe ban in Northern Ireland since 1995. The highest temperature reached according to the Met Office was 35.3\u00a0\u00b0C (95.5\u00a0\u00b0F) in Faversham, Kent on 26 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278979-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Everest Premier League\nThe 2018 Everest Premier League, also known as EPL3 or 2018 TVS EPL because of the sponsorship reason, was the third edition of the Everest Premier League, a professional men's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition in Nepal. The tournament was held from 8 December 2018 to 22 December 2018. Biratnagar Warriors were defending champions for the tournament but they were eliminated in the group stage. Lalitpur Patriots won the 2018 season and it's their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278979-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Everest Premier League, Players Release and Bidding\nThe players release and bidding process was held on 11 November 2018 and broadcast live on the official Facebook page of EPL in the presence of Raman Shiwakoti, chief of EPL technical committee and the manager of Nepal men's national cricket team. In the player release and bidding process, each team could release maximum of three players and they could bid for the released players as well as the unsold players and the players who did not register for 2017 EPL auction. Hari Chauhan was the most bidded player (NPR 85,000) in the process by Biratnagar Warriors. Tigers acquired Sagar Dhakal and Adil Khan. Kings XI brought in Samsaad Sheikh while Rhinos secured Shubhendu Pandey and Nandan Yadav. Gladiators did not bid and Patriots did not release any players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278979-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Everest Premier League, Teams and Squads\nThe marquee players from the 2017 Everest Premier League were retained by their respective teams as a part of a three year agreement. The franchise teams are obliged to select at least three foreign players and one local player from the talent hunt program as per the Everest Premier League regulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship\nThe 2018 Evian Championship was played 13\u201316 September at the Evian Resort Golf Club in \u00c9vian-les-Bains, France. It was the 25th Evian Championship (the first 20 played as the Evian Masters), and the sixth as a major championship on the LPGA Tour. The event was televised by Golf Channel and NBC Sports in the United States and Sky Sports in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship\nAt the age of 40, Angela Stanford won her first major championship on her 76th appearance in a major. Four players tied for second place, a stroke behind, including Amy Olson who came to the last hole needing a par to win but made a double-bogey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\nThe field for the tournament is set at 120, and most earn exemptions based on past performance on the Ladies European Tour, the LPGA Tour, or with a high ranking in the Women's World Golf Rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\nThere are 15 exemption categories for the 2018 Evian Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\nNatalie Gulbis, Rachel Heck (a), Alana Uriell (a), Albane Valenzuela (a)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\n3. Winner of the SGF 67 Evian Asia Challenge (South Korea)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\n4. Top two players from the PHC Classic on the Symetra Tour", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\n5. The top 40 in the Women's World Golf Rankings, as of 14 August 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\nMarina Alex (9), Brittany Altomare (12), Chun In-gee (6,8), Carlota Ciganda, Austin Ernst, Shanshan Feng (9,12), Georgia Hall (8,9,10,11,12), Nasa Hataoka (9), Brooke Henderson (8,9), Charley Hull, Ji Eun-hee (9), Ariya Jutanugarn (8,9,10), Moriya Jutanugarn (9,12), Danielle Kang (8), Cristie Kerr (9,10), Kim Hyo-joo (6,8), Kim Sei-young (9,12), Ko Jin-young (9), Lydia Ko (6,8,9,12), Jessica Korda (9), Nelly Korda, Lee Jeong-eun, Minjee Lee (9,10), Brittany Lincicome (8,9), Pernilla Lindberg (8,9), Anna Nordqvist (6,8,12), Inbee Park (7,8,9), Park Sung-hyun (8,9), Ryu So-yeon (8,9), Lizette Salas, Lexi Thompson (8), Amy Yang", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\n7. Active Evian Masters Champions (must have played in 10 LPGA Tour or LET events from 4 September 2017 to 4 September 2018)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\n8. Winners of the other women's majors for the last five yearsBrittany Lang, Mo Martin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\nAditi Ashok, C\u00e9line Boutier, Ashleigh Buhai, Camille Chevalier, Caroline Hedwall, Meghan MacLaren, Azahara Mu\u00f1oz, Kanyalak Preedasuttijit, Angel Yin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\n11. The top five on the LET Order of Merit, as of 4 September", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\n12. Top 10 and ties from the 2017 Evian Championship", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\n15. LPGA Tour money list, as of 4 September (if needed to fill the field to 120)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Field\nNicole Broch Larsen, Sandra Changkija, Pei-Yun Chien, Chella Choi, Cydney Clanton, Jacqui Concolino, Daniela Darquea, Brianna Do, Lindy Duncan, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Sandra Gal, Hannah Green, Jaye Marie Green, Mina Harigae, C\u00e9line Herbin, Daniela Holmqvist, Wei-Ling Hsu, M. J. Hur, Caroline Inglis, Tiffany Joh, Haeji Kang, Megan Khang, Christina Kim, Bronte Law, Lee Jeong-eun, Mirim Lee, Yu Liu, Gaby L\u00f3pez, Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Brittany Marchand, Caroline Masson, Catriona Matthew, Ally McDonald, Wichanee Meechai, Benyapa Niphatsophon, Su-Hyun Oh, Amy Olson, Ryann O'Toole, Lee-Anne Pace, Park Hee-young, Jane Park, Pornanong Phatlum, Morgan Pressel, Beatriz Recari, Robynn Ree, Madelene Sagstr\u00f6m, Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong, Alena Sharp, Jenny Shin, Sarah Jane Smith, Mariah Stackhouse, Angela Stanford, Emma Talley, Kris Tamulis, Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras, Maria Torres, Mariajo Uribe, Sakura Yokomine", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 941]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Round summaries, First round\nCarlota Ciganda and Maria Torres shot 6-under-par rounds of 65 to lead by one stroke over Austin Ernst. The defending champion, Anna Nordqvist, shot 71.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nFirst round co-leader Maria Torres shot a 69 to remain in a first-place tie with Lee Mi-hyang, Mo Martin, and Amy Olson at 134 (\u22128). The other first round co-leader, Carlota Ciganda, dropped to 5th place at 135. Defending champion Anna Nordqvist was tied for 30th at 141. World number 1 Park Sung-hyun missed the cut by three strokes with a 148.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278980-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Evian Championship, Round summaries, Third round\nAmy Olson shot a second straight 65 to take a two-stroke lead over Kim Sei-young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278981-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Exeter City Council election\nThe 2018 Exeter City Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect a third (13/39) of the members of Exeter City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The election result left the council with the same political make up as it had before the election, with Labour in control with 29 seats and the Conservatives as the main opposition party, returning with 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278981-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Exeter City Council election, Background\nAt the previous election in 2016 election, Labour remained in control of the council with 30 councillors out of 39. In February 2017, Labour Councillor Chris Musgrave defected to the Green Party, leaving them with 29 seats going into the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278981-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Exeter City Council election, Council composition\nAfter the previous election, the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278982-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Extreme Sailing Series\nThe 2018 Extreme Sailing Series was a series of GC32 catamaran class sailing events staged during 2018. The series began in March in Muscat, Oman, and the final event took place in Los Cabos, Mexico in late November and early December. The 2018 season was also the last season before the collapse of the Extreme Sailing Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278982-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Extreme Sailing Series, Events\nThe 2018 series consisted of seven acts across three continents, and included the inaugural G32 World Championship in Riva del Garda, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278983-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 F1 Powerboat World Championship\nThe 2018 UIM F1 H2O World Championship is the 35th season of Formula 1 Powerboat racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278983-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 F1 Powerboat World Championship, Results and standings\nPoints are awarded to the top 10 classified finishers. A maximum of two boats per team are eligible for points in the teams' championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278984-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 F3 Americas Championship\nThe 2018 F3 Americas Championship powered by Honda was the inaugural season for the all-new FIA Formula 3 regional series across North America, sanctioned by SCCA Pro Racing, the professional racing division of the Sports Car Club of America. This was the third season in total for Formula 3 racing in the United States, which was last run in 2001 with the United States Formula Three Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278984-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 F3 Americas Championship\nThe season began on 4 August at Pittsburgh International Race Complex and concluded on 21 October at Circuit of the Americas, after 17 races to be held at 6 meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278984-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 F3 Americas Championship, Race calendar\nAll races were held on permanent road courses in the United States. The series schedule was announced on May 9, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278984-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 F3 Americas Championship, Championship standings, Drivers' standings\nBold\u00a0\u2013 PoleItalics\u00a0\u2013 Fastest Lap\u2020\u00a0\u2014 Did not finish, but classified", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278985-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 F3 Asian Championship\nThe 2018 F3 Asian Championship was a multi-event, Formula 3 open-wheel single seater motor racing championship held across Asia. The championship features a mix of professional and amateur drivers, competing in Formula 3 cars that conform to the FIA Formula 3 regulations for the championship. This is the inaugural season of the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278985-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 F3 Asian Championship\nThe season commenced on 14 July at Sepang International Circuit and concluded on 25 November at the same venue, after fifteen races to be held at five meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278986-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 British Championship\nThe 2018 F4 British Championship was a multi-event, Formula 4 open-wheel single seater motor racing championship held across United Kingdom. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, competing in Formula 4 cars that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. This, the fourth season, following on from the British Formula Ford Championship, was the fourth year that the cars conformed to the FIA's Formula 4 regulations. Part of the TOCA tour, it formed part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the BTCC centrepiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278986-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 British Championship\nThe season commenced on 7 April at Brands Hatch\u00a0\u2013 on the circuit's Indy configuration\u00a0\u2013 and concluded on 30 September at the same venue, utilising the Grand Prix circuit, after thirty races held at ten meetings, all in support of the 2018 British Touring Car Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278986-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 British Championship, Race calendar\nThe calendar was announced on 5 June 2017. All races were held in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278986-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 British Championship, Championship standings, Rookie Cup\nBold\u00a0\u2013 PoleItalics\u00a0\u2013 Fastest Lap\u2020\u00a0\u2014 Did not finish, but classified", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278986-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 British Championship, Championship standings, Teams Cup\nEach team nominated two drivers to score points before every round. All non-nominated drivers were ignored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278987-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 Danish Championship\nThe 2018 F4 Danish Championship season was the second season of the F4 Danish Championship. The season began at Padborg Park in April and concluded at Jyllandsringen in October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278987-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 Danish Championship, Championship standings\nPoints are awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in each race. No points are awarded for pole position or fastest lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278988-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 Japanese Championship\nThe 2018 F4 Japanese Championship season was the fourth season of the F4 Japanese Championship. It began on 7 April in Okayama and finished on 11 November on Twin Ring Motegi after seven double header rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278988-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 Japanese Championship, Race calendar and results\nAll rounds were held in Japan and were part of the Super GT events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278988-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 Japanese Championship, Championship standings, Drivers' standings\nBold\u00a0\u2013 PoleItalics\u00a0\u2013 Fastest Lap\u2020\u00a0\u2014 Did not finish, but classified", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278989-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 Spanish Championship\nThe 2018 F4 Spanish Championship was the third season of the Spanish F4 Championship. It was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars regulated according to FIA Formula 4 regulations, taking place in Spain. The championship featured drivers competing in 1.4 litre Tatuus-Abarth single seat race cars that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. The series was organised by RFEDA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278989-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 Spanish Championship, Race calendar\nThe provisional calendar was announced on 23 November 2017. An updated version of the calendar was released on 23 January 2018, with changes applied to Jerez round date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278989-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 Spanish Championship, Race calendar\nOn 1 June, it was announced the organizers cancelled round 2 at the Circuito del Jarama in Madrid due to lack of entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278989-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 F4 Spanish Championship, Championship\nPoints were awarded to the top ten classified finishers in races 1 and 3 and for the top eight classified finishers in race 2. No points were awarded for pole position or fastest lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278990-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Community Shield\nThe 2018 FA Community Shield (also known as The FA Community Shield supported by McDonald's for sponsorship reasons) was the 96th FA Community Shield, an annual football match played between the title holders of the Premier League and FA Cup. It was contested by Manchester City, champions of the 2017\u201318 Premier League, and Chelsea, the winners of the 2017\u201318 FA Cup, at Wembley Stadium in London on 5 August 2018. Manchester City won 2\u20130, with both goals scored by Sergio Ag\u00fcero, who was named man of the match for his performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278990-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Community Shield, Background\nThis was Maurizio Sarri's first competitive match in charge of Chelsea; meanwhile, it was Pep Guardiola's second cup final as the manager of Manchester City, following their victory over Arsenal in the 2018 EFL Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278990-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Community Shield, Background\nManchester City qualified for the competition by winning the 2017\u201318 Premier League with a record 100 points, the first of any English club in the top-flight since the introduction of the three points for a win rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278990-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Community Shield, Background\nChelsea were looking to win the Community Shield for the first time since 2009, when they beat Manchester United 4\u20131 on penalties. They had failed to win any of their last four appearances in the competition. Manchester City had won their last two matches at Wembley, both in 2017\u201318 \u2013 beating Arsenal 3\u20130 in the EFL Cup Final in February and Tottenham Hotspur 3\u20131 in the league in April; however, they had not won three consecutive matches at Wembley since March 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278990-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Community Shield, Background\nThe two sides faced each other in the Community Shield once previously, in 2012, a match won 3\u20132 by Manchester City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278990-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Community Shield, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Adam Nunn (Wiltshire)Eddie Smart (West Midlands)Fourth official:Paul Tierney (Lancashire)Reserve assistant referee:Dan Cook (Hampshire)Video assistant referee:Stuart Attwell (West Midlands)Assistant video assistant referee:Andrew Halliday (Army)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final\nThe 2018 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Manchester United and Chelsea on 19 May 2018 at Wembley Stadium in London, England. It was the 137th FA Cup final overall and was the showpiece match of English football's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (FA Cup), organised by the Football Association (FA). It was the second successive final for Chelsea following their defeat by Arsenal the previous year. The teams had met twice before in the FA Cup Final, winning one each between them. The first was in 1994, which Manchester United won 4\u20130, and most recently in 2007, when Chelsea \u2013 then managed by the incumbent Manchester United boss Jos\u00e9 Mourinho \u2013 won 1\u20130 after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final\nMichael Oliver refereed the match which was notable for being the first FA Cup Final to use the video assistant referee (VAR) system. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and President of the FA, was absent as he was attending his brother's wedding. The trophy was instead presented by Jackie Wilkins, the widow of former Manchester United and Chelsea player Ray Wilkins, who died in April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final\nThe match was played in sunny conditions in front of a Wembley crowd of 87,647. After a relatively even start to the match, on 21 minutes, Chelsea's Eden Hazard was brought down in the Manchester United box and Oliver awarded a penalty. Hazard scored from the spot to make it 1\u20130 to Chelsea, a lead they maintained to half time. Manchester United dominated the second half, and saw a 63rd-minute goal from Alexis S\u00e1nchez ruled out for offside after being referred to VAR. The match ended 1\u20130 to Chelsea who won the FA Cup for the eighth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final\nAs winners, Chelsea qualified for the group stage of the 2018\u201319 UEFA Europa League, although they had qualified for that phase already via their league position. Chelsea also earned the right to play 2017\u201318 Premier League champions Manchester City for the 2018 FA Community Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Chelsea\nChelsea as a Premier League team entered the FA Cup in the third round, and were drawn against Championship club Norwich City on 7 January at Carrow Road. Chelsea made nine changes to their starting eleven from their previous league match against Arsenal but still dominated the match, which ended goalless. The replay was held 11 days later and was a 1\u20131 draw with goals from Michy Batshuayi in the 55th minute and Jamal Lewis in the 90th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Chelsea\nThe match went into extra time, during which Chelsea were reduced to nine men when both Pedro and \u00c1lvaro Morata were dismissed, each for two yellow cards. With no further goals, the match went to a penalty shootout that Chelsea won 5\u20133 after their goalkeeper Willy Caballero saved N\u00e9lson Oliveira's spot kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Chelsea\nThe match was also notable for what the BBC reporter Emlyn Begley described as the \"first video refereeing controversy\" in English football when, after deliberation with VAR, Willian was booked for diving when he was brought down by Timm Klose in the Norwich penalty area; Alan Shearer described the decision as a \"shambles\". In the fourth round, Chelsea met Premier League opposition Newcastle United at Stamford Bridge, and won 3\u20130 with two goals from Batshuayi and one from Marcos Alonso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Chelsea\nIn the fifth round, Chelsea faced Hull City, another Championship team, at home. Chelsea were dominant, scoring four times in the first half with goals from Willian (2), Pedro and Olivier Giroud, winning the game 4\u20130. In the quarter-finals, they visited the King Power Stadium to face fellow Premier League opponents Leicester City, where a goal for Chelsea from Morata and a Leicester equaliser from Jamie Vardy took the game to extra time. Substitute Pedro came off the bench and scored the winning goal to take Chelsea to the semi-final. There, they played Premier League opposition in Southampton at Wembley, and goals from strikers Giroud and Morata saw Chelsea win 2\u20130, and progress to the FA Cup Final for the second successive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Manchester United\nLike Chelsea, Manchester United entered the cup in the third round because of their Premier League status. They were drawn at home against Championship side Derby County. Despite making five changes to the starting line-up from their previous league match, the Manchester United manager Jos\u00e9 Mourinho fielded a strong side, including Juan Mata, Paul Pogba, Marcus Rashford and Henrikh Mkhitaryan. United dominated the game and won 2\u20130 with late goals from Jesse Lingard and substitute Romelu Lukaku. Their fourth round opponents were League Two club Yeovil Town, the lowest ranked team remaining in the competition. Mourinho made ten changes for the match, played at Huish Park, which ended in a 4\u20130 victory for United with goals from Rashford, Ander Herrera, Lingard and Lukaku.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 56], "content_span": [57, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Manchester United\nIn the fifth round, Manchester United were drawn against fellow Premier League side Huddersfield Town away at Kirklees Stadium. Although Mata had a goal ruled out following a controversial VAR review, Lukaku scored in each half to secure a 2\u20130 win. In the quarter-finals, they played Premier League Brighton & Hove Albion at Old Trafford. Lukaku scored in the 37th minute and with Brighton's J\u00fcrgen Locadia missing four chances to equalise, a late goal from Nemanja Mati\u0107, the United midfielder, secured his side 2\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 56], "content_span": [57, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Manchester United\nIn the semi-final at Wembley Stadium, Manchester United faced fellow Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, who took an early lead through Dele Alli. Alexis S\u00e1nchez equalised midway through the first half with a header from Pogba's cross past the Tottenham goalkeeper Michel Vorm. Herrera then put United ahead in the second half and his team held on for the 2\u20131 win and progression to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 56], "content_span": [57, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Background\nThe 2018 final was the last match of the 2017\u201318 FA Cup and the 137th final of the FA Cup, the world's oldest football cup competition. This was Chelsea's thirteenth FA Cup final, having last progressed to the final the previous season where they lost 2\u20131 to Arsenal. Chelsea had won the cup on seven occasions, the most recent being in the 2012 FA Cup Final where they defeated Liverpool 2\u20131. Manchester United had featured in nineteen finals prior to 2018: their most recent appearance was in the 2016 final when they needed extra time to beat Crystal Palace 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Background\nThe 2018 final was the third to see Manchester United and Chelsea face one another: United won the 1994 FA Cup Final 4\u20130 while Chelsea were 1\u20130 winners in the 2007 final. In the two meetings between the clubs during the 2017\u201318 Premier League, Chelsea won 1\u20130 at Stamford Bridge in November 2017 while Manchester United won 2\u20131 at Old Trafford the following February. The season ended with Manchester United in second place, and Chelsea fifth, eleven points behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Background\nTributes for former Chelsea and Manchester United midfielder Ray Wilkins, who died on 4 April, were held before the match on the hoardings and the screens in the stadium, as well as a feature in the matchday programme. Wilkins won the FA Cup with both sides; in the 1983 final for United, and three times as assistant manager of Chelsea \u2013 in the 2000, 2009 and 2010 finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Background\nThe traditional performance of the hymn, \"Abide with Me\" was performed by the choir of the Royal Air Force and 14 individual fans of 14 different clubs with a flypast by three Royal Air Force Typhoons. The national anthem, \"God Save the Queen\", was sung by soprano Emily Haig who also performed it at the 2018 FA Women's Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Background\nThe referee for the match was 33-year-old Michael Oliver from Northumberland. He previously officiated when these two sides met in the previous season's quarter-final, in which he sent off Manchester United's Herrera. Oliver became the youngest FA Cup final referee since the 1914 FA Cup Final between Burnley and Liverpool which was officiated by the 32-year-old Herbert Bamlett. Oliver's assistants were Ian Hussin from Liverpool and Lee Betts from Norfolk. The fourth official was Lee Mason of Lancashire, and the fifth official was Constantine Hatzidakis from Kent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Background\nFor the first time in the final, there was a VAR, Neil Swarbrick of Lancashire. His assistant was Mick McDonough, also of Northumberland. The ball for the match was an FA Cup-branded variant of the Nike Ordem V, and featured the names of 137 players who had scored goals during the 2017\u201318 FA Cup season, in every round from the extra preliminary round through to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Background\nMourinho had made nine changes to his starting line-up for the final Premier League match against Watford the previous weekend. Of that eleven, just three were retained for the FA Cup final: Ashley Young, Rashford and S\u00e1nchez. Lukaku had also recovered from an ankle injury sustained in April to be selected amongst the substitutes. S\u00e1nchez and Giroud became the first players to appear in consecutive FA Cup finals but for different clubs since Brian Talbot accomplished the feat representing Ipswich Town in the 1978 final and Arsenal the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Background\nThe Chelsea manager Antonio Conte made three changes from the team which lost in the league match against Newcastle United 3\u20130: Andreas Christensen, Emerson and Ross Barkley were dropped for Antonio R\u00fcdiger, Alonso and Cesc F\u00e0bregas. Speculation had surrounded Conte's position as Chelsea manager for several months. He confirmed that his future with the club would be clarified after the FA Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, First half\nThe match, played in sunny conditions in front of a crowd of 87,647, was kicked off by Manchester United just after 5:15\u00a0p.m. Two minutes into the game, Alonso was fouled by Herrera, but the resulting free kick from F\u00e0bregas went straight to the Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea. Six minutes later, Lingard was brought down by the Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kant\u00e9 who conceded a free kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, First half\nFrom the set piece, Young's cross was cleared by Gary Cahill but a mistake from Phil Jones allowed Eden Hazard an opportunity: his shot was saved by the outstretched leg of De Gea. In the fourteenth minute, Chelsea's Ti\u00e9mou\u00e9 Bakayoko fell in the United penalty area after contact with Mati\u0107, but Oliver decided no foul had been made. Two minutes later, S\u00e1nchez also made an unsuccessful claim for a penalty after contact with both Victor Moses and C\u00e9sar Azpilicueta sent him to the ground in the Chelsea box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0012-0002", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, First half\nAfter 21 minutes, Hazard received a pass from F\u00e0bregas and made a run into Manchester United's box, where he was fouled by Jones with a sliding tackle, who received the first yellow card of the game. Oliver awarded a penalty which Hazard himself took, sending the ball low to the right past United goalkeeper De Gea to make it 1\u20130 to Chelsea. It was the first penalty scored outside a shootout in the FA Cup Final since Ruud van Nistelrooy scored for Manchester United in the 2004 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, First half\nIn the 26th minute, Pogba was fouled, allowing S\u00e1nchez to send a free kick toward Herrera. His misplaced shot ended back with S\u00e1nchez whose cross for Pogba was deflected out by R\u00fcdiger: the resulting corner came to nothing. Pogba then shot wide of Thibaut Courtois' goal before a S\u00e1nchez strike from 25 yards (23\u00a0m) went off-target. On 35 minutes, S\u00e1nchez fouled Bakayoko on the edge of the United area, but the resulting free kick from F\u00e0bregas struck the wall and was cleared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, First half\nThree minutes later, Pogba won a corner from which S\u00e1nchez tried to score directly, but F\u00e0bregas cleared at the near post. Chris Smalling then conceded a corner from another Chelsea free kick: F\u00e0bregas' ball was punched away by De Gea. A minute before half time, Young was fouled by Moses. The free kick resulted in a corner for United, from which Young's cross was headed past Chelsea's right-hand goalpost by Jones. Rashford then missed a chance and the half ended 1\u20130 to Chelsea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Second half\nNo changes to either team were made during half time and Chelsea kicked off the second half. Seven minutes in, Young was fouled by Moses and United were awarded a free kick which was taken by Rashford. Pogba missed his header and Courtois was able to punch the ball clear. Two minutes later, Young received the ball from Herrera but chipped his shot over the Chelsea crossbar. Herrera then sent Antonio Valencia clear in the Chelsea box: he chose to pass to Rashford whose strike was cleared by Courtois, before Pogba's attempt was gathered by the goalkeeper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Second half\nIn the 57th minute, a corner from Pogba was cleared, and Hazard's quick break was ended by a Valencia foul for which he received the second booking of the game. Mati\u0107 then shot wide of the Chelsea goal before Hazard's strike was saved by De Gea at the other end of the pitch. On 63 minutes, Rashford was brought down, winning a free kick which he took himself, finding Jones in the middle of the Chelsea penalty area. His header to the bottom-right corner was goal-bound but Courtois pushed it away, only for S\u00e1nchez to knee the ball into the net. The goal was subsequently disallowed as S\u00e1nchez was adjudged to have been in an offside position, which was then confirmed by VAR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Second half\nUnited continued to dominate the second half but in the 71st minute, Chelsea's Kant\u00e9 made a run into the United penalty area and passed to Alonso whose shot was parried by De Gea. Moses attempted to take the rebound past Young, but the ball deflected off the United player's arm. Appeals for a penalty were turned down with VAR making the decision. In the 73rd minute, Rashford was sent clear by Lingard, but his shot was saved by Courtois. United then made the first substitutions of the afternoon, with Lingard and Rashford being replaced by Anthony Martial and Lukaku.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Second half\nTwo minutes later, a shot from Martial was deflected and caught by Courtois before a clash of heads between Giroud and Jones meant the United defender had to leave the pitch for medical attention. With ten minutes remaining, a 25-yard (23\u00a0m) strike from Mati\u0107 was pushed away by the United goalkeeper for a corner, from which Azpilicueta's deflected shot was caught by De Gea. Pogba then sent a header wide of the Chelsea goal before S\u00e1nchez's shot from 20 yards (18\u00a0m) went just wide of the post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0015-0002", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Second half\nWith three minutes of the match left, Mata came on for Jones before Martial's lofted shot went high over the goal. In the 89th minute Chelsea made their first substitution with Morata coming on for Giroud, and shortly after, Hazard was replaced by Willian. Five minutes of additional time were indicated, and three minutes in, Courtois was booked for time-wasting. Despite late chances for both sides, no further goals were scored and the match ended 1\u20130 to Chelsea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Ian Hussin (Liverpool)Lee Betts (Norfolk)Fourth official:Lee Mason (Lancashire)Fifth official:Constantine Hatzidakis (Kent)Video assistant referee:Neil Swarbrick (Lancashire)Assistant video assistant referee:Mick McDonough (Northumberland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nAs President of The Football Association, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge would normally have attended the final and presented the trophy to the winning captain at the conclusion of the game. However, as the final was scheduled for the same day as his brother's wedding, for which he was serving as best man, the trophy was instead presented by Jackie Wilkins, the widow of former Manchester United and Chelsea player Ray Wilkins, who died in April 2018. Chelsea's R\u00fcdiger was named man of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nCahill, the winning captain, said \"We had a lot of defending to do\u00a0... This is a dream come true, as this is the first one as captain\". Hazard added: \"We tried to defend well. We scored one goal, it's enough today.\" Conte was upbeat: \"I'm very satisfied because today was very difficult\u00a0... It showed great desire to finish the season in the right way despite the great difficulty we have had\". Mourinho was indignant in defeat: \"I congratulate them because they won, but I don\u2019t think they deserve to win. I congratulate because I am a sportsman.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nHe also opined: \"Every defeat hurts, but for me personally the ones that hurt less are when you give everything and you go without any regrets\". BBC Sport correspondent Phil McNulty highlighted the performance of the Chelsea players Hazard, Courtois, Kant\u00e9, Cahill and R\u00fcdiger, while criticising United trio Jones, S\u00e1nchez and Pogba. Sam Wallace, writing in The Daily Telegraph declared that \"this was a dreadful final\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nChelsea won \u00a31.8\u00a0million for winning the final and became the first club to win the FA Cup, the Women's FA Cup and the FA Youth Cup in the same season. As winners, Chelsea qualified for the group stage of the 2018\u201319 UEFA Europa League, although they had qualified for that phase already via their league position. This meant that Arsenal, who finished sixth in the league, gained qualification for the Europa League. Chelsea also earned the right to play 2017\u201318 Premier League champions Manchester City for the 2018 FA Community Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278991-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nIt was the first time that Mourinho had lost a cup final in charge of an English team, after seven consecutive victories, and the defeat sealed his third-ever full season without winning silverware. It was the first domestic cup won by Conte, who lost the 2012 Coppa Italia Final with Juventus and the previous season's FA Cup Final as Chelsea manager. Conte was sacked by Chelsea in July 2018 before becoming the manager of Inter Milan on a three-year deal beginning with the 2019\u201320 Serie A season. He was replaced by Maurizio Sarri the following day. Mourinho remained through the summer at Manchester United, but, that December, with Manchester United 19 points behind the league leaders Liverpool, he was dismissed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278992-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Trophy Final\nThe 2018 FA Trophy Final was a football match between Brackley Town and Bromley on 20 May 2018. It was the final match of the 2017\u201318 FA Trophy, the 49th season of the FA Trophy. Both teams were making their first appearances in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278993-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Vase Final\nThe 2018 FA Vase Final was the 44th final of the Football Association's cup competition for teams at levels 9\u201311 of the English football league system. The match was contested between Stockton Town, of the Northern League Division One, and Thatcham Town, of the Hellenic League Premier Division. This was the first time both teams had reached the final and the first visit to Wembley Stadium for both sides. The final of the FA Trophy was played on the same day at the same venue for the third year running, as part of the FA's Non-League Finals Day. Both matches were televised in the UK on BT Sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278993-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Vase Final\nStockton Town began their campaign in the second qualifying round, with a victory over Consett. They proceeded to defeat Whickham, Bootle, City of Liverpool, West Auckland Town, Stourport Swifts, Windsor and Marske United en route to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278993-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Vase Final\nThatcham Town started in the first round of the competition, where they defeated Horsham YMCA. Victories over Broadbridge Heath, Sevenoaks Town, Biggleswade, Bromsgrove Sporting, Melksham Town and 1874 Northwich saw them reach the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278993-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Vase Final, Background\nThe final will be the first appearance for both sides in a national cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278993-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Vase Final, Background\nStockton Town play their league football in the Northern League Division One, following promotion from the second division in the previous season. The 2017\u201318 season was their first season at level nine of the pyramid and only their third season playing in the FA Vase since their first appearance in the 1982\u201383 season. Their best run in the competition was reaching the second round in the 2016\u201317 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278993-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Vase Final, Background\nThatcham Town play in the Hellenic League Premier Division. Thatcham won the league prior to the final on goal difference, finishing on 98 points, to earn promotion to the Southern Football League. They won thirty-one of their thirty-eight league matches, drawing five and losing just two. They embarked on a forty match unbeaten run, in all competitions, before the final - ending with a 2\u20131 defeat against Binfield two games before to the final. Their previous best run in the competition was a quarter-final appearance in the 1988\u201389 season, where they were defeated by Berkshire rivals Hungerford Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278994-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FA WSL Cup Final\nThe 2018 FA WSL Cup Final was the seventh final of the FA WSL Cup, England's secondary cup competition for women's football teams and its primary league cup tournament. It took place on the 14 March 2018, at Adams Park, contested by Arsenal and Manchester City, the only two teams to have ever won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278994-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FA WSL Cup Final\nArsenal have competed in all but one of the previous finals, whereas Manchester City have only previously appeared in two but have won both of them. The two teams have previously played out the match in the 2014 FA WSL Cup final, which Manchester City won by a goal to nil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278994-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FA WSL Cup Final\nArsenal won the match 1\u20130, with a first-half goal from Vivianne Miedema.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278994-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FA WSL Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal\nArsenal's journey to the final began in the Group Stage, where they were drawn against Reading - who would go on to be a close rival in the league - as well as mostly lower-half FA WSL 2 teams London Bees, Millwall Lionesses and Watford. Games against the former and the latter would turn out to be easy and result in large winning margins, while a high-scoring away match against Millwall would result in a 5\u20132 victory. The goals scored in these matches would still not ultimately prove enough to secure Arsenal first place in their group, however, as the home tie against Reading finished with a disappointing 2\u20131 loss, and Arsenal qualified for the knock-outs in second behind their WSL 1 rival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278994-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FA WSL Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal\nProgressing through to the quarter-finals Arsenal were drawn against Group One North winners Sunderland at home, who they would proceed to defeat by a two-goal margin in what would be new manager Joe Montemurro's first game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278994-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FA WSL Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal\nThey would then come up against Group Stage opponents Reading for a second time, this time being drawn away to the Berkshire team in the semi-finals. Once again they did not find their opponents easy, going down by a goal on two occasions before two late goals put them on top and through to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278994-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FA WSL Cup Final, Route to the final, Manchester City\nIn contrast to Arsenal, Manchester City were given a tougher Group Stage challenge with previous finalist Birmingham City, fellow WSL 1 team Everton and 2016 WSL 1 side Doncaster Rovers Belles joining City in a group which also featured WSL 2 mid-table side Oxford United. In their first game City defeated Oxford by six clear goals before fighting to a late home victory by the odd goal in three against Everton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278994-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 FA WSL Cup Final, Route to the final, Manchester City\nA third victory was clocked up in their home match against Birmingham with two first half goals settling the tie to give City an early qualification for the next phase and the Group Stage was wrapped up in a 3\u20132 away win over Doncaster which saw three goals in four second half minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278994-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FA WSL Cup Final, Route to the final, Manchester City\nHaving qualified for the knock-out rounds with a perfect record, City were drawn against Group Two South runners-up Bristol City, whose men's team would meet City's own male contingent in the latter stages of their own league cup less than a month later, but defeated them by a slightly more comfortable two goals to nil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278994-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FA WSL Cup Final, Route to the final, Manchester City\nIn their semi-final, City were then drawn away again to Chelsea, pitting together the only two teams in English women's football with undefeated records by the half-way point of the season. In their first meeting of 2017\u201318 City were triumphant by a single early goal from debutant Nadia Nadim, putting them through to a third final in four seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278995-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Women's Cup Final\nThe 2018 FA Women's Cup Final was the 48th final of the FA Women's Cup, England's primary cup competition for women's football teams. The showpiece event was the 25th to be played directly under the auspices of the Football Association (FA) and was named the SSE Women's FA Cup Final due to sponsorship reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278995-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Women's Cup Final\nThe final was contested between Arsenal Ladies and Chelsea Ladies on 5 May 2018 at Wembley Stadium in London. The match was broadcast on BBC1. Chelsea won the match 3\u20131 in front of a record crowd of 45,423 to clinch their second title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278995-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FA Women's Cup Final, In popular culture\nAhead of the game, Subbuteo launched an all-women game set for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup\nThe 2018 FAI Cup (known as the Irish Daily Mail FAI Cup for sponsorship purposes) was the 98th edition of the Republic of Ireland's primary national cup competition. It began with the qualifying round on 21 April 2018, and concluded with the final on 4 November 2018. The winner qualified for the 2019\u201320 Europa League first qualifying round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup\nCork City were the defending champions but lost in the final 2\u20131 to Dundalk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup, Qualifying round\nThe draw for the qualifying round was made on 4 April 2018. FAI President Tony Fitzgerald was joined by Dundalk goalkeeper and three-time winner Gary Rogers and Irish Daily Mail Circulation Manager, David Vaz, to perform the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 30], "content_span": [31, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup, Qualifying round\nA total of 20 teams entered the qualifying round, with four teams (Home Farm, Cockhill Celtic, Newmarket Celtic and Blarney United) receiving a bye to the first round proper. The remaining 16 teams played eight games, with the winners entering the first round proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 30], "content_span": [31, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup, Qualifying round\nThe Irish Daily Mail offered a cash prize for the non-league team who advanced the furthest in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 30], "content_span": [31, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup, First round\nThe draw for the first round proper was made on 4 July 2018 at the Aviva Stadium, with Damien Duff as special guest. 12 non-League teams entered the draw along with the 20 teams from the League of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup, First round\nFixtures took place on the week ending 12 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup, Second round\nThe second round draw was held on 13 August 2018, producing just one all-Premier Division tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 26], "content_span": [27, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup, Second round\nAll fixtures were played on the weekend ending August 26", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 26], "content_span": [27, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals was broadcast live on RT\u00c92's Soccer Republic on 27 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 28], "content_span": [29, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup, Quarter-finals\nAll fixtures were set to be played on the week ending 9 September 2018. The game between Derry City and Bohemians was postponed until 19 September as Derry City had four players called up to under-21 squads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 28], "content_span": [29, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe game between Longford Town and Cork City was televised live on RT\u00c92.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 28], "content_span": [29, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup, Semi-finals\nThe draw for the semi-finals was broadcast live on RT\u00c92's Soccer Republic on 10 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278996-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup, Semi-finals\nBoth games were played the weekend ending 30 September and televised live on RT\u00c92. The subsequent replay between Cork City and Bohemians was also broadcast live on RT\u00c92.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278997-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup Final\nThe 2018 FAI Cup Final was the final match of the 2018 FAI Cup, the national association football cup of the Republic of Ireland. The match took place on Sunday 4 November 2018 at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, and was contested by Cork City and Dundalk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278997-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup Final\nThe match was a repeat of the 2015, 2016, and 2017 finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 77]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278997-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup Final\nThe match was broadcast live on RT\u00c9 Two and RT\u00c9 Two HD in Ireland, and via the RT\u00c9 Player worldwide with commentary from George Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278997-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup Final\nThe crowd of 30,412, was the biggest Cup final attendance since the 36,101 which saw the 2010 final, the first at the Aviva Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278997-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FAI Cup Final, Match, Summary\nDundalk opened the scoring in the 19th minute when Se\u00e1n Hoare headed powerfully to the net from six yards out after a corner from the left by Michael Duffy. Two minutes later Cork were awarded a penalty when Hoare clumsily fouled Karl Sheppard from behind in the penalty area. Kieran Sadlier scored the penalty shooting to the right which went under the goalkeeper to make it 1-1. Patrick McEleney got the winning goal for Dundalk in the 73rd minute when he connected with a cross form the right from Sean Gannon to head into the net from seven yards out. With this win, Dundalk completed the double of league and cup for the fourth time. It was also their 11th FAI Cup win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278998-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FAMAS Awards\nThe 66th Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) Awards was an awarding ceremony given by the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS), an organization composed of prize-winning writers and movie columnists, giving recognition to the Philippine mainstream and independent films, actors, actresses, directors and production staffs for their achievements in the year 2017. The awards night is also produced by Ms. Donna B. Sanchez of Megavision Integrated Resources.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278998-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FAMAS Awards\nFor the first time, the nominees of the FAMAS Awards were screened and hand-picked by an independent jury composed of well-known academicians, film practitioners and film critics led by multi-titled screenwriter Ricardo \"Ricky\" Lee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278998-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FAMAS Awards\nThe awards night was held at The Theatre at Solaire Resort & Casino, Para\u00f1aque on 10 June 2018. It was shown on Cinema One on 30 June 2018 and hosted by Piolo Pascual, Kim Chiu, and Robi Domingo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278998-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FAMAS Awards\nThe film Balangiga: Howling Wilderness won the majority of the awards including the coveted Best Picture, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Song awards. Agot Isidro took home the Best Actress award, while Allen Dizon scored the Best Actor award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278999-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FAO League\nThe 2018 FAO League was the ninth season of the FAO League. Radha Raman Club are the defending champions. Chauliaganj FC have entered as the promoted team from the FAO 2nd Division League. The FAO League is organised every year by the Football Association of Odisha (FAO), the official football governing body of Odisha, India. The regular season started on 17 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278999-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FAO League, Revamp, League Format\nIn a total revamp of the league, the FAO League was converted from premier league of the state to second highest level footballing league in the year 2018 as the premier state level football league was introduced by the Football Association of Odisha. The league system currently is a three-tier system consisting of Diamond, Gold and Silver leagues. The top four teams of the diamond league and the winners of Gold and Silver league would be promoted to the FAO Super Cup i.e. highest state level football league in Odisha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278999-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FAO League, League stage, Diamond League, League table\nNote: Top four teams of Diamond League would qualify for the FAO Super Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00278999-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FAO League, League stage, Gold League\nNote: Top three teams of the Gold League would qualify for the FAO Super Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279000-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FAO Super Cup\nThe 2018 FAO Super Cup was the inaugural edition of the FAO Super Cup, the main club knockout football competition of Odisha, India. The competition began on 2 October 2018 and concluded with the final on 7 October2018. The entire tournament took place at one venue i.e. the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279000-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FAO Super Cup\nThe competition features teams from the Silver, Gold and Diamond competitions of the FAO League, the premier state level football league in Odisha, India. The top four teams from the Diamond League, top three from Silver League, and the winners of the Silver League qualify for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279000-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FAO Super Cup, Teams\nA total of 8 teams participated in the competition. Sunrise Club emerged as the champions whereas beating Rising Student's Club 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279000-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FAO Super Cup, Teams, Dates\nOn 9 May 2018, the Football Association of Odisha announced the schedule and full format of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279000-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FAO Super Cup, Final\nThe final was played on 7 October 2018 at the Barabati Stadium and Sunrise won the inaugural Super Cup by defeating Rising Student's in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279001-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FBD Insurance League\nThe 2018 FBD Insurance League was an inter-county and Gaelic football competition in the province of Connacht. All five Connacht county teams participated. No third-level college teams competed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279001-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FBD Insurance League\nGalway and Roscommon were scheduled to play their fifth round tie on 21 January 2018. After the fourth round games, both Galway and Roscommon had qualified for the final meaning that the result of their fifth round tie was irrelevant. Both teams requested that the either the match be cancelled or played as the final. The Connacht Council initially insisted that both the fifth round tie and the final be played in order to \"respect the integrity of the Connacht FBD Football League\". However, the game was cancelled on 21 January due to poor weather and the Connacht Council eventually agreed not to play the \"dead rubber.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279001-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FBD Insurance League, Format\nEach team plays the other teams once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The top two teams play in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279002-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Aktobe season\nThe 2018 FC Aktobe season is the 24th successive season that the club playing in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan. Aktobe will also participate in the Kazakhstan Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279002-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Aktobe season, Season events\nAfter starting the season with a transfer ban, Aktobe were allowed to register new players on 20 March 2018. On 27 April, Aktobe had six points deducted as a punishment for unpaid debts to former player Danilo Neco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279002-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Aktobe season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279002-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Aktobe season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279002-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Aktobe season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279002-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Aktobe season, Transfers, Winter\nTrial:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279002-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Aktobe season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279002-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Aktobe season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279003-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Akzhayik season\nThe 2018 FC Akzhayik season is the club's 10th season in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan, and their third since 2010. They will also participate in the Kazakhstan Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279003-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Akzhayik season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279003-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Akzhayik season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279003-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Akzhayik season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279003-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Akzhayik season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279003-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Akzhayik season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279004-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Astana season\nThe 2018 FC Astana season is the tenth successive season that the club will play in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan. Astana are defending Kazakhstan Premier League Champions, having been crowned Champions for the forth time the previous season. Astana will continue in the UEFA Europa League having finished second in their group at the end of the 2017 season. In the summer Astana will enter the Champions League, at the Second Qualifying Stage, and the Kazakhstan Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279004-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Astana season, Season events\nOn 8 January, Stoilov signed a new contract with Astana, but left to take over the vacant Kazakhstan nation team Managers position on 1 March, with Grigori Babayan being announced as his interim replacement on the same day. On 1 June 2018, Astana announced Roman Hryhorchuk as the club's new manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279004-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Astana season, Season events\nOn 25 June, FC Tambov announced that Marat Bystrov had left to join Astana on a three-year contract, whilst also being rented to FC Tobol until the end of the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279004-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Astana season, Season events\nIgor Shitov left Astana on 3 July after his contract was not renewed, with Astana signing Antonio Rukavina and Richard Almeida the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279004-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Astana season, Season events\nOn 12 July, Astana announced that Junior Kabananga had re-joined Astana on a year-long loan deal from Al-Nassr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279004-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Astana season, Season events\nOn 14 July, Astana announced that Pedro Henrique had joined Astana on a year-long loan deal from PAOK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279004-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Astana season, Season events\nOn 20 July, Astana announced the signing of Rangelo Janga from KAA Gent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279004-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Astana season, Season events\nOn 23 July, Astana announced that \u0110or\u0111e Despotovi\u0107 and Marko Stanojevi\u0107 had both left the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279004-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Astana season, Season events\nOn 27 July, Astana confirmed that their all-time leading goalscorer Patrick Twumasi had moved to La Liga club Deportivo Alav\u00e9s, the following day Yuriy Pertsukh was loaned to Atyrau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279004-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Astana season, Season events\nOn 17 August, Hryhorchuk left Astana on compassionate leave with Grigori Babayan again stepping in as Caretaker Manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279004-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Astana season, Squad, On loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279005-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Atyrau season\nThe 2018 FC Atyrau season is the 18th successive season that the club will play in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279005-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Atyrau season, Season events\nOn 8 January 2018, Vakhid Masudov was appointed as FC Atyrau's new manager. On 9 April, Masudov left Atyrau by mutual consent, with Adrian Sosnovschi being appointed as Atyrau's new manager on 11 April. Adrian Sosnovschi and his coaching team resigned on 1 July, with Viktor Kumykov being appointed as Atyrau's third manager of the season on 4 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279005-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Atyrau season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279005-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Atyrau season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279005-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Atyrau season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279005-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Atyrau season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279005-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Atyrau season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279006-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Bunyodkor season\nThe 2018 season is Bunyodkor's 12th season in the Uzbek League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279006-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Bunyodkor season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279006-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Bunyodkor season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279006-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Bunyodkor season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279006-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Bunyodkor season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279006-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Bunyodkor season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279007-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Cincinnati season\nThe 2018 FC Cincinnati season was the club's third season of existence, and their third in the United Soccer League (USL). It was FC Cincinnati's second season as a second-tier team in the U.S. soccer pyramid, as the United States Soccer Federation provisionally promoted the USL from Division III to Division II for the 2017 season. FC Cincinnati played in the Eastern Conference of the USL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279007-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Cincinnati season\nThis was the final season of the club's USL incarnation. On May 29, 2018, Major League Soccer awarded the FCC ownership group an expansion franchise, which began play in MLS under the FC Cincinnati name in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279007-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Cincinnati season\nOn September 26, 2018, the club clinched their first USL Regular Season Championship with a 4\u20131 victory over the Richmond Kickers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279007-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Cincinnati season, Club, Roster\nOn October 25, 2017, general manager Jeff Berding held a press conference to make the first announcements about the 2018 roster. The return of nine players from 2017 was confirmed at this press conference: Matt Bahner, Kenney Walker, Danni K\u00f6nig, Corben Bone, Jimmy McLaughlin, Garrett Halfhill, Justin Hoyte, Sem de Wit, and Josu. Six additional players from the 2017 roster\u2014Austin Berry, Mitch Hildebrandt, Djiby Fall, Harrison Delbridge, Andrew Wiedeman, and Paul Nicholson\u2014were mentioned as still under consideration for 2018, pending contract discussions and future announcements. Berding also confirmed they would not renew contracts or exercise options for any other former players. In the following weeks, Djiby Fall implied he would not be returning via Twitter, and Paul Nicholson announced his retirement from professional soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 881]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279007-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Cincinnati season, Club, Roster\nThe club began announcing new signings in November 2017. The team signed Israeli defender Dekel Keinan on November 10, as well as Canadian forward Daniel Haber on November 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279007-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Cincinnati season, Club, Roster\nOn April 16, 2018, the club announced they had mutually agreed to part ways with defender Josu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279007-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Cincinnati season, Club, Roster\nOn April 17, 2018, the club announced they had reach an agreement for the free release of defender Garrett Halfhill. Halfhill subsequently join the New York Cosmos B of the NPSL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279007-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Cincinnati season, Club, Roster\nOn July 9, 2018, the club announced the free transfer of forward Daniel Haber to Ottawa Fury FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279007-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Cincinnati season, Club, Roster\nOn July 30, 2018, forward Fanendo Adi was acquired from the Portland Timbers as the first MLS designated player for FC Cincinnati. The club also announced the acquisition of midfielder Fatai Alashe from the San Jose Earthquakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279007-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Cincinnati season, Club, Roster\nOn August 1, 2018, the club announced the acquisition of defender Pa Konate from Serie A S.P.A.L.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279007-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Cincinnati season, Club, Roster\nWhere a player has not declared an international allegiance, nation is determined by place of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279008-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Dallas season\nThe 2018 FC Dallas season will be the club's 23rd season in Major League Soccer, the top tier of American soccer. FC Dallas will also be participating in the CONCACAF Champions League, and the U.S. Open Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279008-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Dallas season, Club, Roster\nAs of August 27, 2018. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279008-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Dallas season, Club, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279009-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Irtysh Pavlodar season\nThe 2018 FC Irtysh Pavlodar season is the 27th successive season that the club will play in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan. Irtysh will also participate in the Kazakhstan Cup and the Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279009-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Irtysh Pavlodar season, Season events\nOn 21 December 2017, Gerard Nus was appointed as the new manager of Irtysh Pavlodar on a two-year contract. On 28 April 2018 Nus was sacked as the club's manager, with Dmitry Kuznetsov being appointed as caretaker manager. On 13 June, Oirat Saduov was announced as Irtysh Pavlodar's new manager. On 10 July, Irtysh Pavlodar announced the return of Dimitar Dimitrov on a 2+1\u20442-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279009-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Irtysh Pavlodar season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279010-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Istiklol season\nThe FC Istiklol 2018 season is Istiklol's tenth Tajik League season. They are the current defending Tajik League Champions and will also participate in the Tajik Cup, Tajik Supercup and AFC Cup, entering at the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279010-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Istiklol season, Season Events\nAfter being knocked out of the 2018 AFC Cup at the group stage, manager Mukhsin Mukhamadiev resigned as manager six-days later on 22 May 2018, with Alisher Tukhtaev being appointed as acting head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279011-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kairat season\nThe 2018 FC Kairat season is the 8th successive season that the club playing in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan, since their promotion back to the top flight in 2009. Kairat will participate in the Kazakhstan Super Cup and the Europa League as well as the Kazakhstan Cup and Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279011-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kairat season, Season events\nOn 15 October 2018, Carlos Al\u00f3s left Kairat by mutual consent, with Andrei Karpovich being appointed as Caretaker manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279011-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kairat season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279012-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kaisar season\nThe 2018 FC Kaisar season is the club's second season back in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan, and 21st in total. Kaisar will also participate in the Kazakhstan Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279012-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kaisar season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279012-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kaisar season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279012-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kaisar season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279012-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kaisar season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279012-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kaisar season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279013-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kyzylzhar season\nThe 2019 FC Kyzylzhar season is the club's 12th season in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan, and first since their relegation at the end of the 2009 season. Kyzylzhar will also play in the Kazakhstan Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279013-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kyzylzhar season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279013-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kyzylzhar season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279013-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kyzylzhar season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279013-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kyzylzhar season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279013-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Kyzylzhar season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279014-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ordabasy season\nThe 2018 FC Ordabasy season is the 16th successive season that the club will play in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan. Ordabasy will also participate in the Kazakhstan Cup and the Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279014-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ordabasy season, Season events\nOn 11 January 2018, Georgi Dermendzhiev was appointed as the new manager of Ordabasy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279014-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ordabasy season, Season events\nAfter finishing the previous season in third position, Ordabasy would have qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round but they failed to obtain a UEFA licence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279014-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ordabasy season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279014-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ordabasy season, Squad, On Loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279014-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ordabasy season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279014-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ordabasy season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279014-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ordabasy season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279014-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ordabasy season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279015-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ryukyu season, Squad\nAs of 10 February 2018. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279016-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Seoul season\nThe 2018 season was FC Seoul's 35th season in the K League 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279016-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Seoul season, Players, Out on loan and military service\nNote: Where a player has not declared an international allegiance, nation is determined by place of birth. \u203b In: Transferred from other teams in the middle of the season. \u203b Out: Transferred to other teams in the middle of the season. \u203b Discharged: Transferred from Sanjgu Sangmu or Ansan Mugunghwa for military service in the middle of the season (registered in 2019 season). \u203b Conscripted: Transferred to Sangju Sangmu or Ansan Mugunghwa for military service after the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279017-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Shakhter Karagandy season\nThe 2018 FC Shakhter Karagandy season is the 27th successive season that the club will play in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan. Shakhter will also participate in the Kazakhstan Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279017-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Shakhter Karagandy season, Season events\nOn 9 January 2018, Uladzimir Zhuravel was appointed as Shakhter Karagandy's new manager. On 3 July, Zhuravel left Shakhter Karagandy by mutual consent with Andrei Finonchenko being appointed as Caretaker Manager On 18 July, Nikolay Kostov was confirmed as Shakhter Karagandy's new manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279018-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Sheriff Tiraspol season\nThe 2018 season was FC Sheriff Tiraspol's 22nd season, and their 21st in the Divizia Na\u0163ional\u0103, the top-flight of Moldovan football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279018-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Sheriff Tiraspol season, Season events\nOn 24 April, manager Roberto Bordin resigned due to family reasons, with Viktor Mikhailov taking over in an interim capacity. On 7 June, Goran Sabli\u0107 was announced as Sheriff Tiraspol's new manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279018-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Sheriff Tiraspol season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279018-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Sheriff Tiraspol season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279018-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Sheriff Tiraspol season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279018-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Sheriff Tiraspol season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279018-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Sheriff Tiraspol season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279019-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Tobol season\nThe 2018 FC Tobol season is the 20th successive season that the club playing in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan. Tobol will also play in the Kazakhstan Cup. After finishing the previous season in third position, Ordabasy would have qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round but they failed to obtain a UEFA licence, meaning that Tobol qualified in their place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279019-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Tobol season, Season events\nPrior to the start of the season, Vladimir Nikitenko was appointed as the club's manager following the expiration of Robert Yevdokimov's contract. On 1 August, Vladimir Nikitenko resigned as manager after Tobol were eliminated from the Europa League. Andrei Miroshnichenko was appointed as Caretaker manager before Marek Zub was announced as Tobol's new manager on 6 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279019-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Tobol season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279020-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Tokyo season, Squad\nAs of 14 January 2018. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279020-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Tokyo season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279021-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ukraine United season\nThe 2018 season was FC Ukraine United's third season in the Canadian Soccer League, and twelve season since their founding in the Ontario Soccer League. The season marked United's return to the First Division after participating in the Second Division the previous year. After a competitive season with FC Vorkuta the club won their first division title on September 23, 2018.In the postseason United won their preliminary match against Brantford Galaxy, but were defeated in the second round to Scarborough SC. Pavlo Lukyanets, a veteran striker from Ukraine was United's top goalscorer with twelve goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279021-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ukraine United season, Summary\nAfter spending the 2017 season in the Second Division with a perfect season the club was promoted back into the First Division. Andrei Malychenkov resumed his coaching duties, and maintained the majority of his previous roster with additional imports from the Ukraine. From the onset of the season the club remained highly competitive, and battled with rivals FC Vorkuta for supremacy of the division. Throughout the season Malychenkov achieved the necessary results in clinching the First Division title, and managed an undefeated streak of ten matches with the best offensive record. In the opening round of the playoff tournament FC Ukraine faced Brantford Galaxy, and defeated Brantford 8-7 in a penalty shootout. Their postseason campaign came to a conclusion in the second round after a 2-1 defeat to Scarborough SC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 861]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279021-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ukraine United season, Team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279021-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Ukraine United season, Canadian Soccer League, Results summary\nLast updated: September 20, 2018. Source: 2018 Canadian Soccer League season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279022-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Vorkuta season\nThe 2018 season was FC Vorkuta's second season in the Canadian Soccer League. The club ended their CSL campaign with a club record by securing their first professional championship title in the First Division, and the double in the Second Division. The club qualified for the playoffs for the second consecutive season after finishing second in the First Division. In the postseason Vorkuta defeated the likes of Real Mississauga, and SC Waterloo Region in order to reach the championship final. Their opposition in the finals were Scarborough SC, where Vorkuta claimed their first CSL Championship after a victory in a penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279022-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Vorkuta season\nWhile in the Second Division their reserve team clinched the organization's first division title, and made further achievements in the postseason after winning the championship title against Halton United. The club's top goalscorer for the second consecutive season was Sergiy Ivliev with eleven goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279022-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Vorkuta season, Summary\nIn preparation for the 2018 season the organization selected Denys Yanchuk as the general manager, while Samad Kadirov returned to manage the team. The club continued in recruiting imports from the Ukrainian football market, while retaining their core veterans from the previous season. Their sophomore year within the league produced another successful season by finishing second in the First Division with only a goal differential with FC Ukraine United to separate them from clinching the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279022-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 FC Vorkuta season, Summary\nIn the opening round of the postseason Vorkuta defeated Real Mississauga, and then followed by a victory over SC Waterloo Region to place them in the championship final. In the finals Vorkuta faced Scarborough SC, and made club history by winning their first CSL Championship in a 6-5 victory in a penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279022-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Vorkuta season, Summary\nMeanwhile in the Second Division their reserve team clinched the organization's first division title, and made further history after winning the championship title against Halton United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279022-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Vorkuta season, Team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279022-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Vorkuta season, Competitions, Canadian Soccer League, Results summary\nLast updated: September 20, 2018. Source: 2018 Canadian Soccer League season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 77], "content_span": [78, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279022-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Vorkuta season, Competitions, Canadian Soccer League, Results summary\nLast updated: September 20, 2018. Source: 2018 Canadian Soccer League season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 77], "content_span": [78, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279023-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Zhetysu season\nThe 2018 FC Zhetysu season is the club's first season back in the Kazakhstan Premier League following their relegation at the end of the 2016 season, and 21st season in total", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279023-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Zhetysu season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279023-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Zhetysu season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279023-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Zhetysu season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279023-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Zhetysu season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279023-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FC Zhetysu season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279024-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FC4\n2018 FC4 is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5\u00a0point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279024-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FC4, Discovery, orbit and physical properties\n2018 FC4 was first observed on 21 March 2018 by the Mt. Lemmon Survey, but it had already been imaged (but not identified as an asteroid) by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope system at Haleakala on the previous night. Its orbit is characterized by very low eccentricity (0.017), moderate inclination (22.1\u00b0) and a semi-major axis of 1.52 AU. Upon discovery, it was classified as Mars-crosser by the Minor Planet Center. Its orbit is reasonably well determined as it is currently (January 2021) based on 35 observations with a data-arc span of 790 days. 2018 FC4 has an absolute magnitude of 21.3 which gives a characteristic diameter of 200 m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 50], "content_span": [51, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279024-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FC4, Mars trojan and orbital evolution\nRecent calculations indicate that it is a stable L5 Mars trojan with a libration period of 1300 yr and an amplitude of 20\u00b0. These values are similar to those of 5261 Eureka and related objects and it may be a member of the so-called Eureka family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 43], "content_span": [44, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279025-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FEI World Equestrian Games\nThe 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games were held in Mill Spring, North Carolina, U.S. at the Tryon International Equestrian Center, from September 11 to September 23, 2018. It was the eighth edition of the games, which are held every four years and run by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI). This was the second time that North America hosted the Games, the previous time being in 2010, also in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279025-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, Bidding process\nThe initial bidding process for the 2018 edition of the World Equestrian Games started in 2011 with the initial application stage. Eight countries expressed their interest, and five of them became official candidates in 2012: Rabat, Bromont, Budapest, Vienna and Wellington. Australia, Russia and Sweden withdrew before the official candidature phase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279025-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, Bidding process\nBy 2013, four of the official candidates dropped out, leaving only Bromont in the running. However, instead of awarding the Games to Canada, FEI decided to re-open the bidding process on July 1, 2013, as the Bromont bid was lacking financial support. Bromont remained in the running and was joined by two USA candidates (Wellington and Lexington) as well as Great Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279025-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, Bidding process\nGreat Britain and Wellington dropped out, leaving only Bromont and Lexington in contention. Bromont was finally awarded the hosting rights on June 9, 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279025-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, Bidding process\nBromont withdrew from hosting in 2016, as the financial support was not secured. Following Bromont's withdrawal, Tryon, North Carolina and \u0160amor\u00edn, Slovakia expressed their interest in hosting the event. Tryon was awarded the Games on November 3, 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279025-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, Bidding process\nWith the 2018 games, United States became the first nation to host the World Equestrian Games twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279025-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, Logistics\nHorses competing in the championships were flown in and out of Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport in Greer, South Carolina. They were then transported by horse trailers up to Tryon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279025-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, Hurricane Florence\nHurricane Florence hit the Tryon International Equestrian Center and the surrounding area during the first week of the World Equestrian Games. Reported impacts included heavy rainfall and increased gusts of wind. A special contingency plan has been addressed for the situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279025-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, Hurricane Florence\nThe contingency plan included accommodating all horses on-venue in permanent barns, moving grooms accommodated on-site to permanent buildings at the venue, advising shelter locations for all personnel, continuing discussions with airports and Emirates airline on any necessary steps regarding horse arrivals/departures, ensuring smaller tents in the vendor area are tie-strapped together for security, carrying out additional drainage/water channeling to prevent flooding, purchasing additional fuel tanks and filling all fuel tanks to run the generators, preparing to remove fence scrim already installed and taking down flags.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279025-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, WEQx Games\nAlongside the World Equestrian Games, Tryon International Equestrian Center was supposed to host the inaugural WEQx Games. WEQx Games were scheduled to feature nine spectator-friendly equine competitions that should \"highlight the accessibility, diversity, athleticism, and passion for horses and horse sport for athletes of all ages\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279025-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, WEQx Games\nThe program got cancelled amidst Hurricane Florence and various organizational setbacks (delayed construction of venues, budget cuts, low ticket sales).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup\nThe 2018 FFA Cup was the fifth season of the FFA Cup, the main national soccer knockout cup competition in Australia. 32 teams contested the competition proper (from the Round of 32), including the 10 A-League teams and 21 Football Federation Australia (FFA) member federation teams determined through individual state qualifying rounds, as well as the reigning National Premier Leagues Champion (Heidelberg United from Victoria).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Round and dates\nFor the first time in the competition's history, the decision on the final venue will be conducted by a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Teams\nA total of 32 teams participated in the 2018 FFA Cup competition proper, ten of which were from the A-League, one the 2017 National Premier Leagues Champion (Heidelberg United), and the remaining 21 teams from FFA member federations, as determined by the qualifying rounds. A-League clubs represent the highest level in the Australian league system, whereas member federation clubs come from Level 2 and below. The current season tier of member federation clubs is shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 19], "content_span": [20, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Prize fund\nThe prize fund was unchanged from the previous two years' events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Prize fund\nIn addition, a further $2,500 was awarded from sponsor NAB to Member Federation clubs for each goal scored by them against an A-League opposition. Clubs to receive these prizes were APIA Leichhardt Tigers ($7,500), Hellenic Athletic ($7,500), Avondale FC ($5,000), Rockdale City ($5,000), Bentleigh Greens ($2,500), Bonnyrigg White Eagles ($2,500) and Cairns FC ($2,500).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Preliminary rounds\nFFA member federations teams competed in various state-based preliminary rounds to win one of 21 places in the competition proper (Round of 32). All Australian clubs were eligible to enter the qualifying process through their respective FFA member federation, however only one team per club is permitted entry in the competition. All nine FFA member federations took part in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 32], "content_span": [33, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Preliminary rounds\nThe preliminary rounds will operate within a consistent national structure whereby club entry into the competition is staggered in each state/territory, ultimately leading to round 7 with the winning clubs from that round gaining direct entry into the round of 32. The first matches of the preliminary rounds began in February 2018, and the final matches of the preliminary rounds in June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 32], "content_span": [33, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Round of 32\nThe Round of 32 draw took place on 26 June 2018, with match information confirmed on 2 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Round of 32\nThe lowest ranked side that qualified for this round were Gold Coast Knights. They were the only level 4 team left in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Round of 16\nThe Round of 16 draw took place on 7 August 2018, with match details finalised two days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Round of 16\nThe lowest ranked sides that qualified for this round were Adelaide Comets, APIA Leichhardt Tigers, Avondale FC, Bentleigh Greens, Bonnyrigg White Eagles, Broadmeadow Magic, Cairns FC, Devonport City, Heidelberg United and Queensland Lions. They were the only level 2 teams left in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe Quarter-finals draw took place on 29 August 2018, with match details announced the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 28], "content_span": [29, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe lowest ranked sides that qualified for this round were APIA Leichhardt Tigers, Avondale FC, Bentleigh Greens and Heidelberg United. They were the only level 2 teams left in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 28], "content_span": [29, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Semi-finals\nThe Semi-finals draw took place on 26 September 2018, with match details announced the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Semi-finals\nThe lowest ranked side that qualified for this round were Bentleigh Greens. They were the only level 2 team left in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Individual Honours\nThe inaugural recipient of the Michael Cockerill Medal (named after the late former journalist and broadcaster, and recognising the tournament's standout National Premier Leagues performer), was Elvis Kamsoba from Avondale FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 32], "content_span": [33, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Individual Honours\nCraig Goodwin from Adelaide United won the Mark Viduka Medal for the player of the match in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 32], "content_span": [33, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279026-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup, Broadcasting rights\nThe live television rights for the competition were held by the subscription network Fox Sports. The matches were also broadcast online on the My Football Live app from the Round of 16 onwards. In addition to live updates and crosses at concurrent matches, the following matches were broadcast live:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 33], "content_span": [34, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279027-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup Final\nThe 2018 FFA Cup Final was the fifth final of the FFA Cup, Australia's main football cup competition. The match was contested between Adelaide United and Sydney FC, in a rematch of the 2017 FFA Cup Final which Sydney FC won. Coopers Stadium in Adelaide hosted the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279027-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup Final, Road to the final\nAdelaide United's progress started at home against fellow A-League side Central Coast Mariners. In a match held at Marden Sports Complex, they won 3\u20130 through goals to Jordan Elsey, debutant Mirko Boland and Craig Goodwin. The other three wins to take Adelaide to the Final were over National Premier Leagues teams, and as a result all played away from home under competition rules. Firstly, another Craig Goodwin goal saw Adelaide defeat Queensland Lions 1\u20130 in Brisbane. This was followed by a 2\u20130 win over APIA Leichhardt in the quarterfinals in Sydney, with Goodwin and Boland again on the scoresheet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279027-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup Final, Road to the final\nIn the semifinals, Adelaide drew the only remaining National Premier Leagues side: Bentleigh Greens. They won 2\u20130 in Melbourne, with goals to Jordan Elsey and Ben Halloran putting them into the final. The result also meant that Adelaide United were still yet to concede a goal in the 2018 FFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279027-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup Final, Road to the final\nSydney FC commenced their 2018 Cup campaign with three wins over National Premier Leagues sides. They began with a win over fellow Sydney side Rockdale City Suns in the Round of 32. Rockdale City Suns had opened the scoring before four consecutive Sydney FC goals, including two to captain Alex Brosque, secured a 4\u20132 win. In the round of sixteen, Sydney FC travelled to Queensland to play Cairns FC. Again, they fell behind as the NPL side opened the scoring, but second half goals to Brosque (a penalty) and Trent Buhagiar saw Sydney FC win 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279027-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup Final, Road to the final\nAvondale FC were their quarterfinals, where two goals to Buhagiar in the first half saw the Sky Blues in the lead. However, Avondale FC fought back strongly in the second half, scoring twice to take the game to extra time. Goals to Milos Ninkovic and Adam Le Fondre gave Sydney FC an eventual 4\u20132 win. In the semifinals, Sydney FC faced their first A-League opposition of the tournament: Western Sydney Wanderers in a Sydney Derby. The game was played at Penrith Stadium. After a scoreless first half, a goal to Buhagiar, a free kick from Siem de Jong and a penalty from Adam Le Fondre saw the Sky Blues move on to the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279027-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Venue selection\nThis was the first season to see the Final host team decided by random draw, rather than by Football Federation Australia selection. Adelaide were drawn to host the game, with the match to be played at Coopers Stadium, their home ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279027-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nSydney FC were the reigning Champions coming into the match, having beaten Adelaide 2\u20131 after extra time in the 2017 FFA Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279027-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nSydney had also reached the 2016 Final where they had lost to Melbourne City, making this their third consecutive FFA Cup Final Appearance. Sydney would become the first side to win the FFA Cup by winning every game away from home if they were to be victorious. This tournament included the first competitive matches for new Sydney coach Steve Corica, following the departure of Graham Arnold to coach Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279027-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nOther than the 2017 Final, Adelaide's other previous final appearance was in the 2014 edition, when they defeated Perth Glory 1\u20130 to win the inaugural FFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279027-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nThe two sides played out a 1\u20131 draw in the opening match of the 2018\u201319 A-League in Adelaide eleven days prior to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279027-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Ryan GallagherDaniel IllevskiFourth official:Matthew CreamAdditional assistant referees:Daniel ElderBen Abraham", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279028-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup preliminary rounds\nThe 2018 FFA Cup preliminary rounds was the qualifying competition to decide 21 of the 32 teams which took part in the 2018 FFA Cup Round of 32, along with the 10 A-League clubs and reigning National Premier Leagues champion, Heidelberg United. The preliminary rounds operated within a consistent national structure whereby club entry into the competition was staggered in each federation, with the winning clubs from Round 7 of the preliminary rounds in each member federation gaining entry into the Round of 32. All Australian clubs were eligible to enter the qualifying process through their respective FFA member federation, however only one team per club is permitted entry in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279028-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup preliminary rounds, Schedule\nThe number of fixtures for each round, and the match dates for each Federation, were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279028-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup preliminary rounds, Format\nThe preliminary rounds structures were as follows, and refer to the different levels in the unofficial Australian association football league system\u00a0:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279028-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup preliminary rounds, Format\nNote: Heidelberg United did not participate in the Victorian qualifying rounds, as they already qualified into the FFA Cup as 2017 National Premier Leagues champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279028-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FFA Cup preliminary rounds, Format\nNote: A-League Youth teams playing in their respective federation leagues are specifically excluded from the preliminary rounds as their respective Senior A-League clubs are already part of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279029-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FFAS Senior League\nThe 2018 FFAS Senior League is the 38th edition of the FFAS Senior League, the top football league of American Samoa organized by the Football Federation American Samoa. This season is competed by 12 teams and started on 15 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279030-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FFAS Women's National League\nThe 2018 FFAS Women's National League was the fourteenth season of the FFAS Women's National League, the top football league of American Samoa in women's football. The competition began on 15 September 2018 and finished on 5 December 2018. Ilaoa & To'omata won their first league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279031-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FFSA season\nThe 2018 Football Federation South Australia season was the sixth season under the National Premier Leagues competition format in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279031-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FFSA season, League tables, 2018 National Premier Leagues SA\nThe National Premier League South Australia 2018 season was the sixth edition of the NPL SA as the premier domestic association football competition in South Australia (and second level within Australia overall). 12 teams took part, all playing each other twice for a total of 22 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 65], "content_span": [66, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279031-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FFSA season, League tables, 2018 SA State League 1\nThe 2018 SA State League 1 was the sixth edition of the NPL State League 1 as the second level domestic association football competition in South Australia (and third level within Australia overall). 12 teams competed, all playing each other twice for a total of 22 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279031-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FFSA season, League tables, 2018 SA State League 2\nThe 2017 SA State League 2 was the second edition of the new NPL State League 2 as the third level domestic association football competition in South Australia (and fourth level within Australia overall). 12 teams competed, all playing each other twice for a total of 22 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279031-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FFSA season, League tables, 2018 Women's NPL\nThe highest tier domestic football competition in South Australia for women was known for sponsorship reasons as the PS4 Women's National Premier League. This was the third season of the NPL format. The 8 teams played a triple round-robin for a total of 21 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279031-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FFSA season, Cup competitions, 2018 Federation Cup\nSouth Australian soccer clubs competed in 2018 for the Federation Cup. Clubs entered from the NPL SA, the State League 1, State League 2, South Australian Amateur Soccer League and South Australian Collegiate Soccer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279031-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FFSA season, Cup competitions, 2018 Federation Cup\nThe competition also served as the South Australian Preliminary Rounds for the 2018 FFA Cup. In addition to Adelaide Comets, A-League club Adelaide United qualified for the final rounds, entering at the Round of 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279032-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FFU Regions' Cup\n2018 FFU Regions' Cup (Ukrainian: \u041a\u0443\u0431\u043e\u043a \u0440\u0435\u0433\u0456\u043e\u043d\u0456\u0432 \u0424\u0424\u0423, Kubok rehioniv FFU) is the second season of the Football Federation of Ukraine renewed competition at regional level. The competition is conducted among football teams of Oblasts (regions) composed of players who compete at oblast championships (regional competitions).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279032-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FFU Regions' Cup\nThe winner of the competition will represent Ukraine at the 2019 UEFA Regions' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279032-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FFU Regions' Cup, Tournament structure\nThe 2018 FFU Regions' Cup competition changed its tournament structure compare to its previous season two year ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279032-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FFU Regions' Cup, Tournament structure\nThis season competition is arranged in three stages. The first stage (April 24-26) will have 24 participants and organized into a mini-tournament in six groups of four with two teams that played in the 2016 final receiving a bye for the stage along with the mini tournament group winners. The second stage (May 15-17) is a group stage will have eight participants split into two groups of four with winners of each group advancing to the final game. The third stage is the final that is scheduled to take place on 20 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279032-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FFU Regions' Cup, Competition schedule, First stage, Group 4\nin Mykolaiv, Park Peremohy Stadium (Match 1)and Kherson, Combined Sports School (KDYuSSh) Stadium (Match 2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279032-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FFU Regions' Cup, Competition schedule, First stage, Group 6\nin Kharkiv, stadium of the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279032-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FFU Regions' Cup, Competition schedule, Second stage\nAll games were scheduled to be played on 15 and 16 May. For the stage qualified football teams of following regions Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Lviv, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Donetsk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279033-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA European Rallycross Championship\nThe 2018 FIA European Rallycross Championship was the 43rd season of the FIA European Championships for Rallycross Drivers. The season consists of nine rounds across three categories; Supercar, Super1600 and TouringCar. This season is confirmed as the final season for TouringCar. The season commenced on 14 April with the Spanish round at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, and culminated on 13 October in Germany at the Estering.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279033-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA European Rallycross Championship\nSwede Anton Marklund is the defending Supercar champion, Hungarian Kriszti\u00e1n Szab\u00f3 the defending Super1600 champion and Norwegian Lars \u00d8ivind Enerberg the defending TouringCar champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279033-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA European Rallycross Championship\nSteve Volders was crowned the TouringCar champion on 18 August 2018 after champion-elect Sivert Svardal was disqualified from the final round in H\u00f6ljes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279034-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship\nThe 2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship was the seventh and final season of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship, a multi-event motor racing championship for third-tier single-seat open wheel formula racing cars that is held across Europe. The championship features drivers competing in two-litre Formula 3 racing cars which conform to the technical regulations, or formula, for the championship. Teams and drivers competed in ten rounds, running in support of a variety of European motorsport championships including the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup and the FIA World Endurance Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279034-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship\nAs the FIA Formula 3 European Championship and GP3 Series are planned to merge and form the FIA Formula 3 Championship in 2019, 2018 was the final year that the championship was run since its formation in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279034-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship\nMick Schumacher won the championship on his second season. He took the championship lead after win in the first Spielberg race and held it until the second Hockenheim race, where he clinched the title. Dan Ticktum was the championship leader after first Hungaroring race and from finish of the first Silverstone race till the finish of the first Spielberg race but he scored only 42 out of 150 possible points in the final two rounds, losing the title battle by 59 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279034-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship\nRobert Shwartzman won the rookies' championship and completed the top-three in the driver's standings ahead of another Ferrari Driver Academy members Marcus Armstrong and Guanyu Zhou. Armstrong was placed behind J\u00fcri Vips in both Drivers' and Rookies' standings. While fellow Estonian driver Ralf Aron was behind Armstrong in the driver standings. Prema Theodore Racing successfully defended the teams' championship title, winning over Motopark with one round to spare, and maintaining their record of being the only team to have won the teams' championship since the FIA Formula 3 European Championship was launched in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279034-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship\nChampion Mick Schumacher took 8 wins - one each in Belgium, Italy, Great Britain. He took a hat-trick at the N\u00fcrburgring and he won two races at the Red Bull Ring. Runner-up Dan Ticktum, J\u00fcri Vips and Ralf Aron - all took 4 race wins. Guanyu Zhou, Enaam Ahmed and Robert Shwartzman won two races. Marcus Armstrong, Sacha Fenestraz, Jehan Daruvala and Nikita Troitskiy were all victorious once respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279034-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship, Entries\nThe following teams and drivers are currently competing in the 2018 championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279034-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship, Calendar\nThe following ten rounds are being contested as part of the 2018 championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279034-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe round at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza was replaced by a new round at Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli as the series continues to support the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. The Pau Grand Prix replaced Monza as the opening round of the championship, with the Silverstone round held later in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279034-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship, Results and standings, Scoring system\nPoints are awarded to the top ten drivers. Guest drivers are not eligible to score points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279034-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship, Results and standings, Scoring system\nIn order for the full points score to be awarded, the race must run for at least twenty-five minutes. In the event that less that twenty-five minutes elapse, half points are awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279034-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship, Results and standings, Teams' championship\nPoints for the team classification solely are awarded to two best finishing cars of each team, omitting the other cars from the classification of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279035-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT Nations Cup\nThe 2018 FIA GT Nations Cup was the first edition of the FIA GT Nations Cup held at Bahrain International Circuit on 1 December 2018. The race was contested with GT3-spec cars. Only Silver and Bronze drivers were allowed to compete. The event promoters were the Bahrain Motorsport Federation (BMF) and the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation (SRO). For the following year the event was reformatted as the multi-discipline FIA Motorsport Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup\nThe 2018 FIA GT World Cup (formally the SJM Macau GT Cup \u2013 FIA GT World Cup) was a Grand Touring (GT) sports car race held on the Guia Circuit in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau on 18 November. It was the fourth annual edition of the event and the eleventh time overall that GT3 cars had competed in Macau. Only platinum and gold drivers were allowed to compete, but silver drivers were eligible on a case by case basis at the FIA GT World Cup Committee's discretion. The race was promoted by the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation working with the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The race itself was made up of two races: a 12-lap qualifying race that set the starting order for the 18-lap main race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup\nThe main race was won by BMW Team Schnitzer driver Augusto Farfus in a BMW M6 GT3. Earning the pole position by winning the Qualification Race the previous afternoon, Farfus led every lap of the main race to claim his fourth victory in Macau and his first since the 2009 Guia Race of Macau. BMW became the third manufacturer to win the FIA GT World Cup. Second place went to Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing driver Maro Engel and his teammate Edoardo Mortara finished third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Background and entry list\nThe 2018 FIA GT World Cup was confirmed during a 9 March meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council. A contract extension with race organisers allowed the event to be held in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau. Occurring on the 6.120\u00a0km (3.803\u00a0mi) Guia Circuit in the streets of Macau, on 18 November 2018 with three preceding days of practice and qualifying, it was the fourth staging of the race and the eleventh GT3 event in Macau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Background and entry list\nThe race was promoted by the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation (SRO) working with the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA); the SRO was appointed by the promoter Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Geral Autom\u00f3vel de Macau-China to form a field of cars. In accordance with the event regulations, the manufacturers' championship was presented to the maker of the car of the winning participant. Tyre manufacturer Pirelli was nominated by the FIA as the race's control tyre supplier for the fourth year in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Background and entry list\nIn order to enter the race, drivers had to have competed in a FIA-regulated championship race based on GT3 regulations over the prior two seasons or have acquired significant experience in Grand Touring (GT) cars. Only platinum or gold racing license holders could automatically enter. Silver ranked drivers were permitted as well, but these had to be approved individually by the FIA GT World Cup Committee. Bronze rated competitors were not allowed to compete. Entries were open from 6 July to 31 August. The FIA released the entry list on 18 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Background and entry list\nA total of 15 drivers representing 11 different nationalities, five separate manufacturers, and series such as the ADAC GT Masters and the Blancpain GT Series were in the entry list. Three former FIA GT World Cup winners in Maro Engel, Laurens Vanthoor and Edoardo Mortara, as well as the 2007 Macau Grand Prix winner Oliver Jarvis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Background and entry list\nThe FIA imposed a balance of performance to ensure a high level of parity. The Audi R8 LMS had 10\u00a0kg (22\u00a0lb) of ballast added. Meanwhile, the BMW M6 GT3 received a weight decrease of 10\u00a0kg (22\u00a0lb) but its turbocharger boost was reduced. The Mercedes-AMG GT3 received an increase in handling with a 20\u00a0kg (44\u00a0lb) loss in ballast but lost performance because its air restrictor was lowered in size by 1\u00a0mm (0.039\u00a0in). The Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 debuted in Macau weighing in at 1,305\u00a0kg (2,877\u00a0lb) and the Porsche 911 GT3 R received no performance changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Practice\nTwo half-an-hour practice sessions were held before the race on 18 November: the first on the afternoon of 15 November and the second on the morning of 16 November. Robin Frijns in the No. 66 Team WRT Speedstar Audi R8 LMS lapped fastest in the first practice session at 2 minutes, 18.588 seconds, ahead of Mortara, Christopher Haase, Augusto Farfus and Earl Bamber. Four manufacturers were represented in the first five. The session was stopped for separate accidents at the Melco hairpin. Dries Vanthoor, Frijns' teammate, struck the wall on the outside and lost control, stopping sideways across the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Practice\nHis car suffered damage to its front-left bodywork, and the spoiler was removed. Mathieu Jaminet was unsighted and crashed into the wall sustaining minor damage to his car's left door while attempting to avoid Dries Vanthoor. After that, Farfus was required to stop. In the second practice session, four manufacturers again occupied the first five positions as Bamber set the fastest lap in the No. 912 Manthey Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R at 2 minutes, 17.436 seconds with three minutes left after adjustments and tyre changes. Engel, Frijns, Laurens Vanthoor and Farfus followed in positions second through fifth. The session concluded early when Haase lost control of his vehicle and damaged it in a collision with the barrier at the R Bend turn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Qualifying\nFriday afternoon's half-hour qualifying session determined the qualification race's starting order through each driver's fastest lap times. Conditions were cool for qualifying. On his second race in Macau, Raffaele Marciello in the No. 999 GruppeM Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 achieved pole position by becoming the only driver to go below 2 minutes, 17 seconds with a 2 minutes, 16.8 seconds time on his final timed lap. It was his second pole position in Macau following his first at the 2013 Macau Grand Prix. Marciello demoted Farfus from pole to second, although the latter went faster with 2 minutes remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Qualifying\nEngel took third and Mortara was fourth to make it three Mercedes in the first four positions following late-session improvements and a battle between both drivers. Manthey's Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor were fifth and sixth leading Audi drivers Frijns, Haase and Dries Vanthoor in positions seven through nine. Jaminet qualified tenth. Alexandre Imperatori in 11th was followed by the Hong Kong duo of Adderly Fong and Darryl O'Young in 12th and 13th. Jarvis qualified 14th in his first Macau race since winning the 2007 Macau Grand Prix and Tsugio Matsuda qualified 15th to complete the starting order. During qualifying, Frijins outbraked himself at Lisboa corner and crashed into the barrier, requiring a localised yellow flag to extricate him with less than three minutes to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 816]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Qualifying, Post-qualifying\nBefore the qualifying race, the FIA again altered the balance of performance, reducing the minimum ballast of the three KCMG-fielded Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3s by 20\u00a0kg (44\u00a0lb) for better handling. The vehicles also received an increase in performance with turbocharger boost raises across every power level. O\u2019Young began from the rear of the field following an engine switch post-qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Qualifying race\nThe qualifying race to set the starting order for the main race commenced under overcast conditions of 23\u00a0\u00b0C (73\u00a0\u00b0F) at 13:05 Macau Standard Time (UTC+08:00) on 17 November. Matsuda failed to start because smoke bellowed from the front of his car as the formation lap began. Farfus made a better getaway from Marciello to move into the lead on the outside into Mandarin Bend corner. Almost immediately, the safety car was deployed for an three-car collision. Laurens Vanthoor and Mortara collided entering Mandarin Bend turn as the latter was defending from the former and Bamber on both sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Qualifying race\nMortara swerved to the right as Bamber executed a similar manoevure, causing contact with Laurens Vanthoor. That caused Vanthoor to go into a half spin, crashing into the outside barrier sideways and rolling back across the circuit. He was unhurt. Two laps were completed under safety car conditions to enable the removal of Laurens Vanthoor's car from the circuit before it was withdrawn for the restart on the third lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Qualifying race\nFarfus was late to returning to racing speeds, having taken longer than usual steering from side to side in his car on the back straight before the final turn. He made a clean getaway and extended his lead to a second over Marciello by the conclusion of the third lap, and he subsequently extended it to 21\u20442 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Qualifying race\nOn lap seven, Marciello set the race's fastest lap of 2 minutes, 17.989 seconds to briefly threaten a comeback but Farfus immediately reacted by lapping 2\u20445 of a second faster than the former on lap eight and subsequently by seven-tenths of a second on the ninth lap, resetting the fastest lap to a 2 minutes, 17.987 seconds in the process. Thereafter, Farfus could incrementally increase his lead even as Marciello and his teammate Engel were faster in the track's mountain section. He achieved victory in the 12-lap qualification race to claim pole position for the main race by 3.812 seconds over Marciello. The last classified finishers were Engel, Mortara, Bamber, Frijns, Haase, Dries Vanthoor, Jaminet, Imperatori, Fong, Jarvis and O'Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Main race\nAugusto Farfus on winning the 2018 FIA GT World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Main race\nThe race commenced in overcast conditions at 12:25 local time on 18 November. Laurens Vanthoor was withdrawn before the start of the event because of damage sustained to the chassis of his car in his first lap accident with Mortara in the previous day's qualification race forcing his second consecutive weekend-ending crash. From pole position, Farfus made a brisk start and steered to the inside to maintain the lead over Marciello entering the first turn. Maricello put pressure onto Farfus into Lisboa corner but was unable to effect an overtake and settled into second position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Main race\nBehind Farfus and Maricello, Mortara and his teammate Engel were third and fourth with Bamber fifth. On the second lap, Bamber made contact with the barrier at the Solitude Esses but continued without sustaining damage to his vehicle. By the conclusion of the lap, Farfus had opened up a lead of more than one second over Marciello. Following the opening four laps, Marciello drew close to Farfus and was able to put pressure on the race leader by following him closely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Main race\nMarciello was able to lap faster in the circuit's mountain areas, although he could not draw close enough to Farfus to attempt a pass. On the eighth lap, Marciello ran deep by braking too late for Lisboa turn and hit the barrier while trying to turn into the corner. He returned to the track without necessitating the yellow flags and fell to tenth position. The accident promoted Engel to second behind Farfus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Main race\nEngel frequently employed light flashing to try and distract Farfus. He remained within a second of Farfus who countered with the higher straightline speed of his BMW over Engel's Mercedes-Benz's throughout most of the remainder of the event. On lap 11, Matsuda overtook O'Young for 13th position as Marciello passed Imperatori for 9th place and Jaminet moved past Dries Vanthoor into 7th position on the following lap. Engel made an error braking for the Melco hairpin with two laps left, increasing Farfus' lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Main race\nUltimately, Farfus led all 18 laps to achieve his first victory in Macau since the 2009 Guia Race of Macau, his fourth in Macau and his first GT win on the Guia Circuit. BMW became the third manufacturer to clinch the FIA GT World Cup. Engel followed 0.981 seconds later in second. His teammate Mortara finished third, overcoming an early race error at the Police bend and despite his car lacking downforce and pace. Bamber in fourth was the final car in the lead pack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279036-0012-0002", "contents": "2018 FIA GT World Cup, Main race\nThe highest-placed Audi driver was Frijns in fifth, giving four manufacturers representation in the top five. Frijns was two seconds ahead of brandmate Haase in sixth. Macau debutants Jaminet and Dries Vanthoor were seventh and eighth with Marciello ninth, and Imperatori was the highest-finishing Nissan participant with a tenth-place finish. Fong, Jarvis, Matuda and O'Young were the final finishers. Only three overtakes occurred on the circuit during a race which saw no caution periods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279037-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GTC season\nThe 2018 FIA GTC season was the inaugural season of the FIA-Certified Gran Turismo Championships (FIA GTC), a professional esports league for the racing video game Gran Turismo Sport, managed by Japanese developer Polyphony Digital and French governing body F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile. The series concurrently runs two championships in the duration of the season, in the form of the Nations Cup (entrants from their respective countries will represent them) and the Manufacturers Series (entrants will race for and represent their chosen manufacturer).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279037-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GTC season\nThe season opening event began in 10 May at N\u00fcrburg, and concluded at Monaco with the season world final. Igor Fraga was crowned the inaugural Nations Cup champion, and the trio of Kanata Kawakami, Tyrell Meadows, and Vincent Rigaud became the inaugural Manufacturers Series champions with Lexus at the World Final event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279037-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GTC season, Format\nA phase dubbed as the \"Online Series\", which is essentially a qualification phase to decide the participants that will race in the live events of the championship tournament, kicks off every season. The Online Series is divided into four stages, with each stage hosting ten rounds. By the end of each stage, another World Tour event is hosted, which includes the top players from that stage instead of the top drivers from the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279037-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 FIA GTC season, Format\nThe top players who are selected after the series must sign an application form in order to be able to participate for the World Tour events, and they must also be over 18. The Online Series goes on for five to seven months. The winner from the World Tour event gains direct access to the \"World Final\" event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279037-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GTC season, Format\nThe \"Live Events\" begin after the Online Series. The Nations Cup category includes the top 90 players (30 per region) with the highest points across all four stages. Three different live events occur, with each live event carrying a specific world region. The top 10 players from those regions enter the \"World Final\" event, a championship stage to decide the number one player. The Manufacturer Series category includes the top 48 players (three players per region) and 16 manufacturers with the highest points across all four stages. The top players and manufacturers participate in the \"World Final\" event, to decide the top three players and the number one manufacturer. The winners of their respective series at the \"World Final\" are crowned either Nations Cup champion or Manufacturer Series champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279037-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA GTC season, Series calendar\nThe series was set in six locations around the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279038-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA R-GT Cup\nThe 2018 FIA R-GT Cup was the fourth edition of the FIA rally cup for GT cars in Group R-GT. The cup was contested over 5 tarmac rounds from the WRC, the ERC and the Rallye International du Valais. The competition was won by French driver Rapha\u00ebl Astier in an Abarth 124 R-GT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279038-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA R-GT Cup, Calendar\nThe calendar for the 2018 season features five tarmac rallies: two selected tarmac rounds from the WRC, two selected rounds from the ERC and the 59. Rallye International du Valais from the TER series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279039-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA WTCR Race of Hungary\nThe 2018 FIA WTCR Race of Hungary was the second round of the 2018 World Touring Car Cup and the first running of the FIA WTCR Race of Hungary. It was held on 28 and 29 April 2018 at the Hungaroring in Mogyor\u00f3d, Hungary. The first and third races were won by Gabriele Tarquini and the second won by Jean-Karl Vernay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279039-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA WTCR Race of Hungary, Entry list\nA total of 25 cars were entered, along with two Hungarian wildcard entries; Attila Tassi and Daniel Nagy. The following teams and drivers were entered into the event:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279040-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA WTCR Race of Morocco\nThe 2018 FIA WTCR Afriquia Race of Morocco was the opening round of the 2018 World Touring Car Cup and the first running of the FIA WTCR Race of Morocco. It was held on 7 and 8 April 2020 at the Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan in Marrakech, Morocco. The first and third races were won by Gabriele Tarquini and the second won by Jean-Karl Vernay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279040-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA WTCR Race of Morocco, Entry list\nA total of 25 cars were entered. The following teams and drivers were entered into the event:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279041-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship\nThe 2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy was the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship an auto racing championship recognised by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) as the highest class of international rallycross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279041-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship\nJohan Kristoffersson won the Drivers' Championship for the second season running during the World RX of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279041-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship, Calendar\nThe 2018 championship was contested over twelve rounds in Europe, Africa and North America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279041-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship, Entries, Supercar\nDrivers with a green background are ineligible to score points towards the Championship for Teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279041-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship, Entries, RX2\n2 Despite having been born in Andorra, Albert Llovera is recognised by the RX2 International Series and by extension, the FIA World Rallycross Championship as a Spanish driver for the duration of the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279041-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship, Results and standings, FIA World Rallycross Championship for Drivers\na Ekstr\u00f6m received no points from the final as he was disqualified after crashing into Solberg. b Loss of fifteen championship points \u2013 stewards' decision c Loss of ten championship points \u2013 stewards' decision", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 108], "content_span": [109, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279042-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 Europe Cup\nThe 2018 FIBA 3x3 Europe Cup was the fourth edition of the 3x3 Europe Championships, organized by FIBA Europe, and was held between 14 and 16 September 2018, in the city's Metropolitan Circus in Bucharest, Romania. This 3x3 basketball competition featured separate tournaments for men's and women's national teams. This was the third time that Bucharest had hosted the championships, after the 2014 FIBA Europe 3x3 Championships at the University Square and the 2016 FIBA Europe 3x3 Championships within the AFI Cotroceni shopping mall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279042-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 Europe Cup\nSerbia won their first European championship title in the men's tournament, by beating Latvia in the final. In the women's tournament, France won their first European championship title by beating the Netherlands in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279042-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 Europe Cup, Draw\nSeveral qualifiers were held across three nations namely, Andorra, France, and the host country itself. The hosts, Romania, qualified automatically for the both men's and women's events. The draw of the groupings was announced by FIBA last 16 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279043-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 Europe Cup \u2013 Men's tournament\nThe men's tournament of the 2018 FIBA 3x3 Europe Cup hosted in Bucharest, Romania, was contested by 12 teams. Four-time 3x3 World Champions Serbia won its first ever European 3x3 championship after dethroning defending European 3x3 Champions, Latvia, 19\u201318 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279043-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 Europe Cup \u2013 Men's tournament, Participating teams\nThe hosts, Romania, qualified for the tournament automatically. The eleven other teams went in their respective qualifiers. FIBA announced the composition of the pools last 16 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279044-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup\nThe 2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup, hosted by the Philippines, was an international 3x3 basketball event that featured separate competitions for men's and women's national teams. The tournament ran between 8 and 12 June 2018 in Bocaue, Bulacan, just north of Manila. It is co-organized by FIBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279044-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup, Background\nIt was announced on 5 December 2017 that the tournament would be held at the Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan, which is just north of Metro Manila. Since the final would be held on Philippine Independence Day, cultural events were also planned alongside the tournament proper. The Philippine Arena will also be used for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279044-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup, Background\nThe tournament was officially launched on 18 January 2018 at the Bonifacio High Street in Taguig. The official logo for the event was also unveiled during the ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279044-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup, Participating teams\nThe FIBA 3x3 Federation Ranking on 17 January 2018 was used as basis to determine the participating FIBA member associations. The hosts, the Philippines, qualified automatically for both the men's and women's events, while the defending champions, Serbia for men's and Russia for women's, also qualified automatically. The top 20 teams in the men's and women's Federation Rankings qualified with the following conditions: a maximum of 10 teams from a single continent could qualify and at least 30 FIBA member associations must participate. The 40 qualifying teams (20 each for the men's and women's tournaments) had to confirm their participation by 30 November 2017. FIBA confirmed the participation of 37 member associations on 18 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279045-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Individual contests\nAs part of the 2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup held from June 8 to 12, 2018, three tournaments in addition to the main 3x3 men's and women's tournaments were contested. The Dunk-out contest was for men, the Skills contest for women, and the Shoot-out contest for both men and women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279045-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Individual contests, Dunk contest, Qualification phase\nEach player competed in two rounds and four players with the highest score advances to the knockout stage. In a case of a tie, the tied players would have to perform again and in case they were still tied, the jury would have to decide the player who will advance through a majority decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 80], "content_span": [81, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279045-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Individual contests, Dunk contest, Knockout stage, Final\nTwo players will compete for three rounds instead of two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279045-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Individual contests, Skills contest\nThe skills contest was contested by women players from the qualified 3x3 national teams of the main tournament. Each team can enter at most a single player for the competition. The contest which had a time limit of 45 seconds involves a qualification phase and a knockout round. The players begins on the starting line on the side of their choice. Upon a signal, the player must execute the following in order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279045-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Individual contests, Skills contest\nThe four women with the best time record qualify for the knock-out round", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279045-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Individual contests, Shoot-out contest\nThe shoot-out contest is a mixed-gender competition with at most one male and one female player from 3x3 national teams participating in the main tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 64], "content_span": [65, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279045-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Individual contests, Shoot-out contest, Qualification phase\nEach player were to attempt 10 shots with every successful shot worth one point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279045-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Individual contests, Shoot-out contest, Qualification phase\nTwo male and two female players with the most points in the shortest amount of time advance to the final. In case of a tie or players scoring the same points within the same amount of time, the tied players were tasked to shoot again. The round concluded on June 11, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 85], "content_span": [86, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279045-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Individual contests, Shoot-out contest, Final\nPlayers were to attempt 18 shots from four different locations:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279045-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Individual contests, Shoot-out contest, Final\nShots made from the 3x3 are worth 2 points while the rest of the shots of are worth 1 point. The tiebreaker which was used in the qualification phase is used again for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279045-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Individual contests, Shoot-out contest, Final\nFinal was held on June 12, 2018 was won by Janine Pontejos of the Philippines' women's team. She won over Alexandra Stolyar of Russia's women's team due to a better time record despite both players having tied scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279046-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Men's tournament\nThe men's tournament of the 2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup hosted in Bocaue, Philippines was contested by 20 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279046-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Men's tournament, Participating teams\nAll five FIBA zones were represented. The top 20 teams, including the hosts, based on the FIBA National Federation ranking qualified for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279046-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Men's tournament, Participating teams\nFIBA announced the composition of the pools on April 10, 2018. There was no draw made and the teams were seeded based on their FIBA National Federation rankings as of the April 1, 2018 cut-off date. The top one, two, three, and four teams were placed at the top of Pools A, B, C, and D respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279046-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Men's tournament, Participating teams\nThe next four teams are placed in reversed order with the top five team placed as the second team of Pool D and the top eight team designated as the second team of Pool A. The remaining eight teams are seeded in a similar manner with the last ranked team placed as the last team of Pool A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279047-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Women's tournament\nThe women's tournament of the 2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup hosted in Bocaue, Philippines, was contested by 20 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279047-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Women's tournament, Participating teams\nAll FIBA continental zones except for FIBA Oceania are represented by at least one team. The top 20 teams, including the hosts, based on the FIBA National Federation ranking qualified for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279047-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Women's tournament, Participating teams\nFIBA announced the composition of the pools on April 10, 2018. There was no draw made and the teams were seeded based on their FIBA National Federation rankings as of the April 1, 2018 cut-off date. The top one, two, three, and four teams were placed at the top of Pools A, B, C, and D respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279047-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup \u2013 Women's tournament, Participating teams\nThe next four teams are placed in reversed order with the top five team placed as the second team of Pool D and the top eight team designated as the second team of Pool A. The remaining eight teams are seeded in a similar manner with the last ranked team placed as the last team of Pool A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279048-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Africa Women's Champions Cup\nThe 2018 FIBA Africa Women's Champions Cup was the 24th edition of the FIBA Africa Basketball Club Championship for Women, the international basketball club tournament of FIBA Africa. The tournament was held in Maputo, Mozambique, from 17 to 25 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279048-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Africa Women's Champions Cup\nFerrovi\u00e1rio de Maputo from the host country won their maiden title, and their country's sixth title overall, by edging out the five-time champions Interclube of Angola, 59-56, in the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279048-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Africa Women's Champions Cup, Draw\nThe draw for the tournament took place on 15 November in the Mozambican capital city of Maputo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 44], "content_span": [45, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279048-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Africa Women's Champions Cup, Draw\nFerrovi\u00e1rio de Maputo FAP Yaound\u00e9 Interclube Equity Bank Vita Club", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 44], "content_span": [45, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279048-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Africa Women's Champions Cup, Awards, All-Star Five\nThe following players were named to the All-Star Five line-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279049-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Americas League\nThe 2018 FIBA Americas League was the 11th edition of the top-tier level intercontinental professional club basketball competition in the Americas, the FIBA Americas League. Sixteen teams from across the Americas competed over three rounds, to determine the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279049-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Americas League, Team allocation, Teams\nThe labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: Americas League title holders):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279049-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Americas League, Group phase\nSixteen teams participated in the group phase, in which each team faced the other teams in the group once. Each group tournament was held at the arena of a host team. The two highest-placed teams in each group advance to the semifinal phase. Games were played from 19 January until 11 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279049-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Americas League, Semifinal phase\nThe eight teams which advance from the group phase, played in this stage in which each team faced the other teams in the group once. Each group tournament was held at the arena of a host team. The two highest-placed teams in each group advance to the final four. Games were played from 2 March until 11 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279049-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Americas League, Final Four\nThe final four tournament decided the champion of the 2018 season. The tournament was held from 24 March and 25 March 2018 in the Polideportivo Roberto Pando in Buenos Aires, Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279050-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup\nThe 2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup was the 27th staging of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, the international basketball club tournament of FIBA Asia. The tournament, which was originally scheduled to be hosted by China, took place in Thailand from 27 September to 2 October 2018. Games were played at Stadium29 in Nonthaburi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279050-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup, Qualification\nStarting this year, there are a lot of changes in the qualification leading to the main tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279050-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup, Qualification\nAlready qualified to the main tournament are the following nations:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279050-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup, Host\nThe Basketball Association of Thailand was awarded the hosting duties. They assigned to Stadium 29 in the Bangkok suburb of Nonthaburi as the host of the tournament. The arena is the home of Mono Vampire in the Thailand Basketball League and in the ASEAN Basketball League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 34], "content_span": [35, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279050-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup, Draw\nThe draw was held on September 14, at Stadium 29 at Nonthaburi. The eight teams were divided into two groups. Hosts Mono Vampire chose their own group after three teams were drawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 34], "content_span": [35, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification\nQualification for the 2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup started in 2017 and will end in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, Background\nStarting this year, there are a lot of changes in the qualification leading to the main tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, Background\nAlready qualified to the main tournament are teams from these leagues:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, Background\nAwaiting results are the West Asia and East Asia Final 8 Qualifiers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, West Asia\nOn March 17, 2018, Petrochimi of Iran avenged their last year's defeat against Al-Riyadi of Lebanon to rule the West Asia Basketball Association (WABA) Champions Cup qualifiers, 83-53, in the Final in Beirut, Lebanon. Joining the finalists is Sareyyet Ramallah of Palestine, which qualified by virtue of their win over Syria's Al Jaish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, West Asia\nThe top three teams are now qualified to the \u201cRoad To Final 8 (West Asia)\u201d Round 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, Southeast Asia\nThe FIBA Asia Champions Cup SEABA qualifier was held in Nonthaburi, Thailand from 8\u201310 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, Southeast Asia\nThe competition qualify two club teams from the SEABA sub-zone for the \"Road to Final 8 (East Asia)\" round of the main tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, Southeast Asia\nThe two successful SEABA club teams will join club teams from Chinese Taipei and India in the next round, which will qualify one team to the Final 8, joining the group composed of Australia, Japan and the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, Southeast Asia\nThailand's Mono Vampire, and Indonesia's Pelita Jaya have qualified for the Round 1 of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2018 - Road to Final 8 East Asia after finishing among the top two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, Gulf\nThe FIBA Asia Champions Cup GBA qualifier was held in Muscat, Oman from 6\u201314 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, Gulf\nThe sub-zone qualifier will qualify three teams for the Round 1 of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, which will determine the identity of the four teams in the \u201cRoad To Final 8 (West Asia)\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, Gulf\nTwo teams from Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and a team each from Saudi Arabia and the hosts Oman participated in the weeklong sub-zone qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, Gulf\nBahrain's Al Manama, UAE's Sharjah and Qatar's Al-Arabi have qualified for the Round 1 of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2018 - Road to Final 8 West Asia after finishing among the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, East Inter-Sub Zone qualification\nSouth Asia will be represented by the best club team from India and they will participate in the FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2018 East Inter-Sub Zone Qualification that will be held in Thailand on 30 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 77], "content_span": [78, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279051-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Asia Champions Cup qualification, East Inter-Sub Zone qualification\nEast Asia has already three direct spots allocated to the Final 8 (China, Korea, Japan) and Taiwan's Pauian will participate in the FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2018 East Inter-Sub Zone Qualification that will be held in Thailand on 30 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 77], "content_span": [78, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279052-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Europe Cup Finals\nThe 2018 FIBA Europe Cup Finals will be the concluding games of the 2017\u201318 FIBA Europe Cup season. The Finals will be played in a two-legged format, with the first leg being played on April 25 and the second one on 2 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279052-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Europe Cup Finals\nFor the second consecutive time, two teams from the same country will meet in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279052-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Europe Cup Finals, Venue\nThe Palasport Giacomo Del Mauro was the first venue. The Palasport originally had a 3,600 seating capacity. It was expanded to a 5,300 seating capacity in 2008, specifically in order to meet the minimum capacity requirements for EuroLeague games, which require an arena of at least 5,000 seats. In 2008, the arena's usage rights were also entrusted to Air Avellino, for a period of ten years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279052-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Europe Cup Finals, Venue\nThe Palasport Giuseppe Taliercio in Venice, the venue for the second leg, opened in 1978. It was used as one of the host arenas of the 1979 EuroBasket. It has most notably been used as the home arena of the Italian basketball club, Reyer Venezia Mestre, of the Lega Basket Serie A. The Italian club Basket Mestre 1958 also used the arena at one time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279052-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Europe Cup Finals, Road to the Finals\nNote: In the table, the score of the finalist is given first (H = home; A = away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279053-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Europe SuperCup Women\nThe 2018 FIBA Europe SuperCup Women was the 8th edition of the FIBA Europe SuperCup Women. It was held on 17 October 2018 at the DIVS Sport Hall in Yekaterinburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279054-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA European Championship for Small Countries\nThe 2018 FIBA European Championship for Small Countries was the 16th edition of this tournament. It was hosted by San Marino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279054-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA European Championship for Small Countries, Teams\nSeven teams played in the competition, with the return of Norway, 17 years after their last appearance in a FIBA competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 58], "content_span": [59, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279054-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA European Championship for Small Countries, Teams\nArmenia, that participates in the EuroBasket 2021 qualification, and Wales, integrated in the team of Great Britain, were the teams from the previous edition that did not participate in this one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 58], "content_span": [59, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279055-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Polynesia Basketball Cup\nThe 2018 FIBA Polynesian Basketball Cup was an international basketball tournament contested by national teams of the newly formed Polynesia sub-zone of FIBA Oceania. The inaugural edition of the tournament was hosted by Samoa from 19 to 24 November 2018. Matches were played at the NUS Gymnasium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279055-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Polynesia Basketball Cup\nThe tournament serves as qualifiers for the basketball events of the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa with three berths for Polynesia allocated for the top three teams, excluding Samoa, in this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279055-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Polynesia Basketball Cup\nTahiti swept its way throughout the tournament, sweeping the preliminaries and won their first-ever Polynesian Cup championship over the hosts Samoa in the Final, 77-73. The finalists, along with Tonga, who edged American Samoa in the Bronze Medal Match, 79-77, will represent Polynesia in the men's basketball tournament of the 2019 Pacific Games, which will be also held in Samoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279056-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U16 European Championship\nThe 2018 FIBA U16 European Championship was the 32nd edition of the Under-16 European Basketball Championship. The competition took place from 10 to 18 August 2018 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Sixteen (16) teams are participating, including 2017 Division B top three finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279056-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U16 European Championship, First round\nIn this round, sixteen teams are allocated in four groups of four teams each. All teams advance to the Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279057-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U16 European Championship Division B\nThe 2018 FIBA U16 European Championship Division B was the 15th edition of the Division B of the FIBA U16 European Championship. It was played in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 9 to 18 August 2018. 24 teams participated in the competition. Russia men's national under-16 basketball team won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279058-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U16 European Championship Division C\nThe 2018 FIBA U16 European Championship Division C was held in Serravalle, San Marino, from 3 to 11 July 2018. Ten teams participated in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279059-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U16 Women's European Championship\nThe 2018 FIBA U16 Women's European Championship was the 30th edition of the Women's European basketball championship for national under-16 teams. It was held in Kaunas, Lithuania. Italy won their first title in this age level after beating the Czech Republic in the final 60-52. It was Italy's first ever gold medal after six silver medals and seven bronze medals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279060-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U16 Women's European Championship Division B\nThe 2018 FIBA U16 Women's European Championship Division B was the 15th edition of the Division B of the European basketball championship for women's national under-16 teams. It was played in Podgorica, Montenegro, from 16 to 25 August 2018. Sweden women's national under-16 basketball team won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279060-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U16 Women's European Championship Division B, First round\nIn the first round, the teams were drawn into four groups. The first two teams from each group will advance to the quarterfinals, the third and fourth teams will advance to the 9th\u201316th place playoffs, the other teams will play in the 17th\u201323rd place classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 67], "content_span": [68, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279061-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U16 Women's European Championship Division C\nThe 2018 FIBA U16 Women's European Championship Division C was the 14th edition of the Division C of the FIBA U16 Women's European Championship, the third tier of the European women's under-16 basketball championship. It was played in Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Moldova, from 3 to 8 July 2018. Austria women's national under-16 basketball team won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279062-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U18 European Championship\nThe 2018 FIBA U18 European Championship was the 35th edition of the FIBA U18 European Championship. The competition took place in Riga, Ventspils and Liepaja, Latvia, from 28 July to 5 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279062-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U18 European Championship, Preliminary round\nThe draw ceremony was held on 16 January 2018 in Freising, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279063-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U18 European Championship Division B\nThe 2018 FIBA U18 European Championship Division B was the 14th edition of the Division B of FIBA U18 European Championship. The competition took place in Skopje, from 27 July to 5 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279063-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U18 European Championship Division B, Group phase\nIn this round, the 24 teams are allocated in four groups of six teams each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 59], "content_span": [60, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279064-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U18 European Championship Division C\nThe 2018 FIBA U18 European Championship Division C was the 14th edition of the Division C of the FIBA U18 European Championship. It was played in Pristina, Kosovo, from 22 to 29 July 2018. 9 teams participated in the competition. The host team, Kosovo, won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279065-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U18 Women's European Championship\nThe 2018 FIBA U18 Women's European Championship was an international basketball competition that was held from 4 to 12 August 2018 in Italy. It was the 35th edition of the championship. 16 national teams from across Europe, composed of women aged 18 and under, competed in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279065-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U18 Women's European Championship, First round\nThe first-round groups draw took place on 16 January 2018 in Freising, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279066-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U18 Women's European Championship Division B\nThe 2018 FIBA U18 Women's European Championship Division B was the 14th edition of the Division B of the Women's European basketball championship for national under-18 teams. It was held in Austrian towns F\u00fcrstenfeld, G\u00fcssing and Oberwart from 3 to 12 August 2018. Lithuania women's national under-18 basketball team won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279067-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U18 Women's European Championship Division C\nThe 2018 FIBA U18 Women's European Championship Division C was the 13th edition of the Division C of the FIBA U18 Women's European Championship, the third tier of the European women's under-18 basketball championship. It was played in Andorra la Vella, Andorra, from 24 to 29 July 2018. Gibraltar women's national under-18 basketball team won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279068-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U20 European Championship\nThe 2018 FIBA U20 European Championship was the 21st edition of the FIBA U20 European Championship. The competition took place in Chemnitz, Germany from 14 to 22 July 2018. 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The tournament was played in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 13 to 22 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279069-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U20 European Championship Division B, Group Phase\nIn the Group Phase the 22 participating teams are divided into two groups of six and two groups of five. 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All teams advance to the playoff round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279071-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA U20 Women's European Championship Division B\nThe 2018 FIBA U20 Women's European Championship Division B was the 14th edition of the Division B of the Women's European basketball championship for national under-20 teams. It was held in Oradea, Romania, from 7 to 15 July 2018. The Czech Republic women's national under-20 basketball team won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279072-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup\nThe 2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup(Spanish: Copa del Mundo de Baloncesto FIBA Sub-17 2018) was an international basketball competition, held from 30 June to 8 July 2018, in Rosario and Santa Fe, Argentina. It was the fifth edition of the FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup. Sixteen national teams competed in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279072-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup\nThe United States won their fifth title, is as many tournaments, after defeating France in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279072-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup, Bids\nThe host was chosen in 2017 it was decided to be held in Argentina over Bulgaria which will host in 2020, it also beat out Israel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279072-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup, Draw\nThe draw was held on 14 March 2018 in Rosario, Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279072-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup, Marketing\nThe logo and brand identity of the 2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup was unveiled during the Argentina-Uruguay 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Americas qualifier match held in 23 February 2018 in Olavarr\u00eda. The logo design was inspired from the Flag of Argentina. The ball represents the sun of the flag while the hands depicted contesting a tip off was derived from the two blue bands of the flag. The hands are meant to evoke a \"sense of a journey unfolding\". The brand identity used for the tournament had its sun as its primary symbol which is meant to symbolize the \"new stars that will rise and shine\" in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279073-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup\nThe 2018 FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup (Belarusian: \u041a\u0443\u0431\u0430\u043a \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0443 \u043f\u0430 \u0431\u0430\u0441\u043a\u0435\u0442\u0431\u043e\u043b\u0435 \u0441\u044f\u0440\u043e\u0434 \u0436\u0430\u043d\u0447\u044b\u043d \u0434\u0430 17 \u0433\u0430\u0434\u043e\u045e \u0424\u0406\u0411\u0410 2018) was an international basketball competition held from 21 to 29 July 2018 in Minsk, Belarus. It was the fifth edition of the FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup. Sixteen national teams competed in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279073-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup\nThe United States won their fourth title after defeating France in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279074-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 African Championship\nThe 2018 FIBA Under-18 African Championship was the 21st edition, played under the rules of FIBA, the world governing body for basketball, and the FIBA Africa thereof. The tournament was hosted by Mali from August 24 to September 2 in Bamako. The finalists of this championship will earn the right to represent the continent at the 2019 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup in Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279074-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 African Championship, Hosts Selection\nOn 23 March 2018, FIBA Africa Central Board announced that Bamako, Mali as the host city for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279075-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Americas Championship\nThe 2018 FIBA Under-18 Americas Championship was an international under-18 basketball tournament that was held from 10\u201316 June 2018 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. The eleventh edition of the biennial competition, this is also the qualifying tournament for FIBA Americas in the 2019 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup in Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279075-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Americas Championship, Hosts selection\nOn 12 April 2017, FIBA Americas, Canada Basketball and the Niagara Sports Commission announced that the city of St. Catharines will host the 2018 edition of the FIBA U18 Americas Championship. This will be the first time that Canada will host the continental under-18 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279075-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Americas Championship, Preliminary round\nThe draw was held on 20 March 2018 in FIBA Americas Regional Office in San Juan, Puerto Rico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279076-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Asian Championship\nThe 2018 FIBA Under-18 Asian Championship was the 25th edition of the Asian Championship for Junior Men aged 18 years old and below. The tournament was held in Nonthaburi, Thailand from August 5 to 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279076-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Asian Championship\nAustralia held off New Zealand, 72\u221263, to win their first-ever Under-18 Asian title in their debut, while China avenged their Preliminary Round loss to the Philippines, 76\u221257, to secure third place in the final day of competition. The top four teams qualified and will represent FIBA Asia in the 2019 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup in Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279076-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Asian Championship, Format\nThis edition of the tournament will be using a different format as compared to what was used since 2010. While there would still be a preliminary round robin of four groups of four teams, the single-elimination final round immediately follows the preliminary round. In the final round, the teams that finished second and third in their respective groups would play in the qualifications to quarterfinals of the final round, while the group winners automatically qualify to the quarterfinals proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279076-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Asian Championship, Draw\nPrior to the draw, the 16 teams were separated into 4 pots based on the latest FIBA Boys' World Ranking, as shown within the parenthesis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279076-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Asian Championship, Draw\nJapan (27)\u00a0Chinese Taipei (31)\u00a0New Zealand (33)\u00a0Philippines (34)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279076-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Asian Championship, Draw\nSyria (62)\u00a0Thailand (67)\u00a0Indonesia (71)\u00a0United Arab Emirates (82)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279076-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Asian Championship, Draw\nThe Draw ceremony was held on July 6 at Mono 29 Stadium in Nonthaburi, Thailand. Teams in each pot were distributed into four groups, with the host nation picking their group. Thailand eventually decided to be drawn in Group C, along with Bahrain and newcomers Australia & New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279076-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Asian Championship, Venues\nMost games were held at Stadium 29, located in the Bangkok suburb of Nonthaburi. A few games were held at the Thai-Japanese Bangkok Youth Center in Bangkok.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279077-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's African Championship\nThe 2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's African Championship was the 15th edition, played under the rules of FIBA, the world governing body for basketball, and the FIBA Africa thereof. The tournament was hosted by Mozambique from August 10 to 19, 2018 in Maputo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279077-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's African Championship, Hosts Selection\nOn 23 March 2018, FIBA Africa Central Board announced that Maputo, Mozambique as the host city for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279077-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's African Championship, Preliminary round\nThe draw was held in Maputo, Mozambique on 9 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279078-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Americas Championship\nThe 2018 FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship for Women is an international basketball competition that currently takes place from August 1\u20137, 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico. This is the twelfth edition of the championship, and is the FIBA Americas qualifying tournament for the 2019 FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup in Thailand. Eight national teams from across the Americas, composed of women aged 19 and under, will compete in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279078-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Americas Championship, Preliminary round\nThe draw was held in Mexico City, Mexico on 10 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship\nThe 2018 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship for Women was the qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the 2019 FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup. The tournament, which was also the 24th edition of the biennial competition, was held in Bangalore, India from October 28 to November 3. The top four teams qualified and will represent FIBA Asia in the 2019 FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup in Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship\nBy virtue of topping their respective groups in Division A at the end of the preliminary round, South Korea and Japan earlier booked their spots in the U19 \"Worlds\", while Australia and China subdued their opponents in the qualification to the semifinals-round to also clinch their spot in the following year's tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship\nChina defeated their old rivals Japan in the Final for the fifth straight time, with a score of 89-76, to annex their fifth straight title and sixteenth championship overall. Meanwhile, Australia avenged their preliminary-round loss to South Korea, with a score of 75-58, in the Bronze Medal Match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Competition format\nThe sixteen participating teams will be divided into two divisions, Division A and Division B of eight teams each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Competition format\nIn each division, the eight participating teams are divided into two groups (A and B) of four teams each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Competition format\nEach team shall play all the other teams within its own group. The final stage standings will be established after the games for a total of twelve are all played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Competition format\nTeams that will finish first in each group will advance to the semifinal round, awaiting the winners of the qualification to semifinals round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Competition format\nTeams that will finish second and third in each group will face the third-placed and second-placed team, respectively, in the other group within its own division for the qualification to semifinals round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Competition format\nWinners of the qualification to semifinals round will face the outright semifinalists in the semifinal round. Losers will face each other for the fifth-sixth place classification round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Competition format\nFor the seventh-eighth place classification round, teams that will finish fourth in each group will face the other fourth-placed team in the other group within its own division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Competition format\nFor Division A, all semifinalists will qualify to the 2019 FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Competition format\nThe Champion team from Division B will be promoted to Division A for the next championship, replacing the eighth-placed team in Division A that will be relegated to Division B for the next championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Divisions\nDivision A will include teams that won in the 2016 qualifying round and the semifinalists of the previous championship. FIBA Oceania teams Australia and New Zealand, being the finalists of the 2017 FIBA Under-17 Women's Oceania Championship, will compete in the tournament for the first time and will be placed in the same division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Divisions\nIncluded were, the FIBA World Rankings prior to the draw (as of 10 December 2016).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Divisions\nAustralia (7)\u00a0China (9)\u00a0Japan (11)\u00a0South Korea (15)\u00a0Chinese Taipei (27)\u00a0New Zealand (33)\u00a0Malaysia (39)\u00a0Indonesia (58)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Divisions\nIndia (37)\u00a0Hong Kong (43)\u00a0Kazakhstan (44)\u00a0Iran (49)\u00a0Singapore (51)\u00a0Guam (70)\u00a0Samoa (71)\u00a0Syria (77)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Division A, Preliminary round\nThe preliminary groups were announced on 11 October 2018 in Bengaluru, India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279079-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship, Division B, Preliminary round\nThe preliminary groups were announced on 11 October 2018 in Bengaluru, India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279080-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship squads\nThis article shows the rosters of all participating teams at the 2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asian Championship in Bangalore, India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279081-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup\nThe 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, the 18th edition of FIBA's premier international tournament for women's national basketball teams, was held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain from 22 to 30 September 2018. This was the first edition to use the name of FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup. After the last edition in 2014, FIBA changed the name of the competition from the FIBA World Championship for Women, in order to align its name with that of the corresponding men's competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279081-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup\nThe United States were the two-time defending champions. This tournament saw the World Cup debut of Belgium, Latvia and Puerto Rico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279081-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup\nThe US Team won the final against Australia, to win their third straight and tenth overall title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279081-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, Hosts selection\nThe whole bidding process started in October 2014. Bids from two nations were submitted. On 31 October 2014, it was confirmed that Spain and Israel were the bidders. On 16 December 2014, it was announced that Spain won the bid and would host the upcoming World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279081-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, Qualification\nSpain as the hosts automatically qualified for the tournament in December 2014. The United States were the next to qualify after winning Gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279081-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, Qualification\nThe remaining teams were decided over June, July & August 2017 through the Women\u2019s Continental Cups. The continental qualifiers vary in the number of teams; the European qualifiers featured 16 teams, Africa featured 12 teams, Americas featured 10 teams and Asia featured 8 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279081-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, Qualification\nFrom the 46 teams competing for the final 14 spots, the field was completed by the top five teams from 2017 EuroBasket Women, the top three teams from the 2017 FIBA Women's AmeriCup, the two finalists from the 2017 Women's Afrobasket; as well as the top four teams from the 2017 FIBA Asia Women's Cup, which saw teams from Asia and Oceania compete together for the first time ever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279081-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, Format\nThe tournament was played in two phases. In the first phase, the 16 qualified teams were sorted into four groups of four (A-D), each team in a group played each other once, 24 games were played in the first phase. The top team from each group directly advanced to the quarterfinals. The teams that placed fourth in the group stage were eliminated. The teams placed second and third from each group advanced to the quarterfinal qualifications, where the winners of the qualification round then progressed to the quarterfinals, losers were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279081-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, Format\nIn the second phase, a knockout stage was used to determine the champion. In the quarterfinals the four winners progressed to the semifinals, the four losers played in classification games for 5\u20138th. In total, 40 games were played over a total of 8 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279081-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, Draw\nThe official draw ceremony took place on 6 February 2018, at San Crist\u00f3bal de la Laguna, Island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279081-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, Draw, Seedings\nPuerto Rico (22)\u00a0South Korea (16)\u00a0Nigeria (34)\u00a0Senegal (17)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279081-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, Marketing\nThe logo and branding identity was unveiled on 5 February 2018 at the La Laguna Gran Hotel in San Crist\u00f3bal de La Laguna, the logo is inspired by the treasures of the island of Tenerife, its coastlines and its heart of Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279081-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, Marketing\nThe Mascot Tina the Turtle were also unveiled at the ceremony in the town hall of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 7 August 2018, 6 Weeks before the Tournament kick off the mascot name is a short form of Tinerfina which means Coming from or Living from Tenerife, Both Logo and the Mascot were designed by a Tenerife Artist Raul Pena", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279082-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Final\nThe 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Final was a basketball game which took place on 30 September 2018 at Tenerife Sports Pavilion Santiago Martin in San Crist\u00f3bal de La Laguna, Spain, to determine the winner of the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279082-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Final\nThis was the first time the United States and Australia played against each other in a World Cup Final. Their last game against each other at World Cup level came in 2014, with the United States taking an 82\u201370 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279082-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Final\nTeam USA won again, this time 73\u201356, to win their third straight and tenth overall title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279082-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Final, Road to the final, Australia\nAustralia qualified by finishing second in the 2017 FIBA Asia Women's Cup. They were drawn into Group B with Argentina, Nigeria and Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279082-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Final, Road to the final, United States\nThe Americans qualified by virtue of being the defending Olympic champions, after defeating Spain in the 2016 gold medal game. They were drawn into Group D with China, Latvia and Senegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279082-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Final, Match details\nThis was the eleventh meeting between Australia and the United States in the World Cup, with the USA leading the head-to-head 10\u20130. It was the first meeting between the two in a World Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279082-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Final, Match details\nThe teams entered the game with an even deeper familiarity with one another due to extensive WNBA connections, which went beyond the fact that many USA and Australian players had played in the league's 2018 season. At match time, Australia head coach Sandy Brondello was also head coach of the Phoenix Mercury, then home to Australia's Stephanie Talbot and Americans Brittney Griner and Diana Taurasi. Rebecca Allen (Australia) and Tina Charles (USA) were New York Liberty teammates in that season. Five individuals who played significant roles in the Seattle Storm's victory in the 2018 WNBA Finals were involved in this game\u2014American players Sue Bird, Jewell Loyd, and Breanna Stewart, Australian player Sami Whitcomb, and Storm head coach and USA assistant Dan Hughes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279083-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Group A\nGroup A of the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup took place from 22 to 25 September, 2018. The group consisted of Canada, France, Greece, and South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279083-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Group A\nThe top team advanced to the quarterfinals, while the second and third placed team played in a qualification round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279084-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Group B\nGroup B of the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup took place from 22 to 25 September 2018. The group consisted of Argentina, Australia, Nigeria and Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279084-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Group B\nThe top team advanced to the quarterfinals while the second and third placed team played in a qualification round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279085-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Group C\nGroup C of the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup took place from 22 to 25 September 2018. The group consisted of Belgium, Japan, Puerto Rico and Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279085-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Group C\nThe top team advanced to the quarterfinals while the second and third placed team played in a qualification round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279086-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Group D\nGroup D of the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup took place from 22 to 25 September 2018. The group consisted of China, Latvia, Senegal and the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279086-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Group D\nThe top team advanced to the quarterfinals while the second and third placed team played in a qualification round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279087-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup final round\nThe final round of the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup took place from 26 to 30 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279087-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup final round, Qualified teams\nThe group winners qualified for the quarterfinals while the runners-up and third placed teams advanced to the qualification round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279088-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup squads\nThe following is the list of squads for each of the 16 teams competing in the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, to be held in Spain between September 22\u201330. Each team will select a squad of 12 players for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279089-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's European Championship for Small Countries\nThe 2018 FIBA Women's European Championship for Small Countries was the 15th edition of this competition. The tournament took place in Cork, Republic of Ireland, from 26 June to 1 July 2018. Denmark women's national basketball team won the tournament for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279089-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's European Championship for Small Countries, Group phase\nIn this round, the teams were drawn into two groups of four. The first two teams from each group advance to the semifinals, the other teams will play in the 5th\u20138th place playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 72], "content_span": [73, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279090-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Polynesia Basketball Cup\nThe 2018 FIBA Women's Polynesian Basketball Cup was an international basketball tournament contested by national teams of the newly formed Polynesia sub-zone of FIBA Oceania. The inaugural edition of the tournament was hosted by Samoa from 19 to 24 November 2018. Matches were played at the NUS Gymnasium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279090-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Polynesia Basketball Cup\nThe tournament serves as qualifiers for the basketball events of the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa with three berths for Polynesia allocated for the top three teams, excluding Samoa, in this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279090-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIBA Women's Polynesia Basketball Cup\nThe Cook Islands romped its way to the Gold Medal with a perfect 4-0 record punctuated by a dominating 91-58 win over Tahiti in the final. The finalists, along with the hosts Samoa, who prevailed over American Samoa in the Bronze Medal Match, will represent Polynesia in the women's basketball tournament of the 2019 Pacific Games, which will be also held in Samoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279091-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup\nThe 2018 FIFA Club World Cup (officially known as the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2018 presented by Alibaba Cloud for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organised international club football tournament between the winners of the six continental confederations, as well as the host nation's league champions. The tournament was hosted by the United Arab Emirates from 12 to 22 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279091-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup\nReal Madrid were the defending champions, having won the previous two editions, and qualified for the 2018 edition as well. They successfully defended their title (their third consecutive) after defeating Al-Ain 4\u20131 in the final. With the win, they broke the tie with their club rivals Barcelona to become the outright record winners of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279091-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup, Host bids\nThe application process for the 2017\u20132018 as well as the 2015\u20132016 editions, i.e. two hosts, each hosting two years, began in February 2014. Member associations interested in hosting must submit a declaration of interest by 30 March 2014, and provide the complete set of bidding documents by 25 August 2014. The FIFA Executive Committee was to select the hosts at their meeting in Morocco in December 2014, but the final decision was delayed until the FIFA Executive Committee meetings on 19\u201320 March 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279091-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup, Host bids\nThe following countries expressed an interest in bidding to host the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279091-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup, Host bids\nThe United Arab Emirates was officially announced as hosts of the 2017 and 2018 tournaments on 21 March 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279091-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup, Venues\nThe two venues were the Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi and the Hazza bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279091-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup, Match officials\nA total of six referees, twelve assistant referees, and six video assistant referees were appointed for the tournament. FIFA announced on 22 November 2018 that the trio of referees and assistant referees from CAF were changed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279091-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup, Squads\nEach team had to name a 23-man squad (three of whom must be goalkeepers). Injury replacements were allowed until 24 hours before the team's first match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279091-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup, Matches\nThe draw of the tournament was held on 4 September 2018, 10:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the FIFA Headquarters in Z\u00fcrich, to decide the matchups of the second round (between the first round winner and teams from AFC, CAF, and CONCACAF), and the opponents of the two second round winners in the semi-finals (teams from CONMEBOL and UEFA). At the time of the draw, the identity of the teams from AFC, CAF and CONMEBOL were not known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279091-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup, Final ranking\nPer statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time were counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out were counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279091-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup, Awards\nThe following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279091-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup, Awards\nFIFA also named a man of the match for the best player in each game at the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final\nThe 2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final was the final match of the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup, an international club association football tournament hosted by the United Arab Emirates. It was the 15th final of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organised tournament between the winners of the six continental confederations, as well as the host nation's league champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final\nThe final was contested between Spanish club and defending champions Real Madrid (who won the last two editions of the competition), representing UEFA as the reigning champions of the UEFA Champions League, and Emirati club Al-Ain, representing the host nation as the reigning champions of the UAE Pro-League. The match was played at the Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi on 22 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final\nReal Madrid won the final 4\u20131 for their third consecutive and fourth overall FIFA Club World Cup title, breaking the tie with Barcelona to become the outright record winners of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Teams\nIn the following table, finals until 2005 were in the FIFA Club World Championship era, since 2006 were in the FIFA Club World Cup era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Teams\nNote: On 27 October 2017, FIFA officially recognised all the champions of the Intercontinental Cup as club world champions, in equal status to the FIFA Club World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Venue\nZayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi was announced as the venue for the final in May 2018, reprising its role as the final venue in 2009, 2010, and 2017. It is the largest stadium in the United Arab Emirates and is primarily used by the Emirati national football team. Zayed Sports City Stadium hosted the 1996 Asian Cup Final and is planned to host several matches in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. It is also featured on the 200 Dirham banknote. The 43,000-seat stadium opened in 1980 and also hosted matches in the 2003 FIFA U-20 World Cup and the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Background\nReal Madrid qualified for the Club World Cup as winners of the 2017\u201318 UEFA Champions League by defeating Liverpool in the final. The club won three of the four previous editions of the Club World Cup: in 2014, 2016 and 2017. This was their fifth participation and third consecutive appearance in the tournament, both a record for European teams. The match was their fourth overall final (after 2014, 2016 and 2017), tying the record with Barcelona. The match also was their third consecutive final, extending their record set in the previous edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Background\nThe match was the 14th consecutive and overall final featuring a European team (with only the first final in 2000 including no team from Europe), and the 8th overall and 5th consecutive final featuring a Spanish team, all extending the competition records. If Real Madrid were to win, they would become the outright record winners of the Club World Cup with four titles, breaking their tie with Barcelona for the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Background\nA win would also extended the records for most consecutive titles for a team (3), most titles for a confederation (11 for UEFA), most consecutive titles for a confederation (6 for UEFA, breaking the tie set by European teams between 2007 and 2011), most titles for a nation (7 for Spain), and most consecutive titles for a nation (5 for Spain).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Background\nAl-Ain qualified for their first Club World Cup as winners of the 2017\u201318 season of the UAE Pro-League, the top-level league in the United Arab Emirates. Al-Ain was the first Emirati team to reach the Club World Cup final, as well as the second Asian team (after Kashima Antlers in 2016). The final was also the third final to feature the host representative (after Corinthians in 2000, Raja Casablanca in 2013 and Kashima Antlers in 2016). If Al-Ain were to win, they would have become the first team outside of Europe and South America to win the Club World Cup, as well as the second host representative to win the tournament (after Corinthians in 2000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Background\nThe final was the second between an Asian and European team, after Real Madrid won against Kashima Antlers in the 2016 final. The final was also the third final between the host representative and a European team, both won by the European team, with Bayern Munich winning against Raja Casablanca in 2013, in addition to the aforementioned 2016 final. The match was the fourth final not to feature a South American team after 2010, 2013 and 2016 (all of which the European teams won).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Route to the final, Real Madrid\nAs European champions, Real Madrid received a bye to the semi-final round, where they faced Asian champions Kashima Antlers of Japan. Kashima, who had defeated CONCACAF champions Guadalajara, were defeated by Real Madrid in the 2016 final. Madrid defeated the Antlers 3\u20131 on a hat-trick scored by Gareth Bale over 11 minutes of play. Bale scored in the 44th minute and added two goals in the 53rd and 55th minutes to open the second half; Shoma Doi scored a consolation goal for Kashima in the 78th minute after it was ruled onside by the video assistant referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Route to the final, Al-Ain\nIn the first round on 12 December, Al-Ain defeated Team Wellington in a penalty shoot-out following a 3\u20133 draw at their home stadium, Hazza bin Zayed Stadium. Wellington, a semi-professional club that qualified as the OFC Champions League champion, entered halftime with a 3\u20131 lead that was cut back by an equalising volley from Marcus Berg. The match remained scoreless after extra time and advanced to a penalty shoot-out, which Al-Ain won 4\u20133 after five rounds after goalkeeper Khalid Eisa made two saves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Route to the final, Al-Ain\nAl-Ain advanced to face African champions Esp\u00e9rance de Tunis in the second round match, held three days later at Hazza bin Zayed Stadium. The team defeated Esp\u00e9rance 3\u20130 in an upset that began with two goals scored in the opening 16 minutes. Al-Ain produced a larger upset in the semi-finals, defeating Copa Libertadores champions River Plate in a penalty shoot-out to advance to the Club World Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Route to the final, Al-Ain\nThe match began with two early goals for River Plate scored by Rafael Santos Borr\u00e9 following an opening strike from Berg; after an equalising goal was disallowed by the video assistant referee, Caio Lucas Fernandes scored for Al-Ain in the 51st minute to draw the teams level at 2\u20132. After a scoreless extra time, aided by goalkeeper Essa's saves, Al-Ain defeated River Plate 5\u20134 in a penalty shoot-out, its second of the competition, with Essa making one save on River's Enzo P\u00e9rez. The semi-final upset of River was called the \"greatest achievement\" in Emirati football history by Al-Ain manager Zoran Mami\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nReal Madrid had 70\u00a0percent of possession in the first half, taking advantage of Al-Ain's defensive lapses to produce 11 shots. After a saved chance from Al-Ain's Hussein El Shahat, Luka Modri\u0107 opened scoring for Madrid in the 14th minute with a left-footed shot. Caio attempted to equalize a minute later, but was found to be offside. The half ended with a 1\u20130 lead for Madrid, with several later shots saved by Al-Ain goalkeeper Khalid Eisa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nMadrid opened the second half with another series of attacks while retaining possession of the ball, finding its second goal in the 60th minute on a long-distance strike by Marcos Llorente. The pace of the match slowed as Al-Ain looked to find a consolation goal, with Caio taking advantage of a defensive mistake by Sergio Ramos but unable to score against goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. Ramos responded by scoring in the 79th minute, a header on a corner kick taken by Modri\u0107 after a counter-attack, to give Real Madrid a three-goal lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nSix minutes later, a free kick taken by Caio found left-back Tsukasa Shiotani, who scored Al-Ain's only goal of the match. In stoppage time, an own goal was scored by Al-Ain's Yahia Nader on a cross by Madrid substitute Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior; it was Madrid's final goal to extend their lead to 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Frank Anderson (United States)Corey Rockwell (United States)Fourth official:Wilton Sampaio (Brazil)Reserve assistant referee:Zakhele Siwela (South Africa)Video assistant referees:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Assistant video assistant referee:Mark Geiger (United States)Bruno Boschilia (Brazil)Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Post-match\nWith their win, Real Madrid became the outright record winners of the Club World Cup with four titles. They also extended the record for most consecutive titles with their third in a row. It was the only trophy won by manager Santiago Solari during his reign at Real Madrid, who was hired in October 2018 and fired in March 2019; Solari complimented Al-Ain on their run to the final, calling it a \"remarkable achievement\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279092-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Post-match\nMarcos Llorente, who scored one goal in the match, won the man of the match award for the final. Gareth Bale of Real Madrid won the Golden Ball award as the best player of the tournament, finishing as joint-top scorer with three goals (tied with Rafael Santos Borr\u00e9 of River Plate). Caio of Al-Ain won the Silver Ball award behind Bale. Real Madrid also won the FIFA Fair Play Award with the best disciplinary record at the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279093-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup squads\nEach team in the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup had to name a 23-man squad (three of whom must be goalkeepers). FIFA announced the squads on 6 December 2018. The squad of the CONMEBOL representative was confirmed after the 2018 Copa Libertadores Finals second leg on 9 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279093-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup squads, Al Ain\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279093-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup squads, Guadalajara\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279093-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup squads, Esp\u00e9rance Sportive de Tunis\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279093-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup squads, Kashima Antlers\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279093-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup squads, Real Madrid\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279093-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup squads, River Plate\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279093-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA Club World Cup squads, Team Wellington\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup\nThe 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was the 6th edition of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since its inception in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup\nThe tournament was held in Uruguay from 13 November to 1 December 2018. North Korea were the defending champions but were eliminated by Spain in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup\nThe final took place at the Estadio Charr\u00faa, Montevideo between Spain and Mexico a rematch from the group stage in 2016. Spain won their first title, beating Mexico 2\u20131 in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Host selection\nOn 6 March 2014, FIFA announced that bidding had begun for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Member associations interested in hosting must submit a declaration of interest by 15 April 2014, and provide the complete set of bidding documents by 31 October 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Host selection\nThe following countries made official bids for hosting the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Host selection\nThe decision on the hosts was originally to be made at the FIFA Executive Committee meeting on 19\u201320 March 2015, but no announcement was made after the meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Host selection\nDuring FIFA President Gianni Infantino's visit to Uruguay in March 2016, Uruguay showed interest in organizing the event. The FIFA Council appointed Uruguay as host on 10 May 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Qualified teams\nA total of 16 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Uruguay who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 15 teams qualify from six separate continental competitions. The slot allocation was approved by the FIFA Council on 13\u201314 October 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Branding\nThe emblem was launched on 16 November 2017 at the Palacio Legislativo in Montevideo. The emblem is inspired by the famous beach coastline and its shape of the tournament's trophy. It features the Uruguayan flower ceibo, the Candombe drummer and the sun from the national flag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Mascot\nThe mascot named Capi was unveiled on 7 June 2018, she is inspired by a Uruguayan capybara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Slogan\nThe slogan \"Same Game, Same Emotion\" was unveiled on 29 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Draw\nThe official draw was held on 30 May 2018, 15:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the FIFA Headquarters in Z\u00fcrich. The teams were seeded based on their performances in previous U-17 Women's World Cups and confederation tournaments, with the hosts Uruguay automatically seeded and assigned to position A1. Teams of the same confederation could not meet in the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 38], "content_span": [39, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Draw\nThe identity of the three teams from CONCACAF were not known at the time of the draw, and were seeded based on the rankings of the three best-performing teams from the region in previous editions. They were assigned to the three places reserved for CONCACAF after the qualifying tournament was completed based on their rankings in the seeding formula (instead of their rankings in the qualifying tournament).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 38], "content_span": [39, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Match officials\nA total of 15 referees and 28 assistant referees were appointed by FIFA for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Match officials\nMakoto Bozono Lee Seul-Gi Naomi Teshirogi Truong Thi Le Trinh", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Match officials\nMayte Chavez Enedina Caudillo Princess Brown Felisha Mariscal Deleana Quan Stephanie-Dale Yee Sing", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Match officials\nMary Cristina Blanco Bolivar Mariana De Almeida Nilda Gamarra Maria Rocco Loreto Toloza Sacilotti Leslie Vasquez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Match officials\nRiem Hussein Katalin Kulcs\u00e1r Monika Mularczyk Sara Persson Anastasia Pustovoytova", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Match officials\nNicolet Bakker Oleksandra Ardasheva Julia Magnusson Rocio Puento Pino Ekaterina Kurochkina Kylie McMullan Lisa Rashid Lucie Ratajova Maria Sukenikova Mihaela Tepusa Katalin T\u00f6r\u00f6k", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Squads\nPlayers born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2003 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team has to name a preliminary squad of 35 players. From the preliminary squad, the team has to name a final squad of 21 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline. Players in the final squad can be replaced due to serious injury up to 24 hours prior to kickoff of the team's first match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Group stage\nThe top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals. The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows (regulations Article 17.7):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Group stage\nIf two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are determined as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Knockout stage\nIn the knockout stages, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (no extra time was played).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279094-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Goalscorers\nThere were 86 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 2.69 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279095-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup squads\nEach country's final squad has to comprise 21 players. FIFA announced the squads on 5 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup\nThe 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the ninth edition of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since its inception in 2002 as the FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship (age limit was raised from 19 to 20 in 2006).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup\nThe tournament was held in Brittany, France between 5 and 24 August 2018, who would also host the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Haiti and the Netherlands made their U-20 Women's World Cup debuts. North Korea were the defending champions but were eliminated by host France in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup\nThe final took place at Stade de la Rabine, Vannes between Spain and Japan, a rematch from the group stage. Japan won their first title, beating Spain 3\u20131 in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Host selection\nOn 6 March 2014, FIFA announced that bidding had begun for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. Member associations interested in hosting must submit a declaration of interest by 15 April 2014, and provide the complete set of bidding documents by 31 October 2014. The FIFA Executive Committee would select the hosts in 2015. In principle, FIFA preferred the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to be hosted by the same member association, but if circumstances required, FIFA reserved the right to award the hosting of the events separately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Host selection\nThe following countries made official bids for hosting the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup by submitting their documents by 31 October 2014:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Host selection\nThe following countries withdrew their bid for hosting the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Host selection\nFrance were awarded the hosting rights of both tournaments by the FIFA Executive Committee on 19 March 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Qualified teams\nA total of 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to France, which qualified automatically as hosts, the other 15 teams qualified from six separate continental competitions. The slot allocation was approved by the FIFA Council on 13\u201314 October 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Venues\nThe four host cities, all located in the region of Brittany, were announced on 7 September 2017. The opening match, semi-finals, third place match and final were played in Vannes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Draw\nThe official draw was held on 8 March 2018, 11:00 CET (UTC+1), at the Rennes Opera House in Rennes. The teams were seeded based on their performances in previous U-20 Women's World Cups and confederation tournaments, with the hosts France automatically seeded and assigned to position A1. Teams of the same confederation could not meet in the group stage, except for UEFA with five teams so one group would contain two UEFA teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 38], "content_span": [39, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Squads\nPlayers born between 1 January 1998 and 31 December 2002 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team had to name a preliminary squad of 35 players. From the preliminary squad, the team had to name a final squad of 21 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline. Players in the final squad could be replaced due to serious injury up to 24 hours prior to kickoff of the team's first match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Match officials\nA total of 15 referees and 30 assistant referees were appointed by FIFA for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Match officials\nRenae Coghill Fang Yan Cui Yongmei Uvena Fernandes Kum-Nyo Hong Kim Kyoung-min", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Match officials\nJana Ad\u00e1mkov\u00e1 St\u00e9phanie Frappart Kateryna Monzul Esther Staubli Bibiana Steinhaus", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Match officials\nPetruta Iugulescu Chrysoula Kourompylia Susanne K\u00fcng Sian Massey Manuela Nicolosi Michelle O'Neill Belinda Pierre Katrin Rafalski Sanja Rodak Maryna Striletska", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Group stage\nThe top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals. The rankings of teams in each group were determined as follows (regulations Article 17.7):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Group stage\nIf two or more teams were equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings were determined as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Knockout stage\nIn the knockout stages, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time would be played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner. However, for the third place match, no extra time was played and the winner was determined by a penalty shoot-out if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279096-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Goalscorers\nThere were 98 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 3.06 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279097-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup squads\nEach country's final squad has to comprise 21 players. FIFA announced the squads on 25 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament contested by men's national teams that took place between 14\u00a0June and 15\u00a0July 2018 in Russia. It was the 21st\u00a0FIFA World Cup, a worldwide football tournament held once every four years. It was the eleventh\u00a0time the championships had been held in Europe, and the first time they were held in Eastern Europe. At an estimated cost of over $14.2\u00a0billion, it was the most expensive World Cup to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup\nThe tournament phase involved 32 teams, of which 31 came through qualifying competitions, while as the host nation Russia qualified automatically. Of the 32, 20 had also appeared in the 2014 event, while both Iceland and Panama made their first appearances at the World Cup. 64 matches were played in 12 venues across 11 cities. Germany, the defending champions, were eliminated in the group stage. Host nation Russia was eliminated in the quarter-finals. In the final, France played Croatia on 15\u00a0July at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. France won the match 4\u20132 to claim their second World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup\nCroatian player Luka Modri\u0107 was voted the tournament's best player, winning the Golden Ball. England's Harry Kane won the Golden Boot as he scored the most goals during the tournament with six. Belgium's Thibaut Courtois won the Golden Glove, awarded to the goalkeeper with the most clean sheets. It has been estimated that more than three million people attended games during the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Host selection\nThe bidding procedure to host the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup tournaments began in January 2009, and national associations had until 2\u00a0February 2009 to register their interest. Initially, nine countries placed bids for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, but Mexico later withdrew from the proceedings, and Indonesia's bid was rejected by FIFA in February 2010 after the Indonesian government failed to submit a letter to support the bid. During the bidding process, the three remaining non-UEFA nations (Australia, Japan, and the United States) gradually withdrew from the 2018 bids, and thus were ruled out of the 2022 bid. As such, there were eventually four bids for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, two of which were joint bids: England, Russia, Netherlands/Belgium, and Portugal/Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Host selection\nThe 22-member FIFA Executive Committee convened in Z\u00fcrich on 2\u00a0December 2010 to vote to select the hosts of both tournaments. Russia won the right to be the 2018 host in the second round of voting. The Portugal/Spain bid came second, and that from Belgium/Netherlands third. England, which was bidding to host its second tournament, was eliminated in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Host selection, Host selection criticism\nThe choice of Russia as host was controversial. Issues included the level of racism in Russian football, human rights abuses by the Russian government, and discrimination against LGBT people in wider Russian society. Russia's involvement in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine had also prompted calls for the tournament to be moved, particularly following the annexation of Crimea. In 2014, FIFA president Sepp Blatter stated that \"the World Cup has been given and voted to Russia and we are going forward with our work\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 61], "content_span": [62, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Host selection, Host selection criticism\nAllegations of corruption in the bidding processes and concerns over bribery on the part of the Russian team and corruption by FIFA members for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups led to threats from England's FA to boycott the tournament. They claimed that four members of the executive committee had requested bribes to vote for England, and Sepp Blatter had said it had already been arranged before the vote that Russia would win. FIFA appointed Michael J. Garcia, a US attorney, to investigate and produce a report on the corruption allegations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 61], "content_span": [62, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Host selection, Host selection criticism\nAlthough the report was never published, FIFA released a 42-page summary of its findings as determined by German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert. Eckert's summary cleared Russia and Qatar of any wrongdoing, but was denounced by critics as a whitewash. Because of the controversy, the FA refused to accept Eckert's absolving Russia from blame. Greg Dyke called for a re-examination of the affair and David Bernstein called for a boycott of the World Cup. Garcia criticised the summary as being \"materially incomplete\" with \"erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions\", and appealed to FIFA's Appeal Committee. The committee declined to hear his appeal, so Garcia resigned to protest of FIFA's conduct, citing a \"lack of leadership\" and lack of confidence in Eckert's independence of Eckert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 61], "content_span": [62, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Host selection, Host selection criticism\nOn 3 June 2015, the FBI confirmed that federal authorities were investigating the bidding and awarding processes for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. In an interview published on 7\u00a0June 2015, Domenico Scala, the head of FIFA's Audit And Compliance Committee, stated that \"should there be evidence that the awards to Qatar and Russia came only because of bought votes, then the awards could be cancelled\". Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and former British Prime Minister David Cameron attended a meeting with FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-joon in which a vote-trading deal for the right to host the 2018 World Cup in England was discussed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 61], "content_span": [62, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Teams, Qualification\nFor the first time in the history of the FIFA World Cup, all eligible nations\u2014the 209 FIFA member associations except automatically qualified hosts Russia\u2014applied to enter the qualifying process. Zimbabwe and Indonesia were later disqualified before playing their first matches, while Gibraltar and Kosovo, who joined FIFA on 13\u00a0May 2016 after the qualifying draw but before European qualifying had begun, also entered the competition. Places in the tournament were allocated to continental confederations, with the allocation unchanged from the 2014 World Cup. The first qualification game, between Timor-Leste and Mongolia, began in Dili on 12\u00a0March 2015 as part of the AFC's qualification, and the main qualifying draw took place at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, on 25\u00a0July 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 851]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Teams, Qualification\nOf the 32\u00a0nations qualified to play at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, 20\u00a0countries competed at the previous tournament in 2014. Both Iceland and Panama qualified for the first time, with the former becoming the smallest country in terms of population to reach the World Cup. Other teams returning after absences of at least three tournaments included: Egypt, returning to the finals after their last appearance in 1990; Morocco, who last competed in 1998; Peru, who last appeared in 1982; and Senegal, competing for the second time after reaching the quarter-finals in 2002. It was the first time three Nordic countries (Denmark, Iceland and Sweden) and four Arab nations (Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia) qualified for the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Teams, Qualification\nNotable teams that failed to qualify included: four-time champions Italy (for the first time since 1958), who were knocked out in a qualification play-off by quarter-finalists Sweden; and the Netherlands, who were three-time runners-up and had finished in third place in 2014, and had qualified for the last three World Cups. Four reigning continental champions: 2017 Africa Cup of Nations winners Cameroon; two-time Copa Am\u00e9rica champions and 2017 Confederations Cup runners-up Chile; 2016 OFC Nations Cup winners New Zealand; and 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup champions the United States (for the first time since 1986) also failed to qualify. The other notable qualifying streaks broken were for Ghana and Ivory Coast, both of which had qualified for the three previous tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Teams, Qualification\nNote: Numbers in parentheses indicate positions in the FIFA World Rankings at the time of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Teams, Draw\nThe draw was held on 1\u00a0December 2017 at 18:00 MSK at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow. The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four, by selecting one team from each of the four ranked pots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Teams, Draw\nFor the draw, the teams were allocated to four pots based on the FIFA World Rankings of October 2017. Pot one contained the hosts Russia (who were automatically assigned to position A1) and the best seven teams. Pot two contained the next best eight teams, and so on for pots three and four. This was different from previous draws, when only pot one was based on FIFA rankings while the remaining pots were based on geographical considerations. However, teams from the same confederation still were not drawn against each other for the group stage, except that two UEFA teams could be in each group. The pots for the draw are shown below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Teams, Draw\nRussia (65) (hosts)\u00a0Germany (1)\u00a0Brazil (2)\u00a0Portugal (3)\u00a0Argentina (4)\u00a0Belgium (5)\u00a0Poland (6)\u00a0France (7)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Teams, Draw\nSpain (8)\u00a0Peru (10)\u00a0\u00a0Switzerland (11)\u00a0England (12)\u00a0Colombia (13)\u00a0Mexico (16)\u00a0Uruguay (17)\u00a0Croatia (18)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Teams, Draw\nDenmark (19)\u00a0Iceland (21)\u00a0Costa Rica (22)\u00a0Sweden (25)\u00a0Tunisia (28)\u00a0Egypt (30)\u00a0Senegal (32)\u00a0Iran (34)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Teams, Draw\nSerbia (38)\u00a0Nigeria (41)\u00a0Australia (43)\u00a0Japan (44)\u00a0Morocco (48)\u00a0Panama (49)\u00a0South Korea (62)\u00a0Saudi Arabia (63)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Teams, Squads\nInitially, each team had to name a preliminary squad of 30 players, but in February 2018 this was increased to 35. From the preliminary squad, the team had to name a final squad of 23 players (three of whom had to be goalkeepers) by 4\u00a0June. Players in the final squad could be replaced for serious injury up to 24\u00a0hours prior to kickoff of the team's first match. These replacements did not need to have been named in the preliminary squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Teams, Squads\nFor players named in the 35-player preliminary squad, there was a mandatory rest period between 21 and 27\u00a0May 2018, except for those involved in the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final played on 26\u00a0May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Officiating\nOn 29 March 2018, FIFA released the list of 36 referees and 63 assistant referees selected to oversee matches. On 30\u00a0April 2018, FIFA released the list of 13 video assistant referees, who acted solely in this capacity in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Officiating\nReferee Fahad Al-Mirdasi of Saudi Arabia was removed on 30\u00a0May 2018 over a match-fixing attempt, along with his two assistant referees, compatriots Mohammed Al-Abakry and Abdulah Al-Shalwai. A new referee was not appointed, but two assistant referees, Hasan Al Mahri of the United Arab Emirates and Hiroshi Yamauchi of Japan, were added to the list. Assistant referee Marwa Range of Kenya also withdrew after the BBC released an investigation conducted by a Ghanaian journalist which implicated him in a bribery scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Officiating, Video assistant referees\nShortly after the International Football Association Board's decision to incorporate video assistant referees (VARs) into the Laws of the game (LOTG) on 16\u00a0March 2018, the FIFA Council took the much-anticipated step of approving the use of VAR for the first time in a FIFA World Cup tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Officiating, Video assistant referees\nVAR operations for all games were operated from a single headquarters in Moscow, which received live video of the games and were in radio contact with the on-field referees. Systems were in place for communicating VAR-related information to broadcasters and visuals on stadiums' large screens were used for the fans in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Officiating, Video assistant referees\nVAR had a significant impact on several games. On 15\u00a0June 2018, Diego Costa's first goal against Portugal became the first World Cup goal based on a VAR decision; the first penalty as a result of a VAR decision was awarded to France in their match against Australia on 16\u00a0June and resulted in a goal by Antoine Griezmann. A record number of penalties were awarded in the tournament, a phenomenon partially attributed to VAR. Overall, the new technology was both praised and criticised by commentators. FIFA declared the implementation of VAR a success after the first week of competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Venues\nRussia proposed the following host cities: Kaliningrad, Kazan, Krasnodar, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Saransk, Sochi, Volgograd, Yaroslavl, and Yekaterinburg. Each city was located in European Russia, except Yekaterinburg, which is located very close to the Europe-Asia border, to reduce travel time for the teams in the huge country. The bid evaluation report stated: \"The Russian bid proposes 13 host cities and 16 stadiums, thus exceeding FIFA's minimum requirement. Three of the 16 stadiums would be renovated, and 13 would be newly constructed.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Venues\nIn October 2011, Russia reduced the number of stadiums from 16 to 14. Construction of the proposed Podolsk stadium in the Moscow region was cancelled by the regional government. Also, in the capital, Otkritie Arena was competing with Dynamo Stadium over which would be constructed first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Venues\nThe final choice of host cities was announced on 29\u00a0September 2012. The number of cities was reduced further to 11 and the number of stadiums to 12 as Krasnodar and Yaroslavl were dropped from the final list. Of the 12 stadiums used for the tournament, three (Luzhniki, Yekaterinburg and Sochi) had been extensively renovated and the other nine were brand new; $11.8\u00a0billion was spent on hosting the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Venues\nSepp Blatter had said in July 2014 that, given the concerns over the completion of venues in Russia, the number of venues for the tournament may be reduced from 12 to 10. He also said, \"We are not going to be in a situation, as is the case of one, two or even three stadiums in South Africa, where it is a problem of what you do with these stadiums\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Venues\nIn October 2014, on their first official visit to Russia, FIFA's inspection committee and its head, Chris Unger, visited St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan and both Moscow venues. They were satisfied with the progress. On 8\u00a0October 2015, FIFA and the local organising committee agreed on the official names of the stadiums to be used during the tournament. Of the twelve venues, the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow and the Saint Petersburg Stadium\u2014the two largest stadiums in Russia\u2014were used most; both hosted seven matches. Sochi, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara each hosted six matches, including one quarter-final match each, while the Spartak Stadium in Moscow and Rostov-on-Don hosted five matches, including one round-of-16 match each. Volgograd, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg and Saransk each hosted four matches, but did not host any knockout stage games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Venues, Stadiums\nTwelve stadiums in eleven Russian cities were built or renovated for the FIFA World Cup. Between 2010 (when Russia were announced as hosts) and 2018, nine of the 12 stadiums were built (some in place of older, outdated venues) and the other three were renovated for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Venues, Team base camps\nBase camps were used by the 32 national squads to stay and train before and during the World Cup tournament. On 9 February 2018, FIFA announced the base camps for each participating team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Preparation and costs, Budget\nAt an estimated cost of over $14.2\u00a0billion as of June\u00a02018, the 2018 FIFA event was the most expensive World Cup in history, surpassing the $11.6\u00a0billion cost of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Preparation and costs, Budget\nThe Russian government had originally earmarked a budget of around $20\u00a0billion, which was later slashed to $10\u00a0billion, for World Cup preparations. Half was spent on transportation infrastructure. As part of the program to prepare for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a federal sub-program\u2014\"Construction and Renovation of Transport Infrastructure\"\u2014was implemented with a total budget of \u20bd352.5\u00a0billion (rubles), with \u20bd170.3\u00a0billion coming from the federal budget, \u20bd35.1\u00a0billion from regional budgets, and \u20bd147.1\u00a0billion from investors. The biggest item of federal spending was the aviation infrastructure costing \u20bd117.8\u00a0billion. Construction of new hotels was a crucial area of infrastructure development in World Cup host cities. Costs continued to mount as preparations were underway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 829]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Preparation and costs, Infrastructure spending\nPlatov International Airport in Rostov-on-Don was upgraded with automated air traffic control systems. Modern surveillance, navigation, communication, control, and meteorological support systems were also installed. Koltsovo Airport in Yekaterinburg was upgraded with radio-engineering tools for flight operation and received a second runway. Saransk Airport received a new navigation system; two new hotels were constructed in the city\u2014the Mercure Saransk Centre (Accor Hotels) and Four Points by Sheraton Saransk as well as few other smaller accommodation facilities. In Samara, new tram lines were laid. Khrabrovo Airport in Kaliningrad was upgraded with radio navigation and weather equipment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0034-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Preparation and costs, Infrastructure spending\nRenovation and upgraded radio-engineering tools for flight operations was completed in the Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Kazan and Sochi airports. On 27\u00a0March, the Russian Ministry of Construction Industry, Housing and Utilities Sector of reported that all communications within its area of responsibility had been commissioned. The last facility commissioned was a waste treatment station in Volgograd. In Yekaterinburg, where four matches were hosted, hosting costs increased to over \u20bd7.4\u00a0billion, exceeding the \u20bd5.6\u00a0billion rubles originally allocated from the state and regional budget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Preparation and costs, Volunteers\nVolunteer applications to the 2018 Russia Local Organising Committee opened on 1\u00a0June 2016. The 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia Volunteer Program received about 177,000 applications, and engaged a total of 35,000 volunteers. They received training at 15 Volunteer Centres of the local organising committee based in 15 universities, and in volunteer centres in the host cities. Preference, especially in key areas, was given to those with knowledge of a foreign language and volunteering experience, but not necessarily to Russian nationals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Preparation and costs, Transport\nFree public transport services were offered for ticketholders during the World Cup, including additional trains linking host cities, as well as services such as bus services within them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Schedule\nThe full schedule was announced by FIFA on 24\u00a0July 2015 without kick-off times, which were confirmed later. On\u00a01 December 2017, following the final draw, FIFA adjusted six kick-off times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Schedule\nRussia was placed in position A1 in the group stage and played in the opening match at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on 14\u00a0June against Saudi Arabia, the two lowest-ranked teams of the tournament at the time of the final draw. The Luzhniki Stadium also hosted the second semi-final on 11\u00a0July and the final on 15\u00a0July. The Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg hosted the first semi-final on 10\u00a0July and the third place play-off on 14\u00a0July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Opening ceremony\nThe opening ceremony took place on Thursday, 14\u00a0June 2018, at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, preceding the opening match of the tournament between hosts Russia and Saudi Arabia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Opening ceremony\nAt the start of the ceremony, Russian president Vladimir Putin gave a speech, welcoming the countries of the world to Russia and calling football a uniting force. Brazilian World Cup-winning striker Ronaldo entered the stadium with a child in a Russia jersey. Pop singer Robbie Williams then sang two of his songs solo before he and Russian soprano Aida Garifullina performed a duet. Dancers dressed in the flags of the 32 competing teams appeared carrying a sign with the name of each nation. At the end of the ceremony Ronaldo reappeared with the official match ball which had returned from the International Space Station in early June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Opening ceremony\nYoung participants of the international children's social programme Football for Friendship from 211 countries and regions took part in the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup at the Luzhniki stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Group stage\nCompeting countries were divided into eight groups of four teams (groups A to H). Teams in each group played one another in a round-robin, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage. Ten European teams and four South American teams progressed to the knockout stage, together with Japan and Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Group stage\nFor the first time since 1938, Germany, the reigning champions, did not advance past the first round. No African team progressed to the second round for the first time since 1982. The fair play criteria came into use for the first time when Japan qualified over Senegal because the team had received fewer yellow cards. Only one match, France versus Denmark, was goalless. Until then there were a record 36 straight games in which at least one goal was scored. All times listed below are local time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Knockout stage\nIn the knockout stages, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners. If a match went into extra time, each team was allowed to make a fourth substitution, the first time this had been allowed in a FIFA World Cup tournament. Below is the bracket for the knockout round of the tournament, teams in bold denote match winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 169 goals scored in 64 matches, for an average of 2.64 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Statistics, Goalscorers\nTwelve own goals were scored during the tournament, doubling the record of six set in 1998. Goals scored from penalty shoot-outs are not counted towards an individual player's goal count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Statistics, Discipline\nIn total, only four players were sent off in the entire tournament, the fewest since 1978. International Football Association Board technical director David Elleray stated a belief that this was due to the introduction of VAR, since players would know that they would not be able to get away with anything under the new system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Statistics, Discipline\nA player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Statistics, Awards\nThe following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament. The Golden Boot (top scorer), Golden Ball (best overall player) and Golden Glove (best goalkeeper) awards were all sponsored by Adidas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Statistics, Awards\nAdditionally, FIFA.com shortlisted 18 goals for users to vote on as the tournaments' best. The poll closed on 23\u00a0July. The award was sponsored by Hyundai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Statistics, Awards, Fantasy Team\nFIFA published an All-Star Team based on player performances evaluated through statistical data.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Marketing, Branding\nThe tournament logo was unveiled on 28\u00a0October 2014 by cosmonauts at the International Space Station and then projected onto Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre during an evening television programme. Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said the logo was inspired by \"Russia's rich artistic tradition and its history of bold achievement and innovation\", and FIFA president Sepp Blatter stated that it reflected the \"heart and soul\" of the country. For branding, Portuguese design agency Brandia Central created materials in 2014, with a typeface called Dusha (from \u0434\u0443\u0448\u0430, Russian for 'soul') designed by Brandia Central and edited by Adotbelow of the DSType Foundry in Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Marketing, Mascot\nThe tournament's official mascot was unveiled on 21\u00a0October 2016, and selected through a design competition among university students. A public vote was used to select the mascot from three finalists\u2014a cat, a tiger, and a wolf. The winner, with 53% or approximately one million votes, was Zabivaka\u2014an anthropomorphic wolf dressed in the colours of the Russian national team. Zabivaka's name is a portmanteau of the Russian words \u0437\u0430\u0431\u0438\u044f\u043a\u0430 (\"hothead\") and \u0437\u0430\u0431\u0438\u0432\u0430\u0442\u044c (\"to score\"), and his official backstory states that he is an aspiring football player who is \"charming, confident and social\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Marketing, Ticketing\nThe first phase of ticket sales started on 14\u00a0September 2017, 12:00 Moscow Time, and lasted until 12\u00a0October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Marketing, Ticketing\nThe general visa policy of Russia did not apply to participants and spectators, who were able to visit Russia without a visa right before and during the competition regardless of their citizenship. Spectators were nonetheless required to register for a \"Fan-ID\", a special photo identification pass. A Fan-ID was required to enter the country visa-free, while a ticket, Fan-ID and a valid passport were required to enter stadiums for matches. Fan-IDs also granted World Cup attendees free access to public transport services, including buses, and train service between host cities. Fan-ID was administered by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, which could revoke this accreditation at any time to \"ensure the defence capability or security of the state or public order\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Marketing, Match ball\nThe official match ball, the \"Telstar 18\", was unveiled on 9\u00a0November 2017. It was based on the name and design of the first Adidas World Cup ball from 1970. A special red-coloured variation, \"Telstar Mechta\", was used for the knockout stage of the tournament. The word mechta (Russian: \u043c\u0435\u0447\u0442\u0430) means \"dream\" or \"ambition\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Marketing, Match ball\nGoalkeepers noted that the ball was slippery and prone to having unpredictable trajectory. In addition, two Telstar 18 balls popped in the midst of a first-round match between France and Australia, leading to further discussions over the ball's performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Marketing, Merchandise\nOn 29\u00a0May 2018, Electronic Arts released a free update to their video game FIFA 18 that added content related to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The expansion included a World Cup tournament mode with all teams and stadiums from the event, official television presentation elements, and World Cup-related content for the Ultimate Team mode.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Marketing, Merchandise\nPanini continued their partnership with FIFA by producing stickers for their World Cup sticker album. Panini also developed an app for the 2018 World Cup where fans could collect and swap virtual stickers, with five million fans gathering digital stickers for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Marketing, Official song\nThe official song of the tournament was \"Live It Up\", with vocals by Will Smith, Nicky Jam and Era Istrefi, released on 25\u00a0May 2018. Its music video was released on 8\u00a0June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Other controversies\nThirty-three footballers who were alleged to be part of the Russian steroid programme are listed in the McLaren Report. On 22\u00a0December 2017, it was reported that FIFA had fired a doctor who had been investigating doping in Russian football. On 22\u00a0May 2018 FIFA confirmed that the investigations concerning all Russian players named for the provisional squad of the FIFA World Cup in Russia had been completed, with the result that insufficient evidence was found to support anti-doping rule violations. FIFA's medical committee also decided that Russian personnel would not be involved in performing drug testing procedures at the tournament, an action taken to reassure teams that samples would not be tampered with.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Other controversies, Response to Skripal poisoning\nIn response to the March 2018 poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, British prime minister Theresa May announced that no British ministers or members of the royal family would attend the World Cup, and issued a warning to any travelling England fans. Russia responded to the comments from the UK Parliament claiming that the West are trying to \"take the World Cup out of Russia\". The Russian Foreign Ministry denounced Boris Johnson's statements that compared the event to the 1936 Olympics held in Nazi Germany as \"poisoned with venom of hate, unprofessionalism and boorishness\" and \"unacceptable and unworthy\" parallel towards Russia, a \"nation that lost millions of lives in fighting Nazism\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Other controversies, Response to Skripal poisoning\nThe British Foreign Office and MPs had repeatedly warned English football fans and \"people of Asian or Afro-Caribbean descent\" travelling to Russia of \"racist or homophobic intimidation, hooligan violence and anti-British hostility\". English football fans who did travel have said they received a warm welcome from ordinary citizens after arriving in Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Critical reception\nAt the close of the World Cup, Russia was widely praised for its success in hosting the tournament, with Steve Rosenberg of the BBC deeming it \"a resounding public relations success\" for Putin, adding: \"The stunning new stadiums, free train travel to venues and the absence of crowd violence has impressed visiting supporters. Russia has come across as friendly and hospitable: a stark contrast with the country's authoritarian image. All the foreign fans I have spoken to are pleasantly surprised.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Critical reception\nFIFA president Gianni Infantino stated: \"Everyone discovered a beautiful country, a welcoming country, that is keen to show the world that everything that has been said before might not be true. A lot of preconceived ideas have been changed because people have seen the true nature of Russia.\" Infantino has proclaimed Russia 2018 to be \"the best World Cup ever\", as 98 per cent of the stadiums were sold out, there were three billion viewers on TV around the world and seven million fans visited the fan fests. It was the most viewed World Cup to date, and the third most viewed television broadcast, surpassing the Beijing Olympics in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Critical reception\nHowever, the tournament was called a distraction from the international isolation and economic difficulties Russia has been facing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Broadcasting rights\nFIFA, through several companies, sold the broadcasting rights for the 2018 FIFA World Cup to various local broadcasters. After having tested the technology at limited matches of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, and the 2014 FIFA World Cup (via private tests and public viewings in the host city of Rio de Janeiro), the 2018 World Cup was the first World Cup in which all matches were produced in 4K ultra high definition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0067-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Broadcasting rights\nHost Broadcast Services (HBS) stated that at least 75% of the broadcast cut of each match would come from 4K cameras (covering the majority of main angles), with instant replays and some camera angles being converted up from 1080p high definition sources with limited degradation in quality. These broadcasts were made available from selected rightsholders and television providers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Broadcasting rights\nIn February 2018, Ukrainian rightsholder UA:PBC stated that it would not broadcast the World Cup. This came in the wake of growing boycotts of the tournament among the Football Federation of Ukraine and sports minister Ihor Zhdanov. Additionally, the Football Federation of Ukraine refused to accredit journalists for the World Cup and waived their quota of tickets. However, the Ukrainian state TV still broadcast the World Cup, and more than four million Ukrainians watched the opening match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Broadcasting rights\nBroadcast rights to the tournament in the Middle East were hampered by an ongoing diplomatic crisis in Qatar, which saw Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates cut diplomatic ties with Qatar\u2014the home country of FIFA's Middle East and Africa rightsholder beIN Sports\u2014in June 2017, over its alleged state support of terrorist groups. On 2\u00a0June 2018, beIN pulled its channels from Du and Etisalat, but with service to the latter restored later that day. Etisalat subsequently announced that it would air the World Cup in the UAE, and continue to offer beIN normally and without interruptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0069-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Broadcasting rights\nIn Saudi Arabia, beIN was banned from doing business; as a result, its channels and other content have been widely and illegally repackaged by a broadcaster identifying itself as \"beoutQ\". While FIFA attempted to negotiate the sale of a package consisting of Saudi matches and the final indirectly, they were unable to do so. On 12\u00a0July 2018, FIFA stated that it had \"engaged counsel to take legal action in Saudi Arabia and is working alongside other sports rights owners that have also been affected to protect its interests.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Broadcasting rights\nIn the United States, the 2018 World Cup was the first men's World Cup whose English rights were held by Fox Sports, and Spanish rights held by Telemundo. The elimination of the United States in qualifying led to concerns that US interest and viewership of this World Cup would be reduced, noting that \"casual\" viewers of U.S. matches caused them to peak at 16.5\u00a0million viewers in 2014, and determined how much Fox paid for the rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0070-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Broadcasting rights\nDuring a launch event prior to the elimination, Fox stated that it had planned to place a secondary focus on the Mexican team in its coverage to take advantage of their popularity among Hispanic and Latino Americans. Fox stated that it was still committed to broadcasting a significant amount of tournament coverage. Viewership was down overall over 2014; match scheduling was not as favourable to viewers in the Americas as it was in 2014. Many matches aired in the morning hours, although Telemundo's broadcast of the Mexico-Sweden Group F match was announced as being its most-watched weekday daytime program in network history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279098-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup, Broadcasting rights\nUnlike previous tournaments, where the rights were bundled with those of South Korea, Korean Central Television acquired rights to the 2018 World Cup within North Korea. Broadcasts only began with the round of 16, and matches were tape delayed and edited for time. In addition, matches involving Japan were excluded from the broadcasts, due to strained relations and campaigns against the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup Final was a football match that took place on 15 July 2018 to determine the winners of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It was the final of the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The match was played by France and Croatia, and held at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final\nBefore 2018, France's only World Cup victory was in 1998 \u2013 though they had also reached the final in 2006 \u2013 while Croatia were playing in their first World Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final\nFrance won the match 4\u20132, having taken a 2\u20131 lead during the first half on an own goal and penalty awarded by the video assistant referee (VAR), both firsts in a World Cup final. France became the second team in the 32-team World Cup era to win all their knockout matches in regulation time, after Brazil in 2002. The final was the highest-scoring World Cup final since 1966, and the highest-scoring 90-minute final since 1958. The match was watched by a global audience of 1.12 billion people on television and streaming platforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Venue\nThe final was played at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, located in the Khamovniki District of the Central Administrative Okrug. An expanded version of the stadium was named as the provisional final venue in Russia's World Cup bid, which was selected by FIFA on 2 December 2010. Luzhniki Stadium was confirmed as the final venue on 14 December 2012, following a meeting of the now-erstwhile FIFA Executive Committee held in Tokyo, Japan. The stadium also hosted six other matches, including the opening match on 14 June, three group stage matches, a round of 16 match, and the second semi-final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Venue\nThe Luzhniki Stadium, previously known as the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium until 1992, originally opened in 1956 as part of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex to host the USSR Summer Spartakiade. The stadium has served as the national stadium of the country, hosting many matches for the Russia national team and its predecessor, the Soviet Union national team. In the past, the stadium has been used as the home ground at various times for CSKA Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, and Spartak Moscow. However, there are currently no clubs based at the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Venue\nThe stadium has hosted numerous international sporting events. The stadium was the main venue for the 1980 Summer Olympics, hosting the opening and closing ceremonies, athletics, football (four matches, including the gold medal match), and the Individual Jumping Grand Prix. The stadium hosted the 1999 UEFA Cup Final, as well as the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final. Other events staged include the Spartakiad, the final game of the 1957 Ice Hockey World Championships, the 1973 Summer Universiade, the Friendship Games in 1984, the 1986 Goodwill Games, and the 1998 World Youth Games. In 2013, the Rugby World Cup Sevens and World Athletics Championships were held at the ground in front of sparse crowds. The stadium has also served as a venue for many concerts, including Western artists after the fall of the Soviet Union, as well as political rallies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 890]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Venue\nRated as a category 4 stadium by UEFA, the Luzhniki Stadium is the largest in Russia and at the 2018 World Cup; it usually has a maximum capacity of 81,006, but was reduced to 78,011 for the World Cup. This also makes the stadium the largest in Eastern Europe, and among the largest in Europe. To prepare for the World Cup, the stadium was closed for extensive renovations in August 2013. The spectator stands were moved closer to the pitch, which was converted from artificial turf to natural grass, after the removal of the athletic track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Venue\nThe historic facade of the stadium was preserved due to its architectural value, while the roof was upgraded using a new polycarbonate skin with exterior lighting. The Luzhniki did not host any matches at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup due to the ongoing project. The renovation project cost \u20ac341\u00a0million, and the stadium officially reopened with an international friendly between Russia and Argentina on 11 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Background\nAfter Uruguay and Brazil were eliminated in the quarter-finals, a European side was ensured to win the World Cup for a fourth consecutive tournament. Colombia's earlier elimination had already guaranteed the match would feature at least one European team, as with every final since 1954. The match was also the ninth all-European World Cup final, which most recently occurred in 2006 and 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Background\nThe match was the third World Cup final for France, first appearing in the 1998 final as hosts, winning 3\u20130 against reigning champions Brazil. France also contested the 2006 final, where they lost to Italy in a penalty shoot-out following a 1\u20131 draw. Only Germany (eight) and Italy (six) have reached more finals among European nations. Didier Deschamps became the fourth person to reach a World Cup final as both a player and as a manager, after Franz Beckenbauer, Rudi V\u00f6ller, and M\u00e1rio Zagallo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Background\nThe match was the first World Cup final for Croatia in their fifth World Cup appearance. They are the 10th European country and 13th overall to reach a World Cup final, and the first new finalist since Spain in 2010. With a population of 4.17\u00a0million, Croatia is the second least-populated country to play in a World Cup final, behind Uruguay (victors in 1930 and 1950). Croatia's previous best performance was as World Cup debutants in 1998, when they finished in third place, losing to France in the semi-finals before beating the Netherlands 2\u20131 in the third place play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Background\nThe final was the sixth meeting between France and Croatia, with France undefeated in the previous fixtures with three wins and two draws. The two sides first met in the aforementioned 1998 World Cup semi-final, with hosts France winning 2\u20131. Their only other competitive meeting was during the group stage of Euro 2004, which finished as a 2\u20132 draw. Their next, and most recent, meeting was in a March 2011 friendly match, which finished as a 0\u20130 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Road to the final, France\nFrance entered the 2018 World Cup as one of the favourites to win the tournament, particularly for their strong squad featuring several youth talents. The team finished as runners-up to Portugal at Euro 2016, which the country hosted. The team qualified for the World Cup finals after finishing first in their qualification group, ahead of Sweden and the Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Road to the final, France\nAt the World Cup, France were drawn into Group C alongside Australia, Denmark, and Peru. The team defeated Australia 2\u20131 in its opening match in Kazan, with a penalty called by the video assistant referee and scored by Antoine Griezmann followed by an own goal deflected by Australian defender Aziz Behich. In its second match, France won 1\u20130 over Peru on a goal scored by 19-year-old Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, who became France's youngest goalscorer at a major tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Road to the final, France\nThe victory over Peru qualified France for the knockout stage, allowing manager Didier Deschamps to rest several starting players for the final group stage match against Denmark. The match at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow finished in a scoreless draw marked by misplaced passes and goalkeeping mistakes. The team's group stage performance was characterised as lacking cohesion and failing to use its star players effectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Road to the final, France\nFinishing as winners of Group C, France were matched in the round of 16 with Group D runners-up Argentina. France won 4\u20133 on two goals scored by Mbapp\u00e9, who also won a penalty in the opening minutes. Defender Benjamin Pavard also scored in the match, with his strike later voted as goal of the tournament. Mbapp\u00e9's performance drew comparisons to Brazilian stars Ronaldo and Pel\u00e9, who in 1958 was the most recent teenager to score twice in a World Cup match. In the quarter-finals, France defeated Uruguay 2\u20130 on a goal and assist by Griezmann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Road to the final, France\nThe team advanced to a semi-final match against Belgium in St. Petersburg, which ended in a 1\u20130 win for the French with a corner kick headed into the goal by defender Samuel Umtiti. The French team, particularly Mbapp\u00e9, were criticised for timewasting and other unsportsmanlike conduct in the semi-finals after taking the lead in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Road to the final, Croatia\nCroatia entered the 2018 World Cup as dark horses, with their golden generation led by forwards Mario Mand\u017euki\u0107 and Ivan Peri\u0161i\u0107, and midfielders Marcelo Brozovi\u0107, Mateo Kova\u010di\u0107, Luka Modri\u0107 and Ivan Rakiti\u0107. The team had been eliminated in the group stage at the 2014 tournament, but reached the round of 16 at Euro 2016. In their qualification group, Croatia scored 15 goals and finished second to Iceland after appointing manager Zlatko Dali\u0107 amid a series of poor away results. However, Croatia managed to advance past Greece in the qualifying play-offs, winning the first leg 4\u20131 and drawing 0\u20130 in the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Road to the final, Croatia\nCroatia were drawn into Group D with Argentina, Iceland, and Nigeria, considered a difficult draw due to Argentina's talent and Nigeria's historic performances. In their opening match, the team earned a 2\u20130 victory over Nigeria, with an own goal by Oghenekaro Etebo caused by Mand\u017euki\u0107 and a penalty scored by Modri\u0107. Striker Nikola Kalini\u0107 refused to enter the match as a substitute, citing back pain as his reason for not playing, and was expelled from the team by Dali\u0107, leaving Croatia with only 22 players for the remainder of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Road to the final, Croatia\nCroatia went on to upset Argentina with a 3\u20130 win, thanks to an effective game plan that used the \"height and strength of their players to dominate the game in aerial duels\", playing a \"pressing game, counter-attacking, and more direct play in possession\" to counter Lionel Messi, scoring all their goals in the second half. Croatia finished atop the group with a 2\u20131 win over Iceland, resting several starting players in the final group match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Road to the final, Croatia\nIn the round of 16, Croatia played Denmark and earned a 1\u20131 draw after the two teams exchanged goals in the opening five minutes and a missed penalty from Modri\u0107 in extra time. Croatia won the subsequent penalty shootout 3\u20132, with three saves by goalkeeper Danijel Suba\u0161i\u0107 and two saves by Danish goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel. The team advanced to a quarter-final fixture with hosts Russia, who had defeated Spain in the round of 16, in Sochi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Road to the final, Croatia\nThe Russians scored their first in the 31st minute, but Andrej Kramari\u0107 equalised for Croatia eight minutes later and kept the score at 1\u20131 through the end of regular time. Croatia took a 2\u20131 lead in the 101st minute with a header by Domagoj Vida, but Russian defender M\u00e1rio Fernandes equalised five minutes before the end of extra time to trigger a penalty shootout. The shootout was won 4\u20133 by Croatia after two misses by Russia and a shot by Modri\u0107 that rebounded into the goal off Igor Akinfeev's arm and the post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0016-0002", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Road to the final, Croatia\nCroatia became the second team in World Cup to win two shootouts in a tournament, after Argentina in 1990. After the match, a video of Vida shouting \"Glory to Ukraine\" prompted controversy among Russians and a warning from FIFA's disciplinary committee, which enforces a ban on political slogans. Croatia's semi-final match against England at the Luzhniki began as they conceded a free kick goal by English defender Kieran Trippier in the fifth minute. Croatia resisted several attempts by England to score a second goal in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0016-0003", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Road to the final, Croatia\nCroatia managed an equalising goal of their own through a shot by Peri\u0161i\u0107 in the 68th minute. The match was won 2\u20131 by Croatia after a 109th-minute goal by Mand\u017euki\u0107. This made Croatia the first team to earn three come-from-behind victories in the FIFA World Cup, all three matches also going into extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Pre-match, Match ball\nThe official match ball for the final was the Telstar Mechta (Russian: \u041c\u0435\u0447\u0442\u0430; transl. dream or ambition), a red-coloured variant of the Adidas Telstar 18 introduced for the knockout stage. The Telstar family, a homage to the original 1970 Telstar, was designed similarly to 2014's Brazuca, but with longer seams and additional panels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Pre-match, Officials\nArgentine referee N\u00e9stor Pitana was selected to lead the officiating team for the final, which was announced on 12 July 2018 by the FIFA Referees Committee. The final was Pitana's fifth match as referee during the tournament, becoming only the second referee to officiate the opening match and the final. Pitana officiated an additional group stage match, along with two knockout stage matches in the round of 16 and quarter-finals. Pitana has been a FIFA referee since 2010, and officiated four matches at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Pre-match, Officials\nHis compatriots Hern\u00e1n Maidana and Juan Pablo Belatti were chosen as assistant referees. Bj\u00f6rn Kuipers of the Netherlands was chosen as the fourth official, with his fellow countryman Erwin Zeinstra as the reserve assistant. Italian Massimiliano Irrati was named the video assistant referee, presiding over the first use of the technology at a World Cup final. Argentine Mauro Vigliano was chosen as the assistant video assistant referee, while Carlos Astroza of Chile was appointed as the second assistant and Danny Makkelie of the Netherlands as the third assistant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Pre-match, Closing ceremony\nThe tournament's closing ceremony was held prior to the start of the match, featuring a performance of \"Live It Up\", the official song of the tournament, by Will Smith, Nicky Jam, and Era Istrefi. Jam also performed \"X (Equis)\", wearing a shirt honouring J Balvin. Opera singer Aida Garifullina sang the Russian folk song \"Kalinka\", accompanied by a children's choir and percussion section that featured a cameo by Brazilian star Ronaldinho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nCroatia kicked off the final at 18:00 local time (15:00 UTC), with the ground temperature reported at 27\u00a0\u00b0C (81\u00a0\u00b0F). The match was played through a minor thunderstorm, which produced several visible lightning strikes. An audience of 78,011 spectators at the Luzhniki Stadium watched the match, including ten heads of state, among them Russian president Vladimir Putin, French president Emmanuel Macron, and Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovi\u0107. The starting line-ups for both teams were identical to those fielded in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nCroatia had the majority of possession early in the first half, with the ball staying mostly in France's half. An attack by French midfielder Antoine Griezmann was stopped by a challenge from Marcelo Brozovi\u0107, which was called as a foul despite claims that Griezmann dived. Griezmann took the ensuing 30-yard (27\u00a0m) free kick, which was diverted by the head of Mario Mand\u017euki\u0107 into the left corner of his own net to give France the lead in the 18th minute. It was the first own goal to be scored in a World Cup final and the 12th of the tournament, the most of any World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nTen minutes later, Croatia equalised with a left-footed strike by Ivan Peri\u0161i\u0107 to the right corner of the net, assisted by Domagoj Vida after a free kick by Luka Modri\u0107 on the right. In the 34th minute, a penalty was awarded against Croatia after Peri\u0161i\u0107's handball in the box from a corner on the right was reviewed by the video assistant referee. Griezmann scored the penalty in the 38th minute with a low finish to the left, giving France a 2\u20131 lead at half-time; the first half's three goals were the most of any World Cup final since 1974. France led at half-time despite having only one shot on goal and with only 34% of possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nA Croatian counter-attack was stopped early in the second half after several pitch invaders were chased onto the field by security officers; Russian feminist rock band and protest group Pussy Riot claimed responsibility for the interruption. In the 59th minute, France extended their lead to 3\u20131 with a left-foot strike to the left of the net from the edge of the penalty area by Paul Pogba after his initial shot had been blocked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nSix minutes later, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 scored France's fourth goal, with a low right-foot shot from outside the box to the left of the net; Mbapp\u00e9 became the first teenager to score in a World Cup final since Pel\u00e9 in 1958. Croatia scored their second goal in the 69th minute from a back-pass that goalkeeper Hugo Lloris failed to dribble away from Mand\u017euki\u0107, who poked the loose ball into the unguarded net with his right leg. Despite a late push by Croatia, the match finished as a 4\u20132 victory for France and the highest-scoring World Cup final since 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Hern\u00e1n Maidana (Argentina)Juan Pablo Belatti (Argentina)Fourth official:Bj\u00f6rn Kuipers (Netherlands)Reserve assistant referee:Erwin Zeinstra (Netherlands)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Post-match\nFrance became the sixth country to win the World Cup more than once with their win. Didier Deschamps became the third person to have won the World Cup as both a player and manager, after M\u00e1rio Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer. The final was the highest scoring since 1966, and the highest score in regular time since 1958. The medals were presented on the pitch to both teams by presidents Putin, Macron, and Grabar-Kitarovi\u0107 amid a heavy rainstorm. FIFA president Gianni Infantino handed the trophy to French captain Hugo Lloris. As Lloris raised the trophy, a short version of the tournament's official song \"Live It Up\" was played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Post-match\nCroatian captain Luka Modri\u0107 won the Golden Ball as best player of the tournament. France's Antoine Griezmann, the final's man of the match, also won the Bronze Ball and the Silver Boot award with four goals and two assists. Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 won the Best Young Player award for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Post-match\nLarge crowds, including 90,000 people at the Eiffel Tower fanzone and an estimated million on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, celebrated the victory in Paris. The celebrations were marred by instances of rioting that were broken up by police, as well as the deaths of at least two people during celebrations elsewhere in the country, one man died after diving into a shallow canal and another died after crashing his car into a tree, RATP, the operator of the Paris M\u00e9tro system, temporarily renamed several stations in honour of the team and its World Cup victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Post-match\nOn 16 July, more than 550,000 fans welcomed the Croatian team home in the capital city of Zagreb, in the single largest public gathering in Croatia's history, where a six-hour-long bus tour brought them from Zagreb Airport to Ban Jela\u010di\u0107 Square. In the following days, players were all welcomed individually in their hometowns as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Broadcasting and viewership\nFIFA estimated that the global audience for the final peaked at 1.12 billion people, including 884 million watching television broadcasts and 232 million using other platforms, including online streaming, and at public venues. According to a broadcast audit report, 86.7 percent of televisions turned on in France and 88.6 in Croatia were watching the broadcast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Broadcasting and viewership, Europe\nIn France, the final was televised on TF1 and BeIN Sports and drew an average of 26.1\u00a0million viewers, making it the most watched event ever in French television history. In the United Kingdom, the final had an average viewership of 10.5\u00a0million and a peak viewership of 13.8\u00a0million, split between free-to-air broadcasters BBC One and ITV, almost half that of the viewership of England\u2013Croatia semi-final. In Germany, the match drew a viewership of 21.3\u00a0million, which was around 76% of the market share, on state-owned ZDF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Broadcasting and viewership, Europe\nIn Spain, the match had a 57.3% share, with 8.2\u00a0million viewers on Mediaset Espa\u00f1a Comunicaci\u00f3n's Telecinco. In Croatia, the match drew around 1.538\u00a0million viewers \u2013 more than 38% of the population \u2013 on national broadcaster HRT 2 for an 89.3% market share. In Italy, it drew 11.7\u00a0million viewers on Canale 5. In the Netherlands, the match had a viewership of 3.1\u00a0million on NPO1. In the host nation of Russia, the final was the third-most watched match of the 2018 World Cup and accounted for around 50% of the nation's population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Broadcasting and viewership, Europe\nIn total, the final drew more than 160\u00a0million viewers in 20 European territories, including Russia, the United Kingdom and Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Broadcasting and viewership, Rest of the world\nIn the United States, the match was broadcast in English on Fox and in Spanish on Telemundo; the broadcasts averaged 16.6\u00a0million viewers combined, with Telemundo reaching a total of 57% of the country's Latino population. In India, 70\u00a0million viewers streamed the match online, through Sony Picture Networks India's (SPN) Sony Liv application, which was a record for a football match; an additional 22.4\u00a0million viewers watched the match on Sony Ten 2, Sony Ten 3 and Sony ESPN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Broadcasting and viewership, Rest of the world\nIn China, the match drew a combined of 56\u00a0million viewers on state-broadcasters CCTV-1 and CCTV-5, the most-watched sporting event in China since 2008 Beijing Olympics; an additional 24\u00a0million viewers streamed the match through Youku, a video-service and an Alibaba Group subsidiary. In Australia, the final was watched by an average of 2.2\u00a0million viewers \u2013 with a peak of 3.4\u00a0million viewers \u2013 on national public broadcaster SBS. Whereas, in Canada, the final was watched by an average of 3.9\u00a0million viewers, with a peak of 5.4\u00a0million viewers on CTV, TSN and RDS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279099-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final, Broadcasting and viewership, Advertising\nIn the United States, Fox received between US$399,000 and $750,000 for a 30-second advertisement spot during the World Cup final; whereas in France, TF1 got up to $300,000 for a 30-second ad-spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 67], "content_span": [68, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A\nGroup A of the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place from 14 to 25 June 2018. The group consisted of Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Uruguay. The top two teams, Uruguay and Russia, advanced to the round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Russia vs Saudi Arabia\nThe two teams had met only once, a friendly game in 1993 won by Saudi Arabia 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Russia vs Saudi Arabia\nIn the 12th minute, Yury Gazinsky headed the first goal for Russia from a cross from the left before substitute Denis Cheryshev evaded several challenges and smashed home at the near post close to half-time. The tempo slowed and the atmosphere flattened after the restart, giving the whole thing the feel of a friendly match. But substitute Artem Dzyuba illuminated a match of often dubious quality with a precise header from a cross from the right to extend his team's lead just minutes after replacing Fyodor Smolov. As the match moved into injury time, Cheryshev smashed home with a crisp left-foot strike into the top right corner before Aleksandr Golovin curled a free-kick around the wall and into the right of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Russia vs Saudi Arabia\nAlan Dzagoev limped off with a hamstring injury in the 24th minute. \"Alan Dzagoev damaged the muscles in the back of the thigh,\" Russia said in a brief statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Russia vs Saudi Arabia\nFor the first time in World Cup history, two players \u2013 Gazinsky and Cheryshev \u2013 scored their first international goals in the opening match. Russia's victory means that the host nation has never lost their opening match in any of the 21 editions of the World Cup (won 16, drew six).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Russia vs Saudi Arabia\nRussia (5\u20130) recorded the second biggest victory by a host nation in their opening match at a World Cup, after Italy v USA in 1934 (7\u20131); while it is also the second largest victory of any host nation, only behind Italy vs USA at 1934 and Brazil vs Sweden at 1950, both ended 7\u20131. Russia's Denis Cheryshev became the first substitute to score a goal in the opening match of a World Cup tournament. In this game, Sergei Ignashevich became the oldest player to ever appear in a World Cup match for Russia/USSR (38 years & 335 days old).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Russia vs Saudi Arabia\nFor Saudi Arabia, this was their second biggest defeat in World Cup, after the 0\u20138 defeat to Germany in 2002. These losses are also the biggest defeats for any Arab team to have participated in the FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Russia vs Saudi Arabia\nAssistant referees:Hern\u00e1n Maidana (Argentina)Juan Pablo Belatti (Argentina)Fourth official:Sandro Ricci (Brazil)Reserve assistant referee:Emerson de Carvalho (Brazil)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Daniele Orsato (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Egypt vs Uruguay\nThe two teams had met only once, a friendly game in 2006 won by Uruguay 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Egypt vs Uruguay\nEgypt frustrated Uruguay with a deep defensive line, staying compact, dealing with danger competently and threatening on the counter-attack to maintain the scoreline goalless, nearing the end of the match. Luis Su\u00e1rez looked increasingly at a loss but remained prominent in the few opportunities that were created. When he had just the goalkeeper to beat, he dithered too long and allowed Mohamed El Shenawy to muffle the ball at his feet. With three minutes remaining, Edinson Cavani pulled rank over his strike partner over a free kick on the edge of the area. Jos\u00e9 Gim\u00e9nez headed into the net in the 89th minute as he met Carlos S\u00e1nchez's free-kick from the right to give the South Americans a winning start in Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Egypt vs Uruguay\nUruguay won their opening match at the World Cup tournament for the first time since 1970, when they beat Israel 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Egypt vs Uruguay\nAssistant referees:Sander van Roekel (Netherlands)Erwin Zeinstra (Netherlands)Fourth official:Milorad Ma\u017ei\u0107 (Serbia)Reserve assistant referee:Milovan Risti\u0107 (Serbia)Video assistant referee:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Cyril Gringore (France)Cl\u00e9ment Turpin (France)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Russia vs Egypt\nSergei Ignashevich headed at Mohamed El Shenawy before Aleksandr Golovin fired wide. Tr\u00e9z\u00e9guet then curled just wide from the edge of the box. Russia took the lead when El Shenawy's clearance punch found Roman Zobnin, whose first-time follow up shot spun in off Ahmed Fathy, with VAR confirming that Artem Dzyuba had not fouled his opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Russia vs Egypt\nM\u00e1rio Fernandes soon drove into the box before supplying a cut-back form the right for Denis Cheryshev to slot home Russia's second with his left foot. Dzyuba made it 3\u20130 as he took a lofted ball into the box down on his chest, taking a touch to go past Ali Gabr and finish past El Shenawy with a low shot. Salah won a penalty after he was fouled by Zobnin - although it was only given after a consultation with the video assistant referee as the referee had initially said the offence took place outside the area. Salah scored from the spot to become only the third Egyptian player to score at a World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Russia vs Egypt\nThis is the first time that Russia have won their opening two matches at a World Cup since 1966 (as the Soviet Union). And following with Uruguay's 1\u20130 victory over Saudi Arabia, Russia, for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, qualified for the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Russia vs Egypt\nAssistant referees:Eduardo Cardozo (Paraguay)Juan Zorrilla (Paraguay)Fourth official:C\u00fcneyt \u00c7ak\u0131r (Turkey)Reserve assistant referee:Bahattin Duran (Turkey)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Szymon Marciniak (Poland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Uruguay vs Saudi Arabia\nThe two teams had met in two games. Their most recent meeting was a friendly in 2014, ending in a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Uruguay vs Saudi Arabia\nA left-wing Carlos S\u00e1nchez corner was missed by Mohammed Al-Owais, giving Luis Su\u00e1rez a close-range finish into an unguarded net with his left foot. Fernando Muslera had to tip over a long-range drive from Hattan Bahebri, who then missed a chance in the box. The flat feel of the game continued after the interval with both sides struggling to build tempo in hot conditions at the Rostov Arena. Mart\u00edn C\u00e1ceres headed over in the 68th minute from a Sanchez delivery. Saudi Arabia had plenty of the ball in the closing stages but were unable to score a goal. The result ensured that both Russia and Uruguay would advance to the knockout stage, while Egypt and Saudi Arabia were eliminated at the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Uruguay vs Saudi Arabia\nUruguay have won all four of their World Cup matches against Asian opposition. Suarez became the sixth player to make 100 appearances for his country. He also became the first Uruguay player to score in three World Cups. Uruguay's victory had also helped Russia to qualify for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union, as Russia had won 3\u20131 over Egypt earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Uruguay vs Saudi Arabia\nAssistant referees:Nicolas Danos (France)Cyril Gringore (France)Fourth official:John Pitti (Panama)Reserve assistant referee:Gabriel Victoria (Panama)Video assistant referee:Szymon Marciniak (Poland)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Pawe\u0142 Sokolnicki (Poland)Daniele Orsato (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Uruguay vs Russia\nThe two teams had met in one previous game, a friendly in 2012, which ended in a 1\u20131 draw. With Russia formerly playing as the Soviet Union, the sides had faced each other seven times, including two matches at the World Cup, one in the 1962 FIFA World Cup group stage, won by the Soviet Union 2\u20131, and the other one at the 1970 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals, won by Uruguay 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Uruguay vs Russia\nLuis Su\u00e1rez curled a low free-kick into the bottom-right corner after Yury Gazinsky's foul on Rodrigo Bentancur. Denis Cheryshev struck a half-volley straight at Fernando Muslera. He then found the net at the other end on 23 minutes, though, as his touch diverted Diego Laxalt's first-time effort past Igor Akinfeev. In the 36th minute, Igor Smolnikov picked up his second booking after lunging in on Edinson Cavani, just eight minutes after being carded for a foul on Mat\u00edas Vecino. Muslera's pass enabled Russia to counter, though Artem Dzyuba sent his close-range effort well wide. In the final minute of normal time, Cavani thumped home the rebound after Akinfeev had kept out Diego God\u00edn's header.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Uruguay vs Russia\nRussia are the first European side to fail to top their group as the host nation since Spain in 1982, and they are equal with South Africa (2010) in suffering the heaviest defeat as hosts in the group stage \u2013 both defeated 3\u20130 by Uruguay. Uruguay are the first side to win all three of their group games (scoring five goals) without conceding a single goal since Argentina in 1998 (seven goals scored, none conceded). Cavani became just the second player to score a goal in three separate World Cup tournaments for Uruguay after Luis Su\u00e1rez. Muslera became Uruguay's all-time leading appearance maker at the World Cup (14) overtaking Ladislao Mazurkiewicz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Uruguay vs Russia\nAssistant referees:Djibril Camara (Senegal)El Hadji Samba (Senegal)Fourth official:Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)Reserve assistant referee:Hasan Al Mahri (United Arab Emirates)Video assistant referee:Cl\u00e9ment Turpin (France)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Cyril Gringore (France)Daniele Orsato (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Saudi Arabia vs Egypt\nThe two teams had met in six previous matches, the most recent one in the 2007 Pan Arab Games, won by Egypt 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Saudi Arabia vs Egypt\nMohamed Salah took Abdallah Said's long ball in his stride and then sent a deft lob over the onrushing Yasser Al-Mosailem with his second touch in the 22nd minute. Salah broke Saudi Arabia's offside trap and clipped an effort wide of the right-hand post. Five minutes before the interval Ahmed Fathy was adjudged to have deliberately handled Yasser Al-Shahrani's cross inside the area. Essam El Hadary produced a save to deny Fahad Al-Muwallad, but his celebrations were cut short when a second penalty was awarded for Ali Gabr's tug on Al-Muwallad's shirt. Salman Al-Faraj stepped up this time to fire past the goalkeeper and draw his side level. Egypt substitute Kahraba fired straight at Al-Mosailem late on. Salem Al-Dawsari finished a right-footed volley past El Hadary in the closing stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Saudi Arabia vs Egypt\nThis match was the first time Egypt have ever led in a World Cup match, in what was their seventh match in the competition. Al-Faraj's penalty goal for Saudi Arabia, scored after 50 minutes and 36 seconds, was the latest goal scored in the first half of a World Cup game since 1966. El Hadary, at the age of 45 years and 161 days, is the oldest player in the history of the World Cup, breaking the record set by Colombia's Faryd Mondrag\u00f3n in 2014 (43y 3d).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Saudi Arabia vs Egypt\nSalah became the first African player to score in his first two appearances at the World Cup. Abdullah Otayf completed 110 passes in this match, the most by an Asian player in a World Cup match since 1966. Saudi Arabia remains undefeated when it comes against their Arab rivals in the World Cup, having beaten Morocco 2\u20131 in 1994 and drew 2\u20132 to Tunisia in 2006. It was Saudi Arabia's first World Cup win since 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Matches, Saudi Arabia vs Egypt\nAssistant referees:Alexander Guzm\u00e1n (Colombia)Cristian de la Cruz (Colombia)Fourth official:Ricardo Montero (Costa Rica)Reserve assistant referee:Hiroshi Yamauchi (Japan)Video assistant referee:Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)Assistant video assistant referees:Tiago Martins (Portugal)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Wilton Sampaio (Brazil)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Discipline\nFair play points would have been used as tiebreakers if the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279100-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group A, Discipline\nOnly one of the above deductions were applied to a player in a single match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B\nGroup B of the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place from 15 to 25 June 2018. The group consisted of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, and Iran. The top two teams, Spain and Portugal, advanced to the round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Morocco vs Iran\nAmine Harit fired wide with a volley from the edge of the penalty area after two minutes. Youn\u00e8s Belhanda and Medhi Benatia squandered close-range chances in a penalty box before Iran finally countered after 20 minutes, only for Karim Ansarifard to scuff his shot when clean through on goal. Sardar Azmoun then latched onto Omid Ebrahimi's through ball, but his shot was too low and Munir Mohamedi saved low with his feet. In the final 10 minutes Hakim Ziyech lashed the ball towards the bottom-left corner of the net from 20 yards but Alireza Beiranvand stopped the ball. In the last minutes, Ehsan Hajsafi's delivery from the left was met by a header from Aziz Bouhaddouz that flew into the left corner of his own net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Morocco vs Iran\nIran won just their second match at the World Cup (D3 L8), with this is their first victory since beating the United States 2\u20131 in June 1998. Iran did not attempt a single shot in the second half and were the first team since 1966 to score a goal in a half of World Cup football without attempting a shot. Iran also maintained their unbeaten streak against CAF teams in the World Cup, having drawn Angola 1\u20131 in 2006 and Nigeria 0\u20130 in 2014; while this was also Iran's first ever victory against any Arab team in the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Morocco vs Iran\nAssistant referees:Bahattin Duran (Turkey)Tar\u0131k Ongun (Turkey)Fourth official:Sergei Karasev (Russia)Reserve assistant referee:Anton Averianov (Russia)Video assistant referee:Felix Zwayer (Germany)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Mark Borsch (Germany)Jair Marrufo (United States)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Portugal vs Spain\nThe two teams had met in 35 previous matches, including in the round of 16 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, won by Spain 1\u20130. Their most recent meeting was in the UEFA Euro 2012 semi-finals, when Spain won 4\u20132 on penalties after a goalless draw in normal time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Portugal vs Spain\nCristiano Ronaldo scored with an early penalty, winning it after he was fouled by Nacho inside the box. Diego Costa then twisted and turned away from two Portugal defenders to score with a low shot to the left corner which brought the two sides level. But just before the break, David de Gea fumbled a Ronaldo shot from outside the penalty box through his gloves and over the line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Portugal vs Spain\nCosta scored his second equaliser of the night just after the restart from close range before Nacho scored with a right foot half-volley in off the post from the edge of the penalty box, his first goal for Spain. As the clock ticked down, however, Gerard Piqu\u00e9 brought down Ronaldo just outside the box, with the Portugal star completing the scoring and his hat-trick with a free-kick into the top right corner of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Portugal vs Spain\nRonaldo became the fourth player to score in four different World Cup tournaments (2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018) after Pel\u00e9, Uwe Seeler and Miroslav Klose, and also the first to score in eight consecutive World Cups and European Championships. At age 33, Ronaldo also became the oldest hat-trick scorer in the World Cup, surpassing Rob Rensenbrink of the Netherlands, who scored three times against Iran in 1978, aged 30. With this result, Spain has not won any opening matches since 2006, having lost to Switzerland 0\u20131 in 2010 and the Netherlands 1\u20135 in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Portugal vs Spain\nAssistant referees:Elenito Di Liberatore (Italy)Mauro Tonolini (Italy)Fourth official:Ryuji Sato (Japan)Reserve assistant referee:Toru Sagara (Japan)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Paolo Valeri (Italy)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Daniele Orsato (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Portugal vs Morocco\nThe two teams had met previously only once, a group stage game in the 1986 FIFA World Cup, won by Morocco 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Portugal vs Morocco\nJo\u00e3o Moutinho swung in a cross from the right after a short corner and Cristiano Ronaldo headed the ball powerfully past goalkeeper Munir Mohamedi from six yards out and into the middle of the goal to open the scoring in the 4th minute. Ronaldo played Gon\u00e7alo Guedes into the box but Munir made a one-handed save. Ronaldo shot over the crossbar when Bernardo Silva's mishit presented him with a shooting chance on the edge of the box early in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Portugal vs Morocco\nRui Patr\u00edcio then made a save to preserve Portugal's lead when Hakim Ziyech's free-kick was headed towards goal by Youn\u00e8s Belhanda, the goalkeeper diving to palm the ball away from danger. Ziyech shot another set-piece just over the crossbar from 25 yards. Nordin Amrabat and Medhi Benatia fired over with better chances. With their second loss in a row, Morocco became the third team to be eliminated from the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Portugal vs Morocco\n85 international goals for Ronaldo is a new record for a European player, with Ronaldo passing Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s to hold the record outright. Ronaldo has become the first Portuguese player since Jos\u00e9 Torres in 1966 to score a goal with his right foot, left foot and head in a single World Cup tournament. Ronaldo is the first player to score five consecutive World Cup goals for his team since Oleg Salenko for Russia in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Portugal vs Morocco\nAssistant referees:Joe Fletcher (Canada)Frank Anderson (United States)Fourth official:Sergei Karasev (Russia)Reserve assistant referee:Anton Averianov (Russia)Video assistant referee:Felix Zwayer (Germany)Assistant video assistant referees:Jair Marrufo (United States)Simon Lount (New Zealand)Bastian Dankert (Germany)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Iran vs Spain\nSpain had their first attempt on goal in the 25th minute when David Silva's long-range free-kick was held by Alireza Beiranvand. Five minutes later, Silva's volley sailed narrowly over the crossbar from six yards out. At the start of the 2nd half, Gerard Piqu\u00e9's close-range effort was blocked and then Beiranvand palmed away Sergio Busquets' curled effort from the edge of the penalty area. Karim Ansarifard's effort from a corner flashed into David de Gea's side netting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Iran vs Spain\nIn the 54th minute, Diego Costa picked up Andr\u00e9s Iniesta's pass inside the area and saw Ramin Rezaeian's attempted clearance ricochet off his leg and past Beiranvand low into the left corner of the net. Saeid Ezatolahi pulled Iran level shortly after the hour but his close-range finish after a scramble was ruled out courtesy of VAR after Rezaeian was found in an offside position. Mehdi Taremi's back-post header fizzed over De Gea's crossbar seven minutes from time as Iran pushed for an equaliser, but Spain held on for a 1\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Iran vs Spain\nIran did not manage a shot on target for the first time in 14 World Cup games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Iran vs Spain\nAssistant referees:Nicol\u00e1s Taran (Uruguay)Mauricio Espinosa (Uruguay)Fourth official:Julio Bascu\u00f1\u00e1n (Chile)Reserve assistant referee:Christian Schiemann (Chile)Video assistant referee:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Assistant video assistant referees:Wilton Sampaio (Brazil)Alexander Guzm\u00e1n (Colombia)Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Iran vs Portugal\nThe two teams had met twice, most recently in a group stage game in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, won by Portugal 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Iran vs Portugal\nIn the 45 minute, Ricardo Quaresma cut in from the right before scoring with a curling shot off the outside of his right foot that looped over Alireza Beiranvand into the top-left corner. Saeid Ezatolahi's foul on Cristiano Ronaldo won Portugal a penalty, which Ronaldo shot low into the right, enabling Beiranvand to get down and make a stop. Iran then managed to get a penalty in stoppage time after referee used VAR to determine that C\u00e9dric's handball from Sardar Azmoun's header had been intentional, which Karim Ansarifard converted high to his right. The game ended in a 1\u22121 draw, with Portugal advancing and Iran eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Iran vs Portugal\nQuaresma (34 years, 272 days old) is the oldest player to score on his first World Cup start since Yahya Golmohammadi (35 years, 84 days old), who did so for Iran in 2006 against Mexico. Iran's goal - scored after 92 minutes and 48 seconds - was the latest goal Portugal have ever conceded at the World Cup. This was Iran's best performance ever in the FIFA World Cup, winning four points and having earned their first ever draw against any European opponents since 1978, when Iran drew 1\u20131 to Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Iran vs Portugal\nAssistant referees:Eduardo Cardozo (Paraguay)Juan Zorrilla (Paraguay)Fourth official:Mehdi Abid Charef (Algeria)Reserve assistant referee:Anouar Hmila (Tunisia)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Gery Vargas (Bolivia)Hern\u00e1n Maidana (Argentina)Paolo Valeri (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Spain vs Morocco\nDespite their geographical proximity, the two teams had faced each other only in two opportunities, both were in the 1962 FIFA World Cup qualification and won by Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Spain vs Morocco\nIn the 14th minute, a mix-up between Sergio Ramos and Andr\u00e9s Iniesta allowed Khalid Bouta\u00efb to steal possession on the halfway line, burst through on goal and finish through the legs of David de Gea. Iniesta and Diego Costa combined to set up Isco for a close-range finish that tied the scores five minutes later. Bouta\u00efb was clear again in the 25th minute when Morocco took a quick throw-in, but De Gea stopped the ball. Nordin Amrabat, Manuel da Costa and Mbark Boussoufa were all booked in three-minute period before Sergio Busquets headed over the crossbar from Isco's corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Spain vs Morocco\nAmrabat's strike from at least 25 yards out bounced off the woodwork in the 55th minute. Isco's looping header dipped under the crossbar, but Romain Sa\u00efss made a clearance, Gerard Piqu\u00e9 heading wide from the resulting Isco corner. Youssef En-Nesyri scored home a header to give Morocco the lead. And when Iago Aspas turned home Dani Carvajal's cross from the right after a short corner \u2013 the goal given by VAR after a long delay \u2013 Spain was tied in the first minute of added time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Spain vs Morocco\nBouta\u00efb's goal for Morocco was their first goal at the finals since 1998, when Salaheddine Bassir scored in a 3\u20130 win over Scotland. Ramos made his 16th appearance for Spain at the World Cup, overtaking Xavi as their most capped outfield player in the competition. Spain have failed to win their final group game at a World Cup for the first time since 1982, having won the previous eight such games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Matches, Spain vs Morocco\nAssistant referees:Abdukhamidullo Rasulov (Uzbekistan)Jakhongir Saidov (Uzbekistan)Fourth official:Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed (United Arab Emirates)Reserve assistant referee:Mohamed Al Hammadi (United Arab Emirates)Video assistant referee:Felix Zwayer (Germany)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Mark Borsch (Germany)Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Discipline\nFair play points would have been used as tiebreakers if the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279101-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B, Discipline\nOnly one of the above deductions were applied to a player in a single match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C\nGroup C of the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place from 16 to 26 June 2018. The group consisted of France, Australia, Peru and Denmark. The top two teams, France and Denmark, advanced to the round of 16. France would go on to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, France vs Australia\nThe two teams had met in four previous matches, most recently in a 2013 friendly, a 6\u20130 France victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, France vs Australia\nAfter a disjointed first half, the game sparked into life shortly after the interval as referee Andr\u00e9s Cunha initially disallowed a French penalty, but after a call from the VAR, changed his decision and awarded the penalty to France, deciding that Josh Risdon had clipped Antoine Griezmann just inside the area. Griezmann would convert the penalty, which was the first World Cup penalty awarded by VAR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, France vs Australia\nThe opener was soon cancelled out just four minutes later by another penalty, Australian midfielder and captain, Mile Jedinak, slotting home after Samuel Umtiti handled the ball in the box, and they looked on course to hold one of the pre-tournament favourites until Paul Pogba's lobbed effort confirmed by goal line technology deflected off Australia full-back Aziz Behich and the crossbar to fall inches over the goal-line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, France vs Australia\nThe two penalties were scored in the game between France and Australia were only four minutes, seven seconds apart - the shortest period of time between two penalties being scored by different sides in a World Cup match. Both countries also featured their youngest ever World Cup players in Daniel Arzani at 19 years and 163 days and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 at 19 years and 178 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, France vs Australia\nAssistant referees:Nicol\u00e1s Taran (Uruguay)Mauricio Espinosa (Uruguay)Fourth official:Julio Bascu\u00f1\u00e1n (Chile)Reserve assistant referee:Christian Schiemann (Chile)Video assistant referee:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Assistant video assistant referees:Tiago Martins (Portugal)Hern\u00e1n Maidana (Argentina)Jair Marrufo (United States)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Peru vs Denmark\nThe two teams had never met before in a FIFA-sanctioned match, but both teams previously faced each other in an exhibition match at the 1997 U.S. Cup (a 2\u20131 Denmark victory).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Peru vs Denmark\nYoshimar Yot\u00fan lashed the ball into Kasper Schmeichel's midriff from 25 yards as Peru began the game and Edison Flores lifted a shot over the crossbar from just outside the box. Andr\u00e9 Carrillo surged towards the Denmark box in the 13th minute and cut inside to curl a low drive towards the bottom-left corner, only for Schmeichel to pull off a diving save. Denmark began to dominate possession but it was not until the 27th minute that they attempted a shot on goal, Thomas Delaney launching the ball over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Peru vs Denmark\nDenmark midfielder William Kvist was taken off on a stretcher after a sustaining a blow to the ribs in a challenge with Jefferson Farf\u00e1n, and then Christian Cueva was brought down in the penalty area by Yussuf Poulsen. The referee pointed to the spot upon reviewing video footage and Cueva blazed over, much to the dismay of Peru's sizable travelling support. Adopting a more adventurous approach after the restart, Denmark were rewarded when Christian Eriksen's precise through-ball allowed Poulsen to open the scoring with a low left foot shot. Peru were denied an immediate equaliser when Denmark goalkeeper Schmeichel produced a one-handed save to deny Flores. Substitute Paolo Guerrero, who was only able to play after a Swiss tribunal lifted a 14-month drugs ban, backheeled a chance wide as Denmark held on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 868]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Peru vs Denmark\nDenmark have won three of their four World Cup matches against South American opponents, with the only exception being a 3\u20132 defeat against Brazil in the 1998 quarter-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Peru vs Denmark\nAssistant referees:Jean Claude Birumushahu (Burundi)Abdelhak Etchiali (Algeria)Fourth official:Mehdi Abid Charef (Algeria)Reserve assistant referee:Anouar Hmila (Tunisia)Video assistant referee:Felix Zwayer (Germany)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Mark Borsch (Germany)Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Denmark vs Australia\nThe two teams had met in three previous matches, most recently in a friendly in 2012, with Denmark prevailing 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Denmark vs Australia\nThomas Delaney headed wide from Pione Sisto's cross after just two minutes against Australia. At the other end, Mathew Leckie rose above the Danish defence to head a corner over the bar but Denmark countered and Nicolai J\u00f8rgensen's lay-off afforded Christian Eriksen the chance to hit a half-volley past Mathew Ryan and into the top left corner of the net. Sisto shot a 20-yard drive and J\u00f8rgensen flashed a close-range header just wide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Denmark vs Australia\nIn the 35th minute, referee consulted VAR and decided that Yussuf Poulsen used his arm to block Leckie's headed shot and awarded the penalty, which Mile Jedinak shot into the bottom right corner of the net. Poulsen had a penalty claim of his own waved away early in the second half after he tumbled to the ground on his way into the Australia box. Kasper Schmeichel failed to collect a looping long ball before Leckie flashed the ball across the face of goal. Daniel Arzani teed up Aaron Mooy for a shot that flew just over the top right corner of Schmeichel's goal from outside the box. Andrew Nabbout left the field with a dislocated shoulder and was replaced by Tomi Juric.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Denmark vs Australia\nAfter Ghana, Australia are the second team in World Cup history to score three consecutive goals from the penalty spot. Poulsen is the first player to concede two penalties in a single World Cup since Milan Dudi\u0107 for Serbia in 2006. Mark Milligan completed 85 passes in this match - a record for an Australian player in a single game at a World Cup tournament. As Poulsen had a yellow card in the previous match, he did not play for Denmark in the next match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Denmark vs Australia\nAssistant referees:Pau Cebri\u00e1n Dev\u00eds (Spain)Roberto D\u00edaz P\u00e9rez (Spain)Fourth official:Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)Reserve assistant referee:Juan Carlos Mora (Costa Rica)Video assistant referee:Mark Geiger (United States)Assistant video assistant referees:Jair Marrufo (United States)Joe Fletcher (Canada)Paolo Valeri (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, France vs Peru\nThe two teams had met only once, a friendly game in 1982, won by Peru 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, France vs Peru\nYoshimar Yot\u00fan's shot from the halfway line drifted wide. Rapha\u00ebl Varane missed with a header before Pedro Gallese saved with his legs to deny Antoine Griezmann after Olivier Giroud found him with a headed pass. Paolo Guerrero shot straight at Hugo Lloris on the turn after Christian Cueva found him in the box. Paul Pogba slid Giroud into the area and when his shot looped over Gallese via a deflection off Christian Ramos, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 tapped into the empty net from inside the six-yard box. Pedro Aquino clipped the outside of the post with a drive from 25 yards. Andr\u00e9 Carrillo fired over the crossbar and Jefferson Farf\u00e1n hit the side-netting. Guerrero missed a late free-kick, and France secured their place in the knockout stages, while Peru were knocked out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, France vs Peru\nMbappe became France's youngest ever goalscorer at the World Cup, aged 19 years and 183 days. Mbappe became the first player born after France's 1998 World Cup triumph to score a goal at the finals. Peru are just the second South American side to fail to qualify for the World Cup knockout stages in the last three tournaments - the other being Ecuador in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, France vs Peru\nAssistant referees:Mohamed Al Hammadi (United Arab Emirates)Hasan Al Mahri (United Arab Emirates)Fourth official:Janny Sikazwe (Zambia)Reserve assistant referee:Jerson Dos Santos (Angola)Video assistant referee:Daniele Orsato (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Abdulrahman Al-Jassim (Qatar)Taleb Al Maari (Qatar)Szymon Marciniak (Poland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Denmark vs France\nThe two teams had faced each other in 15 matches, including two World Cup group stage matches, in 1998, won by France 2\u20131, and in 2002, won by Denmark 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Denmark vs France\nOlivier Giroud and Rapha\u00ebl Varane sent early efforts off target. In the 38th minute a strike from Antoine Griezmann was straight at Kasper Schmeichel. Steve Mandanda spilled a long-range Christian Eriksen free-kick before recovering to claim the loose ball ahead of lurking striker Andreas Cornelius. Eriksen shot wide in the 59th minute, although France substitute Nabil Fekir shot at the side-netting with a drive shortly after his introduction for Griezmann. Fekir forced a stop from Schmeichel in the 82nd minute, while Giroud had a late penalty appeal rejected by the referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Denmark vs France\nThis was the only goalless draw of the 2018 World Cup; there were 36 matches played prior to this one, beating the previous record number of matches without a goalless draw to start a World Cup finals, set in 1954, when all 26 matches saw at least one goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Denmark vs France\nAssistant referees:Emerson de Carvalho (Brazil)Marcelo Van Gasse (Brazil)Fourth official:Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)Reserve assistant referee:Mauro Tonolini (Italy)Video assistant referee:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Assistant video assistant referees:Wilton Sampaio (Brazil)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Tiago Martins (Portugal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Australia vs Peru\nMile Jedinak was booked for a high boot on Christian Cueva after nine minutes of the first half. At the 18th minute, Paolo Guerrero broke into the penalty area, cut back onto his right foot and swung a deep cross for Andr\u00e9 Carrillo to lash a volley through Jedinak's legs and into the bottom right corner of the net. Tom Rogic beat three defenders on a run into the penalty area after 26 minutes and saw his shot saved by Pedro Gallese, before Mathew Leckie was denied by an Anderson Santamar\u00eda tackle as he slid in on goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Australia vs Peru\nFive minutes into the second half, Guerrero hooked the ball into the far corner of the net beyond Mathew Ryan's left hand. Jedinak's far-post header was saved by Gallese and Trent Sainsbury shot wide from close range, while substitute Tim Cahill had a volley blocked inside the penalty area. Edison Flores crashed a low drive onto the post from the edge of the box in the closing minutes, but the offside flag was raised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Australia vs Peru\nCarrillo became the first Peru player to score at a World Cup in 36 years. He ended a barren run of 205 minutes since Guillermo La Rosa struck in a 5\u20131 loss to Poland during Spain 1982. Peru won their first match at the World Cup since a 4\u20131 win over Iran in 1978. Guerrero - aged 34 years and 176 days - became the third oldest South American scorer at the World Cup, behind only Argentina's Mart\u00edn Palermo (36 years, 227 days) and Obdulio Varela of Uruguay (36 years 279 days).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Australia vs Peru\nCahill became the first Australian to appear at four different World Cup finals. For Australia, they had not won any World Cup matches since their last major victory in 2010 FIFA World Cup, beating Serbia 2\u20131; and also Australia had not defeated any South American team in the FIFA World Cup, having been beaten by Brazil 0\u20132 in 2006, drew 0\u20130 and lost 1\u20133 to Chile in 1974 and 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Matches, Australia vs Peru\nAssistant referees:Anton Averianov (Russia)Tikhon Kalugin (Russia)Fourth official:Ryuji Sato (Japan)Reserve assistant referee:Toru Sagara (Japan)Video assistant referee:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Assistant video assistant referees:Jair Marrufo (United States)Mark Borsch (Germany)Bastian Dankert (Germany)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Discipline\nFair play points would have been used as tiebreakers if the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279102-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, Discipline\nOnly one of the above deductions were applied to a player in a single match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D\nGroup D of the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place from 16 to 26 June 2018. The group consisted of Argentina, Iceland, Croatia, and Nigeria. The top two teams, Croatia and Argentina, advanced to the round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Argentina vs Iceland\nDespite stamping their authority on the game's opening stages, Argentina struggled to find space against the Icelandic defence. Argentina then scored in the 19th minute, Sergio Ag\u00fcero scoring with a powerful left foot shot to the top left corner of the net giving them a 1\u20130 lead. Alfre\u00f0 Finnbogason made history by scoring his country's first World Cup goal just four minutes later when he slotted to the net from six yards out after the ball broke to him from six yards out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Argentina vs Iceland\nArgentina then had the chance to go ahead again when H\u00f6r\u00f0ur Bj\u00f6rgvin Magn\u00fasson pushed Maximiliano Meza inside the box after 64 minutes. Hannes \u00de\u00f3r Halld\u00f3rsson dove to his right to deny Lionel Messi a goal. Although Argentina continued to press for a goal, but they were repeatedly denied by the Nordics' defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Argentina vs Iceland\nArgentina failed to win their opening match at a World Cup tournament for the first time since losing to Cameroon in 1990, and it was the first time that they drew their opener in the competition. Argentina have missed their last two penalties taken at a World Cup finals (excluding shootouts), with Ariel Ortega failing to convert against Sweden in 2002 before Messi's effort against Iceland in 2018. The Iceland forward's goal after 23 minutes was the earliest scored for a nation playing in their first World Cup match since Rashidi Yekini netted after 21 minutes for Nigeria against Bulgaria on 21 June 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Argentina vs Iceland\nAssistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Sokolnicki (Poland)Tomasz Listkiewicz (Poland)Fourth official:Wilmar Rold\u00e1n (Colombia)Reserve assistant referee:Alexander Guzm\u00e1n (Colombia)Video assistant referee:Mark Geiger (United States)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Joe Fletcher (Canada)Gery Vargas (Bolivia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Croatia vs Nigeria\nIvan Peri\u0161i\u0107 went closest to hitting the target with an effort from 20 metres after a quarter of an hour, but in the end it was Nigeria's Oghenekaro Etebo who brought joy to the huge Croatian contingent in Kaliningrad, beating his own goalkeeper with the ball going into the left corner of the net following a Luka Modri\u0107 corner from the right which had been deflected off Peri\u0161i\u0107 and Mario Mand\u017euki\u0107. Alex Iwobi, after wriggling into space on the left side of the box, he hit a shot directly into a Croatia defender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Croatia vs Nigeria\nAnte Rebi\u0107 fired over from Peri\u0161i\u0107's left-wing centre, with Odion Ighalo's header recording the match's first shot on target in the 59th minute. William Troost-Ekong was penalised for holding Mand\u017euki\u0107 in the penalty area, and Modri\u0107 sent Francis Uzoho the wrong way from 12 yards for his first World Cup goal, shooting low to the left corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Croatia vs Nigeria\nCroatia have won their opening game of a World Cup for the first time since their debut in the competition in 1998 (3\u20131 vs Jamaica). Nigeria became the first team in World Cup history to concede two consecutive own goals in the competition, with their last goal shipped in 2014, against France in the last 16, also coming in this manner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Croatia vs Nigeria\nAssistant referees:Emerson de Carvalho (Brazil)Marcelo Van Gasse (Brazil)Fourth official:Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)Reserve assistant referee:Pau Cebri\u00e1n Dev\u00eds (Spain)Video assistant referee:Daniele Orsato (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Wilton Sampaio (Brazil)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Argentina vs Croatia\nThe two teams had met in four matches, including one game at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, an Argentina 1\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Argentina vs Croatia\nIvan Peri\u0161i\u0107 surged into space down the left and shot towards the bottom-right corner, which was tipped around the post by Willy Caballero. A Dejan Lovren block prevented Maximiliano Meza's low strike finding the net and then Marcos Acu\u00f1a's cross clipped the top of Danijel Suba\u0161i\u0107's crossbar. Enzo P\u00e9rez struck wide from 15 yards. Three minutes later, Mario Mand\u017euki\u0107 flashed a header wide of Caballero's right-hand post from six yards. Eight minutes into the second half, Ante Rebi\u0107 shot a right foot volley past Caballero after the goalkeeper's mishit an attempted chip over his head.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Argentina vs Croatia\nSuba\u0161i\u0107 kept out Meza's close-range effort from substitute Gonzalo Higua\u00edn's cutback. With ten minutes remaining Luka Modri\u0107 curled in from 20 yards with his right foot to the right corner of the net to score Croatia's second. Ivan Rakiti\u0107 was fouled by Javier Mascherano \u2013 Nicol\u00e1s Otamendi receiving a booking for appearing to kick the ball towards Rakiti\u0107's head as tempers flared \u2013 and crashed the resulting free-kick against the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Argentina vs Croatia\nRakiti\u0107 in the 91st minute, though, slotted home from the centre of the box after his initial shot deflected off Caballero and found Mateo Kova\u010di\u0107 who passed it back to Rakiti\u0107 from the left. With their second win in a row, Croatia advanced to the round of 16 for the first time since 1998, having been eliminated in 2002, 2006 and 2014 editions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Argentina vs Croatia\nThis was Croatia's first victory in five attempts against a South American team at the World Cup, having lost the previous four. This was Argentina's heaviest defeat in the first-round group stage of a World Cup since losing 6\u20131 to Czechoslovakia in 1958. Argentina have failed to win either of their opening two group stage matches for the first time since 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Argentina vs Croatia\nAssistant referees:Abdukhamidullo Rasulov (Uzbekistan)Jakhongir Saidov (Uzbekistan)Fourth official:Norbert Hauata (Tahiti)Reserve assistant referee:Bertrand Brial (New Caledonia)Video assistant referee:Felix Zwayer (Germany)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Corey Rockwell (United States)Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Nigeria vs Iceland\nThe two teams had met only once, in a friendly game in 1981, won by Iceland 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Nigeria vs Iceland\nGylfi Sigur\u00f0sson shot a sixth-minute chance straight at Francis Uzoho. In the last minute of the first half, Alfre\u00f0 Finnbogason was unable to get a decisive touch on Sigur\u00f0sson's free-kick delivered from the right wing. In the 49th minute, Victor Moses' cross was collected by Ahmed Musa, who first controlled it in the air with his right foot before scoring on the half-volley powerfully to the net. Hannes \u00de\u00f3r Halld\u00f3rsson tipped over a deflected drive from Wilfred Ndidi. In the 75th minute, fed by Kenneth Omeruo, Musa burst clear in the left channel, cut inside and rounded Halld\u00f3rsson before scoring with his right foot. A late VAR review spotted that substitute Tyronne Ebuehi had tripped Finnbogason, with Sigur\u00f0sson's spot-kick effort clearing the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Nigeria vs Iceland\nIceland are the third World Cup debutants from Europe to have faced Nigeria at the tournament, and on every occasion Nigeria have emerged victorious, following victories against Greece (2\u20130) in 1994 and Bosnia and Herzegovina (1\u20130) in 2014. Uzoho is the second youngest goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet in a World Cup match (19 years, 237 days), behind only Lee Chang-myung in North Korea's 1\u20130 win over Italy in July 1966 (19 years, 198 days). This is Nigeria's first victory in a World Cup game by a margin of more than one goal since they beat Greece 2\u20130 in 1994 at their first World Cup tournament. This was Iceland's first group stage's defeat in any big tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Nigeria vs Iceland\nAssistant referees:Simon Lount (New Zealand)Tevita Makasini (Tonga)Fourth official:Ricardo Montero (Costa Rica)Reserve assistant referee:Hiroshi Yamauchi (Japan)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Elenito Di Liberatore (Italy)Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Nigeria vs Argentina\nThe two teams had met in eight matches, including four games at FIFA World Cup group stages, in 1994, 2002, 2010 and 2014, all won by Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Nigeria vs Argentina\nAhmed Musa narrowly cleared the crossbar in the early minutes of the game. In the 14th minute, Lionel Messi controlled the ball from a pass over the top from \u00c9ver Banega on his thigh and his left boot before shooting a right-footed drive past Francis Uzoho from the right. Leon Balogun brought \u00c1ngel Di Mar\u00eda down 25 yards from goal, but Uzoho tipped Messi's free kick to his left-hand post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Nigeria vs Argentina\nIn the second half, Leon Balogun was held in the penalty area by Javier Mascherano after a corner form the left, and Victor Moses scored from the resulting penalty to equalize for Nigeria, shooting low to the right with the goalkeeper diving the other way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0016-0002", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Nigeria vs Argentina\nAfter Oghenekaro Etebo narrowly missed from a long-range free kick, Gabriel Mercado raided down the right and bent a cross into the penalty area, with Marcos Rojo, who scored the decisive goal against Nigeria four years ago in Brazil, once again converting, as he tucked home a low right-footed volley to give Argentina the win and see them advance to the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Nigeria vs Argentina\nMessi's strike brought up the century for goals at Russia 2018. He also joined Diego Maradona and Gabriel Batistuta in becoming the third Argentina player to score in three World Cups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Nigeria vs Argentina\nAssistant referees:Bahattin Duran (Turkey)Tar\u0131k Ongun (Turkey)Fourth official:Bj\u00f6rn Kuipers (Netherlands)Reserve assistant referee:Sander van Roekel (Netherlands)Video assistant referee:Daniele Orsato (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Pawe\u0142 Sokolnicki (Poland)Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Iceland vs Croatia\nThe two teams had met in six matches, most recently in 2017 for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, which ended in a 1\u20130 Iceland victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Iceland vs Croatia\nH\u00f6r\u00f0ur Magn\u00fasson headed wide from J\u00f3hann Gu\u00f0mundsson's outswinging corner. Alfre\u00f0 Finnbogason shot wide from the edge of the area. Birkir Bjarnason pounced from a corner, but Lovre Kalini\u0107 made a save from Aron Gunnarsson's curling effort. At the restart, Milan Badelj's strike clattered off the crossbar. Badelj got his goal when he reacted to a loose ball in the Iceland box and hammered home from close range. Sverrir Ingason's header rebounded back off the bar. Dejan Lovren's handball though enabled Gylfi Sigur\u00f0sson to score from the spot in the 76th minute. Badelj provided a throughball and, having outpaced his marker, Ivan Peri\u0161i\u0107 lashed home to score the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Iceland vs Croatia\nCroatia have topped a world finals group for the first time in their history, and because of Croatia's victory, Argentina also qualified. With the defeat, Iceland stood bottom in the group with a single point and were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Matches, Iceland vs Croatia\nAssistant referees:Pau Cebri\u00e1n Dev\u00eds (Spain)Roberto D\u00edaz P\u00e9rez (Spain)Fourth official:John Pitti (Panama)Reserve assistant referee:Gabriel Victoria (Panama)Video assistant referee:Paolo Valeri (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Gery Vargas (Bolivia)Elenito Di Liberatore (Italy)Felix Zwayer (Germany)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Discipline\nFair play points would have been used as tiebreakers if the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279103-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group D, Discipline\nOnly one of the above deductions were applied to a player in a single match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E\nGroup E of the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place from 17 to 27 June 2018. The group consisted of Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica, and Serbia. The top two teams, Brazil and Switzerland, advanced to the round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Costa Rica vs Serbia\nBoth defences were tested in the opening moments - Aleksandar Mitrovi\u0107 seeing an effort hooked off the line before Giancarlo Gonz\u00e1lez headed straight at Vladimir Stojkovi\u0107 at the other end. The Serbian team was almost punished for their lack of penetration when Francisco Calvo dragged a strike wide as Costa Rica enjoyed a short spell of possession just before the break. Aleksandar Kolarov\u2019s left-footed free-kick from the right flew into the top-right corner. Serbia's Nemanja Mati\u0107, meanwhile, was involved in a confrontation with a member of the Costa Rica coaching staff in injury time as he tried to retrieve the ball after it went out of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Costa Rica vs Serbia\nSerbia have won their opening game at a World Cup tournament for the first time since 1998, when they did so as Yugoslavia against Iran (1\u20130). Costa Rica suffered their first defeat at the World Cup since 2006 (1\u20132 v Poland), ending a run of five games unbeaten in the competition (W2 D3). Kolarov's strike was the first direct free-kick scored by a Serbia/Yugoslavia player at a World Cup tournament since 1998, when Sini\u0161a Mihajlovi\u0107 netted against Iran. Kolarov's goal for Serbia was the third direct free-kick scored at this year's World Cup (after Russia's Aleksandr Golovin and Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo), which is already as many as there were in the entire 2014 tournament in Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Costa Rica vs Serbia\nAssistant referees:Djibril Camara (Senegal)El Hadji Samba (Senegal)Fourth official:Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)Reserve assistant referee:Tikhon Kalugin (Russia)Video assistant referee:Cl\u00e9ment Turpin (France)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Cyril Gringore (France)Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Brazil vs Switzerland\nThe two teams had met in eight matches, including one game at the 1950 FIFA World Cup group stage, a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Brazil vs Switzerland\nPaulinho's close-range effort forced Yann Sommer into a save. The first goal was scored shortly after when Philippe Coutinho scored from outside the penalty area with a right foot shot. Brazil also came close before the break as Thiago Silva headed inches over the crossbar. Five minutes into the second half, Steven Zuber equalised with a controversial header after a corner from the right decided by VAR review when he appeared to push Miranda in the back. More controversy was caused in the 73rd minute, after Gabriel Jesus was denied a penalty after being hacked down by Manuel Akanji in the penalty area. Brazil came close several times during the closing minutes, but Neymar, Roberto Firmino, and Miranda were unable to garner goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Brazil vs Switzerland\nBrazil have failed to win any of their last three World Cup matches (D1 L2), their worst winless run since June 1978, when they went four games without a win. Valon Behrami is the first Switzerland player in history to appear at four World Cups. Brazil failed to win their opening match at the World Cup for the first time since 1978, when they drew 1\u20131 with Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Brazil vs Switzerland\nAssistant referees:Marvin Torrentera (Mexico)Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez (Mexico)Fourth official:John Pitti (Panama)Reserve assistant referee:Gabriel Victoria (Panama)Video assistant referee:Paolo Valeri (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Elenito Di Liberatore (Italy)Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Brazil vs Costa Rica\nThe two teams had met in ten matches, including two games at the FIFA World Cup's group stages, in 1990 and 2002, with both ending in a victory for Brazil's (1\u20130 and 5\u20132, respectively).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Brazil vs Costa Rica\nCelso Borges shot an effort wide of the target from a Cristian Gamboa cutback after 13 minutes. Gabriel Jesus shot into the back of the net from an offside position in the 25th minute. Marcelo shot a low drive five minutes from the break, which Keylor Navas stopped. After the break, Jesus headed against the crossbar before Navas diverted Philippe Coutinho's follow-up wide. Neymar curled around the right-hand post from 18 yards in the 72nd minute, before the officials arrived at the correct decision via VAR to deny him a penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Brazil vs Costa Rica\nCoutinho gave Brazil the lead in the 91st minute, when he burst into the box to get on the end of a Roberto Firmino nod down and a touch from Jesus before poking the ball low to the net. Neymar then tapped home Douglas Costa's chipped cross from the right from close range deeper into the stoppage time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Brazil vs Costa Rica\nNeymar's strike seven minutes into stoppage time was the latest ever at a World Cup in regular time. This was Brazil's first World Cup victory thanks to a goal scored in the 90th minute. Costa Rica were knocked out of the tournament after this game for the first time since 2006, with a game to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Brazil vs Costa Rica\nAssistant referees:Sander van Roekel (Netherlands)Erwin Zeinstra (Netherlands)Fourth official:Damir Skomina (Slovenia)Reserve assistant referee:Jure Praprotnik (Slovenia)Video assistant referee:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Assistant video assistant referees:Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)Joe Fletcher (Canada)Mark Geiger (United States)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Serbia vs Switzerland\nThe two teams had never met. Playing as Yugoslavia, the two teams met 13 times, including one game at the 1950 FIFA World Cup group stage, a 3\u20130 victory for Yugoslavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Serbia vs Switzerland\nDu\u0161an Tadi\u0107 checked back onto his left foot to send in a cross from the right that Aleksandar Mitrovi\u0107 met with a header into the left side of the net. Blerim D\u017eemaili shot wide from inside the penalty area. Serbia pressed and Sergej Milinkovi\u0107-Savi\u0107 shot narrowly wide with a rising 20-yard drive. With almost half an hour played Steven Zuber passed the ball to D\u017eemaili who drew a one-handed save from Vladimir Stojkovi\u0107 down to the goalkeeper's right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Serbia vs Switzerland\nAfter 52 minutes, Xherdan Shaqiri's shot rebounded back to Granit Xhaka and the midfielder let fly with a curling right foot shot from 25 yards, into the far corner of the net. Shaqiri hit the frame of the goal with a bending effort from the right. Switzerland substitute Mario Gavranovi\u0107 was flagged offside as he hit the side-netting. And, in the final minute of normal time, Gavranovi\u0107 played a throughball to Shaqiri, who outpaced Du\u0161ko To\u0161i\u0107 and ran from near the half-way line into the box before nutmegging Stojkovi\u0107 with a low finish from the left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Serbia vs Switzerland\nStephan Lichtsteiner made his ninth World Cup appearance for Switzerland in this game - breaking the national record held by Charles Antenen since Chile 1962.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Serbia vs Switzerland\nAssistant referees:Mark Borsch (Germany)Stefan Lupp (Germany)Fourth official:Nawaf Shukralla (Bahrain)Reserve assistant referee:Yaser Tulefat (Bahrain)Video assistant referee:Felix Zwayer (Germany)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Cl\u00e9ment Turpin (France)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Serbia vs Brazil\nThe two teams had met once, a 2014 friendly won by Brazil 1\u20130. Playing as Yugoslavia, the two teams met 18 times, including four times at FIFA World Cup's group stages in 1930, 1950, 1954 and 1974, with one victory each and two draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Serbia vs Brazil\nMarcelo was replaced with Filipe Lu\u00eds in the 10th minute, due to a back spasm. Gabriel Jesus created a chance for Neymar, whose cross-goal strike was pushed away by Vladimir Stojkovi\u0107. Jesus cut inside of Milo\u0161 Veljkovi\u0107 and saw his shot blocked behind by Nikola Milenkovi\u0107. In the 36th minute, Paulinho raced between two defenders and poked Philippe Coutinho's delivery beyond the onrushing Stojkovi\u0107. Neymar had a low drive kept out by Stojkovi\u0107 at the near post five minutes into the second period. Aleksandar Mitrovi\u0107 headed a cross from Antonio Rukavina straight at the feet of the keeper in the 65th minute. Thiago Silva headed home at the near post from Neymar's left-wing corner in the 68th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Serbia vs Brazil\nBrazil have qualified from the group stage of the World Cup for the 13th consecutive tournament, a run stretching back to 1970. Brazil have now won back-to-back World Cup matches for the first time since 2010, when they won their opening two group matches. For Serbia, this was the second consecutive elimination from the group stage in their World Cup history as an independent nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Serbia vs Brazil\nAssistant referees:Reza Sokhandan (Iran)Mohammadreza Mansouri (Iran)Fourth official:Jair Marrufo (United States)Reserve assistant referee:Anouar Hmila (Tunisia)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Pawe\u0142 Sokolnicki (Poland)Paolo Valeri (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Switzerland vs Costa Rica\nThe two teams had faced each other twice, most recently in a 2010 friendly won by Costa Rica 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Switzerland vs Costa Rica\nStephan Lichtsteiner's right-wing cross was headed back across goal by Breel Embolo, and the unmarked Blerim D\u017eemaili lashed home from eight yards. Keylor Navas blocked Embolo's effort at his near post, before Kendall Waston headed Joel Campbell's outswinging corner from six yards after 56 minutes. Josip Drmi\u0107 slotted into the bottom corner from Denis Zakaria's low cross. Referee awarded a spot-kick after Bryan Ruiz had been bundled over in the area, only for the decision to be reversed after replays showed that he had strayed into an offside position when he received the ball. Ruiz did get a chance from the spot in the third minute of stoppage time when Campbell was felled in the box, his penalty hit the bar and then bounced in off Yann Sommer's head for an own goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Switzerland vs Costa Rica\nWaston's goal for Costa Rica was their first in 424 minutes of play in World Cup matches (not including penalty shootouts), with their previous goal scored by Ruiz in the last 16 of the 2014 tournament against Greece. Switzerland have avoided defeat in each of their three group stage matches at the World Cup for the first time since 2006. Costa Rica became the last side to score a goal at Russia 2018. Sommer is just the third goalkeeper to score an own goal at the World Cup, after Honduras' Noel Valladares against France in 2014 and Spain's Andoni Zubizarreta against Nigeria in 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Matches, Switzerland vs Costa Rica\nAssistant referees:Nicolas Danos (France)Cyril Gringore (France)Fourth official:Norbert Hauata (Tahiti)Reserve assistant referee:Bertrand Brial (New Caledonia)Video assistant referee:Felix Zwayer (Germany)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Mark Borsch (Germany)Szymon Marciniak (Poland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Discipline\nFair play points would have been used as tiebreakers if the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279104-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group E, Discipline\nOnly one of the above deductions were applied to a player in a single match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F\nGroup F of the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place from 17 to 27 June 2018. The group consisted of Germany, Mexico, Sweden, and South Korea. Sweden and Mexico were the top two teams that advanced to the round of 16. The incumbent World Cup champions, Germany, placed last, making it the first time since 1938 that Germany did not advance beyond the first round, and the first time ever, the group stage. The early German exit was \"greeted with shock in newspapers around the world\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Germany vs Mexico\nThe two teams had faced each other 11 times, including three FIFA World Cup games all of which were German victories: 6\u20130 in 1978 (first group stage), 2\u20131 in 1998 (round of 16), but a 1986 quarter-final game being the most significant, which ended with a German penalty shoot-out victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Germany vs Mexico\nTimo Werner fired a warning shot across the face of Guillermo Ochoa's goal during the first minutes of the match. H\u00e9ctor Moreno headed straight at Manuel Neuer from their clearest opening. Javier Hern\u00e1ndez's one-two with Andr\u00e9s Guardado allowed him to spin away from Mats Hummels just inside the Germany half and feed Hirving Lozano down the left. Lozano then cut inside the resistance offered by the back-tracking Mesut \u00d6zil to crash a low right foot shot inside Neuer's right post. However, two minutes later, Toni Kroos's free-kick arrowed towards the top corner. Ochoa denied the midfielder's shot, pushing the ball against the crossbar. Near the end Joshua Kimmich and Werner came close to scoring, but their attempts were unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Germany vs Mexico\nThis defeat represented the first time that Germany had lost the opening game in defence of their trophy. They beat Argentina 3\u20131 in 1958, drew 0\u20130 with Poland in 1978, and defeated Bolivia 1\u20130 in 1994. Germany lost their opening match at a World Cup for only the second time, having done so in 1982, against Algeria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Germany vs Mexico\nThis is the third consecutive World Cup in which the reigning champion has failed to win their opening match \u2013 Italy drew 1\u20131 with Paraguay in 2010, while Spain lost 5\u20131 against the Netherlands in 2014; and also the fourth champions failed to win their opening match, as France lost 0\u20131 to Senegal at the 2002 FIFA World Cup (all of whom, coincidentally, had been knocked out at the group stage). Germany had 26 shots, the most by a side without scoring in a World Cup fixture since 2006 (Portugal v England, 29 shots in a 0\u20130 draw).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Germany vs Mexico\nConversely, Mexico beat Germany for only the second time \u2013 their last win against them came in a friendly in June 1985. However, Mexico's victory over Germany marked the first time a team from the CONCACAF region defeated Germany in the World Cup. Additionally, Mexico became the first team from the Americas to defeat Germany at a World Cup in over 16 years- the last time Germany lost to either a North- or South-American team was at the 2002 final against Brazil. Rafael M\u00e1rquez featured in his fifth World Cup finals, becoming just the third player to achieve this feat \u2013 along with Mexico's Antonio Carbajal and Germany's Lothar Matth\u00e4us. Coincidentally, Mexico have avenged their 1986 defeat by beating Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Germany vs Mexico\nAssistant referees:Reza Sokhandan (Iran)Mohammadreza Mansouri (Iran)Fourth official:Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed (United Arab Emirates)Reserve assistant referee:Mohamed Al Hammadi (United Arab Emirates)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Wilton Sampaio (Brazil)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Mark Geiger (United States)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Sweden vs South Korea\nThe two teams had faced each other four times, most recently in 2005, a 2\u20132 draw in a friendly game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Sweden vs South Korea\nSweden's defence was tested by a South Korean attack in the early stages. Andreas Granqvist was denied a shot at goal by a last-ditch interception by Kim Young-gwon. Marcus Berg was close to score midway through the first half but his close range shot was beaten away by Jo Hyeon-woo, while South Korea did not manage a single shot on target. Jo also saved from Ola Toivonen's header following a free-kick. In the start to the second half, both sides exchanged chances within the first six minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Sweden vs South Korea\nThere was a short delay for Kim Min-woo's foul on Viktor Claesson to be analysed on video and for the referee to point to the spot but it did not affect Granqvist, who sent Jo the wrong way. Hwang Hee-chan spurned a glorious opportunity late on, heading wide from 10 yards out, as Sweden ultimately held on for a precious three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Sweden vs South Korea\nThis was Sweden's first win in their opening match at a World Cup since beating Mexico 3\u20130 as hosts in 1958. South Korea lost their opening match at a World Cup for the first time since 1998 when they lost 3\u20131 against Mexico. Sweden's goal was the first they had scored in 402 minutes of international football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Sweden vs South Korea\nAssistant referees:Juan Zumba (El Salvador)Juan Carlos Mora (Costa Rica)Fourth official:Norbert Hauata (Tahiti)Reserve assistant referee:Bertrand Brial (New Caledonia)Video assistant referee:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Assistant video assistant referees:Abdulrahman Al-Jassim (Qatar)Taleb Al Maari (Qatar)Daniele Orsato (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Mexico\nThe two teams had met in 12 matches, including one game at the 1998 FIFA World Cup group stage, won by Mexico 3\u20131. The match was attended by the President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Mexico\nIn the 12th minute, Hirving Lozano made a block to deny Lee Yong. Nine minutes later, Son Heung-min shot a low drive which H\u00e9ctor Moreno helped to keep out. Jang Hyun-soo handled Andr\u00e9s Guardado's cross and the referee awarded a penalty, Carlos Vela stepped up and sent Jo Hyeon-woo the wrong way. Two minutes later, Miguel Lay\u00fan lashed his effort over from close range. South Korea wanted a penalty of their own after the restart when Moon Seon-min's strike clipped Carlos Salcedo's arm, but the referee waved away their appeals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Mexico\nJo lunged to his right to tip Javier Hern\u00e1ndez's shot wide. Lozano drove into space, Vela drew away to the right as the ball went left to Hern\u00e1ndez, who checked back and clipped low past Jo. In the third minute of stoppage time, Son struck from 20-yards into the top-left corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Mexico\nBefore Son's goal, South Korea had gone 288 minutes without scoring at the World Cup, their longest ever such drought. Hern\u00e1ndez scored his 50th goal for Mexico, becoming the inaugural player of the Mexico national team to reach that milestone. Mexico has won consecutive matches at the World Cup starting with their inaugural achievement at the 2002 World Cup. Hern\u00e1ndez is the third player to score at three World Cups, preceded by Mexico's Cuauht\u00e9moc Blanco and Rafael M\u00e1rquez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Mexico\nAssistant referees:Milovan Risti\u0107 (Serbia)Dalibor \u0110ur\u0111evi\u0107 (Serbia)Fourth official:John Pitti (Panama)Reserve assistant referee:Gabriel Victoria (Panama)Video assistant referee:Daniele Orsato (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Tiago Martins (Portugal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Germany vs Sweden\nThe two teams had met in 36 previous matches, including four FIFA World Cup games, the latest of these being a 2\u20130 Germany win in the 2006 World Cup round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Germany vs Sweden\nJulian Draxler had a shot blocked from close range before he toe-poked a left-footed effort narrowly wide from a tight angle soon after. Sebastian Rudy left the field with a bloody nose after a collision with Ola Toivonen moments before he burst into the box to control a Viktor Claesson cross on his chest and lift his shot over Manuel Neuer into the far corner of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Germany vs Sweden\nThree minutes into the second half, Germany drew level when Timo Werner's cross found Marco Reus, who met it with his knee and turned the ball into the bottom corner of the net. With just under 10 minutes left, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Boateng was dismissed after picking up a second yellow card for a tackle on Marcus Berg, and Neuer then made a one-handed save to deny substitute John Guidetti from a downward header. Toni Kroos tapped a free-kick short to Reus before sweeping the return pass into the top right corner from left of the penalty area with his right foot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Germany vs Sweden\nKroos' goal in (94.39) is the latest winner ever scored on the World Cup stage. The previous record belonged to Francesco Totti, who found the net late on (94.26) against Australia in 2006. Germany came from behind at half-time to win a World Cup match for the first time since 1974 \u2013 which was also against Sweden (0\u20131 at HT, won 4\u20132). Sweden have lost a World Cup group-stage match for the first time since June 1990, when they lost to Costa Rica \u2013 this defeat ends a run of 10 group games unbeaten. Boateng is the first player to be sent off at the World Cup for Germany since Miroslav Klose in 2010 against Serbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Germany vs Sweden\nAssistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Sokolnicki (Poland)Tomasz Listkiewicz (Poland)Fourth official:Ryuji Sato (Japan)Reserve assistant referee:Toru Sagara (Japan)Video assistant referee:Cl\u00e9ment Turpin (France)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Cyril Gringore (France)Paolo Valeri (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Germany\nThe two teams had faced each other three times, including two FIFA World Cup games, one at the 2002 FIFA World Cup semi-finals, which ended with a 1\u20130 victory for Germany, and one at the 1994 FIFA World Cup group stage, a Germany 3\u20132 victory. Despite South Korea's two previous losses, they were not eliminated just yet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Germany\nFor South Korea to have any chance of advancing, Mexico would have to defeat Sweden in their match that same day, and South Korea would then have to defeat Germany by at least two goals, a feat predicted to be highly improbable going in, with the South Korean coach before the game predicting that it had a \"one percent\" chance of happening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Germany\nSon Heung-min shot wide from the edge of the penalty area before Marco Reus shot one towards goal at the other end only to see it blocked. Leon Goretzka drew a one-handed save from Jo Hyeon-woo with a header from the middle of the penalty area, the South Korean goalkeeper diving to his right and pushing the ball away at full stretch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Germany\nTwo minutes into the second-half's stoppage time, Son's corner from the left reached Kim Young-gwon at the far post who scored into the right corner from six yards out with his left foot, the offside decision that followed was overruled by a VAR decision. Ju Se-jong won the ball off Manuel Neuer who had been at the other end of the pitch in order to join the German attack, thus leaving the goal undefended, and hit a long ball to Son, who ran onto the ball and tapped into an empty net from close range to score the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Germany\nHad Mexico defeated Sweden in their final group stage match that same day, a South Korean victory over Germany by at least two goals would have advanced South Korea to the Round of 16 based on goal differential, at the expense of Sweden. However, since Sweden defeated Mexico 3\u20130, the South Koreans were eliminated despite their 2\u20130 victory over Germany. This marked the second time that South Korea failed to make the Round of 16 in two consecutive FIFA World Cups, having been eliminated in the group stage at the previous tournament and in four consecutive World Cups from 1986 to 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Germany\nGermany are the fourth defending champions to be eliminated from the group stage at the World Cup in the last five tournaments, following France in 2002, Italy in 2010, and Spain in 2014; and since the new millennium, all champions eliminated in the group stage have been UEFA members. This is only the second time that Germany have been eliminated from the first round at the World Cup, having done so in 1938, while also being the first time since then that Germany fails to finish among the best eight teams of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Germany\nHowever, this is the first time it happened after the first round was converted back to a group stage format in 1950. This was Germany's first ever defeat against an Asian nation in a World Cup match in what was their sixth such match. This was South Korea's first victory (and clean sheet) at the World Cup since their 2\u20130 win over Greece in 2010. Son's goal for South Korea (95:52) was the latest goal Germany have ever conceded in a World Cup match (excluding extra-time).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0020-0002", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Germany\nThis was also the first time Germany finished bottom in the World Cup's group stage, one of the worst performances in their history; having been eliminated from the group stage of UEFA Euro 2000 and 2004. South Korea's win also meant that Australia was the only team from the Asian Football Confederation that failed to win a game in their 2018 World Cup campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, South Korea vs Germany\nAssistant referees:Joe Fletcher (Canada)Frank Anderson (United States)Fourth official:Julio Bascu\u00f1\u00e1n (Chile)Reserve assistant referee:Christian Schiemann (Chile)Video assistant referee:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Assistant video assistant referees:Tiago Martins (Portugal)Corey Rockwell (United States)Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Mexico vs Sweden\nThe two teams had met in nine previous matches, including a 1958 FIFA World Cup group stage match won by Sweden 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Mexico vs Sweden\nSweden got the breakthrough five minutes into the second half, Ludwig Augustinsson volleyed past Guillermo Ochoa when Viktor Claesson's mishit sat him up. The referee pointed to the spot when H\u00e9ctor Moreno slid in on Marcus Berg and Andreas Granqvist shot into the top-left corner. In the 74th minute, substitute Isaac Thelin flicked on a long throw-in and Edson \u00c1lvarez sent the ball into his own net with his arm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Mexico vs Sweden\nMexico qualify for the knockout stages for the seventh consecutive World Cup despite this defeat, thanks to South Korea's 2\u20130 victory over Germany. This was Sweden's biggest win in a World Cup match since they defeated Bulgaria 4\u20130 in 1994 in the third-place play-off match. Granqvist became the first Swedish player to score two or more goals in a single World Cup tournament since Henrik Larsson in 2002. This was Mexico's worst defeat at the World Cup since they were beaten 6\u20130 by Germany in 1978. Jes\u00fas Gallardo was shown a yellow card after just 15 seconds in this game \u2013 the quickest anyone has ever been booked in the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Matches, Mexico vs Sweden\nAssistant referees:Hern\u00e1n Maidana (Argentina)Juan Pablo Belatti (Argentina)Fourth official:Andr\u00e9s Cunha (Uruguay)Reserve assistant referee:Mauricio Espinosa (Uruguay)Video assistant referee:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Assistant video assistant referees:Gery Vargas (Bolivia)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Wilton Sampaio (Brazil)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Discipline\nFair play points would have been used as tiebreakers if the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279105-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group F, Discipline\nOnly one of the above deductions were applied to a player in a single match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G\nGroup G of the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place from 18 to 28 June 2018. The group consisted of Belgium, Panama, Tunisia, and England. The top two teams, Belgium and England, advanced to the round of 16, and went on to meet each other again in the third-place play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Belgium vs Panama\nThe two teams had never met before this World Cup match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Belgium vs Panama\nYannick Carrasco and Dries Mertens forced early saves from goalkeeper Jaime Penedo. Eden Hazard hit the side-netting after pouncing on a loose backpass from Rom\u00e1n Torres. Hazard fired wide in the 26th minute and was left hobbling by heavy challenges from Michael Amir Murillo and Torres. Hazard then shook off the blows and forced Penedo into a save with his legs. After a goalless first half, Mertens steered in a right-foot volley from the right of the penalty area to give Belgium the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Belgium vs Panama\nKevin De Bruyne almost doubled the lead but narrowly missed the target with a 25-yard free-kick that curled away from Penedo's right-hand post. Belgium doubled their lead in the 69th minute after Romelu Lukaku scored with a diving header after a cross from the left by Kevin De Bruyne. Lukaku then added a third with a chipped finish from the left of the penalty area after a through ball from Hazard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Belgium vs Panama\nBelgium's last victory by two goals or more at the FIFA World Cup was a 3\u20131 defeat of Uruguay in 1990. It also matched their best win in World Cup history, along with a 3\u20130 victory over El Salvador in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Belgium vs Panama\nAssistant referees:Jerson Dos Santos (Angola)Zakhele Siwela (South Africa)Fourth official:Ryuji Sato (Japan)Reserve assistant referee:Toru Sagara (Japan)Video assistant referee:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Assistant video assistant referees:Felix Zwayer (Germany)Sander van Roekel (Netherlands)Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Tunisia vs England\nThe two teams had met in two matches, including one game at the 1998 FIFA World Cup group stage, an England 2\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Tunisia vs England\nEngland scored in the 11th minute when Mouez Hassen stopped a John Stones' header from a corner from the left, but could not save a Harry Kane follow-up from close range. Hassen was substituted four minutes later for Farouk Ben Mustapha due to an injury earlier in the game, after he had a collision with Jesse Lingard. Lingard then mishit a volley from Ashley Young's cross to the far post. After 10 minutes, Ferjani Sassi equalised from the penalty spot after Kyle Walker was penalised for an elbow on Fakhreddine Ben Youssef.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Tunisia vs England\nKane had an appeal for a penalty waved away within five minutes of the restart as he was seemingly impeded by a pair of Tunisia players at a corner. In the additional time, Harry Maguire flicked a Kieran Trippier corner from the right into the path of Kane, who headed it inside the goal after being left free at the back post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Tunisia vs England\nEngland scored more than once for the first time in 10 World Cup matches, since a 2\u20132 draw against Sweden in 2006. Kane became the first England player to score a brace in a World Cup match since Gary Lineker against Cameroon in 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Tunisia vs England\nAssistant referees:Alexander Guzm\u00e1n (Colombia)Cristian de la Cruz (Colombia)Fourth official:Ricardo Montero (Costa Rica)Reserve assistant referee:Hiroshi Yamauchi (Japan)Video assistant referee:Sandro Ricci (Brazil)Assistant video assistant referees:Gery Vargas (Bolivia)Emerson de Carvalho (Brazil)Tiago Martins (Portugal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Belgium vs Tunisia\nThe two teams had faced each other in three matches, including one game at the 2002 FIFA World Cup group stage, which ended in a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Belgium vs Tunisia\nJust 6 minutes into the game, Syam Ben Youssef's late challenge on Eden Hazard was deemed, with the use of VAR, to have been just inside the area and he stepped up to score the penalty into the bottom-left corner. Ten minutes later, Dries Mertens won possession just inside the Tunisia half before driving forward and passing the ball to Romelu Lukaku. Lukaku then shot a low strike across Farouk Ben Mustapha into the bottom-right corner. Wahbi Khazri's free-kick from the left was met by Dylan Bronn, who flashed a header past Thibaut Courtois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Belgium vs Tunisia\nThomas Meunier found Lukaku inside the area, which he clipped over the onrushing Mustapha. Toby Alderweireld's long pass from defence was taken on the chest by Hazard, who then rounded Mustapha to stroke into an empty net. Michy Batshuayi met Youri Tielemans' cross at the back post with a controlled half-volley to score Belgium's 5th. Khazri scored deep into stoppage time after a swivel in the box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Belgium vs Tunisia\nLukaku became the first player since Diego Maradona to score back-to-back braces in consecutive world cup games. Hazard's penalty was Belgium's second quickest goal in a World Cup match (5:59), behind only L\u00e9opold Anoul's goal against England in 1954, in the fifth minute. For Tunisia, it has registered as their worst defeat ever in their World Cup history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Belgium vs Tunisia\nAssistant referees:Corey Rockwell (United States)Juan Zumba (El Salvador)Fourth official:Andr\u00e9s Cunha (Uruguay)Reserve assistant referee:Nicol\u00e1s Taran (Uruguay)Video assistant referee:Mark Geiger (United States)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Joe Fletcher (Canada)Felix Zwayer (Germany)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, England vs Panama\nJohn Stones headed in from Kieran Trippier's corner to open the scoring. Harry Kane converted a penalty to make it 2\u20130 following a foul on Jesse Lingard, who was next to find the net with a curling finish with his right foot from the edge of the area. Stones nodded home the rebound after goalkeeper Jaime Penedo had kept out Raheem Sterling's close-range header. Kane scored his second penalty of the match in the stoppage time of first half, hammering the ball into Penedo's top right corner after referee had spotted a foul on the forward by Fidel Escobar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, England vs Panama\nKane completed his hat-trick when a deflected shot by Ruben Loftus-Cheek flicked off from his ankle. Felipe Baloy scored Panama's first-ever World Cup goal, with a half-volley from a Ricardo \u00c1vila free-kick. The result ensured that both England and Belgium would advance to the knockout stage, while Tunisia and Panama would be eliminated at the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, England vs Panama\nGary Lineker was the last England player before Kane to notch more than one goal in consecutive World Cup matches, 32 years ago. At Mexico 1986, Lineker followed up a hat-trick against Poland with a brace against Paraguay. This was England's biggest win at a major tournament. Stones became the first England defender to score two goals in a World Cup match. Kane is the first player to score at least twice in both of his first two World Cup appearances since Grzegorz Lato of Poland in 1974. Kane is the third England player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match, after Geoff Hurst against Germany in the 1966 final and Gary Lineker against Poland in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, England vs Panama\nAssistant referees:Redouane Achik (Morocco)Waleed Ahmed (Sudan)Fourth official:Norbert Hauata (Tahiti)Reserve assistant referee:Bertrand Brial (New Caledonia)Video assistant referee:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Sander van Roekel (Netherlands)Mark Geiger (United States)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, England vs Belgium\nThe two teams had met in 21 matches, including two matches at the World Cup, one round of 16 game at the 1990 FIFA World Cup which ended in a 1\u20130 victory for England, and one group stage game at the 1954 FIFA World Cup which ended in a 4\u20134 draw. Both teams had already guaranteed to advance to the last 16 before kick off, with the winner securing top spot in the group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, England vs Belgium\nBoth teams fielded significantly altered line-ups before the game, with media outlets stating that a loss could potentially become beneficial, as the winner would be in the half of the draw with the 4 of the top 7 sides in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, England vs Belgium\nJordan Pickford kept out a long-range drive from Youri Tielemans before the goalkeeper was rescued by Gary Cahill's goal-line clearance after the ball squirmed out of his grasp. In the 51st minute, Adnan Januzaj cut in from the right and hit a left foot shot into the top left corner of the net. Jamie Vardy sent Marcus Rashford through on goal in the 66th minute, but the striker's effort was turned wide of the post by a touch from Thibaut Courtois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, England vs Belgium\nThis 1\u20130 victory ended Belgium's 82-year winless run against England which dates back to a friendly played in Brussels on 9 May 1936. The scoreline was 3\u20132 on that occasion. This is the first World Cup match (other than 0\u20130 draws) in which England failed to score since a 1\u20130 loss to Portugal in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, England vs Belgium\nAssistant referees:Jure Praprotnik (Slovenia)Robert Vukan (Slovenia)Fourth official:Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed (United Arab Emirates)Reserve assistant referee:Mohamed Al Hammadi (United Arab Emirates)Video assistant referee:Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Roberto D\u00edaz P\u00e9rez (Spain)Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Panama vs Tunisia\nThe two teams had never met before. Both teams had already been eliminated from the tournament before the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Panama vs Tunisia\nPanama took the lead in the 33rd minute, after a Jos\u00e9 Rodr\u00edguez shot from outside the penalty area took a deflection off Yassine Meriah and nestle in the back of the net. In the 51st minute, Na\u00efm Sliti found Wahbi Khazri down the right and the latter's low cross was converted by Fakhreddine Ben Youssef just six yards out. At the 66 minute mark, Khazri finished off a cross from the left by Oussama Haddadi from close range at the back post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Panama vs Tunisia\nTunisia won a World Cup match after 40 years, since their 3\u20131 victory over Mexico in 1978. Panama became the first nation since Serbia & Montenegro and Togo in 2006 to lose each of their first three World Cup games. Panama's goal means this is the first World Cup tournament in which every side has scored at least two goals in the competition. Meriah's own goal was the 50th in World Cup history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Matches, Panama vs Tunisia\nAssistant referees:Yaser Tulefat (Bahrain)Taleb Al Maari (Qatar)Fourth official:Mehdi Abid Charef (Algeria)Reserve assistant referee:Hiroshi Yamauchi (Japan)Video assistant referee:Tiago Martins (Portugal)Assistant video assistant referees:Abdulrahman Al-Jassim (Qatar)Marvin Torrentera (Mexico)Sandro Ricci (Brazil)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Discipline\nFair play points would have been used as tiebreakers if the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279106-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group G, Discipline\nOnly one of the above deductions were applied to a player in a single match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H\nGroup H of the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place from 19 to 28 June 2018. The group consisted of Poland, Senegal, Colombia, and Japan. The top two teams, Colombia and Japan, advanced to the round of 16. For the first time in World Cup history, the \"fair play\" rule was invoked to break a tie. Japan and Senegal finished with identical scores and goal differences to tie for second behind Colombia. Japan were awarded the place in the final 16 based on receiving fewer yellow cards in their three matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Colombia vs Japan\nThe two teams had met in three previous matches, most recently in a 2014 FIFA World Cup group stage game, won by Colombia 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Colombia vs Japan\nIn the third minute, Carlos S\u00e1nchez blocked Shinji Kagawa's 20-yard shot with his arm and the referee pointed to the penalty spot before showing the midfielder a straight red card. After lengthy protests, S\u00e1nchez eventually left the field and Kagawa slotted the penalty into the bottom right corner of the net. Jos\u00e9 P\u00e9kerman then replaced Juan Cuadrado with W\u00edlmar Barrios at the half-hour mark, and an equaliser arrived nine minutes later, from a Juan Fernando Quintero free kick, shot low under the jumping wall which the goalkeeper failed to keep out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Colombia vs Japan\nIn the second half, David Ospina dived full length to his left to stop Takashi Inui's curling 20-yard shot. Yuya Osako then headed the ball into the far corner of the net from a Keisuke Honda corner from the left. With 13 minutes left, James Rodr\u00edguez's strike from inside the box was turned over the crossbar by the outstretched leg of Osako.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Colombia vs Japan\nQuintero became the first Colombia player in history to score at two World Cups. Japan became the first Asian team to beat a side from South America in the competition's history. Honda became the first player from an Asian nation to provide an assist in three different World Cup tournaments since 1966. Eiji Kawashima (35 years, 91 days) became the oldest player to appear for Japan in a World Cup finals match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Colombia vs Japan\nAssistant referees:Jure Praprotnik (Slovenia)Robert Vukan (Slovenia)Fourth official:Mehdi Abid Charef (Algeria)Reserve assistant referee:Anouar Hmila (Tunisia)Video assistant referee:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Sander van Roekel (Netherlands)Felix Zwayer (Germany)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Poland vs Senegal\nSenegal had the first clear chance in the 18th minute, M'Baye Niang dragging an effort wide after a break. Senegal took the lead when Idrissa Gueye's 20-yard shot took a huge deflection off Thiago Cionek to wrong-foot Poland goalkeeper Wojciech Szcz\u0119sny and give Senegal the lead. Robert Lewandowski stepped up to float a 25-yard free-kick over the wall, Khadim N'Diaye dived to turn the ball away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Poland vs Senegal\nGrzegorz Krychowiak hooked a high ball back towards his own goal from inside the Senegal half and with Szczesny attempting to intercept by coming out of his penalty area, Niang knocked the ball past him before side footing into an unguarded goal. Arkadiusz Milik slotted a \u0141ukasz Piszczek cross wide at the near post. Dawid Kownacki's headed attempt was saved late on by N'Diaye but the goalkeeper was beaten by Krychowiak's header with five minutes to go after a free kick from the right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Poland vs Senegal\nCionek became the first Polish player to score an own goal in a World Cup match. Cionek's own goal was only the second time an African nation has benefited from an own goal in a World Cup match, after Andoni Zubizarreta for Spain against Nigeria in 1998. Senegal continued their impressive undefeated run in an opening World Cup match, having beaten France 1\u20130 in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Poland vs Senegal\nAssistant referees:Yaser Tulefat (Bahrain)Taleb Al Maari (Qatar)Fourth official:Abdulrahman Al-Jassim (Qatar)Reserve assistant referee:Mohamed Al Hammadi (United Arab Emirates)Video assistant referee:Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)Assistant video assistant referees:Tiago Martins (Portugal)Hern\u00e1n Maidana (Argentina)Wilton Sampaio (Brazil)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Japan vs Senegal\nThe two teams had faced each other three times, most recently in a friendly in 2003, won by Senegal 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Japan vs Senegal\nSenegal took the lead in the 11th minute when Japanese goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima spilled a Youssouf Sabaly shot into the path of Sadio Man\u00e9, who hit the ball in from close range. Japan responded in the 34th minute when Yuto Nagatomo received a ball over the top and sent it to Takashi Inui, who curled a shot into the bottom corner past the Senegalese defenders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Japan vs Senegal\nYuya Osako missed a close chance in front of the Senegal net and Inui's shot struck the crossbar, before Senegal retook the lead in the 71st minute, when Moussa Wagu\u00e9 finished a low Sabaly cross into the top corner. Japan equalised again just seven minutes later, when Senegal goalkeeper Khadim N'Diaye failed to collect an Osako cross, leading to Inui sending the ball to Japanese substitute Keisuke Honda, who finished at the near post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Japan vs Senegal\nWagu\u00e9 became the youngest African goalscorer at a World Cup, at the age of 19 years and 268 days. With his goal, Honda became the first Japanese player to score at three different World Cups, as well as the top scoring Asian player in World Cup history with four goals. Japan equalled their best points tally of four after two group games at a World Cup, just as they did as co-hosts in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Japan vs Senegal\nAssistant referees:Elenito Di Liberatore (Italy)Mauro Tonolini (Italy)Fourth official:Abdulrahman Al-Jassim (Qatar)Reserve assistant referee:Taleb Al Maari (Qatar)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Tiago Martins (Portugal)Hern\u00e1n Maidana (Argentina)Paolo Valeri (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Poland vs Colombia\nThe two teams had met in five matches, most recently in a 2006 friendly, won by Colombia 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Poland vs Colombia\nAbel Aguilar was taken from the field on a stretcher in the 32nd minute and was replaced by Mateus Uribe. Shortly after, a cross by James Rodr\u00edguez from the right was met by the head of Yerry Mina, who lost his marker to head over Wojciech Szcz\u0119sny's outstretched arms and into the net. Juan Fernando Quintero fired wide from 25 yards at the start of the second half. Juan Cuadrado then squared to Radamel Falcao on the edge of the box who lifted his shot well over the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Poland vs Colombia\nIn the 58th minute, Robert Lewandowski controlled a long pass only to shoot straight into David Ospina's midriff as Poland attempted their first shot on target of the game. Quintero's slide-rule pass presented Falcao with a one-on-one situation and he guided the ball past Szcz\u0119sny with the outside of his right foot to double his side's lead. With 15 minutes left on the clock, James' pass from the left found Cuadrado in space through the middle and he took a touch before finishing it into the bottom-right corner of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Poland vs Colombia\nPoland were the first European nation to be eliminated from the 2018 World Cup. Including Colombia's victory against Poland, there were 14 World Cup goals scored on 24 June 2018 - the most on a single day of action in the competition (maximum 3 games) since 10 June 1990 (also 14).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Poland vs Colombia\nAssistant referees:Marvin Torrentera (Mexico)Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez (Mexico)Fourth official:Julio Bascu\u00f1\u00e1n (Chile)Reserve assistant referee:Christian Schiemann (Chile)Video assistant referee:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Assistant video assistant referees:Gery Vargas (Bolivia)Roberto D\u00edaz P\u00e9rez (Spain)Daniele Orsato (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Japan vs Poland\nThe two teams had met twice, most recently in a friendly game in 2002, won by Japan 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Japan vs Poland\nYoshinori Muto's drive forced \u0141ukasz Fabia\u0144ski to parry, before the goalkeeper smothered a G\u014dtoku Sakai effort. Eiji Kawashima scooped Kamil Grosicki's header clear. With just over half an hour remaining, Rafa\u0142 Kurzawa's free-kick from the left picked out Jan Bednarek, who volleyed it into the net from six yards out. Maya Yoshida headed well wide from a left-wing corner. Robert Lewandowski steered Grosicki's pin-point pass over the top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Japan vs Poland\nPoland beat Japan for the first time in an official match, having defeated Japan in four unofficial matches. Poland won each of their 14 games in which they scored first in World Cup finals. Poland kept a clean sheet at the World Cup for the first time since winning 1\u20130 against Portugal in 1986. On another side, since the new millennia, Poland had repeated their poor performances in 2002 and 2006 World Cups, eliminated after losing two opening matches before grabbing a late victory in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Japan vs Poland\nThere was some criticism of the final minutes in the game, as both sides appeared to settle for the 1\u20130 scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Japan vs Poland\nAssistant referees:Jerson Dos Santos (Angola)Zakhele Siwela (South Africa)Fourth official:Ricardo Montero (Costa Rica)Reserve assistant referee:Juan Carlos Mora (Costa Rica)Video assistant referee:Daniele Orsato (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Gery Vargas (Bolivia)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Paolo Valeri (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Senegal vs Colombia\nThe two teams had met only once, a 2014 friendly game which ended in a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Senegal vs Colombia\nThe referee awarded Senegal a penalty in the 17th minute. After consulting VAR, he judged that defender Davinson S\u00e1nchez had won the ball before making any contact with Sadio Man\u00e9. After half an hour, James Rodr\u00edguez was substituted with what appeared to be a recurrence of the injury that kept him out of Colombia's 2\u20131 loss to Japan. Man\u00e9 took a free-kick in the 64th minute which he shot off-target. Kalidou Koulibaly got a touch on a Luis Muriel drive to deflect the ball narrowly wide. And in the 74th minute Colombia scored the decisive goal of the game, Juan Quintero's corner from the right found Yerry Mina who rose and crashed home a header that went through goalkeeper Khadim N'Diaye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Senegal vs Colombia\nWith Senegal being the last African team to be knocked out of Russia 2018, there were no teams from Africa in the Round of 16 for the first time since the stage was introduced in 1986. Colombia were the only team to reach the knockout stages of Russia 2018 despite losing their opening match of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Senegal vs Colombia\nSenegal became the third team to be eliminated from Russia 2018 despite winning their opening game of the tournament (also Iran and Serbia); and even moreover, this was the first time Senegal got eliminated from the group stage, despite owning a huge advantage prior to the match against Colombia. The last time as many as three teams failed to get through the group stages despite winning their opener was in 2002 (Argentina, Costa Rica and Russia).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Matches, Senegal vs Colombia\nAssistant referees:Milovan Risti\u0107 (Serbia)Dalibor \u0110ur\u0111evi\u0107 (Serbia)Fourth official:Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)Reserve assistant referee:Hasan Al Mahri (United Arab Emirates)Video assistant referee:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Elenito Di Liberatore (Italy)Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Discipline\nFair play points were used as tiebreakers because the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279107-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group H, Discipline\nOnly one of the above deductions were applied to a player in a single match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279108-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights\nFIFA, through several companies, sold the broadcasting rights for the 2018 FIFA World Cup to the following broadcasters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage\nThe knockout stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup was the second and final stage of the competition, following the group stage. It began on 30 June with the round of 16 and ended on 15 July with the final match, held at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. The top two teams from each group (16 in total) advanced to the knockout stage to compete in a single-elimination style tournament. A third place play-off was also played between the two losing teams of the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage\nFrance won the final 4\u20132 against Croatia for their second title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Format\nIn the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of 90 minutes of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each), where each team was allowed to make a fourth substitution. If still tied after extra time, the match was decided by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Qualified teams\nThe top two placed teams from each of the eight groups qualified for the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, France vs Argentina\nThe teams had faced each other in 11 previous matches, including two World Cup group stage matches, both won by Argentina (1\u20130 in 1930, and 2\u20131 in 1978).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, France vs Argentina\nAfter nine minutes, Antoine Griezmann's 25-yard free-kick crashed back off Franco Armani's crossbar. After picking the ball up deep inside his own half, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 set off on a run that was halted when Marcos Rojo hauled him down just inside the area. Griezmann stepped up and converted from the spot, sending the ball low to Armani's right. Four minutes before the interval, \u00c1ngel Di Mar\u00eda shot from distance with his left foot to beat Hugo Lloris into the top right corner of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, France vs Argentina\nThree minutes after the restart, \u00c9ver Banega's free-kick was headed out towards Lionel Messi whose effort towards goal from the right was diverted past Lloris by Gabriel Mercado with his left leg. Nine minutes later, Lucas Hernandez's cross from the left found Benjamin Pavard, who shot a half-volley from outside the area, sending it into Armani's top-right corner. Mbapp\u00e9 put France ahead again in the 64th minute when he picked up a loose ball in the left of the area, found a yard of space and fired in low with his left foot under Armani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, France vs Argentina\nHis second \u2013 a first-time low finish from the right of the penalty area with his right foot \u2013 followed just four minutes later. Sergio Ag\u00fcero nodded home in the third minute of stoppage time from a Messi cross from the right. Argentina had a final chance to score, but the ball was deflected, dumping them out of the World Cup. This game was hailed as \"one of the greatest World Cup games of all time\" by The Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, France vs Argentina\nWith this match, Didier Deschamps became the longest-serving coach in the history of the French national team with his 80th game in charge of France, moving ahead of his predecessor Raymond Domenech. Mbapp\u00e9 became the first teenager to score at least twice in a World Cup tournament since Michael Owen in 1998, and the first teenager to score at least twice in a single World Cup match since Pel\u00e9 netted twice for Brazil against Sweden in the 1958 final. Argentina became the first team to score at least three goals but still lose a World Cup match since the Soviet Union vs Belgium in 1986. Pavard's strike was later voted as goal of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, France vs Argentina\nAssistant referees:Reza Sokhandan (Iran)Mohammadreza Mansouri (Iran)Fourth official:Julio Bascu\u00f1\u00e1n (Chile)Reserve assistant referee:Christian Schiemann (Chile)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Paolo Valeri (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Uruguay vs Portugal\nThe teams had met in two previous matches, most recently in Brazil Independence Cup in 1972, the match ending in a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Uruguay vs Portugal\nIn the seventh minute, Edinson Cavani switched play from right to left with a sweeping pass out to Luis Su\u00e1rez, who delivered a cross which the former crashed home at the back post from six yards out. In the 55th minute, Rapha\u00ebl Guerreiro delivered a cross from a short corner on the left, which Pepe finished with a downward header.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Uruguay vs Portugal\nJust seven minutes later, Rodrigo Bentancur collected the ball around 30 yards out and slipped a pass out to Cavani on the left side of the penalty area, Cavani then shot a curling right-foot strike into the right corner of the net to reclaim the lead for Uruguay. Bernardo Silva shot off-target with the goal gaping after Fernando Muslera's mistake, with Cavani seeming to pick up an injury in the scramble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Uruguay vs Portugal\nPepe, aged 35 years and 124 days, became Portugal's oldest goal-scorer at a FIFA World Cup. This was the first time Uruguay won their opening four games at a World Cup tournament since 1930, with the fourth game in that run being their 4\u20132 victory over Argentina in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Uruguay vs Portugal\nAssistant referees:Marvin Torrentera (Mexico)Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez (Mexico)Fourth official:Jair Marrufo (United States)Reserve assistant referee:Corey Rockwell (United States)Video assistant referee:Mark Geiger (United States)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Joe Fletcher (Canada)Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Spain vs Russia\nThe teams had met in six previous games, most recently in a friendly in 2017, which ended in a 3\u20133 draw. Playing as the Soviet Union, the teams had faced each other five times. Russia only had one victory over Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Spain vs Russia\nIn the 12th minute, Marco Asensio's free-kick from deep on the right saw Sergei Ignashevich grappling with Sergio Ramos at the back post, the ball bouncing past Igor Akinfeev off the defender's heel. Russia were then awarded a penalty when Gerard Piqu\u00e9 handled in the box after a corner from the right. Artem Dzyuba shot home to the right of the net from 12 yards to send the sides into half-time level. In the 85th minute, Akinfeev got down low to his right to save a shot from Andr\u00e9s Iniesta, the goalkeeper then denied Iago Aspas on the rebound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Spain vs Russia\nPiqu\u00e9 and Ramos both appeared to be held from a set-piece but, after a VAR check, the referee waved away Spain's appeals. In the penalty shoot-out, Akinfeev kept out a Koke effort and saw Aspas' effort diverted away by his leg to give Russia the win; as all Russia's penalty kicks ended up successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Spain vs Russia\nThis result meant Spain lost three of their four World Cup penalty shoot-outs (after losing to Belgium in 1986, beating the Republic of Ireland in 2002 and losing to South Korea in 2002), and had still never defeated a host nation at the FIFA World Cup, after losing to Italy 0\u20131 in 1934, Brazil 1\u20136 in 1950, and South Korea after penalties in 2002. Russia reached the quarter-final of the World Cup for the first time since the break-up of the Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Spain vs Russia\nIgnashevich became the oldest player to score an own goal at the World Cup, aged 38 years and 352 days. The match marked the first time in the history of the FIFA World Cup in which a fourth substitution was made during extra time, after Aleksandr Yerokhin of Russia entered the pitch in the 97th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Spain vs Russia\nAssistant referees:Sander van Roekel (Netherlands)Erwin Zeinstra (Netherlands)Fourth official:Cl\u00e9ment Turpin (France)Reserve assistant referee:Nicolas Danos (France)Video assistant referee:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Mark Borsch (Germany)Felix Zwayer (Germany)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Croatia vs Denmark\nThe teams had met in five matches, which included two matches played in 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification, the first fixture ending in a 1\u20131 draw and the reverse fixture a 3\u20131 Denmark win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Croatia vs Denmark\nIn the first minute, a long throw into the Croatia penalty area by Jonas Knudsen, allowed a run to Thomas Delaney who touched the ball on to Mathias J\u00f8rgensen, who side-footed it into the net via deflections off goalkeeper Danijel Suba\u0161i\u0107 and the post. After three minutes, \u0160ime Vrsaljko's ball into the box reached Henrik Dalsgaard, whose clearance hit Andreas Christensen in the face and saw Mario Mand\u017euki\u0107 tucking the ball between Kasper Schmeichel and the left post with a shot on the turn from six yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Croatia vs Denmark\nDuring extra time, Ante Rebi\u0107 burst clear of the Denmark defence and was felled by Mathias J\u00f8rgensen when he was clean through on goal, only for Schmeichel to save Luka Modri\u0107's spot-kick by diving down to his left and clutching the ball to his chest. In the shoot-out, Suba\u0161i\u0107 tipped off Christian Eriksen's penalty onto the post but Schmeichel saved from Milan Badelj to bring the sides level. Lasse Sch\u00f6ne's shot was saved by Suba\u0161i\u0107 and Josip Pivari\u0107 was denied by an acrobatic Schmeichel stop. On the final spot kicks for both the teams, Nicolai J\u00f8rgensen took a shot from a staggered run-up which Suba\u0161i\u0107 saved with his feet, before Ivan Rakiti\u0107 slotted the ball into the bottom left corner of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Croatia vs Denmark\nCroatia qualified for their first World Cup quarter-final since 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Croatia vs Denmark\nAssistant referees:Hern\u00e1n Maidana (Argentina)Juan Pablo Belatti (Argentina)Fourth official:Enrique C\u00e1ceres (Paraguay)Reserve assistant referee:Eduardo Cardozo (Paraguay)Video assistant referee:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Assistant video assistant referees:Gery Vargas (Bolivia)Roberto D\u00edaz P\u00e9rez (Spain)Daniele Orsato (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Brazil vs Mexico\nThe teams had met in 40 previous matches including two games at CONCACAF Gold Cup finals (1996 and 2003, both won by Mexico), the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup Final (won 4\u20133 by Mexico), and four times in the FIFA World Cup group stage, three won by Brazil and one ending in a draw (4\u20130 in 1950, 5\u20130 in 1954, 2\u20130 in 1962 and 0\u20130 in 2014).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Brazil vs Mexico\nHirving Lozano's half-volley was well blocked by Miranda, while at the other end, Guillermo Ochoa saved Neymar's drive from just outside the penalty area. After 25 minutes, Neymar raced past Edson \u00c1lvarez in the area and forced Ochoa into a save with his left hand. Gabriel Jesus went close in the 33rd minute, finding space in a crowded area and drilling in a left-footed strike that Ochoa palmed away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Brazil vs Mexico\nIn the 51st minute, Neymar's back-heel on the edge of the area teed up Willian for a burst into the box and his scuffed cross from the left was slid into an empty net by Neymar from close range. With two minutes remaining, Neymar powered through on the left and his low effort was diverted by Ochoa's foot into the path of Roberto Firmino, who tapped the ball into an empty net from close range.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Brazil vs Mexico\nSince the introduction of the round of 16 in 1986, Mexico were eliminated at this stage of the World Cup seven times \u2013 more than twice as many as any other nation. This was also Mexico's fourth defeat at the hands of Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Brazil vs Mexico\nAssistant referees:Elenito Di Liberatore (Italy)Mauro Tonolini (Italy)Fourth official:Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)Reserve assistant referee:Pau Cebri\u00e1n Dev\u00eds (Spain)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Daniele Orsato (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Belgium vs Japan\nThe teams had faced each other in 5 previous matches, including one World Cup group stage match in 2002, which ended in a 2\u20132 draw. Their most recent meeting came in a friendly in 2017, a 1\u20130 Belgium win and also Belgium's first victory over Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Belgium vs Japan\nIn the 48th minute, Gaku Shibasaki slipped a pass through to Genki Haraguchi, who rifled a shot across Thibaut Courtois from the right which went into the left corner of the net. After 4 minutes, Japan scored a second, Shinji Kagawa collecting a loose ball and feeding Takashi Inui, the midfielder working himself a yard of space before arrowing home from 25-yards into the bottom right corner of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Belgium vs Japan\nJan Vertonghen's looping header from the left eluded goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima and landed in the right corner of the net after a corner caused chaos in the Japan penalty area \u2013 and five minutes later they were back on level terms. Eden Hazard twisted and turned to create space on the left wing, his cross delivered for Marouane Fellaini to climb above his marker and crash in a downward header.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0025-0002", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Belgium vs Japan\nIn the last minute of stoppage time, Courtois found Kevin De Bruyne with a long throw, who freed Thomas Meunier with a pass, Meunier squared a low cross from the right and, when Romelu Lukaku dummied the ball, substitute Nacer Chadli was on hand to complete the comeback for Belgium with a low finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Belgium vs Japan\nBelgium became the first team to come from two or more goals down to win a World Cup knockout stage match within 90 minutes since Portugal beat North Korea in the 1966 quarter-final (3\u20130 down, 5\u20133 win). Japan scored six goals at Russia 2018, their highest ever tally in a single World Cup tournament. Belgium reached the World Cup quarter-finals in successive tournaments for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Belgium vs Japan\nAssistant referees:Djibril Camara (Senegal)El Hadji Samba (Senegal)Fourth official:Bakary Gassama (Gambia)Reserve assistant referee:Jean Claude Birumushahu (Burundi)Video assistant referee:Felix Zwayer (Germany)Assistant video assistant referees:Cl\u00e9ment Turpin (France)Mark Borsch (Germany)Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Sweden vs Switzerland\nThe teams had faced each other in 28 previous matches, which included three matches in 1962 FIFA World Cup qualification, Switzerland winning twice (3\u20132 and 2\u20131) and Sweden winning once (4\u20130), and also twice in 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification, both matches ending in a 2\u20131 Sweden win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Sweden vs Switzerland\nStephan Lichtsteiner and Fabian Sch\u00e4r were both ruled out through suspension. Albin Ekdal's volley missed the target prior to the break from a Mikael Lustig cross. Ola Toivonen fired over when well positioned inside the penalty area before Emil Forsberg finally broke the deadlock, his right foot shot from just outside the penalty area clipping Manuel Akanji to beat Yann Sommer. Switzerland sent on forwards Breel Embolo and Haris Seferovic, and the latter tested Sweden goalkeeper Robin Olsen with a header in the closing stages. Sweden were denied the chance to double their lead from the spot following Michael Lang's late dismissal for taking out Martin Olsson, with Sommer beating away Toivonen's driven free-kick after a lengthy delay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Sweden vs Switzerland\nSweden qualified for their first World Cup quarter-final since 1994. Sweden won back-to-back World Cup matches for the first time since 1958, when they won the quarter-final and semi-final on their way to the final as host nation that year. Olsen kept his third clean sheet of the 2018 World Cup, a joint-record for a Swedish goalkeeper in World Cup finals history (also three clean sheets for Ronnie Hellstr\u00f6m in 1974 and Kalle Svensson in 1958).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Sweden vs Switzerland\nAssistant referees:Jure Praprotnik (Slovenia)Robert Vukan (Slovenia)Fourth official:Nawaf Shukralla (Bahrain)Reserve assistant referee:Yaser Tulefat (Bahrain)Video assistant referee:Daniele Orsato (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Roberto D\u00edaz P\u00e9rez (Spain)Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Colombia vs England\nThe teams had faced each other in five previous matches, including one World Cup group stage match in 1998, a 2\u20130 England win. Their most recent meeting came in a friendly in 2005, a 3\u20132 England win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Colombia vs England\nIn the 16th minute, Harry Kane arrived beyond the back post to meet a Kieran Trippier cross, but was unable to direct his header on target. W\u00edlmar Barrios was booked when he appeared to headbutt Jordan Henderson in the build-up to a free-kick Trippier bent narrowly wide. Colombia gave away a penalty early in the second half when Carlos S\u00e1nchez dragged Kane down in the box after a corner from the right. Kane scored from 12 yards, shooting down the middle to give England the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0033-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Colombia vs England\nColombia forced their way into extra time, Yerry Mina scoring a downward header from a Juan Cuadrado corner from the right in injury time. Eric Dier scored the final penalty in the shoot-out, with England coming back from 3\u20132 down after Mateus Uribe and Carlos Bacca failed to convert their spot-kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Colombia vs England\nThis was the first time that England had won a penalty shoot-out at the FIFA World Cup, and only the second time they had won on penalties at any major tournament (the previous occasion being against Spain at Euro 1996). Kane became the first player to score in six consecutive England appearances since Tommy Lawton did so in 1939. England conceded in injury time at the end of the second half for the first time in World Cup history, with Mina's goal coming after 92 minutes and 33 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Round of 16, Colombia vs England\nAssistant referees:Joe Fletcher (Canada)Frank Anderson (United States)Fourth official:Matthew Conger (New Zealand)Reserve assistant referee:Tevita Makasini (Tonga)Video assistant referee:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Uruguay vs France\nThe teams had met in eight previous matches including three times in the FIFA World Cup group stage, one won by Uruguay and the other two ending in a draw (2\u20131 in 1966, 0\u20130 in 2002 and 0\u20130 in 2010).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Uruguay vs France\nIn the 15th minute, after latching on to Olivier Giroud's knockdown in the box, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 headed the ball over Fernando Muslera's crossbar. Five minutes before the break, Antoine Griezmann's inswinging free kick from the right was met by Rapha\u00ebl Varane, who headed the ball into the bottom left corner. Four minutes later, Mart\u00edn C\u00e1ceres' header was saved by Hugo Lloris low to his right and Diego God\u00edn shot the rebound over. In the 61st minute, Griezmann's left footed shot from outside the penalty area slipped through Muslera's hands and into the net as France doubled their lead. Mbapp\u00e9 went down softly under a challenge from Cristian Rodr\u00edguez, prompting angry confrontations involving God\u00edn, Nahitan N\u00e1ndez and Paul Pogba. In the 73rd minute, Corentin Tolisso's shot curled over, while Griezmann also flashed a late free-kick over the top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 921]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Uruguay vs France\nFrance became only the second team to beat three different South American sides in a single World Cup tournament, after the Netherlands in 1974. This victory marked France's 10th game unbeaten in World Cup matches against South American sides (6 wins and 4 draws), since a 2\u20131 loss against Argentina in 1978 \u2013 the joint longest run alongside Italy (1982 to 2010).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Uruguay vs France\nAssistant referees:Hern\u00e1n Maidana (Argentina)Juan Pablo Belatti (Argentina)Fourth official:Alireza Faghani (Iran)Reserve assistant referee:Reza Sokhandan (Iran)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Paolo Valeri (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Brazil vs Belgium\nThe teams had met in four previous matches. Their most recent meeting came in a World Cup knockout stage match in 2002, Brazil winning 2\u20130 to advance to the quarter-finals. That match was also the only time the two sides had previously met in a World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Brazil vs Belgium\nBelgium scored from their first corner of the game in the 13th minute; Vincent Kompany flicked on Nacer Chadli's delivery, but the decisive touch came from Fernandinho, who turned the ball past Alisson via his arm. Belgium doubled their lead by breaking from a Brazil corner in the 31st minute, with Kevin De Bruyne arrowing a right foot drive across Alisson and into the left corner of the net from the edge of the penalty area after Romelu Lukaku collected the ball, turned and embarked on a 40-yard run with a pass at the end to free De Bruyne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0041-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Brazil vs Belgium\nBrazil's third change yielded a goal three minutes and 14 seconds after his introduction, Renato Augusto gliding between two Belgium defenders to nod a flicked header past Thibaut Courtois from a Philippe Coutinho cross. Coutinho's first-time shot flew wide and yet another Neymar penalty appeal was rejected, before he drew a fingertip save from Courtois in the 94th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Brazil vs Belgium\nDe Bruyne became the 100th player to score at the 2018 World Cup (excluding own goals). Belgium reached the World Cup semi-finals for only the second time, with them losing out to eventual winners Argentina in 1986. Belgium's victory was only their second ever against Brazil, and first since a 1963 friendly match in Brussels. This was the first time in 30 matches in all competitions that Brazil had conceded more than once in a game, since a 2\u20132 draw with Paraguay in March 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Brazil vs Belgium\nAssistant referees:Milovan Risti\u0107 (Serbia)Dalibor \u0110ur\u0111evi\u0107 (Serbia)Fourth official:Jair Marrufo (United States)Reserve assistant referee:Corey Rockwell (United States)Video assistant referee:Daniele Orsato (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Gil (Poland)Mark Borsch (Germany)Felix Zwayer (Germany)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Sweden vs England\nThe teams had faced each other in 23 previous matches, including two times in the group stage of the World Cup, both matches ending in a draw (1\u20131 in 2002 and 2\u20132 in 2006). Their most recent meeting came in a friendly in 2012, a 4\u20132 Sweden win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Sweden vs England\nEngland took the lead in the 30th minute, Ashley Young's outswinging corner from the left finding Harry Maguire, goalkeeper Robin Olsen and Ola Toivonen on the line unable to stop the defender's downward header. Olsen did well with a strong hand to deny Raheem Sterling, who dallied with the rebound and allowed Andreas Granqvist to make a vital block. Shortly after the restart, Jordan Pickford dived to his left to palm away a header from Marcus Berg, who climbed above Young at the back post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0045-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Sweden vs England\nIn the 58th minute, another England set-piece caused chaos and, although Sweden initially cleared their lines when Jesse Lingard delivered a cross from the right to the back post, Dele Alli was there to double his side's advantage with a header. John Guidetti teed up strike partner Berg in the 71st minute, but Pickford tipped the effort over the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Sweden vs England\nAlli's goal was England's 11th at the 2018 World Cup, equalling the country's record of most goals at a single World Cup set in 1966. Alli became the second youngest player to score for England at the World Cup (22 years and 87 days), behind only Michael Owen (18 years and 190 days against Romania in 1998). Maguire became the first defender to score the opening England goal in a World Cup knockout match since Rio Ferdinand in 2002 against Denmark. Pickford made three saves in the match and became the youngest England goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet in a World Cup match (24 years and 122 days). England qualified for their first World Cup semi-final since 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Sweden vs England\nAssistant referees:Sander van Roekel (Netherlands)Erwin Zeinstra (Netherlands)Fourth official:Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)Reserve assistant referee:Pau Cebri\u00e1n Dev\u00eds (Spain)Video assistant referee:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Felix Zwayer (Germany)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Russia vs Croatia\nThe teams had faced each other in three previous matches. Their most recent meeting came in a friendly in 2015, a 3\u20131 Croatia win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Russia vs Croatia\nIn the 31st minute, Denis Cheryshev came in from the left and, after a one-two with Artem Dzyuba, skipped away from Luka Modri\u0107 to curl a left foot effort beyond Danijel Suba\u0161i\u0107 and into the left of the net. Six minutes before half-time, Mario Mand\u017euki\u0107 advanced down the left to set up the chance for Andrej Kramari\u0107 to head home the equaliser. In the first period of extra time, Croatia took the lead as Domagoj Vida nodded down past Igor Akinfeev and into the right corner of the net after a corner from the right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0049-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Russia vs Croatia\nM\u00e1rio Fernandes drew his team level, converting Alan Dzagoev's free-kick with a glancing header to the left corner of the net after a free-kick from the right. Penalties were required and while Fyodor Smolov's Panenka attempt with the first effort was foiled by Suba\u0161i\u0107, parity was restored when Akinfeev got down to his left to keep out Mateo Kova\u010di\u0107's second kick for Croatia. After Fernandes' failure, Modri\u0107's strike found the net, following touches off Akinfeev's glove and the post. The decisive penalty fell to Ivan Rakiti\u0107, who rolled the ball into the bottom-left corner to give Croatia the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Russia vs Croatia\nRussia became the first country in World Cup history to contest two shoot-outs while hosting the event. There were three headed goals in this match \u2013 the most in a World Cup match since Germany's 8\u20130 win over Saudi Arabia in 2002 (5 headers). Croatia became the second team to win two penalty shootouts at a single World Cup tournament \u2013 the other was Argentina in 1990 (against Yugoslavia and Italy). Croatia qualified for the semi-final for the first time since 1998 (their first World Cup tournament).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Russia vs Croatia\nAssistant referees:Emerson de Carvalho (Brazil)Marcelo Van Gasse (Brazil)Fourth official:Janny Sikazwe (Zambia)Reserve assistant referee:Jerson Dos Santos (Angola)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Wilton Sampaio (Brazil)Roberto D\u00edaz P\u00e9rez (Spain)Paolo Valeri (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals\nFor the first time since 1966, all multiple World Cup winners were eliminated before the semi-final stage. This was only the second time that neither Brazil nor Germany were in the last four, the other being the inaugural 1930 tournament. With Uruguay and Brazil eliminated in the quarter-finals, an all-European semi-final line up was completed for the fifth time (after the 1934, 1966, 1982, and 2006 tournaments). This also ensured that a European side would win the World Cup for the fourth tournament in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, France vs Belgium\nThe teams had faced each other in 73 previous matches, including two times in the World Cup, France winning both matches (3\u20131 in the round of 16 in 1938 and 4\u20132 in the third place play-off in 1986). Their most recent meeting came in a friendly in 2015, a 4\u20133 Belgium win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, France vs Belgium\nEden Hazard twice went close, narrowly missing the target with a low, left-footed drive before seeing a curler with his right deflected over the crossbar by the head of Rapha\u00ebl Varane. Hugo Lloris' full-length dive kept out a first-time strike on the turn from Toby Alderweireld, while Thibaut Courtois blocked Benjamin Pavard's attempt from a tight angle on the right at the other end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0054-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, France vs Belgium\nSix minutes after the break, Vincent Kompany's block turned away Olivier Giroud's shot, and Antoine Griezmann's inswinging delivery from the right to the front post was turned in by Samuel Umtiti, who outjumped his marker, Marouane Fellaini, to head beyond Courtois. Dries Mertens's cross from the right flank saw Fellaini narrowly miss the target with a header. Axel Witsel's long-range drive was pushed away by Lloris as France secured their place into the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, France vs Belgium\nWith this match, it meant Didier Deschamps managed more games for France at the World Cup than any other previous France manager, overtaking Raymond Domenech and Michel Hidalgo. This was Belgium's first defeat of any kind since a friendly loss against Spain in September 2016. France reached their third World Cup final, also doing so in 1998 and 2006. Only Germany (8) and Italy (6) had reached more among European nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, France vs Belgium\nAssistant referees:Nicol\u00e1s Taran (Uruguay)Mauricio Espinosa (Uruguay)Fourth official:C\u00e9sar Arturo Ramos (Mexico)Reserve assistant referee:Marvin Torrentera (Mexico)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Roberto D\u00edaz P\u00e9rez (Spain)Paolo Valeri (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, Croatia vs England\nThe teams had faced each other in seven previous matches, which included two matches played in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification, England winning on both occasions (4\u20131 and 5\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, Croatia vs England\nLuka Modri\u0107 stopped a Dele Alli run, by fouling him at the edge of the area. Kieran Trippier found the top right corner of the net from the resulting free kick with his right foot. Harry Kane nearly doubled England's lead, but his close range shot deflected off Danijel Suba\u0161i\u0107's foot and onto the post. After half-time, Ivan Peri\u0161i\u0107 met \u0160ime Vrsaljko's deep cross from the right at head height with a flying, left-footed finish to the left of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0058-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, Croatia vs England\nSoon after, Peri\u0161i\u0107 shot against the right-hand post from the left before Ante Rebi\u0107 put the rebound into Jordan Pickford's hands. In extra-time, John Stones had a header cleared off the line by Vrsaljko in the 98th minute. Pickford at the other end, denied Mario Mand\u017euki\u0107 at point-blank range after the striker met Peri\u0161i\u0107's cross from the left. But Mand\u017euki\u0107 came out on top soon after the break, latching on to Peri\u0161i\u0107's headed pass on the left and sending a left-footed effort across Pickford to find the bottom-right corner, securing Croatia's entrance into their first ever World Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, Croatia vs England\nCroatia became the first team to avoid defeat after trailing in three knockout matches at a single World Cup. They became the 13th different nation to reach a World Cup final. Trippier became the first player to score a direct free-kick for England at the World Cup since David Beckham in 2006 against Ecuador. Trippier's goal after four minutes and 44 seconds was the fastest goal scored in a World Cup semi-final since 1958 (Vav\u00e1 after two minutes for Brazil v France) and was England's 12th goal in Russia, their most in a single World Cup. Croatia became the first team to play extra time in three consecutive World Cup matches since England in 1990. England scored nine goals from set-pieces at the 2018 World Cup \u2013 the most by a team in a single World Cup tournament since 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, Croatia vs England\nAssistant referees:Bahattin Duran (Turkey)Tar\u0131k Ongun (Turkey)Fourth official:Bj\u00f6rn Kuipers (Netherlands)Reserve assistant referee:Sander van Roekel (Netherlands)Video assistant referee:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Felix Zwayer (Germany)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Third place play-off\nThe two teams had met in 22 matches, including three matches at the World Cup, one round of 16 game at the 1990 FIFA World Cup which ended in a 1\u20130 victory for England, one group stage game at the 1954 FIFA World Cup which ended in a 4\u20134 draw and their most recent encounter in Group G of this tournament which Belgium won 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Third place play-off\nAfter four minutes, Thomas Meunier raced into the box to get across Danny Rose and tucked home Nacer Chadli's low cross in from the left from six yards out. Harry Kane scuffed wide of the left post, from a Raheem Sterling lay-off. In the 70th minute, Eric Dier burst through for a one-on-one and dinked over Thibaut Courtois, only to see a retreating Toby Alderweireld hack the ball off the line. Jordan Pickford made a one-handed save to deny Meunier in the 80th minute. Eden Hazard scored the second with a near-post finish with his right foot, having been sent clean through by Kevin De Bruyne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Third place play-off\nMeunier was the 10th player to score for Belgium at the 2018 World Cup. No other team had more, equalling France in 1982 and Italy in 2006. This became Belgium's best finish at a World Cup, having previously finished fourth in 1986. This was England's 100th match at a major tournament \u2013 69 at the World Cup and 31 at the European Championship. Since 1966, no player had been involved in more World Cup goals for Belgium than Hazard (seven \u2013 three goals and four assists), level with Jan Ceulemans (also four goals and three assists).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Third place play-off\nAssistant referees:Reza Sokhandan (Iran)Mohammadreza Mansouri (Iran)Fourth official:Malang Diedhiou (Senegal)Reserve assistant referee:Djibril Camara (Senegal)Video assistant referee:Mark Geiger (United States)Assistant video assistant referees:Bastian Dankert (Germany)Joe Fletcher (Canada)Paolo Valeri (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Final\nThe match was the sixth meeting between France and Croatia, with France undefeated in the previous fixtures with three wins and two draws. The two sides first met in the 1998 World Cup semi-final, with hosts France winning 2\u20131. Their only other competitive meeting was during the group stage of Euro 2004, which finished as a 2\u20132 draw. Their next and most recent meeting was in a March 2011 friendly match, which finished as a 0\u20130 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279109-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Final\nAssistant referees:Hern\u00e1n Maidana (Argentina)Juan Pablo Belatti (Argentina)Fourth official:Bj\u00f6rn Kuipers (Netherlands)Reserve assistant referee:Erwin Zeinstra (Netherlands)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referees:Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)Carlos Astroza (Chile)Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279110-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup officials\nThe following is a list of match officials (referees, assistant referees, and video assistant referees) who officiated at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279110-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup officials, Referees and assistant referees\nOn 29 March 2018, FIFA published the list of 36 referees and 63 assistant referees, on the basis of nationality, from all six football confederations for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. These were selected from a longlist of 53 trios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279110-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup officials, Referees and assistant referees\nOut of these, one referee and one assistant referee were dropped from the list and were not replaced. The two assistant referees associated with the dropped referee also withdrew, but were replaced in the roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279110-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup officials, Referees and assistant referees\nOn 12 July 2018, FIFA announced that Argentine referee N\u00e9stor Pitana would take charge of the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279110-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup officials, Video assistant referees\nOn 30 April 2018, FIFA announced 13 video assistant referees (VARs) had been appointed. For each World Cup game, there will be one VAR and three AVARs (Assistant Video Assistant Referees), each responsible for different situations. They will be supporting the main referee from the Video Operation Room based at the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) in Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279110-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup officials, Referees withdrawn and replaced\nReferee Fahad Al-Mirdasi (Saudi Arabia) was withdrawn due to attempted match-fixing at the 2018 King Cup Final. His assistant referees were also withdrawn:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279110-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup officials, Referees withdrawn and replaced\nNo referee was called up to replace Al-Mirdasi, but two assistant referees were called up to complete the referee teams of Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed (United Arab Emirates) and Ryuji Sato (Japan), respectively:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279110-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup officials, Referees withdrawn and replaced\nAssistant referee Marwa Range (Kenya) also withdrew after the BBC released an investigation conducted by a Ghanaian journalist which implicated Marwa in a bribery scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279111-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony took place on Thursday, 14 June 2018, at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia at 3:30 (BST), about a half hour before the opening match which Russia won 5\u20130 over Saudi Arabia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279111-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony, Mascots\nZabivaka\u2122 (English: \"The one who scores\"), was the official mascot for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and was voted for by a 53% margin. The design is of a wolf who represents fun, charm, and character. Former world cup winning, Brazilian striker Ronaldo was another mascot of the tournament. Ronaldo was the intended man to deliver the ceremonial first kick of the tournament but instead, he gave that honor to the child mascot who passed the official match ball to Zabivaka\u2122 in order to start the tournament. The match ball (an Adidas Telstar 18) was sent into space with the International Space Station crew in March and came back to Earth in early June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279111-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony, Speeches\nRussian President Vladimir Putin gave the opening speech of the tournament in which he talked about an \"open, hospitable and friendly\" Russia hosting the tournament. He also described Russia's love for football, calling the tournament and the game \"a unity which cannot be affected by a different language, ideology or faith\". Putin ended by saying:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279111-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony, Speeches\n\u201cOur duty is to preserve this power of humanity for generations to come for the sake of developing sports and strengthening peace and mutual understanding between people. I wish all the teams\u2019 success and an unforgettable experience for the fans. Welcome to Russia.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279111-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony, Speeches\nPutin's speech was immediately followed by a short speech from FIFA President Gianni Infantino who said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279111-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony, Speeches\n\u201cWelcome to the FIFA World Cup here in Russia. As of today, for one month, football will conquer Russia and from Russia, football will conquer the world. Enjoy the biggest celebration on earth. Thank you President Putin, thank you Moscow, Spasibo [thank you] Russia.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279111-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony, Speeches\nFollowing the two speeches the performance of the ceremony were allowed to commence before the opening match between Russia and Saudi Arabia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279111-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony, Performances\nBritish pop singer Robbie Williams took centre stage at the end of the ceremony with a rendition of \"Let Me Entertain You\" before Russian soprano Aida Garifullina was carried out on to the pitch on the back of a \"firebird\" float. Williams sang a section of \"Feel\" before he and Garifullina performed a duet of \"Angels\" as performers emerged, dressed in the flags of all 32 teams and carrying a sign bearing the name of each nation. Williams then sang \"Rock DJ\" in an encore as the pitch was being cleared for the first match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279111-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony, Performances, Controversy\nDuring the encore, Williams gave the middle finger. Fox in the US apologised for the incident. The incident was not shown on ITV in the UK who had cut away prior to the encore. In addition, while singing Rock DJ, Williams sung, \"Pimpin' ain't easy. Most of them fleece me, but I did this for free.\" The lyrics \"But I did this for free\" replaced the lyrics \"Every night\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279111-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony, Performances, Controversy\nWilliams appeared on This Morning on 19 June and explained what happened, \u201cIt was one minute to kick off, I was under a lot of pressure, because there was one minute left and I didn't know how I was going to do half a minute, so I just did a one-minute countdown [using his middle finger].\u201d Asked by presenter Phillip Schofield whether he regrets it, he said: \"Yeah, of course, yeah. I cannot trust me.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279111-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony, Performances, Controversy\nAnd the last thing I said to my manager before we sat down on the sofa here was, 'what could go wrong,' because I don't know what I'm going to do at any time. There's no, sort of, plan. The plan was, sing in key, don't fall over. That was the plan and 99% of the plan, I pulled off.\u201d When asked did the idea just enter his head he responded, \u201cNothing actually pops into my head. There's a block between me and sense... then something happens and then five minutes later, I'm like, 'Did I? Yeah, I did, didn't I?\u201d. Williams changing his lyrics \"every night\" is still unexplained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279111-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony, Dignitaries in attendance\nA total of 21 foreign heads of state attended this match. It was the largest gathering of leaders for a FIFA World Cup match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification process was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations to decide 31 of the 32 teams which would play in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, with Russia qualifying automatically as hosts. All 210 remaining FIFA member associations were eligible to enter the qualifying process, and for the first time in World Cup history, all eligible national teams registered for the preliminary competition, but Zimbabwe and Indonesia were disqualified before playing their first matches. Bhutan, South Sudan, Gibraltar and Kosovo made their FIFA World Cup qualification debuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification\nWhile the main qualifying draw took place at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, on 25 July 2015, qualification matches were played before that. The first, between Timor-Leste and Mongolia, began in Dili on 12 March 2015 as part of the AFC's qualification, with East Timorese player Chiquito do Carmo scoring the first goal in qualification. Matches were also played in CONCACAF prior to the main draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Qualification process\nThe number of teams participating in the final tournament was 32. Even though the qualification process began in March 2015, the allocation of slots for each confederation was discussed by the FIFA Executive Committee on 30 May 2015 in Z\u00fcrich after the FIFA Congress. It was decided that the same allocation as 2014 would be kept for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Qualification process, Proposal for expansion\nIn October 2013, UEFA President Michel Platini proposed that the World Cup finals should be expanded from 32 to 40 teams starting from 2018. The format would have been the same, but in groups of five instead of four. This was in response to FIFA President Sepp Blatter's comments that Africa and Asia deserved more spots in the World Cup finals at the expense of European and South American teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Qualification process, Proposal for expansion\nHowever, FIFA general secretary J\u00e9r\u00f4me Valcke said that expansion in 2018 would be \"unlikely\", while Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said that the country was \"preparing on the basis that 32 teams will be taking part.\" Expansion was ultimately delayed until 10 January 2017, when the FIFA Council voted unanimously to expand to 48 teams starting in the 2026 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Qualification process, Summary of qualification\nWhile all FIFA members entered the tournament, not all competed. Zimbabwe were expelled from the competition on 12 March 2015 for their failure to pay former coach Jos\u00e9 Claudinei a severance fee and Indonesia were excluded from the qualifying competition following the suspension of their football association by FIFA on 30 May 2015. Kuwait had a number of their qualifiers cancelled for a similar suspension that began while their campaign was underway, which eventually resulted in their elimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Qualification process, Summary of qualification\nBrazil were the first team to achieve qualification for the tournament following their 3\u20130 victory over Paraguay and Uruguay's loss to Peru on 28 March 2017. Peru became the 32nd and final team to qualify when, 233 days after Brazil secured their place, they beat New Zealand 2\u20130 on aggregate in the OFC-CONMEBOL play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Qualification process, Summary of qualification\nNote: One team each from AFC, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, and OFC played in the inter-confederation play-offs, between 10\u201315 November 2017 (CONCACAF v AFC and OFC v CONMEBOL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Format\nThe formats of the qualifying competitions depended on each confederation (see below). Each round might be played in either of the following formats:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Format, Tiebreakers\nIn league format, the ranking of teams in each group is based on the following criteria (regulations Articles 20.6 and 20.7):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Format, Tiebreakers\nIn cases where teams finishing in the same position across different groups are compared for determining which teams advance to the next stage, the criteria is decided by the confederation and require the approval of FIFA (regulations Article 20.8).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Format, Tiebreakers\nIn knockout format, the team that has the higher aggregate score over the two legs progresses to the next round. In the event that aggregate scores finish level, the away goals rule is applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs progresses. If away goals are also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time are played, divided into two fifteen-minutes halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Format, Tiebreakers\nThe away goals rule is again applied after extra time, i.e. if there are goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score is still level, the visiting team qualifies by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals are scored during extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shoot-out (regulations Article 20.9).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, AFC\nThe AFC Executive Committee meeting on 16 April 2014 approved the proposal to merge the preliminary qualification rounds of the FIFA World Cup and the AFC Asian Cup, which will be expanded to 24 teams starting in 2019:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, AFC, Final positions (third round)\nThe draw for the third round was held on 12 April 2016 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 98], "content_span": [99, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, AFC, Play-off for 5th place (fourth round)\nThe third-placed teams from each group in the third round played against each other home-and-away over two legs to determine which team advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, CAF\nThe CAF Executive Committee approved the format for the qualifiers of the 2018 FIFA World Cup on 14 January 2015. However, on 9 July 2015 FIFA officially announced that only three rounds would be played instead of four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, CAF\nZimbabwe, even though they entered the competition, were expelled on 12 March 2015 for their failure to pay former coach Jos\u00e9 Claudinei a severance fee. Therefore, only 53 African teams were involved in the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, CAF, Final positions (third round)\nThe draw for the third round was held on 24 June 2016 at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 98], "content_span": [99, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, CONCACAF\nAn amendment to the qualification process for this tournament had been suggested, which would see the first three rounds played as knockout rounds, with both the fourth round and the final round (referred to as 'The Hex') played as group stages. The first round would be played during the FIFA international dates of 23\u201331 March 2015. CONCACAF announced the full details on 12 January 2015:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, CONCACAF, Final positions (fifth round)\nThe draw for the fifth round (to decide the fixtures) was held on 8 July 2016 at the CONCACAF headquarters in Miami Beach, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 103], "content_span": [104, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, CONMEBOL\nThe qualification structure was the same as the previous five editions. The ten teams played in a league of home-and-away round-robin matches. The top four teams qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and the fifth-placed team advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs, playing the winners of the Oceania Football Confederation qualifying competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, CONMEBOL\nUnlike previous qualifying tournaments where the fixtures were pre-determined, the fixtures were decided by a draw held on 25 July 2015, at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, OFC\nThe OFC had considered different proposals of the qualifying tournament. A previous proposal adopted by the OFC in October 2014 would have the eight teams divided into two groups of four teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches in the second round, followed by the top two teams of each group advancing to the third round to play in a single group of home-and-away round-robin matches to decide the winners of the 2016 OFC Nations Cup which would qualify to the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and advance to the inter-confederation play-offs. However, it was later reported in April 2015 that the OFC had reversed its decision, and the 2016 OFC Nations Cup was played as a one-off tournament similar to the 2012 OFC Nations Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, OFC, Final positions (third round)\nThe draw for the third round was held on 8 July 2016 at the OFC headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 98], "content_span": [99, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, OFC, Final positions (third round)\nFinalThe draw for the final (which decided the order of legs) was held on 15 June 2017 at the OFC headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. The winners of the final advanced to inter-confederation play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 98], "content_span": [99, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, UEFA\nRussia qualified automatically as hosts. The qualifying format for the remaining FIFA-affiliated UEFA teams was confirmed by the UEFA Executive Committee meeting on 22\u201323 March 2015 in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, UEFA, Final positions (first round)\nThe draw for the first round was held on 25 July 2015, at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 99], "content_span": [100, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, UEFA, Final positions (first round)\nIn deciding the eight best runners-up, the matches against the sixth-placed team in each group were discarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 99], "content_span": [100, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, UEFA, Play-offs (second round)\nThe draw for the second round (play-offs) was held on 17 October 2017 at the FIFA headquarters in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. The winners of each tie qualified for the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Inter-confederation play-offs\nThere were two inter-confederation playoffs to determine the final two qualification spots for the finals. The first legs were played on 10 and 11 November 2017, and the second legs were played on 15 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Inter-confederation play-offs\nThe matchups were decided at the preliminary draw which was held on 25 July 2015, at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Top goalscorers\nThere were 2454 goals scored in 872 matches, for an average of 2.81 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279112-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Top goalscorers\nFor each confederation and inter-confederation play-offs, see sections in each article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)\nThe Asian section of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, held in Russia, for national teams which were members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). 4.5 slots (four direct slots and one inter-confederation play-off slot) in the final tournament were available for AFC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)\nOn 16 April 2014, the AFC Executive Committee approved a proposal to merge the preliminary qualification rounds of the FIFA World Cup and the AFC Asian Cup, which expanded to 24 teams starting in 2019. Therefore, the first two rounds of the FIFA World Cup qualifiers also acted as qualifiers for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC), Entrants\nThe 46 FIFA-affiliated nations from the AFC entered qualification. In order to determine which nations would compete in the first round and which nations would receive a bye through to the second round, the FIFA World Rankings of January 2015 were used (shown in parentheses), as those were the latest published rankings prior to the first round draw. The FIFA Rankings of January 2015 were also used for seeding of the first round draw; however, for seeding in the second round and third round draws, the most recent FIFA Rankings prior to those draws were used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC), Schedule\nThe inter-confederation play-offs were scheduled to be played between 6\u201314 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC), First round\nThe draw for the first round was held on 10 February 2015, 15:30 MST (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC), Second round\nThe draw for the second round was held on 14 April 2015, at 17:00 MST (UTC+8), at the JW Marriott Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC), Second round, Ranking of runner-up teams\nTo determine the four best runner-up teams, the following criteria were used:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC), Second round, Ranking of runner-up teams\nAs a result of Indonesia being disqualified due to FIFA suspension, Group F contained only four teams compared to five teams in all other groups. Therefore, the results against the fifth-placed team were not counted when determining the ranking of the runner-up teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC), Third round\nThe third round consisted of two groups of six teams. The first two teams in each group qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The two third-placed teams proceeded to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC), Third round\nThe draw for the third round was held on 12 April 2016, at 16:30 MST (UTC+8), at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC), Fourth round\nThe two third-placed teams in each group from the third round played against each other home-and-away over two legs to determine which team advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC), Fourth round\nThe order of legs was announced during the draw for the third round. Syria played their home match, as with all their home matches in the third round, in Malaysia due to the war time condition in Syria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC), Intercontinental play-offs\nThe draw for the inter-confederation play-offs was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg. The fifth-placed team from AFC was drawn against the fourth-placed team from CONCACAF, with the AFC team hosting the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279113-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC), Qualified teams\nThe following five teams from AFC qualified for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279114-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)\nThe African section of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, held in Russia, for national teams which were members of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). A total of five slots in the final tournament were available for CAF teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279114-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)\nThe CAF Executive Committee approved the format for the qualifiers of the 2018 FIFA World Cup on 14 January 2015, with three preliminary rounds before a final group stage featuring 20 teams. The number of preliminary rounds was reduced to two, based on information provided by FIFA in early July 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279114-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF), Entrants\nAll 54 FIFA-affiliated football associations from CAF entered qualification. However, Zimbabwe were expelled from the competition on 12 March 2015 due to their failure to pay former coach Jos\u00e9 Claudinei a severance fee, a decision that the Zimbabwe Football Association unsuccessfully appealed against.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279114-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF), Entrants\nThe July 2015 FIFA Rankings were used to seed the teams for the first two rounds, both of which were drawn in Russia on 25 July 2015. (World rankings shown in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279114-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF), Entrants\nNote: Niger had to enter the first round as they had fewer FIFA ranking points (345.31) than Benin (345.46) and Libya (345.35). In the FIFA World Rankings, teams share the same ranking if their ranking points round to the same whole number.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279114-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF), First round\nThe draw for the first round was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279114-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF), Second round\nThe draw for the second round was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279114-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF), Third round\nThe draw for the third round was held on 24 June 2016, 17:00 EET (UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279114-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF), Qualified teams\nThe following five teams from CAF qualified for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279114-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF), Fan behaviour\nAfter Morocco qualified for the tournament with a 2\u20130 victory over Ivory Coast, the celebrations by the Moroccan community in Brussels turned into a riot with cars burnt, shops looted by some 300 rioters and 20 police officers injured. Firefighters sent to put out the fires were also attacked by the rioters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)\nThe North, Central American and Caribbean section of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, for national teams which are members of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF). 3.5 slots (3 direct slots and 1 inter-confederation play-off slot) in the final tournament were available for CONCACAF teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)\nIn a change to previous qualification tournaments for this confederation, the first three rounds were played as knockout rounds, with both the fourth round and the final round (referred to as the \"Hexagonal\") played as group stages. The first round was played during the FIFA international dates of 23\u201331 March 2015. CONCACAF announced the full format details on 12 January 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)\nThe United States failed to qualify for the World Cup finals for the first time since 1986 after a surprise defeat by Trinidad and Tobago. As a result, Panama reached the World Cup for the first time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF), Entrants\nAll 35 FIFA-affiliated national teams from CONCACAF entered qualification. The seeding \u2013 used to draw the first four rounds of the qualifiers \u2013 was based on the FIFA World Rankings of August 2014 (shown in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF), Schedule\nThe inter-confederation play-offs were scheduled to be played between 6\u201314 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF), First round\nThe draw for the first round was held on 15 January 2015, 19:40 EST (UTC\u22125), at the W Hotel at Miami Beach, Florida, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF), Second round\nThe draw for the second round was held on 15 January 2015, 19:40 EST (UTC\u22125), at the W Hotel at Miami Beach, Florida, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF), Third round\nThe draw for the third round was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF), Fourth round\nThe draw for the fourth round was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF), Fifth round\nAs with every World Cup qualification campaign since 1998, CONCACAF held a six-team, home-and-away round-robin group known as the 'Hexagonal', or 'Hex', as its final and decisive round. As a result of the abolition of the February and August fixtures from the FIFA calendar, the 'Hex' for the first time was not contained within a single calendar year, but instead began in November 2016 and concluded in October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF), Fifth round\nThe draw for the fifth round (to decide the fixtures) was held on 8 July 2016, 10:00 EDT (UTC\u22124), at the CONCACAF headquarters in Miami Beach, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF), Inter-confederation play-offs\nThe draw for the inter-confederation play-offs was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg. The fourth-placed team from CONCACAF was drawn against the fifth-placed team from Asian Football Confederation (AFC), with the CONCACAF team hosting the first leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF), Qualified teams\nThe following three teams from CONCACAF qualified for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279115-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF), Top goalscorers\nThere were 319 goals scored in 112 matches, for an average of 2.85 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279116-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF\u2013AFC play-off)\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup CONCACAF\u2013AFC qualification play-off was a two-legged home-and-away tie between the fourth-placed team from the CONCACAF Fifth Round, Honduras, and the winner of the AFC Fourth Round play-off, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279116-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF\u2013AFC play-off)\nThe matches were played on 10 and 15 November 2017. After a 0\u20130 draw in the opening leg at Estadio Ol\u00edmpico Metropolitano, Australia defeated Honduras 3\u20131 in the second leg at Stadium Australia, winning the tie by the same margin on aggregate. Australia therefore qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals, reaching the tournament for the fifth time, and fourth in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279116-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF\u2013AFC play-off), Overview\nThe play-off marked the sixth inter-confederation play-off participation for Australia after previously defeating Uruguay in 2005, losing to Uruguay in 2001, losing to Iran in 1997, losing to Argentina after defeating Canada in 1993, and losing to Scotland in 1985. This was also their first play-off appearance as an AFC member.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279116-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF\u2013AFC play-off), Overview\nThis was Honduras' first participation in the inter-confederation play-offs; they finished fourth in the final round of the CONCACAF qualification after the United States lost to Trinidad and Tobago 2\u20131, which caused the United States to not qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279116-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF\u2013AFC play-off), Overview\nThe draw for the order in which the two matches would be played was held by FIFA on 25 July 2015 at the World Cup Preliminary Draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279116-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF\u2013AFC play-off), First leg\nAssistant referees:Lorenzo Manganelli (Italy)Riccardo di Fiore (Italy)Fourth official:Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 68], "content_span": [69, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279116-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF\u2013AFC play-off), Second leg\nAssistant referees:Hern\u00e1n Maidana (Argentina)Juan Pablo Belatti (Argentina)Fourth official:Patricio Loustau (Argentina)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279117-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)\nThe South American section of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup held in Russia, for national teams which are members of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL). A total of 4.5 slots (4 direct slots and 1 inter-confederation play-off slot) in the final tournament were available for CONMEBOL teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279117-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)\nTwo-time defending Copa Am\u00e9rica champions Chile did not qualify for 2018 FIFA World Cup after a 3\u20130 loss to Brazil on the final day of qualifying campaign, resulting in a sixth-place finish. As a result following intercontinental play-offs against the record five-time OFC Nations Cup champions New Zealand, Peru qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279117-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL), Format\nThe qualification structure was the same as for the previous five tournaments. The ten teams played in a league of home-and-away round-robin matches. The top four teams qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and the fifth-placed team advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279117-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL), Format\nUnlike previous qualifying tournaments where the fixtures were pre-determined, the fixtures were determined by draw, which was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279117-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL), Format\nFor scheduling reasons, Argentina and Brazil were automatically positioned as Teams 4 and 5 respectively to ensure that no team has to play both of them on any double matchday. The remaining eight teams were drawn into one of the remaining eight positions from Teams 1 to 10 (except 4 and 5).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279117-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL), Entrants\nNote: Bolded teams qualified for the World Cup. Peru advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs and won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279117-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL), Schedule\nThere were a total of 18 matchdays: four in 2015, eight in 2016, and six in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279117-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL), Schedule\nThe inter-confederation play-offs were scheduled to be played between 6\u201314 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279117-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL), Schedule\nThe fixtures for CONMEBOL qualification were decided based on the draw positions, as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279117-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL), Inter-confederation play-offs\nThe draw for the inter-confederation play-offs was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg. The fifth-placed team from CONMEBOL was drawn against the first-placed team from OFC, with the CONMEBOL team hosting the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279117-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL), Qualified teams\nThe following five teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279118-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)\nThe Oceanian section of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, for national teams which are members of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC). A total of 0.5 slots (i.e. 1 inter-confederation play-off slot) in the final tournament was available for OFC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279118-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)\nThe 2016 edition of the OFC Nations Cup once again doubled as the second round of the OFC qualifying competition for the 2018 FIFA World Cup (similar to the 2012 OFC Nations Cup and the OFC qualifying competition for the 2014 FIFA World Cup). Unlike in 2012, however, the team that won the qualifying competition and advanced to the intercontinental play-off, New Zealand, was the same team that also won the OFC Nations Cup and represented the OFC at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279118-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC), Format\nThe OFC had considered different proposals of the qualifying tournament. A previous proposal adopted by the OFC in October 2014 had the eight teams divided into two groups of four teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches in the second round, followed by the top two teams of each group advancing to the third round to play in a single group of home-and-away round-robin matches to decide the winner of the 2016 OFC Nations Cup which would both qualify to the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and advance to the inter-confederation play-offs. However, it was later reported in April 2015 that the OFC had reversed its decision, and the 2016 OFC Nations Cup will be played as a one-off tournament similar to the 2012 OFC Nations Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279118-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC), Entrants\nAll 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC entered qualification. The four lowest ranked teams (based on FIFA World Ranking and sporting reasons) entered the first round, while the other seven teams entered the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279118-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC), Schedule\nThe inter-confederation play-offs were scheduled to be played between 6\u201314 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279118-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC), First round\nThe match schedule was revealed on 30 July 2015, following a draw held at OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279118-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC), Second round\nThe draw for the second round was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279118-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC), Second round, Knockout stage\nWhile the results of the OFC Nations Cup knockout stage matches have no effect on the teams qualified for the third round of World Cup qualifying, for statistical purposes these matches are considered part of World Cup qualifying, with FIFA counting goalscorers in the qualifying statistics, and cards given may contribute to suspensions in the third round of World Cup qualifying (similar to the setup for 2014 World Cup qualifying).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279118-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC), Third round\nThe draw for the third round was held on 8 July 2016, 11:00 NZST (UTC+12), at the OFC headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279118-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC), Third round, Final\nThe draw for the final (which decided the order of legs) was held on 15 June 2017, 16:00 NZST (UTC+12), at the OFC headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279118-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC), Third round, Final\nThe winner of the final advanced to inter-confederation play-offs. Dates were set for the two-legged final as being between 28 August and 5 September 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279118-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC), Inter-confederation play-offs\nThe draw for the inter-confederation play-offs was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg. The first-placed team from OFC was drawn against the fifth-placed team from CONMEBOL, with the OFC team hosting the first leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279119-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC\u2013CONMEBOL play-off)\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup OFC\u2013CONMEBOL qualification play-off was a two-legged home-and-away tie between the winning team of the OFC Third Round, New Zealand, and the fifth-placed team from the CONMEBOL qualifying tournament, Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279119-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC\u2013CONMEBOL play-off)\nThe matches were played on 11 and 15 November 2017. Peru emerged victorious and qualified for the finals of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279119-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC\u2013CONMEBOL play-off), Overview\nThe play-off marked the third consecutive intercontinental play-off participation for New Zealand after previously losing to Mexico in 2013 and defeating Bahrain in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279119-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC\u2013CONMEBOL play-off), Overview\nThis was Peru's first participation in the inter-confederation play-offs. They previously qualified for the World Cup in 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279119-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC\u2013CONMEBOL play-off), Overview\nThe draw for the order in which the two matches would be played was held by FIFA on 25 July 2015 at the World Cup Preliminary Draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279119-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC\u2013CONMEBOL play-off), First leg\nAssistant referees:Joe Fletcher (Canada)Frank Anderson (United\u00a0States)Fourth official:Jair Marrufo (United\u00a0States)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 68], "content_span": [69, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)\nThe European section of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which was held in Russia, for national teams that are members of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). Apart from Russia, who qualified automatically as hosts, a total of 13 slots in the final tournament were available for UEFA teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)\nThe qualifying format was confirmed by the UEFA Executive Committee meeting on 22\u201323 March 2015 in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)\nThe qualification process started on 4 September 2016, almost two months after UEFA Euro 2016, and ended on 14 November 2017. Belgium, England, France, Germany, Iceland (for the first time), Poland, Portugal, Serbia, and Spain qualified in the first round by winning their groups. Croatia, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland qualified by winning their playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)\nFour-time champions Italy did not qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, missing out on qualification for the first time since 1958 after losing in the playoffs to Sweden, while the three-time FIFA World Cup runners-up Netherlands did not qualify for the tournament for the first time since 2002 after finishing third in 2014, and second in 2010. Iceland, with 335,000 inhabitants, became the smallest country ever to qualify for a FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Entrants\nApart from Russia, which qualified automatically as hosts, all remaining 52 FIFA-affiliated national teams from UEFA at the registration deadline of January 2015 entered qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Entrants\nGibraltar, despite being a UEFA member since 2013, was not a FIFA member at the time of the registration deadline, and thus was not eligible to enter qualification for the FIFA World Cup. They appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to challenge FIFA's refusal to grant membership in order to enter World Cup qualifying. In May 2016, the CAS found in Gibraltar's favour and ordered that FIFA put Gibraltar forward for FIFA membership, which would permit Gibraltar to take part in the qualifiers if membership was granted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Entrants\nKosovo became a UEFA member on 3 May 2016, and together with Gibraltar, applied for membership in the FIFA Congress in 12\u201313 May 2016. FIFA confirmed that in the case both associations succeeded in becoming a member, they would be entitled to participate in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, with UEFA tasked to integrate them into the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Entrants\nOn 13 May 2016, both Kosovo and Gibraltar were officially admitted as FIFA members, thus allowing them to compete. UEFA created a task force to discuss how to integrate the two teams into the competition, and on 9 June 2016 UEFA announced that Kosovo would be assigned to Group I, to avoid meeting Bosnia and Herzegovina for security reasons, and Gibraltar would play in Group H.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Format\nQualifying matches started in September 2016, following UEFA Euro 2016, and finished in November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Format\nThe scheduling of qualifying matches, which were centralised by UEFA, followed the \"Week of Football\" concept first used for UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Format\nThe fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 26 July 2015, the day following the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), First round, Seeding\nThe draw for the first round (group stage) was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), First round, Seeding\nThe seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of July 2015. The 52 teams were seeded into six pots:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), First round, Seeding\nEach six-team group contained one team from each of the six pots, while each five-team group contained one team from each of the first five pots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), First round, Seeding\nDue to the centralisation of media rights for European qualifiers, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands were all drawn into six-team groups. Netherlands and France were drawn together in Group A, and Spain and Italy were drawn together in Group G.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), First round, Seeding\nIn consideration of the delicate political situations of the relationships between Armenia and Azerbaijan, UEFA requested that FIFA maintain the current UEFA policy not to draw these teams into the same qualification groups (since the two teams were in the same seeding pot, this would not have happened regardless of the request).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), First round, Seeding\nTeams in bold eventually qualified for the final tournament, teams in bold italic qualified for the final tournament through the play-offs, and teams in italic participated in the play-offs but did not qualify for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), First round, Seeding\nThe football associations of Gibraltar and Kosovo became members of FIFA following the draw but before any games had been played. As both associations became eligible to compete in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, on 9 June 2016 it was decided Gibraltar would join Group H and Kosovo would join Group I, the only groups with five teams. In addition, it was decided that Kosovo could not play against Bosnia and Herzegovina or Serbia for security reasons, due to the disputed political status of Kosovo. Gibraltar and Spain had previously been kept separate from each other in UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying as a result of the disputed status of Gibraltar. All nine groups then had six teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), First round, Seeding\nThe hosts Russia were to be partnered with five-team Group H for friendlies. However, with the admission of Kosovo and Gibraltar, all groups were filled to contain six teams and the Russia friendlies against Group H teams were cancelled. UEFA vice-president Hryhoriy Surkis said that the UEFA management would deal with the issue of finding opponents for Russia to play friendlies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), First round, Ranking of second-placed teams\nWhen the draw was made groups H and I had one team fewer than the other groups so it was decided that matches against the last-placed team in each of the six-team groups would not be included in the ranking of the second-placed teams. Even after the admission of Kosovo and Gibraltar, and with all groups now containing six teams, this rule did not change and matches against the sixth-placed team in all groups were still discarded. As a result, only eight matches played by each team were counted in the second-placed table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), First round, Ranking of second-placed teams\nThe eight best runners-up were determined by the following parameters, in this order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Second round\nThe eight best group runners-up contested the second round, where they were paired into four two-legged (home-and-away) fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Second round, Seeding and draw\nThe draw for the second round (play-offs) was held on 17 October 2017, 14:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the FIFA headquarters in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. The eight teams were seeded by FIFA World Rankings published on 16 October 2017, rather than qualifying record, with the top four teams in Pot 1, and the remaining four teams in Pot 2. It so happened that the top four teams by qualifying record were the same as the top four by FIFA World Ranking. Teams from Pot 1 played teams from Pot 2 on a home and away basis, with the order of legs decided by draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Second round, Seeding and draw\nNorthern Ireland (23)\u00a0Sweden (25)\u00a0Republic of Ireland (26)\u00a0Greece (47)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Second round, Matches\nThe first legs were played on 9\u201311 November, and the second legs were played on 12\u201314 November 2017. The winners of each tie qualified for the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Qualified teams\nThe following 14 teams from UEFA qualified for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279120-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Branding\nUEFA unveiled the branding for the qualifiers on 15 April 2013. It shows a national jersey inside a heart, and represents Europe, honour and ambition. The same branding was also used for the European qualifiers for the UEFA Euro 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279121-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs)\nFor the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, there were two scheduled inter-confederation play-offs to determine the final two qualification spots to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The matches were originally scheduled to be played between 6\u201314 November 2017, and later confirmed to take place between 10\u201315 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279121-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs), Format\nThe draw for the inter-confederation play-offs was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 73], "content_span": [74, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279121-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs), Format\nThe four teams from the four confederations (AFC, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, and OFC) were drawn into two ties. There was no seeding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 73], "content_span": [74, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279121-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs), Format\nIn each tie, the two teams played a two-legged home-and-away series. The two winners, decided on aggregate score, qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule was applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 73], "content_span": [74, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279121-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs), Format\nThe away goals rule would again be applied after extra time, i.e. if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team would advance by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie would be decided by a penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 73], "content_span": [74, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279121-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs), Matches\nThe first legs were played on 10 and 11 November 2017, and the second legs were played on 15 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 74], "content_span": [75, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279121-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs), Matches, CONCACAF v AFC\nAustralia won 3\u20131 on aggregate and qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 90], "content_span": [91, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279121-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs), Matches, OFC v CONMEBOL\nPeru won 2\u20130 on aggregate and qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 90], "content_span": [91, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279122-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC First Round\nThe first round of AFC matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (and 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification) was played from 12 to 23 March 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279122-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC First Round, Format\nA total of twelve teams (teams ranked 35\u201346 in the AFC entrant list) played home-and-away over two legs. The six winners advanced to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279122-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC First Round, Seeding\nThe draw for the first round was held on 10 February 2015, 15:30 MST (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279122-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC First Round, Seeding\nThe seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of January 2015 (shown in parentheses below). The 12 teams were seeded into two pots:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279122-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC First Round, Seeding\nEach tie contained a team from Pot A and a team from Pot B, with the team from Pot A hosting the first leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279122-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC First Round, Matches\nIndia won 2\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279122-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC First Round, Matches\nYemen won 3\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279122-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC First Round, Matches\nTimor-Leste won the first leg 4\u20131 and the second leg 1\u20130, thus winning 5\u20131 on aggregate and advancing to the Second Round. On 12 December 2017 FIFA awarded both matches 3\u20130 to Mongolia due to Timor-Leste fielding numerous ineligible players. However, this was long after the Second Round had been played, so Timor-Leste advanced and Mongolia were not reinstated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279122-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC First Round, Matches\nCambodia won 4\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279122-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC First Round, Matches\nChinese Taipei won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279122-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC First Round, Matches\nBhutan won 3\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279122-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC First Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 24 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 64], "content_span": [65, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279123-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Fourth Round\nThe fourth round of AFC matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 5 to 10 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279123-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Fourth Round, Format\nIn the fourth round, the third-placed teams from the two third round groups competed in a two-legged home-and-away play-off. The winners advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs against the fourth-placed team from the CONCACAF fifth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279123-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Fourth Round, Format\nThe order of legs was pre-determined by the AFC, announced during the draw for the third round. The third-placed team from Group A would host the first leg, while the third-placed team from Group B would host the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279123-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Fourth Round, Matches\nAustralia won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279123-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Fourth Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 5 goals scored in 2 matches, for an average of 2.5 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 65], "content_span": [66, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279124-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Second Round\nThe second round of AFC matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (and 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification) was played from 24 May 2015 to 29 March 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279124-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Second Round, Format\nA total of forty teams (teams ranked 1\u201334 in the AFC entrant list and six first round winners) were divided into eight groups of five teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The eight group winners and the four best group runners-up advanced to the third round of FIFA World Cup qualification as well as qualify for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279124-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Second Round, Format\nA total of 24 teams eliminated from World Cup qualification in the second round competed in the third round of 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification (which was separated from the third round of 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification), where they were divided into six groups of four teams and competed for the remaining slots of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. The 24 teams consisted of the sixteen highest ranked teams eliminated in the second round, and the eight teams that advanced from the play-off round of 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification which were contested by the remaining twelve teams eliminated in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279124-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Second Round, Seeding\nThe draw for the second round was held on 14 April 2015, at 17:00 MST (UTC+8), at the JW Marriott Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279124-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Second Round, Seeding\nThe seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of April 2015 (shown in parentheses below). The 40 teams were seeded into five pots:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279124-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Second Round, Seeding\nEach group contained one team from each of the five pots. The fixtures of each group were automatically decided based on the respective pot of each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279124-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Second Round, Seeding\nAs the seeding order was based on the most recent FIFA Rankings prior to the draw, it differed from the order in the AFC entrant list, which was based on the FIFA World Rankings of January 2015. Among the six first round winners, three were seeded higher than pot 5 (India in pot 3, Timor-Leste and Bhutan in pot 4), on the basis of ranking points gained from the first round matches, while the other three (Yemen, Cambodia and Chinese Taipei) were seeded in pot 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279124-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Second Round, Groups, Group F\nIndonesia was also drawn into this group, but on 30 May 2015 the country's football association was suspended due to governmental interference, and on 3 June 2015 the team was disqualified and all matches involving it were cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 69], "content_span": [70, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279124-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Second Round, Ranking of runner-up teams\nTo determine the four best runner-up teams, the following criteria were used:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279124-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Second Round, Ranking of runner-up teams\nAs a result of Indonesia being disqualified by FIFA suspension, Group F contained only four teams compared to five teams in all other groups. Therefore, the results against the fifth-placed team were not counted when determining the ranking of the runner-up teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279124-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Second Round, Ranking of fourth-placed teams\nTo determine the four best fourth-placed teams, the following criteria were used:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 84], "content_span": [85, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279124-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Second Round, Ranking of fourth-placed teams\nAs a result of Indonesia being disqualified by FIFA suspension, Group F contained only four teams compared to five teams in all other groups. Therefore, the results against the fifth-placed team were not counted when determining the ranking of the fourth-placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 84], "content_span": [85, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279124-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Second Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 507 goals scored in 152 matches, for an average of 3.34 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 65], "content_span": [66, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279125-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Third Round\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Mediocre Legacy (talk | contribs) at 23:25, 15 June 2021 (\u2192\u200eGoalscorers: Fix). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279125-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Third Round\nThe third round of AFC matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 1 September 2016 to 5 September 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279125-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Third Round, Format\nA total of twelve teams which advanced from the second round (the eight group winners and the four best group runners-up) were divided into two groups of six teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The top two teams of each group qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and the two third-placed teams advanced to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279125-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Third Round, Seeding\nThe draw for the third round was held on 12 April 2016, at 16:30 MST (UTC+8), at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279125-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Third Round, Seeding\nThe seeding were based on the FIFA World Rankings of April 2016 (shown in parentheses below). The twelve teams were seeded into six pots:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279125-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Third Round, Seeding\nEach group contained one team from each of the six pots. The fixtures of each group were automatically decided based on the respective pot of each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279125-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Third Round, Seeding\nNote: Bolded teams qualified for the World Cup. Italicised teams qualified for the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279125-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 AFC Third Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 129 goals scored in 60 matches, for an average of 2.15 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 64], "content_span": [65, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round\nThe first round of CAF matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 7 to 17 October 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Format\nA total of 26 teams (teams ranked 28\u201353 in the CAF entrant list) played home-and-away over two legs. The 13 winners advanced to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Seeding\nThe draw for the first round was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Seeding\nThe seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of July 2015 (shown in parentheses). The 26 teams are seeded into two pots:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Seeding\nEach tie contained a team from Pot 4 and a team from Pot 5, with the team from Pot 4 hosting the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Matches\nNiger won 6\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Cameroon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Matches\nMauritania won 5\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Tunisia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Matches\nNamibia won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Guinea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Matches\nEthiopia won 3\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Congo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Matches\n2\u20132 on aggregate. Chad won on the away goals rule and advanced to the second round against Egypt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Matches\n1\u20131 on aggregate. Comoros won on the away goals rule and advanced to the second round against Ghana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Matches\nSwaziland won 8\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Nigeria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Matches\nBotswana won 5\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Mali.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Matches\nBurundi won 3\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against DR Congo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Matches\nLiberia won 4\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Ivory Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Matches\nMadagascar won 5\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Senegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Matches\nKenya won 5\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Cape Verde.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Matches\nTanzania won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Algeria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279126-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF First Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 68 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.62 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 64], "content_span": [65, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round\nThe second round of CAF matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 11 to 17 November 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Format\nA total of 40 teams (teams ranked 1\u201327 in the CAF entrant list and 13 first round winners) played home-and-away over two legs. The 20 winners advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Seeding\nThe draw for the second round was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Seeding\nThe seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of July 2015 (shown in parentheses). The 27 direct qualifiers are seeded into three pots:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Seeding\nEach tie contained a team from Pot 1 and a first round winner (first 13 ties) which were automatically allocated into each tie (winner of first round tie 1 into second round tie 1, etc. ), or a team from Pot 2 and a team from Pot 3 (last seven ties), with the team from Pot 1 or Pot 2 hosting the second leg. As the draw was held before the first round was played, the identities of the first round winners were not known at the time of the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nCameroon won 3\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nTunisia won 4\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nGuinea won 3\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nCongo won 6\u20134 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nEgypt won 4\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nGhana won 2\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nNigeria won 2\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nMali won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nDR Congo won 6\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nIvory Coast won 4\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nSenegal won 5\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nCape Verde won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nAlgeria won 9\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nZambia won 3\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nLibya won 4\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nMorocco won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\n1\u20131 on aggregate. Gabon won the penalty shoot-out 4\u20133 and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nBurkina Faso won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nUganda won 4\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Matches\nSouth Africa won 4\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279127-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Second Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 97 goals scored in 40 matches, for an average of 2.43 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 65], "content_span": [66, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279128-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Third Round\nThe third round of CAF matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 7 October 2016 to 14 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279128-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Third Round, Format\nA total of 20 teams which had advanced from the second round were drawn into five groups of four teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The winners of each group qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279128-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Third Round, Seeding\nThe draw for the third round was held on 24 June 2016, 17:00 EET (UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279128-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Third Round, Seeding\nThe seedings \u2013 initially released on 8 June 2016 \u2013 were based on a special edition of the FIFA World Rankings that included all matches up to 7 June 2016. This allowed the rankings to include results of the Africa Cup of Nations qualification games played between 3\u20135 June 2016. However, following a complaint by the Egyptian Football Association, it was reported that a further special ranking would be used. This seeding was released on 21 June. Following further complaints, the Emergency Bureau for the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers reversed the change, and restored the initial special rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279128-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Third Round, Seeding\nEach group contained one team from each of the four pots. The fixtures of each group were decided based on the respective draw position of each team, which was decided by drawing a ball with position numbers 1\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279128-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CAF Third Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 144 goals scored in 61 matches, for an average of 2.36 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 64], "content_span": [65, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279129-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Fifth Round\nThe fifth round (also known as the Hexagonal or Hex) of CONCACAF matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 11 November 2016 to 10 October 2017. Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, while Honduras qualified for (and was later eliminated in) the inter-confederation play-offs. The United States (who failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 32 years) and Trinidad and Tobago were eliminated in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279129-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Fifth Round, Format\nA total of six teams which had advanced from the fourth round (the three group winners and the three group runners-up) played against each other home-and-away in a double round-robin format in a single group. The top three teams in the group qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and the fourth-placed team advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs to face the fifth-placed team from the AFC. This stage is referred to as the Hexagonal or Hex, and has been used by CONCACAF to determine its World Cup finals entrants since the qualification tournament for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. The United States, Mexico, and Costa Rica have qualified for every \"Hex\" since it first began in 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 64], "content_span": [65, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279129-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Fifth Round, Format\nThe draw for the fifth round (to decide the fixtures) was held on 8 July 2016, 10:00 EDT (UTC\u22124), at the CONCACAF headquarters in Miami Beach, United States. As the draw was held before the fourth round was completed, the identities of the fourth round qualifiers were not known at the time of the draw, except for Mexico which were by then already confirmed as winners of Group A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 64], "content_span": [65, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279129-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Fifth Round, Qualified teams\nThe draw position of each team (to decide the fixtures) was as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 73], "content_span": [74, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279129-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Fifth Round, Qualified teams\nNote: Bolded teams qualified for the World Cup. Italicised team advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279129-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Fifth Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 76 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.53 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 69], "content_span": [70, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279130-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF First Round\nThe first round of CONCACAF matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification was played between 22 and 31 March 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279130-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF First Round, Format\nA total of 14 teams (teams ranked 22\u201335 in the CONCACAF entrant list) played home-and-away over two legs. The seven winners advanced to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 64], "content_span": [65, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279130-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF First Round, Seeding\nThe draw for the first round was held on 15 January 2015, 19:40 EST (UTC\u22125), at the W Hotel at Miami Beach, Florida, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279130-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF First Round, Seeding\nThe seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of August 2014 (shown in parentheses). The 14 teams were seeded into two pots:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279130-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF First Round, Seeding\nEach tie contained a team from Pot 1 and a team from Pot 2, with the order of legs decided by draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279130-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF First Round, Matches\nBermuda won 8\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Bahamas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279130-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF First Round, Matches\nDominica won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against British Virgin Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279130-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF First Round, Matches\nBarbados won 4\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against U.S. Virgin Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279130-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF First Round, Matches\nSaint Kitts and Nevis won 12\u20134 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Turks and Caicos Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279130-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF First Round, Matches\nNicaragua won 8\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Anguilla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279130-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF First Round, Matches\n1\u20131 on aggregate. Belize won on the away goals rule and advanced to the second round against Dominican Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279130-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF First Round, Matches\nCura\u00e7ao won 4\u20133 on aggregate and advanced to the second round against Montserrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279130-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF First Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 51 goals scored in 14 matches, for an average of 3.64 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 69], "content_span": [70, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279131-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Fourth Round\nThe fourth round of CONCACAF matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 13 November 2015 to 6 September 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279131-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Fourth Round, Format\nA total of 12 teams (teams ranked 1 to 6 in the CONCACAF entrant list and 6 third round winners) were divided into three groups of four teams each. In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format for a total of six matches per team. The top two teams of each group (three group winners and three runners-up) advanced to the fifth round (also called the 'Hexagonal' or 'Hex').", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279131-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Fourth Round, Seeding\nThe draw for the fourth round was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279131-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Fourth Round, Seeding\nThe seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of August 2014 (shown in parentheses). The six direct qualifiers are seeded into two pots:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279131-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Fourth Round, Seeding\nEach group contained a team from Pot 1, a team from Pot 2, and two third round winners which were automatically allocated into each group (series winners 1 and 2 into Group A, series winners 3 and 4 into Group B, series winners 5 and 6 into Group C). As the draw was held before the third round was played, the identities of the third round winners were not known at the time of the draw. The fixtures of each group were automatically decided based on the respective pot or series won of each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279131-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Fourth Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 107 goals scored in 36 matches, for an average of 2.97 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 70], "content_span": [71, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round\nThe second round of CONCACAF matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 7 to 16 June 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Format\nA total of 20 teams (teams ranked 9\u201321 in the CONCACAF entrant list and seven first round winners) played home-and-away over two legs. The ten winners advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Seeding\nThe draw for the second round was held on 15 January 2015, 19:40 EST (UTC\u22125), at the W Hotel at Miami Beach, Florida, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Seeding\nThe seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of August 2014 (shown in parentheses). The 20 teams were seeded into four pots:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Seeding\nEach tie contained a team from Pot 3 and a team from Pot 4 (first three ties), or a team from Pot 5 and a team from Pot 6 (last seven ties), with the order of legs decided by draw. As the draw was held before the first round was played, the identities of teams in Pot 6 (first round winners) were not known at the time of the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Matches\n6\u20136 on aggregate. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines won on the away goals rule and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Matches\nAntigua and Barbuda won 5\u20134 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Matches\nGrenada won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Matches\nCanada won 6\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Matches\nBelize won 5\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Matches\nGuatemala won 1\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Matches\nAruba won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Matches\nEl Salvador won 6\u20133 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Matches\n1\u20131 on aggregate. Cura\u00e7ao won on the away goals rule and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Matches\nNicaragua won 4\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279132-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Second Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 56 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 2.8 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 70], "content_span": [71, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279133-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Third Round\nThe third round of CONCACAF matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 4 to 8 September 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279133-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Third Round, Format\nA total of twelve teams (teams ranked 7\u20138 in the CONCACAF entrant list and ten second round winners) played home-and-away over two legs. The six winners advanced to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 64], "content_span": [65, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279133-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Third Round, Seeding\nThe draw for the third round was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279133-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Third Round, Seeding\nThe seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of August 2014 (shown in parentheses). The twelve teams were seeded into two pots:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279133-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Third Round, Seeding\nEach tie contained a team from Pot 3 and a team from Pot 4, with the order of legs decided by draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279133-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Third Round, Seeding\nNote: Guatemala were seeded into Pot 3 as they had more FIFA ranking points (203.24) than Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (202.53). In the FIFA World Rankings, teams shared the same ranking if their ranking points rounded to the same whole number.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279133-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Third Round, Matches\nEl Salvador won 2\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the fourth round (Group A).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279133-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Third Round, Matches\nCanada won 4\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the fourth round (Group A).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279133-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Third Round, Matches\nHaiti won 6\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the fourth round (Group B).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279133-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Third Round, Matches\nJamaica won 4\u20133 on aggregate and advanced to the fourth round (Group B).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279133-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Third Round, Matches\nSaint Vincent and the Grenadines won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the fourth round (Group C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279133-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Third Round, Matches\nGuatemala won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the fourth round (Group C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279133-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 CONCACAF Third Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 29 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2.42 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 69], "content_span": [70, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279134-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC First Round\nThe first round of OFC matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (and 2016 OFC Nations Cup qualification) was played from 31 August to 4 September 2015 in Tonga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279134-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC First Round, Format\nIn this round, four teams, as determined by the OFC in March 2014, played a single round-robin tournament held in a single country which was later decided to be in Tonga. All matches were held at the Loto-Tonga Soka Centre in Nuku'alofa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279134-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC First Round, Format\nSamoa, the winner, advanced to the 2016 OFC Nations Cup, held from 28 May \u2013 12 June 2016, to join the other seven teams which received a bye into the group stage. The winner of the OFC Nations Cup, New Zealand, represented the OFC at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup. Moreover, the OFC Nations Cup served as the second round of qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, with the top six teams advancing to the third round of FIFA World Cup qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279134-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC First Round, Participating teams\nIn April 2014 the OFC announced its executive's decision on the teams to compete in the tournament. The four lowest ranked teams (based on FIFA World Ranking and sporting reasons) among the 11 OFC entrants entered the first round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279134-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC First Round, Participating teams\nNote: Bolded team qualified for the 2016 OFC Nations Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279134-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC First Round, Matches\nThe match schedule was revealed on 30 July 2015, following a draw held at OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. All times are local, UTC+13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279134-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC First Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 17 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 2.83 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 64], "content_span": [65, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279135-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC Third Round\nThe third round of OFC matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification began on 7 November 2016 and ended on 5 September 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279135-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC Third Round, Format\nA total of six teams which had advanced from the OFC Nations Cup (second round) were drawn into two groups of three teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The winners of each group advanced to the OFC Final, played home-and-away over two legs, and the winners of the final advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279135-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC Third Round, Seeding\nThe draw for the third round was held on 8 July 2016, 11:00 NZST (UTC+12), at the OFC headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279135-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC Third Round, Seeding\nThe seeding was based on the results of the 2016 OFC Nations Cup (second round):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279135-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC Third Round, Seeding\nEach group contained a seeded team, a team from Pot 1, and a team from Pot 2. The same group compositions as the OFC Nations Cup were not allowed by the draw (i.e., Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia and Tahiti in one group, New Zealand, Solomon Islands and Fiji in the other group).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279135-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC Third Round, Seeding\nThe fixtures of each group were confirmed by the OFC after the draw, taking into account the need for New Zealand to have a bye in June 2017 for playing in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, and Papua New Guinea to have a bye in November 2016 for hosting the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279135-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC Third Round, Seeding\nNote: Bolded teams qualified for the inter-confederation play-offs. Italicised teams qualified for the OFC final but lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279135-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC Third Round, Final\nThe draw for the final (which decided the order of legs) was held on 15 June 2017, 16:00 NZST (UTC+12), at the OFC headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 58], "content_span": [59, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279135-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC Third Round, Final\nThe winners of the final advanced to inter-confederation play-offs. Dates were set for the two-legged final as being on 1 and 5 September 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 58], "content_span": [59, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279135-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC Third Round, Final\nNew Zealand won 8\u20133 on aggregate and advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 58], "content_span": [59, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279135-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 OFC Third Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 41 goals scored in 14 matches, for an average of 2.93 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 64], "content_span": [65, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279136-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group A\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group A was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consisted of six teams: Netherlands, France, Sweden, Bulgaria, Belarus, and Luxembourg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279136-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group A\nThe draw for the first round (group stage) was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279136-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group A\nThe group winners, France, qualified directly for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The group runners-up, Sweden, advanced to the play-offs as one of the best 8 runners-up, where they defeated Italy and thus also qualified for the tournament. France went on to win the World Cup, defeating Croatia in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279136-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group A, Matches\nThe fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 26 July 2015, the day following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279136-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group A, Goalscorers\nThere were 93 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.1 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279136-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group A, Discipline\nA player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279137-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group B\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group B was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consisted of six teams: Portugal, Switzerland, Hungary, Faroe Islands, Latvia, and Andorra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279137-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group B\nThe draw for the first round (group stage) was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279137-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group B\nThe group winners, Portugal, qualified directly for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The group runners-up, Switzerland, advanced to the play-offs as one of the best 8 runners-up, where they won against Northern Ireland and thus also qualified for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279137-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group B, Matches\nThe fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 26 July 2015, the day following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279137-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group B, Goalscorers\nThere were 82 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.73 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279137-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group B, Discipline\nA player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279138-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group C\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group C was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consisted of six teams: Germany, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, Norway, Azerbaijan, and San Marino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279138-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group C\nThe draw was for the first round (group stage) which was not held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279138-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group C\nThe group winners, Germany, who finished with a 100% record, qualified directly for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The group runners-up, Northern Ireland, advanced to the play-offs as one of the best 8 runners-up, where they lost to Switzerland and thus failed to qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279138-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group C, Matches\nThe fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 26 July 2015, the day following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279138-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group C, Goalscorers\nThere were 106 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.53 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279138-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group C, Discipline\nA player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279139-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group D\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group D was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consisted of six teams: Wales, Austria, Serbia, Republic of Ireland, Moldova, and Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279139-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group D\nThe draw for the first round (group stage) was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279139-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group D\nThe group winners, Serbia, qualified directly for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The group runners-up, Republic of Ireland, advanced to the play-offs as one of the best 8 runners-up, where they lost to Denmark and thus failed to qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279139-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group D, Matches\nThe fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 26 July 2015, the day following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279139-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group D, Goalscorers\nThere were 71 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.37 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279139-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group D, Discipline\nA player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279140-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group E\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group E was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consisted of six teams: Romania, Denmark, Poland, Montenegro, Armenia, and Kazakhstan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279140-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group E\nThe draw for the first round (group stage) was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279140-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group E\nThe group winners, Poland, qualified directly for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The group runners-up, Denmark, advanced to the play-offs as one of the best 8 runners-up, where they won against the Republic of Ireland and thus also qualified for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279140-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group E, Matches\nThe fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 26 July 2015, the day following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279140-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group E, Goalscorers\nThere were 96 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.2 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279140-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group E, Discipline\nA player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279141-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group F\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group F was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consisted of six teams: England, Slovakia, Scotland, Slovenia, Lithuania, and Malta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279141-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group F\nThe draw for the first round (group stage) was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279141-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group F\nThe group winners, England, qualified directly for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The group runners-up, Slovakia, were eliminated as the worst runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279141-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group F, Matches\nThe fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 26 July 2015, the day following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279141-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group F, Goalscorers\nThere were 74 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.47 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279141-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group F, Discipline\nA player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279142-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group G\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group G was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consisted of six teams: Spain, Italy, Albania, Israel, Macedonia, and Liechtenstein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279142-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group G\nThe draw for the first round (group stage) was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279142-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group G\nThe group winners, Spain, qualified directly for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The group runners-up, Italy, advanced to the play-offs as one of the best 8 runners-up, where they lost to Sweden and thus failed to qualify for the first time since 1958.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279142-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group G, Matches\nThe fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 26 July 2015, the day following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279142-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group G, Goalscorers\nThere were 93 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.1 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279142-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group G, Discipline\nA player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279143-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group H\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group H was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consisted of six teams: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Estonia, Cyprus, and Gibraltar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279143-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group H\nThe draw for the first round (group stage) was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Gibraltar was added to the group after the draw, after becoming FIFA members together with Kosovo in May 2016, and UEFA decided not to put Kosovo in same group as Bosnia and Herzegovina for security reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279143-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group H\nThe group winners, Belgium, qualified directly for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The group runners-up, Greece, advanced to the play-offs as one of the best 8 runners-up, where they lost to Croatia and thus failed to qualify for the first time since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279143-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group H\nRussia was initially partnered with the five-team Group H, which enabled the 2018 World Cup hosts to play centralised friendlies against these countries on their \"spare\" match dates. These friendlies would not have counted in the qualifying group standings. However, after the group was later expanded to include Gibraltar, these friendly matches were cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279143-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group H, Matches\nThe fixture list prior to the inclusion of Gibraltar was confirmed by UEFA on 26 July 2015, the day following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279143-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group H, Goalscorers\nThere were 109 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.63 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279143-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group H, Discipline\nA player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279144-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group I\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group I was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consisted of six teams: Croatia, Iceland, Ukraine, Turkey, Finland, and Kosovo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279144-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group I\nThe draw for the first round (group stage) was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Kosovo was added to the group after the draw, after becoming FIFA members together with Gibraltar in May 2016, and UEFA decided not to put Kosovo in group H together with Bosnia and Herzegovina for security reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279144-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group I\nThe group winners, Iceland, qualified directly for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The group runners-up, Croatia, advanced to the play-offs as one of the best 8 runners-up, where they won against Greece and thus qualified for the tournament as well. This was the first time Ukraine was eliminated after the first round, as the team had been eliminated in 1998, 2002, 2010 and 2014 after the play-offs, and qualified in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279144-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group I, Matches\nThe fixture list prior to the inclusion of Kosovo was confirmed by UEFA on 26 July 2015, the day following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279144-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group I, Goalscorers\nThere were 70 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.33 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279144-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group I, Discipline\nA player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round\nThe UEFA Second Round was contested by the best eight runners-up from the nine first round groups from the UEFA segment of the qualification tournament for the 2018 FIFA World Cup final tournament. The winners \u2014 Croatia, Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland \u2014 of each of four home and away ties joined the group winners in the World Cup in Russia. These pairs of matches, also commonly known as the playoffs, were held in November 2017. The losers were Greece, Italy, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round\nThe draw for the ties was held in Z\u00fcrich on 17 October 2017, with the October 2017 FIFA World Rankings being used in deciding which of the teams would be seeded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round, Qualified teams\nThe eight best runners-up from the UEFA First Round qualified for the play-offs; at the time of the draw, with two groups having one team fewer than the others, matches against the sixth-placed team in each First Round group were discarded in this ranking even after the admission of Gibraltar and Kosovo, and with all groups now containing six teams. As a result, eight matches played by each team counted for the purposes of ranking the runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 70], "content_span": [71, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round, Qualified teams, Ranking of the runner-up teams\nThe eight best runners-up were determined by the following parameters, in this order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 102], "content_span": [103, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round, Seeding and draw\nThe second round draw took place on 17 October 2017 at 14:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the FIFA headquarters in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. Teams were seeded based in October 2017 FIFA World Rankings (shown below in brackets), with each tie seeing a seeded team drawn against an unseeded team. Each tie's order of legs was decided as part of the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 71], "content_span": [72, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round, Seeding and draw\nThe draw was conducted by Mexican TV presenter Vanessa Huppenkothen with the assistance of former Spain international Fernando Hierro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 71], "content_span": [72, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round, Seeding and draw\nNorthern Ireland (23)\u00a0Sweden (25)\u00a0Republic of Ireland (26)\u00a0Greece (47)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 71], "content_span": [72, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round, Playoffs\nThe first legs were played on 9\u201311 November, and the second legs were played on 12\u201314 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round, Playoffs\nTimes are CET (UTC+1) as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round, Playoffs\nSwitzerland won 1\u20130 on aggregate and qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round, Playoffs\nCroatia won 4\u20131 on aggregate and qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round, Playoffs\nDenmark won 5\u20131 on aggregate and qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round, Playoffs\nSweden won 1\u20130 on aggregate and qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round, Goalscorers\nThere were 13 goals scored in 8 matches, for an average of 1.63 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 66], "content_span": [67, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279145-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Second Round, Discipline\nA player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279146-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup seeding\nThe draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place on 1 December 2017 at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia. It determined the group in which each of the 32 qualified national teams will play in at the start of the tournament. The teams were divided into four pots of eight, with one team selected from each pot to form a group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279146-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup seeding\nUnlike previous editions of the World Cup, all pots were determined by each national team's October 2017 FIFA World Ranking, with Pot 1 containing the highest-ranked teams, Pot 2 containing the next highest-ranked teams, and so on until Pot 4, containing the lowest ranked teams; in previous editions only one pot containing the highest-ranked teams was determined by rank, with the other three pots determined by continental confederation. The hosts continued to be placed in Pot 1 and treated as a seeded team, and therefore Pot 1 consisted of hosts Russia and the seven highest-ranked teams that qualified for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279146-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup seeding\nThe draw sequence started with pot 1 and ended with pot 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279146-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup seeding\nAs with previous editions, no group had more than one team from any continental confederation except for UEFA, which had at least one, but no more than two in a group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279146-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup seeding, Seeding\nAll teams were seeded using the October 2017 FIFA World Rankings, which numbers in parenthesis show, released on 16 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279146-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup seeding, Final draw\nAccording to the FIFA rankings, the strongest group was E (combining for 4415 points), followed by F (4151), B (4128), C (4101), D (4099), G (3953), H (3944) and the weakest was the host nation's group A (2991).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament held in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018. The 32 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players, including three goalkeepers. Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads\nA provisional list of 35 players per national team was submitted to FIFA by 14 May 2018, one month prior to the opening match of the tournament. From the preliminary squad, the final list of 23 players per national team was submitted to FIFA by 4 June, 10 days prior to the opening match of the tournament. FIFA published the final lists with squad numbers on their website the same day. Teams were permitted to make late replacements in the event of serious injury, at any time up to 24 hours before their first match, where the replacement players did not need to be in the preliminary squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads\nFor players named in the 35-player preliminary squad, there was a mandatory rest period between 21 and 27 May 2018, except for those involved in the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final played on 26 May. Initially the preliminary squads were to have 30 players but, in February 2018, it was announced that the number of players to be named in the provisional squads was increased to 35.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads\nThe position listed for each player is per the official squad list published by FIFA. The age listed for each player is on 14 June 2018, the first day of the tournament. The numbers of caps and goals listed for each player do not include any matches played after the start of the tournament. The club listed is the club for which the player last played a competitive match prior to the tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated. A flag is included for coaches who are of a different nationality than their own national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group A, Egypt\nEgypt's 29-man preliminary squad was announced on 13 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group A, Russia\nRussia's 28-man preliminary squad was announced on 11 May 2018. Ruslan Kambolov withdrew injured and was replaced by Sergei Ignashevich on 14 May. The final squad was announced on 3 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group A, Saudi Arabia\nSaudi Arabia's 28-man preliminary squad was announced on 17 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group A, Uruguay\nUruguay's 26-man preliminary squad was announced on 15 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 2 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group B, Iran\nIran's 35-man preliminary squad was announced on 13 May 2018. The squad was reduced to 24 players on 20 May. The final squad was announced on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group B, Morocco\nMorocco's 26-man preliminary squad was announced on 17 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group B, Portugal\nPortugal's 35-man preliminary squad was announced on 14 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 17 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group B, Spain\nSpain's final squad was announced on 21 May 2018. Coach Julen Lopetegui was sacked and replaced by Fernando Hierro on 13 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group C, Australia\nAustralia's 32-man preliminary squad was announced on 6 May 2018. The squad was reduced to 26 players on 14 May, then extended to 27 players on 28 May. The final squad was announced on 3 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group C, Denmark\nDenmark's 35-man preliminary squad was announced on 14 May 2018. The squad was reduced to 27 players on 27 May. The final squad was announced on 3 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group C, Peru\nPeru's 24-man preliminary squad was announced on 16 May 2018. The final squad was initially announced on 30 May, but was extended to 24 players on 31 May after the suspension of Paolo Guerrero was lifted. The final squad was announced on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group D, Argentina\nArgentina's 35-man preliminary squad was announced on 14 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 21 May. Sergio Romero withdrew injured and was replaced by Nahuel Guzm\u00e1n on 23 May. Manuel Lanzini withdrew injured and was replaced by Enzo P\u00e9rez on 9 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group D, Croatia\nCroatia's 32-man preliminary squad was announced on 14 May 2018. The squad was reduced to 24 players on 21 May. The final squad was announced on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group D, Nigeria\nNigeria's 30-man preliminary squad was announced on 14 May 2018. The squad was reduced to 29 players on 27 May as Moses Simon withdrew injured, then to 25 players on 30 May. The final squad was announced on 3 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group E, Costa Rica\nCosta Rica's final squad was announced on 14 May 2018. R\u00f3nald Matarrita withdrew injured and was replaced by Kenner Guti\u00e9rrez on 15 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group E, Serbia\nSerbia's 27-man preliminary squad was announced on 24 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 1 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group E, Switzerland\nSwitzerland's 26-man preliminary squad was announced on 25 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group F, Germany\nGermany's 27-man preliminary squad was announced on 15 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group F, Mexico\nMexico's 28-man preliminary squad was announced on 14 May 2018. The squad was reduced to 27 players on 23 May as N\u00e9stor Araujo withdrew injured, then to 24 players on 2 June. The final squad was announced on 4 June. Diego Reyes withdrew injured and was replaced by \u00c9rick Guti\u00e9rrez on 13 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group F, South Korea\nSouth Korea's 28-man preliminary squad was announced on 14 May 2018. The squad was reduced to 26 players on 22 May as Kwon Chang-hoon and Lee Keun-ho withdrew injured. The final squad was announced on 2 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group G, Belgium\nBelgium's 28-man preliminary squad was announced on 21 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group G, Panama\nPanama's 35-man preliminary squad was announced on 14 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 30 May. Alberto Quintero withdrew injured and was replaced by Ricardo \u00c1vila on 6 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group G, Tunisia\nTunisia's 29-man preliminary squad was announced on 14 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 2 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group H, Colombia\nColombia's 35-man preliminary squad was announced on 14 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 4 June. Frank Fabra withdrew injured and was replaced by Farid D\u00edaz on 9 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group H, Japan\nJapan's 27-man preliminary squad was announced on 18 May 2018. The final squad was announced on 31 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group H, Poland\nPoland's 35-man preliminary squad was announced on 11 May 2018. The squad was reduced to 32 players on 18 May. The final squad was announced on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Group H, Senegal\nSenegal's final squad was announced on 17 May 2018. Saliou Ciss withdrew injured and was replaced by Adama Mbengue on 17 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Statistics, Age\nOf the seven teenagers in the competition, Australia's Daniel Arzani was the youngest at 19\u00a0years, 161\u00a0days as of the first day of the tournament, and Nigeria's Francis Uzoho was the youngest goalkeeper. At 45\u00a0years, 150\u00a0days, Egypt's Essam El Hadary was the oldest player and oldest captain, as well as the oldest player to ever be named to a FIFA World Cup squad. Mexico's Rafael M\u00e1rquez was the oldest outfield player at 39. The youngest captain was England's Harry Kane, at 24 years of age.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Statistics, Age\nThe average age of all 736 players \u2013 almost 28 years \u2013 was the oldest in the tournament's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279147-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads, Statistics, Player representation by league system\nLeague systems with 20 or more players represented are listed. In all, World Cup squad members played for clubs in 57 countries, and played in 54 national league systems, as the league systems of England and France included clubs from Wales and Monaco respectively, and one league system covered both the United States and Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279148-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup statistics\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup was an international men's football tournament, that took place between 14 June and 15 July 2018 in Russia. The competition was structured in the typical round-robin style during the initial group stages, with the top two teams of each group qualifying to the further stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279148-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup statistics\nThe statistics within the tournament include: goals, assists, scores, wins and losses record, match awards, squad records, disciplinary issues, statistics accumulated over multiple world cups, the overall results and the stadium statistics. Matches that were decided by penalty shoot-outs were counted as draws. Any records set during the 2018 FIFA World Cup covered under the appropriate headings for the specific record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279148-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 169 goals scored in 64 matches, for an average of 2.64 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279148-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup statistics, Goalscorers\nTwelve own goals were scored during the tournament, doubling the record of six set in 1998. Goals scored from penalty shoot-outs are not counted towards an individual player's goal count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279148-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup statistics, Assists\nAn assist is awarded for a pass leading directly to a goal. In the 2018 World Cup there were a total of 105 assists, with no outright leader as 16 players had 2 assists in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279148-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup statistics, Scoring\nThere were a total of 169 goals in 64 matches in Russia. Harry Kane was awarded the Golden Boot. There were a record 12 own goals in the 2018 World Cup, with the earliest goal coming in the 1st minute from Mathias J\u00f8rgensen during the game of Denmark against Croatia, and the latest goal coming from Neymar for Brazil against Costa Rica in the 97th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279148-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup statistics, Squads\nA total of 32 teams reached the 2018 World Cup, including 14 European, 5 South American, 5 African, 3 North American, 5 Asian countries. The 2018 FIFA World Cup had many notable absences of teams including The Netherlands, Italy, Ghana and the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279148-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup statistics, Discipline\nIn total, only four players were sent off in the entire tournament, the fewest since 1978. International Football Association Board technical director David Elleray stated a belief that this was due to the introduction of VAR, since players would know that they would not be able to get away with anything under the new system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279148-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup statistics, Discipline\nA player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279148-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup statistics, Overall results\nThe French national team won the 2018 world cup, defeating Croatia by a score of 4-2, making it the highest scoring World Cup Final since 1966 when England defeated West Germany 4-2. The third place playoff took place between Belgium and England, with Belgium coming out 2-0 victors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279148-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup statistics, Overall results, By team\nTeam(s) rendered in italics represent(s) the host nation(s). The competition's winning team is rendered in bold. (1) \u2013 Total games lost not counted in total games played (total games lost = total games won)(2) \u2013 Total number of games drawn (tied) for all teams = Total number of games drawn (tied) \u00f7 2 (both teams involved)(3) \u2013 As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279148-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIFA World Cup statistics, Overall results, By confederation\nHost nation(s) are situated in the region(s) rendered in italics. (1) \u2013 Total games lost not counted in total games played (total games lost = total games won)(2) \u2013 Total number of games drawn (tied) for all teams = Total number of games drawn (tied) \u00f7 2 (both teams involved)(3) \u2013 As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279149-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series\nThe 2018 FIG World Cup circuit in Artistic Gymnastics was a series of competitions officially organized and promoted by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279150-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup series\nThe 2018 FIG World Cup circuit in Rhythmic Gymnastics is a series of competitions officially organized and promoted by the International Gymnastics Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279150-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup series\nWith stopovers in Europe and Asia, the World Cup competitions are scheduled for March 30\u2013April 1 in Sofia (BUL), April 13-15 in Pesaro (ITA), April 20\u201322 in Tashkent (UZB), April 27\u201329 in Baku (AZE). World Challenge Cup competitions are scheduled for May 4-6 in Guadalajara (ESP), May 11\u201313 in Portim\u00e3o (POR), August 17\u201319 in Minsk (BLR), and August 24\u201326 in Kazan (RUS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279151-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIL Junior European Luge Championships\nThe 2018 FIL Junior European Luge Championships took place under the auspices of the International Luge Federation at Winterberg, Germany from 20 to 21 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279152-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM CEV Moto2 European Championship\nThe 2018 FIM CEV Moto2 European Championship was the ninth CEV Moto2 season and the fourth under the FIM banner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279152-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM CEV Moto2 European Championship, Calendar\nThe following races were scheduled to take place in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279152-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM CEV Moto2 European Championship, Championship standings\nPoints were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279153-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship\nThe 2018 FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship was the seventh CEV Moto3 season and the fifth under the FIM banner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279153-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship\nThe season was marred by the death of Andreas P\u00e9rez, who died after an accident at the second race of the Catalunya round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279153-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship, Calendar\nThe following races were scheduled to take place in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279153-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship, Championship standings\nPoints are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279154-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM Enduro World Championship\nThe 2018 World Enduro Championship is the 29th season of the FIM World Enduro Championship. The season consists of eight events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279154-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM Enduro World Championship\nThe series returns to the three class structure that it previously held in 2016. The Enduro 1, Enduro 2 and Enduro 3 classes will return, with the EnduroGP being an overall standing across all three classes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279154-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM Enduro World Championship\nFor the first time in the history of the series, a 'hard enduro' event will be on the calendar. ' The Wall' hard enduro event in Italy will act as the fifth round of the series. Steve Holcombe goes into the championship after winning the EnduroGP class in 2017. Josep Garcia is the reigning champion from Enduro 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279155-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM Motocross World Championship\nThe 2018 FIM Motocross World Championship was the 62nd FIM Motocross World Championship season. It included 20 events, started at Neuquen in Argentina on 4 March, and ended at Imola in Italy on 30 September. Jeffrey Herlings won the main championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279155-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM Motocross World Championship, Race Calendar and Results\nA 20-round calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 25 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279156-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM Women's Motocross World Championship\nThe 2018 FIM Women's Motocross World Championship is the 14th Women's Motocross World Championship season. Kiara Fontanesi goes into the season as defending champion, after taking her fifth title in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279156-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIM Women's Motocross World Championship, 2018 Calendar\nA 6-round calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 25 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279157-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Diving World Cup\nThe 2018 FINA Diving World Cup took place in Wuhan, China, from 4 to 10 June 2018. It was the 21st edition of the Diving World Cup, and the seventh time that it had been held in China. The venue was the natatorium of Wuhan Sports Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279158-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Diving World Series\nThe 2018 FINA Diving World Series, also known as the FINA/CNSG Diving World Series for sponsorship reasons, took place from 9 March to 6 May 2018. It was the tenth edition of the FINA-sanctioned invitational series, and included four events across three continents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279158-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Diving World Series, Calendar\nThe calendar for the 2018 series was announced by FINA in September 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279158-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Diving World Series, Event 1: Beijing\nThe first event took place at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China from 9\u201311 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279158-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Diving World Series, Event 2: Fuji\nThe second event took place at the Shizuoka Prefectural Swimming Pools in Fuji, Japan from 15\u201317 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279158-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Diving World Series, Event 3: Montreal\nThe third event took place at the Olympic Park in Montreal, Canada from 27\u201329 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279158-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Diving World Series, Event 4: Kazan\nThe fourth and final event took place at the Aquatics Palace in Kazan, Russia from 4\u20136 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279159-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Marathon Swim World Series\nThe 2018 FINA Marathon Swim World Series, also known as the FINA/ HOSA Marathon Swim World Series for sponsorship reasons, took place from 17 March to 9 November 2018. It was the 12th edition of the FINA-sanctioned series, and included eight events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279160-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup\nThe 16th edition of the Men's FINA Water Polo World Cup were held in Berlin, Germany from September 11 to September 16, 2018. Like the final tournament of the 2007 FINA Men's Water Polo World League all matches were contested in the Europasportpark swimming pool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279160-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup, Format\n8 teams qualified for the 2018 FINA World Cup. They were split into two groups of 4 teams. After playing a Round-robin every team advanced to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279160-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup, Format\nThe best ranked team of Group A played against the fourth ranked team of Group B, the second ranked team of Group A against the third ranked team of Group B the third ranked team of Group A against the second ranked team of Group B and the fourth ranked team of Group A against the best ranked team of Group B. The winners of those quarterfinals advanced to the Semis and played out the champion while the losers of the quarterfinals competed in placement matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279161-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Men's Water Polo World League\nThe 2018 FINA Men's Water Polo World League is the 17th edition of the annual men's international water polo tournament. It will be played between November 2017 and June 2018 and opened to all men's water polo national teams. After participating in a preliminary round, eight teams qualify to play in a final tournament, called the Super Final from 18\u201323 June 2018. The top two teams also automatically qualify for the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279161-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Men's Water Polo World League\nIn the world league, there are specific rules that do not allow matches to end in a draw. If teams are level at the end of the 4th quarter of any world league match, the match will be decided by a penalty shootout. Teams earn points in the standings in group matches as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279162-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Swimming World Cup\nThe 2018 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of seven three-day meets in seven different cities between September and November 2018. This edition integrated meets held in 25m-pool (short course) as well as meets in 50m-pool (long course).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279162-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Swimming World Cup, Meets\nThe 2018 World Cup consisted of the following seven meets, which were divided into three clusters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279163-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup\nThe 2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup was the 17th edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation (FINA). The event took place in Surgut, Russia from 4 to 9 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279163-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup\nThe United States won the gold medal by defeating Russia 8-5 in the final. Australia captured bronze, beating Spain 9-8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279163-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup, Format\n8 teams qualified for the 2018 FINA World Cup. They are split into two groups of 4 teams. After playing a Round-robin every team advanced to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279163-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup, Format\nThe best ranked team of Group A played against the fourth ranked team of Group B, the second ranked team of Group A against the third ranked team of Group B the third ranked team of Group A against the second ranked team of Group B and the fourth ranked team of Group A against the best ranked team of Group B. The winners of those quarterfinals advanced to the Semis and played out the champion while the losers of the quarterfinals competed in placement matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279163-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup, Final standings\nAshleigh Johnson, Jordan Raney, Stephania Haralabidis, Rachel Fattal, Paige Hauschild, Maggie Steffens (C), Jamie Neushul, Kiley Neushul, Aria Fischer, Kaleigh Gilchrist, Makenzie Fischer, Alys Williams, Amanda Longan. Head coach: Adam Krikorian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279164-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World League\nThe 2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World League was the 15th edition of the annual women's international water polo tournament. It was played between November 2017 and June 2018 and open to all women's water polo national teams. After participating in a preliminary round, eight teams qualified to play in a final tournament, called the Super Final from 28 May to 2 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279164-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World League\nIn the world league, there are specific rules that do not allow matches to end in a draw. If teams are level at the end of the 4th quarter of any world league match, the match will be decided by a penalty shootout. 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Head coach: Adam Krikorian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279165-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)\nThe 14th FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) were held from 11 to 16 December 2018 in Hangzhou, China. 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133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279166-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) \u2013 Men's 100 metre backstroke\nThe men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 and 12 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [74, 74], "content_span": [75, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279166-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) \u2013 Men's 100 metre backstroke, Records\nPrior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 83], "content_span": [84, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279167-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) \u2013 Men's 100 metre breaststroke\nThe Men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 and 12 December 2018 at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center.", "metadata": 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the existing world and championship records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [75, 82], "content_span": [83, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279175-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) \u2013 Men's 200 metre freestyle\nThe Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) were held on 12 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [73, 73], "content_span": [74, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279175-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) \u2013 Men's 200 metre freestyle, Records\nPrior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [75, 82], "content_span": [83, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279176-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) \u2013 Men's 200 metre individual medley\nThe Men's 200 metre individual medley 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\u00d7 100 metre freestyle relay, Records\nPrior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 92], "content_span": [93, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279178-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metre medley relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 100 metre medley relay competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 16 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [80, 80], "content_span": [81, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279178-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metre medley relay, Records\nPrior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [82, 89], "content_span": [90, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279179-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FINA World Swimming 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The season began on 21 July 2018 in Perisher Valley, New South Wales, Australia and concluded on 6 September 2018 in Snow Farm, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279213-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix\nThe 2018 FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix was the 25th Summer Grand Prix season in ski jumping on plastic for men and the 7th for ladies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279213-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix\nOther competitive circuits this season included the World Cup, Continental Cup, FIS Cup, FIS Race and Alpen Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279213-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix, Map of grand prix hosts\nAll ten scheduled locations for men (9) and for ladies (5) in this season. 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They received an invitation to the Gasparilla Bowl where they lost to Temple.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279214-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIU Panthers football team, Offseason\nFollowing the conclusion of the 2017 season, several Panthers were invited to participate in the Tropical Bowl, a postseason all star game held on January 14, 2018. 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Starts in September 2017 after the end of the year season, the 2018 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Calendar comprised three FIVB World Tour 5-star tournaments, eight 4-star, six 3-star, seven 2-star, twenty-two 1-star events and the World Tour Finals, all organised by the FIVB.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279216-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup\nThe 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup, a new annual men's international volleyball tournament contested by 6 national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League. 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The winners Kazakhstan qualified for the 2018 Challenger Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279218-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup qualification (AVC), Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 86], "content_span": [87, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279219-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup qualification (CSV)\nThe South American section of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup qualification acted as a qualifier for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup, for national teams which are members of the Confederaci\u00f3n Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV). The tournament was held in Santiago, Chile from 18 to 20 May 2018. The winners Chile qualified for the 2018 Challenger Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279219-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup qualification (CSV), Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 86], "content_span": [87, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279220-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup qualification (NORCECA)\nThe North American section of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup qualification acted as a qualifier for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup, for national teams which are members of the North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA). The tournament was held in Pinar del R\u00edo, Cuba from 5 to 9 June 2018. The winners Cuba qualified for the 2018 Challenger Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279220-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup qualification (NORCECA), Qualification\n6 NORCECA national teams entered qualification. But, Mexico later withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 80], "content_span": [81, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279220-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup qualification (NORCECA), Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20131: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 90], "content_span": [91, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279221-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship\nThe 2018 FIVB Men's Club World Championship was the 14th edition of the tournament. It was held in Poland for the second straight time from 26 November to 2 December 2018. Eight teams competed in the tournament, including four wild cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279221-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship\nIn an all-Italian final Trentino Volley defeated Cucine Lube Civitanova and won the title for the fifth time. Russia's Fakel Novy Urengoy claimed the bronze medal by defeating Poland's Asseco Resovia in the 3rd place match. Aaron Russell from Trentino Volley was elected the Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279221-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship, Qualification\n* Khatam Ardakan replaced Sarmayeh Bank Tehran (2017 Asian Champions), who dissolved in March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279221-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 75], "content_span": [76, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279222-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship squads\nThis article shows the rosters of all participating teams at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship in Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279222-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship squads, Pool A, PGE Skra Be\u0142chat\u00f3w\nThe following is the roster of the Polish club PGE Skra Be\u0142chat\u00f3w in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 85], "content_span": [86, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279222-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship squads, Pool A, Fakel Novy Urengoy\nThe following is the roster of the Russian club Fakel Novy Urengoy in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 85], "content_span": [86, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279222-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship squads, Pool A, Cucine Lube Civitanova\nThe following is the roster of the Italian club Cucine Lube Civitanova in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 89], "content_span": [90, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279222-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship squads, Pool A, Zenit Kazan\nThe following is the roster of the Russian club Zenit Kazan in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 78], "content_span": [79, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279222-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship squads, Pool B, Khatam Ardakan\nThe following is the roster of the Iranian club Khatam Ardakan in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 81], "content_span": [82, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279222-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship squads, Pool B, Asseco Resovia Rzesz\u00f3w\nThe following is the roster of the Polish club Asseco Resovia Rzesz\u00f3w in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 89], "content_span": [90, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279222-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship squads, Pool B, Sada Cruzeiro\nThe following is the roster of the Brazilian club Sada Cruzeiro in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 80], "content_span": [81, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279222-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship squads, Pool B, Trentino Volley\nThe following is the roster of the Italian club Trentino Volley in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 82], "content_span": [83, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279223-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League\nThe 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League, a new annual international men's volleyball tournament contested by 16 national teams that replaced the former World League in the international calendar. The competition was held between May and July 2018 and the final round took place in the Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Lille metropolitan area, France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279223-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League\nRussia won the inaugural edition, defeating the home team in straight sets in the final. Both teams contesting the final had previously won the World League \u2013 Russia on three opportunities and France on two. United States, which also had won the World League twice, defeated the reigning Olympic champions and 9-time World League winners Brazil in straight sets for the bronze medal. Maxim Mikhaylov from Russia, who was the World League MVP in 2011, was elected the Most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279223-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League\nSouth Korea were the last placed challenger team after the preliminary round and were replaced by 2018 Challenger Cup winners Portugal in the 2019 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279223-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League, Qualification\nSixteen teams qualified for the competition. Twelve of them qualified as core teams which cannot face relegation. Other four teams were selected as challenger teams which could be relegated from the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279223-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League, Format, Preliminary round\nThe 16 teams compete in a round-robin format with every core team hosting a pool at least once. The teams are divided into 4 pools of 4 teams at each week and compete five weeks long, for 120 matches. The top five teams after the preliminary round join the hosts of the final round to compete in the final round. The relegation takes into consideration only the 4 challenger teams. The last ranked challenger team will be excluded from the 2019 Nations League. The winners of the 2018 Challenger Cup will qualify for the next edition as a challenger team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279223-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League, Format, Final round\nThe six qualified teams play in 2 pools of 3 teams in round-robin. The top 2 teams of each pool qualify for the semifinals. The pool winners play against the runners-up in this round. The semifinals winners advance to compete for the Nations League title. The losers face each other in the third place match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279223-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League, Pools composition\nThe overview of pools was released on February 16, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279223-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League, Venues\nThe list of host cities and venues was announced on 16 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279223-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League, Squads\nThe 16 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 21 players, which every week's 14-player roster must be selected from. Each country must declare its 14-player roster two days before the start of each week's round-robin competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279223-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League, Final standing\nTeam roster for the final round: Ilya Vlasov, Dmitry Kovalyov, Artem Volvich, Anton Karpukhov, Dmitry Volkov (c), Aleksandr Sokolov, Igor Filippov, Dmitry Muserskiy, Viktor Poletaev, Maxim Mikhaylov, Egor Kliuka, Romanas Shkulyavichus, Igor Kobzar, Aleksey Kabeshov. Head Coach: Sergey Shlyapnikov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads\nThis article shows the roster of all participating teams at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League. The 16 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 21 players, which every week's 14-player roster must be selected from. Each country must declare its 14-player roster two days before the start of each week's round-robin competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, Argentina\nThe following is the Argentine roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, Australia\nThe following is the Australian roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, Brazil\nThe following is the Brazilian roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, Bulgaria\nThe following is the Bulgarian roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 58], "content_span": [59, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, Canada\nThe following is the Canadian roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, China\nThe following is the Chinese roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 55], "content_span": [56, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, France\nThe following is the French roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, Germany\nThe following is the German roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, Iran\nThe following is the Iranian roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 54], "content_span": [55, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, Italy\nThe following is the Italian roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 55], "content_span": [56, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, Japan\nThe following is the Japanese roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, Poland\nThe following is the Polish roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, Russia\nThe following is the Russian roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, Serbia\nThe following is the Serbian roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, South Korea\nThe following is the Korean roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279224-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League squads, United States\nThe following is the American roster in the 2018 Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship\nThe 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship was the 19th staging of the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held in Italy and Bulgaria from 9 to 30 September 2018. For the first time, the tournament was jointly-hosted by more than one country. The final six was hosted by Italy at the Pala Alpitour in Turin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship\nPoland defended their world title, defeating the reigning olympic champions Brazil in straight sets at a repeat of the 2014 final. This was Poland's third title overall, and the third time in the last four editions of the World Championship that Brazil and Poland contested the final. This was also the fifth straight World Championship with Brazil reaching at least the final. United States won the 3rd place match, defeating Serbia in four sets. Bartosz Kurek from Poland was elected the MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship\nThe first round match between Russia and Tunisia set the new all-time lowest-scoring record in a World Championship set since the new volleyball scoring rules were adopted, with Russia winning the second set by 25\u20136. The previous record was a 25\u20138 achieved by United States against Puerto Rico during the 2014 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Host selection\nOn 9 December 2015, FIVB announced that the tournament would be held in Italy and Bulgaria. For the first time the championship will take place in more than one country. The tournament will take place in six Italian cities (Bari, Bologna,Florence, Assago, Rome and Turin) and three Bulgarian cities (Ruse, Varna and Sofia).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Host selection\nBoth Italy and Bulgaria have previously hosted the Men's World Championship. Italy last organised the 2010 edition, when Brazil claimed the title their third straight title. Italy also hosted the men's event in 1978 as well as the 2014 Women's World Championship. Moreover, Italy hosted the 1985 Men's U21 World Championship, the 1985 Women's U20 World Championship and the 2009 Boys' U19 World Championship. Bulgaria, on the other hand, hosted both the men's and women's senior editions in 1970. Both countries have also played hosts to other important volleyball competitions, including the Men's European Volleyball Championship and the World League final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Qualification\nThe qualification process was a series of tournaments organised by the five FIVB confederations to decide 21 of the 24 teams which would play in the final tournament, with Italy and Bulgaria qualifying automatically as hosts and Poland also qualifying automatically as the defending champions. All remaining FIVB member associations were eligible to enter the qualifying process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Qualification\nAt first, 150 associations registered teams to compete in the qualification process, but 19 associations withdrew from the qualifying process after they registered and India were suspended and then expelled from taking part in the process as a punishment for internal problems in the India Volleyball Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Qualification\nThe five regional governing bodies were allocated the remaining 21 spots; CAVB (Africa) was granted three, AVC (Asia and Oceania) four, NORCECA (North America) five, CSV (South America) two, and CEV (Europe) seven spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Qualification\nOf the 24 nations qualified to play at the 2018 World Championship, 20 countries competed at the previous tournament in 2014. Slovenia qualified for the first time. Other teams returning after absences of the last tournament(s) include: Dominican Republic, returning to the finals after their only previous appearance in 1974, Netherlands, who last competed in 2002, and Japan, who missed the 2014 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Qualification\nNotable countries that failed to qualify include the 2014 third placed Germany, Venezuela (for the first time since 1998), South Korea and Czech Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Format\nIn the first round, the 24 teams were spread across four pools of six teams playing in a single round-robin format. The top four teams in each pool qualified for the second round, featuring four pools of four teams playing in four cities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Format\nThe second round featured four pools of four teams playing once again in a single round-robin format. At the end of the second round matches, the rankings of the four pools were drawn up taking into account the points scored by each team in the first and second rounds. The four pool-winning teams of the second round qualified for the third round, together with the top two of the second placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Format\nThe six teams competing in the third round were divided into two three-team pools by a draw. After the matches played once again in a single round-robin format, the top two teams in each pool qualified for the semifinals and finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Format\nThe third round pool winners played against the runners-up in this round. The semifinals winners advanced to compete for the World Championship title. The losers faced each other in the 3rd place match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Pools composition, First round\nTeams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 7 July 2017. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pools A and D regardless of the World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the World Ranking. Each pool had no more than three teams from the same confederation. The draw was held in Florence, Italy on 30 November 2017. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts Italy and Bulgaria who ranked 4th and 14th respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Pools composition, First round\nNetherlands (25)\u00a0Puerto Rico (29)\u00a0Cameroon (30)\u00a0Dominican Republic (38)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Pools composition, Third round\nThe third round draw was held in Turin, Italy on 24 September 2018. The 1st ranked teams of pools E and F were drawn in pools I and J consecutively and the 1st ranked teams of pools G and H were also drawn in pools I and J consecutively. The 1st best second team among the four pools was placed in pool I, while the 2nd best second team among the four pools was placed in pool J.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Opening matches\nThe opening matches of the 2018 World Championship, jointly hosted by Italy and Bulgaria held With the presence of the president Sergio Mattarella and Rumen Radev. President of Italy Mattarella was guest of honour as co-hosts Italy got their 2018 campaign off to the perfect start with a 3\u20130 victory over Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Opening matches\nAlongside FIVB President Ary Gra\u00e7a, Italian National Olympic Committee President Giovanni Malago, President of the Italian Volleyball Federation Pietro Bruno Cattaneo and many more national and international dignitaries, President Mattarella joined the 11,170-strong partisan crowd at Foro Italico Tennis Center Court, Rome and in Varna, the home side Bulgaria fared just as successfully as their co-hosts, sweeping aside Finland 3\u20130 to take a commanding lead in Pool D, were present President of Bulgaria Radev was joined by his Minister for Sport, Krasen Kralev, at Palace of Culture and Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Final standing\nTeam roster: Piotr Nowakowski, Dawid Konarski, Bartosz Kurek, Artur Szalpuk, Damian Schulz, Damian Wojtaszek, Fabian Drzyzga, Grzegorz \u0141omacz, Micha\u0142 Kubiak (c), Aleksander \u015aliwka, Jakub Kochanowski, Pawe\u0142 Zatorski, Bartosz Kwolek, Mateusz Bieniek. Head Coach: Vital Heynen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Statistics leaders\nThe statistics of each group follows the vis reports P2 and P3. The statistics include 6 volleyball skills; serve, reception, set, spike, block, and dig. The table below shows the top 5 ranked players in each skill plus top scorers at the completion of the tournament. Only players whose teams advanced to the final round are taken in consideration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Trophy\nComparable 2014 year the FIVB then mandated two young product designers from Switzerland, Thilo Alex Brunner and J\u00f6rg Mettler to create the new World Championship trophy. With its unique contemporary design, the trophy has set itself apart from other awards in international competitions across the sporting world. Eichenberger LTD and their mastermind, Juan Franco, have been responsible for its production. The company specialises in complex metal works mainly for the Swiss watchmaking and jewellery industry. The trophy was constructed using 12 individual pieces, representing each member of a volleyball team. The pieces are brought together in a seamless cylindrical design, symbolising the coming together of the 12 players using the rotation system on the court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279225-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Broadcasting rights\nFIVB, through several companies, sold the broadcasting rights for the 2018 World Championship to the following broadcasters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279226-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification\nThe 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship featured 24 teams. Three places were allocated to the hosts, Italy and Bulgaria and the titleholder, Poland. The remaining 21 places were determined by a qualification process, in which entrants from among the other teams from the five FIVB confederations competed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279226-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification, Qualification process\nThe distribution by confederation for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 82], "content_span": [83, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279226-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification, Qualification process, Summary of qualification\nNote: CEV total includes +3 for Italy as co-hosts, Bulgaria as co-hosts, and Poland as reigning champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 108], "content_span": [109, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279226-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification, Confederation qualification, AVC, Final positions (Final round)\nThe draw for the second round was held on 19 March 2017, at the Dusit Princess Srinakarin Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 124], "content_span": [125, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279226-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification, Confederation qualification, CAVB, Final positions (2017 African Championship)\nWinners qualified for 2018 World ChampionshipLosers qualified for Play-offs second round", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 139], "content_span": [140, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279226-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification, Confederation qualification, NORCECA, Final positions (2017 NORCECA Championship)\nWinners qualified for 2018 World ChampionshipLosers qualified for Play-offs second round", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 142], "content_span": [143, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279227-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (AVC)\nThe AVC qualification for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship saw member nations compete for four places at the finals in Italy and Bulgaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279227-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (AVC), Pools composition\n23 AVC national teams entered qualification. But, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan later withdrew and India later were excluded because of FIVB's suspension of the Volleyball Federation of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 84], "content_span": [85, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279227-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (AVC), Pools composition, Subzonal round\nCentral Asia decided to hold the subzonal round with the bottom five ranked teams in Central Asia from the FIVB World Ranking as of October 2015. But, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan later withdrew. Rankings are shown in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 100], "content_span": [101, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279227-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (AVC), Pools composition, Zonal round\nThe top three ranked teams in Central Asia from the FIVB World Ranking as of October 2015 automatically qualified for the zonal round. But, India later were excluded because of FIVB's suspension of the Volleyball Federation of India. Rankings are shown in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279227-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (AVC), Pools composition, Final round\nThe top five ranked teams from the FIVB World Ranking as of October 2015 automatically qualified for the final round. The top four ranked teams seeded by serpentine system, while the other six teams were drawn in Bangkok, Thailand on 19 March 2017. Rankings are shown in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279227-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (AVC), Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 90], "content_span": [91, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279228-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CAVB)\nThe CAVB qualification for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship saw member nations compete for three places at the finals in Italy and Bulgaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279228-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CAVB)\nCAVB Board of Administration meeting of 25 May 2017 decided to merge the 2017 Men's African Volleyball Championship and 2018 FIVB World Championship Continental Qualifiers. The top three teams from amongst the teams, who had registered with FIVB for the 2018 World Championship, qualified to represent Africa in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279228-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CAVB), Pools composition\n32 CAVB national teams entered the qualification. But, Burundi, Central African Republic, Gabon, Gambia, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar later withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 85], "content_span": [86, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279228-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CAVB), Pools composition, First round\nThere were seven confederation zonal competitions. The teams were distributed according to their geographical positions. The winners of each competition competed in second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 98], "content_span": [99, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279228-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CAVB), Pools composition, Second round\nThe second round was 2017 African Championship which acted also as a qualifier for the 2018 World Championship. The top three teams from World ranking as of 7 July 2017 and the host directly qualified from first round. If the top three ranking teams have already qualified, the next best team from their pool would replace them in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 99], "content_span": [100, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279228-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CAVB), Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 91], "content_span": [92, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279228-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CAVB), First round, Pool D\n* Match on 20 May 2017 (Congo lead DR Congo 2\u20131: \u2013, 25\u201322, 26\u201324) was abandoned due to insufficient light, and replayed the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 87], "content_span": [88, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279229-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CEV)\nThe CEV qualification for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship saw member nations compete for seven places at the finals in Italy and Bulgaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279229-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CEV), Pools composition, First round\n7 Small Countries Division teams participated in the first round. The first round also acted as the 2017 European Championship Small Countries Division qualification round. Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their final ranking of 2015 European Championship Small Countries Division. But, Northern Ireland and Iceland were switched between the pools as Iceland were drawn as the 2nd hosts alongside Luxembourg who applied to hosts. Rankings are shown in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279229-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CEV), Pools composition, Second round\nThe six hosts were drawn as heads of series in one of the six pools (from left to right, A\u2013B\u2013C\u2013D\u2013E\u2013F). The remaining participating teams were grouped in five sub-groups \u2013 each one including six teams \u2013 according to the CEV National Team Ranking as of 19 October 2015 \u2013 i.e. when National Federations registered for participation in the World Championship qualification \u2013 and drawn accordingly into one of the six pools (from left to right, A\u2013B\u2013C\u2013D\u2013E\u2013F). Rankings are shown in brackets except hosts. The pools were confirmed on 26 October 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279229-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CEV), Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 90], "content_span": [91, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279230-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CSV)\nThe CSV qualification for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship saw member nations compete for two places at the finals in Italy and Bulgaria. The 2017 Men's South American champions, plus one team from the qualification tournament qualified for the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279230-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CSV), Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 90], "content_span": [91, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279231-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (NORCECA)\nThe NORCECA qualification for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship saw member nations compete for five places at the finals in Italy and Bulgaria. The top three teams from the 2017 Men's NORCECA Volleyball Championship, plus two teams from the final four qualified for the 2018 World Championship. Therefore, the first two rounds of the 2018 World Championship qualification also acted as qualifiers for the 2017 NORCECA Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279231-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (NORCECA)\nOriginally the 2017 NORCECA Championship was the only competition from the area to offer the 2018 World Championship qualification quota, but due to the pass of hurricanes Irma and Maria for the Caribbean sea, Cuba and Puerto Rico were unable to compete, NORCECA authorities decided to make the final four tournament - Cuba, Puerto Rico and the 4th and 5th placed teams of the 2017 NORCECA Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279231-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (NORCECA), Pools composition\n41 NORCECA national teams entered qualification. The top six ranked teams from the NORCECA Ranking as of 1 January 2016 (United States, Canada, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Costa Rica) automatically qualified for the 2017 NORCECA Championship or the final four. But, Bonaire and Saba later withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 88], "content_span": [89, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279231-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (NORCECA), Pools composition, First round, CAZOVA\n14 CAZOVA national teams entered qualification. The top two ranked teams from CAZOVA did not compete in the first round and automatically qualified for the second round. Teams ranked 3\u201314 from CAZOVA were seeded following the serpentine system according to their position in the NORCECA Ranking as of 1 January 2016. Pools composition was determined by taking into consideration \u2013 as far as possible \u2013 the geographical location of the various countries. But, Bonaire later withdrew. Rankings are shown in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 109], "content_span": [110, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279231-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (NORCECA), Pools composition, First round, ECVA\n14 ECVA national teams entered qualification. The top two ranked teams from ECVA did not compete in the first round and automatically qualified for the second round. Teams ranked 3\u201314 from ECVA were seeded following the serpentine system according to their position in the NORCECA Ranking as of 1 January 2016. Pools composition was determined by taking into consideration \u2013 as far as possible \u2013 the geographical location of the various countries. But, Saba later withdrew. Rankings are shown in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 107], "content_span": [108, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279231-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (NORCECA), Pools composition, First round, AFECAVOL\n7 AFECAVOL national teams entered qualification. One round was held with a Round-robin tournament of all 7 teams. NORCECA Ranking as of 1 January 2016 are shown in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 111], "content_span": [112, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279231-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (NORCECA), Pools composition, Second round, CAZOVA\nNORCECA Ranking as of 1 January 2016 are shown in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 110], "content_span": [111, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279231-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (NORCECA), Pools composition, Second round, ECVA\nNORCECA Ranking as of 1 January 2016 are shown in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 108], "content_span": [109, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279231-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (NORCECA), Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20131: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 94], "content_span": [95, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads\nThis article shows the roster of all participating teams at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool A, Argentina\nThe following is the Argentine roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool A, Belgium\nThe following is the Belgian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 69], "content_span": [70, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool A, Dominican Republic\nThe following is the Dominican roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool A, Italy\nThe following is the Italian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool A, Japan\nThe following is the Japanese roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool A, Slovenia\nThe following is the Slovenian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool B, Brazil\nThe following is the Brazilian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool B, Canada\nThe following is the Canadian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool B, China\nThe following is the Chinese roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool B, Egypt\nThe following is the Egyptian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool B, France\nThe following is the French roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool B, Netherlands\nThe following is the Dutch roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool C, Australia\nThe following is the Australian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool C, Cameroon\nThe following is the Cameroonian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool C, Russia\nThe following is the Russian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool C, Serbia\nThe following is the Serbian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool C, Tunisia\nThe following is the Tunisian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool C, United States\nThe following is the American roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool D, Bulgaria\nThe following is the Bulgarian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool D, Cuba\nThe following is the Cuban roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 66], "content_span": [67, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool D, Finland\nThe following is the Finnish roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 69], "content_span": [70, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool D, Iran\nThe following is the Iranian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 66], "content_span": [67, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool D, Poland\nThe following is the Polish roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279232-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads, Pool D, Puerto Rico\nThe following is the Puerto Rican roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279233-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship statistics\nSaeid Marouf Lakerani (Persian: \u0645\u06cc\u0631 \u0633\u0639\u06cc\u062f \u0645\u0639\u0631\u0648\u0641 \u0644\u0627\u0643\u0631\u0627\u0646\u06cc, born 23 September 1985, in Urmia) is an Iranian volleyball setter. He is the captain of the Iranian national team. He was named best setter at the 2014 World League and 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic qualifying tournaments, as well as most valuable player at the 2013 Asian Championship. He participated in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. He was voted Iranian Sportsmen of the year for (2015\u201316) of the Iranian calendar by an Iranian TV. [ 2 ]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279233-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship statistics, Statistics leaders\nThe statistics of each group follows the vis reports P2 and P3. The statistics include 6 volleyball skills; serve, reception, set, spike, block, and dig. The table below shows the top 5 ranked players in each skill plus top scorers as of 12 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 76], "content_span": [77, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279233-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship statistics, Statistics leaders, Best Scorers\nBest scorers determined by scored points from spike, block and serve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 90], "content_span": [91, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279233-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship statistics, Statistics leaders, Best Blockers\nBest blockers determined by the average of stuff blocks per set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279233-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship statistics, Statistics leaders, Best Servers\nBest servers determined by the average of aces per set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 90], "content_span": [91, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279233-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship statistics, Statistics leaders, Best Setters\nBest setters determined by the average of running sets per set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 90], "content_span": [91, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279233-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship statistics, Statistics leaders, Best Diggers\nBest diggers determined by the average of successful digs per set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 90], "content_span": [91, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279234-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup\nThe 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup, a new annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by 6 national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League. The tournament was held in Lima, Peru between 20 and 24 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279234-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup\nBulgaria won the title, defeating Colombia in the final, and earned the right to participate in the 2019 Nations League replacing the last placed challenger team after the 2018 edition. Puerto Rico defeated Peru in the third place match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279234-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup, Pools composition\nTeams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of August 2017. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except hosts who ranked 26th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279235-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup qualification\nThe 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup qualification is a series of tournaments to decide teams which will play in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup. The 2018 Challenger Cup will feature 6 teams. Only one place will be allocated to the hosts. The remaining 5 places will be determined by a qualification process, in which entrants from among the other teams from the five FIVB confederations will compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279236-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup qualification (AVC)\nThe Asian section of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup qualification acts as qualifiers for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup, for national teams which are members of the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC). This tournament was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The eventual winner will earn the right to compete in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279236-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup qualification (AVC), Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 88], "content_span": [89, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279237-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup qualification (CSV)\nThe South America section of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup qualification acts as qualifiers for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup, for national teams which are members of the Confederaci\u00f3n Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV). This tournament was held in Lima, Peru. The winners earned the right for a playoff against CAVB's contender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279237-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup qualification (CSV), Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 88], "content_span": [89, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279238-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup qualification (NORCECA)\nThe North American section of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup qualification acts as qualifiers for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup, for national teams which are members of the North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA). This tournament was held in Edmonton, Canada. The eventual winner will earn the right to compete in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279238-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup qualification (NORCECA), Qualification\n6 NORCECA national teams entered qualification. Costa Rica withdrew before the tournament began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 82], "content_span": [83, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279238-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup qualification (NORCECA), Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20131: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 92], "content_span": [93, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279239-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship\nThe 2018 FIVB Women's Club World Championship was the 12th edition of the tournament. It was held in Shaoxing, China from 4 to 9 December. Eight teams will compete in the tournament, including four wild cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279239-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 77], "content_span": [78, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279240-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship squads\nThis article shows the rosters of all participating teams at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship in Shaoxing, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279240-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship squads, Pool A, Vak\u0131fbank \u0130stanbul\nThe following is the roster of the Turkish club Vak\u0131fbank \u0130stanbul in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 87], "content_span": [88, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279240-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship squads, Pool A, Minas T\u00eanis Clube\nThe following is the roster of the Brazilian club Minas T\u00eanis Clube in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 86], "content_span": [87, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279240-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship squads, Pool A, Zhejiang WVC\nThe following is the roster of the Chinese club Zhejiang WVC in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 81], "content_span": [82, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279240-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship squads, Pool A, Volero Le Cannet\nThe following is the roster of the French club Volero Le Cannet in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 85], "content_span": [86, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279240-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship squads, Pool B, Eczac\u0131ba\u015f\u0131 VitrA \u0130stanbul\nThe following is the roster of the Turkish club Eczac\u0131ba\u015f\u0131 VitrA \u0130stanbul in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 94], "content_span": [95, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279240-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship squads, Pool B, Praia Clube\nThe following is the roster of the Brazilian club Praia Clube in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 80], "content_span": [81, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279240-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship squads, Pool B, Supreme Chonburi\nThe following is the roster of the Thai club Supreme Chonburi in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 85], "content_span": [86, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279240-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship squads, Pool B, Altay VC\nThe following is the roster of the Kazakh club Altay VC in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 77], "content_span": [78, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279241-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League\nThe 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League, a new annual international women's volleyball tournament contested by 16 national teams that replaced the former World Grand Prix in the international calendar. The competition was held between May and July 2018 and the final round took place in the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre, Nanjing, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279241-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League\nSix-time World Grand Prix winners, United States won the inaugural edition, defeating Turkey in five sets on the final. This was Turkey's first ever final on a senior world-level premier competition (World Championship, World Cup, Summer Olympic Games and the aforementioned Grand Prix). Reigning Olympic champions and host nation, China defeated 12-time Grand Prix champions Brazil in straight sets for the bronze medal. Michelle Bartsch-Hackley from USA was elected the MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279241-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League\nArgentina was the last placed challenger team after the preliminary round and will be replaced by Challenger Cup winners Bulgaria in the 2019 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279241-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League, Qualification\nSixteen teams qualified for the competition. Twelve of them qualified as core teams which cannot face relegation. Other four teams were selected as challenger teams which could be relegated from the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279241-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League, Format, Preliminary round\nThe 16 teams compete in a round-robin format with every core team hosting a pool at least once. The teams are divided into 4 pools of 4 teams at each week and compete five weeks long, with a total of 120 matches. The top five teams after the league round join the hosts of the final round to compete in the final round. The relegation takes in consideration only the 4 challenger teams and the last ranked challenger team will be excluded from the 2019 Nations League. The winners of the Challenger Cup will qualify for the next edition as a challenger team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279241-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League, Format, Final round\nThe six qualified teams play in 2 pools of 3 teams in round-robin. The top 2 teams of each pool qualify for the semifinals. The pool winners play against the runners-up in this round. The semifinals winners advance to compete for the Nations League title. The losers face in the third place match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279241-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League, Pools composition\nThe overview of pools was released on February 16, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279241-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League, Venues\nThe list of host cities and venues was announced on February 16, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279241-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League, Squads\nThe 16 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 21 players, which every week's 14-player roster must be selected from. Each country must declare its 14-player roster two days before the start of each week's round-robin competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279241-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League, Final standing\nTeam roster for the final round: Micha Hancock, Carli Lloyd, Justine Wong-Orantes, Rachael Adams, TeTori Dixon, Lauren Gibbemeyer, Madison Kingdon, Jordan Larson (c), Andrea Drews, Kelly Murphy, Michelle Bartsch-Hackley, Kim Hill, Foluke Akinradewo, Kelsey Robinson. Head Coach: Karch Kiraly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279242-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League squads\nThis article shows the roster of all participating teams at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League. The 16 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 21 players, which every week's 14-player roster must be selected from. Each country must declare its 14-player roster two days before the start of each week's round-robin competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279242-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League squads, Argentina\nA preliminary squad with 26 names was announced on 26 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 61], "content_span": [62, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279242-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League squads, Brazil\nA preliminary squad with 26 names was announced on 24 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279242-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League squads, China\nA preliminary squad with 26 names was announced on 24 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279242-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League squads, Germany\nA preliminary squad with 26 names was announced on 26 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279242-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League squads, Poland\nA preliminary squad with 27 names was announced on 19 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279242-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League squads, Thailand\nA preliminary squad with 26 names was announced on 26 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279242-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League squads, United States\nA preliminary squad with 26 names was announced on 19 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship\nThe 2018 FIVB Women's World Championship was the eighteenth edition of the event, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held in Japan from 29 September to 20 October 2018. The final four was held at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship\nSerbia won their first world title, defeating Italy in five sets at the final. This was the first all-European final in the Women's World Championship history and the first final since 1990 that not featured a team from the Americas. Reigning olympic champions China won the 3rd place match, defeating Netherlands in straight sets. For the first time since the 1974 Championship in Mexico, no team from the Americas reached the final four. Tijana Bo\u0161kovi\u0107 from Serbia was elected the MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Host selection\nOn 25 August 2014, FIVB announced that the tournament would be held in Japan for the third time in twelve years and the fifth time overall. The tournament will take place in six cities: Hamamatsu, Kobe, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, and Yokohama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 63], "content_span": [64, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Host selection\nJapan hosted the Women's World Championship on four previous occasions: 1967, 1998, 2006, and 2010. Moreover, Japan also hosted the Men's World Championship in 1998 and 2006. The country has also played hosts to other important volleyball competitions, including the Asian Women's Volleyball Championship and the World Grand Prix final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 63], "content_span": [64, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Qualification\nThe qualification process was a series of tournaments organised by the five FIVB confederations to decide 22 of the 24 teams which would play in the final tournament, with Japan qualifying automatically as hosts and United States also qualifying automatically as the defending champions. All remaining FIVB member associations were eligible to enter the qualifying process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Qualification\nAt first, 160 associations registered teams to compete in the qualification process, but 46 associations withdrew from the qualifying process after they registered and India were suspended and then expelled from taking part in the process as a punishment for internal problems in the India Volleyball Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Qualification\nThe five regional governing bodies were allocated the remaining 22 spots; CAVB (Africa) was granted two, AVC (Asia and Oceania) four, NORCECA (North America) six, CSV (South America) two, and CEV (Europe) eight spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Qualification\nOf the 24 nations qualified to play at the 2018 World Championship, 21 countries competed at the previous tournament in 2014. Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the first time. Other teams returning after absences of the last tournament(s) include Kenya and South Korea, who both missed the 2014 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Format\nIn the first round, the 24 teams are spread across four pools of six teams playing in a round-robin system. The top four teams from each pool advance to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Format\nIn the second round, the 16 teams are allocated in two pools of eight teams (top teams from first round pools A and D in one and top teams from pools B and C in the other). Once again a round-robin system is used in each pool, teams coming from the same first round pool (therefore already played each other) only play against opponents from a different first round pool. The second round standings takes into account the points scored by each team in the first and second rounds. The top three teams of each group will access the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Format\nThe six teams competing in the third round are divided into two three-team pools by a draw, with the 1st place teams from the previous round securing the head position of both pools. After the matches played once again in a round-robin system, the top two in each pool qualify for the semifinals and finals while the third placed teams from each pool play a fifth place match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Format\nThe third round pool winners play against the runners-up in this round. The semifinals winners advance to compete for the World Championship title. The losers face each other in the third place match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Pools composition, First round\nTeams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 7 August 2017. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as heads of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines following the World Ranking. Each pool had no more than three teams from the same confederation. The draw was held in Tokyo, Japan on 7 December 2017. Rankings as of 7 August 2017 are shown in brackets, except the hosts Japan who ranked 6th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 79], "content_span": [80, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Pools composition, Third round\nThird round draw took place at Nippon Gaishi Hall, Nagoya on 11 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 79], "content_span": [80, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Statistics leaders\nThe statistics of each group follows the vis reports P2 and P3. The statistics include 6 volleyball skills; serve, reception, set, spike, block, and dig. The table below shows the top 5 ranked players in each skill plus top scorers at the completion of the tournament. Only players whose teams advanced to the third round are taken in consideration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 67], "content_span": [68, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Marketing, Local performance\nAccording to Japan leading news paper \u671d\u65e5\u65b0\u805e, the two Japanese local business partner were reported to lost money on hosting the competition. TBS is expected to lose nearly 1 billion yen due to bad sales at commercial advertisements. And JVA was expected to lose 600 million yen as the drop of ticket selling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279243-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Broadcasting\nFIVB, through several companies, sold the broadcasting rights for the 2018 World Championship to the following broadcasters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279244-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification\nThe 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification is a series of tournaments to decide teams which will play in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship. The 2018 World Championship will feature 24 teams. Two places were allocated to the hosts, Japan and the titleholder, United States. The remaining 22 places will be determined by a qualification process, in which entrants from among the other teams from the five FIVB confederations will compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279244-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification, Qualification process\nThe distribution by confederation for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship will be:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 84], "content_span": [85, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279244-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification, Qualification process, Summary of qualification\nNote: AVC total includes +1 for Japan as hosts. Note: NORCECA total includes +1 for United States as reigning champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 110], "content_span": [111, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279244-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification, Qualification process, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser. Match won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 109], "content_span": [110, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279244-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification, Qualification process, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20131: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 109], "content_span": [110, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279244-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification, Confederation qualification, AVC (Asia and Oceania), Final positions (Second round)\nThe draw for the second round was held on 19 March 2017, at the Dusit Princess Srinakarin Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 146], "content_span": [147, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279245-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (AVC)\nThe Asian section of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification acts as qualifiers for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, to be held in Japan, for national teams which are members of the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC). A total of 4+1 slots (4 direct slots and 1 host slot) in the final tournament are available for AVC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279245-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (AVC), Pools composition, First round\nThere are three confederation zonal competitions. The winner of each competition competed in second round. Because Macau, New Zealand and Tonga later withdrew, North Korea and Fiji automatically qualified for the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 99], "content_span": [100, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279245-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (AVC), Pools composition, Second round\nThe top seven ranked teams from FIVB World Ranking as of 1 January 2015 qualified automatically for this round. The top six ranked teams seeded by the serpentine system. The other four teams were drawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 100], "content_span": [101, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279246-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (CAVB)\nThe CAVB qualification for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship was a competition for two places at the finals in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279246-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (CAVB)\nThe CAVB Board of Administration meeting of 25 May 2017 decided to merge the 2017 Women's African Volleyball Championship and 2018 FIVB World Championship Continental Qualifiers. The top two teams from amongst the teams, who had registered with FIVB for the 2018 World Championship, will qualify to represent Africa in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279246-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (CAVB), Pools composition, First round\nThere are seven confederation zonal competitions. The teams were distributed according to their geographical positions. The winner of each competition competed in second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 100], "content_span": [101, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279246-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (CAVB), Pools composition, First round\nNote: Burundi, Gambia, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Central African Republic, Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar withdrew from zonal qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 100], "content_span": [101, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279246-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (CAVB), Pools composition, Second round\nThe second round is 2017 Women's African Nations championship which acts also as a qualifier for the 2018 FIVB World Championship. The top two teams from World ranking as of September 2017 and the host will direct qualify from first round. If the top two ranking teams have already qualified, the next best team from their pool would replace them in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 101], "content_span": [102, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279246-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (CAVB), Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 93], "content_span": [94, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279246-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (CAVB), First round, Pool A\nNote: Tunisia and Algeria qualified to second round as top two FIVB ranking teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 89], "content_span": [90, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279247-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (CEV)\nThe CEV qualification for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship will see member nations compete for eight places at the finals in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279247-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (CEV), Pools composition, First round\n8 Small Countries Division teams will participate in the first round. The first round will also act as the 2017 European Championship Small Countries Division qualification round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 99], "content_span": [100, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279247-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (CEV), Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 92], "content_span": [93, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279248-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (CSV)\nThe CSV qualification for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship saw its member nations compete for two places at the finals in Japan. The winners of the 2017 Women's South American Volleyball Championship, plus the winners of the qualification tournament, qualified for the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279249-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (NORCECA)\nThe NORCECA qualification for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship will see member nations compete for six places at the finals in Japan. USA has directly qualified to 2018 World Championship as the 2014 World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279249-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (NORCECA), Pool compositions\n34 NORCECA member nations will enter qualification. Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica directly qualify to the 2017 NORCECA Continental Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 90], "content_span": [91, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279249-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (NORCECA), Pool compositions\nCAZOVA and ECVA will have two rounds of qualification. The two highest seeded teams from each zone according to the January 1, 2016 NORCECA Continental Women's Senior Ranking directly qualifies to the second zonal round. The first zonal round will have three groups of four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 90], "content_span": [91, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279249-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (NORCECA), Pool compositions\nAFECAVOL zonal qualification will have single round-robin tournament. The top two teams will qualify to the 2017 NORCECA Continental Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 90], "content_span": [91, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279249-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (NORCECA), Pool compositions, CAZOVA Zone\nNORCECA Continental Women's Senior Ranking as of January 1, 2016 is shown in bracket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 103], "content_span": [104, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279249-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (NORCECA), Pool compositions, ECVA Zone, Second round\nSt. Lucia was advanced to Final Round by NORCECA when the schedule for the NORCECA Continental Championships Group B schedule was released. St. Lucia was the highest ranking team and therefore was advanced to the Final Round of qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 115], "content_span": [116, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads\nThis article shows the roster of all participating teams at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool A, Argentina\nThe following is the Argentinian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool A, Cameroon\nThe following is the Cameroonian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 72], "content_span": [73, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool A, Germany\nThe following is the German roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 71], "content_span": [72, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool A, Japan\nThe following is the Japanese roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool A, Mexico\nThe following is the Mexican roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool A, Netherlands\nThe following is the Dutch roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool B, Bulgaria\nThe following is the Bulgarian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 72], "content_span": [73, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool B, Canada\nThe following is the Canadian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool B, China\nThe following is the Chinese roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool B, Cuba\nThe following is the Cuban roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 68], "content_span": [69, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool B, Italy\nThe following is the Italian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool B, Turkey\nThe following is the Turkish roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool C, Azerbaijan\nThe following is the Azerbaijani roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 74], "content_span": [75, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool C, Russia\nThe following is the Russian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool C, South Korea\nThe following is the South Korean roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool C, Thailand\nThe following is the Thai roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 72], "content_span": [73, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool C, Trinidad and Tobago\nThe following is the Trinidadian and Tobagonian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 83], "content_span": [84, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool C, United States\nThe following is the American roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool D, Brazil\nThe following is the Brazilian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool D, Dominican Republic\nThe following is the Dominican roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 82], "content_span": [83, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool D, Kazakhstan\nThe following is the Kazakhstan roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 74], "content_span": [75, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool D, Kenya\nThe following is the Kenyan roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool D, Puerto Rico\nThe following is the Puerto Rican roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279250-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads, Pool D, Serbia\nThe following is the Serbian roster in the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279251-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FK Bod\u00f8/Glimt season\nThe 2018 season was Bod\u00f8/Glimt's first season back in the Tippeligaen since their relegation at the end of the 2016 season. Bod\u00f8/Glimt finished the season in 11th position, and reached the Quarter-final of Norwegian Cup before defeat to IK Start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279252-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FK Haugesund season\nThe 2018 season was Haugesund's 9th season in the Tippeligaen following their promotion in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279252-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FK Haugesund season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279252-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FK Haugesund season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279252-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FK Haugesund season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279252-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FK Haugesund season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279252-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FK Haugesund season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279252-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FK Haugesund season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279253-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FKF President's Cup\nThe 2018 FKF President's Cup, known as the 2018 FKF SportPesa Shield for sponsorship reasons, is the 2018 edition of the FKF President's Cup, the knockout football competition of Kenya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279254-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fairfield Challenger\nThe 2018 Fairfield Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Fairfield, United States between 8 and 14 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279254-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fairfield Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279254-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fairfield Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279254-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fairfield Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279255-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fairfield Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nLuke Bambridge and David O'Hare were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279255-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fairfield Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nSanchai Ratiwatana and Christopher Rungkat won the title after defeating Harri Heli\u00f6vaara and Henri Laaksonen 6\u20130, 7\u20136(11\u20139) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279256-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fairfield Challenger \u2013 Singles\nMackenzie McDonald was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279256-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fairfield Challenger \u2013 Singles\nBjorn Fratangelo won the title after defeating Alex Bolt 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279257-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fall UPSL season\nThe 2018 Fall United Premier Soccer League season is the 11th season of the UPSL. Milwaukee Bavarian SC are the reigning champions. However, the Midwest Conference will not participate in the fall season, and the Bavarians will not be able to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279257-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fall UPSL season\nFor the Fall 2018 season, UPSL had 89 teams compete in 13 Pro Premier Divisions divided into 5 conferences. An additional 29 teams competed in 3 Championships Divisions from 2 Conferences. The overall structure of the League by Conference and roughly from west to east is represented in the table below", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279257-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fall UPSL season, Pro Premier, Competition format\nTeams are divided into five conferences, some of which are further subdivided into divisions. Unless specified otherwise, all playoff matches are contested over a single leg, hosted by the team with the best points-per-game ratio. Extra time is not used in any round; matches drawn after 90 minutes advance directly to a penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279257-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fall UPSL season, Pro Premier, Playoffs, Mountain Conference playoffs\nThe match originally ended 5-1 in favor of San Juan FC, but they were subsequently ruled to have fielded an ineligible player. Boise Cutthroats FC was advanced to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 74], "content_span": [75, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279257-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Fall UPSL season, Championship, Southeast Conference, Florida Central Division\nThe following 7 clubs joined the division for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 83], "content_span": [84, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279257-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Fall UPSL season, Championship, Western Conference, SoCal Division\nThe following 4 northern SoCal Championship clubs left the division before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 71], "content_span": [72, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279257-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Fall UPSL season, Championship, Western Conference, SoCal Division\nThe following 5 clubs joined the division before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 71], "content_span": [72, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279257-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Fall UPSL season, Championship, Western Conference, SoCal Division\nThe following 3 southern SoCal Championship clubs left the division before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 71], "content_span": [72, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279257-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Fall UPSL season, Championship, Western Conference, SoCal Division\nThe following 2 clubs joined the division before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 71], "content_span": [72, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279258-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl\nThe 2018 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 21, 2018. It was the 22nd edition of the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by the Idaho Potato Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279258-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Teams\nThe game matched the Western Michigan Broncos, from the Mid-American Conference, and the BYU Cougars, an independent team. The programs previously had met five times, most recently in 1970, with BYU holding a 3\u20132 edge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279258-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Teams, Western Michigan Broncos\nWestern Michigan received and accepted a bid to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on December 2. The Broncos entered the bowl with a 7\u20135 record (5\u20133 in conference). This was Western Michigan's second appearance in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, having lost to Air Force in the 2014 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279258-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Teams, BYU Cougars\nBYU received and accepted a bid to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on December 2. The independent Cougars entered the bowl with a 6\u20136 record. BYU became the first independent team to play in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279258-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Teams, Potato Bowl MVP\nZach Wilson won Potato bowl MVP after a stellar performance completing all 18 of his passes for 317 yards and 4 touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279259-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fareham Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Fareham Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Fareham Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279259-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fareham Borough Council election\nHalf of the seats were up for re-election, with each councillor elected for a term of 4 years. The last time these seats were contested was in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279259-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fareham Borough Council election\nAs well as wards in the town of Fareham, candidates were being elected in Hill Head, Locks Heath, Park Gate, Portchester, Titchfield, Sarisbury, Stubbington and Warsash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279259-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fareham Borough Council election\nThe composition of the council was unchanged from prior to these elections, with the Conservatives gaining one seat in Fareham East from the Lib Dems but the Lib Dems gaining one seat in Portchester East from the Conservatives after a previous defection,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279259-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Fareham Borough Council election, Election results\nThe Conservatives remained in overall control, winning 12 seats. The Liberal Democrats won 3 seats, and an independent won 1 seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279259-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Fareham Borough Council election, Ward Candidates\nAll swings and composition changes calculated from the 2014 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279260-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Faroe Islands Cup\nThe 2018 Faroe Islands Cup was the 64th edition of Faroe Islands domestic football cup. The competition started on 25 April and ended with the final on 25 August. NS\u00cd were the defending champions, having won their third cup title the previous year, but were upset in the first round by eventual semifinalists AB, becoming the first defending champion since 1992 to be knocked out in the first stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279260-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Faroe Islands Cup\nB36 won the cup for the 6th time and qualified for the Preliminary round of the 2019\u201320 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279260-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Faroe Islands Cup\nOnly the first teams of Faroese football clubs were allowed to participate. Teams from all divisions entered the competition in the first round. MB withdrew the competition. As a result, one team would advance directly to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279260-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Faroe Islands Cup, First round\nEntering this round are all ten clubs from Betri deildin menn, four from 1. deild, and one from 2. deild.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279261-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Faroe Islands Premier League\nThe 2018 Faroe Islands Premier League (also known as Betri deildin menn for sponsorship reasons) was the 76th season of top-tier football in the Faroe Islands. V\u00edkingur G\u00f8ta were the defending champions, having won their second Faroese title in the previous season. The season started in 11 March and ended on 27 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279261-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Faroe Islands Premier League, Teams\nThe champions of the 2017 1. deild, AB Argir will be replacing \u00cdF who ended up last in the 2017 Faroe Islands Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279261-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Faroe Islands Premier League, Results\nEach team plays three times (either twice at home and once away or once at home and twice away) against every other team for a total of 27 matches each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279262-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fast5 Netball World Series\nThe 2018 Fast5 Netball World Series was the ninth staging of the annual Fast5 Netball World Series, and the sixth to be played under the new Fast5 rules, which replaced the older fastnet rules introduced in 2009. The tournament was held in Australia for the third time at Melbourne Arena in Melbourne, Victoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279262-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fast5 Netball World Series\nThe tournament was contested by the same six teams that competed last year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279262-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fast5 Netball World Series, Overview, Format\n18 matches are played over two days, under the Fast5 rules of netball. Each team plays each other once during the first two days in a round-robin format. The two highest-scoring teams from this stage progress to the Grand Final while the remaining teams contest the third-fourth place playoff match and fifth-sixth place playoff match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279262-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fast5 Netball World Series, Overview, Teams\nThe tournament is contested by the six top national netball teams in the world, according to the INF World Rankings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279263-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup\nThe 2018 Fed Cup is the 56th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in women's tennis. The 2018 Fed Cup was expected to feature some structural changes, including a 16-team World Group and the introduction of a Final Four event at a neutral, predetermined location. However, the ITF announced shortly before their annual meeting that they were tabling a vote on the changes for at least one year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279263-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup\nIn one of the biggest shocks in the tournament history, Russia was demoted to the Zonal Groups for the first time in two decades, after consecutive losses to Slovakia and Latvia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279263-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup\nThe final took place on 10\u201311 November and was won by the Czech Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279263-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup, World Group Play-offs\nThe four losing teams in the World Group first round ties and four winners of the World Group II ties will compete in the World Group Play-offs for spots in the 2019 World Group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 35], "content_span": [36, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279263-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup, World Group II Play-offs\nThe four losing teams in the World Group II ties and four winners of the zonal Groups I are scheduled to compete in the World Group II Play-offs for spots in the 2019 World Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 38], "content_span": [39, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279263-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup, Americas Zone, Group II\nVenue 1: Club Deportivo La Asunci\u00f3n, Metepec, Mexico (hard) Venue 2: Centro Nacional de Tenis de la FET, Guayaquil, Ecuador (clay)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 37], "content_span": [38, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279263-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup, Europe/Africa Zone, Group III\nVenue 1: Cit\u00e9 Nationale Sportive, Tunis, Tunisia (hard) Venue 2: Ulcinj Bellevue, Ulcinj, Montenegro (clay)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 43], "content_span": [44, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279264-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone\nThe Americas Zone was one of three zones of regional competition in the 2018 Fed Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279264-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone, Group I\nThe seven teams were divided into two pools of three and four teams. The two pool winners took part in a play-off to determine the nation advancing to the World Group II Play-offs. The two nations finishing last and second last in their pools took part in relegation play-offs, with the two losing nations being relegated to Group II for 2019. Puerto Rico withdrew before the tournament due to the economic circumstances caused by Hurricane Maria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279265-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I\nThe Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I is the first stage of the Zonal Groups from the Americas to determine who will advance to the World Group Play-offs, and who will be relegated to the World Group II Play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279266-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs\nThe play-offs of the 2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I were the final stages of the Group I Zonal Competition involving teams from the Americas. Using the positions determined in their pools, the seven teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I. The winner of the promotion play-off advanced to World Group II Play-offs, and the losers of the relegation play-off were relegated down to the Americas Zone Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279266-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Promotional play-off\nThe first placed teams of the two pools were drawn in head-to-head rounds. The winner advanced to the World Group II Play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279266-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Third place play-off\nThe runner-up teams of the two pools were drawn in head-to-head to determine the third and fourth placings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279266-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Relegation play-offs\nThe bottom team of Pool A and the third placed team of Pool B were drawn in head-to-head. The loser was relegated down to Americas Zone Group II in 2019. The last placed team of Pool B (Guatemala) was automatically relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279267-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I \u2013 Pool A\nPool A of the 2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I was one of two pools in the Americas zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279267-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I \u2013 Pool A, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279268-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I \u2013 Pool B\nPool B of the 2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I was one of two pools in the Americas zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279268-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I \u2013 Pool B, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279269-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II \u2013 Play-offs\nThe Play-offs of the 2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II were the final stages of the Group II Zonal Competition involving teams from the Americas. Using the positions determined in their pools, the thirteen teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II. The top two teams advanced to Group I in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279269-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II \u2013 Play-offs, Promotional play-offs\nThe first placed teams of the four pools were drawn in head-to-head rounds. The winners advanced to Group I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279269-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II \u2013 Play-offs, Third to fourth place play-offs\nThe second placed teams of the four pools were drawn in head-to-head rounds to determine the 3rd to 4th placings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279269-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II \u2013 Play-offs, Fifth to sixth place play-offs\nThe third placed teams of the four pools were drawn in head-to-head rounds to determine the 5th to 6th placings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 79], "content_span": [80, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279270-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II \u2013 Pool A (Guayaquil)\nPool A (Guayaquil) of the 2018 Fed Cup Americas Group II was one of four pools in the Americas Group II of the 2018 Fed Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and bottom teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279270-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II \u2013 Pool A (Guayaquil), Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 67], "content_span": [68, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279271-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II \u2013 Pool A (Metepec)\nPool A (Metepec) of the 2018 Fed Cup Americas Group II was one of four pools in the Americas Group II of the 2018 Fed Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and bottom teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279271-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II \u2013 Pool A (Metepec), Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 65], "content_span": [66, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279272-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II \u2013 Pool B (Guayaquil)\nPool B (Guayaquil) of the 2018 Fed Cup Americas Group II was one of four pools in the Americas Group II of the 2018 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and bottom teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279272-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II \u2013 Pool B (Guayaquil), Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 67], "content_span": [68, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279273-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II \u2013 Pool B (Metepec)\nPool B (Metepec) of the 2018 Fed Cup Americas Group II was one of four pools in the Americas Group II of the 2018 Fed Cup. 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Using the positions determined in their pools, the eight teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I. The winner of the promotional play-off advanced to the World Group II Play-offs, while the losers of the relegation play-offs were relegated to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279276-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Promotional play-off\nThe first placing teams of the two pools were drawn in head-to-head rounds. The winner advanced to the World Group II Play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279276-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, 3rd place play-off\nThe second placed teams of the two pools were drawn in head-to-head rounds to find the third placed team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279276-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Relegation play-off\nThe third and fourth placed teams of the two pools were drawn in head-to-head rounds. The losers were relegated to Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279277-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Pool A\nPool A of the 2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I was one of two pools in the Asia/Oceania zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279277-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Pool A, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279278-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Pool B\nPool B of the 2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I was one of two pools in the Asia/Oceania zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279278-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Pool B, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279279-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II \u2013 Play-offs\nThe play-offs of the 2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II were the final stages of the Group II Zonal Competition involving teams from Asia and Oceania. Using the positions determined in their pools, the fourteen teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II. The top team advanced to Asia/Oceania Group I in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279279-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II \u2013 Play-offs, Promotional play-offs\nThe first placed teams of the pools were drawn in head-to-head rounds. The winners advanced to the Asia/Oceania Group I in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 74], "content_span": [75, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279279-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II \u2013 Play-offs, 5th to 8th play-offs\nThe second placed teams of the pools were drawn in head-to-head rounds to find the fifth to eighth placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279279-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II \u2013 Play-offs, 9th to 12th play-offs\nThe third placed teams of the pools were drawn in head-to-head rounds to find the ninth to twelfth placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 74], "content_span": [75, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279280-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II \u2013 Pool A\nPool A of the 2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II was one of four pools in the Asia/Oceania zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279280-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II \u2013 Pool A, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279281-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II \u2013 Pool B\nPool B of the 2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II was one of four pools in the Asia/Oceania zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279281-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II \u2013 Pool B, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279282-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II \u2013 Pool C\nPool C of the 2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II was one of four pools in the Asia/Oceania zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs the top team played for advancement to Group I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279282-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II \u2013 Pool C, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279283-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II \u2013 Pool D\nPool D of the 2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II was one of four pools in the Asia/Oceania zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279283-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II \u2013 Pool D, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279284-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone\nThe Europe/Africa Zone was one of three zones of regional competition in the 2018 Fed Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279284-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone, Group I\nThe fourteen teams were divided into two pools of three teams and two pools of four teams. The four pool winners took part in promotional play-offs to determine the two nations advancing to the World Group II Play-offs. The nations finishing last in their pools took part in relegation play-offs, with the two losing nations being relegated to Group II for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279284-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone, Group II\nThe seven teams were divided into two pools of three and four teams. The four nations finishing first and second took part in a play-off to determine the nations advancing to Group I in 2019. The two nations finishing last (Pool A) and second last (Pool B) in their pools took part in a relegation play-off. The nation finishing last in Pool B was automatically relegated alongside the losing nation of the play-off to Group II for 2019. Moldova withdrew before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279284-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone, Group III\nThe seventeen teams were divided into three pools of four teams and one pool of five teams. The four nations finishing first and second took part in a play-off to determine the nations advancing to Group I in 2019. One nation will be promoted from each venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279285-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs\nThe play-offs of the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I were the final stages of the Group I zonal competition involving teams from Europe and Africa. Using the positions determined in their pools, the fourteen teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I. The top two teams advanced to World Group II Play-offs, and the bottom two teams were relegated to the Europe/Africa Zone Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279285-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Promotional play-offs\nThe first placed teams of each pool were drawn in head-to-head rounds. The winner of each round advanced to the World Group II Play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 74], "content_span": [75, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279285-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, 5th place play-off\nThe runner-up teams from pools A and D, and B and C competed in order to establish which two teams would place joint fifth in the final standings and which two would place joint seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 71], "content_span": [72, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279285-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Relegation play-offs\nThe teams placing last in each pool competed to keep their place in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I. The bottom-placed team from group A faced the bottom-placed team from Group D, whilst Group B's and Group C's bottom-placed teams faced off. The losers were relegated to the 2019 Europe/Africa Zone Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279286-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Pool A\nPool A of the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279286-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Pool A, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279287-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Pool B\nPool B of the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279287-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Pool B, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279288-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Pool C\nPool C of the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279288-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Pool C, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279289-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Pool D\nPool D of the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279289-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Pool D, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279290-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II \u2013 Play-offs\nThe play-offs of the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II were the final stages of the Group II zonal competition involving teams from Europe and Africa. Using the positions determined in their pools, the eight teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II. The top two teams advanced to Group I, and the bottom two teams were relegated down to the Group III for the next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279290-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II \u2013 Play-offs, Promotional play-offs\nThe first-placed teams of each pool played against the second-placed teams of the other pool in head-to-head rounds. The winner of each round advanced to the 2019 Europe/Africa Zone Group I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279290-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II \u2013 Play-offs, Relegation play-offs\nThe third-placed teams of the pools played against each other in a head-to-head round. The loser was relegated to the 2019 Europe/Africa Zone Group III alongside Norway who finished last in Pool B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 74], "content_span": [75, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279291-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II \u2013 Pool A\nGroup A of the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II was one of two pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top two teams and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top two teams played for advancement to Group I, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279291-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II \u2013 Pool A, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) If two teams have the same number of wins, head-to-head record; 3) If three teams have the same number of wins, (a) number of matches won in the group, then (b) percentage of sets won in the group, then (c) percentage of games won in the group, then (d) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279292-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II \u2013 Pool B\nGroup B of the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II was one of two pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 2018 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top two teams and the bottom two teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top two teams played for advancement to Group I, while the third placed team faced potential relegation to Group III. The bottom placing team was automatically relegated to Group III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279292-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II \u2013 Pool B, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) If two teams have the same number of wins, head-to-head record; 3) If three teams have the same number of wins, (a) number of matches won in the group, then (b) percentage of sets won in the group, then (c) percentage of games won in the group, then (d) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279293-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Play-offs\nThe play-offs of the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III were the final stages of the Group III zonal competition involving teams from Europe and Africa. Using the positions determined in their pools, the seventeen teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III. The top two teams advanced to Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279293-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Play-offs, Promotional play-offs\nThe first placed teams of each pool were drawn in head-to-head rounds. The winners advanced to Group II in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279293-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Play-offs, 3rd to 4th play-offs\nThe second placed teams of each pool were drawn in head-to-head rounds to find the equal third and fourth placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 75], "content_span": [76, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279293-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Play-offs, 5th to 6th play-offs\nThe third placed teams of each pool were drawn in head-to-head rounds to find the equal fifth and sixth placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 75], "content_span": [76, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279293-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Play-offs, 7th to 8th play-offs\nThe fourth placed teams of each pool were drawn in head-to-head rounds to find the seventh and equal eighth placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 75], "content_span": [76, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279294-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Pool A (Tunis)\nPool A (Tunis) of the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group III was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa Group III of the 2018 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and bottom teams proceeding to their respective section of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279294-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Pool A (Tunis), Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) If two teams have the same number of wins, head-to-head record; 3) If three teams have the same number of wins, (a) number of matches won in the group, then (b) percentage of sets won in the group, then (c) percentage of games won in the group, then (d) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 69], "content_span": [70, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279295-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Pool A (Ulcinj)\nPool A (Ulcinj) of the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group III was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa Group III of the 2018 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and bottom teams proceeding to their respective section of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279295-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Pool A (Ulcinj), Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) If two teams have the same number of wins, head-to-head record; 3) If three teams have the same number of wins, (a) number of matches won in the group, then (b) percentage of sets won in the group, then (c) percentage of games won in the group, then (d) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 70], "content_span": [71, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279296-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Pool B (Tunis)\nPool B (Tunis) of the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group III was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa Group III of the 2018 Fed Cup. Five teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and bottom teams proceeding to their respective section of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279296-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Pool B (Tunis), Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) If two teams have the same number of wins, head-to-head record; 3) If three teams have the same number of wins, (a) number of matches won in the group, then (b) percentage of sets won in the group, then (c) percentage of games won in the group, then (d) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 69], "content_span": [70, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279297-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Pool B (Ulcinj)\nPool B (Ulcinj) of the 2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group III was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa Group III of the 2018 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and bottom teams proceeding to their respective section of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279297-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Pool B (Ulcinj), Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) If two teams have the same number of wins, head-to-head record; 3) If three teams have the same number of wins, (a) number of matches won in the group, then (b) percentage of sets won in the group, then (c) percentage of games won in the group, then (d) Fed Cup rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 70], "content_span": [71, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279298-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup World Group\nThe World Group was the highest level of Fed Cup competition in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279299-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup World Group II\nThe World Group II was the second highest level of Fed Cup competition in 2018. The winning nations advanced to the World Group Play-offs, and the losing nations were relegated to the World Group II Play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279300-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup World Group II Play-offs\nThe 2018 World Group II Play-offs are four ties which involves the losing nations of the World Group II and four nations from the three Zonal Group I competitions. Nations that win their play-off ties enter the 2019 World Group II, while losing nations join their respective zonal groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279301-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fed Cup World Group Play-offs\nThe World Group I Play-offs were four ties which involved the losing nations of the World Group and the winning nations of the World Group II. Nations that won their play-off ties entered the 2019 World Group, while losing nations joined the 2019 World Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279302-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs\nThe 2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of four golf tournaments that determined the season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, was played from August 23 to September 23. It included the following four events:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279302-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs\nThese were the 12th FedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279302-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs, The Northern Trust\nThe Northern Trust was played August 23\u201326. Of the 125 players eligible to play in the event, five did not enter: Rickie Fowler (ranked 17), Rory McIlroy (21), Henrik Stenson (50), Patrick Rodgers (93), and Bud Cauley (122). Brandt Snedeker (30) was a late withdrawal, reducing the field to 119. 80 made the second-round cut at 142 (E).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279302-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs, The Northern Trust\nBryson DeChambeau won by four strokes over Tony Finau. The top 100 players in the points standings advanced to the Dell Technologies Championship. This included six players who were outside the top 100 prior to The Northern Trust: Nick Watney (ranked 102nd to 67th), Danny Lee (103 to 98), Scott Stallings (107 to 94), Bronson Burgoon (111 to 73), Brian Stuard (118 to 99) and Jhonattan Vegas (123 to 87).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279302-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs, The Northern Trust\nSix players started the tournament within the top 100 but ended the tournament outside the top 100, ending their playoff chances: Patrick Rodgers (ranked 93rd to 104th), Brandon Harkins (94 to 103), Trey Mullinax (95 to 102), Charl Schwartzel (96 to 105), Rory Sabbatini (97 to 109), and Alex \u010cejka (99 to 108).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279302-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs, Dell Technologies Championship\nThe Dell Technologies Championship was played August 31 \u2013 September 3. Of the 100 players eligible to play in the event, two did not: Francesco Molinari (ranked 13) and Rickie Fowler (22). 77 players made the second-round cut at 144 (+2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279302-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs, Dell Technologies Championship\nBryson DeChambeau won his second straight playoff event, winning by two strokes over Justin Rose. The top 70 players in the points standings advanced to the BMW Championship. This included six players who were outside the top 70 prior to Dell Technologies Championship: Pan Cheng-tsung (ranked 72nd to 33rd), Tyrrell Hatton (71 to 54), Abraham Ancer (92 to 56), Brice Garnett (81 to 63), Peter Uihlein (83 to 64), and Keith Mitchell (78 to 66).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279302-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs, Dell Technologies Championship\nSix players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances: Ryan Moore (ranked 60th to 71st), Kim Meen-whee (61 to 72), Stewart Cink (65 to 73), Nick Watney (67 to 74), Jimmy Walker (68 to 75), and Kevin Streelman (70 to 77).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279302-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs, BMW Championship\nThe BMW Championship was played September 6\u201310. Of the 70 players eligible to play in the event, only Daniel Berger (ranked 65) did not play. There was no cut. Due to weather conditions, the fourth round was delayed until September 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279302-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs, BMW Championship\nKeegan Bradley won on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with Justin Rose. The top 30 players in the points standings advanced to the Tour Championship. This included two players who were outside the top 30 prior to the BMW Championship: Bradley (ranked 52 to 6) and Xander Schauffele (41 to 18). Two players started the tournament within the top 30 but ended the tournament outside the top 30, ending their playoff chances: Jordan Spieth (27 to 31) and Emiliano Grillo (29 to 32).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279302-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs, Tour Championship\nThe Tour Championship was played September 20\u201323. All 30 golfers that qualified for the tournament played, and there was no cut. Tiger Woods won by two strokes over Billy Horschel, to finish second in the FedEx Cup rankings. Justin Rose finished tied for fourth place and took the FedEx Cup, 41 points ahead of Woods. He became the first player to win the FedEx Cup without winning any of the four events in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Bryson DeChambeau, who led the rankings before the event, finished in 19th place and dropped to third place in the final rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279303-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Federated Auto Parts 400\nThe 2018 Federated Auto Parts 400 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race that was held on September 22, 2018, at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. Contested over 400 laps on the .75-mile (1.21\u00a0km) D-shaped short track, it was the 28th race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, second race of the Playoffs and second race of the Round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279303-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Federated Auto Parts 400, Report, Background\nRichmond Raceway (RR), formerly known as Richmond International Raceway (RIR), is a 3/4-mile (1.2\u00a0km), D-shaped, asphalt race track located just outside Richmond, Virginia in Henrico County. It hosts the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series. Known as \"America's premier short track\", it formerly hosted a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, an IndyCar Series race and two USAC sprint car races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279303-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Federated Auto Parts 400, Practice, First practice\nKyle Busch was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 22.279 seconds and a speed of 121.190\u00a0mph (195.036\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279303-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Federated Auto Parts 400, Practice, Final practice\nBrad Keselowski was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 22.458 seconds and a speed of 120.224\u00a0mph (193.482\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279303-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Federated Auto Parts 400, Qualifying\nKevin Harvick scored the pole for the race with a time of 22.153 and a speed of 121.880\u00a0mph (196.147\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279303-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Federated Auto Parts 400, Media, Television\nNBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and three-time Richmond winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast will report from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279303-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Federated Auto Parts 400, Media, Radio\nThe Motor Racing Network had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279304-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 7 October 2018 as part of the Bosnian general elections. Voters elected the 98 members of the House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the assemblies of the cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279305-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Felcra F.C. season\nThe 2018 season is Felcra Football Club's 6th season in club history and 1st season in the Malaysia Premier League since being promoted to the Malaysia FAM League in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279306-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Felda United F.C. season\nThe 2018 season was Felda United's 12th competitive season and 1st season in the Malaysia Premier League since relegated in 2017. The season was a success, the club was promoted to the Malaysia Super League after only one-year absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279307-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fergana Challenger\nThe 2018 Fergana Challenger is a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It is the 19th edition of the tournament for men which is part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour, and the eighth edition of the event for women on the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It takes place in Fergana, Uzbekistan between 18\u201324 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279307-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fergana Challenger, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279307-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fergana Challenger, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 75], "content_span": [76, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279308-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fergana Challenger \u2013 Men's Doubles\nSriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279308-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fergana Challenger \u2013 Men's Doubles\nIvan Gakhov and Alexander Pavlioutchenkov won the title after defeating Saketh Myneni and Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279309-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fergana Challenger \u2013 Men's Singles\nIlya Ivashka was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279309-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fergana Challenger \u2013 Men's Singles\nNikola Milojevi\u0107 won the title after defeating Enrique L\u00f3pez P\u00e9rez 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279310-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fermanagh Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Fermanagh Senior Football Championship was the 112th edition of the Fermanagh GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior clubs in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The tournament consists of 8 teams, with the winner representing Fermanagh in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship had a straight knock-out format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279310-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fermanagh Senior Football Championship\nDerrygonnelly Harps were the defending champions for the third year running after they defeated St. Mary's in the previous years final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279310-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fermanagh Senior Football Championship\nThis season marked Belcoo O'Rahillys return to the senior grade after claiming the 2017 I.F.C. However at the end of the season they were relegated back to the I.F.C. for 2019 after failing to win a match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279310-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fermanagh Senior Football Championship\nDerrygonnelly Harps successfully defended their title to claim a 4-in-a-row of S.F.C. triumphs and the 7th in their history. They defeated Ederney St. Joseph's in the final at Brewster Park by 2-16 to 0-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279310-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Fermanagh Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279310-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Fermanagh Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoffs\nThe four losers of the quarter-finals play off in this round. The two losers will be relegated to the 2019 Intermediate Football Championship", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279311-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ferrari Challenge Europe\nThe 2018 Ferrari Challenge Europe is the 25th season of Ferrari Challenge Europe. The season consisted of 7 rounds, starting at the Mugello Circuit on March 24 and ending at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza on November 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279311-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ferrari Challenge Europe, Entry list\nAll teams and drivers used the Ferrari 488 Challenge fitted with Pirelli tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279311-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ferrari Challenge Europe, Results and standings, Championship standings\nPoints were awarded to the top ten classified finishers as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279312-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ferrari Challenge North America\nThe 2018 Ferrari Challenge North America is the 24th season of Ferrari Challenge North America. The season consisted of 7 rounds, starting at the Daytona International Speedway on January 27 and ending at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza on November 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279312-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ferrari Challenge North America, Entry list\nAll teams and drivers used the Ferrari 488 Challenge fitted with Pirelli tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279312-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ferrari Challenge North America, Results and standings, Championship standings\nPoints were awarded to the top ten classified finishers as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279313-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Festival Elsy Jacobs\nThe 2018 Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme f\u00e9minin Elsy Jacobs was a women's cycle stage race that was held in Luxembourg from 27 to 29 April 2018. The 2018 edition of the race was the 11th running of the Festival Elsy Jacobs, being held with a UCI rating of 2.1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279313-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Festival Elsy Jacobs, Teams\nA total of 20 teams competed in the race, including 15 UCI Women's Teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279314-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fiji Premier League\nThe 2018 Fiji Premier League was the 42nd season of the Fiji Premier League (Vodafone Premier League for sponsorship reasons), the top-tier football league in Fiji organized by the Fiji Football Association since its establishment in 1977. It started on 14 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279315-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fiji earthquake\nThe Fiji earthquakes of 2018 occurred on August 19, 2018, at 00:19:40 UTC. The epicenters were located close to the Fijian island Lakeba, and around 270 km from the small town of Levuka on Ovalau. The first earthquake registered a magnitude of 8.2 Mww\u202fand is the largest earthquake of 2018. The earthquake had a focal depth of 600 km, making it the second largest earthquake ever recorded at a depth greater than 300 km, a tie with the 1994 Bolivia earthquake, and behind the 2013 Sea of Okhotsk earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279315-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Fiji earthquake\nEarthquakes are common in the region as the Pacific Plate is still seismically active under the Fijian Islands, even after subduction along the Kermadec\u2013Tonga Trench. An Mww\u202f7.9 event hit the islands again on September 6 the same year, this time at a depth of 670 km, this earthquake was a mainshock of its own. Both earthquakes may be considered a doublet event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279315-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fiji earthquake, Earthquakes\nDeep earthquakes are commonly defined as events occurring at a depth of 300 km or greater. These earthquakes occur within subducting slabs that are descending into the mantle. As these plates bend or flex, faults break out to accommodate the deformation and along with it, occasionally producing earthquakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279315-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fiji earthquake, Earthquakes, August 19\nInitially reported as an 8.0 earthquake, it was later revised by the United States Geological Survey to an 8.2. Due to the earthquake being a deep-focus event, no damage was reported but it was widely felt. Small \"tsunami\" waves were also spotted along the coast, although it was too deep to generate more than a negligible tsunami. More than 250 aftershocks were seen 34 days after the main event. Focal mechanism solution suggest the earthquake had a complex rupture process and fast rupture velocity of 4.1 km/s. Rupture was observed along multiple faults in a mainly north northeast striking plane for a suggested length of 102 to 152 km.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279315-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fiji earthquake, Earthquakes, September 6\nEighteen days after the 8.2 event, another earthquake struck closer to the island of Viti Levu. The Mww\u202f7.9 earthquake was a downgrade from an initial magnitude of 8.1. The earthquake had a complex combination of strike-slip and dip-slip during rupture within the slab. It was an unusual event the portion of the slab is rather aseismic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279315-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Fiji earthquake, Earthquakes, September 6\nThe depth of this event was slightly deeper than the first quake, and the rupture velocity was much slower, at 2.5 km/s. It was suggested that coulomb stress transfer from the 8.2 quake may have triggered the 7.9 earthquake however, stress from the first quake was not sufficient to generate the next event alone. The Mww\u202f7.9 event may have been dynamically triggered by the Mww\u202f8.2 quake but the 18-day interval period was longer than usual as triggered quakes usually nucleate within a few hours to days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279316-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fijian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Fiji on 14 November 2018. The result was a victory for the ruling FijiFirst party of Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, which received just over 50% of the vote and 27 of the 51 seats in Parliament, a loss of five seats. The main opposition party, Social Democratic Liberal Party, gained six seats, whilst the National Federation Party retained its three seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279316-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fijian general election\nThe elections also saw female representation in Parliament rise to 20 percent, with 10 women elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279316-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fijian general election, Background and campaign\nOn 30 September Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama announced that the elections would be held on 14 November 2018. President Jioji Konrote subsequently dissolved parliament in accordance with section 58(3) of the constitution, on the advice of the Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279316-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fijian general election, Background and campaign\n234 candidates representing six political parties contested in the elections. 56 of the candidates were women. Candidate numbers for the ballot paper were drawn on 18 October. The Labour Party and Freedom Alliance Party presented a combined party list under the Labour Party banner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279316-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Fijian general election, Background and campaign\nDuring a campaign rally, FijiFirst leader Frank Bainimarama stated that he wanted to win all 51 parliamentary seats and govern without an opposition, arguing that the two main opposition parties represented i-Taukei and Indo-Fijian interests rather than all Fijians. The SODELPA party promised to restore the Great Council of Chiefs within a hundred days if elected, and to consider changing the electoral system to restore communal constituencies. They later explicitly promised to restore the 1997 constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279316-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Fijian general election, Background and campaign\nDuring the election campaign SODELPA leader Sitiveni Rabuka was tried and acquitted on charges of falsely declaring his assets and liabilities to the Supervisor of Elections. An appeal by the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption, which could have resulted in Rabuka's disqualification two days from the poll, was dismissed, with FICAC ordered to pay costs. Shortly before the appeal was decided Rabuka was again called in by police on unspecified charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279316-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Fijian general election, Background and campaign\nOn election day, voting was suspended at 26 polling stations due to torrential rain and flooding. Ballots cast at those stations were shredded. Polling recommenced with fresh ballot papers on Saturday 17 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279316-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Fijian general election, Electoral system\nThe 51 members of Parliament were elected from a single nationwide constituency by open list proportional representation with an electoral threshold of 5%. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279316-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Fijian general election, Electoral system, Schedule\nKey dates relating to the general election were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279316-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Fijian general election, Aftermath\nThe ruling FijiFirst Party lost 5 seats, but retained a majority in Parliament. FijiFirst leader Frank Bainimarama blamed poor weather for the loss of votes. Bainimarama was sworn in as Prime Minister on 20 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279317-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Filoil Flying V Preseason Premier Cup\nThe 2018 Filoil Flying V Preseason Premier Cup (also known as Hanes Presents 2018 Chooks-to-Go Filoil Flying V Preseason Premier Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the thirteenth preseason high school and collegiate basketball tournament organized by Filoil Flying V Sports. All 8 teams from the UAAP and 10 teams from the NCAA, together with the 23-man Gilas Pilipinas pool for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup to be hosted by the Philippines will be competed in the senior's tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279317-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Filoil Flying V Preseason Premier Cup\nThis is the first season to be broadcast on ESPN 5, after ending its 10-year relationship with ABS-CBN Sports which was concluded following the 2016 edition of the cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279317-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Filoil Flying V Preseason Premier Cup, Tournament format\nDue to different number of groups in men's and juniors' division, each has its own competition format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279318-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Finali Mondiali\nThe 2018 Finali Mondiali was the 2018 edition of the season-ending event for all Ferrari Challenge championships. Held at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Italy, the event saw drivers from the Asia-Pacific, European and North American championships take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279318-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Finali Mondiali\nThe headline Trofeo Pirelli Pro/ Pro -Am race was marred by a 14-car crash at the original start, causing a red flag and shortening the race. The eventual Pro-Am winner, Fabienne Wohlwend, made history in becoming the first female winner at a Finali Mondiali \u2013 and, on a technicality, the first female World Champion in any four-wheel discipline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279319-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Finder Darts Masters\nThe 2018 Finder Darts Masters was a major darts tournament run by the British Darts Organisation. It was held between 7 and 9 December 2018 at Hotel Zuiderduin, Egmond aan Zee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279320-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 Finnish Athletics Championships (also known as Kalevan Kisat) were held at the Harjun stadion in Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 on 19\u201322 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Finland on 28 January 2018. The incumbent Sauli Niinist\u00f6 received 62.7% of the vote and was elected for a second term, avoiding a second round. The term will be from 1 February 2018 to 1 March 2024. Although the President is elected by direct election, Niinist\u00f6 gained a plurality in all municipalities and a majority in all but 13 municipalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, National Coalition Party\nThe incumbent President Sauli Niinist\u00f6 was elected as the candidate of the National Coalition Party in the 2012 election. He was eligible for re-election and his decision for running again was closely followed throughout the latter half of his first term. On 29 May 2017, Niinist\u00f6 announced that he would seek support for his candidacy as an independent candidate outside party politics. To become an official candidate, Niinist\u00f6 needed 20,000 signatures from his supporters. Niinist\u00f6 eventually gathered 156,000 signatures and his candidacy was confirmed on 25 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, National Coalition Party\nSoon after Niinist\u00f6's announcement, the leader of the National Coalition Party Petteri Orpo tweeted that Niinist\u00f6 has the party's full support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Centre Party\nThe Centre Party decided on 30 November 2015 that the party would choose their presidential candidate already in June 2016. Soon after, former Prime Minister and Centre Party's presidential candidate in 2006 election, Matti Vanhanen, announced that he would run for candidacy. Prime Minister Juha Sipil\u00e4 declined his interest early on. Other prominent names in speculations for the candidacy were the former Prime Ministers Esko Aho and Anneli J\u00e4\u00e4tteenm\u00e4ki, and former Minister of Economic Affairs Olli Rehn. Rehn declined the possibility stating that it wouldn't be possible to combine his duties as cabinet minister with campaigning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Centre Party\nAho did not comment his interest in candidacy, but it was considered unlikely for him to seek presidential nomination, as he was a candidate for the supervisory board of Sberbank at the time. J\u00e4\u00e4tteenm\u00e4ki, an incumbent Vice President of the European Parliament, said running for president was \"not on her agenda\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Centre Party\nAs no challengers appeared till the deadline of 11 May, Vanhanen was the sole candidate in June's party congress and was confirmed as the Centre Party's candidate in the presidential election. Vanhanen has said that his candidacy is motivated by the support he felt he had around the country during his last campaign and the will to improve the security situation in the areas surrounding Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Finns Party\nThe Finns Party is likely to confirm their candidate in summer 2017. The leader of the Finns Party Timo Soini announced early on in November 2014 that he would not seek candidacy in the 2018 presidential election, after getting 3,43\u00a0% and 9,4\u00a0% of votes in 2006 and 2012 presidential elections respectively. He reaffirmed his decision in April 2016, encouraging party to move on and inviting new faces to enter party's primaries. As Soini had been a strong face for the Finns Party, his decision sparked much speculation on the party's decision, as party's presidential candidate was expected to also follow Soini as the chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Finns Party\nIn March 2017, Soini announced that he would not seek another term as the leader of the party. Soon after, the chairman of the parliamentary group Sampo Terho announced that he would seek chairmanship and, if elected, also presidential candidacy. Member of the European Parliament Jussi Halla-aho, Minister of Defence Jussi Niinist\u00f6 and Speaker of the Parliament Maria Lohela did also express their interest in candidacy, while Minister of Justice and Labor Jari Lindstr\u00f6m declined early on. However, only Halla-aho decided to also seek chairmanship in the leadership election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Finns Party\nChoosing the presidential candidate for the party was on the agenda for party congress in June 2017. However, after Jussi Halla-aho won the leadership election, the decision was postponed by Halla-aho's request. A few days after the leadership election, twenty Finns Party MPs, including all cabinet ministers, defected to form a new parliamentary group under the name New Alternative. After the split, most of the potential presidential candidates had left the party. However, the newly elected vice-chairman Laura Huhtasaari and MP Tom Packal\u00e9n announced that they were thinking about the candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Finns Party\nOn 4 August 2017, Halla-aho announced that the board of the Finns Party had chosen Huhtasaari as the presidential candidate of the party, and her candidacy was confirmed by the party council on 23 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Blue Reform\nOn 19 June 2017, Sampo Terho announced that a new party would be formed based on the New Alternative parliamentary group under the name Blue Reform. The vice-chair of the Blue Reform parliamentary group Tiina Elovaara stated initially that the group was likely to have their own presidential candidate. However, as the party was formed after the previous parliamentary election and thus has no elected MPs, it would have required to gather a sufficient number of signatures to set an own candidate. Thus, ultimately, the party decided not to put forth their own candidate and neither did it formally back any running candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Green League\nThe party 2012 presidential candidate, Pekka Haavisto, announced in February 2017 that he will reprise his candidacy. The decision came after Haavisto had been approached multiple times by the Green Party. Previously the party leader Ville Niinist\u00f6, President Niinist\u00f6's nephew, had stated that he would not seek the candidacy. Haavisto was confirmed as the party's candidate on 12 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Left Alliance\nThe Left Alliance chose MEP Merja Kyll\u00f6nen as the party's candidate on 18 March 2017, after being the only one interested in running. Former leader of the party Paavo Arhinm\u00e4ki was also interested in running early on, but later decided to concentrate on running for the office of Mayor of Helsinki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Social Democratic Party\nSocial Democratic Party organised an informal membership poll in August 2017 for electing the party's presidential candidate, with three candidates entering the race, MPs Maarit Feldt-Ranta, Tuula Haatainen and Sirpa Paatero. The final decision based on the membership poll was made on 2 September 2017, when it was revealed that Haatainen had received the most votes in the poll. Haatainen ultimately gained 48.6% of the votes against Feldt-Ranta's 42.3% and Paatero's 8.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Social Democratic Party\nBefore Feldt-Ranta, Haatainen and Paatero entered the party primary, Social Democratic Party was struggling to find potential candidates, as most of the prominent politicians had declined the candidacy. From early on, there was speculation on two possible candidates, Eero Hein\u00e4luoma and Jutta Urpilainen. In June 2016, Hein\u00e4luoma announced that he would not seek presidency due to his wife's recent death and ongoing work in the Parliament. In February 2017, Urpilainen also announced she would not seek presidency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Social Democratic Party\nThe leader of the party Antti Rinne, the Governor of the Bank of Finland Erkki Liikanen and MEP Liisa Jaakonsaari likewise announced that they were not entering the presidential race. There were also talks within SDP on supporting a candidate outside the party, such as archbishop Kari M\u00e4kinen, if no candidate would be found from within. Prominent SDP figureheads, such as Erkki Tuomioja and Lasse Lehtinen, even suggested the possibility of backing the incumbent president Sauli Niinist\u00f6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Swedish People's Party\nThe Swedish People's Party decided to choose their candidate in the party congress in June 2017. As no one else entered the party's primary on 11 June, Member of the European Parliament Nils Torvalds was nominated as the party candidate. In Spring 2016, then leader of the party, Carl Haglund stated that he was thinking about candidacy, but renounced his leadership and left politics later that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, Christian Democrats\nOn 19 August 2017, the Christian Democrats decided to back the incumbent President Sauli Niinist\u00f6. It was previously speculated that the leader of the party and former presidential candidate Sari Essayah would run again. However, after Essayah announced that she would not seek the candidacy, the party convention decided to back Niinist\u00f6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Candidates, V\u00e4yrynen's candidacy\nFormer Center Party politician and three-time presidential candidate Paavo V\u00e4yrynen announced that he would run as an independent candidate if he managed to gather the 20,000 signatures required from his supporters in time. By 26 November, he had gathered around 15,000 signatures. On 5 December, he announced that he had gathered the needed 20,000 signatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Campaign, Funding\nThe parties budgeted about as much for their campaigns than during the last presidential election in 2012. Ahead of the election, the campaign teams budgeted as follows: Niinist\u00f6 1,000,000\u20131,500,000 euros, Haatainen 550,000 euros, Haavisto and Vanhanen 500,000 euros, Torvalds 400,000 euros, Kyll\u00f6nen 250,000 euros and Huhtasaari 200,000 euros. V\u00e4yrynen didn't leave the notion ahead of the election, but revealed afterwards that his team had collected 162,000 euros for the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Campaign, Funding\nAfter the election, Niinist\u00f6 announced that the 300,000 euros that were reserved for the second round would be donated to the charity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Campaign, Debates\nThe first presidential debate was organised on 30 October 2017 by the Finnish Business and Policy Forum at Finlandia Hall. All confirmed candidates took part, excluding Kyll\u00f6nen, who was on a business trip. The event marks the earliest moment that the incumbent president has taken part in debates. The debates continued at the University of Helsinki on 13 November, with Vanhanen being absent after being hospitalised for heart arrhythmia. As V\u00e4yrynen became an official candidate only in early December, he was not invited to the first three debates and thus the first debate, that gathered all candidates together, was organised on 13 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Campaign, Fears of Russian involvement\nIn October 2017, the Security Committee of the Finnish Ministry of Defence released an assessment on the possibilities of Russian involvement in the presidential election. The assessment addressed nine possible scenarios, ranging from spreading false information through social media to a political assassination. The Security Committee also suggested ten possible objectives for Russian involvement, including obstructing discussion on NATO and isolating Finland from the European Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279321-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Finnish presidential election, Campaign, Fears of Russian involvement\nLong-time Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja heavily criticised the assessment and called it \"pure fantasy resembling something from the pen of Ilkka Remes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279322-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Finswimming World Championships\nThe 20th Finswimming World Championships were held in Belgrade, Serbia at the Sports Center Milan Gale Mu\u0161katirovi\u0107 and at Ada Ciganlija Lake from 16 to 20 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279322-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Finswimming World Championships, Medal overview, Men's events\nSwimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279322-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Finswimming World Championships, Medal overview, Women's events\nSwimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279322-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Finswimming World Championships, Medal overview, Mixed events\nSwimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279323-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FireKeepers Casino 400\nThe 2018 FireKeepers Casino 400 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on June 10, 2018 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. Contested over 133 of the scheduled 200 laps on the two-mile (3.2\u00a0km) D-shaped oval, it was the 15th race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279323-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FireKeepers Casino 400\nThis race was the 10th and final win for Clint Bowyer, who retired after the 2020 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279323-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FireKeepers Casino 400, Report, Background\nThe race was held at Michigan International Speedway, a two-mile (3.2\u00a0km) moderate-banked D-shaped speedway located in Brooklyn, Michigan. The track is used primarily for NASCAR events. It is sometimes known as a \"sister track\" to Texas World Speedway, and was used as the basis of Auto Club Speedway. The track is owned by International Speedway Corporation. Michigan International Speedway is recognized as one of motorsports' premier facilities because of its wide racing surface and high banking (by open-wheel standards; the 18-degree banking is modest by stock car standards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279323-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 FireKeepers Casino 400, First practice\nRyan Blaney was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 35.535 seconds and a speed of 202.617\u00a0mph (326.080\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279323-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 FireKeepers Casino 400, Qualifying\nKurt Busch scored the pole for the race with a time of 35.405 and a speed of 203.361\u00a0mph (327.278\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279323-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 FireKeepers Casino 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice\nKevin Harvick was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 35.871 seconds and a speed of 200.719\u00a0mph (323.026\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279323-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 FireKeepers Casino 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice\nFinal practice session for Saturday was cancelled due to rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279323-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 FireKeepers Casino 400, Media, Television\nFox NASCAR televised the race in the United States on FOX for the seventh time at Michigan. Mike Joy was the lap-by-lap announcer, while three-time Michigan winner, Jeff Gordon and two-time winner Darrell Waltrip were the color commentators. Jamie Little, Regan Smith and Matt Yocum reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279323-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 FireKeepers Casino 400, Media, Radio\nRadio coverage of the race was broadcast by Motor Racing Network (MRN) and simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and five-time Michigan winner Rusty Wallace announced the race in the booth while the field is racing on the front stretch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279323-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 FireKeepers Casino 400, Media, Radio\nDave Moody called the race from a billboard outside of turn 2 when the field was racing through turns 1 and 2. Mike Bagley called the race from a platform outside of turn 3 when the field was racing through turns 3 and 4. Alex Hayden, Winston Kelley and Steve Post reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279324-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Firenze Tennis Cup\nThe 2018 Firenze Tennis Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Florence, Italy between 1 October and 7 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279324-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Firenze Tennis Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279325-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Firenze Tennis Cup \u2013 Doubles\nRameez Junaid and David Pel won the title after defeating Filippo Baldi and Salvatore Caruso 7\u20135, 3\u20136, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279326-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Firenze Tennis Cup \u2013 Singles\nPablo And\u00fajar won the title after defeating Marco Trungelliti 7\u20135, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279327-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg\nThe 2018 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg was the first round of the 2018 IndyCar Series. The race was held on March 11, 2018, in St. Petersburg, Florida, on the city's temporary street circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279327-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Background\nThe race was the debut of the new standard aero kits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279327-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Report, Qualifying\nRookie Robert Wickens took the pole in his first ever IndyCar Series start, while newcomers Matheus Leist and Jordan King also made the Firestone Fast Six, qualifying third and fourth, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279327-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Report, Race\nThe race featured a record number of cautions (8), on-track passes (366) and lead changes (11).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279327-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Report, Race\nRobert Wickens lead most of the race, until the last restart, when the 2nd place car of Alexander Rossi attempted a pass down the inside of turn 1. It seemed as though Rossi had completed the move, until he slid up the track, taking Wickens out, and leaving himself to limp home to 3rd in a damaged car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279327-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Results, Race\nNotes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279328-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 First Data 500\nThe 2018 First Data 500 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on October 28, 2018, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. Contested over 500 laps on the .526 mile (.847\u00a0km) short track (extended from 500 laps), it was the 33rd race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, seventh race of the Playoffs, and first race of the Round of 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279328-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 First Data 500, Report, Background\nMartinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation-owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Henry County, in Ridgeway, Virginia, just to the south of Martinsville. At 0.526 miles (0.847\u00a0km) in length, it is the shortest track in the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series. The track is also one of the first paved oval tracks in NASCAR, being built in 1947 by H. Clay Earles. It is also the only race track that has been on the NASCAR circuit from its beginning in 1948. Along with this, Martinsville is the only NASCAR oval track on the entire NASCAR track circuit to have asphalt surfaces on the straightaways, then concrete to cover the turns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279328-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 First Data 500, Practice, First practice\nBrad Keselowski was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 19.784 seconds and a speed of 95.714\u00a0mph (154.037\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279328-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 First Data 500, Practice, Final practice\nRyan Newman was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 19.785 seconds and a speed of 95.709\u00a0mph (154.029\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279328-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 First Data 500, Qualifying\nKyle Busch scored the pole for the race with a time of 19.673 and a speed of 96.254\u00a0mph (154.906\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279328-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 First Data 500, Media, Television\nNBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, 1997 race winner Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and 2014 race winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279328-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 First Data 500, Media, Radio\nMRN covered the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279329-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 First Responder Bowl\nThe 2018 First Responder Bowl was a college football bowl game scheduled for December 26, 2018, at the Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas. It was one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by Servpro, a franchisor of fire and water cleanup and restoration, the game was officially known as the Servpro First Responder Bowl. The ninth overall staging of the bowl, this was the first edition since being rebranded; its prior six editions were the Heart of Dallas Bowl, preceded by the TicketCity Bowl in its first two stagings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279329-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 First Responder Bowl\nThe game was delayed in the first quarter, after Boston College took a 7\u20130 lead, and went into a weather delay due to lightning. Repeated lightning strikes near the stadium forced further delays; under NCAA rules, any lightning within eight miles of a stadium triggers a mandatory 30-minute delay, and the delay is extended with additional strikes. The game was canceled about two hours later amid forecasts that the severe weather would continue throughout the day and night. The game is considered a no-contest for the teams involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279329-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 First Responder Bowl\nThis is believed to be the first postseason game at the FBS-level (or its predecessors) that was canceled due to weather. NCAA records reflect only two prior postseason cancellations\u2014a 1941 charity game between San Jose State and Hawaii that was canceled following the attack on Pearl Harbor; and a 2013 Division II game, the C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl, between Ouachita Baptist and Tarleton State that was canceled due to severe weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279329-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 First Responder Bowl, Teams\nBowl organizers had intended to invite teams from the Big Ten Conference and Conference USA, based on conference tie-ins. However, Boise State from the Mountain West Conference and Boston College from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) were selected, based on the bowl eligibility of teams and other bowl assignments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279329-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 First Responder Bowl, Teams\nThis would have been the second all-time meeting between the two schools, with the previous meeting also coming in a bowl game. Boston College defeated Boise State in the 2005 MPC Computers Bowl, 27\u201321, on Boise State's home field of Bronco Stadium (now known as Albertsons Stadium).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279329-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 First Responder Bowl, Teams, Boston College Eagles\nBoston College received and accepted a bid to the First Responder Bowl on December 2. The Eagles entered the bowl with a 7\u20135 record (4\u20134 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279329-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 First Responder Bowl, Teams, Boise State Broncos\nBoise State was defeated in the 2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game on December 1, then received and accepted a bid to the First Responder Bowl on December 2. The Broncos entered the bowl with a 10\u20133 record (7\u20131 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279330-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fitzgibbon Cup\nThe 2018 Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup was the 102nd staging of the Fitzgibbon Cup since its establishment in 1912. In the final on 24 February, the University of Limerick defeated DCU by 2-21 to 2-15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279331-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florence shooting\nOn 5 March 2018, Idy Diene, a 54-year-old Senegalese immigrant, was fatally shot near the central Ponte Amerigo Vespucci in Florence, Italy. The shooter, who was identified as Roberto Pirrone, turned himself in to the police. While the police have deemed that the shooting was not racially or politically motivated, local African immigrant communities have held protests, citing the murder as prejudiced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279331-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florence shooting, Timeline\nOn the morning of 5 March 2018, Roberto Pirrone left his house with a gun, intending to kill himself. He then changed his mind and decided to shoot anyone he encountered, believing that he would not be a burden to his family in prison. After trying and failing to commit suicide, he pointed his gun at a mother with a child, but decided not to shoot them. He then saw Idy Diene, a Senegalese trader, and shot him three times in quick succession. Pirrone then turned himself in to the police. A medical team managed to revive the victim, who died forty minutes later. The crime scene was cordoned off by the police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279331-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Florence shooting, Suspect\nPirrone explained to the police that he wanted to kill himself for economic reasons while breaking into tears. A farewell note to his daughter was found in his home in the Oltrarno district not far from the bridge. The police confirmed that there was no racist intent in the perpetrated murder. Pirrone was an arms collector and leftist militant. During a search of his house, the Italian police discovered numerous weapons and relics of the former Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279331-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Florence shooting, Reactions\nThe Senegalese community in Florence protested against the shooting, believing that it was racially motivated. A group of Senegalese immigrants went to the Florentine town hall to confront the mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella. The police intervened in riot gear to contain the protest. The mayor condemned the murder and extended the support of the city to the victim's family and the broader Senegalese community. He further condemned the violence and rioting. The mayor participated in the anti-racist demonstration that took place in Florence on March 10, 2018 and visited the scene of the murder, where he was confronted by a group of protesters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279332-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida A&M Rattlers football team\nThe 2018 Florida A&M Rattlers football team represented Florida A&M University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Rattlers were led by first-year head coach Willie Simmons. They played their home games at Bragg Memorial Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. They finished the season 6\u20135, 5\u20132 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279332-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida A&M Rattlers football team, Previous season\nThe Rattlers finished the 2017 season 3\u20138, 2\u20136 in MEAC play to finish in a three-way tie for eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279332-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida A&M Rattlers football team, Previous season\nOn November 20, head coach Alex Wood resigned. He finished at Florida A&M with a three-year record of 8\u201325.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279332-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida A&M Rattlers football team, Preseason, MEAC preseason poll\nIn a vote of the MEAC head coaches and sports information directors, the Rattlers were picked to finish in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279332-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida A&M Rattlers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MEAC Teams\nThe Rattlers had ten players selected to the preseason all-MEAC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4\nFlorida Amendment 4, also the Voting Rights Restoration for Felons Initiative, is an amendment to the Constitution of Florida passed by ballot initiative on November 6, 2018, as part of the 2018 Florida elections. The proposition restored the voting rights of Floridians with felony convictions after they complete all terms of their sentence including parole or probation. The amendment does not apply to Floridians convicted of murder or sexual offenses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4\nThe campaign was sponsored by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and had support from the American Civil Liberties Union, Christian Coalition of America, and Freedom Partners. Among politicians who took a side on the amendment, several Democrats supported the measure, while some Republicans opposed it. Amendment 4 passed with 64.55% of voters in favor. On January 8, 2019, an estimated 1.4\u00a0million ex-felons became eligible to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Background\nIn 2016, 6.1\u00a0million adults in the United States could not vote due to felony disenfranchisement laws. Prior to 2018, Florida was one of four U.S. states that enacted permanent felony disenfranchisement, affecting 1.7\u00a0million felons. Felons must wait five to seven years after the completion of their sentence before they can apply to have their voting rights restored by the State Board of Executive Clemency, which is composed of the Governor of Florida and the Florida Cabinet, and meets four times per year at the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida's disenfranchised felons constituted 10% of the adult population, and 21.5% of the adult African American population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Background\nAs Governor of Florida, Charlie Crist reformed the process for the reinstatement of voting rights in 2007, allowing non-violent offenders to have their voting rights automatically restored. Over 155,000 applications for voting right restoration were approved during Crist's four-year term. Shortly after succeeding Crist as governor, Rick Scott, with the advice of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, ended the automatic restoration for felons convicted of non-violent crimes in the state and instituted a mandatory five-year wait period before felons could apply to the State Board of Executive Clemency for restoration of voting rights. During the first seven years of Scott's tenure, 3,000 applications were approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Background\nSeven former felons filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida in March 2017. The plaintiffs in the case, Hand v. Scott, alleged the process is unconstitutional due to its arbitrary nature. In April 2018, U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker ruled that Florida's process for seeking restoration of voting rights in Florida was unconstitutional because it relied too much on personal appeal to Governor Scott. The state appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which stayed Walker's ruling pending appeal. An analysis conducted by The Palm Beach Post demonstrated that Scott discriminated against African Americans in re-enfranchisement hearings and favored Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Campaign\nDesmond Meade, who was convicted of a felony and earned a law degree after his release, became involved in voting rights after his wife ran for the Florida Legislature and he could not vote for her. He became the head of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition in 2009. He led a drive to qualify Amendment 4 as a ballot initiative for the 2018 Florida elections, collecting 799,000 signatures. The initiative was approved in January 2018 for the November ballot. The amendment required 60% of the vote to take effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Campaign\nDemetrius Jifunza became an outspoken advocate for Amendment 4 and involved in voting rights after his voting rights were stripped in 1995 due to a felony conviction. He went on to become a paralegal. Jifunza founded the Sarasota Chapter of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and is the Vice President, Sarasota, Florida Chapter NAACP and led the successful media campaign to help pass Amendment 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Campaign\nThe FRRC partnered with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Christian Coalition of America during the campaign. Freedom Partners, a nonprofit group funded in part by the Koch brothers, also supported the amendment. Some Democratic Party politicians, including Crist, Andrew Gillum, Gwen Graham, Al Lawson, and Alan Williams supported Amendment 4, while some Republican politicians, including Ron DeSantis, Adam Putnam, and Richard Corcoran, opposed it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Text\nAs it appeared on the Florida ballot on November 6, 2018, the text of the amendment read:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Text\nNo. 4 Constitutional Amendment Article VI, Section 4. Voting Restoration Amendment This amendment restores the voting rights of Floridians with felony convictions after they complete all terms of their sentence including parole or probation. The amendment would not apply to those convicted of murder or sexual offenses, who would continue to be permanently barred from voting unless the Governor and Cabinet vote to restore their voting rights on a case by case basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Text\nThe full text of the constitutional amendment was available to voters in a booklet provided by the Florida Division of Elections. A 60 percent vote in favor was required for approval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Implementation\nThe amendment went into effect on January 8, 2019, making an estimated 1.4\u00a0million people with felony convictions eligible to register to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Implementation\nSome proponents claim that Amendment 4 was written as to not require implementation by the Florida Legislature. The Florida Division of Elections stopped running applicants through the criminal database in December. DeSantis, who defeated Gillum in the 2018 Florida gubernatorial election, stated his belief that the legislature must pass a law to allow the Division of Elections to verify the eligibility of each applicant. Bill Galvano, the president of the Florida Senate, is of the opinion that it is \"self-executing\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Implementation\nIn mid-2019 Republican Governor DeSantis signed a bill into law which originated in the Florida Senate, , which required that \"people with felony records pay 'all fines and fees' associated with their sentence prior to the restoration of their voting rights\". According to one commentator, this legislation \"subverts\" Amendment 4. On October 18, 2019, Judge Robert Hinkle of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida issued a limited stay, but only as far as the law applied to the plaintiffs themselves. DeSantis appealed the decision of the US District court to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On January 16, 2020, the Florida Supreme Court held that the law is constitutional. The Court of Appeals declined to block the District Court's decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Implementation\nOn May 24, 2020, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Hinkle ruled that parts of the law were constitutional, parts were unconstitutional, and ordered the state to take various actions. He ruled that the Florida law requiring felons to pay legal fees, fines and restitution to their victims as part of their sentences before regaining the vote is unconstitutional, but only for those unable to pay the amounts. The law could continue to be applied to those with the means to pay their fines/fees and restitution. However, defining those unable to pay, the ruling broadly creates two categories: those who were appointed an attorney because they couldn\u2019t afford one, and anyone who had their financial obligations converted to civil liens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Implementation\nThe broadness of these categories would de facto make nearly all felons eligible to vote as the Tampa Bay Times found most felons are appointed attorneys and nearly all have their court fees and fines converted to liens. Hinkle acknowledged the \"overwhelming majority\" of felons would be found unable to pay under these categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Implementation\nHe also ordered the state to make the related changes to the state voter registration form and create a process where a felon could formally request an advisory opinion on how much they owe and election officials would have to respond within three weeks or the felon would be allowed to register to vote by default.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Implementation\nIn the case of a loss on the constitutional claims, the state had made two main secondary arguments at trial. The state argued that if the ballot initiative's language requiring all felons to complete their sentences was unconstitutional, in part or in whole, the entire amendment needed to be struck down as it was non-severable. Hinkle ruled against the state on this issue of severability, ruling that his order was a justifiable exercise of the courts discretion to provide relief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Implementation\nHinkle rejected the state's argument that the amendment would need to be thrown out as the ruling would radically redefine what voters thought they were approving in 2018, with nearly all felons eligible without paying fines/fees/restitution, ruling that he believes Florida voters would have \"adhered to a generous spirit that led to passage of the amendment\" and pointed to the fact only some of the promotional material for the amendment explicitly mentioned fines and restitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279333-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Amendment 4, Implementation\nOn September 11, 2020 the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit overturned the lower court ruling, saying that the requirement for felons to pay fines did not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and thus that they could not vote unless they had paid the fees and fines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279334-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Atlantic Owls football team\nThe 2018 Florida Atlantic Owls football team represented Florida Atlantic University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Owls played their home games at the FAU Stadium in Boca Raton, Florida, and competed in the East Division of Conference USA (C\u2013USA). They were led by second-year head coach Lane Kiffin. They finished the season 5\u20137, 3\u20135 in C-USA play to finish in fifth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279334-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Atlantic Owls football team, Previous season\nThe Owls finished the 2017 season 11\u20133, 8\u20130 in C-USA play to win the East Division title and represented the East Division in the Conference USA Championship Game where they defeated North Texas to be crowned C-USA champions. They were invited to the Boca Raton Bowl, where they defeated Akron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279334-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Atlantic Owls football team, Preseason, C-USA preseason awards\nOn July 16, 2018, Conference USA released their preseason awards, including the preseason all-CUSA team. Running back Devin Singletary was selected as the preseason offensive player of the year and linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair was selected as the preseason defensive player of the year. The Owls placed a total of six players of the all-CUSA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279334-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Atlantic Owls football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nConference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Owls predicted to be champions of the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279335-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Attorney General election\nThe 2018 Florida Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Attorney General of Florida. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279335-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Attorney General election\nRepublican candidate Ashley Moody defeated Democrat Sean Shaw, with the election being called after 93% of the precincts reporting. Moody won by about 6 percentage points, which was the widest margin of any Florida statewide race in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279336-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Chief Financial Officer election\nThe 2018 Florida Chief Financial Officer election took place on November 6, 2018. Incumbent Republican Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, who was appointed in 2017, successfully ran for a full term, defeating Democratic nominee Jeremy Ring, a former state senator, in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279337-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Commissioner of Agriculture election\nThe 2018 Florida Commissioner of Agriculture election occurred on November 6, 2018, to elect the Florida Commissioner of Agriculture. Incumbent Republican Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term. Democrat Nikki Fried narrowly defeated Republican Matt Caldwell. Fried became the only statewide elected Democrat in Florida, as U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, who had held Florida's Class I U.S. Senate seat since 2000, lost reelection. This is the only statewide election in Florida to be won by a Democrat since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279338-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Cup\nThe 2018 Florida Cup was the fourth edition of Florida Cup, a friendly association football tournament played in the United States. The competition partnered with Universal Orlando Resort for the first time. The resort hosted several events including the Florida Cup Fan Fest on January 13 and 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279338-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Cup\nThe tournament was won by Atl\u00e9tico Nacional on goal difference ahead of Barcelona S.C. and Rangers, with Barcelona finishing second on goals scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279339-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Gators baseball team\nThe 2018 Florida Gators baseball team represented the University of Florida in the sport of baseball during the 2018 college baseball season. The Gators competed in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They played their home games at Alfred A. McKethan Stadium on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. The team was coached by Kevin O'Sullivan in his eleventh season as Florida head coach. The Gators entered the season as the defending national champions, having defeated LSU two games to none in the championship series of the 2017 College World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279339-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Gators baseball team, Schedule\nRankings from USA Today/ESPN Top 25 coaches' baseball poll. All times Eastern. Parentheses indicate tournament seedings. Retrieved from", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279339-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Gators baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279340-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Gators football team\nThe 2018 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Gators played their home games at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Florida. Florida played as a member of the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by first-year head coach Dan Mullen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279340-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Gators football team\nFlorida, coming off a 4\u20137 season in 2017, began the year unranked. In the second game of the season, not only did the team lose to Kentucky for the first time since 1986, but they also lost to them at home for the first time since 1979, snapping a 31-game winning streak in the series. Florida won its next five games, including on the road against No. 23 Mississippi State and at home against No. 5 LSU, rising to ninth in the AP Poll. They then lost two games to No. 7", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279340-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Florida Gators football team\nGeorgia and Missouri and ended the conference regular season tied for second in the SEC East Division at 5\u20133. After closing the regular season by defeating rival Florida State, they were invited to the Peach Bowl, where they defeated No. 8 Michigan by a score of 41\u201315. The team finished with an overall record of 10\u20133, and in the season's final AP Poll, the team was ranked in a tie for seventh, the highest finish for the school since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279340-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Gators football team\nThe team was led on offense by redshirt sophomore quarterback Feleipe Franks, who finished with 2,457 passing yards, 24 passing touchdowns, and 7 rushing touchdowns. His 31 total touchdowns was tied for third in the Southeastern Conference. Running backs La'Mical Perine and Jordan Scarlett finished with 826 and 776 yards, respectively. Defensively, the team was led by defensive end Jachai Polite, who finished with 20 tackles for loss and was named first-team All-SEC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279340-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Gators football team, Previous season\nThe Gators in 2017 were led by third-year head coach Jim McElwain through the end of October until his firing. Randy Shannon was named the interim head coach on October 29. They finished the season 4\u20137, 3\u20135 in SEC play to finish in fifth place in the Eastern Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279340-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Gators football team, Preseason, SEC media poll\nThe SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018 with the Gators predicted to finish third in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279340-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Gators football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SEC teams\nThe Gators had eight players selected to the preseason all-SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279341-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 Florida House of Representatives election was held in the U.S. state of Florida on November 6, 2018, to elect members to the House of Representatives. The election coincided with the election for governor, and other elections. The Republicans won 73 seats and losing only 2, maintaining their control since 1997, while the Democrats gained 6 seats. Four vacant seats, all won by Republicans in 2016, were picked up by Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279342-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Launch season\nThe 2018 Florida Launch season is the fifth season for the Florida Launch of Major League Lacrosse. The Launch are coming off their best year in franchise history, going 8-6 in 2017 and clinching the team's first ever playoff berth where they fell to the eventual champion Ohio Machine. They look to continue that success in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279343-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Mayhem season\nThe 2018 Florida Mayhem season was the first season of the Florida Mayhem's existence in the Overwatch League. The team ended the 2018 regular season with a 7\u201333 record, second-to-last in the League, and did not qualify for any of the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279343-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Mayhem season, Preceding offseason\nThe Misfits rebranded to the Florida Mayhem on November 2, 2017; therefore, the team had the following six players already signed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279343-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Mayhem season, Regular season, Review\nOn May 2, head coach Vytis \u201cMineral\u201d Lasaitis temporarily stepped down from his position, citing that he had been experiencing \"various health issues\u201d and burnout since stage two. Assistant coach Choi \u201cr2der\u201d Hyun-jin and analyst Albert Yeh lead the team in his absence until his return at the beginning of Stage 4. The team ended the 2018 regular season with a 7\u201333 record, second-to-last in the League (ahead of only the winless Dragons). Florida did not qualify for any of the Stage Playoffs, and did not quality for the Season Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279343-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Mayhem season, Final roster, Transactions\nTransactions of/for players on the roster during the 2018 regular season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election\nIn the elections to the Florida State Senate that were held on November 6, 2018, 20 of the 40 seats were contested in regular elections and two seats in special elections. The winners of the 20 regular elections will serve four year terms from November 6, 2018 to November 6, 2022, and the winners of the two special elections will serve two year terms from November 6, 2018 to November 6, 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 2\nDistrict 2 consists of Bay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington, and part of Okaloosa counties. Incumbent George Gainer was re-elected by a margin of 51 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 2, General election, Predictions\nMCI Maps gave the second district a rating of \"Safe GOP\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 4\nDistrict 4 consists of Nassau and part of Duval counties. Incumbent Aaron Bean was re-elected by a margin of 29 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 4, Republican primary\nIncumbent Republican Aaron Bean defeated challenger Carlos E. Slay in the Republican primary by a margin of 75 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 6\nDistrict 6 consists of part of Duval county. Incumbent Audrey Gibson was re-elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 8\nDistrict 8 consists of Alachua, Putnam, and part of Marion counties. Incumbent Keith Perry was re-elected by a margin of one percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 10\nDistrict 10 consists of Citrus, Hernando and part of Pasco counties. Incumbent Wilton Simpson was re-elected by a margin of 30 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 12\nDistrict 12 consists of Sumter, and parts of Lake, and Marion counties. Incumbent Dennis Baxley was re-elected by a margin of 31 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 14\nDistrict 14 consists of parts of Brevard and Volusia counties. Incumbent state senator Dorothy Hukill, Republican, died in October 2018 due to cervical cancer. As her name was already printed on ballots, votes cast for her were counted for Tom A. Wright, the Republican nominee, who won the election by a margin of 13 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 16\nDistrict 16 consists of parts of Pasco and Pinellas counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 20\nDistrict 20 consists of parts of Hillsborough, Pasco, and Polk counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 22\nDistrict 22 consists of parts of Lake and Polk counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 23\nDistrict 23 consists of Sarasota and part of Charlotte counties. An election for this district was not scheduled to occur until the 2020 general elections, but a special election was scheduled concurrent with the 2018 general elections due to a vacancy that occurred as a result of the resignation of then-state senator Greg Steube to run for the United States House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 25\nDistrict 25 consists of Martin, St. Lucie and part of Palm Beach counties. An election for this district was not scheduled to occur until the 2020 general elections, but a special election was scheduled concurrent with the 2018 general elections due to a vacancy that occurred as a result of the resignation of former Senate President Joe Negron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 26\nDistrict 26 consists of DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Highlands, Okeechobee, and parts of Charlotte, Lee, and Polk counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 28\nDistrict 28 consists of Collier, Hendry and part of Lee counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 32\nDistrict 32 consists of part of Broward county. Incumbent Lauren Book was elected unposed both in the primary and general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279344-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Senate election, District 38\nDistrict 38 consists of part of Miami-Dade county. Democrat Jason Pizzo beat incumbent Daphne Campbell in the democratic primary, 54%-46%. The general election was cancelled meaning Pizzo was the victor of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279345-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida State Seminoles football team\nThe 2018 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Seminoles were led by first-year head coach Willie Taggart and played their home games at Doak Campbell Stadium. They competed as members of the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279345-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida State Seminoles football team\nThe Seminoles finished the season with a losing record for the first time since 1976, missing a bowl game for the first time since 1981. Linebacker Brian Burns went on to be selected in the first round of the NFL Draft, with defensive tackle Demarcus Christmas being selected in the sixth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279345-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida State Seminoles football team, Previous season\nThe Seminoles finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 3\u20135 in ACC play, to finish in sixth place in the Atlantic Division. They received a bid to the Independence Bowl where they defeated Southern Miss. Following the regular season, Jimbo Fisher left the program to become head coach of the Texas A&M Aggies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279345-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida State Seminoles football team, Preseason, ACC media poll\nIn the preseason ACC media poll, Florida State was selected to finish second in the Atlantic division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279345-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida State Seminoles football team, Preseason, Preseason All-ACC teams\nThe Seminoles had two players selected to the preseason All-ACC teams, with one offensive selection and one on special teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 78], "content_span": [79, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279345-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida State Seminoles football team, Post-season, All-ACC\nThe Seminoles had five players selected to the All-ACC team, with three defensive selections and two offensive selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279346-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Tech Panthers football team\nThe 2018 Florida Tech Panthers football team represents Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) during the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They are led by sixth-year head coach Steve Englehart. The Panthers played their home games at Florida Tech Panther Stadium, approximately one mile from the Florida Tech campus, and are members of the Gulf South Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279346-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Tech Panthers football team\nThe 2018 season saw FIT finish with a record of 8-4, earning their second trip to the NCAA Division II Football Championship where they were eliminated in the first round at Lenoir-Rhyne. The Panthers finished with a record of 5-3 in GSC play, including their first ever win over in-state rival West Florida with a 30-28 victory in Pensacola that saw them record the largest comeback in program history after trailing by 18 points in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279346-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Tech Panthers football team, Preseason, Gulf South Conference coaches poll\nOn August 2, 2018, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Panthers predicted to finish in 6th place in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279346-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Tech Panthers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team\nThe Panthers had four players at four positions selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 93], "content_span": [94, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279346-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Tech Panthers football team, Schedule\nFlorida Tech 2018 football schedule consists of five home and six away games in the regular season. The Panthers will host GSC foes Delta State, Mississippi College, North Greenville, and Valdosta State, and will travel to Shorter, West Alabama, West Florida, and West Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279346-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Tech Panthers football team, Schedule\nThe Panthers will host one of the three non-conference games against Newberry from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) and will travel to Benedict from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and Wingate also from the SAC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279346-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Tech Panthers football team, Schedule\nTwo of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279346-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida Tech Panthers football team, Awards and milestones, Gulf South Conference honors\nFour players from Florida Tech were honored as All-GSC selections by the league's coaches. Linebacker J.T. Hassell was named the GSC Defensive Player of the Year, becoming the second Panther to receive the honor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 93], "content_span": [94, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279347-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Florida on November 6, 2018. All of Florida's executive officers were up for election as well as Florida's Class I Senate seat and all 27 seats in the United States House of Representatives. Primary elections were on August 28, 2018. The Republicans took control of the U.S. Senate seat held by three-term Democrat Bill Nelson while the Democrats picked up two House seats as well as the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279347-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida elections, United States Senate\nSenator Bill Nelson (D) ran for a fourth term against Governor Rick Scott (R). The race ended up being the most expensive Senate race in U.S. history. Nelson was narrowly defeated by then-Governor Rick Scott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279347-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida elections, United States Senate\nNelson was the only statewide Democrat to carry Monroe County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279347-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida elections, United States House of Representatives\nFlorida elects 27 U.S. Representatives from its congressional districts. Democrat Donna Shalala defeated Maria Elvira Salazar to succeed retiring Republican congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in the 27th District and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell defeated incumbent Republican congressman Carlos Curbelo in the 26th District. This changed Florida's congressional delegation from a 16\u201311 Republican majority to a narrow 14\u201313 majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 62], "content_span": [63, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279347-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida elections, United States House of Representatives\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 62], "content_span": [63, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279347-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida elections, Governor\nThen-incumbent Republican Governor Rick Scott (since 2011) was term-limited and prohibited from seeking a third consecutive term. Democratic Mayor of Tallahassee Andrew Gillum ran against Republican former U.S. Representative Ron DeSantis. DeSantis narrowly defeated Gillum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279347-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Republican Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (since 2011) was term-limited and prohibited from seeking a third consecutive term. Ashley Moody, former judge for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, defeated state representative Frank White to win the Republican nomination. Sean Shaw, a state representative, defeated attorney Ryan Torrens to win the Democratic nomination. Moody defeated Shaw by approximately 6 percentage points, by winning her home county, Hillsborough, giving her the largest margin for a Republican candidate for the 2018 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279347-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida elections, Chief Financial Officer\nIncumbent Republican Chief Financial Officer of Florida Jimmy Patronis was appointed to the office in June 2017 and sought a full term in 2018. Patronis successfully won a full term and defeated former state senator Jeremy Ring by approximately 3 percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279347-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida elections, Commission of Agriculture\nIncumbent Republican Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam (since 2011) was term-limited and prohibited from seeking a third consecutive term. State representative Matt Caldwell ran against lobbyist attorney Nikki Fried. Fried became the only statewide elected Democrat from Florida following the 2018 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279347-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida elections, State Legislature\n20 out of 40 seats in the Florida Senate and all 120 seats of the Florida House of Representatives were up for election. The balance of political power before the election for each chamber was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279347-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida elections, Constitutional Amendments\nFlorida voters voted on 12 constitutional amendments. An amendment requires sixty percent to pass. Amendment 8 was removed from the ballot before the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279348-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Florida gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the next Governor of Florida, alongside an election to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and other state and local elections. Incumbent two-term Republican Governor Rick Scott was term-limited and could not run for a third term, so he instead ran for Florida's Class I Senate seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279348-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida gubernatorial election\nRepublican U.S. Representative Ron Desantis narrowly defeated Democratic Mayor of Tallahassee Andrew Gillum for the governorship, in what some considered an upset. The candidate filing deadline was June 22, 2018, and primary elections were held on August 28. Florida uses a closed primary process, in which the selection of each party's candidates for a general election is limited to registered members of that party; Gillum won the Democratic primary and DeSantis the Republican primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279348-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida gubernatorial election\nThe close margin mandated a machine recount, which had a deadline of November 15, 2018. After the recount was complete, DeSantis was certified the winner. Gillum conceded on November 17. DeSantis's victory marked the sixth straight election in which Florida elected a Republican to the governorship, and the third in a row that the margin of victory was under two percent. With a margin of 0.4%, this election was the closest race of the 2018 gubernatorial election cycle. Gillum became the first Democrat to win Duval County since 1986 and Seminole County since 1990. DeSantis became the first Republican gubernatorial candidate to win Jefferson County since Reconstruction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279348-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida gubernatorial election, General election, Debates, First debate\nThe first debate moderated by CNN's Jake Tapper was hosted on October 21, 2018, at WEDU, Tampa, Florida. It was an hour long debate featuring topics like climate change, minimum wage, health care, gun control, the NRA, De Santis's \"monkey up\" comment and President Donald Trump being a role model for children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279348-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida gubernatorial election, General election, Debates, First debate\nThis debate was held a day before early voting started in Florida on October 22, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279348-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida gubernatorial election, General election, Debates, Second debate\nThe second debate occurred on October 24, 2018 and was hosted at Weston, Florida. It was moderated by Leadership Florida and the Florida Press Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279348-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Florida gubernatorial election, General election, Results, Close margin\nThe close margin mandated a machine recount, which had a deadline of November 15, 2018. If the margin was below 0.25% after machine recount, Ken Detzner, the Secretary of State of Florida, would commission a manual recount of over-votes and under-votes. However, after the recount was complete, DeSantis\u2019 margin was 0.40%, therefore he was certified the winner. Gillum conceded on November 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500\nThe 2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on February 25, 2018, at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. Contested over 325 laps on the 1.54-mile-long (2.48\u00a0km) asphalt quad-oval intermediate speedway, it was the second race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Report, Background\nAtlanta Motor Speedway (formerly Atlanta International Raceway) is a track in Hampton, Georgia, 20 miles (32\u00a0km) south of Atlanta. It is a 1.54-mile (2.48\u00a0km) quad-oval track with a seating capacity of 111,000. It opened in 1960 as a 1.5-mile (2.4\u00a0km) standard oval. In 1994, 46 condominiums were built over the northeastern side of the track. In 1997, to standardize the track with Speedway Motorsports' other two 1.5-mile (2.4\u00a0km) ovals, the entire track was almost completely rebuilt. The frontstretch and backstretch were swapped, and the configuration of the track was changed from oval to quad-oval. The project made the track one of the fastest on the NASCAR circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, First practice\nRicky Stenhouse Jr. was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 29.745 seconds and a speed of 186.384\u00a0mph (299.956\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Qualifying\nKyle Busch scored the pole for the race with a time of 30.024 and a speed of 184.652\u00a0mph (297.169\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Final practice\nRyan Newman was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 29.989 seconds and a speed of 184.868\u00a0mph (297.516\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Race\nMorning rain delayed the start of the race by 2.5 hours, The race was originally to start at 2:00\u00a0p.m. but the race was pushed to 1:00\u00a0p.m. because of rain, Track drying allowed the start of the race to begin at 3:30 pm EST. Because of track lights they were able to complete the race in its entirety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 38], "content_span": [39, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Race, Stage 1, Start\nOnce racing began, Kyle Busch led the field to the green flag, but Ryan Newman took the lead on lap 1 and led 17 laps, but then Kyle Busch took the lead from Newman on lap 18 and led 2 laps, but then Kevin Harvick took the lead on lap 21 and led 11 laps, but then the first caution of the race flew on lap 32 for a scheduled competition caution for rain, so Kyle Busch retook the lead once the caution came out and led one lap and Kevin Harvick took the lead of the race on lap 33.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Race, Stage 1, Start\nKevin Harvick led 64 laps en route to his stage one victory, finishing 6.5 seconds in front of second place Clint Bowyer. Also in the top five was Brad Keselowski, Martin Truex Jr., and Aric Almirola. The second caution of the race came out on lap 87 for conclusion of the first stage, and Martin Truex Jr. took the lead on lap 89 and led one lap, but then Brad Keselowski took the lead from Truex on lap 90.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Race, Stage 2\nBack to green on lap 93. Kurt Busch took the lead on lap 101 and led 25 laps and Kevin Harvick took the lead on lap 126 and led two laps, and Kyle Busch took the lead on lap 127.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Race, Stage 2\nCaution flew for the third time on lap 160 for a single car spin in turn 2. Jimmie Johnson got through the second turn and spun out. He was lapped by leader Kevin Harvick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Race, Stage 2\nBrad Keselowski outran Kurt Busch to win the second stage. Following were Kyle Busch, Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Race, Stage 2\nCaution #4 flew on lap 172 for conclusion of the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Race, Final stage\nBrad Keselowski took the lead with 101 laps to go and rain threatened to end the race with about 100 laps to go, as three drivers including Kevin Harvick, Brad Keselowski and Kurt Busch wrestled to take the lead. Crew chiefs were concerned about watching the weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Race, Final stage\nThe final stage developed in strategies as the teams of Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano ran in green flag pit stops than other leaders, attempting to use one less stop as the other cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Race, Final stage\nWith 27 laps to go, the fifth caution of the race came out when Trevor Bayne blew an engine in Turn 2, creating a plume of smoke behind him. Darrell Wallace Jr. slammed in the back of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. which caused damage to Wallace Jr.'s car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Race, Final stage\nRacing restarted with 20 laps to go, and Kevin Harvick led 173 of 325 laps and drove on to score his second career Atlanta victory since 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Race, Post race\n\"To be able to pay tribute to Dale Earnhardt was cool, been waiting a long time to do that\" Harvick said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Media, Television\nThe Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 was carried by Fox in the United States. Mike Joy, five-time Atlanta winner Jeff Gordon and three-time Atlanta winner Darrell Waltrip worked the race from the booth. Pit road was manned by Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279349-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Media, Radio\nThe race was broadcast on radio by the Performance Racing Network and simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice, Mark Garrow and Wendy Venturini called the race from the booth when the field raced down the front stretch. Rob Albright called the race from atop a billboard outside of turn 2 when the field raced through turns 1 and 2. Pat Patterson called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 when the field raced through turns 3 and 4. On pit road, PRN was manned by Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Jim Noble and Doug Turnbull.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500\nThe 2018 Food City 500 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on April 15 and 16, 2018, at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. The second half of the race was postponed to April 16 due to rain. Contested over 500 laps on the 0.533 miles (0.858\u00a0km) concrete short track, it was the eighth race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Report, Background\nBristol Motor Speedway, formerly known as Bristol International Raceway and Bristol Raceway, is a NASCAR short track venue located in Bristol, Tennessee. Constructed in 1960, it held its first NASCAR race on July 30, 1961. Despite its short length, Bristol is among the most popular tracks on the NASCAR schedule because of its distinct features, which include extraordinarily steep banking, an all concrete surface, two pit roads, and stadium-like seating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, First practice\nRyan Blaney was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 14.774 seconds and a speed of 129.877\u00a0mph (209.017\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Qualifying\nKyle Busch scored the pole for the race with a time of 14.895 and a speed of 128.822\u00a0mph (207.319\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice\nKyle Larson was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 14.874 seconds and a speed of 129.004\u00a0mph (207.612\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 63], "content_span": [64, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice\nDavid Ragan was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 15.051 seconds and a speed of 127.487\u00a0mph (205.170\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, First stage\nKyle Busch led the field to the green flag at 1:13 p.m. The first caution flew on lap 5 for a multi-car wreck involving Chase Elliott, William Byron, Martin Truex, Jr., Daniel Su\u00e1rez, A.J. Allmendinger, Ross Chastain, Michael McDowell, David Ragan, and Chad Finchum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, First stage\nThe race restarted on lap 10, It went back under caution again for the second time on lap 17 for a two-car wreck in turn 2, involving A.J. Allmendinger and Jamie McMurray, The race restarted on lap 23 and the third caution flew for rain, and later intensified and the race was red flagged, After 25 minutes and 25 seconds, the race went back under caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, First stage\nRacing resumed on lap 60 and the fourth caution flew two laps later for a two-car wreck on lap 62 involving Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. and Erik Jones, Harrison Rhodes won the free pass under caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, First stage\nThe race restarted on lap 68. Caution flew the fifth time for another multi-car wreck on lap 119 involving Ryan Blaney, Jamie McMurray, Chris Buescher, David Ragan, Harrison Rhodes, and Trevor Bayne, This brought out the red flag for the second time of the race to facilitate cleanup in turn 3, After 6 minutes and 29 minutes, The red flag was lifted and the race went back under caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, First stage\nThe race restarted on lap 125. It remained green the remainder of the stage, that was won by Brad Keselowski, and went back under caution for the sixth time on lap 127 for the end of the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, Second stage\nThe race restarted on lap 135, Kyle Larson passed Keselowski to take the lead, The seventh caution flew on lap 156 when Trevor Bayne spun out in turn 4, Rain returned moments later and the red flag was displayed for the third time, After 26 minutes and 54 seconds, the race went back under caution, and the race restarted on lap 170.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, Second stage\nCaution flew again for the eighth time for rain on lap 204, Persistent precipitation in the eastern Tennessee mountains delayed the restart of the race, and the cars went back to pit road as the red flag was displayed for the fourth time, Eventually, The remainder of the race was postponed until Monday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, Second stage\nWhen the race resumed on Monday, A mixture of rain and sleet fell on the track around lunchtime Monday, and track dryers were busy much of the day. Cars finally returned to the track at 1:32 p.m. ET, about a half-hour later than scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, Second stage\nThe race restarted on lap 218, Brad Keselowski won the second stage and the ninth caution flew for the conclusion of the stage. Following in the top 10 were Johnson, Denny Hamlin, Larson, Stenhouse, Bowman, Kevin Harvick, Austin Dillon and Wallace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, Final stage\nThe race restarted on lap 262, and it remained green for 63 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, Final stage\nContact from Ryan Newman sent Kyle Larson sliding through the center of the track on lap 324, bringing out the tenth caution, Larson, who had one of the race's strongest cars, avoided contact with the wall and stayed on the lead lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, Final stage\nThe race restarted on lap 330, and the eleventh caution came out on lap 354 when Reed Sorenson spun out in turn 2. David Ragan won the free pass under caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, Final stage\nThe race restarted on lap 366, No one should have been surprised after two days of nasty weather, but rain returned on lap 391, bringing out the twelfth caution, Kyle Busch held a 1.1-second lead over Larson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, Final stage\nBrad Keselowski, one of the race's leaders, slapped the wall on lap 471 after a tire issue, bringing out the thirteenth caution and wiping out leader Larson's five-second advantage over second-place Stenhouse. Keselowski's Ford suffered minor damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, Final stage\nThe race restarted on lap 479, Kyle Busch remained sizzling hot, taking the lead on Kyle Larson on lap 494 and winning for the second consecutive week after prevailing at Texas the previous weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Race, Final stage\n\"The long delays get you in and out of your game, but you just gotta focus,\" Busch said in victory lane. \"I can't say enough about this Skittles Toyota Camry. We knew it was going to be good in the long runs. We weren't quite as good as the 42 (Larson) on that long run before that last caution came out. I actually thought I had a tire going down, but we were able to get some tires on it and gave it everything we had.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Media, Television\nFox Sports covered their 18th race at the Bristol Motor Speedway. Mike Joy, five-time Bristol winner Jeff Gordon and 12-time Bristol winner \u2013 and all-time Bristol race winner \u2013 Darrell Waltrip had the call in the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the pit road duties for the television side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279350-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Food City 500, Media, Radio\nPRN had the radio call for the race which was also be simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice, Mark Garrow and Wendy Venturini called the race in the booth when the field was racing down the frontstretch. Rob Albright called the race from atop the turn 3 suites when the field raced down the backstretch. Brad Gillie, Brett Mcmillan, Jim Noble, and Steve Richards covered the action on pit lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279351-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Tasmania season\nThe 2018 Football Federation Tasmania season was the fifth season of association football under the restructured format in Tasmania. The men's competitions consisted of three major divisions across the State of Tasmania. The overall premier qualified for the National Premier Leagues finals series, competing with the other state federation champions in a final knock-out tournament to decide the National Premier Leagues Champion for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279351-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Tasmania season, Men's Competitions, 2018 NPL Tasmania\nThe 2018 NPL Tasmania season was played as a triple round-robin over 21 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279351-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Tasmania season, Men's Competitions, 2018 Tasmanian Championships, 2018 Northern Championship\nThe 2018 Northern Championship was the fifth edition of the Northern Championship as the second level domestic association football competition in Tasmania. The league consisted of 9 teams, playing 16 matches each over 18 rounds, followed by 3 rounds for the top eight teams, split into the top four, followed by the next four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 118], "content_span": [119, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279351-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Tasmania season, Men's Competitions, 2018 Tasmanian Championships, 2018 Northern Championship\nRiverside Olympic as Champions were promoted to the 2019 NPL Tasmania under a new promotion and relegation structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 118], "content_span": [119, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279351-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Tasmania season, Men's Competitions, 2018 Tasmanian Championships, 2018 Southern Championship\nThe 2018 Southern Championship was the fifth edition of the Southern Championship as the second level domestic association football competition in Tasmania. The league consisted of 9 teams, playing 16 matches each over 18 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 118], "content_span": [119, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279351-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Tasmania season, Men's Competitions, 2018 Tasmanian Championships, 2018 Southern Championship\nGlenorchy Knights as Champions were promoted to the 2019 NPL Tasmania under a new promotion and relegation structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 118], "content_span": [119, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279351-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Tasmania season, Women's Competitions, 2018 Women's Super League\nThe 2018 Women's Super League season, known as the PFD Women's Super League for sponsorship reasons, was the third edition of the statewide Tasmanian women's association football league. The league was played as a triple round-robin over 21 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279351-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Tasmania season, Cup Competitions\nThe Milan Lakoseljac Cup competition also served as the Tasmanian Preliminary Rounds for the 2018 FFA Cup. Devonport City entered at the Round of 32, and were eliminated in the Round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279352-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Victoria season\nThe 2018 Football Federation Victoria season was the fifth season under the new competition format for state-level soccer in Victoria. The competition consists of seven divisions across the state of Victoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279352-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Victoria season, League Tables, 2018 National Premier Leagues Victoria\nThe 2018 season was played over 26 rounds. As Premiers, Heidelberg United qualified for the 2018 National Premier Leagues finals series, competing with the other state federation champions in a final knockout tournament to decide the National Premier Leagues 2018 Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279352-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Victoria season, League Tables, 2018 National Premier Leagues Victoria 2\nThe 2018 National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 season was played over 28 rounds with each team playing the teams in their conference twice and the other conference once. The top team at the end of the season was promoted to National Premier Leagues Victoria, while the second placed team entered the promotion play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279352-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Victoria season, League Tables, 2018 Women's National Premier League\nThe highest tier domestic football competition in Victoria for women is known for sponsorship reasons as the PS4 Women's National Premier League. This was the third season of the NPL Women's format. The 10 teams played each other 3 times for a total of 27 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 93], "content_span": [94, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279352-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Victoria season, Cup Competitions, 2018 Dockerty Cup\nFootball Victoria soccer clubs competed in 2018 for the Dockerty Cup. The tournament doubled as the Victorian qualifiers for the 2018 FFA Cup, with the top four clubs progressing to the Round of 32. A total of 216 clubs entered the qualifying phase, with the clubs entering in a staggered format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279352-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Football Federation Victoria season, Cup Competitions, 2018 Dockerty Cup\nIn addition to the two A-League clubs (Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City), Heidelberg United (as the 2018 National Premier Leagues Champion), the four semi-finalists (Avondale, Bentleigh Greens, Northcote City and Port Melbourne) competed in the final rounds of the 2018 FFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279353-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Football NSW season\nThe Football NSW 2018 season was the sixth season of football in New South Wales under the banner of the National Premier Leagues. The competition consisted of four divisions across the state of New South Wales. The Premiers of the NPL NSW Men's 1 qualified for the national finals, playing-off to decide the champion of the 2018 National Premier Leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279353-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Football NSW season, Competitions, 2018 National Premier League NSW Men's 2\nThe 2018 National Premier League NSW Men's 2 was the sixth edition of the NPL NSW 2 as the second level domestic association football competition in New South Wales. 14 teams competed, playing each other twice for a total of 26 rounds, with the top team at the end of the year (based on the Club Championship) promoted to the NPL NSW Men's 1 competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 80], "content_span": [81, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279353-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Football NSW season, Competitions, 2018 National Premier Leagues NSW Women's 1\nThe 2018 National Premier Leagues NSW Women's 1 was the fifth edition of the NPL NSW Women's competition to be incorporated under the National Premier Leagues banner. The league increased from 10 to 12 teams, playing each other twice for a total of 22 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 83], "content_span": [84, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279353-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Football NSW season, 2018 Waratah Cup\nFootball NSW soccer clubs competed in 2018 for the Waratah Cup. The tournament doubled as the NSW qualifier for the 2018 FFA Cup, with the top five clubs progressing to the Round of 32. A record 169 clubs entered the qualifying phase, with the clubs entering in a staggered format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279353-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Football NSW season, 2018 Waratah Cup\nIn addition to the three A-League clubs (Central Coast Mariners, Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers), the five qualifiers (APIA Leichhardt Tigers, Bonnyrigg White Eagles, Hakoah Sydney City East, Marconi Stallions and Rockdale City Suns) competed in the final rounds of the 2018 FFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279354-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West State Cup\nWestern Australian soccer clubs competed in 2018 for the Football West State Cup, known as the Belt Up Cup for sponsorship reasons. Clubs entered from the National Premier Leagues WA, the two divisions of the State League, a limited number of teams from various divisions of the 2018 Amateur League competition, and from regional teams from the South West, Goldfields and Great Southern regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279354-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West State Cup\nThis knockout competition was won by Armadale, their 1st title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279354-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West State Cup\nThe competition also served as the Western Australian Preliminary Rounds for the 2018 FFA Cup. The two finalists \u2013 Armadale SC and Gwelup Croatia \u2013 qualified for the final rounds, entering at the Round of 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279354-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West State Cup, Second round\nThe round numbers conform to a common format throughout the 2018 FFA Cup preliminary rounds. A total of 32 teams took part in this stage of the competition, from lower divisions of the Amateur League, and from regional teams entering from the South West, Great Southern and Goldfields regions. Matches in this round were played between 11\u201318 March. For matches where the scores were equal at full-time, they went straight to penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279354-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West State Cup, Third round\nA total of 38 teams took part in this stage of the competition. New teams that enter at this round were from Football West State League Division 1 (11 teams) and Football West State League Division 2 (11 teams). Matches in this round were played on 23\u201329 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279354-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West State Cup, Fourth round\nA total of 32 teams took part in this stage of the competition. Clubs from the National Premier Leagues WA entered into the competition at this stage, with the exception of Perth Glory Youth who were not eligible. Matches in this round were played on 2 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279354-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West State Cup, Fifth round\nA total of 16 teams took part in this stage of the competition. Matches in this round were played on 25 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279354-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West State Cup, Sixth round\nA total of 8 clubs took part at this stage of the competition. Matches were played on 19\u201320 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279354-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West State Cup, Seventh round\nA total of 4 clubs took part at this stage of the competition. Matches were played on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279354-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West State Cup, Final\nThe 2018 State Cup Final, known as the Belt Up State Cup Final for sponsorship reasons, was played on 14 July 2018, at the neutral venue of Dorrien Gardens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279355-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West season\nThe 2018 Football West season was the fifth season under the current competition format in Western Australia. The NPL premiers Perth SC qualified for the National Premier Leagues finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279355-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West season, League Tables, 2018 National Premier Leagues WA\nThis was the last season using a 14-team format. The bottom 3 teams (which was subject to eligibility requirements) at the end of the season were relegated to the State League 1. Perth Glory Youth was ineligible to receive prize monies in the end of season Top 4 Cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 74], "content_span": [75, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279355-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West season, League Tables, 2018 National Premier Leagues WA, Finals\nThe Top Four Cup is played as a finals competition at the conclusion of the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279355-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West season, League Tables, 2018 WA State League 1\nThe 2018 WA State League 1 was composed of 11 teams playing 20 games over a 22 round season. Rockingham City as Champions were promoted to the National Premier Leagues WA, as they met eligibility criteria. The 9th and 10th placed clubs played in a two-legged promotion/relegation playoff, whilst the last placed team (Joondalup City) were directly relegated to State League Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279355-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West season, League Tables, 2018 WA State League 2\nThe 2018 WA State League 2 was composed of 11 teams playing 20 games over a 22 round season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279355-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West season, League Tables, 2018 Women's Premier League\nThe highest tier domestic football competition in Western Australia is known as the BankWest Women's Premier League for sponsorship reasons. The 8 teams play each other three times, for a total of 21 matches over the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279355-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West season, 2018 State Cup\nWestern Australian soccer clubs competed in 2018 for the Football West State Cup. Clubs entered from the National Premier Leagues WA, the two divisions of the State League, a limited number of teams from various divisions of the 2018 Amateur League competition, and from regional teams from the South West, Goldfields, and Great Southern regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279355-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West season, 2018 State Cup\nThis knockout competition was won by Armadale SC, their 1st title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279355-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Football West season, 2018 State Cup\nThe competition also served as the Western Australian Preliminary Rounds for the 2018 FFA Cup. In addition to the A-League club Perth Glory, the two finalists \u2013 Armadale and Gwelup Croatia \u2013 qualified for the final rounds, entering at the Round of 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400\nThe 2018 Ford EcoBoost 400 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race that was held on November 18, 2018, at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4\u00a0km) oval, it was the 36th and final race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, and was also the last race for the Ford Fusion, as it will be replaced for the 2019 season by the Mustang GT. This race was the final career Cup start for A. J. Allmendinger as a full time driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background\nHomestead-Miami Speedway is a motor racing track located in Homestead, Florida. The track, which has several configurations, has promoted several series of racing, including NASCAR, the Verizon IndyCar Series, the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series and the Championship Cup Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background\nSince 2002, Homestead-Miami Speedway has hosted the final race of the season in all three of NASCAR's series: the Sprint Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series. Ford Motor Company sponsors all three of the season-ending races; the races have the names Ford EcoBoost 400, Ford EcoBoost 300 and Ford EcoBoost 200, respectively, and the weekend is marketed as Ford Championship Weekend. The Xfinity Series (then known as the Busch Series) has held its season-ending races at Homestead since 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Championship drivers\nJoey Logano was the first of the four drivers to clinch a spot in the Championship 4, winning the first race of the Round of 8 at Martinsville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 64], "content_span": [65, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Championship drivers\nKyle Busch clinched the second spot in the Championship 4 based on points at the Phoenix race when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. crashed out of the race and finished 33rd. Busch had to finish at least 33rd to be locked in on points. He later clinched a playoff berth anyway by winning the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 64], "content_span": [65, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Championship drivers\nMartin Truex Jr. clinched the third spot in the Championship 4 based on points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 64], "content_span": [65, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Championship drivers\nKevin Harvick clinched the final spot based on points after his Texas win was encumbered after a spoiler violation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 64], "content_span": [65, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400, First practice\nMartin Truex Jr. was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 31.035 seconds and a speed of 173.997\u00a0mph (280.021\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400, Qualifying\nDenny Hamlin scored the pole for the race with a time of 31.059 and a speed of 173.863\u00a0mph (279.805\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice\nJoey Logano was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 31.838 seconds and a speed of 169.609\u00a0mph (272.959\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice\nJoey Logano was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 31.450 seconds and a speed of 171.701\u00a0mph (276.326\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race\nNote: Joey Logano, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., and Kyle Busch were not eligible for stage points in this race because of their participation as the Championship 4 drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400, Media, Television\nNBC covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race. While the race itself aired on NBC, NBCSN aired NBCSN NASCAR Hot Pass, a simultaneous live feed dedicated to each of the Championship drivers, with commentary by Leigh Diffey and Dale Jarrett. Also, three different angles from in-car cameras and a track map tracked the driver's position and changes throughout the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279356-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Ford EcoBoost 400, Media, Radio\nMRN had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279357-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fordham Rams football team\nThe 2018 Fordham Rams football team represented Fordham University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Joe Conlin and played their home games at Coffey Field as a member of the Patriot League. They finished the season 2\u20139, 2\u20134 in Patriot League play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279357-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fordham Rams football team, Previous season\nThe Rams finished the 2017 season 4\u20137, 3\u20133 in Patriot League play to finish in a three-way tie for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279357-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fordham Rams football team, Previous season\nOn December 5, head coach Andrew Breiner resigned to become the quarterbacks coach at Mississippi State. He finished at Fordham with a two-year record of 12\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279357-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fordham Rams football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe Patriot League released their preseason coaches poll on July 26, 2018, with the Rams predicted to finish in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279357-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Fordham Rams football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Patriot League team\nThe Rams placed five players on the preseason all-Patriot League team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279358-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fordham Rams men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Fordham Rams men's soccer team represented Fordham University during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 67th season of the program's existence and their 24th in the Atlantic 10 Conference. The Rams played their home matches at Coffey Field in The Bronx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279358-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fordham Rams men's soccer team, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship\nThe 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship was the fifty-second season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also second season under the moniker of FIA Formula 2 Championship, a motor racing championship for Formula 2 cars that is sanctioned by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It is an open-wheel racing category that serves as the second tier of formula racing in the FIA Global Pathway. The category run in support of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship, with each of the twelve rounds running in conjunction with a Grand Prix. It was the first FIA Formula 2 season to feature a new chassis and engine package.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship\nCharles Leclerc was the reigning drivers' champion, having won the title at the penultimate round of the 2017 championship in Jerez de la Frontera. Leclerc subsequently secured a Formula 1 drive with the Alfa Romeo Sauber team in 2018 Russian Time were the reigning teams' champions, having secured their first Formula 2 title at the final round of the 2017 championship in Abu Dhabi. George Russell won the drivers' championship, finishing 68 points ahead of Lando Norris. In the teams' championship, Carlin prevailed over ART Grand Prix by 31 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Changes for 2018, Technical changes\nThe season saw the introduction of a brand new chassis and engine package, the biggest change in the sport's history. The GP2/11 chassis, which had been used by Formula 2 and its predecessor GP2 since 2011, was replaced by the Dallara F2 2018. It is powered by a fuel-efficient 3.4 litres (207 cubic inches) V6 single turbocharged direct-injected engine developed by Mecachrome called V634T. The aging naturally-aspirated V8 engine and Dallara GP2/11 chassis which were used since 2005 and 2011 respectively were permanently retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Changes for 2018, Technical changes\nDespite the generational change of chassis and engines, Elf would continue as a preferred official fuel partner and supplier of FIA Formula 2 Championship and also Pirelli FIA Formula 2 tyre sizes would remained same as pre-2017 Formula One tyres. In addition, the Pirelli FIA Formula 2 hard tyre colour would repainted from orange to ice blue in a reference of 2018 Formula One dry slick tyre compounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Changes for 2018, Sporting regulations\nTeams were required to use the \"halo\" cockpit protection device, a wishbone-shaped frame mounted above and around the driver's head and anchored to the monocoque forward of the cockpit. The halo was designed to improve safety standards by deflecting debris away from a driver's head and was originally developed for use in Formula One before its application was expanded to other open-wheel championships and it was incorporated into the final design of the Dallara F2 2018 chassis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Changes for 2018, Sporting regulations\nFollowing widespread criticism of the Dallara F2 2018 for its difficult start procedure and reliability issues, the championship temporarily introduced rolling starts until a solution to the car's problems could be found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Changes for 2018, Other changes\nThe championship discontinued the use of promotional models or \"grid girls\". The decision was made by Formula One management in the face of changing social attitudes and the decision by other sports to phase out the use of models, and the decision applied to all categories appearing on the Grand Prix support bill, including Formula 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Entries\nThe following teams and drivers were under contract to compete in the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship. As the championship was a spec series, all competitors raced with identical Dallara F2 2018 chassis with a V6 turbo engine developed by Mecachrome. Teams competed with tyres supplied by Pirelli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Entries, Team changes\nTwenty entries spread across ten teams were entered into the championship. Carlin returned to Formula 2 in 2018 after a one-year absence, while former World Series Formula V8 3.5 team Charouz Racing System joined the championship. Charouz left the Formula 3.5 V8 championship when the championship was discontinued and the team subsequently submitted an entry to join the Formula 2 grid which marked the return of a Czech single-seater junior team to the second tier of Formula One's feeder championships since the 2003 International Formula 3000 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Entries, Team changes\nRacing Engineering were included on the initial entry list but later withdrew from the championship to focus on their European Le Mans Series entry. Fortec Motorsports were due to make their Formula 2 d\u00e9but, replacing the departing Rapax team, but later withdrew their entry due to a lack of sponsorship. Fortec were later granted permission to defer their entry by a year and were scheduled to make their d\u00e9but in 2019, but aborted the plans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Entries, Driver changes\nDefending teams' champions Russian Time signed FIA Formula 3 European Championship driver Tadasuke Makino to partner Artem Markelov. With reigning drivers' champion Charles Leclerc leaving the series to join Formula 1 team Sauber. Prema Racing enlisted Sean Gelael, who left Arden International to join the team. Gelael was partnered by Nyck de Vries, who drove for Rapax and Racing Engineering throughout the 2017 championship. Gustav Malja, who raced for Racing Engineering in 2017, moved to the Porsche Supercup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Entries, Driver changes\nAlexander Albon left ART Grand Prix to join DAMS where he replaced Oliver Rowland; Rowland left the series and moved to the FIA World Endurance Championship. Albon was paired with Nicholas Latifi, who remained with the team for a third year. ART Grand Prix promoted reigning GP3 Series champion George Russell to the category, partnering him with Jack Aitken, who also drove for the team in GP3. Nobuharu Matsushita, who drove for the team in 2017, left the series and returned to Japan to race in the Super Formula Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Entries, Driver changes\nRalph Boschung left Campos Racing to join MP Motorsport. He was accompanied by Roberto Merhi, who previously competed in selected rounds of the championship with Campos and Rapax in 2017. Jordan King, who raced for MP, moved to the United States to compete in the IndyCar Series. With Gelael's switch to Prema and Norman Nato's departure to the European Le Mans Series, Arden International promoted two rookie drivers. Former GP3 Series driver Nirei Fukuzumi filled one seat, while Maximilian G\u00fcnther\u2014who finished second in the 2016 FIA Formula 3 European Championship and third in 2017\u2014took the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Entries, Driver changes\nLuca Ghiotto left Russian Time after a single season to join Campos Racing. He was partnered by series debutant Roy Nissany, who left the World Series Formula V8 3.5 to join the championship. \u00c1lex Palou left the team to compete in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship. Trident recruited two of Formula One team Haas' development drivers. Santino Ferrucci, who had contested five rounds of the 2017 championship with the team, was signed for the season. He is partnered by Arjun Maini, who was promoted from the GP3 Series. Nabil Jeffri, who raced for Trident in 2017, left the team to join the FIA World Endurance Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Entries, Driver changes\nS\u00e9rgio Sette C\u00e2mara left MP Motorsport to join newcomers Carlin. He was partnered by Lando Norris, who won the 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship title with Carlin before making a guest appearance in the Formula 2 Championship with Campos Racing. Louis Del\u00e9traz and Antonio Fuoco joined Charouz Racing System. Del\u00e9traz left Rapax after the team withdrew from the championship, while Fuoco moved from Prema Racing as part of an agreement with Ferrari's driver development programme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Entries, Driver changes, Mid-season changes\nSantino Ferrucci was banned for two rounds as punishment for multiple violations of the sporting and technical regulations\u2014including deliberately crashing into Arjun Maini\u2014during the Silverstone round. He was later dismissed by Trident, with the team citing sponsorship issues rather than his suspension as the reason for Ferrucci's firing. Ferrucci was replaced by Trident's GP3 Series driver Alessio Lorandi for the Hungaroring round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Entries, Driver changes, Mid-season changes\nRoberto Merhi left MP Motorsport before the Spa-Francorchamps round. He was replaced by Dorian Boccolacci, who raced for the team in the GP3 Series. For the remainder of the season he joined Campos Vexatec Racing, replacing Roy Nissany. MP Motorsport promoted Niko Kari from their GP3 Series team, where he replaced Ralph Boschung for the remainder of the season. Dan Ticktum replaced Maximilian G\u00fcnther at BWT Arden for the season finale at Abu Dhabi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Calendar\nThe following twelve rounds took place as part of the 2018 championship. Each round consisted of two races: a Feature race, which was run over 170\u00a0km (105.6\u00a0mi) and included a mandatory pit stop; and a Sprint race, which was run over 120\u00a0km (75\u00a0mi) and did not require drivers to make a pit stop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe calendar was expanded to twelve rounds in 2018. The championship started at the Circuit Paul Ricard, where it was featured as part of the French Grand Prix support programme. The championship visited the Sochi Autodrom for the first time, where it ran in support of the Russian Grand Prix. The stand-alone event that was held at the Circuito de Jerez in 2017 was discontinued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279359-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 2 Championship, Championship standings, Scoring system\nPoints were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in the Feature race, and to the top 8 classified finishers in the Sprint race. The pole-sitter in the feature race also received four points, and two points were given to the driver who set the fastest lap inside the top ten in both the feature and sprint races. No extra points are awarded to the pole-sitter in the sprint race as the grid for the sprint race is based on the results of the feature race with the top eight drivers having their positions reversed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279360-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship\nThe 2018 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship season was the third season of the Formula 4 South East Asia Championship. It began on 7 July at the Sepang International Circuit and finished on 1 December at the same venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279360-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship, Drivers\nThe provisional driver entry list was released on 27 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279360-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship, Calendar\nThe calendar for the 2018 season expanded upon the previous season. The Clark International Speedway round in the Philippines was discontinued and replaced with the Madras Motor Race Track in Chennai, India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279360-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship, Championship standings\nThe series follows the standard F1 points scoring system with the addition of 1 point for fastest lap and 3 points for pole. The best 18 results out of 24 races counted towards the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279360-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship, Championship standings\nThe fastest qualifying laps determine the grid positions for race 1. The finishing positions of the entire field in race 1 are reversed to determine the grid positions for race 2. The finishing positions of the entire field in race 2 are reversed to determine the grid positions for race 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279361-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 4 United States Championship\nThe 2018 Formula 4 United States Championship season was the third season of the United States Formula 4 Championship, a motor racing series regulated according to FIA Formula 4 regulations and sanctioned by SCCA Pro Racing, the professional racing division of the Sports Car Club of America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279361-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 4 United States Championship, Race calendar\nThe calendar was unveiled on 9 December 2017. All races were held in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279361-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula 4 United States Championship, Championship standings, Drivers' standings\nBold\u00a0\u2013 PoleItalics\u00a0\u2013 Fastest Lap\u2020\u00a0\u2014 Did not finish, but classified", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 85], "content_span": [86, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279362-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Academy Sudamericana season\nThe 2018 F\u00f3rmula Academy Sudamericana Championship season is the third season of this series, and the first under the F\u00f3rmula Academy Sudamericana name. It began on the 22 July at the Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional Ayrton Senna, Londrina in Brazil and finished on 9 December at the Aut\u00f3dromo Victor Borrat Fabini \"El Pinar\" in Uruguay after 6 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279362-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Academy Sudamericana season, Race calendar and results\nThe grid for race 2 is determined by the finishing order of race 1, but with the top 6 reversed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279362-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Academy Sudamericana season, Championship standings, F\u00f3rmula Academy Sudamericana Championship\nJuan Vieira was crowned the 2018 champion at the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 107], "content_span": [108, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship\nThe 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship was the motor racing championship for Formula One cars and the 69th running of the Formula One World Championship. Formula One is recognised by the governing body of international motorsport, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. Drivers and teams competed in twenty-one Grands Prix for the World Drivers' and World Constructors' championship titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship\nLewis Hamilton won the World Drivers' Championship title, while his team, Mercedes, secured the World Constructors' Championship title. Hamilton clinched his fifth title at the 2018 Mexican Grand Prix, with the team securing its fifth consecutive title at the following race. Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel finished runner-up, 88 points behind Hamilton, with his teammate Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen finishing third. In the Constructors' Championship, Mercedes finished 84 points ahead of Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer in third, 152 points behind Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship\nIn 2018, the championship saw the introduction of a new cockpit protection device, known as the \"halo\". The introduction of the halo was the first stage of a planned rollout that would see the device adopted in all FIA-sanctioned open wheel series by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Entries\nThe following teams and drivers participated in the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship. All teams competed with tyres supplied by Pirelli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Entries, Free practice drivers\nAcross the season six drivers served as third or free practice drivers for teams. Nicholas Latifi served as a free practice driver for Sahara Force India and Racing Point Force India. Lando Norris, Artem Markelov, Antonio Giovinazzi, Sean Gelael and Robert Kubica drove in free practice sessions for McLaren, Renault, Sauber, Scuderia Toro Rosso and Williams respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Entries, Team changes\nMcLaren terminated their engine partnership with Honda and instead signed a three-year deal for power units supplied by Renault. The team cited Honda's repeated failure to supply a reliable and competitive power unit as the reason for ending the partnership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Entries, Team changes\nToro Rosso parted ways with Renault \u2013 allowing McLaren to finalise their agreement with Renault \u2013 and came to an agreement to use Honda power units. As part of the deal, Red Bull Racing loaned Toro Rosso driver Carlos Sainz Jr. to Renault's works team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Entries, Team changes\nSauber renewed their partnership with Ferrari, upgrading to current-specification power units after using year-old power units in 2017 and also signed a sponsorship deal that saw Alfa Romeo become their title sponsor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Entries, Team changes, Mid-season changes\nForce India were placed into administration on 27 July 2018, during the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend. After speculation of a purchase, any sale of the team in a short time-span was complicated by legal proceedings against certain shareholders and the need for debt settlement. A consortium led by Lawrence Stroll purchased the racing assets and operations of Force India through a company named Racing Point UK Ltd. The original team, known as \"Sahara Force India\", was then excluded from the Constructors' Championship on the grounds of their inability to participate in remaining races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Entries, Team changes, Mid-season changes\nThis allowed a new team known as \"Racing Point Force India\" to apply for a late entry and start their participation in the championship from the Belgian Grand Prix. The team was required to keep \"Force India\" as part of their constructor name as their chassis had been homologated under the Force India name and Formula One sporting regulations required the constructor name to include the chassis name. The new team began with zero points in the Constructors' Championship, though their drivers retained the points they had scored in the Drivers' Championship. The other teams later agreed to allow the Racing Point Force India team to retain prize money accrued by Sahara Force India in the preceding years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Entries, Driver changes\nToro Rosso signed 2016 GP2 Series champion Pierre Gasly and two-time World Endurance champion Brendon Hartley as their full-time drivers for 2018. Both Gasly and Hartley made their Formula One d\u00e9buts with the team in the latter stages of the 2017 championship. Daniil Kvyat left the team and the Red Bull driver programme, securing a development role with Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Entries, Driver changes\nCharles Leclerc, the reigning Formula 2 champion, made his competitive d\u00e9but with Sauber. Leclerc, who had previously driven in Friday practice sessions in 2016 and 2017, was hired by the team to replace Pascal Wehrlein. Wehrlein was ultimately unable to secure a race seat and was instead enlisted as one of Mercedes's test and reserve drivers while racing full-time in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Entries, Driver changes\nWilliams driver Felipe Massa retired from Formula One at the end of the 2017 championship. Massa was replaced by former Renault test driver and SMP Racing driver Sergey Sirotkin, who made his competitive d\u00e9but with the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Calendar\nThe following twenty-one Grands Prix were run as part of the 2018 World Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe French Grand Prix returned to the calendar for the first time since 2008. The race has returned to the Circuit Paul Ricard, which last hosted the French Grand Prix in 1990 before the event moved to the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours. The race was scheduled to be run in June, with the Azerbaijan Grand Prix brought forward to April to accommodate the change and to avoid clashing with celebrations for the centenary of the Azerbaijan republic. The German Grand Prix also returned to the championship after a one-year absence, with the Hockenheimring hosting the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Malaysian Grand Prix, which was part of the championship from 1999 to 2017, was discontinued. The Russian Grand Prix was moved from April to September, filling the vacancy left by the Malaysian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Sporting regulations\nFollowing widespread criticism of the grid penalty system in 2017 that regularly saw multiple drivers start races outside their qualifying positions, the FIA introduced a revised set of regulations for 2018. In the event that a driver changes a power unit component, they are still subject to a five- or ten-place grid penalty depending on the component being changed; however, should they then replace a second component, they will be moved to the back of the starting grid. If multiple drivers are moved to the back of the grid, their starting positions are determined by the order that components were changed based on the most recent change made by each driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Sporting regulations\nThe rules governing starting procedures were changed for 2018, granting race stewards the power to issue penalties for improper race starts even if a driver's start does not trigger the automated detection system. The changes were introduced following two incidents during 2017: at the Chinese Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel positioned his car too far across his grid slot to be registered by the detection system; while at the Austrian Grand Prix, Valtteri Bottas's start was called into question for his reaction time despite the detection system recognising it as legal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Sporting regulations\nIn the event that a race is suspended due to a red flag, it would be restarted with a standing start. Drivers would return to the starting grid in the positions they held at the time of the suspension and the race director would repeat the race start procedure. If circuit conditions are suitable for racing but the race director deems a standing start inappropriate, the race would resume with a rolling start where the safety car returns to pit lane and drivers proceed around the circuit in single file until they are shown the green flag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Sporting regulations\nThe FIA introduced tighter restrictions on racing licences issued to drivers taking part in free practice sessions. Candidate drivers are required to complete a minimum number of Formula 2 races or earn twenty-five superlicense points over a three-year period. The changes were introduced to address concerns about drivers who would not be able to meet the standards required to compete in Formula One having access to Formula One cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Sporting regulations\nThe schedule of a Grand Prix weekend was changed, with the start time of most European races pushed back by one hour in an attempt to accommodate a larger television audience. All races were scheduled to start at ten minutes past the hour so as to allow broadcasters the opportunity for pre-race coverage, especially in cases when their broadcast of the race starts on the hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Sporting regulations\nFinally, the mid-season test, which was held in Bahrain in 2017, was moved to Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Technical regulations\nPower unit suppliers are required to provide all teams using their engines with an identical specification of power units. The change was introduced to ensure parity after Mercedes's works team was observed to have access to additional engine performance settings that were not available to their customer teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Technical regulations\nThe quantity of power unit components a driver may use during the season was reduced from four complete power units during the entire season in 2017 to a new system where each of the power unit components is considered separately. Therefore, in 2018, each driver is permitted to use up to three each of internal combustion engines (ICE), heat motor generator units (MGU-H), and turbochargers (TC); and two each of the kinetic motor generator units (MGU-K), energy stores (ES), and control electronics (CE).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Technical regulations\nRestrictions against the practice of oil burning, where engine oils are burned as fuel to boost performance, were also introduced. The practice, which was first used in 2017 saw teams burning as much as 1.2 litres per one hundred kilometres. For the 2018 championship, this figure was revised down to a maximum of 0.6 litres per one hundred kilometres. The rules were further amended to restrict teams to using a single specification of oil, which must be declared before the race. These oils are subject to stricter definitions of what is considered \"oil\" in order to prevent teams from using exotic blends designed to boost performance. Teams are also required to inform the stewards of the mass of oil in each oil tank before the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Technical regulations\nFurther changes to the technical regulations require the temperature of air in the plenum chamber \u2013 adjacent to the turbocharger \u2013 to be more than 10\u00a0\u00b0C above the ambient air temperature. This rule was introduced in a bid to limit the performance gains possible via charge air cooling. Active control valves, which electronically regulate the flow of fluids between power unit components, were also banned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Technical regulations\nThe FIA banned the use of \"shark fins\", a carbon fibre extension to the engine cowling aimed at directing airflow over the rear wing. The use of \"T-wings\", a horizontal secondary wing mounted forward of and above the rear wing, was also banned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Driver safety\nFollowing a series of serious incidents in open-wheel racing \u2013 including the fatal accidents of Henry Surtees and Justin Wilson \u2013 in which drivers were struck in the head by tyres or debris, the FIA announced plans to introduce additional mandatory cockpit protection with 2018 given as the first year for its introduction. Several solutions were tested, with the final design subject to feedback from teams and drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Driver safety\nEach design was created to deflect debris away from a driver's head without compromising their visibility or the ability of safety marshals to access the cockpit and extract a driver and their seat in the event of a serious accident or medical emergency, with a series of serious accidents \u2013 such as the fatal accidents of Jules Bianchi and Dan Wheldon \u2013 recreated to simulate the ability of devices to withstand a serious impact. The FIA ultimately settled on the \"halo\", a wishbone-shaped frame mounted above and around the driver's head and anchored to the monocoque forward of the cockpit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0026-0002", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Driver safety\nSeventeen accidents were examined as case studies, with the FIA concluding that the halo would have prevented injuries in fifteen of them. In the other two instances \u2013 most notably Jules Bianchi's fatal accident \u2013 the FIA concluded that although the halo would not have prevented driver injuries, it would not have contributed to or complicated the outcome of the accidents. Once introduced, the halo concept is scheduled to be applied to other FIA-sanctioned open-wheel racing categories including Formula 2, Formula 3 and Formula E, with 2020 earmarked as the deadline for all FIA-sanctioned open-wheel racing series to adopt the halo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Driver safety\nFollowing criticisms over the aesthetic value of the device, the FIA revealed plans to allow teams some design freedom in the final version of the halo, with the teams permitted to attach a thin single-plane wing atop the halo to control airflow over the top of the car and into the airbox to assist with engine cooling. Where the test models of the halo had been attached to an existing monocoque structure, teams were required to incorporate the final build of the halo into the chassis design from its inception rather than attached once the design was completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Driver safety\nThe minimum weight of the chassis was raised to 734\u00a0kg (1,618.2\u00a0lb), in order to accommodate the additional weight of the halo. The mandatory crash tests that each chassis must pass were adjusted to include a new static load test. In order to simulate a serious accident, a tyre was mounted to a hydraulic ram and fired at the crash structure; to pass the test, the chassis and the mounting points for the halo had to remain intact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0027-0002", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Driver safety\nIn order to prevent teams from exploiting the halo for aerodynamic gain and potentially compromising its purpose, the FIA banned teams from developing their own devices and instead required them to purchase pre-fabricated models from approved suppliers. The technical regulations were updated mid-season to allow teams to mount rear view mirrors to the halo instead of affixing them to the bodywork.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0027-0003", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Driver safety\nThe changes were introduced in response to criticism that the halo obstructed the driver's view of the mirrors; however, halo-mounted designs were also criticised for allowing teams to exploit a loophole and introduce aerodynamic device, in the form of winglets above the mirrors, into an area where aerodynamic development was prohibited under the pretense of improving driver visibility, and the regulations were rewritten once more to ban the practice of mounting anything besides mirrors on the halo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Driver safety\nThe FIA made several changes to its trackside procedures to further accommodate the halo. The time limit on the extraction test \u2013 the test of a driver extracting himself from the survival cell of a crashed car \u2013 was extended to allow drivers more time to escape. The starting gantries at circuits were also lowered to improve the visibility of the starting lights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Tyres\nTyre supplier Pirelli provided teams with two new tyre compounds in 2018. Each of the 2017 compounds was made softer, with a new \"hypersoft\" tyre becoming the softest of the nine and a new \"superhard\" tyre to be the hardest. The hypersoft compound was marked by a pink sidewall, while the superhard was orange. The hard compound, which previously used orange markings, was changed to ice blue. The hypersoft compound made its d\u00e9but at the Monaco Grand Prix. The rules dictating which tyres are available were relaxed to allow Pirelli to supply a wider range of compounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Tyres\nPreviously, Pirelli had to provide sequential compounds; for example, ultrasoft, supersoft and soft. In 2018, Pirelli was able to supply compounds with up to two steps of difference between them; for example, the ultrasoft, supersoft and hard tyres. Pirelli was required to manufacture an additional tyre compound that was not intended for competition. This tyre was to be supplied to teams for use in demonstration events to prevent teams from using demonstration events as informal \u2013 and illegal \u2013 testing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Changes, Tyres\nFor the Spanish, French and British Grands Prix, Pirelli reduced the tread depth by 0.4mm across all compounds. This was to combat blistering due to new asphalt at these circuits for the 2018 season, which resulted in higher grip and reduced tyre wear. This was in response to the high level of blistering experienced by Mercedes at the re-surfaced Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in pre-season testing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Opening rounds\nThe championship started in Melbourne with the Australian Grand Prix. The race concluded with a victory for Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel, who used a timely virtual safety car period \u2013 triggered by the stricken Haas of Romain Grosjean \u2013 to pass Mercedes's Lewis Hamilton, after which Vettel successfully defended his position until the finish. Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen finished third in the other Ferrari ahead of Red Bull Racing's Daniel Ricciardo. McLaren ended the first race of their partnership with Renault with a fifth and ninth place for Alonso and Vandoorne respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Opening rounds\nMax Verstappen finished sixth after an early spin ahead of Nico H\u00fclkenberg. Valtteri Bottas was eighth, having started fifteenth when he took a penalty for a gearbox change after a heavy crash in qualifying. Carlos Sainz Jr. completed the points-scoring positions in tenth. Charles Leclerc and Sergey Sirotkin both made their competitive d\u00e9buts for Sauber and Williams respectively. Leclerc finished thirteenth while Sirotkin retired with a brake failure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Opening rounds\nVettel then won from pole at the next round in Bahrain, holding off a late charge from Bottas to win by seven-tenths of a second. Hamilton finished third despite a 5 place grid penalty for a gearbox change and contact with Verstappen on the second lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Opening rounds\nHowever, in China, Vettel's winning run was broken, with Ricciardo's 2 stop strategy helping the Australian to his sixth career victory, ahead of Bottas and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen. Ricciardo pitted for a new set of softs with 20 laps to go under safety car while the leaders stayed out on their used set of mediums, he then fought his way past both Ferraris and Mercedes to the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Opening rounds\nHamilton took his first win of the year in Azerbaijan and with it, the lead in the Drivers' Championship. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen finished 2nd while Sergio P\u00e9rez claimed 3rd. With 10 laps to go, Bottas was leading (but still needing to make a pitstop) followed by Vettel and Hamilton. When the Red Bulls crashed they brought out the safety car. Bottas pitted under safety car and came out still leading but a puncture on the penultimate lap caused him to retire. Vettel, who was second behind him at the restart, locked up on cold tyres at turn 1 and went wide, dropping behind the remaining top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, European and Canadian rounds\nIn Spain, Hamilton had taken pole position. However, the first lap saw the safety car deployed when Haas's Romain Grosjean spun off at turn 3. He had spun back onto the track, but his spinning rear tyres caused a plume of smoke to bellow, which Pierre Gasly of Toro Rosso and Nico H\u00fclkenberg of Renault got caught in and led to a 3-car retirement. In the end, Hamilton won comfortably in Spain, extending his lead to seventeen points. Bottas finished second while Verstappen finished third, his first podium of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, European and Canadian rounds\nRicciardo took pole in Monaco and won the event despite developing an engine problem mid-race that left him severely down on power. Vettel finished second and Hamilton finished 3rd. Vettel closed his points deficit to Hamilton, while Ricciardo gained two spots in the Drivers' Championship to be third overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, European and Canadian rounds\nIn Canada, Vettel won from pole taking the world championship lead by one point from Hamilton. Bottas finished 2nd for the fourth time this season as Verstappen finished third, his qualifying position. The race result was counted back to the standings at the end of lap 68 (of 70) after the chequered flag was waved a lap early in error \u2013 although this did not impact the top 10 standings. The fastest lap of the race however, was affected. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo had set two fastest laps on laps 69 and 70, but because the chequered flag mistakenly waved early and the results were taken from lap 68, the fastest lap went to Max Verstappen, who had set it back on lap 65.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, European and Canadian rounds\nHamilton took pole position and victory (his third of the season) in the returning French Grand Prix, taking the world championship lead back with 14 points, with Vettel finishing only 5th after a first corner crash with Bottas. Verstappen finished second, taking advantage of the Vettel\u2013Bottas crash. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen finished third, passing Ricciardo in the closing laps of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, European and Canadian rounds\nIn Austria, Bottas started the race on pole, followed by Hamilton and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen. However, in the race, both Mercedes suffered from technical problems and neither one was able to finish the race. Ricciardo also retired from the race. Verstappen won, followed by R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen in 2nd and Vettel in 3rd. Haas took full advantage of the Mercedes and Ricciardo retirements and finished 4th (Grosjean) and 5th (Magnussen). Vettel re-took the lead of the championship by 1 point, following Hamilton's retirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, European and Canadian rounds\nAt his home race in Great Britain, Hamilton took pole on his final flying lap, with the two Ferraris of Vettel and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen both within a tenth of his time. However, he dropped down to 18th on the first lap after contact with R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen sent him into a spin. Two safety car periods late in the race bunched the field up, one for a single car crash involving Ericsson and the other after contact between Grosjean and Sainz. Vettel passed Bottas for the lead with 5 laps to go to take his fourth win of the season and extend his championship lead. Hamilton recovered from his first lap crash to take second ahead of R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, European and Canadian rounds\nIn Germany, Vettel took his fifth pole of the season on home turf. He led the race until lap 52 when he made a mistake at turn 13 and crashed into the wall following a small rain shower, forcing him to retire. The incident triggered a safety car, which saw the leading cars of Bottas and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen pit for new tyres. Meanwhile, Hamilton took the lead of the race after starting 14th having made one less pit stop. After the safety car restart, Hamilton led Bottas home in a 1\u20132 for Mercedes on home soil with R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen completing the podium for Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, European and Canadian rounds\nIn Hungary, Hamilton started from pole after a soaking Q3 and won the race, with Vettel and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen completing the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, European and Canadian rounds\nThe season resumed in Belgium, after the mid-season break. Hamilton started from pole but lost the lead to title rival Vettel on the first lap after a straight-line high-speed pass. Vettel eventually won the race with Hamilton second and Verstappen completing the podium with third. Also notable was a first-corner crash that saw a lock-up by H\u00fclkenberg send Alonso over the top of Leclerc, while R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Ricciardo had their own incident that eventually ended both drivers' races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0043-0001", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, European and Canadian rounds\nThe race was almost down to 18 cars due to the original Sahara Force India team having gone into administration earlier on, but a new Racing Point Force India team (whose owners includes Williams driver Lance Stroll's father Lawrence) was accepted to the grid in time for the race. Because technically it was a new entry into the championship of a new team, Force India had to start from scratch in the Constructors' Championship, but drivers Sergio P\u00e9rez and Esteban Ocon were allowed to keep the points they had earned in the Drivers' Championship. Racing Point Force India qualified 3rd and 4th on the grid during qualifying, and finished 5th and 6th in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, European and Canadian rounds\nIn Italy, on Ferrari's home turf, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen took the fastest ever pole position in F1 history until the 2020 Italian Grand Prix, ahead of teammate Vettel. There was a first lap incident between Hamilton and Vettel which left the latter struggling as he could only manage 4th. During a nail-biting race, Hamilton overtook R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen on lap 45, thus winning his sixth race of the season, with R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen finishing second and Bottas finishing third after a collision with Verstappen. Sergey Sirotkin scored his first and only point in the season by finishing 10th after the disqualification of Romain Grosjean \u2013 thus ensuring that every driver who entered the championship managed to score points, which happened for the first time in the series' history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Closing rounds\nIn Singapore, a track where Mercedes traditionally struggled, Hamilton took pole position with the fastest lap which he described as \"magical\" and as one of the best laps he's ever done. Hamilton would go on to win the race with title rival Vettel finishing third behind Verstappen. The race also saw both Kevin Magnussen and Haas get their first fastest lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Closing rounds\nIn Russia, Bottas started from pole and was the virtual race leader for the first half of the race but obeyed team orders and allowed Hamilton to overtake him on lap 26. This allowed Hamilton to win the race followed by Bottas and Vettel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Closing rounds\nIn Japan, Hamilton took the pole which he then converted into victory after leading every lap, he was followed by Bottas in second and Max Verstappen in third. This was Hamilton's 80th pole position and Bottas's 30th podium finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Closing rounds\nAt the United States Grand Prix Hamilton could win the world championship if he outscored Vettel by 8 points or more. It was Hamilton who took pole with R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen starting second. Vettel actually qualified second but had to start fifth after being penalised for not slowing enough during a red flag period in first practice. The race was won by R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, his first win in 114 grand prix which was a new record. Verstappen finished second and Hamilton third, as Vettel finished fourth. Hamilton only outscored Vettel by three points meaning he had failed to wrap up the title on his first attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Closing rounds\nIn Mexico, Vettel needed to win the Grand Prix and Hamilton 8th or lower for the Championship to remain in contention. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo secured his latest pole position, but would eventually retire from the Grand Prix with an engine failure, his eighth failure to finish during the season. His teammate, Max Verstappen won by 17.3 seconds while Vettel came in second place. Hamilton finished in 4th place, which was enough to secure his fifth Drivers' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Closing rounds\nIn Brazil, the penultimate race of the season, Ferrari needed to outscore Mercedes by at least 13 points to remain in contention for the Constructors' Championship. Hamilton started from pole but lost the lead to Max Verstappen on lap 40 as Mercedes had to turn his engine down to prevent failure. Verstappen then looked set to win the race, but was spun around on lap 44 by the Force India of Esteban Ocon who was attempting to unlap himself (an incident which led to a shoving match during driver weight checks after the race).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0050-0001", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Closing rounds\nVerstappen's spin allowed Hamilton to retake the lead and subsequently win the race. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen finished third for Ferrari while his teammate Vettel finished sixth after a sensor problem and a failed gamble on tyre strategy compromised his race. This, combined with Hamilton's win and Bottas's fifth-place finish, allowed Mercedes to clinch their fifth successive Constructors' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Closing rounds\nIn Abu Dhabi, the final race of the season, the safety car was brought out on the first lap when Renault's Nico H\u00fclkenberg barrel-rolled into the barricade at turn 9 after accidentally colliding with Grosjean. In his final race for Ferrari, Raikkonen retired on lap 7 when his engine failed, triggering the virtual safety car. In the end, Hamilton won with Vettel finishing second, and the two Red Bulls third and fourth. After the race, Hamilton and Vettel flanked the retiring Fernando Alonso on the post-race lap, and all three drivers performed synchronized \"donuts\" on the finish straight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Results and standings, Scoring system\nPoints are awarded to the top ten classified drivers in every race, using the following system:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279363-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula One World Championship, Results and standings, Scoring system\nIn order for full points to be awarded, the race winner must complete at least 75% of the scheduled race distance. Half points are awarded if the race winner completes less than 75% of the race distance provided that at least two laps are completed. In the event of a tie at the conclusion of the championship, a count-back system is used as a tie-breaker, with a driver's/constructor's best result used to decide the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279364-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Renault Eurocup\nThe 2018 Formula Renault Eurocup is a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship features drivers competing in 2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2018 season is the 28th Formula Renault Eurocup season organized by the Renault Sport and the third season as the main category of the World Series by Renault. The series will visit ten circuits around the Europe, including Monaco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279364-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Renault Eurocup, Teams and drivers\nIn 2018 the series was scheduled to feature the same nine teams as in previous year. But Mark Burdett Motorsport wasn't able to appear on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279364-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Renault Eurocup, Calendar\nThe provisional calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 25 September 2017. The series will return to Hockenheimring in its schedule. While Pau Grand Prix will be not present in the 2018 calendar. On 29 October the calendar was slightly altered, but featured the same ten circuits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279364-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Renault Eurocup, Championship standings, Teams' championship\nOnly two-best cars are eligible to score points in the teams' championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279365-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Renault Northern European Cup\nThe 2018 Formula Renault Northern European Cup was the thirteenth and the final Formula Renault Northern European Cup season, an open-wheel motor racing series. It was a multi-event motor racing championship that featured drivers competing in 2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279365-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Renault Northern European Cup\nThe championship title was won by German driver Doureid Ghattas, after recording five consecutive win. He won races at Hungaroring, N\u00fcrburgring and Hockenheim, finished 42 points clear of his closest rival and Anders Motorsport teammate, Phil Hill, who was the winner at Spa and Hockenheim. Third place in the championship was settled by R-ace GP driver Gabriel Gandulia, who finished eight points behind Hill. Sharon Scolari was the last driver considered as regular driver finished fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279365-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Renault Northern European Cup\nOver the course of the season, four different drivers won a race. Aside from Ghattas and Hill, other drivers (when they were eligible for the series trophy) to win were Logan Sargeant, who finished fifth in the championship, and his teammate Victor Martins. Alex Peroni, who finished seventh was the only driver excluding Ghattas and Hill, who was able to win more than one race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279365-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Renault Northern European Cup, Calendar and results\nThe provisional calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 11 November 2017. The schedule was increased to six rounds. For the first time in the history, the series is scheduled to have event which will be part of the Pau Grand Prix. Hungaroring and Circuit Park Zandvoort were set to return to the calendar, while events at N\u00fcrburgring and Silverstone Circuit were set to be omitted. On 4 April 2018 the calendar was amended, with three rounds supporting 2018 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0. Zandvoort opener was replaced by N\u00fcrburgring in the schedule. On 31 August 2018 the final round at Hockenheimring was rescheduled to an earlier date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279365-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Renault Northern European Cup, Championship standings, Drivers' championship\nBold\u00a0\u2013 PoleItalics\u00a0\u2013 Fastest Lap\u2020\u00a0\u2014 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 89], "content_span": [90, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279366-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Renault seasons\nThis article describes all the 2018 seasons of Formula Renault series across the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279366-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Renault seasons, Unofficial Formula Renault championships, 2018 Remus Formula Renault 2.0 Pokal season\nThe season was held between 13 April and 9 September and raced across Austria, Italy, Czech Republic and Germany. The races occur with other categories cars as part of the 2018 Austria Formula 3 Cup, this section presents only the Austrian Formula Renault 2.0L classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 115], "content_span": [116, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279366-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Renault seasons, Unofficial Formula Renault championships, 2018 Formula Renault 2.0 Argentina season\nAll cars use Tito 02 chassis, all races were held in Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 113], "content_span": [114, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279366-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula Renault seasons, Unofficial Formula Renault championships, 2018 Formula Renault 2.0 Argentina season\n1 extra point in each race for regularly qualified drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 113], "content_span": [114, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279367-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula STCC Nordic\nThe 2018 Formula STCC Nordic season was the sixth season of the single-seater championship supporting the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship. The series uses the previous Formula Renault 1.6 chassis and engines, as it used to go under the name of Formula Renault 1.6 Nordic before Renault Sport dropped its support for the 3.5 and 1.6 classes in late 2015. The season began on 4 May at Ring Knutstorp and concluded on 22 September at Mantorp Park after six double-header rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279367-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula STCC Nordic, Race calendar and results\nThe season started on 4 May at Ring Knutstorp and finished on 22 September at Mantorp Park after six double-header rounds. Five of the six rounds supported STCC, the exception being the first Rudskogen round which was co-headlined alongside Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, another STCC supporting series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279367-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula STCC Nordic, Championship standings\nPoints are awarded to the top 10 classified finishers. An extra point is awarded for pole position and fastest lap for each race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279367-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Formula STCC Nordic, Championship standings\nParallel to the main championship, two other championships are held: the Formula STCC Junior Svenskt M\u00e4sterskap (JSM) for drivers under 26 years old holding a Swedish driver license, and the Formula STCC Northern European Zone (NEZ) championship at selected rounds. Points to this last championship are awarded using the same system, with the sole exception of pole position and fastest lap not awarding points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279368-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election\nThe general election for mayor of Fort Lauderdale was held on May 13, 2018. It saw the election of Dean Trantalis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279368-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election, Results\nDuring the May 13 municipal elections, voter turnout in Broward County, where Fort Lauderdale is located, was 12.42%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279369-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 FotoFilm Tijuana\nThe 2nd FotoFilm Tijuana Festival took place from 27 to 31 July 2018, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279369-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 FotoFilm Tijuana\nThe official selection included 14 feature films, including the Ariel Award winner for Best Picture Sue\u00f1o en Otro Idioma; 12 short films produced by the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE) and two produced by the Centro de Capacitaci\u00f3n Cinematogr\u00e1fica (CCC); and for the competition section, six short films were the candidates for the \"Best of Show\" award, sent to the festival through an open call for filmmakers posted on the FilmFreeway website; Emma or the Incoveniences of a Suicide by Mexican director Marlon Morales won the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279369-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 FotoFilm Tijuana, Official selection, Short films, Desde Mexico\nAlso included as a part of the official selection of the festival was a section entitled \"Desde Mexico\", which included 10 short films produced by the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE) and two produced by the Centro de Capacitaci\u00f3n Cinematogr\u00e1fica (CCC). Both, Oasis, directed by Alejandro Zuno, and Cerulia, directed by Sof\u00eda Carrillo, won the Ariel Award in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 68], "content_span": [69, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279369-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 FotoFilm Tijuana, Official selection, Short films, Jukebox Visual\nThe competition for the \"Best of Show\" award, was divided into animated, documentary, fiction and music video fields, and as an incentive for filmmakers from the Mexican states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, and Sonora a section entitled \"Desde el Norte\" (\"From the North\") was created. Six finalists were selected from all entries through the website Film Freeway. The Best of Show included a prize, equivalent to USD1,000, and was awarded to Emma or the Incoveniences of a Suicide by Mexican director Marlon Morales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 70], "content_span": [71, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279370-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2018 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships were held in Taipei City, Taiwan on January 22\u201328, 2018. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279370-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Qualification\nThis competition is open to skaters from all non-European member nations of the International Skating Union. Skaters must have reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2017 to participate. The corresponding competition for European skaters is the 2018 European Figure Skating Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279370-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Qualification\nEach National Federation from the four represented regions are permitted to send up to three skaters/couples for each discipline. National Federations can select their entries based on their own criteria, as long as the selected skater/couples attains a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international senior event prior to the Four Continents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279370-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Qualification, Minimum TES\nThe ISU stipulates that the minimum scores must be achieved at an ISU-recognized senior international competition in the ongoing or preceding season, no later than 21 days before the first official practice day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 77], "content_span": [78, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279370-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, Medals by country\nTable of small medals for placement in the short segment:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 84], "content_span": [85, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279370-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, Medals by country\nTable of small medals for placement in the free segment:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 84], "content_span": [85, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279371-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Four National Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2018 Four National Figure Skating Championships included the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. It took place 14\u201316 December 2017 in Ko\u0161ice, Slovakia. The results were split by country; the three highest-placing skaters from each country formed their national podiums in men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dance. The results were among the criteria used to determine international assignments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279372-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Four Nations Tournament\nThe 2018 Four Nations Tournament is a football tournament for the national teams of Angola, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It took place during the March 2018 window of the FIFA International Match Calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279372-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Four Nations Tournament\nA draw to determine the semi-final round matches was held on 12 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279373-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Four Nations Tournament (women's football)\nThe 2018 Four Nations Tournament was the 17th edition of the Four Nations Tournament, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279374-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301\nThe 2018 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on July 22, 2018 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire. Contested over 301 laps on the 1.058-mile (1.703\u00a0km) speedway, it was the 20th race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279374-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, Report, Background\nNew Hampshire Motor Speedway is a 1.058-mile (1.703\u00a0km) oval speedway located in Loudon, New Hampshire, which has hosted NASCAR racing annually since the early 1990s, as well as the longest-running motorcycle race in North America, the Loudon Classic. Nicknamed \"The Magic Mile\", the speedway is often converted into a 1.6-mile (2.6\u00a0km) road course, which includes much of the oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279374-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, Report, Background\nThe track was originally the site of Bryar Motorsports Park before being purchased and redeveloped by Bob Bahre. The track is currently one of eight major NASCAR tracks owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279374-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, First practice\nKyle Busch was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 28.362 seconds and a speed of 134.292\u00a0mph (216.122\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279374-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, Qualifying\nKurt Busch scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.511 and a speed of 133.591\u00a0mph (214.994\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279374-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice\nDenny Hamlin was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 28.650 seconds and a speed of 132.942\u00a0mph (213.949\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279374-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice\nMartin Truex Jr. was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.937 seconds and a speed of 131.624\u00a0mph (211.828\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279374-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, Media, Television\nNBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Steve Letarte, four-time and all-time Loudon winner Jeff Burton and Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call in the booth for the race as part of an NBC Special Analyst Broadcast. Rick Allen, Parker Kligerman, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279374-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, Media, Radio\nPRN had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279375-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 France Women's Sevens\nThe 2018 France Women's Sevens was the final event of the 2017\u201318 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the third edition of the France Women's Sevens. The tournament was held between 8\u201310 June 2018 at Stade Jean-Bouin, Paris alongside the men's tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279375-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 France Women's Sevens, Teams\nThe eleven core teams will be participating in the tournament, along with one invited team, Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279375-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 France Women's Sevens, Pool stages\nAll times in Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00). The games as scheduled are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279375-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 France Women's Sevens, Players, Dream Team\nThe following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279376-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 France rugby union tour of New Zealand\nIn June 2018, France played a three-test series against New Zealand as part of the 2018 mid-year rugby union tests. The series was part of the sixth year of the global rugby calendar established by World Rugby, which runs through to 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279376-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 France rugby union tour of New Zealand, Squads\nNote: Ages, caps and clubs are as per 9 June, the first test match of the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279376-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 France rugby union tour of New Zealand, Squads, France\nOn 22 May, Brunel named a 32-man squad ahead of France's three-test series against New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279376-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 France rugby union tour of New Zealand, Squads, France\nOn 27 May, S\u00e9bastien Taofifenua was called up to the squad to replace the injured Eddy Ben Arous.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279376-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 France rugby union tour of New Zealand, Squads, France\nOn 10 June, R\u00e9my Grosso was declared forfait for the rest of the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279376-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 France rugby union tour of New Zealand, Squads, France\nNote: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279376-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 France rugby union tour of New Zealand, Squads, New Zealand\nOn 20 May, Hansen named a 33-man squad ahead of the All Blacks' three-test June Series against France (9 June, 16 June, and 23 June).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279376-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 France rugby union tour of New Zealand, Squads, New Zealand\nLiam Coltman and Akira Ioane were included in the squad as precautionary injury cover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279376-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 France rugby union tour of New Zealand, Squads, New Zealand\nOn 1 June, Sonny Bill Williams was ruled out of the series due to a knee injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279376-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 France rugby union tour of New Zealand, Squads, New Zealand\nOn 4 June, Tom Franklin, Luke Romano and Matt Todd were called up as injury cover, with Romano covering for Brodie Retallick who was ruled out of the first test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279376-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 France rugby union tour of New Zealand, Matches, First test\nTouch judges:Angus Gardner (Australia)John Lacey (Ireland)Television match official:George Ayoub (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279376-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 France rugby union tour of New Zealand, Matches, Second test\nTouch judges:John Lacey (Ireland)Luke Pearce (England)Television match official:George Ayoub (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279376-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 France rugby union tour of New Zealand, Matches, Third test\nTouch judges:Angus Gardner (Australia)Graham Cooper (Australia)Television match official:George Ayoub (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday\nThe 2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday (French: Jeudi noir des Franco-Ontariens de 2018) occurred on 15 November 2018, when the government of Ontario, led by Doug Ford, announced a number of cuts to Franco-Ontarian institutions in the province, notably the elimination of the office of the French Language Services Commissioner and of the soon-to-be-opened Universit\u00e9 de l'Ontario fran\u00e7ais. The cuts provoked a significant backlash from the Franco-Ontarian community, leading to the largest mass mobilisations in Franco-Ontarian history, surpassing those of SOS Montfort two decades earlier, and leading to the government of Ontario mostly backing down from the cuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Background\nWith a population measuring close to a million and a historical presence dating back to the 1600s, the francophone community in Ontario is one of the largest minority groups in the province. Franco-Ontarians, however, have historically faced oppression from the anglophone majority, notably the Regulation 17, which outlawed education in the French language in the province. After protests successfully lead to the repeal of Regulation 17, the situation for Franco-Ontarians slowly improved, notably the further C'est l'temps protests in the 1970s leading to the Ontario justice system becoming officially bilingual in 1984 and then the French Language Services Act in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Background\nOne of the most significant mass movements in Franco-Ontarian history was the SOS Montfort movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s, attempting to save Montfort Hospital, the only primarily francophone hospital in Ontario, after the Mike Harris government announced it would be shutting down the hospital in 1997. After widespread mass mobilization and court cases, the campaign was ultimately successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Background\nIn February 2016, Premier Kathleen Wynne issued a formal apology for Regulation 17. Later that year, French Language Services Commissioner Fran\u00e7ois Boileau called for the expansion of the French Language Services Act to cover the entire province and for provincial agencies to ensure that social media communications were made in both English and French. In 2017, the government announced that it would be creating a new French-language university in the province, the Universit\u00e9 de l'Ontario fran\u00e7ais, responding to a decades-long campaign from the Franco-Ontarian community for a primarily francophone university in Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Background\nIn the 2018 Ontario general election, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, led by Doug Ford, won a majority in the election, capturing 76 of the 124 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and returning to government for the first time since 2003. Unlike Wynne, Ford was unilingual and could not speak French. There had also previously been questions raised about his ability as a leader attract Franco-Ontarian voters and overcome the lingering distrust from the Harris leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Background\nThe question had especially been raised after a gaffe during Ford's campaign for the Progressive Conservative leadership, when he responded to a journalist's question about learning French by saying that \"it\u2019d be important to be able to communicate with part of our country that speaks French \u2014 I love Quebec,\" seemingly ignoring the existence of the francophone community in Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Background\nDuring his time as a city councillor in Toronto and in his mayoral run in 2014, Ford had also come under criticism for his actions towards the French language, having voted in favour of the abolition of the French Language Advisory Committee and having refused to respond to election questions from the Association des communaut\u00e9s francophones de l\u2019Ontario \u00e0 Toronto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Black Thursday\nIn June 2018, Ford unveiled his first cabinet, naming Caroline Mulroney as Minister of Francophone Affairs and demoting the Ministry of Francophone Affairs from full-fledged ministry down to an office. In July, the Ford government sent out a press release affirming its intention to promote the UOF, however, the government received some criticism after its initial Throne Speech failed to contain a single word in French or even a mention of the UOF. In mid-September, the university announced the first four bachelor's degree programmes it would offer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Black Thursday\nOn 23 October 2018, Mulroney met secretly with the rectors of the University of Ottawa, Laurentian University, and the president of the Coll\u00e8ge Bor\u00e9al. During the meeting, they discussed abandoning the Universit\u00e9 de l'Ontario fran\u00e7ais and increasing funds for the three universities in its place. Fr\u00e9mont had previously privately opposed the creation of l'UOF under the previous Liberal government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Black Thursday\nOn 15 November 2018, the government announced that, as a part of a number of budget cuts, the office of the French Language Services Commissioner and the soon-to-be-opened Universit\u00e9 de l'Ontario fran\u00e7ais would both be eliminated in their entireties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions\nThe cuts were met with immediate criticism, especially from the Franco-Ontarian community. The cuts were described by many as a Black Thursday for the Franco-Ontarian community and as part of Ford's austerity measures. The cuts were also described by some as an attempt to assimilate Franco-Ontarians into the anglophone majority and as a betrayal of fundamental rights in Canada. The Canadian Union of Public Employees called for university workers in Ontario to fight the cuts, stating that \"the Ford government is using the disguise of fiscal restraint to try and pit communities against one another.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions\nSome commentators argued that the cuts were counter-productive, noting that demand for primary and secondary school education in French in Ontario and across Canada was significantly increasing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions\nThe outgoing French Language Services Commissioner, Fran\u00e7ois Boileau, stated that he learned the position was being eliminated half an hour before the government's announcement and expressed concerns that the ombudsperson's office wouldn't have the same mandate to actively advocate for francophone rights in Ontario. Concerns were also raised about the impact the cuts would have on Northern Ontario, the region with the highest concentration of Franco-Ontarians. Some commentators accused Ford's government of being too Toronto-centric, arguing that the cuts demonstrated a lack of concern to issues affecting the rest of the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions\nA small number of Franco-Ontarians defended the cuts, with former Progressive Conservative candidate Yvan Grenier stating that \"as much as my emotions would lead me into wanting what all the other Franco-Ontarians want, I still have to be realistic. We are so low on money, we have to cut somewhere,\" and that he was concerned that the outcry over the cuts could lead to an anti-francophone backlash from anglophones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions\nWriting for the Institute for Research on Public Policy magazine, University of Amsterdam professor Mike Medeiros stated that from his analysis of polling data: \"if francophobia is at play it is most likely a tacit, subtle form of it rather than an overt anti-francophone sentiment,\" and that \"non-francophones are clearly unconvinced of the need to further promote bilingualism in Canada.\" Other commentators, however, pointed to struggles over bilingualism occurring in other provinces as indicative of a general rise of francophobia in Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions\nDavid Weber, professor at Bishop's University, noted that francophone minority struggles often received significantly less coverage in Canadian media than even minor stories from the anglophone minority in Qu\u00e9bec, stating that \"to read leading English-Canadian media, you would think that only one of those [linguistic minority] communities \u2014 Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s anglophones \u2014 were under threat.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions, Reactions from Qu\u00e9bec\nThe cuts received criticism from groups representing the anglophone minority in Qu\u00e9bec, with Geoffrey Chambers, head of the Quebec Community Groups Network, stating that \"it's bad for the overall climate of linguistic peace and growth of structures that makes linguistic peace more possible and achievable.\" The Montreal Gazette, the largest English-language newspaper in Qu\u00e9bec, published an editorial calling for Anglo-Quebeckers to stand in solidarity with Franco-Ontarians, proclaiming that \"to defend access to services for official-language minorities is to defend national unity and a vision of this country as a place where both languages can be at home.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions, Reactions from Qu\u00e9bec\nSeveral commentators also raised comparisons between the Anglo-Quebecer and Franco-Ontarian minorities, noting that there were three entirely anglophone universities in Qu\u00e9bec, namely Concordia University, McGill University, and Bishop's University, but none in Ontario as well as the fact that the Franco-Ontarian minority has historically suffered lower socio-economic conditions than the Anglo-Quebecer minority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions, Reactions from Qu\u00e9bec\nThe newly elected government of Qu\u00e9bec, led by Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault, expressed concerns over the cuts, with Legault raising the issue during the first official meeting between him and Ford. The Mayor of Montr\u00e9al Val\u00e9rie Plante denounced the cuts, with the Franco-Ontarian flag later being flown in front of Montreal city hall in solidarity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions, Reactions From Francophone Minorities in Canada\nFrancophone minority communities elsewhere in Canada expressed solidarity with Franco-Ontarians over the cuts and expressed concerns over the implications the cuts could have for the status. In early December 2018, over 200 Franco-Manitobans held a solidarity demonstration in Winnipeg, raising the Franco-Ontarian flag over the Saint-Boniface town hotel. That same day, over 60 Fransaskois attended a solidarity protest in Regina, marching from Wascana Park to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions, Reactions From Francophone Minorities in Canada\nDenis Simard, president of the Assembl\u00e9e communautaire fransaskoise stated that \"we have long seen the progress of the Franco-Ontarian community as a model for the rest of the country, and when Franco-Ontarians rights roll back, we know that everyone's rights are rolling back.\" Further solidarity demonstrations were held in Moncton, New Brunswick, and in Alberta and British Columbia. Justin Johnson, vice-president of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des communaut\u00e9s francophones et acadienne du Canada stated that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions, Reactions From Francophone Minorities in Canada\nIn this moment, both in Ontario and in New Brunswick, there are people who feel comfortable openly attacking bilingualism, people who think that francophonie is just a matter of economics, which is unacceptable. The fight in Ontario is our fight too. We're here and we will always be here!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions, Reactions From Francophone Minorities in Canada\nIn a press conference shortly after the cuts had been announced, Blaine Higgs, the Premier of New Brunswick stated that francophones in New Brunswick would not be facing similar cuts, however refused to criticse Ford's government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions, Reactions From Federal \\Politics\nBy the end of November 2018, the leaders of all five political parties represented in the federal House of Commons had met to voice support for federal intervention to save the UOF. Federal Conservative Party of Canada leader Andrew Scheer stated that he spoke to Ford about the cuts and had expressed concerns, but that \"it's up to Mr. Ford to manage those types of things.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Reactions, Reactions From Federal \\Politics\nDuring the French-language leaders' debate for the 2019 Canadian federal election, Liberal Party of Canada leader Justin Trudeau attempted to link Ford's cuts to the federal Conservatives, declaring that \"you\u2019ll remember, like me, what Mr. Ford has done since he\u2019s came to power. He\u2019s cut services to Francophones even though he said he\u2019s going to help that community. He said he was going to be \u2018for the people,\u2019 but he made cuts.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, La R\u00e9sistance Protests\nThe outcry quickly coalesced into an more organised protest movement that dubbed itself \"la R\u00e9sistance\" and adopted the popular Franco-Ontarian slogan \"Nous sommes, nous serons!\" In the days shortly following the announcement, a number of Franco-Ontarians who had left phone messages to Ford's office received a call back from Ford himself. During the calls, Ford defended the cuts, stating that the province's budget didn't have enough money, and blamed the previous government of Kathleen Wynne for the deficit. However, those who had talked to the Premier reported feeling as if he knew little about the situation of Franco-Ontarians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, La R\u00e9sistance Protests\nOn 22 November, the Assemblee de la francophonie de l'Ontario held a press conference decrying the cuts, with AFO president Carol Jolin stating that \"if I look at everything that has been done since the government took power, it is starting to look like an attack on francophones,\" and announcing that they had held a conference call with a number of lawyers to prepare a legal challenge against the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, La R\u00e9sistance Protests\nNine days after Black Thursday, the Ford government began backtracking on the cuts, announcing that the French Language Services Commissioner would continue as an officer under the provincial ombudsperson's office, that the government would seek to turn the office of francophone affairs into a full-fledged ministry, and that the premier's office would hire a senior policy adviser on francophone affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, La R\u00e9sistance Protests\nOn 28 November, a heated debate was held in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, with the opposition Ontario New Democratic Party putting forward a motion to reverse the government's cuts. During the debate, Glengarry\u2014Prescott\u2014Russell MPP and the only francophone member of Ford's caucus Amanda Simard made an impassioned speech in parliament asking the government to reverse the cuts, noting that she had attended the SOS Montfort protests as a child and that \"20 years later, we're still fighting to preserve the rights that we have gained.\" The next day, Simard announced she was leaving the Progressive Conservative Party to sit as an independent in protest over the cuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, La R\u00e9sistance Protests\nAfter Simard's defection, with rumours of more Progressive Conservative MPPs crossing the floor, the government announced that it would be introducing legislation to raise the threshold for a party to gain recognized party status in the Legislative Assembly from 8 MPPs to 12. While sitting as an independent, Simard was blocked from speaking in a parliamentary session in early December by Progressive Conservative MPPs after the Liberals had offered her one of their speaking slots to raise the matter of the cuts, as the switch required unanimous consent from the assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, La R\u00e9sistance Protests\nOn 1 December 2018, a day of protests against the cuts was held across the province, with over 14 000 demonstrators taking part. The scale of the demonstrations was one of the largest in the history of Ontario and the largest in Franco-Ontarian history, surpassing the SOS Montfort protests two decades earlier. Some student groups, including the FESFO and R\u00c9FO, had played a key role in organising the day's protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, La R\u00e9sistance Protests\nOn 6 December 2018, Franco-Ontarian singer M\u00e9lissa Ouimet released a remake of her song Personne ne pourra m'arr\u00eater, featuring a number of other French-Canadian singers, to promote the protests. The protests also saw a significantly increased Franco-Ontarian presence on social media, with some groups on Facebook reporting an almost sevenfold increase in group members in the month after the government's announcement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, La R\u00e9sistance Protests\nIn December, the federal Minister responsible for Official Languages M\u00e9lanie Joly announced that she had gotten in contact with Mulroney to indicate that the federal government was willing to step in and financially back the UOF. In early 2019, the Ford government announced that it would not be reapealing the law that created the UOF, but would not be financing the university either. Negotiations between the federal and provincial governments then picked up again in mid-2019. In September 2019, the governments of Ontario and Canada announced they had signed a memorandum of understanding, which would see both governments provide C$126 million to fund the institution over the following eight years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Legacy\nIn June 2019, a delegation of Franco-Ontarians was invited to open the F\u00eate nationale du Qu\u00e9bec march in Montr\u00e9al, the first time in history that a group from outside Qu\u00e9bec had been invited to do so. In late 2019, Ford stated that he still inteded to learn French and that he thought it would be \u201cpretty easy\u201d to pick up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Legacy\nIn January 2020, Kelly Burke was appointed French Language Services Commissioner. However, the press conference announcing her appointment stressed that the role of the commissioner was not to express positions on policy, sparking concerns that the role would not be able to effectively advocate for Franco-Ontarians. That same month, Simard announced that she was joining the Ontario Liberal Party. Ford reacted to the news by stating that he had no regrets about his party's treatment of Simard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Legacy\nIn September 2020, the Franco-Ontarian flag was designated an official emblem of Ontario. In March 2021, the Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a motion from Liberal Ottawa-Vanier MPP Lucille Collard to have the flag flown permanently in front of the Ontario Legislative Building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Legacy\nSome commentators have argued that the mass movement failed to effectively connect with other groups that faced harm from the Ford government's cuts, blunting the ultimate long-term impact of the movement. Others have argued that the movement failed to effectively take into account the additional barriers faced by francophone ethnic minority groups in the province, further limiting the movement's impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Legacy, COVID-19 Pandemic\nConcerns surrounding the Ford government's policies towards Franco-Ontarians surfaced again during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, with the government initially not only holding press conferences entirely in English but also refusing to answer questions in French from Franco-Ontarian journalists. In mid-April 2020, Mulroney announced that, going forward, the government's press conferences would offer a French translation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Legacy, COVID-19 Pandemic\nIn July 2020, several anglophone schools in the province found themselves unable to offer French classes to students due to the re-opening restrictions imposed by the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279377-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, Legacy, French-language Education in Ontario\nDespite the magnitude of the protests, significant questions about the status of French-language post-secondary education in Ontario. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, l'Universit\u00e9 de l'Ontario fran\u00e7ais reported significantly lower than expected applications for its opening year of studies and with rector Andr\u00e9 Roy resigning at the beginning of February 2021. Questions were raised surrounding the location of the university in a predominantly-anglophone city, a lack of advertising, and the limited nature of degree programmes offered. Later in 2021, Laurentian University was hit by a significant financial crisis, leading to cuts affected around 60% of the university's French-language programmes. The crisis not only led to a new wave of concern around the status of Franco-Ontarians in the province but also led to a new wave of criticism against the Ford government for its perceived inaction concerning the crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 1001]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279378-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fred Page Cup\nThe 2018 Fred Page Cup was the 24th Canadian Eastern Junior A Ice Hockey Championship for the Canadian Junior Hockey League. The Ottawa Jr. Senators hosted for the second time in team history. The tournament was held May 2 to May 6 at Jim Durrell Recreation Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. The tournament champions qualified for the 2018 Royal Bank Cup, held in Chilliwack, BC and hosted by the BCHL's Chilliwack Chiefs at the Prospera Centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279378-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fred Page Cup, Tournament, Round Robin\nx = Clinched championship round berth; y = Clinched first overall", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279379-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Freedom and Direct Democracy leadership election\nThe Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) leadership election of 2018 was held on 14 July 2018. Tomio Okamura was elected for second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279379-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Freedom and Direct Democracy leadership election, Background\nTomio Okamura founded the party in 2015 after he split from Dawn. He was elected party's leader the same year. Okamura led the party during 2017 legislative election. It received 10.6% of votes and came fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279379-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Freedom and Direct Democracy leadership election, Background\nNew leadership election was scheduled for 14 July 2018. Tomio Okamura announced he will seek reelection. No other candidate was announced. It was reported that candidates might be announced on the day of election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279379-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Freedom and Direct Democracy leadership election, Voting\nLeader is elected by 162 delegates. 140 of them are nominated by regional organisations while remaining 22 are party's MPs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279379-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Freedom and Direct Democracy leadership election, Voting\n152 delegates eventually participated. Okamura received 150 votes and thus was reelected. Okamura thanked delegates for a strong mandate. Okamura himself didn't vote in the election. Only one delegate voted against him. Okamura's term will expire in 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape\nOn 13 October 2018, an 18-year-old woman was raped outside a discotheque in Freiburg, Germany by a series of men. In July 2020, eight perpetrators were convicted of rape, while two additional men were convicted for not aiding the victim. The case drew public attention, due in part to the refugee status of most of the perpetrators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Incident\nAccording to the police, on 13 October 2018, an 18-year-old woman was drugged in a discotheque in a remote industrial area along Hans-Bunte-Stra\u00dfe by a 22-year-old Syrian Kurd and then raped in front of the building by others, later identified as six more Syrians and one German; the accused were aged between 19 and 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Incident\nPolice say that a man bought the woman\u2014a student who was present with a female friend\u2014a drink which apparently contained a tranquilizing substance, making her defenseless, and after going outside with her together, dragged the woman into nearby bushes and raped her, then left her there and returned to the club to call his friends.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Incident\nThe woman filed a complaint with the police the next day. Eight suspects were soon taken into custody.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Investigation\nSeveral suspects were identified from DNA traces found on the victim; further evaluation of traces from the victim and the scene was carried out. The police sought more suspects, using a 13-person investigation team. One witness claimed that up to 15 men had raped the woman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Investigation\nEight men were initially arrested for the crime, seven Syrians and one with German nationality. Three of the arrested had presented themselves on the Internet bearing firearms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Investigation\nThe main suspect was already targeted by an undercover investigation for violent crime and drug trafficking, and he was a suspect in another rape case. Police had planned to arrest him on 24 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Investigation\nDNA traces indicated there were two further unidentified suspects who were not among the arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Investigation\nA ninth suspect, an 18-year-old man from Syria, was detained on 29 November in a refugee center in Freiburg, after traces of his DNA were found on the victim's clothing. He was in the discotheque on the night of the crime; police took a saliva sample from him. The ninth suspect had come to Germany via the politically debated family reunification provision. Police continued to search for a tenth suspect whose DNA was also found on the victim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Trial\nThe trial of eleven suspects began on 26 June 2019 at the Landgericht Freiburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Trial\nOn July 23, 2020, a German regional court convicted ten of the eleven suspects charged in the crime. The longest sentence was five and a half years, with the others given three to four years, and two who were convicted of not having assisted the victim were given suspended sentences. One suspect was found not guilty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Aftermath\nMartin Horn, the mayor of Freiburg, stated: \"There is no tolerance for despicable acts\". He promised to bring the perpetrators to justice swiftly. Thomas Strobl (CDU), the Interior Minister of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg said: \"If the allegations prove true, we have to deal with a vile act that leaves no one cold.\" Officials called for calm, stating that \"It is an act by individuals, which should not be generalized\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Aftermath\nOn Monday 29 October, a protest organized by the right-wing-populist party AfD/Junge Alternative was outnumbered by counter-protesters and the AfD event was re-routed as counter-protesters blocked their way. These tensions were similar to those in the aftermath of the murder of Maria Ladenburger by an Afghan migrant. The protest and counter-protest were attended by just below 2000 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Aftermath\nZDF presenter Dunja Hayali demanded a \"new and open debate\" around the asylum and deportation laws because of the case. \"That deportation procedures take so long that they cannot legally be implemented for 1,000 reasons and more is a situation that cannot continue\", said Hayali, adding that her statement was not to be understood as xenophobic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Aftermath\nBoris Palmer (Alliance 90/The Greens), T\u00fcbingen's Lord Mayor, demanded that criminal refugees have their freedom of movement severely restricted, and proposed accommodating them in small asylum centres in remote areas without a connection to public transport. The current German laws would allow this according to Palmer (\"Wohnsitzauflage\", condition of fixed abode).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Aftermath\nA few days later, Winfried Kretschmann (Alliance 90/The Greens), the Minister President of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, also stated that he wants to keep refugees who commit crimes in groups away from major cities and distribute them in the country, saying the idea of sending some of them \"into the pampas\" was \"not wrong\", and \"To put it bluntly, the most dangerous thing that human evolution has produced is hordes of young men.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Aftermath\nCDU General Secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said that after a deportation, criminals should be refused re-entry not only to Germany but also to the whole Schengen area for life, mentioning the gang rape in Freiburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Aftermath\nThe interior minister of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Thomas Strobl, was called to the committee of the interior (German: Innenausschuss) of the Bundestag to explain why the main suspect had not been apprehended despite there being warrants for his arrest (German: Haftbefehle).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Aftermath\nThe two-week delay in the incident in Freiburg becoming public along with the delayed reporting of another gang rape case in Munich where asylum seekers were suspects started a debate as to whether the late reporting was deliberate. Criminologist Christian Pfeiffer said that such delays are not politically motivated but reflect the fact that group crimes take longer to process where a network of suspects is involved, and even longer when police are forced to use interpreters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279380-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Freiburg gang rape, Aftermath\nThe victim suffers a post-traumatic stress disorder lasting at least until the verdict (as of 23th of July 2020).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279381-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fremantle Football Club season\nThe 2018 Fremantle Football Club season was the 24th season contested by the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League. It was also the 2nd season in the AFL Women's league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279381-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fremantle Football Club season, AFL, List changes\nBefore the 2017 season had begun, Shane Yarran retired due to dramas outside of football. Though he did not play in the 2017 season, he still took up a spot on their list throughout 2017. At the season's end veterans Zac Dawson and Garrick Ibbotson decided to retire from professional football. Neither was consistently playing in the senior team and both finished their careers playing for Peel Thunder in the WAFL. After the season had finished Fremantle announced that they would be delisting five players, including 100-gamer Zac Clarke and former Adelaide player Jonathon Griffin. Nick Suban who had been awarded life membership at the 2017 Doig Medal event, was also delisted after nine years at the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279381-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fremantle Football Club season, AFL, List changes\nDuring the 2017 trade period, Fremantle were active in a number of trades, but gaining and losing players and major draft picks. Both Hayden Crozier and Harley Balic were traded, to Western Bulldogs and Melbourne respectively, in exchange for draft picks which improved Fremantle's position in the 2017 draft. Fremantle made an effort to bring defender Nathan Wilson to the club from Greater Western Sydney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279381-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Fremantle Football Club season, AFL, List changes\nInitially the Giants wanted a top-20 draft pick for him, but on the last day of the draft period Fremantle were able to secure him by exchanging lower draft picks and giving the Giants one of their future draft picks. Fremantle also pulled off one of the biggest trades of the off-season when they were able to gain pick 2 in the 2017 draft from Gold Coast in exchange for Lachie Weller, while also making another trade with the Suns to bring Brandon Matera to the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279382-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fremantle by-election\nA by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Fremantle took place on Saturday 28 July 2018, following the resignation of incumbent Labor MP Josh Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279382-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fremantle by-election\nIn early counting, within 90 minutes of the close of polls, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's psephologist Antony Green's electoral computer had predicted Labor to retain the electorate with an increased margin. It is notable for being the first time that a Liberal Democrats candidate won a two-candidate-preferred spot in a federal election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279382-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fremantle by-election, Background\nDue to the High Court ruling against Senator Katy Gallagher on 9 May 2018 as part of the ongoing parliamentary eligibility crisis, Wilson and three other MPs in the same situation announced their parliamentary resignations later that day, while the Perth incumbent resigned for family reasons. The Speaker announced on 24 May 2018 that he had scheduled the by-elections to occur on 28 July 2018. Popularly labelled \"Super Saturday\", the occurrence of five simultaneous federal by-elections is unprecedented in Australian political history. The others are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279382-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fremantle by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberals declined to contest the Fremantle and Perth federal by-elections, but concentrated their resources on the Darling Range state by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279383-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 French Athletics Championships was the 130th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for France. It was held on 6\u20138 July at Stadium Municipal d'Albi in Albi. It was the third time that the city hosted the competition, following previous editions in 2008 and 2011. A total of 38 events (divided evenly between the sexes) were contested over the three-day competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279383-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Athletics Championships\nCarolle Zahi took a women's sprint double in the 100 metres and 200 metres. Ninon Guillon-Romarin broke the French record for the women's pole vault with a height of 4.73\u00a0m (15\u00a0ft 6\u00a0in). On the men's side, Renaud Lavillenie won his eighth outdoor pole vault national title. Several non-French national athletes competed as guests and their performances were excluded for the purposes of the French Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279384-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French F4 Championship\nThe 2018 French F4 Championship was the eighth season to run under the guise of the French F4 Championship and the first season under the FIA Formula 4 regulations. The championship used Mygale M14 chassis like in the F4 British Championship and Australian Formula 4 Championship. The engine was be upgraded from 1.6 litre to 2.0 litre. The series began on 1 April at Nogaro and ended on 14 October at Le Castellet, after seven rounds and twenty one races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279384-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French F4 Championship, Race calendar\nA seven round calendar was published in the FFSA Academy website, confirming the return of Dijon-Prenois and moving the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya round in Spain to Jerez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279384-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French F4 Championship, Championship standings, Drivers standings\nBold\u00a0\u2013 PoleItalics\u00a0\u2013 Fastest Lap\u2020\u00a0\u2014 Did not finish, but classified", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279384-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 French F4 Championship, Championship standings, Drivers standings\nHalf points awarded for race 3 as race was halted before 75% distance due to heavy rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279385-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French GT4 Cup\nThe 2018 Championnat de France FFSA GT - French GT4 Cup was the twenty-first season of the French FFSA GT Championship and the first as the French GT4 Cup, a sports car championship created and organised by the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation (SRO). The season began on 1 April in Nogaro and ended on 14 October at Paul Ricard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279385-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French GT4 Cup, Calendar\nAt the annual press conference during the 2017 24 Hours of Spa on 28 July, the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation announced the first draft of the 2018 calendar. No changes were made to the schedule compared to 2017. The finalised calendar confirmed the races in Pau were moved one week earlier and it confirmed the dates of the races at Dijon-Prenois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279385-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French GT4 Cup, Championship standings\nChampionship points were awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers were required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279386-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Grand Prix\nThe 2018 French Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Pirelli Grand Prix de France 2018) was a Formula One motor race that took place on 24 June 2018 at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, France. The race was the eighth round of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship and marked the first time that the French Grand Prix has been run since 2008. It was the 87th running of the French Grand Prix, and the 59th time the event had been included as a round of the Formula One World Championship since the inception of the series in 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279386-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Grand Prix\nFerrari driver Sebastian Vettel entered the race with a one-point lead over Lewis Hamilton in the World Drivers' Championship. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes led Ferrari by seventeen points. Hamilton took the lead in the Driver's Championship by winning the race, with Vettel finishing fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279386-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Grand Prix, Background\nThe race returned to the calendar for the first time since 2008, with Circuit Paul Ricard chosen as the venue. The circuit last hosted the French Grand Prix in 1990 before the event moved to the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours in 1991. The race used the 5.842\u00a0km (3.630\u00a0mi) layout of the Circuit Paul Ricard for the first time. The layout includes a chicane on the Mistral straight as opposed to the 5.809\u00a0km (3.610\u00a0mi) circuit that was used nine times between 1971 and 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279386-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 French Grand Prix, Background\nThe race was run in June, filling a vacancy left by the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The race in Azerbaijan was moved to an April date to avoid clashing with celebrations for the centenary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279386-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 French Grand Prix, Background, Drag reduction system\nThe circuit featured two drag reduction system (DRS) zones. The first was located along the main straight, while the second was on the Mistral Straight on the approach to the chicane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279386-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 French Grand Prix, Background, Tyres\nTyre supplier Pirelli provided teams with the soft, supersoft and ultrasoft compounds of tyres. They reverted to their narrow tread compound following feedback from the teams in the wake of mid-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279386-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 French Grand Prix, Free practice\nLewis Hamilton set the fastest lap in the first free practice session, which was cut short by an accident involving Sauber driver Marcus Ericsson. Ericsson lost control of his Sauber C37 on the approach to Turn 11 and spun into the barrier on the outside of the corner. The car hit the tyre wall at an angle and subsequently caught fire. Ericsson was unharmed, but with two minutes remaining the session was abandoned and the damage to his car so extensive that he was unable to take part in the second free practice session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279386-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 French Grand Prix, Free practice\nSeveral drivers experienced spins during the session, most notably at Turn 6 where an intermittent and gusty local wind caught the drivers unaware as they accelerated away from the apex of the corner. Unlike Ericsson, all of the drivers avoided contact with the wall courtesy of the circuit's unique, abrasive tarmac run-off areas designed to slow down cars that left the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279386-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 French Grand Prix, Free practice\nHamilton was fastest again in the second free practice session despite having his flying lap interrupted by another red flag. Sergio P\u00e9rez lost a wheel as he turned onto the Mistral Straight, prompting race officials to mount an investigation as to whether Force India had released P\u00e9rez from the pit lane with his car in an unsafe condition. The session was restarted once P\u00e9rez's car was cleared away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279386-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 French Grand Prix, Race, Race report\nAt the start Sebastian Vettel ran into the back of Valtteri Bottas, with both sustaining damage and having to pit for repairs, also there was a separate collision between Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon leaving both cars stranded out on the track, this brought out a brief safety car period lasting till the end of Lap 4. Vettel would later receive a penalty for his collision with Bottas which meant he would only manage to finish 5th. Lance Stroll suffered a tyre puncture near the end of the race causing a virtual safety car, which ended with only half a lap left of the race. Lewis Hamilton comfortably won ahead of Max Verstappen, while Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen completed the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election\nA by-election was held in French Guiana's 2nd constituency on 4 March 2018, with a second round on 11 March as no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was called after the Constitutional Council invalidated the election of L\u00e9na\u00efck Adam, candidate of La R\u00e9publique En Marche! (REM), in the June 2017 legislative elections on 8 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election\nAs in June 2017, Adam narrowly defeated Davy Rimane, supported by La France Insoumise, in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Background\nFollowing the second round of the 2017 legislative election in French Guiana's 2nd constituency on 18 June, Davy Rimane, a regionalist candidate, filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council appealing the election of L\u00e9na\u00efck Adam of La R\u00e9publique En Marche! (REM), claiming to have identified irregularities that would permit such an appeal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Background\nOn 8 December, the constitutional council annulled the election of Adam in the constituency, noting that per article R. 42 of the electoral code, each polling station is required to have two assessors; however, no assessor was present in polling stations 1 and 2 in the commune of Maripasoula, where 220 and 276 votes were cast, respectively. Because the electoral code was not respected, the result of the election was annulled and a by-election will be held to fill the vacant seat. On 20 January 2018, the first round of the by-election was scheduled for 4 March 2018, with a second round on 11 March should no candidate secure a majority of votes in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Background\nDeclarations of candidacies were submitted between 5 and 9 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Background\nPolling stations will be open from 8:00 to 18:00 local time. The vast constituency, covering an area of 54,013.20 square kilometres (20,854.61\u00a0sq\u00a0mi), includes the communes of Apatou, Awala-Yalimapo, Grand-Santi, Iracoubo, Kourou, Macouria, Mana, Maripasoula, Montsin\u00e9ry-Tonnegrande, Papa\u00efchton, Saint-\u00c9lie, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Sa\u00fcl, and Sinnamary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nOutgoing deputy L\u00e9na\u00efck Adam of La R\u00e9publique En Marche! (REM) declared himself a candidate. A 26-year-old business executive, graduate of Sciences Po, and the first Bushinengue elected to the National Assembly, he was already elected to the assembly of French Guiana in the 2015 territorial election on the list of Rodolphe Alexandre, president of the territorial collectivity of French Guiana, and subsequently received the backing of his party, Guyane Rassemblement, in the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nThe Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI), traditionally allied to The Republicans (LR), surprised observers by backing Adam in the by-election, marking the first time that the party backed REM candidates. Adam was also supported by Gilles Adelson, mayor of Macouria. Christophe Castaner traveled to French Guiana from 23 to 26 February to campaign for Adam in French Guiana. A preliminary investigation into Adam for workplace harassment was opened at the end of 2017 following the filing of a complaint by a former parliamentary assistant. He was also attacked by his opponents in the by-election for his lack of legislative activity in the National Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nDavy Rimane, who narrowly lost to Adam in June 2017, also contested the by-election, this time with the backing of Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon's La France Insoumise (FI). During the 2017 social unrest in French Guiana, the 38-year-old led the Kolectif pou lagwiyann d\u00e9kol\u00e9, serving as a spokesman during the protests, is part of the trade union EDF Guyane, and also currently serves as general secretary of the Union of Guianese Workers (UTG).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nThe decision of M\u00e9lenchon to back Rimane in the by-election was met with dissent among local supporters, some under the banner of \"La Guyane Insoumise\", with significant support within the local party for Richard Joigny. In response to these complaints, M\u00e9lenchon affirmed his party's support for Rimane, and said that the decision in Paris was made to avoid a result like that in June \u2013 when the party designated its own candidate, securing 1.37% of the vote \u2013 this time choosing to back a candidate who would be able to win. Rimane is the grand-nephew of Eustase Rimane, who served as mayor of Kourou for 42 years from 1953 to 1995. As in June, Rimane was backed by L\u00e9on Bertrand, who served in the government of Jacques Chirac and is currently mayor of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, later twice convicted in two judicial cases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 900]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nAt his campaign launch on 17 February, Rimane received the support of Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Younous Omarjee as well as Gabriel Serville, deputy for French Guiana's 1st constituency, with FI deputy Dani\u00e8le Obono also visiting in support starting on 21 February, with Omarjee and Obono later accompanying M\u00e9lenchon, who traveled to French Guiana to campaign for Rimane from 26 February to 5 March. During the 2017 presidential election, he came in first place with 24.72% of the vote in the first round, just ahead of Marine Le Pen with 24.29%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nDuring the visit, M\u00e9lenchon denounced Castaner's travel by helicopter in French Guiana, questioning the financing of the trips; in response, the campaign stated that the trip was properly accounted for, that parts of the constituency are only accessible via air or water, and that the electoral code exempts travel expenses from spending limits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nDavid Rich\u00e9, mayor of Roura and president of the Association of Mayors of French Guiana, also contested the by-election, a \"parachutage\" from the other constituency of the department. A \"man of the left\", he was first elected as mayor in 2008, and was selected as substitute to Chantal Berthelot, formerly a deputy for the constituency, in the 2007 legislative elections. In March 2017, he announced his intention to run in the 1st constituency of French Guiana before later renouncing the possibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nHe received the official backing of the Guianese Socialist Party (PSG) after Myl\u00e8ne Mazia declared her candidacy before receiving the investiture of the party. After a supporter discovered racist graffiti against Rich\u00e9 and posted a video of it on social media, public prosecutor \u00c9ric Vaillant announced the opening of an investigation by the authorities in Kourou to locate the person who wrote it. Rich\u00e9 was targeted by similar anti-white racism during his first mayoral campaign. After being eliminated in the first round, Rich\u00e9 backed Adam in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nJos\u00e9 Mak\u00e9b\u00e9, a 30-year-old business executive in Kourou, presented himself as a centrist candidate, having supported Adam in June rather than presenting his own candidacy. He ran without the official support of any party, though he previously served as a regional delegate of the UDI youth in French Guiana. Like Rich\u00e9, he also announced his support for Adam in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nRichard Joigny, the 34-year-old director of services of the town hall of Iracoubo who received 5.79% of the vote in June 2017, stood again under the banner of the Guianese Progressive Party (PPG), hoping to capture the left-wing vote in the by-election. He called for a \"common left front\", and hoped to receive the support of Berthelot as well as La Guyane Insoumise, which withdrew its support for Paul Persdam in the last few days before the first round in June to back Joigny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nOn 5 February, Jean-Philippe Dolor, former campaign director for L\u00e9na\u00efck Adam, youth leader of the Guianese Socialist Party, and general director of services for the town hall of Apatou, declared his surprise candidacy. J\u00e9r\u00f4me Harbourg was nominated by the National Front (FN), hoping to create a \"surprise\" by submitting his nomination papers within the final hours. At the age of 21, he is the youngest candidate in the by-election, studying at the University of the French West Indies and Guiana. Candidates were required declarations of their candidacies between 5 and 9 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nGeorges Mignot, a 47-year-old animation assistant, stood for the Popular Republican Union (UPR), replacing Nicolas Miray, who was initially designated as the party's candidate in the constituency. Fran\u00e7ois Asselineau, president of the UPR, flew to French Guiana in order to campaign in support of Mignot from 25 February to 5 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nOn 29 January, Myl\u00e8ne Mazia of the PSG declared her candidacy on behalf without having yet selected a substitute, but the PSG disavowed her candidacy, which had not been approved by the party. She claimed that she did not consult the party because she believed the outcome had been assured, having served as treasurer of the party and successfully directed the campaign of Gabriel Serville in 2012 and 2017. On 16 February, Mazia withdrew her candidacy following the death of her brother on 14 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279387-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nTwo debates with four candidates each were broadcast by Guyane 1\u00e8re on 21 and 22 February at 20:00\u00a0local time, presented by Laurent Marot and Jessy Xavier. The first debate was held between Dolor, Harbourg, Joigny, and Mignot, and the second between Rich\u00e9, Rimane, Adam, and Mak\u00e9b\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279388-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Indoor Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 French Indoor Athletics Championships was the 47th edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for France, organised by the French Athletics Federation. It was held on 17\u201318 February at the Arena Stade Couvert de Li\u00e9vin in Li\u00e9vin. A total of 28 events (divided evenly between the sexes) were contested over the two-day competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279389-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open\nThe 2018 French Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It took place at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 27 May to 10 June and consisted of events for players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players also took part in singles and doubles events. Rafael Nadal (Spain) was the defending champion in the Men's Singles and won his 11th French Open title. Simona Halep (Romania) won her first Grand Slam title in Women's Singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279389-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open\nIt was the 122nd edition of the French Open and the second Grand Slam event of 2018. Je\u013cena Ostapenko was the defending champion in the Women's Singles but lost in the first round to Kateryna Kozlova. This was the first French Open since 1992 that both the men's and the women's singles competitions were won by the top seeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279389-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open, Tournament\nThe 2018 French Open was the 122nd edition of the French Open and was held at Stade Roland Garros in Paris. A new shot clock that gives 25 seconds for the player serving, between points was introduced. Also for the juniors tournament, service lets wasn't featured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279389-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open, Tournament\nThe tournament is an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is part of the 2018 ATP World Tour and the 2018 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as a mixed doubles event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279389-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open, Tournament\nThere is a singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which is part of the Grade A category of tournaments, and singles and doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players under the Grand Slam category. The tournament was played on clay courts and took place over a series of 22 courts, including the three main showcourts, Court Philippe Chatrier, Court Suzanne Lenglen and Court 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279389-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open, Points and prize money, Points distribution\nBelow is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 61], "content_span": [62, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279389-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open, Points and prize money, Prize money\nThe total prize money for the 2018 edition is \u20ac39,197,000. The winners of the men's and women's singles title receive \u20ac2,200,000, an increase of \u20ac100,000 compared to 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279389-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open, Singles seeds\nThe following are the seeded players and notable players who have withdrawn from the event. Seedings are based on ATP and WTA rankings as of 21 May 2018. Rank and points before are as of 28 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279389-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open, Singles seeds, Men's Singles, Withdrawn players\n\u2020 The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, this was the points defended from the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 65], "content_span": [66, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279389-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open, Singles seeds, Women's Singles\n\u2020 The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for her 16th best result are deducted instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279389-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open, Main draw wildcard entries\nThe following players were given wildcards (wc) to the main draw based on internal selection and recent performances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279389-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open, Protected ranking\nThe following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279389-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open, Withdrawals\nThe following players were accepted directly into the main draw, but withdrew with injuries or other reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279390-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 French Open (officially known as the Yonex French Open 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France, from 23 to 28 October 2018 and had a total prize of $750,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279390-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 French Open is the twenty-first tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the French Open championships, which had been held since 1909. This tournament is organized by French Badminton Federation and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279390-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279390-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 750 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279390-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this year's tournament was US$750,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279391-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Boys' Doubles\nOnd\u0159ej \u0160tyler and Naoki Tajima won the Boys' Doubles tennis title at the 2018 French Open, defeating Ray Ho and Tseng Chun-hsin in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279391-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Boys' Doubles\nNicola Kuhn and Zsombor Piros were the defending champions, however Kuhn chose not to participate, while Piros is no longer eligible to participate in junior tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279392-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Boys' Singles\nTseng Chun-hsin won the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 2018 French Open, defeating Sebasti\u00e1n B\u00e1ez in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279392-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Boys' Singles\nAlexei Popyrin was the defending champion, but is no longer eligible to participate in junior tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279392-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Boys' Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279393-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Day-by-day summaries\nThe 2018 French Open described below in detail, in form of day-by-day summaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279394-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Girls' Doubles\nCaty McNally and Iga \u015awi\u0105tek won the Girls' Doubles tennis title at the 2018 French Open, defeating Yuki Naito and Naho Sato in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279394-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Girls' Doubles\nBianca Andreescu and Carson Branstine were the defending champions, however both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279395-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Girls' Singles\nCoco Gauff won the Girls' Singles tennis title at the 2018 French Open, defeating compatriot Caty McNally in the final, 1\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(7\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279395-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Girls' Singles\nWhitney Osuigwe was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279395-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Girls' Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279396-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Legends Over 45 Doubles\nMansour Bahrami and Fabrice Santoro were the defending champions, and successfully defended their title, defeating John McEnroe and C\u00e9dric Pioline in the final, 6\u20131, 2\u20136, [12\u201310].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279396-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Legends Over 45 Doubles, Draw, Group C\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 4) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279396-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Legends Over 45 Doubles, Draw, Group D\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 4) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279397-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Legends Under 45 Doubles\nS\u00e9bastien Grosjean and Micha\u00ebl Llodra were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the round robin competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279397-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Legends Under 45 Doubles\n\u00c0lex Corretja and Juan Carlos Ferrero won the title, defeating Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Marat Safin in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279397-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Legends Under 45 Doubles, Draw, Group A\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 4) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279397-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Legends Under 45 Doubles, Draw, Group B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 4) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279398-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nPierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won the Men's Doubles tennis title at the 2018 French Open, defeating Oliver Marach and Mate Pavi\u0107 in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20134). Herbert and Mahut were the third all-French team to reach the French Open men's doubles final in six years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279398-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nRyan Harrison and Michael Venus were the defending champions, but they chose not to compete together this year. Harrison played alongside Vasek Pospisil, but lost in the first round to Federico Delbonis and Beno\u00eet Paire. Venus teamed up with Raven Klaasen, but lost in the third round to Nikola Mekti\u0107 and Alexander Peya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279398-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nPavi\u0107 retained the ATP no. 1 doubles ranking when fellow contenders John Peers, \u0141ukasz Kubot and Mike Bryan all lost before the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279398-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBob Bryan withdrew from the tournament with a right hip injury, ending a streak of 76 consecutive Grand Slam events played alongside his brother Mike as a team. Current US Open title holder, Horia Tec\u0103u, missed his first Grand Slam in 10 years with injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279399-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nDefending champion Rafael Nadal defeated Dominic Thiem in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20133, 6\u20132 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 2018 French Open. It was his record-extending eleventh French Open title and 17th major title overall. Nadal equaled Margaret Court's all-time record of 11 Grand Slam singles titles won at one major and became the first player to achieve that feat in the Open Era. He dropped only one set during the entire tournament, and retained the ATP No. 1 singles ranking by defending the title. Nadal and Roger Federer (despite having withdrawn from the clay season) were in contention for the top ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279399-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nWith Alexander Zverev as the second seed, this was the first time since the 2006 Australian Open that a player outside of the Big Four was one of the top two seeds at a major.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279399-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nNovak Djokovic was attempting to become the first man in the Open Era to achieve a double career Grand Slam, but he lost in the quarterfinals to Marco Cecchinato. Djokovic's loss ensured a first time major finalist from the bottom half of the draw; Thiem emerged to be that player, and became the first Austrian player to reach a major singles final since Thomas Muster at the 1995 French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279399-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nCecchinato, ranked 72nd and having failed to win a main draw match in his four previous major appearances, became the first unseeded men's singles semifinalist at the French Open since Ga\u00ebl Monfils in 2008, the lowest-ranked male singles player to reach the French Open semifinals since Andriy Medvedev in 1999, and the first Italian man to reach a major singles semifinal since Corrado Barazzutti at the 1978 French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279399-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279400-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying\nThe 2018 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying was a series of tennis matches which took place 21 May 2018 to 25 May 2018 to determine the sixteen qualifiers into the main draw of the 2018 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles. Eight competitors also qualified as lucky losers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279401-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nGabriela Dabrowski and Rohan Bopanna were the defending champions, but chose not to compete together. Bopanna teamed up with T\u00edmea Babos, but lost in the first round to Zhang Shuai and John Peers. Dabrowski played alongside Mate Pavi\u0107, but lost to Latisha Chan and Ivan Dodig in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20137(5\u20137), [10\u20138].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279402-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Doubles\nSt\u00e9phane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Cattaneo and Stefan Olsson in the final, 6\u20131, 7\u20136(7\u20135).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279403-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Singles\nAlfie Hewett was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Gordon Reid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279403-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Singles\nShingo Kunieda won the title, defeating Gustavo Fern\u00e1ndez in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279404-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Doubles\nMarjolein Buis and Yui Kamiji were the defending champions, but lost in the final to Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot, 1\u20136, 3\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279405-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Singles\nYui Kamiji was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, defeating Diede de Groot in the final, 2\u20136, 6\u20130, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279406-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nBethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 were the defending champions, but chose not to compete together this year. Mattek-Sands played alongside Latisha Chan, but lost in the second round to Irina Bara and Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu. \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 teamed up with Svetlana Kuznetsova, but lost in the second round to Sorana C\u00eerstea and Sara Sorribes Tormo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279406-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nBarbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 and Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 won their first Grand Slam doubles title, defeating Eri Hozumi and Makoto Ninomiya in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279406-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nDespite losing in the first round with different partners, Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina jointly attained the WTA no. 1 doubles ranking at the end of the tournament. Chan and T\u00edmea Babos were also in contention for the top ranking at the beginning of the tournament but were eliminated from contention when they lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279407-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Legends Doubles\nTracy Austin and Kim Clijsters were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Austin played alongside Lindsay Davenport, but they were eliminated in the round robin competition. Clijsters teamed up with Nathalie Tauziat, but were defeated in the final by Nathalie Dechy and Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo, 6\u20137(4\u20137), 6\u20134, [15\u201313].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279407-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Legends Doubles, Draw, Group A\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 4) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279407-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Legends Doubles, Draw, Group B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 4) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279408-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nWorld No. 1 Simona Halep won her first Grand Slam title, defeating Sloane Stephens in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20131 to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 2018 French Open. She became the second Romanian woman to win a Grand Slam title in Women's Singles after the 1978 French Open champion Virginia Ruzici. She also became the sixth woman to win both the senior and junior title, having won the latter in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279408-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nHalep retained the WTA no. 1 singles ranking after defeating fellow contender Garbi\u00f1e Muguruza in the semifinals. In addition to Halep and Muguruza, Caroline Wozniacki, Elina Svitolina, Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 and Caroline Garcia were also in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279408-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nJe\u013cena Ostapenko was the defending champion, but was defeated in the first round by Kateryna Kozlova, making her only the second French Open champion (after Anastasia Myskina in 2005) to lose in the first round of her title defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279408-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThis was the first Grand Slam singles appearance for future French Open champion Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279408-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThis was the final appearance of the 2010 champion Francesca Schiavone in the final Grand Slam tournament, she lost to Vikt\u00f3ria Ku\u017emov\u00e1 in the first round; she would announce her retirement months later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279408-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThis tournament marked the first time that Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska did not play in the main draw of a Grand Slam singles event since her debut at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, ending a streak of 47 consecutive appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279408-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThis was Serena Williams' first Grand Slam appearance since the 2017 Australian Open and giving birth to her daughter in September 2017. She was unseeded in a Grand Slam singles event for the first time since the 2007 Australian Open. Williams was attempting to equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279408-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nShe was also attempting to become only the second player, after Steffi Graf, to complete a quadruple career Grand Slam, however she withdrew before her fourth round match against Maria Sharapova due to a pectoral muscle injury, ending her streak of 10 consecutive major quarterfinals dating back to the 2014 US Open (she did not play between the 2017 French Open and 2018 Australian Open due to pregnancy and maternity leave).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279408-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThis was also the final French Open appearance of former World No. 1 and two time (2012, 2014) champion Maria Sharapova. She lost to former World No. 1 and the 2016 champion Garbi\u00f1e Muguruza in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279408-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279409-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying\nThe 2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying was a series of tennis matches that took place from 22 May 2018 to 25 May 2018 to determine the twelve qualifiers into the main draw of the 2018 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles. Two competitors also qualified as lucky losers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279410-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Pacific Junior Men's Handball Cup\nThe 2018 Junior Men's French Pacific Handball Championship was held in L'Arene du Sud, New Caledonia, New Caledonia on 14 June 2018 during the 2018 Oceania Men's Handball Challenge Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279410-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Pacific Junior Men's Handball Cup\nThe competition participants Tahiti, and New Caledonia. Wallis and Futuna did not send a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279411-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Polynesian legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in French Polynesia on 22 April and 6 May 2018. On 22 April 2018, voters cast their ballots in the first round of the election to the Assembly of French Polynesia. A second round was held on 6 May 2018 for the three political parties that exceeded 12.5 percent of the vote in the first round. The new Tapura Huiraatira party emerged as the largest in the Assembly, winning 38 of the 57 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279411-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Polynesian legislative election, Background\nThe Tahoera'a Huiraatira party, an anti-independence party led by Gaston Flosse, previously won 38 of the 57 seats in the Assembly in the 2013 general election. However, the governing Tahoera'a Huiraatira has been plagued by infighting and internal splits since 2013. Some former Tahoera'a Huiraatira members set up a new political party, which has since merged with the only other anti-independence party in the Assembly. Notably, Assembly Speaker Marcel Tuihani quit Tahoera'a Huiraatira in June 2017, and set up a rival party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279411-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Polynesian legislative election, Background\nAll French Polynesian political parties must alternate between male and female candidates to encourage a gender balance among legislative candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279411-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 French Polynesian legislative election, Background\nThe French High Commissioner of French Polynesia Ren\u00e9 Bidal announced the vote registration for the territorial election will be open from 12 March to 26 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279411-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 French Polynesian legislative election, Electoral system\nThe 57 members of the Assembly of French Polynesia are elected by a proportional multi-member list of two rounds, with a majority premium. Polynesia is a single constituency whose communes make up of eight sub-divisions called sections, each with a majority premium of 1 to 4 seats according to their population for a total of 19 premium seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279411-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 French Polynesian legislative election, Electoral system\nEach list presents 73 candidates in the eight sections. Each list is composed alternately of a candidate of each sex. In the first round, the list having received an absolute majority of votes in its section is awarded the majority bonus, then the remaining seats are distributed proportionally among all the lists having crossed the electoral threshold of 5% of the votes according to the method of voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279411-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 French Polynesian legislative election, Electoral system\nIf no list obtains more than 50% of the votes cast, a second round is held between all the lists having collected more than 12.5% of the votes, those having collected between 5% and 12.5% being able to merge with the lists that have been maintained. The leading list then gets the majority bonus, and the remaining seats are distributed proportionally under the same conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279411-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 French Polynesian legislative election, Electoral system\nThe lists may be reimbursed for part of their campaign costs if they reach the threshold of 3% of the votes cast in the first round, provided that they comply with accounting transparency requirements and legislation on the format of documents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279411-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 French Polynesian legislative election, Party participation\nIn December 2017, France's ruling party, En Marche, which was founded by French President Emmanuel Macron, announced that it would contest the French Polynesian legislative election in 2018 for the first time. Efforts at forming a coalition involving En Marche and other known political figures in the territory, under the name Here Fenua, reportedly failed in February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279411-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 French Polynesian legislative election, Party participation\nIn February 2018, Oscar Temaru, leader of Tavini Huiraatira, said he will not rule out his party boycotting the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279411-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 French Polynesian legislative election, Party participation, Banned candidates\nFormer President of French Polynesia Gaston Flosse will not be allowed to stand for election in April 2018. He is not allowed to hold public office due to two convictions for public corruption in 2014 and 2016. Despite Flosse's claims he can stand in the election, based on advice given by his lawyers, an election court in Tahiti upheld the election ban against Flosse in January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 83], "content_span": [84, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279412-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French Road Cycling Cup\nThe 2018 French Road Cycling Cup was the 27th edition of the French Road Cycling Cup. Compared to the previous season, the same 15 events were held, although the order had changed as the Grand Prix de Denain moved from mid April to mid March and thus became already the second event on the calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279412-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French Road Cycling Cup\nThe defending champion from the previous season was Laurent Pichon, he was succeeded by Hugo Hofstetter who did not manage to win one of the events but scored enough points to take the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279412-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French Road Cycling Cup, Cup standings, Young rider classification\nAll riders younger than 25 are eligible for this classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279412-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 French Road Cycling Cup, Cup standings, Teams\nOnly French teams are eligible to be classified in the teams classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279413-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2018 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Bugatti Circuit in Le Mans on 20 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279414-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 French residents overseas' 5th constituency by-election\nA by-election was held in the fifth constituency for French residents overseas on 8 April 2018, with a second round on 22 April as no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was called after the Constitutional Council invalidated the election of Samantha Cazebonne, candidate of La R\u00e9publique En Marche! in the June 2017 legislative elections, on 2 February 2018. Cazebonne was re-elected in the second round on 22 April 2018, albeit with a reduced margin compared to June 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279414-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 French residents overseas' 5th constituency by-election, Background\nIn the first round of the 2017 legislative elections on 4 June, La R\u00e9publique En Marche! candidate Samantha Cazebonne obtained a majority of votes in the first round in the fifth constituency for French residents overseas (representing French nationals residing in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Monaco). However, she was not immediately elected because of low turnout, with candidates who secure a majority in the first round required to also obtain the votes of at least 25% of registered voters in order to avoid a second round. Fran\u00e7ois Ralle-Andreoli, candidate of La France Insoumise (FI), obtained 15.52% of the vote and advanced to the second round, while Laurence Sailliet of The Republicans (LR), with 15.11%, was eliminated by 60 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279414-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 French residents overseas' 5th constituency by-election, Background\nAfter the election, Laurence Sailliet filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council. Sailliet contended that Cazebonne violated article L. 52-8 of the electoral code, which states that individuals are prohibited from supporting the campaign of a candidate by supplying \"goods, services or other direct or indirect advantages at prices lower than those normally practised\", and was therefore ineligible for election under article L.O. 136-1. Sailliet claimed that Cazebonne was present at a meeting of business leaders over a meal at a restaurant in Barcelona on 13 June that was financed by the France-Spain Chamber of Commerce and Industry. However, the records Cazebonne submitted to the National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Financing (CNCCFP) showed that the meal was paid for by each of its participants, not the France-Spain Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and this complaint was therefore dismissed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 1001]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279414-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 French residents overseas' 5th constituency by-election, Background\nAlthough the complaint concerning the eligibility of Cazebonne was rejected, Sailliet also raised concerns about the administration of the election. Due to an error, voting materials were not mailed to 94 voters before the first round as required under article R. 176-4 of the electoral code; of these 94 voters, 56 did not vote despite having the right to do so. As a result of delays in the delivery of voting materials or omissions in those sent, many voters were unable to submit mail-in ballots during both rounds of voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279414-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 French residents overseas' 5th constituency by-election, Background\nAlthough the number of voters affected by these issues was uncertain, the degree of these issues was attested to by a substantial number of voters who failed to vote, as confirmed by electoral rolls. In addition, under article L. 49 of the electoral code, diffusion of electoral messages is prohibited during the election silence. Ralle-Andreoli, who emailed a message at 20:03 local time on 3 June 2017 to some voters registered on electoral rolls within the constituency, violated this article. Given these issues and the small margin separating the second- and third-placed candidates in the first round, the constitutional council annulled the result of the election, triggering a by-election within three months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279414-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 French residents overseas' 5th constituency by-election, Background\nOn 21 February 2018, the first round of the by-election was scheduled for 8 April 2018, with a second round on 22 April should no candidate secure a majority of votes in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279415-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fresno FC season\nThe 2018 Fresno FC season is the club's first season in the United Soccer League, the second tier of the American soccer pyramid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279416-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fresno State Bulldogs football team\nThe 2018 Fresno State Bulldogs football team represented California State University, Fresno in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs were led by second-year head coach Jeff Tedford and played their home games at Bulldog Stadium. They were a member of the Mountain West Conference in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279416-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fresno State Bulldogs football team\nIn one of the best seasons in program history, the Bulldogs finished the season 12\u20132, 7\u20131 in Mountain West play, to be champions of their conference's West Division. They represented the West Division in the Mountain West Championship Game, where they defeated Boise State to become Mountain West champions. They were invited to the Las Vegas Bowl where they defeated Arizona State. Their 12 wins are the most wins in a single season in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279416-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Previous season\nThe Bulldogs finished the 2017 season 10\u20134, 7\u20131 in Mountain West play to win the West Division. They lost to Mountain Division champion Boise State in the Mountain West Championship Game. They were invited to the Hawaii Bowl where they defeated Houston. They became only the second team in college football history to win ten games the year after they lost ten or more games (1\u201311 in 2016).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279416-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days\nDuring the Mountain West media days held July 24\u201325 at the Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip, the Bulldogs were predicted as favorites to win the West Division title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279416-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days, Preseason All-Mountain West Team\nThe Bulldogs had two players selected to the preseason all-Mountain West team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 111], "content_span": [112, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279416-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Idaho\nJunior defensive back Jaron Bryant was named the Mountain West Special Teams Player of the Week after returning two blocked field goals for touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279416-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Honors, Mountain West\nJeff Allison is the defensive player of the year in the Mountain West Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279417-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Frisco Bowl\nThe 2018 Frisco Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 19, 2018, with kickoff scheduled for 8:00\u00a0p.m. EST (7:00\u00a0p.m. local CST). It was the second edition of the Frisco Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by Destination XL Group, a retailer of men's big and tall apparel, the game was officially known as the DXL Frisco Bowl. In the game, the Ohio Bobcats shut out the San Diego State Aztecs, 27\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279417-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Frisco Bowl, Teams\nAlthough the bowl has a tie-in with the American Athletic Conference, due to UCF receiving a bid to the Fiesta Bowl\u2014a New Year's Six bowl\u2014the conference was unable to provide a team. Thus, bowl organizers sought at-large teams, and announced a matchup of the Ohio Bobcats of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) against the San Diego State Aztecs of the Mountain West Conference. This was the first meeting between the two programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279417-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Frisco Bowl, Teams, Ohio Bobcats\nOhio received and accepted a bid to the Frisco Bowl on December 2. The Bobcats entered the bowl with an 8\u20134 record (6\u20132 in conference), having won 5-of-6 to close their regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279417-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Frisco Bowl, Teams, San Diego State Aztecs\nSan Diego State received and accepted a bid to the Frisco Bowl on December 2. The Aztecs entered the bowl with a 7\u20135 record (4\u20134 in conference), having lost 4-of-5 to close their regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279418-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election\nThe Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election of 2018 took place on 29 April 2018, to elect the President and the Regional council of the Italian autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279418-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election\nThe election saw a large victory of the centre-right candidate, Massimiliano Fedriga, with more than 57% of votes and a great showing of the League, followed by the centre-left candidate Sergio Bolzonello, who arrived second with almost 27% of votes, and the Five Star one, who gained less than 12% of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279418-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election, Background\nIn the 2013 regional election, the centre-left candidate, Debora Serracchiani, a Socialist MEP and regional leader of the Democratic Party (PD), narrowly defeated incumbent Renzo Tondo of The People of Freedom (PdL) 39.39% to 39.00%; Saverio Galluccio of the Five Star Movement (M5S) came third with 19.2% of the vote. Serracchiani was the second woman to hold the office of President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, after Alessandra Guerra of Lega Nord Friuli (LNF) in 1994\u20131995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279418-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election, Background\nHowever in 2017 Serracchiani announced her intention not to seek a re-election and the centre-left selected Sergio Bolzonello, former mayor of Pordenone, as the candidate for the presidency. The centre-right coalition choose Massimiliano Fedriga, a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the League and a close ally of Matteo Salvini, as its candidate; while the Five Star Movement's candidate was Alessandro Fraleoni Morgera, a former member of the right-wing party, National Alliance. The former mayor of Udine, Sergio Cecotti, run as an independent at the head of an autonomist list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279418-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election, Opinion polling\nThis section reports in chronological order the data of the electoral surveys related to this election. The percentages attributed to the candidates are relative to the part of the sample that expresses a voting intention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279418-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election, Analysis\nSimilar to the election in Molise, the M5S lost almost 20% of votes compared to the general election. On March 4, they reached almost 25%, but now just over 7%. By contrast, the centre-right coalition gained more than 20% compared to March 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279419-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Frontenac County municipal elections\nElections were held in Frontenac County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279419-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Frontenac County municipal elections, Frontenac County Council\nFrontenac County Council consists of the mayors of each of the four constituent municipalities plus an additional councillor from each municipality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279420-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fujieda MYFC season, Squad\nAs of 1 February 2018. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279421-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fukuoka International Women's Cup\nThe 2018 Fukuoka International Women's Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor carpet courts. It was the eighteenth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Fukuoka, Japan, on 7\u201313 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279421-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fukuoka International Women's Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279422-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fukuoka International Women's Cup \u2013 Doubles\nJunri Namigata and Kotomi Takahata were the defending champions, but both players chose to participate with different partners. Namigata partnered Arina Rodionova, while Takahata played alongside Megumi Nishimoto. Takahata and Nishimoto beat Namigata and Rodionova in the first round, however they lost to Tara Moore and Amra Sadikovi\u0107 in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279422-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fukuoka International Women's Cup \u2013 Doubles\nNaomi Broady and Asia Muhammad won the title after defeating Moore and Sadikovi\u0107 6\u20132, 6\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279423-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fukuoka International Women's Cup \u2013 Singles\nMagdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Madrid instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279423-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fukuoka International Women's Cup \u2013 Singles\nKatie Boulter won the title, defeating Ksenia Lykina in the final, 5\u20137, 6\u20134, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279424-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fukushima United FC season, Squad\nAs of 28th May 2018. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279425-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Furman Paladins football team\nThe 2018 Furman Paladins football team represented Furman University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Clay Hendrix and played their home games at Paladin Stadium. They were a member of the Southern Conference. They finished the season 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in SoCon play finish in a three way tie for the SoCon championship with Wofford and East Tennessee State. After tiebreakers, they did not receive the SoCon's automatic bid to the FCS playoffs and they did not receive an at-large bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279425-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Furman Paladins football team, Previous season\nThe Paladins finished the 2017 season 8\u20135, 6\u20132 in SoCon play to finish in a tie for second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Elon in the first round before losing to Wofford in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279425-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Furman Paladins football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe SoCon released their preseason media poll on July 25, 2018, with the Paladins predicted to finish in second place. The same day the coaches released their preseason poll with the Paladins predicted to finish in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279425-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Furman Paladins football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll, Preseason All-SoCon Teams\nThe Paladins placed seven players on the preseason all-SoCon teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 94], "content_span": [95, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279426-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Futsal Thailand League\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Audrey A. Wong (talk | contribs) at 11:21, 14 April 2020 (Fixed wiki link). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279426-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Futsal Thailand League\nThe 2018 Futsal Thai League (also known as AIS Futsal Thai League for sponsorship reasons) was a top-tier professional futsal league under the Football Association of Thailand (FAT) and Advanced Info Service (AIS) It was the tenth edition of the league, with a total of 14 teams. The league began in April 2018 and finished in December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279426-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Futsal Thailand League, Teams\nCAT Telecom Futsal Club and Northeastern University Futsal Club were promoted from the 2017 Thai Championship Futsal League by finishing in the first and second place, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279426-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Futsal Thailand League, Teams\nNonthaburi Futsal Club and Nakhon Ratchasima V-One Futsal Club were relegated from the 2018 Thai Championship Futsal League by finishing in the last 2 places of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279426-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Futsal Thailand League, Teams\nLoso-D Thai Tech was renamed to Sripathum GSB Thai-Tech and relocated from Chonburi Province to Bangkok.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279427-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzhou China Open\nThe 2018 Fuzhou China Open was a badminton tournament which took place at Haixia Olympics Sports Center in Fuzhou, Fujian, China, from 6 to 11 November 2018 and had a total prize of $700,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279427-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzhou China Open, Tournament\nThe 2018 Fuzhou China Open was the twenty-third tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Fuzhou China Open (formerly China Masters) championships, which had been held since 2005. This tournament was organized by Chinese Badminton Association and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279427-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzhou China Open, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Haixia Olympic Sports Center in Fuzhou, Fujian, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279427-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzhou China Open, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 750 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279427-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzhou China Open, Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$700,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279428-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy\nThe 2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Ilkley, United Kingdom, on 18\u201324 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279428-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279428-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279428-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279428-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279429-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy \u2013 Men's Doubles\nLeander Paes and Adil Shamasdin were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279429-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy \u2013 Men's Doubles\nAustin Krajicek and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan won the title after defeating Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279430-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy \u2013 Men's Singles\nM\u00e1rton Fucsovics was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279430-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy \u2013 Men's Singles\nSergiy Stakhovsky won the title after defeating Oscar Otte 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279431-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAnna Blinkova and Alla Kudryavtseva were the defending champions, but both players chose to participate in different tournaments. Blinkova chose to participate at Mallorca, while Kudryavtseva chose to compete at Birmingham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279431-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAsia Muhammad and Maria Sanchez won the title, defeating Natela Dzalamidze and Galina Voskoboeva in the final, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20131].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279432-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy \u2013 Women's Singles\nMagdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Birmingham instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279432-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy \u2013 Women's Singles\nTereza Smitkov\u00e1 won the title, defeating Dayana Yastremska in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20134).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279433-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Manchester Trophy\nThe 2018 Fuzion 100 Manchester Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the second edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Manchester, United Kingdom, on 11\u201317 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279433-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Manchester Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279434-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Manchester Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nMagdalena Fr\u0119ch and An-Sophie Mestach were the defending champions, however Fr\u0119ch chose to participate at Nottingham instead. Mestach partnered alongside Jamie Loeb, but lost in the semifinals to Naomi Broady and Asia Muhammad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279434-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Manchester Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nLuksika Kumkhum and Prarthana Thombare won the title, defeating Broady and Muhammad in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279435-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Manchester Trophy \u2013 Singles\nZarina Diyas was the defending champion, but chose to participate in Nottingham instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279435-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Manchester Trophy \u2013 Singles\nOns Jabeur won the title, defeating Sara Sorribes Tormo in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279436-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Southsea Trophy\nThe 2018 Fuzion 100 Southsea Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the second edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Southsea, United Kingdom, on 25 June\u20131 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279436-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Southsea Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279437-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Southsea Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nShuko Aoyama and Yang Zhaoxuan are the defending champions, however Yang chose to participate in Eastbourne. Aoyama played alongside Monica Niculescu but lost in the semifinals to Alicja Rosolska and Abigail Spears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279437-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Southsea Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nKirsten Flipkens and Johanna Larsson won the title after defeating Rosolska and Spears 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [11\u20139] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279438-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Southsea Trophy \u2013 Singles\nTatjana Maria was the defending champion, but withdrew before the event started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279438-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Southsea Trophy \u2013 Singles\nKirsten Flipkens won the title, defeating wildcard Katie Boulter in the final, 6\u20134, 5\u20137, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279439-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy\nThe 2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the fifteenth (ATP) and sixteenth (ITF) editions of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Surbiton, United Kingdom, on 4\u201310 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279439-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279439-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279439-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279440-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMarcus Daniell and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi were the defending champions but only Qureshi chose to defend his title, partnering Divij Sharan. Qureshi lost in the quarterfinals to Alex Bolt and Lleyton Hewitt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279440-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy \u2013 Men's Doubles\nLuke Bambridge and Jonny O'Mara won the title after defeating Ken and Neal Skupski 7\u20136(13\u201311), 4\u20136, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279441-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy \u2013 Men's Singles\nY\u016bichi Sugita was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279441-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy \u2013 Men's Singles\nJ\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy won the title after defeating Alex de Minaur 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279442-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMonique Adamczak and Storm Sanders were the defending champions, but Sanders chose not to participate. Adamczak partnered Laura Robson but lost in the semifinals to Jessica Moore and Ellen Perez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279442-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMoore and Perez won the title, defeating Arina Rodionova and Yanina Wickmayer in the final, 4\u20136, 7\u20135, [10\u20133].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279443-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy \u2013 Women's Singles\nMagdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279443-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy \u2013 Women's Singles\nAlison Riske won the title, defeating Conny Perrin in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279444-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 F\u00f3tbolti.net Tournament\nThe 2018 F\u00f3tbolti.net Cup is the 8th season of Iceland's annual pre-season tournament. The tournament involves eight clubs from the top two leagues in Iceland, \u00darvalsdeild karla and 1. deild karla, and uses a combination of group and knockout rounds to determine each team's final position in the competition. The tournament began on 12 January 2017 and will conclude at the beginning of February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279444-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 F\u00f3tbolti.net Tournament\nStjarnan were crowned champions after beating Grindav\u00edk in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit\nThe 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit was the thirteenth meeting of Group of Twenty (G20), which was held on 30 November and 1 December 2018 in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the first G20 summit to be hosted in South America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Preparations\nPresident Mauricio Macri of Argentina assumed the one-year G20 presidency on 30 November 2017, during an official ceremony at the Kirchner Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires. President Xi Jinping of China (2016 host), Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany (2017 host), and Prime Minister Shinz\u014d Abe of Japan (2019 host) all sent messages of support, which were shown at the ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Preparations\nThe first G20 meetings of the Argentine Presidency began in Bariloche in early December 2017. They were attended by central bank deputy governors and deputy ministers of finance, as well as the sherpas. During the buildup to the G20 Summit between world leaders on 30 November 2018, Argentina hosted over 45 meetings at various government levels and areas in 11 different cities throughout the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Participating leaders\nList of leaders who took part in the 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Participating leaders, Participating guests\nSenegalMacky Sall, President, 2018 chairperson of the New Partnership for Africa's Development", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Participating leaders, Participating guests\nSingaporeLee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister, 2018 chairperson of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Participating leaders, Participating guests\nAs the host nation, Argentina invited additional guest countries and international organizations at its discretion to participate in 2018 G20 meetings. The countries invited by Argentina are Chile and the Netherlands. International organizations invited by Argentina are the Caribbean Community (represented by Jamaica), the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Agenda priorities\nG20 Argentina has put forth three agenda priorities for the G20 dialogue in 2018: the future of work, infrastructure for development and a sustainable food future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Agenda priorities\nA number of attending countries have said they focus on the regulation of crypto-currencies at this meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Agenda priorities\nTalks between the U.S. and China related to resolving the escalating 2018 China\u2013United States trade war were a central issue of the summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Outcomes\nOn Friday 30 November, ahead of the formal start of the summit, outgoing Mexican President Pe\u00f1a Nieto, U.S. President Trump, and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau signed the United States\u2013Mexico\u2013Canada Agreement (USMCA), a proposed replacement to the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Counter-summit\nThe Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) had organized a counter-summit, called the First World Forum of Critical Thinking, which took place in the week leading up to the G20 event. It was attended by other politicians such as former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, Bolivian vice president \u00c1lvaro Garc\u00eda Linera, former Colombian president Ernesto Samper, and human rights activist Estela de Carlotto. At the event, former Argentine president Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner criticised the economic policies of Mauricio Macri and the IMF loans that he has received. Former Uruguayan president Jos\u00e9 Mujica was also invited, but declined to take part in the counter-summit to avoid damaging Argentina\u2013Uruguay relations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Security\nThe previous summit in Hamburg, Germany, met with huge protests, with cars set on fire and roads blocked by protesters. The 2018 summit had reinforced security, to prevent a repeat of those protests. Local left-wing organizations planned protests and called for foreign activists to join them. The Argentine government, working alongside the others, is attempting to prevent the entry of troublemakers into the country, such as people with criminal charges or who have advocated for violent actions. Only peaceful protests will be allowed. Federal Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said that \"We will not permit illegal acts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Security\nThose who want to cross the line will have to face the legal consequences\". 22,000 police and 700 security ministry agents will guard the event, working alongside the security services of the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Italy, Spain and others. An area of 12 square kilometres (4.6\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) around the Costa Salguero Convention Centre will be cordoned off, the public transportation network \u2013 including the metro \u2013 will be shut down, and traffic along the River Plate will be halted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0012-0002", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Security\nFriday, 30 November was declared a one-time public holiday day in the city of Buenos Aires, to prevent the traffic caused by people's daily activities, and residents were urged to leave the city for the long weekend. Media Minister Hern\u00e1n Lombardi reported that no infiltration by international terrorist groups had been detected, and the US government said that the remote location of Argentina would discourage international protesters from travelling to the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279445-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, Security\nTwo bomb attacks took place in the days before the summit. Judge Claudio Bonadio, who was investigating former president Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner for embezzlement charges, was attacked in his home; his bodyguards stopped Marco Viola, who was arrested, and the bomb was dismantled by a police bomb squad. Anahi Esperanza Salcedo, who identifies as an anarchist and a radical feminist, tried to bomb the tomb of the late chief of police Ram\u00f3n Lorenzo Falc\u00f3n at La Recoleta Cemetery, but her bomb went off early and she was hospitalized with injuries to her hand and face. Both attacks were made with improvised explosive devices. After those events, the United Kingdom government lowered its terrorism alert for Buenos Aires from \"very likely\" to \"likely\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279446-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GCPL season\nThe 2018 Gulf Coast Premier League season was the 3rd season of the GCPL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279447-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GE3\n2018 GE3 is a sub-kilometer asteroid on a highly eccentric orbit, classified as a near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 48\u2013110 meters (160\u2013360 feet) in diameter. It was first observed on 14 April 2018, by astronomers with the Catalina Sky Survey one day prior to its sub-lunar close encounter with Earth at 0.5 lunar distance. It is one of the largest known asteroids (possibly the largest) in observational history to ever pass that close to Earth (also see list).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279447-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 GE3, Orbit and classification\n2018 GE3 is a member of the near-Earth population of asteroids known as Apollos. Apollo asteroids cross the orbit of Earth and are the largest group of near-Earth objects with nearly 10 thousand known members. Based on an observation arc of 4 days, it orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.3\u20133.4\u00a0AU once every 2 years and 6 months (918 days; semi-major axis of 1.85\u00a0AU). Its orbit has an unusually high eccentricity of 0.83 and an inclination of 9\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic. It is also a Mercury-, Venus- and Mars-crosser, reaching its furthest point from the Sun in the outer asteroid belt. The body's observation arc begins at Steward Observatory's Catalina Station with its first observation in April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 34], "content_span": [35, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279447-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 GE3, Orbit and classification, Close encounters\nIn observational history, and other than possibly 2002 MN and 2017 VW13, this asteroid is the largest known object to ever pass that close to Earth, as well as the Moon (also see History of closest approaches of large near-Earth objects). 99942\u00a0Apophis will break both of these records when it approaches only 0.098\u00a0LD (0.000252\u00a0AU) from Earth on 13 April 2029.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 52], "content_span": [53, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279447-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 GE3, Orbit and classification, Close encounters, 2018 flyby\n2018 GE3 was first observed on 14 April 2018, at 09:23 UT by astronomers at Steward Observatory's Catalina Station, Arizona, the day prior to its close encounter with Earth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 64], "content_span": [65, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279447-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 GE3, Orbit and classification, Close encounters, 2018 flyby\nIt had been more than 120 degrees from the Sun since March 2018, but was simply too far and too faint to be detected by automated surveys. Despite coming from directly away from the Sun, it was not discovered until 14 April 2018, only one day prior to its closest approach. If the most advanced survey telescopes had been looking at its location, it could have been discovered as early as 30 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 64], "content_span": [65, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279447-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 GE3, Orbit and classification, Close encounters, 2018 flyby\nOn 15 April 2018, at 06:41 UT, this object passed Earth at a nominal distance of 0.50\u00a0LD (0.001289\u00a0AU) which corresponds to a distance of 193,000 kilometres (120,000 miles), at a speed of 29.5\u00a0km/s (66,000\u00a0mph). The object also approached the Moon at an even closer distance of 0.34\u00a0LD (0.00087\u00a0AU) a few hours later, at 09:59 UT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 64], "content_span": [65, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279447-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 GE3, Orbit and classification, Close encounters, 2018 flyby\nIt was the 32nd known asteroid to flyby Earth within 1\u00a0lunar distance (LD) since the start of 2018 and 16th closest, although it was the largest known asteroid to pass within half a lunar distance. After closest approach its apparent magnitude dropped from 12 to 35 in less than 12 hours, heading towards the Sun. Coming from the opposite direction, it would have been impossible to observe before its approach. A preliminary analysis of the orbit of 2018 GE3 shows that this is the closest this particular asteroid has come to Earth since at least 1930.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 64], "content_span": [65, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279447-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 GE3, Orbit and classification, Close encounters, Historical close encounters\nAsteroid 2002 MN passed closer to Earth than 2018 GE3 in 2002, and had a brighter absolute magnitude (H) of 23.6, and could be either larger or smaller than 2018 GE3, depending on their albedos and thus exact sizes. 2017 VW13 (H=20.7) may have also passed closer in 2001, although the distance of its approach is very uncertain and it was not discovered until 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 81], "content_span": [82, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279447-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 GE3, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo\nThe diameter can only be estimated based on the brightness and distance. The albedo is currently unknown. Based on a generic magnitude-to-diameter conversion, 2018 GE3 measures between 48\u2013100 meters (157\u2013328 feet) in diameter, for an absolute magnitude of 23.8, and an assumed albedo between 0.05 and 0.24, which represent typical values for carbonaceous and stony asteroids, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 55], "content_span": [56, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279447-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 GE3, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo\nThis asteroid is about three to six times the diameter of the meteor that exploded in the skies above Chelyabinsk, Russia in February 2013, which damaged over 7,200 buildings and injured 1,500 people, mostly from flying glass. If an asteroid of this size were to enter Earth's atmosphere, a good portion of it would likely disintegrate due to friction with the air. The remnants could survive entry however and impact the surface, thus causing regional damage dependent on various factors such as composition, speed, entry angle, and location of impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 55], "content_span": [56, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279447-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 GE3, Physical characteristics, Rotation period\nAs of 2018, no rotational lightcurve of 2018 GE3 has been obtained from photometric observations. The body's rotation period, pole and shape remain unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 51], "content_span": [52, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279448-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GEICO 500\nThe 2018 GEICO 500 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on April 29, 2018, at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama. Contested over 188 laps on the 2.66 mile (4.28\u00a0km) superspeedway, it was the 10th race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279448-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 GEICO 500, Report, Background\nTalladega Superspeedway, formerly known as Alabama International Motor Speedway, is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. A tri-oval, the track was constructed in 1969 by the International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France family. Talladega is most known for its steep banking. The track currently hosts NASCAR's Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series. Talladega is the longest NASCAR oval with a length of 2.66-mile-long (4.28\u00a0km) tri-oval like the Daytona International Speedway, which is a 2.5-mile-long (4.0\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279448-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 GEICO 500, Practice, First practice\nTy Dillon was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 47.182 seconds and a speed of 202.959\u00a0mph (326.631\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279448-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 GEICO 500, Practice, Final practice\nJamie McMurray was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 46.947 seconds and a speed of 203.975\u00a0mph (328.266\u00a0km/h). The practice was marred by a three-car crash on the back-straightaway that resulted in McMurray barrel rolling several times into the inside catchfence while Ty Dillon and Ryan Newman were also involved. \u201cWhen I realized I was going to flip, I actually shut my eyes because I don't really want to see what's getting ready to happen,\u201d McMurray said. \u201cAnd then it just kept, it seemed like forever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279448-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 GEICO 500, Practice, Final practice\nI opened my eyes a couple times and I couldn't, I'm like I don't know if I'm going up or down or where it's going to hit next. So I was just thankful when it finally ... a couple of times I thought it was going to stop and it just kind of kept going.\u201d McMurray's accident led to NASCAR reducing the restrictor plates from 7/8th to 55/64th of an inch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279448-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 GEICO 500, Qualifying\nKevin Harvick scored the pole for the race with a time of 49.247 and a speed of 194.448\u00a0mph (312.934\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279448-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 GEICO 500, Media, Television\nFox Sports covered their 18th race at the Talladega Superspeedway. Mike Joy, six-time Talladega winner \u2013 and all-time restrictor plate race wins record holder \u2013 Jeff Gordon and four-time Talladega winner Darrell Waltrip called the race in the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the action on pit road for the television side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 33], "content_span": [34, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279448-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 GEICO 500, Media, Radio\nMRN had the radio call for the race which was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace called the race in the booth when the field raced through the tri-oval. Dave Moody called the race from the Sunoco spotters stand outside turn 2 when the field raced through turns 1 and 2. Mike Bagley called the race from a platform inside the backstretch when the field raced down the backstretch. Kyle Rickey called the race from the Sunoco spotters stand outside turn 4 when the field raced through turns 3 and 4. Alex Hayden, Winston Kelley, Kim Coon, and Steve Post worked pit road for the radio side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279449-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano\nThe 2018 GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano was the 50th edition of the GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano road cycling one day race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279449-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano, Teams\nTwenty-four teams were invited to take part in the race. These included seven UCI World Tour teams, ten UCI Professional Continental teams, six UCI Continental teams and one national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 50], "content_span": [51, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279450-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GP Izola\nThe 2018 Grand Prix Izola was the 5th edition of the GP Izola road cycling one day race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2. Due to extreme weather conditions, the race was shortened form 157km to 106.5km.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279450-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 GP Izola, Teams\nTwenty-five teams were invited to take part in the race. These included one UCI Professional Continental team and twenty-four UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 20], "content_span": [21, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279451-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GP Laguna\nThe 2018 Grand Prix Laguna Porec was the 4th edition of the GP Laguna road cycling one day race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279451-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 GP Laguna, Teams\nTwenty teams were invited to take part in the race. All of them were UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279452-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GP Miguel Indur\u00e1in\nThe 2018 GP Miguel Indur\u00e1in was the 65th edition of the GP Miguel Indur\u00e1in cycle race and was held on 31 March 2018. The race started and finished in Estella. The race was won by Alejandro Valverde.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279452-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 GP Miguel Indur\u00e1in, Teams\nSeventeen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included three UCI WorldTeams, seven UCI Professional Continental teams, and seven UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279453-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GP Nacional 2 de Portugal\nThe 2018 GP Nacional 2 de Portugal (Portuguese: 2018 Grande Pr\u00e9mio de Portugal Nacional 2) was the first edition of the GP Nacional 2 de Portugal cycle race and was held from 18 July to 22 July 2018 as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour; it was categorised as a 2.2 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279453-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 GP Nacional 2 de Portugal\nThe race was won by Ra\u00fal Alarc\u00f3n, riding for the W52\u2013FC Porto team. However, in March 2021, due to doping all his results obtained between July 28, 2015 and October 21, 2019, were cancelled, including 2018 Volta a Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279454-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GP3 Series\nThe 2018 GP3 Series was the ninth season of the third-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also ninth season under the moniker of GP3 Series, a motor racing feeder series that runs in support of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship and sister series Formula 2. This was the final contested season of GP3, as the series will unite with the FIA Formula 3 European Championship to form the FIA Formula 3 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279454-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 GP3 Series\n2018 was the final season that the Dallara GP3/16 chassis package\u2014which d\u00e9buted in the 2016 GP3 Series\u2014was used in competition, as a brand new chassis package for the FIA Formula 3 Championship will be introduced in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279454-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 GP3 Series\nAfter finishing 3rd in the final Feature Race of the last season of GP3, Anthoine Hubert was crowned the 2018 GP3 Champion. ART successfully defended their teams' title over Trident after the first race at Sochi, winning the teams' title in eight of the nine seasons of GP3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279454-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 GP3 Series\nRunner-up Nikita Mazepin won 4 races; in Barcelona, Hungaroring, Spa-Francorchamps, and Yas Marina. After having four rounds with Jenzer Motorsport, David Beckmann moved to Trident before the summer break and took 3 race wins. Champion Anthoine Hubert, Callum Ilott, Leonardo Pulcini, and Pedro Piquet all won 2 races. Also, Giuliano Alesi won the second race in Spain, Jake Hughes won for the third time in the series at the Red Bull Ring, and Dorian Boccolacci, who drove for MP Motorsport before being promoted to their Formula 2 team won the sprint race at the Hungaroring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279454-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 GP3 Series, Teams and drivers\nAll GP3 drivers competed in a Dallara GP3/16 chassis using a Mecachrome GP3 V6 engine and Pirelli P Zero and Cinturato tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279454-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 GP3 Series, Calendar\nThe following nine rounds took place as part of the 2018 championship. Each round consisted of two races, a longer race 1 and a shorter race 2:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279454-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 GP3 Series, Championship standings, Scoring system\nPoints were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in the race 1, and to the top 8 classified finishers in the race 2. The pole-sitter in the race 1 also received four points, and two points were given to the driver who set the fastest lap inside the top ten in both the race 1 and race 2. No extra points were awarded to the pole-sitter in the race 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279454-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 GP3 Series, Championship standings, Teams' championship\nOnly three best-finishing cars are allowed to score points in the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279455-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GT4 Belgium Cup\nThe 2018 GT4 Belgium Cup was the first season of the GT4 Belgium Cup, a sports car championship for Belgian drivers only, created and organised by the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation (SRO). The season began on 7 April at Zolder and ended on 7 October at Zandvoort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279455-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 GT4 Belgium Cup, Calendar\nOn 15 December 2017, the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation announced the first draft of the 2018 calendar. The finalised calendar was announced on 30 March 2017. The round at the N\u00fcrburgring in the weekend of 1 July was dropped from the schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279456-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GT4 Central European Cup\nThe 2018 GT4 Central European Cup was the first and only season of the GT4 Central European Cup, a sports car championship created and organised by the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation (SRO). The season began on 28 April at Most and ended on 7 October at Zandvoort. It was discontinued for 2019, with the new ADAC GT4 Germany taking over its position in the Central European market.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279456-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 GT4 Central European Cup, Calendar\nOn 15 December 2017, the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation announced the 2018 calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279456-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 GT4 Central European Cup, Championship standings\nChampionship points were awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers were required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279457-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GT4 European Series\nThe 2018 GT4 European Series was the eleventh season of the GT4 European Series, a sports car championship created and organised by the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation (SRO). The season began on 7 April at Zolder and ended on 16 September at the N\u00fcrburgring. It was the first season, after it was renamed from GT4 European Series Northern Cup to GT4 European Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279457-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 GT4 European Series, Calendar\nAt the annual press conference during the 2017 24 Hours of Spa on 28 July, the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation announced the first draft of the 2018 calendar, in which Monza, Silverstone and Paul Ricard initially made an appearance. All three tracks were dropped from the schedule, when the finalised calendar was announced on 24 November 2017. The Red Bull Ring, the Slovakia Ring and Zandvoort did not return on the schedule, as Zolder, Spa-Francorchamps and the Hungaroring took their places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279457-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 GT4 European Series, Partners\nThe GT4 European Series is supported by 5 sponsors. These are the tire manufacturer Pirelli, the lubricant specialist , the watch manufacturer CERTINA, Elf and .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279457-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 GT4 European Series, Championship standings\nChampionship points were awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers were required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279457-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 GT4 European Series, Championship standings, Teams' championship\nOnly the highest finishing car per team scored points and all other cars entered by that team were invisible as far as scoring points concerned. Only the highest ranked car in its respective category counted towards the championship. Parentheses indicate results that did not count towards the championship. Only two cars can be considered as forming the same team for the Teams' championship. If more than two cars are entered under the same competitor license, the competitor has to nominate the car numbers eligible to score points. Failure to do so will default the eligibility to score points to the two cars with the lowest car numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279458-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GT4 International Cup\nThe 2018 GT4 International Cup was the first edition of the GT4 International Cup held at Bahrain International Circuit on 1 December 2018. The race was contested with GT4-spec cars. The event promoters were the Bahrain Motorsport Federation (BMF) and the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation (SRO).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279459-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gabon Championnat National D1\nThe 2018 Gabon Championnat National D1 is the 50th season in top-flight football in Gabon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279459-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gabon Championnat National D1\nThe 2017\u201318 season was scheduled to start on 28 October 2017, but was postponed indefinitely. It eventually started on 20 January 2018. It ended on 13 June 2018 with the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279459-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gabon Championnat National D1, Standings\nFinal table (regular season finished after 10 rounds on 6 June 2018; top four advance to play-off).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279460-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gabonese legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in Gabon in 2018 along with municipal elections; the first round was held on 6 October and the second round on 27 October. Despite losing 15 seats, the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party maintained its two-thirds majority in the National Assembly, winning 98 of the 143 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279460-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gabonese legislative election, Background\nParliamentary elections are normally held every five years, and the previous elections were held in December 2011. The elections were set for 27 December 2016, before being postponed until 29 July 2017 and then April 2018 to enable political dialogue and allegedly due to a shortage of funds. However, the elections were not held on 28 April 2018, without the government announcing a report or asking the Constitutional Council for another delay. This meant that the term of the National Assembly had legally expired. As a result, the Constitutional Court dissolved the National Assembly and temporarily reassigned its powers to the Senate (which was still legally constituted), and dismissed Prime Minister Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279460-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gabonese legislative election, Electoral system\nThe 143 members of the National Assembly are elected from single-member constituencies using the two-round system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279460-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Gabonese legislative election, Results\nThe first round had a 58.63% turnout, but only 28.5% in the Estuaire province, where nearly half of the population lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279460-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Gabonese legislative election, Results\nThe ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) won 74 seats and two minor parties in alliance with PDG won a seat each (RV and UDIS). The Democrats (LD) won three seats, while the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Union for the New Republic (UPNR) won one each. Two Independents also won seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279460-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Gabonese legislative election, Results\nThe first round was postponed in the Elelem constituency in Woleu department in Woleu-Ntem Province due to \"organizational reasons\". The run-off in Elelem wad held on 10 November; it was won by the candidate of the Heritage and Modernity Rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279460-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Gabonese legislative election, Results\n60 constituencies had a run-off vote as no candidate secured a majority in the first round. Full official results were expected in mid-December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279461-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gagarin Cup playoffs\nThe 2018 Gagarin Cup playoffs of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) began on March 3, 2018, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences, following the conclusion of the 2017\u201318 KHL regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279461-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds\nAfter the regular season, the standard 16 teams qualified for the playoffs. The Western Conference regular season winners and Continental Cup winners are SKA Saint Petersburg with 138 points. Ak Bars Kazan are the Eastern Conference regular season winners with 100 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279461-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Draw\nThe playoffs started on March 3, 2018, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences and ended on April 22, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Galway Senior Football Championship is the 123rd edition of Galway GAA's premier gaelic football tournament for senior graded clubs in County Galway, Ireland. The winners receive the Frank Fox Cup and represent Galway in the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship\nTwenty teams compete. This year there will be a new format. With the previous years 4 semi finalists being seeded and separated into 4 groups of 5", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship\nCorofin were the defending champions after they defeated Mountbellew/Moylough in the 2017 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship\nThis was Claregalways's return the senior grade after a 4 year exodus (they were relegated from the S.F.C. in 2013) when claiming the 2017 I.F.C. title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship\nCorofin retained their title with a win in a final replay over Mountbellew/Moylough. This was Corofin's sixth title in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship\nCaltra, Cortoon Shamrocks and Kilconly were relegated to the 2020 I.F.C. after 22, 15 and 7 years in the top-flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship, Format, Group Stage\n2018 brings about a new format for the competition where there is 4 groups of 5 teams. The 2017 Semi-finalists, Corofin, Mountbellew/Moylough, Annaghdown and Monivea/Abbey will be Seeded and placed in each Group. The remaining group places made up from the remaining 16 teams in an open draw. The top two teams in each group will qualify for the Knockout stage Quarter Finals. The third placed team in each group retains Senior Status for 2019. The Bottom two teams in the group enter the Relegation Playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship, Format, Group Stage\nIf teams are level on points, the first deciding factor will be the head-to-head result between the sides; the second will be the points difference; and the third will be the scoring average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship, Format, Knockout Stage\nQuarter Finals will be an open draw where top placed group teams will play 2nd Placed group teams. However teams cannot be paired with the other team who qualified from their group. Extra Time will be played in these games if required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship, Format, Knockout Stage\nSemi-Finals will be an open drawReplays to be played in the Semi-Finals & Final if required. No Extra Time will be played in these games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship, Format, Relegation Playoff\nThe four fourth placed teams are placed in an open draw, where the two winners will retain senior status for 2019. The two losers will join the four bottom placed teams in the groups for the final series of play-off relegation games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship, Format, Relegation Playoff\nTwo Groups of ThreeRd 1: 1 v 2Rd 2: Loser of 1 v 2 plays 3Rd 3: Winner of 1 v 2 plays 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship, Format, Relegation Playoff\nThe top teams in the groups retains their Senior Status for the following year. The two bottom teams in the groups are relegated to Intermediate for the following year. The two second placed teams in the Relegation groups play-off with the loser being the third team to be relegated to Intermediate for 2019 and the winner retaining Senior status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoffs, 4th Placed Group Teams Playoff\nOpen Draw to take place between the 4 groups 4th placed teams. The two winners retaining Senior status for next years competition, and the losers then competing in the Relegation Group Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 93], "content_span": [94, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoffs, 4th Placed Group Teams Playoff\nVictories for both St Michaels and An Cheathr\u00fa Rua means that they retain their Senior status. Tuam Stars and Kilconly enter the relegation group stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 93], "content_span": [94, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoffs, Relegation Group Stage\nNaomh Anna, Leitir M\u00f3ir and Tuam Stars top their groups and retain their Senior status. Kilconly and Caltra finished bottom of their groups and will be relegated to compete in next years Intermediate competition. The two groups second placed teams, Cortoon Shamrocks and Barna, go into a relegation playoff game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279462-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoffs, 2nd Place Relegation Group Playoff\nRelegation Playoff game played between the two 2nd placed Relegation group teams. Winner to retain Senior status for next years competition, and the loser relegated to next years Intermediate competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279463-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Galway Senior Hurling Championship was the 121st staging of the Galway Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279463-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Hurling Championship\nThe winners St. Thomas' were presented with the Tom Callanan Cup having beaten Liam Mellows in the final on 18 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279463-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Hurling Championship\nLiam Mellows were the reigning champions. Ballinderreen participated in the senior championship having been promoted from the intermediate competition in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279463-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Competition Format\nTwenty four reams compete in the initial group stages of the championship \u2013 the top ranked twelve teams compete in the Senior A Group and the second ranked twelve teams compete in the Senior B Group. Eight teams from the Senior A Group and four teams from the Senior B Group progress to the knockout stage. The competition format is explained further in each of the championship rounds in the sections below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279463-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Group Stage, Senior A\nSenior A consists of 12 teams divided into two groups of 6. The top two teams from each group automatically qualify for the quarter finals. The third and fourth teams from each group play in the preliminary quarter finals. The bottom two teams from each group play-off with the losing team relegated to playing in the following year's Senior B Section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279463-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Group Stage, Senior B\nSenior B consists of 12 teams divided into two groups of 6. The winners of each group qualify for the 2018 preliminary quarter finals and compete in the following year's Senior A competition. The four second and third placed teams play-off with the two winners also qualifying for the 2018 preliminary quarter finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279463-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Group Stage, Senior B, Senior B - Playoffs\nThe second team in Senior B Group 1 plays the third team in Senior B Group 2 and the third team in Senior B Group 1 plays the second team in Senior B Group 2. The two winning teams qualify for the 2018 senior preliminary quarter finals. The two losing teams are eliminated from this year's senior championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279463-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Group Stage, Senior B, Senior B - Relegation\nThe losing team is relegated to the following year's intermediate championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279463-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Senior Knockout Stage, Senior Preliminary Quarter Finals\nThe four teams who finished third and fourth in the two Senior A Groups play the four Senior B teams who qualified (the two winners of the two Senior B Groups plus the two winners of the Senior B play-offs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 97], "content_span": [98, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279463-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Senior Knockout Stage, Senior Quarter Finals\nThe four teams who finished first and second in the two Senior A groups play the four winners of the senior preliminary quarter finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season\nThe 2018 Gamba Osaka season was Gamba Osaka's 25th season in the J1 League and 31st overall in the Japanese top flight. It saw them compete in the 18 team J1 League as well as the J.League Cup and Emperor's Cup competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season\nGamba will begin the season with a new manager in the shape of Brazilian, former Cerezo Osaka boss Levir Culpi who replaced long-standing manager Kenta Hasegawa who moved to FC Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season\nCulpi was fired after poor form saw Gamba sit in the J1 relegation zone at the halfway point of the season. He was replaced by Gamba Under-23 manager Tsuneyasu Miyamoto on July 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers\nPrior to the end of 2017, Gamba announced the capture of young defenders; Tetsuya Yamaguchi and Riku Matsuda as well as midfielder Yuya Fukuda all straight out of high school. Meanwhile, midfielder Ren Shibamoto and attacker Haruto Shirai were promoted to the first team squad after impressing for Gamba's Under-23 side in J3 during 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers\nShortly before Christmas the signings of attacking midfielder Shinya Yajima and former Gamba youth product, centre-back Shunya Suganuma were announced, with the duo arriving from Urawa Reds and Montedio Yamagata respectively. This news was followed a few days later with the news of the signing of Japan Under-17 midfielder Keito Nakamura from Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Yowa SC as well as the promotion of Under-23 goalkeeper Kosei Tani to the first team squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers\n2 league games into the campaign and Gamba secured the signing of former Brazil Under-20 defensive midfielder Matheus Jesus on loan from Portuguese side Estoril. His contracted would run until the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers\nLong serving goalkeeper Yosuke Fujigaya, who had made over 250 league appearances for the club announced his retirement at the end of the 2017 season after spending the previous 3 years providing backup to established number 1, Masaaki Higashiguchi. Holding midfielder Tatsuya Uchida turned his loan move to Tokyo Verdy into a permanent one and he would be joined at the Tokyo club by young forward Hiromu Kori who had spent the previous season on loan with Gamba Under-23, scoring 3 goals in 17 appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers\nAdditionally experienced Japanese-born but Korean passport holding centre-back Kim Jung-ya moved to Vegalta Sendai, while Kashima Antlers forward Shuhei Akasaki returned to his parent club following a disappointing loan spell which yielded only 2 goals. Another forward with a poor goalscoring record, Hiroto Goya moved to J2 League outfit Tokushima Vortis in an effort to rediscover his scoring touch, he would be joined in J2 by backup goalkeeper Ken Tajiri who extended his loan spell at Zweigen Kanazawa for a further season. Gamba U-23 centre back and sometimes central midfielder made the move to J3 side Grulla Morioka after making close to 50 appearances in J3 but failing to crack Gamba's senior side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers\nAt the beginning of January, a press conference was held confirming that key central midfielder Yosuke Ideguchi would join English EFL Championship side Leeds United. The Japanese international would however join Spanish Segunda Divisi\u00f3n outfit Cultural Leonesa on loan for the remainder of the 2017\u201318 European club season. In the day's following Ideguchi's departure it was confirmed that young utility player So Hirao had been allowed to join Avispa Fukuoka on loan for 2018 and centre-back / defensive midfielder Shogo Nakahara had completed his loan spell with the club and would return to his parent club, Consadole Sapporo. Veteran midfielder Takahiro Futagawa also announced that he would spend another year on loan with Tokyo Verdy in J2 having spend the previous 18 months in Japan's capital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers\nThe first of February saw the announcement that young South Korean centre-back Bae Soo-yong would join J3 outfit Giravanz Kitakyushu on a season long loan. He spent the 2017 campaign with Gamba's Under-23 side, scoring once in 24 games and earning to red cards in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers\nDuring the mid-season transfer window, it was announced at the end of June that midfielders Shinya Yajima and Jin Izumisawa would spend the second half of the year on loan at Vegalta Sendai and Tokyo Verdy respectively. Both players had struggled for game time with the top team and had spent large chunks of the season playing with Gamba U-23 in J3. Their departures cleared the way for the arrival of Renofa Yamaguchi midfielder Kosuke Onose at the end of July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers\nFollowing the departure of Brazilian coach Levir Culpi in July, Matheus Jesus, who Culpi brought to the club on loan at the start of the season, found game time hard to come by and his loan from Portuguese side Estoril was cancelled by mutual consent. New head coach Tsuneyasu Miyamoto moved further to re-shape the squad by bringing in Vissel Kobe striker Kazuma Watanabe on a permanent deal while the tall Shun Nagasawa moved in the opposite direction on loan until the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, First team squad\nAppearances and goals as of the beginning of the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League\nOn 13 January, Gamba's first 2 fixtures for the season were announced, at home to Nagoya Grampus and away to Kashima Antlers. The dates for the remaining games were made public on January 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League\nGamba endured something of a roller coaster ride during the 2018 season, a disastrous start under Brazilian coach Levir Culpi, including 5 losses in their first 6 games, saw Gamba spend most of the year facing the very real prospect of relegation to J2. Fortunately after Culpi was replaced by Gamba U-23 coach and club legend Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, their fortunes began to change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League\nMiyamoto's arrival initially brought better performances if not results, but along with returning injured players, midfield general Yasuyuki Konno and Brazilian attacker Ademilson as well as the arrival of the experienced forward Kazuma Watanabe from Vissel Kobe and winger Kosuke Onose from Renofa Yamaguchi, Gamba started to build a head of steam culminating in a 9-game winning streak which propelled them to the top half of the standings and a final position of 9th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League, Match Day Line-Ups\nThe following players appeared for Gamba Osaka during the 2018 J1 League:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, Emperor's Cup\nGamba entered the 2018 Emperor's Cup at the 2nd round stage where they were drawn at home to Kwansei Gakuin University on 6 June. The match ended in an embarrassing 2-1 defeat after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, Emperor's Cup, Match Day Line-Ups\n= Substitute on, = Substitute Off, = Number of goals scored, = Yellow Card and = Red Card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, J.League Cup Results\nHaving failing to qualify for the 2018 Asian Champions League, Gamba joined the J.League Cup at the group stage for the first time since 2014 when they went on to win the competition. The format was rejigged prior to the season with groups of 7 being replaced with groups of 4. Gamba were drawn in Group C along with Urawa Reds, Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Nagoya Grampus playing each team home and away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, J.League Cup Results\nDespite losing all three home group stage games, including two 4-1 reverses, Gamba qualified for the playoff round by virtue of 3 wins on the road and were paired with J\u00fabilo Iwata. Home and away victories secured a passage to the quarter-finals where they faced off against Yokohama F. Marinos. A 4-0 hammering in the home leg was followed by a 3-1 defeat in Yokohama to send Gamba crashing out 7-1 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, J.League Cup Results, Match Day Line-Ups\n= Substitute on, = Substitute Off, = Number of goals scored, = Yellow Card and = Red Card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, Squad statistics\nStatistics accurate as of match played on 1 December 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, Gamba Osaka Under-23\nGamba Osaka's Under-23 side compete in the J3 League where they are allowed to name 3 overage players of which one must be a goalkeeper. On January 24, their fixtures for the 2018 J3 League season were announced. Due to there being only 17 teams in the league, rounds 17 and 22 were bye rounds while the round 8 fixture against FC Tokyo Under-23 was played at a later date so as to fall on a national holiday. The round 15 game against Thespakusatsu Gunma was postponed until August due to a large earthquake that occurred in Osaka in late June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279464-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Gamba Osaka season, U-23 Squad statistics\nStatistics accurate as of match played on 2 December 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279465-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gambian Cup\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by 71.208.32.185 (talk) at 18:51, 11 September 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279465-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gambian Cup\nThe 2018 Gambia Football Federation Cup was the 50th edition of the Gambian Cup since independence, the knockout football competition of Gambia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279466-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400\nThe 2018 Gander Outdoors 400 is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on July 29, 2018 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Contested over 164 laps -- extended from 160 laps due to an overtime finish, on the 2.5-mile (4.0\u00a0km) superspeedway, it was the 21st race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279466-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400, Report, Background\nPocono Raceway is a superspeedway located in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania at Long Pond. It is the site of two annual NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races held in early June and late July/early August, one NASCAR Xfinity Series event in early June, one NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event in late July/early August, and two ARCA Racing Series races in early June and late July/early August. From 1971 to 1989, and again since 2013, the track has also hosted an Indy Car race, currently sanctioned by the IndyCar Series and run in August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279466-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400, Report, Background\nPocono is one of a very few NASCAR tracks not owned by either Speedway Motorsports, Inc. or International Speedway Corporation, the dominant track owners in NASCAR. It is run by the Igdalsky siblings Brandon and Nicholas, both of whom are third-generation members of the family-owned Mattco Inc, started by Joseph II and Rose Mattioli. Mattco also owns South Boston Speedway in South Boston, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279466-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400, Report, Background\nOutside of the NASCAR races, Pocono is used throughout the year by Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) and motorcycle clubs as well as racing schools. The triangular oval also has three separate infield sections of racetrack \u2013 North Course, East Course and South Course. Each of these infield sections use a separate portion of the tri-oval to complete the track. During regular non-race weekends, multiple clubs can use the track by running on different infield sections. Also some of the infield sections can be run in either direction, or multiple infield sections can be put together \u2013 such as running the North Course and the South Course and using the tri-oval to connect the two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279466-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400, Practice, First practice\nKevin Harvick was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 51.439 seconds and a speed of 174.965\u00a0mph (281.579\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279466-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400, Practice, Final practice\nJoey Logano was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 51.029 seconds and a speed of 176.370\u00a0mph (283.840\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279466-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400, Qualifying\nDaniel Su\u00e1rez scored the pole for the race with a time of 50.851 and a speed of 176.988\u00a0mph (284.835\u00a0km/h) after Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch were both disqualified after failing post-qualifying inspection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279466-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400, Media, Television\nNBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and two-time Pocono winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279466-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400, Media, Radio\nMotor Racing Network had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279467-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400 (Dover)\nThe 2018 Gander Outdoors 400 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on October 7, 2018 at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware. Contested over 404 laps\u2014extended from 400 laps due to an overtime finish, on the one-mile (1.6\u00a0km) concrete speedway, it was the 30th race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, fourth race of the Playoffs, and the first race of the Round of 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279467-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400 (Dover), Report, Background\nDover International Speedway (formerly Dover Downs International Speedway) is a race track in Dover, Delaware, United States. Since opening in 1969, it has held at least two NASCAR races. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosted USAC and the Verizon IndyCar Series. The track features one layout, a 1 mile (1.6\u00a0km) concrete oval, with 24\u00b0 banking in the turns and 9\u00b0 banking on the straights. The speedway is owned and operated by Dover Motorsports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279467-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400 (Dover), Report, Background\nThe track, nicknamed \"The Monster Mile\", was built in 1969 by Melvin Joseph of Melvin L. Joseph Construction Company, Inc., with an asphalt surface, but was replaced with concrete in 1995. Six years later in 2001, the track's capacity moved to 135,000 seats, making the track have the largest capacity of sports venue in the mid-Atlantic. In 2002, the name changed to Dover International Speedway from Dover Downs International Speedway after Dover Downs Gaming and Entertainment split, making Dover Motorsports. From 2007 to 2009, the speedway worked on an improvement project called \"The Monster Makeover\", which expanded facilities at the track and beautified the track. After the 2014 season, the track's capacity was reduced to 95,500 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279467-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400 (Dover), First practice\nKyle Larson was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 21.892 seconds and a speed of 164.444\u00a0mph (264.647\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279467-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400 (Dover), Qualifying\nQualifying for Friday was cancelled due to rain and Kyle Busch, the point leader, was awarded the pole as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279467-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400 (Dover), Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice\nSecond practice session scheduled for Saturday was cancelled due to rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279467-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400 (Dover), Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice\nKyle Larson was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 22.640 seconds and a speed of 159.011\u00a0mph (255.903\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279467-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400 (Dover), Race\nKyle Busch led the field to green, only to be passed by Kevin Harvick ten laps later. Harvick swept both stages. Harvick led until about 50 to go when he had a loose wheel. Aric Almirola inherited the lead from his mistake-cursed teammate. Almirola maintained the lead until a caution with ten to go, caused by a spinning SHR car of Clint Bowyer. Chase Elliott boldly opted not to pit, taking the lead. On the restart Elliott surfed ahead of Almirola, who would ultimately wreck with Brad Keselowski a half lap later, sending the race into overtime. At the restart, Elliott forged ahead of Denny Hamlin, a rival from Martinsville and Phoenix in 2017. Chase would go on to lock himself into the round of 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 38], "content_span": [39, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279467-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400 (Dover), Media, Television\nNBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, 2006 race winner Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and 2001 race winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279467-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Gander Outdoors 400 (Dover), Media, Radio\nMRN had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279468-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Garden Open\nThe 2018 Garden Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rome, Italy between 7 and 12 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279468-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Garden Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279468-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Garden Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279468-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Garden Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279469-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Garden Open \u2013 Doubles\nAndreas Mies and Oscar Otte were the defending champions but only Mies chose to defend his title, partnering Kevin Krawietz. Mies successfully defended his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279469-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Garden Open \u2013 Doubles\nKrawietz and Mies won the title after defeating Sander Gill\u00e9 and Joran Vliegen 6\u20133, 2\u20136, [10\u20134] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279470-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Garden Open \u2013 Singles\nMarco Cecchinato was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279470-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Garden Open \u2013 Singles\nAdam Pavl\u00e1sek won the title after defeating Laslo \u0110ere 7\u20136(7\u20131), 6\u20137(9\u201311), 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279471-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gardner\u2013Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team\nThe 2018 Gardner\u2013Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team represented Gardner\u2013Webb University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Carroll McCray and played their home games at Ernest W. Spangler Stadium. They were a member of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 3\u20138, 2\u20133 in Big South play to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279471-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gardner\u2013Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team, Previous season\nThe Runnin' Bulldogs finished the 2017 season 1\u201310, 0\u20135 in Big South play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279471-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gardner\u2013Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Big South poll\nIn the Big South preseason poll released on July 23, 2018, the Runnin' Bulldogs were predicted to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279471-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Gardner\u2013Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Big South team\nThe Big South released their preseason all-Big South team on July 23, 2018, with the Runnin' Bulldogs having two players on the honorable mention list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 89], "content_span": [90, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279472-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Garena Young Lions FC season\nThe 2018 season is Young Lion's 16th consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the S.League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279473-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gasparilla Bowl\nThe 2018 Gasparilla Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 20, 2018, with kickoff scheduled for 8:00\u00a0p.m. EST. It was the 11th edition of the game originally known as the St. Petersburg Bowl and renamed before its 2017 playing as the Gasparilla Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by lawn mower manufacturing company Bad Boy Mowers, the game was officially known as the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279473-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gasparilla Bowl\nThis was the first time for the bowl to be played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, as the prior 10 editions of the bowl were held at Tropicana Field in nearby St. Petersburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279473-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gasparilla Bowl, Teams\nThe game featured the Marshall Thundering Herd of Conference USA (C-USA) against the South Florida Bulls of the American Athletic Conference (AAC) in their first meeting against each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279473-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Gasparilla Bowl, Teams, Marshall Thundering Herd\nMarshall received and accepted a bid to the Gasparilla Bowl on December 2. The Thundering Herd entered the bowl with an 8\u20134 record (6\u20132 C-USA). The game was the team's 15th overall bowl appearance and third appearance in the Gasparilla Bowl. The Herd previously played in the 2011 edition and 2015 edition, winning against FIU and Connecticut, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279473-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Gasparilla Bowl, Teams, South Florida Bulls\nSouth Florida received and accepted a bid to the Gasparilla Bowl on December 2. The Bulls entered the bowl with a 7\u20135 record (3\u20135 AAC), having lost their final five regular season games. The game was the team's 10th overall bowl appearance and second appearance in the Gasparilla Bowl. The Bulls previously played in the 2008 edition, winning against Memphis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279474-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279474-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election breakdown by ward, Ryton Crookhill and Stella\n*This ward is electing two councillors due to the vacancy left by Liz Twist when she became MP for Blaydon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 108], "content_span": [109, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279475-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gator Bowl\nThe 2018 Gator Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 31, 2018. It was the 74th edition of the Gator Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by the financial technology company TaxSlayer, the game was officially known as the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl, after four seasons without \"Gator\" in the bowl name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279475-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gator Bowl, Teams\nThe game featured the Texas A&M Aggies from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the NC State Wolfpack from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC); the teams had never played each other. This was Texas A&M's second Gator Bowl and NC State's fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279475-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gator Bowl, Teams, Texas A&M Aggies\nTexas A&M received and accepted a bid to the Gator Bowl on December 2. The Aggies entered the bowl with an 8\u20134 record (5\u20133 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279475-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Gator Bowl, Teams, NC State Wolfpack\nNC State received and accepted a bid to the Gator Bowl on December 2. The Wolfpack entered the bowl with a 9\u20133 record (5\u20133 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279475-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Gator Bowl, Game summary\nAfter holding a 21\u201313 lead at halftime, Texas A&M outscored NC State 31\u20130 in the second half, for a 52\u201313 final. Aggie running back Trayveon Williams set a new Gator Bowl rushing record with 236 yards, breaking the prior record of 216 that had been set in the 1966 edition by Floyd Little. The game's attendance of 38,206 was the smallest since the 1950s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279476-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gazprom Hungarian Open\nThe 2018 Gazprom Hungarian Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 2nd edition of the Hungarian Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at Nemzeti Edz\u00e9s K\u00f6zpont in Budapest, Hungary, from April 23\u201329.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279476-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gazprom Hungarian Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279476-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gazprom Hungarian Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279477-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gazprom Hungarian Open \u2013 Doubles\nBrian Baker and Nikola Mekti\u0107 were the defending champions, but Baker chose not to participate this year. Mekti\u0107 played alongside Alexander Peya, but lost in the first round to Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279477-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gazprom Hungarian Open \u2013 Doubles\nDominic Inglot and Franko \u0160kugor won the title, defeating Matw\u00e9 Middelkoop and Andr\u00e9s Molteni in the final, 6\u20137(8\u201310), 6\u20131, [10\u20138].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279478-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gazprom Hungarian Open \u2013 Singles\nLucas Pouille was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to John Millman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279478-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gazprom Hungarian Open \u2013 Singles\nMarco Cecchinato won his first ATP title, defeating Millman in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20134. Cecchinato was a lucky loser, the ninth in ATP Tour history to win a title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279478-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gazprom Hungarian Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season\nThe 2018 season was the Geelong Football Club's 119th in the Australian Football League (AFL). It was the club's eighth season under senior coach Chris Scott, with Joel Selwood appointed as club captain for a seventh successive year. Geelong (known as the Cats) participated in both the inaugural AFLX competition and the 2018 JLT Community Series as part of their pre-season schedule, and the club's regular season began on 25 March against Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). The Cats finished the home-and-away season with a 13\u20139 win\u2013loss record and placed eighth on the league's ladder, qualifying for the 2018 finals series as a result. Geelong were defeated in an elimination final against Melbourne by 29 points, and therefore did not progress past the first finals week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season\nMark Blicavs was named Geelong's best and fairest player, polling 234 votes for the Carji Greeves Medal ahead of joint runners-ups Patrick Dangerfield and Tim Kelly on 233.5 votes each. It was Blicavs' second Carji Greeves Medal, having previously won the award for the 2015 season. Tom Hawkins was the club's leading goalkicker for the seventh successive season, scoring 60 goals. Dangerfield and Tom Stewart were selected in the 2018 All-Australian team, with Stewart also receiving the AFL Coaches Association's Best Young Player award. The Cats also fielded a reserves team in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and a women's team in the VFL Women's (VFLW) competition. The women's team finished runners-up after they were defeated in the VFLW Grand Final by Hawthorn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Background\nChris Scott continued as the club's senior coach for an eighth season, after signing a contract in April 2017 extending his tenure until the end of 2019; during the season, Scott agreed to a new contract to extend this period until the end of 2022. The Cats had four assistant coaches this season, each responsible for specific positions: James Rahilly (forward line), Matthew Knights and Nigel Lappin (midfield), Matthew Scarlett (back line). Corey Enright was also a member of the coaching panel, fulfilling the role of development coach for Geelong's young players. After spending two seasons as the club's director of coaching, Simon Lloyd was appointed to the role of Geelong's football department manager in September 2017, replacing Steve Hocking who had vacated the position to become the AFL's head of football operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 877]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Background\nJoel Selwood was appointed the club's captain for a seventh successive season, with Patrick Dangerfield and Harry Taylor retaining the roles of vice-captain and deputy vice-captain respectively. They were supported by a leadership group made up of teammates Mark Blicavs, Mitch Duncan and Scott Selwood, who all remained in the group from the prior season, with Zach Tuohy the sole promotion to the group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Background\nFord Australia was the major sponsor of the club for the 2018 season, continuing a long-running deal that started in 1925. GMHBA was the new naming rights sponsor for the Cats' home ground Kardinia Park, with a ten-year deal for the venue to be known as GMHBA Stadium from 2018. Geelong signed up 63,818 members, an increase of 16.3 per cent from the prior year. The average home ground attendance for the Cats this season was 34,207 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Playing list, Changes\nFollowing the retirements of premiership players Tom Lonergan and Andrew Mackie at the end of the 2017 season, Geelong delisted Josh Cowan, Matthew Hayball and Tom Ruggles from their playing list; although the Cats committed to redrafting Hayball via the upcoming rookie draft if he was not offered a contract by another club prior. Conversely, after spending the prior two seasons on the club's rookie list, James Parsons was upgraded to the senior list for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Playing list, Changes\nGeelong were involved in three trades during the annual trade period, the first of which involved the Cats exchanging pick 53 in the upcoming national draft for Richmond's future third-round pick in the 2018 edition. Geelong also traded Darcy Lang to Carlton in exchange for pick 58 and a swap of the clubs' fourth-round selections in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Playing list, Changes\nDespite showing interest in Jack Watts (Melbourne) and Jake Stringer (Western Bulldogs), the Cats only gained one player via trade: Gary Ablett from Gold Coast (along with pick 24 and a 2018 fourth-round pick), with Geelong parting with pick 19 and their 2018 second-round pick in return. Ablett played for the Cats from 2002 to 2010, and had previously requested an unsuccessful trade back to Geelong at the end of 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Playing list, Changes\nAdditionally, Steven Motlop departed the club as a restricted free agent, after the Cats opted to accept an end-of-first-round draft pick as compensation instead of matching Port Adelaide's offer to Motlop. This was despite Geelong coach Chris Scott stating prior to the free agency period that he hoped Motlop would remain at the club. Geelong's trade period was labelled a \"significant gamble\" by Josh Elliott of The Roar due to Ablett's age as a 33-year-old. Nathan Schmook of AFL.com.au rated the Cats' trading a 7 out of 10, given the club held picks 22 and 24 in the draft and \"will back themselves to find quality talent\" with these selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Playing list, Changes\nFour players were drafted by the Cats in the 2017 national draft: Lachie Fogarty (pick 22), Tim Kelly (24), Charlie Constable (36) and Gryan Miers (57). Christopher Doerre of ESPN.com.au graded the Cats' draft performance as an A+ reasoning that Fogarty and Kelly were \"astute selections\", and predicting that Constable and Miers \"may be two of the draft day steals\". In addition to redrafting Hayball (pick 30), Geelong also selected former Essendon and Western Bulldogs player Stewart Crameri (16) in the 2018 rookie draft. Geelong did not participate in the corresponding pre-season draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Playing list, Statistics\nGeelong used 40 players from their playing list this season, with six playing in all 23 of the club's games. There was seven players who played in their first AFL game: Ryan Abbott, Lachie Fogarty, Jack Henry, Jamaine Jones, Tim Kelly, Quinton Narkle and Esava Ratugolea. Stewart Crameri also played his first game for the Cats, having previously played for both Essendon and Western Bulldogs. Tom Hawkins was the club's leading goalkicker for the seventh successive season, scoring 60 goals; Hawkins also finished in third position overall for the Coleman Medal, awarded to the league's highest individual goal-scorer during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Season summary\nThe fixture for the 2018 season was confirmed by the AFL in October 2017; Geelong were scheduled to play nine games at GMHBA Stadium. This was an increase from the previous season where the Cats played seven games at their home ground. Although uncertain of the impact of Gary Ablett's return to Geelong, Peter Ryan of The Age predicted that the Cats would \"qualify high\" for the finals due to having \"nine home games and a quality midfield\". This assessment was reflected in the annual pre-season survey of captains conducted by AFL.com.au, with eight out of the other 17 club captains expecting that Geelong would qualify for the finals this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Season summary\nThe inaugural AFLX competition was played in February 2018, with games following AFLX rules (which is a modified version of Australian rules football). For this competition, clubs were split into three groups consisting of two pools in each; the top team in each pool played off in a grand final for that group. Geelong won both their pool matches, against Port Adelaide and Fremantle, before losing to Adelaide by eight points in the group grand final; the Cats also participated in the 2018 JLT Community Series as part of their pre-season schedule, playing in two games against Gold Coast and Essendon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Season summary\nGeelong began the regular season on 25 March against Melbourne at the MCG, with the Cats narrowly winning by three points. Midfielders Joel Selwood and Gary Ablett each garnered 39 disposals in the win; Selwood was playing his 250th game and it was Ablett's return game for the Cats. In the lead-up to the following week's match against Hawthorn on Easter Monday, there was anticipation about Ablett, Selwood and Patrick Dangerfield taking the field together for the first time, with the midfielders labelled the \"holy trinity\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Season summary\nDangerfield collected 31 disposals in his first game back from injury, combining with Ablett (35) and Selwood (29) as the three players with the most disposals for the Cats. Despite the impact of this trio, Hawthorn secured a one-point win\u2014although their lead was as much as 25 points early in the final quarter. Travelling to newly-opened Optus Stadium in round 3, the Cats lost to West Coast by 15 points; the crowd of 54,535 was the highest attendance for a sports event in Western Australia. Selwood captained his 143rd match in round 4, surpassing Reg Hickey's 78-year-old record of most games as Geelong captain; the Cats defeated St Kilda in their first game at GMHBA Stadium for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Season summary\nGeelong won three of their next five matches, with the round 6 game against Sydney their sole loss at GMHBA Stadium for the season. Playing against Carlton in round 10, debutant Jamaine Jones scored his first goal with his first kick and the Cats won by 28 points; it was Carlton's first game at GMHBA Stadium since 1997. Geelong won their next two games, including an 85-point win against Gold Coast; the Cats subsequently recorded an 18-point loss in round 13 to reigning premiers Richmond. Heading into their bye in round 14, Geelong were placed fifth on the league's ladder with an 8\u20135 win\u2013loss record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Season summary\nGeelong were defeated by Western Bulldogs in their first match following their week off, losing by two points after Cats defender Harry Taylor missed a goal after the siren; it was the seventh consecutive year the Cats had lost after a mid-season bye. Three weeks later Geelong had another opportunity to win after the siren against Melbourne in round 18; this time Zach Tuohy scored a goal for the Cats to win by two points. Geelong recorded a 42-point against Brisbane in round 19, with Tom Hawkins scoring seven goals for a second consecutive game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Season summary\nGeelong's loss in round 20 was the first time Richmond had defeated the Cats twice in a single season since 1982. Geelong's score of 24.14 (158) against Fremantle in round 21 was their highest of the season, with the Cats recording a VFL/AFL record of 23 unanswered goals; the 133-point margin was Fremantle's biggest defeat in the club's history. This dominance was repeated the following week, with the Cats finishing the regular season with a 102-point win over Gold Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Season summary\nThese final two wins helped the Cats place eighth on the league's ladder with a 13\u20139 win\u2013loss record, qualifying for the 2018 finals series. Geelong were defeated in an elimination final against Melbourne by 29 points, and therefore did not progress past the first finals week; it was Melbourne's first finals appearance since 2006. In a post-season review for AFL.com.au, Mitch Cleary described the Cats' season as one that \"that promised so much but delivered little\", and graded their overall performance a \"D\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Awards\nGeelong held their player awards night at Crown Palladium on 4 October. The club's best and fairest award, the Carji Greeves Medal, was won by Mark Blicavs, who received 234 votes; Patrick Dangerfield and Tim Kelly were joint runners-up with 233.5 votes apiece. It was Blicavs' second Carji Greeves Medal, having previously won the award in 2015. Additionally, George Horlin-Smith received the Tom Harley Award for best clubman, and Jamaine Jones was presented with the Community Champion award. Jack Henry was named the club's Best Young Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Awards\nDangerfield and Tom Stewart were selected in the honorary 2018 All-Australian team; Blicavs and Tom Hawkins were shortlisted but ultimately not selected in the final squad. Stewart also received the AFL Coaches Association's Best Young Player award, and Kelly was named Best First Year Player by the AFL Players Association. Henry was the Cats' sole nomination for the season's Rising Star award, nominated for his efforts in round 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Reserves team\nThe club's reserves team, participating in the VFL, was coached by Shane O'Bree for a third season. Tom Atkins was the sole captain, having co-captained the prior season with Jake Edwards and Ben Moloney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Reserves team\nThe reserves team finished the regular season with a 13\u20135 win\u2013loss record and placed third on the league's ladder, qualifying for the finals series as a result. Geelong did not win either of their finals, losing to the Casey Demons in a qualifying final and then the Box Hill Hawks in the semi-finals. Atkins was awarded the club's VFL best and fairest award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Women's team\nGeelong fielded a team in the VFL Women's competition for a second season, in preparation for the club's entry into the top-level AFL Women's competition from 2019. Paul Hood and Rebecca Goring continued as the coach and captain from the prior season. The women's team consisted of 39 players who were eligible for selection in matches in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279479-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club season, Women's team\nThe team finished the regular season with a 10\u20133 win\u2013loss record (with one match ending as a draw); as a result, the Cats placed fourth on the league's ladder and qualified to play in the finals. Geelong won their first two finals matches, defeating NT Thunder in the semi-finals and Collingwood in the preliminary finals. The Cats eventually finished runners-up after they were defeated in the VFLW Grand Final by Hawthorn. Richelle Cranston was awarded the club's VFLW best and fairest award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279480-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club women's season\nThe 2018 Geelong Football Club women's season was the club's second season of women's Australian rules football contested by the Geelong Football Club, competing in the 2018 VFL Women's season. The club would join the 2019 AFL Women's competition after securing an expansion licence in September 2017 to join the elite level competition. The team was again coached by Paul Hood and captained by Rebecca Goring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279480-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Geelong Football Club women's season\nGeelong finished in fourth at the end of the expanded 16-game home and away season to qualify for the finals. Winning consecutive finals, the Cats progressed to the 2018 VFL Women's Grand Final at Etihad Stadium, falling short to Hawthorn in the decider by 13 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279481-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 General Aung San Shield\nThe 2018 General Aung San Shield (Burmese: Bogyoke Aung San Shield) is the fourth season of Myanmar knockout football competition. The tournament is organized by the Myanmar Football Federation. It is the league cup competition started in 2018 Myanmar football season. This cup succeeded the Myanmar Football Federation Cup. MFF has changed the cup competition style as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279481-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 General Aung San Shield\nIn the first round, ten clubs competing in 2018 MNL-2 and two clubs which were promoted to 2018 MNL, twelve teams in total, will be involved playing at a neutral ground with six teams emerged as winners. In the second round, ten clubs competing in 2017 MNL and the six winners from the first round, sixteen teams in total, will be involved playing at a neutral ground with eight teams emerged as winners. The Quarter-finals will still be played as one-legged matches but the Semi-final will be competed as two-legged (Home and Away) matches. Shan United were the defending champions and Yangon United were winner-up at previous previous shield final. They will start play from Quarter final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279481-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 General Aung San Shield\nThe cup winner is guaranteed a place in the 2019 AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279481-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 General Aung San Shield, Results, Preliminary Round\nPreliminary round consists of two rounds for teams currently playing in the Regional League Division 1 level. The First round was held 6 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279482-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 General Santos Warriors season\nThe 2018 General Santos Warriors season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279483-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Generali Open Kitzb\u00fchel\nThe 2018 Generali Open Kitzb\u00fchel was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 74th edition of the Austrian Open Kitzb\u00fchel, and part of the World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Tennis stadium Kitzb\u00fchel in Kitzb\u00fchel, Austria, from July 30 through August 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279483-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Generali Open Kitzb\u00fchel, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279483-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Generali Open Kitzb\u00fchel, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279483-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Generali Open Kitzb\u00fchel, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279484-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Generali Open Kitzb\u00fchel \u2013 Doubles\nPablo Cuevas and Guillermo Dur\u00e1n were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279484-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Generali Open Kitzb\u00fchel \u2013 Doubles\nRoman Jebav\u00fd and Andr\u00e9s Molteni won the title, defeating Daniele Bracciali and Federico Delbonis in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279485-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Generali Open Kitzb\u00fchel \u2013 Singles\nPhilipp Kohlschreiber was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Denis Istomin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279485-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Generali Open Kitzb\u00fchel \u2013 Singles\nMartin Kli\u017ean won the title, defeating Istomin in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20132. The final was the first on the ATP World Tour to be played between two qualifiers since the 2015 Apia International Sydney tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279485-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Generali Open Kitzb\u00fchel \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279486-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Geneva Grand Council election\nThe 2018 election to the Grand Council was held in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, on 15 April 2018. All 100 members of the Grand Council were elected for four-year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279487-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Geneva Open\nThe 2018 Geneva Open (also known as the Banque Eric Sturdza Geneva Open for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 16th edition of the Geneva Open and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Tennis Club de Gen\u00e8ve in Geneva, Switzerland, from May 20 through May 26, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279487-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Geneva Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279487-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Geneva Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279488-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Geneva Open \u2013 Doubles\nJean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tec\u0103u were the defending champions, but Tec\u0103u could not participate due to injury and Rojer chose to compete in Lyon instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279488-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Geneva Open \u2013 Doubles\nOliver Marach and Mate Pavi\u0107 won the title, defeating Ivan Dodig and Rajeev Ram in the final, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20133), [11\u20139].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279489-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Geneva Open \u2013 Singles\nStan Wawrinka was the two-time defending champion but lost to M\u00e1rton Fucsovics in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279489-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Geneva Open \u2013 Singles\nFucsovics went on to win his first ATP World Tour singles title, defeating Peter Gojowczyk in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20132. Fucsovics became the first Hungarian player to win an ATP World Tour singles title since Bal\u00e1zs Tar\u00f3czy in 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279489-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Geneva Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279490-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gent\u2013Wevelgem\nThe 2018 Gent\u2013Wevelgem was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 25 March 2018 in Belgium. It was the 80th edition of Gent\u2013Wevelgem and the eleventh event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279490-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gent\u2013Wevelgem\nThe race was won for a record-equalling third time by Bora\u2013Hansgrohe's Peter Sagan in a sprint finish of some 20 riders, ahead of Quick-Step Floors rider Elia Viviani and Arnaud D\u00e9mare, riding for Groupama\u2013FDJ.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279490-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gent\u2013Wevelgem, Teams\nAs Gent\u2013Wevelgem was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Seven UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279491-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gent\u2013Wevelgem (women's race)\nThe seventh running of Gent\u2013Wevelgem's women's race (also known as Gent-Wevelgem In Flanders Fields) was a cycling event held in Belgium on Sunday 25 March 2018. It was the fifth leg of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour. The race started in Ypres and finished in Wevelgem. Italian Marta Bastianelli won the race in a group sprint before Belgian Jolien D'Hoore and German Lisa Klein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279492-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgetown Hoyas football team\nThe 2018 Georgetown Hoyas football team represented Georgetown University as a member of the Patriot League during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Rob Sgarlata and played their home games at Cooper Field. They finished the season 5\u20136 and 4\u20132 in Patriot League play to tie for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279492-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgetown Hoyas football team, Previous season\nThe Hoyas finished the 2017 season 1\u201310, 0\u20136 in Patriot League play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279492-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgetown Hoyas football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe Patriot League released their preseason coaches poll on July 26, 2018, with the Hoyas predicted to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279492-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgetown Hoyas football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Patriot League team\nThe Hoyas placed two players on the preseason all-Patriot League team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279493-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 2018 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the University of Georgia during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs played their home games at Sanford Stadium and competed as members of the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference. They were led by third-year head coach Kirby Smart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279493-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nGeorgia entered the 2018 season as defending SEC Champions and the previous season's national runners-up, and they were ranked third in the 2018 preseason AP Poll. The Bulldogs won their first six games by an average margin of victory of 30 points, but suffered their first loss on the road against LSU. The team rebounded with victories over No. 9 Florida and No. 11 Kentucky, and secured their place in the 2018 SEC Championship Game as champions of the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279493-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe game was a rematch of the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship against West Division champion Alabama, and the results of the games matched as Alabama once again came from behind to win the 2018 match-up. Georgia was left just outside the top four in the final CFP rankings, and they were invited to the Sugar Bowl to play Big 12 Conference runner-up Texas. The Bulldogs were upset by the Longhorns in that game 21\u201328, and finished the year with a record of 11\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279493-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe Bulldogs were led on offense by sophomore quarterback Jake Fromm, who finished the year with 2,761 passing yards and 30 passing touchdowns. Fromm finished in second in the conference behind Alabama's Tua Tagovailoa in passing touchdowns and passing efficiency rating (171.3). On the ground, D'Andre Swift and Elijah Holyfield each finished with more than 1,000 rushing yards, the second consecutive year that Georgia had two 1,000-yard backs. On defense, cornerback Deandre Baker was a consensus first-team All-American and the recipient of the Jim Thorpe Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279493-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Previous season\nThe 2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team finished the regular season 11\u20131 with the only loss coming on the road to Auburn. Key wins included defeating Notre Dame on the road in week 2. After winning the SEC East, Georgia won its first SEC Championship since 2005, defeating Auburn. Georgia was selected to play in the College Football Playoff for the first time in school history as the #3 seed to face the #2 seed Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl. In an instant classic, Georgia roared back from a 14-point halftime deficit to defeat Oklahoma 54\u201348 in double overtime, earning its first National Championship game appearance. In the National Championship, Georgia was defeated by Alabama 26\u201323 in overtime. Georgia finished the season 13\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279493-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Preseason, SEC media poll\nThe SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018, with the Bulldogs predicted to win the SEC East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279493-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SEC teams\nThe Bulldogs had twelve players selected to the preseason all-SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279494-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 Georgia House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Georgia voters elected state representatives in all 180 of the state house's districts. State representatives serve two-year terms in the Georgia House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279494-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia House of Representatives election\nA primary election on May 22, 2018 and a runoff election on July 24, 2018 in races where no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the May primary determined which candidates appear on the November 6 general election ballot. Primary and runoff election results can be obtained from the Georgia Secretary of State's website. A statewide map of Georgia's state House districts can be obtained from the Georgia Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Office , and individual district maps can be obtained from the U.S. Census .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279494-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia House of Representatives election\nFollowing the 2016 state House elections, Republicans maintained effective control of the House with 118 members. However, over the course of 2017 and 2018, Democrats flipped District 117 and District 119 in special elections. Due to these special election loses and vacancies caused by resignation, Republican seats decreased from 118 to 115 and Democratic seats increased from 62 to 64 by election day 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279494-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia House of Representatives election\nTo have claimed control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats would have needed to net 27 House seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279494-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia House of Representatives election\nFollowing the 2018 elections, Democrats received a net gain of 11 seats, winning 14 contests and increasing their margin to 75 seats. Republicans maintained their majority, but they still suffered a net loss of nine seats as opposed to 10 when taking into account that Republican Steven Sainz filled the vacancy in District 180. The Republican majority in the Georgia State House initially stood at 104 after the election, despite winning 105 seats, due to the death of Rep. John Meadows on Nov. 13, 2018. As a result, a special election was held, with Matt Barton winning the election, bringing the Republican seat total back up to 105.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279494-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia House of Representatives election, Summary of results by district\nData for the following table originates from the Georgia Secretary of State's website. The 2016 election results used to determine \"Gain\" or \"Hold\" for seats without intervening special elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279495-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Secretary of State election\nThe 2018 Georgia Secretary of State election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the Secretary of State of Georgia, concurrently with the 2018 gubernatorial election, as well as elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Republican Incumbent Secretary of State Brian Kemp chose not to run for re-election in order to run for governor. Since no candidate received the requisite 50 percent of the vote, the top two candidates, Democrat John Barrow and Republican Brad Raffensperger proceeded to a runoff on December 4, 2018. At 36.7%, the runoff had the lowest voter turnout of any Georgia statewide election since the senate runoff of 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279495-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Secretary of State election\nRaffensperger flipped Warren County, a reliably Democratic county which has not voted Republican on a presidential level since 1972. Georgia has been a Republican triplex since 2011, meaning that its governor, attorney general, and secretary of state have all been members of the same party. The state maintained that status following this election; Republicans also won the gubernatorial and attorney general elections. This was the first general runoff election in Georgia's history for a statewide constitutional executive office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279495-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Secretary of State election, Libertarian primary\nJ. Smythe DuVal ran unopposed at a party convention and was nominated convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279496-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Southern Eagles football team\nThe 2018 Georgia Southern Eagles football team represented Georgia Southern University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Eagles played their home games at Paulson Stadium in Statesboro, Georgia, and competed in the East Division of the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by first-year head coach Chad Lunsford. They finished the season 10\u20133, 6\u20132 in Sun Belt play to finish in third place in the East Division. They were invited to the Camellia Bowl where they defeated Eastern Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279496-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Southern Eagles football team\nThe Eagles had the biggest turnaround in FBS in 2018, going from a 2\u201310 record in 2017 to 10\u20133. They also set a new FBS record by losing only five turnovers during the season. The previous record of eight had been achieved by six teams, most recently by LSU in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279496-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Southern Eagles football team, Previous season\nThe Eagles fired head coach Tyson Summers six games into the season. He was replaced by interim head coach Chad Lunsford. They finished the season 2\u201310, 2\u20136 in Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for tenth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279496-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Southern Eagles football team, Previous season\nFollowing the season, interim head coach Chad Lunsford was promoted to head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279496-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Southern Eagles football team, Awards and Honors, Preseason, Sun Belt coaches poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Sun Belt released their preseason coaches poll with the Eagles predicted to finish in fourth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 95], "content_span": [96, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279496-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Southern Eagles football team, Awards and Honors, Preseason, Preseason All-Sun Belt Teams\nThe Eagles had six players selected to the preseason all-Sun Belt teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 102], "content_span": [103, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279496-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Southern Eagles football team, Awards and Honors, Post-season finalists and winners, All-Sun Belt Selections\nTwelve Georgia Southern football players were honored by the league coaches and members of the media as the Sun Belt Conference announced the selections for its all-conference teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 121], "content_span": [122, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279497-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia State Panthers baseball team\nThe 2018 Georgia State Panthers baseball team represented Georgia State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Baseball Complex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279498-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team\nThe 2018 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball represented Georgia State University during the college beach volleyball season of 2018. The team's head coach was Beth Van Fleet in her fifth season at GSU. The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Beach Volleyball Complex and compete in the Division I Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. The 2017 season was the third as an official NCAA sport, and the second that the Panthers played in the CCSA. The Panthers finished with a 24-12 record, ranked 11th in the official NCAA sanctioned AVCA coaches poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279499-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia State Panthers football team\nThe 2018 Georgia State Panthers football team represented Georgia State University (GSU) in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Panthers were led by second-year head coach Shawn Elliott. The season was the Panthers' sixth in the Sun Belt Conference, first within the East Division, and ninth since starting football. They played their home games at Georgia State Stadium. They finished the season 2\u201310, 1\u20137 in Sun Belt play to finish in last place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279499-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia State Panthers football team, Previous season\nIn 2017, the Panthers played their first season under new head coach (and accompanying staff) Shawn Elliott. After a short recruiting year (due to turnover of staff), Elliott managed to put together one of Georgia State's highest rated recruiting classes. After losing the opening game at the Panther's new stadium Georgia State Stadium, a conversion of the former Turner Field, the Panthers would go on to become bowl eligible for the second time in the programs seven-year history, defeating the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers at the Cure Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279499-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia State Panthers football team, Recruiting, Recruits\nAs of December 21, 2016, the Panthers have a total of 20 recruits committed. Eight are three-star recruits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279499-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia State Panthers football team, Preseason, Sun Belt coaches poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Sun Belt released their preseason coaches poll with the Panthers predicted to finish in third place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 75], "content_span": [76, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279499-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia State Panthers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Sun Belt Teams\nThe Panthers had five players selected to the preseason all-Sun Belt teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 82], "content_span": [83, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279499-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia State Panthers football team, Schedule\nGeorgia State announced its 2018 football schedule on February 27, 2018. The 2018 schedule consists of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Panthers host Sun Belt foes ULM, Coastal Carolina, Texas State, and in-state rivals Georgia Southern, and traveled to Troy, Arkansas State, Louisiana, and Appalachian State. Georgia State will not play Sun Belt foe South Alabama this year. The team will play four non-conference games, two home game against Kennesaw State, an FCS team from the Big South Conference, Western Michigan from the Mid-American Conference (MAC), and two road games against NC State from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Memphis from the American Athletic Conference (AAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279500-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia State Panthers softball team\nThe 2018 Georgia State Panthers softball team represented Georgia State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I softball season. The Panthers competed in the Sun Belt Conference and were led by eight-year head coach Roger Kincaid. Georgia State played its home games at the Robert E. Heck Softball Complex in Panthersville, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279501-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia State Senate election\nThe 2018 Georgia State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Georgia voters elected state senators in all 56 of the state senate's districts. State senators serve two-year terms in the Georgia State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279501-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia State Senate election\nA primary election on May 22, 2018 determined which candidates appear on the November 6 general election ballot. Primary election results can be obtained from the Georgia Secretary of State's website. A statewide map of Georgia's state Senate districts can be obtained from the Georgia Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Office , and individual district maps can be obtained from the U.S. Census .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279501-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia State Senate election\nFollowing the 2016 state senate elections, Republicans maintained effective control of the Senate with 38 members. However, on December 5, 2017 Democrats flipped State Senate district after Democrat Jen Jordan won a special election. This decreased Republican seats from 38 to 37 and increased Democratic seats from 18 to 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279501-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia State Senate election\nTo reclaim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats would need to net 9 Senate seats and win the concurrent lieutenant gubernatorial election or net 10 seats without the Lieutenant Governor's office. Democrats flipped two seats\u2014districts 40 and 48\u2014from Republican control; however, Republicans retained control of the Georgia State Senate following the 2018 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279502-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Swarm season\nThe 2018 Georgia Swarm season is the 3rd season of the Georgia Swarm, a lacrosse team based in Duluth, Georgia playing in the National Lacrosse League. The team was formerly based in Saint Paul, Minnesota and was known as the Minnesota Swarm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279502-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Swarm season, Regular season, Final standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279502-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Swarm season, Roster, Entry Draft\nThe 2017 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 18, 2017. The Swarm made the following selections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team\nThe 2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by head coach Paul Johnson in his eleventh season on the job. They played their home games at Bobby Dodd Stadium. They competed as a member of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). They finished the season 7\u20136, 5\u20133 in ACC play to finish in second place in the Coastal Division. They were invited to the Quick Lane Bowl where they lost to Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team\nOn November 28, 2018, Johnson announced his retirement effectively after Georgia Tech's bowl game. On December 7, Temple head coach Geoff Collins, a former grad assistant and recruiting coordinator for Georgia Tech, was named Johnson's successor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Previous season\nGeorgia Tech ended the 2017 season with a 5\u20136 overall record, 4\u20134 in the ACC. The Yellow Jackets faced five ranked opponents, defeating one (No. 17 Virginia Tech). They finished the season with a 31-point loss to rivals Georgia, disqualifying themselves from a bowl game. Georgia Tech finished third in the ACC Coastal Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Preseason, ACC media poll\nThe ACC media poll was released on July 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Alcorn State\nGeorgia Tech put up its first shutout in 5 years as they defeated a FCS to open the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, at South Florida\nQuarterback Blake Barnett of South Florida, formerly the #1 recruit out of high school and transfer from Alabama and Arizona State University rushed and passed for two touchdowns each as USF erased a 10-point deficit late in the 4th quarter to hand Georgia Tech its first loss of the season. It would be USF's 6th win out of 7 chances against Power Five conferences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 80], "content_span": [81, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, at Pittsburgh\nComing off a stinging loss to Penn State the week before, the Pitt defense rebounded mightily holding Tech to only 386 total yards. Questionable calls by Tech coach Paul Johnson were criticized such as a fake punt call in the first quarter on Tech's own 28-yard line and a 4th-down pass attempt at the Pitt 23-yard line in the 2nd quarter. Johnson later took responsibility for the bad play calls. \"If we can't throw a pass that is eight yards and catch it, then that's a bad call,\" Johnson said. \"That was a bad call. It was on me.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Clemson\nGeorgia Tech completed just three passes and was held to 146 yards on the ground, nowhere near its nation-high rushing average of 392.7 coming into the game. Trevor Lawrence came into the game in the 2nd quarter and helped Clemson dominate despite Tech cutting the lead down to two touchdowns late in the first half off a TaQuon Marshall touchdown. Much of Bobby Dodd Stadium was filled with roaring Clemson fans on a hot afternoon. Coach Johnson said \"we got our tails kicked.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Bowling Green\nGeorgia Tech came into the game with the nation's best rushing attack while conversely, Bowling Green came into the game with the worst rushing defense in the nation. With a 41-yard reception in the second quarter, senior wingback Clinton Lynch became the first player in Georgia Tech history to achieve 1,000 career rushing yards (1,138) and 1,000 career receiving yards (1,015) as Tech snapped its 3-game losing streak by dominating FBS Bowling Green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, at Louisville\nGeorgia Tech would score on each of its first nine drives, eight of which were for touchdowns, as Tech ran for a season high 542 yards in their first meeting with Louisville. It was Tech's 6th most point total in the modern era and first road win since the 2016 TaxSlayer Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Duke\nDuke's quarterback Daniel Jones converted three Georgia Tech fumbles late in the 3rd quarter for three touchdowns all in a span of about 3 minutes. It would be Duke's second straight win over Georgia Tech and fourth win in five seasons. Duke Coach David Cutcliffe stated that his squad's preparation to handle Tech's spread option offense starts every spring pre-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, at Virginia Tech\nFor this Thursday night matchup, Virginia Tech had taken a 21\u201314 lead and forced a punt by Georgia Tech's offense that was fumbled and recovered by Georgia Tech and led to a 12-yard TD drive. GT would dominate from there on Tobias Oliver's first start at QB where Georgia Tech gained 465 yards on offense, all rushing. It was Virginia Tech's most rushing yards given up since 1973 against SMU. That year was also the last time Virginia Tech had given up over 45 points to 3 different teams in one season until Georgia Tech's performance for this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 80], "content_span": [81, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, at North Carolina\nGeorgia Tech quarterback Tobias Oliver rushed for 120 yards and 2 TD while going 2/2 passing for 104 yards and 1 TD. Tech fumbled twice in the 2nd half allowing UNC to rally late and tie the game. Tech retook the lead off Oliver's second rushing touchdown of the game. UNC got the ball back the ensuing drive until Tech defensive lineman Anree Saint-Amour dropped back in coverage and intercepted UNC's Nathan Elliott's pass to halt their penultimate drive with 2:44 left. Tech would drive down and kick a field goal with 46 seconds left to seal the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nGeorgia Tech came out on top in what ended up being an atypical game with Miami that included a fumbled kickoff return, a muffed punt, and less than 110 combined plays. Miami received the opening kickoff and moved easily down the field for a 7\u20130 lead before Tech matched it. The fumbled kickoff followed shortly after, giving Tech the ball near the Miami red zone. After scoring to take a 14\u20137 lead, Tech was able to force a Miami punt. Tech was held to a 3 and out and punted back to Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nThe Tech defense forced a short 3rd and 1, which led Miami to go under center for one of the few times that night. Miami fumbled the snap and Tech recovered the ball on the Miami 39. Tech ended this drive in a field goal, making the score 17\u20137. On Miami's next drive, the Canes had a 3rd and 30+ due to penalties. As expected, this led to a punt for Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nNot so expected was the low, rugby-style kick that never reached 10 feet from the ground, but was able to contact Tech's Nathan Cottrell, who was running down the field to block for the returner. Miami quickly jumped on the ball and was given a renewed set of downs, which they turned into a touchdown to make the score 17\u201314 Tech shortly before half time. Tech's drive to open the 3rd quarter resulted in a 3 and out, leading to the second of 3 GT punts on the night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0013-0003", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nThe punt was further than the Miami returner was expecting, which caused him to attempt a catch over his shoulder. The returner muffed the punt and was pushed out of the way by GT's Juanyeh Thomas, who recovered the ball at the Miami 10-yard line. Tech was held to a field goal on the short field to make the score 20\u201314. Miami was then held to a 3 and out, which was followed by a Tech drive for a touchdown (27\u201314), scored on a 31-yard pass from Taquon Marshall to Brad Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0013-0004", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nMiami was forced to punt again after a 6-play drive, giving Tech the ball just before the 4th quarter. Tech was forced to punt, but only after they bled 5 minutes off the clock. Miami then scored a touchdown, making the score 27\u201321, but leaving only 6:43 on the clock. Georgia Tech was then able to close out the game by converting 3 3rd downs, including an impressive 22-yard pass to Jalen Camp, and an 11-yard run from Jerry Howard. With the win, GT became bowl eligible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Virginia\nIn the span of just 11 seconds, Georgia Tech turned an early 7\u20133 deficit into a 13\u20137 lead. Virginia, backed up on its own 1 after a punt, had its quarterback Bryce Perkins take a snap in the end zone and rolled left to throw, only to be grabbed by Georgia Tech's Brant Mitchell and finished off by 325-pound nose tackle Brandon Adams for a safety. Juanyeh Thomas then returned the free kick 77 yards for a touchdown and Marshall ran for a 2-point conversion. The safety injured Perkins in what seemed as a serious injury at the time, but only wound up keeping him out of the game for one series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Virginia\nAfter several lead changes, Georgia Tech's Brad Stewart caught the only pass of the game for the Yellow Jackets on a 3rd down to extend the drive and set up a field goal by Wesley Wells to go ahead late in the 4th quarter. Virginia would storm back down the field and kick a game-tying field goal by Brian Delaney towards the end of regulation to set up an overtime contest. Virginia won the toss and held Tech to a field goal. After Tech forced a field goal attempt on Virginia's part, Delaney kicked the ball wide left after a no call on false start by the Virginia offensive line resulting in a Georgia Tech victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Virginia\nThe win guaranteed Georgia Tech's 2nd-place finish in the ACC Coastal division as Pitt had clinched the division earlier that day with a win over Wake Forest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, at Georgia\nGeorgia Tech came in to Athens, GA defending a 2-game win streak in the home of the Bulldogs, but were limited to a season low in rushing yards. UGA scored on every drive of the first half all with different personnel. UGA pulled some of their first string starters in the 2nd half which led Tech to have some late touchdowns, but was not able to get over the insurmountable Georgia lead. The victory, combined with a #4 ranked Michigan loss to Ohio State propelled Georgia into #4 in the country heading into the 2018 SEC Championship Game against Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279503-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, at Georgia\nDays after the defeat, Coach Paul Johnson of Georgia Tech announced his retirement pending the conclusion of Tech's bowl game at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, concurrently with other statewide and local elections to elect the next governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp won the election, defeating Democratic former State Representative Stacey Abrams by less than 55,000 votes, out of almost 4 million cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election\nThe primary elections were held on May 22, 2018, and a primary runoff was held on July 24, 2018, between Republican candidates Kemp and Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle, with Kemp winning the runoff election. Incumbent Republican Governor Nathan Deal was term-limited and thus could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term. Abrams won the Democratic primary with over 75% of the vote, allowing her to avoid a runoff. Kemp was the sitting Secretary of State at the time of the election, leading to accusations of a conflict of interest, as he would be overseeing an election that he was a candidate in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election\nIf no candidate had gained a simple majority of the votes in the general election, a runoff election between the top two candidates would have been held four weeks later on December 4, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election\nOn November 7, Kemp declared victory over Abrams with 50.2% of the vote versus her 48.8%, while Libertarian candidate Ted Metz trailed behind both with 0.9%. The following morning, Kemp resigned as Secretary of State. On November 13, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin May ruled that Gwinnett County violated the Civil Rights Act in its rejection of absentee ballots after U.S. District Court Judge Amy Totenberg ruled the previous day that the votes must be counted and preserved. On November 16, every county certified their votes with Kemp leading by roughly 55,000 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election\nShortly after the election certification, Abrams suspended her campaign; while she refused to concede defeat to Governor-elect Kemp, she acknowledged that she could not win the election. This was the closest governor's race in Georgia since 1966. The race was followed by runoffs in the elections for Secretary of State and Public Service Commissioner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Runoff\nCasey Cagle and Brian Kemp advanced to a runoff on July 24, 2018 since neither candidate amassed over 50% of the vote in the May 22 primary. On July 18, 2018, President Trump tweeted his support for Kemp, and Vice President Pence traveled to Georgia to campaign with him on July 20, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Runoff, Results\nBrian Kemp easily won the runoff by nearly 40 points despite the latest polls having him up by no more than 18. Cagle won only two counties, Monroe and Stephens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, General election, Results, Results by county\nAll results from the office of the Secretary of State of Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, Electoral controversies\nKemp retained his office as Georgia Secretary of State throughout the campaign, leading to allegations of a conflict of interest for overseeing an election in which Kemp himself was a candidate. During the campaign, he was called upon by former President and former Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter and the Georgia chapters of the NAACP and Common Cause, to resign. Kemp refused to do so until after he claimed victory, two days following the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, Electoral controversies\nKemp also accused the state Democratic Party of hacking into the state's voter database a few days before the election; however, an email released shortly after the accusation was made showed the party warning election security experts, highlighting \"massive\" vulnerabilities within the state's My Voter Page and its online voter registration system, not an attempt to hack the database, as Kemp had claimed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, Electoral controversies\nIrregularities in voter registration occurred prior to the day of the election: over 300,000 people were flagged by the state as being ineligible to vote, and 53,000 voter registrations were delayed by Kemp's office without adequately notifying the applicants. These irregularities resulted in allegations that Kemp was using voter suppression to increase his chances of winning the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, Electoral controversies\nGeorgia election officials responded to these allegations by stating that any voter flagged for irregularities could still vote, receiving a regular ballot (not a provisional ballot), by providing ID at a valid polling place, as is required of all voters by state law. Concerning the question of why the pending registration status mattered if those voters could vote normally at the polls, critics claimed that learning of this status might discourage those voters from turning out to the polls at all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, Electoral controversies\nThe Washington Post reported that \"more than 200 polling places\" across Georgia were closed in the 2018 election, \"primarily in poor and minority neighborhoods. Voters reported long lines, malfunctioning voting machines and other problems that delayed or thwarted voting in those areas.\" (The Atlanta Journal Constitution found that \"precinct closures and longer distances likely prevented an estimated 54,000 to 85,000 voters from casting ballots\" on the 2018 Election Day.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, Electoral controversies\nAccording to Richard L. Hasen, professor of law and political science at the University of California at Irvine, \u201cthere is no question that Georgia in general and Brian Kemp in particular took steps to make it harder for people to register and vote, and that those people tended to skew Democratic.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, Electoral controversies\nOn November 16, 2018, Abrams announced that she was ending her campaign. She emphasized that her statement was not a concession, because \"concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true, or proper\", but acknowledged that she could not close the gap with Kemp to force a runoff. In addition, her campaign filed a lawsuit against the state of Georgia and created an organization called Fair Fight Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279504-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, Electoral controversies\nAn investigation by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found \"no evidence ... of systematic malfeasance \u2013 or of enough tainted votes to force a runoff election\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279505-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia lieutenant gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Georgia lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the lieutenant governor of Georgia, concurrently with the 2018 gubernatorial election, as well as elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279505-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia lieutenant gubernatorial election\nThen-incumbent Republican lieutenant governor Casey Cagle chose to not run for re-election in order to run for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279505-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia lieutenant gubernatorial election, Irregularities\nThere was a significant drop-off in votes between the election for governor, which counted 3,939,409 votes, to the lieutenant governor election, with 3,780,304 votes. The undervote, larger than that seen in other statewide races, was found by the Coalition for Good Governance to have occurred in predominantly African American neighborhoods, but only with touchscreen voting machines, not absentee ballots. The change in votes was statistically significant compared to the typical smaller undervote in white areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Georgia on November 6, 2018. All of Georgia's executive officers were up for election as well as all of Georgia's fourteen seats in the United States House of Representatives. Neither U.S. Senate seat was up for election in 2018. The Republican Party won every statewide office in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor Nathan Deal was term-limited and unable to seek re-election to a third consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Governor\nSecretary of State Brian Kemp won the Republican nomination, defeating incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle in a runoff election. Georgia General Assembly Minority Leader Stacey Abrams won the Democratic nomination. Ted Metz ran for the Libertarian Party. Kemp beat Abrams following a very divisive campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Lieutenant governor\nPotential Republican candidates include Georgia Senate President Pro Tempore David Shafer, State Representative Geoff Duncan, Senate Majority Leader Bill Cowsert, State Senator Butch Miller, State Senator Burt Jones, Secretary of State Brian Kemp, Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols and former adjutant general of the Georgia National Guard Jim Butterworth. State Representative Allen Peake was also speculated as a potential candidate, but has ruled out a bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Lieutenant governor\nAs of November 2017, the declared Democratic candidate is Sarah Riggs Amico, an auto executive. Potential Democratic candidates include 2010 Attorney General nominee, former Dougherty County District Attorney Ken Hodges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Sam Olens resigned to become president of Kennesaw State University effective November 1, 2016, with Georgia Department of Economic Development Commissioner Christopher M. \"Chris\" Carr being appointed to serve the remainder of the term. Carr will be eligible to run for election to a full term in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Attorney General\nPotential Republican candidates include State Senator Josh McKoon and former state representative B.J. Pak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Attorney General\nPotential Democratic candidates included State Representative Stacey Evans and former Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission Chair Lester Tate. 2010 nominee and former Dougherty County District Attorney Ken Hodges was considered a potential candidate, but has decided to run for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals instead. Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson has ruled out running for attorney general. As of July 2018, Charlie Bailey, former Senior Assistant District Attorney in the Fulton County District Attorney's office, was running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp ran for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Secretary of State\nState Representative Buzz Brockway ran for the Republican nomination. Other potential Republican candidates included Alpharetta Mayor David Belle Isle and State Senators Steve Gooch, John Albers and Michael Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Secretary of State\nThe Democratic nominee was former U.S. Representative from Georgia's 12th congressional district, John Barrow, who defeated Dee Dawkins-Haigler and Rakeim \"RJ\" Hadley in the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Secretary of State\nThe Libertarian candidate was Smythe Duval. He won the nomination at the Georgia State Libertarian Convention in February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Commissioner of Agriculture\nIncumbent Republican Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black is eligible to run for re-election to a third term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Commissioner of Agriculture\nFred Swann is the Democratic candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Commissioner of Insurance\nIncumbent Republican Commissioner of Insurance Ralph Hudgens is not running for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Commissioner of Insurance\nCindy Zeldin, executive director of Georgians for a Healthy Future, is running for the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Commissioner of Insurance\nDonnie Foster won the Libertarian nomination for Insurance Commissioner at the Georgia Libertarian Convention in February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Commissioner of Labor\nIncumbent Republican Commissioner of Labor Mark Butler is eligible to run for re-election to a third term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, State Superintendent of Schools\nIncumbent Republican State Superintendent of Schools Richard Woods is running for re-election to a second term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, State Superintendent of Schools\nPotential Democratic candidates include Georgia Association of Educators President Sid Chapman and former National PTA President Otha Thornton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Public Service Commission\nElections will be held for District 3 and District 5 of the Public Service Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Public Service Commission\nIn District 3 Ryan Graham is the Libertarian candidate for Public Service Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Public Service Commission\nIn District 5 John Turpish is the Libertarian candidate for Public Service Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, General Assembly, State Senate\nAll 56 seats in the Georgia State Senate are up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, General Assembly, State House\nAll 180 seats in the Georgia House of Representatives are up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, United States House of Representatives\nAll of Georgia's fourteen seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats flipped one seat that elected a Republican in the previous election, resulting in them holding 5 of the state's 14 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Controversies\nThe gubernatorial race was particularly controversial during the 2018 elections, as Republican candidate Brian Kemp was also the Georgia Secretary of State, a position which involves overseeing the electoral process, leading to allegations of conflicts of interests. Despite calls from Georgia Democrats, organizations such as the NAACP and Common Cause, and former president Jimmy Carter, Kemp did not relinquish the position until after the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279506-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgia state elections, Controversies\nAccusations were also leveled at Kemp with regards to the purging of voter rolls that was done under his oversight. Removing names from voter rolls is a common practice in the case of voters who are deceased or have moved out of state, but since 2017, the practice has spiked in Georgia. Due to strict voting rules in Georgia, tens of thousands of citizens lost their right to vote because of otherwise trivial issues, such as small differences between pieces of identification or insufficiently similar signatures. Kemp was accused of using the voter roll purge as a tactic to disenfranchise more than half a million people, predominantly African-Americans, which has been likened to voter suppression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279507-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian Cup\nThe 2018 Georgian Cup was a single elimination association football tournament which began on 16 April 2018 and ended on 25 November 2018. Chikhura Sachkhere were the defending champions of the tournament after winning the previous season's cup 4\u20133 in a penalty shootout over Torpedo Kutaisi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279507-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian Cup, Format\nFor the 2018 version of the Georgian Cup, the competition was contested between 78 clubs. Matches which were level after regulation proceeded to extra time and then to penalties, when needed, to decide the winning club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279507-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian Cup, First round\nThirty first round matches were played on 14\u201316 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279507-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian Cup, Second round\nSixteen second round matches were played on 8\u20139 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279507-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian Cup, Third round\nSixteen third round matches were played on 12\u201314 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279507-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian Cup, Fourth round\nEight fourth round matches were played on 19\u201320 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279507-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian Cup, Quarter\u2013finals\nThe quarter\u2013final matches were played on 3 and 24 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279507-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian Cup, Semi\u2013finals\nThe two semi\u2013final matches were played on 7 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279507-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian Cup, Final\nThe final was played on 25 November 2018 in Angisi Stadium in Batumi at 16.00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279508-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian Super Cup\n2018 Georgian Super Cup was a Georgian football match that was played on 24 February 2018 between the champions of 2017 Erovnuli Liga, Torpedo Kutaisi, and the winner of the 2017 Georgian Cup, Chikhura Sachkhere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279509-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Georgia on 28 October 2018. The pre-election campaign was marred by a polarized political environment and a series of secret tape recordings aired by the pro-opposition Rustavi 2 TV, leading to allegations of kidnappings and torture by investigators to secure convictions, pressure and coercion on businesses and media, high-level corruption, and selective justice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279509-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Georgian presidential election\nInternational observers assessed the elections as competitive and free, stressing that \"one side enjoyed an undue advantage and the negative character of the campaign on both sides undermined the process\", while the misuse of administrative resources \"blurred the line between party and state.\" However, Transparency International, based on information from a state agency employee, alleged that state agencies were publishing fake identity cards to allow Zourabichvili supporters to cast multiple ballots in the election. According to the plan, five fake IDs were published per individual, and \"trustworthy\" officials of agencies were vested with the duty of conducting such action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279509-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian presidential election\nA second round involving Salome Zourabichvili and Grigol Vashadze was held on 28 November 2018 because no candidate was able to secure at least 50% of the vote in the first round. Salome Zourabichvili won with around 60% of the vote in the second round and took office on 16 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279509-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian presidential election\nFollowing amendments to the constitution in 2017, the 2018 elections were the last direct presidential vote; after 2018 presidents will be elected by the 300-member College of Electors. In view of these changes, the President will be elected for a term of six years in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279509-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian presidential election, Candidates\n46 people applied to participate in the elections, 21 of which were rejected by the Election Administration of Georgia. 25 presidential candidates were registered by the Election Administration of Georgia. This is the largest number since Georgia's first presidential election in 1991. All 25 candidates were included on the ballot paper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279509-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian presidential election, Reactions\nThe Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe stated that the elections were \"competitive and professionally administered,\" but noted concerned about a \"substantial imbalance in donations\", \"excessively high spending limits\", and a \"lack of analytical reporting\" as contributing factors to creating an unlevel playing field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279509-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian presidential election, Reactions\nOn 29 November, the second day after the run-off results were released, the United National Movement leader-in-exile Mikheil Saakashvili encouraged supporters not to accept the election results and to hold demonstrations against the newly elected president. He also called for civil disobedience toward the police and armed forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279510-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian protests\nThe 2018 Georgian protests were series of mass protests in Tbilisi that turned into anti-government demonstrations starting on 12 May, when police raided the nightclubs Bassiani and Gallery. Protesters gained momentum when thousands gathered in front of the Parliament building, where organizers called for the drug policy reform. The protests illustrated increasing divide in the society around the topics of culture war, especially among the youth. The protests were met by various counter-protests and rallies. On May 13 the fascist organization Georgian National Unity rallied against the \u2033drug dealers and LGBT propagandists\u2033, as its leader, Giorgi Chelidze has stated. Various conservative organizations headed by Georgian March and Georgian Idea also organized counter-protests against the drug liberalization, gathering thousands of people in front of the Parliament building. As the protests became more politicized, thousands demanded the resignation of prime minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 1023]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279510-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian protests\nThe Minister of Internal Affairs Giorgi Gakharia has stated that the raid in nightclubs on May 12 came after 48 cases of drug intoxication of clubbers over the past two weeks. According to his statement, the ministry has been monitoring the nightclubs and detected various cases of illegal drug trade. The aim of the special operation was to uncover links between the drug dealers and the nightclub infrastructure. The minister showed up in front of protesters on May 13 and apologized if any law enforcer abused his power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279510-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Georgian protests\nHe met the organizers of the protests and agreed to create two working groups. One group would work on the draft of a drug policy and another on the police raid and whether the individual law enforcers exceeded their powers or not. The actions of the minister caused negative reaction among the conservative public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279510-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian protests\nOn 31 May another wave of demonstrations started in the streets of Tbilisi to protest a perceived miscarriage of justice following the killing of two 15 years old teenagers in a street knife-combat in December. The protests continued sporadically until June 11, when the police dismantled camps erected by the protesters in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi. Georgia's chief prosecutor Irakli Shotadze resigned over the case, while the government established a special parliamentary fact-finding commission chaired by an opposition politician.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279510-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Georgian protests\nOn 13 June 2018 Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili resigned following the May protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279511-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gerc\u00fc\u015f bombing\nThe 2018 Gerc\u00fc\u015f bombing happened in Gerc\u00fc\u015f, Batman Province in Umutlu village on 4 October 2018 around 6:00 (EEST) when Kurdistan Workers' Party militants detonated a remote-controlled bomb when an armoured personnel carrier carrying soldiers to Darge\u00e7it, Mardin Province. 8 soldiers died and 1 other was heavily injured as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279511-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gerc\u00fc\u015f bombing, Background\nThe conflict between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) (designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States, the European Union and NATO) has been active since 1984, primarily in the southeast of the country. More than 40,000 people have died as a result of the conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279511-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gerc\u00fc\u015f bombing, Bombing\nOn 4 October 2018, around 6:00, a remote-controlled bomb hidden below the asphalt placed by PKK members on a road in Umutlu village of Gerc\u00fc\u015f was detonated when an armoured personnel carrier carrying soldiers to Yemi\u015fli village of Darge\u00e7it, forming a 1,5 meters deep and 4,5 meters wide pit while killing 4 soldiers and injuring 5 others. All 5 injured soldiers were rushed to the Batman State Hospital, where 3 of them died the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279511-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Gerc\u00fc\u015f bombing, Bombing\nAround 16:00, one of the heavily injured soldiers, senior master sergeant Yahya \u015een was transferred to a hospital in G\u00fclhane Education and Research Hospital in Ankara but he died on the way to Ankara, increasing the death toll to 8. The other soldier, Muhammet Salih Aky\u00fcz was heavily injured but he survived. 7 of the killed soldiers were senior master sergeants while the other one was a non-commissioned officer. It was later determined that the bomb was planted in the road several days ago, but it went unnoticed. An air-supported military operation was launched in region after the attack to capture perpetrators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279512-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 German Athletics Championships was the 118th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Germany. It was held on 21 and 22 July at the Max-Morlock-Stadion in Nuremberg. It served as the selection meeting for Germany at the 2018 European Athletics Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279512-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German Athletics Championships\nAndreas Hofmann won the men's javelin throw in a meeting record of 89.55\u00a0m (293\u00a0ft 9\u00a01\u20442\u00a0in), taking his first national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279512-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 German Athletics Championships, Championships\nThe annual national championships in Germany comprised the following competitions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279512-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 German Athletics Championships, Championships\nA road walking championship was scheduled for 3 June but was cancelled due to the lack of a host.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279513-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Championship\nThe 2018 German Darts Championship was the tenth of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Halle 39, Hildesheim, Germany from 31 August\u20132 September 2018. It featured a field of 48 players and \u00a3135,000 in prize money, with \u00a325,000 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279513-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Championship\nPeter Wright was the defending champion after defeating Michael van Gerwen 6\u20133 in the 2017 final, but he withdrew the day before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279513-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Championship\nVan Gerwen won the event for the second time and his 27th European Tour title in total, beating James Wilson 8\u20136 in the final, and only dropping seven legs in the whole tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279513-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Championship\nDuring the event, Dave Chisnall broke the record for the highest ever 3-dart average on the European Tour, with an average of 118.66 in his 6\u20130 defeat of Mark Webster in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279513-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Championship, Prize money\nPrize money will count towards the PDC Order of Merit, the ProTour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit, with one exception: should a seeded player lose in the second round (last 32), their prize money will not count towards any Orders of Merit, although they still receive the full prize money payment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279513-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Championship, Qualification and format\nThe top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 8 June will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279513-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Championship, Qualification and format\nThe remaining 32 places will go to players from five qualifying events \u2013 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Wigan on 15 June), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 30 August), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 30 August), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 26 May) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 25 August).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279513-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Championship, Qualification and format\nPeter Wright, who would have been the number 2 seed, withdrew from the tournament prior to the draw. Steve Beaton, the highest-ranked qualifier, was promoted to 16th seed, which meant an extra place was made available in the Host Nation Qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279514-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Grand Prix\nThe 2018 German Darts Grand Prix was the second of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Zenith, Munich, Germany, between 31 March\u20132 April 2018. It featured a field of 48 players and \u00a3135,000 in prize money, with \u00a325,000 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279514-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Grand Prix\nMichael van Gerwen was the defending champion, after defeating Rob Cross 6\u20133 in the final of the 2017 tournament, and he retained his title by defeating Peter Wright 8\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279514-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Grand Prix, Prize money\nPrize money will count towards the PDC Order of Merit, the ProTour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit, with one exception: should a seeded player lose in the second round (last 32), their prize money will not count towards any Orders of Merit, although they still receive the full prize money payment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279514-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Grand Prix, Qualification and format\nThe top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 6 February will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279514-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Grand Prix, Qualification and format\nThe remaining 32 places will go to players from five qualifying events \u2013 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Barnsley on 16 February), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 22 March), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 30 March), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 26 January) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 27 January).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279515-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Masters\nThe 2018 German Darts Masters was the second staging of the tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation, and was the first entry in the 2018 World Series of Darts. The tournament featured 16 players (eight PDC players facing eight regional qualifiers) and was held at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on 25 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279515-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Masters\nPeter Wright was the defending champion after defeating Phil Taylor 11\u20134 in the final of the 2017 event, but he lost 8\u20132 in the semi-finals to Mensur Suljovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279515-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Masters\nSuljovi\u0107 won his first World Series title by defeating Dimitri Van den Bergh 8\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279515-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Masters\nThe event also broke the attendance record for a darts tournament with 20,210 people attending the event, beating the previous record set 70 years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279516-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Open\nThe 2018 German Darts Open was the third of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Saarlandhalle, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany, between 13\u201315 April 2018. It featured a field of 48 players and \u00a3135,000 in prize money, with \u00a325,000 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279516-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Open\nPeter Wright was the defending champion after defeating Benito van de Pas 6\u20135 in the final of the 2017 tournament, but he was knocked out in the second round of the tournament by Germany's Max Hopp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279516-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Open\nHopp went on to win his first PDC senior event, after defeating Michael Smith 8\u20137 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279516-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Open\nHopp also became the first Host Nation Qualifier to make the final of an event of the PDC European Tour. It also marks the first time a German player won a PDC tour event. Noticeably, Hopp won both his semi-final and final match with a 121 finish on the bullseye, with his opponents waiting on a two-dart finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279516-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Open, Prize money\nPrize money will count towards the PDC Order of Merit, the ProTour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit, with one exception: should a seeded player lose in the second round (last 32), their prize money will not count towards any Orders of Merit, although they still receive the full prize money payment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279516-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Open, Qualification and format\nThe top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 27 February will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279516-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Open, Qualification and format\nThe remaining 32 places will go to players from five qualifying events \u2013 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Barnsley on 9 March), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 12 April), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 12 April), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 27 January) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 27 January).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279516-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 German Darts Open, Qualification and format\nSimon Whitlock withdrew with illness on the day of the tournament, so Daniel Larsson, who was due to face him in round 2, was given a bye to round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279517-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2018 German Figure Skating Championships (German: Deutsche Meisterschaften im Eiskunstlaufen 2018) was held on December 14-16, 2017 at the Eissporthalle Frankfurt in Frankfurt. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, ice dance, and synchronized skating on the senior, junior, and novice levels. The results of the national championships were among the criteria used to choose the German teams to the 2018 World Championships and 2018 European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279518-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Football League\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by GregorBungensheim (talk | contribs) at 22:04, 14 March 2020 (\u2192\u200eGFL 2: south). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279518-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German Football League\nThe 2018 German Football League season was the 40th edition of the top-level American football competition in Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279518-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 German Football League\nThe regular season started on 21 April and finished on 9 September 2018, followed by the play-offs. The season culminated in the German Bowl XL, which was held on 13 October 2018 in Berlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279518-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 German Football League, Modus\nDuring the regular season each club plays all other clubs in its division twice, home and away, resulting in each team playing 14 regular season games. There are no games between clubs from opposite divisions, interconference games having been abolished after the 2011 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279518-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 German Football League, Modus\nThe best four teams in each division qualify for the play-offs where, in the quarter finals, teams from opposite divisions play each other, whereby the better placed teams have home field advantage. The first placed team plays the fourth placed from the other division and the second placed the third placed team. From the semi-finals onwards teams from the same division can meet again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279518-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 German Football League, Modus\nThe eighth placed team in each division enter a two-leg play-off with the winner of the respective division of the German Football League 2, the second tier of the league system in Germany. The winners of this contest qualify for the GFL for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix\nThe 2018 German Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Emirates Gro\u00dfer Preis von Deutschland 2018) was a Formula One motor race held on 22 July 2018 at the Hockenheimring in Germany. The race was the 11th round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 77th running of the German Grand Prix, and the 63rd time the race had been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix\nLewis Hamilton won the Grand Prix from 14th on the grid, leading a Mercedes 1\u20132 ahead of teammate Valtteri Bottas after race leader and pole sitter Sebastian Vettel crashed out in light rain conditions. The race was not without controversy as Hamilton was seen to abort a pit stop late in the race, cutting across the infield to rejoin the circuit which was against the international sporting code. He was reprimanded for the rules violation but was allowed to keep his race win. As a result of the race, Mercedes and Hamilton advanced to first place from second in the Constructors' and the Drivers' championship standings respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Background\nFormally known as the \"Formula 1 Emirates Gro\u00dfer Preis von Deutschland 2018\" this was a Formula One race which was held on 22 July 2018. This was the first German Grand Prix since 2016 and it took place at the Hockenheimring near Hockenheim in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Germany. It was the 11th round of 21 in the 2018 Formula One World Championship. The race marked the 77th running of the German Grand Prix and it was the 63rd time it was run as part of the World Championship since the inaugural 1950 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Background\nSeveral teams brought car upgrades to this race. Ferrari brought a new exhaust system and a new rear wing. Renault brought an updated front wing and Williams brought an updated aerodynamic package.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Background, Championship standings before the race\nBefore the race, Ferrari driver, Sebastian Vettel lead the World Drivers' Championship, with Lewis Hamilton in second place, eight points behind. In the World Constructors' Championship, Ferrari held a twenty\u2013point lead over second placed Mercedes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 74], "content_span": [75, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Background, Entrants\nThere were no stand in drivers for the race but Nicholas Latifi and Antonio Giovinazzi drove in the first practice session instead of Esteban Ocon and Marcus Ericsson for Force India and Sauber respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Background, Tyres\nTyre supplier Pirelli selected the medium, soft and ultrasoft tyres for the Grand Prix weekend. Of the three the ultrasoft was the least durable but offered the most grip with the medium tyres being the most durable but offering the least grip. In addition to this Pirelli brought the intermediate and full wet tyres for light and heavy standing water conditions respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Practice\nAs stated in the sporting regulations, three practice sessions were held, the first two were held on the Friday and were each ninety minutes in length with the last practice session taking place on the Saturday, before qualifying, lasting 60 minutes in length.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Practice\nThe first practice session passed without incident and ended with Daniel Ricciardo being fastest for Red Bull. The second practice session also passed without incident and ended with the other Red Bull of Max Verstappen being fastest with Lewis Hamilton finishing a close second in both practice sessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Practice\nAcross the first two practice sessions it was the Red Bulls which set the fastest overall lap, marginally ahead of Mercedes with the Red Bull cars also appearing to have the fastest race pace, around 0.2 seconds quicker than the race pace of Mercedes' and Ferrari's, although Mercedes and Ferrari would rarely reveal their full potential during practice sessions. This meant that despite Red Bull being fastest Mercedes and Ferrari were still considered favourites for the Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Practice\nHowever Red Bull driver Max Verstappen still thought that his team would be able to compete with the Mercedes and Ferraris over the course of the race weekend, meanwhile Hamilton also prophesied that Sebastain Vettel and Ferrari would be the team to beat. Further back Renault and Stoffel Vandoorne both complained that they had poor first and second practice sessions with Vandoone calling it his \"worst Friday for a long time.\" Williams however had a positive day with the team pleased with the benefits brought on by their new front wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Practice\nWhereas the first two practice sessions were dry, final practice took place in heavy rain and as a result only nine drivers set a lap time as the heavy rain would cause the session to provide little useful data. The session ended with Charles Leclerc quickest in his Sauber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying\nAs per the regulations, qualifying consisted of three parts, lasting 18, 15 and 12 minutes in length and entitled Q1, Q2 and Q3 respectively, with five drivers being eliminated after each of the first two sessions. The drivers who made it into Q3 would have to start the race on the tyres they had used to set their fastest lap time in Q2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report\nQualifying started in overcast conditions with an air temperature of 21\u00a0\u00b0C (70\u00a0\u00b0F), a relatively cool track temperature of 27\u00a0\u00b0C (81\u00a0\u00b0F) and high humidity. Although the track was dry enough for slick tyres the track was still damp in places, this along with the rain earlier in the day meant that a high level of track evolution was expected. There was also a high chance of rain latter in the session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report, Q1\nDuring the first part of qualifying, Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen set the fastest time for Ferrari. Esteban Ocon, Pierre Gasly, Brendon Hartley, Lance Stroll and Stoffel Vandoorne were eliminated as they finished in the bottom five of the classification. World Championship contender Lewis Hamilton set a time fast enough to progress into Q2, but suffered a hydraulics issue later in the session. He attempted to bring the car back into the pit lane, but after communication with his race engineer, he was forced to stop his car on track. This meant that he would be unable to drive for the remainder of qualifying, effectively leaving him 14th on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report, Q2\nBecause Hamilton could not get his car back to the pits it meant that he would be unable to participate in Q2, it was also expected that Daniel Ricciardo would not run in Q2 as he would be starting from the back of the grid regardless of where he qualified. This meant that two of the five drivers who would get eliminated in Q2 were determined before the session had gotten underway. Q2 started uneventfully, however around eight minutes into the session Marcus Ericsson made a mistake at the Sachs curve spinning into the gravel trap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report, Q2\nAs he made it out of the run-off area, he left some gravel on the track. This caused the red flag to be waved after several drivers complained about the gravel on the track. After the gravel had been cleared there were still seven minutes of the session left. At the session end positions eleven to fifteen were taken by Alonso, Sirotkin, Ericsson, Hamilton and Ricciardo, meaning that they were eliminated from qualifying. All of the drivers who had gotten into Q3 had set their times on the ultrasoft tyres meaning they would all have to start on that tyre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report, Q3\nAs usual in Q3 there was time for 2 attempts to set the fastest lap time. Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen was the first person to set a lap time with 1:11.880, which was a qualifying track record. But Sebastian Vettel broke that time almost immediately setting a time of 1:11.539. The session ended without interruption or major errors with Vettel in first followed by Valtteri Bottas, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, Max Verstappen, Kevin Magnussen, Romain Grosjean, Nico H\u00fclkenberg, Carlos Sainz, Charles Leclerc and Sergio P\u00e9rez in that order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Post qualifying\nSebastian Vettel described his qualifying lap as one of his \"best moments\" in Formula One with his pole making him the favourite for the race. Charles Leclerc was also pleased with his qualifying position of ninth place after he suffered from brake problems in qualifying with Kevin Magnussen also pleased with his qualifying which gave Haas their best ever qualifying result in fifth and sixth. After spinning in Q2, Marcus Ericsson said he was disappointed with his qualifying but also said that he thought they would be able to get into the top ten for the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Post qualifying\nAnother driver who thought they could get into the points after a disappointing qualifying was Esteban Ocon who would start the race in fifteenth after he only got one session of dry running in practice limiting his preparation for qualifying with Stoffel Vandoorne and Lance Stroll both also putting their poor qualifying performances down to bad balance in their respective cars. Toro Rosso also suffered from a disappointing qualifying, however they were optimistic heading into the race stating that they had some of the best long run pace from the other midfield teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race\nThe race was scheduled to start at 15:10 local time (13:10 UTC) and was scheduled to last 67 laps with an upper time limit of 2 hours per the 2018 regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report\nThe race started in dry conditions although there was a high chance of rain later in the race. As they went through turn 1 it was Sebastian Vettel who led for Ferrari followed by Valtteri Bottas and Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen. By the start of the second lap Vettel led Bottas by 1.5 seconds, meanwhile Lewis Hamilton had climbed to thirteenth but Daniel Riccciardo had failed to make up any ground from nineteenth. On lap three R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen informed his team over his radio that he was starting to get some rain on his visor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report\nOf the front runners R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen was the first to make a pitstop on lap 14 switching onto the soft tyres (the middle tyre of the three on offer). On the same lap Hamilton overtook Kevin Magnussen to take fifth. The race leaders kept in formation until lap 26 when the race leader, Vettel, made his pitstop and rejoined in fourth place before Bottas pitted himself on the following lap promoting Vettel back into third behind R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0018-0002", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report\nWith the leaders on lap 29 the race saw its first retirement in the form of Ricciardo, the Australian pulling over between turns 10 and 11 with what appeared and later transpired to be power loss, however this did not disrupt the rhythm of the race as his car was recovered quickly. On the same lap Ricciardo's teammate Max Verstappen also made his first pit stop, this meant that it was R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen who led followed by Vettel, Hamilton (yet to make his compulsory pitstop) and Bottas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0018-0003", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report\nHowever, after a couple of laps Vettel slowed down after complaining of overheating tyres from being with a couple of seconds from R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and on lap 39 they switched positions on the run down to turn 6 at the same time as Bottas' race engineer telling him over the radio that they expected it to start raining in eight minutes (around 5 laps) time and on the same lap Hamilton made a pitstop onto the ultrasoft tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report\nOn lap 44 it started to rain and on the following lap Fernando Alonso and Charles Leclerc came into the pits to put on the intermediate tyres and Pierre Gasly changed to a set of full wet tyres. Two laps later Verstappen also made a pitstop onto the intermediate tyres. On lap 46 Vettel mounted the kerb at the final corner and lost a small portion of his front wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report\nThen on lap 52, braking into turn 12, Vettel locked the rear brakes and went straight on into the barriers, taking himself out of the race, this caused a safety car so that they could recover Vettel's car. As a result of the safety car Valtteri Bottas decided to make a pitstop on lap 53, however because of the late call Mercedes didn't have the tyres ready and therefore Bottas was in his pitbox for almost 20 seconds (pitstops times are usually 2\u20133 seconds).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0019-0002", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report\nOn the same lap Hamilton was also told to pit, he started to enter the pitlane but aborted the pitstop after a miscommunication with his engineer, Hamilton then cut back on to the track essentially cutting across the final corner. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen then made a pitstop on the following lap onto the ultra soft tyres handing the race lead to Hamilton and second to Bottas. On lap 52 it stopped raining and Sergey Sirotkin pulled over to the side of the track to retire and on lap 54 his teammate Lance Stroll retired in the pits with a brake failure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0019-0003", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report\nOn lap 58 the race resumed and although Hamilton retained the lead fairly easily through turn 1 Bottas attacked Hamilton going into turn 7 with what ex-F1 driver turned analyist Jolyon Palmer considered an unusually high level of aggression from Bottas, however Hamilton managed to hold him off. An investigation also started into Carlos Sainz for overtaking while under safety car conditions. On lap 61 Bottas was told that he wasn't allowed to try and overtake Hamilton, behind Bottas was R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen around 1.2 seconds back followed by Verstappen another 1.5 seconds behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0019-0004", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report\nOn the following lap there was confirmation that Sainz would be given a 10-second time penalty for overtaking behind the safety car. Meanwhile, Romain Grosjean charged through the pack making up 4 places in the final 10 laps. The race was won by Hamilton with Bottas and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen completing the podium. Although Sainz was tenth at the finish line he was demoted to twelfth following the application of his ten-second penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race\nApproximately 90 minutes after the race finished Lewis Hamilton was summoned to the stewards for crossing the line between the pit entrance and the track when he aborted his pitstop on lap 53 which, according to the international sporting code, is prohibited. A five-second penalty was considered by pundits as the most likely penalty as was given to Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen at the 2016 European Grand Prix for a similar incident, this would have dropped him to second. However, after about 15 minutes the stewards gave Hamilton a reprimand meaning he got to keep his race win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race\nThe stewards justified their lack of time penalty by saying that because Hamilton cut across the pit entry line in such a way that he did not present a danger to anyone and because the change of direction was carried out safely a reprimand would best reflect the severity of the infringement of the rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race\nHamilton described his race win as a \"dream\" and said that he felt that this was a potential turning point in his championship campaign. Sebastian Vettel, meanwhile, admitted that the crash which took him out of the race was his fault, but he said that overall he was happy with how the weekend had progressed as it appeared that Ferrari still had the quickest car, something which Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff also picked up on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race\nAnother driver who had a strong performance was Nico H\u00fclkenberg who finished in seasons best position of fifth, a result which he admitted he was very happy with, his teammate Carlos Sainz finished a disappointing twelfth, however on the whole Renault were pleased with their result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0021-0002", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race\nAnother team with mixed fortune were the Haas cars, Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen were among those who switched to intermediates and back again during the rain period and although Grosjean managed to get through the field from tenth to sixth in the closing laps his teammate Magnussen was unable to replicate this finishing eleventh, with team principal Guenther Steiner appearing to be neither pleased nor disappointed with the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race\nBrendon Hartley was also pleased with his result following a difficult first half of his 2018 season. His teammate, Pierre Gasly however suffered from a poor strategy call causing him to finish fourteenth, although the team were neither pleased nor disappointed with their result team boss Franz Tost said that the weekend gave them optimism for future Grands Prix after the team showed strong pace. Force India were also very pleased with their performance with Sergio P\u00e9rez finishing seventh, one place ahead of Esteban Ocon who had started a disappointing fifteenth but finished eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race\nRed Bull had a mixed day with Daniel Ricciardo retiring but with Max Verstappen finishing in fourth, although there was a chance for them to finish on the podium Verstappen said that he felt positively about how the weekend had progressed. Sauber also had a mixed day with Marcus Ericsson finishing in the points but teammate Charles Leclerc had a disappointing race coming last of the finishers in fifteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0022-0002", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race\nWilliams and McLaren both had bad weekends, although both Williams' cars were running relatively well, poor reliability meant that both cars were forced to retire, the second and third retirements for the car all season, at McLaren meanwhile Fernando Alonso also had to retire with mechanical problems and although teammate Stoffel Vandoorne did manage to finish the race he still had a poor weekend with the team's sporting director Gil de Ferran stating that he felt that the car and both drivers had the ability to finish in the points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race\nIn the drivers' Championship, Lewis Hamilton took first place from Sebastian Vettel, further back Valtteri Bottas overtook Daniel Ricciardo for fourth place. Sergio P\u00e9rez and Carlos Sainz swapped positions with Perez climbing to tenth from twelfth and Sainz dropping two positions. Romain Grosjean jumped two positions to thirteenth knocking Pierre Gasly and Charles Leclerc down one position each to fourteenth and fifteenth respectively. Marcus Ericsson also took seventeenth place from Lance Stroll with the rest of the positions being unchanged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279519-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 German Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race\nIn the constructors Championship the only changes in the standings were Mercedes who took the lead from Ferrari and Force India who took fifth place from Haas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279520-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Indoor Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 German Indoor Athletics Championships (German: Deutsche Leichtathletik-Hallenmeisterschaften 2018) was the 65th edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for Germany. It was held on 17\u201318 February at the Helmut-K\u00f6rnig-Halle in Dortmund \u2013 the eleventh time the venue had hosted the championships. A total of 24 events, 12 for men and 12 for women, were contested plus four further events were held separately. It was to serve as preparation for the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279520-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German Indoor Athletics Championships\nSeveral national championship events were staged elsewhere: 3 \u00d7 800 m and 3 \u00d7 1000 m relays were held on 25 February at the Sporthalle Brandberge in Halle, while racewalking events were hosted in Erfurt on 2 March. Indoor combined events were not held that year as the event did not find an organiser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279520-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 German Indoor Athletics Championships\nKonstanze Klosterhalfen of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen set a German indoor record in the women's 3000 metres, clocking 8:36.01 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279521-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Masters\nThe 2018 D88 German Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 31 January to 4 February 2018 in Berlin, Germany. It was the thirteenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279521-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German Masters\nAnthony Hamilton was the defending champion, but he lost 1\u20135 to Jimmy Robertson in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279521-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 German Masters\nMark Williams won his 20th professional ranking title and his second of the season, defeating Graeme Dott 9\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279521-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 German Masters, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279521-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 German Masters, Prize fund\nThe \"rolling 147 prize\" for a maximum break stood at \u00a35,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279521-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 German Masters, Qualifying\nThese matches were played between 19 and 22 December 2017 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. All matches were best of 9 frames. Ali Carter was a 2017 German Masters finalist, but he was beaten 5\u20133 by Wang Yuchen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279522-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Open\nThe 2018 German Open (also known as the 2018 German Tennis Championships) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 112th edition of the German Open Tennis Championships and part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, Germany, from July 23 through 29, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279522-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279523-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 German Open, officially the Yonex German Open 2018, was a badminton tournament which took place at Innogy Sporthalle in Germany from 6 to 11 March 2018 and had a total purse of $150,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279523-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 German Open was the sixth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the German Open championships which has been held since 1955. This tournament was organized by German Badminton Association and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279523-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 German Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Innogy Sporthalle in M\u00fclheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279523-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 German Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is a table with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 300 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279523-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 German Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$150,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279524-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Open (table tennis)\nThe 2018 German Open was the third event of the 2018 ITTF World Tour. It was the second of six top-tier Platinum events on the tour, and took place from 22\u201325 March in Bremen, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279524-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German Open (table tennis)\nChina's Ma Long won the men's singles title for a fifth time, making him the most successful player in the tournament's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279525-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Open \u2013 Doubles\nIvan Dodig and Mate Pavi\u0107 were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together this year. Dodig played alongside Jean-Julien Rojer, but lost in the quarterfinals to Ben McLachlan and Jan-Lennard Struff. Pavi\u0107 teamed up with Oliver Marach, but lost in the final to Julio Peralta and Horacio Zeballos, 1\u20136, 6\u20134, [6\u201310].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279526-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German Open \u2013 Singles\nLeonardo Mayer was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Nikoloz Basilashvili, 4\u20136, 6\u20130, 5\u20137. This was Basilashvili's first ATP World Tour title, as well as the first ATP title won by a Georgian player since Alexander Metreveli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279527-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German government crisis\nThe 2018 German government crisis, sometimes referred to as Asylstreit (asylum quarrel), was a government crisis affecting the Fourth Merkel cabinet, which began in June 2018 and effectively ended in July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279527-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German government crisis, Background\nBefore the formation of a coalition government in March 2018, immigration policy had become an issue that prevented Angela Merkel obtaining a workable majority, with the Free Democratic Party declining to join a coalition and all potential coalition partners calling for stricter migration controls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279527-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 German government crisis, Background\nThe coalition government agreement, made between Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), was not ratified by SPD members until 3 March 2018, more than five months after the September 2017 German Federal elections. The coalition agreement indicates that the parties intended to modify policies in relation to refugees and family reunification. \"The previous government (also a CDU/CSU/SPD grand coalition) had suspended the right of refugees with a 'limited protection status' to bring their families over. The new coalition deal says this will be limited to 1,000 people per month. On top of that, the number of asylum-seekers taken in altogether is to be capped at between 180,000 and 220,000 per year.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279527-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 German government crisis, Incidents, June 2018\nIn June 2018, the coalition government, especially the CDU/CSU sister parties, quarreled over the specifics of asylum policies. After the interior minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) had announced a \"master plan\" on asylum policies containing 63 points - of which 62 were reportedly agreed between Seehofer and chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) - differences arose on the question of the rejection of asylum seekers already registered in other EU countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279527-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 German government crisis, Incidents, June 2018\nAfter Seehofer threatened \"national measures\", meaning the closure of the borders for such asylum seekers, Merkel requested two weeks for talks on a \"European solution\" and convened an EU asylum policy summit on migration policies in the night of 28/29 June. The result of the summit was seen as a \"vague\" success for Merkel. The Visegr\u00e1d Group, represented by the Hungarian prime minister, claimed that the EU was beginning to accept its proposals for dealing with asylum seekers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279527-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 German government crisis, Incidents, June 2018\nAmong other things, it was agreed that European governments are allowed to \"take all necessary internal legislative and administrative measures\" to prevent refugees and migrants from crossing Europe's internal borders. The Guardian called this \"an apparent lifeline for Merkel\". While Merkel claimed that she had reached agreements with Greece and Spain as well as commitments of 14 states on deportations of registered migrants, the Visegr\u00e1d Group among them, the governments of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland subsequently denied that there were new agreements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279527-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 German government crisis, Incidents, June 2018\nIt was also reported that there were personal differences between Merkel and Seehofer, the latter reportedly saying: \"I can\u2019t work with this woman any more!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279527-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 German government crisis, Incidents, July 2018\nAfter the EU summit, German chancellor Angela Merkel faced resistance by the Bavarian CSU party over the result of the summit, and interior minister Horst Seehofer announced a \"declaration\" Sunday 1 July. Seehofer threatened to order \"national measures\" and reject migrants who are registered in other EU countries. It was reported that he considered talks with Merkel in Berlin on 30 June 2018 on the summit results as \"ineffective\" and \"useless\", stating that Merkel's plan would create new \"pull factors\" for asylum seekers to come to Europe. He also rejected a proposal by Merkel to accommodate asylum seekers who are already registered in EU countries in so-called \"anchor centers\" (Ankerzentren), which would allow quicker deportations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279527-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 German government crisis, Incidents, July 2018\nWhilst Bavarian minister president Markus S\u00f6der stated that the summit result would point \"in the right direction\", the party leaders held a meeting in the CSU party headquarters in Munich on Sunday and voiced criticism of Merkel's plan. Merkel stated that she wants to avoid a breakup of the government and the historical parliamentary group with the Bavarian sister party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279527-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 German government crisis, Incidents, July 2018\nOn the evening of 1 July, interior minister Horst Seehofer reportedly offered the CSU party leadership his resignation over the conflict with Angela Merkel, but chose to stay in office for the time being, after party board members as Alexander Dobrindt convinced him to stay. New talks were agreed between CDU and CSU delegations for 1700 CET on 2 July in Berlin. Seehofer stated ahead of the talks: \"I'm not going to get dismissed by a chancellor who's only chancellor because of me.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279527-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 German government crisis, Incidents, July 2018\nLater in the evening of 2 July, an agreement was made between the CDU/CSU sister parties. It contains the introduction of Transitzentren (transit centres) which allow quick deportations of asylum seekers already registered abroad without entering the country, and in specific cases the rejection of such people directly at the German border. To avoid that there is only a national approach, agreements with the European neighbours are also included. Seehofer announced that the agreement allows him to stay in office as Minister of the Interior. After the agreement between the sister parties, talks with the coalition partner SPD followed. Leading SPD politicians said that they had \"many questions\" about the agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279527-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 German government crisis, Incidents, July 2018\nBy 9 July, it was being reported that the ruling coalition had achieved a level of stability, leaving the government able to negotiate bilateral deals with other European countries. Meanwhile, talks commenced with Austria and Italy in an effort to close the Mediterranean migration routes from Africa to Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279528-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 German motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2018 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Sachsenring in Hohenstein-Ernstthal on 15 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279528-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 German motorcycle Grand Prix, Classification, MotoGP\nFranco Morbidelli was replaced by Stefan Bradl after the first practice session due to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279529-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gerry Weber Open\nThe 2018 Gerry Weber Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 26th edition of the event and part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Gerry Weber Stadion in Halle, Germany, between 18 and 24 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279529-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gerry Weber Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279529-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gerry Weber Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279530-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gerry Weber Open \u2013 Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Alexander and Mischa Zverev in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20131), 6\u20134 in a repeat of the previous year's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279531-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gerry Weber Open \u2013 Singles\nRoger Federer was the defending champion, but lost to Borna \u0106ori\u0107 in the final. This was \u0106ori\u0107's first ATP 500 title. With Federer's loss, Rafael Nadal regained the world No. 1 ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279532-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Geylang International FC season\nThe 2018 season is Geylang International's 23rd consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the S.League. Along with the S.League, the club will also compete in the Prime League, the Singapore Cup and the Singapore League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279532-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Geylang International FC season, Key events, November 2017\nOn 28/11/2017, it was reported that there has been a rift between some Geylang International players and the club's management.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279532-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Geylang International FC season, Transfers, Pre-season transfers, Out\nNote 1: Ricardo Sendra was initially signed by Perseru but was released before the season start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 74], "content_span": [75, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279532-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Geylang International FC season, Transfers, Pre-season transfers, Retained\nNote 2: Yuki Ichikawa was initially released after the season but subsequently re-signed for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279533-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghanaian FA Cup\nThe 2018 Ghanaian FA Cup (also called the MTN FA Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the 40th edition of the Ghanaian FA Cup, the knockout football competition of Ghana. The competition was however called off as a result of the dissolution of the GFA in June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279533-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 64\nBebeto 0 - 0 (4 - 3 P) Heart of Lions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 71]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279533-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 64\nBis Paradise 1 - 1 (5 - 4 P) Nzema Kotoko", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 75]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279533-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 64\nDC United 0 - 0 (5 - 4 P) Brong Ahafo Stars", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 77]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279533-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 64\nLikpe Heroes 0 - 0 (3 - 5 P) WAFA", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 67]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279533-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 64\nAsante Kotoko 0 - 0 (6 - 5 P) Bepong Storm", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279533-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 32\nThe draw for the round of 32 was held on 5 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279533-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 32\nNote: All remaining matches called off as a result of a directive from the government of Ghana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279534-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghanaian Premier League\nThe 2018 Ghanaian Premier League was the 62nd season of top professional association football in Ghana. The season was initially scheduled to begin on 11 February 2018, but was postponed to 4 March 2018, and later postponed indefinitely. It was then scheduled to begin on 17 March 2018. The league kicked off on 17 March with a match between Inter-Allies vs Bechem United in Tema.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279534-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghanaian Premier League\nThe Premier League was later cancelled in June 2018 by government directive following the Number 12 Expose corruption scandal within Ghana Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279534-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghanaian Premier League, Standings\nLast updated 6 June 2018 (championship suspended following government directive).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279535-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghanaian new regions referendum\nA referendum on creating new regions was held in Ghana on 27 December 2018. Voting took place in the 47 districts that would potentially become part of new regions which would be created by splitting four of the existing regions. The proposed splits were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279535-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghanaian new regions referendum\nAll proposed new regions were approved, with 'yes' votes above 99% in all regions and turnouts ranging from 80% to 90%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279536-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament\nThe 2018 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament was a List A cricket competition that took place in Afghanistan between 10 and 27 July 2018. It was the second edition of the competition to be played with List A status, following the announcements by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in February and May 2017. Six teams competed; Amo Region, Band-e-Amir Region, Boost Region, Kabul Region, Mis Ainak Region and Speen Ghar Region. Speen Ghar Region were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279536-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament\nFollowing the group stage, Speen Ghar Region and Boost Region finished first and second respectively, and faced each other in the final. Boost Region won the match by five wickets to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279537-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy\nThe 2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy was the seventh of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar from 8\u201310 June 2018. It featured a field of 48 players and \u00a3135,000 in prize money, with \u00a325,000 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279537-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy\nMichael Smith was the defending champion after defeating Mensur Suljovi\u0107 6\u20134 in the 2017 final, but he lost 6\u20135 to Jermaine Wattimena in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279537-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy\nMichael van Gerwen won the title for a third time by defeating Adrian Lewis 8\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279537-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy, Prize money\nPrize money will count towards the PDC Order of Merit, the ProTour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit, with one exception: should a seeded player lose in the second round (last 32), their prize money will not count towards any Orders of Merit, although they still receive the full prize money payment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279537-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy, Qualification and format\nThe top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 11 May will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279537-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy, Qualification and format\nThe remaining 32 places will go to players from five qualifying events \u2013 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Milton Keynes on 18 May), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 30 May), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 7 June), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 25 May) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 24 February).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279538-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gibraltar Open\nThe 2018 ManBetX Gibraltar Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 7\u201311 March 2018 in Gibraltar. It was the seventeenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279538-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gibraltar Open\nShaun Murphy was the defending champion, but due to back and neck problems he withdrew prior to the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279538-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gibraltar Open\nRyan Day captured his second career ranking title, both won in the 2017/2018 season. He did so with a 4\u20130 win in the final against Cao Yupeng.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279538-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Gibraltar Open, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279538-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Gibraltar Open, Prize fund\nThe \"rolling 147 prize\" for a maximum break stood at \u00a325,000", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279538-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Gibraltar Open, Amateur pre-qualifying\nThese matches were played in Gibraltar on 7\u20138 March 2018. All matches were best of 7 frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279539-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger\nThe 2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Gimcheon, Korea between 7 and 13 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279539-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279540-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nMarco Chiudinelli and Teymuraz Gabashvili were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279540-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nRuan Roelofse and John-Patrick Smith won the title after defeating Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279541-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger \u2013 Singles\nThomas Fabbiano was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279541-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger \u2013 Singles\nYoshihito Nishioka won the title after defeating Vasek Pospisil 6\u20134, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279542-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ginetta GT4 Supercup\nThe 2018 Michelin Ginetta GT4 Supercup is a multi-event, one make GT motor racing championship held across England and Scotland. The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, competing in Ginetta G55s that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. It forms part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the BTCC centrepiece. It is the eighth Ginetta GT4 Supercup, having rebranded from the Ginetta G50 Cup, which ran between 2008 and 2010. The season commenced on 1 April at Brands Hatch\u00a0\u2013 on the circuit's Indy configuration\u00a0\u2013 and concludes on 30 September at the same venue, utilising the Grand Prix circuit, after twenty-two races held at eight meetings, all in support of the 2017 British Touring Car Championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279543-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ginetta Junior Championship\nThe 2018 Simpson Race Products Ginetta Junior Championship is a multi-event, one make motor racing championship held across England and Scotland. The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, aged between 14 and 17, competing in Ginetta G40s that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. It forms part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the British Touring Car Championship centrepiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279543-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Ginetta Junior Championship\nIt is the twelfth Ginetta Junior Championship, commencing on 8 April 2018 at Brands Hatch\u00a0\u2013 on the circuit's Indy configuration\u00a0\u2013 and concluding on 30 September 2018 at the same venue, utilising the Grand Prix circuit, after 25 races held at ten meetings, all in support of the 2018 British Touring Car Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279544-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Girabola\nThe 2018 Girabola was the 40th season of top-tier football in Angola. The season ran from 10 February to 2 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279544-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Girabola\nThe league comprised 16 teams, the bottom three of which were relegated to the 2019 Provincial stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279544-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Girabola\nPrimeiro de Agosto won their third title in a row, qualifying to the 2018\u201319 CAF Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279544-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Girabola\nOn an exceptional basis, on account of the Angola Cup not being contested this season, Petro de Luanda, the runner up, qualified to the 2018\u201319 CAF Confederation Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279544-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Girabola, Teams\nA total of 16 teams contested the league, including 13 sides from the 2017 season and three promoted from the 2017 Segundona - Cuando Cubango FC, Domant FC and Sporting de Cabinda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 20], "content_span": [21, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279544-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Girabola, Teams\nOn the other hand, Progresso da Lunda Sul, ASA and Santa Rita de C\u00e1ssia were the last three teams of the 2017 season and will play in their respective provincial leagues seeking qualification for the 2018 2nd division qualifiers. Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto were the defending champions from the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 20], "content_span": [21, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279544-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Girabola, Changes from 2017 season\nRelegated: ASA, Progresso da Lunda Sul, Santa Rita de C\u00e1ssia Promoted: Cuando Cubango FC, Domant FC, Sporting de Cabinda", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279544-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Girabola, J.G.M. withdrawal\nIn late April, J.G.M. submitted a withdrawal request to the Angolan Football Federation citing financial reasons. The request was granted. As a result, all points won in games against J.G.M. were withdrawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 32], "content_span": [33, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279544-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Girabola, FIFA penalties\nIn May, FIFA has instructed the Angolan Football Federation that Kabuscorp should forfeit 6 points as a result of being in default to their former star player Rivaldo. In a weekly report issued by the Angolan federation, it is further stated that the club may be banned from official competition in case the claimant files a new complaint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 29], "content_span": [30, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279544-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Girabola, FIFA penalties\nIn June, FIFA again ruled that Kabuscorp forfeits 6 points in the League for being in default with TP Mazembe in the 2014 deal with DRC midfielder Tr\u00e9sor Mputu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 29], "content_span": [30, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279544-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Girabola, FIFA penalties\nIn July, FIFA ruled that Progresso Associa\u00e7\u00e3o do Sambizanga forfeits 6 points in the League for being in default with Ghanaian striker Raphael Kwaku Obeng.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 29], "content_span": [30, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279545-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Giravanz Kitakyushu season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279546-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships\nThe 2018 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships will be the 10th edition of the Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships. It will be held from 15 to 21 July 2018 in Santander, Spain at the Ruth Beitia Sports Complex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279546-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships, Qualified teams\nThe following teams participated in the 2018 EuroHockey Youth Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279546-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships, Format\nThe eight teams will be split into two groups of four teams. The top two teams advance to the semifinals to determine the winner in a knockout system. The bottom two teams play in a new group with the teams they did not play against in the group stage. The last two teams will be relegated to the Youth Championship II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279546-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships, Results, Fifth to eighth place classification, Pool C\nThe points obtained in the preliminary round against the other team are taken over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 97], "content_span": [98, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279547-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship\nThe 2018 Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship was the thirteenth edition of the Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) the girls' under-17 national teams of Europe. The tournament was held in Bulgaria from 13 to 21 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279547-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship\nA total of twelve teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2001 eligible to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279547-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship\nSame as previous editions, the tournament acted as the CEV qualifiers for the FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship. The top six teams qualified for the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship as the CEV representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279547-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship, Awards\nAt the conclusion of the tournament, the following players were selected as the tournament dream team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279548-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification\nThis is an article about qualification for the 2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279548-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 87], "content_span": [88, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279548-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, Qualification\nThe winners of each pools and the best three second placed teams qualified for final round. Because There are three teams pools only three, the second placed teams will cut the result which they play with the fourth ranked teams before consider the qualified teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279549-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' Youth NORCECA Volleyball Championship\nThe 2018 Girls' Youth NORCECA Volleyball Championship was the eleventh edition of the bi-annual volleyball tournament. It was held in Tegucigalpa National Gymnasium, Tegucigalpa, Honduras from 25 August to 2 September among eight countries. The United States won the tournament and qualified for the 2019 FIVB Girls' World Championship along with Canada. United States player Jessica Mzurik won the Most Valuable Player award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279549-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' Youth NORCECA Volleyball Championship, Qualification\nA total of 9 teams qualify for the 2018 Girls' Youth NORCECA Volleyball Championship. In addition to Honduras who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 8 teams qualify based on top 5 teams from the NORCECA U 18 Continental Ranking and the 3 Zonal Champions from the AFECAVOL, ECVA and CAZOVA, U-18 Zonal Championships. Mexico withdrew from the tournament and the event continued with only 8 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279549-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' Youth NORCECA Volleyball Championship, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20131: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279550-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' Youth South American Volleyball Championship\nThe 2018 Girls' Youth South American Volleyball Championship was the 21st edition of the Girls' Youth South American Volleyball Championship, organised by South America's governing volleyball body, the Confederaci\u00f3n Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV). The tournament will be held in Valledupar, Colombia from 8 to 12 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279550-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' Youth South American Volleyball Championship\nA total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2002 eligible to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279550-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Girls' Youth South American Volleyball Championship\nSame as previous editions, the tournament acted as the CSV qualifiers for the FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship. The top three teams qualified for the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship as the CSV representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279551-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro Rosa\nThe 29th running of the women's Giro d'Italia, or Giro Rosa, was held from 6 to 15 July 2018. Raced over ten stages, it is considered the most prestigious stage race of the women's calendar. It was the 14th event of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour. Two-time winner Anna van der Breggen was the defending champion. However she elected not to defend her title, choosing instead to focus on preparing for a bid to win her first title at the Road World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279551-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro Rosa, Teams\nThe 24 UCI Women's Team competing and associated dossard numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279551-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Giro d'Italia Femminile, five different jerseys were awarded. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages with the exception of the time trials: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 47], "content_span": [48, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279551-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table\nBonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints; three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The rider with the least accumulated time is the race leader, identified by a pink jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 47], "content_span": [48, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279551-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a cyclamen jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage, and unlike in the points classification in the Tour de France, the winners of all stages \u2013 with the exception of the team time trial, which awarded no points towards the classification \u2013 were awarded the same number of points. For winning a stage, a rider earned 15\u00a0points, with 12 for second, 10 for third, 8 for fourth, 6 for fifth with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 10th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 47], "content_span": [48, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279551-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table\nThere was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a green jersey. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either second, or third-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs; however on both categories, the top five riders were awarded points. The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born on or after 1 January 1995 were eligible to be ranked in the classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 47], "content_span": [48, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279551-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table\nThe fifth and final jersey represented the classification for Italian riders, marked by a blue jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born in Italy were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time. The daily team leaders wore red dossards in the following stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 47], "content_span": [48, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia\nThe 2018 Giro d'Italia was the 101st edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. The race started in Jerusalem on 4 May, with a 9.7\u00a0km (6\u00a0mi) individual time trial followed by two additional stages within Israel. After a rest day, there were 18 further stages in Italy before the tour reached the finish in Rome on 27 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia\nThe race was won by Team Sky's Chris Froome, the first British rider to win the race. In winning, Froome completed a hat-trick of consecutive Grand Tour victories, becoming the first rider since Bernard Hinault to hold all three Grand Tour titles simultaneously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia\nHis victory was highlighted by an audacious 80 km solo breakaway to win the mountainous stage 19; attacking the small group of leaders including reigning champion Tom Dumoulin on the Cima Coppi of the 2018 Giro, the graveled climb of the Colle delle Finestre, he continued to extend his lead over the Sestriere and to the summit finish of Bardonecchia and overturned a more than three minute deficit to take both the pink jersey, the Cima Coppi prize and the mountains classification. The solo win, and the simultaneous implosion of long-time race leader Simon Yates, who lost more than 30 minutes on the day having lost contact on the first climb of the day, was described as \"one of the most extraordinary days in Giro d\u2019Italia history\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, History\nThe Giro Big Start, touted as one of the most expensive sporting events in Israel's history, was largely financed by Canadian-Israeli mogul Sylvan Adams with the help of Israel's Tourism and Transportation Ministries. The 21-stage race began with a 10-kilometer time trial in Jerusalem, followed by a 167-kilometer race from Haifa to Tel Aviv, and a 229-kilometer race from Beersheba to Eilat. They were the first stages of any Grand Tour event ever that have been held outside Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, History\nThe 2018 Giro d'Italia Israel start was held to pay tribute to Italian cyclist Gino Bartali, a three-time winner of the Giro d\u2019Italia. Bartali helped rescue hundreds of Italian Jews during the Holocaust and was recognized by Yad Vashem in 2013 as Righteous Among the Nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, History\nThe race was won by Team Sky's Chris Froome, who therefore held all three Grand Tour titles simultaneously and became the first British cyclist to win the overall classification in the Giro. Froome crashed during a recon ride ahead of the prologue and lost time consistently over the first two weeks. In the final week, however, he won a stage that ended with the climb of Monte Zoncolan, then took back several minutes on all his rivals in Stage 19 with a ride described as \"one for the history books\". He ended up defeating the defending champion, Tom Dumoulin, by 46 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Teams\nAll 18 UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited and were obliged to attend the race. Four wildcard UCI Professional Continental teams were also selected. Each team started with eight riders (one less than in the previous year).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Teams\nLotto\u2013Soudal chose to compete under a different name from the rest of the season: they became Lotto Fix ALL, using the name of a product made by Soudal, their normal sponsor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nThe main pre-race favorites were reigning Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana champion Chris Froome (Team Sky), defending champion Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb) and Fabio Aru (UAE Team Emirates). Other general classification contenders were Miguel \u00c1ngel L\u00f3pez (Astana), Thibaut Pinot (Groupama\u2013FDJ), Wout Poels (Team Sky), Simon Yates and Esteban Chaves (both Mitchelton\u2013Scott), George Bennett (LottoNL\u2013Jumbo), Louis Meintjes (Team Dimension Data), Michael Woods (EF Education First\u2013Drapac p/b Cannondale), Davide Formolo (Bora\u2013Hansgrohe), Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing Team) and Domenico Pozzovivo (Bahrain\u2013Merida).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nSprinters at the Giro included Elia Viviani, Jakub Mareczko, Niccolo Bonifazio, Danny van Poppel, Sacha Modolo, Sam Bennett, Jens Debusschere and Ryan Gibbons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nIn the Giro d'Italia, four different jerseys are awarded. The first and most important is the general classification, calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. Riders receive time bonuses (10, 6 and 4 seconds respectively) for finishing in the first three places on each stage. Smaller time bonuses are also given to the top three riders at the last intermediate sprint on each stage (3, 2 and 1 seconds respectively). The rider with the lowest cumulative time is awarded the pink jersey (Italian: maglia rosa), and is considered the winner of the Giro d'Italia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nAdditionally, there is a points classification. Riders win points for finishing in the top placings on each stage or by being within the first cyclists to reach intermediate sprint locations along each mass-start stage. Flat stages award more points than mountainous stages, meaning that this classification tends to favour sprinters. The leader of the points classification wore the cyclamen jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThere is also a mountains classification, for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. Each climb was categorised as either first, second, third or fourth-category, with more points available for the more difficult, higher-categorised climbs. For first-category climbs, the top eight riders earned points; on second-category climbs, six riders won points; on third-category climbs, only the top four riders earned points with three on fourth-category climbs. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a blue jersey. The Cima Coppi, the race's highest point of elevation, awards more points than the other first-category climbs, with nine riders scoring points. At 2,178 metres (7,146\u00a0ft), the Cima Coppi for the 2018 Giro d'Italia is the Colle delle Finestre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThe fourth jersey represents the young rider classification. This is decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1994 are eligible. The winner of the classification is awarded a white jersey. There are also two classifications for teams. In the Trofeo Fast Team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage are added up; the leading team is one with the lowest total time. The Trofeo Super Team is a team points classification, with the top 20 riders of each stage earning points for their team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThe first additional award is the intermediate sprint classification. Each road stage has two sprints \u2013 the Traguardi Volanti. The first 5 riders across the intermediate sprint lines are awarded points (10, 6, 3, 2 and 1 points respectively); the rider with the most points at the end of the race wins the classification. Another classification\u00a0\u2013 the combativity prize (Italian: Premio Combattivit\u00e0)\u00a0\u2013 involves points awarded to the first riders at the stage finishes, at intermediate sprints, and at the summits of categorised climbs. There is also a breakaway award (Italian: Premio della Fuga).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279552-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nFor this, points are awarded to each rider in any breakaway smaller than 10 riders that escapes for at least 5 kilometres (3.1\u00a0mi). Each rider is awarded a point for each kilometre that the rider was away from the peloton. The rider with the most points at the end of the Giro wins the award. The final classification is a \"fair play\" ranking for each team. Teams are given penalty points for infringing various rules. These range from half-point penalties, for offences that merit warnings from race officials, to a 2000-point penalty, for a positive doping test. The team that has the lowest points total at the end of the Giro wins the classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11\nThe 2018 Giro d'Italia was the 101st edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The first half of the Giro began on 4 May in Jerusalem, Israel, with an individual time trial, and ended with Stage 11, a hilly stage to Osimo, occurring on 16 May; the second half of the tour started at Osimo on 17 May and finished in Rome on 27 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1\n4 May 2018 \u2013 Jerusalem to Jerusalem, 9.7\u00a0km (6.0\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1\nThe first rider departed at 13:50 local time (UTC+03:00). The route started alongside the David Citadel Hotel, headed south and then west to the first timecheck, which was at the 5.1\u00a0km (3.2\u00a0mi) mark. The riders then turned back east and passed the Knesset. The route passed through a tunnel after 7.3\u00a0km (4.5\u00a0mi), and passed Mamilla Pool about 400\u00a0m (1,300\u00a0ft) from the finish line, with a short climb in the last few hundred metres before the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2\n5 May 2018 \u2013 Haifa to Tel Aviv, 167\u00a0km (104\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3\n6 May 2018 \u2013 Beersheba to Eilat, 229\u00a0km (142\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Rest day 1\nDuring the morning, the riders and support staff transferred across the Mediterranean Sea, from Eilat in Israel to Catania in Sicily. This involved up to an hour of bus travel, and a further three hours by aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4\n8 May 2018 \u2013 Catania to Caltagirone, 202\u00a0km (126\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5\n9 May 2018 \u2013 Agrigento to Santa Ninfa, 153\u00a0km (95\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6\n10 May 2018 \u2013 Caltanissetta to Mount Etna, 169\u00a0km (105\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6\nThe riders departed from Caltanissetta, heading east to Enna and then turning south to Piazza Armerina. The race then continued east through Ramacca and Patern\u00f2. The route turned north through Belpasso and continued through Ragalna, where the 15\u00a0km (9.3\u00a0mi) Category 1 climb of Mount Etna began, to the astrophysical observatory at an altitude of 1,736\u00a0m (5,696\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7\n11 May 2018 \u2013 Pizzo to Praia a Mare, 159\u00a0km (99\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8\n12 May 2018 \u2013 Praia a Mare to Montevergine, 209\u00a0km (130\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8\nThe race departed northwest along the coast to Sapri, then heading inland and west to Licusati. The route again reached the coast after heading northwest to an intermediate sprint at Agropoli, and continued along the coast to another intermediate sprint at Salerno. From Salerno, the route began a gentle climb to Bellizzi Irpino. The race then continued onto the second category 17\u00a0km (11\u00a0mi) climb, through Mercogliano and Ospedaletto d'Alpinolo, to the finish at an altitude of 1,260\u00a0m (4,130\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\n13 May 2018 \u2013 Pesco Sannita to Gran Sasso, 225\u00a0km (140\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\nThe riders will depart heading west and then northwest to Isernia, and continue into a second category 9\u00a0km (5.6\u00a0mi) climb, to an altitude of 1,252\u00a0m (4,108\u00a0ft), at Roccaraso. After descending north, the race has intermediate sprints at Popoli and Bussi sul Tirino, before a 14\u00a0km (8.7\u00a0mi) second category climb to 1,190\u00a0m (3,900\u00a0ft) at Calascio. The race then continues climbing northwest into the first category 26\u00a0km (16\u00a0mi) climb, to the finish line at 2,135\u00a0m (7,005\u00a0ft), at Campo Imperatore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\n15 May 2018 \u2013 Penne to Gualdo Tadino, 244\u00a0km (152\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279553-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11\n16 May 2018 \u2013 Assisi to Osimo, 156\u00a0km (97\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21\nThe 2018 Giro d'Italia was the 101st edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The first half of the Giro began in Jerusalem, Israel on 4 May with an individual time trial; the second half's Stage 12, a hilly stage starting from Osimo, occurred on 17 May. The race finished in Rome on 27 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\n17 May 2018 - Osimo to Imola, 214\u00a0km (133\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13\n18 May 2018 - Ferrara to Nervesa della Battaglia, 180\u00a0km (110\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14\n19 May 2018 - San Vito al Tagliamento to Monte Zoncolan, 186\u00a0km (116\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14\nThe stage departed north, through Dignano, to the 2.75\u00a0km (1.71\u00a0mi) Category 3 climb of the Monte di Ragogna. The descent was followed by an intermediate sprint at Forgaria nel Friuli. The route then turned east, then north and finally west to the 4.55\u00a0km (2.83\u00a0mi) Category 3 climb to Avaglio and a descent east through Caneva. An intermediate sprint followed at Paularo, which was immediately followed by the 4.4\u00a0km (2.7\u00a0mi) Category 2 climb of the Passo Duron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14\nAfter a descent to Sutrio, the riders climbed the 7.6\u00a0km (4.7\u00a0mi) Category 3 route to Sella Valcalda in Ravascletto. The race then descended through Comeglians and began the 10.1\u00a0km (6.3\u00a0mi) Category 1 climb of Monte Zoncolan, east from Ovaro, to 1,730\u00a0m (5,680\u00a0ft) at the finish line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15\n20 May 2018 - Tolmezzo to Sappada, 176\u00a0km (109\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\n22 May 2018 - Trento to Rovereto, 34.2\u00a0km (21.3\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\nA number of riders were penalised for drafting during the stage including Fabio Aru and Diego Ulissi who finished in the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17\n23 May 2018 - Riva del Garda to Iseo, 149.5\u00a0km (92.9\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18\n24 May 2018 - Abbiategrasso to Prato Nevoso, 196\u00a0km (122\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19\n25 May 2018 - Venaria Reale to Bardonecchia, 185\u00a0km (115\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20\n26 May 2018 - Susa to Cervinia, 214\u00a0km (133\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279554-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21\n27 May 2018 - Rome to Rome, 115\u00a0km (71\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279555-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro dell'Emilia\nThe 2018 Giro dell'Emilia was the 101st edition of the Giro dell'Emilia road cycling one day race. It was held on 6 October 2018 as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279555-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro dell'Emilia\nThe race was won by Alessandro De Marchi of BMC Racing Team, ahead of Rigoberto Ur\u00e1n and Dylan Teuns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279555-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Giro dell'Emilia, Teams\nTwenty-five teams of up to seven riders started the race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279556-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Glasgow Trophy\nThe 2018 Glasgow Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Glasgow, United Kingdom, between 28 April and 6 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279556-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Glasgow Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279556-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Glasgow Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected rating:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279557-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Glasgow Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nGerard Granollers and Guillermo Olaso won the title after defeating Scott Clayton and Jonny O'Mara 6\u20131, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279558-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Glasgow Trophy \u2013 Singles\nLuk\u00e1\u0161 Lacko won the title after defeating Luca Vanni 4\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279559-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Global Awards\nThe 2018 Global Awards ceremony was held on Thursday, 1 March 2018 at London's Eventim Apollo. It started at 7:30 pm and was shown live on Capital TV and Heart TV. It was also available to watch on the Capital FM Website, on all the socials and on the radio. The Capital FM Global Awards radio schedule was as follows: Backstage on Capital Drive Time from 4pm GMT until 7pm GMT and then JJ, live from backstage from 7pm GMT chatting to the guests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279559-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Global Awards\nPerformances and special appearances from Sam Smith, Rita Ora, Kasabian, Martin Garrix, Andrea Bocelli and Liam Payne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279559-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Global Awards\nRoman Kemp, Rochelle Humes and Myleene Klass hosted the ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279559-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Global Awards, Nominees and winners\nThe list of nominees was announced in December 2017. Winners are listed first, in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279560-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Global Cebu F.C. season\nThe 2018 season was Global Cebu's 2nd season in the Philippines Football League (PFL), the top flight of Philippine football. In addition to the PFL, the club also competed in the Copa Paulino Alcantara. The club finished last in the PFL, winning only once in their 25 matches. The club also forfeited five matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279561-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Global T20 Canada\nThe 2018 Global T20 Canada (also known as Canada Dry Global T20 Canada for sponsorship reasons) of the Global T20 Canada, was a 20-over cricket tournament played in Canada. It was the first edition of the tournament and ran from 28 June to 15 July 2018. Six teams took part, with all the matches played at the Maple Leaf Cricket Club in King City, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279561-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Global T20 Canada\nA player draft took place on 3 June 2018. Approximately 1,600 players registered for the draft, with 600 of those from Canada. Ahead of the draft, the following ten international cricketers were named as marquee players: Shahid Afridi, Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle, Chris Lynn, Lasith Malinga, David Miller, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy and Steve Smith. Smith played in the opening match of the tournament and Warner played in the second match of the tournament, both played their first representative matches since being found guilty of ball-tampering during the third Test match between South Africa and Australia in March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279561-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Global T20 Canada\nIn the final, Vancouver Knights defeated Cricket West Indies B Team by seven wickets to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279561-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Global T20 Canada, Teams and squads\nThe following teams, squads and coaches were announced for the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279561-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Global T20 Canada, League stage\nThe full fixtures were confirmed on 13 June 2018. The first round took place from 28 June to 7 July, the second round took place from 8 to 11 July and playoffs from 12 to 15 July 2018. Times shown were Eastern DST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279562-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Go Bowling 250\nThe 2018 Go Bowling 250 was a NASCAR Xfinity Series race held on September 21, 2018 at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. Contested over 250 laps on the .75-mile (1.21\u00a0km) D-shaped short track, it was the 27th race of the 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, and the first race of the Playoffs. This was also the last race for Dale Earnhardt Jr., who had already retired from full-time racing in the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279562-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Go Bowling 250, Practice, First practice\nChristopher Bell was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 22.341 seconds and a speed of 120.854\u00a0mph (194.496\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279562-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Go Bowling 250, Practice, Final practice\nCole Custer was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 22.538 seconds and a speed of 119.798\u00a0mph (192.796\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279562-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Go Bowling 250, Qualifying\nChristopher Bell scored the pole for the race with a time of 22.691 seconds and a speed of 118.990\u00a0mph (191.496\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279563-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Go Bowling at The Glen\nThe 2018 Go Bowling at The Glen is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on August 5, 2018 at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York. Contested over 90 laps on the 2.45-mile (3.94\u00a0km) road course, it was the 22nd race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season. Chase Elliott scored his first career win in this race after holding off a hard-charging Martin Truex Jr. who was the defending winner from last year. This was the final race for Brian France as the CEO of NASCAR, as he was arrested for DUI hours after the race occurred. Jim France was the CEO starting at Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279563-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Report, Background\nWatkins Glen International (nicknamed \"The Glen\") is an automobile race track located in Watkins Glen, New York at the southern tip of Seneca Lake. It was long known around the world as the home of the Formula One United States Grand Prix, which it hosted for twenty consecutive years (1961\u20131980), but the site has been home to road racing of nearly every class, including the World Sportscar Championship, Trans-Am, Can-Am, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the International Motor Sports Association and the IndyCar Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279563-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Report, Background\nInitially, public roads in the village were used for the race course. In 1956 a permanent circuit for the race was built. In 1968 the race was extended to six hours, becoming the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen. The circuit's current layout has more or less been the same since 1971, although a chicane was installed at the uphill Esses in 1975 to slow cars through these corners, where there was a fatality during practice at the 1973 United States Grand Prix. The chicane was removed in 1985, but another chicane called the \"Inner Loop\" was installed in 1992 after J.D. McDuffie's fatal accident during the previous year's NASCAR Winston Cup event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279563-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Report, Background\nThe circuit is known as the Mecca of North American road racing and is a very popular venue among fans and drivers. The facility is currently owned by International Speedway Corporation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279563-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Practice, First practice\nErik Jones was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 1:10.467 and a speed of 125.165\u00a0mph (201.434\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279563-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Practice, Final practice\nChase Elliott was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 1:10.832 and a speed of 124.520\u00a0mph (200.396\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279563-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Qualifying\nDenny Hamlin scored the pole for the race with a time of 1:10.260 and a speed of 125.534\u00a0mph (202.027\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279563-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Media, Television\nNBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen and Steve Letarte called in the regular booth for the race; Motor Racing Network broadcaster Mike Bagley called from the Esses, Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call from Turn 5, and Jeff Burton called from Turns 6-7. Dave Burns, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279563-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Media, Radio\nMotor Racing Network had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279564-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma\nThe 2018 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma was the 17th and final round of the 2018 IndyCar Series season. The race was held on September 16 at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, California. 2014 Indy 500 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay qualified on pole position, and took victory in the 85-lap race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279564-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma\nThis also marked the last IndyCar Series race at Sonoma, as in 2019, the season finale will be held at the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279564-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma\nIt was also the final race for Verizon Communications as the series sponsor, as NTT took over as title sponsor for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279564-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma, Results, Race\nNotes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279565-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Goi\u00e1s gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Goi\u00e1s gubernatorial election was held in October 2018, and elected the Governor and Vice Governor of Goi\u00e1s and 41 State Deputies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279565-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Goi\u00e1s gubernatorial election\nGovernor Marconi Perillo was re-elected in the 2014 Brazilian general elections, but resigned to run for the Federal Senate and is barred from running for his fifth non-consecutive term because of Brazilian electoral law and the Constitution, as he was re-elected in the previous election, and Lieutenant Governor Jos\u00e9 Eliton took over the State Government by the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279566-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gold Coast Suns season\nThe 2018 Gold Coast Suns season was the Gold Coast Suns' 8th season in the Australian Football League. They also fielded a reserves team in the NEAFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279566-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gold Coast Suns season, AFL, Senior personnel\nAfter round 20 in the 2017 season, senior coach Rodney Eade was sacked. In October 2017 it was announced that former Port Adelaide premiership player and Sydney assistant coach Stuart Dew had signed a three-year deal to become the new senior coach at Gold Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279566-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gold Coast Suns season, AFL, List changes\nAt the end of the 2017 season, the Suns announced that they had delisted five players, including three rookie-listed players. Early in the trade period, half-back Adam Saad requested a trade to Essendon, and the Suns attempted to trade him for Essendon's first-round draft pick. When Essendon instead traded that pick to Greater Western Sydney for Devon Smith, the Suns instead received Essendon's second round pick for the 2018 draft. Fremantle player Lachie Weller requested a trade to the Suns, but Fremantle wanted their number 2 pick in the 2017 draft in exchange.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279566-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Gold Coast Suns season, AFL, List changes\nTo avoid trading away their very early pick, Gold Coast exchanged a number of draft picks with West Coast to secure their first round pick in the 2018 draft, but Fremantle didn't budge and would only accept the number 2 pick. On the last day of the trade period the Suns accepted the trade, also receiving pick 41 from the Dockers. The Suns also managed to secure Harrison Wigg from Adelaide and Aaron Young from Port Adelaide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279566-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Gold Coast Suns season, AFL, List changes\nOne of the biggest trades of the 2017 trade period was that of two-time Brownlow medallist Gary Ablett. Ablett had originally asked to be traded from the Suns to Geelong, his original team, in 2016, but no agreement could be reached. He requested a trade again in 2017, and Gold Coast attempted to secure a player from Geelong's best 22 in exchange, but again nothing could be settled on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279566-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Gold Coast Suns season, AFL, List changes\nOn the last day of the trade period the Suns accepted a deal where they would receive pick 19 (a selection Geelong got as compensation for losing Steven Motlop) and Geelong's second round pick in the 2018 draft while losing Ablett, pick 24 and their fourth round pick in the 2018 draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279567-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gold Coast Titans season\nThe 2018 Gold Coast Titans season was the 12th in the club's history. The Titans completed the NRL's 2018 Telstra Premiership in 14th place, out of 16 teams, and did not qualify for the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race\nThe 2018 Golden Globe Race was an around-the-world sailing race which started on 1 July 2018 from Les Sables-d'Olonne, France. The 2018 competition was the second edition and celebrated the 50th anniversary of the original Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. It featured yachts similar to those used at that time. Except for safety equipment, no modern technology was allowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race, Retro sailing\nEntrants are limited to sailing similar yachts and equipment to what was available to Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the winner of the original race in 1968\u201369. That means sailing without the use of modern technology such as satellite based navigation aids. Safety equipment such as EPIRBs and AIS are carried, however the competitors are only allowed to use the technology in an emergency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race, Retro sailing\nCompetitors could apply to have their class of boat approved, providing it was in accordance with the following rules:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race, Retro sailing\nTwenty-two classes were approved, with one exception to the rules made for a wood-epoxy Suhaili replica (the Suhaili being the yacht that Knox-Johnston sailed in 1968).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race, Route\nThe race started on 1 July 2018 in Les Sables-d'Olonne and will lead around the world eastward, leaving Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn to port. There will be several \"film gates\" along the route, where the skippers can be interviewed as they sail past without stopping and where they can pass over films and letters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race, Entrants\n18 entrants from 13 different countries who entered the race. Of those, six chose the class-compliant but relatively modern Rustler 36. A further 17 had expressed interest but never started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race, The race\nThe race started at 10:00 GMT on 1 July 2018, with the competitors passing a rolling gate between the Suhaili and the Joshua, two yachts that competed in the 1968 race. Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, who sailed on the Suhaili and won that race, fired the starting cannon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race, The race\nOf the 18 entrants, Francesco Cappelletti did not start the race and officially withdrew on 5 July. He plans to sail around the world independently and the race organisers are tracking his progress. Ertan Beskardes retired on 5 July, after deciding that being unable to communicate with his family removed the enjoyment from the race. Kevin Farebrother retired on 15 July at the Canary Islands mark, after becoming disillusioned by solo sailing and lack of sleep. Two days later, Nabil Amra retired at the same area on 17 July due to broken windvane gear. Antoine Cousot stopped at the Canary islands to repair his windvane gear, demoting him to the 'Chichester' class (one stop). Istvan Kopar put in to the Cape Verde islands on 23 July, planning to replace his windvane, but in the event proceeded without assistance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race, The race\nAntoine Cousot retired at the end of August due to a broken windvane and injuries. Philippe P\u00e9ch\u00e9 made one stop ('Chichester' class) on 11 August following the failure of his tiller, but retired from the race two weeks later on 25 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race, The race\nAre Wiig was dismasted on 17 August 400 nautical miles off Cape Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race, The race\nAbhilash Tomy was dismasted and injured on 22 September. Gregor McGuckin elected to abandon his boat after being dismasted and was rescued with Abhilash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race, The race\nOn 5 December 2018, Susie Goodall's boat was pitch-poled (flipped end-over-end), dismasted, and swamped during a storm while in the Southern Ocean around 2,000 nautical miles (3,700\u00a0km; 2,300\u00a0mi) west of Cape Horn. She was rescued by the cargo ship Tian Fu on 7 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race, Golden Globe Race 2022\nThe 2022 edition of the Golden Globe Race will have 20 entrants in the Suhaili class and 10 entries in the Joshua Class. The events start in a UK port on 26 July 2022 when GGR entrants assemble ahead of a SITraN Challenge Race bound for a port in France, starting on Sunday 31 July 2022. The GGR Race Village will open in France on 6 August 2022. The Golden Globe Race will start from a port in France on Sunday 21 August 2022. This date commemorates the anniversary of Bernard Moitessier setting off in the original Sunday Times Golden Globe on 22 August 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279568-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globe Race, Golden Globe Race 2022\nThe 2022 race has attracted 22 entrants from 12 countries. There are 7 British, 3 Australian, 2 French, 2 American, 2 South African, 1 Austria, 1 Canada, 1 Irish, 1 Italia , 1 Maltese, 1 New Zealander and 1 Norwegian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279569-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Globes (Portugal)\nThe 2018 Golden Globes (Portugal) were held on 21 May 2018 and were broadcast by SIC. The show was presented by C\u00e9sar Mour\u00e3o.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279570-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Joystick Awards\nThe 2018 Golden Joystick Awards was the 36th edition of the Golden Joystick Awards, an annual awards event that honored the best video games of that year. The event was hosted by comedian Danny Wallace, and took place at the Bloomsbury Big Top in London on November 16, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279571-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Golden Movie Awards\nThe 2018 Golden Movie Awards is an annual African award ceremony that seeks to honour individuals for their outstanding performance in movies they featured in as characters in the year under review. The ceremony was held at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra. It was a star-studded event at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel, which hosted filmmakers from Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and Ivory Coast for the 2018 Golden Movie Awards Africa. This year\u2019s edition was hosted by popular Nigerian comedian AY and actress Joselyn Dumas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach\nThe 2018 Google data breach was a major scandal in late 2018 when Google engineers discovered a software leakage within the Google+ API used in the social media network. As over five million user's data was compromised. This led to the immense news coverage on consumer privacy levels within Google+ and the shutting down of the Google+ consumer social network on 2 April 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach\nThe harvesting of personal data was first noticed by Google+ producers in March 2018 during a review of its operations following the Facebook\u2013Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The bug was immediately fixed however led to approximately 500,000 Google+ private users data being open to the public. Google did not disclose this information to the social network's consumer database. On 8 October 2018, the article Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public was published by The Wall Street Journal. Following this, in August 2019 Google made a simultaneous blog post announcing the shutting down of Google+ as there was low consumer use and technological challenges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach\nWithin November 2018, another data breach was found within a Google+ API software update. The bug was fixed within a week and there was no evidence that any third-party developer compromised the system. However, approximately 52.5 million non-public profile fields were exposed to alternative apps that requested access to individuals Google+ ID, and created access to other profiles that had shared information with each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach\nDue to these data breaches, consumers called for greater consumer protection in online media and Google moved the Google+ social media shut down date to 2 April 2019, with legacy Google+ API's being shut down on 7 March 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Overview of Google+\nIn June 2011, Google+ was launched as an invite-only social network and then become a public database later in that year. Google+ was managed by Vic Gundotra, Google's senior vice president of engineering. Similar to Facebook, Google+ acted as a social media database for posting photos and creating status's on individual feeds yet included the key features including Circles, Hangouts and Sparks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Overview of Google+\nCircles were created to allow consumers to personalise their social groups by sorting friends into different categories. Once allowed into a Circle, the person can be allowed to see particular content and be restricted from others. Therefore, users can regulate access of information in their individual spaces. Hangouts included video chatting and instant messaging between consumers. The other key feature of Google+ was Sparks; where Google tracked your past searches using keywords to find news and content related to a user's interests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Overview of Google+\nAlong with being a social network, Google+ was produced to be the social layer of Google and its many apps and hence was used within other Google Profiles such as YouTube, Gmail and others. Google+ had over 2 billion user accounts within its interface as it gave access to many Google apps including Gmail and Google Drive. However, less than 400 million consumers were actively using the social media aspect, with 90% of these users using the social network for five seconds. Hence, Google+ did not have a large amount of consumer interaction within the social media network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Overview of Google+\nAlong with the data breaches, Google+ saw limited consumer interaction with apps and low social media usage and so, the social network was shut down on 2 April 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Characteristics of the data breach\nIn January 2018, a formal assessment of third-party developers and app access to Google accounts was created named Project Strobe. Through this project, privacy platforms were examined and tightened as consumers were concerned of data privacy. Google Project Strobe constructs a review on consumer's profiles, identifying what parts of a profile third-party developers are able to access. Many third-party apps use Google+ as a service to improve communication, working life and online experience. In March, the analysis of Application Programming Interfaces (API) showed a data breach within the Google+ People API where external apps acquired access to Profile fields that were not marked as public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Characteristics of the data breach\nGoogle found that there was no evidence of any user's personal information being misused. A detailed analysis identified that 500,000 Google+ accounts were included in this data breach which was capable of allowing 438 external apps without authorisation to private users names, emails, addresses, occupations, gender and age. This information was able to be accessed by third-party apps between 2015 and 2018. There was no evidence found that any of this information was misused, and Google is not able to confirm which particular users profile data was accessible or impacted. There was no evidence found that any third-party app developers were aware of this profile leakage and abused this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Characteristics of the data breach\nIn November 2018, a software update created another data breach within the Google+ API. The bug impacted 52.5 million users where, similarly to the past data breach, apps were able to access Google+ profiles without consent displaying name, email address, occupation and age. Apps were not able to access information relating to financial, national identification numbers or passwords. Google+ blog posts, messages and phone numbers also remained inaccessible if displayed as private information. Dissimilar to the last data breach, access was granted for six days before Google+ gained knowledge of the data leakage and was able to rectify the problem. Google+ found no evidence of misused data by third-party developers and consumers were Access was granted for six days before Google+ was able to rectify the problem, however they found no evidence of misuse and an announcement of the leakage was made to Google+ consumers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 987]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, News coverage\nThe publishing of \u2018Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public\u2019 by the Wall Street Journal on October 8, 2018 outlined the initial data breach, describing how Google+ had not originally disclosed the issue. They advised the public that the data breach had occurred between 2015 and 2018 through a leakage in the API software where third-party apps were able to access private information. There is no federal law that requires Google to inform their consumers of data breaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, News coverage\nGoogle+ originally did not want to disclose the information in fear of comparison to Facebook's data leakage and loss of consumer confidence. In response to the article, Google announced the permanent shut down of all consumer functionality in August 2019. After the second data leakage this date was accelerated and moved to April 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, News coverage\nAlongside the Wall Street Journal, considerable amounts of coverage was made on each data breach by newspapers around the world discussing consumer's privacy levels. On 8 October 2018, a Google Blog post described the first data leakage and the shutdown of Google+, written by Ben Smith, the Vice President of Engineering within Google. Following the second data breach, Google Blog posted an article written by the Vice President of Product Management, David Thacker, on December 10, 2018. This article indicated that Google+ APIs would be shutting down within the next 90 days and the acceleration of the closing of Google+. Both articles provide a detailed explanation of each data breach, the ramifications for Google+ and ensured consumers on the privacy and reliance on Google of consumer data.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google\nIn response to the data breach, enterprise consumers were notified of the impact of the bug and given instructions on how to save, download and delete their data prior to the Google+ shut down. The issues were analysed by Google's Privacy and Data Protection Office, finding that there was no misuse of consumer's profiles data. However, Google decided that Google+ was not being used in abundance as a social media network and hence the network should be shut down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Immediate ramifications\nPreparing for the Google+ social network, Google created a 10-month period for consumers to download and migrate their profile's data. Google+ users could save Google+ photos, videos, events, posts, circles and communities. Events created in Google+ and birthdays of relevant people in Google+ circles will be deleted off Google Calendar. Photos and videos backed up to Google Photos will not be deleted. Google+ widgets will no longer be available and have since been removed from all blogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Immediate ramifications\nAfter the 10-month period consumer content will be deleted and Google will not save Google+ content apart from particular content needed for law, regulation, legal processes, legal obligations, or government requests. As the social network had a substantial number of consumers, the process of deleting this data will take a few months and is in progress. On 4 February 2019 consumers were no longer able to create new Google+ profile. Google shut down Google+ APIs on 7 March 2019 to ensure that developers do not remain reliant on these APIs prior to the Google+ shutdown. As of 2 April 2019, Collections and Circles still existed but are continually being phased out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Immediate ramifications\nAs of 7 March 2019, Google+ APIs have been shut down including REST API, Web API, Android SDK, Domains API and Pages API. Developers that used these Google+ APIs have removed these as otherwise their applications would break. Google has offered alternative APIs for these developers including Google Sign-In and Google People API.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Share Price Impact\nGoogle is the principal entity owned by its parent company Alphabet Inc. After the data breach, Alphabet Inc share prices fell by 1% to $1,157.06 on 9 October 2018 after an earlier drop of $1,135.40 that morning being the lowest price since 5 July 2018. After the publication of The Wall Street Journal article, share prices dropped as low as 2.1% in two days on 10 October 2018. Share prices steadily increased from this point and were able to rectify this share price drop and meet the 8 October 2018 share price on 5 February 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Rebuilding Google+\nGoogle will rebuild Google+ as a corporate enterprise network. This network will be known as Google Currents and will be used by G suite consumers. The name has been recycled from the previous Google magazine platform, Google Currents, which is now known as Google News. The network will incorporate new features including 'tags'. Tags have been built for employees to be able to be involved in relevant organisation conversations if they follow a certain tag. Managers will be able to monitor conversations between employees, and interact through the social media network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Rebuilding Google+\nLeaders posts will also be given priority within the business's posts and events and will be given more visibility across the network. This network will have differing security and privacy settings. Apps will require requested access to other Google platforms where only email functionality enhancing apps will be allowed after heightened security regulations. Google Play will now assess which apps can ask for permission to access the users SMS data; where only the default app for telephone distribution is able to make requests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279572-0017-0002", "contents": "2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Rebuilding Google+\nPrior to the data breaches, apps were able to request access to all of a consumer's data simultaneously. Within the new privacy setting, each app will need to request individual permission for each aspect of a consumer's profile, and the consumer will have to grant this to create access. New posts will now only be accessed within the domain however this can be made Public. Profiles can no longer be publicly searched and discovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279573-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Google walkouts\nThe Google Walkouts occurred on November 1, 2018 at approximately 11 am. The walkout had a large number of participants. The employees demanded five concrete changes from the company: an end to forced arbitration; a commitment to end pay inequality; a transparent sexual harassment report; an inclusive process for reporting sexual misconduct; and elevate the Chief of Diversity to answer directly to the CEO and create an Employee Representative. A majority of the known organizers have left the company since the walkout and many continue to voice their concerns. Google agreed to end forced arbitration and create a private report of sexual assault, but has not provided any further details about the other demands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279573-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Google walkouts, Background\nThis walkout was initially intended to be \"day without women\" and later evolved when a larger number of attendees accumulated. There were seven main organizers that asked for an end to sexual harassment, discrimination, and systematic racism. An organizer, Tanuja Gupta, worked in a group called \"Googlers for Ending Force of Arbitration\" which aided in the growth of momentum towards the sexual assault issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279573-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Google walkouts, The walkout\nOn November 1, 2018, more than 20,000 Google employees engaged in a worldwide walkout to protest the way in which the company handled cases of sexual harassment, and other grievances. The protest came one week after a New York Times report named Andy Rubin (and other executives accused of sexual misconduct) who was paid a $90 million severance package. The core organizers were Claire Stapleton, Tanuja Gupta, Meredith Whittaker, Celie O'Neil-Hart, Stephanie Parker, Erica Anderson, and Amr Gaber. The walkout was organized in less than three days and lasted for a half hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279573-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Google walkouts, The walkout\nHi . I\u2019m not at my desk because I\u2019m walking out in solidarity with other Googlers and contractors to protest sexual harassment, misconduct, lack of transparency, and a workplace culture that\u2019s not working for everyone. I\u2019ll be back at my desk later. I walked out for real change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279573-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Google walkouts, The walkout\nThe main demand was the act of transparency from a company, the presence of an employee representative, and the public filings of each sexual assault case. There were many signs held up during the course of the protest. One said \"What do I do at Google? I work hard every day so the company can afford $90,000,000 payouts to execs who sexually harass my co-workers\", another said \"Don't be evil\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279573-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Google walkouts, Retaliation and union busting\nThe Tech Workers Coalition provided a retaliation hotline during the Google Walkouts for employees who faced retribution for their participation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279573-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Google walkouts, Retaliation and union busting\nTwo of the Google Walkouts organizers, Claire Stapleton and Meredith Whittaker, claimed that Google retaliated against them following the Google Walkouts by attempting to force them out or demote them. They organized a sit-in on May 1, 2019, International Worker's Day. By July 2019, four of the seven organizers, including Stapleton and Whittaker, had left the company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279573-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Google walkouts, Retaliation and union busting\nIn late 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) opened an investigation into the firing of four Google employees over their efforts to unionize. In late 2020, following the investigation, the NLRB filed a complaint stating that the fired workers were not responsible for any wrongdoing and accusing Google of \"terminations and intimidation in order to quell workplace activism\". It also accused Google of unlawful surveillance for accessing the employees' calendars and other internal documents. The administrative hearing for the case is scheduled for April 12, 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279573-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Google walkouts, Retaliation and union busting\nIn late 2019, the New York Times reported that Google had hired IRI Consulting, a company that provides anti-unionization services.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279573-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Google walkouts, Impact and outcome\nSome of the demands made were met or partly met. Many of Google's responses included the reiteration of commitment to past diversity objectives and the improvement of the process to report harassment. The two resolutions that came closest to the employees' demands were the publishing of sexual assault cases, although the company opted for a private, internal report rather than a public one, and increased transparency of sexual assault. In February of 2019 Google announced the end of forced arbitration for employees for all claims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279574-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gosport Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Gosport Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Gosport Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The election saw the Liberal Democrats gain four seats: two from Labour, and one each from the Conservatives and UKIP. This reduced the Conservative Majority to one, remaining in control of the council, whilst UKIP lost their sole seat, in the Rowner and Holbrook ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279574-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gosport Borough Council election, Voter ID trial\nGosport was one of five boroughs in England operating a 'voter ID' trial, whereby voters had to bring a form of identification with them in order to vote. There was some criticism of the pilot by local politicians ahead of the vote, and in the event 44 people were unable to vote as a result of the trial. The Electoral Commission concluded from the study that 'our findings suggest that the 2018 local elections in Gosport were not significantly affected by the voter ID pilot in either its impact on voters or on the administration of the poll. However, it is important to be cautious when drawing conclusions from this pilot about the impact of any wider application of voter ID.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279575-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Governor General's Awards\nThe shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 3, 2018, and the winners were announced on October 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279576-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grambling State Tigers football team\nThe 2018 Grambling State Tigers football team represents Grambling State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers are led by fifth-year head coach Broderick Fobbs and play their home games at Eddie Robinson Stadium in Grambling, Louisiana as members of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279576-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grambling State Tigers football team, Previous season\nThe Tigers finished the 2017 season 11\u20132, 7\u20130 in SWAC play to win the West Division. They defeated Alcorn State in the SWAC Championship Game, receiving the conference's bid to the Celebration Bowl where they lost to North Carolina A&T.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279576-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Grambling State Tigers football team, Preseason, SWAC football media day\nDuring the SWAC football media day held in Birmingham, Alabama on July 13, 2018, the Tigers were predicted to win the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 77], "content_span": [78, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279576-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Grambling State Tigers football team, Preseason, Presason All-SWAC Team\nThe Tigers led all SWAC schools by having 15 players selected to Preseason All-SWAC Teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279577-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gran Piemonte\nThe 2018 Gran Piemonte was the 102nd edition of the Gran Piemonte (known as Giro del Piemonte until 2009) single-day cycling race. It was held on 11 October, over a distance of 191\u00a0km, starting in Racconigi and ending in Moncalieri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279577-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gran Piemonte, Teams\nEighteen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included twelve UCI WorldTeams and six UCI Professional Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279578-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli\nThe 2018 Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli was the 23rd edition of the Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli road cycling one day race. It was held on 7 October 2018 as part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279578-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli, Teams\nTwenty-four teams of up to seven riders started the race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279579-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Est Open 88\nThe 2018 Grand Est Open 88 was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Contrex\u00e9ville, France, on 9\u201315 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279579-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Est Open 88, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279580-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Est Open 88 \u2013 Doubles\nAnastasiya Komardina and Elitsa Kostova were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279580-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Est Open 88 \u2013 Doubles\nAn-Sophie Mestach and Zheng Saisai won the title after defeating Prarthana Thombare and Eva Wacanno 3\u20136, 6\u20132, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279581-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Est Open 88 \u2013 Singles\nStefanie V\u00f6gele won the title, defeating Sara Sorribes Tormo in the final in straight sets: 6\u20134, 6\u20132. Johanna Larsson was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279582-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand National\nThe 2018 Grand National (officially known as the Randox Health 2018 Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 171st annual running of the Grand National horse race at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England. The showpiece steeplechase was the pinnacle of a three-day festival which commenced on 12 April 2018. The event was sponsored by Randox Health for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279582-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand National\nThe race was won by 1010 10/1 shot Tiger Roll, ridden by Davy Russell, in a photo finish from Pleasant Company. All 38 runners returned to the stables, although Saint Are required veterinary attention on the course and Charlie Deutsch, riding Houblon Des Obeaux, was treated on the track after a fall leading to Becher's Brook being bypassed on the second circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279582-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand National, Race card\nFrom an initial 105 entries, the final field of 40 runners was declared on 13 April, after Minella Rocco, Vicente and Beeves were all withdrawn from the race and replaced by Thunder And Roses, Delusionofgrandeur and Walk In The Mill. Two contenders, Regal Encore and Walk In The Mill a day after securing its position in the race, were withdrawn on the morning of the race, leaving 38 starters, the smallest field since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279582-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand National, Race card\n2018 also marked the first National for 30 years to feature three female jockeys in the line-up. 2012 third-placed jockey Katie Walsh paired Baie Des Iles for her sixth ride in the race, whilst Rachael Blackmore and Bryony Frost were both handed their first National rides on Alpha Des Obeaux and Milansbar respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279582-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand National, Race overview\nThe first fence claimed Perfect Candidate who in turn brought down one of the favourites, Blaklion. I Just Know led the field until falling at Becher's Brook, which also saw Houblon Des Obleaux and Virgilio out of the race. Houblon Des Obeaux's jockey Charlie Deutsch was treated for injuries at the scene, resulting in Becher's being bypassed on the second circuit. Captain Redbeard unseated its rider at the Foinavon fence as Ucello Conti led the field from Double Ross, with The Dutchman, Milansbar and Pleasant Company also prominent. The Canal Turn saw the end of Lord Windermere, Buywise and Final Nudge. Chase The Spud pulled up before The Chair, which claimed Alpha Des Obeaux and Saint Are.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279582-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand National, Race overview\nDelusionsofgrandeur and Maggio were pulled up at the beginning of the second circuit, and The Dutchman unseated its rider at Foinavon as Pleasant Company took over the lead. Ucello Conti lost its rider three fences from home, while Seeyouatmidnight challenged Pleasant Company for the lead. Tiger Roll made its move and hit the lead on the 29th fence. On the run-in, Pleasant Company fought back and almost caught Tiger Roll, losing by a head.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279582-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand National, Race overview\nThere were no fatalities, although Saint Are was treated by veterinarians after being brought down at The Chair. A few days later, Saint Are's retirement from racing was announced. Jockey Charlie Deutsch was kicked in the back by a horse following his fall at Becher's Brook, but recovered and rode a winner at Plumpton the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279582-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand National, Broadcasting and media\nITV lead commentator Richard Hoiles describes the climax of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279582-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand National, Broadcasting and media\nAs the Grand National is accorded the status of an event of national interest in the United Kingdom and is listed on the Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events, it must be shown on free-to-air terrestrial television in the UK. The race was broadcast live on TV by ITV, in the second year of its four-year deal as the exclusive terrestrial broadcaster of horse racing in the UK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279582-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand National, Broadcasting and media\nThe coverage was co-anchored by Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani. Analysis was provided by former Grand National winning jockeys Sir Anthony McCoy, Mick Fitzgerald and Ruby Walsh, the latter having been ruled out the Aintree meeting through injury. Reports were provided by Oli Bell, Alice Plunkett and Luke Harvey with updates from the betting ring by Matt Chapman and Brian Gleeson. The commentary team was Mark Johnson, Ian Bartlett and Richard Hoiles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279583-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix Alanya\nThe 2018 Grand Prix Alanya was the 1st edition of the Grand Prix Alanya road cycling one day race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279583-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix Alanya, Teams\nTwenty teams were invited to take part in the race. These included one UCI Professional Continental team, sixteen UCI Continental teams and three national teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279584-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montr\u00e9al\nThe 2018 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montr\u00e9al was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 9 September 2018 in Canada. It was the 9th edition of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montr\u00e9al and the 34th event of the 2018 UCI World Tour. It was won in the sprint by Michael Matthews before Sonny Colbrelli and Greg Van Avermaet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279585-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix Cycliste de Qu\u00e9bec\nThe 2018 Grand Prix Cycliste de Qu\u00e9bec was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 7 September 2018 in Canada. It was the 9th edition of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Qu\u00e9bec and the 33rd event of the 2018 UCI World Tour. It was won in the sprint by Michael Matthews before Greg Van Avermaet and Jasper Stuyven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279586-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix Hassan II\nThe 2018 Grand Prix Hassan II was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 34th edition of the tournament and part of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place in Marrakesh, Morocco between 9 and 15 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279586-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix Hassan II, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279586-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix Hassan II, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279587-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix Hassan II \u2013 Doubles\nDominic Inglot and Mate Pavi\u0107 were the defending champions, but Pavi\u0107 chose not to participate this year. Inglot played alongside Marcus Daniell, but lost in the quarterfinals to Divij Sharan and Jan-Lennard Struff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279587-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix Hassan II \u2013 Doubles\nNikola Mekti\u0107 and Alexander Peya won the title, defeating Beno\u00eet Paire and \u00c9douard Roger-Vasselin in the final, 7\u20135, 3\u20136, [10\u20137].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279588-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix Hassan II \u2013 Singles\nBorna \u0106ori\u0107 was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279588-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix Hassan II \u2013 Singles\nPablo And\u00fajar won the title, defeating Kyle Edmund in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279589-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix La Marseillaise\nThe 2018 GP La Marseillaise was the 39th edition of the Grand Prix La Marseillaise cycle race and was held on 28 January 2018. The race started and finished in Marseille. The race was won by Alexandre Geniez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279589-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix La Marseillaise, Teams\nSixteen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included two UCI WorldTeams, ten UCI Professional Continental teams and four UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279590-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem\nThe 2018 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem was a women's professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 18th edition of the tournament and part of the WTA International tournaments category of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place in Rabat, Morocco, between 30 April and 5 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279590-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279590-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279590-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279591-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem \u2013 Doubles\nT\u00edmea Babos and Andrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 were the defending champions, but Babos chose not to participate and Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 chose to compete in Prague instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279591-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem \u2013 Doubles\nAnna Blinkova and Raluca Olaru won the title, defeating Georgina Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez and Fanny Stoll\u00e1r in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279592-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem \u2013 Singles\nAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279592-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem \u2013 Singles\nElise Mertens won the title, defeating Ajla Tomljanovi\u0107 in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20134).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279593-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix de Denain\nThe 2018 Grand Prix de Denain was the 60th edition of the Grand Prix de Denain cycle race and was held on 18 March 2018. The race started and finished in Denain. The race was won by Kenny Dehaes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279594-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix de Fourmies\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Cewbot (talk | contribs) at 21:34, 11 September 2020 (bot: Convert Leonardo Bonifazio to wikilink). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279594-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix de Fourmies\nThe 2018 Grand Prix de Fourmies was the 86th edition of the Grand Prix de Fourmies road cycling one day race. It was held on 2 September 2018 as part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279594-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix de Fourmies, Teams\nTwenty-two teams entered the race. Each team had a maximum of seven riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279595-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers\nThe 2018 Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers was the 54th edition of Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers road cycling one day race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279595-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers, Teams\nNineteen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included two UCI Professional Continental teams and seventeen UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279596-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki\nThe 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki was held in Helsinki, Finland, from November 2\u20134. It was the third event of the 2018\u201319 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. Finland was chosen as the host after the Chinese Skating Association declined to host their annual Grand Prix event, the Cup of China. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters competed to earn points toward qualifying for the 2018\u201319 Grand Prix Final. Over 20,000 tickets were sold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279596-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki, Entries\nThe ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279596-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki, Records\nThe following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279597-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix of Portland\nThe 2018 Grand Prix of Portland was the 16th round of the 2018 IndyCar Series season. The race was held on September 2 at Portland International Raceway, in Portland, Oregon. 2018 Indy 500 champion Will Power qualified on pole position, while 2017 Indy 500 champion Takuma Sato took victory in the 105-lap race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279597-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Prix of Portland, Results, Race\nNotes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts\nThe 2018 bwin Grand Slam of Darts was the twelfth staging of the tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took place from 10\u201318 November 2018 in Wolverhampton, England, but for the first time in the event's history, it was not at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, as it is undergoing a two-year renovation. The 2018 tournament was held at Aldersley Leisure Village. Beginning with this tournament, the winner of the title would receive \"The Eric Bristow Trophy\", named after the legendary player who died in April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts\nThe tournament's defending champion was Michael van Gerwen, who won the tournament in 2017 by defeating Peter Wright 16\u201312 in the final to win it for a third straight year, but lost in the semi-finals to Gary Anderson by the same scoreline 16\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts\nGerwyn Price won his first PDC major title by defeating Gary Anderson 16\u201313, in a highly controversial final. Price also became the first Welsh player to win a PDC major title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts\nThe DRA launched an investigation into the behaviour from both players in the final. Price was fined \u00a321,500 for a combination of 'Bringing the sport into disrepute and gamesmanship' in the final and for his Quarter-Final clash with Simon Whitlock. Price was also given a three month ban, which was suspended for 6 months. Anderson was given a formal warning for pushing Price on the oche. Price's fine was subsequently reduced on appeal to a total of \u00a311,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts\nDimitri Van den Bergh hit the fourth nine dart leg in Grand Slam of Darts history, in his second round match against Stephen Bunting, and for the first time in the tournament history no Englishman progressed into the quarter-final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts, Prize money\nThe prize fund for the Grand Slam was the same as in 2017, with the winner getting \u00a3110,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts, Qualifying, PDC Qualifying Tournaments\nAt most sixteen players could qualify through this method, where the position in the list depicts the priority of the qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts, Qualifying, PDC Qualifying Tournaments\nAs the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments produced fewer than sixteen players, the field of sixteen players is filled from the reserve lists. The first list consists of the winners from 2018 European Tour events, in which the winners are ordered by number of event wins then in Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts, Qualifying, PDC Qualifying Tournaments\nIf there are still less than sixteen qualified players after the winners of European Tour events are added, the winners of 2018 Players Championships events will be added, firstly by winners of multiple events followed by Order of Merit order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts, Qualifying, PDC Qualifying Event\nA further eight places in the Grand Slam of Darts were filled by qualifiers from a PDC qualifier that took place in Wigan on 5 November. These are the qualifiers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts, Qualifying, BDO Ranking Qualifiers\nThe remaining 5 BDO places were determined via the BDO Invitational Rankings at the end of September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools\nMichael van Gerwen (1) Peter Wright (2) Rob Cross (3) Gary Anderson (4) James Wade (5) Mensur Suljovi\u0107 (6) Simon Whitlock (7) Michael Smith (8)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools\nDimitri Van den Bergh Raymond van Barneveld Jonny Clayton Gerwyn Price Ian White Max Hopp Stephen Bunting Keegan Brown", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools\nJosh Payne Krzysztof Ratajski Martin Schindler Andrew Gilding Steve Hine Mark Webster Joe Murnan Ryan Searle", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools\nGlen Durrant Mark McGeeney Adam Smith-Neale Jim Williams Wesley Harms Michael Unterbuchner Scott Mitchell Gary Robson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts, Draw, Group stage\nAll group matches are best of nine legs After three games, the top two in each group qualify for the knock-out stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279598-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Grand Slam of Darts, Draw, Group stage\nNB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/\u2212 = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Pts = Points; Status = Qualified to Knockout Stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279599-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Great Yarmouth Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Great Yarmouth Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2018 to elect members of Great Yarmouth Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections in England. The Conservatives gained control of the council with UKIP which had previously won 10 seats being wiped out. Part of the Conservative success was attributed to former UKIP councillors defecting to them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279599-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Great Yarmouth Borough Council election, Overall result\nChanges in vote share are relative to the last time these seats were contested in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279599-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Great Yarmouth Borough Council election, Council Composition\nPrior to the election the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279600-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Greater Sudbury municipal election\nThe 2018 Greater Sudbury municipal election was held on October 22, 2018 to elect a mayor and 12 city councillors in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. In addition, school trustees were elected to the Rainbow District School Board, Sudbury Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire de district du Grand Nord de l'Ontario and Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Nouvel-Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279600-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Greater Sudbury municipal election\nThe election was held in conjunction with those held in other municipalities in the province of Ontario. For other elections, see 2018 Ontario municipal elections. For the first time in the city's history, the election was conducted primarily through online voting, with only a small number of physical voting locations available for people who could not or did not want to vote online.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279600-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Greater Sudbury municipal election\nAs per the Ontario Municipal Elections Act, 1996, nomination papers for candidates for municipal and school board elections can be filed from May 1, 2018, at which time the campaign period began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279600-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Issues\nThe dominant issue in the election campaign was the Kingsway Entertainment District, a proposed new arena and hotel complex in the city's east end which will replace the Sudbury Arena as the city's primary sports and entertainment events venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279600-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Issues\nIn the end, the newly elected council comprises a mix of both supporters and opponents of the Entertainment District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279600-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Voting delays\nOn election day, Greater Sudbury was one of 51 municipalities across Ontario whose elections were affected by a technical failure at Dominion Voting Systems, the company that operated the online voting architecture. According to Dominion Voting Systems, the company's colocation centre provider imposed an unauthorized bandwidth cap due to the massive increase in voting traffic in the early evening, thus making it impossible for many voters to get through to the server. Under the provisions of the Ontario Municipal Act which permit city clerks to extend voting hours in the event of an emergency, the city announced that voting would be extended to October 23, with no results announced until Tuesday evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279600-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Greater Sudbury municipal election, City Council, Ward 12\nLeo Frappier stepped down 2 months prior to the election due to a conflict with the city of Greater Sudbury, however the election officials allowed his name to remain on the electronic ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279601-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Blizzard season\nThe 2018 Green Bay Blizzard season is the team's sixteenth season as a professional indoor football franchise and ninth in the Indoor Football League (IFL). The Blizzard are one of six teams that compete in the IFL for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279601-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Blizzard season\nThe Blizzard play their home games at the Resch Center in the Green Bay suburb of Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin. For the first five games, the team was coached by Chris Williams in his third season with the team. Williams was fired March 29 after going 0\u20135. Special teams and defensive coach Corey Roberson took over as the interim head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279602-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Packers season\nThe 2018 season was the Green Bay Packers' 98th season in the National Football League, their 100th overall and their 13th and final season under head coach Mike McCarthy. After missing the playoffs for the first time since 2008 and losing quarterback Aaron Rodgers to injury during their 2017 season, the Packers failed to improve their 7\u20139 record from last season and finished with a 6\u20139\u20131 record, their worst since 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279602-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Packers season\nFor the first time since 2007, Jordy Nelson did not play for the Packers as he signed with the Oakland Raiders via free agency during the offseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279602-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Packers season\nOn January 7, 2018, Brian Gutekunst was named the new general manager, after Ted Thompson took over as the senior advisor to football operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279602-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Packers season\nOn December 2, 2018, after a 4\u20137\u20131 start, Mike McCarthy was fired hours after the Packers\u2019 Week 13 loss to the Arizona Cardinals and Joe Philbin was named as the interim head coach. After a loss to the Chicago Bears in week 15, the Packers were eliminated from the postseason. This was the first time the Packers missed the postseason in back to back years since 2005 to 2006. This was also the first time the Packers suffered from back to back losing seasons since 1990 to 1991, a year before Brett Favre's arrival. Despite the Packers's losing record, Aaron Rodgers had one of the most productive seasons of his career, with three games in which he threw for 400 or more passing yards, including a meaningless week 16 game against the Jets, in which he passed for 442 yards in a comeback win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279602-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Packers season, Coaching moves\nAfter missing the playoffs, the Packers made several coaching changes during its offseason, in addition to selecting Brian Gutekunst as the team's new GM. Notable coaching changes included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279602-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Packers season, Player movements, Free agents\nThe league year and free agency started on March 14, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279602-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Packers season, Player movements, Roster cuts\nThe roster was cut to 53 on September 1, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279602-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Schedule\nThe regular season schedule was announced on April 19, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279602-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nThis was the Packers' first win from a 17-point deficit or more entering the 4th quarter in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279602-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nThis was the first home loss to the Cardinals since 1949. Hours after the game, Head Coach Mike McCarthy was fired by the Packers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279602-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Detroit Lions\nWith the loss, the Packers closed out the season with a disappointing 6\u20139\u20131 record. This was the second straight year in which the Detroit Lions swept the Packers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279602-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Bay Packers season, Statistics, League rankings\nStatistical values are correct at the end of the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279603-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party (Czech Republic) leadership election\nThe Green Party (SZ) leadership election of 2018 was held on 20 January 2018. The incumbent leader Mat\u011bj Stropnick\u00fd wasn't running for reelection. It will be held following 2017 legislative election in which party received only 1.46% of votes. Mayor of Prague 4 Petr \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek was elected the new leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279603-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party (Czech Republic) leadership election, Background\nMat\u011bj Stropnick\u00fd led the party since 2016. He was known for his radical left-wing ideas. The party suffered heavy defeat under his leadership in 2017 legislative election and received only 1.46% and lost state contribution. Stropnick\u00fd resigned on his position and announced he won't seek reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279603-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party (Czech Republic) leadership election, Background\nSome members called Michal Berg to run for the position. Berg stated that his candidacy is unlikely. Election was called for 20 January 2018. There are 4 candidates for the position of leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279603-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party (Czech Republic) leadership election, Voting\nVoting was held on 20 January 2018. Petr Kut\u00edlek withdrawn from election prior voting. \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek has won the election with 119 votes. \u0161t\u011bp\u00e1nek called his victory a return to the political Centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279604-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Alberta leadership election\nThe 2018 Green Party of Alberta leadership election winner, Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes, was announced on September 22, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279604-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Alberta leadership election\nRomy Tittel won the leadership in 2017 and resigned under unknown circumstances less than a year later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279604-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Alberta leadership election\nThe party later named Coral Bliss Taylor as interim leader. She is an urban planner and engineer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279604-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Alberta leadership election, Confirmed candidates\nMatt Levicki entered the race, but withdrew before the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279604-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Alberta leadership election, Confirmed candidates, None of the above\nThe None of the above ballot option was available to members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 88], "content_span": [89, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279605-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election\nThe Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election, 2018 is an election that took place between 26 March and 7 April 2018 to determine the future leadership of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279605-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election, Background\nOn 9 August 2017, Metiria Turei announced she had stood down as co-leader of the Green Party following media scrutiny of her public admission to committing benefit fraud in the early 1990s, stating that the \"scrutiny on [her] family has become unbearable.\" This triggered an election to fill the now vacant female co-leadership, which the party had previously stated would be conducted at the 2018 party annual general meeting. It had been possible that a Special General Meeting or postal ballot may have been used to elect a new co-leader earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279605-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election, Background\nOn 26 January 2018, James Shaw announced the election timeline to determine the next female co-leader, with the ballots to be counted and a winner to be announced on 8 April 2018. Following the election, Marama Davidson was elected the new female co-leader of the Green Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279605-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election, Candidates, Declined\nThe following individuals were speculated as being possible leadership candidates, but ruled out a bid:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 92], "content_span": [93, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279605-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election, Candidates, Declined\nGhahraman, elected as a List MP in 2017 (following special votes being cast) said to media she was \"not at all\" interested in the position of co-leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 92], "content_span": [93, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279605-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election, Candidates, Declined\nA List MP since 2011 and Under-Secretary for Justice since 2017, Jan Logie did not respond to media requests for comment regarding the co-leadership. The press speculated that after Davidson announced her candidacy Logie ruled out running herself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 92], "content_span": [93, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279605-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election, Candidates, Declined\nFormer Green Party Chief of Staff Deborah Morris-Travers, who was replaced following Turei's admission to benefit fraud due to her involvement, ruled out a bid for the co-leadership herself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 92], "content_span": [93, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279605-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election, Candidates, Declined\nFormer Green List MP (2011\u201317) and Auckland City Councillor (2007\u201310) Denise Roche ruled herself out of standing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 92], "content_span": [93, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279605-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election, Candidates, Declined\nSage, a List MP since 2011 and since 2017 Minister of Conservation and Minister for Land Information as well as a member of the Green Party's negotiation team with Labour, said she had not yet made any decision; \"I'm still getting my feet under the table as a minister.\" There had been widespread speculation that Sage would put her hand up as a \"compromise candidate\". Ultimately, she ruled out standing citing a desire to focus on her ministerial duties instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 92], "content_span": [93, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279605-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election, Candidates, Declined\nElected as a List MP in 2017, Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick declined to stand stating it was \"too early\" in her career to be co-leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 92], "content_span": [93, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279605-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election, Debates\nOn 1 March a live-streamed debate between Davidson and Genter was held in the Legislative Council Chambers, Wellington hosted by Henry Cooke. Davidson and Genter again met in a debate hosted by Lisa Owen on Newshub Nation on 10 March, and in another hosted by Mihingarangi Forbes on The Hui on 11 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 79], "content_span": [80, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279605-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election, Result\nThe voting was conducted by delegates from electorates across the country. The following table gives the ballot results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 78], "content_span": [79, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279606-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election\nThe 2018 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election was held from June to August 2018 to select a leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley had been elected as co-leaders in 2016. Lucas stood down, whilst Bartley stood for re-election with a new co-leadership candidate, Si\u00e2n Berry. They won re-election in the first round, and Amelia Womack won re-election as the party's deputy leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279606-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election\nThe leadership election for the Green Party of England and Wales is held routinely every two years. The 2018 election, which ran from 1 June to 31 August, was the sixth since the party decided to have a leader (or two co-leaders) and a deputy leader. The result was declared on 4 September: Jonathan Bartley and Si\u00e2n Berry were elected as co-leaders and Amelia Womack was re-elected as deputy leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279606-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Background\nPrior to 2008, the Green Party elected spokespeople called principal speakers instead of leaders. After a rule change, the party adopted a system of electing a leader or co-leaders every two years. If there are two co-leaders, a single deputy will be elected whereas if there is a single leader there are two deputies. In either case, the election is subject to the party's gender-balancing rules. The party's first leader, elected in 2008, was Caroline Lucas, at the time a Member of the European Parliament but later the party's only Member of Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279606-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Background\nShe held the position for two terms before standing down. The journalist Natalie Bennett won two terms as leader before standing down. Lucas then stood for re-election on a joint platform with Jonathan Bartley in 2016, winning election. On 30 May 2018, Lucas announced that she would stand down and not seek re-election. On the next day, Bartley announced he was running for re-election with Si\u00e2n Berry, a former principal speaker of the party and the leader of the party's London Assembly group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279606-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Background\nThe party's deputy leader Amelia Womack announced she was running for re-election on 7 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279606-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Timetable\nNominations opened on 1 June and closed on 29 June. Voting was from 30 June to 31 August. Seven hustings were arranged for leadership and deputy leadership candidates \u2013 on 14 July in Birmingham, on 21 July in York and Manchester, on 28 July in London, Cambridge and Bristol, and on 4 August in Chepstow. The election result was declared on 4 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 68], "content_span": [69, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279606-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Candidates, Rejected and withdrawn\nTim Young's application to be a leadership candidate was rejected as he had insufficient nominations. Aimee Challenor withdrew her candidacy after voting had begun after her father and election agent was convicted of child sexual abuse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 93], "content_span": [94, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279606-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Leadership campaign\nBerry said that, if elected, she would continue as a councillor in Highgate and as a London Assembly member. Oliver Lewis, a Labour Party councillor for the same ward as Berry, said, \"She [Si\u00e2n] must have known this was coming. They had a leadership website ready to go.\" Bartley and Berry released a detailed plan for their leadership on their website, promising a renewed focus on non-violent direct action, expanding election training to train the next generation of Green leaders, and to prepare the party for greater electoral success. Berry said that she would not be interested in standing for Parliament, if elected Co-Leader, but would use her increased profile to compete again for the London mayoralty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 78], "content_span": [79, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279606-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Leadership campaign\nOn 11 August 2018, The Times reported that on Holocaust Memorial Day, in January 2009, Shahrar Ali had made a speech comparing Israel's treatment of Palestinians to the Holocaust. In an article published on the Left Foot Forward blog, the Campaign Against Antisemitism described his speech as anti-semitic and an \"offensive rant\". Ali described the accusation as a \"gross fabrication\", telling the Evening Standard that it was \"designed to stifle legitimate criticism of the Israeli government\". The Green Party said that its initial handling of reports about Ali's speech in 2009 were inadequate and that it is seeking to revise procedures. The Green Party later clarified that no formal complaint of anti-semitism against Ali had been received.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 78], "content_span": [79, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279607-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Greenlandic Football Championship\nThe 2018 Gr\u00f8nlandsBANKEN GM was the 48th edition of the Greenlandic Football Championship. The final round was held in Nuuk from August 12 to 19. It was won by B-67 Nuuk for the thirteenth time in its history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279607-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Greenlandic Football Championship, Qualifying Stage, North Greenland\nG-44 Qeqertarsuaq and Upernavik BK 83 qualified for the Final Round. Disko-76, Eqaluk-56 and Terianniaq-58 failed to qualify. FC Malamuk and Umanak BK 68 withdrew before the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279607-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Greenlandic Football Championship, Qualifying Stage, Disko Bay\nKugsak-45 and Nagdlunguaq-48 qualified for the Final Round. Aqisseq Kangaatsiaq and Tupilak-41 failed to qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279608-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Greenlandic general election\nGeneral elections were held in Greenland on 24 April 2018, electing all 31 members of Parliament. The elections were required to be held no later than 26 November 2018, four years after the previous elections on 27 November 2014, but Prime Minister Kim Kielsen chose to call the elections seven months early. His Siumut party remained the largest in Parliament, but lost two seats, whilst Inuit Ataqatigiit, the second-largest party, lost three seats. The smaller Democrats and Partii Naleraq gained seats, with the newly formed Cooperation Party and Nunatta Qitornai parties both entering Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279608-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Greenlandic general election, Background\nThe 2014 general elections saw Siumut receive a narrow plurality of the vote, but win the same number of seats as Inuit Ataqatigiit (11). A coalition government was formed by Siumut, Democrats and Atassut which lasted until 2016, when Siumut formed a new coalition with Inuit Ataqatigiit and Partii Naleraq. Kim Kielsen from Siumut has led both governments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279608-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Greenlandic general election, Background\nDuring the 2014\u20132018 parliamentary term, both Atassut MPs defected to Simumut, while Michael Rosing left the Democrats to sit as an Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279608-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Greenlandic general election, Electoral system\nThe 31 members of Parliament are elected by proportional representation in multi-member constituencies. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279608-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Greenlandic general election, New parties\nTwo new parties contested the elections, the unionist and socially liberal Cooperation Party (Suleqatigiissitsisut) founded by Michael Rosing, and the pro-independence Nunatta Qitornai (Descendants of Our Country) founded by former Minister of Finance and Interior, Minister of Industry, Labour, Trade, Tourism, Energy and Foreign Affairs and Minister of Finance, Minerals and Foreign Affairs Vittus Qujaukitsoq after a dispute over the government's approach toward Denmark. He eventually left Siumut following an unsuccessful leadership challenge to Kim Kielsen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279609-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Greenwich London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Greenwich London Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Greenwich London Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279610-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grenadian constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Grenada on 6 November 2018. The proposed constitutional amendment, which voters ultimately rejected, would have made the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) the final court of appeal, replacing the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and renamed the Supreme Court. A slightly different proposal was previously made in a 2016 referendum, but was also rejected by voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279610-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grenadian constitutional referendum\nAntigua and Barbuda also held a referendum on joining the CCJ on the same day; that vote also failed to pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279610-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Grenadian constitutional referendum, Question\nVoters were asked to respond YES or NO to the following question:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279610-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Grenadian constitutional referendum, Results\nNo votes outstripped yeses by 12,133 to 9,846, on a turnout of 28%. Prime Minister Keith Mitchell, whose government had called the vote, said he was \"disappointed\" but that he was \"in total acceptance of the results\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279611-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grenadian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Grenada on 13 March 2018. The result was a victory for the New National Party and incumbent Prime Minister Keith Mitchell, winning his fifth term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279611-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grenadian general election, Electoral system\nThe 15 members of the House of Representatives are elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279612-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grey County municipal elections\nElections were held in Grey County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279612-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grey County municipal elections, Grey County Council\nThe Grey County Council consists of the mayors and deputy mayors of each of the constituent communities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279613-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens\nThe 2018 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens was the 52nd edition of the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens road cycling one day race in and around Leuven. It was held on 16 September 2018 as a 1.1 categorised race and was part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour and the 2018 Belgian Road Cycling Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279613-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens\nLeuven-born Jasper Stuyven won the group in a bunch sprint ahead of Jonas van Genechten and defending champion Timothy Dupont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279613-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens, Teams\nTwenty-three teams were invited to take part in the race. These included three UCI WorldTeams, nine UCI Professional Continental teams and eleven UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season\nThe 2018 Group 10 Rugby League season was the 72nd season of premier competition of rugby league in the Central West area of New South Wales. It was run under the auspices of the Country Rugby League. It was the sixth consecutive season to feature nine teams, after the re-admittance of the Blayney Bears in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season\nOrange CYMS entered the season as defending champions, after defeating Oberon Tigers 23\u201322 in the 2017 premier league decider. CYMS rallied from 22\u20138 down with 20 minutes remaining to claim the one-point victory. On the back of off-season recruits which included former South Sydney, Manly and Newcastle forward Josh Starling, Oberon Tigers were labelled the early premiership favourites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Premier League season summary\nEighteen rounds were contested from April until August, resulting in the top of Cowra Magpies, Orange Hawks, Orange CYMS, Bathurst Panthers and Oberon Tigers. Cowra Magpies won their first minor premiership since 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Premier League season summary\nSt Pat's played its first home game at the new Jack Arrow Sporting Complex on April 22, a 16\u201310 victory over Oberon Tigers. St Pat's originally left its spiritual home of Jack Arrow Oval, at the now Paddy's Hotel, at the end of the 2012 season. The club had been playing its home games at the Bathurst Sports Ground, next door to city rivals Panthers at Carrington Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Premier League season summary\nRound 10 was cancelled after snow closed roads to Oberon on June 17. Roads between Oberon and Bathurst were closed on the day, meaning Cowra Magpies were unable to travel to Oberon for their match against the Tigers. Games could have been played in Mudgee, Orange and Bathurst but Group 10 officials were hesitant to find itself in a situation where some games could have been played and some couldn't. Rescheduled mid-week games were not possible, due to being a logistical nightmare. All matches were scrapped and one point was awarded each. Because Orange CYMS had bye that weekend, a decision was made to scrap bye points in the second half of the season, so Orange CYMS wouldn't receive an unfair advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Premier League season summary\nAfter 16 rounds, Orange Hawks looked likely to claim a first minor premiership since 2013 but after losing to Oberon Tigers 22\u201320 at Wade Park on August 5, Cowra Magpies jumped into first place after a massive 58\u201314 win over Mudgee Dragons at Sid Kallas Oval on the same day. Magpies won their final match of the home and away season, 34\u201316 against Lithgow Workies, to seal their first minor premiership since 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Premier League season summary\nCowra captain Josh Rainbow was named the Group 10 player of the year on August 31, becoming just the fourth Cowra player to do so, the most recent Magpies player Dean Corrigan winning in 2009. Rainbow earned 17 votes, to finish ahead of Orange Hawks captain-coach Willie Heta with 14 and 2016 winner Jeremy Gordon with 11, Rainbow's fellow teammate who won the award with Bathurst Panthers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Play-off bracket\nThe Group 10 Rugby League finals use the top five McIntyre System:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Grand Final\nCowra Magpies hosted its first grand final since 2014, where they lost 34\u201312 to Bathurst St Pat's. The match will also be Bathurst Panthers first Group 10 premier league grand final since 2007, when they defeated Lithgow Workies 24\u20134 at Carrington Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Grand Final\nCowra hooker and former St Pat's hooker Benji John opened the scoring from dummy-half and Lee McClintock finished off a sweeping play from left to right to give the hosts a 10\u20130 lead inside the opening 13 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Grand Final\nIt became an arm wrestle and Panthers hung in, determined not to concede again. It was in the 57th when the deadlock was broken with Panthers\u2019 lock Blake Hewitt crashing over and Willie Wright converted to reduce the deficit to 10\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Grand Final\nWith minutes remaining, still trailing 10\u20136, Panthers winger Andrew Mendes scored the equaliser and Wright\u2019s opportunity arose. Having missed his aunty\u2019s wedding to play the grand final, Wright made sure he slotted it, and from his boot, he knew it was going over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Grand Final\nTo make it even sweeter, the successful conversion was struck directly in front of the Panthers faithful on the eastern side of the ground. The victory marked Panthers\u2019 first Group 10 premier league title since 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Grand Final\nHewitt lifted the Western Challenge Cup soon after and Panthers powerhouse Brent Seager was presented the Dave Scott Medal for player of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Grand Final\nBathurst Panthers 12 (Blake Hewitt, Andrew Mendes tries; Willie Wright 2 conversions)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279614-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Group 10 Rugby League season, Grand Final\nCowra Magpies 10 (Benji John, Lee McClintock tries; Caley Mok conversion)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279615-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Groupama\u2013FDJ season\nThe 2018 season for Groupama\u2013FDJ began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279616-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guam FA Cup\nThe 2018 Guam FA Cup is the 11th season of the Guam FA Cup knockout tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279616-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guam FA Cup\nThe tournament was played between 1 and 30 June 2018. In the final, Bank of Guam Strykers FC defeated Rovers FC 5\u20131 at the Guam Football Association National Training Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279617-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian general election\nThe Guam general election for 2018 was held in Guam on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Voters in Guam chose their governor, their non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives, attorney general, public auditor, as well as all fifteen members of the territorial legislature. The election coincides with the United States mid-term elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279617-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian general election, Governor of Guam\nIncumbent Republican Governor Eddie Baza Calvo is barred from re-election, after his win in 2014, since Guam does not allow governors more than 2 consecutive terms. Five candidates have officially declared their bids to be the next Governor of Guam:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279617-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian general election, Governor of Guam, Primary Elections\nA primary election was held to determine each party's gubernatorial candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279617-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian general election, Governor of Guam, Primary Elections, Democratic primary results\nFour gubernatorial tickets faced off in the Democratic primaries. The Democratic ticket of Leon Guerrero/Tenorio received the highest number of votes and will move on to challenge the Republican Tenorio/Ada ticket in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279617-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian general election, Governor of Guam, Primary Elections, Republican primary results\nThe Tenorio/Ada ticket was unopposed for the Republican primaries and will move on to the general election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279617-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian general election, United States House of Representatives\nDemocratic candidate Michael San Nicolas attained nearly 55% of the total votes against Republican challenger Doris Flores Brookes, who attained 43.98%. San Nicolas will be Guam's 5th delegate to the United States House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279617-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian general election, United States House of Representatives, Primary Elections, Democratic primary results\nIncumbent delegate Madeleine Bordallo and senator Michael San Nicolas will face off in the Democratic primaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 118], "content_span": [119, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279617-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian general election, United States House of Representatives, Primary Elections, Republican primary results\nOne Republican has declared their bid for Guam's delegate seat in the United States House of Representatives. Former public auditor Doris Flores-Brooks recently resigned from her post to run for Guam's congressional seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 118], "content_span": [119, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279617-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian general election, Attorney General\nIncumbent Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson will not run for re-election as Guam's elected attorney general. Three candidates are vying for the non-partisan position: former Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Gary Gumataotao, first elected attorney general Douglas Moylan, and attorney Leevin Camacho. The top two moved on from the blanket primary to the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279617-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian general election, Public Auditor\nGuam's first elected non-partisan public auditor Doris Flores Brookes was elected to her fourth term in 2016. Flores Brookes recently resigned from her post to run for Guam's delegate seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Three candidate have declared their bid in the special election to be Guam's next public auditor: professor Doreen Crisostomo, incumbent speaker Benjamin Cruz, and acting public auditor Yukari Hechanova. Hachanova withdrew prior to the election, though her name remained on the ballot. Incumbent speaker Benjamin Cruz was elected as Guam's next public auditor after a special election was held coinciding with the August 25 primaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279617-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian general election, Legislature of Guam\nAll fifteen seats in the Legislature of Guam are up for election. Democrats, under Speaker Benjamin Cruz, currently control nine seats in the Legislature, while Republicans hold six seats. Six incumbent seats are up for grabs with two senators seeking the gubernatorial seat, one seeking the delegate to the United States House of Representatives seat, and three senators not seeking re-election to the 35th Guam Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279617-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian general election, Consolidated Commission on Utilities\nTwo incumbent Simon A. Sanchez II and Francis E. Santos are running for re-election and one incumbent Joseph George Bamba will not run for re-election as Guam elected CCU. Two candidates are vying for the non-partisan position: former Republican senator Michael Limtiaco, and former senatorial candidate William Parkinson are both running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279617-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian general election, Judicial retention elections\nOne Supreme Court Associate Justice, Katherine A. Maraman, and one Superior Court Judge, Anita A. Sukola, were up for retention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279618-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Guam gubernatorial election took place on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Guam. Incumbent Republican Governor Eddie Baza Calvo was ineligible for re-election, after his win in 2014, since Guam does not allow governors more than two consecutive terms. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Guam are elected on the same ticket. Five candidates officially declared their bids. After the August 25 primaries, the Republican party nominated Lieutenant Governor Ray Tenorio, while the Democratic party nominated former territorial senator Lou Leon Guerrero. Democratic primary second-placer Frank Aguon Jr. initiated a write-in campaign in hopes of becoming Guam's first write-in elected governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279618-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian gubernatorial election\nLou Leon Guerrero won the general election with 50.7% of votes, becoming the first female governor in Guamanian history and the first Democrat to win the Governorship of Guam since 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279618-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nThe following candidates have officially declared their bids to run in 2018 Gubernatorial Elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279618-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian gubernatorial election, General election\nThe general elections were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Democratic candidate Lou Leon Guerrero garnered 18,081 votes against Ray Tenorio's 9,419 votes. Guam law requires gubernatorial candidates to attain more than 50% of the total votes to be elected governor. Leon Guerrero passed the necessary threshold by a razor-thin margin, winning the election with 50.7% of the vote against Tenorio's 26.41% and Aguon's 22.81%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279619-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in Guam on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, along with the election for the Guam delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. Before the election, the Democratic Party held nine of the fifteen seats in the Legislature while the Republican Party held six seats. The election resulted in a gain of one seat for the Democrats and a loss of one seat for Republicans. Democrats also won the race for Guam's US House Delegate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279619-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian legislative election, Primary Election\nPrimary elections in Guam were held on August 25, 2018. The first 15 candidates who win the highest votes for each party will move on to the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279619-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian legislative election, General Election, Results\nThe members of the legislature are elected at-large with the first 15 winning candidates elected as the new members of the legislature. The Democratic Party picked up one seat from Republicans, leaving the composition for the next legislature at 10 Democrats and 5 Republicans. Democrat Michael F.Q. San Nicolas also won the race for Delegate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279619-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Guamanian legislative election, Incoming Senators to the 35th Guam Legislature\nThere were 15 senators elected on November 6, 2018 to serve in the 35th Guam Legislature and were inaugurated on January 7, 2019:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 83], "content_span": [84, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279620-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangdong\u2013Hong Kong Cup\nThe 40th Guangdong\u2013Hong Kong Cup was held on 4 and 7 January 2018. Hong Kong won their first title in five years after beating Guangdong in the penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279620-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangdong\u2013Hong Kong Cup, Squads, Hong Kong\nThe final 21-man squad of Hong Kong was announced on 31 December 2017 and was composed of entirely local players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279621-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao F.C. season\nThe 2018 Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao season is the 65th year in Guangzhou Evergrande's existence and its 51st season in the Chinese football league, also its 29th season in the top flight. The club appointed Italian manager Fabio Cannavaro as manager for the second time on 9 November 2017 after Luiz Felipe Scolari refused to extend his contract. The chairman of the club was changed to Gao Han by owner Evergrande Group on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279622-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou International Women's Open\nThe 2018 Guangzhou International Women's Open is a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 15th edition of the Guangzhou International Women's Open, and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place in Guangzhou, China, from September 17 through September 22, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279622-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou International Women's Open, Points and prize money, Prize money\n1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 78], "content_span": [79, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279622-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou International Women's Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 85], "content_span": [86, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279622-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou International Women's Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 85], "content_span": [86, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279623-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou International Women's Open \u2013 Doubles\nElise Mertens and Demi Schuurs were the defending champions, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279623-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou International Women's Open \u2013 Doubles\nMonique Adamczak and Jessica Moore won the title, defeating in the final Danka Kovini\u0107 and Vera Lapko with the score 4\u20136, 7\u20135, [10\u20134].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279624-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou International Women's Open \u2013 Singles\nZhang Shuai was the defending champion, but she withdrew before her first round match against Wang Yafan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279624-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou International Women's Open \u2013 Singles\nWang Qiang won the title, defeating Yulia Putintseva in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279625-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou R&F F.C. season\nThe 2018 Guangzhou R&F season is the 8th year in Guangzhou R&F's existence and its 8th season in the Chinese football league, also its 7th season in the top flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279625-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou R&F F.C. season, Squad, Winter, First team\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279625-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou R&F F.C. season, Squad, Winter, Reserve team\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279625-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou R&F F.C. season, Squad, Summer, First team\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279625-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Guangzhou R&F F.C. season, Squad, Summer, Reserve team\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279626-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guatemalan territorial dispute referendum\nA referendum on the territorial dispute with Belize was held in Guatemala on Sunday April 15, 2018. Voters were asked whether the Guatemalan government should request the International Court of Justice to resolve the territorial dispute permanently, as part of a commitment signed in December 2008 between Guatemala and Belize. Guatemalan Vice President, Jafeth Cabrera, stated that Belize would hold their referendum in response in May 2018, but Belize released a statement denying that and stating rather that it would hold the referendum after the re-registration process has occurred to ensure an accurate and fair vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279626-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guatemalan territorial dispute referendum, Background\nIn May 2015, Belize allowed Guatemala to proceed with a referendum asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to definitively rule on the dispute although Belize by its own admission is not ready for such a vote. A previous treaty between the two countries stipulated that any such vote must be held simultaneously. Guatemala was initially expected to hold its referendum on the issue during its second round of presidential elections in October 2015, but such a vote was not on the ballot. Belize has yet to announce its vote on the matter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279626-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Guatemalan territorial dispute referendum, Background\nGuatemalan president Jimmy Morales has made statements strongly in support of Guatemala's old territorial claim to Belize: \"Something is happening right now, we are about to lose Belize. We have not lost it yet. We still have the possibility of going to the International Court of Justice where we can fight that territory or part of that territory.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279626-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Guatemalan territorial dispute referendum, Background\nIf the population voted \"No,\" a referendum would be called again in six months, until it wins \"Yes\" since both countries agree that the only way to solve the dispute is by means of the International Court of Justice. The call for the referendum was made on October 23, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279626-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Guatemalan territorial dispute referendum, Administration\nOn August 2, 2017, the Guatemalan Congress approved the agreement 22-2017, which allows the president to immediately submit to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal the request to convene the referendum. The agreement was approved by 102 votes in favor and 14 against. The European Union provided financial assistance for this to take place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279626-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Guatemalan territorial dispute referendum, Administration\nThe Government of Guatemala convened a public consultation, and immediately, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal called a referendum on Sunday, April 15, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279626-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Guatemalan territorial dispute referendum, Administration\nAround 7.5\u00a0million people registered for the referendum. Members of the armed forces (Air Force, Army, and Navy), people in prison, and Guatemalans living abroad were not allowed to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279626-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Guatemalan territorial dispute referendum, Administration, Question\nThe question of the referendum was this: \"Do you agree that any legal claim of Guatemala against Belize relating to land and insular territories and to any maritime areas pertaining to these territories should be submitted to the International Court of Justice for final settlement and that it determines finally the boundaries of the respective territories and areas of the parties?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279627-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guernsey electoral system referendum\nA referendum on electoral reform was held on 10 October 2018 in Guernsey to determine an electoral system for elections to the States of Guernsey. Voters were asked to rank five different proposed electoral systems, with a run-off system used to determine the winning proposal. Option A, a 38-member constituency covering the whole island, won the vote. As a result of voter turnout (45%) being above the 40% vote threshold, the referendum was binding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279627-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guernsey electoral system referendum, Vote counting system\nThe referendum itself used instant-runoff voting, also called the alternative vote. In the initial count, only first choices were counted. As no proposal received a majority of the vote, the proposal that received the fewest votes was eliminated; any ballots with this proposal as first choice were redistributed to the other options according to the second preference. This process was repeated until a proposal had a majority of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279627-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Guernsey electoral system referendum, Vote counting system\nA quorum of 40% voter turnout was required for the result to be binding, following a promise by the States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279627-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Guernsey electoral system referendum, Electoral system proposals\nVoters were presented with five options for a new electoral system Aspects of the pre-existing electoral system preserved by all five options were fixed-term elections and plurality block voting, in which each voter can vote for as many candidates as there are seats in the constituency. All but one option preserved the practice of holding a general election every four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279628-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guin\u00e9e Coupe Nationale\nThe 2018 Guin\u00e9e Coupe Nationale is the 59th edition of the Guin\u00e9e Coupe Nationale, the knockout football competition of Guinea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279628-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guin\u00e9e Coupe Nationale, Round 1\n\u00c9l\u00e9phants de Filima\tawd AS Mineur de Sangar\u00e9di\t[3-0 awarded; AS Sangar\u00e9di withdrew]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279628-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Guin\u00e9e Coupe Nationale, Round 1\nSimandou FC (Beyla)\tawd Sankaran FC\t\t\t[3-0 awarded; Sankaran dns]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279628-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Guin\u00e9e Coupe Nationale, Round 1\nYomou FC\t\tawd AS Manding de Siguiri\t[0-3 awarded; Yomou FC dns]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279628-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Guin\u00e9e Coupe Nationale, Round 1\nUNI Club de Kankan\t0-0 Ashanti GB de Siguiri\t[5-4 pen]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279629-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake\nOn January 23, 2018, at 00:31 AKST, an earthquake occurred in the Gulf of Alaska near Kodiak Island. The earthquake, measured at 7.9 on the Mw scale, was approximately 280 kilometres (170\u00a0mi) southeast of Kodiak and happened at a depth of 25 kilometres (16\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279629-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake\nIt was initially measured as a M 8.2 event, but later downgraded by the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake was felt throughout most of southern Alaska, including the major cities of Anchorage and Fairbanks, and parts of neighboring British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279629-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake\nThe earthquake prompted tsunami warnings and advisories for Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, and Hawaii. Residents in low-lying areas along the Gulf of Alaska and in British Columbia were evacuated to shelters and higher ground. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center later cancelled most of the alerts within four hours of the earthquake, due to the apparent lack of tsunami. The highest recorded waves after the event measured at under 8.3 inches (21\u00a0cm) above tide level on Kodiak Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279629-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake, Earthquake\nAccording to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake occurred 175 miles (282\u00a0km) southeast of Kodiak, Alaska at 12:31 AM local time (AKST). Witnesses to the earthquake itself reported that it was very long in duration, feeling like a \"slow roller,\" but it was not a violent earthquake despite its magnitude and mercalli intensity, as its epicentre was hundreds of kilometres offshore. This was corroborated by witnesses in Anchorage. There was no immediate damage reported. The earthquake woke people in Anchorage, 350 miles (560\u00a0km) from the epicenter, and was felt as far as Fairbanks to the northeast and British Columbia to the southeast. The earthquake's S-waves arrived in Anchorage within one minute, and reached Fairbanks within three minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279629-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake, Earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe earthquake was a strike-slip event that occurred within the Pacific Plate. The epicenter was to the south of the Aleutian Trench, where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the North American Plate. The region has produced twelve large earthquakes since 1900, including several megathrust earthquakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279629-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks\nThe first major aftershocks occurred 20 minutes after the earthquake. The strongest aftershock measured 5.5 on the moment magnitude scale, while most measured 4\u20135. Within two days, the United States Geological Survey recorded over 50 aftershocks. More than 560 aftershocks have been recorded well into March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279629-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake, Alerts and evacuations\nCommunities on Kodiak Island and other coastal areas on the Gulf of Alaska and Cook Inlet were evacuated after warning sirens were activated. Hundreds gathered in local schools, which were opened as evacuation shelters, in Kodiak, Seward, and Homer. Evacuees seeking higher ground filled local roads and the parking lots of supermarkets, while locals reported large numbers of evacuees parking near a wind farm on Pillar Mountain near Kodiak. An unrelated power outage at the Alaska Earthquake Center in Fairbanks caused some alerts to be delayed, while its website was overwhelmed by the number of users. The National Weather Service sent emergency alerts to cell phones in Alaska, reading, \"Emergency Alert. Tsunami danger on the coast. Go to high ground or move inland.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279629-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake, Alerts and evacuations\nThe National Weather Service and Pacific Tsunami Warning Center initially issued a tsunami watch for Hawaii and the entire West Coast, but cancelled them after less than two hours. In the San Francisco Bay Area, residents within three blocks of the Pacific coast and five blocks of the San Francisco Bay were warned by the city's Department of Emergency Management to be ready for evacuation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279629-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake, Alerts and evacuations\nSome aspects of the warning systems in place were delayed or failed to issue a warning at all, prompting multiple reviews of the warning infrastructure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279630-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guzzini Challenger\nThe 2018 Guzzini Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the sixteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Recanati, Italy between 2 and 8 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279630-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guzzini Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279630-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Guzzini Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279631-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guzzini Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nJonathan Eysseric and Quentin Halys were the defending champions but only Halys chose to defend his title, partnering Albano Olivetti. Halys lost in the semifinals to Gong Maoxin and Zhang Ze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279631-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guzzini Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nGong and Zhang won the title after defeating Gonzalo Escobar and Fernando Romboli 2\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20135), [10\u20138] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279632-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Guzzini Challenger \u2013 Singles\nViktor Galovi\u0107 was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Adri\u00e1n Men\u00e9ndez Maceiras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279632-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Guzzini Challenger \u2013 Singles\nDaniel Brands won the title after defeating Men\u00e9ndez Maceiras 7\u20135, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279633-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gwangju Open\nThe 2018 Gwangju Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 3rd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Gwangju, South Korea between 13 and 19 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279633-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gwangju Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279633-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Gwangju Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279633-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Gwangju Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279634-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gwangju Open \u2013 Doubles\nChen Ti and Ben McLachlan were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279634-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gwangju Open \u2013 Doubles\nNam Ji-sung and Song Min-kyu won the title after defeating Benjamin Lock and Rubin Statham 5\u20137, 6\u20133, [10\u20135] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279635-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Gwangju Open \u2013 Singles\nMatthias Bachinger was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279635-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Gwangju Open \u2013 Singles\nMaverick Banes won the title after defeating Nam Ji-sung 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279636-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 G\u00e4vleborg regional election\nG\u00e4vleborg County or Region G\u00e4vleborg held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279636-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 G\u00e4vleborg regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 75 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 24, a drop of two from 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279637-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 H1 Unlimited season\nThe 2018 H1 Unlimited season is the sixty-third running of the H1 Unlimited series for unlimited hydroplanes, sanctioned by the APBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279637-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 H1 Unlimited season, Teams and drivers\nNote: \u1e6a\u2014The U-3 is the only piston powered boat in the fleet, powered by a dual turbocharged Allison V-12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279638-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 HJK season, Squad, On loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279638-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 HJK season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279638-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 HJK season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279638-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 HJK season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279638-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 HJK season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279638-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 HJK season, Competitions, Veikkausliiga\nThe 2018 Veikkausliiga season began on 7 April 2018 and ends on 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279639-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Haarlem Baseball Week\nThe 2018 Haarlem Baseball Week was an international baseball competition held at the Pim Mulier Stadium in Haarlem, the Netherlands from 13\u201322 July 2018. It was the 29th edition of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279639-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Haarlem Baseball Week\nJapan became champions for the fourth time, beating Chinese Taipei in the final who played their first final in the history of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279639-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Haarlem Baseball Week, Teams\nA usual number of six teams were invited to the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279639-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Haarlem Baseball Week, Teams\nChinese Taipei is the official IBAF designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.) As national team. 6 non-national teams from West Germany have appeared before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279640-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hackney London Borough Council election\nElections to Hackney London Borough Council took place on 3 May 2018. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279640-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hackney London Borough Council election\nThe Labour Party retained overall control of the council, winning 52 out of 57 seats. The party gained three seats from the Liberal Democrats and lost one to the Conservative Party, for a net gain of two seats. The Green Party of England and Wales once again came second in the overall popular vote, but won no seats, falling short of a seat in Dalston ward by a margin of 21 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279641-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Haifa mayoral election\nThe 2018 Haifa mayoral election was held on 30 October 2018 to elect the mayor of Haifa. It saw the election of Einat Kalisch-Rotem, who unseated incumbent mayor Yona Yahav. Kalisch-Rotem would become the first female mayor of Haifa, making Haifa the largest city in Israel, and first major Israeli city, to ever have a female mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279641-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Haifa mayoral election\nThe election was part of the 2018 Israeli municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279641-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Haifa mayoral election, Campaigning\nKalisch-Rotem's candidacy was endorsed by the Meretz party. While Kalisch-Rotem's candidacy was endorsed by the national Israeli Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay, she did not receive the backing of the local Labor Party. The local Labor Party was headed by mayoral opponent Israel Savyon. Nevertheless, her ultimate victory was seen as a boon for the troubled Labor Party, with a Gabbay-backed candidate defeating Yahav, who was seen as close to Moshe Kahlon, a political enemy of Gabbay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279641-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Haifa mayoral election, Campaigning\nDespite her being nonreligious, Kalisch-Rotem's candidacy also received support from the city's Haredi community, including from the Degel HaTorah party. Haredi support for a female mayoral candidate was considered notable, as Haredi are seen as tending to believe that leadership should be exclusive to men, as well as tending to believe that women should avoid bringing attention to themselves in the manner required of politicians. Haredi desired to Yahav ousted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279641-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Haifa mayoral election, Campaigning\nKalisch-Rotem's cadnidacy had originally been disqualified by a district court due to the fact that her lawyer and the Labor Party had submitted both her candidacy and the candidacy of Israel Savyon. However, on 22 October, the Supreme Court of Israel, decided that she would be allowed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279641-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Haifa mayoral election, Campaigning\nOf the hundreds of Israeli communities that held mayoral races held during the 2018 municipal elections, Haifa was one of roughly ten cities to elect a woman as its mayor. This was an increase from the seven community's that had elected female mayors during the 2013 municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279641-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Haifa mayoral election, Results\nThe results in Haifa, with 125,333 voters participating of 256,559 eligible , are as follows. Of the 125,333 votes, 118,271 were valid (marking 46.10% turnout).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279642-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Haining Open\nThe 2018 CBSA Haining Snooker International Open was a non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 31 July\u20134 August 2018 in Haining, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279642-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Haining Open, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money of the event is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279643-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Haiti earthquake\nOn October 6, 2018, at approximately 8:11 p.m, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck 19 kilometers northwest of Port-de-Paix, Haiti. The earthquake damaged structures and killed 18 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279643-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Haiti earthquake\nThe earthquake was the strongest to hit Haiti since January 12, 2010, not including the aftershocks of the 2010 earthquake, and the shaking was felt as far away as Port-au-Prince.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279643-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Haiti earthquake, Tectonic setting\nHaiti lies at the boundary between the Caribbean Plate and North American Plate. Movement across this boundary is partitioned across several major structures. The major left-lateral strike slip fault zones of the Septentrional-Oriente fault zone and the Enriquillo\u2013Plantain Garden fault zone together accommodate the lateral component of this movement. North of Haiti, the overall deformation is transpressional in nature and an additional structure, the North Hispaniola Fault, a major thrust zone, takes up the component of convergence at a rate of 5\u00a0mm per year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279643-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Haiti earthquake, Damage\nThe earthquake caused part of a school to collapse in Gros-Morne, damaged the fa\u00e7ade of the Paroisse St. Michel A De Plaisance church in Plaisance, caused a cultural center to collapse in Gros-Morne, damaged a holding cell at the Police Nationale d'Haiti Commissariat de Port-de-Paix in Port-de-Paix, allowing several detainees to escape, caused an auditorium to collapse in Gros-Morne, damaged several classrooms at San Gabriel National School in Gros-Morne, and destroyed houses in the communes of Chansolme, Gros-Morne, Plaisance, and Port-de-Paix as well as on the island of Tortuga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279643-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Haiti earthquake, Damage\nOverall, a total of 2,102 houses were destroyed, and a further 15,932 were damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279643-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Haiti earthquake, Casualties\nThe earthquake killed 18 people and 548 people were injured. Nine of the deaths occurred in Port-de-Paix, seven in Gros-Morne and one in Saint-Louis du Nord.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279643-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Haiti earthquake, Response\nPresident Jovenel Mo\u00efse instructed residents to stay calm and stated that authorities would be responding to those who need help.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279643-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Haiti earthquake, Response\nPrime Minister Jean-Henry C\u00e9ant said that a cabinet had been created to help organize the emergency response.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279643-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Haiti earthquake, Response\nThe day after the earthquake, President Mo\u00efse visited Port-de-Paix de oversee the recovery efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279643-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Haiti earthquake, Aftershocks\nThere have been two aftershocks since the initial earthquake struck. A magnitude 5.2 event occurred nearly 20 hours after the mainshock, with another magnitude 4.2 event happening about 5 hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279643-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Haiti earthquake, Aftershocks\nIn the first 8 months of 2018, there were 26 earthquakes between the magnitudes of 2.9 and 4.6 recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279644-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Haliburton County municipal elections\nElections were held in Haliburton County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279644-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Haliburton County municipal elections, Haliburton County Council\nThe Haliburton County Council consists of the reeves and deputy reeves of the four constituent municipalities. A warden is elected from the eight members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279645-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships\nThe 2018 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships (also known as the Dell Technologies Hall of Fame Open for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 43rd edition of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2017 ATP World Tour. It took place at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, United States, from July 16 through July 22, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279645-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279645-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 86], "content_span": [87, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279646-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nAisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Rajeev Ram were the defending champions but Ram chose not to participate and Qureshi chose to compete in B\u00e5stad instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279646-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nJonathan Erlich and Artem Sitak won the title, defeating Marcelo Ar\u00e9valo and Miguel \u00c1ngel Reyes-Varela in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279647-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nJohn Isner was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279647-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nSteve Johnson won his fourth career ATP World Tour title, defeating Ramkumar Ramanathan in the final, 7\u20135, 3\u20136, 6\u20132. Ramanathan was making his first appearance in a World Tour final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279647-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 55], "content_span": [56, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279648-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Halland regional election\nHalland County or Region Halland held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279648-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Halland regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 71 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 19, a drop of four from in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279649-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Halton Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Halton Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Halton Borough Council in England. This election was held on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279650-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Halton Region municipal elections\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Jevansen (talk | contribs) at 10:50, 9 September 2020 (Moving from Category:Halton Region to Category:Regional Municipality of Halton using Cat-a-lot). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279650-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Halton Region municipal elections\nElections were held in the Regional Municipality of Halton of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279650-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Halton Region municipal elections, Halton Regional Chair\nThe following are the results for the position of Halton Regional Chair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279650-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Halton Region municipal elections, Burlington, Regional & City Councillors\nSix Regional & City Councillors were elected in 1 of 6 wards on Burlington City Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279650-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Halton Region municipal elections, Halton Hills, Mayor\nThe results for Halton Hills Town Council are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279650-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Halton Region municipal elections, Halton Hills, Regional Councillors\nTwo Regional Councillors were elected in 1 of 2 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279650-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Halton Region municipal elections, Halton Hills, Local Councillors\nEight Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards (2 from each ward).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279650-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Halton Region municipal elections, Milton\nFor 2018, Milton reduced the number of councillors from 11 to 9. This consequently resulted in 4 Regional Councillors and 4 Local Councillors being elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279650-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Halton Region municipal elections, Milton, Regional Councillors\nFour Regional Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279650-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Halton Region municipal elections, Milton, Local Councillors\nFour Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279650-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Halton Region municipal elections, Oakville, Oakville Town Council\nThe size of Oakville's council has been increased from 13 members to 15 and has necessitated the creation of a seventh ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279651-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamburg stabbing attack\nThe 2018 Hamburg stabbing attack was an attack on 12 April 2018 in the city of Hamburg, Germany. A man stabbed his ex-wife and his one-year-old daughter on a station platform. Both victims died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279651-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamburg stabbing attack, Attack\nOn the morning of 12 April 2018 the victims and the suspect met at the Stadthausbr\u00fccke station. The suspected assailant, Mourtala Madou, stabbed his ex-wife, identified as Sandra P., and their one-year-old daughter in the Jungfernstieg station of Hamburg S-Bahn near the Hamburg Rathaus and the mall of Europa Passage. The child died at the scene, the mother was taken to hospital, but died there later. One of the woman's children was also present. Several eyewitnesses were treated as well. The suspect called the police after the fact and was detained subsequently. According to prosecutors, the suspect acted out of outrage because a court had denied him custody of his children the day before the stabbing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279651-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamburg stabbing attack, Attack\nIn May 2018, authorities released information indicating that the child had not been beheaded. Although the stab wound to the neck was lethal, the cause of death was another stab wound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279651-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamburg stabbing attack, Suspect and motive\nAccording to the prosecutor's office, the suspect acted in anger and revenge, because he had lost a custody dispute days before. If he had won, he might have been allowed to stay in Germany. He had been threatening the woman for some time, and she had made a complaint to the police. He was taken into custody and is charged with two counts of murder. The mother had four more children, who were taken into the care of the children's emergency service following their mother's death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279651-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamburg stabbing attack, Suspect and motive\nThe suspect belonged to what is known in Hamburg as the \"Lampedusa group\", who came to the city via Italy in 2013, and had been granted a residence permit. and he was later residing in the public refugee housing in Wandsbek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279651-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamburg stabbing attack, Trial\nThe trial started in the Hamburger Landgericht in October 2018 where the suspect was charged with double murder. At the start of the trial the suspect confessed to the deed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279651-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamburg stabbing attack, Reactions\nA spokesman for Hamburg police, Timo Zill, called the crime \"substantial\" and \"unusual for Hamburg\". Katharina Fegebank, Deputy Mayor of Hamburg stated that she was shocked about the crime: \"If a child is stabbed by the hand which should protect it, this exceeds any imaginable cruelty.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279651-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamburg stabbing attack, Reactions\nMany citizens of Hamburg brought flowers and candles and mourned at the place of the crime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279652-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton City SC season\nThe 2018 season was Hamilton City SC's second season in the Canadian Soccer League. The season marked the return of Hamilton after a season's absence in order to reorganize. Their season began on May 19, 2018 in an away match to FC Vorkuta. Throughout the season Hamilton clinched an playoff berth after finishing fifth in the First Division. Their postseason journey came to a quick conclusion after a defeat to Scarborough SC in the Quarterfinals. The club's top goalscorer was Sani Dey with 13 goals, which made him the league's top goalscorer and was awarded the CSL Golden Boot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279652-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton City SC season, Summary\nAfter a one year sabbatical Hamilton returned to the Canadian Soccer League under new management. Former Brantford Galaxy head coach Sasa Vukovic was appointed in that capacity. In preparation for the season the organization transferred their home venue to Heritage Green Sport Park. The roster assembled by Vukovic consisted of former players and talent from their previous reserve team. Hamilton managed to produce an average season enough to secure a playoff berth with a fifth place standing in the First Division. In the postseason Hamilton faced Scarborough SC in the opening round, but were defeated in the opening round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279652-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton City SC season, Team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279652-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton City SC season, Competitions, Canadian Soccer League, Results summary\nLast updated: September 20, 2018. Source: 2018 Canadian Soccer League season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 83], "content_span": [84, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279653-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season\nThe 2018 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 61st season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 69th overall. The Tiger-Cats improved upon their 6\u201312 record from 2017 and clinched a playoff berth and home playoff date during their bye in week 17 following the Montreal Alouettes' loss to the Calgary Stampeders. After defeating the BC Lions in the East Semi-Final, the Tiger-Cats lost to the Ottawa Redblacks in the East Final. This was the third season under general manager Eric Tillman and first full season under head coach June Jones following his interim role the year before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279653-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season, Offseason, Notable signings\nDuring the offseason, the Tiger-Cats signed controversial free agent quarterback Johnny Manziel, who played two seasons with the Cleveland Browns in the National Football League (NFL) before being released in 2015 for incidents on and off the field. The Manziel signing was part of a tumultuous negotiation process that lasted over a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279653-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season, Offseason, CFL Draft\nThe 2018 CFL Draft took place on May 3, 2018. The Tiger-Cats held the first overall draft pick following a trade with the Montreal Alouettes and selected wide receiver Mark Chapman with that pick. This was the first time since the 2013 CFL Draft that they selected first overall. In total, the team had nine selections in the eight-round draft, including four picks in the first 15 selections after trading John Chick to the Edmonton Eskimos and Zach Collaros to the Saskatchewan Roughriders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279653-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season, Team, Roster\nItalics indicate International player updated 2018-11-17 \u2022 46 Roster, 6 one-game injured9 six-game injured, 7 practice", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election\nThe 2018 Hamilton municipal election occurred on October 22, 2018, as per the Ontario Municipal Elections Act, 1996. Electors in Hamilton selected one Mayor, members of the Hamilton, Ontario City Council and members of both English and French Public and Catholic School Boards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election\nOn election day, Hamiltonians re-elected Fred Eisenberger to serve his third term as mayor of the City of Hamilton. He is the first mayor since amalgamation to be re-elected for two consecutive terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Council ward boundary reform\nIn June 2012, councillors committed $260,000 to conduct a study that would examine boundary reform in 2015, with a proposal to come forward regarding changes for the 2018 Municipal Election. This was following the 2006\u20132010 and 2010\u20132014 councils opting to push an examination of ward boundaries into the next council term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 79], "content_span": [80, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Council ward boundary reform\nThe issue arose during the 2014 municipal election, with Hamilton's three top mayoral contenders supporting ward boundary reform during their campaigns. In early 2015, councillors approved city staff's request to put out a call for proposals for the consultants who would examine ward boundaries. The successful bidders, Watson and Associates Economists Ltd., then began a process of public consultation and examination. Throughout February, 2016, community consolation meetings were held across Hamilton to inform the public and collect feedback from residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 79], "content_span": [80, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Council ward boundary reform\nThe final report presented a number of options for changing the city's existing boundaries. On February 8, 2017, councillors voted to reject the consultant reports and redraw the city's ward boundaries themselves, opting to avoid any substantial boundary changes, except for a minor ascetic alteration to the boundary between Ward 6 and Ward 7 on the East Mountain. The change was controversial, with community tensions flaring at the approval meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 79], "content_span": [80, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Council ward boundary reform\nRobert Williams, one of the consultants the city hired to study the boundaries told council Watson and Associates could not support the changes, saying, \"I've told you in black and white, we couldn't endorse it.\" Ward 3 Councillor Matthew Green stated that he believed the approved wards were councillors 'gerrymandering' boundaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 79], "content_span": [80, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Council ward boundary reform\nIn response to the controversy, local residents appealed council's decision to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). After holding a series of hearings in October, the OMB struck down the city's redrawn boundaries and imposed a new electoral map for the 2018 election. The new map eliminated a distinct ward for the former municipality of Wentworth, and significantly altered boundaries across the city, most notably providing another ward to the city's West Mountain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 79], "content_span": [80, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Council ward boundary reform\nIn January, 2018, local media reported that a group of residents from Hamilton's suburbs, working under the name \"Free Flamborough\", had taken issue with the imposed boundaries and council's decision to not pursue an appeal. The group, led by Flamborough resident Roman Sarachman, had begun exploring options such as launching legal action against the municipal government, or pressuring the provincial government for the right to de-amalgamate from Hamilton", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 79], "content_span": [80, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, School board ward boundary reform\nThe Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board's (HWDSB) attempt to reallocate the ward boundaries for trustees in 2013 also resulted in the decision to task the 2014\u20132018 Board with examining ward boundary reform after city council redraws boundaries. Following the OMB decision on Hamilton's council wards, the HWDSB and Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board (HWCDSB) sought relief from a provincially-imposed March 31, 2018 deadline to update their respective ward boundaries, but were denied a stay by the provinces' Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Ministry of Education", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, School board ward boundary reform\nThe HWCDSB was the first board to meet the provincially-imposed deadline, with Catholic trustees opting to abandon their long-standing practice of having two trustees elected for Ward 9, 10, and 11, and instead establishing single trustee seats for Ward 1, 2, and 15, Ward 8 and 14, Ward 9 and 11, and Ward 12 and 13. In mandating a single trustee for Ward 1, 2, and 15, the HWCDSB created the first non-contiguous electoral ward in the city's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, School board ward boundary reform\nThe HWDSB initially proposed merging the newly constituted West Mountain Wards 8 and 14, as well as considering options that would blend Wards 5 and 10, and 9 and 11. Following a public survey in which 47 percent of respondents approved of the board's proposed changes, trustees voted 9\u20131 to pair Wards 8 and 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Ranked ballots\nFollowing the 2014 provincial election, the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Ted McMeekin, announced the province would be reexamining the Municipal Elections Act, 1996 to determine if the length and voting systems of Ontario's municipal elections needed alterations. Part of the reexamination was a proposal that would have allowed municipalities to adopt a ranked ballot system for the 2018 municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Ranked ballots\nIn June 2015, Hamilton's manager of elections, Tony Fallis, commented that the system would confuse electors, while Ward 3 councillor Matthew Green called the system a \"fantastic opportunity.\" The following month, Green invited ranked ballot-advocate Dave Meslin to speak in Hamilton on the issue, sparking a call for a citizen's group to promote the proposed electoral system. Mayor Eisenberger spoke favourably about the new system and indicated he was willing to consider it for the 2018 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Ranked ballots\nDespite this, in November, 2016, councillors rejected an attempt by Ward 3 Councillor Matthew Green to initiate a study into the feasibility of ranked balloting. Opponents of the plan called ranked ballots 'confusing' and worried they would hinder voter turnout. Council ultimately voted 9\u20135 against making any moves toward the change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Light rail transit\nBeginning in 2008, city council and Metrolinx, the transit agency responsible for projects across the Toronto and Hamilton areas, developed plans for a new rapid transit system in Hamilton to ease congestion on the city's Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) system. In September, 2008, a city-commissioned survey found that 94% of Hamiltonians surveyed supported investment in rapid transit with 66% supporting light rail transit (LRT), 8% favouring bus rapid transit (BRT), and 20% endorsing either option.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Light rail transit\nHamilton City Council endorsed the BLAST network plan in 2008, which called for 5 rapid transit lines to be constructed across the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Light rail transit\nIn 2014, the city's mayoral campaign focused heavily on the light rail issue, with Eisenberger and challenger Brian McHattie taking a position in favour of light rail while candidate Brad Clark opposed the project. Eisenberger won the race with 39.93%, while McHattie took 20.38%. Clark, who placed second, received 31.53% of the vote. Across Hamilton, pro-LRT councillors were elected with the express goal of supporting the project.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Light rail transit\nIn early 2015, activists feared the HSR had abandoned hope the project would be successful, as the agency's new director, Dave Dixon, had submitted for council's approval a request for new express buses totaling $302 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Light rail transit\nFears were abated in May, 2015, when Premier Kathleen Wynne and Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca announced the provincial government would fund the city's LRT project at 100% and invest in the construction of a new GO Train station in Stoney Creek at Centennial Parkway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Light rail transit\nWhile the initial plan announced by the provincial government was to construct the city's B-Line LRT line with a 'spur' line to the West Harbour GO Station, in 2017, Metrolinx announced the 'spur' would be dropped from the project in favour of express bus service that would feed into the city's existing A-Line express bus line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Issues, Light rail transit\nDuring the 2018 Ontario Provincial Election campaign, the Progressive Conservative Party sought to attract the support of anti-LRT advocates by suggesting the party would be open to disbursing the earmarked $1 billion for LRT to the city for use on general infrastructure. This caused Ward 6 councillor Tom Jackson, Ward 8 councillor Terry Whitehead, and Ward 12 councillor Lloyd Ferguson to openly discuss changing their votes in favour of LRT if the Progressive Conservatives won the June 7 vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nIncumbent mayor Fred Eisenberger announced his intention to seek a third term in January 2018, aiming to continue the projects begun under his second administration. Speaking with CBC Hamilton, Eisenberger emphasized his commitment to a platform of economic development, improved public transit, and looking to public/private partnerships to build more affordable housing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nEdward Graydon, who sought the city's mayoralty in 2010, registered to run for mayor on the first day of nominations. Graydon was a vocal opponent of the city's planned LRT project, interjecting himself into a press conference held by Ward 8 Councillor Terry Whitehead and Ward 3 Councillor Matthew Green in 2017, interrupting Green by shouting \"If you don't want LRT in this community, in 2018 vote for me, Edward Graydon, and I'll make this city the best city you've ever seen,\" and \"Here's a motion: Get rid of Matthew Green. He's a terrible politician. You've got to get rid of him. You're only going to make the city great when I'm in.\" Graydon and Green have scuffled publicly in the time since the incident, with Graydon taking to social media in profanity-laced posts demanding apologies from the Ward 3 councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nPhil Ryerson, who placed last in the race for the city's mayoralty in 2014, registered to run on May 25, 2018. Ryerson's platform focused on cancelling the city's LRT plan, turning city streets into cement roads, and ending all in camera meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nNathalie Xian Yi Yan, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner who had lost two bids for Ward 6 councillor in 2006 and 2010, registered to run for mayor on May 31. Xian Yi Yan also unsuccessfully sought the provincial NDP nomination on Hamilton Mountain in 2007 and in Flamborough-Glanbrook in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nOn July 3, Ricky Tavares, who finished in 10th place during the 2014 mayoral campaign, registered to seek the office again. Tavares was notable during that campaign for demanding Ryan McGreal, the editor of local affairs website Raise The Hammer, purchase marijuana seeds from him before he would answer questions from the media. Tavares again requested money from the media in exchange for answers to questions when approached by CBC Hamilton reporter Samantha Craggs in July, 2018. In response to an inquiry about his platform, Tavares told Craggs \"Its (sic) gonna cost you $500 for this information. I am making it cheap for you because I think I remember you from city hall meetings many months ago and I think your (sic) beautiful. I like you.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nAlso on July 3, 2018, Vito Sgro, an organizer with the Liberal Party and past chair of the Hamilton Port Authority, announced he would be running for mayor on a platform of cancelling the city's LRT plan, hiring an auditor to study the city's finances, and changing the city's ward boundaries to create five superwards that conform to the city's federal and provincial ridings and would elect 3 councillors each. Sgro had been rumoured to jump into the race when he first signaled to Hamilton Spectator columnist Andrew Dreschel in January that he was considering a run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nOn June 9, 2018, former federal Green Party candidate for Hamilton Centre, Ute Schmidt-Jones, registered to run for mayor. Schmidt-Jones was previously a candidate for city council in Midland, Ontario during the 2014 municipal campaign. Schmidt-Jones was banned from Hamilton City Hall after throwing pumpkin seeds adorned with smiley faces at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2016 to protest his support for oil pipelines. Schmidt-Jones expressed support for the city's LRT plan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nA week after entering the mayoral race, Sgro was the subject of some controversy when Joanna Chapman, a retired businesswoman and former Dundas town councillor, told local media that Sgro was the accountant who approved former Mayor Larry Di Ianni's financial statements during his 2003 mayoral campaign. In that campaign, Di Ianni accepted donations that exceeded the legal limit required by the Municipal Elections Act. In 2006, Di Ianni plead guilty to violating the Municipal Elections Act and was forced to return $26,000 in illegal contributions, make a $4,500 donation to charity, and write an essay on his actions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nChapman noted that Sgro, a registered accountant, had access to Di Ianni's campaign financials and was aware of the violation prior to signing off on the documents. Di Ianni pushed back against Chapman's accusations, telling Hamilton Spectator columnist Andrew Dreschel, \"To sort of try to damage someone through innuendo \u2014 which, by the way, is a Joanna Chapman specialty \u2014 is just not fair.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nOn July 20, neo-Nazi, Holocaust-denier, and white-supremacist, Paul Fromm, registered to run for mayor of Hamilton. Fromm moved to Hamilton Mountain from m Mississauga earlier in 2018. Fromm previously ran for Mayor of Mississauga in 2014 and, in the 2018 Ontario provincial election, stood as a candidate for the Canadians' Choice Party in Etobicoke Centre. Identified as a neo-Nazi by the Southern Poverty Law Centre, Fromm was fired from his job as a public school teacher in Peel Region after attending far-right events and shouting racial slurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nSgro launched his mayoral campaign with a $250-a-plate fundraiser on Thursday, August 9 at the Michelangelo Banquet Centre. In attendance were former Liberal candidate in Hamilton Centre and Hamilton Mountain, Javid Mirza (who served as one of Sgro's campaign advisors), Michelle Stockwell, a former Liberal candidate in Hamilton East-Stoney Creek, and former Government House Leader in the cabinet of Paul Martin, Tony Valeri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nDuring one of the first mayoral debates of the campaign, hosted by local community cable channel Cable 14, mayoral contenders focused mainly on the city's planned light rail project. Sgro, Ryerson, Geissler, Fromm, and Graydon all took stances against the project, while George Rusich, Schmid-Jones, and Eisenberger were supportive. Sgro used the debate to advocate for road-widening schemes, while Fromm attempted to downplay his connections to white supremacist movements and focus on his advocacy for Hamilton's drivers. Schmid-Jones proposed banning bottled water from the city's facilities, while Eisenbeger promoted his record of reducing homelessness and integrating the city's transit network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nDuring the debate, candidates Graydon and Carlos Gomes were cautioned against using foul language and personal attacks, while Gomes used the debate to defend his marijuana use, though did not reference the Federal government's planned legalization of the substance on October 17, five days before the municipal election. Mayoral candidate Tavares was again invited to the debate but demanded financial compensation to appear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nThe issue of recreation facilities for people in Hamilton's suburban communities became an issue during the campaign, with Eisenberger pledging to conduct feasibility studies for rec centres in the next term of office. Pattison proposed the idea of reviewing all city facilities while Rusich promised to have a number of facilities built and operational by 2022.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayoral election\nOn Election Day, October 22, Hamilton's residents gave incumbent Fred Eisenberger a second term as mayor. According to The Hamilton Spectator, Eisenberger is the \"first mayor since amalgamation to survive back-to-back Hamilton elections.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 1\nIncumbent Ward 1 councillor Aidan Johnson registered for re-election on the day nominations opened, May 1. On the same day, McMaster graduate student and vice-president of the Hamilton West\u2014Ancaster\u2014Dundas NDP, Sophie Geffros, registered to seek the seat. Greffos' campaign focused on improving civic engagement and increasing dialogue in west Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 1\nOn July 18, nine days before the close of nominations, Johnson announced he was withdrawing his nomination to serve as the executive director of the Niagara Community Legal Clinic, serving residents in Welland and St. Catharines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 1\nJason Allen, third-place candidate in 2014 and a former staffer with Metrolinx registered to contest the seat, touting an endorsement from Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi. Carol Lazich, one of the most vocal anti-LRT activists in the city campaigned on a platform of opposing the project. Maureen Wilson, a former staffer with Hamilton Mayor Bob Wade and partner to former Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Chair Terry Cooke campaigned on an urbanist platform. Wilson maintained support from across the political spectrum, earning the endorsements of former Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale MPP Ted McMeekin, then-NDP candidate for MP in Hamilton Centre Matthew Green, and former Hamilton Police Service Chief Ken Robertson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 1\nLinda Narducci, a small-business owner and founding member of The Mustard Seed, a local organic co-operative, campaigned on improving pedestrian and cyclist safety as well as reviewing the ward's participatory budgeting project. Syed Bakht, a self-employed tax specialist and Jordan Geertsma, a local pub owner ran on campaigns skeptical of LRT. Lyla Miklos, a Unitarian lay chaplain and education worker sought the seat on a campaign of respecting the democratic process and speaking for marginalized Hamiltonians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 1\nRichard Massie, who lived in Ward 14, ran on a platform of redeveloping the Chedoke Golf Course, Sharon Cole focused on housing affordability, and Harrison White, the youngest candidate in the ward at the age of 22, focused on housing issues and hospital wait times. Ela Eroglu, a local architect, ran on a campaign of addressing poverty issues. Sharon Anderson, an Ainslie Wood resident, focused on better soliciting resident feedback on important projects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 2\nSeeking a third term on council, incumbent Jason Farr faced competition from seven candidates. Cameron Kroetsch, a former union president and LGBT rights activist in Hamilton, and Nicole Smith, a local literacy centre manager, were the first candidates to register on May 1. They were followed by Suresh Venodh Daljeet and Mark Tennant in the following months. Farr registered on July 19, and was followed by James Unsworth, John Vail, and Diane Chiarelli on July 27, the final day of nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 2\nKroetsch, who received the support of previous challengers to Farr - Terri Wallis (2014) and Matt Jelly (2010) - as well as former Green Party federal and provincial candidate Peter Ormond, campaigned for better communication and allocation of the city's existing public housing stock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 2\nA majority of the council candidates in Ward 2 indicated support for the city's light rail transit project, including Kroetsch, Daljeet, Smith, Farr, and another 2010 challenger of Farr's, Chiarelli. Tennant and 2014 council candidate and Progressive Conservative candidate for Hamilton Centre, Vail, both opposed the project. Smith's campaign focused on addressing the ward's infrastructure backlog and collaborative decision-making, Daljeet campaigned on waterfront re-development, business attraction, and transit affordability, Tennant's campaign emphasized community safety and tackling the opioid epidemic while Chiarelli emphasized community safety and sustainable development.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 2\nLocal media indicated that James Unsworth had opted to not campaign for the seat, despite having his name remain on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 3\nOn June 17, 2018, Hamilton Spectator columnist Andrew Dreschel reported that sitting Ward 3 councillor Matthew Green was considering seeking the NDP nomination to stand as the party's candidate in Hamilton Centre for the 2019 federal election. At the time, Green declined to confirm if he was going to seek federal office or reoffer for his Ward 3 council seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 3\nLocal transgender advocate Kristeen Sprague filed to seek the Ward 3 seat on June 15. Perennial candidate Keith Beck registered to run in Ward 3 on July 6. Beck sought the office of Ward 7 councillor in 2014, receiving 12.41% of the vote. He had filed to papers to run for council in Ward 2 in 2010, but withdrew and refiled to run in Ward 7, and finished last with 5.14% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 3\nIn 2006, he filed to run for mayor, but withdrew and refiled to run for city council in Ward 10, where he finished last with 6.58% of the vote. During a 2004 by-election for the office of Ward 2 councillor caused by Andrea Horwath's election to the Ontario legislature, received 29 votes, or 0.57%, placing 9th out of 11 candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 3\nThe candidates were joined by former staffer with Mayor Fred Eisenberger, Laura Farr, on July 12. Farr, a Liberal Party activist, served on the party's Electoral District Association in Hamilton Centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 3\nOn July 16, one day before incumbent councillor Matthew Green was scheduled to hold a press conference regarding his political future, NDP supporter and founder of a local consulting firm, the Empower Strategy group, Evelyn Myrie registered to run in Ward 3. Myrie had previously been involved with the Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion, was awarded with Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal, and has been inducted into Hamilton's Gallery of Distinction. In 1994, Myrie ran for the office of Ward 1 councillor, and finished 5th with 13.6% of the vote. Myrie would later drop out of the race before the close of nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 3\nAt a press conference held on July 17, Green formally announced that he would not seek re-election in Ward 3, instead opting to seek the NDP's nomination for Parliament in Hamilton Centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 3\nOn the day Green announced his intention to seek higher office, business owner and vocal anti-LRT activist Milena Balta registered to seek the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 3\nFollowing Green's announcement, a number of candidates entered the race to replace the one-term councillor. Alain Bureau, who had successfully advocated for the inclusion of a Gage Park stop on the B-Line LRT route ran on a platform of promoting healthy communities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 3\nSteven Paul Denault, who ran for the office of Ward 3 HWDSB Trustee in 2010 and 2014 and Wards 9, 10, and 11 HWCDSB Trustee in 2006, campaigned on re-establishing a network of electrified trolley buses while expressing frustration with the lack of a public referendum on LRT. Speaking with the CBC, Denault remarked, \"I'm very very disappointed in our elected people.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 3\nNrinder Nann, Green's 2014 campaign manager and a local small business owner, ran on a pro-LRT platform that called for strategies to improve housing affordability, improving community safety, and doing more for the environment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 4\nWard 4 faced a series of health and environmental issues in the lead-up to the 2018 election. Local media reported of resident complaints regarding a municipal facility storing waste generated from the city's \"Green Bin\" composting program, odors and particulate from the area's steel plants and metal recycling facility, and on-going issues with Burlington Street, which acts as an arterial highway for heavy trucks. Issues relating to housing affordability and commercial decline were also of importance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 4\nControversial incumbent councillor Sam Merulla registered to seek a 6th term. Merulla, a former Liberal Party staffer-turned New Democrat, had been experiencing a rightward ideological shift and campaigned on opposing wasteful spending and focusing on \"needs rather than wants\". Merulla had generated attention and controversy during the 2014-2018 term of council for a number of high-profile motions and disputes. Merulla had waged a campaign against the popular mobile game Pok\u00e9mon Go after \"Pok\u00e9stops\" were found in the city's cemeteries, and had proposed the licensing of house cats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0051-0001", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 4\nMore controversially, Merulla attacked public employees over wages, threatened to sue Vivian Saunders, a local resident focused on campaign finance accountability, over discrepancies in Merulla's 2014 campaign financial records, pushed for sanctions against Ward 12 councillor Lloyd Ferguson over an incident where Ferguson pushed local journalist Joey Coleman, and mocked Ward 14 councillor Robert Pasuta for missing some council meetings due to Pasuta's suffering a traumatic brain injury on his farm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 4\nRod Douglas was Merulla's only opponent in the race, Douglas, a 55-year-old mechanical engineer, was an LRT opponent and ran on a campaign of fixing local roads and improving apartment inspection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 5\nIn March, 2018, Stewart Klazinga a resident of the Vincent Neighbourhood, announced his intention to seek the office of Ward 5 councillor. In his announcement, Klazinga spoke of the need to improve transit, transparency, and work toward a Vision Zero program for Hamilton. Klazinga, a 35-year-old community activist, also emphasized the need for more community consultation from councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 5\nFormer NDP candidate in Ancaster\u2014Dundas\u2014Flamborough\u2014Westdale, Juanita Maldonado, campaigned on opposing LRT, creating an \"advocacy office\" for seniors and better regulation of cannabis dispensaries. Seven-term incumbent Chad Collins sought another term in office, running on his record of service and focusing on addressing infrastructure issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 6\nTom Jackson, who has served as Ward 6 Councillor from 1988, announced his intention to seek re-election immediately following the 2014 election. In January 2018, he confirmed his intention to seek a 10th term on council and registered on June 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 6\nBrad Young was first to candidate to register on June 8. His campaign focused on a change in leadership, with the candidate writing in the Hamilton Mountain News, \u201cAfter 30 years of honourable service, isn't it time to nurture the new era?\u201d Young took a stand against the city's LRT project, instead advocating for a conversion of the city's HSR bus fleet to electric vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 6\nTimothy Taylor, the financial officer for a local escape room, ran on a platform of reducing inefficiency at city hall, supporting LRT, providing more supports to local businesses, and reopening the city's disused ski hills.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 7\nWard 7, despite the ward-boundary realignment, remained the largest ward in the city by population at 47,460 residents. The ward had faced considerable political upheval with former councillor Scott Duvall vacating the seat in 2015 after being elected Hamilton Mountain's NDP MP and the winner of the by-election to replace him, Donna Skelly, vacating the seat in early 2018 after being elected the PC MPP for Flamborough-Glanbrook. Former Ward 7 alderman Terry Anderson, who served from 1991 to 2000, served as the interim councillor, but did not seek election to the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 7\nEster Pauls, the runner-up in race for Hamilton Mountain MPP in the June 2018 Ontario general election registered to seek the seat. Pauls, the owner of a running shop in Westdale, was skeptical of the city's LRT project and ran on a platform of being a political outsider. Despite her contemporary political affiliations, Pauls also noted her past campaign work for former Hamilton Mountain MPP Marie Bountrogianni and former Mayor Bob Bratina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 7\nGeraldine McMullen, a candidate in the by-election to replace Duvall, worked with the Ontario NDP and campaigned on speaking up for the ward's residents, public operation of LRT, supporting affordable housing in the ward, and running for re-election in 2022 rather than seeking outside opportunities as the ward's former councillors had. McMullen also carried the endorsement of former Hamilton Mountain MP Chris Charlton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 7\nDan McIntyre, a 29-year old autoworker ran on a platform of supporting LRT, addressing poverty through job creation, and increasing HSR service. McIntyre was one of the few candidates to list a home address in the ward at the time of the election. Adam Dirani, an opponent of LRT, ran on a fiscally conservative platform of being more efficient with the city's taxes while Steve Clarke, a semi-retired City of Hamilton employee, wanted the city to focus on building the A-Line LRT first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0061-0001", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 7\nKaren Grice-Uggenti, the director of the Hamilton Mountain Liberal Party Association, wanted a pivot to BRT, and Steven Benson, a self-employed advertising executive, was undecided about LRT, instead focusing his platform on traffic calming. Jim McColl, a USW Steelworker ran on a platform of supporting LRT, expanding the B.L.A.S.T network and clean, safe, affordable housing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 7\nOn election night, Pauls won with the smallest percentage of any elected councillor, earning 25% of the vote and beating McMullen by just over 1,100 votes. Pauls attributed her victory to her attempts to connect with the voters of Ward 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 8\nChristopher Climie, a local real estate agent, was the first candidate to register on May 8, 2018. Despite Climie's early entry into the race, he made no effort to campaign, not responding to any questions from local media, maintaining any campaign website or infrastructure, or appearing at any debates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 8\nJohn-Paul Danko, runner up in the 2016 Ward 7 by-election, registered to run in Ward 8 on May 11, 2018. Danko, the husband of Ward 7 Public School Trustee Dawn Danko, began to publicly campaign for an appointment to city council after the winner of the 2016 by-election, Donna Skelly, was elected Progressive Conservative MPP for Flamborough\u2014Glanbrook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 8\nColleen Wicken registered to seek the seat on June 28, 2018. Wicken, a staffer with Ward 8 Councillor Terry Whitehead and former chair of the Bonnington-Buchanan-Mohawk-Southam Neighbourhoods Association, had previously advocated for more police presence in student neighbourhoods and against the city's ward boundary changes. Danko ran on a platform of supporting the city's LRT project, reducing speeds on local streets, investing in infrastructure, and planning for intensification along Upper James Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 8\nOn the final day of registrations, former Mississauga City Councillor and MP for Mississauga-Brampton South, Eve Adams, registered to seek the Ward 8 seat. Adams, who was elected as a Conservative in 2011 and crossed the floor to the Liberals prior to the 2015 election before losing a nomination battle to Marco Mendicino in the Toronto-area riding of Eglinton-Lawrence, had served on Mississauga City Council representing Ward 5 from 2003 to her election to Parliament in 2011. Adams, who has family in Hamilton, noted that she wanted to widen the Red Hill Valley Expressway and the 403, cancel the city's LRT project, and attract more businesses to Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 8\nDuring the campaign, Ward 8 councillor Terry Whitehead, who was seeking election in Ward 14, mass-emailed constituents, accusing Wicken of stealing a contact list meant for Christmas cards for personal political gain and encouraging residents to report Wicken to the police. Wicken denied the accusation. Whitehead, who had endorsed Ruddick, requested the Hamilton Police open an investigation into the matter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 9\nIncumbent councillor Doug Conley informed the Stoney Creek News of his intention to seek re-election in January 2018, registering to run on May 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 9\nCam Galindo, third-place Ward 9 candidate in 2014, announced he would be seeking the seat for a second time in February 2018. At his campaign launch on June 16, Galindo spoke about the need for lower taxes, more public forums, increased public safety, and improvement of local parks, while speaking skeptically about the city's LRT project. Galindo dropped out of the councillor's race on the final day of nominations, re-registering to seek a school trustee seat instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 9\nThe day before nominations were set to close, former Ward 9 councillor, 2014 mayoral candidate, Stoney Creek Progressive Conservative MPP, and provincial cabinet minister Brad Clark registered to seek the seat. Since his defeat to Mayor Eisenberger in 2014, Clark has been a consultant with Maple Leaf Strategies, a group representing a landfill in upper Stoney Creek. After registering, Clark spoke about his track-record of never having an Ontario Municipal Board tribunal surrounding a development project in his ward during his two terms in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 9\nLocal resident David Ford registered to seek the seat to tackle what he claimed were communication issues with incumbent councillor Conley. Ford, an HR manager, informed the Stoney Creek News that he opposed LRT and supported widening roads in the area, while noting \"I hate politics, so maybe this is the right job for me.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 9\nLakhwinder Singh Multani, a second-place finisher in the Ward 5 council race in 2000, also campaigned on better communication and opposing LRT, while also promoting the idea of making police more visible throughout the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 9\nPeter Lanza, a first-time candidate for office, echoed his fellow candidates' concerns about communication, while campaigning on the need to improve the area's infrastructure to keep pace with a growing population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 10\nIan Thompson, Ward 13 HWDSB Trustee (2000\u20132003), Ward 11 and 12 HWDSB Trustee (2003\u20132006), and a former staffer with Liberal MPPs Dominic Agostino and Judy Marsales, was the first individual to announce their intention to seek office in the 2018 election. Prior to the Ontario Municipal Board's decision on the city's ward boundaries, Thompson had considered seeking election in the former Ward 11, though the redistribution shifted his attention to Ward 10, where he resides. At his campaign launch, Thompson announced he would, if elected, ask the mayor to address power outage issues in Stoney Creek, hire 30 new police officers to combat crime, build a splash-pad in the Oceanic neighbourhood, and only serve two terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 10\nIn March, 2018, one-term Ward 9 and 10 HWDSB Trustee Jeff Beattie announced that he was considering seeking a seat on council. Beattie registered to run for city council on the day nominations opened, May 1. At his campaign launch and meet and greet, Beattie listed community safety, transit, infrastructure and improving city services among his priorities. Beattie, citing his long residency in the area, believed this provided his campaign with an advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 10\nMaria Pearson, councillor for Ward 10 since 2003 and councillor in the former Town of Stoney Creek from 1991 to 2000, registered to run for a fourth term on May 4. Pearson labelled herself an LRT critic and has campaigned for a BRT-style alternative to the rapid transit project.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 10\nLouie Milojevic, a local private equity investor, history professor and columnist, sought the council seat after placing third to Pearson in the 2003 election. Milojevic spoke about the need for better transit in the area, campaigned for improved infrastructure, and opposed the city's LRT project.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 11\nBrenda Johnson, 2-term Ward 11 councillor, announced her intention to seek another term on council in September 2017 when former HWDSB Trustee Ian Thompson indicated he would be running for the office as well. Following ward boundary re-alignments, Thompson sought election in Ward 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 12\nThe first candidate to register for the Ward 12 council position was Ancaster resident and loss prevention manager, John Scime. Scime focused on public safety, managing the area's growth, and supporting increased bus service to the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 12\nScime's nomination was matched the following day by Sheffield resident Miranda Reis. A disability-rights advocate and chartered accountant who served as the former budget manager for the City of Cambridge, Ries pointed to improved public transit as being crucial for the city's development.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 12\nThe third entrant to the Ward 12 council race was Ancaster resident and third-place finisher in the 2014 race for Ward 11 and 12 Public School Trustee, Mike Bell. Bell, a mechanical engineer, indicated he wanted to make Ancaster more walkable, adding bike lanes onto area streets, and carefully reviewing the city's LRT project and a $13-million water tower project approved by the city in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 12\nLloyd Ferguson, the incumbent Ward 12 councillor, had avoided making any commitment to running for a 4th term, telling the Ancaster News that anyone who makes known their ambitions to seek political office, would \"'put a big target on' their back.\" Ferguson registered to run on July 9, 2018. Speaking with the Ancaster News, Ferguson indicated that he had wavered on whether he would seek re-election, but ultimately decided to register again to complete pending projects in his community, though he noted he would likely not run again in the 2022 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 12\nThe final candidate to register was 27-year-old real estate agent Kevin Marley. A graduate of McMaster University, Marley indicated he was supportive of the city's LRT project, wanted to investigate public works efforts for low-income citizens, and improving the area's highway infrastructure to ease congestion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 13\nTwo candidates registered to seek the Ward 13 council seat on the first day of nominations: small business owner and prospective Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas Progressive Conservative nomination contestant Kevin Gray, as well as John Mykytyshyn, a local Conservative activist and son of a former Dundas town councillor. Gray emphasized the importance of increasing communication between Dundas and Hamilton, while Mykytyshyn discussed returning to wards for Dundas and Flamborough realigning these wards to the former ward boundaries", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 13\nThe third candidate to register was local teacher Rich Gelder, who filed on June 11. Gelder, a Dundas resident for two decades, supported the city's LRT project, and promoted the idea of complete streets, better public transit, and improved cycling infrastructure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 14\nThe first candidate to register for the Ward 14 council seat was 2015 Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas federal Conservative Party candidate and 2018 provincial Progressive Conservative nomination contestant Vincent Samuel, who registered on June 12. Samuel, who immigrated to Canada from Pakistan in 1990, expressed a desire to keep taxes low and ensure a variety of housing options for Mountain residents. Samuel indicated he wanted to ensure the city's LRT project was beneficial to taxpayers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 14\nTerry Whitehead, who had served as Ward 8 councillor from 2003, avoided declaring which seat he would contest after his West Mountain ward was split following the OMB decision on the city's ward boundaries, waiting until July 26 to register. In March 2018, he announced he was considering a challenge to incumbent mayor Fred Eisenberger, though ultimately opted to run for a fourth term on council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 14\nRobert Iszkula, a small-business owner who formerly lived on the west mountain, ran on a campaign of improving HSR service, adding a public library to the ward, and improving local parks. Roslyn French-Sanges, a stylist with clothing company Nygard, promised to be more responsive to constituents and improve transportation in the ward. Bryan Wilson, a 38-year-old employee with Air Canada, campaigned on supporting LRT, improving local green space, and better maintaining roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 14\nDuring the election, Whitehead came under fire from LIUNA after the union donated $500.00 to his campaign based on his comments indicating he was supporting LRT. Whitehead reversed his position, prompting a vice-president in the union, Joe Mancinelli, to say he felt \"disappointed and betrayed.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 14\nIn the final weeks of the campaign, both Iszkula and Samuel suspended their campaigns. Iszkula endorsed Wilson, while Samuel announced he would be supporting Whitehead. As the deadline for removing their names from the ballot had passed, both candidates formalled remained in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, City Council Election, Ward 15\nOn June 18, incumbent councillor Judi Partridge filed to run for re-election. Having unsuccessfully run for the Ontario Liberal Party during the 2018 Ontario Election in the riding of Flamborough-Glanbrook, Partridge opted to seek another term on council to continue the projects she began prior to her provincial run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Public School Board trustee elections, Ward 5\nChair of the HWDSB, incumbent Ward 5 trustee Todd White, registered to seek a third term on July 25, 2018. The day following his registration, CBC Hamilton reported that Carole Paikin Miller, the wife of Hamilton East-Stoney Creek MPP Paul Miller would be seeking the seat as well. White, who had served as Miller's constituency assistant since 2007, had filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario against the 4-term MPP after Miller critiqued White for taking parental leave to care for his children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 88], "content_span": [89, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0092-0001", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Public School Board trustee elections, Ward 5\nIn a series of voicemails leaked to the media, Miller slammed White and the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union, stating \"Sometimes unions do more harm than good, and sometimes, they get their people into bad situations.\" White downplayed the entry of Paikin Miller, telling the CBC, \"I think the actions and behaviour are consistent with what has already been reported. I'll let voters conclude what this all means.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 88], "content_span": [89, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Public School Board trustee elections, Ward 5\nOn July 26, the Stoney Creek News reported that candidate Jason McLaughlin had, in the past, posted lewd and sexist memes to his personal Facebook page and had been told by outgoing Ward 3 trustee Larry Pattison to address the issue. McLaughlin stated to the paper that one of the memes, which referred to women as 'ugly', did not appear to have offended anyone while another was possibly posted by someone \"trying to sabotage his campaign\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 88], "content_span": [89, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Public School Board trustee elections, Ward 5\nThe Ward 5 trustee campaign became a proxy battle between different Hamilton-area NDP organizations. Paikin Miller did not interact with local media during the election and did not respond to reporter's comments following her victory. White was blunt when discussing his election loss, blaming his dispute with MPP Miller for his loss and noting, \"When you stick your neck out you have to be prepared for it to be cut off and in this case, Paul Miller and the NDP cut it off.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 88], "content_span": [89, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Public School Board trustee elections, Ward 8 and 14\nDespite registering to run on May 3, 2018, Wes Hicks, the incumbent 33-year veteran school trustee announced on June 28 that he was stepping down and would withdraw his nomination to seek another term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 95], "content_span": [96, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Public School Board trustee elections, Ward 9 and 10\nIn an interview prior to the 2019 Federal Election campaign, former NDP MP for Hamilton East-Stoney Creek from (2006 to 2015), Wayne Marston, indicated he was considering running for a school trustee's position in the 2018 election. Marston had served as a Public School Trustee for Ward 5 from (2000 to 2006).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 95], "content_span": [96, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Public School Board trustee elections, Ward 11 and 12\nThe first entrant into the Ward 11 and 12 trustee race was young right-wing activist Blake Hambly. Hambly, a graduate of Hamilton District Christian High School, a private Christian school in Glanbrook, is the president of the McMaster Campus Conservatives and the McMaster branch of Turning Point, a right-wing advocacy group founded by Charlie Kirk, that targets youth and university campuses. Hambly worked for Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward, Conservative Party of Canada leadership contestant Kellie Leitch, Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership candidate and social conservative, Tanya Granic Allen, and Flamborough-Glanbrook PC MPP Donna Skelly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 96], "content_span": [97, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Public School Board trustee elections, Ward 11 and 12\nIncumbent trustee Alex Johnstone, a staffer with Hamilton Centre MP David Christopherson, registered to run for re-election on June 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 96], "content_span": [97, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Public School Board trustee elections, Ward 11 and 12\nThe final candidate to enter the race was Glanbrook resident Bruce Carnegie. Carnegie, a McMaster chemistry graduate, noted his concerns around dropping EQAO scores and emphasized a focus on STEM education.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 96], "content_span": [97, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Public School Board trustee elections, Ward 13\nIncumbent Ward 13 trustee Greg Van Geffen announced in June 2018 that he was not seeking re-election to the public school board, citing the pressures of the job on his family and business.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Public School Board trustee elections, Ward 15\nPenny Deathe, the incumbent Ward 15 HWDSB Trustee, became the first sitting trustee to announce their intention to seek another term in January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0102-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Catholic School Board Trustee Elections, Ward 5\nOn July 25, 2018, former Ward 3 Catholic trustee Ralph Agostino registered seek the Ward 5 trustee seat. In 2014, his son, Sam, was defeated by Aldo D\u2019Intino. The Agostino political family has a long history of serving on the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board, as Dominic Agostino, Mary Agostino-Locane, and Rose Agostino have all served on the Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 90], "content_span": [91, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0103-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Catholic School Board Trustee Elections, Ward 6\nOn July 25, Ellen Agostino, the wife of former Ward 5 Catholic School Trustee Sam Agostino, registered to seek election to the Catholic School Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 90], "content_span": [91, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0104-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Catholic School Board Trustee Elections, Ward 12 and 13\nDundas resident, widower, and retired Catholic School principal Neil Chopp was one of the first candidates to register to seek the seat of Ward 12 and 13 Catholic trustee on May 1. Chopp, a former Brant County educator, was joined by Waterdown resident Phil Homerski on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 98], "content_span": [99, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0105-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mid-term elections, Ward 7 Councillor\nShortly after being sworn in for a third term as Ward 7 Councillor, Scott Duvall announced he would be seeking the New Democratic Party's nomination to run in the 42nd Federal Election as their candidate on Hamilton Mountain. Duvall was selected by party members in the riding at a nomination meeting on March 29, 2015 to stand as their candidate over his opponent, former provincial NDP candidate Bryan Adamczyk. Duvall was elected to Parliament on October 19, 2015 with 35.8% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0106-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mid-term elections, Ward 7 Councillor\nPrior to Duvall's election, candidates began expressing interest in running for his seat. By September 4, 2015, four candidates had already announced their intention to run in the by-election if it were to be called. On Friday, October 23, 2015, Duvall officially resigned from city council. Duvall told the Hamilton Spectator that, while he had not yet endorsed a replacement, he was watching the competition carefully.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0107-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mid-term elections, Ward 7 Councillor\nAfter speculation that the by-election would occur in February or March 2016, the CBC reported on November 2, 2015, that the election would take place on March 21, 2016, following council's approval of the date through a bylaw passed at their December 9, 2015 council meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0108-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mid-term elections, Ward 7 Councillor\nAs the number of candidates increased, local media began to report on the impact the by-election was having on local political party establishments. Candidates Geraldine McMullen and Uzma Qureshi, both NDP members, maintained the support of varying factions within the party. McMullen received support from former Hamilton Mountain MP Chris Charlton while Qureshi was endorsed by current Hamilton Mountain MPP Monique Taylor and Hamilton Centre MP David Christopherson. Similarly, candidates Bob Charters, Donna Skelly, and Hans Zuriel had the support of elements of Hamilton's Conservative establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0108-0001", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mid-term elections, Ward 7 Councillor\nCharters was the Progressive Conservative's candidate in Hamilton Mountain in 2007, Skelly sought election as a Progressive Conservative in Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale in 2011 and 2014, while Zuriel is the president of the Hamilton Mountain Conservative association and heavily involved with Conservative politics at McMaster University. With the registration of former Hamilton Mountain Liberal candidate Shawn Burt on January 29, the local Liberal Party was also split between their 2015 candidate and Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas nomination contestant Howard Rabb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0108-0002", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mid-term elections, Ward 7 Councillor\nThe local Libertarian Party establishment was also split between Luc Hetu, the party's nominated, but unregistered, candidate for the 2015 election in Flamborough-Glanbrook and Robert Young, the party's Hamilton Centre candidate. Both candidates registered on February 1 and both used Young's business address at 616 Barton Street East on their registration forms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0109-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mid-term elections, Ward 7 Councillor\nIn an interview with the Hamilton Mountain News, McMaster political science professor Dr. Henry Jacek noted that he expected voter turnout to be very low, allowing a candidate to win with around 1,500 votes. He also indicated that by his analysis, while the splits in party support were evident, candidates aligned with the New Democrats were likely to perform well considering their historic support in Ward 7 and the popularity of Scott Duvall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0110-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mid-term elections, Ward 7 Councillor\nAt the close of nominations on February 5, 22 candidates had registered, making the Ward 7 by-election the most contested election in Hamilton's post-amalgamation history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0111-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mid-term elections, Ward 7 Councillor\nJust prior to election day, Qureshi faced criticism from local media and other candidates for a letter mailed to the community from Duvall and MPP Monique Taylor that encouraged strategic voting to defeat candidates with ties to the Conservative Party. Taking aim at McMullen, who had secured the endorsement of the city's labour council and from Duvall's predecessor, Chris Charlton, the letter claimed \"It is clear that (Qureshi) has risen above the pack and presents the ONLY choice if we are going to elect a strong progressive councillor for Ward 7.\" The letter was called \"disrespectful\" by McMullen and mentioned by Skelly on election night, who called it \"political interference\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279654-0112-0000", "contents": "2018 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mid-term elections, Ward 7 Councillor\nOn election night, Donna Skelly secured victory with 1,967 votes, 92 ballots ahead of second-place finisher, John-Paul Danko. Speaking with reporters after her win, Skelly noted that she wanted to \"ruffle a few feathers\" with regard to taxes and city finances, while announcing her support for the city's Light Rail Transit project.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279655-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammarby Fotboll season\nThe 2018 season was Hammarby Fotboll's 103st in existence, their 49th season in Allsvenskan and their 4th consecutive season in the league. They competed in Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen during the year. League play started in early April and lasted until early November. Stefan Billborn made his first season as manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279655-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammarby Fotboll season, Summary\nIn the off-season, on 4 January 2018, the board and Jesper Jansson, director of football, chose to sack manager Jakob Michelsen, citing differences regarding the view on transfers and playing style, as well as a disappointing development of the team and its results. Hammarby finished 9th in Allsvenskan 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279655-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammarby Fotboll season, Player statistics, Disciplinary record\nLast updated: 14 November 2018Source: Only competitive matches = Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Hammersmith and Fulham Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Hammersmith and Fulham Council in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\nLabour consolidated control of the council by gaining 9 seats (in addition to the 11 they gained in 2014), winning 35 in all. The Conservatives lost 9 seats, winning 11 in all. This was the lowest number of Conservative councillors since 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\nThere were no wards with split party representation \u2013 for only the fourth time in the fifteen elections since the council was created in 1968. The previous occasions when this occurred was 1990, 1978 and the 1971 Labour landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\nAnother sign of the increased homogeneity was the number of wards where the winning party got less than 50% of the vote \u2013 just three wards this time. Ravenscourt Park with 46%, Town with 48% and Sands End with a fraction under 50%. This compares with the 2014 election when there were 6 wards including Sands End with 38%. In the 2010 election there were 10 wards including Addison with 39%. And in the 2006 election there were also 10 wards including Askew with 39%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\n26 Councillors successfully retained their seats \u2013 20 Labour and 6 Conservative. 5 sitting Councillors were defeated \u2013 all Conservative, including the previous opposition leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\nThe ward with the highest percentage vote for one party was Wormholt and White City which saw a 76.5% vote share for the Labour Party. This is the highest percentage any party has achieved at the five elections since these wards were established in 2002. Vote share percentages by ward for previous elections are not currently available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\nThe largest percentage change was in the Shepherds Bush Green ward, where the Labour Party increased its vote share by 20.9 percentage points \u2013 as the Green Party didn't stand a candidate this time round. The largest percentage decrease was in the Fulham Reach ward where the Conservative vote dropped by 14.6 percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\nThe candidate with the largest individual tally was Lisa Homan with 2,577 votes in the Askew ward. This veteran councillor has been elected on all but one occasion since 1994 \u2013 losing out in 2002 by 44 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\nOne of the successful Conservative candidates in Palace Riverside had been deselected from the same ward in 2006, and had run as an independent candidate \u2013 coming within 146 votes of winning at that election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\nThe Liberal Democrats fielded a full slate of 46 candidates \u2013 in 2014 they put forward 39 candidates for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\nUKIP fielded 3 candidates \u2013 in 2014 they had 7 candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\nThe Green Party fielded 2 candidates \u2013 in 2014 they had 7 candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\nThere was 1 Independent candidate \u2013 the same number as in 2014, although a different individual. The 2018 independent had previously run in the same ward in the 2006 local election and in the Hammersmith constituency at the 2017 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\nTUSC did not stand any candidates in the 2018 local elections \u2013 they had two candidates in Hammersmith and Fulham in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Overall results\nNational Health Action Party did not field candidates in the 2018 local elections \u2013 they had a single candidate in Hammersmith and Fulham in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Ward results\n(*) represents a candidate seeking re-election in the same ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 73], "content_span": [74, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Ward results\n(~) represents a candidate seeking re-election in a different ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 73], "content_span": [74, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279656-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, By-elections, Fulham Broadway\nA by-election was held in Fulham Broadway after the resignation of Councillor Alan de'Ath on 19 September 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 90], "content_span": [91, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279657-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hampton Pirates football team\nThe 2018 Hampton Pirates football team represents Hampton University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They are led by first-year head coach Robert Prunty and play their home games at Armstrong Stadium. They will compete as a FCS independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279657-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hampton Pirates football team\nOn November 16, 2017, the school announced they would become a full member of the Big South Conference in 2018. Due to scheduling reasons, they were to remain in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) for football in 2018. However, the MEAC refused to allow Hampton to remain in the conference, with no MEAC schools agreeing to play them, forcing the Pirates to become an FCS independent for 2018 before joining the Big South in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279657-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hampton Pirates football team, Previous season\nIn their final season as a member of the MEAC, the Pirates finished the season 6\u20135, 5\u20133 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279657-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hampton Pirates football team, Previous season\nOn November 20, 2017, head coach Connell Maynor resigned to become the head coach at Alabama A&M. He finished at Hampton with a four-year record of 20\u201325.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279658-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Handzame Classic\nThe 2018 Handzame Classic was the 8th edition of the Handzame Classic road cycling one day race. It was held on 16 March 2018 as part of the UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279658-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Handzame Classic\nThe race was won by \u00c1lvaro Hodeg of Quick-Step Floors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279658-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Handzame Classic, Teams\nTwenty-two teams of up to seven riders started the race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279659-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hank Steinbrecher Cup\nThe 2018 Hank Steinbrecher Cup was the sixth edition of the United States Adult Soccer Association's (USASA) tournament whose winner is recognized with the title of U.S. National Amateur Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279659-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hank Steinbrecher Cup\nPremier Development League (PDL) side Michigan Bucks successfully defended their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279659-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hank Steinbrecher Cup, Host selection\nVeterans Memorial Stadium in New Britain, Connecticut was selected as the host venue for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279659-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hank Steinbrecher Cup, Teams, Qualification\nThe tournament featured the 2017 PDL champion Charlotte Eagles, the 2017 National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) champion Elm City Express, the 2017 USASA National Amateur Cup winner Lansdowne Bhoys FC and the defending Steinbrecher Cup winner Michigan Bucks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279659-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hank Steinbrecher Cup, Teams, Draw and schedule\nThe draw to determine semifinal matchups took place on March 23, 2018 at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois. The Lansdowne Bhoys FC drew the Charlotte Eagles in the first semifinal, and the Michigan Bucks were matched against the Elm City Express in the second semifinal. The semifinal matches were scheduled to take place on June 1, followed by the third-place and final matches on June 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279660-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hardee's Pro Classic\nThe 2018 Hardee's Pro Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the eighteenth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Dothan, United States, on 16\u201322 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279660-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hardee's Pro Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279661-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hardee's Pro Classic \u2013 Doubles\nEmina Bektas and Sanaz Marand were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279661-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hardee's Pro Classic \u2013 Doubles\nAlexa Guarachi and Erin Routliffe won the title after defeating Sofia Kenin and Jamie Loeb 6\u20134, 2\u20136, [11\u20139] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279662-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hardee's Pro Classic \u2013 Singles\nKristie Ahn was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Barbara Haas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279662-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hardee's Pro Classic \u2013 Singles\nTaylor Townsend won the title after defeating Mariana Duque Mari\u00f1o 6\u20132, 2\u20136, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279663-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Haringey London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Haringey Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Haringey Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279663-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward Results, Bounds Green\nPat Berryman was a sitting councillor in Fortis Green ward", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279663-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward Results, Seven Sisters\nBarbara Blake was a sitting councillor for St Ann's ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279663-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward Results, Woodside\nMark Blake was a sitting councillor in Muswell Hill ward", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279663-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Haringey London Borough Council election, By-Elections\nA by-election was held in West Green ward on 13 December 2018 following the resignation of Ishmael Osamor", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279664-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Harlow District Council election\nThe 2018 Harlow District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex. This was on the same day as other local elections. Labour increased their majority on the council by gaining one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279664-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Harlow District Council election, By-elections between 2018 and 2019, Bush Fair\nA by-election was held in Bush Fair on 8 November 2018 after the resignation of Labour councillor Ian Beckett. The seat was held for Labour by Joseph Dunne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 84], "content_span": [85, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279664-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Harlow District Council election, By-elections between 2018 and 2019, Nettleswell\nA by-election was held in Nettleswell on 8 November 2018 after the resignation of Labour councillor Waida Forman. The seat was held for Labour by Shannon Jezzard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 86], "content_span": [87, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279664-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Harlow District Council election, By-elections between 2018 and 2019, Toddbrook\nA by-election was held in Toddbrook on 13 December 2018 after the resignation of Labour councillor Karen Clempner. The seat was held for Labour by Frances Mason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 84], "content_span": [85, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279665-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Harrogate Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Harrogate Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Harrogate Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279665-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Harrogate Borough Council election, By-Elections\nA by-election was held in Knaresborough Scriven Park on 29 July 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279666-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Harrow London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Harrow London Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Harrow London Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections in England. The Conservatives had hoped to win control of the council from Labour, but Labour emerged with an increased number of seats and kept their majority. The Liberal Democrats lost their only seat in the borough. The Conservatives lost seats to Labour, but maintained their total of 28 by winning two seats that had been held by independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279667-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hart District Council election\nThe 2018 Hart District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Hart District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279667-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hart District Council election, Results\nThe election saw the Conservatives gain an independent seat, whilst Community Campaign (Hart) gained a Conservative Seat. As such, whilst the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats had no net change, Community Campaign (Hart) increased their seats by one to nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279668-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hartford Hawks baseball team\nThe 2018 Hartford Hawks baseball team represented the University of Hartford in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season as a member of the America East Conference. The team was coached by Justin Blood and played their home games at Fiondella Field with select games being played at Dunkin' Donuts Park. 2018 was the most successful season in division one for Hartford baseball. Hartford captured the America East regular season and conference tournament championships for the first time in school history and advanced to the NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279669-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hartlepool Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Hartlepool Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Hartlepool Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279670-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 2018 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League. They were led by 25th-year head coach Tim Murphy and played their home games at Harvard Stadium. They finished the season 6\u20134 overall and 4\u20133 in Ivy League play to place third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279670-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Harvard Crimson football team, Previous season\nThe Crimson finished the 2017 season 5\u20135 overall and 3\u20134 in Ivy League play, to place in tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279670-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Harvard Crimson football team, Schedule\nThe 2018 schedule consisted of six home games and four away games. The Crimson hosted Ivy League foes Princeton, Columbia, and Yale for the 135th edition of The Game, and traveled to Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Penn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279670-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Harvard Crimson football team, Schedule\nHarvard's non-conference opponents were San Diego of the Pioneer Football League, Rhode Island of the Colonial Athletic Association, and Holy Cross of the Patriot League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279671-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Harvard Crimson men's volleyball team\nThe 2018 Harvard Crimson men's volleyball team represents Harvard University in the 2018 NCAA Division I & II men's volleyball season. The Crimson, led by tenth year head coach Brian Biase, play their home games at Malkin Athletic Center. The Crimson are members of the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association and were picked to finish fifth in the EIVA the preseason poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279672-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy\nThe 2018 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy is the sixth edition of the invitational tournament hosted by Brunei, taking place from 23 April to 5 May. A total of 7 teams of the under-22 age group from the Southeast Asian region will be competing for the trophy along with a cash prize of B$20,000 (US$15,200) for the winners, B$10,000 (US$7,600) for the runner-up and B$5,000 (US$3,800) for joint third-place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279672-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy\nTeams were divided into two groups, with the host nation able to choose which group to be placed in. The draw took place on 21 March with Brunei electing to choose Group A. Indonesia could not join due to the 2018 PSSI Anniversary Cup, while Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam are not participating due to tight football league schedules in their countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279672-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy\nTimor-Leste emerged as the champion after beating Cambodia by 1\u20130 in the final, while both Myanmar and Singapore shared the third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279672-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy, Team statistics\nAs per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279673-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy squads\nThis article lists the team squads of the 2018 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy. As per tournament regulations, players must be born either on or after 1 January 1997 to be eligible, but each nation is allowed no more than three senior players in their delegation. These players are marked with an asterisk (*).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279674-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hastings County municipal elections\nElections were held in Hastings County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279674-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hastings County municipal elections, Hastings County Council\nHastings County Council consists of the mayors and reeves of the 14 constituent municipalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279675-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hastings Deering Colts season\nThe 2018 Hastings Deering Colts season was the 1st season of the under-20 competition, sponsored by Hastings Deering and run by the Queensland Rugby League. Replacing the National Rugby League's National Youth Competition, the draw and structure of the competition mirrored that of its senior counterpart, the Queensland Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279675-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hastings Deering Colts season\nNorths Devils were the inaugural premiers, defeating the Townsville Blackhawks in the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279675-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hastings Deering Colts season, Teams\nThe inaugural season of the Hastings Deering Colts featured 15 teams, thirteen based in Queensland, one in northern New South Wales and one in Victoria. 13 Queensland Cup teams fielded a side in the competition, with the two unaffiliated clubs being the Victoria Thunderbolts and Western Mustangs. Like their senior counterparts, each team was also affiliated with an NRL club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279675-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hastings Deering Colts season, Regular season\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Opposition's Home gameX\u00a0\u2013 ByeOpponent for round listed above margin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279675-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hastings Deering Colts season, Player statistics\nThe following statistics are correct as of the conclusion of Round 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election\nA by-election was held in Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency on 11 March 2018, with a second round on 18 March as no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was prompted after the Constitutional Council invalidated the election of Jo\u00ebl Aviragnet, candidate of the Socialist Party (PS), in the June 2017 legislative elections on 18 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election\nAviragnet was re-elected by a massive margin in the second round rematch against Montsarrat, securing over 70% of valid votes and winning by a margin 40 points larger than in June 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Background\nFollowing the second round of the 2017 legislative election in Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency on 18 June, Michel Montsarrat, candidate of La R\u00e9publique En Marche! defeated by 91 votes, filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council appealing the election of Jo\u00ebl Aviragnet of the Socialist Party (PS). Montsarrat questioned a number of irregularities, including those in several communes where Aviragnet multiplied his result in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Background\nOn 18 December, the constitutional council annulled the election of Aviragnet, considering the irregularities listed by Montserrat to have affected 4 votes given differences in signatures indicating that votes were not given by the voter in question, 1 vote in Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges and 10 votes in Montastruc-de-Salies given discrepancies between the number of ballots and signatures, and 64 votes in the only polling station in Gensac-de-Boulogne where article L. 68 of the electoral code, requiring the registration lists of every polling station and associated documents be transmitted along with the record of voting operations after the completion of voting, was not respected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Background\nGiven these issues, and the small number of votes separating the two candidates, the constitutional council judged it appropriate to annul the result and call a by-election within the constituency. The first and second rounds of the by-election are scheduled for 11 and 18 March 2018, with candidacies to submitted between 12 and 16 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Background\nPolling stations throughout the constituency will be open from 8:00 to 18:00 CET, with those in Saint-Gaudens open until 19:00 CET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nMichel Montsarrat, a former rugby player for AS B\u00e9ziers H\u00e9rault, later a restaurateur, and hotel manager living in Luchon, was once again invested as a candidate of La R\u00e9publique En Marche!, supported by the nine deputies of the presidential party in the department. On 30 January, the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) decided to back Montsarrat in the by-election, breaking from the party's historical alliance with the right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nThe initial campaign of Montsarrat was considered lethargic, and was perturbed by the apparent theft of the laptop of his campaign director on 25 January, adding to existing frustration with his campaign management. Montsarrat was castigated early on over the potential closure of the court of Saint-Gaudens, and later over the invitation of Montsarrat to a visit by Laura Flessel as a \"deputy for Haute-Garonne\" on a published list of invitees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nOn 9 January, justice minister Nicole Belloubet visited the constituency in support of Montsarrat, the first of a series of ministers to visit the constituency to campaign, followed by Minister of Territorial Cohesion Jacques M\u00e9zard on 12 February, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux on 15 February, and finally Christophe Castaner on 2 March. Castaner held a second public meeting, this time alongside Genevieve Darrieussecq, on 3 March, and Jean-Michel Blanquer and G\u00e9rard Collomb traveled to the constituency on 9 March. Local elected supporters, including deputy Micka\u00ebl Nogal and mayor of Rieumes Jennifer Courtois-P\u00e9riss\u00e9, attended a public meeting with Montsarrat on 23 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nJo\u00ebl Aviragnet, a specialized educator, and Socialist Party (PS) mayor of Encausse-les-Thermes, also received the renewed support of his party, and was backed by Carole Delga, president of the regional council of Occitanie, who selected him as a substitute, with Aviragnet occupying her seat in the National Assembly from July 2014 to July 2015. Socialist deputy Val\u00e9rie Rabault appeared at a public meeting on 20 February to back Aviragnet, who also benefited from the strength of local party activists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nHenri Nayrou, president of the departmental council of Ari\u00e8ge, attended a public meeting with Aviragnet, who was later joined not only by Delga, but also by Georges M\u00e9ric, president of the departmental council of Haute-Garonne, at a public meeting on 7 March. Over the course of the campaign, Aviragnet visited all 283 communes in the constituency. Marie-Claire Uchan, like Aviragnet, is a mayor, presiding over Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, and in a statement, almost 150 mayors in the constituency called upon voters to support Aviragnet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nThe movement Bastir Occitanie, which presented J\u00e9r\u00f4me Piques as its candidate in June 2017, decided to back Aviragnet in the by-election. Aviragnet held another public meeting with Delga and M\u00e9ric on 14 March, and received the support of the French Communist Party (PCF) in the second round, as well as that of G\u00e9n\u00e9ration.s, the movement of Beno\u00eet Hamon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nPhilippe Gimenez, a financial comptroller, also returned to the field with the investiture of La France Insoumise. On 15 February, deputy Fran\u00e7ois Ruffin toured the constituency in support of Gimenez, followed by a public meeting with Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon on 21 February, which was attended by nearly a thousand people. On 2 March, Li\u00eam Hoang-Ngoc attended two public meetings with Gimenez, was joined by Cl\u00e9mentine Autain on 3 March, and followed by Caroline Fiat on 4 March. Deputy Alexis Corbi\u00e8re then visited on 6 and 7 March to campaign in support of Gimenez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nThe selection of a candidate of The Republicans (LR) proved more difficult. Though Jennifer Courtois-P\u00e9riss\u00e9, regional councillor and mayor of Rieumes, was considered the natural candidate in the constituency, she left the party to join La R\u00e9publique En Marche!, in which she held a national leadership position. Party members then sought president of the LR regional federation and former deputy Laurence Arribag\u00e9 to run in the by-election, but were rebuked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nHowever, recently elected president of the party Laurent Wauquiez made clear his desire to present a candidate in the constituency, and his entourage sought to bypass the regional federation in the investiture process. Philippe Maurin, a 63-year-old resident of Luchon who served as deputy mayor of Montauban under Brigitte Bar\u00e8ges from 2008 to 2014, was ultimately selected as the party's candidate on 16 January. On 6 March, Christian Jacob, president of The Republicans group in the National Assembly, traveled to the constituency to offer his backing to the candidacy of Maurin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nThe National Front (FN) also declared its intent to present a candidate within the constituency, with regional councillor Marie-Christine Parolin, an administrative agent, again invested by the party. After a public meeting with deputy Gilbert Collard on 28 January, she appeared alongside party president Marine Le Pen and deputy Louis Aliot on 3 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nCorinne Marquerie, a retired educator, also returned as the candidate of the PCF, and was joined by Member of the European Parliament Marie-Pierre Vieu at a public meeting on 1 March. On 1 February, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, president of Debout la France, presented 49-year-old former LR member S\u00e9bastien Broucke, a principal education adviser from Saint-Gaudens, as the party's candidate, with the party's candidate in June, Laure Gonzalez, initially selected as his substitute; however, Gonzalez withdrew for personal reasons, and was replaced by campaign coordinator Jean-Claude Bringuier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nMayor of Ore Herv\u00e9 Minec stood as the candidate of the Popular Republican Union (UPR), with party president Fran\u00e7ois Asselineau visiting in support. Marie-C\u00e9cile Seigle-Vatte, a retired professor of economics and management, stood for Europe Ecology \u2013 The Greens (EELV). Starting in 1983, she served several mandates as a municipal councillor, including in Fonsorbes, Saint-Denis de la R\u00e9union, and Agassac. A member of the party's federal council and regional executive office, she received the support of Julien Bayou, national spokesman for the EELV, in a visit to the constituency on 1 March. Martine Guiraud, a laboratory technician, stood for Lutte Ouvri\u00e8re (LO), and Francis Meynier for the European Alliance for Peace, Prosperity, Sharing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nThe campaign centered around the themes of rurality and agriculture in the Comminges region, the preservation of public services (including the threatened closure of the court in Saint-Gaudens, and issues of transport, access to digital and medical services, and housing. Candidates also discussed the reopening of the Montr\u00e9jeau\u2013Luchon railway line, restoration of ski stations (including the planned restoration of the Luchon gondola), and installation of telephone towers in isolated municipalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279676-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nBefore the first round, Gimenez proposed a public debate against Montsarrat; though the latter suggested that it was \"healthy to debate\", he postponed making a decision until after returning from the Paris International Agricultural Show. He ultimately declined, and indicated that while he was open to the idea, he believed that the proposal was not made in good faith, viewing the exclusion of the PS candidate as an effort to claim the flag of the \"true anti-Macron opposition\". On 14 March, 100% Radio, Vi\u00e0Occitanie, and La D\u00e9p\u00eache du Midi hosted a debate moderated by Olivier Roirand and Brice Vidal between Aviragnet and Montsarrat from 19:00 to 20:00 CET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279677-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Havant Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Havant Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Havant Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279677-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Havant Borough Council election, Results\nThe Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats all won seats this election, with the Conservatives gaining two of UKIP's four seats; the Conservatives won 13 of the 15 seats up for election, with Labour and the Liberal Democrats holding one seat each which was up for election; two seats in Hayling West were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279678-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Havering London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Havering London Borough Council election was held on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Havering London Borough Council in Greater London. Elections were held for all 54 seats on the council. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279678-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Havering London Borough Council election, Summary of results\nThe Conservative Party gained three seats, increasing its number of councillors to 25. It consolidated its position as the largest group on the council, but did not gain overall control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279678-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Havering London Borough Council election, Summary of results\nHavering Residents Association lost two seats, reducing its number of councillors to 17. However, it remained the second largest party on the council. Of its 17 councillors, eight represent Hornchurch Residents' Association, six Upminster and Cranham Residents' Association and three Harold Wood Hill Park Residents Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279678-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Havering London Borough Council election, Summary of results\nThe Labour Party gained four seats, increasing its number of councillors to five. It is now the third largest party on the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279678-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Havering London Borough Council election, Summary of results\nRainham and Wennington Independent Residents Group held three seats and South Hornchurch Independent Residents Group held two. Together, they form the Independent Residents' Group. The Harold Hill Independent Party won one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279678-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Havering London Borough Council election, Summary of results\nOne independent candidate, Michael Deon-Burton, won a seat in South Hornchurch ward. However, shortly after being elected he joined the Conservative Party and was elected Deputy Mayor. Voters, councillors and defeated candidates protested the decision, and alleged that some other councillors who had been elected as Residents' Association candidates were now supporting the Conservative group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279678-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Havering London Borough Council election, Summary of results\nThe UK Independence Party lost all seven of its seats on the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279679-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Bowl\nThe 2018 Hawaii Bowl was a college football bowl game being played on December 22, 2018, in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was the 17th edition of the Hawaii Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. This was the first time since 2007 that the bowl was not played on Christmas Eve. Sponsored by the SoFi personal finance company, the game was officially called the SoFi Hawaii Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279679-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Bowl, Teams\nThe game was played between the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors of the Mountain West Conference and the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs of Conference USA (C\u2013USA). The teams had faced each other 10 times, with Hawaii holding an 8\u20132 lead in the series; both teams previously were members of the Western Athletic Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279679-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Bowl, Teams\nThis was Louisiana Tech's first trip to the Hawaii Bowl; it was Hawaii's eighth time in this bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279679-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Bowl, Teams, Hawaii Rainbow Warriors\nHawaii secured a spot in the bowl with a win on November 17 over the UNLV Rebels, ending a four-game losing streak and assuring the Rainbow Warriors of a bowl-eligible winning record, as they reached 7\u20135 with one game left to play. Hawaii subsequently defeated the San Diego State Aztecs, ending the regular season with an 8\u20135 overall record, 5\u20133 in conference. The Rainbow Warriors' participation in the Hawaii Bowl was confirmed by bowl organizers on November 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279679-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Bowl, Teams, Louisiana Tech Bulldogs\nLouisiana Tech announced their acceptance of a Hawaii Bowl bid on November 28. The Bulldogs compiled a 7\u20135 regular season record, 5\u20133 in conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279680-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 Hawaii House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Hawaii voters elected state representatives in all 51 state house districts. State representatives serve two-year terms in the Hawaii House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279680-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii House of Representatives election\nA primary election on August 11, 2018 determined which candidates appear on the November 6 general election ballot. Primary election results can be obtained from the State of Hawaii's Office of Elections website. A statewide map of Hawaii's state house districts can be obtained from the state's Office of Planning , and individual district maps can be obtained from the state's Office of Elections .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279680-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii House of Representatives election\nFollowing the 2016 state house elections, Democrats maintained effective control of the chamber with 45 members. Beth Fukumoto, former Republican Leader, switched parties and was accepted into the Democratic caucus on June 19, 2017. This increased the Democrats majority to 46 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279680-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii House of Representatives election\nTo claim control of the chamber from Democrats, the Republicans would have needed to net 21 House seats. In the end, there was no net seat change, with Democrats maintaining 46 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279681-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team\nThe 2018 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Rainbow Warriors played their home games at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu. They competed in the West Division of the Mountain West Conference and were led by third-year head coach Nick Rolovich. They finished the season 8\u20136, 5\u20133 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for second place in the West Division. They were invited to the Hawaii Bowl where they lost to Louisiana Tech. The Rainbow Warriors clinched their first winning season since 2010 with a 31-30 overtime win at San Diego State, while also clinching a winning conference record in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279681-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team, Previous season\nThe Rainbow Warriors finished the 2017 season 3\u20139, 1\u20137 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for fifth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279681-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days\nDuring the Mountain West media days held July 24\u201325 at the Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip, the Rainbow Warriors were predicted to finish in fifth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279681-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days, Preseason All-Mountain West Team\nThe Rainbow Warriors had one player selected to the preseason all-Mountain West team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 113], "content_span": [114, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279681-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team, Game summaries, Navy\nSophomore quarterback Cole McDonald was named Mountain West Offensive player of the week. He finished 30\u201341 for 428 yards and six touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279682-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Senate election\nThe 2018 Hawaii Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Hawaii voters elected state senators in 13 of the state senate's 25 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Hawaii Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279682-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Senate election\nA primary election on August 11, 2018 determined which candidates appear on the November 6 general election ballot. Primary election results can be obtained from the State of Hawaii's Office of Elections website. A statewide map of Hawaii's state Senate districts can be obtained from the state's Office of Planning , and individual district maps can be obtained from the state's Office of Elections .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279682-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Senate election\nFollowing the 2016 state senate elections, Democrats gained complete control of the Senate, with all 25 members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279682-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii Senate election\nTo claim control of the chamber from Democrats, the Republicans needed to gain 13 senate seats; the Republicans only managed to gain one seat, but returned to having a presence in the chamber after being shut out in the 2016 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279683-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii earthquake\nOn May 4, 2018, an earthquake with a magnitude of Mw 6.9 struck Hawaii island in the Hawaii archipelago at around 12:33\u00a0p.m. local time. The earthquake's epicenter was near the south flank of K\u012blauea, which has been the site of seismic and volcanic activity since late April of that year. According to the United States Geological Survey the quake was related to the new lava outbreaks at the volcano, and it resulted in the Hilina Slump moving about two feet. It was the largest earthquake to affect Hawaii since the 1975 earthquake, which affected the same region, killing two people and injuring another 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279683-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii earthquake\nThe earthquake had a maximum strength on the Mercalli intensity scale of VIII (Severe). The earthquake was preceded by a smaller event, measuring 5.4, that was felt across the island and as far away as Oahu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279683-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii earthquake\nThe earthquake produced a minor tsunami that reached a maximum height of 40\u00a0cm (15.7 in.) in Kapoho, 20\u00a0cm (7.9 in.) in Hilo and 15\u00a0cm (5.9 in.) in Honuapo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279683-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii earthquake, Tectonic setting\nHawaii island is affected by a large number of minor earthquakes related to the movement of magma beneath its active volcanoes. Additionally there are less frequent tectonic earthquakes that are caused either by faulting within the volcanoes or by slip along the basal detachment surface at the top of the oceanic crust associated with the gradual collapse of the island's flanks as it continues to be enlarged. Near Kilauea volcano, the largest structure formed by the collapse of the southeastern flank of the island is the Hilina slump. This slump moves seaward at an average rate of 10\u00a0cm/year (3.9\u00a0in/year). The slump moved during the May 4 earthquake by about 0.6\u00a0m (2.0\u00a0ft) and has moved during previous earthquakes, such as those in 1868 and 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279683-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii earthquake, Earthquake\nThe main earthquake was preceded almost exactly an hour earlier by a Mw\u202f 5.4 foreshock with a similar epicenter and focal mechanism. Analysis of seismic waveforms suggest that the mainshock was most likely caused by slip on a thrust fault dipping at 20\u00b0 to the northwest beneath the southeastern flank of the volcano. The mainshock was followed by four aftershocks greater than Mw\u202f 4.5 over the next 30 minutes. Smaller aftershock continued to occur for months after the main earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279683-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii earthquake, Earthquake\nFurther analysis of Love waves, whose radiation pattern gives a greater discrimination on low-angle dips, indicate that the rupture occurred on a plane dipping at about 7\u00b0, consistent with it happening at the base of the Hawaiian volcanic rocks, where they overly sedimentary rocks on the earlier seafloor. The calculated low rupture speed is also consistent with propagation along a relatively weak zone. This would make it similar to the 1975 Kalapana earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279683-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii earthquake, Damage\nThe quake damaged many buildings, caused landslides that damaged shorelines, and caused cracks in a road, causing it to be shut down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert\nOn the morning of Saturday, January 13, 2018, a ballistic missile alert was accidentally issued via the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alert System over television, radio, and cellphones in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The alert stated that there was an incoming ballistic missile threat to Hawaii, advised residents to seek shelter, and concluded: \"This is not a drill\". The message was sent at 8:07\u00a0a.m. local time. Civil defense outdoor warning sirens were not authorized by the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert\nThirty-eight minutes and 13 seconds later, state officials blamed a miscommunication during a drill at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency for the first message. Governor David Ige publicly apologized for the erroneous alert. The Federal Communications Commission and the Hawaii House of Representatives launched investigations into the incident, leading to the resignation of the state's emergency management administrator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Background\nEscalating tensions between North Korea and the United States, including threats by both countries that they could use nuclear weapons against one another, prompted a heightened state of readiness in Hawaii. North Korea had conducted several intercontinental ballistic missile tests over the past year, most recently in November 2017, enhancing its strike capabilities. It is possible that North Korea may have the capability to deliver nuclear missiles to Hawaii. Hawaii is located roughly 4,600 miles (7,400\u00a0km) from North Korea, and a missile launched from North Korea would leave perhaps 12 to 15 minutes of warning time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Background\nHawaii officials had been working for some time to refresh the state's emergency plans in case of a nuclear attack from North Korea. An October 2017 email from the University of Hawaii to students with the subject line \"In the event of a nuclear attack\", containing instructions from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency on how to react in case of a nuclear attack, caused controversy; a university spokesman ultimately apologized for \"any needless concern it may have caused\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Background\nTesting of the civil defense warning sirens and attack drills were also conducted in the state on the first business day of the month beginning in December 2017. On December 1, 2017, a nuclear threat siren was tested in Hawaii for the first time in more than 30 years, the first of what state officials said would be monthly drills.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Background\nAt 11:45\u00a0a.m. on January 2, 2018, the state conducted its monthly test of the civil defense outdoor warning siren system including the sounding of a one-minute Attention Alert Signal (Steady Tone) followed by a one-minute Attack Warning Signal (Wailing Tone). There was no exercise or drill accompanying the test. Prior to January 13, 2018, 26 drills had been conducted. Vern Miyagi, the administrator of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, explained that state leaders \"couldn't ignore these constant threats and missile tests from North Korea\" and felt the need to prepare residents for the possibility of an attack. Officials also outlined what would happen if an emergency alert were sent: a push alert to smartphones and a message interrupting television and radio broadcasts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 829]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Background\nEarlier in January 2018, U.S. Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said the commission planned to vote to overhaul the wireless emergency alert system. The proposed reforms include providing more detailed information in alerts and confining emergency notifications to a more specific geographic area. Pai said he hoped the reforms, which would take effect in late 2019 if approved by the FCC, would lead to greater use of the alert system in local emergency situations and prompt people to take alerts they receive more seriously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, The alert\nThe alert was sent at 8:07\u00a0a.m. Hawaii\u2013Aleutian Standard Time. People in Hawaii reported seeing the alert on their smartphones. Many screenshots of the push alert were shared on social media platforms, such as Twitter. The alert read, in all capital letters:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, The alert\nBALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, The alert\nLocal television broadcasts, including a college basketball game between Florida and Ole Miss being shown on CBS affiliate KGMB and a Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Everton on NBC affiliate KHNL were also interrupted by a similar alert message, broadcast as a Civil Danger Warning. The alert message on television broadcasts took the form of both an audio message and a scrolling banner. It stated in part:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, The alert\nThe U.S. Pacific Command has detected a missile threat to Hawaii. A missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. If you are indoors, stay indoors. If you are outdoors, seek immediate shelter in a building. Remain indoors well away from windows. If you are driving, pull safely to the side of the road and seek shelter in a building or lay on the floor. We will announce when the threat has ended. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Take immediate action measures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, The alert\nAn alert message also interrupted radio broadcasts in the state. In Lihue, a resident reported hearing a message on the radio advising of \"an incoming missile warning for the islands of Kauai and Hawaii\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, The alert\nCulpability for the false alert was attributed to an employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, who officials said was a 10-year agency veteran who had previously exhibited behavior that had troubled coworkers, according to The Washington Post. Vern Miyagi, then-administrator of HI-EMA, said the alert had been inadvertently triggered by the employee as he was working at the Diamond Head Crater headquarters during a shift change. During the shift change, a supervisor ran an unscheduled drill in which he contacted emergency management workers in the guise of an officer from U.S. Pacific Command, according to state officials. The supervisor deviated from the script, officials said, erroneously stating at one point, \"This is not a drill\", although he reportedly did state before and after the message, \"Exercise, exercise, exercise\", agency code to indicate a test rather than an actual emergency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 965]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, The alert\nOfficials said that upon hearing the supervisor's statement, the employee, who had \"confused real-life events and drills\" at least twice before believed there was an actual emergency, and he later attested to this in a written statement. In an interview with NBC News, the employee shared that he was, \"100 percent sure that it was the right decision and that it was real\". The man went on to state that he is not to blame for the incident, that overall it was a system failure, and that he did exactly what he was trained to do.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, The alert\nHe clicked the button to send out an actual notification on Hawaii's emergency alert interface during what was intended to be a test of the state's ballistic missile preparations computer program and then clicked through a second screen, which had been intended as a safeguard, to confirm. An agency spokesman told The Washington Post that the employee was prompted to choose between the options \"test missile alert\" and \"missile alert\", had selected the latter, initiating the alert sent out across the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, The alert\nThe employee later claimed to the Associated Press that he had not heard the \"exercise\" part of the phone call because a co-worker had placed it on speakerphone partway into the message, and as a result, he had been \"100 percent sure\" the attack was real. State officials said five other workers were present at the agency at the time and all of them recognized the phone call as an impromptu drill. Since this incident, the employee responsible has received numerous death threats and has expressed on multiple occasions his apologies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, State response\nBy 8:10\u00a0a.m. HST, three minutes after the first alert, Hawaii National Guard Adjutant General Arthur \"Joe\" Logan had contacted U.S. Pacific Command and confirmed there had been no missile launch. At that time, the Honolulu Police Department was notified that the alert had been a false alarm. Officials used the State Warning Point system at 8:13\u00a0a.m. to cancel the alert, preventing it from being sent out to any phones that had not already received it, such as those that were switched off or did not have reception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, State response\nThe employee who originally sent out the erroneous notification did not respond when directed to cancel the alert, according to state officials. He later said he felt like he had been dealt a \"body blow\" upon realizing the supposed attack had been a drill, the Associated Press reported. Another unidentified worker grabbed the employee's computer mouse and canceled the alert when the first employee failed to respond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, State response\nOfficial messages refuting the emergency alert were not sent out until 8:20\u00a0a.m., according to the timeline released by officials after the incident. Hawaii Emergency Management Agency accounts on Facebook and Twitter posted messages at that time urging people to disregard the erroneous alert. Minutes later, Governor David Ige retweeted the HI-EMA message on Twitter and posted a similar message on Facebook to notify followers that the alert had been canceled. Ige later said the delay was caused in part by the fact he did not know his Twitter login information. An email from the state was also sent at about 8:25\u00a0a.m. advising that the initial alert was not correct, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, State response\nElectronic highway signs were also used to spread the word that the alert had been issued \"in error\" and that there was no threat to Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, State response, Second alert\nAt 8:45\u00a0a.m. HST, 38 minutes after the initial alert was sent to smartphones in Hawaii, a second emergency alert was sent, which stated:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, State response, Second alert\nThere is no missile threat or danger to the State of Hawaii. Repeat. False Alarm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, State response, Second alert\nThe second alert was sent \"well after everyone from Hawaii's congressional delegation to the U.S. Pacific Command had assured the world on Twitter that it was a false alarm\", Pacific Business News remarked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, State response, Second alert\nGovernor David Ige explained at a news conference that afternoon that officials \"had to initiate a manual process\" and obtain authorization from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in order to send the second alert because there was no automated way to countermand the first alert. Those procedures accounted for the delay more than 30 minutes after officials had confirmed internally that the alert was inaccurate, according to officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, Effects\nDuring the 38 minutes between the first and second alerts, Hawaii's siren warning system\u2014which had been tested as part of a missile preparedness exercise the previous month for the first time since the Cold War\u2014was not formally activated. Had a missile truly been launched, the Hawaii push alert should have been followed up with another set of alarms with sirens, which did not happen, as observed by some residents. Nevertheless, officials stated that some sirens did appear to go off in some communities, with some residents reporting sirens activated on Oahu a few minutes after the push notification. Little to no activity was reported at military bases in the state. Some commercial flights were reportedly delayed for a short time, although the Hawaii Department of Transportation said there were no widespread impacts at the state's airports and harbors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 913]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, Effects\nDisruptions were reported across the state. Honolulu Civil Beat reported that motorists parked inside the Interstate H-3 tunnel on the island of Oahu for shelter. Hawaii News Now reported that alarms sounded at Aloha Gymfest, an international gymnastics meet in Kailua, sending hundreds of people running for cover. Students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa reportedly headed for marked fallout shelters on campus but, finding them locked, ended up taking shelter in nearby classrooms instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, Effects\nOfficials at the Sony Open PGA Tour golf tournament on Oahu ordered an evacuation of the media center, while staff members sought cover in the kitchen and players' locker room. Tourists at Kualoa Ranch in Kaneohe were taken up to Battery Cooper Bunker by staff, a concrete bunker built in the mountains during WW2 as part of former Kualoa Airfield, and told to shelter in place there. Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa later said her husband had been driving on a Honolulu-area freeway and saw cars speeding at up to 100 miles per hour (160\u00a0km/h) after the alert was sent out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0020-0002", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, Effects\nMany Hawaii residents and visitors sought shelter or rushed through emergency preparations where they were. Some discounted the alarm when they realized that they heard no sirens, and that they personally saw no immediate coverage on television or local radio. Others were in areas where sirens did go off; in addition, some television stations did broadcast the alert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, Effects\nThe incident also created a strain on Hawaii's telephone system. Civil Defense offices in Hawaii were inundated with calls from frightened residents asking for advice or more information, the New Zealand Herald reported. Many calls to 911 would not go through. Many wireless data services were likewise initially jammed, leaving many unable to access the Internet to confirm whether the alarm was real. Some residents called friends or family members to say goodbye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, Effects\nU.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis reported that the false alert did not appear to have prompted any sort of reaction from the North Korean government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Incident, Effects\nOne man suffered a heart attack minutes after saying what he thought were his last goodbyes to his children following the initial alert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses\nFear and panic quickly spread through the residents of Hawaii. Many Twitter posts and screenshots of text messages shared on social media in the immediate wake of the first alert conveyed confusion, alarm, and fear among those who received the warning. With very little warning and instructions, many people were unsure of what to do. This later became a major criticism of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency and is a key issue they are working on to improve, which will ensure that people can receive more accurate information in the case of a real emergency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, Federal officials\nMembers of Hawaii's congressional delegation also took to Twitter to dispel the false alarm. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard tweeted at 8:19\u00a0a.m. HST, about 12 minutes after the initial alert was sent, stating in all capitals that the message was a \"false alarm\" and that she had confirmed with officials that there was no incoming ballistic missile toward Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, Federal officials\nThe next day, she told CNN that the incident highlighted the need for President Donald Trump to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to resolve nuclear tensions between the United States and North Korea, and she called for those responsible for the erroneous alert in Hawaii \"to be held accountable\". Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa, a 2018 candidate for governor, tweeted that the \"panic and fear created by this false alarm was very dangerous\". In further comments, Hanabusa panned the delay between the two emergency alerts, suggesting it should not have taken 38 minutes for the second message to be sent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0025-0002", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, Federal officials\nSenator Mazie Hirono tweeted that officials \"need to get to the bottom of what happened and make sure it never happens again\". In his own tweets immediately after the incident, Senator Brian Schatz repeated that the first alert had been a false alarm. He described the erroneous alert message as \"totally inexcusable\", adding: \"The whole state was terrified. There needs to be tough and quick accountability and a fixed process.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, Federal officials\nCommander David Benham, a spokesman for U.S. Pacific Command, confirmed to media that there was no imminent missile threat to Hawaii. A spokesman for North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) stated that \"NORAD did not see anything that indicated any sort of threat to Hawaii\" and said NORAD and U.S. Northern Command were still verifying what had happened. President Trump had also been under fire by critics for his \"lack of response\" some said. A White House official said the alert had been part of \"a state exercise\" and President Trump was briefed on the situation. Trump ordered National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster to take charge of the administration's response to the incident. About the incident, Trump said, \"They made a mistake.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, Federal officials\nU.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the incident was \"unfortunate\" and officials were working to prevent a similar false alert from being issued in the future. Speaking on Fox News the next day, she said people \"can trust government systems\" and should pay attention to any alerts they receive from authorities in the future, in spite of the January 13 incident in Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, Federal officials\nAjit Pai, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, announced the commission would launch a full investigation into the false alert. He blamed Hawaii's government for not having \"reasonable safeguards or process controls in place to prevent the transmission of a false alert\", later stating that other agencies should \"learn from these mistakes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, Federal officials\nCongresswoman Tulsi Gabbard stated in an interview after the second emergency alert was sent that the incident was \"a taste of the stark reality of what we face here of a potential nuclear strike on Hawaii\", referring to the possibility of a North Korean attack. She and former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry both said the false alert highlighted the possibility of an \"accidental nuclear war\", in which a technical or human error leads to the use of nuclear weapons due to a misunderstanding or misinterpretation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, State officials\nHonolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell also tweeted that the message had been a false alarm, saying the message had been sent in error before the second alert was sent out by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, State officials\nHI-EMA administrator Vern Miyagi took responsibility for the incident, ultimately resigning over it. Miyagi described the initial warning as a \"mistake\", saying it \"should have been caught\" before the alert was sent out. HI-EMA officials, including Miyagi, said there was no evidence that the agency's systems had been hacked to send the false emergency message.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, State officials\nMiyagi apologized for the false alert, as did Governor David Ige, who called the incident \"unfortunate and regrettable\". They said officials would review the state's procedures to prevent it from happening again. Ige said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, State officials\nI know first-hand how today's false alarm affected all of us here in Hawaii, and I am sorry for the pain and confusion it caused. I, too, am extremely upset about this and am doing everything I can do to immediately improve our emergency management systems, procedures and staffing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, State officials\nHawaii Senate Majority Leader J. Kalani English said he was \"outraged\" by the error, which caused unnecessary \"panic and pandemonium\" throughout the state. Hawaii House of Representatives Speaker Scott K. Saiki announced the House would investigate the incident:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, State officials\nThis system we have been told to rely upon failed and failed miserably today. I am deeply troubled by this misstep that could have had dire consequences. Measures must be taken to avoid further incidents that caused wholesale alarm and chaos today. Clearly, government agencies are not prepared and lack the capacity to deal with emergency situations. Apparently, the wrong button was pushed and it took over 30 minutes for a correction to be announced. Parents and children panicked during those 30 minutes. The Hawaii House of Representatives will immediately investigate what happened and there be consequences. This cannot happen again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Responses, State officials\nThe deputy adjutant of the Hawaii National Guard said that notwithstanding the erroneous alert, people should continue to follow instructions and take shelter if another alert is sent in the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Investigations\nState officials held a news conference in the afternoon of January 13 to address the incident. State officials placed former Hawaii Army National Guard commander Bruce E. Oliveira in charge of internally investigating the events that resulted in the false alert being sent out. In his report, published January 30, Oliveira faulted \"insufficient management controls, poor computer software design, and human factors\" for the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Investigations\nOfficials did not name the employee responsible for the error. Hawaii Emergency Management Agency head Vern Miyagi initially declined to say whether the employee, who he said felt \"terrible\" about the false alert, would face discipline. An agency spokesman said January 14 the employee had been \"temporarily reassigned\" to a position that did not allow him access to the emergency warning system, pending the result of the internal investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0038-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Investigations\nThe employee was ultimately fired on January 26, following findings in Oliveira's investigation regarding his work history and failure to follow directions, with NBC News reporting that the employee had \"a history of confusing drill and real-world events\". A second employee, who was also not identified and whose role in the incident was not disclosed, was suspended without pay. Toby Clairmont, HI-EMA's executive officer, announced January 20 he planned to retire by the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Investigations\nThe Federal Communications Commission also announced that it would conduct a full investigation into the incident. On January 25, an FCC official announced that the former employee responsible for sending the false report was refusing to cooperate with the FCC probe of the incident. The FCC report, released January 30, faulted the state for failing to quickly notify the public and not having safeguards in place sufficient to prevent the error. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai stated:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Investigations\nEvery state and local government that originates alerts needs to learn from these mistakes. Each should make sure they have adequate safeguards in place. \u2026 The public needs to be able to trust that when the government issues an alert it is indeed a credible alert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Investigations\nMiyagi resigned as HI-EMA administrator the same day the state and federal reports were released. Clairmont announced his resignation a day later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Other official actions\nThen-administrator Vern Miyagi said the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency suspended tests while assessing what had happened following the incident. He also announced the agency immediately changed its procedures to require two people, instead of just one, to send out both test alerts and actual alerts. HI-EMA employees will be \"counseled and drilled so this never happens again\", Miyagi said January 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Other official actions\nGovernor David Ige announced January 15 that he was appointing Brigadier General Kenneth Hara, Hawaii's deputy adjutant general, to oversee a review of the state's emergency management systems and procedures and implement reforms. The agency also moved quickly to implement a cancellation command that officials said can be triggered within seconds of an erroneous alert being sent out, which it reportedly lacked before the January 13 incident. The Hawaii emergency alert interface screen was updated with a BMD False Alarm selection the same day, addressing a system deficiency that made it difficult for the state to countermand an alert sent in error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Other official actions\nHI-EMA reported that some of its employees received death threats after the false alert incident. In a rare public address, Ige called the threats \"completely unacceptable\" and said he was \"ultimately responsible\" for the error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Other official actions\nAlthough Governor Ige's office issued on February 27, 2018, a Siren and Emergency Alert System Test for March 1, 2018, the state of Hawaii did not test the nuclear warning siren in March and dropped its monthly test of the nuclear warning siren beginning on March 1, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Other official actions\nIn July 2018, the FCC issued a report and order which makes changes to EAS regulations to \"improve the integrity, efficacy, and reliability\" of the system and \"minimize the potential for false alerts\". The changes require EAS participants to configure their hardware to \"reject Common Alerting Protocol-based alerts that contain an invalid digital signature and legacy (over-the-air)-based alerts whose expiration time falls outside of specific time limits\", and report any false alarms to the FCC. The commission also implemented procedures for authorizing voluntary participation in \"live code\" tests\u2014public exercises that simulate an actual emergency in order to \"promote greater proficiency\" in the system by EAS operators and participants. These changes were the result of recommendations from the FCC's report on the Hawaii incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 906]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Outside Hawaii\nNorth Korea's Rodong Sinmun, the Workers' Party of Korea newspaper, described the false alarm as a \"tragicomedy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Outside Hawaii\nAn official with the Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Management in the U.S. state of Alaska, also believed to be within the theoretical range of North Korean nuclear missiles, said his department encourages Alaskans to shelter in place rather than trying to get elsewhere if there is an attack, as many people in Hawaii did after the false alert was issued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Outside Hawaii\nU.S. Senator Brian Schatz, one of Hawaii's two members of the United States Senate, introduced federal legislation that would prohibit state and local agencies from notifying the public of a missile launch, placing the responsibility on federal authorities to make that determination. In July 2018, Schatz also introduced the Reliable Emergency Alert Distribution Improvement (READI) Act, which proposed that a reporting system be established for false alarms, that FEMA establish best practices on use of emergency alerts and preventing dissemination of false alarms, and that State Emergency Communications Committees (SECCs) be required to update their procedures on a periodic basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279684-0049-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawaii false missile alert, Aftermath, Outside Hawaii\nThe act also proposed user-visible changes to EAS behavior, including requiring that users be prevented from opting out of wireless alerts originating from FEMA, mandating repetition of EAS broadcasts for active FEMA or presidential alerts, and compelling the FCC to investigate the feasibility of delivering emergency alerts via over-the-top streaming media services. The bill passed in the Senate but failed in the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods\nIn April 2018, a series of thunderstorms produced record-breaking rainfall on the Hawaiian Islands of Kaua\u02bbi and Oahu. An upper-level low moved across the area on April\u00a013, generating a mesoscale convective system that moved over eastern Oahu, producing localized heavy rainfall that reached 5.55\u00a0in (141\u00a0mm). The heaviest rainfall occurred on northern Kaua\u02bbi. There, a rain gauge owned by the Waip\u0101 Foundation, just west of Hanalei, recorded 49.69\u00a0in (1,262\u00a0mm) of rainfall in the 24\u00a0hours between 12:45\u00a0p.m. on April 14 and 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods\nThis was the greatest 24-hour rainfall total on record in the United States, surpassing the previous record of 43\u00a0in (1,100\u00a0mm) in Alvin, Texas on July\u00a025\u201326, 1979, set during Tropical Storm Claudette. Through the entire event, the same gauge recorded a total of 54.37\u00a0in (1,381\u00a0mm) of rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods\nThe heavy rainfall produced flash flooding and landslides that covered roads and washed away several vacant houses. The floods damaged or destroyed 532\u00a0houses. Public damage totaled $19.7\u00a0million (2018\u00a0USD), and overall damage was estimated at over $125\u00a0million. Damage on Kauai was the worst from a natural disaster since Hurricane Iniki in 1992. Landslides and flooding covered parts of Kuhio Highway in Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Meteorological history\nOn April\u00a011, 2018, an upper-level low was located west of the Hawaiian island of Kaua\u02bbi. The low moved toward Hawaii and drew deep tropical moisture from the south. The low eventually opened into a trough, which crossed over the Hawaiian islands on April\u00a013. That day, a mesoscale convective system (MCS) developed northwest of Molokai and intensified while moving westward through the trade winds. The MCS moved over eastern Oahu, dissipating after moving ashore. Another upper-level low developed on April\u00a014, fueling additional rainfall through April\u00a016, which caused record rainfall on Kaua\u02bbi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Meteorological history\nThe first of a series of thunderstorms moved over northern Kaua\u02bbi around midnight (local time) on April\u00a014. After a five-hour break in rainfall, another set of thunderstorms hit northern Kaua\u02bbi around midnight on April\u00a015 and lasted for about eight hours. The third set of thunderstorms began around 10:00\u00a0AM on April\u00a015 and continued until around 7:00\u00a0PM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Impact\nThe Honolulu National Weather Service issued various flash flood watches and warnings for the flood event. The trough began dropping heavy rainfall over Hawaii on April\u00a013. Flooding damaged or destroyed 532\u00a0houses. The flooding knocked down trees and power lines, eroded many bridges and roads, and washed away crops, beehives, and livestock. Overall damage was estimated at over $125\u00a0million. Damage to public buildings was estimated at $19.7\u00a0million (2018\u00a0USD). Despite the damage, there were no deaths or injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Impact, Oahu\nAcross eastern Oahu, the mesoscale convective system produced rainfall rates of about 4\u00a0in (100\u00a0mm) per hour. Over a 15-minute period, a rain gauge in Niu Valley recorded 1.42\u00a0in (36\u00a0mm) of precipitation, which has a 4\u201310% annual return period. The same station recorded 5.52\u00a0in (140\u00a0mm) of rainfall over a two-hour period, which has a 0.5\u20131% annual return period. The rainfall on Oahu was largely limited to the eastern one-third of the island. A station at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport recorded 0.01\u00a0in (0.25\u00a0mm) of rainfall, just 14\u00a0mi (23\u00a0km) west of Niu Valley, which recorded 5.55\u00a0in (141\u00a0mm) during the same 24-hour period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Impact, Oahu\nAt Waimanalo Stream north of Niu Valley, the rains caused the waters to rise 3\u00a0ft (0.91\u00a0m) in 30\u00a0minutes, and 5\u00a0ft (1.5\u00a0m) in an hour. During the rain event, Wailupe Gulch reported an 8\u00a0ft (2.4\u00a0m) rise in floodwaters. Flooding entered cars and hundreds of houses on Oahu. The floods also caused significant runoff, leaving a layer of debris on roads. A portion of Kalanianaole Highway was covered with nearly 1\u00a0ft (300\u00a0mm) of water, closing a stretch of the highway from Aina Haina to Makapu\u02bbu. A mudslide covered a portion of the same highway near Kailua. Downed trees closed one block of Maunaloa Avenue in Kaimuki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Impact, Kaua\u02bbi\nOn Kaua\u02bbi, the rainfall event occurred at low elevations near the northern coast. This was unusual, as previous rain events on the island usually occurred over higher elevations. The heaviest rainfall occurred early on April\u00a015. A rain gauge owned by the Waip\u0101 Foundation, just west of Hanalei on Kaua\u02bbi's northern coast, recorded 49.69\u00a0in (1,262\u00a0mm) of rainfall in the 24\u00a0hours ending at 12:45\u00a0p.m. local time. The total greatly surpassed the Hawai\u02bbi 24-hour rainfall record of 38\u00a0in (970\u00a0mm) set on January\u00a025, 1956, at K\u012blauea .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Impact, Kaua\u02bbi\nFurthermore, this total broke the national 24-hour rainfall record of 43\u00a0in (1,100\u00a0mm) set during Tropical Storm Claudette on July\u00a025\u201326, 1979 in Alvin, Texas, a record confirmed in December 2018. The Waip\u0101 rain gauge also recorded 1.77\u00a0in (45\u00a0mm) over 15\u00a0minutes, 5.51\u00a0in (140\u00a0mm) over an hour, 19.52\u00a0in (496\u00a0mm) over 6\u00a0hours, 33.33\u00a0in (847\u00a0mm) over 12\u00a0hours, and 54.37\u00a0in (1,381\u00a0mm) over 48\u00a0hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Impact, Kaua\u02bbi\nElsewhere on northern Kaua\u02bbi, a rain gauge in Wainiha recorded 32.35\u00a0in (822\u00a0mm), and a gauge in Hanalei recorded 28.41\u00a0in (722\u00a0mm) before it failed. Minimal rainfall occurred on the southern and western coasts of Kaua\u02bbi. The intense rainfall washed out several river gauges. Along the Hanalei River, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimated that floodwaters rose 15\u00a0ft (4.6\u00a0m), representing a peak flow rate of 32,700\u00a0cubic feet per second (ft3/s, 926\u00a0m3/s), before the station failed. The Wainiha River reported a record flow rate during the storm event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Impact, Kaua\u02bbi\nThe rain event caused the worst natural disaster in Kauai since Hurricane Iniki in 1992. The sudden rains caused landslides, mostly in isolated areas, as well as flash flooding, causing power outages in Hanalei and Wainiha. Rising waters washed out four vacant homes and entered dozens of other homes. The rising waters forced guests at the Hanalei Colony Resort to move to the second floor. The floodwaters reached 8\u00a0ft (2.4\u00a0m) deep near Hanalei, closing parts of Kuhio Highway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Impact, Kaua\u02bbi\nLandslides occurred at 15\u00a0locations along the same highway, leaving residents in Wainiha and Haena without regional road access, disrupting relief efforts. Three bridges along the route were damaged, which delayed repairs from being made, leaving the Kuhio Highway closed as of November 2018. Residents used a 1\u00a0mi (1.6\u00a0km) detour on a dirt road. The flooding forced the temporary closure of three beaches \u2013 Kalapaki Beach, Koloa Landing, and Moloaa Bay \u2013 as well as two parks, N\u0101 Pali Coast State Park and Ha\u02bbena State Park. Residents in Wainiha and Haena were urged to limit their water use due to contaminated water supply.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Aftermath and records\nKauai Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. declared a state of emergency for portions of Kauai, which effectively restricted tourist operations in the Hanalei region. The mayor extended the emergency four more times, effective through January\u00a04, 2019. After the floods, Hawaiian Governor David Ige also declared a State of Emergency. On April\u00a018, the Hawaiian legislature approved $125\u00a0million in disaster funding, including $100\u00a0million for Kaua\u02bbi. On May\u00a08, United States President Donald Trump declared a federal disaster area for Kaua\u02bbi and Honolulu counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Aftermath and records\nInitially, the declaration was limited to federal reimbursement for repairs to public infrastructure, but was expanded to include individual assistance on June\u00a027. Ultimately, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved 250\u00a0individual assistance applications, which totaled about $1.5\u00a0million, with another $2.6\u00a0million in public assistance grants. FEMA opened three disaster recovery centers, which provided resources for the application process; these centers were closed by July\u00a020. On November\u00a030, Kauai Mayor Carvalho granted $500,000 to six nonprofits for counselors, meals, emergency supplies, and rebuilding parts of the Limahuli Garden and Preserve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Aftermath and records\nLocal and national emergency crews rescued people from their flooded homes by helicopter, boat, and bus, including 475 by helicopter; more than 40% of those rescued by helicopter were tourists. The Hawaii Department of Transportation ran convoys throughout the day along the damaged portions of Kuhio Highway while the roadway was being repaired. The cost of reconstructing the Kuhio Highway was estimated at around $100\u00a0million; much of it would be covered by the federal government. In August 2018, Hurricane Lane dropped heavy rainfall in the same area, causing further flooding damage to houses and the Kuhio Highway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Aftermath and records\nThe Hanalei post office, damaged during the flooding event, was reopened on July\u00a030. A Red Cross shelter in Kilauea housed 13\u00a0people after the event. Some of the displaced stayed with family or friends. The Hanalei Colony Resort evacuated its guests on April\u00a016 and remained closed through October. The resort temporarily housed National Guardsmen and families displaced by the floods. At least two dozen students used the resort as a temporary school. The staff of the resort won the Excellence in Community Service Award at the 29th Annual Na Po\u2018e Pa\u2018ahana Awards, a ceremony for excellence in the hospitality industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279685-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii floods, Aftermath and records\nOn August\u00a02, 2018, National Weather Service Senior Hydrologist Kevin Kodama inspected and calibrated record-breaking rain gauge at Waip\u0101 Garden, confirming that the instrument was functioning normally. On December 4, 2018, the National Climate Extremes Committee verified that the 49.69\u00a0in (1,262\u00a0mm) accumulation was the highest 24-hour rainfall total in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279686-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Hawaii gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Hawaii and Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279686-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii gubernatorial election\nAfter prevailing in an intensely competitive primary election on August 11, 2018, incumbent Democratic Governor David Ige ran successfully for re-election to a second term in office, considerably improving on his margin of victory from 2014, in which he only won a plurality. Ige's vote share of 62.67% is the highest of any gubernatorial candidate in Hawaiian history surpassing the previous record of 62.53% set by Linda Lingle in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279686-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawaii gubernatorial election\nRepublicans Andria Tupola and Marissa Kerns headed one of two 2018 major-party gubernatorial tickets that included two women. The other such ticket had Idaho's 2018 Democratic nominees for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, Paulette Jordan and Kristin Collum. This was Hawaii's first gubernatorial election since 1994 without Linda Lingle or Duke Aiona as the Republican nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279687-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawthorn Football Club season\nThe 2018 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 94th season in the Australian Football League and 117th overall, the 19th season playing home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the 18th season playing home games at the University of Tasmania Stadium, the 14th season under head coach Alastair Clarkson, and the 2nd season with Jarryd Roughead as club captain. This was also the first season without either Luke Hodge or Sam Mitchell on the list since 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279687-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawthorn Football Club season\nHawthorn improved on their record from 2017, finishing in fourth place with a 15\u20137 record. This was the 7th time in the last 8 seasons Hawthorn won 15 or more games. Their 4-point win against St Kilda in round 22 clinched a finals series appearance for the first time since 2016, and their 10th in the last 14 seasons. Their 9-point win over Sydney in round 23 clinched a double chance for the first time since 2016, and their 7th in the last 8 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279687-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawthorn Football Club season\nHawthorn were defeated by the defending premiers Richmond 64\u201395 in the qualifying final. This was the first time the two had played a final against each other. This was Hawthorn's third consecutive finals defeat having lost two finals in 2016. It was also Hawthorn's third consecutive qualifying final defeat having lost qualifying finals in 2015 and 2016. Hawthorn were eliminated from the finals by Melbourne 71\u2013104 in the Semi-final. This was the seventh time the two teams had played a final against each other, and the first time since 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279687-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawthorn Football Club season\nThis was Hawthorn's fourth consecutive finals defeat equalling the club record. It was also Hawthorn's second consecutive semi-final defeat having lost the semi-final in 2016. Hawthorn also became the first team under the AFL final eight system to be eliminated in straight-sets twice having also being eliminated in straight-sets in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279687-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawthorn Football Club season, Club summary\nThe 2018 AFL season was the 122nd season of the VFL/AFL competition since its inception in 1897; having entered the competition in 1925, it was the 94th season contested by the Hawthorn Football Club. Tasmania and iiNet continued as the club's two major sponsors, as they had done since 2006 and 2013 respectively, while Adidas continued to manufacture the club's on-and-off field apparel, as they had done since 2013. Hawthorn continued its alignment with the Box Hill Hawks Football Club in the Victorian Football League, allowing Hawthorn-listed players to play with the Box Hill Hawks when not selected in AFL matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279687-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hawthorn Football Club season, Senior personnel\nAlastair Clarkson continued as the club's head coach for the fourteenth consecutive season. While Jarryd Roughead continued as the club's captain for the second consecutive season. On 22 August 2017, it was announced Cameron Bruce was departing the club at the end of the 2017 season to join Carlton as a senior assistant coach. On 29 August 2017, it was announced that Collingwood assistant coach Scott Burns and former West Coast player Darren Glass would join Hawthorn as assistant coaches. On 2 October 2017, it was announced that Tracey Gaudry would step down as the club's CEO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279687-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Hawthorn Football Club season, Senior personnel\nPeter Nankivell was appointed as the interim CEO. On 4 October 2017, Richard Garvey resigned as president of the club, with Jeff Kennett re-appointed in the role. Kennett previously served as president of the club from 2005\u20132011. Garvey remained at the club as a director. On 17 October 2017, it was announced that Justin Reeves was appointed as the CEO of the club. On 2 August 2018, it was announced that after six seasons as assistant coach Brett Ratten would be leaving the club at the end of the season to explore new opportunities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279688-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Healthy Ageing Tour\nThe 2018 Healthy Ageing Tour was a women's cycle stage race that was held in the Netherlands from 4 to 8 April 2018. The 2018 edition of the race was the eighth running of the Healthy Ageing Tour, being held with a UCI rating of 2.1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279688-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Healthy Ageing Tour\nThe race was marked by the performance of the entire Boels\u2013Dolmans team; aside from winning the team time trial stage, their riders Anna van der Breggen, Amy Pieters and Chantal Blaak won three others. In the overall classification, Pieters won by 22 seconds ahead of Blaak, while Christine Majerus completed the podium \u2013 just ahead of van der Breggen, in a Boels\u2013Dolmans 1\u20132\u20133\u20134 \u2013 a further 20 seconds in arrears. The other major jerseys were won by Kirsten Wild (points for Wiggle High5), Natalie van Gogh (sprints for Parkhotel Valkenburg) and Lisa Klein (young rider for Canyon\u2013SRAM).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279688-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Healthy Ageing Tour, Teams\nA total of 20 teams competed in the race, including 9 UCI Women's Teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279688-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Healthy Ageing Tour, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Healthy Ageing Tour, six different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints and at the finish of mass-start stages, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Healthy Ageing Tour, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279688-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Healthy Ageing Tour, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 25\u00a0points, with 20 for second, 16 for third, 14 for fourth, 12 for fifth, 10 for sixth with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 15th place. The third classification was the sprints classification, the leader of which was awarded an orange jersey. In the sprints classification, riders received points for finishing in the top three at intermediate sprint points during each stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279688-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Healthy Ageing Tour, Classification leadership table\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1996 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. Other jerseys were awarded to the best club rider amongst the amateur riders (blue), and for the most courageous rider showing fighting spirit (red). There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279689-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Heilbronner Neckarcup\nThe 2018 Heilbronner Neckarcup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Heilbronn, Germany between 14 and 20 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279689-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Heilbronner Neckarcup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279690-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Heilbronner Neckarcup \u2013 Doubles\nRoman Jebav\u00fd and Antonio \u0160an\u010di\u0107 were the defending champions but only Jebav\u00fd chose to defend his title, partnering Florin Mergea. Jebav\u00fd lost in the first round to Denys Molchanov and Igor Zelenay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279690-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Heilbronner Neckarcup \u2013 Doubles\nRameez Junaid and David Pel won the title after defeating Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies 6\u20132, 2\u20136, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279691-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Heilbronner Neckarcup \u2013 Singles\nFilip Krajinovi\u0107 was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279691-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Heilbronner Neckarcup \u2013 Singles\nRudolf Molleker won the title after defeating Ji\u0159\u00ed Vesel\u00fd 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279692-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hessian state election\nThe 2018 Hessian state election was held on 28 October 2018 to elect the members of the Landtag of Hesse. The outgoing government was a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and The Greens led by Minister-President Volker Bouffier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279692-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hessian state election\nThe election was held two weeks after the 2018 Bavarian state election, which saw the CSU and Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffer major losses, with third parties making major gains. The result in Hesse was largely similar, with the CDU and SPD losing more than 20 percentage points between them, while the Greens and Alternative for Germany (AfD) gained approximately 9 points each. The Free Democratic Party (FDP) and The Left also made gains. Compared to the 2013 election turnout fell by 5.9 points to 67.3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279692-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hessian state election\nDespite suffering the worst losses of any party, the CDU remained the largest party by a comfortable margin. The Greens and SPD each won 29 seats and 19.8% of the vote; the Greens moved into second place by an extremely narrow margin of just 66 votes. The AfD, which failed to win seats in 2013, won 13.1% and 19 seats. By entering the Landtag in Hesse, it became the only third party present in all sixteen state parliaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279692-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hessian state election\nThe election was influenced by the poor condition of the federal government in the aftermath of the \"asylum quarrel\" in June/July and the crisis around Hans-Georg Maa\u00dfen in September. One day after the election, federal Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that she would not seek re-election as CDU leader at the party convention in early December, nor seek her party's nomination as Chancellor candidate for the next federal election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279692-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hessian state election\nThe incumbent CDU\u2013Green government was returned with a slim majority of one seat, and was subsequently renewed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279692-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hessian state election, Background\nThe incumbent Hesse government coalition consisted of CDU and the Greens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279692-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hessian state election, Background\nThe regional election for Hesse, along with the Bavarian state election held just two weeks before, was widely seen as a test for the ruling CDU/CSU and SPD coalition of Angela Merkel's fourth federal cabinet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279692-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Hessian state election, Parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Hesse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279692-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Hessian state election, State government formation\nDespite heavy losses inflicted on the party, the CDU returned to government after negotiating a coalition agreement with the Greens, the second consecutive such arrangement between the two parties. The two parties formed the narrowest possible majority in the Landtag, occupying 69 seats. As part of the agreement, the Greens increased their representation in the Cabinet, holding four of the eleven portfolios. The returned coalition only became possible after a recount of votes took place several weeks after the election, due to computer glitches which affected some election night results. Following the recount, the state election commissioner announced that compared to the provisional figures, there were no significant shifts in the percentages, and the distribution of seats in the state parliament had not changed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 881]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279693-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour\nThe 2018 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour was an endurance race for Group 3E Series Production Cars. The event, which was staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathurst, in New South Wales, Australia, on 1 April 2018, was the third running of the Bathurst 6 Hour. The race was won by Grant and Iain Sherrin, driving a BMW M4 F82.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279694-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 High Point Panthers men's soccer team\nThe 2018 High Point Panthers men's soccer team represented High Point University during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 61st season of the university fielding a program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279694-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 High Point Panthers men's soccer team, Squad, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279695-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hillingdon London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Hillingdon Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Hillingdon Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Conservative Party retained control with an increased majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279695-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hillingdon London Borough Council election, Overall results\nThe Conservatives retained control of the council, winning 44 seats (+2). Labour won 21 (\u22122). Tony Burles was the only incumbent Councillor to lose his seat (Labour - Uxbridge South)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279695-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hillingdon London Borough Council election, By Elections Since 2018\nHillingdon East \u2013 27 February 2020 - Caused by resignation of Cllr Pat Jackson (Con) due to ill health", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 72], "content_span": [73, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279695-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hillingdon London Borough Council election, By Elections Since 2018\nCharville \u2013 6 May 2021 - Caused by death of Cllr Neil Fyfe (Con)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 72], "content_span": [73, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279696-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Historic Grand Prix of Monaco\nThe 2018 Historic Grand Prix of Monaco was the eleventh running of the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, a motor racing event for heritage Grand Prix, Voiturettes, Formula One, Formula Two and Sports cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279696-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, Report\nRace A was restored to full race status at the request of the drivers, having been held as a demonstration in 2016. The opening ceremony featured a rare appearance by the Lamborghini Marzal concept car, driven by Prince Albert II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279697-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hlinka Gretzky Cup\nThe 2018 Hlinka Gretzky Cup (branded as the 2018 Hlinka Gretzky Cup presented by Ram for sponsorship reasons) was an under-18 international ice hockey tournament held in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta, Canada from August 6\u201311, 2018 at Rogers Place in Edmonton and Servus Arena in Red Deer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279697-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, Final round, Semifinals\nCanada's game-tying goal was considered controversial, as video footage suggested that the goal had been scored after time officially expired. However, as the tournament did not officially use video review, referees allowed the goal to stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279698-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hobart International\nThe 2018 Hobart International was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 25th edition of the event and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Hobart International Tennis Centre in Hobart, Australia from 7 through 13 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279698-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hobart International, Points and prize money, Prize money\n1 Points per the WTA. 2 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279698-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hobart International, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279698-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hobart International, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279699-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hobart International \u2013 Doubles\nRaluca Olaru and Olga Savchuk were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Veronika Kudermetova and Aryna Sabalenka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279699-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hobart International \u2013 Doubles\nElise Mertens and Demi Schuurs won the title, defeating Lyudmyla Kichenok and Makoto Ninomiya in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279700-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hobart International \u2013 Singles\nElise Mertens was the defending champion heading into the tournament. She successfully defended the title after defeating unseeded Romanian, Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu in the final, 6\u20131, 4\u20136, 6\u20133 to become the first two-time champion at the Hobart International. The final saw four rain separate rain delays which saw the match be completed in eight hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279701-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hobart floods\n2018 Hobart floods were severe weather events in the region of Hobart in Tasmania that caused widespread damage and flooding on the 11th May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279701-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hobart floods\nThey were declared a disaster, as result of the damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 74]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279702-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2018 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 2 and March 17, 2018 at campus locations and at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston University won their 9th tournament and earned Hockey East's automatic bid into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279702-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe tournament included all eleven teams in the conference. Seeds 1\u20135 earned a first-round bye, and seeds 6\u201311 played a best-of-three Opening Round played on campus locations. Winners advanced to play the 1\u20133 seeds in the best-of-three Quarterfinals on campus locations. Winners of those series played in a single-game Semifinal, and those winners faced off in a single-game Championship Final, both at the TD Garden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279702-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279703-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279703-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake\nAn earthquake measuring 6.6 MW on the moment magnitude scale struck Iburi Subprefecture in southern Hokkaido, Japan, on 6 September 2018 at 3:08\u00a0a.m. JST. The earthquake's epicenter was near Tomakomai and occurred at a depth of 35.0 kilometers (21.7\u00a0mi). The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) registered a magnitude of 6.7 Mj and a maximum intensity of 7 on the shindo scale. Shaking from the earthquake was felt strongly in Hokkaido and Aomori Prefecture, and shaking was felt as far away as the Kant\u014d region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake\nLong period ground motion (LPGM) during the earthquake reached maximum of class 4 on the JMA LPGM intensity scales. The earthquake disrupted electrical service throughout Hokkaido, leaving 5.3 million residents without power. Forty-one people were confirmed dead and six hundred and ninety-one were injured. The event is officially known as Heisei san-j\u016b-nen Hokkaid\u014d Iburi t\u014dbu jishin (\u5e73\u621030\u5e74\u5317\u6d77\u9053\u80c6\u632f\u6771\u90e8\u5730\u9707, \"Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake of Heisei 30\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Geology\nThe central area of Hokkaido where the earthquake was centered is prone to earthquakes despite not being located on any plate boundary. According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, there are several active seismic zones in the central part of Hokkaido, including the Furano and Ishikari fault zones. Studies have shown that earthquakes occurred in 1910, 1974, 1981, 1982, and 2000 in the region. Among them, the 7.1 Mj 1982 earthquake off the coast of Urakawa was the largest earthquake in the history of the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Geology\nThe earthquake caused casualties and damage in Tomakomai and Sapporo. There are many volcanoes located near the earthquake's epicenter. The volcanoes distributed pumicite throughout the area which was later covered with a layer of heavier soil. The volcanic material is theorized to have caused landslides after being inundated during heavy rains due to its slippery nature. The wet pumice and the soil on top of it slid away after the shear forces of the earthquake ruptured the strata, causing the landslides that led to most of the casualties of the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Geology, Aftershocks\nOn 21 February 2019, a magnitude 5.7 MW aftershock struck 10\u00a0km north of the epicenter of the main earthquake. This has been the strongest recorded aftershock of the earthquake. No major damage was reported, but there were small disruptions to rail systems such as the Hokkaido Shinkansen and the Sapporo Municipal Subway. In total four people, from Sapporo, Tomakomai and Noboribetsu, got injured and an avalanche was triggered in the town of Atsuma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Damage and effects\nOverall, damage in Hokkaido was estimated to be at least 367.5 billion yen ($3.32B). The earthquake crippled multiple industries and public facilities in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Damage and effects, Blackout\nThe earthquake cut power to all 2.95 million households in Hokkaido. This was because the Hokkaido Electric Power Company's coal-fired power plant in Atsuma was heavily damaged by fires that broke out during the earthquake. The damage to the plant caused an imbalance in the supply and demand of electricity throughout Hokkaido; this resulted in the blackout. By 6:30\u00a0p.m. JST on the day of the earthquake, power was restored to 340,000 households in Hokkaido. Hospitals were forced to function on emergency backup power, due to the blackout. Many hospitals had to turn away emergency patients because of the outages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Damage and effects, Transportation\nAll flights to New Chitose Airport were cancelled on the day of the quake. NHK World-Japan announced the airport resumed business at 11:00\u00a0a.m. JST the day after the quake. All public transport, including rail, subway, and bus services was shut down in Hokkaido due to the loss of electricity and damages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Damage and effects, Transportation\nThe earthquake caused many roads in Hokkaido to become impassable. Some roads were blocked by debris from landslides, others were destroyed by soil liquefaction as far away from the epicenter as Kiyota-ku, Sapporo. Near the earthquake's epicenter in Atsuma, emergency services could not take emergency calls after the quake due to the heavy damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Damage and effects, Transportation\nThe East Nippon Expressway Company reported these expressways in Hokkaido were subject to closures after the quake:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Damage and effects, Economic impact\nThe blackout had a severe impact on the farming and fishing industries in Hokkaido. The prefecture provides half of Japan's raw milk, but without power for refrigeration or operating the milking equipment, the cows could not be milked and the product was wasted. Other produce, such as onions and potatoes, could not be kept cool or shipped away due to the closure of the rail network. As a result, an estimated 13.6 billion yen worth of perishable goods had to be discarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Damage and effects, Economic impact\nThe tourism industry in Hokkaido was hit hard by the immediate effects of the earthquake including delays and cancellations caused by the quakes' impact to transportation infrastructure; moreover, perceptions of the area as being dangerous due to aftershocks and general fear of earthquakes caused a decrease in tourism to the area. The total impact of the earthquake was estimated to cost the tourism industry approximately 35.6 billion yen as of October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Seismic intensity\nThe earthquake was the first to have ever reached a maximum level of 7 on the Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale, or Shindo scale, in Hokkaido and the sixth in Japan since the system was put in place in 1949.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Casualties\nThere were 41 confirmed deaths resulting from the earthquake. 691 people were reported to be injured, 17 of which were reported to be serious cases. Thirty-six of the deaths were in Atsuma. The region was inundated by Typhoon Jebi, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in a quarter of a century, the day before the earthquake struck. The earthquake triggered landslides in the wet soil the typhoon left behind which killed multiple people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Response, Domestic\nPrime Minister Shinz\u014d Abe announced that 25,000 members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces would be deployed to Hokkaido to assist in disaster relief efforts. Also, he announced that he would temporarily suspend his campaign to be re-elected as President of the Liberal Democratic Party. His competitor, Shigeru Ishiba, also postponed some campaign activities. Abe visited Sapporo and Atsuma three days after the earthquake. He met with local political leaders and residents who were living at temporary shelters. After his visit, the prime minister announced that the government would allocate 540 million yen from reserves to aid in Hokkaido's recovery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Response, Domestic\nThe Japan national football team cancelled a friendly match scheduled for 7 September against Chile in the Sapporo Dome. The team sent their condolences to the victims of the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Response, Domestic\nRescue teams from Aomori Prefecture and Tokyo traveled to Hokkaido by the Seikan ferry to assist in the relief efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Response, Domestic\nNintendo announced that it would postpone its Nintendo Direct series release in light of the disaster. The Direct was postponed for a week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Response, Domestic\nFacebook activated its safety check in response to the earthquake. Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited Atsuma on 15 November to get in touch with the victims of the earthquake and landslides. Akihito also surveyed the area impacted by the landslides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279704-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Response, International\nSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in, in response to typhoons and the earthquake, sent a Twitter message to Shinz\u014d Abe on the sixth of September stating: \"I express my condolences to the victims of the Kansai typhoon and the Hokkaido earthquake, and I wish comfort to those who have lost their families or were injured.\" He also voiced that Japan seems like they cope well with the various disasters that have plagued the country in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279705-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Holiday Bowl\nThe 2018 Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 31, 2018. It was the 41st edition of the Holiday Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. This was the second season in which the Holiday Bowl was held at the SDCCU Stadium. Sponsored by San Diego County Credit Union, the game was officially known as the San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279705-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Holiday Bowl, Teams\nThe game featured the Northwestern Wildcats, champions of the Big Ten West Division, and the Utah Utes, champions of the Pac-12 South Division. The programs had previously met twice, with Northwestern winning in 1927 and Utah winning in 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279705-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Holiday Bowl, Teams, Northwestern Wildcats\nNorthwestern was defeated in the 2018 Big Ten Football Championship Game on December 1 by Ohio State, then received and accepted a bid to the Holiday Bowl on December 2. The Wildcats entered the bowl with an 8\u20135 record (8\u20131 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 47], "content_span": [48, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279705-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Holiday Bowl, Teams, Utah Utes\nUtah was defeated in the 2018 Pac-12 Football Championship Game on November 30 by Washington, then received and accepted a bid to the Holiday Bowl on December 2. The Utes entered the bowl with a 9\u20134 record (6\u20133 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279706-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Holland Ladies Tour\nThe 2018 Boels Rental Ladies Tour also known as the 2018 Holland Ladies Tour is the 21st edition of the Holland Ladies Tour, a women's cycle stage race held in the Netherlands. The tour is part of the 2018 women's road cycling calendar and is part of the UCI Women's World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279707-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hollywood Casino 400\nThe 2018 Hollywood Casino 400 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on October 21, 2018, at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4\u00a0km) intermediate speedway, it was the 32nd race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, sixth race of the Playoffs, and final race of the Round of 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279707-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hollywood Casino 400, Report, Background\nKansas Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4\u00a0km) tri-oval race track in Kansas City, Kansas. It was built in 2001 and it currently hosts two annual NASCAR race weekends. The Verizon IndyCar Series also raced at here until 2011. The speedway is owned and operated by the International Speedway Corporation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279707-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hollywood Casino 400, First practice\nRyan Blaney was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 28.106 seconds and a speed of 192.130\u00a0mph (309.203\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279707-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hollywood Casino 400, Qualifying\nJoey Logano scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.177 and a speed of 191.646\u00a0mph (308.424\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279707-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hollywood Casino 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice\nAric Almirola was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 28.926 seconds and a speed of 186.683\u00a0mph (300.437\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279707-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hollywood Casino 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice\nKurt Busch was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.997 seconds and a speed of 186.226\u00a0mph (299.702\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279707-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hollywood Casino 400, Media, Television\nNBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279707-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Hollywood Casino 400, Media, Radio\nMRN had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279708-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nThe 2018 Holy Cross Crusaders football team represents the College of the Holy Cross in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Crusaders, led by first-year head coach Bob Chesney, play their home games at Fitton Field as a member of the Patriot League. They finished the season 5\u20136, 4\u20132 in Patriot League play to finish in a tie for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279708-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Holy Cross Crusaders football team, Previous season\nThe Crusaders began the 2017 season led by 14th-year head coach Tom Gilmore for the first seven games of the season before he was fired following a 2\u20135 start. Offensive coordinator Brian Rock was named interim head coach for the final four games. They finished the season 4\u20137, 3\u20133 in Patriot League play to finish in a three-way tie for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279708-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Holy Cross Crusaders football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe Patriot League released their preseason coaches poll on July 26, 2018, with the Crusaders predicted to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279708-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Holy Cross Crusaders football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Patriot League team\nThe Crusaders placed four players on the preseason all-Patriot League team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279709-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Home United FC season\nThe 2018 season is Home United's 23rd consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the S.League. Along with the S.League, the club will also compete in the Prime League, the Singapore Cup, Singapore League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279709-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Home United FC season, Transfer, Pre-season transfer, Out\nNote 1: Khairul Nizam was reported to have been retained by the club but subsequently transferred to Warriors FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279709-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Home United FC season, Transfer, Pre-season transfer, Out\nNote 2: Faris Ramli was reported to have signed an extension of contract but subsequently moved to PKNS FC after a clause was included in his new contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279710-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Homeless World Cup\nThe 2018 Homeless World Cup is the 16th edition of the Homeless World Cup. It took place in Mexico City\u2019s Zocalo, right at the heart of the Mexican capital, from November 13\u201318.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279710-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Homeless World Cup\nMore than 500 players representing 47 countries traveled to Mexico City to attend the week-long festival of football, in what was promised to be one of the most spectacular Homeless World Cup tournaments yet. This was the second time Mexico hosted the tournament after the 2012 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279710-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Homeless World Cup, Official Mascots\nIn the spirit of the 50th anniversary of the Mexico 1968 Summer Olympic Games, the Mexico 2018 Homeless World Cup presented 6 mascots. Each representing a different continent, these charming mascots are energetic to bring together players from all around the world as well as fans of all ages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279710-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Homeless World Cup, Official Mascots\nYAGU \u2013 A JAGUARNative to Mexico and Latin America, the Jaguar has always featured in pre-Hispanic culture. Olmecs, Tehotihuacan and Mayan cultures all regarded the Jaguar as a symbol of pride, power and might. The Aztecs regarded the jaguar as the bravest of beasts, and the proud \u2018ruler of the animal world.\u2019 It comes as no surprise then, that the jaguar would be representing the host nation at this year's Homeless World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279710-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Homeless World Cup, Official Mascots\nLUGA \u2013 A LIZARDFast and nimble, this little lizard is sure to bring some amazing game and sneak through the opposition. Representing the African nations, Luga is sure to be an absolute crowd-pleaser with some awesome tricks up his sleeve. During his free time, Luga can be found relaxing in the sun or challenging teams into a dance competition. Some people claim that he is so fast he can run on water!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279710-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Homeless World Cup, Official Mascots\nRepresenting the Americas, Sas\u00ed brings flexibility and adaptability to her game. Her abilities to learn and adapt make her a worthy, often unpredictable player. Her determination also makes her one of the most technical players, as she is always training to perfect her game. When she is not training or enjoying some nourishing grubs, Sas\u00ed can be found singing next to the pitch. She hopes she'll be able to fly through the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279710-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Homeless World Cup, Official Mascots\nBon Li enjoys the event at its fullest, and is determined to make friends with teams, volunteers and fans alike. But don't let her gentle manners off the pitch fool you, she is an agile and accomplished player, and is sure to hop rings around the opposition. Representing Asia, Bon Li is a blast of energy and can be found running around on site, taking small breaks only to re-fuel on her favorite snack, carrots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279710-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Homeless World Cup, Official Mascots\nRepresenting Europe, Lupo is a natural team player who believes the entire team should call the shots but can easily become the leader of the pack if required. Speed and dexterity are both attributes of the wolf, but its real success lies in its social cooperation and its ability to make friends with members of other packs. Lupo has been spotted with his pack howling support for other teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279710-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Homeless World Cup, Official Mascots\nSharks are often misunderstood creatures and Jans is no exception. Representing Oceania, Jans\u2019 most defining qualities are strength and determination, but this is not to say that he doesn't have a softer side. Even though this year's tournament sees no teams from Oceania, this gentle giant has travelled all the way to support the rest of the teams and can be found at the stands cheering for the players. Go and talk to him, we promise he won't bite!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279710-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Homeless World Cup, Participatng Nations\nThe Homeless World Cup organization operates through a network of more than 70 national partners around the world, supporting football programs and social enterprise development. There are total of 47 men's team and 16 women's are participating in the 2018 Homeless World Cup which are national partners of Homeless World Cup Foundation and are tasked to provide or provide access to education, employment, health or legal advice to its homeless people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279711-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Honda Indy 200\nThe 2018 Honda Indy 200 was an IndyCar Series event held on July 29, 2018, at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. The race served as the 13th round of the 2018 IndyCar Series season. 2016 Indy 500 champion Alexander Rossi qualified on pole position, and took victory in the 90-lap race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279711-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Honda Indy 200, Results, Race\nNotes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279712-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama\nThe 2018 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama was the fourth round of the 2018 IndyCar Series season contested at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama. The race started on April 22nd and was stopped due to rain on lap 22. It was resumed on Monday, April 23rd at 11:30 am as a timed race which went 82 laps out of a scheduled 90. American Josef Newgarden qualified on pole for the event. He eventually took victory for his third IndyCar win in Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279712-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama, Results, Race\nNotes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279713-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Honda Indy Toronto\nThe 2018 Honda Indy Toronto was an IndyCar Series event held on July 15, 2018 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The race served as the 12th round of the 2018 IndyCar Series season. Reigning champion Josef Newgarden qualified on pole position, while current leader Scott Dixon took victory in the 85-lap race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279713-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Honda Indy Toronto, Results, Race\nNotes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279714-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Honduran Cup\nThe 2018 Honduran Cup was the 13th edition of the Honduran Cup and the fourth as Copa Presidente. The tournament was announced on 13 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279714-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Honduran Cup\nThe cup was contested by 64 teams from the top 3 divisions. There were a total of 10 teams from Liga Nacional (1st division), 28 from Liga de Ascenso (2nd division) and 26 from Liga Mayor (3rd division).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279714-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Honduran Cup\nC.D. Marath\u00f3n were the defending champions. Platense F.C. obtained their third title after beating 2\u20131 Real C.D. Espa\u00f1a in the final and will face the league winners in the 2019 Honduran Supercup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279714-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Honduran Cup, Schedule and format\nThe schedule for the first round was published on 28 June. The tournament started on 22 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279714-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Honduran Cup, Round of 32\nThe schedule for the Round of 32 was unveiled on 14 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279715-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Hong Kong Open (officially known as the Yonex-Sunrise Hong Kong Open 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at the Hong Kong Coliseum in Hong Kong from 13 to 18 November 2018 and had a total prize of $400,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279715-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Hong Kong Open was the twenty-fourth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Hong Kong Open championships, which had been held since 1982. This tournament was organized by Hong Kong Badminton Association and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279715-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at the Hong Kong Coliseum in Hong Kong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279715-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 500 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279715-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$400,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279716-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Open (table tennis)\nThe 2018 Hong Kong Open was the fourth event of the 2018 ITTF World Tour. It was the first staging of the event, and took place from 24\u201327 May at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Hong Kong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279717-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Sevens\nThe 2018 Hong Kong Sevens was the 43rd edition of the Hong Kong Sevens tournament, and the seventh tournament of the 2017\u201318 World Rugby Sevens Series. The performance from this tournament determined the first fourteen seedings of the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament alongside the past year's series and the previous six event of the 2017\u201318 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279717-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Sevens\nFiji won the tournament, defeating Kenya 24\u201312 in the final. Fiji were dominant throughout the tournament, including a 50\u20137 thrashing of New Zealand during pool play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279717-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Sevens\nIn the World Series Qualifier tournament, Ireland were the dominant team during pool play, but Japan beat Ireland 12\u20137 in the semifinal, and went on to beat Germany 19\u201314 in the final to qualify for the 2018-19 World Series as a core team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279717-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Sevens, Main draw, Teams\nThe main tournament will consist of the fifteen core teams and one invited team, South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279717-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Sevens, Main draw, Format\nAs in the last tournament, there will be a main draw with the fifteen World Series core teams and one invited team. The teams are drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team plays all the others in their pool once. 3, 2 or 1 points for a win, draw or loss. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup brackets. The bottom two teams go into the Challenge trophy brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279717-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Sevens, Main draw, Pool stage\nAll times in Hong Kong Time (UTC+08:00). The games as scheduled are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279717-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Sevens, Main draw, Players, Dream team\nThe following seven players were selected to the tournament dream team at the conclusion of the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279717-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Sevens, World Series qualifier, Continental qualifying\nTeams will qualify for the World Series Qualifier tournament based on continental championships. The top teams from each continent that are not already core teams will qualify. For the 2018 edition, Europe has been given a third spot, whereas North America was given a single spot. The other continents remain with two spots each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279717-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Sevens, World Series qualifier, Format\nThe qualifying tournament features twelve teams divided into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays all the others in their pool once. The top eight teams (the top two from each group, plus the two best third-place finishers) qualify to the quarterfinals of the knockout round. The winner of the knockout round will be given core status in the 2018\u201319 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279717-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Sevens, World Series qualifier, Pool stage\nAll times in Hong Kong Time (UTC+08:00). The games as scheduled are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279718-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Tennis Open\nThe 2018 Hong Kong Tennis Open (also known as the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open for sponsorship reasons) was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament, and part of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place in Victoria Park, Hong Kong, from October 8 to 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279718-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Tennis Open, Points and prize money, Prize money\n1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279718-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Tennis Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279718-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Tennis Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279718-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Tennis Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279719-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Tennis Open \u2013 Doubles\nChan Hao-ching and Latisha Chan were the defending champions, but Latisha could not participate due to a medical condition. Hao-ching played alongside Yang Zhaoxuan, but they lost in the first round to Nadiia Kichenok and Anastasia Rodionova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279719-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Tennis Open \u2013 Doubles\nSamantha Stosur and Zhang Shuai won the title, defeating Shuko Aoyama and Lidziya Marozava in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279720-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Tennis Open \u2013 Singles\nAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Linz instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279720-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Tennis Open \u2013 Singles\nDayana Yastremska won her first WTA Tour title, defeating Wang Qiang in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279721-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Women's Sevens\nThe 2018 Hong Kong Women's Sevens acted not only as a qualifier for the 2018\u201319 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, but also for seeding purposes for the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens for five of the teams. The tournament was played on 5\u20136 April 2018 with pool stage matches played at So Kon Po Rec Ground with knock-out stage matches played at the Hong Kong Stadium in Hong Kong alongside the 2018 Hong Kong Sevens for men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279721-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Women's Sevens, Continental qualifying\nTeams will qualify for the World Series Qualifier tournament based on continental championships. The top teams from each continent that are not already core teams will qualify. Teams in bold also qualified for the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279721-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Women's Sevens, Format\n12 teams, split into three groups of four. The group winners, runners up and the two best third ranked teams will enter the knockout stage. The overall winner will gain a spot on the 2018\u201319 World Rugby Women's Sevens series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279721-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong Women's Sevens, Pool Stage\nAll times in Hong Kong Time (UTC+08:00). The games as scheduled are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident\nOn 10 February 2018, at approximately 18:13 HKT, a Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) double-decker bus flipped onto its side on Tai Po Road in Tai Po, New Territories. The crash killed 19 people and injured 65.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident\nThe incident was Hong Kong's second-deadliest road traffic accident, behind a 2003 incident on Tuen Mun Road which killed 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident\nIn July 2020, the bus captain was sentenced to imprisonment for 14 years over the crash. In addition, he is no longer allowed to drive any vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Incident, Crash\nThe Volvo Super Olympian bus (Wright Explorer bodied, fleet number AVW78, registration number LX 9991) was running on route 872, a special route operated only on horse racing days. It was travelling from Sha Tin Racecourse, following a race day, to Tai Po Centre in Tai Po New Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Incident, Crash\nBefore boarding the bus, the driver chatted with a bus fan for some time. It was reported that the bus departed the racecourse 10 minutes late, leading some passengers to scold and quarrel with the driver. Passengers said the driver then became frustrated, and \"drove really fast as if he was throwing a tantrum\". They said he drove \"very, very fast\" the whole time, without slowing for turns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Incident, Crash\nAs the bus was travelling on a downhill section of Tai Po Road, near Tai Po Mei village, it came to a bend where it flipped onto its left side, hitting a lamp post and destroying the Tai Po Mei bus stop. Eighteen people were killed at the scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Incident, Immediate aftermath\nImmediately after the crash, some passengers tried to attack the driver. Fire services officers had to cut into the bus to rescue those trapped inside, an operation that took about 85 minutes. A makeshift morgue was set up at the roadside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Incident, Immediate aftermath\nThe death toll rose to 19 when a man died at 4:00 am the following morning at United Christian Hospital. Excluding this person, the accident left 65 people injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Incident, Immediate aftermath\nThe affected section of Tai Po Road was closed for 12 hours following the incident. Other bus routes normally plying the route were diverted to Tolo Highway. The road was partly closed again the following afternoon to accommodate a ceremony attended by about 200 mourners, government officials, and KMB management.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Response, Kowloon Motor Bus\nThe bus company posted on their Facebook page: \"KMB expresses extreme regret and sadness at this accident, and deeply apologises.\" The company said it would give HK$80,000 to every affected family, and would form a committee to investigate the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Response, Kowloon Motor Bus\nOn 15 February 2018, in response to concerns raised by trade unions and the public (see below), KMB announced that it had ceasing giving shifts to part-time drivers who worked fewer than 18 hours per week. This comprises about 209 of around 360 part-time drivers. It also said it had suspended the hiring of new part-time drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Response, Kowloon Motor Bus\nOn 18 February 2018, service on KMB route 872 resumed. To provide passengers peace of mind, the route was changed to only use single-decker buses. Also, a new express route 872X commenced, which bypasses Tai Po Road (where the crash occurred) and uses Tolo Highway instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Response, Kowloon Motor Bus\nAccording to The Independent Review Committee on Hong Kong\u2019s Franchised Bus Service, formed after the accident, KMB was considering spending HK$200 million to install seatbelts on older KMB buses in Hong Kong to increase bus safety. They have also tested an anti-drowsiness device for drivers which will use facial recognition software to detect the driver's level of alertness. In addition, KMB announced that 160 buses equipped with electronic stability systems and speed-limiting devices were expected to arrive in Hong Kong by August 2018. KMB has also tried reducing the special shifts of drivers from 14 hours to 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Response, Hong Kong government\nOn the night of the accident, chief executive Carrie Lam visited victims at the Prince of Wales Hospital and announced that a separate commission of inquiry, led by a judge, would be set up to investigate the safety of the public transport system, in particular, of the public buses. She also said that relatives of the dead would each receive $300,000, while the injured would receive between $150,000 and $250,000 each. These funds have been provided by various charitable organisations including the Jockey Club, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, Yan Chai Hospital, and Pok Oi Hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Response, Hong Kong government\nThe government also announced that flags would be flown at half-mast, and the annual Lunar New Year fireworks over Victoria Harbour, scheduled for 17 February, would be cancelled in an expression of grief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Response, Hong Kong government\nOn 13 March 2018, the Vice President of the Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Michael Lunn, was named as chairman of the three-member commission of inquiry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Response, Unions\nThe day after the crash, the Motor Transport Workers General Union (affiliated with the Federation of Trade Unions) held a press conference to criticise working conditions at KMB. They said that poor pay has led to a shortage of drivers, and alleged that drivers are not provided enough training nor permitted sufficient rest. Similarly, the Confederation of Trade Unions picketed the company's headquarters in protest of alleged low salaries. Kwok Wai-kwong, chairman of the KMB Staff Union, criticised the company's practice of hiring part-time drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Response, Unions\nHe characterised them as amateurish, and said the company required they only train for two days (while full time drivers must complete 18 days of training). The driver of KMB Yip Wai Lam started an impromptu strike with several drivers at KMB on the following Sunday, which brought the bus company to the table for negotiation over working hours and conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Response, Public\nThe day following the crash, there were hours-long queues at Hong Kong Red Cross blood donation centres as thousands of Hongkongers sought to help those injured in the accident. The Causeway Bay Donor Centre extended its operating hours to accommodate the queue. The Red Cross announced that it would keep 12 blood donation centres open through the Lunar New Year holiday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Driver\nA KMB manager stated that the 30-year-old bus driver, Chan Ho-ming, had been employed with the company since 2014. Media reported that he had worked part time since 2017 and was not assigned to a specific route, but ordinarily worked on Saturdays and Sundays driving special routes. He survived the accident and was arrested for dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm. Chan appeared at the Fanling Magistrates' Court on 13 February 2018. He did not enter a plea, was denied bail, and was remanded in custody. In October his charges were upgraded to include multiple counts of manslaughter; a conviction would be punishable by life imprisonment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Driver\nThe company initially said Chan had a \"good driving record\", had driven the route before, and had received enough rest before his shift. Contradicting KMB's claim that he possessed a good safety record, media alleged that he had been at the helm of another KMB bus that crashed in Kwai Chung on 2 August 2014. While making a turn at speed, his Dennis Trident 3 double-decker was seriously damaged after it slammed into kerbside railings and a structural column in the bus terminus at Kwai Fong station. A passenger and a pedestrian were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Driver\nKMB subsequently admitted that Chan had been involved in this accident. He was convicted of careless driving, had driving offence points deducted, and had been fined. The company afterward deemed him fit to continue working. Chan has been reported to be a bus fan active on online bus enthusiast communities. A friend stated that he possessed a \"bad driving attitude\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Driver\nIn 2020, the bus captain pleaded guilty to 19 counts of manslaughter and 19 counts of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm to another person, totaling 38 charges. The magistrate accused the defendant of being selfish and ignoring the safety of passengers. On 7 July 2020, Chan was sentenced to 14 years in prison and had all his driving licences revoked for life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Investigation\nImmediately following the crash, passengers told local media that the driver was exceeding the speed limit. The police said they also suspected that the bus was speeding. They said that alcohol was not a factor in the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Investigation\nA passenger on the bus stated that \"he felt as if the bus was travelling at 80 to 100 kilometres per hour (50 to 62\u00a0mph)\". Investigator Lo Kok-keung estimated the bus entered the bend at up to 68\u00a0km/h (42\u00a0mph), and said a safe travelling speed for the turn would be 30 to 50\u00a0km/h (19 to 31\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279722-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Investigation\nThe wrecked bus was removed from the site on the morning of 11 February and was transported to Tai Lam Chung for examination. The police said that the investigation would cover the speed, the mechanical condition of the bus, and the psychological state of the driver. The crash was investigated by the Regional Crime Unit, New Territories North.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279724-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hopman Cup\nThe Hopman Cup XXX (also known as the 2018 Mastercard Hopman Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 30th edition of the Hopman Cup tournament between nations in men's and women's tennis. It took place at the Perth Arena in Perth, Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279724-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hopman Cup\nFrance were the defending champions; however they did not return to defend their title. This marked the first edition without France competing since 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279724-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hopman Cup\nSwitzerland defeated Germany in the final to win its third title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279724-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hopman Cup, Entrants, Seeds\nThe draw took place on 5 October 2017 and it placed the 8 teams into two groups, according to the following ranking-based seedings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279724-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hopman Cup, Group stage, Group A, Belgium vs. Canada\nNotes. Due to Eugenie Bouchard's withdrawal from the mixed doubles rubber, the scores are counted as 4\u20130, 4\u20130 win for Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 57], "content_span": [58, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279724-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hopman Cup, Group stage, Group B, Japan vs. United States\nNotes. Maddison Inglis of Australia played instead of Naomi Osaka for the first match. Scores counted as 6\u20130, 6\u20130 win for Vandeweghe and 4\u20130, 4\u20130 win for the American mixed pair due to Naomi Osaka's withdrawal due to illness. Due to Jack Sock's retirement in the men's singles rubber, the second set is counted as 6\u20131 win for Sugita. Sock was replaced by Australian Pat Cash for the doubles match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident\nOn August 10, 2018, a Horizon Air Bombardier Q400 was stolen from Seattle\u2013Tacoma International Airport (Sea\u2013Tac) in SeaTac, Washington. The perpetrator, 29-year-old Richard Russell, was a Horizon Air ground service agent with no piloting experience. After Russell performed an unauthorized takeoff, two McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighters were scrambled to intercept the aircraft. Sea\u2013Tac air traffic control made radio contact with Russell, the sole occupant, who described himself as a \"broken guy, got a few screws loose, I guess.\" About 1 hour and 15 minutes after takeoff, Russell died by intentionally crashing the aircraft on lightly populated Ketron Island in Puget Sound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Aircraft\nThe incident aircraft was a Bombardier Q400, owned by Horizon Air (and operating for Alaska Airlines) with the registration N449QX and serial number 4410. It had first flown in 2012 and was delivered new to Horizon Air in the same year. It landed at Seattle\u2013Tacoma International Airport at 13:35 local time the afternoon of the incident, after an in-service flight from Victoria, British Columbia. It was not scheduled to fly again that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Incident\nThe aircraft was stolen from Plane Cargo 1 at the north end of Sea\u2013Tac Airport and maneuvered to runway 16C via taxiways. Seattle Tower tried several times to get the pilot of the aircraft to identify himself on frequency, but received no response. A nearby Alaska Airlines jet on the ground reported that the aircraft began a takeoff roll with its wheels smoking, and an unauthorized take-off was made at 19:32 local time (02:32 UTC, August 11). In response, two McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagles of the Oregon Air National Guard's 142nd", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Incident\nFighter Wing under the command of NORAD were scrambled at around 20:15 local time from Portland Air National Guard Base to intercept it. Both were armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder and AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles and went supersonic, generating sonic booms on the way to the Puget Sound area. A KC-135R Stratotanker refueling tanker was also scrambled from Fairchild Air Force Base to support the F-15 flight. Flights in and out of Sea\u2013Tac Airport were temporarily suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Incident\nSeattle\u2013Tacoma air traffic control (ATC) maintained radio contact with the occupant. The transmissions were on an open frequency, thus were recorded and quickly posted on social media websites. He said he was a \"broken guy, got a few screws loose I guess. Never really knew it until now.\" When ATC suggested that the plane be landed at Joint Base Lewis\u2013McChord, the occupant refused: \"Those guys will rough me up if I try and land there. I think I might mess something up there, too. I wouldn't want to do that.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Incident\nHe asked ATC if he could get a job as a pilot with Alaska Airlines if he successfully landed the aircraft. ATC said, \"they would give you a job doing anything if you could pull this off,\" to which he replied \"Yeah right! Nah, I'm a white guy.\" He spoke of wanting to do \"a couple maneuvers to see what [the aircraft] can do,\" and requested the coordinates of an orca that had been brought to national attention, saying, \"I want to go see that guy.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Incident\nHe stated that he did not want to hurt anyone, and in the final minutes of the communication apologized to his friends and family. Near the end of the flight, the aircraft was seen performing a barrel roll over Puget Sound, recovering a mere ten feet (three meters) over the water. A veteran pilot said the maneuver \"seemed pretty well executed, without either stalling or pulling the wings off.\" When an air traffic controller requested he land the plane after this maneuver, he said \"I don't know. I don't want to. I was kind of hoping that was gonna be it, you know?\" He added that he \"wasn't really planning on landing it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Incident\nThe two F-15s attempted to direct the aircraft toward the Pacific Ocean, and did not fire at it. The Q400 ultimately crashed at 20:43 local time on Ketron Island in Puget Sound, Pierce County, Washington, killing the occupant and destroying the aircraft. A tow boat crew was the first to respond. Firefighters from West Pierce Fire and Rescue and other nearby departments arrived on the island about an hour and a half after the crash, due to waits for the Steilacoom\u2013Anderson Island ferry, and contending with thick brush when crews arrived on scene. The fire burned a 2-acre (0.81\u00a0ha) area, but was extinguished by the following morning. No injuries were reported to residents of the sparsely populated island despite the crash site being in close proximity to at least one cabin, which was occupied at the time of the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 871]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Investigation\nThe Pierce County Sheriff's Office both thanked the public for its accurate information, and acknowledged on August 11 that federal agencies would be leading the investigation, primarily the Seattle office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It described the perpetrator, identified as 29-year-old Richard Russell, as suicidal and said his actions did not constitute a \"terrorist incident\". Alaska Air Group CEO Brad Tilden announced on the same day that the airline was coordinating with the Federal Aviation Administration, the FBI, and the National Transportation Safety Board, and was \"working to find out everything we possibly can about what happened\". On August 12, the FBI said that it had recovered the flight data recorder along with components of the cockpit voice recorder. The equipment was sent to the National Transportation Safety Board for processing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 924]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Investigation\nOn November 9, the FBI stated that it had completed its investigation. Terrorism was ruled out, and Russell was found to have acted alone. The final descent at Ketron Island was determined to be intentional, and suicide was listed as the manner of death. The FBI stated, \"Interviews with work colleagues, friends, and family\u2014and review of text messages exchanged with Russell during the incident\u2014did not identify any information that would suggest the theft of the aircraft was related to wider criminal activity or terrorist ideology. Although investigators received information regarding Russell's background, possible stressors, and personal life, no element provided a clear motivation for Russell's actions.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Perpetrator\nRichard Russell was a Horizon Air ground service agent from Sumner, Washington. He had been part of a tow team, which repositions aircraft on the airport apron, for about four years. An operational supervisor for Horizon Air described Russell as \"a quiet guy\" who was \"well liked by the other workers\". During his communication with air traffic control Russell made a complaint about wages, stating: \"Minimum wage, we'll chalk it up to that. Maybe that will grease some gears a little bit with the higher-ups.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Perpetrator\nRussell was born in Key West, Florida, and moved to Wasilla, Alaska, at the age of seven. From early childhood he was known as \"Beebo\" to his friends and family. He attended Wasilla High School, where he wrestled and competed in track and field. He was a hard-hitting football fullback in high school, scoring six touchdowns in his senior year, after which he moved to North Dakota to join the football team at Valley City State University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Perpetrator\nHis performance there was a disappointment; he left for Southwestern Oregon Community College where he met his wife at a Campus Crusade for Christ meeting. They married in 2012. Together, they started a bakery in North Bend, Oregon. They sold the bakery in 2015 so his wife could be closer to her family; they settled in Sumner, Washington, and Russell found employment with Horizon Air. He was an avid traveler and attended Washington State University Global Campus, majoring in social science. He had planned to seek a management position at Horizon Air or become a military officer after receiving his degree. He was active in his church and a leader in the local Christian youth ministry Young Life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Perpetrator\nHorizon Air CEO Gary Beck stated that, as far as the company knew, Russell did not have a pilot's license. Beck said the aerial maneuvers were \"incredible\" and that he \"did not know how [Russell] achieved the experience that he did.\" During his conversation with air traffic control, Russell said he \"[knew] what [he was] doing a little bit\" because he had experience playing video games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Perpetrator\nAfter the incident, Joel Monteith, a pilot for SkyWest Airlines, relayed to an emergency dispatcher that in 2017 he saw Russell and another man \"pointing and flipping switches\" in the cockpit of a SkyWest aircraft parked at Sea\u2013Tac Airport. Monteith stated the men told him they were training to use the aircraft's auxiliary power unit so they could tow it, but said it was \"suspicious\" that they left when he confronted them. Monteith also recalled that Russell had been in the cockpit of an Embraer 175 with him, and that Russell asked him about his \"flows, which is the preflight preparation I do for takeoff.\" Some co-workers said that Russell had probably trained himself to fly using amateur flight simulation software.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Perpetrator\nRussell's family released a statement on August 11, stating they were \"stunned and heartbroken\" and \"devastated by the events\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Aftermath\nIn the days after the crash, clean up and recovery crews contracted by Alaska Airlines and their insurers were present on the island to remove debris. As of 2019, this clean up effort was still ongoing with pieces of aircraft wreckage still being located on the island after the first anniversary of the incident. Residents of the island bore some of the cost for cleaning up, and negotiations were initiated for their reimbursement by Alaska Airlines' insurers. The aircraft was worth $30\u00a0million, all of which was paid under the company's insurance policy \"with no deductibles.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279725-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Aftermath\nRolling Stone magazine investigated the incident and reported in 2021 that some of Russell's friends and family believe he may have suffered brain injuries during his football years in high school and college. A football teammate suggested his mental instability had been caused by undiagnosed chronic traumatic encephalopathy which may have come from repeated concussions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279726-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon League Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Horizon League Baseball Tournament was held from May 23\u201326. All six of the league's teams will meet in the double-elimination tournament to be held at the home field of the regular season champion. The winner of the tournament will earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279726-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon League Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format\nThe league's teams will be seeded one through six based on winning percentage, using conference games only. The bottom four seeds will participate in a play-in round, with winners advancing to a double-elimination tournament also including the top two seeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279727-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament (also known as Motor City Madness) was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Horizon League of the 2017\u201318 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held from March 2 through March 6, 2018 at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. The tournament was won by No. 2 seed Wright State, who defeated No. 8 seed Cleveland State in the championship game, and received the conference's automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279727-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll 10 teams participated in the tournament. The top six teams received a bye into the quarterfinals. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279728-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon League Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Horizon League Men's Soccer Tournament was the 31st edition of the tournament. The tournament will decide the Horizon League champion and guaranteed representative into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. The tournament will be begin on November 5 and conclude on November 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279728-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon League Men's Soccer Tournament\nUIC successfully defended their championship, beating Wright State 3\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279729-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon League Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Horizon League Women's Basketball Tournament (also known as Motor City Madness) was the conference tournament that ended the 2017\u201318 season of the Horizon League. It was being played from March 2 through March 6, 2018 at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. Regular-season champion Green Bay won the tournament and earned the Horizon League's automatic berth into the 2018 NCAA Women's Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279729-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon League Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll 10 teams are participating in the tournament. The top six teams received a bye into the Second Round. This was a change from the previous season where the top two seeds received double byes into the Semifinals. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 56], "content_span": [57, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279730-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon League Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Horizon League Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Horizon League. It was held from October 29 through November 3, 2018. The quarterfinals of the tournament were held at campus sites, while semifinals and final took place at Engelmann Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The six team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The IUPUI Jaguars were the defending champions, but they did not qualify for the 2018 tournament after finishing the regular season in seventh place. The Milwaukee Panthers won the tournament by beating the Cleveland State Vikings 1\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279730-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Horizon League Women's Soccer Tournament, Bracket\nSemifinal matchups were determined by the results of the quarterfinals. The #1 seed would play the lowest-remaining seed, while the #2 seed would play the other quarterfinal winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279731-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hougang United FC season\nThe 2018 season is Hougang United's 21st consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the S.League. Along with the S.League, the club will also compete in the Singapore Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279732-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hounslow London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Hounslow Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Hounslow Council in London. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party increased their majority on the council by gaining two seats from the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season\nThe 2018 Houston Astros season was the 57th season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in Houston, their 54th as the Astros, sixth in both the American League (AL) and AL West division, and 19th at Minute Maid Park. The Astros were the defending World Series champions, after winning the 2017 World Series four games to three over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Houston began the season March 29 against the Texas Rangers and finished the season on September 30 against the Baltimore Orioles, capping off an unprecedented second consecutive 100-win season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season\nThey repeated as American League West champions and swept the Cleveland Indians in the Division Series to advance to the American League Championship Series, where they lost in five games to the Boston Red Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season\nThe Astros once again sent a league-high six players to the 2018 All-Star Game. Additionally, ace Justin Verlander finished as runner-up for the American League Cy Young Award for the second time in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season, Previous season, Summary\nThe Houston Astros entered the 2018 Major League Baseball season as defending World Series champions after defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games. In addition to achieving their first-ever World Series championship, they claimed both their first American League (AL) pennant and AL West division championship. Center fielder George Springer was named the World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) and right-handed starting pitcher Justin Verlander was the American League Championship Series (ALCS) MVP. A number of regular season and multiple-sport awards went to second baseman Jos\u00e9 Altuve, including the AL MVP, Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year, Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year, and The Sporting News Major League Player of the Year awards, among others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season, Offseason\nOn January 23, 2018, first baseman Jon Singleton and pitcher Dean Deetz were suspended after testing positive for substances violating MLB's drug policy. Singleton, a former Astros' number-one prospect, had tested positive for the third time and was banned for 100 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season, Regular season\nJustin Verlander was the Opening Day starting pitcher for Houston at Globe Life Park in Arlington, versus Cole Hamels of the Texas Rangers. It was Verlander's tenth career Opening Day start and first with Houston, as all nine previous had come as a member of the Detroit Tigers. George Springer led the game off with a home run, becoming the first MLB player to lead off with a home run in consecutive Opening Days. He had homered off Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners in the first inning of Opening Day 2017 at Minute Maid Park. Verlander pitched six shutout innings and struck out five. The Astors won by a final score of 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season, Regular season\nSecond baseman Jos\u00e9 Altuve reached 1,000 games played in his career on April 17, 2018, versus the Mariners. He became the 20th player to appear in 1,000 games for the Astros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season, Regular season\nVerlander was named AL Player of the Week on April 17. In 15 innings over one start each versus the Rangers and Twins, he struck 20 and allowed a .100 opponents' batting average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season, Regular season\nOn May 7, 2018, Springer homered versus the Oakland Athletics and became the first player in Astros franchise history to record six hits in a nine-inning game. Joe Morgan had six hits in a twelve-inning game for the Astros on June 8, 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season, Regular season\nOn May 16, 2018, Verlander threw a complete game shutout against the Los Angeles Angels for his eighth career shutout and 24th complete game. He struck out Shohei Ohtani in the top of the ninth inning for his 2,500th career strikeout, becoming the 33rd pitcher in Major League history to cross that threshold. He was second among active leaders in strikeouts behind CC Sabathia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season, Regular season\nOver three games versus the Cleveland Indians spanning May 25\u201327, Altuve realized a base hit in each of 10 consecutive at bats, breaking his own club record of eight which he had set the year prior. The streak included three doubles, one triple, and one home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season, Regular season\nVerlander was named AL Pitcher of the Month for May, his fifth career award. In six starts, he produced a 0.86 ERA and .437 OPS against, allowed nine extra base hits, while striking out 50 over 41+2\u20443 innings. He started and ended the month by dominating the Yankees\u2014the only lineup in baseball with an OPS over .800\u2014with 20 strikeouts in 14+2\u20443 innings, eight hits, and one run allowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season, Regular season\nOn July 13, 2018, Charlie Morton was added to the American League roster for the 2018 MLB All-Star game making the Astros the only MLB team at the time to have all of their starting pitchers having at least one selection to participate in the MLB All-Star game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season, Regular season\nOn September 26, 2018, Houston won the American League West division title after the Oakland Athletics were defeated by the Seattle Mariners, following a 4\u20131 win against the Toronto Blue Jays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279733-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Astros season, Regular season\nAstros pitchers set a new MLB record by striking out 1,687 opposing batters during the season. The team had 96 games in which they struck out 10 or more batters, also a record. In addition, they were the first team to strike out 5 or more batters in each of 162 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279734-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Baptist Huskies football team\nThe 2018 Houston Baptist Huskies football team represented Houston Baptist University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Huskies were led by sixth-year head coach Vic Shealy. They played their home games at Husky Stadium and were members of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 1\u201310, 0\u20139 in Southland play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279734-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Baptist Huskies football team, Previous season\nThe Huskies finished the 2017 season 1\u201310, 0\u20139 in Southland play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279734-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Baptist Huskies football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Teams\nOn July 12, 2018, the Southland announced their Preseason All-Conference Teams, with the Huskies placing one player on the first team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 85], "content_span": [86, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279734-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Baptist Huskies football team, Preseason, Preseason Poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Southland announced their preseason poll, with the Huskies predicted to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279735-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Cougars football team\nThe 2018 Houston Cougars football team represented the University of Houston in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cougars played their home games at TDECU Stadium in Houston, Texas, and competed in the West Division of the American Athletic Conference. They were led by second-year head coach Major Applewhite. They finished the season 8\u20135, 5\u20133 in AAC play to finish in a three-way tie for the West Division championship. After tiebreakers, they did not represent the West Division in the AAC Championship Game. They were invited to the Armed Forces Bowl where they lost to Army by a score of 14-70, in the process tying records for the most points given up (70) and the largest margin-of-loss (56) in NCAA bowl game history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279735-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Cougars football team, Previous season\nThe Cougars finished the 2017 season 7\u20135, 5\u20133 in AAC play to finish in second place in the West Division. They were invited to the Hawaii Bowl where they lost to Fresno State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279735-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Cougars football team, Preseason, AAC media poll\nThe AAC media poll was released on July 24, 2018, with the Cougars predicted to finish in second place in the AAC West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279736-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Dash season\nThe 2018 Houston Dash season is the team's fifth season as an American professional women's soccer team in the National Women's Soccer League. Before the start of the 2018 season Vera Pauw was appointed as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279736-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Dash season, Team information, Rosters\nPlayers and squad numbers last updated on June 20, 2018.Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279737-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Dynamo season\nThe 2018 Houston Dynamo season was the club's 13th season of existence since joining Major League Soccer in the 2006 season. The club entered the campaign coming off its 7th Conference Final appearance in 13 years, the most among any MLS team in that time span. It was the team's second year under the leadership of Head Coach Wilmer Cabrera and fourth season under General Manager Matt Jordan. On the front office end, it was Gabriel Brener's third season as majority owner and Chris Canetti's eighth as the President of Business Operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279737-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Dynamo season\nThe Dynamo failed to make the MLS Cup Playoffs for the fourth time in five years but reached success in cup play, lifting its first U.S. Open Cup title - earning qualification to the 2019 CONCACAF Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279737-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Dynamo season, Player movement, In\nPer Major League Soccer and club policies terms of the deals do not get disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279737-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Dynamo season, Player movement, Loans\nPer Major League Soccer and club policies terms of the deals do not get disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279738-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Outlaws season\nThe 2018 Houston Outlaws season was the first season of the Houston Outlaws's existence in the Overwatch League. Outlaws qualified for the Stage 1 playoffs but fell to the London Spitfire in the semifinals. The team did not qualify finished with a regular season record of 22\u201318, missing the season playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279738-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Outlaws season, Preceding offseason\nOn October 31, 2017, Houston Outlaws announced their inaugural season roster, consisting of the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279738-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Outlaws season, Regular season, Review\nOn January 11, the Outlaws played their first regular season Overwatch League match, a 3\u20132 loss to the Philadelphia Fusion. One week later, on January 17, Houston claimed their first victory after sweeping the Shanghai Dragons 4\u20130. Houston went on to qualify for the Stage 1 playoffs but fell to the London Spitfire in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279738-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Outlaws season, Regular season, Review\nHouston entered their last regular season match against the New York Excelsior needing a win to keep their season playoff hopes alive. The Outlaws had a 2\u20131 lead after three matches, but New York won the next three straight to take the win 3\u20132. The team finished with a regular season record of 22\u201318.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279738-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Outlaws season, Final roster, Transactions\nTransactions of/for players on the roster during the 2018 regular season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season\nThe 2018 season was the Houston Texans' 17th season in the National Football League and their fifth under head coach Bill O'Brien. This marks the first season since 2005 that Rick Smith will not be the general manager as he took a leave of absence for family reasons. Despite an 0\u20133 start, their first in 10 years, the Texans surpassed their win total from the previous season with a Week 8 win over the Miami Dolphins. They had a franchise record 9 consecutive wins that also broke the NFL record for most consecutive wins after starting 0\u20133. The streak ended with a Week 14 loss to the Indianapolis Colts. With a Week 15 win over the New York Jets, the Texans clinched their first 10-win season under head coach Bill O\u2019Brien, their first 10-win season since 2012 and their 3rd 10-win season in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season\nOn November 23, 2018, Bob McNair, the founding owner of the Texans, died aged 81.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season\nDespite losing to the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 16, the Texans clinched a playoff berth after the New Orleans Saints defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season\nWith a Week 17 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Texans clinched the AFC South division, winning their fifth division title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season\nThe Texans lost in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs, 21\u20137 to their AFC South rival the Indianapolis Colts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at New England Patriots\nSafety Tyrann Mathieu, who signed with the Texans in the offseason, intercepted a Tom Brady pass that was tipped by Angelo Blackson in the 1st quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. New York Giants\nWith the loss, the Texans fell to 0\u20133 for the first time since 2008, and suffered their ninth consecutive loss dating back to Week 12 of last season. They then went on to win their next nine games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Indianapolis Colts\nWin the win, the Texans improved to 1\u20133 and snapped a 9\u2013game losing streak. Rookie wide receiver Keke Coutee made his NFL debut, finishing with 11 receptions for 109 yards. Coutee's 11 receptions are the most by a rookie receiver since the AFL\u2013NFL merger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Buffalo Bills\nIn a low-scoring defensive battle, the Texans claimed the victory in final minutes when cornerback Johnathan Joseph intercepted a pass from Bills backup quarterback Nathan Peterman and returned it for the game-winning touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nLamar Miller had his first 100-yard rushing game since December 11, 2016 and also had his first rushing touchdown of the season on a 5-yard run during the third quarter. Safety Tyrann Mathieu sacked Jacksonville quarterback Cody Kessler in the fourth quarter for his first sack as a Texan and also had an interception. With the win, Houston improved to 4\u20133, took sole possession of 1st place in the AFC South, and had their first four-game winning streak since the 2015 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Miami Dolphins\nQuarterback Deshaun Watson threw five touchdowns (tying a career high) while only having four incompletions with no interceptions. Lamar Miller had another 100-yard rushing game for the second week in a row, running for 133 yards with a touchdown. With the win, the Texans improved to 5\u20133 and surpassed their win total from the previous season. Receiver Will Fuller tore his right ACL during the game and is expected to be out for 6 to 9 months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: at Denver Broncos\nWith the close win, the Texans improved to 6\u20133. They are the first team since the 1970 Giants to win 6 in a row after starting 0\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Washington Redskins\nWith another close win, the Texans improved to 7\u20133, their best start since 2012. They also tied their longest win streak in franchise history at 7 straight, which they previously accomplished in 2011. This is the second straight game that the Texans have won thanks to a missed last second field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Tennessee Titans\nThe Texans successfully avenged their Week 2 loss to their division rival Titans. With their 8th straight win, they improved to 8\u20133 and eclipsed their previous franchise record for most consecutive wins. Coupled with a Steelers loss to the Denver Broncos the day before, the Texans' victory allowed them to leapfrog the Steelers for the No. 3 seed in the AFC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Tennessee Titans\nThis game was the first game following the death of the owner and founder Bob McNair and the team has dedicated the victory to him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Cleveland Browns\nThe Houston Texans were going for their ninth win in a row against Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns who the week before defeated the Bengals. The Texans were able to outplay the Browns en route to their ninth straight win and forced the Browns to turn the ball over four times including three interceptions by Baker Mayfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nWith the loss, the Texans 9-game winning streak was snapped. They also squandered an opportunity to move ahead of the Patriots for the No. 2 seed as the Patriots suffered a loss of their own to the Miami Dolphins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at New York Jets\nWith the win, the Texans improved to 10\u20134 and reached 10 wins for the first time since 2012, and for the first time in the Bill O'Brien era. With the Patriots loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers the next day, the Texans obtained sole possession of the No. 2 seed and now control their destiny for a first-round bye if they win their last 2 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Philadelphia Eagles\nThe Texans traveled to Philadelphia seeking to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles for the first time in franchise history. Houston rallied from a 13-point fourth quarter deficit to take a one-point lead on a 35-yard touchdown reception by Vyncint Smith with 2:04 remaining in the game. However, the defense could not stop Philadelphia on the ensuing drive, and the Eagles prevailed 32-30 on a 35-yard field goal by Jake Elliott as time expired. With the loss, the Texans fell to 10-5 on the season and 0-5 all-time against the Eagles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Philadelphia Eagles\nHouston also failed to clinch the AFC South due to victories by the Tennessee Titans and Indianapolis Colts and slipped back to No. 3 with the New England Patriots victory over the Buffalo Bills. However, the Texans would clinch a playoff berth when the Pittsburgh Steelers lost to the New Orleans Saints later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279739-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Houston Texans season, Postseason, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: vs. (6) Indianapolis Colts\nThis was the first time in Houston Texans history where they played against a division opponent in the postseason. With the NFC East champion Dallas Cowboys hosting the Seattle Seahawks Saturday evening, it was also the first time in league history that two NFL playoff games were played in Texas on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279740-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Howard Bison football team\nThe 2018 Howard Bison football team represented Howard University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Mike London. The Bison played their home games at William H. Greene Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). They finished the season 4\u20136, 4\u20133 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279740-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Howard Bison football team\nOn November 19, head coach Mike London resigned to become the head coach at William & Mary. He finished at Howard with a two-year record of 11\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279740-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Howard Bison football team, Previous season\nThe Bison kicked off the 2017 season by defeating UNLV, a 45-point favorite, in the biggest upset in college football history by point spread. They would finish the season 7\u20134, 6\u20132 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279740-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Howard Bison football team, Preseason, MEAC preseason poll\nIn a vote of the MEAC head coaches and sports information directors, the Bison were picked to finish in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279740-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Howard Bison football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MEAC Teams\nThe Bison had nine players at ten positions selected to the preseason all-MEAC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279740-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Howard Bison football team, Schedule\nDespite also being a member of the MEAC, the game vs Savannah State will be considered a non-conference game and will have no effect on the MEAC standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake\nAt 23:50 (UTC+8) on 6 February 2018, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the moment magnitude scale hit Taiwan. The epicenter was on the coastline near Hualien, which was the most severely affected area, with a maximum felt intensity of VIII (severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale. At least 17 deaths were reported, with 285 injured. The maximum foreshock was recorded on 4 February 2018, at 21:56:40. The epicenter was located at Hualien County, Taiwan, reaching a scale of ML 5.8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Tectonic setting\nTaiwan has a history of many strong earthquakes. The island is located within a complex zone of convergence between the Philippine Sea Plate and Eurasian Plate. At the location of the earthquake, these plates converge at a rate of 75\u00a0mm per year. To the south of Taiwan, oceanic crust of the Eurasian Plate is subducting beneath the Philippine Sea Plate creating an island arc, the Luzon Arc. At Taiwan the oceanic crust has all been subducted and the arc is colliding with continental crust of the Eurasian Plate. To the north of Taiwan the Philippine Sea Plate is in contrast subducting beneath the Eurasian Plate, forming the Ryukyu Arc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake formed the largest of a sequence of events that have affected the area over a period of days, with 11 foreshocks of M\u00a04.6 and greater, starting on 3 February with an M\u00a04.8 earthquake and including an M\u00a06.1 event on 4 February, within a few kilometres of the event that took place on 6 February. 6 February earthquake was a result of oblique-slip faulting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake occurred on the second anniversary of the 2016 Taiwan earthquake in Tainan that had killed 117 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake was followed by a series of aftershocks, with the largest being an M\u00a05.7 event on 7 February at 23:21 local time, 19\u00a0km northeast of Hualien city, which reached a maximum intensity of VI (strong).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Earthquake\nRichter magnitudes of the 2018 Hualian earthquakes. Source: Taiwan Central Weather Bureau", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Earthquake\nMap of 2018 Hualian earthquakes as of 9 February (UTC+8) plotting 359 shocks. Source: Taiwan Central Weather Bureau", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Earthquake\nMaps of 2018 Hualian fore-, main, and aftershocks: on the right, the location of M>4.5 foreshocks and the main shock (red star); on the left, M>4.5 aftershocks (as of 18:00 UTC 9 February) and the mainshock. Both maps from USGS earthquake catalog results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Aftermath, Casualties\nAs of 11 February 17 people were reported dead and a further 285 injured. Of the reported fatalities, 9 were from People's Republic of China, 5 from Taiwan, 2 from Hong Kong of Canadian nationality, and 1 from the Philippines. 14 of them were in The Yun Men Tsui Ti building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Aftermath, Damage\nMany buildings in the city of Hualien were damaged, including four that had partially collapsed or were severely damaged. The lower floors of the Marshal Hotel collapsed, killing two people. 14 deaths were also reported from the twelve-story Yun Men Tsui Ti residential building, which was severely tilted due to the collapse of some of the lower floors. Large beams were placed by cranes on one side of the building in an effort to prevent further tilting during the continuing rescue efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Aftermath, Damage\nMany homes were left without water. Bridges and highways remaining closed due to damage from the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Aftermath, Damage\nHundreds of firefighters and military personnel stayed onsite to support efforts to rescue people trapped in damaged buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Aftermath, International response\nThe Taiwanese government said that several countries offered to provide aid following the earthquake but stated that it had to \"politely decline\" such offers, including an offer from People's Republic of China reasoning that Taiwan has no shortage of relief workers and supplies. It decided to accept a Japanese contingent since they possess body-heat detection equipment, a technology Taiwanese authorities do not possess.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Aftermath, International response\nThe Japanese specialized rescue team arrived on 9 February to provide assistance for the search efforts. The Japanese team was the first international search-and-rescue team to arrive in Taiwan. Singapore also flew in US$103,000 worth of humanitarian supplies to Taiwan through a C-130 Hercules of the Republic of Singapore Air Force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279741-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Hualien earthquake, Aftermath, International response\nAt least 63 countries, 18 of which have formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, as well as the European Union, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, the Central American Parliament and the Central American Integration System sent condolences to the Taiwanese government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279742-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Huddersfield Giants season\nThis article details the Huddersfield Giants Rugby League Football Club's 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279743-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hull City Council election\nThe 2018 Hull City Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Hull City Council in England. This was on the same day as other nationwide local elections. Following a review of Ward boundaries by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) the whole council was up for election as the number of councillors was reduced by two and boundaries of all seats redrawn. The Labour party was defending overall control of the council, which they achieved but with a greatly reduced majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279743-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hull City Council election\nThis result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279743-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hull City Council election, Results summary\nThe votes and percentage expressed above for Independent is a combination of votes cast for candidates described as Independent, Democrats and Veterans Party, The Yorkshire Party and where no description was provided on the official declaration of candidature or result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279743-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hull City Council election, Ward results\nAn asterisk * indicates an incumbent for one of the former wards who stood for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279743-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hull City Council election, Ward results\nTurnout figures where stated are the number of ballot papers handed out in a ward including any rejected ballot papers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279743-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hull City Council election, Ward results, University\nJoyce Korczak Fields had previously won the election in University Ward in 2015 for Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279744-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hull FC season\nThis article details the Hull F.C. Rugby League Football Club's 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279745-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team\nThe 2018 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State University as a member of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. The Lumberjacks were led by first-year head coach Damaro Wheeler and played their home games at the Redwood Bowl. The finished the season with a record of 2\u20138 overall and 2\u20136 in GNAC play to place fourth. This was final season for the Humboldt State football program, as the school has discontinue the sport at the conclusion of the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279746-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Humpty's Champions Cup\nThe 2018 Humpty's Champions Cup is the final Grand Slam of curling event of the 2017\u201318 curling season. It was held April 24-29, 2018 at the WinSport Arena, Canada Olympic Park, in Calgary, Alberta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279747-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hun Sen Cup\nThe Hun Sen Cup was the main football knockout tournament in Cambodia. The 2018 Hun Sen Cup was the 12th season of the Hun Sen Cup, the premier knockout tournament for association football clubs in Cambodia involving Cambodian League and provincial teams organized by the Football Federation of Cambodia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279747-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hun Sen Cup\nPreah Khan Reach Svay Rieng were the defending champions, having beaten Nagaworld 3\u20130 in the previous season's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279747-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hun Sen Cup\nHun Sen Cup 2018 divided into two stages, regional stage and national stage. 22 teams from the Capital and provinces playing in regional stage. 16 teams playing in national stage, 12 teams from Cambodian League with the last four teams from semi-finals of regional stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279747-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hun Sen Cup, Regional stage, Group stage\nEach group was played on a single round-robin basis at the pre-selected hosts. Mondul Kiri directed to round of 16 due to only one team in Group C. Group winners, runners-up, third places and the best three fourth-placed team advanced to round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279747-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hun Sen Cup, National stage\nIn national stage, matches start from round of 16 and play home-away basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279748-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 Hungarian Athletics Championships were the 123rd edition of the Hungarian Athletics Championships, which took place on 22\u201324 June 2018 at the Bregy\u00f3 Inter-Regional Athletic Center in Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279748-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Athletics Championships, Results, Men, Track\nWR\u00a0world\u00a0record |ER\u00a0European\u00a0record | CR\u00a0championship\u00a0record | NR\u00a0national\u00a0record |WL\u00a0world\u00a0leading |EL\u00a0European\u00a0leading |PB\u00a0personal\u00a0best | SB\u00a0seasonal\u00a0best", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279748-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Athletics Championships, Results, Men, Track\n* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279748-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Athletics Championships, Results, Men, Field\nWR\u00a0world\u00a0record |ER\u00a0European\u00a0record | CR\u00a0championship\u00a0record | NR\u00a0national\u00a0record |WL\u00a0world\u00a0leading |EL\u00a0European\u00a0leading |PB\u00a0personal\u00a0best | SB\u00a0seasonal\u00a0best", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279748-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Athletics Championships, Results, Women, Track\nWR\u00a0world\u00a0record |ER\u00a0European\u00a0record | CR\u00a0championship\u00a0record | NR\u00a0national\u00a0record |WL\u00a0world\u00a0leading |EL\u00a0European\u00a0leading |PB\u00a0personal\u00a0best | SB\u00a0seasonal\u00a0best", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279748-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Athletics Championships, Results, Women, Track\n* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279748-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Athletics Championships, Results, Women, Field\nWR\u00a0world\u00a0record |ER\u00a0European\u00a0record | CR\u00a0championship\u00a0record | NR\u00a0national\u00a0record |WL\u00a0world\u00a0leading |EL\u00a0European\u00a0leading |PB\u00a0personal\u00a0best | SB\u00a0seasonal\u00a0best", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279749-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Canoe Sprint Championships\nThe 2018 Hungarian Canoe Sprint Championships was held in Szolnok, from 29 to 31 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279749-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Canoe Sprint Championships, Explanation of events\nCanoe sprint competitions were contested in either a Canadian canoe (C), an open canoe with a single-blade paddle, or in a kayak (K), a closed canoe with a double-bladed paddle. Each canoe or kayak can hold one person (1), two people (2), or four people (4). For each of the specific canoes or kayaks, such as a K-1 (kayak single), the competition distances can be 200, 500, 1000 or 5000 metres. When a competition is listed as a K-2 500m event, for example, it means two people were in a kayak competing over a distance of 500 metres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279749-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Canoe Sprint Championships, Explanation of events\nParacanoe competitions were contested in either a va'a (V), an outrigger canoe (which includes a second pontoon) with a single-blade paddle, or in a kayak (as above). All international competitions were held over 200 metres in single-man boats, with three event classes in both types of vessel for men and women depending on the level of an athlete's impairment. The lower the classification number, the more severe the impairment is - for example, VL1 is a va'a competition for those with particularly severe impairments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279750-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Challenger Open\nThe 2018 Hungarian Challenger Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament and was a part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Budapest, Hungary between 5 and 11 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279750-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Challenger Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279750-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Challenger Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279751-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Challenger Open \u2013 Doubles\nDino Marcan and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279751-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Challenger Open \u2013 Doubles\nF\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime and Nicola Kuhn won the title after defeating Marin and Tomislav Draganja 2\u20136, 6\u20132, [11\u20139] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279752-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Challenger Open \u2013 Singles\nJ\u00fcrgen Melzer was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279752-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Challenger Open \u2013 Singles\nVasek Pospisil won the title after defeating Nicola Kuhn 7\u20136(7\u20133), 3\u20136, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279753-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Fencing Championships\nThe 2018 Hungarian Fencing Championships were the 113th edition of the Hungarian Fencing Championships, which took place on 20\u201322 December 2018 at the Alad\u00e1r Gerevich National Sports Hall in Budapest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279754-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Hungarian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Rolex Magyar Nagyd\u00edj 2018) was a Formula One motor race held on 29 July 2018 at the Hungaroring in Mogyor\u00f3d, Hungary. The race was the 12th round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 34th running of the Hungarian Grand Prix, and the 33rd time the race had been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279754-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Grand Prix\nMercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 17-point lead over Sebastian Vettel in the Drivers' Championship, and extended it to 24 points. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes led Ferrari by 8 points before the race, and they further extended their lead to 10 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279754-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThe Ferrari crew wore black armbands in honour of former Ferrari chairman Sergio Marchionne, who died following complications from surgery on 25 July 2018. Black stripes were also incorporated into the cars of Ferrari as well as engine customer teams Haas and Sauber in tribute to Marchionne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279754-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nHamilton led away from pole and got away well with Bottas in close pursuit. Max Verstappen retired on lap 5 following an engine failure, with a brief virtual safety car period to remove his car. Hamilton pitted from the lead on lap 25, however Vettel stayed out and didn't make his pit stop until lap 39, and was unable to get out ahead of Bottas. By lap 65, Vettel and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen had caught up to Bottas on fresher tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279754-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nVettel went for an overtake at turn 2 and moved into second place, but Bottas made contact trying to defend, damaging his front wing and letting R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen through. Three laps later, Daniel Ricciardo attempted an overtake on Bottas, but the two drivers also made contact and picked up damage. Bottas gave the position up on the final lap, finishing in fifth. He was later handed a 10-second time penalty for causing a collision, however this did not change his finishing position. Hamilton won the race, seventeen seconds ahead of Vettel, with R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen finishing in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279755-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Ladies Open\nThe 2018 Hungarian Ladies Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 22nd edition of the Hungarian Ladies Open, an International-level tournament on the 2018 WTA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279755-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Ladies Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279756-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nHsieh Su-wei and Oksana Kalashnikova were the defending champions, but Hsieh chose to compete in Dubai instead. Kalashnikova played alongside Natela Dzalamidze, but lost in the quarterfinals to Irina Bara and Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279756-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nGeorgina Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez and Fanny Stoll\u00e1r won the title, defeating Kirsten Flipkens and Johanna Larsson in the final, 4\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20133]. This was the first WTA Tour title for both Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez and Stoll\u00e1r.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279757-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nT\u00edmea Babos was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Mona Barthel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279757-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nUnseeded Alison Van Uytvanck won the title, defeating Dominika Cibulkov\u00e1 in the final, 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279758-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Open (table tennis)\nThe 2018 Hungarian Open was the first event of the 2018 ITTF World Tour. It took place from 18\u201321 January in Budapest, Hungary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279759-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Pro Circuit Ladies Open\nThe 2018 Hungarian Pro Circuit Ladies Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the third edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Budapest, Hungary, on 9\u201315 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279759-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Pro Circuit Ladies Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279760-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Pro Circuit Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nMariana Duque Mari\u00f1o and Mar\u00eda Irigoyen were the defending champions, but Duque Mari\u00f1o chose not to participate. Irigoyen partnered Danka Kovini\u0107, but lost in the quarterfinals to Akgul Amanmuradova and Natela Dzalamidze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279760-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Pro Circuit Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nAlexandra Cadan\u021bu and Chantal \u0160kamlov\u00e1 won the title, defeating Kaitlyn Christian and Giuliana Olmos in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279761-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Pro Circuit Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nJana \u010cepelov\u00e1 was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to R\u00e9ka Luca Jani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279761-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Pro Circuit Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nVikt\u00f3ria Ku\u017emov\u00e1 won the title, defeating Ekaterina Alexandrova in the final, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279762-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Swimming Championships\nThe 2018 Hungarian Swimming Championships were the 120th edition of the Hungarian Swimming National Championships (Hungarian: CXX. Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g Sz\u00e9chy Tam\u00e1s eml\u00e9k\u00e9re), which took place on 28\u201331 March 2018 at the Debrecen Swimming Pool Complex in Debrecen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279762-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian Swimming Championships, Events\nSimilar to the program's format, swimming features a total of 42 events (20 each for men and women), including two 2 mixed events. The following events will be contested (all pool events are long course, and distances are in metres unless stated):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election\nThe 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election took place on 8 April 2018. This parliamentary election was the eighth since the 1990 first multi-party election and the second since the adoption of a new Constitution of Hungary which came into force on 1 January 2012. The result was a victory for the Fidesz\u2013KDNP alliance, preserving its two-thirds majority, with Viktor Orb\u00e1n remaining Prime Minister. Orb\u00e1n and Fidesz campaigned primarily on the issues of immigration and foreign meddling, and the election was seen as a victory for right-wing populism in Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background\nAt the previous parliamentary election, in April 2014, the incumbent government\u2014composed of Fidesz and its satellite ally the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP)\u2014was able to achieve a two-thirds majority for the second consecutive time with 44.87 percent of the votes. According to their critics, this overwhelming proportion was only because of the new election law (mostly due to the introduction of compensation votes also for the individual winners) which was adopted by the ruling coalition in 2011. In early 2015, however, Fidesz lost its two-thirds majority following the 2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests and subsequent decrease in support for the government. The governing party suffered defeats at two parliamentary by-elections in February and April 2015, both in Veszpr\u00e9m County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 851]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background\nThe left-wing electoral alliance Unity, which failed to win the 2014 national election after its five constituent parties gained a total of only 38 seats, broke up shortly thereafter. Its former member parties (MSZP, Egy\u00fctt\u2013PM and DK) participated in the May 2014 European Parliament election individually, while the MLP did not participate in the election at all. Due to this fragmentation of the left-wing opposition, the radical nationalist Jobbik became the second largest party in a nationwide election for the first time since its establishment. The PM broke off the permanent nature of its alliance with Egy\u00fctt on 9 November 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background\nAfter a few months of crisis for Fidesz from November 2014, which was marked by internal conflicts (e.g. businessman Lajos Simicska's fall from grace within Fidesz) and corruption allegations, the governing party regained much of its lost support during the European migrant crisis during the summer of 2015, when Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n announced the construction of a 4-metre-high (13\u00a0ft), 175-kilometre-long (109\u00a0mi) fence along its southern border with Serbia. The Hungarian government also criticised the official European Union policy for not dissuading migrants from entering Europe. The barrier became successful, as from 17 October 2015 onward, thousands of migrants were diverted daily to Slovenia instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background\nOn 13 December 2015, the 26th congress of the ruling Fidesz re-elected Viktor Orb\u00e1n as party leader. Orb\u00e1n said in his speech that he was ready to lead the party into the forthcoming parliamentary election and to continue to serve as prime minister if Fidesz won re-election in 2018. With that statement, Orb\u00e1n made clear that he did not intend to become President of Hungary in succession to J\u00e1nos \u00c1der during the 2017 indirect presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background\nOn 2 October 2017, the elected leader of the MSZP, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Botka, announced his withdrawal, saying that he thought some of the Hungarian opposition did not care about changing government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background\nOrb\u00e1n and Fidesz's strength going into the election came into question when the party unexpectedly lost a mayoral by-election in H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely, considered a Fidesz stronghold, on 25 February 2018, to an independent candidate supported by every opposition party. Election observers and critics of Orb\u00e1n speculated whether Hungary's opposition parties could create a similar alliance on the national level, though the opposition parties had been unable to create a common strategy by late March 2018. Orb\u00e1n increased his efforts as a result of this loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background\nAccording to observers prior to the election, winning re-election was seen as more difficult for Orb\u00e1n than expected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe 199 members of the National Assembly were to be elected by two methods; 106 would be elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting, with the remaining 93 elected from a single nationwide constituency mostly by proportional representation, via a partially compensatory system (a hybrid of parallel voting and the mixed single vote). The electoral threshold was set at 5%, although this was raised to 10% for coalitions of two parties and 15% for coalitions of three or more parties. Seats were to be allocated using the d'Hondt method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Electoral system\nSince 2014, each of the Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, German, Greek, Polish, Romani, Romanian, Rusyn, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, and Ukrainian ethnic minorities can win one of the 93 party lists seats if they register as a specific lists and reach a lowered quota of 14\u00d793=1372\u22480.2688%{\\displaystyle {\\frac {1}{4\\times 93}}={\\frac {1}{372}}\\approx 0.2688\\%} of the total of party list votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, Individual candidates\nThe following table contains a selected list of numbers of individual candidates by county representation and party affiliation:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, National lists\nUnder the election law, parties which ran individual candidates in at least 27 constituencies in Budapest and at least nine counties had the opportunity to set up a national list. The following table contains only the incumbent parliamentary parties' national lists (first 20 members), which were able to secure mandates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, National lists\n1. Viktor Orb\u00e1n (Fidesz)2. Zsolt Semj\u00e9n (KDNP)3. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 K\u00f6v\u00e9r (Fidesz)4. Katalin Nov\u00e1k (Fidesz)5. Mih\u00e1ly Varga (Fidesz)6. Gergely Guly\u00e1s (Fidesz)7. G\u00e1bor Kubatov (Fidesz)8. Szil\u00e1rd N\u00e9meth (Fidesz)9. Zolt\u00e1n Balog (Fidesz)10. P\u00e9ter Harrach (KDNP)11. S\u00e1ndor Lezs\u00e1k (Fidesz)12. Istv\u00e1n Jakab (Fidesz)13. Bal\u00e1zs Gy\u0151rffy (Fidesz)14. B\u00e9la Turi-Kov\u00e1cs (Fidesz)15. Krist\u00f3f Szatm\u00e1ry (Fidesz)16. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 B\u00f6r\u00f6cz (Fidesz)17. Fl\u00f3ri\u00e1n Farkas (Fidesz)18. M\u00e1rta M\u00e1trai (Fidesz)19. Zsolt N\u00e9meth (Fidesz)20. Istv\u00e1n Bajkai (Fidesz)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, National lists\n1. G\u00e1bor Vona2. J\u00e1nos Volner3. D\u00f3ra D\u00far\u00f34. \u00c1d\u00e1m Steinmetz5. Andrea Varga-Damm6. D\u00e1niel Z. K\u00e1rp\u00e1t7. Tam\u00e1s Sneider8. \u00c1d\u00e1m Mirk\u00f3czki9. Erik F\u00fcl\u00f6p10. D\u00e1vid Janiczak11. M\u00e1rton Gy\u00f6ngy\u00f6si12. Gergely Farkas13. G\u00e1bor Staudt14. Gy\u00f6rgy Szil\u00e1gyi15. P\u00e9ter Jakab16. Enik\u0151 Heged\u0171s17. Istv\u00e1n Sz\u00e1vay18. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Luk\u00e1cs19. Bal\u00e1zs Ander20. Tibor Bana", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, National lists\n1. Gergely Kar\u00e1csony (P)2. Gyula Moln\u00e1r (MSZP)3. Istv\u00e1n Hiller (MSZP)4. \u00c1gnes Kunhalmi (MSZP)5. Bertalan T\u00f3th (MSZP)6. Zolt\u00e1n G\u0151g\u00f6s (MSZP)7. J\u00f3zsef T\u00f3bi\u00e1s (MSZP)8. Attila Mesterh\u00e1zy (MSZP)9. Zsolt Moln\u00e1r (MSZP)10. Zita Gurmai (MSZP)11. Bence Tordai (P)12. Lajos Kor\u00f3zs (MSZP)13. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Varga (MSZP)14. Ildik\u00f3 Bang\u00f3-Borb\u00e9ly (MSZP)15. Anett B\u0151sz (MSZP)16. Tam\u00e1s Harangoz\u00f3 (MSZP)17. Andr\u00e1s Nem\u00e9ny (MSZP)18. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Szak\u00e1cs (MSZP)19. M\u00e1rta V. Nasz\u00e1lyi (MSZP)20. Csaba T\u00f3th (MSZP)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, National lists\n1. Bernadett Sz\u00e9l2. \u00c1kos Hadh\u00e1zy3. Gy\u00f6rgy G\u00e9mesi4. Erzs\u00e9bet Schmuck5. P\u00e9ter Ung\u00e1r6. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 L\u00f3r\u00e1nt Keresztes7. M\u00e1rta Demeter8. M\u00e1t\u00e9 Kan\u00e1sz-Nagy9. Szilvia Lengyel10. G\u00e1bor \u00dcveges11. Istv\u00e1n Ferenczi12. Krisztina Hohn13. J\u00falia \u00c1brah\u00e1m14. K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kis-Szeniczey15. R\u00f3bert Benedek Sallai16. Vir\u00e1g Ecseki17. Istv\u00e1n Ikotity18. Antal Cs\u00e1rdi19. M\u00e1ria Hajdu20. J\u00e1nos Kendernay", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, National lists\n1. Ferenc Gyurcs\u00e1ny2. Csaba Moln\u00e1r3. \u00c1gnes Vadai4. P\u00e9ter Niederm\u00fcller5. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Varju6. Lajos Ol\u00e1h7. S\u00e1ndor Sz\u00e9kely8. Zsolt Gr\u00e9czy9. Attila Ara-Kov\u00e1cs10. Imre L\u00e1szl\u00f311. Gergely Arat\u00f312. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Sebi\u00e1n-Petrovszki13. Erzs\u00e9bet Gy. N\u00e9meth14. Zolt\u00e1n Varga15. J\u00f3zsef Debreczeni16. Judit R\u00e1czn\u00e9 F\u00f6ldi17. Tibor Nagy-Huszein18. Erik Konczer19. J\u00f3zsef Binszki20. Zolt\u00e1n Nagy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Reactions\nFollowing his election defeat, G\u00e1bor Vona, chairman of Jobbik, tendered his resignation. The entire Socialist leadership also resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Reactions\nOrb\u00e1n was congratulated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, European Council President Donald Tusk, British foreign minister Boris Johnson and Former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper. In addition, numerous hard-right and far-right European leaders, including Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders, Beatrix von Storch, Vice Chancellor of Austria Heinz-Christian Strache, Matteo Salvini, Alexander Gauland, Alice Weidel, and Nigel Farage, congratulated Orb\u00e1n's election victory. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer also reacted positively at the election results. U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated Orb\u00e1n's election victory in a June 2018 phone conversation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Reactions\nOn 14 April 2018, \"tens of thousands\" of Hungarians protested Orb\u00e1n's election victory in Budapest. According to Bloomberg News, the protests illustrated the divide in Hungarian society that existed despite Orb\u00e1n's victory. Another large protest occurred the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Reactions, Analysis\nAccording to The Washington Post the election was \"easily the most consequential since Hungary\u2019s post-communist transition\",and it \"represented a victory for the European far right\". Orb\u00e1n campaigned exclusively on his opposition to immigration and foreign meddling and his victory was seen as a boost for his Eurosceptic and nationalist policies as well as for other right-wing populist governments and political parties across Europe, such as in Austria and Poland. The election results strengthened Orb\u00e1n's position over Hungarian politics, giving his party the ability to change Hungary's constitution again, and they were seen as a setback to the European Union along with a string of other elections throughout Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Reactions, Analysis\nThe election saw a large surge in voter turnout, one of the largest in post-communist Hungarian history, which benefited Fidesz despite pre-election expectations that it would help the opposition. Fidesz significantly outperformed its election result expectations, but was reported to have lost support among younger voters. There was also a geographical split in the results, with opposition parties winning the majority of seats in Budapest, while provincial towns and rural areas were predominantly won by the Fidesz coalition. Despite this, The Washington Post described the results as \"a crushing defeat for left-leaning opposition leaders\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Reactions, Analysis\nAccording to Zselyke Csaky of Foreign Policy, Orb\u00e1n won partially because of a growing Hungarian economy, his centralization of power over the previous eight years, and \"the brutally effective propaganda campaign he has waged against all enemies\". According to Shaun Walker of The Guardian, Orb\u00e1n's opposition to immigration and \"a coordinated, expensive and sophisticated sting operation\" by the Hungarian government on various NGOs contributed to his victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Reactions, Analysis\nThe election was also notable for seeing a representative of Hungary's German minority be elected for the first time since 1933.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Reactions, Electoral conduct\nA preliminary report on the election by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) criticised the electoral conduct and stated that Fidesz used government resources for its election campaign. A spokesman described campaigning language as \"quite hostile and xenophobic\". The report criticised the atmosphere as limiting wide-ranging debate and found that public television broadcasts were biased towards the governing coalition. It also criticised the use of \"information campaigns\" funded out of public money, which it stated generated \"a pervasive overlap between state and ruling party resources, undermining contestants' ability to compete on an equal basis\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Government formation\nOn 12 April 2018, cabinet member Antal Rog\u00e1n announced TV2 that \"there will be a new government formed, mostly with new members and a new structure\", in line with the government's new priorities, including demography and family policy and migrant issue. On 20 April, Orb\u00e1n said \"I would say that people not voted for the continuation of the work of the present government, but they want no change in the service of the goals\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Government formation\nThere he announced the replacement of J\u00e1nos L\u00e1z\u00e1r as Minister of the Prime Minister's Office, one of the most influential members of his former cabinets, and confirmed Mih\u00e1ly Varga will remain minister responsible for economy. He called solving demographic problems as the government's most important task. On 23 April, Zolt\u00e1n Balog announced, he will step down as Minister of Human Resources, disagreeing with the prime minister over structural considerations, who intended to keep the type of superministry system. Balog will lead the Fidesz's Foundation for Civic Hungary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0025-0002", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Government formation\nNext day, S\u00e1ndor Fazekas also said that he will not continue his work as Minister of Agriculture after eight years. On 25 April, minister without portfolio Lajos K\u00f3sa announced he will leave the government, as Orb\u00e1n entrusted him to lead the Fidesz campaign for the upcoming local elections in 2019. On the same day, the online version of ATV reported that Minister of Defence Istv\u00e1n Simicsk\u00f3 also left the government, and will be replaced by \"a general\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Government formation\nSenior press officer Bertalan Havasi announced the compilation of the government on 27 April, which largely confirmed previous unofficial information. Accordingly, the name of the Ministry of National Economy was restored to Ministry of Finance, which existed before 2010. The Ministry of National Development abolished and its duties were distributed: Andrea B\u00e1rtfai-Mager was appointed minister without portfolio for managing national wealth and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Palkovics became head of the newly formed Ministry of National Innovation and Technology, while energy issues were assigned to the Prime Minister's Office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Government formation\nThe Ministry of Agriculture was renamed from \"F\u00f6ldm\u0171vel\u00e9s\u00fcgyi Miniszt\u00e9rium\" to \"Agr\u00e1rminiszt\u00e9rium\" with no change in the scope of operations. Seven members of Orb\u00e1n's third cabinet \u2013 Zsolt Semj\u00e9n, Antal Rog\u00e1n, P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3, S\u00e1ndor Pint\u00e9r, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Tr\u00f3cs\u00e1nyi, Mih\u00e1ly Varga and J\u00e1nos S\u00fcli \u2013 retained their positions. Mikl\u00f3s K\u00e1sler, the Director of the National Institute of Oncology was appointed Minister of Human Resources, while incumbent Secretary of State for Agriculture Istv\u00e1n Nagy replaced his superior S\u00e1ndor Fazekas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0026-0002", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Government formation\nFidesz caucus leader Gergely Guly\u00e1s became the new Minister of the Prime Minister's Office, but the evolving Prime Minister's Government Office under the direct management of Viktor Orb\u00e1n has reduced his powers. Col. Gen. Tibor Benk\u0151, who has served as Chief of the General Staff since 2010 was nominated to the position of Minister of Defence, becoming the first active military officer since the end of communism, who held the ministry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279763-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, Government formation\nOn 10 May, the new Hungarian Parliament elected Orb\u00e1n to a fourth term. Orb\u00e1n's new cabinet was then sworn in on 18 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279764-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Huntingdonshire District Council election\nThe 2018 Huntingdonshire District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Huntingdonshire District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279764-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Huntingdonshire District Council election, By-elections between 2018 and 2021, Godmanchester & Hemingford Abbots\nA by-election took place in Godmanchester and Hemingford Abbots on 1 August 2019 after the resignation of Liberal Democrat councillor David Underwood. The seat was held for the Liberal Democrats by Sarah Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 117], "content_span": [118, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279764-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Huntingdonshire District Council election, By-elections between 2018 and 2021, Alconbury\nA by-election took place in Alconbury on 12 December 2019 alongside the 2019 general election, following the resignation of Councillor Jim White. The seat was held for the Conservative Party by Ian Gardener.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 93], "content_span": [94, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279764-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Huntingdonshire District Council election, By-elections between 2018 and 2021, St Ives East\nA by-election took place in the St Ives East ward on 13 February 2020, after the resignation of Conservative Party Councillor and Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner Jason Ablewhite following his referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. The seat was held for the Conservative Party by Adam Roberts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 96], "content_span": [97, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279764-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Huntingdonshire District Council election, By-elections between 2018 and 2021, Huntingdon North\nA by-election took place in the Huntingdon North ward on 6 May 2021 alongside the 2021 local elections. The seat was held for the Labour Party by Marion Kadewere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 100], "content_span": [101, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279764-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Huntingdonshire District Council election, By-elections between 2018 and 2021, St Ives South\nA by-election took place in the St Ives South ward on 6 May 2021 alongside the 2021 local elections, following the passing of Councillor John Davies. The seat was held for the Conservative Party by Rianna D'Souza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279764-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Huntingdonshire District Council election, By-elections between 2018 and 2021, St Ives East\nA by-election took place in the St Ives East ward on 6 May 2021 alongside the 2021 local elections, following the resignation of Councillor Richard Bellamy. The seat was held for the Conservative Party by Craig Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 96], "content_span": [97, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279764-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Huntingdonshire District Council election, By-elections between 2018 and 2021, Warboys\nA by-election took place in the Warboys ward on 6 May 2021 alongside the 2021 local elections, following the passing of Councillor Jill Tavener. The seat was held for the Conservative Party by Michael Haines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 91], "content_span": [92, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279764-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Huntingdonshire District Council election, By-elections between 2018 and 2021, St Neots East\nA by-election took place in the St Neots East ward on 8 July 2021, following the election of Dr Nik Johnson as Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The seat was won by Independent candidate Benjamin Pitt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279765-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Huron County municipal elections\nElections took place in Huron County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279765-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Huron County municipal elections, Huron County Council\nHuron County Council consists of the Mayors and Reeves of each constituent municipality, plus deputy mayors, deputy reeves for all municipalities except Howick, Morris-Turnberry and North Huron", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279766-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyderabad Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Hyderabad Open (officially known as the IDBI Federal Life Insurance Hyderabad Open 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad, India from 4 to 9 September 2018 and had a total purse of $75,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279766-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyderabad Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Hyderabad Open was the seventh Super 100 tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Hyderabad Open championships, which was held for the first time. This tournament was organized by the Badminton Association of India with the sanction from the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279766-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyderabad Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279766-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyderabad Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF Tour Super 100 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279766-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyderabad Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$75,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279767-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyndburn Borough Council election\nA by-thirds Hyndburn Borough Council local election, was held on Thursday 03 May 2018. Approximately one third of the local council's 35 seats fall up for election on that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279767-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Background\nBefore the election Labour had a majority of 26 councillors, Conservatives had 7 councillors, while UKIP 'formerly' had 2 councillors, who have since resigned from that party and had both reverted to become Independents and where one of those seats had been left Vacated, following the death of that councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279767-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Council composition\nPrior to the election the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279767-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Council composition\nBoth Labour and Conservatives candidates challenged every ward, with Labour defending 7 existing seats, and Conservatives defending only 2 existing seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279767-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Council composition\nNo candidates stood as potential UKIP councillors, in any Hyndburn ward, but as Independents instead, across only 5 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279767-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Council composition\nOnly one candidate stood as a potential Green Party councillor, in Great Harwood's Overton ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279767-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Local Election result\nThe majority grouping of councillors was as the headline result of the election, unchanged with Labour retaining an overall 26-seat majority, but with Conservatives increasing their numbers by 2-seats, as UKIP lost their 2-seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279767-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Local Election result\nAfter the election, the composition of the council's 35 seats was -", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279767-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Local Election result\nNB: Five (of the 16) Council wards, where seats were NOT up for re-election in 2018, included the following wards - Altham, Baxenden and Church, plus Barnfield and Central in Accrington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279767-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Local Election result\nThe St Oswalds ward seat, formerly held by UKIP Councillor Paul Thompson since 2014, and following his Death in October 2017, was left vacated without a by election called.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279767-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Local Election result\nPrevious Councillors who were Standing-Down in this election included - Bernard Dawson (Lab) (Huncoat), Julie Livesey (Con) (Immanuel) and Peter Britcliffe (Con) (St. Andrew\u2019s).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279768-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Hypo-Meeting\nThe 44th edition of the annual Hypo-Meeting took place on May 26 and May 27, 2018 in G\u00f6tzis, Austria. The track and field competition, featuring a men's decathlon and a women's heptathlon event is part of the 2018 IAAF Combined Events Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279769-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely Ladies Open\nThe 2018 H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely Ladies Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the third edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely, Hungary, on 11\u201317 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279769-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely Ladies Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279770-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nKotomi Takahata and Prarthana Thombare were the defending champions, however Takahata chose to participate in K\u014dfu, while Thombare chose to participate in Manchester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279770-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nR\u00e9ka Luca Jani and Nadia Podoroska won the title after defeating Danka Kovini\u0107 and Nina Stojanovi\u0107 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279771-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nMihaela Buz\u0103rnescu was the defending champion, but chose to participate in Nottingham instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279771-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nMariana Duque Mari\u00f1o won the title, defeating Irina Bara in the final, 4\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279772-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup\nThe 2018 IAAF Continental Cup is an international track and field sporting event that was held in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on 8\u20139 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279772-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup\nIt is the third edition of the IAAF Continental Cup since the name and format was changed from the IAAF World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279772-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup, Format\nThe four teams competing in the event were Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. The two-day competition comprised a programme of 20 track and field events for men and women, giving a total of 40 events. Each team shall enter two athletes in each event, except for relays where one team competed, with a maximum of one athlete from each country per event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279772-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup, Format\nMany events were conducted in elimination fashion. Field events were given three attempts to qualify to a semi-final round, where the best representative from each continental team was given one more attempt. The top two then had one more attempt for the championship, head to head. The 3000 metre and steeplechase running events were conducted in a \"devil take the hindmost\" fashion, where the last place runner in the last three laps of the race, was eliminated. Additionally, the ceremonial team captains were allowed to apply a \"joker\" to one male and female event through the competition. If the team won the individual points from the event, that team's score would be doubled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279772-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup, Format\nScoring was based on team points earned in an 8-6-4-2 fashion based on the places of individual points. The individual points were distributed 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 based on the places of finishing athletes. After those points were tallied, then team points were calculated. Ties divide points based on the total of both places. Example: If team A fished 1st and 5th they would get 8 + 4 = 12 points. Team B finished 2nd and 3rd would get 7 + 6 = 13 and would win that event. So Team B would get 8 team points, Team A, 6 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279772-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup, Format\nIf Team B were to have played their Joker, they would get 16 points. Had Team A's athlete finished in 4th, it would be a tie with 13 individual points each and the team points would be (8 + 6 / 2) 7 each, and with the Joker, Team B would get 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279772-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup, Format\nAthletes were encouraged to be fan friendly. As a result many played to the crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results\nThese are the results of the 2018 IAAF Continental Cup, which took place in Ostrava, Czech Republic on 8\u20139 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 100 metres\nWith a quick start, Su Bingtian gained the clear advantage, with =#2 of all time Yohan Blake the next contender. Blake steadily gained on Su, a metre up on a wall of the remaining competitors save a beaten Barakat Al-Harthi. Then 70 metres into the race, Blake suddenly pulled up, leaving Su all alone, with the year's new phenom Noah Lyles separating from the pack. Known more for the 200 metres, Lyles showed the late closing speed from the longer race, catching Su 5 metres out and on to the win. Akani Simbine separated from the group to take bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 200 metres\nRamil Guliyev came into the race with the fastest time of the field. From the gun, he took the lead, making up the stagger on Alonso Edward, to his outside 60 metres into the turn. Guliyev hit the straightaway with a metre lead, while Edward was just a nose ahead of Yuki Koike, Baboloki Thebe and \u00c1lex Qui\u00f1\u00f3nez in the battle for second place. From there, rocking side to side, Edward powered away in a different gear from the others, catching Guliyev 30 metres from the finish line. Disadvantaged with the tight lane 1 turn, on the straightaway, Qui\u00f1\u00f3nez was able to separate from Koike, while Thebe, known more for 400 metres, faded but still ran a personal best.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 400 metres\nMatthew Hudson-Smith took the lead through the first turn, marked by Abdalelah Haroun. Starting the race with his leg wrapped, Thapelo Phora pulled up 100 metres into the race, but rather than being assigned a DNF, he was disqualified for a lane violation for walking off the track. Down the back stretch, Haroun gained on Hudson-Smith taking the clear lead. Through the final turn, Baboloki Thebe asserted himself pull to even with Hudson-Smith 2 metres back of Haroun, with Luguel\u00edn Santos a metre back and Nathan Strother another metre behind him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 400 metres\nDown the home stretch, Thebe made a run at Haroun, while Hudson-Smith and Santos went backward. Halfway down the home stretch, Thebe also started to tie up. Haroun glided across the line uncontested, Thebe's rush gave him enough of an advantage to hold off a fast closing Strother. And a late run by Mohammad Anas, caught Santos and almost caught Hudson-Smith, which became significant because this was the Asia-Pacific's Joker race, which they won and received the double points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 800 metres\nAndreas Kramer went to the lead at the break and held it through a modest 53.18 first lap, the rest of the field bunching up behind him. Down the back stretch, Emmanuel Korir edged into the lead, with Clayton Murphy on his shoulder and the field remaining bunched. Nijel Amos worked his way through the crowd to get to Murphy's back, the three starting to separate slightly from the rest of the pack. Amos moved to the outside to pass Murphy, but Murphy held his ground both athletes re-surging twice down the home stretch. Neither could make ground on the slight advantage of Korir who held on for the win, Murphy and Amos hitting the finish at the same time. The photo finish gave the silver to Murphy by 3 thousandths of a second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 1500 metres\nAfter the start sorted itself out, Drew Hunter emerged as the leader, trying to keep the field honest with a 60.76. After another 3/4 of a lap, Elijah Manangoi decided Hunter wasn't keeping up the pace and he went around. Seeing Manangoi hit the front, Jakob Ingebrigtsen played his hand and moved to the marking position, the two going through 800 in 2:03.52. As they approached the bell, Marcin Lewandowski moved to Ingebrigtsen's shoulder as the pace quickened. Bell at 2:47.08, 3 laps at 3:01.11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 1500 metres\nAs they ran down the back stretch, Jinson Johnson moved into the lead group as four athletes began to separate. Johnson stayed to the outside of Lewandowski, running extra distance for the entire final turn. When they hit the final straightaway, Manangoi barely had half a meter on Lewandowski on his shoulder, with Ingebrigtsen but an arm's length behind him. As more of an 800-metre specialist, advantage might be expected to be with Lewandowski, but halfway down the straightaway, world champion Manangoi began to pull away to a two-metre victory. Manangoi was comfortable enough with his lead, he had time to salute the crowd before crossing the line. The 17 year old Ingebrigtsen faded four more metres back, but he was still able to hold off the late rush from Charles Philibert-Thiboutot and Ryan Gregson to retain bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 896]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 3000 metres\nConducted as an elimination race, Paul Chelimo took the early lead, with the pack content to follow for 2 and a half laps. Then Stewart McSweyn chose to take up the point. As they came up to the first elimination lap, it was a wall of runners tied for the lead, with Edward Zakayo left behind, until the last few metres of the home stretch when he sprinted out to lane 4 to join the wall. Suddenly it was Birhanu Balew left a step behind the wall, to his surprise getting the red paddle on the backstretch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 3000 metres\nThe next lap turned almost into a shoving match, with each athlete protecting their position. The end of the lap again turned into a wall of athletes sprinting to avoid elimination, with Getaneh Molla a mere step behind. After easing through the next half lap, the field again positioned for a sprint to the line, with Zakayo and Marc Scott left behind when Henrik Ingebrigtsen accelerated away. Realizing they were behind both turned into an all out sprint, dipping at the line with Scott the odd man out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 3000 metres\nAfter that action Zakayo was spent and jogged the next lap, far behind the remaining competitive four. Chelimo held the advantage at the bell, while Henrik Ingebrigtsen was last in the pack. As Chelimo and Mohammed Ahmed started to pull away, Ingebrigtsen went in chase, as he went around, McSweyn had noting to offer. Ahmed moved forward to challenge Chelimo, clipping his teammate's heels, but Chelimo was having none of the challenge, pulling away the last 200 to an easy victory, the U.S. Army runner saluting as he crossed the finish line. As a Joker race, again Africa squandered their opportunity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 110 metres hurdles\nIn the center of the track, Taioh Kanai and Antonio Alkana got off to good starts, while world leader Sergey Shubenkov seemed to be left in the blocks, Alkana had a clear advantage over the first hurdle. By the third hurdle, Ronald Levy had caught Alkana, barely ahead of a fast moving Shubenkov. It took two more hurdles for Shubenkov to catch Levy, with Pascal Martinot-Lagarde pulling even with Alkana. In this fast moving race of inches, Shubenkov was just snapping over the hurdles faster than Levy assuming the lead. Alkana rattled the seventh hurdle, just enough to give Martinot-Lagarde the advantage to carry across the line for bronze. More important for Europe, this was their Joker race, which they won handily with the 1-3 finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 400 metres hurdles\nKnown for his fast starts, Karsten Warholm was out fast. Less noticed, in lane 1, Annsert Whyte was flying, clearing hurdles ahead of Warholm. Down the back stretch, #2 in history and #1 in 2018, Abderrahman Samba was gaining on Warholm. Into the final turn, Samba began to edge ahead of Warholm, a step behind Whyte, with Yasmani Copello coming into contention with Warholm. Between the eighth and ninth hurdles, Samba finally passed Whyte. Samba pulled away to an easy win. Warholm labored the final two hurdles but maintained his advantage over Copello. Europe played a Joker and tied for the win to gain the points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 3000 metres steeplechase\nThis race was conducted in the \"devil take the hindmost\" fashion, though communication of the details did not make its way to the athletes. Evan Jager did not start, reducing the need for the first elimination, still the athletes sprinted with four laps to go. With just over 3 laps to go, as Soufiane El Bakkali was looking around he stepped on the concrete curb, twisting his ankle. He limped across the lap line in fourth place, then fell to the infield, John Kibet Koech was eliminated as the last place runner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 3000 metres steeplechase\nWith El Bakkali injured, the second lap elimination was no longer necessary, but after the second sprint of the race, Kosei Yamaguchi was spent, jogging two more laps to get the team points before being eliminated. Over the next two laps, the European athletes fell off the pace, while Matthew Hughes led until the penultimate water jump. From there, reigning World and Olympic champion Conseslus Kipruto separated from Hughes. With a comfortable 30 metre lead, Kipruto spent the last lap playing to the crowd, gesturing for them to cheer and holding his hands to his ears to hear them. This was Africa's Joker race, but without El Bakkali, they squandered the opportunity for double points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Track, Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay\nFirst-leg runner for Africa, Henricho Bruintjies, pulled a muscle and fell to the ground shortly before the exchange zone resulting in 0 points for his team. Inside of him, Mike Rodgers put the Americas into the lead, handing off to the new American star Noah Lyles. With Africa, represented by an all South African team, out, the closest chasers were the Turkish team representing Europe, led by Jamaican ex-pats, Emre Zafer Barnes and Jak Ali Harvey. Lyles passing to Yohan Blake, Americas continued to expand their lead, handing off to Jamaica's new find for 2018, Tyquendo Tracey with a 7-metre lead. Turkey's star, Ramil Guliyev couldn't make any headway, taking half the straightaway just to pass Blake who jogged after Tracey after the handoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 75], "content_span": [76, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Field, Men's high jump\nBecause vertical jumps are already elimination style events, there was nothing unique about the scoring of these events. Donald Thomas kept a perfect round going to 2.27, to take the lead. Maksim Nedasekau had one miss at 2.24 but cleared 2.27 to move into second place, with Brandon Starc making the height on his second attempt to pull up into third. Already with 4 misses in the competition, Ilya Ivanyuk skipped 2.27 in order to try to make a heroic jump at 2.30 to snatch a higher place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Field, Men's high jump\nThrough two rounds of attempts at 2.30, nobody was able to make a clearance. On his final attempt, Thomas made it to retain the lead. After Nedasekau missed, Starc moved into second place by also clearing 2.30. Ivanyuk's bid failed, so Thomas and Starc moved on to try 2.33. After missing twice, already with the lead, Thomas preserved one more jump as protection. When Starc missed, the protection wasn't necessary, but he took a shot at it anyhow and missed. Still Thomas won on the tiebreaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Field, Men's pole vault\nAsia-Pacific only had one competitor, he and the two African entrants were eliminated by 5.30. Of the remaining competitors, all 6 metre jumpers, only Shawnacy Barber even bothered to make an attempt at 5.30, which he cleared on his first. Barber and Timur Morgunov took two attempts while Sam Kendricks made his opener. World record holder Renaud Lavillenie waited until 5.65 to start, clearing it on his first attempt just after Barber had done the same. Kendricks matched Lavillenie, both still clean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Field, Men's pole vault\nMorgunov took two attempts to assume 4th place behind Barber and that was as high as either would go. Kendricks took two attempts to get over 5.75, Lavillenie didn't even bother taking an attempt. When Lavillenie and Kendricks both made 5.80, it was advantage Lavillenie. He lost the advantage by missing his first attempt at 5.85. Kendricks then won the competition by clearing 5.85 moments later. Further strategic maneuvering ensued but neither could clear another bar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Field, Men's long jump\nThe preliminaries were a close competition. Ruswahl Samaai was the only athlete to exceed 8 metres, but four others jumped 7.95 or better. With only four going to the semi final, Wang Jianan was the odd man out. Samaai won the semi final with an 8.09, while Miltiadis Tentoglou did exactly 8 metres to go to the final With his fourth jump beyond 8 metres out of five attempts, Samaai won the final with an 8.10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Field, Men's triple jump\nAmericas chose this as their Joker. Easy to anticipate, the best active jumper, #2 in history Christian Taylor jumped 17.59 on his first attempt. He was backed up by Cristian N\u00e1poles jumping 17.07, to win the non-finalists. Only Hugues Fabrice Zango was able to exceed 17 metres, with his Burkina Faso National record 17.02 on his last preliminary attempt (though he had a superior pending record from a month earlier). In the semi final round, it only took 16.44 for Zango to beat Arpinder Singh and Nelson \u00c9vora to get into the final. Taylor jumped almost a metre further. And Taylor won the final by 85 cm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Field, Men's shot put\nWith Olympic Champion Ryan Crouser on the team, Americas expected to do well here. Unexpectedly, Crouser threw more than a metre behind his personal best in the preliminaries while Darlan Romani threw just 6 cm off his personal best from earlier this season when he finished almost 2 feet behind Crouser at essentially Crouser's home meet, the Prefontaine Classic. Here, Romani became the semi finalist while Crouser had to watch. Europe's semi finalist was even closer, European Champion Micha\u0142 Haratyk 14 cm better than Tom\u00e1\u0161 Stan\u011bk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Field, Men's shot put\nIn the semi, world Indoor and Outdoor Champion Tomas Walsh was finally warmed up, getting to 21 metres exactly, enough to beat Haratyk while Chukwuebuka Enekwechi fouled. Romani's 21.07 won the round. In the final, Romani offered up a 21.68, Walsh threw his best of the day, but 21.43 wasn't good enough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Field, Men's discus throw\n8 SeptemberNew Zealand sprinter Joseph Millar competed in order to gain points for his team, throwing a personal best 27.15m in the unfamiliar event against a world class field. Andrius Gud\u017eius held the lead from the preliminary round with a 66.95. Starting anew in the semi-final round, only Fedrick Dacres and Matthew Denny could land a fair throw, so Gud\u017eius' throw only served as a tiebreaker to give him the bronze medal. In the final, Dacres threw the best of the day, 67.97 while Denny had his worst throw of the day, still good enough for the silver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Field, Men's hammer throw\nOlympic champion Dilshod Nazarov's first effort was better than anyone but Diego del Real's best all day. From there Nazarov improved with every throw, winning all three rounds and the championship. After throwing 75.86 in the third round, del Real could only make 73.04 in the semi. With a 74.19, Mostafa Al-Gamel advanced to the final by throwing just 3 cm further than Bence Hal\u00e1sz. There, his best of the day 74.22 was no match for Nazarov's best, 77.343.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Field, Men's javelin throw\nThe European position in the finals was competitive, well beyond the other teams. After first round fouls, Thomas R\u00f6hler threw 84.30 to lead after the second round. Jakub Vadlejch upped the ante throwing 84.76 to move ahead in the third, but R\u00f6hler confirmed his position with an 86.39. With a near 86 metre close sector foul on his third throw, Neeraj Chopra missed what would certainly have qualified him into the semi-final round. Instead, Cheng Chao-tsun took that position with an 82.60.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Men, Field, Men's javelin throw\nCheng then won the semi-final round with his best of the day 83.28, while R\u00f6hler only managed an 80.61, which was well within the range of his other semi-finalist competitors. But it was enough to get into the final, where R\u00f6hler threw his best of the day 87.07 to take the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Track, Women's 100 metres\nThe 100 featured the two co-fastest women of the year, both Marie-Jos\u00e9e Ta Lou and Dina Asher-Smith had run 10.85 earlier in the season. From the start, the two were out fastest, running neck and neck, with Ta Lou getting the win. Well behind them, Jenna Prandini and Dafne Schippers were in their own neck and neck battle, Prandini winning the bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Track, Women's 200 metres\nDafne Schippers took the lead from the gun and held a full metre lead coming onto the straightaway. Edidiong Odiong held a marginal lead of the chase group, over Marie-Jos\u00e9e Ta Lou, Shericka Jackson and Shaunae Miller-Uibo. Sporting more conventional hair color just a week after wearing two tone pink and purple while winning the Diamond League Final, Miller-Uibo continued her season long pattern of turning 200 metres into a kicker's race, cruising past Schippers 30 metres out. The next three hit the line virtually at the same time with Ta Lou getting the knod for bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Track, Women's 400 metres\nGoing out hard, the long striding Shakima Wimbley opened up a gap from Justyna \u015awi\u0119ty-Ersetic staggered inside of her. Inside of \u015awi\u0119ty-Ersetic, the diminutive Salwa Eid Naser was gaining even faster, passing \u015awi\u0119ty-Ersetic before the end of the first turn. Wimbley caught up to Caster Semenya just before the half way mark, but Naser just cruised by moments later. Seeing Wimbley, Semenya sped up through the turn, the runner known for 800 metres reaching the home stretch about two strides behind Naser. Wimbley was swimming backward, but Semenya was gaining on Naser. On the inside, Stephenie Ann McPherson was picking off Wimbley's wreckage to take bronze. Semenya couldn't catch Naser, but her late run brought her well into the sub-50 club for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Track, Women's 800 metres\nThe gun went off, after being undefeated all season, Caster Semenya went to the front. After the break, Aje\u00e9 Wilson and Natoya Goule fell in behind Semenya. First 200 in 26.44, 400 in 55.93. Semenya slowed the third 200, 1:25.83 and for a moment it looked like she was giving Wilson and Goule a chance to catch her, but over the final straightaway, Semenya expanded the lead to finish in 1:54.77. While it was only Semenya's third best race of the season, it was still the eighth fastest 800 metres of all time. Only Pamela Jelimo has been under 1:55 more times in a career or season, all of her four sub 1:55's happening ten years earlier in the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Track, Women's 1500 metres\nWithout the fear of elimination, the women jogged through in now common strategic fashion, Winny Chebet leading through opening laps of 73.05 and 76.31. Going into the bell, Linden Hall decided she wanted the lead, moving to the front with a lap and a half to go, but just before the bell, home town runner Simona Vrzalov\u00e1 made a rush to the lead to the cheer of the crowd. With Chibet in chase, Vrzalov\u00e1 finished the third lap in a significantly faster 63.90. Down the back stretch, Chibet assumed the lead with Rababe Arafi in her wake. Shelby Houlihan followed Arafi, then blew past her in the final turn. At the beginning of the straightway, it looked like it would be a sprint battle to the finish, but Chibet made short work of it, pulling away for the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Track, Women's 3000 metres\nThe field was comfortable to let Konstanze Klosterhalfen hold the lead through most oil the last t and a half laps. With the threat of elimination, Sifan Hassan, Hellen Obiri and Senbere Teferi barely broke a sweat to move forward before the line, while the back of the pack sprinted for the line. Muriel Coneo the first odd woman out but Lauren Paquette was to be the second one eliminated one lap later. Even before the end of that lap, Nozomi Tanaka showed she couldn't keep up with the pack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Track, Women's 3000 metres\nOn the penultimate lap, the pace accelerated to leave Genevieve LaCaze off the back, all in all a relatively painless process of elimination to reach the final four. With 500 metres to go, Hassan began to accelerate, taking the bell with a 5-metre advantage over Teferi with Obiri another 2 back. Hassan's lead broke the will of the chasing Africans, extending it all the way to a 40-metre advantage at the finish for an 8:27.50 win crushing Tirunesh Dibaba's Continental Cup record. While not achieving the anticipated win, Africa managed to tie for the event win and get points for their Joker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Track, Women's 100 metres hurdles\nFrom the gun the Americas team took the lead, both world record holder Kendra Harrison with the left leg lead and 2015 world champion Danielle Williams with the right, out together running virtually mirror images of each other on opposite sides of the track. By the fifth hurdle, Harrison looked to have a microscopic lead, but by the eighth, it was Williams with the microscopic edge. That was all it took, Williams was able to outlearn Harrison for the gold. Running in Harrison's wake, Pamela Dutkiewicz was able to nab bronze, three metres behind the leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Track, Women's 400 metres hurdles\nAminat Yusuf Jamal went out hard from the start, holding the advantage until about the seventh hurdle, when she was caught by Shamier Little. Running a fast final turn in lane 1, Janieve Russell also caught both Little and Jamal by the eighth hurdle and sped away to victory over a spent Little. Jamal had nothing left for the final two hurdles, her form disintegrating as Hanna Ryzhykova pulled away for the bronze. Americas pulled off a perfect score in this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Track, Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay\nEurope represented by an all British team and Asia-Pacific represented by an all Chinese team chose to go with trained experience. \u00c1ngela Tenorio put Americas in the lead before handing off to Shaunae Miller-Uibo. Jenna Prandini continued the advantage while the two experienced teams battled to almost event going in to the anchor leg. Vit\u00f3ria Cristina Rosa took the baton with a 4-metre lead and held it as their fastest woman in the world this year, Dina Asher-Smith separated the British European team from Yuan Qiqi. Africa's already well beaten team added further insult when they were unable to negotiate the handoff to their equal fastest woman of the year, Marie-Jos\u00e9e Ta Lou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Field, Women's triple jump\nLike the men's division, Americas took the Joker in the women's triple jump the best active jumper, #5 of all time, Caterine Ibarg\u00fcen. Asia Pacific has #8 of all time Olga Rypakova so it was not a lock. In the preliminary round, Ibarg\u00fcen barely qualified for the semi final round, jumping exactly one metre less than her personal best and beating her Americas teammate Tori Franklin by only 4cm. In the semi final round, Ibarg\u00fcen improved with her best of the day, a foot and a half further than the previous three efforts. Rypakova beat Paraskevi Papachristou by 4cm to make the final, though she didn't actually beat Franklin's best. The final was no contest as Rypakova fouled. Ibarg\u00fcen landed a 14.54 and Americas redeemed their Joker for double points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Field, Women's discus throw\nSandra Perkovi\u0107 came in as the overwhelming favorite, having won all the major competitions, both Olympics and World Championships since 2012, save one blemish in the 2015 World Championships when Cuba's Denia Caballero suddenly became a world beater for that single season. Here she was against Cuba's other competitor from that competition, Yaime P\u00e9rez. Perkovi\u0107's 68.44m first effort easily qualified her to the semi final, while P\u00e9rez hit exactly 65 metres to be the second best. Perkovi\u0107 beat P\u00e9rez by a metre and a half in the semi while both advanced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Field, Women's discus throw\nIn the final, Perkovi\u0107 threw well beyond 65 metres, but stepped out of the ring in the process, the throw was a foul. At that point, P\u00e9rez could have won the competition by not dropping it on her foot and landing a fair throw in the sector. Instead, she went for broke, landing her best throw of the day, 65.30m to take the win. Asia Pacific thought their duo of the #2 thrower in the world, Dani Stevens and Chen Yang could overcome Perkovi\u0107, but they lost the Joker points when neither of their throwers was able to beat P\u00e9rez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Field, Women's hammer throw\nEurope had the overwhelming favorite, Anita W\u0142odarczyk and played their Joker. Anita W\u0142odarczyk had 73 metres dialed in, good enough to beat everyone in the field, except DeAnna Price, who threw 75.13 to win the preliminary round. In the semi-final, Price again brushed just short of 75 metres, to beat W\u0142odarczyk with both advancing to the final. In the final, Price threw her best of the day 75.46\u00a0m\u00a0(247\u00a0ft\u00a06\u00a0in), a Championship Record, while W\u0142odarczyk threw another 73 metre throw to finish a surprising second. Europe was able to redeem their Joker points by tying for first because their other thrower, Alexandra Tavernier, beat the Americas other thrower Jennifer Dahlgren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Field, Women's javelin throw\nAsia-Pacific played its Joker here and it almost backfired. Europe's Christin Hussong dominated the first round until L\u00fc Huihui pulled out her best of the day 63.88m. At that point neither were in danger of not advancing to the semi-final. Kara Winger threw her best of the day in the semi-final, but both L\u00fc and Hussong advance comfortably with 61 metre throws, Hussong winning the semi by a mere 7cm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Women, Field, Women's javelin throw\nIn the final, L\u00fc threw her worst of the day 57.88m. Hussong answered with her worst of the day, more than 6 and a half metres less than any other throw, L\u00fc winning the competition by less than 3 metres. Counting back to the preliminary round, in the second throw of the competition, Kelsey-Lee Roberts was able to beat the best throw Nikola Ogrodn\u00edkov\u00e1 could muster, to give Asia-Pacific the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Mixed, Mixed 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe mixed relay is a mix of strategy and talent. Starting with a one turn stagger, Steven Solomon led off an all Australian team for Asia-Pacific, gaining the advantage over triple jumper Christian Taylor and Matthew Hudson-Smith. Both Taylor and Hudson-Smith had competed earlier in the day, though arguably the Triple Jump might be considered less taxing. Down the home stretch, Hudson-Smith asserted himself, passing Taylor and Solomon, with Taylor almost catching Solomon by the handoff to Luguel\u00edn Santos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Mixed, Mixed 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nSantos quickly gained the advantage on Asia-Pacific's Murray Goodwin and set off chasing Kevin Borl\u00e9e who he had beaten in the 400 final earlier in the day. After running their first woman, Christine Botlogetswe, Africa's Chidi Okezie was well behind. Borl\u00e9e handed off to Lisanne de Witte in the lead, she barely took two steps and while switching hands, the baton went flying. As she went chasing it, the Americas' Stephenie Ann McPherson assumed the lead over Anneliese Rubie. Well behind, Africa handed off to their 800-metre star Caster Semenya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279773-0032-0002", "contents": "2018 IAAF Continental Cup \u2013 Results, Mixed, Mixed 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nMcPherson opened up a 30-metre lead before handing off to Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo. Semenya almost caught de Witte before handing off to the only male anchor, Baboloki Thebe. The fastest man in the field, Thebe made short work catching Europe's Justyna \u015awi\u0119ty-Ersetic and set sail after Ella Connolly who he caught with 200 metres to go, but Africa had no chance to make up the huge advantage of the Americas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279774-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF Road Race Label Events\nThe 2018 IAAF Road Race Label Events were the eleventh edition of the global series of road running competitions given Label status by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The series included a total of 114 road races: 56 Gold, 26 Silver and 32 Bronze. In terms of distance, 75 races were marathons, 26 were half marathons, 9 were 10K runs, and 4 were held over other distances. The series included all six World Marathon Majors in the Gold category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279775-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Challenge\nThe 2018 IAAF World Challenge was the ninth edition of the annual, global circuit of one-day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The series featured a total of nine meetings, with the meetings remaining unchanged from the previous year. The host venue of the Brazilian leg of the series moved from S\u00e3o Bernardo do Campo to Bragan\u00e7a Paulista.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279776-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships\nThe 2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships took place on 24 March 2018 in Valencia, Spain. It was the 23rd edition of the event and the 2nd time it was held in Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279776-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships\nNetsanet Gudeta gave the standout performance of the competition, winning with a half marathon world record of 1:06:11 hours in a women-only race. This improved Lornah Kiplagat's eleven-year-old championships record by 14 seconds and marked a personal improvement of over a minute. She led the Ethiopian women (alongside fifth and sixth placers Zeineba Yimer and Meseret Belete) to the team title with a combined time of 3:22:27 hours. The outright world record holder Joyciline Jepkosgei settled for second and her third-placed compatriot Pauline Kaveke Kamulu helped Kenya to second in the team competition. The best performance by a non-African-born runner was by Romania's Ancu\u0163a Bobocel, who set a personal best in 15th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279776-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships\nIn the men's race Kenya's Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor took his third straight title in 1:00:02 hours (nearly a minute short of his championship record). Bahrain's Abraham Naibei Cheroben claimed the silver medal 20 seconds further back and Aron Kifle was the bronze medallist around half a minute short of the winner. The winning men's team, Ethiopia, contained no medallists but Jemal Yimer, Getaneh Molla and Betesfa Getahun rounded out the top six. The best non-African-born performer was Julien Wanders of Switzerland who managed eighth place in 1:01:03 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279776-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships\nA total of 151 men (including 23 teams) finished the distance, with five men failing to finish the distance and three entrants being non-starters. A total of 122 women (including 19 teams) entered and started the race, with 117 finishers. Seven men's and seven women's national records were broken at the competition. Abdelaziz Guerziz of Algeria finished in 61st place but he was disqualified for four years in February 2019 with his results from 6 February 2018 onwards being disqualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279776-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships\nSopot, Poland was defeated in the bidding process. Copenhagen, Denmark was also in the running to host.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279776-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships\nIn conjunction with the men's elite race, an open half marathon was held on the same course for 14,577 competitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279776-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Race results\nResults for the men's and women's elite races are shown below. Results for the open race are kept separately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279776-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 279 athletes from 79 countries and the Athlete Refugee Team, which is a record for this event. Although announced, the athletes from \u00a0Sierra Leone and \u00a0Somalia did not show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279777-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships\nThe 17th IAAF World Indoor Championships was held from 1 to 4 March 2018 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. This was the city's second hosting of the event as it previously did so in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279777-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Bidding process\nBirmingham bid for the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships as well as the 2018 event. Portland was selected unanimously to host the 2016 event with Birmingham being the only other bidder. With Portland then out of the running for the 2018 event Birmingham was selected as the host of the 2018 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279777-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Bidding process\nThe reason Portland was selected for 2016 and Birmingham for 2018 is that the IAAF wanted more time between events in the UK with London hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics as well as the 2017 World Championships in Athletics along with Cardiff hosting the 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. Portland would become the beginning of a similar sequence for the US, with the 2021 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon and the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279777-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Venue\nThe event took place at the National Indoor Arena with seating for 8,000 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279777-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Entry standards\nThe qualification period for all events runs from 1 January 2017 to 19 February 2018 (midnight Monaco time), except for the Combined Events where the qualification period runs from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017 and the five best athletes from the 2018 Indoor Lists (as at 12 February 2018). Twelve athletes will be invited in the Heptathlon and in the Pentathlon as follows: the winner of the 2017 Combined Events Challenge. One athlete which may be invited at the discretion of the IAAF. In total no more than two male and two female athletes from any one Member will be invited. Upon refusals or cancellations, the invitations shall be extended to the next ranked athletes in the same lists respecting the above conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279777-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Medal table\nIAAF does not include the three medals (2 gold, 1 silver) won by athletes competing as Authorised Neutral Athletes in their official medal table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279777-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Disqualifications\nThis championship was notable for the large number of disqualifications, primarily lane violations (IAAF rule 163.3(a)). One entire heat of the Men's 400 metres was disqualified, a World Championship first. Some athletes appeared to have difficulty with the steep banking of the track. Accusations were raised about the heavy handedness of the officiating and inconsistencies relative to similar acts committed by star British athletes at the 2017 Outdoor World Championships held in London just 5 and a half months earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279778-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nThe men's 1500 metres at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 3 and 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279778-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Summary\nIn the final, 2012 champion, Abdelaati Iguider jumped out to an early lead, with the American pair of Ben Blankenship and Craig Engels immediately behind him. The entire field jogged through the first 400 at warm up pace, 1:15.84. Blankenship found himself in the lead, looking around as if, \"where is everybody?\" At 600 metres, in 1:52.48, finally 18 year old Samuel Tefera came forward, the pace quickened slightly. He was joined by teammate Aman Wote and the pace began to get quicker, though still not 30 per lap pace. 800 metres in 2:23.68.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279778-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Summary\nIguider came back to Tefera's shoulder, both speeding up to run a 28.49 lap, 1000 metres in 2:52.16. Blankenship held on to their back, Wote boxing him in on the outside. A 27.38 lap for 1200 in 3:19.54. Jake Wightman ran out in lane 3 to run around the crowd into third place as Iguider squeezed into the lead on the inside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279778-0001-0002", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Summary\nWith 300 metres to go, Marcin Lewandowski, known more as an 800 metres runner, was at the back of the pack, but he too moved to the outside and started sprinting past the field, reaching Wightman at the bell. Wightman held Lewandowski to the outside of the penultimate turn but on the backstretch, he passed and set off after Tefera and Iguider. A 25.38 lap, 3:44.84 would have won the race most years, but they still had 100 metres to go. It came down to a final 50 metre sprint on the home stretch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279778-0001-0003", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Summary\nTefera passed Iguider and ran away to victory, with Lewandowski in full sprint behind him. A desperate Iguider began leaning five metres before the finish, but he couldn't hold off Lewandowski speeding past for silver. For Iguider, it was his second bronze medal in this event, to go along with the complete set of medals he had already collected between 2010 and 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279778-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Summary\nThe winning time of 3:58.19 would be a slow mile time in this era. Tefera had run significantly faster, setting the World Junior Record in the event at 3:36.05, just 36 days earlier. That was his first experience on an indoor track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279779-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Trackinfo (talk | contribs) at 19:44, 12 April 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279779-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres\nThe men's 3000 metres at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 2 and 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279779-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres, Summary\nWith more lane violations being called even as they would be less significant in a race of this distance, four were disqualified in the heats, most notably Olympic silver medalist Paul Chelimo, jostled into taking one step inside the rail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279779-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres, Summary\nThe final began at a jog, with first Yassin Bouih stepping out to the lead, then Clemens Bleistein to lead the race through at 1:14.58 first 400. The three Ethiopian runners all went to the back of the pack. Davis Kiplangat moved to the front but didn't really push the pace. After another lap, Adel Mechaal took the point, the next 400 accomplished even slower in at 1:15.12. Mechaal took the field through another slightly faster 400 in 1:12.12 as the Ethiopians at the back began to get impatient.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279779-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres, Summary\nHagos Gebrhiwet began to move forward in the pack, then Yomif Kejelcha joined him. Towards the end of the next 400, Selemon Barega made a big move to sweep toward the front. With the acceleration, the Kenyans and ex-pat Shadrack Kipchirchir moved forward, Kejelcha taking over the lead. Mechaal came back to re-join the mix, then Barega made a big move to reach Kejelcha's shoulder, an Ethiopian wall at the front. Gebrhiwet then came forward on the outside, closing the box on the pursuers Kipchirchir and exchanging elbows with Mechaal. Gebrhiwet continued to move forward to second position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279779-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres, Summary\nThe three Ethiopians continued to accelerate, their strategic box broken into a line at the front. Free to move, Bethwell Birgen ran past Barega at the bell while Kejelcha was breaking free off the front. Down the final backstretch Birgen passed the fading Gebrhiwet. As Kejelcha extended his lead on to victory, Barega passed Gebrhiwet on the final turn, then launched his final sprint past a struggling Birgen who barely held off a resurgent Gebrhiwet and Mechaal for bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279780-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 3 and 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279780-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Summary\nIn the heats, the Dominican Republic rested their star, disqualified silver medalist Luguel\u00edn Santos. They didn't qualify and Santos did not get to run the final. Similarly, USA was able to rest their stars, Michael Cherry and Aldrich Bailey while successfully qualifying for the final. In the final, USA was out fast with Fred Kerley having a marginal edge at the break, but extending it by running an efficient tangent from lane 6, netting himself a 3-metre lead over Poland's Karol Zalewski. Zalewski kept that gap for most of the second lap, losing a little ground in the handoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 74], "content_span": [75, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279780-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Summary\nKerley's split 44.84. The Borl\u00e9e brothers, represented by Dylan Borl\u00e9e, representing Belgium were an equal gap back. With an efficient handoff to Michael Cherry, USA gained another 3 metres. Through the second leg, Rafa\u0142 Omelko chipped away at Cherry's lead, by the time the handoff took place, the gap between USA and Poland was back to 3 metres. Behind them, Jereem Richards brought Trinidad and Tobago past Jonathan Borl\u00e9e and approached passing Omelko before fading back. Cherry's split was 45.39.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 74], "content_span": [75, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279780-0001-0002", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Summary\nThe third leg for USA was Aldrich Bailey, vs Poland's \u0141ukasz Krawczuk, Bailey lost another meter as Poland, Trinidad and Tobago and Belgium gained. Bailey's split 46.10. After taking the baton, USA's Vernon Norwood accelerated to open another metre. Behind him, Poland's Jakub Krzewina led the pursuers, with TTO's Lalonde Gordon and Belgium's Kevin Borl\u00e9e in close order. By the end of the first lap, Norwood had extended the lead to 5 metres, but down the final backstretch, the lead began to shrink. Coming off the final turn, Krzewina had a burst of speed, Norwood straightened up and tightened up, Krzewina went by. Five metres back Borl\u00e9e was attempting a similar move on Gordon, without as much authority. In a tight battle for bronze, Borl\u00e9e was able to outlearn Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 74], "content_span": [75, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279780-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Summary\nPoland's winning time was a new world indoor record, beating USA's team from four years earlier. The final split was timed at 45.44 from when Norwood crossed the line, but considering he made up at least three metres, Krzewina's time was considerably faster. Behind them, Belgium and Trinidad and Tobago set national records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 74], "content_span": [75, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279780-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Summary\nThe Poland 4x400 meter relay team not only made themselves astonished by this unbelievable record, but they astonished everyone in attendance and the world. This world record was the first world record ever set for the IAAF World Indoor Championships. The four men on the relay team, were originally going for the European world record, and not only did they beat that record, but they also beat the indoor world record for the men's 4x400 meter relay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 74], "content_span": [75, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279780-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Summary\nWhat makes this event even more astonishing, was the fact that the U.S.A. team had also beaten the previous world record for the men's indoor 4x400 meter relay, but were just shy of setting the record themselves after falling short to Poland's team. The previous record was previously held by the United States, and in an unbelievable fashion both teams managed to beat this record in a tight race, the previous time being 3:02.14 from 2014. This amazing accomplishment was not only the new IAAF World Indoor Championship record, but also the indoor world record, truly an astonishing accomplishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 74], "content_span": [75, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279781-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres\nThe men's 400 metres at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 2 and 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279781-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Summary\nFor the first time ever in a World Championship, every runner in a single preliminary heat was disqualified. It was the third heat, where first returning silver medalist Abdalelah Haroun false started himself out of the heat. #5 runner of all time Bralon Taplin won the heat, but he and the other three remaining runners Austris Karpinskis, Alonzo Russell and Steven Gayle were then disqualified for lane violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279781-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Summary\n2012 Champion Nery Brenes also found himself disqualified after winning the fifth heat. With two place qualifiers missing, it opened the door for Juander Santos and Mikhail Litvin to take the extra time qualification positions in the semi-final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279781-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Summary\nIn the final, \u00d3scar Husillos from lane 6 was first to the break line and took the lead with a lap to go, holding the lead to cross the finish line first in a time of 44.92. However, Husillos and Luguelin Santos were disqualified for lane violations, giving Pavel Masl\u00e1k his third consecutive championship, Michael Cherry the silver, and Deon Lendore the bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279782-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres\nThe men's 60 metres at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279782-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres, Summary\nFifteen years after his first silver medal, remarkable 43-year-old Kim Collins returned to yet another World Championship, qualifying for the semi-final round, but he did not start. The favorite in the event was Christian Coleman, just two weeks after his second world record in this event this season. While two American athletes qualifying for the final is not uncommon, two Chinese athletes qualifying for the final might be the sign of a new trend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279782-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres, Summary\nIn the final, Coleman was out fast, but next to him in the center of the track Su Bingtian was out with him. J\u00e1n Volko and Emre Zafer Barnes were also out fast, but faded quickly. Giving ground at the beginning, Ronnie Baker hit his top speed mid-race, about the same time as Coleman reached his. Coleman managed a little separation from Su, while Baker was making up lost ground. Su continued to press Coleman to the line, but Coleman finished strongly with a lean for a metre victory. Su barely held off the fast closing Baker to take the first global medal for a Chinese sprinter. Behind the medalists, Zhenye Xie gave China a 2-4 punch as he barely held off the last to fifth explosion by Hassan Taftian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279782-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres, Summary\nColeman's winning time of 6.37 would have been the world record prior to his other efforts this season. Su improved upon his own Asian record, his third consecutive national record at the World Indoor Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279783-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres hurdles\nThe men's 60 metres hurdles at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 3 and 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279783-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres hurdles, Summary\nAndrew Pozzi led both qualifying rounds to prove he was a leading contender. Four the third championship in a row, France put two athletes into the final, one of them was returning silver medalist Pascal Martinot-Lagarde in his fourth straight final. Outdoor world record holder Aries Merritt also made the final, though expectations for him are not as lofty since his kidney transplant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 71], "content_span": [72, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279783-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres hurdles, Summary\nAfter setting his national record as the #2 qualifier in the semi-finals, Milan Trajkovic false started himself out of the finals. Pozzi was the first over the first hurdle, but only inches ahead of Jarret Eaton. Between hurdles, Eaton exploded to almost a foot (30 cm) advantage over the next hurdle, about the same advantage Pozzi held over Martinot-Lagarde. Both Pozzi and Martinot-Lagarde rattled the second hurdle, though Martinot-Lagarde lost more ground being knocked off balance. Eaton extended his lead, doubling it over the third hurdle, which he rattled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 71], "content_span": [72, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279783-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres hurdles, Summary\nMartinot-Lagarde slammed the third hurdle and was out of contention, replaced by his teammate Aurel Manga and Merritt another two feet behind Pozzi. Going over the fourth hurdle, Merritt looked to have a slight advantage over Manga but by the final barrier Manga had the advantage. Eaton slammed the final hurdle, losing some of his momentum, Pozzi caught him before the finish. Manga clearly beat Merritt to the line for bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 71], "content_span": [72, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279784-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres\nThe men's 800 metres at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 2 and 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279784-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Summary\nHeats were held on the second day of competition to eliminate only four competitors, one of them turned out to be the world leader coming into these championships, American champion, Donavan Brazier. With lane violations being disqualified aggressively already at these championships, Brazier knew his fate and jogged the rest of his race. Led by \u00c1lvaro de Arriba, heat 1 turned out to be significantly faster than the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279784-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Summary\nThe final started with Mostafa Smaili taking the advantage at the break, edging out Sa\u00fal Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez. Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez took up a position on Smaili's shoulder, the rest of the field lined up behind them until two laps to go. Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez moved out to the lead, and 2014 silver medalist Adam Kszczot moved from the back to quickly to take up the second position with Drew Windle covering the move. For the next lap, Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez kept looking over his shoulder while keeping Kszczot at bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279784-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Summary\nAt the bell, Kszczot cruised into the lead, the rest of the field, led by Elliot Giles swarmed forward, leaving Windle out the back. Through the final lap, Kszczot just extended his lead to take a four-metre victory. Behind him, Windle squeezed past \u00c1lvaro de Arriba and Smaili on the inside, then slid to the outside on the home straightaway to pass Giles and with a lean at the line, Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez to take silver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279784-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Summary\nFollowing the race, Windle was disqualified for obstruction. The decision was later reversed on appeal, reinstating his silver medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Trackinfo (talk | contribs) at 05:21, 14 April 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon\nThe men's heptathlon at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 2 and 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon, Summary\nWith the retirement of defending champion Ashton Eaton, the multi event world opened up. 2016 Olympic silver medalist K\u00e9vin Mayer assumed the top spot winning the 2017 World Championships. His pursuers included Olympic bronze medalist Damian Warner and world championship bronze medalist Kai Kazmirek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon, Summary\nIn the 60 metres, Warner ran the top time of 6.74, his personal best, but Mayer was only .11 behind, also running his personal best, putting Warner 41 points ahead. In the long jump, Kazmirek boomed a 7.68\u00a0m (25\u00a0ft 2\u00a01\u20444\u00a0in) personal best to offset one of the poorer 60 metre times to move into a tight group fighting for third place. Oleksiy Kasyanov actually held an 8 point advantage in third, with Dominik Distelberger joining the other two within 13 points of each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon, Summary\nAt the top of the leader board, Mayer had another personal best of 7.55m in the long jump to pull within two points of Warner. In the shot put, Mayer overpowered Warner, his 15.67\u00a0m (51\u00a0ft 4\u00a03\u20444\u00a0in) more than 2 feet further than Warner, who threw his personal best 14.90m. Mayer had a 45 point lead. Kazmirek's personal best 14.55m shot put put him 16 points up for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon, Summary\nAs the last event of the first day, Mayer and Warner topped out at 2.02m, with Kazmirek gaining a little ground with a 2.05m. At that height, Maicel Uibo had barely warmed up. Uibo kept clearing heights all the way up to 2.17\u00a0m (7\u00a0ft 1\u00a01\u20444\u00a0in), which also moved him into a solid third place, exactly 100 points behind Mayer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon, Summary\nWarner began the second day with a 7.67 60 metres hurdles, .16 better than Mayer and enough to pull him back to 4 points behind. Both Kazmirek and Uibo ran personal bests, but Kazmirek was .24 better to give him a 45 point advantage. Kasyanov pushed over a hurdle to take himself out of the race. In the pole vault, Warner got over a personal best 4.90m to only lose 10 cm and another 30 points to Mayer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon, Summary\nAgain on the vertical jump, Uibo excelled clearing a personal best of 5.30\u00a0m (17\u00a0ft 4\u00a01\u20442\u00a0in), which was matched by Eelco Sintnicolaas who was still in sixth place, behind Zachery Ziemek. But Kazmirek had also jumped a personal best 5.20m, so Uibo was still 13 points behind. In order to win the championship, Warner needed to beat Mayer by about 3 seconds in the 1000 meters, and Uibo needed to beat Kazmirek by about 1.3 seconds. Both Warner 2:37.12 and Uibo 2:38.51 ran personal bests in first and second place. Mayer was able to stay about 2 and a half seconds behind Warner to take the championship by a scant 5 points. Uibo beat Kazmirek by over 3 and a half seconds to take the bronze. Warner was able to beat Mike Smith's 25 year old Canadian national record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon, Detailed results, 60 metres\nThe 60 metres was held on 2 March at 09:59.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 84], "content_span": [85, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon, Detailed results, Long jump\nThe long jump was held on 2 March at 10:40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 84], "content_span": [85, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon, Detailed results, Shot put\nThe shot put was held on 2 March at 11:59.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 83], "content_span": [84, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon, Detailed results, High jump\nThe high jump was held on 2 March at 19:44.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 84], "content_span": [85, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon, Detailed results, 60 metres hurdles\nThe 60 metres hurdles was held on 3 March at 09:59.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 92], "content_span": [93, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279785-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon, Detailed results, 1000 metres\nThe 1000 metres was held on 3 March at 19:50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 86], "content_span": [87, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279786-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's high jump\nThe men's high jump at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place at Arena Birmingham in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on 1 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279786-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's high jump\nThe reigning outdoor world champion, Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar, led the field of eleven entries that year with his jump of 2.38\u00a0m (7\u00a0ft 9\u00a01\u20442\u00a0in), set while winning the Asian indoor title. The previous world indoor champion, Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi, was not present to defend his title, though both minor medallists were present in Great Britain's Robert Grabarz and American Erik Kynard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279786-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's high jump\nWith the pits back to back in the center of the arena and no events on the track, the men shared center stage with the women's high jump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279786-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's high jump, Summary\nIn a straight final format, the overall performance of the field was low, with six of the eleven athletes failing to clear more than the opening height of 2.20\u00a0m (7\u00a0ft 2\u00a01\u20442\u00a0in) (Grabarz and former world champion Donald Thomas being the most prominent casualties). Poland's Sylwester Bednarek failed at the third height of 2.29\u00a0m (7\u00a0ft 6\u00a0in), leaving just Barshim, Kynard, Mateusz Przybylko and Danil Lysenko in contention. Lysenko and Barshim led with clean scorecards up to the height of 2.33\u00a0m (7\u00a0ft 7\u00a01\u20442\u00a0in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279786-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's high jump, Summary\nKynard and Przybylko both failed to achieve that height and the German athlete secured the bronze on countback \u2013 his first senior international medal. Lysenko and Barshim each failed their first two attempts at 2.36\u00a0m (7\u00a0ft 8\u00a03\u20444\u00a0in) and after a third failure by Barshim, Lysenko cleared the height on his final attempt to become world champion. It was the first world title for the Russian, competing as an Authorised Neutral Athlete here, and reversed the positions the two had shared at the 2017 World Championships final the previous summer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279787-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's long jump\nThe men's long jump at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 2 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279787-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's long jump, Summary\nWith only 15 entrants, the event went straight to the final. On the third jump of the competition, Radek Ju\u0161ka did a 7.99m. It turned out to be his best of the day. Only Juan Miguel Echevarr\u00eda was able to do better in the first round, his 8.19m put him into the lead. In the second round, Ruswahl Samaai and defending champion Marquis Dendy both jumped 8.02m, with Samaai holding the tiebreaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279787-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's long jump, Summary\nSamaai solidified his position on his third attempt with an 8.05m. His teammate, reigning outdoor champion Luvo Manyonga was in jeopardy of not getting any more jumps with two fouls. His 8.33m took him from last to first. The fourth round got more serious; Echevarr\u00eda jumped 8.36m to take back the lead. Next on the runway, Manyonga bettered that with an African indoor record 8.44m. In the fifth round, Shi Yuhao's 8.12m pushed Samaai off the podium. The next jumper Dendy pushed Shi off with an 8.42m, putting himself in silver medal position. Jarrion Lawson improved to 8.14m on the next jump and two jumpers later, Echevarr\u00eda hit the winner 8.46\u00a0m (27\u00a0ft 9\u00a0in). Nobody was able to improve their position in the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279787-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's long jump, Summary\nIn addition to being the 2018 world leader, Echevarr\u00eda's jump made him the number seven indoor performer of all time. Manyonga's jump has him tied for number nine on that list, with Mike Powell and Larry Myricks. Dendy's jump ranks tied for number fifteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279788-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault\nThe men's pole vault at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279788-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault, Summary\nOnly 15 competitors meant only a final was held. Several notable names were eliminated early on; 2015 World Champion Shawnacy Barber; 2016 Olympic champion Thiago Braz da Silva; world junior record holder Armand Duplantis; 2014 World Indoor Champion Konstantinos Filippidis; 2011 World Champion Pawe\u0142 Wojciechowski; and 2013 World Champion Raphael Holzdeppe. Young newcomers Kurtis Marschall and Emmanouil Karalis cleared personal bests of 5.80m to be among the last contenders. The medalists were decided by a first attempt clearance at 5.85m, by Piotr Lisek, Sam Kendricks and Renaud Lavillenie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279788-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault, Summary\nAt that point, Lavillenie was still clean placing him in first place, Kendricks had one miss for second and Lisek had two misses for third. Six other vaulters had attempts left, many strategically passing to 5.90m after the clearances, but none were able to clear another height. In fact, only Lavillenie was able to get over 5.90\u00a0m (19\u00a0ft 4\u00a01\u20444\u00a0in) on his second attempt, confirming his win. Kendricks took one attempt for the win at 5.95m but in the end the podium in 2018 was exactly the same as in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279789-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's shot put\nThe men's shot put at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279789-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's shot put, Summary\nThomas Walsh came in as the defending champion. Five throws into the competition, he threw 22.13\u00a0m (72\u00a0ft 7\u00a01\u20444\u00a0in) to improve upon his own Oceanian record set while winning the previous championships. Nobody would beat that mark in the competition, except Walsh himself, first equalling it in the third round then throwing 22.31\u00a0m (73\u00a0ft 2\u00a01\u20444\u00a0in) as the final attempt of the day. Indoor marks now being acceptable, that mark moved him to the number 15# performer in the shot put of all time, displacing Ryan Whiting who was in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279789-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's shot put, Summary\nThe race for the other medals was much more competitive. On their first attempts, Whiting threw 20.96m, Darrell Hill threw 21.06m, David Storl threw 21.14m and Darlan Romani threw 21.23m. Romani and Storl held those positions until the fourth round when, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Stan\u011bk threw 21.44m to move into silver position. Two throws later, Storl matched that mark exactly. With a superior 2nd (and 3rd) best throw, Storl held the tiebreaker. In the final round, Romani couldn't get back on the podium with his 21.37m, a new South American indoor record, then Storl improved on his tie breaking position again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279790-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump\nThe men's triple jump at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279790-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump, Summary\nThe fifteen athletes went directly to final. Veteran Nelson \u00c9vora was the only one to jump beyond 17 metres in the first round, his 17.14m taking the lead. Alexis Copello took the lead temporarily in the second round with a 17.17, surpassed near the end of the round by Almir dos Santos' 17.22m. Defending champion, Dong Bin's 16.84m in the round barely got him into the finals, but it was his best of the day. Returning silver medalist Max He\u00df didn't make the finals, hie only mark at 16.47m in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279790-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump, Summary\nAt the end of that round, \u00c9vora improved upon his own ten year old national record with a 17.40m to take back the lead. After the preliminary rounds, two time Olympic silver medalist Will Claye found himself in fifth place. On his fourth attempt, he rectified that by jumping the 17.43\u00a0m (57\u00a0ft 2\u00a0in) winner. In the fifth round, dos Santos got off a 17.41m to squeeze ahead of \u00c9vora to take second position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279791-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Trackinfo (talk | contribs) at 19:39, 12 April 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279791-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres\nThe women's 1500 metres at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 2 and 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279791-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres, Summary\nThe final saw the return of several lead combatants from the 3000 metres two days earlier. Their strategies changed here. At the gun, world record holder Genzebe Dibaba started more aggressively, showing her intent to mark the leader, who turned out to be Beatrice Chepkoech. Returning champion, Sifan Hassan went to her familiar position at the back of the pack. After a lap of easy jogging, Rababe Arafi moved out to a faster pace, immediately marked by Dibaba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 67], "content_span": [68, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279791-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres, Summary\nThe additional speed quickly brought Hassan into a marking position on Chepkoech behind Dibaba, then Laura Muir squeezed through the inside to run behind Dibaba. After another lap, Dibaba tired of the gamesmanship and took the lead. Hassan, Muir, Chepkoech, Arafi and Winny Chebet formed a chase pack that separated from the rest of the field. Over two faster laps, Chepkoech moved past Hassan to mark Dibaba as the three broke away from the other three, with Muir looking like she was struggling to hold on to the back of the second group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 67], "content_span": [68, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279791-0002-0002", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres, Summary\nBut with three laps to go, Muir sprinted around the group and quickly bridged the gap back to lead group. Chepkoech struggled and fell off the back leaving a three woman breakaway, with Dibaba leading Hassan then Muir with two laps to go. The medalists were decided as the two Kenyan women faded in the rearview mirror. The positions remained the same until the final backstretch when Muir sprinted past Hassan as Dibaba pulled away. Dibaba continued to pull away to the finish, Muir separating from Hassan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 67], "content_span": [68, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279792-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Trackinfo (talk | contribs) at 19:40, 12 April 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279792-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres\nThe women's 3000 metres at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 1 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279792-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres, Summary\nIn the first running event at these championships, world record holder Genzebe Dibaba was back to defend her title, while none of the women she vanquished returned, though Laura Muir, Sifan Hassan and Meraf Bahta had beaten Dibaba in her outdoor 1500 meltdown from the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 67], "content_span": [68, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279792-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres, Summary\nThe race took off at a leisurely pace, with Muir taking the pack through a 1:15.31 first lap, marked by 5000 world champion Hellen Obiri. Hassan and Dibaba chose to lead from behind, taking the back of the pack. The next 400 was even slower, 1:20.45. With that, Konstanze Klosterhalfen tired of the slow pace and took the lead. With the injection of pace, Dibaba decided to move forward on the next straightaway to mid pack, then with a big acceleration on the next straightaway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 67], "content_span": [68, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279792-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres, Summary\nAs Dibaba passed, her teammate Fantu Worku popped out of the pack to tag along, both reaching a gap at the front behind Klosterhalfen. The third lap split was 1:12.23, but with the exchange in the lead it was considerably faster for Dibaba in particular. Obiri and Bahta wanted to tag along with Dibaba, pushing forward to her shoulder, while at the back Hassan moved up a few places as the field strung out. The next 400 was accomplished in 1:09.67. Just before 2000 meters, passed in 6:07.62 (a 1:08.96 split) Dibaba accelerated into the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 67], "content_span": [68, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279792-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres, Summary\nThat triggered Hassan to move forward. Klosterhalfen, Muir, Bahta and Worku attempted to hold on, but the only one to stay with Dibaba was Obiri at first. As Hassan accelerated past, Klosterhalfen and Muir followed her to bridge the gap. Dibaba ran the next 400 in 1:07.56. The pace was too much for Obiri as she broke, going backward through the field as Hassan and Muir chased a new gap by Dibaba. The gap widened as Dibaba laid down a 1:02.43 split. Through the final lap, Hassan gained slightly on Dibaba, but could't make enough progress. Dibaba coasted across the finish line with the win. Behind her Hassan let off the gas, while Muir launched a final kick, almost catching Hassan at the line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 67], "content_span": [68, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279793-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 3 and 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279793-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Summary\nUSA, in lane 5 was led off by Quanera Hayes, opening up a slight lead from the gun, but going in to the second turn, Ukraine's Tetyana Melnyk accelerated and hit the break line ahead. Hayes was unable to get ahead of Melnyk, held to the outside of their penultimate turn. Down the backstretch, Hayes was able to ease into the lead, with Jamaica's Tovea Jenkins on her heels. Through the final turn Hayes and Jenkins put a gap on the next pursuer as Melnyk tied up and Poland's Justyna \u015awi\u0119ty-Ersetic had to make her way around the obstacle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279793-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Summary\nHayes's split 51.56. With Jamaica now in second place, Janieve Russell squeezed inside of Ukraine's #2 runner Kateryna Klymiuk to take the handoff just behind USA's Georganne Moline, who, with help from the momentary chaos, opened up an additional 2 metres on Russell. Poland's Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz latched on to Russell as Moline expanded the gap to 5 metres after the first lap. There was more than 15 metres further gap back to the British team represented by Hannah Williams. On her second lap, Moline struggled, at one point losing her balance on the steeply banked turn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279793-0001-0002", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Summary\nRussell pulled in the gap, the two teams passing virtually at the same time, with Wyciszkiewicz just a metre back, the split 50.87. USA's Shakima Wimbley got to the turn first and held a 1 metre lead over Jamaica's Anastasia Le-Roy. Two metres back Aleksandra Gaworska kept Poland in the mix. Through her first lap, Wimbley opened up an additional metre on Le-Roy as the two separated from Gaworska. Wimbley's split 51.27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279793-0001-0003", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Summary\nOn the anchor, USA had the world champion Courtney Okolo, while Jamaica had their star Stephenie Ann McPherson untested from these championships, a victim of the lane violation disqualification epidemic. McPherson stayed locked to Okolo, more than a metre behind, with Poland's Ma\u0142gorzata Ho\u0142ub-Kowalik another 7 metres back. Down the first backstretch, Okolo stretched the lead, but in the second turn McPherson reeled her back in. The second time down the backstretch Okolo extended the lead again and coming off the final turn McPherson took another run at her, closing the gap slightly but unable to make enough progress. USA crossed the line first, Jamaica second, Poland third and distantly, GBR, Ukraine and Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279793-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Summary\nAfter the race, there was a flurry of disqualifications and appeals. After the dust settled, Jamaica was disqualified for Russell's maneuver at the handoff, advancing Poland to silver and the home team to bronze. Initially, Great Britain were disqualified for obstruction after a protest from the Ukrainian team. As a result, the originally fifth-placed Ukraine team was briefly boosted to bronze, but then an appeal by the British team against the disqualification was successful and the result reinstated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279794-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Trackinfo (talk | contribs) at 19:38, 12 April 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279794-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres\nThe women's 400 metres at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 2 and 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279794-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Summary\nThe two Americans with the fastest times in the semi-final round, Shakima Wimbley and Courtney Okolo were given the outer two lanes in the final, 5 and 6 respectively. Wimbley started quickly, making up a little ground on Okolo's stagger, while Okolo took a more measured approach to her speed, putting on a burst just before the cones, then taking the tangent to lane 1 to take the lead unobstructed. Wimbley closed in much sooner, forcing Eilidh Doyle to squeeze inside to take second position with a lap to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279794-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Summary\nOkolo just continued to extend her lead, seven metres by the finish for a clear win. Wimbley ran on Doyle's outside through most of the last lap, finally conceding to run the last part of the last turn behind Doyle. On the final straightaway, Wimbley took one more run at Doyle, passing her for the silver. Justyna \u015awi\u0119ty-Ersetic also closed quickly but could not catch Doyle for bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279795-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres\nThe women's 60 metres at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 2 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279795-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres, Summary\nCarolle Zahi led the opening heats with her personal best of 7.11. Murielle Ahour\u00e9 showed her cards in the semi-final round, her 7.01 .06 faster than the top sprinter in the world the last couple of seasons, Elaine Thompson. 7.01 would have been fast enough to win the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279795-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres, Summary\nIn the final, Ahour\u00e9 blasted out of the blocks. With short quick, strides she had opened up a metre lead over Zahi, 20 metres into the race. The rest of the contenders formed a line across the track, only Remona Burchell was beaten at this point. The first to run down Zahi was returning silver medalist Dafne Schippers as Zahi faded. Schippers also faded, the battle in the center of the track was between Mujinga Kambundji and Marie-Jos\u00e9e Ta Lou, with Thompson inches behind. With her pursuers in full flight, Ahour\u00e9's lead shrunk slightly, but was insurmountable. Ta Lou and Kambundji crossed the line together, Ta Lou getting the silver by .005 over Kambundji.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279795-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres, Summary\nIt was the first gold medal for the Ivory Coast, made more remarkable by the fact that it was a one-two sweep for the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279796-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles\nThe women's 60 metres hurdles at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 2 and 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279796-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles, Summary\nKendra Harrison came into these championships as the favorite based on her outdoor world record, but so far world championship medals have evaded her. She dominated her way through the rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 73], "content_span": [74, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279796-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles, Summary\nIn the final, Christina Manning got the best start along with Devynne Charlton, but Harrison quickly made up ground. By the second hurdle, she had a foot (30 cm) lead, over the two, with Charlton fading from contention after that, while Sharika Nelvis and Isabelle Pedersen were the next back by the third hurdle. Nadine Visser pulled even with Pedersen still 2 feet behind Nelvis. Out front, Harrison had a metre lead over Manning. On the run in, Harrison and Manning retained their positions, while Visser closed quickly to take bronze from Nelvis. Seventh over the last barrier, Cindy Roleder also closed quickly to almost catch Nelvis for fourth. Harrison's winning time of 7.70 was a new Championship record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 73], "content_span": [74, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279797-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres\nThe women's 800 metres at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 3 and 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279797-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Summary\nIn the heats, Olympic and returning bronze medalist Margaret Wambui was the victim of another disqualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279797-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Summary\nIn the final, Aje\u00e9 Wilson sprinted the first turn to take the lead at the break. But then she relaxed into a more reasonable pace. Habitam Alemu took up the second position for a lap before, defending champion Francine Niyonsaba came forward at a faster pace. Wilson again sprinted to maintain position. After a 59.02 first 400m, Alemu accelerate on the backstretch, to try to pass Niyonsaba, who sprinted a few steps to rebuff that effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279797-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Summary\nAt the bell, Niyonsaba attacked again, but Wilson sprinted the penultimate turn to keep Niyonsaba on the outside, the two pulling away from the rest of the field. Well behind the battle for the lead, Shelayna Oskan-Clarke had been running in fifth place, began to move forward. On the final backstretch, Niyonsaba ran past Wilson, and pulled away on the homestretch, celebrating a 5-metre win to retain her championship. Wilson repeated her silver medal from 2016. Oskan-Clarke took Alemu coming off the final turn to take bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279798-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's high jump\nThe women's high jump at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place at Arena Birmingham in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on 1 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279798-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's high jump\nWith the pits back to back in the center of the arena and no events on the track, the Women shared center stage with the Men's high jump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279798-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's high jump, Summary\nRussian Mariya Lasitskene, competing as an Authorised Neutral Athlete, led the field of thirteen women that year through her clearance of 2.04\u00a0m (6\u00a0ft 8\u00a01\u20444\u00a0in) at the Stalingrad Cup. She was the strong favourite, having gone unbeaten since 2016 and as the two-time reigning World Champion outdoors. American Vashti Cunningham returned to defend her title and 2017 World runner-up, Yuliya Levchenko of Ukraine, also entered the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279798-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's high jump, Summary\nThe overall performance of the field was poor. Seven athletes were eliminated after clearing the opening height of 1.84\u00a0m (6\u00a0ft 1\u20444\u00a0in) only. Levchenko and Mirela Demireva of Bulgaria were eliminated next, with three failures at 1.93\u00a0m (6\u00a0ft 3\u00a03\u20444\u00a0in). Of the remaining four athletes only Lasitskene had achieved a clean scorecard after three heights. She then cleared the following height of 1.96\u00a0m (6\u00a0ft 5\u00a0in), which none of the other athletes managed to achieve, becoming world indoor champion for a second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279798-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's high jump, Summary\nThe 20-year-old Cunningham took the silver medal by virtue of having only one failure before that height. Alessia Trost of Italy edged out Great Britain's Morgan Lake on countback to win the bronze medal \u2013 her first at senior world level. Lasitskene ended the competition on her own, clearing 2.01\u00a0m (6\u00a0ft 7\u00a0in) before three failed attempts at a personal best and the championship record of Stefka Kostadinova (unbeaten since 1987).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279799-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's long jump\nThe women's long jump at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place at Arena Birmingham in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279799-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's long jump, Summary\nBrittney Reese entered the competition as defending champion and reigning world champion outdoors. She had won the 2018 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships with a jump of 6.88\u00a0m (22\u00a0ft 6\u00a03\u20444\u00a0in), ranking third among jumpers before the event. Leading the world on distance was Serbia's Ivana \u0160panovi\u0107, with the European champion and 2016 World Indoor runner-up having cleared 6.93\u00a0m (22\u00a0ft 8\u00a03\u20444\u00a0in). With just one centimetre less was emerging athlete Khaddi Sagnia, who had equalled the Swedish record in February. As winner of the IAAF World Indoor Tour, Germany's Sosthene Moguenara-Taroum received a wildcard entry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279799-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's long jump, Summary\nUntil the final jumper of the first round, Quanesha Burks's personal best 6.81m held the lead until \u0160panovi\u0107 took the lead with a 6.89m. In the second round, Sosthene Moguenara moved into second place with a 6.85m which would be her best of the day. In the fourth round, the top two places were decided. First Reese moved into the lead by equalling \u0160panovi\u0107's 6.89m, also holding the better second best jump tiebreaker. Three jumpers later, \u0160panovi\u0107 settled the matter with a 6.96\u00a0m (22\u00a0ft 10\u00a0in). The same top two medalist as in 2016, but in reverse order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279800-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's pentathlon\nThe women's pentathlon at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 2 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279800-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's pentathlon, Summary\nNo podium athletes returned from the previous championships, nor the 2017 World Championships or Olympics. The top returnee was sixth place Kendell Williams, while Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Yorgelis Rodr\u00edguez just missed the medals at the World Championships less than six months earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279800-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's pentathlon, Summary\nWilliams and her American teammate Erica Bougard dominated the first event, running the 60 meters hurdles in 8.08 and 8.07, respectively. Johnson-Thompson and Rodr\u00edguez came forward in the high jump clearing 1.91\u00a0m (6\u00a0ft 3\u00a0in) and 1.88m respectively. Johnson-Thompson took a 13 point lead over Bougard. Antoinette Nana Djimou had the best shot put by more than a metre over any of the leaders, 3 metres over Bougard, Williams and almost as much for Johnson-Thompson. Rodr\u00edguez took over the lead by 13 points over Johnson-Thompson, while Ivona Dadic moved into third just a point behind Johnson-Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279800-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's pentathlon, Summary\nBack to another Johnson-Thompson specialty event, she long jumped 6.50\u00a0m (21\u00a0ft 3\u00a03\u20444\u00a0in) to put 10 cm on Dadic and 35 cm on Rodr\u00edguez. A 2 cm superior jump by Eli\u0161ka Klu\u010dinov\u00e1 was enough to displace Bougard from fourth place, both more than 100 points out of second place, still almost 40 points behind Rodr\u00edguez in third. In the final event, the 800 meters, Johnson-Thompson left no doubt, winning the race outright. More than a second behind her, Rodr\u00edguez did beat Dadic, but only by .12, not nearly enough to make up the 65 point deficit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279801-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's pole vault\nThe women's pole vault at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279801-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's pole vault, Summary\nWith only 12 entrants, no preliminary round was held. Six women cleared 4.70 m, with Anzhelika Sidorova remaining perfect, and Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi using it as her opening height. Sidorova passed at 4.75 m, while Eliza McCartney then Sandi Morris cleared on their first attempts, Morris taking the lead on fewer misses. Stefanidi cleared on her second attempt to take over third place, so Katie Nageotte passed, while Alysha Newman took her three misses and exited. Sidorova retook the lead, clearing 4.80 m, while Morris and Stefanidi cleared it on their last attempts. McCartney and Nageotte exited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279801-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's pole vault, Summary\nMorris and Stefanidi missed their first attempts then passed after Sidorova remained perfect over 4.85 m. With only two attempts left, Morris cleared on her last attempt at 4.90 m to stay in the competition. Stefanidi missed and settled for the bronze. Sidorova cleared on her third attempt but relinquished the lead. At a championship record 4.95\u00a0m (16\u00a0ft 2+3\u20444\u00a0in), neither could get over on their first two attempts, but then Morris cleared on her final attempt, which turned into gold when Sidorova missed her third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279801-0001-0002", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's pole vault, Summary\nStill in the competition, Morris had the bar raised to a world record 5.04\u00a0m (16\u00a0ft 6+1\u20444\u00a0in). Surrounded by the drama of the men's 60 metres, Morris made two credible attempts at the record, the last more than 3 hours and 15 minutes after warming up at the beginning of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279802-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's shot put\nThe women's shot put at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 2 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279802-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's shot put, Summary\nNo qualifying round was needed, so all entrants were finalists. In the first round Danniel Thomas-Dodd took the lead with an 18.92m. Paulina Guba and Gao Yang held the next two positions. Thomas-Dodd improved slightly in the second round but was displaced by the next thrower, Gong Lijiao with an 18.98m. Gao also improved with her best of the day 18.77m. In a vulnerable fifth position after two rounds, Anita M\u00e1rton saw no challenge to remaining in the competition, then let loose a 19.48m to leapfrog into the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279802-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's shot put, Summary\nThomas-Dodd wasn't able to answer that, but as the next to step into the ring, she did throw her best of the day 19.22m, good enough to improve her own Jamaican national record and her hold on silver. In the final round, Gong threw a 19.08m to solidify her bronze medal position, almost matched by Thomas-Dodd's final effort of 19.07m, but with gold in hand and the pressure off again, M\u00e1rton threw a new Hungarian national record 19.62\u00a0m (64\u00a0ft 4\u00a01\u20444\u00a0in) to cap off her day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279802-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's shot put, Summary\nM\u00e1rton's gold medal was the first for Hungary in the World Championships. Thomas-Dodd's was the first medal for a Jamaican woman in the shot put.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279803-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's triple jump\nThe women's triple jump at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279803-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's triple jump, Summary\nWith 17 finalists, a qualifying round was barely avoided. In the competition, defending champion Yulimar Rojas took the lead as the first jumper down the runway with a 14.24m. Near the end of the round, Keturah Orji jumped 14.13m to take over second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 67], "content_span": [68, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279803-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's triple jump, Summary\nThen two jumps later, Kimberly Williams took over the lead with a 14.37m. Williams improved upon that in her next two attempts taking the lead out to 14.48m. Rojas also improved to 14.36m. In the third round, Andreea Panturoiu moved past Orji with a 14.16m. At the end of the round Ana Peleteiro moved past Panturoiu with a 14.18m. In the fourth round, Panturoiu jumped her best of the day, 14.33m to move back into silver position only until Peleteiro jumped 14.40m on the next jump. On the next jump, Rojas displaced Panturoiu with a 14.36m. On her fifth attempt, Rojas finally settled the competition with the winner 14.63\u00a0m (47\u00a0ft 11\u00a03\u20444\u00a0in) to repeat as champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 67], "content_span": [68, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279804-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour\nThe 2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour was the third edition of the IAAF World Indoor Tour, the highest series of international track and field indoor meetings. It was designed to create an IAAF Diamond League-style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise the profile of indoor track and field athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279804-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour\nThe Tour had six events for 2018, five in Europe and one in the United States, leading to the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Winners of the Tour enjoyed similar privileges in relation to World Indoor Championships qualification as Diamond League winners do in relation to World Championships in Athletics. This was the first edition of the tour that featured the Madrid Indoor Meeting. The five 2017 meetings returned, although the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix once more, as in 2016, moved to Glasgow as part of a long term deal, accommodating the hosting of the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279804-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour, Scoring system\nAt each meeting a minimum of 12 events were staged. Included in the 12 events will be a core group of five or six events split across the two-season cycle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279804-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour, Scoring system\nTour events for 2016 were the men\u2019s 60m, 800m, 3000/5000m, pole vault, triple jump and shot put, plus the women\u2019s 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump and long jump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279804-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour, Scoring system\nPoints were allocated to the best four athletes in each event, with the winner getting 10 points, the runner up receiving seven points, the third-placed finisher getting five points and the athlete in fourth receiving three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279804-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour, Scoring system\nThe individual overall winner of each event received US $20,000 in prize money and automatically qualified for the 2018 edition of the IAAF World Indoor Championships as a \u2018wild card\u2019 entry, provided the member federation of that World Indoor Tour winner agreed to enter the athlete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279805-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships\nThe 2018 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships was the 28th edition of the global team racewalking competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279805-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships, Overview\nThe programme remained unchanged, with senior men's races over 20 km and 50 km, a 20\u00a0km senior women's race, and junior category events for both sexes over 10\u00a0km. However, following the approval by the IAAF of the women's 50\u00a0km walk as an official event, for the first time women were permitted to enter the 50\u00a0km. A separate women's 50\u00a0km was not scheduled, but women were allowed to enter the men's event and were treated as equal competitors for team scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279805-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships, Medal table, Overall\nOverall of the 12 events senior and junior (men and women).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279806-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships\nThe 2018 World U20 Championships in Athletics, also known as the World Junior Championships, was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born no earlier than 1 January 1999) which was held at Tampere Stadium in Tampere, Finland on 10\u201315 July 2018. The championships were originally awarded to Tampere by the IAAF in March, 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279806-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships, Participation\nThe following is a list of participating nations with the number of qualified athletes in brackets. A country without any qualified athlete could enter either one male or one female. A total 156 countries (plus the teams from Authorized Neutral Athletes and Athlete Refugee team) and 1462 athletes are scheduled to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279807-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 10,000 metres\nThe men's 10,000 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 10 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279808-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 10,000 metres walk\nThe men's 10,000 metres walk at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 14 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279809-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres\nThe men's 100 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 10 and 11 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279809-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the 6 fastest times (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279809-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres, Results, Heats\nWind:Heat 1: +1.1 m/s, Heat 2: +0.6 m/s, Heat 3: +0.5 m/s, Heat 4: -0.3 m/s, Heat 5: -1.0 m/s, Heat 6: +0.2 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279809-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals\nQualification: First 2 of each semifinal (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279809-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals\nWind:Semifinal 1: +1.0 m/s, Semifinal 2: +1.4 m/s, Semifinal 3: +0.1 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279810-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles\nThe men's 110 metres hurdles at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 11 and 12 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279810-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the 3 fastest times (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 76], "content_span": [77, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279810-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\nWind:Heat 1: +1.0 m/s, Heat 2: +0.9 m/s, Heat 3: +0.7 m/s, Heat 4: +0.3 m/s, Heat 5: +0.3 m/s, Heat 6: +0.9 m/s, Heat 7: +1.1 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 76], "content_span": [77, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279810-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nQualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 81], "content_span": [82, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279810-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nWind:Heat 1: -0.5 m/s, Heat 2: +0.2 m/s, Heat 3: +1.4 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 81], "content_span": [82, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279811-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nThe men's 1500 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 10 and 12 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279811-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the 3 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279812-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres\nThe men's 200 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 12 and 13 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279812-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the 4 fastest times (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279812-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres, Results, Heats\nWind:Heat 1: -0.9 m/s, Heat 2: +0.4 m/s, Heat 3: -0.2 m/s, Heat 4: -0.1 m/s, Heat 5: +0.2 m/s, Heat 6: +0.2 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279812-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres, Results, Semifinal\nQualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279812-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres, Results, Semifinal\nWind:Heat 1: -0.6 m/s, Heat 2: +0.4 m/s, Heat 3: -0.3 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279813-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres steeplechase\nThe men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 12 and 15 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279813-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 5 of each heat (Q) and the 5 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279814-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 13 and 14 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279814-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 2 of each heat ( Q ) plus the 2 fastest times ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 78], "content_span": [79, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279815-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships will be held at Ratina Stadium on 14 and 15 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279815-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 2 of each heat ( Q ) plus the 2 fastest times ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 78], "content_span": [79, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279816-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres\nThe men's 400 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 11, 12 and 13 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279816-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the 3 fastest times (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279816-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals\nQualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279817-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres hurdles\nThe men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 12, 13 and 14 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279817-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the 6 fastest times (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 76], "content_span": [77, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279817-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nQualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 81], "content_span": [82, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279818-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 metres\nThe men's 5000 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 14 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279819-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres\nThe men's 800 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 13, 14 and 15 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279819-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the 4 fastest times (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279819-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Results, Semifinals\nQualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279820-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's decathlon\nThe men's decathlon at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 10 and 11 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279821-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's discus throw\nThe men's discus throw at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 14 and 15 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279821-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's discus throw, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 14 July in two groups, with Group\u00a0A starting at 09:25 and Group\u00a0B starting at 10:48. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 60.00\u00a0metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279822-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's hammer throw\nThe men's hammer throw at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 11 and 13 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279822-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's hammer throw, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 11 July in two groups, with Group\u00a0A starting at 12.20 and Group\u00a0B starting at 13:40. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 74.00\u00a0metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279823-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's high jump\nThe men's high jump at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 12 and 14 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279823-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's high jump, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 12 July, in two groups, both starting at 19:44. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 2.17\u00a0metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 75], "content_span": [76, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279824-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's javelin throw\nThe men's javelin throw at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 13 and 14 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279824-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's javelin throw, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 13\u00a0July, in two groups, with Group\u00a0A starting at 09:30 and Group\u00a0B starting at 10:45. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 72.00\u00a0metres( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 79], "content_span": [80, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279825-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's long jump\nThe men's long jump at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium in Tampere, Finland on 10 and 11 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279825-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's long jump, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 10 July, in two groups, both starting at 11:20. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 7.70\u00a0metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 75], "content_span": [76, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279826-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault\nThe men's pole vault at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 11 and 14 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279826-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 11 July, in two groups, both starting at 17:00. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 5.35\u00a0metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 76], "content_span": [77, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279827-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's shot put\nThe men's shot put at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 10 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279827-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's shot put, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place in two groups, with Group\u00a0A starting at 09:10 and Group\u00a0B starting at 10:24. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 19.60\u00a0metres( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 74], "content_span": [75, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279828-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump\nThe men's triple jump at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 13 and 14 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279828-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 13\u00a0July, in two groups, with both groups starting at 18:00. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 15.80\u00a0metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279829-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 10,000 metres walk\nThe women's 10,000 metres walk at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 14 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279830-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres\nThe women's 100 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 11 and 12 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279830-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the 4 fastest times (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279830-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres, Results, Heats\nWind:Heat 1: +0.8 m/s, Heat 2: +0.4 m/s, Heat 3: +1.9 m/s, Heat 4: +1.8 m/s, Heat 5: +0.2 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279830-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals\nQualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279830-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals\nWind:Heat 1: +0.4 m/s, Heat 2: -0.2 m/s, Heat 3: +0.3 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279831-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles\nThe women's 100 metres hurdles at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships will be held at Ratina Stadium on 13, 14 and 15 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279831-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the 6 fastest times (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 78], "content_span": [79, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279831-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\nWind:Heat 1: -1.3 m/s, Heat 2: -1.1 m/s, Heat 3: -0.9 m/s, Heat 4: -0.7 m/s, Heat 5: -0.3 m/s, Heat 6: -1.1 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 78], "content_span": [79, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279831-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nQualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 83], "content_span": [84, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279831-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nWind:Heat 1: -1.1 m/s, Heat 2: +0.9 m/s, Heat 3: +0.5 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 83], "content_span": [84, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279832-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres\nThe women's 1500 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 12 and 15 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279832-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the 4 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 71], "content_span": [72, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279833-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres\nThe women's 200 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 13 and 14 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279833-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the 4 fastest times (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279833-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres, Results, Heats\nWind:Heat 1: -0.1 m/s, Heat 2: +1.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.9 m/s, Heat 4: +0.2 m/s, Heat 5: +0.7 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279833-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals\nQualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279833-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals\nWind:Heat 1: -0.5 m/s, Heat 2: -0.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.2 m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279834-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres\nThe women's 3000 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 11 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279835-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres steeplechase\nThe women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 10 and 13 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279835-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 3 of each heat ( Q ) and the 6 fastest times ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 84], "content_span": [85, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279836-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay\nThe women's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 13 and 14 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279836-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 3 of each heat ( Q ) plus the 2 fastest times ( q ) qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279837-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships will be held at Ratina Stadium on 14 and 15 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279837-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 2 of each heat ( Q ) plus the 2 fastest times ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279838-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres\nThe women's 400 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 10, 11 and 12 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279838-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the 4 fastest times (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279838-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals\nQualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279839-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres hurdles\nThe women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 11, 12 and 13 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279839-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the 6 fastest times (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 78], "content_span": [79, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279839-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nQualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 83], "content_span": [84, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279840-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 5000 metres\nThe women's 5000 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 10 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279841-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres\nThe women's 800 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 10, 11 and 12 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279841-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats\nQualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the 4 fastest times (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279841-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Results, Semifinals\nQualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279842-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's discus throw\nThe women's discus throw at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 10 and 12 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279842-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's discus throw, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 10 July in two groups, with Group\u00a0A starting at 16:45 and Group\u00a0B starting at 18:09. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 53.00\u00a0metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 80], "content_span": [81, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279843-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's hammer throw\nThe women's hammer throw at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 12 and 14 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279843-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's hammer throw, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 12 July in two groups, with Group\u00a0A starting at 09:40 and Group\u00a0B starting at 10:55. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 62.00\u00a0metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 80], "content_span": [81, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279844-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's heptathlon\nThe women's heptathlon at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 12 and 13 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279845-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's high jump\nThe women's high jump at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 13 and 15 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279845-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's high jump, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 13 July, in two groups, both starting at 11:40. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 1.84\u00a0metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279846-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's javelin throw\nThe women's javelin throw (weigh 600 grams as senior level) at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 10 and 11 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279846-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's javelin throw, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 10\u00a0July, in two groups, with Group\u00a0A starting at 09:00 and Group\u00a0B starting at 10:20. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 53.50\u00a0metres( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 81], "content_span": [82, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279847-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's long jump\nThe women's long jump at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 12 and 13 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279847-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's long jump, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 12 July, in two groups, both starting at 10:18. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 6.25\u00a0metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279848-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's pole vault\nThe women's pole vault at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 10 and 12 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279848-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's pole vault, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 10 July, in two groups, both starting at 16:23. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 4.25\u00a0metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279849-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's shot put\nThe women's shot put at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 11 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279849-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's shot put, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place in two groups, with Group\u00a0A starting at 10:15 and Group\u00a0B starting at 11:30. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 15.50\u00a0metres( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 76], "content_span": [77, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279850-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's triple jump\nThe women's triple jump at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 14 and 15 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279850-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IAAF World U20 Championships \u2013 Women's triple jump, Results, Qualification\nThe qualification round took place on 14 July, in two groups, with both groups starting at 10:00. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 13.20\u00a0metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 79], "content_span": [80, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279851-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IBL Indonesia\nThe 2017\u201318 Indonesian Basketball League is the third season of the Starting5 as a promoter of the league. The second foreign player draft was held on October 2, 2017. The regular season will begin on December 8, 2017 and end on February 25, 2018. The All-Star break will be on January 7, 2018 and will be held in Jakarta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279851-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IBL Indonesia, Draft lottery\nThe 2017 IBL draft lottery was held on October 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279851-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IBL Indonesia, Series Hosts, New Schedule\nDue to delay in Jakarta series venue renovation, a new schedule has been released for the upcoming season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279851-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IBL Indonesia, Series Hosts, New Schedule\nSeries 2: Bandung// 15-17 December, 2017 - GOR C-Tra Arena", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279851-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IBL Indonesia, Series Hosts, New Schedule\nSeries 6: Yogyakarta// 26-28 January, 2018 - GOR UNY( Yogyakarta State University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279851-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IBL Indonesia, Series Hosts, New Schedule\nSeries 7: Cirebon// 2-4 February, 2018 - GMC Basketball Arena", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279851-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IBL Indonesia, Individual awards\nMVP Player\u00a0: Xaverius Prawiro (Pelita Jaya Energi Mega Persada)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279851-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IBL Indonesia, Individual awards\nMost Foreign Player of the Year\u00a0: David Seagers (Pacific Caesar Surabaya)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279851-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IBL Indonesia, Individual awards\nMost Inspiration Young Player of the Year\u00a0: Henry Lakay (Satya Wacana Salatiga)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279851-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IBL Indonesia, Individual awards\nRookie of the Year\u00a0: Abraham Wenas (Hangtuah Sumatera Selatan)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279851-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IBL Indonesia, Individual awards\nCoach of the Year\u00a0: Kencana Wukir (Pacific Caesar Surabaya)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279851-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 IBL Indonesia, Individual awards\nDefensive Player of the Year\u00a0: C. J. Giles (Pelita Jaya Energi Mega Persada)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279851-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 IBL Indonesia, Individual awards\nMost Improve Player of the Year\u00a0: Nuke Tri Saputra (Pacific Caesar Surabaya)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279852-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IBSA World Blind Football Championship\nThe 2018 IBSA World Blind Football Championship is a blind football tournament and the seventh World Blind Football Championship. The competition was staged in Spain between 7 June and 17 June 2018, and involved sixteen teams of visually impaired players from around the world competing to be crowned world champion. It was won for the fifth time by Brazil, who defeated their fellow finalists, Argentina, 2-0 to take the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279852-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IBSA World Blind Football Championship, The tournament\nThe tournament got under way on 7 June with the opening match between Spain and Thailand. Brazil won the tournament after beating Argentina 2-0 in the final on 17 June. It was the fifth occasion on which Brazil have won the competition, and their team's striker, Ricardo Alves, was named Player of the tournament. China was awarded the fair play award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279853-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IBSF Junior & U23 World Championships\nThe 2018 IBSF Junior & U23 World Championships took place at the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in St.Moritz, Switzerland, from 25 to 28 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279854-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IBU Junior Open European Championships\nThe 3rd IBU Junior Open European Championships was held from 31 January to 4 February 2018 in Pokljuka, Slovenia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279854-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IBU Junior Open European Championships\nThere are a total of 8 competitions: Single Mixed Relay, Relay Mixed, Sprint Women, Sprint Men, Pursuit Women, Pursuit Men, Individual Women and Individual Men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279855-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IBU Open European Championships\nThe 25th IBU Open European Championships were held in Ridnaun-Val Ridanna, Italy from January 23 to January 28, 2018. It was also a stage of the 2017\u201318 Biathlon IBU Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279855-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IBU Open European Championships\nThere were a total of eight competitions held: Single Mixed Relay, Relay Mixed, Sprint Women, Sprint Men, Pursuit Women, Pursuit Men, Individual Women and Individual Men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279855-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IBU Open European Championships, Schedule of events\nThe schedule of the event stands below. All times in CET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279856-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Awards\nThe 2018 ICC Awards were the fifteenth edition of ICC Awards. The voting panel took into account players' performance between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2018. The announcement of the ICC World XI Teams, along with the winners of the men's individual ICC awards, was made on 22 January 2019. The women's awards were announced on 31 December 2018, with Smriti Mandhana winning the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award as the Women's Cricketer of the Year. Virat Kohli became the first cricketer in history to win all three major awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279856-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Awards, ICC World XI Teams, ICC Test Team of the Year\nVirat Kohli was selected as the captain of the Test Team of the Year, with Rishabh Pant selected as the wicket-keeper. Other players are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279856-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Awards, ICC World XI Teams, ICC ODI Team of the Year\nVirat Kohli was also selected as the captain of the ODI Team of the Year, with Jos Buttler selected as the wicket-keeper. Other players are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 61], "content_span": [62, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279856-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Awards, ICC World XI Teams, ICC Women\u2019s ODI Team of the Year\nSuzie Bates was selected as the captain of the Women's ODI Team of the Year, with Alyssa Healy selected as the wicket-keeper. Other players are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279856-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Awards, ICC World XI Teams, ICC Women\u2019s T20I Team of the Year\nHarmanpreet Kaur was selected as the captain of the Women's T20I Team of the Year, with Alyssa Healy also selected as the wicket-keeper. Other players are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 70], "content_span": [71, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279857-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20\nThe 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 was hosted in the West Indies from 9 to 24 November 2018, during the 2018\u201319 international cricket season. It was the sixth edition of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup, and the second hosted by the West Indies (after the 2010 edition). The West Indies were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279857-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20\nThe tournament was awarded to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) at the 2013 annual conference of the International Cricket Council (ICC). The tournament's dates were confirmed at an ICC board meeting in January 2015. In February 2017, the ICC confirmed that this would be the first T20 tournament that uses the Umpire Decision Review System, with one review per side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279857-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20\nThe qualifier tournament for the competition was held in July 2018 in the Netherlands. Both Bangladesh and Ireland won their respective semi final matches in the qualifier, to advance to the Women's World Twenty20 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279857-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20\nThe first match scheduled to be played in Saint Lucia, between England and Sri Lanka, was abandoned due to rain. With further rain forecast in Saint Lucia, the ICC looked at a contingency plan of moving other group games to Antigua. The following day, the ICC confirmed that the Group A matches would remain in Saint Lucia. The ICC cited logistical issues and cost as the main factors for not moving the fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279857-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20\nAustralia in Group B qualified for the semi-finals, with their win against New Zealand, to give them three wins from three matches. India, also in Group B, qualified for the semi-finals, after they beat Ireland by 52 runs, with three wins from three matches. In Group A, tournament hosts the West Indies, along with England, progressed to the semi-finals, after wins in their penultimate group-stage fixtures. In the first semi-final, the West Indies faced Australia, with England and India playing each other in the second semi-final. Australia beat the West Indies by 71 runs and England beat India by 8 wickets to progress to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279857-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20\nAustralia won their fourth title after beating England in the final by 8 wickets. Meg Lanning, captain of the Australian team said that the victory was \"the most satisfying win I've been involved in\" adding that \"there will be some big celebrations\". England's captain, Heather Knight, said that the team did not post a competitive total, but was \"proud of the girls for reaching another world final\". Australia's Alyssa Healy was named the player of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279857-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20, Teams\nEight teams qualified automatically and they were joined by two teams from the qualifier tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279857-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20, Squads\nOn 10 October 2018 the ICC confirmed all the squads for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279857-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20, Venues\nIn January 2018, the ICC announced that three venues would be hosting matches:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279857-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20, Umpires\nOn 25 October 2018, the ICC appointed the officials for the tournament. Along with the twelve umpires, Richie Richardson and Graeme Labrooy were also named as the match referees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279857-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20, Prize money\nThe International Cricket Council declared a total prize money pool of US$750,000 for the tournament, an increase from the $400,000 for the 2016 event. The prize money was allocated according to the performance of the team as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279857-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20, Fixtures\nThe fixtures for the tournament were confirmed in June 2018. All times are given in Eastern Caribbean Time (UTC-04:00)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final\nThe 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final was a Women's Twenty20 International cricket match played between Australia and England on 24 November 2018 at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua and Barbuda. It was the culmination of the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20, the sixth ICC Women's World Twenty20. Australia won the match by eight wickets, securing their fourth World Twenty20 title. It was the third time that the two teams had met at this stage of a World Twenty20 \u2013 Australia have won on both occasions, in 2012 and 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final\nAfter winning the toss, England captain Heather Knight opted to bat first. Her side were bowled out for 105 runs from 19.4 overs. Opening batter Danielle Wyatt was the highest scorer for England with 43 runs, and alongside her, only Knight reached double figures, scoring 25. Ashleigh Gardner took three wickets for Australia, while Georgia Wareham and Megan Schutt took two apiece. Alyssa Healy scored quickly for Australia to start their chase, but they lost early wickets to fall to 44 for two. Meg Lanning and Gardner then took over and propelled Australia to victory by eight wickets. For her all-round performance, Gardner was awarded the player of the match award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nAustralia were drawn in Group B, along with India, Ireland, New Zealand and Pakistan. They started their campaign against Pakistan; Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney shared a 72-run partnership for the first wicket, and each were eventually dismissed for 48 runs to help Australia to a score of 165 for five. Australia utilised their bowlers, described by ESPNcricinfo's Karthik Krishnaswamy as \"a varied and accurate attack with three seam options and three different spin options,\" to restrict Pakistan to 113 runs, granting Australia a 52-run victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nIn their second match, against Ireland, Australia took five wickets for sixteen runs after the completion of the powerplay to help limit their opponents to a score of 93 for six. In reply, Healy scored the fastest half-century in Women's World Twenty20 history, and the second-fastest in all women's Twenty20 Internationals, taking 21 balls to reach her fifty. Australia chased down their target with more than half of their overs remaining, to win by nine wickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nAfter an opening partnership of 71 in the third match of the group against New Zealand, Australia then struggled a little; Alex Malcolm of ESPNcricinfo described that New Zealand had managed to \"expose some vulnerabilities in the powerful Australian line-up\". Healy scored 53 runs from 38 balls, but Australia lost seven wickets, and needed a late innings score of 29 runs from Rachael Haynes to help them reach 153. In response, New Zealand lost their first three wickets cheaply, falling to 13 for three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nSuzie Bates scored 48 runs, but ultimately three wickets for Megan Schutt meant that New Zealand were bowled out for 120 runs, meaning Australia won by 33 runs. In their final group game, Australia faced India. Scores of 83 from Smriti Mandhana and 43 from Harmanpreet Kaur propelled India to a score of 167 for eight. Late in the India innings, Healy and Schutt collided, resulting in a mild concussion for Healy which meant that she was not able to bat during Australia's innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nElyse Villani opened the innings with Mooney, but against a spin dominated bowling attack, Australia struggled to score runs. Ellyse Perry top-scored with 39 runs, but economical bowling from Anuja Patil and Radha Yadav saw Australia bowled out for 119, their first loss of the competition. As a result, Australia finished second in the group, behind India, and faced the winner of Group A in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nEngland were placed in Group A, alongside Bangladesh, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies. They were due to open their campaign against Sri Lanka, but the match was abandoned without any play being possible due to heavy rain, so each team was awarded one point (compared to two points for a win). In their second match, against Bangladesh, England limited their opponents to 76 for nine, helped by Kirstie Gordon who took three wickets. In their reply, England lost both openers early, but runs from Amy Jones helped them reach 55 for three before the rain arrived. A lengthy delay ensued, but on the resumption of play England were set a revised target of 64. They scored the additional nine runs they needed from three balls to win by seven wickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nAgainst South Africa, England's bowlers provided the platform for victory. Natalie Sciver bowled twenty dot balls on the way to taking three wickets and only conceding four runs, while Anya Shrubsole took a hat-trick, while conceding 11 runs. South Africa were bowled out for 85 runs, which England chased in under fifteen overs, with runs from both openers, Danielle Wyatt (27) and Tammy Beaumont (24). The final match of the group stage, against the West Indies, determined which team would finish top of the group, and face Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nEngland batted first but lost regular wickets as they tried to set a total. They were 50 for six when Sophia Dunkley was joined at the crease by Anya Shrubsole. The pair scored 58 runs together before Dunkley was dismissed for 35; Shrubsole finished with 29, to help England score 115 runs, described as \"a meagre total\" by ESPNcricinfo's Alan Gardner. In the West Indies reply, Deandra Dottin made 46, and Shemaine Campbelle 45 as the match went all the way to the last over; Shrubsole recorded bowling figures for three for ten for England, but she could not prevent the West Indies winning by four wickets with three balls remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Route to the final, Semi-finals\nAustralia faced the West Indies in the first of the semi-finals, which were played as a double-header. The West Indies won the toss and asked the Australians to bat first. They lost Mooney early on, but Healy scored 46 runs at more than a-run-a-ball and shared a fifty run partnership with Meg Lanning. Lanning batted patiently to score 31 runs, while a late flurry from Haynes pushed Australia to their total of 142 for five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Route to the final, Semi-finals\nIn response, the West Indies \"[crumbled] in the face of sustained pressure\" and could only score 71 runs; Stafanie Taylor was the top-scorer with 16 runs, while Perry, Ashleigh Gardner and Delissa Kimmince each took two wickets for Australia. In the second semi-final, India batted first against England. Quick scoring from Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues helped India reach 89 for two, but they subsequently lost their remaining eight wickets for 23 runs. England's spin bowlers, Sophie Ecclestone, Heather Knight and Gordon did the damage, taking seven wickets between them, along with three run outs. In their chase, neither of England's openers made significant contributions, but a third-wicket partnership of 92 runs between Jones and Sciver propelled England to victory with 17 balls left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 866]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Build up\nAustralia were widely considered the favourites coming into the tournament. Lisa Sthalekar, a former Australian captain, was more cautious, claiming that \"you can\u2019t say one country is the favourite\", as there \"are probably two or three teams that could potentially win the trophy.\" After similar routes to the final, Australia were still rated as favourites in the buildup to the match. Annesha Ghosh of ESPNcricinfo suggested that England suffered from \"unpredictability as a fielding unit\" and had suffered from \"an overall lacklustre performance with the bat from the line-up through the tournament.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Build up\nAt least one of Australia and England had been in each of the five previous Women's World Twenty 20 Finals; in the inaugural 2009 tournament, England were champions, but Australia won each of the next three competitions. In Australia's 2012 and 2014 victories, they beat England in the final. England were the reigning Women's Cricket World Cup champions, having won the 50-over tournament the previous year. Both teams chose unchanged teams from their semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Match, Summary\nThe final was played under floodlights at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, in North Sound, Antigua, roughly a 15-minute drive north of the country's capital city, St. John's. The stadium had not been used during the group stage of the tournament, but hosted both semi-finals prior to the final. A crowd of over 9,000 attended the match, which began at 20:00 AST (UTC\u20134) with a scheduled break between the two innings from 21:30 to 21:50; play was due to finish by 23:20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Match, Summary\nLangton Rusere of Zimbabwe and the South African Shaun George were appointed at on-field umpires for the match, with Gregory Brathwaite as the TV umpire. Nitin Menon served as reserve umpire, while Sir Richie Richardson was the match referee. Rusere's appointment marked the first time that a Zimbabwean had stood in the final of a major international cricket tournament. George had previously umpired in three Women's Cricket World Cup finals, in each of 2005, 2013 and 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Match, Summary\nEngland's captain, Knight, won the toss and chose to bat first, suggesting that it looked a \"better wicket than the semi-final. Not as slow as the last game.\" Former Australian cricketer Lisa Sthalekar suggested that England should be targeting 140 runs on a pitch that the ground-staff had \"scraped all the dead grass off,\" leaving a \"nice sheen to the surface.\" Australia opened their bowling attack with the left-arm spin bowler, Sophie Molineux, but she was hit for a four and a six by Danielle Wyatt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Match, Summary\nAs the pitch was not providing as much assistance to spin bowling, Australia switched to their pace bowlers to control the innings. Wyatt was dropped twice in short succession; first Haynes could only get her fingertips to the ball, and then wicket-keeper Healy could not hold onto a thick outside-edge. Ultimately, it was England's other opener, Beaumont, who fell for the first wicket, caught by Villani from the bowling of Schutt for four runs. Jones was run out the following over by a direct hit from Georgia Wareham at midwicket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Match, Summary\nAt the end of the powerplay, England were 36 for two from their six overs. Perry took her 100th wicket in Twenty20 Internationals in the next over, trapping Sciver leg before wicket. Sciver reviewed the decision, but TV replays showed it to be correct, and she was out, having only scored one run. Wyatt was dropped for the third time in the eighth over; she struck the ball hard back to the bowler, but it went through Kimmince's hands. At the end of the tenth over, England had reached 57 for three; Wyatt was on 38, alongside Knight on 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Match, Summary\nWyatt added five more runs in the following over, taking her score to 43, before being caught by Lanning off the bowling of Gardner. Two overs later, Lanning opted to review an lbw decision against Winfield which had been given not out. Neither the bowler nor the wicket-keeper were convinced, but Australia's captain pressed on with the appeal, which revealed Winfield was out. The next ball, Wareham bowled Dunkley, reducing England to 74 for six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Match, Summary\nEngland's scoring was limited over the following four overs: they only added ten more runs and lost another wicket; Shrubsole edged the ball to Perry, having scored five runs. England's captain, Knight, remained at the crease, but after hitting her first six of the innings to long on, she was out the next ball, caught by Wareham at mid-off. England lost their final two wickets in the last over, and were bowled out for 105. Only Wyatt and Knight reached double figures for England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Match, Summary\nIn their reply, Australia started quickly; in the second over, bowled by Shrubsole, Healy hit three boundaries. She continued to score quickly, but was bowled by Ecclestone in the fifth over for 22. Despite being her lowest total of the tournament, Healy had scored at quicker than a-run-a-ball and had contributed the majority of the 29-run opening partnership. Mooney added eight more runs to her own score before she was caught behind by Jones for 14 runs. Writing in The Guardian, Raf Nicholson suggested that \"even at 44-2 ... Australia seemed largely in control of the situation.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Match, Summary\nLanning initially out-scored her batting partner, scoring \"two classy boundaries in the 10th over\", but then Gardner took over. She struck three sixes in her innings of 33* from 26 deliveries to help Australia to victory by eight wickets with 29 balls remaining. Her all-round performance earned her the player of the match award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279858-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final, Aftermath\nFive finalists were named in the team of the tournament; Jones, Shrubsole and Gordon from England along with Healy and Perry from Australia. Healy, who was the leading run-scorer in the competition, was also named as player of the tournament, and later the ICC Women's Twenty20 International Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279859-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier\nThe 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier was an international women's cricket tournament held from 7 to 14 July 2018 in the Netherlands. It was the third edition of the Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier and was the qualification tournament for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament. The top two teams from the qualifier tournament progressed to the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 in the West Indies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279859-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier\nIn April 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) granted full international status to Twenty20 women's matches played between member sides from 1 July 2018 onwards. Therefore, all the matches in the qualifier tournament are played as Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279859-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier\nAhead of the final round of group-stage matches, all eight teams still had a chance to qualify for the final of the tournament, and therefore secure a place in the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20. After the conclusion of the last group-stage matches, Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea from Group A, along with Ireland and Scotland from Group B, had all progressed to the semi finals. The other four teams, Netherlands, Thailand, Uganda and United Arab Emirates all progressed to the semi-final playoff matches, to determine their final ranking placements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279859-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier\nIn the first semi final, Ireland beat Papua New Guinea by 27 runs, therefore advancing to the final of the tournament and qualifying for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 in the process. In the second semi final, Bangladesh beat Scotland by 49 runs, to also qualify for the tournament final and the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20. Bangladesh won the tournament, beating Ireland by 25 runs in the final. Ireland's Clare Shillington was named the player of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279859-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier, Squads\nAll the squads and match officials were confirmed by the ICC in June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279859-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier, Squads\nBangladesh also named Jannatul Ferdus, Lata Mondal, Murshida Khatun and Suraiya Azmin as players on standby for the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279859-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier, Fixtures\nOn 23 May 2018, the ICC confirmed all the fixtures for the qualifier tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279860-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 squads\nThe following squads were selected for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament. On 10 October 2018 the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed all the squads for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279860-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 squads, Bangladesh\nOn 9 October 2018, the Bangladesh Cricket Board announced its squad:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279860-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 squads, England\nOn 4 October 2018, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced its squad: Ahead of the tournament, Katherine Brunt was ruled out due to a back injury and was replaced by Fran Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279860-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 squads, India\nOn 28 September 2018, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced its squad: During the tournament, Pooja Vastrakar was injured and replaced by Devika Vaidya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279860-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 squads, New Zealand\nOn 18 September 2018, New Zealand Cricket announced its squad:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279860-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 squads, Pakistan\nOn 10 October 2018, the ICC confirmed Pakistan's squad: No captain was initially named, as their regular captain, Bismah Maroof, was recovering from surgery. Later the same month, Javeria Khan was named as the captain of the squad. Bismah Maroof returned to the squad, replacing Sidra Ameen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279860-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 squads, South Africa\nOn 9 October 2018, Cricket South Africa announced its squad:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279860-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 squads, South Africa\nOn the same day that Cricket South Africa named their squad for the tournament, the International Cricket Council (ICC) deemed the bowling action of Raisibe Ntozakhe to be illegal. Therefore, she was immediately suspended from bowling in international matches. Ntozakhe was replaced by Yolani Fourie, while Saarah Smith suffered an injury before the tournament and was replaced by Moseline Daniels. After the start of the tournament, Trisha Chetty was ruled out of South Africa's squad due to an injury and was replaced by Faye Tunnicliffe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279860-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 squads, Sri Lanka\nOn 19 October 2018, Sri Lanka Cricket confirmed its squad:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279860-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 squads, West Indies\nOn 10 October 2018, Cricket West Indies announced its squad: Before the start of the tournament, Hayley Matthews was appointed as the vice-captain of the team. Qiana Joseph replaced Sheneta Grimmond, who was injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279861-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Four\nThe 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Four was an international cricket tournament that took place during April and May 2018 in Malaysia. It formed part of the 2017\u201319 cycle of the World Cricket League (WCL) which determined the qualification for the 2023 Cricket World Cup. The top two teams were promoted to the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament and the bottom two teams were relegated to Division Five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279861-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Four\nTwo of the three final round of group stage matches finished as a no result because of rain. Per the rules of the tournament, the matches were replayed on the final day of the competition, with the play-off round scrapped and used as a reserve day. Therefore, the final league standings were used to determine the promotion and relegation places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279861-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Four\nUganda won the tournament and were promoted to Division Three, along with runners-up Denmark. Vanuatu and Bermuda finished in fifth and sixth respectively, and were relegated to Division Five. Hosts Malaysia finished third and Jersey finished fourth, therefore both team remained in Division Four. Ben Stevens of Jersey was named as the player of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279861-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Four, Preparation\nThe Uganda cricket team played a 20-over match and four 50-over matches against the Saudi Arabia cricket team in Kyambogo and Lugogo to prepare ahead of the tournament. Uganda also played two friendly matches against a visiting academy team from India. Malaysia played matches against Singapore in March 2018, for the Stan Nagaiah Trophy. Jersey played two one-day games against Kent County Cricket Club, before playing two further warm-up games in Singapore. Bermuda played three practice matches in Dubai before travelling to Malaysia for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279861-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Four, Fixtures\nThe fixtures were confirmed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279861-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Four, Replays\nAs the following two matches finished in a no result on the previous day, the scheduled play-off round was scrapped, with the fixtures restarted from scratch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279862-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Three\nThe 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Three was an international cricket tournament that took place in Oman between 9 and 19 November 2018. It formed part of the 2017\u201319 cycle of the World Cricket League (WCL) which determines the qualification for the 2023 Cricket World Cup. The top two teams were promoted to the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament, and the other four teams will play in the 2019\u201321 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League. It was the first international cricket tournament to be held in Oman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279862-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Three\nTournament hosts Oman were the first team to be promoted to Division Two for 2019, after winning their opening four matches. Oman also won the tournament, after finishing unbeaten in all five of their fixtures. It was the first time this had happened in the WCL since Jersey won the Division Five tournament in 2014. The United States were the other team to be promoted, after they beat Singapore in the final match of the tournament. It was the first time that the United States had gained promotion to Division Two of the WCL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279862-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, Preparation\nKenya and Uganda took part in the 2018 Africa T20 Cup in September in South Africa. Both sides remained in the country after the tournament ended, playing warm-up fixtures to prepare for the WCL. Kenya played matches against KwaZulu-Natal Inland and Uganda faced the South African Academy in 50-over matches. Kenya also played limited overs fixtures against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), who toured the country in October 2018. The Kenyan team had threatened to boycott the tournament in a row over funding, but payment was made to the players just prior to the start of the competition. The United States took part in the 2018\u201319 Regional Super50 tournament in the West Indies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279862-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, Squads\nIbrahim Khaleel was dropped as the captain of the United States squad and replaced by Saurabh Netravalkar. Sunny Sohal was ruled out of the tournament with an injury and was replaced by Nisarg Patel in the United States' squad. Ahead of the tournament, Collins Obuya was ruled out of Kenya's squad due to personal commitments. He was replaced by Narendra Kalyan, with Shem Ngoche named as captain of the team. Twinkal Bhandari was added to Oman's squad, replacing Khawar Ali, who suffered an injury during Oman's match with Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279863-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two\n2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two was a cricket tournament that took place in February 2018 in Namibia. The United Arab Emirates won the tournament, after beating Nepal by 7 runs in the final. Canada and Namibia finished third and fourth respectively and remained in Division Two. Oman and Kenya finished fifth and sixth respectively and were both relegated to Division Three. Following Kenya's last-place finish in the tournament, their captain Rakep Patel and their coach Thomas Odoyo both resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279863-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two\nOman and Canada were the top two teams in the 2017 ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament in Uganda and were promoted as a result. They were joined by the bottom four teams from the 2015\u201317 ICC World Cricket League Championship to determine the final two spots in the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. Following the conclusion of the round-robin stage, Nepal and the United Arab Emirates claimed the final places in the World Cup Qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279863-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two\nThe group-stage match between Kenya and Namibia was originally scheduled to take place on 9 February. No play was possible, due to a wet outfield, so the match was moved to the following day. The match was abandoned on the reserve day, also due to rain. Under the rules of the tournament, the fixture was rescheduled to be played on 13 February, after the matches on the 11 and 12 February reached a conclusion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279863-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two, Teams\nTop 2 teams from the 2017 ICC World Cricket League Division Three:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279863-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two, Teams\nBottom 4 teams from the 2015\u201317 ICC World Cricket League Championship", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279863-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two, Fixtures\nThe following dates and venues were confirmed for the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279864-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Polo World Championships\nThe 2018 ICF Canoe Polo World Championships were held in Welland, Ontario, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279865-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships\nThe 2018 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were the 39th edition of the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. The event took place from 25 to 30 September 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil under the auspices of International Canoe Federation (ICF). The competitions were held at the Deodoro Olympic Whitewater Stadium which had also hosted the canoe slalom events of the 2016 Summer Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279865-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships\nBrazil hosted the event for the third time after the 1997 championships in Tr\u00eas Coroas and the 2007 championships in Foz do Igua\u00e7u.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279865-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships\nIt was the first World Championships not to feature the discontinued men's C2 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279865-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships\nRussia and Argentina won their first ever medals at the Canoe Slalom World Championships. Host nation Brazil won their first ever gold medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279865-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, Medal summary, Mixed, Canoe\nThere were no heats for the Mixed C2 event. Only semifinal and final runs. The gate setup was the same as for the heats of the other individual events, but different from the setup used for the semifinals and finals of those events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279866-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships\nThe 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, the 44th edition of the World Championships, were held in Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal, from 22 to 26 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279866-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Explanation of events\nCanoe sprint competitions were contested in either a Canadian canoe (C), an open canoe with a single-blade paddle, or in a kayak (K), a closed canoe with a double-bladed paddle. Each canoe or kayak can hold one person (1), two people (2), or four people (4). For each of the specific canoes or kayaks, such as a K-1 (kayak single), the competition distances can be 200, 500, 1000 or 5000 metres. When a competition is listed as a K-2 500m event, for example, it means two people were in a kayak competing over a distance of 500 metres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279866-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Explanation of events\nParacanoe competitions were contested in either a va'a (V), an outrigger canoe (which includes a second pontoon) with a single-blade paddle, or in a kayak (as above). All international competitions were held over 200 metres in single-man boats, with three event classes in both types of vessel for men and women depending on the level of an athlete's impairment. The lower the classification number, the more severe the impairment is - for example, VL1 is a va'a competition for those with particularly severe impairments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279867-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's C-1 1000 metres\nThe men's C-1 1000 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279867-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's C-1 1000 metres, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. The next six fastest boats in each heat advanced to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 81], "content_span": [82, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279867-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's C-1 1000 metres, Results, Semifinals\nThe fastest three boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The next four fastest boats in each semi, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 86], "content_span": [87, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279867-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's C-1 1000 metres, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 91], "content_span": [92, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279867-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's C-1 1000 metres, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 91], "content_span": [92, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279868-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's C-1 200 metres\nThe men's C-1 200 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279868-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's C-1 200 metres, Results, Heats\nThe fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final. The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279868-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's C-1 200 metres, Results, Final\nCompetitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279869-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's C-1 500 metres\nThe men's C-1 500 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279869-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's C-1 500 metres, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. The next six fastest boats in each heat advanced to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279869-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's C-1 500 metres, Results, Semifinals\nThe fastest three boats in each semi advanced to the A final. 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The next three fastest boats advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 85], "content_span": [86, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279876-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-1 200 metres, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 90], "content_span": [91, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279876-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-1 200 metres, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 90], "content_span": [91, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279877-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-1 500 metres\nThe men's K-1 500 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279877-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-1 500 metres, Results, Heats\nThe six fastest boats in each heat, plus the three fastest remaining boats advanced to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279877-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-1 500 metres, Results, Semifinals\nThe fastest three boats advanced to the A final. The next three fastest boats advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 85], "content_span": [86, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279877-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-1 500 metres, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 90], "content_span": [91, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279877-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-1 500 metres, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 90], "content_span": [91, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279878-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-1 5000 metres\nThe men's K-1 5000 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho on 26 August 2018 took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279878-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-1 5000 metres, Results\nAs a long-distance event, it was held as a direct final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 74], "content_span": [75, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279879-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-2 1000 metres\nThe men's K-2 1000 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279879-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-2 1000 metres, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. 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The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279880-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-2 200 metres, Results, Final\nCompetitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279881-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-2 500 metres\nThe men's K-2 500 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279881-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-2 500 metres, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. 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The next four fastest boats in each semi, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 85], "content_span": [86, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279881-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-2 500 metres, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 90], "content_span": [91, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279881-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-2 500 metres, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 90], "content_span": [91, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279882-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-4 1000 metres\nThe men's K-4 1000 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279882-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-4 1000 metres, Results\nWith fewer than ten competitors entered, this event was held as a direct final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 74], "content_span": [75, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279883-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-4 500 metres\nThe men's K-4 500 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279883-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-4 500 metres, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. 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The next four fastest boats in each semi, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 85], "content_span": [86, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279883-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-4 500 metres, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 90], "content_span": [91, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279883-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's K-4 500 metres, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 90], "content_span": [91, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279884-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's KL1\nThe men's KL1 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279884-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's KL1, Results, Heats\nThe fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final. The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279884-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's KL1, Results, Final\nCompetitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279885-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's KL2\nThe men's KL2 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279885-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's KL2, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. 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The next four fastest boats in each semi, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279885-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's KL2, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279885-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's KL2, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279886-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's KL3\nThe men's KL3 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279886-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's KL3, Results, Heats\nThe six fastest boats in each heat, plus the three fastest remaining boats advanced to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279886-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's KL3, Results, Semifinals\nThe fastest three boats advanced to the A final. The next three fastest boats advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279886-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's KL3, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279886-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's KL3, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279887-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's VL1\nThe men's VL1 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279887-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's VL1, Results\nWith fewer than ten competitors entered, this event was held as a direct final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279888-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's VL2\nThe men's VL2 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279888-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's VL2, Results, Heats\nThe fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final. The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279888-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's VL2, Results, Final\nCompetitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279889-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's VL3\nThe men's VL3 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279889-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's VL3, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. The next six fastest boats in each heat advanced to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279889-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's VL3, Results, Semifinals\nThe fastest three boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The next four fastest boats in each semi, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279889-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's VL3, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279889-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Men's VL3, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279890-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-1 200 metres\nThe women's C-1 200 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279890-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-1 200 metres, Results, Heats\nThe six fastest boats in each heat, plus the three fastest remaining boats advanced to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279890-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-1 200 metres, Results, Semifinals\nThe fastest three boats advanced to the A final. The next three fastest boats advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 87], "content_span": [88, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279890-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-1 200 metres, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 92], "content_span": [93, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279890-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-1 200 metres, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top four as two boats were tied for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 92], "content_span": [93, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279891-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-1 500 metres\nThe women's C-1 500 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279891-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-1 500 metres, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. 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The next four fastest boats in each semi, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 87], "content_span": [88, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279891-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-1 500 metres, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 92], "content_span": [93, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279891-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-1 500 metres, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 92], "content_span": [93, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279892-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-1 5000 metres\nThe women's C-1 5000 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279892-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-1 5000 metres, Results\nAs a long-distance event, it was held as a direct final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279893-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-2 200 metres\nThe women's C-2 200 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279893-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-2 200 metres, Results, Heats\nThe fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final. 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The next four fastest boats in each semi, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 87], "content_span": [88, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279894-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-2 500 metres, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 92], "content_span": [93, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279894-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's C-2 500 metres, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 92], "content_span": [93, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279895-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 1000 metres\nThe women's K-1 1000 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279895-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 1000 metres, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. The next six fastest boats in each heat advanced to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 83], "content_span": [84, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279895-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 1000 metres, Results, Semifinals\nThe fastest three boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The next four fastest boats in each semi, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 88], "content_span": [89, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279895-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 1000 metres, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 93], "content_span": [94, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279895-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 1000 metres, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 93], "content_span": [94, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279896-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 200 metres\nThe women's K-1 200 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279896-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 200 metres, Results, Heats\nThe six fastest boats in each heat, plus the three fastest remaining boats advanced to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279896-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 200 metres, Results, Semifinals\nThe fastest three boats advanced to the A final. The next three fastest boats advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 87], "content_span": [88, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279896-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 200 metres, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 92], "content_span": [93, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279896-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 200 metres, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 92], "content_span": [93, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279897-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 500 metres\nThe women's K-1 500 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279897-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 500 metres, Results, Heats\nThe six fastest boats in each heat, plus the three fastest remaining boats advanced to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279897-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 500 metres, Results, Semifinals\nThe fastest three boats advanced to the A final. The next three fastest boats advanced to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 87], "content_span": [88, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279897-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 500 metres, Results, Finals, Final B\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 92], "content_span": [93, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279897-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 500 metres, Results, Finals, Final A\nCompetitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 92], "content_span": [93, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279898-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 5000 metres\nThe women's K-1 5000 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279898-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-1 5000 metres, Results\nAs a long-distance event, it was held as a direct final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279899-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-2 1000 metres\nThe women's K-2 1000 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279899-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-2 1000 metres, Results\nWith fewer than ten competitors entered, this event was held as a direct final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279900-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-2 200 metres\nThe women's K-2 200 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279900-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-2 200 metres, Results, Heats\nThe fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final. 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The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279901-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-2 500 metres, Results, Final\nCompetitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279902-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-4 500 metres\nThe women's K-4 500 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279902-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-4 500 metres, Results, Heats\nThe fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final. The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279902-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's K-4 500 metres, Results, Final\nCompetitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279903-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's KL1\nThe women's KL1 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279903-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's KL1, Results\nWith fewer than ten competitors entered, this event was held as a direct final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279904-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's KL2\nThe women's KL2 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279904-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's KL2, Results, Heats\nThe fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final. The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 71], "content_span": [72, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279904-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's KL2, Results, Final\nCompetitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 71], "content_span": [72, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279905-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's KL3\nThe women's KL3 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279905-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's KL3, Results, Heats\nThe fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final. The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 71], "content_span": [72, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279905-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's KL3, Results, Final\nCompetitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 71], "content_span": [72, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279906-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's VL1\nThe women's VL1 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279906-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's VL1, Results\nWith fewer than ten competitors entered, this event was held as a direct final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279907-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's VL2\nThe women's VL2 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279907-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's VL2, Results\nWith fewer than ten competitors entered, this event was held as a direct final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279908-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's VL3\nThe women's VL3 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279908-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships \u2013 Women's VL3, Results\nWith fewer than ten competitors entered, this event was held as a direct final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279909-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IFA Shield\nThe 2018 IFA Shield was the 122nd edition of the IFA Shield. The tournament was designed as a U19 youth football tournament since 2015. 8 clubs participated in final round in the edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279909-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IFA Shield, Venue\nAll the matches were held at Barasat Stadium, East Bengal Ground, Mohun Bagan Ground and Howrah Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279909-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IFA Shield, Qualifying round\n14 teams participated in the qualifying round and Bengal Football Academy as the winners of qualifiers. FC Pune City later withdrew from the tournament and were replaced by runners-up of qualifying round, SAIL (Burnpur) Academy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279910-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IFAF U-19 World Championship\nThe 2018 IFAF U-19 World Championship was an international American football tournament for junior teams (19 years and under) that took place at Mexico City from July 15 to July 22. This was the first time that Mexico hosted an IFAF World Junior Championship competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279910-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IFAF U-19 World Championship\nTeams were split into higher and lower groups by seeding. Three teams from higher seeded group and one team from lower seeded group would advance to the semi-final. This would be the last world junior championship staged in the U19 age classification. The 2020 championship scheduled for the United States was cancelled by IFAF 3 March 2020 due to complications from the Coronavirus pandemic. The next scheduled world junior championship is a U20 competition hosted by Football Canada in Edmonton, Alberta in July of 2024.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279911-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football Americas Championship\nThe 2018 IFCPF CP Football Americas Championship was an American championship for men's national 7-a-side association football teams. IFCPF stands for International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football. Athletes with a physical disability competed. The Championship took place in Ecuador from 27 October to 3\u00a0November\u00a02018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279911-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football Americas Championship\nCP Football was played with modified FIFA rules. Among the modifications were that there were seven players, no offside, a smaller playing field, and permission for one-handed throw-ins. Matches consisted of two thirty-minute halves, with a fifteen-minute half-time break. The Championships was a qualifying event for the 2019 IFCPF CP Football World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279911-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football Americas Championship, Participating teams and officials, The draw\nDuring the draw, the teams were divided into pots because of rankings. 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The athlete's disability was caused by a non-progressive brain damage that affects motor control, such as cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury or stroke. Athletes must be ambulant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279911-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football Americas Championship, Format\nTeams must field at least one class C5 or C6 player at all times. No more than two players of class C8 are permitted to play at the same time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279911-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football Americas Championship, Group stage\nThe group stage, have seen the 8 teams divided into two groups of four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279912-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football Asia-Oceana Championship\nThe 2018 IFCPF CP Football Asia-Oceana Championship was an Asia-Oceana championship for men's national 7-a-side association football teams. IFCPF stands for International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football. Athletes with a physical disability competed. The Championship took place in Ecuador from 24 to 29 October \u00a02018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279912-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football Asia-Oceana Championship\nCP Football was played with modified FIFA rules. Among the modifications were that there were seven players, no offside, a smaller playing field, and permission for one-handed throw-ins. Matches consisted of two thirty-minute halves, with a fifteen-minute half-time break. 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The athlete's disability was caused by a non-progressive brain damage that affects motor control, such as cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury or stroke. Athletes must be ambulant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279912-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football Asia-Oceana Championship, Format\nTeams must field at least one class C5 or C6 player at all times. No more than two players of class C8 are permitted to play at the same time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279912-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football Asia-Oceana Championship, Group stage\nIn the group stage have seen the teams in a one group of five teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 60], "content_span": [61, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships\nThe 2018 IFCPF CP Football World Championships was the European championship for men's national 7-a-side association football teams. IFCPF stands for International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football. Athletes compete with a physical disability. The Championship took place in the Netherlands from 25\u00a0July to 5\u00a0August\u00a02018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships\nFootball 7-a-side was played with modified FIFA rules. Among the modifications were that there were seven players, no offside, a smaller playing field, and permission for one-handed throw-ins. Matches consisted of two thirty-minute halves, with a fifteen-minute half-time break. The Championships was a qualifying event for the 2019 IFCPF CP Football World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships, Participating teams and officials, The draw\nDuring the draw, the teams were divided into pots because of rankings. 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Moller Kjeldsen09\tKristoffer Nielsen10\tEmil Moller11\tMartin Wolf13\tMads Bendtsen14\tMagnus Hytholm Strand15\tMads Tofte", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n00 David Bruns00 Christian Eidenhardt00 Luca Pascal Podensek00 Frederic Heinze00 Gordon Litinski00 Jorn Henrik Lorenzen00 Jonas Malkmus00 Robin Meyer00 Lars Nehrenheim00 Pascal Odrich00 Daniel Sperl00 Mario Wawrik00 Marco Geisler00 Julius Kopf", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Kostyantyn Symashko02 Vitaliy Trushev03 Hlib Husiev04 Taras Dutko05 Oleh Len06 Edhar Kahramanian 07 Vitalii Romanchuk08 Artem Sheremet09 Dmytro Molodtsov10 Ivan Donenko11 Serhii Bedenok12 Bohdan Kulynych13 Artem Krasylnykov14 Ivan Shkvarlo", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Giles Moore02 Liam Irons03 Harry Baker04 James Blackwell05 Martin Sinclair06 Matt Crossen07 Michael Barker08 Dale Smith09 George Fletcher10 Jordan Twiss11 Oliver Nugent12 Jack Fox13 Ryan Kay14 Lewis Tribe", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Vladislav Raretckii02 Leonid Ilyichov03 Aslan Tibilov04 Andrey Shimanov05 Viacheslav Larionov06 Sergei Materukhin07 Soslan Gazdanov08 Dmirti Minenko09 Marat Eloev10 Alexei Borkin11 Roman Pesotskiy12 Guram Chkareuli13 Danila Belov14 Georgiy Albegov", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Jaakko Seppala03 Jussi Laurila04 Simo Mykk\u00e4nen05 Bulcsu Szekely07 Jussi Tuominen08 Mikael Jukarainen09 Janne Helander10 Johannes Siikonen11 Kim Karlsson12 Otto Kaipainen15 Samuel Taipale18 Antti Hovi20 Ville Kuronen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Antonio Jesus Dominguez02 Pol Aguilar03 No\u00e9 Adell04 Santiago Maci\u00e105 Isa\u00edas Pacheco06 Jaume Almenar07 Mario Fern\u00e1ndez08 Sergio Nicolas Clemente09 Jose Manuel Bueno10 Eduardo Jose de Laorden11 Dego Barreto12 Daniel Zancajo13 Francisco Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00edn14 Carlos Rodriguez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships, Venues\nThe venues to be used for the World Championships were located in Zeist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships, Format\nThe first round, or group stage, was a competition between the 10 teams divided among two groups of five, where each group engaged in a round-robin tournament within itself. The two highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage for the position one to four. The next two teams played for the position five to eight. The last teams played for the position nine to ten. Teams were awarded three points for a win and one for a draw. When comparing teams in a group over-all result came before head-to-head.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships, Format\nIn the knockout stage there were three rounds (quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the final). The winners plays for the higher positions, the losers for the lower positions. For any match in the knockout stage, a draw after 60 minutes of regulation time was followed by two 10 minute periods of extra time to determine a winner. If the teams were still tied, a penalty shoot-out was held to determine a winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships, Format\nClassificationAthletes with a physical disability competed. The athlete's disability was caused by a non-progressive brain damage that affects motor control, such as cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury or stroke. Athletes must be ambulant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships, Format\nTeams must field at least one class C5 or C6 player at all times. No more than two players of class C8 are permitted to play at the same time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279913-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships, Group stage\nThe first round, or group stage, have seen the sixteen teams divided into four groups of four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279914-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IFK G\u00f6teborg season\nThe 2018 season was IFK G\u00f6teborg's 113th in existence, their 86th season in Allsvenskan and their 42nd consecutive season in the league. They competed in Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279914-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IFK G\u00f6teborg season, Players, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279915-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IFMA World Muaythai Championships\nThe 2018 IFMA World Muaythai Championships is the 17th edition of the IFMA World Muaythai Championships. The competition are held from May 10 to May 19, 2019, in Canc\u00fan, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279916-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships\nThe 2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships, the 15th edition, were held in Innsbruck, Austria from 6 to 16 September 2018. The championships consisted of lead, speed, bouldering, paraclimbing, and combined events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279916-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships, Lead\nThe lead competition was the first event held at the 2018 World Championships. The women's qualification took place on the opening day, 6 September, at the Kletterzentrum, and the men's was held the following day at the same location. Women's semi-final and final were held on 8 September and the respective men's competitions the next day both at the Olympiaworld.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 44], "content_span": [45, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279916-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships, Lead, Women\n101 athletes attended the women's lead competition. In the final penultimate climber Jessica Pilz was the first to top the route. Janja Garnbret came out as the last climber and topped the route as well. As both climbers had the same first tiebreaker by virtue of having topped the semi-final route the ranking was decided by their time on the final route, which Pilz had climbed faster and thus was awarded the gold medal. Bronze went to Kim Ja-in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279916-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships, Lead, Men\n124 athletes attended the men's lead competition. Adam Ondra and Jakob Schubert achieved the same score (36+) on the final route. Innsbruck-born Schubert won the gold medal due to his better tie-breaker, having achieved the better score in the semi-final. The bronze medal went to Alex Megos (33.5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279916-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships, Speed\nThe speed competitions took place in the Olympiaworld with the qualification rounds and the finals both being held on 13 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279916-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships, Speed, Women\n94 athletes competed in the women's speed climbing event. Aleksandra Rudzinska (7.56s) won the final of the speed competition over her Polish countrywoman Anna Brozek (7.91s). Mariia Krasavina won the bronze medal in the small final against Aleksandra Kalucka, who false started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279916-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships, Speed, Men\n125 athletes competed in the men's speed competition. Reza Alipour (5.630s) won the final against Bassa Mawem (fell). In the small final Stanislav Kokorin (6.028s) won against QiXin Zhong (fell) and thus claimed the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279916-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships, Bouldering\nThe bouldering event was held over four days. The qualifying took place at Kletterzentrum with the women's qualification held on 11 September and the men's on 12 September. Semi-finals and finals were held at the Olympiaworld on 14 September for the women and 15 September for the men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279916-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships, Bouldering, Women\n112 athletes attended the women's bouldering competition. In the bouldering final lead finalists Janja Garnbret, Akiyo Noguchi, and Jessica Pilz made another appearance. The World Cup bouldering seasonal winner Miho Nonaka, reigning world champion Petra Klingler, and Stasa Gejo completed the final. Garnbret won gold over Noguchi and Gejo won bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279916-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships, Bouldering, Men\n150 athletes attended the men's bouldering competition, making it the largest individual event at the World Championship. Kai Harada (4T4z 7 6) won the Gold medal over Jongwon Chon (3T4z 9 10) and Gregor Vezonik (3T4z 9 17). The reigning champion, Tomoa Narasaki, and the World Cup seasonal winner, Jernej Kruder, missed the cut to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279916-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships, Combined\nIn the Combined competition the six most successful athletes of the previous competitions competed against each other in Speed, Bouldering and Lead. The athletes were selected by multiplying each athletes rank from the three individual competitions. The six climbers with the lowest scores determined by this method were invited to compete in the Combined final. In the final itself the athletes were again ranked by multiplying their rank in the Speed, Bouldering and Lead portion with a lower score leading to a better Combined rank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279916-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships, Combined\nThe women's and men's combined final were both held at the Olympiaworld, the women's on 15 September and the men's on 16 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup\nThe 2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup was held in 14 locations. There were 22 events: 7 bouldering, 7 lead, and 8 speed events. The season began on 13 April in Meiringen, Switzerland, and concluded on 28 October in Xiamen, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup\nThe top 3 in each competition received medals, and the overall winners were awarded trophies. At the end of the season an overall ranking was determined based upon points, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup\nThe winners for bouldering were Jernej Kruder and Miho Nonaka, for lead Jakob Schubert and Janja Garnbret, for speed Bassa Mawem and Anouck Jaubert, and for combined Jakob Schubert and Janja Garnbret, men and women respectively. The National Team for bouldering was Japan, for lead Austria, and for speed Russian Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Highlights of the season\nIn bouldering, at the World Cup in Munich, Janja Garnbret of Slovenia flashed all boulders in the final round to take the win. Miho Nonaka and Akiyo Noguchi, both of Japan, were the only athletes who never missed a podium in all 7 bouldering competitions in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Highlights of the season\nIn lead climbing, Janja Garnbret was the only athlete who never missed a podium in all 7 lead competitions in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Highlights of the season\nIn speed climbing, at the first Speed World Cup of the season in Moscow, Anouck Jaubert of France matched the world record of 7.32 seconds set by Iuliia Kaplina of Russia at the 2017 World Games in Wroclaw. Then at the end of the season, French athletes, Bassa Mawem and Anouck Jaubert clinched the overall titles of the season for men and women respectively, making it double speed titles for France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Changes from the previous season\nFor the 2018 season the IFSC changed the scoring method for its tournaments. Previously in bouldering, topped boulders were the deciding factor, followed as tiebreakers in decreasing order of importance: attempts to tops, bonus holds (renamed to zones), and attempts to bonus holds. The first and second tiebreakers switched places which means that the results were determined by tops, zones, attempts to tops, and attempts to zones. Also athletes now need to demonstrate firm control of the two starting hand holds. Previously touching all four marked start points in any manner was deemed sufficient to start an attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Bouldering\nAn overall ranking was determined based upon points, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event. There were seven competitions in the season, but only the best six attempts were counted. The national ranking was the sum of the points of that country's three best male and female athletes. Results displayed in parentheses were not counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Bouldering, Men\nThe results of the ten most successful athletes of the Bouldering World Cup 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Bouldering, Women\nThe results of the ten most successful athletes of the Bouldering World Cup 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Bouldering, National Teams\nThe results of the ten most successful countries of the Bouldering World Cup 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Lead\nAn overall ranking was determined based upon points, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 34], "content_span": [35, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Lead, Men\n6 best competition results were counted (not counting points in parentheses) for IFSC Climbing Worldcup 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Lead, Women\n6 best competition results were counted (not counting points in brackets) for IFSC Climbing Worldcup 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Lead, National Teams\nFor National Team Ranking, 3 best results per competition and category were counted (not counting results in brackets).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Speed\nAn overall ranking was determined based upon points, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Speed, Men\n7 best competition results were counted (not counting points in brackets) for IFSC Climbing World Cup 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Speed, Women\n7 best competition results were counted (not counting points in brackets) for IFSC Climbing World Cup 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Speed, National Teams\nFor National Team Ranking, 3 best results per competition and category were counted (not counting results in brackets).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279917-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Combined\nThe results of the ten most successful athletes of the Combined World Cup 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship\nThe 2018 IGLFA World Championship was the 23rd officially recognized world championship event for the IGLFA. It was held in Paris, France from August 5 through 11 as the football (soccer) competition part of the 2018 Gay Games. Panamboyz United and served as the official co-hosts of the tournament, with support from the IGLFA and French Football Federation. All matches took place at Tremblay Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship\nFederal Triangles Soccer Club (FTSC) were the defending world champions, while Stonewall F.C. were four-time defending Gay Games champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship\nNearly 900 participants in roughly 60 teams - some for 11v11 competition, some for 7v7 - were registered for the championship. They represented 54 different clubs from 19 total nations. This made the IGLFA competition at the 2018 Gay Games the largest IGFLA world championship event since the 19th IGLFA championship (played as part of the 2010 Gay Games) in Cologne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship\nIn the men's 11s D1 final, West Hollywood Soccer Club (LA Eclipse) beat Village Manchester FC on penalties after a 1 - 1 draw, winning the IGLFA again 21 years after their last win (as LA Suns) in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship, Tournament structure\nTwo weeks before the tournament, the official Paris 2018 website and the Facebook event for the tournament differed slightly in the number of teams per competition and in available competitions. The official site claimed 14 DI men's 11s teams, 21 DII men's 11s teams, 8 DI men's 7s teams, 6 DII Men's 7s teams, and 11 Women's 7s teams; the official Facebook event claims 32 Men's 11s teams (down from 35) that would be split evenly into DI and DII after the preliminary phase, 14 men's 7s teams (no divisional split), and 12 women's 7s teams (up from 11). (All men's teams are open to have female participants.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship, Tournament structure\nCo -hosts Panamboyz United clarified the discrepancy in a Facebook post, confirming the absolute merger of the men's 7s competition and the preliminary-phase merger of the men's 11s competition, the latter similar to what occurred in the IGLFA Unity Cup the previous year. That is, the men's 11s competition will begin with all 32 teams pooled into group regardless of registered division, followed by two separate knockout brackets, with the 16 higher-ranked teams from the groups in the \"DI\" bracket and the 16 lower-ranked teams from the groups in the \"DII\" bracket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship, Tournament structure\nAs each team in the 11s competition was guaranteed to play 7 games (all 60 minutes except for the medal-qualifying semifinals and finals which will be a full 90 minutes each), this suggested that the losers in any round of the knockout phase will play fellow losers in subsequent rounds for a total of four placements games per team after their three group games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship, Tournament structure\nThe groups in the 11s competition would be structured such that each team was only expected to play one opponent who initially registered for the other division - with the exception of one group, the exception likely a function of the fact that initial registration on the official website suggested 50% more DII teams than DI teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship, Tournament structure\nHowever, official tournament documents released the Sunday before games started revealed further alterations to the tournament format. The Men's 7s competition was reduced back to 14 teams (after 15 had been previously posted to Facebook), and was split back into an 8-team DI bracket and 6-team DII group phase for placement games. The Women's 7s competition was reduced to 10 teams, and would include two 4-team playoff brackets and one return game for the 9th and 10th teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship, Tournament structure\nFinally, the Men's 11s competition would include four 8-team playoff brackets instead of two 16-team playoff brackets, reducing the total number of games per team from seven to six. The four brackets were called D1, D2 elite, D2-B (effectively D3), and D2-C (effectively D4), where each playoff bracket would include the 8 teams who finished in the corresponding ranks in the eight 4-team groups. The official website was also ultimately updated to show these changes in team counts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship, Tournament structure\nFurther slight changes to both 7s competitions were required after one team in each forfeited out of their last group stage match, in addition to one women's team forfeiting the entire competition the morning the group stage began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship, Participating clubs\nCo-hosts FC Paris Arc en ciel posted the official list of participating teams to Facebook the day after the tournament structure was announced, (with an additional men's 7s team,) though did not specify whether the men's/open teams had initially registered as DI or DII. The official list was later updated before games began, revealing the addition of Ballboys Hamburg in a joint team with Panamboyz United, two team mergers in the Women's competition as well as the addition of the SF Spikes to the Philadelphia Falcon's squad, and one merger in the Men's 7s competition. Trophies were awarded to the top three teams in D1, D2 Elite (DII), and both 7s competitions, and to the top teams in D2-B (DIII) and D2-C (DIV).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship, Participating clubs\n* columns for the 7s competitions are divided by which teams qualified for the medals brackets\u00d7 team forfeited before/during group stage# team forfeited before/during finals stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279918-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IGLFA World Championship, Participating clubs, By nation\nClubs in italics have won multiple IGLFA medals at previous events. Individual team name as they appear in the team announcement Google Drive are in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279919-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IHF South and Central American Emerging Nations Championship\nThe 2018 IHF South and Central American Emerging Nations Championship was the 1st edition of this Handball event organized by the International Handball Federation. It was held in Palmira, Colombia at the Pabellon Blanco, from 22 to 28 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279920-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IHF Super Globe\nThe 2018 IHF Super Globe was the twelfth edition of the tournament. It was held in Doha, Qatar at the Duhail Handball Sports Hall from 16 to 19 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279920-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IHF Super Globe\nIn a rematch of last year's final, Barcelona won their fourth title after a 29\u201324 final win over Berlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279920-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IHF Super Globe, Venue\nThe championship was played in Doha, at the Duhail Handball Sports Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279920-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IHF Super Globe, Teams\nThe best club of each continent through their tournaments, the defending champion, a host team and a wild card team participated. Hammamat participated because the winner of the 2017 African Champions League (Zamalek) refused to participate for political reasons. The runner up (Esp\u00e9rance Tunis) was denied for not participating in the previous 2 African Champions League. The 3rd place (Al Ahly), who was from Egypt, refused to participate for political reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279921-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 II Lyga\nThe 2018 II Lyga season was the second season since return to two divisions system, the twentieth after switch to spring-to-fall format and the thirtieth overall after the restoration of Independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279921-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 II Lyga\nThe II Lyga is the third-tier of football in Lithuania. It is divided into the South Zone and the West Zone, each containing a total of thirteen clubs. The top two teams from each division are promoted to the I Lyga, while the last placed teams from both divisions are relegated to the appropriate regional division of the III Lyga, except in separately regulated cases for the B teams of higher tier clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279921-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 II Lyga, II Lyga South Zone, Gold Match\nSince Hegelmann Litauen and \u0160ilas finished level on points at the end of the season, a \"Gold Match\" on neutral pitch will be played to decide the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 44], "content_span": [45, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279921-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 II Lyga, II Lyga West Zone, Gold Match\nSince Babrungas and Minija finished level on points at the end of the season, a \"Gold Match\" on neutral pitch was played to decide the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 43], "content_span": [44, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279922-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 II liiga\nThe 2018 II liiga was the 24th season of the II liiga, fourth-highest league for association football clubs in Estonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279922-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 II liiga, II Liiga North/East, 2018 season\n2018 II N/E Liiga consists of 14 different teams. Nine of them remain the same, two were promoted from III Liiga North, one from III Liiga South and two were relegated from higher divisions. Promoted teams were P\u00f5hja-Tallinna JK Volta, Tartu JK Welco II and Tartu JK Tammeka III and relegated teams were JK Sillam\u00e4e Kalev and Raasiku FC Joker. These teams replaced Tartu FC Merkuur (dissolved), Tallinna JK Legion, V\u00f5ru FC Helios and Lasnam\u00e4e FC Ajax (promoted) and Tallinna JK Legion II (transferred to II S/W Liiga). There were two name changes as well: Narva United FC is now JK Narva Trans II and Tartu JK Tammeka U19's new name is Tartu JK Tammeka III. Tallinna FC Levadia III is now named FCI Tallinn because of the merging of these two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 47], "content_span": [48, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279922-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 II liiga, II Liiga North/East, 2018 season, Clubs\nThe following clubs are competing in II liiga North/East during the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 54], "content_span": [55, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279922-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 II liiga, II Liiga North/East, 2018 season, Clubs\na \u2013 never been relegated from II liiga b \u2013 never played in Esiliiga B/Esiliiga c \u2013 ineligible for promotion to Esiliiga B", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 54], "content_span": [55, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279922-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 II liiga, II Liiga South/West, 2018 season\n2018 II S/W Liiga consists of 14 different teams. Eight of them remain the same. Two were promoted from III Liiga West, one from III Liiga North and one from III Liiga East. They were P\u00e4rnu JK Poseidon, L\u00e4\u00e4nemaa JK, JK Tallinna Kalev III and Paide Linnameeskond III. One team was transferred from II Liiga N/E. It was Tallinna JK Legion II. Remaining team was relegated from Esiliiga B, which was Viimsi JK. These teams replaced FC N\u00f5mme United, P\u00e4rnu Jalgpalliklubi and FC Flora U19 (all promoted), Saue JK Laagri, SK Imavere and Viimsi JK II (all relegated). Also Tallinna JK D\u00fcnamo changed its name to Tallinna JK Legion II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 47], "content_span": [48, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279922-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 II liiga, II Liiga South/West, 2018 season, Clubs\nThe following clubs are competing in II liiga South/West during the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 54], "content_span": [55, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279922-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 II liiga, II Liiga South/West, 2018 season, Clubs\na \u2013 never been relegated from II liiga b \u2013 never played in Esiliiga B/Esiliiga c \u2013 ineligible for promotion to Esiliiga B", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 54], "content_span": [55, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279923-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia\nThe 2018 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia was the 11th edition of the IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia, an annual international ice hockey tournament held by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The Top Division of the tournament will take place from 3 to 8 April 2018 at the SM Mall of Asia Ice Skating Rink in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279923-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia, Top Division, Participants, Match officials\n3 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279923-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia, Division I\nThe Division I competition was played from 24 to 29 March 2018 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279924-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia \u2013 Division I\nThe 2018 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia Division I was the 5th IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia Division I competition, an annual international ice hockey tournament held by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The Division I competition took place from 24 to 29 March 2018 at the Malaysia National Ice Skating Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Four teams competed in the tournament. Originally, six teams were scheduled to compete. However, Oman and Qatar were scheduled to compete, but cancelled. Indonesia made its debut in the Challenge Cup of Asia. The host nation Malaysia won its first Division I tournament, winning all five of its games, defeating Macau in the final and promoted to Top Division for the 2019 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279924-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia \u2013 Division I, Participants, Match officials\n4 referees and 6 linesmen were selected for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279925-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia\nThe 2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia was an international men's under-20 ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament took place between 12 and 17 December 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and was the fourth edition held since its formation in 2012 under the IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia series of tournaments. To be eligible as a \"junior\", a player cannot be born earlier than 1998. Malaysia won the tournament after winning all five of their round-robin games and finishing first in the standings. Kyrgyzstan finished in second place and the United Arab Emirates finished third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279925-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia, Overview\nThe 2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia began on 12 December 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with games played at the Malaysia National Ice Skating Stadium (MyNISS). The tournament is the first U20 Challenge Cup of Asia to be held since 2014. All four teams from the 2014 edition, Japan, Kazakhstan, MHL Red Stars and South Korea, did not return due to the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) restructuring the tournament for countries which do not participate in the IIHF World U20 Championships. In August 2017 the IIHF announced the participants for the tournament. India, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia and the Philippines all made their debut in under-20 international competition. The United Arab Emirates returned having last played a series of exhibition games in 2013 during the 2013 IIHF World U20 Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 864]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279925-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia, Overview\nThe tournament consisted of a single round-robin with each team competing in four games. Malaysia won the tournament after winning all five of their games and finished first in the standings. Kyrgyzstan finished second after losing only to Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates finished in third. Malaysia's Mohammad Hariz Mohammad Oryza Ananda led the tournament in scoring with 18 points and was named the most valuable player. Shahrul Ilyas Abdul Shukor of Malaysia finished as the tournaments leading goaltender with a save percentage of 97.56. The IIHF Directorate however awarded best goalkeeper to Abdulrahman Al Hosani of the United Arab Emirates. Malaysia's Chee Ming Bryan Lim was named the best forward and Benjamin Jorge Imperial of the Philippines was named the best defenceman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279925-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals, assists, and the lower penalties in minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279925-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia, Leading goaltenders\nOnly the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279926-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia\nThe 2018 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia was an international women's ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament took place between 8 March and 11 March 2018 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and was the sixth edition held since its formation in 2010 under the IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia series of tournaments. Chinese Taipei's under-18 team won the tournament after winning all three of their round-robin games and finishing first in the standings. The New Zealand under-18 team finished in second place and Thailand finished third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279926-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia, Overview\nThe 2018 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia began on 8 March 2018 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with games played at the Malaysia National Ice Skating Stadium (MyNISS). The Women's competition was split into two tournaments for 2018 due to the increase from seven to eight teams. The defending champions New Zealand's under-18 team (New Zealand U18), Thailand and Singapore returned after finishing in the top three of the 2017 tournament. Chinese Taipei's under-18 team (Chinese Taipei U18) was included as the fourth team in the competition, making their debut in women's under-18 international competition. India, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates and Malaysia, who finished fourth through to seventh in 2017, were placed into the newly created Division I tournament. Both 2018 tournaments ran alongside each other with all games being held at the Malaysia National Ice Skating Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 943]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279926-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia, Overview\nThe tournament consisted of a single round-robin with each team competing in three games. Chinese Taipei U18 won the tournament after winning all three of their games and finished first in the standings. New Zealand U18 finished second after losing only to Chinese Taipei U18 and Thailand finished in third. Thailand's Nuchanat Ponglerkdee and New Zealand's Harriet Fuller led the tournament in scoring with eight points each with Ponglerkdee also being named the most valuable player. Wasunun Angkulpattanasuk of Thailand finished as the tournaments leading goaltender with a save percentage of 94.12 and was awarded best goaltender by the IIHF Directorate. Chinese Taipei's Hsuan Wang was named best forward and Sirikarn Jittresin of Thailand was named best defenceman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279926-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals, assists, and the lower penalties in minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279926-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia, Leading goaltenders\nOnly the top goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279927-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia Division I\nThe 2018 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia Division I was an international women's ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament took place between 6 and 9 March 2018 at the Empire City Ice Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This edition marks the return of the Division I tournament after no division tournament was held in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279927-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia Division I\nThe tournament was contested by four nations. Host Malaysia won the tournament after winning over the United Arab Emirates in their last round robin match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279928-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I\nThe 2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I was an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279928-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I\nThe Group A tournament was held in Vaujany, France and the Group B tournament in Asiago, Italy, from 8 to 14 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279928-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I\nFrance won the Group A tournament and moved up to the top division, while Italy were the champions of Group B and will play in the Group A tournament next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279928-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I, Group A tournament, Match officials\n4 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 84], "content_span": [85, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279928-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I, Group A tournament, Awards and statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 107], "content_span": [108, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279928-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I, Group A tournament, Awards and statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; 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Spain took home the top spot in the Group B tournament and were promoted to Group A next year, while Croatia won the qualification tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279929-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group A tournament, Match officials\n4 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 85], "content_span": [86, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279929-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group A tournament, Awards and statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 108], "content_span": [109, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279929-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group A tournament, Awards and statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties in Minutes; POS = PositionSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 108], "content_span": [109, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279929-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group A tournament, Awards and statistics, Leading goaltenders\nOnly the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 112], "content_span": [113, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279929-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group A tournament, Awards and statistics, Leading goaltenders\nTOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 112], "content_span": [113, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279929-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group B tournament, Match officials\n4 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 85], "content_span": [86, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279929-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group B tournament, Awards and statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 108], "content_span": [109, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279929-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group B tournament, Awards and statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties in Minutes; POS = PositionSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 108], "content_span": [109, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279929-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group B tournament, Awards and statistics, Leading goaltenders\nOnly the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 112], "content_span": [113, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279929-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group B tournament, Awards and statistics, Leading goaltenders\nTOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 112], "content_span": [113, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279929-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group B Qualification tournament, Match officials\n3 referees and 5 linesmen were selected for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 99], "content_span": [100, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279929-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group B Qualification tournament, Statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 111], "content_span": [112, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279929-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group B Qualification tournament, Statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; 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The IIHF announced the winning bid on 23 May 2014. South Korea made its debut at the World Championship, having played in the lower divisions previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279930-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship\nSweden won their second consecutive and eleventh overall title after defeating Switzerland in the final. The United States won the bronze medal game, defeating Canada 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279930-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship\nThe official mascot of the tournament was a duck, inspired by the Danish writer and poet Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale about The Ugly Duckling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279930-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship, Bids\nThe decision was announced on 23 May 2014. The final tally was 95-12 in favor of Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 34], "content_span": [35, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279930-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship, Seeding\nThe seeding in the preliminary round was based on the 2017 IIHF World Ranking, which ended at the conclusion of the 2017 IIHF World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279930-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship, Seeding\nDenmark and Sweden played in separate groups, Denmark at the Jyske Bank Boxen while Sweden at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279930-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship, Rosters\nEach team's roster consisted of at least 15 skaters (forwards, and defencemen) and 2 goaltenders, and at most 22 skaters and 3 goaltenders. All 16 participating nations, through the confirmation of their respective national associations, had to submit a \"Long List\" no later than two weeks before the tournament, and a final roster by the Passport Control meeting prior to the start of tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279930-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship, Officials\n16 referees and linesman were announced on 21 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279930-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship, Final ranking and statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279930-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship, Final ranking and statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties in Minutes; POS = PositionSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279930-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship, Final ranking and statistics, Goaltending leaders\nOnly the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 79], "content_span": [80, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279930-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship, Final ranking and statistics, Goaltending leaders\nTOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 79], "content_span": [80, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279931-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division I\nThe 2018 IIHF World Championship Division I was an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279931-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division I\nThe Group A tournament was held in Budapest, Hungary and the Group B tournament was held in Kaunas, Lithuania from 22 to 28 April 2018. Warsaw, Poland planned on bidding for the tournament, but as Poland had hosted both the 2015 and 2016 tournaments, decided to apply for a later year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279931-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division I\nGreat Britain and Italy were promoted to the Top Division, while Poland was relegated to Division I B. The Group B tournament was won by Lithuania, who moved up to Group A and Croatia was relegated to Division II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279931-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division I, Group A tournament, Match officials\n7 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279931-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division I, Group A tournament, Awards and statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 99], "content_span": [100, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279931-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division I, Group A tournament, Awards and statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties in Minutes; POS = PositionSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 99], "content_span": [100, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279931-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division I, Group A tournament, Awards and statistics, Leading goaltenders\nOnly the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 103], "content_span": [104, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279931-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division I, Group A tournament, Awards and statistics, Leading goaltenders\nTOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 103], "content_span": [104, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279931-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division I, Group B tournament, Match officials\n4 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279931-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division I, Group B tournament, Awards and statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 99], "content_span": [100, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279931-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division I, Group B tournament, Awards and statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties in Minutes; POS = PositionSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 99], "content_span": [100, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279931-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division I, Group B tournament, Awards and statistics, Leading goaltenders\nOnly the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 103], "content_span": [104, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279931-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division I, Group B tournament, Awards and statistics, Leading goaltenders\nTOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 103], "content_span": [104, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279932-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division II\nThe 2018 IIHF World Championship Division II was an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Group A was contested in Tilburg, Netherlands from 23 to 29 April 2018 and Group B in Granada, Spain from 14 to 20 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279932-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division II\nThe Netherlands were promoted to Division I B and Iceland was relegated to Group B. 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It was held in Cape Town, South Africa and the qualification tournament in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina after the original hosts, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, withdrew their application.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279933-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division III\nGeorgia won the tournament and were promoted to Division II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279933-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Division III\nKuwait and Turkmenistan made their debut in the World Championships, with both playing in the qualification tournament. 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The four best placed teams advanced to the playoff round, while the last placed team is relegated to Division I in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279936-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship Group B\nGroup B was one of two groups of the 2018 IIHF World Championship. The four best placed teams advanced to the playoff round, while the last placed team is relegated to Division I in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279937-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship playoff round\nThe playoff round of the 2018 IIHF World Championship was held from 17 to 20 May 2018. The top four-placed teams of each preliminary group qualified for the playoff round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279938-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship rosters\nEach team's roster consisted of at least 15 skaters (forwards and defencemen) and two goaltenders, and at most 22 skaters and three goaltenders. All 16 participating nations, through the confirmation of their respective national associations, had to submit a roster by the first IIHF directorate meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279938-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship rosters, Group A, Austria\nA 29-player roster was announced on 24 April 2018. It was reduced to 27 on 30 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279938-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship rosters, Group A, Belarus\nHead coach: Dave Lewis was the acting head coach until 8 May 2018, after that Sergei Pushkov took over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279938-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship rosters, Group A, Czech Republic\nA 32-player roster was announced on 26 April 2018. It was down to 26 on 29 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279938-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship rosters, Group A, Russia\nA 28-player roster was announced on 24 April 2018. It was cut to 25 players on 1 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279938-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship rosters, Group A, Slovakia\nA 27-player roster was announced on 26 April 2018. It was 25 players on 29 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279938-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship rosters, Group A, Sweden\nA 25-player roster was announced on 29 April 2018. Filip Forsberg and Mattias Ekholm were added on May 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279938-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship rosters, Group B, Canada\nAn 18-player roster was announced on 12 April 2018, while four more players were added on 27 April 2018. Tyson Jost joined the team on 30 April 2018. Marc-\u00c9douard Vlasic was added to the team 9 May 2018. Kyle Turris was added on 15 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279938-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship rosters, Group B, Denmark\nA 26-player roster was announced on 30 April 2018. On 2 May, it was announced that Oliver Bjorkstrand would join the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279938-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship rosters, Group B, Germany\nA 25-player roster was announced on 30 April 2018. On 1 May 2018, Mirko H\u00f6fflin replaced Marcel M\u00fcller due to an injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279938-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Championship rosters, Group B, Norway\nA 27-player roster was announced on 27 April 2018. It was down to 24 players on 30 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279939-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I\nThe 2018 IIHF U18 World Championship Division I were a pair of international under-18 ice hockey tournaments organised by the International Ice Hockey Federation. 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(24 March: Central European Time \u2013 UTC+1, from 25 March: Central European Summer Time \u2013 UTC+2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279941-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III\nThe 2018 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III were two international under-18 men's ice hockey tournaments organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. 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(New Zealand Standard Time \u2013 UTC+12)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279942-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championships\nThe 2018 IIHF U18 World Championship was the 20th IIHF World U18 Championship. The tournament was played from 19 to 29 April 2018 in Chelyabinsk and Magnitogorsk, Russia. United States lost to Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279942-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championships, Top Division, Match officials\n12 referees and 10 linesmen were selected for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279942-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championships, Top Division, Statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279942-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championships, Top Division, Statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In MinutesSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279942-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championships, Top Division, Statistics, Leading goaltenders\nOnly the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279942-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championships, Top Division, Statistics, Leading goaltenders\nTOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279942-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division I, Division I A\nThe Division I A tournament was held in Riga, Latvia, from 2 to 8 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279942-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division I, Division I B\nThe Division I B tournament was held in Kiev, Ukraine, from 14 to 20 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279942-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division II, Division II A\nThe Division II A tournament was held in Tallinn, Estonia, from 1 to 7 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279942-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division II, Division II B\nThe Division II B tournament was held in Zagreb, Croatia, from 24 to 30 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279942-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division III, Division III A\nThe Division III A tournament was held in Erzurum, Turkey, from 26 March to 1 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279942-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division III, Division III B\nThe Division III B tournament was held in Queenstown, New Zealand, from 26 to 28 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279943-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship\nThe 2018 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship was the eleventh Women's U18 World Championship in ice hockey. It was played at the Ice Palace in Dmitrov, Russia from 6 to 13 January 2018. The USA won for the seventh time, for the first time defeating someone other than Canada in the gold medal game. Sweden took silver, while Canada took bronze beating host Russia. The Russians beat Canada in the preliminary round, marking another first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279943-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship\nOn 4 January 2018, the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia announced that all entry tickets would be free as part of their program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279943-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, Top Division, Relegation round\nThe third and fourth placed team from Group B will play a best-of-three series to determine the relegated team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279943-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, Top Division, Statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In MinutesSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279943-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, Top Division, Statistics, Goaltending leaders\nTOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279943-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, Division I\nThe Group A tournament was held in Asiago, Italy from 8 to 14 January 2018. The Group B tournament was held in Katowice, Poland from 6 to 12 January 2018. The Group B Qualification tournament was held in Mexico City, Mexico from 30 January to 4 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279944-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 III liiga\nThe 2018 III liiga is the 21st season of the III liiga, fifth-highest league for association football clubs in Estonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279944-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 III liiga, III Liiga North, 2018 season\nThe following clubs are competing in II liiga North/East during the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279944-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 III liiga, III Liiga South, 2018 season\nThe following clubs are competing in III liiga South during the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279944-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 III liiga, III Liiga East, 2018 season\nThe following clubs are competing in III liiga East during the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279944-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 III liiga, III Liiga West, 2018 season\nThe following clubs are competing in III liiga West during the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279945-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IK Start season\nThe 2018 season is IK Start's first season back in the Eliteserien following their relegation at the end of the 2016 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279945-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IK Start season, Season events\nPrior to the start of the season, IK Start appointed Mark Dempsey as their new manager. After a run of poor results, Dempsey was fired on 18 May 2018, J\u00f3hannes Har\u00f0arson taking over as Interim Manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279945-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IK Start season, Squad\nAs of 31 August 2018. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279945-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IK Start season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279945-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IK Start season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279945-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IK Start season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279945-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IK Start season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279945-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IK Start season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279946-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IKF European Korfball A-Championship\nThe 2018 European Korfball A-Championship will be held in the Netherlands from 13 to 21 October 2018. Matches will be played in Drachten, Gorredijk, Heerenveen and Leeuwarden. It will be the first edition where the European Korfball Championship is split into an A-Championship and a B-Championship, with the idea that a certain number of teams will relegate from the A-Championship to the B-Championship after each edition, and a certain number of teams from the B-Championship will be promoted. Whether this will be a direct promotion or relegation, or whether play-offs will need to be played, is yet to be determined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279946-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IKF European Korfball A-Championship, Intermediate stage\nFollowing the group stage, an intermediate round is held, featuring the teams finishing in last place during the group stage and the group winners of the B-Championship. The winners will continue in the A-Championship knockout stage, the losers move to the B-Championship knockout stage. As 10 nations from Europe qualify for the 2019 IKF World Korfball Championship, the winners of these matches qualified for the 2019 IKF World Korfball Championship by virtue of being sure to finish in the top 8. The losing teams might still qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279946-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IKF European Korfball A-Championship, Final standing\nAll teams qualify for both the 2019 IKF World Korfball Championship and the 2021 IKF European Korfball A-Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279947-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IKF European Korfball B-Championship\nThe 2018 European Korfball B-Championship is held in the Netherlands from 13 to 21 October 2018. Matches are played in Drachten, Gorredijk, Heerenveen and Leeuwarden. It is the first edition where the European Korfball Championship is split into an A-Championship and a B-Championship, with the idea that a certain number of teams will relegate from the A-Championship to the B-Championship after each edition, and a certain number of teams from the B-Championship will be promoted. Whether this will be a direct promotion or relegation, or whether play-offs will need to be played, is yet to be determined. The tournament was originally scheduled to be played by eight teams, but following a late withdrawal by Turkey, only seven teams took part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279947-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IKF European Korfball B-Championship\nThe top two finishers will qualify for the 2019 IKF World Korfball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279947-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IKF European Korfball B-Championship, Group stage\nThe eight teams are divided into two groups of four, with all teams progressing to the quarter-finals. The groups are named C and D to distinguish them from Groups A and B of teams playing in the 2018 IKF European Korfball A-Championship, held at the same time and location as the 2018 IKF European Korfball B-Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279947-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IKF European Korfball B-Championship, Intermediate stage\nFollowing the group stage, an intermediate round is held, featuring the group winners and the teams finishing last in the group stage of the A-Championship. The winners will continue in the A-Championship knockout stage, the losers move or remain in the B-Championship knockout stage. As 10 nations from Europe qualify for the 2019 IKF World Korfball Championship, the winners of these matches qualified for the 2019 IKF World Korfball Championship by virtue of being sure to finish in the top 8. The losing teams might still qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279947-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IKF European Korfball B-Championship, Knockout stage, Consolation bracket\nDue to the late cancellation of Turkey, only three teams were available to play for the last places. The three losing teams from the quarterfinals would play a round-robin system, playing each other once. France and Serbia were first matched against each other, with the loser playing Scotland to determine last place. The winners of the first two matches then met to determine the fifth and sixth place finisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 78], "content_span": [79, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279948-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IKF European Korfball Championship First Round\nThe 2018 IKF European Korfball Championship First Round was held in Budapest, Hungary on 28 and 29 October 2017. The tournament served as the first round of the 2018 IKF European Korfball Championships to be held in the Netherlands in 2018, with both the winner and runner-up qualifying for the 2018 IKF European Korfball B-Championship. Hungary and Serbia qualified on 29 October 2017 as they won their semi-final matches against Ireland and Greece respectively. Later that same day, Hungary beat Serbia to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279948-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IKF European Korfball Championship First Round, Participating teams\nEight teams participated in the tournament: Armenia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine. For Switzerland and Ukraine this was the first international tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279948-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IKF European Korfball Championship First Round, Group stage\nTwo groups (A and B) of four teams were drawn, with each team playing the other teams in their group once. The top two teams in these groups will move to the semi-finals. The other teams will also be paired with a team from the other group in the same position, to playoff for overall position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 64], "content_span": [65, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279948-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IKF European Korfball Championship First Round, Group stage\nAll group stage matches were played at the Gab\u00e1nyi L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Sportcsarnok in Budapest on 28 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 64], "content_span": [65, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279948-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IKF European Korfball Championship First Round, 5th\u20138th place play-offs\nThe teams finishing third in both groups played a match to determine fifth place, the teams finish fourth to determine seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 76], "content_span": [77, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279949-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA Michelin Encore\nThe 2018 IMSA Michelin SportsCar Encore was the inaugural edition of the non-championship sports car race held at Sebring International Raceway on 9 November 2018. The race was contested with LMP3 cars, GT3-spec cars, GT4-spec cars and TCR-touring car. The event was organized by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279950-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA Prototype Challenge\nThe 2018 IMSA Prototype Challenge presented by Mazda is the thirteenth season of the IMSA Lites series and its successors and the second season as the IMSA Prototype Challenge. The season features 6 races across 6 weekends.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279950-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA Prototype Challenge, Calendar, Race schedule\nThe 2018 schedule was released on 24 August 2017 and features six rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279950-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA Prototype Challenge, Calendar, Race schedule\n1 LMP3 will participate in this race with the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's GT Daytona class and the Grand Sport and TCR cars from the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge as one single four-hour race. This race will preview the 2019 IMSA rules package and new tyre supplier Michelin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279950-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA Prototype Challenge, Entry List, LMP3\nNote: A driver with a (M) is participating in the Amateur Masters Category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279950-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA Prototype Challenge, Entry List, Mazda Prototype Challenge (MPC)\nAll teams use Elan DP02 chassis and Mazda MZR 2.0L 4 cylinder engines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279951-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship\nThe 2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship was the 48th motor racing championship sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) (which traces its lineage to the 1971 IMSA GT Championship). It was the fifth season of the United SportsCar Championship and third to be held under the name as the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. It began on January 27 with the 24 Hours of Daytona, and ended on October 13 with the Petit Le Mans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279951-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship, Classes\nAt the end of 2017 season, the Prototype Challenge (PC) class was reduced to a support series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279951-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship, Schedule, Race schedule\nThe 2018 schedule was released on August 4, 2017 and featured twelve rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279951-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship, Entries, Prototype\nThe Prototype class is made up of LMP2 cars both in LMP2 trim, with the ACO specification Gibson V8 engine, and in Daytona Prototype International (DPi) trim, where manufacturers are allowed to use their own engines and bodykits, designed to reflect the automaker's design language. Acura (Oreca), Mazda (Riley Technologies), Cadillac (Dallara), and Nissan (Onroak Automotive) will run chassis from the respective constructors featuring manufacturer-specific bodywork and engines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279951-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship, Championship standings, Points systems\nChampionship points are awarded in each class at the finish of each event. Points are awarded based on finishing positions as shown in the chart below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279951-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship, Championship standings, Points systems\nPoints are awarded in each class at the finish of each event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279951-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship, Championship standings, Points systems\nTeam points are calculated in exactly the same way as driver points, using the point distribution chart. Each car entered is considered its own \"team\" regardless if it is a single entry or part of a two-car team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279951-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship, Championship standings, Points systems\nThere are also a number of manufacturer championships which utilize the same season-long point distribution chart. The manufacturer championships recognized by IMSA are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279951-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship, Championship standings, Points systems\nEach manufacturer receives finishing points for its highest finishing car in each class. The positions of subsequent finishing cars from the same manufacturer are not taken into consideration, and all other manufacturers move up in the order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279951-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship, Championship standings, Points systems\nThe points system for the North American Endurance Cup is different from the normal points system. Points are awarded on a 5-4-3-2 basis for drivers, teams and manufacturers. The first finishing position at each interval earns five points, four points for second position, three points for third, with two points awarded for fourth and each subsequent finishing position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279951-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship, Championship standings, Points systems\nAt Daytona (24 hour race), points are awarded at six hours, 12 hours, 18 hours and at the finish. At the Sebring (12 hour race), points are awarded at four hours, eight hours and at the finish. At Watkins Glen (6 hour race), points are awarded at three hours and at the finish. At Road Atlanta (10 hour race), points are awarded at four hours, eight hours and at the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279951-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship, Championship standings, Points systems\nLike the season-long team championship, North American Endurance Cup team points are awarded for each car and drivers get points in any car that they drive, in which they are entered for points. The manufacturer points go to the highest placed car from that manufacturer (the others from that manufacturer not being counted), just like the season-long manufacturer championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279951-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship, Championship standings, Points systems\nFor example: in any particular segment manufacturer A finishes 1st and 2nd and manufacturer B finishes 3rd. Manufacturer A only receives first-place points for that segment. Manufacturer B receives the second-place points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279952-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IPSC Action Air World Shoot\nThe 2018 IPSC Action Air World Shoot I was the first IPSC Action Air World Shoot, and was held in Hong Kong indoor at the Kowloonbay International Trade & Exhibition Centre (KITEC). The match consisted of 30 stages over 3 days and had a match capacity of 600 competitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279952-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IPSC Action Air World Shoot, Champions, Open\nThe Open division had the second largest match participation with 175 out of 481 starting competitors (36.4\u00a0%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279952-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IPSC Action Air World Shoot, Champions, Standard\nThe Standard division had the largest match participation with 213 out of 481 starting competitors (44.3\u00a0%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279952-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IPSC Action Air World Shoot, Champions, Production\nThe Production division had the third largest match participation with 60 out of 481 starting competitors (12.5\u00a0%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279952-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IPSC Action Air World Shoot, Champions, Classic\nThe Classic division had the fourth largest match participation with 33 out of 481 starting competitors (7\u00a0%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279953-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IPSC Shotgun World Shoot\nThe 2018 IPSC Shotgun World Shoot III was the third IPSC Shotgun World Shoot, and was held at the National Shooting Center in Ch\u00e2teauroux, France between 3. and 10. June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279953-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IPSC Shotgun World Shoot, Champions, Open\nThe Open division had the second largest match participation with 212 out of 656 starting competitors (37.5%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279953-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IPSC Shotgun World Shoot, Champions, Standard\nThe Standard division had the largest match participation with 223 out of 656 starting competitors (39.5%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279953-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IPSC Shotgun World Shoot, Champions, Standard Manual\nThe Standard Manual division had the third largest match participation with 127 out of 656 starting competitors (22.5%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279953-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IPSC Shotgun World Shoot, Champions, Modified\nThe Modified division had the fourth largest match participation with 94 out of 656 starting competitors (16.6%). The division saw Teemu Rintala put on a dominating performance winning with a margin of over 150 points and pushing the nearest competitor Sami Hautam\u00e4ki in second place down to a Match Percent of 91.83%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279953-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IPSC Shotgun World Shoot, Shoot-Off side event\nThe shoot-off side event was an audience friendly one-against-one elimination cup held on 10 June, the day after the Main Match was finished. The top overall finishing athletes from the Main Match as well as the top category athletes within in each division were eligible for qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279953-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IPSC Shotgun World Shoot, Shoot-Off side event\nThe final in the Open division shoot-off came down to an extremely small margin, with the contenders firing each of their shots almost simultaneously. The decisive hit on the last popper came down to tactics. U.S. shooter Scott Greene had chosen the most aggressive choke, which increased his risk of missing, but ultimately caused his plate to fall down faster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279954-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IQA World Cup\nThe 2018 IQA World Cup was the fourth edition of the IQA World Cup, the international quidditch championship organized by the International Quidditch Association, the sport's global governing body. It was held in Florence, Italy between 27 June and 2 July 2018. Australia were the defending champions. The United States won their third championship after beating Belgium in the final. Over 800 athletes participated in competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279954-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IQA World Cup, Bidding process\nSeven nations expressed interest in hosting the tournament: Australia, Belgium, France, Italy, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. On 1 November, Florence, Italy was announced as the host.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279954-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IQA World Cup, Participating teams, Draw\nTeams are placed in drawing pots based on their geographical location and their standing in the previous World Cup and European Games as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279954-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IQA World Cup, Participating teams, Draw\nMexico is automatically assigned a spot as the 8th ranked team at the 2016 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279954-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IQA World Cup, Participating teams, Draw\nThe teams are drawn from the pots into six groups of four teams (A, B, C, D, E, and F) and one group of five teams (G). Teams from Pot 1 are drawn into each group's first position. Mexico takes position G2 and the other second positions are taken from Pot 2. Pot 3 teams are drawn in each group's third position, and the remaining positions are drawn from Pot 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279954-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IQA World Cup, Group stage\nIn the group stage, teams compete in a cross-pool league system, whereby the teams in Group A play against the teams in Group B and similarly for Groups C and D, and Groups E and F. Only teams in Group G are playing against each other. At the end of the group stage, all teams are ranked together based on their performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279955-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ISSF Junior World Cup\nThe 2018 ISSF Junior World Cup is the annual edition of the ISSF Junior World Cup, governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279956-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ISSF World Cup\nThe 2018 ISSF World Cup is the annual edition of the ISSF World Cup in the Olympic shooting events, governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279956-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ISSF World Cup\nConsidering 2020 Olympic Games, the ISSF has made many changes in the categories and competition. For the first time, mixed team medal events in 10m Air Pistol, 10m Air Rifle and Trap categories have been introduced officially while 50m Rifle Prone Men, 50m Pistol Men and Double Trap Men, which were earlier part of World Cup Series and Olympic Games has been discontinued from this World Cup series. Which makes the total number of medals in both Men's and Women's section equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279957-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships\nThe 52nd ISSF World Shooting Championships were held in Changwon, South Korea from 2 to 14 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279957-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships\nThis also served as first qualification for 2020 Summer Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279957-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships, Medal summary, Junior\nDue to shortage of athletes some events are conducted as \"Grand Prix\" only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279957-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships, Medal summary, Junior\nThis events not computed at the medal table and marked with blue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279958-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Men's Circuit\nThe 2018 ITF Men's Circuit is the 2018 edition of the second tier tour for men's professional tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the ATP Tour. The ITF Men's Circuit includes tournaments with prize money ranging from $15,000 up to $25,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279958-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Men's Circuit, Statistics\nThese tables present the number of singles (S) and doubles (D) titles won by each player and each nation during the season. The players/nations are sorted by: 1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation); 2) a singles > doubles hierarchy; 3) alphabetical order (by family names for players).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279958-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Men's Circuit, Statistics\nTo avoid confusion and double counting, these tables should be updated only after an event is completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279959-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Men's Circuit (April\u2013June)\nThe 2018 ITF Men's Circuit is the 2018 edition of the second tier tour for men's professional tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the ATP Tour. The ITF Men's Circuit includes tournaments with prize money ranging from $15,000 up to $25,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279960-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Men's Circuit (January\u2013March)\nThe 2018 ITF Men's Circuit is the 2018 edition of the second tier tour for men's professional tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the ATP Tour. The ITF Men's Circuit includes tournaments with prize money ranging from $15,000 up to $25,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279961-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Men's Circuit (July\u2013September)\nThe 2018 ITF Men's Circuit is the 2018 edition of the second tier tour for men's professional tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the ATP Tour. The ITF Men's Circuit includes tournaments with prize money ranging from $15,000 up to $25,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279962-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Men's Circuit (October\u2013December)\nThe 2018 ITF Men's Circuit is the 2018 edition of the second tier tour for men's professional tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the ATP Tour. The ITF Men's Circuit includes tournaments with prize money ranging from $15,000 up to $25,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279963-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Women's Circuit\nThe 2018 International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's Circuit is a second-tier tour for women's professional tennis. It is organized by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. The ITF Women's Circuit includes tournaments with prize money ranging from $15,000 to $100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279963-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Women's Circuit, Statistics\nThese tables present the number of singles (S) and doubles (D) titles won by each player and each nation during the season. The players/nations are sorted by:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279963-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Women's Circuit, Statistics\nTo avoid confusion and double counting, these tables should be updated only after an event is completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279964-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Women's Circuit (April\u2013June)\nThe 2018 ITF Women's Circuit is the 2018 edition of the second-tier tour for women's professional tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the WTA Tour. The ITF Women's Circuit includes tournaments with prize money ranging from $15,000 up to $100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279965-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Women's Circuit (January\u2013March)\nThe 2018 ITF Women's Circuit is the 2018 edition of the second tier tour for women's professional tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the WTA Tour. The ITF Women's Circuit includes tournaments with prize money ranging from $15,000 up to $100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279966-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Women's Circuit (July\u2013September)\nThe 2018 ITF Women's Circuit is the 2018 edition of the second tier tour for women's professional tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the WTA Tour. The ITF Women's Circuit includes tournaments with prize money ranging from $15,000 up to $100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279967-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Women's Circuit (October\u2013December)\nThe 2018 ITF Women's Circuit is the 2018 edition of the second tier tour for women's professional tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the WTA Tour. The ITF Women's Circuit includes tournaments with prize money ranging from $15,000 up to $100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279968-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Women's Circuit \u2013 Baotou\nThe 2018 ITF Women's Circuit \u2013 Baotou was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Baotou, China, on 21\u201327 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279968-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Women's Circuit \u2013 Baotou, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279969-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Women's Circuit \u2013 Baotou \u2013 Doubles\nAlison Bai and Aleksandrina Naydenova won the title, defeating Natalija Kosti\u0107 and Nika Kukharchuk in the final, 6\u20134, 0\u20136, [10\u20136].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279970-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITF Women's Circuit \u2013 Baotou \u2013 Singles\nNina Stojanovi\u0107 won the title, defeating Xu Shilin in the final, 6\u20130, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279971-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITS Cup\nThe 2018 ITS Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Olomouc, Czech Republic, on 16\u201322 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279971-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITS Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 56], "content_span": [57, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279972-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITS Cup \u2013 Doubles\nAmandine Hesse and Victoria Rodr\u00edguez were the defending champions, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279972-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITS Cup \u2013 Doubles\nPetra Krejsov\u00e1 and Jesika Male\u010dkov\u00e1 won the title after defeating Lucie Hradeck\u00e1 and Micha\u00eblla Krajicek 6\u20132, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279973-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITS Cup \u2013 Singles\nBernarda Pera was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279973-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITS Cup \u2013 Singles\nFiona Ferro won the title, defeating Karol\u00edna Muchov\u00e1 in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279974-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Challenge Series\nThe 2018 ITTF Challenge Series was the second season of the International Table Tennis Federation's secondary professional table tennis tour, a level below the ITTF World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279975-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Men's World Cup\nThe 2018 ITTF Men's World Cup was a table tennis competition held in Paris, France, from 19 to 21 October 2018. It was the 39th edition of the ITTF-sanctioned event, and the third time that it had been staged in Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279975-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Men's World Cup\nIn the final, China's Fan Zhendong defeated Timo Boll of Germany, 4\u20131, to win his second World Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279975-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Men's World Cup, Qualification\nA maximum of two players from each association could qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279975-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Men's World Cup, Qualification\nAs reigning World Champion, China's Ma Long was invited to take part, but withdrew prior to the event. His place was taken by Lin Gaoyuan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279975-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Men's World Cup, Competition format\nThe tournament consisted of two stages: a preliminary group stage and a knockout stage. The players seeded 9 to 20 were drawn into four groups, with three players in each group. The top two players from each group joined the top eight seeded players in the second stage of the competition, which consisted of a knockout draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279975-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Men's World Cup, Seeding\nThe seeding list was based on the official ITTF world ranking for October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279975-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Men's World Cup, Preliminary stage\nThe preliminary group stage took place on 19 October, with the top two players in each group progressing to the main draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279976-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Pan-America Cup\nThe 2018 ITTF Pan-America Cup was a table tennis competition that took place from 15\u201317 June in Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay. The event was organised by the Paraguay Table Tennis Federation, under the authority of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It was the second edition of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279976-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Pan-America Cup\nMen's singles and women's singles events were held, with the winners and runners-up in each event qualifying automatically for the 2018 Men's and Women's World Cups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279976-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Pan-America Cup, Men's singles, Seeding\nPlayers were seeded according to the June 2018 ITTF World Ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279976-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Pan-America Cup, Women's singles, Seeding\nPlayers were seeded according to the June 2018 ITTF World Ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279977-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Team World Cup\nThe 2018 ITTF Team World Cup was a table tennis competition held at the Copper Box Arena in London from 22 to 25 February 2018. It was the 11th edition of the ITTF-sanctioned event, and the first time that it had been held in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279977-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Team World Cup\nChina won both events, defeating Japan in both the men's and women's team finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279977-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Team World Cup, Qualification\nThe host nation England, and each of the current continental team champions qualified for both the men's and women's events, with additional places awarded to the highest-placed teams at the 2016 World Team Championships that hadn't already qualified through continental events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279978-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Team World Cup \u2013 Men's team\nThe men's team event of the 2018 ITTF Team World Cup took place at the Copper Box Arena in London from 22 to 25 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279978-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Team World Cup \u2013 Men's team, Tournament, Seeding\nTeams were seeded based on the ITTF World Ranking of the three highest-ranked players in each team, as at February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279978-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Team World Cup \u2013 Men's team, Tournament, Group stage\nThe group stage took place from 22 to 23 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279978-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Team World Cup \u2013 Men's team, Tournament, Knockout stage\nThe knockout stage took place from 23 to 25 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279979-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Team World Cup \u2013 Women's team\nThe women's team event of the 2018 ITTF Team World Cup took place at the Copper Box Arena in London from 22 to 25 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279979-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Team World Cup \u2013 Women's team, Tournament, Seeding\nTeams were seeded based on the ITTF World Ranking of the three highest-ranked players in each team, as at February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279979-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Team World Cup \u2013 Women's team, Tournament, Group stage\nThe group stage took place from 22 to 23 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279979-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Team World Cup \u2013 Women's team, Tournament, Knockout stage\nThe knockout stage took place from 23 to 25 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279980-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Women's World Cup\nThe 2018 ITTF Women's World Cup was a table tennis competition held in Chengdu, China, from 28 to 30 September 2018. It was the 22nd edition of the ITTF-sanctioned event, and the ninth time that it has been staged in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279980-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Women's World Cup\nIn the final, China's Ding Ning defeated fellow Chinese player Zhu Yuling, 4\u20130, to win her third World Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279980-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Women's World Cup, Qualification\nA maximum of two players from each association could qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279980-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Women's World Cup, Competition format\nThe tournament consisted of two stages: a preliminary group stage and a knockout stage. The players seeded 9 to 20 were drawn into four groups, with three players in each group. The top two players from each group then joined the top eight seeded players in the second stage of the competition, which consisted of a knockout draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279980-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Women's World Cup, Seeding\nThe seeding list was based on the official ITTF world ranking for September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279980-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Women's World Cup, Preliminary stage\nThe preliminary group stage took place on 28 September, with the top two players in each group progressing to the main draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279980-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF Women's World Cup, Main draw\nThe knockout stage took place from 29 to 30 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279981-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF World Tour\nThe 2018 ITTF World Tour was the 23rd season of the International Table Tennis Federation's professional table tennis world tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279981-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF World Tour\nFor the first time in its history, the tour included mixed doubles competitions in 2018. They featured at six events: the China Open, Japan Open, Korea Open, Australian Open and Austrian Open, as well as at the Grand Finals. This was to promote the mixed doubles category prior to its inclusion on the 2020 Olympics programme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279981-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF World Tour, Schedule\nThe tournaments in the 2018 tour were split into two tiers: World Tour Platinum and World Tour. The Platinum events offered higher prize money and more points towards the ITTF World Tour standings, which determined the qualifiers for the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279981-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF World Tour, Schedule\nBelow is the 2018 schedule announced by the International Table Tennis Federation:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279981-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF World Tour, Grand Finals\nThe 2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals took place in Incheon, South Korea, from 13 to 16 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279982-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals\nThe 2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals was the final competition of the 2018 ITTF World Tour, the International Table Tennis Federation's professional table tennis world tour. It was the 23rd edition of the competition, and was held from 13\u201316 December in Incheon, South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279982-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals\nThe competition featured events in five categories: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279982-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, Qualification\nPlayers earned points based on their performances in the singles and doubles tournaments at the 12 events of the 2018 ITTF World Tour. The top 16 men's and women's singles players, and the top eight men's, women's and mixed doubles pairs who satisfied the qualification criteria were invited to compete. China's Ma Long qualified for the men's singles event, but withdrew due to injury. His place was taken by Japan's Yuya Oshima.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279982-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, Tournament format\nThe singles and doubles tournaments consisted of knockout draws, with 16 players starting each of the singles events and eight pairs starting each of the doubles events. The seedings for the tournament draws were based on final tour standings, not the official ITTF world ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279982-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, ITTF Star Awards\nThe 2018 ITTF Star Awards ceremony was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Incheon on 12 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279983-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup\nThe 2018 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup (also known as the 2018 Lion ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a table tennis competition that took place from 6\u20138 April in Yokohama, Japan. The event was organised by the Japan Table Tennis Association (JTTA), under the authority of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and the Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU). It was the 31st edition of the event, and the third time that it had been held in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279983-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup\nMen's singles and women's singles events were held, and the three medallists in each event qualified automatically for the 2018 Men's and Women's World Cups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279983-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup, Qualification\nIn both the men's and women's singles events, the reigning Asian Champion and Asian Cup Champion qualified, along with the 10 highest-ranked Asian players in the January 2018 ITTF World Ranking. The final four places were awarded to regional representatives from Middle Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and West Asia. Qualification was subject to a maximum of two players from any association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279983-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup, Format\nThe first stage of both the men's and women's singles competitions consisted of four groups playing a round robin system, where each player played the other players in their group once. The top two players in Groups A, B and C qualified directly to the second stage. The third player from Groups A, B and C joined the winner of the Continental Group in play-off matches to decide the final two places in the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279983-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup, Format\nThe second stage consisted of a single knockout draw to decide the top eight positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279983-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup, Men's singles, Seeding\nPlayers were seeded according to the April 2018 ITTF World Ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279983-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup, Men's singles, Main draw\nThe main draw took place on 7 and 8 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279983-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup, Women's singles, Seeding\nPlayers were seeded according to the April 2018 ITTF World Ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279983-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup, Women's singles, Main draw\nThe main draw took place on 7 and 8 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279984-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF-Oceania Cup\nThe 2018 ITTF-Oceania Cup was a table tennis event that took place from 18\u201319 May in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The event was organised by ITTF-Oceania, under the authority of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It was the 10th edition of the event, and the first time that it had been held in Vanuatu. Men's singles and women's singles competitions were held, and the winner of each event qualified automatically for the 2018 Men's and Women's World Cups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279984-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF-Oceania Cup\nThe eighth edition of the Pacific Cup was also held during the event, with players from Australia and New Zealand excluded from competing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279984-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITTF-Oceania Cup, Players\nQualification was based primarily on a points list, with a maximum of two players per association being invited to compete in both the men's and women's singles competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279985-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship\nThe 2018 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship was the 10th edition of the mixed relay world championships and the 6th to be held in Hamburg, Germany. The race was hosted on 15 July 2018 to coincide with the 2018 ITU World Triathlon Series Hamburg race, and featured 40 men and 40 women representing 20 countries. The race was around the Binnenalster, an artificial lake in central Hamburg. The race followed the standard mixed relay format, where each athlete would swim 300m, cycle 7\u00a0km and run 1.7\u00a0km before tagging their next teammate to do the same, with the specified gender order of female\u2014male\u2014female\u2014male.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279985-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship\nOver the first two legs a leading group would emerge but soon be recaptured multiple times. It wasn't until the third leg where a permanent lead group appeared containing the USA, France and the UK. Over the final leg Australia had a great run moving them from fourth to second after overtaking the US on the final straight, but it was France that would win after breaking clear on the cycle. This win would earn France their second world relay title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279985-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship, Course\nThe event was contested in the city centre of Hamburg, for the relay each of the four athletes would complete the same course one after another. The 300m swim is an out and back course in the Alster. Due to the location of the Reesendammbr\u00fccke bridge athletes were required to pass under the bridge both going out and coming back. After the swim a short run to the transition area was required. The cycle consisted of two 3.5\u00a0km laps along a flat and technical circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279985-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship, Course\nThe course held two 180\u00b0 turns as well as many 90\u00b0 turns with the laps mainly following the shore of the artificial lake Binnenalster. The cycle finished at the same transition area, leading to a 1.7\u00a0km run costing of two laps of differing lengths (0.95\u00a0km and 0.75\u00a0km). Both laps where mostly flat and crossed the Reesendammbr\u00fccke bridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279985-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship, Course\nThe course was designed to be as spectator-friendly as possible, with the race being the most popular on the ITU's calendar pulling in crowds of over 250,000 gather most years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279985-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship, Qualification\nThe qualification was organised by the ITU however a nation wishing to compete must send a bid to the ITU at least 60 days before the competition. From all bids the ITU gives automatic qualification to the host nation, which as for the past five years has given immediate entry for the German team. The ITU also gives the top 11 nations (excluding the host) from the previous years championship automatic qualification. Then the best placed teams in each continental championship to not have already qualified gain a spot. After this all the remaining bids are listed in order of their results form their continental championship and the remaining spaces are filled from the best placed team. If any team should withdraw from the championship the best ranked team from their continent not to have qualified will replace them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 890]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279985-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship, Race report\nGoing into the race the three favourites where the current title holders \u2014 the Australian team, the winners of the most recent mixed relay the - US team, and the French team due to the previous days performances in the individual races in Hamburg, with Vincent Luis placing second and Cassandre Beaugrand gaining her first ITU win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279985-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship, Race report\nDuring the first swim the group had split in three with the UK and the Netherlands emerging a few seconds clear of a chasing group consisting of Mexico, the US, Hungary and Japan. However, over the course of the cycling all of the athletes regrouped to the point where five seconds separated first and last place. Over the first run not much separated the top contenders with the previous day's second place woman, Laura Lindermann, leading into the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279985-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship, Race report\nOver the swim and cycle of the second leg a leading pack of four emerged consisting of France, Germany, the UK and the US with a twenty-second advantage. Over the run the group shattered with Dorian Coninx of France pulling away and Jonas Schomburg of Germany falling back. Such was the split as at the start of the third leg where France had a six-second lead over second place and a twenty five second lead over third. During the swim and bike of the third leg the leading pack of four reformed but with Japan replacing Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279985-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship, Race report\nThen the run the group again split with France leading. A large enough gap was never established with France two seconds ahead of the US in second, eleven seconds ahead of the UK in third and forty seconds clear of fifth place Australia. The gaps remained over the final swim until the bike leg where Luis of France took the lead from Kevin McDowell of the US. Similarly, Jacob Birtwhistle of Australia chased his way into third. Luis maintained his lead earning the win for France whilst Birtwhistle of Australia chased down McDowell overtaking him in the last 100m to take second for Australia, leaving third for the US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279986-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 ITU World Triathlon Series\nThe 2018 ITU World Triathlon Series was the 10th season of the World Triathlon Series, the top-level international series for triathlon, since its establishment in 2009. The season consisted of nine pairs of triathlon races for both a men's and women's competition, as well as three mixed relays, beginning on 2 March in Abu Dhabi, and concluding on 16 September with the grand final at the Gold Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279986-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 ITU World Triathlon Series\nMario Mola and Flora Duffy began the season as defending champions from the 2017 season. Mola would go on to defend his title and win the men's series for the third time in as many years, becoming the second-most successful triathlete at the world triathlon series after fellow countryman Javier G\u00f3mez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279986-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 ITU World Triathlon Series\nDuffy's season however would be plagued by injuries, leading to an inability to defend her title despite winning two races early in the season. The eventual winner, Vicky Holland, captured the women's series by moving into first place only after the final race of the series. The most notable event of the year was in Bermuda where the Norwegian team completed the first men's podium sweep, with race winner Casper Stornes having only competed in two prior WTS races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279986-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 ITU World Triathlon Series, Overview, Calendar\nThe 2018 ITU World Triathlon Series visited nine cities, and incorporated the three events of the inaugural Mixed Relay Series in Nottingham, Edmonton, and the Mixed Relay world championship in Hamburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279986-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 ITU World Triathlon Series, Overview, Point System\nFor every race a triathlete finished, they received points based on their position across the line. For a normal world series event, first place was awarded 1,000 points and every subsequent place was awarded 7.5% less, for the first forty triathletes; for the grand final, 1,200 points were awarded, once again decreasing by 7.5% for each place, but this time awarded down to 50th. However, if a triathlete finished outside the time cut (more than 5% longer than the winner's time for men, 8% for women), they received no points even if they finished in a scoring position. A triathlete's final score was the sum of their points from the grand final and their best five race scores of that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279986-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 ITU World Triathlon Series, Overall standings\nThe athlete who accumulates the most points throughout the season is declared the year's world champion. The final point standings are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279987-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IWRF World Championship\n2018 IWRF World Championship was the 7th international world wheelchair rugby competition, which took place between August 5 to August 10. The championships was contested between the world's twelve top national teams and was held at the Quaycentre and Genea Netball Centre in Sydney, Australia. The tournament was won by Japan, their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279987-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IWRF World Championship\nThe naming rights sponsor of the event was GIO, it as organised by Disability Sports Australia and Internnationl Wheelchair Rugby Federation and it was the biggest disability sporting event to be held in Sydney since the 2000 Paralympic Games. Matches were streamed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279987-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IWRF World Championship, Tournament\nTwelve teams contested the 2018 IWRF World Championship. The preliminary rounds consisted of a group stage where the teams were split into two leagues which were contested as a round-robin. This was then followed by a round of crossover matches that determined the semi-finalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279988-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics\nThe 18th Ibero-American Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Chan Chan in Trujillo, Peru, between August 24\u201326, 2018. A total of 44 events were contested, 22 by men and 22 by women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279989-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics \u2013 Results\nThese are the official results of the 2018 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics which took place on August 24, 25 and 26, 2018, in Trujillo, Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279990-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Icebreaker at The Granite\nThe 2018 GOLDLINE Icebreaker at The Granite was held from August 24 to 26 at the Granite Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was the second event on the World Curling Tour for the 2018\u201319 season. The men's event was held in a double knockout format and the women's event was held in a round robin format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279990-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Icebreaker at The Granite\nOn the men's side, Braden Calvert's rink from Winnipeg defeated John Shuster's team from Duluth 4\u20133 in the final. Team Calvert also won the event the previous season. On the women's side, Team Darcy Robertson also from Winnipeg defeated Russia's Anna Sidorova from Moscow 9\u20138 in the final. Team Robertson finished runner-up at the event in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279991-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Icelandic Cup\nThe 2018 Icelandic Cup, also known as Borgunarbikar for sponsorship reasons, was the 59th edition of the Icelandic national football cup. The 2017 winners and current holders of the cup are \u00cdBV after beating FH 1\u20130 in the final. The 2018 Icelandic Cup final was played on 15 September 2018 at Laugardalsv\u00f6llur, and won for the first time by Stjarnan after a penalty shootout against Brei\u00f0ablik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279991-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Icelandic Cup, Calendar\nBelow are the dates for each round as given by the official schedule:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279992-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup\nThe 2018 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup is the 23rd season of the Icelandic Men's League Cup, a pre-season professional football competition in Iceland. The tournament involves twenty-four clubs from the top two leagues in Iceland, \u00darvalsdeild karla and 1. deild karla, and uses a combination of group and knockout rounds to determine which team is the winner of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279992-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup\nThe tournament began on 9 February and will conclude with the final on 5 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279992-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup, Knockout stage, Semi-finals\nThe top team of each group will enter the semi-finals stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279993-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Icelandic municipal elections\nMunicipal elections took place in Iceland on 26 May 2018. 71 of the 72 municipal councils in the country were elected using open list PR. The rural municipality Tj\u00f6rneshreppur did not hold an election as only one list was presented, whose candidates were thereby automatically elected. Two of the municipal councils were for new municipalities created after mergers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279994-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 1\nIdaho Proposition 1 (2018) was a ballot initiative titled the \"Save Horse Racing in Idaho Act\". Voters failed to pass the initiative during the General Election held on November 6, 2018; the proposition would have allowed a limited number of Idaho racetracks to operate historical racing gaming terminals. Proposition 1 was an effort to restore a law that previously allowed historical racing in Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279994-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 1\nIn the 2018 vote for Idaho Proposition 1; 278,212 (46.20%) voted to save historical horse racing while 323,924 (53.80%) voted against Idaho Proposition 1. 45,713 voters would have been needed in order to pass Idaho Proposition 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279994-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 1, Proponents\nTreasure Valley Racing is credited with authoring Proposition 1, and was also the primary contributor to the Committee to Save Idaho Horse Racing, Create Jobs, and Fund Public Schools political action committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279994-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 1, Opponents\nThe Coeur d'Alene tribe was the primary contributor for two political action committees that opposed the measure. In 2018, the North Idaho Voter Project PAC was created by representatives of the Coeur d'Alene tribe. Representatives of the North Idaho Voter Project PAC were accused of following and harassing Proposition 1 canvassers (signature gatherers) who were attempting to acquire enough signatures to place the Prop 1 question on the 2018 ballot. The same PAC was also accused of attempting to bribe Proposition 1 canvassers to quit gathering signatures. The second opposition PAC is titled Idaho United Against Prop 1, and lists the chairman of the Coeur d'Alene Tribal Council, \"Ernie\" Stensgar, as the Treasurer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279994-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 1, History\nThe Idaho legislature voted to allow historical horse racing at horse race tracks in 2013. In 2015 horse races in Idaho brought in about $50 million in annual payroll, and sales. In 2015 a lobbyist for the Coeur d'Alene tribe introduced Senate Bill 1011 (2015) to the Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee. This repealed historical racing in Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279994-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 1, History\nLater in 2015 a gubernatorial veto to protect historical horse racing was invalid due to the timing of the veto Tribal representatives testified during the 2015 legislative hearings for Senate Bill 1011 that they were worried historical racing terminals would negatively impact their own tribal casino revenues. This caused all horse race tracks to close and over 535 jobs were lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279994-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 1, Funding\nChairman of the Coeur d'Alene Tribal Council, \"Ernie\" Stensgar reported on behalf of the Idaho United Against Prop 1 political action committee, that the Idaho United Against Prop 1 PAC had received $6.55 Million and spent $5.67 Million through October 31, 2018 to persuade voters against Prop 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279994-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 1, Funding\nBruce Newcomb, a former Speaker of the House for the Idaho House of Representatives, is listed as Chairman for the Committee to Save Idaho Horse Racing, Create Jobs, and Fund Public Schools political action committee. Through October 31, 2018, the Committee to Save Idaho Horse Racing PAC raised $5.94 Million and spent $4.59 Million in support of Prop 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2\n2018 Idaho Proposition 2 is an approved ballot initiative that was included on the 2018 General Election ballot on November 6, 2018. Idaho's Proposition 2 is an initiative which addressed the proposed Medicaid gap within the state. This Ballot Initiative was approved and qualified to be included for voting on July 17, 2018, through campaigning and petitioning for signatures to acquire the necessary support of the voting Idaho population to be included for state-wide voting through the 2018 General Election ballot. This initiative moved to expand Medicaid to persons who did not previously qualify. Proposition 2 would expand Medicaid coverage to persons under the age of 65 if their income is below 133% of the Federal Poverty Line (FPL) and are unable to gain medical insurance or coverage through other means.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2\nThe estimated amount for Medicaid expansion in Idaho is 105 million dollars. Many studies have found that in total expansion states have saved around 6.2 billion dollars in uncompensated care between 2013 and 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Campaign and supporters\nA grassroots canvassing drive was held in order to gain enough signatures of registered voters in the prerequisite number of legislative districts in order to place the proposition on the ballot for the 2018 midterm elections. The drive was able to successfully obtain the needed number of signatures, a total of 56,192 signatures in at least 18 of the 35 state's legislative districts, and by the end of the drive over 70,000 signatures were collected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Campaign and supporters\nWithin the campaigning and petitioning portion to gain access to this proposition being listed on the election ballot, there were many officials and organizations that supported this Medicare expansion and worked to help gain the necessary support to allow this topic to be added onto the 2018 General Election voting Ballot in Idaho. Medicaid expansion was supported by many officials, among the supports was the Democratic gubernatorial candidate Paulette Jordan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Campaign and supporters\nThere were two major committees that supported Proposition 2 and played a large role within the campaigning and petitioning to get enough support to warrant Proposition 2 onto the 2018 General Election Ballot were the Idahoans for Healthcare and Reclaim Idaho. Together the committees managed to raise nearly two million dollars in support of the proposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Campaign and supporters\nThere were also many persons and organizations that did not support Proposition 2, primarily the newly formed political action committee Work, Not Obamacare PAC, an offshoot of the Idaho Freedom Foundation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Proposition\nThe proposition was designed to address the Medicare gap that existed within the state by expanding Medicaid eligibility. The full text of the ballot read:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Proposition\n\"Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Proposition\nSECTION 1. That Chapter 2, Title 56, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTION, to be known and designated as Section 56-267, Idaho Code, and to read as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Proposition\n56-267. MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY EXPANSION. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law or federal waiver to the contrary, the state shall amend its state plan to expand Medicaid eligibility to include those persons under sixty-five (65) years of age whose modified adjusted gross income is one hundred thirty-three percent (133%) of the federal poverty level or below and who are not otherwise eligible for any other coverage under the state plan, in accordance with sections 1902(a)(10)(A)(i)(VIII) and 1902(e)(14) of the Social Security Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Proposition\n(2) No later than 90 days after approval of this act, the department shall submit any necessary state plan amendments to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement the provisions of this section. The department is required and authorized to take all actions necessary to implement the provisions of this section as soon as practicable.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Voting\nApproximately 66.8% of the 612,536 registered voters that turned out for the November 6th, 2018 General Election voted on Proposition 2. The results were in favor for the proposition, with 60.6% of voters supporting and 39.4% opposing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Alteration\nThis initiative was later modified to include requirements for Medicaid recipients to meet further qualifications to gain eligibility for the expanded program through the establishment of Senate Bill 1204. The official legislation in regards to this Senate Bill can be found .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Alteration\nThis alteration added requirements to ensure working hours, education hours, volunteerism, or qualification in programs such was TANF or SNAP to gain access to the expanded Medicaid benefits. The Legislative Alteration verbiage is listed below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Alteration\nSenate Bill 1204 was passed in the state legislature on April 5, 2019, and signed by the governor on April 9, 2019. SB 1204 was designed to require Medicaid recipients to do the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Alteration\n1.Work at least 20 hours per week or earn wages equal to or greater than the federal minimum wage ($7.25 per hour as of 2019) for 20 hours per week or participate;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Alteration\n2. Participate in a work training program for 20 hours per week;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Alteration\n3. Be enrolled at least half-time in postsecondary education or other education program;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Alteration\n4. Satisfy the work requirements with a combination of working, volunteering,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Alteration\nor participating in a work program for 20 hours per week; or", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Alteration\n5. Comply with the requirements of the work programs under the temporary assistance for needy families (TANF)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Implementation\nThe proposition passed with 60.6% of the vote. However, was challenged in court in a lawsuit directly after the initiative was passed within the 2018 General Election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Implementation\nThere has been one lawsuit in regards to Proposition 2, since it was approved through the 2018 General Election. This lawsuit was: and was filed within the Idaho Supreme Court. The Plaintiff, Brent Regan, made the argument that through the passing of Proposition 2, the initiative violates the constitutional right of the state and the Medicaid expansion within Idaho delegates too much power to the Federal Government. This case was found to be ruled in favor of the Defendant, Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Implementation\nThe court ruled that Regan's concerns were based within the hypothetical and the judiciary branch was not the appropriate mediary at this time. The courts stated within their case report conclusion section that the voting results have proven the voice of the people within the State and it is now within the hands of the legislative branch of government. The case that Regan has proposed is not a constitutional issue and has been brought to the attention of the courts prematurely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Current status\nSince the events of Proposition 2 being passed, there are currently 36 states in which Medicaid has been expanded within due to voter initiatives in each state. Within 2019, there are still 14 states which have not passed medicare expansion initiatives. Through the Medicaid expansion efforts it is reported to have increased yearly coverage for persons earning up to 138% of the Federal Poverty Level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279995-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Proposition 2, Current status\nThe success of the campaign has been noted as an example of rural conservative voters voting for liberal measures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279996-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho State Bengals football team\nThe 2018 Idaho State Bengals football team represented Idaho State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bengals were led by second-year head coach Rob Phenicie and played their home games at Holt Arena. They were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 6\u20135, 5\u20133 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279996-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho State Bengals football team, Previous season\nThe Bengals finished the 2017 season 4\u20137, 2\u20136 in Big Sky play to finish in a three-way tie for ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279996-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho State Bengals football team, Preseason, Polls\nOn July 16, 2018 during the Big Sky Kickoff in Spokane, Washington, the Bengals were predicted to finish in twelfth place in the coaches poll and tenth place in the media poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279996-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho State Bengals football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nThe Bengals had one player selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279997-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Vandals football team\nThe 2018 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Vandals played their home games on campus at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow, Idaho, and are members of the Big Sky Conference, which they rejoined for football this season. A charter member of the Big Sky in 1963, Idaho was previously a football member from 1965 through 1995. They were led by sixth-year head coach Paul Petrino. They finished the season 4\u20137, 3\u20135 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279997-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Vandals football team, Previous season\nThe Vandals finished the 2017 season 4\u20138, 3\u20135 in Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for eighth place. 2017 was Idaho's final year in the Sun Belt and the FBS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279997-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Vandals football team, Preseason, Polls\nOn July 16, 2018 during the Big Sky Kickoff in Spokane, Washington, the Vandals were predicted to finish in fourth place in the coaches poll and fifth place in the media poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279997-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho Vandals football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nThe Vandals had three players selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 74], "content_span": [75, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279998-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Idaho on November 6, 2018. All of Idaho's executive officers were up for election as well as both of Idaho's two seats in the United States House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279998-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho elections, Governor\nRepublican Governor Butch Otter was succeeded by businessman Brad Little.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279998-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho elections, Lieutenant Governor\nIncumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor Brad Little will not run for re-election to a third full term and will instead run for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279998-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Lawrence Wasden announced on September 7th 2017 that he will run for re-election to a fifth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279998-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Republican Secretary of State Lawerence Denney announced on April 19, 2017 that he will run for a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279998-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican State Treasurer Ron Crane will not run for re-election to a sixth term. No Democrats filed to run for this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279998-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho elections, Controller\nIncumbent Republican Controller Brandon D. Woolf has announced he will run for re-election to a second full term. He is unopposed in the general election because no Democrats filed to challenge Woolf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279998-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho elections, Superintendent of Public Instruction\nIncumbent Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra announced on December 16, 2016 that she will be running for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279998-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho elections, Superintendent of Public Instruction\nWilder School Superintendent Jeff Dillon has filed to run in the Republican primary on April 29, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279998-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho elections, United States House of Representatives\nBoth of Idaho's two seats in the United States House of Representatives will be up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279998-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho elections, United States House of Representatives, Idaho's 1st Congressional District\nRa\u00fal Labrador has announced that he will not seek reelection for his congressional seat (CD1); he is instead running for Governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 96], "content_span": [97, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279998-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho elections, United States House of Representatives, Idaho's 2nd Congressional District\nMike Simpson hasn't announced whether or not he will run for reelection in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 96], "content_span": [97, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279999-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Idaho gubernatorial election took place on November 6 to elect the next governor of Idaho. Incumbent Republican Governor Butch Otter chose not to run for a fourth term, and the state's primaries were held on May 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279999-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho gubernatorial election\nFormer state representative Paulette Jordan was the Democratic Party's nominee. She was the first Democratic nominee from Northern Idaho since Cecil Andrus, who was first elected governor in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279999-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho gubernatorial election\nJordan lost to incumbent lieutenant governor Brad Little by 21.6 percentage points, for a seventh consecutive Republican victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279999-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho gubernatorial election\nA record 605,131 votes were cast for governor in 2018, a 37.6% increase over the previous election in 2014 (439,830 votes). The previous high was 452,535 votes in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00279999-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho gubernatorial election\nIn addition, the Democratic ticket of Paulette Jordan and Kristin Collum became one of the first two tickets to have two women on it. The other was Hawaii's 2018 Republican nominees for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Andria Tupola and Marissa Kerns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280000-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho lieutenant gubernatorial primary election\nThe 2018 election for Lieutenant Governor of Idaho took place on May 15, 2018. The primary election selected the candidates from each party to run in the November 6, 2018 general election for lieutenant governor of Idaho. Lieutenant governors serve a four-year term or terms. In 2018, the incumbent lieutenant governor, Brad Little, won the Republican nomination for governor and declined to run for re-election in order to run for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280000-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho lieutenant gubernatorial primary election, Democratic primary candidates, Results\nKristin Collum received 52,417 votes and 88.2% of the votes and Jim Fabe received 6,987 votes and 11.8% of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 92], "content_span": [93, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280000-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho lieutenant gubernatorial primary election, Republican primary candidates, Results\nJanice McGeachin received a plurality of the votes in this primary garnering 51,098 votes and 28.9% of the votes. This was followed by Steve Yates with 48,269 votes and 27.3%, Marv Hargedorn with 26,653 votes and 15.1%, Bob Nonini with 26,556 votes and 15.0%, and Kelley Packer with 24,513 votes and 13.8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 92], "content_span": [93, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280000-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho lieutenant gubernatorial primary election, Voter eligibility\nIdaho's closed primary election allows only registered Republicans and unaffiliated voters the option of voting to select the next Republican candidate for lieutenant governor. Any registered or unregistered voter may vote in the Democratic primary to select the next lieutenant governor candidate from the two candidates running. Idaho has a same-day voter registration system which allows any voter to register to vote at a polling place on election day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280000-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Idaho lieutenant gubernatorial primary election, General Election\nJanice McGeachin was elected Idaho's 43rd Lieutenant Governor with 356,507 votes and 59.7% of the votes and Kristin Collum received 240,355 votes and 40.3% of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280001-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Aerobics Championships\nThe 2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Aerobics Championships (Korean:\u00a02018 \uc544\uc774\ub3cc\uc2a4\ud0c0 \uc721\uc0c1 \ubcfc\ub9c1 \uc591\uad81 \ub9ac\ub4ec \uccb4\uc870 \uc5d0\uc5b4\ub85c\ube45 \uc120\uc218\uad8c \ub300\ud68c) was held at Goyang Gymnasium in Goyang, South Korea on January 15 and was broadcast on MBC on February 15 and 16 for four episodes at 5:10 PM KST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [83, 83], "content_span": [84, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280001-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Aerobics Championships, Synopsis\nThe show features male and female K-pop entertainers, which competes in various sports competitions. At the championships, a total of ten events (four in athletics, two in ten-pin bowling, two in archery (which has switched to 7 shots per round instead of 10), one in aerobics and one in rhythmic gymnastics) were contested: six by men and five by women. There were more than 200 K-pop idols participating, divided into 14 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 93], "content_span": [94, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280001-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Aerobics Championships, Cast, Presenters\nJun Hyun-moo, Super Junior's Leeteuk and Apink's Yoon Bo-mi hosted the show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 101], "content_span": [102, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280001-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Aerobics Championships, Cast, Main\nExo, Wanna One, BtoB, VIXX, Seventeen, Nu'est W, Monsta X, Astro, Highlight, NCT 127, UP10TION, Snuper, KNK, Victon, Imfact, ONF, The East Light, Romeo, Golden Child MVP, MXM, The Boyz, BLK, IN2IT, Rainz, Top Secret, TraxX, and Myteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 95], "content_span": [96, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280001-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Aerobics Championships, Cast, Main\nTwice, Red Velvet, GFriend, Lovelyz, Laboum, Oh My Girl, DIA, Cosmic Girls, Gugudan, Apink, Nine Muses, April, Pristin, Weki Meki, Dreamcatcher, CLC, Momoland, Berry Good, Baby Boo, Favorite, H.U.B, Gate9, S.I.S, Busters, Hash Tag, Minseo, Kriesha Chu, Yuseol, ELRIS, and 1NB.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 95], "content_span": [96, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280002-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Foot Volleyball Championships\nThe 2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Foot Volleyball Championships (Korean:\u00a02018 \uc544\uc774\ub3cc\uc2a4\ud0c0 \uc721\uc0c1 \ubcfc\ub9c1 \uc591\uad81 \ub9ac\ub4ec \uccb4\uc870 \uc871\uad6c \uc120\uc218\uad8c \ub300\ud68c) was held at Goyang Gymnasium in Goyang, South Korea on August 20 and 27, 2018 and was broadcast on MBC on September 25 and 26, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 90], "section_span": [90, 90], "content_span": [91, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280002-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Foot Volleyball Championships, Synopsis\nThe show features male and female K-pop entertainers, which competes in various sports competitions. To shorten the competition, every competition (except 60 m individual sprints and 4x100 relay) had only four teams involved in a single knockout. Men's footvolley made its debut to competition, replacing Male Team Aerobics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 90], "section_span": [92, 100], "content_span": [101, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280002-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Foot Volleyball Championships, Synopsis\nFootvolley is the only 4-on-4 competition where teams are composed of members from different idol groups, and non-idol coaches provide instructions for two teams from the same bracket, so they have less likelihood of facing each other. Teams can bounce once before having to attack or defend, and touch between two teammates before hitting to the other side. Coaches can review twice, where all umpires and line judges (five members in total) will discuss the ruling, majority voting wins. First to 15 wins the round, best of three rounds wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 90], "section_span": [92, 100], "content_span": [101, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280002-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Foot Volleyball Championships, Synopsis\nArchery reverts to full 10-shot format for all rounds. To avoid confusion, however, the elected ace member from each team takes the final four shots, while the other two take three each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 90], "section_span": [92, 100], "content_span": [101, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280002-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Foot Volleyball Championships, Synopsis\nTen-pin bowling was filmed on a separate location on a separate date. The scoring has also been simplified. A strike is 30 points, a spare, depending on the first attempt, is from 10\u201319 points. Consecutive strikes and spares do not add together, and no bonus frames after a strike on the 10th frame, so the perfect score remains at 300 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 90], "section_span": [92, 100], "content_span": [101, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280002-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Foot Volleyball Championships, Cast, Presenters\nJun Hyun-moo, Super Junior's Leeteuk and Twice's Nayeon hosted the show. Girl's Day Yura was the special host for male bowling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 90], "section_span": [92, 108], "content_span": [109, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280002-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Foot Volleyball Championships, Cast, Main\nWanna One, Seventeen, Stray Kids, VIXX, NU'EST W, The Boyz, NCT, Astro, UNB, ONF, Blanc7, Golden Child, Myteen, 14U, and MXM, Shindong (Super Junior), Yang Sei-hyung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 90], "section_span": [92, 102], "content_span": [103, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280002-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Idol Star Athletics Bowling Archery Rhythmic Gymnastics Foot Volleyball Championships, Cast, Main\n(G)I-dle, CLC, KHAN, H.U.B., Girlkind, GWSN, Nine Muses, Dreamcatcher, Limesoda, Red Velvet, Momoland, April, Pristin, ELRIS, GFriend, Cosmic Girls, Weki Meki, GBB, Twice, Fromis 9, Flashe, Hey Girls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 90], "section_span": [92, 102], "content_span": [103, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280003-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Il Lombardia\nThe 2018 Il Lombardia is a road cycling one-day race that took place on 13 October 2018 in Italy. It was the 112th edition of the Il Lombardia and the 36th event of the 2018 UCI World Tour. It was won solo by Thibaut Pinot, ahead of Vincenzo Nibali and Dylan Teuns. Pinot rode with a high tempo starting from the Civiglio climb 15 kilometers from the finish line and the other three riders in the lead group at that time (Egan Bernal, Vincenzo Nibali and Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d) lost ground to him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280004-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Attorney General election\nThe 2018 Illinois Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Attorney General of Illinois. Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who had served since 2003, did not seek re-election to a fifth term. Democrat Kwame Raoul won the election with 55 percent of the vote, while Republican Erika Harold took 43 percent of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280004-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Attorney General election, Election information\nThe primaries and general elections coincided with those for federal congressional races and those for other state offices. The election was part of the 2018 Illinois elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280004-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Attorney General election, Election information, Turnout\nFor the primary elections, turnout was 24.57%, with 1,951,981 votes cast. For the general election, turnout was 56.16%, with 4,548,409 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280005-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Fighting Illini baseball team\nThe 2018 Illinois Fighting Illini baseball team represented the University of Illinois during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Fighting Illini played their home games at Illinois Field as a member of the Big Ten Conference. They were led by head coach Dan Hartleb, in his 13th season at Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280005-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Fighting Illini baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280006-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 2018 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Fighting Illini played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois, and competed in the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They were led by third-year head coach Lovie Smith. They finished the season 4\u20138, 2\u20137 in Big Ten play finish in last place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280006-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Fighting Illini football team, Previous season\nThe Fighting Illini finished the 2017 season 2\u201310, 0\u20139 in Big Ten play to finish in last place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280006-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Fighting Illini football team, Offseason, Recruiting, Recruits\nThe Fighting Illini signed a total of 17 recruits on Early National Signing Day on December 20, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280006-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Fighting Illini football team, Schedule\nThe 2018 schedule consisted of seven home and five away games in the regular season. The Fighting Illini hosted Big Ten foes Penn State, Purdue, Minnesota, Iowa, and traveled to Rutgers, Wisconsin, Maryland, Nebraska and Northwestern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280006-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Fighting Illini football team, Schedule\nThe Fighting Illini hosted all three non-conference opponents, Kent State from the Mid-American Conference, Western Illinois from Missouri Valley Football Conference, and South Florida from the American Athletic Conference. The South Florida game was played at Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 elections for the Illinois House of Representatives took place on Tuesday, November 6, 2018 to elect representatives from all 118 districts. The winners of this election served in the 101st General Assembly, with seats apportioned among the states based on the 2010 United States Census. The Democratic Party has held a House majority since 1997. The inauguration of the 101st General Assembly occurred on Wednesday January 9, 2019. The Democrats flipped 8 seats while Republicans flipped 1 seat, resulting in a net gain of 7 seats for the Democratic caucus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election\nThe elections for Illinois's 18 congressional districts, Governor and Lieutenant Governor, statewide constitutional officers, and the Illinois Senate were also held on this date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Retirements\nThe Illinois House of Representatives saw 28 Representatives (14 Democratic and 14 Republican) choose to either retire or not run before the 2018 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 60], "content_span": [61, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 1\nThe 1st district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Forest View, as well as all or parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Archer Heights, Brighton Park, Chicago Lawn, Garfield Ridge, New City, and West Elsdon. The district had been represented by Democrat Daniel J. Burke since January 9, 2013, previously serving the 23rd district from January 9, 1991 to January 9, 2013. Burke faced a primary challenger from Aaron Ortiz, a teacher and college counselor for Back of the Yards High School. After defeating Burke in the primary, Ortiz faced no Republican challenger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 2\nThe 2nd district includes all or parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Armour Square, Bridgeport, Brighton Park, Lower West Side, McKinley Park, Near South Side, Near West Side, and New City. The district has been represented by Democrat Theresa Mah since January 11, 2017. Mah faced neither a Democratic challenger in her primary election nor a Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 3\nThe 3rd district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Elmwood Park, as well as all or parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Austin, Belmont Cragin, Dunning, Hermosa, Logan Square, Montclare, and Portage Park. The district has been represented by Democrat Luis Arroyo since his appointment in December 2006. He was an Assistant Majority Leader of the Illinois House of Representatives during the 100th General Assembly. Arroyo faced neither a Democratic challenger in his primary nor a Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 4\nThe 4th district includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Hermosa, Humboldt Park, Logan Square, and West Town. The district had been represented by Democrat Cynthia Soto since January 10, 2001. Soto would run for commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago and would not run for re-election for her seat. The Democratic primary for the 4th district seat featured four candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 4\nAfter winning her primary election, Ramirez would face no Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 5\nThe 5th district includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Armour Square, Avalon Park, Douglas, Englewood, Fuller Park, Grand Boulevard, Greater Grand Crossing, Loop, Near North Side, Near South Side, South Shore, Washington Park, and Woodlawn. The district had been represented by Democrat Juliana Stratton since January 11, 2017. Stratton would later on become Governor J.B. Pritzker's running mate for lieutenant governor, leaving her seat open. The Democratic primary for the 5th district seat featured four candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 5\nAfter winning his primary election, Robinson would face no Republican challenger in the general election. Through his election and swearing-in, Lamont Robinson made history by becoming the first openly LGBTQ person of color to serve in the Illinois General Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 6\nThe 6th district includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Armour Square, Bridgeport, Chicago Lawn, Douglas, Englewood, Fuller Park, Grand Boulevard, Greater Grand Crossing, Loop, Near North Side, Near South Side, Near West Side, New City, and West Englewood. The district has been represented by Democrat Sonya Harper since her appointment in October 2015. Harper faced neither a Democratic challenger in her primary nor a Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 7\nThe 7th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Bellwood, Berkeley, Broadview, Forest Park, Hillside, La Grange Park, Maywood, Melrose Park, Northlake, Oak Brook, River Forest, Westchester, and Western Springs. The district has been represented by Democrat Emanuel \"Chris\" Welch since January 9, 2013. Welch faced neither any Democratic challenger in his primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 8\nThe 8th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Berwyn, Brookfield, Forest Park, La Grange, La Grange Park, North Riverside, and Oak Park and parts of the Chicago neighborhood of Austin. The district has been represented by Democrat La Shawn Ford since January 10, 2007. Ford faced neither a Democratic challenger in his primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 9\nThe 9th district includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of East Garfield Park, Lincoln Park, Loop, Lower West Side, Near North Side, Near West Side, North Lawndale, South Lawndale, West Garfield Park, and West Town. The district has been represented by Democrat Art Turner since December 2010. He was the Deputy Majority Leader of the Illinois House of Representatives during the 100th General Assembly. Turner faced neither any Democratic challenger in his primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 10\nThe 10th district includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Austin, East Garfield Park, Humboldt Park, Lincoln Park, Logan Square, Near North Side, Near West Side, West Garfield Park, and West Town. The district has been represented by Democrat Melissa Conyears-Ervin since January 11, 2017. Conyears-Ervin faced neither any Democratic challenger in her primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 11\nThe 11th district includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Albany Park, Avondale, Irving Park, Lake View, Lincoln Park, Lincoln Square, Logan Square, and North Center. The district has been represented by Democrat Ann Williams since January 12, 2011. Williams faced neither any Democratic challenger in her primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 12\nThe 12th district includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Lake View, Lincoln Park, Near North Side, and Uptown. The district has been represented by Democrat Sara Feigenholtz since January 11, 1995. Feigenholtz faced neither any Democratic challenger in her primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 13\nThe 13th district includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Albany Park, Edgewater, Lake View, North Center, North Park, Rogers Park, Uptown, and West Ridge. The district has been represented by Democrat Greg Harris since December 2006. He was an Assistant Majority Leader of the Illinois House of Representatives during the 100th General Assembly. Harris faced neither any Democratic challenger in his primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 14\nThe 14th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Evanston and includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Edgewater, Rogers Park, Uptown, and West Ridge. The district has been represented by Democrat Kelly Cassidy since her appointment in May 2011. Cassidy faced a primary challenger from Arthur Noah Siegel, former worker on Bernie Sanders' campaign and business owner in construction. After winning her primary election, Cassidy would not face any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 15\nThe 15th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Glenview, Morton Grove, Niles, Park Ridge, and Skokie and includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Albany Park, Forest Glen, Irving Park, Jefferson Park, North Park, and Norwood Park. The district has been represented by Democrat John D'Amico since November 2004. D'Amico faced a Republican challenger from Amanda Biela, a first-time candidate, former Chicago public school teacher, and past president of the local parenting organization Moms Club of Northwest Chicagoland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 16\nThe 16th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, and Skokie and includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of North Park and West Ridge. The district had been represented by Democrat Lou Lang since his appointment in July 1987. Lang faced neither any Democratic challenger in his primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election. After winning his election, Lang would resign two days before his inauguration to work as a lobbyist. Yehiel Mark Kalish was appointed to fill the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 17\nThe 17th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Evanston, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Northbrook, Skokie, and Wilmette. The district had been represented by Democrat Laura Fine since January 9, 2013. On July 28, 2017, Fine announced her intention to run for the senate seat being vacated by Daniel Biss, leaving her seat open. The Democratic primary for the 17th district seat featured five candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 17\nThe Republican primary for the 17th district seat featured Peter Lee, attorney and president of the Korean Association of Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 18\nThe 18th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Deerfield, Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Kenilworth, Northbrook, Northfield, Wilmette, and Winnetka. The district has been represented by Democrat Robyn Gabel since her appointment in April 2010. The Republican challenger in this election was Julie Cho, an operations consultant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 19\nThe 19th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Elmwood Park, Harwood Heights, Norridge, and River Grove and includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Dunning, Forest Glen, Jefferson Park, Norwood Park, O'Hare, and Portage Park. The district has been represented by Democrat Robert Martwick since January 9, 2013. Martwick faced a primary challenger from Jeffrey La Porte, police officer, former Director for the Gladstone Park Chamber of Commerce, and former Parent Representative for Onahan Elementary LSC. The Republican challenger in this election was Ammie Kessem, sergeant of police and an active parishioner of the St. Monica Catholic Church.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 20\nThe 20th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Des Plaines, Franklin Park, Harwood Heights, Niles, Norridge, Park Ridge, Rosemont, and Schiller Park and includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Dunning, Edison Park, Norwood Park, and O'Hare. The district has been represented by Republican Michael McAuliffe since his appointment in July 1996. He was the Assistant Republican Leader of the Illinois House of Representatives during the 100th General Assembly. McAuliffe is the only Republican to serve parts of Chicago in the Illinois House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 20\nAccording to Illinois Election Data, the 20th district was the most Democratic district represented by a Republican during the election. The Democratic challenger in this election was Merry Marwig, former Democratic candidate for this district in 2016 and owner of a data security company. After winning her primary, Marwig announced she would step down from the race, saying \u201cchanging circumstances in my family have forced me to reconsider my run.\u201d After Marwig stepped down from the race, McAuliffe would face no other Democratic challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 21\nThe 21st district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Bedford Park, Bridgeview, Cicero, Forest View, Lyons, McCook, Riverside, Stickney, and Summit and includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Brighton Park, Garfield Ridge, Lower West Side, McKinley Park, and South Lawndale. The district had been represented by Democrat Silvana Tabares since January 9, 2013. After winning her primary, Tabares was appointed as the 23rd Ward alderman of Chicago on June 15, 2018 after Mike Zalewski retired from the position on May 31, 2018. Celina Villanueva, youth engagement manager for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) and former director of Organizing for Chicago Votes was appointed July 24, 2018 to the state representative seat. Villanueva faced no Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 918]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 22\nThe 22nd district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Bedford Park and Burbank and includes all or parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Archer Heights, Ashburn, Brighton Park, Chicago Lawn, Clearing, Gage Park, Garfield Ridge, West Elsdon, and West Lawn. The district has been represented by Mike Madigan since January 13, 1971. He was the 67th Speaker of the House from 1983 to 1995 and has been the 69th Speaker of the House since 1997. He has been chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois since 1998. Madigan faced neither any Democratic challengers in his primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 23\nThe 23rd district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Bedford Park, Berwyn, Bridgeview, Brookfield, Burbank, Cicero, Countryside, Hickory Hills, Hodgkins, Justice, La Grange, La Grange Park, McCook, Riverside, and Summit. The district has been represented by Democrat Michael Zalewski since December 2008. Zalewski faced neither any Democratic challengers in his primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 24\nThe 24th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Berwyn, Brookfield, Cicero, Riverside, and Stickney and includes parts of the Chicago neighborhood of South Lawndale. The district has been represented by Democrat Elizabeth \"Lisa\" Hernandez since January 10, 2007. Hernandez faced a primary challenger from Robert Rafael Reyes, Vice President of Realty of Chicago, worked on Antonio Villaraigosa\u2019s Mayoral Campaign in Los Angeles, and an alumnus of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute D.C. After winning her primary, Hernandez would face no Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 25\nThe 25th district includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Calumet Heights, East Side, Hegewisch, Hyde Park, Kenwood, South Chicago, South Deering, South Shore, and Woodlawn. The district had been represented by Democrat Barbara Flynn Currie since January 13, 1993. She had served the Illinois House since January 1979. She had been Majority Leader of the Illinois House since 1997. Currie announced she would be retiring from the House and would not run for re-election. As a result of the seat of a major political player in the Illinois House now being open, the Democratic primary for the seat was very crowded. The primary featured seven candidates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 1\u201325, District 25\nAfter winning his primary, Tarver would not face a Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 26\nThe 26th district includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Calumet Heights, Douglas, Grand Boulevard, Hyde Park, Kenwood, Loop, Near North Side, Near South Side, South Chicago, South Shore, Washington Park, and Woodlawn. The district had been represented by Democrat Christian Mitchell since January 9, 2013. Mitchell faced neither any Democratic challengers in his primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election. After winning his election and the election of Governor J.B. Pritzker, Mitchell would join the Pritzker administration as a deputy governor. Kam Buckner was appointed to serve out the remainder of Mitchell's term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 27\nThe 27th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Alsip, Blue Island, Crestwood, Midlothian, Orland Park, Palos Heights, Robbins, and Worth and parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Auburn Gresham, Beverly, Chatham, Morgan Park, Roseland, Washington Heights, and West Pullman. The district has been represented by Democrat Justin Slaughter since his appointment in January 2017. Slaughter faced a primary challenger from Tawana J. (T.J.) Robinson, a special education teacher, former campaigner with LSC members of the Riverdale School District 133, and former campaigner with the various school board members of District 205 Proviso Township High Schools. After winning his primary, Slaughter would face no Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 28\nThe 28th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Blue Island, Calumet Park, Crestwood, Midlothian, Oak Forest, Orland Park, Riverdale, Robbins, and Tinley Park and parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Morgan Park, Roseland, and West Pullman. The district has been represented by Democrat Robert Rita since January 8, 2003. Rita faced two challengers in his primary election. Mary Carvlin, teacher, Blue Island Library Board trustee for 6 years, and founder of Northeast Blue Island Resident Action Group (now a Rain Ready / CNT group) to solve flooding issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0034-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 28\nKimberly Nicole Koschnitzky, a Connected Vehicle Specialist for General Motors. As a result of the ongoing Me Too movement, Rita's past domestic battery case with a former girlfriend came back into the limelight, previously being at the center of his 2002 election to the seat, as his aforementioned former girlfriend sides with Rita's primary challenger Carvlin. Carvlin would accuse fellow primary challenger Koschnitzky of being a 'ghost candidate' from Speaker Mike Madigan to split the vote between Carvlin and Koschnitzky to guarantee Rita won in the primary. After winning his primary election, Rita would face no Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 29\nThe 29th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Calumet Heights, Chicago Heights, Crete, Dolton, East Hazel Crest, Ford Heights, Glenwood, Harvey, Homewood, Lansing, Lynwood, Monee, Phoenix, Sauk Village, South Chicago Heights, South Holland, Steger, Thornton, and University Park and parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Riverdale and West Pullman. The district has been represented by Democrat Thaddeus Jones since January 12, 2011. Jones faced a primary challenger from Corean Davis, a human resource professional. After winning his primary, Jones would face no Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 30\nThe 30th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Blue Island, Dixmoor, Dolton, East Hazel Crest, Flossmoor, Harvey, Hazel Crest, Homewood, Markham, Midlothian, Oak Forest, Phoenix, Posen, Riverdale, and Robbins. The district has been represented by Democrat Will Davis since January 8, 2003. Davis faced neither a Democratic challenger in his primary nor a Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 31\nThe 31st district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Bedford Park, Bridgeview, Burr Ridge, Chicago Ridge, Countryside, Hickory Hills, Hodgkins, Hometown, Indian Head Park, Justice, Oak Lawn, Palos Hills, and Willow Springs and parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Ashburn, Auburn Gresham, Chatham, Chicago Lawn, Englewood, Greater Grand Crossing, and West Englewood. The district has been represented by Democrat Mary E. Flowers since January 9, 1985. She was an Assistant Majority Leader of the Illinois House during the 100th General Assembly. She faced a primary challenger from Willie Preston, carpenter, Community Representative for Scott Joplin Elementary School, and former community organizer for SouthSiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL). After winning her primary, Flowers would face no Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 951]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 32\nThe 32nd district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Bridgeview, Burbank, Hickory Hills, Justice, and Oak Lawn and includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Ashburn, Chicago Lawn, Englewood, Greater Grand Crossing, West Englewood, and Woodlawn. The district has been represented by Democrat Andre Thapedi since January 14, 2009. Thapedi faced neither any challengers in his primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 33\nThe 33rd district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Burnham, Calumet City, Ford Heights, Lansing, Lynwood, and Sauk Village and includes all or parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Avalon Park, Burnside, Calumet Heights, Chatham, East Side, Hegewisch, South Chicago, and South Deering. The district has been represented by Democrat Marcus C. Evans Jr. since his appointment in April 2012. Evans Jr. faced neither any challengers in his primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 34\nThe 34th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Beecher, Bourbonnais, Burnham, Calumet City, Crete, Ford Heights, Grant Park, Lansing, Lynwood, Manteno, Momence, Peotone, Sauk Village, South Holland, and Willowbrook and includes all or parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Chatham, Greater Grand Crossing, Hegewisch, Pullman, Riverdale, Roseland, South Deering, and West Pullman. The district had been represented by Democrat Elgie Sims since his appointment in August 2012. After State Senator Donne Trotter announced his retirement, Sims was appointed to his seat and sworn in on January 26, 2018. Nicholas Smith, former Chicago 9th Ward Streets & Sanitation Superintendent, Legislative Aide to the Committee on Transportation and Public Way, and Community Liaison/ Coordinator for Chicago State University was appointed to the seat in February 2018. Smith did not face any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 1030]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 35\nThe 35th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Alsip, Chicago Ridge, Merrionette Park, Oak Lawn, Orland Hills, Orland Park, Palos Heights, Palos Park, Tinley Park, and Worth and includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Auburn Gresham, Beverly, Morgan Park, Mount Greenwood, and Washington Heights. The district has been represented by Democrat Frances Ann Hurley since January 9, 2013. Herb Hebein, former Chicago police officer, was the Republican challenger in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 36\nThe 36th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Chicago Ridge, Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn, Palos Heights, Palos Park, Willow Springs, and Worth and includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Ashburn, Auburn Gresham, Beverly, and Mount Greenwood. The district has been represented by Democrat Kelly M. Burke since January 12, 2011. Burke faced neither any challengers in her primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 37\nThe 37th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Frankfort, Frankfort Square, Homer Glen, Joliet, Lockport, Mokena, New Lenox, Orland Park, and Tinley Park. The district has been represented by Republican Margo McDermed since January 14, 2015. McDermed faced a Democratic challenger in the general election from Matthew Hunt, property and casualty insurance agent for his family's agency, Hunt Insurance Group, Board Member of the Illinois State Fire Marshall Elevator Safety Division, and Trustee of the Palos Heights Police Pension Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 38\nThe 38th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Country Club Hills, Flossmoor, Frankfort, Frankfort Square, Harvey, Hazel Crest, Homewood, Markham, Matteson, Oak Forest, Olympia Fields, Park Forest, Richton Park, Tinley Park, and University Park. The district had been represented by Democrat Al Riley since January 10, 2007. On September 26, 2017, Riley announced he would not seek reelection to a seventh term. The Democratic primary for the 38th district featured four candidates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 38\nAfter winning her primary, Meyers-Martin would face no Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 39\nThe 39th district includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Avondale, Belmont Cragin, Dunning, Hermosa, Irving Park, Logan Square, and Portage Park. The district has been represented by Democrat Will Guzzardi since January 14, 2015. Guzzardi faced neither any challengers in his primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 40\nThe 40th district includes parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Albany Park, Avondale, Irving Park, Logan Square, and Portage Park. The district has been represented by Democrat Jaime Andrade Jr. since his appointment in August 2013. Andrade Jr. faced neither any challengers in his primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 41\nThe 41st district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Bolingbrook, Naperville, and Warrenville. The district has been represented by Republican Grant Wehrli since January 14, 2015. Val Montgomery was the democratic challenger in this election. Montgomery would later be found to be incorrectly listed by the DuPage County Election Commission as living in the 41st district, whereas her address placed her in the 49th district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0048-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 41\nDuPage County Judge Bonnie Wheaton as a result ruled that Montgomery could not be a candidate in the election and if elected could only be seated if she wins and the Illinois General Assembly decided to seat her. Despite this ruling, Montgomery did not withdraw from the race and remained on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 42\nThe 42nd district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Carol Stream, Lisle, Naperville, Warrenville, West Chicago, Wheaton, and Winfield. The district had been represented by Republican Jeanne Ives since January 9, 2013. Ives announced in October 2017 her intention to run for Governor and would not run for reelection to her seat. The Republican primary for the 42nd district seat featured three candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 42\nBurt Minor would face controversy after the leak of a conversation he had with Republican candidate for Illinois Attorney General Erika Harold. The conversation involved Burt Minor asking Erika Harold about her marriage status, asking if she was a \"lesbo\" and frequent use of the n-word in front of her and her assistant, asking whether Erika Harold found it offensive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 42\nKathleen Carrier, family caregiver, precinct committeeman since 2003, and former chair of the Wayne Township Democratic Party was the sole Democratic nominee for the 42nd district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 43\nThe 43rd district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Barrington Hills, Carpentersville, East Dundee, Elgin, Hoffman Estates, and South Elgin. The district has been represented by Democrat Anna Moeller since her appointment in March 2014. Moeller faced a Republican challenger in the general election from Andrew Cuming, propert management company owner, member of the Citizen's Police Academy Alumni Association, and President of the Elgin Southwest Area Neighbors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 44\nThe 44th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Bartlett, Elgin, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg, and Streamwood. The district has been represented by Democrat Fred Crespo since January 10, 2007. Crespo faced a Republican challenger in the general election from Katy Dolan Baumer, business owner, worked as President of the Streamwood Chamber of Commerce, and clerk to the Hanover Township.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 45\nThe 45th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Addison, Bartlett, Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Elk Grove Village, Hanover Park, Itasca, Roselle, Streamwood, Wayne, West Chicago, and Wood Dale. The district had been represented by Republican Christine Winger since January 14, 2015. Prior to the primary election, the Democratic nominee for the district was Cynthia Borbas, IT consultant, formerly volunteered at the Carol Stream Chamber of Commerce, and formerly volunteered at the Northern Illinois Food Bank. At some unknown time, Borbas would withdraw from the race. Diane Pappas, attorney specializing in corporate counsel, former President of the Friends of the Itasca Community Library, and a Democratic Precinct Committeeman of Addison Township Precinct 23 would become the Democratic candidate for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 934]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 46\nThe 46th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Addison, Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Elmhurst, Glen Ellyn, Glendale Heights, Hanover Park, Lombard, Oakbrook Terrace, Villa Park, and Wheaton. The district has been represented by Democrat Deb Conroy since January 9, 2013. The Republican primary saw two candidates seek the nomination for the general election. Gordon \"Jay\" Kinzler, doctor and surgeon, member of the Glen Ellyn Park District Board, and former commissioner of the Environmental Commission of the Village of Glen Ellyn. Roger Orozco, police detective and former school board member of Community Consolidated School District 93.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 47\nThe 47th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Burr Ridge, Clarendon Hills, Darien, Downers Grove, Elmhurst, Hinsdale, Lombard, Oak Brook, Oakbrook Terrace, Villa Park, Western Springs, Westmont, and Willowbrook. The district had been represented by Republican Patti Bellock since January 13, 1999. She had been the Deputy House Minority Leader since October 2013. On August 1, 2017, Bellock announced her intention to retire at the end of her term. Deanne Mazzochi, lawyer, business owner, and former chairman of the College of DuPage Board of Trustees, was the Republican nominee for this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0056-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 47\nThe Democratic primary featured two candidates. Jim Caffrey, former customer team manager for Clorox, a Democratic Precinct Committeeman, and served in the Peace Corps for 2 years. Anne Sommerkamp, prenatal educator, former journalist from 1980 to 1999, and former candidate for Downers Grove Township Clerk in 2017. Caffrey would go on to win the primary election and become the Democratic nominee. Patti Bellock would resign from her State Representative seat to serve as Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Director. Candidate Mazzochi would then be appointed on July 16, 2018 to fill the vacancy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 48\nThe 48th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Downers Grove, Glen Ellyn, Lisle, Lombard, Oakbrook Terrace, Villa Park, and Wheaton. The district had been represented by Republican Peter Breen since January 14, 2015. The Democratic candidate for this election was Terra Costa Howard, lawyer, former member of the Glen Ellyn School District 41 Board of Education, and adjunct professor at College of DuPage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 49\nThe 49th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Aurora, Bartlett, Batavia, Elgin, Geneva, Naperville, North Aurora, South Elgin, St. Charles, Warrenville, Wayne, and West Chicago. The district had been represented by Republican Mike Fortner since January 10, 2007. Fortner announced August 7, 2017 that he would not seek reelection. The Republican primary featured two candidates. Tonia Jane Khouri, business owner, DuPage County board member, and chair of the DuPage County Economic Development Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0058-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 49\nNic Zito, CEO of Rev3 Innovation Center, member of the DuPage PADS Homelessness Awareness board of directors, and member of the International Business Innovation Association board of directors. Khouri would go on to become the Republican nominee. The Democratic nominee for this election was Karina Villa, school social worker, member of the West Chicago District 33 Board of Education since 2013, and vice president of the West Chicago 33 Board of Education.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 26\u201350, District 50\nThe 50th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Aurora, Batavia, Big Rock, Campton Hills, Elburn, Geneva, Lily Lake, Montgomery, North Aurora, Oswego, Plano, Prestbury, St. Charles, Sugar Grove, and Yorkville. The district has been represented by Republican Keith R. Wheeler since January 14, 2015. The Democratic candidate for this election was James Leslie, firefighter/paramedic, former executive of the Naperville IAFF L4302, and first-time candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 51\nThe 51st district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Arlington Heights, Barrington, Barrington Hills, Buffalo Grove, Deer Park, Forest Lake, Grayslake, Green Oaks, Gurnee, Hawthorn Woods, Kildeer, Lake Barrington, Lake Zurich, Libertyville, Long Grove, Mettawa, Mundelein, North Barrington, Tower Lakes, Vernon Hills, Wauconda, and Waukegan. The district had been represented by Republican Nick Sauer since December 2016. Nick Sauer was slated to be the Republican nominee for the general election. On August 1, 2018, Politico reported on Sauer allegedly using his ex-girlfriend's nude photos to catfish for seeking online relationships with men. Sauer would then resign at 5 pm on the same day. Helene Walsh, wife of former US representative Joe Walsh, was appointed to Sauer's seat on August 18, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 903]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 51\nMary Edly-Allen, bilingual teacher, co-founder of Foundation 46, and board member of the Illinois Science Olympiad was the Democratic candidate for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 52\nThe 52nd district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Algonquin, Barrington, Barrington Hills, Carpentersville, Cary, Crystal Lake, East Dundee, Fox River Grove, Hoffman Estates, Inverness, Island Lake, Lake Barrington, Lake in the Hills, North Barrington, Oakwood Hills, Port Barrington, Prairie Grove, South Barrington, Tower Lakes, Trout Valley, and Wauconda. The district has been represented by Republican David McSweeney since January 9, 2013. McSweeney faced neither any challengers in his primary nor any Democratic challengers in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 53\nThe 53rd district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Des Plaines, Elk Grove Village, Mount Prospect, Prospect Heights, and Wheeling. The district had been represented by Republican David Harris since January 12, 2011, previously serving the Illinois State House from January 12, 1983 to January 13, 1993. Harris announced on October 4, 2017 that he would be retiring from the Illinois House, citing his frustrations with the Illinois Budget Impasse as he was one of the few Republicans who voted to overturn Governor Bruce Rauner's veto. The Republican primary featured two candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0063-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 53\nEddie Corrigan, outreach coordinator and cancer research and awareness advocate. Katie Miller, registered nurse, religious education teacher, and a former basketball coach. Corrigan would become the Republican nominee. The Democratic nominee for this election was Mark Walker, experienced in business and entrepreneurship for 35 years, treasurer of the Journeys organization, and member of the Arlington Heights Park Foundation Board. He previously served as State Representative from 2009\u20132011 in the 66th district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 54\nThe 54th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Arlington Heights, Barrington, Deer Park, Hoffman Estates, Inverness, Palatine, Rolling Meadows, Schaumburg, and South Barrington. The district has been represented by Republican Tom Morrison since January 12, 2011. The Democratic candidate for this election was Maggie Trevor, principal, owner of Trevor Research Services, LLC, and member of the City of Rolling Meadows Environmental Committee since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 55\nThe 55th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Arlington Heights, Des Plaines, Elk Grove Village, Mount Prospect, Park Ridge, Rolling Meadows, and Schaumburg as well as parts of the Chicago neighborhood of O'Hare. The district has been represented by Democrat Marty Moylan since January 9, 2013. The Republican challenger for this election was Marilyn Smolenski, business owner, volunteer for USO and Special Olympics, and was involved with the Boy Scouts of America for many years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 56\nThe 56th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Elk Grove Village, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Palatine, Rolling Meadows, Roselle, and Schaumburg. The district has been represented by Democrat Michelle Mussman since January 12, 2011. The Republican primary for this election featured two candidates. Jillian Rose Bernas, international relations manager, a Schaumburg Township District Library Trustee, and Township of Schaumburg Mental Health Committee Member. Char Kegarise, branch officer manager and member of the Schaumburg District 54 School Board. Bernas would go on to become the Republican nominee for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 57\nThe 57th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Des Plaines, Glenview, Mount Prospect, Northbrook, Palatine, Prospect Heights, and Wheeling. The district had been represented by Democrat Elaine Nekritz since January 8, 2003. Nekritz announced she was planning to resign in June 2017. Her official resignation became effective October 2, 2017. Jonathan Carroll was appointed to Nekritz's seat on October 4, 2017. Mary Battinus was the Republican challenger in this election. On May 29, 2018, Battinus withdrew from the race as a result of moving out of the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 58\nThe 58th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Bannockburn, Deerfield, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Knollwood, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Lincolnshire, Mettawa, North Chicago, Northbrook, and Riverwoods. The district had been represented by Democrat Scott Drury since January 9, 2013. Drury attempted to run for Governor of Illinois, but opted to run for Illinois Attorney General after the retirement of Lisa Madigan, leaving the 58th district seat open. The Democratic nominee for this election was Bob Morgan, former lead healthcare attorney for Illinois, board member of the Anti-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0068-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 58\nDefamation League, and serves as a trustee for Equip for Equality. Cindy Masover was slated to be the Republican nominee for the general election until she decided to leave the race for personal reasons. Rick Lesser, small business owner and estate planning attorney, former member of the Lake Bluff Village Board of Trustees, and former president of the Lake County Bar Association, became the Republican nominee on July 26, 2018 for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 59\nThe 59th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Buffalo Grove, Green Oaks, Gurnee, Indian Creek, Knollwood, Lake Forest, Lincolnshire, Long Grove, Mettawa, Mundelein, North Chicago, Northbrook, Park City, Riverwoods, Vernon Hills, Waukegan, and Wheeling. The district had been represented by Democrat Carol Sente since her appointment in September 2009. Sente announced on September 12, 2017 that she would not seek reelection. The Democratic primary featured two candidates. Daniel Didech, municipal attorney and supervisor of the Vernon Township.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0069-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 59\nSusan Malter, attorney, founding member of the Chicago Legal Responders Network, and an active member of the Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG). Didech would go on to become the Democratic nominee for the general election. The Republican primary featured two candidates. Karen Feldman, residential realtor and Village Trustee of Lincolnshire from 2001\u20132018. Marko Sukovic, business owner, former political director for Congressman Robert Dold, and outreach director for Turning Point USA. Feldman would go on to become the Republican nominee for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 60\nThe 60th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Beach Park, Gurnee, North Chicago, Park City, and Waukegan. The district has been represented by Democrat Rita Mayfield since her appointment in July 2010. Mayfield faced neither any challengers in her primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 61\nThe 61st district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Antioch, Beach Park, Gages Lake, Grandwood Park, Gurnee, Lake Villa, Lindenhurst, Old Mill Creek, Third Lake, Wadsworth, Waukegan, Winthrop Harbor, and Zion. The district had been represented by Republican Sheri Jesiel since her appointment on July 2, 2014. The Democratic nominee this election was Joyce Mason, human resources consultant, vice president of the board of education for the Woodland Consolidated Community School District 50, and a member of the board of directors for A Safe Place, a domestic violence organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 62\nThe 62nd district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Gages Lake, Grayslake, Gurnee, Hainesville, Lake Villa, Long Lake, Round Lake, Round Lake Beach, Round Lake Heights, Round Lake Park, Third Lake, Venetian Village, Volo, Wauconda, and Waukegan. The district has been represented by Democrat Sam Yingling since January 9, 2013. The Republican primary featured two candidates. Ken Idstein, mortgage banker, member of the Grayslake Chamber of Commerce, and member of the Grayslake Planning and Zoning Commission. Adam Solano, financial advisor, former president of National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) in Illinois, and former president of NAIFA Chicago. Idstein would go on to become the Republican nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 63\nThe 63rd district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Bull Valley, Chemung, Crystal Lake, Greenwood, Harvard, Hebron, Johnsburg, Lakemoor, Marengo, McCullom Lake, McHenry, Pistakee Highlands, Richmond, Ringwood, Spring Grove, Union, Wonder Lake, and Woodstock. The district has been represented by Republican Steve Reick since January 11, 2017. Reick faced neither any challengers in his primary nor any Democratic challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 64\nThe 64th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Antioch, Bull Valley, Channel Lake, Crystal Lake, Fox Lake, Fox Lake Hills, Holiday Hills, Island Lake, Johnsburg, Lake Catherine, Lake Villa, Lakemoor, Lakewood, Lindenhurst, Long Lake, McHenry, Prairie Grove, Round Lake Heights, Spring Grove, Venetian Village, Volo, Wauconda, Wonder Lake, and Woodstock. The district had been represented by Republican Barbara Wheeler since January 9, 2013. Wheeler announced on July 28, 2017 that she would not seek reelection in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0074-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 64\nThe Republican nominee this election was Tom Weber, small business owner, member of the Lake County Board since 2012, and member of the Lake County Forest Preserve District Board. The Democratic nominee for this election was Trisha Zubert, works in finance, a school board member and president, and a volunteer with Lake County Haven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 65\nThe 65th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Batavia, Burlington, Campton Hills, Elgin, Geneva, Gilberts, Hampshire, Huntley, Pingree Grove, South Elgin, St. Charles, and Wayne. The district had been represented by Republican Steven Andersson since January 14, 2015. Andersson announced on August 16, 2017 he would not seek reelection to the Illinois House of Representatives in 2018 during an appearance on Chicago Tonight. Andersson was one of the few Republicans during the Illinois Budget Impasse to vote to overturn Governor Bruce Rauner's veto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0075-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 65\nThe Republican nominee for this election was Dan Ugaste, attorney, former member of the Illinois Workers Compensation Medical Fee Advisory Board, and the Technical Advisor to Governor's Office on Workers Comp Reform. The Democratic nominee for this election was Richard Johnson, law and psychology teacher at Bartlett High School and President of the Elgin Teachers Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 66\nThe 66th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Algonquin, Carpetnersville, Crystal Lake, East Dundee, Elgin, Gilberts, Huntley, Lake in the Hills, Lakewood, Sleepy Hollow, and West Dundee. The district has been represented by Republican Allen Skillicorn since January 11, 2017. Skillicorn faced neither any challengers in his primary nor any Democratic challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 67\nThe 67th district covers a large part of Rockford. The district had been represented by Democrat Litesa Wallace since her appointment in July 2014. Wallace would become Daniel Biss' running mate for seeking the Democratic nomination in the gubernatorial election, leaving her seat open. The Democratic primary for this election featured four candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 67\nAfter winning the Democratic nomination, West would face no Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 68\nThe 68th district covers parts of Cherry Valley, Loves Park, Machesney Park, Rockford, and Roscoe. The district has been represented by Republican John Cabello since his appointment in August 2012. The Democratic nominee for this election was Jake Castanza, the executive director of Project First Rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 69\nThe 69th district covers all or parts of Belvidere, Caledonia, Capron, Cherry Valley, Loves Park, New Milford, Poplar Grove, Rockford, Rockton, Roscoe, South Beloit, and Timberlane. The district has been represented by Republican Joe Sosnowski since January 12, 2011. The Democratic nominee for this election was Angie Bodine, driver for First Student and Precinct Committee Person Secretary of Boone County Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 70\nThe 70th district, located partly in the Chicagoland area, includes Belvidere, Big Rock, Burlington, Campton Hills, Cortland, DeKalb, Elgin, Garden Prairie, Genoa, Hampshire, Hinckley, Kaneville, Kingston, Kirkland, Lily Lake, Malta, Maple Park, Poplar Grove, Sugar Grove, Sycamore, and Virgil. The district had been represented by Republican Bob Pritchard since his appointment in December 2003. Pritchard announced that he would be retiring at the end of his term. He was one of the few Republicans who voted to end the Illinois Budget Impasse. The Republican nominee for this election was Jeff Keicher, small business owner. The Democratic primary featured two candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0081-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 70\nHoward Solomon, retiree, member and secretary of the District 428 Board of Education, and former member of the Village of Fox Lake Planning Commission. Paul Stoddard, retired Associate Professor of Geology at Northern Illinois University and member of the DeKalb County board. Stoddard would go on to become the Democratic nominee for the general election. Republican candidate Keicher would later be appointed to the seat in July 2018 to finish the remainder of Pritchard's term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 71\nThe 71st district, located partly in the Quad Cities area, covers all or parts of Albany, Carbon Cliff, Cleveland, Coal Valley, Colona, Como, Cordova, Deer Grove, East Moline, Erie, Fulton, Hampton, Hillsdale, Lyndon, Moline, Morrison, Port Byron, Prophetstown, Rapids City, Rock Falls, Savanna, Silvis, Sterling, Tampico, and Thomson. The district has been represented by Republican Tony McCombie since January 11, 2017. The Democratic nominee for this election was Joan Padilla, executive director of Home of Hope Cancer Wellness Center, former Sauk Valley Community College Trustee, and a member of the Sauk Valley Community College Foundation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 72\nThe 72nd district, located in the Quad Cities area, covers all or parts of Andalusia, Coyne Center, Milan, Moline, Oak Grove, Reynolds, Rock Island, and Rock Island Arsenal. The district has been represented by Democrat Michael Halpin since January 10, 2017. The Republican nominee for this election was Glen Evans, Sr., former state house primary candidate for the Democratic Party in 2012 and 2016 and former candidate for multiple county and municipal positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 73\nThe 73rd district, located in the Peoria metropolitan area, covers all or parts of Bay View Gardens, Bradford, Brimfield, Buda, Chillicothe, Dana, Dunlap, Elmwood, Germantown Hills, Henry, Hopewell, La Fayette, La Rose, Lacon, Leonore, Lostant, Metamora, Neponset, Peoria, Peoria Heights, Princeville, Roanoke, Rome, Rutland, Sparland, Spring Bay, Tiskilwa, Toluca, Toulon, Varna, Washburn, Wenona, Wyanet, and Wyoming. The district has been represented by Republican Ryan Spain since January 11, 2017. Spain faced neither any challengers in his primary nor any Democratic challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 74\nThe 74th district covers all or parts of Aledo, Alexis, Alpha, Altona, Amboy, Andover, Annawan, Atkinson, Bishop Hill, Buda, Cambridge, Dover, East Galesburg, Galesburg, Galva, Geneseo, Gilson, Harmon, Henderson, Hooppole, Joy, Keithsburg, Kewanee, Knoxville, La Moille, London Mills, Manlius, Maquon, Matherville, Mineral, New Bedford, New Boston, North Henderson, Oak Run, Ohio, Oneida, Orion, Rio, Seaton, Sheffield, Sherrard, Sublette, Victoria, Viola, Walnut, Wataga, Williamsfield, Windsor, Woodhull, and Yates City. The district has been represented by Republican Daniel Swanson since January 11, 2017. Swanson faced neither any challengers in his primary nor any Democratic challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 51\u2013, District 75\nThe 75th district, located in parts of the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Braceville, Braidwood, Carbon Hill, Channahon, Coal City, Diamond, Dwight, Godley, Joliet, Kinsman, Lake Holiday, Lakewood Shores, Lisbon, Marseilles, Mazon, Millbrook, Millington, Minooka, Morris, Newark, Oswego, Plano, Plattville, Ransom, Sandwich, Seneca, Sheridan, Verona, Wilmington, and Yorkville. The district has been represented by Republican David Welter since his appointment in July 2016. Welter faced neither any challengers in his primary nor any Democratic challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 76\nThe 76th district covers all or parts of Arlington, Bureau Junction, Cedar Point, Cherry, Dalzell, Dayton, De Pue, Dover, Grand Ridge, Granville, Hennepin, Hollowayville, Kangley, LaSalle, Ladd, Magnolia, Malden, Mark, Marseilles, McNabb, Naplate, North Utica, Oglesby, Ottawa, Peru, Seatonville, Spring Valley, Standard, Streator, Tonica, and Troy Grove. The district had been represented by Republican Jerry Lee Long since January 11, 2017. The Democratic primary featured two candidates. Jill Bernal, registered nurse, member of the La Salle County Board for the 8th district, and member of the Peru School Board. Lance Yednock, business agent with Operating Engineers Local 150 and first-time candidate. Yednock would go on to become the Democratic nominee for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 77\nThe 77th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Addison, Bellwood, Bensenville, Berkeley, Des Plaines, Elk Grove Village, Elmhurst, Franklink Park, Maywood, Melrose Park, Northlake, Rosemont, Stone Park, Villa Park, and Wood Dale as well parts of the Chicago neighborhood of O'Hare. The district has been represented by Democrat Kathleen Willis since January 9, 2013. The Republican nominee for this election was Anthony Airdo, sales director, former Republican candidate in the 2016 election, and a church volunteer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 78\nThe 78th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Elmwood Park, Franklin Park, Melrose Park, Oak Park, and River Grove and includes parts of the Chicago neighborhood of Austin. The district has been represented by Democrat Camille Lilly since her appointment in April 2010. Lilly faced neither any challengers in her primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 79\nThe 79th district, located mostly in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Aroma Park, Beecher, Bonfield, Bourbonnais, Braceville, Bradley, Buckingham, Cabery, Chebanse, Coal City, East Brooklyn, Essex, Gardner, Godley, Herscher, Hopkins Park, Irwin, Kankakee, Limestone, Momence, Peotone, Reddick, Sammons Point, South Wilmington, St. Anne, Sun River Terrace, and Union Hill. The district has been represented by Republican Lindsay Parkhurst since January 11, 2017. The Democratic nominee for this election was former State Representative Lisa M. Dugan of the district from December 2003 to January 9, 2013. The race, dubbed a \"battle royal\" by the Daily Journal, is expected to cost in the millions of dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 80\nThe 80th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Chicago Heights, Flossmoor, Frankfort, Glenwood, Hazel Crest, Homewood, Joliet, Manhattan, Matteson, Mokena, Monee, New Lenox, Olympia Fields, Park Forest, Richton Park, South Chicago Heights, Steger, Symerton, University Park, and Wilmington. The district has been represented by Democrat Anthony DeLuca since his appointment in March 2009. DeLuca faced neither any challengers in his primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 81\nThe 81st district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Bolingbrook, Darien, Downers Grove, Lisle, Naperville, Westmont, and Woodridge. The district had been represented by Republican David S. Olsen since his appointment on August 3, 2016. The Democratic nominee for this election was Anne Stava-Murray, former consumer researcher, member of the Naperville Board of Fire & Police, and a former student non-voting member of the Naperville Board of Zoning Appeals from 2002\u20132004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 82\nThe 82nd district, located in the Chicagoland area, covers parts of Burr Ridge, Countryside, Darien, Hinsdale, Homer Glen, Indian Head Park, La Grange, Lemont, Lockport, Palos Park, Western Springs, Willow Springs, Willowbrook, and Woodridge. The district has been represented by Republican Leader Jim Durkin since his January 2006 appointment. He previously served in the Illinois House from January 1995 to January 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 82\nDurkin is being challenged by Burr Ridge Mayor Mickey Straub. Straub is being backed by radio host and political operative Dan Proft. While Michael Madigan was challenged by Jason Gonzalez in 2016, it is rare that one of the \"four tops\" is challenged, let alone in a primary election. On October 26, 2017, Durkin was endorsed by a number of Republican mayors from DuPage County. Durkin would go on to become the Republican nominee for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 82\nThe Democratic nominee for this election was Tom Chlystek, Alderman for the City of Darien in Ward 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 83\nThe 83rd district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Aurora, Montgomery, and North Aurora. The district has been represented by Democrat Linda Chapa LaVia since January 8, 2003. LaVia faced neither any challengers in her primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 84\nThe 84th district, located in the Chicagoland area, covers parts of Aurora, Boulder Hill, Montgomery, Naperville, and Oswego. The district has been represented by Democrat Stephanie Kifowit since January 9, 2013. The Republican nominee for this election was Patty Smith, an ABA certified paralegal at Prairie State Legal Services, chairwoman of the Western Suburb National Association for Down Syndrome, and board member and parent advocate for Gigi's Playhouse Fox Valley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 85\nThe 85th district, located in the Chicagoland area, covers parts of Bolingbrook, Crest Hill, Fairmont, Lemont, Lockport, Naperville, Romeoville, and Woodridge. The district had been represented by Democrat Emily McAsey since January 14, 2009. McAsey resigned from her seat on June 2, 2017 to, according to the Daily Southtown, \"join her husband who accepted a job out of state.\" John Connor, a prosecutor for Will County for 14 years, was named to fill the seat in June 2017. The Republican nominee for this election was originally slated to be Lisa Bickus, but she would later withdraw from the race at an unknown date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 86\nThe 86th district, located in the Chicagoland area, covers all or parts of Channahon, Crest Hill, Elmwood, Ingalls Park, Joliet, New Lenox, Preston Heights, Rockdale, and Shorewood. The district has been represented by Democrat Larry Walsh Jr. since his appointment in April 2012. The Republican nominee for this election was Rick Laib, sergeant of the Will County Sheriff's Office, formerly a part of the United States Army Reserve, and in his police work is assigned as an Honor Guard and a member of the SWAT team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 87\nThe 87th district, located within the Springfield metropolitan area, includes all or parts of Armington, Athens, Atlanta, Beason, Broadwell, Buffalo, Cantrall, Chestnut, Clear Lake, Cornland, Dawson, Delavan, Elkhart, Emden, Grandview, Green Valley, Greenview, Hartsburg, Hopedale, Illiopolis, Lake Petersburg, Latham, Lincoln, Mechanicsburg, Middletown, Minier, Morton, Mount Pulaski, New Holland, Oakford, Pekin, Petersburg, Riverton, Rochester, San Jose, Sherman, Spaulding, Springfield, Tallula, Tremon, and Williamsville. The district has been represented by Republican Tim Butler since his appointment in March 2015. Butler faced neither any challengers in his primary nor any Democratic challengers in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 88\nThe 88th district, located in parts of the Peoria metropolitan area and Bloomington\u2013Normal area, covers all or parts of Bloomington, Danvers, Deer Creek, East Peoria, Goodfield, Heritage Lake, Mackinaw, McLean, Morton, Normal, Pekin, Stanford, Twin Grove, and Washington. The district has been represented by Republican Keith P. Sommer since January 13, 1999. The Democratic nominee for this election was Jill Blair, communications analyst for Country Financial, former dean of adult education at Heartland Community College, and former full-time coordinator of the ESL program at the college.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0102-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 89\nThe 89th district covers all or parts of Adeline, Apple Canyon Lake, Apple River, Cedarville, Chadwick, Coleta, Dakota, Davis, Durand, East Dubuque, Elizabeth, Forreston, Freeport, Galena, The Galena Territory, German Valley, Hanover, Lake Summerset, Lanark, Leaf River, Lena, Menominee, Milledgeville, Mount Carroll, Mount Morris, Nora, Orangeville, Pearl City, Pecatonica, Ridott, Rock City, Rockford, Scales Mound, Shannon, Stockton, Warren, Winnebago, and Winslow. The district had been represented by Republican Brian W. Stewart since his appointment in October 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0102-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 89\nStewart announced on September 6, 2017 that he would be running for the seat of retiring State Senator Tim Bivins, leaving his own seat open. The Republican primary featured two candidates. Andrew Chesney, small business owner and licensed real estate agent, chairman of the Stephenson County Republican Party, and an alderman of Freeport. Steve Fricke, owner/operator of Triple Creek Farms, member of the Stephenson County board, and member of the Stephenson County Farmland Assessment Committee. Chesney would go on to become the Republican nominee for the general election. The Democratic nominee for this election was Nick Hyde, attorney, formerly worked for Senator Dick Durbin, and former volunteer for the Legislative Technical Review Office in the Illinois General Assembly. After winning the election, Chesney would be appointed to the seat for the 100th General Assembly on December 5, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 980]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0103-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 90\nThe 90th district covers all or parts of Amboy, Ashton, Byron, Compton, Creston, Davis Junction, DeKalb, Dixon, Earlville, Franklin Grove, Grand Detour, Hillcrest, Lake Holiday, Lee, Leland, Lost Nation, Malta, Mendota, Monroe Center, Nelson, Oregon, Paw Paw, Polo, Rochelle, Sandwich, Shabbona, Somonauk, Steward, Stillman Valley, Sublette, Waterman, and West Brooklyn. The district has been represented by Republican Tom Demmer since January 9, 2013. The Democratic nominee for this election was Amy Davis, a retired educator and involved in the Action for a Better Tomorrow organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0104-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 91\nThe 91st district, located in the Peoria metropolitan area, includes all or parts of Banner, Bartonville, Bryant, Canton, Creve Coeur, Cuba, Dunfermline, East Peoria, Fairview, Farmington, Glasford, Hanna City, Kingston Mines, Lake Camelot, Lewistown, Liverpool, Mapleton, Marquette Heights, Morton, Norris, North Pekin, Norwood, Pekin, South Pekin, and St. David. The district has been represented by Republican Mike Unes since January 12, 2011. He was an Assistant Republican Leader in the Illinois House during the 100th General Assembly. According to Illinois Election Data, the 91st district was the 4th most Democratic district represented by a Republican during the election. The Democratic challenger in this election was Carolyn Blodgett, a member of the Fulton County Board, caseworker for the Lewistown Department of Human Services, and AFSCME union steward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 948]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0105-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 92\nThe 92nd district, located at the heart of the Peoria metropolitan area, covers all or parts of Bartonville, Bellevue, Peoria, Peoria Heights, and West Peoria. The district has been represented by Democrat Jehan Gordon-Booth since January 14, 2009. She was an Assistant Majority Leader of the Illinois House from 2015\u20132019. She faced neither any challengers in her primary nor any Republican challengers in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0106-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 93\nThe 93rd district represents all or parts of Abingdon, Adair, Alexis, Arenzville, Ashland, Astoria, Avon, Bardolph, Bath, Beardstown, Blandinsville, Browning, Bushnell, Camden, Chandlerville, Colchester, Easton, Ellisville, Forest City, Galesburg, Georgetown, Good Hope, Goofy Ridge, Havana, Industry, Ipava, Kilbourne, Littleton, London Mills, Macomb, Manito, Marietta, Mason City, Mound Station, Mount Sterling, Plymouth, Prairie City, Ripley, Rushville, San Jose, Sciota, Smithfield, St. Augustine, Table Grove, Tennessee, Topeka, Vermont, Versailles, and Virginia. The district has been represented by Republican Norine Hammond since her appointment in December 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0106-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 93\nAs a result of Hammond's yea votes to overturn Governor Rauner's vetoes during the Illinois Budget Impasse, she would face a Republican challenger from Joshua Griffith, first-time candidate and manager of a roofing company in Galesburg. After winning her primary, Hammond would face Democratic challenger John Curtis, owner of Barefoot Gardens CSA and public school teacher, in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0107-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 94\nThe 94th district represents all or parts of Augusta, Basco, Bentley, Biggsville, Bowen, Camp Point, Carthage, Clayton, Coatsburg, Columbus, Dallas City, Elvaston, Ferris, Gladstone, Golden, Gulf Port, Hamilton, Kirkwood, La Harpe, La Prairie, Liberty, Lima, Little York, Lomax, Loraine, Media, Mendon, Monmouth, Nauvoo, Oquawka, Payson, Plainville, Plymouth, Pontoosuc, Quincy, Raritan, Roseville, Stronghurst, Ursa, Warsaw, and West Point. The district has been represented by Republican Randy Frese since January 14, 2015. Democrat Richard Cramsey, former 30 year pharmaceutical employee and farmer, would enter the race to challenge Frese after the primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0108-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 95\nThe 95th district includes all or parts of Assumption, Benld, Brighton, Bunker Hill, Butler, Carlinville, Coalton, Coffeen, Donnellson, Dorchester, Eagarville, East Gillespie, Farmersville, Fillmore, Gillespie, Girard, Harvel, Hillsboro, Holiday Shores, Irving, Lake Ka-Ho, Litchfield, Livingston, Medora, Morrisonville, Mount Clare, Mount Olive, Moweaqua, New Douglas, Nilwood, Nokomis, Ohlman, Owaneco, Palmer, Pana, Panama, Raymond, Royal Lakes, Sawyerville, Schram City, Shipman, Standard City, Staunton, Stonington, Taylor Springs, Taylorville, Virden, Waggoner, Walshville, Wenonah, White City, Williamson, Witt, and Worden. The district has been represented by Republican Avery Bourne since her appointment in February 2015. Bourne faced a Democratic challenger from Dillon Clark, a Montgomery County Board Member and a compliance officer at the Litchfield National Bank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 957]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0109-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 96\nThe 96th district, located in the Springfield metropolitan area, includes all or parts of Blue Mound, Boody, Bulpitt, Decatur, Edinburg, Harristown, Jeisyville, Kincaid, Mount Auburn, Niantic, Rochester, Springfield, Stonington, Taylorville, and Tovey. The district has been represented by Democrat Sue Scherer since January 9, 2013. The Republican challenger in this election was Herman Senor, alderman for Springfield's Ward 2 and over 25 years as an employee of the Illinois Department of Transportation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0110-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 97\nThe 97th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes parts of Aurora, Bolingbrook, Boulder Hill, Channahon, Joliet, Montgomery, Naperville, Oswego, Plainfield, Romeoville, and Shorewood. The district has been represented by Republican Mark Batinick since January 14, 2015. The Democratic challenger in this election was Mica Freeman, a fifth grade teacher and a ParentWISE volunteer through Anne & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0111-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 98\nThe 98th district, located in the Chicagoland area, includes all or parts of Bolingbrook, Crest Hill, Crystal Lawns, Joliet, Romeoville, and Shorewood. The district has been represented by Democrat Natalie Manley since January 9, 2013. The Republican challenger in the general election was Alyssia Benford, accountant, President of the Rotary Club of Bolingbrook, and serves on the Board of Directors for the United Way of Will County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0112-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 99\nThe 99th district, located in the Springfield metropolitan area, covers all or parts of Auburn, Berlin, Chatham, Curran, Divernon, Jerome, Leland Grove, Loami, New Berlin, Pawnee, Pleasant Plains, Southern View, Springfield, Thayer, and Virden. The district had been represented by Republican Sara Wojcicki Jimenez since November 2015. Jimenez announced she would not seek reelection in 2018, leaving her seat open for other candidates. The Republican primary featured Mike Murphy, US Army and Illinois National Guard veteran, former member of the school board and village board of Divernon, and a restaurateur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0112-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 99\nSteven Westerfield, originally on the Republican primary ballot, was kicked off due to invalid signatures and filed as a write-in candidate for the primary. The Democratic challenger in this election was Marc Bell, former Illinois State Police officer for 28 years, member of the Executive Board of the NOBLE Land of Lincoln Chapter, and previously served on the board of directors for Big Brothers, Big Sisters of the Illinois Capitol Region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0113-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 76\u2013100, District 100\nThe 100th district, located in parts of the Metro East, covers all or parts of Alsey, Batchtown, Baylis, Bluffs, Brighton, Brussels, Carrollton, Chapin, Chesterfield, Concord, Detroit, El Dara, Eldred, Exeter, Fidelity, Fieldon, Florence, Franklin, Glasgow, Godfrey, Grafton, Greenfield, Griggsville, Hamburg, Hardin, Hettick, Hillview, Hull, Jacksonville, Jerseyville, Kampsville, Kane, Kinderhook, Lynnville, Manchester, Meredosia, Milton, Modesto, Murrayville, Naples, Nebo, New Canton, New Salem, Otterville, Palmyra, Peal, Perry, Pittsfield, Pleasant Hill, Rockbridge, Roodhouse, Scottville, South Jacksonville, Time, Valley City, Waverly, White Hall, Wilmington, Winchester, and Woodson. The district has been represented by Republican C. D. Davidsmeyer since his appointment in December 2012. Davidsmeyer faced a primary challenge from business owner Jonas Petty. After winning his primary, Davidsmeyer would face no Democratic challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 79], "content_span": [80, 1050]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0114-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 101\nThe 101st district, located partly in the Bloomington-Normal area, covers all or parts of Argenta, Arrowsmith, Atwood, Bellflower, Bement, Cerro Gorod, Champaign, Cisco, Clinton, De Land, De Witt, Decatur, Downs, Ellsworth, Farmer City, Fisher, Foosland, Forsyth, Hammond, Heyworth, Ivesdale, Kenney, Lake of the Woods, LaPlace, Le Roy, Long Creek, Ludlow, Mahomet, Mansfield, Maroa, Monticello, Mount Zion, Niantic, Oreana, Saybrook, Wapella, Warrensburg, Waynesville, Weldon, and White Heath. The district had been represented by Republican Bill Mitchell since January 9, 2013, who had been serving the Illinois House of Representatives since 1999. On August 3, 2017, Mitchell announced he would not run for another term in the Illinois House. Former Decatur city councilman and Eastern Illinois University trustee Dan Caulkins ran as the Republican candidate. Jen McMillin, annual giving officer at Lincoln College, ran as the Democratic candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 1032]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0115-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 102\nThe 102nd district covers parts of the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, including all or parts of Allenville, Allerton, Arcola, Arthur, Atwood, Bethany, Bondville, Broadlands, Brocton, Camargo, Champaign, Chrisman, Cowden, Fairmount, Findlay, Garrett, Gays, Herrick, Hindsboro, Homer, Hume, Ivesdale, Longview, Lovington, Macon, Metcalf, Mount Zion, Moweaqua, Newman, Oconee, Pana, Paris, Pesotum, Philo, Redmon, Sadorus, Savoy, Seymour, Shelbyville, Sidell, Sidney, Sigel, St. Joseph, Stewardson, Strasburg, Sullivan, Tolono, Tower Hill, Tuscola, Vermilion, Villa Grove, Westervelt, and Windsor. The district has been represented by Republican Brad Halbrook since January 11, 2017, previously serving the 110th district in the Illinois House of Representatives from April 2012 to January 2015. Halbrook faced neither any Republican challenger in his primary nor any Democratic challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 997]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0116-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 103\nThe 103rd district covers the heart of the Champaign\u2013Urbana metropolitan area, including most of Champaign and Urbana. The district has been represented by Democrat Carol Ammons since January 14, 2015. Ammons faced neither any Democratic challenger in her primary nor any Republican challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0117-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 104\nThe 104th district covers parts of the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, including all or parts of Belgium, Catlin, Champaign, Danville, Fithian, Georgetown, Gifford, Indianola, Muncie, Oakwood, Olivet, Penfield, Rantoul, Ridge Farm, Royal, Savoy, Thomasboro, Tilton, and Westville. The district had been represented by Republican Chad Hays since December 2010. On July 7, 2017, Hays announced his retirement from the Illinois House citing the budget impasse. Vermillion County Board Chairman Mike Marron was appointed to Hays' seat on September 7, 2018 and was the Republican nominee in this election. Cindy Cunningham, who formerly directed Adult Day Care services at the Champaign County Nursing Home, was the Democratic challenger in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0118-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 105\nThe 105th district, located in the Bloomington-Normal area, includes all or parts of Anchor, Bloomington, Carlock, Chenoa, Colfax, Cooksville, Downs, El Paso, Fairbury, Forrest, Gridley, Hudson, Lexington, Normal, Strawn, and Towanda. The district has been represented by Republican Dan Brady since January 9, 2013, who formerly represented the 88th district from January 10, 2001 to January 9, 2013. The Democratic challenger in this election was Illinois State University Laboratory Schools' English and theater teacher Ben Webb. This is the first time since 2000 that Brady has faced a Democratic challenger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0119-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 106\nThe 106th district covers parts of the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, including all or parts of Alvan, Ashkum, Beaverville, Benson, Bismarck, Buckley, Cabery, Campus, Chatsworth, Chebanse, Cissna Park, Clifton, Congerville, Cornell, Crescent City, Cullom, Danforth, Deer Creek, Donovan, Dwight, El Paso, Elliott, Emington, Eureka, Flanagan, Forrest, Gibson City, Gilman, Goodfield, Henning, Hoopeston, Iroquois, Kappa, Kempton, Loda, Long Point, Martinton, Melvin, Milford, Minonk, Odell, Onarga, Panola, Papineau, Paxton, Piper City, Pontiac, Potomac, Rankin, Reddick, Roanoke, Roberts, Rossville, Saunemin, Secor, Sheldon, Sibley, Thawville, Watseka, Wellington, and Woodland. The district has been represented by Republican Tom Bennett since January 14, 2015. Bennett faced neither any primary challengers nor Democratic challengers before the 2018 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 955]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0120-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 107\nThe 107th district includes all or parts of Alma, Altamont, Beecher City, Bingham, Brownstown, Central City, Centralia, Edgewood, Effingham, Farina, Greenville, Iuka, Junction City, Kell, Keyesport, Kinmundy, Mason, Mulberry Grove, Odin, Old Ripley, Panama, Patoka, Pierron, Pocahontas, Ramsey, Salem, Sandoval, Shumway, Smithboro, Sorento, St. Elmo, St. Peter, Teutopolis, Vandalia, Vernon, Walnut Hill, Wamac, and Watson. The district had been represented by Republican John Cavaletto since January 14, 2009. Cavaletto announced he would not seek another term on September 18, 2017. Former Illinois Army National Guard veteran and former Fayette County Board member Blaine Wilhour ran as the Republican challenger in this election. Former high school teacher of Effingham High School and St. Anthony High School and Lake Land College history instructor David Seiler ran as the Democratic challenger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 982]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0121-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 108\nThe 108th district, located in the Metro East, includes all or parts of Addieville, Albers, Alhambra, Aviston, Bartelso, Beckemeyer, Breese, Carlyle, Centralia, Damiansville, Edwardsville, Germantown, Grantfork, Hamel, Highland, Hoffman, Hoyleton, Huey, Irvington, Marine, Maryville, Mascoutah, Nashville, New Baden, New Minden, O\u2019Fallon, Oakdale, Okawville, Pierron, Richview, St. Jacob, Summerfield, Trenton, Troy, and Venedy. The district has been represented by Republican Charles Meier since January 9, 2013. Meier faced a primary challenger from Madison County Board Member Don Moore. After winning the nomination, Meier would face no Democratic challenger in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0122-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 109\nThe 109th district, located in the Illinois Wabash Valley, includes all or parts of Albion, Allendale, Bellmont, Bone Gap, Bridgeport, Browns, Burnt Prairie, Calhoun, Carmi, Cisne, Claremont, Clay City, Crossville, Dieterich, Enfield, Fairfield, Flora, Golden Gate, Grayville, Iola, Jeffersonville, Johnsonville, Keenes, Keensburg, Louisville, Maunie, Montrose, Mount Carmel, Mount Erie, Newtown, Noble, Norris City, Olney, Parkersburg, Phillipstown, Rose Hill, Sailor Springs, Sims, Springerton, St. Francisville, Ste. Marie, Sumner, Teutopolis, Watson, Wayne City, West Salem, Wheeler, Willow Hill, Xenia, and Yale. The district had been represented by Republican David Reis since January 12, 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0122-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 109\nReis was challenged by farmer and North Clay Board of Education member Darren Bailey. In a rare victory for candidates supported by Dan Proft's Liberty Principles PAC, Bailey defeated Reis in the 2018 Republican primary. Bailey then defeated Democratic candidate Cynthia Given, the Secretary of the Richland County Democratic Party, in the staunchly Republican district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0123-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 110\nThe 110th district includes all or parts of Annapolis, Ashmore, Casey, Charleston, Flat Rock, Greenup, Humboldt, Hutsonville, Jewett, Kansas, Lawrenceville, Lerna, Marshall, Martinsville, Mattoon, Neoga, Oakland, Oblong, Palestine, Robinson, Russellville, Stoy, Toledo, West Union, West York, and Westfield. The district had been represented by Republican Reggie Phillips since January 14, 2015. On September 22, 2017, Phillips announced he would not run for a third term. The Republican challenger in this election was owner of the Miller Brothers Farms Chris Miller. The Democratic challenger was retired Eastern Illinois University professor Shirley Bell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0124-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 111\nThe 111th district, located in the Metro East, includes all or parts of Alton, Bethalto, East Alton, Edwardsville, Elsah, Godfrey, Granite City, Hartford, Holiday Shores, Madison, Mitchell, Pontoon Beach, Rosewood Heights, Roxana, South Roxana, and Wood River. The district had been represented by Democrat Dan Beiser since his appointment in 2004. According to Illinois Election Data, the 111th district was the 4th most Republican district represented by a Democrat during the election. Beiser announced his retirement from the Illinois House of Representatives on August 30, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0124-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 111\nMonica Bristow, President of the RiverBend Growth Association, was sworn in on December 19, 2017 as his replacement. She would go on to be the Democratic candidate for the general election. The Republican challenger in this election was the Wood River Township Supervisor Mike Babcock, who has previously run for the 111th district in the past.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0125-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 112\nThe 112th district, located in the Metro East, includes all or parts of Bethalto, Caseyville, Collinsville, Edwardsville, Fairmont City, Fairview Heights, Glen Carbon, Granite City, Madison, Maryville, O'Fallon, Pontoon Beach, Roxana, Shiloh, Swansea, and Wood River. The district has been represented by Democrat Katie Stuart since January 11, 2017. According to Illinois Election Data, the 112th district was the 3rd most Republican district represented by a Democrat during the election. Dwight Kay, former representative of the district, was the Republican challenger in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0126-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 113\nThe 113th district, located in the Metro East, includes all or parts of Belleville, Brooklyn, Caseyville, Collinsville, East St. Louis, Fairmont City, Fairview Heights, Granite City, Madison, Shiloh, Swansea, Venice, and Washington Park. Democrat Jay Hoffman, who has been a member of the Illinois House of Representatives since January 9, 1991 (with a nine-month interruption in 1997), has represented the district since January 9, 2013. St. Clair County Republican Committee chairman Doug Jameson was the Republican challenger in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0127-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 114\nThe 114th district, located in the Metro East, includes all or parts of Alorton, Belleville, Cahokia, Centreville, East St. Louis, Fairmont City, Fairview Heights, Freeburg, Lebanon, Mascoutah, Millstadt, O'Fallon, Rentchler, Sauget, Scott Air Force Base, Shiloh, Smithton and Washington Park. The district has been represented by Democrat LaToya Greenwood since January 11, 2017. Centreville Township assessor Jason Madlock was the Republican challenger in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0128-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 115\nThe 115th district includes all or parts of Alto Pass, Anna, Ashley, Ava, Belle Rive, Bluford, Bonnie, Campbell Hill, Carbondale, Centralia, Cobden, De Soto, Dix, Dongola, Du Bois, Du Quoin, Elkville, Gorham, Grand Tower, Harrison, Ina, Jonesboro, Makanda, Mill Creek, Mount Vernon, Murphysboro, Nashville, Opdyke, Pinckneyville, Radom, Richview, St. Johns, Tamaroa, Vergennes, Waltonville, and Woodlawn. The district has been represented by Republican Terri Bryant since January 14, 2015. Former teacher and Illinois Education Association union leader Marsha Griffin was the Democratic challenger in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0129-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 116\nThe 116th district, located in parts of the Metro East, includes all or parts of Baldwin, Cahokia, Chester, Columbia, Coulterville, Cutler, Darmstadt, Du Quoin, Dupo, East Carondelet, Ellis Grove, Evansville, Fayetteville, Floraville, Fults, Hecker, Kaskaskia, Lenzburg, Maeystown, Marissa, Millstadt, New Athens, Paderborn, Percy, Pinckneyville, Prairie du Rocher, Red Bud, Rockwood, Ruma, Sauget, Smithton, Sparta, St. Libory, Steeleville, Tilden, Valmeyer, Waterloo, and Willisville. The district has been represented by Democrat Jerry Costello II since January 12, 2011. According to Illinois Election Data, the 116th district was the most Republican district represented by a Democrat during the election. David Friess was the Republican challenger in this year's election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 859]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0130-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 117\nThe 117th district includes all or parts of Benton, Buckner, Bush, Cambria, Carbondale, Carterville, Christopher, Colp, Crab Orchard, Creal Springs, Energy, Ewing, Freeman Spur, Granville, Hanaford, Herrin, Hurst, Johnston City, Macedonia, Marion, McLeansboro, Mulkeytown, North City, Orient, Pittsburg, Royalton, Sesser, Spillertown, Stonefort, Thompsonville, Valier, West City, West Frankfort, Whiteash, and Zeigler. The district has been represented by Republican Dave Severin since January 11, 2017. Jason Woolard, president of the Southern Illinois Central Labor Council for the AFL-CIO, was the Democratic challenger to Severin in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0131-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 118\nThe 118th district includes all or parts of Anna, Belknap, Belle Prairie City, Brookport, Broughton, Buncombe, Burnside, Cairo, Carbondale, Carrier Mills, Cave-In-Rock, Cypress, Dahlgren, Dongola, East Cape Girardeau, Eddyville, Eldorado, Elizabethtown, Equality, Galatia, Golconda, Goreville, Harrisburg, Joppa, Junction, Karnak, Makanda, Marion, McClure, McLeansboro, Metropolis, Mound City, Mounds, New Grand Chain, New Haven, Old Shawneetown, Olive Branch, Olmsted, Omaha, Pulaski, Raleigh, Ridgway, Rosiclare, Shawneetown, Simpson, Stonefort, Tamms, Thebes, Ullin, and Vienna. The district had been represented by Democrat Brandon Phelps since January 8, 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280007-0131-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois House of Representatives election, Districts 101\u2013118, District 118\nAccording to Illinois Election Data, the 118th district was the 2nd most Republican district represented by a Democrat during the election. Phelps stepped down, citing health reasons, and would be replaced by his cousin Natalie Phelps Finnie. Massac County's state's attorney Patrick Windhorst ran in the election as the Republican challenger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election\nThe 2018 elections for the Illinois Senate took place on November 6, 2018 to elect senators from 39 of the state's 59 Senate districts to serve in the 101st General Assembly, with seats apportioned among the states based on the 2010 United States Census. Under the Illinois Constitution of 1970, senators are divided into three groups, each group having a two-year term at a different part of the decade between censuses, with the rest of the decade being taken up by two four-year terms. The Democratic Party has held a majority in the Senate since 2003, and gained a net of 3 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election\nThe elections for Illinois's 18 congressional districts, Governor, statewide constitutional officers, and all 118 seats in the Illinois House of Representatives were also held on this date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election\nThe Republicans needed to win eight seats in order to become the majority party. However, the Democratic Party picked up three additional seats and increased the party's supermajority to 40 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 2\nDemocrat Omar Aquino has represented the 2nd district since 2016. The 2nd district includes all or parts of Belmont Cragin, Dunning, Hermosa, Humboldt Park, Logan Square, and West Town. On November 27, 2017, Aquino filed to run for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 3\nDemocrat Mattie Hunter has represented the 3rd district since 2003. The 3rd includes Armour Square, Bridgeport, Bronzeville, Chicago Lawn, Douglas, Englewood, Fuller Park, Gage Park, McKinley Park, Near North Side, New City, Washington Park, West Englewood, and Woodlawn On November 27, 2017, Hunter filed to run for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 5\nDemocrat Patricia Van Pelt has represented the 5th district since 2013. The 5th is located in Chicago. On November 30, 2017, Van Pelt filed to run for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 6\nDemocrat John Cullerton, the President of the Illinois Senate, has represented the 6th district since his 1991 appointment to succeed Dawn Clark Netsch who had been elected Illinois Comptroller. The 6th district is centered on Lakeview and Lincoln Park in Chicago. On November 27, 2017, Cullerton filed to run for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 8\nDemocrat Ira Silverstein has represented the 8th district since 1999. The 8th Senate District consists of Forest Glen, North Park and West Ridge in the City of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs of Park Ridge, Morton Grove, Niles, Lincolnwood and Skokie. Silverstein filed to run for reelection on November 27, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 8\nIn November 2017, lobbyist and victim's rights advocate Denise Rotheimer testified that Silverstein sexually harassed her while she was lobbying for a bill's passage through Silverstein's committee. Afterwards, several Democratic challengers emerged to run against Silverstein. Ram Villivalam, former political director for Brad Schneider, filed on November 27, 2017. Zehra Quadri, David Zulkey, and Caroline Mcateer-Fournier have also filed to run in the Democratic primary. Villivalam has been endorsed by Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Congressman Brad Schneider, State Senator Laura Murphy, and Alderman Ameya Pawar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 8\nOn December 29, 2017, it was reported that Senator Silverstein was forty five signatures short of the required 1,000 signatures to be eligible for ballot access in the Democratic primary. Silverstein was ultimately found to have sufficient signatures and remained on the ballot. Villivalam defeated Silverstein in the Democratic primary on March 20, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 9\nDemocrat Daniel Biss has represented 9th district, since January 2013. The 9th district includes all or parts of Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Northbrook, Northfield, Skokie, Wilmette, and Winnetka. Biss is vacating his Senate seat to run for the Democratic nomination in the 2018 gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 9\nOn July 28, 2017, State Representative Laura Fine announced her intention to run for the 9th Senate District. On December 4, 2017, both Fine and her Republican opponent, 2016 congressional candidate Joan McCarthy Lasonde, filed petitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 11\nDemocrat Martin Sandoval has been a member of the Illinois Senate since 2003. He currently represents the 11th district which includes all or parts of the Chicago neighborhoods of Brighton Park, Clearing, Gage Park, Garfield Ridge, Little Village, and West Lawn and the suburbs of Bedford Park, Burbank, Cicero, Forest View, Lyons, McCook, Stickney, Illinois, Summit, and Riverside. On November 27, 2017, Sandoval filed to run for reelection. No other candidates filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 12\nDemocrat Steven Landek has been a member of the Illinois Senate since his appointment in 2011. He currently represents the 12th district which includes all or parts of Bridgeview, Burbank, Bedford Park, McCook, Brookfield, Riverside, Berwyn, and Cicero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 12\nLandek filed to run for reelection on November 27, 2017. No other candidates filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 14\nDemocrat Emil Jones III has represented the 14th district since 2009. The district includes Washington Heights, Morgan Park, and West Pullman in Chicago as well as the suburbs of Oak Forest, Crestwood, Alsip, Blue Island, Calumet Park, Tinley Park. On November 30, 2017, Emil Jones III filed to run for reelection. No other candidates filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 15\nDemocrat Napoleon Harris has represented the 15th district since 2013. The 15th district stretches from Blue Island in the north, Calumet City in the east, Homewood in the west, Steger in the south, and includes all or parts of Crete-Monee, Dolton, Flossmoor, Glenwood, Thornton, Markham, Midlothian, Oak Forest, Harvey, Riverdale, and South Holland. On December 4, 2017, Harris filed to run for reelection. Terry Brown a Phoenix resident, has filed to challenge Harris in the Democratic primary. No Republican candidates filed to run. Terry Brown was removed from the ballot due to an insufficient number of signatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 17\nDemocrat Donne Trotter had been a member of the Illinois Senate since 1993. The 17th district includes Burnside, Chatham, Pullman, and South Deering in Chicago and the suburbs of Burnham, Calumet City, Lansing, Ford Heights, Lynwood, Sauk Village, Willowbrook, Beecher, Manteno and Grant Park. On November 27, 2017, Trotter filed to run for reelection. No other candidates filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 17\nDonne Trotter would go on to win his primary not before announcing his retirement on January 19, 2018. Elgie R. Sims, Jr., previously serving the Illinois 34th State House district, was appointed as State Senator on January 26, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 18\nDemocrat Bill Cunningham has represented the 18th district since 2013. The 18th district is split between Chicago and its suburbs. It includes the Beverly, Mount Greenwood and Auburn-Gresham neighborhoods in Chicago as well as the all or parts of the surrounding suburbs of Oak Lawn, Evergreen Park, Chicago Ridge, Hometown and Palos Hills. Orland Park, Orland Hills, Palos Heights, Palos Park, Worth, Oak Lawn, Alsip, Merrionette Park and Evergreen Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 18\nOn November 27, 2017, Cunningham filed to run for reelection. No other candidates filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 20\nDemocrat Iris Martinez has represented the 20th district since 2003. The 20th includes all or parts of Albany Park, Avondale, Belmont Cragin, Hermosa, Old Irving Park, Portage Park and Logan Square. On November 27, 2017, Martinez filed to run for reelection. She is facing a primary challenge from Chicago resident Bart Goldberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 21\nRepublican Michael Connelly has represented the 21st district since 2013. The 21st district Carol Stream, Lisle, Warrenville, Wheaton, Winfield, West Chicago and Naperville. On November 27, 2017, Connelly filed to run for reelection. Naperville resident Laura Ellman was the sole Democratic candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 23\nThe 23rd district spans northern DuPage County and includes all or parts of Addison, Bloomingdale, Bartlett, Carol Stream, Glendale Heights, Hanover Park, Itasca, Villa Park, West Chicago, Wayne and Wood Dale. Democrat Tom Cullerton has represented the district since was first elected to the Illinois Senate in 2012. The 23rd district is the third most Republican seat held by a Democrat. Cullerton has filed to run for reelection. Republican Seth Lewis, Cullerton's 2016 opponent, has filed for a rematch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 24\nRepublican Chris Nybo has represented the 24th district since August 2014. The 47th district includes all or parts of Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, Lombard, Elmhurst, Oak Brook, Western Springs, Clarendon Hills, Westmont, Hinsdale, Downers Grove, and Lisle. The 24th was the fourth most Democratic seat held by a Republican. On November 27, 2017, Nybo filed to run for reelection. Nybo's 2014 opponent, Suzy Glowiak, has filed to run as the Democratic nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 26\nRepublican Dan McConchie has represented the 26th district since his appointment in April 2016. The 26th district includes Algonquin, Barrington, Cary, Deer Park, Fox River Grove, Hawthorn Woods, Island Lake, Kildeer, Lake Zurich, Libertyville, Long Grove, Mundelein, and Wauconda. On November 27, 2017, McConchie filed to run for reelection. Mundelein resident Tom Georges is the sole Democratic candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 27\nTom Rooney has represented the 27th district since his September 2016 appointment to replace outgoing Senator Matt Murphy. The 27th district includes parts of Arlington Heights, Barrington, Buffalo Grove, Inverness, Palatine, Wheeling, Prospect Heights and South Barrington. The 27th is the third most Democratic seat held by a Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 27\nOn November 27, 2017, Rooney filed to run for retention. Democrats Joe Sonnefeldt and Ann Gillespie have filed to run for the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 29\nDemocrat Julie Morrison has represented the 29th district since 2013. The 29th district includes all or parts of Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Bannockburn, Deerfield, Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Lincolnshire, Northbrook and North Chicago. On November 27, 2017, Morrison filed to run for reelection. Republican Barrett Davie also filed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 30\nDemocrat Terry Link has represented the 30th district since 1997. The 30th district includes all or part of the municipalities of Beach Park, Buffalo Grove, Green Oaks, Lincolnshire, Mundelein, North Chicago, Riverwoods, Wheeling, Vernon Hills and Waukegan. On November 27, 2017, Link filed to run for reelection. Republican candidate Soojae Lee also filed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 32\nRepublican Pamela Althoff has represented the 32nd District since her appointment in March 2003. The 32nd district includes all or parts of Harvard, Marengo, Woodstock, Bull Valley, Wonder Lake, Illinois, Greenwood, McHenry, Fox Lake, Spring Grove, Johnsburg and Lakemoor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 32\nAlthoff has chosen to run for the McHenry County Board instead of seeking reelection to the Illinois Senate. Craig Wilcox and John Reinert, both members of the McHenry County Board, filed to run for the Republican nomination, but Reinert has since withdrawn. Mary Mahaday, McHenry Township Assessor, is the sole Democratic candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 33\nRepublican Karen McConnaughay has represented the 33rd district since 2013. The 33rd district includes all or parts of Geneva, St. Charles, West Dundee, Hampshire, Huntley, Carpentersville, Lake in the Hills and Algonquin. On November 27, 2017, McConnaughay filed to run for reelection. Democratic candidate Nancy Zettler also filed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 33\nMcConnaughay would go on to win her primary election but later announce her retirement. She would retire on September 3, 2018. Don DeWitte, former St. Charles, Illinois Mayor and alderman, was then appointed to her seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 35\nRepublican Dave Syverson has been a member of the Illinois Senate since 1993. He currently represents the 35th district which includes South Beloit, Rockton, Poplar Grove, Cherry Valley, Rockford, Genoa, DeKalb, Sycamore, Cortland, Hinckley, Maple Park, and Campton Hills. On November 27, 2017, Syverson filed to run for reelection. No other candidates filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 36\nRepublican Neil Anderson has represented the 36th district since 2013. The 36th district, located in Western Illinois, includes all or parts of Savanna, Morrison, Sterling, Rock Falls, Port Byron, Hillsdale, Silvis, East Moline, Moline and Coal Valley, Rock Island, Milan, Taylor Ridge and Andalusia. The 36th is the most Democratic seat held by a Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 36\nOn November 27, 2017, Anderson filed to run for reelection. One week later, Gregg Johnson, former president of AFSCME Local 46, filed to run for the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 38\nRepublican Sue Rezin has represented the 38th district since her December 2010 appointment. The 38th district includes all or parts of Spring Valley, DePue, Granville, Hennepin, LaSalle, Ottawa, Marseilles, Oglesby, Streator, Plano, Morris, and Minooka. The 38th is the second most Democratic seat held by a Republican. On November 27, 2017, Rezin filed to run for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 39\nDemocrat Don Harmon has represented the 39th district since 2003. The 39th district includes Chicago's Austin neighborhood and the suburbs of Oak Park, Addison, Bensenville, Elmwood Park, Franklin Park, Melrose Park, Northlake, River Grove, Rosemont, Schiller Park, and Stone Park. On November 27, 2017, Harmon filed to run for reelection. No other candidates filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 41\nRepublican John Curran took office in July 2017 after accepting an appointment to replace Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno who resigned July 1, 2017. The 41st district includes all or parts of Lemont, Indian Head Park, LaGrange, Western Springs, Homer Glen, Burr Ridge, Darien, Downers Grove, Lisle, Willowbrook, Woodridge, Naperville, and Bolingbrook. On November 27, 2017, Curran filed to run for election to his Senate seat. The Democratic candidate is Bridget Fitzgerald, the Village Clerk of Western Springs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 42\nDemocrat Linda Holmes has represented the 42nd District since 2007. The 42nd district includes all or parts of Aurora, Boulder Hill, Montgomery, Naperville, North Aurora and Oswego. On November 27, 2017, Holmes filed to run for reelection. No other candidates filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 44\nRepublican Minority Leader Bill Brady has represented the 44th district since 2003. The 44th includes Tazewell, McLean, Menard, Logan, and Sangamon counties. On November 27, 2017, Brady filed to run for reelection. No other candidates filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 45\nRepublican Tim Bivins has represented the 45th district since 2008. The 45th includes all or parts of Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Carroll, Winnebago, Ogle, Lee, DeKalb and LaSalle counties in northwestern Illinois. On June 12, 2017 Bivins announced he would not seek another term. Republican State Representative Brian W. Stewart is running to succeed him. Li Arellano Jr., the Mayor of Dixon, had planned to run in the Republican primary, but withdrew on December 2 citing his responsibilities outside of politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 45\nDavid Simpson, a lumber yard manager, is running as the Democratic candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 47\nRepublican Jil Tracy has represented the 47th district since 2017. The 47th includes all of Adams, Brown, Cass, Hancock, Henderson, Mason, McDonough, Schuyler, Warren counties and portions of Fulton and Knox counties. On November 27, 2017, Tracy filed to run for reelection. No other candidates filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 48\nDemocrat Andy Manar has represented the 48th district since 2013. The 48th district includes all or parts of The 48th district includes all or parts of Macon, Sangamon, Christian, Montgomery, Macoupin, andMadison counties. The 48th is the most Republican seat held by a Democrat. On November 27, 2017, Manar filed to run for reelection. Seth McMillan, Chair of the Christian County Republican Party, and Christopher Hicks, a 2016 candidate for the Illinois House of Representatives, filed to run as Republicans. Hicks was disqualified from the Republican primary ballot after a petition challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 50\nRepublican Sam McCann has been a member of the Illinois Senate since 2011. He currently represents the 50th district which includes all or parts of Pike, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Morgan, Scott, and Sangamon counties. McCann, a noted opponent of Governor Bruce Rauner, chose not to file for reelection. He had been facing a primary challenge from Steve McClure, an assistant state\u2019s attorney in Sangamon County. Prior to McCann's retirement, McClure has been endorsed by the Sangamon County Republican Party. No Democratic candidate filed to run for the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 51\nRepublican Chapin Rose has represented the 51st district since 2013. The 51st district includes all or parts of McLean, DeWitt, Macon, Moultrie, Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, and Shelby counties. On November 27, 2017, Rose filed to run for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 51\nBen Chapman, a University of Illinois student from Mahomet, attempted to win the Democratic nomination via write-in during the March 20th primary, but failed to clear the write-in vote threshold. He opted not to pursue placement on the ballot via the post-primary slating process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 53\nRepublican Jason Barickman has represented the 53rd district since 2013. He represents the 53rd district which includes all or parts of Ford, Iroquois, Livingston, McLean, Vermilion, and Woodford counties in Central Illinois. On November 27, 2017, Barickman filed to run for reelection. No other candidates filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 54\nRepublican Kyle McCarter was first appointed in February 2009. He represents the 54th district which includes all or parts of Effingham, Fayette, Bond, Clinton, Marion, Madison, Washington, and St. Clair counties in Downstate Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 54\nMcCarter has announced he will not seek reelection in 2018. On November 27, 2017, four candidates filed to run in the Republican primary; Greenville University basketball coach George Barber, Clinton County Board member Rafael Him, perennial candidate Jason Plummer, and Marion County Republican Party Chairman Benjamin Stratemeyer. No Democratic candidate filed to run for the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 54\nOn March 20, 2018, Jason Plummer won the Republican primary. Brian Stout, President of the Vandalia Municipal Airport, was slated by the Democratic Party to be its nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 56\nDemocrat Bill Haine was appointed to the Illinois Senate in November 2002. He represents the 56th district which includes all or parts of Alton, Bethalto, Caseyville, Collinsville, East Alton, Edwardsville, Elsah, Fairview Heights, Glen Carbon, Godfrey, Granite City, Hartford, Madison, Maryville, O'Fallon, Pontoon Beach, Roxana, Shiloh, South Roxana, Swansea, and Wood River. On August 16, 2017, Haine announced he would not seek reelection to a sixth term. The 56th is second most Republican seat held by a Democrat. Rachelle Crowe, a prosecutor with the Madison County State's Attorney's Office, was the Democratic nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 56\nEdwardsville Mayor Hal Patton filed for the Republican nomination. On March 10, 2018, Hal Patton was removed from the ballot by the Illinois Appellate Court after he signed a petition for Katie Stuart. By signing the petition he had technically affirmed he was a Democrat, despite not identifying with the Democratic Party. This disqualified him from running as a Republican in the 2018 primary or general election. One month later, Patton has relaunched his campaign under the new banner ofDownstate United, a new political party which existed solely to allow Patton to run for office as a partisan candidate rather than an independent candidate, which significantly reduces the barriers to ballot access.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 57\nDemocratic Majority Leader James Clayborne Jr. was appointed to the Illinois Senate in April 1995. He represents the 57th District, located in the Metro East region includes all or parts of Freeburg, Belleville, East St. Louis, O'Fallon, Madison, Fairview Heights, Shiloh and Scott Air Force Base. On September 21, 2017, Clayborne announced he would not run for reelection in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 57\nOn November 27, 2017, shock jock and convicted felon Bob Romanik filed for the Republican nomination. On December 4, 2017, Republicans Dave Barnes, the incumbent St. Clair Township Supervisor, and Tanya Hildenbrand, an Air Force reservist, filed to run for the Republican nomination. The same day, Christopher Belt, the Cahokia School Board President, became the sole Democrat to file for the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 57\nOn December 11, 2017, Dave Barnes withdrew from the Republican primary. The St. Clair County Republican Party endorsed Hildenbrand, citing Romanik's past racist and sexist comments. Hildenbrand defeated Romanik to become the Republican nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280008-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois Senate election, Elections by district, District 59\nRepublican Dale Fowler was first elected in 2016. Fowler represents the 59th district, which includes all of Franklin, Hamilton, Williamson, Saline, Gallatin, Hardin, Pope, Massac, Johnson, Pulaski, and Alexander counties and portions of Union and Jackson counties in Southern Illinois. On November 27, 2017, Fowler filed to run for reelection. Steve Webb, superintendent of Goreville Community Unit School District #1, has been slated as the Democratic nominee and will appear on the ballot if he receives 1,000 valid petition signatures by June 4, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280009-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois State Redbirds football team\nThe 2018 Illinois State Redbirds football team represented Illinois State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by tenth-year head coach Brock Spack and played their home games at Hancock Stadium. They are a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They finished the season 6\u20135, 3\u20135 in MVFC play to finish in a three-way tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280009-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois State Redbirds football team, Previous season\nThe Redbirds finished the 2017 season 6\u20135, 4\u20134 in MVFC play to finish in a three-way tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280009-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois State Redbirds football team, Preseason, Preseason MVFC poll\nThe MVFC released their preseason poll on July 29, 2018, with the Redbirds predicted to finish in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280009-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois State Redbirds football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MVFC Teams\nThe Redbirds placed five players on the preseason all-MVFC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Illinois on November 6, 2018. The elections for Illinois's 18 congressional districts, Governor, statewide constitutional officers, Illinois Senate, and Illinois House were held on this date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections\nThe Democratic Party made gains, including picking up the state's governorship and flipping two of its U.S. House seats. After the election, all executive offices and control of the Illinois General Assembly was held by the Democratic Party. Conversely the Republican Party experienced what was regarded to be their worst defeat in the state since at least 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, Election information\n2018 was a midterm election year in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, Election information, Turnout, Primary election\nFor the primary election, turnout was 26.48%, with 2,103,634 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 72], "content_span": [73, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, Election information, Turnout, General election\nFor the general election, turnout was 57.23%, with 4,635,541 votes cast. The Illinois State Board of Elections reported that this general election turnout rate was the third-highest for a midterm election over the past forty years. The Illinois State Board of Elections also reported that the total number of votes cast set a record high. Voter registration, at 8.1 million, also sat at a record high.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 72], "content_span": [73, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, Election information, Turnout, General election\nTurnout was considered high in the United States during the 2018 midterm elections, with it being the highest national midterm turnout since 1914.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 72], "content_span": [73, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, Federal elections, United States House\nAll of Illinois' 18 seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, Federal elections, United States House\nThe Democratic Party flipped two Republican-held seat, making the composition of Illinois' House delegation 13 Democrats and 5 Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor Bruce Rauner ran for re-election to a second term, but was defeated by Democratic venture capitalist and billionaire J. B. Pritzker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who served since 2003, chose not to run for re-election to a fifth term. Democratic state Senator Kwame Raoul defeated Republican Erika Harold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Democratic Secretary of State Jesse White, who has been in office since 1999, initially announced in August 2015 that he would retire. On August 17, 2017, White reversed this decision and announced that he would run for re-election to a sixth term. Governing magazine projected the race as \"safe Democratic\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, Comptroller\nIncumbent Republican Judy Baar Topinka died on December 10, 2014, after being re-elected to a second term in office. A special election was held in 2016 for the remainder of the term, with Democratic City Clerk of Chicago Susana Mendoza defeating appointed Republican Comptroller Leslie Munger. Mendoza won a full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, State Senate\nOne-third of the seats of the Illinois Senate were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, State House of Representatives\nAll of the seats in the Illinois House of Representatives were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, Judicial elections\nJudicial elections were held, consisting of both partisan and retention elections, including those for one seat in the Supreme Court of Illinois and five seats in the Illinois Appellate Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280010-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois elections, Local elections\nLocal elections took place, including county elections such as the Cook County elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Illinois gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Illinois, concurrently with the 2018 Illinois general election and other midterm elections. Incumbent Republican Governor Bruce Rauner ran for re-election to a second term in office, but was defeated by Democratic nominee J. B. Pritzker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election\nThis was the second consecutive Illinois gubernatorial election in which the incumbent unsuccessfully sought re-election, and was also the first time that two consecutive governors have been elected without prior public office experience. Rauner was one of two incumbent Republican governors to be defeated for re-election in 2018, the other being Scott Walker in neighboring Wisconsin. In addition, Rauner suffered the worst defeat for an incumbent governor in any state since Ernie Fletcher's defeat in Kentucky's 2007 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Election information\nThe primaries and general elections coincided with those for federal congressional races and those for other state offices. The election was part of the 2018 Illinois elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Election information, Turnout\nFor the primary election, turnout was 25.76%, with 2,046,710 votes cast. For the general election, turnout was 56.15%, with 4,547,657 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Forums\nThe Illinois LGBTQ Forum: The Democratic Candidates for Governor was held on December 6, 2017, and organized by Affinity Community Services, the Association of Latinos/as Motivating Action (ALMA), the Equality Illinois Institute, and Pride Action Tank. Candidates who attended included Daniel Biss, Tio Hardiman, Ameya Pawar, J. B. Pritzker, and Chris Kennedy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Forums\nWhitney Young High School hosted the first student-run gubernatorial debate in the United States on October 4, 2017. All 7 then current candidates attended, meaning Daniel Biss, Bob Daiber, Tio Hardiman, Chris Kennedy, Alex Paterakis, Ameya Pawar, and J. B. Pritzker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Forums\nThe Illinois chapter of progressive advocacy organization Our Revolution sponsored a forum at the Chicago Teacher's Union headquarters on October 8, 2017. Candidates voiced similar opinions on single-payer health care, gun control, and the minimum wage, but differed on a hypothetical state deal with Amazon and relationships with powerful Illinois Speaker Mike Madigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Forums\nThe Democratic candidates held their first televised debate on January 23. All six candidates met again a week later on January 30. The debate was not televised but was uploaded to WSIL-TV's YouTube channel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Forums\nAnother debate was held on February 21, which was hosted by the University of Illinois Springfield. Chris Kennedy did not attend due to a back injury, although all five other candidates participated. Another major debate took place on March 1. It involved issues such as gun control, Blagojevich's tapes, sexual harassment, and relatability. Another debate took place the next day in Springfield. The topics involved Madigan, sexual harassment, among other issues. The spotlight remained on the top contenders: Chris Kennedy, J.B Pritzker, and Daniel Biss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Forums\nPritzker was criticized for refusing to commit to attend the only live-television debate planned outside the Chicago media market, prompting the debate's cancellation. Biss and Kennedy gathered petition signatures to encourage the debate's continuation, and Biss commented that \"JB is borrowing a page from the billionaire playbook, avoiding debates and shunning reporters who ask tough questions.\" Another debate took place on March 14, revolving around topics including Pritzker's newly reported offshore holdings, Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan, and education. Kennedy and Biss both attacked Pritzker on the offshore businesses, Kennedy \"saying it's like a job interview, and Pritzker lying to get the job\", and Biss saying \"Pritzker did that to avoid taxes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Results\nPritzker won 98 of Illinois' counties. Kennedy and Biss both won two counties each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Campaign\nA November 2017 Capitol Fax/We Ask America poll found that 83% of Republican voters have never heard of Ives. Ives' campaign's fourth-quarter fundraising totals were around $500,000. On February 28, 2018, Ives' campaign released a new book entitled The Governor You Don't Know: The Other Side of Bruce Rauner, authored by Chicago GOP chairman and Ives campaign chairman Chris Cleveland with a foreword by conservative State Representative Tom Morrison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Campaign\nRauner and Ives held their first and only scheduled forum on January 29, before the Chicago Tribune editorial board.\" Rauner largely ignored his opponent and focused on attacking Speaker Mike Madigan, comparing him to his likely Democratic challenger, J. B. Pritzker. Ives, on the other hand, attacked Rauner for being an ineffective governor and alienating social conservatives. Shortly after the debate, conservative Lake Forest businessman Richard Uihlein donated $500,000 to Ives' campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Campaign\nRauner and Ives were invited by the University of Illinois Springfield to debate a second time; Rauner declined the invitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Campaign\nIves released an ad titled \"Thank You, Bruce Rauner\" on February 3, 2018, in an attempt to challenge her opponent's commitment to conservative values. Her ad featured actors outfitted to portray a transgender woman, an anti-fascist protester wearing a hood and a bandana over his face, a member of the Chicago Teachers Union and a Women's March activist. After Ives' ad made its rounds on the internet, advocacy groups, some Republicans and Democrats lashed out against Ives, calling her video bigoted and offensive. The ad increased Ives's profile and name recognition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Campaign\nThree Chicago-area newspaper editorial boards came out against the ad: the Chicago Tribune said \"The portrayals are demeaning;\" the Daily Herald said that Ives should take down the ad, which \"attacks people of Illinois, not opponent\", and the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, \"Jeanne Ives goes for the bully vote with her TV ad.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Results\nDespite a 14% decrease in Republican primary votes cast, Rauner increased his overall vote total by 9% compared to the 2014 primary. In 2018, he managed to capture a narrow majority of the votes, with 51.4%, in his victory over conservative Ives. By comparison, in 2014 Rauner only received 40.2% of the primary vote in his narrow win victory over Kirk Dillard, Bill Brady, and Dan Rutherford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Results\nIn 2018, Rauner did well in central Illinois compared to the Republican primary four years earlier, when he managed 30% in the downstate region and finished 2nd to Kirk Dillard. In 2018, he carried the region with 52%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Results\nHowever, the result was still considered surprisingly close, and indicated widespread dissatisfaction with Rauner's governorship among more conservative Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Third parties and independents\nIn order to qualify as an established party in Illinois, a candidate for said party must earn at least 5% of the vote in a statewide election. This last occurred in 2006, when Rich Whitney won 10% of the vote, allowing the Illinois Green Party to achieve such status. Established party status comes with benefits. For example, candidates of an established party needs only 5,000 voter signatures on its petitions to gain ballot access. For non-established parties this number is approximately 25,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Third parties and independents\nFor the 2018 election, non-established parties do not need to run a full slate in order to qualify for ballot access.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Third parties and independents, Conservative\nSam McCann, a longtime intraparty opponent of Bruce Rauner, resigned from the Republican Caucus to run for governor as a member of the newly created Conservative Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Third parties and independents, Libertarian\nKash Jackson was the Libertarian nominee. Libertarian nominees for governor, other statewide offices, and the General Assembly were chosen by the Libertarian Party of Illinois at a state convention on March 3, 2018 in Bloomington, Illinois. Jackson appeared on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Third parties and independents, Constitution, Nominee\nWilliam J. Kelly was nominated for governor and Chad Koppie, a member of the Kane County Regional Board of School Trustees, were chosen to run as the gubernatorial ticket of the Illinois Constitution Party. However, on June 5, 2018, Kelly dropped out and endorsed the third party campaign of Sam McCann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 91], "content_span": [92, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, Third parties and independents, Green Party\nThe Green Party ran a slate of statewide candidates in 2006 and 2010, but failed to be placed on the ballot in 2014 and declined to run any statewide candidates in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, General election\nBruce Rauner had been rated as one of, if not the most, vulnerable governor running for re-election in 2018 by Politico and the National Journal. Following his surprisingly narrow primary win, Rauner offered former state senator Karen McConnaughay, attorney general nominee Erika Harold, Chicago Cubs co-owner and Republican National Committee Finance Chair Todd Ricketts and Illinois Republican Party Committeeman Richard Porter the chance to replace him on the ticket, with the promise that he would continue to fully fund the campaign using his personal wealth. Rauner consistently trailed Pritzker in the polls by large margins, and the race was rated as a likely Democratic win by all major election prognosticators. Ultimately, Rauner remained on the ballot, and lost in the most lopsided gubernatorial election since Jim Edgar was reelected in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 911]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280011-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, General election, Results\nPritzker only won 16 out of Illinois\u2019 102 counties. However, those counties account for more than half of the state's total population. In the end, the election was not close with the Pritzker/Stratton ticket defeating the Rauner/Sanguinetti ticket by almost 16 percentage points. Pritzker won the traditionally Democratic Cook County which includes the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Pritzker won in all but one of Chicago\u2019s collar counties, which used to be more of a tossup in years prior. Pritzker also did well in other cities such as East Saint Louis and Champaign, and narrowly winning in Peoria. Rauner did well in most rural areas of the state, but it was not enough to put a dent into Pritzker's lead. Pritzker and Stratton were sworn in on January 14, 2019. Rauner's 38.8% of the vote was the worst performance for an incumbent Illinois Governor since 1912.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 928]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280012-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois judicial elections\nThe 2018 Illinois judicial elections consisted of both partisan and retention elections, including those for one seat on the Supreme Court of Illinois and five seats in the Illinois Appellate Court. Primary elections were held on March 20, 2018, and general elections were held on November 6, 2018. These elections were part of the 2018 Illinois elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280012-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois judicial elections, Supreme Court of Illinois\nJustices of the Supreme Court of Illinois are elected by district. One seat held a retention election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280012-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois judicial elections, Supreme Court of Illinois\nThe court has seven seats total separated into five districts. The first district, representing Cook County, contains three seats, making it a multi-member district, while other four districts are single-member districts. Justices hold ten year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280012-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois judicial elections, Supreme Court of Illinois, Retention elections\nTo be retained, judges were required to have 60% of their vote be \"yes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 80], "content_span": [81, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280012-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois judicial elections, Illinois Appellate Court, 4th district (Appleton vacancy)\nIncumbent Peter C. Cavanagh, who was appointed in May 2017 to fill the vacancy left when Tom Appleton resigned his seat, won reelection. This was a special election for two years, as Appeton's term would have ended in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280012-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois judicial elections, Illinois Appellate Court, 4th district (Appleton vacancy), Democratic primary\nNo Democratic primary was held, as no candidates filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 111], "content_span": [112, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280012-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois judicial elections, Illinois Appellate Court, 4th district (Appleton vacancy), Republican primary\nDue to the time the vacancy was created being so close to the May 6 filing date for candidates to make the ballot, Cavanaugh was not on the ballot, and instead ran as a write-in candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 111], "content_span": [112, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280012-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois judicial elections, Illinois Appellate Court, 4th district (Pope vacancy)\nIncumbent Republican Thomas M. Harris, Jr., who was appointed in July 2017 to fill the vacancy left when Carole Pope resigned her seat, won reelection, running unopposed in both Republican primary and general election. This was a special election for four years, as Pope's term would have ended in 2022.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 87], "content_span": [88, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280012-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois judicial elections, Illinois Appellate Court, 4th district (Pope vacancy), Democratic primary\nNo Democratic primary was held, as no candidates filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 107], "content_span": [108, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280012-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois judicial elections, Illinois Appellate Court, 5th district\nRepublican David K. Overstreet was elected to fill the vacancy that was created after Richard P. Goldenhersh retired in 2017. This was a regular election, as Goldenhersh's term would have expired in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280012-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois judicial elections, Illinois Appellate Court, Retention elections\nTo be retained, judges were required to have 60% of their vote be \"yes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280012-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Illinois judicial elections, Lower courts\nLower courts also saw judicial elections. This included 52 partisan elections to fill vacancies on circuit courts and 34 partisan elections to fill vacancies on subcircuit courts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280013-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Imus Bandera season\nThe 2018 Imus Bandera season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280014-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Incarnate Word Cardinals football team\nThe 2018 Incarnate Word Cardinals football team represented the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Southland Conference. The Cardinals played their home games at Gayle and Tom Benson Stadium in San Antonio, Texas. They were led by first year head coach Eric Morris. They finished the season 6\u20135, 6\u20132 in Southland play to win a share of the Southland Conference championship. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they lost in the first round to Montana State. The Cardinals were set to play the Iowa State Cyclones during the first weekend in December, but the game was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280014-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Incarnate Word Cardinals football team, Previous season\nThe Cardinals finished the 2017 season 1\u201310, 1\u20137 in Southland play to finish in ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280014-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Incarnate Word Cardinals football team, Previous season\nOn November 28, 2017, head coach Larry Kennan was fired. He finished at Incarnate Word with a six-year record of 20\u201346.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280014-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Incarnate Word Cardinals football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Teams\nOn July 12, 2018, the Southland announced their Preseason All-Conference Teams, with the Cardinals placing one player on the second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 86], "content_span": [87, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280014-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Incarnate Word Cardinals football team, Preseason, Preseason Poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Southland announced their preseason poll, with the Cardinals predicted to finish in ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280014-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Incarnate Word Cardinals football team, Postseason honors\nThe following Cardinals received postseason honors for the 2018 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280014-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Incarnate Word Cardinals football team, Postseason honors\nSTATS FCS All-American Third TeamRB Ra'Quanne Dickens \u2013 SeniorHero Sports All-American Third TeamRB Ra'Quanne Dickens \u2013 SeniorHero Sports FCS Freshman All-American First TeamQB Jon CopelandAFCA Regional Coach of the YearEric MorrisSouthland Conference Coach of the YearEric MorrisSouthland Conference Freshman of the YearQB Jon CopelandAll\u2013Southland Conference First\u2013TeamRB Ra'Quanne Dickens \u2013 SeniorWR Phillip Baptiste \u2013 SeniorOL Brandon Floores \u2013 JuniorDL Justin Alexandre \u2013 SeniorAll\u2013Southland Conference Second\u2013TeamQB Jon Copeland \u2013 FreshmanOL Terence Hickman II \u2013 JuniorLB Silas Stewart \u2013 SeniorAll\u2013Southland Conference Honorable MentionWR Kody Edwards \u2013 SeniorRB Ameer King \u2013 FreshmanDL Darrius Montgomery \u2013 SeniorLB Mar'kel Cooks \u2013 JuniorLB West Lambert \u2013 JuniorDB Malick Phillips \u2013 SophomoreDB Louis Otis \u2013 JuniorNFLPA Collegiate Bowl ParticipantLB Silas Stewart \u2013 SeniorCollege Gridiorn Showcase All-Star Game ParticipantDL Justin Alexandre \u2013 Senior", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 1041]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280014-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Incarnate Word Cardinals football team, Game summaries, @ Nicholls State\nat Manning Field at John L. Guidry Stadium, Thibodaux, Louisiana", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 77], "content_span": [78, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280015-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Independence Bowl\nThe 2018 Independence Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 27, 2018. It was the 43rd edition of the Independence Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by Walk-On's Bistreaux & Bar, the game was officially known as the Walk-On's Independence Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280015-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Independence Bowl, Teams\nThe bowl has conference tie-ins with the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). However, as four SEC teams were selected for New Year's Six games, bowl organizers announced a matchup of Temple of the American Athletic Conference (The American), rather than an SEC team, and Duke of the ACC. This was the first meeting between Duke and Temple.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280015-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Independence Bowl, Teams, Temple Owls\nTemple received and accepted a bid to the Independence Bowl on December 2. The Owls entered the bowl with an 8\u20134 record (7\u20131 in conference), having won 6-of-7 to end their regular season. As Temple head coach Geoff Collins resigned in order to take the same position at Georgia Tech, the Owls were led in the Independence Bowl by interim head coach Ed Foley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280015-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Independence Bowl, Teams, Duke Blue Devils\nDuke received and accepted a bid to the Independence Bowl on December 2. The Blue Devils entered the bowl with a 7\u20135 record (3\u20135 in conference), having lost 4-of-6 to end their regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280016-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Independence Cup (Bangladesh)\nThe 2018\u201319 Independence Cup, also known as Walton Independence Cup 2018 or Walton Independence Cup Football Tournament 2018 due to the sponsorship from Walton Group, was the 10th edition of the Independence Cup, the main domestic annual club football tournament organized by Bangladesh Football Federation. Thirteen participants competed in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280016-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Independence Cup (Bangladesh)\nArambagh KS was the winner of the previous edition, having defeated 2\u20130 Chittagong Abahani in the final of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280016-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Independence Cup (Bangladesh), Draw\nThe draw of the tournament was held 18:00 BST at BFF house Motijheel on 25 November 2018. The thirteen participants were divided into four groups. The top two teams from each group played Quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280017-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Independent Volleyball Association Tournament\nThe 2018 Independent Volleyball Association Tournament was the men's volleyball tournament held by the Independent Universities during the 2018 NCAA Division I & II men's volleyball season. It was held April 13 through April 14, 2018 at Alderson Broaddus University's Rex Pyles Arena. The winner is eligible for the wildcard spot in the 2018 NCAA Volleyball Tournament and is granted the title of Independent Volleyball Association Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280017-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Independent Volleyball Association Tournament, Seeds\nAll four teams qualify for the tournament. Seeding is based on head-to-head matches during the regular season, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280018-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 India Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 India Open, officially the Yonex-Sunrise Dr. Akhilesh Das Gupta India Open 2018, was a badminton tournament which took place at Siri Fort Indoor Stadium in India from 30 January to 4 February 2018 and had a total purse of $350,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280018-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 India Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 India Open was the fourth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the India Open championships which has been held since 2008. This tournament was organized by the Badminton Association of India and sanctioned by the BWF. The tournament was renamed in a tribute for Akhilesh Das, president of the Badminton Association of India, who died in April 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280018-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 India Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Siri Fort Indoor Stadium in New Delhi, India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280018-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 India Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is a table with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 500 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280018-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 India Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for the 2018 tournament was US$350,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League\nThe 2018 season of the Indian Premier League, also known as IPL 11, was the eleventh season of the IPL, a professional Twenty20 cricket league established by the BCCI in 2007. The season, which was held from 7 April to 27 May, saw the return of the Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals after serving two years of suspension for the involvement of their respective owners in the 2013 IPL betting case. Star Sports purchased the media rights at \u20b916,347.5 crore ($2.55 billion) for five years starting from 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League\nChennai Super Kings won by 8 wickets against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the final to win their third title. Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Kane Williamson won the Orange Cap for the leading run-scorer of the tournament with 735 runs. Andrew Tye, of Kings XI Punjab, was awarded the Purple Cap for finishing as the leading wicket-taker of the tournament with 24 wickets. Sunil Narine of Kolkata Knight Riders was named Most Valuable Player, also known as Man of the Series, while Rishabh Pant of Delhi Daredevils was named the Emerging Player of the Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League, Background\nThis was the first season of the IPL to use DRS. IPL Fanpark, an initiative where matches are hosted in stadia on a large screen has been planned to be held across 36 cities in 19 states across the India. This season also introduced mid-season transfers. The transfer window will be a short five-day transfer window applicable only for uncapped players who have played not more than two matches at the halfway mark of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League, Background, Format\nEight teams were scheduled to play in 2018. The tournament involved each team playing every other team twice in a home-and-away, double round-robin format. At the conclusion of the double round-robin league, the top four teams on the basis of aggregate points qualified for the playoffs. In this stage, the top two teams compete with each other (in a match titled \"Qualifier 1\"), as do the remaining two teams (in a match titled \"Eliminator\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League, Background, Format\nWhile the winner of Qualifier 1 directly qualified for the final match, the losing team got another chance to qualify for the final match by playing the winning team of the Eliminator match; this match is titled Qualifier 2. The winner of this subsequent Qualifier 2 match moved onto the final match. The team that won the final match was crowned the Indian Premier League winners. The schedule for the tournament was published on 14 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League, Background, Broadcast\nStar Sports won the global media rights at \u20b916,347.5 crore ($2.55 billion) for five years starting from 2018. In India, the tournament will be broadcast on Star Network channels in six languages (English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Bengali). For the first time, IPL would also be broadcast on public broadcaster Doordarshan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League, Background, Broadcast\nThe television rights for rest of the world were won by Willow TV for US and Canada, Sky Sports for UK, Fox Sports for Australia, Sky Sport for New Zealand, SuperSport for sub Saharan Africa, beIN Sports for Middle-East and North America, Flow TV for Caribbean, Geo Super for Pakistan, Channel 9 for Bangladesh and Lemar TV for Afghanistan. The radio rights were won by Cricket Radio globally (except Indian subcontinent), 89.1 Radio 4 FM and Gold 101.3 FM for US and Talksport for UK. Star's digital platform Hotstar held the digital rights for India, US and Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League, Background, Broadcast\nThe digital rights for rest of the world were won by Sky Sports for UK, Fox Sports for Australia, Sky Sport for New Zealand, SuperSport for sub Saharan Africa, beIN Sports for Middle-East and North America, Flow TV for Caribbean, Geo Super for Pakistan, Channel 9 for Bangladesh and YuppTV for Australia, Europe, SE Asia & South America. Star India also announced its plan to broadcast IPL in Virtual Reality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League, Venues\nPer the original schedule, all teams except for Kings XI Punjab, would play their home games at their traditional home venues. Kings XI were scheduled to play three of their home games in Indore and the other four games in Mohali. The schedule was later changed due to logistical issues owing to the temporary closure of Chandigarh Airport, and as a result, Kings XI would play three of their home games in Mohali and the other four games in Indore making an exception to the rule of playing at least four home matches at their designated home venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League, Venues\nThe IPL matches in Chennai were threatened due to the Kaveri water dispute protests. The Madras High Court issued a notice to BCCI after a PIL was filed seeking a stay on the IPL matches in Chennai. On 11 April that Chennai's six remaining home matches would be held in Pune instead due to security concerns resulting from the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League, Venues\nTen venues were selected to host the matches. The opening match and the final will be played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The venues for the two playoffs were not announced initially due to the norm of allotting the Eliminator and second qualifier to the home stadium of last season's runner-up, and the fact that the 2017 runner-up, Rising Pune Supergiant were no longer a part of the IPL. Later, both playoffs were allotted to Pune but after the venue of Chennai Super Kings was moved there, the matches were shifted to Kolkata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League, Personnel changes\nThe IPL Governing Council announced that each IPL franchise could retain a maximum of five players from their respective current squads. Of the five players, a franchise could retain a maximum of three players through retention in lead up to the auction, and a maximum of three players through right-to-match card during the auction. The other restrictions on player retention were: a maximum of three capped Indian players could be retained, and only two overseas players and two uncapped Indian players could be retained. The salary cap for each team for the 2018 season was increased from \u20b966 crore to \u20b980 crore (approximately $12.4 million). A franchise was allowed to spend only \u20b933 crore on retentions ahead of the 2018 IPL auction, leaving it at least \u20b947 crore to spend at the auction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League, Personnel changes\nIPL teams were asked to submit their retention list by 4 January. For the first time in IPL history, the player retention event was broadcast live on Star Sports. The IPL auction was held on 27 and 28 January at Bangalore a day after the final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. 169 players (104 Indians and 56 Overseas) were sold at auction. Ben Stokes fetched the highest bid of \u20b912.5 crore (US$1.95 million). Jaydev Unadkat was the most costly Indian player at \u20b911.5 crore (US$1.80 million). Among uncapped players Krunal Pandya was most expensive at \u20b98.8 crore(US$1.38 million). Many prominent players such as Lasith Malinga, Dale Steyn, Ishant Sharma, Hashim Amla , Martin Guptill and Joe Root remain unsold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League, Opening ceremony\nThe season had a single opening ceremony, unlike 2017 IPL, before the first match on 7 April. The ceremony included performances by Varun Dhawan, Prabhu Deva, Mika Singh, Tamannaah Bhatia, Jacqueline Fernandez and Hrithik Roshan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280019-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League, Teams and standings, Points table\n(\"C\" refers to the \"Champions\" of the Tournament. '2', '3' and '4' are the positions of the respective teams in the tournament.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280020-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League Final\nThe 2018 Indian Premier League Final was a day/night Twenty20 cricket match played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings, on 27 May 2018 at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. It was to determine the winner of the 2018 season of the Indian Premier League, an annual Twenty20 tournament in India. For the first time in the history of IPL, the final was played on 19:00 IST, with all the finals of previous ten seasons played at 20:00 IST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280020-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League Final\nChennai defeated Hyderabad by 8 wickets to win their third IPL title. Shane Watson of Chennai won the player of the match award for his innings of 117 not out off 57 balls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280020-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League Final, Details\nShane Watson single-handedly won it for CSK by hitting a magnificent century in the biggest game of the season. He made 117 runs. He had scored a century in the earlier stage of the tournament. Ambati Rayudu hit the winning runs for CSK. SRH bowlers looked out of form, with Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rashid Khan posing as a threat for CSK as all the other bowlers leaked runs heavily. With this win, CSK lifted the IPL trophy for the 3rd time in their seventh appearance in an IPL final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280020-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League Final, Details, SRH Innings\nAfter a slow start, opening batsmanShikhar Dhawan tried to up the ante against the strict bowling. Uncapped Bowler and Former SRH player Karn Sharma was introduced into the attack in the 7th over. Both Dhawan and captain Williamson were keeping it slow and steady going for a boundary every over. SRH could only add 18 runs in the last 2 overs. SRH had posted a total of 178/6 which was just about par.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280020-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Premier League Final, Details, CSK Innings\nFaf du Plessis and Shane Watson opened the innings for CSK while Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled the first over for his team. The Super Kings lost du Plessis early but Watson and Raina did not give the Sunrisers any chance to bounce back with their 117-run partnership. Though Watson started slowly playing out Bhuvneshwar's overs, he pummeled the other Sunrisers bowlers to reach his second century in the IPL season. After Raina's departure, Rayudu joined hands with Watson to complete the chase for the Super Kings and helped them lift their third IPL trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections\nRajya Sabha elections were held in 2018 to elect the 65 retiring members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. There were, as routine, three such elections held among relevant State and Union Territory legislators by single transferable vote (STV) and Open Ballot: on 16 January to elect 3 members from Delhi and 1 member from Sikkim; on 23 March to elect 58 members from 16 States; and lastly on 21 June to elect 3 members from Kerala. Being even-numbered, 2018 was a year in which about 30% of the State Legislature-elected 233-seat component of the body is elected. The other 12 seats of the body are appointed by the President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections\nNot as part of a six-yearly cycle, a by-election was held to elect 1 member from Kerala in March, which proved to be a re-election but as an independent member, of M. P. Veerendra Kumar, the only by-election of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Elections\nThe elections were held to elect 3 members from National Capital Territory of Delhi and 1 member from Sikkim. 3 members from the National Capital Territory of Delhi retired on 27 January 2018 and 1 member from Sikkim retired on 23 February 2018. Elections for 58 seats and a by-election for 1 seat were held on 23 March 2018. The election was held for 3 seats of Kerala on 21 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, National Capital Territory of Delhi\nDelhi had an election for 3 Rajya Sabha seats on 16 January 2018 to replace members retiring on 27 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 87], "content_span": [88, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Sikkim\nSikkim had an election for 1 Rajya Sabha seat on 16 January 2018 to replace member retiring on 23 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Andhra Pradesh\nFrom Andhra Pradesh State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Bihar\nFrom Bihar State, 6 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Chhattisgarh\nFrom Chhattisgarh State, 1 member is elected for the Rajya Sabha seat on 23 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Gujarat\nFrom Gujarat State, 4 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Haryana\nFrom Haryana State, 1 member is elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Himachal Pradesh\nFrom Himachal Pradesh State, 1 member is elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Jharkhand\nFrom Jharkhand State, 2 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 3 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Karnataka\nFrom Karnataka State, 4 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Madhya Pradesh\nFrom Madhya Pradesh State, 5 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Maharashtra\nFrom Maharashtra State, 6 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Odisha\nFrom Odisha State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 3 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Rajasthan\nFrom Rajasthan State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 3 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Telangana\nFrom Telangana State, 3 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Uttarakhand\nFrom Uttarakhand State, 1 member is elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Uttar Pradesh\nFrom Uttar Pradesh State, 10 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, West Bengal\nFrom West Bengal State, 5 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Members Elected, Kerala\nFrom Kerala State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 14 June 2018, to replace members retiring on 1 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280021-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, By-elections\nIn addition to scheduled elections, unforeseen vacancies, caused by members' resignation, death or disqualification, may also be filled via By-elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280022-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup\nThe 2018 Hero Super Cup was the inaugural edition of the Super Cup and 39th season of the main club knockout football competition in India. The competition is sponsored by Hero MotoCorp and is officially known as the Hero Super Cup. The competition began with the qualifiers on 15 March 2018 and concluded with the final on 20 April 2018. The entire tournament is taking place in one stadium, the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280022-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup\nThe competition features teams from both the I-League and Indian Super League. Both leagues containing 10 teams each, the top six teams from both qualified for the tournament automatically while the bottom four sides contested in the qualifiers. The Super Cup replaces the Federation Cup, which was considered the top knockout competition before this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280022-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup, Teams\nA total of 16 teams are participating in the competition proper. The top six teams from both the I-League and Indian Super League qualified for the Super Cup automatically while the bottom four sides have participated in the qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280022-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup, Teams, Round dates\nOn 12 March 2018, the All India Football Federation announced the schedule and full format of the tournament. Due to the participation of Aizawl and Bengaluru in the AFC Cup, the schedule for the quarter-finals shall be decided at a later date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280022-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup, Qualification round\nAfter the conclusion of the I-League and Indian Super League seasons, the All India Football Federation announced the draw for the qualification round of the Super Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280022-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup, Round of 16\nThe All India Football Federation announced the draw for the round of 16 of the competition on 12 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280022-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe dates for the quarter-final matches were scheduled to be announced at a later date to accommodate AFC Cup commitments of Aizawl and Bengaluru. After Aizawl and Bengaluru advanced to the quarter-finals, the following fixtures were confirmed for the quarter-finals. During the game between Jamshedpur FC and FC Goa, six players (three each from both the teams) were sent off at the half-time for violent conduct. In the games against NEROCA F.C., Sunil Chhetri scored the first hat-trick of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280022-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup, Semi-finals\nThe semi-finals were played on 16 April and 17 April 2018 at the Kalinga Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280022-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup, Final\nThe final was played on 20 April 2018 at the Kalinga Stadium and Bengaluru won the inaugural Super Cup by defeating East Bengal in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final\nThe 2018 Indian Super Cup Final was a football match between East Bengal and Bengaluru, played on 20 April 2018, at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The match was a culmination of the 2018 Indian Super Cup, a knockout football tournament in India run by the All India Football Federation. This was the first edition of the Super Cup, the successor to the Federation Cup. Bengaluru won the tournament after defeating East Bengal 4\u20131. A brace from captain Sunil Chhetri and goals each from Rahul Bheke and Miku were enough for Bengaluru to get past East Bengal who scored once through Ansumana Kromah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final\nBoth teams qualified for the tournament after finishing within the top six in both their respective leagues, the I-League and Indian Super League. Prior to this match, both East Bengal and Bengaluru only played each other in league matches when Bengaluru was part of the I-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final\nThe final was televised on Star Sports and online on Hotstar. The match took place at the Kalinga Stadium which had hosted every match of the tournament up till this match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Road to the final\nThe Super Cup is a new annual Indian knock-out football competition that is open to all ten teams in the I-League and Indian Super League and is run by the All India Football Federation. The tournament is a replacement for the Federation Cup, the previous domestic competition for Indian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Road to the final\nThe top six teams in both leagues during their 2017\u201318 seasons automatically qualified for the competition. The bottom four from each league had to go through a qualification stage. East Bengal finished in fourth in the I-League and thus qualified directly for the Super Cup. Bengaluru meanwhile finished in first during the Indian Super League but ended as runners-up after losing in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Road to the final, East Bengal\nPrior to the 2018 Indian Super Cup, East Bengal had reached the final of the Federation Cup, India's previous top domestic cup competition, 16 times and won the tournament eight times. Most recently, East Bengal won the competition in 2012. They began their Super Cup campaign on 5 April 2018 against Indian Super League side Mumbai City. Mumbai City took an early lead in the 22nd minute through Achille Eman\u00e1 before Katsumi Yusa scored an equalizer for East Bengal four minutes later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Road to the final, East Bengal\nEast Bengal then took the lead in the 73rd minute through Mahmoud Amnah and went on to win the match 2\u20131. In the quarter-final, the club took on fellow I-League side Aizawl. The match was a highly contested and was only won six minutes into second half stoppage time from a Laldanmawia Ralte penalty. East Bengal won 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Road to the final, East Bengal\nIn the semi-finals, East Bengal again took on an Indian Super League when they faced off against Goa. Goa entered the match heavily depleted after losing three players through suspension in their last match while also not having some players due to injury. With that the case, East Bengal managed to secure a 1\u20130 victory and confirm their place in the Super Cup Final with Dudu Omagbemi scoring in the 78th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Road to the final, Bengaluru\nBengaluru had competed in the Federation Cup only four times as the club was only founded in 2013. In those four appearances, the club managed to win the competition twice, in 2014\u201315 and the last edition of the tournament in 2016\u201317. Bengaluru began their Super Cup campaign on 1 April 2018 against the Gokulam Kerala. Henry Kisekka began the scoring in the match for Gokulam Kerala in the 33rd minute. Bengaluru soon found an equalizer through Miku before Udanta Singh found the winner for the club two minutes into stoppage time. The club then went to take on NEROCA in the quarter-finals on 13 April. Bengaluru captain Sunil Chhetri scored a hattrick as he helped his side secure a 3\u20131 victory over their I-League opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Road to the final, Bengaluru\nIn the semi-finals, Bengaluru took on Mohun Bagan, the club they defeated in the Federation Cup final in 2017. During the match, Bengaluru found themselves down at halftime after Aser Pierrick Dipanda scored in the 42nd minute. However, second half saw Bengaluru respond with four goals, three from Miku and one from Chhetri, as they took a 4\u20131 lead. Dipanda then scored a second for Mohun Bagan in stoppage time but it was too late as Bengaluru won and clinched their spot in the final with a 4\u20132 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Pre-match, Venue\nOn 7 March 2018, it was announced by the All India Football Federation that the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha would host the entire Super Cup. The venue had not previously hosted any edition of the Federation Cup. In addition, none of the 20 teams that participated in the Super Cup were based in Bhubaneswar or the entire state of Odisha. However, Jamshedpur, one of the Indian Super League clubs did play one match at the stadium towards the end of the 2017\u201318 ISL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Pre-match, Venue\nOriginally, the entire tournament was set to take place in Kochi, Kerala. On 4 March 2018, a couple weeks before the Super Cup qualifiers, Jamshedpur head coach Steve Coppell had told the media that all he knew about the tournament was that it would take place in Kochi. However, when AIFF officials inspected the Kalinga Stadium during the Jamshedpur match in February, they were impressed with the facilities around the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nComing into this match, both sides looked at it as a chance to win some silverware after they both lucked out in their respective league campaigns. Since Bengaluru had finished as runners-up during the Indian Super League, they were considered favorites. Albert Roca, the Bengaluru head coach, stressed before the match that their hunger and confidence would help them in this match: \"The Super Cup final is another chance and we will be going into the game with the right amount of confidence. We've been consistent and have had a fantastic season so far.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nIt would be nice to have a trophy for our efforts.\" According to Goal.com, the club were expected to enter the match using a 3\u20135\u20132 formation, with key players Sunil Chhetri and Miku leading the attack. Left back Nishu Kumar would be suspended for this match after gaining a red card in the previous match while defenders Rahul Bheke and Juanan were doubts to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nKhalid Jamil, the East Bengal head coach, said that his team must remain positive before the match and apprehensive of Bengaluru. \"It is the last match of the season. Bengaluru FC is a great team, no doubt. We cannot afford to make mistakes,\" he said. East Bengal centerback, Eduardo Ferreira, meanwhile made some comments to the media as he was part of the Mohun Bagan side which took on Bengaluru in the final of the Federation Cup in 2017: \"I know they have good players and a good coach. One of the best teams in the country. But we have to keep focus and play well. Last year's Fed Cup final is past. I am thinking about tomorrow's game. I want to give my best tomorrow.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nAccording to Goal.com, East Bengal were expected to enter the match using a 4\u20131\u20134\u20131 formation. Midfielder Mohammed Rafique would be unavailable due to injury and striker Dudu Omagbemi was a doubt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Match, Summary\nPrior to the match, it was announced that both Juanan and Rahul Bheke had passed fitness tests and were starting for Bengaluru. For East Bengal, Dudu Omagbemi wasn't fit enough for the starting eleven but was on the bench. Within the first minute of the match, Bengaluru had earned a corner kick before East Bengal were able to get their first attack at Bengaluru. East Bengal's Ansumana Kromah was able to draw a foul outside the box and Bengaluru's Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and John Johnson were both given yellow cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Match, Summary\nKromah would eventually find the opening goal of the match in the 27th minute. Sandhu made a mistake on a corner as Kromah scored off a bicycle kick. The lead would only last for 12 minutes though as Bengaluru soon equalized through Rahul Bheke's header off a V\u00edctor P\u00e9rez cross. Finally, before halftime, East Bengal's Samad Ali Mallick was sent off after attempting to punch Subhasish Bose, reducing the club to 10 men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Match, Summary\nDuring the second half, East Bengal began putting the pressure on Bengaluru and scored a goal. Unfortunately, the goal scored by Kromah was judged to be offside after the Liberian striker attempted to put in a rebound after Sandhu saved a shot from Cavin Lobo. A few minutes later, Sandhu comes up big for Bengaluru after saving a free kick shot from Mahmoud Amnah. Later, in the 69th minute, a foul in East Bengal's box resulted in the referee awarding Bengaluru a penalty which was scored by Sunil Chhetri. Two minutes later, Bengaluru extended their lead when Miku scored his 20th goal in all competitions for the season. Finally, in the first minute of stoppage time, Chhetri wrapped the game up for Bengaluru by heading home the club's fourth goal and sealing a 4\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Post-match\nDuring the post-match press conference, Bengaluru head coach Albert Roca praised his team and said that they were the most consistent side during the entire season. Roca also expressed his happiness in winning the tournament for the fans while praising how his team reacted to being a goal down, \"I am very happy for the supporters. This is the success we were looking forward to. Today we showed that my team has been the most consistent team this season.\" The club would soon resume their season five days later when they took on New Radiant of the Maldives in the AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280023-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final, Post-match\nKhalid Jamil after the match meanwhile praised his side, \"Talking about this game, everybody worked very hard. I give all the credit to boys. They started well. The score wasn\u2019t in our favour. No complaint from my side.\" Jamil was also very critical of the refereeing performance during the match, especially during Samad Ali Mallick's red card and Ansumana Kromah's disallowed goal. \"Kromah\u2019s goal, I don\u2019t think it was offside. The result could have been different if Kromah's goal was not disallowed. Samad Ali\u2019s red card was harsh, it could have been a yellow card. But I was far away and I couldn\u2019t see properly.\" Six days later, on 26 April, it was announced by East Bengal that Jamil had been sacked by the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280024-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super League Final\nThe 2018 Indian Super League Final was a football match between Bengaluru and Chennaiyin, played on 17 March 2018, at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bangalore. The match was a culmination of the 2017\u201318 Indian Super League season, the fourth season of one of the top professional football leagues in India. Chennaiyin won the match, defeating Bengaluru 3\u20132. Hero of the Match Ma\u00edlson Alves scored a brace for Chennaiyin while Raphael Augusto scored their third goal. Bengaluru's Sunil Chhetri originally gave his side the lead with his ninth minute goal while Miku scored their consolation in second half stoppage-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280024-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super League Final\nChennaiyin managed to qualify for the finals after finishing in second during the regular season. They then defeated Goa over two legs, 4\u20131, in the semi-finals. Bengaluru qualified for the finals after finishing at the top of the regular season table. They then defeated Pune City during the semi-finals tie, 3\u20131. Prior to the finals, Chennaiyin and Bengaluru played each other twice during the season, with both sides winning the away fixtures against each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280024-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super League Final\nThe championship was Chennaiyin's second, after they won the 2015 final. This was Bengaluru's first time in the final in what was only their first season in the Indian Super League. As the winner of the championship, Chennaiyin earned a berth into the 2019 AFC Cup qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280024-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super League Final, Background\nThis was Bengaluru's first season in the Indian Super League and also their first appearance in the finals. Meanwhile Chennaiyin made their second appearance in the Indian Super League finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280024-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super League Final, Background\nSunil Chhetri scored the fastest goal in an Indian Super League final in 8 minutes 5 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280024-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian Super League Final, Background\nMa\u00edlson Alves was named the man of the match for scoring two goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280025-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian dust storms\nFrom 2 to 3 May 2018, high-velocity dust storms swept across parts of North India and more than 125 people died and over 200 were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280025-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian dust storms\nIn Uttar Pradesh, 43 died in the city of Agra and about 30 died elsewhere in the state. In neighboring Rajasthan, about 35 people died and over 200 were injured after winds downed more than 8,000 electricity poles and uprooted hundreds of trees. Storms are not uncommon in the region; however, because these storms occurred at night and with greater wind speeds than average, the death toll was higher than usual.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280025-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian dust storms, Background\nDust storms are a feature of India's seasonal weather patterns. The storms typically occur in the summer months, when the weather has been dry to allow dust to be picked up by passing winds. The death toll in such storms rarely exceeds 12; a previous storm hit India on 11 April 2018, killing 19 people", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280025-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian dust storms, Dust Storm and its Damage\nThe dust storm occurred at the start of India's monsoon season. In the days prior, region meteorologists had forecast thunderstorms and high winds to occur over that week. Contributing to the storm was a period of abnormally high temperatures for the region, which increased the intensity of the weather system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280025-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian dust storms, Dust Storm and its Damage\nThe dust storm first started late on 2 May 2018, predominantly hitting the states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. At least 73 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh, with 43 of those in the city of Agra; 21 people have been reported killed in Kheragarh, a town around 50\u00a0km south-west of the city. At least 35 people were killed in Rajasthan, with the Alwar district being the worst hit; the Bharatpur and Dholpur districts were also affected. Four people died in the state of Uttarakhand, and Delhi was also affected. More than 200 people were injured by the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280025-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian dust storms, Dust Storm and its Damage\nOfficials stated that the storm was more devastating than prior dust storms as the stronger weather system carried more debris which caused more damage to homes and buildings, and because it struck at night, most were asleep and were unable to take precautions, leaving many killed or injured by falling structures. Most damage and fatalities were associated with high winds, rather than dust. In Rajasthan, electricity supplies were interrupted by 200\u2013300 downed pylons, and schools were closed in the Alwar district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280025-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian dust storms, Dust Storm and its Damage\nBecause conditions were still prime for more severe weather, the Uttar Pradesh government continued to plan to alert its citizens to weather conditions for the following 48 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280025-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Indian dust storms, Aftermath\nThe Government of Uttar Pradesh has announced compensation for the relatives of those killed amounting to \u20b94 lakh (US$5,600).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280026-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Fever season\nThe 2018 WNBA season was the 19th season for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association. The Fever began play on May 19, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280026-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Fever season\nThe Fever started the season poorly by going 0\u20135 in May. The Fever's fortunes did not improve in June, the team was 1\u201310. The team's only win was a blowout 96\u201364 win against the Atlanta Dream. However, June did include some close losses. The Fever lost to the New York Liberty 78\u201375 after the Liberty made a 3-pointer with 16.1 seconds left. On the 12th, the Fever lost in overtime against the Las Vegas Aces. In July, the Fever were 2\u20138, with the two wins coming against perennial playoff contenders Minnesota Lynx and Los Angeles Sparks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280026-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Indiana Fever season\nBoth wins were away from home, which meant the Fever were 0\u20134 at home. In the final month of the season, the Fever were 3\u20135. The Fever finished with a WNBA worst 6\u201328 final record, which was also their worst record in franchise history. Their misfortunes would continue in the offseason as they would wind up losing in the draft lottery in spite of having the best odds, winding up with the third selection for the 2019 WNBA draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280026-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Fever season, Transactions, WNBA Draft\nThe Fever made three selections in the 2018 WNBA Entry Draft. The draft was held on April 12:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280027-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers baseball team\nThe 2018 Indiana Hoosiers baseball team is a college baseball team that represented Indiana University in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Hoosiers are members of the Big Ten Conference (B1G) and played their home games at Bart Kaufman Field in Bloomington, Indiana. They were led by fourth-year head coach Chris Lemonis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280027-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers baseball team\nFollowing the conclusion of the regular season, the Hoosiers were selected to play in the 2018 NCAA Tournament, beginning in the Austin Regional. The Hoosiers would eventually lose in the final round of the Austin Regional to Texas by a score of 2\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280027-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers baseball team, Previous season\nThe Hoosiers finished the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball season 34\u201324\u20132 overall (14\u20139\u20131 conference) and sixth place in conference standings. The Hoosiers were selected to play in the 2017 NCAA Tournament, beginning in the Lexington Regional. The Hoosiers would eventually lose in the second round of the Lexington Regional to Kentucky by a score of 9\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280027-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers baseball team, Previous season, MLB Draft\nThe following Hoosiers on the 2017 roster were selected in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280027-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers baseball team, Preseason\nOn July 13, 2017, head coach Lemonis added former East Tennessee State Buccaneers assistant coach Zach Lucas to the same position for the Hoosiers. On December 12, 2017, Lemonis named junior catcher Ryan Fineman and junior right-handed pitcher Pauly Milto to Captain status for the 2018 year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280027-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers baseball team, Preseason\nOn December 19, 2017, Indiana University Athletics announced plans to install an LED video scoreboard, beyond the outfield wall. The size of the new scoreboard is estimated to be 26.8 feet (8.16 m) high by 48.7 (14.84 m) feet wide. Installation of the new scoreboard was completed prior to the start of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280027-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers baseball team, Preseason, Season projections\nComing off of an NCAA Regional appearance in 2017, the 2018 Hoosiers were projected to finish first in conference play by B1G coaches and projected to receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The Hoosiers were ranked in four of the six major preseason polls and rankings, while receiving votes for ranking in the two others. The Hoosiers were ranked #17 by Perfect Game, #24 in the NCBWA Poll, #23 by D1 Baseball and #20 by Baseball America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280027-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers baseball team, Ranking movements\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280028-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 2018 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented Indiana University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. Indiana competed as a member of the East Division of the Big Ten Conference. The team was led by second-year head coach Tom Allen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280028-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers football team, Spring Game\nThe 2018 Spring Game took place in Bloomington on April 14 at 12 p.m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280028-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers football team, Previous season\nThe Hoosiers finished the 2017 season 5\u20137 overall, 2\u20137 in Big Ten play to finish in sixth place in the Eastern Division. Following two straight seasons of bowl game appearances, the Hoosiers 2017 record prevented them from going to a bowl for a third subsequent year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280028-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers football team, Offseason, Coaching changes\nOn January 4, 2018, the Hoosiers announced the hiring of David Ballou as new strength and conditioning coach, following the release of Keith Caton, who served one season in the position. On January 8, 2018, the Hoosiers announced the hiring of Kane Wommack as the new linebackers coach. Current Hoosiers linebackers coach, William Inge, will transition to special teams coach prior to the start of the football season. On February 27, 2018, Kasey Teegardin was hired to the position of safeties coach, following the departure of former safeties coach, Noah Joseph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280028-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers football team, Preseason, Returning starters\nIndiana returns 17 offensive players and eight defensive players that started games for the team in 2017 along with punter Haydon Whitehead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280028-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers football team, Schedule\nThe Hoosiers' 2018 schedule consisted of 7 home games and 5 away games. The Hoosiers first non-conference game was away at FIU of Conference USA (C-USA), before hosting the remaining two non-conference games; against Virginia from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and against Ball State of the Mid-American Conference (MAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280028-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers football team, Schedule\nThe Hoosiers played nine conference games; they hosted Michigan State, Iowa, Penn State, Maryland and Purdue. They traveled to Rutgers, Ohio State, Minnesota, and Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280028-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers football team, Radio\nRadio coverage for all games will be broadcast on All-Access and on various radio frequencies throughout the state. The primary radio announcer is long-time broadcaster Don Fischer with Play-by-Play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280028-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers football team, After the season, Season summary\nIndiana started the year with three consecutive victories against non-conference opponents FIU, Virginia, and Ball State. In Big Ten Conference play, the team secured victories against Rutgers and Maryland. In the last game of the season, with bowl eligibility on the line, Indiana fell to in-state rivals Purdue 21\u201328 to finish in sixth in the East Division with a final record of 5\u20137, 2\u20137 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280028-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers football team, After the season, Season summary\nThe Hoosiers were led offensively by quarterback Peyton Ramsey, who finished in fourth in the Big Ten Conference with 2,875 passing yards and 19 touchdowns. Running back Stevie Scott was fifth in the conference with 1,137 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns. Kicker Logan Justus was the team's sole all-conference selection, chosen to the second team by the coaches after finishing in second in the conference in field goal percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280029-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team represented Indiana University Bloomington in men's college soccer during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season and 2018 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season. It was the 46th season the university fielded a men's varsity soccer program, and the 28th season the program played in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280029-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team\nDuring the regular season Indiana completed the league double by winning both the Big Ten regular season, and the 2018 Big Ten Conference Men's Soccer Tournament. The Hoosiers were seeded second overall in the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, where they reached the College Cup before losing to eventual national champions, and fellow Big Ten side, Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280029-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team\nIndiana defender, Andrew Gutman, was named the winner of the Hermann Trophy, the top individual award a men's college soccer player can earn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280029-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team, Background\nLong time assistant coach, Brian Maisonneuve, left Indiana to take the head coaching position at Ohio State. Former Indiana standout, Danny O'Rourke was hired as an assistant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280029-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team, Squad information, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280030-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana State Senate election\nElections to the Indiana Senate took place on November 6, 2018. Primary elections were held on May 8, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280030-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana State Senate election, Retiring incumbents\nTwo incumbent Senators, both Republicans, chose to not seek reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280030-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana State Senate election, Incumbents defeated, In primary\nOne incumbent Republican Senator ran for reelection but was defeated in the May 8 primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280031-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana State Sycamores football team\nThe 2018 Indiana State Sycamores football team represented Indiana State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Curt Mallory and played their home games at Memorial Stadium. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They finished the season 7\u20134, 5\u20133 in MVFC play to finish in a tie for third place. Despite being ranked in the top 25 at the end of the regular season, they were not selected to participate in the FCS Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280031-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana State Sycamores football team, Previous season\nThe Sycamores finished the 2017 season 0\u201311, 0\u20138 in MVFC play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280031-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana State Sycamores football team, Preseason, Preseason MVFC poll\nThe MVFC released their preseason poll on July 29, 2018, with the Sycamores predicted to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280031-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana State Sycamores football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MVFC Teams\nThe Sycamores placed six players on the preseason all-MVFC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team\nThe 2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team represent Indiana Wesleyan University, located in Marion, Indiana, in a historic first year of football as participants in the 2018 NAIA football season. They are led by head coach Jordan Langs, hired in 2016 as the first head coach in the history of Indiana Wesleyan football. The Wildcats play their home games at Wildcat Stadium as associate members of the Mid-States Football Association (MSFA) Mideast League (MEL). For the 2018 season, the Wildcats' games will not be counted in the conference standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nThe first-ever football game was played at home against the Taylor Trojans, IWU's cross-County (Grant) neighbor from Upland, IN. The game was a pre-game sellout online, as confirmed by the announced attendance of 6,500. The Wildcats scored the first touchdown in the history of their new stadium, and they led 14-0 at the end of the first quarter. But the experience of Taylor took over in the second quarter, and the Trojans led 21-14 at halftime. The Trojans eventually prevailed by a final score of 43-31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nThe game opened with IWU winning the coin flip and deferring possession until the second half. The two teams traded punts, and Taylor started their second drive. After 3 successive downs that failed to gain a first down, Taylor punted a second time from their own 25 yard line. The punt was shanked badly, traveling 7 yards to give IWU possession at the Taylor 32 yard line. The Wildcats capitalized immediately, throwing a 32-yard TD pass to put them ahead 7-0. The next Taylor drive also stalled and ended with a punt. The Wildcats responded with a 68-yard punt return. The extra point was good once again, and IWU led 14-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nTaylor took the next kickoff and marched 75 yards for their first score. On the following drive, IWU methodically marched down the field. The drive ended with a missed 34-yard field goal attempt. Taylor capitalized on the miss with another TD drive, this one culminating in a 63-yard pass. The extra point was good, and the score was tied 14-14 with 2:55 remaining in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nIWU failed to move on their next drive, and they kicked the ball back to Taylor with 1:07 remaining. An efficient pass offense moved the ball down field, and Taylor scored and took a 21-14 lead into the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nIWU received the second half kick and failed to advance the ball in 3 plays. Their punt attempt from the 20-yard line was blocked, and Taylor recovered the ball in the end zone for another quick touchdown. From this point throughout the second half, Taylor maintained control of the game. Both teams added scores to bring the final score to 43-31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nThe IWU offense had some highlights in the game. All 4 of their TD's were scored on long plays. Besides the two first half touchdowns, the Wildcats' Dontae Henderson had TD catches of 79 and 57 yards. For the game, Henderson had 6 catches totaling 178 yards, or an average of 29.7 yards each. QB Zack Blair completed 18 of 34 passes for 309 yards, 3 TD's and no interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nThe historic event was filled with much pageantry to entertain the sell-out crowd of 6,500 people. Among the activities was the delivery of the game balls by a team of 3 skydivers. They exited their plane, a World War II museum-worthy DC-9, high above Wildcat Stadium before drifting on the wind and landing near the 50-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Anderson\nThe first-ever win in Wildcat football occurred in a 61-6 road win over Anderson. In a game that featured an abundance of rain, the Wildcats stuck to the ground for most of their attack. The strategy worked as the Wildcats amassed over 500 yards of rushing and 600 yards of total offense. The defense was equally dominant, holding the Ravens to 48 yards of total offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Trinity Bible\nThe first-ever home win in Wildcat football occurred in an 80-6 victory over Trinity Bible College. The game showcased a quick-strike offense that scored 10 touchdowns and a field goal in drives that were each 7 plays or less. The offense did most of the damage, and the defense contributed a pick-6 interception of their own. Including the interception, the team scored 6 times in the first quarter on drives that each consumed 1:33 or less. For the game, the time of possession favored Trinity Bible, with IWU possessing the ball only 27:28 of the 60-minute total. Once again, the Wildcats stuck to the ground for most of their attack. They amassed 440 yards of rushing out of 494 yards of total offense. The defense was also dominating, holding the Lions to 120 yards of total offense, including only 17 yards rushing on 34 attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 912]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood\u2013Belleville\nIndiana Wesleyan continued its historic first season of play with what would have been their first win against a conference opponent. The Wildcats beat MSFA Mideast League member Lindenwood\u2013Belleville 44\u20137 in a home match that did not count in conference standings\u2014the Wildcats will not begin conference play until the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood\u2013Belleville\nThe Wildcat offense rolled up 459 yards of offense, split as 264 yards rushing and 195 yards passing. IWU controlled the game with ball control that held the ball for 40:25 of the 60-minute game. Scoring came in pairs with two rushing touchdowns each by Tyrell Phelps and Joshua McKenzie and two touchdown passes by Zach Blair. A field goal and one failed extra-point conversion completed the scoring picture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood\u2013Belleville\nThe defense held Lindenwood\u2013Belleville's offense to 261 yards, including 215 yards passing and only 46 yards rushing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, St. Francis (IL)\nThe first IWU Homecoming game was an exciting match that featured St. Francis scores and Indiana Wesleyan responses. Ultimately, the game was decided by a missed extra point attempt by St. Francis. St. Francis scored first, and IWU tied it 7-7. That sequence was replayed, bringing the score to 14-14. St. Francis then scored a third touchdown. But this time, the extra point attempt was missed. After the Wildcats responded with another score, their extra point gave them the lead for the first time, 21-20. This sequence was then continued two more times to arrive at the final score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, St. Francis (IL)\nThe game's outcome was in doubt right to the very end. Late in the 4th quarter, IWU fumbled the ball at the 50-yard line. St. Francis recovered the ball and had 2:06 left on the clock. St. Francis drove the ball to the 21-yard line before a sack moved the ball back to the 25-yard line. With :03 seconds left on the clock, St. Francis attempted a 42-yard field goal. But the attempt sailed wide as time expired, and the Cardinals had their 4th win in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, St. Francis (IL)\nThe game was a high-yardage offensive battle. St. Francis gained more total yardage, 517 to 456. This was attained with more rushing yards, 238 vs. 213, and more passing yards, 279 to 243. But the stat that mattered the most, the final score, was tilted by one in IWU's favor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Lawrence Tech\nIWU hit the road for the first of four consecutive away games. The opponent for today's game, the Lawrence Tech Blue Devils, are also playing in their first season of organized football. The game in Southfield, Michigan will be the first of a pair of home-and-home matches between the two teams that will begin play in the Mid-States Football Association's Mideast League in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Lawrence Tech\nIWU came away with the win, by a final score of 38-24. Though the Wildcats held their opponent to only 52 yards rushing (on only 18 attempts), Lawrence Tech won the passing portion of the contest with 262 yards in the air. This was because IWU only attempted 22 passes, completing 11 of them, compared to 27 of 42 for the Blue Devils. For the game, IWU gained 402 yards of total offense while giving up 314 yards to the home team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Lawrence Tech\nThe scoring went back and forth for most of the first half. At the end of two quarters, IWU led 16-10. Lawrence Tech scored first in the third quarter to take the lead, 17-16. But the Wildcats scored the next 22 points to take control of the contest. One final score by Lawrence Tech put the final score on the board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Lawrence Tech\nWith the win today, IWU guaranteed that their opening season would not finish with a losing record. IWU continues the season next week in Adrian, Michigan against #23-ranked Siena Heights. This will be the first ranked opponent in IWU's brief football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Siena Heights\nThis week, the Wildcats met their first ranked opponent in football history. They traveled to Adrian, Michigan to face the #23 Siena Heights Saints in a game that will become a conference match next season. Siena Heights came into the game with a highly regarded defense that had lost only once this season, an overtime loss last week in a visit to the two-time defending national champion Saint Francis Cougars. Their defense was on display today as the Saints built a 24-0 halftime lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Siena Heights\nThe Wildcats finally got on the scoreboard in the third quarter, a quarter that saw them outscore the Saints 10-0. But in the end, IWU lost by a final score of 31-10. The loss snapped a 5-game winning streak and was the first time the Wildcatss lost a game away from their home campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Siena Heights\nThe Wildcatss outpassed the home team during the game, largely due to choosing the pass option about twice as often as the Saints. IWU accumulated 223 yards through the air while yielding only 157 yards to Siena Heights. But it was on the ground where the strength of the Saints' defense was evident. IWU ran 27 rushing plays for a net gain of 28 yards; that total included their quarterback being sacked 4 times for 31 yards of losses. In comparison, Siena Heights ran the ball 51 times for 221 net yards. Thus, they outproduced the Wildcats with 378 yards of total offense while holding IWU to 251 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Siena Heights\nAnother tough opponent will be seen next week when the Wildcatss travel to Bourbonnais, Illinois to play the team from Olivet Nazarene University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Olivet Nazarene\nThe Wildcats took to the road for another MSFA crossover game against the Olivet Nazarene Tigers in the home team's Homecoming Game. Olivet entered the game undefeated in Midwest League play, and they will be playing rival Saint Xavier for the division championship in next week's game. The Wildcats walked away with their biggest road win to date, by the final score of 40-36. The loss was the fourth of the season for the Tigers, with the three prior defeats each coming at the hands of NAIA Top-25-ranked opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 77], "content_span": [78, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Olivet Nazarene\nThe Wildcats showed some team character with a strong second-half effort. Trailing 28-17 at the half, the IWU defense responded by holding Olivet to a single touchdown and 2-point conversion after the break. A safety and three touchdowns of their own equaled 23 points and a 4-point margin of victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 77], "content_span": [78, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Olivet Nazarene\nThe winning score was something of a trick play as receiver Brayden Smith tossed a 36-yard touchdown pass to Dontae Henderson with 9:52 left to play in the game. From that point to the end, a defensive struggle kept additional points off the board and preserved the win for the Wildcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 77], "content_span": [78, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Olivet Nazarene\nThe game was highlighted by a strong performance by IWU quarterback Zach Blair. Blair completed 26 of 38 pass attempts for 359 yards and 3 touchdowns and 1 interception. Besides his touchdown toss, Smith caught two of the Blair touchdown passes. It was the second time this season that Blair had surpassed the 300-yard threshold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 77], "content_span": [78, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Olivet Nazarene\nThe final game of the Wildcats' four-game road trip will be next week. IWU will travel to Ann Arbor, Michigan to face another Top-25-ranked host, the #15 Concordia Cardinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 77], "content_span": [78, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Concordia (MI)\nThe Wildcats took to the road for a match against next year's conference foe, the Concordia Cardinals. The 15th-ranked Cardinals showed their strength by emerging with a 55-7 home victory. The Cardinals put the game away early. They opened the game with a touchdown drive that began with great field position, the result of a 70-yard kickoff return. It took the Cardinals just four plays to take the lead 7-0. Moments later, the lead was doubled as IWU watched a pick-6 interception get returned by a Cardinal defender on just their third play on offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Concordia (MI)\nThe stingy Concordia defense frustrated the Wildcats all day long. IWU ended with 167 yards of total offense, hurting their productivity with 5 intercepted passes. Concordia recorded 353 yards of offense without recording any turnovers. Concordia controlled the ball, holding it for 31:01 compared to 28:59 for the Wildcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Lawrence Tech\nThe Wildcats wrapped their inaugural season of play with the second game of a home-and-home pair against the other new team in the league, Lawrence Tech. IWU opened the first quarter with a 17-0 lead, and the Wildcats sailed home for their second win of the season against the visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Lawrence Tech\nThe game was actually fairly even offensively, with Lawrence Tech winning the total yardage, 441-404. IWU outrushed the visitors, 250 yards to 90 yards; but Lawrence Tech outpassed the Wildcats 351 yards to 154 yards. The Lawrence Tech effort was slowed by losing 2 out of 3 fumbles and 1 pass interception on the day; IWU added no turnovers of their own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280032-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Lawrence Tech\nWith the first season now in the record books, each team will return to action in 2019 as full members of the Mideast League of the Mid-States Football Association. Conference games and crossover matches will be played against MSFA opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280033-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Indiana on November 6, 2018. Three of Indiana's executive offices were up for election, as well as a United States Senate seat and all of Indiana's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280033-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Republican Secretary of State Connie Lawson, who was appointed to the office in 2012, ran for re-election to a second full term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280033-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana elections, Secretary of State\nJim Harper, an attorney and 2016 Democratic nominee for the state senate in the 5th District, sought the Democratic nomination. Potential Democratic candidates include Monroe County Councilwoman Shelli Yoder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280033-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana elections, Secretary of State\nThe Indiana Green Party nominated George Wolfe, a Professor Emeritus at Ball State University and former Director of the Ball State University Center for Peace and Conflict Studies. The party has to collect 30,000 signatures to get George Wolfe on the ballot in November. The Libertarian Party nominee was Mark Rutherford, chairman of the Indiana Public Defender Commission and former vice chairman of the Libertarian National Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280033-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican State Treasurer Kelly Mitchell was eligible to run for re-election to a second term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280033-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indiana elections, Auditor\nIncumbent Republican State Auditor Tera Klutz was appointed to the office on January 9, 2017 to replace Republican Suzanne Crouch, who was elected Lieutenant Governor. Klutz ran for election to a first full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500\nThe 2018 Indianapolis 500 (branded as the 102nd Running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil for sponsorship reasons) was a Verizon IndyCar Series held on Sunday, May 27, 2018, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. It was the premier event of the 2018 IndyCar Series. The race was won by Australian Will Power of Team Penske. Car owner Roger Penske collected his record extending 17th Indianapolis 500 victory. Chevrolet swept nine of the top eleven spots during qualifying, and finished 1st-2nd, Chevy's first Indy victory since 2015, and tenth overall. However, despite entering the month as prohibitive favorites to dominate the race, Chevy managed to place only two other cars in the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500\nMuch of the race was led by Will Power and Ed Carpenter, a race that was considered generally less-competitive that the previous few years, attributed largely to a newly-introduced aero kit package. Late in the race, pit strategy and a timely caution flag factored in. On a restart on lap 194, Oriol Servi\u00e0, Stefan Wilson, and Jack Harvey were all attempting to stretch their fuel to the finish, gambling on a late caution, and a possible surprise victory. However, with four laps to go, both Wilson and Harvey were forced to pit for fuel, as was Servi\u00e0 a lap later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500\nWill Power took the lead and cruised to victory, having led 59 laps. Polesitter Ed Carpenter led 65 laps and finished second, his best-career Indy finish. 2016 winner Alexander Rossi had an outstanding charge from 32nd to 4th, leading one lap during the race. Power became the first driver to win both the IndyCar Grand Prix and the Indianapolis 500, as well as the first driver to sweep both races in the same year. Later in the year, Team Penske also won the NASCAR Brickyard 400, becoming the second team in history to sweep both the Indy 500 and Brickyard 400 in the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500\nThe month of May activities formally began on May 12 with the fifth running of the IndyCar Grand Prix on the combined road course. Practice for the Indianapolis 500 began on Tuesday May 15, and time trials was held May 19\u201320. Ed Carpenter won the pole position, his third career Indy pole. Carb Day\u2014the traditional final day of practice, as well as the annual Pit Stop Challenge and Indy Lights Freedom 100, were held Friday May 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race background, IR18 car\nThe 2017 race was the third and final year contested with the Chevrolet and Honda aero kits outfitted to the Dallara DW12 chassis. Beginning in 2018, all DW12 Safety Cell chassis were fitted with a universal bodywork kit. Digital renderings for the common bodywork kit, referred to as the 'IR18' car, were released in early May 2017. The car was officially unveiled in late July, and the universal aero kit became known as the UAK18 bodywork. The bodywork is inspired by CART's 1990s and 2000s livery. For the first time since 1996, the cars in the Indy 500 had a roll hoop without an airbox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race background, 2018 IndyCar Series\nThe 102nd Indianapolis 500 was the sixth race of the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series season, and 23rd sanctioned as part of the Indy Racing League/IndyCar Series. There were four different winners in the first five races of the season. For the second year in a row, S\u00e9bastien Bourdais won the season opener at St. Petersburg. Once again, Bourdais won in surprising fashion, taking the lead after the leaders collided on a late-race restart. It was also Bourdais' first victory since suffering injuries in a crash during qualifying for the 2017 Indy 500. Josef Newgarden won at Phoenix, Alexander Rossi won at Long Beach, and Newgarden won again at Birmingham. To begin the month of May, Will Power won the IndyCar Grand Prix, his third win in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 59], "content_span": [60, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race background, 2018 IndyCar Series\nOffseason changes included Chip Ganassi Racing, which dropped down to two cars only (Scott Dixon and Ed Jones). Team Penske also dropped down from four full-time cars to three. H\u00e9lio Castroneves switched to the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and raced at Indianapolis only. Two-time Indy 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya, however, was left out of a ride for the 2018 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 59], "content_span": [60, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Schedule\nFour days of testing were scheduled at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway prior to the official opening of the track. On March 23, manufacturer testing was conducted on the road course for Honda. Testing on the oval was scheduled for March 27\u201329, but was postponed due to inclement weather in the forecast. A full-field, league-sponsored open test was held on the oval April 30, followed by the Rookie Orientation Program and Refresher tests on May 1. On May 2, track activity continued with a private manufacturers test involving both Honda and Chevrolet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Schedule\n* Includes days where trackactivity was significantly limited due to rain", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Testing and rookie orientation, Testing \u2014 July 2017\nOn July 25, 2017 the first official test for the universal bodywork kit was conducted at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval. Two teams, one each representing Chevrolet and Honda, attended. Team Penske with driver Juan Pablo Montoya tested for Chevy, and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports with driver Oriol Servi\u00e0 tested for Honda. The tests were considered successful, and no incidents were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 74], "content_span": [75, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Testing and rookie orientation, Testing \u2014 October 2017\nFollowing the conclusion of the 2017 IndyCar Series season, each manufacturer was allocated five days of aero kit testing through December 17. The league stipulated one test for each manufacturer, leaving four dates to the manufacturer's discretion. Honda elected to use one of their four dates at Indianapolis on October 26. James Hinchcliffe (Schmidt Peterson) and Scott Dixon (Ganassi) each completed more than 130 laps without incident. Cool temperatures delayed the start of the test until the afternoon, and testing concluded at 6 p.m. Speeds were not reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 77], "content_span": [78, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Bump Day \u2014 Saturday, May 19\nBump Day was held on May 19. The 33 cars that would comprise the starting lineup would be determined, as well as the nine cars eligible for the \"Fast 9\" shoot-out to be held on Sunday to determine pole position. Two periods of rain caused delays during the course of the day, but all 35 entries were able to make attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 63], "content_span": [64, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Bump Day \u2014 Saturday, May 19\nH\u00e9lio Castroneves set the fastest speed of the day with a four-lap average of 228.919\u00a0mph, besting Ed Carpenter and Simon Pagenaud. Completing the Fast Nine were Will Power, S\u00e9bastien Bourdais, Spencer Pigot, Josef Newgarden, Scott Dixon, and Danica Patrick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 63], "content_span": [64, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Bump Day \u2014 Saturday, May 19\nAt the opposite end of the field, several entries struggled to find the speed necessary to make the starting lineup. The three cars of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (Takuma Sato, Graham Rahal, and Oriol Servi\u00e0 in particular) all had difficulties, but all three held on to make the field. Servi\u00e0 made three attempts, and finally made the field safely with about 35 minutes left in the day. Other drivers facing difficulty included Conor Daly and Pippa Mann. Daly would make the field, but despite being the last qualifier of the day, Mann failed to qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 63], "content_span": [64, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Bump Day \u2014 Saturday, May 19\nThe most shocking story of day, however, was 2016 pole sitter, and three-time front row starter, James Hinchcliffe, who was bumped from the field. Hinchcliffe's first qualifying attempt came after the first rain delay, with less than ideal chassis setups. Hinchcliffe steadily slipped down the standings, and was bumped from the field in the final half hour. The team quickly got the car into the qualifying line, and Hinchcliffe pulled away for his second attempt with less than fifteen minutes left in the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 63], "content_span": [64, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Bump Day \u2014 Saturday, May 19\nOn his warm-up lap, he detected a bad vibration, and had to abort the run and return to the pits. A tire pressure sensor inside one of the wheels had come loose, and was ricocheting inside the tire. The crew desperately scrambled to diagnose the problem, change tires, and get back into the qualifying line. However, the gun went off at 5:50 p.m. to close qualifying, with Hinchcliffe still waiting in line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 63], "content_span": [64, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Bump Day \u2014 Saturday, May 19\nAfter his crash during practice on Friday, and after his crew worked late into the night to make repairs, James Davison ended the day on the bubble. Davison posted the 33rd-fastest speed Saturday, and held on to make the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 63], "content_span": [64, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Pole Day \u2014 Sunday, May 20, Positions 10-33\nSunny skies meant no interruptions to qualifying during Sunday qualifications. The opening session determined positions 10-33 on the starting grid, with drivers taking to the track in reverse order of their ranking from their Bump Day runs. Tony Kanaan went fastest in the group, besting his teammate Matheus Leist, who ended the day as the fastest rookie qualifier. Several favorites struggled to find speed during the day, including 2016 winner Alexander Rossi, who slipped to 32nd after fighting an ill-handling car during his run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 78], "content_span": [79, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Pole Day \u2014 Sunday, May 20, Positions 10-33\nBig gainers for the day included James Davison, who improved from 33rd on Saturday to 19th on Sunday. Defending race winner Takuma Sato also went from 29th on Saturday to 16th on Sunday. Sato's teammate Graham Rahal, however, ended the day in the same position as the day before (30th).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 78], "content_span": [79, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Pole Day \u2014 Sunday, May 20, Firestone Fast Nine\n\"Fast Nine\" qualifications began at 5:00 p.m., with drivers who qualified in the top nine the previous day taking to the track in reverse order in their bid to win pole position. For the third time in his career, Ed Carpenter secured pole position for the race, posting a four-lap average at 229.618 mph. Team Penske teammates Simon Pagenaud and Will Power completed the front row. Danica Patrick placed 7th in her return qualification at the course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 82], "content_span": [83, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Post-qualifying practice, Pit Stop Challenge\nThe Pit Stop Challenge was held on Friday May 25. Because of rules that qualification included pit stop performance during the season, James Hinchcliffe of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports was part of the event although he did not qualify for the race. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports had three entries for the Indianapolis 500, with two full-time teams (No. 5 and No. 6) and a third team for the Indianapolis 500 only, the No. 7 team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 67], "content_span": [68, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Post-qualifying practice, Pit Stop Challenge\nAfter the No. 5 failed to qualify, the team subsequently assigned the No. 5 pit crew to pit the No. 7 driven by Jay Howard for the race, and advanced all the way to the finals. Hinchcliffe battled Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing in a best-of-three finals, with Dixon's team taking the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 67], "content_span": [68, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Post-qualifying practice, Pit Stop Challenge\nNOTE: Since the No. 5 Schmidt Peterson Motorsports car failed to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 race, the pit crew was assigned to the No. 7 car for the race. The crew was registered by the Speedway as the No. 7 crew as it would be that team during the race, even though it used its regular driver during the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 67], "content_span": [68, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Starting grid\nR\u00a0 = Indianapolis 500 rookie; \u00a0W\u00a0 = Former Indianapolis 500 winner", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race, First half\nWith temperatures flirting with the race day record of 92\u00a0\u00b0F (33\u00a0\u00b0C), drivers and teams were forced to figure out how the new aero kits would react to extreme heat. The race began with Ed Carpenter pulling ahead of the field, with Will Power jumping up into second place ahead of Simon Pagenaud. Further back, Tony Kanaan managed an excellent start, jumping up to sixth position from his tenth place starting spot. One lap later, Pagenaud moved back into second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race, First half\nFrom there, the field began to spread out; the new aero kit and high heat removed much of the slingshot drafting that defined the last several 500s, thus allowing Carpenter to pull out a roughly two second advantage by the time the first pit stops came. The opening round of stops came around lap 30, with Carpenter maintaining his lead, but Kanaan and Josef Newgarden jumped up to second and third respectively after slightly earlier stops gave the duo an advantage of fresher tires for a few laps. Pagenaud, H\u00e9lio Castroneves, and Power rounded up the top six after the first stops were done.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race, First half\nThe first caution period of the race came at lap 47 when Takuma Sato came up on backmarker James Davison. Davison, who had been running significantly slower than the rest of the field for several laps, tried to remain high through turn 3 to keep out of the way, but with such speed differential, Sato was unable to avoid Davison's car and collided with Davison's left-rear wheel. Davison's car spun around and continued sliding until it impacted the turn 4 wall, while Sato was able to guide his car to rest in the grass on the inside of turn 4. During the caution, most of the field pitted with Carpenter, Kanaan, and Power emerging first from pit lane. The lead moved to Zachary Claman DeMelo, who elected not to pit during the caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race, First half\nRacing resumed at lap 56, with Carpenter and Kanaan passing DeMelo almost as soon as the green flag waved. The green flag period was short lived, though, as, on lap 58, Ed Jones lost control of his car in turn 2, spun around, and impacted the outside wall. Jones emerged from the car under his own power, but was later transported to hospital after complaining of head and neck pain. As the caution flew again, the running order was Carpenter, Kanaan, Newgarden, Pagenaud, DeMelo, Power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race, First half\nRacing once again resumed at lap 64, with Kanaan getting the jump on Carpenter and taking the lead into turn 1. The next lap, the lead switched back, as Carpenter made his way back around Kanaan into turn one to resume first place. Once again, the green flag stint proved to be short; on lap 68, Danica Patrick lost control of her car in turn 2 in similar fashion to Jones, spinning around and impacting the outside wall before sliding back across the track and impacting the inside wall. Patrick's final 500 resulted in a lowly 30th-place finish. Few drivers elected to pit during the caution, with Newgarden, DeMelo, and Robert Wickens the only major takers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race, First half\nThe next restart came on lap 73, with Kanaan once again passing Carpenter for the lead heading into turn 1, while Power moved into third place after passing Pagenaud. This running order remained unchanged until pit stops came again around lap 90. During the sequence, Power jumped both Kanaan and Carpenter and moved into the lead when cars running out-of-sequence on pit strategy all pitted by lap 106. On lap 99, Kanaan's chances of picking up a second Indy victory were dashed when he picked up a puncture, forcing him back to the pit lane and placing him one lap down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race, Second half\nShortly after halfway, rookie Kyle Kaiser dropped out of the race with mechanical issues, the only rookie to retire from the race. Up front, Power held a commanding 4.7 second lead of Carpenter, but the gap would close back down to just over a second when Stefan Wilson managed to un-lap himself on lap 121. By lap 127, pit stops once again came, with Power maintaining his place ahead of Carpenter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race, Second half\nOn lap 138, the fourth caution period of the day came, when S\u00e9bastien Bourdais lost control of his car coming off of turn 3 while running close behind Alexander Rossi. Bourdais attempted to save his car in the north short-chute, but spun around completely and impacted the turn 4 wall. With the field bunched back up again and drivers off-sequence pitting during the yellow, the running order ran Power, Carpenter, Pagenaud, Ryan Hunter-Reay, and Castroneves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race, Second half\nThe restart came at lap 145, with Power quickly pulling away. Green flag conditions lasted for less than a lap, as coming off of turn 4, Castroneves spun, slid across the track and impacted the inside wall before sliding to a halt on the pit lane. The caution simplified pit stop strategy for most, as it ensured that only one more stop would be necessary during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race, Second half\nRacing once again resumed on lap 154 with Power once again opening up his lead. Further back, Rossi, who had started the race from the back row, made his way into the lead group with a daring outside pass through turn 1 and 2 to move him into third ahead of Pagenaud and Hunter-Reay. Caution flew just as quickly as the previous run, though, this time for Sage Karam losing control of his car at the exit of turn 4 and making contact with the outside wall, which ripped the right-rear tire off of Karam's car. During the caution, the front-runners stayed out, while a few drivers, including Oriol Servi\u00e0, Stefan Wilson, Jack Harvey, and Scott Dixon pitted, hoping to get more caution in the remaining laps to move their way to the top of the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race, Second half\nRacing resumed again at lap 162, with Power once again opening his lead over Carpenter. The running order for front runners remained largely the same until pit stops between lap 170 and 175. Power retained his advantage over Carpenter, but now six off-sequence cars were ahead of him, with Servi\u00e0 leading the way over Wilson, Harvey and Dixon. By lap 185, Power had managed to move back up into fourth, but on lap 188, the caution that the off-sequence drivers needed finally appeared when Tony Kanaan lost control of his car coming off of turn 2 and impacted the outside wall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race, Second half, Finish\nThe track went green on lap 194. Race leader Servi\u00e0 was immediately being passed by both Wilson and Harvey; both drivers were critical on fuel, and were gambling on a late caution to conserve enough fuel for victory. Power moved into third on the next lap and began setting his sights on the other two ahead. Power was suddenly promoted to first with only four laps left when both Wilson and Harvey dived into pit lane for fuel. The next lap, Servi\u00e0 pitted from second, leaving Power with an over 2 second advantage over Carpenter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Race, Second half, Finish\nWith a large lead, Power was able to cruise to victory, securing his first victory at the race and becoming the first Australian to take victory in the 500. It was also Roger Penske's 17th Indy 500 victory as a car owner. For his victory, Power took away $2.52 million. Rookie of the year honors went to Robert Wickens, who led two laps en route to a ninth-place finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Box score\nPoints include qualification points from Time Trials, 1 point for leading a lap, and 2 points for most laps led.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nFor the 54th and last straight year, the race was televised in the United States by ABC. NBC Sports announced in March 2018 that it had acquired the broadcast television rights to the IndyCar Series beginning in 2019 under a three-year deal (complementing the current cable rightsholder NBCSN), with a package of races on NBC (including the 500) replacing the existing package of races on ABC. It ended a relationship between the race and ABC dating back to 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nIn the United States, the 2018 Indianapolis 500 was the least-watched edition of the race since the inception of live flag-to-flag coverage, with a 3.4 overnight rating (in comparison to the 3.6 rating it received in 2017).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nCarb Day, the final practice session, along with the Pit Stop Challenge and Freedom 100, were carried on NBCSN. The booth announcers for NBCSN were Kevin Lee, Townsend Bell and Paul Tracy. The pit reporters were Marty Snider, Jon Beekhuis, Katie Hargitt, and Robin Miller. Lee was joined in the booth by Anders Krohn and Kyle Kaiser for the Freedom 100 coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nThe race was carried by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network. Mark Jaynes served as the chief announcer for the third year. New to the broadcast was driver analyst Anders Krohn, and pit reporter Ryan Myrehn. As had been in three previous years (2010, 2012-13) the turn one position was vacated. It was decided that the chief announcer in the Pagoda had a clear view of turn one, and a separate reporter was not necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nJerry Baker, who had been stationed in turn one dating back to 1986, was absent from the crew entirely, and did not take a substitute booth role as he did in 2010, 2012 and 2013. It was the first time Baker was not part of the crew in any on-air role since his first year in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\n1070 The Fan broadcast nightly beginning May 7 with Trackside with Curt Cavin and Kevin Lee, followed by Donald Davidson's The Talk of Gasoline Alley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280034-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nTurn 1: not usedTurn 2: Nick YeomanTurn 3: Jake QueryTurn 4: Chris Denari", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280035-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis Colts season\nThe 2018 season was the Indianapolis Colts' 66th in the National Football League and their 35th in Indianapolis. It was also their first season under head coach Frank Reich and second under the leadership of general manager Chris Ballard. Despite a 1\u20135 start, the Colts managed to improve on their 4\u201312 campaign with a 38\u201310 victory over the Tennessee Titans which also included a 5-game winning streak. On Week 16, the Colts achieved their first winning season since 2014 with a 28\u201327 win against the New York Giants. The next week, they beat the Tennessee Titans in a win or go home match-up to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2014 and became the third team in NFL history to qualify for the playoffs after a 1\u20135 start and first since the 2015 Chiefs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280035-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis Colts season\nIn the Wild Card Round, the Colts defeated the Houston Texans 21\u20137, but lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in the Divisional Round 31\u201313, ending their season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280035-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis Colts season\nThis would be the last season that the Colts would have franchise quarterback Andrew Luck, as he would retire following the season, citing his continuous struggle with injuries and no longer enjoying the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280035-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis Colts season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nOn December 31, 2017, the Colts parted ways with head coach Chuck Pagano, who had led the team for six seasons. After two interviews, it was widely reported that the Colts would hire New England Patriots' offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels to replace him, after McDaniels fulfilled his obligations to the Patriots in Super Bowl LII. The Colts announced on the team website that they had agreed to terms with McDaniels and scheduled a press conference with McDaniels for February 5, 2018. However, one day later, McDaniels unexpectedly withdrew from the agreement in principle to become the Colts' head coach. On February 11, 2018, after interviewing multiple candidates, including Leslie Frazier and Dan Campbell, the Colts announced the hiring of Frank Reich, formerly the Philadelphia Eagles' offensive coordinator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 879]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280035-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis Colts season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nDespite leading 23\u201310 in the second half, the Bengals managed to pull off a comeback to win 34\u201323. The Colts had a chance to win the game late. However, while driving down the field, Jack Doyle lost a fumble which was returned 83 yards for a touchdown, putting the game away. This was the Colts 4th straight opening day loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 94], "content_span": [95, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280035-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis Colts season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Washington Redskins\nWith the win, the Colts evened their record at 1-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 94], "content_span": [95, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280035-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis Colts season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Philadelphia Eagles\nIn a rain-filled affair, the Colts were unable to nurse a late lead, as they lost to the defending champion Eagles 20-16 and fell to 1\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 94], "content_span": [95, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280035-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis Colts season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Houston Texans\nIn a shootout, the Texans were able to pull it out in overtime, winning 37\u201334, as the Colts fell to 1\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 90], "content_span": [91, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280035-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Indianapolis Colts season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at New England Patriots\nThe Colts were seeking their first road win over the Patriots since their 2006 Super Bowl-winning season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 95], "content_span": [96, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280036-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IndieWire Critics Poll\nThe winners of the 2018 IndieWire Critics Poll were announced on December 17, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280037-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Individual Ice Racing World Championship\nThe 2018 FIM Ice Speedway World Championship was the 53rd edition of FIM Individual Ice Racing World Championship season. The world champion was determined by ten races hosted in five cities Astana, Tolyatti, Berlin, Inzell and Heerenveen between 3 February and 8 April 2018. The Championships were sponsored by Lukoil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280037-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Individual Ice Racing World Championship\nDmitry Koltakov of Russia was dominant throughout the World Championship series, winning nine of the ten rounds. This was Koltakov's third World title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280038-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Individual Long Track World Championship\nThe 2018 Individual Long Track/Grasstrack World Championship is the 48th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280039-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship\nThe 2018 European Individual Speedway Junior Championship (also known as the 2018 Speedway European Under 21 Championship) was the 21st edition of the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280039-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship\nThe final was staged at Stralsund in Germany and was won by Dominik Kubera of Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280040-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship\nThe 2018 Individual Speedway Under 21 World Championship was the 42nd edition of the FIM Individual Under-21 World Championship and was staged over three rounds, at Daugavpils, Leszno and Pardubice. Poland's Maksym Drabik was the defending champion having won the title in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280040-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship, Result\nThe title was won by Bartosz Smekta\u0142a, who beat Drabik by two points. Smekta\u0142a had trailed Drabik heading into the final round, however he scored a 21-point maximum to take the title. Great Britain's Robert Lambert took bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280040-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship, Classification\nThe meeting classification was according to the points scored during the meeting, with the total points scored by each rider during each meeting credited as World Championship points. The FIM Speedway Under 21 World Champion was the rider who collected most World Championship points at the end of the series. In case of a tie between one or more riders in the final overall classification, a run-off decided the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. For all other placings, the better-placed rider in the last meeting was the better placed rider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280041-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia Masters (badminton)\nThe 2018 Indonesia Masters, officially the Daihatsu Indonesia Masters 2018, was a badminton tournament which took place at Istora Gelora Bung Karno in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 23 to 28 January 2018 and had a total prize of US$350,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280041-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia Masters (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Indonesia Masters was the third tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Indonesian Masters championships which had been held since 2010. This tournament was organized by the Badminton Association of Indonesia with sanction from the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280041-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia Masters (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Istora Gelora Bung Karno in Jakarta, Indonesia. This was the first sporting event held there since its reopening after undergoing major renovation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280041-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia Masters (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is a table with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 500 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280041-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia Masters (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for the 2018 tournament was US$350,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280042-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Indonesia Open (officially known as the BLIBLI Indonesia Open 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Istora Gelora Bung Karno in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 3 to 8 July 2018 and had a total purse of $1,250,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280042-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Indonesia Open was the twelfth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Indonesia Open championships which had been held since 1982. This tournament was organized by the Badminton Association of Indonesia with the sanction from the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280042-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at the Istora Gelora Bung Karno in Jakarta, Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280042-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 1000 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280042-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$1,250,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280043-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia President's Cup\nThe 2018 Indonesia President's Cup (Indonesian: Piala Presiden 2018) was the third edition of Indonesia President's Cup, held by the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) as a pre-season tournament for the 2018 Liga 1. The tournament started on 16 January 2018 and ended on 17 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280043-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia President's Cup\nThe broadcasting rights were granted to Elang Mahkota Teknologi group; matches were aired by their channels: Indosiar and O-Channel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280043-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia President's Cup\nThe 2018 Indonesia President's Cup Final was played at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta, with Persija defeating Bali United by 3\u20130 to win their first title. Arema were the title holders, but they were eliminated by Sriwijaya in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280043-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia President's Cup, Teams\nInitially, the tournament was planned to be competed by 20 teams: 18 teams from 2018 Liga 1 and 2 best placed teams from 2017 Liga 2. Then, Persipura Jayapura decided not to participate in this year's tournament. Kalteng Putra was confirmed to replace them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280043-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia President's Cup, Venues\nSeven venues in seven cities were selected for the tournament. On 21 January 2018, the venue of Group E officially moved from Gajayana Stadium to Kanjuruhan Stadium after two matches because the Gajayana's pitch was heavily damaged by bad weather and bad drainage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280043-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia President's Cup, Group stage\nThe Organizing Committee (OC) announced the group draw on 9 January 2018. The group draw is determined by the host, the team's ranking in the 2017 Liga 1 competition, geographical factors, and commercial interests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280043-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia President's Cup, Knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals has been done at Sultan Hotel, Jakarta on 31 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280043-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia President's Cup, Statistics, Tournament team rankings\nAs per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280044-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia President's Cup Final\nThe 2018 Indonesia President's Cup Final was the final match of the 2018 Indonesia President's Cup, the 3rd season of Indonesia's pre-season premier club football tournament organised by PSSI. It was played at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta on 17 February 2018, between Persija and Bali United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280044-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia President's Cup Final\nPersija won the match 3\u20130, winning their 1st title in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280044-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia President's Cup Final, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280045-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesia national football team results\nThe following article is a summary of the 2018 Indonesia national football team results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280046-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesian Movie Actors Awards\nThe 2018 Indonesian Movie Actors Awards was the 12th annual Indonesian Movie Actors Awards show that was held at studio 14 MNC Studios, Jakarta and was organised by RCTI. Daniel Mananta and Nirina Zubir hosted this event and the event was attended by the CEO of MNC Group, Hary Tanoesoedibjo. This event was postponed from May to July, due to a collision with Eid al-Fitr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280046-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesian Movie Actors Awards\nIn this awards show, the film Dilan 1990 succeeded in becoming the Favorite Film of the Viewers' Choice. This film, along with the film Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts managed to achieve 3 awards and become the films with the most wins this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280046-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesian Movie Actors Awards, Winners and nominees, Lifetime Achievement and Special Awards\nThe Lifetime Achievement award is given to the person who is considered the most dedicated to the world of Indonesian cinema that year. This year the award is given to a senior actor, Adi Kurdi for his dedication and totality in Indonesian cinema. In addition, this year the Special Awards were also given to Amoroso Katamsi and Deddy Sutomo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 98], "content_span": [99, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280047-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesian local elections\nLocal elections (Indonesian: Pemilihan Kepala Daerah or Pilkada) were held in Indonesia on 27 June 2018. Voters elected 17 governors, 39 mayors and 115 regents across the country. The elections included gubernatorial elections for Indonesia's four most populous provinces: West Java, East Java, Central Java and North Sumatra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280047-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesian local elections\nLike other local elections in Indonesia (except for Jakarta), the elections followed a simple plurality, first-past-the-post system where the candidates with the most votes automatically wins the seat even if they have less than 50% of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280047-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesian local elections, Background\nSimultaneous local elections (Pilkada Serentak) was first held in Indonesia on 2015. Another one was held in 2017, making the 2018 election the third simultaneous regional elections to be held in the country. The next set of regional elections are set to be held in 2020 and 2024, the latter one being simultaneous with the presidential and legislative elections. It is also planned that regional offices with elections in 2017 and 2018 are to be held by centrally appointed officials starting from the end of their five-year terms until the 2024 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280047-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesian local elections, Background\nIt has been described as a run-up to the 2019 national elections, due to the fact that the three most populous provinces in the country (West Java, East Java and Central Java) hosting 48 percent of voters in 2014 are to vote, with the elections covering 31 provinces altogether. 152 million of the country's 260 million citizens were eligible to vote in the elections. Some observers also described the election as a follow-up to the 2017 elections, particularly the Jakartan election where Gerindra and PKS-backed Anies Baswedan defeated Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, commonly seen as president Joko Widodo's ally. The Indonesian National Police identified several provinces as being prone to conflicts arising from the results of the elections, namely North Sumatra, West Java, East Java, South Sulawesi, and Papua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 855]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280047-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesian local elections, Schedule\nPreparations of the elections began in 2017, with the KPU receiving demographic data by 31 July 2017 and forming local committees by October. Finalization of the voter list was done by 31 December 2017 and registration for candidates opened the following day, closing at the 10th of January. For regions where only a single candidate were registered, 3 additional days were allocated between the 14th and 16 January 2018 for extended registration. The campaigning period was to officially start on 15 February 2018 and end by 24 June. The actual voting took place on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280047-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesian local elections, Schedule\nAccording to the KPU, the election would cost an estimated Rp 10.5 trillion (USD 735 million). The day of the election (27 June) was made into a national holiday by the government on the 25th of June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280047-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesian local elections, Elections, Gubernatorial\nNote: name in italics indicate incumbents who ran for re-election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280047-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Indonesian local elections, Gallery\nVote counting at a polling station in Pekanbaru, Riau during election day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280048-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indoor Football League season\nThe 2018 Indoor Football League season was the tenth season of the Indoor Football League (IFL). The league played with six teams, after the suspension of operations of three teams, the departure of another two teams, and the addition and subsequent suspension of two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280048-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indoor Football League season\nThe top four teams made the IFL playoffs with the semifinals consisting of the top seed hosting the fourth seed and the second hosting the third before the winners met in the 2018 United Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280048-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indoor Football League season, Offseason\nProject Fanchise, the ownership of the Salt Lake Screaming Eagles that joined the IFL in 2017 and also bought the Colorado Crush during the season, announced that they would leave the IFL after one season. For the 2018 season, the Arizona Rattlers, Cedar Rapids Titans, Green Bay Blizzard, Iowa Barnstormers, and Nebraska Danger had all committed to play. However, the Spokane Empire had ceased operations at the close of the 2017 season. The Sioux Falls Storm left the league for Champions Indoor Football on August 30, 2017, with the Wichita Falls Nighthawks to follow soon after. On September 12, 2017, it was announced that the Bloomington Edge and West Michigan Ironmen had joined the IFL for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280048-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indoor Football League season, Offseason\nThe CIF then attempted to sue the IFL, Edge, and Ironmen for leaving the CIF after the two teams had already signed league affiliation agreements with the CIF for 2018. The IFL then threatened to sue the CIF, Storm, and Nighthawks in return despite neither former IFL team signing an affiliation agreement with the IFL for 2018. The CIF then retracted their lawsuit with the IFL but also removed the Storm and Nighthawks from their 2018 schedule. After the IFL meetings in October 2017, the Storm returned to the IFL but the Nighthawks had to suspend operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280048-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Indoor Football League season, Offseason\nWhile the CIF did drop the lawsuit against the IFL, it filed for an injunction against the Edge and Ironmen teams from participating in the IFL for breaking the terms of their signed affiliation agreements. A temporary injunction from participation was granted on January 31, 2018, with the court ruling determining that both teams had been offered bribes from the owner of the Arizona Rattlers to break their contracts with the CIF. The schedule was revised in February for the six participating teams stating the Edge and Ironmen were to return in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280049-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Industrial Bank Cup\nThe 2018 Industrial Bank Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Quanzhou, China, on 23\u201329 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280049-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Industrial Bank Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280050-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Industrial Bank Cup \u2013 Doubles\nHan Xinyun and Ye Qiuyu successfully defended their title, defeating Guo Hanyu and Wang Xinyu in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20133), 7\u20136(8\u20136).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280051-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Industrial Bank Cup \u2013 Singles\nZheng Saisai was the defending champion, and successfully defended her title, defeating Liu Fangzhou in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280052-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indy Eleven season\nThe 2018 Indy Eleven season was the club's fifth season of existence, and their first season in the United Soccer League following their move from the North American Soccer League on January 10. Indy also competed in the U.S. Open Cup. The season covered the period from October 30, 2017 to the beginning of the 2019 USL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280052-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indy Eleven season\n2018 marked a number of firsts for the club: the first year that home matches were played in Lucas Oil Stadium, located in downtown Indianapolis, as well as the first year of Martin Rennie's managerial tenure. Although Rennie was victorious in his first game in charge of the club, Indy were defeated in their first-ever match at their new home stadium. The season average of 10,163 fans per home match was the second-largest average attendance in Indy Eleven history, behind only the club's inaugural season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280052-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Indy Eleven season\nThe Eleven qualified for the USL playoffs in their first season in the league, finishing with 49 points and earning the 7th seed in the Eastern Conference. However, they were eliminated in the conference quarterfinals by Louisville City, who went on to win USL Cup for the second consecutive season. In the U.S. Open Cup, Indy was eliminated in the second round by fourth-tier Mississippi Brilla, marking the second consecutive season that the club was knocked out by a Premier Development League opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280052-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Indy Eleven season, Preseason\nIndy Eleven played a seven-match preseason schedule ahead of the season, featuring four matches against fellow professional clubs, two games against collegiate teams, and one game against an independent club. Although five of the seven matches were officially home matches for Indy, none of them were played at Lucas Oil Stadium; instead, they were played at different sites around the Indianapolis metropolitan area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280052-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Indy Eleven season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nIn August 2017, the USL announced that the 2018 season would span 34 games, the longest regular season the league had ever run. The expansion was spurred by the addition of six new clubs for the 2018 season: alongside Indy, the league also welcomed in Atlanta United 2, Fresno FC, Las Vegas Lights, Nashville SC, and North Carolina FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280052-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Indy Eleven season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nOn January 12, 2018, the league announced home openers for every club. Indy began the season on the road, facing off against Richmond Kickers on March 24. The Eleven opened their home slate a week later, welcoming FC Cincinnati to Lucas Oil Stadium for the first match at the stadium in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280052-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Indy Eleven season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nThe schedule for the remainder of the 2018 season was released by the club on February 6. Indy played three times against four different clubs: FC Cincinnati, Louisville City, Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC, and Bethlehem Steel FC. They faced every other Eastern Conference team twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280053-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Indy Lights\nThe 2018 Indy Lights season was the 33rd season of the Indy Lights open wheel motor racing series and the 17th sanctioned by IndyCar, acting as the primary support series for the IndyCar Series. A 17-race schedule was announced on October 17, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280053-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Indy Lights\nPatricio O'Ward dueled the entire season with his Andretti Autosport teammate Colton Herta, ultimately clinching the title by winning the penultimate race of the season. O'Ward had nine wins with four other podium finishes while Herta captured four consecutive wins in the first half of the season, including the Freedom 100, but also finished second seven times. Belardi Auto Racing's Santiago Urrutia captured two race wins and finished third in the championship. Andretti's Ryan Norman and Juncos Racing's Victor Franzoni each had a single win and finished fourth and fifth in the championship respectively. There were only seven full-time entries. Andretti Autosport soundly won the team championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280054-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Grand Prix\nThe 2018 IndyCar Grand Prix, officially known as the 2018 IndyCar Grand Prix presented by Sea-Doo for sponsorship reasons, was the fifth round of the 2018 IndyCar Series season. The race took place over 85 laps on the infield road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. Will Power, driving for Team Penske, won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280054-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Grand Prix, Results, Race\nNotes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series\nThe 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series was the 23rd season of the Verizon IndyCar Series and the 107th official championship season of American open wheel racing. The premier event was the 102nd Indianapolis 500, with Takuma Sato entering as the defending Indianapolis 500 winner. Josef Newgarden entered the season as the defending National Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series\nThe season marked the debut of a new universal aerokit, replacing the manufacturer-designed kits used from 2015 to 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series\nIt was the final season for Verizon Communications as the series sponsor as well as being the final season that the series was broadcast by both ABC and NBC Sports. A new series sponsor was introduced and NBC became the sole broadcaster for the series beginning in the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series\nHonda won the engine manufacturer's championship for the first time since 2005 as an engine manufacturer competitor. Robert Wickens won Rookie of the Year despite missing the final three races after a crash at the ABC Supply 500 at Pocono. James Hinchcliffe won the most popular driver award. Will Power won the 102nd Indianapolis 500. Scott Dixon won his fifth IndyCar title, and is now second to A. J. Foyt's all-time record for United States open wheel titles. Dixon won three races over the course of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries\nThe following teams and drivers competed in the 2018 IndyCar Series season. All teams used a spec Dallara IR18 chassis and Firestone tires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Team changes\nChip Ganassi Racing announced that the team will scale down to a two-car team for the first time since 2010 due to cost efficiency, with Scott Dixon remaining at the No. 9 car. CGR announced on October 25, 2017, that 2017 IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year Ed Jones would drive the No. 10 car in 2018, replacing Tony Kanaan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Team changes\nTeam Penske also downsized to three cars, due to H\u00e9lio Castroneves moving to Team Penske's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship team from the 2018 season onwards. However, Castroneves returned for the 2018 Indianapolis 500 with Team Penske for a one-off appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Team changes\nMichael Shank Racing competed in six races in the 2018 season with driver Jack Harvey, with a technical partnership with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. The team was renamed Meyer Shank Racing on April 6, 2018, after Sirius XM CEO Jim Meyer joined as a team co-owner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Team changes\nCarlin entered the series with two full-time Chevrolet-powered entries for the 2018 season, running ex-Chip Ganassi Racing drivers Max Chilton and Charlie Kimball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Team changes\nHarding Racing confirmed a full-time schedule with Gabby Chaves after running part-time in 2017. Brian Barnhart was named president of the team on November 29, leaving his post as president of race operations and race director of IndyCar. Following the Road America round, Barnhart confirmed rumours that they wish to expand to fielding two cars as early as the latter part of the 2018 season, specifically naming Sonoma. He further confirmed the team was in talks with several drivers including current Indy Lights drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Team changes\nLazier Partners Racing did not enter the Indianapolis 500 for the first time since 2012 due to crash damage incurred at the 2017 Indianapolis 500 by Buddy Lazier to their only car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nAfter winning the 2017 Indy Lights championship, Kyle Kaiser participated in four IndyCar events in 2018 with Juncos Racing, including the Indianapolis 500 and IndyCar Grand Prix. On January 5, 2018, Juncos announced Formula V8 3.5 driver Ren\u00e9 Binder would contest the races in St. Petersburg, Barber, Mid-Ohio, and Toronto, with an entry at Detroit being confirmed later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nAfter competing at Barber for Ed Carpenter Racing as a replacement for J. R. Hildebrand and at the Indianapolis 500 for A. J. Foyt Enterprises in 2017, Zach Veach made his full-season d\u00e9but with Andretti Autosport, replacing Takuma Sato.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nAfter competing in road and street courses only for Ed Carpenter Racing in 2017, Spencer Pigot made his full-season d\u00e9but with the team, replacing J. R. Hildebrand in the No. 21 car. Former Formula 2 driver Jordan King will drive the No. 20 on road and street courses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\n2017 Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato left Andretti Autosport after only one season with the team, and returned to Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nStefan Wilson joined Andretti Autosport to return to the Indianapolis 500 for the first time since 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nAfter spending four seasons with Chip Ganassi Racing, Tony Kanaan switched to A. J. Foyt Enterprises for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nAfter six seasons in the German Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Robert Wickens made the switch to IndyCar to drive the No. 6 car for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, replacing Mikhail Aleshin. Wickens previously replaced Aleshin in the first practice session at Road America in 2017, but did not get to compete in the race. Wickens suffered severe injuries in a crash at the 2018 ABC Supply 500 and was forced to miss the rest of the season. Due to damage incurred in the crash, the #6 car was withdrawn for the next race at Gateway. On August 29, SPM announced Carlos Mu\u00f1oz as Wickens' replacement in the #6 car at the Portland and Sonoma rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nOn November 16, 2017, A. J. Foyt Enterprises announced that Brazilian Indy Lights driver Matheus Leist would drive the No. 4 car in 2018, replacing Conor Daly. Leist became the youngest IndyCar Series rookie since Marco Andretti in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nAfter six seasons with Stewart-Haas Racing in NASCAR, Danica Patrick announced intentions to return to the Indianapolis 500 for the first time since 2011. The 2018 Indianapolis 500 was the last race of Patrick's professional career. She will run a third entry for Ed Carpenter Racing, carrying sponsorship from former long-time partner GoDaddy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nAfter spending one season with A. J. Foyt Enterprises, Carlos Mu\u00f1oz rejoined Andretti Autosport for the Indianapolis 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nOn February 6, 2018, 2017 World Series Formula V8 3.5 champion Pietro Fittipaldi was announced to drive the #19 for Dale Coyne Racing in seven races, including the 2018 Indianapolis 500. The #19 was driven by Zachary Claman DeMelo, who partook in the 2017 Indy Lights season with Carlin and the 2017 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, in the other 10 events. On May 4, Fittipaldi was injured in a crash while qualifying for the 2018 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. DeMelo took over the #19 for both Indianapolis races and Texas, while Trident Formula 2 driver and Haas F1 test driver Santino Ferrucci was signed for the two Detroit races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nOn March 1, 2018, it was confirmed that Nazareth, Pennsylvania native Sage Karam would return to race in the 102nd Indianapolis 500 for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing. This was the 3rd straight and 4th total Indianapolis 500 between them. The primary sponsor for Karam's car was WIX Filters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nOn March 6, 2018, it was announced Conor Daly would be drive in the 102nd Indianapolis 500. He raced for Thom Burns Racing with Air Force as the primary sponsor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nOn March 20, 2018, it was announced Pippa Mann would drive a 4th car for Dale Coyne Racing at the Indianapolis 500, with sponsorship from Donate Life Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nOn April 12, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing announced that J. R. Hildebrand would drive for the team in their second entry into the Indianapolis 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nOn April 13, 2018, it was announced that Jonathan Byrd's Racing, Hollinger MotorSport, and Belardi Auto Racing would work in conjunction with A. J. Foyt Enterprises to field a car for James Davison for the Indianapolis 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nOn May 10, Juncos Racing announced that Alfonso Celis Jr. would make his IndyCar debut with the team at Road America. On August 3, the team announced that Celis would also compete at Portland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280055-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 IndyCar Series, Entries, Driver changes\nOn July 10, Harding Racing announced that Conor Daly would replace Gabby Chaves for round 12 in Toronto. The team also stated that they would experiment with their driver lineup for the remainder of the season in preparation for 2019. They want to test current top three Indy Lights drivers Colton Herta, Santiago Urrutia and Patricio O'Ward, the latter having already received a seat fitting with the team. Nevertheless, Chaves is expected to return to the track in 2018 and remain under contract as the team's driver through 2019. Daly would be confirmed for the Mid-Ohio round on July 24. On September 2, it was announced that 2018 Indy Lights champion Patricio O'Ward and 2018 Indy Lights runner-up Colton Herta would make their IndyCar debuts with Harding at the final round at Sonoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280056-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack\nOn 20 January 2018, a group of four or five gunmen attacked the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle. The attack left 40 people dead including fourteen foreigners, while 14 were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280056-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack, Background\nKabul was held by the NATO-supported Afghan government, though both the Taliban and Islamic State were able to launch destructive attacks on the capital in the preceding months, including a suicide bombing less than a month prior to the Inter-Continental raid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280056-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack, Attack\nOn 20 January 2018, around 21:00 local time gunmen armed with light weapons and rocket-propelled grenades had stormed the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, opening fire and taking hostages. It is believed the gunmen targeted foreigners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280056-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack, Attack\nSome hotel guests tried to escape the gunmen by tying bed sheets together and climbing down from the upper floors of the building, which was partially set on fire. Afghan special forces were lowered by helicopters onto the hotel's roof in an attempt to neutralize the attackers. Later soldiers from the Afghan National Army with the assistance of Norwegian special forces from the Marinejegerkommandoen responded to the attack and exchanged gunfire with gunmen in the hotel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280056-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack, Attack\nAfghan officials said the attack was over by the morning hours of 21 January, with 4 attackers and at least 18 others killed, including 14 foreigners. More than 160 people had been rescued from the hotel, while a number of others remained missing. These included 16 employees of Afghan airline Kam Air, which announced that 11 out of the 42 people working for the company who had been present were killed during the attack, while 15 others survived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280056-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack, Attack, Aftermath\nAt least two senior Afghan officials said that Afghanistan's intelligence agency had reports that the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, an arm of the Taliban, was responsible for the attack. The Taliban later claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement, warning Afghan civilians to avoid locations frequented by foreigners. Weeks prior to the attack, U.S. President Donald Trump suspended military aid to Pakistan accusing it of providing a safe haven for terrorist groups who attack in Afghanistan. On January 22, Trump pressured Pakistan to expel the Taliban and Haqqani leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280056-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack, Attack, Aftermath\nThe Afghan interior ministry said a private firm had taken responsibility for securing the Intercontinental Hotel around three weeks before. The ministry said it was investigating how the attackers had managed to enter the building. 34 provincial officials were gathered at the hotel to participate in a conference organized by the Telecommunication Ministry. An official at that ministry said that more than 100 IT managers and engineers were on site when the attack took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280056-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack, Attack, Aftermath\nMembers of the Afghan parliament criticized the fact that the hotel's security was in the hands of a private company. Parliament plans to hold a special session regarding this issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280057-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Provincial Championship\nThe 2018 Inter-Provincial Championship was the sixth edition of the Inter-Provincial Championship, a first-class cricket competition played in Ireland. It was held from 1 May to 6 September 2018. It was the second edition of the competition to be played with first-class status. Leinster Lightning were the defending champions. The venue for the opening fixture, originally scheduled to take place at Oak Hill Cricket Club Ground, was moved to Pembroke Cricket Club, due to poor weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280057-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Provincial Championship\nSeventeen of Ireland's international players took part in the opening fixture of the tournament, ahead of Ireland's first Test match, which was played against Pakistan on 11 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280057-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Provincial Championship\nNorth West Warriors won the tournament, following the conclusion of the fifth match of the competition. They beat Northern Knights by 140 runs to give them an unassailable lead. It was the first time that a side other than Leinster Lightning had won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280058-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Provincial Cup\nThe 2018 Inter-Provincial Cup was the sixth edition of the Inter-Provincial Cup, a List A cricket competition played in Ireland. It was held from 28 May to 9 September 2018. It is the second edition of the competition to be played with List A status. Leinster Lightning were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280058-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Provincial Cup\nIn the second match of the tournament, between Leinster Lightning and Northern Knights, Simi Singh and George Dockrell of Leinster Lightning set a new record partnership in List A cricket for the seventh wicket, with 215 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280058-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Provincial Cup\nLeinster Lightning retained their title, after beating North West Warriors by 58 runs in the final match of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280058-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Provincial Cup, Fixtures\nAs with the first-class competition, the Inter-Provincial Championship, the competition format is a home and away round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280059-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Provincial Trophy\nThe 2018 Inter-Provincial Trophy was the sixth edition of the Inter-Provincial Trophy, a Twenty20 cricket competition that was played in Ireland. It was held from 18 May to 8 July 2018. It was the second edition of the competition to be played with full Twenty20 status. Leinster Lightning were the defending champions. They won the tournament, with five wins from their six matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280059-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Inter-Provincial Trophy, Fixtures\nAs with the Inter-Provincial Championship, and Inter-Provincial Cup, the Inter-Provincial Trophy, Ireland's national T20 provincial competition, operated as a home and away round robin. Unlike the previous two competitions, however, a fourth provincial team, Munster Reds took part, meaning each team had six fixtures in total. The first six fixtures took place across three matchdays, while the second six fixtures were held together in a single venue across three days, to form an Inter-Provincial T20 Festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280060-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Intercontinental Cup (India)\nThe 2018 Intercontinental Cup (known as the 2018 Hero Intercontinental Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a 4-team association football tournament held at the Mumbai Football Arena in the Indian city of Mumbai between 1 and 10 June 2018. The tournament was organized by the AIFF as part of the senior men's team's preparation for 2019 AFC Asian Cup. India won the tournament by defeating Kenya 2\u20130 in the final on 10 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280060-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Intercontinental Cup (India), Participating nations\nInitially, South Africa was announced to participate in the tournament but Kenya later replaced them when South Africa expressed its inability to participate. The other two nations participated in the tournament were Chinese Taipei from AFC region and New Zealand from the OFC region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280060-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Intercontinental Cup (India), Crowd attendance\nAfter a poor attendance of 2,569 for the first match of the tournament, Indian captain Sunil Chhetri uploaded a video on his Twitter and Instagram accounts pleading for Indians to attend Indian football matches. Chhetri's plea was endorsed by other sports people, including Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, and tennis player Sania Mirza. People responded to the plea by booking tickets for India's upcoming game against Kenya, and the game was sold out before the match day. The match was Chhetri's 100th cap for India in which he scored a brace, leading India to win 3\u20130. The tweet was the most retweeted tweet in 2018, per Twitter India and was awarded The Golden Tweet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280060-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Intercontinental Cup (India), Broadcasting rights\nStar Sports did broadcast for the 2018 Intercontinental Cup (India) on Star Sports HD2 & Star Sports 2. It was also streamed live on Hotstar and Jio TV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280061-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge\nThe 2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge was the third season of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. The season featured four rounds, starting with the Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour on 4 February and concluding with the California 8 Hours on 28 October. Markus Winkelhock was the defending Drivers' champion and Audi was the defending Manufacturers' champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280061-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge\nThe series reverted to rules of the inaugural season, where each manufacturer was permitted to nominate up to four cars in each event. In 2017 all cars and drivers scored points towards the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280061-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge, Calendar\nAt the annual press conference during the 2017 24 Hours of Spa on 28 July, the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation announced the 2018 calendar. Suzuka was added to the schedule, replacing the Sepang 12 Hours, which was cancelled the season before. On 25 November 2017, it was announced the race at Laguna Seca was moved a week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280061-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge, Race results\nNOTE: California 8 Hours results announced 27 July 2019 following review when the original winner, the No. 42 Strakka Racing team, was disqualified when a driver was disqualified for doping violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280061-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge, Championship standings\nChampionship points were awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points, with the exception of Bathurst where a car simply had to cross the finish line to be classified. Individual drivers were required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race. A manufacturer only received points for its two highest placed cars in each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280061-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge, Championship standings, Drivers' championships\nThe results indicate the classification relative to other drivers in the series, not the classification in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280061-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge, Championship standings, Manufacturers' championship\nOnly the top two cars for a manufacturer are eligible for points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 87], "content_span": [88, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280062-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Intercounty Baseball League season\n2018 Intercounty Baseball League season was the 100th season of the Intercounty Baseball League. It started on May 6 and ended on September 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280062-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Intercounty Baseball League season, Teams\nThe teams with # will celebrate the 100th anniversary since the League formed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280063-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Intermediate League World Series\nThe 2018 Intermediate League World Series took place from July 29\u2013August 5 in Livermore, California. Seoul, South Korea defeated host Livermore, California in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280063-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Intermediate League World Series\nThe debut of the Australia Region raised the total number of teams to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280064-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 International Challenger Zhangjiagang\nThe 2018 International Challenger Zhangjiagang was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Zhangjiagang, China between 3 and 9 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280064-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 International Challenger Zhangjiagang, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 86], "content_span": [87, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280065-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 International Challenger Zhangjiagang \u2013 Doubles\nGao Xin and Zhang Zhizhen were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Gong Maoxin and Zhang Ze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280065-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 International Challenger Zhangjiagang \u2013 Doubles\nGong and Zhang Ze won the title after Bradley Mousley and Akira Santillan withdrew before the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280066-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 International Challenger Zhangjiagang \u2013 Singles\nJason Jung was the defending champion but lost in the final to Yasutaka Uchiyama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280066-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 International Challenger Zhangjiagang \u2013 Singles\nUchiyama won the title after defeating Jung 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280067-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 International Champions Cup\nThe 2018 International Champions Cup (or ICC) was the sixth edition of a tournament comprising a series of friendly association football matches. It began on July 20 and ended on August 11. The tournament was won by English club Tottenham Hotspur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280067-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 International Champions Cup, Teams\nA total of 18 teams participated in the tournament. The participants were announced in four waves on April 10, 11, 12, and 17, 2018. On June 18, Lyon replaced Sevilla in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280067-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 International Champions Cup, Venues\nOriginally 22 venues for the International Champions Cup were announced on April 13 and 17, 2018, but they were later increased to 23. Of these, 15 were in the United States, 7 were in Europe, and 1 was in Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280067-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 International Champions Cup, Venues\nAfter Sevilla had to pull out (replaced by Lyon), matches due to take place in Warsaw and Z\u00fcrich were canceled and replaced by matches in London and Faro-Loul\u00e9. The two matches Chelsea played were relocated from Gothenburg and Solna to Nice and Dublin respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280067-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 International Champions Cup, Matches\nThe match schedule was announced on April 17, 2018, and was updated on June 18 after Lyon replaced Sevilla. Each team played three matches, for a total of 27 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280067-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 International Champions Cup, Table\nThe 18 teams were ranked based on results from their three matches, with the best-ranked team being crowned champions. In addition to three points for a win and none for a loss, a penalty shoot-out win was worth two points, while a loss on penalties earned one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280068-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 International Championship\nThe 2018 International Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament, taking place from 28 October to 4 November 2018 in Daqing, China. It was the seventh ranking event of the 2018/2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280068-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 International Championship\nQualifying for the tournament took place between 9\u201312 October 2018 in Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280068-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 International Championship\nDefending champion Mark Selby lost to Neil Robertson 4\u20136 in the quarter-final, bringing an end to his 2-year reign and an 18 match unbeaten record in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280068-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 International Championship\nMark Allen won the tournament with record 14 century breaks, beating Robertson 10\u20135 in the final. It was Allen's fourth ranking title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280068-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 International Championship, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280068-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 International Championship, Qualifying\nMatches were played between 9 and 12 October 2018 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. Matches involving Mark Selby, Noppon Saengkham, Liang Wenbo, Ding Junhui, Ben Woollaston, Liam Highfield, Gary Wilson and Mark Williams, were played in China. All matches best of 11 frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280069-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 International Court of Justice judges election\nThe 2018 International Court of Justice election was held on 22 June 2018 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly and the Security Council concurrently elected Yuji Iwasawa (Japan) to the International Court of Justice until 5 February 2021. He served the remainder of the nine-year term of office that had been held by Hisashi Owada (Japan), whose resignation from the Court took effect on 7 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280069-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 International Court of Justice judges election\nJudge Iwasawa was elected in the General Assembly by a vote of 184 in favor to zero against, with five abstentions, and unanimously by the Security Council. Judge Owada resigned because of his old age and the fact that his daughter Masako, then Crown Princess of Japan, was set to become the Empress of Japan the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280069-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 International Court of Justice judges election, Background\nBy a letter dated 6 February 2018, Judge Owada informed the President of the International Court of Justice, pursuant to Article 13, paragraph 4, of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, of his resignation as a member of the ICJ, effective 7 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280069-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 International Court of Justice judges election, Background\nAccording to Article 14 of the Statute of the ICJ, the vacancy shall be filled by the same method as that laid down for the regular election, and the Secretary-General shall, within one month of the occurrence of the vacancy, issue the invitations for nominations provided for in Article 5 of the Statute. According to Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Statute, the invitations for nominations shall be made at least three months before the date of the election, which, pursuant to Article 14, shall be fixed by the Security Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280069-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 International Court of Justice judges election, Background\nBy a note dated 19 February 2018, the Secretary-General of the United Nations informed the Security Council of the resignation of Judge Owada and drew its attention to Article 14 of the Statute of the Court with regard to the fixing of the date of the election. Pursuant to that Article, the Security Council decided, by its resolution 2403 (2018), adopted on 28 February 2018, that the election to fill the vacancy would take place on 22 June 2018 at a meeting of the Security Council and at a meeting of the General Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280069-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 International Court of Justice judges election, Background\nPursuant to Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Statute of the ICJ, the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel, in communications dated 23 February 2018 and on behalf of the Secretary-General, invited the national groups of States parties to the Statute to undertake the nomination of persons in a position to accept the duties of a member of the Court. The Legal Counsel further requested that nominations be received no later than 16 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280069-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 International Court of Justice judges election, Background\nThe resigning Judge Owada has been a member of the Court since 6 February 2003. Judge Owada was re-elected as from 6 February 2012 and served as President of the Court from 6 February 2009 to 5 February 2012. His term of office would have expired on 5 February 2021. Article 15 of the Statute of the Court provides that a member of the Court elected to replace a member whose term of office has not expired shall hold office for the remainder of the predecessor's term. Thus, the newly elected member would serve until 5 February 2021. The term of the newly elected judge will commence on the date on which the individual is elected by the General Assembly and the Security Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280069-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 International Court of Justice judges election, Candidates\nBy a communication dated 23 February 2018 addressed by the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel on behalf of the Secretary-General to the national groups of the States parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice, attention was drawn to the vacancy in the Court caused by the resignation of Judge Owada, effective 7 June 2018. In accordance with Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Statute of the ICJ, national groups were thus invited to undertake the nomination of persons in a position to accept the duties of a member of the Court and to submit such nominations no later than 16 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280069-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 International Court of Justice judges election, Candidates\nAfter the established deadline for nominating candidates, 16 May 2018, a national group submitted a nomination to the UN Secretariat. There was only one nominated candidate for the 2018 election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280069-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 International Court of Justice judges election, Election\nUnder the terms of the Statute of the ICJ, a candidate obtaining an absolute majority of votes in the General Assembly and the Security Council is considered elected. In the General Assembly, all 193 Member States in the General Assembly are electors. Accordingly, for the election, 97 votes constitute an absolute majority in the Assembly. In the Security Council, eight votes constitute an absolute majority and no distinction is made between its permanent and non\u2011permanent members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280070-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 International Crown\nThe 2018 International Crown was a women's golf team event organized by the LPGA, played 4\u20137 Oct at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea in Incheon, South Korea. This was the third International Crown, a biennial match play event contested between teams of four players representing eight countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280070-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 International Crown\nDue to the anticipated arrival of Typhoon Kong-rey, the tournament schedule was adjusted; the second round tee times were moved earlier on Friday and the third round, originally scheduled for Saturday, was started on Friday afternoon. The final round was to be played Saturday, 6 October, instead of Sunday. However, typhoon rains arrived earlier than expected so that no matches were played Saturday; the third round was finished Sunday, followed by the singles matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280070-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 International Crown, Format\nThe first three rounds featured round-robin pool play matches at fourball. Each match was worth two points for a win and one point for a halve. Following the completion of pool play, the top two teams in each pool and one wild card team advanced to singles play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280070-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 International Crown, Format\nThese five remaining teams were re-seeded based on points earned in pool play. The players then competed in singles play on Sunday, with the four members of one team each paired up with a member of a different one of the other four teams. The total points earned in pool and singles play determined the team champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280070-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 International Crown, Teams\nOn 3 June 2018, eight teams qualified to participate in this event, based on the combined world rankings of the top four players from each country: South Korea, United States, Japan, England, Australia, Thailand, Sweden, and Chinese Taipei. The field was the same as 2016 with the exception of Sweden replacing China. The team members were finalized on 2 July 2018, and the teams were divided into two pools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280070-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 International Crown, Results, Round three pool play\nAustralia, Japan, and Thailand advanced to the wildcard playoff by finishing third in their pools. Thailand advanced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280071-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 International Darts Open\nThe 2018 International Darts Open was the twelfth of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at the SACHSENarena, Riesa, Germany from 14\u201316 September 2018. It featured a field of 48 players and \u00a3135,000 in prize money, with \u00a325,000 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280071-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 International Darts Open\nPeter Wright was the defending champion after defeating Kim Huybrechts 6\u20135 in last year's final, but he was defeated 6\u20134 by Ryan Searle in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280071-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 International Darts Open\nGerwyn Price won his first European Tour title by beating Simon Whitlock 8\u20133 in the final. This tournament was also the first in European Tour history in which none of the top 4 seeds reached the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280071-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 International Darts Open, Prize money\nPrize money will count towards the PDC Order of Merit, the ProTour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit, with one exception: should a seeded player lose in the second round (last 32), their prize money will not count towards any Orders of Merit, although they still receive the full prize money payment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280071-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 International Darts Open, Qualification and format\nThe top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 30 August will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280071-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 International Darts Open, Qualification and format\nThe remaining 32 places will go to players from five qualifying events \u2013 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Barnsley on 3 September), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 13 September), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 13 September), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 10 August) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 26 August).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280072-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 International Friendship Championship\nThe 2018 International Friendship Championship was a friendly football tournament for the national teams of Iraq, Syria and Qatar. It took place during the March 2018 window of the FIFA International Match Calendar, and began less than a week after FIFA lifted the ban on competitive games being played inside Iraq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280072-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 International Friendship Championship\nThe tournament was originally scheduled to take place in Karbala but was relocated to Basra. Qatar won the title by beating hosts Iraq and drawing with runners-up Syria. The last game of the tournament saw Noor Sabri make his 100th and last appearance for Iraq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280073-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 International GT Open\nThe 2018 International GT Open was the thirteenth season of the International GT Open, the grand tourer-style sports car racing founded in 2006 by the Spanish GT Sport Organizaci\u00f3n. It began on 14 April at Estoril and finished on 21 October, at Barcelona after seven double-header meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280073-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 International GT Open, Race calendar\nA seven-round provisional calendar was revealed on 30 September 2017. The schedule will feature the same seven European circuits, with the order of Le Castellet and Spa swapped. Bold indicates overall winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280074-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 International Rhodes Grand Prix\nThe 2018 International Rhodes Grand Prix was the 2nd edition of the International Rhodes Grand Prix road cycling one day race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280074-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 International Rhodes Grand Prix, Teams\nSixteen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included one UCI Professional Continental team, fourteen UCI Continental teams and one national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280075-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 International Tour of Rhodes\nThe 2018 International Tour of Rhodes was the 12th edition of the International Tour of Rhodes road cycling stage race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 2.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280075-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 International Tour of Rhodes, Teams\nSeventeen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included one UCI Professional Continental team, fifteen UCI Continental teams and one national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280075-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 International Tour of Rhodes, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Istrian Spring Trophy, three different jerseys were awarded for the main classifications. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Istrian Spring Trophy, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280075-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 International Tour of Rhodes, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a red jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 3 in each intermediate sprint. For winning an intermediate sprint, a rider earned 5 points. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a green jersey. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280076-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 International Tournament of Spain\nThe 2018 International Tournament of Spain was the 43rd edition of the International Tournament of Spain, 17th edition with the name of Memorial Domingo Barcenas, held in Pontevedra and Vigo, Spain between 5\u20137 January as a friendly handball tournament organised by the Royal Spanish Handball Federation as a preparation of the host nation to the 2018 European Men's Handball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280077-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux F\u00e9minins de la Vienne\nThe 2018 Internationaux F\u00e9minins de la Vienne was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the twenty-second edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Poitiers, France, on 22\u201328 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280077-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux F\u00e9minins de la Vienne, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 85], "content_span": [86, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280078-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux F\u00e9minins de la Vienne \u2013 Doubles\nBelinda Bencic and Yanina Wickmayer were the defending champions, but both chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280078-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux F\u00e9minins de la Vienne \u2013 Doubles\nAnna Blinkova and Alexandra Panova won the title, defeating Viktorija Golubic and Arantxa Rus in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280079-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux F\u00e9minins de la Vienne \u2013 Singles\nMihaela Buz\u0103rnescu was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280079-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux F\u00e9minins de la Vienne \u2013 Singles\nViktorija Golubic won the title, defeating Natalia Vikhlyantseva in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20131, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280080-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de France\nThe 2018 Internationaux de France was the sixth event of six in the 2018\u201319 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Patinoire Polesud in Grenoble on November 23\u201325. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters also earned points toward qualifying for the 2018\u201319 Grand Prix Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280080-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de France, Entries\nThe ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280080-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de France, Records\nThe following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280081-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Strasbourg\nThe 2018 Internationaux de Strasbourg was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 32nd edition of the tournament and part of the International-level tournament category of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Tennis Club de Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France, between 21 and 26 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280081-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Strasbourg, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280081-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Strasbourg, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280081-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Strasbourg, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280082-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Strasbourg \u2013 Doubles\nAshleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua were the defending champions, but Dellacqua retired from professional tennis in February 2018, and Barty decided not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280082-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Strasbourg \u2013 Doubles\nMihaela Buz\u0103rnescu and Raluca Olaru won the title, defeating Nadiia Kichenok and Anastasia Rodionova in the final, 7\u20135, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280083-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Strasbourg \u2013 Singles\nSamantha Stosur was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Dominika Cibulkov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280083-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Strasbourg \u2013 Singles\nAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova won the title, defeating Cibulkov\u00e1 in the final, 6\u20137(5\u20137), 7\u20136(7\u20133), 7\u20136(8\u20136). Pavlyuchenkova won the title after saving two match points Cibulkov\u00e1 had in the final against her.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280084-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois\nThe 2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Blois, France between 18 and 24 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280084-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280084-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280085-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois \u2013 Doubles\nSander Gill\u00e9 and Joran Vliegen were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280085-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois \u2013 Doubles\nFabr\u00edcio Neis and David Vega Hern\u00e1ndez won the title after defeating Hsieh Cheng-peng and Rameez Junaid 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280086-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois \u2013 Singles\nDamir D\u017eumhur was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280086-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois \u2013 Singles\nScott Griekspoor won the title after defeating F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280087-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Vend\u00e9e\nThe 2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Vend\u00e9e was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Mouilleron-le-Captif, France between 5 and 11 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280087-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Vend\u00e9e, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280087-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Vend\u00e9e, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280088-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Vend\u00e9e \u2013 Doubles\nAndre Begemann and Jonathan Eysseric were the defending champions but only Begemann chose to defend his title, partnering Rameez Junaid. Begemann lost in the quarterfinals to Romain Arneodo and Quentin Halys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280088-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Vend\u00e9e \u2013 Doubles\nSander Gill\u00e9 and Joran Vliegen won the title after defeating Arneodo and Halys 6\u20133, 4\u20136, [10\u20132] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280089-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internationaux de Tennis de Vend\u00e9e \u2013 Singles\nElias Ymer was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Yannick Maden 6\u20133, 7\u20136(7\u20135) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280090-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali Femminili di Brescia\nThe 2018 Internazionali Femminili di Brescia was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Brescia, Italy, on 4\u201310 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280090-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali Femminili di Brescia, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280091-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali Femminili di Brescia \u2013 Doubles\nJulia Glushko and Priscilla Hon were the defending champions, however Glushko chose to participate in Hua Hin, while Hon chose to participate in Surbiton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280091-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali Femminili di Brescia \u2013 Doubles\nCristina Dinu and Ganna Poznikhirenko won the title, defeating Alexandra Panova and Anastasia Pribylova in the final, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(8\u20136).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280092-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali Femminili di Brescia \u2013 Singles\nPolona Hercog was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280092-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali Femminili di Brescia \u2013 Singles\nKaia Kanepi won the title, defeating Martina Trevisan in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280093-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte\nThe 2018 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Andria, Italy between November 19 and November 25, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280093-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280093-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280094-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte \u2013 Doubles\nLorenzo Sonego and Andrea Vavassori were the defending champions but only Vavassori chose to defend his title, partnering Julian Ocleppo. Vavassori lost in the first round to Laurynas Grigelis and Alessandro Motti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280094-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte \u2013 Doubles\nKarol Drzewiecki and Szymon Walk\u00f3w won the title after defeating Marc-Andrea H\u00fcsler and David Pel 7\u20136(12\u201310), 2\u20136, [11\u20139] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280095-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte \u2013 Singles\nUladzimir Ignatik was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Ugo Humbert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280095-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte \u2013 Singles\nHumbert won the title after defeating Filippo Baldi 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20133) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280096-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 dell'Aquila\nThe 2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 dell'Aquila was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 12th edition of the men's tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. The event took place in L'Aquila, Italy between 18 \u2013 24 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280096-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 dell'Aquila, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 91], "content_span": [92, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280096-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 dell'Aquila, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 91], "content_span": [92, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280097-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 dell'Aquila \u2013 Doubles\nSteven de Waard and Ben McLachlan were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280097-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 dell'Aquila \u2013 Doubles\nFilippo Baldi and Andrea Pellegrino won the title after defeating Pedro Mart\u00ednez and Mark Vervoort 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280098-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 dell'Aquila \u2013 Singles\nFederico Delbonis was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280098-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 dell'Aquila \u2013 Singles\nFacundo Bagnis won the title after defeating Paolo Lorenzi 2\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280099-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Perugia\nThe 2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Perugia was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Perugia, Italy between 10 and 15 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280099-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Perugia, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280100-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Perugia \u2013 Doubles\nSalvatore Caruso and Jonathan Eysseric were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280100-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Perugia \u2013 Doubles\nDaniele Bracciali and Matteo Donati won the title after defeating Tomislav Brki\u0107 and Ante Pavi\u0107 6\u20133, 3\u20136, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280101-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Perugia \u2013 Singles\nLaslo \u0110ere was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280101-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Perugia \u2013 Singles\nUlises Blanch won the title after defeating Gianluigi Quinzi 7\u20135, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280102-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Vicenza\nThe 2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Vicenza was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Vicenza, Italy between 28 May and 3 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280102-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Vicenza, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280102-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Vicenza, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280103-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Vicenza \u2013 Doubles\nGero Kretschmer and Alexander Satschko were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280103-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Vicenza \u2013 Doubles\nAriel Behar and Enrique L\u00f3pez P\u00e9rez won the title after defeating Facundo Bagnis and Fabr\u00edcio Neis 6\u20132, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280104-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Vicenza \u2013 Singles\nM\u00e1rton Fucsovics was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280104-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Citt\u00e0 di Vicenza \u2013 Singles\nHugo Dellien won the title after defeating Matteo Donati 6\u20134, 5\u20137, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280105-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Country 2001 Team\nThe 2018 Internazionali di Tennis Country 2001 Team was a professional tennis tournament played on clay court. It was the 1st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Padua, Italy between 23 and 29 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280105-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Country 2001 Team, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 91], "content_span": [92, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280105-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Country 2001 Team, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 91], "content_span": [92, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280105-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Country 2001 Team, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 91], "content_span": [92, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280106-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Country 2001 Team \u2013 Doubles\nTomislav Brki\u0107 and Ante Pavi\u0107 won the title after defeating Walter Trusendi and Andrea Vavassori 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20134) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280107-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis Country 2001 Team \u2013 Singles\nSergio Guti\u00e9rrez Ferrol won the title after defeating Federico Gaio 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280108-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis d'Abruzzo\nThe 2018 Internazionali di Tennis d'Abruzzo was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Francavilla al Mare, Italy between 23 and 29 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280108-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis d'Abruzzo, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280109-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis d'Abruzzo \u2013 Doubles\nJulian Knowle and Igor Zelenay were the defending champions but only Zelenay chose to defend his title, partnering Denys Molchanov. Zelenay lost in the semifinals to Ariel Behar and M\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280109-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis d'Abruzzo \u2013 Doubles\nJulian Ocleppo and Andrea Vavassori won the title after defeating Behar and Gonz\u00e1lez 7\u20136(7\u20135), 7\u20136(7\u20133) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280110-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis d'Abruzzo \u2013 Singles\nPedro Sousa was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280110-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis d'Abruzzo \u2013 Singles\nGianluigi Quinzi won the title after defeating Casper Ruud 6\u20134, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280111-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia\nThe 2018 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Cordenons, Italy between 13 and 19 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280111-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 99], "content_span": [100, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280111-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 99], "content_span": [100, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280112-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia \u2013 Doubles\nRoman Jebav\u00fd and Zden\u011bk Kol\u00e1\u0159 were the defending champions but only Kol\u00e1\u0159 chose to defend his title, partnering Aldin \u0160etki\u0107. Kol\u00e1\u0159 lost in the first round to Nikola \u010ca\u010di\u0107 and Luca Margaroli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280112-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia \u2013 Doubles\nDenys Molchanov and Igor Zelenay won the title after defeating Andrej Martin and Daniel Mu\u00f1oz de la Nava 3\u20136, 6\u20133, [11\u20139] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280113-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia \u2013 Singles\nElias Ymer was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280113-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia \u2013 Singles\nPaolo Lorenzi won the title after defeating M\u00e1t\u00e9 Valkusz 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280114-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Intrust Super Premiership NSW\nThe 2018 Intrust Super Premiership NSW season will be the tenth season of the New South Wales Cup, the top rugby league competition administered by the New South Wales Rugby League. The competition acts as a second-tier league to the ten New South Wales-based National Rugby League clubs, as well the Canberra Raiders and New Zealand Warriors. The winner of the Premiership will compete against the winner of the 2018 Queensland Cup in the 2018 NRL State Championship. The Penrith Panthers are the defending champions, following their 20-12 victory against the Wyong Roos in the 2017 grand final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280114-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Intrust Super Premiership NSW, Teams\nIn 2018, 12 clubs will field teams in the Intrust Super Premiership. Illawarra RLFC will be renamed to the St George Illawarra Dragons to bring the club in line with the NRL\u2019s \u2018whole of game\u2019 strategy, that will also see top-grade squads increased from 25 players to 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280114-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Intrust Super Premiership NSW, Teams\nAn under-20s competition will be run in parallel to the New South Wales Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280114-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Intrust Super Premiership NSW, Television Broadcast\nFox League will continue to broadcast a game per round, however Channel 9 will also be broadcasting a game per round starting with the 2018 for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280115-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Invictus Games\nThe 2018 Invictus Games was an adaptive mulit-sport event for wounded, injured and ill veteran and active defence personnel, held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The fourth Invictus Games, an event founded in 2014 by the Duke of Sussex Prince Harry, included 13 sports (11 medal sports). It was the first Invictus Games held in the southern hemisphere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280115-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Invictus Games, Development and preparation, Venues\nThe events were staged on and around Sydney Harbour and at Sydney Olympic Park, in venues used for the 2000 Summer Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280115-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Invictus Games, Development and preparation, Funding\nJaguar Land Rover was the Presenting Partner for 2018 Sydney Invictus Games, as it had been for the Invictus Games since its inception in London in 2014. Premier Partners were Fisher House Foundation, Medibank, Sage Group, UNSW Canberra and Westpac. Aon, Boeing, Defence Housing Australia, Fidelity, Hyatt Regency Sydney, icare, ISPS Handa, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Minter Ellison, Raytheon, Royal Australian Mint, SAAB Australia, Ticketek, Unisys and Workwear Group were Official Supporters. The event Official Suppliers were Amazon, Accor, CSM Live, George P. Johnson, Gold Medal Systems, Goodman, Great Big Events, Harvey Norman, Isentia, Norwest, Ottobock, Pages and Technical Direction Company. The Packer Family Foundation was a Philanthropic Supporter. Founding Partners were the Australian Defence Force, Deloitte, Legacy NSW, Clubs NSW and RSL NSW. The Australian government donated $10,000 to the Games to mark the occasion of the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 1042]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280115-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Invictus Games, The Games, Participating nations\nAll 17 countries from the 2017 Games were invited to attend, with Poland joining for the first time, for a total of 18 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280115-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Invictus Games, The Games, Participating nations\nAnother team titled \"Unconquered\" also participated in certain events consisting of competitors from multiple nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280115-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Invictus Games, The Games, Sports\nThere were 12 adaptive sports contested at the Games (with golf and wheelchair tennis as non-medal sports) as well as the Jaguar Land Rover Driving Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280115-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Invictus Games, The Games, Sports, Wheelchair rugby\nWheelchair rugby was held at the Quaycentre over a two-day period from 24 to 25 October. Men and women competed in mixed teams. Competitors from 6 nations competed in wheelchair rugby at the 2018 Invictus Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280115-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Invictus Games, The Games, Sports, Sitting volleyball\nSitting volleyball was held at the Quaycentre over a two-day period from 22 to 23 October. One event took place, which was jointly staged at the Genea Netball Centre and Quaycentre. Teams from 12 nations competed in this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280115-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Invictus Games, Medal table\nThere is no competitive medal tally at the Invictus Games. Medals are awarded, but Invictus Games does not endorse or maintain an official scoreboard of gold, silver and bronze medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280115-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Invictus Games, Medal table\nCompetitors, not athletes, participate in the event that supports rehabilitation and recovery for wounded, injured and ill defence personnel and veterans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280115-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Invictus Games, Media and broadcast\nABC was the broadcast partner for the fourth Invictus Games with extensive broadcasting relating to the Invictus Games broadcast across the network on free-to-air, video on demand (iVIEW), YouTube live streaming, radio, podcasts and online. APN Outdoor was the official outdoor media partner, and Facebook the social media partner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280116-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ionian Sea earthquake\nA strong earthquake measuring magnitude Mw\u202f6.8 occurred in the Ionian Sea near the coasts of Greece during the night between 25 and 26 October 2018 at 22:54:51 UTC (01:54:51 in Greece). Sea level changes were predicted, and a tsunami advisory was issued. Reports of sea level change of up to 20 centimeters were reported in Greece and Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280116-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ionian Sea earthquake\nThe epicenter was located about 133\u00a0km from Patras. The earthquake occurred 14\u00a0km below the surface. Power outages were reported on the island of Zakynthos, and a 15th century monastery was also damaged on the islands of Strofades. The port of Zakynthos also sustained major damage, and a state of emergency was declared in the municipality. Services around Zakynthos were affected, and schools were closed on October 26. Tax relief was also extended into January in order to support the local tourism industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280116-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ionian Sea earthquake\nOther structures were damaged, but despite the magnitude of the event, there were no reported serious injuries or casualties. About 120 homes were left uninhabitable, and the town laterally shifted 5 centimeters as a result of the earthquake. A strict building code was cited as a possible reason for the limited amount of damage, as Zakynthos suffered major damage from a 1953 earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280116-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ionian Sea earthquake\nThe event was felt in eight countries, including in the Balkans, Italy, Malta as well as coasts of Africa and Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280116-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ionian Sea earthquake\nThe main shock was followed by multiple aftershocks in the following days, including undersea aftershocks of magnitude 4.4 and 5 over a week after the initial earthquake. The largest reported aftershock was of magnitude 5.6 the day of the initial earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280116-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ionian Sea earthquake, Further reading\nThis article about an earthquake in Europe is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280116-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ionian Sea earthquake, Further reading\nThis Greece-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280117-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Barnstormers season\nThe 2018 Iowa Barnstormers season was the team's eighteenth season as a professional indoor football franchise and fourth in the Indoor Football League (IFL). They were one of six teams that competed in the IFL for the 2018 season. The Barnstormers were members of the United Conference in previous seasons, but due to the loss of several teams in the offseason, there was no conference alignment for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280117-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Barnstormers season\nLed by second-year head coach Dixie Wooten, the Barnstormers played their home games at the Wells Fargo Arena in the Des Moines, Iowa. On July 7, 2018, the Barnstormers won the United Bowl, the first championship in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280118-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Corn 300\nThe 2018 Iowa Corn 300 was an IndyCar Series event held at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa on July 8, 2018. The event served as the 11th round of the 2018 IndyCar Series season. Will Power took his 52nd pole while James Hinchcliffe claimed victory of the 300-lap race, which ended under caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280118-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Corn 300, Results, Race\nNotes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hawkeyes played their home games at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa and competed in the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They were led by Kirk Ferentz in his 20th season as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nIowa began the year with six wins in their first seven games, with their sole loss during that span coming in their conference opener against Wisconsin. The Hawkeyes rose to 18th in the AP Poll, but lost three consecutive games to knock them from the polls. They ended the regular season with two more wins to finish tied for second in the West Division with a conference record of 5\u20134. They were invited to the 2019 Outback Bowl, where they defeated Mississippi State. Iowa finished with a record of 9\u20134 and were ranked 25th in the final AP Poll, their first ranked finish and highest win total since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nQuarterback Nate Stanley led the team in passing with 2,852 yards and 26 touchdowns, good for second in the Big Ten Conference in the latter category. The Hawkeyes featured two standout tight ends, with Noah Fant and T. J. Hockenson both earning first-team all-conference honors. Hockenson was awarded the John Mackey Award as the nation's top tight end. Iowa became the first school to have two tight ends chosen in the first round of an NFL Draft when Hockenson and Fant both were both selected in the first 20 picks of the 2019 NFL Draft. Defensive end A. J. Epenesa led the Big Ten in both sacks and forced fumbles. He was joined on the all-conference first-team by safety Amani Hooker, who was named the Big Ten's Defensive Back of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Previous season\nThe Hawkeyes finished the 2017 season 8\u20135, 4\u20135 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for third place in the West Division. They received an invitation to the Pinstripe Bowl where they defeated Boston College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Northern Illinois\nAfter a slow start, the Hawkeyes scored touchdowns on three straight possessions en route to a 30-point second half. The win was the 144th for head coach Kirk Ferentz, making him the all-time winningest coach in Iowa football history. After an opening drive 3 and out for the Hawkeyes, NIU blocked the punt and had the ball at the Iowa 20. However, a missed field goal swung momentum back to the home team. The only first half points came on a 33-yard field goal from Hawkeye kicker Miguel Recinos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Northern Illinois\nAfter a slow 3rd quarter, Heisman hopeful Nate Stanley threw his first touchdown of the year, a 1-yard pitch-and-catch to tight end Noah Fant. On the ensuing drive, running back Ivory Kelly-Martin barreled in on a 3rd and goal play to make it 17\u20130 going into the 4th quarter. After another short field, Toren Young found pay dirt on a 6-yard effort, and it was 24\u20130 Iowa. After a great punt by Colton Rastetter, NIU got the ball inside their own 1 yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Northern Illinois\non 2nd down, the Hawkeyes forced a safety, and after getting the ball back off the safety punt, backup quarterback Peyton Mansell got his first career touchdown on a quarterback sneak. After Iowa put their 2nd team defense in, the Huskies marched down the field in an impressive 11 play, 75 yard drive to put some late points on the scoreboard. Iowa shook off the slow 1st half and routed NIU 33\u20137 inside of Kinnick Stadium during the annual Gold Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nNeither offense could get going in this in-state rivalry contest. Iowa was the only team to find the endzone and with only a few minutes left in the fourth quarter. An A. J. Epenesa strip-sack sealed this low-scoring affair to keep the Cy-Hawk trophy in Iowa City for a fourth straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Northern Iowa\nThe Panthers were able to play with the Hawkeyes for a while but Iowa's depth proved to be ultimately overwhelming for FCS opponent Northern Iowa. Iowa ended the game with nearly 550 yards of total offense and the final score wasn't indicative of how one-sided this match-up was as the Hawkeyes played their second string for most of the fourth quarter. Iowa's defense had a relentless effort holding Northern Iowa to minus-2 rushing yards in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota\nThe Hawkeyes spoiled the Gophers' homecoming in this high-scoring rivalry game. A signature play of the game came on a fake field goal trick play in which T. J. Hockenson took a lateral pass in for a touchdown which helped Iowa secure a lead going into halftime. The play is called \"Herky\" and was a New Kirk era technique that had yet to been implemented. The Hawks prevailed to keep Floyd of Rosedale in Iowa City for a fourth year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, at Indiana\nNate Stanley became the third Iowa quarterback to throw six touchdown passes in a single game. Tight ends T. J. Hockenson and Noah Fant each had over 100 yards receiving, totaling eight receptions for 208 yards and three TD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Maryland\nIowa held visitor Maryland to just 115 yards of total offense in this shutout homecoming victory. Iowa did struggle to find the end zone but three Miguel Recinos field goals kept Iowa in the driver's seat for most of the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, at Illinois\nKirk Ferentz recorded his 150th win at Iowa, the 5th head coach in Big Ten history to reach the mark, in this blowout victory over Illinois. After a sluggish start in the first quarter, Iowa dominated in every phase of the game the rest of the way. Not only scoring on offense but on defense and special teams as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nIowa led the whole way until the final minutes of this nail-biting victory. Nebraska never backed down and tied the game up with 3:22 to play. Miguel Recinos kicked a game-winning field goal as time expired to keep the Heroes Trophy in Iowa City for the fourth year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280119-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, vs. Mississippi State (Outback Bowl)\nIn a back-and-forth game, Iowa held on to defeat SEC opponent Mississippi State. Senior Jake Gervase made a critical interception in the end zone, and batted down a fourth down pass to end the Bulldogs' hopes. The victory was Ferentz's fifth January bowl win and eighth overall bowl victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280120-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 Iowa House of Representative elections took place on November 6, 2018 to elect Representatives from all 100 Districts. The winners of this will serve in 88th General Assembly, with apportioned among the states based on 2010 United States Census. The Republican Party retained control of the House, while losing a net gain of 5 seats to Democratic Party", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280120-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa House of Representatives election\nThe Elections for Iowa's 4 Congressional Districts, Governor and Lieutenant Governor, Statewide Office Holders and the Iowa Senate were also held on this date", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280120-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa House of Representatives election, General election, District 9\nIncumbent Democrat Helen Miller announced her retirement and did not run for reelection Republicans Ann Meyer, a Registered Nurse and Gary Waechter are running are running. Democrat Megan Srinivas, a Physician announced her candidacy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280120-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa House of Representatives election, General election, District 10\nRepublican Incumbent Mike Sexton is seeking reelection for a third term. he faced former 2012 and 2016 Presidential Candidate Tom Hoefling in the republican primary. on the Democratic Side, Jake Thompson is running for the democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280120-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa House of Representatives election, General election, District 12\nRepublican Brian Best is running for a third term, He faced democrat Peter Leo in the general election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280120-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa House of Representatives election, General election, District 13\nIncumbent Democrat Chris Hall is Running for fifth term and ran unopposed", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280120-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa House of Representatives election, General election, District 14\nIncumbent Democrat Timothy Kacena is fending off a rematch against Republican Robert Henderson, who Kacena narrowly defeated back in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280120-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa House of Representatives election, General election, District 15\nIncumbent Democrat Charlie McConkey is running for reelection he faces Republican LeAnn Hughes in the General Election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280120-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa House of Representatives election, General election, District 16\nDemocrat Steve Gorman nearly pulled off a stunning upset against Republican Incumbent Mary Ann Hanusa. Libertarian Party Candidate Steve Sechrest is also running", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280120-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa House of Representatives election, General election, District 17\nRepublican Incumbent Matt Windschitl and Democratic Jan Creasman are having a rematch", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280120-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa House of Representatives election, General election, District 19\nHouse Majority leader Chris Hagenow who previously represented District 43 planned to move with his family to run in the 19th District Democrat Gregg Gustafson and Independent Candidate Richard Dedor are also running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280120-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa House of Representatives election, General election, District 28\nJon Thorup and Jon Van Wyk are both vying for this seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280120-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa House of Representatives election, General election, District 42\nKristin Sunde is Challenging Republican Incumbent Peter Cownie in a key West Des Moines suburban seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280121-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Senate election\nThe 2018 Iowa State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 2018 United States elections. Iowa voters elected state senators in half of the state senate's districts--the 25 odd-numbered state senate districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate, with half of the seats up for election each cycle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280121-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Senate election\nThe primary election on June 5, 2018 determined which candidates appeared on the November 6, 2018 general election ballot. Primary election results can be obtained here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280121-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Senate election\nFollowing the previous 2016 Iowa Senate election, Republicans flipped control of the Iowa state Senate, taking control away from the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280121-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Senate election\nTo reclaim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 6 Senate seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280121-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa Senate election\nRepublicans expanded their control of the Iowa State Senate following the 2018 general election, increasing their majority from 29 to 32 seats. Democrats saw their numbers dwindle from 20 to 18 seats. The lone Independent member of the IA state Senate was replaced by a Republican as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280122-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 2018 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Competing as a member of the Big 12 Conference (Big 12), the team played its home games at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa. They were led by third-year head coach Matt Campbell. They finished the season 8-5, 6-3 in the Big 12, the most conference wins in a season. They finished third in the Big 12, behind #4 Oklahoma and #14 Texas. They were invited to the Alamo Bowl where they lost to #13 Washington State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280122-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Previous season and offseason\nThe 2017 Iowa State Cyclones football team finished 7\u20135 in the regular season and 5\u20134 in Big 12 play giving them a fourth-place finish in conference standings. They had wins over non conference opponents UNI and Akron and conference opponents #3 Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas Tech, #4 TCU, and Baylor. Allen Lazard, Kamari Cotton-Moya, and David Montgomery received first team All-Big 12 honors and Jake Campos, Chase Allen, Joel Lanning, Brian Peavy, and JD Waggoner received second team All-Big 12 honors. Matt Campbell was also named Big 12 Coach of the Year. Additionally, Joel Lanning was named a first team All-American.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280122-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Previous season and offseason, Big 12 media poll\nThe Big 12 media poll was released on July 12, 2018 with the Cyclones predicted to finish in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 88], "content_span": [89, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280122-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Schedule\nIowa State announced their 2018 football schedule on October 26, 2017. The 2018 schedule consisted of seven home games and five away games in the regular season. The Cyclones hosted Big 12 foes Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas Tech, Baylor, and Kansas State and travel to TCU, Oklahoma State, Kansas, and Texas. For their non-conference schedule the Cyclones hosted Drake and Akron as well as traveling to in\u2013state rival Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280122-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Schedule\nOriginally, Iowa State planned to play South Dakota State on September 1 to open the season, however, the game was canceled shortly after kickoff due to bad weather. Iowa State was to host Incarnate Word on December 1, however, Incarnate Word was not able to play after qualifying for the FCS playoffs. They replaced Incarnate Word with Drake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280122-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, Game 5: at Oklahoma State Cowboys\nIowa State's Freshman Brock Purdy replaced Zeb Noland at quarterback and passed 18-for-23 for 318 yards and produced four touchdowns. He then ran for another 84 yards and another score. The final score was a loss for the Cowboys at 48-42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 89], "content_span": [90, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280122-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Baylor Bears\nAt the beginning of the second half, Baylor's Chris Miller got a flag for a late hit against Iowa State running back David Montgomery, pushing him into a Gatorade cooler, escalating tensions. Later, Baylor linebacker Greg Roberts threw a punch at Montgomery and he responded with another punch. Both were ejected from the second half of the game and Montgomery was ejected from the first half of the Texas game the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280122-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, Game 11: Kansas State Wildcats\nAfter a slow start, Kansas State held a solid lead for most of the game. Kansas State had racked up a 17 point lead with only 12 minutes remaining in the game. From there, Iowa State's Mike Rose grabbed a loose ball for a touchdown and the Cyclones controlled the game to rally with 21 unanswered points. The final score was an Iowa State victory, 41-38. The Cyclones broke the 9 year losing streak against the Wildcats. This game was also the last game Kansas State coach Bill Snyder coached before retiring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 86], "content_span": [87, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280123-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa attorney general election\nThe 2018 Iowa Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Attorney General of Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280123-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa attorney general election\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller won re-election with 76.5% of the vote. The Republican Party did not nominate anyone, but the Libertarian Party nominated Marco Battaglia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280124-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa elections\nThe Iowa elections, 2018 were held in the U.S. state of Iowa on November 6, 2018. A closed primary election was held on June 5, 2018. All of Iowa's executive officers were up for election as well as all four of Iowa's seats in the United States House of Representatives, 25 (half) of the seats in the Iowa Senate, and all 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280124-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa elections, Governorship\nIncumbent Republican Governor Terry Branstad, who has served for two consecutive and six total terms as Iowa Governor, resigned to be the United States Ambassador to China in 2017. Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds assumed the governorship and was seeking a full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280124-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller has served in the position since 1995, and previously from 1979 to 1991. The Republican Party did not nominate anyone, but the Libertarian Party nominated Marco Battaglia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280124-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Democratic State Treasurer Michael L. Fitzgerald, who has served in the position since 1983, ran for reelection to a tenth term in office. Fitzgerald was unopposed in the primary and does not have a Republican challenger, however does have a challenger from the Libertarian party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280124-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa elections, Auditor\nIncumbent Auditor Mary Mosiman, who has served since 2013 was eligible for re-election and was unopposed in the Republican primary. Attorney Rob Sand won the Democratic Primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280124-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa elections, Secretary of Agriculture\nRepublican Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey had served in the position since 2007. Northey was considering running for Iowa Governor, but after Governor Terry Branstad was nominated to be Ambassador to China he announced he would not run. Northey had not ruled out running for reelection in 2018, but he said he would be willing to serve as Lieutenant Governor instead if asked. In 2018, he was nominated by President Donald Trump to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services and has since ruled out reelection. The office is currently held by Mike Naig, serving in an acting capacity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280124-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa elections, United States House of Representatives\nAll of Iowa's four seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280124-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa elections, Iowa General Assembly\nThe 25 odd-numbered Iowa Senate seats were up for election in 2018, as were all 100 Iowa House seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280125-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Iowa gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018. Incumbent Republican Governor Kim Reynolds ran for election to a full term, facing Democratic businessman Fred Hubbell, Libertarian Jake Porter, and independent candidate Gary Siegwarth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280125-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa gubernatorial election\nOn Election Day, Reynolds won 50.3% of the vote, a 2.8% margin of victory, and carried 88 of Iowa's 99 counties. She became the first female governor of Iowa elected in her own right. This was the first Iowa gubernatorial election since 1998 in which the winner was of the same party as the incumbent president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280125-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa gubernatorial election, Background\nAfter the 2016 presidential election, President Donald Trump nominated then-Governor Terry Branstad to be the United States Ambassador to China. When Branstad was confirmed by the United States Senate, he resigned as Iowa Governor to assume the ambassadorship on May 24, 2017. Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds then became Governor of Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280125-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa gubernatorial election, Libertarian primary\nLibertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson received 3.8 percent of the votes in Iowa in 2016, surpassing the 2 percent threshold to attain full political party status. As a result, the Libertarian Party was allowed to hold a primary to select a nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280125-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Iowa gubernatorial election, General election, Results\nWhile pre-election polls showed Reynolds trailing Hubbell, Reynolds won 50.3% of the vote on Election Day, primarily by sweeping every county west of Des Moines and dominating the 4th Congressional District (she lost the other three). Ultimately, she carried 88 of Iowa's 99 counties. She became the first female governor of Iowa elected in her own right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280126-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ipswich Borough Council election\nElections to Ipswich Borough Council took place on 3 May 2018. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280127-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ipswich SuperSprint\nThe 2018 Ipswich SuperSprint (formally known as 2018 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint) was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on the weekend of 20\u201322 July 2018. The event was held at Queensland Raceway near Ipswich, Queensland and consisted of two races, 120 and 200 kilometres in length. It was the ninth event of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 19 and 20 of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280128-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Bombardier Challenger crash\nOn 11 March 2018, a Bombardier Challenger 604 private jet, owned by Turkish group Ba\u015faran Holding, crashed in the Zagros Mountains near Shahr-e Kord, Iran, while returning to Turkey from the United Arab Emirates. All three crew members and eight passengers on board were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280128-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Bombardier Challenger crash, History\nThe aircraft, registered TC-TRB, departed from Sharjah International Airport, United Arab Emirates, at around 17:11 local time (13:11 UTC), bound for Istanbul Atat\u00fcrk Airport. The flight crew consisted of two pilots and a cabin attendant. The Captain had flown for Turkish Airlines in the past, while the First Officer had a military aviation background, and had been one of the first female pilots in the Turkish armed forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280128-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Bombardier Challenger crash, History\nThe aircraft reached a cruising altitude of just over 35,000\u00a0ft (11,000\u00a0m). At around 18:01 IRST local time (14:31 UTC), shortly before contact was lost, the crew reported technical problems and requested clearance from air traffic control to descend to a lower altitude. The jet began to climb before abruptly losing altitude, and at 18:09, hit the Zagros Mountains near Shahre Kord, some 370\u00a0km (230\u00a0mi) south of Tehran, Iran. All eleven occupants were killed. One witness reportedly saw the aircraft on fire before the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280128-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Bombardier Challenger crash, Victims\nThe jet was carrying a group of eight friends returning from a bachelorette party in Dubai. Among them was Mina Ba\u015faran, daughter of the head of Ba\u015faran Holding, H\u00fcseyin Ba\u015faran, and member of the company's board of directors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280128-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Bombardier Challenger crash, Recovery operations\nLocal villagers saw a plume of smoke rising from the wreckage, and were the first to arrive at the scene. Iranian search-and-rescue teams arrived afterwards and found the burned bodies of ten victims. Bad weather conditions at the crash site made the operation difficult. One victim has yet to be found. The recovered bodies were transported to Tehran by helicopter. Turkey then sent emergency personnel via a military jet for assistance. Identification of the bodies required DNA testing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280128-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Bombardier Challenger crash, Recovery operations\nAfter identification by the Iranian authorities, the bodies of ten victims were flown to Istanbul by the Turkish military and then handed over to the victims' families. Iranian Legal Medicine Organization stated that the remains of the captain were not among the recovered bodies in the eleven body bags from the wreckage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280128-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Bombardier Challenger crash, Investigation\nThe aircraft's two flight recorders (the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder) were recovered for analysis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280128-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Bombardier Challenger crash, Investigation\nIn September 2018, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board of the Iranian civil aviation authority published a preliminary report indicating that, shortly before reaching cruise altitude, a discrepancy between the airspeed indications shown to the two pilots became apparent, with one indicating an overspeed condition. Engine power was reduced, and shortly after the stick-shaker activated. The aircraft subsequently stalled and entered a steep descent during which both engines flamed out. Control was not regained and the aircraft eventually struck a mountainside. In March 2020, the AAIB issued its final report, concluding that the accident was caused by insufficient training for airspeed indication failure and poor crew resource management.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 803]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280129-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Fajr International Challenge\nThe 2018 Iran Fajr International Challenge, officially The 27th Iran Fajr International Challenge 2018 was a badminton tournament which took place at Enghelab Sport Complex in Iran from 5 to 8 February 2018 and had a total purse of $25,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280129-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Fajr International Challenge, Tournament\nThe 2018 Iran Fajr International Challenge was the first tournament of the 2018 BWF International Challenge and also part of the Iran Fajr International Challenge championships which has been held since 1991. This tournament was organized by the Iran Badminton Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280129-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Fajr International Challenge, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Enghelab Sport Complex in Zanjan, Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280129-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Fajr International Challenge, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF International Challenge event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280129-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Fajr International Challenge, Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this year tournament is US$25,000. Distribution of prize money is in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280130-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iran Futsal's 2nd Division\nThe 2018 Iranian Futsal 2nd Division (football is called futsal in Iran), was divided into three phases. The league was composed of 34 teams divided into four divisions 6 teams and two divisions 5 teams; whose teams were divided geographically. Teams only played teams in their own division, once at home and once away for a total of 10 or 8 matches each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280131-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian Super Cup\nThe 2018 Iranian Super Cup was scheduled to be played on July 20, 2018, between the 2017\u201318 Persian Gulf Pro League champions Persepolis and the 2017\u201318 Hazfi Cup champions Esteghlal. The result of match awarded 3-0 in favor of Persepolis, because of Esteghlal match withdrawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement\nThe 2018 Iranian protests (Persian: \u062c\u0646\u0628\u0634 \u0627\u0639\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0636\u06cc \u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646\u06cc 2018\u200e) was a series of protests and massive nonviolent demonstrations across Iran throughout late-2018 against worsening tensions and deteriorating conditions as part of the 2018-2019 Iranian general strikes and protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Background\nProtests occurred in the 2017-2018 Iranian protests and massive protests and opposition strikes, rallies and demonstrations occurred as well, starting in Mashhad and spread nationwide due to the price of eggs, Inflation, soaring prices for food and water and gas and many more issues. The civilians again had had enough of the conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Background\nProtests and nationwide trucker demonstrations and public driver strikes was the initial protests and revolt against state-led propaganda and lying to drivers over paid wages. Anger over unchanged transportation fees and increased costs, protests erupted and truckers relaunched nationwide and countrywide demonstrations calling for the government to note their main and focal opposition demands. Hundreds of mill workers reportedly took to the streets while Rail workers were on strike in August as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn 11 September 2018, shopkeepers in Iranian Kurdistan initiated a one-day strike in response to the missile attack by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps on the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, and the execution of Ramin Panahi and two other Kurd activists. In response to the strikes, the security forces arrested five Kurdish activists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn 22 September 2018, truckers across several Iranian cities restarted their strikes against the rising expenses of their jobs. On 26 September, the strikes continued and were seen in Ahvaz, Qazvin, Shahreza, Borujerd, and Urmia. 40 to 70 truckers in Fars, Tehran, and Qazvin province were arrested on 27 September, as strikes continued into their fifth day. The Free Truckers Union announced that the strike had spread to 31 provinces across the country. The judiciary stated that those arrested could face the death penalty. On 29 September, on the eight day of the strikes, the number of truckers arrested reached 89.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn 1 October, the truckers strikes reached their 10th straight day and were seen in Bukan, Khosrowshah, Arak, Fooladshahr, Nishapur, Tiran, Takestan, Kermanshah, Sanandaj, Qazvin, Karaj, Bandar Abbas, Ardabil, Dezful, Yazd, and Najafabad. The number of arrested also reached 156. By the 13th straight day of the strike over 230 truckers were arrested. The strikes continued into 8 October, and reached their 17th consecutive day. Security forces responded by arresting a number of truckers, which increased the number of people arrested to 256.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn the same day, Bazaaris in multiple cities across Iran closed their shops and went on strike in protest to the economic situation. Strikes were seen in Sanandaj, Bukan, Saqqez, Marivan, Baneh, Miandoab, Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, Tabriz, and Chabahar. The strikes continued into 9 October, although they were reduced in size from the previous day, and were seen in Tabriz, Shahriar, Shahreza, and Sanandaj.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn 13 October 2018, teachers across Iran started a two-day nationwide strike in protest to high expenses and inflation. Teachers in Tehran, Mashhad, Tabriz, Isfahan, Shiraz, Kermanshah, Ilam, Yasuj, Sanandaj, Simorgh, Hamedan, Amol, Zarrin Shahr, Gonabad, Eslamabad, Torbat-e Heydarieh, Marivan, Sarvabad, and Garmeh, went on strike. At least two teachers were arrested on the first day of the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nTeachers went on strike for a second day on 14 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn 1 November 2018, truckers in Tehran, Zanjan, Isfahan, Asaluyeh, Nahavand, and Shahrud went on strike for the fourth time this year in protest to the arrest of hundreds of truckers in October. Workers from several factories in Iran have been on constant strikes due to unpaid wages and inflation. On 2 November 2018, workers at the Haft Tappeh Cane Sugar Company's factory in Shush start their own strikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn 13 and 14 November, Iranian teachers in most provinces went on strike for the second time in 2018. Thirteen teachers were arrested during this strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn 15 November, the workers strikes escalated and protests spilled onto the streets of Shush. Some workers in Shush called for the factory to be operated by a workers council. The following day, the workers disrupted the Friday Prayer service of the city. They chanted \"Hossein, Hossein is their cry, theft is their pride\", \"Death to oppressors, long live workers\", and \"Workers are willing to die, but will not accept oppression\". Protests continued in the streets of Shush on 17 November, despite the presence of the security forces and riot police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn the same day, hundreds of workers of the Foolad Company in Ahvaz protested in front of the Governor's office. Protestors in Ahvaz chanted \"Let go of Kashoggi, think of us\", and \"Inflation, increasing prices, be responsible Rouhani\". On 18 November, nineteen protestors were arrested in Shush. By 21 November , thirteen of the protesters in Shush were released from prison, the arrested protestors faced charges of \"acting against the regime\". On 24 November, workers joined by ordinary citizens, protested in Ahvaz and clashed with the security forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn the same day, workers of the vegetable oil factory of Zanjan protested in front of the governor's office in Zanjan due to unpaid wages. On 28 November, workers protested for the 24th consecutive day in Shush, despite the city's police commander stating that any gatherings were against the law. Protests occurred in Ahvaz on the same day, as thousands of workers took to the streets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn 18 November 2018 Workers Syndicate at the Haft Tappeh sugar mill in Iran\u2019s Khuzestan province announced that the security forces had arrested two of their representatives, Esmail Bakhshi and Mohsen Armand. The syndicate also announced that on 29 November 2018 government forces arrested its senior member Ali Nejati in his house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn 4 December, workers in Ahvaz protested for the 25th straight day, and chanted \"Palestine and Syria are the root of our problems\". On 17 December, the security forces cracked-down and arrested 31 workers in Ahvaz whom they i/refdentified as the leaders of the protests. The day before workers had gathered in Ahvaz and declared that they would take their protest to the capital Tehran, if their demands were not met. On 13 December, Ali Nejati, was transferred to hospital, after long and distressing interrogations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn 18 December, a lone protester on the island of Kish, stood in front of the main square of the city and graffitied anti-regime and pro-worker slogans, which included: \"Imprisoned workers must be freed\", and \"long live the Shah\". On 18 and 19 December 2018 the security forces stormed the houses of Foolad workers in Khuzestan province and arrested up to 41 workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\n15 workers at Ilam Petrochemical Plant in central western Iran were convicted to six months\u2019 imprisonment and 74 lashes by a state court after they gathered in protest outside the factory for their fellow experienced workers being laid off. The court charged them with \u201cdisrupting public order and peace\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn 21 December, truck drivers across the country started their fifth round of nationwide strikes in protest to inflation and rising expenses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280132-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian protest movement, Protests\nOn 27 December 2018 Security forces attacked with tear gas a teachers gathering outside the education office in Isfahan, central Iran. Teachers were protesting their low salary and the arrest of their colleagues who were now in jail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280133-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian university protests\nThe 2018 Iranian university protests were a series of protests by Iranian university students in support of labour, and teacher strikes, as well as protesting against the current situation of the country. The protests started on 4 December 2018, ahead of university day on 7 December, which is usually marked by protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280133-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian university protests, Protests, 4 December\nOn 4 December 2018, students at the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, gathered in support of the ongoing labour and teacher strikes. Students clashed with Basiji counter protesters. Students chanted \"Cannons, tanks, and weapons have no affect anymore\", \"Workers and students unite\", \"Jailed teachers, workers, and students must be freed\", and \"Death to this deceptive government\". Elsewhere in Tehran, students Allameh Tabataba'i University protested against the presence of members of the Ministry of Intelligence on the campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280133-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian university protests, Protests, 4 December\nOn the same day students at the Babol Noshirvani University of Technology protested and chanted \"The university is alive\", \"Stop crackdown on university students\", and \"University students will die, but will not accept oppression\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280133-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian university protests, Protests, 4 December\nStudents at the Sahand University of Technology also protested and held a hunger strike. Students at the Razi University of Kermanshah also held a protest in support of workers in Khuzestan, and chanted \"Bread, freedom, workers council\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280133-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian university protests, Protests, 29 December\nOn 29 December, students at the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran gathered on campus to mourn and protest after ten people were killed in a bus accident on the campus on 25 December. Students demanded the resignation of the chairman of the Islamic Azad University Ali Akbar Velayati. The protesters, who numbered in the hundreds, also chanted against the incompetent officials whom they felt were responsible for the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280133-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian university protests, Protests, 30 December\nStudents at the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran gathered for a second consecutive day of protests on 30 December. The students chanted \"Velayati you are responsible for these killings\" and \"incompetent officials must be prosecuted\". Video from the protests showed a car running over and injuring two students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280133-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian university protests, Protests, 31 December\nOn 31 December 2018, students and other citizens gathered in front of the University of Tehran in solidarity with the students at the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran. Protestors were met by the security forces and anti-riot police who attempted to control the demonstration. Demonstrators clashed with the security forces and chanted \"Death to the dictator\", \"Our fronts to the nation, our backs to the enemy\", \"Don't be scared, we are all together\", and \"incompetent officials must resign\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280133-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Iranian university protests, Protests, 31 December\nEarlier on Christmas day a bus taking about 30 students on a mountain road hit a concrete road which resulted to the death of 10 passenger and injury of 25 others. Students were from Islamic Azad University in north east of Iran. Iran\u2019s officials are blamed for not using safety precautions, This bus was considered out of service six years ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280134-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian water protests\nThe 2018 Iranian water protests were a series of protests by the Iranians living in the cities of Khorramshahr and Abadan, who are protesting the shortage of clean drinking water. The protests started on 20 June in Abadan, before escalating on 30 June in Khorramshahr and turning violent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280134-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian water protests, Timeline, 20 June\nOn 20 June, people in Abadan gathered in front of the water and sewage system offices and protested undrinkable water. A day before the protests, the water and sewage department in Abadan had declared that water would be rationed in Abadan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280134-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian water protests, Timeline, 23 June\nHundreds of people in Abadan again protested the lack of clean water in front of the Governor's office. The protesters chanted against the Governor and authorities responsible for the city's supply of water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280134-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian water protests, Timeline, 30 June\nHundreds of people, who were protesting the lack of clean drinking water, clashed with police on 30 June in Khorramshahr. IRNA news agency reported that the protesters were chanting slogans against the authorities. Police fired tear gas into the crowd which led to the protesters throwing rocks and garbage. Security forces eventually opened fire on the crowd, which left up to four people dead, which the authorities deny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280134-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian water protests, Timeline, 30 June\nThe protests, which were solely directed at the lack of clean water in the beginning, turned political, with people chanting \"In the name of religion, they plundered us\", and \"Get lost, governor\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280134-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Iranian water protests, Timeline, 1 July\nIn response to the violent crackdown in Khorramshahr the previous day, thousands of people across Khuzestan province took to the streets in support of the protests in Khorramshahr. Videos on social media showed protests in Ahvaz, Mahshahr, and Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280135-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi Kurdistan missile strike\nOn 8 September 2018, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) launched seven Fateh-110 missiles at the headquarters of two Iranian Kurdish opposition parties in the town of Koya, in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region 300\u00a0km north of Iraq's capital, Baghdad. Initial reports from Iranian news agencies listed 11 killed people. Later reports indicated 18 people were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280135-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi Kurdistan missile strike, Background\nIn the months preceding the attack, some attacks were carried out by Iraqi Kurdish rebels on the borders of the Islamic Republic of Iran in order to carry out acts of sabotage in the provinces such as West Azerbaijan Province, Kermanshah and Kurdistan. Therefore, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fought against them at the Kamyaran border the previous week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280135-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi Kurdistan missile strike, Background\nAccording to the IRGC, the target of the missile strike was described as intending to bring to an end to \"terrorist and aggressive actions against Iran\". The attack took place after ignoring serious warnings by officials of the Kurdistan Regional Government about Iran\u2019s determination to dismantle their bases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280135-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi Kurdistan missile strike, Casualties\nAccording to initial reports the missile strike led to the death of 12 people and 50 others injured, party officials stated. Later reporting indicated the death toll had risen to 18, six of whom were members of the central committee of KDP-Iran. Rahman Piroti was among them. Also, leaders of DPIK, Mustafa Mouloudi and Khalid Azizi were wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280135-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi Kurdistan missile strike, Reaction\nOn 15 September 2018, the rebel group tried to attack Iran embassy in France. They burned Iran's flag in front of the embassy and broke the windows with stones. The Rebel group was identified as Kurdish activists, according to Reuters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280135-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi Kurdistan missile strike, Reaction\nOn 17 September 2018, 10 members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas riding motorbikes hurled bottles of paint at the outer walls of the Iranian Embassy in Athens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 12 May 2018. The elections decided the 329 members of the Council of Representatives, the country's unicameral legislature, who in turn will elect the Iraqi President and Prime Minister. The Iraqi parliament ordered a manual recount of the results on 6 June 2018. On 10 June 2018, a storage site in Baghdad housing roughly half of the ballots from the May parliamentary election caught fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election\nIn October 2018, Adil Abdul-Mahdi was selected as Prime Minister five months after the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election\nThis election would be the last held under the Webster/Sainte-Lagu\u00eb method of proportional representation, as electoral reforms passed in 2019 amid the 2019\u20132021 Iraqi protests created a district-based system, and sought to have representatives represent more local voices (as opposed to the entire governorate they were previously elected from), reduce deadlocks resulting from inconclusive coalition talks, as well as stop infighting amongst list members and a myriad of small lists from siphoning off votes and failing to meet the electoral threshold. It would also prevent parties from running on unified lists, which had previously led some to easily sweep all the seats in a particular governorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Background\nThe elections took place six months after a non-binding independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan, in which 93% voted in favour of independence. In retaliation, the Iraqi government led by Haider al-Abadi closed Erbil International Airport, seized control of all border crossings between Kurdistan and neighbouring countries and, with the help of the Hashd al-Shaabi militias, militarily seized control of disputed territories, including the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. Nonetheless, Iraqi politicians called for dialogue with the Iraqi Kurdistan government and force them to formally annul the results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Background\nThe elections were originally scheduled for September 2017, but were delayed by six months due to the civil war with the Islamic State which ended in December 2017 with the recapture of their remaining territories. The largest Sunni Arab majority coalition, the Muttahidoon (Uniters for Reform), called for a further six month's delay to allow displaced voters to return to their homes. A Sunni Arab MP described holding the elections at this time as a \"military coup against the political process\". However, the Supreme Court ruled that delaying the elections would be unconstitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Electoral system\nMembers of the Council of Representatives are elected through the open list form of party-list proportional representation, using the 18 governorates of Iraq as the constituencies. The counting system uses the modified Sainte-Lagu\u00eb method with a divisor of 1.7 which is considered as a disadvantage to smaller parties. Eight seats remain reserved for minority groups at the national level: five for Assyrians and one each for Mandaeans, Yazidis, and Shabaks. However, the Council of Representatives voted on 11 February 2018, to add an extra seat for minorities, in the Wasit Governorate for Feyli Kurds, making the total number of parliamentarians equal to 329.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Electoral system\nIn January, the Supreme Court ruled that the representation for Yazidis should be increased, although it is unclear whether this change will be implemented in time for these elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, International voting\nThe Independent High Electoral Commission announced that Iraqis living outside of Iraq can vote in any of the 130 voting stations that were set up in 21 countries. 18 of the stations were in the United States, 15 in Sweden, 15 in Turkey, 14 in Iran, 13 in Jordan, 8 in the United Kingdom, 8 in Australia, 7 in Germany, 7 in Canada, 5 in Egypt, 4 in Denmark, 2 in Lebanon, and one each in France, Syria, Finland, Belgium, Austria, Norway, and New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Election day\nA curfew was declared by prime minister Al-Abadi from midnight Friday to 7 pm Saturday in all governorates except Baghdad, where the curfew started at noon Friday. A 24-hour closure of all airports and other border crossing was also implemented. The Iraqi airspace was open later on the day as well as the lifting of the curfew. Election day in Iraq was extremely successful from a security aspect, as no attacks were registered anywhere in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign\nA total of 6,904 candidates participated in the elections, representing parties:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign, Alliances\nAs of 26 December 2017, a total of 204 parties had registered to contest the elections. The deadline for registering coalitions was 11 January 2018. A total of 27 coalitions were registered by the deadline, grouping 143 political parties, with registered parties not part of a coalition also free to contest separately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign, Alliances\nThe ruling State of Law Coalition, which won the last election in 2014 with 92 seats, contested the election with two separate coalitions. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi entered the election as head of a coalition called \"Victory\" (a reference to the victory over Daesh); his predecessor, Vice President Nouri al-Maliki, headed the State of Law list. Members of the Dawa Party, which they both come from, were free to support either list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign, Alliances\nLeading members of the Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), mainly Shiite Arab militias who fought alongside the Iraqi army to defeat Daesh from 2014 to 2017, formed an alliance to contest the election. The Fatah Alliance included the Badr Organisation, Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, Kata'ib Hezbollah and Kata'ib al-Imam Ali\u2014all key components of the Hashd. The Badr Organisation, headed by Hadi Al-Amiri, which had 22 seats, was previously part of the ruling State of Law Coalition from which it announced its withdrawal in December 2017. The Fatah Alliance agreed to run jointly with al-Abadi's Nasr al-Iraq (Victory of Iraq) list, but the agreement fell apart after only 24 hours, reportedly over Abadi's conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign, Alliances\nAmmar al-Hakim, the leader of the Citizen Alliance, the third largest bloc in parliament, announced in July 2017 that he was leaving the veteran Shiite Islamist party, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq -\u2013 which he had led since the death of his father, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim \u2013- and forming a new \"non-Islamic national movement\" called the National Wisdom Movement (al-Hikma). All but five of the 29 MPs from the Citizens Alliance joined Al-Hikma. The remaining members of the Citizen Alliance joined the Fatah Alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign, Alliances\nMuqtada al-Sadr announced a joint list with the Iraqi Communist Party, called the Alliance towards Reforms. This built on previous collaboration with the Communists since 2016, when they held joint protests in Baghdad against corruption and sectarianism in government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign, Kurdistan Region\nWithin the Kurdish parties, there had been significant changes since the previous election with the death of both Jalal Talabani, the long-time leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the second largest party, and the opposition leader Nawshirwan Mustafa. In September 2017, Barham Salih, a former Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan and deputy leader of the PUK, announced that he was leaving the party and forming a new opposition party\u2014the Coalition for Democracy and Justice. The party was seen to have the potential to change the Kurdish political landscape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign, Kurdistan Region\nHe said he hoped to gather all the other opposition parties, including Gorran and Komal, to challenge the governing KDP\u2013PUK alliance. The three parties formed a coalition called Nishtiman (Homeland) to run in the elections. The ruling KDP\u2013PUK alliance have agreed to run again as a single list and all the Kurdish parties in Kirkuk have discussed running as a single list. However, the KDP announced they would boycott elections in Kirkuk and other areas they described as \"under military occupation\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign, Sunni-majority areas\nWithin the Sunni Arab parties, the main Uniters for Reform Coalition (Muttahidoon), led by Osama al-Nujaifi, which won 23 seats in 2014, is running again, although the Iraqi Islamic Party, led by Speaker of Parliament Salim Jabouri, has left this coalition to join up with former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's Al-Wataniya and Salah al-Mutlak's Al-Arabiya. The combined list was called Al-Wataniya. Other parties as well have left the Muttahidoon coalition including the al-Hal Party and formed various alliances in the name of the provinces they ran in, such as Salahuddin Our Identity in Saladin Governorate, and Anbar Our Identity in Al Anbar Governorate and Baghdad Alliance in Baghdad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign, Civil parties\nWithin the nonsectarian parties who aim to establish a civil state, the main alliance formed is the Civilized Alliance, led by Faiq Al Sheikh Ali, which currently has 4 seats. The alliance consists of four liberal, non-sectarian, national parties, the People's Party for Reform, the Al-Etifak National Party, the National Civil Movement and Iraq's National Movement, and includes a number of independent figures. The Civil Democratic Alliance are also running in the elections as another major civil party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign, Christian parties\nOf the 329 seats in parliament, five are reserved for the country's Christian minority. One reserved seat is allotted for each of five governorates: Baghdad, Duhok, Erbil, Kirkuk and Nineveh. At the time of voting, only about 200,000 Christians remained in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Attacks\nIn early May 2018, ISIL claimed to have assassinated Faruq Zarzur al-Juburi, a candidate in the Iraqi elections. The attack reportedly took place in Mosul, outside al-Juburi's house. This was later on proven to be false; due to a family dispute, the candidate was killed by his son.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Attacks\nOn election day, a roadside bomb in Kirkuk killed six members of Tribal Mobilization (ar) (a pro-government Sunni tribal force) and injured three police officers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Attacks\nOne Iraqi border guard was killed by a bomb in the outskirts of Khanaqin in Diyala on 13 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Attacks\nTwo offices linked to Muqtada al-Sadr in Maysan were bombed on 15 May but there were no casualties since both offices were empty at the time. It is still unclear whether the attacks were a response to the parliamentary gains in the election made by Sadr's coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Attacks\nOn 16 May, a polling station in Kirkuk was reportedly under siege by gunmen pressuring them to change the results after the PUK was indicated to have won the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Results\nAfter the High Electoral Commission announced the results, there were claims of widespread fraud linked to the electronic counting of votes. The Council of Representatives held an emergency session and passed an amendment to the electoral law that cancelled the votes of internally-displaced and overseas voters and mandated a full manual recount for all other votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Results\nThe Commission appealed to the Supreme Court. In a ruling on 21 June, the court upheld the full manual recount but struck down the cancellation of internally-displaced and overseas voters. The final results were released on 9 August, with only minor changes affecting five candidates and two parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Government formation\nOn 8 June, a formal agreement was signed by the leaders of the Alliance towards Reforms (Saairun) and the National Coalition (Wataniya) to become the largest bloc in the Council of Representatives. The bloc is calling for economic reform, consolidation of democracy, and political decentralization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Government formation\nA spokesman for Wataniya said that the agreement would be a prelude to other forces joining the alliance, and that serious talks were underway with the National Wisdom Movement (Hikma), the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Fatah Alliance, and the Decision Alliance (Muttahidoon) as an alliance of these six electoral coalitions would constitute a majority that could form a government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Government formation\nAl-Sadr announced on 12 June that he had formed an alliance with Fatah, while maintaining an alliance with Al-Wataniya. Prime Minister Abadi later met with Al Sadr on 23 June. Al Sadr afterwards announced he had formed \"a cross-sectarian, cross-ethnic alliance\" with Abadi and that it would speed up the formation of a new government. Abadi also announced that the new alliance between his Victory Alliance's and Al Sadr's Alliance towards Reforms \"is not in contrast to any other alliances either of the two lists have previously entered into with other blocs, rather, it flows in the same direction and same principles.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Government formation\nThe final results of the election were announced on 9 August, starting the process to form the government. Parliament convened on 3 September, but were unable to elect a speaker due to rivalries between two blocs who both claimed to be the largest coalition, entitled to nominate the Prime Minister. Al-Abadi presented an alliance with Saairun, Wataniya, Hikma and other smaller lists who between then held a majority of seats. However, Fatah also claimed to have a majority, based on an alliance with State of Law and with members of Abadi's coalition who had defected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Government formation\nTwo weeks later parliament reconvened and elected a speaker in a secret ballot, with candidates from each of the rival blocs. Muhammad al-Halbusi, a Sunni Arab (as per the Iraqi tradition of mu\u1e25\u0101\u1e63a\u1e63ah) but backed by Fatah was elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Government formation\nAt the same time, violent protests occurred in Basra and other cities in the south over polluted water\u2014which had hospitalised tens of thousands of people\u2014and the lack of reliable electricity. Religious leaders called for a new Prime Minister who hadn't been in government before. Abadi announced on 13 September 2018 that he would respect this call and not run for a second term as prime minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280136-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, Government formation\nThe vote for the President took place on 2 October. Previously, the president had always been a member of the second-largest Kurdish party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, under an agreement with the Kurdistan Democratic Party whereby the KDP would be president of Iraqi Kurdistan. However, the KDP fielded a separate candidate, Fuad Hussein, insisting that they had the right to the Presidency as the largest party. Both candidates went to a vote in the parliament, with the PUK's Barham Salih winning. He immediately nominated independent Shi'ite Adil Abdul-Mahdi, a former oil minister seen as acceptable to all parties and to both Iran and the United States, as Prime Minister-designate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280137-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia\nIn June 2018, Ireland played a three-test series against Australia as part of the 2018 June rugby union tests. It was the first time Ireland had played a test series against Australia in Australia since 2010. The series was part of the sixth year of the global rugby calendar established by World Rugby, which runs through to 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280137-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia, Squads\nNote: Ages, caps and clubs are as per 9 June, the first test match of the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280137-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia, Squads, Ireland\nOn 23 May 2018, Joe Schmidt named a 32-man squad for the 2018 June rugby union tests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280137-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia, Squads, Ireland\nOn 31 May, tour captain Rory Best was ruled out of the test series with a hamstring injury. Munster's Niall Scannell was called-up to replace him, with Peter O'Mahony and Jonathan Sexton sharing the captaincy duties for the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280137-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia, Squads, Ireland\nDave Kilcoyne trained with the squad as injury cover for Cian Healy ahead of the third test, whilst Will Addison also trained with the team, though neither player was officially added to the touring squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280137-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia, Squads, Australia\nOn 30 May 2018, Michael Cheika named a 32-man squad for the three-test series against Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280137-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia, Squads, Australia\nOn 3 June, Pete Samu was added to the squad after New Zealand Rugby agreed to release the flanker, who plays for Crusaders in New Zealand, for the test series. On the same day however, hooker Jordan Uelese was ruled out of the series with a knee injury sustained playing for Melbourne Rebels. Tolu Latu was called-up to the squad to replace Uelese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280137-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia, Squads, Australia\nOn 18 June, Jake Gordon was called-up to replace the injured Will Genia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280137-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia, Matches, First Test\nTouch judges:Pascal Ga\u00fcz\u00e8re (France)Paul Williams (New Zealand)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280137-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia, Matches, Second Test\nTouch judges:Pascal Ga\u00fcz\u00e8re (France)Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280137-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia, Matches, Third Test\nTouch judges:Paul Williams (New Zealand)Cam Stone (New Zealand)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280138-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish Greyhound Derby\nThe 2018 Boylesports Irish Greyhound Derby took place during August and September, with the final being held on 22 September at Shelbourne Park. The winner Ballyanne Sim was trained by James Robinson and owned by Eamon Cleary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280138-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish Greyhound Derby\nThe competition was sponsored by Boylesports and the prize money was \u20ac300,000, of which \u20ac140,000 went to the winner. The winning breeder was Kathleen Pomfret.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280138-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish Greyhound Derby, Final result, Distances\n1\u00bd, 2, shd, hd, hd (lengths) 0.07 sec = one length", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280138-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition report\nThe 12-1 ante-post favourite was from the UK and was the 2018 English Greyhound Derby runner-up Droopys Verve, trained by Angela Harrison. The bookmakers then quoted Borna Gin at 14-1, Puppy Derby champion Magical Bale 16-1, Shelbourne track specialist Lenson Blinder 20-1 and Kirby Memorial Stakes champion Droopys Davy 20-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280138-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition report\nThe first ten heats took place on 17 August which resulted in an impressive 10 length win for Droopys Verve in 29.49, a time matched by heat 3 winner Slippy Cian. English Derby finalist Whoops Jack also went well after winning in 29.56. The remaining thirteen heats were completed the following evening and the campaigner Clonbrien Hero won his heat as did the Produce champion Cash Is King, in a fast 29.54. Magical Bale was another winner but it was Lenson Blinder who went fastest in 29.40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280138-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition report\nThe second round consisted of 16 heats and the first 8 provided many shocks, with the elimination of the two leading contenders Droopys Verve and Borna Gin and the defeat of Lenson Blinder, although the latter did qualify for the next round. The fastest winner was Totos Park in 29.34, with Clona Blaze, Slippy Cian and Jaytee Taylor all recording their second competition wins. The second night of heats provided further wins for Clonbrien Hero, Whoops Jack, Magical Bale and Stonepark Noel but Droopys Davy and Droopys Expert both went out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280138-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition report\nThe third round provided better luck for the favourites, with Lenson Blinder and Jaytee Taylor justifying short odds and both winning in the equal fastest times of the round (29.39), the former defeated a field including Magical Bale. Totos Park beat Slippy Cian to remain unbeaten, a feat matched by Clona Blaze who won again, pushing Clobnrein Hero into second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280138-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition report\nThe fast starting Cabra Hurricane won the first quarter final, inflicting a first defeat on Jaytee Taylor. Kilgraney Master took the third spot but Whoops Jack was eliminated. The second heat was the strongest and saw all three favourites qualify for the semi finals, Slippy Cian gained revenge on Totos Park in the fastest time of the Derby so far, with Magical Bale taking third but unable to challenge the front two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280138-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition report\nNewhall Missile claimed heat three from the popular campaigner Clonbrien Hero and Drive on Tipp but the favourite, Lenson Blinder went out because he could not overcome his terrible trap draw from 5. The final heat went to Clona Blaze from Crossfield Will and Ballyanne Sim, leaving Clona Blaze as the only undefeated runner left in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280138-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition report\nThe two semi-finals were both very strong in terms of line-ups and both were competitive as expected; Magical Bale won the first after winning from Jaytee Taylor and Conna Blaze in a race that saw the first five finish within 10 spots (0.10 sec) of each other. The second heat ended with Slippy Cian catching Ballyanne Sim on the line and Clonbrien Hero ran on well to take the remaining final place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280138-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition report\nIn the final both Ballyanne Sim and Clona Blaze were both very fast out of the traps, Magical Bale also broke well but Jaytee Taylor missed the break. Ballyanne Sim forged out a lead but Magical Bale looked set to challenge at the third bend but could not find a way past the leader who held on in the fastest time of the competition and the fastest 550 Derby final to date (29.28). All of the other greyhounds recorded good times and made up ground but could not challenge the deserved winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280139-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish budget\nThe 2018 Irish budget was the Irish Government budget for the 2018 fiscal year, which was presented to D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann on 10 October 2017 by Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, his first as Minister for Finance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280139-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish budget\nTaoiseach Leo Varadkar said the budget is a \"Budget with many authors and it was important we had something for everyone\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election\nThe 2018 Irish presidential election took place on Friday, 26 October, between 7.00 a.m. and 10.00 p.m. President Michael D. Higgins, who was elected in 2011, was seeking re-election. This was the first time since the 1966 election that an incumbent president faced a contest for a second term. Higgins was re-elected on the first count with nearly 56% of the vote, becoming the first president since \u00c9amon de Valera to win a second term in a contested election (Patrick Hillery (1983) and Mary McAleese (2004) had been re-elected unopposed). He was inaugurated for his second term on 11 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election\nThe election was held on the same date as a referendum on blasphemy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election, Procedure\nIf a member of the Oireachtas or a County or City council nominate more than one candidate, only the first nomination paper received from them will be deemed valid. Presidential elections are conducted in line with Article 12 of the Constitution and under the Presidential Elections Act 1993, as amended. The President of Ireland is elected through proportional representation - single transferable vote. All Irish citizens entered on the current electoral register are eligible to vote. Under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2011, there is a spending limit by each candidate of \u20ac750,000. Candidates who are elected or who reach 12.5% of the vote on their elimination are entitled to a reimbursement of expenses up to \u20ac200,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election, Nomination process\nOn 28 August the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Eoghan Murphy, signed the order for the presidential election, specifying the nomination period as between 10 a.m. on 30 August and 12 noon on 26 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election, Nomination process\nOn 10 July 2018, incumbent president Michael D. Higgins declared that he would exercise his right to nominate himself as a candidate for the presidential election. Higgins had said in 2011 that he intended to serve one term only, but changed his mind over the course of his term. Higgins's website and social media accounts became active on 17 September, having been dormant since his inauguration in November 2011. He formally nominated himself on 24 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election, Nomination process\nSinn F\u00e9in was the only party to select a candidate. With 28 Oireachtas members (22 TDs and six Senators), the party could nominate a candidate without the need for additional nominations from independents to reach the requirement of 20 Oireachtas members, as they had required in 2011. Nearly all other parties in the Oireachtas supported the re-election of Michael D. Higgins. People Before Profit declined to support any candidate in the election. Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice had tried to gather the support of other Independent TDs and Senators to support a candidate, but was unsuccessful. Nineteen were willing to be involved in his effort to find a candidate, one short of the twenty required to be nominated. Eleven Oireachtas members signed a nomination form for Gemma O'Doherty, nine short of the required number.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 882]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election, Nomination process\n18 local authorities passed resolutions supporting a particular candidate, while the remaining 13 either passed no resolution or passed a resolution declining to nominate any candidate. Candidates needed the support of at least four local authorities to be a candidate in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election, Nomination process\nOthers who had sought a nomination from local authorities were: Norma Burke, William Delaney, Patrick Feeney, John Groarke, Patrick Melly, Marie Goretti Moylan, Sarah Louise Mulligan, Kevin Sharkey, James Smyth, David Doucette, and John O'Hare. Sharkey withdrew his name from consideration during the nomination period, calling for the nomination of Gemma O'Doherty. Senator Gerard Craughwell had said that he would seek the nomination if Higgins were otherwise to be unopposed. However, in July he announced that he would not contest the presidential election, in light of Sinn F\u00e9in's decision to run a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election, Nomination process\nHe also cited the financial costs of running for the presidency as a factor in his decision not to contest the election. Despite Fianna F\u00e1il support for the incumbent Michael D. Higgins, a few of the party's Councillors urged the leadership to nominate Galway West TD \u00c9amon \u00d3 Cu\u00edv, but he declined to allow his name to proceed as he would risk his party membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election, Candidates\nSix candidates contested the presidential election, having been selected by their parties or having received sufficient council nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election, Analysis\nThe Irish Times's analysis of its exit poll data said that Michael D. Higgins seemed on course to be comfortably re-elected on the first count, after leading in the opinion polls throughout the campaign, despite \"considerable criticism over his use of the Government jet, expensive hotel accommodation on overseas visits and the lack of transparency over how an annual \u20ac300,000 allowance for his office was spent\". It attributed the expected low turnout to \"a lack of public enthusiasm for the contest that was evident throughout the campaign\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election, Analysis\nIt ascribed Peter Casey's second place to a late surge of support following his criticisms of Travellers and his claim that Ireland had \"a growing culture of welfare dependency\", and it added that at some polling stations pollsters reported that \"he was attracting as many voters as Mr Higgins\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election, Analysis\nIt said that Se\u00e1n Gallagher appeared to be down 22% on his 2011 figure of 29%, but that the biggest disappointment would probably be for Sinn F\u00e9in, whose candidate Liadh N\u00ed Riada's expected 8% was well down on its general election result, and only a third of the party's support in the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI Opinion poll. It described Senator Joan Freeman's expected performance as \"just 6 per cent of the vote\", and Gavin Duffy's expected result as him having \"flopped completely, ending a miserable campaign with just 2 per cent of the vote\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election, Analysis\nWhen analysing the Red C/RT\u00c9 exit poll, RT\u00c9 Political Correspondent Martina Fitzgerald said that the data showed that President Higgins was very popular among voters regardless of age and gender but was particularly popular among women and younger votes despite the debate about his age, which most voters saw as irrelevant. The most important factor cited by voters was the candidates' track record and expertise, while the finances and salary of the president were the least important factor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280140-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Irish presidential election, Analysis\nFitzgerald added that \"the real political story\" was that the result was \"a disastrous election\" for Sinn F\u00e9in, and \"a serious blow\" for which party leader Mary Lou McDonald would have to take \"full responsibility\". Fitzgerald also noted that the combined total of the three former Dragons Den judges (Casey, Gallagher, and Duffy) was very similar to Gallagher's vote in 2011, suggesting that vote had held up, but that Casey had taken most of it this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280141-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ironman World Championship\nThe 2018 Ironman World Championship was a long distance triathlon competition held on October 13, 2018 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii that was won by Patrick Lange of Germany and Daniela Ryf of Switzerland. It was the 42nd edition of the Ironman World Championship, which has been held annually in Hawaii since 1978. The championship was organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC). For Ryf it was her fourth consecutive Ironman World Championship win. For Lange it was his second consecutive. They set a new overall course record previously set by them in 2016 and 2017 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280142-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Irving Tennis Classic\nThe 2018 Irving Tennis Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Irving, United States between 13 and 18 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280142-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Irving Tennis Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280142-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Irving Tennis Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280143-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Irving Tennis Classic \u2013 Doubles\nMarcus Daniell and Marcelo Demoliner were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280143-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Irving Tennis Classic \u2013 Doubles\nPhilipp Petzschner and Alexander Peya won the title after defeating Radu Albot and Matthew Ebden 6\u20132, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280144-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Irving Tennis Classic \u2013 Singles\nAlja\u017e Bedene was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280144-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Irving Tennis Classic \u2013 Singles\nMikhail Kukushkin won the title after defeating Matteo Berrettini 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280145-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IsarOpen\nThe 2018 IsarOpen is a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It is the 1st edition of the tournament which is part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It takes place in Pullach, Germany between 6 August and 12 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280145-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 IsarOpen, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280145-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 IsarOpen, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 57], "content_span": [58, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280146-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IsarOpen \u2013 Doubles\nSander Gill\u00e9 and Joran Vliegen won the title after defeating Simone Bolelli and Daniele Bracciali 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280147-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 IsarOpen \u2013 Singles\nPedro Sousa won the title after defeating Jan-Lennard Struff 6\u20131, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280148-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ishikawa gubernatorial election\nA gubernatorial election was held on 11 March 2018 to elect the next Governor of Ishikawa (\u77f3\u5ddd\u770c, Ishikawa-ken), a prefecture of Japan located in the Ch\u016bbu region on Honshu island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280149-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Islington London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Islington London Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Islington London Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The council had previously had elections in 2014. The Labour Party retained control of the council, winning 47 of the 48 seats. The sole non-Labour councillor elected was Caroline Russell of the Green Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280150-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Israel State Cup Final\nThe 2018 Israel State Cup Final decided the winner of the 2017\u201318 Israel State Cup, the 82nd season of Israel's main football cup. It will be played on 9 May 2018 at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, between Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Haifa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280150-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Israel State Cup Final, Background\nBeitar Jerusalem had previously played 10 Israel cup Finals, had won the competition a record 7 times. Their most recent appearance in the final was tin 2009, in which they won 2\u20131 against Maccabi Haifa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280150-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Israel State Cup Final, Background\nHapoel Haifa had previously played in 8 finals, winning 3. Their most recent appearance in the final was in 2004, in which they lost 4\u20131 to Bnei Sakhnin, and their most recent victory in the tournament was in 1974, beating Hapoel Petah Tikva 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280150-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Israel State Cup Final, Background\nThe two teams played each other three times during the 2017\u201318 Israeli Premier League season until the final. In the first instance, on 16 September 2017 at Teddy Stadium the game end draw 3\u20133, in the two other times beitar win 2\u20130 and 1\u20130 on summy ofer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280151-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Israel Super Cup\nThe 2018 Israel Super Cup is the 23rd Israel Super Cup (28th, including unofficial matches, as the competition wasn't played within the Israel Football Association in its first 5 editions, until 1969), an annual Israel football match played between the winners of the previous season's Top Division and Israel State Cup. This is the Third time since 1990 that the match was staged, after a planned resumption of the cup was cancelled in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280151-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Israel Super Cup\nThe game was played between Hapoel Be'er Sheva, champions of the 2017\u201318 Israeli Premier League and Hapoel Haifa, winners of the 2017\u201318 Israeli State Cup. Hapoel Haifa won 5\u20134 on penalties following a 1\u20131 draw after 90 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280152-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli Basketball League Cup\nThe 2018 Israeli Basketball League Cup, for sponsorships reasons the Winner League Cup, is the 13th edition of the pre-season tournament of the Israeli Basketball Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280152-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli Basketball League Cup\nOn October 4, 2018, Maccabi Rishon LeZion won the title for the first time after a 78\u201366 win over Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the Final. Cameron Long was named tournament MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280153-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli Basketball Premier League Final Four\nThe 2018 Israeli Basketball Premier League Final Four, for sponsorship reasons the Winner League Final Four, the concluding tournament of the 2017\u201318 Israeli Basketball Premier League. It was the eight Israeli Final Four. The event was held in the Menora Mivtachim Arena, Tel Aviv from June 10 until June 14, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280153-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli Basketball Premier League Final Four\nMaccabi Tel Aviv won the title for the 52nd time after beating Hapoel Holon 95\u201375 in the Final. Alex Tyus was named the Final Four MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280154-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli Beach Soccer League\nThe 2018 Israeli Beach Soccer League was a national beach soccer league event that took place between 8 June and 27 July 2018, in Netanya, Israel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280154-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli Beach Soccer League\nSchedule of matches was published on the official Facebook page of Israeli Beach Soccer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280154-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli Beach Soccer League, Group stage\nAll kickoff times are of local time in Netanya, Israel (UTC+02:00).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike\nOn July 22, 2018 Israeli members of the LGBT community went on strike for the day to protest against the discrimination of the LGBT community on the Israeli Surrogacy Law, and the continuing violence towards the Israeli trans community. During the strike, that was held on the same day as the fast of Tisha B'Av, many organizations and companies allowed their employees to be absent to participate in the many protest events that were held throughout the day across the country, including Tel Aviv-Yafo, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba, Ra'anana and other cities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Background\nFollowing a Supreme Court case regarding the Israeli Surrogacy Law that was legislated in 1997, appealing to include gay couples in the law, the State's response to the court was that the law will be amended. To make the appropriate changes, the government formed several professional health committees, such as the Mor-Yosef committee, that passed along its recommendations to Minister of Health, Yael German. After the 34th government was formed, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, this issue was discussed in the Knesset's Labour, Welfare, and Health Committee headed by Eli Alaluf. In the proceedings to bring the bill to a second and third reading, the committee voted to add single women to the bill, while still excluding single men and gay couples from using surrogacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Background\nThe bill was brought to its second and third reading on July 18, 2018, with reservations, including one by Amir Ohana of the Likud Party, adding single men to the bill. Because of the stance declared by the ultra-orthodox factions in the coalition, headed by the United Torah Judaism, the coalition decided to oppose the reservation while supporting the original amendment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Background\nPrior to the vote, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a video to his Facebook page, explaining that he will support a future amendment to the bill that will be brought by MK Ohana during the Knesset's Winter Session, to allow single men to use surrogacy in Israel, but despite his support, he voted against Ohana's reservation. The Knesset than passed the amended bill in its original form with 59 for and 52 against.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Background\nOther pressing issues during that time were several lesbian couples who are fighting for the state's recognition of their joint parenthood, and in at least one case that went public, 2 women found out that they were unilaterally removed as the second parents from their children's birth certificates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Background\nEven before the vote, on July 14 and July 17, demonstrations against it were held in Tel Aviv and in Jerusalem. On July 19, protesters walked to the government office building in Tel Aviv.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Background\nAround the same time, on July 17, a sex worker trans woman was stabbed in her apartment in south Tel Aviv.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Planning\nAs a result of the vote on the bill and the reservation, The Aguda called members of the LGBT community to strike on Sunday, July 22 (Sunday being the first workday in Israel).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Planning\nThe roots for this strike were planted a year prior to that, in a cooperation of LGBT organizations in the country. The idea started rolling after a protest in July 2017, which brought around 15,000 protesters against the Ministry of Welfare's stance in a Supreme Court hearing regarding adoption by same-sex couple. In a position paper presented to court, the ministry claimed that same-sex parents are \"anomalous\" and therefore cannot become adoptive families. After receiving a lot of public pressure, welfare minister Haim Katz announced that he plans on changing the ministry's stance on this issue. In order to plan the strike, many PR and advertising agencies and journalists were contacted to pressure companies in Israel to prepare for a future strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Planning\nWhen the new surrogacy law passed in the Knesset, to include only single women but not single men or gay couples, in a way perceived as discriminatory, the LGBT organizations, headed by the Aguda, decided to implement the strike plan immediately. The organizers contacted CEO's and prominent public figures and asked them to join the strike and have their companies and organizations publish their support. Most of them agreed, though some in some cases they gave their support after being told by the organizers that their lack of support will be made public on media and on social media. An Israeli economic publication, The Marker, posted a list of companies that refused to support the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Planning, Corporate sector's support\nMany Israeli companies and workers unions announced that they will allow their employees to strike in order to attend the protests, without risking their jobs or deducting their pay. In the few days before the strike, more than 250 publicly and privately own businesses announced their support for LGBT equality, and allowed their employees to stay home in order to strike and attend the protests. Some of the companies allowed their employees to use a personal day or an elective day, while some gave the employees a paid one-day leave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Planning, Corporate sector's support\nOne of the first companies to join the strike was Microsoft Israel, that later announced that it will give its employees a grant if they choose and need to use surrogacy outside the country. The companies that supported were from various sectors: law firms, restaurants, architecture firms, communication providers, travel agencies and hi-tech companies, along with big public and government sector organizations, including Ben Gurion Airport, Haifa and Ashdod ports, El-Al and Israir, Teva, Tnuva, cellphone, landline, cable and satellite providers, municipalities, hospitals and emergency services, food chains and supermarkets, banks, credit card companies and more. This was the biggest ever support by businesses for a social cause in Israel, and the first LGBT strike in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Planning, Corporate sector's support\nIsrael's Workers' Union, the Histadrut, issued a statement that is supports both the protest and the strike, and called employers in the public and private sector to allow employees to strike without harming their rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Protest events\nDuring the day of the strike, some 1000 strikers in Tel Aviv demonstrated and marched from the government office building on HaShalom Intersection, through Ayalon Highway to Rothschild Boulevard, where a field studio was built, broadcasting live interviews throughout the day. In Jerusalem's France (Paris) Square, outside the Prime Minister's official residence, 250 protesters demonstrated and blocked roads. The police detained 3 demonstrators only to release them later that day. More demonstrations were held around the country \u2013 in Haifa's main road, the entrance to Karmiel and other major junctions across the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Protest events\nRoads were blocked by protesters in several cities, some of them were main city roads. Around 1000 protesters blocked HaShalom intersection and marched down to the highway, chanting about equality for all, social justice and government-backed discrimination. Protesters also blocked roads in other cities; In a demonstration on Ragher avenue, the main road in Beersheba, a driver tried running over a protester. The end of the protest day was marked with a march in Florentin in south Tel Aviv, supporting the transgender community, following an attempted murder of a trans woman sex worker a few days prior. This attack was the peak of many transphobic acts of violence in Israel. The march ended in the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station, a location known as a center of prostitution, and was attended by around 6000 people, making it the largest transgender demonstration in Israel, to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 931]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Protest events, Rabin Square rally\nThe strike day, along with its demonstrations and protests against anti-LGBT discrimination and violence, culminated in a rally in Rabin Square in central Tel Aviv. According to police estimate, between 80,000 and 100,000 people attended that rally. The rally was hosted by TV presenters Lucy Aharish and Nadav Borenstein, and among the speakers were former parliament member and longtime human rights activist Yael Dayan, actress Orna Banai, and Orly and Ravit Weiselberg-Tzur, who were to appear in front of the Supreme Court the next day in their case pleading to register both of them as their son's parents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280155-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Israeli LGBT's strike, Protest events, Rabin Square rally\nMany artists also performed at the rally, like Rita, Dana International, Ilay Botner, Ran Danker, Korin Alal, Rona Kenan and others. All main Israeli broadcast networks dedicated a major part of their programs to the strike, and broadcast live from different demonstrations across Israel, from the strike headquarters in Rothschild Avenue and from the rally in Rabin Square.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections\nMunicipal elections were held in Israel on October 30, 2018. A run-off was held on November 13 in localities where a candidate for mayor received at least 40% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections\nFor the first time, the four local councils in Druze localities in the Golan Heights were up for election. Elections were held in all 54 regional councils, 122 out of 124 local councils, and 75 out of 77 cities. The cities of Baqa al-Gharbiyye and Tayibe, as well as the local council of Jatt, did not hold elections, as elections were held there in 2015. In Tel Mond, a local council, a split commission is currently serving. Further, in RC Rekhasim, LC Ghajar, and 3 more places only had one list be submitted for the council elections and was automatically elected by a walkover without any ballots cast. In all except Kfar Shmaryahu, where three candidates had been nominated, the mayoral election was also decided by walkover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, Voter turnout\nThe elections of 2018 were the first municipal elections in Israel where a paid day off work was enacted for the first round of voting, in hopes of increasing voter turnout. Total turnout in the first round of voting was 59.5%. By comparison, the turnout in 2013 stood at 51.8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Jerusalem\nThe results of the first round of voting in Jerusalem, with 254,326 voters participating of 638,065 eligible (a 39.86% turnout), are as follows. Of the 254,326 votes, 248,585 were valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Jerusalem\nThe results of the second round of voting in Jerusalem are as follows. The voter turnout was 35%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Jerusalem\nThe following parties gained seats in the city council. The parties that failed to gain seats are: I'm Jerusalem (Avi Salman), Elders and Pensioners of Jerusalem, Jerusalem on the Road to the Summit (Nehemia Assaf), Jerusalem Our Home (Ilya Liptzker), Jerusalem My City (Ramadan Dabash), Our Jerusalem (Moshe Lion), For the Neighborhoods (Avi Shalom), Me'orav Yerushalmi (Evyatar Elbaz), Pisgat Ze'ev on the Map (Ya'el Antebi), and Youth of Jerusalem (Yakir Jarasi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Tel Aviv\nThe results in Tel Aviv, with 203,018 voters participating of 440,205 eligible (a 46.12% turnout), are as follows. Of the 203,018 votes, 194,451 were valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Tel Aviv\nThe following parties gained seats on the city council. The parties that failed to get seats are: Unifying Tel Aviv, South of the City (Suzy Cohen Tzemah), Halo \u2013 Women of the City, The Tel Aviv List, Yair Tzabari, Local in Tel Aviv \u2013 Youth in the City (Yotam Shamir), Changing Direction (Nir Levi), Making Aliyah Together, Green City, City for All, and Vegan Tel Aviv (Omer Shalev).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Haifa\nThe results in Haifa, with 125,333 voters participating of 256,559 eligible (a 48.85% turnout), are as follows. Of the 125,333 votes, 118,271 were valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Haifa\nThe following lists failed to gain any seats on the city council: Lovers of Haifa (Israel Ya'akov Savyon), Perspective for Haifa (Meir Levi), Balad, Haifans for Haifa, Haifa Awakens (Mendi Salzmann), Haifana, Kulanu (Elad Attias), Heart of the Neighborhoods (Tali Meshulam\u2013Itach), Lechaim (Alex Abramov), Local in the Neighborhood (Boaz Gur), Disabled and Winning (Gil Goldreich), Strength, Voice of the People, and Rami Levi Biki Morad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Haifa\nFor the lists that entered the city council, the results are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Rishon LeZion\nThe results in Rishon LeZion, with 108,068 voters participating of 209,511 eligible (a 51.58% turnout), are as follows. Of the 108,068 votes, 104,095 were valid. A second round was held in the mayoral election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Rishon LeZion\nThe results of the second round of voting in Rishon LeZion are as follows. The voter turnout was 34.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Rishon LeZion\nThe following lists failed to gain any seats on the city council: Unity, Achievements (Meir Akiva), Our Rights and Social Justice (Vlad Kapustin), Trabelsi Hai Shimon, The Crocheted and Social (Ohad Uzan), Social Action (Kobi Dahan), Social Justice (Adamso Alali), and Rishon LeZion Together (Roei Yagna). For lists that gained seats, the results are as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Petah Tikva\nThe results in Petah Tikva, with 108,563 voters participating of 193,736 eligible (a 56.04% turnout), are as follows. Of the 108,563 votes, 104,671 were valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Petah Tikva\nThe following lists did not gain enough seats to enter the city council: One of Ours, With Us (Haim Bashari), Us, Together, The Present, Petah Tikva Our Home, and Young Leadership for Real. Of the lists that entered the city council, the results are as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Ashdod\nThe results in Ashdod, with 121,245 voters participating of 182,983 eligible (a 66.26% turnout), are as follows. Of the 121,245 votes, 118,363 were valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Ashdod\nThe following lists did not gain enough seats to enter the city council: A New Voice, Ashdod United, Ashdod Awakens (Naor Biton), There is an Alternative, Ashdod Community, Voice of the Heart, and Integration. Of the lists that entered the city council, the results are as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Netanya\nThe results in Netanya, with 89,371 voters participating of 186,792 eligible (a 47.85% turnout), are as follows. Of the 89,371 votes, 83,258 were valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Netanya\nThe following lists did not gain enough seats to enter the city council: The Way (Wagif Eliav), The New Ones (Amir Sinai), Local in Netanya (Daniel Maharat), Our Netanya (Yoni Giorno), Netanyans and Youth (Tzvika Lieber), and Hope (Amos Dirsau). Of the lists that entered the city council, the results are as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Beersheba\nThe results in Beersheba, with 83,436 voters participating of 166,800 eligible (a 50.02% turnout), are as follows. Of the 83,436 votes, 78,161 were valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280156-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Israeli municipal elections, By city, Beersheba\nThe following lists did not gain enough seats to enter the city council: Be'er Sheva We Deserve More, Pleasant Ways, Strength in Unity, Light (Moshe Yanai), and Voice of Be'er Sheva (Yitzhak Dahan). Of the lists that entered the city council, the results are as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280157-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Istanbul Open\nThe 2018 Istanbul Open (also known as the TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open for sponsorship purposes) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the Istanbul Open, and an ATP World Tour 250 event. It took place at the Koza World of Sports Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, from 30 April\u20136 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280157-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Istanbul Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280158-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Istanbul Open \u2013 Doubles\nRoman Jebav\u00fd and Ji\u0159\u00ed Vesel\u00fd were the defending champions, but Vesel\u00fd chose not to participate this year. Jebav\u00fd played alongside Florin Mergea, but lost in the first round to Dominic Inglot and Robert Lindstedt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280158-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Istanbul Open \u2013 Doubles\nInglot and Lindstedt went on to win the title, defeating Ben McLachlan and Nicholas Monroe in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20138].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280159-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Istanbul Open \u2013 Singles\nMarin \u010cili\u0107 was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Malek Jaziri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280159-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Istanbul Open \u2013 Singles\nTaro Daniel won his first ATP World Tour title, defeating Jaziri in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280159-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Istanbul Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280160-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Istrian Spring Trophy\nThe 2018 Istrian Spring Trophy was the 58th edition of the Istrian Spring Trophy road cycling stage race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 2.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280160-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Istrian Spring Trophy, Teams\nTwenty-nine teams were invited to take part in the race. These included twenty-eight UCI Continental teams and one national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280160-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Istrian Spring Trophy, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Istrian Spring Trophy, three different jerseys were awarded for the main classifications. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Istrian Spring Trophy, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280160-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Istrian Spring Trophy, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a blue jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 3 in each intermediate sprint. For winning an intermediate sprint, a rider earned 5 points, with 3 for second and 1 for third. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a green jersey. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280161-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Isulan bombings\nAbout a month after a bombing in Lamitan, Basilan, another explosion occurred in the municipality of Isulan, Sultan Kudarat, killing 3 and injuring over 36 in a town festival. Another bombing incident occurred a week later, killing 2 and injuring 12 around an internet caf\u00e9 in the same city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280161-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Isulan bombings, August 28 bombing\nThe bombing occurred on August 28, 2018 at around 8:34 pm (UTC+8) in Barangay Kalawag 3 in front of J and H Marketing, a retail area for ukay ukay merchandise, along the National Highway around the area of the Isulan town proper. The explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device planted on a parked motorcycle. The incident happened amidst the Hamungaya Festival, a harvest festival celebrated in the Isulan annually.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280161-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Isulan bombings, August 28 bombing, Casualties\nThe blasts had three casualties; a 51-year-old, a 7-year-old child, and a 18-year-old college student. The 51-year-old died at the bombing site while the two died while confined in a hospital due to serious injuries from shrapnel wounds. 36 people were injured which includes two soldiers and a militia personnel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280161-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Isulan bombings, August 28 bombing, Investigation, Suspects\nThe police and military suspects that the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters are behind the bombing. The group is known for attacking civilian targets in retaliation to the group's losses in clashes against the Philippine Army's 6th Infantry Division. The Police Regional Office-12 (PRO-12) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) is determining the identity of two couriers who are said to have planted the bomb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280161-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Isulan bombings, August 28 bombing, Investigation, Suspects\nThe PNP PRO-12 later released an official sketch of an individual tagged as a suspect to the bombing. The image was released to various media firms on September 1, 2018. The suspect was described as a 20 to 25 years old male who is 5\u00a0feet 6\u00a0inches (168 centimetres) tall, weighs about 60 kilograms (130 pounds), with a medium built and a white complexion. The police believes that the suspect is working with accomplices since the bombing was made in a manner that it can't be done by a single person. A day after a bombing, an unofficial computer-generated cartographic sketch of the suspect began circulating in social media. The police views this as a possible attempt to muddle the investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280161-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Isulan bombings, August 28 bombing, Investigation, Suspects\nAuthorities filed charges against 7 suspects, 2 of which are still at large. Four had been identified as Normia Antao Camsa, Norshiya Joven Camsa, Abedin Camsa alias \u201cBeds,\u201d and the Swedish national, Hassan Akgun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280161-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Isulan bombings, August 28 bombing, Investigation, Methods\nAccording to the police, the suspect detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) using a mobile phone. He is said to have been accosted by a militiaman when he placed the bomb under a parked motorbike. The IED's composition is determined to consists of black powder filled inside a barrel of water pump laced with cut nails and metal shards. A nine-volt battery was placed as a triggering device.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280161-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Isulan bombings, August 28 bombing, Reaction\nExecutive Salvador Medialdea hinted on August 29 that the Martial law in Mindanao which is due to terminate by the end of 2018 could be extended following the bombing. Local officials of Sultan Kudarat as well as Maguindanao expressed openness to the possible extension of martial law which they assess could help maintain peace and order in the island. Further activities in relation to the 104th foundation day of Isulan and the Hamungaya Festival were cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280161-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Isulan bombings, September 2 twin bombings\nA second explosion occurred on September 2, outside an Internet caf\u00e9, where 2 died and 12 are injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280162-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 Italian Athletics Championships was the 108th edition of the Italian Athletics Championships and took place in Pescara from 7 to 9 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280163-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships\n2018 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships was the 49th edition of the Italian Athletics Indoor Championships and were held in Ancona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280164-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Basketball Cup\nThe 2018 Italian Basketball Cup, known as the 2018 PosteMobile Final Eight for sponsorship reasons, was the 50th edition of Italy's national cup tournament. The competition is managed by the Lega Basket for LBA clubs. The tournament was played from 15 to 18 February 2018 in Florence, at the end of the first half of the 2017\u201318 LBA season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280164-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Basketball Cup\nFiat Torino went to win its first Cup ever by beating Germani Basket Brescia 69\u201367 in the Finals. Vander Blue was named Finals MVP of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280164-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Basketball Cup, Qualification\nQualified for the tournament were selected based on their position on the league table at the end of the first half of the 2017\u201318 LBA regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280164-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Basketball Cup, Final\nIn the final game Sasha Vuja\u010di\u0107\u2019s layup in the dying seconds lifted Fiat Torino to a 69-67 victory over Germani Basket Brescia for the club\u2019s first Italian Cup. After a series of threes in the closing seconds left the game tied, Brescia had the ball for what appeared to be the final possession, however Marcus Landry and Luca Vitali each missed from downtown, Deron Washington picked up the loose ball and started a fast break that Vujacic finished with the winning layup. Diante Garrett paced Fiat with 16 points, Nobel Boungou Colo and Vander Blue added 11 points apiece and Washington scored 10 for the winners. Landry paced Brescia with 22 points and 9 rebounds and Michele Vitali added 14 points in defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280165-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Basketball Supercup\nThe 2018 Italian Basketball Supercup (Italian: Supercoppa di pallacanestro 2018), also known as Zurich Connect Supercoppa 2018 for sponsorship reasons, was the 24th edition of the super cup tournament, organized by the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280165-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Basketball Supercup\nAX Armani Exchange Milano went to win his 3rd Supercup by beating Fiat Torino 82\u201371 in the Finals. Vladimir Micov was named MVP of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280165-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Basketball Supercup\nIt was played in the PalaLeonessa in Brescia on 29 and 30 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280165-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Basketball Supercup, Participant teams\nAs of 3 June 2018, qualified for the tournament were Fiat Torino and Germani Brescia, as Italian Cup finalists, AX Armani Exchange Milano and Dolomiti Energia Trento as LBA Playoffs finalist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280166-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian F4 Championship\nThe 2018 Italian F4 Championship Powered by Abarth was the fifth season of the Italian F4 Championship. It began on 29 April in Imola and finished on 21 October in Monza after seven triple header rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280166-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian F4 Championship\nThe title was clinched by Enzo Fittipaldi, who won the season finale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280166-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian F4 Championship, Race calendar and results\nThe calendar was published on 22 October 2017. For the first time in the history of the championship, it included a circuit outside of Italy with a round being held at Circuit Paul Ricard in Southern France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280166-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian F4 Championship, Championship standings\nPoints were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in each race. No points were awarded for pole position or fastest lap. Only the best sixteen results were counted towards the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280167-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian GT Championship\nThe 2018 Italian GT Championship was the 27th season of the Italian GT Championship, the grand tourer-style sports car racing founded by the Italian auotomobile club (ACI). The Champsionship consisted of seven Sprint race events. At each event there were held two races. The Season started on 27 April in Imola and ended on 28 October in Mugello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280168-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Italian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2018) was a Formula One motor race held on 2 September 2018 at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Monza, Italy. The race was the fourteenth round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 88th running of the Italian Grand Prix and the 83rd time the race was held at Monza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280168-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Grand Prix\nMercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 17-point lead over Sebastian Vettel in the Drivers' Championship. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes led Ferrari by 15 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280168-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Grand Prix, Race report\nThe race was won by Lewis Hamilton after a battle with Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, Hamilton caught and passed R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen with 9 laps remaining. On the opening lap Hamilton and Vettel collided causing Vettel to spin off. Despite Vettel's complaints, the stewards deemed it just a racing incident. Vettel would later fight back to 4th place, behind Valtteri Bottas in third. Max Verstappen was penalised 5 seconds after forcing Bottas off the track after a pit stop and was classified 5th. Sergey Sirotkin took his first, and to date, only Formula 1 championship point, driving for Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280169-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open (pool)\nThe 2018 Dynamic Billiard Treviso Open, was the first Euro Tour 9-Ball pool event in 2018. The event was won by Albania's Eklent Ka\u00e7i who defeated Austria's Albin Ouschan 9\u20135 in the final. This was Kaci's first Euro Tour victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280169-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open (pool)\n2017's Treviso Open champion Wiktor Zieli\u0144ski lost in the last 32 of the event against Sergei Luzker. Top Euro Tour players, such as 2017 Overall winner Ralf Souquet did not compete at the event, as the event was held at the same time as the 2018 World Pool Masters. The event is not to be confused with the 2018 Treviso Open; another event held in the Euro Tour in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280169-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open (pool), Tournament format\nThe event saw a total of 153 players compete, in a double-elimination knockout tournament, until the last 32 stage; where the tournament was contested as single elimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280170-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open (tennis)\nThe 2018 Italian Open (also known as the 2018 Rome Masters and sponsored title 2018 Internazionali BNL d'Italia) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy from 14\u201320 May 2018. It was the 75th edition of the Italian Open and it is classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2018 ATP World Tour and a Premier 5 event on the 2018 WTA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280170-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open (tennis), ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds\nThe following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP rankings as of 7 May 2018. Rankings and points before are as of 14 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280170-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open (tennis), ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds\nThe following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280170-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open (tennis), ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280170-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open (tennis), WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280171-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nPierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280171-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Mate Pavi\u0107 were in contention for the ATP no. 1 doubles ranking at the beginning of the tournament. Pavi\u0107 attained the top ranking after both he and Kubot (along with their respective partners) lost in the quarterfinals. Pavi\u0107 will be the first player from Croatia (male or female) to achieve a no. 1 ranking and the youngest ATP doubles no. 1 player since 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280171-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJuan Sebasti\u00e1n Cabal and Robert Farah won their first Masters 1000 title, defeating Pablo Carre\u00f1o Busta and Jo\u00e3o Sousa in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20134].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280172-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nRafael Nadal defeated the defending champion Alexander Zverev in the final, 6\u20131, 1\u20136, 6\u20133, to win the Men's Singles title at the 2018 Italian Open. It was his record-extending eighth Italian Open title and his record-extending 32nd Masters title overall. With the win, Nadal also regained the ATP No. 1 singles ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280172-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nAfter failing to defend his runner-up points from the previous year, Novak Djokovic fell outside the Top 20 in rankings for the first time since October 2, 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280172-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nThis was the last professional tournament for former world No. 13 Alexandr Dolgopolov. He lost in the first round to Djokovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280172-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280172-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280173-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nLatisha Chan and Martina Hingis were the defending champions, but Hingis retired from professional tennis at the end of 2017. Chan played alongside Bethanie Mattek-Sands, but lost in the first round to Svetlana Kuznetsova and Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280173-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAshleigh Barty and Demi Schuurs won the title, defeating Andrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 and Barbora Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280173-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nEkaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina were in contention for the No. 1 ranking but withdrew before their opening match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280173-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280174-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nElina Svitolina was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, defeating Simona Halep in a rematch of the previous year's final, 6\u20130, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280174-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nHalep and Caroline Wozniacki were in contention for the WTA no. 1 singles ranking at the beginning of the tournament. Halep retained the top ranking when Wozniacki lost in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280174-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThis tournament marked the retirement of former US Open finalist Roberta Vinci. She lost in the first round to Aleksandra Kruni\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280174-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280174-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election\nThe 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. No party or coalition gained an absolute majority in the Parliament, even though the centre-right coalition won a plurality of seats as a coalition, and the Five Star Movement (M5S) won a plurality of seats as an individual party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election\nVoters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic since 1948. The election took place concurrently with the Lombard and Lazio regional elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election\nThe centre-right coalition, whose main party was the right-wing League led by Matteo Salvini, emerged with a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate, while the anti-establishment Five Star Movement led by Luigi Di Maio became the party with the largest number of votes. The centre-left coalition, led by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, came third. However, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting in a hung parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election\nAfter three months of negotiation, a coalition was finally formed on 1 June between the M5S and the League, whose leaders both became Deputy Prime Ministers in a government led by the M5S-linked independent Giuseppe Conte as Prime Minister. This coalition ended with Conte's resignation on 20 August 2019 after the League withdrew its support of the government. A new coalition was formed with the centre-left Democratic Party, and Conte was sworn in for a second mandate as Prime Minister on 5 September 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nAt the 2013 general election none of the three main alliances \u2013 the centre-right led by Silvio Berlusconi, the centre-left led by Pier Luigi Bersani and the Five Star Movement (M5S) led by Beppe Grillo \u2013 won an outright majority in Parliament. After a failed attempt to form a government by Bersani, then-secretary of the Democratic Party (PD), and Giorgio Napolitano's re-election as President, Enrico Letta, Bersani's deputy, received the task of forming a grand coalition government. The Letta Cabinet consisted of the PD, Berlusconi's The People of Freedom (PdL), Civic Choice (SC), the Union of the Centre (UdC) and others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nOn 16 November 2013, Berlusconi launched a new party, Forza Italia (FI), named after the defunct Forza Italia party (1994\u20132009). Additionally, Berlusconi announced that FI would be opposed to Letta's government, causing the split from the PdL/FI of a large group of deputies and senators led by Minister of Interior Angelino Alfano, who launched the alternative New Centre-Right (NCD) party and remained loyal to the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nFollowing the election of Matteo Renzi as Secretary of the PD in December 2013, there were persistent tensions culminating in Letta's resignation as Prime Minister in February 2014. Subsequently, Renzi formed a government based on the same coalition (including the NCD), but in a new fashion. The new Prime Minister had a strong mandate from his party and was reinforced by the PD's strong showing in the 2014 European Parliament election and the election of Sergio Mattarella, a fellow Democrat, as President in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nWhile in power, Renzi implemented several reforms, including a new electoral law (which would later be declared partially unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court), a relaxation of labour and employment laws (known as Jobs Act) with the intention of boosting economic growth, a thorough reform of the public administration, the simplification of the civil trial, the recognition of same-sex unions (not marriages) and the abolition of several minor taxes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nAs a result of the Libyan civil war, a major problem faced by Renzi was the high level of illegal immigration to Italy. During his tenure, there was an increase in the number of immigrants rescued at sea being brought to southern Italian ports, prompting criticism from the M5S, FI and Northern League (LN), and causing a loss of popularity for Renzi. However, well into 2016 opinion polls registered the PD's strength, as well as the growth of the M5S, the LN and Brothers of Italy (FdI), FI's decline, SC's virtual disappearance and the replacement of Left Ecology Freedom (SEL) with the Italian Left (SI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nIn December 2016, a constitutional reform proposed by Renzi's government and duly approved by Parliament was rejected in a constitutional referendum (59% to 41%). Under the reform, the Senate would have been composed of 100 members: 95 regional representatives and five presidential appointees. Following defeat, Renzi stepped down as Prime Minister and was replaced by his Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni, another Democrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nIn early 2017, in opposition to Renzi's policies, some left-wing Democrats led by Bersani, Massimo D'Alema and Roberto Speranza launched, along with SI splinters, the Democratic and Progressive Movement (MDP). Contextually, the NCD was transformed into Popular Alternative (AP). In April Renzi was re-elected secretary of the PD and thus the party's candidate for Prime Minister, defeating Minister of Justice Andrea Orlando and Governor of Apulia Michele Emiliano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nIn May 2017, Matteo Salvini was re-elected federal secretary of the LN and launched his own bid. Under Salvini, the party had emphasised Euroscepticism, opposition to immigration and other populist policies. In fact, Salvini's aim had been to re-launch the LN as a \"national\" or, even, \"Italian nationalist\" party, withering any notion of northern separatism. This focus became particularly evident in December when LN presented its new electoral logo, without the word \"Nord\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nIn September 2017, Luigi Di Maio was selected as candidate for Prime Minister and \"political head\" of the M5S, replacing Grillo. However, even in the following months, the populist comedian was accused by critics of continuing to play his role as de facto leader of the party, while an increasingly important, albeit unofficial, role was assumed by Davide Casaleggio, son of Gianroberto, a web strategist who founded the M5S along with Grillo in 2009 and died in 2016. In January 2018, Grillo separated his own blog from the movement; his blog was used in the previous years as an online newspaper of the M5S and the main propaganda tool. This event was seen by many as the proof that Grillo was slowly leaving politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nThe autumn registered some major developments to the left of the political spectrum: in November Forza Europa, the Italian Radicals and individual liberals launched a joint list named More Europe (+Eu), led by the long-time Radical leader Emma Bonino; in December the MDP, SI and Possible launched a joint list named Free and Equal (LeU) under the leadership of Pietro Grasso, President of the Senate and former anti-mafia prosecutor; the Italian Socialist Party, the Federation of the Greens, Civic Area and Progressive Area formed a list named Together in support of the PD; the Communist Refoundation Party, the Italian Communist Party, social centres, minor parties, local committees, associations and groups launched a far-left joint list named Power to the People (PaP), under the leadership of Viola Carofalo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nIn late December, the centrist post-NCD Popular Alternative (AP), which had been a key coalition partner for the PD, divided itself among those who wanted to return into the centre-right's fold and those who supported Renzi's coalition. Two groups of AP splinters (one led by Maurizio Lupi and the other by Enrico Costa), formed along with Direction Italy, Civic Choice, Act!, Cantiere Popolare and the Movement for the Autonomies, a joint list within the centre-right, named Us with Italy (NcI). The list was later enlarged to the Union of the Centre and other minor parties. The remaining members of AP, Italy of Values, the Centrists for Europe, Solidary Democracy and minor groups joined forces in the pro-PD Popular Civic List (CP), led by Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nOn 28 December 2017, President Sergio Mattarella dissolved Parliament and a new general election was called for 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nOn 21 February 2018, Marco Minniti, the Italian Minister of the Interior, warned \"There is a concrete risk of the mafias conditioning electors' free vote\". Predominately the Sicilian Mafia have been recently active in Italian election meddling, the Camorra and 'Ndrangheta organisations have also taken an interest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Background\nIn late February, Berlusconi indicated the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, as his candidate for the premiership if the centre-right won the general election and if Forza Italia received at least the plurality of the votes inside the coalition, condition that did not occur, resulting in a victory of the party led by Matteo Salvini, the League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign\nThe first phase of the electoral campaign was marked by the statement of the President Mattarella to parties for the presentation of \"realistic and concrete\" proposals during the traditional end of the year's message, in which he also expressed the wish for a high participation in the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Electoral programmes\nThe electoral programme of the PD included, among the main points, the introduction of a minimum hourly wage of \u20ac10, a measure that would affect 15% of workers, that is those workers who do not adhere to the national collective agreements; a cut of the contributory wedge for permanent contracts; a relocation allowance and an increase in subsidies for the unemployed; a monthly allowance of \u20ac80 for parents for each minor child; fiscal detraction of \u20ac240 for parents with children; and the progressive reduction of the rates of IRPEF and IRES, respectively the income tax and the corporate tax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Electoral programmes\nRegarding immigration, which had been a major problem in Italy for the previous years, the PD advocated a reduction in migrant flows through bilateral agreements with the countries of origin and pretended to a halt to EU funding for countries like Hungary and Poland that have refused to take in any of the 600,000 migrants who have reached Italy through the Mediterranean over the past four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0018-0002", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Electoral programmes\nAmong the PD's allies, the CP proposed free nurseries, a tax exemption for corporate welfare and other measures regarding public health, including the contrast to the long waiting list in hospitals, the abolition of the so-called \"supertickets\", and an extension of home care for the elderly. +Eu advocated the re-launch of the process of European integration and federation, towards the formation of the United States of Europe. This focus, regarding the European process of integration, was also strongly supported by the PD. More Europe also strongly advocated the social integration of migrants, quietly opposing the PD's policies implemented by the Minister of Interior Marco Minniti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Electoral programmes\nThe main proposal of the centre-right coalition was a huge tax reform based on the introduction of a flat tax: for Berlusconi initially based on the lowest current rate (23%) with the threshold raised to \u20ac12,000, then proceeding to a gradual reduction of the rate; while according to Salvini the tax rate should be only 15%. The economic newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore estimated the cost of this measure at around \u20ac25 billion per year calculated with a 20% rate, or \u20ac40 billion with 15%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Electoral programmes\nBerlusconi also proposed the cancellation of IRAP, a tax on productivity, the increase of minimum pensions to \u20ac1,000, the introduction of a \"dignity income\" to fight poverty, the end of contribution on youth recruitment, changes to the Fornero law, which regulated pensions, and the launch of a \"Marshall Plan\" for Africa to reduce illegal immigration to Italy. Within FI there are some representatives of the Animalist Movement (MA) led by Michela Brambilla, whose main focus is in particular the banning of fur clothing and stricter controls in circuses, free veterinary care and the establishment of an ombudsman for animal rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0019-0002", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Electoral programmes\nThe Lega additionally proposed the complete replacement of the Fornero law and the possibility of retirement with 41 years of contributions, the \"scrapping\" of tax records for taxpayers in difficulty, an operation that should yield up to \u20ac35 billion to the State, the disbandment of Equitalia, the company that deals with the collection of taxes, the abolition of the limit on the use of cash, the regularization of prostitution; moreover, Salvini's main aim is a drastic reduction of illegal immigration, by reintroducing border controls, blocking arrivals and repatriating all migrants who have no right to stay in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0019-0003", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Electoral programmes\nThe FdI proposed free nurseries, a check for \u20ac400 per month for newborns up to the six years old, to increase population growth, parental leave paid to 80% up to the sixth year of birth, increase in salaries and equipment to law enforcement, the increased use of the Italian Army as a measure to fight crime and a new law on self-defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Electoral programmes\nThe M5S presented a programme whose main points are the introduction of a basic income, known as \"income of citizenship\", to fight poverty, a measure that would cost between \u20ac15 and \u20ac20 billion annually; the cut of the public debt by 40 points in relation to GDP in ten years; the adoption of measures to revitalise youth employment; a cut in pensions of over \u20ac5,000 net not entirely based on the contribution method; the reduction of IRPEF rates and the extension of the income tax threshold; the increase in spending on family welfare measures from 1.5 to 2.5% of GDP; a constitutional law that obliges members of Parliament to resign if they intend to change party, which by now is unconstitutional. Di Maio also proposed a legislative simplification, starting with the elimination of almost 400 laws with a single legislative provision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 902]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Electoral programmes\nLeU focused on the so-called right to study, proposing in particular the abolition of university fees for students who take the exams regularly, with the estimated cost for the state budget of \u20ac1.6 billion. LeU also proposed the reintroducing the workers' statutory protections which were eliminated by the Renzi government's Jobs Act, fighting tax evasion, corruption and organised crime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Macerata murder and subsequent attack\nOn 3 February 2018, a drive-by shooting event occurred in the city of Macerata, Marche in Central Italy where six African migrants were seriously wounded. A 28-year-old local man, Luca Traini, was arrested and charged with attempted murder, and was also charged for the attack against the local headquarters of the ruling PD party. After the attack, Traini reportedly had an Italian flag draped on his shoulders and raised his arm in the fascist salute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Macerata murder and subsequent attack\nTraini stated that the attack was \"revenge\" for Pamela Mastropietro, an 18-year-old Roman woman whose dismembered body had been found few days earlier, stuffed into two suitcases and dumped in the countryside; for this, three Nigerian drug dealers were arrested, the main suspect being 29-year-old failed asylum seeker, named Innocent Oseghale. Missing body parts had sparked allegations of the murder having been a muti killing, also involving cannibalism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Macerata murder and subsequent attack\nThe case sparked anger and anti-immigrant sentiment in Macerata. Traini's lawyer reported \"alarming solidarity\" for Traini expressed by the populace, while Mastropietro's mother publicly thanked Traini for \"lighting a candle\" for her daughter. A second autopsy of the girl's remains, published after the attack against the African migrants, revealed that Mastropietro had been strangled, stabbed, and then flayed while still alive. The murder of Mastropietro and the attack by Traini, and their appraisal by Italian media and the public were \"set to become a decisive factor\" in the national elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Macerata murder and subsequent attack\nTraini was a member and former local candidate of the League, and many political commentators, intellectuals and politicians harshly criticized party leader Matteo Salvini, in connection with the attack, accusing him of having \"spread hate and racism\" in the country. Particularly, Roberto Saviano, the notable anti-mafia writer, labeled Salvini as the \"moral instigator\" of Traini's attack. Salvini responded to critics by accusing the centre-left government of responsibility for Mastropietro's death through allowing migrants to stay in the country and having \"blood on their hands\", asserting that the blame lies with those who \"fill [Italy] with illegal immigrants\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Macerata murder and subsequent attack\nPrime Minister Gentiloni stated that he \"trusts in the sense of responsibility of all political forces. Criminals are criminals and the state will be particularly harsh with anyone that wants to fuel a spiral of violence.\" Gentiloni added that \"hate and violence will not divide Italy\". Also, Minister of the Interior Marco Minniti harshly condemned the attack against the Africans, saying that any political party must \"ride the hate\". Renzi, whose party was also accused about its position on immigration, stated that \"calm and responsibility\" from all political forces would now be necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Macerata murder and subsequent attack\nEventually, in the constituency of Macerata, the centre-right coalition, led by the League, won a plurality of the votes in the ballot, electing candidate Tullio Patassini, and showed an increase from 0.4% of the vote in 2013 to 21% in 2018, five years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Electoral debates\nDifferently from many other Western countries, in Italy the electoral debates between parties' leaders are not so common before general elections; in fact the last debate between the two main candidates to premiership dated back to the 2006 general election between Silvio Berlusconi and Romano Prodi. In recent years, with few exceptions, almost every main political leader had denied his participation to an electoral debate with other candidates, preferring interviews with TV hosts and journalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Campaign, Electoral debates\nHowever, many debates took places between other leading members of the main parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, New electoral system\nAs a consequence of the 2016 constitutional referendum and of two different sentences of the Constitutional Court, the electoral laws for the two houses of the Italian Parliament lacked uniformity. In October 2017, the PD, AP, FI, the LN and minor parties agreed on a new electoral law, which was approved by the Chamber of Deputies with 375 votes in favour and 215 against and by the Senate with 214 votes against 61. The reform was opposed by the M5S, the MDP, SI, FdI and minor parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, New electoral system\nThe so-called Rosatellum bis, after Ettore Rosato (PD leader in the Chamber), is a mixed system, with 37% of seats allocated using a first-past-the-post voting and 63% using the proportional largest remainder method, with one round of voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, New electoral system\nA small, variable number of senators for life will also be members of the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, New electoral system\nFor Italian residents, each house members will be elected in single ballots, including the constituency candidate and his/her supporting party lists. In each single-member constituency the deputy/senator is elected on a plurality basis, while the seats in multi-member constituencies will be allocated nationally. In order to be calculated in single-member constituency results, parties need to obtain at least 1% of the national vote. In order to receive seats in multi-member constituencies, parties need to obtain at least 3% of the national vote. Elects from multi-member constituencies will come from closed lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, New electoral system\nThe voting paper, which is a single one for the first-past-the-post and the proportional systems, shows the names of the candidates to single-member constituencies and, in close conjunction with them, the symbols of the linked lists for the proportional part, each one with a list of the relative candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, New electoral system\nThe voter will be able to cast their vote in three different ways:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Coalitions and parties\nThe following table includes the coalitions and parties running in the majority of multi-member constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Results for the Chamber of Deputies, Italians abroad\nTwelve members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by Italians abroad. Two members are elected for North America and Central America (including most of the Caribbean), four members for South America (including Trinidad and Tobago), five members for Europe, and one member for the rest of the world (Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Antarctica). Voters in these regions select candidate lists and may also cast a preference vote for individual candidates. The seats are allocated by proportional representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Results for the Chamber of Deputies, Italians abroad\nThe electoral law allows for parties to form different coalitions on the lists abroad, compared to the lists in Italy; in fact Forza Italia, League and Brothers of Italy formed a unified list for abroad constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Leaders' races\nDi Maio and Renzi run in a single-member constituency, respectively in Acerra, near Naples, for the Chamber of Deputies and in Florence for the Senate. Salvini ran in many multi-member constituencies through the country and, due to the mechanism of the electoral law, he was elected in Calabria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Maps\nWinning candidates in constituencies for the Senate of the Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Analysis of proportionality, Chamber of Deputies\nThe disproportionality of the Chamber of Deputies in the 2018 election was 5.50 using the Gallagher Index.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Analysis of proportionality, Senate of the Republic\nThe disproportionality of the Senate of the Republic in the 2018 election was 6.12 using the Gallagher Index.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nAfter the election's results were known, both Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini stated that they must receive from President Sergio Mattarella the task of forming a new cabinet because they led the largest party and the largest coalition, respectively. On 5 March, Matteo Renzi announced that the PD will be in the opposition during this legislature and he will resign as party leader when a new cabinet is formed. On 6 March, Salvini repeated his campaign message that his party would refuse any coalition with the M5S.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 14 March, Salvini nonetheless offered to govern with the M5S, imposing the condition that League ally Forza Italia, led by ex premier Silvio Berlusconi, must also take part in any coalition. Di Maio rejected this proposal on the grounds that Salvini was \"choosing restoration instead of revolution\" because \"Berlusconi represents the past\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 12 March, Renzi resigned as party leader and was replaced by deputy secretary Maurizio Martina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 24 March, the centre-right coalition and the Five Star Movement agreed on the election of presidents of the Houses of Parliament, Roberto Fico of the M5S for the Chamber and Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati of FI for the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 7 April, Di Maio made an appeal to the PD to \"bury the hatchet\" and consider a governing coalition with his party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 18 April, President Mattarella gave newly-elected Senate president Alberti Casellati a so-called \"exploratory mandate\" to form a government of M5S and the centre-right alliance, with a two-day deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 23 April, President Mattarella gave newly elected Chamber of Deputies president Fico an \"exploratory mandate\" to form a government between M5S and the Democratic Party, with a three-day deadline. The decision came after the previous attempt by Alberti Casellati failed to show any progress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 30 April, following an interview of the former PD's leader Matteo Renzi who expressed his strong opposition to an alliance with the M5S, Di Maio called for new elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 7 May, President Mattarella held a third round of government formation talks, after which he formally confirmed the lack of any possible majority (M5S rejecting an alliance with the whole centre-right coalition, PD rejecting an alliance with both M5S and the centre-right coalition, and the League's Matteo Salvini refusing to start a government with M5S but without Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, whose presence in the government was explicitly vetoed by M5S's leader Luigi Di Maio); on the same circumstance, he announced his intention to soon appoint a \"neutral government\" (irrespective of M5S and League's refusal to support such an option) to take over from the Gentiloni Cabinet which was considered unable to lead Italy into a second consecutive election as it was representing a majority from a past legislature, and offering an early election in July as a realistic option to take into consideration due to the deadlock situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 997]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 9 May, after a day of rumours, both M5S and the League officially requested President Mattarella to give them 24 more hours to strike a government agreement between the two parties. Later the same day, in the evening, Silvio Berlusconi publicly announced Forza Italia would not support a M5S-League government on a vote of confidence, but he would still maintain the centre-right alliance nonetheless, thus opening the doors to a possible majority government between the two parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 13 May, the Five Star Movement and League reached an agreement on a government program, likely clearing the way for the formation of a governing coalition between the two parties, but they are still negotiating the members of a government cabinet, including the prime minister. M5S and League leaders were slated to meet with Italian President Sergio Mattarella on 14 May to guide the formation of a new government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 17 May, Five Star Movement and League agreed to the details regarding the government program, officially clearing the way for the formation of a governing coalition between the two parties. The final draft of their program was then published on 18 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 18 May, 44,796 members of the Five Star Movement cast their vote online on the matter concerning the government agreement, with 42,274, more than 94%, voting in favour. A second vote sponsored by the Northern League then took place on 19 May and 20 May and was open to the general public. On 20 May, it was announced that approximately 215,000 Italian citizens had participated in the Northern League election, with around 91 percent supporting the government agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 21 May, the Five Star Movement and the League proposed law professor Giuseppe Conte as Prime Minister. On 23 May, Conte was invited to the Quirinal Palace to receive the task of forming a new cabinet and was granted a mandate by Italian President Mattarella.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nHowever, on 27 May 2018, the designated Prime Minister Conte renounced to his office, due to contrasts between the League's leader Salvini and President Mattarella. In fact, Salvini proposed the university professor Paolo Savona as Minister of Economy and Finances, but Mattarella strongly opposed him, considering Savona too Eurosceptic and anti-German. In his speech after Conte's resignation, Mattarella declared that the two parties wanted to bring Italy out of the Eurozone, and as the guarantor of Italian Constitution and country's interest and stability he could not allow this. On the following day, Mattarella gave Carlo Cottarelli, an economist and former IMF director, the task of forming a new government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nIn the statement released after the designation, Cottarelli specified that in case of confidence by the Parliament, he would contribute to the approval of the budget law for 2019, then the Parliament would be dissolved and a new general election would be called for the beginning of 2019. In the absence of confidence, the government would deal only with the so-called current affairs and lead the country toward new elections after August 2018. Cottarelli also guaranteed the neutrality of the government and the commitment not to run for the next election. He ensured a prudent management of Italian national debt and the defense of national interests through a constructive dialogue with the European Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280175-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election, Government formation\nOn 28 May 2018, the Democratic Party announced that they will vote the confidence to Cottarelli, while the Five Star Movement and the centre-right parties Forza Italia, Brothers of Italy and the League announced their vote against. Cottarelli was expected to submit his list of ministers for approval to President Mattarella on 29 May. However, on 29 May and 30 May he held only informal consultations with the President. According to the Italian media, he is facing difficulties due to the unwillingness of several potential candidates to serve as ministers in his cabinet and may even renounce. Meanwhile, Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio announced their willingness to restart the negotiations to form a political government, and the leader of Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni gave her support to the initiative. The government was formed the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 912]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280176-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election in Aosta Valley\nThe Italian general election of 2018 took place on 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280176-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election in Aosta Valley\nIn its two single-seat constituencies, Aosta Valley elected Elisa Tripodi (Five Star Movement) to the Chamber of Deputies and re-elected Albert Lani\u00e8ce (Valdostan Union, Aosta Valley coalition) to the Senate. Tripodi was the first woman to be elected from the region and the first candidate not supported by a regionalist coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280177-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election in Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol\nThe Italian general election of 2018 took place on 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280177-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election in Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol\nIn Trentino the centre-right coalition, dominated by the Lega (Lega Nord Trentino), beat the centre-left coalition for the first time since 1996. In South Tyrol the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) was confirmed as the largest party. Under the new electoral system, which re-introduced single-seat constituencies also for the Chamber, the centre-right won all such constituencies in Trentino, while the SVP-dominated centre-left prevailed in all the single-seat constituencies of South Tyrol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280178-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election in Veneto\nThe Italian general election of 2018 took place on 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280178-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian general election in Veneto\nIn Veneto the centre-right coalition (48.1%), dominated by the Lega (Liga Veneta), obtained a resounding victory, being largely ahead of the Five Star Movement (24.4%) and the centre-left coalition (20.3%). The Lega (32.2%) was largely the largest party, followed by the Five Star Movement (24.4%), the Democratic Party (16.7%) and Forza Italia (10.6%). Under the new electoral system, which re-introduced single-seat constituencies, the centre-right won all such constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation\nIn the 2018 Italian general election, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting in a hung parliament. On 4 March, the centre-right alliance, in which Matteo Salvini's League (LN) emerged as the main political force, won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate, while the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) led by Luigi Di Maio became the party with the largest number of votes. The centre-left coalition, led by Matteo Renzi, came third. As a result, protracted negotiations were required before a new government could be formed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation\nOn 24 March 2018, following the elections of the presidents of the two houses of the Italian Parliament, Roberto Fico of the M5S, and Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati of Forza Italia (FI), Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni resigned his post to President Sergio Mattarella. In accordance with common practice in Italy, Mattarella asked the prime minister to remain in office to deal with the current affairs until a new cabinet is formed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation\nOn 31 May 2018, following 88 days of negotiations and several impasses, law professor Giuseppe Conte was appointed as the prime minister with support from the League and the Five Star Movement, even though not having run for the Italian Parliament. Matteo Salvini of the League and Luigi Di Maio of the Five Star Movement were also appointed as vice premiers, thus forming the 66th Italian government since World War II. The formation of a new government avoided the possibility of immediate new elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments\nThe election was seen as a backlash against the establishment with both the Five Star Movement and the League becoming respectively the first and the third largest parties in the Parliament. With no political group or party having an outright majority, speculations were made around these possible outcomes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments\nAfter the election's results were known, both Di Maio and Salvini stated that they must receive from President Mattarella the task of forming a new cabinet because they led the largest party and the largest coalition, respectively. On 5 March, European rating agency Scope Ratings concluded the most probable scenario was either a populist coalition (including M5S and Lega), a leftist coalition (including M5S and PD) or repeat elections. On 5 March, Renzi announced that the Democratic Party will be in the opposition during this legislature and he will resign as party leader when a new cabinet is formed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments\nFollowing controversies within his party, Renzi resigned with immediate effect and on 12 March his deputy secretary Maurizio Martina was appointed acting secretary. On 6 March, Salvini repeated his campaign message that his party would refuse any coalition with the M5S. On 14 March, Salvini nonetheless offered to govern with the M5S, imposing the condition that League ally Forza Italia, led by ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi, must also take part in any coalition. Di Maio rejected this proposal on the grounds that Salvini was \"choosing restoration instead of revolution\" because \"Berlusconi represents the past\". Moreover, a Five Star prominent figure, Alessandro Di Battista, denied any possibility of an alliance with Forza Italia, describing Berlusconi as the \"pure evil of our country\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 854]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments\nThe consultations between the Italian President and the political parties on 4 and 5 April failed to provide a candidate for Prime Minister, forcing the President Mattarella to hold another round of consultation between 11 and 12 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments\nOn 7 April, Di Maio made an appeal to the Democratic Party to \"bury the hatchet\" and consider a governing coalition with his party. However, the Democrats stated that they will be at the opposition in this Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments\nOn 18 April 2018 Mattarella gave to President of the Senate, Elisabetta Casellati, the task to try and reconcile the issues between the Centre-right and the Five Star Movement, in order to break the post-election political deadlock and form a fully functional new government. However, she failed in finding a solution to the contrasts between the two groups, especially between the M5S and Forza Italia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments\nOn 23 April 2018, after the failure of Casellati, Mattarella gave an exploratory mandate to the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Fico, to try to create a political agreement between the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party. Some prominent leaders of the Democratic party, including acting secretary Martina, publicly considered the possibility of an agreement, while former PD's leader Matteo Renzi expressed his dissent alongside with other members of the party close to him. A National Directorate of the party to discuss the matter was set to take place on 3 May. On 30 April, following an interview of Matteo Renzi who expressed his strong opposition to an alliance with the M5S, Di Maio called for new elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments\nA Tecn\u00e9 poll in the aftermath of the 2018 Italian general election suggested that 56% of Five Star Movement voters preferred a government coalition between M5S and Lega Nord. A coalition between the Five Star Movement and the centre-right as a whole was preferred by only 4%. 22% preferred a coalition between the Five Star Movement, the centre-left Democratic Party and the left-wing LeU. A technocratic government was only supported by 1% of the Movement's voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments\nOn 7 May, President Mattarella held a third round of government formation talks, after which he formally confirmed the lack of any possible majority (M5S rejecting an alliance with the whole centre-right coalition, PD rejecting an alliance with both M5S and the centre-right coalition, and the League's Matteo Salvini refusing to start a government with M5S but without Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, whose presence in the government was explicitly vetoed by M5S's leader Luigi Di Maio); on the same circumstance, he announced his intention to soon appoint a \"neutral government\" (irrespective of M5S and League's refusal to support such an option) to take over from the Gentiloni Cabinet which was considered unable to lead Italy into a second consecutive election as it was representing a majority from a past legislature, and offering an early election in July (on what it would be the very first time for a summer general election in Italy) as a realistic option to take into consideration due to the deadlock situation. The Lega and M5S agreed to hold new elections on 8 July, an option that was however rejected by all other parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 1203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Conte cabinet's first failed formation\nOn 9 May, after a day of rumours, both M5S and the League officially requested President Mattarella to give them 24 more hours to strike a government agreement between the two parties. Later the same day, in the evening, Silvio Berlusconi publicly announced Forza Italia would not support an M5S-League government on a vote of confidence, but he would still maintain the centre-right alliance nonetheless, thus opening the doors to a possible majority government between the two parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 101], "content_span": [102, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Conte cabinet's first failed formation\nOn 13 May, the Five Star Movement and the League reached an agreement in principle on a program called \"Contract for the government of change\" (Italian: Contratto per il governo del cambiamento), likely clearing the way for the formation of a governing coalition between the two parties, but could not find an agreement regarding the members of a government cabinet, most importantly the prime minister. M5S and League leaders met with Italian President Sergio Mattarella on 14 May to guide the formation of a new government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 101], "content_span": [102, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Conte cabinet's first failed formation\nOn their meeting with President Mattarella, both parties asked for an additional week of negotiations to agree on a detailed government program and a prime minister to lead the joint government. Both M5S and the League announced their intention to ask their respective members to vote on the government agreement by the weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 101], "content_span": [102, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Conte cabinet's first failed formation\nOn 17 May, the Five Star Movement and the League agreed to the details on the government program, officially clearing the way for a governing coalition between the two parties. The final draft of their program was then published on 18 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 101], "content_span": [102, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Conte cabinet's first failed formation\nOn 18 May, 44,796 members of the Five Star Movement cast their vote online on the matter concerning the government agreement, with 42,274, more than 94%, voting in favour. A second vote sponsored by the League then took place on 19 May and 20 May and was open to the general public. On 20 May it was announced that approximately 215,000 Italian citizens had participated in the League election, with around 91 per cent supporting the government agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 101], "content_span": [102, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Conte cabinet's first failed formation\nOn 21 May, the Five Star Movement and the League proposed law professor Giuseppe Conte as Prime Minister. On 23 May, Conte was invited to the Quirinal Palace to receive the task of forming a new cabinet and was granted a mandate by Italian President Mattarella. The next day, Conte held talks with all parties represented in Parliament. An impasse occurred over the League's nomination of Paolo Savona for Economy Minister, due to Savona's support for withdrawing Italy from the euro, presenting a risk for the country's economy. As a result, Savona was opposed by President Mattarella.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 101], "content_span": [102, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Conte cabinet's first failed formation\nOn 27 May, after days of negotiation and an ultimatum from Salvini and Di Maio regarding Savona, President Mattarella refused to approve the appointment of Savona as Finance Minister, and Conte gave up on the task of forming a government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 101], "content_span": [102, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Cottarelli cabinet\nMattarella subsequently called Carlo Cottarelli to the Quirinal Palace on 28 May with the intention of giving him the task of forming a new government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Cottarelli cabinet\nIn the statement released after the designation, Cottarelli specified that, with a vote of confidence by the Parliament, he would pass a budget law for 2019, then have the Parliament dissolved and a new general election called for the beginning of 2019. On the other hand, without the confidence of Parliament, the government would deal only with \"current affairs\" and lead the country toward new elections after August 2018. Cottarelli also guaranteed the neutrality of his government and committed not to run in the next election. He ensured a prudent management of Italian national debt and the defence of national interests through a constructive dialogue with the European Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Cottarelli cabinet\nThe appointing of Cottarelli sparked furious reaction from the leadership of the Five Star Movement, who accused Mattarella of committing a coup d'\u00e9tat against the will of the Italian people. On the evening of 27 May 2018 Di Maio announced that the M5S would initiate an impeachment procedure against President Mattarella for attempting to overthrow the Constitution; Giorgia Meloni, leader of Brothers of Italy, also announced an impeachment procedure against Mattarella for high treason. The move sparked a constitutional crisis: the Democratic Party announced for a demonstration in defence of Mattarella, denouncing Di Maio and Salvini as \"authoritarian subsersives\", while the Five Star Movement also announced a demonstration against Mattarella, calling him \"antidemocratic\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 864]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Cottarelli cabinet\nOn 28 May 2018, the Democratic Party announced that it would support a vote of confidence for Cottarelli, while the Five Star Movement and the centre-right parties (Forza Italia, Brothers of Italy, and the League) announced their opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Cottarelli cabinet\nOn 30 May 2018, Di Maio reversed his previous position, dropping the proposal of impeachment against President Mattarella, ending the crisis. Di Maio also formally announced his willingness to drop Paolo Savona from the previously proposed office of Minister of Economy in order to move him to a different and less sensitive government post; consequently, President Mattarella and Cottarelli jointly agreed on waiting for more time to help a new political agreement between M5S and the League featuring a Minister for Economy approved by the President of the Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Final government agreement\nAfter these developments, on 31 May 2018 Di Maio, Salvini and presumptive Prime Minister Conte met in Rome to discuss a new list of government ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 89], "content_span": [90, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Final government agreement\nLater in the afternoon, all parties announced publicly that they have agreed upon the composition of a new government with Giuseppe Conte as Prime Minister and Professor Giovanni Tria newly proposed as Minister of Economy in place of Paolo Savona, who was instead destined to be the new Minister of European Affairs (a minister without portfolio); it was also confirmed national-conservative right wing party Brothers of Italy, led by Giorgia Meloni and League's ally in the March election, would abstain from voting (switching from their previous intention to be part of the opposition) in order to help the government formation even further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 89], "content_span": [90, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Final government agreement\nFollowing this agreement, Cottarelli resigned from his mandate to form a government, and Conte was again formally invited by President Mattarella to form a government, which he promptly announced following his meeting at the Quirinal Palace. The Conte Cabinet, with Di Maio and Salvini as joint deputy prime ministers, was formally sworn in on 1 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 89], "content_span": [90, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280179-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian government formation, Post-election developments, Investiture votes\nOn 5 June 2018, the Conte Cabinet was granted the confidence of the Senate by receiving 171 votes in favor and 117 votes against (25 senators abstained; 7 senators did not vote, among which 6 were absent). Senators for life Elena Cattaneo, Mario Monti and Liliana Segre abstained while senators for life Carlo Rubbia, Renzo Piano and Giorgio Napolitano did not vote. On 6 June 2018, the Government of Change received the confidence of the Chamber of Deputies by receiving 350 votes in favor and 236 votes against (35 deputies abstained; 8 deputies did not vote, among which 5 were absent).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280180-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian local elections\nThe 2018 Italian local elections were held on different dates; most on 10 June, with a second round on 24 June. In Italy, direct elections were held in 720 municipalities: in each comune were chosen mayor and members of the City Council. Of the 783 municipalities, 21 were provincial capitala and only 112 had a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants (10,000 for Sicily).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280180-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian local elections\nIn Friuli-Venezia Giulia the elections were held on 29 April with a second ballot on 13 May; while in Aosta Valley they were held on 20 May, and in Trentino Alto-Adige on 27 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280180-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian local elections, Voting System\nAll mayoral elections in Italy in cities with a population higher than 15,000 use the same voting system. Under this system voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives at least 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. This gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support, although it is not guaranteed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280180-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian local elections, Voting System\nThe election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280180-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian local elections, Results\nMajority of each coalition in the 112 municipalities (comuni) with a population higher than 15,000:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280181-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2018 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Mugello Circuit in Scarperia on 3 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280182-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Italian regional elections\nRegional elections in Italy took place during 2018 in six regions out of twenty including Lazio and Lombardy (4 March), Molise (22 April), Friuli-Venezia Giulia (29 April), Aosta Valley (20 May) and Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol (21 October).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280183-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ivorian senatorial election\nThe 2018 Ivorian senatorial election were the first senatorial election in Ivory Coast, held on 24 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280183-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ivorian senatorial election, Electoral system\nOn 14 February 2018, the government of Ivory Coast ruled that the first senatorial election would be held on 24 March 2018. The government also established new rules on appointing senators, who will be elected by National Assembly members, members of municipal, autonomous districts and regional councils. Each region and autonomous district will have two elected senators. The Senate will have a total of 66 elected senators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280183-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ivorian senatorial election, Campaign\nThe campaign was held from 19 to 22 March 2018. With the opposition boycotting this election, it's expected it'll be widely won by the Rally of Houphou\u00ebtists for Democracy and Peace, which will present 33 lists of candidates, competing with a dozen of Independent lists of candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280183-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ivorian senatorial election, Campaign\nOn 13 March 2018, the Independent Electoral Commission announced 58 lists of candidates were selected for the senatorial election. These list has to be approved by the Constitutional Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280184-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series\nThe 2018 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series was held at Yale Field on May 22 and May 23, 2018. The series matched the top two teams from the Ivy League's round robin regular season, Yale and Columbia. Columbia swept the series and claimed the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280185-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Ivy League of the 2017\u201318 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held on March 10 and 11, 2018 at the Palestra on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Penn defeated Harvard in the championship game to win the tournament and received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Harvard earned an automatic bid to the 2018 National Invitation Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280185-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nOnly the top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings qualify for the tournament and were seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 50], "content_span": [51, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280186-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament is a women's college conference tournament held March 10 and 11, 2018, at the Palestra on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Princeton defeated Penn, 63\u201334, in the championship game to earn the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280186-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nOnly the top four teams in the 2017\u201318 Ivy League regular-season standings participated in the tournament and were seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280187-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ivy League football season\nThe 2018 Ivy League football season was the 63rd season of college football play for the Ivy League and was part of the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The season began on September 14, 2018, and ended on November 17, 2018. Ivy League teams were 18\u20136 against non-conference opponents and Princeton won the conference championship, compiling a perfect 10\u20130 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280187-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ivy League football season, Season overview, Preseason polling\nThe preseason media poll results became public on August 20, 2018, with Yale predicted to win the Ivy League. Yale won 11 of 17 first place votes in the poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280188-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 J&T Banka Prague Open\nThe 2018 J&T Banka Prague Open was a professional tennis tournaments played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 9th edition of the tournament, and part of the International category of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Sparta Prague Tennis Club in Prague, Czech Republic, from 30 April to 5 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280188-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 J&T Banka Prague Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280188-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 J&T Banka Prague Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280188-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 J&T Banka Prague Open, Finals, Singles\nThis was Kvitova's 23rd WTA title and first on home soil. It was also her third title of the year and first International since Linz 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280189-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 J&T Banka Prague Open \u2013 Doubles\nAnna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld and Kv\u011bta Peschke were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Gr\u00f6nefeld was scheduled to play alongside Raquel Atawo, but the pair withdrew due to Atawo's abductor injury. Peschke teamed up with Nicole Melichar and successfully defended the title, defeating Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu and Lidziya Marozava in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280190-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 J&T Banka Prague Open \u2013 Singles\nMona Barthel was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Antonia Lottner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280190-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 J&T Banka Prague Open \u2013 Singles\nPetra Kvitov\u00e1 won the title, defeating Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu in the final, 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280191-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 J.League Cup\nThe 2018 J.League Cup (2018 J\u30ea\u30fc\u30b0\u30ab\u30c3\u30d7), or officially the 2018 J.League YBC Levain Cup (2018 J\u30ea\u30fc\u30b0YBC\u30eb\u30f4\u30a1\u30f3\u30ab\u30c3\u30d7), is the 43rd edition of the Japanese football league cup tournament and the 26th edition under the current J. League Cup format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280191-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 J.League Cup\nThe winners earned the right to play against the winners of the 2018 Copa Sudamericana in the 2019 J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280191-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 J.League Cup, Format\nAfter the play-off stage where eight teams are active, quarterfinals (two-legged), semifinals (two-legged) and the final (single match) are played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280191-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 J.League Cup, Group stage, Tiebreakers\nTo determine the ranking of a group, teams with the same points are ranked by the following criteria:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280191-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 J.League Cup, Group stage, Tiebreakers\nTo determine the best third-placed teams (if needed), teams with the same points are ranked by the following criteria:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280191-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 J.League Cup, Play-off stage\nIn each tie (two-legged tie) of play-offs, quarterfinals or semifinals, away goals rule is applied for goals in the regular playing time, but not in the extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280192-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 J.League Cup Final\n2018 J.League Cup Final was the 26th final of the J.League Cup competition. The final was played at Saitama Stadium 2002 in Saitama on October 27, 2018. Shonan Bellmare won the championship. The winners earned the right to play against the winners of the 2018 Copa Sudamericana in the 2019 J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280193-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 J1 League\nThe 2018 J1 League, also known as the 2018 Meiji Yasuda J1 League (2018 \u660e\u6cbb\u5b89\u7530\u751f\u547d\uff2a\uff11\u30ea\u30fc\u30b0, 2018 Meiji Yasuda Seimei J1 R\u012bgu) for sponsorship reasons, was the 26th season of J1 League, the top Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280193-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 J1 League, 2018 season clubs\nA total of 18 clubs contested the league. The 2017 J2 League champion Shonan Bellmare and the winner of the promotion play-offs Nagoya Grampus returned to the top flight a year after being relegated from J1 in the 2016 season. V-Varen Nagasaki, J2 runner-up in 2017, played in the J1 League for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 33], "content_span": [34, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280193-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 J1 League, Foreign players\nThe total number of foreign players is restricted to five per club. Clubs can register up to four foreign players for a single match-day squad, of which a maximum of three are allowed from nations outside the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Players from J.League partner nations (Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran and Qatar) are exempt from these restrictions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280193-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 J1 League, Foreign players\nPlayers name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280193-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 J1 League, Attendances\nUpdated to games played on 1 December 2018Source: Notes:\u2020 Promoted from J2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280194-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 J2 League\nThe 2018 Meiji Yasuda J2 League (2018 \u660e\u6cbb\u5b89\u7530\u751f\u547dJ2\u30ea\u30fc\u30b0) season was the 47th season of the second-tier club football in Japan and the 20th season since the establishment of J2 League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280194-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 J2 League, Foreign players\nThe total number of foreign players is restricted to five per club. Clubs can register up to four foreign players for a single match-day squad, of which a maximum of three are allowed from nations outside the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Players from J.League partner nations (Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, and Qatar) are exempt from these restrictions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280194-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 J2 League, Promotion\u2013Relegation Playoffs\nBecause Machida Zelvia did not own a J1 license for the 2019 season, they were ineligible to participate in the play-offs. Thus, Yokohama FC, finishing third in the season, received a bye into the second round, from which the winner will play the team finishing 16th in J1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 45], "content_span": [46, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280194-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 J2 League, Attendances\nUpdated to games played on 17 November 2018Source: Notes:\u2020 Relegated from J1.\u2021 Promoted from J3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280195-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 J3 League\nThe 2018 J3 League (referred to as the 2018 Meiji Yasuda J3 League (2018 \u660e\u6cbb\u5b89\u7530\u751f\u547dJ3\u30ea\u30fc\u30b0) for sponsorship reasons) was the 5th season of J3 League under its current name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280195-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 J3 League, Clubs\n2017 J3 League 2nd placed Tochigi SC gained promotion to J2 League after another runners-up season; this time, unlike 2016, it was enough to clinch direct promotion. Defending champions are Blaublitz Akita, which became the first club not to gain promotion after winning the championship since J3's inception. Thespakusatsu Gunma was the new entry for the league: it was their first third division season since 2004, when they were promoted to J2 from JFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280195-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 J3 League, Clubs\nNo promotion from Japan Football League came this time. This was another first for the J3 League since its inception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280195-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 J3 League, Attendances\nUpdated to games played on 2 December 2018Source: Notes:\u2020 Relegated from J2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280196-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 JBA season\nThe 2018 JBA season was the only season of the Junior Basketball Association (JBA), an American men's professional basketball league. The JBA was designed as an alternative to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), allowing high school and junior college players to immediately play professionally. The season began on June 21 and concluded with the JBA Finals on August 12, 2018. After the season concluded, the JBA selected many of its top players to take part in what was originally a 28-game international season against teams from various countries in Europe and Asia. However, an incident in Lithuania lead to a shortening of the event, with teams dropping out of matches and Asian teams cancelling their matches for late 2018 and early 2019 altogether.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280196-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 JBA season, Teams\nThe 2018 JBA season consisted of eight teams, with each representing an American city and having the nickname \"Ballers.\" Teams did not occupy a specified home arena; instead, every team faced each other in ten different arenas across the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280196-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 JBA season, All-Star Event\nOn August 3, 2018, the JBA hosted their inaugural All-Star Event at the Quest Multisport in Chicago, Illinois. Prior to the All-Star Game, the league hosted a Three-Point Contest and Slam Dunk Contest. Two days before the event, event contestants and All-Star Game selections were officially revealed to the public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280196-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 JBA season, All-Star Event, Game\nLiAngelo Ball of the West All-Stars was named co-most valuable player (MVP) along with Deon Lyle of the East All-Stars. Ball recorded 39 points, 15 rebounds, and 7 assists, while Lyle scored a game-high 51 points. LaMelo Ball also recorded a double-double with 42 points and 17 assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280196-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 JBA season, Playoffs, Championship bracket\nVenue: Eagle's Nest Arena (Los Angeles, California), Citizens Business Bank Arena (Ontario, California)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280196-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 JBA season, International season\nAfter the JBA Finals, the league selected 14 players to play for the JBA USA Team, which will take part in 28 exhibition games against international competition. The international season began on September 22, 2018, when the JBA USA Team faced the Svendborg Rabbits from Denmark. Los Angeles Ballers head coach Doyle Balthazar served as the JBA USA Team head coach, with Los Angeles assistant coach Rasul Salahuddin and Seattle Ballers head coach Charles O'Bannon assuming assistant roles. The international season was expected to continue in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280196-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 JBA season, International season\nHowever, due to a fight LaMelo Ball was involved with against Dz\u016bkija Alytus on October 1, some of the teams that were previously scheduled for the event dropped out of the event, with the international event concluding earlier than the league anticipated. LaMelo later left the team and the league to enter his senior year of high school. In addition to him, a few other also left the team during the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280196-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 JBA season, Media\nFor the 2018 season, the JBA aired games through Facebook Live, including All-Star festivities and playoff matches. Allen Bell and Brandon Williams were the official commentators for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280197-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 JC Ferrero Challenger Open\nThe 2018 JC Ferrero Challenger Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Alicante, Spain between 2 and 7 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280197-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 JC Ferrero Challenger Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280198-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 JC Ferrero Challenger Open \u2013 Doubles\nWesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak won the title after defeating Guido Andreozzi and Ariel Behar 6\u20133, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280199-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 JC Ferrero Challenger Open \u2013 Singles\nPablo And\u00fajar won the title after defeating Alex de Minaur 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280200-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 JEGS 200\nThe 2018 JEGS 200 was the 5th stock car race of the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season, and the 19th iteration of the event. The race was held on Friday, May 4, 2018 in Dover, Delaware at Dover International Speedway, a 1 mile (1.6\u00a0km) oval-shaped permanent racetrack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280200-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 JEGS 200\nThe race was extended from the scheduled 200 laps to 210 laps due to a late race caution including Noah Gragson, Johnny Sauter of GMS Racing would be able to hold off the field on the final restart to take the win, the 19th of his career and the 2nd of the season. To fill out the podium, Matt Crafton of ThorSport Racing and Justin Haley of GMS Racing would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280200-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 JEGS 200, Background\nDover International Speedway is an oval race track in Dover, Delaware, United States that has held at least two NASCAR races since it opened in 1969. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosted USAC and the NTT IndyCar Series. The track features one layout, a 1 mile (1.6 km) concrete oval, with 24\u00b0 banking in the turns and 9\u00b0 banking on the straights. The speedway is owned and operated by Dover Motorsports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280200-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 JEGS 200, Background\nThe track, nicknamed \"The Monster Mile\", was built in 1969 by Melvin Joseph of Melvin L. Joseph Construction Company, Inc., with an asphalt surface, but was replaced with concrete in 1995. Six years later in 2001, the track's capacity moved to 135,000 seats, making the track have the largest capacity of sports venue in the mid-Atlantic. In 2002, the name changed to Dover International Speedway from Dover Downs International Speedway after Dover Downs Gaming and Entertainment split, making Dover Motorsports. From 2007 to 2009, the speedway worked on an improvement project called \"The Monster Makeover\", which expanded facilities at the track and beautified the track. After the 2014 season, the track's capacity was reduced to 95,500 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280200-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 JEGS 200, Practice, First practice\nFirst practice was held on 2:05 PM EST. Stewart Friesen of Halmar Friesen Racing would set the fastest time with a 23.107 and an average speed of 155.797 miles per hour (250.731\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280200-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 JEGS 200, Practice, Second and final practice\nFinal practice was held on 4:05 PM EST. Brett Moffitt of Hattori Racing Enterprises would set the fastest time in practice with a 22.773 and an average speed of 158.082 miles per hour (254.408\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 50], "content_span": [51, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280200-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 JEGS 200, Qualifying\nQualifying was held on Friday, May 4, at 1:05 PM EST. Since Dover International Speedway is under 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km), the qualifying system was a multi-car system that included three rounds. The first round was 15 minutes, where every driver would be able to set a lap within the 15 minutes. Then, the second round would consist of the fastest 24 cars in Round 1, and drivers would have 10 minutes to set a lap. Round 3 consisted of the fastest 12 drivers from Round 2, and the drivers would have 5 minutes to set a time. Whoever was fastest in Round 3 would win the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280200-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 JEGS 200, Qualifying\nNoah Gragson of Kyle Busch Motorsports would set the fastest time in Round 3 and win the pole with a 22.834 and an average speed of 157.660 miles per hour (253.729\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280200-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 JEGS 200, Qualifying\nTodd Peck of Beaver Motorsports would be the only driver not to set a lap time, due to the team wanting to have the entry to be a \"start and park\". He would eventually park and retire the car very early in the race, after the team realizing that the #74 of Harmon would stay out, saying to Peck \"Alright [Todd], we appreciate you bud, take it back to the hauler.\u201d He would finish last out of a 32 car field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280201-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 JLT Community Series\nThe 2018 JLT Community Series was the Australian Football League (AFL) pre-season competition played before the 2018 home and away season. It featured 18 matches across 16 days, reducing each team's games played from three to two, seemingly to create space for AFLX events. For the fifth year in a row, the competition did not have a grand final or overall winner. 2018 was also the first pre-season competition played without the nine-point super goal, since its inception in 2003. The competition continued under JLT Sport as a sponsor. All matches were televised live on Fox Footy as well as on the AFL Live app.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280202-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 JPV Marikina F.C. season\nThe 2018 season is JPV Marikina's 2nd season in the top flight of Philippines football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280202-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 JPV Marikina F.C. season, Squad, League squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280203-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana\nThe 2018 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the twenty-third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Champaign, Illinois, United States between November 12 and November 17, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280203-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280203-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280204-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana \u2013 Doubles\nLeander Paes and Purav Raja were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280204-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana \u2013 Doubles\nMatt Reid and John-Patrick Smith won the title after defeating Hans Hach Verdugo and Luis David Mart\u00ednez 6\u20134, 4\u20136, [10\u20138] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280205-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana \u2013 Singles\nTim Smyczek was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280205-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana \u2013 Singles\nReilly Opelka won the title after defeating Ryan Shane 7\u20136(8\u20136), 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280206-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jackson State Tigers football team\nThe 2018 Jackson State Tigers football team represented Jackson State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers were led by second-year head coach Tony Hughes and played their home games at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Mississippi as members of the East Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280206-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jackson State Tigers football team, Previous season\nThe Tigers finished the 2017 season 3\u20138, 3\u20134 in SWAC play to finish in fourth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280206-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Jackson State Tigers football team, Preseason, SWAC football media day\nDuring the SWAC football media day held in Birmingham, Alabama on July 13, 2018, the Tigers were predicted to finish third in the East Division. They did not have any players selected to any of the Presason All-SWAC Teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280207-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jacksonville Dolphins football team\nThe 2018 Jacksonville Dolphins football team represented Jacksonville University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Ian Shields and played their home games at D. B. Milne Field. They were members of the Pioneer Football League (PFL). they finished the season 2\u20138, 1\u20137 in PFL play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280207-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jacksonville Dolphins football team, Previous season\nThe Dolphins finished the 2017 season 7\u20134, 5\u20133 in PFL play to finish in a three-way tie for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280207-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Jacksonville Dolphins football team, Preseason, Preseason All-PFL team\nThe PFL released their preseason all-PFL team on July 30, 2018, with the Dolphins having two players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280207-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Jacksonville Dolphins football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe PFL released their preseason coaches poll on July 31, 2018, with the Dolphins predicted to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280208-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jacksonville Jaguars season\nThe 2018 season was the Jacksonville Jaguars' 24th in the National Football League and their second under head coach Doug Marrone. This was their first season in new uniforms, which were revealed in April 2018. The Jaguars had hopes of matching or improving on their 10\u20136 campaign from the year prior, but despite a 3\u20131 start, the Jags fell into a 7 game losing streak and failed to improve on their 10\u20136 record after a Week 11 loss to the Steelers. After they lost to the Tennessee Titans in Week 14, the Jaguars fell to 4\u20139 and were officially eliminated from postseason contention. They finished 5\u201311, in last place in the AFC South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280208-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jacksonville Jaguars season, Preseason\nThe Jaguars' preseason opponents and schedule were announced on April 11. Exact dates and times were finalized on April 19, when the regular season schedule was announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280208-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Jacksonville Jaguars season, Regular season, Schedule\nOn January 11, 2018, the NFL announced that the Jaguars would play host to the Philadelphia Eagles at Wembley Stadium in London, England, as part of their commitment to the London Games. The game occurred during Week 8 (October 28), and was televised in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280209-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football team\nThe 2018 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football team represented Jacksonville State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach John Grass and played their home games at Burgess\u2013Snow Field at JSU Stadium in Jacksonville, Alabama as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 9\u20134, 7\u20131 in OVC play to win the conference championship for the fifth consecutive year. They received the OVC's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they defeated East Tennessee State in the first round before losing in the second round to Maine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280209-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football team, Previous season\nThe Gamecocks finished the 2017 season 10\u20132, 8\u20130 in OVC play to win the conference championship for the fourth consecutive year. The Gamecocks received the OVC's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs as the No. 3 overall seed, marking their fifth straight trip to the FCS playoffs. After a bye, they were upset by Kennesaw State in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280209-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football team, Previous season\nOn October 14, the Gamecocks won their 27th straight OVC conference game, setting the conference record for consecutive games won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280209-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football team, Preseason, OVC media poll\nOn July 20, 2018, the media covering the OVC released their preseason poll with the Gamecocks predicted to win the OVC championship. On July 23, the OVC released their coaches poll with the Gamecocks also predicted to become OVC champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 74], "content_span": [75, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280209-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-OVC team\nThe Gamecocks had six players selected to the preseason all-OVC team. Defensive lineman Randy Roberinson was also selected as the preseason defensive player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 82], "content_span": [83, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280210-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jalisco Open\nThe 2018 Jalisco Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Guadalajara, Mexico between 16 and 22 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280210-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jalisco Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280210-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Jalisco Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280211-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jalisco Open \u2013 Doubles\nSantiago Gonz\u00e1lez and Artem Sitak were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280211-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jalisco Open \u2013 Doubles\nMarcelo Ar\u00e9valo and Miguel \u00c1ngel Reyes-Varela won the title after defeating Brydan Klein and Ruan Roelofse 7\u20136(7\u20133), 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280212-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jalisco Open \u2013 Singles\nMirza Ba\u0161i\u0107 was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280212-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jalisco Open \u2013 Singles\nMarcelo Ar\u00e9valo won the title after defeating Christopher Eubanks 6\u20134, 5\u20137, 7\u20136(7\u20134) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280213-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jamaican Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 Jamaican Athletics Championships was the year's national outdoor track and field championships for Jamaica. It was held from 21\u201324 June at the Independence Park in Kingston, Jamaica. The national junior championships were staged alongside the senior events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280214-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 James Madison Dukes football team\nThe 2018 James Madison Dukes football team represented James Madison University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Mike Houston and played their home games at Bridgeforth Stadium. They were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). They finished the season 9\u20134, 6\u20132 in CAA play to finish in second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Delaware in the first round before losing to Colgate in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280214-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 James Madison Dukes football team\nOn December 7, 2018, Mike Houston was formally announced and hired as the next coach of East Carolina, alongside nine staff members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280214-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 James Madison Dukes football team, Previous season\nThe Dukes finished the 2017 season 14\u20131, 8\u20130 in CAA play to become CAA champions. They finished the regular season undefeated for the second time in school history (the other being 1975, before the Dukes joined the NCAA). In the FCS Playoffs they defeated Stony Brook, Weber State, and South Dakota State to advance to the FCS National Championship Game for the second consecutive year. They were unable to defend their 2016 National Championship, falling in the 2017 title game to North Dakota State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280214-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 James Madison Dukes football team, Preseason, CAA Poll\nIn the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Dukes were predicted to win the CAA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280214-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 James Madison Dukes football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CAA Team\nThe Dukes had six players selected to the preseason all-CAA team, including cornerback Rashad Robinson being selected as preseason defensive player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280214-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 James Madison Dukes football team, Game summaries, at Norfolk State\nDue to inclement weather, the JMU\u2013Norfolk State game was mutually ended after the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280215-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 James Madison Dukes men's soccer team\nThe 2018 James Madison Dukes men's soccer team represented James Madison University during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the university's 51st season fielding a men's varsity soccer program, and the university's 40th in the Colonial Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280215-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 James Madison Dukes men's soccer team\nThe season was highlighted by the Dukes winning both the CAA Regular season as well as the 2018 CAA Men's Soccer Tournament, making it their sixth tournament championship, and their seventh regular season championship. The Dukes earned an automatic berth into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, where they had their best run in program history, reaching the quarterfinals (Elite Eight) of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280215-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 James Madison Dukes men's soccer team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280216-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Football League\nThe 2018 Japan Football League (Japanese: \u7b2c20\u56de\u65e5\u672c\u30d5\u30c3\u30c8\u30dc\u30fc\u30eb\u30ea\u30fc\u30b0, Hepburn: Dai Nijikkai Nihon Futtob\u014dru R\u012bgu) was the fifth season of the fourth tier in Japanese football, and the 20th season since the establishment of Japan Football League. The season ran from 11 March to 18 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280216-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Football League, Clubs\nSixteen clubs participated in this season of Japan Football League. The list was announced on 15 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280216-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Football League, Change in rules\nThis season was the last to use the two-stage format, similar to the one J.League had in its early years and used in 2015 and 2016. Two single round-robin stages were held, and winners of each stage determined the champion in the post-season home and away championship playoffs. After five seasons, the JFL reverted to a one-stage double round-robin starting in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280217-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Golf Tour\nThe 2018 Japan Golf Tour season was played from 18 January to 2 December. The season consisted of 25 official money events, mostly in Japan, as well as the four majors. One event was played in Singapore, and one in Myanmar, both co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280217-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Golf Tour, Schedule\nThe table below shows the 2018 schedule. The number in parentheses after each winner's name is the number of Japan Golf Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Japan Golf Tour members (does not include the four major golf championships).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280218-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Japan Open (officially known as the Daihatsu Yonex Japan Open 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Musashino Forest Sports Plaza in Tokyo, Japan, from 11 to 16 September 2018 and had a total prize of $700,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280218-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Japan Open was the sixteenth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Japan Open championships, which had been held since 1977. This tournament was organized by Nippon Badminton Association, and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280218-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Musashino Forest Sports Plaza in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280218-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 750 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280218-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$700,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280219-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Open (table tennis)\nThe 2018 Japan Open was the sixth event of the 2018 ITTF World Tour. It took place from 8\u201310 June in Kitakyushu, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Series\nThe 2018 Japan Series was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) 2018 season. The 69th edition of the Japan Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, the Pacific League's (PL) Climax Series champion and defending Japan Series champions, and the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, the Central League's (CL) Climax Series champion. The Hawks defeated the Carp, 4\u20131\u20131, in six games, to win their second consecutive Japan Series championship and their fifth in eight years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Series\nThe Hawks finished the 2018 regular season in second place in the Pacific League. They advanced to the Japan Series after defeating the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and the Saitama Seibu Lions in the Climax Series. The Carp finished in first place in the Central League for the third consecutive year, earning a bye in the first stage of the Climax Series. They defeated the Yomiuri Giants in Climax Series to reach the Japan Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Series\nAt Mazda Stadium in Hiroshima, the Hawks and Carp tied in Game 1, and the Carp won Game 2. The Hawks then won the next four games, including Games 3 through 5 at Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome in Fukuoka, to win the series. Takuya Kai won the Japan Series Most Valuable Player Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Climax Series\nThe Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks finished the 2018 regular season in second place behind the Saitama Seibu Lions, securing them a place as host team for the First Stage of the Climax Series, a best-of-three series against the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. After defeating the Fighters 2\u20131, SoftBank advanced to the Final Stage where they competed against the PL pennant winning Lions. The series is best-of-six and the Lions were awarded a one-win advantage as well as home field advantage for the entire series. The Hawks defeated the Lions 4\u20132 to advance to the Japan Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Climax Series\nSince the Climax Series' creation in 2007, it was only the second time a Pacific League team that didn't win the pennant advanced to the Japan Series and only the fourth time between both leagues. For the third year in a row, the Hiroshima Toyo Carp won the Central League, giving them a First Stage bye and advancing them directly to the Final Stage. They swept the third place Yomiuri Giants in three games securing them a place in the Japan Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Series notes\nThe Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks won the 2017 Japan Series and defeated the Saitama Seibu Lions in the 2018 Pacific League Climax Series to return to the Japan Series in 2018. The Hiroshima Toyo Carp won their third consecutive Central League pennant. They lost in the 2016 Japan Series to the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and lost in the 2017 Central League Climax Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Series notes\nDuring the annual managers' meeting where Japan Series rules are discussed and set, managers Koichi Ogata and Kimiyasu Kudo agreed to announce who their starting pitcher would be the day before each game. Starters are announced early during the regular season, however both teams need to agree to the practice in the Japan Series. Additionally, it was decided that games in the series would only last through 12\u00a0innings and if a game was still even after that, it would result in a tie game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Series notes\nPreviously, Japan Series games would last through 15\u00a0innings before resulting in a tie, however this change brought the series in line with the format used during both the regular season and the Climax Series. For the fifth year in a row, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is sponsoring the event and it is officially known as the \"2018 SMBC Japan Series\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nDaichi Osera started Game 1 for the Carp and Kodai Senga started for the Hawks. Hiroshima scored two runs in the first inning on a home run by Ryosuke Kikuchi and a run batted in (RBI) single by Ryuhei Matsuyama. Osera then went on to strike out six of the first thirteen batters he faced and did not give up a hit until the fifth inning. SoftBank capitalized and scored two in the inning when pinch hitter Alfredo Despaigne drove in a run by singling to second baseman Kikuchi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nKikuchi's throw to first base was off target and resulted in a throwing error that allowed a second runner to score. Both teams had scoring chances during the remainder of the game, including a bases-loaded opportunity in the eleventh inning for the Hawks, but each team's relief pitchers kept the game tied through the twelfth. With the postseason now using the same innings limit as the regular season (after 12 innings instead of 15 in the past), the game ended in a 2-2 tie after twelve innings. This Japan Series tie game was the first since the 2010 Japan Series and the first to open a Japan Series since 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nIn Game 2, the Hawks started Rick van den Hurk. For the second straight game, the Carp scored in the first inning. With no designated hitter, Despaigne was playing left field for only the fifth time all season when leadoff hitter Kosuke Tanaka hit a ball his way. Tanaka was able to stretch a single into a double due to questionable fielding by Despaigne. Tanaka went on to score after a sacrifice bunt moved him to third base and Seiya Suzuki' single drove him home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nHiroshima added to their run total when they scored two unearned runs in the third inning. After a throwing error by Keizo Kawashima allowed runners to safely reach second and third base, Yoshihiro Maru drove one in on a sacrifice fly while the second run scored on an RBI single by Ryuhei Matsuyama. In the fifth inning, the Carp scored twice from a two-run single by Suzuki. Hiroshima starter Kris Johnson allowed only one run on four singles and a walk through seven innings. He struck out seven batters. SoftBank's only run of the night came from a Nobuhiro Matsuda RBI single in the seventh inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nWith the series moving to Fukuoka for Game 3, the Hawks started Ariel Miranda while the Carp started Aren Kuri. The Hawks scored first; in the fourth inning, Kuri issued two walks and then allowed Akira Nakamura and Kenta Imamiya to each single in a run, giving the Hawks their first lead of the series. After pitching four scoreless innings, Miranda gave up a solo home run to Tomohiro Abe, cutting the lead in half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nIn the bottom half of the same inning, however, the Hawks scored a run scored off of a throwing error by Alejandro Mej\u00eda and scored again after Kuri was taken out of the game. The Carp scored two runs in the next inning, one from a solo home run by Seiya Suzuki. After Akitake Okada retired the first two batters in the bottom half of the inning, three consecutive Hawks' singles gave them another run before Alfredo Despaigne opened up a five-run lead with a three-run home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nA solo home run by Hiroaki Takaya in the seventh inning gave the Hawks just enough runs to fend off a Carp comeback in the eighth inning. Suzuki led off the inning with his second solo home run of the game and then two singles and a walk set the stage for a grand slam by Abe, also his second home run of the game. Hawks reliever Yuito Mori worked a scoreless inning to preserve the win and earn a save. The win was the Hawks\u2019 tenth straight victory at home in the Japan Series, dating back to 2011. The Carp lost the game with 16 hits, the biggest number of hits made by the losing team in a single match, although it was also the biggest number of hits ever made in a single match by the Carp in the Japan Series history .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe starting pitchers for Game 4 were Nao Higashihama for the Hawks and Yusuke Nomura for the Carp. In the first inning, SoftBank prevented an early lead by Hiroshima when Ryosuke Kikuchi was thrown out at home plate. Kikuchi attempted to score from first base on a double by Yoshihiro Maru, but was thrown out on a relay throw from center field. Higashihama went on to pitch through five innings and allowed only one run on four hits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe sole run scored by the Carp came from a home run in the fourth inning by Suzuki, his third of the series. Nomura was charged with the loss for the Hawks. He lasted 4\u2153\u00a0innings and gave up a two-run home run to Seiji Uebayashi in the third and allowed Despaigne to hit his second home run of the series in the fourth. The Hawks closed out their scoring with pinch hitter Yuya Hasegawa driving in a run with a hit in the sixth inning. With the win, SoftBank extended their consecutive wins-at-home streak in the Japan Series to eleven, breaking the previous record of ten held by the 1970\u201373 Yomiuri Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nOsera and Senga started Game 5, in a rematch of the opening game of the series. For the first time since Game 2, Hiroshima scored first when Tsubasa Aizawa's single scored Ryuhei Matsuyama. SoftBank pulled ahead in the fourth inning on a two-run single by Nakamura and went on to load the bases that same inning, however Osera was able to pitch out of the inning with no further runs being scored. The next inning, Liv\u00e1n Moinelo relieved Senga and promptly gave up a two-run home run to Maru, once again giving the Carp the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nThe Hawks started the bottom half of the same inning with two singles, one of which was upheld on a replay review. After the runners being bunted over to second and third base, Johnny Hellweg was brought out of the bullpen to relieve Osera. The next batter, Yurisbel Gracial, was hit by pitch to load the bases setting the stage to allow a run to score on a groundout by Yanagita.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nAizawa broke the tie and gave the Carp the lead in the sixth inning but the Hawks tied it up again in the seventh when Akashi hit a solo home run. In the bottom of the tenth inning, Yuki Yanagita won the game with a walk-off home run off of Carp closing pitcher Shota Nakazaki. The win extended the Hawks' record-setting home winning streak to twelve, and the Pacific League's home winning streak in the Japan Series to fifteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nThe series shifted back to Hiroshima for Game 6. Rick van den Hurk shut out the Carp for six innings. Tetsuro Nishida drove in a run for SoftBank in the fourth inning with a squeeze bunt that scored Yuki Yanagita. Yurisbel Gracial hit a solo home run in the fifth inning. Relief pitchers Shota Takeda, Shinya Kayama, and Yuito Mori completed the shutout of the Carp, as SoftBank repeated as Japan Series champs. Hawks' catcher Takuya Kai, who set a Japan Series record with six consecutive caught stealings, won the Japan Series Most Valuable Player Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280220-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Series, Game summaries, Composite line score\n2018 Japan Series (4\u20131\u20131): Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (PL) beat Hiroshima Toyo Carp (CL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280221-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Women's Open\nThe 2018 Japan Women's Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the tenth edition of the Japan Women's Open, and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour. It was held at the Regional Park Tennis Stadium in Hiroshima, Japan, from September 10 through September 16, 2018. This is the first year that the tournament was held in Hiroshima.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280221-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Women's Open, Point distribution, Prize money\n1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money2 Per team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280221-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Women's Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280221-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Women's Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player entered the singles main draw with a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280221-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Women's Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280222-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Women's Open \u2013 Doubles\nShuko Aoyama and Yang Zhaoxuan were the defending champions, but Yang chose not to participate. Aoyama played alongside Duan Yingying, but lost in the semifinals to Eri Hozumi and Zhang Shuai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280222-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Women's Open \u2013 Doubles\nHozumi and Zhang went on to win the title, defeating Miyu Kato and Makoto Ninomiya in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280223-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Women's Open \u2013 Singles\nZarina Diyas was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Zhang Shuai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280223-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Women's Open \u2013 Singles\nHsieh Su-wei won her first title in six years, beating Amanda Anisimova in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280224-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Women's Sevens\nThe 2018 Japan Women's Sevens was the third tournament within the 2017\u201318 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the second edition of the Japan Women's Sevens to be played in the series. It was held over the weekend of 21\u201322 April 2018 at Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280224-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Women's Sevens, Format\nThe teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup brackets while the top 2 third place teams also compete in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group play-off for the Challenge Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280224-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Women's Sevens, Teams\nEleven core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, the runner-up of the 2017 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series, China:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280224-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan Women's Sevens, Players, Scoring leaders, Dream Team\nThe following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods\nIn late June through mid-July 2018, successive heavy downpours in southwestern Japan resulted in widespread, devastating floods and mudflows. The event is officially referred to as Heisei san-j\u016b-nen shichi-gatsu g\u014du (\u5e73\u621030\u5e747\u6708\u8c6a\u96e8, \"Heavy rain of July, Heisei 30\") by the Japan Meteorological Agency. As of 20\u00a0July, 225\u00a0people were confirmed dead across 15\u00a0prefectures with a further 13\u00a0people reported missing. More than 8\u00a0million people were advised or urged to evacuate across 23\u00a0prefectures. It is the deadliest freshwater flood-related disaster in the country since the 1982 Nagasaki flood when 299\u00a0people died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods\nApproximately 54,000 members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, police and firefighters searched for the people trapped or injured in landslides and flooding triggered by the heavy rain, while the Japanese government set up a liaison unit at the crisis management center of the prime minister's office to gather information.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, Impact\nOn 28 June 2018, a seasonal Meiyu front extending west from a non-tropical low near Hokkaido became stationary over Japan. Multiple rounds of heavy rain occurred in the subsequent days, primarily in northern Kyushu. On the 3rd of July Typhoon Prapiroon brought heavy rains and winds to southwestern Japan. The surge of moisture brought north by the typhoon interacted with and enhanced precipitation along the front in Kyushu, Shikoku, and western and central Honshu. Enhanced rainfall extended as far west as Okinawa Prefecture. Large swathes of these areas saw 10-day rainfall accumulations in excess of 400\u00a0mm (16\u00a0in). Deadly floods began on 5 July, primarily in Kansai region which was struck by a deadly earthquake three weeks prior. Accumulations peaked at 1,852.5\u00a0mm (72.93\u00a0in) in Shikoku.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, Impact\nMultiple areas saw their greatest one-hour and three-day rainfall totals on record. Some areas were hit by more than 1,000\u00a0mm (39\u00a0in) of rain, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) to issue emergency heavy rain warnings for eight prefectures: Okayama, Hiroshima, Tottori, Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Hyogo, and Kyoto. This marked the largest issuance of these warnings since their implementation. An official at the JMA described the event as \"heavy rain at a level we've never experienced\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, Impact\nThe torrential rain caused landslides and flash flooding, with water levels reaching 5\u00a0m (16\u00a0ft) in the worst hit areas. Motoyama, K\u014dchi, saw 584\u00a0mm (23.0\u00a0in) of rain between 6 and 7 July. One town in K\u014dchi measured 263\u00a0mm (10.4\u00a0in) of rain in two hours. Mount Ontake observed its greatest three-day rainfall on record at 655.5\u00a0mm (25.81\u00a0in). Although the Yura River remained within its banks in northern Kyoto Prefecture, an embankment built after Typhoon Tokage in 2004 prevented runoff from flowing into the river. This inadvertently led to flooding in Maizuru after the flood gate was closed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, Impact\nAs the rain lessened on July 9, high temperatures reaching 30\u00a0\u00b0C (86\u00a0\u00b0F), coupled with some 11,200 households without electricity, raised concerns over heatstroke and unsafe drinking water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, Impact\nHiroshima prefecture alone had 1,243 mudslides in 2018, which is more than the entire nation's total in an average year. Ehime had 419 in 2018, results were not broken down by month, but its inferred that most of these were during this major event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, Impact, Victims\nThroughout the affected areas at least 225 people died in various flood-related incidents, primarily due to mudslides, landslides and vehicles being swept away by the flood waters. Many of the dead had ignored evacuation orders, and chose to stay in their homes despite repeated warnings. Police received numerous reports across the country of people trapped in homes buried by landslides, of people being swept away by swollen rivers, and from people trapped in cars. At least ten people were buried inside their homes in Higashihiroshima; rescuers were able to confirm seven survived but remained trapped as of 7 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, Impact, Industry\nBy 7 July no bullet trains were running west of Shin-Osaka Station and the West Japan Railway Company officials were uncertain when the trains would be running again. The widespread cancellation of trains stranded numerous travelers; some bullet trains were utilized as temporary hotels. Some automakers (Mitsubishi Motors & Mazda Motor) halted production as the rain and flooding disrupted the companies' supply chains and risked the safety of workers. Other companies such as Daihatsu and Panasonic suspended operations at plants until debris was cleared and the water receded from the factories. The Asahi Aluminium Industrial Company plant in Okayama exploded on July 6, after workers had evacuated during the flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, Impact, Industry\nDelivery companies Sagawa Express Co. and Yamato Transport Co, with cargo service Japan Freight Railway Co. reported that some of their shipments into and out of the affected areas have been either reduced or suspended. Regional supermarkets have also been affected, with outlets closed or hosting shortened service hours due to delivery delays and/or product shortages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, Impact, Industry\nJapan sustained tremendous damage; losses reached an estimated \u00a51.09\u00a0trillion (US$9.86\u00a0billion). Damage to agriculture, forestry, and fishery industries reached \u00a5629\u00a0billion (US$5.69\u00a0billion). Losses to public infrastructure, including levees, railways, and roads, amounted to \u00a5465\u00a0billion (US$4.21\u00a0billion).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, Rescue efforts\nPrime Minister Shinz\u014d Abe released a statement ordering ministers to \"make an all-out effort\" to rescue victims. Abe called for an emergency disaster meeting on 8 July, the first such meeting by the government since the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, reported that the government had set up a task force which was coupled with 2 billion yen ($18 million) to hasten delivery of supplies and other support items for evacuation centers and residents in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, Rescue efforts\nApproximately 54,000\u00a0personnel from police departments, fire departments, the Self-Defense Forces, and the Coast Guard were deployed across affected areas to rescue stranded people. Evacuations were ordered for 2.82\u00a0million and advised for a further 4.22\u00a0million people in 23\u00a0prefectures at the height of the storms. Japanese soldiers patrolled the neighborhoods during the storms and at the end, knocking on doors and inquiring whether residents were safe or in need of aid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, Rescue efforts\nHelicopters and boats were utilized by rescuers to retrieve individuals trapped on rooftops and balconies. Social media have been employed to let authorities and family and friends know about the individuals' conditions. One woman from Kurashiki, Okayama tweeted \"Water came to the middle of the second floor. The kids could not climb to the rooftop\u00a0... Rescue us quickly. Help us.\" Throughout Okayama Prefecture, 1,850\u00a0people were rescued from rooftops; 160\u00a0patients and staff at Mabi Memorial Hospital required rescue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, International aid\nTaiwan\u00a0: Taiwan announced that they will donate 20 million yen for disaster relief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, International aid\nThailand\u00a0: Thailand sent a donation of 17 million yen to assist relief efforts. Thai Red Cross Society donated an additional 7 million yen to support those affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, International aid\nPhilippines\u00a0: The Philippine Government offered Filipino soldiers, engineers, and doctors for the rehabilitation efforts, along with medical supplies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, International aid\nSingapore\u00a0: Singapore-based non-governmental humanitarian organisation Mercy Relief announced on 8 July that they were sending a team to assist in supplying meals to people displaced by the floods, and launched a fundraiser in Singapore on 12 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, International aid\nIsrael\u00a0: The Israeli humanitarian aid organization IsraAID sent an emergency response team to Western Japan on 9 July, to distribute urgent relief items, assessing the medical and post-trauma psycho-social needs. The team was equipped to provide psychological first aid and mental health support for evacuees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280225-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan floods, International aid\nMalaysia\u00a0: The Malaysian government donated RM500,000 to the Japanese embassy in Malaysia for the flood and recent heat wave victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280226-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan national football team\nThe Japan national football team in 2018, managed by head coach Vahid Halilhod\u017ei\u0107, head coach Akira Nishino and head coach Hajime Moriyasu compete in the 2018 FIFA World Cup and international friendly matches both at home and abroad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280227-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan women's national football team\nThis page records the details of the Japan women's national football team in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280228-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japanese Formula 3 Championship\nThe Japanese Formula 3 Championship was the 40th Japanese Formula 3 Championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280228-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Japanese Formula 3 Championship, Race calendar\nCalendar for the 2018 season. All races are scheduled to be held in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280228-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Japanese Formula 3 Championship, Race calendar\nRace 9 at Okayama International Circuit was postponed due to severe weather conditions. The race was rescheduled for a later round at the same circuit, and was subsequently postponed again to be run at Sportsland SUGO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280229-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japanese Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Japanese Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 2018 Honda Japanese Grand Prix) was a Formula One racing event held on 7 October 2018 at the Suzuka International Racing Course in Suzuka in the Mie Prefecture, Japan. The race was the seventeenth round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 44th running of the Japanese Grand Prix. The 2018 event was the 34th time that the race had been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950, and the 30th time that it had been held at Suzuka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280229-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Japanese Grand Prix\nMercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a fifty-point lead over Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the World Drivers' Championship. Hamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas sat third, a further 67 points behind. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of fifty-three points over Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing a further one hundred and fifty points behind in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280229-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Japanese Grand Prix, Race\nLewis Hamilton won whilst leading every lap. Sebastian Vettel, Hamilton's championship rival, clashed with Max Verstappen, Vettel would recover to finish 6th after spinning to the back of the field. Valtteri Bottas finished second behind Lewis Hamilton, with Verstappen finishing third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280231-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japanese Super Cup\nThe 2018 Xerox Super Cup was held on 10 February 2018 between the 2017 J1 League champions Kawasaki Frontale and the 2017 Emperor's Cup winner Cerezo Osaka. Cerezo won the title after winning 3-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280232-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi on 21 October 2018. Marc M\u00e1rquez clinched his third consecutive MotoGP title after Andrea Dovizioso crashed during the penultimate lap. This is his fifth championship in the premier class and seventh overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280233-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan\u2013South Korea radar lock-on dispute\nThe 2018 Japan\u2013South Korea radar lock-on dispute is about an incident between a Japanese aircraft and a South Korean vessel. The aircraft was part of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), while the vessel was part of the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN). The event occurred on 20 December 2018, without the firing of any weapon, and was followed by a large diplomatic dispute between Japan and South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280233-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan\u2013South Korea radar lock-on dispute, Incident\nAccording to the Government of Japan, a Republic of Korea Navy destroyer, ROKS Gwanggaeto the Great (DDH-971), directed its fire-control radar (STIR-180 similar to AN/SPG-55) at a maritime patrol aircraft, Kawasaki P-1 belonging to the Fleet Air Wing 4 of JMSDF, which was conducting surveillance off the Noto Peninsula in the Sea of Japan on Thursday 20 December 2018 at around 3:00\u00a0p.m. (JST).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280233-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Japan\u2013South Korea radar lock-on dispute, Incident\nAccording to Japan Ministry of Defense (MOD), aiming the fire-control (FC) radar at a plane is violation of the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES), as a lock with the FC radar is generally considered as a hostile act one step before actual firing. The MOD further said the irradiation of the P-1 plane by the radar hit multiple times continuously over a certain period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280233-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan\u2013South Korea radar lock-on dispute, Incident\nIn contrast, the Government of South Korea denied Japan's claims, stating that it did not operate STIR-180 radar (FC radar) but MW08 radar for the rescue when the Japanese plane arrived at the site. MW08 radar is a 3D radar for medium-range air and surface surveillance, target acquisition and tracking, capable of gun control against surface targets. MW08 can be used as an FC radar, but it is not connected with the fire-control system in the destroyer. In addition, the South Korea claimed that the Japanese aircraft made a threatening \"8-shape\" flight continuously at a distance of 500 metres (1,600\u00a0ft) and altitude of 150 metres (490\u00a0ft) while the warship was participating in the rescue of a distressed North Korean fishing boat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280233-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan\u2013South Korea radar lock-on dispute, Views and opinions\nToshio Tamogami, a retired general and ex-Chief of Staff of the JASDF, has given his views on his Twitter denying the offensiveness of aiming FC radar. However, Toshiyuki Ito, a retired JMSDF admiral and ex-commandant of the Joint Staff College, rebutted Tamogami's view since the former had been retired for ten years and has no experience as a pilot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280233-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan\u2013South Korea radar lock-on dispute, Views and opinions\nThe Government of South Korea claimed this flight of P-1 was menacing and unfriendly to the warship of a neighbour country which was operating a rescue mission in the high seas. According to the Government of Korea, it is Japan, not Korea, if any, that acted ungentlemanly and menacingly to the neighbour country at the site and should apologize to the other. However, Paul Giarra, a retired U.S. naval aviator and ex-senior Country Director for Japan in the Office of the ASD (ISA), pointed it out that there was absolutely no danger in the actions of the Japanese aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280233-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan\u2013South Korea radar lock-on dispute, Views and opinions\nSome Korean media were concerned about the friction between Seoul and Tokyo. On 7 January 2019, JoongAng Daily editorial argued that the two governments \"should join forces to address the nuclear threats from North Korea and other urgent issues\" and that \"This emotional fighting does not help. Though what really happened at the moment has not yet been found, either side did not suffer substantial damage. Therefore, if Korean destroyer really aimed its FCR at the approaching airplane, our military authorities should apologize to Japan and wrap up the case. If the Japanese aircraft was really confused about the radar signal, it should apologize\", and that \"[i]t is time to take a deep breath and find a reasonable solution\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 795]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280233-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Japan\u2013South Korea radar lock-on dispute, Views and opinions\nWhile there is no international law regulating the altitude of military flights, Japan, the US Army, and NATO assert they follow the custom of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to keep a distance of 150 meters from vessels under normal operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting\nOn October 24, 2018, a man and woman, were shot and killed by a gunman at a Kroger grocery store in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, a suburb of Louisville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting\nThe suspect was Gregory A. Bush, age 51 who also exchanged gunfire with a bystander outside the store. After his arrest, Bush was initially charged in state court with two counts of murder and ten counts of wanton endangerment, and held on $5 million bail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting\nOn November 15, 2018, a federal grand jury in the Western District of Kentucky indicted Bush on six counts: three hate crime charges and three firearms offenses. He was revealed to have made many online postings that were racially discriminatory. At a court hearing in July 2019, Bush was found mentally competent to stand trial following a psychiatric evaluation. On December 15, 2020, Bush was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Incident\nAccording to Jeffersontown police, Bush had earlier on October 24 tried to enter a service of the First Baptist Church of Jeffersontown, a predominately black church. He was stopped by its locked doors. Police and church leaders said a surveillance video had recorded Bush's attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Incident\nBetween ten and fifteen minutes later in mid-afternoon, police say Bush entered the Kroger store, where he fatally shot Maurice E. Stallard, aged 69. He went outside and fatally shot Vickie Lee Jones, aged 67, who was in the parking lot. Both victims are African American. Bush also exchanged gunfire with a bystander, who had seen him shoot Jones. Another man said Bush told him, \"Don't shoot me. I won't shoot you. Whites don't shoot whites\" before the gunman fled. He was caught and arrested by police, who arrived four minutes after being called.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Perpetrator\nGregory Alan Bush was arrested by Jeffersontown police as the suspect. He is divorced and was living in Jeffersontown. According to the local police chief, Bush had a history of mental illness and domestic violence; in a 2001 incident his ex-wife (who is black) gained an emergency protective order against him; during an altercation he twice used a racial epithet against her. By this order he was barred for three years from having or buying guns. In January 2009, as a result of domestic violence against his parents, with whom Bush was living, the judge ordered him to \"surrender his guns and undergo mental health treatment.\" Bush had attacked his father and threatened to kill his parents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Perpetrator\nIn relation to the Kroger shooting, the Louisville police chief described it as a hate crime motivated by Bush's racism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Perpetrator\nThe New York Times published a quote from a Facebook page appearing to belong to Bush: \u201cMy paranoid-schizophrenia finally stopped me from working and now am on mental disability. I\u2019m lucky I made it this far with all the trouble I\u2019ve caused myself when I get off my medicine.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Perpetrator\nTommy Juanso, an attorney and former friend of Bush, had said that his friend's rhetoric had become increasingly vitriolic during the heated 2016 presidential campaign and the political polarization it created. Juanso is biracial and said that Bush mocked him, calling him \"The Big O\" (referring to President Barack Obama). In Bush's social media accounts, such as Twitter, he had posted frequently about black-on-black crime and made racial insults.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Legal proceedings\nShortly after his arrest, Bush was charged by Kentucky state prosecutors with two counts of murder and ten counts of first-degree wanton endangerment. On October 31, a Jefferson County grand jury indicted Bush on two counts of murder, one count of criminal attempted murder [the gunfight with the bystander who attempted to subdue him] and two counts of wanton endangerment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Legal proceedings\nU.S Attorney Russell Coleman released a statement on October 31, that the US Attorney's Office and the FBI were \"collecting the evidence necessary\" to potentially charge Bush with possible violations of federal law, \"which includes potential civil rights violations such as hate crimes.\" On November 15, 2018, a grand jury in the Western District of Kentucky indicted Bush for three federal hate crime charges\u2014two counts of shooting or killing a victim based on race or color, and one count of attempting to shoot or kill a victim based on race or color\u2014and three firearms offenses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Legal proceedings\nAt a July 2019 preliminary hearing, prosecutors said that a Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center report found Bush competent to stand trial on charges stemming from the shooting. Bush has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, attempted murder, and wanton endangerment. In November 2019, Bush returned to court and both the prosecutor and defense agreed for him to be sent back to Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center for more mental health treatment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Legal proceedings\nOn December 15, 2020, Bush was sentenced to life in prison without the possibly of parole after pleading guilty to the shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Aftermath\nShortly after the incident, Kentucky State Representatives James Nemes and Jerry Miller pre-filed a bill to supplement the state's hate-crime law. The bill calls for a person to be charged with a hate crime, in addition to the homicide charge, if the crime was found to be motivated by \"race, color, religion, sexual orientation or national origin.\" They added criminal homicide and fetal homicide as crimes to be covered as hate crimes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Aftermath\nMany politicians cautioned that law enforcement investigations needed to be completed before the shootings could be classified as a hate crime. The Kroger shooting followed a mass shooting at a synagogue in Squirrel Hill, a neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Referring to both crimes, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell released a statement saying, \"If these aren't definitions of hate crimes, I don't know what a hate crime is.\" He called for Bush to receive the death penalty if convicted of the charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Aftermath\nMany activist groups, such as Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and Showing Up for Racial Justice, met with local politicians to urge that Bush be charged with a hate crime. They expressed concern that he might escape justice by using mental illness as a defense. As one member told officials, \"Mental illness does not prompt you to wake up wanting to kill black people. Mental illness does not discriminate as this man did.\" According to CNN, the event was one of three hate-motivated events that took place in the United States the same week, along with a shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and a series of mail bombing attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280234-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Jeffersontown shooting, Aftermath\nAn interfaith moment of silence for memorial and unity was declared by Mayor Greg Fischer of Louisville on October 31 in remembrance of those persons killed at the Kroger grocery and the eleven victims at the Pittsburgh synagogue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280235-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jersey Flegg Cup season\nThe 2018 Jersey Flegg Cup season was the 48th season of the under-20 competition and the first since 2007. The competition, administered by the New South Wales Rugby League, replaced the National Rugby League's National Youth Competition, and mirrored the draw and structure of its senior counterpart, the Intrust Super Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280235-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jersey Flegg Cup season\nThe Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks defeated the Penrith Panthers in the Grand Final, winning their first Jersey Flegg Cup premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280235-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Jersey Flegg Cup season, Teams\nThe 2018 season featured 12 teams, nine based in Sydney, one in Newcastle, one in Wollongong and one in Auckland. 10 NRL clubs fielded a side in the competition, while two others, the Canberra Raiders and South Sydney Rabbitohs, fielded a side through their Intrust Super Premiership affiliated club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280235-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Jersey Flegg Cup season, Regular season\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Opposition's Home gameX\u00a0\u2013 ByeOpponent for round listed above margin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280235-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Jersey Flegg Cup season, Player statistics\nThe following statistics are correct as of the conclusion of Round 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280236-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jersey general election\nThe 2018 Jersey general election was held on 16 May 2018 to elect the 49 members of the States Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280236-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jersey general election, Electoral system\nAt the time of the election, the 49 members of the States consisted of three different types of members. The 29 deputies were elected from 18 districts; nine districts elected one deputy, five districts elected two deputies, two districts elected three deputies, and two districts elected four deputies, with voters able to cast as many votes as there were seats in their district. The 12 constables were elected from each of the 12 parishes, although only one didn't get elected unopposed, whilst the eight senators are elected on an island-wide basis, with each voter casting up to eight votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election\nThe 2018 Jerusalem mayoral election was held on 30 October and 13 November, 2018 to elect the mayor of Jerusalem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election\nWith no candidate in the first round meeting the vote threshold of 40% needed to avoid a runoff election, a runoff was held on 13 November. The election was won by Moshe Lion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, Background\nIn March 2018, incumbent mayor Nir Barkat announced he would forgo running for a third term, and would instead run on the Likud party's list in the next Knesset election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, Background\nUnder a new national law, the 30 October election day was made a holiday. However, the day of the 13 November runoff election day was not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, Background\nThe election was part of the 2018 Israeli municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, First round, Campaigning\nLion had the backing of the city's Haredi parties, which are influential in city, which has a population that is more than one-third Haredi. Lion, who in his unsuccessful 2013 campaign for mayor had run as the Likud nominee, ran as an independent in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, First round, Campaigning\nBerkovitch positioned himself as a secular leader, opposing the influence of the Haredi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, First round, Campaigning\nElkin boasted the endorsements of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and outgoing mayor Nir Barkat. He was considered the race's front-runner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, First round, Campaigning\nUnlike other Haredi political parties, the Hasidic Agudat Yisrael party did not support Lion, and instead backed the candidacy of Yossi Daitsh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, First round, Campaigning\nBerkovitch and Elkin assailed each other. Elkin characterized Berkovitch as young and incompetent. Berkovitch characterized the filthiness of the city as a direct failure of Elkin's as the nation's environmental minister. Berkovitch also cited allegations by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel against Elkin, which accused Elkin of using his ministerial post for self-enrichment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, First round, Campaigning\nNot originally seen as a leading candidate when he entered the race, Berkovitch was seen as benefiting from the crowded size of the field of candidates running, and rose to become a front-runner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, First round, Results\nThe failure of Elkin to advance to the runoff was considered an upset defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, First round, Results\nThe results of the first round of voting in Jerusalem, with 254,326 voters participating of 638,065 eligible (a 39.86% turnout), are as follows. Of the 254,326 votes, 248,585 were valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, Runoff, Campaigning\nHeading into the runoff, Lion continued to enjoy backing from the Haredi community, including the endorsements of the Degel HaTorah and Shas Haredi political partie, as well as the right wing Yisrael Beiteinu party. However, the day before the election, the rabbinical council of the Agudat Yisrael party instructed their supporters not to vote in the runoff, which was seen as aiding Berkovitch's chances against Lion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, Runoff, Campaigning\nLion received the endorsement of outgoing mayor Barkat in the runoff. He was also endorsed by the local chapters of the Likud and The Jewish Home parties, as well as several Likud party ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, Runoff, Campaigning\nLion was seen as the candidate in the runoff representing the right wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, Runoff, Campaigning\nPrime Minister Netanyahu did not endorse a candidate in the runoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, Runoff, Campaigning\nAs is typical, the Arab populace in East Jerusalem boycotted the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280237-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Jerusalem mayoral election, Runoff, Results\nThe results of the second round of voting in Jerusalem are as follows. The voter turnout was 35%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280238-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jiangsu Suning F.C. season\nThe 2018 Jiangsu Suning season is Jiangsu Suning's 10th season in the Chinese Super League and 21st overall in the Chinese top flight. They also competed in the Chinese FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280238-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jiangsu Suning F.C. season, Season events\nFinished 12th in 2017 Chinese Super League, Jiangsu Suning start their 10th consecutive season in the Chinese top flight, also qualified for Chinese FA Cup and start competition from forth round. On 25 July 2018, after 2\u20133 lost on aggregate to Guangzhou R&F, they are eliminated from the cup event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280238-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Jiangsu Suning F.C. season, Current squad, First team\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280238-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Jiangsu Suning F.C. season, Current squad, Reserves\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280238-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Jiangsu Suning F.C. season, Current squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280239-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open\nThe 2018 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 5th edition of the event, and part of the International category of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place in Nanchang, China, from July 23 \u2013 29, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280239-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280239-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280239-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280240-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open \u2013 Doubles\nJiang Xinyu and Tang Qianhui were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Lu Jingjing and You Xiaodi in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280241-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open \u2013 Singles\nPeng Shuai was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280241-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open \u2013 Singles\nWang Qiang won her first WTA Tour singles title, defeating Zheng Saisai in the final, 7\u20135, 4\u20130 ret.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280242-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jin'an Open\nThe 2018 Jin'an Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Lu'an, China, on 7\u201313 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280242-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jin'an Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280243-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jin'an Open \u2013 Doubles\nJiang Xinyu and Tang Qianhui were the defending champions, but they lost in the first round to Gai Ao and Zheng Wushuang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280243-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jin'an Open \u2013 Doubles\nHarriet Dart and Ankita Raina won the title after defeating Liu Fangzhou and Xun Fangying 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280244-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jin'an Open \u2013 Singles\nZhu Lin was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, defeating Liu Fangzhou in the final, 6\u20130, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280245-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jinan International Open\nThe 2018 Jinan International Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the second (ATP) and first (ITF) editions of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Jinan, China, on 6\u201312 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280245-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jinan International Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280245-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Jinan International Open, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280246-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jinan International Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nHsieh Cheng-peng and Peng Hsien-yin were the defending champions but chose to defend their title with different partners. Hsieh partnered Yang Tsung-hua and successfully defended his title. Peng partnered Yi Chu-huan but lost in the first round to Benjamin Lock and Rubin Statham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280246-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jinan International Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nHsieh and Yang won the title after defeating Alexander Bublik and Alexander Pavlioutchenkov 7\u20136(7\u20135), 4\u20136, [10\u20135] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280247-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jinan International Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nLu Yen-hsun was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280247-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jinan International Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nAlexei Popyrin won the title after defeating James Ward 3\u20136, 6\u20131, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280248-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jinan International Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nWang Xinyu and You Xiaodi won the title, defeating Hsieh Shu-ying and Lu Jingjing in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20137(5\u20137), [10\u20132].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280249-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jinan International Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nZhu Lin won the title, defeating Wang Yafan in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280250-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Joe McDonagh Cup\nThe 2018 Joe McDonagh Cup was the inaugural staging of the Joe McDonagh Cup since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association. The fixtures were announced on 13 April 2018. The competition began on 5 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280250-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Joe McDonagh Cup\nOn 1 July 2018, Carlow won the title following a 2-26 to 1-24 defeat of Westmeath in the final. This was their second successive promotion within the various tiers of hurling, as they were also the 2017 Christy Ring Cup champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280250-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Joe McDonagh Cup\nMeath were relegated from the Joe McDonagh Cup after losing all of their group stage games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280250-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Joe McDonagh Cup\nAntrim's Neil McManus was the competition's top scorer with 3-67.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280250-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Joe McDonagh Cup, Teams\nA total of six teams compete in the Joe McDonagh Cup, with representatives from Leinster (4), Munster (1) and Ulster (1). As 2018 was the inaugural year, four of the teams ( Kerry, Laois, Meath and Westmeath) previously played in the qualifier group of the 2017 Leinster Championship (tier 1) and two teams (Antrim and Carlow) were the finalists in the 2017 Christy Ring Cup (then tier 2, re-classified as tier 3 for 2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280250-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Joe McDonagh Cup, Format\nAll six teams compete in an initial round-robin of five rounds where teams play each other once. The top two teams after the round robin stage play the third-placed teams in the Leinster and Munster championships in the two All-Ireland preliminary quarter finals with the Joe McDonagh Cup teams having home advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280250-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Joe McDonagh Cup, Format\nThe top two teams also compete in the Joe McDonagh Cup final. If the winner is a non-Munster team, they are automatically promoted to the following year's Leinster Championship. If the winner is a Munster team, in effect Kerry, they must win a play-off with the bottom-placed team in the Munster Championship to gain promotion to the following year's Munster Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280250-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Joe McDonagh Cup, Format\nIn order to reduce the number of teams in the Joe McDonagh Cup to five in 2019, the bottom-placed team in the Joe McDonagh Cup are automatically relegated to the following year's Christy Ring Cup and will not be replaced. The team that finishes second last in the 2018 Joe McDonagh Cup plays off against the 2018 Christy Ring Cup champions. The winner of that game plays in the Joe McDonagh Cup in 2019 and the losing team plays in the 2019 Christy Ring Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280250-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Joe McDonagh Cup, Relegation/Promotion play-off\nThe bottom team after the round robin games, Meath, were relegated to the 2019 Christy Ring Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280250-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Joe McDonagh Cup, Relegation/Promotion play-off\nThe second-last team in the Joe McDonagh Cup (tier 2), Antrim, defeated Kildare, the winners of the 2018 Christy Ring Cup final (tier 3) and thereby retained their place in the Joe McDonagh Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280251-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Johan Cruyff Shield\nThe 2018 Johan Cruyff Shield was the 23rd edition of the Johan Cruyff Shield (Dutch: Johan Cruijff Schaal), an annual Dutch football match played between the winners of the previous season's Eredivisie and KNVB Cup. The match was contested by PSV Eindhoven, champions of the 2017\u201318 Eredivisie, and Feyenoord, winners of the 2017\u201318 KNVB Cup. It was held at the Philips Stadion on 4 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280252-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Johnsonville 180\nThe 2018 Johnsonville 180 was a NASCAR Xfinity Series race held on August 25, 2018 at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Contested over 45 laps on the 4.048-mile (6.515\u00a0km) road course, it was the 23rd race of the 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280252-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Johnsonville 180, Practice, First practice\nTyler Reddick led first practice with a fastest lap of 158.280 seconds and a speed of 92.070\u00a0mph (148.172\u00a0km/h). Conor Daly was the only other driver to go out, but he did not complete a full timed lap. Most drivers did not participate due to persistent light rain throughout first practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280252-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Johnsonville 180, Practice, Final practice\nJustin Marks was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 132.960 seconds and a speed of 109.603\u00a0mph (176.389\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280252-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Johnsonville 180, Qualifying\nMatt Tifft scored the pole for the race with a time of 133.320 and a speed of 109.307\u00a0mph (175.913\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280253-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. season\nThe 2018 season is Johor Darul Ta'zim Football Club's 45th season in club history and 6th season in the Malaysia Super League after rebranding their name from Johor FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280253-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. season, Background, Background information\nJohor Darul Ta'zim FC won their 2017 Malaysia Super League to become the first Malaysian club to win the league titles for four consecutive seasons (2014\u20132017).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280253-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. season, Background, Background information\nJDT still holds an unbeaten home ground record in Super League after extending the record up to 59 matches from 3 July 2012 (won against Sabah FA by 2\u20131) until 20 September 2017 which last they won against Kelantan FA by 3\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280253-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. season, Background, Background information\nJDT failed to defense their Malaysia FA Cup after lost to Pahang FA with an aggregate 4\u20133 on 23 April 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280253-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. season, Background, Background information\nJDT win their 1st title Malaysia Cup after beat Kedah FA by 2\u20130 on 4 November 2017 at Shah Alam Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280253-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. season, Background, Background information\nUnfortunately, JDT failed to qualify for Final ASEAN zonal after lost to Filipino club Ceres Negros F.C. in the AFC Cup Semi-Finals with an aggregate 4\u20134 (away goal rules).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280253-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. season, Club Statistics, Appearances\n1 Includes AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs and AFC Cup matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280253-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. season, Home Attendance\nR denotes Match(s) to be played during the Month of Ramadhan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280254-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Johor state election\nThe 14th Johor State election was held on 9 May 2018. The previous state election was held on 5 May 2013. The state assemblymen is elected to 5 years term each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280254-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Johor state election\nThe Johor State Legislative Assembly would automatically dissolve on 20 June 2018, the fifth anniversary of the first sitting, and elections must be held within sixty days (two months) of the dissolution (on or before 20 August 2018, with the date to be decided by the Election Commission), unless dissolved prior to that date by the Head of State (Sultan of Johor) on the advice of the Head of Government (Menteri Besar of Johor).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280254-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Johor state election, Contenders\nBarisan Nasional (BN) is set to contest all 56 seats in Johor State Legislative Assembly. Barisan Nasional (BN) linchpin party United Malays National Organisation (UNMO) is to set to contest major share of Barisan Nasional (BN) seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280254-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Johor state election, Contenders\nPakatan Harapan have decided to contest all 56 seats in Johor. Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Bersatu) will contest in 18 seats while the Democratic Action Party (DAP) will have 14 seats. People's Justice Party (PKR) and the National Trust Party (Amanah) will contest 12 seats each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280254-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Johor state election, Election pendulum\nThe 14th General Election witnessed 36 governmental seats and 20 non-governmental seats filled the Johor State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 12 safe seats and 7 fairly safe seats, while the non-government side has 4 safe seats and 3 fairly safe seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280255-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Joox Thailand Music Awards\nThe 2nd JOOX Thailand Music Awards was an awarding ceremony presented by JOOX Thailand, giving recognition to the Thai entertainment industry in the field of music for their achievements in the year 2017. Only the nominees in the main categories were voted upon by fans through the JOOX app. Voting period started on 9 February 2018 and ended on 28 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280255-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Joox Thailand Music Awards\nThe awards night was held at the KBank Siam Pic-Ganesha, Siam Square One, Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday, 21 March 2018 and broadcast through the JOOX app.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280255-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Joox Thailand Music Awards, Awards\nNominations were announced on 22 February 2018. Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests\nThe 2018 Jordanian protests started as a general strike organized by more than 30 trade unions on 30 May 2018 after the government of Hani Mulki submitted a new tax law to Parliament. The bill followed IMF-backed austerity measures adopted by Mulki's government since 2016 that aimed to tackle Jordan's growing public debt. Although Jordan had been relatively unscathed from the violence that swept the region following the 2011 Arab Spring, its economy had taken a hit from the surrounding turmoil and from an influx of a large number of Syrian refugees into the country. Jordan also hosts a large contingent of Iraqi and Palestinian refugees, further straining its finances. The UNHCR places Jordan as the world's second largest host of refugees per capita.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests\nThe day following the strike on 31 May, the government raised fuel and electricity prices responding to an increase in international oil prices. This led to crowds of protesters pouring onto the 4th circle, in Amman, near the Prime Ministry's offices that night. Other Jordanians also gathered across the country in protest of the measure in unprecedented large numbers. On 1 June King Abdullah intervened and ordered the freeze of the price hikes; the government acquiesced but said the decision would cost the treasury $20 million. The protests continued for four days until Mulki submitted his resignation to the King on 4 June, and Omar Razzaz, his Education Minister, became Prime Minister. Protests only ceased after Razzaz announced his intention of withdrawing the new tax bill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests\nThe protests have not been led by traditional opposition groups like the Muslim Brotherhood or leftists, but by diverse crowds from the middle and poor classes. Although some protesters set aflame tires and blocked roads multiple nights, protests were largely peaceful and few casualties were reported. They were staged after daylight hours as it was during the month of Ramadan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests, Background\nJordan's total foreign debt in 2011 was $19 billion, representing 60% of its GDP. In 2016, the debt reached $35.1 billion representing 93% of its GDP. This substantial increase is attributed to effects of regional instability stemming from the Arab Spring causing: decrease in tourist activity; decreased foreign investments; increased military expenditure; attacks on Egyptian gas pipeline supplying the Kingdom; the collapse of trade with Iraq and Syria; expenses from hosting 1.4 million Syrian refugees and accumulated interests from loans. According to the World Bank, Syrian refugees have cost Jordan more than $2.5 billion a year, amounting to 6% of the GDP and 25% of the government's annual revenue. Foreign aid covers only a small part of these costs, while 63% of the total costs are covered by Jordan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests, Background\nKing Abdullah had warned in January 2016 that Jordanians have reached \u201ca boiling point\u201d, and called on donor countries to provide more to Jordan to help it cope with the crises. He told the BBC in an interview that \"in the psyche of the Jordanian people I think it's gotten to a boiling point, sooner or later the dam is going to burst.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests, Background\nJordan has historically welcomed refugees\u2014Palestinians in 1948 and 1967, Iraqis during the American invasion and now Syrians, who make up about 20 percent of Jordan's then 9.5 million population\u2014and, according to Abdullah, \"For the first time, we can't do it any more.\" The UNHCR places Jordan as the world's second largest host of refugees per capita.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests, Background\nRising Jordanian public debt led Prime Minister Hani Mulki in 2016 to negotiate a 3-year program $732 million loan facility with the International Monetary Fund, which would see the public debt falling from 95% of the GDP to 77% by 2021. The austerity program raised prices on several food staples in 2016 and 2017, making him very unpopular in the country. The programme succeeded in preventing the debt from rising above 95% in 2018, however, it strained Jordan's weak economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests, Background\nFurthermore, worsening Jordan's conditions is a decision by Persian Gulf countries, like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to withhold $1 billion in annual economic assistance that were directed towards the creation of jobs and economic growth hampered the finances of Jordan, which lacks the natural resources of its neighbors, amassing an unemployment rate of 18% and a much higher poverty rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests, Background\nA 22 March 2018 report by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace commented on Mulki's policies: \"Mulki declared openly that his predecessors had left the country at the brink of insolvency and that the failure to take tough revenue-raising measure would lead to a debt crisis which would destroy the country. And he is correct. What is more doubtful is Mulki\u2019s assertion that Jordan \u201cwill get out of the bottleneck\u201d in 2019. While the measures to raise taxes and reduce subsidies buy time, they leave Jordan struggling to stay afloat and dependent on the continued flow of extensive aid.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests, Background\nOn 22 May, the Jordanian Cabinet approved a new draft law proposing changes to the 2014 income tax law. The draft aimed to fight tax evasion and to raise taxes on some sectors and individuals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests, Protests\nThe protests started as a general strike organized by more than 30 trade unions on 30 May 2018 after the new tax bill was submitted to Parliament. The day following the strike on 31 May, the government raised fuel and electricity prices responding to an increase in international oil prices. This led to crowds of protesters pouring onto the 4th circle, in Amman, near the Prime Ministry's offices that night. Other Jordanians also gathered across the country in protest of the measure in unprecedented large numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests, Protests\nAlthough protests have been largely peaceful and staged after daylight hours during Ramadan, some protesters set aflame tires and blocked roads multiple nights. These protests have not been led by traditional opposition groups like the Muslim Brotherhood or the leftists, but by diverse crowds from the middle and poor classes. On 1 June King Abdullah intervened and ordered the freeze of the price hikes; the government acquiesced but said the decision would cost the treasury $20 million. The protests continued for four days until Mulki submitted his resignation to the King on 4 June, and Omar Razzaz, his Education Minister, was appointed Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests, Protests\nIt was reported on June 6 that hundreds were still protesting in Amman. The same day, some trade unions organized a national walkout, while others pulled out following the appointment of Razzaz. This walkout included shops, universities, offices, schools and hospitals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests, Outcome\nOn June 7, Omar Razzaz met with the trade union leaders and agreed to withdraw the proposed tax bill as soon as a new cabinet was sworn in. Following this announcement, protests in Amman's 4th circle area came to a halt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests, Outcome\nLeaders of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait invited King Abdullah on June 11 to a summit in the Saudi capital. It was announced that the Gulf countries promised $2.5 billion in direct and indirect aid over the course of 5 years. Most of the amount was promised to be deposited at the Central Bank of Jordan to support Jordan's share of foreign currency, while the rest would go to development projects and a smaller portion to direct budgetary support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280256-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Jordanian protests, Outcome\nQatar, which Jordan withdrew its ambassador from in June 2017 as part of the boycott of Qatar led by Saudi Arabia, sent its foreign minister three days later to announce $500 million worth of investments in Jordan. Qatar also promised to employ 10,000 Jordanians in its country to help tackle unemployment among young Jordanians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash\nOn 4 August 2018, a Junkers Ju 52 passenger aircraft operated by Ju-Air crashed near Piz Segnas, Switzerland, while en route from Locarno to D\u00fcbendorf. All 20 people on board were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash\nIt was the first fatal crash of a Ju-Air aircraft since the company began operations in 1982. The cause of the crash was investigated jointly by the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (STSB) and the cantonal police of Grisons on behalf of the federal and cantonal prosecutors' offices. A final report was published in January 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash\nThe final STSB report on the accident, released on 28 January 2021, indicated that the accident was caused by the two highly experienced pilots flying recklessly, disregarding regulations, who failed to anticipate expected turbulence and who failed to control the aircraft and prevent it from stalling and spinning into the ground. The report also found that the aircraft was not airworthy at the time of flight, in that the engines were not producing their minimum rated power and that the company had a deficient safety culture of rule breaking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Accident\nThe aircraft was flying from Locarno Airport to D\u00fcbendorf Air Base, on the return leg of a two-day trip. The weather was unseasonably warm with choppy winds. At 16:56 local time on 4 August (14:56 UTC), the Junkers crashed into Piz Segnas mountain, at an elevation of 2,540 metres (8,330\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Accident\nSwiss authorities stated that the plane appeared to have crashed almost vertically and at high speed. A witness at nearby Segnas Pass saw the Junkers approaching from the south and fly by the Martinsloch, a distinctive 18-metre-wide (60\u00a0ft) breakthrough, or hole, in the Tschingelh\u00f6rner mountain ridge, next to the pass. Then, instead of flying over the ridge, the aircraft made a sharp turn, dived vertically and crashed onto the plateau below. Around 10 minutes before the crash, another witness had observed the Ju 52 suddenly banking sharply to the left and losing altitude, before increasing engine power and recovering to normal flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Accident\nThe aircraft was carrying three crew and seventeen passengers, all of them Swiss apart from an Austrian couple and their son. Nine of the people aboard were women and eleven were men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Aircraft and crew\nThe aircraft involved was a tri-motor Junkers Ju 52/3mg4e, registration HB-HOT, msn 6595. It had served with the Swiss Air Force from 1939 to 1985, when it was acquired by the Association of the Friends of the Swiss Air Force (German: Verein der Freunde der Schweizerischen Luftwaffe), which operated under the name Ju-Air, a company that offers sightseeing flights on vintage aircraft, and had logged 10,000 hours of flight time. Ownership of the aircraft remained with the Swiss Air Force. It had been used in the films Where Eagles Dare (1968), and Valkyrie (2008) and the 2012 German movie Bis zum Horizont, dann links!. The aircraft had been issued with a certificate of airworthiness by the Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) on 6 April 2018, valid for two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Aircraft and crew\nOn the day of the crash, the Junkers was piloted by two veteran captains, aged 62 and 63. Both had extensive experience as pilots for Swissair, Swiss and Edelweiss, as well as more than 30 years of militia service with the Swiss Air Force. Both also had several hundred flight hours' worth of experience with the Ju 52. The third crew member was a 66-year-old flight attendant, also with 40 years of professional experience.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Aftermath\nHiking routes and the local airspace were closed off for the duration of the recovery operation, which involved five helicopters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Aftermath\nJu-Air suspended all flights by its other Ju 52 aircraft for two weeks, until they resumed operations on 17 August under stricter conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Aftermath\nFollowing a review in March 2019, while the accident investigation was still ongoing, the FOCA banned Ju-Air from conducting commercial passenger flights with Ju 52s, allowing only private flights for club members. Later, the operating and maintenance licenses were revoked for the other Swiss-based Ju 52 aircraft, effectively grounding the HB-HOP and HB-HOS sister aircraft. Due to the maintenance troubles found in the HB-HOT wreck - like fatigue cracks, corrosion and sub-standard repair work - the FOCA deemed them unsafe to fly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Investigation\nThe accident was investigated jointly by the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (STSB) and the cantonal police of Grisons on behalf of the federal and cantonal prosecutors' offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Investigation\nA spokesperson for the STSB said that the Junkers \"fell like a stone to the ground\", and that the heatwave in Europe could have been a factor in the crash, as heat reduces an aircraft's climb performance. The police indicated that no distress signal was received from the aircraft prior to the crash. Investigators ruled out a collision with a cable or another aircraft, and said that there was no indication of foul play or the aircraft losing parts before the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Investigation\nThe aircraft was not fitted with any flight recorders, as they were not required due to the age of the aircraft. Investigators are hoping to find some relevant information from passengers' personal photographic and video recordings during the sightseeing flight. The STSB issued its preliminary report on 15 August 2018. An intermediate report was issued on 20 November 2018, citing anterior corrosion marks and cracks, not related to the accident, which effectively grounded the two remaining Ju-52 of Ju-Air (HB-HOP and HB-HOS) until further investigation of these airframe and engine issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Investigation\nIn August the SonntagsZeitung newspaper published several excerpts from a leaked draft of the investigation report. According to that draft, the pilots flew into an alpine, high-altitude valley without a safe possibility of turning back. Also, the accident pilots were already known for questionable decisions, and even on check flights, one of the pilots ignored the minimum altitudes. Other possible causes, like technical failures, had been ruled out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Investigation\nOn January 28, 2021, a final report was released by the STSB which stated that \"the pilots' high-risk flying was a direct cause of the accident\". It further stated that \"The flight crew piloted the aircraft, at low altitude, with no possibility of an alternative flight path and at an air speed that was dangerously low for the circumstances. The high-risk manner of flying through these not unusual turbulences caused the pilot to lose control of the aircraft. The aircraft was also being operated with its centre of gravity in excess of its rear limit\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280257-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash, Investigation\nThe STSB found that the aircraft was not in an airworthy condition when it took off on the accident flight, in that the engines had not been properly maintained and were not producing rated power. Furthermore the report indicated that the company had a poor safety culture that tolerated risky behaviour and rule breaking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280258-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Jitsu World Championships\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Kaltenmeyer (talk | contribs) at 02:53, 16 December 2019 (clean up, replaced: Shedule \u2192 Schedule). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280258-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ju-Jitsu World Championships\nThe 2018 Ju-Jitsu World Championship were the 16th edition of the Ju-Jitsu World Championships, and were held in Malm\u00f6, Sweden from November 23 to November 25, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280259-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro tennis season\nThe 2018 Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro tennis season officially commenced on 10 January 2018 with the start of the Delray Beach Open. This season saw Del Potro slightly improve on his previous results as well as his playing style. Highlights from his season includes winning his 400th career match in Indian Wells, where he won the first Masters 1000 title of his career. After he was forced to retire due to a leg injury in the Italian Open, his participation in the French Open was apparently at risk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280259-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro tennis season\nHowever, the Argentine managed to recover in time and entered the tournament as the fifth seed. There, he performed notably well considering the doubts surrounding his physical condition, and the fact that clay is not the best surface for his style of play. His run to the semi-finals ensured that, for the first time since February 2014, Delpo would return to his career-best ranking of world No. 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280259-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro tennis season, All matches\nThis table chronicles all the matches of Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro in 2018, including walkovers (W/O) which the ATP does not count as wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280259-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro tennis season, Yearly records, ATP and Grand Slam sanctioned matches\nJuan Mart\u00edn del Potro has a 47\u201313 (78.3%\u00a0of wins) ATP match win-loss record in the 2018 season. His record against players who were part of the ATP Rankings Top Ten at the time of their meetings is 7\u20134. Bold indicates player was ranked top 10 at time of at least one meeting. The following list is ordered by number of wins:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280260-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Prix Agadir\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Prix Agadir was held in Agadir, Morocco, from 09 - 11 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280261-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Prix Antalya\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Prix were held in Antalya, Turkey, from 6 to 8 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280262-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Prix Budapest\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Prix were held in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 - 12 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280263-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Prix Canc\u00fan\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Prix Canc\u00fan was held in Canc\u00fan, Mexico, from 12 - 14 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280264-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Prix Hohhot\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Prix were held in Hohhot, China, from 25 - 27 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280265-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Prix Tashkent\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Prix were held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from 9 - 11 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280266-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Prix Tbilisi\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Prix Tbilisi was held in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 30 March - 01 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280267-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Prix The Hague\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Prix were held in The Hague, Netherlands, from 16 - 18 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280268-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Prix Tunis\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Prix were held in Tunis, Tunisia, from 19 - 21 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280269-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Prix Zagreb\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Prix were held in Zagreb, Croatia, from 27 - 29 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280270-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Slam Abu Dhabi\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Slam was held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from 27 to 29 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280271-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Slam D\u00fcsseldorf\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Slam D\u00fcsseldorf was held in D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany, from 23\u201325 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280272-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Slam Ekaterinburg\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Slam was held in Ekaterinburg, Russia, from 17 to 18 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280273-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Slam Osaka\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Slam were held in Osaka, Japan, from 23 to 25 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280274-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo Grand Slam Paris\nThe 2018 Judo Grand Slam Paris was held in Paris, France, from 10 to 11 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280275-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Judo World Masters\nThe 2018 Judo World Masters were held in Guangzhou, China, from 15 \u2013 16 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests\nThe 2018 mid-year rugby union internationals (also known as the summer internationals in the Northern Hemisphere) are international rugby union matches that are mostly played in the Southern Hemisphere during the June international window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests\nThe matches are part of World Rugby's global rugby calendar (2012\u201319) that includes test matches between touring Northern Hemisphere nations and home Southern Hemisphere nations. In addition, the global calendar gives Tier 2 nations the opportunity to play Tier 1 nations outside the November International Window, increasing competitiveness from the Tier 2 sides ahead of the 2019 Rugby World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 27 May\nTouch judges:Nigel Owens (Wales)Ben Whitehouse (Wales)Television match official:Brian MacNeice (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 2 June\nTouch judges:Alexandre Ruiz (France)Frank Murphy (Ireland)Television match official:David Grashoff (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 9 June\nTouch judges:Nigel Owens (Wales)Nick Briant (New Zealand)Television match official:Rowan Kitt (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 9 June\nTouch judges:Angus Gardner (Australia)John Lacey (Ireland)Television match official:George Ayoub (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 9 June\nTouch judges:Pascal Ga\u00fcz\u00e8re (France)Paul Williams (New Zealand)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 9 June\nTouch judges:Romain Poite (France)Glen Jackson (New Zealand)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 9 June\nTouch judges:Jaco Peyper (South Africa)Mathieu Raynal (France)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 9 June\nTouch judges:Frank Murphy (Ireland)Ben Whitehouse (Wales)Television match official:David Grashoff (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 9 June\nTouch judges:George Clancy (Ireland)Derek Summers (United States)Television match official:Dave Ardrey (United States)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 16 June\nTouch judges:Nigel Owens (Wales)Nic Berry (Australia)Television match official:Rowan Kitt (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 16 June\nTouch judges:John Lacey (Ireland)Luke Pearce (England)Television match official:George Ayoub (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 16 June\nTouch judges:Pascal Ga\u00fcz\u00e8re (France)Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 16 June\nTouch judges:Glen Jackson (New Zealand)Ben O'Keeffe (New Zealand)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 16 June\nTouch judges:Mathieu Raynal (France)Andrew Brace (Ireland)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 16 June\nTouch judges:George Clancy (Ireland)Alexandre Ruiz (France)Television match official:Andrew McMaster (Canada)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 16 June\nTouch judges:Shuhei Kubo (Japan)Federico Anselmi (Argentina)Television match official:David Grashoff (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 23 June\nTouch judges:Brendon Pickerill (New Zealand)Jordan Way (Australia)Television match official:Ian Smith (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 23 June\nTouch judges:Nick Briant (New Zealand)Nic Berry (Australia)Television match official:Shane McDermott (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 23 June\nTouch judges:Angus Gardner (Australia)Graham Cooper (Australia)Television match official:George Ayoub (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 23 June\nTouch judges:Paul Williams (New Zealand)Cam Stone (New Zealand)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 23 June\nTouch judges:Romain Poite (France)Ben O'Keeffe (New Zealand)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 23 June\nTouch judges:Wayne Barnes (England)Federico Anselmi (Argentina)Television match official:Graham Hughes (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280276-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 June rugby union tests, Fixtures, 23 June\nTouch judges:Jaco Peyper (South Africa)Andrew Brace (Ireland)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280277-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior League World Series\nThe 2018 Junior League World Series took place from August 12\u201319 in Taylor, Michigan. Taoyuan, Taiwan defeated Lufkin, East Texas in the championship game. It was Taiwan's sixth straight championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280277-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior League World Series\nThe return of the Host Team raised the total number of teams to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280278-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2018 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 13\u201315, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280279-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2018 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships was held in Medell\u00edn, Colombia, May 2\u20136, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280280-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior World Fencing Championships\nThe 2018 Junior World Fencing Championships took place in Verona, Italy from 1 to 9 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280281-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior World Luge Championships\nThe 33rd Junior World Luge Championships took place under the auspices of the International Luge Federation at Altenberg, Germany from 2 to 3 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280282-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior World Rally Championship\nThe 2018 FIA Junior World Rally Championship was the seventeenth season of the Junior World Rally Championship, an auto racing championship recognised by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile, running in support of the World Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280282-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior World Rally Championship\nThe Junior World Rally Championship was open to drivers under the age of 30\u2014although no such restriction existed for co-drivers\u2014and they were competing in identical one-litre Ford Fiesta R2s built and maintained by M-Sport. Crews who contested the Junior World Rally Championship were also eligible to score points in the World Rally Championship-3. The championship was competed over five selected WRC rounds with the winning crew awarded a new Ford Fiesta R5 car, tyre package, free fuel and a registration to compete in the 2019 World Rally Championship-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280282-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior World Rally Championship, Calendar\nThe final 2018 Junior World Rally Championship calendar consisted of five events, taken from the 2018 World Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280282-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior World Rally Championship, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe championship started in Sweden for the first time since 2006. The Rally of Poland was removed from the calendar after the event was taken off the World Championship schedule, while the Rallies of Deutschland and Rally Catalunya were also removed from the schedule and replaced by the Rally of Turkey. The changes were made to create a more compact championship with an earlier end date whilst giving drivers experience on a wider range of surface types.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280282-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior World Rally Championship, Rule changes\nThe final round of the championship was worth double points to encourage crews to contest all five events of the championship. Pirelli tyres replaced the DMACK tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280282-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior World Rally Championship, Results and standings, Scoring system\nPoints are awarded to the top ten classified finishers. An additional point is given for every stage win. The best 4 classification results count towards the drivers\u2019 and co-drivers\u2019 totals, but stage points from all 5 rounds can be retained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280283-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior World Weightlifting Championships\nThe 2018 Junior World Weightlifting Championships were held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan at the Uzbekistan Sport Complex from 7 to 14 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280283-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Junior World Weightlifting Championships, Medal table\nRanking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280284-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 J\u00e4mtland regional election\nJ\u00e4mtland County or Region J\u00e4mtland held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280284-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 J\u00e4mtland regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 55 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 18, a drop of three from 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280285-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping regional election\nJ\u00f6nk\u00f6ping County or Region J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280285-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 81 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 22, a drop of seven from 2014. There were 228,295 valid ballots cast. New party Bevara akutsjukhusen (\"Maintain the emergency hospitals\") became the largest party in Eksj\u00f6 and V\u00e4rnamo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280286-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 J\u00fabilo Iwata season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280286-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 J\u00fabilo Iwata season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280287-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 K League\nThis article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names). If an incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280288-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 1\nThe 2018 K League 1 was the 36th season of the top division of professional football in South Korea since its establishment in 1983, and the sixth season of the K League 1, former K League Classic. The K League Classic was changed its name to \"K League 1\" in this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280288-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 1, Teams, Foreign players\nRestricting the number of foreign players strictly to four per team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team could use four foreign players on the field each game including a least one player from the AFC confederation. Players name in bold are registered during the mid-season transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280288-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 1, Positions by matchday\nLeaders\u00a0\u00a0Qualification for the Champions League group stage\u00a0\u00a0Qualification for the Champions League playoff round\u00a0\u00a0Qualification for the relegation playoffs\u00a0\u00a0Relegation to the K League 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280288-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 1, Results, Matches 1\u201322\nTeams play each other twice, once at home, once away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280288-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 1, Results, Matches 23\u201333\nTeams play every other team once (either at home or away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280288-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 1, Results, Matches 34\u201338\nAfter 33 matches, the league splits into two sections of six teams each, with teams playing every other team in their section once (either at home or away). The exact matches are determined upon the league table at the time of the split.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280288-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 1, Awards, Main awards\nThe 2018 K League Awards was held on 3 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280288-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 1, Attendance\nUpdated to games played on 7 December 2018Source: Notes:\u2020 Teams that played previous season in K League Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280289-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 2\nThe 2018 K League 2 was the sixth season of the K League 2, the second tier South Korean professional league for association football clubs since its establishment in 2013, and the first one with its current name, the K League 2. The top-ranked team and the winner of the promotion play-offs among three clubs ranked between second and fourth were promoted to the K League 1 after the regular season ends.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280289-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 2, Teams\nGyeongnam FC, the first-placed team of the 2017 K League Challenge was promoted to the 2018 K League 1. Gwangju FC was relegated from the top tier. A total of ten teams contested the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280289-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 2, Teams, Personnel and kits\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280289-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 2, Teams, Foreign players\nRestricting the number of foreign players strictly to four per team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team could use four foreign players on the field each game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280289-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 2, League table, Positions by matchday\nLeader & Promotion to the 2019 K League 1\u00a0\u00a0Qualification to Relegation/promotion play-offs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 52], "content_span": [53, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280289-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 2, Promotion-Relegation Playoffs\nPromotion and relegation playoffs were held between the 3rd to 5th clubs of 2018 K League 2 and the 11th club of 2018 K League 1. If scores are tied after regular time at the Semi-Playoff and Playoffstage , the higher placed team advances to the next phase. The same conditions do not apply to the final Promotion-Relegation Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 46], "content_span": [47, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280289-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 2, Promotion-Relegation Playoffs, Promotion-Relegation Playoffs, Second leg\nFC Seoul won 4\u20132 on aggregate and therefore both clubs remain in their respective leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 89], "content_span": [90, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280289-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 K League 2, Attendance\nUpdated to games played on 23 July 2019Source: Notes:Attendants who entered with free ticket are not counted.\u2020 \u2020 Team played previous season in K League Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280290-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 K3 League Advanced\nThe 2018 K3 League Advanced was the 12th season of the K3 League Advanced. After the season, two teams were relegated to the K3 League Basic, and two teams got promoted from it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280290-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 K3 League Advanced, Competition format\nThe 2018 season ran from March through November. The 12 teams competed in a single division. Each team played each other twice for a total of 22 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280291-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 K3 League Basic\nThe 2018 K3 League Basic was the second season of the K3 League Basic. Eleven teams competed in this league for 22 rounds. Each team played in 20 rounds, because the number of teams in this league was odd. Yeoju-Sejong FC and Chungju Citizen newly joined the league in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280291-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 K3 League Basic, Competition format\nThe 2018 season runs from March through to October. The 11 teams compete in a single division. Each team plays each other home and away for a total of 20 games. After the regular season, the top two team will be directly promoted to 2019 K3 League Advance. In addition, the playoffs between 3rd to 5th team will be held, and its winner and 10th team from 2018 K3 League Advanced will have relegation/promotion playoff for another spot in 2019 K3 League Advanced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280291-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 K3 League Basic, Playoffs\nBefore the play-offs, Busan FC withdrew from the league. With Cheongju FC and Cheongju City merging in the league above, Chungju and Yangju played off for the remaining place in 2019 K3 League Advanced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280292-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KBO League season\nThe 2018 KBO League season was the 37th season in the history of the KBO League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280292-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KBO League season, Foreign players\nEach team can sign up to three foreign players. Due to the high proportion of pitchers signed in previous years, beginning in 2014 the league has mandated that at least one of the foreign players must be a position player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280292-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 KBO League season, Postseason, Wild Card\nThe series started with a 1\u20130 advantage for the fourth-placed team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280293-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KBS Drama Awards\nThe 2018 KBS Drama Awards (Korean:\u00a0KBS \uc5f0\uae30\ub300\uc0c1; RR:\u00a0KBS Yeon-gi Daesang), presented by Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), was held on December 31, 2018 at KBS Hall in Yeouido, Seoul. It was hosted by Jeon Hyun-moo and Uee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280293-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KBS Drama Awards, Winners and nominees\nCha Tae-hyun and Bae Doona - Matrimonial ChaosChoi Daniel and Baek Jin-hee - JugglersChoi Soo-jong and Jin Kyung - My Only OneKim Myung-min and Ra Mi-ran - The Miracle We MetLee Jang-woo and Uee - My Only OneSeo Kang-joon and Gong Seung-yeon - Are You Human? Yoo Dong-geun and Chang Mi-hee - Marry Me Now?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280294-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KBS Entertainment Awards\nThe 2018 KBS Entertainment Awards presented by Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), took place on December 22, 2018 at KBS New Wing Open Hall in Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. It was hosted by Shin Hyun-joon, Yoon Shi-yoon and AOA's Seolhyun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280295-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KBS Song Festival\nThe 2018 KBS Song Festival was the 9th edition of KBS Song Festival, held on December 28, 2018, broadcast live from KBS Hall by the Korean Broadcasting System.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280295-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KBS Song Festival, Broadcast\nOn December 11, 2018, KBS announced that the festival would take place on December 28, 2018, at 8:30\u00a0p.m. KST, also revealing the first lineup of artists as: BTS, Wanna One, Red Velvet, SEVENTEEN, GFRIEND, BTOB, Apink, Hwang Chi Yeol, Sunmi, Chungha, Norazo, Oh My Girl, and (G)I-DLE. This year's theme is \"a huge fantastical party\" and expects to meet the 200% of the public's fantasies in a unique stage never seen before", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280295-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 KBS Song Festival, Broadcast\nOn December 13, a second lineup of artists was revealed: EXO, Twice, AOA, VIXX, NU\u2019EST W, GOT7, MONSTA X, NCT, Highlight\u2019s Yong Jun Hyung, 10\u00a0cm, Roy Kim, Lovelyz, and MOMOLAND. It was also revealed that this year's MCs will be EXO\u2019s Chanyeol, Twice\u2019s Dahyun, and BTS\u2019s Jin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280295-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 KBS Song Festival, Broadcast\nOn December 20, the third and final lineup was revealed: WJSN (Cosmic Girls), Kim Yeon Ja, and Celeb Five. It was revealed that JYP and SM would create special stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280296-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KC Masterpiece 400\nThe KC Masterpiece 400 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on May 12, 2018, at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4\u00a0km) asphalt speedway, it was the 12th race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280296-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KC Masterpiece 400, Report, Background\nKansas Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4\u00a0km) tri-oval race track in Kansas City, Kansas. It was built in 2001 and hosts two annual NASCAR race weekends. The Verizon IndyCar Series also raced at here until 2011. The speedway is owned and operated by the International Speedway Corporation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280296-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 KC Masterpiece 400, Report, Background, Entry list\nMatt Kenseth, who last raced in the 2017 Ford EcoBoost 400, made his first Cup series return, in the No. 6 for Roush Fenway Racing, doing so part-time. This was also the first Cup race since the 2014 Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 where Trevor Bayne did not participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280296-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 KC Masterpiece 400, Final Practice\nKevin Harvick was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 29.009 seconds and a speed of 186.149\u00a0mph (299.578\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280296-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 KC Masterpiece 400, Qualifying\nKevin Harvick scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.600 and a speed of 188.811\u00a0mph (303.862\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280296-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 KC Masterpiece 400, Media, Television\nFox Sports covered their eighth race at the Kansas Speedway. Mike Joy, three-time Kansas winner Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip called in the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the action on pit road for the television side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280296-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 KC Masterpiece 400, Media, Radio\nMRN had the radio call for the race which was also simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Alex Hayden, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace called the race in the booth when the field raced through the tri-oval. Dave Moody covered the race from the Sunoco spotters stand outside turn 2 when the field is racing through turns 1 and 2. Mike Bagley called the race from a platform outside turn 4. Pete Pistone, Kim Coon, and Steve Post worked pit road for the radio side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280297-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KML Playoffs\nThe 2018 KML Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the Korvpalli Meistriliiga's 2017\u201318 season. The playoffs began on 17 April and ended on 24 May. The tournament concluded with Kalev/Cramo defeating University of Tartu 4 games to 0 in the finals. Kristjan Kangur was named KML Finals MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280298-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Allround Championships\nThe 2018 KNSB Dutch Allround Championships in speed skating were held in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink from 27 January to 28 January 2018. The tournament was part of the 2017\u20132018 speed skating season. Marcel Bosker and Annouk van der Weijden won the allround titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280299-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships\nThe 2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships were held at the Thialf skating rink in Heerenveen from Friday 27 October 2017 to Sunday 29 October 2017. Although the tournament was held in 2017 it was the 2018 edition as it was part of the 2017\u20132018 speed skating season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280300-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Men's 10,000 m\nThe men's 10,000 meter at the 2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships took place in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink on Sunday 29 October 2017. There were 12 participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280300-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Men's 10,000 m, Statistics, Result\nReferee: Berri de Jonge. Assistant: Ingrid Heijnsbroek Starter: Alfred van Zwam Start: 14:31 hr. Finish: 16:14 hr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 82], "content_span": [83, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280301-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Men's 1000 m\nThe men's 1000 meter at the 2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships took place in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink on Sunday 29 October 2017. There were 24 participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280301-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Men's 1000 m, Statistics, Result\nReferee: Berri de Jonge. Assistant: Ingrid Heijnsbroek Starter: Andr\u00e9 de Vries Start: 17:19hr. Finish: 17:47hr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 80], "content_span": [81, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280302-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 m\nThe men's 1500 meter at the 2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships took place in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink on Friday 27 October 2017. There were 23 participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280302-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 m, Statistics, Result\nReferee: Berri de Jonge. Assistant: Ingrid Heijnsbroek Starter: Andr\u00e9 de Vries Start: 20:56 hr. Finish: 21:32 hr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 80], "content_span": [81, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280303-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Men's 500 m\nThe men's 500 meter at the 2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships took place in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink on Saturday 28 October 2017. There were 24 participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280303-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Men's 500 m, Statistics, Result\nReferee: Berri de Jonge. Assistant: Ingrid Heijnsbroek Starter: Andr\u00e9 de Vries Start: 17:13 hr. Finish: 17:41 hr", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 79], "content_span": [80, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280304-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 m\nThe men's 5000 meter at the 2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships took place in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink on Saturday 28 October 2017. There were 20 participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280304-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 m, Statistics, Result\nReferee: Berri de Jonge. Assistant: Ingrid Heijnsbroek Starter: Alfred van Zwam Start: 14:05 hr. Finish: 15:43 hr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 80], "content_span": [81, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280305-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Women's 1000 m\nThe women's 1000 meter at the 2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships took place in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink on Sunday 29 October 2017. There were 24 participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280305-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Women's 1000 m\nTitle holder was Jorien ter Mors. This was her third 1000-meter national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280306-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 m\nThe women's 1500 meter at the 2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships took place in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink on Saturday 28 October 2017. Although this tournament was held in 2017, it was part of the 2017\u20132018 speed skating season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280307-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 m\nThe women's 3000 meter at the 2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships took place in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink on Friday 27 October 2017. Although this tournament was held in 2017, it was part of the 2017\u20132018 speed skating season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280308-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Women's 500 m\nThe women's 500 meter at the 2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships took place in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink on Friday 27 October 2017. Although this edition was held in 2017, it was part of the 2017\u20132018 speed skating season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280308-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Women's 500 m\nThere were 24 participants. There was a qualification selection incentive for the next following 2017\u201318 ISU Speed Skating World Cup tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280309-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Women's 5000 m\nThe women's 5000 meter at the 2018 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships took place in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink on Wednesday 29 October 2017. Although this tournament was held in 2017, it was part of the 2017\u20132018 speed skating season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280310-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNSB Dutch Sprint Championships\nThe 2018 KNSB Dutch Sprint Championships in speed skating were held in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink from 27 January to 28 January 2018. The tournament was part of the 2017\u20132018 speed skating season. Dai Dai Ntab and Letitia de Jong won the sprint titles. The sprint championships were held at the same time as the 2018 KNSB Dutch Allround Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280311-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KNVB Cup Final\nThe 2018 KNVB Cup Final was a football match between Feyenoord and AZ on 22 April 2018 at De Kuip, Rotterdam. It was the final match of the 2017\u201318 KNVB Cup competition and the 100th Dutch Cup Final. Feyenoord beat AZ 3\u20130 to secure their 13th KNVB Cup trophy. Remarkably, Feyenoord played all of their cup matches at home, including the final (which is traditionally played at their stadium) despite being drawn as the away team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280311-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KNVB Cup Final\nThe match was halted for a while in the opening stage of the game due to AZ fans throwing smokebombs on the pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280312-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KPIT MSLTA Challenger\nThe 2018 KPIT MSLTA Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Pune, India from 19 to 24 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280312-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KPIT MSLTA Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280312-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 KPIT MSLTA Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280312-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 KPIT MSLTA Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280313-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KPIT MSLTA Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nTomislav Brki\u0107 and Ante Pavi\u0107 were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280313-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KPIT MSLTA Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nVijay Sundar Prashanth and Ramkumar Ramanathan won the title after defeating Hsieh Cheng-peng and Yang Tsung-hua 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20137(5\u20137), [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280314-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 KPIT MSLTA Challenger \u2013 Singles\nYuki Bhambri was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280314-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 KPIT MSLTA Challenger \u2013 Singles\nElias Ymer won the title after defeating Prajnesh Gunneswaran 6\u20132, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280315-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kabuscorp S.C.P. season\nThe 2018 season of Kabuscorp Sport Clube do Palanca is the club's 16th season in Angolan football and the 11th consecutive season in the Girabola, the top flight league of Angolan football. In 2018, the club participated in the Girabola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280315-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kabuscorp S.C.P. season, J.G.M. withdrawal\nIn late April, J.G.M. submitted a withdrawal request to the Angolan Football Federation citing financial reasons. The request was granted. As a result, 3 points won by Kabuscorp in its round 3 away match win against J.G.M. were withdrawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280315-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kabuscorp S.C.P. season, FIFA penalties\nFIFA has instructed the Angolan Football Federation that Kabuscorp should forfeit 6 points in the league as a result of being in default to their former star player Rivaldo. In a weekly report issued by the Angolan federation, it is further stated that the club may be banned from official competition in case the claimant files a new complaint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280315-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kabuscorp S.C.P. season, FIFA penalties\nIn June, FIFA again ruled that Kabuscorp forfeits 6 points in the league for being in default with TP Mazembe in the 2014 deal with Tr\u00e9sor Mputu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280316-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kagame Interclub Cup\nThe 2018 Kagame Interclub Cup is the 41st edition of the Kagame Interclub Cup, a football competition for clubs in East and Central Africa, which is organised by CECAFA. It took place in Tanzania from 29 June to 13 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280316-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kagame Interclub Cup, Group stage\nThe group stage featured twelve teams, with 4 teams in Group A, Group B and C. Two teams from Group A and B and Group C advanced to the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280317-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kalmar regional election\nKalmar County or Region Kalmar held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280317-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kalmar regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 67 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 25, a drop of two from 2014. There were 159,333 valid ballots cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280318-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kangaroo Cup\nThe 2018 Kangaroo Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the twenty-third edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Gifu, Japan, on 30 April\u20136 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280318-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kangaroo Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280319-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kangaroo Cup \u2013 Doubles\nEri Hozumi and Miyu Kato were the defending champions, but Kato chose to compete at the 2018 J&T Banka Prague Open. Hozumi chose to partner Makoto Ninomiya but lost in the semifinals to Ksenia Lykina and Emily Webley-Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280319-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kangaroo Cup \u2013 Doubles\nRika Fujiwara and Yuki Naito won the title, defeating Lykina and Webley-Smith in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280320-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kangaroo Cup \u2013 Singles\nMagdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280320-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kangaroo Cup \u2013 Singles\nKurumi Nara won the title, defeating Moyuka Uchijima in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20134).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280321-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs season\nThe 2018 Kansas City Chiefs season was the franchise's 49th season in the National Football League, their 59th overall, their sixth under head coach Andy Reid, and their second under general manager Brett Veach. The Chiefs finished 12\u20134 and won their third consecutive AFC West title, made their fourth consecutive playoff appearance, but lost to the eventual Super Bowl champion New England Patriots in the AFC Championship. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes won the AP NFL MVP award, becoming the first Chiefs player to ever be named MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280321-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs season, Season summary\nIn the offseason the Chiefs had several major changes, including trading 2-time Pro Bowler Marcus Peters, as well as Alex Smith. The team also voided the final year of the contract of their longest tenured player Derrick Johnson and they released long time linebacker Tamba Hali.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280321-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs season, Season summary\nUnder first year starting quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs would start the season 5\u20130 for the second consecutive year before losing to the New England Patriots. The Chiefs then won their next four games before losing again to the Los Angeles Rams. A Week 14 win over the Baltimore Ravens clinched the Chiefs' fourth consecutive playoff appearance. After defeating their rival, the Oakland Raiders 35\u20133 in Week 17, the Chiefs clinched their third consecutive division title and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs for the first time since 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280321-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs season, Season summary\nIn the playoffs, the Chiefs advanced to the AFC Championship Game for the first time since 1993 by defeating the Indianapolis Colts, 31\u201313 in the Divisional round. This win ended the Chiefs' 6-game home playoff losing streak dating back to 1993. It was only the Chiefs' second win in their last 13 playoff games. In the AFC Championship Game, the Chiefs lost to the eventual Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, 37\u201331 in overtime. Two days after the loss, defensive coordinator Bob Sutton was fired following multiple NFL analysts criticizing his lack of adjustments in the AFC Championship Game, as well as other games throughout the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280321-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs season, NFL Top 100\nThe Chiefs had three players ranked in NFL Network's annual Top 100 players countdown, the fewest the team has had on the list since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280321-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Denver Broncos\nWith this win, head coach Andy Reid eclipsed win number 200, becoming the seventh coach in NFL history to do so (with Don Shula, George Halas, Bill Belichick, Tom Landry, Curly Lambeau, & Marty Schottenheimer).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 90], "content_span": [91, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280321-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: at Cleveland Browns\nWith this win, head coach Andy Reid won his 201st regular season game, passing Marty Schottenheimer to move to 6th most regular season wins in NFL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280321-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Oakland Raiders\nWith this win, head coach Andy Reid won his 206th combined regular season & post season game, passing Marty Schottenheimer to move to 7th most combined wins in NFL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 92], "content_span": [93, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game\nThe 2018 Kansas City Chiefs vs. Los Angeles Rams game was an American football game in the National Football League (NFL) between the visiting Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Rams on November 19, 2018. The game was a Monday Night Football game televised nationally on ESPN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game\nThe Rams won the game 54\u201351, with the Rams and Chiefs combining for 105 points, (21 scored by defenses) making it the highest-scoring Monday Night Football game as well as the third highest-scoring game in NFL history, the highest score by a losing team in NFL history, and the first NFL game where both teams topped fifty points. There were six lead changes in the game, including four in the fourth quarter alone. The two teams also combined for 1,001 total yards in the game, and the game itself was hailed as an \"Instant Classic\" and is regarded as one of the greatest games ever played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Background\nNotably, the Chiefs and Rams formerly shared an instate rivalry in Missouri when the latter played as the St. Louis Rams from 1995 to 2015. Kansas City had won all six regular season games during that era. This game was the first regular season meeting between the teams after the Rams' return to Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Background\nBoth the Chiefs and Rams came into the game at 9\u20131. The Chiefs' only loss was to the New England Patriots while the Rams' only loss was to the New Orleans Saints. Both teams came in the game with the top 2 highest scoring offenses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Background\nThe inter-conference matchup was originally slated to be part of the NFL International Series, and was scheduled to be played at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, which had hosted games the previous two seasons. However, the playing field was found to be in deficient condition after rains earlier in the month and a heavy event schedule, which had included a Shakira concert; a soccer tournament match played by Cruz Azul and one of the multiple events of the left-wing political party, Morena (political party).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Background\nAs League and stadium officials evaluated the scene, pictures of the poor conditions began to circulate on social media. Unable to remedy the situation in time for the game, the NFL announced that the game would be moved to Los Angeles just six days before the game was to be played. Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt said \"[The move is] 100 percent [about] player safety...\", as the NFL faced pressure from players who reportedly considered sitting out the game rather than risk potential injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Background\nLeague rules required the designated home team (in this case, the Rams) to maintain availability of their home stadium as a contingency. Team officials and personnel worked quickly to secure facilities, logistics and event staff for the game, as the Rams were not scheduled to play at the Coliseum again for another month. The cancellation of the game in Mexico City was a disappointment to the NFL and local officials, and in particular to fans of both teams who had spent thousands of dollars for tickets and travel costs. Tickets purchased through either the Rams or Chiefs were refunded, and several air carriers offered travel credits for fans who had booked flights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Background\nAdded to the challenge of putting on the game itself was the fact that the Greater Los Angeles Area had itself been reeling in the wake of the Thousand Oaks shooting on November 7, in which 12 people were gunned down at a restaurant in Thousand Oaks, California, and the Woolsey Fire which broke out a day later. As the fire continued to rage, Rams staff were forced to evacuate the team's administrative offices in Agoura Hills as well as their practice facility at Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Background\nThe fire continued to burn for nearly two weeks, including the time of the game itself. Many Rams employees were personally affected by the Woolsey Fire, with some being evacuated multiple times from their homes and nearby hotels as the fire threatened local communities. The Rams organization covered all emergency expenses for club personnel during the crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Background\nThe Rams players and coaches had already traveled to Colorado Springs, Colorado in order to prepare for the high-altitude conditions they expected to encounter in Mexico. With the game being moved to Los Angeles and their homes and practice facility still under threat from the fire, the Rams opted to stay in Colorado and continue with their scheduled activities, which included closed practice sessions held at the Air Force Academy. Additionally, Rams owner Stan Kroenke chartered a plane to bring family members to join the team at the Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Background\nOn Monday, November 19, 2018, a capacity crowd was on hand as the Rams and Chiefs prepared to face off for the Coliseum's first Monday Night NFL game since 1985, and the Rams' first Monday Night game there since 1979. The Rams distributed more than 3,000 game tickets to first responders and people affected by the shooting and fires, and towels featuring the \"LATogether\" logo were handed out to fans attending the game. The Ventura County Sheriff\u2019s Honor Guard presented the colors as members of the Cal Lutheran University choir performed the national anthem before the game. Karen and Jordan Helus, wife and son of Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus, who was slain in the Thousand Oaks shooting, performed the ceremonial lighting of the Coliseum's Olympic torch just before kickoff, and local mayors of the stricken communities participated in the coin toss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 923]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Game summary, First quarter\nReceiving the opening kickoff, the Rams drove 75 yards in seven plays, with quarterback Jared Goff finding wide receiver Robert Woods in the end zone for a 7-yard touchdown pass, with kicker Greg Zuerlein missing the point-after attempt. Following a Chiefs punt, the Rams mounted a 10-play, 83-yard drive that ended with Goff connecting with wide receiver Josh Reynolds from four yards out and (with a successful Zuerlein PAT) a 13\u20130 lead for Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Game summary, First quarter\nThe Chiefs struck back quickly on their next drive as running back Kareem Hunt had a 27-yard run while quarterback Patrick Mahomes completed three straight passes for 48 yards, the last going 25 yards to wide receiver Tyreek Hill for a touchdown. The Rams, who benefited from nine penalties called on the Chiefs in the opening period, started from their own 16 and ended the first quarter with 3rd-and-goal at the Kansas City 5-yard-line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Game summary, Second quarter\nFollowing an incomplete pass, Zuerlein converted a 23-yard field goal to put the Rams up 16\u20137. From there, Mahomes and Hunt led the Chiefs down to L.A.'s 1-yard-line. But on 3rd-and-goal, Hunt was tackled for a 1-yard loss by Rams strong safety John Johnson, forcing Kansas City to settle for a 21-yard field goal by Harrison Butker. On the Rams' next drive, Goff was sacked twice, the second by defensive end Allen Bailey, who stripped Goff of the ball and recovered the fumble himself at the Ram 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Game summary, Second quarter\nThe Chiefs cashed in quickly as Mahomes hit Hunt for a 21-yard screen pass that with Butker's PAT put Kansas City on top 17\u201316. The Rams stalled on their next drive, but punter Johnny Hekker's 55-yard punt pinned the Chiefs inside their own 10. The Chiefs moved out to their own 22, when on 2nd-and-8 just after the two-minute warning, Mahomes was sacked by Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald and separated from the ball, which was picked up by linebacker Samson Ebukam at the 11 and taken in for a touchdown and a 23\u201317 advantage for the Rams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Game summary, Second quarter\nMahomes shook off the turnover and rallied the Chiefs by completing six passes in seven attempts on a 69-yard drive that ended with an 8-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chris Conley with 20 seconds remaining before halftime. However, Butker missed the extra point, and the score was tied 23\u201323. On the quarter's final play, Jared Goff took a knee for the Rams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Game summary, Halftime\nThe Chainsmokers featuring Kelsea Ballerini performed their hit single \"This Feeling\" on a special stage set up at the Coliseum's peristyle end during the halftime show. Following the televised portion, The Chainsmokers continued to play, with vocalist Drew Taggart performing a solo version of their previous hit song \"Closer.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Game summary, Third quarter\nComing out of the locker room, the Chiefs were poised to reclaim the lead, taking the second half kickoff and driving down to the Ram 25-yard-line, but Donald got to Mahomes again with another sack and forced fumble, which was recovered by defensive end John Franklin-Myers at the Kansas City 46. From there, Jared Goff completed four passes to guide the Rams to the Chief 7. Finding no one open on 3rd-and-goal, Goff ran it in himself for the touchdown, lobbing the football over the crossbar as Los Angeles seized a 30\u201323 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Game summary, Third quarter\nThe Chiefs tied things up on their next possession, with tight end Travis Kelce taking a Mahomes pass for a 33-yard catch-and-run to set up a 1st-and-goal situation. Two plays later, Mahomes and Kelce connected again for a 4-yard touchdown and a 30\u201330 deadlock. The Rams retaliated as Goff found running back Todd Gurley for screen passes of 19 and 13 yards. Los Angeles drove down to the Kansas City 15, where Zuerlein converted his second field goal of the night, this time from 33 yards out and a 33\u201330 lead. Following a touchback, Mahomes' short pass attempt was intercepted at the line of scrimmage by Ebukam, who returned it 25 yards for a touchdown (plowing over Mahomes and Hunt at the goal line) to put the Rams up by 10 points, 40\u201330.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nAfter the teams traded punts on the next two possessions, the Chiefs swung momentum their way with Mahomes throwing deep to a wide-open Hill for a 73-yard touchdown pass play. On the Rams' next drive, Goff was sacked by linebacker Justin Houston who stripped the ball away. Allen Bailey, who had forced and recovered a Goff fumble earlier in the game, grabbed the ball before it had a chance to hit the ground and returned it two yards for a touchdown to put Kansas City back in the lead 44\u201340.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nThe Rams came back as Goff found Josh Reynolds (27 yards) and Robert Woods (36 yards) for big gains that led to a 7-yard scoring strike to tight end Gerald Everett and a 47\u201344 edge for L.A. Both teams went three-and-out on their next possessions before Mahomes led a six-play, 65-yard drive that ended with a 10-yard score to Conley with 2:47 remaining, Mahomes' sixth touchdown pass of the game (matching his own team record), as the Chiefs went up 51\u201347.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0012-0002", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nBut it would take only six plays for the Rams to regain the lead, as Goff found Everett deep down the right sideline. Everett beat the coverage by Chiefs safety Daniel Sorensen, gathered in the pass at the Chiefs 15, then tiptoed down the sideline to stay in bounds for the 40-yard touchdown reception and a 54\u201351 lead. With 1:44 left in the game, Mahomes drove the Chiefs to midfield, but a deep pass attempt was intercepted by Rams cornerback Marcus Peters, who was facing his former team for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0012-0003", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nL.A. looked set to run out the clock, but a false start penalty on tackle Andrew Whitworth took the Rams out of their game plan, and they were forced to punt. Hekker, a four-time all-pro punter, then boomed his kick 68 yards into the Chiefs end zone. Tyreek Hill returned the punt 14 yards to the Kansas City 12 with under a minute remaining. Mahomes connected with Kelce and Conley for short passes, but throwing under pressure from his own 26, Mahomes' last deep pass was picked off by Rams safety Lamarcus Joyner, and Los Angeles was able to run out the remaining 13 seconds as Goff took a final kneeldown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Aftermath and legacy\nThe Rams went on to win three of their remaining five games to finish 13\u20133, winning the NFC West and clinching the NFC's number 2 playoff seed. The Rams defeated the Dallas Cowboys in the Divisional Round, 30\u201322, then controversially defeated the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Championship Game, 26\u201323 in overtime, to reach Super Bowl LIII. However, the Rams lost the Super Bowl to the New England Patriots, 13\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Aftermath and legacy\nThe Chiefs also won three of their remaining five games to finish 12\u20134, winning the AFC West and clinching the AFC's top playoff seed. After defeating the Indianapolis Colts in the Divisional Round, 31\u201313, the Chiefs lost the AFC Championship game to the Patriots, 37\u201331 in overtime, preventing a possible Super Bowl re-match with the Rams. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes was named the 2018 NFL Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Aftermath and legacy\nWith 105 points, the game was the highest-scoring game in the history of Monday Night Football, bettering a 48\u201347 Green Bay Packers victory over the Washington Redskins in 1983. It was also the third-highest total score in NFL history. The only higher scores were a 1966 game in which the Washington Redskins defeated the New York Giants 72\u201341 (113 points), and a 2004 game in which the Cincinnati Bengals defeated the Cleveland Browns 58\u201348 (106 points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Aftermath and legacy\nESPN's broadcast garnered an overnight rating of 11.3, the best showing for a Monday Night Football game since 2014, with an estimated live TV audience of seven million viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Aftermath and legacy\nRams quarterback Jared Goff completed 31 of 49 passes for 413 yards. It was also his third fourth quarter comeback victory in four weeks, fourth of the season and fifth of his career. Wide receiver Brandin Cooks had eight receptions for 107 yards to lead the Rams in both categories. Fellow wide receiver Josh Reynolds (80 yards, 1 TD) and tight end Tyler Higbee (63 yards) both had six receptions each, while wide receiver Robert Woods added four receptions for 72 yards and a TD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Aftermath and legacy\nTight end Gerald Everett had 49 yards on three receptions, two of which went for touchdowns in the fourth quarter, including what would ultimately be the game-winning score. Rams running back Todd Gurley had 12 carries for 55 yards to add to his NFL rushing yardage lead and to put him over 1,000 yards rushing for the third time in his four-year career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0017-0002", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Aftermath and legacy\nHowever, Gurley (who also added three receptions for 39 yards) was held without a touchdown for the first time in the season, ending his team-record 13-game touchdown scoring streak, which was tied with John Riggins, George Rogers, and Jerry Rice for the third-longest in NFL history. On defense, linebacker Samson Ebukam was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week after scoring touchdowns on an interception and a fumble recovery return with three tackles and a sack. Aaron Donald had two sacks and two forced fumbles, and John Johnson led the Rams with 11 tackles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Aftermath and legacy\nFor the Chiefs, Mahomes threw for a career-high 478 yards on 33-for-46 passing, the second-highest single-game total in Chiefs team history. Mahomes also threw for six touchdowns for the second time in 2018 (matching the team record he already shared with Hall of Famer Len Dawson), but was intercepted three times and fumbled twice. Wide receiver Tyreek Hill had the second best single-game performance of his career with 10 catches for 215 yards and two touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Aftermath and legacy\nTight end Travis Kelce also had 10 receptions for 127 yards and a touchdown, and wide receiver Chris Conley added seven receptions for 72 yards with two TDs. Running back Kareem Hunt had 14 carries for 70 yards on the ground and three receptions for 41 yards and a touchdown. Defensively, cornerback Ron Parker had a team-high eight tackles, while linebacker Anthony Hitchens, cornerback Steven Nelson, and defensive tackle Chris Jones had six tackles each, with Jones leading the Chiefs with two sacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Aftermath and legacy\nAt the 2019 ESPY Awards, the Chiefs\u2013Rams battle was named \"Best Game,\" with Mahomes and Goff accepting the award on behalf of their respective teams. The game was also named the top L.A. sports moment of 2018 by the Los Angeles Sports Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Aftermath and legacy\nFor NFL Network's \"100 Greatest Games,\" the 2018 Rams\u2013Chiefs game was ranked No. 33 on the list. It was the second-highest ranked regular season game, behind only the 1985 Chicago Bears-Miami Dolphins showdown (also on Monday Night Football), which was ranked No. 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280322-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Chiefs\u2013Los Angeles Rams game, Aftermath and legacy\nIt was the first regular season game that has been profiled in the ongoing NFL Films series \"NFL's Greatest Games.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280323-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Royals season\nThe 2018 Kansas City Royals season was their 50th season for the franchise, and their 46th at Kauffman Stadium. They significantly failed to improve upon their 80-82 record the previous year, reaching 100+ losses for the first time since 2006 and finishing 58-104, the second-worst record in the 2018 MLB season, ahead of only the Baltimore Orioles, who finished 47-115.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280323-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Royals season, Offseason, Transactions\nNovember 2, 2017: 1B Eric Hosmer, 3B Mike Moustakas, RHP Peter Moylan, LHP Jason Vargas, RHP Trevor Cahill, RF Melky Cabrera, CF Lorenzo Cain, and SS Alcides Escobar elected free agency. Activated RHP Nate Karns, LHP Brian Flynn, CF Bubba Starling, and RHP Miguel Almonte from the 60-day disabled list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280323-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Royals season, Offseason, Transactions\nNovember 20, 2017: Selected the contract of C Meibrys Viloria from Lexington Legends. Selected the contract of LHP Tim Hill from Northwest Arkansas Naturals. Selected the contract of LHP Eric Stout from Omaha Storm Chasers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280323-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Royals season, Offseason, Transactions\nDecember 2, 2017: Signed free agent LF Terrance Gore to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280323-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Royals season, Offseason, Transactions\nDecember 8, 2017: Seattle Mariners claim Mike Morin off waivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280323-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Royals season, Offseason, Transactions\nDecember 14, 2017: New York Mets traded RHP Burch Smith for Future Considerations. Cincinnati Reds traded RHP Brad Keller for Future Considerations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280323-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Royals season, Offseason, Transactions\nDecember 15, 2017: Signed free agent RHP Mike Broadway to a minor league contract. Signed free agent DH Cody Asche to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280323-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Royals season, Offseason, Transactions\nJanuary 4, 2018: Chicago White Sox traded 2B Jake Peter to Los Angeles Dodgers; Dodgers traded cash, RHP Joakim Soria and LHP Luis Avilan to White Sox; Dodgers traded SS Erick Mejia and RHP Trevor Oaks to Royals; Royals traded RHP Joakim Soria and LHP Scott Alexander to Dodgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280323-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Royals season, Offseason, Transactions\nJanuary 12, 2018: Signed free agent SS Guillermo Fernandez to a minor league contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280323-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Royals season, Offseason, Transactions\nJanuary 13, 2018: Signed free agent RHP Luis Barroso to a minor league contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280323-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Royals season, Offseason, Transactions\nJanuary 16, 2018: Signed free agent RHP Clayton Mortensen and OF Tyler Collins to minor league contracts. Collins invited to spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280323-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas City Royals season, Offseason, Transactions\nJanuary 25, 2018: Signed free agent SS Ryan Goins to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280324-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 2018 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the Jayhawks 129th season. The Jayhawks were led by fourth-year head coach David Beaty. They were members of the Big 12 Conference. They played their games at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, formally Memorial Stadium. The stadium was renamed following the Jayhawks 2017 season in December 2017 after a $50 million renovation was completed that was donated by Kansas alumnus David Booth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280324-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe Jayhawks ended multiple losing streaks during the season, the longest being a 46 game road losing streak which ended with a 31\u20137 win over Central Michigan. The win also ended a 12 game losing streak against FBS opponents. With a 27\u201326 win over TCU, KU ended a 10 game losing streak against Big 12 teams. With back\u2013to\u2013back wins over Central Michigan and Rutgers, Kansas earned back-to-back wins against any opponent for the first time since 2011 and their first back-to-back wins over FBS opponents since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280324-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nTwo other major losing streaks were still active at the end of the season, they have lost 44 consecutive road games in the Big 12 as well as 30 consecutive losses against teams ranked in the AP Poll. Following their 7th loss of the season to Kansas State, the Jayhawks became ineligible for a bowl game for the 10th consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280324-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nOn November 5, Kansas athletic director Jeff Long announced that Beaty will not be retained as head coach but he was able to finish the season and was officially fired at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280324-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll\nThe Big 12 media poll was released on July 12, 2018 with the Jayhawks predicted to finish in last place receiving all last place votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team\nThe 2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Wildcats played their home games at the Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium in Manhattan, Kansas, and competed in the Big 12 Conference. They were led by head coach Bill Snyder in his 10th season of his current tenure at Kansas State and 27th overall. They finished the season 5\u20137 overall, 3\u20136 in Big 12 play to finish in a three-way tie for seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team\nOn December 2, Snyder, who had signed a five-year extension before the season began, announced his retirement. His final record was 215\u2013117\u20131 in 27 seasons. On December 10, North Dakota State head coach Chris Klieman was hired as Snyder's successor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Previous season\nThe Wildcats finished the 2017 season 8\u20135, 5\u20134 in Big 12 play to finish in a four-way tie for fourth place. They were invited to the Cactus Bowl where they defeated UCLA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Preseason\nOn December 6, 2017 it was announced that offensive coordinator Dana Dimel was hired as the new head coach for UTEP. Coach Dimel fulfilled his final OC duties for KSU while participating in the Cactus Bowl before moving to his new job. His son Winston Dimel also transferred to UTEP after three seasons at Kansas State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll\nThe Big 12 media poll was released on July 12, 2018 with the Wildcats predicted to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Preseason, Recruiting\nThe following is a list of the recruits that are on the 2018 roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Schedule\nThe Wildcats will host three non-conference opponents, South Dakota from the Missouri Valley Football Conference, Mississippi State from the Southeastern Conference, and UTSA from Conference USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Schedule\nKansas State announced its 2018 football schedule on October 26, 2017. The 2018 schedule consists of seven home and five away games in the regular season. The Wildcats will host Big 12 foes Texas, Oklahoma State, Kansas, and Texas Tech and will travel to West Virginia, Baylor, Oklahoma, TCU, and Iowa State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Coaching staff\nThe following is a list of coaches at Kansas State for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Roster\nNames in bold means player sits out due to NCAA transfer rules. Names in italics means player is a transfer. ESPN roster for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Roster\nKansas State's 2018 football roster consists of 22 transfers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Roster\nLuke Sowa (Butler CC via UConn), Adam Harter (Butler CC), Hunter Rison (Michigan State), Matt Jones (Butler CC), Hayden Perry (Hutchinson CC), Abdul Beecham (Blinn), Nick Kaltmayer (Western Illinois), Tyquilo Moore (Butler CC), Osvelt Joseph (Garden City CC), Joe Davies (Coffeyville CC), Logan Stoddard (Highland CC), Rahsaan York (American River College), Da'Quan Patton (Trinity Valley CC), Eric Gallon II (Virginia), Blake Richmeier (Butler CC), Darreyl Patterson (Northeastern Oklahoma A&M), Jordan Noil (Hutchinson CC), Elijah Walker (Cerritos CC), Kevion McGee (Northeastern Oklahoma A&M), Daron Bowles (Diablo Valley JC), Jahron McPherson (Butler CC), Devin Anctil (Coffeyville CC) and David Tullis (Butler CC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, South Dakota\nKansas State's Isaiah Zuber was credited for saving the game with two key plays: an 85-yard punt return with South Dakota leading 24-12. Later in the game Zuber caught a touchdown pass from Skylar Thompson with 7:21 left to give K-State its first lead of the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, South Dakota\nKansas State scored all but seven of its points on field goals and special teams. Sophomore kicker Blake Lynch scored Kansas State's first 12 points on field goals of 22, 24, 38 and 44 yards. Kansas State racked up 13 penalties for 129 yards, but maintained more control of the ball with 37:39 of offense compared to South Dakota's 22:21. going over 100 years for the first time since 2016 against Florida Atlantic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, South Dakota\nAmong the penalties committed by Kansas State had significant impact on the game. An illegal block negated a punt-return touchdown by Duke Shelley; holding penalties erased first downs; and an Eli Walker interception was taken away by a pass-interference penalty and Walker was subsequently flagged for spiking the football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, South Dakota\nSouth Dakota quarterback Austin Simmons threw for 257 yards and one touchdown, continually finding receiver Levi Falck (11 catches, 140 yards) open against top K-State cornerback Duke Shelley. The Coyotes led 24-12 at halftime. ESPN reported \"... one solid takeaway is how well the Coyotes were in control for much of the game. They did a great job limiting the Kansas State offense for three quarters and had many Kansas State fans, players and coaches frustrated throughout the night.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nMississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald made his first appearance on the football fields since November 2017, when a foot injury sidelined him for the season and a 1-game suspension kept him out of the season opener. Fitzgerald threw for 154 yards with two touchdowns and ran for another 159 yards. Mississippi State compiled a total of 538 yards of total offense where Kansas State only managed 213.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nKansas State continued with its two-quarterback system, switching snaps between Skylar Thompson and Alex Delton. Kansas State running back Alex Barnes managed 75 yards rushing, but the Wildcats fell short to lose the game 31-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, UTSA\nKansas State achieved a \"confidence builder\" by pulling together with a victory over San Antonio. Sophomore Skylar Thompson shared quarterback duties again with Alex Delton, but made more of a statement for his role with the team by throwing for 216 yards and rushing for 66\u2014producing two touchdowns by the air and a third on the ground. After losing the ball on a fumble, Delton entered the game and hit Isaiah Zuber for a 72-yard touchdown, placing the Wildcats well ahead by a score of 41\u20137. Kansas State scored in five of six possessions in the first half. The final score was Kansas State 41, San Antonion 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, UTSA\nOn defense, San Antonio gave up over 400 yards to Kansas State and dropped their record to 0\u20133, where Kansas State advanced to 2\u20131 for the season. San Antonio Coach Frank Wilson said, \"Unfortunately we did not always execute to the fullest, but I think take away a couple of big-play opportunities, they weren't going methodically down the field and just shoving us around. We held them to some third-down opportunities, but we just couldn't get them off the field.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nWest Virginia had originally planned to have a game the previous week against North Carolina State, but it was canceled due to Hurricane Florence. The team and coaches began preparations against Kansas State early. Mountaineer Coach Dana Holgorsen said, \"Kansas State's a tough outfit that we've got to prepare for.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nBoth teams started conference play with this game. Kansas State entered the game with a record of 2\u20131 where West Virginia had already secured victories against Tennessee (40\u201314) and Youngstown State (523\u2013-17).\" This game is the ninth meeting between the two teams with the Wildcats holding a 5-3 overall lead. The teams have split the four games played at West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nWest Virginia managed to take control of the game mid-way through the second quarter after Kansas State failed to convert on fourth down. West Virginia ended ahead at the half 21\u20130. Kansas State managed control the ball more on offense but it wasn't enough, as West Virginia achieved 464 total yards compared to Kansas State's 318. Although West Virginia had four turnovers to Kansas State's one, the Wildcats lost 69 yards on 8 penalties compared to the Mountaineer's 35 yards on 3 penalties. West Virginia was 8\u201312 on third down conversions compared to Kansas State's 3\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nIn the second half of play, Kansas State was successful with two field goals and additional scores by the Mountaineers put the game to a conclusion of West Virginia's victory 35\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas\nTexas lost their first game on the road at Maryland and then won their next three games at home, and their last two victories came against ranked teams\u2014No. 22 Southern California and No. 17 TCU. But the travel games (especially in this series) have not been in the Longhorn's favor. The home team has won last six games between the two teams and Texas has not won in Manhattan since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas\nTexas was the only team to score in the first half of play, with two touchdowns, a field goal, and a safety. Kansas State had a chance to score a touchdown on the final play of the first half when Alex Delton threw a pass to Adam Harter that was dropped in the end zone. The score at the half was Texas 19, Kansas State 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas\nKansas State fared better in the second half, holding Texas scoreless and replacing Alex Delton with Skylar Thompson. Thompson led Kansas State to score two touchdowns in the second half with 14 points. In the end, Texas held the lead with a final score of 19\u201314. For the next week Texas played Oklahoma after stopping the second-half comeback by Kansas State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Baylor\nBaylor held a slight edge in the pregame analysis. Coming into the game Baylor was considered better than they were at this same time last year and has won 3 games (Kansas, Texas-San Antonio, and Abilene Christian), the Bears have also lost 2 (Duke, Oklahoma). In Baylor's previous game against Oklahoma, they achieved 493 yards of offense in their loss\u2014something expected to be a challenge for Kansas State on defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Baylor\nThe game started with Kansas State holding the lead at the end of the first and second quarters. Baylor pulled ahead in the third quarter but missed several field goals. Baylor's Charlie Brewer threw for 296 yards and Kansas State's Alex Barnes rushed for 250 yards (he ran for 129 yards and four touchdowns in the 2016 matchup also at Baylor).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Baylor\nKansas State had its share of mistakes: K-State missed a field goal and an extra point and were also ineffective on kickoff returns. Kansas State also gave up a fumble on the kickoff return after a controversial play review to start the third quarter and Baylor scored a touchdown two plays later. Wildcat turnovers and penalties led to three touchdowns for Baylor. They also had problems with a punt return they recovered and an extra point was blocked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Baylor\nBaylor's Connor Martin had a rough day as the kicker, missing three field goals and an extra point, yet among all that he ended up kicking the game-winning field goal from 29 yards with 8 seconds left in the game. The final score was a Baylor victory, 37\u201334.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State\nThe Oklahoma State Cowboys came in to the game after a loss the previous week to Iowa State by a score of 48\u201342, and that loss put extra pressure on the Cowboys to win coming into the game. Some of the issues the Cowboys brought in to the include lack of discipline, a disconnected defense, and a failure to force turnovers on defense. The 2018 loss to Iowa State had many similarities to the 2017 game between Oklahoma State and Kansas State that resulted in a K-State victory 45\u201340.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State\nThose issues carried through into the game as Oklahoma State produced its worst offensive performance since 2014. The score at halftime put Oklahoma State ahead 6\u20133, but strong performance by the Wildcats in the second half helped take Kansas State to a victory 31\u201312. Kansas State's Skylar Thompson completed 11-of-22 passes for 130 yards and the offense achieved 291 yards on 55 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Oklahoma\nKansas State was able to take a week of rest between the previous win against Oklahoma State and their next game against Oklahoma. Oklahoma's new defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill was able to simplify the defensive plan which helped turn out good results against Texas Christian in the previous week with a Sooner victory 52\u201327. K-State's Coach Snyder commented: \"They're very much the same football team that they were on the defensive side of the ball, on both sides actually, but certainly on the defensive side. I saw some tweaks, a few things, that you might consider to be changes -- don't know if they're changes or are just there and hadn't surfaced previously. But by and large, it's the same defense.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Oklahoma\nWhen the game rolled around, both the offense and the defense for Oklahoma performed to control the game from start to finish, with a final score of 51\u201314 and an Oklahoma win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at TCU\nWhen the two Big 12 conference teams that both wear purple got together for the 2018 matchup, Kansas State lost quarterback Skylar Thompson to an injury in the first quarter and the Wildcats went to backup Alex Delton. Kansas State kept the game close but missed a PAT leaving the score 14\u201313 in favor of TCU. \"Of course I feel horrible for him,\" Snyder said. \"He's one of the young guys. He didn't lose the ballgame for us. There were a bunch of us that made mistakes that contributed.\" With the loss, K-State was left in a position to win the last three games in order to be eligible for post-season bowl games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nThe Jayhawks outgained the Wildcats in total yardage 347\u2013301, but it wasn't enough. A Kansas offensive drive began with 8:29 remaining began with four penalties on their first three snaps. A Holding Penalty reversed a 74-yard Khalil Herbert run and a false start on the next play added to the situation. On the third play of the drive, KU's Williams ran for 60 yards, but center Alex Fontana was penalized for holding. The fourth penalty happened when KU's tight end Mavin Saunders tried to hide the penalty flag, bringing a call for unsportsmanlike conduct. Kansas State ended up winning their tenth consecutive Sunflower Showdown by a score of 21\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nThe Red Raiders experienced their fourth consecutive loss when traveling to Manhattan. Tech was without starting quarterback Alan Bowman and offensive players Connor Killian and Mason Reed were also out. Tech ran the ball 26 times for 31 yards and has not had a ball carrier reach 65 yards iun the past seven games. Tech's 181 yards of total offense was the lowest output since 2010 against the Texas Longhorns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nKansas State held a solid lead late in the fourth quarter and ran a tackle-eligible play to right tackle Dalton Risner. Although Risner took the ball to the end zone, officials reviewed the play and declared that it was a forward pass. The ruling resulted in a penalty for illegal touching and it took away the TD. K-State's Lynch then was successful on his final field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nKansas State kicker Blake Lynch had not completed a successful field goal in a game for nearly two months, but managed to match a career-high with four straight and added an extra point. A blocked punt by Kansas State's Brock Monty added to K-State's success with a final victory of 21\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Iowa State\nIn the week before the final regular season game for Kansas State, Iowa State jumped K-State in the standings, ranked 25th. The Cyclones come off a disappointing loss at Texas, but had won five of its past six. Kansas State seeks its sixth victory in the game with a chance to become bowl-eligible for its ninth consecutive season. Weather forecast for the night game at Jack Trice Stadium are for cold temperatures. \u201cWe have won two in a row and have a little momentum going,\u201d K-State running back Alex Barnes said. \u201cIowa State is going to be a tough game. It\u2019s going to be another cold game, too. It\u2019s a night game. It\u2019s all lined up for us to do pretty good. We just have to go out there and do it.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Iowa State\nIowa State's loss at Texas Saturday brought an end to the Cyclones' hopes for a spot in the Big 12 Conference title game and they also fell in the College Football Playoff rankings from #16 to #25. K-State's Coach Snyder came into the game 22\u20134 all-time against Iowa State and 9\u20130 since his return in 2009. For this matchup, the pre-game consensus was that the Cyclones were favored by 14 points over the Wildcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280325-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Iowa State\nAfter a slow start, Kansas State held a solid lead for most of the game. Kansas State had racked up a 17-point lead with only 12 minutes remaining in the game. From there, Iowa State's Mike Rose grabbed a loose ball and ran it in for a touchdown. The Cyclones controlled the game from that point to rally with 21 unanswered points. The final score was an Iowa State victory, 42\u201338.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280326-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas elections\nA general election was held in the state of Kansas on November 6, 2018. Primary elections were held on August 7, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280326-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas elections\nVoters elected all six executive officers, the lower house of the state legislature, and all of the state's delegations to the U.S. House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280326-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas elections, U.S. House of Representatives\nKansas elected four U.S. representatives, one for each congressional districts. In 2018, the delegation's Republican majority changed from 4\u20130 to 3\u20131, the first time Democrats have held a seat in the state since 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280326-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nIncumbent Republicans Jeff Colyer and Tracey Mann lost their party's renomination in a tight primary election won by Secretary of State Kris Kobach and businessman Wink Hartman by a margin of around 0.1 percent. Democrats nominated state senators Laura Kelly and Lynn Rogers, with businessman Greg Orman and state senator John Doll joining the race as independents. Polls leading up to the election had Kobach and Kelly running close, leading to many news outlets predicting a tossup election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280326-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nKelly won the election, beating Kobach by five percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280326-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach retired to run for governor, leaving the seat open. State representative Scott Schwab won the Republican primary amidst a number of candidates, while Democratic nominee Brian McClendon ran unopposed after his challengers withdrew. Schwab won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280326-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt ran for re-election to a third term. He successfully defeated Democratic nominee Sarah Swain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280326-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican Treasurer Jake LaTurner was appointed to the office on April 25, 2017, following the resignation of his predecessor Ron Estes to join the U.S. House of Representatives. He ran for election to a full term, defeating his Democratic challenger Marci Francisco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280326-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas elections, Insurance Commissioner\nIncumbent Republican Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer retired to run for governor, leaving the seat open. Republican state senators Vicki Schmidt and Clark Shultz competed in a close primary, with Schmidt winning the nomination. The Democratic nominee was president of the Kansas NAACP Nathaniel McLaughlin. Schmidt won the election with the highest vote percentage of any statewide candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280326-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas elections, State House of Representatives\nThe Kansas House of Representatives held elections for all 125 seats in 2018. Republicans maintained their supermajority in the chamber, with neither parties making gains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280327-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next Governor of Kansas. Democratic nominee Laura Kelly won the election, defeating Republican nominee Kris Kobach and independent candidate Greg Orman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280327-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor Sam Brownback was term-limited and could not seek reelection to a third consecutive term. On July 26, 2017, Brownback was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 24, 2018. Brownback resigned the governorship on January 31 and was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor Jeff Colyer. Colyer was eligible to seek a full term and announced his candidacy prior to becoming Governor of Kansas. In the August 7 primary, Colyer ran against CPA and incumbent Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer, Topeka doctor and 2006 Republican Kansas gubernatorial nominee Jim Barnett, and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280327-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas gubernatorial election\nOn August 7, 2018, Kobach defeated Colyer in the Republican gubernatorial primary by an initial margin of 191 votes, a lead that increased to 361 votes by August 14, although discrepancies in some counties needed resolution and provisional and absentee ballots may not have been counted in some counties. Colyer conceded the Republican nomination after the final votes were tallied, in which Kobach's margin grew slightly. Democratic State Senator Laura Kelly easily won the Democratic nomination. Businessman Greg Orman, who finished second as an independent in the 2014 U.S. Senate race against incumbent Republican Pat Roberts, also ran for governor as an independent candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280327-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas gubernatorial election\nGiven that Kansas is the only state which has no gubernatorial statutory qualifications whatsoever in its constitution, seven teenagers, including one who has never even been to the state of Kansas, ran for the office in this election cycle. A debate took place on September 5 between the three candidates that consistently polled above 5%. Polls in late August had Laura Kelly and Kris Kobach running close with Greg Orman polling in the single digits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280327-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kansas gubernatorial election\nKelly's win continued a streak of party turnover for Governor of Kansas, as Kansas has not elected two consecutive governors of the same party since Republican William Avery succeeded fellow Republican John Anderson Jr. following the 1964 election, and neither major party has held the governorship for longer than eight consecutive years since Republican John McCuish left office in 1957.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280328-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Karaliaus Mindaugo taur\u0117\nThe 2018 Karaliaus Mindaugo taur\u0117, also known as SIL \u2013 Karaliaus Mindaugo taur\u0117 for sponsorship purposes, was the third edition of the Lithuanian King Mindaugas Cup. On 7 December 2017 it was announced that Klaip\u0117da would host the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280328-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Karaliaus Mindaugo taur\u0117\n\u017dalgiris was the defending champions. \u017dalgiris successfully defended its title after beating BC Lietuvos rytas in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280328-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Karaliaus Mindaugo taur\u0117, Format changes\nAfter a lot of criticism during last year's tournament Lithuanian Basketball League changed distribution of quarterfinals games venues, awarding them directly to seeded teams instead of previously held open draw. LKL Cheerleaders Battles final was added to complement the event alongside traditional Three-point and Slam Dunk contests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280328-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Karaliaus Mindaugo taur\u0117, Draw\nThe draw of the 2018 Karaliaus Mindaugo taur\u0117 will be held on 16 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280328-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Karaliaus Mindaugo taur\u0117, Qualified teams\nEight highest ranked teams after the first half of the 2017\u201318 LKL regular season will qualify to the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280328-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Karaliaus Mindaugo taur\u0117, Slam Dunk Contest\nSelected as wild card participant. \u0160ar\u016bnas Beniu\u0161is was unable to participate due to an illness", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280328-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Karaliaus Mindaugo taur\u0117, Three-Point Contest\nSelected as wild card participants. Lukas Auk\u0161tikalnis was selected as Adas Ju\u0161kevi\u010dius replacement. Dovis Bi\u010dkauskis was selected as Simas Buterlevi\u010dius replacement Anthony Ireland was selected as Jerry Johnson replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280329-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Karbi Anglong lynching\n2018 Karbi Anglong lynching was a violent incident of mob lynching that took place in Karbi Anglong, Assam, in India on 8 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280329-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Karbi Anglong lynching, Fake news\nFake news spread via WhatsApp have been named as the cause of these two lynchings. The rumors said that child lifters were in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280329-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Karbi Anglong lynching, Incident\nThe incident took place in the backdrop of widespread public rumours over rising child trafficking and the spate of killings known as the Indian WhatsApp lynchings. A mob of about 250 people attacked two men under suspicion of child trafficking and beat the two to death in a case of mistaken identity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280329-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Karbi Anglong lynching, Arrests\nAs of June 21, 2018, 36 people had been arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election\nThe 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election was held on 12 May 2018 in 222 constituencies to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. The election was postponed in Jayanagar and Rajarajeshwari Nagar, following the death of the MLA B. N. Vijaya Kumar and a voter fraud scandal respectively till 28 May. The election saw a voter turnout of 72.13 per cent, the highest in Karnataka since 1952 assembly polls. The counting of votes took place on 15 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election\nThe Indian National Congress (INC) was seeking re-election, having governed the state since elections in 2013. while the Bharatiya Janta Party attempted to regain office, having previously governed the state in 2007 and from 2008 to 2013. The Janata Dal (Secular), and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) contested the election in an electoral alliance. The Aam Aadmi Party also made its debut in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThe tenure of the 15th Karnataka Assembly ended on 28 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Background, Organization\nThe Times of India reported in late February 2018 that the state had fewer electronic voting machines than the minimum mandated requirement to be stored going into elections for any state assembly. The report stated that only 20 percent or 11,399 EVMs were in place against the requirement of 56,994 machines, one each for a polling station. Bharat Electronics Limited, which provides 80 percent of the machines began supplying during this time. The District Election Officer for the Bangalore region stated that a \"vulnerability mapping exercise\" would be conducted to ensure \"free and fair polls\". He added that 550 Sector teams, each headed by a sector magistrate, a police officer (not below the rank of an Assistant sub-inspector) and a videographer, were formed, one for every 15 of the 8,274 polling stations in the said region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 906]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Background, Organization\nVoter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines were used with EVMs in all polling stations in Karnataka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Schedule\nThe schedule of the election was announced by the Election Commission of India on 27 March 2018. It announced that polling would be held in a single phase on 12 May and that results would be declared on 15 May. It also declared that the provisions of the Model Code of Conduct \"came into force with immediate effect\" with the said announcement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Schedule, Controversies, Leaked election dates\nThe Election Commission of India ran into a major embarrassment on 27 March 2018, when BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya and the Karnataka Congress' social media in-charge, Srivasta, tweeted the dates before they were officially released. However, both of them got the counting day incorrect in their tweets. Both the tweets were deleted after outrage on Twitter. Malviya later claimed that he got the information from Times Now, a 24-hour English news channel. The news was reportedly also shown by a local Kannada news channel. Later it was revealed that even Times Now got the counting day incorrectly as 18 May 2018, instead of 15 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 92], "content_span": [93, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Schedule, Controversies, Leaked election dates\nOm Prakash Rawat, the Chief Election Commissioner of India, formed a committee to investigate the alleged leak. The terms of reference of the formed committee included probing certain media outlets and Congress' social media head Srivasta, but not BJP's Amit Malviya. This prompted allegations of the Election Commission of India being biased for the BJP by the Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 92], "content_span": [93, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Schedule, Controversies, Leaked election dates\nOn 14 April 2018, the committee said that the media reports were mere speculation and not a leak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 92], "content_span": [93, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Schedule, Controversies, Voter ID fraud case\nOn 11 May 2018, Congress MLA Munirathna and 13 others were booked in an alleged fake voter ID scam. On 8 May 2018, almost 10,000 voter ID cards, along with several laptops, were found in a flat in Bengaluru owned by former BJP leader Manjula Nanjamari. Apart from the voter IDs and laptops, the Munirathna's pamphlets were also found, which turned the needle of suspicion on Munirathna. After the FIR, Munirathna said \"I\u2019ve distributed 40,000 pamphlets asking for votes for me in my constituency and you will find them in every home in my segment. I\u2019ve been named as accused no. 14 because one such pamphlet was found in the flat that was raided. This is an outrageous complaint against me and part of the concerted propaganda to harass and humiliate me.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 90], "content_span": [91, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Schedule, Controversies, Voter ID fraud case\nThe polling in RR Nagar was postponed to 28 May 2018 and the counting of votes was done on 31 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 90], "content_span": [91, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Schedule, Controversies, Kaveri river water scandal\nThe Karnataka Legislative Assembly election sparked criticisms from Tamil Nadu over the Karnataka's government for not addressing the issue on properly and for its delay in setting up a Kaveri Management Board. The Supreme Court also issued a strict notice to the Karnataka state government for using the Karnataka Legislative state election as an excuse to resolve the Kaveri river water crisis with Tamil Nadu cannot be acceptable. The election was one of the hottest points considered by the critics for the future of Karnataka in dealing with the rivals, Tamil Nadu over the Kaveri River water dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 97], "content_span": [98, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Election campaign\nThe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) officially began its election campaign on 2 November 2017. The party spent 85 days covering all the assembly constituencies, culminating in Bangalore on 4 February 2018, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing it. In early March, the party launched a 14-day Protect Bengaluru March travelling across Bangalore aimed at, according to the party, \"reviving\" and \"rebuilding\" the city from Indian National Congress' \"criminal neglect\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 63], "content_span": [64, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Election campaign\nIn December 2017, the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, although not part of the election campaign, undertook a task of setting up booth-level committees at 54,261 locations in the state which will be responsible to disseminate information on various programs of the ruling Indian National Congress and their implementation. The move was seen as an \"extensive outreach program\" preceding the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 63], "content_span": [64, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Opinion polls, Preferred Chief Minister polling\nSome opinion pollsters asked voters the party leader they would prefer as Chief Minister \u2013 Siddaramaiah (Indian National Congress), B. S. Yeddyurappa (Bharatiya Janata Party). or H. D. Kumaraswamy (Janata Dal (Secular)). Lokniti-CSDS conducted surveys between 10 and 15 January interviewing 878 people. While 34 percent of the sample wanted Siddaramaiah to remain the chief minister for the next term, 19 percent chose Kumaraswamy and 14 percent chose Yeddyurappa. A poll conducted by CHS in the same month found that Kumaraswamy was the first choice, followed by Yeddyurappa and Siddaramaiah in that order. C-Fore's survey of a sample size of 22,357 voters across 154 assembly constituencies between 1 and 25 March showed that Siddaramaiah, with 45 percent, was the most popular choice for Chief Minister, followed by Yeddyurappa at 26 percent and Kumaraswamy at 13 percent, while 16 percent preferred 'others'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 93], "content_span": [94, 1006]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Exit polls\nThe exit polls remained divided, with only one predicting that a party \u2013 BJP \u2013 would get past the majority mark. Five polls predicted that BJP would have the most seats, while two predicted that the Congress was in a comfortable lead, and one predicted a cliffhanger. Today's Chanakya exit poll, which was released last and took into account voting right until polling closure time, predicted a clear majority for BJP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Results, Hung assembly\nThe election led to a hung assembly, with the BJP emerging as the single largest party, with 104 seats and the Congress winning the popular vote. BJP under the leadership of Yeddyurappa formed the government, based on being the single largest party of the house, despite the Congress and JD(S) post-result alliance having a majority. The Governor then gave a 15-day window for the new government to prove the majority in the legislature, which was shunned by the opposition as favoring the BJP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Results, Hung assembly\nThe Supreme court then limited the window to 3 days and then Chief minister Yeddyurappa resigned 10 minutes before the trust vote. The INC JD(S) coalition then formed the cabinet with HD Kumarasamy as Chief minister. This coalition government lasted for 14 months before turmoil started again. 16 Legislators from the ruling coalition resigned within a span of 2 days and 2 independent MLAs switched their support to BJP. This shrunk the house majority to 105 and ruling coalition to 101, and the opposition BJP to 107. After 3 weeks of turmoil, HD Kumarasamy lost the trust vote by 100\u2013107 in the house (held on 23 July 2019) and resigned. Afterward on 26 July 2019, B.S. Yeddiyurapa took oath as the Chief Minister of Karnataka once again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Bypolls\nBypolls were due to be held in three seats: Jayanagar and Rajarajeshwari Nagar in Bangalore and in Ramanagaram.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Bypolls\nRajarajeshwari Nagar election results were declared on 31 May 2018, and INC candidate Munirathna won by a margin of 28,000 votes taking the Congress' tally to 79 seats and the JD(S)-INC coalition to 118 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Bypolls\nJayanagar Assembly Election result was declared on 13 June 2018. Sowmya Reddy, daughter of former minister Ramalinga Reddy, won the constituency by defeating BJP's BN Prahlad by 2889 votes. 55% polling was recorded in the Jayanagar Assembly constituency on 11 June. The assembly elections were held across the state on 12 May, but the poll in Jayanagar was countermanded following the death of BJP candidate B N Vijayakumar, who was holding the seat. The JDS had earlier pulled out its candidate, formally supporting its coalition partner Congress. This win took the Congress' tally to 79 in the 224 seats assembly and the INC-JD(S) coalition to 118 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Bypolls\nThe elected Congress MLA for Jamkhandi passed away in a road accident on 28 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Bypolls\nThe results of Jamkhandi and Ramanagaram were declared on 5 November 2018. In Jamkhandi INC (JD(S)-Congress coalition) candidate Ananda nyamagouda(son of Ex MLA: Siddu nyamagouda) won by a margin of 39479 votes taking Congress tally to 80 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Bypolls\nIn Ramanagaram, (JD(S)-Congress coalition) candidate Anitha Kumaraswamy (wife of Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy ) won by a margin of 109137 votes. And the Congress-JD(S) coalition 120 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280330-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Bypolls, Bypolls in 2019\nAfter the Demise of Kundagol MLA C.S. Shivalli and Resignation of Chincholi MLA Umesh Jadhav for Karnataka Assembly, The Bypolls of Karnataka Assembly held on 19 May along with Parliamentary election. Out of 2 seats, Kundagol seat was won by Kusuma Shivalli (Wife of Late C.S. Shivalli) from Indian National Congress and Avinash Jadhav from BJP won Chincholi Legislative Assembly seat (Son of BJP MP Umesh Jadhav)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280331-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Karnataka State Film Awards\nThe 2018 Karnataka State Film Awards, presented by Government of Karnataka, felicitated the best of Karnataka cinema released in the year 2018. The State Film Awards are to be given away on 24 April every year which is the birthday of the late veteran actor Rajkumar. But due to the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the last two years, the awards were not given on this day. The list of winners were announced on 10 January 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280332-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Karshi Challenger\nThe 2018 Karshi Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Qarshi, Uzbekistan between 7 and 12 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280332-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Karshi Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280333-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Karshi Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nDenys Molchanov and Sergiy Stakhovsky were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280333-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Karshi Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nTimur Khabibulin and Vladyslav Manafov won the title after defeating Sanjar Fayziev and Jurabek Karimov 6\u20132, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280334-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Karshi Challenger \u2013 Singles\nEgor Gerasimov was the defending champion and successfully defended his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280334-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Karshi Challenger \u2013 Singles\nGerasimov won the title after Sergey Betov retired trailing 6\u20137(3\u20137), 0\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280335-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kashima Antlers season\nThe 2018 season was Kashima Antlers's 26th consecutive season in the J1 League since professional football was established in Japan in 1993. In addition to the domestic league, the club also competed in the Emperor's Cup, J.League Cup, and AFC Champions League. They won the latter trophy securing their first ever Champions League trophy in their first appearance in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280335-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kashima Antlers season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280335-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kashima Antlers season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280335-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kashima Antlers season, Competitions, AFC Champions League, Final\nIn the final, the two semi-final winners played each other, with the order of legs (first leg hosted by team from the East Region, second leg hosted by team from the West Region) reversed from the previous season's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280336-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kashiwa Reysol season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280336-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kashiwa Reysol season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280337-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kate Sheppard Cup\nThe 2018 Kate Sheppard Cup is New Zealand's women's 25th annual knockout football competition. This is the first year that the competition is known by the Kate Sheppard Cup, or New Zealand Football Foundation Kate Sheppard Cup for sponsorship purposes, after previously been known as the Women's Knockout Cup since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280337-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kate Sheppard Cup\nThe 2018 competition has three rounds before quarter-finals, semi-finals, and a final. Competition will run in three regions (northern, central, southern) until the quarter-finals, from which stage the draw will be open. In all, 35 teams entered the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280337-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kate Sheppard Cup, The 2018 final\nThe 2018 final was the first time a team from Football South played in the final with Dunedin Technical representing the region against Forrest Hill Milford from Auckland. The final was played at QBE Stadium before the men's Chatham Cup final. This was Forrest Hill Milford United's third final appearance, having won it once in 2016 and lost it previously in their first final appearance in 2014. Dunedin Technical went on to win the game 4\u20132 meaning it was also the first time the trophy headed to the bottom of the South Island. Shontelle Smith from Tech was the winner of the Maia Jackman trophy for the most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280337-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kate Sheppard Cup, Results, Round 1\nAll matches were played on the weekend of 12\u201313 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280337-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kate Sheppard Cup, Results, Round 2\nAll matches were played on Queen's Birthday weekend 2-4 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280337-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kate Sheppard Cup, Results, Round 3\nAll matches were played on the weekend 23-24 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280337-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kate Sheppard Cup, Results, Quarter-finals\nAll matches were originally organised to be played on the weekend 14-15 July 2018 however two matches were postponed due to weather conditions, the match between Hamilton Wanderers and Forrest Hill Milford was played on the 22 July 2018 and Eastern Suburbs v Glenfield Rovers was played on 26 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280337-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kate Sheppard Cup, Results, Semi-finals\nMatches were played on the weekend 25-26 August 2018. The draw was originally done before the results of the Eastern Suburbs v Glenfield Rovers and Hamilton Wanderers v Forrest Hill Milford postponed matches where known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280338-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kategoria e Tret\u00eb\nThe 2018 Kategoria e Tret\u00eb was the 15th official season of the Albanian football fourth division since its establishment. The season began on 11 February 2018. There were 7 teams competing this season. Term gained promotion to the 2018-19 Kategoria e Dyt\u00eb. Rubiku won their first Kategoria e Tret\u00eb title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280339-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Katusha\u2013Alpecin season\nThe 2018 season for Team Katusha\u2013Alpecin began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280339-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Katusha\u2013Alpecin season, Team roster\nRiders who left the team during or after the 2017 season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280340-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kawasaki Frontale season\nThe 2018 Kawasaki Frontale season is their 14th consecutive season in J1 League, they are defending champions after finishing top of the 2017 J1 League. They will also compete in the J.League Cup, Emperor's Cup, and AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280340-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kawasaki Frontale season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280340-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kawasaki Frontale season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280341-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kaya F.C.\u2013Iloilo season\nThe 2018 season was Kaya F.C.\u2013Iloilo's 2nd season in the Philippines Football League (PFL), the top flight of Philippine football. In addition to the PFL, the club also competed in the Copa Paulino Alcantara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280341-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kaya F.C.\u2013Iloilo season\nOn 6 February 2018, the club formerly known as Kaya F.C.\u2013Makati moved from Makati to Iloilo City. They changed their name accordingly to Kaya F.C.\u2013Iloilo. They finished second in the PFL and won the inaugural Copa Paulino Alcantara, earning qualification to the 2019 AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280341-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kaya F.C.\u2013Iloilo season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280342-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan Cup\nThe 2018 Kazakhstan Cup is the 27th season of the Kazakhstan Cup, the annual nationwide football cup competition of Kazakhstan since the independence of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280342-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan Cup, Semifinals\nThe four winners from the Quarterfinals were drawn into two two-legged ties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280343-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan Premier League\nThe 2018 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 27th season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. Astana defended their championship, winning the Premier League for a fifth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280343-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan Premier League, Teams\nFC Okzhetpes and FC Taraz were relegated at the end of the 2016 season, and were replaced by FC Zhetysu and FC Kyzylzhar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280343-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan Premier League, Teams, Personnel and kits\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280343-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan Premier League, Teams, Foreign players\nThe number of foreign players is restricted to eight per KPL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280343-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan Premier League, Teams, Foreign players\nIn bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280344-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan President Cup (football)\nThe 11th Kazakhstan President Cup was played from August 24 to August 28, 2018 in Talgar. Six youth teams participated in the tournament (players were born no earlier than 2002.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280344-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan President Cup (football), Format\nThe tournament is held in two stages. At the first stage, six teams are divided into two qualification groups (A and B). Competitions of the first stage were held on a circular system. The winners of the groups advance to the final, while the group runners-up meet to determine third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280344-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan President Cup (football), Statistics, Prize money\nAccording to FFK, the prize fund of a tournament will make $15,000. \"The teams which took 1, 2 and 3 place will be received, respectively 7,000, 5,000 and 3,000 $.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280345-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan Super Cup\n2018 Kazakhstan Super Cup was a Kazakhstan football match that was played on 4 March 2018 between the champions of 2017 Kazakhstan Premier League, Astana, and the winner of the 2017 Kazakhstan Cup, Kairat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280346-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan bus fire\nOn 18 January 2018, a bus caught fire on the Samara\u2013Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan. The fire killed 52 passengers, with five persons escaping including the drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280346-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan bus fire, Events\nThe fire occurred at around 10:30 AM (UTC+5:00) as the bus was transporting Uzbek migrant workers to Kazan in Russia. All the deceased were Uzbeks; the survivors were Uzbek passengers and the Kazakh drivers. A side door was reportedly blocked, preventing exit from the vehicle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280346-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan bus fire, Events\nUzbekistan dispatched both Foreign and Emergencies Ministry personnel to the scene, and announced that they would repatriate the bodies of the deceased with DNA testing used for identification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280346-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan bus fire, Events\nKazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev sent a telegram of condolence to Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Condolences were also expressed by the presidents ofTajikistan,Georgia,Azerbaijan,Belarusand Turkmenistan and King Abdullah II of Jordan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280346-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan bus fire, Investigations\nLater on the day of the fire, the Kazakh Ministry for Investments and Development stated the bus was a 29-year-old Setra S216 HDS with an expired technical safety certificate and no license to transport passengers but declined to comment on the immediate cause. The regional Emergency Situations Department stated that an electrical malfunction was being treated as an initial theory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280346-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan bus fire, Investigations\nBoth Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan launched investigations into the incident. A special Uzbek commission was created by Mirziyoev to be headed by Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov with an initial focus on potential traffic rule violations. A special criminal investigation was set up by the Kazakh authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280346-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan bus fire, Investigations\nOn 19 January, investigators released a statement based upon the testimony of the survivors, which stated that an open flame cooker used as a heating device was considered the likely source of the ignition, as the bus itself did not have a functional heater. The bus was carrying gasoline containers due to the absence of refueling stations on the long and remote road, one of which was reportedly knocked over near the open flame resulting in the blaze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280346-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan bus fire, Investigations\nA preliminary list of victims released by Uzbekistan\u2019s Emergency Situations Ministry released on 19 January listed 29 identified casualties as well as the two Uzbek survivors, all of whom were men from the Namangan Region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280346-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kazakhstan bus fire, Investigations\nOn 25 January the drivers were detained by the Kazakh authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280347-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kedah FA season\nThe 2018 season was Kedah's 10th season in the Malaysia Super League since its inception in 2004. They also participated in Malaysia FA Cup and Malaysia Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280347-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kedah FA season, Key Events, Pre-Season\nOn 3 December 2017, it was reported that two Kedah footballers & coach were alleged match fixing and have their statement taken by the police. This was after 6 Kedah footballers and coach Nidzam Adzha Yusoff after were accused by a fan on Facebook of throwing the Malaysia Cup final match on Nov 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280347-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kedah FA season, Key Events, Pre-Season\nOn 11 December 2017, it was announced that former Kedah assistant head coach Ramon Marcote has returned to the side for the 2018 season, this time as the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280347-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kedah FA season, Competitions, Malaysia Super League, Matches\nThe fixtures for the 2018 Malaysia Super League season were announced on 11 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280348-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kedah state election\nThe 14th Kedah State election will be held on 9 May 2018. The previous state election was held on 5 May 2013. The state assemblymen is elected to 5 years term each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280348-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kedah state election\nThe Kedah State Legislative Assembly would automatically dissolve on 23 June 2018, the fifth anniversary of the first sitting, and elections must be held within sixty days (two months) of the dissolution (on or before 21 August 2018, with the date to be decided by the Election Commission), unless dissolved prior to that date by the Head of State (Sultan of Kedah) on the advice of the Head of Government (Menteri Besar of Kedah).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280348-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kedah state election, Contenders\nBarisan Nasional (BN) is set to contest all 36 seats in Kedah State Legislative Assembly. Barisan Nasional (BN) linchpin party United Malays National Organisation (UNMO) is to set to contest major share of Barisan Nasional (BN) seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280348-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kedah state election, Contenders\nPan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) is set to contest all 36 seats in Kedah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280348-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kedah state election, Contenders\nPakatan Harapan have decided to contest all 36 seats in Kedah. On 4 February 2018, Pakatan Harapan has yet to finalize 4 seats. The seats are Guar Chempedak, Pantai Merdeka, Gurun and Kulim. On 26 February 2018, Pakatan Harapan has completed the distribution of seats in Kedah. Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Bersatu) is to set to contest major share of Pakatan Harapan seats. Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Bersatu) will contest in 14 seats while the National Trust Party (Amanah) will have 10 seats. People's Justice Party (PKR) and the Democratic Action Party (DAP) will contest 10 and 2 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280348-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kedah state election, Election pendulum\nThe 14th General Election witnessed 18 governmental seats and 18 non-governmental seats filled the Kedah State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 1 safe seat and 3 fairly safe seats. However, none of the non-government side has safe and fairly safe seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280349-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kehoe Cup\nThe 2018 Kehoe Cup was an inter-county and university hurling competition in the province of Leinster. The competition is ranked below the Walsh Cup and featured weaker teams from Leinster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280349-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kehoe Cup, Format\nEach team plays the other teams in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The top two teams play in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280350-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Keio Challenger\nThe 2018 Keio Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the thirteenth (ATP) and second (ITF) editions of the tournament and part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Yokohama, Japan between 26 February and 4 March 2018 for the men's edition and between 5 and 11 March 2018 for the women's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280350-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Keio Challenger, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280350-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Keio Challenger, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280350-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Keio Challenger, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280351-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Keio Challenger \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMarin and Tomislav Draganja were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280351-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Keio Challenger \u2013 Men's Doubles\nTobias Kamke and Tim P\u00fctz won the title after defeating Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana 3\u20136, 7\u20135, [12\u201310] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280352-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Keio Challenger \u2013 Men's Singles\nY\u016bichi Sugita was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280352-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Keio Challenger \u2013 Men's Singles\nYasutaka Uchiyama won the title after defeating Tatsuma Ito 2\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280353-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelantan FA season\nThe 2018 season is Kelantan's 10th season in the Malaysia Super League (Malay: Liga Super Malaysia) since being promoted and 23rd successive season in the top flight of Malaysian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280353-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelantan FA season, Pre-season and friendlies, Super Cup\nOn 8 December 2017, it was announced that Kelantan would face Persija Jakarta of Indonesia and Ratchaburi of Thailand as part of the 2018 Boost SportsFix Super Cup, a round-robin tournament. All matches played at the National Stadium, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280353-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelantan FA season, Competitions, Malaysia Super League, Matches\nThe fixtures for the 2018 Malaysia Super League season were announced on 11 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 69], "content_span": [70, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280353-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelantan FA season, Competitions, Malaysia FA Cup\nKelantan entered the 2018 Malaysia FA Cup in the second round as all 12 Malaysia Super League clubs received a bye to that stage. Matches were played between 2\u20133 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280353-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelantan FA season, Statistics, Top scorers\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal. \u2020 Players who left the club in mid season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280353-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelantan FA season, Statistics, Top assists\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal. \u2020 Players who left the club in mid season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280353-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelantan FA season, Statistics, Clean sheets\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total clean sheets are equal. \u2020 Players who left the club in mid season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280354-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelantan state election\nThe 14th Kelantan State election will be held on or before 23 August 2018. The previous state election was held on 5 May 2013. The state assemblymen is elected to 5 years term each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280354-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelantan state election\nThe Kelantan State Legislative Assembly would automatically dissolve on 13 June 2018, the fifth anniversary of the first sitting, and elections must be held within sixty days (two months) of the dissolution (on or before 13 August 2018, with the date to be decided by the Election Commission), unless dissolved prior to that date by the Head of State (Sultan of Kelantan) on the advice of the Head of Government (Menteri Besar of Kelantan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280354-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelantan state election, Contenders\nBarisan Nasional (BN) is set to contest all 45 seats in Kelantan State Legislative Assembly. Barisan Nasional (BN) linchpin party United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) is to set to contest major share of Barisan Nasional (BN) seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280354-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelantan state election, Contenders\nPan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) is set to contest all 45 seats in Kelantan to defend their victory in the last election .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280354-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelantan state election, Contenders\nPakatan Harapan have decided to contest all 45 seats in Kelantan. However, Pakatan Harapan has yet to finalize 14 seats at the moment. The seats are including Demit, Kemahang, Kemuning, Tawang and Kijang. On 1 March 2018, Pakatan Harapan has completed the distribution of seats in Kelantan. National Trust Party (Amanah) will contest in 23 seats while the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Bersatu) will have 11 seats. People's Justice Party (PKR) will contest 10 seats while the Democratic Action Party (DAP) will contest a single seat, which is in Galas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280354-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelantan state election, Election pendulum\nThe 14th General Election witnessed 37 governmental seats and 8 non-governmental seats filled the Kelantan State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 6 safe seats and 5 fairly safe seats. However, none of the non-government side has safe and fairly safe seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280355-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelly Cup playoffs\nThe 2018 Kelly Cup playoffs of the ECHL began in April 2018 following the conclusion of the 2017\u201318 ECHL regular season. The Kelly Cup was won by the Colorado Eagles, in their last season in the ECHL before joining the American Hockey League, in seven games over the regular season champions, the Florida Everblades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280355-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelly Cup playoffs, Playoff format\nAt the end of the regular season the top four teams in each division qualifies for the 2018 Kelly Cup playoffs and be seeded one through four based on highest point total earned in the season. Then the first two rounds of the playoffs are held within the division with the first seed facing the fourth seed and the second seed facing the third. The division champions then play each other in a conference championship. The Kelly Cup finals pits the Eastern Conference champion against the Western Conference champion. All four rounds are a best-of-seven format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280355-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelly Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds\nAfter the regular season, 16 teams qualify for the playoffs. The Florida Everblades were the first team to qualify during the regular season on February 28. The Everblades were the Eastern Conference regular season champions and clinched the Brabham Cup with the best record in the ECHL on April 5. The Toledo Walleye earned the top seed in the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280355-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelly Cup playoffs, Statistical leaders, Skaters\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2013 = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280355-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelly Cup playoffs, Statistical leaders, Goaltending\nThis is a combined table of the top five goaltenders based on goals against average and the top five goaltenders based on save percentage, with at least 240 minutes played. The table is sorted by GAA, and the criteria for inclusion are bolded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280355-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kelly Cup playoffs, Statistical leaders, Goaltending\nGP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime Losses; SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SV% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts; TOI = Time on ice (in minutes)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire\nOn 25 March 2018 at 16:00 local time (9:00 UTC), a fire engulfed the \"Zimnyaya vishnya\" shopping mall and entertainment complex in Kemerovo, Russia. It killed at least 60 people (more than half of which were children) according to official statements. The blaze started somewhere on the top floor of the four-story complex, and people were seen jumping from windows to escape it. 100 people were evacuated, and another 20 were rescued. Others claim the number of people killed in fire is being covered up, and that the real figure runs into the hundreds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, The Winter Cherry complex\nThe Winter Cherry shopping and entertainment complex (Russian: \u0442\u043e\u0440\u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e-\u0440\u0430\u0437\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u043a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441 \u00ab\u0417\u0438\u043c\u043d\u044f\u044f \u0432\u0438\u0448\u043d\u044f\u00bb , torgovo-razvlekatel'nyi kompleks \"Zimnyaya vishnya\") is a mall in Kemerovo, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, The Winter Cherry complex\nThe mall, which was converted from a former communist-era confectionery factory, opened in 2013 with 23,000 square meters of space, which included a petting zoo, children's center and bowling alley. The building was described as a labyrinth with few windows and points of entrance to the upper levels, with one main staircase, one lift shaft and one escalator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Fire\nSurvivors reported that the fire started on the fourth floor play area, with the heat of the flames rising to 700\u00a0\u00b0C, the heat so high it caused the bouncy castles to burst into flame. Many of the victims were in the mall's three cinemas, where two of the cinema roofs collapsed from the fourth floor into the third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Fire\nSeveral of the victims in the cinemas were children watching Sherlock Gnomes to start off the first day of a week-long school break. A survivor from the cinema claimed that those in the cinema heard no alarm, and had to break through one door and jump to safety. Once on the ground, survivors could only see dense black pungent smoke that had filled the children's playground and the other cinema hall. The fire alarm system at Kemerovo shopping mall was switched off by a security guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Fire\nMany children who were trapped in the fire called loved ones and friends to exchange last conversations and information. One deceased child's aunt recounted their conversation during the fire in which the victim stated; \"everything burns and the doors are locked in the cinema.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Fire\nA spokesperson for the Investigative Committee of Russia also stated that the fire exits in the building were blocked during the fire. Tajik shopkeepers saved around 50 people through an alternate exit. Staff and guards of the center were criticized by survivors for not arranging an organized evacuation effort, while some were praised for their efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Victims\nAt least 64 people were killed in the fire, 41 of them children. Also among the fatalities are some 200 animals from the petting zoo. Thirteen people had been hospitalized after the incident with the Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova claiming the most gravely injured was an 11-year-old boy who jumped from a fourth floor window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Victims\nDue to the fire, identification of most bodies had to have DNA identification used to confirm identifies. As of March 27, 60 individuals were treated in hospitals, of those 15 were hospitalized and 40 received outpatient care, and 25 victims, including 13 children had been identified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, First responders\nOver 600 first responders spent over 17 hours fighting the flames well into the next day after the fire started. The fire spread to cover more than 1,500 square meters of the 23,000 square meter building, and kept firefighters from entering the building for 12 hours due to the heat and smoke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, First responders\nA father of three deceased victims was critical of rescuers, claiming he led rescuers up the stairs, but they turned away after being ordered to go elsewhere and refused to give him a respiratory mask citing regulations. In an interview he angrily stated \"My daughters were left to burn because of their bloody rules.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Investigation\nThe Investigative Committee of Russia (IVR), opened an investigation into the cause of the fire, with the head of the IVR responding critically to the staff. In a statement he claims \"Most of the staff ran away and left parents and their children to their fate.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Investigation\nFour people have been detained in relation to the fire, including the head of the shopping complex's managing company. Investigators reported that the fire alarm system had not been working the week leading up to the fire, rising into conflict with a previous report that a security guard turned it off. The mall security guards were cited for failing to promptly turn the voice alert system on and that there is no reasonable explanation to why it occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Investigation\nKemerovo Oblast deputy governor Vladimir Chernov said that the preliminary suspicion is that a child had a cigarette lighter which ignited foam rubber in a children's trampoline room and erupted in the fashion of gunpowder. There is also speculation that the contracted builders and owners of the mall cut safety corners in the electrical wiring. Several arrests of these people have already been made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Aftermath\nPoliticians across the globe sent their condolences. 28 March 2018 was declared the national day of mourning in Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Aftermath\nA rally was held in Kemerovo demanding the resignation of Kemerovo Mayor Ilya Seredyuk and the longtime regional governor, Aman Tuleyev. On April 1, 2018, Aman Tuleyev resigned as the governor of Kemerovo Oblast, citing \"a heavy burden\" of the Kemerovo fire, and President Putin accepted Tuleyev's resignation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Aftermath\nA spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry criticized the announcement of expulsions of Russian diplomats by the United States and a number European countries in connection to the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter, which happened a day after the tragedy, as showing disrespect to the deceased victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Aftermath\nLocal media named the owner of the mall, as millionaire Denis Shtengelov. Shtengelov countered in an interview that his stake in the mall at the time of the fire was only a minority stake with other investors, however, he promised to pay compensation of 3-million rubles (about $52,500) to the family of each victim. This would be in addition to the regional government's reported compensation to the families of victims, which is equivalent to $17,500 each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Aftermath\nAs of July 2018, the building is being demolished. In March 2019, a construction of a park designed by architect John Calvin Weidman, was started at the place of the demolished mall. Named the Park of Angels, it was opened on 15 September 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Aftermath, Memorials and tributes\nAcross Russia, central squares were turned into memorials for those killed with flowers and candles. A local memorial was erected in a plaza outside of the shopping center, and there was an influx of individuals donating blood for those injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Aftermath, Memorials and tributes\nInternational memorials to the victims were erected in other locations, such as New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Criminal charges\nThe Investigative Committee of Russia brought charges under part 3 of Article 293 of the Russian Criminal Code; neglect of duty which has entailed by negligence the death of two or more persons, against the head of a firefighting unit No.2. According to investigation reports lead firefighter did not listen to an eyewitness, who reported that people were locked up on the fourth floor, but sent the unit to a farther location losing time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280356-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Kemerovo fire, Criminal charges\nSeveral other criminal cases were initiated with seven individuals being arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280357-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ken Galluccio Cup\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by 94.179.245.243 (talk) at 16:36, 19 June 2020 (\u2192\u200eExternal links). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280357-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ken Galluccio Cup\nThe 2018 Ken Galluccio Cup was the 10th edition of the Ken Galluccio Cup, the European men's lacrosse club competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280357-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ken Galluccio Cup, Competition format\nThe ten teams were divided into two groups of five, where the two first qualified teams joined the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280358-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kennesaw State Owls football team\nThe 2018 Kennesaw State Owls football team represented Kennesaw State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Brian Bohannon and played their home games at Fifth Third Bank Stadium in Kennesaw, Georgia as fourth-year members of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 11\u20132, 5\u20130 in Big South play to win the Big South conference championship for the second consecutive year. The Owls received the Big South's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs. The Owls earned a No. 4 seed and a first round bye. They defeated Wofford in the second round before losing in the quarterfinals to No. 5 South Dakota State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280358-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kennesaw State Owls football team, Previous season\nThe Owls finished the 2017 season 12\u20132, 5\u20130 in Big South play to win the Big South conference championship. The Owls received the Big South's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs, their first trip to the playoffs in school history. In the first round of the playoffs, the Owls defeated Samford in a rematch of their only regular season loss and marked the school's first ever playoff win. In the second round, the Owls upset No. 3 seed Jacksonville State to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, despite a furious second half comeback, they lost to Sam Houston State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280358-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kennesaw State Owls football team, Previous season\nOn January 9, 2018, head coach Brian Bohannon was named the American Football Coaches Association's Coach of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280358-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kennesaw State Owls football team, Preseason, Big South poll\nIn the Big South preseason poll released on July 23, 2018, the Owls were predicted to finish as Big South champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280358-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kennesaw State Owls football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Big South team\nThe Big South released their preseason all-Big South team on July 23, 2018, with the Owls having fourteen players selected along with two more at three positions on the honorable mention list. Quarterback Chandler Burks was named preseason offensive player of the year and linebacker Bryson Armstrong was named the preseason defensive player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280359-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kenora District municipal elections\nElections were held in the organized municipalities in the Kenora District of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280360-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council in England. The election was held on the same day as other local elections in England. While Kensington and Chelsea is usually regarded as a Conservative stronghold, there was media speculation that Labour could win control of the council in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. However the Conservatives maintained control, losing just one Councillor, in St. Helen's Ward, winning 36 seats to Labour's 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280360-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council election, Ward Results, Queen\u2019s Gate\nIn May 2019, Palmer was expelled from the Conservatives, he now sits as an Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 87], "content_span": [88, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280361-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kent State Golden Flashes football team\nThe 2018 Kent State Golden Flashes football team represented Kent State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Sean Lewis and played their home games at Dix Stadium in Kent, Ohio as members of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 2\u201310, 1\u20137 in MAC play to finish in last place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280361-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kent State Golden Flashes football team, Previous season\nThe Golden Flashes finished the 2017 season 2\u201310, 1\u20137 in MAC play to finish in last place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280361-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kent State Golden Flashes football team, Previous season\nOn August 28, 2017, the school announced that head coach Paul Haynes would be taking a medical leave of absence and miss the first two to three weeks of the season. Offensive coordinator Don Treadwell was named interim head coach. Haynes returned to the Flashes after missing two games due to prostate cancer treatments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280361-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kent State Golden Flashes football team, Previous season\nOn November 22, one day after the Flashes' final game of the season against Akron, the school fired Paul Haynes after five losing seasons. On December 19, the school hired Sean Lewis as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280361-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kent State Golden Flashes football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe MAC released their preseason media poll on July 24, 2018, with the Golden Flashes predicted to finish in last place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 77], "content_span": [78, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280362-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships\nThe 2018 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the twenty-third (ATP) and twenty-first (ITF) editions of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Lexington, United States, on 30 July\u20135 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280362-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280362-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280362-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 91], "content_span": [92, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280363-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nAlex Bolt and Max Purcell were the defending champions but only Purcell chose to defend his title, partnering Lloyd Harris. Purcell lost in the semifinals to Joris De Loore and Marc Polmans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280363-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nRobert Galloway and Roberto Mayt\u00edn won the title after defeating De Loore and Polmans 6\u20133, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280364-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nMichael Mmoh was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280364-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nLloyd Harris won the title after defeating Stefano Napolitano 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280365-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nPriscilla Hon and Vera Lapko were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280365-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nHayley Carter and Ena Shibahara won the title, defeating Sanaz Marand and Victoria Rodr\u00edguez in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280366-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nGrace Min was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Asia Muhammad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280366-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nMuhammad went on to win the title, defeating Ann Li in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280367-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Christian Knights football team\nThe 2018 Kentucky Christian Knights football team represented Kentucky Christian University in the 2018 NAIA football season. The Knights will play their home games at KCU Field, in Grayson, Kentucky. Kentucky Christian competes in the Bluegrass Division of the Mid-South Conference. The team is led by second-year head coach Corey Fipps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby\nThe 2018 Kentucky Derby (officially, the 2018 Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve) was the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby, and took place on Saturday, May 5, 2018, in Louisville, Kentucky. The field was open to 20 horses, with a purse of US$2 million. The Derby is held annually in Louisville on the first Saturday in May, at the end of the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. It is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1+1\u20444 miles (2.0\u00a0km), and has been run at Churchill Downs racetrack since its inception in 1875.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby\nThe race was broadcast by NBC, with coverage by NBCSN of undercard races beginning at 12:30pm EDT and main network coverage of pre-race activities starting at 2:30pm EDT. Post time was 6:52pm EDT. The race was won by Justify, who was the post-time favorite, in a time of 2:04.20 over a sloppy track. It is the first time since 1882 that the race was won by a horse that did not race at the age of two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Qualification\nThe Kentucky Derby is only open to three-year-old Thoroughbreds, thus all entrants in the 2018 race were part of the 2015 North American live foal crop of roughly 22,000. The field was limited to twenty horses who qualified based on points earned in the 2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby, a series of designated races that was first introduced in 2013. This point system replaced the previous graded stakes race earnings system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Qualification\nThe top points earner in the 2018 series was Magnum Moon (150 points), winner of the Rebel Stakes and Arkansas Derby. Good Magic, the champion two-year-old from 2017, finished second in the series by winning both the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and the Blue Grass Stakes. The other major prep winners were Noble Indy (Louisiana Derby), Mendelssohn (UAE Derby), Audible (Florida Derby), Vino Rosso (Wood Memorial) and Justify (Santa Anita Derby).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Qualification\nChurchill Downs also created separate qualification roads for horses based in Japan and Europe. None of the invitations for qualifiers on the Japan Road was accepted. On the European Road, the connections of Gronkowski accepted after the colt qualified first. However, the colt subsequently became ill and had to miss the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Field\nThe early favorite was Justify, who had made only three starts before the race but won each time with triple-digit Beyer Speed Figures. In the Derby, he had to surmount what came to be known as \"Curse of Apollo\" \u2013 a reference to the fact that no horse had ever won the Derby without racing while at age two since Apollo in 1882. \"Justify is a natural and he's still green, just learning how to run. He's so talented\", said his trainer Bob Baffert. \"But there are a lot of nice horses out there this year.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Field\nTrainer Todd Pletcher, who won the 2017 Kentucky Derby with Always Dreaming, had four of the leading contenders: Magnum Moon, Audible, Vino Rosso, and Noble Indy. Magnum Moon was ranked number two on the National Thoroughbred Racing Association top three-year-old poll of April 16 after his win in the Arkansas Derby. He had made only four starts prior to the Kentucky Derby, like Justified not having raced at age two. Audible was ranked number three, while Vino Rosso and Noble Indy were ranked seventh and eighth respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Field\nThe two colts with the best form at age two, Good Magic and Bolt d'Oro, were ranked fourth and fifth respectively on the same poll. They were the winter-book favorites for the Derby, but both suffered training setbacks that delayed their return to the racetrack. They both had one win from two starts at age three going into the Derby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Field\nAdding an international element to the field was Mendelssohn, trained in Ireland by Aidan O'Brien. Mendelssohn started his racing career on the turf and proved his ability to ship well by winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Del Mar in California in 2017. However, O'Brien felt that the colt would be equally suited to racing on the dirt given his pedigree: Mendelssohn is a half brother to multiple Eclipse Award-winner Beholder. Mendelssohn earned his berth by winning the UAE Derby in an \"astonishing\" performance while setting a track record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Field\nEntries for the Kentucky Derby were taken on May 1. Justify drew post position 7 and was installed as the 3-1 morning line favorite by oddsmaker Mike Battaglia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Race Description\nBecause the Derby was held on a rainy day, the surface of the track was sealed to mitigate the effect of heavy rain on the footing. Nonetheless, the track condition was sloppy. By post time, more than 2.8 inches (7.1\u00a0cm) of rain had been recorded that day at nearby Louisville International Airport, breaking the Derby Day precipitation record of 2.31 inches (5.9\u00a0cm) that had been set in 1918. Despite the rain, a crowd of 157,813 attended the event, the eighth largest in Derby history, and the wettest of all time. A record $149.2 million was bet on the Derby itself from all sources, while the full card earned an all-source handle of $225.7 million, up 8% from the previous year's record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Race Description\nOn the track, Justify's jockey Mike Smith used the colt's early speed to gain vantage position near the rail moving into the first turn. He was positioned just a length after Promises Fulfilled and maintained this position down the backstretch. Following them closely were Flameaway, Bolt d'Oro and Good Magic. Although the opening fractions (22.24 for the first quarter, 45.77 for the half, 1:11.01 for the three-quarters) were fast, Smith said Justify felt \"very comfortable\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Race Description\nIn the final turn, Bolt d'Oro and later Good Magic were both put to a drive, while Promises Fulfilled began to drop back. Justify responded to urging to open up a lead of 1+1\u20442 lengths as they turned into the stretch, widening to 2+1\u20442 lengths at the finish line. Bolt d'Oro tired, eventually finishing in twelfth place, but Good Magic persevered to finish second. Audible closed from twelfth place to finish third, just a head behind Good Magic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Race Description\nIt was the fifth Derby win for Baffert and the second for Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Race Description\nMendelssohn, who went off as the third choice in the betting, broke well from post position 14 but was hit hard shortly after the start by Magnum Moon, who veered over from post position 16. Losing ground and \"banged around in traffic\", Mendelssohn was eased and finished last. On the other hand, Instilled Regard, who broke from post position 15 and was also involved in the initial bumping incident, rallied from 17th place to finish fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Results\nTimes: 1\u20444 mile \u2013 22.24; 1\u20442 mile \u2013 45.77; 3\u20444 mile \u2013 1:11.01; mile \u2013 1:37.35; final \u2013 2:04.20. Splits for each quarter-mile: (22.24) (23.53) (25.24) (26.34) (26.85)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280368-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Derby, Subsequent Grade I wins\nSeveral horses went on from the Derby to post Grade I wins. Most notably, Justify completed the American Triple Crown and was named Horse of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280369-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 Kentucky House of Representatives elections were held on November 6, 2018, as part of the biennial United States elections. All 100 of Kentucky's state representatives were up for reelection. In Kentucky, members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms. Accordingly, they are up for reelection in both presidential and midterm election years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280369-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky House of Representatives election\nDemocrats, who had long been the dominant party at the state level in Kentucky, held a majority in the State House from 1922 to 2017. In 2016, Republicans made large gains in the chamber, winning a majority of 64 seats. Both parties flipped several seats in 2018, with Republicans grabbing six seats from the Democrats and Democrats taking eight from the Republicans, for a net gain of two Democratic seats. Many of the Democratic gains were in suburban areas, including around Louisville, Lexington, and Owensboro. Republicans made gains in some of Democrats' remaining rural districts, though they significantly underperformed in ancestrally Democratic Appalachian Eastern Kentucky, where Democrats picked up multiple seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280369-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky House of Representatives election\nSeveral races were decided by extremely narrow margins. Four seats\u2014Districts 13, 27, 91, and 96\u2014were all decided by seven votes or fewer. Republicans ultimately maintained their majority in the chamber, winning 61 seats to the Democrats' 39.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280369-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky House of Representatives election, Election results\nAll results are official and certified by the Kentucky State Board of Elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280370-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Senate Bill 151\nSenate Bill 151, also known as SB 151, is a pension bill passed on March 29, 2018 by the Kentucky Senate and the Kentucky House of Representatives. The bill includes increases for cost of living, ends the inviolable contract for new teachers hired after January 1, 2019, and requires employees hired between 2003 and 2008 to pay an additional 1 percent of their pay for health care benefits in retirement. The bill received numerous criticism, especially from teachers. The bill was overturned on December 13, 2018 by the Kentucky Supreme Court as \u201cunconstitutional\u201d, which prevents the bill from going into effect on January 1, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280370-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Senate Bill 151, Legislative history\nSenate Bill 151 was introduced in the Senate on February 15, 2018. On March 29, 2018, it was passed by the Kentucky Senate by a vote of 22-15 and the Kentucky House with a vote of 49-46. The bill was sent to Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin\u2019s desk. It was received by Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, and signed by Bevin on April 10, 2018. On December 13, 2018, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled against SB 151, labeling it as \"unconstitutional\", which means the bill will not go into effect on January 1, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280370-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Senate Bill 151, Opposition to SB 151\nThe decision to pass Senate Bill 151 on March 29, 2018 sparked outrage from teachers across Kentucky. As a result, schools in 25 counties closed on March 30, 2018. Teachers rallied in Frankfort to protest the bill and chanted phrases such as \u201c120 strong\u201d and \u201cunited we stand, divided we fall.\u201d On June 20, 2018, Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ruled the bill as unconstitutional and stated that the legislature violated Section 46 of the Constitution by failing to give the bill three readings on three separate days in each chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280370-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Senate Bill 151, Opposition to SB 151, Lawsuit filed by Andy Beshear\nAfter SB 151 was passed, Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear announced his intentions to file a lawsuit to stop the bill. On April 11, 2018, Beshear, the Kentucky Education Association and the Kentucky State Lodge Fraternal Order of Police filed a lawsuit against Bevin and other lawmakers following the decision to sign the bill. Bevin responded by filing a motion to dismiss Beshear from the lawsuit for conflicts of interest. On April 25, 2018, Bevin\u2019s request to disqualify Beshear was denied by the Franklin Circuit Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280370-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Senate Bill 151, Opposition to SB 151, Lawsuit filed by Andy Beshear\nBevin called for Phillip Shepherd to step down, as well as referring to him as a \u201chack\u201d, but the judge refused to step down. Bevin\u2019s request to dismiss Shepherd was denied by the Kentucky Supreme Court on June 6. On June 13, Bevin filed a amended petition, but was denied on July 11. On August 10, 2018, the Kentucky Supreme Court announced that September 20, 2018 would be the date for hearing the case. On September 20, the case was taken to court. On December 13, 2018, the Supreme Court ruled against SB 151 on grounds that the bill did not receive the required three days of public readings, as mandated by the Kentucky Constitution. This ruling handed Beshear a victory over Bevin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280370-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Senate Bill 151, Reactions to Supreme Court decision\nAfter the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled SB 151 \"unconstitutional\", the decision received praise from the Kentucky Public Pension Coalition and the Kentucky Democratic Party, and criticism by the Kentucky Republican Party. Justice Daniel J. Venters wrote that the bill did not comply with the requirements established in the constitution. Teachers celebrated the decision and called it a \"win for democracy\". However, Matt Bevin criticized the decision as \"unprecedented power grab by activist judges\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280371-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats baseball team\nThe 2018 Kentucky Wildcats baseball team represents the University of Kentucky during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Wildcats are a member of the Southeastern Conference. They are led by head coach Nick Mingione, who is in his second year at Kentucky. The 2018 season marks the 50th and last season to play their home games at Cliff Hagan Stadium. The Wildcats will open their new stadium on Alumni Drive for the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280372-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats football team\nThe 2018 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Wildcats played their home games at Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky and competed in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by sixth-year head coach Mark Stoops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280372-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats football team\nThe season was one of the most successful in Kentucky's history. In Kentucky's second game of the season, the team ended the then-longest current losing streak in an uninterrupted series in FBS when they defeated Florida for the first time since 1986, and the first time in Gainesville since 1979, ending a losing streak of 31 games. Two weeks later, the Wildcats upset No. 14 Mississippi State, and entered the AP Poll for the first time since 2007. Kentucky ended the regular season tied for second in the SEC East Division with a conference record of 5\u20133. They were invited to the Citrus Bowl, where they defeated No. 13 Penn State, their first bowl win since 2008. Kentucky ended the season with a record of 10\u20133 and were ranked 12th in the final AP Poll, the most wins and highest poll finish for the program since 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280372-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats football team\nThe team's highly touted defense was anchored by unanimous All-American linebacker Josh Allen, who was named SEC Defensive Player of the Year and led the conference in sacks and tackles for loss. Allen won several national awards for defensive excellence, including the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Chuck Bednarik Award, and the Lott Trophy; he became the first Kentucky player to receive any of these awards. On offense, the team was led by first-team All-SEC running back Benny Snell, who finished second in the conference in rushing with 1,449 yards and 16 touchdowns. Offensive lineman Bunchy Stallings was also named first-team all-conference. Quarterback Terry Wilson led the team in passing, finishing with 1,889 yards and 11 touchdowns. Head coach Mark Stoops was named SEC Coach of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280372-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Previous season\nThe Wildcats finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 4\u20134 in SEC play to finish in a tie for third place in the Eastern Division. They were invited to the Music City Bowl where they lost to Northwestern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280372-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Offseason, Spring game\nThe spring game took place on April 13 at Kroger Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280372-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Offseason, 2018 signing class\nThe 2018 football recruiting cycle was the first in which the NCAA authorized two signing periods for high school seniors in that sport. In addition to the traditional spring period starting with National Signing Day on February 7, 2018, a new early signing period was introduced, with the first such period falling from December 20\u201322, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280372-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Offseason, 2018 signing class\nNotably, the Wildcats did not sign a single in-state player in their 2018 class\u2014the first time this had happened since 1940.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280372-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Preseason, SEC media poll\nThe SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018 with the Wildcats predicted to finish in fifth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280372-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SEC teams\nThe Wildcats had four players selected to the preseason all-SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280372-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Personnel, Coaching staff\nKentucky head coach Mark Stoops enters his sixth season as the Wildcat's head coach for the 2018 season. During his previous five seasons he led the Wildcats to an overall record of 26 wins and 36 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280373-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Kentucky Wildcats men's soccer team represented the University of Kentucky during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 28th season of the university fielding a men's varsity soccer program, and their 14th season playing in Conference USA as an associate member since their main conference, the Southeastern Conference does not sponsor men's varsity soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280373-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats men's soccer team\nThe 2018 season proved to be the program's most successful season ever. Kentucky finished the regular season ranked third in the United Soccer Coaches men's soccer poll, as well as the Conference USA Men's Soccer Tournament and regular season champions. The program made their deepest run in the NCAA Tournament, reaching the Elite Eight before being eliminated by Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280373-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats men's soccer team, Background\nDuring the 2017 season, Kentucky finished with an 8\u20136\u20134 overall record and a 4\u20132\u20132 record in Conference USA matches. An early season surge had the Wildcats ranked as high as 13th in the nation. A dip in form saw the Wildcats fall out of the rankings and eventually out of the NCAA Tournament picture. Kentucky were seeded third in the 2017 Conference USA Men's Soccer Tournament, where they were upset by Marshall, 0\u20131, in the quarterfinals. They did not receive an at-large bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280373-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky Wildcats men's soccer team, Squad, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280374-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky elections\nKentucky state elections in 2018 were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, with the primary elections being held on May 22, 2018. These midterm elections occurred during the presidency of Republican Donald Trump and the governorship of Republican Matt Bevin, alongside other elections in the United States. All six of Kentucky's seats in the United States House of Representatives, nineteen of the 38 seats in the Kentucky State Senate, all 100 seats in the Kentucky House of Representatives, and one of the seven seats on the Kentucky Supreme Court were contested. Numerous county and local elections were also contested within the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280374-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky elections\nIn the United States House of Representatives, all six of Kentucky's incumbent congressional representatives won their individual elections. With 59.59% of ballots cast in favor of the Republican congressional candidates, the Republican party maintained its five-seat majority within the congressional delegation; Representative John Yarmuth of Kentucky's 3rd congressional district maintained his position as the only Democrat in the United States Congress from Kentucky. All six of Kentucky's incumbent representatives were reelected with at least 60% of the vote in their respective districts. Aside from the election in Kentucky's 1st congressional district, all incumbents were challenged by at least one Libertarian or Independent candidate, though no third-party candidates were able to obtain more than 2.5% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280374-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky elections\nIn the Kentucky General Assembly, Democrats made a net gain of one seat, while Republicans maintained their supermajorities in both chambers of the state legislature. As the office of governor was not contested in the 2018 elections, Republicans maintained their state-level trifecta established in the 2016 elections. As Kentucky's judicial elections are non-partisan, there was no change in the partisan makeup of the Kentucky Supreme Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280374-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky elections\nWhile voter turnout in the United States as a whole reached its highest point seen in a midterm election since 1914, Kentucky voter turnout remained unaffected. With approximately 45.90% of Kentucky's 3.4 million registered voters casting ballots in the election, turnout as a percentage of registered voters remained unchanged from 2014 levels, although the total number of ballots cast did increase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280374-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky elections\nDuring the campaign, Democrats focused heavily on public education and teacher pay, frequently attacking Republicans for their support of, among other issues, a controversial overhaul to Kentucky's teacher pension system. Republican messaging centered around a theme of maintaining their trifecta, with claims that a divided legislature would not be able to get anything done.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280374-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky elections, Congress, House of Representatives\nIn the 2018 elections, Democrats sought to take control of the United States House of Representatives for the first time since the 2010 elections. As all 6 of Kentucky's voting seats in the 435 member House of Representatives were up for election to serve two-year terms, the Kentucky Democratic Party sought to capitalize on an expected increase in voter turnout to take control of at least two of Kentucky's House seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280374-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky elections, Congress, House of Representatives\nWhile nationwide the 2018 House elections saw the largest number of retirements by incumbents of any election cycle since at least 1992, none of Kentucky's incumbent Representatives chose to retire. The lack of Republican retirements may have harmed Democratic prospects in the 2018 mid-term elections due to the incumbency advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280374-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky elections, Kentucky General Assembly, Kentucky House of Representatives\nIn the 2018 elections, Democrats sought to regain control of the Kentucky House of Representatives, which had been lost following the 2016 elections. All 100 voting seats in the House of Representatives were up for election to serve two-year terms. At the time of the election, Republicans held a supermajority of 62 seats to Democrats 37, with one vacant seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 85], "content_span": [86, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280374-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky elections, Kentucky General Assembly, Kentucky House of Representatives\nThe 2018 House elections saw fifteen of the state House's members retiring. Prior to the election, 7 House Republicans and 8 House Democrats had announced their retirement or resignation, with most declining to run for reelection in order to pursue higher office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 85], "content_span": [86, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280374-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky elections, Kentucky Supreme Court\nThe Kentucky Supreme Court is composed of seven justices who are elected in nonpartisan elections by voters. A full term on the court is eight years. Kentucky's nonpartisan judicial elections take place during its general elections. These are usually held in even-numbered years but can be held in odd-numbered years. While no Judicial terms were set to expire in 2018, an election was held for the 3rd Supreme Court district due to incumbent Justice Daniel J. Venters announcing he would retire from his position in early 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280374-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Kentucky elections, Ballot Measures and Amendments\nThe Constitution of Kentucky does not provide for citizen-initiated ballot measures and referendums at the state level. Under the state Constitution, aside from Constitutional amendments, approval from the Kentucky General Assembly is required to put anything to a statewide vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, Background information\nFor long periods of time Kenya has been privy to divisive politics rising from periodical general elections that have been allegedly marred by rigging, and subsequent political motivated violence. Kenya has an extensive record of political violence that has been ethnically mobilized and the exacerbation of militias supported by politicians. Kenya's tribal war did not start yesterday, it goes way back to the times of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, where parties were formed based on one's tribe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, Background information\nDetrimental effects of the disputed general elections have been witnessed since time immemorial, that is from 1997, when Kenya's ruling party then, Kenya African National Unity (KANU) unleashed terror in order to coerce the citizens and to forge forward their devolution agenda. The Digo Community was mobilized to fight against the peoples of the Western and Central Part of Kenya. This resulted to the displacement of more than 10000 people and the death of 104 innocent civilians. Reports from the judiciary indicated the existence of vigilante groups funded the then ruling party led by Daniel arap Moi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0000-0002", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, Background information\nKey among them was Jeshi La Mzee. There was a resurgence of conflict between the Kikuyu and the Kalenjin, that existed up until 2013. The party that took over power in 2002, the National Rainbow Coalition led by Mwai Kibaki, ensured that there was peace, not until 2005 when a referendum was held to vote for a newly drafted constitution. People across divided felt that the national coalition was divided into ethnic lines. This saw the Luo led by Raila Odinga break away to form the Orange Democratic Movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0000-0003", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, Background information\nThe events that followed would see Kenya sink into a deep economic crisis as a result of the 2007/8 general elections. The Presidential elections were hotly contested between two main opponents Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga, however, Odinga disputed the results of the elections that declared Mwai Kibaki as the winner. He insisted that they were marred with mass rigging, theft and inconsistencies in the way they were conducted. This sparked what Kenyans would refer to as exemplifying Kenya as \"a cradle of violence\" as the elections plunged Kenya into periods of bloodshed and mass killings of innocent Kenyans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0000-0004", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, Background information\nAnimosity and enmity were at the peak along different ethnic divides. The observers, like the European Union, noted discrepancies in the election result, which ragged fury in people of the Luo Community who were ardent supporters of Raila Odinga a.k.a. Baba. This period saw vigilante groups like Mungiki, American Maine, China Group clashing and terrorizing innocent civilians. More than 650000 were displaced as a result and around 1300 people lost their lives making this post-election skirmish to be the single most detrimental in Kenyan history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0000-0005", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, Background information\nThe International Criminal Court then instituted charges of crime and inciting of violence on six Kenyans, widely referred to as the \"Ocampo Six\", among them Uhuru Kenyatta and the incumbent deputy president of Kenya William Ruto. The preceding elections did not proof different, the general elections in Kenya in 2013 were bitterly contested by two rivals Uhuru Kenyatta of The National Unity and Raila Odinga of the Coalition of Reforms and Democracy. Uhuru was declared the winner, which Raila disputed due to the involvement of the Bio-metric Voter System, which he highlighted its drawbacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0000-0006", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, Background information\nCORD was calling for reforms in the conduct of elections to be free and fair and hence challenged Uhuru's election in the Supreme Court, which later upheld Uhuru's election. 2017 saw the same contestants face each other in an election that was widely presumed to have already been predetermined since the electoral systems were hacked. The Chief Technological Officer at the independent and boundaries electoral commission IEBC, Chris Msando, was murdered in cold blood, in a plot that seemed an assassination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0000-0007", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, Background information\nThere was a tension rose and therefore the outcome of the election was disputed by the NASA coalition led by Raila Odinga and Lawyers like Miguna Miguna since they felt the electoral commission's systems were compromised and hacked. The NASA Coalition proceeded to court to seek for the nullification of the elections, which the supreme court of Kenya led by chief justice declared null and void. A second election held, saw the NASA coalition not participate in them not until their irreducible minimums were met, hence went in favor of Kenyatta who garnered 98% of the vote. This fueled a period of unrest, with Odinga declaring himself as the People's President, leading to warring factions between the supporters of Uhuru and Odinga. This was followed by mass shootings in opposition areas, in the slums and Kisumu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, Background information\nThese events gave rise to the now famous household name \"The March 9th Handshake\", that brought together two national leaders who put their differences aside to serve Kenyans, Uhuru Kenyatta, and Raila Odinga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, The Handshake\nAt the wake of 9 March 2018, Kenyans woke to \"life-changing\" news through a rather unexpected event. News that the key leaders, Raila Odinga, and Uhuru Kenyatta, who were at the helm of the divisive politics and hurling insults at each other were putting their differences aside and uniting through a \"Handshake\". This was a public declaration to cease all hostilities and instead find a common ground in the interest of moving the country forward economically and politically. After a prolonged period of turmoil, Kenya was now up on its two feet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, The Handshake\nHowever, politicians allied to The National Super Alliance (NASA) felt that this was betrayal and that Raila had not consulted. In as much as Kenyans perceived it an act of leaders putting aside their egocentric interests aside, there was an element of betrayal that was brought out by this sudden union. This also sparked the 2022 presidential election, with now Raila joining the government, was Ruto's presidential bid in 2022 thwarted?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, Significance of the Handshake\nRaila Odinga can now freely visit the backyard of Uhuru Kenyatta, Gatundu while Uhuru Kenyatta could in Kisumu without any animosity from the locals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, Significance of the Handshake\nRaila Odinga was appointed as Africa Union's High representative for Infrastructural Development, which has been attributed to the renewed good relations between him and Uhuru, that might have made Uhuru tip him for the job", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, Significance of the Handshake\nMembers of Parliament who had hostility against each other announced an end to the same, that is, Embakasi East Member of Parliament, Babu Owino and Starehe's Charles Njagua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280375-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kenya handshake, Significance of the Handshake\nActivities of \u2018National Resistance Movement\u2019 also subsided despite attempts by its self-declared General Miguna Miguna, who was deported to Canada to revamp it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280376-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kenyan Premier League\nThe 2018 Kenyan Premier League (known as the SportPesa Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is the 15th season of the Kenyan Premier League since it began in 2003, and the 55th season of top-division football in Kenya since 1963. It began on 3 February and is scheduled to end on 7 October. Gor Mahia are the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280376-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kenyan Premier League, Teams\nSeven of the participating teams are based in the capital, Nairobi, while Bandari is the only team based at the Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280376-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kenyan Premier League, League table, Positions by round\nThe table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods\nOn 16 August 2018, severe floods affected the south Indian state Kerala, due to unusually high rainfall during the monsoon season. It was the worst flood in Kerala in nearly a century. Over 483 people died, and 15 are missing. About a million people were evacuated, mainly from Chengannur, Pandanad, Edanad, Aranmula, Kozhencherry, Ayiroor, Ranni, Pandalam, Kuttanad, Malappuram, Aluva, Chalakudy, Thrissur, Thiruvalla, Eraviperoor, Vallamkulam, North Paravur, Chellanam, Vypin Island and Palakkad. All 14 districts of the state were placed on red alert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods\nAccording to the Kerala government, one-sixth of the total population of Kerala had been directly affected by the floods and related incidents. The Indian government had declared it a Level 3 Calamity, or \"calamity of a severe nature\". It is the worst flood in Kerala after the great flood of 99 that took place in 1924.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods\nThirty-five out of the fifty-four dams within the state were opened, for the first time in history. All five overflow gates of the Idukki Dam were opened at the same time, and for the first time in 26 years 5 gates of the Malampuzha dam of Palakkad were opened. Heavy rains in Wayanad and Idukki have caused severe landslides and have left the hilly districts isolated. The situation was regularly monitored by the National Crisis Management Committee, which also coordinated the rescue and relief operations as the dam got opened it has disrupted many lives living nearby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Causes\nKerala received heavy monsoon rainfall, which was about 116% more than the usual rain fall in Kerala, on the mid-evening of 8 August, resulting in dams filling to their maximum capacities; in the first 48 hours of rainfall the state received 310\u00a0mm (12\u00a0in) of rain. Almost all dams had been opened since the water level had risen close to overflow level due to heavy rainfall, flooding local low-lying areas. For the first time in the state's history, 35 of its 54 dams had been opened. The deluge has been considered an impact of the global warming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Causes\nIndependent scientific studies conducted by Hydrology experts from IIT Madras, Purdue University, and IIT Gandhinagar concluded that it was the heavy downpour that resulted it the floods, and not the dam management. Based on a computer-simulation of flood storage and flow patterns by a team of researchers from IIT Madras and Purdue University, it was found that the devastation wrought by the floods cannot be attributed to the release of water from dams. Further, the scientists added that the odds of such floods were \u201c0.06%\u201d and no reservoir management could have considered such scenarios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Causes\nHydrology expert from IIT Gandhinagar, Prof. Vimal Mishra, identified four major factors for the floods. Unexpected above normal downpour, extreme rainfall events occurring almost across Kerala during the season, over 90% reservoir storage even before the onset of extreme rainfall events, and finally, the unprecedented extreme rainfall in the catchment areas of major reservoirs in the State led to the disaster. The prime reason for the anomalous rainfall in 2018 is the High-Frequency Mixed Rossby-Gravity Waves in the Mid-Troposphere triggered by the synoptic disturbances of the tropical Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Causes\nThese high-frequency waves manifested as cyclonic and anticyclonic circulations and dilated the wind \ufb01eld to establish zones of convection in the tropics, as they propagated across the Indian Ocean basin. Although the Madden-Julian Oscillation phase with 20\u201340 days period has favored convection in the tropics, the high-frequency mode correlates better with the anomalous precipitation during the intervals of extreme events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Causes\nExpert bodies like the Central Water Commission has corroborated the findings by scientists from IIT Madras, Purdue University and IIT Gandhinagar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Causes\nA report by Adv. Jacob P. Alex, an amicus curiae appointed by the Kerala high court, alleged that the devastating floods of 2018 was the result of bad dam management by the state government. All 79 dams in the state were maintained with the objective to generate hydroelectricity or irrigation and controlling flood wasn't their purpose, amicus curiae Jacob P Alex's report highlighted. \"The major concern of the dam operators was to maximise reservoir levels, which conflicted with the flood control purpose for which the dams could be utilised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Causes\nThe 'flood cushion' of reservoirs \u2013 the storage space earmarked in dams to absorb unanticipated high flows \u2013 needed review as per the latest guidelines,\" Alex wrote in his report. \"Sudden release of water simultaneously from different reservoirs, during extreme rainfall aggravated the damage,\"it said adding that various alerts \u2014blue, orange and red\u2014had been issued not in accordance with the EAP guideline. \"No proper follow-up action and effective precautionary steps (especially for evacuating people and accommodating them in safe location) were taken after issuance of Red Alert,\" it said. However, Honorable high court of Kerala cleared on 20 August 2019 that the amicus curiae report is not accepted and court cannot be used for political battles and arguments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Causes\nThe Government of Kerala argued in the Supreme Court that the very sudden release of water from the Mullaperiyar Dam by the Tamil Nadu government was one of the reasons for the devastating flood in Kerala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Causes\nThe Tamil Nadu government rejected the argument, saying that Kerala suffered the deluge due to the discharge of excess water from 80 reservoirs across Kerala, spurred by heavy rains from within the state; It also argued that the flood surplus from the Idukki dam is mainly due to the flows generated from its own independent catchment due to unprecedented heavy rainfall, while the discharge from Mullaperiyar dam was significantly less. Though it is difficult to attribute any single event to climate change, its possible role in causing the heavy rainfall event over Kerala cannot be ruled out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Impact\nOver 483 people died, and 140 are missing, while The Economic Times reported that 33,000 people were rescued. The Kerala State Disaster Management Authority has placed the state in a red alert as a result of the intense flooding. A number of water treatment plants were forced to cease pumping water, resulting in poor access to clean water, especially in northern districts of the state. Over 3,274 relief camps have been opened at various locations to accommodate the flood victims. It is estimated that 1,247,496 people have found shelter in such camps. The flooding has affected hundreds of villages, destroyed an estimated 10,000\u00a0km (6,200\u00a0mi) of roads and thousands of homes have been damaged or destroyed. The Government cancelled Onam celebrations, and the allocated funds have been reallocated to relief efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Impact\nOn 12 August, Cochin International Airport, India's fourth busiest in terms of international traffic, and the busiest in the state suspended all operations until 29 August, following runway flooding. All schools throughout the state except Sainik School Kazhakootam have been closed, and tourists have been dissuaded or banned from some districts due to safety concerns. Kochi Metro was closed briefly on 16 August, and later offered free service to aid those affected by the flooding. Due to heavy rain and rising water levels the southern railway had suspended train services on the Thiruvananthapuram-Kottayam-Ernakulam and Ernakulam-Shoranur-Palakkad sections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Rescue, Rescue operation at government level\nBeing instructed by ISRO the Cabinet Secretary, senior officers of Defence Services, NDRF, NDMA and secretaries of Civilian Ministries conducted meetings with Kerala Chief Secretary. Following the decisions taken during these meetings, the Centre launched massive rescue and relief operations. In one of the largest rescue operations 40 helicopters, 31 aircraft, 182 teams for rescue, 18 medical teams of defence forces, 90 teams of NDRF and 3 companies of Central Armed Police Forces were pressed into service along with over 500 boats and necessary rescue equipments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 64], "content_span": [65, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Rescue, Rescue Operation by Public\nWhatsApp groups sprung up as Control Centers that coordinated help and support across various areas. A good majority of the population were involved in arranging supplies and help material in various ways.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 55], "content_span": [56, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Rescue, Rescue operation by fishermen\nAccording to the government's estimate, a total of 4,537 from the fishermen community participated in the rescue operation with 669 fishing boats. They managed to rescue more than 65,000 people from various districts. Pinarayi Vijayan honoured the fishermen and the Fisheries Minister J. Mercykutty Amma said that the government will provide financial aid to repair the fishing boats which were partially damaged in the rescue operations while new ones will be provided for those boats which were completely destroyed. According to estimates, seven boats were completely destroyed, while 452 were partially destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 57], "content_span": [58, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Rescue, Animal Rescue\nSally Varma of Humane Society International arranged for animals to be rescued and transported to special shelters that housed affected animals. Social media has been used to highlight the rescue of multiple animals \u2013 dogs, cats, goats, cows, cattle, ducks and snakes, with animal food and medicine transported to affected areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Rescue, Animal Rescue\nA worker with the Humane Society International spoke out against the tethering and leaving of pets that occurred. \"That became a problem. So many tethered animals just drowned. These animals are natural swimmers, and it is better to keep them free so they can swim to higher ground.\" According to government records more than 8,000 cattle, calves and buffaloes, 3,297 goats, and 47 dogs have died due to the flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Rescue, Animal Rescue\nThe District Collector of Malappuram, and its Chief of Police have instructed the police force to save any animal that they encounter during rescue operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Response\nAt a press conference on 11 August, Chief Secretary Tom Jose said, \"Things are well under control. The government is on top of the situation.\" Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted an aerial survey and offered federal support to Keralites. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan described the floods as \"something that has never happened before in the history of Kerala\" and placed some of the blame on neighbouring Tamil Nadu for releasing excess water from the state-operated Mullaperiyar dam, which worsened the situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Response, International\nThe United States embassy urged its citizens to avoid traveling to the affected areas. The UAE embassy in India issues warning for its citizens regarding the flood. The embassy also said that the weather agencies in India have given warnings regarding heavy rainfall in the southern state of Kerala. The President of UAE Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has instructed the formation of a national emergency committee to provide relief assistance to people affected by flash floods in the Indian state of Kerala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Response, International\nThere was a controversy regarding an offer of US$100 million from the Government of the UAE. The news about UAE aid started to spread with a tweet from CMO Kerala. \"CM Pinarayi Vijayan informed that the United Arab Emirates will provide Kerala an assistance of \u20b9700 Crore. Kerala has a special relationship with UAE, which is a home away from home for Malayalees. We express our gratitude to UAE for their support. #KeralaFloodRelief\". Normally the aid news will be announced by the government officials of the country which is offering the aid. Ministry of External Affairs of India clarified that they received no such offer for financial help from any country. The UAE Ambassador to India also declared that, officially, there was no announcement on donation to the State of Kerala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 829]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Analysis by Central Water Commission, Kerala as a whole\nAccording to a study by the Central Water Commission, the average cumulative rainfall of 3 days from 15 to 17 August 2018 was about 414 mm. This was almost of the same order as that of rainfall of Devikulam which occurred during 16\u201318 July 1924. Assuming a runoff coefficient of 0.75, the runoff generated by 3 days of intense rainfall was estimated to be 12057 MCM for the entire state of Kerala. This huge runoff was beyond the carrying capacity of most of the rivers in Kerala, resulting in bank overflows from most of the rivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 75], "content_span": [76, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Analysis by Central Water Commission, Kerala as a whole\nThe total catchment area tapped by dams in Kerala, excluding barrages is about 6,610\u00a0km2 (2,552\u00a0sq\u00a0mi). The runoff generated from the catchment tapped by these dams during the period 15\u201317 August 2018 was estimated at 2.19 BCM, out of a total runoff of 12 BCM for the whole of Kerala. As per the study, with a total live storage in the state of 5.8 BCM and assuming a live storage availability of 20% on 14 August 2018, the extent of available flood moderation would have only been 1.16 BCM against an estimated inflow of 2.19 BCM. It was therefore essential to make releases from the reservoirs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 75], "content_span": [76, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Analysis by Central Water Commission, Kerala as a whole\nThe study stated that the dams in Kerala neither added to the flood nor helped in reduction of flood, as most of the dams were already at or very close to FRL on 14 August 2018. Even if the reservoirs had been a few feet below FL, the flooding conditions would not have changed much as the heavy rainfall continued for 3\u20134 days. It would have been necessary to release water from the reservoirs after the first day of heavy rainfall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 75], "content_span": [76, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Analysis by Central Water Commission, Kerala as a whole\nThe study concluded it would be necessary to review the rule curves of all reservoirs in Kerala, especially those with a live storage capacity of more than 200 MCM. This would help to create a dynamic flood cushion for moderating floods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 75], "content_span": [76, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Analysis by Central Water Commission, Periyar Basin\nDuring the time period of 3 days from 15 to 17 August 2018, the rainfall depth realized in the Periyar basin was 588 mm. The maximum discharge passing through the Periyar at Neeleeswaram was 8800 cumecs (m3/sec) recorded at 16 August 15:00 hrs, as per the CWC's Neeleeswaram G&D site. The major storage reservoirs in the Periyar basin are the Idukki reservoir (1.4 BCM) and the Idamalayar reservoir (1.1 BCM). The peak release on 16 August 2018 from the Idukki reservoir was 1500 cumecs against an inflow of 2532 cumecs, thus achieving a flood moderation of 1032 cumecs. The release from Idamalayar on 16 August 2018 was 963 cumecs against an inflow of 1164 cumecs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 71], "content_span": [72, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Analysis by Central Water Commission, Periyar Basin\nThe discharge at Neeleshwaram on 17 August 2018 was 8600 cumecs. The release from Idukki and Idamalayar reservoirs were 1500 cumecs (with an inflow of 1610 cumecs) and 1272 cumecs (inflow of 1007 cumecs). CWC's analysis found that the releases of water were controlled releases as the discharge capacity of Idukki and Idamalayar dams are 5013 cumecs and 3012 cumecs, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 71], "content_span": [72, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Immediate drought after the flood\nA few days after receiving one of the highest rainfalls in century, Kerala was caught under the threat of severe drought. Water level in wells, ponds and rivers have recorded lowest levels and some wells even collapsed. Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan has directed the State council for Science, Technology & Environment to carry out studies on the phenomenon after floods across the state and suggest possible solutions to the problem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Immediate drought after the flood\nA.B. Anita, executive director, Centre for Water Resource Development Management (CWRDM), an autonomous research institution under the State government, said heavy run-off of the top soil in the upland areas and the siltation in the rivers were the reasons for the falling water level. The top soil in the hills and upland areas had been removed in the flash floods to a depth of up to two metres in many places. As the top soil was shaved off, it ruined the hills' capacity to sponge in rainwater, she said. Ms. Anita cited ecological destruction caused by deforestation, harmful land use in the upland areas and sand mining in the streams and rivers as having contributed to the top soil run-off and siltation. This was exacerbated by the impact of climate change at the macro level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280377-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerala floods, Immediate drought after the flood\nEchoing her views, experts at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, (NIT-C) said it was usual for the water level in the rivers and domestic wells to fall after fluvial floods. \"Normally, a river flows through the sand of its own bearing till the mouth. However, this time the discharge has been full, taking the sand and the rocks in the youth-stage along with the floods. So the water level in the rivers comes down. And when the river water level is reduced, the groundwater table also does not get replenished since the rivers and groundwater table are connected,\" said K. Saseendran, geologist and professor at the NIT-C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship was the 117th edition of Kerry GAA's premier gaelic football tournament for senior teams in County Kerry, Ireland. The tournament consists of 17 teams (8 club teams and 9 divisional teams), with the winners representing Kerry in the Munster Senior Club Football Championship if they are a club team. If the winners are a divisional team the winners of the Kerry Club Football Championship represent the county.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship\nThe championship has a back-door format for the first two rounds before proceeding to a knock-out format. Generally, any team to lose two matches will be knocked out of the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship\nThis was An Ghaeltacht's return to the senior ranks, meaning they will no longer provide players to the West Kerry District panel for this season. Kilcummin (who were relegated to the I.F.C. for 2018) will provide the East Kerry Divisional side with players for the S.F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship\nDr. Crokes were the 2017 champions after they defeated South Kerry in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Format Structure Change\n8 club teams and 9 divisional teams (17 in total) will take part in this year's S.F.C. It was decided that only 8 divisional sides would take part in the competition proper so the 2 lowest ranked divisional sides from the previous 5 years would play off in a qualification match with the winner entering the draw for the 2017 County Championship proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Format Structure Change\nRelegation (See below): The club team to be relegated from the Senior County Championship will be the same team to be relegated from the Senior Club Championship (The 8 senior clubs play off against each other in Round 1 of the Club Championship. The 4 losers enter a relegation playoff with the losers entering a relegation final. This loser will be relegated to the I.F.C. for 2017. Should a club reach the final of the County championship they will be exempt from the Relegation process in the Club championship).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Format Structure Change\nThe winner of the 2017 I.F.C. will be promoted to the 2018 Senior County and Club Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2016 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Participating Teams\nThe teams taking part in the 2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Championship Qualifier\nIt was decided that only 8 of the 9 Divisional Teams would play in the Senior Championship proper. To determine which team would be excluded, all divisional teams were ranked on their performances in the County Championship over the most recent 5-year period (2013-2017 inclusive). These rankings were based on a win counting for 2 points and a draw counting for 1 point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Championship Qualifier\nThe 2 lowest placed sides were St. Brendan's and West Kerry. These sides then met in a qualifier to decide who would make it into the championship proper. The loser of this qualifier will play the lowest ranked team on completion of the 2018 Championship, to decide the 8 divisional teams for the 2019 Championship, except in the event of more than one team giving a walk over in this year\u2019s Championship. In that case the teams that conceded walk-overs play in 2019 Championship Qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Rounds 1 to 3, Round 1\nThe sixteen remaining teams play in eight matches in Round 1. The winners proceed to Round 2A while the losers play in Round 2B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Rounds 1 to 3, Round 2, Round 2A\nThe eight winners from Round 1 play each other in this round. The winners proceed to the knock-out quarter finals while the losers play in Round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Rounds 1 to 3, Round 2, Round 2B\nThe eight losers from Round 1 play each other in this round. The winners proceed to Round 3 while the losers are eliminated from the championship having lost two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Rounds 1 to 3, Round 3\nThe four Round 2A losers (who won a game and lost a game) play the four Round 2B winners (who lost a game and won a game) in this round. The four winners progress to the knock-out quarter finals while the losers are eliminated from the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Knock-Out Stage, Quarter-Finals\nThe four Round 2A winners play the four Round 3 winners in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280378-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Relegation\nThe club team to be relegated from the Senior County Championship will be the same team to be relegated from the Senior Club Championship. The 8 senior clubs play off against each other in Round 1 of the Club Championship. The 4 losers enter a relegation playoff with the losers entering a relegation final. This loser will be relegated to the I.F.C. for 2019. Should a club reach the final of the County championship they will be exempt from the Relegation process in the Club championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280379-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Khabarovsk Krai gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Khabarovsk Krai gubernatorial election was held in September 2018. The first round was held on 9 September, on common election day, with none of the candidates gaining an absolute majority (50% + 1 vote), causing a run-off vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280379-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Khabarovsk Krai gubernatorial election\nThe second round was held on 23 September, between the top two candidates, the Liberal Democratic candidate Sergei Furgal and the incumbent Governor Vyacheslav Shport, nominated by the United Russia. Both of them scored 35% of the vote in the first round. In the second round, Sergei Furgal was elected Governor of Khabarovsk Krai with 69.57% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280379-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Khabarovsk Krai gubernatorial election, Background\nVyacheslav Shport became acting Governor of Khabarovsk Krai on 30 April 2009 after Governor Viktor Ishayev was appointed as Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District by President Dmitry Medvedev. Shport previously served as Deputy Chairman of the Government of Khabarovsk Krai - Minister of Industry, Transportation, and Communications (since 2009) and Member of the State Duma (2000-2007). On 6 May 2009 Vyacheslav Shport was confirmed as Governor by the Legislative Duma of Khabarovsk Krai for a four-year term. In December 2010 the Legislative Duma extended Governor's term to 5 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280379-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Khabarovsk Krai gubernatorial election, Background\nGovernor Shport's first term expired on 30 April 2013 but he was reappointed by President Vladimir Putin as acting Governor until the September gubernatorial election. Vyacheslav Shport won 2013 election with 63.92% of the vote, State Duma member Sergei Furgal (LDPR) came second with 19.14%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280379-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Khabarovsk Krai gubernatorial election, Candidates\nOnly political parties can nominate candidates for gubernatorial election in Khabarovsk Krai, self-nomination is not possible. However, candidate is not obliged to be a member of the nominating party. Candidate for Governor of Khabarovsk Krai should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 8% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities (191-200 signatures). Also gubernatorial candidates present 3 candidacies to the Federation Council and election winner later appoints one of the presented candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280379-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Khabarovsk Krai gubernatorial election, Results\nIn an upset State Duma member Sergei Furgal defeated incumbent Governor Vyacheslav Shport in the first round of voting by a slim margin of 0.19 points. Shport and Head of Khakassia Viktor Zimin were the first sitting governors who lost the first round since the re-introduction of gubernatorial elections in 2012. Shport's defeat came from increasing unpopularity of ruling United Russia party as the result of the pension reform, incumbent regional government also was very unpopular due to mismanagement and deteriorating financial situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280379-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Khabarovsk Krai gubernatorial election, Results\nAfter the first round Vyacheslav Shport tried to consolidate his support inviting Sergei Furgal to join his administration as First Vice-Governor, Furgal accepted the offer but declined to withdraw from the race. Former mayor of Khabarovsk Aleksandr Sokolov also received an invitation to join Khabarovsk Krai Government. Governor Shport tried to quickly solve problems, for example, sacking Komsomolsk-on-Amur mayor Andrey Klimov for his ineffective work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280379-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Khabarovsk Krai gubernatorial election, Results\nHowever, Vyacheslav Shport still lost the run-off to Sergei Furgal by more than 40 points. Shport won only 2 municipalities in the second round compared to 13 in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280379-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Khabarovsk Krai gubernatorial election, Results\nAfter the election newly elected Governor Sergei Furgal appointed member of Khabarovsk Krai Legislative Duma Yelena Greshnyakova as Member of the Federation Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280380-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Khakas head election\nThe 2018 Khakas head election took place on 9 September 2018 in the autonomous republic of Khakassia, after which none of the candidates obtained an absolute majority. The second round was held on 11 November, in which only one candidate participated, as others chose not to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280380-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Khakas head election\nThe second round of election was the first uncontested voting in Russia since 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280380-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Khakas head election, Course of elections\nAt the 9 September 2018 proceedings, Communist candidate Valentin Konovalov received 44% of the vote, and the incumbent Head of Republic Viktor Zimin, nominated by the United Russia, received 32% of the vote. On 21 September Viktor Zimin withdrew his candidacy. The election process dictated that law the third placed candidate, Andrey Filyagin, nominated by A Just Russia, should be included but he also withdrew his candidacy on 2 October. Alexander Myakhar, from the Party of Growth, refused to participate in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280380-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Khakas head election, Course of elections\nAccording to the law, the second round will have to pass only with one candidate (Valentin Konovalov), but there will be a column \"against all\", and to win Konovalov will need to gain an absolute majority of votes in his support. If Konovalov does not get the required number of votes, new election should be called after three months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280380-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Khakas head election, Course of elections\nOn 3 October 2018, President Vladimir Putin appointed Mikhail Razvozhayev as the acting Head of the Republic, instead of Viktor Zimin whose term of office has expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280380-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Khakas head election, The movement People\u2019s Head of Khakassia against Konovalov\nFormer deputy of the Supreme Council of Khakassia Viktor Lebedev created the headquarters of the People's Head of Khakassia. He called for a vote against Konovalov to hold new competitive elections on February 10, 2019. He was supported by the mayor of Abakan Nikolay Bulakin, rapper Denis Shulga, the mayor of Sayanogorsk Mikhail Valov. In the event of victory, the graphs against all in the elections could take part in the interim head of Khakassia, Mikhail Razvozhayev. Headquarters Konovalov opposed the project People's Head of Khakassia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 84], "content_span": [85, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280381-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Khakassia Supreme Council election\nElections to the Supreme Council of Khakassia took place on Common Electoral Day 9 September 2018. The Supreme Council is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 25 seats are elected by proportional representation from party lists with a 5% electoral threshold, the whole Republic forming a single constituency, and another 25 seats are elected in single-member constituencies using the first-past-the-post system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280381-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Khakassia Supreme Council election\nGoing into the elections, United Russia is the ruling party after winning the 2013 elections with 34 seats. As a result of the elections, none of the parties received an absolute majority (26 seats). The Communist Party won the majority of votes in the all-republican constituency, United Russia won the majority of single-member constituencies and received a relative majority of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280381-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Khakassia Supreme Council election\nElections to the Supreme Council were held on the same day as the first round of elections of the Head of Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280382-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Khuzestan protests\nThe 2018 Khuzestan protests, that are dubbed \u201cthe Uprising of Dignity\u201d, were a series of protests by Iranian Arabs located in the Khuzestan province of Iran. The protests started on 28 March 2018, and were against discrimination towards the ethnic Arab minority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280382-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Khuzestan protests, Timeline, 28 March\nThe protests initially started in Ahvaz on 28 March after a popular Iranian cartoon show that used figurines to depict the different ethnicities of Iran, ignored the Arab minority located in Khuzestan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280382-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Khuzestan protests, Arrests\nUp to 140 people were arrested by the security forces in April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280383-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election\nProvincial elections were held in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 25 July 2018 to elect the members of the 11th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280383-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election, Background\nIn the 2013 elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, led by former cricketer Imran Khan emerged as the largest party in the province with 48 seats. While this was a considerably higher number than the second largest party, (Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), with 16 seats), it was still 15 seats short of a majority government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280383-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election, Background\nTo overcome this, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf formed a coalition government with Jamaat-e-Islami and the Qaumi Watan Party, giving them 15 extra seats. As well as this, 9 out of the 14 independents elected joined PTI, giving them a comfortable majority in the assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280383-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election, Background\nFollowing this, Pervez Khattak was elected as Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, securing 84 out of 124 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280383-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election, Background\nHowever, in 2017, PTI ousted QWP from the ruling coalition over allegations of corruption. There was considerable mistrust with the other alliance partner, JI, during the tenure as well. It, too, left the coalition with less than 40 days to go in the government's tenure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280383-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election, Background\nWith just a few weeks remaining till the assembly completed its term, PTI expelled 20 of its MPs over allegations of horse-trading in the senate elections. A move which made the party's government susceptible to a no-confidence motion, but the incumbent opposition refrained from doing so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280383-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election, Pre-election violence\nOn 10 July, there was a suicide bombing attack on political rally of Awami National Party (ANP) in YakaToot neighborhood of Peshawar in which fourteen people were killed and sixty five injured. Among the killed was ANP's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly candidate, Haroon Bilour. Bilour was son of Bashir Ahmad Bilour who was also killed in a suicide bombing attack in December 2012. Elections for Constituency PK-78 were postponed to an disclosed date by the Election Commission. On 12 July, a spokesperson for former Member of National Assembly Alhaj Shah Jee Gul Afridi was killed and another citizen was injured after unidentified men opened fire at the spokesperson's car in Peshawar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280383-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election, Pre-election violence\nOn 13 July, 4 citizens were killed and 10 were injured after a planted bomb exploded near the car of JUI-F candidate Akram Khan Durrani in Bannu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280384-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kids' Choice Awards\nThe 31st Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards was held on March 24, 2018, at The Forum in Inglewood, California live on Nickelodeon and either live or on tape delay across all of Nickelodeon's international networks. This was the third time the award ceremony was held at The Forum as the 2015 and 2016 Kids' Choice Awards were also previously held there. John Cena returned as host of the ceremony for the second consecutive year. The show also gave an honor to the people protesting in the March for Our Lives movement that occurred on the same day, including other honors coming from award winners such as Millie Bobby Brown, Camila Cabello, Liza Koshy, and Zendaya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280384-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kids' Choice Awards\nA new episode of Henry Danger premiered before the ceremony. Afterwards, a new episode of Knight Squad was shown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280384-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kids' Choice Awards, Winners and nominees\nNominations were announced on February 26, 2018. Unlike past years where the voting periods for all categories opened all at once, one genre opened up to voting per week, along with several show-only category voting windows. For the movie categories, voting was opened on February 26, with voting on music categories opened on March 5, television voting beginning on March 12, and a variety of miscellaneous categories on March 19. Winners are listed first and in boldface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280384-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kids' Choice Awards, International nominations\nThe following are nominations for awards from Nickelodeon's international networks, which had the categories and awards presented during continuity during their individual airings of the main American ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280385-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kids' Choice Sports\nThe 5th Annual Kids' Choice Sports was held on July 19, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, and was broadcast one day later on July 20 (originally scheduled to be broadcast on July 21, but was moved ahead by one day). Houston Rockets' point guard and former NBA All-Star MVP, Chris Paul hosted the show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280385-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kids' Choice Sports, Sports Council\nA Kids' Choice Sports Council was formed to \"lend their expertise and experience to help inform the awards show, consult on the nominee process and give feedback on categories.\" Committee members are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280385-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kids' Choice Sports, Stunts and Events\nMichael Strahan hosted a dance off between Mikaela Shiffrin, P.K. Subban, P.J Tucker and Ibtihaj Muhammad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280385-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kids' Choice Sports, Stunts and Events\nTwo children were tasked with making free-throws with basketballs. Adjacent to each hoop was a massive dunk tank filled with green slime, with basketball stars Candace Parker and Isaiah Thomas positioned above the tanks. Whichever child hit the most shots would cause the star adjacent to their basket to fall into the slime. This resulted in Parker being dunked, submerged, and totally covered in the slime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280385-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kids' Choice Sports, Stunts and Events\nJoJo Siwa hosted a throwing accuracy challenge between, Alex Shibutani, Maia Shibutani, Shaun White and Chloe Kim that would result in a Knight Squad cast member being dunked into the slime tanks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280385-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kids' Choice Sports, Stunts and Events\nMarc Summers and Liza Koshy held a game of Double Dare between host Chris Paul and Michael Phelps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280385-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kids' Choice Sports, Legend Award\nNASCAR racer Danica Patrick was the Legend Award winner. This was notable as she was the first woman to receive the award. Patrick was then completely and overwhelmingly covered with thick gold slime that shot out from hidden jets on the ground next to her. This is a tradition that has accompanied all prior winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280386-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kildare Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Kildare Senior Football Championship is the 125th edition of the Kildare GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Kildare, Ireland. The tournament consists of 16 teams with the winner going on to represent Kildare in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship had a different format this year, employing a random draw for the first round, followed by seeded groups and a knock-out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280386-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kildare Senior Football Championship\nMoorefield were the defending champions after they defeated Celbridge in the previous years final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280386-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kildare Senior Football Championship\nThis was Raheens' return to the senior grade after 12 years outside the top-flight of Kildare club football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280386-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kildare Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280386-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kildare Senior Football Championship, Format\nThe 2018 Senior and Intermediate County Championship used a completely new format this year. 16 teams play in eight first round games after which all 16 teams will go into four groups of four with two winners and two losers from the opening round in each of those groups. After which the teams that finish first and second will qualify for the knockout stages while the four bottom clubs have to fend off relegation in a Relegation Semi-Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280386-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kildare Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nAll 16 teams play in the group stage. There are four groups of four, with each group consisting of 2 First Round winners and losers. The top team in each group go into the Quarter-Finals, 2nd and 3rd in each group proceed to the Preliminary Quarter-Finals while the bottom team of each group entered a Relegation Playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280387-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 54th staging of the Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board in 1929.Tullaroan are dogwater", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280387-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship\nOn 28 October 2018, Graigue-Ballycallan won the championship after a 2-16 to 2-13 defeat of Tullaroan in the final at Nowlan Park. It was their second championship overall and their first title since 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280387-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship\nTullogher-Rosbercon's Cian O'Donoghue was the championship's top scorer with 1-29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280388-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 124th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board in 1887. The championship began on 22 September 2018 and ended on 28 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280388-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nDicksboro were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Ballyhale Shamrocks at the quarter-final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280388-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 28 October 2018, Ballyhale Shamrocks won the championship after a 2-20 to 2-17 defeat of Bennettsbridge at Nowlan Park. It was their 16th championship title overall and their first title since 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280389-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 King Cup\nThe 2018 King Cup, or The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup, was the 43rd edition of the King Cup since its establishment in 1957, and the 11th under the current format. It started on 3 January and concluded with the final on 12 May 2018. The winner qualified for the 2019 AFC Champions League group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280389-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 King Cup\nAl-Ittihad won their eighth title after a 3\u20131 win over Al-Faisaly in the final on 12 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280389-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 King Cup\nPro League side Al-Hilal were the defending champions, but they were eliminated by Al-Qadsiah in the Round of 16. It was the earliest exit by the title holders since the introduction of the new format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280389-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 King Cup, Participating teams\nA total of 32 teams participated in this season. 14 teams from the Professional league, 16 teams from the First Division, and 2 teams qualifying from the preliminary stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 34], "content_span": [35, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280389-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 King Cup, Round of 32\nThe Round of 32 matches were played between 3 and 7 January 2018. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 26], "content_span": [27, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280389-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 King Cup, Round of 16\nThe Round of 16 matches were played between 19 and 25 January 2018. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 26], "content_span": [27, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280389-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 King Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe Quarter-finals matches were played between 22 and 25 February 2018. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 29], "content_span": [30, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280389-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 King Cup, Semi-finals\nThe Semi-finals matches were be played on 30 and 31 March 2018. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 26], "content_span": [27, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280389-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 King Cup, Final\nThe final was held on 12 May 2018. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 20], "content_span": [21, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280389-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 King Cup, Top goalscorers\nNote: Players and teams marked in bold are still active in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280390-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes\nThe 2018 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes was a horse race held at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday 28 July 2018. It was the 68th running of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280390-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes\nThe winner was Poet's Word, a five-year-old bay horse trained at Newmarket by Michael Stoute, ridden by James Doyle and owned by Saeed Suhail. Poet's Word's victory was the first in the race for both his owner and jockey. Stoute was winning the race for a record sixth time following his successes with Shergar (1981), Opera House (1993), Golan (2002), Conduit (2009) and Harbinger (2010). Poet's Word was the sixth five-year-old male to win the race following Aggressor, Mtoto, Opera House, Swain and Daylami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280390-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The contenders\nThe race attracted a field of seven runners, five from England and two from Ireland. There were no challengers from continental Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280390-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The contenders\nThe race appeared to be sub-standard by King George standards as the only previous Group one winners in the race were Poet's Word, an improving five-year-old who had defeated Cracksman in the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot, and the Irish trained filly Hydrangea who had won the Matron Stakes and the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes in 2017. Another major contender was Crystal Ocean, a stablemate of Poet's Word, who had finished runner-up in the St Leger and recorded an impressive victory in the Hardwicke Stakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280390-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The contenders\nJohn Gosden, who had won the race in 2017 with Enable was represented by Coronet, a four-year-old filly who won the Ribblesdale Stakes as a three-year-old and had been narrowly beaten in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. The only three-year-old in the field was Rotropovich, trained like Hydrangea by Aidan O'Brien, who had finished second in the Irish Derby. The other two runners were Salouen (runner-up to Cracksman in the Coronation Cup) and Desert Encounter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280390-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The contenders\nCrystal Ocean was made the 6/4 favourite ahead of Poet's Word on 7/4, Coronet on 15/2, Hydrangea on 10/1 and Rostropovich on 12/1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280390-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The race\nRotropovich took the early lead and set a strong pace from Salouen and Crystal Ocean. Hydrangea was settled in fourth place ahead of Coronet and Poet's Word while Desert Encounter started slowly and trailed the field. Shortly after entering the straight, Crystal Ocean overtook the weakening Rostropovich and opened up a clear advantage. Hydrangea was already well beaten and Salouen was unable to improve his position but Coronet began to stay on strongly. The only serious challenger to Crystal Ocean was Poet's Word who moved up on the wide outside and joined his stablemate a furlong from the finish. In a keenly contested struggle Poet's Word prevailed by a neck, with a gap of nine lengths back to Coronet in third. Four lengths back Salouen narrowly secured fourth place from Rostropovich while there were long gaps back to Desert Encounter and the tailed-off Hydrangea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 934]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280391-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 King's Cup\nThe 2018 Annual King's Cup Football Tournament, commonly referred to as 2018 King's Cup, was the 46th King's Cup, the annual international men's football tournament organised by Football Association of Thailand. It was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 22 to 25 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280391-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 King's Cup\nAs hosts, Thailand participated automatically in the tournament; they were joined by the African team Gabon, the Asian team United Arab Emirates and the European team Slovakia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280391-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 King's Cup, Venue\nAll matches held at the Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280392-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 King's Cup squads\nThe 2018 King's Cup is an international football tournament that is currently being held in Thailand from 23 to 25 March 2018. The 4 national teams involved in the tournament are required to register a squad of 23 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280392-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 King's Cup squads\nPlayers marked (c) were named as captain for their national squad. Number of caps counts until the start of the tournament, including all FIFA-recognized pre-tournament friendlies. Player's age is their age on the opening day of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280392-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 King's Cup squads, Gabon\nThe following 27 players were called up for the 2018 King's Cup. Last match updated was against\u00a0\u00a0 Botswana on 15 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280392-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 King's Cup squads, Thailand\nThe following 23 players were called up for the 2018 King's Cup on 8 March 2018.Last match updated was against\u00a0\u00a0 Kenya on 8 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280393-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Kingston upon Thames Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Kingston upon Thames Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280393-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, Overall results\nThe Liberal Democrats gained control from the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats won 39 seats (+21), the Conservatives won 9 seats (-19) and Labour lost its only seats in Norbiton (-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 74], "content_span": [75, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280393-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Beverley\nMary Clark was a sitting councillor, but for Old Malden ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 84], "content_span": [85, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280393-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Chessington North & Hook\nPhil Doyle was a sitting councillor, but for Grove ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280393-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Coombe Hill\nIan George was a sitting councillor, but for Alexandra ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 87], "content_span": [88, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280393-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, 2018-2022 by-elections\nThe Liberal Democrats selected former Labour MP Andrew Mackinlay as their candidate. Labour selected Charles Bamford, whose mother was a former Liberal Democrat councillor. Noticeably, the Official Monster Raving Loony Party stood thirteen candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 81], "content_span": [82, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280394-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election took take place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections in England. The result gave the Labour Party majority control of Kirklees Council with 36 of the 69 councillors representing the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280395-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kiryandongo bus accident\nOn 25 May 2018, a serious collision occurred between a bus, which was travelling from Lira to Kampala, and a tractor, in the Kiryandongo district of Uganda. The incident took place along the Lira-Kampala highway. At least 22 people, including four children were killed. According to authorities, the crash occurred at around 8:00\u00a0pm in Nanda village, approximately 12\u00a0km (7.5\u00a0mi) from Karuma, Kiryandongo District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280395-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kiryandongo bus accident\nThe commuter bus collided with the rear of the tractor; this impact subsequently caused the bus to careen and roll, resulting in a further collision with an oncoming articulated lorry, which was transporting crates of beer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280395-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kiryandongo bus accident\nThe tractor, which was driving without lights at night, was largely cited as the cause of the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280395-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kiryandongo bus accident, Aftermath\nThe government declared three days of mourning, and president Yoweri Museveni directed that the families of those who perished in the accident be compensated with USh\u00a05,000,000 for each family and those who were critically injured would receive three million each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280396-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kite Awards\nThe 2018 Kite Awards (Vietnamese: Gi\u1ea3i C\u00e1nh di\u1ec1u 2018) is the 26th edition of Vietnam Cinema Association Awards, also the 17th edition since the award is officially named Kite. It honored the best in Vietnam film, television works of 2018. The ceremony was broadcast live on April 12, 2019, from the Army Theatre in Southern Region, T\u00e2n B\u00ecnh District, Ho Chi Minh City beginning at 20:00. The ceremony aired live on VTV2 channel in Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280396-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kite Awards\nThis year, a total of 144 film works from 50 film production units participated in the award, including: 14 feature films, 10 TV drama series, 3 TV single-episode drama, 61 documentaries, 14 science films, 14 animated films, 26 short films and two film studies. The organizers accept remake films based on foreign scripts, except for the best screenplay category. The shortlist of nominees was announced in the award ceremony right before the winner was declared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280396-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kite Awards\nMy Mr. Wife were the most nominated with four, later ended up winning three, including Golden Kite Award for Best Feature Film. In television, Qu\u1ef3nh the Doll and Across the River tied for the Golden Kite Award. Across the River were the most nominated with three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280396-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kite Awards, Winner and nominees\nWinners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, with a dagger () indicating the shortlist nominees for the Golden Kite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280396-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kite Awards, Ceremony, In Memoriam\nAt the beginning of the awards ceremony, the organizers took time to honor two People's Artists as follows on the occasion of 66 years of Vietnamese Revolutionary Cinema:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280396-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kite Awards, Controversy, My Mr. Wife's surprise victory over Song Lang\nIf for comparison, the script \"My Mr. Wife\" is still based on a foreign background, giving the film a Golden Kite is a bit \"generous\". Meanwhile, \"Song Lang\" with the original script written by a Vietnamese author, which is a rare film that harmonizes both entertainment and art elements, was only ranked silver. Many judges felt sorry for Song Lang, who suggested that if the silver prize was awarded, no other film would be awarded the same level, to show respect for the young director's professional efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 76], "content_span": [77, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280396-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kite Awards, Controversy, Pressure on the Jury of TV category\nAccording to Tu\u1ed5i Tr\u1ebb's source, \"Qu\u1ef3nh the Doll\" is better than \"Across the River\" by less than a point, will automatically win the Golden Kite. But after that, the jury were constantly under pressure to re-mark. The ones making pressure even used the reason that \"Qu\u1ef3nh the Doll\" had a sensitive topic, so it should be given just the Silver Kite, and let \"Across the River\" won the Golden Kite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 66], "content_span": [67, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280396-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kite Awards, Controversy, Pressure on the Jury of TV category\nHowever, the jury still holds the view that once a drama is allowed to air, then it is legal. In the morning meeting on April 12, 100% of the jury members for the TV category decided to defend their opinions, disagreeing to downgrade this drama to Silver Kite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 66], "content_span": [67, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280397-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Klagenfurt Open\nThe Dynamic Billard Klagenfurt Open 2018 (sometimes known as the 2018 Austrian Open) was the fifth and penultimate Euro Tour 9-Ball pool event in 2018. The event was won by Austria's Mario He who defeated England's Mark Gray 9\u20138 in the final. This was He's 4th championship, and second of the Euro Tour season - having already won the 2018 Veldhoven Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280397-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Klagenfurt Open\nRalf Souquet was the defending champion, after having won the 2017 Klagenfurt Open, but lost matches to Kim Laaksonen and Maksim Dudanets in the double elimination round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280397-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Klagenfurt Open, Tournament format\nThe event saw a total of 193 players compete, in a double-elimination knockout tournament, until the last 32 stage; where the tournament was contested as single elimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280397-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Klagenfurt Open, Tournament format, Prize fund\nThe tournament prize fund was similar to that of other Euro Tour events, with \u20ac4,500 for the winner of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280398-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Klasika Primavera\nThe 2018 Klasika Primavera was the 64th edition of the Klasika Primavera, a one-day road cycling race, held on 8 April 2018. It was part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour as a category 1.1 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280398-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Klasika Primavera, Teams\nFourteen teams started the race. Each team had a maximum of seven riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280398-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Klasika Primavera, Result\nThe race was won by the Costa Rican cyclist Andrey Amador of Movistar Team, ahead of his Spanish teammate Alejandro Valverde and Wilmar Paredes of Team Manzana Postob\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280399-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Knattspyrnuf\u00e9lag Akureyrar season\nThe 2018 season was KA's second season back in top tier football in Iceland following their relegation in 2004. This was their 17th season in the top flight of Icelandic football. KA finished the previous season in 7th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280399-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Knattspyrnuf\u00e9lag Akureyrar season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280399-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Knattspyrnuf\u00e9lag Akureyrar season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280399-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Knattspyrnuf\u00e9lag Akureyrar season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280399-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Knattspyrnuf\u00e9lag Akureyrar season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280399-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Knattspyrnuf\u00e9lag Akureyrar season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280399-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Knattspyrnuf\u00e9lag Akureyrar season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280400-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council Election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280400-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election Results, Changes in council composition\nPrior to the election the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 101], "content_span": [102, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280400-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results\nResults compared directly with the last local election in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 65], "content_span": [66, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280400-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council election, Notes\n\u2022 italics denote a sitting councillor \u2022 bold denotes the winning candidate", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 58], "content_span": [59, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280401-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Knoxville Challenger\nThe 2018 Knoxville Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the fifteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Knoxville, United States between 5 and 11 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280401-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Knoxville Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280401-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Knoxville Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280401-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Knoxville Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280402-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Knoxville Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nLeander Paes and Purav Raja were the defending champions but only Paes chose to defend his title, partnering Miguel \u00c1ngel Reyes-Varela. Paes lost in the quarterfinals to Alex Lawson and Jackson Withrow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280402-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Knoxville Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nToshihide Matsui and Frederik Nielsen won the title after defeating Hunter Reese and Tennys Sandgren 7\u20136(8\u20136), 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280403-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Knoxville Challenger \u2013 Singles\nFilip Peliwo was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280403-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Knoxville Challenger \u2013 Singles\nReilly Opelka won the title after defeating Bjorn Fratangelo 7\u20135, 4\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20132) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280404-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kobe Challenger\nThe 2018 Kobe Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 4th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Kobe, Japan between 12 and 18 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280404-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kobe Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280405-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kobe Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nBen McLachlan and Yasutaka Uchiyama were the defending champions but only Uchiyama chose to defend his title, partnering Kaito Uesugi. Uchiyama withdrew before his semifinal match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280405-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kobe Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nGon\u00e7alo Oliveira and Akira Santillan won the title after defeating Li Zhe and Go Soeda 2\u20136, 6\u20134, [12\u201310] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280406-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kobe Challenger \u2013 Singles\nSt\u00e9phane Robert was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280406-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kobe Challenger \u2013 Singles\nTatsuma Ito won the title after defeating Yosuke Watanuki 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280407-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Koblenz Open\nThe 2018 Koblenz Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Koblenz, Germany between 16 and 21 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280407-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Koblenz Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280407-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Koblenz Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280408-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Koblenz Open \u2013 Doubles\nHans Podlipnik-Castillo and Andrei Vasilevski were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280408-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Koblenz Open \u2013 Doubles\nRomain Arneodo and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn won the title after defeating Sander Arends and Antonio \u0160an\u010di\u0107 6\u20137(4\u20137), 7\u20135, [10\u20136] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280409-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Koblenz Open \u2013 Singles\nRuben Bemelmans was the defending champion but withdrew as he qualified for the 2018 Australian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280409-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Koblenz Open \u2013 Singles\nMats Moraing won the title after defeating Kenny de Schepper 6\u20132, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280410-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kohler Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Kohler Grand Prix was an IndyCar Series event held at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. The race served as the 10th round of the 2018 IndyCar Series season. Reigning champion Josef Newgarden qualified on pole position, and took victory in the 55 lap race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280410-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kohler Grand Prix, Results, Race\nNotes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280411-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kolkata bridge collapse\nThe 2018 Kolkata bridge collapse refers to the collapse of the Majerhat Bridge, is in Zimbabwe , on 4 September 2018. The bridge collapsed at around 4:45 PM (IST), resulting in the death of three people injuries to at least 25 others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280411-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kolkata bridge collapse, Majerhat Bridge\nMajerhat Bridge is located at Majerhat, Alipore, a neighbourhood of South Kolkata. It was a major arterial road (Diamond Harbour Road) in the area connecting the southern suburbs to other parts of the city via Behala. It is also part of National Highway 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280411-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kolkata bridge collapse, Majerhat Bridge\nMajerhat railway station is located beside the bridge. There is also nearby construction for Kolkata Metro Line 3; a planned station for Majerhat. The bridge crosses the Indian Railways Sealdah South local rail network from Sealdah to Budge Budge as well as the Kolkata Circular Railway lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280411-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kolkata bridge collapse, Background\nThere has been concern around the time of the accident that in Kolkata, and in wider India, proper road maintenance was not being undertaken. This incident was the third bridge collapse in Kolkata in six years. On 4 March 2013, part of a flyover in Ultadanga had also collapsed. On 31 March 2016, part of an under-construction flyover had collapsed in central Kolkata's busy Girish Park area. 27 people had died in the tragedy, leaving 80 people gravely injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280411-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kolkata bridge collapse, Background\nThere had been reported concerns about Majerhat Bridge itself. At the time of the collapse the bridge was apparently over 50 years old. In 2010, the Majerhat Bridge had undergone repairs for subsidence. An audit in 2016 flagged the bridge as unsafe. Concerns had been raised in 2018 by police, commuters and nearby residents stemming from visible cracks appearing in the structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280411-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kolkata bridge collapse, Incident\nThe bridge caved in around 4:45 PM. Videos from the locality showed a portion of the bridge resting on the street below including at least nine vehicles, including a minibus, stuck on it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280411-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kolkata bridge collapse, Rescue efforts\nThe rescue effort was started by the Kolkata Police, an Indian Army unit from Fort William and five special disaster management teams of the NDRF after the mishap. Injured people were sent to nearby SSKM, CMRI and Vidyasagar hospitals for treatment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280411-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kolkata bridge collapse, Aftermath\nAfter the collapse, Eastern Railways suspended train services via Majerhat railway station on the Kolkata Circular Railway and Sealdah-Budge Budge lines. Widespread road traffic disruption ensued as the bridge was a major route for vehicles moving between north and south Kolkata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280411-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kolkata bridge collapse, Aftermath\nThe Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee asked Chief Secretary Moloy Kumar De to hold an investigation committee into the collapse. She had noted that 20 bridges in the city were at risk of collapse. A Times of India article on 7 September 2018 noted that the Public Works Department has admitted that urgent repairs had not been carried out properly, it was noted that patchwork repairs were carried out on the bridge, adding layers of bitumen, and therefore weight, rather than a thorough repair. The collapse led to a rising distrust among the public regarding the safety of bridges in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280411-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Kolkata bridge collapse, Aftermath\nThe safety of bridges in West Bengal has further come under scrutiny, as there have been 3 bridge collapses in September 2018 alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280411-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Kolkata bridge collapse, Aftermath\nPreliminary results of investigations suggest that pollution and poor maintenance contributed to the bridge collapse. Accusations that Metro construction had led to bridge collapse were felt to be unfounded. There have been reports that repairs were hastily completed with claims that \"a month's work was done in one night\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280411-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Kolkata bridge collapse, Aftermath\nThe state public works department (PWD) has undertaken a complete tear down of the old bridge and reconstruction of a new bridge at the same location and is aiming to commission the new bridge in November 2020. The new bridge was opened on 4 December 2020. It was named the Jai Hind Bridge after the Jai Hind slogan used by Subhas Chandra Bose, commemorating his 125th birthday anniversary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280412-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Konduga bombings\nOn Friday 16 February 2018, a triple suicide bombing occurred in Konduga, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. Two suicide bombers detonated their explosives at a busy fish market at about 8:30pm. Four minutes later, a third bomber exploded nearby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280412-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Konduga bombings\nThe attacks killed between 17 and 22 people and injured between 22 and 70. One of the bombers was female, while the other two were male. Those injured in the attack were taken to a hospital in Maiduguri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280412-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Konduga bombings\nThe incident was not reported until the next day. No-one claimed responsibility for the attack, but jihadists Boko Haram have carried out major attacks in Konduga before (including massacres in January and February 2014 ) and since (including a triple suicide bombing in June 2019).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280413-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Masters\nThe 2018 Korea Masters (officially known as Victor Korea Masters 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Gwangju Women\u2019s University Stadium in South Korea from 27 November to 2 December 2018 and had a total prize of $250,000 (\u20a9282,744,600).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280413-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Masters, Tournament\nThe 2018 Korea Masters was the twenty-sixth and last tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour before the 2018 BWF World Tour Finals. However, this tournament was not calculated in the rankings used as qualification for the World Tour Finals. It was part of the Korea Masters, which had been held since 2007. It was organized by the Badminton Korea Association and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280413-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Masters, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at the Gwangju Women\u2019s University Stadium in Gwangju, South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280413-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Masters, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 300 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280413-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Masters, Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this year's tournament was US$250,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280414-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea National League\nThe 2018 Korea National League, also known as the Incheon International Airport Korea National League due to sponsorship reasons, is the 16th season of the Korea National League, the third tier of South Korea's football league system. The 2018 season will operate, with the eight member clubs playing each other a total of four times each before the top four sides compete in the post-season championship playoff series to get the other spot to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280415-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea National League Championship\nThe 2018 Korea National League Championship was a cup competition of the Korea National League in South Korea. The 15th edition of Korea National League Championship was held from May 30 to June 12 in Yanggu, Gangwon. All of the Korea National League clubs participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280416-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Korea Open (officially known as the Victor Korea Open 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament that took place at the SK Handball Stadium in Seoul, South Korea, from 25 to 30 September 2018 and had a total prize of $600,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280416-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Korea Open was the eighteenth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Korea Open championships, which has been held since 1991. This tournament was organized by the Badminton Korea Association and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280416-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at the SK Handball Stadium in Seoul, South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280416-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 500 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280416-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$600,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280417-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open (table tennis)\nThe 2018 Korea Open was the seventh event of the 2018 ITTF World Tour. The event was organised by the Korea Table Tennis Association, under the authority of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It was the fourth of six top-tier Platinum events on the tour, and took place from 19\u201322 July in Daejeon, South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280417-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open (table tennis)\nSouth Korea's Jang Woo-jin won the men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles titles, becoming the first player in the history of the ITTF World Tour to win three titles at the same event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280418-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open (tennis)\nThe 2018 Korea Open (also known as the 2018 KEB Hana Bank Korea Open for sponsorship purposes) was a women's professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 15th edition of the tournament, and part of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place in Seoul, South Korea between 17 and 23 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280418-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open (tennis), Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280418-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open (tennis), Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280418-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open (tennis), Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280419-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open \u2013 Doubles\nKiki Bertens and Johanna Larsson were the defending champions, but Bertens chose not to participate. Larsson played alongside Mona Barthel, but lost in the semifinals to Hsieh Shu-ying and Hsieh Su-wei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280419-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open \u2013 Doubles\nChoi Ji-hee and Han Na-lae won the title, defeating Hsieh and Hsieh in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280420-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open \u2013 Singles\nJe\u013cena Ostapenko was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Ekaterina Alexandrova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280420-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open \u2013 Singles\nKiki Bertens won the title, defeating Ajla Tomljanovi\u0107 in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 4\u20136, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280420-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Korea Open \u2013 Singles\nThis tournament was the last in Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska's career. The former world No. 2 played the final match of her professional career in the second round, when she lost to Irina-Camelia Begu in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280421-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean FA Cup\nThe 2018 Korean FA Cup, known as the KEB Hana Bank FA Cup due to sponsorship reasons, was the 23rd edition of Korean FA Cup. As the winners, Daegu FC qualified for the group stage of the 2019 AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280421-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean FA Cup, Preliminary rounds\nThe preliminary rounds consisted of three rounds. The draw was held on 23 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280421-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean FA Cup, Preliminary rounds, Third round\nMatches were played on 28, 31 March and 4 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280421-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean FA Cup, Final rounds\nThe draw for the round of 32 and round of 16 was held on 10 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280421-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean FA Cup, Final rounds, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals was held on 20 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280421-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean FA Cup, Final rounds, Semi-finals\nThe draw for the semi-finals was held on 18 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280422-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Series\nThe 2018 Korean Series is the championship series of the 2018 KBO League season. The Doosan Bears, as the regular season champions, automatically advanced to the Korean Series, where they faced the SK Wyverns. The series ran from November 4 to November 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280422-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Series\nThe Wyverns defeated Doosan, four games to two. Han Dong-min won the Korean Series Most Valuable Player Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280422-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Series, Background\nThe Doosan Bears won the 2015 and 2016 Korean Series. They lost the 2017 Korean Series to the Kia Tigers. Doosan had the best winning percentage during the 2018 KBO League season, advancing directly to the Korean Series. The team with the regular season's best record has won 15 of the previous 16 Korean Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280422-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Series, Background\nThe Bears faced the SK Wyverns, who last won the Korean Series in 2010. The Wyverns finished the regular season with the second-best record in the league, \u200b14\u00a01\u20442 games behind Doosan. They advanced to the playoff round. The Wyverns defeated the Nexen Heroes in the KBO League playoffs to reach the Korean Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280422-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Series, Matchups, Game 1\nJosh Lindblom started Game 1 for Doosan, while Park Jong-hoon started for the Wyverns. For the Wyverns, Han Dong-min hit a two-run home run in the first inning, and Park Jung-kwon hit a two-run home run in the sixth inning. Choi Joo-hwan had all three runs batted in for Doosan. \u00c1ngel S\u00e1nchez earned the win in relief for the Wyverns while Lindblom took the loss for Doosan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280422-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Series, Matchups, Game 2\nSeth Frankoff started Game 2 for Doosan. He had ten strikeouts in \u200b6\u00a02\u20443 innings, earning the win. Moon Seung-won started for the Wyverns. Doosan's Choi Joo-hwan hit a two-run home run and recorded a third RBI in the eighth inning. Kim Kang-min drove in all three runs for the Wyverns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280422-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Series, Matchups, Game 3\nThe series continued with the first of three games at Munhak Baseball Stadium. Jamie Romak hit two home runs for the Wyverns, and Lee Jae-won also hit a home run. Merrill Kelly pitched seven innings allowing two runs to earn the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280422-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Series, Matchups, Game 4\nThe Wyverns scored first when Kim Kang-min hit an RBI single to score Kim Sung-hyun in the third inning. In the eighth inning, Jung Soo-bin hit a two-run home run to give Doosan the lead, which they hung on to win and tie the series at two all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280422-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Series, Matchups, Game 5\nDoosan scored their only run in Game 5 with a solo home run by Jung Jin-ho in the third inning. In the seventh inning, Kim Sung-hyun tied the game at 1-1 with an RBI double, and Kim Kang-min hit an RBI sacrifice fly to give the Wyverns a 2-1 lead. The next inning, Park Jung-kwon had an RBI single and Kim Sung-hyun drew a walk with the bases-loaded to expand the lead to 4-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280422-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Series, Matchups, Game 6\nLee Yong-chan, Doosan's starting pitcher, walked the first three Wyverns batters to load the bases. The Wyverns scored one run in the first inning with an RBI groundout by Jamie Romak. Kang Seung-ho hit a two-run home run for the Wyverns in the fourth inning to give them a 3-0 lead. Wyverns' starting pitcher Merrill Kelly did not allow a hit for the first \u200b5\u00a01\u20443 innings, but Doosan scored three runs in the sixth inning on an RBI double by Choi Joo-hwan and a two RBI single by Yang Eui-ji.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280422-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Korean Series, Matchups, Game 6\nYang added a third RBI with a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to give Doosan a 4-3 lead. In the top of the ninth inning, Choi Jeong hit a game-tying home run for the Wyverns, and the game went into extra innings. Han Dong-min hit a home run for the Wyverns in the top of the thirteenth inning, and Kim Kwang-hyun, the Wyverns' ace starting pitcher, earned the save by pitching a scoreless inning in the bottom of the thirteenth to win the title for the Wyverns. Han won the Korean Series Most Valuable Player Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280423-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Tour\nThe 2018 Korean Tour was the eighth season of the Korean Tour to carry Official World Golf Ranking points. The season consisted of 17 events, three of which are co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour. All the tournaments had prize funds of at least 500 million won (approximately US$480,000). Nine have prize funds of 1 billion won ($960,000) or more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280423-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Tour, Tournament schedule\nThe number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Korean Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280423-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Tour, Genesis Points table\nThe Order of Merit used a points system, called Genesis Points. Points were awarded based on the player's position in each event. 1,000 points were awarded to the winner, 600 points for second place, down to 5 points for those finishing outside the top 60. All 17 events had the same points. Lee Hyung-joon did not win any tournaments but made the cut in all 17 events and was second twice and third three times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280423-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Korean Tour, Prize money leaders\n'Events' refers to the number of tournaments in which the player won prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280424-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Koser Jewelers Tennis Challenge\nThe 2018 Koser Jewelers Tennis Challenge was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Landisville, United States, on 6\u201312 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280424-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Koser Jewelers Tennis Challenge, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280425-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Koser Jewelers Tennis Challenge \u2013 Doubles\nSophie Chang and Alexandra Mueller were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Luisa Stefani and Renata Zaraz\u00faa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280425-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Koser Jewelers Tennis Challenge \u2013 Doubles\nEllen Perez and Arina Rodionova won the title, defeating Chen Pei-hsuan and Wu Fang-hsien in the final, 6\u20130, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280426-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Koser Jewelers Tennis Challenge \u2013 Singles\nVera Lapko was the defending champion, but chose to participate in Montreal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280426-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Koser Jewelers Tennis Challenge \u2013 Singles\nMadison Brengle won the title after Kristie Ahn retired in the final at 6\u20134, 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280427-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kosovar Supercup\nThe 2018 Kosovar Supercup was the 27th edition of the Kosovar Supercup, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Football Superleague of Kosovo and Kosovar Cup competitions. The match was played between Drita, champions of the 2016\u201317 Football Superleague of Kosovo and Prishtina, who beat their opponents to win the 2017 Kosovar Cup Final. Watched by a crowd of 10,000, Drita won the match 2\u20131 and claimed their first Supercup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280427-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kosovar Supercup, Match, Details\nOn 13 August 2018, after renovation was held a 2018 Kosovar Supercup between the winners of the 2017\u201318 Football Superleague of Kosovo, Drita and 2017\u201318 Kosovar Cup, Prishtina. Playing for the first time at the recently refurbished Fadil Vokrri Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280428-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup\nThe 2018 Kremlin Cup (also known as the 2018 VTB Kremlin Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 29th edition of the Kremlin Cup for the men and the 23rd edition for the women. The tournament was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2018 ATP World Tour, and of the Premier Series of the 2018 WTA Tour. It was the last tournament for now to be held at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia, from 15 October through 21 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280428-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280428-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280428-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280428-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280429-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMax Mirnyi and Philipp Oswald were the defending champions, but lost in the final to Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram, 6\u20137(4\u20137), 4\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280430-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Men's Singles\nDamir D\u017eumhur was the defending champion, but lost to Egor Gerasimov in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280430-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Men's Singles\nKaren Khachanov won the title, defeating Adrian Mannarino in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280430-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280431-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Women's Doubles\nT\u00edmea Babos and Andrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate. Since Babos was losing her defending championship points, Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 and Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 jointly attained the WTA number 1 doubles ranking at the conclusion of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280431-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAlexandra Panova and Laura Siegemund won the title, defeating Darija Jurak and Raluca Olaru in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280432-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Women's Singles\nJulia G\u00f6rges was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Luxembourg instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280432-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Women's Singles\nDaria Kasatkina won the title, defeating Ons Jabeur in the final, 2\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280432-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Women's Singles\nJabeur became the first player representing Tunisia to reach a WTA final. With her win over Jabeur, Kasatkina broke inside the top 10 world ranking for the first time in her career, and qualified for the 2018 WTA Finals as the first alternate, replacing Aryna Sabalenka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280432-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280433-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kristiansund BK season\nThe 2018 season was Kristiansund's second season in the Eliteserien, the top football division in Norway, where they finished 5th and reached the Third Round of the Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280433-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kristiansund BK season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280433-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kristiansund BK season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280433-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kristiansund BK season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280433-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kristiansund BK season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280433-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kristiansund BK season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280433-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kristiansund BK season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280434-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kronoberg regional election\nKronoberg County or Region Kronoberg held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280434-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kronoberg regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 61 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 19, a drop of three from 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280435-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuala Lumpur FA season\nThe 2018 season was Kuala Lumpur's 40th season in competitive season and the 1st season in Malaysia Super League since being promoted after winning the 2017 Malaysia Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280435-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuala Lumpur FA season, Transfers, 1st leg\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280435-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuala Lumpur FA season, Transfers, 1st leg\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280435-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuala Lumpur FA season, Transfers, 2nd leg\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280436-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kulachi suicide bombing\nOn 22 July 2018, 3 days before general elections, a suicide bomber blew himself near the vehicle of former KPK provincial minister of Agriculture Ikramullah Khan Gandapur in Kulachi, Dera Ismail Khan District, Pakistan. The prime target of attack, Gandapur was brought to Dera Ismail Khan in critical condition where he succumbed to his wounds. Apart from Gandapur, his driver and one of his guards was also killed and three more people were injured. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the assault describing Gandapur's killing of their colleague militants as the motive. The attack was widely condemned across Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280436-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kulachi suicide bombing, Background, Pre-election violence\nElectoral candidates had been targeted since start of July to derail general elections. In the beginning of the month, a bombing took place in Ramzak Tehsil of North Waziristan at the office of Malik Aurangjeb Khan, Pakistan Movement of Justice's candidate for NA-48 (Tribal Area-IX), leaving 10 people injured. A week before the current attack in Bannu, a bomb planted in a motorcycle was remotely exploded at an election campaign of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal's PK\u201389 candidate Shein Malik in the Takhti Khel area of the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280436-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Kulachi suicide bombing, Background, Pre-election violence\nTwo days prior to the attacks, a suicide bombing at an election rally of the Awami National Party's leader Haroon Bilour in Peshawar left 20 people, including Bilour, dead and wounded 63 others. On 12 July, the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP)'s office in Khuzdar came under gunfire before a bomb detonated injuring 2 people. 9 days before the assault, two bombings took place in Mastung and Bannu. In Bannu the bomb targeted former chief minister of KPK Akram Khan Durrani. Durrani remained unhurt but 5 people were killed and 37 others were injured. In Mastung, the prime target of the attack, Siraj Rasiani, who was to contest election on PB-35, was killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up killing 149 and injuring 186 others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 795]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280436-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kulachi suicide bombing, Background, Target\nIkramullah Gandapur was main target of attack. A member of Pakistan Movement of Justice, Gandapur had served as KPK provincial minister of Agriculture and was to contest elections on PK-99. His brother and former provincial Law Minister of KPK, Israr Ullah Khan Gandapur was killed in a suicide explosion at his residence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280436-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kulachi suicide bombing, Prior intelligence\nSoon after the Peshawar ambush, National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) forwarded 12 threats to federal and provincial interior ministries, following which committee chairman Rahman Malik directed authorities to enhance security of politicians named by NACTA. In its report, NACTA named six politicians that can be targeted. The list included Durrani. The other five politicians included Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)'s chairman Imran Khan, Awami National Party leaders Asfandyar Wali and Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, Qaumi Watan Party's head Aftab Sherpao and Hafiz Saeed's son Talha Saeed. It also suggested that members of PML-N and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) were under threat. Following the Mastung and Bannu attacks, Nacta warned caretaker government of more attacks before polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280436-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kulachi suicide bombing, Bombing and aftermath\nGandapur was going for an election meeting when a suicide bomber, carrying around 10\u00a0kg of explosive material in his vest, blew himself up near his vehicle. As the bomb exploded, the limbs of assailant's body spread across the area. As a result, Gandapur, his driver and two of his police guards were wounded. All the injures were taken to District Headquarter Hospital (DHQ) in Dera Ismail Khan but later, citing to Gandapur's medical condition, he was taken to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) where he succumbed to his injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280436-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Kulachi suicide bombing, Bombing and aftermath\nA video immediately after the attack was shot showing three unconscious injures in vehicle. Later his driver also died of his wounds. Four other people were injured. The bomb also included Ball bearing and pellets to amplify to intensity of detonation. On day after the attack, one of his guards died in DHQ raising the death toll to 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280436-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kulachi suicide bombing, Bombing and aftermath\nSoon after the attack, the caretaker chief minister of KPK Dost Muhammad Khan formed a committee to investigate bombing. Headed by chief of Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), the committee included Superintendent of police (SP), Superintendent of police (SSP), Deputy superintendent of police (DSP) and members from Intelligence Bureau (IB), Military Intelligence (MI) and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). Following Gandapur's death, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) postponed elections for PK-99.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280436-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kulachi suicide bombing, Bombing and aftermath, Gandapur's funeral\nGandapur's funeral took place on 23 July 2018 at the Kulachi Degree College. Strict security measures were taken citing to the attendance of many government and military figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280436-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kulachi suicide bombing, Responsibility\nTehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack. Muhammad Khurasani, organisation's spokesman said that Gandapur had killed their colleagues and his assassination was a revenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280436-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kulachi suicide bombing, Reactions\nCaretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan Nasirul Mulk condemned the attack and expressed his grief. Chief Election Commissioner Sardar Muhammad Raza extended his sympathies to families of victims. He also sought a report form acting chief minister of KPK. Chairman of Pakistan Movement of Justice Imran Khan prayed for the victims. In a tweet, Director-General of Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Asif Ghafoor wrote that Chief of Army staff expressed his grief over the incident. Pakistan Peoples Party's leader Faisal Karim Kundi denounced the attack. Chairman of Qaumi Watan Party Aftab Sherpao offered his condolences to the families of victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280437-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kumho Tyre Australian V8 Touring Car Series\nThe 2018 Kumho Tyre Australian V8 Touring Car Series was an Australian motor racing competition for de-registered Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon V8 Supercars. It was the 11th running of the series. It commenced at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit on 20 April and concluded at The Bend Motorsport Park on 25 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280437-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kumho Tyre Australian V8 Touring Car Series\nThe series was won by Tyler Everingham driving a Ford Falcon FG. Defending series winner Jack Smith ran a part-time schedule, essentially surrendering his title defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280437-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kumho Tyre Australian V8 Touring Car Series, Team and drivers\nThe following teams and drivers contested the series. The initial field consisted of 22 cars, with the notable inclusion of defending series winner Jack Smith. Although, Smith ran a part-time schedule, essentially surrendering his title defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280437-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kumho Tyre Australian V8 Touring Car Series, Calendar and results\nThe calendar expanded upon its support status at Supercars Championship events, with a five-round calendar announced at the end of 2017. The series started at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit on April 20 and concluded at The Bend Motorsport Park on August 25. A non-championship round at the Gold Coast 600 was added after the Stadium Super Truck series was dropped from the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280438-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunal Patel San Francisco Open\nThe 2018 Kunal Patel San Francisco Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament and was a part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in San Francisco, United States from February 5\u201311, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280438-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunal Patel San Francisco Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280439-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunal Patel San Francisco Open \u2013 Doubles\nMatt Reid and John-Patrick Smith were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280439-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunal Patel San Francisco Open \u2013 Doubles\nMarcelo Ar\u00e9valo and Roberto Mayt\u00edn won the title after defeating Luke Bambridge and Joe Salisbury 6\u20133, 6\u20137(5\u20137), [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280440-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunal Patel San Francisco Open \u2013 Singles\nZhang Ze was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280440-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunal Patel San Francisco Open \u2013 Singles\nJason Jung won the title after defeating Dominik K\u00f6pfer 6\u20134, 2\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20135) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280441-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunming Open\nThe 2018 Kunming Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the seventh (ATP) c.q. first (WTA) edition of the tournament and part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 WTA 125K series. It took place in Anning, China, from 23 April\u20135 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280441-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunming Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280441-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunming Open, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280442-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunming Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nDino Marcan and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280442-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunming Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nAliaksandr Bury and Lloyd Harris won the title after defeating Gong Maoxin and Zhang Ze 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280443-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunming Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nJanko Tipsarevi\u0107 was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280443-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunming Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nPrajnesh Gunneswaran won the title after defeating Mohamed Safwat 5\u20137, 6\u20133, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280444-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunming Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nHan Xinyun and Ye Qiuyu were the defending champions, but they lost in the first round to Sh\u00e9razad Reix and Ayano Shimizu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280444-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunming Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nDalila Jakupovi\u0107 and Irina Khromacheva won the title after defeating Guo Hanyu and Sun Xuliu 6\u20131, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280445-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kunming Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nZheng Saisai was the defending champion but lost in the final to Irina Khromacheva 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20135).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280446-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections took place in Kurdistan Region on 30 September 2018 to elect Parliament. The ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) came first in a parliamentary election in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, winning 45 seats, that positioning it to lead the next regional government. A year after a failed bid for independence, Iraq\u2019s Kurds voted last month in a parliamentary election. Announcement of the results was delayed for three weeks. The KDP\u2019s historic rival and junior coalition partner in government, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), was in second place with 21 seats. The results suggest that Masoud Barzani\u2019s KDP will take a dominant position in Kurdish politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280446-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Background\nFollowing the end of the Gulf War in 1991, a civil war, mainly between the Erbil and Dohuk-based Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Sulaymaniyah-based Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) led to the establishment of two separate Kurdish regional governments. Following the reconciliation and a power-sharing agreement between KDP and PUK, and Parliamentary elections in 2005, a unified Kurdistan Regional Government was created. The joint KDP\u2013PUK faction Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan assumed power and formed a government that was headed by Nechervan Barzani (KDP; 2006\u201309) and Barham Salih (PUK; 2009\u201312).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280446-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Background\nWhen former PUK official Nawshirwan Mustafa broke away to form the new Movement for Change (Gorran) party, the new party primarily hurt PUK's electoral support in the 2009 parliamentary elections. The KDP\u2013PUK alliance, now renamed Kurdistan List, formed a new government headed by Nechervan Barzani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280446-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Background\nPresidential elections were due to coincide with parliamentary elections in 2013. However, in the months leading to the elections the parliament extended Massoud Barzani\u2019s term for another two years. When the parliamentary elections were held, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) ran on separate lists for the first time since 1992. With its traditionally strong backing in Dohuk and Erbil provinces, the KDP managed to expand its plurality, while falling short of an outright majority. PUK suffered from internal conflicts during the absence of its leader Jalal Talabani, who was recovering from a stroke, and from strong competition by the Movement for Change (Gorran), which established itself as the strongest party in Sulaymaniyah, previously a major stronghold of PUK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 875]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280446-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Background\nThe provincial elections were delayed until November, and then again to 2014, when they were held in conjunction with the Iraqi parliamentary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280446-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Background\nIn 2015, as Barzani's term was due to expire, debates continued as to whether it should be extended further, with supporters citing the Kurdish fight against ISIS and the need for stability in the Kurdish regional government. Others have expressed concern that a continued extension of Barzani's term could lead to a President for Life scenario. Both Kurdish politicians and observers in the area worry that the polarizing debate over the presidency will destabilize Kurdish democracy and weaken the region in its fight against the Islamic State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280446-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Background\nIn July 2016, Barzani announced that he would not seek another term as president. The Kurdistan Region Parliament on 24 October 2017 announced that the elections for the presidency and the parliament had been delayed by eight months. The decision was made after the electoral commission stated that the political parties had failed to register their candidates amidst the regional crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280447-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kurume U.S.E Cup\nThe 2018 Kurume U.S.E Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor carpet courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Kurume, Japan, on 14\u201320 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280447-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kurume U.S.E Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280448-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kurume U.S.E Cup \u2013 Doubles\nKaty Dunne and Tammi Patterson were the defending champions, but both players chose to participate with different partners. Dunne partnered Abigail Tere-Apisah, while Patterson chose to play alongside Ayaka Okuno. Patterson lost in quarterfinals to Naomi Broady and Asia Muhammad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280448-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kurume U.S.E Cup \u2013 Doubles\nBroady and Muhammad won the title, defeating Dunne and Tere-Apisah in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280449-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kurume U.S.E Cup \u2013 Singles\nLaura Robson was the defending champion, but withdrew before the event started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280449-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kurume U.S.E Cup \u2013 Singles\nAyano Shimizu won the title, defeating Abbie Myers in the final, 6\u20133, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280450-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuurne\u2013Brussels\u2013Kuurne\nThe 70th edition of the Kuurne\u2013Brussels\u2013Kuurne cycling classic was held on 25 February 2018. It was part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour and ranked as a 1.HC event. The route was 200.1\u00a0km (124\u00a0mi), starting and finishing in Kuurne. It was the second and concluding race of the Belgian opening weekend, the year's first road races in Northwestern Europe, one day after Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280450-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuurne\u2013Brussels\u2013Kuurne\nThe race was won by Dylan Groenewegen of LottoNL\u2013Jumbo in a sprint, followed by Arnaud D\u00e9mare in second and Sonny Colbrelli finishing in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280450-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuurne\u2013Brussels\u2013Kuurne, Teams\nTwenty-five teams were invited to start the race. These included sixteen UCI WorldTeams and nine UCI Professional Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280451-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait Super Cup\nthe 2018 Kuwait Super Cup was between league and Emir Cup champions Kuwait SC and Crown Prince Cup winners Qadsia SC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis\nA diplomatic crisis began between the countries of Kuwait and the Philippines in early 2018 over concerns of the latter over the situation of Filipino migrant workers in the gulf country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis\nThe diplomatic row was a result of the discovery of the corpse of Joanna Demafelis, a Filipino domestic worker working in Kuwait which has been inside an abandoned warehouse since November 2016. In response to the discovery, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the suspension of deployment of Filipino migrant workers to Kuwait and organized a voluntary repatriation program for Filipinos already working in Kuwait. The move was criticized by the Kuwaiti government but both the Philippines and Kuwait went on to cooperate regarding the Demafelis murder case leading to the conviction of Demafelis' killers in absentia as well as improve the working conditions of Filipino migrant workers in Kuwait in general.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis\nHowever, relations were further strained in late April after a video emerged showing Philippine embassy officials purportedly rescuing Filipino maids from allegedly abusive employers. Kuwait called the operations as a violation of its sovereignty, expelled the Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait and recalled its own envoy in Manila.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Background\nA diplomatic crisis between Kuwait and the Philippines began when the killing of Joanna Demafelis, a Filipino domestic worker working in Kuwait, came to public attention in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Background\nThe Philippine Department of Labor and Employment directed its staff to stop processing deployment certificates to Filipinos seeking to work on Kuwait on January 19, 2018, following a series of death of Filipino domestic workers mentioned by President Rodrigo Duterte in a speech the day before. Duterte has requested for a total ban of Filipino worker deployment to Kuwait.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Background\nThe case of Demafelis was the particular incident that resulted to the ban. Demafelis had been killed two years earlier and her death only came to public attention when her corpse was found inside a freezer in a warehouse abandoned since November 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Background\nIt was on February 12, 2018, that DOLE officially enforced a deployment ban of Filipino migrant workers in Kuwait. It was clarified that seafarers boarding from Kuwait, rehired workers who would be returning to the gulf country, and tourists are exempted from the ban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Background\nIn addition to the deployment ban, the Philippine government has offered Filipino workers already in Kuwait to be voluntarily repatriated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Background\nThere are around 250,000 Filipinos working in Kuwait, 65 percent of which are domestic helpers, according to the Philippine embassy in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Developments, Kuwaiti government response\nThe Kuwaiti government has criticized the migrant worker ban imposed by the Philippines in gulf country and has stated that all cases of alleged abuse against Filipino migrant workers are being handled by its laws. The National Assembly of Kuwait has discussed the situation of the Filipino migrant workers in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Developments, Kuwaiti government response\nOn April 3, 2018, the Kuwait government announced that it aims to recruit more Ethiopians as domestic workers to compensate for deficit in the labor force caused by its diplomatic row with the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Developments, Repatriation of Filipino workers\nBy the end of March 2018, 4,000 Filipino workers has been voluntarily repatriated from Kuwait and the Philippine government is negotiating with Kuwait for the repatriation of 6,000 more workers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Developments, Demafelis murder case\nLebanese man Nader Essam Assaf, and his Syrian wife were accused for the killing of Demafelis. With the help of Interpol the two were detained in the Syrian capital of Damascus in February 2018. The Syrian government handed custody of Assaf to Lebanon while Assaf's wife remained in Syria. On April 1, 2018, a Kuwaiti court convicted the couple of murder and sentenced them to death by hanging. They were tried in absentia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 78], "content_span": [79, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Developments, April 21 Philippine embassy operation\nRelations between the two countries became more strained when a video emerged depicting operations of Philippine embassy officials purportedly rescuing Filipino maids from alleged abusive employers. The operation conducted on April 21, 2018, was seen by Kuwait as a \"flagrant\" violation of its sovereignty. Filipino diplomats in the Philippines insist that the operations were not clandestine. Two embassy staff members were alleged to have encourage Filipino migrant workers to leave their employers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 94], "content_span": [95, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Developments, April 21 Philippine embassy operation\nThe Philippine government on April 24 apologized for the incident saying it acknowledges Kuwait has its own laws while maintaining that the welfare of Filipino migrant workers are also within its interest. The following day, Kuwait declared Philippine Ambassador Renato Villa persona non grata demanding Villa to leave the gulf country within the week, and recalled its envoy in Manila for consultations. The Philippines called the move \"deeply disturbing\" and said that Kuwait \"reneged\" on an earlier agreement to cooperate. Kuwait arrested four drivers and three diplomats involved in the operation and pressed charges against them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 94], "content_span": [95, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Developments, April 21 Philippine embassy operation\nFollowing a meeting between officials of the two countries, the four drivers involved were released and the charges against them were dropped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 94], "content_span": [95, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Agreement, Negotiations\nAuthorities from both countries have been engaged in talks to defuse diplomatic tensions. On February 14, 2018, the governments of Kuwait and the Philippines announced they come to consensus to sign an agreement on working conditions regulations. Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has also been invited to make a state visit to Kuwait.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Agreement, Negotiations\nDuterte, on March 6, laid two conditions for the labor deployment ban on Kuwait to be lifted; the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on labor policies between Kuwait and the Philippines, and that \"justice be served\" in regards to the death of Joanna Demafelis. On March 16, a draft agreement was accomplished by officials from the two countries and was expected to be signed in Kuwait in two weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Agreement, Negotiations\nDespite Kuwait's action on the Philippine Ambassador and its own envoy in Manila, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano stated on April 25, that the agreement is now planned to be signed in the Philippines and the Kuwait government has followed-up regarding the agreement. Cayetano also encouraged Duterte to accept Kuwait's invitation to make a state visit to the Middle Eastern country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Agreement, Negotiations\nHowever, President Rodrigo Duterte shortly declared that the labor deployment ban as \"permanent\". Duterte also said that the signing of the labor agreement with Kuwait will not push through and that he will not make a visit to the gulf country. Harry Roque, the Philippine presidential spokesperson later contradicted Duterte's statement saying that the ban is not \"permanent\" and may still be lifted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Agreement, Signing\nThe memorandum of agreement (MoU) entitled \"Agreement on the Employment of Domestic Workers\" between the Philippines and Kuwait was signed by representatives of Kuwait and the Philippines on May 11, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Agreement, Signing\nThe two countries had a consensus on labor matters which covered all migrant domestic workers in Kuwait regardless of their nationality. Under the deal, certain rights of migrant workers were recognized: They can't have their passports and other travel documents kept by their employers; and they have the right to use their mobile phones. Workers are now also entitled to be provided food, housing, clothing, and health insurance by their employers and at least a day off from work each week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Agreement, Signing\nFilipino workers can't be a transferred to another employer without the consent of the worker or approval from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). Contract renewals which used to be automatic now had to be subject to approval of the POEA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Agreement, Aftermath of the deal signing\nPhilippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano has announced that a new Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait will be appointed and that he will advised Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to lift the deployment ban of Filipino workers to Kuwait. Duterte on his part has stated that he is open to lifting the ban following the signing of the deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Agreement, Aftermath of the deal signing\nOn May 12, 2018, a partial lifting of the ban was announced by the Philippine government allowing the deployment of \"skilled\" and \"semi-skilled\" workers to Kuwait and Philippine Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque has stated that relations between the two countries has normalized. Duterte ordered the deployment ban to be fully lifted on May 16 and on May 22 he declared that his country's relation with Kuwait is now \"okay\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Killing of Villavende\nThe killing of another Filipino worker Jeanelyn Villavende in December 2019 tested Kuwaiti\u2013Philippine relations. While a partial deployment ban was imposed by the Philippines for Filipino workers seeking to work in the Gulf state, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that the response of Kuwaiti authorities to the case is more satisfactory this time with the suspect of Villavende's case already detained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Killing of Villavende\nHowever, there are calls to impose more stringent deployment restrictions after Kuwaiti authorities are accused of whitewashing the case since the autopsy report they sent to their Philippine counterparts only showed the possible cause of death of Villavende and a separate autopsy by the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) suggests that the Filipino worker may have also been raped. The NBI report convinced Philippine Labor secretary Silvestre Bello to threaten to impose a total deployment ban of Filipino workers to Kuwait.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Killing of Villavende\nThe total deployment ban of workers to Kuwait will remain in effect \u201cuntil we get justice for Ms [Jeanelyn] Villavende and a consensus on the standard employment contract,\u201d Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said in a press briefing on Thursday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280452-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Kuwait\u2013Philippines diplomatic crisis, Killing of Villavende\n\u201cIf we cannot get that, there will be no deployment. It has to be simultaneous,\u201d Bello added of the ban approved on Wednesday in a Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) resolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280453-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kyoto gubernatorial election\nA gubernatorial election was held on 8 April 2018 to elect the next Governor of Kyoto. Incumbent Governor Keiji Yamada declared that he was not running for a fifth consecutive term, ending his 16-year tenure in office. This is the first gubernatorial election in Kyoto since the voting age was lowered to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280453-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kyoto gubernatorial election\nFormer bureaucrat Takatoshi Nishiwaki won the election by 55.9% to 44.1% against Kazuhito Fukuyama, amidst the second-lowest ever turnout in a Kyoto gubernatorial election. Nishiwaki vowed to continue the policies of Governor Yamada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280453-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Kyoto gubernatorial election, External links, Official websites\nThis Japanese elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280454-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kyrgyzstan Cup\nThe 2018 Kyrgyzstan Cup is the 27th season of the Kyrgyzstan Cup knockout tournament. The cup winner qualifies for the 2019 AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280454-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Kyrgyzstan Cup\nThe draw of the tournament was held on 4 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 70]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280455-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Kyrgyzstan League\nThe 2018 Kyrgyzstan League was the 27th season of the Kyrgyzstan League, Kyrgyzstan's top division of association football organized by the Football Federation of Kyrgyz Republic. The season started on 7 April 2018, with eight teams participating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280456-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 L'Open 35 de Saint-Malo\nThe 2018 L'Open 35 de Saint-Malo was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the twenty-third edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Saint-Malo, France, on 17\u201323 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280456-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 L'Open 35 de Saint-Malo, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280457-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 L'Open 35 de Saint-Malo \u2013 Doubles\nDi\u0101na Marcink\u0113vi\u010da and Daniela Seguel were the defending champions, but Seguel chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280457-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 L'Open 35 de Saint-Malo \u2013 Doubles\nMarcink\u0113vi\u010da partnered alongside Alexandra Cadan\u021bu, but lost in the final to Cristina Buc\u0219a and Mar\u00eda Fernanda Herazo, 4\u20136, 6\u20131, [10\u20138].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280458-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 L'Open 35 de Saint-Malo \u2013 Singles\nPolona Hercog was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280458-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 L'Open 35 de Saint-Malo \u2013 Singles\nLiudmila Samsonova won the title, defeating Katarina Zavatska in the final, 6\u20130, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280459-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LA\n2018 LA, also known as ZLAF9B2, was a small Apollo near-Earth asteroid 2.6\u20133.8\u00a0m (9\u201312\u00a0ft) in mean diameter that impacted the atmosphere with small fragments reaching the Earth at roughly 16:44 UTC (18:44 local time) on 2 June 2018 near the border of Botswana and South Africa. It had been discovered only 8 hours earlier by the Mount Lemmon Survey, Arizona and based on 1+1\u20442 hours of observations, was calculated to have a roughly 85% chance of impact likely somewhere between Australia and Madagascar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280459-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LA\nHours later, a report arrived to the American Meteor Society that an observer from Botswana had seen a bright fireball. Shortly after the impact, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) released observations obtained from Hawaii roughly 2 hours after the Mount Lemmon observations which confirmed that the asteroid had indeed impacted Earth on a grazing path as per the observed fireball. A preliminary analysis of the pre-impact evolution of this meteoroid suggests that it may be part of a dynamical grouping.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280459-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LA, Discovery\nOn 2 June 2018, at roughly 08:22 UTC (01:22 local time), the Mount Lemmon Survey picked up an 18th-magnitude asteroid moving quickly against the background stars. The object was observed over the course of 15 minutes and submitted to the Minor Planet Center, and was followed up by the same survey for the next hour or so, resulting in an Observation arc of 1 hour and 17 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 18], "content_span": [19, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280459-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 LA, Discovery\nThe asteroid was soon identified as having a chance of impacting Earth (identified by JPL's scout program as 30% odds, calculated by Bill Gray as 82%) and one precovery observation was found just 7 minutes before its discovery observation, resulting in a final observation arc of 85 minutes before the asteroid was widely considered lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 18], "content_span": [19, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280459-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 LA, Entry and ATLAS observations\nSeveral hours later, at 16:44 UTC, a report arrived from southern Botswana to the American Meteor Society that an exceptionally bright fireball had been spotted. Although this was further west than projected based on the initial observations, the timing and location were consistent, although substantiated by just one observer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 37], "content_span": [38, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280459-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 LA, Entry and ATLAS observations\nConfirmation that the asteroid had impacted Earth, rather than simply a near approach, came when two observations by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) arrived later the same day and extended the observation arc from 85 minutes to 3 hours and 47 minutes, significantly improving the orbital parameters. The 4 hour observation arc better constrained the line of variations and showed that the asteroid was virtually certain to impact Earth, and based only on the sky observations, projected to have impacted in Namibia instead. This proves consistent with the fireball report.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 37], "content_span": [38, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280459-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 LA, Entry and ATLAS observations\nThe bolide was also detected by infrasound at station I47 in South Africa and registered about 0.4\u00a0kt. The asteroid was several meters in diameter and impacted the atmosphere going about 17\u00a0km/s (38,000\u00a0mph). Based on its velocity and energy, the asteroid was likely 2.6-3.8 meters in diameter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 37], "content_span": [38, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280459-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 LA, Entry and ATLAS observations\nAsteroids in the range of several meters in diameter are very hard to detect as they are too small to reflect much sunlight. For example, on 24 May 2018, the asteroid was still 0.069\u00a0AU (10,300,000\u00a0km; 6,400,000\u00a0mi) from Earth and only had an apparent magnitude of 25.5, much dimmer than any major modern surveys can detect using rapid-fire 30 second snapshots meant to cover as much of the sky as possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 37], "content_span": [38, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280459-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 LA, Fragment recovery\nScientists promptly looked for a meteorite strewn field, hoping to recover fragments of the asteroid before they had a chance to weather too much. Fragments can achieve dark flight after deceleration to terminal velocity. Dark flight starts when fragments decelerate to about 2\u20134\u00a0km/s. Larger fragments will fall further down the strewn field. Assuming a similar fraction of 2018 LA survived as of 2008 TC3, several kilograms in total were expected to have reached the ground and be recoverable, if estimates of 40% as massive as 2008 TC3 were correct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 26], "content_span": [27, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280459-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 LA, Fragment recovery\nShortly after the impact, Peter Jenniskens teamed with Oliver Moses of the Okavango Research Institute of the university of Maun and narrowed the search area from triangulated video records in Maun and Rakops. They joined a search effort organized by Mohutsiwa Gabadirwe of the Botswana Geoscience Institute and Alexander Proyer of BIUST, which resulted in the first meteorite found on June 23, now called Motopi Pan after a nearby watering hole. Non -destructive research of the meteorite at the University of Helsinki showed this to be a Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite (HED) type. 22 more meteorites were recovered in an expedition led by Gabadirwe, when Jenniskens returned in October 2018, and one more in 2020 in an expedition led by Fulvio Franchi of BIUST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 26], "content_span": [27, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280459-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 LA, Fragment recovery\nSamples of six of the meteorites were distributed in an international 2018 LA Meteorite Consortium and results were published in 2021, confirming that asteroid 2018 LA was a Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite (HED) type material, specifically a howardite with individual samples of diogenites, cumulate and basaltic eucrites, and howardites. 2018 LA was ejected from asteroid Vesta some 23 +/- 3 million years ago. The work traced the fragments of 2018 LA to an impact crater called Rubria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 26], "content_span": [27, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280460-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LA Galaxy II season\nThe 2018 LA Galaxy II season was the club's fifth season of existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280460-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LA Galaxy II season, Competitions, USL, Regular season\nThe first two matches of the 2018 season was announced on January 12, 2018. The full schedule was released on January 19, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280461-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LA Galaxy season\nThe 2018 LA Galaxy season was the club's twenty-third season of existence, their twenty-third in Major League Soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280461-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LA Galaxy season, Players, Transfers, Draft picks\nDraft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only those who are signed to a contract will be listed as transfers in. Only trades involving draft picks and executed after the start of 2018 MLS SuperDraft will be listed in the notes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280461-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LA Galaxy season, Competitions, Preseason, Mobile Mini Sun Cup\nThe schedule for the tournament was released on December 15, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 67], "content_span": [68, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280461-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 LA Galaxy season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Regular season\nThe first two matches of 2018 MLS season were announced on December 19, 2017. The full schedule was released on January 4, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 72], "content_span": [73, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280461-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 LA Galaxy season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup, Fourth round\nThe draw for this round was held on May 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280461-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 LA Galaxy season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup, Round of 16\nThe draw for this round was held on June 7, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 63], "content_span": [64, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280462-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LAF season\n2018 LAF season is the 19th edition of the first level American football championship in Russia, organized by FAFR (Federation of American Football), and it is the 3rd edition of the League of American Football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280463-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LBA Finals\nThe 2018 LBA Finals was the championship series of the 2017\u201318 regular season, of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), known for sponsorship reasons as the Serie A PosteMobile, the highest professional basketball league in Italy, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. The second placed EA7 Emporio Armani Milano possessing home advantage (with the first two, the fifth and the seventh games at the Mediolanum Forum) and the 5th placed Dolomiti Energia Trento contested for the title in a best-of-7 showdown, from June 5 to June 15, 2018. These were the second Finals for Trento and the 18th for Milano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280463-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LBA Finals\nEA7 Emporio Armani Milano won their 28th title by beating Dolomiti Energia Trento in game 6 of the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280463-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LBA Finals\nAndrew Goudelock of the EA7 Emporio Armani Milano was named MVP in the league's Finals series of the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280463-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 LBA Finals, Series, Game 6\nEA7 Emporio Armani Milano returned to the Italian throne on Friday night. In Game 6 of the Italian League playoff finals, Milan dominated to defeated Dolomiti Energia Trento 71-96 to claim the series 4-2 and become the Italian champion for the 28th time in club history. This is also third league title in the last five years for Milan which took control of this game from the start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280463-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 LBA Finals, Series, Game 6\nVladimir Micov and Mindaugas Kuzminskas hit triple and Art\u016bras Gudaitis had a pair of dunks in a 1-10 first-quarter run that helped Milan to a 20-25 lead after 10 minutes, before a pair of triples from Dairis Bert\u0101ns, one from Andrew Goudelock, and baskets from Gudaitis and Curtis Jerrells opened 23-42 margin early in the second quarter. The visitors went into halftime with a 15-point lead, and never relinquished it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280463-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 LBA Finals, Series, Game 6\nTrento got within 50-57 midway through the third, but Milan entered the final period with a 56-66 lead, before Goudelock, Bert\u0101ns and Kuzminskas each hit once from downtown in the first 2 minutes of the fourth, restoring a 15-point lead and Milan cruised the rest of the way. Milan had a balanced attack with six scorers in double figures. Goudelock finished with 21 points, Kuzminskas and Bert\u0101ns netted 15 apiece, and Gudaitis collected 14 points and 9 rebounds. Dominique Sutton scored 15 for Trento, and Shavon Shields and Toto Forray each scored 14 in the losing effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280464-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LBA Playoffs\nThe 2018 LBA Playoffs, officially known as the 2018 LBA Playoff, were the final phase of the 2017\u201318 LBA season. The Playoffs started on May 12, 2018, and ended on June 15, 2018, with the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280464-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LBA Playoffs\nEA7 Emporio Armani Milano won their 28th title by beating Dolomiti Energia Trento in game 6 of the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280464-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LBA Playoffs, Qualified teams\nThe eight first qualified teams after the end of the regular season qualified to the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280464-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 LBA Playoffs, Quarterfinals\nThe quarterfinals were played in a best of five format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280464-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 LBA Playoffs, Semifinals\nThe semifinals were played in a best of five format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280464-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 LBA Playoffs, Finals\nThe finals were played in a best of seven format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 75]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280465-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LEN Men's Europa Cup\nThe 2018 LEN Men's Europa Cup is the inaugural tournament of the LEN Europa Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280466-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LEN Super Cup\nThe 2018 LEN Super Cup was the 37th edition of the LEN Super Cup, an annual water polo match organised by LEN and contested by the reigning champions of the two main European club competitions, the top-tier LEN Champions League and the second-tier LEN Euro Cup. The match was played between European champions Olympiacos, the winners of the 2017\u201318 LEN Champions League, and Ferencv\u00e1ros, the winners of the 2017\u201318 LEN Euro Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280466-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LEN Super Cup\nIt was played at the Cs\u00e1sz\u00e1r-Komj\u00e1di Swimming Stadium in Budapest, Hungary, on 30 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280467-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LEN Women's Europa Cup\nThe 2018 LEN Women's Europa Cup is the inaugural tournament of the LEN Europa Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280468-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LET Access Series\nThe 2018 LET Access Series was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from April through November 2018 across Europe. The LET Access Series is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in Europe and is the official developmental tour of the Ladies European Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280468-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LET Access Series, Tournament results\nThe table below shows the 2018 schedule. The numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the LET Access Series up to and including that event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280468-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LET Access Series, Order of Merit rankings\nThe top five players on the LETAS Order of Merit earn LET membership for the Ladies European Tour. Players finishing in positions 6\u201320 get to skip the first stage of the qualifying event and automatically progress to the final stage of the Lalla Aicha Tour School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280469-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LF16\n2018 LF16 is a small near-Earth asteroid of the Amor group, first observed by astronomers with the Pan-STARRS survey at Haleakala Observatory on 14 June 2018. Based on limited observations, early estimates of its size of 213\u00a0m (699\u00a0ft) would make it extremely destructive if it collided with Earth, but predicted orbits make a collision unlikely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280469-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LF16\nIn November 2018, news article headlines exaggerated claims of 62 potentially dangerous Earth-orbit crossings in the next century but also reported NASA calculations indicating there is only a 1 in 30,000,000 chance of impact. Additionally, 2018 LF16 is rated at 0 on the Torino Scale, meaning that the chance of impact is so low as to effectively be zero. The observation arc extends only 1.8 days, leaving large uncertainties in its predicted motion, causing 2018 LF16 to be considered a lost asteroid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280469-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LF16\nIts current best orbit leaves it entirely outside of Earth's orbit, never coming closer than 0.13\u00a0AU to Earth (MOID).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280469-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 LF16\nIt is placed 9492nd on near-Earth asteroid Tisserand parameters list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280470-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Primeira\nThe 2018 LFA Primeira is the third season of the Liga Futebol Amadora Primeira Divis\u00e3o. The season began on March 3 and originally finished on August 5, but rescheduled to be finished on July 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280470-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Primeira\nBoavista won their first LFA Primeira title, with one match to spare following a 10\u20131 away win over Cacusan on 22 July 2018, while its competitor Karketu only drew 1\u20131 against Ponta Leste on 20 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280470-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Primeira\nCacusan to be the first team who relegated to 2019 LFA Segunda, with four match to spare following a 0\u201310 loss against Karketu on 30 June 2018. DIT was the second team got relegated to 2019 LFA Segunda, with two match to spare following a 2\u20134 loss against Ponta Leste on 13 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280470-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Primeira, Teams, from Primeira\nFC Zebra and FC Porto Taibesse were relegated to 2018 Segunda Divisao after finished 7th and bottom place of 2017 Primeira Divisao.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280470-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Primeira, Teams, to Primeira\nAtl\u00e9tico Ultramar and DIT F.C. promoted to 2018 Primeira Divisao after securing place as champions and runners-up in 2017 Segunda Divisao. DIT F.C. returned to top flight after last season relegated to Segunda Divisao and Atl\u00e9tico Ultramar was newly promotion clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280470-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Primeira, Foreign players\nRestricting the number of foreign players strictly to four per team. A team could use four foreign players on the field each game. Name on BOLD was foreign players who registered in mid-season transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280470-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Primeira, Fixtures and results\nDue to Timor-Leste national under-21 team schedule in April 2018 for their participation in the 2018 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy, Round 4 and Round 7 was rescheduled from originally on April 21\u201322 and May 26\u201327 in Malibaca Yamato Stadium, Maliana and Baucau Municipal Stadium, Baucau move to April 5\u20138 and June 7\u201310 in Kampo Demokrasia, Dili, while Round 6 rescheduled from May 17\u201320 in Kampo Demokrasia, Dili move to May 26\u201327 in Malibaca Yamato Stadium, Maliana and Baucau Municipal Stadium, Baucau, also Round 5 rescheduled from April 26\u201329 move to May 17\u201320 in same place. Rescheduled for Round 8 to Round 14 not yet announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280470-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Primeira, Fixtures and results\nOn 19 May 2018 Round 6 was rescheduled one more time from originally May 26\u201327 in Malibaca Yamato Stadium, Maliana and Baucau Municipal Stadium, Baucau move to May 25\u201328 in Kampo Demokrasia, Dili. Schedules for Round 8 to Round 14 was also announced at the same time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280470-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Primeira, Season statistics, Hat-tricks\nNotes:(H) \u2013 Home\u00a0; (A) \u2013 Away4 \u2013 player scorer 4 goals6 \u2013 player scorer 6 goals7 \u2013 player scorer 7 goals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280471-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Segunda\nThe 2018 LFA Segunda is the third season of the Liga Futebol Amadora Segunda Divis\u00e3o. The season began on March 6 and finished on August 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280471-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Segunda\nAtl\u00e9tico Ultramar is the last season champions and got promoted to 2018 LFA Primeira.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280471-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Segunda\nAssalam won their first LFA Segunda title, after a 5\u20131 win over Nagarjo in their last match on 19 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280471-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Segunda\nAssalam won their first promotion to 2019 LFA Primeira, with one match to spare following a 4\u20130 win over Lalenok United on 28 June 2018. Lalenok United won their first promotion to LFA Primeira, with one match to spare following their competitor Sporting only play a 1\u20131 drew against Lica-Lica on 17 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280471-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Segunda\nSanta Cruz became the first team to be relegated from LFA Segunda after losing 2\u20133 in their last match against Zebra on 31 July 2018. Kablaky became the second team to be relegated after losing 1\u20132 in their last match against Porto on 2 August 2018, while Porto with their victory managed to save them from relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280471-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Segunda, Teams, from Segunda Divisaun\nAtl\u00e9tico Ultramar and DIT F.C. promoted to 2018 LFA Primeira after securing place as champions and runners-up in 2017 Segunda Divisao. FC Caf\u00e9 and Sport Dili e Benfica were relegated from 2017 Segunda Divisao after finished 5th and bottom place of Group A, while YMCA FC and Uni\u00e3o de Timor were relegated from 2017 Segunda Divisao after finished 6th and bottom place of Group B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280471-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Segunda, Teams, to Segunda Divisaun\nFC Zebra and Porto Taibesse were relegated to 2018 LFA Segunda after finished 7th and bottom place of 2017 Primeira Divisao. Fitun Estudante (FIEL), Lalenok United and FC Lero promoted to 2018 LFA Segunda after win the playoff tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280471-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Segunda, Foreign players\nRestricting the number of foreign players strictly to four per team. A team could use four foreign players on the field each game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280471-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Segunda, Fixtures and results\nAll matches played every Tuesday to Sunday every week except the final league match will played on Monday 6 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280471-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Segunda, Season statistics, Hat-tricks\nNotes:(H) \u2013 Home\u00a0; (A) \u2013 Away5 \u2013 player scorer 5 goals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280472-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Super Ta\u00e7a\nThe 2018 LFA Super Ta\u00e7a is the 3th staging of the LFA Super Ta\u00e7a. A cup played in a single game between the two best teams in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280472-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Super Ta\u00e7a, The Match\nThe match of this edition of LFA Super Ta\u00e7a was played on November 25, 2018 at the National Stadium (East Timor) in the city of D\u00edli, in East Timor. The National Stadium has a maximum capacity of 5,000 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280472-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Super Ta\u00e7a, The Match\nParticipants are classified through two main competitions: Liga Futebol Amadora Primeira Divis\u00e3o and Ta\u00e7a 12 de Novembro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280472-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Super Ta\u00e7a, The Match\nThe cup was disputed by two teams: one classified through the 2018 Liga Futebol Amadora Primeira Divis\u00e3o and the other through the 2018 Ta\u00e7a 12 de Novembro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280472-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA Super Ta\u00e7a, The Match\nThe Boavista FC team was champion of the 2018 Liga Futebol Amadora Primeira Divis\u00e3o and Atl\u00e9tico Ultramar team was champion of the 2018 Ta\u00e7a 12 de Novembro. Thus, the two teams won the right to compete in the SuperTa\u00e7a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season\nThe 2018 LFA season was the third season of the Liga de F\u00fatbol Americano Profesional. The season saw all previous teams return with no additional new ones. The Eagles changed their team name to the Mexicas. This would be the first season that saw the championship, the Taz\u00f3n M\u00e9xico held at a neutral site of the Estadio Azul in Mexico City. The league season began on February 16 and concluded on the April 8. The playoffs began on the April 14 and concluded on April 22 with the Mexicas beating the Raptors in Ta\u017aon M\u00e9xico III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Preseason Events, Relevant Events\nOn October 28, 2017 Mr. Juan Carlos V\u00e1zquez left the presidency of the LFA; the figure of President was eliminated and the figure of the Commissioner was created, which Guillermo Ruiz Burguete occupied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 50], "content_span": [51, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Preseason Events, Relevant Events\nOn January 16, LFA commissioner Guillermo Ruiz Burguete resigned; the league did not announce his replacement. For operational purposes, the activities of the commissioner were absorbed by the president of the league's board of directors, \u00d3scar P\u00e9rez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 50], "content_span": [51, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Preseason Events, Relevant Events\nOn March 3, the players of the Mexicas team went on strike due to the lack of medical insurance and other supplies necessary for the professional practice of the sport, so their game for week 3 against Dinos was suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 50], "content_span": [51, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Preseason Events, Relevant Events\nOn March 8, the Mexicas team was fined $657,820.00 MXN(US35,200) for damages caused to the League, its TV partners, its press partners, the Dinos team, and fans attending the stadium for not having presented to play. It was also determined that said party would not be rescheduled and therefore Mexicas would lose it by forfeit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 50], "content_span": [51, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Preseason Events, Coaching changes\nThe 2018 season saw all but Mayas replace their head coach", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Preseason Events, Coaching changes\nCondors: Enrique Zapata was replaced as head coach by Felix Buend\u00eda after a 3-4 season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Preseason Events, Coaching changes\nMexicas: Jos\u00e9 Campuzano was replaced as head coach by Rafael Duk, who coached the Raptors the previous two seasons, after a 4-3 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Preseason Events, Coaching changes\nRaptors: Rafael Duk was replaced as head coach by Guillermo Gutierrez after a 5-2 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Preseason Events, Coaching changes\nDinos: Guillermo Ruiz was replaced as head coach by Carlos Cabral after a 2-5 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Preseason Events, Coaching changes\nFundidores: Leopoldo Trevi\u00f1o was replaced as head coach by Israel Gonzalez after a 2-5 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Preseason Events, Draft\nOn January 13, the 2018 Draft was held in which 47 players were selected who finished their eligibility in Mexican university football", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Preseason Events, Draft\n* In exchange for QB Bruno M\u00e1rquez (2nd year), Raptors gave Condors selections in the first, fourth and seventh round of the 2018 Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Season, Standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Diff=Difference Between Pts. for and against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Season, Results\n* Based on the regulations, the Dinos won the match forfeit with a score of 1 to 0, since Mexicas did not show up for the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Taz\u00f3n M\u00e9xico III\nThe Taz\u00f3n M\u00e9xico III was held on April 22, 2018 at 4:00\u00a0p.m. at the Estadio Azul in Mexico City, with a record attendance for the LFA of 15,000 fans present. Mexicas defeated Raptors 17\u20130 in a defensive game. This would have been the first LFA championship with a halftime show, however, the group in charge of the show, Pante\u00f3n Rococ\u00f3 , had to cancel last-minute performance due to Civil Protection recommendations due to the probability of a thunderstorm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280473-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 LFA season, Taz\u00f3n M\u00e9xico III\nThe final between Raptors and Mexicas would have been the last professional activity that the Estadio Azul before its demolition, however, the venue will house more games of the LFA, including the Taz\u00f3n M\u00e9xico IV, since its demolition was postponed to the 2020 year. The MVP of the game was Guillermo Villalobos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280474-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LFF I Lyga\nThe 2018 LFF I Lyga was the 29th season of the I Lyga, the second tier association football league of Lithuania. The season began on 25 March 2018 and ended on 20 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280474-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LFF I Lyga, Teams, Changes from last season\nA total of fifteen clubs were confirmed for the season, same as previous season, but only fourteen competed as \u0160ilut\u0117 withdrew 4 days prior to the league's start after an uncompetitive performance in the 2018 \u017demaitijos Taur\u0117. Three of them were reserve teams of the A Lyga sides - one less than maximum allowed for the competitions and last season number.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280474-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LFF I Lyga, Teams, Changes from last season\nUtenis were relegated from the 2017 A Lyga and replaced last year champions Palanga. Only the II Lyga South Zone winners NFA were automatically promoted from the lower tier as other eligible teams failed to receive licenses. Finally Kupi\u0161kis made their debut in the league after a special permission was given by the Lithuanian Football Federation to compete for a newly created team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280475-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LFL US season\nThe 2018 LFL US Season is the ninth season of the Legends Football League (LFL) in the United States. It began on 14 April 2018, and ended on 11 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280475-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LFL US season\nThe Chicago Bliss beat the Austin Acoustic 28\u201320 in the Legends Cup to win their fourth title, finishing with a perfect 6\u20130 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280475-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LFL US season, Developments\nIn November 2017, it was announced that the Nashville Knights would join the LFL, and begin its inaugural season in the league for the 2018 season, with former Seattle Mist tight end Danika Brace named as the Knights\u2019 head coach. The Pittsburgh Rebellion did not compete in the 2018 season while they conducted a search for a new home venue. They were expected to rejoin the LFL in 2019 but did not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280475-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 LFL US season, Developments\nNashville's recruitment also resulted in a rule change concerning free agency. Nashville recruited seven of the starters from defending champion Seattle, essentially transplanting the Mist's lineup to a new team nearly intact. This move prompted the league to institute a rule only allowing five free agents per team. As a result of this rule change, Nashville was forced to turn away two of their free agency recruits who returned to Seattle. Nashville courted further controversy when Seattle's former coach, who had retired in the off-season, reappeared as the offensive coordinator of the Knights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280475-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 LFL US season, Developments\nThe LFL partnered with Planet Sport to broadcast LFL games in eastern Europe. The partnership allows Planet Sport to broadcast LFL games and ancillary programming from July 2018 through August 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280475-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 LFL US season, Developments\nIn January 2018, the LFL announced individual and/or group ownership of existing and future franchises beginning with the 2018 season, continuing to build out the LFL US league, while also developing planned strategies for the revivals of LFL Canada and LFL Australia, as well as to start a new European league in the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280475-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 LFL US season, Developments\nThe 2018 season also saw a major uniform change. The players' uniforms now featured leggings instead of shorts. While the league, players, and many fans saw this as a good change there was a vocal segment of the fan base, as well as a group of players, that objected to the leggings. As a result of the outcry, the LFL changed to shorts, consisting of the same patterns as the pants and 2-3 inches longer than the original bikini brief, for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280475-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 LFL US season, Playoffs\nConference Championships were played on August 25, 2018 at Toyota Park in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview, Illinois. The season concluded with the Legends Cup, played on September 8, 2018, at the H-E-B Center in Cedar Park, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280475-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 LFL US season, Playoffs\nThe Los Angeles Temptation were the first team in LFL history to qualify for the playoffs with a losing record but only if the 2016 Atlanta team is considered to have finished 2-2 courtesy of a New England forfeit instead of the 1-2-1 record that a lack of a contest would create.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280475-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 LFL US season, Playoffs\nIn their first playoff appearance, the Austin Acoustic defeated Los Angeles 32-30 to advance to their first Legends Cup. Hours later, the Chicago Bliss defeated the Nashville Knights 18-6 to secure their sixth trip to the Legends Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280475-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 LFL US season, Playoffs\nThe Legends Cup featured Chicago as heavy favorites. The Bliss scored twice in the second quarter and led 12-0 at the half. Austin scored in the third quarter to cut the lead to 12-8 before Chicago added two more scores to extend their lead to 28-8. As the game wound down, Austin rallied with two touchdowns of their own leaving the final score 28-20. With the win, Chicago became the first team in the LFL to win forty games (a cumulative 40-10-1 record) and four championships (2013, 2014, 2016, and 2018). Chicago running back Javell Thompson, who scored three of the Bliss' four touchdowns, was named MVP of the Legends Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280476-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LINAFOOT (Chad)\nThe 2018 LINAFOOT was the 2nd season of the LINAFOOT, the top Chadian league for association football clubs since its establishment in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280476-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LINAFOOT (Chad)\nUnlike the 1st LINAFOOT edition (in 2015) organised as a full national championship and won by Gazelle FC, this edition was organized under the play-off formula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280476-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LINAFOOT (Chad)\nThe season started on 15 September 2018 and concluded on 7 October 2018. The twelve teams were divided into two groups of six teams. The matches were played at three stadiums: Stade d'Acad\u00e9mie de Farcha, Stade Omnisports Idriss Mahamat Ouya and Stade de Paris-Congo. All matches were being played at 03:30 p.m. local time. Elect-Sport FC won their fifth Chadian title. Abou Deco (AS CotonTchad) was the league topscorer with 14 goals; Mbangousoum \u00c9ric was voted the best player; Francis Oumar Belonga (Elect-Sport FC) was voted the best coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280477-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LKL Finals\nThe 2018 LKL Finals was the championship series of the 2017\u201318 season, of the LKL. The finals series were scheduled from 9 June until 18 June 2018. Due to home court advantage, \u017dalgiris played Game 1, 3 and 5 at home. \u017dalgiris defeated Lietuvos rytas 4\u20131, earning the franchise its 20th LKL championship. Brandon Davies was named the Finals MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280477-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LKL Finals, Venues\nThe \u017dalgiris Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New Town of Kaunas, Lithuania. The arena is located on an island of the Nemunas River. It is the largest indoor arena in the Baltics. The arena's maximum possible seating capacity for basketball games is 15,552, and 20,000 spectators for concerts (when the stage is in the middle, and 17,000 when stage is in the side of the arena). The \u017dalgiris Arena replaced the Kaunas Sports Hall as a major venue in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280477-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LKL Finals, Venues\nThe Siemens Arena, located in Verkiai elderate of Vilnius, is the second largest arena in Lithuania. It generally hosts basketball games as well as concerts. The arena opened on October 30, 2004. The basketball club BC Lietuvos rytas uses the facility for all of its European home fixtures. Siemens Arena also hosts Rytas' home fixtures of the Lithuanian \"national derby\" against its archrival BC \u017dalgiris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280477-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 LKL Finals, Road to the Finals, Regular season series\n\u017dalgiris and Lietuvos rytas tied the regular season series 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 58], "content_span": [59, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280478-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LKL Play-offs\nThe 2018 LKL Playoffs featured the eight best teams of the Lietuvos krep\u0161inio lyga (LKL) basketball league in Lithuania, competing for the championship spot. This was the LKL playoffs' 24th edition. \u017dalgiris achieved their 20th title overall, eight consecutive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280478-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LKL Play-offs\nThe quarter-finals were played in a best-of-five format, with the higher seeded team playing the first and (if necessary) third game at home. The semi-finals were played in a best-of-five format and the finals in a best-of-seven format, with the higher seed team playing games 1, 3, 5 and 7 (if necessary) at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280479-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LPGA Tour\nThe 2018 LPGA Tour is a series of professional golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world. The season begins in Bahamas on January 25 and ends on November 18 at the Tibur\u00f3n Golf Club in Naples, Florida. The tournaments are sanctioned by the United States-based Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280479-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LPGA Tour, Schedule and results\nThe number in parentheses after each winners' name is the player's total number of wins in official money individual events on the LPGA Tour, including that event. Tournament and winner names in bold indicate LPGA majors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280479-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LPGA Tour, Schedule and results\n^ ANA Inspiration finished on Monday April 2 due to darkness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280480-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LPGA of Japan Tour\nThe 2018 LPGA of Japan Tour was the 51st season of the LPGA of Japan Tour, the professional golf tour for women operated by the Ladies Professional Golfers' Association of Japan. The 2018 schedule included 38 official events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280480-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LPGA of Japan Tour, Schedule\nThe number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number wins in official money individual events on the LPGA of Japan Tour, including that event. All tournaments were played in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280480-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LPGA of Japan Tour, Schedule\nEvents in bold are majors. The Toto Japan Classic was co-sanctioned with the LPGA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280481-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LPGA of Korea Tour\nThe 2018 LPGA of Korea Tour was the 41st season of the LPGA of Korea Tour, the professional golf tour for women operated by the Korea Ladies Professional Golf' Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280481-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LPGA of Korea Tour, Schedule\nThe number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number wins in official money individual events on the LPGA of Korea Tour, including that event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280482-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU Tigers baseball team\nThe 2018 LSU Tigers baseball team represents Louisiana State University (LSU) during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Tigers play their home games at Alex Box Stadium as a member of the Southeastern Conference. They are led by head coach Paul Mainieri, in his 12th season at LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280482-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU Tigers baseball team, Previous Season\nIn 2017, the Tigers won the SEC's Western Division with a record of 52\u201320\u20130, 21\u20139\u20130 in conference play. They qualified for the 2017 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament and defeated Arkansas in the final, 4\u20132. They qualified for the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament as the SEC champion, and were selected as the No. 4 overall national seed. The Tigers were selected as hosts of the Baton Rouge regional, which included Rice, Southeastern Louisiana, and Texas Southern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280482-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 LSU Tigers baseball team, Previous Season\nThe Tigers swept through the Regional, defeating Texas Southern, 15\u20137, Southeastern 11\u20136, and Rice 5\u20130 advancing to the Super Regional where they hosted conference rival Mississippi State. After a 4\u20133 comeback victory in which they trailed 3\u20130 in the bottom of the eighth inning, LSU beat the Bulldogs 14\u20134 the following night to advance to their 18th World Series. The Tigers defeated Florida State in their opening game 5\u20134, but then fell to overall number one seed Oregon State 13\u20131 placing them on the brink of elimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280482-0001-0002", "contents": "2018 LSU Tigers baseball team, Previous Season\nThe Tigers once again beat Florida State 7\u20134 to earn the right to face Oregon State once again, needing to win twice. LSU advanced to the finals winning 3\u20131 then 6\u20131 eliminating the Beavers. In the championship, LSU faced conference rival Florida. The Tigers lost a close Game 1 4\u20133 then were defeated 6\u20131 the following night to finish national runners-up, while the Gators earned their first national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280482-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU Tigers baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280483-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 2018 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers played their home games at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and competed in the West Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by second-year head coach Ed Orgeron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280483-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU Tigers football team\nThe Tigers, coming off a 9\u20134 season in Orgeron's first full season, began the year ranked 25th in the preseason AP Poll. In the first game of the year, the team defeated No. 8 Miami (FL) in the Advocare Classic played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. LSU won its next four games, including on the road against then-No. 7 Auburn, and rose to fifth in the AP Poll, before falling on the road to Florida. The team rebounded with wins over No. 2 Georgia and No. 22 Mississippi State before being shutout by eventual SEC champions Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280483-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 LSU Tigers football team\nIn the last game of the regular season, LSU lost on the road against Texas A&M in an FBS record-tying seven overtimes. The final score of the game, 74\u201372, set the FBS record for combined points in a single game (146). The team finished the regular season tied for second in the SEC's West Division and was invited to the Fiesta Bowl to play UCF, which the Tigers won by a score of 40\u201332 to end UCF's active win streak of 25 games. LSU finished the season with an overall record of 10\u20133 and was ranked 6th in the final AP Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280483-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU Tigers football team\nThe team's defense featured three consensus All-Americans in defensive backs Grant Delpit and Greedy Williams, and linebacker Devin White, who was awarded the Dick Butkus Award as the nation's best linebacker. On offense, the Tigers were led by redshirt junior quarterback Joe Burrow, who finished with 2,894 passing yards and 23 total touchdowns (16 passing and 7 rushing). Senior running back Nick Brossette led the team in rushing with 1,039 yards and 14 touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280483-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU Tigers football team, Previous season\nThe Tigers finished the 2017 season 9\u20134, 6\u20132 in SEC play to finish in third place in the Western Division. They were invited to the Citrus Bowl where they lost to Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280483-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU Tigers football team, Preseason, SEC media poll\nThe SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018 with the Tigers selected to finish in fifth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280483-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU Tigers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SEC teams\nThe Tigers had five players selected to the preseason all-SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280484-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M football game\nThe 2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M football game was the final regular-season college football game between the LSU Tigers and the Texas A&M Aggies played on November 24, 2018 at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. The game set multiple National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) records, including the most combined points scored (146) in a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football game. The record was previously held by a game played between Western Michigan and Buffalo on October 7, 2017, which had 139 combined points over seven overtimes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280484-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M football game\nThe 2018 LSU\u2013Texas A&M game went likewise to seven overtimes and lasted nearly five hours, tying the NCAA record for longest football game with four others. The 146 combined points are currently the second most in college football history since the NCAA started keeping records in 1937, behind the 161 points scored in a 2008 NCAA Division II game between Abilene Christian and West Texas A&M of the Lone Star Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280484-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M football game\nAfter the game-winning touchdown, Texas A&M fans ran onto the field in violation of the SEC's competition area policy. As a result, Texas A&M was fined a total of $50,000 and warned by the SEC that subsequent actions by fans in future games will result in penalties over $100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280484-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M football game, Background, LSU\nUnder the command of 3rd-year head coach Ed Orgeron, the LSU Tigers entered their final regular season game 9\u20132, 5\u20132 in SEC play. The Tigers were ranked No. 25 in the AP preseason poll, but were up to No. 5 for their fifth game after wins over No. 8 Miami and No. 7 Auburn. They fell to No. 22 Florida on the road to open October, but rebounded with a 20-point home win against No. 2 Georgia and a 16-point home win against No. 22 Mississippi State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280484-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M football game, Background, LSU\nThis set up the most anticipated SEC game of the year - then No. 4 Tigers hosted No. 1 Alabama, falling 0\u201329. They picked up two more wins (at Arkansas and vs Rice), putting them at 9\u20132 going into their final game. LSU was ranked No. 8 by both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll, and No. 7 by the College Football Playoff selection committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280484-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M football game, Background, Texas A&M\nWith first-year head coach Jimbo Fisher, the Aggies came into their last regular season game with a record of 7\u20134, 4\u20133 in SEC play. Two of their first four games were against ranked teams - they lost against No. 2 Clemson and No. 1 Alabama. They gained their first conference win the next week against Arkansas, and their second the week after with an upset over No. 13 Kentucky. They peaked in the rankings at No. 16, but lost two straight games to Mississippi State and Auburn and dropped out. They rebounded with wins over Ole Miss, making them bowl eligible, and UAB; this put them at 7\u20134 going into their last game of the season. Texas A&M received votes in the AP Poll and Coaches Poll, but was ranked No. 22 by the College Football Playoff committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280484-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M football game, Background, Rivalry series\nThe game was the 57th meeting between LSU and Texas A&M. Prior to their 2018 meeting, the rivalry series stood at 33\u201320\u20133 in favor of LSU. Previously, the highest scoring meeting between the two teams was two years prior; LSU defeated Texas A&M 54\u201339, combining for 93 points. Texas A&M had lost seven straight against LSU, starting with the 2011 Cotton Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280484-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M football game, Background, Rivalry series\nThe win would be Texas A&M's first win against LSU as a member of the SEC - their last win against the Tigers came on September 2, 1995, the last year for the Southwest Conference before Texas A&M and three other SWC members joined with the Big 8 to form the new Big 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280484-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M football game, Game summary, Game information\nKickoff: 6:39\u00a0p.m. CSTEnd of Game: 11:32\u00a0p.m. CSTDuration: 4 hours, 53 minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280484-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M football game, Game summary, Game information\nMatt Austin (referee), Rodney Lawary (umpire), Chad Green (linesman)Michael Taylor (line judge), Jimmy Russell (back judge), Blake Parks (field judge)Alex Moore (side judge), Paul Schardein (center judge)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280484-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M football game, Post-game altercation\nAfter the game, LSU analyst Steve Kragthorpe reported to media that an unknown student with sideline credentials had punched him in the pacemaker. The student was later identified to be Texas A&M staffer Cole Fisher, the nephew of Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher. According to Kragthorpe, he was punched in response to telling Texas A&M\u2019s receiving coach, Dameyune Craig, to \u201cMove on\u201d after Craig yelled profanities at LSU\u2019s coaching staff. In defense of Kragthrope, the LSU director of player development, Kevin Faulk, attacked Fisher and a fist-fight began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280484-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M football game, Post-game altercation\nAccording to a release by Texas A&M University Police, Kragthorpe retracted his statements regarding being struck and that he required medical attention, although LSU disputed that a retraction was made. Video evidence later disputed Kragthrope\u2019s story and showed that he was not punched by Fisher. Instead, Kragthrope was seen yelling and confronting the Texas A&M receiving corps and was shoved away by Fisher. No reported injuries were sustained by Kragthrope, Faulk, or Fisher and no charges were issued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280485-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LTP Charleston Pro Tennis\nThe 2018 LTP Charleston Pro Tennis was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Charleston, United States, on 30 April\u20136 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280485-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LTP Charleston Pro Tennis, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280486-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LTP Charleston Pro Tennis \u2013 Doubles\nEmina Bektas and Alexa Guarachi were the defending champions, but Bektas chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280486-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 LTP Charleston Pro Tennis \u2013 Doubles\nGuarachi played alongside Erin Routliffe and successfully defended her title. The pair defeated Louisa Chirico and Allie Kiick in the final, 6\u20131, 3\u20136, [10\u20135].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280487-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 LTP Charleston Pro Tennis \u2013 Singles\nMadison Brengle was the defending champion but lost in the final to Taylor Townsend, 0\u20136 4\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280488-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 La Course by Le Tour de France\nThe fifth edition of La Course by Le Tour de France, a women's cycling race held in France, took place on 17 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280488-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 La Course by Le Tour de France, Route and organization\nThe race ran from Duingt, at the shores of Lake Annecy, to Le Grand Bornand, covering 118\u00a0km, and took in the Col de la Colombi\u00e8re. It was be held before stage 10 of the men's 2018 Tour de France, which also finished in Le Grand Bornand. The finale was identical to the men's stage. After the top of the 16.3\u00a0km long Col de la Colombi\u00e8re, 15\u00a0km was left to the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280488-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 La Course by Le Tour de France, Route and organization\nThe event was organised by ASO, which also organised the Tour de France. It was the 15th race of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280488-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 La Course by Le Tour de France, Results\nThe race finished in a finish of two Dutch cyclists with Annemiek van Vleuten beating 2015 race champion Anna van der Breggen to retain the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280489-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 La Dr\u00f4me Classic\nThe 2018 Royal Bernard Drome Classic was the 6th edition of La Dr\u00f4me Classic road cycling one day race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280489-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 La Dr\u00f4me Classic, Teams\nTwenty-two teams were invited to take part in the race. These included five UCI World Tour teams, thirteen UCI Professional Continental teams, three UCI Continental teams and one national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280490-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne\nThe 2018 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 18 April 2018 in Belgium. It was the 82nd edition of the La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne and the seventeenth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280490-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne\nDuring the third and final ascent of the Mur de Huy, Quick-Step Floors rider Julian Alaphilippe accelerated near the summit, overtaking race leader Jelle Vanendert (Lotto\u2013Soudal) in the last 100 metres of the race and dropping him. Alejandro Valverde, who had won the last four editions for the Movistar Team, staged a late fight-back and almost caught Alaphilippe, but Alaphilippe was able to kick again in the final metres to increase his lead, to win by four seconds from Valverde. It was the biggest victory of Alaphilippe's career at that point, becoming the first French winner of the race since Laurent Jalabert in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280490-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne, Teams\nAs La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Seven UCI Professional Continental teams competed as wildcards, completing the 25-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280491-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne F\u00e9minine\nThe 21st running of the women's Fl\u00e8che wallonne was held on 18 April 2018. The race started and finished in Huy. The route featured seven categorized climbs, including two ascents of the Mur de Huy. The finish line was on the top of the final ascent of the Mur. Anna van der Breggen claimed her fourth Fl\u00e8che Wallonne victory in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280491-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne F\u00e9minine, Route\nThe race started and finished in Huy. The final 30\u00a0km loop was covered twice, totaling 118.5\u00a0km.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280491-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne F\u00e9minine, Teams\nTwenty-three teams participated in the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280491-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne F\u00e9minine, Race summary\nThe race was run in exceptionally warm and sunny weather, with temperatures exceeding 20\u00b0C. On the first ascent of the C\u00f4te de Cherave, at 35\u00a0km from the finish, Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot broke clear, immediately followed by Megan Guarnier, Amanda Spratt and Janneke Ensing. They crested the first ascent of the Mur de Huy in the lead. Spanish rider Mavi Garc\u00eda tried to bridge the gap, but was caught again before the C\u00f4te de Cherave. The leading quartet's lead rose to 40 seconds at 20\u00a0km from the end, but the unrepresented teams led the chase in the peloton and narrowed the gap to ten seconds by the foot of the final Mur de Huy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280491-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne F\u00e9minine, Race summary\nSouth African Ashleigh Moolman was the first to accelerate from the main group, under the one-kilometre banner, and bridged the gap to the four leaders. Guarnier managed to hang on, followed by Anna van der Breggen and Annemiek van Vleuten. Van der Breggen powered ahead in the last 200\u00a0m to take her fourth consecutive Fl\u00e8che victory. Ashleigh Moolman finished second, Megan Guarnier third. It was van der Breggen's third World Tour win of 2018, which moved her into the overall lead of the World Tour classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280492-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo\nThe 2018 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo was a road cycling stage race that took place in Gabon with an incursion into neighboring Cameroon between 15 and 21 January 2018. The race was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2018 UCI Africa Tour, and was the 13th edition of the Tropicale Amissa Bongo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280493-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Championship Gstaad\nThe 2018 Ladies Championship Gstaad was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 26th edition of the Ladies Championship Gstaad, and part of the International category of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at Roy Emerson Arena in Gstaad, Switzerland, from 16 July through 22 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280493-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Championship Gstaad, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280493-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Championship Gstaad, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280494-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Championship Gstaad \u2013 Doubles\nKiki Bertens and Johanna Larsson were the defending champions, but Bertens chose not to participate this year. Larsson played alongside Eugenie Bouchard, but lost in the first round to Rika Fujiwara and Darija Jurak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280494-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Championship Gstaad \u2013 Doubles\nAlexa Guarachi and Desirae Krawczyk won the title, defeating Lara Arruabarrena and Timea Bacsinszky in the final, 4\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20136]. This was the first WTA Tour title for both Guarachi and Krawczyk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280495-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Championship Gstaad \u2013 Singles\nThe Singles competition of the 2018 Ladies Championship Gstaad tennis tournament was held in Gstaad, Switzerland from 16-22 July 2018. Kiki Bertens was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280495-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Championship Gstaad \u2013 Singles\nAliz\u00e9 Cornet won the title, defeating Mandy Minella in the final, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(8\u20136).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280495-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Championship Gstaad \u2013 Singles\nThis was the last tournament, that former World No. 4 Francesca Schiavone had participated in. She drew her old rival Samantha Stosur in the first round and was defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280496-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies European Tour\nThe 2018 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world, which took place from 1 February to 25 November. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280496-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies European Tour, Schedule\nThe table below shows the 2018 schedule. The numbers in brackets after the winners' names indicate the career wins on the Ladies European Tour, including that event, and is only shown for members of the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280496-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies European Tour, Schedule, Unofficial events\nThe following event appeared on the schedule, but did not carry official money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280497-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Open Hechingen\nThe 2018 Ladies Open Hechingen was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the twentieth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Hechingen, Germany, on 6\u201312 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280497-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Open Hechingen, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280498-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Open Hechingen \u2013 Doubles\nCamilla Rosatello and Sofia Shapatava are the defending champions, but Rosatello chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280498-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Open Hechingen \u2013 Doubles\nShapatava partnered alongside Ksenia Palkina, but lost in the final to Polina Monova and Chantal \u0160kamlov\u00e1, 6\u20134, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280499-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Open Hechingen \u2013 Singles\nTamara Korpatsch was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Laura Siegemund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280499-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Open Hechingen \u2013 Singles\nEkaterine Gorgodze won the title, defeating Siegemund in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280500-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Open Lugano\nThe 2018 Ladies Open Lugano (also known as the 2018 Samsung Open presented by Corn\u00e8r for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament played on clay courts at TC Lido Lugano. It was the second edition of the tournament (the first to take place in Lugano) and part of the International category of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place between 9 April through 15 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280500-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Open Lugano, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280500-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Open Lugano, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280501-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Open Lugano \u2013 Doubles\nHsieh Su-wei and Monica Niculescu were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280501-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Open Lugano \u2013 Doubles\nKirsten Flipkens and Elise Mertens won the title, defeating Vera Lapko and Aryna Sabalenka in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280502-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Open Lugano \u2013 Singles\nMark\u00e9ta Vondrou\u0161ov\u00e1 was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Elise Mertens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280502-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies Open Lugano \u2013 Singles\nMertens went on to win the title, defeating Aryna Sabalenka in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280503-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies' National Football League\nThe 2018 Ladies' National Football League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Lidl Ladies' National Football League, is a ladies' Gaelic football competition taking place in early 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280503-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies' National Football League\nFor the first time, LNFL games were broadcast live on Eir Sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280503-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies' National Football League, Format, League structure\nThe 2018 Ladies' National Football League consists of four divisions of eight teams. Each team plays every other team in its division once. 3 points are awarded for a win and 1 for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280503-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies' National Football League, Format, League structure\nIf two teams are level on points, the tie-break is:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280503-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies' National Football League, Format, League structure\nIf three or more teams are level on league points, rankings are determined solely by points difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280503-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies' National Football League, Format, Finals, promotions and relegations\nThe top four teams in Division 1 contest the Ladies' National Football League semi-finals (first plays fourth and second plays third).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280503-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies' National Football League, Format, Finals, promotions and relegations\nThe top four teams in divisions 2, 3 and 4 contest the semi-finals of their respective divisions. The division champions are promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280503-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ladies' National Football League, Format, Finals, promotions and relegations\nThe last-placed teams in divisions 1, 2 and 3 are relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280504-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lafayette Leopards football team\nThe 2018 Lafayette Leopards football team represented Lafayette College in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Leopards were led by second-year head coach John Garrett and played their home games at Fisher Stadium. They were a member of the Patriot League. They finished the season 3\u20138, 2\u20134 in Patriot League play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280504-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lafayette Leopards football team, Previous season\nThe Leopards finished the 2017 season 3\u20138, 3\u20133 in Patriot League play to finish in a three-way tie for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280504-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lafayette Leopards football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe Patriot League released their preseason coaches poll on July 26, 2018, with the Leopards predicted to finish in a tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280504-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lafayette Leopards football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Patriot League team\nThe Leopards placed four players on the preseason all-Patriot League team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280505-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Laguna Heroes season\nThe 2018 Laguna Heroes season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280506-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lale Cup\nThe 2018 Lale Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Istanbul, Turkey, on 9\u201315 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280506-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lale Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 57], "content_span": [58, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280507-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lale Cup \u2013 Doubles\nVeronika Kudermetova and \u0130pek Soylu were the defending champions, but Kudermetova chose to compete at the 2018 Ladies Open Lugano instead. Soylu chose to partner Anastasiya Komardina, but they lost in the quarterfinals to Akgul Amanmuradova and Tereza Smitkov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280507-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lale Cup \u2013 Doubles\nAyla Aksu and Harriet Dart won the title, defeating Olga Doroshina and Anastasia Potapova in the final, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280508-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lale Cup \u2013 Singles\nBa\u015fak Erayd\u0131n was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Ilona Georgiana Ghioroaie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280508-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lale Cup \u2013 Singles\nSabina Sharipova won the title, defeating Elena Rybakina in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20130), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280509-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamar Cardinals football team\nThe 2018 Lamar Cardinals football team represented Lamar University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Cardinals were led by second-year head coach Mike Schultz and played their home games at Provost Umphrey Stadium. They played as a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 7\u20135, 6\u20133 in Southland play to finish in third place. They received an at-large berth to the FCS Playoffs, where they lost in the first round to Northern Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280509-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamar Cardinals football team, TV and radio media\nAll Lamar games will be broadcast on KLVI, also known as News Talk 560.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280509-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamar Cardinals football team, TV and radio media\nIn fourth year of an agreement (third year for football) with ESPN, live video of all home games (except those picked up by Southland Conference TV agreements) will be streamed on ESPN3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280509-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamar Cardinals football team, Previous season\nThe Cardinals finished the 2017 season 2\u20139, 1\u20138 in Southland play to finish in tenth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280509-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamar Cardinals football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Teams\nOn July 12, 2018, the Southland announced their Preseason All-Conference Teams, with the Cardinals placing one player on the second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280509-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamar Cardinals football team, Preseason, Preseason Poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Southland announced their preseason poll, with the Cardinals predicted to finish in tenth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Lambeth Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Lambeth London Borough Council in England. The election saw Labour remain in control of Lambeth Council with a slightly reduced majority, winning over 90% of the seats. The Green Party achieved its best-ever result in the borough, winning five seats and becoming the official opposition and the largest Green group in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election\nThe Green Party finished the runner up in nine of the wards, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in five wards and Labour in two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Council composition\nThe election saw Labour remain in control of Lambeth Council with a majority reduced by two seats. The party were wiped out in the St Leonard's ward, and they also lost a councillor in both Gipsy Hill and Herne Hill wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Council composition\nFor the first time since the creation of the council, the Greens became the official opposition with five councillors, including Jonathan Bartley, who is the co-leader of the Green Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Council composition\nThe Conservatives were reduced down to a single seat in Clapham Common, after Labour gained two of the seats they had previously held, despite the Conservative vote share in the ward increasing. The Conservatives failed to gain their target wards of Thurlow Park, Clapham Town and Larkhall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Council composition\nThe Liberal Democrats failed to make any gains at the election. However, they did comes second to Labour in their target wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Council composition\nRachel Heywood, a former Labour councillor in Coldharbour sought re-election as an independent candidate. Heywood failed to win the seat and finished in 6th place, behind both Green Party candidates but ahead of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Council composition\nThe Women's Equality Party received 8% of the vote in the Brixton Hill ward, finishing in 5th place, ahead of two of the Green Party candidates, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. The party also stood candidates in the wards of Prince's and Ferndale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Council composition\nUKIP saw their vote share largely decrease in the wards they stood in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Council composition\nThe Federalist Party polled 0.2% of the vote in the Prince's ward with the Pirate Party polling 0.2% in the ward of Vassall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Council composition, Proportionality\nThe disproportionality of the 2018 election was 31.00 using the Gallagher Index.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Results by ward\nCandidates shown below are confirmed candidates. An asterisk * indicates an incumbent Councillor seeking re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Coldharbour\nOn 29 July 2018, Cllr Parr died; this subsequently triggered a by-election on 13 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, By-elections 2018-2022\nThe by-election was caused by the death of Matthew Parr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, By-elections 2018-2022\nThe by-election was caused by the resignation of Jane Edbrooke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280510-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election, By-elections 2018-2022\nThe by-election was caused by Lib Peck who resigned as Leader of Lambeth Council and as a councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280511-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambton County municipal elections\nElections were held in Lambton County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280511-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lambton County municipal elections, Lambton County Council\nCounty council includes the mayors of each constituent municipality, the deputy mayors of Lambton Shores and St. Clair plus four city councillors from Sarnia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280512-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamitan bombing\nOn July 31, 2018, a bomb exploded in the town of Lamitan in Basilan, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280512-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamitan bombing, Incident\nA white van carrying explosives was asked to stop at the Magkawit detachment, a security checkpoint situated at the converging boundaries of barangays Bulanting, Colonia, and Maganda in Lamitan, Basilan mainly manned by the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280512-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamitan bombing, Incident\nThe flagged down van which was to travel to Lamitan city proper exploded at around 5:50 am when soldiers requested the driver to disembark. The vehicle was left obliterated and left a crater and the blast could be heard as far as 5 kilometers (3.1\u00a0mi) away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280512-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamitan bombing, Casualties\nTen people died from the explosions with five of them being member of the CAFGU. Four victims, all family relatives of CAFGU members, and a non-CAFGU soldier were also among the dead. Two CAFGU members and five Scout Rangers from the Philippine Army were also left wounded by the explosion. Three goats grazing nearby were also killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280512-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamitan bombing, Bomb\nAn initial investigation concluded that the bombing was a result of an improvised explosive bomb made of ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel oil. The bomb was found to be similar to the one used in the 2013 Cotabato City bombing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280512-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamitan bombing, Investigation, Possible perpetrators, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)\nThe militant group, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the incident which it claimed as a suicide bombing. The ISIS-affiliated Amaq News Agency, dubbed the bombing \"a martyrdom operation\". It said that the supposed suicide attack was made by Abu Khatir Al-Maghribi, a Moroccan national. Rommel Banlaoi of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research initially believed that the bombing could be an ISIS-directed attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 98], "content_span": [99, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280512-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamitan bombing, Investigation, Possible perpetrators, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)\nLocal authorities are leaning on the idea that the attack was not a suicide attack contrary to ISIS' claim. According to their initial investigation. The driver of the van stopped 60 meters (200\u00a0ft) from the checkpoint and asked for the people in the checkpoint to help push the vehicle. Investigators reasoned if the driver intended a suicide attack, they could have rammed the vehicle towards the checkpoint. The 20 minute gap between the stoppage of the van and the explosion was also noted by investigators. A burnt cover of a mobile phone was retrieved from the blast site. Banlaoi used this evidence to discount ISIS' claim that the attack was a suicide attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 98], "content_span": [99, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280512-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamitan bombing, Investigation, Possible perpetrators, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)\nThe Armed Forces of the Philippines are skeptical of ISIS' claims and points out that the identity of the driver whose corpse was left in a bad state is yet to be identified. The military says that ground sources points to the identity of the driver being non-foreign. However, the military is not ruling out ISIS responsibility for the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 98], "content_span": [99, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280512-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamitan bombing, Investigation, Possible perpetrators, Abu Sayyaf\nThe Philippine military considers the Abu Sayyaf as its primary suspects for the bombing incident saying it has received \"persistent reports\" that the group was responsible for the attack. The militant group has three \"hardcore\" commanders in Basilan namely Furudji Indama, Radzmil Janatul, and Jobel Abdullah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280512-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamitan bombing, Investigation, Possible perpetrators, Abu Sayyaf\nSince August 1, 2018, text messages began to circulate alleging Abu Sayaff militant, Fathy \"Mike\" Lijal, an ethnic Yakan to be behind the bombing. The Western Mindanao Command of the military and the Philippine National Police are looking into the faction Lijal is part of and is confident that he has support from sources abroad. On July 30, 2018, prior to the incident the military received information that eight Abu Sayyaf militants lead by Lijal were sighted in Barangay Languyan in the town of Mohammad Ajul. 11 Abu Sayyaf gunmen from Sulu were also sighted in the town within the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280512-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamitan bombing, Investigation, Possible perpetrators, Abu Sayyaf\nAnother report alleged that a Moroccan militant Abu Kathir al-Maghribi was behind the bombing who left his two sons under the custody of Abu Sayaff commander Hajan Sawadjaan before he detonated himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280512-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamitan bombing, Possible motive\nCity officials suspects that the driver of the van planned to bomb a parade of at least 2,000 school children and teachers commemorating the national nutrition month. The event was deemed a success even as news of the bombing spread in the city causing tension among the event's participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280512-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Lamitan bombing, Possible motive\nJulkipli Wadi, chair of the University of the Philippines-Institute of Islamic Studies has connected the Moro Islamic Liberation Front's (MILF) integration process with the government as part of the peace process following the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro and the signing of the Bangsamoro Organic Law to the attack. He said as the MILF integrate with the government, other radical militant groups may take advantage of the resulting power vacuum in the areas the MILF formerly controlled and points to the Basilan attack as an example. Rommel Banlaoi of Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research said the attack was an effort by extremist to sabotage the peace process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280513-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lampung gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Lampung gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections in Indonesia. It was held to elect the governor of Lampung alongside with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280513-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lampung gubernatorial election\nCandidates included incumbent governor Muhammad Ridho Ficardo who ran for his second term, Bandar Lampung mayor Herman Hasanusi, Central Lampung regent Mustafa and provincial secretary Arinal Djunaidi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280513-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lampung gubernatorial election, Timeline\nRegistration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The numerical order of the candidates were determined on 13 February through a lottery. The campaigning period would commence between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280513-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lampung gubernatorial election, Timeline\nNo independent candidates registered to contest the election. The first debate between the candidates were held on 7 April, although it was not covered by national media except for Radio Republik Indonesia. Three debates were planned to be held between the candidates. On 20 April 2018, the Lampung branch of KPU declared that the province would have 5,768,061 valid voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280513-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lampung gubernatorial election, Candidates\nUnder regulations, candidates are required to secure the support of a political party or a coalition thereof comprising at least 20 percent of the seats (i.e. 17 of 85) in the regional house. Alternatively, independent candidates may run provided they are capable of securing support in form of at least 456,594 photocopied ID cards subject to verification by the local committee although no candidates expressing interest managed to do this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280513-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Lampung gubernatorial election, Candidates\nIncumbent Muhammad Ridho Ficardo, who is also the head of Demokrat's Lampung office received the endorsement of his party to run for his second term on 7 December 2017. While initially planning to run with Bengkulu mayor Helmi Hasan, he switched to running with his current deputy Bachtiar Basri, who is part of PAN, after the registration opened. PPP and Gerindra also declared their support for the ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280513-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Lampung gubernatorial election, Candidates\nBandar Lampung mayor Herman Hasanusi (often referred to as Herman HN) was announced by party chairman Megawati Soekarnoputri as PDI-P's candidate on 4 January 2018, with the provincial secretary Sutono as his running mate. Since PDI-P controls enough seats in the provincial assembly by itself, it was not required to form a coalition with other parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280513-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Lampung gubernatorial election, Candidates\nGolkar decided to endorse its cadre Arinal Djunaidi, who is also the head of its Lampung office on 21 December 2017. In the declaration, they selected East Lampung regent and PKB member Chusnunia Chalim as his running mate. While he received the formal endorsement of PAN, a significant number of PAN's party members went against party lines to support their own cadre Bachtiar Basri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280513-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Lampung gubernatorial election, Candidates\nMustafa, the regent of Central Lampung, was endorsed by his party to run in April 2017. He was later supported by PKS, who put forth their cadre and Regional Representative Council member Ahmad Jajuli as his running mate. Hanura also endorsed the ticket. Later on, the Corruption Eradication Commission arrested Mustafa for a bribery case, and he resigned from Nasdem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280514-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lanark County municipal elections\nElections were held in Lanark County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280514-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lanark County municipal elections, Lanark County Council\nLanark County Council consists of two members from each constituent municipality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280515-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lancashire Thunder season\nThe 2018 season was Lancashire Thunder's third season, in which they competed in the Women's Cricket Super League, a Twenty20 competition. The side finished fourth in the group stage, their best ever finish, winning five of their ten matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280515-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lancashire Thunder season\nThe side was captained by Danielle Hazell and coached by Alex Blackwell. They played two home matches at Old Trafford, and one apiece at Stanley Park, Aigburth Cricket Ground and the Trafalgar Road Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280515-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lancashire Thunder season, Squad\nLancashire Thunder's 15-player squad is listed below. Age given is at the start of Lancashire Thunder's first match of the season (22 July 2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280516-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lanzhou toll accident\nA Truck driver lost control of his vehicle and drove into a line of waiting cars in Lanzhou, China on November 3, 2018. According to local sources, 15 people were killed and another 44 injured in the 31 vehicle accident. The accident came about a week after the Chongqing bus crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280516-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lanzhou toll accident, Incident\nAt 7:21 pm local time (11:20 GMT) on November 3, the 45-year-old truck driver from the Liaoning province crashed a tower-crane truck into a line of 31 vehicles about 50 meters from the Lanzhou South Toll Station on the Lanzhou-Haikou expressway. The section of the highway connects Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu and Haikou, the capital of Hainan. The truck driver was slightly injured in the crash, and was detained by police in order to begin the investigation into the accident. Local media has reported that the driver has claimed that the brakes of the vehicle had failed, and the lack of control had caused the accident. CCTV of the area, documented the crash and its aftermath, along with the heavy snow that the area was experiencing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280516-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lanzhou toll accident, Victims\nTen of the forty-four injured sustained serious injuries, and fifteen people were reportedly killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280517-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lao Premier League\nThe 2018 Lao Premier League is the 29th season of the Lao Premier League. The season started on 24 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280517-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lao Premier League, Teams\nA total of 8 teams participated in the 2018 Lao League season, 1 promoted from the previous season of Lao Division 1 League. 6 teams withdrew from the league, including defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280518-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Laois Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Laois Senior Football Championship was the 128th edition of the Laois GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Laois, Ireland. The tournament consisted of 16 teams with the winner going on to represent Laois in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship had a back-door format for the first two rounds before proceeding to a knock-out format. Generally, any team to lose two matches will be knocked out of the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280518-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Laois Senior Football Championship\nPortlaoise were the defending champions after they defeated Ballylinan in the previous years final. They successfully defended their title to claim a \"2-in-a-row\" of victories when they defeated O'Dempsey's in this years final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280518-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Laois Senior Football Championship\nEmo made a straight return to the senior grade after just one year outside the top flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280518-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Laois Senior Football Championship\nThis was the second season running in which Clonaslee St. Manman's amalgamated with Annanough for their championship matches as Clonaslee Gaels (however unlike 2017, Annanough didn't field a side in the 2018 I.F.C.). Both clubs fielded separate reserve sides in the Laois J.F.C. 'C'. The amalgamation suffered relegation at the end of the 2018 campaign and so will ply their trade in the 2019 I.F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280518-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Laois Senior Football Championship, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280518-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Laois Senior Football Championship, Round 1\nAll 16 teams enter the competition in this round. The 8 winners progress to Round 2A, while the 8 losers progress to Round 2B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280518-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Laois Senior Football Championship, Round 2, Round 2A\nThe 8 winners from Round 1 enter this round. The 4 winners from this round will enter the draw for the Quarter-Finals, while the 4 losers will play in Round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280518-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Laois Senior Football Championship, Round 2, Round 2B\nThe 8 losers from Round 1 enter this round. The 4 winners from this round will go into Round 3, while the 4 losers will enter the Relegation Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280518-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Laois Senior Football Championship, Round 3\nThe 4 losers from Round 2A enter this round and play the 4 winners from Round 2B. The 4 winners from this round will go into the draw for the Quarter-Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280518-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Laois Senior Football Championship, Quarter-Finals\nThe Quarter-Finals will eliminate four teams, leaving 4 teams. These teams will face off against each other in the Semi-Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280518-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Laois Senior Football Championship, Semi-Finals\nIn the Semi-Finals, two further teams will be eliminated, leaving the best from each set to play each other in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280518-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Laois Senior Football Championship, Final\nThe remaining two teams play against each other to determine the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse\nThe 2018 Laos dam collapse was the collapse of Saddle Dam D, part of a larger hydroelectric dam system under construction in southeast Laos's Champasak Province, on 23 July 2018. The dam collapse lead to widespread destruction and homelessness among the local population in neighbouring Attapeu Province. As of 25 September, 40 people were confirmed dead, at least 98 more were missing (maybe as many as 1,100 more people), and 6,600 others were displaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Background\nConstruction of the earth-filled Saddle Dam D near Paksong, part of the $1.2bn (\u00a3915m) hydroelectric project by Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Power Company (PNPC), was begun in 2013. The hydroelectric project was a build-operate-transfer project. PNPC is a joint investment venture formed in March 2012 by SK Engineering and Construction (SK E&C), Korea Western Power (KOWEPO), Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding (RATCH), and Lao Holding State Enterprise (LHSE). SK E&C holds a 26% stake in PNPC, LHSE 24%, and RATCH and KOWEPO equally own the remaining shares. Part of an overall project to build two main dams and five auxiliaries, by the time of the collapse, it was near to completion and was intended to open for business in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Background\nAlthough landlocked, Laos is traversed by many intertwining rivers, which has encouraged their damming. The dam's construction was part of what has been described as an \"ambitious\u00a0... scheme to become the 'battery' of Asia\", due to the country's location on the Mekong river and \"abundant natural resources\". The dam was intended to form a chain with other dams in the adjacent province of Champasak, across the Houay Makchanh, Xe Namnoy and Xe Pian rivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Background\nThe dam, close to the Cambodian border, was intended to operate to a capacity of 410 megawatts, and earn revenue for the government by exporting 90% of the electricity produced to Thailand, which is more economically prosperous and developed compared to Laos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Background\nEnvironmental pressure groups have long been critical of the Laotian government's ambitions regarding hydroelectric power, which have involved building multiple dams on the Mekong as well as on its tributaries. Concern has focused on potential damage to the flora and fauna and the animal societies dependent on the river to survive. Neighboring countries, like Cambodia and Vietnam that are downstream from the dams and rely heavily on the Mekong for fishing, food, agricultural irrigation, transport, tourism and cultural traditions, have expressed concern that Laos' hydroelectric ambitions could \"disrupt vital ecosystems and their own river systems\". The dam building program has regularly required the displacement and transplanting of inhabitants of villages that are found to obstruct dam construction, the benefits of which \"are mainly enjoyed outside of the country\", said environmental activists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 942]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Background\nThe company denied that the dam had collapsed, blaming recent heavy weather for the flooding, which had resulted in torrential rain filling the dam beyond capacity and overflowing, it said, which exacerbated the flooding which had already taken place downstream. A spokesperson for SK E&C said, \"we believe that parts of the upper area of the dam were lost due to heavy rains and [then] the water overflowed\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Background\nThe International Rivers organization\u2014whom the Washington Post described as \"a nongovernmental group generally critical of such projects\"\u2014suggested that the collapse illustrates the \"major risks\" involved if construction is \"unable to cope with extreme weather conditions\", as, particularly in Laos, \"unpredictable and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent\". Indeed, an evacuation order had been in place for the area at the bottom of the dam due to cracks having been discovered in it. This damage had been reported to the company by South Korean contractors \"at least a day before\" the flooding, reported news outlets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Background\nEngineers from SK E&C apparently informed the PNPC that the top of the dam's structure had been washed away by 9 p.m. the previous night. Repair work was delayed because of the heavy rain. Furthermore, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that it had obtained documents showing that \"11 centimetres of subsidence was found at the centre of the dam\" as early as the previous Friday. This subsidence was severe enough to prevent the use of emergency repair equipment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Background\nOn 11 September 2017, the reservoir for a dam under construction on the Nam Ao River in Phaxay district, Xiangkhouang Province collapsed after heavy rains in the area. In December 2016, the Xekaman 3 dam in Dak Cheung District, Sekong Province, had to be shut down after six years of usage due to damage in water tunnels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Collapse\nThe dam collapse occurred around 8 p.m. on Monday 23 July, and caused immediate flash flooding through the villages of Yai Thae, Hinlad, Ban Mai, Thasengchan, Tha Hin, and Samong, all in Sanamxay district. Homes, roads and bridges were swept away. The portion of the dam that collapsed was reported to be a saddle dam, known as \"Saddle D\", or \"an auxiliary structure used to hold water beyond what is held by the main dam\". The CEO of one of the companies involved stated that \"[it] was fractured and the water had leaked to the downstream area and down to the Xe-Pian River which is about five kilometres from the dam\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Collapse\nEarlier in the day on 23 July, Lee Kang Yeol, Head of Resettlement Office of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Power Company Resettlement Office sent a warning letter to the provincial resettlement offices in Champasak and Attapeu Provinces indicating that water levels in the dam were high and that dam failure was imminent. The letter further urged that all residents in the Xe Pian river valley be evacuated to higher ground immediately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Collapse\nLao News Agency reported that \"several human lives\" had been lost, and that around 6,000 people may have been made homeless as a result. There were no precise figures regarding casualties within the first 24 hours, although The Guardian reported \"hundreds missing\" and \"several\" confirmed dead early the following morning. At least six villages were severely affected\u2014around 1,300 households\u2014with many survivors stranded on their rooftops and in trees. By 25 July, nearly 3,000 people had been rescued. The village of Ban Mai alone had 50 inhabitants known to be missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Collapse\nRescue efforts were complicated by the fact that the area is densely forested with no mobile-phone coverage, which may also have contributed to the uncertainty as to casualty rates. What roads previously existed were washed away in the floods, and the affected villages were only approachable by either helicopter or flat-bottomed boats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Collapse\nAs of 23 September, 40 people were confirmed dead, at least 98 more were missing and 6,600 others were displaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Collapse, Response and aid\nGovernment agencies and the power company jointly commenced a rescue and evacuation of villages still in danger, amid rising water levels. They were joined by a South Korean company, SK Engineering and Construction, which was a stakeholder in the dam's construction. The Prime Minister of Laos, Thongloun Sisoulith, suspended his immediate meetings and travelled in person to the site, as did the President and board of SK E&C. Sisoulith also called in both the police and the army, and declared the area a disaster zone on Tuesday. Local government requested emergency aid from central government as well as neighbouring communities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Collapse, Response and aid\nOne of the largest banks in Laos, Banque Pour Le Commerce Exterieur Lao, set up a relief donation fund seeking to raise 2 billion kip (US$238,000) for victims of the disaster. The neighbouring Asian countries of China, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam have also expressed readiness to provide any assistance needed by Laos. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, Chinese companies and businesses in Laos that were involved in the construction of China-Laos railway immediately joined the rescue work efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Collapse, Response and aid\nThai rescue workers reportedly complained that Laos had shown lethargy in allowing them entry, meaning that they had been kept waiting at the border. The International Red Cross organized water purification devices for the area as each village lost its food supplies, while the Asean Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA Centre) relief items were dispatched from its warehouse in Malaysia to Vientiane by the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Collapse, Response and aid\nOn 26 July, South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered a relief team to be sent into the country, a rare order from their President for any accident in foreign country since a South Korean firm was involved in the incident. Singapore announced that they will be sending their Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers and US$100,000 to aid relief efforts, with the Singapore Red Cross (SRC) also announced S$50,000 in humanitarian aid. Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) delivered S$280,000 in flood relief supplies on Thursday evening while officers from SCDF will arrive on Friday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Collapse, Response and aid\nThe Vietnamese government has provided a total of US$200,000 relief aid, with another US$50,000 coming from their Defence Ministry and another VND300 million (US$13,000) from Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry. Vietnam Electricity (EVN) have contributed around VND1 billion (US$43,000) while the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) Central Committee handed over US$50,000 to the Laos embassy in Vietnam. The Vietnamese People's Army (VPA) sent a contingent team of 100 officers, including medics and rescue vehicles to assist in relief efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Collapse, Response and aid\nA 32-strong team People's Liberation Army (PLA) medical contingent was also dispatched, together with the arrival of relief supplies from Thailand. Mercy Malaysia has sent a rapid assessment team to assist in both severe flooding caused by the dam collapse and tropical storm Son-Tinh, with the Malaysian government also conveyed to their Laotian counterpart that they will donating RM400,000 (US$100,000) to assist Laos to facilitate its relief efforts. On 30 July, the Cambodian government donated $100,000 relief aid. The following day, Chinese relief aid began to arrived into the Laotian capital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Collapse, Response and aid\nSouth Korean government also deciding to send more aid along with the offer of US$1 million aid shortly after the arrival of medicine and relief supplies from the country. Another relief team consisting of 19 medical personnel was sent by South Korea on 7 August. Apart from the aid of South Korean government, SK Group has offered to donate $10 million relief aid, Korean Air has sent 36,000 litres of mineral water with 2,000 blankets and Lotte Group has donated US$100,000. Foreign individuals living in Laos also helping to deliver aid by raising money from their food businesses. Government compensation for lives lost amounted to 1.5 million Lao kip (U.S. $176) for each person.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Aftermath\nWithin days of the disaster, survivors were questioning why they had received so little warning before it happened, \"with some of the displaced saying they were warned to evacuate homes only hours before disaster struck\". It was unclear how the damage affect the overall plan for Laos' hydroelectric ambitions. Meanwhile, shares in the various companies connected to the project, particularly SK E&C plunged immediately following the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280519-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Laos dam collapse, Dam Re-built\nLooking on Sentinel 2, the reservoir started to be filled around 2019-06-19, and appeared filled by 2019-10-22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280520-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Laredo mayoral election\nThe 2018 Laredo mayoral election was held on November 6, 2018 to elect the mayor of Laredo, Texas. It saw the reelection of Pete Saenz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280521-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Aces season\nThe 2018 WNBA season was the 22nd season for the Las Vegas Aces franchise of the WNBA. This was the franchise's inaugural season in Las Vegas, after moving from San Antonio during the off season. The season tips off on May 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280521-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Aces season\nThe team started the season slowly in May, posting an 0\u20134 record. June was a month of improvement, as the Aces went 6\u20137, including a win over Seattle away. July was the team's best month of the year. The Aces posted a 6\u20132 record, with their only 2 losses being to Los Angeles. The team's playoff push fell short in August, when the team posted a 2\u20137 record including the league's first forfeited game. Ultimately the forfeit proved costly, as the team missed out on the playoffs by 1 game and finished 9th in the league overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280522-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Bowl\nThe 2018 Las Vegas Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 15, 2018, with kickoff scheduled for 3:30 p.m. EST (12:30 p.m. local PST). It was the 27th edition of the Las Vegas Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by automotive manufacturer Mitsubishi Motors, the game was officially known as the Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280522-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Bowl, Teams\nThe game was played between Arizona State of the Pac-12 Conference and Fresno State of the Mountain West Conference. This was the fourth all-time meeting against the Sun Devils and the Bulldogs, with Arizona State leading the series, 3\u20130; this was their first meeting in a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280522-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Bowl, Teams, Arizona State\nArizona State received and accepted a bid to the Las Vegas Bowl on December 2. The Sun Devils entered the bowl with a 7\u20135 record (5\u20134 in conference). The Sun Devils' last Las Vegas Bowl appearance came in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280522-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Bowl, Teams, Fresno State\nFresno State defeated Boise State on December 1 in the 2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game. As the Mountain West champion, they received and accepted a bid to the Las Vegas Bowl on December 2. The Bulldogs entered the bowl with a 11\u20132 record (7\u20131 in conference). The Bulldogs' last Las Vegas Bowl appearance came in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280523-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Challenger\nThe 2018 Las Vegas Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the revamped tournament which was the part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Las Vegas, United States between 22 and 28 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280523-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280523-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280523-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280524-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nBrydan Klein and Joe Salisbury were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280524-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nMarcelo Ar\u00e9valo and Roberto Mayt\u00edn won the title after defeating Robert Galloway and Nathan Pasha 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280525-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Challenger \u2013 Singles\nStefan Kozlov was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Kamil Majchrzak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280525-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Challenger \u2013 Singles\nThanasi Kokkinakis won the title after defeating Bla\u017e Rola 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season\nThe 2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season was the club's inaugural season, and their first season in the United Soccer League, the second division of American soccer. The Lights played their home matches at Cashman Field, north of Downtown Las Vegas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season\nThe Lights' first season began on March 17 against fellow expansion side Fresno FC at Chukchansi Park with a 3\u20132 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Background\nIn April 2017, Brett Lashbrook, former COO of Orlando City SC, received preliminary approval for a USL expansion franchise in Las Vegas and thus began negotiations with Las Vegas city officials over a lease agreement to allow his franchise to play their home games at Cashman Field north of Downtown Las Vegas. After three months of negotiations, the Las Vegas City Council unanimously approved a 15-year lease between Lashbrook and the city to play their home games at Cashman Field that was to begin on January 1, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Background\nAs part of the lease, the Las Vegas 51s minor league baseball club would remain the venue's primary tenant and would receive priority on scheduling, however, if the 51s were to move from Cashman Field, the city and Lashbrook would look to convert Cashman Field into a modern soccer specific stadium as part of a redevelopment of the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Background\nIn August 2017, Lashbrook, alongside Nevada governor Brian Sandoval, Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman, and USL officials, officially announced Las Vegas as the 33rd member of the USL at a fan festival at Zappos headquarters in downtown Las Vegas. During the presentation, Lashbrook announced six potential names (Viva Vegas, Las Vegas Silver, Las Vegas FC, Las Vegas Lights, Las Vegas Action, and Club Vegas) for the franchise, with the official name for the club being chosen through a fan vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Background\nShortly after midnight on August 29, 2017, Las Vegas Lights FC, a combination of the two most popular names during the fan vote (Las Vegas Lights and Las Vegas FC), was announced as the team's official name during a presentation at the Fremont Street Experience. Following the announcement, Lights officials asked the public to submit designs, ideas, and colors to help the team create its inaugural logo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Background\nOn October 30, 2017, the Lights released their inaugural crest which resembled the outline of the famous Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign \u2013 rotated 90 degrees and included the official team colors of blue, yellow, and pink. The colors, which were originally used on the placeholder logo presented when the team was first announced, were adopted officially after many of the fan submissions for logos incorporated the three colors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Background\nOn November 13, 2017, F\u00fatbol Picante analyst Jos\u00e9 Luis S\u00e1nchez Sol\u00e1 was announced as the club's first head coach. El Chel\u00eds, as he was commonly referred, had managed numerous clubs in the first and second divisions of Mexico and the United States, including stints with Puebla F.C., Estudiantes Tecos, and Chivas USA, prior to taking over the position with Lights FC. In December 2017, the club expanded its partnership with Zappos.com by announcing a three-year deal for the online retailer to be the club's jersey sponsor and announced BLK as the club's jersey supplier in a multi-year deal in January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, Preseason\nOn November 27, 2017, Lights FC announced three preseason friendlies against MLS sides at Cashman Field, as part of their preparations for their first campaign in the USL. The matches were to be on February 10 against the Montreal Impact, February 17 against the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, and February 24 against D.C. United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, Preseason\nIn their first preseason friendly, Lights FC fell to Montreal 2\u20130 in front of a sell-out crowd of 10,387, after a goal from Impact forward Michael Salazar and an own goal by Lights FC defender Joel Huiqui in a matter of three minutes in the second half. Lights FC would fare better in their second preseason game, although they would still lose to Vancouver Whitecaps FC 3\u20132, with Lights FC scoring their first goals of the year through a brace from midfielder Juan Jos\u00e9 Calder\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, Preseason\nSeven days later, in their last home fixture of the preseason, Lights FC would see another good offensive effort with a goal from defender Miguel Gardu\u00f1o and another goal from Calder\u00f3n, his third of the postseason; however, Lights FC would fall for the third time during the preseason, losing 4\u20132 to DC United. Lights FC would get their first result in their final preseason game, after the club drew 1\u20131 away to Orange County FC through a 77th-minute goal from forward Anuar Kanan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, March\u2013May\nJust prior to Lights FC's season opener, the club announced that head coach Chel\u00eds had been promoted to Technical Director for the club, with his son Isidro S\u00e1nchez Macip, who had been an assistant for Lights FC under his father, promoted to head coach. Lights FC began the 2018 USL season on March 17 with an away fixture against Fresno FC, which Lights FC won 3\u20132. Las Vegas native Matt Thomas opened the scoring within two minutes of the kick-off, while midfielder Alex Mendoza and defender Joel Huiqui added goals within seven minutes of each other in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, March\u2013May\nDespite late goals by Fresno forwards Jemal Johnson and Renato Bustamante, Lights FC was able to hold on for the first victory in club history. Thomas' performance against Fresno FC would lead him to being named to the USL Team of the Week for the first week of the season. The following week, Lights FC would host in-state rival Reno 1868 FC in the first match of the Silver State Cup, ending in a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0007-0002", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, March\u2013May\nMendoza would open the scoring in the 27th minute with a shot from outside of the box following a failed clearance, but was answered within a minute by Reno forward and UNLV alum Danny Musovski, who slotted home a rebound. Reno would be down to 10-men, following a second yellow card to Musovski lead to his dismissal in the 72nd minute, despite mounting pressure by Lights FC, including a fingertip save by goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski from a header from midfielder Juan Carlos Garc\u00eda in the 95th minute, to preserve the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, March\u2013May\nOn March 31, Lights FC completed their first come from behind victory with a 2\u20131 home victory against defending Western Conference champions Swope Park Rangers. Swope Park would open the scoring with an 18th-minute goal from midfielder Rodrigo Saravia. Lights FC midfielder Carlos Alvarez would tie the match with a strike in the 53rd minute and a misplaced headed back pass from Swope Park defender Colton Storm helped Lights FC secure their first home victory of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, March\u2013May\nLights FC defender Joel Huqui's performance against Swope Park, which included three interceptions and seven clearances, led to his selection to the USL Team of the Week and the club's performance in the month of March led to head coach Isidro S\u00e1nchez Macip, led to his selection as the USL's Coach of the Month for March. Following a bye week, Lights FC returned to action on April 14, drawing 1\u20131 with Sacramento Republic FC at Cashman Field. Defender Joel Huiqui would open the scoring two minutes into the match, but Sacramento forward Christian Eissele equalized before the hour mark and Lights FC extended their undefeated streak to four matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, March\u2013May\nFollowing another bye week, Lights FC suffered their first loss of the season, dropping a 3\u20131 decision at home to San Antonio FC. San Antonio received first half goals from forward \u00c9ver Guzm\u00e1n and midfielder Jos\u00e9 Escalante in the 17th and 33rd minute respectively. San Antonio would add a third when midfielder Rafael Castillo converted a penalty in the 51st minute and, despite Carlos Alvarez' 75th-minute goal, a red card to defender Christian Torres limited Lights FC's chances of closing the gap with San Antonio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, March\u2013May\nThree days later, Lights FC would participate in their first road game since the season opener when they traveled to play Western Conference leader Real Monarchs SLC. Despite playing with 10 men for over 70 minutes, after defender Marcelo Alatorre was sent off for a dangerous foul in the 18th minute, Lights FC was able to produce numerous scoring chances, including an 84th-minute strike by midfielder Daigo Kobayashi that crashed off of the post. Lights FC were able to hold of the Conference leaders and ended with a 0\u20130 draw, the first shutout for Lights FC goalkeeper Ricardo Ferri\u00f1o.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup\nLights FC entered the 2018 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in the second round, defeating Premier Development League side FC Tucson, 4\u20132 on May 16. The match, which was played at Peter Johann Memorial Soccer Field on UNLV's campus, was the first that Lights FC hosted away from Cashman Field, as the baseball field would not be converted to a soccer pitch in time following a Las Vegas 51s home stand. Lights FC would jump out to an early lead as midfielder Carlos Alvarez and defender Alatorre scored within the first ten minutes of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup\nForward Jason Romero would put FC Tucson on the board with a goal in the 38th minute and three minutes after the restart, midfielder Adrian Valenzuela tied the score at 2\u20132. Lights forward Sammy Ochoa would net his first two goals of the year with goals in the 56th and 65th minute to help Lights FC advance to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup\nIn the third round of the tournament, Lights FC were knocked out by PDL side FC Golden State Force in an away fixture, 2\u20131, on May 23. After a stalemate in the first half, FC Golden State Force's Allisson Faramilio opened the scoring a quarter of an hour from full time with a shot from outside of the box. Although defender Joel Huiqui would net the equalizer with a header off of a corner kick in the 81st minute, Faramilio would secure the victory and advancement in the competition for FC Golden State after converting a penalty shot in stoppage time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, June\u2013August\nOn June 2, Lights FC won their first regular season game since March 31, defeating Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC, 4\u20131. Carlos Alvarez opened the scoring with a strike in the 24th minute, while midfielder Freddy Adu and forward Sammy Ochoa scored their first league goals of the season with strikes in the 47th and 58th minute, respectively. Colorado Springs defender Josh Suggs would pull a goal back for Switchbacks FC, but midfielder Matt Thomas would secure the 3 points for Lights FC with a goal in stoppage time to snap the club's seven match winless streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, June\u2013August\nAfter an 11-day layoff, Lights FC made their first visit to regional rival Phoenix Rising FC, losing 4\u20130 to the hosts. Phoenix would receive goals from defender Joe Farrell and forward Solomon Asante, as well as a brace from forward Jason Johnson to send Lights FC to their fourth league loss in five matches. Following the match against Phoenix, an altercation took place between a fan and Technical Director Chel\u00eds. The altercation began when the fan yelled something profane at Chel\u00eds and he responded by going up to the fan, placing a hand on the fan, and asking him to repeat what he said. Two days after the incident, the USL suspended Chel\u00eds for eight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, June\u2013August\nLights FC would return to action three days later hosting Seattle Sounders FC 2, seeing several changes in the lineup including goalkeeper and Las Vegas native Angel Alvarez' debut for the club. Lights FC would ride an offensive outburst in the first half with a brace from Sammy Ochoa and a third goal from Joel Huiqui to take a 3\u20131 lead into halftime and would add a fourth with a goal from newly acquired midfielder Zach Mathers, as Lights FC won their second straight home match 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, June\u2013August\nLights FC's next match would be away to Swope Park Rangers, losing to the hosts 3\u20132. Lights FC would receive goals from midfielder Daigo Kobayashi and forward Sammy Ochoa and had a chance to get an equalizer from a penalty late into stoppage time, but failed to convert when midfielder Carlos Alvarez passed the spot kick to a charging Ochoa in a designed trick play instead of shooting the penalty. Ochoa's shot would ring off the post with Rangers able to clear the ball for the final whistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, June\u2013August\nLights FC would continue their Midwestern swing with a match away to Tulsa Roughnecks FC, drawing 2\u20132 to extend their road winless streak to six matches. Tulsa would score first after midfielder Joaquin Rivas converted a penalty minutes into the match, while Lights FC would receive goals from midfielders Ra\u00fal Mendiola and Daigo Kobayashi. Lights FC had a chance to extend the lead, but forward Sammy Ochoa launched a penalty kick over the crossbar in the 62nd minute and defender Josh Morton would score the equalizer for the hosts a minute after Ochoa's miss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, June\u2013August\nLights FC would open their first match of the month of July at home against Saint Louis FC. Lights FC were able to extend their home winning streak to three matches through a goal from midfielder Ra\u00fal Mendiola shortly into the second half, his second consecutive match with a goal, and goalkeeper Ricardo Ferri\u00f1o recorded his second shutout of the season, as Lights FC won 1\u20130. After a one assist, four tackle, and two interception performance against Saint Louis FC, on loan defender Nico Samayoa would be named to the USL Team of the Week for Week 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, June\u2013August\nLights FC would begin a four match road trip with a match against OKC Energy FC on July 11. Despite the first hat trick in club history coming from Mendiola and another goal from midfielder Carlos Alvarez, Lights FC would extend their road winless streak to seven matches, as the fell to Energy FC 6\u20134. Lights FC's struggles would continue on the road, dropping a 2\u20130 result away to Rio Grande Valley FC Toros. Goals from Toros' defender Conor Donovan and forward Jes\u00fas Enr\u00edquez extended Lights FC's road winless streak to eight matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, June\u2013August\nEight days later, Lights FC would travel to Portland to take on Timbers 2. After a goalless first half, forward Sammy Ochoa netted his fifth goal of the season in 53rd minute. Timbers 2 midfielder Jack Barmby was able to level the match with a goal in 63rd minute, however, forward Omar Salgado would score his first goal of the season in the 74th minute, securing Lights FC's first road victory since March 17, ending an eight match road winless streak. Lights FC would end their longest road trip on July 26 against Seattle Sounders FC 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0014-0003", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, June\u2013August\nThe Lights would fall behind early to Sounders 2 after midfielder Antonee Burke-Gilroy scored in the second minute of the game and were hampered more so after defender Marcelo Alatorre received his second yellow of the match in the 45th minute and midfielder Carlos Alvarez received a straight red card two minutes later, leaving Lights FC down to 9 men with a full half to play. Sounders 2 would capitalize on their two-man advantage, getting a penalty kick goal from forward David Estrada and a goal from former UNLV forward Lamar Neagle to lead to a 3\u20130 loss for Lights FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Summary, June\u2013August\nLights FC would return home to Cashman Field on August 4 against Rio Grande Valley FC Toros on August 4. Lights FC were led by goalkeeper Ricardo Ferri\u00f1o has he stopped all seven shots from RGV FC on way to his third shutout of the season. Defender Joel Huiqui netted the winner for Lights FC in the 82nd minute, as Lights FC extended their home winning streak to four matches with a 1\u20130 victory. Ferri\u00f1o's seven saves led to him being named to the USL Team of the Week for Week 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Statistics, Top scorers\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280526-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Las Vegas Lights FC season, Statistics, Clean sheets\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total appearances are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280527-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lashio bombing\nThe 2018 Lashio bombing was a bomb blast in the town of Lashio, in northern Shan State, Myanmar, that killed two employees of Yoma Bank and injured 22 others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280527-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lashio bombing, Background\nBombings are not uncommon in Shan State, where there is an ongoing conflict between the government of Myanmar and various insurgent groups. However, bombings tend to be small-scale and civilian casualties are rare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280527-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lashio bombing, Bombing\nAt around 4:30 pm (MMT) on 21 February 2018, a bomb exploded between two banks, Yoma Bank and Aya Bank, immediately killing two employees of the former. Twenty-two others were injured in the blast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280527-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lashio bombing, Aftermath\nOn 23 February 2018, the government of Shan State announced it would compensate victims of the bombing, offering 500,000 kyats ($375 USD) to the families of the two deceased and 200,000 to 300,000 kyats to those injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280528-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Latin American Series\nThe 2018 Latin American Series was the sixth edition of the Latin American Series, a baseball sporting event played by the champions of the professional winter leagues that make up the Latin American Professional Baseball Association (ALBP) and the first series containing representatives from outside the ALBP's founding nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280528-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Latin American Series\nThe competition took place at the Dennis Mart\u00ednez National Stadium in Managua, Nicaragua from January 26 to January 31, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280529-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Latrobe City Traralgon ATP Challenger\nThe 2018 Latrobe City Traralgon ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard court. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Traralgon, Australia between 22\u201328 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280529-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Latrobe City Traralgon ATP Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 86], "content_span": [87, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280530-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Latrobe City Traralgon ATP Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nAlex Bolt and Bradley Mousley were the defending champions but only Mousley chose to defend his title, partnering Akira Santillan. Mousley lost in the first round to Adam and Jason Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280530-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Latrobe City Traralgon ATP Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nJeremy Beale and Marc Polmans won the title after defeating Max Purcell and Luke Saville 6\u20132, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280531-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Latrobe City Traralgon ATP Challenger \u2013 Singles\nJason Kubler was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Brydan Klein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280531-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Latrobe City Traralgon ATP Challenger \u2013 Singles\nJordan Thompson won the title after defeating Yoshihito Nishioka 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280532-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian First League\nThe 2018 Latvian First League (referred to as the komanda.lv Pirm\u0101 l\u012bga for sponsorship reasons) started on 21 April 2018 and ended on 21 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280533-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian Football Cup\nThe 2018 Latvian Football Cup was the 24th edition of the football tournament. This edition of the competition began on 26 May 2018 and ended on 24 October 2018. Liep\u0101ja were the defending champions, having won the final 2\u20130 over Riga FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280533-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian Football Cup, Format\nThis season, the Latvian Football Cup was a single elimination tournament between 49 teams. Matches which were level at the end of regulation proceeded to extra time and afterwards to penalties, when needed, to determine the winning club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280533-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian Football Cup, First round\nNine first round matches were played from 26 May to 2 June 2018. The draw for the first round was held 15 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280533-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian Football Cup, Second round\nSixteen second round matches were played on 15\u201318 June 2018. The draw for the second round was held on 5 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280533-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian Football Cup, Third round\nEight third round matches were played from 30 June to 2 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280533-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian Football Cup, Fourth round\nEight fourth round matches were played on 6\u20137 July 2018. The draw for the fourth round was held on 2 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280533-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian Football Cup, Quarter\u2013finals\nFour quarter\u2013final matches were played on 4\u20136 August 2018. The draw for the quarter\u2013finals was held on 11 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280533-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian Football Cup, Semi\u2013finals\nThe two semi\u2013final matches were played on 19 September 2018. The draw for the semi\u2013finals was held on 9 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280534-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian Higher League\nThe 2018 Latvian Higher League was the 27th season of top-tier football in Latvia. Spartaks J\u016brmala were the defending champions, having won their second title in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280534-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian Higher League, Teams\nAt the end of the 2017 season, Bab\u012bte were excluded from the league due to match-fixing. This resulted in METTA/LU ending up as the bottom-placed team. They were sent to the relegation playoffs against FK Progress/AFA Olaine. METTA/LU won, keeping them in the Latvian Higher League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280534-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian Higher League, Teams\nBab\u012bte were replaced by the champions of the 2017 Latvian First League, Valmieras FK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280534-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian Higher League, Results\nEach team played the other seven teams home-and-away twice, for a total of 28 games each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280534-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian Higher League, Relegation play-offs\nThe seventh-placed team from the 2018 Higher League faced the runners-up of the 2018 Latvian First League in a two-legged play-off. The winner, METTA/LU, earned the right to participate in the 2019 Higher League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Latvia on 6 October 2018. Following the elections, a coalition government was formed by Who owns the state?, the New Conservative Party, Development/For!, the National Alliance and New Unity. Despite being from the smallest elected party, Arturs Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Kari\u0146\u0161 of New Unity was chosen as Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Background\nThe 2014 elections saw Social Democratic Party \"Harmony\" emerge as the largest party. Although the largest party, Harmony has not participated in the government. A coalition was formed by Unity, the Union of Greens and Farmers and the National Alliance with Laimdota Straujuma as Prime Minister. On 7 December 2015 she resigned after increasing tensions within the ruling coalition. Following her resignation and several scandals around the Unity leader Solvita \u0100bolti\u0146a, opinion polls showed a rapid decrease of support for Unity. On 13 January 2016 M\u0101ris Ku\u010dinskis of the Union of Greens and Farmers was nominated to be the next Prime Minister by President Raimonds V\u0113jonis. His government was approved by the Saeima on 11 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe 100 members of the Saeima are elected by open list proportional representation from five multi-member constituencies (Kurzeme, Latgale, Riga (in which overseas votes are counted), Vidzeme and Zemgale) between 13 and 32 seats in size. Seats are allocated using the Sainte-Lagu\u00eb method with a national electoral threshold of 5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Electoral alliances\nThe Movement For!, Latvian Development and Growth parties contested the election as the Development/For! alliance, formed on 20 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Electoral alliances\nThe Social Democratic Workers' Party, the Christian Democratic Union and Proud to Serve Our Latvia contested the election as the SKG Alliance electoral list, the memorandum of which was signed by the leaders of the parties on 28 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Electoral alliances\nThe long-standing alliance of the Latvian Farmers' Union and the Green Party (in cooperation with the regional For Latvia and Ventspils and Liep\u0101ja Party) continued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Electoral alliances\nUnity formed an association in April 2018 with several regional parties under the New Unity alliance. The involved parties are the Kuld\u012bga County Party, For Valmiera and Vidzeme and For Tukums City and County parties, joined by the J\u0113kabpils Regional Party. The Latgale Party, after a period of consideration, joined the alliance in July, although its Daugavpils chapter allied itself with The Progressives. The Progressives and Movement For! declined invitations to join the list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Disqualifications\nThe Central Election Commission of Latvia used its powers to remove eight candidates from submitted lists. It did so after receiving notification from the Interior Ministry that the individuals in question were disqualified from election to the Saeima under the country's election law. The eight candidates were Aivars Zablockis and Nikolajs \u017de\u013cez\u0146akovs (Eurosceptic Action Party), Zigfr\u012bds Laic\u0101ns and Valdis Taupmanis (For Alternative), Edgars Kr\u016bmi\u0146\u0161 (Latvian Association of Regions), Katr\u012bna Brandala (The Progressives), Aivars Silinieks (Latvian Centrist Party) and Tatjana \u017ddanoka (Latvian Russian Union). \u017ddanoka has been barred in the past as Latvian courts have found that she was a member of the Communist Party of Latvia after 31 January 1991, making her ineligible. The Election Commission additionally sought information from the Security Police and the Constitution Protection Bureau to confirm her ineligibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 982]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Aftermath\nPolitical leaders met on 18 October with the president Raimonds V\u0113jonis. Although they failed to agree on a name for a Prime Minister, they reiterated their intention to form a coalition government and to exclude Harmony from any coalition, even if it required forming a coalition of five or six parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Aftermath\nOn 7 November 2018, Latvian President Raimonds V\u0113jonis asked Bord\u0101ns to form a new coalition government and serve as the next Prime Minister of Latvia. Bord\u0101ns intended to form a five-party majority coalition, and he announced that his coalition will not include ZZS, a political alliance led by a Latvian oligarch Aivars Lembergs. However, other political parties wished to cooperate also with ZZS. Consequently, Bord\u0101ns did not reach an agreement with the coalition partners, and informed the President that he is unable to form the cabinet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Aftermath\nOn 14 November 2018, Development/For!, National Alliance and New Unity pulled out of coalition talks with the New Conservative Party and KPV LV, making a five-way centre-right coalition government infeasible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Aftermath\nAfter J\u0101nis Bord\u0101ns was unsuccessful in negotiating a governing coalition, President Raimonds V\u0113jonis nominated Gobzems as Prime Minister of Latvia on November 26, 2018 and gave him two weeks to form a government. A week later, he proposed a coalition that would consist of his Who Owns the State? party along with the New Conservative Party, the National Alliance, the Union of Greens and Farmers, and New Unity, despite the conservatives' objection to the Greens and Farmers' inclusion in government. Fellow Who Owns the State?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Aftermath\nparty leader Artuss Kaimi\u0146\u0161 also opposed the inclusion of the Greens and Farmers, leading to a breakdown in talks later in the week. Gobzems then retracted his proposal for the coalition and instead called for a non-partisan cabinet of unnamed \"best of the best\" industry professionals, a proposal that was nearly immediately rejected by the conservatives, the nationalists, and New Unity on the grounds that it could increase the influence of the Harmony party. Although he had initially called on the president to hold early elections if his proposal were to be rejected, Gobzems instead offered a new four-party coalition that would not include the Union of Greens and Farmers. The president revoked Gobzems' nomination on December 10, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Aftermath\nIn December it was announced that coalition talks would continue into January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280535-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Aftermath\nOn 7 January 2019, Arturs Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Kari\u0146\u0161 was tasked by Latvian President Raimonds V\u0113jonis with forming the next government, following the failures of previous nominees Bordans and Gobzems in a contentious negotiation process. Kari\u0146\u0161 took office as prime minister on 23 January 2019, leading a broad centre-right coalition of five conservative and liberal parties that includes KPV LV, New Conservative Party, Development/For!, National Alliance and New Unity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280536-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Launceston Tennis International\nThe 2018 Smart Fibre Launceston International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts as part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $75,000 in prize money for men and $25,000 for women. It was the fourth (for men) and seventh (for women) edition of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280536-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Launceston Tennis International, Men's Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280536-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Launceston Tennis International, Women's Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280537-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Launceston Tennis International \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBradley Mousley and Luke Saville were the defending champions but chose to defend their title with different partners. Mousley partnered Alex Bolt and successfully defended his title. Saville partnered Matt Reid but lost in the quarterfinals to Max Purcell and Andrew Whittington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280537-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Launceston Tennis International \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBolt and Mousley won the title after defeating Sekou Bangoura and Nathan Pasha 7\u20136(8\u20136), 6\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280538-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Launceston Tennis International \u2013 Men's Singles\nNoah Rubin was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280538-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Launceston Tennis International \u2013 Men's Singles\nMarc Polmans won the title after defeating Bradley Mousley 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280539-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Laurence Olivier Awards\nThe 2018 Laurence Olivier Awards was held on 8 April 2018 at the Royal Albert Hall, London. The ceremony was hosted by comedian and actress Catherine Tate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280539-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Laurence Olivier Awards\nHamilton was nominated for a record 13 awards, ultimately claiming seven awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280539-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Laurence Olivier Awards, Eligibility\nAny new production that opened between 22 February 2017 and 21 February 2018 in a theatre represented in the membership of the Society of London Theatre is eligible for consideration, provided it has performed at least 30 performances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280539-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Laurence Olivier Awards, Winners and nominees\nThe nominations were announced on 6 March 2018 in 25 categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280539-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Laurence Olivier Awards, Productions with multiple wins and nominations, Multiple wins\nHamilton matched the record set by Matilda the Musical in the 2012 ceremony by winning 7 Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280539-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Laurence Olivier Awards, Productions with multiple wins and nominations, Multiple nominations\nHamilton broke the record for most nominations by a single production with 13 nominations. This title was previously held by Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the 2017 ceremony and Hairspray at the 2008 ceremony; both received 11 nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 98], "content_span": [99, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280540-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Laver Cup\nThe 2018 Laver Cup was the second edition of the Laver Cup, a men's tennis tournament between teams from Europe and the rest of the world. It was held on indoor hard courts at the United Center in Chicago, United States from 21 until 23 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280540-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Laver Cup\nTeam Europe successfully defended their title, winning the tournament 13\u20138. The attendance was 93,584 over the three days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280540-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Laver Cup, Player selection\nOn 19 March 2018, Roger Federer for Team Europe and Nick Kyrgios for Team World were the first players to confirm their participation. On 28 June 2018, Novak Djokovic and Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro committed to this event, as well as Kevin Anderson, John Isner and Diego Schwartzman on 26 July 2018. On 13 August 2018, Alexander Zverev, Grigor Dimitrov and David Goffin announced their participation for Team Europe. As their final picks, the team captains Bj\u00f6rn Borg and John McEnroe chose Kyle Edmund and Jack Sock, respectively. As in 2017, del Potro withdrew shortly before the tournament started and was replaced by Frances Tiafoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 32], "content_span": [33, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280540-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Laver Cup, Matches\nEach match win on day 1 was worth one point, on day 2 two points, and on day 3 three points. The first team to 13 points won. Since four matches were played each day, there were a total of 24 points available. However, since 12 of the total points are earned on day 3, neither team could win prior to the final day of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280541-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lazio regional election\nThe Lazio regional election of 2018 took place in Lazio, Italy, on 4 March 2018, concurrently with the Italian general election and the Lombard regional election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280541-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lazio regional election\nThe election was won by centre-left incumbent President Nicola Zingaretti, with just under a third of the vote, over the centre-right one Stefano Parisi, who gain 31%, and the Five Star Movement's candidate Roberta Lombardi with 27%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280541-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lazio regional election, Electoral system\nThe Regional Council is elected with a mixed system: 39 MPs are chosen with a form of proportional representation using a largest remainder method with open lists and a 5% threshold, while 11 MPs are elected with a block voting system with closed lists. One seat is for the elected president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280541-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lazio regional election, Aftermath, 2018 motion of no confidence\nOn 1 December 2018, a motion of no confidence in the government of Nicola Zingaretti tabled by Centre-right coalition was defeated 22 to 26, with one no-vote of Forza Italia and a few absent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280542-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Le Castellet Formula 2 round\nThe 2018 Paul Ricard FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races for Formula 2 cars that took place on 23 and 24 June 2018 at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d'Azur, France as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the fifth round of the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship and ran in support of the 2018 French Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280543-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Le Castellet GP3 Series round\nThe 2018 Le Castellet GP3 Series round was a motor racing event held on 23 and 24 June 2018 at the Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France. It was the opening round of the 2018 GP3 Series, and ran in support of the 2018 Spanish Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280544-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Le Samyn\nThe 2018 Le Samyn was the 49th edition of Le Samyn road cycling one day race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280544-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Le Samyn, Teams\nTwenty-one teams were invited to take part in the race. These included three UCI World Tour teams, eleven UCI Professional Continental teams and seven UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 20], "content_span": [21, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280545-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Cup\nThe 2018 League of Ireland Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2018 EA Sports Cup, was the 45th season of the League of Ireland's secondary knockout competition. The EA Sports Cup features teams from the SSE Airtricity League Premier and First Divisions, as well as some intermediate level teams. Derry City won the cup for a record 11th time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280545-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Cup, Teams\nClubs denoted with * received a bye into Second Round", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280545-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Cup, First Round\nAll teams were divided into four pools based on geographical location. Two random teams per pool received a bye into the second round. The draw for the First Round took place on 9 February 2018. Ties were scheduled to begin on 5 March 2018 but were subsequently postponed due to the aftermath of extreme weather from a cold wave known as the Beast from the East combined with Storm Emma. Rescheduled ties were set for various dates across March and April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280545-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Cup, Second Round\nThe draw for the Second Round took place on 22 March 2018 and was made on a regional pool basis. Ties were scheduled for Easter Monday 2 April 2018. Four second round fixtures were postponed due to heavy rainfall causing unplayable pitches. Rearranged fixtures were set for 9 April, 23 April and 24 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280545-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Cup, Quarter Finals\nThe draw for the quarter finals took place on 10 April 2018 and was an open draw, unlike previous rounds which were drawn on a geographic pooled basis. Ties are due to be played on 7/8 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280545-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Cup, Semi Finals\nThe draw for the semi finals of the 2018 EA Sports Cup was made on 13 May 2018. Both ties were played on 6 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280545-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Cup, Final\nThe final of the League of Ireland Cup took place on 16 September 2018. Home advantage was decided by a coin toss, which Derry City won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280546-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Cup Final\nThe 2018 League of Ireland Cup Final was the final match of the 2018 League of Ireland Cup, played between Derry City and Cobh Ramblers. The match was played on 16 September 2018. The match was won by Derry City, who claimed their record 11th League Cup trophy. The final was shown live on Eir Sportand was Cobh Ramblers first ever national cup final appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280547-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland First Division\nThe 2018 League of Ireland First Division season is the 34th season of the League of Ireland First Division. The league began on 23 February 2018 and will conclude in October 2018. Contrary to the previous editions, this tournament will have 10 teams, which is the largest number since 2011 season, and will return the promotion/relegation playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280547-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland First Division, Overview\nThe First Division has 10 teams. Each team plays each other three times for a total of 27 matches in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280547-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland First Division, Overview\nOn 22 December 2016, the FAI announced that the league would be restructured into two 10-team divisions from the 2018 season onwards, one of the recommendations made in the 2015 Conroy Report.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280547-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland First Division, Teams, Personnel and kits\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280547-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland First Division, Results, Matches 1\u201318\nTeams played each other twice (once at home, once away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280547-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland First Division, Promotion/relegation playoffs\nThe second, third and fourth placed First Division teams played off to decide who would play Limerick, the ninth placed team from the Premier Division. The winner of this play off would play in the 2019 Premier Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280547-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland First Division, Promotion/relegation playoffs\nFinn Harps won 3\u20130 on aggregate and were promoted to 2019 Premier Division. Limerick were relegated to the 2019 First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280548-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Premier Division\nThe 2018 League of Ireland Premier Division was the 34th season of the League of Ireland Premier Division. The league began on 16 February 2018 and concluded in 26 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280548-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Premier Division\nOn 5 October, Dundalk won the title after a 1-1 draw with St Patrick's Athletic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280548-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Premier Division, Overview\nThe Premier Division consists of 10 teams. Each team plays each other four times for a total of 36 matches in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280548-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Premier Division, Overview\nWaterford, the 2017 First Division champion, were promoted to the league for the first time since 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280548-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Premier Division, Overview\nOn 22 December 2016, the Football Association of Ireland announced that the league would be restructured into two 10-team divisions from the 2018 season onwards, one of the recommendations made in the 2015 Conroy Report.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280548-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Premier Division, Teams, Personnel and kits\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280548-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Premier Division, Results, Matches 1\u201318\nTeams played each other twice (once at home, once away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280548-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Premier Division, Results, Matches 19\u201336\nTeams will play each other twice (once home, once away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280548-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Premier Division, Results, Promotion/relegation playoff\nLimerick, the ninth-placed team from the Premier Division took part in a two-legged play-off against Finn Harps, the winners of the 2018 First Division play-off, to decide who will play in the 2019 Premier Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280548-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Ireland Premier Division, Results, Promotion/relegation playoff\nFinn Harps won 3\u20130 on aggregate and were promoted to 2019 Premier Division. Limerick were relegated to the 2019 First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280549-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Legends World Championship\nThe 2018 League of Legends World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. It was the eighth iteration of the League of Legends World Championship, an annual international tournament organized by the game's developer, Riot Games. It was held from October 1 to November 3, 2018, in cities across South Korea. Twenty four teams qualified for the tournament based on their placement in regional circuits such as those in China, South Korea, Europe, and North America, with twelve of those teams having to reach the group stage via a play-in round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280549-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 League of Legends World Championship\nThe tournament became known for its very surprising results, numerous upsets, and has often been considered the most unpredictable worlds in League of Legends' history. The tournament also became the most watched esports event in history, reaching a peak of over 200 million concurrent viewers during the finals. It surpassed the viewership of the 2017 League of Legends World Championship, as well as the peak viewership of numerous worldwide sporting events including the Super Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280549-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Legends World Championship\nThe tournament's opening ceremony received significant attention, with over 90 million concurrent viewers tuning in for the performance. An augmented reality K-pop group, K/DA was unveiled by Riot Games during the ceremony, with Soyeon and Miyeon from (G)I-dle, Madison Beer and Jaira Burns representing the group as its human counterpart and in the live performance of the finals. K/DA topped global music charts after the initial release of their debut song \"Pop/Stars\", receiving considerable attention online and raking in one of the fastest viewership records for its music video on YouTube.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280549-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 League of Legends World Championship\nA dance practice video of \"Pop/Stars\", as popular in the K-pop scene, was also released. \"RISE\" is the tournament's theme song, put together by The Glitch Mob, Mako and The Word Alive. A remix version of \"RISE\" featuring Bobby from IKON was also released shortly after, with the song being performed on the tournament's finals by all the involved music groups and artists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280549-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Legends World Championship\nThe victory of China's Invictus Gaming over Europe's Fnatic in the tournament's finals marked the first time in League of Legends history that the LPL (China) as a region won the world championship, as well as the first time a non-LCK (Korean) team has won after five consecutive years of prior Korean winners. The final series is also the fastest world championship finals in history at 85 minutes total game time. Gao \u201cNing\u201d Zhenning was awarded the MVP of the finals due to his outstanding performance and contributions during the series, marking the first time a jungle position player has won a world championship MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280549-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Legends World Championship, Qualified teams\nAlthough the South Korea (LCK) representative, Kingzone DragonX, lost to China's (LPL) representative Royal Never Give Up (LPL) in 2018 Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) Finals, all three teams from South Korea (LCK) started in the Main Group Stage, having won the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational and the previous two World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280549-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 League of Legends World Championship, Qualified teams\nWith the results of 2018 MSI and following their separation from the rest of the Southeast Asian (SEA) region, Vietnam (VCS) had a direct seed into the Main Group Stage for the summer split victor in their region, but unlike the previous year, Vietnam had no additional slots in the Play-In Stage for their summer runner-up team, because of the 24 team limit. The North American (NA LCS) summer split champion team was seeded to Pool 2 due to their performance at the 2018 Mid-Season Invitational.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280549-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 League of Legends World Championship, Venues\nSeoul, Busan, Gwangju, Incheon were the four cities chosen to host the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280550-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 League1 Ontario season\nThe 2018 Men's League1 Ontario season was the fifth season of play for League1 Ontario, a Division 3 men's soccer league in the Canadian soccer pyramid and the highest level of soccer based in the Canadian province of Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280550-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 League1 Ontario season\nVaughan Azzurri won the league championship and earned entry into the 2019 Canadian Championship; the top national tournament for men's soccer teams. Vaughan captured the league double for a second time by also winning the L1 Cup, a feat they first achieved in 2016. FC London finished the season with the best regular season record, earning 38 points in 16 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280550-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 League1 Ontario season, Changes from 2017\nThe men's division grew slightly to 17 teams for this season, with the addition of Darby FC, Unionville Milliken SC, and Alliance United FC (a joint partnership between Markham SC and Wexford SC). Durham United FA and North Toronto Nitros did not return for this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280550-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 League1 Ontario season, Changes from 2017\nDuring the off-season, Jim Brennan stepped down as head of Aurora FC to accept a position with York 9 FC in the Canadian Premier League. FC London also announced the affiliation of its youth academy with professional side Toronto FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280550-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 League1 Ontario season, Changes from 2017\nThis season saw expanded playoffs and a return to single-table competition for the men's division. The top eight teams overall from the men's division entered the playoffs, which consisted of a group stage and a final championship match between the winner of each group. The women's side saw a shorter season which ended in August, followed by a four-team elimination playoff for the league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280550-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 League1 Ontario season, Regular season\nEach team played 16 matches as part of the season; one match against all other teams. The top eight teams competed in the league playoffs at the end of the season, the winner of which earned entry into the 2019 Canadian Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280550-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 League1 Ontario season, Playoffs\nThe top eight teams from the regular season were divided into two groups of four for the playoffs. Each team played three matches; one match against all other teams in their group. The top team from each group advanced to the league championship, the winner of which earned entry into the 2019 Canadian Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280550-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 League1 Ontario season, Playoffs, League Championship\nThe league champion was determined by a single match between the two group winners in the first round of the playoffs. The winner qualified for the 2019 Canadian Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280550-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 League1 Ontario season, Cup\nThe cup tournament is a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all 17 teams from the men's division took part. It is not a form of playoffs at the end of the season (as is typically seen in North American sports), but is more like the EFL Cup, albeit only for League1 Ontario teams. All matches are separate from the regular season, and are not reflected in the season standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 32], "content_span": [33, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280550-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 League1 Ontario season, Cup\nThe cup tournament for the men's division is a single-match knockout tournament with a total of four rounds culminating in a final match in the start of August, with initial matches determined by random draw. Each match in the tournament must return a result; any match drawn after 90 minutes advanced directly to kicks from the penalty mark instead of extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 32], "content_span": [33, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280550-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 League1 Ontario season, Statistics, Top goalkeepers\nUpdated to matches played on August 18, 2018. Minimum 270 minutes played. Source:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280550-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 League1 Ontario season, All-Star Game\nThe league announced that an All-Star Game between League1 Ontario and the Premi\u00e8re Ligue de soccer du Qu\u00e9bec (PLSQ) would once again take place this season. The game was hosted by the PLSQ and was played on June 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280551-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese Elite Cup\nThe 2018 Lebanese Elite Cup is the 21st edition of this football tournament in Lebanon. The competition started on 28 July through to the final. This tournament includes the six best teams from the 2017\u201318 Lebanese Premier League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Lebanon on 6 May 2018. Although originally scheduled for 2013, the election was postponed three times in 2013, 2014 and 2017 under various pretexts, including the security situation, the failure of the Parliament to elect a new President, and the technical requirements of holding an election. A new electoral law adopted in 2017 provides a proportional representation system for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Background\nFollowing the last parliamentary election of 2009, it took several months to form a new government. Saad Hariri eventually became prime minister in a March 14 Alliance government formed in November 2009. About a year later, Walid Jumblatt's PSP broke away from the 14 March alliance and withdrew its ministers. Jumblatt then traveled to Syria for the first time in decades and met President Bashar al-Assad. After the government fell over the issue of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, a new government was formed by Najib Mikati that consisted of March 8 Alliance parties, as well as the PSP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Background\nOver the course of the Syrian civil war, fissures started to grow in Lebanon as 14 March parties supported the opposition in Syria while 8 March parties were ostensibly supportive of the Syrian government, particularly in the early stages. The 8 March parties therefore faced accusation from the opposition and its affiliated media of kowtowing to the Syrian government. As the conflict started to spill over into Lebanon, both via refugees and Lebanon's own diverse demographics that are broadly reflective of Syria's own diversity, tensions started to grow. A spate of sectarian kidnappings and threats followed, some of which turned fatal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Background\nOn 22 March 2013, Mikati resigned citing a negative climate over the appointment of a committee to oversee the election and the extension of Internal Security Forces (ISF) head Ashraf Rifi, who was expected to retire in April. On 5 April, a new 14 March-backed consensus candidate for prime minister was announced, Tammam Salam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Postponement\nA new president should have been elected by Parliament before the legislative elections took place. However, there was a deadlock which resulted in fourteen fruitless attempts to choose a head of state. Therefore, Parliament decided on 5 November 2014 to extend its term by 2 years and 7 months. The deadlock was perceived to arise from failure to reach quorum due to the voluntary absence of members from the ex- 8 March alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Electoral system\nIn June 2017 a new electoral law was passed. The previous system (under which the 128 members of parliament were elected from 26 multi-member constituencies under multiple non-transferable vote, and the candidates with the highest number of votes within each religious community were elected) with a new electoral law instituting proportional representation in 15 multi-member constituencies while still maintaining the confessional distribution. However, the 7 out of the 15 of the electoral districts are divided into 2 or more 'minor districts' (largely corresponding to the smaller electoral districts from the old electoral law). Where applicable, preference vote is counted on the 'minor district' level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Electoral system\nIndividuals could submit their candidacy for parliament until midnight of 6 March 2018. 976 candidates were registered, including 111 women. Candidates were obliged to join lists, which had to be finalized by 26 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Electorate\nThe Shia electorate constituted the majority of registered voters in Bekaa III, South II and South III, together accounting for 79% of the total Shia electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Electorate\nThe Sunni electorate constituted the majority of registered voters in three electoral districts (Beirut I, North I and North II); these three districts represent around two-thirds of the total Sunni electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Electorate\n63% of all Druze voters were registered in the Mount Lebanon IV electoral district, which elected four out of the eight Druze parliamentarians. 97% of the Druze voters were registered in districts from which Druze parliamentarians were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Electorate\n96% of Alawite voters were registered in either the North I or North II electoral districts, which elected one Alawite parliamentarian each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Electorate\nMaronite Christians constituted the majority of voters in Mount Lebanon I and North III; these two districts represented 42% of the Maronite electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Electorate\nNorth III also hosted the largest concentration of Greek Orthodox Christian voters (20.7%), representing around a fifth of all Greek Orthodox voters throughout the country. According to 2017 data, the Greek Orthodox constituted 58% of the voters in the Koura minor district of North III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Electorate\nBekaa I hosted the largest concentration of Greek Catholic voters, about a fifth of the nationwide Greek Catholic vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Electorate\nBeirut I hosted the largest concentrations of Armenians, both Armenian Orthodox and Armenian Catholic voters, who elected 4 out of the 6 Armenian parliamentarians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Electorate\nThe Minorities (Syriac Orthodox, Syriac Catholic, Latin Catholic, Chaldeans, Assyrian Church and Copts) seat was now in Beirut I, which had the largest gathering of Minorities voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Electorate\nJewish voters were mainly found in Beirut II, where they constituted 1.31% of the electorate. However, in the 2009 election only five Jews cast their votes in the Beirut III electoral district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Electorate\nBelow is a summary of the demographics of the Lebanese electorate with data from 2017, divided by the qada administrative districts (or in the case of Beirut, the old 2008 vote law electoral districts).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Amal\nAmal leader and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri held a press conference at his Ain al-Tineh residence on 19 February 2018, to present the electoral platform and the 16 candidates of the Amal Movement. Berri highlighted the ongoing oil exploration project, calling for setting up a national oil company and a sovereign oil fund. He reaffirmed the Amal Movement commitment to 'People, Army, Resistance' policy, urging steadfastness towards Israel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Amal\nThe Amal-Hezbollah bloc fielded joint 'Hope and Loyalty' lists in the Bekaa III, South II and South III electoral districts. However, compared to the previous election, the Amal-Hezbollah bloc lacked an alliance with Michel Aoun and his Free Patriotic Movement. But whilst FPM and Amal had parted ways nationally, they still managed to form alliances in Mount Lebanon III and Beirut II. In Mount Lebanon III (Baabda) the joint list carried the label 'National Reconciliation'. In Beirut II a joint list of Amal, Hezbollah, FPM and Al-Ahbash was formed, under the label 'Unity of Beirut'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Amal\nAnd whilst Berri and the Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil had a public fall-out in early 2018, which sparked street riots, Berri's post as Speaker of the Parliament appeared to be fairly secured during the electoral campaign. Both the Hariri and Jumblatt camps affirmed their support to Berri's speakership in the run-up to the polls. According to political analysts, the Amal-Hezbollah victory seemed probably in Berri's home constituency, South II, as opposition forces had failed to produce a strong list to challenge him in his home turf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Free Patriotic Movement\nThe electoral slogan of the party was 'A Strong [FPM] for a Strong Lebanon'. The party formed a number of local coalitions with a wide array alliance partners around the country. In North III FPM fielded the \"Strong North\" list, headed by Gebran Bassil, in alliance with the Independence Movement and the Future Movement. In Mount Lebanon I (Byblos-Kesrwan) FPM fielded the \"Strong Lebanon\" list led by Chamel Roukoz. In Mount Lebanon II (Metn) FPM fielded the \"Strong Metn\" list together with the SSNP and Tashnaq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Free Patriotic Movement\nAfter the split between the Future Movement and the Lebanese Forces, a joint list for Beirut I of the Free Patriotic Movement, Tashnaq and the Hunchaks was conceived. supported by the Future Movement. In Bekaa I FPM, Future, Tashnaq and independents fielded a joint list. In North I (Akkar) and South II (Saida-Jezzine) FPM formed electoral alliances with al-Jamaat al-Islamiyya. In North II FPM fielded a list in alliance with Kamal Kheir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Free Patriotic Movement\nMoreover, whilst FPM and the Amal-Hezbollah coalition parted ways nationally, joint lists were presented in Beirut II and in Mount Lebanon III (Baabda).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Free Patriotic Movement\nIn Bekaa III (Baalbek-Hermel) FPM had hoped to form a list together with former speaker Hussein el-Husseini, but the project fell apart as el-Husseini withdrew from the electoral process. In the end, the Free Patriotic Movement candidates joined the list led by the former regional secretary of the Baath Party, Faiz Shukr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Free Patriotic Movement\nIn South III the Future Movement, the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Democratic Party supported a joint list called \"The South is Worth It\", with two FPM-supported independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Future Movement\nAt a ceremony in the Seaside Pavilion on 11 March 2018 the candidates and electoral platform of the Future Movement were presented. The party fielded 37 candidates, out of whom 21 were newcomers. The political newcomers included lawyer Roula Tabash Jaroudi in Beirut II and civil society activist Chadi Nacchabe in Tripoli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Future Movement\nThe electoral slogan of the party was 'Blue Talisman' (kharz\u00e9 zar\u2019a). Commenting on the slogan party leader Saad Hariri stated that \"[the] Future Movement is a Talisman (blue bead) that you put in the ballot box, to protect the country. For that reason, our slogan is the protection of Lebanon and the symbol is the Talisman. You will draw the Talisman with your activity, with your energy, with your daily small and large contributions to the electoral machine, in your dialogue with people, in working for each candidate on the Future lists.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Future Movement\nThe Future Movement and the Lebanese Forces negotiated for weeks on forming an electoral alliance, but the effort failed as relations between Future leader Saad Hariri and LF leader Samir Geagea deteriorated on issues relating to Hariri's visit to Saudi Arabia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Hezbollah\nOn 19 February 2018, Hezbollah general secretary Hassan Nasrallah presented the names of the 13 Hezbollah candidates. Amongst the candidates there were five new faces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Hezbollah\nOn 22 March 2018, Nasrallah issued a statement outlining the main priorities for the parliamentary bloc of the party, Loyalty to the Resistance, in the next parliament. He stated that rooting out corruption would be the foremost priority of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc. He described the relation with FPM as 'normal', whilst reaffirming the claim that opponents to the Amal-Hezbollah bloc in Bekaa III had supported 'terrorist groups'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Hezbollah\nThe electoral slogan of the party was 'We will construct and we will protect'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Hezbollah\nOverall, Hezbollah performed the best in the case of popular vote in the election, and had substantial electoral vote gains as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Kataeb Party\nKataeb ran the elections based on an attempt to re-brand the party as a reformist political force, and distance it from its right-wing conservative legacyThe electoral slogan of the party was 'A Pulse for Change'. Its electoral platform was a comprehensive list of policies that included 131 points, including a range of long-demanded reforms. The party held the elections based on a discourse inspired by protest movements, and attempted to re-brand itself away. However, it failed to make any gains in the elections, losing two of its parliamentary seats and gaining only three seats, two of whom for party leader and Amine Gemayel's son Samy Gemayel, and Nadim Gemayel, son of late president-elect and Lebanese Forces leader Bashir Gemayyel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Lebanese Forces\nThe Lebanese Forces announced the names of 19 party candidates and 20 allies on LF-supported lists at an event in Beirut on 14 March 2018 (the anniversary of the founding of the March 14 Movement). At the event LF leader Samir Geagea affirmed commitment to the cause of the 14 March Movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Lebanese Forces\nThe electoral slogan of the party for the election campaign was It has become necessary (sar badda).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Progressive Socialist Party\nAt the ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of killing of Progressive Socialist Party founder Kamal Jumblatt in Moukhtara on 19 February 2017, Walid Jumblatt symbolically gave his keffiyeh to his son Taymour, symbolically marking the generational shift in the party leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Progressive Socialist Party\nThe Democratic Gathering bloc, the parliamentary platform of the Progressive Socialist Party, fielded 10 candidates across the country. The number of candidates of the party was lower than in previous elections, in 2009 the bloc won 11 seats. For the first time since 1992 PSP chief Walid Jumblatt did not stand as a candidate, with Taymour taking over as the party leader. The party fielded candidates for 3 out of 4 Druze seats in Mount Lebanon IV, keeping with the tradition of leaving a seat uncontested to help LDP chief Talal Arslan get elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Progressive Socialist Party\nPSP joined joint lists with the Future Movement in Beirut II, Bekaa II and Mount Lebanon IV and with Lebanese Forces in Mount Lebanon III and Mount Lebanon IV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Arab Democratic Party\nIn a statement issued on 29 April 2018 the Political Representative of the Arab Democratic Party Rifaat Eid called on his followers to vote for the Alawite candidates Hussein Saloum (on the list of Wajih Barini) in North I and Ahmed Omran in North II (on the list of Faisal Karami).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party\nPrior to the election the Arab Socialist Baath Party had suffered a split, with Regional Secretary Assem Qanso and Numan Shalq heading in different directions. Both factions had nominated candidates for the elections, but none was accepted into a list and were thus eliminated from the polls. Reportedly, the Syrian ambassador had lobbied against any list accepting Qanso's candidates, as his group is not recognized from Damascus. A Baathist politician, Kassem Hachem, was included in a list in South III as Amal candidate, but not on behalf of the party. Former Regional Secretary Fayez Shukr headed a list in Bekaa III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Lebanese Democratic Party\nTalal Arslan's LDP gained only one seat in the new parliament, held by Erslan himself, as all other Druze seats were won by candidates from or supported by the Progressive Socialist Party. In Beirut II, LDP had hoped to get Nasib Jawari included as the Druze candidate on the Amal-Hezbollah, but Jawari was not included and LDP withdrew his candidature. Likewise LDP withdrew its candidate from the race in the Bekaa II electoral district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Independence Movement\nThe Moawad family's Independence Movement joined the FPM list in Zgharta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Kulluna Watani Alliance\nThe civil society alliance behind the \"Kulluna Watani\" (We are all National) ('Kulluna Watani') lists held a launching event on 9 April 2018 at Forum of Beirut. The alliance gathered with a new Political Party (\"\") and 10 different campaign and groups, most of which are connected to campaigns started in the protest movements of 2015 or the municipal elections of 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Kulluna Watani Alliance\nThe alliance included in addition to Sabaa which is a nationwide Secular Political Party few local political groups, namely Libaladi in Beirut 1 and Lihaqqi in Mount Lebanon 4. Speaking at inauguration event, Charbel Nahas, whose party joined the Koullouna Watani lists at a later stage, said the purpose of the lists was to provide an alternative to the \"corrupted\" power in Lebanese politics. Koullouna Watani's electoral lists included 66 candidates running in 9 voting districts with one third of the candidates being from . The nine lists were fielded in Beirut I, Bekaa I, all four electoral districts of Mount Lebanon, North II, North III and South III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Ramgavar\nThe Armenian Democratic Liberal Party, or Ramgavar, issued a statement on 18 April 2018 condemning any candidate that opposed the unified Armenian parliamentary bloc. In Beirut I, Ramgavar candidates joined the list of Lebanese Forces, Kataeb and Michel Pharaon. One of its candidates is Dr. Avedis Dakassian, the Chair of the Lebanon Regional Committee of the party. In Metn, a Ramgavar candidate joined the list of Lebanese Forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Rifi Bloc\nAshraf Rifi, former Hariri ally, Internal Security Forces chief and Justice Minister, broke ranks with Hariri in 2016. In the 2016 Tripoli municipal election, he defeated Hariri's candidates and won 22 out of 24 seats. He fielded his own lists in the parliamentary election, in a move to challenge Hariri's dominance over Sunni politics. Ahead of the elections he profiled himself as a \"hawk\", unwilling to enter into talks with Hezbollah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Rifi Bloc\nRifi fielded lists in three electoral districts; Beirut II, North I and North II. Rifi tried to field a list in Bekaa I together with Kataeb and Lebanese Forces, but the initiative did not bear fruit. Likewise, Lebanese Forces and Rifi discussed a joint list in Bekaa III, but no such list materialized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Syrian Social Nationalist Party\nThe Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon fielded 7 candidates. In Mount Lebanon II (Metn) it joined the list of the Free Patriotic Movement. In Mount Lebanon IV (Aley-Chouf) it joined the list of Talal Arslan. In Bekaa I (Zahle) it joined the list of Nicolas Fattouch. In Bekaa III and South III SSNP candidates were included in the Amal-Hezbollah lists. In North I (Akkar) its candidate was included in the list of 8 March forces. In North III the SSNP entered the list of Boutros Harb and the Marada Movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Tashnag)\nOn 22 March 2018 the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, or Tashnag, announced its candidates in Beirut I and Mount Lebanon II (Metn). The party contested three seats in Beirut I and fielded incumbent parliamentarian Hagop Pakradounian in Metn. In Beirut I the party entered in alliance with FPM, Hunchaks and the Future Movement. In Metn the party entered in an alliance with FPM and SSNP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Parties, Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Tashnag)\nIn Bekaa I (Zahle) Tashnaq opted to support the candidature of Marie-Jeanne Bilezikjian, pharmacist and women's rights activist, on the joint FPM-Future list. The support for Bilezikjian's candidature was part of a wider agreement between Tashnaq and the Future Movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Candidates\nAfter the deadline on 26 March 2018, the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities announced that 77 lists, with a total of 583 candidates, had been registered. The highest number of lists was in Beirut II, where nine lists were registered. Only two lists were registered in the Zahrani-Tyre electoral district. Notably, the erstwhile 8 March and 14 March blocs, which had dominated the 2009 elections, are no longer functional and parties sought alliances on local dynamics when setting up lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Candidates\nA record number of Lebanese women running for office. In fact, out of the total 976 candidates who originally registered to run, 111 were female candidates \u2013 a staggering surge compared to just 12 women in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Results\nIn a statement issued in the evening of 7 May, Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk promised to release full election result within 36\u201348 hours. In his statement, he announced \"final, yet incomplete\" official results, providing the names of elected parliamentarians from 14 out of 15 electoral districts. On 8 May, Machnouk announced the names of the victorious candidates from Akkar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Results\nFollowing the announcement of results, the FPM leader Gebran Bassil stated that FPM would form the largest bloc in parliament (a role previously played by the Future Movement). Bassil stated that FPM would gather up to 30 MPs, including Talal Arslan, Tashnaqs and \"businessmen\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Reactions, Domestic\nPrime Minister Saad Hariri, commenting on the election result the day after the election, admitted that his Future Movement had lost 12 seats, but reaffirmed that \"[t]hose who won in parliamentary elections are our partners in the principle of stability\" and that he was satisfied with the outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0053-0001", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Reactions, Domestic\nHezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said the outcome was \"a great moral and political victory for Hezbollah, which protects the country\" and that \"proportionality vote law offered all political factions the opportunity to represent themselves in the elections, mitigated the risks of exclusion from Lebanon\u2019s political structure, and assured all sides that they will have a role in the administration.\" He further added: \"The United States and some Persian Gulf states resorted to smear campaign in a bid to poison public opinion towards Hezbollah. Their efforts, however, ended in failure...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280552-0053-0002", "contents": "2018 Lebanese general election, Reactions, Domestic\nNo one in the world can target Hezbollah as it has firm support among various strata of the Lebanese society. Towns and cities in southern Lebanon have served as the resistance front in the face of threats being poised by the Israeli regime and terrorist groups. Enemies' plots to undermine Hezbollah popularity in those regions have yielded nothing... We must avoid any sectarian or inflammatory speech similar to those delivered before the elections if we want to avoid any conflict in the country.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election\nThe 2018 Leeds City Council election took place on Thursday 3 May 2018 to elect members of Leeds City Council in England. It was held on the same day as other local elections across England and the rest of the UK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election\nFollowing a full boundary review of Leeds' 33 electoral wards by the Local Government Boundary Commission, the all-out election saw all of the council's 99 available council seats contested based on the new ward boundaries. Three of the previous wards were abolished and replaced (City & Hunslet, Headingley, and Hyde Park & Woodhouse for Headingley & Hyde Park, Hunslet & Riverside and Little London & Woodhouse). The last all-out election in Leeds was in 2004 after the previous full ward boundary review in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election\nWith three seats available for each ward, electors were able to cast up to three votes for three different candidates. The first three candidates past the post in each ward won a council seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election\nThe Labour Party won the election with 61 of the 99 council seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Election summary\nThis result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Councillors who did not stand for re-election\nIncumbent Morley Borough Independent councillor, Robert Finnigan, did not stand in the ward he represented, Morley North. Instead, he stood in the neighbouring ward of Morley South Ward. However, Finnigan was subsequently not elected at the election for the ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results\nAn asterisk (*) denotes an incumbent councillor who stood again at the election, having 21 sitting councillors not stood again for their seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results\nThe percentage vote share (%) is calculated by counting only the highest-scoring candidate for each party and individual independent candidates. For example, the total number of votes cast by electors in the Adel & Wharfedale ward for Barry Anderson (the highest-scoring Conservative candidate), Nigel Gill (Labour), Peter Jackson (Liberal Democrat) and Liddy Swales (sole Green candidate) was 7,980. As Anderson gained 4,856 votes, he took 61.5% of the 7,980 total possible ballots cast, whilst Gill gained 1,556 votes and 19.7% of the total votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results\nThe percentage change (\u00b1) is the proportion by which the individual party and/or candidate's vote share increased or decreased from the previous council election in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results\nThe turnout is the amount of registered electors who voted in the ward at the time of the election. The turnout percentage (%) is the proportion of registered electors in the ward who voted on the day of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Ardsley & Robin Hood\nLabour councillor Ben Garner replaced independent Councillor Jack Dunn, who had resigned the Labour Whip and left the Labour Group on the council in January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 68], "content_span": [69, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Calverley & Farsley\nFormer Joint Leader of the Council and long-standing Leader of the Conservative Group, Andrew Carter CBE, and his wife, Amanda Carter, were re-elected. Their fellow incumbent, Rod Wood, lost out to Peter Carlill of Labour by 47 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Chapel Allerton\nAll three incumbent Labour councillors were re-elected, including incumbent Lord Mayor of Leeds Jane Dowson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Cross Gates & Whinmoor\nJessica Lennox (Labour) defeated independent Janette Walker. Walker had been a Labour councillor since her first election in 2012 and left the Labour Group on the council in early 2017 to run as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Garforth & Swillington\nBoth Independent incumbents, Mark Dobson and Sarah Field, were elected to the council alongside fellow independent, Suzanne McCormack, who replaced retiring Labour Councillor Stuart McKenna. Both Dobson and Field had been elected as Labour Councillors but resigned from the Labour Council Group in February 2017 to stand as independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Guiseley & Rawdon\nAll three incumbent Conservative councillors were re-elected, including Lord Mayor of Leeds-elect Graham Latty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Harewood\nThe two Conservatives re-standing for election were successful, with fellow Conservative Councillor Rachael Procter, who was deselected, replaced by Samuel Firth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Headingley & Hyde Park\nThe three incumbent Labour councillors for Headingley ward stood and won the three council seats to represent the new and enlargened ward of Headingley & Hyde Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Hunslet & Riverside\nThe two incumbent Labour councillors of the previous City & Hunslet ward were re-elected for the new ward alongside Paul Wray. Wray replaced the deselected City & Hunslet Councillor Patrick Davey as the third Labour candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Killingbeck & Seacroft\nThree new Labour councillors were elected, defeating the incumbent independent Councillor Catherine Dobson. Elected originally as a Labour councillor, Dobson resigned from the Labour Group in October 2017. The two remaining Labour incumbents, Graham Hyde and Brian Selby, retired at the election and did not restand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Kippax & Methley\nThe three incumbent Labour councillors were re-elected, including the current Joint Deputy Leader of the Council, James Lewis, and former Leader of the Council, Keith Wakefield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Kirkstall\nNew Labour candidate Hannah Bithell topped the poll, elected alongside incumbent Councillors Fiona Venner and John Illingworth. Bithell replaced the retiring Joint Deputy Leader of the Council, Lucinda Yeadon, as the third Labour candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Little London & Woodhouse\nLabour Councillor for Hyde Park & Woodhouse Christine Towler retired whilst her two ward colleagues, Javaid Akhtar and Gerry Harper, stood successfully for the new ward of Little London & Woodhouse, following boundary changes. They were joined by new Labour candidate Kayleigh Brooks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Moortown\nThe two Labour councillors re-standing for election were successful. Mohammed Shahzad replaced retiring Councillor Alex Sobel (also MP for Leeds North West) as the third Labour candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Morley North\nThe Morley Borough Independents won all three available council seats again, with new candidate Andy Hutchinson replacing Robert Finnigan. Finnigan, also the Leader of the MBI Group on the council, chose to stand for Morley South ward instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Pudsey\nThe Conservatives gained two seats whilst Labour Councillor Richard Lewis was re-elected by 75 votes over the third Conservative candidate. Labour Councillor Mick Coulson was the only incumbent to lose their bid for re-election as his fellow Labour colleague Josephine Jarosz retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Temple Newsam\nAll three Labour incumbent councillors won re-election. After the election, Debra Coupar replaced former Kirkstall ward councillor, Lucinda Yeadon, as Joint Deputy Leader of the Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280553-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds City Council election, Ward results, Wetherby\nNew Conservative candidate and Mayor of Wetherby Norma Harrington topped the poll, elected with the two Conservative incumbents who were re-standing for election. Harrington was chosen as the third Conservative candidate instead of current Councillor John Procter (also MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280554-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds and Grenville United Counties municipal elections\nElections were held in Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280554-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds and Grenville United Counties municipal elections, Leeds and Grenville United Counties Council\nThe Council consists of the mayors and reeves of the constituent municipalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 105], "content_span": [106, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280555-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes federal by-election\nA by-election was held in the federal riding of Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes in Ontario on December 3, 2018, following the sudden death of incumbent Conservative MP Gord Brown on May 2, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [74, 74], "content_span": [75, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280555-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes federal by-election\nThe seat was retained for the Conservatives by riding association president Michael Barrett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [74, 74], "content_span": [75, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280555-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes federal by-election, Background, Constituency\nLeeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes is a rural riding in Eastern Ontario. It consists of the entirety of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 100], "content_span": [101, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280555-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes federal by-election, Background, Representation\nThe riding was created in 1976. The MP since 2004 was Gord Brown who gained the seat from Liberal MP Joe Jordan at the 2004 federal election. Brown was re-ected in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2015. The seat became vacant when Brown died of a sudden heart attack in his Parliament Hill office in Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 102], "content_span": [103, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280555-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes federal by-election, Campaign\nColin Brown, Brown's nephew, announced his candidacy for the Conservative nomination and was quickly endorsed by Premier of Ontario Doug Ford. In addition, Edwardsburgh/Cardinal town councillor and federal riding association president Michael Barrett, government-relations specialist Stephanie Mitton, and Anne Johnston, a former aide to Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes MPP Steve Clark also ran for the Conservative nomination. Former Canadian Senator and interim Leader of the Opposition in the Ontario Legislature Bob Runciman was rumoured to be interested in seeking the Conservative nomination for the by-election but decided against it after his wife encountered some health issues. Barrett won the nomination at a local party convention at the Brockville Memorial Centre on August 11 in a contest that ran to a fourth ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 84], "content_span": [85, 934]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280555-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes federal by-election, Campaign\n2015 Liberal candidate Mary Jean McFall \u2013 a lawyer, former Brockville city councillor and immediate former Chief of Staff to Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay \u2013 won the Liberal nomination for this by-election unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 84], "content_span": [85, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280555-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes federal by-election, Campaign\nMichelle Taylor was the NDP candidate; Taylor ran for the Ontario NDP in Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes in the 2018 provincial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 84], "content_span": [85, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280555-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes federal by-election, Campaign\nLorraine Rekmans, the Green candidate for this riding in 2015, ran again for the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 84], "content_span": [85, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280555-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes federal by-election, Campaign\nThe Speaker's warrant regarding the vacancy was received on May 3, 2018; under the Parliament of Canada Act the writ for a by-election had to be dropped no later than October 30, 2018, 180 days after the Chief Electoral Officer was officially notified of the vacancy via a warrant issued by the Speaker. On October 28, 2018, the writ was dropped for a by-election for December 3, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 84], "content_span": [85, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280556-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Leende Open\nThe 2018 Dynamic Billiard Leende Open, was the fourth Euro Tour 9-Ball pool event in 2018. The event was won by America's Shane Van Boening who defeated Estonia's Eklent Ka\u00e7i 9\u20138 in the final. Unlike other Euro Tour events, the field was open to other nations outside of Europe. Van Boening became only the second American after Johnny Archer at the 2000 Portugal Open and 2000 Italian Open to win a Euro Tour event. In making the final, Eklent had been in the semi-final or better of the last 5 Euro Tour events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280556-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Leende Open\nRuslan Tschinachow was the defending champion, but did not reach the knockout stages of the event. A women's event held in Braga at the same time as the event was held in Braga, Portugal. The event was won by Kristina Tkach defeating Marharyta Fefilava in the final 7\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280556-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Leende Open, Tournament format\nThe event saw a total of 159 players compete, in a double-elimination knockout tournament, until the last 32 stage; where the tournament was contested as single elimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280556-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Leende Open, Tournament format, Prize fund\nThe tournament prize fund was similar to that of other Euro Tour events, with \u20ac4,500 for the winner of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280557-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Legends Tour\nThe 2018 Legends Tour is a series of professional golf tour events for women aged 45 and older sanctioned by the Legends Tour. Based in the United States, it is an offshoot of the main U.S.-based women's tour, the LPGA Tour. The tour was founded in 2001, and is intended to allow women to prolong their competitive golf careers on the model of the successful Champions Tour for men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280557-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Legends Tour, Schedule and results\nThe table below shows the schedule of events for the 2018 Legends Tour season. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Legends Tour events she had won up to and including that tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280558-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team\nThe 2018 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team represents Lehigh University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Mountain Hawks are led by 13th-year head coach Andy Coen and play their home games at Goodman Stadium. They are a member of the Patriot League. They finished the season 3\u20138, 2\u20134 in Patriot League play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280558-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team, Previous season\nThe Mountain Hawks finished the 2017 season 5\u20137, 5\u20131 in Patriot League play to finish in a tie for the Patriot League championship with Colgate. Due to their head-to-head win over Colgate, Lehigh received the Patriot League's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost to Stony Brook in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280558-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe Patriot League released their preseason coaches poll on July 26, 2018, with the Mountain Hawks predicted to finish in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280558-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Patriot League team\nThe Mountain Hawks placed three players on the preseason all-Patriot League team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 86], "content_span": [87, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion\nThe 2018 Leicester explosion occurred shortly after 19:00 GMT on 25 February 2018, in Hinckley Road, Leicester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion\nThe explosion destroyed the \u017babka convenience store and the two-storey flat above it, killing five people and injuring five others, two seriously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion\nLeicestershire Police declared it a major incident, closing off Carlisle Street and parts of Hinckley Road in the immediate aftermath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion\nThe fire, which triggered the explosion, was set intentionally in order to facilitate a fraudulent insurance claim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion\nAram Kurd, Hawkar Hassan and Arkan Ali, who are Iraqi Kurds, were convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation and sentenced to life imprisonment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion\nViktorija Ijevleva, girlfriend of Arkan Ali and also involved in the planning of the insurance fraud, died in the explosion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Background\nAram Kurd took over the lease of the \u017babka convenience store, Hinckley Road and opened the shop in December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Background\nKurd planned, along with Hawkar Hassan and Arkan Ali to insure the shop, contents and business, set fire to the premises and submit a fraudulent insurance claim totalling around \u00a3300,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Background\nIn early February 2018, assisted by Ali and Viktorija Ijevleva, Kurd obtained an insurance policy for the business and premises.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Background\nOn 24 February, Hassan, Ali and Ijevleva purchased 26 litres of petrol which they took to the shop in Hinckley Road. It was claimed, in the sentencing remarks of Mr Justice Holgate, that around 45 litres of petrol, several litres of barbecue fluid and four litres of white spirit were purchased in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Background\nOn the day of the explosion Ijevleva was working in the store; Kurd, Hassan and Ali met in a coffee bar where it was decided that Ijevleva should perish in the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Background\nUpon their return to the store, Kurd went inside and distracted Ijevleva while Ali set the fire in the basement; Hassan remained outside waiting to drive Ali away from the scene. Kurd made his way to a rear extension of the shop in advance of the explosion, leaving Ijevleva by the till. Ali left the premises via a back alleyway and he and Hassan fled. The explosion took place just after 7.01pm. Kurd escaped through the back yard of the premises.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Background\nThe explosion caused a \"pancake collapse\", whereby the ground, first and second floors fell into the basement. Neighbours spoke of their homes shaking due to the force of the blast and compared it to an earthquake, or a bomb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Background\nIn the immediate aftermath of the explosion, Kurd presented himself to the emergency services, and passers-by who tried to assist, as a victim of the blast who was lucky to be alive. The following day he gave a series of media interviews feigning concern for the victims while claiming to have been trapped under the rubble himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Investigation and legal proceedings, Arrests and charges\nWithin days of the explosion Kurd, Hassan and Ali were arrested and on 3 March were charged with manslaughter and arson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 82], "content_span": [83, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Investigation and legal proceedings, Arrests and charges\nOn 31 August, the trio were charged with murder; the Crown Prosecution Service later stated: \"At an early stage there was sufficient evidence that Kurd, Ali and Hassan were responsible for the explosion and therefore the deaths of the victims, so they were initially charged with arson and manslaughter. As the investigation progressed, it became clear that their intention was to kill\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 82], "content_span": [83, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Investigation and legal proceedings, Arrests and charges\nIn October, they were charged with fraudulently trying to benefit from an insurance scam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 82], "content_span": [83, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Investigation and legal proceedings, Trial\nKurd, Hassan and Ali stood trial at Leicester Crown Court beginning in November 2018. The trial lasted for five weeks. They were each assisted by a Kurdish interpreter throughout and they pleaded not guilty to all charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Investigation and legal proceedings, Trial\nBoth Hassan and Ali took the stand in their defence. Hassan maintained throughout examination that he knew nothing about either the insurance scam or the setting of the fire. He claimed not to have seen the explosion, despite his close proximity to the scene at the relevant time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Investigation and legal proceedings, Trial\nAli also maintained his innocence throughout examination; despite CCTV images showing that the car in which he was a passenger was close by after the blast, he claimed not to have seen or heard the explosion. When asked about the plan to kill Ijevleva he stated: \u201cIt\u2019s not possible. Who would accept to do a horrific thing like this?\u201d. Both claimed they only became aware of the explosion the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Investigation and legal proceedings, Trial\nDuring the trial, Prosecutor David Herbert QC told the court that Viktorija Ijevleva had helped obtain insurance for the shop, but was left to die because \"she knew too much\" about the scam. The court also heard that, while on remand, Kurd told a fellow inmate that he didn't want to split the proceeds with Ijevleva and he thought the insurance firm would pay out more if people died. It was further claimed that both Kurd and Ali were aware that the Ragoobeer family were in residence at the time they set the fire and that, due to the quantity of petrol and accelerants used, they must have known that the occupants would die.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Investigation and legal proceedings, Convictions and sentencing\nOn 28 December 2018, Kurd, Ali and Hassan were unanimously convicted of five counts of murder. They were also convicted of fraudulently conspiring with Viktorija Ijevleva to make a financial gain by dishonestly pursuing an insurance claim in respect of the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 89], "content_span": [90, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Investigation and legal proceedings, Convictions and sentencing\nOn 18 January 2019 Kurd, Ali and Hassan were sentenced to life imprisonment. Ali and Kurd must serve at least 38 years and Hassan at least 33 years. Kurd and Ali also received a 7-year concurrent sentence for conspiracy to commit fraud, Hassan received 4 years for the same.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 89], "content_span": [90, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Investigation and legal proceedings, Convictions and sentencing\nSpeaking at the sentencing hearing, Leah Reek\u2019s mother stated: \u201cSeeing the men on trial showing no remorse truly broke our hearts \u2013 they seem to have no value for human life\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 89], "content_span": [90, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Investigation and legal proceedings, Convictions and sentencing\n\"None of the defendants has shown the slightest bit of remorse for their wicked crimes. They were exceptionally callous and deceitful. They pretended to be concerned about the victims and even to grieve for Ms Ijevleva. Kurd had his prepared story ready for the media and the police. Ali and Hassan pretended to comfort and help the mother of Ms Ijevleva. In truth all three were only concerned to try and save their own skins. They repeatedly lied both inside and outside court\". \"I am sure that it was during that meeting (of 24 February 2018) that all three agreed that Ms Ijevleva should die in the fire, so that she would not receive any of the insurance monies\";", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 89], "content_span": [90, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, Investigation and legal proceedings, Convictions and sentencing\nCommenting after the trial, Craig Kelly, Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University, told the BBC: \"As far as we are aware, this is the first mass murder in the UK which was caused by an explosive device specifically for monetary gain.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 89], "content_span": [90, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, The Ragoobeer family & Leah Reek\nJose Ragoobeer lived with his family in the flat above the Zabka convenience store, he was at work at the time of the incident. His wife, Mary Ragoobar,* their sons Scott (15), Sean (17) and Shane Ragoobeer*(18) and Leah Reek (18), Shane's girlfriend, were in the flat above the shop at the time of the explosion. Scott was the only survivor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, The Ragoobeer family & Leah Reek\nJose and Mary were married for 22 years and were originally from Mauritius. Their sons attended English Martyrs Catholic School in Leicester. Leah worked as a volunteer at a hospice and was due to start an Adult Nursing course at University, she hoped to become a palliative nurse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, The Ragoobeer family & Leah Reek\nThe Ragoobeer family funeral was held at Leicester Cathedral on 20 April 2019; hundreds of people attended and family members travelled from Mauritius for the service. Jose Ragoobeer spoke of how powerless he felt at seeing the devastation that the explosion that killed his family caused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280559-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester explosion, The Ragoobeer family & Leah Reek\n(*Note: surname is spelt Ragoobar for Mary, but Ragoobeer for her sons and husband", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash\nAn AgustaWestland AW169 helicopter crashed shortly after take-off from King Power Stadium, home ground of Leicester City F.C. in Leicester, England on 27 October 2018. All people on board\u2014the pilot and four passengers, including club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha\u2014were killed in the crash. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch attributed the crash to a loss of yaw control owing to a failure of the tail rotor control linkage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, History of the flight\nVichai frequently travelled to and from Leicester City's matches at the King Power Stadium in the helicopter, with the Leicester Mercury describing it as \"a familiar sight for Foxes fans.\" On 27 October, the helicopter departed Fairoaks Airport in Surrey with the pilot and his girlfriend on board. It stopped at London Heliport to collect three additional passengers \u2014 Srivaddhanaprabha and two members of his staff \u2014 before departing at 14:43 BST (13:43 UTC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, History of the flight\nIt arrived at the Leicester City Football Club Training Ground on Belvoir Drive, 1.5 miles (2\u00a0km) south of the King Power Stadium at 15:58 BST (14:58 UTC). All on board disembarked and traveled by car to the stadium for Leicester's game against West Ham United. The pilot and his girlfriend returned after the football match concluded and then, as was usual, flew the helicopter to the stadium to collect Srivaddhanaprabha and his two staff members. The helicopter was seen preparing to lift off from the pitch live on BT Sport, during a post-match broadcast. By this point, the coach carrying the West Ham team had departed, but some Leicester City staff and players were still in the stadium, while there remained fans of both clubs in areas outside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Accident\nWith Vichai, the pilot and three other people on board, the helicopter took off from within the stadium at approximately 20:37 BST (19:37 UTC). As the pilot turned the helicopter towards its en-route heading, the tail rotor control linkage broke, sending the helicopter into an uncontrollable spin. One witness described the aircraft falling \"like a stone to the floor\". It struck the ground in stadium Car Park E, about 200 metres (220\u00a0yd) from the stadium, and burst into flames. Two police officers and club staff leaving the stadium attempted to rescue those in the helicopter but had to retreat due to the heat and flames. Investigators ruled out a suggestion of a collision with a police drone as a possible cause.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Accident\nThe following day, Leicestershire Police confirmed that everybody on board had been killed in the crash and subsequent fire, and named the five fatalities. They were three Thais: club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and two members of his staff \u2013 Kaveporn Punpare and Nusara Suknamai, British pilot Eric Swaffer, and his Polish girlfriend, Izabela Roza Lechowicz. A small memorial has been erected at East Sheen Cemetery for these two pilots. There were no casualties elsewhere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Accident\nTwo police officers, Michael Hooper and Stephen Quartermain, suffered burns and smoke inhalation attempting to rescue the occupants, and subsequently were nominated for a national police bravery award as well as receiving Queen's Gallantry Medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft involved in the accident was an AgustaWestland AW169 helicopter, registration G-VSKP, c/n 69018, manufactured in 2016. It seated 10 people and weighed roughly 4,500 kilograms (9,900\u00a0lb). It was powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW210A engines. The aircraft was owned by Foxborough and operated by Amadeus Aviation. This was the first crash and hull loss involving the AW169.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Investigation\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) opened an investigation into the accident. Italy's Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo, representing the state of the manufacturer of the helicopter, and Canada's Transportation Safety Board, representing the state of the manufacturer of the helicopter's engines, provided assistance. Accredited representatives from Poland's State Commission on Aircraft Accidents Investigation and Thailand's Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee also provided assistance. The aircraft's Digital Flight Data Recorder was recovered on 28 October, having been severely damaged in the fire. It was transported to the AAIB's base at Farnborough, Hampshire, for downloading of data contained therein. The wreckage of the helicopter was transported to Farnborough on 2 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Investigation\nA coroner's court was created to investigate the official cause of death for the passengers and crew of the helicopter. The investigation reported in the court revealed that there was minimal opportunity for any individuals who survived the initial crash to escape, or anyone to help those trapped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Investigation\nOn 7 November, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued an Airworthiness Directive, demanding checks of the tails of all AgustaWestland AW169 and AgustaWestland AW189 helicopters, as a precautionary measure. On 14 November, the AAIB released a Special Bulletin, outlining the progress of the investigation. A loss of yaw control was revealed as the cause of the aircraft crashing, with the reasons for the loss of yaw control not yet determined. On 30 November, the EASA issued an Emergency Alert Service Bulletin requiring periodic inspection of part of the tail rotor system. This was made mandatory by an Airworthiness Directive issued the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Investigation\nOn 6 December 2018, the AAIB published a second Special Bulletin. Investigators revealed that loss of control of the helicopter resulted from the tail rotor actuator control shaft (which controls the pitch of the tail rotor blades) becoming disconnected from the actuator lever mechanism that transmits the pilots' pedal inputs to control the helicopter's yaw. They have also revealed evidence of the normally stationary control shaft being spun by the tail rotor which caused the castellated nut holding the actuator lever in place to friction weld to its carrier, shear off its split pin and rotate off the threaded shaft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Investigation\nThe locking nut and pin carrier were found loose in the tail rotor fairing and were bonded together. A duplex bearing that was designed to allow the control shaft to remain stationary (with the rest of the tail rotor assembly rotating around it) was found to only allow a few degrees of rotation, with the races blocked up by a mix of burnt grease and metallic particles. Work continues to identify the cause of the damage observed to the duplex bearing and to establish its contribution to the failure sequence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Responses\nFans began to lay flowers and football shirts outside the ground the next morning. Shirts and scarves were also seen from other teams including West Ham United, Leicester City's opponent in the match prior to the crash. On 30 October, Leicester City opened a book of condolence, with an online version also available. In the immediate aftermath of the accident, some buildings were floodlit in blue as a tribute to the victims, including England's national stadium, Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Responses\nThe Leicester City Foxes Foundation Charity was renamed The Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Foundation in honour of the deceased chairman and owner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Responses\nOn 10 November Leicester City fans took part in a '5,000-1' walk in united remembrance of the helicopter crash victims. Thousands of fans took part in the memorial walk before Leicester City played Burnley at home. The initial appeal was for 5,000 fans to take part, though reports suggested the number was about 10,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Responses, Football\nThe 2018\u201319 FA Women's Championship match between Leicester City and Manchester United, scheduled for the day after the crash, was postponed out of respect for the victims. The women's reserve league match against Derby County was also postponed. Leicester City's 2018\u201319 EFL Cup fixture against Southampton, which had been scheduled to take place at the King Power Stadium on 30 October 2018, and the 2018\u201319 Premier League International Cup fixture between Leicester City U-23s and Feyenoord Academy, were also subsequently postponed. The 2018\u201319 Belgian First Division B fixture between Oud-Heverlee Leuven, the second club owned by Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, and Lommel, originally scheduled for 31 October, was also postponed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Responses, Football\nAt the other Premier League football fixtures on Sunday, players wore black armbands, both for the crash victims and for Remembrance Day, though a few days earlier than Remembrance armbands are usually worn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280560-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Leicester helicopter crash, Responses, Football\nThe NFL London series match between the Philadelphia Eagles and Jacksonville Jaguars taking place at Wembley stadium the next day included a pre-game tribute in memory of both the Leicester crash and the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting which occurred on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280561-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Leinster Senior Football Championship was the 2018 installment of the annual Leinster Senior Football Championship organised by Leinster GAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280561-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Football Championship\nDublin, the defending champions, won their eighth consecutive championship title, defeating Laois in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280561-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Football Championship, Teams\nThe Leinster championship is contested by 11 of the 12 counties in the Irish province of Leinster. Kilkenny is the only county to not compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280562-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship is the 2018 installment of the annual Leinster Senior Hurling Championship organised by Leinster GAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280562-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship\nGalway won a second consecutive title and third ever by defeating Kilkenny in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280562-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nA new provincial hurling championship featuring five-team round-robin groups in both Leinster and Munster and the new Joe McDonagh Cup was introduced in 2018 for an initial three-year period. The proposal was carried by a narrow margin with 62% voting in favour (a majority of at least 60% was required) at the GAA's Special Congress on 30 September 2017. The top two teams in each provincial group would contest the provincial final, with the provincial winners advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals and the losing provincial finalists advancing to the two quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280562-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nAn amendment to the motion from Laois, Offaly and Meath was carried by 87%. The third-placed teams in Leinster and Munster would compete in All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals against the two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists, with the Joe McDonagh Cup teams having home advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280562-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nIf a non-Munster team were to win the Joe McDonagh Cup, the bottom team in the Leinster championship would be relegated to the following year's Joe McDonagh Cup and would be replaced in the following year's Leinster championship by the Joe McDonagh Cup winners. If a Munster team were to win the Joe McDonagh Cup, they would play off against the team who finished bottom in the Munster championship for the right to play in the following year's Munster championship, thereby ensuring that only Munster teams compete in the Munster championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280562-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nThe restructure of hurling involved the reduction of the Leinster championship from nine teams to five while the Munster championship continued with the previous five Munster teams (Kerry previously competed in the qualifier group of the Leinster championship). A six-team Joe McDonagh Cup was created, consisting of all four teams from the 2017 Leinster qualifier group plus Antrim and Carlow, the 2017 Christy Ring Cup finalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280562-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, Teams\nThe Leinster championship was contested by four counties from the Irish province of Leinster, as well as one county from the Irish province of Connacht, where the sport is only capable of supporting one county team at this level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280562-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, Final\nThe winners advanced to the All-Ireland semi-finals and the losers advanced to the All-Ireland quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280563-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Final, the deciding game of the 2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, was a hurling match played on 1 July 2018 at Croke Park, Dublin. It was contested by Kilkenny and defending champions Galway. The first game ended in a draw with Galway winning the replay a week later. The Galway captain was David Burke and Cathal Mannion was named as the man of the match for the replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280563-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build-Up\nTickets for the final went on sale on 15 June and ranged in price from \u20ac35 to \u20ac40 in the stand and \u20ac25 in hill 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280563-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build-Up\nThe drawn match and replay were shown live on RT\u00c9 One as part of The Sunday Game Live.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280563-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build-Up\nThe final of the 2018 Joe McDonagh Cup took place before the drawn final at Croke Park and was won by Carlow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280564-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Leitrim Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Leitrim Senior Football Championship was the 112th edition of Leitrim GAA's premier gaelic football tournament for senior clubs in County Leitrim, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Leitrim in the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280564-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Leitrim Senior Football Championship\nMohill were the defending champions after they defeated Glencar\u2013Manorhamilton in the previous years final. However the successful defence of their title was scuppered in the final when losing to rivals Aughawillan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280564-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Leitrim Senior Football Championship\nAughnasheelin made their return to the senior grade after 8 seasons in the Intermediate grade by winning the 2017 Leitrim Intermediate Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280564-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Leitrim Senior Football Championship\nOn 14 October 2018 Aughawillan claimed their 12th S.F.C. crown and first since 2016 when defeating the defending champions Mohill in the final by 0-14 to 1-9 at P\u00e1irc Se\u00e1n Mac Diarmada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280564-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Leitrim Senior Football Championship\nBornacoola were relegated to the 2019 I.F.C. after losing the relegation final to St. Patrick's Dromahair. Their 21 years in the top-flight of Leitrim club football spanned back to 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280564-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Leitrim Senior Football Championship, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280564-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Leitrim Senior Football Championship, Group Stage\nAll 12 teams enter the competition at this stage. The top 4 teams in both groups proceed to the Quarter-Finals. The 5th and 6th placed teams in each group will enter a Relegation Playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280565-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lennox and Addington County municipal elections\nElections were held in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280565-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lennox and Addington County municipal elections, Lennox and Addington County Council\nThe County Council consists of the three municipal reeves, mayor of Greater Napanee and the three deputy reeves and the Deputy Reeve of Greater Napanee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 89], "content_span": [90, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280566-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Letran Knights men's basketball team\nThe 2018 Letran Knights men's basketball team represented Colegio de San Juan de Letran in the 94th season of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the Philippines. The men's basketball tournament for the school year 2018-19 began on July 7, 2018, and the host school for the season was the University of Perpetual Help System DALTA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280566-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Letran Knights men's basketball team\nThe Knights finished the double round-robin eliminations at third place with 13 wins against 5 losses. They went on to the Final Four for the first time in three years since winning their 17th championship in the 91st season, but eliminated by the second-seed Lyceum Pirates, who had a twice-to-beat advantage over them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280566-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Letran Knights men's basketball team\nOutgoing Knight and team captain Bong Quinto was named one of the Mythical Five members and Larry Muyang bagged the Rookie of the Year award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280566-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Letran Knights men's basketball team, Coaching staff\nCoach Jeff Napa went on his third year as the head coach of the Knights. He was joined on the sidelines with Leo Pujante, Jay Agleron, Chico Manabat, and Letran Squires head coach RJ Guevarra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280566-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Letran Knights men's basketball team, Coaching staff\nThis season also saw the San Miguel Corporation as the primary sponsor of the Letran sports program. Letran officials then appointed San Miguel Corporation sports director and Letran alumnus Alfrancis Chua as Special Assistant to the Rector for Sports Development.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280566-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Letran Knights men's basketball team, NCAA Season 94 games results\nElimination games were played in a double round-robin format. All games were aired on ABS-CBN Sports and Action & iWantTFC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280567-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger\nThe 2018 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard court. It was the 25th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Binghamton, United States between 23 and 29 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280567-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 92], "content_span": [93, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280567-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 92], "content_span": [93, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280567-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 92], "content_span": [93, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280568-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nDenis Kudla and Daniel Nguyen were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280568-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nGerard Granollers and Marcel Granollers won the title after defeating Alejandro G\u00f3mez and Caio Silva 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280569-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger \u2013 Singles\nCameron Norrie was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280569-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger \u2013 Singles\nJay Clarke won the title after defeating Jordan Thompson 6\u20137(6\u20138), 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election\nA by-election was held in the UK Parliament constituency of Lewisham East on 14 June 2018, following the resignation of Labour MP Heidi Alexander. It was the second by-election held during the 57th UK Parliament, which was elected in June 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election\nThe election was won by Janet Daby of the Labour Party with 50.2% of the vote, on a significantly reduced majority for her party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Background\nOn 8 May 2018, the incumbent Labour MP Heidi Alexander announced her appointment as London Deputy Mayor for Transport, a role that required her to stand down from the House of Commons. On 9 May she was appointed Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, an office of profit under the Crown, which legally formalised her resignation from Parliament. She served as the MP for Lewisham East for eight years, having first been elected at the 2010 general election. She served in Labour's Shadow Cabinet until 2016, and was an active campaigner for the United Kingdom to remain in the single market after Brexit. She had been critical of Labour's leadership, describing it as \"dysfunctional\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Background\nThe Lewisham East constituency had been represented by MPs from the Labour Party since 1992, and was considered a safe seat for the party. The constituency was within the London Borough of Lewisham, in which the Labour Party won every single seat at the local elections in 2018. The seat had an active branch of Momentum, a left-wing pressure group dedicated to supporting the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. Lewisham London Borough Council administered the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Background\nIn the 2016 referendum, the Borough of Lewisham, of which the constituency is a part, voted to remain in the European Union. Through demographic modelling, the Remain vote in the Lewisham East constituency was estimated as 66% by Number Cruncher Politics and as 65% by Chris Hanretty at Royal Holloway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Candidates\nThe Labour Party selected Lewisham deputy mayor nominee Janet Daby as its candidate. She had a background in social care and managed a food poverty charity. The Conservative Party selected Ross Archer, who contested the borough mayoralty in May 2018. His campaign was focused on housing, education, policing and the zoning of Grove Park railway station. The Liberal Democrats announced their candidate as Lucy Salek, a humanitarian worker and consultant who had stood in Lewisham Council elections, and contested Southend West in the 2017 general election. They intended to use the by-election to \"send a message to the Labour leadership about Brexit\", with party leader Vince Cable aiming to \"cut the majority substantially\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Candidates\nThe Green Party's candidate was secondary school teacher and clean air campaigner Rosamund Kissi-Debrah. She stood on a platform of reducing air pollution, improving local schools and for British people to \"have a final say on Europe\". The UK Independence Party (UKIP) announced on 14 May that London Assembly Member David Kurten would stand as its candidate. He pledged to campaign for \"full Brexit\" and for a \"tough stance on policing and crime\". For Britain announced on 12 May that party leader Anne Marie Waters would stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Candidates\nIn the 2015 general election Waters stood as the UKIP candidate for Lewisham East and polled in third place. The Women's Equality Party announced on 17 May its intention to stand Mandu Reid, a Lewisham resident and founder of The Cup Effect, a women's menstrual health NGO. Democrats and Veterans announced that Massimo DiMambro, who was the UKIP candidate in Lewisham Deptford in the 2015 general election, would be their candidate. The Official Monster Raving Loony Party announced that its leader, Howling Laud Hope, would be its candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Candidates, Labour Party selection process\nThe Labour selection was reported in the media as revealing splits in the Labour Party. This was the first by-election contested by the party since Jennie Formby took over as general secretary, which led to speculation that centrist candidates might be excluded. The Lewisham East Labour Left caucus group called for a socialist MP who would \"campaign for...a left-wing government with Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister\". On 10 May 2018, Ian McKenzie, chair of the Constituency Labour Party (CLP), emailed members concerned that the National Executive Committee (NEC) was rushing the selection to prevent them having their say.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Candidates, Labour Party selection process\nPotential left-wing candidates included Sakina Sheikh, GMB trade union organiser Nadine Houghton, and NEC member Claudia Webbe. Other potential candidates were Joe Dromey (son of Labour MPs Harriet Harman and Jack Dromey), and Kevin Bonavia. UK Black Pride founder Phyll Opoku-Gyimah was also considered a potential candidate, especially in the event of an all-woman and entirely black and minority ethnic shortlist, but ruled herself out on 13 May, citing an \"unexpected situation\" in her family. Members who declared that they would stand included Sheikh, Bonavia, and Brenda Dacres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Candidates, Labour Party selection process\nOn 14 May the NEC announced a shortlist of Webbe, Dacres, Lewisham councillor Janet Daby and Sheikh, all women from ethnic minorities. McKenzie was said to be delighted by the inclusion of Dacres and Daby. Sheikh received the endorsement of Momentum, whilst Webbe was endorsed by the trade unions Unite and the Communication Workers Union. Daby received the support of Unison. Dacres withdrew on 18 May and endorsed Daby, citing \"recently diagnosed health reasons\". The remaining candidates expressed differing views over Brexit, with Daby pledging to fight for the UK to remain in the customs union and the single market, whilst Sheikh and Webbe expressed their opposition to a second referendum or continued membership of the single market.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Candidates, Labour Party selection process\nSheikh was temporarily withdrawn from the ballot prior to the selection meeting, following accusations that she had supported a rival political organisation, but was reinstated minutes later. Daby went on to be selected by local members on 19 May, receiving 63% of the vote in the first round, with Sheikh receiving 29% and Webbe 8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Campaign\nOn 22 May, McKenzie, credited with having secured the Labour candidature for Daby which he claimed had \"humiliated\" Momentum and Unite, was suspended as chair of the CLP and is facing possible disciplinary action over tweets from 2015 and 2016 about Emily Thornberry and ISIS. These were uncovered by left-wing writer Owen Jones, who McKenzie had suggested should keep away from the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Campaign\nThe Liberal Democrats announced their opposition to plans by Lewisham Council to seize the land of Millwall FC's youth academy for redevelopment. Party leader Vince Cable visited the academy in late May; the party's candidate, Lucy Salek, announced that the land should be used for social housing if the redevelopment plans went ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Campaign\nA UKIP leaflet titled 'Stop the Khanage', which blamed the high levels of knife crime in London on the Labour Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was criticised by Vicky Foxcroft, the MP for the neighbouring constituency of Lewisham Deptford, and Mandu Reid, the WEP candidate in the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Campaign\nOn 11 June 2018, three days before the by-election, a vote estimate by the Liberal Democrats on the basis of canvassing data suggested that the party would finish second with 25% of the vote, with Labour on 49% and the Conservatives on 16%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Campaign\nOn 12 June 2018, police shut down a by-election hustings in Catford, leading to one arrest, after it was disrupted by anti-racism protesters led by Stand Up to Racism and Lewisham Anti- Racist Action Group. The protesters intended to target Anne Marie Waters, who did not attend the event on police advice. Daby and Archer were also absent from the hustings, citing other engagements; Daby had previously refused to share a platform with Waters. The protest was criticised by Salek and Reid. Prior to the event, Foxcroft and Damien Egan, the Mayor of Lewisham, had called for Waters to be No Platformed at the hustings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Result\nThe result was the largest swing from Labour to the Liberal Democrats since 2004. The Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable said: \"This result sends a message to the Labour leadership that it cannot take pro-European voters for granted.\" The Guardian and Evening Standard reported the result as a \"surge\" for the Liberal Democrats, which was widely reported as being related to the party's opposition to Brexit. After being elected, Daby reaffirmed her opposition to a \"hard\" Brexit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280570-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham East by-election, Previous result\nHeidi Alexander was re-elected to a third term of office in 2017, with an increased majority of 21,123 (44.8%) over the Conservative candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280571-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham London Borough Council election\nElections for Lewisham London Borough Council were held on 3 May 2018, the same day as for other London Boroughs. All 54 seats were up for election. The Labour Party won all 54 seats in a landslide victory, winning 60% of the popular vote. The Green Party lost their sole council seat, leaving the party without representation on Lewisham Borough Council for the first time in 16 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280571-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Brockley\nJohn Coughlin was the sole Opposition councillor (2014-2018) and subsequently lost his seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280571-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Catford South\nIn June 2019, Smith left the Labour in opposition to Jeremy Corbyn, the then Leader of the party. He now sits as an Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280571-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham London Borough Council election, 2018-2022 by-elections\nThe by-election was called following the resignation of Councillor Alex Feis-Bryce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280571-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham London Borough Council election, 2018-2022 by-elections\nThe by-election was called following the resignation of Councillor Janet Daby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings\nThe Lewisham train strandings occurred on 2 March 2018 in the area of Lewisham, St. John's and New Cross stations during snowy and cold weather. Eleven trains were involved. Passengers abandoned five of the trains due to issues including a lack of communication, heating and toilets. No injuries were reported. Network Rail and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch conducted investigations into the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Previous strandings, Huntingdon\nIn June 2005, a passenger train became stranded near Huntingdon for two hours. Conditions quickly became uncomfortable for the passengers on board. The Rail Safety and Standards Board subsequently conducted research into conditions on a stranded train with inoperable air conditioning. It concluded that conditions would become uncomfortable after 40\u201350 minutes, and intolerable after 70\u201390 minutes. Opening doors on the train would mean that conditions would be tolerable for up to five hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Previous strandings, Aviemore\nOn 31 March 2010, a passenger train became stranded in snow between Carrbridge and Slochd, Highland. More than 100 passengers had to be rescued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Previous strandings, Foxton\nIn October 2010, a passenger train operated by First Capital Connect (FCC) became stranded at Foxton. The incident occurred at 16:44 hours. Conditions on board rapidly deteriorated, with temperatures reaching 37\u00a0\u00b0C (99\u00a0\u00b0F). Some passengers abandoned the train after 60 minutes, others broke windows after 2 hours. Passengers were rescued by using another service train drawing up alongside the broken down train, but it could only take 100 of the 375 passengers. A second train rescued the remaining passengers at 20:20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Previous strandings, Orpington\nIn November 2010, a Southeastern passenger train became stranded near Orpington. Passengers remained on the train overnight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Previous strandings, Kentish Town\nOn 26 May 2011, a passenger train formed of two Class 377 electric multiple units operated by FCC experienced pantograph damage and broke down between Dock Junction and Kentish Town whilst operating a service from Brighton to Bedford. The train was carrying 472 passengers. It took three hours for the failed train to be rescued. Absence of power meant that throughout this time, air conditioning and toilets on the train were inoperative. After 45 minutes the public address system failed, which prevented the driver from keeping the passengers informed of the situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Previous strandings, Kentish Town\nThey then resorted to breaking windows and forcing doors open in an effort to alleviate their discomfort. The lack of communication caused some passengers to abandon the train and start walking along the track towards nearby Kentish Town station. When the train was eventually moved, and having been authorised to do so, the driver overrode a number of safety systems, leading to the train being moved with at least two doors open whilst passengers were on board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Previous strandings, Kentish Town\nFCC policy at the time was that an evacuation of a train should be considered after 60 minutes and must have commenced within 90 minutes of a stranding. A Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) investigation found that FCC had failed to implement lessons learned from earlier train strandings. FCC were prosecuted by the Office of Rail and Road for offences under Section 3 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and fined \u00a375,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Previous strandings, South Croydon\nOn 4 June 2011, a passenger train was brought to a halt near South Croydon by the emergency braking system following activation of the passenger communication device. Some passengers abandoned the train after 30 minutes. One of them suffered severe burns when she came into contact with the third rail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Previous strandings, Peckham Rye\nOn 7 November 2017, a Class 378 electric multiple unit became stranded 30 metres (98\u00a0ft) short of Peckham Rye station due to a fault causing the brakes to lock on. About 80 of the 450 passengers were evacuated with the third rail still live. No injuries occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Previous strandings, Dorset \u2013 Hampshire border\nOn 1 March 2018, three passenger trains operated by South Western Railway (SWR) became stranded at Beaulieu Road, Hinton Admiral and New Milton in Dorset and Hampshire in snowy weather. Weather conditions hampered evacuation of the trains, which was not accomplished until the following morning. Passengers spent up to 14 hours on the stranded trains. Complaints were made of a lack of communication from SWR, a lack of heating and toilet facilities. A train operated by CrossCountry was also stranded in the area. Passengers praised the way CrossCountry staff dealt with the situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 78], "content_span": [79, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Previous strandings, Haltwhistle\nOn 1 March 2018, a passenger train became stranded in snow near Haltwhistle, Northumberland. Passengers had to be rescued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident\nOn 2 March 2018, eleven passenger trains operated by Southeastern became stranded in the Lewisham, St Johns and New Cross area in weather conditions of snow and freezing rain. Due to a lack of communication with passengers, a lack of heating and lack of toilets, passengers abandoned five of the nine trains. The eleven trains involved comprised at least 22 electric multiple units. Two of the units had no toilets, and five of the remaining twenty-plus were operating with toilets that were not in service. Four people were treated for minor injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nTrain 2M48 came to a stand after passing Lewisham station, unable to draw power as the third rail was affected by freezing rain. The train comprised two Class 465 and one Class 466 electric multiple units and was operating the 15:56 Charing Cross to Dartford service which had departed 67 minutes late and was running 80 minutes late when it came to a stand. The units involved were 465 003, 465 164 and 466 024.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nTrain 2M50 came to a stand approaching Lewisham due to 2M48 being at a stand ahead. The train comprised two Class 376 electric multiple units, which did not have onboard toilets. It was operating the 16:26 Charing Cross to Dartford service which had departed 47 minutes late and was running 54 minutes late when it came to a stand. The units involved were 376 002 and 376 035.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nTrain 2S54 came to a stand opposite St Johns station. It comprised three Class 465 units and was operating the 17:06 Charing Cross to Orpington service which had departed 17 minutes late and was running 17 minutes late when it came to a stand. The train came to a stand with its rear carriages blocking Tanners Hill Junction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nTrain 2R46 came to a stand between New Cross and St Johns. Train 2V07 came to a stand at St. Johns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nTrain 2H50 came to a stand near New Cross. The train comprised two Class 465 and one Class 466 units and was operating the 17:30 Charing Cross to Tunbridge Wells service which had departed on time and was running 1 minute early when it came to a stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nTrain 2H00 came to a stand approaching Tanners Hill Junction, which was blocked by train 2S54.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nTrain 2S56 came to a stand west of New Cross. The train comprised two Class 465 units and was operating the 17:36 Charing Cross to Slade Green service which had departed one minute late and was running to time when it came to a stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nTrain 2H02 came to a stand approaching the flyover at St Johns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nNetwork Rail called out a Mobile Operations Manager (MOM) to de-ice the third rail and get 2M48 moving again. It was planned to terminate the train at Blackheath. Until 2M48 had been moved, other trains were unable to proceed, including 2M50, which was being held at a signal in sight of Lewisham station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nThe MOM arrived on site. An emergency power isolation was made to the up and down North Kent Lines to enable the third rail to be de-iced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nTrain 2K43 became stranded at Lewisham station due to the emergency power isolation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nThe MOM reported that passengers had abandoned 2M50 and walking along the track to Lewisham station. An emergency power isolation was made covering all lines between North Kent East Junction and School Junction, Blackheath Junction to Nunhead, Courthill Junction and Tanners Hill. 2M50 had been at a stand for 67 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nSome passengers abandoned 2S56, which had been at a stand for 72 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nSome passengers abandoned 2M48, which had been at a stand for 92 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nMore passengers abandoned 2S56. Not reported until 19:40 as the driver was dealing with a passenger who had been taken ill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nSome passengers abandoned 2H50, which had been at a stand for 109 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, The incident, Timeline\nMore passengers abandoned 2M48, which had been at a stand for 168 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Criticism\nThere was widespread criticism of the incident and the way it was handled. Southeastern also issued its own criticism of passengers who abandoned trains, describing them as \"trespassers\". Rail Magazine criticised Southeastern for swearing in a tweet responding to a query from a passenger on one of the stranded trains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Criticism\nPassengers on board 2M50, which had no toilets and had been held within sight of Lewisham station, complained of the conditions on board. People were wetting and soiling themselves as there was no other option. They also complained that the train was being held in sight of the station and wondered why it could not be cleared into the platform. An investigation by Rail revealed that the driver had asked for such permission, but that the power had been switched off before this could be authorised and arranged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Criticism\nOther passengers complained of a lack of heating and lighting when the power had been cut off. One passenger wrote a detailed account of being stranded on 2M50, describing how conditions deteriorated on board the packed train, and criticising Southeastern for not following Rail Delivery Group guidance in respect of stranded trains, which states that evacuation of a stranded train should be commenced after an hour and completed within two hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Investigations, Network Rail and Southeastern\nNetwork Rail and Southeastern commissioned consultants Arthur D Little and Southwood Rail Consulting to conduct an investigation into the incident. The report, released on 23 August, was highly critical of Southeastern and Network Rail finding that the rail industry's inadequate procedures were not fully followed, and that communication between the various parties involved did not adequately support effective management of the incident. Seventeen recommendations were made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 77], "content_span": [78, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Investigations, Rail Accident Investigation Branch\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) opened an investigation into the incident. It published its final report on 25 March 2019. Five recommendations were made and two learning points were identified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Investigations, Rail Accident Investigation Branch\nThe report found that neither train 2M48 been declared as failed, nor had train 2M50 had been declared as stranded. Train 2M48 had difficulty in starting from Lewisham because no de-icing fluid had been applied to the conductor rail since 22:34 on 1 March. De-icing fluid had an effective time of twelve hours. Due to the emergency timetable that had been implemented and late running trains, no train had passed over that section of line for about 90 minutes. No supplementary treatment of the conductor rail had been carried out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Investigations, Rail Accident Investigation Branch\nThe signalling manager at London Bridge Control Centre was not sure that he had the authority to allow train 2M50 to pass signal L445 at danger under permissive working to allow it into the platform at Lewisham when he did have such authority. The decision to allow train 2M50 past signal L253 prevented it from being re-routed once train 2M48 experienced difficulty in starting from Lewisham. The management of the incident by Southeastern was not effective. Passenger communications via Twitter showed that the situation was rapidly deteriorating. There was no strategy to avoid trains being stranded between stations, whereas on the London Underground network, the policy is to hold trains at stations when there is disruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280572-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Lewisham train strandings, Response\nNetwork Rail and Southeastern issued a joint statement following the release of the RAIB's final report. Amongst measures introduced following the incident were better training for staff, the installation of heated conductor rails in some locations, introduction of more efficient de-icer for the conductor rails, improved radios for staff, the introduction of ice breaking shoes on some electric multiple units.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280573-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lexington, Kentucky mayoral election\nThe 2018 Lexington, Kentucky mayoral election was held on May 22, 2018 and November 6, 2018 to elect the mayor of Lexington, Kentucky. It saw the election of Linda Gorton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280574-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election\nA leadership election was held on 20 September 2018 to elect the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan for a new 3-year term. Incumbent president Shinzo Abe was running for re-election after a rule change in 2017 that allowed him to run for a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280574-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election\nAbe's victory effectively hands him three more years as prime minister, giving him the chance of breaking the record for the nation's longest-serving prime ministership held by Taro Katsura, a revered politician who served three times between 1901 and 1913. Abe stayed in office through 21 November 2019, which equals 2,886 days marked by Katsura. He also served the longest uninterrupted term by 24 August 2020, ahead of Eisaku Sat\u014d's 2,797 days. He resigned on 28 August 2020 due to health concerns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280574-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election, Background, Scandals\nIn March 2018, it was revealed that the Finance Ministry (with finance minister Tar\u014d As\u014d at its head) had falsified documents presented to the parliament in relation to the Moritomo Gakuen scandal, to remove 14 passages implicating Abe. It has been suggested that the scandal could cost Abe his seat as the Liberal Democratic Party's leader. A Kyodo poll showed the Japanese government popularity's has fallen as low as 30% from 44% in February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 79], "content_span": [80, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills\nLeadership spills of the federal parliamentary leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia were held on 21 and 24 August 2018 and were called by the incumbent leader of the party, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills\nTurnbull called the first spill in a regularly scheduled party room meeting of the Liberal Party on 21 August, amid media reports that Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton was considering a challenge. Dutton submitted himself as a candidate for the leadership, but was defeated by Turnbull, who won the ballot 48 votes to 35. Dutton then immediately resigned from the ministry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills\nDutton requested a second spill motion two days later. Turnbull refused to call the spill without first receiving a list of signatures representing the majority of his Party room, and referred Dutton to the Attorney General's office to test his eligibility to sit in Parliament. He declared that if Dutton had the numbers to carry a spill motion, he would take it as a vote of no confidence and not stand to contest the leadership. Dutton secured the numbers for a spill and Turnbull did not re-contest the leadership, opening the way for supporters Scott Morrison and Julie Bishop to stand against Dutton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills\nDutton, Treasurer Morrison and Foreign Minister Bishop contested the ballot. Bishop was eliminated in the first round of voting, and in the second round Morrison defeated Dutton by 45 votes to 40, thereby becoming the leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Australia. A ballot for the deputy leadership of the party also occurred and was won by Josh Frydenberg, who was subsequently appointed Treasurer in the Morrison Government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nThe Liberal-National Coalition won office under the leadership of Tony Abbott in the 2013 Australian federal election. The Abbott Government was brought down by an internal party room challenge, launched by Malcolm Turnbull in September 2015, in which Turnbull won 54 votes of the Liberal Party room to 44 and the Turnbull Government became the executive government of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nTurnbull cited Newspoll results and \"economic leadership\" as reasons for mounting his challenge against Abbott. Under the slogan \"jobs and growth,\" Turnbull led the Coalition to the 2016 election in which their majority in the House of Representatives was reduced to one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nTurnbull's ousting of Abbott had divided the Liberal Party rank and file and tensions continued in the parliamentary Party. The Government reached the 30-consecutive-Newspoll-losses benchmark Turnbull had used to unseat Abbott, in April 2018. The government suffered by-election losses in July 2018. Dissent from conservative MPs over issues such as energy prices and immigration levels grew during Turnbull's final months. On 21 August, Turnbull announced a leadership spill ahead of his 39th consecutive Newspoll loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nLeadership spills have become a common feature of Australian federal politics in the twenty-first century. As of 2021, no prime minister has served a full term between federal elections since Liberal Prime Minister John Howard's final term ended in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nTurnbull had served as a Minister in the Howard Government and first led the Coalition in Opposition upon challenging his predecessor Brendan Nelson for the role of Opposition Leader in a 2008 spill. After extended poor Newspoll results against the Rudd Government, he lost the leadership in the wake of the Utegate affair and a Party dispute over climate policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nTony Abbott defeated Turnbull for the Leadership in a 2009 spill, and led the party to a narrow loss in the 2010 election and to government in the 2013 election. Abbott included Turnbull in his Cabinet, from where Turnbull launched his leadership challenge in September 2015, becoming the first Liberal since William McMahon to assume the Prime Ministership by challenging an incumbent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nAs of January 2018, voters were split in polls for preferred leader of the Liberal party between Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop. Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton each had around 5% support. In April 2018, Dutton outlined his desire to lead the Liberal party in the future, and Morrison also revealed prime ministerial ambitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nPeter Dutton had served as Minister during the Howard Government in 2004 and to the Cabinet in the Abbott Government in 2013", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nGiven the poor performance by the Liberal National Party of Queensland (the Queensland branch of the Liberal Party) in the Longman by-election on 28 July 2018, Dutton, who holds the neighbouring seat of Dickson, was viewed as a leader who could strengthen support for the Coalition in regional Queensland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nDutton had also been seen as a leading figure among the conservative wing of the Liberal Party, which had clashed with Turnbull and his more moderate supporters over the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), particularly with targets to reduce carbon emissions in compliance with the Paris Agreement, among other issues in mid-2018. Conservative supporters of Dutton included Tony Abbott, who was ousted by Turnbull as party leader and Prime Minister in September 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nIn the days prior to the leadership spills, Turnbull was forced to make concessions on the NEG in an attempt to satisfy the more conservative members of his party, most notably abandoning the emissions reduction targets, despite the possibility of winning votes for the NEG from Labor. Tony Abbott characterised Turnbull's concessions on the NEG as a \"conversion of convenience\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nOn 19 August 2018, Dutton declared that he supported Malcolm Turnbull and the policies of the government. However, support had been growing for a conservative Liberal Party member, often Dutton specifically, to challenge Turnbull since 2017, especially when Turnbull performed poorly against the Labor Party in opinion polls. In the weeks leading up to the poll, Dutton made contradictory remarks regarding his intentions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nHe refused to rule out his interest in becoming Prime Minister during a Hack interview, and claimed that he would resign from cabinet if he ever found himself unable to agree with a government policy during a 2GB interview. The day before this, The Daily Telegraph had published an exclusive story stating that Dutton would challenge for the prime ministership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nA poll commissioned by GetUp! on the Monday prior to the spill found that nearly half the Australian electorate would be less likely to vote for the Coalition if Dutton became Prime Minister. On the same day, Network Ten reported that Dutton might be ineligible under Section 44 of the Australian constitution, due to an \"indirect pecuniary interest\", similar to Bob Day's case. That evening, Luke Howarth told Craig Laundy that he planned to ask Turnbull to step down from the leadership the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Background\nIn the hours leading up to the spill itself, newspapers reported speculation that Greg Hunt might challenge Julie Bishop for the Deputy Leadership of the Liberal Party in the event that Dutton won the vote. However, due to Dutton failing to gain the support of the party, Bishop was the sole contender for the Deputy Leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August)\nA regularly scheduled Liberal party room meeting was held at 9:00 am AEST on 21 August. Shortly after it began, Turnbull declared the party leadership vacant, forcing a leadership spill be held, likely acknowledging the speculation that Dutton had intended to challenge Turnbull for the leadership. Dutton nominated for the ballot. The position of deputy party leader, held by Julie Bishop, was also declared vacant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August)\nShortly after the secret ballot, party whip Nola Marino announced that Turnbull had won the challenge, with 48 members of the federal Liberal Party caucus voting for him, while 35 voted for Dutton. Bishop retained her role as deputy leader unopposed. Senator Arthur Sinodinos was absent for the vote due to illness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August)\nJonathon Duniam refused to announce who he voted for, and conflicting media reports attributed him as voting for either Turnbull (Fairfax) or Dutton (News Corp). There were also conflicting reports on Ian Goodenough's vote. News Corp included Duniam and Goodenough as voters for Dutton, whereas The Sydney Morning Herald's list included Sussan Ley and Craig Kelly as Dutton voters. Kelly confirmed that he had voted for Dutton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Peter Dutton\nDespite initial conflicting reports over whether he would retain a cabinet position, Dutton resigned from his role as Minister for Home Affairs and became a backbencher. Treasurer Scott Morrison was later announced as the acting Home Affairs Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 99], "content_span": [100, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Peter Dutton\nOn 22 August, Dutton spent several interviews discussing his policies if he were to be elected leader of the Coalition, including scrapping the GST on electricity, which Treasurer Scott Morrison described as \"an absolute budget blower\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 99], "content_span": [100, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Peter Dutton\nDoubts surrounding Dutton's eligibility to be elected to parliament continued to be discussed, on the grounds of section 44(v) of the Australian Constitution. The section prohibits those with a pecuniary interest in an agreement with the Commonwealth from running for office. The family trust of which Dutton is a beneficiary-operated child care centre that received over $5.6 million in funding from the Commonwealth Government. A similar scenario with a Commonwealth-funded building company saw Senator Bob Day effectively disqualified by the High Court in 2017. Although Dutton had received legal advice stating that he was not in breach of the constitution, Attorney-General Christian Porter referred the matter to the Solicitor-General of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 99], "content_span": [100, 854]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Malcolm Turnbull\nAlthough Turnbull won the leadership ballot, the revelation that 35 of his party colleagues did not support his leadership was widely regarded as cause for concern, especially since Turnbull had been governing with a narrow one-seat parliamentary majority since the 2016 election, and given his predecessor Tony Abbott also won a spill motion before ultimately losing another leadership spill to Turnbull himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 103], "content_span": [104, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Malcolm Turnbull\nFollowing the party room meeting, several government ministers reaffirmed their support for Turnbull, including Veterans' Affairs Minister Darren Chester. Chester and fellow Nationals MP Kevin Hogan stated that if Dutton became prime minister, they would leave the Coalition and join the crossbench, which would rid a Dutton government of its narrow parliamentary majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 103], "content_span": [104, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Malcolm Turnbull\nAfter the first spill, there was a suggestion that Turnbull could call the next Australian federal election to stop a further leadership challenge, but this was discounted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation election analyst Antony Green as \"far-fetched\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 103], "content_span": [104, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Tony Abbott\nFormer Prime Minister Tony Abbott was criticised for his role in fostering disunity within the Liberal Party and the Coalition. National Party MP Damian Drum called on Abbott to resign, while Queensland Liberal MP Warren Entsch reportedly criticised Abbott directly at the party meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 98], "content_span": [99, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Resignations\nAs well as Dutton, Assistant Minister to the Treasurer Michael Sukkar, Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister James McGrath, Minister for International Development and the Pacific Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Minister for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity Angus Taylor, Assistant Minister for Science, Jobs and Innovation Zed Seselja, Minister for Human Services Michael Keenan, Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Alan Tudge, Minister for Health Greg Hunt, and Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Steven Ciobo offered their resignations in response to Turnbull retaining the leadership. At first, only Dutton's resignation was accepted. By 23 August, the resignations of Fierravanti-Wells, McGrath, Seselja, and Sukkar had also been accepted, and those former ministers joined Dutton on the backbench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 99], "content_span": [100, 925]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Continuing business of Parliament\nDuring question time on 21 August, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten moved to suspend standing orders in order to move a motion of no confidence in the House of Representatives against Turnbull. Leave was granted by the government but the no confidence motion failed with 76 votes against and 67 in favour. All Coalition MPs, the Centre Alliance's Rebekha Sharkie, and Independent Cathy McGowan voted against, while all present Labor MPs, the Australian Greens' Adam Bandt, and Independent Andrew Wilkie voted in favour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 120], "content_span": [121, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Continuing business of Parliament\nThe second stage of the Coalition's corporate tax cut package was rejected by the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 120], "content_span": [121, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Continuing business of Parliament\nLabor and the Greens failed to stop an expansion of the Cashless Welfare Card trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 120], "content_span": [121, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Continuing business of Parliament\nKelly O'Dwyer cancelled a meeting of state and territory ministers for Women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 120], "content_span": [121, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Continuing business of Parliament\nLabor attempted to move a motion to refer Peter Dutton's eligibility as an MP to the High Court, in a similar manner to referrals made during the recent parliamentary citizenship crisis in which several members of parliament resigned after discovering their dual citizenship status, violating section 44 of the Constitution of Australia. The motion failed 69 votes to 68.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 120], "content_span": [121, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Continuing business of Parliament\nOn 23 August, Senate Opposition Leader Penny Wong moved a motion of no confidence in the Senate, which failed with 35 votes against and 31 in favour. All present Coalition Senators, both One Nation Senators, the Australian Conservatives' Cory Bernardi, the Liberal Democratic Party's David Leyonhjelm, the Katter's Australian Party's Fraser Anning, the Justice Party's Derryn Hinch, and Independent Tim Storer voted against, while all present Labor and Greens Senators voted in favour, and both Centre Alliance Senators abstained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 120], "content_span": [121, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Continuing business of Parliament\nWith up to 13 Ministers having resigned amidst the crisis, the government moved to adjourn the lower house of Parliament on 23 August, shortly before Question Time was scheduled to begin. The adjournment motion was controversial and vigorously opposed by Labor, whose leader Bill Shorten labelled it \"the ultimate admission of surrender of a bankrupt government.\" The adjournment motion passed by 70 votes to 68.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 120], "content_span": [121, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Continuing business of Parliament\nSimon Birmingham acted as the Leader of the Government in the Senate for Question time on 23 August. He, Nigel Scullion, Marise Payne and Bridget McKenzie took on questions related to portfolios of multiple former ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 120], "content_span": [121, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, First spill (21 August), Aftermath, Continuing business of Parliament\nAlso on 23 August, the Senate voted to investigate Peter Dutton's handling of two visa decisions relating to au pairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 120], "content_span": [121, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August)\nOn the morning of Thursday, 23 August, Dutton challenged Turnbull's leadership a second time. Initially, Turnbull refused to call a spill, but later that morning key Turnbull supporters withdrew their support, most notably Mathias Cormann, Michaelia Cash and Mitch Fifield, who tendered their resignations and claimed that Turnbull lacked the support of the majority of the party room. Several other ministers also confirmed their resignations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 75], "content_span": [76, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0037-0001", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August)\nAt 12 noon AEST on 23 August, following the resignation of a significant portion of the front bench, the Government won a vote in the House of Representatives to adjourn Parliament, with 70 votes to 68. Parliament had been scheduled to adjourn later that day, with the next sitting day to be held on 10 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 75], "content_span": [76, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August)\nOne hour later, Turnbull addressed the media and said that he would call a party room meeting if he sighted a petition signed by a majority of party members (i.e., 43 members) calling for a spill. Turnbull suggested that the party room meeting could be called for 12 noon the next day, on 24 August, once he had seen both the petition and an advice from the Solicitor-General on Dutton's eligibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 75], "content_span": [76, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0038-0001", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August)\nHe said that in the event of a second spill, he would resign rather than take part in any ensuing leadership ballot, as he would consider such the petition to be a sign that he no longer had the support of the party room. The Solicitor-General's advice, released publicly a few hours before the party room meeting, found that Dutton was \"not incapable\" of sitting as a member of parliament, but that there is still \"some risk\" the High Court might find he has a conflict of interest, which could disqualify him from sitting in parliament. In relation to the request for a petition, Eric Abetz, a Dutton supporter, claimed that in the past a party room meeting could be called with only two signatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 75], "content_span": [76, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Petition\nThe petition signed by 43 Liberal Party members calling for a spill was delivered to Turnbull on Friday, 24 August. The signatories, in order of signing, were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 85], "content_span": [86, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Petition\nAndrew Hastie, Tony Pasin, Sussan Ley, Craig Kelly, Michael Sukkar, Kevin Andrews, Tony Abbott, Ian Goodenough, Nicolle Flint, Peter Dutton, Amanda Stoker, Jonathon Duniam, David Bushby, James Paterson, Eric Abetz, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, James McGrath, Jim Molan, Slade Brockman, Dean Smith, Jane Hume, Mitch Fifield, John McVeigh, David Fawcett, Mathias Cormann, Michaelia Cash, Karen Andrews, Greg Hunt, Steven Ciobo, Angus Taylor, Alan Tudge, Michael Keenan, Andrew Wallace, Scott Buchholz, Jason Wood, Ross Vasta, Luke Howarth, Rick Wilson, Ted O'Brien, Zed Seselja, Andrew Laming, Ben Morton, Warren Entsch", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 85], "content_span": [86, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Petition\nThe petition was annotated by three petitioners. Karen Andrews wrote beside her name \"because this has to be resolved\", while Scott Buchholz wrote \"I support the office of the Prime Minister\" and Warren Entsch wrote \"for Brendan Nelson\" referring to the former Liberal leader who was defeated by Malcolm Turnbull in a leadership spill in 2008. While the second party room meeting was intended to occur at 12 noon AEST, there was a delay of twenty minutes as the signatures on the petition were verified by the party whip's office. Arthur Sinodinos, who was absent from the first spill due to illness, returned to Parliament to participate in the second spill and walked into the meeting alongside Turnbull.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 85], "content_span": [86, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Result\nIt was reported that Turnbull had decided not to contest the ballot, and that Scott Morrison and Julie Bishop would also be running in the challenge alongside Dutton. The West Australian ran an editorial saying that Turnbull should stand aside for Morrison. Morrison was widely seen as a compromise candidate, who was agreeable to both the moderate supporters of Turnbull and Bishop and conservatives concerned about Dutton's electability.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Result\nThe initial motion to declare the leadership positions vacant, held at approximately 12:20 pm Canberra time, was successfully passed 45 votes to 40. As previously mentioned, Turnbull had indicated that he would consider a second spill motion as a vote of no confidence in his leadership, and he did not contest the subsequent leadership election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Result\nThe leadership spill was contested by Scott Morrison, Julie Bishop and Peter Dutton. Bishop with 11 votes was eliminated in the first round, while Morrison received 36 votes and Dutton 38 votes. The second round was between Dutton and Morrison and resulted in a victory for Morrison, 45 votes to 40. Morrison became party leader and subsequently prime minister. Moderate MPs were privately urged against voting for Bishop, as there was concern that Cormann had arranged for some WA-based Liberals to initially vote for her, then let Morrison's voters flow to Dutton in the second round, giving him enough support to defeat Bishop. Cormann has denied doing so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Result\nBishop did not contest the deputy leadership spill, which occurred after the leadership spill. Josh Frydenberg won a majority in the first round with 46 votes, while Steven Ciobo received 20 and Greg Hunt received 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Aftermath\nAs the leader of the Liberal Party and subsequently of the Coalition, Scott Morrison was invited to form a government and was sworn in as the 30th Prime Minister of Australia, a few hours after the leadership spill. On the same day Josh Frydenberg, elected as the party's deputy leader, was sworn in as Treasurer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 86], "content_span": [87, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Aftermath\nOn the day that the vote was announced, National MP Kevin Hogan made good on his earlier promise and moved to the crossbench. However, he maintained his National membership and continued to sit in the National party room. He also promised to support the Coalition on confidence and supply.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 86], "content_span": [87, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Aftermath\nTurnbull notified after his ouster as Liberal leader that he intended to resign from parliament, forcing a by-election to replace him in his Sydney seat of Wentworth. His departure meant a temporary drop in the Coalition to 74 seats, one short of a majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 86], "content_span": [87, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Aftermath\nThe first Newspoll after the spill had Labor on 56 percent of the two-party vote to the Coalition's 44 percent. Bill Shorten became the preferred Prime Minister in the Newspoll for the first time since 2015. The subsequent Newspoll taken a fortnight later showed no improvement on the two-party preferred vote, which remained at 56-44 to Labor, following four consecutive 51-49s to Labor prior to the spill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 86], "content_span": [87, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Aftermath\nOn 29 August Julia Banks, member for Chisholm, announced she would retire at the next election. She cited \"bullying and intimidation\" and the leadership spills as \"the last straw\" for her decision. Lucy Gichuhi threatened to name MPs who bullied during the spill, furthermore stating that she was asked during her preselection in June 2018 if she thought Turnbull was the right person to lead the Liberal party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 86], "content_span": [87, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0050-0001", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Aftermath\nGichuhi was subsequently assured by Scott Morrison that the bullying would be dealt with and it was later clarified, at least publicly, that the bullying was not in direct connection to the leadership spill. Brian Loughnane and Chris McDiven, were appointed to review the Liberal party's state branches' processes for handling complaints, but there was no investigation into individual complaints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 86], "content_span": [87, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280575-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, Second spill (24 August), Subsequent leadership spill rule changes\nOn the evening of 3 December 2018, Scott Morrison introduced a new threshold to trigger a Liberal leadership change in government, requiring two-thirds of the party room vote to trigger a spill motion. The change was introduced at an hour long evening special caucus meeting. Morrison said the changes, which were drafted with feedback from former prime ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott, would only apply to leaders who lead the party to victory at a federal election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 117], "content_span": [118, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280576-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberian FA Cup\nThe 2018 Liberian Cup is the 2018 edition of the Liberian FA Cup, the knockout football competition of Liberia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280577-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberian First Division League\nThe 2018 Liberian First Division League is the 44th season of the Liberian Premier League, the Liberian professional league for association football clubs, since the league's establishment in 1956.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280577-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberian First Division League\nAfter much delay, the season started on 27 August 2018. A total of 12 teams will participate, and they will be divided into two groups of six teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280578-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Libertarian National Convention\nThe United States 2018 Libertarian National Convention was held from June 30 to July 3, 2018, in New Orleans, Louisiana. According to the Libertarian Party, the 2018 convention was the \"biggest LibertarianNational Convention ever,\" breaking previous records in attendance and fundraising.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280578-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Libertarian National Convention, Theme\nThe theme was \"I'm THAT Libertarian! \", a phrase uttered by the late Marc Allan Feldman in a Libertarian presidential debate at the 2016 national convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280578-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Libertarian National Convention, Events, Chair election\nNicholas Sarwark's seat as Chair of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC) was up for election. Sarwark faced challenge from Washington LP member Joshua Smith, Libertarian Socialist Caucus member Matt Kuehnel, former Gary Johnson and John McAfee campaign staffer Christopher Thrasher and Libertarian Party of Carbon County Chair Matt Schutter. Sarwark ended up winning an unprecedented consecutive third-term as LNC chair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280578-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Libertarian National Convention, Events, Vice chair election\nThe seat of Vice chair was also up for election, the incumbent being Arvin Vohra. Alex Merced, 2017 candidate for New York comptroller, Libertarian Youth Caucus founder Trent Somes III, 2018 Iowa gubernatorial candidate Jake Porter, Indiana activist Joe Hauptmann, Treasurer of the Libertarian Radical Caucus Steve Scheetz, former Indiana Libertarian Party chair Sam Goldstein and Montana Libertarian Joe Paschal all sought election to the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280578-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Libertarian National Convention, Events, Vice chair election\nIn January 2018 Arvin Vohra drew criticism for condoning sexual relations between adults and minors so long as affirmative consent is given, using the example of a 25-year-old male and a 15-year-old female. Multiple state Libertarian parties demanded Vohra be relieved from his position, as well as the Libertarian Youth Caucus through Trent Somes III, one of Vohra's opponents in the vice chairmanship election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280578-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Libertarian National Convention, Controversies, Feud with Libertarian Party Mises Caucus\nIn late 2017, the Libertarian Party Mises Caucus reached out to the chairman of the 2018 LP Convention Committee, Daniel Hayes, entertaining the thought of former congressman and 1988 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Ron Paul and Freedom Watch host Judge Napolitano speaking at the convention, offering to pay off speaking fees. Hayes rejected the idea of Paul speaking at the convention, saying \"he has no idea what the LP represents\", criticizing Napolitano as well. Ron Paul confronted the controversy, stating he has been a lifetime member of the Libertarian Party since 1987 when he paid using a gold coin, and asked, \"do I get my gold coin back?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 93], "content_span": [94, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280578-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Libertarian National Convention, Controversies, Feud with Libertarian Party Mises Caucus\nOn February 3, 2018 Nicholas Sarwark confronted the controversy, saying in a tweet: \"If Ron Paul decides he wants to attend the Libertarian Party national convention in New Orleans and speak, I'll make sure he gets time on the stage. It's the least we can do for a life member, former Presidential nominee, and Hall of Liberty award winner.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 93], "content_span": [94, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280579-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberty Bowl\nThe 2018 Liberty Bowl was a college football bowl game between the #24 Missouri Tigers of the Southeastern Conference and the unranked Oklahoma State Cowboys of the Big 12 Conference. The 60th edition of the Liberty Bowl took place on December 31, 2018 at 2:45\u00a0p.m. EST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games that concluded the 2018 FBS football season. Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, hosted the game for the 54th straight year. The game was sponsored by automobile parts and accessories store AutoZone and was officially known as the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280579-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberty Bowl\nThe Cowboys beat the Tigers by a score of 38\u201333 to claim the school's first Liberty Bowl championship and their 19th bowl game overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280579-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberty Bowl, Teams\nThe game was played between Missouri from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Oklahoma State from the Big 12 Conference. The two programs had previously met 52 times, with Missouri holding a 29\u201323 series lead. Both programs were members of the Big Eight Conference for many years, and met annually from 1960 through 1997; their most recent prior meeting had been the 2014 Cotton Bowl Classic, won by Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280579-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberty Bowl, Teams, Missouri Tigers\nMissouri received and accepted a bid to the Liberty Bowl on December 2. The Tigers entered their third Liberty Bowl with an 8\u20134 record (4\u20134 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280579-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberty Bowl, Teams, Oklahoma State Cowboys\nOklahoma State received and accepted a bid to the Liberty Bowl on December 2. The Cowboys entered the bowl with a 6\u20136 record (3\u20136 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280580-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberty Flames football team\nThe 2018 Liberty Flames football team represented Liberty University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Turner Gill and played their home games at Williams Stadium. This was the Flames first year as a member of the FBS. Playing as an independent, they finished the season 6\u20136. As part of their transition to FBS, since they won six games, Liberty would have been allowed to apply for bowl eligibility had there not been enough teams with non-losing records to fill the available bowl games, but there were already four more teams than could be accommodated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280580-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberty Flames football team\nOn December 3, head coach Turner Gill retired. He finished at Liberty with a seven-year record of 47\u201335. On December 7, Liberty hired former Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze for the job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280580-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberty Flames football team, Previous season\nIn their final season in the FCS as a member of the Big South Conference, the Flames finished the 2017 season 6\u20135, 2\u20133 in Big South play to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280580-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liberty Flames football team, Game summaries, Norfolk State\nThis game was originally scheduled for September 15, but it was rescheduled due to Hurricane Florence. On December 4, 2018, Turner Gill announced that he would retire immediately. On December 7, Hugh Freeze was tabbed to be the next head coach of the Liberty Flames football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280581-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Libya migrant shipwrecks\n2018 Libya migrant shipwrecks began on January 9, 2018, when up to 100 migrants went missing as their migrant rubber boat was punctured and sank off Libya's coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280581-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Libya migrant shipwrecks, Description\nOn January 9, 2018, up to 100 migrants went missing from Libya when their rubber boat was punctured and sank off Libya's coast. Libyan coastguard had picked up nearly 300 migrants from three boats off the coast, but one rubber boat was punctured and the coastguard only found 16 survivors clinging to its wreckage. The coastguard said the number of missing might be as high as 100. The boat sank off the city of Khoms, around 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of the Libyan capital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280581-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Libya migrant shipwrecks, Description\nLibyan coastguard picked up nearly 300 migrants from three boats off the coast of Libya on Tuesday, January 9, 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280581-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Libya migrant shipwrecks, Description\nOn January 6, 2018, sixty-four people died after a dinghy sank in the Mediterranean. The Italian coastguard rescued 86 people from the boat hours after it sustained a puncture and started sinking on Saturday morning. The deaths represented the first large-scale migrant tragedy of 2018 in the Mediterranean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280581-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Libya migrant shipwrecks, Background history\nA total of 2,832 migrants died on the Central Mediterranean route between Libya and Italy in 2017, down from 4,581 in 2016. The number of migrants who reached Italy in 2017 was 119,310, down from 181,436 in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280582-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Libyan Cup\nThe 2018 Libyan Cup is the 22nd edition of the Libyan knockout football competition since its inception in 1976. The tournament returned after not being held in 2017, and started in January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280582-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Libyan Cup, Semi-finals\nNote: Original match on 21 Jun 2018 between Alahly Tripoli and Alittihad ended 0\u00a0: 0, and was suspended during the penalty shoot-out. The Libyan Football Federation decided to replay the match on 8 July 2018, but Alahly Tripoli decided not to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280583-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liechtenstein Tour de Ski referendum\nA referendum on the financing of the Tour de Ski was held in Liechtenstein on 25 November 2018. The proposal was rejected by 59% of voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280583-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liechtenstein Tour de Ski referendum, Background\nOn 25 September 2018 the Landtag voted by a margin of 14\u201311 to allocate two loans of 400,000CHF to the Liechtenstein Ski Association (LSV) to allow it to host the Tour de Ski in 2019\u201320 and 2020\u201321. The measure was opposed by The Independents, who began collecting signatures for a referendum on 13 September. Under article 66 of the constitution, a referendum can be held if at least 1,000 signatures are collected within a 30-day period. By 12 October, 1,743 signatures were collected, with 1,730 deemed valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280583-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liechtenstein Tour de Ski referendum, Background\nOn 16 October the government set a date for the referendum. In the meantime, the LSV was awarded the right to host the races on 28 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280584-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 (Indonesia)\nThe 2018 Liga 1, also known as Go-Jek Liga 1 for sponsorship reasons, was the second season of Liga 1 under its current name and the ninth season of the top-flight Indonesian professional league for association football clubs since its establishment in 2008. The season started on 23 March 2018 and ended on 9 December 2018. Fixtures for the 2018 season were announced on 10 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280584-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 (Indonesia)\nBhayangkara were the defending champions. Persebaya, PSMS, and PSIS joined as the promoted teams from the 2017 Liga 2. They replaced Persegres, Persiba, and Semen Padang who were relegated to the 2018 Liga 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280584-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 (Indonesia)\nPersija won their first Liga 1 title, and second Indonesian top-flight title overall on the final day of the season, finishing on 62 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280584-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Overview, Player regulations\nPlayer registration was divided into two periods. The first period opened from 10 February 2018 and closes on 5 April 2018. Then the second period was done on 5 July to 3 August 2018. Clubs could register at least 18 players and a maximum of 30 players. The club was also required to contract at least seven local U-23 players (born on or after 1 January 1996). Unlike last season, U-23 players were not required to play in one game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280584-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Overview, Player regulations\nPersija and Bali United got privileges related to player quota. Both were allowed to add three local players with no age limit, following their participation in the 2018 AFC Cup representing Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280584-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Overview, Referee\nUnlike last season, the league operator ensured that they did not use any foreign referees for this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280584-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Teams\nEighteen teams competed in the league \u2013 the top fifteen teams from the previous season and three teams promoted from the Liga 2. The new teams this season were Persebaya, PSMS, and PSIS, who replaced Persegres, Persiba, and Semen Padang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280584-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Teams, Personnel and kits\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and coaches may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280584-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Teams, Personnel and kits\nAdditionally, referee kits are made by Specs and Nike supplied the match ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280584-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Teams, Foreign players\nFootball Association of Indonesia restricted the number of foreign players to four per team, including one slot for a player from AFC countries. Teams can use all the foreign players at once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280585-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-16\nThe 2018 Liga 1 U-16 (known as the Super Soccer TV Elite Pro Academy Liga 1 U-16 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was the first season of the Liga 1 Elite Pro Academy U-16. The league is currently the youth level (U-16) football league in Indonesia. The season started on 15 September 2018 and finished on 9 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280585-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-16\nPersib U16s won the title on 9 December 2018 after defeating Bali United U16s 4\u20133 on penalties after 1\u20131 draw until extra time in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280585-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-16, First round\nFirst round was the group stage and started on 15 September 2018. Group A and B played home and away double-game round-robin tournament while Group C played four-series home tournament with five matches for each series. The winners and runner-ups from each group along with two best third-placed teams advanced to second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280585-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-16, Second round\nSecond round was the group stage and was played on 1\u20134 December 2018. All groups was played on a single-game round-robin home tournament. The winners and runner-ups from each group advance to semi-finals. The draw for the group was held on 26 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280585-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-16, Second round, Group X\nThis group was played at May 17th Stadium, Banjarmasin and Demang Lehman Stadium, Martapura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280585-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-16, Second round, Group Y\nThis group was played at Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium, Gianyar and Gelora Samudera Stadium, Kuta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280586-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-19\nThe 2018 Liga 1 U-19 season was the eight edition of the Indonesia Junior Level League system since its introduction in 2008, the second and last since being changed from an under-21 league to under-19. From 2019, the league will competed by the under-20 teams. This season's participants were the U-19 teams of 2018 Liga 1 teams. The season began on 29 September 2018 and ended on 26 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280586-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-19\nPersipura U19s were the defending champions after defeating Persib U19s 1\u20130 in last year final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280586-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-19\nPersib U19s won the title on 26 November 2018 after defeating Persija U19s 1\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280586-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-19, Overview, Format\nThe format of this competition was the same as before, divided into four acts consist of two group rounds and two knockout rounds, which was the semifinals and final. On the first round, the teams were divided into three groups each containing six clubs, the top two teams of each group and the two best third place advanced to the second round. The difference in this round was that all groups held a home tournament. The second round consists of two groups containing four teams in each group, the best team from each group and the best runner-up advanced to the semi-finals. The winner of the semi-finals advanced to the final to battle for the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280586-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-19, First round\nFirst round was the group stage and started on 29 September 2018. All groups play double-game round-robin home tournament. The winners and runner-ups from each group along with two best third-placed teams advance to second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280586-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-19, First round, Group A\nPSMS U19s hosted the first half at Teladan Stadium. While Sriwijaya U19s hosted the second half at Athletic Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280586-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-19, First round, Group B\nBali United U19s hosted the first half at Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium. While Persib U19s hosted the second half at Arcamanik Stadium and Siliwangi Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280586-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-19, First round, Group C\nArema U19s hosted the first half at Gajayana Stadium. While the second half were played in Moch. Soebroto Stadium and Gemilang Stadium, Magelang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280586-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-19, Second round\nSecond round was the group stage and was played on 7\u201311 November 2018. All groups was played on a single-game round-robin home tournament. The winners and runner-ups from each group advance to semi-finals. The draw for the group was held on 31 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280586-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-19, Second round, Group 1\nThis group was played at Moch. Soebroto Stadium and Gemilang Stadium, Magelang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280586-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 1 U-19, Second round, Group 2\nThis group was played at May 17th Stadium, Banjarmasin and Demang Lehman Stadium, Martapura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280587-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 2 (Indonesia)\nThe 2018 Liga 2 was the second season of the Liga 2 under its current name, and the ninth season under its current league structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280587-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 2 (Indonesia)\nPSS won the title after a 2\u20130 win over Semen Padang in the final at Pakansari Stadium, Cibinong on 4 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280587-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 2 (Indonesia), Overview, Player regulations\nClubs could register at least 18 players and a maximum of 30 players without age restriction like the previous season, but maximum 3 players over the age of 35 years. Like the previous season, the clubs also couldn't use foreign players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280587-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 2 (Indonesia), Teams, Teams changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280587-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 2 (Indonesia), Teams, Personnel and kits\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and coaches may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280587-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 2 (Indonesia), Second round\nThis round began on 24 October 2018 and ended on 21 November 2018. Eight teams competed in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280588-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 2 Final\nThe 2018 Liga 2 Final was the final match of the 2018 Liga 2, the ninth season of second-tier competition in Indonesia organised by PT Liga Indonesia Baru, and the second season since it was renamed from the Liga Indonesia Premier Division to the Liga 2. It was played at the Pakansari Stadium in Cibinong, Bogor, West Java on 4 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280588-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 2 Final\nPSS won the match 2\u20130 to secure their first title in this competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280588-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 2 Final, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia)\nThe 2018 Liga 3 was the second season of the Liga 3 under its current name, the third season under its current league structure, and the only amateur league football competition in Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia)\nThe league was divided into the regional stage and the national stage. Every amateur team in Indonesia competed in its provincial stage of the league and the teams which relegated from 2017 Liga 2 competed in the national zone preliminary round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia)\nPersik defeated PSCS 3\u20132 on aggregate to win their first Liga 3 title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), Overview, Player regulations\nTeams can register a maximum of 30 players. 27 players were under 23 years old (U-23) and 3 players without age restriction, the teams also could not use foreign players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), Qualifying round\nQualifying round for national round was divided into 2 routes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), Qualifying round, Regional route, Province round\nThese teams were representatives from their provincial league to be competed in regional round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), Qualifying round, Regional route, Regional round\nThe following teams qualified from regional route for the national round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), Qualifying round, National zone route\nThere should be 40 teams relegated from 2017 Liga 2 competed in this route, but Pro Duta and Persifa Fak-fak disqualified. In 5 June 2018, PSSI disqualified PPSM Magelang and Sragen United. Also PS Bengkulu, PS Timah BaBel, and Persigubin Gunung Bintang withdrew from the competition. Later in 28 July 2018, PSSI disqualified Yahukimo because they didn't attend match coordination meeting in Gawalise Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), Qualifying round, National zone route\nThe following teams qualified from national zone route for the national round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), National round\nA total of 32 teams (20 teams from national zone route and 12 teams from The regional route) compete in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), National round, First round\nIn this first round, 32 teams divided into eight groups. Each group played a home tournament basis. First round was played from 26 November \u2013 2 December 2018. Winner and runner-up of each group advanced to second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), National round, First round, Group A\nPSGC hosted this group at Galuh Stadium, Ciamis Regency and Wiradadaha Stadium, Tasikmalaya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), National round, First round, Group B\nPSCS hosted this group at Wijayakusuma Stadium, Cilacap Regency and Goentoer Darjono Stadium, Purbalingga Regency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), National round, First round, Group C\nBogor hosted this group at Mini Stadium and Pakansari Stadium, Cibinong. But due to 212 reunion activity and the arrival of the president to Pakansari Stadium (Indonesian Teacher's Union Anniversary), the last matches in this group was moved to Heri Sudrajat Stadium, Depok and PPMP Stadium, Sentul without spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), National round, First round, Group D\nPS Badung hosted this group at Gelora Samudera Stadium, Kuta and Beji Mandala Stadium, Pecatu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), National round, First round, Group E\nPersijap hosted this group at Gelora Bumi Kartini Stadium. Perseka withdrew from the competition due to technical constraints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), National round, First round, Group G\nPersik hosted this group at Brawijaya Stadium, Kediri and Canda Bhirawa Stadium, Kediri Regency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), National round, First round, Group H\nPersinga hosted this group at Brantas Stadium and Kusuma Agrowisata Stadium, Batu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), National round, Second round\nThe second round featured by 16 teams which are the winners and runner-ups from each group of the first round. The second round matches was played from 8\u20139 December 2018. Each winner advanced to third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), National round, Third round\nIn this round, eight teams divided into two groups. Each group played a home tournament basis. Third round was played from 16\u201322 December 2018. Three best teams of each group promoted to Liga 2. Winner of each group also advanced to final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280589-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 (Indonesia), National round, Third round, East Group\nPersik hosted this group at Brawijaya Stadium, Kediri and Canda Bhirawa Stadium, Kediri Regency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280590-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Bali\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Bali was the third edition of Liga 3 Bali as a qualifying round for the Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali Nusra) regional round of 2018 Liga 3. Persekaba Bali were the defending champions. The competition started on 2 July 2018 and finished on 18 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280590-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Bali\nPutra Tresna won their first Liga 3 Bali title following a 2\u20130 victory over Perseden Denpasar after extra time on 18 July 2018. Putra Tresna would represent Bali Region for the Lesser Sunda Islands regional round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280590-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Bali, Format\nIn this competition, the teams were divided into two groups of five. The two best teams were through to knockout stage. The winner represented Bali Region in Lesser Sunda Islands regional round of 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280590-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Bali, Teams\nThere were 10 teams participated in the league this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280590-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Bali, Group stage\nThis stage started on 2 July 2018 and finished on 11 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280591-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Bangka Belitung\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Bangka Belitung is a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. PS Bangka Selection, the winner of the 2017 Liga 3 Bangka Belitung are the defending champions. The competition will begin on July 17, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280591-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Bangka Belitung, Group Stage\nThe 6 probable teams to compete are mentioned below. This stage scheduled starts on 02 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280592-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Banten\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by JJMC89 bot III (talk | contribs) at 07:53, 15 December 2019 (Moving Category:Liga Nusantara to Category:Liga 3 (Indonesia) per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280592-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Banten\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Banten is a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. Persitangsel South Tangerang, the winner of the 2017 Liga 3 Banten are the defending champions. The competition will begin on June 27, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280592-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Banten\nThe 9 probable teams to compete are mentioned below. This stage scheduled starts on 27 Jule 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280593-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Bengkulu\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Bengkulu is a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. PS Benteng Central Bengkulu, the winner of the 2017 Liga 3 Bengkulu are the defending champions. The competition will begin on June 30, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280593-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Bengkulu, Format\nIn this competition, all teams will face each other in home and away match. The winner will represent Bengkulu in national round of 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280593-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Bengkulu, Teams\nThere are initially 11 clubs which will participate the league in this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280594-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Central Java\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Central Java is the third edition of Liga 3 (formerly known as Liga Nusantara) Central Java as a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. Persik Kendal (now in 2018 Liga 2), winner of the 2017 Liga 3 Central Java are the defending champions. The competition began on 25 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280594-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Central Java, Format\nIn this competition, 17 teams are divided into 4 groups of four or five. The two best teams are through to knockout stage. The winner will represent Central Java in the national round of 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280594-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Central Java, Teams\nThere are 17 clubs which will participate the league in this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280595-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 East Java\nThe 2018 Liga 3 East Java (known as Liga 3 for sponsorship reasons) is the third edition of Liga 3 (formerly known as Liga Nusantara) East Java as a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. Blitar United (now in 2018 Liga 2), winner of the 2017 Liga 3 East Java are the defending champions. The competition began on 1 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280595-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 East Java, Format\nIn this competition, 49 teams are divided into 7 groups of seven. The two best teams are through to knockout stage. The winner will represent East Java in national round of 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280595-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 East Java, Teams\nThere are 49 clubs which will participate the league in this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280596-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 East Kalimantan\nThe 2018 Liga 3 East Kalimantan is the third edition of Liga 3 (formerly known as Liga Nusantara) East Kalimantan as a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. PSAD Mulawarman, winner of the 2017 Liga 3 East Kalimantan are the defending champions. The competition started on 22 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280596-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 East Kalimantan, Format\nIn this competition, 19 teams are divided into 3 groups. The two or three best teams are through to knockout stage. The winner will represent East Kalimantan in the national round of 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280596-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 East Kalimantan, Teams\nThere are 19 clubs which will participate in this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280597-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Finals\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Finals was the two-legged final that decided the winner of the 2018 Liga 3, the fourth season of third-tier competition in Indonesia organised by PSSI, and the second season since it was renamed from the Liga Nusantara to the Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280597-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Finals\nThe finals was contested in two-legged home-and-away format between Persik and PSCS. The first leg was hosted by Persik at Brawijaya Stadium in Kediri on 27 December 2018, while the second leg was hosted by PSCS at Wijayakusuma Stadium in Cilacap on 30 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280597-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Finals\nPersik defeated PSCS 3\u20132 on aggregate to win their first Liga 3 title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280597-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Finals, Road to the final\nNote: In all scores below, the score of the related team is given first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280597-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Finals, Format\nThe finals was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would be used. If still tied on away goals rule, 30 minutes of extra time would be played. If still tied after extra time, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280598-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Jakarta\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Jakarta is a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. Villa 2000 21 FC, the winner of the 2017 Liga 3 Jakarta are the defending champions. The competition will begin on July 20, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280598-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Jakarta, Group Stage\nThe 21 probable teams to compete are mentioned below. This stage scheduled starts on 21 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280599-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Jambi\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Jambi is a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. Persijam Jambi, the winner of the 2017 Liga 3 Jambi are the defending champions. The competition will begin on July 1, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280599-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Jambi, Format\nIn this competition, all teams will face each other in home and away match. The winner will represent Jambi in next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280599-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Jambi, Teams\nThere are 7 teams which will participate the league this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280600-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Lampung\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Lampung is a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. Persilat Central Lampung, the winner of the 2017 Liga 3 Lampung are the defending champions. The competition will begin on August 2, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280600-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Lampung, Group Stage\nThe 6 probable teams to compete are mentioned below. This stage scheduled starts on 25 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280601-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 National Zone Route\nThe 2018 Liga 3 National Zone Route was played from 14 July to 20 October 2018. A total of 32 teams competed in the national zone route to decide 20 of the 32 places in the national round of the 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280601-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 National Zone Route, Teams\nThere should be 40 teams relegated from 2017 Liga 2 competed in this route, but Pro Duta and Persifa Fak-fak disqualified. In 5 June 2018, PSSI disqualified PPSM Magelang and Sragen United. Also PS Bengkulu, PS Timah BaBel, and Persigubin Gunung Bintang withdrew from the competition. Later in 28 July 2018, PSSI disqualified Yahukimo because they didn't attend match coordination meeting in Gawalise Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280601-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 National Zone Route, Format\nIn the preliminary round, 32 teams divided into eight groups. Each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis, except for group 7 and 8 that is played on a home tournament. The winners and runner-ups from each group advanced to national round of 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280601-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 National Zone Route, Format\nIn the play-off round, third-placed teams on each group competed in a knockout round home and away tournament. Each winners advanced to national round of 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280601-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 National Zone Route, Preliminary round\nA total of 32 teams played in the preliminary round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280601-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 National Zone Route, Preliminary round, Group 7\nOn 28 August 2018, PS West Sumbawa withdrew from the competition after 3 matches. The other teams' results against PS West Sumbawa was annulled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280601-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 National Zone Route, Play-off round\nA total of eight teams played in the play-off round: third-placed teams on each group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280601-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 National Zone Route, Qualified teams\nThe following teams qualified from national zone route for the national round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280602-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 North Maluku\nThe 2018 Liga 3 North Maluku is the fourth edition of Liga 3 North Maluku as a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. Persiter Ternate are the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280602-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 North Maluku, Teams\nOnly 2 clubs which will participate the league in this season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280603-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 North Sumatra\nThe 2018 Liga 3 North Sumatra is a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. PSDS Deli Serdang, the winner of the 2017 Liga 3 North Sumatra are the defending champions. The competition will begin on July 1, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280603-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 North Sumatra, Format\nIn this competition, 28 teams are divided into 8 groups. The two best teams are through to knockout stage. The winner will represent North Sumatra in national round of 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280603-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 North Sumatra, Teams\nThere are initially 28 clubs which will participate the league in this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280604-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Papua\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Papua is a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. Persewar Waropen, the winner of the 2017 Liga 3 Papua are the defending champions. The competition will begin on June 30, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280604-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Papua, Format\nIn this competition, 20 teams are divided into 2 groups of seven and 1 groups of six. The two best teams are through to knockout stage. The winner will represent Papua in national round of 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280604-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Papua, Teams\nThere are initially 20 clubs which will participate the league in this season..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280605-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Regional Round\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Regional Round was played from 24 September to 15 November 2018. A total of 69 teams competed in the regional round to decide 12 of the 32 places in the national round of the 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280605-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Regional Round, Teams\nThe following 69 teams entered the regional winner route divided into seven regions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280605-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Regional Round, Regional round, Sumatra\nA total of 13 teams played in Sumatra regional round. Four best teams from this region advanced to preliminary round. This region was played from 29 September \u2013 21 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280605-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Regional Round, Regional round, Java\nA total of 29 teams played in Java regional round. Eight best teams from this region advanced to preliminary round. This region was played from 24 September \u2013 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280605-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Regional Round, Regional round, Kalimantan\nA total of five teams played in Kalimantan regional round. Three best teams from this region advanced to preliminary round. This region was played from 3\u201310 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280605-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Regional Round, Regional round, Sulawesi\nA total of eight teams play in Sulawesi regional round. Three best teams from this region advanced to preliminary round. This region was played from 1 October \u2013 6 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280605-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Regional Round, Regional round, Lesser Sunda Islands\nA total of four teams played in Lesser Sunda Islands regional round. Two best teams from this region advanced to preliminary round. This region was played from 6\u201320 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280605-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Regional Round, Regional round, Maluku\nA total of two teams played in Maluku regional round. The best team from this region advanced to preliminary round. This region was played from 6\u201321 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280605-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Regional Round, Regional round, Papua\nA total of eight teams play in Papua regional round. Three best teams from this region advanced to preliminary round. This region was played from 1 October \u2013 3 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280605-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Regional Round, Preliminary round\nA total of 24 teams played in this round. This round was played from 6\u201315 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280605-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Regional Round, Qualified teams\nThe following teams qualified from regional route for the national round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280606-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Riau\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Riau is a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. Nabil F.C., the winner of the 2017 Liga 3 Riau are the defending champions. The competition will begin on August 12, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280606-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Riau, Format\nIn this competition, all teams will face each other in home and away match. The winner will represent Riau in next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280606-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Riau, Teams\nThere are 8 teams which will participate the league this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280607-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Riau Islands\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Riau Island is a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. PS Bintan, the winner of the 2017 Liga 3 Riau Islands are the defending champions. The competition will begin on August 2, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280607-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Riau Islands, Group Stage\nThe 6 probable teams to compete are mentioned below. This stage scheduled starts on 02 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280608-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Southeast Sulawesi\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Southeast Sulawesi is the first edition of Liga 3 (formerly known as Liga Nusantara) Southeast Sulawesi as a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. The competition will begin on 22 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280608-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Southeast Sulawesi, Format\nIn this competition, 16 teams are divided into 4 groups of four. The two best teams are through to knockout stage. The winner will represent Southeast Sulawesi in the national round of 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280608-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Southeast Sulawesi, Teams\nThere are 16 clubs which will participate the league in this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280608-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Southeast Sulawesi, Group stage\nThis stage started on 22 April 2018. All matches held in Lakidende Stadium, Kendari", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280609-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Special Region of Yogyakarta\nThe 2018 Liga 3 Jogjakarta is a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. Satria Adhikarta, the winner of the 2017 Liga 3 Jogjakarta are the defending champions but the team did not participate in this year's competition. The competition will begin on June 27, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280609-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 Special Region of Yogyakarta, Group Stage\nThe 9 probable teams to compete are mentioned below. This stage scheduled starts on 27 Jule 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280610-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 West Java\nThe 2018 Liga 3 West Java (known as Liga 3 Super Jalapa (Jago Bola Pasundan)) is the third edition of Liga 3 (formerly known as Liga Nusantara) West Java as a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. PSKC Cimahi, winner of the 2017 Liga 3 West Java are the defending champions. The competition started on 29 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280610-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 West Java, Format\nIn this competition, 42 teams are divided into 6 groups of seven. The two best teams are through to knockout stage. The winner will represent West Java in national round of 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280610-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 West Java, Teams\nThere are initially 42 clubs which will participate the league in this season. But it became 41 after Bone F.C. withdraw before their first match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280610-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 West Java, Group stage\nThis stage scheduled starts on 29 April 2018. Result of this stage:,,,,,,,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280611-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 West Sumatra\nThe 2018 Liga 3 West Sumatra is a qualifying round for the national round of 2018 Liga 3. Batang Anai F.C., the winner of the 2017 Liga 3 West Sumatra are the defending champions. The competition will begin on June 30, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280611-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 West Sumatra, Format\nIn this competition, 19 teams are divided into 3 groups of five and 1 groups of four. The two best teams are through to knockout stage. The winner will represent West Sumatra in national round of 2018 Liga 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280611-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga 3 West Sumatra, Teams\nThere are initially 19 clubs which will participate the league in this season..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280612-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season\nLiga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito's 2018 season was the club's 88th year of existence, the 65th year in professional football, and the 57th in the top level of professional football in Ecuador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280612-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Squad information\nNote: Caps and goals are of the national league and are current as of the beginning of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280612-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Serie A\nThe 2018 season was Liga's 57th season in the Serie A and their 17th consecutive. The format was identical to the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280612-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, CONMEBOL Sudamericana\nL.D.U. Quito qualified to the 2018 CONMEBOL Sudamericana\u2014their 11th participation in the continental tournament\u2014as the 8th place of the 2017 Serie A. They entered the competition in the first stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 86], "content_span": [87, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280612-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, CONMEBOL Sudamericana, First stage\nTied 4\u20134 on aggregate, LDU Quito won on away goals and advanced to the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 99], "content_span": [100, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280612-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, CONMEBOL Sudamericana, Second stage\nLDU Quito won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the round of 16 (Match H).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 100], "content_span": [101, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280612-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, CONMEBOL Sudamericana, Round of 16\nTied 1\u20131 on aggregate, Deportivo Cali won on penalties and advanced to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 99], "content_span": [100, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280613-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Dominicana de F\u00fatbol\nThe 2018 Liga Dominicana de F\u00fatbol season (known as the LDF Banco Popular for sponsorship reasons) is the fourth season of professional football in the Dominican Republic. Atl\u00e1ntico FC are the reigning champions, having won this first title last season. The season started on 7 April 2018 and ended on 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280613-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Dominicana de F\u00fatbol, Team changes\nWhile there is no promotion or relegation involving this league, there were changes to the composition of the league from last season. Bauger FC have left the league following last season. Meanwhile, three new teams have joined the league: Jarabacoa FC, Inter RD, and Atl\u00e9tico de San Francisco. Thus, the league now has 12 teams in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280613-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Dominicana de F\u00fatbol, Format changes\nThe format of the competition has changed for this season. The regular season will still consist of a double round robin between the participating teams. After this, a Liguilla round will be played between the top six finishers of the regular season, with a single round robin between the teams. The top 4 finishers of this phase will move on to the knockout phase of the playoffs, where the champion will be decided. The top team at the end of the regular season along with the playoff champion will qualify for the 2019 Caribbean Club Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280613-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Dominicana de F\u00fatbol, Regular season\nThe regular season began on 7 April 2018 and ended on 26 August 2018. The regular season winner qualified for the 2019 Caribbean Club Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280613-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Dominicana de F\u00fatbol, Liguilla\nThe top 6 teams from the regular season participated in a single round robin tournament to determine who qualifies for the championship playoffs. The liguilla started on 1 September 2018 and ended on 30 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280613-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Dominicana de F\u00fatbol, Championship playoffs\nThe top 4 finishers of the Liguilla qualify for this phase. These matches began on 6 October 2018 and ended on 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280613-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Dominicana de F\u00fatbol, Championship playoffs, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on 6 and 7 October 2018 and the second legs were played on 20 and 21 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280614-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Futebol Amadora\nThe 2018 Liga Futebol Amadora is the third season of the Liga Futebol Amadora. The season began on 3 March 2018. The Primeira Divis\u00e3o began on March 3 and finished on August 5, while the Segunda Divis\u00e3o began on March 6 and was finished on August 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280614-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Futebol Amadora\nAll Primeira Divis\u00e3o games are played at the Dili Municipal Stadium, Kampo Demokrasia, Baucau Municipal Stadium and Malibaca Yamato Stadium, while all Segunda Divis\u00e3o games are played at the Kampo Demokrasia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280615-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Futsal Kebangsaan\nLiga Futsal Kebangsaan 2018 (transl. 2018 National Futsal League) will be the tenth season of the National Futsal League, the Malaysian professional futsal league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 2004. Malacca United are the defending champions, having won their second title in the 2018 season. The league was on hold for 2016 season after a financial problem and postponed to January 2018 for the new season. All matches to be played at Team Home Away .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280616-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Futsal Kebangsaan (Wanita)\n2018 Liga Futsal Kebangsaan (Wanita) (transl. 2018 Women National Futsal League) was the eighth season of the Liga Futsal Kebangsaan (Wanita), the Malaysian professional futsal league for association football clubs, specifically for women since its establishment in 2007. Selangor are the defending champions, having won their third title in the 2014-15 season. The league was on hold for 2016 season after a financial problem and postponed to January 2018 for the new season. All matches to be played at Team Home Away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280617-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Melaka\nThe 2018 season is the 89rd season of the Liga Melaka, which is a Malaysian football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from Malaccca.UtEM FC are the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280617-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Melaka, Teams\nFor 2018 season, there are 51 teams will compete in the league. Top team from the Division 1 will promoted to Malaysia M4 League for 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280618-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Sudamericana de B\u00e1squetbol\nThe 2018 Liga Sudamericana de B\u00e1squetbol (South American Basketball League) was the 23rd edition of the second-tier level continental professional club basketball competition in the Americas, the FIBA Americas League. Sixteen teams from South America competed over three rounds to determine the champion. The defending champions, Guaros de Lara, did not have the opportunity to defend their title, after the Venezuelan Basketball Federation failed to register the team in the competition, alleging financial troubles. Franca of Brazil won their first Liga Sudamericana de B\u00e1squetbol championship in team history by beating Instituto of Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280618-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Sudamericana de B\u00e1squetbol, Group phase\nSixteen teams participated in the group phase, in which each team faced the other teams in the group once. Each group tournament was held at the arena of a host team. The two highest-placed teams in groups A, C, and D, and the highest-placed team in group B advanced to the semifinal phase. Also, the best third-placed team from groups A, C and D advanced to the semifinal phase. Games were played from 2 to 24 October, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280618-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Sudamericana de B\u00e1squetbol, Semifinal phase\nThe eight teams which advanced from the group phase played in this stage. The eight teams were split into two groups, in which each team faced the other teams in the group once. Each group tournament was held at the arena of a host team. The highest-placed teams in each group advanced to the Grand Final series. Games were played from 13 to 22 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280618-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga Sudamericana de B\u00e1squetbol, Grand Finals\nThe Grand Finals were decided in a best-of-three playoff format. Games were played on 7, 13, and 14 December 2018. The team with the better record in the Semifinal phase played Games 2 and 3 (if necessary) at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280619-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga de Elite\nThe 2018 Liga de Elite was the 46th season of the Liga de Elite, the top Macanese league for association football clubs since its establishment in 1973. The season began on 19 January 2018 and ended on 1 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280619-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liga de Elite, Fixtures and results, Round 18\nWilliam Gomes - Ka I - 38 GolosDanilo Lins - CPK - 37 GolosDiego Patriota - CPK - 24 GolosLeonel Fernandes - Benfica - 20 GolosNiki Torr\u00e3o - Benfica - 19 GolosPrince Aggreh - Sporting - 19 GolosTito Okello - Benfica - 11 GolosDenilson - CPK - 11 GolosRonieli - Ching Fung - 10 GolosNoronha Guterres - Monte Carlo 9 Golos", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280620-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ligue 1 (Congo)\nThe 2018 Ligue 1 is the 51st season of Ligue 1, the top professional league for association football clubs in the Republic of the Congo, since its establishment in 1961. The season started on 27 January 2018 and concluded on 21 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280621-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ligue Ha\u00eftienne season\nThe 2018 Ligue Ha\u00eftienne season is the 55th season of top-tier football in Haiti. It began on 17 February 2018 and ended on 27 December 2018. The league Championnat National Ha\u00eftien Professionnel is split into two tournaments\u2014the S\u00e9rie d'Ouverture and the S\u00e9rie de Cl\u00f4ture\u2014each with identical formats and each contested by the same 16 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280621-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ligue Ha\u00eftienne season, Teams\nAt the end of the 2017 season, the bottom three teams in the aggregate table; \u00c9clair AC, America FC, and Juventus; were relegated to the Haitian second level leagues. Replacing them were three clubs from the Haitian second level leagues; Arcahaie FC, Valencia FC and Cosmopolites SC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280621-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ligue Ha\u00eftienne season, S\u00e9rie d'Ouverture\nThe 2018 S\u00e9rie d'Ouverture began on 17 February 2018 and the regular season ended on 6 May 2018. The playoffs began on 9 May 2018 and ended on 27 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280621-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ligue Ha\u00eftienne season, S\u00e9rie d'Ouverture, Playoffs, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs were played on 9 and 10 May and the second legs were played on 13 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280621-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ligue Ha\u00eftienne season, S\u00e9rie d'Ouverture, Playoffs, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on 16 and 17 May and the second legs were played on 20 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280621-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ligue Ha\u00eftienne season, S\u00e9rie d'Ouverture, Playoffs, Finals\nThe first leg was played on 24 May and the second leg was played on 27 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280621-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ligue Ha\u00eftienne season, S\u00e9rie de Cl\u00f4ture\nThe 2018 S\u00e9rie de Cl\u00f4ture began on 1 September 2018 and the regular season ended on 11 December 2018. The playoffs began on 6 December 2018 and ended on 27 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280621-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ligue Ha\u00eftienne season, S\u00e9rie de Cl\u00f4ture, Playoffs, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs were played on 6 December 2018 and the second legs were played on 9 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280621-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Ligue Ha\u00eftienne season, S\u00e9rie de Cl\u00f4ture, Playoffs, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on 13 December 2018 and the second legs were played on 16 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280621-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Ligue Ha\u00eftienne season, S\u00e9rie de Cl\u00f4ture, Playoffs, Finals\nThe first leg was played on 20 December 2018 and the second leg was played on 23 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280621-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Ligue Ha\u00eftienne season, S\u00e9rie de Cl\u00f4ture, Playoffs, Finals\nThe second match between Arcahaie FC and Don Bosco FC was called off due to darkness with the penalty shootout even at 5-5. Due to this, a playoff match was played on 27 December 2018 to determine a season champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280621-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Ligue Ha\u00eftienne season, Troph\u00e9e des Champions\nThis match is contested between the winner of the S\u00e9rie d'Ouverture and the winner of the S\u00e9rie de Cl\u00f4ture. This match was played on 30 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280622-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lillestr\u00f8m SK season\nThe 2018 season was Lillestr\u00f8m's 42nd consecutive year in Eliteserien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280622-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lillestr\u00f8m SK season, Season events\nOn 26 June, Arne Erlandsen was sacked as the club manager, with Arild Sundgot being appointed as an interim manager. On 13 July, J\u00f6rgen Lennartsson was appointed the club's new manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280622-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lillestr\u00f8m SK season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280622-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lillestr\u00f8m SK season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280622-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lillestr\u00f8m SK season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280622-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Lillestr\u00f8m SK season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280622-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Lillestr\u00f8m SK season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280622-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Lillestr\u00f8m SK season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280623-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lilly Diabetes 250\nThe 2018 Lilly Diabetes 250 was a NASCAR Xfinity Series race held on September 10, 2018 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. Contested over 100 laps on the 2.5-mile (4.0\u00a0km) speedway, it was the 25th race of the 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280623-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lilly Diabetes 250, Practice\nBoth practice sessions for the race were cancelled due to rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280623-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lilly Diabetes 250, Qualifying\nQualifying for the race was cancelled due to rain. Ryan Blaney won the pole based on owner's points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280624-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima Challenger\nThe 2018 Lima Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Lima, Peru between October 22 and October 27, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280624-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280624-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280624-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280625-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nMiguel \u00c1ngel Reyes-Varela and Bla\u017e Rola were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280625-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nGuido Andreozzi and Guillermo Dur\u00e1n won the title after defeating Ariel Behar and Gonzalo Escobar 2\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20135), [10\u20135] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280626-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima Challenger \u2013 Singles\nGerald Melzer was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Paolo Lorenzi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280626-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima Challenger \u2013 Singles\nChristian Gar\u00edn won the title after defeating Pedro Sousa 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280627-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima fire attack\nOn 24 April 2018, 11 people were attacked with fire inside a bus in the district of Miraflores, in Lima, Peru. One of them, 22-year old Eyvi \u00c1greda, who was the target of the attack, died more than a month later in the hospital. The attacker was identified as Carlos Hualpa Vacas, who belonged to the victim's work environment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280627-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima fire attack, Attack\nIt was around seven o'clock at night., and a man with covered with a hood and dark glasses got on the bus and he sat on the back of the vehicle. Then got up and moved forward three seats to spray a fuel a woman who was sitting and after set fire to her, which also reached at least 10 other passengers, and finally escaped the scene by burning him-self arm a little.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280627-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima fire attack, Investigation\nThe testimonies of the witnesses, the recordings of the security cameras, as well as a clue given by the sister of the mortal victim helped to find the author of this fact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280627-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima fire attack, Investigation\nHualpa Vacas had asked absent him-self from his job the day after the attack because his arm was burned. This coincides with the version of the bus driver, who said that the author of the attack fled with his limb on fire, a crucial detail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280627-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima fire attack, Investigation\nThe bus driver also said that Hualpa Vacas had his head covered with a green hood and dark glasses; Other witnesses added that he was wearing a black backpack. The security cameras of the area captured a person with these characteristics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280627-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima fire attack, Investigation\nThe victim's sister had received a warning message before the attack. She had asked him to wait for her at the bus station, because she was afraid of \"a man named Javier who was chasing her\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280627-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima fire attack, Investigation\nThe police went to the workplace of Hualpa Vacas, which he had to enter at 9:00 a.m, but when they knew he was on leave because the previous night had suffered an accident, they reinforced his hypothesis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280627-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima fire attack, Investigation\nWhen Hualpa Vacas peeked out at the door of his house he was intervened and immediately reduced, and it was confirmed that he had a burn on his left hand and forearm, as reported by the driver of the bus in which the attack occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280627-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima fire attack, Investigation\nIn his testimony to the Police, Hualpa revealed in detail his plan. And according to the policemen who questioned him, without showing any remorse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280627-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima fire attack, Investigation\nHualpa Vacas wanted to justify his actions and pointed out that he did not want to kill Eyvi \u00c1greda if not \"just disfigure her\" and that he had planned the attack long time ago, so a month earlier he bought the gasoline in a yogurt bottle, but it had no value for execute it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280627-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima fire attack, Investigation\nOne of the versions that he formulated is that he had injured himself cooking in his house; but he also said that he burned himself because he was very nervous when he realized that his name was given as a suspect. \"When nobody had mentioned it with certainty and we had only given his second name,\" one of the policemens explained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280627-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima fire attack, Investigation\nThe truth is that he could not say where he was treated for the burn he presents, which is bandaged after application of a substance, probably to relieve pain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280627-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima fire attack, Investigation\nThis case received extensive media coverage, both for the number of victims of this attack and for the way in which Eyvi was attacked. This was a representative case of the high numbers of murders of women registered in Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280628-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima municipal election\nMunicipal elections in Lima were held in 7 October 2018. 82.56% of eligible voters cast ballots in the election. The mayoral election produced the following results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280628-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lima municipal election\nThe distribution of seats among parties which ensured representation in the city council is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280629-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Limerick Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Limerick Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship was the fifth staging of the Limerick Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280629-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Limerick Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship\nOn 18 October 2018, Garryspillane won the championship after a 2-12 to 0-12 defeat of Bruff in the final at FitzGerald Park. It was their first ever championship title in this grade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280630-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 124th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887. The group stage placings were confirmed on 21 November 2017. The championship began on 20 April 2018 and ended on 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280630-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 27 October 2018, Na Piarsaigh won the title following a 2-22 to 3-10 defeat of Doon in the final at the Gaelic Grounds. It was their fifth championship title overall and their second title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280630-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nNa Piarsaigh's Shane Dowling was the championship's top scorer with 1-65.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280631-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Limerick county hurling team season\nThe 2018 Limerick county hurling team season was the Limerick senior hurling team's 127th active season of participation in inter-county hurling. During the season, Limerick played in the Munster League, the National League, the Munster Championship and the All-Ireland Championship. It was the team's most successful season in nearly half a century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280631-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Limerick county hurling team season\nVeteran players James Ryan and Gavin O'Mahony retired from inter-county hurling within days of each other at the end of the previous season, while 2017 championship panellist Stephen Cahill was also an absentee. Notable players returning included Kevin Downes, who missed the 2017 season due to a cruciate injury, and David Reidy, who rejoined the Limerick panel after a year with the Kildare senior hurling team. Other additions included several players from Limerick's 2017 All-Ireland Under-21 Championship-winning team, such as S\u00e9amus Flanagan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280631-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Limerick county hurling team season\nOn 19 August 2018, Limerick won the All-Ireland title for the 8th time in their history after a 3-16 to 2-18 defeat of Galway in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park. Leading by nine points at one stage in the second half and by eight with just two minutes of normal time remaining, Limerick withstood a sensational Galway comeback, which included late goals by Conor Whelan and Joe Canning, to win by a single point. It was their first All-Ireland title since 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280631-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Limerick county hurling team season\nLimerick were described as the \"worthiest All-Ireland champions\" of all time after playing eight games to win the title, including defeats of the traditional big three - Kilkenny, Cork and Tipperary - as well as the 2017 All-Ireland champions Galway and runners-up Waterford. Over 80,000 fans lined the streets of Limerick to welcome the team home the day after the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280632-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Line TV Awards\nThe 1st LINE TV Awards was an awarding ceremony presented by LINE TV Thailand, giving recognition to the Thai online entertainment industry in the fields of music, television and drama for their achievements in the year 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280632-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Line TV Awards\nThe awards night was held at the Royal Paragon Hall, Siam Paragon, Bangkok, Thailand on Tuesday, 20 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280633-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lingshui China Masters\nThe 2018 Lingshui China Masters was a badminton tournament which took place at Agile Stadium in China from 10 to 15 April 2018 and had a total purse of $75,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280633-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lingshui China Masters, Tournament\nThe 2018 Lingshui China Masters was the second Super 100 tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Lingshui China Masters championships, which had been held since 2001. This tournament was organized by the Chinese Badminton Association with the sanction from the Badminton Asia and BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280633-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lingshui China Masters, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Agile Stadium which located inside the Lingshui Culture and Sports Square in Lingshui, Hainan, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280633-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lingshui China Masters, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF Tour Super 100 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280633-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lingshui China Masters, Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$75,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280634-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lions (Super Rugby) season\nIn 2018, the Lions participated in the 2018 Super Rugby competition, the 23rd edition of the competition since its inception in 1996. They were included in the South African Conference of the competition, along with the Bulls, Jaguares, Sharks and Stormers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280634-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lions (Super Rugby) season, Personnel, Coaches and management\nThe Lions coaching and management staff for the 2018 Super Rugby season were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280634-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lions (Super Rugby) season, Personnel, Squad\nThe following players were named in the Lions squad for the 2018 Super Rugby season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280634-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lions (Super Rugby) season, Standings\nThe final standings for the 2018 Super Rugby season were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280634-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lions (Super Rugby) season, Standings, Round-by-round\nThe table below shows the Lions' progression throughout the season. For each round, their cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280634-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Lions (Super Rugby) season, Matches\nThe Lions played the following matches during the 2018 Super Rugby season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280634-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Lions (Super Rugby) season, Player statistics\nThe Super Rugby appearance record for players that represented the Lions in 2018 is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280634-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Lions (Super Rugby) season, Player statistics\n(c) denotes the team captain. For each match, the player's squad number is shown. Starting players are numbered 1 to 15, while the replacements are numbered 16 to 22. If a replacement made an appearance in the match, it is indicated by . \"App\" refers to the number of appearances made by the player, \"Try\" to the number of tries scored by the player, \"Kck\" to the number of points scored via kicks (conversions, penalties or drop goals) and \"Pts\" refer to the total number of points scored by the player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280635-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour\nThe 2018 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour was a motor race for GT3, GT4 and invited cars, staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathurst, in New South Wales, Australia on 4 February 2018. The 16th running of the Bathurst 12 Hour constituted the opening round of the 2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge Series. As per the previous year, the winners of the race were awarded the Australian Tourist Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280635-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour\nThe event was declared 10 minutes before the finish of the event after a 3 car incident, involving the #95 Eastgate Engineering MARC Focus, the #69 Supabarn Audi R8 LMS and the #19 Daimler Trucks Brisbane Mercedes-AMG GT3, marking the first time in the Bathurst 12 Hour history that the race was declared before the time cut-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280635-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour\n51 cars were entered and 50 cars started, with one entry withdrawn following a crash in practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280635-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour\nThe race was won by Robin Frijns, Stuart Leonard and Dries Vanthoor driving an Audi R8 LMS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280635-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour, Official results\n\u2013 Daniel Gaunt was added to the Grove Motorsport entry during the race to temporarily replace Brenton Grove who had become ill and the retirement of #3 Audi in which Gaunt was scheduled to drive", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280635-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour, Official results\n\u2013 The #6 Wall Racing entry switched from a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560 GT3 to a Lamborghini Gallardo R-EX following an engine failure during Saturday practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280635-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour, Official results\n\u2013 Following an incident in Saturday practice, the #94 MARC Cars Australia car was withdrawn and replaced with the team\u2019s spare car and renumbered #33", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280636-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lisboa Bel\u00e9m Open\nThe 2018 Lisboa Bel\u00e9m Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Lisbon, Portugal between 14 and 20 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280636-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lisboa Bel\u00e9m Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280637-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lisboa Bel\u00e9m Open \u2013 Doubles\nRuan Roelofse and Christopher Rungkat were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280637-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lisboa Bel\u00e9m Open \u2013 Doubles\nMarcelo Ar\u00e9valo and Miguel \u00c1ngel Reyes-Varela won the title after defeating Tomasz Bednarek and Hunter Reese 6\u20133, 3\u20136, [10\u20131] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280638-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lisboa Bel\u00e9m Open \u2013 Singles\nOscar Otte was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280638-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lisboa Bel\u00e9m Open \u2013 Singles\nTommy Robredo won the title after defeating Christian Gar\u00edn 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280639-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Listowel Mixed Doubles Cashspiel\nThe 2018 Listowel Mixed Doubles Cashspiel was a curling event held from March 31 to April 2 at the Listowel Curling Club in Listowel, Ontario as part of the World Curling Tour. The event was held in a round robin format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280640-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lithuanian Football Cup\nThe 2018 Lithuanian Football Cup, also known as LFF Cup, was the seventy-third season of the Lithuanian annual football knock-out tournament. Forty-eight teams entered the competitions, which started on 27 April and ended on 30 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280640-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lithuanian Football Cup\nThe winners qualify for the 2019\u201320 UEFA Europa League. Stumbras were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280640-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lithuanian Football Cup, Participants\nParticipation in the competition is mandatory for all clubs of the first three tiers (A Lyga, LFF I Lyga and II Lyga). Despite that NFA aren't competing for the second year in a row. Teams of lower divisions are eligible to join if they met additional criterios. Rules prevented all reserve teams from entering the cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280640-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lithuanian Football Cup, Schedule\nThe rounds of the 2016\u201317 competition were scheduled as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280640-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lithuanian Football Cup, Matches, First round\nThe following pairs were drawn on 20 April 2017 by Lithuania national team midfielder Saulius Mikoli\u016bnas. Dates and venues will be confirmed after the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280640-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Lithuanian Football Cup, Matches, First round\nNev\u0117\u017eis, Pakruojis (I Lyga), Babrungas, Hegelmann Litauen, Garg\u017ed\u0173 Pramogos SC, Saned (II Lyga), Elektr\u0117n\u0173 Versm\u0117 (III Lyga) and Top Kickers (IV Lyga) received free passes to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280640-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Lithuanian Football Cup, Matches, Final\nThe final match was played on Sunday 30 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280641-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lithuanian International\nThe 2018 Lithuanian International (officially known as YONEX Lithuanian International 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Kaunas Sports Hall in Lithuania from 7 to 10 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280641-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lithuanian International, Tournament\nThe 2018 Lithuanian International was the eleventh tournament of the 2018 BWF Future Series and also part of the Lithuanian International championships which had been held since 1992. This tournament was organized by the Lithuanian Badminton Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280641-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lithuanian International, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Kaunas Sports Hall in Kaunas, Lithuania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280641-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lithuanian International, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF Future Series event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280642-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League Softball World Series\nThe 2018 Little League Softball World Series was held in Portland, Oregon from August 8 to August 15, 2018. Six teams from the United States and four from throughout the world competed for the Little League Softball World Series Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280642-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League Softball World Series, Teams\nEach team that competed in the tournament came out of one of the 10 regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280643-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series\nThe 2018 Little League World Series was held from August 16 to August 26 at the Little League headquarters complex in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Eight teams from the United States and eight teams from around the world competed in the 72nd edition of the tournament. Honolulu Little League of Honolulu, Hawaii defeated South Seoul Little League of Seoul, South Korea in the championship by a 3\u20130 score. It was the third championship for a team from Hawaii, having won previously in 2005 and 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280643-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series, Teams\nRegional qualifying tournaments were held between June and August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280643-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series, Results\nThe draw to determine the opening round pairings took place on June 14, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280643-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series, Results, Consolation games\nTeams that lose their first two games get to play a consolation game against a team from the other side of the bracket that also lost its first two games. These games are labeled Game A and Game B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280643-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series, Results, Third place game\nThis consolation game is played between the runner-up of the United States championship and the runner-up of the International championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280643-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series, Champions path\nThe Honolulu LL reached the LLWS with an undefeated record in seven games. In total, their record was 12\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280643-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series, MLB Little League Classic\nOn September 29, 2017, Major League Baseball announced that the second MLB Little League Classic would be played on August 19, 2018, between the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies. The game was again played at BB&T Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field, with the Mets winning, 8\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification\nQualification for the 2018 Little League World Series took place in eight United States regions and eight international regions from June through August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, United States, Great Lakes\nThe tournament took place in Westfield, Indiana from August 5\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, United States, Mid-Atlantic\nThe tournament took place in Bristol, Connecticut from August 5\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, United States, Midwest\nThe tournament took place in Westfield, Indiana from August 5\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, United States, Midwest\nNote: North Dakota and South Dakota are organized into a single Little League district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, United States, New England\nThe tournament took place in Bristol, Connecticut from August 5\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, United States, Northwest\nThe tournament took place in San Bernardino, California August 5\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, United States, Southeast\nThe tournament took place in Warner Robins, Georgia from August 3\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, United States, West\nThe tournament took place in San Bernardino, California August 5\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, International, Asia-Pacific\nThe tournament took place in Seoul, South Korea from June 30\u2013July 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, International, Asia-Pacific\n1 Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, due to complicated relations with People's Republic of China, is recognized by the name Chinese Taipei by majority of international organizations including Little League Baseball (LLB). For more information, please see Cross-Strait relations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, International, Australia\nThe tournament took place in Lismore, New South Wales June 6\u201311. The top two teams in each pool advanced to the elimination round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, International, Canada\nThe tournament took place in Mirabel, Quebec from August 2\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, International, Caribbean\nThe tournament took place in Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico from July 14\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, International, Europe and Africa\nIn an expanded format, 10 countries have automatic berths into the regional tournament based on participation and enrollment figures. A qualifier tournament from additional countries wishing to enter took place from July 12\u201317. The format of the qualifier tournament is a round robin with an elimination round where the two semifinal winners advanced to the double-elimination regional tournament from July 20\u201327. Both tournaments took place in Kutno, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280644-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series qualification, International, Latin America\nThe tournament took place in Panama City, Panama from July 21\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280645-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Little League World Series results\nThe results of the 2018 Little League World Series were determined between August 16 and August 26, 2018 in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 16 teams were divided into two groups, one with eight teams from the United States and another with eight international teams, with both groups playing a modified double-elimination tournament. In each group, the last remaining undefeated team faced the last remaining team with one loss, with the winners of those games advancing to play for the Little League World Series championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280646-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Rock mayoral election\nThe 2018 Little Rock mayoral election took place on November 6 and December 4, 2018, to elect the Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas. It saw the election of Frank Scott Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280646-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Rock mayoral election\nWith no candidate receiving a majority of the vote in the initial round, a runoff election was held between the top-two finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280646-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Rock mayoral election\nScott became the first elected African American mayor in Little Rock's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire\nOn August 26, 2018, a fire began early that morning in Chicago's Mexican-American Little Village neighborhood. The fire killed ten children, including six children under the age of 12. Investigators stated that the fire started in the back of the building in a ground-floor apartment, which was vacant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire\nThe fire is the deadliest residential fire to have occurred in Chicago since 1958. In the aftermath of the fire, multiple violations were found in the apartment where the fire occurred with apartment owner, Merced Gutierrez, appearing in court for the 40 violations found at the site of the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Background\nOn February 22, 2017, a fire broke out in the living room of a vacant first-floor apartment at the rear of the building. No one was injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Background\nIn March 2018, Illinois's Department of Children and Family Services were called investigated a hotline call that one of the sons of the mother who lived at the apartment came to school looking dirty and smelling of marijuana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Fire\nThe fatal fire started at around 3 a.m. CST on August 26, 2018, at an apartment building at 2200 block of South Sacramento Avenue, about 45 minutes before a witness called 911 at 3:45\u00a0a.m. to report flames shooting through the windows of the second-floor rear unit. Children, ranging in age from 3 months to 16 years, were at a sleepover at the apartment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Fire\nThe investigation by the Chicago Fire Department indicated that the fire was the result of a smoldering item in the apartment that morning. Arson and foul play were ruled out. No adults were present in the apartment during the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Fire\nAn exact cause to the fire is still undetermined. Eight children died immediately in the fire while two were hospitalized under critical condition at the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County and died two later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Victims\nThe 10 children who died in the fire were nine first cousins and a family friend:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Investigation\nFire officials initially said they did not find any smoke detectors in the second-floor rear unit, but they later said they did find a smoke detector without batteries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Investigation\nThe department had investigated the mother who lived there, predominantly on allegations of inadequate supervision, 21 times since 2004. The complaints were verified in two instances, including one in 2013 when her then-8-year-old son, who had autism, got out of the home and was found wandering in traffic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Aftermath\nMany criticized Illinois' the Department of Children and Family Services as they were previously summoned to the department and disregarded the hazards. In a statement, the department said it tries to be as proactive as possible to prevent neglect when investigating struggling families. In months before the fire, there were 21 complaints against a mother of one of the victims, another complaint was verified in 2015. The mother was cited for endangerment when her 16-year-old daughter used a 7-month-old relative in a stroller to help them with a theft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Aftermath\nA memorial service for six of the children was held on September 1 at noon at Our Lady of Tepeyac Church.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Aftermath\nThe Chicago Fire Department handed out smoke detectors to the neighborhood while raising awareness of its importance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Aftermath\nMayor Rahm Emanuel in a statement regarding the fire said: \"Our thoughts go out to not only the families of those who perished but to members of the department who pushed as hard as possible to reverse the deadly fate of the eight who are now gone\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Aftermath, Violations\nChicago Department of Buildings' Strategic Task Force found 38 violations in the front building, including missing or defective smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, defective light fixtures and armored cable and electrical wiring and plumbing installed without permits. Six more violations were found during a separate inspection of the rear coach house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280647-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Little Village fire, Aftermath, Violations\nThe owner of the apartment, 80 year old Merced Gutierrez, was criticized and blamed for the fire for causing many violations at the apartment. As a result of the violations, Gutierrez appeared in court on August 30 and was ordered to no longer rent anyone the apartment. The city will conduct another inspection on December 4 with another hearing on the code violations is set two days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280648-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liuzhou International Challenger\nThe 2018 Liuzhou International Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament for men and third edition for women. It was the part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Liuzhou, China between 22 and 28 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280648-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liuzhou International Challenger, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 87], "content_span": [88, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280648-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liuzhou International Challenger, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 89], "content_span": [90, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280649-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liuzhou International Challenger \u2013 Men's Doubles\nGong Maoxin and Zhang Ze won the title after defeating Hsieh Cheng-peng and Christopher Rungkat 6\u20133, 2\u20136, [10\u20133] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280650-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liuzhou International Challenger \u2013 Men's Singles\nRadu Albot won the title after defeating Miomir Kecmanovi\u0107 6\u20132, 4\u20136, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280651-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liuzhou International Challenger \u2013 Women's Doubles\nHan Xinyun and Makoto Ninomiya were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280651-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liuzhou International Challenger \u2013 Women's Doubles\nEudice Chong and Ye Qiuyu won the title, defeating Kang Jiaqi and Lee So-ra in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280652-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liuzhou International Challenger \u2013 Women's Singles\nWang Yafan was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, defeating Han Na-lae in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280653-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Liverpool City Council election\nThe 2018 Liverpool City Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Liverpool City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280653-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Liverpool City Council election, Council composition\nPrior to the election the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280653-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Liverpool City Council election, Ward Results, Church\nThomas Burton, the Conservative party candidate for Church ward was ineligible to sit as a councillor as he was a Liverpool City Council employee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280653-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Liverpool City Council election, Ward Results, Kensington and Fairfield\nThree days before the election, Green Candidate Steve Faragher resigned from the Green Party due to an online comment. This was too late for the ballot paper to be changed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280653-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Liverpool City Council election, Notes\n\u2022 italics denote a sitting councillor \u2022 bold denotes the winning candidate", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack\nOn 29 May 2018, Benjamin Herman, a prisoner on temporary leave from prison, stabbed two female police officers, took their guns, shot and killed them and a civilian in Li\u00e8ge, Belgium. The gunman took a woman hostage before he was killed by police. The attacker had since 2017 been suspected of having been radicalised in prison after converting to Islam, and was reported to be part of the entourage of a prison Islamist recruiter. The method of the attack was said by investigators to match and be specifically encouraged by the Islamic State which claimed the attack. Prosecutors say they are treating the attacks as \"terrorist murder\". The attack is treated as \"jihadist terrorism\" by Europol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Background\nRecent stabbing attacks on police officers in Belgium have included the 2016 stabbing of Brussels police officers, the2016 stabbing of Charleroi police officers and the stabbing of two officers on 7 September 2016 in Molenbeek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Background\nBelgium, which had been on high alert since a Brussels-based Islamic State (IS) cell was involved in the November 2015 Paris attacks and the March 2016 Brussels bombings that killed 32 people, lowered its alert level in January 2018 citing the defeat of ISIS and a reduction in the number of people coming to Belgium from Syria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Background\nThe Belgian parliament issued a report in 2018 warning that convicts in the country had been behind several recent attacks in Europe and further expressed concerns that hundreds of prisoners deemed radical by authorities are due to be released in the coming years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Stabbing and shooting\nAt about 10:30, outside the Aux Augustins caf\u00e9 in Liege's city centre, the attacker shouted \"Allahu Akbar\", according to Federal Magistrate Wenke Rogen and according to a video reported by La Repubblica. He was armed with a knife that he used to stab two female officers, Lucile Garcia and Soraya Belkacemi, from behind as they were checking parking meters. He took one of the officers' handguns (he was later pictured with two handguns) and fatally shot the officers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Stabbing and shooting\nA 22-year-old male, Cyril Vangriecken, was also killed in an attempted car-jacking before the perpetrator went into the Ath\u00e9n\u00e9e de Waha high school and tried to take a female cleaner hostage who was left unharmed after she told the attacker that she was a Muslim who observed Ramadan, and persuaded him to not harm the pupils. All the students had been evacuated to the nearby Botanical Garden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Stabbing and shooting\nThe perpetrator then left the school and shot two police officers in the leg, leaving one officer in a serious condition. Two other officers received injuries to their arms before the attacker was shot dead when the police returned fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Stabbing and shooting\nCatherine Collignon, a spokesman for the Li\u00e8ge prosecutors, confirmed the deaths of four people, including the assailant. She later claimed the attack matched the style of similar IS-inspired attacks and told a press conference the attack \"qualified as terrorist murder and attempted terrorist murder.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Stabbing and shooting\nA terrorism investigation was launched after the attack. The method of the attack, repeatedly stabbing the policewomen before using their own firearms to kill them, while shouting \"Allahu Akbar\", was said by investigators to be specifically encouraged by the Islamic State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Perpetrator\nBenjamin Herman, a 31-year-old Belgian, was reported as the perpetrator who had been released from prison on 28 May on a one-day parole after being held for drug offences. Investigators sought to determine if he had been radicalised in prison as he had reportedly been in contact with radicalised Islamists while confined although he wasn't listed as an extremist threat. During a search of his cell after the attack, investigators found a Quran and a prayer rug.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Perpetrator\nHe was from Rochefort, about an hour from Li\u00e8ge. He was known to police for crimes such as robbery, assault and drug dealing. His family leave was given in order to prepare for his re-integration into society despite a prison service assessment that he was very violent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Perpetrator\nThe night before the attack, Herman also killed Michael Wilmet in Marche-en-Famenne, repeatedly hitting him with a hammer. Wilmet was a former prisoner, convicted on drug charges, whom Herman had met in jail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Perpetrator\nOn 30 May, Amaq News Agency, linked to the Islamic State, claimed that a \"soldier of the Caliphate\" had responded to the proscribed group's call to attack citizens of countries in the international coalition fighting it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Reactions, Domestic\nThe monarchy of Belgium offered its condolences, while King Philippe of Belgium visited the scene along with Prime Minister Charles Michel, who also offered his condolences. Belgium's national threat level remained at two out of four, indicating an average risk of an attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Reactions, Domestic\nAs part of the initial investigation reasons, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander De Croo asked: \"Everyone in Belgium is asking the same question: how is it possible that someone convicted for such serious acts was allowed to leave prisons?\" Justice Minister Koen Geens then claimed that there was not any reason to suspect this time would be different from his earlier furloughs and that Herman's latest temporary leave was the 14th time since his detention and was intended to help him prepare for eventual reintegration into society in 2020. \"I don\u2019t think those are mistakes. It is not a clear-cut case of radicalisation \u2013 otherwise he would have been flagged by all services.\" Michel concurred with the assessment that Herman had not figured directly on the primary national register of threats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Reactions, Domestic\nThe day after the attack, a ceremony honouring the victims was held in Espace Tivoli in Li\u00e8ge at 13:00 which was observed by many police officers, politicians, and members of the public. Seven minutes of silence were observed, ending with spontaneous applause from the crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280654-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge attack, Reactions, International\nBelgium-based NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg offered his condolences and solidarity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280655-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge\nThe 2018 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 22 April 2018 in Belgium. It was the 104th edition of the Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge and the eighteenth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280655-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge\nThe race was won by the champion of Luxembourg, Bob Jungels (Quick-Step Floors), who escaped on the C\u00f4te de la Roche-aux-Faucons. Canadian rider Michael Woods, riding for the EF Education First\u2013Drapac p/b Cannondale team, won the sprint for second place ahead of AG2R La Mondiale's Romain Bardet for France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280655-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge, Teams\nAs Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Seven UCI Professional Continental teams competed as wildcards, completing the 25-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280656-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge (women's race)\nThe second edition of Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge for Women, a road cycling one-day race in Belgium, was held on 22 April 2018. It was the ninth event of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour. The race started in Bastogne and finished in Li\u00e8ge, containing four categorized climbs, covering a total distance of 135.5\u00a0km.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280656-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge (women's race)\nAnna van der Breggen won the race after she broke clear from Amanda Spratt on the uphill run-up towards the finish. Annemiek van Vleuten was third. It was van der Breggen's second Ardennes classics win of the week after she won Fl\u00e8che Wallonne, and her fourth World Tour one-day victory of 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280656-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge (women's race), Route\nThe route was identical to that of the 2017 event. At 135.5\u00a0km, the race was approximately half the distance of the men's event. It started in Bastogne, from where it headed north past Li\u00e8ge to finish in the industrial suburb of Ans on the same location as the men's race. The route featured four categorized climbs: the C\u00f4te de la Vecqu\u00e9e, C\u00f4te de La Redoute, C\u00f4te de la Roche aux faucons and C\u00f4te de Saint-Nicolas. The top of the last climb of Saint-Nicolas comes at 5.5\u00a0km from the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280656-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge (women's race), Teams\nTwenty-three teams, each with a maximum of six riders, started the race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280656-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge (women's race), Race summary\n20 riders remained at the front by the top of the climb of La Redoute, with 36\u00a0km to go. Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot broke away after the top and soon had a 55-second lead, but was caught back by the chasers on the C\u00f4te de la Roche-aux-Faucons, at 20\u00a0km from the finish. Anna van der Breggen, Annemiek van Vleuten, Ashleigh Moolman and Megan Guarnier had a 25-second lead on the top, but were joined by six others 2\u00a0km later. Australian Amanda Spratt immediately accelerated and had a gap of 55 seconds with 10\u00a0km to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280656-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge (women's race), Race summary\nOn the C\u00f4te de Saint-Nicolas, Anna van der Breggen, Moolman and van Vleuten attacked from the chase group, and at the top van der Breggen had dropped the two others to chase Spratt on her own. The Dutch olympic champion caught Spratt with 5km to go and powered away on the uphill run-in to the finish to win her second consecutive Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge. Spratt finished second at 6 seconds, van Vleuten outsprinted Moolman for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election\nA by-election was held in Loiret's 4th constituency on 18 March 2018, with a second round on 25 March as no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was prompted by the invalidation of the election of Jean-Pierre Door, candidate of The Republicans (LR), in the June 2017 legislative elections by the Constitutional Council on 18 December 2017. In the second round of the 2017 legislative elections on 18 June, the result was the closest in the country, with Door winning by 8 votes before the election was annulled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election\nDoor won the second round of the by-election with 67.08% of the vote against M\u00e9lusine Harl\u00e9, candidate of La R\u00e9publique En Marche!, with 32.92%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Background\nFollowing the second round of the 2017 legislative election in Loiret's 4th constituency on 18 June, M\u00e9lusine Harl\u00e9, candidate of La R\u00e9publique En Marche! defeated by 8 votes in the closest contest of the year, filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council appealing the election of Jean-Pierre Door of The Republicans (LR).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Background\nOn 18 December, the constitutional council annulled the election of Door, with the number of ballots in the commune of Pr\u00e9fontaines differing from the number of signatures, reducing the number of votes cast there from 166 to 165.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Background\nIn addition, article L. 49 of the electoral code prohibits candidates from distributing electoral materials starting from midnight the day before the election, and Harl\u00e9 argued that a Facebook post made by Door depicting a speech in his capacities as mayor of Montargis commemorating the Appeal of 18 June, as well as a post made by deputy mayor Fabrice Bouscal noting that he voted for Door and inviting voters to \"choose the experience faced with adventure\", were in breach of the article. Given the extremely narrow margin between the two candidates at the fact that the Facebook posts were not private but public and made on the date of the election, the constitutional council ruled to annul the election of Door, triggering a by-election in the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Background\nThe first and second rounds of the by-election were scheduled for 18 and 25 March 2018, with 119 polling stations in 69 communes open from 8:00 to 18:00 CET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Background\nCandidates were required submit declarations of their candidacies between 19 and 23 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Candidates\nIncumbent deputy Jean-Pierre Door of The Republicans (LR), a 76-year-old cardiologist, stood in the by-election to attempt to maintain his seat. On 30 January 2018, the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) announced its support for Door, citing his support for the political line of Alain Jupp\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Candidates\nDeputy and president of the Union of the Right and Centre group in the regional council of Centre-Val de Loire Guillaume Peltier visited the constituency to support Door on 8 March, followed by senator Jean-No\u00ebl Cardoux on 9 March, former minister \u00c9lisabeth Hubert on 13 March, LR president Laurent Wauquiez, president of The Republicans group in the National Assembly Christian Jacob, and deputy Antoine Savignat on 14 March, accompanied by UDI deputies Philippe Vigier and Maurice Leroy at a meeting attended by over 400 people, and Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse and Damien Abad between the two rounds on 20 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Candidates\nM\u00e9lusine Harl\u00e9, a 45-year-old CEO of a management company and candidate of La R\u00e9publique En Marche!, launched her campaign on 13 January 2018 alongside party president Christophe Castaner, against the backdrop of motorcyclists protesting the government's reduction of speed limits on local roads from 90\u00a0km/h to 80\u00a0km/h. On 1 March, minister Jacqueline Gourault attended a public meeting in support of Harl\u00e9 in Solterre, and Mounir Mahjoubi visited Ferri\u00e8res-en-G\u00e2tinais on 2 March. Deputies Aurore Berg\u00e9, Gilles Le Gendre, and Caroline Janvier also campaigned on behalf of Harl\u00e9 at a public meeting on 9 March, and Olivier Dussopt subsequently visited the constituency on 16 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Candidates\nLudovic Marchetti, a 31-year-old pastry chef, municipal councillor of Amilly, and departmental secretary of the National Front (FN) in Loiret, was again selected as the party's candidate in the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Candidates\nThe section of the French Communist Party (PCF) based in the constituency argued for a common front on the left unifying the PCF, La France Insoumise, and supporters of Beno\u00eet Hamon behind a single antiliberal and ecologist candidate. Franck Demaumont of the PCF also initially intended to run, before reversing his decision and Bruno Nottin was nominated in his place, with Fran\u00e7oise Causse of La France Insoumise selected as his substitute. Nottin, a 43-year-old court clerk, received the support of Europe Ecology \u2013 The Greens (EELV), which was initially considered likely to present its own candidate. On 6 March, Pierre Laurent, national secretary of the PCF, visited Amilly to support Nottin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Candidates\nJ\u00e9r\u00f4me Schmitt, a 46-year-old employed in the nuclear sector, contested Loiret's 6th constituency in 2017 and stood as the candidate of La France Insoumise, which did not present a candidate in the constituency in June against PCF mayor of Ch\u00e2lette-sur-Loing Franck Demaumont in acknowledgment of his sponsorship of Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon for the presidential election. However, relations between the two movements deteriorated since then, though Schmitt did not rule out the possibility of an alliance with the PCF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Candidates\nAdrien Quatennens and Fran\u00e7ois Ruffin visited the constituency in support of Schmitt on 1 March, followed by door-to-door campaigning by deputies Sabine Rubin and \u00c9ric Coquerel on 10 March, and Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon hosted a public meeting, introduced by Alexis Corbi\u00e8re, that was attended by some 200 people in Montargis on 13 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Candidates\nJalila Gaboret, a 45-year-old secondary school teacher, was again announced as the candidate of the PS on 27 January, and received the support of Olivier Faure, leader of the New Left group in the National Assembly, at a public meeting in Ingr\u00e9 on 19 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Candidates\nLuc Bucheton, a 55-year-notary and departmental secretary of Debout la France (DLF), was again invested by the party, and received the support of DLF president Nicolas Dupont-Aignan in Cepoy on 14 March, and was also accompanied by FN regional councillor Alexandre Cuignache, who decided to leave the party to join Dupont-Aignan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Candidates\nDominique Clergue, a 52-year-old blue-collar worker, was again invested by Lutte Ouvri\u00e8re (LO). Laurent Chaillou, a 46-year-old supervisor, was invested by the Popular Republican Union (UPR), and UPR founder Fran\u00e7ois Asselineau visited the constituency in support of his party's candidate on 10 March. Nicolas Rousseaux, a 42-year-old executive, was invested under the banner of Force Nationale. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chaouat, a 55-year-old English professor, stood as an independent candidate. Jo\u00ebl-Pierre Chevreux, a 62-year-old editor of an online publication, stood as the candidate of the Humans, Animals, Nature Movement (MHAN).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280657-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Loiret's 4th constituency by-election, Candidates\nFrance Bleu Orl\u00e9ans and apostrophe45 broadcast a debate between Door and Harl\u00e9 on 22 March at 19:00 CET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280658-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lombard regional election\nThe Lombard regional election of 2018 took place on 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280658-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lombard regional election\nThe election took place concurrently with the Italian general election and the Lazio regional election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280658-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lombard regional election, Electoral law\nSince 2012, Lombardy has adopted its own legislation to elect its Council, very similar to national Tatarella Law of 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280658-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lombard regional election, Electoral law\nWhile the President of Lombardy and the leader of the opposition are still elected at-large, 78 councilors are elected by party lists under a form of semi-proportional representation. The winning coalition receives a jackpot of at least 45 seats, which are divided between all majority parties using the D'Hondt method, as it happens between the losing lists. Each party then distributes its seats to its provincial lists, where candidates are openly selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280658-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lombard regional election, Electoral law\nAccording to the Law 17 February 1968, no. 108, the Regional Council is elected every five years. The election can take place since the fourth Sunday before the completion of this five years period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280658-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Lombard regional election, Campaign\nOn 1 March 2016, President Maroni announced his intention to run for a re-election as president. Nonetheless, on 8 January 2018 he announced he'd not seek a re-election as president, citing personal reasons and launching former mayor of Varese Attilio Fontana as candidate of the center-right coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280658-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Lombard regional election, Campaign\nOn 1 June 2017 Giorgio Gori, the incumbent mayor of Bergamo, announced his decision to run for the presidency for the center-left coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280658-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Lombard regional election, Campaign\nOn 15 January 2018, Fontana stated that the white race and the Western culture were in danger due to the migration flows from Africa. This created lot of protests and criticisms from the centre-left Democratic Party and also the anti-establishment Five Star Movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280658-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Lombard regional election, Results\nAccording to the final results, Attilio Fontana was the new President of Lombardy with more than 49% of the votes, obtaining the greater bonus given by the electoral law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280659-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lombok earthquake\n2018 Lombok earthquake may refer to the following 5 thrust type earthquakes, with epicentres north of Rinjani volcano, that caused significant damage and deaths:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280660-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 London \"army of children\" plot\nIn March 2018, an instructor at the Islamic Studies class at Ripple Road Mosque's \"Essex Islamic Academy\" in Barking, London, Umar Haque, was convicted of trying to recruit an \"army of children\" to launch a series of ISIS-inspired attacks on dozens of targets across London. Also convicted were Abuthaher Mamun, who was accused of research and finance help to Haque; and Haque's confidant, Muhammad Abid, who failed to alert the police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280660-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 London \"army of children\" plot\nThe plan was to launch simultaneous terror attacks against a handwritten list of 30 potential targets, including Big Ben, the London Underground, Westfield shopping centre, Heathrow Airport, courts, Shia Muslims, journalists and far-right groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280660-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 London \"army of children\" plot\nThe Charity Commission, as of 2\u00a0March\u00a02018, has suspended supplementary educational classes with children at Ripple Road Mosque whilst it carries out its investigation, saying: \"As part of the inquiry into the Essex Islamic Academy, the Commission will consider how Mr Haque was able to attempt to radicalise children, and what the trustees and others at the charity knew about this. The regulator will examine the level of supervision, due diligence and oversight the charity had over Mr Haque, and its adherence to safeguarding policies and procedures.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280661-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 London 9s\nThe 2018 London 9s was the first staging of the London 9s tournament and took place at East London RFC on the 21 July, 2018 with the Wan Papua Warriors taking the men's title and Castleford Tigers taking the women's tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season\nThe 2018 London Broncos season was the 39th in the club's history, their fourth consecutive campaign out of the Super League and the third since moving to Ealing and the Trailfinders Sports Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season\nCompeting in the 2018 Betfred Championship and the 2018 Ladbrokes Challenge Cup, the club was coached by Danny Ward, ending the regular league season in second place behind the Toronto Wolfpack, thereby qualifying for the 2018 Super League Qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season\nThe London Broncos finished in fifth position at the end of the seven match qualifying series, earning themselves a place in the Million Pound Game and a trip to Canada to play Toronto Wolfpack, and the on-field season concluded with a sensational victory and promotion back to the European Super League, Rugby League's top flight in the Northern Hemisphere, for the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, January\nPre -season preparations conclude with two away fixtures, a close victory at Betfred Championship 1 side, Doncaster 22-16 in freezing snowy conditions, followed by a narrow 18-24 loss at Betfred Super League outfit, Hull Kingston Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, February\nThe Broncos begin the sponsored Betfred Championship season in fine style by winning their opening four fixtures, three of them at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, February\nBarrow Raiders are dispatched 56-12 on the season's opening day following a masterful man of the match display by James Meadows on debut, and following a hard fought 12-0 away success at Dewsbury Rams, Eddie Battye and Jarrod Sammut the try scorers, two further home victories over traditional rivals, Featherstone Rovers and the much fancied Toronto Wolfpack see the London based outfit top the early season table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, March\nThe month begins in freezing conditions, courtesy of the Beast from the East, which results in the Broncos' Round 5 fixture at Sheffield Eagles being postponed on 4 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, March\nThe Broncos record a fifth straight championship victory the following weekend however, defeating Batley Bulldogs 68-12 in a twelve try blitz at Trailfinders Sports Ground in front of a crowd of 1,200. Kieran Dixon bags four tries, and there are braces for Api Pewhairangi and Rhys Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, March\nThe Broncos commence their Ladbrokes Challenge Cup campaign seven days later with a long trip to Betfred Championship 1 club, Workington Town, and a close encounter sees the Londoners emerge victorious 22-20, Rhys Williams repeats the feat of seven days previous with a try double, and Api Pewhairangi and Tom Spencer also cross the chalk line for Danny Ward's side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, March\nThe midweek Ladbrokes Challenge Cup draw pits the Broncos with a tough looking trip to a revitalised Leigh Centurions, the former Betfred Super League outfit recovering form after an inauspicious start to life back in the Betfred Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, March\nThe last Sunday of the month has the Broncos travelling north to Heywood Road, home of struggling Swinton Lions and the visitors record a thumping 64-18 win to reassert their authority at the top of the championship table. The twelve try rout sees a hat-trick for Alex Walker and doubles for Kieran Dixon and James Cunningham. James Meadows, Will Lovell and Lewis Bienek also grab four-pointers to further emphasis the growing influence of the London produced players while Tom Spencer and Ben Hellewell complete the scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, March\nGood Friday sees the visit of Sylvain Houles' Toulouse Olympique, and despite an early score by captain, Jay Pitts, the hosts struggle in the extremely wet conditions and subside to a first league defeat of the campaign, the French side running out easy 36-16 victors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, April\nIn a precursor to the upcoming 5th round Ladbrokes Challenge Cup tie later in the month the Broncos complete their Easter programme at Leigh Centurions. A hard fought encounter on Bank Holiday Monday in front of 3, 328 sees Danny Ward's men just come up short, tries from Elliot Kear, James Cunningham and Matty Gee not enough to prevent a second defeat inside four days as the improving hosts record a fourth straight championship victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, April\nAnother tough day at the office ensued six days later, as a trip to Halifax R.L.F.C. results in a third defeat in as many games, the Broncos unable to take advantage of the hosts twice being reduced to 12 men in a feisty encounter, eventually losing 16-26 to Richard Marshall's Shaymen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, April\nThe Broncos in need of a return to winning ways, travelled to Rochdale Hornets on the following Friday and returned south with two valuable points. Kieran Dixon led the way with a treble added to by a Sadiq Adebiyi brace, scores sufficient to see the Broncos victorious 30-15 on an extremely wet evening at the Crown Oil Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, April\nA return to Lancashire and the Leigh Centurions the following weekend proves less fruitful, a below par performance ends with the Londoners crashing out of the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup 0-40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, April\nThe month is completed with a comfortable eleven try home win over lowly Dewsbury Rams, the mercurial Jarrod Sammut contributing 29 points, three tries and ten goals in a 64-6 success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, May\nThe early May Bank holiday weekend has the Broncos play host to familiar foes, in the shape of Leigh Centurions, and despite a fantastic effort in sweltering conditions the home side fall to a third defeat by Kieron Purtill's Leigh Centurions team inside five weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, May\nAn absorbing encounter in front of a season's best crowd to date of 1, 340 has the spectators on the edge of their seats, tries from Rhys Williams, Alex Walker, Matty Gee, James Meadows and Sadiq Adebiyi not quite enough to prevent a 30-40 reverse and a slide to fourth place in the Betfred Championship table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, May\nThe next two weekend's see the Broncos rack up 112 points in two victories over Sheffield Eagles, the first, the postponed Round 5 fixture. The month ends with a first defeat at the Summer Bash as Toulouse Olympique again prove too strong for the Broncos who lose 28-40 in sunny Blackpool, despite tries from Jarrod Sammut, captain Jay Pitts, Ben Evans and two from Rhys Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, June\nWith a week off due to the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup quarter-finals the Broncos have time to re-group, ahead of their first ever trans-atlantic fixture at Betfred Championship leaders, Toronto Wolfpack. The hosts, backed by a crowd of 7, 384 are intent on avenging their only league defeat of the season back in February, and prove difficult opponents, tries from Jarrod Sammut and Elliot Kear unable to prevent a 12-32 loss, a result that sees the Broncos drop out of the top four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, June\nLowly Rochdale Hornets and Swinton Lions visit Trailfinders Sports Ground before month end, and Danny Ward's team regain their form with two impressive victories, a regular season's best 68-0 against the former, and an equally convincing 58-22 over the latter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, July\nThe race for the top four is as red hot as the 2018 British Isles Heat Wave, and the competition remains fierce with six teams firmly in the hunt ahead of the last five fixtures. Toronto Wolfpack are seemingly secure at the head of the table, but the other five clubs, Toulouse Olympique, Featherstone Rovers, Halifax R.L.F.C., Leigh Centurions and the Broncos all hold genuine aspirations of securing a place in the Super League Qualifiers ahead of the mid-season break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, July\nThe Londoners, with a tough looking run-in, remain firmly in contention in fifth place and continue their charge with a 38-16 triumph at Batley Bulldogs, a brace from Rhys Williams, and further efforts from Api Pewhairangi, Matty Gee, Jay Pitts and Kieran Dixon enough to secure the points against Matt Diskin's side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, July\nA third match up of the campaign against Toulouse Olympique sees the teams share forty points. In temperatures reaching 33c the Broncos fight back from 12-20 down to grab a point in the game's last quarter, an Eddie Battye try is converted by Kieran Dixon, who then kicks a 75th minute pressured penalty to secure a potentially vital point in France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, July\nThe Broncos host Halifax R.L.F.C. the following weekend, and in another tight encounter, the home side gain a narrow and important 20-18 win, courtesy of tries by the prolific Rhys Williams who crosses the whitewash twice, Alex Walker and Ben Evans. The result returns the Broncos to the top four ahead of a pivotal fixture away to third placed Featherstone Rovers seven days later, and despite trailing 0-7 at the break, the Broncos roar back in the second stanza, tries from Kieran Dixon, Jarrod Sammut and Alex Walker enough to earn a 14-7 come from behind victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, July\nThe season defining win crucially leaves the fate of the Broncos in their own hands going into their final game of the regular campaign, a trip to Craven Park, Barrow-in-Furness, home of Barrow Raiders. A crushing thirteen try 72-6 rout of the Cumbrians secures a place in the Super League Qualifiers, and second spot in the Betfred Championship for the third successive season behind winners, Toronto Wolfpack. The Broncos can now look forward to four home games in the Super League Qualifiers and just edge out Toulouse Olympique and Halifax R.L.F.C. on points difference with Featherstone Rovers and Leigh Centurions consigned to the Championship Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, August\nThe Broncos kick-off the Super League Qualifiers with a fixture at Widnes Vikings in front of the Thursday evening Sky Sports cameras. Trailing 0-6 at the break Danny Ward's men produce a stunning second half performance to earn a dramatic 21-20 come from behind victory. Mark Ioane crosses early in the second half to reduce the arrears, and despite falling 4-14 behind, 3 tries in nine minutes from Daniel Harrison and a Kieran Dixon double, the second a 70 metre interception, puts the Londoners 20-14 ahead. The hosts level in a tense finale, only for Jarrod Sammut to win it for the London Broncos with a long range field goal in the dying seconds of a riveting contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, August\nThe Broncos entertain current Super League champions, Leeds Rhinos in Round 2, and a season's best home crowd of 1,904 witness an entertaining encounter with the Broncos registering 22 unanswered second half points, although these are not enough to prevent a 32-48 defeat. A brave effort sees Rhys Williams bag another brace while there is a first professional try for Daniel Hindmarsh. Kieran Dixon and Ben Hellewell also cross the chalk-line in their 100th appearances for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, September\nThe London Broncos begin the month and continuation of their Super League Qualifiers campaign seven days after Catalans Dragons historic 2018 Challenge Cup Wembley success with a second trip of the season to Canada, and a fixture with Toronto Wolfpack. A scintillating four try blitz inside eight second half minutes is unable to prevent Danny Ward's men from falling to a 22-34 reversal in front of a partisan crowd of 7,557 the prolific Rhys Williams and Kieran Dixon add to their season's try tally and there are also four pointers for Alex Walker and Ben Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, September\nThe London Broncos play host to fellow Betfred Championship side, Toulouse Olympique eight days later in a crucial fourth out of seven Super League Qualifiers fixture, and a season's best display results in Danny Ward's men run out convincing 34-8 victors, a success that sees the Londoners leapfrog their French counterparts in the table and into a Million Pound Game position. Alex Walker bags a try double, to reach 20 for the season, whilst there are further tries from James Cunningham, Kieran Dixon and Ben Hellewell, the latter two stirring length of the field interception efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, September\nGame 5 of the qualifiers campaign saw the London Broncos travel to familiar foes, Hull Kingston Rovers, and despite a gutsy display on Yorkshire\u2019s east coast, the Southerners came up short, on the wrong end of an 18-30 score line. The irrepressible Jarrod Sammut reached 20 tries for the season to draw the Londoners level early on, and although Matty Gee and Michael Channing added second half four pointers, these were not enough to secure the spoils for the Broncos who dropped out of the Million Pound Game positions as a consequence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, September\nThe Broncos returned home to host Salford Red Devils seven days later, the match moved forward 24 hours at the behest of the Rugby Football League (RFL) to accommodate broadcast partner, Sky Sports' scheduling of the final round of fixtures the following week. In one of the most memorable games seen in the Capital in recent times, the Londoners emerged victorious 11-8 after a titanic battle against their Betfred Super League opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0030-0002", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, September\nThe heavens had opened mid morning and continued long into the night, but the inclement weather failed to deter captain, Jay Pitts who scored the home side's only try of the afternoon with a close-range effort after 14 minutes. Thereafter, a combination of heroic defence and the ever-reliable kicking boot of Jarrod Sammut, was enough to see Danny Ward\u2019s team secure two crucial points, and leave their promotion aspirations very much alive with one game of the Super League Qualifiers, at home to Halifax, remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, September\nMuch conjecture during the week\u2019s build up to the final match had centred on whether the Londoners could qualify, and then secure a home fixture in the Million Pound Game. Results in the 48 hours preceding the contest would have a major bearing on the outcome and close challengers, Toulouse Olympique's loss at Salford Red Devils on the Thursday evening greatly improved the chances of Danny Ward\u2019s men making the end of season finale, although Toronto Wolfpack\u2019s stunning 17-16 success over fallen champions, Leeds Rhinos at Headingley a day later, meant the Londoners were almost certain to have to travel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, September\nThe Broncos had to avoid an unlikely 24 point defeat at Trailfinders Sports Ground on the Saturday evening to ensure qualification, a feat they achieved as a Jarrod Sammut inspired display was enough to see the southern based outfit earn a come from behind victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0031-0002", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, September\nThe triumph was not without a hiccup though as Richard Marshall\u2019s valiant West Yorkshiremen raced into an early twelve point lead before tries from Jarrod Sammut and \u00c9loi P\u00e9lissier prior to the interval, the latter with his first for the club, and second half efforts from Kieran Dixon and Elliot Kear secured a 23-18 win, fifth position in the final table and an away berth in the Million Pound Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0031-0003", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, September\nDestination of travel was confirmed 24 hours later, as Hull Kingston Rovers\u2019s 30-0 triumph over already relegated Widnes Vikings ensured their Super League status, leaving the London Broncos searching for their passports ahead of a trip back to the land of the Maple Leaf for the third time in 2018 to play Paul Rowley's Toronto Wolfpack on Canada Thanksgiving Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, October\nThe London Broncos returned to the Betfred sponsored Super League after an absence of four years, with a stunning 4-2 victory against the Toronto Wolfpack in the Million Pound Game. In an enthralling try-less game, the Broncos emerged victorious thanks to a superb collective defensive display by Danny Ward\u2019s men and the boot of Jarrod Sammut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, October\nThe ever reliable Jarrod Sammut kicked a goal in each half to silence an overwhelming majority of a record 9, 266 franchise crowd, and although the hosts' Gareth O\u2019Brien, hero for the Salford Red Devils in the same fixture in 2016, had managed to cancel out the Australian born Maltese International's first half effort, his attempt to level for a second time from distance in the 69th minute of an absorbing contest missed narrowly, and thereafter the Londoners held out in thrilling fashion to celebrate a tense and well deserved win to spark wild on-field celebrations in Canada, and off-field at the Trailfinders Sports Ground where supporters had watched the match live on a big screen in the main bar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, October\nThe team that won promotion back to Super League: Alex Walker, Kieran Dixon, Ben Hellewell, Elliot Kear, Rhys Williams, Jay Pitts, Jarrod Sammut, Ben Evans, \u00c9loi P\u00e9lissier, Mark Ioane, Matty Gee, Will Lovell, Daniel Hindmarsh. Interchange: Tom Spencer, Eddie Battye, Rob Butler, Matty Davies. Head Coach: Danny Ward, Assistant Jamie Langley. Home-grown fullback Alex Walker, who dislocated three fingers, breaking one of them in the first minute, was named man of the match for an outstanding performance, capped by a stunning last-ditch tackle to deny Toronto Wolfpack's Blake Wallace late on as the Broncos held firm to secure a famous win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, October\nThe end of the month saw a raft of players join the club as the London Broncos began their preparations for a return to the Betfred Super League. Matty Fozard, Nathan Mason and Greg Richards joined \u00c9loi P\u00e9lissier in signing for Danny Ward\u2019s men, the latter having played an influential part in the Londoners play-off promotion success, whilst James Cunningham and Elliot Kear agreed contracts to remain with the London based outfit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, November\nThe month begins with the capture of Jordan Abdull from fellow Super League club, Hull FC, and Gideon Boafo signing his first full time professional contract with club after excelling with the London Broncos Academy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, November\nThe eagerly awaited 2019 Betfred Super League fixtures are released on the first Tuesday of the month, with the London Broncos scheduled to host Wakefield Trinity on the opening weekend of the new season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, November\nIn further off season transfer activity the London Broncos capture the signature of St. Helens centre; Ryan Morgan on a season long loan, while the month ends with goodbye's to Jarrod Sammut, Tom Spencer and Ben Evans who all leave the club after playing pivotal roles in helping the Southerners regain their Betfred Super League status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, November\nLondon Broncos confirm their first pre-season fixture of 2019, and will travel to Betfred League 1 outfit, Doncaster R.L.F.C. on 20 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Year Review, December\nA quiet end to the year sees the London Broncos capture the signature of Luke Yates from NRL club, Newcastle Knights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280662-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 London Broncos season, Awards, London Broncos Awards Night\nHeld at Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, London-Ealing on Tuesday 9 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280663-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 London Marathon\nThe 2018 London Marathon was the 38th running of the annual marathon race in London, England, which took place on Sunday, 22 April. Kenyans Eliud Kipchoge and Vivian Cheruiyot won elite races. In the wheelchair races, Britain's David Weir and Australia's Madison de Rozario topped the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280663-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 London Marathon\nAround 386,050 people applied to enter the race: 54,685 had their applications accepted and 40,926 started the race. These were all record highs for the race. A total of 40,179 runners, 23,701 men and 16,478 women, finished the race. The race was formally started by Queen Elizabeth. It was officially recorded as the hottest London Marathon to date at a peak temperature of 24.1\u00a0\u00b0C (75.4\u00a0\u00b0F).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280663-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 London Marathon\nIn the under-17 Mini Marathon, the 3-mile able-bodied and wheelchair events were won by Luke Duffy (14:24), Cera Gemmell (16:38), Zhou Zien (13:05) and Kare Adenegan (12:37).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280663-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 London Marathon, Overview\nOn 23 March 2018, London Marathon Limited, the organisers of the event announced that the Queen would formally start the race by \"step[ping] onto a special podium in front of the Round Tower in the grounds of Windsor Castle to push the start button at 10:00 a.m.\" The formality marked the anniversary of the 1908 Olympic Marathon, which was started at the same venue by the then Princess Mary, who is The Queen's grandmother. It marked the third time a member of the royal family has started the race, held annually since 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280663-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 London Marathon, Overview\nWith hot weather forecast, the organisers told racers to lower their performance goals and reconsider fancy dress which could lead to overheating. Extra water and cooling showers were added along the route. On race day, the temperature at St James's Park was recorded as 24.1\u00a0\u00b0C (75.4\u00a0\u00b0F), making this the hottest London Marathon ever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280663-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 London Marathon, Overview\nOne runner, 29-year-old Masterchef semi-finalist and professional chef Matt Campbell, died after collapsing during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280663-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 London Marathon, Overview\nThe men's elite race saw the second-ever entry into a competitive marathon by British runner Mo Farah, who, despite a mix-up at a water station, managed to finish third in a new British record. The race winner, Eliud Kipchoge, was on pace for a world record, but slowed in the final stages, finishing with a time of 2:04:17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280663-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 London Marathon, Overview\nBoth Mary Keitany and Tirunesh Dibaba went into the women's elite race aiming to set a new world record for a women's marathon with male pacemakers. Keitany led on a world-record pace for much of the race, but faded in the final few miles to eventually finish fifth. Dibaba also struggled as the race progressed and failed to finish. The race winner was Vivian Cheruiyot in a time of 2:18:31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280663-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 London Marathon, Overview\nDavid Weir won the men's wheelchair event for a record extending eighth time, while Commonwealth Champion Madison de Rozario claimed a surprise first win in London in the women's event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280664-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 London Sevens\nThe 2018 London Sevens was the penultimate event of the 2017\u201318 World Rugby Sevens Series and the eighteenth edition of the London Sevens. The tournament was held at Twickenham Stadium, London on 2\u20133 June 2018. Fiji won the tournament by defeating South Africa 21\u201317 in the final. However it was Ireland who stole the show, finishing in third place in their first World Series tournament since 2004. Ireland thus became the first invitational side to reach the semi-finals and the podium of a World Rugby Sevens Series event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280664-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 London Sevens, Teams\nThe fifteen core teams played in the tournament, along with one invited team, Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280664-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 London Sevens, Pool stages\nAll times in British Summer Time (UTC+01:00). The games as scheduled are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280664-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 London Sevens, Players, Dream Team\nThe following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280665-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 London Skolars season\nThe 2018 London Skolars season was the 24th in the club's history, and sixteenth as a professional rugby league outfit. Competing in Betfred League 1, the third tier of British Rugby League and playing at the New River Stadium, London N22, the team was coached by Jermaine Coleman for the fourth consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280665-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 London Skolars season, News\nThe London Skolars bowed out of this season's Ladbrokes sponsored Challenge Cup at the third round stage following a narrow 14-16 reversal at fellow Betfred League 1 outfit, Whitehaven R.L.F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 32], "content_span": [33, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280665-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 London Skolars season, News\nThe London Skolars became the first club to host the world\u2019s first Transatlantic rugby team, Toronto Wolfpack, in their Championship game against Yorkshire side Halifax R.L.F.C. on Saturday 28 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 32], "content_span": [33, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280666-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 London Spitfire season\nThe 2018 London Spitfire season was the first season of the London Spitfire's existence in the Overwatch League. The team finished with a regular season record of 24\u201316, which was the fifth best in the Overwatch League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280666-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 London Spitfire season\nLondon qualified for the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Playoffs. In the stage 1 playoffs, London defeated the Houston Outlaws in the semifinals and New York Excelsior in the finals. The team lost in the Stage 2 semifinals to the Philadelphia Fusion. The team also qualified for the Season Playoffs, in which they won in the Grand Finals against the Philadelphia Fusion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280666-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 London Spitfire season, Preceding offseason\nCloud9 was awarded the London slot for an OWL franchise on 10 August 2017 and was later named the London Spitfire. Shortly afterwards, they disclosed their 12-player inaugural season roster, the maximum permitted, which would be entirely composed of the following South Korean players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280666-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 London Spitfire season, Preceding offseason\nThe roster would mainly be an amalgamation of their current Cloud9 KONGDOO core and OGN's Overwatch APEX Season 4 champions GC Busan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280666-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 London Spitfire season, Review, Regular season\nOn 11 January, the Spitfire played their first regular season Overwatch League match in a 3\u20131 victory over the Florida Mayhem. They would end Stage 1 of the 2018 Season with a 7\u20133 record, earning them the third and final spot in the Stage 1 Playoffs. The team then became the first-ever stage playoffs champions, after achieving victories over the Houston Outlaws (3\u20131) and the New York Excelsior (3\u20132) in a reverse sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280666-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 London Spitfire season, Review, Regular season\nOn 7 March 2018, midway through Stage 2, the Spitfire parted ways with head coach Lee \"Bishop\" Beom-joon for undisclosed reasons. The team finished Stage 2 with an improved 8\u20132 record and attained another stage playoffs berth. However, they fell short to the Philadelphia Fusion in a thrilling 2\u20133 semi-finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280666-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 London Spitfire season, Review, Regular season\nHowever, after stage 2, the Spitfire failed to make another stage playoffs, going 5\u20135 in stage 3 and 4\u20136 in stage 4. They had to bank on their earlier results to edge them over the finish line. They would end the season with a 24\u201316 record, good for 5th place and a spot in the postseason where they would face the Los Angeles Gladiators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280666-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 London Spitfire season, Review, Playoffs\nLondon lost their first postseason matchup against the Gladiators on 11 July by a score of 0\u20133 in the quarterfinals. The Spitfire turned it around the next two games against the Gladiators, winning in 3\u20130 sweeps in matches two and three and advancing the team to the semifinals. London won both games against the Los Angeles Valiant in the semifinals, winning 3\u20130 in match one and 3\u20131 in match two. London claimed the 2018 Overwatch League championship after defeating the Philadelphia Fusion on 27 and 28 July by scores of 3\u20131 and 3\u20130, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280666-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 London Spitfire season, Final roster, Transactions\nTransactions of/for players on the roster during the 2018 regular season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280667-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 London local elections\nLocal government elections took place in London on 3 May 2018, as part of the wider local elections in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280667-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 London local elections\nAll London borough councillor seats were up for election. Elections to the Corporation of London were held in 2017. Mayoral contests were also held in Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets. The previous London borough elections were in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280667-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 London local elections\nThe results saw the London Labour Party achieve their best result in over 45 years, winning 44% of the vote, 1,128 councillors and control of 21 councils. This represented the party's second-best result in a London local election, only surpassed slightly by its 1971 total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280667-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 London local elections\nThe London Conservatives, by contrast, lost 92 seats to finish with 508 councillors, its lowest-ever tally of seats in a London local election. However, it retained control of 7 councils, having lost two to the London Liberal Democrats. The party's vote share increased by 2%, but at 28.8%, it was still the second-worst popular vote total for the Conservatives in the history of the London Boroughs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280667-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 London local elections\nThe London Liberal Democrats made a recovery from their all-time low in the 2014 election, gaining 34 council seats and winning two councils from the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280667-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 London local elections\nAmong other parties, the London Green Party was the most successful, winning a total of 11 council seats, just below their all-time high of 12 in the 2006 election. Support for the UK Independence Party collapsed, with the party losing all of its seats and dropping from 9.5% of the vote to 0.9%. The only other parties to win seats were the People's Alliance of Tower Hamlets (1 seat) and the Harold Hill Independent Party (1 seat).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280667-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 London local elections, Eligibility to vote\nAll registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who are aged 18 or over on polling day were entitled to vote in the local elections. A person who has two homes (such as a university student having a term-time address and living at home during holidays) can register to vote at both addresses as long as they are not in the same electoral area, and can vote in the local elections for the two different local councils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280667-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 London local elections, Results summary\n\u2020Due to boundary changes, the figures for seat losses/gains are notional changes calculated by the BBC, and do not match up precisely to the London-wide results in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280667-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 London local elections, Councils results\n(Conservative councils in blue, Labour in red, Liberal Democrat in yellow, no overall control in black)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280667-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 London local elections, Ward result maps, London-wide\nThe map below shows the results for each ward across the whole of Greater London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nThe 2018 London municipal election occurred on October 22, 2018, to elect the Mayor of London, London City Council and the Thames Valley District School Board, London District Catholic School Board, Conseil scolaire catholique Providence and Conseil scolaire Viamonde. The election was held on the same day as elections in every other municipality in Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nAs per the Ontario Municipal Elections Act, 1996, nomination papers for candidates for municipal and school board elections could be filed from May 1, 2018, at which time the campaign period began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nFor the first time since Calgary's last use in 1971, London used ranked ballots to elect members of council, the mayor and city councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nThe major issues facing candidates in this election included Bus Rapid Transit, safe injection sites, affordable rent and social housing stock as well as city unemployment rates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nThe use of Instant-runoff voting means (theoretically) that to be elected an aldermanic candidate had to have the majority of the ward vote. In the mayor's case the successful candidate needed to have a majority of the city vote. Where no candidate had majority in first preferences, votes transfers were used to assemble a majority behind one of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nLondon's rule that only two back-up preferences could be marked meant that in a few of the contests many votes had to be set aside as they had been transferred twice and still had not gone to a candidate with a chance to be elected. Although a majority is required to be elected, that could be a majority of votes still in play. Due to the number of votes being deemed invalid or becoming exhausted, in a few cases the majority accumulated by the winning candidate was less than a majority of valid votes or less than a majority of votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nHolder, the winning mayoral candidate, was elected in the end with 44,373 votes when 48,320 was a majority of valid votes that were cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nIn Ward 5, Cassidy won with 3922 votes, 44 percent of votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nIn Ward 8,Lehman won with 3058 votes, 39 percent of votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nIn Ward 12, Peloza won with 3139 votes, 48 percent of votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nWard 13, Kayabaga won with 2325 votes, 41 percent of votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nWard 14, Hillier won with 2522 votes, 48 percent of votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nThe amount of support recorded for the winning candidate is more than shown in those vote totals. Unusually, in the vote count for the 2018 London election, transfers of votes between candidates continued even after a candidate had accumulated a majority of votes still in play and had been declared the winner. In the mayoral contest for example, the winner (Holder) was determined in the 13th round so there was no need for a 14th round where Holder apparently is recorded as accumulating 100 percent of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nThat the winner in nine out of 15 of the contests held in London in 2018 was elected with a majority of votes cast is noteworthy though. In other municipal elections where first past the post is used, more than half the winners are elected with just a minority of votes cast. (The 2017 Edmonton municipal election is an example where this happened.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nPerhaps in part due to the large number of \"exhausted\" votes, the leader in the first count won in the end in all the contests in this election. There were no \"turn-overs\" caused by the front-runner not having the most overall support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election\nAlthough ranked ballots were expected to increase the civility of the election, it failed to prevent the creation of two negative websites targeting former city councillor, Virginia Ridley (ward 10), and city councillor, Maureen Cassidy (ward 5). The controversy has since triggered an OPP investigation into the behaviour of several organizations and candidates in the 2018 municipal election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280668-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 London, Ontario municipal election, Mayor\nThe mayoralty was an open seat, as incumbent mayor Matt Brown was not running for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280669-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Long Beach State 49ers men's volleyball team\nThe 2018 Long Beach State 49ers men's volleyball team represents Long Beach State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I & II men's volleyball season. The Cougars, led by fifteenth year head coach Alan Knipe, play their home games at Walter Pyramid. The 49ers are members of the Big West Conference, which is sponsoring men's volleyball for the first time, and were picked to win the Big West in the preseason poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280670-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Long Beach, California mayoral election\nThe 2018 Long Beach, California mayoral election was held on April 10, 2018 to elect the mayor of Long Beach, California. It saw the reelection of Robert Garcia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280670-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Long Beach, California mayoral election\nSince Garcia won a majority in the first round, no runoff was needed. Turnout was low, at 15.8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280671-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Longford Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Longford Senior Football Championship is the 102nd running of the Longford GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Longford, Ireland since the first County Championship was held in 1890 (101 completed since 1890, 1 started but not completed in 1891). The 2018 tournament consisted of 11 teams, with the winner going on to represent Longford in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280671-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Longford Senior Football Championship\nMullinalaghta St. Columba's retained their title in the final, defeating Abbeylara after a replay to become the first team to win three successive titles since Fr. Manning Gaels in 1998. They went on to become the first Longford club to reach the Leinster Club Senior Football final and the first Longford club to be crowned Leinster champions with victory over Kilmacud Crokes. Mullinalaghta made history by competing in the All Ireland Club Semi-Final, losing out to Dr. Crokes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280671-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Longford Senior Football Championship\nThis year the number of teams was reduced to 11 after the 2017 Intermediate champions, Rathcline, opted to remain at that grade rather than be promoted. The relegation playoffs scheduled to determine which team would be regraded to Intermediate were cancelled after Ballymahon decided to withdraw and go down to Intermediate for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280671-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Longford Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280671-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Longford Senior Football Championship, Group Stage\nAll 11 teams entered the competition at this stage. Groups A and B each consisted of 4 teams with 3 teams from each group progressing to the Quarter-Finals and last year's finalists being kept apart. Group C consisted of 3 teams, with 2 teams proceeding to the Quarter-Finals. The bottom finishers in each group were to play off to decide relegation to the 2019 I.F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280671-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Longford Senior Football Championship, Knockout stage\nThe top 8 teams from the league stages qualify for the Quarter-Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280671-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Longford Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoff\nBallymahon, Carrickedmond and Longford Slashers were scheduled to play off in a three-team group, with the bottom team being relegated to Intermediate for 2019. However, after the draw had been made, Ballymahon decided to withdraw and voluntarily regrade to Intermediate for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280672-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Longman by-election\nA by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Longman took place on Saturday 28 July 2018, following the resignation of incumbent Labor MP Susan Lamb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280672-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Longman by-election\nIn early counting, within an hour of the close of polls, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's psephologist Antony Green's electoral computer had predicted Labor to retain the electorate with an increased margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280672-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Longman by-election\nThe Liberal National Party's failure to win this seat for the ruling Coalition has been cited for the downfall of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull almost a month later on August 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280672-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Longman by-election\nTurnbull himself did not help his stock when he made the by-election as a direct leadership contest between himself and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280672-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Longman by-election, Background\nDue to the High Court ruling against Senator Katy Gallagher on 9 May 2018 as part of the ongoing parliamentary eligibility crisis, Lamb and three other MPs in the same situation announced their parliamentary resignations later that day, while the Perth incumbent resigned for family reasons. The Speaker announced on 24 May 2018 that he had scheduled the by-elections to occur on 28 July 2018. Popularly labelled \"Super Saturday\", the occurrence of five simultaneous federal by-elections is unprecedented in Australian political history. The others are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280672-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Longman by-election, Background\nMark Latham, Labor leader between December 2003 and January 2005, voiced a robocall authorised by Pauline Hanson, in an attempt to discourage Labor voting and instead encouraged minor party voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280673-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lord Mayor of Melbourne by-election\nA by-election to elect the Lord Mayor of Melbourne took place from 23 April until 11 May 2018, following the resignation of the 103rd Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle. The election used a preferential voting system and was held by postal ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280673-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lord Mayor of Melbourne by-election, Background\nThe City of Melbourne is a local government municipality consisting of nine councillors, a Lord Mayor and a Deputy Lord Mayor, who are elected for a four year term. The incumbent Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle, was first elected in the 2008 City of Melbourne election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280673-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lord Mayor of Melbourne by-election, Background\nOn 15 December 2017, Cr Tessa Sullivan resigned from the council. Sullivan, who had been elected on the Team Doyle ticket alongside Doyle, lodged a complaint with the City of Melbourne chief executive Ben Rimmer. In her complaint, Sullivan alleged that Doyle had sexually harassed and indecently assaulted her. On 17 December, Doyle released a statement on Twitter, which said he had not been informed of the details of the allegations. He announced he would take a month's leave while an investigation was carried out, stressing that his standing aside \"must not be interpreted as any concession or admission\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280673-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lord Mayor of Melbourne by-election, Background\nFurther allegations were made against Doyle in January 2018. On 4 February 2018, Doyle resigned as Lord Mayor of Melbourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280674-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lory Meagher Cup\nThe 2018 Lory Meagher Cup was the 10th staging of the Lory Meagher Cup, the Gaelic Athletic Association's fifth tier inter-county hurling championship. The draw for the 2018 fixtures took place on 25 October 2017. The cup begun on 19 May 2018 and ended on 23 June 2018 with Sligo beating Lancashire at Croke Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280675-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Angels season\nThe 2018 Los Angeles Angels' season was the 58th season of the Los Angeles Angels franchise and the 53rd in Anaheim (all of them at Angel Stadium). The Angels began the season on March 29 against the Oakland Athletics and ended the season on September 30 also against the A's. Manager Mike Scioscia retired at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280675-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Angels season, Offseason\nOn December 9, 2017, the Angels signed RHP/OF Shohei Ohtani from Japan to a minor league contract with a $2.315 million signing bonus. He made the major league roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280675-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Angels season, Offseason\nOn December 13, 2017, the Angels traded minor leaguers Troy Montgomery and Wilkel Hernandez to the Detroit Tigers for 2B Ian Kinsler. Two days later, the Angels signed Zack Cozart to a three-year, $38 million contract. Cozart is expected to play third base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280675-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Angels season, Offseason\nOn February 21, 2018, the Angels acquired Jabari Blash from the New York Yankees in exchange for a player to be named later or cash considerations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280675-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Angels season, Farm system\nAll coaches and rosters can be found on each team's website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season\nThe 2018 season was the Los Angeles Chargers' 49th in the National Football League, their 59th overall, their third in the Greater Los Angeles Area and their second under head coach Anthony Lynn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season\nDespite a slow 1\u20132 start, the Chargers improved on their 9\u20137 record from the previous year with a Week 14 win over the Cincinnati Bengals. They also recorded a 10-win season for the first time since 2009 when they were in San Diego, also their first as a Los Angeles based team since 1960. With a Week 15 win over the Kansas City Chiefs, the Chargers clinched their first playoff berth since 2013 when they were based in San Diego.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season\nThe Chargers finished 12\u20134, tied with the Chiefs for both the AFC West division title and the best record in the AFC. However, the Chiefs won the division and the AFC's No. 1 seed based on record vs. division opponents (5\u20131 to 4\u20132), giving the Chargers the Wild Card and the AFC's No. 5 seed. The Chargers defeated the Baltimore Ravens 23\u201317 in the Wild Card round, but lost to the eventual Super Bowl champion New England Patriots 41\u201328 in the Divisional round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Regular season, Schedule\nOn January 11, the NFL announced that the Chargers would play host to the Tennessee Titans in one of the London Games at Wembley Stadium in London, England. It was the Chargers' second appearance in the International Series; the other being 2008. The game occurred during Week 7 (October 21), and was televised in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Regular season, Schedule\nThe Chargers' regular season schedule was released on April 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nPhilip Rivers passed John Elway for eighth-most passing yards in NFL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nPhilip Rivers eclipsed 4,000 yards at the same time as Tom Brady, becoming the third and fourth quarterback in NFL history to reach 4,000 yards in 10 seasons or more, joining Peyton Manning and Drew Brees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 95], "content_span": [96, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (4) Baltimore Ravens\nThe Chargers recorded six sacks, jumped out to a 23\u20133 lead and halted a late Ravens rally, forcing Lamar Jackson to fumble on the final drive to earn a trip to New England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (4) Baltimore Ravens\nOn the Ravens' second possession of the game, Chargers defensive end Melvin Ingram forced a fumble from Kenneth Dixon that was recovered by safety Adrian Phillips, giving Los Angeles the ball on the Baltimore 14-yard line. Three plays later, Michael Badgley kicked a 21-yard field goal to give Los Angeles a 3\u20130 lead. Then the Chargers' defense forced a punt, which Desmond King returned 42 yards to the Ravens' 42-yard line, setting up a 53-yard Badgley field goal that increased their lead to 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (4) Baltimore Ravens\nEarly in the second quarter, Phillips intercepted a pass from Jackson to give the Chargers a first down on the Ravens' 44-yard line. From there, they drove 27 yards to go up 9\u20130 on Badgley's third field goal. Following another Ravens punt, Los Angeles drove 53 yards in 12 plays to score on Badgley's fourth field goal on the last play of the half, giving them a 12\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (4) Baltimore Ravens\nKing returned the second half kickoff 72 yards to the Ravens' 35-yard line, but this time the Chargers failed to score when Badgley's field goal attempt was blocked by Za'Darius Smith. After a Ravens punt, linebacker Patrick Onwuasor forced a fumble from Chargers tight end Virgil Green that was recovered by linebacker C. J. Mosley on the Los Angeles 21-yard line. This set up Justin Tucker's 33-yard field goal, cutting the score to 12\u20133 with 8:34 left in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (4) Baltimore Ravens\nAt the end of Los Angeles' next possession, the Ravens got another scoring opportunity when Javorius Allen blocked Donnie Jones's punt, resulting in Baltimore taking over on the Chargers' 40-yard line; they only managed to gain 4 yards with their next three plays and Tucker's 50-yard field goal attempt was wide right. Los Angeles then drove 60 yards in 10 plays, featuring a 28-yard completion from Philip Rivers to Mike Williams on the Ravens' 15-yard line. On the next play, Melvin Gordon ran the ball 14 yards to the 1-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (4) Baltimore Ravens\nThe Ravens managed to keep Los Angeles out of the end zone for the next three plays, but Gordon scored with a 4th down 1-yard touchdown run on the first play of the 4th quarter; Rivers completed a pass to Williams for a two-point conversion, giving the Chargers a 20\u20133 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (4) Baltimore Ravens\nA sack by Ingram on the Ravens' ensuing drive forced them to punt from their 14-yard line and Sam Koch's 31-yard kick gave the Chargers good field position on the Ravens' 45-yard line. Los Angeles then drove 16 yards, including a 9-yard scramble by Rivers on 3rd-and-8, to score on Badgley's 5th field goal, from 47 yards, that gave them a 23\u20133 lead. Taking the ball back with 9:02 left, Baltimore drove 75 yards in eight plays, including Jackson's 29-yard completion to Willie Snead on 4th-and-11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (4) Baltimore Ravens\nOn the next play, Jackson threw a 31-yard touchdown pass to receiver Michael Crabtree, making the score 23\u201310. The Chargers recovered Baltimore's ensuing onside kick attempt, but still had to punt after three plays. Baltimore went on to drive 85 yards in 12 plays, the longest a 39-yard completion from Jackson to Dixon. On the last play, Jackson threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Crabtree, narrowing their gap to 23\u201317 with 2:06 left. Baltimore then forced a punt with 45 seconds to go, giving them one last chance to drive for a winning touchdown, but Chargers linebacker Uchenna Nwosu forced a fumble while sacking Jackson and Ingram recovered it to give Los Angeles the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (4) Baltimore Ravens\nRivers completed 22-of-32 passes for 160 yards and rushed for 15 yards. Ingram finished the game with seven tackles (two for a loss of yards), two sacks, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. Phillips had five tackles (three solo), an interception and a fumble recovery. King returned a kickoff for 72 yards and had four punt returns for 46 yards. Jackson completed 14-of-29 passes for 194 yards, with two touchdowns and an interception; he was also Baltimore's leading rusher with 9 carries for 54 yards. Onwausor had seven tackles (six solo), a sack and a forced fumble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Divisional Playoffs: at (2) New England Patriots\nNew England piled up 347 yards in the first half and scored touchdowns on five of their first six possessions to defeat the Chargers, which sent the Patriots to the AFC championship game for the eighth consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 98], "content_span": [99, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Divisional Playoffs: at (2) New England Patriots\nThe Patriots started the game by driving 83 yards in 14 plays, scoring on Sony Michel's 1-yard touchdown run. Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers quickly led his team right back, completing an 18-yard pass to Mike Williams on 3rd-and-15 before tying the game on a 43-yard touchdown completion to Keenan Allen. New England then drove 67 yards in 7 plays, the longest a 28-yard completion from Tom Brady to receiver Julian Edelman. On the next play, Michel ran 14 yards to the end zone to give the Patriots a 14\u20137 lead with less than a minute left in the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 98], "content_span": [99, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Divisional Playoffs: at (2) New England Patriots\nLos Angeles had to punt after three plays and Edelman returned it 6 yards to the Patriots' 42-yard line. Then he caught passes for gains of 11 and 17 yards as New England drove 58 yards to take a 21\u20137 lead on Brady's 15-yard touchdown pass to receiver Phillip Dorsett. Following another Chargers punt, Brady completed a 25-yard pass to running back James White on New England's first play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 98], "content_span": [99, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Divisional Playoffs: at (2) New England Patriots\nA few plays later, Michel took off for a 40-yard run to the Chargers' 9-yard line, where Rex Burkhead took the ball to the end zone over the next two plays, the second a 6-yard touchdown run to put the Patriots up 28\u20137. The next time New England got the ball, they were forced into a three-and-out, but Chargers returner Desmond King muffed their punt and Albert McClellan recovered it for the Patriots on the Chargers' 35-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 98], "content_span": [99, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Divisional Playoffs: at (2) New England Patriots\nBrady then started the ensuing possession with a 19-yard completion to Edelman, while Michel finished it with his third touchdown run, a 5-yard carry, that put the team up 35\u20137 with 1:40 left in the half. They nearly scored again after forcing an Los Angeles punt, but Dorsett was tackled on the Chargers' 30-yard line as time expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 98], "content_span": [99, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Divisional Playoffs: at (2) New England Patriots\nIn the first half alone, Brady completed 23-of-29 passes for 233 yards and a touchdown, Michel had 16 carries for 105 yards and three touchdowns, White caught 10 passes for 71 yards, and Edelman caught 7 passes for 107 yards while also returning 3 punts for 31 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 98], "content_span": [99, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Divisional Playoffs: at (2) New England Patriots\nLos Angeles had to punt on their opening drive of the second half and Brady's 25-yard completion to tight end Rob Gronkowski set up a 28-yard Stephen Gostkowski field goal, increasing New England's lead to 38\u20137. This time the Chargers were able to respond, as Williams caught 3 passes for 40 yards as the team drove 72 yards in 10 plays to score on Melvin Gordon's 1-yard touchdown run, cutting the score to 38\u201314. But Los Angeles' defense still could not contain New England, as Brady's completions to Edelman and White for gains of 35 and 23 yards lead to another Gostkowski field goal, giving the Patriots a 41\u201314 lead with 12:27 left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 98], "content_span": [99, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Divisional Playoffs: at (2) New England Patriots\nFollowing a few punts, Rivers completed passes to Tyrell Williams and Allen for gains of 29 and 32 yards as the team drove to score on his 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Virgil Green. Then he completed a pass to Allen for a two-point conversion, making the score 41\u201322 with 7:28 left. After failing to recover an onside kick, the Chargers forced a punt, but Patriots defensive back Stephon Gilmore ended their following drive with an interception. By the time Los Angeles got the ball back, only three minutes remained, which they used to drive 80 yards in 12 plays to score on Rivers' 8-yard pass to tight end Antonio Gates, making the final score 41\u201328 following a failed two-point conversion attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 98], "content_span": [99, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Divisional Playoffs: at (2) New England Patriots\nBrady completed 34-of-44 passes for 343 yards and a touchdown. Edelman caught 9 passes for 131 yards and returned 5 punts for 37 yards, moving to second place all-time in playoff receptions, behind only Jerry Rice. White tied an all-time playoff record with 15 receptions for 97 yards. Michel ran 24 times for 129 yards and three touchdowns, and caught a pass for 9 yards. Rivers finished the day 25-of-51 for 331 yards, three touchdowns and an interception. Tyrell Williams was his top receiver with 5 receptions for 94 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 98], "content_span": [99, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Divisional Playoffs: at (2) New England Patriots\nWith this win, Tom Brady improved his record against Rivers to 8\u20130 (counting regular season and playoff games).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 98], "content_span": [99, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280676-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Chargers season, Postseason, AFC Divisional Playoffs: at (2) New England Patriots\nDown judge Sarah Thomas became the first woman to officiate an NFL postseason game and second woman to officiate a postseason game in one of the four major North American professional sports leagues, following the NBA\u2019s Violet Palmer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 98], "content_span": [99, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280677-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors election\nThe 2018 Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors elections were held on June 5, 2018. Two of the five seats (for the First and Third Districts) of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors were contested in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season\nThe 2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the 129th for the franchise in Major League Baseball, and their 61st season in Los Angeles, California. They played their home games at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers suffered a season-ending injury to star shortstop Corey Seager early in the season and started the season 16\u201326, but went 76\u201345 to close out the season. Rookie pitcher Walker Buehler had a breakout season, as did pitcher Ross Stripling and infielder Max Muncy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season\nThey defeated the Colorado Rockies in the 2018 National League West tie-breaker game to claim their sixth straight National League West Championship and became the first team to win six straight division championships since the New York Yankees won nine straight from 1998 to 2006 and only the third overall (the Atlanta Braves won 14 from 1991 to 2005). They opened the playoffs by defeating the Atlanta Braves in four games in the Division Series and defeated the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games in the National League Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season\nIt was the third straight NLCS appearance for the Dodgers, a franchise record and the second consecutive National League pennant. They lost to the Boston Red Sox in the 2018 World Series, their second straight World Series loss. The Dodgers became the first team to lose back-to-back World Series since the Texas Rangers did so in 2010 and 2011, and the first National League team to do so since the Braves in 1991 and 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Offseason, Coaching/Front Office changes\nAssistant hitting coach Tim Hyers left the Dodgers to become the hitting coach for the Boston Red Sox while farm director Gabe Kapler left to become manager of the Philadelphia Phillies and his assistant Jeremy Zoll became farm director for the Minnesota Twins. The Dodgers also chose to part ways with long-time bullpen catcher Rob Flippo, who had been in his position since the 2002 season. On November 13, Vice-President of Baseball Operations Alex Anthopoulos left his position to become Executive Vice-President/General Manager of the Atlanta Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Offseason, Coaching/Front Office changes\nOn December 1, the Dodgers announced the hiring of Luis Ortiz and Brant Brown to the dual role of assistant hitting coach/minor league hitting coordinator. They also announced that Brandon Gomes would replace Kapler as Director of Player Development and that Ron Porterfield would take on the new post of Director of Player Health. The Dodgers coaching staff lost two more members in December when bullpen coach Josh Bard left to become bench coach for the New York Yankees and Quality Assurance Coach Juan Castro left to become Director of Operations for the Tijuana Toros. On January 2, they replaced Bard by hiring former MLB pitcher Mark Prior to be the team's bullpen coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Offseason, Roster departures\nOn November 2, 2017, the day after the 2017 World Series, several Dodgers players became free agents. They were pitchers Yu Darvish, Brandon Morrow and Tony Watson, second baseman Chase Utley and outfielders Curtis Granderson and Franklin Guti\u00e9rrez. On November 5, they declined the 2018 option on outfielder Andre Ethier, making him a free agent. Outfielder O'Koyea Dickson was outrighted to the minors and removed from the 40-man roster on November 6. On November 20, the Dodgers designated RHP Josh Ravin for assignment and LHP Grant Dayton was claimed off waivers by the Atlanta Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Offseason, Trades\nOn December 16, the Dodgers traded first baseman Adri\u00e1n Gonz\u00e1lez, utility player Charlie Culberson, pitchers Scott Kazmir and Brandon McCarthy, and cash considerations to the Atlanta Braves in exchange for outfielder Matt Kemp. On January 4, the Dodgers made a three-team trade with the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals that sent minor league utility player Jake Peter and pitcher Scott Alexander to the Dodgers, pitchers Joakim Soria and Luis Avil\u00e1n to the White Sox and pitcher Trevor Oaks and minor league infielder Erick Mejia to the Royals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Offseason, Free agent signings\nOn December 20, the Dodgers signed a one-year contract with free agent pitcher Tom Koehler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Spring Training\nSpring Training began for the Dodgers on February 13 when pitchers and catchers reported to work at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. The primary competition going into camp was in left field where Enrique Hern\u00e1ndez, Joc Pederson, Trayce Thompson, Andrew Toles, Alex Verdugo and Matt Kemp were all competing for playing time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Spring Training\nOn February 17, the Dodgers announced that they had re-signed second baseman Chase Utley to a two-year, $2 million contract. The Dodgers suffered two serious injuries during spring training, relief pitcher Tom Koehler suffered a strained right shoulder and third baseman Justin Turner suffered a non-displaced fracture of his left wrist after being hit with a pitch. They both would begin the season on the disabled list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Spring Training\nOutfielder Trayce Thompson was designated for assignment on March 27 when it became clear he would not win a spot on the opening day roster. The Dodgers replaced him on the 40-man roster with relief pitcher Cory Mazzoni, who was claimed off waivers from the Chicago Cubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Season standings, Record vs. opponents\nThe October 1 tiebreaker games were regular-season games that are included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, March\nThe Dodgers began the 2018 season on March 29, 2018, at Dodger Stadium against the San Francisco Giants. Clayton Kershaw, in his team record eighth consecutive Opening Day start, allowed one run (on a solo homer by Joe Panik) in six innings with seven strikeouts but the Dodgers failed to score and lost 1\u20130. It was the first time the Dodgers had lost on opening day under Kershaw. In the next game, Alex Wood allowed only one hit in eight shutout innings with five strikeouts and no walks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, March\nHowever, the Dodgers offense again struggled, managing only one hit of their own off of Giants starter Johnny Cueto and two relievers. Joe Panik again hit a solo homer, this time off reliever Kenley Jansen in the ninth inning to give the Giants their second straight 1\u20130 victory. It was only the second time, and first time since the 1968 season that the Dodgers had been shutout in their first two games of the season and the first time they had lost back-to-back 1\u20130 games since April 24\u201325, 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, March\nThe Dodgers committed four errors in the game (including three by Logan Forsythe), for the first time since the 2013 season. Kenta Maeda struck out 10 Giants in five innings his debut on March 31 and the Dodgers offense finally pushed across some runs as they picked up their first win of the season, 5\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, April\nThe Dodgers finished up the opening series with the Giants on April 1, with a 9\u20130 victory and a split of the series. Rich Hill struck out five in six scoreless innings while Cody Bellinger hit his first homer of the season and Yasiel Puig had three hits, including a double, and scored two runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, April\nThe first road trip of the season began on April 2 against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field. Hyun-jin Ryu struggled in his debut, allowing three runs on five hits with five walks in 3+2\u20443 innings. Yasmani Grandal had three hits, including a homer and Logan Forsythe also homered as the Dodgers took the lead going into the ninth. However, Kenley Jansen allowed a three-run homer to Chris Owings to tie the game and send it into extra innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, April\nThe game went into the fifteenth inning, when a Jeff Mathis pinch-hit single drove in the winning run in the Diamondbacks 8\u20137 win. In the following game, Clayton Kershaw allowed two solo homers in his six innings while striking out six but the bullpen imploded, walking four batters in the seventh as the Diamonbacks went on to win 6\u20131. The Dodgers were swept in the series when they fell in the final game, 3\u20130. Patrick Corbin allowed only one hit in 7+1\u20443 innings and struck out 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0012-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, April\nWith five loses in their first seven games, this was the Dodgers worst start to a season since 1998. After a rainout on April 6, the Dodgers played the Giants at AT&T Park. The Dodgers lost again, in 14 innings, on a three-run homer by Andrew McCutchen, 7\u20135. In the next game, they played their third extra inning game of the week, and ended the losing streak thanks to an RBI double by Kyle Farmer in the 10th that gave them a 2\u20131 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, April\nRyu pitched six shutout innings with eight strikeouts on April 9 against the Oakland Athletics back in Los Angeles, while Matt Kemp, Corey Seager and Chris Taylor hit solo homers in a 4\u20130 win. The Athletics got revenge the next day, recording 21 hits and blowing out the Dodgers 16\u20136. The Dodgers lost again in the next game, 8\u20137, to the Diamondbacks. On April 14, the Diamondbacks hit four home runs (including two by A. J. Pollock) to route the Dodgers 9\u20131. This was the 11th straight regular season loss by the Dodgers to the Diamondbacks, the most against one team since the move to Los Angeles. Clayton Kershaw struck out 12 in seven innings of work the next day as the Dodgers won 7\u20132, snapping the losing streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, April\nThe Dodgers traveled down the freeway to play the San Diego Padres in a three-game series at Petco Park beginning on April 16. Ryu struck out nine in six innings while Matt Kemp hit a three-run home run and Yasmani Grandal hit a grandslam homer as the Dodgers won 10\u20133. Alex Wood struck out seven in 5+1\u20443 innings while allowing only one unearned run in the next game while Kemp homered to give the Dodgers an early lead. However, Kenley Jansen blew his second save of the season sending the game into extra innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, April\nA two-run double by Grandal opened the scoring and the Dodgers won 7\u20133 in 12 innings. They completed their first series sweep of the season with a 13\u20134 win in the series finale. Kenta Maeda struck out 10 in 5+2\u20443 innings while Corey Seager had four hits and three RBI and Max Muncy homered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, April\nThe Dodgers returned home for a three-game series against the Washington Nationals. Max Scherzer out pitched Kershaw in the opener, allowing one run on four hits with nine strikeouts in six innings as the Nationals won 5\u20132. Ryu allowed only two hits in seven shutout innings the following night and the Dodgers hit three homers to beat the Nationals 4\u20130. The Dodgers came from behind to win the final game of the series 4\u20133 thanks torun scoring doubles by Grandal and Bellinger in the sixth inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, April\nWalker Buehler made his first major league start on April 23 and pitched five scoreless innings against the Miami Marlins. Enrique Hern\u00e1ndez was three for four with a home run as the Dodgers won 2\u20131. Maeda struck out seven in six innings while allowing only one run but the Marlins won 3\u20132 by scoring twice off Pedro B\u00e1ez in the top of the ninth. Kershaw struggled in his next start, walking six (tying his career high) and allowing a three-run homer to Miguel Rojas. A comeback attempt by the Dodgers fell short and they lost 8\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, April\nThe Dodgers then went back on the road for a four-game, three day, series against the Giants. In the opener, Ryu struck out seven in 5+2\u20443 innings while allowing only two runs and also drove in two runs with a double. However, the bullpen faltered and the Dodgers lost 6\u20134. The Dodgers played a doubleheader with the Giants on April 28 to make up the earlier rainout. In the first game, the Dodgers had a season high in runs (15), hits (20) and extra base hits (9) and Walker Buehler pitched five strong innings. They won the game 15\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, April\nHowever, in the night game, Austin Jackson's bases loaded double in the fifth inning put the Giants ahead and they won 8\u20133. Ty Blach allowed only two runs in six innings and the Giants took the series 4\u20132. Before beginning the next series, a four-game set against the division leading Diamondbacks in Arizona, the Dodgers learned that Corey Seager would require elbow reconstruction surgery and would be lost for the rest of the season. Making a spot start in the first game of the Arizona series, Ross Stripling allowed eight hits and four runs in four innings and the Diamondbacks, led by A. J. Pollock's three home runs and Zack Greinke's 10 strikeouts, pulled away for an 8\u20135 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, May\nThe month of May began with Clayton Kershaw on the mound as the Dodgers were hoping to stop the skid against the Diamondbacks. He held them to two runs on six hits in six innings of work and the Dodgers led thanks to a Cody Bellinger homer. However, the bullpen faltered again and the Dodgers lost their fourth straight, 4\u20133. Hyun-jin Ryu exited the next game in the second inning, due to a groin strain, but the bullpen performed in this game and Alex Verdugo doubled twice and scored both times in the Dodgers 2\u20131 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, May\nThe Dodgers scored four runs in the eighth inning the next day, partially thanks to two wild pitches and a balk by Jorge de la Rosa, and won 5\u20132 to salvage a split of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0017-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, May\nThe Dodgers next traveled to Monterrey, Mexico for a three-game international series against the San Diego Padres at Estadio de B\u00e9isbol Monterrey, starting on May 4. Walker Buehler struck out eight without giving up a hit in six scoreless innings and relievers Tony Cingrani, Yimi Garc\u00eda and Adam Liberatore joined on a combined no-hitter, the 12th in major league history and the first by the Dodgers, who won 4\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0017-0003", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, May\nA two-run homer buy Raffy Lopez in the following game, allowed the Padres to take the lead in the sixth and they piled on against the Dodgers bullpen to even the series with a 7\u20134 win. A two-run homer by Eric Hosmer in the fifth inning was the main blow in the Dodgers 3\u20130 loss to end the road trip.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, May\nThe Dodgers on April 8 began a six-game homestand, starting with a two-game series with the Diamondbacks. Rich Hill returned from a stint on the disabled list to start the game but he struggled, allowing five runs on seven hits in only four innings. A home run by Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez in the ninth tied the game and sent it into extra innings, where the Diamondbacks won in the 12th on a three-run homer by Daniel Descalso. Yasiel Puig had three hits in the next game and the Dodgers won 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, May\nThe Dodgers next played the Cincinnati Reds in a four-game series. In the opener, Scooter Gennett hit a two-run double off Walker Buehler in the sixth, snapping Buehler's 15 inning scoreless streak and later added a solo homer off a relief pitcher as the Reds won 4\u20131. Kenta Maeda allowed five runs in only 4+2\u20443 innings and the Dodgers offense couldn't solve the Reds pitching as they lost again, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0018-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, May\nIn the next game, Ross Stripling struck out seven in 5+1\u20443 innings and left the game with the lead, but reliver J. T. Chargois allowed a three-run homer to Scott Schebler and the Dodgers lost again, 5\u20133. Despite homers by Yasiel Puig and Yasmani Grandal, the Dodgers dropped the next game also, 5\u20133. It was the Reds first four-game sweep of the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium since 1976. The Dodgers 16\u201324 record was the team's worst 40 game start since the 1958 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, May\nThe Dodgers went on the road to play the Miami Marlins at Marlins Park. J. T. Realmuto had three hits including a two-out RBI double as the Dodgers lost for the fifth straight game, 4\u20132. They lost again the next day, 6\u20135, falling into last place in the division. The Dodgers finally snapped the losing streak the next day, with a 7\u20130 win. Kenta Maeda struck out eight while only allowing two hits in eight innings while Justin Turner had three hits in four at-bats with two doubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, May\nThanks to a rainout at Nationals Park on May 18, the Dodgers played a doubleheader against the Washington Nationals on the 19th. In the first game, Ross Stripling allowed only one run in six innings with a career high nine strikeouts and the Dodgers won 4\u20131. In the second game, Rich Hill started but only threw two pitches before leaving the game due to a blister on his middle finger, forcing the Dodgers bullpen to pitch the entire game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0019-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, May\nNationals starter Max Scherzer allowed two runs in seven innings with 13 strikeouts, but the Dodgers rallied against the bullpen, pulling ahead with a two-run double by Matt Kemp in the ninth off closer Sean Doolittle to win 5\u20134. This was the first time the Dodgers had won a game where the starting pitcher failed to record an out since May 31, 1981. Kenley Jansen was the first Dodger pitcher to save both games of a doubleheader on the same day since Jeff Shaw on August 25, 2000. The Dodgers completed the sweep of the Nationals with a 7\u20132 victory. Alex Wood allowed only two runs in six innings and the Dodgers hit three home runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, May\nThe Dodgers returned home on May 21 to play the Colorado Rockies. Walker Buheler struck out six in seven innings while allowing only two hits, one of which was a solo homer by Gerardo Parra. However, the Dodgers got only a solo homer of themselves (by Max Muncy) and the bullpen allowed the go-ahead run in a 2\u20131 loss. Chris Taylor and Puig hit back-to-back homers in the sixth inning for a 5\u20133 win the following day. Maeda struck out 12 and only allowed two hits in 6+2\u20443 scoreless innings as the Dodgers shut out the Rockies 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, May\nThe Dodgers next began a weekend series with the Padres. Stripling struck out 10 batters in 6+2\u20443 innings while Kemp had three hits in four at-bats, including a three-run homer as the Dodgers won 4\u20131. Christian Villanueva hit two home runs as the Padres won 7\u20135 in the following game. In the last game of the series, Buehler struck out eight in seven innings while allowing only one run while Max Muncy and Cody Belliger each hit two run homers in the 6\u20131 win. The Dodgers took on the Philadelphia Phillies on Memorial Day, falling behind 4\u20130 before they rallied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0020-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, May\nAfter failing to get a hit in the first five innings, they scored two in the sixth and three in the eighth to win the game 5\u20134. Jake Arrieta shut out the Dodgers over seven innings in the following game as the Phillies won 6\u20131. Ross Stripling dominated in the third game of the series, holding the Phillies to one run on four hits with nine strikeouts in seven innings while Kemp homered and doubled in the 8\u20132 win. Kershaw returned from a stay on the disabled list to allow one run in five innings but the Dodgers lost, 2\u20131, when they couldn't get anything going offensively against Phillies ace, Aaron Nola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, June\nThe Dodgers began June at Coors Field against the Colorado Rockies. In the first game, Yasiel Puig had four hit, including a homer, and Chris Taylor also homered and drove in four runs as the Dodgers won an 11\u20138 slugfest. In the next game, Joc Pederson hit two home runs and the Dodgers scored eight runs in the seventh inning en route to a 12\u20134 win over the Rockies. The Dodgers completed the sweep of the Rockies with a 10\u20137 win. Max Muncy hit two homers for four RBI and Yasmani Grandal also hit a two-run homer. It was their first sweep of the Rockies in Colorado since 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, June\nThe Dodgers went on the road to play the Pittsburgh Pirates in a three-game series at PNC Park starting on June 5. In the first game, Ross Stripling pitched five scoreless innings with seven strikeouts and the Dodgers hit three home runs en route to a 5\u20130 shutout win. It was the Dodgers fourth straight game with at least three homers, tying the franchise record set in 1954 and also tied in 2017. In the following game, Matt Kemp had two doubles and a homer for five RBI but the pitching faltered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, June\nCaleb Ferguson, making his MLB debut hit two batters, walked three and allowed four runs in only 1+2\u20443 innings as the Dodgers lost 11\u20139. The Dodgers had another bullpen game in the finale of the series when rookie Dennis Santana was scratched from his first scheduled MLB start moments before the start of the game, forcing the Dodgers to use a franchise record nine pitchers in the nine inning game. Joc Pederson hit two home runs and Cody Bellinger had three hits, including a homer of his own, as the Dodgers won the game 8\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, June\nThe Dodgers returned home on June 8 to play the Atlanta Braves, starting with a 7\u20133 win thanks to the team hitting five home runs (two by Yasmani Grandal). The Braves won the next game, 5\u20133. The Dodgers finished the series with a 7\u20132 win. Stripling allowed just two runs on two hits in 6+2\u20443 innings. Next came a brief two-game interleague series against the Texas Rangers starting on June 12. The Dodgers hit three more homers (Muncy, Pederson and Puig) to rout the Rangers 12\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, June\nThe Dodgers won the second game, 3\u20132, in 11 innings when Enrique Hern\u00e1ndez scored on wild throw by Rangers reliever Matt Bush. Stripling picked up his sixth straight win in the next outing, on June 15 against the San Francisco Giants. Homers by Kemp and Hern\u00e1ndez helped the Dodgers win 3\u20132. They both homered again the next night as they won again 3\u20131. The Dodgers five-game winning streak came to an end the next day when Caleb Ferguson allowed two-run home runs to Nick Hundley and Brandon Belt and the Giants won 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, June\nAfter a rainout on June 18, the Dodgers played a day-night doubleheader against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on the 19th. In the opener, Kyle Farmer's two-out two-run pinch-hit double in the ninth gave the Dodgers a come-from-behind 4\u20133 win. However, the Cubs won the next game, 2\u20131, as Kris Bryant tripled in the 10th inning and scored the winning run on a single by Albert Almora. In the final game of the series, the Dodgers were shut out by the Cubs, 4\u20130, and lost their first series since mid-May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, June\nThey next traveled to Citi Field for a three-game weekend series against the New York Mets. A grand slam homer by Cody Bellinger in game one gave the Dodgers a 5\u20132 win. In the next game, Kemp hit his eighth career grand slam, the Dodgers first pinch-hit slam since Manny Ramirez hit one in 2009, and Max Muncy also homered in the 8\u20133 win. The Dodgers finished off the sweep of the Mets with an 8\u20137 victory in 11 innings. They hit seven homers as a team in the game, including two each by Bellinger and Hern\u00e1ndez. This was their 12th straight win over the Mets dating back to 2016. They became just the second National League team in history to hit seven solo-homers in a road game (joining the 2006 Atlanta Braves).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, June\nThe Dodgers returned home to play the Cubs on June 25 and Kenta Maeda struck out nine while allowing only three hits and one walk in seven scoreless innings while solo homers by Hern\u00e1ndez and Chris Taylor provided the offense in a 2\u20131 win. In the following game, Javier B\u00e1ez had four hits, including a solo homer and a grand slam, to help the Cubs to a 9\u20134 win. The Dodgers hit three more home runs on the 27th, leading them to a 7\u20135 win over the Cubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, June\nThe next day the Dodgers hit two more home runs, to give them 53 for the month, tying a club record. However, the Cubs scored seven runs off the Dodgers bullpen in the seventh inning to come from behind and win 11\u20135. Rich Hill struck out 10 in 6+2\u20443 innings on June 29 against the Colorado Rockies while Justin Turner's ninth inning homer broke the club record with the 54th of the month. However, three solo homers by the Rockies and eight shutout innings from Tyler Anderson led to a 3\u20131 loss. The Dodgers ended the month with another 3\u20131 loss to the Rockies as they couldn't solve Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez, who struck out nine in eight innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July\nThe Dodgers began the month of July with a 6\u20134 victory over the Rockies. Matt Kemp homered and drove in four runs in the game. Kemp exploded in the next game, with five hits, including a three-run homer, as the Dodgers routed the Pittsburgh Pirates 17\u20131. The Dodgers hit six more home runs, including two by Max Muncy, in an 8\u20133 victory in the following game. Yasmani Grandal and Chris Taylor combined for all six RBIs as the Dodgers finished off the sweep of the Pirates with a 6\u20134 victory on the Fourth of July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July\nThe Dodgers traveled down the 5 Freeway to play the Los Angeles Angels at Anaheim Stadium beginning on July 6. In the opener, two ninth inning errors led to the Angels walking-off with a 3\u20132 win. Ross Stripling struck out seven with no walks and only three hits in six innings in the Dodgers 3\u20131 win the next day. A pinch hit homer by Shohei Ohtani gave the Angels a 4\u20133 win in the last game of the series. Next came a four-game series against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July\nClayton Kershaw allowed only two hits in six scoreless innings as the Dodgers started things off with an 8\u20132 win. Rookie starter Eric Lauer allowed only four hits while striking out eight in 8+2\u20443 innings as the Padres evened the series with a 4\u20131 win on the 10th. Then in the next game, Kenta Maeda struck out nine in 5+2\u20443 innings, his fourth straight nine strikeout game, as the Dodgers won 4\u20132. The Dodgers moved into solo possession of first place in the division for the first time all season with a 3\u20132 win on July 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July\nThe Dodgers returned home on July 13 for another series with the Angels. Max Muncy hit a solo homer and an RBI single as they won 3\u20132. However, in the next game, Kole Calhoun hit a homer off Kenley Jansen in the 10th inning to give the Angels a 4\u20133 win. Clayton Kershaw struck out eight batters in 6+2\u20443 innings and the Dodgers hit two more home runs as they went into the all-star break with a 5\u20133 victory over the Angels and a record of 53\u201343, first place in the NL West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July\nMatt Kemp was voted by fans to start the 2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game and Ross Stripling and Kenley Jansen also made the team with Max Muncy as a participant in the Home Run Derby. The day after the game, the Dodgers acquired all-star third baseman Manny Machado from the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for five minor leaguers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July\nThey returned from the break with a three-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park. Machado reached base four times in his debut with the team, with two hits and two walks and Enrique Hern\u00e1ndez hit a three-run homer as the Dodgers won 6\u20134. The Dodgers committed three errors in the next game and lost 4\u20132. Kemp hit two home runs as the Dodgers ran away with an 11\u20132 win in the finale of the series. They next traveled to Citizens Bank Park for a series with the Philadelphia Phillies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July\nThe Dodgers hit four home runs to take the opener, 7\u20136. In the second game, Trevor Plouffe hit a three-run home run off Hernandez, who was making his first career pitching appearance, in the 16th inning to give the Phillies a 7\u20134 win. Yasmani Grandal homered from both sides of the plate earlier in the game. The Phillies took the series with a 7\u20133 win in the final game. A five-run fifth inning, highlighted by a Carlos Santana triple was the difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0030-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July\nIn the opener of their series against the Atlanta Braves at SunTrust Park, Rich Hill struck out eight in seven scoreless innings while Manny Machado hit his first homer as a Dodger in the 8\u20132 win. On July 27, Clayton Kershaw struck out eight batters in 7+2\u20443 innings while only allowing one run and also had a two-run single and three walks as a batter as the Dodgers won 4\u20131. Alex Wood pitched 5+2\u20443 scoreless innings with only one hit and Yasiel Puig homered and drove in three runs as the Dodgers took the next game, 5\u20131. In the last game of the roadtrip, the Dodgers were no hit by Braves pitcher Sean Newcomb for 8+2\u20443 innings before Chris Taylor singled with two out in the ninth. They lost 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July\nA three-run home run by Eric Thames led the Brewers to a 5\u20132 victory over the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on July 30. In the next game, Walker Buehler only allowed one run on five hits in seven innings with seven strikeouts, but that run was all it took in a 1\u20130 loss to end the month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August\nThe Dodgers began the month of August with a 10-inning, 6\u20134, win over the Brewers. Yasmani Grandal hit two homers, including a walk-off, and Brian Dozier, who was acquired in a trade the previous day, also homered. The Dodgers finished with a split of the four-game series by beating the Brewers 21\u20135. They hit seven home runs in the game, including two each by Joc Pederson and Yasiel Puig and a grand slam by Cody Bellinger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August\nNine runs scored in the seventh, a season high, and the 21 runs scored was the most by the Dodgers since July 21, 2001 in Colorado and the most ever at Dodger Stadium. The Houston Astros came to town next, for a rematch of the two teams that played in the 2017 World Series. Justin Verlander struck out 14 batters in 7+2\u20443 innings while only allowing four hits as the Astros took the opener 2\u20131. The Astros scored four times in the sixth and seven times in the eighth to route the Dodgers 14\u20130 in the following game. RBI doubles by Bellinger and Dozier helped the Dodgers salvage the last game of the series, 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August\nThe Dodgers traveled to Oakland Coliseum to play the Oakland Athletics in a quick two game series, which they split. In the first game, Rich Hill allowed two runs in 5+2\u20443 innings in a 4\u20132 win. In the second game, Mike Fiers struck out eight of the first 12 batters he faced and the A's held on for a 3\u20132 win. The Dodgers hit five home runs, including two off Colorado Rockies closer Wade Davis in the ninth inning as they beat the Rockies at Coors Field 8\u20135 on August 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0033-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August\nA two-run homer by Ryan McMahon in the seventh inning gave the Rockies a 5\u20134 comeback victory over the Dodgers the following day. McMahon struck again in the next game, hitting a walk-off, three-run, home run to beat the Dodgers 3\u20132. A bases loaded walk by Dylan Floro in the ninth inning gave the Rockies a 4\u20133 walk-off win in the series finale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August\nThe Dodgers returned home on August 13 to play the San Francisco Giants. Clayton Kershaw struck out nine while only allowing one run on four hits in eight innings but for the fourth consecutive day the Dodgers bullpen imploded, allowing four runs in the top of the ninth for a 5\u20132 loss. The Dodgers then lost their fifth straight game, 2\u20131, with the final run scoring in the ninth inning off the bullpen again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0034-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August\nIn the next game, Hyun-jin Ryu allowed only three hits while striking out six in six scoreless innings in his first game after spending 3+1\u20443 months on the disabled list. However, the Dodgers bullpen blew a lead for the seventh straight game. This time the Dodgers managed to win in 12 innings, 4\u20133, on a sacrifice fly by Brian Dozier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August\nThe Dodgers began a series with the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field on August 17. Walker Buehler struck out eight in six innings and Manny Machado hit two home runs as the Dodgers won 11\u20131. However, they lost the next day, 5\u20134, in 10 innings when Dylan Floro balked with the bases loaded. The Dodgers hit three solo home runs in the game. Kershaw allowed one run on four hits in seven innings with seven strikeouts as the Dodgers finished off the series with a 12\u20131 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August\nBack home on August 20, Kenley Jansen returned from a stay on the disabled list with an irregular heartbeat to allow two back-to-back home runs in the ninth inning and the Dodgers lost to the St. Louis Cardinals, 5\u20133. Both Yadier Molina and Marcell Ozuna hit two-run homers as the Cardinals took the next game also, 5\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August\nIn the final game of the series, Walker Buehler allowed only three hits while striking out nine in seven scoreless innings and the Dodgers managed just one hit (a solo home run by Joc Pederson) off of Jack Flaherty, who struck out 10 in six innings. A pinch-hit home run by Tyler O'Neill off Scott Alexander tied the game in the eighth and Paul DeJong hit a two-run homer off Jansen in the ninth to give the Cardinals a 3\u20131 win and a sweep of the series, their first in Los Angeles since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0036-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August\nThe Dodgers began Players Weekend with an 11\u20131 rout of the San Diego Padres. Rich Hill struck out eight in six scoreless innings while they hit three homers among 13 team hits. Kershaw struck out nine in eight innings the following day and the Dodgers led going into the ninth (thanks to a three-run homer by Manny Machado) before Jansen blew another save by allowing a tying home run by Austin Hedges. This time the managed to eventually win thanks to a walk-off RBI double by Justin Turner in the 12th inning. Turner had a career high with five RBI in the next game, as the Dodgers swept the Padres with a 7\u20133 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August\nThe Dodgers played a quick two game series against the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Park. Machado drove in four runs and Brian Dozier homered as they won the opener, 8\u20134. In the second game, Alex Wood pitched seven scoreless innings and the Dodgers hit three home runs and a triple, their only hits of the night, in a 3\u20131 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August\nThey returned home on August 30 to begin a four-game series against the division leading Arizona Diamondbacks. A three-run home run by David Peralta in the fifth inning accounted for the Diamondbacks only runs in a 3\u20131 win over the Dodgers. The following day, Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez and Justin Turner hit home runs in the eighth inning to lead the Dodgers to a 3\u20132 comeback victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September\nThe Dodgers moved into a tie for first place in the division when Matt Kemp hit a three-run home run off Archie Bradley in the eighth inning to give them another 3\u20132 comeback win. In the last game of the series Walker Buehler tied his career high nine strikeouts while allowing only one earned run. For the second day in a row, Kemp drove in the winning runs, this time with a two-RBI walk-off double to help the Dodgers win their third straight game over the Diamondbacks, 3\u20132, to take over solo possession of first place in the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0039-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September\nThe lead didn't last long as they fell back into second place the next day, this time behind the Colorado Rockies, thanks to a 4\u20132 loss to the New York Mets, thus snapping the aforementioned streak of 12 straight wins over the Mets above. A three-run, pinch-hit, homer by Brandon Nimmo in the top of the ninth was the difference. After falling behind by four runs in the next game, the Dodgers scored 11 unanswered runs en route to an 11\u20134 victory. Amed Rosario had three of the Mets 14 hits in the as they won the series with a 7\u20133 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September\nThe Dodgers then began a 10-game road trip, starting with three against the first-place Rockies at Coors Field on September 7. Clayton Kershaw recorded his 12th consecutive quality start, the second longest streak of his career, as the Dodgers won 4\u20132. The Rockies won 4\u20132 the next day as Kyle Freeland struck out eight in six innings. Justin Turner had four hits in five at-bats, including a homer and two doubles, as the Dodgers took the series with a 9\u20136 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September\nScooter Gennett had four hits in five at-bats with three RBI as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Dodgers 10\u20136 at Great American Ball Park on September 10. Luis Castillo struck out nine, while only allowing one run, in 6+1\u20443 innings as the Reds took the next game also, 3\u20131. The Dodgers took the series finale, 8\u20131, to avoid their first season sweep at the hands of the Reds in the 119-year history of the matchup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0040-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September\nManny Machado had three hits, including a home run, and three RBI in four at-bats as the Dodgers began a four-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium with a 9\u20137 win. In the next game, Buehler allowed only two hits in eight scoreless innings while striking out nine and Yasiel Puig hit two home runs as the Dodgers won 3\u20130. He followed up that performance by hitting three more homers in the next game, in a 17\u20134 victory. Coupled with a Rockies loss, the Dodgers reclaimed first place in the West. Adam Wainwright struck out nine in six scoreless innings as the Cardinals salvaged the final game of the series, 5\u20130, and knocked the Dodgers a half a game behind the Rockies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September\nThe Dodgers returned home on September 17 for a crucial three-game divisional series against the Rockies. In the opener, Hyun-jin Ryu pitched seven scoreless innings while Max Muncy hit a three-run homer and Joc Pederson hit two homers, in an 8\u20132 win to recapture first place. They won again the next day, 3\u20132, thanks to a walk-off homer by Chris Taylor in the 10th inning. They finished off a sweep of the Rockies with a 5\u20132 victory. Yasiel Puig's pinch-hit, three-run, homer in the seventh inning was the big blow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0041-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September\nBuehler struck out a career-high 12 batters in six innings and the Dodgers tied a National League record with seven players with 20 or more home runs after Kemp hit one in the second inning. The San Diego Padres came to town for the Dodgers final home series of the regular season, beating them in the opener 5\u20133. In the next game, a three-run homer by Manny Machado helped the Dodgers to a 7\u20132 win. Ryu struck out eight in six scoreless innings while Kemp was 3 for 4 with a homer and three RBI as the Dodgers won 14\u20130 in their final home game of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September\nWith a narrow 1+1\u20442 game lead over the Rockies in the division race, the Dodgers began the final week of the season with a road trip to Chase Field to play the Diamondbacks. They rallied from behind to win the first game 7\u20134. However, a walk-off homer by Eduardo Escobar in the following game gave the Diamondbacks a 4\u20133 win, cutting the Dodgers lead in the division to half a game. Three homers by the Diamondbacks knocked the Dodgers out of first place entirely by beating them 7\u20132 on September 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September\nThey next traveled to AT&T Park to end the regular season with a three-game series with the San Francisco Giants. A two-run homer by Justin Turner was the key in a 3\u20131 victory to begin the series. A tie-breaking RBI triple by Manny Machado helped the Dodgers to a 10\u20136 win over the Giants on September 29 as they clinched a spot in the postseason and moved into a tie for first place with the Rockies heading into the final game of the season. In that game, Rich Hill allowed only two hits while striking out seven in seven scoreless innings and the Dodgers routed the Giants 15\u20130. However, the Rockies also won on this day, forcing the two teams to play a tie-breaker game to decide the NL West championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, National League West Tie-Breaker Game\nThe Dodgers faced the Colorado Rockies in a tie-breaker game to determine the National League West champion on October 1. Walker Buehler allowed only one hit in 6+2\u20443 innings and the Dodgers got two-run home runs from Cody Bellinger in the fourth inning and Max Muncy in the fifth. They won the game 5\u20132 to clinch their sixth consecutive division championship. They became the first team to win six straight division championships since the New York Yankees won 10 straight from 1998 to 2007 and only the third overall (the Atlanta Braves won 14 from 1991 to 2005). On October 4, they were set to play the Atlanta Braves. The first NLDS game was pitched by Hyun Jin Ryu, leaving Kershaw to pitch game 2. This was the first time in 8 out of 10 games that Kershaw has not been selected to start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series\nThe Dodgers, as the second seed in the National League, opened the playoffs with home field advantage in the 2018 National League Division Series against the third seeded Atlanta Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series\nIn the first game, Hyun-jin Ryu got the start in a surprise decision over Clayton Kershaw, who had started the Dodgers six previous playoff openers. He pitched well, with seven shutout innings, striking out eight while allowing only four hits and no walks. Joc Pederson hit a leadoff homer, Max Muncy added a three-run shot the next inning and the Dodgers cruised to a 6\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series\nKershaw started the second game, and pitched eight scoreless innings, while allowing only two hits. Manny Machado hit a two-run home run in the first inning and Yasmani Grandal added a solo homer in the fifth inning to account for the only scoring in the Dodgers 3\u20130 win. They were only the second team in history to shutout their opponent in the first two playoff games, joining the 1921 New York Yankees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series\nWalker Buehler started game three for the Dodgers at SunTrust Park, while Sean Newcomb started for the Braves. Atlanta took a 5\u20130 lead in the bottom of the second inning. The first run came when Sean Newcomb forced a run with a bases-loaded walk, the first time in postseason history a pitcher has done this. Four more runs were scored on a grand slam by Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. Los Angeles got back two runs in the top of the third, on an RBI single by Justin Turner with the second run scoring on error by Acu\u00f1a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0047-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series\nA two-run homer by Chris Taylor and a solo homer by Muncy tied the game in the fifth inning. After the second inning, Buehler settled down and pitched five innings with only two hits and seven strikeouts. He also walked two and allowed the five runs. The Braves recaptured the lead when Freddie Freeman homered off Alex Wood in the sixth inning. The Dodgers got a couple of baserunners on in the ninth but Arodys Vizca\u00edno managed to close out the win for the Braves, 6\u20135, forcing the series to a fourth game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series\nIn the fourth game, Rich Hill started and pitched 4+1\u20443 innings, allowing two runs on four hits and five walks. Machado drove in four runs, on a double and a three-run home run and David Freese drove in two with a pinch-hit single as the Dodgers won 6\u20132 to clinch the series and advance to the National League Championship Series for the third straight year, a franchise record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nClayton Kershaw started the first game for the Dodgers at Miller Park and turned in the shortest start of his post-season career, allowing five runs on six hits and two walks in 3+ innings and Yasmani Grandal became the first catcher in post-season history to have two walks and two passed balls in the same game. The Dodgers fell behind 6\u20131 before a late inning rally against the Brewers bullpen cut the final score to 6\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nIn the second game, Hyun-jin Ryu pitched four scoreless innings but couldn't make it out of the fifth. He wound up going 4+1\u20443 innings while allowing two runs on six hits. The Brewers took a 3\u20130 lead after six but the Dodgers got two back in the seventh and then pulled ahead on a two-run homer by Justin Turner in the eighth to win 4\u20133 and even the series up after two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nThe series moved to Dodger Stadium for game three and Walker Buehler pitched seven innings, with four runs on five hits and eight strikeouts... but the Dodgers were unable to score any runs against Jhoulys Chac\u00edn and the Brewers bullpen and lost 4\u20130. It was the first time the Dodgers had been shut out in a postseason game at home since the 1983 National League Championship Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nRich Hill started game four and only allowed one run on three hits and three walks with six strikeouts in five innings. However, the Dodgers, after a first-inning run, were unable to score in regulation and the game went into extra-innings tied at one. In the 13th inning, Manny Machado singled, advanced to second on a wild pitch, and scored the winning run on a single to right by Cody Bellinger to give the Dodgers a 2\u20131 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nIn the fifth game, Kershaw pitched seven innings, allowing one run on three hits and two walks while striking out nine. He also walked twice as a batter, becoming just the third pitcher in the last 20 years to do so in a postseason game (Jon Lester in the 2016 NLCS and Derek Lowe in the 2008 NLDS). The Dodgers scored five runs on nine hits to win the game 5\u20132 and take a three games to two series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nThe series returned to Miller Park for game 6 and Ryu struggled in his second start, allowing five runs on seven hits in three innings as the Dodgers lost 7\u20132. However, in game 7, Buehler pitched a strong game, striking out seven and only allowing one run in 4+2\u20443 innings. Cody Bellinger hit a two-run homer and Yasiel Puig hit a three-run homer and the Dodgers won 5\u20131 to clinch their second straight National League championship, the first time they had done that since 1977 and 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, World Series\nThe Dodgers faced the Boston Red Sox, who had the best record in baseball in 2018, in the World Series. The series began at Fenway Park as the Red Sox had secured homefield advantage. Kershaw became the first pitcher to start the first game of the World Series in back-to-back years since Cliff Lee did so in 2009 (for the Phillies) and 2010 (for the Rangers) and the first to do so for the same team since Dave Stewart pitched three consecutive Game 1s for the Oakland Athletics from 1988 to 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0055-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, World Series\nHis results were not good, allowing five runs on seven hits and three walks with five strikeouts in 4+ innings. The Dodgers kept it close most of the game thanks to a Matt Kemp homer and three RBI by Manny Machado but the Red Sox pulled away when Eduardo N\u00fa\u00f1ez hit a three-run pinch-hit homer off Alex Wood in the eighth to win the game, 8\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, World Series\nHyun-jin Ryu kept things close in game two and the Dodgers led 2\u20131 through four innings before Ryu loaded the bases in the fifth and reliever Ryan Madson walked in the tying run and then gave up a single that scored two more, and the Dodgers lost 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, World Series\nThe series moved to Dodger Stadium for Game 3. Walker Buehler pitched seven shutout innings, allowing only two hits without walking anyone and striking out seven while throwing a career-high 108 pitches. The Dodgers took an early lead on Joc Pederson' solo homer in the third inning and that lead held up until two outs in the eighth when Jackie Bradley Jr. homered off of Kenley Jansen to tie the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0057-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, World Series\nBoth sides added a run in the 13th inning thanks to sloppy fielding and the game continued into the 18th inning when Max Muncy hit a walk-off homer off Nathan Eovaldi, who was in his seventh inning of relief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0057-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, World Series\nAt 18 innings and 7 hours and 20 minutes this game became the longest World Series game by both innings and time, surpassing (in playing time) Game 3 of the 2005 World Series, which lasted 14 innings and 5 hours and 41 minutes, and breaking the record (in innings) first set by the Red Sox and Dodgers in the 1916 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, World Series\nIn Game 4, the game was scoreless for the first five innings until the Dodgers jumped out to a 4\u20130 lead thanks to a throwing error and a three-run homer by Yasiel Puig. Rich Hill was dominant, only allowing one hit in 6+1\u20443 innings while striking out seven. However, he walked one batter in the seventh and that batter scored when Madson appeared in relief and allowed a three-run homer to Mitch Moreland. With that Madson set a new World Series record by allowing all seven runners he inherited in the series to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0058-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, World Series\nThe following inning, Steve Pearce tied the game by hitting a solo homer off Jansen, the second blown save in as many nights for Jansen. Then in the ninth, Brock Holt doubled off Dylan Floro and scored on a single by Rafael Devers to put the Red Sox ahead. They proceeded to blow the game open when Pearce hit a three-run double off Kenta Maeda. Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez hit a two-run homer off Craig Kimbrel in the ninth, but it was not enough and the Dodgers lost, 9\u20136. This was the first time they had lost all season when they had a lead of four runs or more. The Red Sox took a commanding three games to one lead in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, World Series\nFor the fifth game, Kershaw returned to the mound, only to be greeted by a two-run homer by Steve Pearce in the first inning. He would allow two more solo homers in the sixth and seventh innings. Those accounted for the four runs he allowed, on seven hits with five strikeouts. The Red Sox won the game, 5\u20131 and clinched the series in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Statistics, Batting\nList does not include pitchers. Stats in bold are the team leaders..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Statistics, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In; BB = Walks; SO = Strikeouts; SB = Stolen Bases; Avg. = Batting Average; OBP = On Base Percentage; SLG = Slugging; OPS = On Base + Slugging", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Statistics, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280678-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Major League Baseball Draft\nThe Dodgers selected 40 players in this draft. In the first round, they selected pitcher J. T. Ginn from Brandon High School in Brandon, Mississippi. Ginn did not sign and chose to attend college instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280679-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles FC season\nThe 2018 Los Angeles FC season was the club's inaugural season, and their first season in Major League Soccer, the top-tier of the American soccer pyramid. Los Angeles FC play its home games at the Banc of California Stadium in Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Outside of MLS play, LAFC participated in the 2018 U.S. Open Cup tournament, and qualified for the 2018 MLS Cup Playoffs, being eliminated in the knockout round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280679-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles FC season\nIt was the first year since 2014 that there were two first-division soccer clubs that played in the Greater Los Angeles Area, following the disbandment of Chivas USA in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280679-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles FC season, Background\nThe team was first announced in October 2014, following the folding of Chivas USA. It was first reported in May 2015, that LAFC had chosen a location for their stadium, which would be the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena site at Exposition Park. The environmental impact report, arena demolition and stadium construction are expected to take three years and delay the team's debut to 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280679-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles FC season, Background\nOn July 27, 2017, Bob Bradley was announced as the coach for the inaugural season of the club. Bradley previously coached Swansea City in the English Premier League, as well as various European and Americans clubs as well. Internationally, Bradley previously coached the United States' and Egypt's national teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280680-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards\nThe 44th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280681-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Gladiators season\nThe 2018 Los Angeles Gladiators was the first season of the Los Angeles Gladiators's existence in the Overwatch League. The team finished with a regular season record of 25\u201315 \u2013 the fourth best in the Overwatch League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280681-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Gladiators season\nLos Angeles qualified for the Stage 3 and Stage 4 Playoffs. The team lost in the Stage 3 semifinals to the Boston Uprising. In the Stage 4 semifinals, the Gladiators lost to the Los Angeles Valiant. The team also qualified for the Season Playoffs, but lost to the London Spitfire in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280681-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Gladiators season, Preceding offseason\nOn November 2, Gladiators unveiled their initial 7-player inaugural season roster, consisting of the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280681-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Gladiators season, Preceding offseason\nThe team revealed that the players were picked from a conglomeration of professional Overwatch esports teams to suit an \"aggressive and fun\" playstyle the team hoped to emulate as a reflection of their personality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280681-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Gladiators season, Review, Regular season\nTheir debut match was a 4\u20130 victory over the Shanghai Dragons. They finished Stage 1 with a 4\u20136 record in 8th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280681-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Gladiators season, Review, Regular season\nHeading into Stage 2, the team announced the transfer of tank player Baek \"Fissure\" Chan-hyung from the London Spitfire. Following the acquisition of Fissure, the team finished the stage in fifth place with a 6\u20134 record, including a 4\u20130 sweep over the Valiant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280681-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Gladiators season, Review, Regular season\nBetween Stages 2 and 3, the Gladiators acquired Ted \"silkthread\" Wang from the Valiant and Kang \"Void\" Jun-woo from Kongdoo Panthera. However, visa issues would cause Void to completely miss out on Stage 3. The Gladiators finished Stage 3 with a 6\u20134 record in fourth place, which, beginning with the third stage, was the final stage playoff spot. The top-seeded Boston Uprising, undefeated in Stage 3, selected the Gladiators as their first round opponent. On May 6, the Uprising swept the Gladiators 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280681-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Gladiators season, Review, Regular season\nThe Gladiators, now regularly using Void in their lineup following his visa being approved, finished with a league-best 9\u20131 record in Stage 4, including a reverse sweep over back-to-back stage champions New York Excelsior. However, the team would unexpectedly choose the second-seeded Valiant as their semi-final opposition. The Valiant would subsequently defeat the Gladiators in the Stage Playoffs by a score of 3\u20132. They would end the season with a 25\u201315 record, good for 4th place and a spot in the postseason where they would face against the London Spitfire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280681-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Gladiators season, Review, Season playoffs\nOn July 11, the first day of the season's playoffs, the fourth-seeded Gladiators took a 1\u20130 series lead after defeating the fifth-seeded Spitfire 3\u20130 in their first ever playoffs match. The Gladiators made headlines by surprisingly announcing on the day of the first match that main tank Fissure would be benched in favor of Luis \"iRemiix\" Galarza Figueroa. Later on the same day, Fissure was revealed by Blizzard as the runner-up in the inaugural Overwatch League season MVP vote. Two days later, the Gladiators would be eliminated from the playoffs after the Spitfire shut out the Gladiators in back-to-back matches to win the series 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280681-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Gladiators season, Final roster, Transactions\nTransactions of/for players on the roster during the 2018 regular season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season\nThe 2018 season was the Los Angeles Rams' 81st in the National Football League (NFL), their 82nd overall, their 52nd in the Greater Los Angeles Area and their second under head coach Sean McVay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season\nThe Rams were the NFC Champions, finishing with a record of 13\u20133, improving on their 11\u20135 record from the 2017 season. The team won its first eight games of the season (its best start since 1969) before losing to the Saints in Week 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season\nAfter defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 54\u201351 in Week 11, the third highest-scoring game in NFL history, and a 30\u201316 victory over the Detroit Lions in Week 13, the Rams clinched the NFC West for the second consecutive year, giving Los Angeles its first back-to-back division titles since 1978 and 1979 and consecutive playoff berths for the first time since the 2003 and 2004, when the franchise was based in St. Louis. The Rams ended the regular season tied with New Orleans for the NFL's best record at 13\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0001-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season\nThe 13 regular season wins was tied for the second-most in franchise history (along with the 1999 season, only trailing the Rams' 14-win campaign in 2001) and is the most wins in a season for a Los Angeles-based professional football team (as the Rams played in St. Louis in 1999 and 2001).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season\nThe Rams started their playoff run by defeating the Dallas Cowboys 30\u201322 in the Divisional Round to advance to the NFC Championship Game. This would be their first NFC Championship Game appearance since 2001 as the St. Louis Rams, and their first as the Los Angeles Rams since 1989. The Rams then controversially defeated the number 1 seed New Orleans Saints in the NFC Championship Game 26\u201323 in overtime after benefiting from a missed pass interference call. By defeating the Saints, the Rams advanced to Super Bowl LIII, where they faced the New England Patriots. The two teams previously met in Super Bowl XXXVI, in which the Patriots defeated the then-St. Louis Rams 20\u201317. This is the Rams' first Super Bowl appearance since that game and first as the Los Angeles Rams since Super Bowl XIV in 1979. The Rams lost to the Patriots 13\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 869]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Offseason, Uniform changes\nThe Rams announced during training camp that they would wear their all-white uniforms for the preseason and through the Rams' first two home games of the regular season. Beginning with a Thursday Night game against Minnesota on September 27, the Rams would wear their classic blue-and-yellow throwback uniforms as their primary home uniforms for the remainder of the season and throughout the playoffs (including Super Bowl LIII). Additionally, the team would wear their all-yellow color rush uniforms for scheduled prime time games against San Francisco and Kansas City later in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Preseason\nHead coach Sean McVay drew considerable attention when he opted to keep his entire starting offense and most of his starting defense off the field for the entire preseason. Other than a few defensive series against Houston, no starters saw any action during the exhibition schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Oakland Raiders\nThe final game of Week 1 featured a highly anticipated showdown between head coaches Sean McVay and Jon Gruden, who had given McVay his first job as an NFL coach when both were at Tampa Bay. In front of a sellout crowd in Oakland that enthusiastically greeted Gruden in his return to coaching after a 10-year absence, the Raiders took an early lead on a touchdown run by running back Marshawn Lynch. The Rams responded as Todd Gurley took a short pass from Jared Goff and ran 19 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Oakland Raiders\nLos Angeles finally took the lead at the end of the third quarter as Goff connected with wide receiver Cooper Kupp for an 8-yard scoring pass. Kicker Greg Zuerlein was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week after converting four field goals and three PATs. Defensively, the Rams kept Oakland out of the end zone after that opening-drive touchdown, led by linebacker Cory Littleton (11 tackles) and safety John Johnson, who both had interceptions to kill Raider scoring drives. Making his debut as a Ram, cornerback Marcus Peters picked off a Derek Carr pass and returned it 50 yards for a touchdown with just over two minutes remaining for the game's final score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nOpening a three-game home stand at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Rams crushed the visiting Cardinals, who were limited to just 137 total offensive yards and did not pass the 50-yard line until the game's final minute. Former Rams quarterback Sam Bradford had a rough day against the team that drafted him No. 1 overall in 2010, throwing for only 90 yards and an interception by Rams cornerback Sam Shields. Strong safety John Johnson led the Rams with seven tackles, while linebacker Samson Ebukam added a sack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nOffensively for Los Angeles, quarterback Jared Goff passed for 354 yards and a touchdown to tight end Tyler Higbee. Running back Todd Gurley totaled only 42 yards on the ground, but equaled his career high with three rushing touchdowns while rushing for a pair of two-point conversions after each of his first two scores. Goff passed to Malcolm Brown for two points after Gurley's third touchdown. The Rams opted for the two-point attempts after kicker Greg Zuerlein pulled a groin muscle during pregame warmups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nPunter Johnny Hekker, normally the holder for placekicks, stepped in and converted a 20-yard field goal in the second quarter, and then a PAT attempt after the Rams' final touchdown (Cooper Kupp held on both attempts). With the win, the Rams improved to 2-0, the first time the team started the season with two straight wins since 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Los Angeles Chargers\nHosting the Chargers in Los Angeles for the first time since 1991 (not counting preseason), the Rams would never trail as Todd Gurley rushed for 105 yards and scored the game's first touchdown. Jared Goff and Robert Woods connected for a touchdown at the end of the first quarter. Cory Littleton blocked a punt which was recovered in the end zone for a touchdown by Blake Countess in the second quarter as the Rams led 21-13. Countess was later named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Los Angeles Chargers\nDuring the third quarter, Goff (354 passing yards) threw two more touchdowns, one to Cooper Kupp and a second one to Woods, who finished with 10 receptions for 104 yards. The Rams offense was efficient, totaling 33 first downs to just 16 for the Chargers. Ndamukong Suh had a sack and a fumble recovery, while Littleton led the Rams with 10 tackles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nJared Goff was named NFC Offensive Player of the Week after passing for a career-high 465 yards (the third-highest single-game total in team history) and five touchdowns to four different receivers. Todd Gurley (21 touches, 156 total offensive yards) caught the first TD pass in the first quarter, while Cooper Kupp scored twice and Brandin Cooks scored once in the second quarter on the way to a 28-20 Rams lead. Sam Ficken kicked a 34-yard field goal and Robert Woods caught the Rams' final score on a 31-yard pass late in the third period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nWoods (five receptions, 101 yards, 1 TD), Cooks (seven receptions, 116 yards, 1 TD), and Kupp (nine receptions, 162 yards, 2 TDs) were the first wide receiver trio in team history to each go over 100 yards and score a touchdown in the same game. Defensively, Aaron Donald recorded his first two sacks of the season, and John Johnson had a team-high 11 tackles. This game also made history as the first-ever NFL broadcast to use an all-female announcing team, with Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer providing play-by-play and commentary respectively via Amazon Prime streaming service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Seattle Seahawks\nIt was a tight battle throughout at CenturyLink Field between the NFC West rivals. Todd Gurley scored three touchdowns on the ground, and Jared Goff threw for 321 yards and a touchdown pass to Cooper Kupp. New kicker Cairo Santos converted two field goals, the second one coming from 39 yards out to put the Rams into the lead with 6:05 remaining in the game. Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson threw for three touchdowns, but was sacked twice and held without a rushing attempt for the first time in his career. The outcome wasn't decided until the final minute when Goff converted a 4th-and-1 play at L.A.'s 42-yard-line with 1:39 remaining. The successful 2-yard quarterback sneak allowed the Rams to run out the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 89], "content_span": [90, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Denver Broncos\nRunning back Todd Gurley turned in a career-best performance, rushing for 208 yards on 28 carries and scoring two touchdowns as the Rams built a 20-3 lead and then held on against the host Broncos. For his effort, Gurley was named NFC Offensive Player of the Week. Robert Woods caught 10 passes for 109 yards and Jared Goff passed for 201 yards but was held without a touchdown for the first time during the season. Cairo Santos kicked three field goals for the Rams, and free safety Lamarcus Joyner led the Rams on defense with seven tackles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Denver Broncos\nWith the win, the Rams improved to 6-0 (matching their best start since 2001) and, following the Chiefs' loss to the Patriots later that evening, ended the day as the NFL's lone remaining unbeaten team. Despite the win, the Rams had by far their lowest score to this point, only putting up 23 points while the lowest they had scored before was 33. Also, this game was played on Jared Goff's 24th birthday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at San Francisco 49ers\nThe Rams improved to 7-0, the best start since 1985, in scoring their largest margin of victory at San Francisco in 60 years (a 33-3 Rams victory at Kezar Stadium in 1958). Defensive tackle Aaron Donald had the finest day of his professional career with nine tackles (eight solo), six tackles for loss (including four sacks), plus a forced fumble and fumble recovery and was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week. Linebacker Cory Littleton added two sacks to go with his team-leading 10 total tackles, while John Johnson and Troy Hill both came up with interceptions. Rams quarterback Jared Goff had an efficient day, completing 18 of 24 passes for 202 yards with touchdown passes to Brandin Cooks and Todd Gurley, who also added two rushing touchdowns to add to his league-leading 14 total touchdowns on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 910]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Green Bay Packers\nThe Rams fell behind early, but battled back from a 10-0 deficit to defeat the visiting Packers. Late in the second quarter, a 52-yard punt by Johnny Hekker was downed at the Green Bay 1 by Sam Shields. One play later, linebacker Mark Barron stuffed Packers running back Aaron Jones for a safety with 2:54 remaining in the half. Receiving the free kick, the Rams drove 72 yards in seven plays when Jared Goff connected with Josh Reynolds for a 1-yard touchdown pass to cut the Packers lead to 10-8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Green Bay Packers\nIn the third quarter, Goff threw touchdown passes to Todd Gurley and to Reynolds again for a 23-13 lead. Green Bay reclaimed the lead with two touchdowns sandwiched around a Greg Zuerlein field goal to lead 27-26 in the fourth quarter. Zuerlein put the Rams back on top with a 34-yard field goal just before the two-minute warning. On the ensuing kickoff, the Packers' Ty Montgomery ran the return out of the end zone when he collided with Rams defender Ramik Wilson, who stripped the ball and recovered the fumble. The Rams then ran out the clock, as Gurley (114 yards, 14 carries) went down voluntarily after picking up L.A.'s last first down to preserve the victory. With the win, the Rams improved to 8-0 for the first time since 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Rams fell behind 35-14 late in the second quarter, but rallied to tie the game behind the passing of Jared Goff (28 of 40, 391 yards, three TDs), but ultimately could not overcome the host Saints and suffered their first loss of the season. New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees passed for 346 yards and four touchdowns, including a 72-yard scoring strike to Michael Thomas late in the fourth quarter that put the game out of reach. Defensively, John Johnson and Cory Littleton had nine tackles each for the Rams. Brandin Cooks had six receptions for 114 yards and a touchdown, and with his 8-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, Todd Gurley set a new Rams team record by scoring a touchdown in 12 straight games, breaking the mark he shared with Elroy \"Crazy Legs\" Hirsch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 870]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nThe Rams clinched back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 2001 with a comeback victory over the Seahawks just four days after a shooting in Thousand Oaks near their training facility. Quarterback Jared Goff threw for 318 yards and touchdown passes to tight ends Gerald Everett and Tyler Higbee, with the second score putting the Rams ahead for good early in the fourth quarter. Todd Gurley had 16 carries for 120 yards and a touchdown to extend his team-record touchdown scoring streak to 13 straight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nDefensive tackle Aaron Donald earned 2.5 sacks, and newly-acquired linebacker Dante Fowler recorded a sack, forced fumble, and fumble recovery on the same play midway through the fourth quarter. One play later, wide receiver Brandin Cooks scored from nine yards out on a jet sweep for the Rams' final touchdown. Russell Wilson had three touchdown passes for the Seahawks, but threw four straight incompletions in the final minute as Los Angeles earned a season sweep of its NFC West rival and improved its record to 9-1. The victory was marred by the loss of Cooper Kupp, who suffered a torn ACL in the fourth quarter that would end his season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nThe Rams would have back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since the 2000 and 2001 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nOriginally scheduled to be played in Mexico City as part of the NFL International Series, the game was relocated to Los Angeles due to poor field conditions at Estadio Azteca, with the Rams having maintained availability of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as a contingency. Additionally, the game took place in the aftermath of the Thousand Oaks shooting on November 7, in which 12 people were killed in a mass shooting, and the Woolsey Fire which broke out a day later and ravaged areas close to the Rams' administrative offices and practice facility, forcing the evacuation of both.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 93], "content_span": [94, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nVictims of both tragedies as well as police, firefighters, and first responders were honored prior to the game. Rams players and coaching staff, who had already departed to Colorado Springs, Colorado in preparation for the high-altitude conditions they expected to face in Mexico City, remained in place and conducted closed practices at the Air Force Academy. Both teams entered the game with 9-1 records, with their combined marks of 18-2 being the second-best in the history of Monday Night Football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 93], "content_span": [94, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nThe matchup lived up to its billing, as the Rams and Chiefs combined for 105 points and 1,001 yards in total offense. Rams quarterback Jared Goff completed 31 of 49 passes for 413 yards and four touchdowns, the last coming on a 40-yard pass to tight end Gerald Everett with just under two minutes remaining. Linebacker Samson Ebukam scored on both fumble recovery and interception returns as the Rams forced five turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 93], "content_span": [94, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nFor the Chiefs, quarterback Patrick Mahomes set career highs for attempts (46), completions (33), passing yards (478) and tied a personal best with six touchdowns, but threw three interceptions, also a career high. Rams wide receiver Brandin Cooks led his team with eight receptions for 107 yards, while Chiefs wideout Tyreek Hill had 10 catches for 215 yards and two TDs in the game, which featured six lead changes, including four in the fourth quarter. The 105 total points and the 14 combined touchdowns scored by both teams tied for the second-most in league history in both categories. Only a 2004 matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns (106 points, 58-48) and a 1966 game with the Washington Redskins and New York Giants (113 points, 72-41) exceeded the Rams-Chiefs combined point total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 93], "content_span": [94, 909]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Detroit Lions\nTodd Gurley ran for 132 yards on 23 carries and scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter as the Rams pulled away from the host Lions to clinch their second straight NFC West Division title. Coming off their bye week, the Rams got off to a slow start and did not take a significant lead until late in the second quarter, when Greg Zuerlein kicked his second field goal, a 47-yarder, to give the Rams a 13-3 lead at halftime. In the third quarter, the Lions closed to within three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Detroit Lions\nDefensive tackle Aaron Donald had two sacks of Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford in the fourth quarter, stripping him of the ball on the second sack, with the fumble being recovered by linebacker Samson Ebukam. Three plays later, Gurley ran into the end zone for a 13-yard touchdown. Following Matt Prater's third field goal of the game to bring the Lions back to within a touchdown, Blake Countess recovered Detroit's onside kick attempt at the Lion 45.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0018-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Detroit Lions\nFacing a third-and-3 at the Lion 38 with 2:44 remaining in the game, Gurley broke loose for a 36-yard run, his longest of the season. With no one between him and the end zone, Gurley instead veered to his right and allowed himself to be tackled two yards short of the goal line. By not scoring, he forced Detroit to use its final time out before the two-minute warning. Two plays later, Gurley finally reached the end zone a second time to give the Rams a 30-16 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0018-0003", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Detroit Lions\nHe was later named NFC Offensive Player of the Week for the second time this season. Cornerback Troy Hill intercepted a Stafford pass in the final seconds to seal the victory, which gave the Rams at least 11 victories for the second year in a row. Strong safety John Johnson again led the team with 11 tackles, while cornerback Aqib Talib saw his first action since September, starting the game and playing about one-third of the defensive snaps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0018-0004", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Detroit Lions\nOn offense, Robert Woods had five receptions for 67 yards and a touchdown, while Brandin Cooks had four catches for 62 yards to give him 1,026 yards for the season. Cooks became the first receiver to ever record three consecutive 1,000-yard seasons with three different teams (having played for New Orleans in 2016 and New England in 2017).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Chicago Bears\nJared Goff threw a career-high four interceptions, and the Rams were held without a touchdown for the first time in the Sean McVay era in a loss to the host Bears on Sunday Night Football at Soldier Field. Los Angeles totaled only 214 offensive yards, less than half their season average, as the Bears controlled the clock 36:49 to 23:11. The Rams' only points came off two field goals by Greg Zuerlein in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Chicago Bears\nWide receiver Robert Woods led the Rams with seven receptions for 61 yards to put him over 1,000 yards receiving for the first time in his career. Lamarcus Joyner led the team with seven tackles, while Marcus Peters, Nickell Robey-Coleman and John Johnson each had interceptions. With the loss, the Rams fell to 11-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nDespite being 13.5-point favorites entering this game, Sean McVay lost consecutive games for the first time as head coach as the Rams fell to the Eagles for the second straight season. Jared Goff passed for 339 yards and set career single-game highs in completions (35) and attempts (54), but had two interceptions, one of which led directly to a Philadelphia touchdown. The Eagles held the Rams without a first down and scored 17 unanswered points during a decisive third quarter in staking out a 30-13 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nAt the beginning of the fourth quarter, Philadelphia drove inside the Rams 20 and were poised to add to their lead when cornerback Aqib Talib picked off a Nick Foles pass and returned it 30 yards. That sparked a drive that ended with a 37-yard field goal by Greg Zuerlein. After forcing an Eagles punt, the Rams drove again with Goff connecting with wide receiver Josh Reynolds on a 33-yard pass to set up a first-and-goal at the Philadelphia 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0020-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nTwo plays later, Todd Gurley (12 carries, 48 yards/10 receptions, 76 yards) scored his second touchdown of the game and 21st of the season. Following a missed field goal by the Eagles, the Rams mounted a drive in the final minute with no timeouts remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0020-0003", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nGoff drove the Rams down to the Eagles 18-yard-line, but a pass to Reynolds in the end zone fell incomplete as time expired, and L.A.'s record dropped to 11-3. Strong safety John Johnson had a team-high 14 tackles (11 solo), but the defense was held without a sack for only the second time in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Arizona Cardinals\nSigned to the Rams roster just five days earlier, running back C. J. Anderson was inserted into the starting lineup after Todd Gurley was declared inactive 90 minutes before gametime due to knee inflammation. The former Pro Bowler with the Denver Broncos proceeded to run 20 times for 167 yards to lead Los Angeles to a convincing fourth straight win over the host Cardinals. Anderson also scored on a 4-yard touchdown run late in the second quarter as the Rams built a 21-9 halftime lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Arizona Cardinals\nJared Goff passed for 216 yards, including a 39-yard scoring pass to Robert Woods in the fourth quarter to seal the victory. Goff also scored on a 1-yard run early in the second quarter. Woods caught a team-high six passes for 89 yards, while also scoring the first rushing touchdown of his career on a 4-yard sweep in the first period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0021-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Arizona Cardinals\nOn defense, Aaron Donald had three sacks of Arizona quarterback Josh Rosen to increase his league-leading sack total to 19.5, and he was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week for the second time in the season and the fifth time in his career. Donald also set a new modern standard for defensive tackles, breaking the previous mark of 18.0 set in 1989 by Keith Millard of the Minnesota Vikings, while also surpassing former teammate Robert Quinn's modern-era club mark of 19.0 established during the 2013 St. Louis Rams season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nThe Rams defense recorded four turnovers (including two interceptions by linebacker Cory Littleton) in the first half to help build a 31-10 halftime lead as Los Angeles secured a first round bye with the regular season-ending victory. Cornerback Aqib Talib picked up a fumble on the 49ers' opening possession, and Littleton intercepted a Nick Mullens pass on the next. Both turnovers were returned inside the 49er 20 to set up Rams touchdowns. Early in the second quarter, Littleton picked off his second pass of the day and returned it 19 yards for a score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nThe defense collected three sacks, with defensive tackle Aaron Donald getting one to end his season as the NFL's leader in quarterback sacks with 20.5, though he ultimately fell short of the NFL single season record of 22.5. Offensively, the Rams went turnover-free for the first time in six games, as quarterback Jared Goff threw for 199 yards and four touchdowns, two each to wide receivers Brandin Cooks and Josh Reynolds, while C. J. Anderson totaled 23 carries for 132 yards and a touchdown in relief of Todd Gurley, who sat out a second straight game. Greg Zuerlein added two field goals for the Rams, who swept the NFC West for the first time since their 1999 Super Bowl-winning season and equaled their win total from that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, NFC Divisional Playoffs: vs. (4) Dallas Cowboys\nOn the second anniversary of his hiring as Los Angeles Rams head coach, Sean McVay won his first career playoff game as L.A. dominated both sides of the line of scrimmage to defeat Dallas and advance to the NFC Championship for the 10th time in franchise history. This was the ninth playoff meeting between the Rams and the Cowboys, more than any teams in NFL history, but the first time since 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 89], "content_span": [90, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, NFC Divisional Playoffs: vs. (4) Dallas Cowboys\nC. J. Anderson ran for 123 yards on 23 carries with two touchdowns and Todd Gurley rushed 16 times for 115 yards and a score as the Rams totaled a whopping 273 yards on 48 rushing attempts. It was the 10th time in franchise history that two players had each rushed for over 100 yards in the same game, but the first time ever in a playoff game. The Rams began the game with a pair of long drives, both of which ended in Greg Zuerlein field goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 89], "content_span": [90, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0023-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, NFC Divisional Playoffs: vs. (4) Dallas Cowboys\nWith the Cowboys leading 7-6 midway through the second quarter, L.A. went to work as both Anderson and Gurley ran effectively against a Dallas defense that was among the league's best against the run. Each scored a touchdown in the second period as L.A. took a 20-7 halftime lead. On defense, the Rams swarmed Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, holding the NFL's rushing leader to just 47 yards on 20 carries. Clinging to a 23-15 lead at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Rams defense stuffed Elliott for no gain on a 4th-and-1 play at the Ram 35.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 89], "content_span": [90, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0023-0003", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, NFC Divisional Playoffs: vs. (4) Dallas Cowboys\nFrom there, Los Angeles went 65 yards in 12 plays before Anderson ended it with his second touchdown of the game. Dallas answered with a touchdown run by Dak Prescott just before the two-minute warning, and hoped to hold the Rams to a punt on the next possession. But on 3rd-and-7 at his own 28, Rams quarterback Jared Goff faked a handoff, rolled out to his right and ran 11 yards for the game-clinching first down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 89], "content_span": [90, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0023-0004", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, NFC Divisional Playoffs: vs. (4) Dallas Cowboys\nThe Rams franchise won its first playoff game since a 27-20 victory over the Seattle Seahawks in the 2004 season, and it was the first time since the 1978 season that the Rams won a home playoff game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (a 34-10 win over the Minnesota Vikings), and their first home playoff victory at the Coliseum against the Cowboys after having lost in NFC Championship games there twice against Dallas to end the 1975 and 1978 seasons. John Johnson, Cory Littleton and Aqib Talib shared the team lead in tackles with seven each, and combined the Rams had six total tackles for loss, including a sack credited to Dante Fowler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 89], "content_span": [90, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, NFC Championship: at (1) New Orleans Saints\nKicker Greg Zuerlein converted four field goals, the last coming from 57 yards out with 11:47 remaining in overtime to lift the Rams over the host Saints for the NFC Championship and into the Super Bowl for the fourth time in franchise history. A matchup that featured the NFC's two most prolific offenses turned into a defensive battle, with both teams being held well below their season averages in total offense and points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 85], "content_span": [86, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, NFC Championship: at (1) New Orleans Saints\nNew Orleans scored field goals on its first two drives (the second coming after an interception on a tipped ball) and Drew Brees ended the Saints' third drive of the quarter with a 5-yard TD pass to tight end Garrett Griffin to give New Orleans a 13-0 first quarter lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 85], "content_span": [86, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0024-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, NFC Championship: at (1) New Orleans Saints\nThe Rams' offense sputtered early, held to just 10 yards in nine plays and no first downs in the first period, but got a spark when Johnny Hekker tossed a 12-yard pass to Sam Shields on a fake punt that eventually led to a 36-yard field goal by Zuerlein with 9:49 left in the second quarter. With less than two minutes remaining in the second quarter and starting at their own 19, Rams quarterback Jared Goff completed four of six pass attempts, the last going 36 yards to wide receiver Brandin Cooks down to the New Orleans 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 85], "content_span": [86, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0024-0003", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, NFC Championship: at (1) New Orleans Saints\nFrom there, Gurley scored with 28 seconds left before halftime to bring the Rams within three points 13-10. After Brees threw his second touchdown pass to put the Saints up by 10 points, Goff completed six straight passes on an 11-play, 75-yard drive, the last a 1-yard scoring strike to tight end Tyler Higbee. Midway through the fourth quarter, the Rams mounted their strongest drive of the game, driving from their own 9 to the Saints 1-yard line before settling for a 24-yard field goal from Zuerlein with 5:06 remaining to tie the game at 20-20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 85], "content_span": [86, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0024-0004", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, NFC Championship: at (1) New Orleans Saints\nBrees and the Saints rallied to push deep into Rams territory, but the drive stalled at the Rams 13-yard-line, where Wil Lutz kicked his third field goal of the game with 1:45 remaining. Goff then drove the Rams to the New Orleans 30 to set up Zuerlein's successful 48-yard field goal with 19 seconds remaining to send the game into overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 85], "content_span": [86, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0024-0005", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, NFC Championship: at (1) New Orleans Saints\nThe Saints won the toss and elected to receive, but Brees was forced into three incompletions, and on his third attempt, as he threw, he was hit by Rams linebacker Dante Fowler and the wobbly pass was intercepted by Rams strong safety John Johnson. Goff completed two key passes to Higbee while under heavy pressure to reach the New Orleans 39. From there, Hekker handled a low snap and Zuerlein's kick sailed through the uprights to stun the home crowd at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. It was the longest game-winning kick in NFL playoff history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 85], "content_span": [86, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0024-0006", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, NFC Championship: at (1) New Orleans Saints\nGoff completed 25 of 40 passes for 297 yards with a touchdown and an interception, while Cooks led the Rams with seven receptions for 107 yards against the team that had originally drafted him. Josh Reynolds added four receptions for 74 yards and ran 16 yards to set up a Rams touchdown. C. J. Anderson ran 16 times for 44 yards to lead Los Angeles on the ground, while Gurley played sparingly and finished with only 10 yards rushing (13 yards total offense) and a touchdown. On defense, Cory Littleton had 12 tackles (11 solo) and Ndamukong Suh had four tackles, including 1.5 sacks to lead L.A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 85], "content_span": [86, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, Super Bowl LIII: vs. (A2) New England Patriots\nPlaying in a hard-fought defensive struggle that resulted in the lowest-scoring Super Bowl in league history, the Rams were unable to prevent the Patriots from claiming their sixth NFL championship. On the opening possession, Cory Littleton intercepted a deflected pass from Tom Brady, but the Rams' offense was unable to get into rhythm as they punted eight straight times. Neither team was able to reach the red zone through the first three-quarters, with Stephen Gostkowski putting New England into the lead with a 42-yard field goal with just over three minutes before halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, Super Bowl LIII: vs. (A2) New England Patriots\nGreg Zuerlein evened the score with a 53-yard field goal with 2:11 left in the third quarter. The Patriots did not break through until seven minutes remained in the fourth quarter when running back Sony Michel scored on a 2-yard run (it was the only time that either team penetrated the red zone in the game). The Rams responded with one of their most effective drives, reaching the New England 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0025-0002", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, Super Bowl LIII: vs. (A2) New England Patriots\nFrom there, Rams quarterback Jared Goff tried to connect with wide receiver Brandin Cooks, who was unable to gather in the end zone pass under heavy coverage by Patriots cornerback Stephon Gilmore. Goff went back to Cooks on the next play, but this time Gilmore was there to make the interception at the New England 4. The Patriots then sealed the game, driving 72 yards in nine plays before Gostkowski added his second field goal of this game, this one from 41 yards out with 1:12 remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280682-0025-0003", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Rams season, Postseason, Super Bowl LIII: vs. (A2) New England Patriots\nLos Angeles drove to the New England 30 on its final possession, but with four seconds left, Zuerlein missed on a 48-yard field goal attempt. Goff completed 19 of 38 passes for 229 yards, including an interception while being sacked four times. New England's defense disrupted L.A.'s offensive line, as neither Todd Gurley (10 carries, 35 yards) nor C. J. Anderson were effective against the Patriots. Brandin Cooks led the Rams with eight receptions for 120 yards, as Los Angeles tied with the 1971 Miami Dolphins for the fewest points scored by a single team in Super Bowl history. Defensively, Littleton led the Rams with six tackles and an interception. Midway through the third quarter, Rams punter Johnny Hekker booted a 65-yard punt, the longest punt in Super Bowl history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 869]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280683-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Sparks season\nThe 2018 WNBA season was the 22nd season for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association. The season tipped off on May 20th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280683-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Sparks season\nThe Sparks started out strong with a 4\u20131 record in May. They won their season opener in a re-match of the 2017 WNBA Finals against the Minnesota Lynx. They continued their strong run into June where the team posted an 8\u20134 record. The Sparks won 6 of 7 to start the month. Two of their June losses game to the eventual WNBA Champion Seattle Storm. However, things started to get shaky in July. The Sparks went 4\u20136. However, all but one loss came to eventual playoff teams. The other loss was to Indiana, who ended the season with the worst record. The Sparks finished with a 4\u20134 record in August, including 3\u20130 at home. However, the Sparks lost 4 of their last 5 (again all against playoff teams).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280683-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Sparks season\nTheir final record of 19\u201315 was good enough to secure the 6th seed in the 2018 WNBA Playoffs. They met the Lynx in the first round, in a re-match of the last three WNBA Finals. The Sparks prevailed 75\u201368 at the Staples Center. In the second round, they faced the Washington Mystics in Washington, but were defeated 64\u201396 to end their season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280684-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Valiant season\nThe 2018 Los Angeles Valiant season was the first season of Los Angeles Valiant's existence in the Overwatch League. The team finished with a regular season record of 27\u201313 \u2013 the second best in the Overwatch League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280684-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Valiant season\nLos Angeles qualified for the Stage 3 and Stage 4 Playoffs. The team lost in the Stage 3 semifinals to the New York Excelsior. Los Angeles found revenge in the Stage 4 finals when the defeated the New York Excelsior. The team qualified for the Season Playoffs, but lost to the would-be champions London Spitfire in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280684-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Valiant season, Preceding offseason\nValiant revealed their inaugural season starting roster over a series of Twitter posts from October 30 to November 2, consisting of the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280684-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Valiant season, Review\nLos Angeles Valiant's first OWL regular season game was a 4\u20130 victory against the San Francisco Shock on January 10, 2018. The Valiant posted an impressive 7\u20133 record in Stage 1, but did not qualify for the Stage 1 Playoffs. On February 19, two days before the beginning of Stage 2, the Los Angeles Valiant announced the departure of head coach Henry \"Cuddles\" Coxall. The team announced, on the same day, the hiring of Byung Chul \"Moon\" Moon as the team's new head coach. Stage 2 ended in a disappointing 4\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280684-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Valiant season, Review\nThe Valiant had a more successful Stage 3, as the team posted a 7\u20133 record \u2013 good for the 3rd seed in the Stage 3 Playoffs. The team faced off against the 2nd-seeded New York Excelsior in the semifinals of the Stage 3 Playoffs, but the Valiant lost in a 0\u20133 sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280684-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Valiant season, Review\nLos Angeles Valiant had its best stage in the 4th stage. The team was undefeated going into the final regular season game against the Dallas Fuel. The Valiant lost that matchup by a score of 3 to 1, giving them a 9\u20131 record and the 2nd seed for the Stage 4 Playoffs. The Valiant faced their intercity-rivals and top-seeded team, the Los Angeles Gladiators, in the semifinals, and were able to pull off a 3\u20132 victory to move on the finals against the New York Excelsior. On June 17, the Los Angeles Valiant claimed their first-ever stage title, defeating the Excelsior 3\u20131 in the Stage 4 Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280684-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Valiant season, Review\nThe Valiant ended the regular season with a 27\u201313 record and the 2nd seed and a first-round bye in the Season Playoffs. The team's was set to face the London Spitfire in the season semifinals. The first matchup was on July 18, in which the Valiant fell to the Spitfire by a score of 1\u20133. On July 20, the Valiant was eliminated from the Season Playoffs after getting swept 0\u20133 in the second semifinal match against the Spitfire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280684-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles Valiant season, Final roster, Transactions\nTransactions of/for players on the roster during the 2018 regular season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280685-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles hostage incident\nOn July 21, 2018, a hostage incident occurred at a Trader Joe's store in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. 28-year-old Gene Evin Atkins, armed and fleeing police, crashed into a utility pole and ran into the nearby store. He opened fire at two pursuing police officers, who returned fire at Atkins with one shot, hitting and killing a store employee, Melyda Corado. After escaping into Trader Joe's, Atkins barricaded himself and the rest of the store's patrons and employees inside the store. Police were involved by 4:00 pm, and there were reports that the gunman opened fire. However, nobody was harmed by any bullets, besides the bystander and Atkins, whose left arm was wounded. By the end of the incident, Atkins was arrested for various criminal felonies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280685-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles hostage incident\nAtkins's 78-year-old grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Madison, was shot seven times and was reported to be in critical condition. Another female hostage, the perpetrator's girlfriend, was grazed by a bullet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280685-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles hostage incident\nTrader Joe's store employee Melyda Corado was the one shot and killed by the police bullet as the perpetrator exchanged fire with police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280685-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles hostage incident, Incident\nThe shootings began on the evening of July 20, when Atkins' cousin spotted Atkins sleeping in his grandmother's home on 32nd Street near Long Beach Avenue with a gun under his pillow. According to Atkins' cousin, Charlene Egland, Atkins, who had lived with his grandmother since he was a young child, had been quarreling with his grandmother over his live-in girlfriend. The grandmother did not want her living in the home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280685-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles hostage incident, Incident\nAtkins shot his grandmother and his girlfriend around 1:30 pm on July 21, then forced his girlfriend, who was bleeding from the gunshot wound, into his grandmother's car and drove off. Several people reported the incident and LAPD was dispatched. A police helicopter traced his car to the Hollywood area and responding officers gave chase for nearly fifteen minutes. He then crashed his grandmother's Toyota into a power pole in Silver Lake in front of the Trader Joe's supermarket on Hyperion Avenue at 3:30 pm. Atkins emerged from the vehicle holding a handgun and fired at the police. According to witnesses at the scene, Atkins fired at police officers at least twice. There were between 40 and 50 people inside the grocery store.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280685-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles hostage incident, Incident\nAtkins emerged from his crashed car and fired at the police who were pursuing him as he ran towards the store. An officer shot and killed Corado during the standoff, according to LAPD police chief Michel Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280685-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles hostage incident, Incident\nAtkins held hostages inside the store for about three hours as police officers in tactical gear standing outside the store used mirrors to watch as hostage negotiators persuaded Atkins to release the hostages and surrender. Around 6:30 pm, he agreed to handcuff himself, and was led from the building accompanied by four hostages to ensure that he would not be shot. He was then taken into custody.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280685-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles hostage incident, Suspect\nThe suspect was identified as Gene Evin Atkins, a 28-year-old African-American male. He had lived with his grandmother since he was seven years old. According to his cousin, Atkins had recently lost his job and two cars. Atkins had previously slashed the tires on his grandmother's car and broke the windows in the house. The cousin described him as having a history of mental health problems and as a quiet man who was despondent about his future. She quoted him as having said, \"The next thing I do, I'm going to die doing it or I'm going to jail.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280685-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles hostage incident, Suspect\nHe opened fire on the police, but no officers were reported injured. The gunman was arrested, charged with murder, and was initially held on $2 million bail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280685-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles hostage incident, Legal proceedings\nAtkins was charged in August with 51 crimes, including murder, two counts of attempted murder, four counts of attempted murder of a police officer, and several counts of false imprisonment of hostages. Bail was increased from $18.7 million to $23 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280685-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Angeles hostage incident, Aftermath\nThe police officers have received criticism for inadvertently killing Corado with gunfire despite warnings from one officer who said to his partner, \"Do not, do not shoot. We are going to keep our distance.\" Jill Leovy, a former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, criticized the LAPD, saying, \"This is about training and tactics and how to minimize injury in a fast-moving situation.\" She added, \"It's about knowing that you have a clear shot, knowing what's in the background and periphery of the shot.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280686-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Cabos Open\nThe 2018 Los Cabos Open (also known as the Abierto Mexicano de Tenis Mifel presentado por Cinemex for sponsorship reasons) was an ATP tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 3rd edition of the Los Cabos Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place in Los Cabos, Mexico from July 30 through August 5, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280686-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Cabos Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280686-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Cabos Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280686-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Cabos Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280687-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Cabos Open \u2013 Doubles\nJuan Sebasti\u00e1n Cabal and Treat Huey were the defending champions, but Huey chose not to participate and Cabal chose to compete in Washington instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280687-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Cabos Open \u2013 Doubles\nMarcelo Ar\u00e9valo and Miguel \u00c1ngel Reyes-Varela won the title, defeating Taylor Fritz and Thanasi Kokkinakis in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280688-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Cabos Open \u2013 Singles\nSam Querrey was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Egor Gerasimov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280688-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Cabos Open \u2013 Singles\nFabio Fognini won the title, defeating Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280688-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Los Cabos Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280689-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lotto\u2013Soudal season\nThe 2018 season for the Lotto\u2013Soudal cycling team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280690-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Loughborough Lightning (women's cricket) season\nThe 2018 season was Loughborough Lightning's third season, in which they competed in the Women's Cricket Super League, a Twenty20 competition. The side topped the initial group stage, winning seven of their ten matches, therefore progressing straight to the final. However, they lost in the final to Surrey Stars by 66 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280690-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Loughborough Lightning (women's cricket) season\nThe side was coached by the newly appointed Rob Taylor and captained by Georgia Elwiss. They played four of their home matches at the Haslegrave Ground, and the other at Edgbaston Cricket Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280690-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Loughborough Lightning (women's cricket) season, Squad\nLoughborough Lightning's 15-player squad is listed below. Age given is at the start of Loughborough Lightning's first match of the season (22 July 2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 59], "content_span": [60, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280691-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Loughborough Trophy\nThe 2018 Loughborough Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Loughborough, United Kingdom between 21 and 27 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280691-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Loughborough Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280691-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Loughborough Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280691-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Loughborough Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280692-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Loughborough Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nFrederik Nielsen and Joe Salisbury won the title after defeating Luke Bambridge and Jonny O'Mara 3\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20134] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280693-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Loughborough Trophy \u2013 Singles\nHiroki Moriya won the title after defeating James Ward 6\u20132, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280694-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns baseball team\nThe 2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns baseball team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Ragin' Cajuns play their home games at M. L. Tigue Moore Field at Russo Park and were led by twenty-fourth year head coach Tony Robichaux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280694-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns baseball team, Preseason, Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll\nThe Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll was released on January 30, 2018. Louisiana was picked to finish first in the West Division with 68 votes and 9 first-place votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 87], "content_span": [88, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280694-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns baseball team, Schedule and results\n*Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the D1Baseball poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280695-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team\nThe 2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Ragin' Cajuns played their home games at Cajun Field in Lafayette, Louisiana and competed in the West Division of the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by first-year head coach Billy Napier. They finished the season 7\u20137, 5\u20133 in Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for the West Division championship with Arkansas State. Due to their head-to-head win over Arkansas State, they represented the West Division in the inaugural Sun Belt Championship Game where they lost to East Division champion Appalachian State. They were invited to the Cure Bowl where they lost to Tulane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280695-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team, Previous Season\nThe Ragin' Cajuns finished the 2017 season 5\u20137, 4\u20134 in Sun Belt play to finish in a three-way tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280695-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team, Previous Season\nOn December 3, head coach Mark Hudspeth was fired. He finished with a seven-year record of 51\u201338. However, due to NCAA sanctions in 2016 because former assistant coach David Saunders arranged fraudulent college entrance exams for recruits, his official record was 29\u201338. On December 15, the school hired Billy Napier as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280695-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team, Preseason, Sun Belt coaches poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Sun Belt released their preseason coaches poll with the Ragin' Cajuns predicted to finish in fourth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 76], "content_span": [77, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280695-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Sun Belt Teams\nThe Ragin' Cajuns had two players selected to the preseason all-Sun Belt teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 83], "content_span": [84, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280695-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team, Schedule\nThe 2018 schedule consists of 6 home and 6 away games in the regular season. The Ragin' Cajuns will host Sun Belt foes Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia State, and South Alabama. The Cajuns will travel to Sun Belt foes Appalachian State, Louisiana-Monroe, Texas State, and Troy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280695-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team, Schedule\nThe Ragin' Cajuns will host two of the four non-conference opponents, Grambling State of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and the New Mexico State, an Independent school, and will travel to Southeastern Conference (SEC) members Alabama and Mississippi State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280695-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team, Schedule\nThe Ragin' Cajuns will travel once more to face off with the Appalachian State Mountaineers in the first annual Sun Belt Conference Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280696-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns softball team\nThe 2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns softball team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2018 NCAA Division I softball season. The Ragin' Cajuns play their home games at Lamson Park and were led by first year head coach Gerry Glasco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280696-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns softball team, Preseason, Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll\nThe Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll was released on February 1, 2018. Louisiana was picked to finish second in the Sun Belt Conference behind the Texas State Bobcats softball team with 92 votes and 4 first place votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 87], "content_span": [88, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280697-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team\nThe 2018 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team represented Louisiana Tech University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs played their home games at the Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston, Louisiana and competed in the West Division of Conference USA (C-USA). They were led by sixth-year head coach Skip Holtz. They finished the season 8\u20135, 5\u20133 in C-USA play to finish in a three-way tie for second place in the West Division. They were invited to the Hawaii Bowl where they defeated Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280697-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Previous season\nThe Bulldogs finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 4\u20134 in C-USA play to finish in fourth place in the West Division. They were invited to the Frisco Bowl where they defeated SMU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280697-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference USA team\nConference USA released their preseason all-Conference USA team on July 16, 2018, with the Bulldogs having four players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 88], "content_span": [89, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280697-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nConference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Bulldogs predicted to finish in second place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280697-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Radio\nRadio coverage for all games will be broadcast statewide on the Louisiana Tech Sports Network by Learfield Sports. The radio announcers are Dave Nitz with play-by-play, Teddy Allen with color commentary, and Nick Brown with sideline reports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280698-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana\u2013Monroe Warhawks baseball team\nThe 2018 Louisiana\u2013Monroe Warhawks baseball team represents the University of Louisiana at Monroe in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Warhawks play their home games at Warhawk Field. They are under the direction of first year head coach Michael Federico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280698-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana\u2013Monroe Warhawks baseball team, Schedule and results\nLouisiana\u2013Monroe announced its 2018 baseball schedule on November 15, 2017. The 2017 schedule consists of 27 home games in the regular season. The Warhawks will play 23 games against opponents who have won more than 30 games last season, including NCAA Tournament Participants, South Alabama and Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280698-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana\u2013Monroe Warhawks baseball team, Schedule and results\nThe 2018 Sun Belt Conference Championship will be contested May 22\u201327 in Lafayette, Louisiana, and will be hosted by Louisiana\u2013Lafayette.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280699-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana\u2013Monroe Warhawks football team\nThe 2018 Louisiana\u2013Monroe Warhawks football team represented the University of Louisiana at Monroe in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Warhawks played their home games at Malone Stadium in Monroe, Louisiana, and competed in the West Division of the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by third-year head coach Matt Viator. They finished the regular season 6\u20136, 4\u20134 in Sun Belt play to finish in third place in the West Division. Despite being bowl eligible, they were not invited to a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280699-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana\u2013Monroe Warhawks football team, Previous season\nThe Warhawks finished the 2017 season 4\u20138, 4\u20134 in Sun Belt play to finish in a three\u2013way tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280699-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana\u2013Monroe Warhawks football team, Preseason, Sun Belt coaches poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Sun Belt released their preseason coaches poll with the Warhawks predicted to finish in second place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280699-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana\u2013Monroe Warhawks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Sun Belt Teams\nThe Warhawks had three players at four positions selected to the preseason all-Sun Belt teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 85], "content_span": [86, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280699-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisiana\u2013Monroe Warhawks football team, Schedule\nThe Warhawks hosted one of their four non-conference opponents, Southeastern Louisiana from the Southland Conference, and traveled to Southern Miss from Conference USA, Texas A&M from the Southeastern Conference and Ole Miss from the Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280700-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville Cardinals football team\nThe 2018 Louisville Cardinals football team represented the University of Louisville during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cardinals competed in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They played their home games at Cardinal Stadium (previously Papa John's Cardinal Stadium) in Louisville, Kentucky. They were led by head coach Bobby Petrino until he was fired on November 11 after starting the season 2\u20138. Lorenzo Ward was the interim head coach for the remainder of the season. They finished the season 2\u201310, 0\u20138 in ACC play to finish in last place in the Atlantic Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280700-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville Cardinals football team\nOn December 4, Louisville hired Appalachian State head coach Scott Satterfield for the head coaching job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280700-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville Cardinals football team, Previous season\nThe Louisville Cardinals finished the 2017 season 8\u20135 overall, 4\u20134 in ACC play to finish in fourth place in the Atlantic Division. The Cardinals would be invited to the TaxSlayer Bowl, where they would eventually lose 27\u201331 to the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Following the season, star quarterback Lamar Jackson would come in third place in Heisman Trophy voting, before declaring on January 5, 2018, he would be entering the 2018 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280700-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville Cardinals football team, Offseason, Coaching changes\nOn January 13, 2018, the Cardinals announced the hiring of Ryan Beard as new safeties coach. On January 29, 2018, the Cardinals announced the hiring of Brian VanGorder as new defensive coordinator, replacing former DC Peter Sirmon. On February 2, 2018, the Cardinals announced the hiring of Grady Brown as defensive assistant and recruiting coordinator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280700-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville Cardinals football team, Preseason, ACC media poll\nThe ACC media poll was released on July 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280700-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville Cardinals football team, Schedule\nThe Cardinals' 2018 schedule consisted of 7 home games and 5 away games, including the first game of the season being played in Orlando, Florida at Camping World Stadium, a neutral-site venue. The Cardinals first non-conference game was an away game, against Alabama of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), before hosting the remaining three non-conference games; against FCS opponent Indiana State from the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC), Western Kentucky of Conference USA (C-USA) and against arch-rival Kentucky of the SEC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280701-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team represented University of Louisville during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Cardinals were led by head coach Ken Lolla, in his thirteenth season. They played home games at Lynn Stadium. This was the team's 40th season playing organized men's college soccer and their 5th playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280701-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team, Background\nThe 2017 Louisville Cardinals team had a record of 13\u20132\u20135 overall and 5\u20132\u20131 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The team received a bye into the quarterfinals of the 2017 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament before losing to Virginia on penalties. The Carindals earned an at-large bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship, where they were eliminated in the quarterfinals by Akron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280701-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team, Squad, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280702-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville City FC season\nThe 2018 Louisville City FC season was the club's fourth season in Louisville, Kentucky playing in the United Soccer League, which as of 2018 is the second-tier league in the United States soccer league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280702-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville City FC season\nThe club began their pre-season campaign on February 24 before the league commenced on March 17. They also competed in the U.S. Open Cup entering in the second round. They entered the season as the reigning USL Cup champions and became the first team in USL history to successfully defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280702-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville City FC season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup\nLouisville City entered the 2018 U.S. Open Cup with the rest of the United Soccer League in the second round. Louisville reached the quarter finals of the competition for the first time in its history; the only non-MLS side to reach that round. This included a 3\u20132 victory over the New England Revolution of MLS; Louisville's first victory over an MLS side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280703-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville mayoral election\nThe 2018 Louisville mayoral election was the fifth quadrennial Louisville Metro mayoral election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. The Democratic ticket of incumbent mayor and businessman Greg Fischer was elected to his third and final term. He defeated the Republican ticket of engineer and former Louisville Metro Councilwoman Angela Leet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280703-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville mayoral election\nAs the incumbent mayor, Fischer secured his party's nomination with little resistance. Despite the presence of five total candidates on the Democratic primary ballot, Fischer won the primary with a resounding 75% of the vote. The Republicans experienced a slightly more competitive primary, despite having only two candidates total. Leet clinched her party's nomination in May, defeating Bob DeVore, the Republican nominee for Mayor of Louisville in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280703-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville mayoral election\nFischer and Leet were challenged in the General election ballot by a total of seven nonpartisan and independent candidates. Nine total candidates appeared on the 2018 General Election ballot. Despite having participated in previous mayoral elections and having a presence in Louisville, the Green and Libertarian parties did not field candidates in the 2018 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280703-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville mayoral election\nThe campaigns focused heavily on local issues, with both candidates having centered their campaigns on completely different issues. Fischer campaigned on a record he described as one of \"unprecedented growth\" \u2014 specifically citing over 2,700 new businesses and $13 billion in capital investment. In contrast, Leet focused heavily on crime, specifically the sharp increase in Louisville's homicide rate, over the course of Fischer's tenure. The campaign was marked by record levels of fundraising, with over $2 million being raised from both sides. The Fischer campaign raised approximately $1.6 million, which stands in stark contrast to the Leet campaign, who only managed to raise $458,400 total, with about $200,000 coming out of her own pocket for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280703-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville mayoral election\nFischer defeated Leet, winning an overwhelming majority of the popular vote. Fischer won 61.3% of the popular vote compared to Leet's 36.5%. Despite receiving approximately five thousand more votes than in the 2014 Louisville mayoral election, Fischer's overall percentage of votes received was lower than in 2014, where he received 68.5% of the vote. Fischer became the second mayor in Louisville's history to win a third term, and the first mayor to do so under the Consolidated city\u2013county government. He will be unable to run again due to term limits set by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1986. Fischer was sworn in for his final term on January 8, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280703-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville mayoral election, Nominations\nOn May 22, 2018, the Democratic and Republican parties held their respective closed primary elections. Approximately 95,000 votes were cast in both party primaries, though turnout for the Democratic primary was more than triple the Republican primary. More than three-fourths of votes were cast in the Democratic primary. Approximately 15.8% of Jefferson County's registered voters participated in 2018's mayoral primaries, which is slightly lower than the national turnout average of 19.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280703-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic Party, Primary\nOn March 24, 2017, during a speech to local nonprofit groups, incumbent mayor Greg Fischer became the first candidate to formally announce his campaign when he stated that he would seek a third term as Louisville's mayor. Fisher remained uncontested for the nomination until October 12, 2017, when Louisville Attorney Ryan Fenwick announced he was running to challenge Fischer in the 2018 Democratic Primary. A member of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, the 30-year-old Fenwick declared himself to be the most progressive candidate in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280703-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Louisville mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic Party, Primary\nOver the course of the primary, Fenwick ran an unapologetically left-wing campaign, prioritizing issues such as a $15 minimum wage, and criticizing the use of tax dollars for corporate developments. According to Fenwick, his campaign was inspired by the successful primarying of Jackson, Mississippi mayor Tony Yarber by progressive attorney Chokwe Antar Lumumba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280703-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic Party, Primary\nWith an incumbent mayor running for re-election against mostly token opposition, the race for the Democratic nomination was largely uneventful. The nomination process consisted solely of the 2018 Democratic mayoral primary, held on May 22, 2018. For the majority of the race, Fischer did not acknowledge his primary opponents in any of his public comments. His only interaction with any other primary candidate was a single debate with candidate Ryan Fenwick, which took place on Monday, April 30, 2018. Despite the presence of five total candidates, Fischer easily won his party's primary with over 75% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280703-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Louisville mayoral election, Results\nGreg Fischer, the incumbent Democratic mayor of Louisville, defeated Republican nominee and former member of the Louisville Metro Council Angela Leet, tallying 61.3% of the vote to Leet's 36.5%, with the remainder of the vote going to various Independent candidates, most notably former professional football player Chris Thieneman, who received 0.4% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280704-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Louth Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Louth Senior Football Championship is the 125th edition of the Louth GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Louth, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Louth in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280704-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Louth Senior Football Championship\nNewtown Blues were the defending champions after they defeated the Dundalk Gaels in the previous years final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280704-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Louth Senior Football Championship\nThis was O'Connell's return to the senior grade after claiming the 2017 Louth Intermediate Football Championship title, making a straight bounce back to the top flight after they were relegated to the I.F.C. in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280704-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Louth Senior Football Championship\nThe draw for the group stages of the championship were made on 8 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280704-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Louth Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280704-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Louth Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nThere are 4 groups called Group A, B, C and D. The top two finishers in each group will qualify for the Quarter-Finals. The bottom finishers of each group will qualify for the Relegation Play Off. The draw for the group stages of the championship were made on 8 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280704-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Louth Senior Football Championship, Knock-out Stages, Relegation Play Off\nThe four bottom finishers from each group qualify for the relegation play off. The team to lose both matches will be relegated to the 2018 Intermediate Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280704-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Louth Senior Football Championship, Knock-out Stages, Finals\nThe winners and runners up of each group qualify for the quarter finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280705-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lower Austrian state election\nThe 2018 Lower Austrian state election was held on 28 January 2018 to elect the members of the Landtag of Lower Austria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280705-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lower Austrian state election\nThe ruling Austrian People's Party (\u00d6VP) fell just short of an absolute majority of votes, but retained its majority in the Landtag. Nonetheless, this was its worst result in the state since 1998. The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SP\u00d6) and Freedom Party of Austria (FP\u00d6) made gains, with the latter doubling its share of seats. The Greens took minor losses, while NEOS \u2013 The New Austria (NEOS) contested its first state election in Lower Austria, debuting at 5.2%. Team Stronach, which had won 9.8% in the previous election, did not compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280705-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Lower Austrian state election, Background\nThe Lower Austrian constitution mandates that cabinet positions in the state government (state councillors, German: Landesr\u00e4ten) be allocated between parties proportionally in accordance with the share of votes won by each; this is known as Proporz. As such, the government is a perpetual coalition of all parties that qualify for at least one state councillor. After the 2013 election, the \u00d6VP had six councillors, the SP\u00d6 two, and Team Stronach one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280705-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Lower Austrian state election, Electoral system\nThe 56 seats of the Landtag of Lower Austria are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between twenty multi-member constituencies. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 4 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hare quota, with any remaining seats allocated using the D'Hondt method at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280705-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Lower Austrian state election, Contesting parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280705-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Lower Austrian state election, Contesting parties\nTeam Stronach, which contested the previous election and won 9.8% of votes, five seats, and one state councillor, did not contest the 2018 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280705-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Lower Austrian state election, Contesting parties\nIn addition to the parties already represented in the Landtag, four parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280705-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Lower Austrian state election, Results, Preference votes\nAlongside votes for a party, voters were able to cast a preferential votes for a candidate on the party list. The ten candidates with the most preferential votes were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280705-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Lower Austrian state election, Aftermath\nThe \u00d6VP retained its Landtag majority and six out of nine state councillors; the SP\u00d6 also retained its two councillors. With the disappearance of Team Stronach, the FP\u00d6 moved into third place on a strong swing, and won one state councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280706-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series\nThe 2018 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series is the 13th season of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, a national touring series for dirt late models owned & operated by Lucas Oil. The series began with the Super Bowl of Racing at Golden Isles Speedway on February 2, and will end with the Dirt Track World Championship at Portsmouth Raceway Park on October 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280706-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, Schedule\nMavTV, CBS, CBS Sports Network and NBCSN will broadcast select races on television. Of those select races, MavTV will have live coverage of the Show-Me 100 while the rest will be delayed across the 4 networks. and will also broadcast select races with live video coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280707-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Luhansk People's Republic general election\nGeneral elections in the Luhansk People's Republic were held on November 11, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280707-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Luhansk People's Republic general election\nJust like in 2014, at the same time, similar elections were held in the Donetsk People's Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280707-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Luhansk People's Republic general election\nThe elections took place on November 11, 2018. The Head of the LPR and the People's Council of the LPR (consisting of 50 deputies) were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280707-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Luhansk People's Republic general election\nEight candidates expressed their desire to participate in the elections - Oleg Valerievich Koval, Leonid Ivanovich Pasechnik, Natalya Vladimirovna Sergun, Lyudmila Valentinovna Rusnak, Leonid Nesterovich Derzhak, Roman Teodorovich Oleksin, Vladimir Alexandrovich Rodionov, Yuri Mikhailovich Ryaplov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280707-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Luhansk People's Republic general election, Results\nThe current head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik won with 68.3% of the vote. The Peace for Lugansk Region Movement won the parliamentary elections with 74.13% of voters' support. Opponents from the Luhansk Economic Union received 25.16% of the vote. 0.72% of ballots were declared invalid and lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280707-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Luhansk People's Republic general election, Opinions\nThe EU does not recognize the elections in the LPR and imposed sanctions against their organizers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280708-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Lunar New Year Cup\nThe 92nd 2018 Lunar New Year Cup (Chinese: \u72d7\u5e74\u8cc0\u6b72\u76c3; lit. ' Year of the Dog Celebrate New Year Cup'), is the annual football event held in Hong Kong to celebrate Chinese New Year. The event was held by the Hong Kong Football Association. 2matches were played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280709-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Luxembourg general election\nGeneral elections were held in Luxembourg on 14 October 2018. All 60 seats of the Chamber of Deputies were renewed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280709-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Luxembourg general election\nThe incumbent Bettel\u2013Schneider Ministry was made up of a coalition of the Democratic Party (DP), the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) and The Greens. The largest party in Parliament, the Christian Social People's Party (CSV), was in the opposition. The 2018 election allowed for the coalition to remain in place with minor changes in government composition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280709-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Luxembourg general election, Date\nThere was some debate about when the election ought to be held. Article 56 of the Constitution of Luxembourg defines that deputies are elected for a five-year term, which would mean holding an election by October 2018, five years after the 20 October 2013 snap election. However, article 123 of the Electoral Law of 2003 states that \"In case of dissolution of the Chamber, the end of tenure dates for deputies elected after the dissolution, will occur in the year following the opening of the fifth ordinary session.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 38], "content_span": [39, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280709-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Luxembourg general election, Date\nSince the fifth ordinary session would be opened in late 2018, the election would need to be held in 2019, likely concurrent with the June 2019 European Parliament elections, exceeding the constitutional five-year term. The electoral law was thus seen as conflicting with the constitution, and the politicians intended to amend the law and hold general elections in October 2018. The law modification of 15 December 2017 removes June as month for regular parliamentary elections and instead fixes the election date when the parliamentary term expires, meaning five years after the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 38], "content_span": [39, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280709-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Luxembourg general election, Electoral system\nThe 60 members of the Chamber of Deputies was elected by proportional representation in four multi-member constituencies; 9 in Nord constituency, 7 in Est, 23 in Sud and 21 in Centre. Voters could vote for a party list or cast multiple votes for as many candidates as there are seats. Seat allocation is calculated in accordance with the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280709-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Luxembourg general election, Electoral system\nOnly Luxembourg citizens may vote in general elections. A proposal to extend voting rights to foreigners who have lived in Luxembourg for at least 10 years and have previously voted in a European or local election in Luxembourg, was decisively rejected in a 2015 referendum. Voting is mandatory for eligible Luxembourg citizens who live in Luxembourg and are under 75 years of age. Luxembourg citizens who live abroad may vote by post at the commune in which they most recently lived in Luxembourg. Luxembourg citizens who were born in Luxembourg but have never lived there may vote by post at the commune in which they were born. Luxembourg citizens who were not born in Luxembourg and have never lived there may vote by post at the commune of Luxembourg City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280709-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Luxembourg general election, Campaign\nOn 2 March 2018, the Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR) announced an electoral alliance with the Wee 2050-Nee 2015 movement, which had formed itself as a citizen's movement fighting for the \"3 x no\" in the 2015 referendum. This agreement gives the movement up to eight slots on the ADR's lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280709-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Luxembourg general election, Aftermath\nOn 16 October Grand Duke Henri gave Xavier Bettel the task of forming the next government, with the DP, LSAP and DG announcing that they would participate in coalition talks. On 17 October coalition negotiations started between the three parties, with an agreement due to be finished before Christmas. It was expected that the LSAP would take the EU Commission post in the next government, while the DG would increase their influence on ministries. The coalition was confirmed and Bettel was reappointed Prime Minister on 5 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280710-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Luzon lambanog deaths\nThe Luzon lambanog deaths started to occur in late November 2018 in separate places in the Philippines after drinking arrack (locally known in the Philippines as lambanog) in separate places in the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280710-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Luzon lambanog deaths, Poisoning\nThe case started on November 29 when the residents from Calamba, Laguna drank the lambanog (locally known for arrack) and begin to symptoms such as stomach cramps, resulting in bringing them to the hospital; they subsequently died thereafter. Person who consumed lambanog experienced other symptoms such as nausea, chest pains, and blurry vision. Meanwhile, another four person, who were tricycle drivers, were reported to have died after they consumed arrack and thirteen others were hospitalized in Quezon City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280711-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference for the 2017\u201318 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held from March 1\u20135, 2018 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. No. 4 seed Iona defeated No. 6 seed Fairfield in the championship game to receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. This was Iona's third consecutive MAAC tournament championship, while also being their MAAC-record leading sixth straight championship game appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280711-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll 11 teams in the conference participated in the Tournament. The top five teams received byes to the quarterfinals. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280712-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MAAC Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was held March 1\u20135 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. Quinnipiac received an automatic trip to the 2018 Women's NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280712-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MAAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nTeams are seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if record against regular season champion is tied, the tie breaker moves on to the regular season second place team, then third place team, etc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280713-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MAAC Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 MAAC Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference held from October 29 through November 4, 2018. The five-match tournament took place at campus sites. The host for the matches was determined by seeding from regular season play. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Monmouth Hawks were the defending champions and successfully defended their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280714-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MAC Championship Game\nThe 2018 MAC Championship Game was an NCAA Division I college football conference championship game for the Mid-American Conference (MAC), that was played on November 30, 2018. It was the 22nd Mid-American Conference Championship, and was played at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. Sponsored by the Marathon Petroleum Corporation, the game was officially known as the Marathon MAC Championship Game. Northern Illinois scored the game's final 20 points to erase a 19-point second-half deficit and defeat Buffalo, 30\u201329.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280714-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MAC Championship Game, Teams, Northern Illinois Huskies\nNorthern Illinois went undefeated 6-0 in conference play, until the Huskies lost to Miami on November 14. The Huskies were able to clinch the West Division, after the last remaining contender, Western Michigan, lost their third conference game also that weekend, eliminating the Broncos from contention. Northern Illinois makes their first appearance in the title game since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280714-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MAC Championship Game, Teams, Buffalo Bulls\nBuffalo was able to clinch the East Division after defeating the Falcons of Bowling Green at the end of the season, compelling a conference record of 7-1. The Bulls make their first appearance in the game since 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280714-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MAC Championship Game, Teams, Buffalo vs. Northern Illinois series history\nThe match up was the 13th meeting against the Bulls and the Huskies. They last played each other last season in Amherst, New York. Northern Illinois defeated Buffalo in a close win of 14-13. After the 2016 match up, Northern Illinois lead the series, 11-1. Buffalo has not won against the Huskies since 1968. The championship game was the first time in history that the two schools played in post season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280715-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament was the post-season men's basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC). Tournament first-round games were held on campus sites at the higher seed on March 5. The remaining rounds were held at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio between March 8\u201310, 2018. Regular-season champion Buffalo defeated Toledo in the championship game to win the tournament and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280715-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll 12 MAC teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top four teams will receive a bye to quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280716-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament, was the 25th edition of the tournament. It determined the Mid-American Conference's automatic berth into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. The tournament began on November 6 and concluded on November 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280716-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament\nAkron won the MAC Championship, 3\u20130 against Western Michigan, making it a rematch of last year's championship. Akron entered the tournament as the six-time defending champions, and the fourth overall seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280716-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe tournament was expanded this year from four teams to six teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280716-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament, All Tournament Team\nCarlo Ritaccio, AkronEzana Kahsay, AkronMarcel Zajac, AkronAbdi Mohaned, AkronMoe Mustafa, Bowling GreenCharlie Maciejewski, Bowling GreenLogan Lucas, West VirginiaSebastian Garcia-Herreros, West VirginiaBen Thornton, Western MichiganJake Rufe, Western MichiganAnthony Bowie, Western Michigan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280717-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MAC Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Mid-American Conference women's basketball tournament was a post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) 2017\u201318 college basketball season. Tournament first round games was held on campus sites at the higher seed on March 5th. The remaining rounds was held at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland between March 7\u201310. Central Michigan won the MAC Women's Tournament received the conference's automatic bid into the 2018 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280717-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Format\nUnlike with the recent tournaments, where the top two seeds received byes into the semifinals, with the three and four seeds receiving a bye to the quarterfinals, the tournament will revert to its original structure in which the top four seeds receive just one bye into the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280718-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MBC Drama Awards\nThe 2018 MBC Drama Awards (Korean:\u00a0MBC \uc5f0\uae30\ub300\uc0c1; RR:\u00a0MBC Yeon-gi Daesang), presented by Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation(MBC) took place on December 30, 2018. It was hosted by Kim Yong-man and Seohyun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280719-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MBC Entertainment Awards\nThe 2018 MBC Entertainment Awards presented by Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), took place on December 29, 2018 at MBC Public Hall in Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul. It was hosted by Jun Hyun-moo, Seungri and Lee Hye-ri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280720-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MBC Plus X Genie Music Awards\nThe 2018 MBC Plus X Genie Music Awards ceremony, organized by MBC Plus and Genie Music, took place on November 6, 2018 at Namdong Gymnasium in Incheon, South Korea. This is the first MGA ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280720-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MBC Plus X Genie Music Awards\nBTS, Wanna One, and Twice took home the grand prizes, also known as the \"Daesang Awards\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280720-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MBC Plus X Genie Music Awards, Winners and nominees\nWinners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Voting took place on the Genie Music website from October 1, 2018 through October 31, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280720-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MBC Plus X Genie Music Awards, Attendees, Presenters and Performers\nJun Hyun-Moo hosted the show. Day6, Momoland, Chungha, Stray Kids, Heize, (G)I-DLE, Jung Seung Hwan are among the attendees of the show and won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280721-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MCC Tri-Nation Series\n2018 MCC Tri-nation series was a cricket tournament that was held on 29 July 2018 at Lord's in England. The series featured Nepal, Netherlands and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), with the matches played as Twenty20 fixtures. The third fixture, between Nepal and the Netherlands, was given full Twenty20 International (T20I) status by the International Cricket Council (ICC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280721-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MCC Tri-Nation Series\nRain affected all three matches. The first two fixtures were both reduced to six overs per side. In the third and final match, only 16.4 overs of play was possible, with the game ending in a no result. Nepal and the Netherlands shared the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280722-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The tournament was held from March 5\u201310, 2018 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. No. 6 seed North Carolina Central defeated No. 1 seed Hampton in the championship game to win the tournament and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280722-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nTeams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top three teams received a first round bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280723-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MEAC Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament took place March 5\u201310, 2018 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. First round games were played March 5 and March 6, with the quarterfinal games played on March 7 and 8. The semifinals were held March 9, with the championship game on March 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280723-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MEAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nTeams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280724-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MFF Charity Cup\nThe 2018 MFF Charity Cup (also known as the 2018 MPT Charity Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the 7th Charity Cup, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous National League and Domestic Cup competitions. It was held at Aung San Stadium on 7 January 2018. The match was played between Shan United, champions of the 2018 Myanmar National League and Yangon United, runner-up of the 2018 Myanmar National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280724-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MFF Charity Cup\nThis was Yangon United's 4th Cup appearance and Shan United's 2nd time Cup appearance, they won Charity Cup for the first time as Kanbawza FC in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280724-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MFF Charity Cup, Background and pre-match\nShan United qualified for the 2018 MFF Charity Cup as winners of the 2017 Myanmar National League. It was the club's first time ever league title in 9 years. The other Charity Cup place went to Yangon United, who was defeated by Shan United in Domestic final and a runner-up of 2017 Myanmar National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280724-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MFF Charity Cup, Background and pre-match\nYangon United made their fifth appearance in the Charity Cup; prior to this they won twice (2013,2016) and lost twice, most recently in 2016 against Ayeyawady United. By contrast, Shan United made their twice Chairity Cup appearance, and won once (2014). They went into the match as holders of the MNL Champion, having defeated Yangon United a year earlier. Both clubs had only one time met before in the Shield, when Shan United (as Kanbawza FC) won 2-0 in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280724-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 MFF Charity Cup, Background and pre-match\nMFF donates Ticket fees to Orphan School and other places", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280724-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 MFF Charity Cup, Background and pre-match\nThe 2017 edition was the first competitive fixture in English football to trial the ABBA penalty shoot-out system, provided scores were level after 90 minutes. The format is similar to a tiebreak in tennis, and is designed \"to prevent the team going second from having to play catch-up.\" Unlike a traditional penalty shoot-out, which sees Team A and Team B alternate spot-kicks in an ABAB pattern, the ABBA format follows an 'AB BA AB BA' order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280725-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MFF Cup\nThe 2018 MFF Cup is the 11th edition of the MFF Cup, the knockout football tournament in Mongolia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280726-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2017 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament was the state championship tournament for boy's ice hockey in Massachusetts, held from February 26 to March 18. The tournament involved 10 teams in play to determine the state champion of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280726-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament\nBC High defeated Pope Francis 2\u20131 to win the program's 5th MIAA Division 1A title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280726-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams\nThe Catholic Conference, Merrimack Valley Conference, and Middlesex League each had 3 teams receive a berth in the tournament, while the Catholic Central League had one tea receive a berth. Three independent programs also received a berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 67], "content_span": [68, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series\nThe 2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series was the twelfth edition of the MLB Japan All-Star Series, a best-of-six series between an All-Star team from Major League Baseball (MLB) and for the second time in series history, the Japanese national team, Samurai Japan won. The manager of Samurai Japan saw in this championship a big opportunity for Japan to gain momentum for the 2020 Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nOn May 1, 2018, MLB announced that it would send an all-star team to tour Japan after the end of the current season, with six games scheduled against a select Nippon Professional Baseball squad from November 9 to 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nOn August 20, 2018, Samurai Japan announced that held one exhibition game against Chinese Taipei and five coaches and six selected players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nOn September 10, 2018, Major League Baseball Players Association and MLB announced the first eight selected MLB players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nOn October 9, Tomoyuki Sugano canceled his participation for Samurai Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nOn October 10, Samurai Japan announced all selected 28 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nOn October 15, Chinese Taipei announced all selected 24 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nOn October 18, 2018, Katsuki Azuma canceled his participation for Samurai Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nOn October 26, 2018, Taichi Ishiyama and Yoshitomo Tsutsugo canceled their participation for Samurai Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nOn October 29, 2018, Christian Yelich canceled his participation for MLB, Roster rules changed 28 to 29, announced all selected MLB players, and Chen Chong-You and Jerry Wu canceled their participation for Chinese Taipei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nOn November 1, 2018, Takahiro Matsunaga canceled his participation for Samurai Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nOn November 2, 2018, Shuta Ishikawa canceled his participation for Samurai Japan, and Che-hsuan Lin canceled his participation for Chinese Taipei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nOn November 5, 2018, Lai Hung-Cheng canceled his participation for Chinese Taipei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nOn November 16, 2018, Yomiuri Giants announced all selected players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280727-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series, History\nFor the first time, the MLB All-Star team stopped in Hawai'i en route to the Japan All-Star series. The 28 player team batted in two workout games in front of fans at Les Murakami Stadium on November 3 & 4, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280728-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Little League Classic\nThe 2018 MLB Little League Classic was a regular season Major League Baseball (MLB) game that was played on August 19, 2018, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, during the 2018 MLB season and the 2018 Little League World Series. It was the second edition of the annual MLB Little League Classic game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280728-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Little League Classic\nThe game was played between the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies. 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MLB allowed each team to add a 26th player to their active roster, due to the game being played at a neutral site; the Phillies added catcher Andrew Knapp and the Mets added first baseman Dominic Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280728-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Little League Classic, Background\nThe Phillies had last played at Bowman Field on July 31, 1962, when the team lost to the Williamsport Grays, the Phillies' Eastern League affiliate, in a mid-season exhibition game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280728-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 MLB Little League Classic, Media\nThe game was aired nationally on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball and MLB Network. It was aired in Spanish on ESPN Deportes. The game was broadcast on ESPN Radio and Westwood One. It was streamed world-wide on ESPN.com and the ESPN app, as well as multiple streaming-based websites such as Hulu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280729-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS All-Star Game\nThe 2018 Major League Soccer All-Star Game was the 23rd edition of the annual Major League Soccer All-Star Game. It was held on August 1 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia and played against Italian club Juventus. The match was tied 1\u20131 after 90 minutes and was settled in a penalty shoot-out that Juventus won 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280729-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS All-Star Game\nThe match was attended by 72,317, setting a new record for a standalone MLS All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280729-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS All-Star Game, Pre-match\nIn October 2017, MLS announced that Atlanta would host the All-Star Game, due to the success of the first-year Atlanta United FC. Juventus was confirmed as the match's opponents in March 2018, participating as part of their American pre-season tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280729-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS All-Star Game, Squads, MLS All-Stars\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280729-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS All-Star Game, Squads, Juventus\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280730-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Cup Playoffs\nThe 2018 MLS Cup Playoffs (branded as the 2018 Audi MLS Cup Playoffs for sponsorship reasons) began on October 31 and ended on December 8 with MLS Cup 2018, the 23rd league championship match for MLS. This was the 23rd version of the MLS Cup Playoffs, the tournament culminating the Major League Soccer regular season. Twelve teams, the top six of each conference, competed in the MLS Cup Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280730-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Cup Playoffs\nThe first round of each conference had the third-seeded team hosting the sixth seed while the fourth-seed hosted the fifth seed in a single match to determine who advanced to the Conference Semifinals. In the Conference Semifinals, the top seed played the lowest remaining seed while the second played the next-lowest. The winners advanced to the Conference Finals. Both the Conference Semifinals and Conference Finals were played as a two-legged aggregate series. The winners advanced to the MLS Cup, a single match hosted by the participant with the better regular season record which was played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280730-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Cup Playoffs\nToronto FC were the defending MLS Cup champions, but failed to qualify for the playoffs. Atlanta United FC won their first MLS Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280730-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Cup Playoffs, Conference standings\nThe top six teams from each conference advanced to the MLS Cup playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280731-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Expansion Draft\nThe 2018 MLS Expansion Draft was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion team FC Cincinnati that was held on December 11, 2018. Lists of protected rosters and draft-eligible players were released by MLS on December 10, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280731-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Expansion Draft, Format\nThe rules for the 2018 MLS Expansion Draft as laid out by Major League Soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280731-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Expansion Draft, Team-by-team breakdown\nHere are all the players left non-protected on each MLS team's roster. FC Cincinnati's picks are marked with \u2714.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280732-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Re-Entry Draft\nThe 2018 MLS Re-Entry Draft took place on December 14, 2018 (Stage 1) and December 20, 2018 (Stage 2). All 24 Major League Soccer clubs were eligible to participate. The priority order for the MLS Re-Entry Draft was reverse order of finish in 2018, taking into account playoff performance. The 2019 expansion team, FC Cincinnati, had selection #24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280732-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Re-Entry Draft\nAvailable to all teams in Stage 1 of the Re-Entry draft were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280732-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Re-Entry Draft\nPlayers who were not selected in Stage 1 of the Re-Entry Draft were made available in Stage 2. Clubs selecting players in Stage 2 were able to negotiate a new salary with the player. If a selected player was not under contract, the selecting club was required to make a genuine offer to the player within seven days subject to League Office approval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280732-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Re-Entry Draft\nPlayers who remained unselected after Stage 2 were made available to any MLS club on a first-come, first-served basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280732-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Re-Entry Draft\nTeams also had the option of passing on their selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280732-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Re-Entry Draft, Available players\nPlayers were required to meet age and service requirements to participate as stipulated by the terms of the MLS Collective Bargaining Agreement. The league released a list of all players available for the Re-Entry Draft on December 13, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280732-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Re-Entry Draft, Stage One\nThe first stage of the 2018 MLS Re-Entry Draft took place on December 14, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280732-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS Re-Entry Draft, Stage Two\nThe second stage of the 2018 MLS Re-Entry Draft took place on December 20, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280733-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MLS SuperDraft\nThe 2018 MLS SuperDraft was the nineteenth SuperDraft conducted by Major League Soccer. As customary, the SuperDraft was held in conjunction with the annual United Soccer Coaches convention. The 2018 UCS was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between January 17\u201321, 2018. Rounds one and two of the SuperDraft were held on January 19, 2018. 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At the end of the 2017 MNL-2, City Yangon F.C. won the MNL-2 title. And then, City Yangon F.C. and Sagaing United promoted to 2018 Myanmar National League. But City Yangon F.C. quit from Myanmar National League. So, Myawady FC auto promoted to 2018 Myanmar National League. City Yangon F.C. and Chin United F.C. abandoned their clubs. In 2018 National League 2, there is only seven will play for MNL-2 winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280734-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MNL-2\nMPT and MNL signed a sponsor for the Myanmar National League, MNL-2 and Youth league. MPT signed 3 years sponsor start from 2018 to 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280734-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MNL-2, Matches\nFixtures and results of the 2018 National League 2 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 19], "content_span": [20, 78]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280735-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MPBL Rajah Cup\nThe 2018 Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League Rajah Cup, also known as the MPBL Anta\u2013Rajah Cup after sponsor Anta Sports, was the inaugural conference of the inaugural season of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL). The conference opened on January 25, 2018 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City. After the opening ceremonies, the game between Para\u00f1aque Patriots and Caloocan Supremos immediately followed. All games were aired on ABS-CBN Sports (ABS-CBN Sports and Action Channel 23 & HD Channel 166). The conference ended on April 19 with the Batangas City Athletics defeating Muntinlupa Cagers in the 2018 MPBL Rajah Cup Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280736-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MPBL Rajah Cup Finals\nThe 2018 Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) Rajah Cup Finals is the best-of-5 championship series of the 2018 MPBL Rajah Cup and the conclusion of the conference's playoffs. The Batangas City Athletics and the Muntinlupa Cagers competed for the inaugural Rajah Cup championship and also the very first championship contested by the league. In four games, league founder, Sen. Manny Pacquiao, gave one million pesos (\u20b11,000,000) to the Batangas City Athletics as they were crowned as the inaugural MPBL Finals Champions with an 18-karat gold trophy, while five hundred thousand pesos (\u20b1500,000) was given to the Muntinlupa Cagers as the losing finalist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280736-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MPBL Rajah Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nTey Teodoro made 20 points to pave the way for the Batangas City Athletics to claim the finals opener, as Val Acuna also added 14 points to help the team in the win. With the game tied at 64-all, Teodoro hit a free throw before scoring on a jump shot with 25 seconds left in the fourth period to give the Athletics a three-point lead. As the Cagers were unable to convert a basket, Teodoro managed to draw a foul from an Athletic and split his two charities given, which gave them a four-point lead in the final 14 seconds. And from there on, they were able to seal the victory and draw the first blood in the title series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280736-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MPBL Rajah Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nJaymo Eguilos of the Athletics scored a jumper to extend their lead to 9, 74\u201365, with the final 1:14 left on the clock. After that shot, the Cagers went on to storm a 9-2 scoring run to cut the deficit to 2 points, 76\u201374, going in to the final 17 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280736-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 MPBL Rajah Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nWith Batangas holding to their tight defense, Teytey Teodoro was able to draw a foul on Chito Jaime, resulting to two charities being made as they hold on to their four-point victory, extending the series lead to 2\u20130 and one more win gives them the inaugural league championship and the possible first-ever finals sweep in the history of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280736-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MPBL Rajah Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nThis game marked the first loss of the Athletics since losing to the Bulacan Kuyas in the elimination round last March 3, also marks the team's first loss of the playoffs. In the fourth quarter, Batangas scared Muntinlupa with an 11-5 scoring run after being down by 15 points, 64\u201349, in the 1:04 mark of third quarter, with this run, the deficit was cut down to 9, 69\u201360, in the 6:38 mark of fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280736-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 MPBL Rajah Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nBut as Athletics not giving up to the fight, they would eventually cut down further the Cagers lead as close as 2, 79\u201377, in the final 49 seconds of the game. Dave Moralde had an answer to stop the bleeding, to reextend the lead to 4 with a one-hand jumper. As they were able to hold to their defense, they would eventually spoil the possible championship celebration and extend the series to a Game 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280736-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 MPBL Rajah Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe Muntinlupa Cagers entered the match facing a do-or-die situation, with a 1\u20132 series deficit. In the early minutes of the fourth period, the Athletics led by 9 points, 57\u201348. However, a 10-0 run was blasted by the Cagers to regain the lead, 58\u201357, which all of the 10 points in the run came from Pari Llagas. Then the succeeding minutes, it was a seesaw battle where no team led more than 4 points. In the final 3.6 seconds of the game, Muntinlupa had a chance to send the game to an overtime coming off a foul from Mark Olayon. However, Llagas missed both charities that sealed the victory and the first MPBL Championship for the Batangas City Athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280736-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 MPBL Rajah Cup Finals, Broadcast notes\nThe Rajah Cup Finals were aired on ABS-CBN's sports channel, ABS-CBN Sports and Action. The league aired its S+A broadcasts online via livestreaming through Facebook Live on the official MPBL page.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280737-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MSBL season\nThe 2018 MSBL season was the 30th season of the Men's State Basketball League (SBL). The regular season began on Friday 16 March, with round 1 seeing the reigning Champions the Perth Redbacks hosting the Lakeside Lightning. The 2018 MSBL All-Star Game was played on 4 June at Bendat Basketball Centre \u2013 the home of basketball in Western Australia. The regular season ended on Saturday 28 July. The finals began on Friday 3 August and ended on Saturday 1 September, when the Perry Lakes Hawks defeated the Joondalup Wolves in the MSBL Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280737-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MSBL season, Regular season\nThe regular season began on Friday 16 March and ended on Saturday 28 July after 20 rounds of competition. Again in 2018, all games over the Easter Weekend were played on a blockbuster Thursday night with six venues all hosting games before the league took a break for the Easter long weekend. Anzac Round took place in round 6 of the competition with the Kalamunda Eastern Suns and Willetton Tigers continuing their Anzac Day game tradition. There was also Women's Round in round 9, Rivalry Round in round 12, and Heritage Round in round 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280737-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MSBL season, Finals\nThe finals began on Friday 3 August and ended on Saturday 1 September with the MSBL Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280737-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MSBL season, All-Star Game\nThe 2018 MSBL All-Star Game took place at Bendat Basketball Centre on Monday 4 June, with all proceeds going to Red Frogs Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280738-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MTN 8\nThe 2018 MTN 8 was the 44th edition of South Africa's annual soccer cup competition, the MTN 8. It featured the top eight teams of the Premier Soccer League at the end of the 2017-18 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280738-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MTN 8, Teams\nThe eight teams that competed in the MTN 8 knockout competition are (listed according to their finishing position in the 2017/2018 Premier Soccer League Season):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 17], "content_span": [18, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280739-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Europe Music Awards\nThe 2018 MTV EMAs (also known as the MTV Europe Music Awards) was held at the Bizkaia Arena (Bilbao Exhibition Centre) in Barakaldo, part of Greater Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, on 4 November 2018. The host of the ceremony was Hailee Steinfeld. This was the third time that Spain hosted the annual awards show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280739-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Europe Music Awards\nCamila Cabello was nominated for 6 awards, followed by Ariana Grande and Post Malone, who were each nominated for five. Cabello won four awards, becoming the most awarded artist of the night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280739-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Europe Music Awards\nIn association with the EMAs, an event called MTV Music Week was organised, which run from 29 October to 3 November at different locations throughout the province of Biscay. The main concert, part of the MTV World Stage series, was held at San Mam\u00e9s Stadium on 3 November, headlined by Muse and Crystal Fighters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280740-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Millennial Awards\nThe 5th Annual MTV Millennial Awards were held on June 2, 2018 at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, and was broadcast on June 3, 2018 through MTV Latin America. The awards celebrate the best of Latin music and the digital world of the millennial generation. The ceremony was hosted by Mon Laferte e La Divaza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280741-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards\nThe 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards was held on June 16, 2018, from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, U.S. and was broadcast on June 18, 2018. Similar to the 2016 MTV Movie Awards, the event was not aired live and was pre-recorded on June 16 prior to its June 18 broadcast date. It was the 27th edition of the awards and the second to jointly honor movies and television. The ceremony was hosted by Tiffany Haddish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280741-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards, Performers\nMTV announced the first few performers on May 23, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280741-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards, Presenters\nThe first few presenters were revealed on May 23, 2018 with the performers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280741-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards, Winners and nominees\nThe full list of nominees was announced on May 3, 2018. Winners are listed first, in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280742-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Video Music Awards\nThe 2018 MTV Video Music Awards was held on August 20, 2018 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The 35th annual award show aired live from the venue for the 12th time, the most of any previous venue in its history. Cardi B led the list of nominees with twelve nominations. Cardi and Childish Gambino were the most awarded of the night with three each. Camila Cabello won Video of the Year and Artist of the Year, while Jennifer Lopez became the first Latin artist to receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. This edition of the MTV Video Music Awards saw yet another severe drop in ratings, only achieving a mere 2.2 million viewers on MTV, and only seeing 4.87 million viewers on all of its sister networks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280742-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Video Music Awards, Performances\nThis artist performed as part of the Push Artist Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280742-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Video Music Awards, Winners and nominees\nThe nominees for most categories were revealed on July 16, 2018, via an IGTV video. Nominees for Song of Summer, however, were announced on August 13, 2018. Cardi B had the most nominations with 12, with The Carters behind with 8, while Childish Gambino and Drake both received 7 nominations each. Winners were announced on August 20, 2018, on the Video Music Awards broadcast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280742-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Video Music Awards, Critical reception\nEntertainment Weekly's writer Darren Franich gave the show a B\u2013 and said, \"MTV's tagline for the 2018 Video Music Awards was 'Everything might happen.' Hey, they said might. The 35th VMAs had some fiery performances, but the show never quite sparked [...] This was a reasonably satisfying awards show, not the boring trainwreck some VMAs have been, not the exciting trainwreck supernova some VMAs dare to be.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280742-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 MTV Video Music Awards, Critical reception\nFor Variety, Daniel D'addario said, \"There was a time when the VMAs were a change-of-season status report on pop: As MTV\u2019s target audience heads back to school and those slightly outside that audience get ready to turn their mind to graver things, the pop world had historically united to put on a show that could carry viewers into the fall.\" and unfavorably compared it to the 2013 show line up. In Billboard, Leila Cobo wrote, \"although this year's awards haven't escaped criticism, it hasn't been for lack of Latin power,\" noting that \"Maluma, Cardi B, Jennifer Lopez and Camila Cabello (finally) put Latin music center stage at VMAs.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280743-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Video Music Awards Japan\nThe 2018 MTV Video Music Awards Japan was held in Tokyo on October 10, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280743-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Video Music Awards Japan, Main Awards, Best Male Video\nJapanKenshi Yonezu \u2014 \"Lemon\"| InternationalShawn Mendes \u2014 \"In My Blood\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280743-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Video Music Awards Japan, Main Awards, Best Female Video\nJapanaiko \u2014 \"Straw\"| InternationalAriana Grande \u2014 \"No Tears Left to Cry\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280743-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Video Music Awards Japan, Main Awards, Best New Artist Video\nJapanOfficial Hige Dandism \u2013 \"No Doubt\"| InternationalMarshmello and Anne Marie \u2013 \"Friends\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280743-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 MTV Video Music Awards Japan, Main Awards, Best Cinematography\nLittle Glee Monster \u2013 Sekai wa Anata ni Waraikakete Iru", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Macau Grand Prix (formally the 65th Suncity Group Macau Grand Prix \u2013 FIA F3 World Cup) was a motor race for Formula Three cars that was held on the streets of Macau on 18 November 2018. Unlike other races, such as the Pau Grand Prix, the 2018 Macau Grand Prix was not a part of any Formula Three championship, but was open to entries from all Formula Three championships. The race itself was made up of two races: a ten-lap qualifying race that decided the starting grid for the fifteen-lap main race. The 2018 race was the 65th running of the Macau Grand Prix, the 36th for Formula Three cars and the 3rd edition of the FIA F3 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix\nThe Grand Prix was won by Motopark Academy driver Dan Ticktum from pole position, having won the qualification race the previous afternoon. The race was stopped for more than one hour because of a major accident that saw Sophia Fl\u00f6rsch of Van Amersfoort Racing sustain spinal fractures. She catapulted into the catch fence above a barrier beside the circuit and struck a photographer's bunker after a collision with the rear of Carlin's Jehan Daruvala. Another driver, Sho Tsuboi, two photographers and a track marshal sustained injuries. Ticktum held off his teammate Joel Eriksson after the restart to become the third driver in history to win the Macau Grand Prix back-to-back after Edoardo Mortara in 2009 and 2010 and Felix Rosenqvist in 2014 and 2015. Eriksson finished second and third was another Carlin driver, Sacha Fenestraz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Entry list and background\nThe Macau Grand Prix is a Formula Three race considered to be a stepping stone to higher motor racing categories such as Formula One and is Macau's most prestigious international sporting event. The 2018 Macau Grand Prix was the 65th running of the event, the 36th time it was held to Formula Three regulations and the third edition of the FIA F3 World Cup. It took place on the temporary 6.2\u00a0km (3.9\u00a0mi) 22-turn Guia Circuit in the streets of Macau on 18 November 2018 with three preceding days of practice and qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Entry list and background\nIn order to compete in Macau, drivers had to compete in a F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)-regulated championship meeting during the calendar year, in either the FIA Formula Three European Championship or one of the domestic championships, with drivers placed high up in the rankings of these respective championships given priority in receiving an invitation to the meeting. Within the 28-car grid for the event, two 2018 Formula Three champions competed: Mick Schumacher, the Formula Three European champion, was joined in Macau by Sho Tsuboi, the Japanese series winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Entry list and background\nOther drivers entered included F3 Asian Championship runner-up Jake Hughes, ADAC Formula 4 Championship driver Frederik Vesti, GP3 Series racer Callum Ilott, Super Formula Championship competitor Yuhi Sekiguchi, one-time Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters race winner Joel Eriksson, and Sophia Fl\u00f6rsch, the first woman to participate in the race since Tatiana Calder\u00f3n in the 2014 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\nTwo 40-minute practice sessions were held before the race on Sunday: one on Thursday mid-morning and one on late Friday morning. Lap times in the first practice session were two seconds slower than in the 2017 race because of a clean circuit. Schumacher slipstreamed Ilott to set the session's fastest lap of 2 minutes, 12.168 seconds with two minutes left. Ilott was three-hundredths of a second slower in second. J\u00fcri Vips, Dan Ticktum, Eriksson, Sacha Fenestraz, Robert Shwartzman, \u00c1lex Palou, Tsuboi and Hughes were in positions three to ten. While the session passed relatively peacefully, traffic delayed some drivers, and Vips damaged the left-rear rim and tyre in an impact with the barrier at Police corner, sustaining a puncture that was replaced in the pit lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\nIf you've got a fast driver in front of you it does help. Our track position was good, and where we are in the pits [over halfway down the field] I'm not in a position to get a slipstream from who I want to. Every lap I did was without a tow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\nCallum Ilott, who provisionally qualified in second, and remained in the position for the qualifying race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\nQualifying was split into two sessions; the first was held on Thursday afternoon and ran for 40 minutes with the second identically timed session held on Friday afternoon. The fastest time set by each driver from either session counted towards that competitor's final starting position for the qualification race. The first qualifying session was red flagged after 14 minutes because local driver Hon Chio Leong crashed into a barrier exiting Police turn and blocked the track with his car sideways.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\nShortly after qualifying restarted, Ticktum and Ilott exchanged the provisional pole position until Ticktum on a new set of tyres emerged on top with a lap of 2 minutes, 11.004 seconds with Ilott providing him with a minor slipstream advantage. With five minutes to go, a second stoppage was necessitated when Enaam Ahmed made contact with the Police corner barrier in a near identical crash to Leong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0007-0002", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\nAs competitors attempted to improve their lap times, they were denied the opportunity as Sena Sakaguchi drifted wide and crashed heavily at the Reservoir Bend turn, destroying his car's left-hand quarter as he ended up against the start/finish straight wall. Qualifying concluded early because of a lack of time for drivers to improve. Ilott was second and Schumacher moved to third before the second red flag was waved. Fourth-placed Hughes had similarly improved before the second stoppage. Sekiguchi finished fifth to make it five teams in the first five positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0007-0003", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\nFenestraz was sixth after a minor head-on crash against Police turn's barrier and had his front wing replaced in the pit lane. Eriksson and his Motopark Academy teammate Vips delayed leaving the pit lane; traffic blocked them and were seventh and eleventh. They were separated by Palou, Ferdinand Habsburg and Tsuboi. The rest of the provisional grid was Ahmed, Marcus Armstrong, Guanyu Zhou, Fl\u00f6rsch, Jehan Daruvala, Ritomo Miyata, Ralf Aron, Shwartzman, Marino Sato, Kevyan Andres, Vesti, Toshiki Oyu, Sakaguchi, Leong, Ukyo Sasahara, Yoshiaki Katayama and Ryuji \"Dragon\" Kumita.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\nIt was expected that the battle between Ticktum, Ilott and Schumacher would continue into Friday's scheduled sessions. In the second 40-minute practice session, Eriksson was the early pace setter for the first 20 minutes until Vips bettered his lap with nine minutes to go and then Ilott improved it four minutes later. Schumacher then further improved on Ilott's effort with a best time of the weekend at the point of 2 minutes, 10.674 seconds, before a red flag period was prompted for Oyu's crash at Maternity Bend corner, which ended all competitive running with two minutes remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\nIlott was 0.091 seconds slower in second. Vips, Hughes, Ticktum, Eriksson. Armstrong, Palou, Aron and Daruvala completed the top ten. Oyu also caused yellow flags to wave after he ran deep onto Lisboa corner's escape road and Ahmed (twice) and Fenestraz did the same; all three participants avoided contact with a barrier beside the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\n\"It was turning into the same as last year [with all the incidents], but I tried to get the lap after the FCY. The [2m]10.1s [ lap] was almost perfect, and the next one I managed to iron out a couple of mistakes. This year the track seems to be considerably better. We don't seem to use the tyres so much \u2013 you get a couple more laps than before, so you can do three or four quick ones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\nDan Ticktum, on setting the fastest ever lap of the Guia Circuit to qualify on pole position for the qualification race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\nIn the second qualifying session, Schumacher locked his tyres and ran onto Lisboa turn's escape road in the tenth minute, brushing a trackside barrier with his left-rear wheel. He then avoided a crash at Dona Maria Bend after his left-rear tyre punctured and entered the run-off area. Not long after, Andres and Katayama made contact in Lisboa turn's braking zone and both drivers hit a wall. At the same time, Tsuboi crashed at the Solitude Esses and the red flags were waved for two minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\nAfter the session was restarted, Armstrong made contact a Melco hairpin wall with his car's front. Ticktum could not improve his lap in qualifying's opening minutes, as Ilott led on his first timed lap, just after a full course yellow flag was prompted for Ahmed's spin and crash into the Reservoir Bend corner wall. Ticktum then improved twice in the final minutes, and set the first lap time under 2 minutes, 10 seconds at the Guia Circuit, at 2 minutes, 9.910 seconds, which bettered Marcus Ericsson's 2009 lap record and earned Ticktum pole position for the qualifying race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying\nAt the session's end, Sato crashed at Police bend, and Ilott narrowly avoided hitting him on the inside, stopping Ilott from improving his lap. Then, Sasahara hit the Reservoir Bend barrier, ricocheted across the circuit, and collected Eriksson. Vips avoided the accident scene but it ended the session early. Ticktum was joined on the grid's front row by Ilott and Fenestraz moved from sixth to third after slipstreaming Ticktum. Fourth was Eriksson and Zhou progressed to fifth. Hughes fell to sixth while Sato moved to seventh. Armstrong led a trio of Prema cars in eighth, Schumacher ninth and Aron tenth. Behind them the rest of the grid lined up as Sekiguchi, Shwartzman, Palou, Vips, Habsburg, Tsuboi, Ahmed, Vesti, Daruvala, Fl\u00f6rsch, Miyata, Leong, Sakaguchi, Andres, Oyu, Katayama and Kumita.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Qualification race\nThe qualifying race to set the grid order for the main race commenced at 13:05 Macau Standard Time (UTC+08:00) on 17 November. Weather conditions at the start were dry and overcast with the air temperature at 23\u00a0\u00b0C (73\u00a0\u00b0F). Ilott tucked into the slipstream of Ticktum and steered to the outside of the Mandarin Oriental bend corner and made a pass for the lead. Ilott maintained it through Lisboa turn despite an oversteer that had him narrowly avoid glancing a trackside wall with his left-rear tyre against as he used Ticktum as a braking point reference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Qualification race\nEriksson passed Fenestraz for third into Lisboa corner. Other cars slowed Eriksson, and Fenestraz retook the position at San Francisco Bend turn. That lap, Sakaguchi crashed into a barrier at San Francisco Bend turn and retired. Ticktum remained close behind Ilott and he retook the lead by going to the outside of Lisboa corner. He began to pull away from the rest of the field and led Ilott by 1.341 seconds by the second lap's conclusion. Shortly after, Katayama made contact with a wall and became the second retirement. On lap three, in the track's mountain section at Dona Maria Bend, a stray dog got onto the circuit, and Ticktum swerved off the racing line to avoid hitting it. A full course yellow flag was implemented and then the safety car was deployed for dog retrieval by track marshals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Qualification race\nIt was clear even in the first half a lap that our pace was stronger than Callum's. So I really tried to nail the final sector and I got him back for the lead. While Callum was behind I saw I was pulling away quite easily, and I was saving tyres for the last part of the race. As soon as I saw Joel behind... I've seen he's been in a quicker car overall this weekend but didn't get the chance to show it in qualifying, so I upped the ante quite a bit. That was enough to pull a gap and I backed off on the last lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Qualification race\nDan Ticktum, speaking about his worry about the challenge his teammate Joel Eriksson would provide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Qualification race\nAt the lap five restart, Ticktum made a fast getaway to maintain the lead heading into the Mandarin Oriental Bend corner, as his teammate Eriksson overtook Fenestraz on the inside at the same turn. On the sixth lap, Eriksson went to the inside of Ilott and passed him on the approach to Lisboa turn to move into second despite minor contact against a trackside wall. Miyata joined the retirements list ater a collision with a wall at Lisboa corner on lap seven. On that lap, Vesti also retired when he collided with a barrier at the same turn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Qualification race\nIn the meantime, Eriksson was 1.675 seconds behind his teammate Ticktum at the conclusion of lap six. Fenestraz attempted an unsuccessful overtake on his teammate Ilott at Lisboa turn three laps later. Ticktum increased his lead to 2.247 seconds by the start of the final lap and he subsequently slowed slightly to win the qualification race and began the main event from pole position. Eriksson followed 1.563 seconds later in second and Ilott completed the podium in third place. Fenestraz took fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0015-0002", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Qualification race\nA large gap to fifth place was created when Zhou crashed at the Solitude Esses and Hughes took the position and held it until the finish. Schumacher and Vips were sixth and seventh. Eighth-placed Armstrong led a trio of Premas with Aron ninth and Shwartman tenth. Outside the top ten, Sato fell four from his starting place to eleventh. The final classified finishers were Palou, Habsburg, Sekiguchi, Ahmed, Tsuboi, Daruvala, Leong, Fl\u00f6rsch, Andres, Oyu, Sasahara, Kumita and Zhou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race\nThe race began at 15:30 local time. Weather conditions at the start were dry and overcast with the air temperature at 24\u00a0\u00b0C (75\u00a0\u00b0F). Ticktum maintained his pole position advantage on the run into Mandarin Oriental Bend corner. Fenestraz used his car's four new tyres to overtake his teammate Ilott and Eriksson to advance from fourth to second place on the first lap. Ilott fell to fifth because he was on a different line into Lisboa turn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race\nThe safety car was dispatched on the same lap as Sato crashed at the exit to Lisboa corner and Palou went off at the turn's entry. Behind Palou, Leong and Andres were caught up in the chain-reaction accident and all four drivers retired due to car damage. Ticktum held the lead at the restart with a healthy advantage over Fenestraz in second place on the fourth lap. Eriksson was close behind Fenestraz; he decided against an overtake into Lisboa corner because he saw erroneously illuminated LED yellow flag lights on both sides of the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race\nFurther on in the lap, the race was stopped due to a major accident at Lisboa corner. The yellow lights remained illuminated between the Mandarin Oriental Bend turn and Lisboa corner despite green flag conditions. Some drivers slowed more than predicted in response. Daruvala slowed and Fl\u00f6rsch was tucked into his slipstream. Fl\u00f6rsch hit Daruvala's right-rear wheel, causing Fl\u00f6rsch to spin through 90 degrees to the right. She made contact with a crash barrier at high speed, which removed the left-hand side wheels from her vehicle. She entered Lisboa corner's speed trap at 276.2\u00a0km/h (171.6\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race\nFl\u00f6rsch's trajectory caused her to hit newly-installed raised kerbs on the right of Lisboa corner, which lifted her vehicle slightly airborne. The lift raised her car high enough to hit the roll hoop of Tsuboi's vehicle with her car's wheels. Fl\u00f6rsch, who removed her hands from her steering wheel, catapulted backwards to the top of a catch fence and went through it after it absorbed a large amount of impact force. With the speed of her car greatly reduced from the collision, it struck a photographer's bunker backwards with its roll hoop and cockpit, before it was flipped upwards. The photographer's banker was heavily damaged by the collision and significantly shifted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race\nFl\u00f6rsch's car fell onto an armco barrier below the marshal's post and was covered in fire extinguisher foam that had automatically engaged. Around 40 seconds later, track marshals tended to Fl\u00f6rsch and medical personnel arrived at the crash area half a minute later. She was conscious and in pain due to a fractured C7 and T3 vertebrae in her upper body, while Tsuboi had lower back pain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race\nThree other people sustained injuries: photographer Chan Weng-wang, who stood below the photographer's stand, suffered a liver injury, a second photographer, Minami Hiroyuki, who was on the left side of the photographer's stand, sustained a concussion, and track marshal Chan Chak-in suffered a cut face, abrasion of the upper abdomen and a broken jaw. All five were transported to the Conde S. Janu\u00e1rio Hospital for treatment. No one was killed. Repairs to the barrier, tending to the injured and a track cleanup lasted for more than an hour before racing could resume.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race\nAt the lap-seven restart, Ticktum broke away to lead significantly over Fenestraz. Eriksson then slipstreamed and out-braked Fenestraz on the inside to retake the second position at Lisboa corner. Two laps later, Ahmed crashed at Moorish Hill bend and retired from eleventh place. The safety car was subsequently dispatched because track marshals required space to extricate his car via a crane. The race restarted on the eleventh lap. Ticktum carried enough speed through the Fisherman's Bend and the Reservoir Bend corners to lead his teammate Eriksson by 0.721 seconds at the lap's end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race\nHowever, Eriksson slipstreamed Ticktum but only to the extent that he drew alongside the left-hand side of the latter's car going into Lisboa corner's braking zone. Ticktum held his lead on the ideal line and extended his lead to 1.028 seconds at the end of lap 12. He further increased this by 1.513 seconds and by another 0.037 seconds to start the final lap. Eriksson could not respond to his teammate Ticktum's advantage and the latter crossed the start/finish line to win his second Macau Grand Prix in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0019-0002", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race\nTicktum became the third driver in the history of the race to win it back-to-back after Edoardo Mortara in 2009 and 2010 and Felix Rosenqvist in 2014 and 2015. Eriksson was 1.208 seconds behind in second and Fenestraz completed the podium in third. Off the podium, Hughes finished fourth, Schumacher fifth and Aron sixth. Ilott placed seventh after Vips (who overtook him on the final lap) was given a 40-second time penalty for an overtake under red flag conditions. The final finishers were Armstrong, Shwartzman, Habsburg, Zhou, Daruvala, Miyata, Sekiguchi, Vesti, Oyu, Katayama, Sakaguchi, Vips and Kumita.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race\nThe top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference. Ticktum spoke of the \"perfect weekend\" that allowed him to win the race and thanked his team, \"I can't really remember a weekend where I\u2019ve performed so well, and that's not only just me, it's all the people around me, all the support I\u2019ve had. It's been just the perfect weekend.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race\nEriksson said that he fell back behind his teammate Ticktum before the safety car was withdrawn and spoke of a \"tough race\", \"The overtake on Sacha was quite tight. But I knew I needed to pass him early in the race to have a chance on Dan, because I knew he was quick all weekend and I had the same speed as him.\" Third-placed Fenestraz stated it was the best finish he could attain due to Eriksson and Ticktum's fast pace, \"Obviously I wanted the win, but for my second time here it's pretty good.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0020-0002", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race\nI\u2019m already looking forward to next year. I think I did a really good job. It was going to be hard to beat Dan [and Eriksson]. They were quick all weekend. It's true we had an advantage with the new tyres, but with the red flag and all that stuff you cannot take the most out of it, I would say. I still had a little advantage, but they were [too] fast.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race\nFl\u00f6rsch's crash overshadowed the race. She had an 11-hour operation on her back on 19 November and surgeons removed a bone splinter that was close to her spinal cord. They removed a bone from her hip and used it to form a new hip; a titanium plate was installed to support it. Fl\u00f6rsch vomited from taking painkillers and rendered unmovable for five days as she lost 5\u00a0kg (11\u00a0lb) of muscle mass and had a large amount of hip ache. She was released from hospital on 26 November and flew to Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race\nTsuboi and Miniami were discharged from hospital shortly after while Chan was hospitalised for a ten-day surgery to his lacerated liver. Fl\u00f6rsch began rehabilitation in early December 2018 to ensure she lost no more muscle strength and to strengthen her body with weights on a gradual scale. She said she remembered everything about the crash, \"It probably is a miracle, but that's probably also the reason why I am happy and why I am normal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0021-0002", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race\nIt happened quite fast \u2013 the top speed was 275\u00a0km/h (171\u00a0mph) \u2013 but I can do nearly everything again so, for me, it's just to be happy and to continue to be positive. I remember everything from the crash. It felt just completely different for me because it just happened so fast.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race\nJean Todt, president of the FIA, announced that the crash would be investigated. The governing body seized video footage from Fl\u00f6rsch's on-board television camera and those of the drivers she was close by when the accident happened. Van Amersfoort Racing (VAR) team owner Fritz van Amersfoort spoke of his belief that the accident could have occurred on other circuits, and the FIA's race director Charlie Whiting stated that the Guia Circuit was not dangerous and no major alterations to its configuration were necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280744-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race\nGrand Prix Drivers' Association director and Haas F1 driver Romain Grosjean said its members would probably raise the issue of raised kerbs on the right of Lisboa corner with the FIA; the crash reminded him of Konstantin Tereshchenko's accident in a GP3 Series race at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in 2014. According to Jonathan Noble of motorsport.com and racing driver Ryan Lewis, the installation of raised kerbs prevented Fl\u00f6rsch's car striking the cockpit sidepod of Tsuboi's vehicle in a similar style to Takuma Sato and Nick Heidfeld's crash at the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix. In May 2021, the front wing from Fl\u00f6rsch's car was returned to VAR after the team noticed it going up for sale on an online auction and filed a complaint with the Macau police who recovered it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280745-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Masters\nThe 2018 Macau Masters was a non-ranking team and six-red snooker variant invitational event that took place on 24 and 25 October 2018. The event's team event was made up of two teams of four, competing in six games, with Team B defeating Team A with a score of 5\u20131. The event's six red singles knockout tournament was won by Barry Hawkins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280745-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Masters, Prize Fund\nThe event had a total prize fund of $100,000 awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280745-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Masters, Tournament teams\nThe event was made up of two teams of four, with players playing in six \"best of 5\" frames matches. Frames 1, 3 and 5 were doubles matches, whereas frames 2 and 4 were alternate singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280745-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Masters, Results, Team event\nThe team event saw both teams field teams of two for individual team matches. Each player could only play with a partner for one match during the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280745-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Masters, Results, Six-red event\nTo finish the event, the 6 Reds Leapfrog Challenge took place. All 8-players played in a \"killer\" style match, with players required to win their match to continue on a winner stays on basis. The players were drawn based on world rankings. All matches were first to one frame of 6-red snooker, with the final being a best of 5 frame 6-red match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280746-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Macau Open was a badminton tournament which took place at Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion Macau in Macau from 30 October to 4 November 2018 and had a total prize of $150,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280746-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Macau Open was the twenty-second tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Macau Open championships, which had been held since 2006. This tournament was organized by Badminton Federation of Macau and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280746-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion Macau in Macau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280746-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 300 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280746-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this year's tournament was US$150,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280746-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Open (badminton), Men's singles, Wild card\nBadminton Federation of Macau awarded a wild card entry to Pui Pang Fong of Macau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280746-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Open (badminton), Women's singles, Wild card\nBadminton Federation of Macau awarded a wild card entry to Ng Weng Chi of Macau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280746-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Open (badminton), Men's doubles, Wild card\nBadminton Federation of Macau awarded a wild card entry to Che Pui Ngai / Leong Iok Chong of Macau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280746-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Macau Open (badminton), Mixed doubles, Wild card\nBadminton Federation of Macau awarded a wild card entry to Che Pui Ngai / Gong Xue Xin of Macau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum\nA referendum was held in the Republic of Macedonia on 30 September 2018, with voters asked whether they supported EU and NATO membership by accepting the Prespa agreement between Macedonia and Greece in June 2018, which aimed to settle the 27-year naming dispute, which had prevented Macedonia from joining both the European Union and NATO. Despite 94% of voters voting in favour, voter turnout was around 37%, less than the 50% threshold required to validate the results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum\nBoth the opposition and government claimed victory, with the opposition claiming that the proposal had been rejected by virtue of the low turnout and the government argued that the result being non-binding meant the turnout requirement was irrelevant. As the referendum was non-binding and included constitutional changes, it also had to be ratified by two-thirds of the Assembly of the Republic. Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev vowed to push forward with the changes in the Assembly, which was achieved on 19 October 2018, when 80 of the 120 MPs voted in favour of the renaming proposal, just reaching the two-thirds majority required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Background\nAfter the independence of the Republic of Macedonia from SFR Yugoslavia in 1991, successive Greek governments claimed that the name of the country implied territorial claims to the Greek part of the region of Macedonia and objected to the use of \"Macedonia\" by the newly independent state. The state was admitted to the United Nations in 1993 with the provisional reference \"the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia\" (FYROM), while most countries recognised the Republic of Macedonia under its constitutional name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Background\nRepeated attempts to negotiate a composite name failed for almost three decades. However, in 2018, high-level contacts between the governments of the two countries intensified, with Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Osmani visiting Athens for name talks on 9 January, and Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev meeting with his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland on 24 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Background\nAt the Davos meeting, the first of its kind in seven years, there appeared to be some resolution between the two leaders to end the name dispute and improve the relations between the two countries. Zaev agreed to take initiatives that would soothe Greek concerns over the antiquisation policy, while Tsipras agreed to consent to Macedonia's bid to join regional initiatives or agreements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Background\nOn 12 June 2018, Tsipras announced that he had reached an agreement with Zaev \"which covers all the preconditions set by the Greek side.\" The negotiations would result in the Republic of Macedonia being renamed the Republic of North Macedonia, with the new name being used for all purposes. Zaev announced that the agreement included recognition of the Macedonian language in the United Nations and that the term used for nationality of the country would be Macedonian/citizen of the Republic of North Macedonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Background\n\"The agreement once and for always confirms and strengthens the Macedonian ethnic and cultural identity, the Macedonian language, the Macedonian nationality. It guarantees the security of the country and provides a secure future for the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia\", Zaev said. Additionally, the agreement stipulates removal of the Vergina Sun from public use in the Republic of Macedonia and formation of a committee for the review of school textbooks and maps in both countries for the removal of irredentist content and to align them with UNESCO and Council of Europe's standards. The agreement was signed at Lake Prespa, a body of water shared between Albania, Greece and North Macedonia from which it got its name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Background\nThe agreement stipulated that the Macedonian government could hold a referendum on the matter. The Assembly of the Republic paved the way for the referendum by ratifying the agreement for a second time in early July. After a month long delay by the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE to slow down the referendum preparation by not appointing members to the State Election Commission, the Assembly finally agreed as of the end of July on a new composition. The Assembly set aside 1.3 million euros for the referendum campaign and as the VMRO-DPMNE opposition refused to participate and access funds, only 900,000 euros was spent on 66 media outlets by politicians supporting a yes vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Background\nPolitical scientist Biljana Vankovska claimed that the referendum was unconstitutional, noting that Article 73 of the constitution required referendums to be binding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Question\nAre you in favour of European Union and NATO membership by accepting the agreement between the Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Greece?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Campaign, Support\nMacedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the government coalition started an online campaign for a \u201cYes\u201d vote in the referendum. Many high-ranked officials and EU leaders expressed their support for the \"Yes\" option as it would bring Macedonia closer to EU and NATO. Among those who visited the country in support of the referendum are Angela Merkel and Sebastian Kurz, Chancellors of Germany and Austria respectively, as well as Jim Mattis, the US Defense Secretary, and Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO, who encouraged the people of Macedonia to vote in favor of the new name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Campaign, Support\nThe Albanian President Ilir Meta, Prime Minister Edi Rama and Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati also urged Albanians in Macedonia to support the deal and vote \u201cYes\u201d in the referendum. In Macedonia, Albanian political parties and their leaders Ali Ahmeti (DUI), Menduh Tha\u00e7i (DPA), Bilall Kasami (Besa Movement) and Ziadin Sela (Alliance for Albanians) supported the \u201cYes\u201d vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Campaign, Objections and boycotts\nThe main opposition party VMRO-DPMNE threatened to boycott the referendum and claimed the Prespa agreement to be an act of treason. However, in early September, VMRO-DPMNE president Hristijan Mickoski made a statement encouraging citizens to vote as they saw fit, and that the party would respect different opinions. The party did not participate in the referendum campaign, while several high ranking party members voiced their support for a boycott or the \"Yes\" side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Campaign, Objections and boycotts\nIn early September, a cable from the US embassy in the Republic of Macedonia revealed by WikiLeaks showed that the 2008 VMRO-DPMNE government was willing to accept the name Republic of North Macedonia, for international and bilateral use only, provided it included the recognition of the Macedonian language and nationality. The proposal had been rejected by Greece. This was denied by media close to the party, which stated that VMRO-DPMNE was only willing to accept changing the FYROM reference to North Macedonia, while keeping the constitutional name the same. On 23 September, President Gjorge Ivanov, who was elected as the VMRO-DPMNE candidate, decried the agreement and called on citizens to boycott the vote. Various other small anti-Western organizations with pro-Serbian and pro-Russian orientations organized protests against the name change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 916]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Campaign, Objections and boycotts\nAmong the Macedonian diaspora, a majority of Macedonians living in Australia stated that they would boycott the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Campaign, Russian interference\nVarious diplomats and analysts, including U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, have accused Russia of engaging in a campaign to undermine the referendum. Russia is opposed to any additional countries joining NATO or the European Union. Thousands of fake Twitter and Facebook accounts urged Macedonians to boycott the vote. Some Facebook postings asked \"are you going to let Albanians change your name? \", attempting to exploit ethnic divisions in the country. The \"No\" lobby banked on a boycott that could render the referendum result meaningless. Two Russian diplomats were expelled from Greece due to accusations of attempting to undermine relations with Macedonia, and a year earlier Russian citizens were arrested related to a failed coup in Montenegro attempting to prevent that country from joining NATO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 867]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Results\nWhile the vote in favour of the referendum question reached 94.18%, total turnout reached only 36.89% with 666,344 votes cast, well below the 50% par for the referendum to be valid. Despite the traditional pro-EU and NATO stance of the Albanian minority, and its support of Premier Zaev's government, turnout in the 15 predominantly ethnic Albanian municipalities was only marginally lower than in the previous local election with 233,000 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Reactions\nWestern leaders welcomed the result as positive, despite the low turnout. The European Union's Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, called the \"Yes\" vote \"very significant\" and urged Macedonia's political leaders to \"respect this decision and take it forward with utmost responsibility\". NATO chief, Jens Stoltenberg, in his post on Twitter described the referendum as a \"historic opportunity\", while reaffirming that \"NATO\u2019s door is open\" for Macedonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Reactions\nThe United States also welcomed the outcome, with the State Department urging Macedonian lawmakers \"to rise above partisan politics and seize this historic opportunity\" in implementing the Prespa agreement, which could enable Macedonia to become \"a full participant in Western institutions\". Greece's Foreign Ministry welcomed the positive result, but described it as \"contradictory\" to the low vote turnout, and the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras phoned his Macedonian counterpart Zoran Zaev right after the referendum to congratulate him for the positive outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Reactions\nRussia, a staunch opponent of Macedonia's Euro-Atlantic integration, on the other hand, hinted that it could veto the Prespa agreement between the Republic of Macedonia and Greece, by bringing it to the United Nations Security Council. Macedonia dismissed Moscow's threats by stating that bilateral agreements cannot be dependent on the Security Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Aftermath\nOn 19 October 2018, the Assembly voted to start the process of renaming the country Republic of North Macedonia. A total of 80 deputies in the 120-seat Assembly voted in favour of the renaming proposal, just reaching the two-thirds majority needed to enact constitutional changes. On 3 December 2018, the Assembly approved a draft constitutional amendment, with 67 voting in favour, 23 voting against and 4 abstaining. A simple majority was needed at this stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Aftermath\nThe decisive vote to amend the constitution and change the name of the country was passed on 11 January 2019 in favor of the amendment. On 25 January 2019, the Greek Parliament approved the Prespa agreement with 153 votes in favor and 146 votes against.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280747-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Macedonian referendum, Aftermath\nThe international community, including the Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau of Canada and Boyko Borisov of Bulgaria, President Hashim Tha\u00e7i of Kosovo, the President of the EU, Donald Tusk, the President of EU's Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, Germany's and Albania's foreign Ministers, Heiko Maas and Ditmir Bushati respectively, as well as NATO's chief Jens Stoltenberg, welcomed positively the ratification of the deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280748-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mackay Cutters season\nThe 2018 Mackay Cutters season was the 11th in the club's history. Coached by Steve Sheppard and captained by Tom Murphy, they competed in the QRL's Intrust Super Cup. The club missed the finals for the fifth consecutive season, finishing last and winning their third wooden spoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280748-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mackay Cutters season, Season summary\nThe Cutters entered 2018 with a younger and less experienced side following the departures of co-captains Andrew Davey and Setaimata Sa. New recruits included Wests Tigers NSW Cup duo Jordan Grant and Darcy Cox, Northern Pride forward Jack Brock and former Canberra Raiders U20 back Jack Hickson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280748-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mackay Cutters season, Season summary\nAnother poor start to the season followed for the club, as they won just three of their first nine games. Things went from bad to worse after their bye week, as they went on a club record 10-game losing streak. Halfback Cooper Bambling rejoined the club mid-season after joining the Canberra Raiders in the off-season but his return would not help the club's fortunes. The streak ended in Round 21 with a 16-all draw against the Redcliffe Dolphins. The club won just one more game and finished the season in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280748-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mackay Cutters season, Season summary\nJordan Grant won the club's Player of the Year and Players' Player awards in his first season with the Cutters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280749-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Madagascar measles outbreak\nIn early September 2018, cases of measles began to appear in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Capitol health authorities challenged by the district's poverty and Madagascar's relatively-low vaccination rate were unable to contain the highly-contagious disease, and what followed became the largest measles outbreak yet in Madagascar's history. With more than 115,000 people infected and more than 1,200 dying, the outbreak has become Madagascar's most serious outbreak of measles in the 21st century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280749-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Madagascar measles outbreak, Outbreak\nMeasles cases were first detected in the urban, downtown district of Antananarivo-Renivohetra on 3 September 2018. At the time, health authorities were still heavily engaged in the remnants of last year's plague epidemic, and public resources were identified to tracking down remaining cases. On 4 October, the Institute Pasteur de Madagascar confirmed the presence of measles morbillivirus in samples from 3 patients and identified the B3 strain. The virus had already spread outwards to the capital's Tan\u00e0 South, Tan\u00e0 North, Ambohidramito districts, and by 18 November there were over 3,200 recorded cases in Madagascar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280749-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Madagascar measles outbreak, Response\nMeasles immunity rates are below average in Madagascar at 83%, versus the 95% recommended by the World Health Organization. Availability of the MMR vaccine is patchy in Madagascar due to the island's mountainous geography, presenting a challenge to distributors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280750-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election\nElections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held on 28 November 2018 to elect members of the 230 constituencies in Madhya Pradesh. It is believed that the election was a direct political battle between the BJP and the INC. One of the main centers of attraction was the contest between Congress heavy-weight Arun Yadav and the then Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. While the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government had tried to win for consecutive 4th term, the INC fought for winning the state after 2003. The election led to a hung assembly, with the INC emerging as the single largest party and the BJP winning the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280750-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThe tenure of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly elected in 2013 ended on 7 January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280750-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Schedule\nElection dates were announced on 6 October 2018 and voting was held on 28 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280750-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Surveys and polls, Opinion polls\nThe opinion polls show a tough election battle between the BJP and the INC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280750-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Surveys and polls, Exit polls\nMost exit polls predicted a \"tight finish\" between the BJP and the INC. According to Poll of Polls, There was a little edge to BJP over INC, however, No party got the majority to form the Government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 80], "content_span": [81, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280750-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Results, Seats and vote-share\nThe election led to a hung assembly, with the INC emerging as the largest party, with 114 seats, but failing to win a majority. The seat and vote share was as follows -:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 80], "content_span": [81, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280750-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Government formation\nThe counting of votes started on 11 December 2018, results were fluctuating throughout the day. On 12 December 2018 final figure of the Result was declared. INC became the single largest party with 114 seats. BJP won 109 seats. INC claimed support of Samajwadi Party's 1 MLA, Bahujan Samaj Party's 2 MLA and 4 Independent MLA . Due to no majority Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister Of Madhya Pradesh resigned on 12 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 71], "content_span": [72, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280750-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Government formation\nKamal Nath took oath on 17 December 2018 as new Chief Minister Of Madhya Pradesh and with this, INC came back to the power in State after 15 years. However, after the resignation of 22 sitting MLAs from the INC, Kamal Nath resigned on 20 March 2020 and subsequently Shivraj Singh Chouhan of the BJP returned as the CM again on 23 March 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 71], "content_span": [72, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280751-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Madura United F.C. season\nThe 2018 season is Madura United Football Club's 3rd competitive season, and its 2nd consecutive season in the top-flight of Indonesian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280751-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Madura United F.C. season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280751-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Madura United F.C. season, Players, Other players under contract\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280751-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Madura United F.C. season, Players, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280751-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Madura United F.C. season, Transfers, 1st leg\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280751-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Madura United F.C. season, Transfers, 1st leg\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280751-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Madura United F.C. season, Transfers, 2nd leg\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280751-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Madura United F.C. season, Transfers, 2nd leg\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280752-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse\nOn 31 December 2018, at approximately 6:02\u00a0a.m. local time, an apartment block in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, partially collapsed. The collapse killed 39 people and injured 17 more. The cause of the collapse is believed to have been a gas explosion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280752-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse, Background\nThe 10-story high-rise apartment block, located at 164 Prospekt Karla Marksa, built in 1973, holds 623 units, being a type 1-439A building with 12 staircases. The collapse took place on the 7th staircase and destroyed or damaged 48 units which together housed 110 people, of whom 95 were believed to have been in the building at the time of the collapse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280752-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse, Cause\nThe collapse is believed to have been caused by a gas explosion. Russian investigators denied reports that traces of explosives were found in the rubble. The website, citing an unnamed and unverified source, reported that the blast originated in a second-floor apartment, where an unknown man was suspected of storing explosives for a planned attack on a local shopping centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280752-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse, Response\nAfter the collapse, the building was evacuated. Officials warned that more of the apartment complex was at risk of collapsing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280752-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse, Response\nThe daytime temperature at the site was \u221217\u00a0\u00b0C (1\u00a0\u00b0F), and \u221224\u00a0\u00b0C (\u221211\u00a0\u00b0F) at night. Nearly 1,400 rescue workers helped to free residents from the rubble, and used high-powered heaters to warm people still trapped under the debris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280752-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse, Response\nRussian President Vladimir Putin traveled to the site of the collapse to survey the damage and observe the rescue efforts. He also visited injured residents in the hospital. In a statement he said, \"Despite the holiday season, we need to spare a thought for those who perished and those who were injured.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280752-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse, Response\nPittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin, a native of the town, paid tribute to the victims of the disaster in the Penguins' game against the New York Rangers on January 2, 2019. His skates bore Russian phrases translating to, \"Magnitogorsk, we are with you,\" and, \"Magnitogorsk, you are in my heart.\" He scored a goal which he dedicated to the town, having hoped prior to the game that he would do so. Following the game, Malkin stated that the team will raise funds for the victims and their families. He donated RU\u20bd4,000,000, the equivalent of almost US$60,000, to a relief fund for the victims, with the rest of the team soon to contribute donations they have collected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280753-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Magyar Kupa (men's basketball)\nThe 2018 Tibor Zs\u00edros F\u00e9rfi Magyar Kupa was the 61st season of the Hungarian Basketball Cup. Szolnoki Olaj won its 7th national Cup championship. D\u00e1vid Vojvoda was named Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280753-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Magyar Kupa (men's basketball), Qualification\nEight highest ranked teams after the first half of the 2017\u201318 NB I/A regular season qualified to the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280754-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Magyar Kupa (men's water polo)\nThe 2018 Magyar Kupa (known as the BENU F\u00e9rfi Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons), was the 92nd edition of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280754-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Magyar Kupa (men's water polo), Schedule\nThe rounds of the 2018 competition are scheduled as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280754-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Magyar Kupa (men's water polo), Preliminary round\nThe preliminary round ties were scheduled for 26\u201328 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280754-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Magyar Kupa (men's water polo), Quarter-finals\nThe quarter-final matches were played on 17 and 18 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280754-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Magyar Kupa (men's water polo), Final four\nThe final four was held on 15 and 16 December 2018 at the Cs\u00e1sz\u00e1r-Komj\u00e1di Swimming Stadium in Budapest, II. ker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280755-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Magyar Kupa (women's water polo)\nThe 2018 Magyar Kupa was the 19th edition of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280755-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Magyar Kupa (women's water polo), Schedule\nThe rounds of the 2018 competition are scheduled as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280755-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Magyar Kupa (women's water polo), Preliminary round\nThe preliminary round ties were scheduled for 27\u201328 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280755-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Magyar Kupa (women's water polo), Quarter-finals\nThe quarter-final matches were played on 17 and 18 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280755-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Magyar Kupa (women's water polo), Final four\nThe semi-finals were held on 14 at the T\u00fcskecsarnok Uszoda in Budapest, XI. ker. The final was held on 16 December 2018 at the Cs\u00e1sz\u00e1r-Komj\u00e1di Swimming Stadium in Budapest, II. ker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280756-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Magyar Kupa Final\nThe 2018 Magyar Kupa Final was the final match of the 2017\u201318 Magyar Kupa, played between Pusk\u00e1s Akad\u00e9mia and \u00dajpest on 23 May 2018 at the Groupama Arena in Budapest, Hungary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280757-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maharashtra Open \u2013 Doubles\nRohan Bopanna and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Gilles Simon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280757-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maharashtra Open \u2013 Doubles\nRobin Haase and Matw\u00e9 Middelkoop won the title, defeating Herbert and Simon in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 7\u20136(7\u20135).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280758-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maharashtra Open \u2013 Singles\nRoberto Bautista Agut was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Gilles Simon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280758-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maharashtra Open \u2013 Singles\nSimon went on to win the title, defeating Kevin Anderson in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280758-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maharashtra Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280759-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine Black Bears football team\nThe 2018 Maine Black Bears football team represented the University of Maine in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They played their home games at Alfond Stadium. They were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They were led by third-year head coach Joe Harasymiak. They finished the season 10\u20134, 7\u20131 in CAA play to be crowned CAA champions. They received the CAA's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where, after a first round bye, they defeated Jacksonville State in the second round, and Weber State in the quarterfinals before losing in the semifinals to Eastern Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280759-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine Black Bears football team, Previous season\nThe Black Bears finished the 2017 season 4\u20136, 3\u20135 in CAA play to finish in a three-way tie for seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280759-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine Black Bears football team, Preseason, CAA Poll\nIn the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Black Bears were predicted to finish in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280759-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine Black Bears football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CAA Team\nThe Black Bears had three players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280759-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine Black Bears football team, FCS Playoffs\nMaine received a bye in the first round. Box scores:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280760-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 Maine House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Maine voters elected state representatives in all 151 of the state house's districts, as well as non-voting members from the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians. State representatives serve two-year terms in the Maine State House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280760-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine House of Representatives election\nA primary election on June 12, 2018 determined which candidates appear on the November 6 general election ballot. Primary election results can be obtained from the Maine Secretary of State's website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280760-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine House of Representatives election\nFollowing the 2016 state house elections, Democrats maintained effective control of the House with 77 members and 2 coalition Green representatives. Republicans held 72 seats following the 2016 elections. Following several vacancies and replacements between 2016 and 2018, on election day 2018, the Democrats had increased their majority to 74 Democrats, 1 Green, and 6 Independent representatives, while the Republicans had decreased from 72 to 70 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280760-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine House of Representatives election\nThe Maine Secretary of State provides both a detailed as well as maps for each district, including this showing all 151 House districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280760-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine House of Representatives election\nThe Democrats gained sixteen seats in the election, and the Republicans lost thirteen. The sole Green member \u2014 Ralph Chapman \u2014 was replaced by a Democrat, and the number of independents was reduced from six to five, with only two independent incumbents \u2014 Kent Ackley and Norman Higgins \u2014 being re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280760-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine House of Representatives election, Summary of Results by State House District\nItalics denote an open seat held by the incumbent party, bold text denotes a gain for a party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280760-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine House of Representatives election, Term-limited incumbents\n21 incumbents (5 Democrats, 14 Republicans, one Independent and one Green) were ineligible to run for a 5th consecutive term due to term limits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280761-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine State Senate election\nThe 2018 Maine State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Maine voters elected state senators in all 35 of the state senate's districts. State senators serve two-year terms in the State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280761-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine State Senate election\nA primary election on June 12, 2018 determined which candidates appear on the November 6 general election ballot. Primary election results can be obtained from the Maine Secretary of State's website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280761-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine State Senate election\nFollowing the 2016 state Senate elections, Republicans maintained effective control of the House with 18 members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280761-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine State Senate election\nThe Maine Secretary of State provides both a detailed as well as maps for each district, including this showing all 35 Senate districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280761-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine State Senate election\nAfter the 2018 elections, Republicans lost control of the chamber. The Democrats needed to net one Senate seat. In the election, the Democrats gained four seats, claiming the majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Maine gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next Governor of Maine. It occurred along with elections for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and other state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Governor Paul LePage was term limited and could not seek reelection to a third consecutive term in office although he later announced his campaign for a third term in the 2022 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election\nThe primaries for this election were the first in Maine to be conducted with ranked choice voting (RCV), as opposed to a simple plurality, after voters passed a citizen referendum approving the change in 2016. An advisory opinion by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court held that RCV would be unconstitutional for general elections for governor and the state legislature. This led state legislators to vote to delay its implementation pending approval of a state constitutional amendment. Backers of a \"people's veto\" turned in enough signatures to suspend this law until a June referendum vote, which restored RCV for future primary and congressional elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election\nGovernor Paul LePage threatened not to certify the results of the primary elections, saying he would \"leave it up to the courts to decide.\" He also called the use of ranked-choice voting the \"most horrific thing in the world.\" Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap said the results would be binding regardless of whether LePage certified them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election\nThe Republican nominee was businessman and 2010 independent candidate for governor Shawn Moody. The Democratic candidate was Attorney General Janet Mills. State Treasurer Terry Hayes and businessman Alan Caron had qualified for the ballot as independents, though Caron dropped out on October 29 and endorsed Mills. Former state senator and former mayor of Lewiston and Auburn John Jenkins and perennial candidate Kenneth Capron ran write-in campaigns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election\nMills defeated Moody and Hayes with a majority to become the first female Governor of Maine. She also became the first gubernatorial candidate to win at least 50% of the vote since Angus King in 1998, and the first non-incumbent to do so since Kenneth M. Curtis in 1966. Mills also became the first Maine gubernatorial candidate to earn 300,000 votes and received more votes for governor than any other candidate in state history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, Background\nIncumbent Republican Paul LePage was term-limited, having been elected twice consecutively in 2010 and 2014. LePage did not win a majority of the vote either time (receiving 37.6% in a crowded four-way race in 2010 and 48.2% in a three-way race in 2014), with Democrats accusing independent candidate Eliot Cutler of splitting the anti-LePage vote in both instances, though Cutler finished closer to LePage than Democratic candidate Libby Mitchell in the 2010 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, Background\nMaine's history of governors elected without majorities, including LePage, was one impetus for the citizen's referendum to implement ranked choice voting. Indeed, the last time a gubernatorial candidate received a majority of the vote was in 1998, when incumbent Governor (and current United States Senator) Angus King, an independent, won reelection with 58.6% of the vote. The last time a non-incumbent candidate received more than 50% of the vote was the 1966 gubernatorial election, which Democrat Kenneth M. Curtis won over incumbent Republican John H. Reed with 53.1% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, Background\nThough ranked-choice voting was approved by voters in a 2016 referendum, the Maine Legislature voted to delay and potentially repeal RCV for all elections after an advisory opinion by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled it unconstitutional for general elections for state offices. RCV supporters succeeded in a people's veto effort to prevent the delay, which suspends it until a June 2018 referendum vote. RCV supporters were victorious in the June referendum, and ranked-choice voting will remain in place for state and federal primaries and federal general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nSpeculation that U.S. Senator Susan Collins was considering running for governor arose during the 2015 Maine Legislative session when Representative Matt Moonen (D-Portland) introduced a bill to strip the governor (LePage at the time) of the power to appoint replacement U.S. Senators in the event of a vacancy and to instead have a special primary and general election. Moonen denied that he was motivated by Collins's possible candidacy, saying he was interested only in counterbalancing Republican-sponsored bills to change how the Maine Attorney General and Maine Secretary of State are chosen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nMoonen said Collins had told him speculation about her running for governor was \"silly.\" Collins, who was the 1994 Republican nominee for Governor, told MPBN News on January 4, 2016 that though she was \"baffled\" by the rumors about her being interested in running for governor, many had encouraged her to run, and she would not rule it out. In October 2017, Collins said she would not run for governor in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nNo Republican candidate ruled out challenging the results of a ranked-choice primary in court. Mary Mayhew called for the immediate repeal of RCV, calling it a \"scam\" and \"probably illegal\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nThe Maine Republican Party filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Bangor on May 4, 2018, seeking to bar the use of RCV for its own primary on the grounds that requiring the party to use it violates its First Amendment rights to choose its nominee as it sees fit. U.S. District Court Judge Jon Levy rejected the suit on May 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nAlmost all Democratic candidates said that they would abide by the results of the ranked-choice primary, with only Janet Mills refusing to comment on the issue because it was being heard by the courts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, Independents, Candidates, Declared\nCapron and Jenkins failed to qualify for the ballot, but continued their campaigns as write-in candidates", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, General election\nAfter the primaries, most prediction models had the race as a tossup, noting Paul LePage's two victories and Hillary Clinton's narrow margin of victory in the state in the 2016 presidential election. Others considered it to be a pick-up opportunity for the Democrats. Both Moody and Mills received the backing of outside money, with one PAC spending in excess of $1 million on television advertising in the state to support Mills's candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, General election\nOn October 12, Jonathan Martin of The New York Times published an article detailing a sex discrimination complaint filed against Moody and his business in 2006, which Moody settled for $20,000, resulting in the complaint being withdrawn. The complaint alleged that Moody went to the residence of a female employee and fired her for having a child just days after delivering the child via an emergency caesarean section. Moody denied the allegation through a spokesperson and later on Twitter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, General election\nThough the first poll of the race saw Mills and Moody tied for first place with Hayes and Caron lagging behind, by the end of October, four different polls were released, each showing Mills with an eight-point lead over Moody. FiveThirtyEight declared the race \"Likely D\" when its gubernatorial projections were released in October, though other prediction models maintained the race as a tossup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, General election\nOn October 29, in a press conference at the main branch of the Portland Public Library, Caron dropped out of the race and endorsed Mills. His name remained on the ballot, but any votes cast for him were regarded as blank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, General election\nShortly before 10 PM on election night, Hayes conceded the race. At 12:15 AM on November 7, Moody conceded the race to Mills, and shortly thereafter Mills declared victory at Democratic headquarters in Portland. Mills became the first Maine gubernatorial candidate to receive more than 300,000 votes in a single election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280762-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Maine gubernatorial election, General election\nMills also became the first Maine gubernatorial candidate to win a majority of the vote since Angus King won nearly 59% of the vote in his re-election bid in 1998, and became the first candidate to win a majority of the popular vote for a first term since Kenneth M. Curtis defeated incumbent governor John H. Reed in 1966, though Curtis and Reed were the only candidates in that race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280763-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine referendums\nTwo referendums were placed on the statewide ballot in Maine in 2018. Both were citizen initiated proposals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280763-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine referendums\nOne was a special referendum election held on June 12, 2018, in conjunction with state primary elections, which covered:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280763-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maine referendums\nA regularly scheduled referendum election was held on November 6, 2018, in conjunction with elections for federal and state offices, which covered:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280764-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThe 2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 89th Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The game was hosted by the Washington Nationals and was played at Nationals Park on July 17, 2018. It was televised nationally by Fox. The American League beat the National League 8\u20136, in 10 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280764-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThe host city was announced on April 6, 2015, by Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred; it was the fifth All-Star Game in Washington, D.C., and the first since 1969, when the second Washington Senators hosted. It was also the first time that the Nationals had hosted the All-Star Game, and the first time that the Nationals franchise had hosted it since 1982, when the franchise played as the Montreal Expos. For the second straight year, the Houston Astros led both the American League and all of baseball in sending six All-Stars to the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280764-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThe two leagues came into the game with identical 43\u201343\u20132 records and both had scored exactly 361 runs each in All-Star Game history. The game also broke a home run record, as ten home runs were hit in the game; the previous record being six. All but one run was scored by way of a home run. This is the second consecutive game the AL has won in the 10th inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280764-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThe national rating for the game was 5.2, down from 6.5 in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280764-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Fan balloting, Starters\nBalloting began on June 1 and ended on July 5. As in previous games, the top vote-getters at each position will be the selected starters for their respective positions, barring any suspensions, injuries or other issues. The reserve players are picked in a more convoluted way involving fan votes, players, and Commissioner's Office. For the fourth year, voting was conducted online exclusively. The results were announced on July 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280764-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Fan balloting, Final roster spot\nAfter the rosters were finalized, a second ballot of five players per league was created for the All-Star Final Vote to determine the 32nd and final player of each roster. The online balloting was conducted from July 8 through July 11. The winners of the All-Star Final Vote were Jean Segura of the American League's Seattle Mariners and Jes\u00fas Aguilar of the National League's Milwaukee Brewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280765-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby\nThe 2018 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby was a home run hitting contest between eight batters from Major League Baseball (MLB). The derby was held on July 16, 2018, at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., the site of the 2018 MLB All-Star Game. On July 11, the participants were announced. Bryce Harper was the winner, as he beat Kyle Schwarber, in the final 19\u201318, winning the derby in front of his hometown crowd. He tied Schwarber on the last pitch as time expired in regulation; then won it with 16 seconds left in bonus time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280765-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby, Rules\nEight players participate in the derby in a bracket-style, single-elimination timed event. Each player has four minutes to hit as many home runs as possible. Hitters are awarded an additional 30 seconds if they hit two home runs over 440 feet (130\u00a0m). Hitters are also allowed one 45 second timeout to stop the clock (two in the finals). Homers hit off a T-Mobile Ball during the final minute result in a $10,000 donation to charity by T-Mobile & MLB, to Team Rubicon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280765-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby, Rules\nThe eight competing players are seeded 1-8 based on their home run totals. While the lower seed hits first, the higher seed hits second in all rounds. The round ends if the higher seed exceeds the total of the first hitter. In the event of a tie, three sets of tiebreakers are employed: first, a 90-second swing-off (with no timeouts nor bonus time awarded); second, each player gets three swings; whoever hits more home runs in the three swings will be declared the winner; thereafter, sudden death swings will occur until the tie is broken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280766-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball draft\nThe 2018 Major League Baseball (MLB) First-Year Player Draft began on June 4, 2018. The draft assigned amateur baseball players to MLB teams. The draft order was determined based on the reverse order of the 2017 MLB season final standings. In addition, compensation picks were distributed for players who did not sign from the 2017 MLB Draft and for teams who lose qualifying free agents. The first 43 picks, including the first round and compensatory picks, were broadcast by MLB Network on June 4. The remainder of the draft was streamed on MLB.com on June 5 and 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280766-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball draft\nWith a tie for the worst record in the 2017 MLB season at 64\u201398, the Detroit Tigers received the first overall pick ahead of the San Francisco Giants via a tiebreaker. The Detroit Tigers selected Casey Mize with the first overall pick in the draft. There were a total of 40 rounds in the draft, with 1,214 players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280766-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball draft\nOn September 9, 2019, the Chicago Cubs promoted Nico Hoerner to the big leagues, making him the first player to reach the MLB in this draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season\nThe 2018 Major League Baseball season began on March 29. The regular season ended on October 1, extended a day for tiebreaker games to decide the winners of the National League Central and National League West divisions. The postseason began on October 2. The World Series began on October 23, and ended on October 28 with the Boston Red Sox defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games to win their ninth World Series championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season\nThe 89th Major League Baseball All-Star Game was held on July 17 at Nationals Park, the home of the Washington Nationals. The American League won, 8\u20136, in 10 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season\nThis was also the last season for the August trade waivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Schedule\nAs has been the case since 2013, all teams will play their four division opponents 19 times each for a total of 76 games. They will play six or seven games against each of the other ten same-league opponents for a total of 66 games, and 20 interleague games. The primary interleague match-ups are AL East vs NL East, AL Central vs NL Central, and AL West vs NL West. Since \"natural rivalry\" matchups are part of the three-year divisional rotation, the schedule format for interleague games will be different from previous years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Schedule\nThe 20 interleague games each team will play will consist of two three-game series (one home, one away) against its natural rival (total of six games), two two-game series (one home, one away) against each team for two other opponents (total of eight games), and a single three-game series against each team for the last two (one home, one away; total of six games).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Schedule\nUnder the new collective bargaining agreement reached in December 2016, the regular season was extended to 187 days in order to add four additional off-days for all teams. All teams were scheduled to play Opening Day, March 29\u2014the earliest domestic start of a regular season in league history until the 2019 season. The Sunday night game before the All-Star Game was replaced by a single, nationally televised game on the Thursday after the All-Star Game (which for 2018, was played between the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs), before all other teams returned from break the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Schedule\nThe Minnesota Twins and the Cleveland Indians played a two-game series at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 17 and 18, while the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres played a three-game series at Estadio de B\u00e9isbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, from May 4 to 6. The 2018 MLB Little League Classic at BB&T Ballpark in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, coinciding with the Little League World Series, returned to the schedule. It was played between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets on August 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Rule changes\nBeginning in the 2018 season, MLB implemented new pace of play rules, which include limiting the number of mound visits for each team to six per nine innings. Teams will receive an additional visit for every extra inning played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Wholesale changes\nThe Detroit Tigers modified the Olde English 'D' on the home jersey to match the 'D' on the cap. Other than a one-season hiatus of 'D' usage in 1960, this is the first major change to the Tigers' home jersey since 1934.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Wholesale changes\nThe Cleveland Indians have confirmed this will be the final season using the Chief Wahoo logo on its uniforms. It will be replaced at the start of the 2019 season. The team wore a Wahoo-less uniform through their September 6\u20139 series with the Blue Jays, as the team had been sued unsuccessfully by a group in Ontario in October 2016 to prevent the team from donning the logo during Toronto home games through the 2016 ALCS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Alternate changes\nThe Oakland Athletics added a kelly green alternate jersey to commemorate the franchise's 50th anniversary in Oakland. The uniforms are used during every Friday home game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Alternate changes\nThe Washington Nationals added a second navy blue jersey to commemorate the team's hosting of the 2018 All-Star Game. The uniform features the script \"Nationals\" in white with red trim and numerals in red with white trim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Alternate changes\nBoth the Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates replaced their camouflage uniforms with new white alternate jerseys featuring olive and military green logos, letters and numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Anniversaries and special events\nThe following teams will wear commemorative patches for special occasions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Other uniforms\nAs is the custom for the reigning World Series champions, the Astros wore gold-lettered uniforms at their home opener April 2 and April 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Other uniforms\nPlayers, managers and coaches wore #42 on April 15, the 71st anniversary of Jackie Robinson's debut in the majors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Other uniforms\nThe Orioles wore special caps and green uniforms on April 22, Earth Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Other uniforms\nThe Reds and Diamondbacks wore Spanish language \"Los Rojos\" and \"Los D-backs\" uniforms May 5, Cinco de Mayo. The Diamondbacks wore them again September 8. The Reds wore them again September 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Other uniforms\nThe Royals wore an alternate uniform with a crown atop the R, and a cap with a crown instead of the \"KC\", on June 30 in Seattle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Other uniforms\nThe Blue Jays wore red uniforms on July 1, Canada Day. They wore a cap with a gold maple leaf, as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Other uniforms\nAll US-based teams wore Stars and Stripes caps and uniforms from July 2\u20134, ending with Independence Day. Teams wore caps denoting what league they play for (there were nine interleague series during the time period).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Other uniforms\nFor the second straight year, MLB sponsored Players Weekend, an event for which all teams wore special uniforms with design cues reminiscent of typical Little League uniforms. The event was held August 24 to 26, again coinciding with the final weekend of the Little League World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Other uniforms\nThe Orioles wore Braille uniforms September 18 to mark the 40th anniversary of the National Federation of the Blind's headquarters moving to Baltimore. They became the first pro sports team ever to wear such uniforms. The uniforms had the name \"Orioles\" in Braille, and the players' last names were in Braille.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Phillies will wear their 1980s powder blue uniforms for select Thursday home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Athletics and White Sox wore 1968 throwbacks April 17 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Athletics' first season in Oakland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Tigers and Royals wore Negro leagues throwbacks May 6. The Tigers wore the uniforms of the Detroit Stars, and the Royals wore the uniforms of the Kansas City Monarchs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Padres wore 1998 throwbacks May 12 to mark the 20th anniversary of their 1998 NL title. They will wear them again at select Wednesday games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Royals wore 1969 throwbacks May 19 to mark the franchise's 50th season. The uniforms also had the MLB 100th anniversary patch, which all teams wore that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe White Sox and Brewers wore 1980s throwbacks June 2 and 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Marlins wore 1993 throwbacks June 8 to 10 to mark their 25th anniversary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Braves wore 1974 throwbacks June 22 and 23 to celebrate Hank Aaron Heritage Weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Mariners marked the 20th anniversary of their 1998 \"Turn Ahead the Clock\" promotion by wearing the uniforms from that game June 30 against Kansas City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Brewers and Pirates wore Negro league throwbacks July 13. The Brewers wore the uniforms of the Milwaukee Bears, and the Pirates wore the uniforms of the Pittsburgh Crawfords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Brewers wore Milwaukee Bears uniforms August 2. Their opponents, the Rockies, wore their regular uniforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Mariners and Astros wore throwbacks on August 10; the Mariners wore their 1979 throwbacks, and the Astros wore their \"Tequila Sunrise\" uniforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Angels wore California Angels throwbacks from 1976 to 1985 on August 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Rays wore their 1998 inaugural throwbacks on March 31 against the Boston Red Sox, on June 9 against the Seattle Mariners, and on June 23 against the New York Yankees, along with September 8 against the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, Throwbacks\nThe Tigers wore their 1968 road uniforms September 8 at home to mark the 50th anniversary of their winning the 1968 World Series title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Broadcast rights, Television, National\nThis was the fifth year of the current eight-year deals with Fox Sports, ESPN and TBS. Fox aired eight weeks of baseball on Saturday Nights leading up to the 2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game which also aired on Fox. Fox also televised Saturday afternoon games for the last four weeks of the regular season. FS1 televised games on Tuesday and on Saturdays both during the afternoon and night. ESPN televised games on its flagship telecast Sunday Night Baseball as well as Monday and Wednesday Nights. TBS televised Sunday afternoon games for the last 13 weeks of the regular season. Fox and ESPN Sunday Night Baseball telecasts were exclusive; all other national telecasts were subject to local blackout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Broadcast rights, Television, National\nTBS televised the American League Wild Card Game, Division Series and televised the Championship Series. ESPN televised the National League Wild Card, along with the National League West and Central tie-breaker games. FS1 and MLB Network televised the National League Division Series. Fox and FS1 will televise the National League Championship Series. The World Series aired exclusively on Fox for the 19th consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Broadcast rights, Television, Local\nOn September 6, Fox Sports Detroit suspended Detroit Tigers play-by-play announcer Mario Impemba and color commentator Rod Allen for the remainder of the season after an alleged physical altercation that occurred on September 4, in which Allen reportedly placed Impemba in a choke hold at Chicago's Guaranteed Rate Field after a game they called between the Tigers and the Chicago White Sox, a claim Allen's agent has denied. Backup announcers Matt Shepard and Kirk Gibson replaced them for the rest of the season. It was later announced that Impemba and Allen's contracts were not renewed for future seasons, ending their 17 years together as broadcast partners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280767-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Baseball season, Broadcast rights, Digital\nNine regular season games were broadcast exclusively in the United States on Facebook Watch, beginning with the April 4 game between the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280768-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Lacrosse season\nThe 2018 Major League Lacrosse season is the 18th season of Major League Lacrosse. The season began on Saturday, April 21 with three games. For the third straight year, the league consists of nine teams playing 14 games each. However, the league announced on November 16, 2017 that the Rochester Rattlers, one of the league's four remaining charter franchises, would relocate to Frisco, Texas and become the Dallas Rattlers. The reigning champions for the first time are the Ohio Machine, who would take a hard fall and finish 3-11 in 2018. The season culminated on Saturday, August 18 with the Denver Outlaws hoisting their third Steinfeld Trophy in Charleston, South Carolina at MUSC Health Stadium after defeating the Rattlers, 16-12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280768-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Lacrosse season, Milestones and events, Team movement\nOn November 16, 2017, the league announced at The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas that the Rochester Rattlers would be relocating to the Dallas market to become the Dallas Rattlers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280768-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Lacrosse season, Milestones and events, Partnership with Women's Professional Lacrosse League\nIn June, the MLL and upstart Women's Professional Lacrosse League, the second pro women's lacrosse league in the United States, will play three doubleheaders. On June 2, the Baltimore Brave (WPLL) took the field in the afternoon before the Bayhawks hosted the Ohio Machine. On June 28, the New England Command hosted the Philadelphia Fire at Harvard Stadium in Boston before the MLL All Star Game. On June 30, the New York Lizards will play a host a doubleheader with the New York Fight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 111], "content_span": [112, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280768-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Lacrosse season, Attendance\nFor the seventh straight year, league attendance dropped. Only the Rattlers (first season after relocating from Rochester) and Machine posted better attendances in 2018 than the year prior. The Outlaws' Fourth of July game was the only contest all season that drew a five-digit attendance figure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280768-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Lacrosse season, Collegiate Draft\nThe 2018 MLL Collegiate Draft was held on Wednesday, April 18 at the U.S. Lacrosse Headquarters in Sparks, Maryland. With the first overall pick, the Boston Cannons selected prolific faceoff specialist, Trevor Baptiste, from the University of Denver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280768-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Lacrosse season, All Star Game\nOn February 13, the league announced the 2018 All Star Game would be held in Boston at Harvard Stadium on Thursday, June 28. The game featured the MLL All-Stars facing Team USA in preparation of the 2018 FIL World Lacrosse Championship from July 12-21 in Netanya, Israel. On June 27, the league announced that the ESPN family of networks would be airing the game. The next day in front of 6,589 fans, the MLL All Stars defeated Team USA for the first time thanks to seven unanswered goals resulting in a 15-14 overtime victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280768-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Lacrosse season, Playoffs\nFour teams will make the Major League Lacrosse playoffs. Two semifinal games were played on August 11 at Frisco, Texas and Annapolis, Maryland. The winners, the Dallas Rattlers and Denver Outlaws, advanced to the championship game on August 18 in Charleston, South Carolina at MUSC Health Stadium. The matchup resulted in the Outlaws claiming their third championship in five years after a 16-12 defeat of the Rattlers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280769-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby Final\nThe 2018 Major League Rugby Final was the championship match of the inaugural season of Major League Rugby (MLR), a rugby union club competition in the United States. It was played on July 7, 2018, at Torero Stadium in San Diego, California, between the Glendale Raptors and the Seattle Seawolves. Seattle won the match 23\u201319 to take their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280769-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby Final\nThe Glendale and Seattle teams finished first and second in the regular season, respectively, and advanced to the MLR Championship Series, contesting the semifinals against San Diego and Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280769-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby Final, Background\nMajor League Rugby was established in 2017 and began play in April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280769-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby Final, Background\nSeattle and Glendale played each other twice during the regular season, with Glendale winning both matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280769-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby Final, Venue\nTorero Stadium, home field of Major League Rugby team San Diego Legion, was selected as the venue for the final before the beginning of the Championship Series playoffs. The stadium with a seating capacity of 6,000 on the campus of the University of San Diego is also home to the various athletics teams of the university.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280769-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby Final, Broadcasting\nThe match was broadcast on CBS Sports Network. Dan Power served as the play by play commentator for CBS and was joined by color analysts Brian Hightower and Peter Steinberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280769-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby Final, Match, Details\nAssistant Referees: Adam Leal (England) Derek Summers (United States)Television Match Official: Marc Nelson (United States)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280769-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby Final, Match, Highlights\nThe champion Seattle Seawolves was awarded the \"America's Championship Shield\", an oversized 80-pound (36\u00a0kg) metal shield of the MLR logo, which they hoisted. Seawolves flanker Vili Toluta\u02bbu was named the MLR Championship Series \"MVP\", equivalent to man of the match. For his efforts, he received a Shinola Detroit American Made watch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280770-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby season\nThe\u00a02018 Major League Rugby season\u00a0was the inaugural season of\u00a0Major League Rugby, an annual\u00a0rugby union\u00a0competition sanctioned by\u00a0USA Rugby. The seven inaugural teams were based in the United States. The competition began the weekend of April 21\u201322 with three matches, with New Orleans defeating Houston 35\u201326 to open the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280770-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby season\nGlendale and Seattle were the best two teams at the end of the regular season and won their respective semi-final matches to advance to the championship game at Torero Stadium in San Diego. Seattle became Major League Rugby's first champion team with a surprise come-from-behind 23\u201319 win in the final over Glendale, who had only lost once previously during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280770-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby season, Regular season\nAll seven participating teams played eight matches and received two rounds of byes during the regular season held over ten weeks from April through to June. The schedule was short of a full home and away draw by four match rounds, so each side played two of the other teams twice and four of them only once. The top four teams at the end of the regular season advanced to the MLR playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280770-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby season, Regular season, Standings\nThe final standings for the 2018 Major League Rugby regular season were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280770-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby season, Regular season, Standings\nFour points for a win, two for a draw, and no points for a bye. One bonus point for scoring four or more tries (TB).One bonus point for losing by seven or less (LB). \u2022 Teams 1 to 4 (Green background) at the end of the regular season qualify for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280770-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby season, Regular season, Matches\nThe following matches were played for the 2018 Major League Rugby regular season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280770-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby season, Regular season, Matches\nUpdated to match(es) played on June 23, 2018. Colors: Blue: home team win; Yellow: draw; Red: away team win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280770-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby season, Playoffs\nThe top four teams from the regular season qualified for the playoffs. The format was two semifinal matches \u2013 first versus fourth, and second versus third \u2013 followed by a Championship game between the semifinal winners to determine the MLR champion team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280770-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby season, Playoffs\nThe semifinals were played as a double header at Infinity Park in Glendale on June 30, followed a week later by the final at Torero Stadium in San Diego on July 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280770-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Rugby season, Player statistics\nThe leading scorers in 2018 over the regular season and playoffs combined were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280771-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Soccer season\nThe 2018 Major League Soccer season was the 23rd season of Major League Soccer, top division of soccer in the United States and Canada. The regular season began on March 3, 2018 and concluded on October 28, 2018. The MLS Cup Playoffs began on October 31, 2018 and concluded with MLS Cup 2018 on December 8, 2018. The league took a nine-day hiatus in early June for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, reduced from previous breaks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280771-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Soccer season\nLos Angeles FC joined the league as an expansion franchise, while D.C. United debuted their new soccer-specific stadium, Audi Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280771-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Soccer season\nToronto FC were the defending Supporters' Shield champions and defending MLS Cup champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280771-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Soccer season\nNew York Red Bulls won their third Supporters' Shield, with a league record 71 points, while Atlanta United FC won their first MLS Cup in their second year in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280771-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Soccer season, Regular season, Format\nDuring the 2018 MLS regular season, each team played 34 games, including 17 home games and 17 away games. Teams faced each of their conference opponents (10 in the East, 11 in the West) twice during the season with one game at home and one game away. Western Conference teams played one additional intra-conference game and Eastern Conference teams played two. All teams faced each non-conference opponent once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280771-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Soccer season, Regular season, Aggregate 2017 and 2018 table\nAs Toronto FC won MLS Cup 2017, one of the U.S. berths for the 2019 CONCACAF Champions League had to be reallocated, to the U.S. non-champions with the best aggregate record over the 2017 and 2018 MLS regular seasons. As the top ranked team in the table, Atlanta United FC, also qualified for the Champions League by winning MLS Cup 2018, the Champions League spot via the aggregate table was instead awarded to the second-placed team, the New York Red Bulls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 78], "content_span": [79, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280771-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Soccer season, Player transfers, SuperDraft\nThe MLS SuperDraft is an annual event, taking place in January of each year, in which the teams of Major League Soccer select players who have graduated from college or otherwise been signed by the league. The first two rounds of 2018 MLS SuperDraft were held on January 19 in Philadelphia. Rounds three and four of the 2018 SuperDraft were held via conference call on January 21. Los Angeles FC selected Jo\u00e3o Moutinho with the first overall pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280771-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Soccer season, Player transfers, Allocation ranking\nThe allocation ranking is the mechanism used to determine which MLS club has first priority to acquire a player who is in the MLS allocation list. The MLS allocation list contains select U.S. National Team players and players transferred outside of MLS garnering a transfer fee of at least $500,000. The allocations are ranked in reverse order of finish for the 2017 season, taking playoff performance into account. As an expansion team, Los Angeles FC took the top spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280771-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Major League Soccer season, Player transfers, Allocation ranking\nOnce the club uses its allocation ranking to acquire a player, it drops to the bottom of the list. A ranking can be traded provided that part of the compensation received in return is another club's ranking. At all times each club is assigned one ranking. The rankings reset at the end of each MLS season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280772-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Makassar mayoral election\nThe 2018 Makassar mayoral election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the mayor of Makassar and the deputy mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280772-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Makassar mayoral election\nCEO of Indonesian professional football club PSM Makassar Munafri Arifuddin, who was supported by 8 of 9 political parties in the People's Representative Council, was the only candidate in an uncontested election. Incumbent mayor Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto initially registered to run for a second term as an independent candidate, but his candidacy was later revoked by a Supreme Court ruling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280772-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Makassar mayoral election\nDespite running as a single candidate, Arifuddin lost the vote to an empty ballot (kotak kosong), forcing the election to be repeated in 2020 and for an acting mayor to be appointed by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Although a lawsuit was brought to the Constitutional Court, the appeal was rejected, making the election the first in Indonesian electoral history in which an empty ballot won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280772-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Makassar mayoral election, Timeline\nThe KPU set a temporary voter count at 862,731 in March 2018, spread across 15 subdistricts. The voters voted at 2,765 polling stations. A budget of Rp 60 billion (US$4.35 million) was assigned for the election, of which 16.4 billion came from the 2017 budget and the rest from the 2018 fiscal year. Registration for party-backed candidates was opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The campaign period was from 15 February to 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June. The vote itself follows a first past the post system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280772-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Makassar mayoral election, Timeline\nThe candidates were assigned their ballot numbers on 13 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280772-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Makassar mayoral election, Candidates\nMunafri Arifuddin, a member of Golkar and nephew of the then-Vice President Jusuf Kalla, was supported by 10 parties. Also the CEO of the PSM Makassar football club, he had promised to keep this position if elected. Arifuddin's running mate Rachmatika Dewi was a deputy speaker of the city council and the chief of Nasdem in Makassar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280772-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Makassar mayoral election, Candidates\nAlthough initially supported by some political parties, Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto registered with the KPU as an independent candidate, having collected 117,492 valid copies of ID cards out of the ~65,000 required as an independent candidate. Demokrat was the only party represented in the People's Representative Council that officially supported him. Other parties declared their initial support to him, but withdrew later. His running mate Indira Mulyasari was the deputy speaker of the city council, although she resigned for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280772-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Makassar mayoral election, Candidates\nIn February, the Munafri-Dewi pair sued the local KPU in order to cancel Pomanto's candidacy, citing a case in which Pomanto distributed smartphones while serving as the city's mayor. The South Sulawesi high court on national administration (Pengadilan Tinggi Tata Usaha Negara) on March 21 ordered the KPU to cancel Pomanto's candidacy. The election body then brought the case to the Supreme Court, which upheld the PT TUN decision. Pomanto stated that he would continue pressing his case through the legal system. However, the electoral commission decided to disqualify him following a closed-door meeting, making the election an uncontested one. However, Arifuddin was still required to win a majority of the votes (voters could vote for an empty ballot) or the elections would be redone in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280772-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Makassar mayoral election, Aftermath\nFollowing the announcement of the results, the Munafri-Dewi campaign team filed a lawsuit to the Constitutional Court, claiming \"structured, systematic and massive cheating\", accusing Pomanto of having interfered in favor of the \"none of the above option\" within his capacity as mayor, and demanding that the \"none of the above\" option/empty column be cancelled. In 10 August, the court ruled against the appeal, hence awarding \"victory\" for the none of the above option - the first in Indonesian electoral history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280773-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Makati Super Crunch season\nThe 2018 Makati Super Crunch season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280774-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mako Brimob standoff\nThe 2018 Mako Brimob standoff was a three-day prison takeover and stand-off between the Indonesian National Police and inmates convicted of terrorist activities who were imprisoned at the Police's Mobile Brigade Corps's headquarters (Mako Brimob) in Depok, West Java, Indonesia. The inmates took control over one prison block and 6 police officers were taken hostages. As a result of the standoff, five police officers lost their lives, with one inmate dead after being shot by the police. Four policemen were also injured in the incident. The Islamic State claimed its fighters were in the standoff. Another policeman was stabbed to death at the headquarters of the elite Mobile Brigade police after the siege by an Islamic fighter who was later shot and killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280774-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mako Brimob standoff, Chronology, May 8\nAfter midnight, pictures began circulating on social media, depicting several detainees holding firearms, a black IS flag, nursing wounds and holding hostages. Mako Brimob and surrounding areas were secured and civilians were prohibited from coming closer to the area. Brimob officers began to secure the surrounding streets, extending extra security to a nearby church and hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280774-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mako Brimob standoff, Victims\nThe police have announced that five members of Police's Densus 88 counter-terrorism unit have been killed while another officer was held hostage, in a standoff between police and terror convicts since rioting broke out on Tuesday evening at the Mobile Brigade headquarters (Mako Brimob) detention center in Kelapa Dua, Depok, West Java.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280774-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mako Brimob standoff, Victims\nOne terror detainee was also killed during the incident after making repeated threats and attempting to steal a police weapon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280774-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mako Brimob standoff, Victims\nThe Mako Brimob has been in lockdown since rioting broke out at its detention center on Tuesday evening, with local roads cordoned off and affecting traffic on Wednesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280774-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mako Brimob standoff, Victims\nAccording to National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. M. Iqbal, the officers' bodies have been transferred to the National Police Hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280774-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mako Brimob standoff, Victims\nMeanwhile, the police officer who was held hostage was identified as Chief Brigadier Iwan Sarjana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280774-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mako Brimob standoff, Responses\nNetizens were worried about Jakarta's former governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama who is serving sentence in Mako Brimob for blasphemy against Islam. Although the police have reported him to be safe, they suspect that the attackers are planning to attack him as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280775-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malacca state election\nThe 14th Malacca election was held on 9 May 2018 to elect the State Assemblymen of the 14th Malacca State Legislative Assembly, the legislature of the Malaysian state of Malacca. The Malacca State Legislative Assembly dissolved on 7 April 2018 by the Head of State (Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Malacca) on the advice of the Head of Government (Chief Minister of Malacca).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280775-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malacca state election\nThe election was conducted by the Malaysian Election Commission and utilised the first-past-the-post system. Electoral candidates were nominated on 28 April. On 9 May, between 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. Malaysian time (UTC+8), polling was held in all 28 state constituencies throughout Malacca; each constituency elects a single State Assemblyman to the state legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280775-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malacca state election\nBarisan Nasional (BN), the ruling coalition in Malacca, lost to opposition Pakatan Harapan (PH). PH won 15 seats while BN won 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280775-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malacca state election, Background\nThe upcoming state election will be the 14th state election in the State of Malacca since the independence of Malaya (now Malaysia) in 1957.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280775-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malacca state election, Background\nA state election must be held within sixty days after the dissolution. Accordingly, the Malaysian Election Commission set 28 April as the nomination day and 9 May as the polling day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280775-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Malacca state election, Background, Political parties\nBarisan Nasional (BN), the ruling coalition in Malacca, has been in power since its formation and led by Chief Minister Idris Haron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280775-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Malacca state election, Background, Political parties\nBN was challenged by two opposition coalitions, the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and the Gagasan Sejahtera (GS). The PH and GS coalitions were led by Adly Zahari and Kamarudin Sidek respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280775-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Malacca state election, Election pendulum\nThe 14th General Election witnessed 15 governmental seats and 13 non-governmental seats filled the Malacca State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 4 safe seats and 1 fairly safe seat, while the non-government side has just 2 fairly safe seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280776-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malagasy presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Madagascar on 7 November. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round involving the top two candidates, Andry Rajoelina and Marc Ravalomanana, was held on 19 December. On 27 December Rajoelina was announced as the winner with 56% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280776-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malagasy presidential election, Electoral system\nThe President of Madagascar is elected using the two-round system; if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, a run-off will be held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280776-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malagasy presidential election, Presidential candidates\nFormer President Marc Ravalomanana, who resigned following a political crisis in 2009, announced that he would run again for the presidency. His successor, Andry Rajoelina, also announced his intention to contest the elections. Incumbent Hery Rajaonarimampianina unsuccessfully sought to block Ravaolmanana and Rajoelina from running on grounds that they had participated in the 2009 coup d'\u00e9tat. In September 2018, Rajaonarimampianina stepped down to run for reelection, allowing a caretaker government to administer the vote, in accordance with the constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280776-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malagasy presidential election, Presidential candidates\nThere were a record 36 candidates in the race (surpassing the previous record of 33), including four of the five most recent presidents. However, only five candidates were women, seen by some of illustrating the historic patriarchal dominance of Malagasy politics and culture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280776-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malagasy presidential election, Campaign\nDespite the majority of Malagasy people living in poverty, the elections are expected to be one of the most expensive per capita in 2018. The top three candidates; Hery Rajaonarimampianina, Andry Rajoelina, and Marc Ravalomanana are at a significant financial advantage over the other contenders, with candidate Ny Rado Rafalimanana complaining that due to financial constraints it was impossible for any other candidate to compete with the top three, as there are no campaign finance limits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280776-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Malagasy presidential election, Campaign\nSome election observers believe that the winner of the election will have more to do with that candidate's financial power and influence than their political positions. The lavish spending on the election has also been criticized due to the large amount of poverty in the country, with many believing the money could be better spent elsewhere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280776-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Malagasy presidential election, Campaign\nAlthough two-thirds of the population is under 25, turnout and interest among young people is low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280777-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Challenge Cup\nThe 2018 Malaysia Challenge Cup or Challenge Cup (Malay: Piala Cabaran Malaysia 2018) is the first edition of Malaysia Challenge Cup tournament organised by Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) and Football Malaysia LLP (FMLLP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280777-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Challenge Cup\nThe 2018 Malaysia Challenge Cup will start with a preliminary round. A total of 8 teams took part in the competition. The teams were divided into two groups, each containing four teams. The group leaders and runners-up teams in the groups after six matches qualified to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280777-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Challenge Cup, Format\nThe competition will be one involving eight teams-one team from Malaysia Super League (12th placed team), seven teams from Malaysia Premier League (6th to 12th placed teams). However due to the fact that Kuantan were thrown out of the league, another team will be invited into the Challenge Cup to replaced them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280777-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Challenge Cup, Round and draw dates\nThe draw for the 2018 Malaysia Challenge Cup was held on 1 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280777-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Challenge Cup, Knockout Stage, Final\nThe first legs will be played on 8 October 2018, and the second legs will be played on 15 October 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280778-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Challenge Cup group stage\nThe 2018 Malaysia Challenge Cup group stage featured 8 teams. The teams were drawn into two groups of four, and played each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The top two teams in each group advanced to the semi finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280778-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Challenge Cup group stage\nThe group stage will start on 7 August 2018 and concludes on 19 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280779-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup\nThe 2018 Malaysia Cup (Malay: Piala Malaysia 2018) was the 92nd edition of Malaysia Cup tournament organised by Football Association of Malaysia (FAM). Known as the unifi Malaysia Cup due to the start of a sponsorship deal with unifi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280779-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup\nThe 2018 Malaysia Cup began on August with a preliminary round. A total of 16 teams took part in the competition. The teams were divided into four groups, each containing four teams. The group leaders and runners-up teams in the groups after six matches qualified to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280779-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup\nJohor Darul Ta'zim are the title holders. They were eliminated by Terengganu in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280779-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup, Format\nIn the competition, the top eleven teams from the 2018 Malaysia Super League were joined by the top five teams from the 2018 Malaysia Premier League. The teams were drawn into four groups of four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280779-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup, Round and draw dates\nThe draw for the 2018 Malaysia Cup was held on 30 July 2018 at Damansara Performing Arts Centre on live telecast iflix with the participating team coaches and captains in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280779-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup, Group stage\nThe draw for the group stage was held on 30 July 2018, 15:30 MYT (UTC+8), at the Damansara Performing Arts Centre in Petaling Jaya, Selangor and has been broadcast live on iflix and Unifi TV. The 16 teams were drawn into 4 groups. In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280779-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup, Knockout stage\nThe first legs will be played on 21 to 25 September 2018, and the second legs will be played on 28 to 30 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280779-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup, Knockout stage, Semi-finals\nThe first legs were played on 6 and 7 October 2018, and the second legs were played on 20 and 21 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280779-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup, Statistics, Goalscorers\nPlayers sorted first by goals scored, then by first name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280779-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup, Statistics, Clean sheets\nNote: Players and teams in bold are still active in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280780-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup Final\nThe 2018 Malaysia Cup Final was a football match which were played on 27 October 2018, to determine the champion of the 2018 Malaysia Cup. It was the final of the 92nd edition of the Malaysia Cup, competition organised by the Football Association of Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280780-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup Final\nIt was played at the Shah Alam Stadium, in Shah Alam, Selangor, between Terengganu FC and Perak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280780-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup Final, Road to final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280781-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup group stage\nThe 2018 Malaysia Cup group stage featured 16 teams and will start on 4 August and concludes on 16 September 2018. A total of 16 teams will compete in the group stage to decide the 8 places in the knockout stage of the 2018 Malaysia Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280781-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Cup group stage, Draw\nThe draw for the group stage was held on 30 July 2018, 15:30 MYT (UTC+8), at the Damansara Performing Arts Centre in Petaling Jaya, Selangor and has been broadcast live on iflix and Unifi TV. The 16 teams were drawn into 4 groups. In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280782-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FA Cup\nThe 2018 Malaysia FA Cup (also known as Shopee Malaysia FA Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 29th season of the Malaysia FA Cup, a knockout competition for Malaysia's state football association and clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280782-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FA Cup, Qualified teams\nThe following teams are qualified for the competition. Reserve teams are excluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280782-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FA Cup, Matches\nKey: (1) = Super League; (2) = Premier League; (3) = FAM League; (4) = Liga Sosial", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280782-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FA Cup, Final\nThe final was played on 7 July 2018 at Bukit Jalil National Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280783-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FA Cup Final\nThe 2018 Malaysia FA Cup Final was the 29th final of the Malaysia FA Cup, the Malaysia football cup competition. Pahang won the cup after defeating Selangor 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280783-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FA Cup Final, Background\nThe final was played on 7 July 2018 at Bukit Jalil National Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280783-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FA Cup Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280783-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FA Cup Final, Ticket allocation\nEach club received an allocation of 80,000 tickets; 30,750 tickets for Selangor, 30,750 tickets for Pahang and 18,500 tickets for online purchase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280783-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FA Cup Final, Rules\nThe final was played as a single match. If tied after regulation, extra time and, if necessary, penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280784-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FAM Cup\nThe 2018 Malaysia FAM League is the 67th season of the Malaysia FAM League since its establishment in 1952. The league is currently the third level football league in Malaysia. The season started on 25 February 2018 and concludes in 6 September 2018. Sime Darby are the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280784-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FAM Cup, Teams\nFor 2018 season, there are 14 teams will compete in the league, including nine sides from the 2017 season, two relegated from the 2017 Malaysia Premier League and three new teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280784-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FAM Cup, Teams, Season Changes, Teams withdraw\n1 Originally Sime Darby F.C. were promoted along with UKM F.C. as finalists of the 2017 Malaysia FAM League final, but after Sime Darby announced their withdrawal from the Premier League participation, Felcra F.C., the next highest team in the FAM League table, were invited as replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280784-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FAM Cup, League stages, League table\nFrom this season, only top two teams for each group qualify for the knockout round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280784-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FAM Cup, League stages, League table\n2Marcerra United and Hanelang results are expunged in the table as a result of the teams withdrawal from the league on 20 July 2018 and 25 July 2018 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280784-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FAM Cup, League stages, Fixtures and results, Matchday 14\n322 and 23 April 2018 marked the first time in the season two teams played twice in a twenty-four hour period. Adverse weather conditions halted an afternoon match between ATM FA and MOF F.C. on 22 April. The game resumed at 9 am the following morning, and ATM won 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 71], "content_span": [72, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280784-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia FAM Cup, Knock-out stage\nThe teams that won the semi-final stage will be promoted to the 2019 Malaysia Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280785-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia HFMD outbreak\nBeginning in January 2018, an outbreak of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) occurred among children nationwide across Malaysia. Nearly 38,000 cases were recorded between January 1 and July 26, and by August 14 the total number of cases had risen to 51,000. Among the states and federal territories affected by the outbreak, Selangor recorded the highest cases with 11,349, Kuala Lumpur with 4,428 and Sarawak with 4,412 cases as reported in July 2018. At least two children in Sarawak and Penang died from complications caused by the virus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280785-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia HFMD outbreak, Background and history\nHFMD transmission outbreak in Malaysia was first reported in the state of Sarawak in 1997 where between 28 and 31 children died as a result of infection by the Enterovirus 71 (EV-A71) virus. Since then, recurrent cyclical epidemics of HFMD have occurred in the country every two to three years. While the root cause behind the recurrence of the disease remains a mystery, another factor that has been identified as increasing the spread of the disease among children is travel to neighbouring countries with high infection rates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280785-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Malaysia HFMD outbreak, Background and history\nThrough autopsies performed on deceased individuals, death has been attributed to several symptoms linked to the disease such as poor peripheral perfusion, tachycardia and cardiac failures. These individuals had also developed symptoms earlier on such as shock, pallor, cold extremities, delayed capillary refill and weak peripheral pulses. In 1998, the Ministry of Health acknowledged that the disease was endemic in the country with periodic outbreaks among young children. Since the first outbreak, the Ministry of Health has periodically ordered the closure of affected kindergartens and schools which are likely to be the source area of the disease. A further outbreak of 1,178 cases, mostly in kindergartens nurseries, was reported in the state of Johor in 2000 following an outbreak in neighbouring Singapore a month before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280785-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia HFMD outbreak, Authorities response\nIn July 2018, Malaysian Health Ministry Disease Control Division director Chong Chee Keong said toys were among the cause of immediate spread of the virus to other children. The Health Ministry further reported that HFMD disease cases had exceeded warning levels. To prevent spread, the Ministry urged parents to act as \"gate-keepers\" in order to ensure children infected with the disease did not go to school and to seek immediate treatment if their children showed signs of infection. The Education Ministry issued a letter to every school to monitor the health of their students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280785-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Malaysia HFMD outbreak, Authorities response\nThe Health Ministry also considered the use of vaccines from other countries, though research on vaccines had to be carried out before they could be approved for local use. As infection rates increased among children, the local health department of Penang ordered all supermarkets and shopping complexes in the state to disinfect trolleys, toys and benches on their premises. Disinfection was also carried out in all villages, schools and preschools in a district in Sarawak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280786-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Masters\nThe 2018 Malaysia Masters, officially the Perodua Malaysia Masters 2018, was a badminton tournament which took place at Axiata Arena in Malaysia from 16 to 21 January 2018 and had a total purse of $350,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280786-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Masters, Tournament\nThe 2018 Malaysia Masters was the second tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Malaysia Masters championships which had been held since 2009. This tournament was organized by the Badminton Association of Malaysia with the sanction from the BWF. It was also the first ever new Super 500 Level 4 tournament of the BWF World Tour schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280786-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Masters, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280786-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Masters, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is a table with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 500 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280786-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Masters, Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$350,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280787-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Malaysia Open (officially known as the Celcom Axiata Malaysia Open 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Axiata Arena in Malaysia from 26 June to 1 July 2018 and had a total purse of $700,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280787-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Malaysia Open was the eleventh tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Malaysia Open championships, which had been held since 1937. This tournament was organized by the Badminton Association of Malaysia with the sanction of the BWF. It was also the first ever new Super 750 Level 3 tournament of the BWF World Tour schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280787-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280787-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 750 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280787-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$700,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280788-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Premier League\nThe 2018 Malaysia Premier League, known as 2018 100Plus Malaysia Premier League for sponsorship reasons, was the 15th season of the Malaysia Premier League, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia since its establishment in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280788-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Premier League, Team changes\nA total of 12 teams contested the league, including 6 sides from the 2017 season, four relegated from the 2017 Malaysia Super League and four promoted from the 2017 Malaysia FAM League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280788-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Premier League, Disbandment of Kuantan FA\nAfter failing to settle bad debt with former players for last season campaign, 4 months failing to pay current team wages. and unable to turn up for a league fixture against PDRM, FMLLP decided to disqualify Kuantan from the rest of the campaign. Because of their disqualification, all points that were won by other teams against Kuantan will not count and the league was left with 11 teams out of initial 12 with teams that were due to play Kuantan were given a bye week. It is the first time this has ever occurred in the professional level of Malaysian football where a team is disallowed to compete after breaking the rules and regulations with the season on-going.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280788-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Premier League, Disbandment of Kuantan FA\nKuantan stated that Marcerra (the team that bought their license) wanted to take over the bad debts amounted to RM 3.5 million and clear all the overdue payment from last season. But it seemed fruitless as after 4 months into the league campaign, the problem was still unsettled as the current squad players decided to leave the team and opted to join teams in the FAM league. Kuantan were awarded RM 500,000 annual grant but minus RM 200,000 for fined after failing to complete their registration papers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280788-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Premier League, Stadium and locations, Personnel and sponsoring\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 77], "content_span": [78, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280788-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Premier League, Stadium and locations, Coaching changes\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280788-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Premier League, Stadium and locations, Foreign players\nThe number of foreign players is restricted to four each team including at least one player from the AFC country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280788-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Premier League, Stadium and locations, Foreign players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280788-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Premier League, Stadium and locations, Naturalisation\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280788-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Premier League, Season statistics, Top scorers\nPlayers sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280789-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Super League\nThe 2018 Malaysia Super League (Malay: Liga Super Malaysia 2018), known as 2018 unifi Malaysia Super League (Malay: unifi Liga Super Malaysia 2018) for sponsorship reasons, was the 15th season of the Malaysia Super League, the top-tier professional football league in Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280789-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Super League, Club licensing regulations\nStarting this season, every team in the Liga Super Malaysia must have a FAM Club Licence to play in the league, or else they are relegated. To obtain a FAM Club Licence, teams must be financially healthy and meet certain standards of conduct as organisations. As part of privation effort for the league, all clubs compete in Liga Super Malaysia and Liga Premier Malaysia will be required to obtained FAM Club Licence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280789-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Super League, Club licensing regulations\nAs in other national leagues, there are significant benefits to being in the top division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280789-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Super League, Club licensing regulations\nDespite several reminders from FAM from the beginning of 2015, however there are few teams failed to get the approval for both AFC and FAM club licenses from First Instance Body (FIB) .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280789-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Super League, Teams\nSarawak and Penang were relegated to 2018 Malaysia Premier League after finished 11th and bottom place of last season league. Kuala Lumpur and Terengganu promoted to 2018 Malaysia Super League after securing place as champions and runners-up in 2017 Malaysia Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280789-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Super League, Teams\nOn 21 November 2017, it was announced that T-Team who finished ninth in the Super League last year, will play in the 2018 Malaysia Premier League pending approval from Football Malaysia LLP (FMLLP). The suggestion then were approved on 4 December 2017, followed by an announcement stating that Felda United, who finished third last season are ineligible to compete in this year top-tier competition. They were replaced by Negeri Sembilan and PKNP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280789-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Super League, Teams, Venues\n1: Perak plays at Lumut due to the upgrading of their own stadium at Perak Stadium2: PKNP plays at Batu Kawan due to the upgrading of Perak Stadium3: Kelantan plays their home games at their opponents stadium during Ramadan, due to ban of Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium usage by state government during Ramadan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280789-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Super League, Teams, Foreign players\nSoutheast Asia (SEA) players need to have acquired at least 30 international caps for their senior national team with no period restriction on when caps are earned and those who has less than 30 international caps will be subjected to FMLLP approval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280789-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia Super League, Teams, Foreign players\nPlayers name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280790-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia methanol poisonings\nThe 2018 Malaysia methanol poisonings occurred in September 2018 in three states and two federal territories in West Malaysia comprising Selangor (64 cases), Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya (18 cases), Perak (13 cases) and Negeri Sembilan (3 cases). Until October, 45 people from the total of 98 cases have been reported dead by the Malaysian Health Ministry. Most of the victims are foreign workers from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar and Nepal with several Malaysians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280790-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysia methanol poisonings\nBased on investigation, most of the victims had bought a cheap liquor from hole in the wall stores in bid to evade the tax rates on Malaysian alcohols that range from 150\u2013560%. As a response towards the incident, the Malaysian government has confiscated 15,630 bottles of liquor from 1,961 premises across the country. Around 30 people in connection with the distribution had been arrested despite little response and insufficient enforcement against the black market in the country from the authorities had attracted criticism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280791-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian Chinese Association leadership election\nA leadership election was held by the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) on 4 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280791-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian Chinese Association leadership election\nBoth Wee Ka Siong and his running mate Mah Hang Soon won the presidency and deputy presidency respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election\nThe 2018 Malaysian general election, formally known as the 14th Malaysian general election, was held on Wednesday, 9 May 2018, for members of the 14th Parliament of Malaysia. At stake were all 222 seats in the Dewan Rakyat (the legislature's lower house) and 505 seats in 12 out of the 13 state legislative assemblies of Malaysia. The 13th Parliament of Malaysia was dissolved by Prime Minister Najib Razak on 7 April 2018. It would have been automatically dissolved on 24 June 2018, five years after the first meeting of the first session of the 13th Parliament of Malaysia on 24 June 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election\nIn an unprecedented victory, the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition, which had been the country's federal Opposition prior to the election, won a simple majority in the Dewan Rakyat together with the Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN), with PH and WARISAN cumulatively securing 121 seats. The election heralded the first regime change in Malaysia's history, as the erstwhile ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, which had enjoyed an uninterrupted reign over the country since Malaya's independence in 1957, was voted out of power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election\nPH's leader, Mahathir Mohamad, who previously served as Malaysia's Prime Minister from 1983 to 2003, was sworn in for the second time on 10 May, a day after the election. At 93 years of age, Mahathir was also the world's oldest elected head of government. Barisan Nasional (BN), led by Najib, held onto 79 seats and became the new federal opposition, along with Gagasan Sejahtera (GS), which won 18 seats. The United Sabah Alliance (USA) won one seat, while three seats were won by independent politicians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election\nIn the simultaneous state elections held for 12 of the state legislative assemblies, PH retained Penang and Selangor with larger majorities, while gaining Negeri Sembilan, Malacca, Johor, Kedah and Perak from BN. WARISAN also seized Sabah from BN, which retained only two states \u2013 Perlis and Pahang. GS held onto Kelantan while gaining Terengganu from BN. State-level elections were not held in Sarawak, as the state had held its elections separately in 2016. However, as a consequence of the election, Sarawak-based BN component parties left the coalition to form Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS), thereby taking over the state from BN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election\nFollowing the election, Mahathir secured a royal pardon for the jailed PH leader, Anwar Ibrahim, and indicated that he would give way to the latter within the next few years. Meanwhile, Najib resigned as BN's chairman on 12 May and was succeeded as Leader of the Opposition by his party colleague, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Investigations within Malaysia into the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, which had been halted during Najib's tenure, were resumed in the aftermath of the election, resulting in several ongoing criminal indictments against the former Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election\nHowever, PH only ruled for 22 months before being replaced by a new Government named Perikatan Nasional, a coalition led by Muhyiddin Yassin after BERSATU left the Pakatan Harapan coalition together with ex-PKR members to join with Barisan Nasional (BN) , Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) and Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) and again replaced back to Barisan Nasional led by Ismail Sabri Yaakob 17 months later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Background\nIn the previous general election in 2013, the incumbent Barisan Nasional government won re-election for the 13th consecutive time, but with a decreased mandate and losing the majority vote. Barisan Nasional chairman, Najib Razak, was re-elected as Prime Minister to a second term. The main opposition, Pakatan Rakyat, led by Anwar Ibrahim, won the majority vote but was unable to win enough seats to form the government due to Malaysia's first-past-the-post voting system and alleged gerrymandering. The election marked the first time Barisan Nasional lost the majority vote in the party's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Electoral system\nElections in Malaysia exists at two levels: the federal level and the state level. Federal elections are held to elect members of the Dewan Rakyat, the lower house of Parliament, while state elections are held to elect members of the 13 State Legislative Assemblies of Malaysia. The heads of executive branch at both the federal and state levels, the Prime Minister and Menteri Besar/Chief Ministers respectively, are indirectly elected, usually filled by a member of the majority party/coalition in the respective legislatures", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Electoral system\nThe Dewan Rakyat is made up of 222 members of parliament, elected for a five-year term; these seats are distributed between the thirteen Malaysian states in proportion to the states' voting population. Members are elected from single-member constituencies that each elects one representative to the Dewan Rakyat using the first-past-the-post voting system. If one party obtains a majority of seats, then that party is entitled to form the Government, with its leader as Prime Minister. If the election results in no single party having a majority, there is a hung parliament. In this case, the options for forming the Government are either a minority government or a coalition. Malaysia does not practice compulsory voting and automatic voter registration. The voting age is above 21 although the age of majority in the country is 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 884]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Electoral system\nThe redistribution of electoral boundaries for the entire country had been presented to and passed by the Dewan Rakyat, and subsequently gazetted on 29 March 2018 after obtaining the royal consent of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ahead of the 14th general election. Elections are conducted by the Election Commission of Malaysia (EC), which is under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Date and cost of the election\nThe Constitution of Malaysia requires a general election to be held in the fifth calendar year unless it is dissolved earlier by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong due to a motion of no-confidence or at the request of the Prime Minister. The Dewan Rakyat will be automatically dissolved five years after the first meeting of the first session of the Parliament of Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Date and cost of the election, Timetable\nThe key dates are listed below in Malaysia Standard Time (GMT+8):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Date and cost of the election, Cost\nThe cost to the taxpayer of organising the election was RM100\u00a0million \u2013 RM500\u00a0million more than the previous general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Date and cost of the election, Cost\nPart of the spending was spent on indelible ink, which costed around RM4.8\u00a0million for a total of 100,000 bottles of 60mL ink imported from Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Date and cost of the election, Election spending\nBefore the campaign, there were no limits to what a political party, candidate, or third party (corporations, unions, special interest groups, etc.) can spend: spending rules are only in force after the writs have been dropped and the campaign has begun. Malaysian election law set election spending limit at RM200,000 for each parliamentary candidate and half of the latter for each state legislature candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Dissolution of state legislative assemblies\nWhile any state may dissolve its assembly independently of the Federal Parliament, the traditional practice is for most state assemblies to be dissolved at the same time as Parliament. In accordance with Malaysian law, the parliament as well as the legislative assemblies of each state (Dewan Undangan Negeri) would automatically dissolve on the fifth anniversary of the first sitting, and elections must be held within sixty days of the dissolution, unless dissolved prior to that date by their respective Heads of State on the advice of their Heads of Government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Dissolution of state legislative assemblies\nBelow are the dates of which the legislative assembly of each state dissolved:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Dissolution of state legislative assemblies\nThe Sarawak State Legislative Assembly was not dissolved as the last election was held in 2016 and the term of the state assembly is due to end in 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Parties and leaders\nAltogether 53 parties were eligible to contest in the election and get on the ballot and can therefore elect a representative in the Dewan Rakyat. Furthermore, there are several independent candidates running in single-member constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Parties and leaders\nThe leader of the party commanding a majority of support in the Dewan Rakyat is the person who is called on by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to form a government as Prime Minister, while the leader of the largest party not in government becomes the Leader of the Opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Parties and leaders\nThe table below lists parties which were represented in the 13th Dewan Rakyat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Last election pendulum\nThe previous General Election witnessed 133 governmental seats and 89 non-governmental seats filled the Dewan Rakyat. The government side has 44 safe seats and 34 fairly safe seats, while the other side has 33 safe seats and 18 fairly safe seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Endorsements\nNewspapers, organisations and individuals have endorsed parties or individual candidates for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Election observers\nThe Election Commission (EC) has invited 14 countries to participate in the polls as foreign observers, comprising representatives of election management bodies from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Commonwealth of Nations, Asian and European countries as well as a study and support centre for the Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Seven countries agreed to send representatives to observe the elections, namely Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Thailand and Timor-Leste. The invitation was also extended to India, Pakistan and Uzbekistan of which nine countries observers arrived on 7 May. The EC also appointed 1,236 election observers from 14 local non-governmental organisations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 816]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Results\nAll 222 parliamentary seats (and 505 seats of 12 state legislative assemblies) were contested in this election. The nationwide counting of votes began at 17:00 Malaysian time on 9 May. The decision to close the polling stations at 17:00 was met with protests by disgruntled would-be voters who contended that, given the longer-than-usual queues, the Election Commission (EC) could have extended the polling hours, as had been done in the previous elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Results\nThe first unofficial result came from the constituency of Baram in Sarawak, which was won by Barisan Nasional (BN). Despite BN's early lead, by 20:30, Pakatan Harapan (PH) and BN were almost neck and neck. The states of Sarawak and Sabah, long regarded as BN's \"fixed deposits\", witnessed a significant swing in favour of PH and the Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN) respectively. In a further blow to BN's chances, several leaders of BN's component parties, such as Subramaniam Sathasivam (MIC), Liow Tiong Lai (MCA) and Mah Siew Keong (Gerakan), were defeated in their respective constituencies by PH candidates. Mahathir Mohamad, PH's Prime Ministerial candidate, secured the constituency of Langkawi by 21:45. As the night wore on, it was reported that PH also retained the states of Penang and Selangor with larger majorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 869]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Results\nStunned by the rapidly deteriorating turn of events, federal authorities attempted to stymie the release of unofficial election results. At 21:13, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) ordered Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block Malaysiakini and its sister websites, which were providing live updates of the poll counting, on the grounds that the updates \"may affect national stability, public order and harmony, and economic stability\". Meanwhile, unmarked cars, allegedly carrying fake ballot boxes, were spotted entering some of the counting stations. Enraged onlookers tried to stop the cars, leading to sporadic rioting. The most serious rioting occurred in the town of Ayer Hitam in Johor; the rioters in the town were eventually dispersed by the Royal Malaysia Police's Federal Reserve Unit (FRU).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Results\nAt about 23:20, Mahathir claimed during a press conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Petaling Jaya that PH had already exceeded the simple majority of 112 seats needed to form the federal government. He added that PH had successfully wrested the states of Negeri Sembilan, Malacca, Johor and Kedah from BN. However, Mahathir alleged that some EC officers were refusing to sign Form 14 in their respective constituencies, which is required for the results to be announced. He further warned that although \"Malaysians are not violent people, they should not take this lying down\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Results\nFollowing the press conference, the EC started releasing the official election results just after midnight. However, the official results were continuously delayed and announced only gradually, as the counting of votes was said to be still ongoing in several places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Results\nAt about 02:30, right after unofficial results had confirmed PH's simple majority, Mahathir, flanked by several PH leaders, gave another press conference, announcing that the Istana Negara (National Palace) had summoned the leader of the People's Justice Party (PKR) - the party whose logo was used by PH in the polls - and that he would be sworn in as the nation's seventh Prime Minister later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Results\nTellingly, BN's victory celebrations at Kuala Lumpur's Putra World Trade Centre, which had been customary in the event of a BN electoral victory, did not materialise. Instead, BN's top echelons held a closed door meeting at the private residence of the outgoing Prime Minister and BN chief, Najib Razak. This sparked fears that the defeated incumbent government would resort to martial law to cling to federal power. When informed of the coalition's impending defeat, a distraught Najib asked \"do people really hate me that much? \", while another BN politician told the press after the meeting that \"whatever it is, we need to respect the will of the people\". In any event, martial law was never touched upon in the meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Results\nThe EC announced the full official election results shortly before 05:00, where it was revealed that the states of Sabah and Perak were left with hung legislative assemblies. Meanwhile, the Gagasan Sejahtera (GS) coalition, led by the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), was not only able to retain Kelantan, it also captured the state of Terengganu from BN. Najib finally conceded defeat during a press conference at 11:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Results, Results by state\n** Fraction of total popular votes in each state rounded to the nearest percent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Results, Results by state\n* Fraction of total seats in each state rounded to the nearest percent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Results, State assemblies\n** Fraction of total popular votes in each state rounded to the nearest percent* Fraction of total seats in each state rounded to the nearest percent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath\nPakatan's victory triggered nationwide celebrations, marking the end of a 61-year rule by Barisan Nasional (and preceding Alliance Party). Mahathir Mohamad was sworn in as the Prime Minister on the night of 10 May at the Istana Negara by Yang di Pertuan Agong Muhammad V, triggering more nationwide celebrations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nThe general election resulted in a hung parliament in the 60-seat Sabah State Legislative Assembly, after Barisan Nasional and the Warisan-Pakatan pact both won 29 seats in the election. This made the Homeland Solidarity Party (STAR) as the 'kingmakers', as the party won two state seats, giving them the power to give either bloc the mandate to form the state government. Considering that STAR is an opposition party, it was wildly expected for them to support a Warisan-led government. However, the party's leadership chose to support a Barisan government instead, sparking mass protests across the state by opposition supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0033-0001", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nAs such, Barisan Nasional, with the support of STAR, formed the next Sabah state government, with Musa Aman chosen as Chief Minister. However, the formation of government didn't last long after one of Barisan's component parties, the United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (UPKO), which won five state seats, withdrew from the coalition and announced support for a Warisan-led government in Sabah. Warisan president, Shafie Apdal, was later sworn in as the new Sabah Chief Minister the day after. On the same day, another Sabah-based Barisan Nasional component party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), also announced their withdrawal from the coalition, citing their poor performance in the election, losing in every constituency they contested in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 850]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nThe day afterwards, another two Sabah-based Barisan Nasional component party, the United Sabah People's Party (PBRS) and the United Sabah Party (PBS), also announced that they had left Barisan. PBRS stated that they will seek an alliance with Pakatan Harapan and will apply for membership in the ruling party coalition, while PBS stated that they are seeking to form a new Sabah-based coalition, compromising of all Sabah Opposition parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nMeanwhile, the general election also resulted in a hung parliament in the 59-seat Perak State Legislative Assembly, in which Pakatan won 29 seats, two short of a majority, while Barisan and the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) each won 27 and 3 seats. This would mean neither of the three parties would have enough seats to form the Perak state government. PAS proposed the formation of a unity government compromising of all sides in the State Legislative Assembly, but was rejected by Pakatan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nHowever, Pakatan succeeded in forming the state government after two Barisan assemblymen announced their support for Pakatan to form the state government, thus ending the hung parliament status-quo. Their action resulted in the two assemblymen having their UMNO membership dropped, meaning they'll have to stand as an Independent in the Perak State Legislative Assembly. Perak Pakatan chairman, Ahmad Faizal Azumu, was later sworn in as the new Menteri Besar of Perak on 12 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nOn the same day, three Johor BN assemblymen announced that they have left the coalition to join PPBM. Their defection gives Pakatan a total of 39 seats, giving them a two-thirds majority in the 56-seat State Legislative Assembly. Subsequently, two Independent MPs, Lubok Antu MP, Jugah Muyang, and Julau MP, Larry Sng Wei Shien, announced that they have joined PKR. Jugah Muyang won in a three-cornered fight against both Barisan and PKR, while the latter was endorsed by Pakatan against Barisan Nasional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nA third Independent MP, Prabakaran Parameswaran, who won in the constituency of Batu, announced that he had joined PKR in the day afterwards, thus increasing Pakatan's total tally in the Dewan Rakyat to 125. He was endorsed by Pakatan Harapan during the general election after the coalition's original candidate, Tian Chua, was disqualified from contesting due to a RM2,000 fine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0036-0002", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nOn the following day, an Independent Perak assemblyman, Zainol Fadzi Paharudin, who was one of the two Barisan assemblymen who had their UMNO membership dropped for supporting a Pakatan government, announced that he had joined PPBM, His defection from Barisan to Pakatan increases the coalition's tally in the Perak State Legislative Assembly to 30 seats, enough to form a simple majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nOn 19 May, the disputed president of the People's Progressive Party (myPPP), M. Kayveas, declared that the party has left Barisan Nasional. However, Kayveas' statement was denied by the party's deputy secretary-general, Simon Sabapathy, who insisted that the party was still part of the coalition and that Kayveas' announcement was invalid as he was no longer the president of the party, after he was supposedly sacked by the party on April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0037-0001", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nThis resulted in a party leadership crisis, as the party's leadership was split between the party's former president, M. Kayveas, who's pursuing to make the party leave Barisan, and the party's current president, Maglin Dennis D'Cruz, who wants the party to remain in Barisan. Eventually, Kayveas won the struggle, and announced that myPPP has left Barisan. The party would eventually be de-registered by the Registrar of Societies in January 2019, amid the leadership dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nNearly a month after the General Election, on 12 June, another four BN component parties, the United Bumiputera Heritage Party (PBB), the Sarawak People's Party (PRS), the Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP) and the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) announced their withdrawal from Barisan Nasional and the formation of a new Sarawak-based coalition, the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS). The four parties altogether has 19 seats in the Dewan Rakyat and 72 seats in the 82-seat Sarawak State Legislative Assembly, thus decreasing Barisan's seat tally even further. Two weeks later, on 24 June, the Malaysian People's Movement Party (Gerakan) became the latest party to leave Barisan Nasional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nThe election resulted in a mass defection of UMNO MPs from the party, mostly becoming independents, some eventually changing their alliance and joining PH. On 24 June, the MP of Bagan Serai, Noor Azmi Ghazali, announced his withdrawal from the coalition to become an Independent Member of Parliament, and expressed interest to join the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (PPBM), a component party of Pakatan Harapan. Three days later, UMNO's Bukit Gantang MP, Syed Abu Hussin Hafiz Syed Abdul Fasal, announced his departure from the party to also become an Independent Member of Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0039-0001", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nFurther on 1 July, UMNO's Masjid Tanah MP, Mas Ermieyati Samsudin left the party to become an Independent Parliamentarian after disappointment with the party's election result. Two more defections occurred in the month of September. UMNO's Jeli MP, Mustapa Mohamed, left the party on 18 September, proceeded by UMNO's Kimanis MP, Anifah Aman, the day after. On 11 October, UMNO's Labuan MP, Rozman Isli, left the party and joined Warisan, citing for the benefit of Labuan. Another series of defections occurred in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0039-0002", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nOn 12 December, five Sabah UMNO MPs and nine of the state assemblypersons left the party to become independents, pledging support for Pakatan. On 14 December, six UMNO MPs, Hamzah Zainudin (Larut), Ikmal Hisham Abdul Aziz (Tanah Merah), Latiff Ahmad (Mersing), Rosol Wahid (Hulu Terengganu), Mohd Fasiah Mohd Fakeh (Sabak Bernam) and Shahbudin Yahya (Tasik Gelugor) altogether left the party due to disappointment with UMNO's current leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0039-0003", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Defections and state government formations\nThe series of defections and parties withdrawing from Barisan Nasional leaves the coalition with only three component parties, UMNO, MCA and MIC (the original three parties that formed the Alliance Party), a decrease of ten parties from the 13 they had prior to the election, and 40 seats, a substantial decrease from the 79 seats they won in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, Party leadership changes\nAfter facing a defeat in the election, losing nearly a third of its seats in the Dewan Rakyat, former Prime Minister Najib Razak announced his resignation as president of UMNO and chairman of Barisan Nasional on 12 May. Party deputy president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi took over the role as acting president of UMNO and chairman of Barisan Nasional, while vice-president Hishammuddin Hussein took over the duties of acting deputy president and deputy chairman of Barisan. Najib's resignation resulted in a party leadership election, in which seven candidates eyed to become the party's new president. The result was that Zahid won the party leadership elections. He and former Negeri Sembilan Menteri Besar Mohamad Hasan are now president and vice president of UMNO respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Aftermath, 2020 political crisis\nPH government, however, served just 22 months before the take over of administration by PN, led by Muhyiddin Yassin, who was sworned in as the 8th Prime Minister on 1 March 2020. This came after PH lost its majority in the Dewan Rakyat following the withdrawal of Muhyiddin's party PPBM from PH, as well as defection of MPs led by Azmin Ali from PKR. Change in government of states of Johor, Malacca and Perak, followed suit. Kedah, on the other hand, is still governed by PH in spite of PPBM's withdrawal from PH until 17 May 2020 when PN took over of state government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies\nThere had been many controversies even before the general election began, mostly regarding gerrymandering and the electoral boundary re-delineation in favour of the Barisan Nasional coalition. The body regulating elections in Malaysia, the Election Commission of Malaysia (which is under the control of the Prime Minister's Department), has been criticised by election watchdogs, including Bersih, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia and various other organisations for electoral malpractices, arbitrary decisions and a lack of transparency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Gerrymandering\nOpposition parties, non-governmental organisations and even politicians from the ruling party have accused the government of gerrymandering, manipulating the composition of electoral seats in favour of Barisan Nasional. The opposition claims that the manipulation primarily involves merging opposition-dominated areas into large, single seats and dividing BN-favouring areas among several, smaller seats so as to favour rural voters who are more inclined to support the ruling party. An analyst with electoral reform group Tindak Malaysia estimates that this latest redelineation process would allow Barisan Nasional to regain control with just 33% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Gerrymandering\nThe Electoral Integrity Project (EIP), an independent academic project based at Harvard University and the University of Sydney that studies election integrity and assigns PEI scores (Global Perceptions of Electoral Integrity) to countries across the world, had in its most recent research paper published in November 2017, ranked Malaysia's election integrity at 142nd out of 158 countries, just above Zimbabwe (143th), Vietnam (147th) and Afghanistan (150th).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Polling day on midweek\nMany Malaysians protested the Election Commission's decision to set the Polling Day on midweek (Wednesday, 9 May) rather than to set it on a weekend (i.e. Saturday) as it had been in the previous General Elections. Some of them, including Pakatan Harapan chairman Mahathir Mohamad, PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man and Bersih chairperson Maria Chin, viewed such a decision to be unfair, undemocratic, and an attempt to discourage people overseas or interstate from returning to their hometowns to vote. In response, Najib Razak declared Wednesday a national holiday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Overseas ballot issues\nSince the 2013 elections, overseas voting has been open to the majority of Malaysian registered voters living abroad. However, registered overseas Malaysian voters were reported to have received their ballots late, some even on election day, despite the election commission requiring their ballots to be returned before the close of polling stations to be counted as valid. As a result, many of these overseas voters organised on social media to bring theirs and other ballots back through casual couriers. The Election Commission of Malaysia currently denies trying to stop overseas Malaysians to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Nomination Day controversies\nControversies have erupted after six candidates for the opposition coalition, Pakatan Harapan, were disqualified from running under suspicious circumstances on Nomination Day (Saturday 28 April 2018). The most prominent disqualification was that of PKR vice-president Chua Tian Chang, who the local returning officer prevented from defending his Batu parliamentary seat due to an earlier court conviction, despite a High Court judgement which made clear he was eligible to continue as an MP. A subsequent High Court appeal was thrown out, under the claim that they did not have jurisdiction over election-related matters. Chua and his party are consequently endorsing independent candidate, 22-year-old P. Prabakaran, for the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 808]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Nomination Day controversies\nMeanwhile, in Rantau, Negeri Sembilan, the state's Chief Minister Mohamad Hasan was re-elected unopposed after opposition candidate Dr. Streram Sinnasamy was prevented from entering the nomination centre, ostensibly as he did not have an entry pass, despite his claim that he was never issued one and despite the fact that there are no laws requiring candidates to have entry passes. Four other opposition candidates were barred for being undischarged bankrupts, despite claims that earlier checks with the authorities had confirmed their ability to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Nomination Day controversies\nLawyers and other political analysts have criticised these returning officers for a \"gross abuse of power\" that went beyond their primary role (to assist with filing nomination papers) and deprived several candidates of the chance to exercise their democratic right. They claim that incidents like this contribute to the perception that Malaysian elections are inherently unfair and weaken the rule of law. Pakatan Harapan chairman Mahathir Mohamad has confirmed that he will appeal these decisions to the courts, alleging an \"abuse of power\" by \"officers who are willing to do illegal things on orders\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Alleged vote-buying\nThe ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional, has faced criticism for alleged vote-buying. The Nikkei Asian Review has noted that measures like cash bonuses being handed out to civil servants and pensioners, key components of its support base, occurred just before the dissolution of the lower house of Parliament, with other measures announced during the campaign trail including \"special aid\" of RM500 (US$127) and reserved social housing units for employees of government-linked company DRB-HICOM as well as minimum wage increases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Alleged vote-buying\nWithin constituencies, Barisan Nasional MPs have come under significant criticism from electoral watchdog Bersih, with seven out of ten individuals named in their \"Election Offenses Hall of Shame\" being from Barisan Nasional component parties. Musa Aman, Noh Omar, Hamzah Zainudin and Shahanim Mohd Yusuf (BN-UMNO) as well as P. Kamalanathan and Jaspal Singh (BN-MIC) were publicly reprimanded for handing out free food, petrol, furniture, groceries and motorcycles in their respective constituencies, in what was widely seen as an attempt to sway the vote in favour of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Alleged vote-buying\nControversy has also erupted over Barisan Nasional's battle for the Sekinchan constituency, considered a marginal seat held by opposition party DAP, where an election event organised by Datuk Seri Jamal Yunos (the UMNO chief for Sungai Besar) in support of local candidate Lee Yee Yuan (BN-MCA) included an all-you-can-eat buffet, chances to win a motorcycle and a RM25,000 (US$6,345) cash prize, as well as a promise of a RM2,000 (US$508) payment for every voter if they are elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0052-0001", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Alleged vote-buying\nAll payments, along with a claimed RM150,000 in donations and a Mercedes-Benz C200 to be offered at the next event, were claimed to have been donated by \"successful businessmen\" in the small fishing village (population: 20,000) who wanted to show their \"gratitude\" to BN. While Yunos denies any wrongdoing, claiming that he is not a candidate but is \"only conveying contributions from certain individuals,\" the Sekinchan DAP branch has lodged a police report against him for alleged vote-buying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Alleged vote-buying\nYunos has also faced controversy for being caught on video handing out RM50 (US$13) notes from a bag at a function in the Sungai Leman Bendang Utara village, which is also part of Sekinchan. He has claimed that those being paid were \"party workers\" responsible for \"putting up flags, buntings and other materials,\" a claim that media were unable to independently verify. Media outlet Malaysiakini noted that most of those being paid were not dressed in Barisan Nasional colours, and that significant numbers of senior citizens and children were present at the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Alleged vote-buying\nThe main opposition alliance, Pakatan Harapan, has also not been immune to allegations of vote-buying. Pakatan Harapan's manifesto, particularly, lists as a key promise the abolition of Malaysia's 6% GST and increasing minimum wages, which journalists and financial analysts claim amounts to pork-barrel populism that could negatively affect Malaysian government finances. Bersih also included Afif Bahardin (PH-PKR) on their Election Offenses Hall of Shame for utilising Penang state government programmes to give handouts such as hampers to voters in his constituency of Seberang Jaya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Alleged vote-buying\nAdditionally, Ahmad Yakob, the Menteri Besar of Kelantan, was singled out for criticism after \"repeatedly using Kelantan state government resources\" to benefit the campaign of his party, PAS (competing as the main component of the Gagasan Sejahtera coalition), including by handing out cash to religious leaders in a state government hall covered in PAS flags.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, Controversies, Release of results\nOn polling night, the announcement of results took longer than usual, as it was alleged that the Election Commission officers were delaying their signing of Form 14 for announcing the results. This was later revealed in an interview between Mahathir and The Mekong Review, where he revealed that there were attempts to get winning PH candidates to cross over to BN and PAS, fearing that PH \"were not going to respect the position of Islam as much as the previous government had\". He added that they had already won as early as 8.30 pm but did not receive the official announcement until 2 AM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280792-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian general election, In popular culture, Film\nRise: Ini Kalilah was a 2018 Malaysian political drama film based on an actual events on 9 May 2018 in the aftermath 14th General Election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280793-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighteenth round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Sepang International Circuit in Sepang on 4 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280794-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malaysian state elections\nState elections were held in all states and territories in Malaysia except Sarawak on 9 May 2018, alongside general elections. Pakatan Harapan alliance received over 50% of the vote across the 12 states and territories where elections took place and won the most seats. They emerged as the largest faction in all states and territories except Kelantan, Terengganu, Perlis and Pahang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis\nA political crisis in the Maldives intensified on after President Abdulla Yameen decided to disobey the Supreme Court order to release 9 political prisoners and reinstating 12 parliament members which will give the opposition control of the chamber and potentially paving the way for Yameen's impeachment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis\nOn 5 February 2018 president Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency and ordered the arrest of two judges of the Supreme Court of the Maldives, including Chief Justice of the Maldives Abdulla Saeed and justice Ali Hameed Mohamed and former President (also his half-brother) Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 1, 2018\nAfter a few hours after the Supreme Court released the court order on its website. The state-owned TV channel Television Maldives and Channel 13 owned by president Abdulla Yameen went to discredit the order by saying the Supreme Court website was hacked. The Supreme Court immediately responded by tweeting the website is not hacked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 1, 2018\nMaldivian Democratic Party was already holding a small peaceful gathering in front of their campaign headquarters who heard the news and many broke into tears including some Parliament members. They announced a gathering to be held on February 2, 2018 that night at 2:00\u00a0a.m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 1, 2018\nCabinet ministers question authenticity of the court order and said that they have not been able to be in contact with the Supreme Court and they are trying to get direct communication with the justices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 1, 2018\nPresident Abdulla Yameen fired the Commissioner of Police Ahmed Areef and replaced by Ahmed Saudhee, claiming that Areef was not attending his phone calls. Ahmed Saudhee also fired back by saying that he was trying to follow the court orders and president Yameen did not allow him to do his job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 1, 2018\nThe opposition held a peaceful rally 2 a.m midnight to celebrate the court ruling. Maldives Police Service an hour after the rally started used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the crowd and leaving many affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 3, 2018\nThe opening of People's Majlis was cancelled for security reasons and was being rescheduled as soon as it was possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 3, 2018\nPresident Abdulla Yameen fires Acting-Commissioner of Police Ahmed Saudhee, and gave no clear reason why he fired Saudhee. Presidents office staff released a small statement only saying:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 3, 2018\n\u201cBy the power bestowed upon the President under Article 54 (b) of the Police Act (Act No: 5/2008), President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom has today dismissed Ahmed Saudhee from the post of Deputy Commissioner of Police,\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 3, 2018\nPresident Abdulla Yameen hold a rally and officially announce his re-election and say he was not expecting the Supreme Court ruling, the state and all relevant authorities have to do a lot of work to see how to implement it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 3, 2018\nSpecial Operations Police were posted outside the Chief Justice of the Maldives, Abdulla Saeeds house. Upon hearing rumours he was about to be arrested the public gathered and had clashes with Special Operations Police the people who gathered were backed off successfully and Special Operations Police Maldives Police Service released the statement they were not going to be arresting Justice Abdulla Saeed", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 4, 2018\nAttorney general alongside acting-police commissioner Abdulla Nawaz and Chief of Defence Force Ahmed Shiyam holds press conference saying they will not obey any order to impeach president Abdulla Yameen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 4, 2018\nSecretary General of the parliament Ahmed Mohamed resigns citing \u201cpersonal reasons.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 4, 2018\nOpposition lawmakers submit no-confidence motion against prosecutor general, Aishath Bisham, attorney general, Mohamed Anil, home minister, Azleen Ahmed, and defence minister, Adam Shareef for their refusal to comply with the Supreme Court order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 5, 2018\nCriminal Court orders the immediate release of Faris Maumoon from detention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 5, 2018\nPresident Abdulla Yameen declares a state of emergency for 15 days, Suspension of 20 constitutional rights, and the Criminal Procedures Act and parts of the Judges Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 5, 2018\nMaldivian military forces gather around the supreme court and try to break into the court by forcing the gate open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 5, 2018\nFormer president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and his son-in-law Moamed Nadheem got arrest on charges of trying to overthrow the government", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 6, 2018\nAfter multiple attempts to break into the supreme court special operations climbed up the roof of the high court (same building) and broke the windows of the supreme court and forced justice Ali Hameed and dragged chief justice Abdulla Saeed on the floor out of the supreme court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 6, 2018\nState of emergency amended to suspend more legal rights, including the right to remain silent and be brought before a judge within 24 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Events, February 6, 2018\nIbrahim Siyad Qasim, son of opposition leader Qasim Ibrahim arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280795-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldives political crisis, Response\nFormer President Mohamed Nasheed, currently in exile in the UK, called for India to send a military-backed diplomatic mission to compel the release of political detainees, and for the US and UK to freeze the financial transaction of Maldivian government officials. The Indian government stated that they regard the situation as \"disturbing\". The Times of India reported that the Indian Armed Forces were on standby for \"deployment at short notice\" on potential operations in Maldives, ranging from the evacuation of nationals to a military intervention akin to that in the 1988 Operation Cactus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280796-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian Second Division Football Tournament\nStatistics of Second Division Football Tournament in the Maldives in the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280796-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian Second Division Football Tournament, Group stage\nFrom each group, the top two teams will be advanced for the Semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 63], "content_span": [64, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280796-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian Second Division Football Tournament, Final Ranking\nPer statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in the Maldives on 23 September 2018. Incumbent president Abdulla Yameen of the Progressive Party of Maldives was seeking re-election for a second five-year term. His only challenger was Ibrahim Mohamed Solih of the Maldivian Democratic Party, who was nominated as the joint candidate of a coalition of opposition parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election\nThe result was a surprise victory for Solih, who received over 58% of the vote and was elected as the seventh President of the Maldives. He assumed office on 17 November 2018. Solih is the country's third democratically elected president since Mohamed Nasheed's victory over Maumoon Abdul Gayoom in the 2008 elections which ended a 30-year incumbency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election\nYameen is the fourth consecutive Maldivian president to have at some point lost a bid for re-election. Namely, Yameen himself came to office by defeating former president Mohamed Nasheed, who was running for a second non-consecutive term in 2013, after having resigned in 2012 during the 2011\u201312 Maldives political crisis. Nasheed's successor in office, his Vice President Mohammed Waheed Hassan also sought re-election in 2013, but decided not to contest the re-run after the initial election was annulled. Finally, Nasheed had been elected in the 2008 election by defeating long-term incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election, Electoral system\nThe President of the Maldives is elected using the two-round system. However, as there were only two candidates, the 2018 election was a simple one-round majority vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election, Candidates\nIncumbent President Abdulla Yameen ran for re-election. In February 2018 former President Mohamed Nasheed announced that he intended to contest the elections as the Maldivian Democratic Party candidate. However, in June 2018 the party selected Ibrahim Mohamed Solih as its candidate after Nasheed withdrew his candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election, Campaign\nPresident Abdulla Yameen ran on a campaign of economic development and Islamism aimed at \"courting religious vote\", claiming that the opposition was supported by Christian priests. His government was close to the Chinese government, signing a free trade agreement and obtaining Chinese money for infrastructure projects. The opposition sought to improve relations with India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election, Campaign\nA few days before the elections, Yameen promised to build housing for all citizens, as well as scrapping fines for traffic violations and utility bills. Several hundred prisoners were also freed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election, Conduct\nPrior to the elections, there were concerns about vote rigging by the government as Yameen had appointed one of his supporters, Ahmed Shareef, as head of the Electoral Commission. International observers were banned from monitoring the elections and foreign media was heavily restricted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election, Conduct\nThe police raided the Democratic Party's headquarters on the day before the elections, claiming there was an investigation into \"distributing money to buy votes\". The raid was condemned by the American and British governments. The European Union had said that it would not send election observers because the Maldives had failed to meet the basic conditions for monitoring, and the U.S. had threatened to sanction Maldivian officials if the elections were not free and fair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election, Conduct\nPresident Yameen had previously restricted observers from seeing individual ballots, and had appointed 107 members of the ruling PPM party to administer and count the vote. Some election observers were also denied entry to the country because they were not given a visa, despite being registered with the Electoral Commission. Foreign journalists were also required to have a Maldivian sponsor to participate, and some observers described having their visa applications denied for trivial reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election, Conduct\nOn election day, voting was extended for three hours due to long queues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election, Aftermath\nFollowing the announcement of the results, Yameen challenged the outcome in the Supreme Court in October, claiming that the election had been rigged. He alleged that ballot papers treated to make any votes cast for him vanish and that voters planning on voting for him were given pens with disappearing ink. His appeal was unanimously rejected by the court's judges, who stated that he had failed to prove the claims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election, Geopolitical implications\nMaldives is of high geo-strategic importance due to its proximity to Indian Ocean sea lines of communication, Indian Navy base in Lakshadweep Islands and US Navy base in Diego Garcia. Abdulla Yameen was seen by India as being too close to regional rival China. India was particularly alarmed about Chinese Belt and Road Initiative projects in the Maldives and Chinese investments in Maldives were seen by India and the United States as a part of China's 'String of Pearls' strategy. On the other hand, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih had made repairing of ties with India as a key election plank. According to The Nikkei, India's Modi administration had \"spared no expense supporting local opposition parties by allotting tens of millions of dollars to intelligence agencies\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election, Geopolitical implications\nThe Financial Times declared the victory of Solih as a \"diplomatic win\" for India. Following the declaration of election results, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Ibrahim Mohamed Solih to congratulate him on his victory. Solih reaffirmed commitment towards rebuilding ties with India and declared Maldives to be \"India's closest ally\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280797-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Maldivian presidential election, Geopolitical implications\nThe Observer Research Foundation noted that following the election results, \"China will mount a major effort to protect its strategic investments and ongoing projects in Maldives\" and that India will have to \"use other tools to ensure that Maldives does not cross strategic red lines like allowing China to build military and security facilities on any island.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280798-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian Cup\nThe 2018 Coupe du Mali is the 57th edition of the Coupe du Mali, the knockout football competition of Mali.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280798-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian Cup, Final\nAs the league was not played in 2018, the cup winners qualify for the 2018\u201319 CAF Champions League and the cup runners-up qualify for the 2018\u201319 CAF Confederation Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280799-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Mali on 29 July 2018. In July 2018, the Constitutional Court approved the nomination of a total of 24 candidates in the election. As no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a runoff was held on 12 August 2018 between the top two candidates, incumbent President Ibrahim Boubacar Ke\u00efta of the Rally for Mali and Souma\u00efla Ciss\u00e9 of the Union for the Republic and Democracy. Ke\u00efta was subsequently re-elected with 67% of the vote. It was the first time in Malian history that a presidential election was forced into a runoff between incumbent and a challenger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280799-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian presidential election, Background\nIn accordance with the 1992 constitution, presidential elections take place every five years. The previous elections, first scheduled for 13 May 2012, were delayed until 28 July 2013 due to the 2012 coup d'\u00e9tat that overthrew President Amadou Toumani Toure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280799-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian presidential election, Background\nA peace deal between Tuareg separatists and the government was signed in 2015 following negotiations through a diplomatic channel extended by the Malian government. The creation of the Macina Liberation Front in 2015, led by the preacher Amadou Koufa, has led to increased ethnic tensions and violence in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280799-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian presidential election, Background\nThere has been little or no violence in Mali's past elections which have in previous years been conducted with no protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280799-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian presidential election, Electoral system\nThe President of Mali is elected by absolute majority vote using the two-round system to serve a 5-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280799-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian presidential election, Pre-election\nThere was doubt as to the safety of the elections to be held and of the governments' ability to hold them. If held, the French diplomat Jean-Pierre Lacroix has said that \"the upcoming presidential elections will mark the beginning of a new chapter in the stabilization of Mali\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280799-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian presidential election, Pre-election, Voter registration\nAs of July 24, there were 8,461,000 registered voters set to cast their vote 23,041 polling stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280799-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian presidential election, Pre-election, Voter registration\nOf the Malian refugees living in Mbera, Mauritania, 7,000 people registered to vote in the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280799-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian presidential election, Pre-election, Candidates\nThere were 17 confirmed candidates and 13 more were pending as of late June. In the end, on July 5, the Constitutional Court approved the nomination of a total of 24 candidates in the election. Some of them include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280799-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian presidential election, Pre-election, Protests and violence\nOn 6 June, thousands gathered in the capital Bamako to protest against Ibrahim Boubacar Ke\u00efta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280799-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian presidential election, Pre-election, Protests and violence\nOn 25 July, following a robbery at a pharmacy, protesters \"burned tyres and torched vehicles\" in Timbuktu in response to the deepening insecurity and alleged mistreatment by police. This precipitate a violent clash the following day involving about 100 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280799-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Malian presidential election, Pre-election, Protests and violence\nOn 31 July, gunmen attacked a convoy carrying election materials in the S\u00e9gou Region. This attack and the following shootout killed four soldiers and eight attackers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280800-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mallorca Open\nThe 2018 Mallorca Open was a women's tennis tournament played on grass courts. It was the 3rd edition of the Mallorca Open, and part of the International category of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at Santa Ponsa Tennis Club in Mallorca, Spain, from 18 June through 24 June 2018. Tatjana Maria won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280800-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mallorca Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 66], "content_span": [67, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280800-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mallorca Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 66], "content_span": [67, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280801-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mallorca Open \u2013 Doubles\nLatisha Chan and Martina Hingis were the defending champions, but Chan chose to compete in Birmingham and Hingis retired from professional tennis at the end of 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280801-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mallorca Open \u2013 Doubles\nAndreja Klepa\u010d and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez won the title, defeating Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 and Barbora \u0160tefkov\u00e1 in the final, 6\u20131, 3\u20136, [10\u20133].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280802-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mallorca Open \u2013 Singles\nAnastasija Sevastova was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Tatjana Maria, 4\u20136, 5\u20137. This was Maria's first WTA title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season\nThe 2018 season was Malm\u00f6 FF's 107th in existence, their 83rd season in Allsvenskan and their 18th consecutive season in the league. They competed in Allsvenskan where they finished third, 2017\u201318 Svenska Cupen where they finished as runners-up, and the 2018\u201319 UEFA Champions League where they were knocked out in the third qualifying round. Malm\u00f6 FF also participated in two competitions in which the club continued playing in for the 2019 season, the 2018\u201319 Svenska Cupen and the 2018\u201319 UEFA Europa League. The season began with the group stage of Svenska Cupen on 18 February, league play started on 2 April and concluded on 11 November. The season concluded with the last UEFA Europa League group stage match on 13 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season\nThe club's chairman, H\u00e5kan Jeppsson, died unexpectedly on 7 December, a week before the last match of the season. Malm\u00f6 FF won five Swedish championships and participated in two UEFA Champions League group stages, as well as two UEFA Europa League group stages, under his reign. For the first time in the history of the club, Malm\u00f6 FF managed to qualify for the knock-out stages of the UEFA Europa League. It was also the first time, and third time in total, since the 1986\u201387 European Cup Winners' Cup that the club qualified for European knock-out matches after the new year. On the domestic stage, Malm\u00f6 FF ended the season in third place, having had a difficult start to the league season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Players, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, Allsvenskan\nAfter losing several key players during the off-season, many of whom to free transfers, Malm\u00f6 FF went into the 2018 season with the expressed strategy of only partially replacing the players who were lost with new signings such as Fouad Bachirou, Arn\u00f3r Ingvi Traustason and S\u00f8ren Rieks, and filling the depth of the squad with players from the club's academy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, Allsvenskan\nAfter an unbeaten pre-season and cup run Malm\u00f6 FF started their season away to IF Elfsborg on 2 April. Teenage starlet Mattias Svanberg opened the club's season tally less than two minutes into the opener in a game Malm\u00f6 FF ended up winning 2\u20131. A week later, MFF played their home opener against AIK, who were widely considered MFF's biggest challenger for the title. Despite conceding a penalty and a red card to Franz Brorsson, MFF were able to secure a point with AIK seemingly unwilling to take initiative in front of the sell-out crowd at Stadion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, Allsvenskan\nDespite encouraging signs early in the season, the AIK match turned out to be the start of a historically bad run for Malm\u00f6 FF, where they won only two of ten matches between 9 April and 16 May, including an embarrassing 3\u20130 loss in the final of the Swedish Cup. With the title seemingly out of reach only weeks into the season, Magnus Pehrsson was fired after the 1\u20130 loss to Trelleborgs FF on 13 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, Allsvenskan\nWith the club currently in eleventh place, Malm\u00f6 FF CEO Niclas Carln\u00e9n expressibly revised the club's Allsvenskan target from winning the title to reaching a spot in the top three. Sporting director and former club captain Daniel Andersson stepped in as caretaker manager for the three games that remained before the World Cup break, but was unable to right the ship as the team took four points from those three games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, Allsvenskan\nOn 12 June Uwe R\u00f6sler was appointed head coach, while Andersson also announced several signings in an effort to move up the table and make a run for the upcoming Champions League qualifiers. The 2017 Allsvenskan MVP Anders Christiansen was reacquired from Gent, former club captain Guillermo Molins was brought in on a free transfer, former Allsvenskan top scorer Marcus Antonsson moved from Leeds, and Sundsvall's breakthrough player Romain Gall was added to the squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, Allsvenskan\nThe changes proved effective and Malm\u00f6 FF emerged as a new team for the second half of the season, with nine wins and one draw over the first ten Allsvenskan games after the World Cup break. A hectic schedule saw MFF eventually get into a five-game slump in which they only won one game, but the team was able to bounce back and finish league play with three straight wins to reach third place and secure a qualifying spot for the 2019\u201320 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, Svenska Cupen, 2017\u201318\nAfter beating FC Trollh\u00e4ttan in August 2017 to qualify for the group stage, Malm\u00f6 FF was drawn into a group with Allsvenskan newcomers IF Brommapojkarna and Dalkurd FF and Superettan side Gefle IF. A late Markus Rosenberg penalty saw Malm\u00f6 FF win their first game against Dalkurd. In the second contest Malm\u00f6 FF traveled to Gefle for a game that was postponed four hours because of a snow storm, but when eventually played MFF won comfortably by a score of 3-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, Svenska Cupen, 2017\u201318\nThe result set up a group final between two teams that won their first games, where Malm\u00f6 FF managed to beat Brommapojkarna 3-1 to qualify for the quarter-final in which they beat rivals IFK G\u00f6teborg 1-0. In the semi-final the team traveled to \u00d6stersund where a late winner from Arn\u00f3r Traustason sent Malm\u00f6 FF to the cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, Svenska Cupen, 2017\u201318\nThe location for the cup final was decided by a draw that took place at an Allsvenskan kick-off event, which awarded home field advantage to Djurg\u00e5rdens IF. While the competition to this point had been played during the Allsvenskan pre-season, the final was scheduled for 10 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, Svenska Cupen, 2017\u201318\nDuring the two months that elapsed between the semi-final and final Malm\u00f6 FF's Allsvenskan campaign had sent the club into a state of crisis, which reached new heights in the cup final where a lackluster performance handed the club a 3-0 defeat which fueled supporter turmoil in the MFF sections with play temporarily suspended in the final minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, Svenska Cupen, 2018\u201319\nMalm\u00f6 FF entered the cup in the second round, where they were drawn against Division 1 club Lunds BK. The game was initially scheduled to be played on 23 August, but was postponed because of Malm\u00f6 FF's Europa League schedule and eventually rescheduled for 22 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League, Qualifying phase and play-off round\nKickoff times are in UTC+2 unless stated otherwise. After changes to the UEFA Champions League qualifying phase, Malm\u00f6 FF entered in the first round for the first time in 2018. Malm\u00f6 FF were seeded in the first round, and were drawn against the winners of a preliminary tournament involving the champions of the four lowest ranked associations. The winners ended up being Kosovan champions FC Drita. Since Drita's home stadium did not live up to the standards set by UEFA, the game was played at Adem Jashari Olympic Stadium in Mitrovica, and Malm\u00f6 FF came away with a decisive 3-0 victory which was followed by 2-0 at home to advance to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 94], "content_span": [95, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League, Qualifying phase and play-off round\nIn the second round Malm\u00f6 FF were once again seeded, but faced a tough draw in Romanian champions CFR Cluj. The first game was played in Cluj-Napoca where Carlos Strandberg scored a crucial away goal in the final minute of the first half which ended up being the only goal of the game. Cluj equalized on aggregate 36 minutes into the return leg in Malm\u00f6, but a second half long distance strike from Arn\u00f3r Traustason sent MFF through to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 94], "content_span": [95, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League, Qualifying phase and play-off round\nThe draw for the third round took place before the second round was finalized and the winners between Malm\u00f6 FF and CFR Cluj were unseeded and drawn against the winners between Bulgarian champions Ludogorets Razgrad and Hungarian champions MOL Vidi FC. Against all odds Vidi ended up knocking out the Bulgarians and traveled to Malm\u00f6 for the first game in the third round. Recently re-acquired Anders Christiansen opened the scoring an hour into the contest, but Vidi scored an equalizer ten minutes later after a defensive error that would end up as the decisive away goal when the return leg finished scoreless in Hungary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 94], "content_span": [95, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, UEFA Europa League, Play-off round\nAfter being knocked out by MOL Vidi FC in the third round of the Champions league qualifiers, Malm\u00f6 FF entered the play-off round of the UEFA Europa League where they were seeded and drawn against Danish champions FC Midtjylland. After seemingly being in control of play and with a 2-0 lead an hour into the first game at home, MFF lost control the last half hour and ended up having to travel to Denmark with a tough a 2-2 result. In the return leg however, goals from Marcus Antonsson and Markus Rosenberg sent Malm\u00f6 FF into the Europa League group stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Competitions, UEFA Europa League, Group stage\nTimes up to 27 October 2018 (matchdays 1\u20133) are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter (matchdays 4\u20136) times are CET (UTC+1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 67], "content_span": [68, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280803-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Non-competitive, Pre-season\nMalm\u00f6 FF kicked of its pre-season with two friendlies at Malm\u00f6 IP before traveling to Bradenton, Florida for pre-season camp. In Florida, MFF played its final matches before the start of Svenska Cupen against two MLS teams. During the group stage of the cup, Malm\u00f6 FF scheduled additional friendlies to give players who did not feature heavily in the competition pre-season minutes. The games were played on an artificial practice field near Stadion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280804-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 shooting\nOn 18 June 2018, a shooting (Swedish: trippelmordet i Malm\u00f6) occurred in Malm\u00f6, Scania, Sweden, killing three men and injuring four others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280804-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 shooting, Background\nIn the 2010s, the city of Malm\u00f6 was the town in Sweden with the highest rate of gang shootings per inhabitant. Only Stockholm has a higher number of shootings but is a city with three times the population. In 2017, ten people were shot and killed and in 2018 up until June, there were 30 shootings where 11 people were killed and 12 were injured. The incident has been compared to the 2015 Gothenburg pub shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280804-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 shooting, Shooting\nSomeone shot from a car at people standing in front of an Internet cafe in a drive-by shooting. At 20:30 police had arrived and cordoned off the area and found four wounded. An hour later a fifth wounded arrived at the hospital. At 23:10 in the evening, police reported that an 18-year-old man died at the hospital. Near midnight, police reported that a sixth wounded had arrived at the hospital. After midnight, a second wounded person died at the hospital. Tuesday morning a third person died at the hospital. According to the authorities, there are no indications of a terrorist background. A shotgun was used as the murder weapon, according to Aftonbladet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280804-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 shooting, Shooting, Victims\nSeveral of the victims are known to the police. Three men aged 19, 27, and 29 died of their injuries. Three others were injured, including one injured person leaving the scene in a getaway car. All six knew each other and were part of crime gangs. The survivors confirmed the incident was part of an ongoing crime gang conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280804-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 shooting, Shooting, Perpetrator\nThe same evening, police had identified no suspects. The search for the car continued in the morning. Investigators asked the population for help with the investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280804-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 shooting, Investigation\nThe vehicle, a Saab, was found with fire damage in Arl\u00f6v, a settlement on the northern edges of Malm\u00f6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280804-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 shooting, Investigation\nIn October 2018, a 30-year-old man connected to crime gangs in Biskopsg\u00e5rden was arrested in Gothenburg person was arrested on suspicion for attempted murder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280804-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 shooting, Aftermath\nThe police guarded the hospital where the injured were treated. The police are investigating murder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280804-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Malm\u00f6 shooting, Aftermath\nMinister of Justice Morgan Johansson claimed that the number of shootings were down 25%, but according to local police authorities, it was too early in the year for trends to be concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280805-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maltese Super Cup\nThe 2018 Maltese Super Cup was the 34th Maltese Super Cup, an annual football match played between the title holders of the Maltese Premier League and the Maltese FA Trophy. It was contested on 13 December 2018 by Valletta \u2013 who won a league and FA Trophy double the previous season \u2013 and Balzan, who finished runners-up in the league. Played at the Ta' Qali National Stadium, Valletta won the match 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280805-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maltese Super Cup\nThis was Balzan's first ever Super Cup final, playing against a Valletta side who won the previous season's league title on the last day following Balzan's defeat. Valletta were looking to winning their third honour for the year, making a return to this cup final after their win in the 2016 final against Sliema Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280806-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maluku gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Maluku gubernatorial election was held on 27 June 2018 to determine the Governor and Deputy Governor of Maluku. The election took place simultaneously with other regional elections in 2018. Incumbent governor Said Assagaff ran for his second term in office against Commander of the Police Mobile Brigade Corps Murad Ismail. Murad managed to defeat Said, becoming governor on 24 April 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280806-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maluku gubernatorial election, Candidates\nUnder Indonesia's election regulations, only political parties that have 20% or more of the seats in the Maluku People's Representative Council can nominate candidates. Political parties with less seats can nominate candidates only if they have obtained support from other political parties or through independent channels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280807-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mal\u00e9 League\nThe 2018 Mal\u00e9 League will be the eighth season of the Mal\u00e9 League, the top division of Maldivian football under the latest update of the Maldivian football league system. The league was made up of the 8 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280807-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mal\u00e9 League, Format\nAll eight teams play against each other in Two Round Format. Team with most total points at the end of the season will be crowned as Mal\u00e9 League champion. Top six teams qualify for the Dhivehi Premier League. Bottom two teams play the Mal\u00e9 League qualification with the runner-up of Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280807-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mal\u00e9 League, Format\nThe team with the most points in Mal\u00e9 League qualification after a two-legged group round will play in the next year's Mal\u00e9 League. Bottom two will be relegated to Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280807-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mal\u00e9 League, Teams\nA total of 8 teams will be contesting in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280807-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mal\u00e9 League, Teams, Personnel\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280807-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mal\u00e9 League, Foreign players\nPlayers name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280807-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mal\u00e9 League, Season summary, Round One and Two\nNote 1: The notion of home and away fixtures in the 2018 Mal\u00e9 League is moot as all games are played at National Football Stadium. As such, for the purpose of this table, the first result chronologically has been deemed that team's \"home\" game and the second the \"away\" game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 51], "content_span": [52, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280807-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mal\u00e9 League, Season summary, Positions by round\nThe table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 52], "content_span": [53, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280807-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Mal\u00e9 League, Season summary, Matches, First Round\nA total of 28 matches will be played in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280807-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Mal\u00e9 League, Season summary, Matches, Second Round\nA total of 28 matches will be played in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280807-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Mal\u00e9 League, 2019 Mal\u00e9 League qualification\nThe qualifiers were to be played between 2018 Mal\u00e9 League bottom two teams\u2013 United Victory and Club Valencia, and 2018 Second Division runner up JJ Sports Club. Due to unknown reasons, JJ Sports Club withdrew their chance in the qualification phase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280808-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Man Booker Prize\nThe 2018 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 16 October 2018. The Man Booker dozen of 13 books was announced on the 24th of July, and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on the 20th of September. The longlist included Sabrina by Nick Drnaso, the first in Booker Prize history to nominate a graphic novel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280808-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Man Booker Prize\nAnna Burns was awarded the 2018 Booker Prize for her third novel, Milkman, receiving \u00a350,000; she became the first Northern Irish author to win the prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280809-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Manchester City Council election\nElections to Manchester City Council were held on 3 May 2018, as part of the 2018 United Kingdom local elections. Although the council is normally elected in thirds, all 96 council seats were up for election due to boundary changes. Labour retained its near-complete dominance of the council. The sole change was that the Liberal Democrats gained a second seat in Didsbury West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280809-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Manchester City Council election, Background and Campaign\nFrom 2014 to 2016, Labour were the only party represented on the council. In 2016, former MP John Leech won a seat in Didsbury West and sat as the only opposition councillor for two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280809-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Manchester City Council election, Background and Campaign\nOn 9 April 2018, it was reported that the Labour Party had received formal complaints about Chris Paul, Labour councillor for Withington since 2011. There were social media comments describing women as \u201ccows\u201d, \u201cslobs\u201d and \u201cbitches\u201d, and inciting violence against women. Greater Manchester Police, The Labour Party and Manchester City Council all launched investigations and Paul eventually apologised. Paul was re-elected in Withington ward with a reduced majority beating Lib Dem candidate April Preston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280809-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Manchester City Council election, Background and Campaign\nFollowing reports of a last-minute search for eligibile candidates, the Manchester Conservative Party announced on 10 April, it would be fielding three candidates in all 32 wards within the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280809-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Manchester City Council election, Council Composition\nPrior to the election, the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280809-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Manchester City Council election, Ward Results\nAsterisks denote incumbent Councillors seeking re-election. All results are listed below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280810-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mandaluyong El Tigre season\nThe 2018 Mandaluyong El Tigre season is the only season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280811-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Manila Pavilion Hotel fire\nOn 18 March 2018, a fire broke out at the Manila Pavilion Hotel in Manila, Philippines. The hotel, located in the Ermita district of Manila, was filled with foreign tourists at the time of the fire who were mostly able to evacuate through the hotel's fire exits. The fire, burning on the lower floors of the hotel, sent smoke upward and trapped some employees and guests as it spread throughout the complex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280811-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Manila Pavilion Hotel fire, Fire\nThe fire began in the morning hours when many of the guests were awake, enabling evacuation efforts. Fire rescue operations worked to save several dozen guests from the rooftop of the hotel as smoke chased guests upward. Over 300 guests were evacuated from the hotel safely, and firefighters were dually challenged by heavy winds and huge quantities of smoke as they attempted to extinguish the blaze. 19 people were believed trapped on the fifth floor by fire officials, who worked for hours determining a safe way to free them. Employees could be seen fleeing from the building covering their mouths with handkerchiefs to block out the thick smoke as fire burned around the second and lower floors. The fire caused 6 fatalities and sent 23 people to the hospital as it raged for over 9 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280811-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Manila Pavilion Hotel fire, Fire\nThe fire was burning intensely throughout the 2nd and lower floors, creating a challenge for Philippine fire experts to initially identify the origin of the inferno. Firefighters reported that several floors of the hotel were \"totally damaged\" but the investigation was still incomplete at that time. It was reported that the fire rekindled past 11 am, on 20 March but was soon re-extinguished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280811-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Manila Pavilion Hotel fire, Aftermath\nOfficials initially stated that 4 people were killed by smoke inhalation. The death toll decreased to three as Manila Doctors Hospital reported one of those believed dead from smoke inhalation was revived in critical condition, but increased to 6 as more victims were found or died. At least 3 fatalities occurred when casino employees, including security, were trapped by smoke in the casino's treasury room, with the final count in the building ending at 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280811-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Manila Pavilion Hotel fire, Aftermath\nThe hotel's casino operator, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp., stated that 3 of their employees had died and two closed-circuit television operators were missing. Director of Manila Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Johnny Yu later gave a figure of 5 fatalities to the press. The director announced the fire's sixth fatality on March 21, an employee of the hotel's casino who had been in critical condition since the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280811-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Manila Pavilion Hotel fire, Aftermath\nThe Philippine National Red Cross (PRC) responded to the fire, and reported that it was raised to a fifth alarm fire at 10:10 am.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280812-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Manila Stars season\nThe 2018 Manila Stars season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280813-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2018 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship of Manitoba, was held from January 10 to 14 at the Shamrock Centre in Killarney. The winning Jennifer Jones team represented Manitoba at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Penticton, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections\nMunicipal elections were held in the Canadian province of Manitoba on October 24, 2018. Mayors, councils and school board trustees were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Brandon, By-election\nA by-election was held in Meadows-Waverly Ward on May 5, 2021 to replace John LoRegio who resigned in March 2021. Sunday Frangi was elected, and is believed to be the first Black Canadian councillor in Mantioba's history. Also of note was that the turnout was just 2.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Brokenhead\nResults for reeve in the Rural Municipality of Brokenhead are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, East St. Paul\nResults for mayor in the Rural Municipality of East St. Paul are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Gimli\nResults for mayor in the Rural Municipality of Gimli are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Hanover\nResults for reeve in the Rural Municipality of Hanover are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, La Broquerie\nResults for reeve in the Rural Municipality of La Broquerie are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Macdonald\nResults for reeve in the Rural Municipality of Macdonald are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Portage la Prairie (city)\nResults for mayor in the city of Portage la Prairie are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Portage la Prairie (RM)\nResults for reeve in the Rural Municipality of Portage la Prairie are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Rhineland\nResults for reeve in the Municipality of Rhineland are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Ritchot\nResults for mayor in the Rural Municipality of Ritchot are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Rockwood\nResults for reeve in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Springfield\nResults for reeve in the Rural Municipality of Springfield are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, St. Andrews\nResults for mayor in the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Stanley\nResults for reeve in the Rural Municipality of Stanley are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, St. Clements\nResults for mayor in the Rural Municipality of St. Clements are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Ste. Anne (RM)\nResults for reeve in the Rural Municipality of Ste. Anne are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Steinbach\nResults for mayor in the city of Steinbach are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Tach\u00e9\nResults for mayor in the Rural Municipality of Tach\u00e9 are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, The Pas\nResults for mayor in the town of The Pas are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, West St. Paul\nResults for mayor in the Rural Municipality of West St. Paul are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280814-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoba municipal elections, Winkler\nResults for mayor in the city of Winkler are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280815-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Manitoulin District municipal elections\nElections were held in the organized municipalities in the Manitoulin District of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280816-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season\nThe 2018 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season was the 69th in the club's history since their entry into the then New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in 1947. The team came second last in the regular season and did not qualify for the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280817-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Marburg Open\nThe 2018 Marburg Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Marburg, Germany between 2 and 8 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280817-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Marburg Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280817-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Marburg Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280818-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Marburg Open \u2013 Doubles\nM\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez and Fabr\u00edcio Neis were the defending champions but only Neis chose to defend his title, partnering David Vega Hern\u00e1ndez. Neis successfully defended his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280818-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Marburg Open \u2013 Doubles\nNeis and Vega Hern\u00e1ndez won the title after defeating Henri Laaksonen and Luca Margaroli 4\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20138] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280819-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Marburg Open \u2013 Singles\nFilip Krajinovi\u0107 was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280819-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Marburg Open \u2013 Singles\nJuan Ignacio Londero won the title after defeating Hugo Dellien 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280820-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Marikina Shoemasters season\nThe 2018 Marikina Shoemasters season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280821-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Marine Harvest Premiership\nThe 2018 Marine Harvest Premiership is the 22nd season of the Premier Division, the highest division in Shinty. The season began on 3 March 2018 consisting of 10 teams from across Scotland. The 4th season with Marine Harvest as title sponsors saw the reigning champions Kinlochshiel challenging for their 2nd Premiership title. 2018 Marine Harvest Premiership champions were Newtonmore Camanachd Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280821-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Marine Harvest Premiership\nThe 2018 Cup competitions competed will be the Camanachd Cup, Macaulay Cup, MacTavish Cup (North District teams only) and the Glasgow Celtic Society Cup (South District teams only).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280821-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Marine Harvest Premiership\nAny team winning all 4 major trophies for which they are eligible to take part in will achieve the coveted Shinty Grand Slam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280822-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Marist Red Foxes football team\nThe 2018 Marist Red Foxes football team represented Marist College in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 27th-year head coach Jim Parady and played their home games at Tenney Stadium at Leonidoff Field. They were members of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 5\u20136, 5\u20133 in PFL play to finish in a tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280822-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Marist Red Foxes football team, Previous season\nThe Red Foxes finished the 2017 season 4\u20137, 3\u20135 in PFL play to finish in a tie for eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280822-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Marist Red Foxes football team, Preseason, Preseason All-PFL team\nThe PFL released their preseason all-PFL team on July 30, 2018, with the Red Foxes having four players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280822-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Marist Red Foxes football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe PFL released their preseason coaches poll on July 31, 2018, with the Red Foxes predicted to finish in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280823-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Marivan border crossing attack\nThe Marivan border crossing attack was an attack by Kurdistani forces against an Iranian border crossing. It occurred on July 21, 2018, conducted by PJAK forces. The attack took place near the village of Dari, from the city of Marivan, Kurdistan. Ten Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps soldiers were killed and eight were wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280823-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Marivan border crossing attack, Attack\nOn Saturday, July 21, 2018, at around 2:30 am, a squad of armed PJAK attacked the border guard station of Hamza Sayyid al-Shohada. According to the commander of the Marivan station, the attack occurred in a vulnerable part of the station, leading to the explosion of the station's ammunition dump and killing 10 IRGC soldiers and one soldier from Basij.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix\nThe 2018 Marrakesh ePrix (formally the 2018 ABB FIA Formula E Marrakesh ePrix) was a Formula E electric car race held at the Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan in the Agdal district of Marrakesh, Morocco on 13 January 2018. It was the third round of the 2017\u201318 Formula E season and the second Marrakesh ePrix. The 33-lap race was won by Mahindra driver Felix Rosenqvist after starting from third place. S\u00e9bastien Buemi finished in second place for e.Dams-Renault and Virgin driver Sam Bird took third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix\nBuemi won the pole position by recording the fastest lap in qualifying and maintained his startline advantage heading into the first corner. He held the lead with Bird and Rosenqvist close behind him for much of the first half of the race until a full course yellow flag was necessitated when Andr\u00e9 Lotterer stopped on track with a hardware failure on his car. Buemi retained the lead after the field made pit stops to switch into a second car but Rosenqvist pressured and passed him with four laps to go. Rosenqvist led the final four laps to clinch his second consecutive victory of the season and the third of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix\nThe consequence of the final positions gained Rosenqvist the lead of the Drivers' Championship for the first time in his career with 54 points and Bird was four points behind in second. Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne finished in fifth and this meant he fell to third while Nelson Piquet Jr. ran strongly in the race and set the fastest lap, moving him to fourth. Edoardo Mortara rounded out the top five placings. Mahindra increased their Teams' Championship advantage to 18 points over Virgin while Techeetah held third with nine races left in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Background\nThe Marrakesh ePrix was confirmed as part of Formula E's 2017\u201318 series schedule in September 2017 by the FIA World Motor Sport Council. It was the third of twelve scheduled single-seater electric car races of the 2017\u201318 season, and the second Marrakesh ePrix. The race was held on 13 January 2018 at the 12-turn 2.97\u00a0km (1.85\u00a0mi) anti-clockwise Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan street circuit in the Agdal district of Marrakesh, Morocco. The race stewards for Marrakesh included chairman Paulo Longoni, additional international steward Achim Loth and former Bentley factory driver Andy Soucek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Background\nComing into the race Virgin driver Sam Bird led the Drivers' Championship with 35 points, two ahead of Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne in second and a further six in front of Felix Rosenqvist in third. Edoardo Mortara was the highest-placed rookie driver in fourth with 24 points and Nick Heidfeld was fifth with 15 points. Mahindra led the Teams' Championship with 44 points with Virgin in second with 41 points. Techeetah stood in third position with 33 points and Venturi (30) and Jaguar (27) contended for fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Background\nIn an attempt to speed up races starting from Marrakesh, the world governing body of motorsport, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), elected not to implement a mandatory minimum pit stop time no more and told the teams of the decision. This was due to teams progressively improving their pit stop efficiency which led to the limit being lowered on a gradual scale until the FIA believed the fastest possible limit had been reached. The response from the drivers was mixed: 2016\u201317 champion Lucas di Grassi was positive but wished the rule was changed before the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Background\nBird feared drivers would not attach their seat belts on correctly in order to spend less time in the pit lane and lower safety standards, saying \"If things like this start to be ignored then it's not the right thing to do.\" After teams signed a letter conveying their disappointment and safety concerns such as seat belt fastening to the stewards, it was decided to postpone the change until the Santiago ePrix to allow teams to obtain additional safety garage equipment for team members and invest in sports car style seat belts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Background\nThe inaugural in-season rookie test was scheduled to be held at the circuit the day after the race. Teams were permitted six hours of running and were allowed to field two drivers who were not in possession of an e-licence at the time of the test. There were two pre-race driver changes. Having missed the season-opening Hong Kong double header to allow World Endurance Championship driver Kamui Kobayashi to race because of a sponsorship demand, former Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters competitor Tom Blomqvist was confirmed to race for Andretti for Marrakesh and the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Background\n2016 24 Hours of Le Mans co-winner and World Endurance Champion Neel Jani struggled for pace at the Hong Kong double header and entered into discussions with Dragon over how the team should progress. Both sides mutually agreed to end their alliance early. Jani's place at the team was filled by three-time World Touring Car champion Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Practice\nTwo practice sessions\u2014both on Saturday morning\u2014were held before the late afternoon race. The first session ran for 45 minutes and the second for half an hour. A half an hour untimed shakedown session was held on Friday afternoon to enable teams to check the reliability of their cars and their electronic systems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Practice\nThe first practice session started on a dusty track and several drivers made errors while exploring track limits but lap times fell by one second as it was cleaned by drivers. Di Grassi used 200\u00a0kW (270\u00a0hp) of power to go fastest with a late lap of 1 minute, 20.310 seconds, nine-tenths of a second quicker than J\u00e9r\u00f4me d'Ambrosio in second. Daniel Abt, Mitch Evans, S\u00e9bastien Buemi (e.Dams-Renault), Bird, Vergne, Nelson Piquet Jr., (Jaguar), Rosenqvist and Oliver Turvey (NIO) filled positions three to ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0007-0002", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Practice\nA persistent software bug affected the power cycles of the Venturi cars of Mortara and Maro Engel and cut off their powertrains seven times each. Similarly, Andr\u00e9 Lotterer reset his car after stopping on track. Heavy fog descended over the track at the start of the second session. While it caused mild visibility issues, it was not thick enough to disrupt proceedings. Six drivers led the session but Abt lowered the unofficial track lap record to a 1 minute, 19.760 seconds to go fastest. His teammate di Grassi was 0.138 seconds adrift in second and Buemi placed third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0007-0003", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Practice\nEvans equalled his first practice result in fourth. His teammate Piquet, Alex Lynn, L\u00f3pez, Rosenqvist, and the Techeetah pair of Vergne and Lotterer completed the top ten. As in the previous session, several drivers locked their tyres and ran onto the run-off areas due to a dusty track with Vergne and Ant\u00f3nio F\u00e9lix da Costa controlling their cars despite brake-related issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Qualifying\nSaturday's afternoon qualifying session ran for an hour and was divided into four groups of five cars. Each group was determined by a lottery system and was permitted six minutes of on-track activity. All drivers were limited to two timed laps with one at maximum power. The fastest five overall competitors in the four groups participated in a \"Super Pole\" session with one driver on the track at any time going out in reverse order from fifth to first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Qualifying\nEach of the five drivers was limited to one timed lap and the starting order was determined by the competitor's fastest times (Super Pole from first to fifth, and group qualifying from sixth to twentieth). The driver and team who recorded the fastest time were awarded three points towards their respective championships. Qualifying took place in dry but cold and foggy weather. Teams kept their cars in their garages for as long as they could so that there was no overcrowding on the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Qualifying\nIn the first group of five drivers, di Grassi was the early pace setter with L\u00f3pez a tenth slower in second. In his debut Formula E qualifying session, Blomqvist in third glanced the barrier which lodged part of an advertising billboard in his right-side wheel guard. D'Ambrosio and Lotterer were the group's slowest two drivers. Buemi was one-tenth off di Grassi's pace but his lap allowed him to lead the second group. Lynn, Luca Filippi and Engel were second to fourth. A loose rear slowed Nico Prost and he was fifth in the group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Qualifying\nIn the third group, Rosenqvist set the overall fastest lap in group qualifying with an early effort of 1 minute, 20.115 seconds. Bird was four-tenths of a second slower in second. Vergne was third with Heidfeld and Mortara the third group's slowest two competitors. Heidfeld went too fast heading towards the entry of turn eleven and drifted sideways into an outside tyre barrier at the turn's exit which inflicted damage to his car. Consequently, Mortara slowed because of the accident; he began from 18th after further electrical issues stopped him at the final corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Qualifying\nThe start of the fourth group was delayed since marshals needed to repair the damaged wall and remove Heidfeld's car from the track. A large amount of water spilled onto the tarmac surface at turn 11 worsened its condition and bodywork debris was in the area. Just as group four had achieved a rhythm, F\u00e9lix da Costa made an error on his fast lap because of a deflating tyre putting him over the turn seven kerb and into the exit barrier. This stopped the session to allow marshals to extricate the car from the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Qualifying\nAbt and Turvey were given dispensation to have a second maximum power lap. Piquet led group four despite going wide at the final turn. Abt was second after he lost time in the final third of the lap. Evans also ran wide at the final turn and took third with Turvey fourth. At the end of group qualifying, Rosenqvist, di Grassi, L\u00f3pez, Buemi qualified for super pole because of their lap times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Qualifying\nBuemi attacked on his attempt and took his first pole position of the season, the ninth of his career, and his first since the 2017 Paris ePrix with a time of 1 minute, 20.355 seconds. He was joined on the grid's front row by Bird, who had pole position until Buemi's lap. Rosenqvist took third after mounting the turn five kerb and hitting the barrier. An error almost placed L\u00f3pez in fourth into the turn nine wall. A motor generator unit problem left di Grassi in fifth. After qualifying, Lotterer was demoted to 20th for missing a signal to enter the weighbridge. The rest of the grid lined up after Lotterer's penalty as Lynn, Piquet, Abt, Evans, Turvey, Filippi, Blomqvist, Vergne, Engel, Prost, d'Ambrosio, Heidfeld, Mortara, F\u00e9lix da Costa and Lotterer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race\nThe race started at 16:00 Western European Time (UTC+0) on 13 January. The weather at the start were dry and sunny with the air temperature between 15.05 to 15.8\u00a0\u00b0C (59.09 to 60.44\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperature 14\u00a0\u00b0C (57\u00a0\u00b0F). A special feature of Formula E is the \"Fan Boost\" feature, an additional 100 kilowatts (130\u00a0hp) of power to use in the driver's second car. The three drivers who were allowed to use the boost were determined by a fan vote. For the Marrakesh race, Buemi, di Grassi and Abt were handed the extra power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race\nChassis manufacturer Spark Racing Technology ordered that Rosenqvist's battery be changed half an hour before the race began after Mahindra were alterted to the problem. Similarly, Buemi began the race in his second car as the one he intended to start in had a water pump failure. Audi undertook a precautionary power inverter change in di Grassi's car. Turvey and d'Ambrosio started from the pit lane because of technical problems with their respective cars. Buemi made a clean start to retain the lead heading into the first corner as Bird and Rosenqvist maintained second and third. Both ran close behind Buemi as most drivers also made clean starts. Mortara made contact with another car further down the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race\nVergne moved from 13th to 10th by the end of the first lap, while d'Ambrosio's pit lane start lost him four positions over the same distance. At the end of the first lap, Buemi led Bird, Rosenqvist, L\u00f3pez, di Grassi, Lynn, Abt, Piquet, Evans and Vergne. At the start of lap two, Abt lined up an overtake on Lynn for sixth place on the start/finish straight and both drivers made contact into the first turn. Lynn was spun onto the run-off area, and re-joined the track in 19th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race\nMeanwhile, Piquet had moved to fifth place, while his fellow countryman di Grassi passed L\u00f3pez for fourth by forcing this way through. Shortly after L\u00f3pez fell to seventh when Piquet and Abt passed him on lap three. Prost was sent into a spin by Lotterer, dropping to 19th. Turvey was the main beneficiary of the incident, moving to 15th place. Di Grassi and his Brazilian compatriot Piquet battled for fourth position and it ended when di Grassi slowed with a battery management system failure. He drove off the racing line and Audi instructed him to stop his car. Di Grassi attempted a restart procedure, prompting the waving of localised yellow flags. He returned to his garage to retire. After the race, di Grassi explained his car started to cut out on the previous lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race\nMeanwhile, his teammate Abt overtook Piquet for fourth but was issued a drive-through penalty for his earlier contact with Lynn. Abt exited the pit lane behind Lynn in 15th place as Turvey moved to tenth. Multiple incidents occurred in the middle of the pack: Filippi and Mortara made contact and F\u00e9lix da Costa hit Heidfeld who angrily gesticulated to the latter. Vergne was sixth and his teammate Lotterer 13th. The problems affecting the Audi pair of di Grassi and Abt promoted L\u00f3pez to fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race\nOn lap 15, Lotterer steered off the racing line to retire with a hardware malfunction that locked his brakes. Course officials waved yellow flags at the section of the track Lotterer stopped at for half a minute until the race director decided a full course yellow was necessary. On the 16th lap, Bird slowed briefly with gearbox issues on the start/finish straight, allowing Rosenqvist to take second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race\nThe leaders elected to make their pit stops to change into their second cars during the full course yellow. Buemi kept the lead with his advantage over Rosenqvist increasing to 11\u20442 seconds. Piquet returned to fourth ahead of L\u00f3pez and Vergne moved to fifth. The Venturi pair of Mortara and Engel exited the pit lane in the top ten. Evans, F\u00e9lix da Costa and Abt lost half a minute of time because they made their pit stops before the activation of the full course yellow procedure. Turvey was the race's third retirement after a technical problem affected his second car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race\nAt the front, the lead trio of Buemi, Rosenqvist and Bird were close behind one another and distanced themselves from the rest of the field. Rosenqvist quickly halved Buemi's advantage and later eased off slightly to allow Buemi to open his lead to a second. Rosenqvist also had slightly more electrical energy to use than Buemi and was tempting Buemi to use FanBoost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race\nBuemi however could not use the FanBoost because it was not programmed to work on the car he was driving, and Rosenqvist used more electrical energy and braked later than Buemi to pass him on the inside for the lead before the end of the backstraight and the turn seven left-hander on lap 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race\nWith three laps to go, Mortara attempted to overtake his teammate Engel\u2014who battled Heidfeld\u2014and the Venturi pair made contact. Engel had little space to negotiate through and ploughed into the side of Heidfeld. Engel and Heidfeld were able to continue driving but the damage sustained to Mortara's car forced him to park at the side of the circuit and retire. Piquet set the eace's fastest lap on the penultimate lap, completing a circuit in 1 minute, 22.832 seconds, earning him one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race\nRosenqvist crossed the start/finish line after 33 laps to claim his second win in a row and the third of his career. Buemi followed 0.945 seconds later in second and Bird completed the podium in third. Off the podium, Piquet equalled his best result of the season in fourth and Vergne took fifth. L\u00f3pez finished sixth despite radio problems losing him access to electrical energy readouts. Engel was deemed responsible for causing the Heidfeld-Mortara crash and incurred a post-race drive through penalty converted into time, dropping him to twelfth. Hence, Heidfeld inherited seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0015-0002", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race\nBlomqvist was consistent in his debut race and took eighth. Lynn, Abt, Evans and Engel followed in the next four places. Prost had 20 seconds added to his race time and was demoted to 13th after he was found to have exceeded the 50\u00a0km/h (31\u00a0mph) speed limit during the full course yellow flag. F\u00e9lix da Costa, d'Ambrosio, Filippi and Mortara were the final finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference. Rosenqvist spoke of his delight of returning to Marrakesh after losing the victory to Buemi in the 2016 race, saying he now felt settled into Formula E and no longer believed he was \"a rookie driver\", adding \"I was learning racecraft in the beginning and losing here was our biggest lesson of the year \u2013 we realised we had a lot of work to do and a lot of things to improve.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race, Post-race\nBuemi stated he did not mind losing the win to Rosenqvist, feeling the latter had \"payback\" after his victory in the second 2017 Berlin ePrix was revoked because of a sporting infringement, \"When you lose a race you always end up a bit disappointed. But everyone thought we had no pace and we were done, and we came here, had pole and finished second. We showed everyone we're still there.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0016-0002", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThird-place finisher Bird revealed his car was affected by a rectifiable reoccurring issue since Hong Kong and made the decision not to replace the affected component, \"But still, third place is strong points and it\u2019s a third place with a big issue! I didn\u2019t think I was going to finish the race in the first car, I thought I was going to be pulling over and retiring so actually we were quite relieved with the full course yellow came and saved my bacon a little bit.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race, Post-race\nEngel was perplexed with the penalty imposed on him for the contact with teammate Mortara and Heidfeld, arguing that he was attempting to avoid any damage where possible by mounting the kerbs on the inside and held the belief that Heidfeld did not leave enough space for him to pass through. Abt was also annoyed with the drive-through penalty he incurred for his second lap clash with Lynn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race, Post-race\nHe believed it was a \"racing incident\" and felt the steward's judgement was harsh, saying \"In an incident like this Alex is going to say it is my fault and I will say it is more his fault because I think it was avoidable as I was already next to him when I made the move and he turns in.\" Di Grassi believed he would have stayed close by Rosenqvist had he not suffered technical problems with his car, saying \"As a worst-case scenario, a third place would have been easy to achieve, if not a win.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0017-0002", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race, Post-race\nAudi team principal Allan McNish affirmed the manufacturer would return to competitiveness in the season's upcoming races but admitted his disappointment at the unreliability of the team's cars. He stated his belief this would invigorate a comeback, \"We just have to fightback and dig in. It\u2019s like Le Mans. It only finishes at the end of the race, it doesn\u2019t finish halfway through. You have to have the spirit to come back stronger, and we will do that straightaway.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280824-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Marrakesh ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe final positions moved Rosenqvist to top of the Drivers' Championship for the first time in his career with 54 points. Bird's second-place result dropped him to four points behind Rosenqvist in second while Vergne fell to third place after finishing fifth. Piquet gained three positions to move into fourth on 25 points and Mortara was fifth, one further point behind. Mahindra further extended their advantage atop of the Teams' Championship on 75 points; Virgin had 17 less points but still maintained second place and Techeetah remained in third. Jaguar overtook Venturi for fourth with nine races left in the season. Rosenqvist spoke of his satisfaction of leading the championship and revealed it motivated him not to take too many risks in the upcoming races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280825-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Marriott Hotels strike\nThe 2018 Marriott Hotels strike was a strike of more than 7,700 workers across the United States at 23 hotels operated by Marriott International in late 2018. The strike began in October and went through early December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280825-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Marriott Hotels strike, Strike\nVarious professions across the hotel industry including housekeepers, cooks, servers, dishwashers, doormen, and concierges walked off the job as members of the Unite Here labor union. Their slogan was \u201cOne job should be enough\", as a reference to the Fight for $15 movement in the service industry where employees are demanding a living wage. This walkout began in early October and spread to 23 Marriott hotels across the US to cities including San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, and Honolulu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280825-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Marriott Hotels strike, Strike\nThe strike ended and workers went back to work on December 5, 2018 after negotiations with Marriott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280825-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Marriott Hotels strike, Strike\nAs a result of the strike, hotel workers in San Francisco received a $4 hourly raise. Strikes in other cities also resulting in various new employment contracts that offered better wages and benefits, along with more protection against sexual harassment in the workplace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280826-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 2018 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Thundering Herd played their home games at the Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia, and competed in the East Division of Conference USA (C-USA). They were led by ninth-year head coach Doc Holliday. They finished the season 9\u20134, 6\u20132 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for second place in the East Division. They were invited to the Gasparilla Bowl where they defeated South Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280826-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Previous season\nThe Thundering Herd finished the 2017 season 8\u20135, 4\u20134 in C-USA play to finish in a three-way tie for third place in the East Division. They were invited to the New Mexico Bowl where they defeated Colorado State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280826-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CUSA team\nConference USA released their preseason all-CUSA team on July 16, 2018, with the Thundering Herd having five players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280826-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nConference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Thundering Herd predicted to finish in second place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280826-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Schedule\nMarshall announced its 2018 football schedule on January 23, 2018. The 2018 schedule consists of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Thundering Herd will host CUSA foes Middle Tennessee, Florida Atlantic, Charlotte, and UTSA, and will travel to Western Kentucky (WKU), Old Dominion, Southern Miss, and FIU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280826-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Schedule\nThe Thundering Herd will host two of the four non-conference opponents, Eastern Kentucky of the Ohio Valley Conference at the FCS level and NC State of the Atlantic Coast Conference, and will travel to Miami of Ohio of the Mid-American Conference and South Carolina of the Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280827-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mary Hardin\u2013Baylor Crusaders football team\nThe 2018 Mary Hardin\u2013Baylor Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the University of Mary Hardin\u2013Baylor in the American Southwest Conference (ASC) during the 2018 NCAA Division III football season. In their 22nd year under head coach Pete Fredenburg, the team compiled a 15\u20130 record (9\u20130 against conference opponents) and won the ASC championship. The team advanced to the NCAA Division III playoffs and defeated Mount Union, 24\u201316, in the 2018 Stagg Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280827-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mary Hardin\u2013Baylor Crusaders football team\nThree Mary Hardin-Baylor players were selected by the Associated Press as first-team players on its Division III All-America team: running back Markeith Miller; linebacker Jalen Martin; and defensive back Jefferson Fritz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280827-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mary Hardin\u2013Baylor Crusaders football team\nThe team played its home games at Crusader Stadium in Belton, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280828-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Attorney General election\nThe Maryland Attorney General election of 2018 was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the Attorney General of Maryland. Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Brian Frosh was eligible to seek a second term in office, filed for re-election on February 15, 2018, and was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Republican former prosecutor and trade group CEO Craig Wolf was unopposed for the Republican nomination. Brian Frosh won with 64.8% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280829-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Comptroller election\nThe Maryland Comptroller election of 2018 was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the Comptroller of Maryland. Incumbent Democratic Comptroller Peter Franchot filed for re-election to a third term on October 5, 2017, and was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Anjali Reed Phukan became a candidate under the Republican Party on April 20, 2017, and was unopposed for the Republican nomination. Franchot won re-election with 72.1% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280830-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland House of Delegates election\nThe 2018 Maryland House of Delegates elections were held on November 6, 2018, as part of the biennial United States elections. All 141 of Maryland's state delegates were up for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280830-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland House of Delegates election\nPrior to the election, there was little doubt that Democrats would hold their majority in the chamber. Maryland's House of Delegates has had a Democratic majority since the elections of 1920, and it remains a solidly Democratic in elections at both the national and state level. Still, there was some discussion about whether or not Republicans would be able to make inroads in the chamber, especially considering that popular incumbent Governor Larry Hogan was running for reelection at the top of the ticket simultaneously. These hopes were not met; though Hogan won his race by double digits, there was very little down-ballot appetite for Republicans, including in the House of Delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280830-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland House of Delegates election\nDemocrats picked off eight seats from Republicans, while Republicans flipped one seat from Democrats. The result was a net gain of seven seats for the Democrats, which came from across the state. Six counties had seats flip to the Democrats, including two in Baltimore County. The one seat Republicans did pick up was in a conservative Anne Arundel County district where a retiring incumbent had switched parties from Republican to Democratic the month before the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280830-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland House of Delegates election\nOverall, the results were a seen as a disappointment for Republicans, who had hoped Hogan's success would carry more Republicans to Annapolis. After the elections, Democrats held 99 seats to the Republicans' 42, meaning Democrats were in possession of more than 70% of seats in the chamber\u2014enough to capture a two-thirds supermajority capable of overriding gubernatorial vetoes. Many factors contributed to the Democrats' gains, but President Donald Trump's unpopularity in the Old Line State, as well as Maryland's large and growing minority population and its heavily suburban nature, were among the most important.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280830-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland House of Delegates election, Election results\nAll election results are from the Maryland Board of Elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280831-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Senate election\nElections for the Maryland Senate were held on November 6, 2018, with all 47 seats being contested. Republicans had initially hoped to break the Democrats' supermajority in the upper chamber by knocking off five incumbents, known as their \"Drive for Five\" plan. Though they did make a net gain of one seat, they came short of their goal. Three seats switched hands: District 9 in Carroll and Howard Counties flipped from Republican to Democratic while District 38 in Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester Counties and District 42 in Baltimore County both flipped from Democrats to Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280831-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Senate election\nThe Maryland Senate has been in Democratic hands since the elections of 1900. Despite Governor Larry Hogan's success in his gubernatorial race at the top of the ticket, nobody expected Republicans to come close to recapturing the majority. In terms of popular vote, Maryland's Republican Senate candidates performed significantly worse than they previously had in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280831-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Senate election, Election results\nAll election results are from the Maryland Board of Elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280832-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins football team\nThe 2018 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Terrapins played their home games at Maryland Stadium in College Park, Maryland and competed in the East Division of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280832-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins football team\nFollowing the death of offensive lineman Jordan McNair during a spring football practice, significant scrutiny was laid on head coach D. J. Durkin and his football staff. Following an investigation, Durkin was suspended and offensive coordinator Matt Canada was named interim coach. Durkin was fired on October 31, despite an internal investigation finding that the team did not have a \"toxic culture\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280832-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins football team\nIn the Terrapins' first game of the year, they defeated then-No. 23 Texas in a game played at FedExField, home of the Washington Redskins. In the team's home opener two weeks later, the team was upset by Temple. In Big Ten Conference play, the team secured wins against Minnesota, Rutgers, and Illinois. In a late-November game against eventual Big Ten champion Ohio State, Maryland took the Buckeyes to overtime, but lost on an unsuccessful two-point conversion attempt that would have won the game. Maryland finished in fifth in the East Division with a record of 5\u20137, 3\u20136 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280832-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins football team\nKasim Hill started at quarterback for the Terrapins until he suffered a torn ACL in the game against Indiana on November 10. Tyrell Pigrome started the remainder of the season. Running back Anthony McFarland Jr. led the team with over 1,000 yards rushing. On defense, linebacker Tre Watson led the Big Ten Conference with five interceptions and was named first team all-conference by the media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280832-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins football team, Previous season\nThe Terrapins finished the 2017 season 4\u20138, 2\u20137 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for sixth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280832-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins football team, Player death and culture controversy\nOn May 29, Jordan McNair, a 19-year-old offensive lineman for Maryland, collapsed during a strenuous practice. He was hospitalized after visibly showing signs of extreme exhaustion with a body temperature of 106\u00a0\u00b0F (41\u00a0\u00b0C) recorded upon arrival. He was later airlifted to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center to receive an emergency liver transplant, where he died on June 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280832-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins football team, Player death and culture controversy\nThough no cause of death was initially listed for McNair, findings published by ESPN in August show that he likely died of a heat stroke, with teammates and medical staff noticing an apparent seizure one hour before a 911 call was placed. This corroborated a statement made by his parents a month earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280832-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins football team, Player death and culture controversy\nAn investigation started immediately after his death showed that McNair first showed signs of heat illness at 4:59\u00a0PM but did not arrive at the hospital for treatment until 6:36\u00a0PM. A second investigation, into the culture of the Maryland football program, was started after ESPN published an investigative article in August 2018. Multiple staffers were suspended and the strength and conditioning coach named as the main abuser in the ESPN report, Rick Court, resigned almost immediately after being suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280832-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins football team, Player death and culture controversy\nHead coach D.J. Durkin was also suspended and Matt Canada was named interim coach; after the second investigation concluded that Maryland football did not have, by definition, a toxic culture, Durkin was reinstated on October 30. Following intense uproar and protest over his return, Durkin was personally fired the next day by University President Wallace Loh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280832-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins football team, Game summaries, vs Texas\nAfter a tumultuous offseason, Maryland emerged victorious against Texas 34-29 after shaking off a 30+ minute thunder delay. In Matt Canada's debut as interim head coach, Maryland forced three turnovers in the final 6:09 of the game after losing a 24-7 lead. Freshman Jeshaun Jones, in his first career game, completed the trifecta by passing for a touchdown, receiving a touchdown, and rushing for a touchdown. Most notably, the Terrapins paid tribute to the late Jordan McNair by lining up with 10 players on their first offensive play. Maryland waited for a delay of game penalty and Texas declined the penalty in a show of good sportsmanship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280833-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Maryland Terrapins men's soccer team represented the University of Maryland, College Park during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 73rd season of the university fielding a program. The Terrapins were led by 26th year head coach, Sasho Cirovski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280833-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins men's soccer team\nDespite a relatively poor regular season performance in Big Ten play, a strong RPI allowed the Terps to earn an at-large berth as the 11th seed in the NCAA Tournament. In the tournament, the Terps went on their 14th ever College Cup run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280833-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins men's soccer team, Background\nAhead of the 2018 season, seven year assistant coach, Brian Rowland, left Maryland to take the head coaching position at Temple.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280833-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland Terrapins men's soccer team, Squad information, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280834-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland county executive elections\nThe Maryland county executive elections of 2018 took place on November 6, 2018, with the primary election occurring on June 26, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280834-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland county executive elections\nAnne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Frederick County, Harford County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, and Wicomico County elected county executives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280834-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland county executive elections, Baltimore County\nIncumbent Baltimore County Executive Kevin B. Kamenetz is prevented from seeking a third term due to term limits, creating an open seat. Kamenetz died on May 10, 2018, making County Administrative Officer Fred Homan acting County Executive. Homan is not running for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280834-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland county executive elections, Baltimore County, Recount\nThe Democratic Party result was in dispute and runner-up Jim Brochin has requested a recount, which commenced on July 12, 2018. On election night, Olszewski finished ahead of Brochin by 350 votes. After absentee ballots were counted, Olszewski finished ahead of Brochin by 9 votes, out of roughly 84,500 cast. Vicki Almond finished third by roughly 1,000 votes. Olszewski ended up winning the recount by 17 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280834-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland county executive elections, Montgomery County\nIsiah \"Ike\" Leggett, incumbent county executive, former Montgomery County Councilman and former chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party is not eligible for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280834-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland county executive elections, Prince George's County\nThe current County Executive, Democrat Rushern Baker, was precluded from seeking a third term by term limits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280834-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland county executive elections, Prince George's County, General election results\nRepublican primary winner Jerry J. Mathis withdrew from the race before the general election and his name did not appear on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 90], "content_span": [91, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280835-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland county offices elections\nThe Maryland gubernatorial election of 2018 was held on November 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280835-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland county offices elections\nThe County elected offices include: County Council, State's Attorney, Sheriff, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Judge of the Orphans' Court, Register of Wills, and Board of Education. Please also see Maryland County Executive Election, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280835-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland county offices elections, Wicomico County, Board of Education\nBeginning with the November 2018 election, the board transitioned from being appointed by the governor to fully elected, and non-partisan. It has one member elected from each of the five council districts, plus two elected at-large.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood\nIn the afternoon of May 27, 2018, after over 8 inches (20\u00a0cm) of rain in a span of two hours, the historic Main Street in Ellicott City, Maryland was flooded, just before the new flood emergency alert system was supposed to become operational. Flooding occurred throughout the Patapsco Valley, in the adjacent communities of Catonsville, Arbutus, and Elkridge, as well as the Jones Falls Valley in Baltimore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood\nThe flooding caused a significant amount of damage to Ellicott City, which had been severely damaged in another flood just two years earlier. The streets were covered in water, buildings collapsed, and cars were swept away. It also caused the death of National Guardsman Sgt. Eddison Hermond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood\nSince the floods, the state and local governments have signed pieces of legislation to demolish some buildings in the historic district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood, History and Previous Floods\nEllicott City was founded in 1772 and built along the Patapsco River. It is located about 10 miles (16\u00a0km) west of Baltimore and at the site of the Tiber River, along with other connected tributaries, causing it to be vulnerable to severe flooding. In 1868 three casualties occurred during a flood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood, History and Previous Floods\nBefore the 2018 flood, Ellicott City was severely submerged during the 2016 Maryland flood on July 30, 2016. That flooding was considered an oddity, likely only occurring once in a 1,000-years, and resulted in the deaths of two people and the destruction of six buildings. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan toured the recovery efforts, along with Howard County Executive Allan H. Kittleman, and requested that the federal government help with the historic town's reconstruction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood, Flood event\nOn Sunday, May 27, 2018, between 3:00\u00a0P.M. and 5:00\u00a0P.M. a massive storm released nearly two months of rain, over 9.71 inches (24.7\u00a0cm), onto the Ellicott City area with temperatures around 70\u00a0\u00b0F (21\u00a0\u00b0C), causing catastrophic flooding in the surrounding area, which swept away roads and cars, and brought more than 10 feet (3.0\u00a0m) of rapidly moving water down Main Street in Old Ellicott City. These flash floods occurred because the historic district was an urban area, and the land could not contain the falling precipitation. Therefore, the streets of Ellicott City had to deal with runoff from the fallen water. A large portion of the southbound US 29 flooded several feet. Heavy rains and rapidly rising water washed away portions of several roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood, Flood event\nHoward County officials reported that at least 30 water rescues and one missing person search were performed as a result of the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood, Flood event\nThe National Weather Service reported rainfall totals in excess of 10 inches (25\u00a0cm) in several areas, with Catonsville receiving the highest at 10.38 inches (26.4\u00a0cm) and Ellicott City receiving 8.40 inches (21.3\u00a0cm).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood, Flood event\nAccording to meteorologists, the storm was \"likely worse\" than the 2016 Maryland flood because Ellicott City received only five inches (130\u00a0mm) of rain during the 2016 flood, which was almost half as much of rain received in the 2018 flood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood, Flood event\nThe 39-year-old National Guardsman and U.S. Air Force veteran Sgt. Eddison \"Eddie\" Hermond was reported missing after helping a local business owner who was trapped by rising water. Hermond was swept away by the current. Active recovery efforts were underway on May 28, 2018, and suspended the next day after his body was recovered in the Patapsco River. \"We're deeply saddened to learn that the body of Sgt. Eddison Hermond has been found.\" Governor Hogan mourned Hermond's loss. \"There are no words to adequately describe our sense of loss,\" he said in a statement. \"He bravely risked his life to assist a fellow citizen during the flooding in Ellicott City. Our heartfelt prayers go out to Sgt. Hermond's family and loved ones.\" To honor Hermond, all Maryland flags were ordered to fly at half-staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood, Flood event, Surrounding rivers\nThe water level of the Patapsco River southeast of Ellicott City surpassed its previous peak record when it experienced a 17-foot (5.2\u00a0m) increase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood, Aftermath\nOn May 28, 2018, Governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood, Aftermath\nSince the flood, the Howard County government sought solutions to fortify the historic district against future flash flooding. There was a recovery website dedicated to the flood set up by the Howard County government. Former Howard County executive Allan H. Kittleman signed a bill which would demolish and remove 13 historic buildings from the city. The plan was funded at $50 million and is expected to be completed by 2023.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood, Aftermath\nThe plan to demolish the historic buildings had several obstacles due to the necessary permits: The Historic Preservation Commission required grant authorization for Howard County to raze the structures, The Maryland Department of the Environment required permits for waterways and non-tidal wetlands, and The United States Army Corps of Engineers also required a permit. The approval timeline for the Army Corps of Engineers's permit was extended because demolishing buildings in a historic district could alter Ellicott City's historic characteristics and nature, therefore influencing their place on the National Register of Historic Places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood, Aftermath\nHoward County executive Calvin Ball III did not support the plan of demolishing the historic buildings, stating that demolition should be a last resort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280836-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland flood, Aftermath\nCelebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, on his show, 24 Hours to Hell and Back, visited the town and did renovations on several restaurants in the town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280837-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2018. The date included the election of the governor, lieutenant governor, and all members of the Maryland General Assembly. Incumbent governor Larry Hogan and Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford, both Republicans, were reelected to a second term against Democrat Ben Jealous, the former NAACP CEO, and his running mate Susan Turnbull. Hogan thus became the second Republican governor of Maryland to win reelection, the first since 1954.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280837-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland gubernatorial election, Background\nAt the presidential level, Maryland is a staunchly Democratic state due to the large amount of Democratic voters in the Washington metropolitan area and Baltimore City. Maryland has not seen a Republican presidential candidate win its votes since 1988, and the state has not been within 15% since 2004; Hillary Clinton won the state by 26 points over Donald Trump (60% to 34%) in 2016, Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney by 26 points in 2012 (62% to 36%), and Obama defeated John McCain by 25 points in 2008 (62% to 37%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280837-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland gubernatorial election, Background\nHogan was elected governor in 2014, defeating then-lieutenant governor Anthony G. Brown by a margin of 51\u201347; the result was considered one of the biggest election upsets that year. Prior to Hogan's victory, Bob Ehrlich, elected in 2002, had been the only Republican elected as Governor of Maryland since Spiro Agnew. However, Ehrlich was defeated for reelection in 2006 by Martin O'Malley and defeated again in 2010, when he faced O'Malley in a rematch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280837-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland gubernatorial election, Background\nIn April 2018, Hogan had a 68% approval rating, the second-highest approval of any governor in the country, only behind Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, who had a 71% approval rating. Despite the state's Democratic leaning, Hogan had a high approval rating among all partisan groups (65% approval from Democrats, 64% of Independents, and 81% of Republicans).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280837-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland gubernatorial election, Green nomination, Results\nFollowing the Maryland Green Party's nominating procedure, the delegates of the Coordinating Council, which is the party's State Central Committee, made the decision to nominate the gubernatorial ticket as no other candidate had filed by the party's March 30, 2018 deadline. More than one ticket seeking the nomination would have required the party to conduct a primary, an obligation not mandated by the State Board of Elections for non-principal parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280837-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Maryland gubernatorial election, General election, Debates\nLarry Hogan and Ben Jealous met for their one and only scheduled debate on September 24. The debate was livestreamed in the evening by the Maryland Public Television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280838-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Marylebone Cricket Club University Matches\nThe 2018 Marylebone Cricket Club University Matches were a series of cricket matches played between the eighteen County Championship teams and the six Marylebone Cricket Club University teams (MCCU) of England and Wales. The first two rounds of fixtures were classed as first-class matches. Each county side were scheduled to play one fixture against a MCCU side ahead of the start of the 2018 County Championship. All the fixtures in the competition were affected by bad weather, with matches either ending in a draw, due to play not being possible because of rain, or in some cases, abandoned with no play possible across all three days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280839-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts Senate election\nThe 2018 Massachusetts Senate election took place on November 6, 2018 to elect members of the Massachusetts Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280839-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts Senate election, Qualifications\nThe following are the qualifications to be elected to the Massachusetts Senate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280840-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts ballot measures\nThree ballot measures were certified for the November 6, 2018, general election in the state of Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280840-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts ballot measures\nThe Constitution of Massachusetts can be amended through initiative, and state statutes can be proposed through initiative. The first and second certified measures, \"Nurse-Patient Assignment Limits\" and \"Advisory Commission for Amendments to the U.S. Constitution Regarding Corporate Personhood and Political Spending\", were both initiated state statutes. The third measure, \"Gender Identity and Anti-Discrimination\", was a veto referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280840-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts ballot measures\nIn Massachusetts, after the state determines which measure(s) will appear on the ballot, an official name is assigned to each question. The Secretary of the Commonwealth has discretion over the ordering of questions on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280840-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts ballot measures, Binding statewide questions\nVR = veto referendumISS = initiated state statuteVote percentages as of November 8, with 100% reporting", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280840-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts ballot measures, Endorsements, Question 1\nOn October 23, 2018, The Boston Globe editorial board endorsed a 'no' vote on Question 1, saying the nursing staff ratio is wrong for Massachusetts. On October 26, the Boston Herald also advocated for a 'no' vote. Governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker said he would vote 'no', while Mayor of Boston Marty Walsh said he would vote 'yes'. A \"yes\" vote was also advocated by United States Senator for Vermont Bernie Sanders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280840-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts ballot measures, Endorsements, Question 3\nA 'yes' vote on Question 3 has been \"wholeheartedly\" endorsed by The Boston Globe in an October 17, 2018, editorial. Actress and LGBT advocate Laverne Cox also advocated for a 'yes' vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280840-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts ballot measures, Removed question\nA measure titled \"Income Tax for Education and Transportation Amendment\", which sought to create a four percent tax on incomes that exceed $1 million, to be used for education and transportation purposes, was removed after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in June 2018 that the measure had been incorrectly certified by the Massachusetts Attorney General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280840-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts ballot measures, Other potential questions\nSeveral additional measures received a required number of signatures by December 6, 2017, but ultimately were not added to the ballot:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280840-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts ballot measures, Other potential questions\nA new law enacting a majority of content from these three measures was signed into law in late June by Governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker. Hourly minimum wage will be increased from $11 to $15 by 2023, workers will have paid medical leave of 12 to 20 weeks (depending on circumstance), and there will be an annual August sales tax holiday; the state sales tax was not decreased. Initiative organizers agreed to withdraw the associated ballot initiatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections\nThe 2018 Massachusetts general election was held on November 6, 2018, throughout Massachusetts. Primary elections took place on September 6. Early voting took place from October 22 through November 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections\nAt the federal level, Elizabeth Warren was re-elected to the United States Senate, and all nine seats in the United States House of Representatives were won by Democratic Party candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections\nIncumbents seeking re-election won all major statewide seats: Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Auditor, and Treasurer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections\nIn the Massachusetts General Court (state legislature), Democrats gained one seat in the Senate and two seats in the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections\nThe number of ballots cast, approximately 2.7 million, was the highest ever in Massachusetts for a midterm election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor Charlie Baker ran for re-election to a second term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nPrimary elections for Governor and Lieutenant Governor were conducted separately on September 6, 2018, with the Democrats nominating former Patrick administration official Jay Gonzalez and former Obama administration advisor Quentin Palfrey. The Republicans re-nominated Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Secretary of the Commonwealth\nIncumbent Democratic Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin ran for re-election to a seventh term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Secretary of the Commonwealth\nThe Republican Party nominated Swampscott resident and security expert Anthony Amore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Secretary of the Commonwealth\nThe Green-Rainbow Party nominated Holyoke resident and community organizer Juan Sanchez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Democratic primary\nIn the primary election, Galvin was re-nominated over Boston City Councilor Josh Zakim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 79], "content_span": [80, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey ran for re-election to a second consecutive term. Healey was a speculative candidate for Governor but declined to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Attorney General, Republican primary\nThe Republican Party nominated Bourne attorney James McMahon for Attorney General over Hingham attorney Daniel Shores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Treasurer and Receiver-General\nIncumbent Democratic Treasurer and Receiver-General Deb Goldberg ran for re-election to a second term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Treasurer and Receiver-General\nState Representative and Republican National Committeewoman Keiko Orrall was unopposed for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Treasurer and Receiver-General\nThe Green-Rainbow party nominated Northampton resident Jamie Guerin. Guerin previously served as Jill Stein's 2016 Massachusetts campaign co-ordinator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Auditor\nIncumbent Democratic Auditor Suzanne M. Bump ran for re-election to a third term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Auditor\nHelen Brady, business manager of the Boston Pops and candidate for State Representative in 2016, was unopposed for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, United States Senate\nIncumbent Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren ran for re-election to a second term. Her opponents were Republican State Representative Geoff Diehl and independent Shiva Ayyadurai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, United States House of Representatives\nAll of Massachusetts' nine seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, United States House of Representatives\nAll nine seats were won by Democratic Party candidates. Seven seats were won by candidates seeking re-election. The 3rd District seat was won by Lori Trahan, after incumbent Niki Tsongas did not seek re-election. The 7th District seat was won by Ayanna Pressley, who defeated incumbent Mike Capuano in the primary election, and then ran unopposed in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Massachusetts Senate\nAll 40 seats in the Massachusetts Senate were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Massachusetts Senate\nIn the general election, the Democratic Party captured 33 seats, while the Republican Party captured six seats. The Republicans had previously held seven seats. The seat gained by the Democrats was in the Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex district, where challenger Becca Rausch defeated incumbent Richard J. Ross by a two percent margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Massachusetts House of Representatives\nAll 160 seats in the Massachusetts House of Representatives were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Massachusetts House of Representatives\nIn the general election, the Democratic Party captured 127 seats, the Republican Party captured 32 seats, and one seat (2nd Franklin) was won by an independent incumbent. The Republicans had previously held 34 seats; Democrats took seats in the 18th Essex and the 17th Worcester districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, County\nCounties in Massachusetts elected county commissioners, district attorneys, registers of probate, and sheriffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280841-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts elections, Ballot measures\nThere were three statewide ballot questions: Question 1, which would have placed limits on nurse-to-patient ratios, was rejected; Question 2, an initiative to create a panel of citizens to propose amendments to the United States Constitution about campaign finance, was approved; and Question 3, a referendum on a prior law regarding discrimination based on gender identity in public places, was approved, meaning the law will remain in effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Republican Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito sought reelection to a second term in office, facing Democratic challengers Jay Gonzalez and Quentin Palfrey, respectively. Candidates were selected in the primary election held on September 4, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nShortly after polls closed at 8 p.m. local time, the Associated Press declared the race in favor of incumbents Baker and Polito. Shortly after 9 p.m. location time, Gonzalez conceded the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nBaker was reelected with the highest vote total in the history of Massachusetts gubernatorial elections and by the widest margin since Bill Weld was reelected governor in 1994. He won many of the Commonwealth's most populated cities, including Worcester, New Bedford, and Springfield. Baker almost won Boston, losing it by around 3,000 votes, an extraordinary showing for a statewide Republican candidate in a major city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Background\nCharlie Baker was elected in 2014 by a slim margin over then-Attorney General Martha Coakley; however, he has consistently rated as one of the most popular governors in the country. Some Democrats, including Congressman Mike Capuano and Speaker of the House Bob DeLeo publicly speculated they may vote for Baker over the eventual Democratic nominee. Speculated candidates such as Attorney General Maura Healey, Congressman Joe Kennedy, former State Senator Dan Wolf, and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh all declined to be candidates, leaving no prominent Democrats to challenge Baker, which was seen as a necessary prerequisite to mount a formidable challenge to him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Background\nBecause Evan Falchuk received more than 3% of the vote in the 2014 gubernatorial election, the United Independent Party gained official status. Falchuck had stated that he would \"certainly\" run for office in 2018. In 2016 however, the UIP lost its official party status after it failed to register 1% of Massachusetts voters as members. Evan Falchuk later left the UIP and registered as a Democrat in early 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nThere was some concern amongst the Republican Party that Baker was too moderate, and talks of challenging him with a more conservative opponent in the primaries. GOP state committeeman Robert Cappucci told the Boston Herald that if Baker \"shuns conservatives [...] there will be 100 percent an effort to try to find a conservative, viable candidate to challenge him in 2018 for governor\". David Kopacz, the president of the Massachusetts Republican Assembly, also stated that Baker may face a conservative challenger in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nFollowing his 2016 election, Barnstable County Commissioner Ron Beaty, who once was tried and convicted for threatening the life of President George H. W. Bush, has been making local and state headlines. He's proposed a \"shark mitigation strategy\" to combat the growing presence of sharks near Cape Cod beaches by baiting and shooting them, which was rejected for consideration by the commission chairman. He has also mulled a primary run against his state representative, Randy Hunt, after Hunt parked in his Barnstable County Courthouse parking spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nIn September 2017 he announced he was in the process of changing the purpose of his campaign committee from a county to a statewide office. He cites the Governor's criticisms of President Donald Trump and his willingness to work with Democrats as his inspiration to run. On December 8, 2017, Scott Lively announced his campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nOn December 13, 2017, Beaty stated he is no longer considering a run against Baker. Scott Lively, an evangelical pastor, challenged Baker and received more than the 15% of delegate votes necessary at the state convention to qualify for ballot access. Baker won the endorsement of the party by an overwhelming margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nBaker ultimately won the nomination, but not without Lively securing over a quarter of the primary vote, leading to speculation that Baker's more moderate disposition and opposition to President Trump may have damaged his general election chances with Republican base voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nIn November 2014, after interviewing over a dozen Democratic operatives, strategists, and activists, Joshua Miller of The Boston Globe wrote that the party would be looking for a young, fresh candidate who can appeal to the party's progressive base. He identified Attorney General Maura Healey as being \"the first name on many Democratic lists\". Samantha Lachman of The Huffington Post also identified Healey as a potential candidate for governor in 2018 or in a future United States Senate race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nAs of July 2017, the declared candidates are relatively unknown to the state's voters. Their identification by Democratic voters was bolstered by addressing the 2017 state Democratic Convention, which saw its largest attendance of around 3,000 delegates in years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nOn April 26, 2018, Setti Warren announced via Facebook that he was withdrawing from the race due to financial concerns. He stated he would not endorse either of his former opponents until the nomination is won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nAt the Massachusetts Democratic Convention in June, party delegates endorsed Gonzalez and Palfrey, but Bob Massie and Jimmy Tingle also surpassed the 15% threshold for ballot access by comfortable margins. A poll from late June conducted by WBUR and MassInc. indicated that the contest for the Democratic nomination in the gubernatorial race is a toss-up, with Massie and Gonzalez being separated by a percentage smaller than the margin of error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nGonzalez and Palfrey went on to win their respective nominations generously (winning almost every municipality in the state) and are headed into the general election to face their Republican counterparts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280842-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, General election, Endorsements\nAll individuals belong to the nominee's party unless otherwise specified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal\nThe 2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal was disclosed in early October when the board of the Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas (CMSA) voted unanimously to suspend indefinitely the Master Sommelier credential awarded to all but one of an unprecedented 24 candidates who had passed its stringent annual membership exam a month previously at the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal\nThe decision was taken after the CMSA's board learned that one of its own members, Reggie Narito, had passed advance information about two of the six wines candidates had to identify during the blind tasting section, considered the most challenging of the three portions of the exam. Two of the successful candidates, to whom the information was known to have been passed (a third had failed), unsolicited, were barred from retaking the exam for three years. All the others were allowed to make up the exam in December at no charge; six passed. Narito was expelled from the organization and lost his Master Sommelier title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal\nAspiring Master Sommeliers often spend years, and considerable sums of money, acquiring the knowledge and experience necessary to pass the exam, the highest credential of the four the CMSA offers, which is only given to those invited to or recommended for it by those already members of the organization. The exam has an 8 percent pass rate; more people have been in space than become Master Sommeliers, entitled to append \"MS\" to their names in any wine-related context. Those who succeed have often been rewarded with a doubling of their income and lucrative jobs in the wine industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal\nFor those reasons, the candidates whose titles were suspended protested the CMSA's decision as not only costing them economically, but casting aspersions on their professional integrity, since they were never offered a chance to prove their innocence. The CMSA defended the decision as the only way to preserve the title's integrity since it could not be determined how many candidates had seen the tip as opposed to merely being sent it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal\nIt sustained its decision on internal appeal, but in the process left itself open to public criticism of its internal investigation of the incident as cursory, secretive, and perhaps tainted by conflicts of interest. Rumors that the board's real motivation had been preventing public disclosure of earlier exams tainted by cheating were given credence in 2021 when a Vice article reported that a former candidate said the board had been aware of cheating on the exam almost 10 years earlier yet took no action save tightening testing procedures for the next exam. The affair has also given rise to more general criticism of the opacity of the exam administration process and CMSA's governance in general.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal\nSome of those suspended have continued to pursue the title, a few succeeded; the exam has not been held since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Others, alienated by the CMSA's handling of the matter and a later sexual harassment scandal, have lost interest in ever becoming Master Sommeliers; some have decided to pursue the competing Master of Wine certification. One of the latter, Dan Pilkey, continued to use the \"MS\" post-nominal in social media posts about wine, and wear the lapel pin, even after the board suspended it. The CMSA sued him for infringement of its collective membership mark; the case was dismissed on procedural grounds and not refiled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Background\nThe first Master Sommelier exam was held in the United Kingdom in 1969; the Court of Master Sommeliers was established as a governing body for the exam in that country eight years later. In 1986, the first American exam was held, and the American branch of the Court formally organized in its wake. The Court's goal is to \"encourage improved standards of beverage knowledge and service in hotels and restaurants.\" Many of those who have earned the title work outside the hospitality sector, for wineries or distributors. or as consultants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Background\nMaster Sommelier is the highest of four levels of certification the Court confers. Before attempting the annual exam candidates are required to have already passed the Introductory, Certified and Advanced Sommelier courses and exams, and worked in the hospitality industry in a wine-related capacity for at least 10 years. Candidates can only take the exam if invited or recommended by a member of the Court, and must still pay the exam fee of US$995 for each of three portions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Background\nA 75 percent score is required on each portion to pass (in contrast to the 60 percent passing criterion for the lower-level exams). Once they have passed Theory, candidates must pass the other two sections in the next three years to become Master Sommeliers; if they do not they must start the whole process again. In the history of the exam only nine people have passed all three portions on their first attempt; the Court has awarded them a trophy known as the Krug Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Background\nOverall it is estimated that of out every 70 candidates only one eventually passes, as happened in one 2013 sitting of the exam. As of 2021, 269 people have passed the exam and become Master Sommeliers, fewer people than have been in space. The exam's overall pass rate is 8 percent, leading to it being called one of the world's most difficult tests to pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Background\nTo prepare for the exam, as shown in the 2012 documentary film Somm and its sequels, aspiring Master Sommeliers cultivate relationships with those already Masters as a form of mentoring. They spend large quantities of their own money purchasing expensive wines to practice for the tasting portion. Often they go into debt in the process, knowing that passing the exam and earning the MS will approximately double their income, to around $160,000, and allow them to pay those debts off. They also forgo a social life to study 20\u201330 hours a week, and often retain sports psychologists. \"It requires a level of dedication that's almost a sickness\", one Master said in 2021; it has also been compared to the process of becoming a Shaolin warrior monk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 803]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, 2018 exam\nIn early September 2018, 141 candidates, including some from outside the U.S., attempted the exam at the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis over three days. On the morning of the Tasting portion, one of them, Elton Nichols, recalled later receiving an email from Reggie Narito, at the time vice president for fine wines at California-based Young's Market Company and not only a Master Sommelier, but a member of the Court's board and one of the exam proctors that day. The subject line was \"Heads up\" with \"PG, CndP\" in the body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, 2018 exam\nNichols, who was acquainted slightly with Narito, having gone to Narito's house in the Bay Area from his own home in Seattle several times to taste wines along with other aspiring Master Sommeliers, understood this to mean pinot gris and Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape, two of the wines that candidates would be challenged to identify that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, 2018 exam\nNichols immediately deleted the email, but did nothing else. If, he reasoned, a Master Sommelier as prominent within the Court as Narito was involved in giving candidates advance information they were not supposed to have, others might also be, and informing any of the Court's officials present would not be productive. Nichols took the exam and passed, although he missed identifying one of the two wines in Narito's email. At the end of the day he would be one of 24 candidates to become Master Sommeliers, a success rate never achieved on any other exam. One had passed all three portions on his first attempt and was awarded the Krug Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath\nThe newly credentialed Masters swiftly enjoyed the benefits of their position, receiving salary increases at their present jobs and fielding offers for new positions and business opportunities. Five weeks after the exam, the Court's board was approached by an attorney for one of that year's unsuccessful candidates, a woman who had also received Narito's email and, it was later disclosed, had previously been romantically involved with the Court's vice president, Matt Stamp. The attorney shared the email with the board, which immediately convened a special committee of its own to investigate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 94], "content_span": [95, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath\nAfter a three-day investigation over the first weekend of October, the special committee reported to an emergency meeting of the full board, from which it had recused Narito. After the special committee reported on the methodology of its investigation, the board voted unanimously, after much discussion, to revoke Narito's title and expel him from the Court, an action the board has never publicly confirmed; it is recorded in the meeting's minutes. Narito reportedly parted ways with his employer, as well; neither confirmed it to the media but shortly afterwards, Narito's LinkedIn profile indicated he was looking for work, which a Young's spokeswoman pointed out to the media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 94], "content_span": [95, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath\nThe special committee then explained to the board that while it had learned that the email had been sent to just three candidates, and it did not appear that any of the recipients had solicited the information from Narito, it was impossible to tell if those three had shared the email with others. After much debate, the board voted, again unanimously, with several members including the vice president recusing themselves, to suspend the Master Sommelier titles of 23 of those who had gained it in September, including Krug Cup winner Van Wagner. The one remaining new Master kept his title due to having passed the Tasting portion in a previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 94], "content_span": [95, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath\nTo offset the loss of their titles, the board scheduled a makeup exam for December and waived the fee for those who wanted to retake it, except two: Nichols and the other successful candidate who had received the email. They were barred from retaking the exam for five years, after which they would have to petition the board to be allowed to take it again. Most of the rest took the makeup exam, which only six passed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 94], "content_span": [95, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath\nAll but four whose titles had been suspended organized as a group and appealed the Court's decision in a joint letter, demanding reinstatement and an apology. They were particularly upset by the haste with which the board had conducted its investigation and reached its decision, which they said could have better distinguished those innocent of cheating. The board had refused their offers to provide statements, take lie detector tests or allow their phones and other devices to be examined. It had also declined an offer by Young's CEO, Narito's former superior, to provide copies of other emails he had sent, which included the names of those the original email had been bcc'ed to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 94], "content_span": [95, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath\nThree others from the group of 23 passed the exam in 2019 and regained their titles. The exam has not been offered since then due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the Court has tolled the three-year limit for any candidates who have already passed one portion to pass the entire exam. As of April\u00a02021, the Court was planning to hold the exam later in the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 94], "content_span": [95, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath\nSome of those whose titles were revoked were so alienated that they decided not to make any further attempts to regain it. \"I want to find a different industry to work in\", one of them told the wine news site SevenFifty after the scandal broke. \"I want this to be over.\" Jane Lopes, the first Australian woman to have gained Master Sommelier status, wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 94], "content_span": [95, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath\nIn examining my reasons for taking the exam in the first place, I found several: to pursue excellence in my profession, to prove to myself that I could do it in spite of my particular challenges, and to be in a position to educate, mentor, and influence in the industry. I know now that I don't need the letters \"MS\" after my name to pursue the first, prove that I did the second, or be in a position to do the third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 94], "content_span": [95, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath\nNichols and Dan Pilkey, who had been attempting to pass the exam since 2010 and did not pass the free December retest, have both said they are not interested in regaining their titles by any means other than the Court's board admitting its mistake and reinstating them. Pilkey, joking that \"the best way to get over a breakup is to find a new partner\", has opted instead to pursue the Master of Wine certificate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 94], "content_span": [95, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath, Criticism of investigation\nThe board's decision to investigate the matter internally also drew criticism. \"I look at this from a business perspective\", said Ken Frederickson, a 19-year Master Sommelier who founded a high-end Chicago-based wine and spirits distributor. \"This type of situation would always be investigated by an outside organization\" due to the potential or actual conflicts of interest involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 122], "content_span": [123, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath, Criticism of investigation\nDustin Wilson, a New York wine store owner whose successful bid to become a Master was the focus of Somm, notes that despite the board's vice president acknowledging his conflict due to his past relationship with the woman who had brought Narito's email to the board's attention, he was still part of the special committee that conducted the investigation. \"That shows you it's really just an old boys club,\" he commented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 122], "content_span": [123, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath, Criticism of investigation\nCritics also found the board to have been overly secretive about its investigation. When its members first learned of the allegations, then-president Devon Broglie warned members several times not to discuss the matter with anyone outside the Court, and after it became public discouraged them from speaking to the media. A few days after the scandal broke, Nichols decided to go to the board himself and disclose that he, too, had received Narito's email. The board thanked him for coming forward but asked him not to tell anyone else that he had done so, which he found odd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 122], "content_span": [123, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath, Criticism of investigation\nNichols had also planned to make that disclosure to the group of 19 suspended Masters, but before he did someone close to the Court let Dan Pilkey, a leader of the group, know that there was another person among them who had received the email. The ensuing discord among the group when Nichols admitted it was him was later perceived by some of the former Masters as a deliberate attempt to undermine their unity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 122], "content_span": [123, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Cheating allegations, investigation and aftermath, Criticism of investigation\nEventually some members of the suspended group got copies of the minutes of the October board meeting where it had voted to expel Narito and invalidate the tasting exam results. The description of the investigation's methodology had been redacted in its entirety, as well as passages recounting what was described as lengthy debate preceding the motions to expel Narito and invalidate the results. The entire document has been compared to something that might have been released by the CIA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 122], "content_span": [123, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Possible cheating on previous exams\nSuspicion grew among the suspended Masters that the board's handling of the incident reflected not incompetence so much as malfeasance, that its main goal had been to forestall the disclosures that might have come from a full investigation. They noted that Narito had not tried to conceal what he was doing, to the point of even using his work email account. That suggested that he felt little or no risk of consequences, that he or others had done this before and that it was cheating on earlier exams, including some where board members had earned their Master titles, they did not want disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Possible cheating on previous exams\nIn 2021, Arthur Black, a onetime Master candidate himself who taught many classes and performed other services for the Court but never passed the exam despite his stellar performance on the Theory section (he believes his outspokenness alienated some key members) shared with Vice an account of a conversation he had had with a prominent Master he did not name during the 2009 exam. It had long been customary for candidates taking the Theory portion to reconstruct the questions they had been asked and compile them into a study guide for their own, and others', future attempts at the exam. That year, rumors had circulated that some candidates who sat the exam in the morning had emailed questions they remembered to others who took it that afternoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Possible cheating on previous exams\nOver billiards that evening, the Master asked Black what he knew about the \"breach\" of the exam that day. Unlike the 2018 exam, no action was ever taken by the board against anyone involved. The following year exam procedures were changed; candidates were sequestered and their phones were taken during the Theory portion, a procedure that has been followed since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Lawsuit\nAfter failing the retest, on which he said he felt like he was \"playing not to lose\", Pilkey began adding \"MS\" to his social media posts about wine and wearing the red lapel pin identifying him as a Master Sommelier, disregarding the Court's withdrawal of his title. The Court sent him letters ordering him to cease and desist or be sued for membership infringement, as it owns the Master Sommelier trademark and with it the exclusive right to say who can call themselves one. Pilkey responded by challenging the Court to proceed with suit as he believed he had fairly earned the title and unjustly been denied further use of it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Lawsuit\nIn June 2019 the Court filed an action against Pilkey in federal court for the Northern District of California, where it is based.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Lawsuit\nA group of Masters who had been critical of the board's handling of the exam paid for Pilkey's attorney, who was able to get the case dismissed by the end of the year on a procedural issue: CMSA had asserted the court had personal jurisdiction over Pilkey, a resident of Chicago, because of his employment as Midwest regional sales director for a California-based winery, his past personal ties to the state, and his social media posts about California wines, including geotags mentioning specific locations in the state as where the accompanying pictures were taken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0026-0002", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Lawsuit\nThe court agreed with Pilkey that the first two were not enough to establish jurisdiction and while the third might have been, they did not qualify as commercial endeavors since his sales territory did not include California and the wines in question were available anywhere in the United States. By that time Pilkey had stopped claiming the title publicly, wording his LinkedIn profile's header to say only that he passed the September 2018 exam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Lawsuit\nPilkey learned from the Court's filings in response to the lawsuit that the Master Sommelier titles he and the other 22 had held briefly were not, in fact, revoked but merely suspended. While he has disdained further interest in regaining the title, in 2021 he still expressed his desire that the Court admit its mistake, apologize, and give he and the other 20 who did not receive the email the chance to accept the title as long as they wanted to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Catalyst for efforts to reform Court and exam\nThe September 2018 class of Masters were not the only ones associated with the organization who found its handling of the exam results disturbing. Their concerns focused not just on the way the exam had historically been administered but the Court's governance as well. They were heightened after a sexual harassment scandal reported in 2020 forced the resignation of the entire board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Catalyst for efforts to reform Court and exam\nStarting with the 2019 exam the Court began putting in place new security procedures, including sequestering proctors as well as candidates and requiring them to surrender their electronic devices. Proctors are also not allowed to be alone with a candidate at any time during the exam. The exam itself is also becoming more compartmentalized, so that no single proctor knows all the material being tested or all the candidates taking the exam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Catalyst for efforts to reform Court and exam\nCritics believe those reforms are not enough. They point to the opacity of the exam and its grading as a root cause of the scandal and ensuing discontent. Candidates are never told what their exact score was on each portion of the exam, only that they passed, and on the Tasting portion the identities of the wine are never revealed. Pilkey has noted the contrast with the tasting sessions in the Master of Wine training, which does share with students what wines they tasted, and finds it more conducive to learning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Catalyst for efforts to reform Court and exam\nEven one of the Court's board members, Joseph Spellman, agrees that more transparency on the test would be for the better. \"I have long wished\", he wrote in a Facebook post after the scandal, \"that we revealed at least some info on the wines after the exams.\" He admitted he was in the minority, and as long as the board's exam committee insists on reserving the right to change the sequence and/or selection of wines, or how they are scored, to compensate for flaws in the exam process, that is unlikely to change. Spellman also confirmed that the exam procedure gives the proctors the right to change candidates' scores after the exam, lending support to rumors that proctors had often lobbied for extra points for preferred candidates after the exams had been administered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 867]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Catalyst for efforts to reform Court and exam\nFrom the outset of the scandal, Wilson, Frederickson and a group of other longtime Masters including wine writer Richard Betts and Lopes' husband Jonathan Ross, had joined the calls to reinstate the suspended titles, investigate more thoroughly and reform the way the Court was run. \"There should be a good amount of transparency between the broader membership and the decisions being made by the board\", Wilson said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Catalyst for efforts to reform Court and exam\nHe and others noted that the Court, a 501(c)(6) nonprofit under U.S. tax law, reported revenues of $4.5 million in 2017, which would be more than enough to hire a full-time nonmember with experience to run the organization; Frederickson also points out that the scandal shows the need for a human resources (HR) department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Catalyst for efforts to reform Court and exam\nInstead, the Court has persisted with having the head of its board serve as its executive, notwithstanding his own professional responsibilities, if any. Like all members of the board, his Court duties are unpaid. Under the Court's bylaws, candidates for board seats must have been Masters for three years, and teach at least four courses or proctor as many exams while they serve as directors. Wilson says this results in the board becoming \"an insiders' club\u00a0... [ that] limits the scope of perspective of the group running the organization.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Catalyst for efforts to reform Court and exam\nDuring 2019, the board responded to some concerns. It had the Court join the Institute for Credentialing Excellence, and explored the possibility of hiring an outsider to run its daily operations, and explored providing more organizational support for those operations and the examinations as well as looking at companies that could provide HR support. In 2020, responding to concerns that its culture was racially exclusionary in the wake of highly publicized Black Lives Matter protests, the board dropped the requirement that all Masters be addressed by others with that title and their last name at Court functions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Catalyst for efforts to reform Court and exam\nAfter The New York Times reported on a culture of longterm sexual harassment within the organization in 2020, some of the most respected and prominent Masters, including former vice president Stamp and Court cofounder Fred Dame, were suspended from Court activities. Alpana Singh, the youngest woman and the first Indian American to make Master Sommelier, renounced her title in support of the women, and the entire board resigned in advance of that year's elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280843-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Master Sommelier exam cheating scandal, Catalyst for efforts to reform Court and exam\nIn addition to Singh, Betts also left the Court in protest, saying he wished he had done it sooner since the organization \"no longer aligns with [his] views\". Another Master, Bobby Stuckey, sommelier at a popular Aspen, Colorado, restaurant, has stopped teaching the Advanced Sommelier class until reforms have been made. \"I'm into hospitality, and hospitality is about always thinking about the other person\", he said. \"The way we have treated these candidates doesn't do that.\" The Court's new board has been holding listening sessions around the country in an effort to be more open with members, but has not said anything yet regarding the cheating scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280844-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (curling)\nThe 2018 Canadian Beef Masters was held from October 23 to 28, at the Rath Eastlink Arena in Truro, Nova Scotia. This was be the second Grand Slam and first major of the 2018\u201319 curling season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280844-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (curling)\nOn the men's side, John Epping defeated Kevin Koe 7\u20134 in the final, completing a career Grand Slam for Epping, winning all four major events. On the women's side, Anna Hasselborg defeated Rachel Homan 8\u20137 to win their second straight Grand Slam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280844-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (curling), Qualification\nThe top 14 men's and women's teams on the World Curling Tour order of merit standing as of September 20, 2018 qualified for the event. The Grand Slam of Curling may fill one spot in each division as a sponsor's exemption. In the event that a team declines its invitation, the next-ranked team on the order of merit is invited until the field is complete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280844-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (curling), Qualification, Men\nTop Order of Merit men's teams as of September 20:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280844-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (curling), Qualification, Women\nTop Order of Merit women's teams as of September 20:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280844-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (curling), Men, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Atlantic Daylight time (UTC-3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280844-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (curling), Women, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Atlantic Daylight time (UTC-3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280845-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (darts)\nThe 2018 Unibet Masters was the sixth staging of the non-ranking Masters darts tournament, held by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). It was held from 26\u201328 January 2018 at the Arena MK in Milton Keynes, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280845-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (darts)\nMichael van Gerwen was the defending champion, after defeating Gary Anderson 11\u20137 in the 2017 final, and he successfully retained his title, by beating Raymond van Barneveld 11\u20139 in the final. It was Van Gerwen's fourth consecutive Masters title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280845-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (darts), Qualifiers\nThe Masters only features the top 16 Players in the PDC Order of Merit. The following players comprised the top 16 of the PDC Order of Merit after the 2018 PDC World Darts Championship, with the exception of Phil Taylor, who despite being #4 in the rankings, had announced his retirement, following the final of the World Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280845-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (darts), Prize Money\nThe prize money is \u00a3200,000 in total. The prize money is the same as in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker)\nThe 2018 Masters (also referred to as the 2018 Dafabet Masters for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 21 January 2018 in London, England, and the second Triple Crown event of the 2017\u201318 snooker season. It was the 44th staging of the Masters, and was broadcast in Europe by the BBC and Eurosport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker)\nThe event saw two first-time Triple Crown finalists. Mark Allen won his first, defeating Kyren Wilson 10\u20137 in the final. Defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan lost 1\u20136 in the quarter-finals to the eventual champion, Allen. It was O'Sullivan's first defeat at the Masters since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary\nThe 2018 Dafabet Masters saw the sixteen highest ranked players in the snooker world rankings compete, with no qualification round. Defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was the number one seed, with remaining places being allocated to players based on the world rankings after the 2017 UK Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary\nWith Stuart Bingham, ranked 12th, suspended for betting breaches, Liang Wenbo, ranked 17th, was invited in his stead. Luca Brecel and Anthony McGill made their Masters debuts at the event. A notable absentee was former Masters champion Neil Robertson, who had participated in every Masters tournament since 2006, but had failed to be ranked high enough in time for the event, at rank 20; Robertson would return to the event the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary\nAs in previous years, the top eight seeds were allocated fixed positions in the draw. The other eight players were positioned by drawing lots during the final of the 2017 UK Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary, First round\nThe first round of the competition saw sixteen players take part, and was played between 14 and 17 January 2018. Defending champion, and top seed, Ronnie O'Sullivan whitewashed ninth seed Marco Fu 6\u20130, making three centuries during the match. During the first four frames in total, O'Sullivan scored 477 points without reply and Fu had gained only five points due to a foul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary, First round\nMark Williams won a match at the Masters for the first time in five years, coming from 3\u20135 behind to beat World Champion and World number one Mark Selby 6\u20135. Playing in his first Masters tournament in eight years; the other Welshman in the draw, Ryan Day, came from 0\u20133 down to beat World number four and former champion, Ding Junhui, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary, First round\nShaun Murphy defeated Ali Carter 6\u20134. Murphy led 4\u20130 but Carter won the next four frames to level. However, Murphy survived the comeback and won the next two frames for victory. Former World Championship finalist Judd Trump defeated Liang Wenbo by a score of 6\u20134 in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary, First round\nMark Allen safely reached the second round by defeating Masters debutant Luca Brecel by a score of six frames to three. Kyren Wilson secured his first victory in a Masters match after having lost in the first round of his debut the year before. Wilson defeated former Masters finalist, Barry Hawkins, 6\u20134 in the first round of this edition of the tournament. Former champion John Higgins won the first two frames in his tie against Anthony McGill, before McGill won the next four frames to lead 4\u20132, with a match high break of 122. Higgins, however, won the next four frames to win the match 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary, Quarter-finals\nThe quarter-finals were played on 18 and 19 January 2018. Defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was knocked out of the tournament by Mark Allen, who won their quarter-final match 6\u20131. This was O'Sullivan's first loss at the Masters since 2015. He claimed afterwards that he had been feeling ill before the match and was \"glad\" to be out of the competition. He also revealed, however, that he had not been feeling well during his whitewash of Marco Fu in the first round. After the match, Allen commented on the negative crowd reaction, saying that his playing style had been affected by some of O'Sullivan's fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary, Quarter-finals\nJohn Higgins defeated Ryan Day in the second quarter-final, with another 6\u20131 scoreline. Higgins made a break of 83 in the opening frame, Day won frame 2, then Higgins took the next five frames with breaks of 61, 63, 65, 80 and 113 to win the match. The third quarter-final match saw Kyren Wilson defeat Mark Williams, again 6\u20131. Wilson took the first four frames, Williams won the fifth, then Wilson took frames 6 and 7 with two century breaks to win the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary, Quarter-finals\nThe last of the quarter-finals saw Judd Trump defeat Shaun Murphy 6\u20134. Trump made four 50+ breaks in the first six frames and built up a lead of 4\u20132, before Murphy took the next two frames to tie the match 4\u20134. Trump then won the next two frames, with breaks of 111 and 113, to win the match. Play was briefly interrupted when a wasp landed on the table during the match. Afterwards, Murphy admitted that he had been concerned, saying he was \"terrified of wasps, who isn't?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary, Semi-finals\nThe semi-finals took place on 20 January 2018, the penultimate day of the event. In the first semi-final, Kyren Wilson defeated Judd Trump 6\u20135 to reach his first Triple Crown final. Trump started the match with a lead of 3\u20131, and later 5\u20132, owing to breaks of 83, 96 and 69. Wilson took both of the next two frames, and then made a break of 107 in the tenth frame to tie 5\u20135, forcing a decider. Trump was the first of the two players to make progress in the final frame, but lost position after a break of 23, leaving Wilson in amongst the balls; Wilson then made an \"outstanding\" break of 72 to win the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary, Semi-finals\nIn the second semi-final, Mark Allen dispatched another former multiple World and Masters Champion, John Higgins, 6\u20133. After making breaks of 63 and 90, Allen took a 3\u20131 lead at the mid-session interval. Higgins created a break of 131 in the fifth frame (his 700th competitive century break), but Allen won the next two frames to lead 5\u20132. In frame 8, Higgins scored the second century of the match to trail 3\u20135, before Allen won the match in the ninth frame to reach his first Masters final. Post-match, Higgins admitted that his tactical play was \"very poor\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary, Final\nThe final took place on 21 January 2018, over two sessions, in a best-of-19-frames match. This was the first time since 1995 that two first-time finalists had met in the Masters final; neither Mark Allen (8) nor Kyren Wilson (13) had ever previously reached the final of a Masters tournament. Allen defeated Wilson 10\u20137 to win the title. This was Allen's first major title in his fourteen years as a professional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary, Final\nThe two players ended the first session tied at 4\u20134, and shared the first two frames of the second session to tie the match again at 5\u20135. Allen made a break of 73 in the eleventh frame to lead 6\u20135; he then took a two-frame lead with a break of 119 in frame 12, and also won frame 13 to lead 8\u20135. Wilson won the next two frames to reduce his deficit to a single frame, at 7\u20138. Allen took frames 16 and 17, with breaks of 69 and 71 respectively, to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Tournament summary, Final\nAfter the match, Wilson cried on receiving his runners-up medal. He commented: \"I just made things a bit too easy for Mark, you can't do that to a player of Mark's class, he's too good and he'll punish you. That's what he did tonight.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Prize fund\nThe event received identical prize money to that of the previous year, with \u00a3200,000 for the winner, and \u00a3600,000 overall. The highest break prize of \u00a310,000 was won by Liang Wenbo, for a break of 139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Century breaks\nThe event saw a total of 28 century breaks throughout the tournament, with Liang Wenbo completing the highest tournament break of 139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Coverage\nThe tournament was broadcast live in the United Kingdom by BBC Sport, as well as on Eurosport in Europe. Worldwide, the event was covered by China Central Television and Superstars Online in China, and Sky Sports in New Zealand. NowTV presented the event in Hong Kong with additional commentary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280846-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters (snooker), Coverage, Aftermath\nThe Masters was followed by the 2018 German Masters, which was won by Mark Williams. Masters winner Mark Allen was defeated in the first round, losing 4\u20135 to Matthew Selt. At the following year's event, the 2019 Masters, both finalists would lose in the first round: Mark Allen 5\u20136 to Luca Brecel, and Kyren Wilson 2\u20136 to Judd Trump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament\nThe 2018 Masters Tournament was the 82nd edition of the Masters Tournament and the first of golf's four major championships in 2018. It was held April 5\u20138 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament\nPatrick Reed won his first major title with a final round 71 (\u22121) for 273 (\u221215), one stroke ahead of runner-up Rickie Fowler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Media\nThe 2018 Masters Tournament was the 63rd Masters Tournament to be televised by CBS with early round coverage airing on ESPN using CBS production crews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Field\nThe Masters has the smallest field of the four major championships. Officially, the Masters remains an invitation event, but there is a set of qualifying criteria that determines who is included in the field. Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, with other categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Field\nGolfers who qualify based solely on their performance in amateur tournaments (categories 6\u201310) must remain amateurs on the starting day of the tournament to be eligible to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Field\n\u00c1ngel Cabrera, Fred Couples, Sergio Garc\u00eda (11,16,17,18), Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson (3,17), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (3,15,17,18), Larry Mize, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Olaz\u00e1bal, Mark O'Meara, Charl Schwartzel (11,17), Adam Scott (11,17), Vijay Singh, Jordan Spieth (2,3,11,13,15,16,17,18), Bubba Watson (15,18), Mike Weir, Danny Willett, Tiger Woods, Ian Woosnam", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Field\nJason Day (5,15,16,17,18), Jason Dufner (15,16,17,18), Justin Thomas (14,15,16,17,18), Jimmy Walker", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Field\nPaul Casey (15,16,17,18), Kevin Chappell (15,16,17,18), Russell Henley (16,17), Matt Kuchar (13,16,17,18), Hideki Matsuyama (12,15,16,17,18), Ryan Moore, Thomas Pieters (17,18)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Field\nDaniel Berger (16,17,18), Wesley Bryan, Patrick Cantlay (16,17,18), Austin Cook, Bryson DeChambeau, Billy Horschel, Kevin Kisner (16,17,18), Patton Kizzire, Marc Leishman (16,17,18), Pat Perez (16,17,18), Ted Potter Jr., Ian Poulter, Jon Rahm (16,17,18), Xander Schauffele (16,17,18), Kyle Stanley (16,17,18), Brendan Steele (17,18), Jhonattan Vegas (16,17), Gary Woodland (16,18)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Field\nTony Finau (17,18), Adam Hadwin (18), Charley Hoffman (17,18), Webb Simpson (17,18)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Field\nKiradech Aphibarnrat (18), Ross Fisher (18), Matthew Fitzpatrick (18), Branden Grace (18), Tyrrell Hatton (18), Yuta Ikeda, Y\u016bsaku Miyazato, Alex Nor\u00e9n (18), Bernd Wiesberger", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Par 3 Contest\nTom Watson won the Par 3 Contest with a score of 21 (\u22126). It was Watson's second win in the contest, having previously won in 1982. Three holes-in-one were recorded, including one by the grandson of Jack Nicklaus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, First round\nJordan Spieth, the 2015 champion, birdied five consecutive holes on the back-nine to post a round of 66 (\u22126) and take the first round lead for the third time in four years. Playing a day after dislocating an ankle during the Par 3 Contest, Tony Finau finished two shots back, along with Matt Kuchar. Four-time champion Tiger Woods, playing the Masters for the first time in three years, was three-over after a bogey on the 12th but rebounded with two birdies to finish with 73 (+1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, First round\nDefending champion Sergio Garc\u00eda hit five consecutive balls onto the green which rolled back into the water on the par-5 15th and carded a one-putt 13, the highest score on that hole in Masters history, and tied for the worst in history on any hole. He birdied the next hole; his 81 (+9) put him in a tie for 85th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Second round\nPlaying in the afternoon, Patrick Reed made nine birdies to go along with three bogies on his way to a 66 (\u22126). He had three separate streaks of three birdies to take a two shot lead over Marc Leishman. Leishman, playing with Tiger Woods, eagled the par-5 15th to shoot a 67 (\u22125). Henrik Stenson was four back of Reed after a solid 70 (\u22122). First-round leader Jordan Spieth fell back with a 74 (+2) to end the day at \u22124 overall along with Rory McIlroy. Woods, looking for his first win since 2013, made the cut with a 75 (+3). Doug Ghim was the only amateur that made the cut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Second round\nAmateurs: Ghim (+4), Niemann (+9), Redman (+9), Lin (+15), Parziale (+16), Ellis (+22)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Third round\nPatrick Reed recorded four birdies and two eagles on his way to a round of 67 and a three-shot lead heading to the final round. Reed was even on his round before three straight birdies on holes 8\u201310. At the par-5 13th, he hit his approach to 14 feet and made the putt for an eagle. Then on the 15th he chipped in from just off the green for another eagle. Rory McIlroy began the round five shots out of the lead but erased the deficit with a score of 31 on the first nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Third round\nHe made three birdies in a four-hole stretch then chipped in for eagle at the par-5 8th to get into a share of the lead. Falling as much as five shots behind Reed on the second nine, McIlroy rebounded with birdies on the 15th and 18th to post a bogey-free round of 65 and cut Reed's advantage down to three. Rickie Fowler and Jon Rahm both shot bogey-free rounds of 65 (\u22127) and were five and six shots behind, respectively. It was the first time in Masters history three players shot as low as 65 in the same round. The scoring average was 71.26, the lowest third round average since 1986. Marc Leishman began the day in the final pairing and two shots out of the lead but failed to make a birdie in a one-over round of 73.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nPatrick Reed's one-under round of 71 was enough to hold off charges from Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth for his first major championship. Reed began the day three shots ahead of Rory McIlroy but bogeyed the 1st and failed to make birdie on the par-5 2nd. McIlroy had a four-foot (1.2\u00a0m) eagle putt on the same hole that would have tied Reed but missed, settling for birdie to cut the deficit to one. Reed regained his advantage with a birdie on the 3rd hole while McIlroy made bogey. McIlroy made two more bogeys on the first nine, while Reed recovered from a bogey at 7 with a birdie on the 8th to take a four-shot lead to the second nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nJordan Spieth began the round nine shots behind Reed but mounted a charge to get back into contention. He birdied his first two holes and added three more birdies on the first nine. At the par-3 12th, where in 2016 he made a quadruple-bogey that cost him the title, he made a 27-foot (8\u00a0m) putt for birdie from just off the green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nHe made another birdie on the 13th after narrowly missing an eagle putt, two-putted for birdie on the par-5 15th, then made a 33-footer for birdie on the 16th to get to nine-under for the round and tie Reed. On the 18th, however, Spieth's drive hit a tree and he was unable to save par, settling for a round of 64 (\u22128).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nAt the same time, Rickie Fowler was making a challenge to Reed's lead. He began five shots behind and was one-over on his round thru seven, but made six birdies on his last 11 holes. At the 18th, he holed a 7-footer for birdie to post a round of 67 (\u22125) and get within one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nReed, meanwhile, made bogey on the 11th but made a 22-foot (7\u00a0m) putt for birdie at the 12th. On the 13th, his approach to the par-5 came up short but hung up in the rough instead of falling into the water, but he was unable to get up-and-down for birdie. At the 14th, he hit his approach to eight feet and made the birdie putt, and was able to save par from over the green on 15. Reed faced an eighty-foot (24\u00a0m) putt on the 17th which hit the cup and rolled five feet away, then saved par.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280847-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nWith a one-shot lead heading to the last, Reed faced a 25-foot (7.5\u00a0m) downhill putt which he hit to four feet. Reed converted to win by one shot over Fowler and two over Spieth. Jon Rahm got to within two of the lead before hitting his approach at 15 into the water and making bogey, finishing alone in fourth place. McIlroy settled for a two-over round of 74 and tied for fifth, six shots behind Reed. Final round scoring average was 70.49, believed to be the lowest single round scoring average in the history of the Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings\nOn 13 July 2018, ahead of Pakistan's general election, two bombings took place at election rallies in Bannu and Mastung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings\nIn Bannu, a remotely exploded bomb planted in a motorcycle left 5 people dead and 37 others wounded in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Akram Khan Durrani. Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen, an extremist organization, claimed responsibility for the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings\nIn Mastung, a suicide bomber blew himself up during a rally for the Balochistan Awami Party's Siraj Raisani, the brother of former Balochistan chief minister Aslam Raisani. One of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Pakistani history, it killed 149 people and wounded 186 others. Siraj was taken to hospital in critical condition and died of injuries. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the event and named the suicide bomber as Abu Bakar al-Pakistani, though authorities identified him as Hafeez Nawaz of Abbottabad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Background, Pre-election violence\nThe attacks came 12 days before general elections. In the beginning of the month, a bombing took place in Ramzak Tehsil of North Waziristan at the office of Malik Aurangjeb Khan, Pakistan Movement of Justice's candidate for NA-48 (Tribal Area-IX), leaving 10 people injured. A week before the current attack in Bannu, a bomb planted in a motorcycle was remotely exploded at an election campaign of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal's PK\u201389 candidate Shein Malik in the Takhti Khel area of the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Background, Pre-election violence\nTwo days prior to the attacks, a suicide bombing at an election rally of the Awami National Party's leader Haroon Bilour in Peshawar left 20 people, including Bilour, dead and wounded 63 others. On 12 July, the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP)'s office in Khuzdar came under gunfire before a bomb detonated injuring 2 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Background, ISIL in Pakistan\nAfter the group's defeat in Iraq and Syria, many commanders of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fled to other countries where resistance was weak. Many fighters headed to Afghanistan where Al-Qaeda was fighting against the United States. Since ISIL's entry intervention in Pakistan, Balochistan has been a focus of its militancy. In 2016, ISIL claimed responsibility for two attacks in Quetta; one in August and the other in October. The following year, it perpetrated a suicide bombing at a shrine in Sehwan. In Mastung that year, the group carried out a suicide bombing to assassinate Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan Abdul Ghafoor Haideri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Prior intelligence\nSoon after the Peshawar ambush, National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) forwarded 12 threats to federal and provincial interior ministries, following which committee chairman Rahman Malik directed authorities to enhance security of politicians named by NACTA. In its report, NACTA named six politicians that can be targeted. The list included Durrani. The other five politicians included Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)'s chairman Imran Khan, Awami National Party leaders Asfandyar Wali and Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, Qaumi Watan Party's head Aftab Sherpao and Hafiz Saeed's son Talha Saeed. It also suggested that members of PML-N and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) were under threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Prime targets, Mastung\nSiraj Raisani was a prominent member of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and was to contest the next elections from PB-35. The brother of former Chief Minister of Balochistan Aslam Raisani, Siraj has served as chairman of Muttahida Mahaz Balochistan (MMB), founded by his father. He merged MMB into the BAP on 3 June 2018. Earlier, in July 2011, Raisani had survived an assassination attempt after grenades were thrown at him. In the ambush, his son Hakmal Raisani was killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Prime targets, Bannu\nAkram Khan Durrani has served as chief minister of KPK from 2002 to 2007 and is contesting 2018 elections from NA-35 (Bannu) against Chairman of Pakistan Movement of Justice Imran Khan. Leader of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, Durrani was appointed as Minister for Housing & Works by the President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain on the advice of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 29 August 2013. The current attack follows two previous unsuccessful attempts to assassinate him, one in 2015 and another in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Attacks, Mastung\nSiraj Raisani was about to address an election rally when a suicide bomber, carrying around 16\u201320\u00a0kg of explosive material in his vest, blew himself up among a crowd of more than 1000 people. Along with Raisani, the explosion killed 128 people. Two days after the attack, on 15 July 2018, the number of dead increased to 149, while 186 other people were injured, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in Pakistan since the APS massacre in Peshawar in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Attacks, Bannu\nFormer KPK chief minister and Jamiat Ulema-e Islam (F) leader, Akram Khan Durrani was coming from an election rally. Due to death threats to Durrani, his security was increased and 40 policemen were deployed in his convoy. When the convoy came near Haved Bazaar, an IED, planted in a motorcycle, exploded near the tire of his vehicle. Durrani remained unhurt. Having taken place 40 meters away from JUI (F)'s rally site, the explosion left 5 people dead and wounded 37 others. There were conflicting views about the nature of the detonation. An eyewitness reported having watched a motorcycle rider blowing himself up, while officials said that the bomb was planted in a motorcycle. RPO Bannu called it a remotely exploded bomb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Aftermath, Rescue services\nBefore arrival of rescue teams, people took the injured to hospital via cabs. The ambulances brought survivors to Quetta Civil hospital where a state of emergency was imposed by provincial government. 73 bodies were first transported to the hospital. Later Shamim Akhtar, a hospital official, stated that they were treating 110 victims brought to them. Secretary of Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority (SBTA) Zahid Ansari asked blood banks to provide 1000 blood bags for the victims of the Mastung blast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Aftermath, Rescue services\nAnsari was approached by Balochistan Health Department, and urged citizens of Karachi to donate blood, following which mobile messages asking for blood donation started circulating in Karachi. On 14 July 2018, Quetta civil hospital overflowed due to the excess of patients. Beds in the hospital fell short of need and many patients were treated in the corridor of hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Aftermath, Investigations and security measures\nOn the next day of attacks, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against the Bannu bombing at the Haved police station. The FIR included charges of terrorism. Caretaker Chief Minister of KPK, Dost Muhammad Khan, formed a seven-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe the Bannu bombing and apprehend the assailants. 86 teams of Frontier Constabulary containing 3338 security personnel were positioned across the province and another 500 officers from Azad Kashmir were summoned to be deployed in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Aftermath, Investigations and security measures\nEarlier, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) sought a briefing from NACTA over the Bannu bombing and also sought a report from the caretaker CM, IG and chief secretary of KPK over inadequate security of politicians. After Mastung incident, ECP ordered NACTA's coordinator to appear before it on the following day. ECP declared 17,000 polling stations across the country as sensitive. These included 5,487 from Punjab, 5,878 from Sindh, 3,874 in KPK and 1,768 in Balochistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Arrests\nOn next day of attack, security forces detained two suspects. According to security forces, the suicide bomber, who blew himself up in Mastung, came from Afghanistan two days prior to the attack and stayed in Chaghi. The apprehended duo is suspected to have sheltered the assailant inside their residence. On 19 July, IG Balochistan Mohsin Hassan Butt said the suicide bomber named Hafiz Nawaz was resident of Abbottabad. Nawaz had traveled from Abbottabad to Sindh and therein affiliated with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ). According to Butt, efforts were underway to arrest Mufti Haider, a facilitator of Nawaz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Media coverage\nOn the day of attacks, former Pakistani Prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz arrived in Lahore from Abu Dhabi. The duo's arrival was more in the crosshairs of the Pakistani media, hence it was covered in more detail than the bombings. Initially only a few news channels gave it short coverage but later when the death toll exceeded 100, media started covering it broadly. Many people took to Twitter and criticized the media for sidelining coverage of the bombings. Geo News's journalist Hamid Mir said if these attacks were carried out in Punjab, they would have received much more media coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Responsibility\nIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the Mastung bombing. Two days later, ISIL released picture of the suicide bomber and identified him as Abu Bakar al-Pakistani. In a series of statements released on its official news agency Amaq, the organization, referring to Raisani, stated that deceased included one of the Pakistani intelligence officers who was contesting elections. A group called Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Bannu incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Domestic reactions, Government\nCaretaker Prime minister of Pakistan Nasirul Mulk condemned the attack and directed the interior ministry to issue a notification declaring Sunday, a day of mourning. Accompanied by Chairman senate Sadiq Sanjrani and caretaker Chief Minister of Balochistan Alauddin Marri, Mulk arrived in Quetta two days after the bombing and condoled the victims in hospital. He also met with Raisani's family and expressed his grief. Interim chief minister of Punjab, Hassan Askari condemned the attack and said that no religion asks for violence against innocent people and that the entire nation was united against terrorism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Domestic reactions, Government\nMarri expressed his grief over loss of lives. Denouncing the massacre, he called it \"a conspiracy to derail elections\". He also vowed to beat terror by education. The acting government of Balochistan announced two days of mourning in the province. The national flag was raised at half-mast throughout the province. The caretaker chief minister of Sindh Fazalur Rehman condemned the attack and expressed sorrow over loss of lives. Interim chief minister of KPK Dost Muhammad Khan prayed for injures and expressed sympathies for bereaved families. Denouncing the bombings, he vowed that perpetrators'd be dealt with iron hand. KPK Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra denounced both the attacks and prayed for the victims. On 16 July, the senate passed a unanimous resolution condemning the Mastung bombing and expressed grief over loss of lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 899]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280848-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings, Domestic reactions, Politicians\nChairman of Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Zardari denounced the attacks. He also said that these assaults shouldn't delay elections. Former President Asif Ali Zardari condemned both attacks and expressed his \"profound grief\" over loss of lives. Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan visited Quetta to express his grief. He criticized authorities for lack of implementation of National Action Plan. In a tweet he said he wondered why terrorism rises in the country whenever Nawaz Sharif is in trouble. President of Pakistan Muslim League (N) Shehbaz Sharif visited Quetta hospital and expressed his solidarity with victims' families. In one of his statements, he said that India was involved in Mastung suicide blast. Leader of Qaumi Watan Party Aftab Sherpao condemned the attacks and extended his sympathies with victims and asked the government for proper security.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 943]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280849-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Maui Invitational Tournament\nThe 2018 Maui Invitational Tournament was an early-season college basketball tournament played for the 35th time. The tournament began in 1984, and was part of the 2018\u201319 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Championship Round was played at the Lahaina Civic Center in Maui, Hawaii from November 19 to 21, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280850-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mauritanian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections was held in Mauritania in September 2018; the first round took place on 1 September, with a second round held on 15 September. At the national level, elections were held in 157 constituencies, each electing one member to the National Assembly. Elections were also held in 13 regional councils and 219 municipalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280850-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mauritanian parliamentary election\nAs a result of the election, Union for Republic (UPR) remained the single largest party at the national level both in terms of popular vote and seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280850-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mauritanian parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe 157 members of the National Assembly are elected by two methods; 113 are elected from single- or multi-member constituencies using either the two-round system or proportional representation; in single-member constituencies candidates require a majority of the vote to be elected in the first round and a plurality in the second round. In two-seat constituencies, voters vote for a party list (which must contain one man and one woman); if no list receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a second round is held, with the winning party taking both seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280850-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Mauritanian parliamentary election, Electoral system\nIn constituencies with three or more seats, closed list proportional representation is used, with seats allocated using the largest remainder method. For three-seat constituencies, party lists must include a female candidate in first or second on the list; for larger constituencies a zipper system is used, with alternate male and female candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280850-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mauritanian parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe other 40 seats are elected from a single nationwide constituency, also using closed list proportional representation, with half elected on separate lists reserved for women. A further four members are elected by the diaspora.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280851-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mauritian Cup\nThe 2018 MFA Cup is the 47th edition of the MFA Cup, the knockout football competition of Mauritius.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280851-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mauritian Cup, Round of 32\nGRSE Wanderers 2-2 Ent. Boulet Rouge-Riche Mare [GRSE on pen]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280851-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mauritian Cup, Round of 32\nLa Cure Waves 0-0 La Gaulette Sharks [Sharks on pen]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280852-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Mayo Senior Football Championship was the 117th edition of the Mayo GAA's premier gaelic football tournament for senior clubs in County Mayo, Ireland. Sixteen teams competed with the winners going on to represent Mayo in the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship. The championship started with a group stage and progressed to a knock out stage. The winners received the Paddy Moclair Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280852-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo Senior Football Championship\nMoy Davitts returned to the top-flight for the first time since their relegation in 2010, having claimed the 2017 Intermediate Championship title with a replay victory over Kiltimagh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280852-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo Senior Football Championship\nCastlebar Mitchels were the defending champions for the third season running after they defeated Ballintubber in the 2017 final. Ballintubber dethroned Mitchels in the semi-final following a replay, before defeating Breaffy in the final to win their 4th title. Crossmolina, 2001 All-Ireland champions, were relegated to the intermediate grade for the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280852-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nAs 2017 Intermediate Champions, Moy Davitts were promoted to the Senior Championship for 2018. They took the place of Ballinrobe, who were relegated from the Senior Championship at the end of the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280852-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo Senior Football Championship, Clubs\nThe 2018 Championship was contested by 16 clubs: 4 of them from South Mayo, 4 from North Mayo, 4 from West Mayo, 4 from East Mayo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280852-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nAll 16 teams entered the competition at this stage. The top 2 teams in each group qualified for the Quarter-Finals while the bottom team of each group entered a Relegation Playoff. All teams played one home match, one away match and one match at a neutral venue. In the event of two teams finishing on the same points total, placings were decided by head-to-head record between the teams, then by scoring difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280852-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo Senior Football Championship, Knock-Out Stage\nThe top two teams in each group progressed to the knock-out stage. Group winners were drawn against group runners-up, and all games were played at neutral venues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280852-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoffs\nThe four teams who finished bottom of their groups entered the relegation play-offs, with the two losers of the semi-finals meeting in the relegation play-off final. All games were played at neutral venues. Crossmolina, as losers of the final, were relegated to the Intermediate Championship for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280853-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo by-election\nA by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Mayo took place on Saturday 28 July 2018, following the resignation of incumbent Centre Alliance MP Rebekha Sharkie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280853-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo by-election\nIn early counting, within an hour of the close of polls, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's psephologist Antony Green's electoral computer had predicted Sharkie to retain the electorate with an increased margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280853-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo by-election, Background\nDue to the High Court ruling against Senator Katy Gallagher on 9 May 2018 as part of the ongoing parliamentary eligibility crisis, Sharkie and three other MPs in the same situation announced their parliamentary resignations later that day, while the Perth incumbent resigned for family reasons. The Speaker announced on 24 May 2018 that he had scheduled the by-elections to occur on 28 July 2018. Popularly labelled \"Super Saturday\", the occurrence of five simultaneous federal by-elections is unprecedented in Australian political history. The others are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280853-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo by-election, Background\nLiberal candidate Georgina Downer deleted her Twitter account on 13 June 2018, claiming that trolls had been attacking her with bad language, with counterclaims from Twitter users that she had deleted legitimate policy questions posted to her Facebook account.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280853-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo by-election, Background\nHistorically, the rural seat of Mayo has been a comfortably safe Liberal seat in two-party terms, though over the past two decades, the Liberals in Mayo had been repeatedly left vulnerable by several strong election results from minor parties and independents. Mayo was represented by Liberal candidate Georgina Downer's father, Alexander Downer, for the first 24 years of Mayo's 34-year history. Further back, others in the Downer family including a Premier of South Australia represented overlapping geographical areas, in the federal seat of Angas and the state seats of Barossa and Encounter Bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280853-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayo by-election, Candidates\nThe Family First Party (now the Australian Conservatives) contested Mayo at the last election on 4.6% (\u22122.5%) but declined to contest the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election\nA by-election was held in Mayotte's 1st constituency on 18 March 2018, with a second round on 25 March as no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was called after the Constitutional Council invalidated the election of Ramlati Ali, candidate of the Socialist Party (PS) in the June 2017 legislative elections and member of the La R\u00e9publique En Marche group in the National Assembly, on 19 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election\nIn the second round on 25 March, Ali was re-elected with 54.99% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nOn the evening of 18 June 2017, Elad Chakrina, candidate of The Republicans (LR), was initially declared the winner of the second round of voting in the legislative elections with 50.04% of votes, with 12 votes separating him from his opponent Ramlati Ali, candidate of the Socialist Party (PS). On 19 June, the result was overturned and Ramlati Ali was declared the winner with 50.17% of the vote, defeating Elad Chakrina by a margin of 54 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nElad Chakrina subsequently announced his intention to file an appeal to the Constitutional Council, alleging electoral fraud, claiming that results reported late in the evening from the commune of Bandraboua were \"completely falsified\". He also claimed that there were also a number of other irregularities that took place, including that a number of proxy votes cast were fraudulent, problematic electoral rolls, ballots that should have been voided, and ballots cast under the names of deceased individuals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nOn 19 January 2018, the constitutional council annulled the election of Ramlati Ali on the basis of several complaints, triggering a by-election within the constituency. The decision noted that 25 fewer signatures were found on the electoral roll than the number of ballots found in the ballot boxes in the communes of Mamoudzou, Acoua, Dzaoudzi, Bandraboua, and Mtsamboro. Members of the polling station in Dzaoudzi attempted to rectify an irregularly cast vote by randomly discarding an envelope from the ballot box before counting began, a procedure considered doubly irregular by the constitutional council. Chakrina also claimed at least 40 proxy votes were irregularly cast in Bandraboua on 9 and 16 June 2017, and provided documents relating into a judicial investigation that had been opened to look into the matter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nIn addition, Elad Chakrina alleged that Ramlati Ali breached article L. 49 of the electoral code by continuing to conduct her electoral campaign on the Internet through the day of voting, producing three screenshots of a Facebook page of Ramlati Ali's substitute urging people to vote. The constitutional council agreed with this complaint. Chakrina also alleged that Ali's campaign was improperly supported by calls to vote published on 17 June on Ali's Facebook page, among others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nA by-election must be held within three months of the invalidation of the election, as stipulated by article L.O. 178 of the electoral code. Although elected as a member of the Socialist Party, Ramlati Ali joined the La R\u00e9publique En Marche group in the National Assembly after her election. Following the decision of the constitutional council, the only two remaining members of the La R\u00e9publique En Marche group in the National Assembly representing overseas France are Olivier Serva are St\u00e9phane Claireaux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nOn 3 February 2018, the first round of the by-election was scheduled for 18 March 2018, with a second round on 25 March should no candidate secure a majority of votes in the first round. Prospective candidates needed to submit declarations of their candidacies between 19 and 23 February. Polling stations will be open from 8:00 to 18:00 EAT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nIncumbent deputy Ramlati Ali, a 56-year-old former mayor of Pamandzi and head of the medicine, psychiatry and rehabilitation department at the Mayotte Hospital Centre (CHM) who joined La R\u00e9publique En Marche! after her election in June 2017, presented herself as a candidate. Ali was placed under formal investigation on 13 February 2018, charged with \"complicity in electoral fraud\". However, no verdict will be rendered in the case until after the by-election. Due to the judicial affair, Ali did not receive the support of La R\u00e9publique En Marche in the by-election, and presented her candidacy without the backing of any party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nAfter the second round, La R\u00e9publique En Marche announced its support for Ali in the second round without acknowledging the charges against her. Elad Chakrina, a 37-year-old lawyer and municipal councillor from Tsingoni, contested the constituency once more under the banner of The Republicans (LR) after his successful appeal. During a three-day visit from 5 to 7 March, LR president Laurent Wauquiez denounced the \"abandonment\" of Mayotte by Macron, saying that the department was \"submerged by illegal immigration\". On 15 March, Marine Le Pen, president of the National Front (FN), called upon the Mahorais to vote for the LR candidate; though the party neither officially endorsed nor rejected the support of the FN, several LR personalities rejected the FN's support for Chakrina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 854]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nBacar Ali Boto, first deputy mayor of Mamoudzou, contested the by-election without the support of any party. Daniel Za\u00efdani, the departmental councillor of Pamandzi and former president of the general council of Mayotte charged for embezzlement of public funds in February 2017, was selected by the Movement for the Development of Mayotte (MDM) as its candidate in the by-election after meeting to reconcile divisions within the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nAbdullah Mikidadi initially stood without the support of any party, but later received the backing of La France Insoumise, with deputy Jean-Hugues Ratenon taking the opportunity to offer his support for Mikidadi on a visit to Mayotte on 22 February, and Member of the European Parliament Younous Omarjee also traveling to the department. Catherine Bihannic was initially announced as the candidate of the Popular Republican Union (UPR), as in June, but was ultimately replaced by Alexandre Al\u00e7uyet, with Bihannic becoming substitute. Boina Dinouraini stood again as an independent candidate, and miscellaneous left candidate Bacar Mouta, a youth of the Social Mahorais Party, also contested the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nLarge protests erupted across Mayotte in the weeks preceding the by-election, with demonstrations against insecurity, violence, and illegal immigration, especially from neighboring Comoros, paralyzing the department, prompting Minister for Overseas France Annick Girardin to promise reinforcements and to visit after the by-election. Sa\u00efd Omar Oili, president of the association of mayors of Mayotte, announced the closure town halls in protest, and warned that the by-election might be threatened by the unrest. Despite the threats by several mayors not to hold the by-election, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux insisted that it would be held regardless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nThe candidates in the by-election were reluctant to act, unsure how to respond to the protests. On 13 March, the mayors of Mayotte arrived at an \"agreement in principle\" to hold the by-election after talks with the government and local collectives produced promises to improve security and combat illegal immigration, and unions and collectives agreed to remove roadblocks on the island. Salim Nahouda, general secretary of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) in Mayotte, stated that 13 of 15 measures proposed by the union were accepted by the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nTrade unions and collectives called to boycott the vote. Although mayors requested the postponement of the by-election due to security concerns and the difficulty of campaigning, the by-election ultimately went ahead, albeit with certain difficulties due to roadblocks, transport issues, padlocked polling stations, and landslides caused by tropical storm Eliakim, all of which caused delays to opening of polling stations in several communes. Police were forced to open one padlocked polling station in Acoua by force. By 10:15, all polling stations were open. In Mtsamboro, two ballot boxes were stolen in the early afternoon, and a few hours later police later took the thieves into custody and recovered the ballot boxes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280854-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Mayotte's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates and campaign\nProtesters intend to reinstate roadblocks before the second round of the by-election. Although all 73 polling stations of the constituency were operational, several opened late due to obstructions to their entrances. In Acoua, locked doors and damaged locks necessitated police assistance, while three polling stations in Koungou were blocked by glue and soldered scrap metal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280855-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 McDonald's All-American Boys Game\nThe 2018 McDonald's All-American Boys Game was an All-star basketball game that was played on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, home of the Atlanta Hawks. The game's rosters featured the best and most highly recruited high school boys graduating in 2018. The game is the 41st annual version of the McDonald's All-American Game first played in 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280855-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 McDonald's All-American Boys Game\nThe 24 players were selected from 2,500 nominees by a committee of basketball experts. They were chosen not only for their on-court skills but for their performances off the court as well. Coach Morgan Wootten, who had more than 1,200 wins as head basketball coach at DeMatha Catholic High School, was chairman of the selection committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280855-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 McDonald's All-American Boys Game, Rosters\nWhen the rosters were announced on January 16, 2018, Duke & Kansas both had three selectees, while Oregon, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Vanderbilt each had two. At the announcement of roster selections, only 10 schools were represented and had 6 players uncommitted. On Jan. 20, Zion Williamson committed to Duke, giving them four selections which gave them most of any school. On Jan. 22, Moses Brown committed to UCLA which brought the total number of schools to 11. John Mirabello (Northwest Catholic High School, West Hartford, Conn.) and Brad Lauwers (A.J. Dimond High School, Anchorage, Alaska) coached the East and West teams, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280855-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 McDonald's All-American Boys Game, Rosters, Team West\n\u2020 On March 29, Darius Bazley withdrew from his commitment to Syracuse in order to compete in the NBA G League (via entering his name in the 2018 NBA G League Draft) to prepare for the 2019 NBA draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280856-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 McGrath Cup\nThe 2018 McGrath Cup was a Gaelic football competition in the province of Munster, played by county teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280856-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 McGrath Cup\nJust three county teams completed in 2018 after the withdrawals of Tipperary, Limerick, and Kerry. Cork were the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280856-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 McGrath Cup\nThe cup was won by Cork after a 3\u201313 to 3\u201312 win in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280856-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 McGrath Cup, Format\nThree teams compete. Each team plays the other teams once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The top two teams play in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280856-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 McGrath Cup, Group stage\nThe final group game was cancelled, as Cork and Clare had already reached the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280857-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 McNeese State Cowboys football team\nThe 2018 McNeese State Cowboys football team represented McNeese State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Cowboys were led by third-year head coach Lance Guidry and played their home games at Cowboy Stadium. They were a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 6\u20135, 5\u20134 in Southland play to finish in a four-way tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280857-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 McNeese State Cowboys football team\nOn November 20, head coach Lance Guidry was fired. He finished at McNeese State with a three-year record of 21\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280857-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 McNeese State Cowboys football team, Previous season\nThe Cowboys finished the 2017 season 9\u20132, 7\u20132 in Southland play to finish in a tie for third place. They did not receive an at-large birth to the FCS Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280857-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 McNeese State Cowboys football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Teams\nOn July 12, 2018, the Southland announced their Preseason All-Conference Teams, with the Cowboys having ten players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280857-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 McNeese State Cowboys football team, Preseason, Preseason Poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Southland announced their preseason poll, with the Cowboys predicted to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280858-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThe 2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship is the 92nd edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for Intermediate graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 18 teams, with the winner going on to represent Meath in the Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280858-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThe draw for the group stages of the championship were made on 5 March 2018 with the games commencing on the weekend of 15 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280858-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nMeath Hill were promoted to the middle grade after a 24-year exodus when securing the J.F.C. crown in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280858-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThis was Duleek/Bellewstown's first ever period as an Intermediate club after spending 10 years as a senior club since being established from the Duleek and Bellewstown clubs in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280858-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nLongwood beat Ballinlough by 0-11 to 0-7 in the 2018 final to win their first Meath Intermediate Football title since 1942. St. Ultan's were relegated to the 2019 Meath Junior Football Championship. They will play at the junior grade for the first time since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280858-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280858-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Participating teams\nThe teams taking part in the 2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280858-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Group stage\nThere are 3 groups called Group A,B and C. The 2 top finishers in each group and the third-place finisher in Group A will qualify for the Quarter Finals. The third placed teams in Group B and C will qualify for a Preliminary Quarter Final, with the winner earning a place in last eight. The bottom finishers of each group will qualify for the Relegation Play Off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280858-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Group stage\nThe draw for the group stages of the championship were made on 5 March 2018 with the games commencing on the weekend of 15 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280858-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Knock-Out Stage\nThe winners and runners up of the three groups and the third placed team of Group A automatically qualify for the quarter finals. The third placed teams in Groups B and C play off to determine the team that completes the quarter final lineup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280858-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Relegation Play-Off Group\nThe three bottom teams from each group enter the relegation play-off group and play each other in a round robin basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280858-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Relegation Play-Off Group\nThe team with the worst record after two matches will be relegated to the 2019 Junior 'A' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280859-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Meath Senior Football Championship is the 126th edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior clubs in County Meath, Ireland. Eighteen teams compete, with the winner representing Meath in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280859-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Senior Football Championship\nSimonstown Gaels were the defending champions after they defeated Summerhill in the 2017 final to claim a \"2-in-a-row\" of titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280859-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Senior Football Championship\nThis was Curraha's debut in the top flight after claiming the 2017 Meath Intermediate Football Championship. Their 35 point loss (5-27 to 0-7) to Summerhill was the largest losing margin of any team in a S.F.C. match since 1996, when St. Colmcille's lost by a 44 point margin to Kilmainhamwood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280859-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Senior Football Championship\nThe draw for the group stages of the championship were made on 5 March 2018 with the games commencing on the weekend of 15 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280859-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Senior Football Championship\nBlackhall Gaels were relegated to the Intermediate championship for 2019 after 17 years in the top-flight, including a S.F.C. title in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280859-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280859-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Senior Football Championship, Participating Teams\nThe teams taking part in the 2018 Meath Senior Football Championship are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280859-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nThere are three groups of six teams called Group A, B and C. The 2 top finishers in each group and the third-place finisher in Group A will qualify for the Quarter Finals. The third placed teams in Group B and C will qualify for a Preliminary Quarter Final, with the winner earning a place in last eight. The bottom finishers of each group will qualify for the Relegation Play Off. The draw for the group stages of the championship were made on 6 March 2017 with the games commencing on the weekend of 20 May 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280859-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Senior Football Championship, Knock-Out Stage\nThe winners and runners up of the three groups and the third placed team of Group A automatically qualify for the quarter finals. The third placed teams in Groups B and C play off to determine the team that completes the quarter final lineup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280859-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Senior Football Championship, Relegation Play-Off Group\nThe three bottom teams from each group enter the relegation play-off group and play each other in a round robin basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280859-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Meath Senior Football Championship, Relegation Play-Off Group\nThe team with the worst record after two matches will be relegated to the 2019 Intermediate Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280860-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships\nThe 2018 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships was an athletics competition which was held in Jesolo, Italy, from 9 to 10 June 2018. A total of 42 events were contested, of which 21 by male and 21 by female athletes. A total of 25 nations participated in the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280861-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Results\nThese are the official results of the 2018 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships which took place on 09\u201310 June 2018 in Jesolo, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280862-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mediterranean Games\nThe 2018 Mediterranean Games (Spanish: Juegos Mediterr\u00e1neos de 2018), officially known as the XVIII Mediterranean Games (Spanish: XVIII Juegos Mediterr\u00e1neos) and commonly known as Tarragona 2018, was an international multi-sport event held from 22 June to 1 July 2018 in Tarragona, Spain. Tarragona was announced as the host city at the ICMG General Assembly in Mersin, Turkey, on 15 October 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280862-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mediterranean Games, Bidding process\nThe host city was announced during the ICMG General Assembly scheduled which took place in Mersin, Turkey (host of the 2013 Mediterranean Games) on 15 October 2011. The final candidates were Alexandria and Tarragona, where Tarragona won the vote 36\u201334.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280862-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mediterranean Games, Bidding process\nAlexandria hosted the first Mediterranean Games and planned to build a new Olympic Village for the 2017 Mediterranean Games in the iconic South Mediterranean city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280862-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mediterranean Games, Bidding process\nUnder the motto \"History making history\", Tarragona planned to take the Games to Spain for the third time after the 1955 Mediterranean Games in Barcelona and the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almer\u00eda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280862-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mediterranean Games, Development and preparation, Concerns and controversies\nOn 9 November 2016, it was announced by the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games (ICMG) that Tarragona was postponing its hosting of the Mediterranean Games from 2017 to 2018 due to funding problems caused by Spanish political and economical instability.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 81], "content_span": [82, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280862-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mediterranean Games, Development and preparation, Concerns and controversies\nSome doubts were expressed in 2017 about the holding of the games due to the 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis after the Catalan government unilaterally declared independence on 27 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 81], "content_span": [82, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280862-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mediterranean Games, Development and preparation, Marketing\nTarracus, a humanoid character wearing a Roman helmet, was unveiled as the mascot for 2018 Mediterranean Games in May 2016. The pattern on the helmet plume is based on the flag of Tarragona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280862-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mediterranean Games, The Games, Sports\nThe 2018 Mediterranean Games sports program featured 28 sports encompassing 244 events. The number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses. Triathlon was the only new sport added to the Mediterranean Games program. Equestrian and Golf came back after being absent in Mersin. Disabled events were held in swimming and athletics. Basketball tournament would be held in the 3x3 format. Boxing and football are going to hold only men's events, while Rhythmic Gymnastics would be women's only. The number in paratheses next to the sport is the number of medal events per sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280862-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Mediterranean Games, The Games, Participating nations\nThe 2018 Mediterranean Games were the first Games in which Kosovo was eligible to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280863-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Meerbusch Challenger\nThe 2018 Meerbusch Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Meerbusch, Germany, between 13 and 19 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280863-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Meerbusch Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280863-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Meerbusch Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280863-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Meerbusch Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280864-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Meerbusch Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nKevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to David P\u00e9rez Sanz and Mark Vervoort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280864-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Meerbusch Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nP\u00e9rez Sanz and Vervoort won the title after defeating Grzegorz Panfil and Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi 3\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280865-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Meerbusch Challenger \u2013 Singles\nRicardo Ojeda Lara was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280865-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Meerbusch Challenger \u2013 Singles\nFilip Horansk\u00fd won the title after defeating Jan Choinski 6\u20137(7\u20139), 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280866-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Meeting de Paris\nThe 2018 Meeting de Paris was the 24th edition of the annual outdoor track and field meeting in Paris, France. Held on 30 June 2018 at the Stade S\u00e9bastien Charl\u00e9ty, it was the seventh leg of the 2018 IAAF Diamond League \u2013 the highest level international track and field circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280866-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Meeting de Paris\nSeven world-leading performances were set, including Qatari Abderrahman Samba's Asian record time of 46.98 seconds in the men's 400 metres hurdles and Caster Semenya's 1:54.25 minutes for the women's 800 metres. Both these were meeting records, as were Mariya Lasitskene's 2.04 m in the women's high jump and Sandra Perkovi\u0107's 68.60 m in the women's discus throw. Bahrain's Salwa Eid Naser also set an Asian record to win the women's 400 metres, with 49.55.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election\nThe Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election was held on 27 February 2018 to elect 59 of 60 members to the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly, with the results declared on 3 March. The scheduled election in Williamnagar constituency was delayed to an undetermined date following the death of Nationalist Congress Party candidate Jonathone Sangma in an IED blast in East Garo Hills district on 18 February 2018. The incumbent Indian National Congress government, led by Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, attempted to win re-election for the third consecutive time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Background, Electoral system\nThe state of Meghalaya lies in the North-eastern region of India, predominantly populated by tribal groups. At the time of accession to the Independent India, these tribes were assured autonomy to make laws in and enforce local customs, management of land and forests. The sixth schedule of the Constitution of India provides for the establishment of autonomous District Councils to oversee these issues. As such, the powers of the state government are limited when compared with other states of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Background, Electoral system\nThe Meghalaya Legislative Assembly is the legislative organ of the state. The legislature has 60 seats chosen through first-past-the-post method. The party or coalition with more than 30 seats can form the executive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Background, Electoral system\nFrom 1976, no political party has secured an absolute majority in the state assembly, with Indian National Congress forming coalition governments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Background, Poll machinery\nThe tenure of outgoing Legislative Assembly, elected in March 2013, was set to end on 6 March 2018. A total of 370 candidates contested the polls across the 60 constituencies. Out of these, only 32 were female candidates, despite the state's distinction of being a matrilineal society.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Background, Poll machinery\nThere were 17.68 lakh voters in the state, out of which 8.93 lakh voters were female. The number of first time voters in the state was 45%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Background, Poll machinery\nThe election commission set up 3,082 polling booths in the state, out of which 60 booths will be pink booths - one in each constituency run completely by women. There were 172 polling stations in areas adjoining the 884-km-long Assam-Meghalaya border, with polling officials having to pass through Assam to reach several booths. The home department identified 633 polling stations as vulnerable, 315 as critical and 75 as both vulnerable and critical.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Background, Poll machinery\nCounting will take place in 13 stations to be set up across the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Schedule\nThe Election Commission scheduled the election for 27 February 2018 with the results to be announced on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Issues, Coal mining in Jaintia Hills\nThe Jaintia Hills in the eastern part of the state have rich deposits of coal. The National Green Tribunal banned rat-hole mining of coal in the state in 2014. Tribal groups across Meghalaya maintain that according to the sixth schedule of the Indian Constitution, they alone have the right to the coal under the hills. But the , which vests ownership and control of the mineral with the Indian state, expressly lists Meghalaya\u2019s coal mines as being under its purview. Besides, the Sixth Schedule also confers the right over underground minerals to the Indian state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Issues, Coal mining in Jaintia Hills\nIt explicitly mentions the need for \"licences or leases for the purpose of prospecting for, or extraction of, minerals\". According to the Constitution, there is only one way a Sixth Schedule state can be exempted from the coal nationalisation law \u2013 by a presidential notification to that effect. Official records suggest that while the state government did express apprehension in the wake of the nationalisation of coal, it never applied for an exemption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Issues, Coal mining in Jaintia Hills\nThe state, in general turned a blind eye to the small-scale mining of coal, which had a huge impact on the ecology of the region, leading to the ban. However, numerous miners and workers were affected by the sudden decision and blame the incumbent Congress government for the failure. The Bharatiya Janata Party has promised to resolve the issue in eight months of coming to power, while the Congress government has assigned the mines to Meghalaya Mineral Development Corporation to operate the mines on behalf of the miners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Results\nThe elections resulted in a hung assembly with no single party or alliance getting the requisite majority of 31 seats in the Vidhan Sabha. Conrad Sangma, leader of the NPP, announced that he would form a government with the support of the UDP, BJP and other regional parties. He was sworn in as the Chief Minister, along with eleven other ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280867-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Elected members\nThe following is the list of the members elected in the Meghalaya assembly:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280868-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya mining accident\nThe Meghalaya mining accident happened on 13 December 2018, when 15 miners were trapped in a mine in Ksan, in the Indian state of Meghalaya. While five miners managed to escape, rescue efforts for the remaining 10 continued till 2 March 2019. The miners were trapped inside the coal mine at a depth of around 370 feet (112 meters) in Jaintia Hills district. The tunnel the miners were in flooded with water after they cut into an adjacent mine which was full of water from the nearby Lytein river.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280868-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya mining accident\nService personnel from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Response Force began operations shortly after the miners were trapped. After a request for assistance from the district administration, teams from Coal India, Kirloskar Brothers, the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy joined the operation to rescue the miners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280868-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya mining accident, Background\nIn 2014, Meghalaya\u2019s yearly coal production was around 6 million tonnes. In 2014, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), a government body that handles environmental issues in India, issued an order banning mining in Meghalaya, specifically banning mining through the 'rat-hole' technique.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280868-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya mining accident, Background\nBut despite the ban, in subsequent orders following petitions by coal mine owners, the National Green Tribunal and the Supreme Court of India continued to allow transportation of coal dug prior to the enactment of the order on 17 April 2014. On 4 December 2018 the Supreme Court again issued an order that the transportation of coal mined prior to the ban was extended to January 31, 2019. However NGT as well as anti-mining activists have pointed out that illegal mining of fresh coal still continues. In November 2018, two activists were attacked for gathering evidence of illegal coal mining in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280868-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya mining accident, Rescue attempts\nRescue operations started on 13 December. Over 100 service personnel from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force were deployed to rescue the miners. 1,200,000 litres have been pumped out of the mine but this has not helped as rain during the rescue operations and water from the river continues to flood the mine. Divers have also been sent into the mine, but have only been able to reach a depth of 40 feet. Sonar systems as well as cameras have failed to detect the miners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280868-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya mining accident, Rescue attempts\nThe local administration had made a request for pumps and other assistance from state owned Coal India on 20 December 2018. But the communication was received by Coal India only on 26 December. On 28 December the Indian Air Force joined in the operations on 28 December 2018, airlifting pumps to the site. Teams from Coal India and Kirloskar Brothers are also providing expertise. On 29 December, a 15-member diving team from the Indian Navy also joined in the operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280868-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya mining accident, Rescue attempts\nMedia reports appeared on 27 December that the miners may be dead on the basis of a statement by a diver of the NDRF, which mentioned the presence of a \"foul smell\" coming from the mine. The NDRF shortly after clarified that this did not mean the miners were dead, and the foul smell could be coming due to other reasons, such as \"stagnated water\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280868-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya mining accident, Rescue attempts\nAfter a petition was filed in the Supreme Court of India, the solicitor general, Tushar Mehta, informed the court that the rescue efforts were additionally difficulty because there were no blueprints for the 355-feet mine where the miners are trapped. Water flowing into the mine from the nearby river was also making the operation more difficult.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280868-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya mining accident, Rescue attempts\nThe Indian Army and Navy decided to cease operations on 2 March 2019. The operation was one of the longest efforts to rescue miners in India. Only two decomposed bodies were found which were handed over to family members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280868-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya mining accident, Reactions\nThe Chief Minister of Meghalaya, Conrad Sangma, has called for regulation of mining in the state, admitting that illegal mining happens in the state. Meghalaya Police arrested the owner of the coal mine on 15 December 2018. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticised the Narendra Modi government over the issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280868-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya mining accident, Reactions\nAfter a petition was filed in the Supreme Court of India related to the rescue effort. The Supreme Court said on 3 January 2019:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280868-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Meghalaya mining accident, Reactions\n\"We're not satisfied with rescue operations. No matter whether they are all dead, some alive, few dead or all alive, they should be taken out. We pray to God they are alive.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280869-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Meistriliiga\nThe 2018 Meistriliiga (known as A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons) was the 28th season of the Meistriliiga, the highest division of Estonian football system. The season was scheduled to begin on 25 February 2018, but was postponed due to a cold wave. On 3 March, the season began with four out of five second round matches held in indoor arena. This marked the first time Estonian league football was played indoor. The season concluded on 10 November 2018. Flora were the defending champions. N\u00f5mme Kalju won their 2nd Meistriliiga title completing an entire season undefeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280869-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Meistriliiga, Teams\n10 teams competed in the league. Sillam\u00e4e Kalev lost their Meistriliiga license due to a failure to meet their financial obligations and were relegated to the II liiga. On 4 November 2017, it was announced that FCI Tallinn would merge with Levadia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280869-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Meistriliiga, Teams\nThe two clubs were replaced by 2017 Esiliiga champions Maardu Linnameeskond and runners-up Tallinna Kalev. On 18 December 2017, Kuressaare replaced Maardu Linnameeskond after the latter withdrew from the league due to financial reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280869-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Meistriliiga, League table, Relegation play-offs\nAt season's end Kuressaare, the ninth place club, participated in a two-legged play-off with the runners-up (of independent teams) of the 2018 Esiliiga, Elva, for the spot in 2019 Meistriliiga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 53], "content_span": [54, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280869-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Meistriliiga, Results\nEach team played every opponent four times, twice at home and twice away. A total of 180 matches has been played, with 36 matches played by each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280869-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Meistriliiga, Awards, Meistriliiga Player of the Year, Goal of the Year\nT\u00f5nis Vihmoja's goal against Paide Linnameeskond was chosen Goal of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 76], "content_span": [77, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280870-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Melaka United season\nThe 2018 season was Melaka United Soccer Association's 95th season in club history and 2nd season in the Malaysia Super League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280870-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Melaka United season, Competitions, Malaysia Super League, Matches\nThe fixtures for the 2018 Malaysia Super League season were announced on 11 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280871-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne 400\nThe 2018 Melbourne 400 (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2018 Coates Hire Supercars Melbourne 400) was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship that was held on the weekend of 22 to 25 March 2018. The event was run at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, and marked the first running of the Melbourne 400. It was the second event of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and consisted of two races of 130 kilometres, and two races of 70 kilometers. The races were run in support of the 2018 Australian Grand Prix and marked the first time that the Supercars support races would be a points-paying round of the Supercars Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280872-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Cup\n300 to go, it's Finche, with A Prince of Aaran on the outside, Rostropovich is running on and Marmelo back to the inside too. A Prince of Aaran at the 200, Marmelo wearing it down, Marmelo gets up on the inside and here comes Cross Counter. Cross Counter coming at Marmelo, Cross Counter's flying, the blue army have done it at last!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280872-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Cup\nThe 2018 Melbourne Cup (known commercially as 2018 Lexus Melbourne Cup) was the 158th running of the Melbourne Cup, a prestigious Australian Thoroughbred horse race. The race was run over 3,200 metres (1.988\u00a0mi) on 6 November 2018 at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280872-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Cup\nLexus commenced a five year naming rights sponsorship deal, taking over from Emirates. It was the last Melbourne Cup broadcast by the Seven Network before Network Ten takes over in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280872-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Cup\nThe race was won by Cross Counter, ridden by Kerrin McEvoy and trained by Charlie Appleby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280872-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Cup, Fatalities\nIrish colt The CliffsofMoher was euthanised after he suffered a fractured right shoulder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280872-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Cup, Horse naming\nSome European horses are forced to be renamed if horses with the same name are raced in Australia. Sound Check renamed at Sound, Cliffs of Moher renamed The CliffsofMoher and Prince of Arran were renamed to A Prince of Arran (raced at Prince of Arran on 2019 and 2020 Melbourne Cup). Sound Check were permitted raced at original name on Melbourne Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280872-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Cup, Penalties\nHugh Bowman was cited on three separate charges in the $7.3 million race - an incident of careless riding at the 500m, excessive whip use prior to the final 100m and the fact that he weighed in more than half a kilogram over his prescribed weight of 55kg aboard runner-up Marmelo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280872-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Cup, Penalties\nKerrin McEvoy was fined $3000 after using the whip nine times - four more than what is permitted under the rules - on Cross Counter in the final 400m of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280872-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Cup, Penalties\nJim Crowley and Christine Puls were also suspended for careless riding on the undercard at Flemington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280873-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Darts Masters\nThe 2018 Melbourne Darts Masters was the second staging of the tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation, as a fifth entry in the 2018 World Series of Darts. The tournament featured 16 players (eight PDC players facing eight regional qualifiers) and was held at the Hisense Arena in Melbourne from 10\u201312 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280873-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Darts Masters\nPhil Taylor was the defending champion, defeating Peter Wright 11\u20138 in the 2017 final; however this would be Taylor's last televised title due to his retirement after the 2018 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280873-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Darts Masters\nWright avenged his defeat from the last tournament by winning his second World Series title after beating Michael Smith 11\u20138 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280873-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Darts Masters, Qualifiers\nThe eight invited PDC representatives, (seeded according to the 2018 World Series of Darts Order of Merit) are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season\nThe 2018 Melbourne Football Club season is the club's 119th year in the VFL/AFL since it began in 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 1\nDebut(s): Bayley FritschDebut(s) for MFC: Jake Lever (Adelaide)Milestone(s): Bayley Fritsch (1st AFL goal)Record: 0 losses, 1 win, 0 draws (96.91%)Ladder position: 9th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 2\nRecord: 1 win, 1 loss, 0 draws (113.45%)Ladder position: 6th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 3\nRecord: 2 wins, 1 loss, 0 draws (123.35%)Ladder position: 4th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 4\nMilestone(s): Christian Salem (50th AFL game)Record: 2 wins, 2 losses, 0 draws (98.12%)Ladder position: 12th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 5\nRecord: 2 wins, 3 losses, 0 draws (96.89%)Ladder position: 14th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 6\nDebut(s): Charlie SpargoMilestone(s): James Harmes (50th AFL game), Charlie Spargo (1st AFL goal)Record: 3 wins, 3 losses, 0 draws (96.89%)Ladder position: 12th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 7\nRecord: 4 wins, 3 losses, 0 draws (103.59%)Ladder position: 10th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 8\nRecord: 5 wins, 3 losses, 0 draws (113.19%)Ladder position: 6th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 9\nMelbourne's final winning margin of 109 points was their greatest since their 121 point shellacking of Richmond in round 21, 1993", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 9\nMelbourne's final winning margin of 109 points was their biggest ever win over Carlton, surpassing 105 points set in round 6, 2004", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 9\nIt was Melbourne's first 100+ victory since round 6, 2004", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 9\nRecord: 6 wins, 3 losses, 0 draws (127.03%)Ladder position: 3rd", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 10\nFor the first time ever, Melbourne have won consecutive games by more than 90 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 10\nRecord: 7 wins, 3 losses, 0 draws (136.60%)Ladder position: 3rd", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 11\nMilestone(s): Nathan Jones (250th AFL game)Record: 8 wins, 3 losses, 0 draws (140.19%)Ladder position: 3rd", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 12\nMilestone(s): Christian Petracca (50th AFL game)Record: 8 wins, 4 losses, 0 draws (130.44%)Ladder position: 5th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 14\nDebut(s): Oscar McDonald (50th AFL game)Record: 8 wins, 5 losses, 0 draws (127.32%)Ladder position: 6th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 15\nDebut(s): Harrison PettyRecord: 8 wins, 6 losses, 0 draws (124.38%)Ladder position: 7th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 16\nRecord: 9 wins, 6 losses, 0 draws (127.85%)Ladder position: 6th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 17\nMilestone(s): Alex Neal-Bullen (50th AFL game)Record: 10 wins, 6 losses, 0 draws (130.23%)Ladder position: 6th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 18\nMilestones(s): Jake Melksham (150th AFL game), Nathan Jones (100th game as MFC captain), Angus Brayshaw (50th AFL game)Record: 10 wins, 7 losses, 0 draws (127.91%)Ladder position: 6th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 19\nMilestones(s): Jordan Lewis (300th AFL game), Dom Tyson (100th AFL game)Record: 11 wins, 7 losses, 0 draws (127.33%)Ladder position:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 20\nThe 96 point thrashing of Gold Coast means that the Demons have won their 3rd game by 90+ points in a single season, the first time they've ever done that in their history", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280874-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Football Club season, 2018 season, Home and away season, Round 23\nThe win means Melbourne finishes season 2018 5th on the ladder, meaning they will play finals for the first time since 2006, ending a 12 year drought.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280875-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Storm season\nThe 2018 Melbourne Storm season was the 21st in the club's history. They competed in the 2018 NRL season and did so as the reigning Premiers and Minor Premiers. The team was coached by Craig Bellamy, coaching the club for his 16th consecutive season. Melbourne Storm was also captained by Cameron Smith, who has been the sole captain for the team since 2008 \u2014 making it his 11th consecutive season. In 2018, the club celebrated its 20th Anniversary, which was launched on 30 October 2017 with the announcement that a new logo would feature for the duration of the 20 year celebrations including on a newly designed jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280875-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Storm season\nAt the conclusion of the 2018 NRL regular season, the Storm finished on 34 competition points (equal to the Sydney Roosters in first place), the Storm ultimately finished second due to having a slightly inferior points difference (by 8 points) and therefore missed winning the Minor Premiership, the second-placed finish, however, ensured a home final in Week 1 of the finals series. The Storm won both their Qualifying final and Preliminary finals qualifying them for their third straight Grand Final however they were ultimately beaten in the decider and therefore finished the season runners up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280875-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Storm season, Fixtures, Pre-season\n1 Match played behind closed doors. 2 Storm players that did not play in the World Club Challenge played the Trial game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280875-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Storm season, 2018 Squad\nList current as of 23 March 2018(a): This column denotes the previous RL club the player was signed to and played first grade RL for. If they are yet to debut then this is stipulated. If they were merely signed to the club but did not play then it is not counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280875-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Storm season, Representative honours\nThe following players have played a first grade representative match in 2018. (C) = Captain", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280875-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Storm season, Squad statistics\nStatistics Source:Statistics current as of the end of the 2018 NRL regular season (this table does not include finals matches)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280875-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Storm season, Jersey\nOn 1 November 2017 the Storm revealed their new 2018 Home jersey which is once again produced by ISC. The new jersey is a tribute to the original jersey worn by Storm during its inaugural 1998 season. It has been produced to celebrate and acknowledge the history of the club as it celebrates its 20th anniversary throughout 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280875-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Storm season, Jersey\nThe signature \u2018V\u2019 representing Victoria returns although is more of a traditional V rather than the style used on the original jersey and it is showcased by the heritage colours of purple and white, while the iconic purple also features around the edging of the sleeves. The popular yellow returns with trimming around the neck a throwback to the late 90s when i featured as part of the collar. Purple lightning bolts also sit on either side of the jersey. Navy has been made the primary colour to commemorate the original Storm jerseys worn during the Club's formative years. On the front of the Jersey is the new Storm logo that was revealed on Monday as part of a launch of the 20-year celebrations. This logo is a temporary logo for the duration of the 20 year celebrations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280875-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Storm season, Jersey\nOn 3 November 2017 the club revealed the new 20th Anniversary away jersey The away jersey is another tribute to the past with the Club's iconic lightning bolts watermarked on the front of the jersey. The heritage colour of navy also features on the all white jersey, with horizontal stripes running across the bolts. Purple appears around the edging of the sleeves, identical to the home jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280875-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Storm season, Jersey\nOn 24 January 2018 the club released its special jersey that will be worn in the 2018 World Club Challenge. The Jersey design is not new but the same as the design worn in the 2017 NRL Auckland Nines competition, with the new logos featuring on the front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280875-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Storm season, Jersey\nOn 25 April 2018 - ANZAC Day - Melbourne Storm wore a special version of their 2017 Jersey with a red \"Poppy\" V to commemorate ANZAC Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280875-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Storm season, Jersey\n# Special jersey celebrating 20th anniversary of the club. ^ Alternative sponsor logos worn due to New Zealand restrictions on gambling advertising. & Women in League jersey - mostly purple version of the home jersey with pink accents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280875-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne Storm season, Awards, Dally M Awards Night\nHeld at Overseas Passenger Terminal, Sydney on Wednesday 26 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280876-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne stabbing attack\nOn 9 November 2018, one male attacker, Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, set his vehicle on fire and stabbed three people at Bourke Street in the Melbourne city centre, Australia, before being fatally shot by Victoria Police. Of the three victims stabbed by Ali, one of the stabbed victims died at the scene while the other two were treated by paramedics and taken to hospital. On 10 November, the Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed that the attack was \"an act of terror\" and is being treated as such by counter-terrorism police from both the Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police. Police also confirmed that the attack was Islamic State-inspired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280876-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne stabbing attack, Incident\nOn 9 November 2018, at around 4:20 pm, a man set fire to a Holden Rodeo ute on Bourke Street between Swanston Street and Russell Street, at Melbourne city centre. The attacker emerged from the vehicle before it burst into flames. Police stated that there were propane gas cylinders in the vehicle, but they did not explode.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280876-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne stabbing attack, Incident\nThe man then went on a stabbing spree with a large knife and wounded three pedestrians, one of whom was later pronounced dead at the scene. The attacker was then confronted by two Victoria Police patrol officers who arrived at the scene. A member of the public also attempted to ram a shopping trolley into the attacker. After slashing at the police officers, the attacker was shot once in the chest by one of the officers. The attacker was then disarmed and restrained by Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) members utilsing less lethal tactics before being taken to receive medical treatment under guard, but later died in hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280876-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne stabbing attack, Incident\nOn 10 November, the day following the attack, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed that \"what we saw yesterday was an act of terror.\" The Guardian has described that he has expressed confidence in the Victoria Police to ensure the safety of Melbourne. Officers from both the Victoria Police and from the Australian Federal Police were involved in a counter-terrorism investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280876-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne stabbing attack, Perpetrator\nPolice identified the attacker as 30-year-old Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, who moved to Australia from Somalia in the 1990s with his parents and siblings and attended Al-Taqwa Islamic College. He was married with a young son.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280876-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne stabbing attack, Perpetrator\nThe Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police, Graham Ashton, told the media that the attacker was known to federal intelligence agencies but was not actively monitored. The Australian Federal Police's acting national manager of counter-terrorism said Hassan's passport was cancelled in 2015 when ASIO believed he was planning to travel to Syria to fight for the ISIL terrorist group, but he was never a target of joint counter-terrorism taskforce investigations as they did not believe he was a threat. Relatives and acquaintances have described Hassan as having mental health and substance abuse issues, being delusional and agitated prior to the attack, and complaining of \"being chased by unseen people with spears.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280876-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne stabbing attack, Perpetrator\nHassan's 21-year-old younger brother, Ali Khalif Shire Ali, was arrested in November 2017 for planning to commit a mass shooting at Melbourne's New Year's Eve celebration. Ali Khalif pled guilty to preparing a terrorist attack and in May 2020, he was sentenced to ten years jail, with a seven and a half years non-parole period. In December 2020, Ali Khalif's sentence was increased to sixteen years, with a non-parole period of twelve years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280876-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne stabbing attack, Victims\nSisto Malaspina, aged 74, was killed when the perpetrator stabbed him above his collar bone. Eyewitnesses said it appeared Malaspina was walking over to the car after it burst into flames to offer assistance when he was stabbed. A former nurse tried to revive him by performing CPR, but the knife had severed a major artery resulting in exsanguination (death due to traumatic blood loss). Malaspina was the co-owner of Pellegrini's Espresso Bar, a nearby Italian coffee bar. Flowers, messages and photos have been laid in front of the shop as a tribute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280876-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne stabbing attack, Victims\nThe other two people injured were a 58-year-old retired businessman from Launceston, Tasmania, who suffered knife injuries to the head and was taken to the Alfred Hospital for surgery and a 24-year-old security guard from Hampton Park who received lacerations and was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital after being assessed by Ambulance Victoria paramedics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280876-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Melbourne stabbing attack, Aftermath\nOn 12 November, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, who described Sisto Malaspina as a \"Victorian icon\", announced that Malaspina's family had accepted his offer of a state funeral. The City of Melbourne also confirmed it was considering suggestions to rename Crossley Lane, which corners Pellegrini's in honour of Malaspina, telling The Age that \"In the coming weeks, the City of Melbourne will consider a range of measures to recognise the life of Sisto Malaspina.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280877-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Melon Music Awards\nThe 2018 Melon Music Awards ceremony, organized by kakao M (a kakao company) through its online music store, Melon, took place on December 1, 2018 at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea. This was the tenth ceremony in the show's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280877-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Melon Music Awards\nWanna One, iKon and BTS took home the grand prizes, also known as the \"Daesang Awards\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280877-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Melon Music Awards, Winners and nominees\nOnly artists who released music between December 2, 2017 and October 25, 2018 were eligible, and the nominees were selected by calculating the number of downloads, streams, and weekly Melon Popularity Award votes achieved by each artist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280877-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Melon Music Awards, Winners and nominees\nWinners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Voting for Top 10 Artists took place on the Melon Music website from October 26 through November 13, 2018. Voting for Category awards took place from November 14 through November 30, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280877-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Melon Music Awards, Presenters and performers\nThe following individuals and groups, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280878-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Melrose Sevens\nThe 2018 Melrose Sevens also known as the Aberdeen Standard Investments Melrose Sevens was be the 128th staging of the world\u2019s oldest annual Rugby sevens competition at the home of Melrose RFC at the Greenyards in Melrose, Scotland on Saturday 14 April 2018. It was be played as a male only competition which featured 24 teams in a single elimination tournament with all the ties from the first round though to the final being played throughout the same day and formed part of the Kings of the Sevens series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280878-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Melrose Sevens\nThe later stages of the tournament was televised live for the last time on BBC Two Scotland and locally, from the first tie right through to the final, on Radio Borders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280878-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Melrose Sevens\nThe tournament was won by Scottish side Watsonian after they beat the home side Melrose 19-14 in a tightly fought final to win the Ladies Cup for the first time since 1996 and was Melrose\u2019s second consecutive loss in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280878-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Melrose Sevens, Teams\nThe main tournament will consist of 21 teams from across Scotland as well as two specially invited overseas teams from the United States and Poland and the charity team Crusaders to make a combined total of 24 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280878-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Melrose Sevens, Seedings\nSixteen unseeded Scottish sides will enter the competition in the first round whilst the seeded teams which includes the hosts Melrose, the four remaining Scottish teams Ayr, Jed-Forest, Edinburgh Accies and Watsonian the two invited overseas teams and the charity side Crusaders will enter the competition in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280878-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Melrose Sevens, Tournament\nThe draw for the first and second rounds was made at the Greenyards in Melrose on Saturday 7 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup\nThe 2018 Memorial Cup (branded as the 2018 Mastercard Memorial Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a four-team, round-robin format tournament that was held at the Brandt Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan from May 18\u201327, 2018. It was the 100th Memorial Cup championship of junior ice hockey, and determined the champion of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). The CHL chose to allow all three of its constituent leagues to bid for hosting the 100th Memorial Cup, instead of the usual rotation between its leagues. The Regina Pats won the right to host the tournament, over bids from the Hamilton Bulldogs and the Oshawa Generals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup\nThe Memorial Cup honours all Canadian military personnel killed in combat, and was founded in the wake of World War I in 1919. The Cup embarked on a tour across Canada for its centennial celebrations, which also included the release of a commemorative coin, and a special postage stamp. The CHL also held a \"team of the century\" contest for previous Memorial Cup champions, which was won by the 2005 London Knights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup\nThe tournament featured the three champion teams of the CHL's constituent leagues, along with the host team Regina Pats. The Hamilton Bulldogs represented the Ontario Hockey League, and the Swift Current Broncos represented the Western Hockey League. The Acadie\u2013Bathurst Titan from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League won their first Memorial Cup, defeating the host Regina Pats 3\u20130 in the championship game. Sam Steel from the Regina Pats was the tournament's top scorer, and named its most valuable player. The 2018 event was the final Memorial Cup sponsored by Mastercard, since Kia Motors became the new title sponsor at the 2019 Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Background\nThe Memorial Cup was established by Captain James T. Sutherland in 1919 after he returned from serving in World War I. The deaths of Scotty Davidson, and George Richardson served as inspiration for the trophy. The Cup was donated to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association by the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) in March 1919, then known as the \"OHA Memorial Cup\". It was dedicated in remembrance of Canadian soldiers who died during World War I. The Memorial Cup later became the championship trophy of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL), and in 2010 it was rededicated to honour \"all Canadian military personnel killed in combat\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Host bidding process\nThe CHL chose to allow all three of its constituent leagues to bid for hosting the 100th Memorial Cup. Since 1983 the three leagues had rotated hosting of the event. It would have been the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's (QMJHL) turn to host in 2018, but an exception was made where the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), and the Western Hockey League (WHL) were also allowed to bid. The regular rotation continued as of the 2019 Memorial Cup, with hosting duties assigned to a team from the QMJHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Host bidding process\nEach league was given a deadline of November 16, 2017, to submit a short list of up to two bids per league for the 2018 event. On January 23, 2018, the CHL announced who would sit on the committee to select the host team. Committee members included Michael Akpata (Canadian Armed Forces retiree), Paul Beeston (former president of the Toronto Blue Jays), Colin Campbell (National Hockey League), Scott Smith (Hockey Canada), Al Coates (Hockey Canada), Serge Fortin (TVA Sports), and Scott Moore (Sportsnet). The three league commissioners, David Branch (OHL), Gilles Courteau (QMJHL), and Ron Robison (WHL), observed on the committee which was chaired by CHL legal counsel Gord Kirke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Host bidding process\nFormal bids to host event were put forth by the Hamilton Bulldogs, Oshawa Generals, and the Regina Pats. Each team made a bid presentation to the committee on January 25, 2017. Previously, the Kelowna Rockets and the Ottawa 67's had shown interest in bidding for hosting duties, but withdrew before the presentation process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Host bidding process\nHamilton\u2019s home arena was the FirstOntario Centre with a capacity of 17,383 people, and the host site of the 1990 Memorial Cup. The largest attendance for a Memorial Cup game was the sold out 1990 final at the same arena in Hamilton. The host team in 1990 was the Dukes of Hamilton, but they withdrew from playing in the Cup due to a poor regular season. Oshawa's home arena was the General Motors Centre with a capacity of 6,125 people. The Generals previously hosted the 1987 Memorial Cup, and had recently won the 2015 Memorial Cup. Oshawa had won the most Memorial Cup championships for any active CHL team as of 2017, with five titles to their name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Host bidding process\nRegina's home arena was the Brandt Centre with a capacity of 6,200 people, and host site of the 2001 Memorial Cup. Regina had also co-hosted the 1980 Memorial Cup along with Brandon, Manitoba. The Pats were also the oldest franchise in the CHL, having first played in 1917. The Pats had competed in the most championship games in the Cup's history at 12 times, with victories in 1925, 1930 and 1974. The Pats also played in the very first final, in the 1919 Memorial Cup. On February 18, 2017, the CHL announced the Regina Pats as the host team for the 100th Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, 100th anniversary celebrations\nThe CHL unveiled a 100th anniversary logo for the Memorial Cup on October 12, 2017. It included wheat sheaves symbolic of the Canadian Prairies where Regina is located, and the poppy to honour the fallen soldiers to whom the Memorial Cup is dedicated. The CHL and Canada Post produced a 100th anniversary postage stamp, released on May 18, 2018, which featured two Regina players from the inaugural 1919 Memorial Cup. The CHL also distributed a commemorative coin for the event, in cooperation with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The 100th anniversary logo was also worn as a patch by all players and on-ice officials, for the duration of the 2017\u201318 season commencing on Remembrance Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, 100th anniversary celebrations\nDon Cherry was named an honorary chairman of the 100th anniversary celebrations, and the CHL announced that the Memorial Cup would tour across Canada during the 2017\u201318 season, beginning on November 18, 2017. The cities included in the tour were, Barrie, Bathurst, Brandon, Calgary, Chicoutimi, Edmonton, Halifax, Kingston, Moncton, Ottawa, Owen Sound, Quebec City, Regina, Sarnia, St. Catharines, Swift Current, and Vancouver. CHL games were broadcast Saturday afternoons on Sportsnet during the season, and the home team of that televised game was allowed promotional use of the Memorial Cup trophy for one week as part of the tour. The Cup's tour began at CFB Borden and the Santa Claus parade in Barrie, and later visited Niagara Falls and Fort George.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, 100th anniversary celebrations\nThe CHL held an online vote to select a \"team of the century\" from the previous 99 Memorial Cup champions, and posted historical photos, rosters, and tournament summaries for each season. The four top teams were the 1995 Kamloops Blazers, the 2000 Rimouski Oc\u00e9anic, the 2005 London Knights, and the 2013 Halifax Mooseheads. The 2005 London Knights were announced as the \"team of the century\" during the second period of the final game in the 2018 Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, 100th anniversary celebrations\nThe 2018 Memorial Cup tournament began on May 17, 2018, with the opening ceremonies hosted by Brent Butt and Adam Growe at Mosaic Stadium. The Snowbirds performed a fly-by of the stadium before the opening concert. Musical acts included a tribute to the Humboldt Broncos bus crash by the Regina Symphony Orchestra, and other performances by Jess Moskaluke, Chad Brownlee, and the Eagles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Road to the Cup\nThe Regina Pats were given a berth in the 2018 Memorial Cup in their role as the host team. The remaining three berths were given to the playoffs champions of each constituent league of the CHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Road to the Cup, OHL playoffs\nThe Hamilton Bulldogs finished first place in the Eastern conference with 93 points, and the third overall in the league. The team was led in scoring by Matthew Strome with 37 goals, and Brandon Saigeon with 70 points. In the playoffs, the Bulldogs defeated the Ottawa 67's in five games in round one, then the Niagara IceDogs in five games in round two, and the Kingston Frontenacs in five games in round three to reach the finals. Hamilton defeated the top-ranked Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in six games to win the J. Ross Robertson Cup, and earn a berth in the 2018 Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Road to the Cup, QMJHL playoffs\nThe Acadie\u2013Bathurst Titan finished first place in the Maritimes division with 96 points, and second overall in the league. The team was led in scoring by Jeffrey Truchon-Viel with 39 goals, and Antoine Morand with 76 points. In the playoffs, the Titan defeated the Chicoutimi Saguen\u00e9ens in six games in the first round, then swept both the Sherbrooke Phoenix, and the Victoriaville Tigres in rounds two and three to reach the finals. Acadie\u2013Bathurst defeated the top-ranked Blainville-Boisbriand Armada in six games to win the President's Cup, and earn a berth in the 2018 Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 50], "content_span": [51, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Road to the Cup, WHL playoffs\nThe Swift Current Broncos finished second place in the Eastern division with 103 points, the second highest point total in the league. The team featured three 100-point-scorers, including Glenn Gawdin (56 goals and 125 points), Aleksi Heponiemi (90 assists and 118 points), and Tyler Steenbergen (47 goals and 102 points). In the playoffs, the Broncos defeated the Regina Pats in seven games in the first round, the top-ranked Moose Jaw Warriors in seven games in the second round, and the Lethbridge Hurricanes in six games in the third round to reach the finals. Swift Current defeated the Everett Silvertips in six games to win the Ed Chynoweth Cup, and earn a berth in the 2018 Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Team rosters\nRosters as listed on the Memorial Cup web site for Regina, Acadie\u2013Bathurst, Hamilton, and Swift Current.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Tournament games\nThe 2018 Memorial Cup tournament was played from May 18 to 27, 2018. (All game times are UTC \u22124.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Tournament games, Round-robin\nThe first round-robin game featured the host team Regina Pats, versus the OHL champion Hamilton Bulldogs. Robert Thomas scored to give Hamilton a first-period lead, before Sam Steel tied the game for Regina on a power play goal in the first minute of the second period. Each team scored once more in the second period, and were tied 2\u20132 until the final minute of the third period. Nick Henry scored with 33 seconds remaining to give Regina the game one victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Tournament games, Round-robin\nThe second round-robin game featured the QMJHL champion Acadie\u2013Bathurst Titan, versus the WHL champion Swift Current Broncos. The Titan scored two short-handed goals during regulation to force the game into overtime with a 3\u20133 tie. Liam Murphy scored for Acadie\u2013Bathurst at 2:58 into overtime to give the Titan a game two victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Tournament games, Round-robin\nThe third round-robin game featured the two undefeated teams, Regina and Acadie\u2013Bathurst. The teams combined to score 14 goals, the highest scoring match in the 2018 Memorial Cup. The Titan had built up a 7\u20132 lead by the 1:39 mark of the third period, before Regina scored four consecutive goals to make the score 7\u20136 with two minutes to play. The Titan then scored an empty net goal with one second remaining to secure a game three victory, and remain undefeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Tournament games, Round-robin\nIn the fourth round-robin game, the Broncos and Bulldogs faced each other with both teams looking for their first win of the tournament. It was the lowest-scoring game of the round-robin, and Hamilton prevailed with a 2\u20131 victory on a goal by Marian Studenic with two minutes and one second remaining in the game. Hamilton had 56 shots on net, compared to only 22 for Swift Current. Broncos goaltender Stuart Skinner made 54 saves in the loss, and was named the game's first star.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Tournament games, Round-robin\nAcadie\u2013Bathurst faced Hamilton in the fifth round-robin game. A win by the Titan would guarantee them a berth in the championship game, or a win by Hamilton would earn at least a semifinal game appearance. The Bulldogs scored twice in the first period for a 2\u20130 lead, and held on for a 3\u20132 victory on a game-winning goal by Robert Thomas on a third period power play. Late in the third period the Titan had a power play, but Pouliot made a coaching decision to not pull out the goaltender for an extra attacker. Pouliot's reasoning was strategical, in that if Hamilton scored into an empty net for a two-goal victory, then Hamilton could advance to the final based on the tie-breaking procedure. He chose to defend a one-goal deficit instead to preserve the tie-breaking advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Tournament games, Round-robin\nIn the sixth and final round-robin game, the winless Broncos needed a win to force a tie-breaking game, and the Pats needed a win to secure at least a semifinal game appearance. Regina led 4\u20132 after the second period, and scored a fifth goal at 10:23 into the third period for a 5\u20132 advantage. Swift Current replied with two goals to pull within one with 2:49 remaining in the game. Libor Hajek scored on a power play for Regina with 1:37 remaining in the game for a two goal lead. The Broncos scored a power play goal of their own with 50 seconds remaining in the game, but the comeback fell short in a 6\u20135 victory for Regina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Tournament games, Round-robin\nThe Acadie\u2013Bathurst Titan advanced directly to the championship game, based on the tie-breaking procedure for a three-way tie. The Regina Pats and the Hamilton Bulldogs qualified for the semifinal game, based on the same tie-breaking procedure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Tournament games, Round-robin\nNote: \u00a0 indicates team advanced directly to the championship game, \u00a0 indicates team advanced to the semifinal game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Tournament games, Semifinal game\nThe semifinal game featured the Regina Pats and Hamilton Bulldogs. Austin Pratt scored the first goal of the game at 5:22 in the first period for Regina, however Nicolas Mattinen of the Bulldogs scored in the second to tie the game. The tie was short-lived as minutes later, the Pats took the lead again. In the third period, Sam Steel, who led the tournament with 13 points, scored the game-winning goal despite Will Bitten of the Bulldogs scoring his first goal of the tournament. In the end, the Pats scored an empty net goal to seal the game 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Tournament games, Championship game\nThe final game featured Acadie\u2013Bathurst Titan and Regina Pats. Defenceman Adam Holwell scored the first goal of the game in the first period with 3:50 left off an assist from Mitchell Balmas. After a scoreless second period, Samuel Asselin scored his fifth goal of the tournament followed by Ethan Crossman scoring the empty net goal. With an ending of 3\u20130, the Titan won their first Memorial Cup in franchise history, and became the first QMJHL team since 2013 to do so. Goaltender Evan Fitzpatrick posted a shutout for the Titan, which last happened in the championship game during the 2005 Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 54], "content_span": [55, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Statistical leaders, Skaters\nSam Steel led all skaters with 13 points in the 2018 Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 47], "content_span": [48, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Statistical leaders, Goaltenders\nKaden Fulcher led all goaltenders with a goals against average of 2.27, and save percentage with 0.918.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280879-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial Cup, Awards\nThe CHL handed out the following awards at the conclusion of the 2018 Memorial Cup:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280880-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner\nThe XVI Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner was a volleyball tournament held at Tauron Arena in Krak\u00f3w, Poland from 24 to 26 August 2018. Like the previous edition, 4 teams participated in the tournament, but first time in the history, it was the same teams second time in the row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280880-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner, Qualification\nAll teams except the host must have received an invitation from the organizers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280881-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Memphis Tigers football team\nThe 2018 Memphis Tigers football team represented the University of Memphis in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers played their home games at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee and competed in the West Division of the American Athletic Conference. They were led by third-year head coach Mike Norvell. They finished the season 8\u20136, 5\u20133 in AAC to finish in a three-way tie for the West Division championship. After tie-breakers, they represented the West Division in the AAC Championship Game where they lost to East Division champion UCF. They were invited to the Birmingham Bowl where they lost to Wake Forest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280881-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Memphis Tigers football team, Previous season\nThe Tigers finished the 2017 season 10\u20133, 7\u20131 in AAC play to be champions of the West Division. They represented the West Division in The American Championship Game where they lost to East Division champions UCF. They were invited to the Liberty Bowl where they lost to Iowa State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280881-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Memphis Tigers football team, Preseason, AAC media poll\nThe AAC media poll was released on July 24, 2018, with the Tigers predicted to win the AAC West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280882-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Asian Champions Trophy\nThe Hero Asian Champions Trophy 2018 was held at Muscat, Oman between October 18\u201328, 2018. It was the fifth edition of the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy, a field hockey tournament for the six best Asian national teams. This was announced by the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) on 29 January 2018. The Oman Hockey Association hosted the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280882-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Asian Champions Trophy\nThe 5th edition of the biennial event took place at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. The tournament featured host nation Oman, Pakistan, Malaysia, India, South Korea, and Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280882-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Asian Champions Trophy\nHero MotoCorp, a global partner of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and a long-term associate of the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF), were the title sponsor of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280882-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Asian Champions Trophy\nIndia and Pakistan were declared joint winners by virtue of forfeiture of the final due to persistent rain. Malaysia finished at the 3rd place after defeating Japan 3-2 in the penalty shootouts in the bronze medal match. Malaysia's Faizal Saari was the top scorer of the tournament with 8 Goals. India remained the only undefeated team in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280882-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Asian Champions Trophy, Umpires\nA total of nine umpires were appointed by the FIH and National Association to officiate the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280882-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Asian Champions Trophy, Statistics, Awards\nThe following individual awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280882-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Asian Champions Trophy, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 92 goals scored in 19 matches, for an average of 4.84 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280883-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Australian Hockey League\nThe 2018 Men's Australian Hockey League was the 26th edition of the men's field hockey tournament. The 2018 edition of the tournament was be held between 6 \u2013 28 October, and featured a new format from previous editions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280883-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Australian Hockey League\nThe finals phase of the 2018 tournament was held in the Queensland city of the Gold Coast, from the 25 \u2013 28 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280883-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Australian Hockey League\nQLD Blades won the tournament for a record tenth time after defeating NSW Waratahs 5\u20133 in the gold medal match. Tassie Tigers claimed the bronze medal after defeating the Canberra Lakers 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280883-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Australian Hockey League, Competition Format\nUnlike previous editions of the Men's Australian Hockey League, the 2018 edition will include a very different format. Instead of the tournament being held at a single venue, the teams will play at least one home and away match during the pool stage, before converging on a singular venue for the Classification Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280883-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Australian Hockey League, Competition Format\nThe teams will be divided into two Pool A and Pool B, both consisting of four teams, with each team playing each other once. The teams will then progress to the Classification round, with each team playing a qualifying match, before progressing to either the fifth to eighth place playoffs, or the first to fourth place playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280883-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Australian Hockey League, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 208 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 8.67 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280884-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Beach Handball World Championships\nThe 2018 Men's Beach Handball World Championships were the eighth edition of the tournament, held at Kazan, Russia from 24 to 29 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280884-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Beach Handball World Championships\nBrazil won their fifth title by defeating Croatia in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280884-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Beach Handball World Championships, Draw\nThe draw was held on 15 May 2018 at Kazan, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 51], "content_span": [52, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280884-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Beach Handball World Championships, Main round, Group I\nPoints obtained against teams from the same group were carried over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280884-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Beach Handball World Championships, Main round, Group II\nPoints obtained against teams from the same group were carried over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280885-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's British Open Squash Championship\nThe Men's Allam British Open 2018 is the men's edition of the 2018 British Open Squash Championships, which is a PSA World Series event (Prize money\u00a0: 165,000 $). The event took place at the Airco Arena in Hull in England from 13 to 20 May. Miguel \u00c1ngel Rodr\u00edguez won his first British Open trophy, beating Mohamed El Shorbagy in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280886-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship\nThe 2018 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship was the eighteenth edition of the Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship, the biennial international men's indoor hockey championship of Europe organized by the European Hockey Federation. It took place from 12 to 14 January 2018 in Antwerp, Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280886-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship\nAustria won their second title by defeating the hosts Belgium 2\u20131 in a shoot-out after being tied 4\u20134 after regular time. Three-time defending champions Germany won the bronze medal by defeating Poland 9\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280886-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship, Results, Fifth to eighth place classification, Pool C\nThe points obtained in the preliminary round against the other team are taken over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 96], "content_span": [97, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280887-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup\nThe 2018 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup was the 29th edition of the Men's EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup, Europe's premier club indoor hockey tournament organized by the EHF. It was held from 16 to 18 February 2019 in Wettingen, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280887-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup\nRot-Weiss K\u00f6ln won a record-extending ninth title by defeating Racing Club de Bruxelles 5\u20132 in the final, Dinamo Elektrostal took the bronze medal and Surbiton and Complutense were relegated to the Trophy division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280887-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup, Teams\nParticipating clubs have qualified based on their country's final ranking from the 2017 competition (Host is highlighted in bold).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280887-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup, Results, Fifth to eighth place classification, Pool C\nThe points obtained in the preliminary round against the other team are taken over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 92], "content_span": [93, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280887-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup, Statistics, Awards\nThe following individual awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280888-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's European Volleyball League\nThe 2018 Men's European Volleyball League was the 15th edition of the annual Men's European Volleyball League, which featured men's national volleyball teams from twenty European countries. Unlike previous seasons, the tournament had two groups: the Golden League, featuring twelve teams, and the Silver League, featuring eight teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280888-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's European Volleyball League\nIt also acted as the European qualifying competition for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Challenger Cup, securing two vacancies for the tournament that then served as the qualifying competition for the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280889-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship\nThe 2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship was held in Barcelona, Spain from 16 to 28 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280889-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship\nSerbia won their fourth consecutive and eighth overall title by defeating Spain in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280889-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship, Qualification\nSixteen teams will be allowed to the tournament. The qualification is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280889-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship, Format\nThe sixteen teams were split in four groups with four teams each. The first classified team of each group qualified directly for the quarterfinals, the second and third teams played each other in cross group format to qualify for the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280889-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship, Draw\nThe draw of the tournament took take place on 7 March in Barcelona. The first batch consisted of the teams ranked 1st to 4th in the 2016 European Championships, the second batch consisted of the teams ranked 5th to eight. The third batch was filled with teams that qualified in the qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 49], "content_span": [50, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280890-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers\n2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers are series of qualification tournaments to decide the participants of the 2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280890-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers, Qualified teams\nTeams directly qualified to the 2018 European Water Polo Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 71], "content_span": [72, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280890-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers, Qualifying round 3\nNo teams were eliminated in round 2, but their results will determine the matches of the following round (play-off format with home and away games) held in 2018. These eight teams will face the teams classified 9 to 16 in the latest edition of the tournament, the 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 74], "content_span": [75, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280891-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship squads\nThis article shows all participating team squads at the 2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship, held in Spain from 16 to 28 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280892-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Ford National Hockey League\nThe 2018 Men's Ford National Hockey League was the 20th edition of the men's field hockey tournament. The competition was held in various cities across New Zealand, from 9 to 23 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280892-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Ford National Hockey League\nCapital won the title for the fifth time, defeating North Harbour 3\u20132 in penalties, after the final finished as a 1\u20131 draw. Canterbury finished in third place after defeating Auckland 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280892-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Ford National Hockey League, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 140 goals scored in 27 matches, for an average of 5.19 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280893-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy\nThe 2018 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 37th and the last edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy for men. It was held from 23 June to 1 July 2018 in Breda, Netherlands. The tournament will be replaced by the Hockey Pro League (HPL) in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280893-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy\nAustralia won their 15th title by defeating India in the final after penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280893-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy, Qualification\nAlongside the host nation, the defending champions, the last Olympic, World Cup and World League champions qualified automatically. The remaining spots were nominated by the FIH Executive Board, making a total of 6 competing teams. If teams qualified under more than one criterion, the additional teams were invited by the FIH Executive Board as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280893-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy, Statistics, Awards\nThe following individual awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280894-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey D\u00fcsseldorf Masters\nThe 2018 Men's Hockey D\u00fcsseldorf Masters was the twenty-third edition of the Hamburg Masters, an international men's field hockey tournament, consisting of a series of test matches. It was be held in D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany, from July 26 to 29, 2018, and featured four of the top nations in men's field hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280894-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey D\u00fcsseldorf Masters, Competition Format\nThe tournament featured the national teams of Argentina, France, Ireland, and the hosts, Germany, competing in a round-robin format, with each team playing each other once. Three points were be awarded for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280895-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup\nThe 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup was the 14th edition of the Hockey World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national field hockey teams organized by the FIH. It was held from 28 November to 16 December 2018, at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, India. The inauguration ceremony which was held on 27 November 2018, witnessed the biggest ever drone flying show in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280895-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup\nBelgium won the tournament for the first time after defeating the Netherlands 3\u20132 in the final on a penalty shoot-out after a 0\u20130 draw. Defending champions Australia won the third place match by defeating England 8\u20131 in the third place playoff of the Odisha men's hockey world cup 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280895-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup, Bidding\nIn March 2013, one month after the FIH published the event assignment process document for the 2014\u20132018 cycle, Australia, Belgium, India, Malaysia and New Zealand were shortlisted as candidates for hosting the event and were asked to submit bidding documentation, a requirement that Belgium did not meet. In addition, one month before the host election, Australia withdrew their application due to technical and financial reasons. India was announced as host on 7 November 2013, during a special ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280895-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup, Qualification\nDue to the increase to 16 participating teams, the new qualification process was announced in July 2015 by the International Hockey Federation. Each of the continental champions from five confederations and the host nation received an automatic berth, and the 10/11 highest placed teams at the Semifinals of the 2016\u201317 FIH Hockey World League not already qualified would enter the tournament. The following sixteen teams, shown with final pre-tournament rankings, competed in this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280895-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup, Format\nThe 16 teams were drawn into four groups, each containing four teams. Each team played each other team in its group once. The first-placed team in each group advanced to the quarter-finals, while the second- and third-placed teams in each group went into the crossover matches. From there on a single-elimination tournament was played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280895-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup, Umpires\n16 umpires were appointed by the FIH for this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280895-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup, Opening Ceremony\nShahrukh Khan and Naveen Pattnaik with the participating teams' captains", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280895-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup, Awards\nThe following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280895-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup, Goalscorers\nThere were 157 goals scored in 36 matches, for an average of 4.36 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final\nThe 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final was a field hockey match played between Belgium and the Netherlands on 16 December 2018 at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final\nBelgium won their first World Cup after defeating the Netherlands in the Final in penalty shoot-out. This was also Belgium's first ever world title in a team sport. Belgian goalkeeper Vincent Vanasch was named player of the match in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Route to the final, Belgium\nBelgium entered the World Cup as one of the favorites and ranked third in the FIH World Rankings. They had enjoyed success in major tournaments in the preceding years, winning silver medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2017 EuroHockey Nations Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Route to the final, Belgium\nAt the World Cup, Belgium were drawn in Pool C alongside Canada, hosts India and South Africa. Belgium began the tournament with a 2\u20131 win over Canada through field goals by F\u00e9lix Denayer and Thomas Briels. In their second pool match, they secured a 2\u20132 draw against India with a 56th minute equalizer by Simon Gougnard. They came back from behind in their final group match against South Africa to post a 5\u20131 victory through goals by Alexander Hendrickx, Gougnard, Lo\u00efck Luypaert and C\u00e9dric Charlier. They finished second in the group with seven points, as India, who finished on the same number of points, had a better goal difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Route to the final, Belgium\nBelgium defeated Pakistan 5\u20130 in the cross-over with Hendrickx, Briels, Charlier, S\u00e9bastien Dockier and Tom Boon scoring. In the quarterfinal against Germany, Belgium came back from being 0\u20131 down after the first quarter to winning 2\u20131, with an 18th minute goal by Hendrickx from a penalty corner and a field goal by Boon in the 50th minute. They faced England in the semifinal who had knocked out Olympic gold medalists and second-ranked team in the world Argentina in the quarterfinal. Belgium dominated the semifinal, shutting out England 6\u20130 as Boon, Gougnard, Charlier, Hendrickx and Dockier scored for the Red Lions. Belgium thus entered their first ever World Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Route to the final, Netherlands\nRanked fourth in the world, the Netherlands were tipped prior to the World Cup as one of the contenders to win the tournament. The Dutch had finished runners-up at the 2014 World Cup and won the 2017 EuroHockey Nations Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Route to the final, Netherlands\nThe Netherlands were placed in Pool D with Germany, Malaysia and Pakistan. They recorded a 7\u20130 win over Malaysia in the opening match, with the help of Jeroen Hertzberger's hat-trick. In the second game, the Dutch were leading Germany 1\u20130 until the 30th minute, before Germans scored four times, including thrice in the last quarter, to beat the Dutch 4\u20131. The Netherlands defeated Pakistan 5\u20131 in their final pool match, with goals from Thierry Brinkman, Valentin Verga, Bob de Voogd, Jorrit Croon and Mink van der Weerden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Route to the final, Netherlands\nThe Dutch cruised into the quarterfinals with a 5\u20130 win over Canada in the cross-over. Facing the home team India in the quarterfinal, the Netherlands conceded a goal in the 12th minute but equalized three minutes later with a Brinkman field goal. Defender van der Weerden converted a penalty corner in the fourth quarter to seal a 2\u20131 victory for his team. The Dutch faced defending champions and world number one Australia in the semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Route to the final, Netherlands\nThe Dutch took an early lead in the match as Glenn Schuurman netted one in the ninth minute and Seve van Ass doubled the lead with a goal in the second quarter. Australia pulled one goal back in the final minute of the third quarter before scoring the equalizer in the final minute of the fourth to push the game into penalty shoot-out. The Netherlands won the shootout 4\u20133 in sudden death, after the teams were level 3\u20133 from five strokes each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nBelgium began the first quarter with Simon Gougnard having a shot at the goal in the second minute but the ball went just wide. Six minutes later Dutchman Jeroen Hertzberger successfully entered the Belgian circle, creating the first chance for his team, but shot well wide of the goal. The quarter ended with the game \"evenly poised\" as Belgium marginally led possession at 51%. Belgium continued to attack at the start of the second quarter but were intercepted twice in the 18th minute by Mirco Pruyser and Hertzberger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nIn the 26th minute, Thierry Brinkman stopped an attack by Belgian forward Cedric Charlier in the circle. The Dutch then pressed forward and won the first penalty corner of the match in the 28th minute but Hertzberger's shot was deflected away by Florent van Aubel. A minute later Belgium lost their referral after an unsuccessful appeal against a penalty corner that was awarded to the Netherlands. However, Mink van der Weerden was fouled for swinging his stick too high as another chance for the Dutch went in vain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nTwo minutes into the second half, Dutch goalkeeper Pirmin Blaak made a diving save at a Thomas Briels' shot. Sebastien Dockier then took a shot in the 39th minute but it went wide across the goalpost. Belgian goalkeeper Vincent Vanasch made a comfortable save in the 49th minute, before a tackle by Nicolas De Kerpel in the circle denied the Dutch a chance at having another shot at the goal. Dutch midfielder Jonas de Geus picked up a green card in the 57th minute, leaving the Netherlands down to ten players for the subsequent two minutes. Neither team could break the 0\u20130 deadlock before the full time hooter and the match entered the penalty shoot-out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nThe Dutch started well in the penalty shoot-out, securing a 2\u20131 lead after three shots each. After Seve van Ass missed the fourth try for the Netherlands, Belgium equalized through Victor Wegnez. Thijs van Dam failed to score for the Netherlands in their final shot thanks to a tackle by Vanasch. Belgium then had their goal overturned off their fifth try, as Blaak used the video referral upon noticing that the ball had bounced off Arthur De Sloover's foot just before the shot. With the score still tied at 2\u20132, the match headed to sudden death penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nBelgium went first in the sudden death and scored through van Aubel. The Netherlands used their referral again appealing for obstruction but the video umpire ruled in favor of Belgium. Hertzberger, needing to score to keep the Netherlands alive, was forced wide by Vanasch and missed his shot, giving Belgium a 3\u20132 victory and their maiden World Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Match, Aftermath\nVanasch won the player of the match for his four saves in the penalty shoot-out. Defender Arthur van Doren was named the player of the tournament. At the conclusion of the match, Belgium displaced Australia as the top-ranked men's team in the FIH World Rankings, while the Netherlands moved up one place to third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280896-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Final, Match, Aftermath\nOn 18 December, the Belgian team was welcomed home by thousands of fans at the Grand Place in Brussels. Among those who were present at the celebrations were Queen Mathilde and King Philippe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280897-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup squads\nThis article lists the confirmed squads for the 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup tournament held in Bhubaneswar, India between 28 November and 16 December 2018. The sixteen national teams were required to register a playing squad of eighteen players and two reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280897-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup squads, Pool A, Spain\nThe squad was announced on 4 November 2018. Miquel Del\u00e0s withdrew injured after the game against Argentina and was replaced by Ricardo S\u00e1nchez on 1 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280897-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup squads, Pool B, England\nThe squad was announced on 13 November 2018. Sam Ward withdrew injured and was replaced by Liam Ansell on 22 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280897-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup squads, Pool C, Belgium\nThe squad was announced on 4 November 2018. Emmanuel Stockbroekx and John-John Dohmen withdrew injured after the game against India and were replaced by Antoine Kina on 3 December and Augustin Meurmans on 7 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280897-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup squads, Pool C, Canada\nThe squad was announced on 2 November 2018. Brandon Pereira withdrew injured after the game against South Africa and was replaced by Floris van Son on 4 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280897-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup squads, Pool D, Germany\nThe squad was announced on 4 November 2018. Mark Appel withdrew injured and was replaced by Victor Aly on 9 November. Benedikt F\u00fcrk withdrew injured after the game against Malaysia and was replaced by Julius Meyer on 12 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280897-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup squads, Pool D, Netherlands\nThe squad was announced on 26 October 2018. Floris Wortelboer withdrew injured and was replaced by Jorrit Croon on 30 October. Sander de Wijn withdrew injured after the game against Canada and was replaced by Joep de Mol on 12 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280897-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Hockey World Cup squads, Pool D, Pakistan\nThe squad was announced on 14 November 2018. Muhammad Rizwan Sr. withdrew injured after the game against Malaysia and was replaced by Arslan Qadir on 8 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280898-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships\nThe 2018 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships was the 82nd such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Teams participated at several levels of competition. The competition also served as qualifications for division placements in the 2019 competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280898-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, Championship (Top Division)\nThe tournament was held in Copenhagen and Herning, Denmark, from 4 to 20 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280898-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division I, Group A\nThe Group A tournament was held in Budapest, Hungary, from 22 to 28 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280898-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division I, Group B\nThe Group B tournament was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, from 22 to 28 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280898-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division II, Group A\nThe Group A tournament was held in Tilburg, Netherlands, from 23 to 29 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280898-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division II, Group B\nThe Group B tournament was held in Granada, Spain, from 14 to 20 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280898-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division III\nThe tournament was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 16 to 22 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280898-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division III, Division III qualification tournament\nThe qualification tournament was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 25 to 28 February 2018 after the original hosts, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, withdrew their application to host.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 94], "content_span": [95, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280899-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Indoor Hockey World Cup\nThe 2018 Men's Indoor Hockey World Cup was the fifth edition of this tournament and played from 7 to 11 February 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The Netherlands were the reigning champions, but did not return to defend their title due to their poor performance at the 2016 European Indoor Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280899-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Indoor Hockey World Cup\nAustria defeated Germany in the final after penalties to win their first title, while Iran secured their first medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280899-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Indoor Hockey World Cup, Umpires\n12 umpires were appointed by the FIH for this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280900-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's International Hockey Open\nThe 2018 Men's International Hockey Open is a men's field hockey tournament being held at the Marrara Hockey Centre. It will take place between 18 \u2013 22 September 2018 in Darwin, Australia. A total of four teams will compete for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280900-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's International Hockey Open, Statistics, Final Standings\nAs per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280900-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's International Hockey Open, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 33 goals scored in 8 matches, for an average of 4.12 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280901-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Junior NORCECA Volleyball Championship\nThe 2018 Men's Junior Continental Championship is the eleventh edition of the bi-annual tournament, played by eight countries from 25 August\u20132 September, 2018 in Havana, Cuba. The top finisher at the final standing will qualify to 2019 U-21 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280901-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Junior NORCECA Volleyball Championship, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130: 5 points for the winner, 0 point for the loserMatch won 3\u20131: 4 points for the winner, 1 points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 3 points for the winner, 2 points for the loserIn case of tie, the teams were classified according to the following criteria:points ratio and sets ratio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280902-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's PSA World Series Finals\nThe 2018 Men's PSA World Series Finals is the men's edition of the PSA World Series Finals (Prize money\u00a0: $160 000). The top 8 players in the 2017\u201318 PSA World Series are qualified for the event. The event will take place in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates from 5 to 9 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280902-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's PSA World Series Finals\nMohamed El Shorbagy won its second PSA World Series Finals title in a row after defeating fellow countryman Ali Farag 3\u20131 in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280903-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup\nThe 2018 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the 13th edition of the annual men's volleyball tournament. It was held in C\u00f3rdoba, Veracruz, Mexico from 28 August to 2 September. Twelve teams competed and the top five ranked teams at the end of the tournament will be qualified to the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280903-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup\nArgentina won the second straight title after defeating Brazil 3\u20132 in the final. Ezequiel Palacios was awarded the Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280903-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20131: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280904-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's South American Volleyball Club Championship\nThe 2018 Men's South American Volleyball Club Championship is the tenth official edition of the men's volleyball tournament, played by seven teams from 27 February to 3 March 2018, second time in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Sada Cruzeiro won its third consecutive title, the fifth overall, and qualified for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship in Poland. Robertlandy Sim\u00f3n was elected the Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280905-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's U20 Volleyball European Championship\nThe 2018 Men's Junior European Volleyball Championship took place in Netherlands and Belgium from 14 to 22 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280906-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's U20 Volleyball European Championship Qualification\nThis is an article about qualification for the 2018 Men's U20 Volleyball European Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280906-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's U20 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 86], "content_span": [87, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280906-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's U20 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, Direct qualification\nHost countries, \u00a0Netherlands and \u00a0Belgium, qualified for final round directly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 83], "content_span": [84, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280906-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's U20 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, Qualification\nThe winners of each pools qualified for final round. The 2nd placed teams of each pool qualified for the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 76], "content_span": [77, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280907-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's U23 Pan-American Volleyball Cup\nThe 2018 Men's U23 Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the fourth edition of the bi-annual men's volleyball tournament, played by five countries from 15 to 20 October at the Domo Polideportivo in Guatemala City, Guatemala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280907-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's U23 Pan-American Volleyball Cup, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130: 5 points for the winner, 0 point for the loserMatch won 3\u20131: 4 points for the winner, 1 points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 3 points for the winner, 2 points for the loserThe first criterion is the number of matches won, second criterion is points gained by the teamIn case of tie, the teams were classified according to the following criteria:points ratio and sets ratio", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280907-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's U23 Pan-American Volleyball Cup, Competition format\nThe competition format for the 2018 Men's U23 Pan-American Volleyball Cup consists of two phases, the first is a round robin round between all five competing nations. After the round robin finishes, 3rd and 4th place nations according to ranking will play for the bronze and 1st and 2nd place nations according to ranking will play for the gold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280908-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup\nThe 2018 Men's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup was the latest edition of the Men's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup, the tournament patronized by Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, The Princess Royal of Thailand for men's senior volleyball clubs, also known as 2018 Sealect Tuna Men's Senior Volleyball Kor Royal Cup Thailand Championship due to the sponsorship deal with Sealect Tuna. A total of 6 teams will compete in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280908-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup, Round robin, Standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280909-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's Volleyball Thai-Denmark Super League\n2018 Men's Volleyball Thai\u2013Denmark Super League (Thai: \u0e27\u0e2d\u0e25\u0e40\u0e25\u0e22\u0e4c\u0e1a\u0e2d\u0e25\u0e0a\u0e32\u0e22\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22\u0e40\u0e14\u0e19\u0e21\u0e32\u0e23\u0e4c\u0e04\u0e0b\u0e39\u0e40\u0e1b\u0e2d\u0e23\u0e4c\u0e25\u0e35\u0e01 2018) was the 5th edition of the tournament. It was held at the MCC Hall of The Mall Bangkapi in Bangkok, Thailand from 28 March \u2013 1 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280910-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships\nThe 2018 Men's World Floorball Championships were the 12th World Championships in men's floorball. The tournament took place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 1 to 9 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280910-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships, WFC 2018 Qualification\n33 teams have registered for the 12th IFF Men\u2019s World Floorball Championships, only 16 of them to reach the final group consisted of 16 teams. Host country, Czech Republic, qualifies automatically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280910-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships, WFC 2018 Qualification\nIn Europe, there were four qualification groups with three event locations - Talinn (Estonia), Nitra (Slovakia) and Valmiera (Latvia). The Asia-Oceania group tournament took place in Jeju Island, South Korea. It was the first IFF event hosted by Korea. USA and Canada played their qualification in Toronto, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280910-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships, Tournament groups\nAfter the group ballot, 16 teams are divided into 4 groups. In the group stage each team plays each other once, while the second stage of the event includes play-offs and placement matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280910-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships, Tournament groups\nThe two best teams of group A and B go directly to the quarter-final. Teams placed 3rd and 4th in group A and B and the teams placed 1st and 2nd in group C and D make it to the first playoff round (played before the quarter-finals).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280910-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships, Results, Knock-out stage, Semifinals\nError: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 9 N2 = 0 PN = 9", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280910-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships, Results, Knock-out stage, Semifinals\nError: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 4 PN = 9", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280910-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships, Results, Placement matches, 5th place bracket\nError: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 8 N2 = 0 PN = 14", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280911-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships qualifying\nThe qualifying for the 2018 Men's World Floorball Championships took place between 22 January and 11 February 2018. A total of 33 teams competed for sixteen spots. The final tournament was organized by Czech Republic in December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280911-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships qualifying, Overview\nNumbers in brackets show the ranking before the qualification started, which is based on results from the last two World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280911-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships qualifying, Overview\nFinland (1)\u00a0Estonia (9)\u00a0Poland (14)\u00a0Belgium (25)\u00a0Netherlands (27)\u00a0Liechtenstein (33)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280911-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships qualifying, Overview\nSweden (2)\u00a0Germany (8)\u00a0Slovakia (10)\u00a0Slovenia (24)\u00a0France (28)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280911-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships qualifying, Overview\nSwitzerland (3)\u00a0Latvia (7)\u00a0Russia (15)\u00a0Italy (21)\u00a0Hungary (30)\u00a0Iceland (32)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280911-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships qualifying, Overview\nDenmark (5)\u00a0Norway (6)\u00a0Spain (19)\u00a0Austria (20)\u00a0Great Britain (31)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280911-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships qualifying, Overview\nAustralia (13)\u00a0South Korea (18)\u00a0Thailand (22)\u00a0China (\u2013)\u00a0Iran (\u2013)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280911-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Floorball Championships qualifying, Europe, Best four runner-ups\nOnly the two best runner-ups of the four will advance. Since the number of teams between the qualification groups differs, the group sizes will be equalized by removing the results from the matches against the lowest placed teams in the larger-sized group before comparing the average results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 81], "content_span": [82, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280912-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Junior Squash Championships\nThe 2018 Men's World Junior Squash Championships is the men's edition of the 2018 World Junior Squash Championships, which serves as the individual world Junior championship for squash players. The event took place in Chennai in India from 18 to 23 July 2018. Mostafa Asal won the tournament after defeating compatriot Marwan Tarek in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280913-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World Junior Team Squash Championships\nThe 2018 Men's World Junior Team Squash Championships was held in Chennai, India. The event took place from 24 to 29 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280914-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Men's World University Handball Championship\nThe 2018 Men's World University Handball Championship was the 24th edition of this Handball event organized by the FISU. It was held in Rijeka, Croatia at the Zamet Hall, from 30 July to 5 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280915-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mercedes-Benz Challenge season\nThe 2018 Mercedes-Benz Challenge is the eighth season of the Mercedes-Benz Challenge. Fernando J\u00fanior is the defending champion in the CLA AMG Cup whilst Claudio Sim\u00e3o is the defending champion for the C250 Cup class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280915-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mercedes-Benz Challenge season, Race calendar and results\nThe entire championship will be accompanied by the Copa Truck in eight of the nine stages of the category, with exercise of the stage of Buenos Aires, counting with a stage in the Aut\u00f3dromo de Rivera in Uruguay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280916-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MercedesCup\nThe 2018 MercedesCup was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 41st edition of the Stuttgart Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Tennis Club Weissenhof in Stuttgart, Germany, from 11 June until 17 June 2018. First-seeded Roger Federer regained the ATP no. 1 singles ranking by reaching the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280916-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MercedesCup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280916-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MercedesCup, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280917-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MercedesCup \u2013 Doubles\nJamie Murray and Bruno Soares were defending champions, but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280917-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MercedesCup \u2013 Doubles\nPhilipp Petzschner and Tim P\u00fctz won the title, defeating Robert Lindstedt and Marcin Matkowski in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280918-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MercedesCup \u2013 Singles\nLucas Pouille was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Milos Raonic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280918-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MercedesCup \u2013 Singles\nRoger Federer won his first title in Stuttgart, defeating Raonic in the final, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20133). By reaching the final, Federer regained the ATP no. 1 singles ranking. This was his record extending 18th Grass Court Title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280918-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MercedesCup \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280919-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mercer Bears football team\nThe 2018 Mercer Bears football team represented Mercer University as a member the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Bobby Lamb and played their home games at the Five Star Stadium in Macon, Georgia. Mercer finished the season 5\u20136 overall and 4\u20134 in SoCon play to place in a three-way tie for fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280919-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mercer Bears football team, Previous season\nThe Bears finished the 2017 season 5\u20136 overall and 4\u20134 in SoCon play to place fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280919-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mercer Bears football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe SoCon released their preseason media poll on July 25, 2018, with the Bears predicted to finish in fourth place. The same day the coaches released their preseason poll with the Bears predicted to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280919-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mercer Bears football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll, Preseason All-SoCon Teams\nThe Bears placed eight players on the preseason all-SoCon teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280920-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mercer Tennis Classic\nThe 2018 Mercer Tennis Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Macon, United States, on 22\u201328 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280920-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mercer Tennis Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280921-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mercer Tennis Classic \u2013 Doubles\nKaitlyn Christian and Sabrina Santamaria were the defending champions, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280921-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mercer Tennis Classic \u2013 Doubles\nCaty McNally and Jessica Pegula won the title, defeating Anna Danilina and Ingrid Neel in the final, 6\u20131, 5\u20137, [11\u20139].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280922-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mercer Tennis Classic \u2013 Singles\nAnna Karol\u00edna Schmiedlov\u00e1 was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Poitiers instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280922-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mercer Tennis Classic \u2013 Singles\nVarvara Lepchenko won the title, defeating Ver\u00f3nica Cepede Royg in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280923-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mercyhurst Lakers football team\nThe 2018 Mercyhurst Lakers football team will represent Mercyhurst University in 2018 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference football season play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280924-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Meretz leadership election\nAn election was held for the leadership of the Meretz party on March 22, 2018. It saw the election of Tamar Zandberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280924-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Meretz leadership election, Background\nThe vote was open to party members. Party membership increased by 12,000, to roughly 30,000, ahead of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280924-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Meretz leadership election, Results\nThe party reported that 53.69% of eligible voters participated in the election. The party reported that 130 polling stations across Israel were utilized for the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280925-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Meridian Canadian Open\nThe 2018 Meridian Canadian Open was held from January 16\u201321 at the Encana Arena in Camrose, Alberta. This was the fourth Grand Slam of Curling event and third \"major\" of the 2017\u201318 curling season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280925-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Meridian Canadian Open\nIn the Men's final Peter de Cruz and his team from Geneva, Switzerland won their first Grand Slam title and the first by a Swiss men's team. They also became just the third non-Canadian team to win a Grand Slam as they defeated Niklas Edin. This marked the second straight Grand Slam event in which two non-Canadian men's teams contested the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280925-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Meridian Canadian Open\nIn the Women's final Chelsea Carey and her rink from Calgary won their first Grand Slam title of the season, the second of Carey's career, as they defeated Michelle Englot who was looking to win her first Grand Slam title since 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280926-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Merrimack Warriors football team\nThe 2018 Merrimack Warriors football team represented Merrimack College in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Dan Curran and played their home games at Duane Stadium. They were members of the Northeast-10 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280926-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Merrimack Warriors football team, Previous season\nThe Warriors finished the 2017 season 4\u20136, 4\u20135 in NE-10 Conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election\nElections for the London Borough of Merton were held on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Merton London Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, Campaign\nIn February 2018, Peter Walker, a former Labour councillor for Figges Marsh who was suspended by the party in October 2017, claimed that the local Labour Party was excluding supporters of the national party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, from becoming councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, Campaign\nLabour pledged to complete the building of a new leisure centre, bring AFC Wimbledon's home grounds within Merton, consider the introduction of a landlord licensing scheme, establish targets for affordable housing and introduce 20\u00a0mph zones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, Campaign\nThe Conservatives pledged to reintroduce weekly street cleaning, increase mobile CCTV, deliver a masterplan for Wimbledon, regenerate Morden, establish a 24/7 anti-social behaviour hotline, rebuild St Helier Hospital, introduce borough-wide anti-idling measures and reintroduce webcasting of council meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, Campaign\nThe Liberal Democrats pledged to institute a target of 50% affordable housing in large developments, install more public bins and public drinking fountains, increase cycling infrastructure, introduce default 20\u00a0mph zones, make Raynes Park and Motspur Park railway stations fully accessible, replace the closed walk-in surgery in Mitcham, introduce a levy on planning developments to pay for local schools, scrap charges for the use of Council-owned parks and playing fields, develop incubator sites for start-ups and establish neighbourhood plans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, Campaign\nA key issue during the campaign was the proposed closure of Wimbledon police station by the Labour Mayor of London. The Conservatives proposed to buy the police station, while the Liberal Democrats supported a legal action against the closure. The legal action was brought by Paul Kohler, one of the successful Liberal Democrat candidates for Trinity in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, Campaign, Demolition of Merton Hall\nA key issue during the campaign was the partial demolition of the historic Merton Hall in South Wimbledon, which was given planning permission by the council in September 2017. Under the plans, the Elim Pentecostal Church would assume tenancy of Merton Hall after the year-long works, under the condition that the site could still be hired as a community space by local residents. Elim Church's current High Path site would then become a Harris Federation school hosting 1,200 students from September 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, Campaign, Demolition of Merton Hall\nA petition opposing the plans and calling on Historic England to list Merton Hall attracted over 4,000 signatures. The plans attracted national attention in March 2018 over concerns that Elim Church could seek to prevent LGBT groups from hiring Merton Hall. The Conservatives opposed the demolition plans and pledged to end the demolition works immediately if elected; they also alleged that the demolition broke pre-election purdah rules, given that it was using public money on a contentious issue. The Merton Park Ward Residents Association also expressed their regret over the council's plans; their councillors suggested alternative sites for the secondary school and questioned the extent of the demolition required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 803]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, Campaign, Demolition of Merton Hall\nThe demolition works began in April 2018. In the election, the ward of Abbey, in which Merton Hall is situated, returned one Conservative councillor. After the election, responding to criticism of the plans, council leader Stephen Alambritis claimed that the council is building a brand new hall and not demolishing the existing one. Alambritis confirmed that two investigations were underway, one by the Local Government Ombudsman and another by Ernst and Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, Results\nLabour retained its control of Merton Council, its majority reduced to four seats. The Conservatives gained two seats from Labour (one each in the wards of Cannon Hill and Abbey) and the Liberal Democrats gained five seats from the Conservatives (two in West Barnes, two in Dundonald and one in Trinity). The Merton Park Ward Residents Association maintained its three councillors in Merton Park. By seat count, this was the best ever election result for the Liberal Democrats in the borough, and the first time they had held council positions outside the West Barnes ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, Results\nPaul Kohler, who achieved significant recognition after leading a legal campaign against the proposed closure of Wimbledon police station, was elected for the Liberal Democrats in Trinity. Two months after the election, his legal action resulted in a judgment that the decision to close the police station was unlawful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, Results\nOn 11 May 2018, it was announced that the council's cabinet would be reshuffled. Mary Curtin, a Labour councillor for Lower Morden, was voted in as the council's new mayor at the Annual Council Meeting on 23 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, Ward results, Cannon Hill\nFollowing the resignation of Mark Kenny, a by-election was held on 20 June 2019 with the Liberal Democrats gaining the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, Ward results, West Barnes\nOn 12 June 2020, Quilliam left the Liberal Democrats and joined the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280927-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Merton London Borough Council election, By-elections\nThe by-election was triggered by the resignation of Cllr. Mark Kenny of the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280928-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mesterfinalen\nThe 2018 Mesterfinalen was the second edition of Mesterfinalen and the 4th Norwegian super cup overall. Mesterfinalen is the annual game between the League champions and the Cup champions in Norway, or the second-placed team in Eliteserien if the same team are both reigning League and Cup champions. The final was played on 26 April between league champions and defending Mesterfinalen champions Rosenborg and the Cup champions Lillestr\u00f8m. The match was due to be played 5 March, but due to weather conditions it was moved to 26 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280928-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mesterfinalen\nRosenborg won the final with the score 0\u20131. After a goalless first half, Nicklas Bendtner scored the winning goal in the 52nd minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280929-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 23\u201326. The top six regular season finishers of the league's eleven teams met in the double-elimination tournament, which was at Richmond County Bank Ballpark in Staten Island, New York. As tournament champion, Canisius earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280929-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding\nThe top six teams were seeded one through six based on their conference winning percentage. They then played a double-elimination tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 68], "content_span": [69, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival\nThe 2018 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) is the 44th edition of the annual Metro Manila Film Festival held in Metro Manila and throughout the Philippines. It is organized by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). During the festival, no foreign films are shown in Philippine theaters (except IMAX and 4D theaters).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival, Entries, Official entries\nThe Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) Executive Committee announced four of the eight official entries in June 2018. The first four films were selected based from the script submission. On October 9, the last four films were announced by the MMFF Selection Committee headed by National Artist for Literature, Bienvenido Lumbera. They are all finished films.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival, Entries, Short films\nA short film competition for students was organized as part of the film festival. A total of 123 entries were submitted with eight of them selected as finalists. The eight selected short films were screened alongside the official eight full-length films during the whole official run of the film festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival, Parade of Stars\nPara\u00f1aque was selected as the host city of the launch of the metropolis-wide film festival in March 2018 by the MMFF Executive Committee. The hosting coincides with the 20th anniversary of Para\u00f1aque's conversion into a city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival, Parade of Stars\nThe traditional Parade of Stars which featured floats of the film festival's eight entries took place in Para\u00f1aque on December 23, 2018 and was planned to traverse a route measuring 12.3\u00a0km (7.6\u00a0mi). The parade began near Shopwise Santana Grove in Sucat, where an estimated crowd of 300,000 waited for the start of the event, and ended on Bradco Avenue. The parade route also included Dr. A. Santos Avenue, V. Medina Avenue, Quirino Avenue, NAIA Road, and Macapagal Boulevard. The Para\u00f1aque Traffic and Parking Management Office closed a significant portion of Dr. A. Santos Avenue starting from Sta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival, Parade of Stars\nRita Avenue from vehicular traffic beginning of noon of the day of the parade with assembly and preparation of the event scheduled to begin at 1pm. The normally eastbound lanes of Dr. A. Santos Avenue from Soreena to Kabihasnan, eastbound lanes of NAIA Road from Quirino Avenue to Macapagal Boulevard, and southbound lanes of Macapagal Boulevard from NAIA Road to Bradco Avenue were also temporarily opened for counterflow in an effort to manage anticipated heavy traffic situation caused by the parade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival, Parade of Stars\nHeavy rain disrupted the parade program causing delays with the floats stuck in mud at the starting point of the parade. Besides the float of the eight featured films of the MMFF, the parade was supposed to be joined by the floats of the Para\u00f1aque local government and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority but their vehicles were not reportedly present in the starting area. The float, featuring the film Fantastica, was the first float to leave the assembly area at 1:25 pm albeit without members of its cast. The Fantastica cast boarded their film's float vehicle an hour later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival, Parade of Stars\nThe Girl in the Orange Dress float followed Fantastica's float with Jericho Rosales and Jessy Mendiola. By 3:30 pm, only three out of eight floats has managed to get out of the mud with One Great Love joining the vehicles of Fantastica and Girl in the Orange Dress. The float of Mary, Marry Me was the fourth and final vehicle able to join the parade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival, Parade of Stars\nThe Jack Em Popoy cast opted to leave their float behind and boarded a truck instead. The cast of Otlum and Rainbow\u2019s Sunset also did the same and boarded another vehicle while the cast of Aurora left their float but Anne Curtis is using her own van to head straight to Aseana where the parade ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival, Parade of Stars\nAt least two million were estimated to have witnessed the event live.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival, Awards\nThe Gabi ng Parangal (transl. Awards Night) of the 2018 Metro Manila Film Festival was held at The Theatre at Solaire in Para\u00f1aque on December 27, 2018. The awards night was hosted by Janno Gibbs, Mark Bautista, and Ni\u00f1a Dolino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival, Awards\nChristopher de Leon, Gina Alajar and Joanna Ampil are the new members of the MMFF jury for the 2018 edition of the film festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival, Awards, Major awards\nWinners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). Nominations are also listed if applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280930-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Metro Manila Film Festival, Box office gross\nOn January 8, 2019, a day after the official run of the 2018 MMFF concluded, the Metro Manila Development Authority announced that 2018 MMFF recorded the highest ever box office gross in the whole history of the film festival earning a total \u20b11.060 billion. The previous record was held by the 2015 Metro Manila Film Festival which earned \u20b110 million less than the 2018 edition. On January 10, 2019 it was announced that the top four grossing films (in no particular order) were: Aurora, Fantastica, Jack Em Popoy, and Mary, Marry Me. By that time only Aurora has publicly released its earnings. According to Cinema Bravo, Aurora grossed \u20b1107 million", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280931-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Mexican Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio de M\u00e9xico 2018) was a Formula One motor race held on 28 October 2018 at the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez in Mexico City. The race was the nineteenth round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 20th running of the Mexican Grand Prix, and the 19th time that the race had been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280931-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican Grand Prix\nMercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 70-point lead over Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the World Drivers' Championship. Vettel's team-mate, Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, was in third, a further 55 points behind. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of 66 points over Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing a further 160 points behind in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280931-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican Grand Prix\nThe race was won by Max Verstappen (his second win of the season), while Lewis Hamilton finished in fourth position, thereby taking his fifth Drivers' World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280931-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican Grand Prix\nIt was the last victory for Renault, until the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix as an engine supplier, although the engine was badged as TAG Heuer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280931-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican Grand Prix, Qualifying\nDaniel Ricciardo took pole position from teammate Verstappen and with Hamilton in third. As of September\u00a02021, this is the most recent pole position for Ricciardo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280931-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican Grand Prix, Race\nMax Verstappen won the race after taking the lead on lap 1, his teammate Ricciardo bogged down badly at the start. The two Ferrari's of Vettel and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen completed the podium. Lewis Hamilton's fourth-place finish was enough for him to claim the 2018 World Drivers Championship with two rounds to go. Pole sitter Ricciardo retired on lap 61, his eighth retirement of the year. Nico H\u00fclkenberg finished a fine 6th place ahead of Charles Leclerc, while Stoffel Vandoorne equalled his best finish of the season in 8th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280931-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican Grand Prix, Race, Post race\nIn the immediate aftermath of the race Ricciardo said his car was cursed and said that he \"didn't see the point\" in doing the final two races of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election\nGeneral elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 2018. Voters elected a new President of Mexico to serve a six-year term, 128 members of the Senate for a period of six years and 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies for a period of three years. It was one of the largest election days in Mexican history, with most of the nation's states holding state and local elections on the same day, including nine governorships, with over 3,400 positions subject to elections at all levels of government. It was the most violent campaign Mexico has experienced in recent history, with 130 political figures killed since September 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election\nThe incumbent president Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto was not constitutionally eligible for a second term. Incumbent members of the legislature were term-limited, thus all members of Congress were newly elected. As a consequence of the political reform of 2014, the members of the legislature elected in this election will be the first allowed to run for reelection in subsequent elections. The National Electoral Institute (INE) officially declared the new process underway on 8 September 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election\nThe presidential election was won, by a landslide margin of almost 31 points, by Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), running as the candidate of the Juntos Haremos Historia alliance. This is the first time a candidate won an outright majority (according to official vote counts) since 1988, and the first time that a candidate not from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) or its predecessors has done so since the Mexican Revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election\nIn addition, it was the first time an alliance of political parties (excluding PRI) backing a single presidential candidate won majorities in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. This election also marked both the worst electoral defeat suffered by the PRI and the worst electoral defeat for a sitting Mexican government since universal suffrage was adopted in the country in 1917.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Electoral system\nThe country's president is elected by plurality in a single round of voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Electoral system\nThe 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected to three-year terms by two methods; 300 are elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting, with the remaining 200 elected from five regional constituencies by proportional representation, with seats allocated using the simple quotient and largest remainder method. No party is allowed to hold more than 300 seats. Members may hold office for up to four consecutive terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Electoral system\nThe 128 members of the Senate are elected to six-year terms, concurrent with the president, and also elected by two methods, with 96 elected in 32 three-member constituencies based on the states and 32 elected in a single nationwide constituency by proportional representation. In the three-member constituencies, two winning candidates shall be allocated to the party receiving the highest number of votes and one seat to the party receiving the second-highest number of votes. Members may hold office for up to two terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Por M\u00e9xico al Frente\nPor M\u00e9xico al Frente (English: \"For Mexico to the Front\") is the alliance of the center-right National Action Party (PAN) and the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and Citizens' Movement (which both nominated Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador in the elections of 2006 and 2012) formed in an effort to defeat both the ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and the front-runner Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Por M\u00e9xico al Frente\nOn 5 September, the electoral alliance was officially registered with the INE as Frente Ciudadano por M\u00e9xico (Citizen Front for Mexico). On 8 December the coalition changed its name to Por M\u00e9xico al Frente (Mexico to the Front). The next day, Ricardo Anaya Cort\u00e9s, president of the PAN, resigned from his position and expressed his intent to be the alliance's candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Por M\u00e9xico al Frente\nThe former first lady Margarita Zavala submitted her resignation from the PAN on 6 October, after being a member for 33 years, and registered as an independent candidate six days later. She sought the presidency through an independent bid, but withdrew on 16 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Todos por M\u00e9xico\nTodos por M\u00e9xico (English: \"Everyone for Mexico\") is the coalition composed of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM), and the New Alliance Party (PANAL). On 9 August 2017, the PRI revised its requirements for presidential candidates, eliminating the requirement that candidates must have 10 years of party membership, and allowing non-party members to lead the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Todos por M\u00e9xico\nThis move benefited finance secretary Jos\u00e9 Antonio Meade Kuribre\u00f1a, who is not a member of the PRI, as well as education secretary Aurelio Nu\u00f1o Mayer, whose length of membership was questioned. Meade was considered the favorite, because while the PRI was dogged by scandal and controversy, Meade was personally unaffected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Todos por M\u00e9xico\nOn 27 November, Meade resigned from cabinet and announced his intention to be the PRI's candidate in the upcoming election. He quickly received the support of President Pe\u00f1a Nieto and PRI-linked institutions such as the CTM union. With no challengers, Meade became the presumptive nominee. On 18 February 2018, the PRI held its convention of delegates, where Meade was formally selected as the party's presidential candidate. Meade is the PRI's first presidential candidate in its almost 90-year history not to be a member of the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Todos por M\u00e9xico\nDue to the circumstances of Meade's candidacy, critics compared his selection to the PRI's historical practice of dedazo (\"tap of the finger\"), where presidents hand-picked their successor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Todos por M\u00e9xico\nThe coalition was initially named Meade Ciudadano por M\u00e9xico (English: Citizen Meade for Mexico), until the INE deemed it unconstitutional to include a candidate's name within the coalition's name, on the grounds that the presidential candidate would receive advertising from every piece of campaign advertising of the coalition used for local candidates. The coalition subsequently changed its name to Todos por M\u00e9xico (Everyone for Mexico).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Juntos Haremos Historia\nJuntos Haremos Historia (English: \"Together We Will Make History\") is the coalition composed of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), the Labor Party (PT), and the Social Encounter Party (PES).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Juntos Haremos Historia\nOn 12 December Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador registered as the presumptive nominee for MORENA and submitted his resignation as party president. This is L\u00f3pez Obrador's third presidential bid; the previous two attempts were with the PRD. After the 2012 presidential election, L\u00f3pez Obrador left the PRD to found MORENA. This is MORENA's first presidential election. Joining MORENA in the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition is the left-wing Labor Party and the right-wing Social Encounter Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Independents\nFor the first time in Mexico's modern democratic history, candidates were allowed to run for the presidency as independents. Several people announced their intention to contest the election as an independent candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Independents\nMargarita Zavala, a lawyer, former deputy and wife of former president Felipe Calder\u00f3n, had originally intended to run as the PAN nominee; however, on 6 October, she left the party and launched an independent bid. Explaining her decision, she said that the formation of Por M\u00e9xico al Frente meant there would be no internal PAN selection, denying her a chance to be a candidate. Jaime Rodr\u00edguez Calder\u00f3n, the independent governor of Nuevo Le\u00f3n, also announced his candidacy, as did Senator Armando R\u00edos Piter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Independents\nThe National Indigenous Congress announced on 28 May 2017 the election of Mar\u00eda de Jes\u00fas Patricio Mart\u00ednez as their spokeswoman and indigenous representative for the 2018 general election, aiming to obtain an independent candidacy. Only Zavala gathered enough signatures to appear on the ballot; however, on 10 April the Electoral Court accepted an appeal from Rodr\u00edguez and ordered the National Electoral Institute to register him as candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Presidential candidates, Independents\nOn 16 May Zavala announced she was withdrawing her candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, January\nAs in the 2006 and 2012 federal elections, the 2018 campaign featured numerous accusations and attack advertisements directed at the leftist frontrunner candidate Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador, who contested the elections with the support of his party MORENA. A campaign described as \"Red Scare-like\" was used by the PRI and PAN candidates to convince voters that a L\u00f3pez Obrador victory would turn Mexico into \"another Venezuela\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, January\nIn a speech, PRI president Enrique Ochoa Reza said that \"if the people from MORENA like Venezuela so much, they should just go and live there\". The PRI was believed to have hired Venezuelan right-wing political strategist JJ Rend\u00f3n to work in their campaign, as he stated in January that he would do \"everything within the law to prevent L\u00f3pez Obrador from becoming President\"; Rend\u00f3n had previously worked for the PRI during Pe\u00f1a Nieto's 2012 presidential campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, January\nIn January, former president Felipe Calder\u00f3n shared a video on via social media, in which a Venezuelan citizen living in Mexico warned voters not to vote for L\u00f3pez Obrador, as he would put Mexico in the \"path to ruin\" like Chavismo had done in her country. It later surfaced that the woman, whose name is Carmen Martilez, is an actress who previously had uploaded a video in which she asked for street vendors to be \"exterminated\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, January\nThat same month, the PRI began to claim that L\u00f3pez Obrador's campaign was supported by \"Venezuelan and Russian interests\". L\u00f3pez Obrador dismissed the accusations and later joked about them, calling himself \"Andr\u00e9s Manuelovich\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, January\nLater in January, citizens across the country received phone calls originating in the city of Puebla, in which a recorded message warned them not to vote for L\u00f3pez Obrador because he supposedly agreed to sell Mexico's oil to \"the Russians\". The MORENA representative in Puebla asked for an investigation into the phone calls. In March, telephone company Axtel traced the number that made the calls, revealing it was a number that the government of Puebla (whose governor is from the PAN) controlled. Puebla's government denied the accusations. Also in January, L\u00f3pez Obrador uploaded a video via social media asking president Pe\u00f1a Nieto and PRI president Ochoa Reza to \"calm down\", and advised them to take some \"L\u00f3pez Obradordipine\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, January\nA jingle entitled Movimiento Naranja, which was recorded for the political party Movimiento Ciudadano (which is part of the Por M\u00e9xico al Frente coalition, along with the PAN and the PRD) and performed by an indigenous child called Yuawi, became popular and Yuawi turned into a celebrity overnight. Drawing on its success, the pre-candidate for the Frente, Ricardo Anaya recorded a video in which he performed the song with Yuawi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, January\nPRI candidate Jos\u00e9 Antonio Meade was accused of plagiarism when it was noted that one of his ads, in which he criticized a \"populist\" speech on TV, was identical to an ad that was used by Justin Trudeau when he became leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, February\nLater in February, the PRI's Enrique Ochoa Reza tweeted that PRI politicians who defected to MORENA as Prietos que no aprietan (Dark-skinned people who can't get a hold) while trying to make a pun on the word PRI-etos (because morena is a synonym for prieto). The expression was criticized, and Ochoa Reza quickly deleted the tweet as it was interpreted to be racist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, February\nAristegui Noticias published that Ochoa Reza apologized, and also criticized the insensitive expression, additionally commenting that the part que ya no aprietan (who cannot hold) could also be interpreted as misogynistic due to being a double entendre referring to women in relation to the number of sexual relations they have had in their lifetime. Ochoa Reza's tweet apologized to dark-skinned people but not to women. Later Sinembargo.mx revealed that Jos\u00e9 Antonio Meade justified Enrique Ochoa's usage of the expression, by saying: uno se excede y es natural (English: one gets-ahead-of-themselves and it is natural) and saying that his quick apology talked positively about him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, March\nIn March, the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) started an official investigation into money-laundering allegations against Ricardo Anaya. During the investigation, Santiago Nieto, the ex-chief of FEPADE (the prosecutor's office that focuses on electoral violations) was controversially removed from his job in October 2017, coincidentally right after starting an investigation regarding illicit campaign money from the 2012 presidential campaign that allegedly was received by Pe\u00f1a Nieto and by the future president of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya, from the Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, March\nThe ex-chief of FEPADE said that the accusations against Anaya were minor in comparison to Odebretch and Pe\u00f1a Nieto scandal, adding also the same opinion about the money lost by Secretariat of Social Development, to corrupt governors from the PRI such as Javier Duarte, all while Jos\u00e9 Antonio Meade was the man in charge of the Secretariat of Social Development. The scandal is known as La Estafa Maestra (The Master Robbery), and about 435 million pesos were lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0029-0002", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, March\nThe same week the PRI legislators were criticized for voting for stopping the investigation of Odebretch against the wishes of Mexican people and organizations campaigning against corruption such as Mexicanos contra la corrupci\u00f3n (Mexicans against corruption). The investigation about Odebretch against the Pemex leader at the time, Lozoya, was legally stopped after a judge controversially ordered it days after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, March\nSantiago Nieto said that the PGR was being used by Pe\u00f1a Nieto's government to tamper with elections and benefit Meade by removing Anaya from the race, complaining that it was a politically motivated use of law-enforcement agencies, which had made more efforts to investigate Anaya in a month than towards investigating Pe\u00f1a Nieto's Odebretch money and Meade's lost Secretariat of Social Development funds over the last six years. Santiago Nieto said the PGR and FEPADE were only attacking the rivals of the PRI, and the investigating organizations were not being neutral.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, March\nIn an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Santiago Nieto would later reveal that Pe\u00f1a Nieto's government tried to bribe him to keep him silent, which he refused saying, \"Sorry, but I can't receive any money from Pe\u00f1a Nieto.\" He received menacing phone messages stating: \"Death follows you\" and \"Words of advice: stay out of Trouble\", and as a consequence, he feared for the safety of his, and his family's lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, March\nAdditionally as of 2018, many of the politicians of the PRI political party who supported Pe\u00f1a Nieto during his presidential campaign would be later declared criminals by the Mexican government (some already elected, while others were campaigning concurrently with Pe\u00f1a Nieto, and would be elected), near the end of Pe\u00f1a Nieto's time as president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, March\nA total of 22 state ex-governors, all members from the PRI, were accused of misuse of public funds and misdirection of money (with some money speculated to have been directed to the PRI); only five were sent to jail, with PGR receiving criticism for not investigating further. Among the most prominent criminals were: Tom\u00e1s Yarrington from Tamaulipas (along his predecessor Eugenio Hern\u00e1ndez Flores), Javier Duarte from Veracruz,C\u00e9sar Duarte J\u00e1quez from Chihuahua (no family relation between the two Duartes), and Roberto Borge from Quintana Roo, along their unknown multiple allies who enabled their corruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, March\nAlthough Pe\u00f1a Nieto was not found to be their ally, by being part of the same political party, there were severely negative consequences to Pe\u00f1a Nieto's image as president, as well as of the PRI. Also, while not a member of the PRI at the time, Meade's image also received damage, because much of the money was lost while he was in charge of the Secretariat of Social Development, the government ministry that supervises the resources received by each state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, March\nDespite the overwhelming evidence against C\u00e9sar Duarte, in March 2018 the PGR found him innocent of any crime. The successor governor Javier Corral from the PAN, who previously fought against the Televisa law, gave a similar opinion to Santiago Nieto, saying the PGR was being used to protect the allies of Pe\u00f1a Nieto and the PRI, and attack their rivals. L\u00f3pez Obrador said that failure to take action against Duarte was one of the main reasons why Mexicans had lost their faith in the PRI, saying the few ex-governors that were declared criminals were only to a pretense of concern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, April and May\nAfter, Meade decided to change his strategy; and due to his poor reception, Ochoa Reza left his position as president of the PRI on 2 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, April and May\nSantiago Nieto decided to join AMLO's campaign, with both promising to continue the investigation into the alleged scandal involving Pe\u00f1a Nieto, the PRI and Odebretch. Meanwhile, C\u00e9sar Duarte disappeared before being incarcerated, and was subsequently declared a fugitive from justice by the PGR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Timeline, April and May\nMore than 130 political figures were killed from when the campaign began in September 2017 until July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Promises and proposals\nL\u00f3pez Obrador promised to end many of the benefits received by ex-presidents, particularly the lifelong pension they receive. He added that he would redirect the money saved to be used to help senior citizens. Zavala said she would also attempt to end the practice, though she had not decided how to use the money saved, while Meade and Anaya said they would keep the practice going.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Promises and proposals\nAnaya promised to implement a basic income for Mexican citizens, Anaya said Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman supported the idea. While well received, El Economista criticized how Anaya announced it, and called the idea populist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Promises and proposals\nMeade proposed to create an office that would track the unique needs of each individual citizen, in what he would call Registro \u00danico de Necesidades de Cada Persona (Unique Register of the Necessities of Each Person). Citizens on social media mocked the idea as absurd and impossible to develop, comparing it to writing letters to Santa Claus or just plainly asking for miracles. Meade has supported Pe\u00f1a Nieto's energy reforms, saying that \"everyone wins with the gasolinazo\", and announcing that if he won he intended to continue it. L\u00f3pez Obrador promised to end the gasolinazos by building two new fuel refineries, which would allow more petroleum to be processed into gasoline domestically, thus lowering the price by not outsourcing the refining to other countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Promises and proposals\nAnaya promised to investigate and do everything to make sure President Pe\u00f1a Nieto is sent to jail for his aforementioned multiple presidential scandals, with L\u00f3pez Obrador agreeing and suggesting to up the ante by also investigating every living former president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Promises and proposals\nOn 26 January, L\u00f3pez Obrador accused the International Monetary Fund of being an accomplice to corruption in Mexican politics and claimed that its policies are in part responsible for poverty, unemployment, and violence in the country. L\u00f3pez Obrador promised that if he won the presidency, Mexico will follow \"its own agenda\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Promises and proposals\nL\u00f3pez Obrador called for a change in security strategy and offered the controversial proposal of giving amnesty for drug dealers as a way to combat the drug cartels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Promises and proposals\nDuring a debate in April, Rodr\u00edguez Calder\u00f3n said \"We have to cut off the hands of those who rob (in public service). It's that simple.\" He later explained that it was intended to be applied to both criminals and government functionaries involved in acts of corruption citing the application of this measure in Saudi Arabia as an example to reduce corruption and violence. Rodr\u00edguez Calder\u00f3n was trending ahead of the other candidates on Twitter during the debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Campaigns, Promises and proposals\nRodr\u00edguez Calder\u00f3n later proposed to bring back the death penalty (currently constitutionally abolished in Mexico and enforced for the last time in 1961) for drug traffickers, hijackers, infanticides and serial killers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Controversies, Ballot access requirements\nThe candidate put forward by the National Indigenous Congress and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Mar\u00eda de Jes\u00fas Patricio Mart\u00ednez (Marichuy), alleged that the process for collecting signatures to attain ballot access unfairly benefits the rich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0045-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Controversies, Ballot access requirements\nMarichuy said, \"the INE made a list of telephone makes and models so that you must have at a minimum an Android 5.0 operating system or higher and so many hours to begin with the download of the applications in the devices, we find that the list is not true; we find brands that are not included in the list and of those that are included they don\u2019t all work. The download is tedious and can take hours.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0045-0002", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Controversies, Ballot access requirements\nThe INE declared each signature registration would take 4.3 minutes, but each actual signature registration has taken up to 16 hours, or more. ' With these \"classist, racist and excluding measures,\" Marichuy said, you realize \"that this electoral system is not made for those peoples below that govern ourselves and that the laws and institutions of the State are made for those above, for the capitalists and their corrupt political class, resulting in a big simulation.\" Ultimately she was not able to obtain ballot access.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Controversies, PRI payments to Cambridge Analytica\nAfter the Facebook\u2013Cambridge Analytica data scandal, in April 2018, Forbes published information from the British news program Channel 4 News that had mentioned the existence of proof revealing ties between the PRI and Cambridge Analytica, suggesting a modus operandi similar to the one in the United States. The info said they worked together at least until January. An investigation was requested. The New York Times obtained the 57-page proposal of Cambridge Analytica's proposed collaboration strategy to benefit the PRI by hurting MORENA's candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador; the political party rejected the offer but still paid Cambridge Analytica to not help the other candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Controversies, Allegations of foreign intervention\nIn April 2017, the US Secretary of Homeland Security, John F. Kelly, stated that the election of a left-wing president in Mexico \"would not be good for America or Mexico\". The statement was widely believed to be a reference to L\u00f3pez Obrador, the leftist, frontrunner candidate, and created controversy in Mexico, as it seemed to be an attempt to influence the election against him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Controversies, Allegations of foreign intervention\nIn December 2017, US National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster claimed that Russia had launched a campaign to \"influence Mexico\u2019s 2018 presidential election and stir up division\", without defining the methods of the supposed meddling, or indicating which would be the candidate favored by the Kremlin. The Russian government has denied the claims. PRI president Enrique Ochoa Reza claimed that \"Russian and Venezuelan interests\" are supporting L\u00f3pez Obrador's campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Controversies, Allegations of foreign intervention\nL\u00f3pez Obrador responded that Ochoa's declarations are part of a smear campaign against him, and later posted a video via social media, where he joked about the claims and called himself \"Andres Manuelovich\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Controversies, Allegations of foreign intervention\nGuatemalan right-wing commentator Gloria \u00c1lvarez embarked on a tour through Mexico, calling L\u00f3pez Obrador a \"dangerous populist\" and urging citizens not to vote for him. She was invited to a PAN legislators assembly on 31 January, where she criticized the alliance with the PRD, which she called \"a party just like MORENA\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Controversies, Allegations of foreign intervention\nUS Senators Bob Menendez and Marco Rubio asked US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to \"fight Russian meddling\" in the Mexican elections. On 2 February during a summit in Mexico, Tillerson stated that Mexico should \"beware the Russian interference\". Dr. Tony Payan, director of the Mexico Center at Rice University noted that there was no evidence of actual Russian tampering in the Mexican electoral process, and considered the accusations \"absurd\" given that the Trump administration \"will not admit Russia interfered in the US election\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Controversies, Possibility of election tampering\nBloomberg warned about the possibility of the PRI committing electoral fraud, with Tony Payan, director of the Mexico Center at Rice University's Baker Institute in Houston, United States, suggesting that both vote buyout and computer hackings were possible and citing irregularities in the 1988 electoral process. Bloomberg's article also suggested Meade could be receiving unfair help from the over-budget amounts of money spent on publicity by incumbent president Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Controversies, Possibility of election tampering\nAdditionally, Meade spent more money on pre-campaign efforts than L\u00f3pez Obrador and Anaya together, while failing to report where his funds came from; in contrast, L\u00f3pez Obrador has attended the most events while spending the least money and successfully reported better than his rivals where he obtained the resources to pay for those events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Controversies, Possibility of election tampering, Prior PRI election tampering controversies in 2017\nDuring 2017, the PRI had faced allegations of electoral fraud concerning the election of Pe\u00f1a Nieto's cousin Alfredo del Mazo Maza as Governor of the state of Mexico. Despite the official vote results given by the INE (Electoral National Institute) giving the win to del Mazo, the election was marred by irregularities including reports of vote-buying, spending beyond legal campaign finance limits, and electoral counts that gave del Mazo extra votes that awarded the election to him. In November 2017, left-wing magazine Proceso published an article accusing the PRI of breaking at least 16 state laws during the elections, which were denounced 619 times. They said that all of them were broken in order to favor del Mazo during the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 131], "content_span": [132, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Results, President\nL\u00f3pez Obrador won the election on 1 July 2018 with over 50% of the popular vote. In terms of states won, L\u00f3pez Obrador won in a landslide, carrying 30 out of 31 states plus Mexico City, the most federal entities won by a candidate since Ernesto Zedillo won every state in the 1994 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Results, President\nAround 30 minutes after polls closed in the country's north-west, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Meade, speaking at a news conference from PRI headquarters, conceded defeat and wished L\u00f3pez Obrador \"every success\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Results, President\nRicardo Anaya also conceded defeat within an hour of the polls closing,and independent candidate Jaime Rodr\u00edguez Calder\u00f3n recognized L\u00f3pez Obrador's victory shortly afterward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280932-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexican general election, Results, President\nThe results of the INE's official quick count were announced around midnight Mexico City time. It reported a turnout of around 63%, with the following approximate results for the candidates: L\u00f3pez Obrador, 53%; Anaya, 22%; Meade, 16%; and Rodr\u00edguez Calder\u00f3n, 5%. This is the first time since 1994 Mexican general election that a presidential candidate was elected with an absolute majority (50%+1) of the votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix\nThe 2018 Mexico City ePrix (formally the 2018 ABB Formula E Mexico City e-Prix) was a Formula E electric car race held at the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez in the centre of Mexico City on 3 March 2018. It was the fifth round of the 2017\u201318 Formula E season and the third edition of the event as part of the championship. Audi driver Daniel Abt won the 47-lap race starting from fifth position. Oliver Turvey finished second for NIO and e.Dams-Renault driver S\u00e9bastien Buemi took third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix\nMahindra's Felix Rosenqvist won the pole position by posting the fastest lap in qualifying and led for the first 14 laps until a battery management system problem at the final corner promoted Turvey to the lead. Turvey held the lead until the mandatory pit stops to change into a second car. Swift work from Abt's pit crew moved him past Turvey who was slow leaving his garage because of a gear selection fault. Abt led the rest of the race to take his first career victory and the first for a German in Formula E. Turvey took second after holding off Buemi in the final five laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix\nThe result increased Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne's lead in the Drivers' Championship to 12 points over Rosenqvist who retired because his car not have enough electrical energy to allow him to finish the race. Sam Bird kept third despite not scoring any points as Buemi maintained fourth and Nelson Piquet Jr. kept fifth. In the Teams' Championship, Techeetah further extended their advantage over the non-scoring Mahindra and Jaguar passed Virgin for third with seven races left in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Background\nThe 2018 Mexico City ePrix was confirmed as part of Formula E's 2017\u201318 series schedule in September 2017 by the FIA World Motor Sport Council. It was the fifth of the twelve scheduled single-seater electric car races of the 2017\u201318 season, and the third time it was a FIA Formula E Championship event. It was held on 3 March 2018 at the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez in the centre of Mexico City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Background\nThe race was the only one of the season held on a permanent track: it is a mixture of the Grand Prix and oval layouts and has 17 turns at a length of 2.093\u00a0km (1.301\u00a0mi). The high elevation of the circuit created thin air and lower wind resistance, causing teams to optimise the cooling of their cars; the asphalt surface was less abrasive than other tracks. The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA; Formula E's governing body) introduced a track limits zone into turn one to stop drivers using the grass in that area. The driver adviser to the stewards for the race was former Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters racer Alexandre Pr\u00e9mat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Background\nAfter winning the Santiago ePrix three weeks earlier, Techeetah driver Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne led the Drivers' Championship with 71 points and was five points ahead of Felix Rosenqvist of Mahindra. Sam Bird (Virgin) followed in third place with 61 points; S\u00e9bastien Buemi (e.Dams-Renault) was fourth and Nelson Piquet Jr (Jaguar) followed in fifth. Techeetah led the Teams' Championship with 89 points; Mahindra (87 points) followed close behind in second position and Virgin placed third with 69 points. Jaguar were fourth with 54 points and e.Dams-Renault were fifth with 44 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Background\nAllan McNish, team principal of Audi, affirmed his team would fight back after poor car reliability in the first four races and noted the unpredictability commonly observed in Formula E, \"At the moment, we're going through a tough time in our young Formula E history. But we are as determined as ever and will continue to push to the maximum with Daniel [Abt] and Lucas, in spite of the current challenges.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Background\nBuemi sought to continue his recent form of strong performances in Mexico and said his team would attack by using the experience they had accumulated in the previous two races in Mexico City, \"I\u2019m delighted to be back in Mexico after my performances in the last two races, and I hope that we\u2019ll keep up the momentum. We\u2019ve always been quick in free practice in Mexico, but it\u2019s not been the same story in qualifying. We\u2019re determined to put that right this year and challenge for the race win.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Background\nAfter Techeetah and Dragon incurred record fines of \u20ac15,000 ($18,500) for seat belt manipulation in the preceding Santiago ePrix, the FIA issued a bulletin to all teams the day before the Mexico City race clarifying what was prohibited with the safety device. Starting from this race, the FIA forbade the installation of tie-wraps or teams using tape on the belts in line with a regulation prohibiting any material modification or safety harness reshaping. Also, the FIA undertook more detailed post-race examinations to prevent any future occurrence of teams using such systems. Andretti team principal Roger Griffiths explained, \"The FIA has also clarified how, that if you are going to attach and relocate the driver\u2019s radio connector to the seatbelt, you can attach it only to the label on the seatbelt and not through the webbing of the material itself.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 894]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Practice\nTwo practice sessions\u2014both on Saturday morning\u2014were held before the late afternoon race. The first session ran for 45 minutes and the second lasted half an hour. A half an hour untimed shakedown session was held on Friday afternoon to allow teams to check the reliability of their cars and their electronic systems. After shakedown, Venturi, Dragon, e.Dams-Renault and Jaguar were fined \u20ac5,000 for 5G electromagnetic radiation interference in the illegal 5\u20136\u00a0GHz band that could have potentially interfered with the FIA's data gathering system; a further \u20ac3,500 was suspended for the rest of the season. All four teams were cautioned a repeat occurrence put them at risk of disqualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Practice\nThe first practice session began under a rising sun in low air and track temperatures; no heat management concerns were reported. Additionally, the track surface was dusty and damp in some areas; some times were faster than Oliver Turvey's (NIO) 2017 pole position lap. Audi's Lucas di Grassi used 200\u00a0kW (270\u00a0hp) of power to record the fastest lap late on at 1 minute, 1.58 seconds, 0.362 seconds faster than any one else on the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Practice\nThe rest of the top ten composed of Edoardo Mortara, Vergne, Mitch Evans, Alex Lynn, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez, Rosenqvist, Daniel Abt, Bird and Buemi. No major incidents occurred during practice; several drivers ran onto the circuit's run-off areas. L\u00f3pez was aggrieved at Luca Filippi who slowed him in turn three. He lost control of the rear of his vehicle at turn seven and avoided damaging it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Practice\nDi Grassi was again fastest in second practice with a 1-minute, 1.203 seconds lap. The session's early pace setter Rosenqvist was second and Evans placed third. Positions four to ten were occupied by Nick Heidfeld, Lynn, Ant\u00f3nio F\u00e9lix da Costa, Abt, Buemi, L\u00f3pez and Bird. Mortara necessitated course officials to wave the full course yellow flags leaving the first corner as his car stopped in the turn two braking zone. Later, L\u00f3pez lost control of the rear of his car and hit the turn 11 barrier with his left-rear wheel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Practice\nL\u00f3pez switched into his second car for the rest of the session. In the session's closing minutes, Heidfeld lost control of his car's rear at the turn seven and eight double left hander and struck the bollards dictating track limits. With five minutes left, Lynn was at maximum power driving tinto turn two and was about to pass the slower Rosenqvist on some dirt when he lost control of his vehicle's rear and struck a wall with the left-hand side after locking his brakes. Lynn was unhurt and the session continued with two minutes to go; no driver went faster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Qualifying\nSaturday's afternoon qualifying session ran for an hour and was divided into four groups of five cars. Each group was placed in championship order and were determined by a lottery system and was permitted six minutes of on-track activity. Every driver was limited to two timed laps with one at maximum power. The fastest five overall competitors in the four groups participated in a \"Super Pole\" session with one driver on the track at any time going out in reverse order from fifth to first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Qualifying\nEach of the five drivers was limited to one timed lap and the starting order was determined by the competitor's fastest times (Super Pole from first to fifth, and group qualifying from sixth to twentieth). The driver and team who recorded the fastest time were awarded three points towards their respective championships. In the first group of five runners, which was held on a dusty track that provided a negligible amount of grip, di Grassi was the early pace setter, followed by Maro Engel, J\u00e9r\u00f4me d'Ambrosio, Tom Blomqvist (who made a driving error) and Filippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Qualifying\nBuemi set the fastest overall group lap in the second group at 1 minute, 1.668 seconds. Rosenqvist was first to venture onto the track in the group and was fastest until Buemi's lap. Vergne lost time leaving the track's corners and was third. Piquet placed fourth. A suspension issue made Bird group two's slowest driver. In the third group, F\u00e9lix da Costa set the fastest lap, ahead of Turvey. Lynn drove aggressively through the chicane to go third-fastest. L\u00f3pez and Nico Prost rounded out the top five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Qualifying\nThe track was at its most clean in the fourth group and saw Abt go fastest in the group by pushing hard. Heidfeld in second locked his tyres and did not set a clean lap time. Similarly, Andr\u00e9 Lotterer locked his tyres into the first corner and set the third-fastest lap. Fourth-placed Evans made an error in the first \u2153 of the lap and lost half a second in the next third due to his car cutting out. Mortara was slow throughout and placed 20th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Qualifying\nAt the end of group qualifying, Buemi, Rosenqvist, F\u00e9lix da Costa, Turvey, Lynn's laps progressed them to super pole. Rosenqvist locked his tyres on his lap. Nonetheless, he took his second pole position of the season and the fifth of his career with a time of 1 minute, 1.645 seconds. He was provisionally joined on the grid's front row by F\u00e9lix da Costa, in his first super pole appearance since the 2016 Long Beach ePrix, who locked his tyres at certain parts of the track and had pole position until Rosenqvist's lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Qualifying\nLynn was third-fastest and his compatriot fourth-placed Turvey locked his tyres entering the second turn. Buemi locked his brakes driving into turn one; he was able to hit the apex of the corner at the start of his lap. A steady pace for the rest of Buemi's lap qualified him fifth. After qualifying, di Grassi and the Virgin duo of Bird and Lynn were demoted ten places for changing the inverter and gearbox in their respective cars. Similarly, F\u00e9lix da Costa's car was discovered to be under the minimum weight limit of 880\u00a0kg (1,940\u00a0lb) during scrutineering. He started fourth since its weight after group qualifying complied with the regulations. The rest of the grid lined up after penalties as Abt, Vergne, Piquet, Heidfeld, Lotterer, Lynn, Engel, Evans, L\u00f3pez, d'Ambrosio, Prost, Blomqvist, Filippi, Mortara, Bird and di Grassi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 870]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race\nWeather conditions at the start were dry, warm and sunny with the air temperature was between 27.0 to 27.7\u00a0\u00b0C (80.6 to 81.9\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperature from 40.5 and 41.65\u00a0\u00b0C (104.90 and 106.97\u00a0\u00b0F). A special feature of Formula E is the \"Fan Boost\" feature, an additional 100 kilowatts (130\u00a0hp) of power to use in the driver's second car. The three drivers who were allowed to use the boost were determined by a fan vote. The distance of the racewas increased from 45 laps to 47 to better showcase the technological efficiency advancements teams had made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race\nWhen the race began from its standing start at 16:00 Central Daylight Time (UTC\u201306:00), Rosenqvist maintained his pole position advantage heading into the first corner closely followed by Turvey and Buemi as the field avoided contact entering the turn. Abt made a fast getaway and moved past F\u00e9lix da Costa for fourth while his fellow countryman Engel made a poor start and fell to 19th. A few cars in the middle of the pack collided with each other in turn three, launching chunks of bodywork airborne; no driver entered the pit lane for repairs. Then, L\u00f3pez collided with his teammate d'Ambrosio; both continued with minor damage to their vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race\nDi Grassi moved from 20th to 18th by the end of lap one while Evans gained three positions over the same distance. At the lap's conclusion, Rosenqvist led Turvey by eight-tenths of a second with Buemi third. Henceforth, Rosenqvist began to establish a small advantage over the rest of the field as drivers began to settle into a rhythm. Evans overtook Lotterer for eighth position on lap three, and F\u00e9lix da Costa lost seventh two laps later to Vergne who passed F\u00e9lix da Costa by putting him off the circuit at the entrance to turn six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race\nPiquet used this to gain sixth. Di Grassi progressed through the field on the lap, passing Filippi into the first turn, a move that put the latter ran wide. This allowed Mortara to draw alongside Filippi on the inside. As the duo braked for the turn three chicane, both ran wide. Filippi drove across the chicane and stopped before rejoining the circuit. Mortara meanwhile drove across the kerbs to stay on the track. These events demoted Filippi behind Engel and Bird. Further ahead, Abt pressured Buemi as he momentarily could not affect a pass as Vergne was close behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race\nBy the ninth lap, most drivers had about 65 per cent of electrical energy remaining which gave no perceptible advantage for anyone bar Rosenqvist who led Turvey by two seconds. Buemi, di Grassi and Rosenqvist were announced as the winners of the FanBoost vote the lap after. Meanwhile, Turvey led Buemi by two-seconds, which was in contrast to previous races where his car typically struggled to pull away because of poor electrical energy usage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race\nAt the front, Rosenqvist set what was at this point the fastest lap of the race at 1 minute, 3.601 seconds and it appeared he would win the race and reclaim the lead of the Drivers' Championship from Vergne. As Rosenqvist exited the final corner to finish the 14th lap, he had a sudden loss in power due to a battery management system failure and stopped to reset his car and allow him to continue driving. Turvey moved into the lead with Buemi and Abt second and third. Rosenqvist fell to ninth and was out of contention for the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race\nAbt's attempts at passing Buemi were disrupted when Rosenqvist stopped twice more on the turn three run-off area and prompted course officials to wave localised yellow flags. Nevertheless, Abt overtook Buemi for second on the inside at the exit of turn one after the latter braked early and ran wide. Abt began to close up to Turvey. Rosenqvist chose to end his stop-start approach and made an early switch into his second car with the objective of re-entering the top ten. The leaders made their mandatory pit stops to change into a second car on lap 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race\nPiquet and di Grassi remained on the circuit for one additional lap before making their own stops. After the pit stops, Abt gained the lead from Turvey because his stop was six seconds faster than the latter who had gear selection trouble. Buemi fell to fourth as Vergne took third. Abt pulled away as Turvey came under attack from Vergne. On lap 27, Heidfeld stopped on the start/finish straight before entering the pit lane per the instructions of his team for troubleshooting that revealed a water pump failure, curtailing his race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race\nAs di Grassi was gaining positions, he earned one point for setting the fastest time on the lap, completing a circuit in 1 minute, 2.02 seconds. Further ahead, Turvey made a small error leaving the Peraltada chicane, allowing Vergne to unsuccessfully challenge him. This allowed Buemi to use FanBoost to pass Vergne by steering right onto the inside at the first corner on lap 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race\nLater, the stewards investigated Lotterer's pit stop release and penalised him with a drive-through penalty after determining he ran over the foot of a pit crew member leaving his garage, dropping him from seventh to thirteenth. The crew member was transported to the circuit's medical centre and released after examinations revealed no serious injures. Further down the pack on lap 31, di Grassi aimed for the top ten; a minor collision with L\u00f3pez on the start/finish straight caused him to spin at the first turn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race\nPiquet had the knowledge of having more usable electrical energy and passed his teammate Evans two laps later. The following lap, Mahindra called the slow Rosenqvist into the pit lane to retire since he could not finish the race. Piquet overtook Vergne, whose two-way radio communication was cut off due to a systems glitch losing him all information on his steering wheel, for fourth place shortly after and started to hassle Buemi for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race\nOn lap 37, di Grassi used his FanBoost to pass d'Ambrosio for 12th while Prost parked his car in the garage with a broken front-right suspension due to contact with Bird at turn three, making him the race's final retiree. Turvey was slow leaving the Peraltada chicane, allowing Buemi to challenge him; he was mindful of the faster Piquet. Engel lost 11th to di Grassi in the race's final laps and broke his rear wing after contacting him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race\nAt the start of the penultimate lap, Buemi attempted to pass Turvey for second and locked all four of his tyres. Buemi avoided striking the rear of Turvey's car. Turvey similarly locked his tyres as both drivers remained second and third; an earlier driving error from Piquet lost him a small amount of time. In his 37th start, Abt increased his lead to more than six seconds and took his first career victory. It was the first for a German driver in Formula E, and for Audi as a factory team. The victory moved Abt to sixth in the Drivers' Championship. Turvey finished second to earn his first career podium and Buemi was third. Off the podium, Piquet, Vergne, Evans, F\u00e9lix da Costa, Mortara, di Grassi, Lynn, D'Ambrosio, L\u00f3pez. Lotterer, Filippi, Blomqvist, Engel and Bird were the final finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference. Abt said going into the race, he and his team were aware his car was fast and their situation in the championship. He praised the swift work of his mechanics and noted Formula's E unpredictability, \"We didn\u2019t give up, we kept believing in it and today was just a fantastic day.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race, Post-race\nTurvey spoke of his delight over taking his and NIO's first podium, \"Everyone in the team has worked so hard since last season to gain a huge step forward in performance and we\u2019ve not been able to show this due to a few tough races.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0019-0002", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThird-place finisher Buemi said that winning the race would not have been possible because of the fast pace of Abt's car and was happy to accumulate extra championship points, \"Today he [Abt] put his knowledge into practice and I had a problematic pit stop because I almost collided with Nico [Prost] because he had his pit stop at the same time as I.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race, Post-race\nRosenqvist described his race as \"one of those rare days when I can say it was quite a perfect Saturday\" notwithstanding his early retirement, \"Right from the practice sessions through to qualifying. I was out in front with a comfortable three second lead and it was getting better. It was all a bit too good to be true, but the issue was not in our hands.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race, Post-race\nWith regards to his inter-team systems glitch, Vergne revealed it prompted him to allow Buemi and Piquet through so that he could follow Buemi's strategy to allow him to reach the end of the race and gather championship points. Piquet spoke of his belief a better starting position would have helped him get on the podium, and attempted a different strategy, \"Depending on who the players are around you, you want to risk overtaking or you want to try and save energy.\" Nevertheless, Piquet stated his belief Jaguar had the most reliable car in the field and the team would aim to continue improving for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe incident where Lotterer caused ligament injuries to one of his mechanics was the first such occurrence of anyone sustaining an injury since the minimum pit stop time was abolished at the preceding Santiago ePrix. Lotterer spoke of his belief there would be another similar incident in the future, \"Everyone is pushing the limits and the cars, they are so close together, there\u2019s not much space for the mechanic to jump off the car once the belts are done.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race, Post-race\nBut that\u2019s the same as other pitstops in other categories \u2013 mechanics change tyres [and] it always happens once in a while. This is part of racing.\" Scott Mitchell of Autosport noted the abolition of the minimum pit stop was one of Formula E's most unpopular changes and argued it promoted an unnecessary element of competition during the switch into a second car with regards to personal safety. Additionally, Rosenqvist's and Piquet's pit stops came under scrutiny from the motorsport press as it was theorised that their car's seat belts were altered illegally in order to decrease the time spent in their garages and risked infringing the revised FIA regulations concerning the new seat belts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280933-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Mexico City ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe consequence of the final positions increased Vergne's lead at the top of the Drivers' Championship to twelve points ahead of second-placed Rosenqvist. Bird kept third place notwithstanding him not scoring any points. Buemi's third-place finish drew him closer to Bird in the battle for third. Piquet's fourth-place result kept him in fifth. In the Teams' Championship, Techeetah further extended their advantage over Mahindra by another seven points. Jaguar overtook Virgin for third and e.Dams-Renault were fifth with seven rounds left in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280934-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Dolphins season\nThe 2018 season was the Miami Dolphins' 49th in the National Football League, their 53rd overall and their third and last under head coach Adam Gase. During the offseason, the Dolphins tweaked their uniforms' orange color to better align with their classical past and history. For the second straight season, they also brought back their throwback uniforms from the Shula/Marino eras and wore them for three games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280934-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Dolphins season\nWith quarterback Ryan Tannehill playing for the first time since 2016, the highlight of the Dolphins' season came during a memorable Week 14 win against division rival and defending back-to-back AFC champion New England Patriots, which prevented the Patriots from clinching the AFC East that week. However, the Dolphins squandered the momentum and would lose all of their remaining games and missed the playoffs for the second consecutive year. The 7\u20139 finish was their first since 2012 and also the team's second consecutive losing season, with all seven wins decided by one possession scores and not winning a playoff game for the 17th straight year. They did start off with a 3\u20130 record, but finished 7\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280934-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season\nThe Dolphins' 2018 schedule was finalized and announced on April 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280934-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Tennessee Titans\nDue to two weather delays, the game lasted for 7 hours and 10 minutes, the longest game since the AFL\u2013NFL merger in 1970. Coincidentally, wide receiver Danny Amendola met with former teammates Malcolm Butler and Dion Lewis. The three played for the New England Patriots from 2015 to 2018 and helped them win Super Bowl LI over the Atlanta Falcons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280934-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Oakland Raiders\nWith the win, the Dolphins improved to 3\u20130, their first such start since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280934-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at New England Patriots\nWith their first loss of the season, the Dolphins failed to earn their first 4\u20130 start since 1995, during the Dan Marino era and Don Shula's final year as the Dolphins' head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280934-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Chicago Bears\nA last-second field goal kick by Jason Saunders barely averted a tie and gave the Dolphins the win in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280934-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Detroit Lions\nThe Dolphins were seeking their first win over the Lions since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280934-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Minnesota Vikings\nThis was the Dolphins' first loss to the Vikings since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280934-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nWith the loss, the Dolphins were eliminated from playoff contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 93], "content_span": [94, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280934-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Buffalo Bills\nThis season finale marked the final games of players such as quarterback Ryan Tannehill, linebacker Cameron Wake, and head coach Adam Gase all in Dolphins uniforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280935-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Hurricanes baseball team\nThe 2018 Miami Hurricanes baseball team represented the University of Miami during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Hurricanes played their home games at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They were led by head coach Jim Morris, in his 25th and final season at Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280935-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Hurricanes baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280936-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Hurricanes football team\nThe 2018 Miami Hurricanes football team (variously \"Miami\", \"The U\", \"UM\", \"'Canes\") represented the University of Miami during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hurricanes were led by third-year head coach Mark Richt and played their home games at Hard Rock Stadium. They competed as a member of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). They finished the season 7\u20136, 4\u20134 in ACC play to finish in a 3-way tie for 3rd in the Coastal Division. They were invited to the Pinstripe Bowl where they would lose to Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280936-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Hurricanes football team\nOn December 30, 2018, Richt announced his retirement after 3 seasons at Miami and 18 overall as head coach. That same day, the school named Manny Diaz as their new head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280936-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Hurricanes football team, Previous season\nThe Hurricanes finished the 2017 season 10\u20133 overall and 7\u20131 in ACC play to win the Coastal Division for the first time and earn a trip to the ACC Championship Game, where they were defeated by Clemson. They received an invitation to the Orange Bowl where they lost to Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280936-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Hurricanes football team, Preseason, ACC media poll\nThe ACC media poll was released on July 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280937-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Marlins season\nThe Miami Marlins' 2018 season was the 26th season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in the National League and the 7th as the \"Miami\" Marlins. Don Mattingly was the manager of the Marlins for a third year. The Marlins played their home games at Marlins Park as members of the National League East Division. They failed to make the playoffs for the 15th consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280937-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Marlins season\nThis year marked the first season under the new ownership group led by Derek Jeter and Bruce Sherman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280937-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Marlins season, Offseason, Ownership\nOn October 2, 2017, following the conclusion of the 2017 season, the Marlins were officially sold to a group led by Derek Jeter and Bruce Sherman for $1.2 billion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280937-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Marlins season, Offseason, The Jeter Era\nThe deal that made Derek Jeter CEO of the Marlins was closed the day after the Marlins concluded the 2017 season. Jeter has roughly 4 percent stake in the ownership group, while Sherman has about 46 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280937-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Marlins season, Offseason, The Jeter Era\nAs CEO, Jeter plans to measure the success of the Marlins by more than just the score. Emphasis will be placed on the overall fan experience and embracing the culture in Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280937-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Marlins season, Offseason, Trades\nOn Dec. 7, 2017, the Marlins traded Dee Gordon and $1 million in international slot money to the Seattle Mariners for 3 minor leaguers. Two days later, the Marlins traded Giancarlo Stanton and $30 million in contract relief to the New York Yankees for Starlin Castro and two minor leaguers. The deal was made official on Dec. 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280937-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Marlins season, Offseason, Trades\nOn Dec. 19, 2017, the Marlins traded Marcell Ozuna to the St. Louis Cardinals for two minor leaguers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280937-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Marlins season, Offseason, Trades\nOn Jan. 25, 2018, the Marlins traded Christian Yelich to the Milwaukee Brewers for Lewis Brinson and three other minor leaguers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280937-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Marlins season, Offseason, Jose Ure\u00f1a\nOn August 15, 2018 starting pitcher Jose Ure\u00f1a intentionally hit Ronald Acu\u00f1a with a 98MPH fastball on the elbow resulting to an ejection and controversy of the situation with the benches clearing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280937-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Marlins season, Regular season, Record vs. opponents\nThe October 1 tiebreaker games were regular-season games that are included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280938-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open\nThe 2018 Miami Open presented by Ita\u00fa (also known as 2018 Miami Masters) was a professional men and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 34th edition of the Miami Open, and part of the Masters 1000 category on the 2018 ATP World Tour, and of the Premier Mandatory category on the 2018 WTA Tour. All men and women's events took place at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Florida, United States, from March 19 through April 1, 2018. It was the last time the tournament was played at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park. The tournament moved to the Hard Rock Stadium starting in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280938-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds\nThe following are the seeded players. Rankings and seedings are based on ATP rankings as of March 19, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280938-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds\n\u2020 The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead. \u2021 The player used an exemption to skip the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280938-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Withdrawals\nThe following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280938-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Withdrawals\n\u2020 Ramos Vi\u00f1olas is entitled to use an exemption to skip the tournament and substitute his 18th best result (45 points) in its stead. Accordingly, his points after the tournament will remain unchanged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280938-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280938-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 63], "content_span": [64, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280938-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Seeds\nThe following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on WTA rankings as of March 5, 2018. Rankings and points before are as of March 19, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280938-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Seeds\n\u2020 The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for her 16th best result are deducted instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280938-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280938-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 63], "content_span": [64, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280939-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280939-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBob and Mike Bryan won the title, defeating Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev in the final, 4\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20135), [10\u20134].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280940-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nRoger Federer was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Thanasi Kokkinakis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280940-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nJohn Isner won his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title, defeating Alexander Zverev in the final, 6\u20137(4\u20137), 6\u20134, 6\u20134. Isner became the first new Miami Open champion in 9 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280940-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nFederer and Rafael Nadal (despite having withdrawn from the event) were in contention for the ATP No. 1 singles ranking at the start of the tournament. Nadal regained the top ranking as a result of Federer's second round loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280940-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nWith Novak Djokovic and Federer losing their opening matches and Andy Murray and Nadal missing the tournament due to injuries, this was the first time since the 2004 Paris Masters that none of the members of the Big Four won a match at a Masters 1000 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280940-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280941-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nGabriela Dabrowski and Xu Yifan were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Elise Mertens and Demi Schuurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280941-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAshleigh Barty and CoCo Vandeweghe won the title, defeating Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 and Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280942-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nJohanna Konta was the defending champion, but lost in the fourth round to Venus Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280942-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nSloane Stephens won the title, defeating Je\u013cena Ostapenko in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20131. It was Stephens' sixth career singles title, first Premier Mandatory title, and first title since winning the US Open back in September. By virtue of her victory, Stephens also made her debut in the Top 10, at No. 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280942-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nDanielle Collins became the first qualifier in Miami Open history to reach the semifinals. She defeated Venus Williams in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280942-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280943-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami RedHawks football team\nThe 2018 Miami RedHawks football team represented Miami University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Chuck Martin and played their home games at Yager Stadium in Oxford, Ohio as members of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 6\u20136, 6\u20132 in MAC play to finish in a tie for second place in the East division. Despite being bowl eligible, they were not invited to a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280943-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami RedHawks football team, Previous season\nThe RedHawks finished the 2017 season 5\u20137, 4\u20134 in MAC play to finish in a tie for third place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280943-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami RedHawks football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe MAC released their preseason media poll on July 24, 2018, with the RedHawks predicted to finish in third place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280943-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Miami RedHawks football team, 13th game proposal\nMiami was one of four bowl-eligible teams that did not receive a bowl game invitation. The university unsuccessfully attempted to schedule a 13th game with Louisiana-Monroe, which also did not go to a bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280944-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michelin Le Mans Cup\nThe 2018 Michelin Le Mans Cup was the third season of the Michelin Le Mans Cup. It began on 12 May at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza and finished on 27 October at the Algarve International Circuit. The series featured LMP3 and GT3 category cars competing in their respective class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280944-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michelin Le Mans Cup, Calendar\nAll races supported the 2018 European Le Mans Series except the Le Mans round, which was part of the 24 Hours of Le Mans weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280944-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Michelin Le Mans Cup, Standings\nPoints are awarded according to the following structure (except Le Mans):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280945-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Attorney General election\nThe Michigan Attorney General election of 2018 took place on November 6, 2018, alongside elections to elect Michigan's governor, Class I United States Senator, Secretary of State, as well elections for Michigan's 14 seats in the United States House of Representatives, all 38 seats in the Michigan Senate and all 110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives; to elect the Secretary of State of Michigan. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette was prohibited from seeking a third term due to term limits and unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Michigan instead. The Michigan GOP was unsuccessful in looking to win its 5th straight Attorney General election. Along with the offices of Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State, the nominees for Attorney General were chosen by party delegates at their respective party conventions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 888]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280945-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Attorney General election\nNessel defeated Leonard by 115,000 votes, becoming the first Democratic attorney general of Michigan since 2003, when Jennifer Granholm left office to become Governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280946-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan House of Representatives election\nAn election was held on November 6, 2018 to elect all 110 members to Michigan's House of Representatives. The election coincided with elections for other offices, including U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Governor and Senate. The primary election was held on August 7, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280946-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan House of Representatives election\nRepublicans retained control of the House, despite losing the popular vote, after a net loss of five seats, winning 58 seats compared to 52 seats for the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280946-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan House of Representatives election, Term-limited members\nUnder the Michigan Constitution, members of the state Senate are able to serve only two four-year terms, and members of the House of Representatives are limited to three two-year terms, some of the toughest term-limit laws in the country. After the 2018 mid-term elections, nearly 70 percent of the state Senate and 20 percent of the state House were forced to leave office because of term-limits. The following members were prevented by term-limits from seeking re-election to the House in 2018. This list does not include members that were eligible for re-election, but instead sought other office or voluntarily retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280946-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results, District\nResults of the 2018 Michigan House of Representatives election by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280947-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 1\nThe Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act, also known as Proposal 1, was an initiative that appeared on the November 2018 ballot to legalize cannabis in the U.S. state of Michigan. The initiative allows adults 21 and older to possess up to 2.5 ounces (71\u00a0g) of cannabis and to grow up to 12 plants at home. The initiative was approved with 56% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280947-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 1, History\nIn November 2017, supporters submitted 365,000 signatures to get legal recreational cannabis on the 2018 ballot. The state certified the initiative on April 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280947-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 1, History\nThe Detroit Free Press reported that state Republicans planned to amend and attempt to pass the initiative in the state legislature. The amendment would involve an income tax cut offset by cannabis tax revenue, and regulation by the appointed board in charge of medical cannabis, not by the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA). If passed by the legislature, it would not appear on the general ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280947-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 1, History\nBy June 5, the deadline for an \"adopt-and-amend\" act to go through the legislature expired, and the un-amended initiative would appear on ballots in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280947-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 1, Bill contents\nThe Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act, also sometimes referred to as the \"RMLA\", would legalize the possession of marijuana for those 21 years and older. The Act also contains a number of provisions that would change the state's marijuana and hemp laws, including:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280947-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 1, Support\nThe Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol is the main supporter of the initiative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280947-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 1, Opposition\nIn February 2018, it was reported that Smart Approaches to Marijuana was funding opposition to the initiative, as they had in other states including California. Two other local groups, Healthy and Productive Michigan and the Committee to Keep Pot Out of Neighborhoods and Schools, were formed in 2017 to oppose the initiative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280948-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 2\nMichigan Proposal 18-2 was a ballot initiative approved by voters in Michigan as part of the 2018 United States elections. The proposal was created in preparation of the 2020 United States Census, to move control of redistricting from the state legislature to an independent commission. The commission consists of thirteen members selected randomly by the secretary of state: four affiliated with Democrats, four affiliated with Republicans, and five independents. Any Michigan voter can apply to be a commissioner, as long as they have not been, in the last six years, a politician or lobbyist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280948-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 2\nProponents argued that Michigan's current districts are gerrymandered, giving an unfair advantage to one political party. Opponents argued that the process would give the secretary of state too much power over redistricting, and that the people on the commission would be unlikely to understand principles of redistricting. The proposal was approved with 61.28% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280948-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 2, History, Background\nFollowing the 2010 midterms in Michigan, Republicans controlled the Michigan state government, and therefore controlled redistricting. The districts they created were gerrymandered to give a partisan advantage to Republicans. In the 2012 Michigan House of Representatives election, Democrats won 53.97% of the vote, compared to 46.03% for Republicans. Despite this, Republicans won 59 seats, to Democrats' 51. A similar result occurred in 2016, with a nearly even vote (49.2%-49.13%) leading to a 16-seat advantage for Republicans. In 2019, the districts for the Michigan House, Michigan Senate, and United States House of Representatives were ruled as unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280948-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 2, History, Ballot access\nProposal 18-2 was a citizen-led ballot initiative, supported by the 501(c)(4) organization Voters Not Politicians. Voters Not Politicians organized the collection of more than 425,000 signatures from registered Michigan voters to allow the proposal to appear on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280948-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 2, Contents\nA proposed constitutional amendment to establish a commission of citizens with exclusive authority to adopt district boundaries for the Michigan Senate, Michigan House of Representatives and U.S. Congress, every 10 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280948-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 2, Results\nThe proposal was passed easily, requiring a simple majority. Washtenaw, Ingham, and Marquette counties had the highest percentage of yes vote, while Missaukee, Montmorency, Sanilac, and Osceola counties had the highest percentage of no vote. The proposal passed in 67 of Michigan's 83 counties with strong support across the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280948-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 2, Post-election events, 2020 redistricting\n250,000 applications to serve on the commission were randomly mailed out by the Michigan secretary of state on 30 December 2019. More than 6,200 Michiganders applied to be part of the redistricting commission before the 1 June 2020 deadline. 200 semi-finalists will be selected at random by the accounting firm Rehmann LLC by the end of June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 66], "content_span": [67, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280949-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 3\n2018 Michigan Proposal 3 (or just Proposal 3) was a ballot initiative approved by voters in Michigan as part of the 2018 United States elections. The proposal, funded by the ACLU of Michigan, reformed Michigan elections by protecting the right to a secret ballot, ensuring access to ballots for military and overseas voters, adding straight-ticket voting, automatically registering voters, allowing any citizen to vote at any time, provided they have a proof of residency, allowing access to absentee ballots for any reason, and auditing election results. The proposal was overwhelmingly approved with 66.92% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280949-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 3, Results\nThe proposal was passed easily, requiring a simple majority. The proposal passed in all of Michigan's 83 counties except for Montmorency, Missaukee, and Huron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280949-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Proposal 3, Aftermath\nPrior to Proposal 3's passage, Michigan lacked a period for early voting, save for absentee ballots which fulfilled eligibility requirements. Following Proposal 3's passage, the first major usage of the new law was the 2020 Democratic and Republican presidential primaries, with early voting provided in both. Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the state in 2020, Michigan implemented a formal early absentee voting period for both the August primaries for state and local offices as well as the presidential election, greatly increasing early voting turnout in both events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280950-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Secretary of State election\nThe Michigan Secretary of State election of 2018 took place on November 6, 2018, alongside Michigan's governor, Class I United States Senator, Attorney General, as well elections for Michigan's 14 seats in the United States House of Representatives, all 38 seats in the Michigan Senate and all 110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives; to elect the Secretary of State of Michigan. Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Ruth Johnson could not seek a third term due to term limits. The Michigan GOP was looking to win its 7th straight Secretary of State election. Along with the offices of Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General, the nominees for Secretary of State were chosen by party delegates at their respective party conventions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280950-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Secretary of State election\nOn November 6, 2018, Benson defeated Lang by an 8.9% margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280951-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Senate election\nThe Michigan Senate elections of 2018 took place on November 6, 2018, alongside elections to be Michigan's governor, Class I United States Senator, Attorney General, Secretary of State as well elections for Michigan's 14 seats in the United States House of Representatives and all 110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives; to elect the 38 members that will comprise the Michigan Senate. The Republican, Democratic and Libertarian parties chose their nominees in a partisan primary on August 7, 2018. The Working Class Party, U.S. Taxpayers Party, Green Party and Natural Law Party chose their nominees at state party conventions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280951-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Senate election, Term-limited members\nUnder the Michigan Constitution, members of the state Senate are able to serve only two four-year terms, and members of the House of Representatives are limited to three two-year terms. Michigan has what are considered the toughest term-limits in the country. After the 2018 mid-term elections, nearly 70 percent of the state Senate and 20 percent of the state House will be forced to leave office because of term-limits. The following members are prevented by term-limits from seeking re-election to the Senate in 2018. This list does not include members that are eligible for re-election, but instead chose to seek other office or voluntarily to retire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280951-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Senate election, General Election\nPending official certification by the Michigan Board of State Canvassers, the following candidates, listed alphabetically, advanced to the November general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280951-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Senate election, General Election, Maps\nResults shaded by the percentage of the party vote in each district", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team\nThe 2018 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Spartans played their home games at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan, and competed in the East Division of the Big Ten Conference. They were led by 12th-year head coach Mark Dantonio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team\nThe Spartans returned 19 starters from their Holiday Bowl-winning 2017 team, and began the year at 11th in the AP Poll. In the second game of the year, the team was upset on the road by unranked Arizona State. The team fell out of the top 25 after falling to Northwestern on homecoming, but bounced back with a road win against then-No. 8 Penn State. The Spartan offense struggled mightily in the second half of the season, and the team failed to score more than 7 points in losses to Michigan, Ohio State, and Nebraska. They finished the regular season in fourth in the East Division with a conference record of 5\u20134. Michigan State was invited to the Redbox Bowl, where they lost to Oregon by a score of 7\u20136, which matched their final record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team\nThe team was characterized by a stark dichotomy in performance between offense and defense; the defense finished in the top ten nationally in six categories, while the offense finished in the bottom 20 nationally in six categories. Junior quarterback Brian Lewerke led the team in passing, finishing the year with 2,040 passing yards, 8 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. He was replaced by redshirt freshman Rocky Lombardi in several games as Lewerke struggled with injuries and poor performance. Connor Heyward, replacing the injured LJ Scott, led the team in rushing. On defense, Kenny Willekes led the Big Ten in tackles for a loss (21), and was named the conference's Defensive Lineman of the Year. Linebacker Joe Bachie was also an impact player, being named first team all-conference by the coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team, Previous season\nThe Spartans finished the 2017 season 10\u20133, 7\u20132 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for second place in the East Division. The Spartans received an invitation to the 2017 Holiday Bowl where they defeated Washington State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team, Offseason, 2018 NFL Draft\nMSU kept its streak of 78 years of having at least one player drafted in the NFL Draft alive when Brian Allen was drafted in the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team, Offseason, 2018 NFL Draft\nAdditionally, one player, Chris Frey Jr., was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team, Personnel, Coaching staff\nOn January 2, 2018, Harlon Barnett was hired as defensive coordinator for Florida State, leaving the Spartans after spending the previous 14 years with head coach Mark Dantonio. On January 19, the school announced that co-defensive coordinator Mike Tressel was promoted to defensive coordinator with the departure of Barnett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team, Personnel, Coaching staff\nAlso on January 19, former Kent State head coach Paul Haynes was hired as the secondary coach. Haynes, who was fired from Kent State after five seasons as head coach, returned to the Spartans after serving as defensive backs coach from 2003\u201304. On January 22, the school announced the hiring of former Kent State offensive coordinator Don Treadwell, who had coached with the Spartans on two prior occasions, as a defensive backs and special teams coach. On February 1, the school hired Chuck Bullough as defensive ends coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Utah State\nThe Spartans opened the 2018 season under the lights at home against Mountain West opponent Utah State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Utah State\nUtah State received the opening kickoff and took little time scoring on their opening drive, taking only just over two minutes to score on a Jordan Love one-yard run. The MSU offense stalled at midfield on their first drive, but Matt Coghlin made a 49-yard field goal to put the Spartans on the board, 7\u20133. After a turnover on downs on the following Utah State possession, Michigan State added another field goal, bringing them within a point. The second quarter featured sloppy play from both teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Utah State\nAs Michigan State was driving into Utah State territory, Brian Lewerke was sacked and attempted to throw the ball away. After review, the officials determined that Lewerke had not completed a forward throwing motion, that he had fumbled the ball, and it was recovered by Utah State. However, the Aggies did not score off of the turnover. Several possessions later, the Aggies committed a turnover of their own when Jordan Love threw an interception that resulted in Michigan State points when Brian Lewerke connected with Cody White on a seven-yard pass for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Utah State\nThe score gave the Spartans their first lead of the game, 13\u20137. Utah State answered with a touchdown of their own on the following possession, retaking the lead 14\u201313. The Spartan offense drove deep into Utah State territory and Felton Davis scored on a 10-yard touchdown pass from Brian Lewerke with 28 seconds left in the half to give MSU a 20\u201314 lead at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Utah State\nThe Spartans extended their lead after in the second half when a 17-yard Connor Heyward touchdown run increased their lead to 27-14. Late in the third quarter, Utah State added a field goal to narrow the lead to 27\u201317. The following Michigan State possession ended in disaster when a Brian Lewerke pass intended for Jalen Nailor was intercepted and returned for a touchdown by Gage Ferguson to bring Utah State within three, 27\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Utah State\nMichigan State increase their lead with a field goal early in the fourth quarter, but Utah State retook the lead with five minutes remaining in the game on a Darwin Thompson one-yard touchdown run. Brian Lewerke led the offense down the field the following possession, completing five straight passes before Connor Heyward scored the go-ahead touchdown on an option pitch from Lewerke to give Michigan State a 36\u201331 lead with two minutes remaining. Lewerke then connected with Davis on the two-point conversion pass to give MSU a 38\u201331 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280952-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Utah State\nWith less than two minutes remaining, Utah State drove the ball to the MSU 46-yard line. However, MSU linebacker Joe Bachie leapt to deflect a pass and secured the interception to seal the win for the Spartans, avoiding a major upset. Michigan State extended its home opening winning streak to 20 games with the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280953-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Michigan State Spartans men's soccer team represented Michigan State University during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The program was coached by 10th year head coach, Damon Rensing. It was the 63rd season the university fielded a men's varsity soccer team, and their 28th season in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280953-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans men's soccer team\nThe season was highlighted by Michigan State reaching the College Cup (final four) of the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, a feat they had not accomplished since 1968. There, making their first appearance in half a century, they lost to eventual national-runners up, Akron, 5\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280953-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans men's soccer team\nThree players from this team were drafted in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft: DeJuan Jones, Ryan Sierakowski, and Jimmy Hague.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280953-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans men's soccer team, Roster\nThe following players were part of the 2018 Michigan State men's soccer team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280953-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan State Spartans men's soccer team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 2018 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Wolverines were members of the East Division of the Big Ten Conference and played their home games at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michigan was coached by Jim Harbaugh, who was in his fourth season as head coach of his alma mater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team\nMichigan began the year ranked 14th in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll. Its first game of the year was on the road against rival Notre Dame, the first meeting between the two schools since 2014. The Wolverines lost that game, 24\u201317. Michigan won its next ten games, however, including wins over then-ranked Big Ten opponents Michigan State, Wisconsin, and Penn State, all of whom beat Michigan the previous year. The team rallied around calling the season a \"revenge tour\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe Wolverines climbed to fourth in the College Football Playoff rankings, and would have clinched the Big Ten Eastern Division and a spot in the 2018 Big Ten Football Championship Game with a regular-season-ending win over arch-rival Ohio State. However, the revenge tour came to an abrupt end as Michigan lost, 62\u201339, its seventh consecutive loss to the Buckeyes and 14th loss in 15 years in the series. The Wolverines were selected to their second New Year's Six bowl in three years, the Peach Bowl, where they lost to Florida, 41\u201315. The team's final record was 10\u20133, Harbaugh's third ten-win season in four years, and the team finished exactly where it started in the polls, at 14th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team\nMichigan was led on offense by junior quarterback Shea Patterson, a transfer from Ole Miss, and running back Karan Higdon, who became the first Michigan running back to rush for 1,000 yards since Fitzgerald Toussaint in 2011. On defense, the Wolverines were led by linebacker Devin Bush Jr., who was a consensus All-American and won the Nagurski\u2013Woodson Award as the Big Ten's defensive player of the year. Five Michigan defensive players were named first-team All-Big Ten by the coaches: Bush, defensive linemen Rashan Gary and Chase Winovich, and defensive backs Lavert Hill and David Long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason\nIn January 2018, the Wolverines hired Ben Herbert as Director of Strength and Conditioning, and Sherrone Moore as tight ends coach. On February 20, 2018, the Wolverines hired Jim McElwain as wide receivers coach. On February 23, Tim Drevno resigned as offensive coordinator after three seasons. The offensive coordinator position remained vacant throughout the 2018 season, with play calling duties split among the offensive coaches in what coach Harbaugh described as a \"collaborative effort\", with passing game coordinator Pep Hamilton calling a majority of the plays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Recruiting, Recruits\nMichigan's recruiting class consisted of 19 recruits, including three that enrolled early. Michigan's recruiting class was ranked No. 20 by ESPN, No. 24 by Rivals.com, and No. 21 by 247Sports.com's Composite Rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Notre Dame\nTo open the season, Michigan travelled to South Bend, Indiana to face the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to resume its long-running rivalry after a three year hiatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Notre Dame\nMichigan lost to Notre Dame, 24\u201317. Notre Dame scored 14 points in the first quarter on a 13-yard touchdown run from Jafar Armstrong and a 43-yard touchdown pass from Brandon Wimbush to Chris Finke. Michigan responded with 10 points in the second quarter on a 28-yard field goal by Quinn Nordin and a 99-yard kickoff return by Ambry Thomas. Notre Dame extended its lead in the second quarter on a four-yard touchdown run from Armstrong, which made the score 21\u201310 in favor of Notre Dame at half-time. Notre Dame added a 48-yard field goal by Justin Yoon in the third quarter. Michigan reduced Notre Dame's lead to seven points following a three-yard touchdown run from Karan Higdon in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Notre Dame\nThomas' 99-yard kickoff return was the third 99-yard kickoff return in program history, and first since Tyrone Wheatley in 1992. Michigan's defense held Notre Dame to only 69 yards on 29 plays and three points in the second half, and scoreless in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Western Michigan\nFollowing its opening game against Notre Dame, Michigan hosted the Western Michigan Broncos to open its home schedule. This was the first meeting between the schools since 2011, a game shortened by lightning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Western Michigan\nMichigan won in a blowout, 49\u20133. Michigan scored 21 points in the first quarter on a 17-yard touchdown pass from Shea Patterson to Sean McKeon, a 67-yard touchdown run from Karan Higdon and a 27-yard touchdown run from Chris Evans. Michigan added 14 points in the second quarter on a two-yard touchdown run from Evans, and a 44-yard touchdown pass from Patterson to Nico Collins, which made the score 35\u20130 in favor of Michigan at half-time. Michigan extended its lead in the third quarter on a five-yard touchdown pass from Patterson to Donovan Peoples-Jones. Michigan added seven points in the fourth quarter on an 18-yard touchdown pass from Dylan McCaffrey to Jake McCurry. Western Michigan finally got on the board late in the fourth quarter with a 35-yard field goal by Josh Grant to avoid a shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 878]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Western Michigan\nMichigan's honorary captains for the game were alumni Grant Newsome and Brenda Tracy. Michigan scored 21 points in the first quarter for the first time since 2016 against Illinois. Higdon's 140 rushing yards in the first quarter were the most by a Wolverine in a single quarter since Denard Robinson ran for 152 yards in the first quarter against Notre Dame in 2010. Michigan's defense held its opponent to single-digit points for the first time since allowing just a field goal to Maryland in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, SMU\nMichigan defeated SMU 45\u201320. After neither team scored in the first quarter, Michigan scored on every offensive possession from the second quarter onward. The teams exchanged touchdowns on a one-yard touchdown run from Ben Mason for Michigan, and a 50-yard touchdown pass from Ben Hicks to James Proche for SMU to tie the game. Michigan responded with 14 points on a 35-yard touchdown pass from Shea Patterson to Donovan Peoples-Jones, and a 73-yard interception return from Josh Metellus as time expired in the first half, which made the score 21\u20137 in favor of Michigan at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, SMU\nMichigan added 14 points in the third quarter on two touchdown receptions from Peoples-Jones, from seven-yards and 41-yards, respectively. SMU responded with a two-yard touchdown pass from William Brown to Ryan Becker. SMU opened the scoring in the fourth quarter on a two-yard touchdown pass from Brown to Proche. Michigan extended its lead with a 45-yard field goal by Quinn Nordin and a nine-yard touchdown run from Tru Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, SMU\nPeoples-Jones' three touchdowns were the most scored by a Wolverine wide receiver since Jehu Chesson scored four against Indiana in 2015. Metellus' 73-yard interception return was the sixth-longest interception return for a touchdown in program history and the longest since Brandon Herron's school-record 94-yard return against Western Michigan in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nFollowing its game against SMU, Michigan began its conference schedule when it hosted the Nebraska Cornhuskers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nMichigan won in a blowout, 56\u201310. Michigan scored 20 points in the first quarter on two touchdown runs by Ben Mason, from one and four-yards, respectively, and a 44-yard touchdown run from Karan Higdon. Michigan added 19 points in the second quarter, on a 50-yard field goal by Quinn Nordin, a five-yard touchdown pass from Shea Patterson to Zach Gentry, a one-yard touchdown run from Mason, and a safety for Michigan after an illegal forward pass by Adrian Martinez, which made the score 39\u20130 in favor of Michigan at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nMichigan added 10 points in the third quarter on a 60-yard punt return by Donovan Peoples-Jones and a 38-yard field by Nordin. Nebraska finally got on the board late in the third quarter with a 35-yard field goal by Barret Pickering to avoid a shutout. The teams exchanged touchdowns in the fourth quarter on a 56-yard touchdown pass from Dylan McCaffrey to Ronnie Bell for Michigan, and a three-yard touchdown run from Wyatt Mazour for Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nThe 56 points scored were the fifth most in program history of Big Ten openers and the most since a 58\u20130 victory over Minnesota in 2011. Michigan's offense tallied over 200 yards rushing (285) and passing (206) for the first time since the 2017 season opener against Florida when the Wolverines had 215 yards rushing and 218 yards receiving. Michigan's defense held Nebraska to -5 yards in the first quarter and -1 yard in the second quarter. The last time the Michigan defense held an opponent to negative rushing yards in a quarter was against Ohio State in 2017. Quinn Nordin made a 50-yard field goal in the second quarter, his third career made field goal of at least 50 yards, tying Bob Bergeron (1984\u201387) for the second-most 50-yard field goals made in a career at Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Northwestern\nAfter facing Nebraska, Michigan traveled to Evanston, Illinois, to face the Northwestern Wildcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Northwestern\nMichigan defeated Northwestern 20\u201317. Northwestern scored ten points in the first quarter, on a one-yard touchdown run from Clayton Thorson and a 45-yard field goal by Charlie Kuhbande. Northwestern extended its lead in the second quarter on a three-yard touchdown run from John Moten IV. Michigan finally got on the board with a four-yard touchdown run from Karan Higdon, which made the score 17\u20137 in favor of Northwestern at half-time. In the second half, Michigan held Northwestern scoreless while accumulating 13 points. First a pair of field goals by Quinn Nordin from 23-yards and 24-yards, respectively in the third quarter, and a five-yard touchdown run from Higdon in the fourth quarter to give Michigan its first lead of the game, and the eventual win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Northwestern\nMichigan's 17-point comeback victory was its first since rallying for a 17-point comeback against Notre Dame in 2011. Northwestern had 105 total yards of offense in the first quarter, while Michigan's defense held them to just 97 yards in the final three quarters. Michigan's defense had season highs in sacks (six) and tackle-for-loss (10).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Maryland\nAfter its game against Northwestern, Michigan hosted the Maryland Terrapins in its homecoming game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Maryland\nFollowing a 70-minute weather delay due to thunderstorms in the area, Michigan defeated Maryland 42\u201321. Michigan opened the scoring in the first quarter on a 34-yard field goal by Quinn Nordin. Maryland responded with a 98-yard kickoff return by Ty Johnson, to take its first and only lead of the game. Michigan scored 14 points in the second quarter on a one-yard run by Ben Mason and a 22-yard touchdown pass from Shea Patterson to Ronnie Bell, which made the score 17\u20137 in favor of Michigan at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Maryland\nMichigan extended its lead in the third quarter on a 31-yard field goal by Nordin and a 34-yard touchdown pass from Patterson to Donovan Peoples-Jones. Michigan added 15 points in the fourth quarter on a seven-yard touchdown pass from Patterson to Jared Wangler, and a two-point conversion Mason run, and a 46-yard interception return by Brandon Watson. Maryland added 14 points on a one-yard run from Javon Leake, and a five-yard touchdown run from Tyrrell Pigrome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Maryland\nMichigan's honorary captain for the game was former director of strength and conditioning Mike Gittleson. Running back Karan Higdon rushed for 103 yards, becoming the 23rd player in program history to surpass 2,000 career rushing yards (2,020). Michigan's defense, which entered the game leading the nation in total defense at 232.6 yards per game, held Maryland to 220 yards of total offense, nearly 180 yards less than its average of 399.8 entering the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin\nFollowing its homecoming game against Maryland, Michigan hosted the Wisconsin Badgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin\nMichigan defeated Wisconsin 38\u201313. After a scoreless first quarter, Michigan got on the board first with a two-yard touchdown run from Karan Higdon. Wisconsin responded with a 33-yard touchdown run from Kendric Pryor, for its only points of the first half, to tie the game. Michigan regained the lead following two field goals from Quinn Nordin from 42-yards and 33-yards, respectively, which made the score 13\u20137 in favor of Michigan at half-time. Michigan extended its lead in the third quarter on a seven-yard touchdown run from Shea Patterson, followed by a two-point conversion pass to Nico Collins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin\nMichigan added 17 more points in the fourth quarter. First with a 35-yard field goal by Nordin, then a 21-yard interception return from Lavert Hill and a 44-yard touchdown run from Dylan McCaffrey. Wisconsin then scored its only points of the second half on a three-yard touchdown pass from Alex Hornibrook to A. J. Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin\nMichigan's defense held Wisconsin to season-lows of 283 total yards, 100 passing yards and 183 rushing yards. Michigan held Wisconsin to just 2-of-11 (18.2 percent) on third-down conversions. Shea Patterson's 81-yard run early in the second quarter was Michigan's longest since Denard Robinson's 87-yard run against Notre Dame in 2010. It was tied for the 15th longest run from scrimmage in Michigan history and was the second longest run by a Michigan quarterback. Lavert Hill's 21-yard interception return for a touchdown was his second of his career, becoming the third player in Michigan program history to register two interception returns for touchdowns, following Lance Dottin and Thom Darden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Michigan State\nAfter its game against Wisconsin, Michigan traveled to East Lansing to face its in-state rival, the Michigan State Spartans, in the battle for the Paul Bunyan Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Michigan State\nMichigan defeated Michigan State 21\u20137. After a scoreless first quarter, Michigan scored first with a six-yard touchdown pass from Shea Patterson to Nico Collins, which made the score 7\u20130 in favor of Michigan at half-time. Michigan State opened the scoring in the second half on a four-yard touchdown pass from Darrell Stewart Jr. to Brian Lewerke to tie the game, for its only points of the game. Michigan responded with a 79-yard touchdown pass from Patterson to Donovan Peoples-Jones to re-gain the lead. Michigan extended its lead in the fourth quarter on a five-yard touchdown run from Ben Mason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Michigan State\nMichigan's defense held Michigan State to just 94 total yards of offense, including 15 yards rushing. This was its fewest total yards gained in a game since only having 56 total yards of offense in 1947, also against Michigan. Michigan State entered the game averaging 394.5 yards of offense. Michigan has held seven of eight opponents to their season low in yardage this year. Michigan State failed to convert a third-down attempt, going 0-for-12 during the game. The seven points scored by Michigan State were the fewest in a rivalry game against Michigan since 2002, when Michigan won 49\u20133. Karan Higdon finished the game with 139 rushing yards, his sixth consecutive game surpassing 100-yards. With the win, Michigan snapped a 17 game losing streak to ranked opponents on the road. The team went into its bye week with a 7\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 910]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nAfter facing in-state rival Michigan State and having a bye week, Michigan hosted the Penn State Nittany Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nMichigan won in a blowout, 42\u20137. Michigan opened the scoring in the first quarter with a one-yard touchdown run from Shea Patterson. Michigan extended its lead in the second quarter on a 23-yard touchdown pass from Patterson to Donovan Peoples-Jones, which made the score 14\u20130 in favor of Michigan at half-time. Michigan added 14 points in the third quarter on a seven-yard touchdown pass from Patterson to Zach Gentry and a 62-yard interception return by Brandon Watson. Michigan added 14 more points in the fourth quarter on a four-yard touchdown run from Karan Higdon, and a one-yard touchdown run from Chris Evans. Penn State finally got on the board late in the fourth quarter on an eight-yard touchdown run from Tommy Stevens to avoid a shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nMichigan's honorary captains for the game were alumni Bryan and Kathleen Marshall, and former Michigan basketball star and Fab Five member Chris Webber. Michigan's defense held Penn State to just 77 total yards in the first half, and allowing just 186 total yards during the game. This marked an FBS-best eighth time allowing less than 100 yards in a half this season. Higdon rushed for 132 yards, his seventh consecutive game surpassing 100-yards. This is the second-longest streak in Michigan program history, trailing only Mike Hart's eight consecutive games with 100-yards rushing in 2007. With his interception return for a touchdown in the third quarter, Brandon Watson became the fourth player in program history with two or more interceptions returned for touchdowns, joining Lavert Hill, Thom Darden and Lance Dottin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 893]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Rutgers\nAfter hosting Penn State, Michigan traveled to Piscataway, New Jersey to face the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Rutgers\nMichigan won in a blowout, 42\u20137. Michigan opened the scoring in the first quarter with a one-yard touchdown run from Karan Higdon. Rutgers responded with an 80-yard touchdown run from Isaih Pacheco to tie the game. Michigan responded with 35 unanswered points. Michigan added 14 points in the second quarter on a one-yard touchdown run from Higdon and a 36-yard touchdown pass from Shea Patterson to Nico Collins, which made the score 21\u20137 in favor of Michigan at half-time. Michigan again added 14 points in the third quarter on a 16-yard touchdown pass from Patterson to Oliver Martin, and a 10-yard touchdown pass from Patterson to Collins. Michigan added seven points in the fourth quarter on a 61-yard touchdown run from Chris Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Rutgers\nMichigan's defense allowed only 59 passing yards, the lowest by any team against Michigan this year. Michigan held Rutgers to just 4-of-12 on third-down conversions. Michigan tied a season-high with 24 first downs during the game. Higdon rushed for 42 yards, surpassing the 1,000-yard rushing mark in the second quarter. He became the first 1,000-yard running back for Michigan since Fitzgerald Toussaint in 2011, and the first player of any kind to rush for over 1,000 yards since Denard Robinson in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Indiana\nFollowing its game against Rutgers, Michigan played its final home game against Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Indiana\nMichigan defeated Indiana 31\u201320. Michigan opened the scoring in the first quarter with a 32-yard field goal by Jake Moody. Indiana responded with a 13-yard touchdown run from Stevie Scott, to take its first lead of the game. Michigan added 12 points during the second quarter on two field goals by Moody, from 30-yards, and 31-yards respectively, and a 41-yard touchdown pass from Shea Patterson to Nick Eubanks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Indiana\nIndiana added 10 points on a 41-yard field goal by Logan Justus and a seven-yard touchdown pass from Peyton Ramsey to Ty Fryfogle, which made the score 17\u201315 in favor of Indiana at half-time. Michigan added 10 points in the third quarter on a two-yard touchdown run from Karan Higdon and a 33-yard field goal by Moody to regain the lead. Michigan extended its lead in the fourth quarter on two more field goals by Moody, from 23-yards, and 29-yards, respectively. Indiana responded with a 32-yard field goal by Justus, for its only points of the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Indiana\nFreshman kicker Jake Moody set a Michigan single-game record with six field goals, going 6-for-6 in his collegiate placekicking debut. Running back Karan Higdon recorded his eighth 100-yard game this season. Higdon's 100-yard game was the 13th of his career, tying him with Gordon Bell, Billy Taylor and Tim Biakabutuka for the eighth-most 100-yard rushing games during a career in Michigan program history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Ohio State\nFollowing its home finale against Indiana, Michigan traveled to Columbus, Ohio to face its arch-rival, the Ohio State Buckeyes, in the 115th playing of \"The Game\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Ohio State\nMichigan was defeated by Ohio State 62\u201339. Ohio State opened the scoring in the first quarter with a 24-yard touchdown pass from Dwayne Haskins to Chris Olave. Michigan responded with a 39-yard field goal by Jake Moody. Michigan scored 16 points in the second quarter on a 31-yard field goal by Moody, a 23-yard touchdown pass from Shea Patterson to Nico Collins, and a nine-yard touchdown pass from Patterson to Chris Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0038-0001", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Ohio State\nOhio State scored 17 points in the quarter on a 24-yard touchdown pass from Haskins to Olave, a 31-yard touchdown pass from Haskins to Johnnie Dixon and a 19-yard field goal by Blake Haubeil as time expired, which made the score 24\u201319 in favor of Ohio State at half-time. Ohio State added 17 points in the third quarter on a 19-yard field goal by Haubeil, a 33-yard punt return by Sevyn Banks and a two-yard touchdown run from Mike Weber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0038-0002", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Ohio State\nMichigan scored 20 points in the fourth quarter on a 12-yard touchdown pass from Patterson to Collins, a one-yard touchdown run from Ben Mason, and a four-yard touchdown run from Joe Milton. Ohio State added 21 points on a 78-yard touchdown run from Parris Campbell, a one-yard touchdown pass from Haskins to K. J. Hill, and a 16-yard touchdown pass from Haskins to Campbell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Ohio State\nMichigan finished as co-champions of the Big Ten East Division with an 8\u20131 record in conference play, for its first division title since the conference introduced divisions in 2011. This was its best conference record since going 7\u20131 in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Florida (Peach Bowl)\nOn December 2, Michigan was selected to play in the Peach Bowl against the Florida Gators. Michigan won the previous meeting in the 2017 Advocare Classic, by a score of 33\u201317. This was Michigan's 47th bowl game appearance, and its first appearance in the Peach Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Florida (Peach Bowl)\nFlorida defeated Michigan 41\u201315. Florida opened the scoring in the first quarter with a 21-yard field goal by Evan McPherson. Michigan responded with a nine-yard touchdown pass from Shea Patterson to Donovan Peoples-Jones. Michigan extended its lead in the second quarter on a 48-yard field goal by Jake Moody. Florida added ten points in the quarter on a 26-yard field goal by McPherson and a 20-yard touchdown run from Feleipe Franks, which made the score 13\u201310 in favor of Florida at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0041-0001", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Florida (Peach Bowl)\nFlorida added 14 points in the third quarter on a five-yard touchdown pass from Franks to La'Mical Perine, and a one-yard touchdown run from Jordan Scarlett. Michigan added five points in the fourth quarter on a 26-yard field goal by Moody and a safety. Florida extended its lead on a 53-yard touchdown run from Perine and a 30-yard interception return from C. J. Gardner-Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, 2019 NFL Draft\nThe 2019 NFL Draft was held on April 25\u201327, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. Five Wolverines were selected as part of the draft, and another six signed with NFL teams as undrafted free agents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280954-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines football team, 2019 NFL Draft, Undrafted free agents\nFormer Michigan starting quarterback Wilton Speight, who grad transferred to UCLA before the 2018 season, also signed as an undrafted free agent with the San Francisco 49ers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280955-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Michigan Wolverines men's soccer team is the college's 19th season of playing organized men's college soccer. It is the Wolverines' 19th season playing in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280955-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines men's soccer team, Background\nMichigan finished 1st in the Big Ten Conference regular season in 2017 with a 12\u20136\u20132 overall record and a 6\u20131\u20131 in-conference record. Michigan won in the quarterfinal of the Big Ten Tournament against Northwestern but lost in the semifinal to eventual champion Wisconsin. The team earned a spot in the NCAA tournament as a seeded team, and received a bye to the second round. However, the team lost to Colgate 2\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280955-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan Wolverines men's soccer team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280956-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan elections\nThe Michigan general election, 2018 was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018 throughout Michigan. The Democrats swept all of the statewide offices held by the Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280956-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan elections, Federal, Congress, Senate\nIncumbent Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow won re-election to a fourth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280956-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan elections, Federal, Congress, House of Representatives\nDemocrats gained two House seats in the United States House of Representatives giving Michigan's House delegation an even split with seven Democrats and seven Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280956-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan elections, State, Executive, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nThe Democratic ticket of Gretchen Whitmer and Garlin Gilchrist won the races for governor and lieutenant governor. This is a Democratic gain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 75], "content_span": [76, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280956-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan elections, State, Executive, Secretary of State\nFormer Wayne State University Law School Dean Jocelyn Benson was elected secretary of state which was a Democratic gain. She became the first Democratic Michigan Secretary of State since 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280956-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan elections, State, Executive, Attorney General\nDetroit-based attorney Dana Nessel was elected Michigan attorney general becoming the first Democratic attorney general in 16 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280956-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan elections, State, Legislature, Senate\nAll 38 seats in the Michigan Senate were up for election in 2018. Democrats gained five seats, but Republicans still control 22 seats in the Michigan Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280956-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan elections, State, Legislature, House of Representatives\nAll 110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats gained five seats, but Republicans still control the Michigan House with 58 Republicans and 52 Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 69], "content_span": [70, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280956-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan elections, State, Judiciary, Supreme Court\nTwo seats on the Michigan Supreme Court were up for election in 2018. Justice Kurt Wilder, who was appointed by Governor Snyder to replace retiring Justice Robert P. Young Jr., and Justice Beth Clement, who was named by Governor Snyder to replace Justice Joan Larsen after the latter was confirmed to a seat on the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in November, 2017, are each eligible to run for re-election. The two winners of the election were Clement and Megan Cavanagh, who unseated Wilder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280956-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan elections, Ballot initiatives, Proposal 1\nProposal 1, an initiative to legalize cannabis, was approved 56-44.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280956-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan elections, Ballot initiatives, Proposal 2\nProposal 2 was an initiative to transfer the power to draw state Legislative districts and US Congressional districts from the state legislature to an independent redistricting commission. The proposal passed 61-39.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280956-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan elections, Ballot initiatives, Proposal 3\nProposal 3, an initiative to add voting policies such as same-day registration and straight-ticket voting to the state constitution, was approved 67-33.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280957-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Michigan gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next Governor of Michigan, concurrently with the election of Michigan's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280957-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor Rick Snyder was term-limited and was unable to seek a third term in office. The filing deadline was April 24, 2018. The Republican, Democratic and Libertarian parties chose their nominees in a partisan primary on August 7, 2018. 2018 was the first year the Libertarian Party held a gubernatorial primary alongside the two other major parties in the state of Michigan. The Working Class Party, U.S. Taxpayers Party, Green Party and Natural Law Party chose their nominees at state party conventions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280957-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan gubernatorial election\nDemocrat Gretchen Whitmer was elected with 53.3% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280957-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan gubernatorial election, Libertarian primary\nThe Libertarian Party is one of three parties that have a primary in Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280957-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan gubernatorial election, Green Convention\nThe Green Party chose candidates for the 2018 ballot at its state convention on May 5, 2018, at the University of Michigan-Flint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280957-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan gubernatorial election, General election, Debates\nTwo televised debates between Schuette and Whitmer were scheduled. The first debate was held on Friday, October 12 hosted by Grand Rapids television station WOOD-TV. That debate mainly concentrated on issues and there were no surprises or major errors from either candidate. The second debate was hosted by Detroit television station WDIV and was held on Wednesday, October 24. The two again clashed on various issues, but Schuette made a gaffe when he mixed up Whitmer's name with that of former governor Jennifer Granholm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280957-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nWhile Whitmer's Democratic primary opponents publicly endorsed Whitmer in the general election, Republican nominee Schuette left the party split after the acrimonious battle with lieutenant governor Calley, with outgoing governor Rick Snyder refusing to endorse Schuette. Schuette also tried to hide his endorsement by Donald Trump from the primary in the general election. His actions as attorney general also came back to haunt him. Whitmer held consistent leads in polls over Schuette over the entire year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280957-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan gubernatorial election, General election, Results\nThe election was not as close as expected, with Whitmer receiving 53.8% of the vote to Schuette's 43.8%. Schuette performed best in more sparsely populated areas, while Whitmer was supported by large margins in large and medium cities, such as Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Lansing. Whitmer also performed well in the Detroit suburbs. She carried former Republican stronghold Kent County (location of Grand Rapids), the first Democratic candidate to do so since James Blanchard's landslide 1986 reelection. Democrats swept the statewide races by also holding onto the Senate seat that was up for re-election, and picking up the positions of secretary of state and attorney general. They also captured every state university trustee seat that was up for election as well as the State Board of Education.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280957-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan gubernatorial election, General election, By congressional district\nWhitmer won 7 of Michigan's 14 congressional districts. The seven districts she won all elected Democrats to Congress, and the seven that Schuette won all elected Republicans, though he won the district that elected Justin Amash by a very narrow margin of 0.4% and the district that elected Fred Upton by an even thinner 0.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280958-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan's 13th congressional district special election\nA special election for Michigan's 13th congressional district was held on November 6, 2018, following the resignation of Democratic U.S. Representative John Conyers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280958-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan's 13th congressional district special election\nThe Democratic primary was held on August 7, 2018. No Republican candidate ran in the special election, making the win in the Democratic primary tantamount to election in this district. Both the primary for this election and primary for the regular election were concurrent; similarly, the special election was held the same day as regular election. The winner of the regular Democratic primary was former state Representative Rashida Tlaib, who went on to win the regular general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280958-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan's 13th congressional district special election\nThe winner of the special Democratic primary was Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones, who served only from November 29, 2018 to January 3, 2019, the last day of Conyers' 27th term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280958-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan's 13th congressional district special election, Background\nIncumbent U.S. Representative John Conyers announced on December 5, 2017, that he would resign after a sexual harassment scandal. He had represented the 13th and its predecessors since 1965 (it was numbered as the 1st from 1965 to 1993 and as the 14th from 1993 to 2013), and was the longest-serving member of the House at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280958-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan's 13th congressional district special election, Background\nThree days after Conyers' resignation, Governor Rick Snyder set a date for the special election. It was scheduled for November 6, 2018, concurrent with the regular election for a full two-year term. Primaries were held August 7. The filing deadline for candidates was April 24, 2018. As a result, the 13th's seat remained vacant for nearly a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280958-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Michigan's 13th congressional district special election, General election, Campaign\nBrenda Jones won the Democratic primary for the special election, but lost the Democratic primary for the regular election to Rashida Tlaib. Both the special primary and regular primary were held concurrently. Jones won the special election on November 6, and served for just over eight weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 88], "content_span": [89, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280959-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Micronesian Games\nThe 9th Micronesian Games were held from July 15 to July 27, 2018, in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280959-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Micronesian Games, Participating nations\nOrdinarily, there are 10 participants at the games. However, Nauru were unable to compete in this edition due to travel costs. As such, the participants at the games were: the four constituent states of the Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Yap), three sovereign countries (Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau) and two insular areas of the United States (Northern Mariana Islands, Guam) all located within the Micronesia region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280959-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Micronesian Games, Sports\nAthletes competed in 13 different sports at the games: athletics, baseball, basketball, beach volleyball, the \"Micronesian all-around\", open water swimming, soccer, spearfishing, va'a, table tennis, volleyball, weightlifting, and wrestling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280959-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Micronesian Games, Sports\nPreviously at the 2014 games 14 sports were contested. However, this edition of the games saw the removal of softball and tennis and the inclusion of beach volleyball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280959-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Micronesian Games, Medal table\nDespite Nauru's withdrawal from the games, individual athlete Jonah Harris was still able to win 5 medals. The final medal table is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280960-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 23\u201327. The top six regular season finishers of the league's ten teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Sprenger Stadium in Avon, Ohio. Kent State won the tournament to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280960-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format\nThe top six teams were seeded according to conference winning percentage. Teams then played a double-elimination tournament with the top two seeds each receiving a single bye. After the first round, the top seed faced the lowest remaining seed in the winners' bracket. Kent State earned the top seed, while Miami was second, earning the tie over Ball State by taking two of three from the Cardinals during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280961-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-American Conference Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Mid-American Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Mid-American Conference held from October 28 through November 4, 2018. The quarterfinals were held at campus sites. The semifinals and finals took place at Mickey Cochrane Stadium in Bowling Green, Ohio, home of the Bowling Green Falcons, the highest remaining seed in the tournament following the quarterfinal matches. The eight-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280961-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Mid-American Conference Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe Toledo Rockets were the defending champions, but they did not qualify for the tournament after finishing 10th in the regular season. The Bowling Green Falcons won the tournament with a 5\u20134 penalty shootout win over the Ball State Cardinals in the final. The title was the third for the Bowling Green women's soccer program and the first for head coach Matt Fannon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280962-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-American Conference football season\nThe 2018 Mid-American Conference football season will be the 73rd season for the Mid-American Conference (MAC). and is part of the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season will begin on August 30 and will end on November 24. The entire schedule was released on February 22. The MAC Championship Game will be held on November 30, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280962-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-American Conference football season, Previous season\nIn 2017, Akron won the East Division with a 6\u20132 conference record while Toledo won the West Division with a 7\u20131 conference record. Toledo defeated Akron in the MAC Championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280962-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-American Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason Poll\nThe MAC Preseason Media Poll was released at the MAC Media Day on July 24, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280962-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-American Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason Poll, MAC Championship\nOhio received 13 votes as the predicted 2018 MAC Championship Game winner. Toledo (5), Northern Illinois (4), Miami (1), and Central Michigan (1) also received votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 89], "content_span": [90, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280962-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-American Conference football season, Head coaches, Coaching changes\nOn November 22, 2018, one day after Kent State's final game of the season against Akron, the school fired head coach Paul Haynes after five losing seasons. On December 19, the school hired Sean Lewis as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280962-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-American Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season, Week One\nAkron at Nebraska was canceled following a three-hour delay for lightning and thunderstorms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280962-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-American Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season, Week Fourteen\nThis game was added after Akron's game vs Nebraska was canceled due to lightning and South Carolina's game vs Marshall was canceled due to Hurricane Florence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 85], "content_span": [86, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280963-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament began on May 16 and ended on May 19, 2018 at Sliwa Stadium on the campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is a six-team double elimination tournament. As winner, North Carolina A&T claimed the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Bethune-Cookman has claimed sixteen of the nineteen tournament championships, with Florida A&M winning in 2015, Savannah State in 2013 and North Carolina A&T earning the 2005 title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280963-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding\nThe top three teams from each of the MEAC's two divisions will be seeded one through three based on regular season records, with first round matchups of the second seed from the North and the third seed from the South and the second seed from the South against the third seed from the North. The top seeds will receive a single bye and play the winners of the first round matchups, while the losers will play an elimination game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 76], "content_span": [77, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280964-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational\nThe 2018 Mid-Season Invitational was the fourth edition of the Mid-Season Invitational, a Riot Games-organised tournament for League of Legends, the multiplayer online battle arena video game. The tournament is the culmination of the 2018 spring split, the first part of 8th season of the game competitive scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280964-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational\nEach of 14 premier League of Legends leagues have a team representing them; Europe (EU LCS), South Korea (LCK), North America (NA LCS) and China (LPL) had their teams automatically admitted into the main event whereas the other 10 leagues will compete among each other in a \"play-in\" with the top 2 teams advancing to join the main event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280964-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational\nThe tournament was hosted in Germany and France from 3 to 20 May 2018. Matches of the play-in and group stages were held in EU LCS Studio in Berlin, while playoffs took place in multi-purpose indoor arena Z\u00e9nith Paris. Royal Never Give Up are the champions of the 2018 MSI, after taking down Kingzone DragonX in the finals. Jian \"Uzi\" Zihao was named the MVP of the entire tournament, due to his outstanding performances. The results of the tournament have received numerous international debates and reactions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280964-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational\nThe event's finals, where LPL (China)'s Royal Never Give Up took on LCK (South Korea)'s Kingzone DragonX, became one of the most watched eSports matches in history, greatly attributed to China's viewership. The finals were watched by over 127 million unique viewers, while the entire event boasted a total viewing time of over 2 billion hours. The event also became one of the greatest League of Legends' tournaments in history, as well as one of its historical milestones, as a South Korean team was thwarted by a non-South Korean team in a major match for the first time in 3 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280964-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational, Qualified teams and roster, Qualified team\nLast year, team from Vietnam had qualified for MSI via Southeast Asian league. From 2018, Vietnam region will be separated from Southeast Asia region. The Spring split Champion team from Vietnamese league will qualify for MSI without take part in the Southeast Asian league. Number of regions up to 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280964-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational, Qualified teams and roster, Qualified team\nBased on the result of the MSI and World Championship in 2 years before (2016\u20132017), 4 teams from Europe (EU LCS), North America (NA LCS), South Korea (LCK), and China (LPL) are started in Main Group Stage, 2 teams from Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (LMS) and Vietnam (VCS) are started in Play-in round 2, 10 remaining teams are started in Play-in round 1. Unlike last year, loser at round 2 will be eliminated because no have round 3 in Play-in Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280964-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational, Venues\nBerlin, Paris were the two cities chosen to host the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280964-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational, Play-In Stage, Round 1\nFirst place teams of each group advance to round 2 of the stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280964-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational, Play-In Stage, Round 1\nOnly 2 teams of each pool is drawn into a group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280964-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational, Play-In Stage, Round 2\nRandom draw. Winners of the series advance to group stage. Losers will be eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280964-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational, Play-In Stage, Round 2\nAs the highest ranking emerging region in the 2018 Mid-Season Invitational, Vietnam (VCS) was given a direct spot in the main event at the 2018 World Championship, which was awarded to their summer champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280964-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational, Group stage\nDouble Round Robin. Top 4 teams advance to Knock-out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280964-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational, Group stage\nChina, Europe, South Korea and TW/HK/MO will get pool 1 in 2018 World Championship Main Group Stage for Summer split Champion. North America and Vietnam will get pool 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280965-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle East Rally Championship\nThe 2018 Middle East Rally Championship was an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA. The championship was contested over five events held in five Middle East countries from April to November. One event, the Cyprus Rally, is shared with the 2018 European Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280965-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle East Rally Championship\nQatar's Nasser Al-Attiyah won his fourteenth MERC championship and his eighth consecutively. Al-Attiyah won the season opening Jordan Rally and later the Kuwait International Rally which was returning to the schedule after being left of the 2017 calendar. Al-Attiyah was also the leading MERC competitor to finish at the Cyprus Rally. Czech driver Vojt\u011bch \u0160tajf won the last event of the year in Qatar, held just two weeks after Kuwait. He was also second in Jordan and the second placed MERC driver in Cyprus. He was runner up in the championship. Kuwaiti driver Meshari Al-Thefiri was third in the championship finishing second in Kuwait and third in Jordan. Lebanese veteran Roger Feghali's one-off appearance at his home event saw him win the rally for the fourteenth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280966-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak\nThe 2018 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak was a set of infections of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV). The cases were most numerous in, and are believed to have originated from, Saudi Arabia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280966-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak\n250 cases of MERS were recorded in 2017, and 249 in 2016. In 2018, there was an early surge in cases, with 21 confirmed cases in February. However, over the whole year, cases were down compared to previous years, with 147 recorded cases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280966-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, MERS-CoV\nThe syndrome originates in countries on the Arabian peninsula, and there is a low general risk to any travelers. Symptoms usually appear 2 to 14 days after exposure, and include fever, cough, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280966-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Annual summaries\nTotal laboratory-confirmed cases of MERS world-wide per year were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280966-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Background of cases\nOn 18 June 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that there were 75 laboratory-confirmed MERS cases in Saudi Arabia. The first observed case outside of the Middle East was diagnosed on 23 August 2018 in the United Kingdom, being the first case in 5 years in the country. A second case was detected on 8 September 2018 of a South Korean man who was traveling from the Middle East, being the first diagnosis in that country since the 2015 outbreak. There were also hundreds of suspected cases in the United States and other parts of the world, most of which were eventually diagnosed as not being MERS infections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 67], "content_span": [68, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280966-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Response\nThe Ministry of Health in the Republic of Korea monitored at least 21 individuals who were in close contact with the confirmed case, and placed all identified close contacts in quarantine at their homes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280966-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Response, World Health Organization\nThe confirmed case in Korea did not change the World Health Organization (WHO) overall global risk assessment for the disease, and WHO also stated that any additional confirmed cases would also not change the risk, which was deemed as low. However, it does recommend countries to continue to monitor potential cases and to carefully record any unusual patterns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 83], "content_span": [84, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280966-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Response, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control\nAfter the confirmed case in the United Kingdom, the ECDC repeated their risk assessment that close contacts of confirmed cases must be monitored for symptoms for at least 14 days after the last exposure. The organization also repeated that cases of the syndrome were not unexpected and had been observed in Europe before, and the risk of transmission to the general population from the confirmed case was extremely low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 108], "content_span": [109, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280967-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team\nThe 2018 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team represented Middle Tennessee State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Blue Raiders played their home games at the Johnny \"Red\" Floyd Stadium in Murfreesboro, Tennessee as members of the East Division of Conference USA (C-USA). They were led by 13th-year head coach Rick Stockstill. They finished the season 8\u20136, 7\u20131 in C-USA play to finish as champions of the East Division. They represented the East Division in the C-USA Championship Game where they lost to West Division champion UAB. They were invited to the New Orleans Bowl where they lost to Appalachian State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280967-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Previous season\nThe Blue Raiders finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 4\u20134 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for third place in the East Division. They received an invite to the Camellia Bowl where they defeated Arkansas State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280967-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CUSA team\nConference USA released their preseason all-CUSA team on July 16, 2018, with the Blue Raiders having four players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 84], "content_span": [85, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280967-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nConference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Blue Raiders predicted to finish in third place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 81], "content_span": [82, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280968-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Middlesex County municipal elections\nElections were held in Middlesex County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280968-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Middlesex County municipal elections, Middlesex County Council\nCounty Council consists of the mayors of each municipality plus the deputy mayors of the municipalities over 5,000 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280969-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tournament\nThe 2018 Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tournament is the men's volleyball tournament for the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association during the 2018 NCAA Division I & II men's volleyball season. It is being held April 14 through April 21, 2018 at campus sites. The winner receives the Association's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Volleyball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280969-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tournament, Seeds\nAll eight teams are eligible for the postseason, with the highest seed hosting each round. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 72], "content_span": [73, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280970-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Midwestern State Mustangs football team\nThe 2018 Midwestern State Mustangs football team represented Midwestern State University in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by head coach Bill Maskill, who is in his 18th season at Midwestern State. The Mustangs played their home games at Memorial Stadium and were members of the Lone Star Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280970-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Midwestern State Mustangs football team, Schedule\nMidwestern State announced its 2018 football schedule on April 13, 2018. The schedule consists of six home and four away games in the regular season. The Mustangs will host LSC foes Angelo State , Texas A&M-Commerce, West Texas A&M, and Tarleton State and will travel to Texas-Permian Basin, Eastern New Mexico, Texas A&M-Kingsville, and Western New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280970-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Midwestern State Mustangs football team, Schedule\nThe Mustangs will host two non-conference games against Humboldt State from the Great Northwest Athletic Conference and the West Florida from the Gulf South Conference, national runners-up in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280971-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Milano\u2013Torino\nThe 2018 Milano\u2013Torino was the 99th edition of the Milano\u2013Torino cycling classic. It was held on 10 October 2018 over a distance of 200\u00a0km (120\u00a0mi) between Magenta and Turin. The race was rated as a 1.HC event on the 2018 UCI Europe Tour. The race was won by French rider Thibaut Pinot of Groupama\u2013FDJ.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280971-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Milano\u2013Torino, Teams\nTwenty-one teams, which consisted of 15 of the 18 UCI WorldTour teams and six UCI Professional Continental teams, of up to seven riders started the race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo\nThe 2018 Milan\u2013San Remo (known as Milano-Sanremo presented by NAMEDSPORT> for sponsorship reasons) was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 17 March 2018 in Italy. It was the 109th edition of the Milan\u2013San Remo and the eighth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo\nThe race was won by Vincenzo Nibali from the Bahrain\u2013Merida team, becoming the first Italian rider since Filippo Pozzato in 2006 to win La Classicissima. Nibali had attacked on the Poggio di San Remo, and managed to hold off the sprinters in the closing stages to seal victory. Caleb Ewan (Mitchelton\u2013Scott) led the sprinters home in second ahead of Groupama\u2013FDJ's Arnaud D\u00e9mare, the 2016 winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Teams\nAs Milan\u2013San Remo was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Seven UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton. Each team was allowed to bring seven riders to the race, leading to a field made up of 175 riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Route\nAs one of the sports monuments, Milan\u2013San Remo \u2013 generally considered to be a sprinters' classic \u2013 is among the highest-rated races in professional cycling. The 2018 route was initially scheduled to be 291\u00a0km (181\u00a0mi) long, running from the Via della Chiesa Rossa in Milan to the traditional finish on San Remo's Via Roma. The final part of the race included the climbs of the Cipressa and the Poggio, which usually prove decisive for the race outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Route\nAlso on the route, the riders also had to tackle the 35\u00a0km (22\u00a0mi) climb of the Passo dello Turchino, although it was not considered to be a key point in the race. After the Turchino, the route followed the Aurelia road along the coast from Genoa all the way to the finish in Sanremo. With a little over 50\u00a0km (31\u00a0mi) left to go, the first of the coastal climbs started with the Capo Mele, the Capo Cervo and the Capo Berta, before meeting the final two climbs leading to the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Route\nThe day before the race, it was announced that the race was to be lengthened to 294\u00a0km (183\u00a0mi) with a diversion after the original 100\u00a0km (62\u00a0mi) mark, at Basaluzzo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Pre-race favourites\nThree-time world champion Peter Sagan (Bora\u2013Hansgrohe) was considered the highest ranked favourite for the victory. Unlike others in the field, he was considered as a rider who could win both through a bunch sprint as well as a late attack on the final climb. He came into the race with good form, having finished second on three stages of Tirreno\u2013Adriatico, a stage race held before Milan\u2013San Remo. Micha\u0142 Kwiatkowski (Team Sky), the defending champion, was also considered a strong favourite, as he had won the general classification at Tirreno\u2013Adriatico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Pre-race favourites\nJulian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors), who was third in 2017, was also counted among the favourites for the race. While Kwiatkowski and Alaphilippe were considered to have to rely on a breakaway on one of the final climbs, several sprinters were counted among the favourites if a larger group reached the finish line together. 2014 winner Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates) was among them, as was Arnaud D\u00e9mare (Groupama\u2013FDJ), who won the race in 2016, but had to withdraw from Paris\u2013Nice due to a cold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Pre-race favourites\nOther strong sprinters at the start line were Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors), Matteo Trentin (Mitchelton\u2013Scott), Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Dimension Data), Magnus Cort (Astana), Andr\u00e9 Greipel (Lotto\u2013Soudal) and Marcel Kittel (Team Katusha\u2013Alpecin), who took part in the race for the first time. Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb), usually also a favourite, was not given a strong chance due to a fractured shoulder, suffered three weeks prior at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. 2015 winner John Degenkolb (Trek\u2013Segafredo) missed the race due to illness, as did his teammate Giacomo Nizzolo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Pre-race favourites\nFernando Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors) also missed the race, because of a fractured hand suffered at Tirreno\u2013Adriatico. His teammate Philippe Gilbert, who had finished on the podium of Milan\u2013San Remo twice before, aimed at a victory to get closer to his goal of winning all five \"monument races\" of cycling. More riders considered to potentially play their hand on one of the climbs before the finish were Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain\u2013Merida), Olympic champion Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing Team), Gianni Moscon (Team Sky) and Nathan Haas (Team Katusha\u2013Alpecin).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Race report\nThe race started in heavy rain in Milan. The rolling start took place at 10:13 am local time at the Via della Chiesa Rossa outside of the city. An early breakaway formed, consisting of Mirco Maestri and Lorenzo Rota (both Bardiani\u2013CSF), Evgeny Kobernyak (Gazprom\u2013RusVelo), Guy Sagiv and Dennis van Winden (both Israel Cycling Academy), Sho Hatsuyama (Nippo\u2013Vini Fantini\u2013Europa Ovini), Charles Planet (Team Novo Nordisk), Matteo Bono (UAE Team Emirates) and Jacopo Mosca (Wilier Triestina\u2013Selle Italia). The maximum time gap the group held was six minutes after about an hour of racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Race report\nThe peloton began to pull back on the Passo Turchino climb, cutting the break's lead to 4:30 minutes by the summit, though it extended back to five minutes as the riders reached the sea front. With the roads still wet, a crash in the field involved both Kristoff and Greipel among others. With 70\u00a0km (43\u00a0mi) of the race to go, the rain eased up. By the first of the so-called Capi climbs 50\u00a0km (31\u00a0mi) from the finish, the breakaway's lead was down to two minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Race report\nAt the Cappo Berta, with 39\u00a0km (24\u00a0mi) left, the lead had decreased further to half a minute, while the high tempo in the field distanced Marcel Kittel. Maestri attacked from the break on the descent, taking Rota, van Winden, and Bono with him. However, they were caught at San Lorenzo al Mare, 30\u00a0km (19\u00a0mi) before the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Race report\nAs the field reached the climb of the Cipressa, more riders failed to keep contact with the field's high pace. However, no major attacks were launched. At the base of the Poggio climb, Astana and Groupama\u2013FDJ set the tempo. Mark Cavendish (Team Dimension Data) had to retire after a spectacular accident in which he hit a traffic bollard and crashed onto the road. Marcus Burghardt (Bora\u2013Hansgrohe) led the first acceleration on the climb, with Jempy Drucker (BMC Racing Team) following. Drucker moved past Burghardt but was reeled back by the Bahrain\u2013Merida squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Race report\nKrists Neilands (Israel Cycling Academy) attacked shortly before the summit and Vincenzo Nibali reacted, leaving Neilands shortly thereafter and heading towards the finish on his own. His lead at the summit was 12 seconds. Matteo Trentin (Quick-Step Floors) tried to counter the attack on the descent, but was unable to do so. At the bottom of the descent, Nibali's lead was nine seconds over a larger group of riders. Alaphilippe set the pace as they tried to reach Nibali before the line, but to no avail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Race report\nNibali won the race just ahead of Caleb Ewan and Arnaud D\u00e9mare, who led out the sprint from the group behind. It was Nibali's third victory in one of cycling's \"monument\" races, having won Il Lombardia twice before. He was also the first Italian to win the race since Filippo Pozzato in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Post-race\nFollowing his victory, Nibali thanked his Bahrain\u2013Merida teammates for their efforts. He described the final kilometres of the race as \"endless \u2013 pure suffering.\" He added: \"I was very cold and calculating. I knew I was working for the team. When I attacked, I knew I had to go alone, and it was that way\". Second-placed Caleb Ewan stated that he was surprised to have been so close to victory. He felt that the race had gone his way, adding: \"All that went wrong for us is that Vincenzo was too strong.\" Sixth-placed Peter Sagan congratulated Nibali on his win, saying: \"He deserves it. None of us had any means against his attack.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280972-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Milan\u2013San Remo, Post-race\nMark Cavendish's crash, which left him with a broken rib, caused him to miss the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Andr\u00e9 Greipel, who suffered two crashes in the last 4\u00a0km (2.5\u00a0mi) of the race, was forced to miss the rest of the spring classics season due to a broken collarbone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280973-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Milex Open\nThe 2018 Milex Open was a professional tennis tournament played on green clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic between 8 and 13 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280973-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Milex Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280973-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Milex Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280973-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Milex Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280974-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Milex Open \u2013 Doubles\nJuan Ignacio Londero and Luis David Mart\u00ednez were the defending champions but only Londero chose to defend his title, partnering Tom\u00e1s Lipovsek Puches. Londero lost in the semifinals to Leander Paes and Miguel \u00c1ngel Reyes-Varela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280974-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Milex Open \u2013 Doubles\nPaes and Reyes-Varela won the title after defeating Ariel Behar and Roberto Quiroz 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280975-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Milex Open \u2013 Singles\nV\u00edctor Estrella Burgos was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Federico Delbonis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280975-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Milex Open \u2013 Singles\nChristian Gar\u00edn won the title after defeating Delbonis 6\u20134, 5\u20137, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280976-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Military Bowl\nThe 2018 Military Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December 31, 2018. It was the 11th edition of the Military Bowl, and was one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by defense contractor Northrop Grumman, the game was officially known as the Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280976-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Military Bowl, Teams\nThe game was played between Virginia Tech of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Cincinnati of the American Athletic Conference (The American). The two programs had previously met 11 times, with Virginia Tech holding a 6\u20135 lead in the series. It was their second meeting in the Military Bowl, having previously contested the 2014 edition, with Virginia Tech winning 33\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280976-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Military Bowl, Teams, Virginia Tech Hokies\nVirginia Tech received and accepted a bid to the Military Bowl on December 2. The Hokies entered the bowl with a 6\u20136 record (4\u20134 in conference). After starting the season 4\u20132, the Hokies lost four games in a row, then finished with two wins, giving them the six wins needed for bowl eligibility. This was Virginia Tech's 26th consecutive bowl appearance, having played in a bowl every season since the 1993 Independence Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280976-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Military Bowl, Teams, Cincinnati Bearcats\nCincinnati received and accepted a bid to the Military Bowl on December 2. The Bearcats entered the bowl with a 10\u20132 record (6\u20132 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280977-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Milton Keynes Council election\nThe 2018 Milton Keynes Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Milton Keynes Council in England. This election was held on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280978-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Milwaukee Brewers season\nThe 2018 Milwaukee Brewers season was the 49th season for the Brewers in Milwaukee, the 21st in the National League, and 50th overall. On September 26, the Brewers clinched a playoff berth for the first time since 2011. They defeated the Chicago Cubs in the 2018 National League Central tie-breaker game on October 1 to win their first division title since 2011. They swept the Colorado Rockies in the Division Series to advance to the National League Championship Series, where they lost in seven games to the Los Angeles Dodgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280978-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Milwaukee Brewers season, Season standings, Record vs. opponents\nThe October 1 tiebreaker games were regular-season games that are included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280978-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Milwaukee Brewers season, Farm system\nThe Brewers' farm system consisted of eight minor league affiliates in 2018. They operated a Dominican Summer League team as a co-op with the Cleveland Indians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280979-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minas Gerais gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 state elections in Minas Gerais were held on 7 October, as part of the general elections in the Federal District and in 26 states, to elect one Governor and Vice Governor, two Senators and four substitutes for Senator, 53 Federal Deputies, and 77 State Deputies. In the election for Governor, entrepreneur Romeu Zema (NOVO) finished in first place with 42.73% of the valid votes, followed by Senator Antonio Anastasia (PSDB) with 29.06%. Incumbent Governor Fernando Pimentel (PT) couldn't re-elect, placing third place with 23.12% of the votes. As the first place didn't reach 50% of the votes, a second round took place on 28 October. Zema was elect Governor with 71.80% of the votes, and Anastasia placed second with 28.20%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280979-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minas Gerais gubernatorial election\nFor the Federal Senate, the then Federal Deputy Rodrigo Pacheco (DEM) and the journalist and presenter Carlos Viana (PHS) were elect to fill the seats of A\u00e9cio Neves (PSDB) and Zez\u00e9 Perrella (MDB). They had, respectively, 20.49% and 20.22% of the votes. Dinis Pinheiro (SD) place third with 18.42% of the votes, and former president Dilma Rousseff (PT), who had been impeached two years before, placed fourth with 15.35% of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280980-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mini Challenge UK\nThe 2018 Mini Challenge season was the seventeenth season of the Mini Challenge UK. The season started on 31 March at Oulton Park and ended on 29 September at Rockingham Motor Speedway. The season featured thirteen rounds across the UK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280980-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mini Challenge UK, Championship standings\nChampionship points were awarded for the first 34 positions in each Championship Race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. There were bonus points awarded for Pole Position and Fastest Lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280981-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minivan Championship\nThe 2018 Minivan Championship Football Tournament is the fourth season under its current tournament format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests\nIn November 2018, students and local food vendors of Minjiang University protested the ban of take-out food on the campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Background\nWith the rise of online ordering platforms, many Minjiang University students turned to takeout food options to avoid ongoing food safety concerns associated with the university's often-crowded dining hall and canteens. Subsequent business loss led to objections being raised by traditional eating establishments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Background\nAround this time, several universities including USTB (University of Science and Technology Beijing), BIT (Beijing Institute of Technology) and Guangxi University of Foreign Languages implemented regulations to prohibit or restrict deliveries by takeout providers. Minjiang University planned to follow suit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Background\nEarly in November 2018, rumors circulated claiming the university was to ban take-out food. Then, on November 11, Minjiang University issued a new regulation banning take-out food from entering the campus. This was confirmed in the morning via the release of the \"instructions on the special work of campus renovation\" on the official blog of the Student Work Office. The new regulation prohibited the consumption of take-out food on campus and threatened disciplinary action against students caught with take-out food on campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Protests\nAt noon on November 12, the university's dining hall saw an abnormally large crowd, with the second canteen filled to near capacity. Students, unable to get seats, were forced to wait in line at the gate. Noting the situation, several nearby take-out vendors turned up at the entrance of the Second Canteen and began offering free lunches. They also called on students to boycott the new take-out ban. In response, the university sent personnel to enforce order by asking the vendors to leave the premises. When the vendors refused to leave, the university referred the matter to the police, who arrived to remove the vendors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Protests\nLater in the day, students posted an online critique of Mr. He Daiqin (the Party Secretary of Minjiang University), accusing him of instigating the ban on take-out food. They called for Mr. He to resign and demanded he be investigated by authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Protests\nSome dormitory areas were in turmoil, with many students shouting from buildings in protest of the school's take-out ban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Aftermath\nOn November 12, the school responded to the situation by allowing vendors to set up take-away food areas outside school gates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Aftermath\nOn the afternoon of November 13, university officials rejected students' charges against Mr. He Daiqin, and declined to investigate these allegations. The university subsequently relaxed the ban on take-away food on campus, calming protests and enabling take-away vendors to deliver food on campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Aftermath\nOn the evening of November 14, Fuzhou police reported that four take-out food vendors who had distributed free lunches at the entrance to the Second Canteen of Minjiang University were placed in administrative detention for seriously disturbing the normal order of the school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Aftermath\nOn November 15, the university continued to allow take-out food to enter parts of the campus, and tweeted that it would further facilitate student meals, yet dismissed the allegation that \"He Daiqin, the university leader, owned shares in the canteen\" as an internet rumor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Aftermath\nVendors were permitted to set up in the dormitory area and make arrangements for selling and delivering food. Later, they officially recognized take-away food areas in Districts 3 and 4. This official recognition was further extended to Districts 1 and 2 on the morning of November 16. At noon on November 13, Minjiang University At the request of Minjiang University officials, Sina Weibo officially removed some topics about the take-out ban and deleted some micro blogs that attacked the university and its leadership. This was done to suppress hot searches and limit potential damage to the university's image.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Media attention\nAt noon on November 12, after nearby take-out stalls were removed by the police, many witnesses uploaded photos and video of the scene to the internet. They complained about the university and compared it to a \"prison\". News about Minjiang University's take-out food ban trended on the hot search list on Sina Weibo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Media attention\nFurther reporting by Sina, Pear Video, People's Daily, CNR and other media also covered the role of take-out food in colleges. Television channels CCTV-2 and CCTV-12 both ran stories on \"Minjiang University has banned take-out food and merchants have offered free lunches\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280982-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Minjiang University protests, Media attention\nAfter the take-away ban incident, university staff interviewed by the media offered clarification on the ban. They stated that the university's objection was not to the ordering of take-away meals, but rather to the influx of take-away delivery vehicles which caused excessive on-campus traffic. They indicated that students ordering take-away food should meet their deliveries at the designated areas at the school's gates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280983-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Attorney General election\nThe 2018 Minnesota Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of the U.S. state of Minnesota. A primary election was held on August 14, 2018, in which Doug Wardlow was nominated as the Republican candidate and Keith Ellison was nominated as the Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor (DFL) candidate. Ellison won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280983-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Attorney General election, Background\nDFL incumbent Lori Swanson was first elected attorney general in 2006. Swanson succeeded two-term DFL incumbent Mike Hatch, who opted to run for governor in 2006. Swanson was re-elected in 2010 and 2014. On January 28, 2018, Swanson announced that she would seek re-election. The announcement came after months of speculation that she would run for governor in 2018. On June 4, 2018, after failing to receive her own party's endorsement for attorney general, Swanson ended her campaign for attorney general and opted to run for governor instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280983-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Attorney General election, Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor primary, Candidates\nIt was reported in late January 2018 that Ellison was exploring the possibility of seeking election to be attorney general. According to several people he had spoken with recently, Ellison was not likely to run but found it enticing. Following Swanson's withdrawal from the election on June 4, 2018, it was reported that Ellison was likely to enter the race, which he did the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280983-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Attorney General election, Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor primary, Candidates\nOn June 2, 2018, the DFL endorsed Pelikan at their state convention. Swanson received 52 percent over Pelikan after the first round of balloting, but not the required 60 percent. Swanson then withdrew her nomination for the party's endorsement, but did not indicate if she would run in the primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280983-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Attorney General election, Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor primary, Candidates\nOn June 4, 2018, Swanson announced she would no longer seek re-election and would instead run for Governor. The day after her announcement, Ellison, Foley, Hatch, Hilstrom, and Rothman entered the race. Hatch said he did not think Pelikan had sufficient courtroom experience and would withdraw if someone he thought was qualified entered the race, which he did the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280983-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Attorney General election, Republican primary, Candidates\nWardlow was endorsed by the Republicans on June 2, 2018, at their state convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280983-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Attorney General election, Minor parties and independents, Candidates\nOn October 15, 2018, Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party candidate Noah Johnson announced his endorsement of DFL nominee Keith Ellison. In explaining his endorsement, Johnson cited Ellison's recent statement of support for marijuana legalization. Johnson also stated that he wished to avoid drawing votes away from Ellison and thereby increasing Republican nominee Doug Wardlow's chances of victory. Johnson's name remained on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280983-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Attorney General election, General election\nOn October 27, 2018, Politico reported that the State of Minnesota had not elected a Republican attorney general in more than 40 years, but added that Ellison was \"putting that streak to the test.\" According to Politico, Ellison had been \"rocked by accusations of domestic abuse\" and had fallen behind Wardlow in a recent poll; Politico added that the race \"revolves around Ellison and what voters make of the misconduct allegations he's facing.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280984-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 2018 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Golden Gophers played their home games at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota and competed in the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They were led by second-year head coach P. J. Fleck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280984-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nMinnesota began the year by sweeping its non-conference slate against New Mexico State, Fresno State, and Miami (OH); but opened Big Ten Conference play with four straight losses. The team secured wins against Indiana and Purdue, and then secured bowl eligibility by defeating rival Wisconsin for the first time since 2003, and the first time on the road since 1994. The team finished the regular season tied for fifth in the Big Ten West Division with a conference record of 3\u20136. They were invited to the Quick Lane Bowl where they defeated Georgia Tech to end the year with an overall record of 7\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280984-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe team's starting quarterback was true freshman Zack Annexstad before he suffered an internal midsection injury in the game against Nebraska on October 20. He did not return for the rest of the season, and redshirt freshman Tanner Morgan took his place under center. Both Annexstad and Morgan finished with nine touchdowns on the year. The team's leading rusher was Mohamed Ibrahim, with 1,160 rushing yards; and the team's leading receiver was Tyler Johnson with 1,169 receiving yards and 12 receiving touchdowns, which tied for the conference lead. Johnson was named first-team All-Big Ten by the media voters. Defensive lineman Carter Coughlin and linebacker Blake Cashman each finished with 15 tackles for loss and were both named second-team All-Big Ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280984-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Previous season\nThe Golden Gophers finished the 2017 season 5\u20137, 2\u20137 in Big Ten play to finish in sixth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280985-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives District 23B special election\nA special election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on February 12, 2018, to elect a new representative for District 23B in the Minnesota House of Representatives, caused by the resignation of Tony Cornish effective on November 30, 2017. A primary election was held on January 29, 2018, to nominate a Republican candidate. It coincided with the Minnesota Senate District 54 special election. The Republican nominee, Jeremy Munson, won the special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280985-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives District 23B special election, Background\nIn November 2017, several women accused Representative Tony Cornish of sexually harassing them. On November 21, 2017, Cornish announced he would resign by the end of the month, which he did on November 30, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280985-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives District 23B special election, Background\nDistrict 23B represents parts of the counties of Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Waseca, and Watonwan. Cornish had represented the area since 2003, replacing retiring DFL incumbent Henry Kalis\u2014who represented the area since 1975. In the last election in 2016, Cornish won with 67 percent of the vote compared to his DFL opponent's 34 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280985-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives District 23B special election, Candidates\nCandidate filings were open from January 8 through January 11. As multiple Republican candidates filed for office, a primary election was held on January 29, 2018, to determine which candidate received the party's nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280985-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives District 23B special election, Candidates, Republican Party of Minnesota\nDistrict 23B Republican delegates held a convention to endorse a candidate on December 21, 2017. Chair of the Minnesota First Congressional District Republicans Jeremy Munson won the endorsement after one ballot with support of 75 percent of delegates. Watonwan County Commissioner Scott Sanders also sought the endorsement. Sanders did not confirm whether he would abide by it. He ended up filing on the last day of the filing period and cited support he received as well as people asking him to run over the previous several weeks as reasons in deciding to run. Sanders also said the time frame was too short for the endorsement process to work effectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 112], "content_span": [113, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280985-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives District 23B special election, Candidates, Minnesota Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor Party\nDistrict 23B DFL delegates held a convention to endorse a candidate on December 28, 2017. Melissa Wagner won the endorsement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 122], "content_span": [123, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280985-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives District 23B special election, Primary election\nScott Sanders' decision to continue to seek the Republican nomination was criticized by several local Republican officials, saying he was hindering Republican endorsed candidate Jeremy Munson's ability to concentrate on running against DFL nominee Melissa Wagner. The chair of the Le Sueur County Republicans, Al DeKruif, said Sanders was putting Munson at a disadvantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 87], "content_span": [88, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280985-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives District 23B special election, Primary election\nShortly after the close of candidate filings, Cornish endorsed Sanders, saying he was \"rock solid\" on important issues, including Second Amendment protections. Cornish, who retained a lot of popularity in the district, said he decided to make an endorsement because he was receiving calls and questions from former constituents about whom they should support. Sanders appreciated the endorsement, saying he trusted and respected Cornish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 87], "content_span": [88, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280985-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives District 23B special election, Primary election\nSeveral local and state Republican officials criticized Cornish for not supporting the endorsed candidate. DeKruif said Cornish did not deserve a say in the process due to the circumstances of his resignation. Munson said Cornish should not have made an endorsement so late in the election process. In response, Cornish said he had nothing to lose by making an endorsement since he did not plan on running for office ever again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 87], "content_span": [88, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280985-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives District 23B special election, Primary election, Results\nJeremy Munson won the Republican nomination over Scott Sanders in the primary election. Munson said he was pleased with the results and that they reaffirmed the endorsement process. Sanders congratulated Munson and said he appreciated everyone who turned out to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 96], "content_span": [97, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280985-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives District 23B special election, Results\nRepublican nominee Jeremy Munson won over DFL nominee Melissa Wagner. Republicans claimed their victory showed their agenda still had wide support among the electorate. Republican Party of Minnesota Chair Jennifer Carnahan said Munson's win proved Republican President Donald Trump was still popular in Greater Minnesota. Democrats had hopes that momentum seen in recent special election wins in other states would similarly show and translate into a victory for Wagner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 78], "content_span": [79, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280986-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 Minnesota House of Representatives election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 6, 2018, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the 91st Minnesota Legislature. A primary election was held in several districts on August 14, 2018. The election coincided with the election for governor, a special election for the Minnesota Senate, and other elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280986-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives election\nThe Minnesota Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor Party (DFL) won a majority of seats, ending the Republican majority that began with the 2014 election. The new legislature convened on January 8, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280986-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives election, Background\nThe last election resulted in the Republicans winning a majority of 76 seats, increasing the majority of 72 seats it won in 2014. It was the first time that a party has retained control of the House of Representatives since the DFL in the 2008 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280986-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives election, Background\nIn conjunction with the result of the Senate election, it also resulted in the return of all-Republican control of the Legislature since 2012\u2014only the second time the Republicans have held control of both houses since the return of partisan elections to the House in 1974 and the Senate in 1976 and marking the end of two years of split control between a Republican-held House and a DFL-held Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280986-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives election, Background\nA special election was held for District 32B on February 14, 2017, following the invalidation of its general election results. On September 8, 2016, the Minnesota Supreme Court found Republican incumbent Bob Barrett ineligible for election because he did not reside in his district. As the ruling occurred within 80 days of the general election, Barrett's name could not be replaced on the ballot. Republican Anne Neu won the special election, increasing the Republican majority to 77 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280986-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives election, Electoral system\nThe 134 members of the House of Representatives were elected from single-member districts by first-past-the-post voting to two-year terms. Contested nominations of the DFL and Republican parties for each district were determined by an open primary election. Minor-party and independent candidates were nominated by petition. Write-in candidates had to file a request with the secretary of state's office for votes for them to be counted. The filing period was from May 22 through June 5, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280986-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives election, Competitive districts\nMinnPost and MPR News considered a total of 18 House districts competitive in 2018, based on past election results, campaign spending trends, and conversations with campaigns. MinnPost considered 15 districts competitive, 11 of which were held by the Republicans and four by the DFL. According to MinnPost, their list was not exhaustive and could have spoken to broader trends in the election. MPR News also considered 15 districts competitive, 12 of which were held by the Republicans and three by the DFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 71], "content_span": [72, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280986-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives election, Primary elections results\nA primary election was held in 21 districts to nominate Republican and DFL candidates. Eight Republican nominations and 14 DFL nominations were contested. Seven incumbents were opposed for their party's nomination. Notably, District 55A Republican incumbent Bob Loonan lost his party's nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280986-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota House of Representatives election, Aftermath\nOn November 8, 2018, the newly elected House DFL caucus met to elect the leadership of the new House. House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman was elected speaker-designate unopposed. Ryan Winkler was elected majority leader and Liz Olson majority whip. The next day, the newly elected House Republican caucus met and elected outgoing Speaker Kurt Daudt minority leader, a position he held from 2013 to 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280987-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Lynx season\nThe 2018 WNBA season of the Minnesota Lynx was their 20th season in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The Lynx finished the 2017 season with a record of 27\u20137, finishing first in the Western Conference (and the league as a whole) and qualifying for the playoffs, before ultimately beating Los Angeles in the WNBA Finals to win their league-tying best fourth championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280987-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Lynx season\nThe Lynx returned to the home arena, Target Center, for the 2018 season, following a year playing at the Xcel Energy Center and Williams Arena due to renovations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280987-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Lynx season\nThe season started out shakily for the Lynx, going 2\u20133 in May. The Lynx lost their season opener in a re-match of last years finals to Los Angeles. They also lost on the road to the eventual #2 and #3 playoff seeds, Atlanta and Washington. However, the Lynx turned it around in June, posting a 7\u20133 record. This included a 6 game winning streak, which included wins over 4 eventual playoff teams. Momentum slowed in July, with the Lynx going 6\u20134. Three of their four losses in July came versus teams that ended up missing the playoffs. The Lynx finished the season on a cold note, going 3\u20136 in August. A two game winning streak separated two three game losing streaks. However, the team won their last game of the season to secure the 7th seed in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280987-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Lynx season\nThe Lynx first-round playoff matchup saw them play in Los Angeles versus the Los Angeles Sparks. This match-up was a re-match of the past 3 WNBA Finals. The Lynx lost the game 68\u201375.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280987-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Lynx season, Transactions, WNBA Draft, WNBA Draft Trades\nThe Lynx traded the drafts rights to Park Si-Ju and Kahlia Lawrence to the Las Vegas Aces in exchange for the draft rights to Jill Barta and the rights to the Aces's 2nd Round Pick in the 2019 Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280987-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Lynx season, Top 20 Players\nWith the Lynx entering their 20th season in the league, the organization began ranking their Top 20 Players of All-Time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280988-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Secretary of State election\nThe 2018 Minnesota Secretary of State election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the secretary of state of the U.S. state of Minnesota. Steve Simon, the incumbent and Minnesota Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor Party (DFL) nominee, won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280988-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Secretary of State election, Background\nDFL incumbent Steve Simon was first elected in 2014\u2014succeeding two-term DFL incumbent Mark Ritchie, who did not seek re-election. Simon announced on January 23, 2018, that he would seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280988-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Secretary of State election, Candidates, Republican Party of Minnesota\nHowe was endorsed by the Republicans on June 2, 2018, at their state convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 85], "content_span": [86, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280988-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Secretary of State election, Candidates, Minnesota Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor Party\nSimon was endorsed by the DFL on June 1, 2018, at their state convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 95], "content_span": [96, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280989-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 13 special election\nA special election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 6, 2018, to elect a new senator for District 13 in the Minnesota Senate, caused by the resignation of Republican Senator Michelle Fischbach effective on May 25, 2018. The special election determined which political party would control the Senate given that Fischbach's resignation left it equally divided between the Republicans and the DFL. Jeff Howe won the special election, preserving a Republican one-seat majority. The special election coincided with the 2018 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280989-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 13 special election, Background\nIn early January 2018, Republican Senator Michelle Fischbach became lieutenant governor after Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor (DFL) Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith resigned to be appointed to the U.S. Senate. As president of the Senate, Fischbach was first in line to succeed her. She did not resign from the Senate, citing a Senate counsel opinion that she could both hold her Senate seat and be lieutenant governor. Several DFLers disagreed, including Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk and Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, asserting that holding both positions violated constitutional separation of powers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280989-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 13 special election, Background\nOn January 12, 2018, Destiny Dusosky, then-chair of the Senate District 13 DFL, filed a lawsuit challenging Fischbach's ability to remain in the Senate. The lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice on February 12, 2018, by Chief Judge John Guthmann of the Minnesota Second District Court in Ramsey County, who said the lawsuit was premature as it was unclear whether the Senate would allow her to continue to serve once the Legislature reconvened later that month. Guthmann also denied a request for a temporary restraining order to prevent Fischbach from serving in the Senate. Dusosky filed a second lawsuit in April 2018, charging that Fischbach's status in the Senate was still undetermined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280989-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 13 special election, Background\nOn May 25, 2018, Fischbach resigned from the Senate and took the oath of office as lieutenant governor. She said the end of the legislative session and Governor Mark Dayton's pledge that he would not call a special session prompted her decision to resign. Following Fischbach's resignation, Dusosky withdrew her lawsuit. Fischbach said she would not run in the special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280989-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 13 special election, Background\nDistrict 13 includes parts of Benton and Stearns counties. Fischbach became its senator in February 1996 after winning a special election. In the last election in 2016, she won 69% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280989-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 13 special election, Candidates\nThe candidate filing period was from May 29 through June 5, 2018. A primary election was not held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280990-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 54 special election\nA special election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on February 12, 2018, to elect a new senator for District 54 in the Minnesota Senate, caused by the resignation of Dan Schoen effective on December 15, 2017. A primary election was held on January 29, 2018, to nominate a Republican candidate. It coincided with the Minnesota House of Representatives District 23B special election. The Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor (DFL) nominee, Karla Bigham, won the special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280990-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 54 special election, Background\nIn November 2017, several women accused Senator Dan Schoen of sexually harassing them. On November 22, 2017, Schoen announced he would resign on December 15, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280990-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 54 special election, Background\nThe special election garnered much attention given that the Republicans controlled the Senate only by a single seat as well as a legal question of whether a Republican senator should remain in the Senate. Senator Michelle Fischbach was the subject of a lawsuit challenging her ability to remain in the Senate after she became lieutenant governor in early January 2018 when DFL Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith resigned to be appointed to the U.S. Senate. As president of the Senate, Fischbach was first in line to succeed her.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280990-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 54 special election, Background\nThe lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice by the chief judge of the Minnesota Second District Court in Ramsey County on the day of the special election, but another lawsuit was likely. The DFL needed to retain the seat for there to be a potential that the DFL could win control of the Senate if a special election were to occur if Fischbach were removed from the Senate as a result of a lawsuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280990-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 54 special election, Background\nDistrict 54 represents parts of the counties of Dakota and Washington. Schoen had represented the district in the Senate since January 2017, replacing retiring DFL incumbent Katie Sieben\u2014who represented the area in the Senate since 2007 and previously in the House from 2003. Schoen previously represented District 54A, the western half of the district, in the House from 2013. In the last election in 2016, Schoen won with 53 percent of the vote compared to his Republican opponent's 47 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280990-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 54 special election, Candidates\nCandidate filings were open from January 8 through January 11. As multiple Republican candidates filed for office, a primary election was held on January 29, 2018, to determine which candidate received the party's nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280990-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 54 special election, Candidates, Republican Party of Minnesota\nThe Senate District 54 Republicans held a convention to endorse a candidate on December 12, 2017. Former state Representative Denny McNamara won the endorsement. 2016 District 54 Republican nominee Leilani Holmstadt and Bob Anderson also sought the endorsement and said they would abide by it. James Brunsgaard, who did not seek the endorsement, was also a candidate. In explaining his decision to seek the Republican nomination, Brunsgaard said he did not like McNamara because he's a \"self-serving politician.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 93], "content_span": [94, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280990-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 54 special election, Candidates, Minnesota Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor Party\nThe Senate District 54 DFL endorsed former state Representative Karla Bigham on November 30, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 103], "content_span": [104, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280990-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 54 special election, Primary election, Results\nDenny McNamara won the Republican nomination over James Brunsgaard in the primary election. McNamara said he appreciated Brunsgaard's willingness to put himself forward for public office. Brunsgaard said he would support Libertarian candidate Emily Mellingen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 77], "content_span": [78, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280990-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Senate District 54 special election, Results\nDFL nominee Karla Bigham won over Republican nominee Denny McNamara. The result returned the Senate to the status quo before the vacancy of 34 Republican and 33 DFL senators, creating a potential future shift of control of the Senate in a special election if Republican Senator Michelle Fischbach were removed from her seat as a result of a lawsuit challenging her ability to remain in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280991-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota State Auditor election\nThe 2018 Minnesota State Auditor election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the state auditor of the U.S. state of Minnesota. Julie Blaha, the Minnesota Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor Party (DFL) nominee, won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280991-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota State Auditor election, Background\nDFL incumbent Rebecca Otto was first elected in 2006, defeating one-term Republican incumbent Pat Anderson. Otto was re-elected in 2010 and 2014. On January 9, 2017, Otto announced she would seek election to be governor and would not seek re-election to be state auditor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280991-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota State Auditor election, Candidates, Republican Party of Minnesota\nMyhra was unanimously endorsed by the Republicans on June 2, 2018, at their state convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 80], "content_span": [81, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280991-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota State Auditor election, Candidates, Minnesota Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor Party\nBlaha was endorsed by the DFL over Jon Tollefson on June 3, 2018, at their state convention. Tollefson filed for office, but later withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 90], "content_span": [91, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280992-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Twins season\nThe 2018 Minnesota Twins season was the 58th season for the Minnesota Twins franchise in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, their ninth season at Target Field and the 118th overall in the American League. The Twins began the season on March 29 on the road against the Baltimore Orioles and ended the season at home against the Chicago White Sox. The Twins finished the 2018 season at 78\u201384, 13 games out of first place in a weak American League Central division. The record led to the firing of manager Paul Molitor the day after the season ended. Also, this season would prove to be the 15th and final season for career Twin Joe Mauer, who retired following the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280992-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Twins season, Game log\nThe Twins played two games against the Cleveland Indians on April 17 and 18 at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The games were considered home games for the Twins. An island-wide power outage occurred on April 18, but the game scheduled for that day was still played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280993-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota United FC season\nThe 2018 Minnesota United FC season was the ninth season of Minnesota United FC's existence and their second season in Major League Soccer, the top-tier of American soccer. United played at TCF Bank Stadium and was coached by Adrian Heath, who still coaches United. Outside of MLS, Minnesota United also participated in the 2018 U.S. Open Cup, as well as various preseason competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280993-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota United FC season, Transfers, MLS Re-Entry Draft\nStage 1 of the Re-Entry Draft took place on December 15, 2017. Stage 2 of the Re-Entry Draft took place on December 21, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280993-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota United FC season, Transfers, MLS SuperDraft\nAny player marked with a * is part of the Generation Adidas program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season\nThe 2018 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 58th in the National Football League, their third playing their home games at U.S. Bank Stadium and their fifth under head coach Mike Zimmer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season\nFollowing a Week 8 loss to the New Orleans Saints, the team could no longer improve on their 13\u20133 record from the 2017 season, in which they won the NFC North division and reached the NFC Championship before losing to the eventual Super Bowl LII champion Philadelphia Eagles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season\nThe Vikings failed for the second time in three years to qualify for the playoffs when the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Washington Redskins in week 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Preseason\nThe Vikings' preliminary preseason schedule was announced on April 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nThe Vikings began the 2018 season with a home game against the San Francisco 49ers, their first home game since the Minneapolis Miracle in the divisional round of the 2017\u201318 NFL playoffs. The game saw quarterback Kirk Cousins and defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson make their regular season debuts for the Vikings, as well as the return of second-year running back Dalvin Cook, who had torn his ACL early in the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nThe two teams traded punts to start the game, before the Vikings put a drive together on their second possession, culminating with a 48-yard field goal by rookie kicker Daniel Carlson. The 49ers then failed to pick up a first down on their next possession, giving the Vikings good field position on their own 47-yard line off the ensuing punt as the first quarter drew to a close.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nRuns by Latavius Murray and a 17-yard pass from Cousins to Cook gave the Vikings a third-and-3 situation on the San Francisco 22-yard-line, from where Cousins threw a 22-yard strike to Stefon Diggs, the 100th touchdown pass of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0004-0003", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nOn the ensuing San Francisco possession, quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo linked up with tight end George Kittle and wide receiver Trent Taylor to get them into Minnesota territory, before a pass interference penalty against Vikings cornerback Trae Waynes put the 49ers just outside the red zone; however, the Minnesota defense stood firm and allowed just a 42-yard Robbie Gould field goal; however, on the Vikings' next drive, Cook fumbled the ball at the end of a 15-yard run, allowing San Francisco to regain possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0004-0004", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nThey marched down to the Vikings' 1-yard line, only for defensive tackle Linval Joseph to force a fumble from running back Alfred Morris, which safety Harrison Smith subsequently recovered. The Vikings were able to get out from under the shadow of their own goalposts and closed out the half with a 10\u20133 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nThe Vikings defense forced a three-and-out to begin the second half, but only managed one first down on their ensuing possession before having to punt; however, three plays later, with the 49ers at third-and-8 from their own 20-yard line, the Vikings' rookie cornerback Mike Hughes intercepted a pass from Garoppolo and returned it 28 yards for a touchdown to put the Vikings up 17\u20133. Garoppolo responded immediately, however, completing a 56-yard pass to fullback Kyle Juszczyk to put the 49ers inside the Vikings' 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nAs in the first half, though, the Minnesota defense held up and limited the 49ers to a 33-yard field goal. Cousins focused his attention on his wide receivers to begin the next Vikings possession, completing passes of 11 and 34 yards to Adam Thielen, the latter being the Vikings' longest completed pass of the day, to get into 49ers territory. Cook continued to run the ball, while Cousins' attention shifted to his tight ends, first completing a nine-yard pass to David Morgan II before an 11-yard completion to Kyle Rudolph for the Vikings' third touchdown of the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nA 36-yard completion from Garoppolo to Kittle was the highlight of the subsequent San Francisco drive, which culminated in a 22-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Dante Pettis with 30 seconds left in the quarter. The Vikings went three-and-out on their next possession; they soon had the ball back, as cornerback Xavier Rhodes intercepted Garoppolo, only to again have to punt, giving San Francisco the ball back at their own 14-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0005-0003", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nA 39-yard pass from Garoppolo to Pettis got the 49ers into the Vikings' half, but a tackle for a five-yard loss by Smith led to another third-down situation for San Francisco; Garoppolo's third-down pass was incomplete, which should have meant them having to punt, only for Richardson to be flagged for roughing the passer, giving the 49ers a 15-yard advantage and an automatic first down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0005-0004", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nThey were able to get down to the Vikings' 4-yard line, but were unable to get the ball into the end zone and again had to settle for a field goal, reducing the margin to 8 points. The Vikings again had to punt on their next possession, but a 10-yard sack by Smith on the next series meant San Francisco had to do the same, giving the Vikings the ball back with six minutes left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0005-0005", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nA combination of runs from Murray and Cook allowed the Vikings to take three minutes off the clock, but a scramble run from Cousins came up just short of another first down; however, the Vikings were able to draw the 49ers' defense offside, giving them a free five yards and the first down. They were able to take another minute off the clock before punting, giving the 49ers the ball with 1:49 to play. Needing a touchdown to stand a chance of taking the game to overtime, Garoppolo had to go for it, but was intercepted by Smith on the second play of the drive, allowing the Vikings to run out the clock and claim their first win of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Green Bay Packers\nWeek 2 saw the Vikings travel to Lambeau Field to take on their archrivals, the Green Bay Packers, against whom Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr effectively ended Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers' 2017 season with a hit that broke Rodgers' collarbone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Green Bay Packers\nThe Packers received the ball first and were forced to punt. On the ensuing drive, the Packers forced the Vikings to go three-and-out, but the punt from the Vikings' Matt Wile was blocked by Geronimo Allison and recovered by the Packers' Josh Jackson for a touchdown. On Minnesota's next drive, quarterback Kirk Cousins led the Vikings on an eight-play, 57-yard touchdown drive to tie the game at 7\u20137, with the scoring pass going to Laquon Treadwell for 14 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Green Bay Packers\nGreen Bay followed that with a nine-yard touchdown pass from Rodgers to Davante Adams early in the second quarter, making the game 14\u20137. After trading punts and a missed 48-yard field goal for the Vikings by rookie kicker Daniel Carlson, the Packers' Mason Crosby made a 37-yard field goal at the end of the first half to send the Packers to the locker room leading 17\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Green Bay Packers\nThe Vikings received the ball after halftime, but their drive stalled and were forced to punt. Green Bay followed that up with a 40-yard field goal from Crosby with 6:32 left in the third quarter. After trading punts, the Vikings scored another touchdown on a three-yard pass to Stefon Diggs early in the fourth quarter to reduce the Packers' lead to six points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Green Bay Packers\nGreen Bay followed that up with Crosby's third field goal of the day, this time from 31 yards, but the Vikings responded quickly on their next drive, as Cousins hit Diggs with a 75-yard touchdown pass to make it a 23\u201321 lead for the Packers. Crosby then made his fourth field goal of the day from 48 yards with 2:13 left in the fourth quarter. Cousins threw an interception on the first play of the Vikings' next drive, leading to a fifth Crosby field goal from 36 yards with 1:45 remaining, putting the Packers up 29\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Green Bay Packers\nCousins then led the Vikings 75 yards in eight plays, resulting in a 22-yard touchdown pass to Adam Thielen, but the Vikings needed a two-point conversion to tie the game. Cousins then connected with Diggs to tie the game at 29\u201329, with 31 seconds remaining in regulation. Green Bay was able to move down the field and into field goal range, but Crosby's 52-yard attempt missed left and the game went to overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Green Bay Packers\nThe Vikings won the overtime coin toss and received the ball. They moved 39 yards in seven plays, but Carlson's 49-yard attempt sailed wide right. Green Bay then was forced to punt after chewing 3:45 off the clock, and the Vikings started their next drive with 3:57 left to play. After moving 63 yards, the Vikings were at the Packers' 17-yard line with four seconds remaining in overtime, but Carlson missed his third field goal attempt of the game, this time from 35 yards, and again wide right. Carlson was waived the next day, replaced by veteran kicker Dan Bailey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Los Angeles Rams\nThis was the first NFL broadcast in history to have an all-female announcing team (accessible only to Amazon Prime viewers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 90], "content_span": [91, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Philadelphia Eagles\nPHI \u2013 Zach Ertz 7-yard pass from Carson Wentz (Jake Elliott kick), 1:09. Vikings 23\u201321. Drive: 7 plays, 75 yards, 1:38.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. New Orleans Saints\nThis was a rematch of the Minneapolis Miracle from last year's divisional playoff game. There would be no miracle in this one however, as the Saints won 30-20 as the Vikings fell to 4-3-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280994-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota Vikings season, Pro Bowl\nFour Vikings players were elected to the Pro Bowl when the rosters were announced on December 18, 2018, with both outside linebacker Anthony Barr and safety Harrison Smith named to their fourth Pro Bowls. Wide receiver Adam Thielen was named to his second Pro Bowl, having received his first nomination in 2017, while defensive end Danielle Hunter received his first Pro Bowl selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 6, 2018. All of Minnesota's executive officers were up for election as well as all the seats in the Minnesota House of Representatives, several judicial seats, two United States Senate seats, Minnesota's eight seats in the United States House of Representatives, and several seats for local offices. Special elections were also held for a Minnesota Senate seat and Minnesota's Class 2 U.S. Senate seat. A primary election to nominate Republican and Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor (DFL) candidates and several judicial and local primary elections were held on August 14, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Background\nThe DFL has held all of Minnesota's executive offices since 2011 after Mark Dayton was elected governor in the 2010 gubernatorial election. They have held the office of attorney general since 1971 and the offices of secretary of state and state auditor since 2007. The Republicans have controlled the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2015 and the Minnesota Senate since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Background\nThe DFL has held both of Minnesota's U.S. Senate seats since 2009 when Al Franken defeated Republican incumbent Norm Coleman after a protracted recount following the 2008 election. Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith was appointed in January 2018 to replace Franken after he resigned following sexual harassment allegations. The DFL has held Minnesota's other U.S. Senate seat since 2001, when Mark Dayton defeated Republican incumbent Rod Grams in 2000. Dayton did not seek re-election in the 2006 election and was succeeded by Amy Klobuchar in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Background\nThe Republican and DFL parties held caucuses on February 6, 2018, in which eligible voters elected delegates that subsequently endorsed candidates at conventions held later in the year. Both parties also held a nonbinding preference ballot for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Electoral system\nElections for state and federal offices were held via first-past-the-post voting, each producing a single winner. Nominations for parties with major party status, the Republican and DFL parties, were determined by an open primary election. The candidate that won the most votes in each party became their party's nominee in the general election. If only a single candidate sought the nomination for each party, those candidates were automatically nominated and a primary election for that office was not held. Candidates for major parties had automatic ballot access. Candidates for other parties and independents were nominated by petition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Electoral system\nJudicial and local elections were held via the nonpartisan blanket primary. The top-two candidates that won the most votes in the primary election advanced to the general election. If not more than two candidates sought election to the same office, a primary election was not held. In multiple-winner elections, the top number of candidates that won the most votes in the primary election that were twice the number of candidates to be elected advanced to the general election. If not more than twice the number of candidates to be elected sought election, a primary election was not held. Some cities, school districts, and all townships and hospital districts did not hold a primary election, regardless of the number of candidates. Judicial and local elections were nonpartisan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Electoral system\nThe candidate filing period was from May 22 through June 5, 2018. The filing period for cities, townships, school districts, and hospital districts that do not hold a primary election was from July 31 through August 14, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, State elections, Executive elections, Governor\nIncumbent DFL Governor Mark Dayton did not seek re-election, but was eligible to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 72], "content_span": [73, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, State elections, Executive elections, Governor\nHennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson was the Republican nominee and U.S. Representative Tim Walz was the DFL nominee. Other candidates included Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party candidate Chris Wright and Libertarian Party candidate Josh Welter. Candidates who lost the primary election for the Republican nomination include former Governor Tim Pawlenty and Matt Kruse. Candidates who lost the primary election for the DFL nomination include State Representative Erin Murphy, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, Tim Holden, and Ol\u00e9 Savior. Walz won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 72], "content_span": [73, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, State elections, Executive elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent DFL Secretary of State Steve Simon announced on January 23, 2018, that he would seek re-election. Former State Senator John Howe was the Republican nominee. William Denney sought election as an Independence Party candidate. Simon won re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 82], "content_span": [83, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, State elections, Executive elections, State Auditor\nIncumbent DFL State Auditor Rebecca Otto announced on January 9, 2017, that she would not seek re-election and would seek election to be governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, State elections, Executive elections, State Auditor\nFormer State Representative Pam Myhra was the Republican nominee. Julie Blaha was the DFL nominee. Other candidates included Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate Michael Ford and Libertarian Party candidate Chris Dock. Blaha won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, State elections, Executive elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent DFL Attorney General Lori Swanson announced on January 28, 2018, that she would seek re-election. On June 4, 2018, Swanson announced that she would not seek re-election and instead seek election to be governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 80], "content_span": [81, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, State elections, Executive elections, Attorney General\nFormer State Representative Doug Wardlow was the Republican nominee and U.S. Representative Keith Ellison was the DFL nominee. Noah Johnson sought election as a Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party candidate. Candidates who lost the primary election for the Republican nomination include Sharon Anderson and former State Senator Bob Lessard. Candidates who lost the primary election for the DFL nomination include State Representative Debra Hilstrom, former Ramsey County attorney Tom Foley, Matt Pelikan, and former commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Commerce Mike Rothman. Ellison won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 80], "content_span": [81, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, State elections, Legislative elections, Minnesota Senate (special election)\nA special election was held for District 13 in the Minnesota Senate. The special election determined which political party would control the Senate as the vacancy to be filled left the Senate equally divided between the Republicans and the DFL. Jeff Howe, the Republican nominee, won the special election, preserving a one-seat Republican majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 101], "content_span": [102, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, State elections, Legislative elections, Minnesota House of Representatives\nAll 134 seats in the Minnesota House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. The Republicans held a majority of 77 seats and the DFL held 57 seats prior to the election. The DFL won a majority of 75 seats and the Republicans won 59 seats, ending a four-year Republican majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 100], "content_span": [101, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, State elections, Judicial elections\nFour seats on the Minnesota Supreme Court were up for election. Chief Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea and Justice Barry Anderson both won re-election unopposed. Justices Margaret Chutich and Anne McKeig were both elected in their first election following their appointments. Six seats on the Minnesota Court of Appeals and several seats on the Minnesota District Courts were also up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 61], "content_span": [62, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, State elections, Judicial elections\nJustice Chutich faced a challenge from conservative Michelle MacDonald, whom she beat 55.9% to 43.7%. Court of Appeals Justice Lucinda Ellen Jesson faced a challenge from human-rights lawyer Anthony L. Brown, whom she defeated 62.7% to 37.0%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 61], "content_span": [62, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, State elections, Judicial elections\nCongressional District Results for Chutich v. MacDonaldChutich: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a050\u201360% \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a060\u201370%MacDonald: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a050\u201360%", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 61], "content_span": [62, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, State elections, Judicial elections\nCongressional District Results for Jesson v. BrownJesson: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a050\u201360% \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a060\u201370% \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a070\u201380%", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 61], "content_span": [62, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Federal elections, United States Senate, Class 1\nIncumbent DFL Senator Amy Klobuchar sought re-election. State Representative Jim Newberger was the Republican nominee. Other candidates included Green Party candidate Paula Overby and Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate Dennis Schuller. Candidates who lost the primary election for the Republican nomination include Merrill Anderson, Rae Hart Anderson, and Rocky De La Fuente. Candidates who lost the primary election for the DFL nomination include Steve Carlson, Stephen Emery, David Robert Groves, and Leonard Richards. Klobuchar won re-election to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 74], "content_span": [75, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Federal elections, United States Senate, Class 2 (special election)\nOn December 7, 2017, incumbent DFL Senator Al Franken announced he would resign. On December 13, DFL Governor Mark Dayton announced that he would appoint Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith to replace Franken, assuming office on January 3, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 93], "content_span": [94, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Federal elections, United States Senate, Class 2 (special election)\nSmith sought election to the seat in the special election held alongside the general election to serve the remainder of Franken's term, expiring on January 3, 2021. State Senator Karin Housley was the Republican nominee. Other candidates included Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate Sarah Wellington and independent candidate Jerry Trooien. Candidates who lost the primary election for the Republican nomination include Bob Anderson and Nikolay Bey. Candidates who lost the primary election for the DFL nomination include Richard Painter, Ali Chehem Ali, Gregg Iverson, Nick Leonard, and Christopher Seymore. Smith won election to the remaining two years of Franken's original six-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 93], "content_span": [94, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Federal elections, United States House of Representatives\nMinnesota's eight seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election. The DFL held five seats and the Republicans held three seats prior to the election. Both parties gained and lost two seats, resulting in no net change in the number of seats held by each party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 83], "content_span": [84, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Local elections\nElections for several subdivisions were held\u2014including elections for counties, municipalities, school districts, and hospital districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Local elections, Counties\nAll 87 counties held regular elections. 54 counties held primary elections. Seven counties also held special elections on the day of the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Local elections, Counties\nSome counties held elections for one or more of the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Local elections, Municipalities\n826 cities and 638 townships held regular elections. 29 cities held primary elections. 118 cities and 49 townships held special elections. Oakdale and Red Wing held special elections on both days of the primary election and general election. Benson and Saint Paul did not have regularly scheduled elections, but each held a special election on the day of the primary election. All other special elections were held on the day of the general election. Minnetonka Beach and Motley each had a ballot question on the day of the primary election. 47 cities and 23 townships had ballot questions on the day of the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Local elections, Municipalities\nCities held elections for one or more of the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Local elections, Municipalities\nTownships held elections for one or more of the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Local elections, School districts\n284 school districts held regular elections to elect half of the members of their board of directors. Six school districts held primary elections. Braham, Eden Prairie, and Holdingford did not have regularly scheduled elections, but each held a special election on the day of the general election. 24 other school districts also held special elections on the day of the general election. Five school districts had ballot questions on the day of the primary election. 56 school districts had ballot questions on the day of the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280995-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota elections, Local elections, Hospital districts\n16 hospital districts held regular elections to elect half of the members of their board of directors. Six hospital districts also held special elections on the day of the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 61], "content_span": [62, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280996-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 6, to elect the 41st Governor of Minnesota as incumbent Democratic governor Mark Dayton chose not to run for re-election for a third term. The Democratic nominee was congressman Tim Walz from Minnesota's 1st congressional district while the Republicans nominated Hennepin County commissioner Jeff Johnson. The Independence Party of Minnesota didn't field a candidate for the first time since 1994. Going into the election the polls showed Walz ahead and the race was characterized as lean or likely DFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280996-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota gubernatorial election\nIn the end, Walz went on to defeat Johnson by the largest margin for a DFL candidate since 1986. Walz had also received more votes than any gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280996-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota gubernatorial election, Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor primary, Straw poll\nOn February 6, 2018 the DFL conducted a statewide straw poll among registered Democrats in Minnesota. Caucus-goers were scheduled to elect delegates to their party's Senate district and county conventions, which in turn will elect state convention delegates who will endorse candidates for governor, two U.S. Senate seats, attorney general, state auditor and secretary of state. Congressional district delegates will endorse U.S. House candidates. Since the straw poll the three lowest performing candidates withdrew from the race (Paul Thissen, Chris Coleman, and Tina Liebling).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 82], "content_span": [83, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280996-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minnesota gubernatorial election, General election, Debates\nThe debate season began only three days after the primaries with Johnson and Walz participating in two debates on Friday, August 17. A third debate was held Friday, August 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280997-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minor Counties Championship\nThe 2018 Minor Counties Championship was the 114th Minor Counties Cricket Championship season, and the fourth under the name 'Unicorn Counties Championship'. It is contested in two divisions. Berkshire were the defending champions and retained their title by defeating Lincolnshire in a repeat of the 2016 and 2017 finals. The final was played in Bodicote, Oxfordshire, with Berkshire winning by an innings and 32 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280997-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minor Counties Championship, Standings, Format\nTeams receive 16 points for a win, 8 for a tie and 4 for a draw. In a match reduced to a single innings, teams receive 12 points for a win, 8 for a draw (6 if less than 20 overs per side) and 4 points for losing. For matches abandoned without play, both sides receive 8 points. Bonus points (a maximum of 4 batting points and 4 bowling points) may be scored during the first 90 overs of each team's first innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280997-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minor Counties Championship, Final\nThe final featured the teams which finished with the most points in each Division, Berkshire and Lincolnshire \u2013 A repeat of the 2016 and 2017 finals. It began on 16 September 2018 at Banbury with the result being a victory for Berkshire by an innings and 32 Runs. Berkshire retained the title whilst Lincolnshire's most recent victory was in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280998-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Minya bus attack\nOn November 2, 2018, masked gunmen opened fire on a group of Egyptian Christians traveling by bus through Minya. There was a convoy of three vehicles and two of them managed to escape. The vehicles were carrying Copts traveling from Sohag Governorate and Minya Governorate in Egypt to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor. At least 7 people from Minya were killed while 12 others were injured. A similar attack near the same place had happened in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280998-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Minya bus attack, Background\nCopts have faced growing persecution and sectarian violence in Egypt since the early 2010s, including several in the last two years, all claimed by the Islamic State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280998-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Minya bus attack, Background\nA similar attack happened on 26 May 2017, when masked gunman opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts in the same route of this attack, killing 29 people and wounding 22 others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280998-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Minya bus attack, Background\nOn 29 December 2017, a gunman killed at least 11 people in attacks on a Coptic Orthodox church and a Christian-owned shop near Cairo before he was wounded and arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280998-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Minya bus attack, Background\nOn 9 April 2017, Palm Sunday, terrorists bombed two Coptic churches \u2014 St. George's Church in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta on the Nile delta, and Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the principal church in Alexandria \u2014 killing 47 people and injuring at least 126 others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280998-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Minya bus attack, Background\nOn 11 December 2016, a suicide bomber killed 29 people and injured 47 others at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church (commonly known as El-Botroseya Church)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280998-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Minya bus attack, Response and reactions\nTwo days later, 19 militants involved in the attack were killed in a shoot-out with the police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280998-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Minya bus attack, Response and reactions\nPope Francis prayed for the victims in his Sunday Angelus Address, subsequent to the killings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280999-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mishui vehicle attack\nOn 12 September 2018, a man deliberately drove his SUV into crowds on a square in Mishui near Hengyang in Hunan Province, China. The attack resulted in the deaths of 15 people and injuries to 43 others. The attacker, Yang Zanyun, was sentenced to death and executed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280999-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mishui vehicle attack, Attack\nThe attack happened at about 7:35 p.m. when a Land Rover SUV was driven onto a square in Mishui and deliberately struck people. When the vehicle came to a stop, the suspect got out and continued his attack with a shovel and a knife.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280999-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mishui vehicle attack, Suspect and investigation\nThe suspect was identified as 54-year-old Yang Zanyun, who was living off interest from loans. He has a long criminal record that includes previous convictions for selling drugs, theft and attacking people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00280999-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mishui vehicle attack, Suspect and investigation\nThe government said Yang wanted to take \"revenge on society.\" Three months after the attack, on December 12, Yang was sentenced to death and deprived of his political rights for the remainder of his life. The sentence was approved by the Supreme People's Court and he was executed on January 29, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281000-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi College Choctaws football team\nThe 2018 Mississippi College Choctaws football team represented Mississippi College during the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach John Bland. The Choctaws played their home games at Robinson\u2013Hale Stadium and were members of the Gulf South Conference (GSC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281000-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi College Choctaws football team, Preseason, Gulf South Conference coaches poll\nOn August 2, 2018, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Choctaws predicted to finish eighth place in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 94], "content_span": [95, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281000-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi College Choctaws football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team\nThe Choctaws had one player at one position selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 100], "content_span": [101, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281000-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi College Choctaws football team, Schedule\nMississippi College 2018 football schedule consists of six home and five away games in the regular season. The Choctaws will host GSC foes Valdosta State, West Alabama, West Florida, West Georgia , and will travel to Delta State, Florida Tech, North Greenville, and Shorter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281000-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi College Choctaws football team, Schedule\nThe Choctaws will host two of the three non-conference games against Clark Atlanta from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and Southwest Baptist Bearcats football from the Great Lakes Valley Conference, and will travel to North Alabama, which is a FCS Independent team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281000-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi College Choctaws football team, Schedule\nTwo of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281001-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team\nThe 2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team represents the Mississippi State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Bulldogs play their home games at Dudy Noble Field. Due to construction of the new Dudy Noble Field, the first home game was not played until March 6, to give construction crews time to finish the bottom seating of the stadium. The new Dudy Noble Field in its entirety will not be completed until the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281001-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Schedule and results\n\u2020 Indicates the game does not count toward the 2018 Southeastern Conference standings. *Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the Collegiate Baseball poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281001-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281001-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, MLB Draft\n\u2020Small, a redshirt sophomore, returns to MSU for the next season. \u2021Mangum, a junior, returns to MSU for the next season. Although Mangum had almost exclusively played CF in college and pitched very little, he was drafted as a pitcher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281001-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Recruiting\nMississippi State is ranked 8th by Perfect Game for its 2018 recruiting class, in spite of having two players, Carter Stewart and J. T. Ginn, both RHPs, go in the 1st round of the MLB draft and two more, Eric Cerantola and Sam Knowlton, both also RHPs, go in the 33rd and 39th, who did not sign to play professionally after this draft, although there is some speculation that Stewart may go JUCO instead. Stewart does go JUCO and after all teams have defections due to major league signings, Mississippi State is ranked 6th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281001-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Recruiting\nPerfect Game only covers commitments out of high school. There is also a JUCO player, Gunner Halter, SS, taken in the 26th round who plans to play for Mississippi State. There are also two high schoolers that were not drafted, probably due to difficulty of being signed, who were projected as top 10 rounders, Hayden Jones, C, and Christian McLeod, LHP. In addition to the four RHPs, C, LHP, and JUCO SS mentioned above, high school players also include three OFs, a RHP, two SSs, and a C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281002-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team\nThe 2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team represented Mississippi State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs played their home games at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi and competed in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by first-year head coach Joe Moorhead. Mississippi State subsequently vacated all eight victories due to NCAA sanctions due to academic misconduct involving 10 players and a tutor in online coursework.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281002-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team, Previous season\nThe Bulldogs finished the 2017 season 9\u20134, 4\u20134 in SEC play to finish in a tie for fourth place in the Western Division. They were invited to the TaxSlayer Bowl where they beat Louisville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281002-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team, Previous season\nHead coach Dan Mullen resigned at the end of last season to become the head coach at Florida. Running backs coach Greg Knox served as interim head coach for the TaxSlayer Bowl. On November 28, Penn State offensive coordinator Joe Moorhead was hired as their new head coach, beginning in the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281002-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team, Preseason, SEC media poll\nThe SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018 with the Bulldogs predicted to finish in third place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281002-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SEC teams\nThe Bulldogs had five players selected to the preseason all-SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281002-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team, Schedule\nAll eight victories were subsequently vacated as part of NCAA sanctions due to academic misconduct involving a tutor and online coursework.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281002-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State\nMississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald made his first appearance on the football fields since November 2017, when a foot injury sidelined him for the season and a 1-game suspension kept him out of the season opener. Fitzgerald threw for 154 yards with two touchdowns and ran for another 159 yards. Mississippi State compiled a total of 538 yards of total offense where Kansas State only managed 213.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 78], "content_span": [79, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281002-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State\nKansas State continued with its two-quarterback system, switching snaps between Skylar Thompson and Alex Delton. Kansas State running back Alex Barnes managed 75 yards rushing, but the Wildcats fell short to lose the game 31-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 78], "content_span": [79, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281003-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football team\nThe 2018 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football team represents Mississippi Valley State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Delta Devils are led by first-year head coach Vincent Dancy and play their home games at Rice\u2013Totten Stadium as members of the East Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281003-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football team, Previous season\nThe Delta Devils finished the 2017 season 2\u20139, 1\u20136 in SWAC play to finish in last place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 73], "content_span": [74, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281003-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football team, Previous season\nOn November 20, it was announced that head coach Rick Comegy's contract would not be renewed. He finished at Mississippi Valley State with a four-year record of 6\u201338.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 73], "content_span": [74, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281003-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football team, Preseason, SWAC football media day\nDuring the SWAC football media day held in Birmingham, Alabama on July 13, 2018, the Delta Devils were predicted to finish last in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 92], "content_span": [93, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281003-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football team, Preseason, Presason All-SWAC Team\nThe Delta Devils had two players selected to Preseason All-SWAC Teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281004-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri State Auditor election\nOn November 6, 2018, a general election in the U.S. state of Missouri was held for the post of State Auditor of Missouri. The election for Missouri State Auditor coincided with the U.S. federal midterm elections that were held throughout all 50 states, as well with other state legislative and local races in Missouri. Missouri's Class 1 United States Senate seat was also up for election on November 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281004-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri State Auditor election\nThe primary elections for this race were held on August 7, 2018. The Democrats nominated incumbent Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway, while the Republicans nominated attorney Saundra McDowell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281004-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri State Auditor election\nGalloway won election to a full term. Prior to this, Galloway had been appointed to the post by former Governor Jay Nixon in 2015, following the death of Tom Schweich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281004-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri State Auditor election\nFollowing the Republican victories in the elections on November 8, 2016 for Governor of Missouri, U.S. Senate, Lieutenant Governor, Missouri State Treasurer, Attorney General, and Secretary of State, Galloway and U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill became the only two remaining Democratic statewide officeholders in Missouri. McCaskill's failed re-election campaign in 2018 made Galloway the state's only Democratic statewide officeholder and only female statewide elected official. Her victory also marks the only Democratic win in a statewide election in Missouri since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281005-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri State Bears football team\nThe 2018 Missouri State Bears football team represented Missouri State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Dave Steckel and played their home games at the Robert W. Plaster Stadium. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They finished the season 4\u20137, 2\u20136 in MVFC play to finish in ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281005-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri State Bears football team, Previous season\nThe Bears finished the 2017 season 3\u20138, 2\u20136 in MVFC play to finish in a tie for eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281005-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri State Bears football team, Preseason, Preseason MVFC poll\nThe MVFC released their preseason poll on July 29, 2018, with the Bears predicted to finish in ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281005-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri State Bears football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MVFC Teams\nThe Bears placed three players on the preseason all-MVFC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281006-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri State Senate election\nThe 2018 Missouri State Senate elections were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the seventeen Missouri State Senators to the Missouri State Senate. Half of the Senate's thirty-four seats are up for election every two years, with each Senator serving four-year terms. The next time that these seats will be up is the 2022 Missouri State Senate election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281006-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri State Senate election, Results Summary, District\nResults of the 2018 Missouri State Senate elections by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281007-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 2018 Missouri Tigers football team represented the University of Missouri in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers played their home games at Faurot Field as members of the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference. They were led by third-year head coach Barry Odom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281007-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Tigers football team, Previous season\nThe Tigers finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 4\u20134 in SEC play to finish in a tie for third place in the Eastern Division. They were invited to the Texas Bowl where they lost to Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281007-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Tigers football team, Previous season\nOn November 24, quarterback Drew Lock broke the SEC passing record for touchdowns in a season with 43, in a 48\u201345 win over Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281007-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Tigers football team, Preseason, SEC media poll\nThe SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018 with the Tigers predicted to finish in fourth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281007-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Tigers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SEC teams\nThe Tigers had five players selected to the preseason all-SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281008-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 23\u201326. All eight baseball-sponsoring schools in the conference participated in the double-elimination tournament that was held at Dallas Baptist's Horner Ballpark in Dallas, Texas. The winner of the tournament earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281008-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format\nThe league's eight teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The teams played a two bracket, double-elimination format tournament, with the winner of each bracket then playing a single elimination final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 71], "content_span": [72, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281009-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, popularly referred to as \"Arch Madness\", was the postseason men's basketball tournament that completed the 2017\u201318 season in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Tournament was held at the Scottrade Center, now known as the Enterprise Center, in St. Louis, Missouri from March 1\u20134, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281009-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe Tournament marked the first tournament with Valparaiso as a member of the MVC, having replaced Wichita State when the Shockers joined the American Athletic Conference in June 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281009-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe tournament's top seed, Loyola\u2013Chicago defeated the No. 3 seed Illinois State in the championship game to receive the Missouri Valley's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281009-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nTeams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken by overall record in conference games played between the tied teams, then (if necessary) by overall adjusted RPI on the day following the conclusion of the regular season as calculated in Collegiate Basketball News' Men's RPI Report. The top six seeds received opening round byes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 66], "content_span": [67, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281009-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nWith a win at Southern Illinois on February 21, Loyola\u2013Chicago clinched the outright MVC championship and the No. 1 seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 66], "content_span": [67, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281010-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament was the 29th edition of the competition. The tournament was played from November 7 until November 11, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281010-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe Central Arkansas Bears won the tournament, defeating Loyola Chicago 2\u20131 in the final. The win give the UCA their second consecutive MVC men's soccer championship, and a berth into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281010-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament, Background\nThe 2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament is the culmination of the regular season. The regular season conference matches determine the seeding in the tournament, which determines the conference's automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament. All teams in the Missouri Valley Conference, or MVC, play each other once during the season. Teams play certain teams at home during even number years, and then will play those teams on the road during odd number years. Teams are awarded three points for a win, a point for a draw and no points for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 67], "content_span": [68, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281010-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament, Background\nIn the event that teams are tied on points, the first tiebreaker is head-to-head record. If that tiebreaker is tied, goal differential is applied, followed by goals scored, then away goals, then RPI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 67], "content_span": [68, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281010-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament, Background\nCentral Arkansas won the regular season with a 4\u20131\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 67], "content_span": [68, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281010-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament, Honors and awards, MVC All-Tournament Team\nNacho Miras, ValparaisoSimon Waever, EvansvilleJared Brown, DrakeSteven Enna, DrakeJake Buckle, Missouri StateJake Laird, Missouri StateGrant Stoneman, LoyolaAidan Megally, LoyolaTucker Stephenson, LoyolaNiklas Brodacki, Central ArkansasMarc Olsen, Central ArkansasJake Bates, Central ArkansasDaltyn Knutson, Central Arkansas", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 99], "content_span": [100, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281011-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament (also known as the Hoops in the Heartland Tournament) is part of the 2017\u201318 NCAA Division I women's basketball season and will be played in Moline, Illinois March 8\u201311, 2018 at the TaxSlayer Center. The tournament's winner will receive the Missouri Valley Conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281012-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Missouri Valley Conference held from October 28 through November 4, 2018. The opening round matches of the tournament were held at campus sites, while the semifinals and final took place at Loyola Soccer Park in Chicago, Illinois. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the Missouri State Lady Bears, but they were eliminated from the 2018 tournament with a 1\u20130 loss to the Illinois State Redbirds in the opening round. The Loyola won the tournament with a 3\u20132 win over Drake in the final. The conference tournament title was the first for the Loyloa women's soccer program and the first for head coach Barry Bimbi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 902]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281013-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Missouri elections, United States Senate\nThis was one of the most hotly contested Senate elections in the entire country in 2018, and that most of the people rating this election saw this as the most close races. Incumbent Claire McKaskil was holding on to her seat as Donald Trump had just won this state by a large margin 2 years ago, even though she won big in the 2012 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281014-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mitchelton\u2013Scott (men's team) season\nThe 2018 season for the Mitchelton\u2013Scott cycling team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281015-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mito HollyHock season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281015-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mito HollyHock season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281016-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mitre 10 Cup\nThe 2018 Mitre 10 Cup season was the thirteenth season of New Zealand's provincial rugby union competition since it turned professional in 2006. The regular season began on August 16, when North Harbour hosted Northland. It involved the top fourteen rugby unions of New Zealand. For sponsorship reasons, the competition was known as the Mitre 10 Cup and it was the third season under the lead sponsor. The winner of the Championship, Waikato was promoted to the Premiership, the seventh placed Premiership team, Taranaki was relegated to the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281016-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mitre 10 Cup, Format\nThe Mitre 10 Cup standings were sorted by a competition points system. Four points were awarded to the winning team, a draw equaled two points, whilst a loss amounted to zero points. Unions could also win their side a respectable bonus point. To receive a bonus point, they must have scored four tries or more or lose by seven or fewer points or less. Each team was placed on their total points received. If necessary of a tiebreaker, when two or more teams finish on equal points, the union who defeated the other in a head-to-head got placed higher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281016-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Mitre 10 Cup, Format\nIn case of a draw between them, the side with the biggest points deferential margin got rights to be ranked above. If they were tied on points difference, it was then decided by a highest scored try count or a coin toss. This seeding format was implemented since the beginning of the 2006 competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281016-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mitre 10 Cup, Format\nThe competition included a promotion-relegation process with the winner of the Championship receiving automatic promotion to the Premiership, replacing the seventh-placed team in the Premiership which was relegated to the Championship for the following year. The regular season consisted of two types of matches. The internal division matches were when each team played the other six unions in their division once, home or away. The cross-division matches were when each team played four teams from the other division, thus missing out on three teams, each from the opposite division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281016-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Mitre 10 Cup, Format\nEach union played home or away games against teams from the other division, making a total of ten competition games for each union. The finals format allowed the top four teams from each division move on to the semi-finals. The top two division winners, based on table points, received a home semi-final. In the first round of the finals, the semi-finals, the second division winner hosted the third division winner, and the first division winner hosted the fourth division winner. The final was hosted by the top remaining seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281016-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mitre 10 Cup, Regular season\nThe 2018 Mitre 10 Cup played across nine weeks with every team playing one Wednesday night fixture in a double-up round where they played twice that week. The competition started on Thursday August 16, with North Harbour taking on Northland at QBE Stadium. The opening round saw a repeat of the Premiership final with Tasman against the then current champions Canterbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281016-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mitre 10 Cup, Ranfurly Shield, Pre-season challenges\nIn March 2018, Taranaki accepted Ranfurly Shield challenges from both Heartland Championship unions, Wanganui and Poverty Bay after the regular season draw was confirmed. Tikorangi and Hawera were chosen to host the Ranfurly Shield matches. Taranaki Rugby announced the venues for the pre-season defenses in mid April for July 28 and August 4 at the Tikorangi Domain and TSB Hub.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 57], "content_span": [58, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281017-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election\nThe legislative assembly election was held on 28 November 2018 to elect members of the 40 constituencies in Mizoram. Mizo National Front won 26 seats in the election. This was the first time that Congress does not have any government in any of the states in Northeast India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281017-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThe tenure of Mizoram Legislative Assembly was due to end on 15 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281017-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, Background\nFour high-profile leaders of the Congress including the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in Mizoram defected to the BJP before the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281017-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, Schedule\nThe Election Commission of India has announced the poll dates on 6 October 2018. It was held in single phase on 28 November 2018. The result was declared on 11 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281017-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, Quit Notice to CEO\nOn the eve of the election, Quit notice was given to Chief Election Officer SB Sashank because of two issues, one involving the deployment of central forces around Reang tribals living in Tripura Camps who are voters for Elections in Mizoram. While the State government wanted them to travel to Mizoram, groups representing Reang tribals wanted them to vote from Tripura camps. Secondly the CEO Shashank alleged interference by Principal Secretary (Home) Lalnunmawia Chuaungo in preparations for the polls scheduled on 28 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281017-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, Quit Notice to CEO\nHe wrote to the EC in the last week of October, mentioning an active role played by the state Home Department in this interference. The Election Commission of India issued orders to the state government to remove Chuaungo with immediate effect. Over 40,000 people mobilized by a co-ordination committee headed by the Young Mizo Association compromising Mizo Upa Pawl (Mizo senior citizens association), Mizo Hmeichhe Insuihkhawm Pawl (Mizo women organisation) and two student bodies took to the streets in Aizawl demanding removal of SB Sashank and reinstatement of Lalnunmawia Chaungo. Eventually the Election Commission recalled SB Sashank and appointed Mr Ashish Kundra as the New Chief Election Officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281018-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards\nThe 2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards ceremony, organized by CJ E&M through its music channel Mnet, took place from December 10 through December 14, 2018 (dubbed as \"MAMA Week\") in South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong. The ceremony was the first Mnet Asian Music Awards hosted in South Korea in nine years, the 20th ceremony in the show's history, and the second ceremony which took place in three locations. This was also the first ceremony broadcast worldwide online via YouTube. The three days event generated over 50 million messages sent on Twitter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281018-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards\nFour Grand Prizes (Daesangs) were given throughout the ceremonies; Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, Song of the Year and the addition of Worldwide Icon of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281018-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Shows\n2018 MAMA Premiere in Korea celebrated and honored new artists in both South Korea and other parts of Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281018-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Shows\n2018 MAMA Fans' Choice in Japan awarded artists in fan voted categories and also announced the first Worldwide Icon of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281018-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Shows\n2018 MAMA in Hong Kong was the main event and the show's finale. The show gave awards to the artists that made great achievements in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281018-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Winners and nominees\nOnline voting opened on the official MAMA' website, the Mwave app, TikTok, and Twitter, on November 1, 2018, one hour after nominees were announced. Voting ended on December 9, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281018-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Winners and nominees, Multiple nominations\nThe following artist(s) received seven or more nominations (excluding the special awards):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281018-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Presenters and performers\nThe following individuals and groups, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281018-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Broadcast\nThe red carpet and ceremonies of the 2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards were broadcast worldwide via Mnet, across CJ E&M channels and other international networks and online via Mnet K-pop's YouTube account, V Live, and Mnet's official website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281019-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mobile Mini Sun Cup\nThe 2018 Mobile Mini Sun Cup was the eighth edition of the preseason exhibition soccer tournament and the first under its new name and sponsor. It was held from February 3 to February 24 in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona. The defending champions were the Houston Dynamo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281020-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Molde FK season\nThe 2018 season was Molde's 11th consecutive year in the top flight, Eliteserien, and their 42nd season in the top flight of Norwegian football. They competed in Eliteserien, the Cup and the 2018\u201319 UEFA Europa League, which they entered at the First qualifying round stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281020-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Molde FK season\nIn the Norwegian Cup, Molde advanced from the first round on 18 April 2018 after Tr\u00e6ff was defeated with the score 1\u20136. Daniel Chima Chukwu scored a hat-trick in the game. Molde were drawn against Brattv\u00e5g in the second round. Molde lost the game 0\u20131 in extra time after 90 goalless minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281020-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Molde FK season, Season events\nAhead of the 2018 season, first team coach Mark Dempsey left Molde on 1 December 2017 to become the new head coach of IK Start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281021-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moldovan \"A\" Division\nThe 2018 Moldovan \"A\" Division (Romanian: Divizia A) was the 28th season of Moldovan football's second-tier league. The season started on 21 April 2018 and ended on 3 November 2018. Victoria Bardar were the defending champions, after winning their first title in the competition in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281021-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moldovan \"A\" Division, Season summary, Results\nTeams will play each other twice (once home, once away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281021-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moldovan \"A\" Division, Results by round\nThe following table represents the teams game results in each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281022-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moldovan \"B\" Division\nThe 2018 Moldovan \"B\" Division (Romanian: Divizia B) was the 28th season of Moldovan football's third-tier league. The season started on 5 May 2018 and ended on 10 November 2018. The league consisted of three regional groups, Nord (North), Centru (Centre) and Sud (South).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281022-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moldovan \"B\" Division, North, Results\nThe schedule consists of two rounds, each team plays each other once home-and-away for a total of 16 matches per team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281022-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moldovan \"B\" Division, Centre, Results\nThe schedule consists of two rounds, each team plays each other once home-and-away for a total of 18 matches per team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281022-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Moldovan \"B\" Division, South, Results\nThe schedule consists of two rounds, each team plays each other once home-and-away for a total of 12 matches per team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281023-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moldovan National Division\nThe 2018 Moldovan National Division (Romanian: Divizia Na\u021bional\u0103) was the 28th season of top-tier football in Moldova. The season started on 1 April 2018 and ended on 24 November 2018. Fixtures were announced on 19 March 2018. Sheriff Tiraspol were the defending champions. The winners of the league this season earned a spot in the first qualifying round of the 2019\u201320 UEFA Champions League, and the second, third and fourth placed clubs earned a place in the first qualifying round of the 2019\u201320 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281023-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moldovan National Division, Results\nTeams will play each other twice (once home, once away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281023-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moldovan National Division, Results\nTeams will play each other twice (once home, once away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281023-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Moldovan National Division, Results by round\nThe following table represents the teams game results in each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281024-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise earthquakes\nThe 2018 Molise earthquake hit the Italian regions of Molise on 15 August at 19:15:00 (UTC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281024-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise earthquakes, 25 April 2018\nThe earthquake measured 4.2 on the Richter scale and its epicentre was around a kilometer from the town of Acquaviva di Collecroce, in the province of Campobasso in Molise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281024-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise earthquakes, 15 August 2018\nFirst an earthquake of magnitude 4.7 hit the region. The epicenter was recorded 6 kilometers from Montecilfone, at a depth of 19 kilometers. It is the same epicenter of the shock that took place on 25 April 2018. This is the Acquaviva Collecroce area, 35 kilometers northwest of Campobasso. Then the second shock of 2.3. So much fear among the inhabitants but only slight damage found in Montecilfone. Second magnitude shock 2.3. - The second earthquake of magnitude 2.3 has had an epicenter at 5 km southeast of Palata. It took place a few minutes after that of 4.7 with the epicenter of Montecilfone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281024-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise earthquakes, 15 August 2018\nIn San Giacomo degli Schiavoni people poured into the street. The shock was felt throughout the Molise and throughout the Adriatic coast. But there are no damages, in addition to the slight ones detected at Montecilfone, as the Civil Defense was announced. Even firefighters confirmed: the switchboards have received many calls for information, but no request for action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281024-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise earthquakes, 15 August 2018\nThe earthquake with its epicenter in Molise was also felt in Naples, in several municipalities of the province and in other areas of Campania. Reports were made especially by people who are on the upper floors of housing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281024-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise earthquakes, 16 August 2018\nOn 16 August 2018 at 20.19 a short but intense earthquake of magnitude 5.2 occurred. It was followed by several other minor earthquake of replication, with one at 22:22 of magnitude 4.5. The earthquakes had their epicenter in the Montecilfone area. The depth of the earthquake was at 9 kilometers below the surface, and they were felt throughout central Italy, particularly in Abruzzo, Lazio and the Marche, but also in Apulia and Campania. In Naples, there were many fire alarms, but no damage. Fear took hundreds of people out on onto the streets throughout Abruzzo, from Pescara to Chieti, Teramo, L'Aquila, and Vasto. Slight damage was reported to houses in communes near the epicenter of the earthquake at Montecilfone, namely Guglionesi, Palata, Larino, and Tavenna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281024-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise earthquakes, 17 August 2018\nOn 17 August 2018 at 23:17 an earthquake of magnitude 2.4 occurred. The earthquake had the epicenter of the Guglionesi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281024-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise earthquakes, 18 August 2018\nOn 18 August 2018 at 00:48 an earthquake of magnitude 3.3 occurred. The earthquake had the epicenter of the Montecilfone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281024-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise earthquakes, 19 August 2018\nThe earthquake swarm continued in Molise. On 19 August 2018 at 23.48 an earthquake of magnitude 4.6 occurred. The earthquake had the epicenter of the Montecilfone area. The Protezione Civile has carried out hundreds of interventions and checks on houses, bridges and roads in areas hit by earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281024-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise earthquakes, 20 August 2018\nOn 20 August 2018 at 2:07 an earthquake of magnitude 3 occurred. The earthquake had the epicenter of the Montecilfone area. There are about 190 earthquakes located in the area since August 14, of which 22 of magnitude equal to or greater than 2, the strongest of which is of magnitude 5.1 at 20:19 on August 16, 2018. Following the earthquake in Molise, at Lanciano (Chieti) in Abruzzo, the Ponte Nuovo on the Sangro river was closed by the Protezione Civile. The section of the state road Bifernina 647 between the two viaducts that overhang the Liscione dam at Guardialfiera (Campobasso) was closed to transit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281024-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise earthquakes, 21 August 2018\nOn 21 August 2018 at 00:17 an earthquake of magnitude 3.2 occurred. The earthquake had the epicenter of the Montecilfone area. The water tank of the Municipality of Montecilfone (Campobasso) is dangerous and must be demolished. This is confirmed by Franco Pallotta, mayor of Montecilfone, the epicenter of earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281025-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise regional election\nThe Molise regional election of 2018, for the renewal of the Regional Council of Molise and the election of the President of Molise, was held on 22 April 2018. Incumbent President Paolo Di Laura Frattura was not his party's candidate due to contrasts within the centre-left coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281025-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise regional election\nDonato Toma, a member of Forza Italia, gained the most votes and was elected president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281025-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Molise regional election, Analysis\nUnlike in the general election where the M5S reached about 44%, this time it reached 32%. In contrast, the centre-right coalition was up just under 20% compared to 4 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281026-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaco Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Monaco Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2018) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 27 May 2018 at the Circuit de Monaco, a street circuit that runs through the Principality of Monaco. It was the 6th round of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship, the 76th time the Monaco Grand Prix had been held, and the 65th time it had been a round of the Formula One World Championship since the inception of the series in 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281026-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaco Grand Prix\nThe race was won by Daniel Ricciardo in Red Bull, with Sebastian Vettel in Ferrari coming second. Lewis Hamilton in Mercedes finished third, maintaining the championship lead over Vettel. Mercedes also led in the Constructors' Championship ahead of Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281026-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Background, Tyres\nThe race marked the competitive d\u00e9but of Pirelli's new hypersoft tyre compound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281026-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Background, Chassis updates\nFollowing controversy over the use of winglets above halo-mounted rear view mirrors at the previous round in Spain, the FIA banned the winglets ahead of the race weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281026-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Background, Penalties\nRomain Grosjean was handed a three-place grid penalty for causing a collision on the opening lap of the Spanish Grand Prix. Max Verstappen received a 5 place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change, and a 10 place grid penalty for use of a third MGU-K, although this made no difference to his starting position, as he already was at the back of the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281026-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nDaniel Ricciardo was fastest across all three practice sessions, improving his time in each successive session. In FP3, Max Verstappen crashed heavily at the Turn 16, meaning his car was damaged beyond repair for qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281026-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nMax Verstappen was unable to compete in qualifying as his mechanics were unable to repair the car in time after a crash in the final practice session. Daniel Ricciardo set a new qualifying lap record to take pole position for the race. Red Bull capped both ends of the grid, Ricciardo starting first and Verstappen starting last. Pierre Gasly made Q3 for the second time, however his teammate, Brendon Hartley, after showing promise with P7 in FP3, qualified in P16 after being held up in traffic as well as being unhappy with the balance in his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281026-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race\nRicciardo led going into the first corner with the top 6 staying in the same order. On lap 28, Ricciardo, still leading the race, complained of a loss of power to the team. Ricciardo was left to manage a wounded car for the remaining 50 laps of the race, with what was later revealed to be an MGU-K failure (giving him 25% less horsepower than usual), and with only six out of eight gears functioning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281026-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race\nFor the rest of the race he came under pressure from Sebastian Vettel, however due to dirty air and the track being difficult to pass, Vettel was unable to attack Ricciardo. Vettel lost a lot of time after Stoffel Vandoorne, around a lap behind Vettel and Ricciardo, came in between them both after pitting for a second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281026-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race\nSergey Sirotkin was given a 10-second stop-go penalty after his tyres were not fitted to the car at the 3 minute signal. On lap 53 Fernando Alonso retired at Sainte-D\u00e9vote due to gearbox problems, his first retirement of the 2018 season. A virtual safety car came out on lap 70 when Charles Leclerc's left front brake disc failed just before the Nouvelle Chicane, causing him to crash into the back of Brendon Hartley. Both drivers were forced to retire due to damage. This was the first Monaco Grand Prix since 2009 where a (full) safety car did not make an appearance, although there was a brief virtual safety car period. It was Ricciardo's most recent victory in Formula One until the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281026-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Post race\nAfter the race Hamilton and Alonso both complained that this was \"one of the most boring races ever\"; drivers were lapping several seconds a lap slower than they could have been to conserve tires and avoid making a second pit-stop. Alonso also pointed to the spread out field, \"as there were barely any yellow flags or safety cars.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship will be the 112th edition of Monaghan GAA's premier gaelic football tournament for senior clubs in County Monaghan, Ireland. Ten teams compete, with the winners representing Monaghan in the AIB GAA Ulster Club Senior Football Championship. The championship uses a double-elimination format for Rounds 1 and 2 before becoming knock-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship\nScotstown are the defending champions after defeating Magheracloone in the 2017 final, and will be aiming for their fourth consecutive title. The 2018 competition sees the return of Carrickmacross and Inniskeen to the Senior ranks following their promotion from the Intermediate competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe two bottom-placed teams in the Monaghan Senior Football League are relegated to the Intermediate ranks for the following season, with the Intermediate Football Championship winners and Intermediate Football League winners promoted in their place. If a team wins both the Intermediate Championship and League, then the next highest placed team in the League will be promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship, Preliminary Round\nFour of the ten teams are drawn into the Preliminary Round. The remaining six teams are drawn in Round 1A. The winners of the two Preliminary Rounds play each other in Round 1A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship, Round 1, Round 1A\nThe six teams not drawn in the Preliminary Round enter the competition in this round, along with the two Preliminary Round winners (who play each other). The four Round 1A winners proceed to Round 2A while the four losers enter the back-door in Round 1B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship, Round 1, Round 1B\nThe losers of the Preliminary Round (two teams) enter this round along with the losers of Round 1A, but not that fixture which contains the Preliminary Round winners (three teams). A draw will be made to determine the two pairings, with the fifth team obtaining a bye into Round 2B. Two teams will exit the competition at this stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship, Round 1, Round 1B\nThe following teams are eligible to take part in Round 1B -", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship, Round 2, Round 2A\nThe four winners from Round 1A play each other. The two winners proceed to the semi-finals while the losers must play in Round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship, Round 2, Round 2A\nThe following teams are eligible to take part in Round 2A -", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship, Round 2, Round 2B\nThe two winners from Round 1B, one team who received a bye through Round 1B and the loser of the Round 1A tie involving the Preliminary Round winners play in this round. The winners will proceed to Round 3 while the losers will exit the championship. The following teams are eligible to take part in Round 2B -", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship, Round 3\nThe two winners from Round 2B play the two losers from Round 2A. The winners proceed to the semi-finals while the losers exit the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship, Round 3\nThe following teams are eligible to take part in Round 3 -", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281027-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Monaghan Senior Football Championship, Semi-Finals\nThe two winners from Round 2A play the two winners from Round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281028-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monegasque general election\nGeneral elections were held in Monaco on 11 February 2018. Since the General Election of 2013, the largest party, Horizon Monaco, split, which led to the formation of a new political party - Primo! Priorite Monaco. The latter won 58% of the vote, while the other parties, Horizon Monaco and Union Mon\u00e9gasque got 26% and 16% respectively. This led to a 21-seat gain for Primo!, with the 3 remaining seats being divided between Horizon Monaco and Union Mon\u00e9gasque.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281028-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monegasque general election, Electoral system\nVoters can either choose a party list or choose candidates from various lists (\"panachage\") for the 24 seats. The 16 candidates with the most votes are elected (with the older candidate breaking possible ties in votes). The eight other seats are chosen from lists in accordance with the proportional representation system for parties that have at least five percent of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281029-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moneta Czech Open\nThe 2018 Moneta Czech Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 25th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Prost\u011bjov, Czech Republic between 4\u20139 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281029-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moneta Czech Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281029-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moneta Czech Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281030-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moneta Czech Open \u2013 Doubles\nGuillermo Dur\u00e1n and Andr\u00e9s Molteni were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281030-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moneta Czech Open \u2013 Doubles\nDenys Molchanov and Igor Zelenay won the title after defeating Mart\u00edn and Pablo Cuevas 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281031-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moneta Czech Open \u2013 Singles\nJi\u0159\u00ed Vesel\u00fd was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Elias Ymer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281031-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moneta Czech Open \u2013 Singles\nJaume Munar won the title after defeating Laslo \u0110ere 6\u20131, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281032-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mongolia International\nThe 2018 Mongolia International is a badminton tournament which takes place at ALDAR Sport Complex in Mongolia from 28 June to 1 July 2018 and had a total purse of $10,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281032-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mongolia International, Tournament\nThe 2018 Peru International is the fourteenth tournament of the 2018 BWF International Series and also part of the Mongolia International championships which has been held since 2005. This tournament was organized by the Mongolian Badminton Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281032-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mongolia International, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament holds at ALDAR Sport Complex in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281032-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mongolia International, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF International Series event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281032-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mongolia International, Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this year tournament is US$10,000. Distribution of prize money is in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281033-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mongolian First League\n2018 Mongolian First League (often referred to as the 2018 Mongolian 1st League) is Second-highest division of the Mongolia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281033-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mongolian First League, Promoted Teams\nWith 10 wins the Ulaanbaataryn Unaganuud FC team added 30 points and finished the competition in first place. With that, in addition to the title of champion of the competition, the team won the right to compete in the Mongolian Premier League next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281033-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mongolian First League, Promoted Teams\nWith only three points less, team Khoromkhon FC finished the competition in second place and was also promoted to the Mongolian Premier League. The team managed to add 27 points with 9 wins, and 1 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281033-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mongolian First League, Demoted Teams\nWith one win, one draw and eight losses, the Khuree Khovguud team scored just four points and was relegated together with the debuting \u015earyn Gol FC team who had seven defeats, three draws and no wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281034-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mongolian Premier League\nThe 2018 Mongolian Premier League (also known as the Khurkhree National Premier League) is the 50th edition of the top-tier football league in Mongolia. Erchim comes into the season as defending champions of the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281034-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mongolian Premier League\nArvis FC and Gepro FC entered as the two promoted teams from the Mongolian 1st League while Khoromkhon FC and Ulaanbaataryn Unaganuud FC were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281035-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monmouth Hawks football team\nThe 2018 Monmouth Hawks football team represented Monmouth University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Big South Conference. They were led by 26th-year head coach Kevin Callahan and played their home games at Kessler Field in West Long Branch, New Jersey Monmouth finished the season 8\u20133 overall and 4\u20131 in Big South play to place second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281035-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monmouth Hawks football team, Previous season\nThe Hawks finished the 2017 season 9\u20133, 4\u20131 in Big South play to finish in second place. They were invited to the FCS Playoffs, where they were defeated in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281035-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Monmouth Hawks football team, Preseason, Big South poll\nIn the Big South preseason poll released on July 23, 2018, the Hawks were predicted to finish in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281035-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Monmouth Hawks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Big South team\nThe Big South released their preseason all-Big South team on July 23, 2018, with the Hawks having six players at seven positions selected along with two more on the honorable mention list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281036-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race\nThe 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race (XXXIV) was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series stock car exhibition race held on May 19, 2018 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Contested over 93 laps -- extended from 80 laps due to an overtime finish, it was the second exhibition race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281036-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race, Report, Background\nThe All-Star Race was open to race winners from last season through the 2018 KC Masterpiece 400 at Kansas Speedway and all previous All-Star race winners and Monster Race NASCAR Cup champions who had attempted to qualify for every race in 2018 were eligible to compete in the All-Star Race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281036-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race, Monster Energy Open/All-Star practice\nKevin Harvick was the fastest in the Open/All-Star practice session with a time of 31.689 seconds and a speed of 170.406\u00a0mph (274.242\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281036-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race, Qualifying (Open)\nOpen qualifying for Friday was cancelled due to weather and Aric Almirola was awarded the pole as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281036-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race, Qualifying (All-Star Race)\nMatt Kenseth scored the pole for the race with a time of 127.644 and a speed of 126.915\u00a0mph (204.250\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281036-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race, Media, Television\nFox Sports was the television broadcaster of the race in the United States. Lap-by-lap announcer, Mike Joy, was accompanied on the broadcast by retired NASCAR drivers, Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip. Jamie Little, Vince Welch, and Matt Yocum reported from pit lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281036-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race, Media, Radio\nMotor Racing Network (MRN) continued their longstanding relationship with the track to broadcast the race on radio. The lead announcers for the race's broadcast were Mike Bagley, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace. The network also implemented two announcers on each side of the track: Dave Moody in turns 1 and 2 and Kyle Rickey in turns 3 and 4. Alex Hayden, Winston Kelly, Kim Coon, and Steve Post were the network's pit lane reporters. The network's broadcast was also simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series\nThe 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series was the 70th season of NASCAR professional stock car racing in the United States, and the 47th modern-era Cup series season. The season began at Daytona International Speedway with the Advance Auto Parts Clash, the Can-Am Duel qualifying races and the 60th running of the Daytona 500. The regular season ended with the Brickyard 400 on September 9, 2018. The playoffs ended with the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 18, 2018. Martin Truex Jr. was the defending champion, having won his first in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series\nThe 2018 season was the fourth of the current 10-year television contract with Fox Sports and NBC Sports and the third of a five-year race sanctioning agreement with all tracks. It is the first season to feature the Regular Season Championship trophy, which is awarded at the final race before the playoffs. Kyle Busch clinched the MENCS Regular Season Championship trophy at the end of Stage 2 of the 2018 Brickyard 400.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series\nThe season marked the debut of the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, which replaced the outgoing Chevrolet SS and became the first coupe-based Chevrolet stock car since the Monte Carlo SS was discontinued in 2017. This was also the last season for Kasey Kahne, who announced his intention to retire from racing at the end of the season and was forced to step away in early October 2018 after not being medically cleared to continue, as well as BK Racing who sold its equipment to Front Row Motorsports, and Furniture Row Racing, which ceased operations after 2018. It was also the final season Ford fielded the Fusion, replacing it with the Ford Mustang in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series\nJoey Logano, driving for Team Penske in a Ford won the championship, after defeating Martin Truex Jr., Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch in a 1\u20132\u20133\u20134 finish for the \"Championship 4\" at the final round at Homestead. Logano won three races during the course of the season, having also won the spring race at Talladega and the fall race at Martinsville. Austin Dillon was the Daytona 500 winner. Kyle Busch and Harvick won the most races with eight each, with Denny Hamlin and seven-time series champion Jimmie Johnson concluding their first winless seasons in full-time Cup competition. The 2018 season also marked the fifteenth consecutive and final time that Johnson made the playoffs since its inception in 2004. Erik Jones and Chase Elliott won their first career victories and William Byron became Rookie of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Offseason changes, Rule changes\nDuring its annual media tour in November 2017, NASCAR announced that constraints would be imposed on crew rosters in its three national series. Crew members are divided into \"Organizational\", \"Road Crew\", and \"Pit Crew\" roles; in the Cup Series, a single team may only have a roster of 3-4 organizational crew members (depending on the number of cars they field), 12 road crew members, and 5 pit crew members (reduced from 6, as implemented in 2011). Crew members must be assigned a jersey number and a letter corresponding to their position, which must be worn on their crew uniforms. Staff may be shared between a team's individual cars, even if they are not explicitly listed on their roster. NASCAR's executive vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O'Donnell stated that these changes were intended to improve safety, as well as improve its focus on teamwork.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 954]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Offseason changes, Rule changes\nIn February 2018, it was announced that the vehicle damage policy introduced in 2017 had been modified, following analysis of the rule's effects in 2017, and to account for the reduction in pit crew members. The length of the repair window has been extended to six minutes, and the penalty for having too many crew members repairing the car was reduced from disqualification to a two-lap penalty. Additionally, the length of the first session in qualifying on intermediate- and short-tracks has been reduced from 20 to 15 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Offseason changes, Rule changes\nOn May 16, 2018, NASCAR announced that teams no longer need to start the race on the tires used in qualifying, due to teams that fail to pass the inspection before qualifying getting an advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Schedule\nThe final schedule\u00a0\u2013 comprising 36 races, as well as exhibition races, which are the Advance Auto Parts Clash, Can-Am Duel qualifying duel races for the Daytona 500 and the All-Star Race\u00a0\u2013 was released on May 23, 2017. Key changes from 2017 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Schedule, Schedule changes\nIn 2015, NASCAR and 23 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series tracks agreed on a five-year contract that guarantees each track would continue to host races through 2020. Despite the agreement, Speedway Motorsports decided to transfer one of its Cup Series races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to Las Vegas Motor Speedway to form a race weekend involving each of the three national series in the fall. On July 27, 2016, Daytona International Speedway announced that the 60th running of the Daytona 500 would be moved one week earlier to be held on February 18, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Schedule, Schedule changes\nSeveral changes were announced with the release of the final schedule. The Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway moved to September to become the final race of the regular season, while the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond Raceway moved to the second race in the Round of 16. The new date that Las Vegas Motor Speedway acquired from New Hampshire Motor Speedway was moved to the first race of the playoffs to replace Chicagoland Speedway, which became race 17 of the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Schedule, Schedule changes\nDover International Speedway's spring race, the AAA 400 Drive for Autism, was moved one month early to precede Kansas Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway. The track's fall race, the Gander Outdoors 400, was moved one week later to become the first race of the Round of 12. Also, Charlotte Motor Speedway's Bank of America 500 moves one week earlier and will utilize the track's road course layout instead of its quad-oval; with the scheduled distance changing from 500 miles to 400 kilometers, the race will now be known as the Bank of America Roval 400. With an additional off-week in the schedule for 2018, the Father's Day off-week that FOX added for the U.S. Open and the 2018 FIFA World Cup will be restored, with the third off-week being after the Bristol August race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nDaytona Speedweeks started with the Advance Auto Parts Clash. Austin Dillon drew the pole as Chase Elliott and Brad Keselowski led the majority of the race. Jamie McMurray crashed and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. received a penalty. Keselowski led the last half to win over Joey Logano as Jimmie Johnson crashed after contact with Kyle Larson with Chase Elliott, Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch, and Martin Truex Jr. also getting involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nIn Daytona 500 qualifying, Alex Bowman won the pole while Denny Hamlin qualified second. Bowman won the pole for his first race since taking over the No. 88 car from Dale Earnhardt Jr. full-time. This was the fourth consecutive Daytona 500 pole won by Hendrick Motorsports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nIn the Can-Am Duels on Thursday, Bowman was on pole for race one. In the early laps, Jimmie Johnson lost a tire and crashed along with Aric Almirola. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was moving around the entire race, but got into both William Byron and David Gilliland, taking them out. Joey Logano led the majority of laps, but was passed for the lead by Ryan Blaney as Brad Keselowski crashed with Jamie McMurray, sending the race into overtime. In overtime, Blaney held off Joey Logano and Bubba Wallace to win the first Duel. In the second Duel, Hamlin was on pole. Early in the race, Erik Jones spun and collected Kyle Larson and Matt DiBenedetto. Hamlin and Chase Elliott led most of the race. Elliott led the most laps to win his second straight Duel race over Kevin Harvick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nAlex Bowman started on pole. Early on, Kyle Busch had a tire go down and had to pit. Later, Busch had another tire down and got into the wall and collected Jamie McMurray and D.J. Kennington. In the closing laps of stage one, Erik Jones spun and collected Kyle Larson, Jimmie Johnson, Daniel Suarez, William Byron, and Ty Dillon as Kurt Busch won stage one. In stage two, Byron got into the wall after having a tire go down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nBrad Keselowski got into Chase Elliott and collected others including David Ragan, Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne, and Danica Patrick, who finished 35th in her final NASCAR race. Ryan Blaney won stage two over Joey Logano. In the final stage, Blaney continued to lead. In the closing laps, Byron again had a tire go down and spun. With two laps to go, Kurt Busch got turned around and collected Blaney, Matt DiBenedetto, Brendan Gaughan, and others, sending the race to overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nIn overtime, Aric Almirola was leading at the white flag, and tried to block Austin Dillon, but the block was late and Almirola ended up in the wall. Austin Dillon held off Bubba Wallace for his second career win and winning the Daytona 500 in the No. 3 20 years after Dale Earnhardt won his only 500 in 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKyle Busch led the field to the green flag after an hour delay from rain. Ryan Newman jumped out to an early lead, but Busch was able to reclaim the lead. After the end-of-stage caution, Newman had a tire go down and hit the wall. Kevin Harvick led and won the first stage. In the second stage, Harvick, Kurt Busch, and Brad Keselowski all led as Keselowski won stage two after a spin by Jimmie Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nIn the final stage, Harvick continued to dominate as Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano tried to win on a different strategy as the rest of the field. Late in the final stage, Trevor Bayne had an engine failure as Bubba Wallace plowed into Ricky Stenhouse Jr. trying to avoid the smoke. Harvick continued to lead and won over Keselowski for his first win at Atlanta since 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nRyan Blaney started on pole. Kevin Harvick took the lead at the beginning and dominated and won the first two caution free stages. In the final stage, Jamie McMurray got into the wall after a flat tire. Kurt Busch got loose and crashed along with Chase Elliott. Harvick led over 200 laps and held off a hard charging Kyle Busch for his second straight win and second at Las Vegas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nMartin Truex Jr. started on pole. Kyle Larson shot out to the lead early and led most of the first stage. Kyle Busch took the lead and won the first stage. Early in the second stage, Larson spun on the apron. Chris Buescher had a tire go down and got into the wall. Kurt Busch stayed out and won the second stage. Denny Hamlin took the lead as Paul Menard had a tire go down and got into the wall. Kyle Busch regained the lead until green flag pit stops. Brad Keselowski stayed out to stretch it out until the end, but had to pit. Kevin Harvick was able to pass Chase Elliott during the green flag cycle to take the lead from Ryan Newman and hold off Kyle Busch for his third consecutive win and ninth at Phoenix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nMartin Truex Jr. started on pole for the second straight week. Early, Kevin Harvick got into the wall and spun through the grass after contact with Kyle Larson, ending his chances for a fourth straight win. Truex was able to win the first stage and win the second stage after Trevor Bayne got into the wall. David Ragan brought out the final caution as Truex was able to beat out Kyle Busch on pit stops and pulled away from Larson to sweep all three stages to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nMartin Truex Jr. started on pole for the third straight week as qualifying was cancelled due to rain and snow. The race was postponed from Sunday to Monday due to snow. Denny Hamlin won the first stage after a Competition Caution and Ryan Blaney won the second stage. Jamie McMurray spun after contact with Austin Dillon. Clint Bowyer took the lead from Blaney and dominated the remainder of the race, leading 215 laps. McMurray, Trevor Bayne, and Harrison Rhodes all had tires go down, but there was no caution. Bowyer held off Kyle Busch for his first win since 2012 and the fourth out of six races for Stewart-Haas Racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKurt Busch started on pole after qualifying was cancelled just after the first round due to rain. As soon as the race began, Alex Bowman spun and collected Aric Almirola, Austin Dillon, and Paul Menard. At the end of the first stage, Martin Truex Jr. had a tire go down and got into the wall as Kevin Harvick scored the stage win as it ended under caution. In the second stage, Kyle Larson had a tire go down and he got into the wall. Kyle Busch was able to win the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nEarly in the final stage, Denny Hamlin spun and collected David Ragan, Brad Keselowski, and Jimmie Johnson. Menard and Ryan Newman both got into the wall. Kyle Busch and Harvick, both with older tires, were able to stay out front and Busch was able to hold Harvick off for his first win of the year and third at Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKyle Busch started on pole. Michael McDowell spun on the third lap and collected others including Chase Elliott and Martin Truex Jr. The race was stopped three different times due to rain and a wreck by Trevor Bayne. Ryan Blaney led most of the first half of the race, but was caught up in an accident while leading, ending his race. Brad Keselowski won the first stage. After another red flag due to rain, the remainder of the race was postponed to Monday. After a small delay due to rain, the race continued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKeselowski would win the second stage after taking back the lead. Kyle Larson took back the lead and continued leading until spun after making contact with Ryan Newman. Kyle Busch got the lead when the caution was displayed for rain, but it was a brief yellow. On the final restart, Larson got back in the lead, but Kyle Busch passed Larson for the lead with six laps to go and Busch pulled away to his second straight win and seventh at Bristol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nMartin Truex Jr. won the pole. Joey Logano dominated the early part of the race, winning both stages. Kurt Busch and Clint Bowyer took turned swapping the lead. Truex regained the lead and lead a race high of 121 laps. Ryan Blaney and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got together and spun. Jamie McMurray got into the wall and made contact with Ryan Newman, who blew up. David Ragan had a tire go down and got into the wall. Stenhouse spun again to send the race into overtime. On the restart, Kyle Busch held off Chase Elliott for his third straight win and fifth at Richmond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKevin Harvick started the race from the pole. Brad Keselowski won the first stage of the race. In the second stage, Erik Jones caused a multicar wreck that collected Jamie McMurray, Kyle Larson, Martin Truex Jr., and Trevor Bayne. Paul Menard won the second stage of the race. Numerous drivers experienced speeding penalties on pit road including Denny Hamlin, who was caught speeding on pit road multiple times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nLate in the race, Jimmie Johnson got loose in front of teammate William Byron and caused a 14-car accident that also collected Keselowski, Menard, Clint Bowyer, Michael McDowell, Ryan Blaney, Bubba Wallace, and A. J. Allmendinger. Joey Logano led in the closing laps of the race and went to score his first win of the season, ending a 36 race winless streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKyle Larson started on pole. Michael McDowell spun and Derrike Cope crashed early as Kevin Harvick won both stages. Kyle Busch went to the garage after suffering a broken driveshaft. Clint Bowyer was leading when the race was halted by a red flag due to rain. After the delay, Kevin Harvick passed Bowyer for the lead and pulled away for his second win at Dover and his fourth win of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKevin Harvick started on pole. Harvick led early, but Ryan Blaney took the lead and won the first stage. Kyle Larson came from the rear of the field to dominate the race, winning the second stage. Alex Bowman and Daniel Suarez got together and both got into the wall. Larson and Blaney got into each other, putting Blaney in the wall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nOn the restart, William Byron had a tire go down caused a wreck featuring Clint Bowyer, Ryan Newman, Stephen Tan, Jamie McMurray, Chris Buescher, and Matt Kenseth, competing in his first race of the year, bringing out the red flag. On the restart, Martin Truex Jr. pulled away from the field, but Kevin Harvick was able run down Truex to take the lead for his second consecutive win and his fifth of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nFirst, it was the Monster Energy Open. Aric Almirola started on pole due to qualifying being rained out. Almirola led early, but Alex Bowman took the lead and won the first stage to transfer. In the second stage, Paul Menard got into the wall. Chase Elliott had the lead, but Daniel Su\u00e1rez took the lead and won the second stage to transfer. Bubba Wallace led in the final stage, but Elliott got back into the lead. Alimrola and Erik Jones got into each other as A. J. Allmendinger took the lead and held off Eliott to win his second Open to transfer. Chase Eliott won the fan vote to transfer for the third straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nMatt Kenseth won the pole for the race. Kurt Busch spun early as Kevin Harvick won the first stage and Kyle Busch won the second stage. In the third stage, Kasey Kahne got into the wall. Martin Truex Jr. got into Clint Bowyer and they crashed with Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, and Brad Keselowski. Harvick got by Daniel Su\u00e1rez to win the third stage. In the final 10 laps, Harvick was out front as Kyle Larson spun after contact with Joey Logano. In a two lap shootout, Kevin Harvick held off Daniel Su\u00e1rez for his second All-Star Race win and the $1\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKyle Busch started on pole. Defending winner Austin Dillon got in the wall after having a tire go down early. Kevin Harvick got into the wall, taking him out of the race, as Busch won the first stage. William Byron had a tire go down and got into the wall. Jimmie Johnson spun after contact with Denny Hamlin and also sent Joey Logano spinning. Busch won the second stage. In the third stage, Gray Gaulding crashed and Chris Buescher spun. Kyle Larson spun and Ryan Blaney blew an engine and caught fire. Busch won the third stage. Kyle Busch continued to dominate and won his fourth race of the season and with the win, he became the first in history to win a race at every racetrack in the MENCS that he competed at.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nDefending race winner Ryan Blaney started on pole. Blaney led early until he had a problem and had to pit. Martin Truex Jr. got the lead and won the first stage. Kevin Harvick got to the lead and dominated to win a caution free stage two. In the final stage, Matt DiBenedetto had brake issues and it caused a tire to catch fire as Kasey Kahne and Bubba Wallace both had transmission issues. Derrike Cope spun after contact with Kyle Larson and Denny Hamlin spun and crashed into the wall after contact with Alex Bowman. On the restart, Erik Jones spun after contact with Joey Logano. On the restart, Martin Truex Jr. pulled away from Larson, Harvick, and Kyle Busch to pick up his second win of the season and second at Pocono.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 795]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKurt Busch started on pole. The race started over two hours late due to rain. Austin Dillon and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. spun after making contact with each other just as the competition caution came out. David Ragan got into the wall after contact with Bubba Wallace Matt Kenseth spun at the end of the stage as Ryan Blaney, who had taken the lead from Kurt Busch, won the first stage. Daniel Su\u00e1rez spun after contact with Paul Menard. Kyle Larson, who won the last three Michigan races, spun into the grass, ending his changes of a fourth straight win. Kevin Harvick won the second stage over his teammates. Clint Bowyer had taken the lead from Harvick as Ricky Stenhouse Jr. spun as rain was reported around the track. The race was called giving Bowyer his second win of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKyle Larson started on pole. Erik Jones had problems early as Martin Truex Jr. led most of the first stage, but pitted allowing A. J. Allmendinger to win the stage. On the restart, Allmendinger blew an engine while Jamie McMurray went to the garage with low oil pressure. Denny Hamlin won the second stage by staying out while others pitted. Ryan Blaney had to make several stops to fix damage. Kevin Harvick had the lead late until he decided to pit in case of a late caution. Truex stayed out during green flag pit stops and won his third win of the season and second at Sonoma with a ten-second lead over Harvick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nPaul Menard started the race on pole. Clint Bowyer led early in the race before getting two speeding penalties on pit road. Aric Almirola won Stage 1 and led the most laps the race, but had to pit under green for a loose wheel. Kevin Harvick won Stage 2 of the race. Harvick would continue to lead until losing it to Kyle Busch during a round of pit stops under caution. Kyle Busch continued to lead in the closing laps as Kyle Larson was catching him. Larson caught up to Kyle Busch on the final lap and the two made contact twice, with Kyle Busch holding on to win the race with Larson finishing second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nChase Elliott started on pole. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. dominated by winning both stages. In the second stage, Paul Menard got turned and into the grass. Brad Keselowski got turned around and collected Kurt Busch, Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Elliott, and others. Kyle Busch got turned into William Byron and also involved Jamie McMurray. In the final stage, Kyle Larson got turned into Stenhouse. Jimmie Johnson was leading until he received a penalty on pit road. Stenhouse had a tire go down and spun, ending his chance of back-to-back wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nOn the restart, Aric Almirola lost a wheel and crashed along with Michael McDowell and Johnson. In overtime, Kevin Harvick took the lead from Kasey Kahne, but Clint Bowyer spun and collected Harvick, Brendan Gaughan, and others. On the second restart of overtime, Erik Jones drove past Martin Truex Jr. to score his first career win and became the seventh different winner of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nMartin Truex Jr. started on pole. Truex dominated by leading the most laps and winning both stages. Alex Bowman had a tire go down and got into the wall and J. J. Yeley lost an engine. Teammates Jamie McMurray and Kyle Larson suffered mechanical problems. Truex pulled away from a charging Ryan Blaney for his fourth win of the season and second straight at Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKurt Busch started on pole. The start of the race was delayed due to rain. Busch dominated the majority of the race. A.J. Allmendinger got into the wall, ending his day. Martin Truex Jr. took the lead after the Competition Caution and won the first stage. Chase Elliott took the lead from Truex to win the second stage. Clint Bowyer got into the wall and went to the garage. Kyle Busch had the lead late, but Kevin Harvick moved Busch to take the lead and get his sixth win of the season and third at New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKevin Harvick originally won the pole. Thirteen cars including Harvick failed post-qualifying inspection, disallowing their times and forcing them to start in the back, thus Daniel Suarez won the pole. Chase Elliott won the first stage while Harvick won the second stage. A few had tire problems including Kurt Busch, Joey Logano, and Brad Keselowski. Keselowski got into the wall, sending him to the garage. Bubba Wallace lost his brakes and hit the wall hard at a high speed, resulting in a red flag. On the restart, Aric Almirola spun after contact with Matt DiBenedetto, sending the race to overtime. Kyle Busch pulled away to hold off Daniel Suarez for his sixth win of the season and second at Pocono.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nDenny Hamlin started on pole. Aric Almirola got into the wall early and Joey Logano spun and went to the garage. Martin Truex Jr. won the first stage. Chase Elliott dominated the second half of the race and won the second stage. Ryan Newman spun and Jimmie Johnson spun after contact with A.J. Allmendinger. Martin Truex Jr. caught Elliott, but ran out of fuel, which allowed Chase Elliott to get his first career win and the 250th win for Hendrick Motorsports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nDenny Hamlin started on pole for the second straight week. Erik Jones spun early and William Byron spun and got into the wall along with Martin Truex Jr. Kevin Harvick dominated and won both stages. Jones spun again and Ty Dillon ran over a battery and got into the wall and caught fire. Harvick took the lead from Jamie McMurray and held off Brad Keselowski for his seventh win of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKyle Larson started on pole. Kyle Busch spun and caused a pile up on the frontstretch, including Bubba Wallace. Paul Menard got into the wall while running up front as Ryan Blaney edged Kevin Harvick to win the first stage. Blaney, Joey Logano, Chase Elliott, Clint Bowyer, and others led up front. Logano won the second stage. Aric Almirola had mechanical prolems that sent him to the garage. Martin Truex Jr. spun and crashed along with J. J. Yeley after getting into Kyle Busch. Busch and Brad Keselowski had tires go down and both spun. Kurt Busch was able to take the lead from Clint Bowyer and held off Kyle Larson for his first win of the season and sixth at Bristol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nDenny Hamlin started on pole. Jimmie Johnson had fuel pump problems, sending him to the garage. Kyle Larson dominated and won both stages and led the most laps. Clint Bowyer got into the back of Ryan Newman, who slowed down to go to pit road. William Byron had the engine blew, sending him to the garage. Brad Keselowski beat out Kyle Larson on pit road and pulled away from teammate Joey Logano for his first win of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKyle Busch started on pole after qualifying was cancelled due to rain. The race was postponed from Sunday to Monday due to rain. The race had two competition cautions at the beginning due to the rain. Martin Truex Jr. was sent to the garage early after a rotor exploded causing front end damage to the car. Clint Bowyer was able to win the first stage. Bubba Wallace spun and collided with David Starr. A. J. Allmendinger and Alex Bowman both wrecked off turn two. Matt Kenseth was able to win the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nIn the final stage Clint Bowyer dominated and Denny Hamlin was able to grab the lead after the final round of green flag pit stops cycled through and was heading to the win until Landon Cassill wrecked along with Jeffrey Earnhardt. On the restart, Brad Keselowski, who had fresher tires, was able to take the lead from Hamlin and hold off Erik Jones for his second straight win and the first Brickyard 400 victory for Roger Penske and the first Brickyard win for Ford since 1999. Kyle Busch went on to capture the Regular-Season Championship over Kevin Harvick and the final two playoff spots went to Jimmie Johnson and Alex Bowman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nErik Jones started on pole. Kyle Larson had to make an unscheduled pit stop early for a flat right front tire. Martin Truex Jr. would grab the first stage. In the second stage, Kevin Harvick blew a tire and slammed the wall in turn 1 collecting polesitter Jones in the process. Brad Keselowski would win the second stage. The final stage had a number of wrecks that puts some playoff drivers in jeopardy, with Jamie McMurray wrecked in turn three hard collecting Chase Elliott as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0041-0001", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKyle Busch later spun in turn four as well as Denny Hamlin later on in the same spot, but would suffer splitter damage ending his day. A late race restart caused Jimmie Johnson, Alex Bowman, and Kurt Busch to suffer tire rubs after contact in the back-straightaway. Joey Logano hit the wall late in turn two to bring out a caution with just a few laps remaining for an overtime restart. Keselowski would have great restart, but a multi-car wreck in turn four involving Michael McDowell, Kurt Busch, Matt DiBenedetto, and David Ragan, forcing another attempt. On the second attempt, Keselowski would go on to win the race over Larson to advance to the second round for his third win in a row as well as Team Penske's 500th win overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKevin Harvick started on pole. Denny Hamlin was spun by Ricky Stenhouse Jr., but was able to save it. Martin Truex Jr. dominated and won both stages, but an uncontrolled tire sent him to the back of the field. Matt Kenseth and Jeffrey Earnhardt go into each other, which sent Earnhardt in the wall. Kyle Busch was able to take the lead from Brad Keselowski and held off Harvick to advance to the next round of the playoffs for his seventh win of the season and his 50th career win overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKurt Busch started on pole. Kyle Larson won stage one while Ryan Blaney won the second stage. Austin Dillon slammed the wall twice and got sent to the garage to end his playoff hopes. Aric Almirola and Chris Buescher spun and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. slammed the wall. At the end, leader Brad Keselowski lost control of his car on a restart and crashed into the wall along with Larson, Paul Menard, Kyle Busch, Daniel Hemric, Bubba Wallace, and others. Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson were racing for the win until Johnson spun in the chicane and collected Truex. Ryan Blaney snuck through to win over Jamie McMurray for his second career win and advance in the playoffs. Dillon, Denny Hamlin, Erik Jones, and Johnson were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKyle Busch started on pole after qualifying was rained out. Jimmie Johnson had to go to the garage before the race and eventually returned to the race several laps down. Kevin Harvick took the lead and dominated, leading 286 laps and winning both stages. Harvick had trouble on pit road and fell back. Aric Almirola was heading to the win, but Clint Bowyer got into the wall. Almirola wrecked on the restart along with Brad Keselowski, Alex Bowman, Ryan Blaney, and Martin Truex Jr. In overtime, Chase Elliott held off Denny Hamlin to advance to the next round with his second win of the year and the second of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKurt Busch started on pole with all Stewart-Haas Racing drivers starting first through fourth. SHR dominated the race with Busch leading the most laps and winning stage one. Jimmie Johnson spun and hit the wall and Kyle Larson had a tire go down and spun. Kevin Harvick won the second stage. Jamie McMurray spun and got stuck in the grass. Late in the race, Alex Bowman got into the wall and collected J. J. Yeley and William Byron, which sent the race to overtime. Harvick, Ryan Blaney, and Brad Keselowski ran out of fuel before the restart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0045-0001", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nMatt DiBenedetto spun and collected several cars, but the race remained green. Kurt Busch ran out of fuel and it allowed teammate Aric Almirola to take the lead and hold off teammate Clint Bowyer to advance in the Round of 8 for his second career win and becoming the fourth SHR driver to win during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nJoey Logano started on pole. Daniel Su\u00e1rez got into the wall as Bubba Wallace had a tire go down and William Byron suffered a blown engine with Logano winning the first stage. Kevin Harvick won the second stage and was leading when he got a speeding penalty on pit road. Chase Elliott was able to hold off Kyle Busch for his third win and his second in the \"Round of 12\". Brad Keselowski, Ryan Blaney, Kyle Larson, and Alex Bowman were eliminated from the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKyle Busch started on pole. Jimmie Johnson spun after contact with Erik Jones as Denny Hamlin won the first stage. Joey Logano dominated the race and won the second stage. William Byron was spun on pit road after contact with Clint Bowyer. Kyle Larson had the engine blow and Timmy Hill had an electrical fire. Clint Bowyer made contact with Johnson and spun. Martin Truex Jr. took the lead from Logano, but Logano was able to pull the bump-and-run on Truex and held off Hamlin for his second win of the season and clinched a spot in the \"Championship 4.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nRyan Blaney started on pole. William Byron spun after contact with teammate Jimmie Johnson. Kevin Harvick dominated by leading the most laps and winning both stages. Matt DiBenedetto made contact with Martin Truex Jr. and got into the wall. Joey Gase spun and collected Daniel Suarez, sending the race into overtime. Harvick held off Blaney to lock into the \"Championship 4\" for his eighth win of the season and second Playoff race at Texas. Due to an altered spoiler discovered post-race, Harvick had his win encumbered, was penalized 40 points, and was no longer locked into the Championship 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nKevin Harvick started on pole. Harvick led all of the first stage until he had a flat tire and had to pit allowing Chase Elliott to win the first stage. Joey Logano had a tire go down and sent him to the garage. Clint Bowyer had a tire go down and got into the wall, ending his championship hopes. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. hit the wall and caught fire. Denny Hamlin got loose and collected Kurt Busch, Elliott, and others. Alex Bowman got into the wall and caught fire. Kyle Busch, who won the second stage, dominated the race and held off Brad Keselowski for his eighth win of the season and locking into the \"Championship 4\" along with Logano, Harvick, and Martin Truex Jr. while Elliott, Aric Almirola, Bowyer, and Kurt Busch were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 808]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Season summary, Race reports\nDenny Hamlin started on pole. The Championship 4 dominated the race with Kevin Harvick winning the first stage. Kyle Larson won the second stage after passing Harvick at the line. Larson got into the wall after having a tire go down. Erik Jones and Chris Buescher both had flat tires, but got to pit road before a caution. Daniel Suarez got into the wall after contact with Brad Keselowski. Joey Logano, who led the most laps, took the lead from Martin Truex Jr. and pulled away from his third win of the season and winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Results and standings, Drivers' Championship\n(key)\u00a0Bold\u00a0\u2013 Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0\u2013 Pole position set by final practice results or owner's points. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led. 1\u00a0\u2013 Stage 1 winner. 2\u00a0\u2013 Stage 2 winner. 3\u00a0\u2013 Stage 3 winner. 1\u201310\u00a0- Regular season top 10 finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281037-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Results and standings, Drivers' Championship\n. \u2013 Eliminated after Round of 16. \u2013 Eliminated after Round of 12. \u2013 Eliminated after Round of 8", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281038-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana Grizzlies football team\nThe 2018 Montana Grizzlies football team represented the University of Montana in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Grizzlies were led by first-year coach Bobby Hauck, 8th overall as he previously was head coach from 2003\u20132009, and played their home games on campus at Washington\u2013Grizzly Stadium in Missoula, Montana as a charter member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 6\u20135, 4\u20134 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281038-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana Grizzlies football team, Previous season\nThe Griz finished the 2017 season 7\u20134, 5\u20133 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281038-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana Grizzlies football team, Previous season\nOn November 20, it was announced that head coach Bob Stitt's contract would not be renewed. He finished at Montana with a three-year record of 21\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281038-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana Grizzlies football team, Preseason, Polls\nOn July 16, 2018 during the Big Sky Kickoff in Spokane, Washington, the Grizzlies were predicted to finish in seventh place in the coaches poll and fourth place in the media poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281038-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana Grizzlies football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nThe Grizzlies had one player selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281038-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana Grizzlies football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nJosh Buss \u2013 Sr. LB. Also selected as the preseason defensive player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281039-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 Montana House of Representatives election was held on November 6, 2018. All 100 seats were up, and, while Republicans retained a large majority, Democrats gained one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281040-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana State Bobcats football team\nThe 2018 Montana State Bobcats football team represented Montana State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bobcats were led by third-year head coach Jeff Choate and played their home games at Bobcat Stadium. They were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 8\u20135, 5\u20133 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for fourth place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Incarnate Word in the first round before losing in the second round to North Dakota State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281040-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana State Bobcats football team, Previous season\nThe Bobcats finished the 2017 season 5\u20136, 5\u20133 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281040-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana State Bobcats football team, Preseason, Polls\nOn July 16, 2018 during the Big Sky Kickoff in Spokane, Washington, the Bobcats were predicted to finish in eighth place in both the coaches and media poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281040-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana State Bobcats football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nThe Bobcats had one player selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281041-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana wildfires\nThe 2018 wildfire season in Montana began around June, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281041-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana wildfires\nThe Highway 37 Fire is a fire above Montana Highway 37 west of Libby, Montana at , near a Superfund site which is a former vermiculite mine. It was spotted on July 19. Firefighters needed to wear respirators to protect themselves from exposure to asbestos mixed with duff and bark by mining operations and mobilized by the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281041-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Montana wildfires\nThe Reynolds Lake Fire, caused by lightning on July 17, straddles the Bitterroot National Forest and Salmon-Challis National Forest southwest of Darby, Montana at . It reached over 1,000 acres (400\u00a0ha) in extent by July 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281042-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Formula 2 round\nThe 2018 Monaco FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races for Formula 2 cars that took place on 25 and 26 May 2018 at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte-Carlo, Monaco as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the fourth round of the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship and ran in support of the 2018 Monaco Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281042-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Formula 2 round, Report, Qualifying\nFor qualifying, the field was split into two groups due to the short nature of the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally\nThe 2018 Monte Carlo Rally (formally known as the 86e Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 25 and 28 January 2018. It marked the eighty-sixth running of the Monte Carlo Rally, and was the first round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships. The event, which was based in the town of Gap in the Hautes-Alpes department of France, was contested over seventeen special stages totalling a competitive distance of 394.74\u00a0km (245.28\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally\nReigning World Drivers' and World Co-Drivers Champions S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were the defending rally winners. Their team, M-Sport Ford WRT, were the defending manufacturers' winners. Ogier and Ingrassis successfully defended their title to take their sixth win on the event, becoming the second most-successful crew in the event's history. The \u0160koda Motorsport crew of Jan Kopeck\u00fd and Pavel Dresler won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a \u0160koda Fabia R5, while Italian privateers Enrico Brazzoli and Luca Beltrame won the World Rally Championship-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally, Background, Entry list\nThe following crews were entered into the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2, World Rally Championship-3 and the French national rally championship as well as privateer entries not registered to score points in any championship. The final entry list included twelve crews competing with World Rally Cars, six in the World Rally Championship-2 and four in the World Rally Championship-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally, Background, Route\nThe 2018 rally featured a heavily revised route from the 2017 event, with half the special stages being new additions. The 2018 rally included an additional 12.09\u00a0km (7.51\u00a0mi) of competitive kilometres compared to the route planned in 2017. It featured a mix of new and returning stages in addition to stages that were reconfigured from previous years. The service park was based in the town of Gap, which also featured parc ferm\u00e9 facilities. The itinerary also featured a short stage called \"Gap\" that allowed the teams to conduct a pre-event shakedown before the ceremonial start in Monaco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally, Background, Route, Details\nThe first leg of the rally is the longest, with 213.21\u00a0km (132.48\u00a0mi) in competitive kilometres. The first two stages\u2014including the famous stage between Sisteron and Thoard, which will be run in reverse as Thoard\u2013Sisteron for the first time in the event's history\u2014will be run on the night of 25 January before the crews return to the service park in Gap. The remaining six stages will be held on 26 January on roads to the west of Gap and features two passes over Vitrolles\u2013Oze, which has featured on the route in previous years; and Roussieux\u2013Eygalayes and Vaumeilh\u2013Claret, both of which are new stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally, Background, Route, Details\nThe second leg is 117.55\u00a0km (73.04\u00a0mi) long and is primarily made up of stages east of the town. It features two passes over Agni\u00e8res-en-D\u00e9voluy\u2013Corps and St.-Leger-les-M\u00e9l\u00e8zes\u2013La-B\u00e2tie-Neuve, both of which are heavily revised from pervious years. The second leg concludes with a pass over Bayons\u2013Br\u00e9ziers, which was previously run on the first night of competition. After completing service in Gap, the cars return to Monaco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally, Background, Route, Details\nThe third and final leg is 63.98\u00a0km (39.76\u00a0mi) long and run on stages in the Alpes-Maritimes department close to the Italian border. The short Luc\u00e9ram\u2014Col St. Roch stage was replaced by a shortened version of La Boll\u00e8ne-V\u00e9subie\u2013Pe\u00efra Cava, which features the Col de Turini and was as the Power Stage in 2017. The new La Cabanette\u2013Col de Braus stage, run as SS15 and again as SS17 will take its place as the Power Stage before the cars return to Monaco once more for the ceremonial finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally, Report, Pre-event\nJ\u00earom\u00e9 Degout, who was due to compete as Bryan Bouffier's co-driver, was injured during shakedown. He was replaced by Xavier Panseri for the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally, Report, Thursday\nThe opening leg of the rally started on the evening of 25 January and featured two stages: Thoard\u2013Sisteron and the first pass over Bayons\u2013Br\u00e9ziers. Conditions proved to be difficult as the forecasted rain and snow did not materialise; however, there were icy conditions on the roads in the first few kilometres of Thoard\u2013Sisteron. Several crews struggled, with Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul losing four minutes after sliding into a ditch. Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja also spun, as did S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia; however, unlike Neuville and Gilsoul, both crews were able to recover quickly. Ogier and Ingrassia went on to win both stages to take the overnight lead ahead of Andreas Mikkelsen and Anders J\u00e6ger in second and Dani Sordo and Carlos del Barrio in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally, Report, Friday\nDefending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier led the rally despite he had a spun today and lost about 40 seconds. Ott T\u00e4nak, who was first represent for Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT in 2018 World Rally Championship, was second, 14.9 seconds off the pace. Andreas Mikkelsen, second overnight, conceded the position after overshooting a junction in the opening stage before retiring on the following liaison section with a broken alternator in his Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC. Team-mate Dani Sordo fell back to third and ended 59.7 seconds behind T\u00e4nak. Esapekka Lappi and Jari-Matti Latvala were fourth and fifth respectively to complete an impressive showing by the Japanese manufacturer. Thierry Neuville, who dropped over four minutes yesterday after sliding into a snow bank, moved up to ninth and set himself the target of a top-six finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 868]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally, Report, Saturday\nThe Frenchman S\u00e9bastien Ogier had more than doubled that advantage to Ott T\u00e4nak come day's end, the figures do not paint the full picture of a see-saw scrap that at one point saw him more than a minute clear. Jari-Matti Latvala's cause was aided when his rival Dani Sordo crashed out of a podium position on Saturday's first stage. Esapekka Lappi in another Yaris as he moved up the order, with the younger Finn falling behind Britain's Kris Meeke when a mistake precipitated a puncture on SS11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally, Report, Saturday\nElfyn Evans sits sixth overnight in his Ford Fiesta, with Hyundai's similarly delayed Thierry Neuville recovering to seventh courtesy of a brace of stage wins on SS12 and SS13. Bryan Bouffier has slipped to eighth in the classification ahead of Citro\u00ebn's Craig Breen, who suffered for being the \"road-sweeper\" through the snow of SS9. WRC 2 pace-setter Jan Kopecky completes the overall top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally, Report, Sunday\nFive-time world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier took the rally victory, recording their fifth win in the event. Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja finished second, with teammate Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila running out of the podium. The Power Stage this time was dominated by Kris Meeke, who salvaged some consolation for Citro\u00ebn at the end of a troubled weekend with fourth overall \u2013 nearly three minutes behind Latvala \u2013 and five additional points. Hyundai star Thierry Neuville finished fifth and took four points from the power stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281043-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Monte Carlo Rally, Report, Sunday\nElfyn Evans and Esapekka Lappi were sixth and seventh overall, 1.0 second and 3.7 seconds behind the Belgian respectively. Bryan Bouffier came home eighth \u2013 the Frenchman losing time in a snow bank on SS16 \u2013 with Craig Breen ninth in the second Citro\u00ebn C3, the Irishman never recovering from a significant time loss as the \"snow plow\" on Saturday morning. WRC 2 winner Jan Kopecky completed the final top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281044-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte-Carlo Masters\nThe 2018 Monte-Carlo Masters (also known as the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament for male professional players that was played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 112th edition of the annual Monte Carlo Masters tournament, sponsored by Rolex for the tenth time. It took place at the Monte Carlo Country Club in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (though billed as Monte Carlo, Monaco).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281044-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte-Carlo Masters, Points\nBecause the Monte Carlo Masters is the non-mandatory Masters 1000 event, special rules regarding points distribution are in place. The Monte Carlo Masters counts as one of a player's 500 level tournaments, while distributing Masters 1000 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281044-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte-Carlo Masters, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281045-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte-Carlo Masters \u2013 Doubles\nRohan Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Bopanna played alongside \u00c9douard Roger-Vasselin, but lost in the semifinals to Oliver Marach and Mate Pavi\u0107. Cuevas teamed up with Marcel Granollers, but lost in the quarterfinals to Bob and Mike Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281045-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte-Carlo Masters \u2013 Doubles\nThe Bryan brothers went on to win the title, beating Marach and Pavi\u0107 in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281046-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte-Carlo Masters \u2013 Singles\nTwo-time defending champion Rafael Nadal successfully defended his title, defeating Kei Nishikori in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20132, to win the Singles title at the 2018 Monte-Carlo Masters. It was his record-extending 11th Monte-Carlo Masters title and his record 31st ATP Masters title. By winning the title, Nadal also retained the ATP no. 1 singles ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281046-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte-Carlo Masters \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281046-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Monte-Carlo Masters \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281047-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montedio Yamagata season, Squad\nAs of 30 January 2018. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281048-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montenegrin municipal elections\nLocal elections were held in Montenegro on 4 February 2018 for the municipalities of Berane and Ulcinj, and on 20 and 27 May in 11 municipalities, including the capital city Podgorica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281049-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montenegrin presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Montenegro on 15 April 2018. Former Prime Minister Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107, leader of the ruling DPS was elected as new President of Montenegro in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281049-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Montenegrin presidential election, Electoral system\nThe president is elected using the two-round system; if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, a run-off is held two weeks later. In order to submit their candidacy to the State Electoral Commission, potential candidates needed to collect 7,993 signatures. President is elected every five years, and only is eligible for two terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281049-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Montenegrin presidential election, Campaign\nThe incumbent president, Filip Vujanovi\u0107, was ineligible for re-election, having already served two terms as President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281049-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Montenegrin presidential election, Campaign\nPresident of the ruling DPS, Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107, who was touted by the media as the election favourite, initially rejected the possibility of running for President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281049-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Montenegrin presidential election, Campaign\nIn March 2018, \u0110ukanovi\u0107 confirmed that he would run for president, supported by DPS' coalition partner, the Liberal Party (LP), as well as other subjects in the government; Social Democrats (SD), Croatian Civic Initiative (HGI), the New Democratic Power (FORCA), Democratic Union of Albanians (DUA) and the Bosniak Party (BS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281049-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Montenegrin presidential election, Campaign\nAfter a series of unsuccessful attempts by the entire opposition to nominate a common candidate, it was clear that the opposition would have more candidates. On 9 March 2018, the presidency of Democratic Front (DF) alliance decides to support the candidacy of independent candidate Mladen Bojani\u0107, which was previously proposed by Democratic Montenegro (DCG) and United Reform Action (URA). Presidency of United Montenegro (UCG) has decided to support the previously-announced candidacy of the party leader Goran Danilovi\u0107, later Presidency of Social Democratic Party (SDP) has consistently supported candidacy of MP Draginja Vuksanovi\u0107, as first ever female presidential candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281049-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Montenegrin presidential election, Campaign\nFrom the rest of the opposition have unsuccessfully called upon the UCG and the SDP to withdraw their candidacies and support independent Bojani\u0107 as an opposition common candidate, which they have refused. From SDP replied that Bojani\u0107 was not a completely independent candidate, alluding to his support for the right-wing Democratic Front list for the 2016 parliamentary election. On 21 March Danilovi\u0107 ultimately withdrew his candidacy and supported Bojani\u0107's candidature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281049-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Montenegrin presidential election, Candidates\nMontenegrin State Electoral Commission (DIK) confirmed seven candidates. Candidate numbers were decided using a random draw on 28 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281049-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Montenegrin presidential election, Opinion polls\nPoll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first, and using the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. If such date is unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two candidates with the highest figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281049-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Montenegrin presidential election, Results\nMilo \u0110ukanovi\u0107, candidate of the DPS-led coalition, won the election in the first round, winning 53.9% of the vote. Independent opposition candidate Mladen Bojani\u0107 came in second with 33.4% of the popular vote, while Draginja Vuksanovi\u0107 (SDP) was third with 8.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281049-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Montenegrin presidential election, Aftermath\nIn its June 2018 report, issued after the presidential election, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe\u2019s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, called for election reforms in Montenegro, and for more integrity, impartiality and professionalism in election administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281050-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monterrey Challenger\nThe 2018 Monterrey Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Monterrey, Mexico from 1 to 7 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281050-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monterrey Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281050-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Monterrey Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281051-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monterrey Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nChristopher Eubanks and Evan King were the defending champions but only King chose to defend his title, partnering Nathan Pasha. King lost in the first round to Thanasi Kokkinakis and Matt Reid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281051-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monterrey Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nMarcelo Ar\u00e9valo and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan won the title after defeating Leander Paes and Miguel \u00c1ngel Reyes-Varela 6\u20131, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281052-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monterrey Challenger \u2013 Singles\nMaximilian Marterer was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281052-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monterrey Challenger \u2013 Singles\nDavid Ferrer won the title after defeating Ivo Karlovi\u0107 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281053-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monterrey Open\nThe 2018 Monterrey Open (also known as the 2018 Abierto GNP Seguros for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 10th edition of the Monterrey Open and an International tournament on the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Club Sonoma in Monterrey, Mexico, from 2 to 8 April, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281053-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monterrey Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281054-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monterrey Open \u2013 Doubles\nNao Hibino and Alicja Rosolska were the defending champions, but Rosolska chose to compete in Charleston instead. Hibino played alongside Darija Jurak, but lost in the quarterfinals to Valeria Savinykh and Yana Sizikova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281054-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monterrey Open \u2013 Doubles\nNaomi Broady and Sara Sorribes Tormo won the title, defeating Desirae Krawczyk and Giuliana Olmos in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20138].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281055-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monterrey Open \u2013 Singles\nAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281055-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Monterrey Open \u2013 Singles\nGarbi\u00f1e Muguruza won the title, defeating T\u00edmea Babos in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281056-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Alouettes season\nThe 2018 Montreal Alouettes season was the 52nd season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 64th overall. The Alouettes improved upon their disappointing 3\u201315 record from 2017, but still failed to qualify for the playoffs for the fourth straight season, finishing with a 5\u201313 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281056-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Alouettes season\nThis was the first season under former NFL head coach Mike Sherman and the second season under general manager Kavis Reed. The Alouettes hosted their training camp for the first time at Olympic Stadium with rookies reporting on May 16 and main camp beginning on May 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281056-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Alouettes season, Offseason, CFL Draft\nThe 2018 CFL Draft took place on May 3, 2018. The Alouettes held the first overall draft pick by virtue of finishing in last place in 2017, but traded it to Hamilton in exchange for the second overall pick and several other picks and players. The Alouettes held ten selections in total, after acquiring another fourth-round pick for Andrew Lue and another sixth-round pick for S. J. Green. The Alouettes traded their second-round pick to Saskatchewan for Darian Durant. They also upgraded their fifth-round pick to a third-round pick in the Vernon Adams trade for Tevaughn Campbell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281056-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Alouettes season, Regular season\nIn recognition of the Alouettes' storied history, the team featured a different helmet logo, drawn in red and white only, for each of the first three months of the season. Helmets worn in June featured the team logo from 1949 to 1969, July featured the team logo from 1970 to 1973 and August featured the team logo from 1974 to 1986. Helmets worn from Week 14 to the end of the season had the team's then-current logo, from 1996 to 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281056-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Alouettes season, Team, Roster\nItalics indicate International players updated 2018-11-03 \u2022 46 Roster, 1 one-game injured,13 six-game injured, 4 practice roster,0 suspended", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281057-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Impact season\nThe 2018 Montreal Impact season is the club's 25th season of existence, and their seventh in Major League Soccer, the top tier of the Canadian soccer pyramid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281057-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Impact season, Current squad, International roster slots\nMontreal has Nine MLS International Roster Slots for use in the 2018 season. They have the eight allotted from the league and three from trades with Orlando City SC, Portland Timbers and San Jose Earthquakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281057-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Impact season, Player Movement, In\nPer Major League Soccer and club policies terms of the deals do not get disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281057-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Impact season, International caps\nPlayers called for senior international duty during the 2018 season while under contract with the Montreal Impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281057-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Impact season, Major League Soccer, Results summary\nLast updated: October 29, 2018Source: 2018 Major League Soccer seasonPld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281057-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Impact season, Statistics, Top scorers\nUpdated to match played October 21, 2018Source:\u00a0Italic: denotes player left the club during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281057-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Impact season, Statistics, Top Assists\nUpdated to match played October 21, 2018Source:\u00a0Italic: denotes player left the club during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281057-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Impact season, Statistics, Goals Against Average\nUpdated to match played October 29, 2018Source:\u00a0Italic: denotes player left the club during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281057-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreal Impact season, Statistics, Top minutes played\nUpdated to match played October 29, 2018Source:\u00a0Italic: denotes player left the club during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281058-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreux Ladies Open\nThe 2018 Montreux Ladies Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Montreux, Switzerland, on 3\u20139 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281058-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreux Ladies Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281059-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreux Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nXenia Knoll and Amra Sadikovi\u0107 were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281059-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreux Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nAndreea Mitu and Elena-Gabriela Ruse won the title, defeating Laura Pigossi and Maryna Zanevska in the final, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20134].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281060-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreux Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nMar\u00eda Teresa Torr\u00f3 Flor was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281060-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreux Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nIga \u015awi\u0105tek won the title, defeating Kimberley Zimmermann in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281061-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreux Volley Masters\nThe 2018 Montreux Volley Masters is the 33rd edition of the women's volleyball competition set in Montreux, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281061-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreux Volley Masters, Group stage\nThe first 2 teams of each group qualify for the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281062-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Montreux Volley Masters squads\nThis article shows the rosters of all participating teams at the 2018 Montreux Volley Masters in Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281063-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Monza Formula 2 round\nThe 2018 Monza FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races held on 1 and 2 September 2018 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Monza, Italy as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the tenth round of the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship and was run in support of the 2018 Italian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281064-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Morehead State Eagles football team\nThe 2018 Morehead State Eagles football team represented Morehead State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Rob Tenyer and played their home games at Jayne Stadium. They were members of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 3\u20138, 2\u20136 in PFL play to finish in a three-way tie for seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281064-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Morehead State Eagles football team, Previous season\nThe Eagles finished the 2017 season 4\u20137, 3\u20135 in PFL play to finish in a tie for eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281064-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Morehead State Eagles football team, Preseason, Preseason All-PFL team\nThe PFL released their preseason all-PFL team on July 30, 2018, with the Eagles having one player selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281064-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Morehead State Eagles football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe PFL released their preseason coaches poll on July 31, 2018, with the Eagles predicted to finish in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281065-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Morelos Open\nThe 2018 Morelos Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Cuernavaca, Mexico between 19\u201324 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281065-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Morelos Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281066-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Morelos Open \u2013 Doubles\nAustin Krajicek and Jackson Withrow were the defending champions but only Krajicek chose to defend his title, partnering Matt Reid. Krajicek withdrew before the tournament began due to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281066-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Morelos Open \u2013 Doubles\nRoberto Mayt\u00edn and Fernando Romboli won the title after defeating Evan King and Nathan Pasha 7\u20135, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281067-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Morelos Open \u2013 Singles\nAlexander Bublik was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281067-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Morelos Open \u2013 Singles\nDennis Novikov won the title after defeating Christian Gar\u00edn 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281068-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Morgan State Bears football team\nThe 2018 Morgan State Bears football team represented Morgan State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year interim head coach Ernest T. Jones. The Bears played their home games at Hughes Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). They finished the season 4\u20137, 3\u20134 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281068-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Morgan State Bears football team, Previous season\nThe Bears finished the 2017 season 1\u201310, 1\u20137 in MEAC play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281068-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Morgan State Bears football team, Previous season\nOn December 18, 2017 Fred Farrier was dismissed and released from his contract. He finished at Morgan State with a record of 4\u201318.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281068-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Morgan State Bears football team, Preseason, MEAC preseason poll\nIn a vote of the MEAC head coaches and sports information directors, the Bears were picked to finish in ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281068-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Morgan State Bears football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MEAC Teams\nThe Bears had seven players selected to the preseason all-MEAC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 74], "content_span": [75, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281068-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Morgan State Bears football team, Schedule\nDespite also being a member of the MEAC, the game vs North Carolina A&T will be considered a non conference game and will not effect the MEAC standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281069-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Morningside Ward by-election\nA by-election for the Brisbane City Council ward of Morningside was held on 20 January 2018, triggered by the resignation of incumbent Labor councillor, Shayne Sutton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281069-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Morningside Ward by-election, Background\nShayne Sutton announced her intention to retire as the Councillor for Morningside Ward on Monday 23 October 2017, saying she would stay on \"until the state election\", assuming the election would be at the start of 2018 and that the by-election could coincide, however, just six days later, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk called the election for 25 November 2017", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281069-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Morningside Ward by-election, Background\nThe Electoral Commission of Queensland announced on 2 November 2017, that the By-Election would take place on 20 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281070-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moroccan Throne Cup\nThe 2018 Moroccan Throne Cup will be the 62nd staging of the Moroccan Throne Cup, the knockout football tournament in Morocco. The winners will be assured a place for the 2018\u201319 CAF Confederation Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281070-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moroccan Throne Cup\nThe 2018 Moroccan Throne Cup Final played at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, on 18 November 2018. Nahdat Berkane winning their 1st title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281070-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moroccan Throne Cup, Final phase, Qualified teams\nThe following teams competed in the 2018 Coupe du Tr\u00f4ne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281070-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Moroccan Throne Cup, Round of 16\nQualified teamsThe following teams competed in the 2018 Coupe du Tr\u00f4ne, Round of 16:10 teams of 2017\u201318 Botola", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281071-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mosconi Cup\nThe 2018 Mosconi Cup, (also known as Mosconi Cup XXV) was the 25th edition of the annual nine-ball pool competition between teams representing Europe and the United States. It took place between 4\u20137 December 2018 at the Alexandra Palace in London, England and was sponsored by partypoker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281071-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mosconi Cup\nThe reigning champions were team Europe, who had won the last eight cups, including the 2017 Mosconi Cup 11\u20134. The event was played with teams of 5, decided by captains, and also performances in the tour. The team's non-playing captains were the same as the previous year: Marcus Chamat for Europe and Johan Ruijsink for the United States. Ruijsink, who had won the Cup as captain with team Europe seven times, was assisted by vice captain Jeremy Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281071-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mosconi Cup\nThe United States won the Mosconi Cup for the first time since 2009, defeating Europe 11\u20139, ending an 8-year losing streak for the USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281071-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mosconi Cup, Teams\nThe European qualification process saw players play to be picked in the top three places in the European rankings. This initially resulted in the selection of Eklent Ka\u00e7i, Mario He and Niels Feijen to Team Europe, who were subsequently joined by the wildcard picks of Albin Ouschan and Jayson Shaw. However, a statement released on 21 November 2018 announced that Mario He had stepped down from the side following a failed drugs test and would be replaced by the next highest-ranked player on the Euro Tour, Alexander Kazakis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281072-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Oblast gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Moscow Oblast gubernatorial election was held on 9 September 2018, on common election day. To be elected, a candidate must get more than 50% of votes. If no one had achieved 50%, a runoff would've been held 14 days later. Only the two most successful candidates from the first round would've been able to participate in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281072-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Oblast gubernatorial election\nAndrey Vorobyov, the incumbent governor, was re-elected for a new term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281073-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow River Cup\nThe 2018 Moscow River Cup was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the first edition of the event and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the National Tennis Center in Moscow, Russia from 23 through 29 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281073-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow River Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281073-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow River Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281073-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow River Cup, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281074-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow River Cup \u2013 Doubles\nThis was the first edition of the tournament. Anastasia Potapova and Vera Zvonareva won the title, defeating Alexandra Panova and Galina Voskoboeva in the final, 6\u20130, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281075-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow River Cup \u2013 Singles\nOlga Danilovi\u0107 won her first WTA Tour title, defeating Anastasia Potapova in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20137(1\u20137), 6\u20134. Danilovi\u0107 became the first player born after 2000 to win a WTA singles title, and the first lucky loser to win a singles title since Andrea Jaeger in 1980. This was the first WTA Tour final between two players under 18 since Tatiana Golovin and Nicole Vaidi\u0161ov\u00e1 played in the final of the 2005 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281076-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade\nThe 2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade was a military parade that took place in Red Square in Moscow on 9 May 2018 to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. The annual parade marks the Allied victory in World War II on the Eastern Front, on the same day as the signing of the German act of capitulation to the Allies in Berlin, at midnight of 9 May 1945 (Russian time). President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin delivered his fifteenth holiday address to the nation after the parade inspection presided over by Minister of Defense General of the Army Sergey Shoygu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281076-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Significance and events\nThis year's parade also marked the centennial year since the 1918 foundation of the Red Army. This year for the first time, in the Victory Day parade in Moscow, it was planned that armored vehicles from the Red Army during the Russian Civil War would be to take part in the parade mobile column, the planned appearance was called off, and the 154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment's 1st Honor Guard Company took part in the exhibition drill segment of the parade together with a drumline from the Moscow Military Music College, the first time it had been done since the parade of 2007 and a recent tradition which began in the 2001 parade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281076-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Significance and events\nOriginally, for the first time since 2002, cadets from the Civil Defense Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were not to take part in the Victory Day parade in Moscow, while EMERCOM detachments continued to march past in other major parades nationwide, however, the decision was rescinded. New military vehicles in the parade include the BMPT Terminator A pair of Russia's 5th-generation Su-57 fighter jets flew for the first time over Red Square, together with two MiG-31s armed with Kinzhal air-to-surface missiles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281076-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Significance and events\nFor the third consecutive year, the parade included a composite ceremonial female battalion from the Military University of the Ministry of Defense, the Military Academy of Material and Technical Support, and the Military Space Academy. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 were both present during the parade as the main foreign guests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281076-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Preparatory activities\nBeginning in December 2017, preparations for the parade were well attended at the unit level. Individual unit practices were held in the various military installations for all the participating units in the national and local parades. Unit practices within Moscow Oblast itself started in early March in the Alabino field and other locations before the full-blown parade practice run-throughs for all the participating units will commence later in the month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281076-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Preparatory activities\nAll parade practice runs began on 24 March 2018 in the Alabino training range with the first practice run through for the ground column, kicking off the 2-month long national preparations for the 73rd Victory Day, and will last even until the middle of April when the runs on Red Square for the national parade itself will start, ending with a final general combined practice run of the parade in early May in the morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281076-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Preparatory activities\nFrom the 1st week up to the 3rd week of April, the Alabino military training center serves as the parade training ground for the estimated 14,000 military personnel in attendance for the Moscow parade, plus more than 135 vehicles and 78 aircraft. The air flypast column began their training flights on 9 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281076-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Full order of the 2018 parade\nBold indicates first appearance, italic indicates multiple appearances, Bold and italic indicate returning appearance, all indicated unless otherwise noted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281076-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Other parades\nAs per tradition, 27 other Russian major cities (Sevastopol and Kerch in Crimea) held their commemorative parades on that day (some of them including flypasts), and joint civil-military parades are to be hosted by 50 other towns and cities nationwide. Similar celebrations were held in almost all the former republics of the Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281076-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery\nVladimir Putin with Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281076-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery\n6 Sukhoi Su-25s displaying color smoke of the Russian Flag", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281076-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery\nTroops of the 154th Independent Commandants Regiment during the parade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281076-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery\nCadets of the Civil Defense Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281077-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow mayoral election\nThe 2018 Moscow mayoral election was held on 9 September 2018, on common election day. To be elected, a candidate must get more than 50% of votes. If no one achieves 50%, a runoff will be held 14 days later. Only the two most successful candidates from the first round participate in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281077-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow mayoral election\nSergey Sobyanin, the incumbent Mayor of Moscow, was re-elected for a new term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281077-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow mayoral election, Candidates, Nomination and registration of candidates\nCandidates can be nominated both by political parties and as self-nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 83], "content_span": [84, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281077-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow mayoral election, Candidates, Nomination and registration of candidates\nIn any case, candidates must pass the \"municipal filter\" (collection of signatures of municipal deputies). According to the decision of Moscow City Election Commission from 4 June 2018, the number of signatures of municipal deputies in support of a candidate must be in the range of from 110 to 115.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 83], "content_span": [84, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281077-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow mayoral election, Candidates, Nomination and registration of candidates\nCandidates nominated by the self-nomination procedure, in addition to the signatures of municipal deputies, it is also necessary to collect signatures of voters. The number of signatures of voters should be in the range from 36,081 to 39,689.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 83], "content_span": [84, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281077-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidate\nInitially, four candidates were registered to participate in the election, but on 23 July, the Moscow City Court ordered the City Election Commission to register one more candidate. Thus, five candidates were registered to participate in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism\nAutocephaly recognized universally de facto, by some Autocephalous Churches de jure:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism\nA schism between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC, also known as the Moscow Patriarchate) and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople began on 15 October 2018 when the former unilaterally severed full communion with the latter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism\nThe resolution was taken in response to a decision of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople of 11 October 2018, confirming its intentions to grant autocephaly (independence) to the Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine in the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism\nThe decision also stated that the Holy Synod would immediately: reestablish a stauropegion in Kyiv, i.e. a church body subordinated directly to the ecumenical patriarch; revoke the \"Letter of issue\" (permission) of 1686 that had given permission to the patriarch of Moscow to ordain the metropolitan of Kyiv; and lift the excommunications which affected the clergy and faithfuls of two unrecognized Ukrainian Eastern Orthodox churches. Those two unrecognized churches, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church \u2013 Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), were competing with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) and were considered \"schismatics\" (illegally segregated groups) by the Patriarchate of Moscow, as well as by the other Eastern Orthodox churches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 844]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism\nIn its decision of 15 October 2018, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church barred all members of the Moscow Patriarchate (both clergy and laity) from taking part in communion, baptism, and marriage at any church controlled by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Before that, in response to the appointment of two exarchs of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Ukraine, the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate had decided, on 14 September 2018, to break off participation in any episcopal assemblies, theological discussions, multilateral commissions, and any other structures that are chaired or co-chaired by representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism\nThe schism forms part of a wider political conflict involving Russia's 2014 annexation of the Crimea and its military intervention in Ukraine, as well as Ukraine's desire to join the European Union and NATO. This schism is reminiscent of the Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism of 1996 over canonical jurisdiction over Estonia, which was however resolved after less than three months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism\nOn 21 October 2019, Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens, the primate of the Church of Greece, sent a peaceful letter to Epiphanius, the primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU, that was formed by the unification of the UOC-KP, UAOC, and parts of the UOC-MP on 15 December 2018). This decision was supported by the whole hierarchy (bishops) of the Church of Greece, minus seven metropolitans. This decision meant that the Church of Greece recognized the OCU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism\nThe ROC had announced previously it would break communion with any hierarch of the Church of Greece who enters in communion with any hierarch of the OCU. On Sunday, 3 November 2019, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow did not mention the primate of the Church of Greece in the liturgy, removing him from the diptych. On 26 December, the ROC broke eucharistic communion with the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria, Theodore II and ceased commemorating him, because he had recognized the OCU the month before. On 20 November 2020, the Holy Synod of the ROC declared that Patriarch Kirill can no longer commemorate Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus as a result of Chrysostomos' commemoration of Epiphanius on 24 October 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, History of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine\nAfter the baptism of Rus' these lands were under the control of the metropolitan of Kyiv. Among the 24 metropolitans who held the throne before the Mongol invasion, only two were of local origin and the rest were Greek. Usually, they were appointed by Constantinople and were not chosen by the bishops of their dioceses, as it should be done according to the canon. After the Mongol invasion, the southern part of Rus' was heavily devastated and the disintegration of Kyivan Rus' accelerated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, History of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine\nMetropolitan Kirill III, who occupied the throne for 30 years, spent almost all of his time in the lands of Vladimir-Suzdal Rus' and visited Kyiv only twice, although earlier he had come from Galicia and had been nominated for the post of metropolitan by Prince Daniel of Galicia. After the new Mongol raid in 1299, Metropolitan Maksim finally moved to Vladimir in the north, and did not even leave a bishop behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, History of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine\nIn 1303 a new cathedra was created for south-west Rus' in Galicia and the new Metropolitan was consecrated by Constantinople, but its existence ended in 1355 after the Galicia\u2013Volhynia Wars. In 1325, Metropolitan Peter moved to Moscow, thus greatly contributing to the rise of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which gradually conquered other Russian principalities in the northeast of the former Kyivan Rus'. Another part of Kyivan Rus' gradually came under the rule of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland, which entered into rivalry with Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0006-0003", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, History of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine\nIn particular, the Grand Dukes of Lithuania sought from Constantinople a separate metropolitan for the Orthodox who lived in their lands. Although the metropolitan in Moscow continued to retain the title of \"metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus'\", he could not rule the Orthodox outside the borders of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Constantinople twice agreed to create a separate metropolitan for Lithuania, but these decisions were not permanent, Constantinople being inclined to maintain a single church government on the lands of the former Kyivan Rus'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, History of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine\nIn 1439, Constantinople entered into union with the Roman Catholic Church. In Moscow, this decision was rejected outright, and Metropolitan Isidor, consecrated by Constantinople, was accused in heresy, imprisoned, and later expelled. In 1448, the council of north-eastern Russian clergy in Moscow, at the behest of Prince Vasily II of Moscow, elected Jonah the metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus' without the consent of the patriarch of Constantinople. In 1469 Patriarch Dionysius I stated that Constantinople would not recognize any metropolitan ordained without its blessing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, History of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine\nMeanwhile, the metropolis of Kyiv (de facto in Novogrudok) stayed under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Moscow's de facto independence from Constantinople remained unrecognized until 1589 when Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople approved the creation of a new, fifth Orthodox Patriarchate in Moscow. This decision was finally confirmed by the four older patriarchs in 1593.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, History of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine\nThe Patriarch of Moscow became the head of \"all Russia and Northern countries\", and Chernihiv (now in Ukraine) was one of his dioceses. However, he had no power among the Orthodox bishops of the Polish\u2013Lithuanian Commonwealth, who remained under the rule of Constantinople. At the same time, the Orthodox hierarchs of those lands were inclined to the Union with Rome, despite the resistance of their parishes, who formed the Orthodox brotherhoods (or fraternities) to keep their identity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, History of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine\nOn the way from Moscow, Jeremiah II visited the lands of present-day Ukraine and committed an unprecedented act, granting Stauropegia (direct subordination to the Patriarch) to many Orthodox brotherhoods. This provoked the anger of the local bishops and soon the Union of Brest was proclaimed, which was supported by the majority of the Orthodox bishops of the Commonwealth, including Metropolitan Michail Rogoza. Officially, the Orthodox (but not the Eastern Catholic) Metropolis of Kyiv in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was eliminated and re-established only in 1620, in subsequent co-existence with Uniate Metropolis. That led to sharp conflict and numerous revolts culminating in the Khmelnytsky uprising.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, History of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine\nIn 1654, Russia entered the war with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; it quickly occupied, for a while, the lands of present Belarus, and gained some power over the Hetmanate pursuant to the Pereyaslav Agreement (1654). The official title of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow was \"Patriarch of Moscow and all Greater, Lesser, and White Russia\". However, the Metropolitan of Kyiv Sylvester Kossov had managed to defend his independence from the Moscow Patriarchate. The Moscow government, which needed the support of the Orthodox clergy, postponed the resolution of this issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, History of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine\nIn 1686, Ecumenical Patriarch Dionysius IV approved the new metropolitan of Kyiv, Gedeon Chetvertinsky, who would be ordained by the Moscow Patriarchate and thus transferred, albeit with certain qualifications, a part of the Kyiv ecclesiastical province to the jurisdiction of Patriarchate of Moscow (the Russian Orthodox Church).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, History of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine\nIn the 1924 Tomos (decree) of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which granted independence to the Polish Orthodox Church, the previous transfer of the Kyivan Church to the jurisdiction of Moscow (in 1685\u20131686) was declared uncanonical. In addition, the decree pointed out that the conditions of the synodal \"Act\" of 1686 \u2013 which specified that the Russian Orthodox Church was only to consecrate the metropolitan of Kyiv \u2013 were never adhered to by the Patriarchate of Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, Post-Cold War, claims of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Russkiy mir\nThe historical rivalry between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church intensified after the Cold War. Indeed, after the Cold War, Moscow and Constantinople both emerged as \"two centers of Orthodox power\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 115], "content_span": [116, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, Post-Cold War, claims of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Russkiy mir, Claims of the Ecumenical Patriarchate\n1. The [Ecumenical] Patriarch had the right to establish a court of final appeal for any case from anywhere in the Orthodox world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 154], "content_span": [155, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, Post-Cold War, claims of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Russkiy mir, Claims of the Ecumenical Patriarchate\n2. The [Ecumenical] Patriarch had the exclusive right to summon the other Patriarchs and heads of Autocephalous Churches to a joint meeting of all of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 154], "content_span": [155, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, Post-Cold War, claims of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Russkiy mir, Claims of the Ecumenical Patriarchate\n3. The [Ecumenical] Patriarch has jurisdiction, ecclesiastical authority over Orthodox Christians who are outside the territory of the local Orthodox Churches, the so-called diaspora.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 154], "content_span": [155, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, Post-Cold War, claims of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Russkiy mir, Claims of the Ecumenical Patriarchate\n4. No new \"Autocephalous\" Church can come into being without the consent of the Patriarch of Constantinople; this consent should express the consensus of the local Orthodox Churches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 154], "content_span": [155, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, Post-Cold War, claims of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Russkiy mir, Russkiy mir\nRusskiy mir (literally \"Russian world\") is an ideology promoted by many in the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church. \"This ideology, concocted as a reaction to the loss of Russian control over Ukraine and Belarus after the fall of the Soviet Union, seeks to assert a spiritual and cultural unity of the peoples descended from the Kyivan Rus, presumably under Russian leadership.\" Patriarch Kiril of Moscow also shares this ideology; for the Russian Orthodox Church, the russkiy mir is also \"a spiritual concept, a reminder that through the baptism of Rus, God consecrated these people to the task of building a Holy Rus.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 128], "content_span": [129, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, Post-Cold War, claims of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Russkiy mir, Russkiy mir\nOn 31 January 2019, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow declared concerning the religious relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church and Ukraine: \"Ukraine is not on the periphery of our church. We call Kyiv 'the mother of all Russian cities.' For us Kyiv is what Jerusalem is for many. Russian Orthodoxy began there, so under no circumstances can we abandon this historical and spiritual relationship. The whole unity of our Local Church is based on these spiritual ties.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 128], "content_span": [129, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, 1996 schism over Estonia\nThe Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism of 1996 began on 23 February 1996, when the Russian Orthodox Church severed full communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, and ended on 16 May 1996 when the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate reached an agreement establishing parallel jurisdictions. The excommunication was in response to the Ecumenical Patriarchate's decision on 20 February 1996 to reestablish an autonomous Orthodox church in Estonia under the Ecumenical Patriarchate's jurisdiction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Background, 1996 schism over Estonia\nThe 1996 schism has similarities with the schism of October 2018: both schisms were caused by a dispute between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate concerning the canonical jurisdiction over a territory in Eastern Europe over which the Russian Orthodox Church claimed to have the exclusive canonical jurisdiction, such territory being a part of the former Soviet Union, which upon its collapse had become an independent state (Ukraine in 2018, Estonia in 1996). The break of communion in 1996 was made by Moscow unilaterally, as in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, September 2018: Russian Orthodox synod's \"retaliatory measures\" and the aftermath\nOn 14 September 2018, in response to the appointment of two exarchs (deputies of the Ecumenical Patriarch) in Ukraine, Daniel (Zelinsky) and Hilarion (Rudnyk), and in response to the Ecumenical Patriarchate's plans to grant autocephalous status to the Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church held an extraordinary session to take \"retaliatory measures\" and decided:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, September 2018: Russian Orthodox synod's \"retaliatory measures\" and the aftermath\nA statement was released the same day explaining the situation and the sanctions taken to protest against the Ecumenical Patriarch's behavior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, September 2018: Russian Orthodox synod's \"retaliatory measures\" and the aftermath\nOn the same day, Metropolitan Hilarion clarified the situation in an interview, stating that this decision is not a rupture of Eucharistic communion and does not concern the laity, but nonetheless added:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, September 2018: Russian Orthodox synod's \"retaliatory measures\" and the aftermath\nBut we refuse to concelebrate with hierarchs of the Patriarchate of Constantinople since every time they mention the name of their Patriarch during the liturgy while we have suspended it. [ ...]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, September 2018: Russian Orthodox synod's \"retaliatory measures\" and the aftermath\nWe do not think, of course, that all this will finally shut the door for dialogue, but our today's decision is a signal to the Patriarchate of Constantinople that if the actions of this kind continue, we will have to break the Eucharistic communion entirely. [ ...]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, September 2018: Russian Orthodox synod's \"retaliatory measures\" and the aftermath\n[ A]fter the breaking-off of the Eucharistic communion, at least a half of this 300-million-strong population will no longer recognize him as even the first among equals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, September 2018: Russian Orthodox synod's \"retaliatory measures\" and the aftermath\nOn 23 September 2018 Patriarch Bartholomew, during a Divine Liturgy he was celebrating in the Saint Fokas Orthodox church declared that he \"had sent a message that Ukraine would receive autocephaly as soon as possible, since it is entitled to it\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, September 2018: Russian Orthodox synod's \"retaliatory measures\" and the aftermath\nOn 30 September 2018, in an interview to Izvestia Daily published on the official website of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion commented: \"The Russian Church does not need to fear isolation. If Constantinople continues its anti-canonical actions, it will place itself outside the canonical space, outside the understanding of church order that distinguishes the Orthodox Church.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, September 2018: Russian Orthodox synod's \"retaliatory measures\" and the aftermath\nOn 2 October 2018, Patriarch Kirill of the ROC sent a letter to all the autocephalous Orthodox churches to ask them to hold a \"Pan-Orthodox discussion\" concerning the question of Ukraine's autocephaly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, September 2018: Russian Orthodox synod's \"retaliatory measures\" and the aftermath\nOn 5 October 2018, the Metropolitan Pavel, head of the Belarusian Orthodox Church (exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church), announced there would be a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on 15 October in Minsk. He said that \"The situation with the Orthodox Church in Ukraine will be on the agenda of the meeting\". This meeting had been announced previously on 7 January 2018 and was at the time \"most likely to take place in mid October.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, September 2018: Russian Orthodox synod's \"retaliatory measures\" and the aftermath\nOn 9 October 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church warned that \"if the project for Ukrainian autocephaly is carried through, it will mean a tragic and possibly irretrievable schism of the whole Orthodoxy.\" He added that", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, September 2018: Russian Orthodox synod's \"retaliatory measures\" and the aftermath\nignoring sacred canons shakes up the whole system of the church organism. Schismatics in other Local Churches are well aware that if autocephaly is given to the Ukrainian schismatics, it will be possible to repeat the same scenario anywhere. That is why we state that autocephaly in Ukraine will not be \"the healing of the schism\" but its legalization and encouragement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Autocephaly of the Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine\nOn 11 October 2018 the synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate announced that it would grant autocephaly to the \"Church of Ukraine\" in the future. In the same decision the Holy synod announced that it will immediately: reestablish a stauropegion (church body ruled directly by the Ecumenical Patriarch) in Kyiv, revoke the legal binding of the letter of 1686, and lift the excommunications which affected clergy and faithful of two Ukrainian Orthodox churches (the UOC-KP and the UAOC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0033-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Autocephaly of the Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine\nThose two churches, the UOC-KP and the UAOC, were competing with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) and were considered \"schismatics\" (illegally segregated groups) by the Patriarchate of Moscow, as well as by the other Orthodox churches. This decision led the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to break full communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate on 15 October 2018, which marked the beginning of the 2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism. Support for the grant of autocephaly had been expressed by the Ukrainian President and the Verkhovna Rada in June 2018, and before that by the Rada in June 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Autocephaly of the Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine\nOn 15 December 2018, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) was formed after a unification council between the UAOC, the UOC-KP, and two bishops of the UOC-MP; Epiphanius was elected primate of the OCU during this unification council. Most of the hierarchs of the UOC-MP ignored the council and over half of them had sent invites back to the Ecumenical Patriarch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Autocephaly of the Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine\nOn 5 January 2019, Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, signed the official decree (tomos) that granted autocephaly (independence) to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and officially established the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. On 6 January, after a Liturgy celebrated by Metropolitan Epiphanius and Patriarch Bartholomew, Partriarch Bartholomew read the tomos of the OCU and then gave it to Metropolitan Epiphanius. On 8 January 2019, the tomos was brought back to Istanbul so that all the members of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate could sign the tomos. The tomos was signed by all members of the Holy synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on 9 January 2019. The tomos, signed by all members of the Holy synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, was brought back to Ukraine on the morning of 10 January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 926]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Autocephaly of the Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine\nRight after the granting of the tomos of autocephaly to the OCU (6 January 2019), a leadership conflict arose within the OCU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate\nOn 15 October 2018, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, meeting in Minsk, decided to cut all ties with the Constantinople Patriarchate. This decision forbade for any member of the ROC (both clergy and laity) joint participation in all sacraments, including communion, baptism, and marriage, at any church worldwide controlled by Constantinople. At the time of the schism, the Russian Orthodox Church had over 150 million followers, more than half of all Eastern Orthodox Christians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 193], "content_span": [194, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0037-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate\nThe same day, after the synod, a briefing for journalists was given by Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, in which he declared that \"the decision on complete cessation of the Eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople was taken today.\" On 18 October 2018, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia has expressed \"complete support of the position taken by the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Moscow, following its meeting of 15th October 2018\" and severed Eucharistic communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 193], "content_span": [194, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate\nThe break of communion was done in response to a decision of the Holy synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on 11 October 2018 which confirmed the intention of moving towards granting autocephaly (independence) to the Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine, and to immediately: reestablish a stauropegion (church body ruled directly by the Ecumenical Patriarch) in Kyiv, revoke the legal binding of the letter of 1686, and lift the excommunications which affected clergy and faithful of two Ukrainian Orthodox churches. Those two churches, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church \u2013 Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), were competing with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) and were considered \"schismatics\" (illegally segregated groups) by the Patriarchate of Moscow, as well as by the other Eastern Orthodox churches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 193], "content_span": [194, 1070]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate\nDoctor in theology Cyrill Govorun of the UOC-MP argued that the break of communion between the churches of Moscow and Constantinople did not constitute a real schism (like the schism of 1054), but a \"slit\". The American Protestant magazine Christianity Today called the break of communion between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church the \"biggest schism since 1054\" and \"the biggest Christian schism since the Protestant Reformation\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 193], "content_span": [194, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate\nOn 17 October, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, was interviewed by the BBC Russian Service; this interview was published on the official website of the Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church the very same day. Hilarion declared: \"As of today, we have very clearly stated: the fact that the Patriarchate of Constantinople has recognized a schismatic structure means for us that Constantinople itself is now in schism. It has identified itself with a schism. Accordingly, we cannot have the full Eucharistic communion with it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 193], "content_span": [194, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate\nHilarion added that when members of the Russian Orthodox of Moscow Patriarchate pay visits to the monasteries on Mount Athos, they cannot participate in the sacraments (for example, receive communion), and promised punishment to any priests who participate in the divine services together with the local clergy. It is known that Russia makes large donations to the monasteries on Athos: the sum of $200 million was announced by a source close to the Moscow Patriarchate and confirmed by Hilarion in his interview. Hilarion hinted that \"[h]istory shows that when Athos is concerned over something, the monasteries on the Holy Mountain do find ways to inform the Patriarch of Constantinople about it\" and called on Russian businessmen to switch donations to Russian sacred places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 193], "content_span": [194, 972]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate\nOn 29 December, during an interview to the channel Russia-24, Metropolitan Hilarion declared the Patriarch of Moscow had informed during the last meeting of the Supreme Diocesan Assembly of Moscow that that faithfuls of the ROC could communicate in the territory of the Mount Athos, but only in the Saint Panteleimon Monastery. The territory of the Mount Athos is under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 193], "content_span": [194, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0041-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate\nHilarion declared the Saint Panteleimon Monastery \"belongs to the Constantinople Church, as do all monasteries on Mt. Athos, but we know that it was built with Russian money by Russian monks and houses a Russian and Ukrainian monastic brotherhood, all rites are performed in a Slavic language and the laity who come there may take communion in it [...] But not in other Athos monasteries\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 193], "content_span": [194, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Archbishop of Athens\nOn 17 October 2019, the Holy Synod of the ROC reacted to the announcement that the Church of Greece had recognized the OCU. The Holy Synod stated: \"If the Ukrainian schism is really recognized by the Greek Orthodox Church and its Primate \u2013 either in the form of a joint service, liturgical commemoration of the leader of the schism or sending official letters to them \u2013 it will be a sad testimony to the deepening division in the family of local Orthodox Churches. [", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 190], "content_span": [191, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Archbishop of Athens\n...] We cease the prayer and Eucharistic communion with those bishops of the Greek Church who have entered or will enter into communion with representatives of the Ukrainian non-canonical schismatic communities. [", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 190], "content_span": [191, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0042-0002", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Archbishop of Athens\n...] the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church authorizes his Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia to stop the commemoration of the name of His Beatitude Archbishop of Athens and the entire Greece in the diptychs if the Primate of the Greek Church begins to commemorate the head of one of the Ukrainian schismatic groups during divine services or takes other actions indicating the recognition of the Ukrainian schism.\" In the same statement, the Holy Synod announced that the ROC would not be blessing pilgrimages of faithfuls of the ROC to Greek dioceses whose hierarchs are in communion with representatives of the OCU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 190], "content_span": [191, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Archbishop of Athens\nOn 21 October 2019, Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and all Greece, the primate of the Church of Greece, sent a peaceful letter to Epiphanius, the primate of the OCU. This decision was supported by the whole hierarchy (bishops) of the Church of Greece, minus 7 Metropolitans; the Metropolitan of Piraeus later said he in fact did not support this decision, explaining: \"My phrase 'I disagree but support the archbishop' was distorted beyond recognition.\" This decision meant that the Church of Greece recognized the OCU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 190], "content_span": [191, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0043-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Archbishop of Athens\nThe head of the external relations department of the ROC, Metropolitan Hilarion, stated that the ROC regretted this decision and that \"the Greek Church is not independent, there is no full autocephaly, full independence, half of its hierarchs are hierarchs of the Constantinople Patriarchate, it does not have its own external policy, and therefore it always follows in the footsteps of the Constantinople Patriarchate.\" Hilarion stated that he hoped \"no other regional church will follow this sad example.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 190], "content_span": [191, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0043-0002", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Archbishop of Athens\nThereafter, the Pilgrim Centre of the Patriarchate of Moscow, which is the official pilgrimage centre of the Moscow Patriarchate, released a list of dioceses of the Church of Greece which were considered \"undesirable for pilgrimage\" and to which the pilgrims of the Russian Orthodox Church were \"not blessed\" to go in pilgrimage. This list namely contained the diocese of Athens of the primate of the Church of Greece. This list was done on the basis of 17 October 2019 decision of the Holy Synod of the ROC not to bless pilgrimages to dioceses whose hierarchs enter in communion with representatives of the OCU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 190], "content_span": [191, 803]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Archbishop of Athens\nOn 2 November, Metropolitan Hilarion stated: \"We said that if the archbishop of Athens officially recognizes the Ukrainian schism, his name will be removed from the diptychs of the Russian Orthodox Church. What does that mean? It means that the patriarch will not mention the archbishop of Athens in his services, the same way as he is not mentioning the patriarch of Constantinople. I think he will not be mentioned this coming Sunday when the patriarch holds his service. That means we are stopping Eucharistic communion with the archbishop of Athens.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 190], "content_span": [191, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Archbishop of Athens\nOn Sunday, 3 November 2019, Patriarch Kirill did not mention the primate of the Church of Greece in the liturgy, removing him from the diptych.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 190], "content_span": [191, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Patriarch of Alexandria\nOn 8 November 2019, the Moscow Patriarchate announced that Patriarch Kirill would stop commemorating the Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa after the latter and his Church recognized the OCU that same day. On 25 November 2019, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow temporarily suspended the Moscow mission of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa. The future closing of the representation of the Patriarchate of Alexandria in Moscow was announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 193], "content_span": [194, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Patriarch of Alexandria\nOn 6 December 2019, the Holy Synod of the UOC-MP announced it had severted eucharistic communion \"with the Patriarchate of Constantinople and with the Churches and hierarchs who have recognised\u00a0 the schismatics\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 193], "content_span": [194, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Patriarch of Alexandria\nOn 24 December 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion said that \"[i]f the Patriarchate of Alexandria sides with the schism, then we might, of course, have to create parishes for our believers, because they won't be able to take communion at churches of the Patriarchate of Alexandria.\" Two days later, the Synod of the ROC in Moscow announced it severed full communion with the Patriarch of Alexandria and ceased commemorating him. In addition, the Synod of Moscow decided to suspend the activities of the metochion (embassy) of the Alexandrian Patriarchate under the Moscow Patriarchate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 193], "content_span": [194, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0048-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Patriarch of Alexandria\nIt was also decided that the Representation of the Patriarchate of Moscow under the Patriarchate of Alexandria in Cairo would become a parish of the ROC. As for the parishes of the ROC in Africa, they will be removed from the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and will be granted stauropegial status, that is, they will be transferred to the direct subordination of the head of the ROC, Patriarch Kirill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 193], "content_span": [194, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Break of communions with the other Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches by the Russian Orthodox Church, Break of communion with the Archbishop of Cyprus\nOn 20 November 2020, the Holy Synod of the ROC declared that Patriarch Kirill can no longer commemorate Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus as a result of Chrysostomos' commemoration of Epiphanius on 24 October 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 190], "content_span": [191, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Russian priests in Turkey\nOn 10 November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion, heads of the Moscow Patriarchate's Office for External Relations said during a TV program on Russia-24 that the ROC had no choice but to \"send priests of the Russian Orthodox Church\" to Turkey, \"[a]nd this will continue as long as the Patriarch of Constantinople is in schism\". He said the ROC did not do so before because Turkey is a territory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, but that the ROC now does because the Ecumenical Patriarchate is in schism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Russian priests in Turkey\nOn 12 November 2018, it was reported that the first priest was sent by Patriarch Kirill to Istanbul (Turkey) \"at the request of Russian believers who live in Turkey\". On the same day, the Russian Orthodox Church announced a divine liturgy had been held on 11 November in Istanbul and would be regularly held. The ROC also reported the words of the priest who had led the divine liturgy who said that after the 15 October 2018 decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, numerous Russian Orthodox believers of Turkey had asked the Moscow Patriarchate to provide them with \"pastoral care\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0051-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Russian priests in Turkey\nOn 14 December the Ecumenical Patriarchate published a statement by Metropolitan Sotirios of Pisidia in which he condemned the plans of the ROC priest to celebrate a Divine Liturgy in Belek (Turkey) with the help of the Russian consulate and without the permission of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which has canonical jurisdiction over this territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Russian priests in Turkey\nOn 30 December 2018, Interfax reported that the ROC was building a church on the territory of the embassy of Russia in Ankara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Dissolution of the AROCWE\nOn 27 November 2018, the Ecumenical Patriarchate decided to dissolve the Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox churches in Western Europe (AROCWE) \"thereby entrusting its faithful to the Hierarchs of the Ecumenical Throne in Europe\". ROC officials responded with a reminder of the 2003 proposal of Alexy II to move to the Moscow Patriarchate. This decision was made without any official requests from the hierarchs of the diocese and caused confusion. On 15 December, Pastoral Assembly of AROCWE decided to call an Extraordinary General Assembly (EGA), scheduled for 23 February 2019. On 23 February, 191 out of the 206 voters of EGA voted against the dissolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Dissolution of the AROCWE\nAt the next Extraordinary General Assembly on 7 September 2019, 104 voters out of the 186 (58.1%) voted in favor of the AROCWE being subordinated to the Moscow Patriarchate, but that was less than two-thirds of the votes needed to make such a decision. Despite this, the head of AROCWE John (Renneteau) on 14 September personally came under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. On 3 November, the AROCWE delegation in Moscow received a letter on the reunification of the archdiocese with the Moscow Patriarchate. Some of AROCWE members joined the newly established \"Vicariate of Russian Tradition of the Metropolis of France\" which remained faithful to the Ecumenical Patriarchate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Creation of the PEWE and the PESEA\nOn 26 November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion declared that the ROC would send a priest in South Korea and declared the plans \"to create a full-fledged parish\", because until the 1950s in Korea was a Russian Spiritual Mission whose faithful were in the 1950s transferred to the Ecumenical Patriarchate's jurisdiction. The priest was scheduled to be sent by the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 89], "content_span": [90, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Creation of the PEWE and the PESEA\nOn 28 December 2018, in response to the Ecumenical Patriarchate's actions in Ukraine, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to create the Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe (PEWE), the Spanish-Portuguese diocese, as well as the Patriarchal Exarchate in South-East Asia (PESEA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 89], "content_span": [90, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0056-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Creation of the PEWE and the PESEA\nOn the same day, in an interview with Russia-24 channel, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations of the ROC, declared the ROC \"will now act as if they [Constantinople] do not exist at all because our purpose is missionary, our task is to educate, we are creating these structures for ministerial care about our flock, there can be no such deterring factors here\", and that the ROC will take charge of the Orthodox faithfuls of its diaspora instead of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 89], "content_span": [90, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Further protests by the ROC\nOn 26 February, during the first 2019 session of the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Holy synod adopted a statement saying that the granting of the tomos by the Ecumenical Patriarchate \"to the so-called 'Orthodox church of Ukraine,' created artificially by a merger of two schismatic organizations, deepened the division between [Eastern] Orthodox Christians in Ukraine and worsened ever more considerably the inter-confessional relations.\" The ROC also blamed the action of the Ukrainian parliament regarding the UOC-MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Further protests by the ROC\nOn 7 October 2019, the ROC officially released comments by the Secretariat of the Biblical and Theological Synodal Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church. \"The document discusses the problems of apostolic succession among schismatic \"hierarchs\", the limits of application of the oikonomia principle, issues of the lack of legitimacy of the OCU, the distortion of the role of the first bishop in the Orthodox Church, and explains the suspension of Eucharistic communion.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Omission of commemoration of all other primates by Patriarch Kirill\nOn 7 January 2019, during the festive Christmas liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Patriarch Kirill of the ROC did not mention a single name of the primates of other local Orthodox Churches, with whom the ROC is in canonical communion. Such commemoration is demanded by a church charter and is a centuries-old tradition. In contrast to this, the head of the newly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphanius, solemnly listed the names of all the primates, including the \"Most Holy Patriarch of Russia Kirill\". Epiphanius later explained that he had done this after the Ecumenical Patriarch had instructed him (Epiphanius) to do so, and that Filaret had instructed him not to mention Kirill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 122], "content_span": [123, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Omission of commemoration of all other primates by Patriarch Kirill\nOn 20 November 2019, during the patriarchal liturgy, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow did not commemorate by name any of the primates of the local Eastern Orthodox Churches, saying only \"Remember, Lord, the Orthodox Patriarchs.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 122], "content_span": [123, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Omission of commemoration of all other primates by Patriarch Kirill\nOn 21 November 2019, Patriarch Kyrill and Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem concelebrated a liturgy together. During this liturgy, they commemorated each others, but did not commemorate any of the other Eastern Orthodox primates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 122], "content_span": [123, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Reactions, Reactions of the Eastern Orthodox churches\nNumerous Eastern Orthodox churches took position concerning the question of the canonical jurisdiction over Ukraine, whether before or after this schism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues\nThe schism has its root in a dispute over who between the Patriarchate of Moscow and the Patriarchate of Constantinople has canonical jurisdiction over the See of Kyiv and, therefore, which patriarchate has canonical jurisdiction over the territory of Ukraine. \"[T]he principal argument proposed [concerning the granting of the ecclesiastical status of autocephaly to Ukraine by the Ecumenical Patriarchate] is that Ukraine 'constitutes the canonical territory of the Patriarchate of Moscow' and that, consequently, such an act on the part of the Ecumenical Patriarchate would comprise an 'intervention' into a foreign ecclesiastical jurisdiction.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0063-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues\nThe Patriarchate of Moscow's claim of canonical jurisdiction is based mostly on two documents: the Patriarchal and Synodal \"Act\" or \"Letter of Issue\" of 1686, and a 1686 Patriarchal Letter to the Kings of Russia. Both those documents are reproduced in the \"Appendix\" section of a study published by the Ecumenical Patriarch called The Ecumenical Throne and the Ukrainian Church \u2013 The Documents Speak. The Church of Constantinople claims the Church of Constantinople has canonical jurisdiction over the See of Kyiv and that the documents upon which the Russian Orthodox Church bases its claim of jurisdiction over said See of Kyiv do not support the ROC's claim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues\nOn 1 July 2018, the Patriarch Bartholomew said that Constantinople was the Mother church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and declared that", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues\nConstantinople never ceded the territory of Ukraine to anyone by means of some ecclesiastical Act, but only granted to the Patriarch of Moscow the right of ordination or transfer of the Metropolitan of Kyiv on the condition that the Metropolitan of Kyiv should be elected by a Clergy-Laity Congress and commemorate the Ecumenical Patriarch. [", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0065-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues\nIt is written] in the Tomos of autocephaly, which was granted by the Mother Church [Constantinople] to the Church of Poland:\u00a0\"... original separation from our Throne of the Metropolis of Kyiv and of the two Orthodox churches of Lithuania and Poland, which depend on it, and their annexation to the Holy Church of Moscow, in no way occurred according to the binding canonical regulations, nor was the agreement respected concerning the full ecclesial independence of the Metropolitan of Kyiv, who bears the title of Exarch of the Ecumenical Throne...\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nThe Ecumenical Patriarchate issued a document authored by various clerics and theologians called The Ecumenical Throne and the Ukrainian Church \u2013 The Documents Speak. This document analyzes canonical historic documents (namely the Patriarchal and Synodal \"Act\" or \"Letter of Issue\" of 1686 and the 1686 Patriarchal Letter to the Kings of Russia) to see if the claim over the See of Kyiv by the Patriarchate of Moscow is canonical or not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nThrough the autocratic abolition of the commemoration of the Ecumenical Patriarch by each Metropolitan of Kyiv, the de jure dependence of the Metropolis of Kyiv (and the Church of Ukraine) on the Ecumenical Patriarchate was arbitrarily rendered an annexation and amalgamation of Ukraine to the Patriarchate of Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nAll these events took place in a period when the Ecumenical Throne was in deep turmoil and incapable \"on account of the circumstances of the time to raise its voice against such capricious actions\" [...] The Church of Ukraine never ceased to constitute de jure canonical territory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.[ ...]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nThe Ecumenical Patriarchate was always aware of this despite the fact that, \"on account of the circumstances of the time\", it tolerated the arbitrary actions by the Patriarchate of Moscow. [ ...]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nThe Ecumenical Patriarchate is entitled and obliged to assume the appropriate maternal care for the Church of Ukraine in every situation where this is deemed necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nOn 27 December 2016, Konstantinos Vetochnikov wrote that the transfer of the See of Kyiv from the authority of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the authority of the Russian Orthodox Church \"never took place\". Later, Vetoshnikov made an analysis of the arguments of the Russian Orthodox Church. He pointed out that, according to the strict dogmatic approach (akribeia, \u1f00\u03ba\u03c1\u03af\u03b2\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1), the whole territory of Russia was originally subjected to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. After Muscovy had gone into schism in the 15th century, it received autocephaly according to a more flexible approach (oikonomia, \u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u03af\u03b1) to heal this schism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0071-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nThe Metropolitan of Kyiv at the same time remained within the jurisdiction of Constantinople. Then, also according to the oikonomia approach, the right to ordain Metropolitans of Kyiv was transferred to the Patriarch of Moscow. This was not a change in the boundaries of the Moscow Patriarchate eparchy, as it was issued by a document of a lower level (ekdosis, \u1f10\u03ba\u03b4\u03cc\u03c3\u03b5\u03c9\u03c2), which was used for various temporary solutions. For pastoral reasons, the Ecumenical Patriarchate subsequently did not assert its rights to this territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0071-0002", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nBut after the collapse of the Soviet Union there was a split among the Orthodox of Ukraine, and the Russian Church for 30 years failed to overcome this split. And now, also for pastoral reasons, the Ecumenical Patriarchate was forced to act in accordance with the principle of akribeia, and so it decided to abolish the right to ordain Metropolitans of Kyiv which had been earlier transferred to the Moscow Patriarchate in accordance with oikonomia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Arguments against the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nOn 20 August 2018, the pro-Moscow anonymous site Union of Orthodox Journalists analysed the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claim of jurisdiction over Ukraine and concluded the See of Kyiv had been transferred to the Patriarchate of Moscow. They added that even if the Ecumenical Patriarchate decided to abrogate the 1686 transfer, the territory covered in 1686 by the See of Kyiv's territory was \"a far cry from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of today\" and covered less than half of Ukraine's current territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 107], "content_span": [108, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Arguments against the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nIn its 15 October 2018 official statement, the Russian Orthodox Church gave counterarguments to the Ecumenical Patriarch's arguments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 107], "content_span": [108, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Arguments against the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nMetropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, declared in an interview that Constantinople's plan to \"grant Autocephaly to a part of the Russian Orthodox Church\u00a0[...] that once was subordinate to Constantinople\u00a0[...] runs counter to historic truth\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 107], "content_span": [108, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0074-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Arguments against the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nHis argument is that the entire territory of Ukraine has not been under Constantinople's jurisdiction for 300 years because the Kyiv metropolis that was incorporated into the Moscow Patriarchate in 1686 was much smaller (it did not include Donbass, Odessa and some other regions) and therefore does not coincide with the present-day territory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. A similar argument was given on 13 November in a live phone interview to Radio Liberty by the Head of the Information and Education Department of the UOC-MP, Archbishop Clement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 107], "content_span": [108, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Arguments against the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nArchbishop Clement of the UOC-MP considers that \"to revoke the letter on the transfer of the Kyiv Metropolis in 1686 is the same as to cancel the decisions of the Ecumenical Councils of the 4th or 7th centuries.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 107], "content_span": [108, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Arguments against the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims\nOn 8 November 2018, the Union of Orthodox Journalists analyzed the same documents as The Ecumenical Throne and the Ukrainian Church (the Patriarchal and Synodal \"Act\" or \"Letter of Issue\" of 1686 and the 1686 Patriarchal Letter to the Kings of Russia) and again concluded that the See of Kyiv had been \"completely transferred to the jurisdiction of the Russian Church in 1686\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 107], "content_span": [108, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine\nThe possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis (consultative assembly or conference) has been raised before and after the official break of communion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 117], "content_span": [118, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine\nOn 29 September 2018, Alexander Volkov, the press secretary of the Patriarch of Moscow, declared that the local Eastern Orthodox churches may initiate a pan-Orthodox Synaxis on the issue of granting autocephaly to the Church in Ukraine, however the problem was that the convening such a synaxis is \"a prerogative of the First among the Equals, that is, the Ecumenical Patriarch\". Volkov noted that", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 117], "content_span": [118, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine\nOthers [sic] forms [of pan-Orthodox synaxis] exist, too [...] There are the elders of the Church who can take this task upon themselves. [ ...] If you look at the Diptychs [the table specifying the order of commemorating the Primates of Orthodox Churches \u2013 TASS], the next in line [after the Ecumenical Patriarch \u2013 TASS] is the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria. Or else, there is the so-called synaxis of the eldest Patriarchs\u2013 of Alexandria, Jerusalem and Antioch", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 117], "content_span": [118, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine\nOn 7 November, answering the question \"Who could, for instance, convene a Pan-Orthodox Council and chair it? \", Metropolitan Hilarion declared in an interview, which was published on the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church's Department for External Church Relations, that it was \"obvious\" that the Ecumenical Patriarch could not chair a Pan-Orthodox Council since \"the most important problems in the Orthodox world are linked with precisely his anti-canonical activity\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 117], "content_span": [118, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine\nOn 4 December, when asked about the fact that convoking a pan-Orthodox council was a prerogative of the Ecumenical Patriarch, Metropolitan Hilarion replied:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 117], "content_span": [118, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine\nwhich canons\u00a0? [ ...] I believe those canons do not exist, the Ecumenical councils were not convoked by the Ecumenical Patriarch, they were convoked by the emperor. The fact the Patriarch of Constantinople has been given the right to convey councils in the 20th century is the result of a consensus reached by the local Orthodox churches. It is not at a personal initiative that the council is convoked, but only with the consent of all the local churches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 117], "content_span": [118, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0082-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine\nWe had, until recently, the first among equals, that is the Patriarch of Constantinople, who convoked the councils in the name [...] of the local Orthodox churches. Now, the unifying element is no more the Patriarchate of Constantinople which, so to speak, autodestroyed itself. It is its decision. [ ...] We have to think about the future: who will convoke the councils, will it be the Patriarch of Alexandria, or another Patriarch, or else we will generally not have a council? Whatever. The Patriarch of Constantinople, as long as he stays in schism, even if he convokes a council the Russian Orthodox Church will not take part in it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 117], "content_span": [118, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine\nIn an interview published on 21 February 2019 in the Serbian magazine Politika, the Ecumenical Patriarch said: \"As for the provision of autocephaly with the consent of other Orthodox Churches, this did not happen, because it is not a tradition in our Church. All the Tomoses of the autocephaly that were granted to the newly created autocephalous churches (Russia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Athens, Warsaw, Tirana and Presov) were provided by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and this was not preceded by any agreement or negotiation at the Pan-Orthodox level.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 117], "content_span": [118, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine\nThus far, Patriarch John X of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos II of the Church of Cyprus, Metropolitan Sawa (Hrycuniak) of the Polish Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America, Archbishop Anastasios, primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church, three hierarchs of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Metropolitans Gabriel of Lovech, John of Varna and Veliki Preslav, and Daniel of Vedin), and the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia have expressed their desire for a pan-Orthodox synaxis or pan-Orthodox council over the question of Ukraine in various statements. On 12 November 2018, the Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church of published a communiqu\u00e9 in which they requested the convocation of a Pan-Orthodox Synod.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 117], "content_span": [118, 983]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine\nIn 2019, the Ecumenical Patriarch declared in a letter to Patriarch John X of Antioch that he would not convene a pan-Orthodox council on the question of Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 117], "content_span": [118, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine, Proposal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem\nOn 21 November 2019, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem announced he would like to gather in Jordan with the other Eastern Orthodox primates \"in the spirit of fellowship \u2013 koinonia \u2013 so that counsel will be taken together for the preservation of our unity in Eucharistic communion.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 157], "content_span": [158, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine, Proposal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem\nThis initiative was welcomed by the ROC; Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the DECR, also added that the Patriarchate of Jerusalem had a \"historic primacy\" within the Eastern Orthodox Church.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 157], "content_span": [158, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine, Proposal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem\nIn December 2019, the Holy Synods of the OCCLS and of the ROC supported the proposal of meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 157], "content_span": [158, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine, Proposal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem\nOn 22 November, the primate of the Church of Greece declined the invitation. At the beginning of January, the primate of the Church of Cyprus said he had not replied to the invitation because he \"considered it prudent not to answer\" and did not consider this meeting a \"serious act\", and added that \"only the Ecumenical Patriarch, no one else\" had the right to convene such a council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 157], "content_span": [158, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0089-0001", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine, Proposal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem\nAt few days later, the answer of the Ecumenical Patriarch to the letter of invitation of the Patriarch of Jerusalem was reported; the Ecumenical Patriarch stated he refused the invitation and asked the Patriarch of Jerusalem to stop his initiative of meeting. A few days later, the primate of the Church of Greece reiterated that he would not attend Patriarch Theophilos III's meeting. Later, it was reported that the Orthodox Churches of Albania, Poland, Alexandria, Georgia, Bulgaria and Antioch had stated they would not come. The Romanian Orthodox Church said it would be present at the gathering, but would not be presented by its Patriarch but by a delegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 157], "content_span": [158, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281078-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 Moscow\u2013Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine, Proposal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem\nThe gathering took place on 26 February 2020. Were present the delegations of: the ROC with Patriarch Kirill as leader, the Church of Jerusalem with Patriarch Theophilos as leader, the Serbian Church with Patriarch Irinej as leader, the OCCLS with primate Met. Ratislav as leader, the Polish Church with Abp. Abel (Poplavsky) of Lublin as leader, and the Romanian Church with Met. Nifon Mih\u0103i\u021b\u0103 as leader. After the gathering, the participants released a common statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 157], "content_span": [158, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281079-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moselle Open\nThe 2018 Moselle Open was a men's tennis tournament held in Metz, France and played on indoor hard courts. It was the 16th edition of the Moselle Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Ar\u00e8nes de Metz from 17 to 23 September 2018. Unseeded Gilles Simon won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281079-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moselle Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wild cards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281079-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moselle Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281079-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Moselle Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281080-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moselle Open \u2013 Doubles\nJulien Benneteau and \u00c9douard Roger-Vasselin were the defending champions, but Benneteau decided not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281080-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moselle Open \u2013 Doubles\nRoger-Vasselin played alongside Nicolas Mahut and successfully defended his title, defeating Ken and Neal Skupski in the final, 6\u20131, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281081-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moselle Open \u2013 Singles\nPeter Gojowczyk was the defending champion, but lost to Kei Nishikori in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281081-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moselle Open \u2013 Singles\nGilles Simon won the title, defeating Matthias Bachinger in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281081-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moselle Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281082-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moss Side shooting\nOn Sunday, 12 August 2018, a mass shooting happened in the Manchester neighbourhood of Moss Side. It was the first mass shooting in the UK since the Cumbria shootings in 2010. The weapon used was believed by Greater Manchester Police to be a shotgun. There were no fatalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281082-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moss Side shooting, Background\nMoss Side was hosting the Manchester Caribbean Carnival over the weekend, with over 16,000 attendees on the Saturday. The annual event attracted more participants than usual as it marked the 70th anniversary of the Windrush generation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281082-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Moss Side shooting, Background\nMoss Side is described by a resident as a \"volatile\" inner-city area, with Sky News adding that it has \"numerous gang territories and has long had problems connected with drugs and gun violence\", though a local DJ interviewed about the incident said that \"[i]t seemed like there was a general understanding over the last few years that everyone would just behave themselves\" in Moss Side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281082-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moss Side shooting, Background\nMass shootings are rare in the UK, with the most recent previous being a spree shooting in Cumbria in 2010, and the one before a school shooting in Dunblane in 1996. The DJ interviewed said he had been alerted to the incident and come down because he wanted to \"see this thing, because 10 people is a major thing in Manchester.\" The most previous major violent crime in Manchester had been the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017, in which 22 people were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281082-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Moss Side shooting, Incident\nReports say shots were fired at 02:25 in the morning of Sunday, 12 August 2018, on Claremont Road, a street that runs for two miles through Moss Side. Claremont Road is near Alexandra Park, the location of the festival, but the attack is seen as unrelated to the main festival, \"just a street party\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281082-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Moss Side shooting, Incident\nPolice arrived on the scene \"within a minute\" according to sources, but a witness said that it was \"quite a long time [before the police arrived] considering somebody had been shot\", mentioning that there was \"informal security\" on the scene, and that \"the ambulance was [probably] waiting for armed police [...] and then eventually the police did turn up\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281082-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Moss Side shooting, Incident\nWhen the police arrived, they reported \"several hundred\" people in the area, with Chief Superintendent Wasim Chaudhry describing the street as \"distressing\". One witness to the incident said that after he heard the first gunshot he thought it was \"a balloon\", similar to the initial reports of the arena bombing the year before, but then \"heard two more and [...] went behind a wall\" when he realised something dangerous was happening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281082-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Moss Side shooting, Incident\nThe police believe that a shotgun loaded with pellets was used, and treated the incident as an attempted mass murder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281082-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Moss Side shooting, Aftermath\nTwelve people were injured, with ten hospitalised, and one of these in serious condition. Nine of those injuries were said to be gunshot pellet wounds, the other was a man's broken leg. Two of the injured were children, one aged 12 and the other a teenager. Later in the day, Detective Superintendent Debbie Dooley confirmed that \"most [of the injuries] do not appear to be life-threatening at this time\". Several people remained in hospital overnight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281082-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Moss Side shooting, Aftermath\nOn 11 September two men, aged 24 and 30, were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and on suspicion of possession of a firearm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281083-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moto2 World Championship\nThe 2018 FIM Moto2 World Championship was a part of the 70th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Franco Morbidelli was the reigning series champion but he did not defend his title as he joined MotoGP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281083-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moto2 World Championship\n2018 was the final season that the Honda CBR600RR inline-4 engine package\u2014which d\u00e9buted in the 2010 Moto2 season\u2014was used in competition; as the brand new engine package (765cc inline-3) supplied by Triumph Motorcycles was introduced for the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281083-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moto2 World Championship\nAfter finishing 3rd at Sepang Italian rider Francesco Bagnaia became the 2018 Moto2 World Champion. Miguel Oliveira finished second in the championship and his teammate Brad Binder finished third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281083-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Moto2 World Championship, Calendar\nThe following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281083-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Moto2 World Championship, Results and standings, Riders' standings\nPoints are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281084-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Moto3 World Championship\nThe 2018 FIM Moto3 World Championship was a part of the 70th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Joan Mir was the reigning series champion, but he did not defend his title as he joined Moto2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281084-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Moto3 World Championship\nAfter winning at Sepang, Spanish rider Jorge Mart\u00edn was crowned the 2018 Moto3 World Champion, having created an unassailable lead of 26 points over current runners-up Marco Bezzecchi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281084-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Moto3 World Championship\nThe final race in Valencia saw wildcard rider Can \u00d6nc\u00fc become the youngest Grand Prix motorcycle racing winner at 15 years, 115 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281084-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Moto3 World Championship, Calendar\nThe following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281084-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Moto3 World Championship, Results and standings, Riders' standings\nPoints are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281085-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 MotoGP World Championship\nThe 2018 FIM MotoGP World Championship was the premier class of the 70th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Marc M\u00e1rquez entered the season as the reigning champion, with Repsol Honda being the reigning team champions and Honda the reigning constructors' champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281085-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 MotoGP World Championship\nOriginally scheduled for 19 races, the season was reduced by one Grand Prix due to the cancellation of the 26 August Silverstone event due to unsafe track conditions involving standing water after a rider vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281085-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 MotoGP World Championship\nMarc M\u00e1rquez clinched the championship trophy on 21 October 2018 after sixteen rounds, winning three consecutive races during spring, another three consecutive races during autumn and nine overall. Andrea Dovizioso finished in second and Valentino Rossi ended up in third, the former with four wins, while Rossi did not record a race win. Jorge Lorenzo with three wins and a win apiece for Cal Crutchlow and Maverick Vi\u00f1ales were the other race winners. Yamaha suffered their worst winless streak in their history with no wins for 25 races, which lasted from the 2017 German Grand Prix until Vi\u00f1ales won the Australian Grand Prix. KTM got their first podium finish at the Valencian Grand Prix with Pol Espargaro, finishing in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281085-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 MotoGP World Championship, Results and standings, Riders' standings\nPoints are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points. The British GP was canceled due to unsafe track conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281086-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Motocross des Nations\nThe 2018 Motocross des Nations was a motocross race held on 6 October and 7 October 2018. The event was held at the Red Bud circuit, in Michigan, United States. Motocross des Nations was last held in United States in 2010 but never at this venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281086-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Motocross des Nations\nFrance went into the event as the defending champions after taking their fifth title in 2017 and successfully defended their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281086-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Motocross des Nations, Entry List\nStart numbers are allocated based on the team finish from the previous year's edition. France are the reigning champions so they start with numbers 1, 2 and 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281086-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Motocross des Nations, Qualifying Races\nQualifying is run on a class by class basis. Top 19 countries after qualifying go directly to the main Motocross des Nations races. The remaining countries go to a smaller final. Best 2 scores count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281086-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Motocross des Nations, B-Final\nThe B-Final is for the nations who finished 20th-31st in qualifying. The top nation from the B-Final qualify for the Motocross des Nations races. Best 2 scores for each nation counts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281086-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Motocross des Nations, Motocross des Nations races\nThe main Motocross des Nations races consist of 3 races which combine two classes together in each. Lowest score wins with each nation allowed to drop their worst score after the final race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281086-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Motocross des Nations, Final standings\nFollowing the event, Italy were disqualified from second place overall due to failing fuel tests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281087-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas\nThe 2018 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas was the third round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin on 22 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281088-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mount Union Purple Raiders football team\nThe 2018 Mount Union Purple Raiders football team will represent the University of Mount Union in the 2018 NCAA Division III football season. The Purple Raiders, will be led by sixth-year head coach Vince Kehres, are members of the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) and will play their home games at Mount Union Stadium in Alliance, Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281088-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mount Union Purple Raiders football team, Schedule\nMount Union's 2018 schedule consists of 5 home, and 5 away games in the regular season. The Raiders will host Rose-Hulman, John Caroll, Wilmington College, Heidelberg University, and Marietta College and will travel to Baldwin Wallace, Otterbein University, Capital University, Ohio Northern, and Muskingum University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281088-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mount Union Purple Raiders football team, Schedule\nMount Union will have one non\u2013conference game against the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology from the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281088-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mount Union Purple Raiders football team, Schedule\nIn 2017, Mount Union won the Stagg Bowl after winning against the University of Mary Hardin\u2013Baylor 12\u20130. The team finished with a 15\u20130 record, with a 9\u20130 record in conference play. The Purple Raiders failed to win the championship again after winning it last year, by losing 16\u201324 in a rematch with Mary Hardin-Baylor in the Stagg Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281089-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Volleyball Tournament\nThe 2018 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Volleyball Tournament was a postseason men's volleyball tournament for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation during the 2018 NCAA Division I & II men's volleyball season. It was held from April 14 through April 21, 2018 at campus sites. The winner received The Federation's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Volleyball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281089-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Volleyball Tournament, Seeds\nAll seven teams were eligible for the postseason, with the #1 seed receiving a bye to the semifinals and home court hosting rights for the semifinals and championship. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The #1 seed played the lowest remaining seed in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 68], "content_span": [69, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281090-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 24\u201327. Nevada, San Diego State, San Jos\u00e9 State, and UNLV met in the double-elimination tournament held at Tony Gwynn Stadium in San Diego, California. San Diego State earned the Mountain West Conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281090-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding\nThe conference's top four teams will be seeded based on winning percentage during the round robin regular season schedule. They will then play a double-elimination tournament with the top seed playing the fourth seeded team and the second seeded team playing the third seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 69], "content_span": [70, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281091-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game\nThe 2018 Mountain West Conference Championship Game was played on Saturday, December 1, 2018, at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho, to determine the 2018 football champion of the Mountain West Conference (MW). For the second consecutive year, the game featured the West Division champion Fresno State Bulldogs visiting the Mountain Division champion Boise State Broncos. The game was broadcast nationally by ESPN for the fourth consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281091-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game\nBoth Boise State and Fresno State finished the conference season with a 7\u20131 record. Boise State earned the right to host the championship due to their win over Fresno State on November 9 in Boise. After also meeting twice during the 2017 season, this was the fourth time the two teams met in a span of 372 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281091-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game\nThe 2018 championship game was the sixth edition of the event. In the 2017 championship game, Boise State defeated Fresno State 17\u201314. The two schools also met in the 2014 game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281091-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game\nIn a low-scoring game on a snow-covered field, the teams played to a 13\u201313 tie through regulation. In overtime, Boise State was held to a field goal, while Fresno State scored a touchdown to win, 19\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281091-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, Fresno State\nThe Bulldogs finished the season 10\u20132 overall record, with a 7\u20131 conference record to be champions of the West Division. Their only conference loss came to Boise State. Fresno State enters the game ranked No. 25 in the College Football Playoff rankings and AP poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281091-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, Boise State\nBoise State finished with a 10\u20132 overall record, with a 7\u20131 conference record, with their only conference loss coming to San Diego State. The Broncos tied Utah State for first place in the Mountain Division. However, the Broncos won the head-to-head meeting to be crowned Mountain Division champions as the Mountain West does not recognize co-champions in a two-way tie. Boise State enters the game ranked No. 22 in the College Football Playoff rankings, No. 19 in the AP poll, and No. 20 in the Coaches poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 76], "content_span": [77, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281092-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Mountain West Conference. It was held from March 7\u201310, 2018 at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada. San Diego State defeated New Mexico in the championship game to win the tournament receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281092-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll 11 MW schools were eligible to participate in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary. As a result, the top five teams receive a bye to the quarterfinals of the tournament. Tiebreaking procedures will remain unchanged from the 2017 tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 64], "content_span": [65, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281093-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Mountain West Conference women's basketball tournament was held from March 5-9, 2018 at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The winner of the tournament received an automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Tournament. The 2017 tournament, saw Boise State defeat Fresno State 66-53 to receive an automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281093-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nTeams are seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 66], "content_span": [67, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281094-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Mountain West Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Mountain West Conference held from October 30 through November 3, 2018. The five-match tournament took place at Spartan Soccer Complex in San Jose, California. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The San Diego State Aztecs were the defending champions, but will not defend their title after having failed to qualify for the 2018 tournament. The San Jose State Spartans won the tournament with a 1\u20130 win over the New Mexico Lobos in the final. This was the second tournament championship for San Jose State, both of which have come under coach Lauren Hanson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281095-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference football season\nThe 2018 Mountain West Conference football season, part of that year's NCAA Division I FBS football season, will be the 20th season of college football for the Mountain West Conference (MW). Since the 2012 12 teams have competed in the MW-football conference. The season will begin on August 25 and will end on November 24. Mountain West is a \"Group of Five\" conference under the College Football Playoff format along with the American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, the Mid-American Conference, and the Sun Belt Conference. The Mountain West Championship Game will be played on December 1. The entire schedule was released on March 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281095-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Preseason, Mountain West Media\n2018 Mountain West media days took place on July 24 and 25 at the Cosmopolitan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281095-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason Polls, Preseason All\u2013Mountain West team\n(* \u2013 member of the 2017 All\u2013Mountain West first team)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 107], "content_span": [108, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281095-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason Polls, Preseason All\u2013Mountain West team\n(** \u2013 member of the 2017 All\u2013Mountain West second team)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 107], "content_span": [108, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281095-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Coaches\nNOTE: Stats shown are before the beginning of the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281095-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Rankings\nListed are the Mountain West teams who were ranked or received votes at some point during the season. Air Force, Colorado State, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State, UNLV, and Wyoming were never ranked or received any votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281095-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season, Week One\nBoise State cornerback Tyler Horton was also named the Bronko Nagurski Trophy National Defensive Player of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281095-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Postseason, Bowl games\n\u2020The First Responder bowl was delayed and ultimately canceled with 5:08 remaining in the 1st quarter with Boston College leading 7\u20130. The game was ruled a no contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281096-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Movistar Team season\nThe 2018 season for Movistar Team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281097-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mo\u00e7ambola\nThe 2018 Mo\u00e7ambola is the 41st season of top-tier football in Mozambique. The season was initially scheduled to begin on 24 February 2018, bur was postponed to 3 March 2018. The season finished on 4 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281098-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mr. Olympia\nThe 2018 Mr. Olympia contest was a weekend long IFBB professional bodybuilding competition that was held on September 14 to 15, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was the 54th Mr. Olympia competition celebrated. The weekend competition is also known as the Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness and Performance Weekend. While the main event was the competition for the title of Mr. Olympia, several other events were held which includes the Amateur competition and sports expo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281098-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mr. Olympia\nOn September 12, 2018, a press conference was held on Orleans Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281098-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mr. Olympia\nOn September 13, 2018, prejudging and finals for Fitness Olympia, Figure Olympia and Classic Physique were held and livestream via Amazon Prime. Mr. Olympia pre-judging was also held on the same night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281098-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mr. Olympia\nOn September 15, 2018, the Men's Physique Olympia and Women's Physique Olympia judging and finals were held in the morning at Las Vegas Convention Center. At night, the Bikini Olympia, 212 Olympia and Mr. Olympia finals were held at Orleans Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281098-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mr. Olympia\nOn September 17, 2018, an Olympia Superstar Seminar was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 78]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281098-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mr. Olympia\nShawn Rhoden won his first Mr Olympia title, defeating seven-time defending champion Phil Heath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281098-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mr. Olympia\nHeath was attempting to tie the record for the most Mr. Olympia wins with eight, held jointly by Lee Haney (1984\u20131991) and Ronnie Coleman (1998\u20132005).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281098-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mr. Olympia\nRhoden became the oldest bodybuilder to win the Mr. Olympia title, at the age of 43 years, 5 months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281099-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mubadala World Tennis Championship\nThe 2018 Mubadala World Tennis Championship was a non-ATP affiliated exhibition tournament. It was the 11th edition of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship with the world's top players competing in the event, held in a knockout format. The prize money for the winner was $250,000. The event was held at the International Tennis Centre at the Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281099-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mubadala World Tennis Championship\nNovak Djokovic (world number 1) and Rafael Nadal (number 2) received byes to the semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281100-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mubadala World Tennis Championship \u2013 Men's Singles\nKevin Anderson was the competition's defending champion, but lost in the final from Novak Djokovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281101-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mubi suicide bombings\nOn 1 May 2018, two suicide bombers detonated their explosives at a mosque and a market in the town of Mubi in the state of Adamawa in eastern Nigeria, killing at least 86 people and injuring 58 others. The blasts were carried out by young boys and happened shortly after 1:00 pm (12:00 GMT). No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the blame was attributed to the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281101-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mubi suicide bombings\nMajor attacks had occurred in Mubi in 2012, 2014 and 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281102-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Muharrem \u0130nce presidential campaign\nMuharrem \u0130nce, a member of parliament for Yalova, was announced as the presidential candidate of the Republican People's Party (CHP) on 3 May 2018. The following day, on 4 May, party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu formally proclaimed the CHP's support for \u0130nce. Shortly thereafter, the CHP began preparations for the campaign season, launching the production of campaign material and merchandise. It was revealed in early May that \u0130nce's campaign would adopt the slogan \u201cT\u00fcrkiye\u2019ye g\u00fcvence Muharrem \u0130nce\u201d, roughly translating to \"Muharrem \u0130nce, an assurance to Turkey.\" The campaign began with an election rally in his home city of Yalova on 5 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281102-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Muharrem \u0130nce presidential campaign, Program, Economic policy\nIn a 26 May interview on his campaign trail, \u0130nce, when asked about the ongoing Turkish currency and debt crisis, said on economic policy that \"the central bank can only halt the lira\u2019s slide temporarily by raising interest rates, because it\u2019s not the case that depreciation fundamentally stems from interest rates being too high or too low. So, the central bank will intervene, but the things that really need to be done are in the political and legal areas. Turkey needs to immediately be extricated from a political situation that breeds economic uncertainty, and its economy must be handled by independent and autonomous institutions. My economic team is ready, and we have been working together for a long time.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281102-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Muharrem \u0130nce presidential campaign, Program, Kurdish issue\nIn his campaign rallies, \u0130nce pledged to allow education in the Kurdish language and to solve the Kurdish issue through dialogue rather than violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281102-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Muharrem \u0130nce presidential campaign, Program, Foreign policy\nOn European Union\u2013Turkey relations, \u0130nce is committed to Turkey\u2019s bid to join the EU, the roots of which he traces back to the 1830s, during the Ottoman Empire\u2019s Tanzimat period. He cites broad support among Turkey\u2019s youth for a future with better employment opportunities as the main reason for Turkey to embrace further European integration in higher education and promises to give back dignity to the Foreign Ministry\u2019s professional diplomats who are ridiculed by Islamist government trolls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281102-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Muharrem \u0130nce presidential campaign, Program, Foreign policy\nOn Syria Turkey relations, he has proposed to end Turkey\u2019s longstanding opposition to Syria\u2019s President Bashar al-Assad, saying cooperation with the regime would facilitate the return of some of the 3.5 million Syrian refugees living in Turkish camps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281102-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Muharrem \u0130nce presidential campaign, Program, Foreign policy\n\u201cWhen I become president, we will have an ambassador to Syria,\u201d Mr. Ince told supporters during a recent rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281102-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Muharrem \u0130nce presidential campaign, Campaigning\nAs of 31 May, media suggested that \"even die-hard CHP critics would concede\" that \u0130nce was \"performing far better than expected\", crisscrossing the country with a focus on promises to restore democracy and rule of law, and to offer better pay and education. With respect to president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, he displayed a mix of contempt and near pity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281102-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Muharrem \u0130nce presidential campaign, Campaigning\nOver the last week of May, \u0130nce saw a 74 percent increase in social media popularity, bringing him close to Erdo\u011fan who maintained the top spot on social media, with mentions and tags pertaining to him hitting the 1.3 million mark, with \u0130nce at just over 1 million, while competitors Meral Ak\u015fener had 280,852, Selahattin Demirta\u015f 201,922 and Temel Karamollao\u011flu 181,703.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281103-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mumbai Open\nThe 2018 L&T Mumbai Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 3rd edition of the tournament. It was part of the 2018 WTA 125K series. It took place from 29 October to 3 November 2018 at the Cricket Club of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281103-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mumbai Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281103-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mumbai Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the main draw as a lucky loser:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281103-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mumbai Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following team received wildcard into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281104-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mumbai Open \u2013 Doubles\nVictoria Rodr\u00edguez and Bibiane Schoofs were the defending champions, but Rodr\u00edguez chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281104-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mumbai Open \u2013 Doubles\nNatela Dzalamidze and Veronika Kudermetova won the title, defeating Schoofs and Barbora \u0160tefkov\u00e1 in the final, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20134).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281105-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mumbai Open \u2013 Singles\nAryna Sabalenka was the defending champion, but she was ineligible to participate having qualified for 2018 WTA Elite Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281105-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mumbai Open \u2013 Singles\nLuksika Kumkhum won her first WTA 125K series title, defeating Irina Khromacheva in the final, 1\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281106-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, Proposition 1\nProposition 1 was a 2018 direct initiative bathroom bill in Anchorage, Alaska. A public vote on the proposition was held on April 3, 2018. It would have made it legal for \"any employer, public accommodation, or other person to establish and enforce sex-specific standards or policies concerning access to intimate facilities such as locker rooms, showers, changing rooms, and restrooms.\" The measure defined the term 'sex' as \"an individual's immutable biological condition of being male or female, as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at the time of birth.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281106-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, Proposition 1\nThe proposition was the result of a petition campaign headed by Alaska Family Action, a Christian public policy organization. The group organized a petition titled \"Regulating Access to Facilities Such as Locker Rooms and Bathrooms on the Basis of Sex at Birth, Rather Than Gender Identity.\" The Anchorage Municipal Clerk's Office certified over 6,200 valid signatures on the petition and authorized the referendum in July 2017. Local opponents of the bill were led by Fair Anchorage, a coalition of organizations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281106-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, Proposition 1\nAnchorage voters rejected Proposition 1 by a vote of 52.64% to 47.36%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281107-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Munster Senior Football Championship will be the 2018 installment of the annual Munster Senior Football Championship organised by the Munster GAA. The fixtures were announced on 31 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281107-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Football Championship\nKerry won the championship, defeating rivals Cork in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281107-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Football Championship, Teams\nThe Munster championship is contested by all six counties in the Irish province of Munster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281108-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship was the 2018 installment of the annual Munster Senior Hurling Championship organised by Munster GAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281108-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship\nCork won a second consecutive title by defeating Clare in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281108-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nA new provincial hurling championship featuring five-team round-robin groups in both Leinster and Munster and the new Joe McDonagh Cup was introduced in 2018 for an initial three-year period. The proposal was carried by a narrow margin with 62% voting in favour (a majority of at least 60% was required) at the GAA's Special Congress on 30 September 2017. The top two teams in each provincial group would contest the provincial final, with the provincial winners advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals and the losing provincial finalists advancing to the two quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281108-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nAn amendment to the motion from Laois, Offaly and Meath was carried by 87%. The third-placed teams in Leinster and Munster would compete in All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals against the two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists, with the Joe McDonagh Cup teams having home advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281108-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nIf a non-Munster team were to win the Joe McDonagh Cup, the bottom team in the Leinster championship would be relegated to the following year's Joe McDonagh Cup and would be replaced in the following year's Leinster championship by the Joe McDonagh Cup winners. If a Munster team were to win the Joe McDonagh Cup, they would play off against the team who finished bottom in the Munster championship for the right to play in the following year's Munster championship, thereby ensuring that only Munster teams compete in the Munster championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281108-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nThe restructure of hurling involved the reduction of the Leinster championship from nine teams to five while the Munster championship continued with the previous five Munster teams (Kerry previously competed in the qualifier group of the Leinster championship). A six-team Joe McDonagh Cup was created, consisting of all four teams from the 2017 Leinster qualifier group plus Antrim and Carlow, the 2017 Christy Ring Cup finalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281108-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Teams\nThe Munster championship was contested by five of the six counties from the Irish province of Munster. The exception was Kerry, traditionally the province's weakest at hurling (but strongest in football).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281108-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Final\nThe winning team advanced to the All-Ireland semi-finals, while the losing team advanced to the All-Ireland quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281109-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final was played on 1 July 2018 at Semple Stadium, Thurles. The winner would advance to the semi-finals of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, with the loser entering the All Ireland quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281109-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final\nClare and Cork contest the final for the second year in a row with Cork retaining the title. S\u00e9amus Harnedy was the Cork captain and also was named as the man of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281109-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build-up\nTickets for the final went on sale on 21 June and ranged in price from \u20ac35 to \u20ac40 in the stand and \u20ac25 to \u20ac30 in the terrace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281109-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build-up\nThe match was shown live on RT\u00c9 One as part of The Sunday Game Live with commentary from Marty Morrissey and Brendan Cummins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281109-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build-up\nClare were looking for their first Munster title since 1998, while Cork were the defending champions. Cork manager John Meyler was in his first year as manager, with Clare's joint managers Donal Moloney and Gerry O'Connor in their second year in charge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281110-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling League\nThe 2018 Munster Senior Hurling League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League, was the third Munster Senior Hurling League, an annual hurling league competition for county teams from the province of Munster. The league began on 30 December 2017 and ended on 14 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281110-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling League\nCork were the defending champions. Tipperary and Waterford did not participate in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281110-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling League\nOn 14 January 2018, Limerick won the league title following a 0-16 to 0-10 defeat of Clare. It was their first Munster SHL title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281110-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling League, Format\nEach team plays each other team once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The top two teams advance to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281110-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Munster Senior Hurling League, Results, Round 3\nThe final group game was cancelled, as Limerick and Clare had already reached the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281111-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Muntinlupa Cagers season\nThe 2018 Muntinlupa Cagers season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281112-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Murray State Racers football team\nThe 2018 Murray State Racers football team represented Murray State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Mitch Stewart and played their home games at Roy Stewart Stadium. They were members of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 5\u20136, 5\u20133 in OVC play to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281112-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Murray State Racers football team, Previous season\nThe Racers finished the 2017 season 3\u20138, 2\u20135 in OVC play to finish in a tie for seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281112-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Murray State Racers football team, Preseason, OVC media poll\nOn July 20, 2018, the media covering the OVC released their preseason poll with the Racers predicted to finish in seventh place. On July 23, the OVC released their coaches poll with the Racers predicted to finish in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281112-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Murray State Racers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-OVC team\nThe Colonels had two players selected to the preseason all-OVC team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281113-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Music City Bowl\nThe 2018 Music City Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 28, 2018 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the 21st edition of the Music City Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Franklin American Mortgage Company, the game was officially known as the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281113-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Music City Bowl\nThe game was projected to be a close game, however Auburn jumped off to an early 21\u20130 lead. Purdue then put a touchdown on the board to make it 21\u20137, but Auburn then scored 35 unanswered points to end the half. The halftime score was 56\u20137, with Auburn setting the NCAA FBS record for points scored in any half of a bowl game. The final score of the game was 63\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281113-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Music City Bowl, Teams\nThe game was played between Auburn from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Purdue from the Big Ten Conference. The teams had never played each other before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281113-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Music City Bowl, Teams, Purdue Boilermakers\nPurdue received and accepted a bid to the Music City Bowl on December 2. The Boilermakers entered the bowl with a 6\u20136 record (5\u20134 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281113-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Music City Bowl, Teams, Purdue Boilermakers\nThis game was the last attended by Purdue superfan Tyler Trent, who had become a national inspiration during his battle with terminal osteosarcoma. He and his family traveled to Nashville on an airplane normally used by the Indianapolis Colts, courtesy of team owner Jim Irsay. Trent, who served as an honorary Purdue captain for the game, died four days later on New Year's Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281113-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Music City Bowl, Teams, Auburn Tigers\nAuburn received and accepted a bid to the Music City Bowl on December 2. The Tigers entered the bowl with a 7\u20135 record (3\u20135 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281114-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Muskoka District municipal elections\nElections were held in the Muskoka District Municipality of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281114-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Muskoka District Council\nThe Muskoka District Chair was originally intended to be elected by the voters in each of the municipalities. Incumbent Chair John Klinck as well as former Chairs Gord Adams and Hugh Mackenzie had filed to run for election as Chair. However, on the last day of the 2018 nomination period, Ontario Premier Doug Ford cancelled the separate election of the Muskoka District Chair. As a result, the Chair will instead be elected by members of the District Council on December 10, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281114-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Bracebridge, Local Councillors\nFour Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281114-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Georgian Bay, District Councillors\nTwo District Councillors were elected in 1 of 2 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 77], "content_span": [78, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281114-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Georgian Bay, Local Councillors\nFour Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281114-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Gravenhurst, Local Councillors\nFive Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 5 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281114-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Huntsville, Local Councillors\nFive Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281114-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Lake of Bays, District Councillors\nTwo District Councillors were elected in 1 of 2 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 77], "content_span": [78, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281114-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Lake of Bays, Local Councillors\nFour Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281114-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Muskoka Lakes, District & Town Councillors\nThree District & Town Councillors were elected in 1 of 3 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 85], "content_span": [86, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281114-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Muskoka Lakes, Local Councillors\nSix Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 3 wards (2 in each ward).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 75], "content_span": [76, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281115-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open\nThe 2018 Mutua Madrid Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Park Manzanares in Madrid, Spain from 5\u201313 May 2018. It was the 17th edition of the event on the ATP World Tour and 10th on the WTA Tour. It was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2018 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2018 WTA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281115-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds\nThe following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP rankings as of 30 April 2018. Rankings and points before are as of 7 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281115-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds\n\u2020 The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead. \u2021 The player used an exemption to skip the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281115-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Withdrawals\nThe following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281115-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 70], "content_span": [71, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281115-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Seeds\nThe following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on WTA rankings as of 30 April 2018. Rankings and points before are as of 7 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281115-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Seeds\n\u2020 The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for her 16th best result are deducted instead. \u2021 The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017, but was defending points from an ITF Women's Circuit tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281115-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 70], "content_span": [71, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281116-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions, but lost to Juan Sebasti\u00e1n Cabal and Robert Farah in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281116-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nNikola Mekti\u0107 and Alexander Peya won the title when Bob and Mike Bryan retired in the final after Bob Bryan retired due to hip injury. The Bryan brothers would have regained the ATP no. 1 doubles ranking from Kubot and Melo if they had won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281117-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nAlexander Zverev defeated Dominic Thiem in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, to win the Men's Singles title at the 2018 Madrid Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281117-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nRafael Nadal was the defending champion, but lost to Thiem in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281117-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nDespite his withdrawal from the clay court season, Roger Federer regained the ATP no. 1 singles ranking as Nadal failed to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281117-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281117-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281118-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nLatisha Chan and Martina Hingis were the defending champions, but Hingis retired from professional tennis at the end of 2017. Chan played alongside Bethanie Mattek-Sands, but lost in the quarterfinals to Andrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 and Barbora Str\u00fdcov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281118-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nEkaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won the title, defeating T\u00edmea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic in the final, 2\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20138].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281118-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281119-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nSimona Halep was the two-time defending champion, but lost to Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281119-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nPetra Kvitov\u00e1 won the title, defeating Kiki Bertens in the final, 7\u20136(8\u20136), 4\u20136, 6\u20133. This was Kvitov\u00e1's third title in Madrid, and she became the first, and, to date, only, female player to win three titles at the Mutua Madrid Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281119-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nHalep and Caroline Wozniacki were in contention for the WTA no. 1 singles ranking at the beginning of the tournament. Halep retained the top ranking when Wozniacki lost to Bertens in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281119-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281120-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Myanmar National League\nThe 2018 Myanmar National League, also known as the 2018 MPT Myanmar National League, is the 9th season of the Myanmar National League, the top Burmese professional league for association football clubs since its founding in 2009. The departure of the two clubs from the MNL-1 disrupted the previous season. More disruption came when Nay Pyi Taw and City Yangon withdrew from the competition towards the end of the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281120-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Myanmar National League\nAt an emergency meeting of the MNL committee on September 12, Nay Pyi Taw was expelled from the league after its players complained of not having been paid since April. The expulsion came after players boycotted a game in early September. An unsuccessful coup attempt in Turkey in July last year created a crisis for City Yangon that forced its departure from the MNL. It was a big disappointment for the club, which won the 2017 MNL-2 championship to end the season undefeated. MNL-2 third-place winners Myawady FC were promoted along with runners-up Sagaing United to the 2018 Myanmar National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281120-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Myanmar National League\nIn the lead up to the 2018 season, the MNL inked a three-year sponsorship deal with the country's biggest TelCo MPT that will support funds for the Myanmar National League, MNL-2 and the youth competitions up until the 2020 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281120-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Myanmar National League, 2018 Title Sponsor\nMyanma Posts and Telecommunications signed 3 years contract with MNL. They help to develop Myanmar Football and Youth program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281120-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Myanmar National League, Teams\nA total of 12 teams are competing in the 2018 season: 10 sides from the 2017 season and two promoted teams from the 2017 Myanmar National League 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281120-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Myanmar National League, Teams, Stadiums\n(*) \u2013 not ready to play. MNL clubs that have not had their home stadia ready to host home matches currently use Aung San Stadium and Thuwunna Stadium in Yangon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281120-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Myanmar National League, Teams, Foreign players\nThe number of foreign players is restricted to four per MNL club. A team can use three foreign players on the field in each game, including a slot for a player from among AFC countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281120-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Myanmar National League, Teams, Foreign players\nThe number of foreign players is restricted to five per T1 team. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC member countries (3+1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281120-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Myanmar National League, Teams, Personnel and sponsoring\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281120-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Myanmar National League, Result, Positions by round\nThe table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281120-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Myanmar National League, Matches\nFixtures and results of the Myanmar National League 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281121-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Myanmar by-elections\nBy-elections were held in Myanmar on 3 November 2018 to fill 13 parliamentary seats: one in the Amyotha Hluttaw, four in the Pyithu Hluttaw, and eight in the State and Regional Hluttaw. The seats were left vacant due to the resignation or death of incumbent Members of Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281122-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Mzansi Super League\nThe 2018 Mzansi Super League was the inaugural edition of the Mzansi Super League (MSL) Twenty20 (T20) franchise cricket tournament in South Africa. It started on 16 November and finished on 16 December 2018. Six teams played a total of thirty-two matches. The players' draft took place on 17 October 2018, with more than 200 international players expressing their interest to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281122-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Mzansi Super League\nOn 18 October 2018, it was announced that Global Sports Commerce (GSC) is the official international commercial and broadcast partner from 2018 up to 2022. On 30 October 2018 it was announced that the Mzansi Super League 2018 champions will receive prize money of ZAR7 million and the runners up will receive R2.5 million, the player of the tournament received R100 000, and each player of the match won R15 000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281122-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Mzansi Super League\nOn 16 December 2018 the Jozi Stars won the first season final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281122-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Mzansi Super League, Squads\nThe following players were selected in the player draft on 17 October 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281122-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Mzansi Super League, Squads\nBefore the start of the tournament, JP Duminy was ruled out due to injury and was replaced by Quinton de Kock as the marquee player for Cape Town Blitz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281122-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Mzansi Super League, League stage\nThe MSL released the full fixture list on 18 October 2018. The team that tops the table gets direct passage to the final and will also have home ground advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281123-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 M\u00fcnster attack\nOn 7 April 2018, a man drove a van into people seated outside restaurants in a pedestrianised square in the old part of the German city of M\u00fcnster. He killed four people and injured about 20 others, six of them seriously, before committing suicide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281123-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 M\u00fcnster attack, Attack\nOn 7 April 2018, a man drove a camper van into people seated outside restaurants in a pedestrianised square in the old part of the German city of M\u00fcnster. Police said the attacker drove into \"several cafe and restaurant terraces in a major square in the centre of M\u00fcnster\". The perpetrator then shot himself dead. It was then found that his van was booby-trapped with a pistol connected to a wire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281123-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 M\u00fcnster attack, Attack\nThe attack initially killed three people, including the perpetrator, and also injured about 20 others, six seriously. Another victim died on 26 April. A Dutch victim who was in a coma after the attack died almost four months later on 29 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281123-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 M\u00fcnster attack, Attack\nPrior to the attack, M\u00fcnster had been planning to install security bollards in public areas, although the list of public spaces regarded as high-risk and slated to receive bollards did not include the location of this attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281123-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 M\u00fcnster attack, Perpetrator\nThe attacker was identified by media sources as a 48-year-old German national named Jens Alexander R\u00fcther, born about \"an hour south\" of the city, who had previously suffered from psychiatric illness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281123-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 M\u00fcnster attack, Perpetrator\nMedia reported that R\u00fcther was born on 1 May 1969 and had resided in M\u00fcnster. Deutsche Welle described him as a \"wealthy designer.\" He was later known as small-time criminal, who stole cell phones and car radios to finance his drug addiction. Local reports claimed that he had been in contact with certain far-right groups but had not been an extremist himself. He had said in the past that he wanted to commit suicide in a spectacular way. Authorities also considered the possibility that he committed the crime due to relationship problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281123-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 M\u00fcnster attack, Perpetrator\nHe came from the Sauerland, grew up in Madfeld and graduated from high school Petrinum Brilon. There had been five criminal proceedings against Jens Ruther, three of them at the public prosecutor's office M\u00fcnster and two at the Arnsberg public prosecutor's office. The proceedings in Arnsberg dealt with two \u201cfamily disputes\u201d from 2014 and 2016. In M\u00fcnster, he was accused of driver flight (Germany) | unauthorized removal from the accident site (2015), property damage (2015) and fraud (2016) . All proceedings were terminated due to insufficient suspicion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281123-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 M\u00fcnster attack, Perpetrator\nState Interior Minister Herbert Reul said on the day of the attack that there was no indication of an Islamist background of the attack. On 18 April, Reul said that after an analysis by the security authorities, right-wing extremism was also ruled out as a motive. He said that, rather, the crime \"had to do with the life\" of the perpetrator and his \"assignment of guilt\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281123-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 M\u00fcnster attack, Perpetrator\nThe crime was judged as extended suicide for personal reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281123-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 M\u00fcnster attack, Reactions\nChancellor Angela Merkel said she was \"deeply shocked\" about the crime. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed his condolences to the victims and relatives. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin condemned the crime and offered their sympathies. A public memorial service was held on the following Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281124-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NA LCS season\nThe 2018 NA LCS season was the first year under partnership and sixth overall of the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS), a professional esports league for the MOBA PC game League of Legends. It was divided into spring and summer splits, each consisting of a regular season and playoff stage. The top six teams from the regular season advanced to the playoff stage, with the top two teams receiving a bye to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281124-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NA LCS season, Format\nStarting in 2018, the North American LCS began franchising. There are various reasons for this. First, it changed the overall structure of the league, encouraging long-term investments from owners. This allowed the league to implement revenue sharing, leading to a better foundation for both the teams and professional players. Lastly, the professional players were given a larger voice and more protection within the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281124-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NA LCS season, Format\nThe buy-in price for the league was $10 million for existing League of Legends teams, who had previously participated in the League Championship Series or Challenger Series. New teams would be subject to an additional $3 million (a total $13 million), which was distributed to the teams that were replaced in the league. Interested parties were given applications in June, due on July 28, 2017. Over 100 existing esports organizations, traditional sports teams, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs reportedly applied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281124-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 NA LCS season, Format\nThose applications were then narrowed down to a shortlist, nicknamed \"phase two\", which saw participants travel to Riot Games' Los Angeles office to interview and review their applications. Riot Games and the North American League Championship Series players' association also decided that league would not expand and instead remain at 10 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281124-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NA LCS season, Format\nBuyers for the league were decided in mid-October. Several existing teams from the league \u2014 including Cloud9, Counter Logic Gaming, Echo Fox, FlyQuest, Team Liquid and Team SoloMid \u2014 were reportedly accepted back into the league. Other existing teams, such as Immortals, Phoenix1, Team Dignitas and Team EnvyUs, were declined from entry into the restructured league. The team welcomed four new teams \u2014 one endemic esports team and three NBA franchises or affiliates. Longtime esports organization OpTic Gaming was reportedly awarded a spot in the league after receiving investment from Texas Rangers co-owner Neil Leibman. The other three new spots went to Golden State Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob and his son Kirk as the Golden Guardians, the Cleveland Cavaliers and affiliated venture capital firms as 100 Thieves, and the Houston Rockets as Clutch Gaming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 885]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281125-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NACAC Championships\nThe 2018 North American, Central American and Caribbean Championships was a regional track and field competition held at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Canada, from August 10-12, 2018. It was the third edition of a senior track and field championship for the NACAC region, held three years after the 2015 NACAC Championships. The winner of each event qualified (granted their country ultimately picks them) for the 2019 Pan American Games competition, which will be held in Lima, Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281125-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NACAC Championships, Participating nations\nAccording to an unofficial count, 319 athletes from 29 countries participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281126-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NACAC Championships \u2013 Results\nThese are the full results of the 2018 NACAC Championships in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from August 10 to 12 at Varsity Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281127-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NACAM Rally Championship\nThe 2018 NACAM Rally Championship was the eleventh season of the NACAM Rally Championship. This championship was the FIA regional rally championship for the North America and Central America (NACAM) region. The season began 8 March in Leon, Mexico, and ended 23 November in Colima, Mexico, after four events held in Canada and Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281127-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NACAM Rally Championship\nVenezuela's Rally Isla de Margarita was dropped without replacement from the calendar leaving only the mid-year Canadian Rallye Baie-des-Chaleurs event held outside of Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281127-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NACAM Rally Championship\nDefending champion, Citro\u00ebn driver Ricardo Trivi\u00f1o won his ninth NACAM championship. Trivi\u00f1o won the first three rounds of the championship, wrapping the championship up after the mid-year trip to Canada. Fellow Mexican, Mitsubishi driver Ricardo Cordero Jr. finished second in the points after winning the season ending Rally Colima. Colombian Subaru driver Juli\u00e1n Jaramillo was third in the championship after good placings in the first two rallies of the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281128-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 81st annual NAIA basketball tournament features 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. The opening game round started on March 14, and the National Championship Game was played on March 20. As of 2018, 576 schools have participated in the NAIA Men's Tournament. 48 states, all but Alaska and Wyoming have been represented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281128-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe Tournament Final saw the Graceland Yellowjackets beat the Generals of LSU\u2013Alexandria 83 to 80 in overtime, with the winning 3-point basket made from the right sideline as the game clock expired. It was the first overtime final since 2016, and the ninth overtime final in tournament history. This was Graceland University\u2019s first appearance in the national tournament, and first championship. LSU Alexandria also marked its first appearance in the tournament. The most recent previous first appearance champion was Dalton State (Ga.) in 2015. Graceland became the first team with double-digit losses to win the title since John Brown (Ark.) in 2005. Graceland was the first team from the Heart of America Athletic Conference to compete in the championship final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281128-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nIncluding the 2018 championship, the last 11 national champions have been different, with Texas Wesleyan taking the 2017 trophy. Six of those champions in the last nine years \u2013 Mid-America Christian, Dalton State (Ga.), Vanguard (Calif.), Pikeville (Ky.), Rocky Mountain (Mont.) and Graceland \u2013 were winners for the first time in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281129-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 NAIA Division II Men\u2019s Basketball National Championship was held from March 7-13 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, SD. The 27th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured thirty-two teams playing in a single-elimination format. In a rematch of the 2016 Championship game, the outcome was the same. The championship game was won by the Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats of Marion, Indiana over the Saint Francis Cougars of Fort Wayne, Indiana by a score of 84 to 71.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281130-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA Football National Championship\nThe 2018 NAIA Football National Championship was a four-round, sixteen team tournament played between November 17 and December 15 of 2018. The tournament concluded on December 15 with a single game, played as the 63rd Annual NAIA Football National Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281130-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA Football National Championship\nThe championship game was played at Municipal Stadium in Daytona Beach, Florida. This was the 5th consecutive time the championship game was played at this venue after the prior six games had been played at Barron Stadium in Rome, Georgia. It was also the final game played at this venue after it was announced that the 2019 championship game will be played in Grambling, Louisiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281130-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA Football National Championship\nThe game was contested between two teams that had never before won a football national championship. On the visiting side of the scoreboard was the once-beaten, #7-ranked Benedictine Ravens, representing Benedictine College from Atchison, Kansas. The home team was the unbeaten, #1-ranked Morningside Mustangs, playing for Morningside College of Sioux City, Iowa. Benedictine was making its first appearance in the championship game while Morningside was appearing for the second time, losing the 2012 championship game in overtime to the Marian Knights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281130-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA Football National Championship\nMorningside was led by the quarterback-receiver duo of Trent Solsma and Connor Niles. Solsma was a first-team All-American who had just received the Rawlings Award in a banquet the prior evening. The award recognized the 2018 NAIA Football Player of the Year. Niles was a second-team All-American, a controversial achievement because many consider Solsma-to-Niles to be one of the most productive duos in NAIA football history. But an NAIA rule restricts the selection of players from the same team. So Solsma received the first-team choice, and Niles was the second-team selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281130-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA Football National Championship\nIn the end, this duo led Morningside to the victory, 35-28. They connected for 3 touchdown passes during the game. For his efforts, Niles was named the game's Most Outstanding Offensive Player. The parallel defensive award was given to Morningside defensive lineman Chase Reis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281130-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA Football National Championship, Postseason playoff\nA total of sixteen teams were selected to participate in the single-elimination tournament from across the country, with invitations that were revealed on Sunday, November 11, 2018. The field included eleven conference champions who received automatic bids. The field was then filled with at-large selections that were awarded to the highest ranked teams that were not conference champions. First-round seedings were based on the final regular-season edition of the 2018 NAIA Coaches' Poll, with certain minor modifications given based on geographic considerations. Each subsequent round will be re-seeded based on the rankings of all teams advancing to that round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281130-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA Football National Championship, Postseason playoff\nQuarterfinal pairings were announced by the NAIA on November 17, after the first round results were known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281130-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA Football National Championship, Postseason playoff\nSemifinal pairings were confirmed by the NAIA on November 24, soon after completion of the day's quarterfinal games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings\nThe 2018 NAIA football rankings reports the poll results conducted during the 2018 NAIA football season. Each season, one poll evaluates the various National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) football teams and ranks them. Coaches from each of the football conferences are members of a selection panel, with conferences receiving one vote for every 4 member teams. Sometimes referred to as the football ratings or the NAIA Coaches' Poll, the poll is generally conducted once during the preseason and after each week of play during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings\nThe Top 25 is determined by compiling points for each vote. A team receives 25 points for each first-place vote, 24 for second-place and so on through the list. The highest and lowest ranking for each team (counting zero for ballots with no votes for a team) are disregarded. To obtain the final tally, each team's ranking is recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that includes the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings\nAs an example, if there are 16 voting panelists, and one team is a unanimous choice for the highest ranking, then that team would receive 25 points * 14 ballots + 16 points (one for each ballot cast) = 366 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings\nTeams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered \u201creceiving votes.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings\nOnce the regular season is completed, the NAIA will conduct a playoff to determine the year's national champion. A final poll will be taken after completion of the series of playoff games, collectively referred to as the 2018 NAIA Football National Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings, Poll release dates\nThe NAIA released a preseason edition of the rankings on August 6, 2018. A complete schedule of poll release dates will be:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings, The postseason tournament\nA 16-team tournament will be contested to determine the winner of the 2018 NAIA Football National Championship. Teams were selected to the field of participants through a two-tiered selection process. First, any conference champion ranked in the top 20 positions in the final regular-season Coaches' Poll received an automatic bid into the tourney field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings, The postseason tournament\nIn 2018, the following 12 NAIA conferences (or divisions within large conferences) had champions who were part of this selection process for the automatic invitations:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings, The postseason tournament\nAfter the automatic bids were granted, any open positions in the field were filled with at-large invitations. These at-large entries were granted to the highest ranked teams who were not conference champions. Since there were 12 conference champions, a minimum of four at-large invitations could have been granted to play in the 2018 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings, The postseason tournament\nBased on the Week 10 (final regular season) Coaches' Poll, the following teams (11 champions and 5 at-large teams) made up the 2018 playoff field:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings, The postseason tournament\nAfter the tournament participants were determined, the top 8 seeds were granted first round home games. Opponents were determined based on the oft-used tournament protocol that pairs highest seeds with lowest seeds: #1 vs. the lowest seeded entry, usually #16), #2 vs. the second-lowest seeded entry, usually #15), #3 vs. the third-lowest seeded entry, usually #14), etc. This alignment was then tweaked for geographic considerations by the tournament selection officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings, The postseason tournament\nThe first round tournament match-ups, finalized and announced on Sunday, November 11, were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings, Leading vote-getters\nSince the inception of the Coaches' Poll in 1999, the #1 ranking in the various weekly polls has been held by only a select group of teams. Through the last (postseason) poll of the 2018 season, the teams and the number of times they have held the #1 weekly ranking are shown below. The number of times a team has been ranked #1 in the postseason poll (the national champion) is shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings, Leading vote-getters\nThere has been only one tie for the leading vote-getter in a weekly poll. In 2015, Southern Oregon was tied with Marian (IN) in the preseason poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281131-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NAIA football rankings, Leading vote-getters\nIn 1999, the results of a postseason poll, if one was conducted, are not known. Therefore, an additional poll has been presumed, and the #1 postseason ranking has been credited to the postseason tournament champion, the Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281132-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208\nThe 2018 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208 was a NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race held at Meridan Speedway in Meridian, Idaho. Hailie Deegan won the race, the first ever victory by a female in K&N Pro Series history. Her Bill McAnally Racing teammates Cole Rouse and Derek Kraus finished second and third respectively. Kraus won the pole and led the most laps, leading the first 189 of 208.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281132-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208, Report, Race\nDerek Kraus took the pole and led the first 189 laps. With 20 laps to go, Taylor Canfield, who was making his series debut, spun in front of Kraus and blocked the racetrack. Kraus tried to avoid him but hit the outside wall and lost the lead to his Bill McAnally Racing teammate Cole Rouse. After the ensuing caution, Rouse held the lead until the final lap of the race, when Hailie Deegan tapped his left-rear quarter panel in turn one, making a last-lap pass. Deegan went on to score the win, the first of her career, while Rouse and Kraus finished second and third to complete a podium sweep for BMR. Deegan led only the final lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281132-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208, Report, Post-race\nDeegan's victory was her first career win and the first win by a female in history at the K&N Pro Series West level of NASCAR. Deegan was ecstatic after the win, explaining, \"This has to be the best day of my life right here. It doesn't get any better than this. People don't understand how many days, how many hours I've put into this. How much work I've done to get to this moment. It\u2019s just amazing \u2026 this is the happiest day of my life.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281132-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208, Report, Post-race\nImmediately following the race, Rouse expressed displeasure with Deegan's bump and run-style pass on the final lap, saying, \"We were going into Turn 1...and she doesn't lift and drives into me, gets me completely sideways. We were going to win that race if it was run clean, but unfortunately it wasn't.\" He continued by saying he would race Deegan hard the last two races of the season: \"I'm just going to go into the next two races, not give her any slack and we're going to win both of those.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281132-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208, Report, Post-race\nIt was a good night, but I don't really care about second, honestly.\" The next day, however, Rouse tweeted that he \"got over it quick\" and called Deegan \"an amazing girl and amazing talent,\" adding, \"I'm happy for her! She made history and I'm a part of it.\" Kraus, meanwhile, was unhappy due to the incident with Canfield (Canfield's third of the night). \"We led 190+ laps, then a lapped car spun again. I was predicting he was going to roll down because he didn't have his brakes on yet. But he stayed there, and I was already committed [to the top]...and I guess NASCAR ruled me third. I don't know, I guess we'll go onto Roseville and Kern and win them two.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281133-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NAPB season\nThe 2018 NAPB season was the inaugural season for the North American Premier Basketball. For 2018, the league consists of eight teams: the Albany Patroons, Kansas City Tornados, Kentucky Thoroughbreds, Nevada Desert Dogs, Ohio Cardinals, Rochester Razorsharks, Vancouver Knights, and Yakima SunKings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281133-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NAPB season\nThe Ohio Cardinals were replaced after 23 games by the Ohio Bootleggers, a semi-professional team in the North American Basketball League that also apparently had took over operations of the Vancouver Knights sometime during the season. The Knights also had become a travel team at that point and was transferred to a new ownership group that was never identified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281133-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NAPB season\nThe season ended with the SunKings defeating the Patroons two-games-to-none in the best-of-three finals to win the inaugural NAPB championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281133-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NAPB season, Playoffs\nThere were eight teams in the league with the top four teams seeded one to four for the playoffs. Each round of the playoffs were played a best-of-three series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281133-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NAPB season, Draft\nThe inaugural player draft for the league was held on December 3, 2017, and the league's eight charter teams took turns selecting players who had all competed at the college level in the United States at some point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281133-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NAPB season, Draft\nVance Cooksey of Youngstown State University was the first overall NAPB selection taken by Vancouver Knights. Consequently, this makes him the first-ever selection in the history of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281133-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NAPB season, Draft\nAlthough some of the players chosen in the draft had played semi-professional or professional basketball after college graduation, only the United States colleges they attended are listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281134-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series\nThe 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series was the 24th season of the third highest stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in North America. Christopher Bell entered as the defending champion, but he did not defend his championship, leaving his No. 4 Kyle Busch Motorsports entry to a number of drivers throughout the season, with Todd Gilliland covering the majority of the schedule in the truck. Title sponsor Camping World Holdings rebranded the series with their Gander Outdoors brand they acquired in 2017 for the 2019 season, replacing the Camping World brand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281134-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series\nThis was the third year that the Truck Series (and the Xfinity Series) had a playoff system. For the first time in the three years of the playoffs at that time, Christopher Bell and Matt Crafton were not part of the \"championship 4\" drivers competing for the title at Homestead. Bell had moved up to the Xfinity Series full-time, while Crafton did qualify for the postseason but did not advance to the last round of the playoffs as he had done the past two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281134-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series\nThe 2018 season was also the first to feature the regular season championship trophy, which was awarded at the final race before the playoffs. Johnny Sauter clinched the NCWTS Regular Season Championship trophy at the end of the UNOH 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Brett Moffitt was declared the NCWTS Champion for 2018, after winning the Ford EcoBoost 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. In addition, Hattori Racing Enterprises won the NCWTS Owners' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281134-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Schedule\nThe final schedule\u00a0\u2013 comprising 23 races\u00a0\u2013 was released on May 23, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281134-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Schedule, Schedule changes\nIn 2015, NASCAR and 21 Camping World Truck Series tracks agreed on a five-year contract that guarantees each track would continue to host races through 2020. Despite the agreement, Speedway Motorsports decided to cancel the New Hampshire Motor Speedway race and add a second race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, to form two weekends involving each of the three national series. The new race will be the third race of the regular season, while the established fall race will be the second race of the first playoff round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281134-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Schedule, Schedule changes\nAs a result, the Chevrolet Silverado 250 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park will be held as the first race of the playoffs, while the Overton's 225 at Chicagoland Speedway will move from September to June. The UNOH 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway will become the final race of the regular season as a result of the schedule realignment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281134-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Schedule, Schedule changes\nUnlike the 2017 schedule, the JEGS 200 at Dover International Speedway will precede the 37 Kind Days 250 at Kansas Speedway and the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Also, the Eaton 200 at Gateway Motorsports Park will be held one week later as the tenth race of the season, slated to be held the week before the Chicagoland round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281134-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Schedule, Schedule changes\nOn April 17, 2018, Bristol Motor Speedway announced the UNOH 200 will be moved one day to Thursday night, August 16. The new race date will also reflect a change from FS1 to Fox, as the race broadcast moves to the broadcast network. The live Thursday night race on Fox coincides with preparation for Fox to broadcast the majority of Thursday games during the 2018 NFL season. Fox will now air two Truck Series races, both during the second half of the season when NBC has the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281134-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Results and standings, Drivers' standings\n(key)\u00a0Bold\u00a0\u2013 Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0\u2013 Pole position set by final practice results or owner's points. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led. 1\u00a0\u2013 Stage 1 winner. 2\u00a0\u2013 Stage 2 winner. 1-10 \u2013 Regular season top 10 finishers. . \u2013 Eliminated after Round of 8. \u2013 Eliminated after Round of 6", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281134-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Results and standings, Owners' championship (Top 15)\n(key)\u00a0Bold\u00a0\u2013 Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0\u2013 Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led. 1\u00a0\u2013 Stage 1 winner. 2\u00a0\u2013 Stage 2 winner. 1-10\u00a0\u2013 Owners' regular season top 10 finishers. . \u2013 Eliminated after Round of 8. \u2013 Eliminated after Round of 6", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 92], "content_span": [93, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281135-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East\nThe 2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East was the 32nd season of the K&N Pro Series East, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR. It began with the New Smyrna 175 at New Smyrna Speedway on February 11 and concluded with the Crosley 125 at Dover International Speedway on October 6. Harrison Burton entered the season as the defending Drivers' champion. Tyler Ankrum won the championship, 84 points in front of Tyler Dippel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281135-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, Schedule\nOn December 6, 2017, NASCAR announced the 2018 schedule. Greenville-Pickens and Berlin were dropped from the schedule in favor of Gateway and a second race at New Hampshire. All races in the season - with the exception of the race at New Jersey Motorsports Park, of which extended highlights were shown on NASCAR America - were televised on NBCSN on a tape delay basis. In addition the New Smyrna 175 and the Apple Barrel 125 were shown live on FansChoice.tv.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281135-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, Results and standings, Drivers' championship\n(key)\u00a0Bold\u00a0\u2013 Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0\u2013 Pole position set by final practice results or Owners' points. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281136-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West\nThe 2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West was the sixty-fifth season of the K&N Pro Series West, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR. It began with the Bakersfield 175 presented by NAPA Auto Parts at Kern County Raceway Park on March 15 and concluded with the NAPA Auto Parts 175 presented by West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame at Kern County Raceway Park on October 27. Todd Gilliland entered the season as the defending Drivers' champion; however, he did not go for three in a row, because he moved up to the Truck Series in 2018. Derek Thorn, the 2013 West Series champion, won his second championship in his first full season since his first title, 27 points in front of his Sunrise Ford Racing teammate Ryan Partridge, who also returned to the series in 2018 after a year off in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281136-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, Schedule\nOn December 11, 2017, NASCAR announced the 2018 schedule. The two races at Irwindale were dropped from the schedule in favor of a second race at Tucson and a race at Gateway. The Las Vegas Motor Speedway dirt track was added to the schedule, marking the series' first race on dirt since 1979 at Ascot Park. All races in the season are televised on NBCSN on a tape delay basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281136-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, Results and standings, Drivers' championship\n(key)\u00a0Bold\u00a0\u2013 Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0\u2013 Pole position set by final practice results or Owners' points. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281137-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series\nThe 2018 NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series was the eleventh season of the NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series and the fourteenth season organized by NASCAR Mexico. It began with the Gran Premio Difrenosa at Aut\u00f3dromo Monterrey on 25 March and concluded with the Gran Premio FedEx at Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez on 2 December. Abraham Calder\u00f3n entered the season as the defending Drivers' champion. Rub\u00e9n Garc\u00eda Jr. won the championship, nineteen points in front of Irwin Vences. And Fabi\u00e1n Welter was declared the Rookie of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281137-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series, Schedule\nOn 25 January 2018, NASCAR announced the 2018 schedule. Le\u00f3n and Pachuca were dropped from the schedule in favor of El Dorado and a road course race at Aguascalientes. The race in El Marqu\u00e9s was held on the road course instead of the oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281137-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series, Results and standings, Drivers' championship\n(key)\u00a0Bold\u00a0\u2013 Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0\u2013 Pole position set by final practice results or Owners' points. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281138-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Pinty's Series\nThe 2018 NASCAR Pinty's Series was the twelfth season of the Pinty's Series, the national stock car racing series in Canada sanctioned by NASCAR. It began with the Clarington 200 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park on 20 May and concluded with the Pinty's Fall Brawl at Jukasa Motor Speedway on 29 September. Alex Labb\u00e9 entered the season as the defending Drivers' champion. Louis-Philippe Dumoulin won the championship, seven points in front of Alex Tagliani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281138-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Pinty's Series, Schedule\nOn 27 November 2017, NASCAR announced the 2018 schedule. Delaware and ICAR were dropped from the schedule in favor of a second race at Jukasa and a race at New Hampshire, which marked the first race in series history outside Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281138-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Pinty's Series, Results and standings, Drivers' championship\n(key)\u00a0Bold\u00a0\u2013 Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0\u2013 Pole position set by final practice results or Owners' points. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 72], "content_span": [73, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series\nThe 2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series is the tenth Racecar Euro Series season, and the sixth under the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series branding. The season consisted of six meetings \u2013 with two races at each meeting \u2013 starting on 14 April at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, and ending on 21 October at Circuit Zolder in Belgium. Alon Day and Thomas Ferrando entered the season as the defending champion in Elite 1 and Elite 2 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series\nIn the Elite 1 class, Alon Day successfully defended his Elite 1 title, winning the championship by 28 points over Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Gabillon. In the Elite 2 class, Ulysse Delsaux scored his first NASCAR Euro Series title, ahead of Go Fas Racing's Florian Venturi by six points. RDV Comp\u00e9tition won the team's championship title, while Toyota won their first Euro Series manufacturer's title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Teams and drivers\nNASCAR released the entry list for the teams participating on 15 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Season report\nIn the Elite 1 class, the championship was closely contested by defending champion Alon Day of CAAL Racing and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Gabillon of RDV Comp\u00e9tition. Day initially got the upper hand after winning the first three races of the season, but his championship campaign received a setback when he got disqualified at the second race in Franciacorta due to technical infringements during post-race inspection. Gabillon took the championship lead soon after and would lead the championship by the time the playoffs begin at Hockenheim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Season report\nProblems for both Gabillon and Day at Hockenheim, however, allowed Lucas Lasserre of Mishumotors and rookie Loris Hezemans of Hendriks Motorsport to close up the gap, setting up a four-way battle for the title at Zolder. Ultimately, retirements for both Lasserre and Hezemans during the first race of the Zolder race meet effectively eliminated them from title contention, and with Gabillon unable to match Day's pace for the weekend, Alon Day was crowned champion after winning his seventh race of the season at the final race of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Season report\nAlon Day's seven race wins set a new record for the most races won in a single Elite 1 Euro Series season, one short of Stienes Longin's overall record of 8 wins in the 2016 Elite 2 season. Gabillon won two races (Brands Hatch 1 and Tours 1), while Lassere (Franciacorta 2), Hezemans (Hockenheim 1), and 2015 Elite 2 champion Gianmarco Ercoli (Brands Hatch 2) scored one race win each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Season report\nIn the Elite 2 class, the championship was closely fought between four drivers: Ulysse Delsaux of RDV Comp\u00e9tition, defending champions Wilfried Boucenna of Knauf Racing, Florian Venturi of Go Fas Racing, and the returning Guillaume Deflandre for Memphis Racing. Boucenna initially took the championship lead after sweeping both races at Valencia. However, problems for Boucenna at Franciacorta Race 2 allowed Deflandre to caught up to him, and further problems for Boucenna at the first race of Brands Hatch race meet allowed Deflandre to take the championship lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Season report\nDelsaux then sweeps the Tours race week to take the lead in the championship, and looks set to sweep the Hockenheim race week had a tire failure in the second race at Hockenheim didn't force him to retire from the race. This allowed Deflandre, Boucenna, and a resurgent Venturi to set up a four-way battle for the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Season report\nA costly retirement at race 1 of Zolder ultimately took out Deflandre of the championship hunt, and while Venturi was able to score a win and a second-place finish at Zolder, Delsaux had enough gap between him and Venturi to take the championship with a third-place finish at the final race of the season. Delsaux also scored the most race wins of the season with three (Tours sweep and Hockenheim 1). Venturi (Brands Hatch 2 and Zolder 1), Boucenna (Valencia sweep), Deflandre (Brands Hatch 1 and Hockenheim 2), and PK Carsport's Guillaume Dumarey (Franciacorta 2 and Zolder 2) scored two race wins, while Brazilian Felipe Rabello (Franciacorta 1) scored one race win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Season report\nIn the team's championship, with both of their drivers being in the championship hunt for the entirety of the season, RDV Comp\u00e9tition's #3 team comfortably won team's title, finishing 107 points clear of Knauf Racing's #37 team. New teams Memphis Racing and Go Fas Racing scored an impressive third and fourth-place finish, while Knauf Racing's #73 team completes the top five in the team's championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Season report\nIn the manufacturer's championship, Toyota claimed their first Euro Series manufacturers title, becoming the first manufacturer to successfully topple Chevrolet from the top spot. Toyota's championship hopes were helped by the decision made by Alon Day's team CAAL Racing to switch manufacturers from Chevrolet to Toyota mid-season, giving Toyota the crucial edge they need to secure the manufacturer's title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Season report\nNotably, this season saw a noticeable increase in attention from the other side of the Atlantic. Both former Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Bobby Labonte and current Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series team Go Fas Racing made their Euro Series debuts in 2018. Labonte, in his first season as a full-time driver since 2011, scored a second-place finish at the second race in Tours (the only oval race meet in the schedule) and would finish 14th in the standings with 1 Top 5 and 3 Top 10 finishes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Season report\nGo Fas impressed in their debut season, finishing fourth in the team's championship with their Elite 2 driver Florian Venturi being in the championship hunt for much of the season. Truck Series regular Jennifer Jo Cobb also made an appearance at Valencia, driving for Racing Total in the Elite 2 class, a decision that ultimately allowed Racing Total driver Justin Kunz to make a Truck Series start for Jo Cobb's Truck team in Mosport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0007-0002", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Season report\nPinty's Series driver Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Dumoulin and K&N East driver Dale Quarterley made an appearance at Zolder as part of a driver exchange program that the Euro Series ran in conjunction with Pinty's Series and K&N East. Former B. J. McLeod Motorsports driver Stephen Young also made an appearance this season, driving for Racing Total's #10 entry at Tours in the Elite 2 class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Standings\nPoints are awarded to drivers and team using the current point system used in Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, excluding the Stage and Race Winner bonus points. For the final two races in Hockenheim and Zolder, double points are awarded. In addition, the driver that gained the most positions in a race will receive bonus championship points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Standings, Elite 1\n(key) Bold\u00a0- Pole position awarded by fastest qualifying time (in Race 1) or by previous race's fastest lap (in Race 2) or by setting the fastest lap time on the semi-final heat races (Tours only). Italics\u00a0- Fastest lap. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led. ^\u00a0\u2013 Most positions gained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281139-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Standings, Elite 2\n(key) Bold\u00a0- Pole position awarded by fastest qualifying time (in Race 1) or by previous race's fastest lap (in Race 2) or by setting the fastest lap time on the semi-final heat races (Tours only). Italics\u00a0- Fastest lap. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led. ^\u00a0\u2013 Most positions gained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281140-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Vettelisthebest (talk | contribs) at 06:32, 18 June 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281140-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour\nThe 2018 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour was the thirty-fourth season of the Whelen Modified Tour (WMT), a stock car racing tour sanctioned by NASCAR. It began with the Performance Plus 150 presented by Safety-Kleen at Myrtle Beach Speedway on 17 March and concluded with the Sunoco World Series 150 at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park on 14 October. Doug Coby entered the season as the defending Drivers' champion. 2018 marked the second season of the unification of the Whelen (Northern) Modified Tour and the Whelen Southern Modified Tour. Justin Bonsignore won the championship, 97 points ahead of Chase Dowling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281140-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, Schedule\nOn 22 November 2017, NASCAR announced the 2018 schedule. Charlotte was dropped from the schedule. The All-Star Shootout did not count towards the championship. The Icebreaker 150, the Thompson 125 and the Musket 250 were broadcast live on FansChoice.tv. Eleven of the seventeen races in the season were televised on NBCSN on a tape delay basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281140-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, Results and standings, Drivers' championship\n(key)\u00a0Bold\u00a0\u2013 Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0\u2013 Pole position set by final practice results or Owners' points. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281141-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series\nThe 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series was the 37th season of the NASCAR Xfinity Series, a stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. William Byron won the 2017 championship with JR Motorsports, but moved up to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Tyler Reddick, who replaced Byron in the No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro SS, won the drivers' championship. Stewart-Haas Racing with Biagi-DenBeste won the owners' championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281141-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series\nThis was the third year that the Xfinity Series (and the Truck Series) had a playoff system. For the first time in the three years of the playoffs at that time, Elliott Sadler and Justin Allgaier were not part of the \"championship 4\" drivers competing for the title at Homestead. Both drivers did qualify for the postseason but did not advance to the last round of the playoffs as they had done the past two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281141-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series\nThe 2018 season was the first to feature the Regular Season Championship trophy, which is awarded at the final race before the playoffs. Justin Allgaier clinched the NXS Regular Season Championship trophy after the 2018 DC Solar 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281141-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series\nThis was the final season of the Toyota Camry in the Xfinity Series, as it was replaced by the Supra in the 2019 season. It was also the final season of Dodge as a manufacturer, as the new flange-fit composite body rules have made the former Team Penske Challengers (nicknamed \"Zombie Dodges\" due to their lack of factory support since 2013) used by smaller teams ineligible due to their welded steel bodies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281141-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series, Schedule\nThe final schedule\u00a0\u2013 comprising 33 races\u00a0\u2013 was released on May 23, 2017. Key changes from 2017 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281141-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series, Schedule, Schedule changes\nIn 2015, NASCAR and 24 Xfinity Series tracks agreed on a five-year contract that guarantees each track would continue to host races through 2020. Despite the agreement, Speedway Motorsports decided to transfer one of its Xfinity Series races at Kentucky Speedway to Las Vegas Motor Speedway to form a race weekend involving each of the three national series in the fall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281141-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series, Schedule, Schedule changes\nWith the official release of the schedule, NASCAR announced that the race Las Vegas Motor Speedway acquired from Kentucky Speedway will become the final race before the Xfinity Series playoffs, while the Go Bowling 250 at Richmond Raceway will be held as the first race of the playoffs. Furthermore, the Lilly Diabetes 250 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway will move from July to September. Chicagoland Speedway's race, the Overton's 300, will move from September to June to become the 15th race of the season instead of the 26th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281141-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series, Schedule, Schedule changes\nA few other minor schedule changes were also announced with the release of the schedule. Unlike the 2017 season, the OneMain Financial 200 at Dover International Speedway will precede the Alsco 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, while the Bar Harbor 200, also at Dover International Speedway, will move one week later to follow the Drive for the Cure 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The Drive for the Cure 200 will also utilize Charlotte Motor Speedway's 2.28-mile (3.67\u00a0km) road course instead of its oval. Road America will also move back to a Saturday afternoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281141-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series, Schedule, Schedule changes\nOn August 25, NASCAR announced the tracks that will compose the Dash 4 Cash incentive program: The four Dash 4 Cash races will be run consecutively on the overall series schedule, starting at Bristol Motor Speedway on April 14. From there, the bonus program rolls on to Richmond Raceway (April 20) and Talladega (April 28) before concluding at Dover International Speedway on May 5. Drivers eligible for driver championship points in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series are ineligible to participate in either Dash 4 Cash, the second Las Vegas race, or the playoff races. Drivers such as Elliott Sadler (13 years) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (18 years), who are expected to register as Xfinity drivers, will be eligible since they are registering as Xfinity drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281141-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series, Results and standings, Drivers' Championship\n(key)\u00a0Bold\u00a0\u2013 Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0\u2013 Pole position set by final practice results or owner's points. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led. 1\u00a0\u2013 Stage 1 winner. 2\u00a0\u2013 Stage 2 winner. 1\u201310\u00a0\u2013 Regular season top 10 finishers. . \u2013 Eliminated after Round of 12. \u2013 Eliminated after Round of 8", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 72], "content_span": [73, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281141-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series, Results and standings, Owners' championship (Top 15)\n(key) Bold\u00a0- Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0- Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led. 1\u00a0\u2013 Stage 1 winner. 2\u00a0\u2013 Stage 2 winner. 1\u201310\u00a0\u2013 Owners' regular season top 10 finishers. . \u2013 Eliminated after Round of 12. \u2013 Eliminated after Round of 8", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281142-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NATC Motorcycle Trials Season\nThe 2018 NATC trials season was the 45th season. It consisted of ten trials events in three main classes: Pro, Expert and Womens Pro. It began on 21 April, with round one in New Mexico and ended with round ten in California on 2 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281142-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NATC Motorcycle Trials Season, Season summary\nPatrick Smage would claim his tenth NATC Trials Championship in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281142-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NATC Motorcycle Trials Season, Season summary\nJosh Roper would claim his first NATC Trials Championship Expert class title in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281142-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NATC Motorcycle Trials Season, 2018 NATC trials season calendar, Scoring system\nPoints were awarded to the top twenty finishers in each class. All ten rounds counted for the Pro class, and the best of nine in Expert and Women's Pro classes were counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 84], "content_span": [85, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281143-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA 2K League season\nThe 2018 NBA 2K League season was the inaugural season of the NBA 2K League, an esports league based on the basketball video game series NBA 2K. The season opened with the Tip-Off Tournament, which ran from May 1\u20135, 2018, where 76ers GC defeated Blazer5 Gaming. The season culminated on August 25, 2018, when Knicks Gaming defeated Heat Check Gaming in a best-of-three finals to become the first playoff champions in league history. Other tournaments included The Turn (where Blazer5 Gaming defeated Celtics Crossover Gaming) and The Ticket (where Knicks Gaming defeated Celtics Crossover Gaming).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281143-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA 2K League season, Qualifying\nFor the inaugural season, the qualifying stage was open to anyone who was 18+ years old and owned NBA 2K18 on either PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. To qualify, players had to win 50 games in NBA 2K18's Pro-Am mode and submit an application following this requirement between January 1\u201331, 2018. Following that, the players who qualified participated in a combine that ran from February 2\u201321, 2018. The top 102 players out of the 72,000 who qualified were then drafted on April 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281143-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA 2K League season, Teams\nOn December 11, 2017, the official logo for the NBA 2K League was revealed, with the logos for each of the 17 teams being revealed over the course of the following days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281143-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA 2K League season, Inaugural draft\nOn April 4, 2018, the inaugural draft took place and was broadcast on NBA TV (first round only) and Twitch. The draft used a snake draft format with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announcing the first pick, NBA 2K League managing director Brendan Donohue announcing the rest of the picks. The draft took place in the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. For the first five rounds, each team was required to choose one player at each position, and in the sixth round team were allowed to choose any remaining player, regardless of their position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281143-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA 2K League season, Inaugural draft, Draft lottery\nA non-weighted lottery took place on March 13, 2018 to determine the order of the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game\nThe 2018 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game that was played on February 18, 2018, during the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2017\u201318 season. It was the 67th edition of the NBA All-Star Game, and was played at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, home of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers. Team LeBron defeated Team Stephen, 148\u2013145. LeBron James, namesake of Team LeBron, was named the All-Star Game Most Valuable Player for recording 29 points, 10 rebounds, and 8 assists; it was his third time winning the award since the 2008 All-Star Game. This was the sixth time that Los Angeles had hosted the NBA All-Star Game and the first time since 2011. The game was televised nationally by TNT for the 16th consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, Format change\nOn October 3, 2017, the NBA announced that the All-Star Game format would change from the traditional Eastern Conference versus Western Conference format, and would instead switch to a draft-style format, similar to the format used by the NHL All-Star Game from 2011 through 2015 and the NFL Pro Bowl from 2014 through 2016. The team captains were determined by the most votes received in their respective conference. Each team will pick a charity to play for, and the winning team will have money donated to their charity. The winning team will receive $100,000 for each player and the losing team $25,000 each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Coaches\nThe two teams were coached from their respective conference. Mike D'Antoni, coach of the Houston Rockets, was named as the head coach for Team Stephen. Dwane Casey, coach of the Toronto Raptors, was named as the head coach for Team LeBron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Rosters\nThe rosters for the All-Star Game were selected through a voting process. The starters were chosen by the fans, media, and current NBA players. Fans make up 50% of the vote, and NBA players and media each comprise 25% of the vote. The two guards and three frontcourt players who receive the highest cumulative vote totals are named the All-Star starters. NBA head coaches vote for the reserves for their respective conferences, none of which can be players on their own team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Rosters\nEach coach selects two guards, three frontcourt players and two wild cards, with each selected player ranked in order of preference within each category. If a multi-position player is to be selected, coaches are encouraged to vote for the player at the position that was \"most advantageous for the All-Star team\", regardless of where the player was listed on the All-Star ballot or the position he was listed in box scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Rosters\nThe All-Star Game starters were announced on January 18, 2018. Kyrie Irving of the Boston Celtics and DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors were named the backcourt starters in the East, earning their fifth and fourth all-star appearances, respectively. LeBron James was named a starter to his 14th career all-star game, breaking Dirk Nowitzki's record for most selections among active players. Joining James in the East frontcourt was Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers, his first selection, and Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks, his second selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Rosters\nStephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors and James Harden of the Houston Rockets were named to the starting backcourt in the West, earning their fifth and sixth all-star appearances, respectively. In the frontcourt, Kevin Durant of the Golden State Warriors was named to his ninth career all-star game, along with DeMarcus Cousins and Anthony Davis of the New Orleans Pelicans, their fourth and fifth all-star selections, respectively. During the All-Star Game, Davis would wear his teammate Cousins' jersey as a means of honoring him after his season-ending injury occurred before the All-Star Game began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Rosters\nThe All-Star Game reserves were announced on January 23, 2018. The West reserves include Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder, his seventh selection, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors, their fourth and third all-star selections, respectively, LaMarcus Aldridge of the San Antonio Spurs, his sixth selection, Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers, his third selection, and Karl-Anthony Towns and Jimmy Butler of the Minnesota Timberwolves, their first and fourth all-star selections, respectively. Westbrook would later be named the replacement starter for DeMarcus Cousins' open starting spot on the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Rosters\nThe East reserves include Kyle Lowry of the Toronto Raptors, his fourth selection, Al Horford of the Boston Celtics, his fifth selection, John Wall and Bradley Beal of the Washington Wizards, their fifth and first all-star selections, respectively, Victor Oladipo of the Indiana Pacers, his first selection, Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers, his fifth selection, and Kristaps Porzingis of the New York Knicks, his first selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Draft\nLeBron James and Stephen Curry were named as captains due to being the leading vote getter from the East and West, respectively. James had the first pick in the draft as the leading vote getter overall, while Curry has first choice of jersey color, due to the Western Conference having home team status for the game. The draft pool consisted of the eight other starters, with no regard to conference designation, and 14 reserves (seven from each conference), chosen by NBA head coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Draft\nOn January 25, 2018, LeBron James and Stephen Curry created their rosters via a draft, which would not be televised for various reasons. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver will select the replacement for any player unable to participate in the All-Star Game, choosing a player from the same conference as the player who is being replaced. Silver's selection would join the team that drafted the replaced player. If a replaced player is a starter, the head coach of that team will choose a new starter from his cast of players instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Draft\nDeMarcus Cousins was unable to play due to a season-ending Achilles injury. Paul George was selected as DeMarcus Cousins' replacement. John Wall was unable to participate due to a knee injury. Andre Drummond was selected as John Wall's replacement. Kevin Love was unable to participate due to a hand injury. Goran Dragi\u0107 was selected as Kevin Love's replacement. Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is was unable to participate due to a season ending torn ACL. Kemba Walker was named as Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is' replacement. Russell Westbrook was selected to start in place of Cousins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, National anthem\nFergie's performance of \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" prior to the game received heavy negative criticism and mockery online. The rendition\u2014described as \"unusual\" and \"bizarre\"\u2014was met with laughter from the arena crowd, and All-Star Draymond Green was shown chuckling on the television broadcast. The following day, Fergie said she \"wanted to try something special for the NBA,\" but it \"didn't strike the intended tone.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Celebrity Game\nThe 2018 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game presented by Ruffles was played on Friday, February 16, 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Since the All-Star Weekend was held in Los Angeles, the competition was represented by the two NBA teams in the city with the Los Angeles Lakers (Team Lakers) and the Los Angeles Clippers (Team Clippers) instead of the typical West Vs. East affair like in previous years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Mountain Dew KickStart Rising Stars Challenge\nMalcolm Brogdon was unable to participate due to a leg injury. Taurean Prince was selected as Malcolm Brogdon's replacement. Lonzo Ball was unable to participate due to a knee injury. De'Aaron Fox was selected as Lonzo Ball's replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 87], "content_span": [88, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Skills Challenge\nDonovan Mitchell was removed due to replacing Aaron Gordon in the Slam Dunk Contest. Buddy Hield was named as Donovan Mitchell's replacement. Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is unable to participate due to a torn ACL. Andre Drummond was named as Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is' replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281144-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Slam Dunk Contest\nAaron Gordon was unable to participate due to a hip injury. Donovan Mitchell was named as Aaron Gordon's replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281145-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Awards\nThe 2018 NBA Awards were the 2nd annual awards show by the National Basketball Association (NBA), held on June 25, 2018 at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California and hosted by Anthony Anderson. James Harden of the Houston Rockets was awarded the NBA Most Valuable Player Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281145-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Awards\nDuring the ceremony, it was revealed during EJ's Neat-O Stat of the Night that the cover athlete of NBA Live 19 will be Joel Embiid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281145-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Awards, Winners and finalists\nThe full list of finalists were announced on May 16, 2018 during the TNT NBA Tip-Off pre-game show and posted to Twitter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281145-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Awards, Fan Awards\nFan Awards nominees and categories were announced on the league's official website on April 18, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals\nThe 2018 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2017\u201318 season and conclusion of the season's playoffs. In this best-of-seven playoff, the defending NBA champion and Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors swept the defending Eastern Conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers four games to zero. The Warriors became the 7th NBA franchise to win back-to-back championships joining the Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics, Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets, and Miami Heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals\nThis year's Finals was the first time in any of North America's four major professional sports leagues that the same two teams met for the championship four years in a row. This was also the first time that a team was swept in the NBA Finals since 2007, in which the Cavaliers were also the losing team. LeBron James, in his eighth consecutive NBA Finals appearance and ninth appearance overall, suffered the second Finals sweep of his career, having also played in the 2007 Finals. Warriors small forward Kevin Durant was named NBA Finals MVP for the second straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals\nThe Warriors entered the series having home-court advantage with a regular season record of 58\u201324, compared to the Cavaliers' regular season record of 50\u201332. Entering the matchup, the Warriors were also noted by various sports media outlets as one of the biggest NBA Finals favorites in recent history. The 2018 Finals began on May 31 and ended on June 8. The series broke the record set by the 2014 NBA Finals for highest average scoring differential per game (15.0) for an NBA Finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Background, Cleveland Cavaliers\nThis was the Cleveland Cavaliers' fourth consecutive trip to the NBA Finals, and fifth appearance overall. This was also the eighth consecutive NBA Finals appearance for Cavaliers small forward LeBron James.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Background, Cleveland Cavaliers\nPrior to the 2017\u201318 season, All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving requested to be traded away from the Cavaliers. Although James was against the idea of trading him away, the Cavaliers agreed to Irving's request, trading him to the Boston Celtics in exchange for point guard Isaiah Thomas, small forward Jae Crowder, center Ante \u017di\u017ei\u0107, the first round pick from the Brooklyn Nets in the 2018 NBA Draft and the Miami Heat's 2020 second round pick. Miami's second round pick was added as compensation after Isaiah Thomas failed his physical. Other major changes included shooting guard Dwyane Wade signing with the Cavaliers, thus reuniting with James from their time together on the Big Three-era Miami Heat, and the signing of point guard Derrick Rose to a one-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Background, Cleveland Cavaliers\nOn February 8, 2018 \u2013 just before the NBA trade deadline \u2013 the Cavaliers radically changed their roster in a little more than an hour, acquiring George Hill, Rodney Hood, Jordan Clarkson, and Larry Nance Jr. in exchange for Thomas, Rose, Crowder, Wade, Channing Frye, Iman Shumpert, and their own 2018 first-round pick. Multiple writers argued at the time that the trades made the Cavaliers significantly better.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Background, Cleveland Cavaliers\nThe Cavaliers finished the regular season with a 50\u201332 record, securing the 4th seed in the Eastern Conference. In the playoffs, the Cavaliers defeated the Indiana Pacers in seven games in the first round, swept the top-seeded Toronto Raptors in the Eastern Conference semifinals, and defeated the Boston Celtics in seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Background, Golden State Warriors\nThis was the Golden State Warriors' fourth consecutive trip to the NBA Finals. During the 2017\u201318 offseason, the Warriors re-signed their core players, including point guard Stephen Curry to a five-year contract worth $201\u00a0million, and Kevin Durant to a two-year, $53\u00a0million contract. Golden State also re-signed Andre Iguodala, Shaun Livingston, Zaza Pachulia, and David West. A major free agent acquired during the offseason was guard Nick Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 50], "content_span": [51, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Background, Golden State Warriors\nThe Warriors finished the 2017\u201318 regular season with a 58\u201324 record, winning the Pacific Division and securing the 2nd seed in the Western Conference. In the playoffs, Golden State defeated the San Antonio Spurs in five games in the first round, eliminated the New Orleans Pelicans in five games in the Western Conference semifinals, and defeated the 65-win Houston Rockets in seven games in the Western Conference Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 50], "content_span": [51, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Background, Golden State Warriors\nThe Warriors entered the series as heavy favorites, aiming to repeat back-to-back titles after losing their quest in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 50], "content_span": [51, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nKlay Thompson of the Warriors suffered a leg injury in the first quarter, but returned to the game in the second quarter. With the score tied at 107 in the last five seconds of regulation, J. R. Smith of the Cavaliers collected an offensive rebound following a missed free throw, but dribbled the ball towards half court rather than taking a final shot. Tyronn Lue, Cleveland's coach, later said that Smith thought the Cavaliers were ahead, though Smith denied not knowing the correct score, and claimed he assumed his team would take a time-out. Cleveland was not able to score in the final seconds and the game went to overtime. In overtime, the Warriors outscored the Cavaliers 17\u20137 to win the game. Tristan Thompson was ejected following a flagrant foul with 2.6 seconds remaining in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nCleveland's LeBron James scored 51 points in Game 1, the sixth-highest point total for an NBA Finals game and the most in a loss. After Game 1, James punched a whiteboard in the Cavaliers' locker room due to frustration of his team's level of play, suffering a bone contusion in his hand that he kept private for the remainder of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nThe Warriors employed more double teams against James in Game 2, limiting him to 29 points. Cleveland had a 41% field goal percentage, including 9-for-27 (33.3%) on three-point field goals. Meanwhile, Golden State's Stephen Curry set an NBA Finals record in Game 2 with nine three-point field goals. He scored 33 points, while the Warriors got 26 points, nine rebounds, and seven assists from Kevin Durant, and 20 points from Klay Thompson. Smith struggled for Cleveland, shooting 2-for-9 (22.2%) with both baskets coming in the first quarter. The Warriors won 122\u2013103 over the Cavaliers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nAndre Iguodala of the Warriors, who missed the previous six games, including the first two games of the NBA Finals, due to a left leg injury, returned in Game 3. He injured his right leg early in the game, not returning until after halftime. The Cavaliers started the game with a 14\u20134 advantage and led for the entire first half, at one point leading by 13. The Warriors trimmed Cleveland's lead to six by halftime. The Cavaliers enjoyed strong contributions from Rodney Hood, who scored 15 points, Smith, who scored 13 points, and Kevin Love, who had 20 points and 13 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nDurant scored a playoff career-high 43 points, while also contributing 13 rebounds and seven assists, in a 110\u2013102 win over the Cavaliers, helping the Warriors take a 3\u20130 lead. Golden State withstood poor offensive performances from Curry and Klay Thompson, the Splash Brothers. Curry missed 13 out of his first 14 shot attempts in the game. The Cavaliers were 3-for-17 (17.6%) on three point shots in the second half, and Durant scored a three-pointer late in the game that ended Cleveland's chances of a comeback. With the 110\u2013102 victory, the Warriors took a 3\u20130 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe Warriors led the game nearly from start to finish. Golden State led 13\u20133 at the start of the game. Though the Cavaliers took the lead, 39\u201338, in the second quarter, the Warriors led 61\u201352 at halftime. The Warriors expanded their lead in the third quarter and entered the last period of play with an 86\u201365 advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nWith Golden State leading 102\u201377 with 4:03 remaining, James came out of the game, receiving a standing ovation. Curry scored 37 points and made seven three-pointers, while Durant recorded a triple-double with 20 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists. The Warriors won 108\u201385 to sweep the series. Durant was named Finals MVP for the second straight year. He received seven of the 11 votes, with Curry receiving the other four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nGame 4 was also James' last game as a Cavalier as he joined the Los Angeles Lakers during the offseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe Warriors' victory parade took place on June 12 in Downtown Oakland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Sponsorship\nFor the first time, the NBA sold a presenting sponsorship for the Finals to the internet television service YouTube TV. YouTube TV had previously been the presenting sponsor for the 2017 World Series, the first time that Major League Baseball's championship series had a title sponsor as well. As part of a multi-year partnership deal, YouTube TV also broadcast the NBA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281146-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Finals, Broadcast\nIn the United States, the NBA Finals aired on ABC with Mike Breen as play-by-play commentator, and Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson serving as color commentators. The series was sponsored by YouTube TV. ESPN Radio aired it as well and had Marc Kestecher and Hubie Brown as commentators. ESPN Deportes provided exclusive Spanish-language coverage of The Finals, with a commentary team of \u00c1lvaro Mart\u00edn and Carlos Morales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281147-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA G League draft\nThe 2018 NBA G League draft was the 18th draft of the National Basketball Association G League. The draft was held on October 20, 2018, just before the 2018\u201319 season. Former G League All-Star Willie Reed was selected with the first overall pick by the Salt Lake City Stars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281147-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA G League draft\nThis was the second draft after the D League was changed to the G League after the NBA agreed to a partnership deal with Gatorade. This was also the second year that players could sign two-way contracts. This allows players to transition between an NBA team and its G-League affiliate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281148-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Summer League\nThe 2018 NBA Summer League consisted of three pro basketball leagues organized by the National Basketball Association (NBA): the Sacramento Kings's California Classic Summer League, Utah Jazz Summer League, and Las Vegas Summer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281148-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Summer League\nThe Sacramento Kings hosted their own summer league event called the California Classic at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. The event was scheduled to take place before the Las Vegas Summer League began, with the teams in place for the event involving the Kings, Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State Warriors, and Miami Heat. Eight days later, the Kings confirmed that their own Summer League event (titled the California Classic Summer League) would take place July 2\u20135, 2018 (taking a day off to celebrate the Fourth of July), replacing the Orlando Pro Summer League. On May 14, 2018, the Kings confirmed that report.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281148-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Summer League\nFour teams participated in the round-robin format of the Utah Jazz Summer League from July 2 to July 5, 2018. All four teams (Utah Jazz, Atlanta Hawks, Memphis Grizzlies, and San Antonio Spurs) also participated in the Las Vegas Summer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281148-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Summer League\nThe 2018 Las Vegas NBA Summer League was the official 2018 summer league of the National Basketball Association. The league was held at the Thomas and Mack Center and Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the campus of University of Nevada, Las Vegas. It began on July 6 and ended on July 17. For the first time in league history, all 30 teams participated. With every team participating, the event expanded to 82 games in 12 days. Teams competed in a tournament-style schedule in three preliminary games before seeding in a tournament; each team played at least five games and as many as eight games. The event concluded with the 2018 NBA Summer League Championship game on July 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281148-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Summer League, California Classic\nIn its first year, the California Classic is scheduled to take place before the Las Vegas Summer League begins, with the teams in place for the event involving the Sacramento Kings, Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State Warriors, and Miami Heat. During the month of May, the Kings confirmed that their own Summer League event (titled the California Classic Summer League) would take place from July 2\u20135, 2018 (taking a day off to celebrate the Fourth of July), replacing the Orlando Pro Summer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281148-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Summer League, Utah Jazz Summer League\nNow in its fourth year, the Utah Jazz Summer League will feature six games and host four teams: the Utah Jazz, Atlanta Hawks, Memphis Grizzlies and San Antonio Spurs. Each team will play on July 2, 3 and 5. All games will be played at Vivint Smart Home Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281148-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Summer League, Las Vegas NBA Summer League\nThe Las Vegas NBA Summer League is the official summer league of the NBA. It is the premier summer league of the three, and it is the first year all 30 teams will be participating in. 82 games were played from July 6 to 17, 2018, across two venues, the Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion, both located in Paradise, Nevada (near Las Vegas). The Las Vegas NBA Summer League championship featured a rematch of the previous year's teams, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Portland Trail Blazers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281148-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Summer League, Las Vegas NBA Summer League, Championship\nThe championship is determined by a single-elimination tournament; the top 2 teams receive a first-round bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281148-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Summer League, Las Vegas NBA Summer League, Championship\nTeams are seeded first by overall record, then by a tiebreaker system. Coin toss is used if the tiebreakers below fail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281148-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA Summer League, Las Vegas NBA Summer League, Championship\nFirst-round losers will play consolation games to determine 17th through 30th places based on the tiebreaker system stated above. Second-round losers will play consolation games to determine 9th through 16th places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft\nThe 2018 NBA Draft was held on June 21, 2018, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. National Basketball Association (NBA) teams took turns selecting amateur United States college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. It was televised nationally by ESPN. State Farm was the presenting sponsor of the NBA draft for the seventh consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 NBA draft\nThis draft was the last to use the original weighted lottery system that gave teams near the bottom of the NBA draft better odds at the top three picks of the draft while teams higher up had worse odds in the process; the rule was agreed upon by the NBA on September 28, 2017, but would not be implemented until the 2019 draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0000-0002", "contents": "2018 NBA draft\nIt was also considered the final year where undrafted college underclassmen were forced to begin their professional careers early; on August 8, 2018, the NCAA announced that players who declared for the NBA draft and were not selected would have the opportunity to return to their school for at least another year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0000-0003", "contents": "2018 NBA draft\nWith the last year of what was, at the time, the most recent lottery system (with the NBA draft lottery being held in Chicago instead of in New York), the Phoenix Suns won the first overall pick on May 15, 2018, with the Sacramento Kings at the second overall pick and the Atlanta Hawks at third overall pick. The Suns' selection was their first No. 1 overall selection in franchise history. They used the selection on the Bahamian center Deandre Ayton from the nearby University of Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft\nThis draft was also notable for its lack of draft-day trades involving NBA veterans. An average of more than five veterans per year were traded on the day of the last three drafts, but this draft was the first since 2003 in which no such trades were announced. At the end of the 2018\u201319 season the top 5 picks from the draft were picked as the All-Rookie 1st Team, the first time this had happened since the 1984 draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Notable undrafted players\nThese players were not selected in the 2018 NBA draft, but have played at least one game in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Combine\nThe invitation-only NBA Draft Combine was held in Chicago from May 16 to 20. The on-court element of the combine took place on May 18 and 19. A total of 69 players were invited for the NBA Draft Combine, with two top talents in Deandre Ayton and Luka Don\u010di\u0107 declining invitations for the event this year, with the latter player being involved with the 2018 EuroLeague Final Four at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Combine\nBoth mystery man Mitchell Robinson and Chandler Hutchison would remove themselves from the event at the last minute, although two other players would enter the event instead of them, leaving the proper number of official participants at 69. At the end of the draft deadline for international players, 12 players that entered the NBA Draft Combine that year ultimately withdrew from the NBA Draft, with 11 players returning to college and Brian Bowen planning on playing professionally before trying another NBA Draft instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Draft lottery\nThe NBA draft lottery took place during the playoffs on May 15, 2018. This year will be the last time it uses what was originally the updated system for the NBA draft lottery to upgrade draft odds for teams in the lower regions of the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Draft lottery\nStarting in 2019 onward, the newer updated draft lottery will give the bottom 3 teams equal odds for the No. 1 pick, while some of the teams higher up the NBA draft would get an increased chance for a top-four pick instead of a top-three pick like in this year, thus hoping to discourage teams from potentially losing games on purpose for higher draft picks (and potentially better talent in the process).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Draft lottery\nThere were also two tiebreakers involved for lottery odds this season; the first involved the Dallas Mavericks having one more result favoring them having the No. 1 pick over the Atlanta Hawks after splitting the odds together, while the second tiebreaker had the Chicago Bulls splitting odds with the Sacramento Kings, resulting in the Bulls having slightly better odds on their end in the process. Funnily enough, both of the teams mentioned that lost the tiebreakers would wind up being in the Top 3 at the end of the NBA draft lottery. Furthermore, the Hawks would trade their Top 3 selection to Dallas for their selection in the draft instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Draft lottery\n^\u00a01:\u00a0The Brooklyn Nets' pick was automatically conveyed to the Cleveland Cavaliers this year. ^\u00a02:\u00a0The Los Angeles Lakers' pick was conveyed to the Philadelphia 76ers since the pick turned unprotected for them this year and wasn't in the Nos. 2-5 range. ^\u00a03:\u00a0The Detroit Pistons' pick was conveyed to the Los Angeles Clippers since it was outside the top 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Eligibility and entrants\nThe draft is conducted under the eligibility rules established in the league's 2017 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with its player's union. The previous CBA that ended the 2011 lockout instituted no immediate changes to the draft, but called for a committee of owners and players to discuss future changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Eligibility and entrants\nThe NBA has since expanded the draft combine to include players with remaining college eligibility (who, like players without college eligibility, can only attend by invitation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Eligibility and entrants, Early entrants\nPlayers who are not automatically eligible have to declare their eligibility for the draft by notifying the NBA offices in writing no later than 60 days before the draft. For the 2018 draft, the date fell on April 22. After that date, \"early entry\" players are able to attend NBA pre-draft camps and individual team workouts to show off their skills and obtain feedback regarding their draft positions. Under the CBA a player may withdraw his name from consideration from the draft at any time before the final declaration date, which is 10 days before the draft. Under current NCAA rules, players had until May 30 (10 days after the draft combine) to withdraw from the draft and retain college eligibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 56], "content_span": [57, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Eligibility and entrants, Early entrants\nA player who has hired an agent forfeits his remaining college eligibility regardless of whether he is drafted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 56], "content_span": [57, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Eligibility and entrants, Early entrants, College underclassmen\nA record-high 236 underclassed draft prospects (i.e., players with remaining college eligibility) had declared by the April 22 deadline, with 181 of these players being from college. The names listed here mean that they hired an agent, or had announced that they planned to do so before the night of the draft. At the end of the deadline, 77 players declared their intentions to enter the draft with an agent (with one player announcing his entry after the deadline) while 100 players announced their return to college for at least one more season. Meanwhile, Matur Maker, Brian Bowen, Micah Seaborn and Tavarius Shine did not enter the draft after letting their deadlines to retain college eligibility expire. These players instead decided to enter in 2019 via either the NBA G League or another professional league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 79], "content_span": [80, 897]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Eligibility and entrants, Early entrants, International players\nInternational players that had declared this year and did not previously declare in another prior year can drop out of the draft about 10 days before the draft begins on June 11. Initially, there were 55 players who originally expressed interest in entering the 2018 draft, one of which was a player who came directly out of high school from Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 79], "content_span": [80, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Eligibility and entrants, Early entrants, International players\nHowever, by the end of the deadline, 43 of those players (including the aforementioned Canadian high schooler) would ultimately pull their names out of the draft, leaving only 11 true international players entering the NBA Draft this year (the NBA link mentions LiAngelo Ball as an international player in the loosest sense of the word, but not Billy Preston there). Combining both the number of players listed previously and both LiAngelo Ball and Billy Preston as automatically eligible underclassmen under unique situations, the total number of underclassmen rounds out to 90 overall players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 79], "content_span": [80, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Eligibility and entrants, Automatically eligible entrants\nPlayers who do not meet the criteria for \"international\" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 73], "content_span": [74, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Eligibility and entrants, Automatically eligible entrants\nPlayers who meet the criteria for \"international\" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 73], "content_span": [74, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Trades involving draft picks, Pre-draft trades\nPrior to the day of the draft, the following trades were made and resulted in exchanges of draft picks between the teams below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Trades involving draft picks, Draft-day trades\nDraft-day trades occurred on June 21, 2018, the day of the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Invited attendees\nThe NBA annually invites around 15\u201320 players to sit in the so-called \"green room\", a special room set aside at the draft site for the invited players plus their families and agents. When their names are called, the player leaves the room and goes up on stage. Other players who are not invited are allowed to attend the ceremony. They sit in the stands with the fans and walk up on stage when (or if) they are drafted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 33], "content_span": [34, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281149-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 NBA draft, Invited attendees\nOn June 15, 2018, 19 total players were announced as invites for the NBA Draft that year (all of whom coming out of college this year), while potential top 3 pick Luka Don\u010di\u0107 was initially not invited to the event due to the Liga ACB Finals potentially extending through the draft. On June 19, ESPN reported that Don\u010di\u0107 would attend the draft after all, following Real Madrid's championship victory the previous night, extending the list to 20 players. The following players (listed alphabetically) were confirmed as invites for the event this year:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 33], "content_span": [34, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs\nThe 2018 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 2017\u201318 season. The playoffs began on April 14, 2018 and ended on June 8 at the conclusion of the 2018 NBA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Format\nWithin each conference, the eight teams with the most wins qualify for the playoffs. The seedings are based on each team's record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Format\nEach conference's bracket is fixed; there is no reseeding. All rounds are best-of-seven series; the team that has four wins advances to the next round. All rounds, including the NBA Finals, are in a 2\u20132\u20131\u20131\u20131 format. Home court advantage in any round does not necessarily belong to the higher-seeded team, but instead to the team with the better regular season record. If two teams with the same record meet in a round, standard tiebreaker rules are used. The rule for determining home court advantage in the NBA Finals is winning percentage, then head to head record, followed by intra-conference record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Playoff qualifying\nOn March 7, 2018, the Toronto Raptors became the first team to clinch a playoff spot. On March 30, 2018, the Houston Rockets clinched the Western Conference ending a three-year run by the Golden State Warriors as the top seed. The Rockets clinched the best record in the NBA a day later on March 31, 2018. For the first time since the 1996\u201397 NBA season, two teams played their last game against each other for the 8th and final spot in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Playoff qualifying\nThe Minnesota Timberwolves defeated the Denver Nuggets 112\u2013106 in overtime to clinch the final playoff seed in the West. This also ended Minnesota's 13-year drought without a playoff appearance having last played in 2003\u201304 season. For the first time since the 2010\u201311 NBA season, the Los Angeles Clippers would miss the postseason following a loss to the Denver Nuggets on April 7, 2018. This is the first time since 1960 that none of the teams from New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago made the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Bracket\nTeams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding in its conference, and the numbers to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round. The division champions are marked by an asterisk. Teams with home court advantage, the higher seeded team, are shown in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (1) Toronto Raptors vs. (8) Washington Wizards\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Wizards winning the first meeting in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 110], "content_span": [111, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (2) Boston Celtics vs. (7) Milwaukee Bucks\nThis was the sixth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Celtics winning four of the first five meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 106], "content_span": [107, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (3) Philadelphia 76ers vs. (6) Miami Heat\nWith the win, the Sixers won their first playoff series since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 105], "content_span": [106, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (3) Philadelphia 76ers vs. (6) Miami Heat\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Heat winning the first meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 105], "content_span": [106, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (4) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (5) Indiana Pacers\nLeBron James capped off his heroic Game 5 performance with a game-winning 3 at the buzzer to put the Cavaliers up 3\u20132 in the series. This was the fourth time James has hit a game-winning buzzer beater in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 110], "content_span": [111, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (4) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (5) Indiana Pacers\nThis was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 110], "content_span": [111, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (1) Houston Rockets vs. (8) Minnesota Timberwolves\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Rockets winning the first meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 114], "content_span": [115, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (2) Golden State Warriors vs. (7) San Antonio Spurs\nThis was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Warriors winning two of the first three meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 115], "content_span": [116, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (3) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (6) New Orleans Pelicans\nThe Pelicans completed a sweep of the Trail Blazers for their 1st series win in the playoffs since the 2008 NBA Playoffs against the Dallas Mavericks as the New Orleans Hornets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 119], "content_span": [120, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (3) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (6) New Orleans Pelicans\nThis was the first playoff meeting between the Trail Blazers and Pelicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 119], "content_span": [120, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (4) Oklahoma City Thunder vs. (5) Utah Jazz\nThe Thunder trailed by as much as 25 points in the 3rd quarter. However, Russell Westbrook and Paul George combined for 47 second-half points to help keep their season alive. The Thunder outscored the Jazz 61-28 since the comeback started with 8:32 left in the 3rd quarter. The 25-point rally was their largest in franchise history and one of the biggest comebacks for a team facing elimination in playoff history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 107], "content_span": [108, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (4) Oklahoma City Thunder vs. (5) Utah Jazz\nThis was the fifth playoff meeting between the SuperSonics/Thunder franchise and the Jazz, but the first since the Seattle SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City and became the Thunder in 2008. The two teams have split their previous four playoff matchups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 107], "content_span": [108, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (1) Toronto Raptors vs. (4) Cleveland Cavaliers\nLeBron James capped off a 38-point performance with a fadeaway bank shot floater at the buzzer to lead the Cavs to a commanding 3\u20130 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 120], "content_span": [121, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (1) Toronto Raptors vs. (4) Cleveland Cavaliers\nThis was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with Cleveland winning the first two meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 120], "content_span": [121, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (2) Boston Celtics vs. (3) Philadelphia 76ers\nThis was the 21st playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Celtics winning 12 of the first 20 meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 118], "content_span": [119, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (1) Houston Rockets vs. (5) Utah Jazz\nThis was the eighth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Jazz winning five of the first seven meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 110], "content_span": [111, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (2) Golden State Warriors vs. (6) New Orleans Pelicans\nThis was the second meeting in the playoffs between the two teams, with the Warriors winning the first meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 127], "content_span": [128, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, (2) Boston Celtics vs. (4) Cleveland Cavaliers\nIt marked the first time since the 1987\u201388 season that the Celtics made two consecutive Conference Finals. It was also the Celtics' first home loss of the postseason. Their loss at home after leading 3\u20132 in the series was the first time that had happened since 2009. This was the fifth time in NBA history that the road team won a Game 7 after the home team had won each of the first six games. LeBron James became the first non-Celtic to advance to 8 consecutive NBA Finals. It was also the second time in the Celtics' history that they had lost a playoff series in which they had taken a 2\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 111], "content_span": [112, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, (2) Boston Celtics vs. (4) Cleveland Cavaliers\nThis was the eighth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Celtics winning four of the first seven meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 111], "content_span": [112, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Finals, (1) Houston Rockets vs. (2) Golden State Warriors\nGolden State rallied from a 17-point first quarter deficit by outscoring Houston 64\u201325 in the second half to force a Game 7. The Rockets' 25 second-half points tied a franchise record low for scoring in any half in the postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 114], "content_span": [115, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Finals, (1) Houston Rockets vs. (2) Golden State Warriors\nThis is the Warriors' first game 7 road win since 1948 and first for the Western Conference team win game 7 on the road since the 2001\u201302 Los Angeles Lakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 114], "content_span": [115, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Finals, (1) Houston Rockets vs. (2) Golden State Warriors\nThis was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Warriors winning the first two meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 114], "content_span": [115, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, 2018 NBA Finals: (E4) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (W2) Golden State Warriors\nThis was the fourth meeting in the NBA Finals between these two teams, with the Warriors winning two of the first three meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 91], "content_span": [92, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281150-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 NBA playoffs, Media coverage, Television\nESPN, TNT, ABC, and NBA TV televised the playoffs nationally in the United States. In the first round, regional sports networks affiliated with the teams also broadcast the games, except for games televised on ABC. Throughout the first two rounds, TNT televised games Sunday through Thursday, ESPN televised games Thursday and Friday, and ABC televised selected games on Saturday and Sunday, usually in the afternoon. NBA TV has aired select weekday games in the first round. ESPN televised the Eastern Conference Finals, while the Western Conference Finals was televised by TNT. ABC had exclusive television rights to the 2018 NBA Finals, which was the 16th consecutive year for the network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281151-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NBL Finals\nThe 2018 NBL Finals were the championship series of the 2017\u201318 NBL season and the conclusion of the season. The semi-finals started on 3 March and ended 9 March 2018. The Grand Final series started on 16 March and ended on 31 March 2018. Melbourne United won its fifth NBL championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281151-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NBL Finals, Format\nThe 2017\u201318 National Basketball League Finals will be played in March 2018 between the top four teams of the regular season, consisting of two best-of-three semi-final and one best-of-five final series, where the higher seed hosts the first, third and fifth games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281151-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NBL Finals, Qualification, Seedings\nThe NBL tie-breaker system as outlined in the NBL Rules and Regulations states that in the case of an identical win-loss record, the overall points percentage will determine order of seeding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281151-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NBL Finals, Semi-finals series, (1) Melbourne United vs (4) New Zealand Breakers\nTied 2\u20132 in the regular season series; 351-346 points differential to New Zealand:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 85], "content_span": [86, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281151-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NBL Finals, Semi-finals series, (2) Adelaide 36ers vs (3) Perth Wildcats\nTied 2\u20132 in the regular season series; 367-360 points differential to Perth:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 77], "content_span": [78, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281152-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack baseball team\nThe 2018 NC State Wolfpack baseball team represented North Carolina State University during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Wolfpack played their home games at Doak Field as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They were led by head coach Elliott Avent, his 22nd season at NC State. The Wolfpack finished the season 2nd in the ACC's Atlantic Division with a record of 42\u201318, 19\u201311 in conference play. They qualified for the 2018 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, and were eliminated in pool play. They were invited to host the Raleigh Regional in the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. They lost in the regional final to Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281152-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack baseball team, Previous Season\nIn 2017, the Wolfpack finished the season 4th in the ACC's Atlantic Division with a record of 36\u201325, 16\u201314 in conference play. They qualified for the 2017 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, and were eliminated in pool play. They were invited to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, where they participated in the Lexington Regional, where they lost in the regional final to host Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281152-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack baseball team, Ranking movements\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281153-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack football team\nThe 2018 NC State Wolfpack football team represented North Carolina State University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Wolfpack played their home games at Carter\u2013Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina and competed in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They were led by sixth-year head coach Dave Doeren. They finished the season 9\u20134, 5\u20133 in ACC play to finish in third place in the Atlantic Division. They received a bid to the Gator Bowl where they were defeated by Texas A&M.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281153-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack football team, Previous season\nThe Wolfpack finished the 2017 season 9\u20134, 6\u20132 in ACC play to finish in second place in the Atlantic Division. They received an invite to the Sun Bowl where they defeated Arizona State 52\u201331.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281153-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack football team, 2018 NFL Draft\nThe following former NC State players were selected in the 2018 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281153-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack football team, Preseason, ACC media poll\nThe ACC media poll was released on July 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281153-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack football team, Schedule\nNC State announced its 2018 football schedule on January 17, 2018. The 2018 schedule will consist of seven home games and five away games in the regular season. The Wolfpack will host ACC foes Boston College, Florida State, Virginia, and Wake Forest and will travel to Clemson, Louisville, North Carolina, and Syracuse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281153-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack football team, Schedule\nThe Wolfpack will host three of the four non-conference opponents, Georgia State from the Sun Belt Conference, James Madison from Division I FCS and West Virginia from the Big 12, and will travel to Marshall from Conference USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281153-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack football team, Awards and Honors, All-ACC Teams\nRyan Finley, Quarterback Kelvin Harmon, Wide Receiver Jakobi Meyers, Wide Receiver Tyler Jones, Offensive Tackle Garrett Bradbury, Center Germaine Pratt, Linebacker", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281154-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack men's soccer team\nThe 2018 NC State Wolfpack men's soccer team represented North Carolina State University during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Wolfpack were led by head coach George Kiefer, in his second season. They played home games at Dail Soccer Field. NC State finished the season with a 10\u20137\u20133 (2\u20134\u20132) record and earned a berth into the NCAA Tournament, where they lost to Maryland in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281154-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack men's soccer team, Background\nThe 2017 NC State men's soccer team finished the season with an 8\u20136\u20134 overall record and a 3\u20133\u20132 ACC record. The Wolfpack were seeded eight\u2013overall in the 2017 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament, where they lost to Virginia Tech in the first round. The Wolfpack earned an at-large bid into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. In the tournament, the Wolfpack lost to Old Dominion in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281154-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack men's soccer team, Background\nAt the end of the season, one Wolfpack men's soccer player was selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft: Caleb Duvernay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281154-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack men's soccer team, Squad, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281154-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NC State Wolfpack men's soccer team, 2019 MLS SuperDraft\nNC State did not have any players selected in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281155-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship\nThe 2018 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship was the third annual tournament deciding the NCAA champions for the 2018 collegiate beach volleyball season. It took place May 4-6 in Gulf Shores, Alabama, and was hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. It was a double elimination tournament, with a single championship match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281155-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship, Qualification\nThe tournament was open to teams from Divisions I, II, and III. The top three teams each in the East and West Regions qualified automatically, and two additional teams were selected at large. Selections for the tournament were announced on April 29 on NCAA.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281155-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship, All-Tournament Team\nAt the conclusion of the championship, the following pairs were announced as members of the All-Tournament Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281155-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship, Media Coverage\nIn December 2017, ESPN was awarded a 5-year contract to provide television coverage of the NCAA Women\u2019s Beach Volleyball Championship, beginning with the 2018 season. In addition, the Selection Show for the championship tournament was broadcast on April 29 at NCAA.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281155-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship, Media Coverage, Television channels\nThe 14 dual matches comprising the entirety of the championship were broadcast on the following channels:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281156-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Bowling Championship\nThe 2018 NCAA Bowling Championship was the 15th edition of the NCAA Bowling Championship, an annual tournament to determine the national champion of women's NCAA collegiate ten-pin bowling. The tournament was played at the Tropicana Lanes in St. Louis, Missouri from April 12\u201314, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281156-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Bowling Championship, Qualification\nSince there is only one national collegiate championship for women's bowling, all NCAA bowling programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of ten teams contested the championship (six automatically qualifying conference champions and four at-large bids), which consisted of a modified double-elimination style tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament began on Friday, June 1, 2018 as part of the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The 64-team, double-elimination tournament concluded with the 2018 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, starting on June 16 and ended on June 28. The Oregon State Beavers defeated the Arkansas Razorbacks in the best-of-three final series to win the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament\nThe 64 participating NCAA Division I college baseball teams were selected out of an eligible 298 teams. Thirty-one teams will be awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conferences, and 33 teams will be selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament\nTeams were divided into sixteen regionals of four teams, which conducted a double-elimination tournament. Regional champions competed in Super Regionals, a best-of-three-game series, to determine the eight participants in the College World Series. For the first time, the Tournament seeded the top 16 teams instead of pairing teams generally along geographical lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament\nIn the championship series, Arkansas won the first game and held a 3-2 lead entering the top of the ninth inning in Game 2. With two outs and a runner on third, Oregon State shortstop Cadyn Grenier popped a foul ball down the right field line that multiple Razorback players appeared to have a play on. Had the ball been caught, Arkansas would have won their first national championship in baseball; instead, the ball dropped between the first baseman, second baseman, and right fielder to continue the at-bat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament\nTwo pitches later, with the Beavers down to their final strike, Grenier singled in the tying run, and was followed by Trevor Larnach's two-run homer to give OSU a 5-3 lead and the eventual victory to even the series. The following day, Oregon State freshman Kevin Abel - who threw 23 pitches the previous night - notched a 129-pitch complete game shutout, allowing just two hits and retiring the final 20 Razorback hitters to secure the Beavers' third national title in baseball. Oregon State catcher Adley Rutschman was named College World Series Most Outstanding Player after collecting 13 RBI's and a College World Series record 17 hits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, National seeds\n16 National Seeds were announced on the Selection Show Monday, May 28 at 12 p.m. EDT on ESPNU. The 16 national seeds host the Regionals. Teams in italics advanced to Super Regionals. Teams in bold advanced to College World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, National seeds\n1. Florida2. Stanford3. Oregon State4. Ole Miss5. Arkansas6. North Carolina7. Florida State8. Georgia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, National seeds\n9. Texas Tech10. Clemson11. Stetson12. East Carolina13. Texas14. Minnesota15. Coastal Carolina16. NC State", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, Regionals and Super Regionals\nBold indicates winner. Seeds for regional tournaments indicate seeds within regional. Seeds for super regional tournaments indicate national seeds only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, College World Series\nThe College World Series was held at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, College World Series, All-Tournament Team\nThe following players were members of the College World Series All-Tournament Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, Record by conference\nThe columns RF, SR, WS, NS, CS, and NC respectively stand for the Regional Finals, Super Regionals, College World Series Teams, National Semifinals, Championship Series, and National Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, Record by conference\nNc is non\u2013conference records, i.e., with the records of teams within the same conference having played each other removed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio\nNRG Media provided nationwide radio coverage of the College World Series through its Omaha station KOZN, in association with Westwood One. It was streamed at westwoodonesports.com, on TuneIn, and on SiriusXM. Kevin Kugler and John Bishop called all games leading up to the Championship Series with acting as the field reporter. The Championship Series was called by Kugler and Scott Graham with Bishop acting as field reporter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281157-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, Media coverage, Television\nESPN carried every game from the Regionals, Super Regionals, and College World Series across its networks. During the Regionals and Super Regionals ESPN offered a dedicated channel, ESPN Bases Loaded (carried in the same channel allotments as its \"Goal Line\" services for football), carried live look-ins and analysis across all games in progress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281158-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships was the 80th annual NCAA Men's Division I Cross Country Championship and the 38th annual NCAA Women's Division I Cross Country Championship to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA Division I men's and women's collegiate cross country running in the United States. In all, four different titles were contested: men's and women's individual and team championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281159-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings\nTwo human polls and a committee's selections comprised the 2018 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football rankings, in addition to various publications' preseason polls. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason\u2014the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll. One additional poll, the College Football Playoff (CFP) ranking, is released midway through the season after the ninth week. The CFP rankings determine who makes the four-team playoff which determines the College Football Playoff National Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season was the highest level college football competition in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season\nThe regular season began on August 25, 2018 and ended on December 8, 2018. The postseason concluded on January 7, 2019 with the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The Clemson Tigers won the title game over the Alabama Crimson Tide, the school's third national title and second in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Rule changes, Game rules\nThe following rule changes were approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel for the 2018 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Rule changes, Eligibility rules\nMajor changes to redshirt rules in Division I football (both FBS and FCS) took effect from this season forward after having been approved by the NCAA Division I Council on June 13, 2018. Players can now participate in as many as four games in a season while still retaining redshirt status. This new rule does not apply to players who enroll at a school midyear and participate in postseason competition taking place during or before their first academic term at that school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Conference realignment, Membership changes\nNew Mexico State left the Sun Belt Conference following the 2017 season and will compete as an FBS independent. Idaho also left the Sun Belt, dropping its football program from the FBS to FCS level, where it will compete in the Big Sky Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Conference realignment, Membership changes\nLiberty began a two-year transition from FCS in 2017. The Flames will be counted as an FBS independent for scheduling purposes in 2018, but will not be fully bowl-eligible until the 2019 season. However, they may participate in a bowl in 2018 if they have at least six eligible wins and there are not enough bowl-eligible teams to fill all the spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Updated stadiums, Renamed stadiums\nColorado State announced on April 19, 2018 that an area financial institution, Public Service Credit Union, had paid $37.7 million over 15 years to place its name on the venue then known as Colorado State Stadium. The new stadium name was not revealed at that time because PSCU was in the process of changing its name, with the new name expected to be announced in June 2018. The deal did not affect the playing surface, which continues to be named after former Rams head coach Sonny Lubick. On June 5, the former PSCU announced its new name of Canvas Credit Union, with the CSU venue becoming Canvas Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Updated stadiums, Renamed stadiums\nKansas renamed their stadium to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium in honor of alumnus David Booth who donated $50 million to the school for renovations to the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Updated stadiums, Renamed stadiums\nAs noted above, Louisville removed the Papa John's name from Cardinal Stadium in the wake of the controversy over founder John Schnatter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Kickoff games, \"Week Zero\"\nThe regular season began with four Week 0 games on Saturday, August 25:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Kickoff games, Week 1\nThe vast majority of FBS teams opened the season on Labor Day weekend. Five neutral-site \"kickoff\" games were held (rankings reflect the Week 1 AP Poll):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Regular season top 10 matchups\nRankings reflect the AP Poll. Rankings for Week 10 and beyond will list College Football Playoff Rankings first and AP Poll second. Teams that fail to be a top 10 team for one poll or the other will be noted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Canceled and rescheduled games, Week 1\nThree of these four teams later found replacement games to fill out their schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Canceled and rescheduled games, Week 3\nFive of the ten teams that lost games due to Florence scheduled tentative replacement games for Week 14, which is normally reserved for conference championship games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Canceled and rescheduled games, Week 3\nOne game was moved forward and to the visiting team's stadium in anticipation of Florence:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Canceled and rescheduled games, Week 3\nOne game was moved to a neutral site in anticipation of Florence:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Canceled and rescheduled games, Week 14\nNormally reserved for conference championship games, several games were added to the schedule to replace earlier, canceled games. All of these games were contingent upon both teams being available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Canceled and rescheduled games, Postseason\nThe 2018 First Responder Bowl on December 26 between Boston College and Boise State was canceled after severe weather hit the Dallas area. The game was stopped due to lightning in the area shortly after BC had taken a 7\u20130 lead in the first quarter, and was canceled about 90 minutes later. Lightning continued in the vicinity of the stadium for an additional 90 minutes, and further severe weather was expected for later that night. According to an NCAA spokesperson, this was believed to be the first bowl game ever called off due to weather conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Conference summaries\nRankings reflect the Week 14 AP Poll before the conference championship games were played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Postseason, Bowl selections\nThere were 39 team-competitive post-season bowl games, with two teams advancing to a 40th \u2013 the CFP National Championship game. Normally, a team is required to have a .500 minimum winning percentage during the regular season to become bowl-eligible (six wins for an 11- or 12-game schedule, and seven wins for a 13-game schedule). If there are not enough winning teams to fulfill all open bowl slots, teams with losing records may be chosen to fill all 78 bowl slots. Additionally, on the rare occasion in which a conference champion does not meet eligibility requirements, they are usually still chosen for bowl games via tie-ins for their conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Postseason, Bowl selections, Bowl\u2013eligible teams\nNumber of bowl berths available: 78Number of bowl-eligible teams: 82", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 90], "content_span": [91, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Postseason, Bowl selections, Bowl\u2013ineligible teams\n* Liberty was not bowl-eligible until 2019 due to their transition from FCS to FBS. If Liberty had at least six wins and there were not enough bowl-eligible teams, they could have requested an NCAA waiver to participate in a bowl; Liberty did reach six wins, but there were more than enough bowl-eligible teams to fill the available bids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 92], "content_span": [93, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Postseason, Bowl selections, Bowl\u2013ineligible teams\n** Ole Miss, who finished their regular season with a 5\u20137 record, was under a self-imposed two-year bowl ban that applied for the 2017 and 2018 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 92], "content_span": [93, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Postseason, College Football Playoff\nSince the 2014\u201315 postseason, six College Football Playoff (CFP) bowl games have hosted two semifinal playoff games on a rotating basis. For this season, the Cotton Bowl and the Orange Bowl hosted the semifinal games, with the winners advancing to the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Awards and honors, Heisman Trophy\nThe Heisman Trophy is given to the year's most outstanding player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Rankings, CFB Playoff final rankings\nOn December 2, 2018, the College Football Playoff selection committee announced its final team rankings for the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Coaching changes, Preseason and in-season\nThis is restricted to coaching changes taking place on or after May 1, 2018. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2018, see 2017 NCAA Division I FBS end-of-season coaching changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Coaching changes, End of season\nThis list includes coaching changes announced during the season that did not take effect until the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281160-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Television viewers and ratings, Most watched regular-season games\nAll times Eastern. Rankings are from the AP Poll (before 10/30) and CFP Rankings (thereafter).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 107], "content_span": [108, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281161-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FCS football rankings\nThe 2018 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) football rankings consists of two human polls, in addition to various publications' preseason polls. Unlike the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), college football's governing body, the NCAA, bestows the national championship title through a 24-team tournament. The following weekly polls determine the top 25 teams at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision level of college football for the 2018 season. The STATS poll is voted by media members while the Coaches' Poll is determined by coaches at the FCS level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281161-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FCS football rankings\nThe STATS preseason poll was released on August 6, 2018, with defending champions North Dakota State earning 151 of the 157 allotted first-place votes; defending runners-up James Madison earned the other six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281161-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FCS football rankings\nThe Coaches' poll was released on August 13, 2018 - it consisted of an identical top six, with defending champions North Dakota State receiving 23 of the 26 first-place votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281162-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States, was organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level. The FCS Championship Game was played on January 5, 2019, in Frisco, Texas. North Dakota State claimed its second consecutive FCS title, and seventh in eight years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281162-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference changes and new programs, Membership changes\nIn addition to the schools changing conferences, the 2018 season was the last for Savannah State in D-I with its decision to reclassify all of its sports to D-II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281162-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Kickoff games\nOne kickoff game was played during \"Week Zero\" on August 25:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281162-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season, FCS team wins over FBS teams\n(FCS rankings from the STATS poll, FBS rankings from the AP poll.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281162-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Hurricane Florence\nSeveral games on the east coast were rescheduled, canceled, or moved due to Hurricane Florence:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281162-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference summaries, Other conference winners\nNote: Records are regular-season only, and do not include playoff games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 88], "content_span": [89, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281162-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Coaching changes, Preseason and in-season\nThis is restricted to coaching changes that took place on or after May 1, 2018. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2018, see 2017 NCAA Division I FCS end-of-season coaching changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281163-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship is the 38th annual tournament organized by the NCAA, to determine the national champion of Division I women's college field hockey in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281163-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship\nThe semifinals and championship match will be played at Trager Stadium at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky from November 16 to 18, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281164-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game that determined a national champion in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision for the 2017 season. It was played at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, on January 6, 2018, with kickoff at 12:00 noon EST, and was the culminating game of the 2017 FCS Playoffs. With sponsorship from Northwestern Mutual, the game was officially known as the NCAA FCS Football Championship Presented by Northwestern Mutual.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281164-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams\nThe participants of the 2018 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game were the finalists of the 2017 FCS Playoffs, which began with a 24-team bracket. No. 1 seed James Madison and No. 2 seed North Dakota State qualified for the final by winning their semifinal games. James Madison was the designated home team for the final game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281164-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams, North Dakota State Bison\nNorth Dakota State finished their regular season with a 10\u20131 record (7\u20131 in conference). Their one loss was to South Dakota State, 33\u201321. In the FCS playoffs, they defeated San Diego, Wofford, and Sam Houston State to reach the finals. The Bison entered the championship game with a 5\u20130 record in prior FCS finals, occurring consecutively in the 2011 through 2015 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281164-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams, James Madison Dukes\nJames Madison finished their regular season with an 11\u20130 record (8\u20130 in conference). In the FCS playoffs, they defeated Stony Brook, Weber State, and South Dakota State to reach the finals. The Dukes entered the championship game with a 2\u20130 record in prior FCS/Division I-AA finals, having defeated Montana for the 2004 season title, and Youngstown State for the 2016 season title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281165-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships was the 54th NCAA Men's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships and the 37th NCAA Women's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, held at the Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium in College Station, Texas near the campus of the host school, the Texas A&M University. In total, thirty-four different men's and women's indoor track and field events were contested from March 9 to March 10, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281165-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's results, 4 x 400 meters relay\n1 The USC time of 3:00.77 was rejected as a record as the team consisted of three Americans and one from Antigua and Barbuda: IAAF rules require all runners of a relay team to be of the same nationality for records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 103], "content_span": [104, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281166-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the single-elimination tournament to determine the men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2017\u201318 season. The game was played on April 2, 2018, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, between the Michigan Wolverines and the Villanova Wildcats. Michigan last won the NCAA championship in 1989, while Villanova won the championship in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281166-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game\nVillanova defeated Michigan, 79\u201362. Donte DiVincenzo, a reserve player, scored 31 points for Villanova, and was named the NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281166-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Michigan\nThe Michigan Wolverines last won the NCAA Tournament in 1989. Their most recent appearance in the championship game was in 2013. At one point unranked in the AP Poll, Michigan won their final 14 games before the title game to end the 2017\u201318 regular season with a 28\u20137 win-loss record after winning the 2018 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament. They earned the No. 3 seed in the West Regional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 79], "content_span": [80, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281166-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Michigan\nMichigan defeated the No. 14 Montana Grizzlies in the first round by a score of 61\u201347. They then reached the Sweet 16 by defeating the No. 6 Houston Cougars, 64\u201363, on a buzzer beater by Jordan Poole. They made it to the Elite Eight by defeating the Texas A&M Aggies, 99\u201372. Michigan advanced to the Final Four by defeating the Florida State Seminoles, 58\u201354, and defeated the \"Cinderella story\" of the tournament, the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers, in the Final Four by a score of 69\u201357.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 79], "content_span": [80, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281166-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Villanova\nThe Villanova Wildcats won the NCAA Tournament in 2016. In 2017\u201318, Villanova set the NCAA record for three-point shots in a season and in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. After completing a 30\u20134 regular season, including winning the 2018 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, Villanova was ranked No. 1 in the AP Poll and earned the No. 1 seed in the East Regional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 80], "content_span": [81, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281166-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Villanova\nIn the first round, Villanova defeated the No. 16 Radford Highlanders, 87\u201361. Villanova blew out the No. 9 Alabama Crimson Tide by a score of 81\u201358 in the second round. In the Sweet 16, Villanova beat the West Virginia Mountaineers, 90\u201378. Villanova won against the No. 3 Texas Tech Red Raiders, 71\u201359, to make the Final Four. They defeated the Kansas Jayhawks by a score of 95\u201379 in the Final Four to reach the championship game. In their victory over Kansas, Villanova set an NCAA Tournament Final Four single-game record with 18 three-point shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 80], "content_span": [81, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281166-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Starting lineups\nSelected in an NBA Draft (number corresponds to draft round)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 73], "content_span": [74, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281166-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary\nThe announced attendance for the game was 67,831. During the first half, Moritz Wagner of Michigan scored nine of the team's first 11 points, as Michigan took a 21\u201314 lead. Villanova went on a 22\u20137 scoring run to end the half leading Michigan, 37\u201328. Donte DiVincenzo, who entered the game off of the bench as a reserve player, scored 18 points out of Villanova's first 32. During the second half, DiVincenzo scored 11 consecutive points, putting Villanova 16 points ahead of Michigan. Villanova outscored Michigan by a score of 42\u201334 in the second half to win the championship by a score of 79\u201362. Villanova led Michigan in rebounds, 38\u201327, and limited the Wolverines to three three-point shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 69], "content_span": [70, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281166-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary\nWith the 17 point victory, Villanova won each game in the tournament by double digit margins. DiVincenzo scored a total of 31 points, the most in a national championship game by a player who did not start. DiVincenzo's 31 points led the game, and he was named the NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 69], "content_span": [70, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281166-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Media coverage\nThe National Championship game was broadcast in the United States by TBS. Jim Nantz provided play-by-play, while Bill Raftery and Grant Hill provided color commentary and Tracy Wolfson served as the sideline reporter. The pre-game and post-game shows included analysis by Greg Gumbel, Ernie Johnson Jr., Seth Davis, Clark Kellogg, Kenny Smith, and Charles Barkley. TBS's sister channels, TNT and TruTV, also aired special broadcasts of the game, bring back the \"Team Stream\" broadcasts that catered to fans of the respective teams. Team Streams, which had been in use since the 2014 Final Four, returned after a one-year hiatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 71], "content_span": [72, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281166-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Media coverage\nPhiladelphia-based announcer Scott Graham was the play-by-play man for Villanova's stream on TruTV, with former Villanova guard Randy Foye providing color commentary. NESN reporter and Villanova alum Kacie McDonnell worked the sidelines. On TNT's Michigan-centered broadcast, Michigan women's basketball play-by-play announcer Matt Park worked alongside former NFL kicker Jay Feely and CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, both Michigan alums. The game drew an estimated 10.3 Nielsen rating across the three networks, the lowest for a national championship game, but the highest on television for the night of April 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 71], "content_span": [72, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281166-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Media coverage\nESPN International owns the international broadcast rights for 180 countries. In Canada, the game aired on TSN. Radio coverage in the United States was provided by Westwood One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 71], "content_span": [72, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 68 teams to determine the men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2017\u201318 season. The 80th annual edition of the tournament began on March 13, 2018, and concluded with the championship game on April 2 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nDuring the first round, UMBC became the first 16-seed to defeat a 1-seed in the men's tournament by defeating Virginia 74\u201354. For the first time in tournament history, none of the four top seeded teams in a single region (the South) advanced to the Sweet 16. The tournament also featured the first regional final matchup of a 9-seed (Kansas State) and an 11-seed (Loyola-Chicago).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nVillanova, Michigan, Kansas, and Loyola-Chicago, the \"Cinderella team\" of the tournament, reached the Final Four. Villanova defeated Michigan in the championship game, 79\u201362.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nAtlantic Sun Conference champion Lipscomb made its NCAA tournament debut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 tournament was the first time since 1978 that none of the six Division I college basketball-playing schools based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area \u2013 American, Georgetown, George Mason, George Washington, Howard, and Maryland \u2013 made the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure\nA total of 68 teams entered the 2018 tournament. 32 automatic bids were awarded, one to each program that won their conference tournament. The remaining 36 bids were \"at-large\", with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure\nEight teams (the four lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers and the four lowest-seeded at-large teams) played in the First Four (the successor to what had been popularly known as \"play-in games\" through the 2010 tournament). The winners of these games advanced to the main draw of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure\nThe Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 68.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nThe following sites were selected to host each round of the 2018 tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nFor the fourth time, the Alamodome and city of San Antonio are hosting the Final Four. This is the first tournament since 1994 in which no games were played in an NFL stadium, as the Alamodome is a college football stadium, although the Alamodome hosted some home games for the New Orleans Saints during their 2005 season. The 2018 tournament featured three new arenas in previous host cities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nPhilips Arena, the home of the Atlanta Hawks and replacement for the previously used Omni Coliseum, hosted the South regional games, and the new Little Caesars Arena, home of the Detroit Pistons and Detroit Red Wings, hosted games. And for the first time since 1994, the tournament returned to Wichita and Kansas where Intrust Bank Arena hosted first round games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nThe state of North Carolina was threatened with a 2018-2022 championship venue boycott by the NCAA, due to the HB2 law passed in 2016. However, the law was repealed (but with provisos) days before the NCAA met to make decisions on venues in April 2017. At that time, the NCAA board of governors \"reluctantly voted to allow consideration of championship bids in North Carolina by our committees that are presently meeting\". Therefore, Charlotte was eligible and served as a first weekend venue for the 2018 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and selection\nFour teams, out of 351 in Division I, were ineligible to participate in the 2018 tournament due to failing to meet APR requirements: Alabama A&M, Grambling State, Savannah State, and Southeast Missouri State. However, the NCAA granted the Savannah State Tigers a waiver which would have allowed the team to participate in the tournament, but the team failed to qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 77], "content_span": [78, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and selection, Automatic qualifiers\nThe following 32 teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2018 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 99], "content_span": [100, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and selection, Tournament seeds\nThe tournament seeds were determined through the NCAA basketball tournament selection process. The seeds and regions were determined as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 95], "content_span": [96, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Regional brackets\nAll times are listed as Eastern Daylight Time (UTC\u22124)* \u2013 Denotes overtime period", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Final Four\nDuring the Final Four round, regardless of the seeds of the participating teams, the champion of the top overall top seed's region (Virginia's South Region) plays against the champion of the fourth-ranked top seed's region (Xavier's West Region), and the champion of the second overall top seed's region (Villanova's East Region) plays against the champion of the third-ranked top seed's region (Kansas' Midwest Region).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Record by conference\nThe Pac-12 lost all of its teams after the first day of the main tournament draw, marking the first time since the Big 12 began play in 1996 that one of the six major conferences\u2014defined as the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, SEC, and both versions of the Big East\u2014failed to have a team advance to the tournament's round of 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Television\nCBS Sports and Turner Sports had U.S. television rights to the Tournament under the NCAA March Madness brand. As part of a cycle beginning in 2016, TBS held the rights to the Final Four and to the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 76], "content_span": [77, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Television\nFor the first time, TBS held the rights to the Selection Show, which expanded into a two-hour format, was presented in front of a studio audience, and promoted that the entire field of the tournament would be unveiled within the first ten minutes of the broadcast. However, this entailed the 68-team field (beginning with automatic qualifiers, followed by at-large teams) being revealed in alphabetical order, and not by bracket matchups (which was done later in the show). The new format was criticized for lacking suspense, and the show also faced criticism for technical issues, as well as a segment containing product placement for Pizza Hut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 76], "content_span": [77, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio\nWestwood One had exclusive radio rights to the entire tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 71], "content_span": [72, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Internet, Video\nLive video of games was available for streaming through the following means:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 81], "content_span": [82, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281167-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Internet, Audio\nLive audio of games was available for streaming through the following means:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 81], "content_span": [82, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281168-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams\nThis is a list of qualifying teams for the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. A total of 68 teams enter the tournament. Thirty two of the teams earn automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The remaining 36 teams are granted at-large bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. All teams are seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals, while the Selection Committee seeds the entire field from 1 to 68.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281168-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams, Qualifying teams, Automatic bids\nSeeds listed were seeds within the conference tournaments. Conference championship runners-up in bold were given at-large berths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 100], "content_span": [101, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281169-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship was the 80th annual tournament to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's golf. It was contested from May 25 to 30 at the Karsten Creek in Stillwater, Oklahoma and hosted by Oklahoma State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281169-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship\nOklahoma State won its 11th team championship, defeating Alabama 5\u20130 in the finals. Broc Everett of Augusta won the individual championship in a sudden-death playoff over Brandon Mancheno of Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281169-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Team competition, Leaderboard\nAfter 54 holes, the field of 30 teams was cut to the top 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281169-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Team competition, Leaderboard\nRemaining teams: Northwestern (884), Stanford (884), Florida (886), Iowa State (891), UNLV (891), Kentucky (892), UCLA (892), Kansas (894), BYU (897), NC State (897), Central Florida (897), Oregon (899), North Florida (902), Augusta (904), Baylor (910).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281169-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Team competition, Match play bracket\nThe eight teams with the lowest total scores advanced to the match play bracket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281169-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Individual competition\nThe field was cut after 54 holes to the top 15 teams and the top nine individuals not on a top 15 team. These 84 players competed for the individual championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281169-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Individual competition\n^ Everett won on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281170-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States. The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the highest level of competition in college hockey. The tournament's Frozen Four \u2013 the semifinals and final \u2013 were hosted by the University of Minnesota at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota from April 5\u20137, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281170-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nMinnesota-Duluth defeated Notre Dame 2\u20131 to win the program's 2nd NCAA title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281170-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure\nThe tournament is composed of four groups of four teams in regional brackets. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. The following are the sites for the 2018 regionals:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281170-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure\nThe winner of each regional will advance to the Frozen Four:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281170-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams\nThe at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced on March 18. The Big Ten had four teams receive a berth in the tournament, the NCHC, Hockey East, and ECAC Hockey each had three teams receive a berth, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) had two teams receive a berth, and one team from Atlantic Hockey received a berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281170-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Television\nESPN has US television rights to all games during the tournament for the fourteenth consecutive year. ESPN will air every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPNU, or ESPN3 and streamed them online via WatchESPN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281170-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Television\nIn Canada, the tournament will be broadcast by TSN and streamed on TSN Go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281170-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Television\nIn the UK, the tournament will be broadcast by BT Sport ESPN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281170-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Radio\nWestwood One has exclusive radio rights to the Frozen Four and will air both the semifinals and the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281171-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship weekend was the 48th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college lacrosse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281171-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship\nSeventeen teams competed in the tournament, based upon their performance during the regular season. For nine teams, entry into the tournament was by means of a conference tournament automatic qualifier and/or play in, while for eight teams at-large selection was determined by the NCAA selection committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281171-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship\nYale controlled the tournament finals from start to finish, though Duke kept the game suspenseful to the end. This was Yale\u2019s first NCAA lacrosse title and second title overall. Yale's Ben Reeves tied Eamon McEneaney\u2019s 1977 record for most points in an NCAA tournament with 25 points. McEneaney set the record in three tournament games. This was the sixth national championship game for Duke since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281171-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Bracket\nNavy-Marine Corps Memorial StadiumAnnapolis, MDMay 19James M. Shuart StadiumHempstead, NY", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281171-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Media coverage, Radio\nWestwood One provided nationwide radio coverage of the semifinals and championship. It was once again streamed online at westwoodsports.com, through TuneIn, and on SiriusXM. Dave Ryan, Mark Dixon and Jason Horowitz provided the call for Westwood One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 71], "content_span": [72, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281171-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Media coverage, Television\nEvery game of the 2018 Men's Lacrosse Championship was broadcast on the ESPN Networks (ESPN3- Opening Round, ESPNU- First Round and Quarterfinals, ESPN2- Semifinals and National Championship).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 76], "content_span": [77, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281172-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game was the final game of the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, determining the national champion for the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The match was played on December 9, 2018 at Harder Stadium in Santa Barbara, California, a soccer-specific stadium that is home to UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's and women's soccer programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281172-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game\nThe match was contested between the 2018 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament champions, Akron, and the Big Ten Tournament, semifinalists, Maryland. Maryland ultimately won the match 1-0 thanks to a penalty kick goal from Amar Sedjic in the 57th minute of play. Sedjic was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player for his performance. Maryland went through the entire tournament without conceding a single goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281172-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game\nMarked by the media as a \"redemption final\", the final features two men's soccer heavyweights: Akron and Maryland. Both teams, while regularly successful over the last two decades, have not won an NCAA title in nearly a decade each. During the 2018 campaign, both programs had a slump early on in the season that nearly saw both teams miss out on the NCAA Tournament. A late season resurgence by both programs allowed both to reach the NCAA final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281172-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game\nThe three-time defending champions, Stanford, were eliminated in the quarterfinals by Akron. The match was broadcast on ESPN2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281172-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Road to the final\nThe NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, sometimes known as the College Cup, is an American intercollegiate soccer tournament conducted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and determines the Division I men's national champion. The tournament has been formally held since 1959, when it was an eight-team tournament. Since then, the tournament has expanded to 48 teams, in which every Division I conference tournament champion is allocated a berth. The tournament was the first final since 2014 to not feature Stanford in the match. It was Akron's first appearance since 2010, which they won their lone NCAA title against Louisville, and Maryland's first appearance since 2013, where they lost to Notre Dame. Maryland has won the NCAA Tournament on three previous occasions: 1968, 2005, and 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 70], "content_span": [71, 889]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281172-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Road to the final, Akron\nAkron entered the championship match on a nine-match winning streak, with their last defeat coming on October 20 at Northern Illinois. The program began the season ranked fourth in the nation in the United Soccer Coaches poll and second in the nation in the TopDrawer Soccer poll. A slow start to the season saw the Zips fall to a 1\u20133\u20131 record and slip out of the national rankings. Following the early skid, the Zips rebounded to win their next three straight matches. This was hallmarked by a 10\u20130 victory of Canisius, making it the program's largest win in history. Akron earned a pair of subsequent road wins at Grand Canyon and at VCU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 77], "content_span": [78, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281172-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Road to the final, Akron\nAkron began conference play with a scoreless draw at Bowling Green. A chain of inconsistent performances saw the Zips lose at home to West Virginia and Syracuse, but nab victories against Michigan State and Creighton, who were both ranked in the USC Top 10 at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 77], "content_span": [78, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281172-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Road to the final, Akron\nThe Zips finished the Mid-American Conference regular season in fourth place, making it the programs poorest regular season performance in MAC play since joining the conference. In the MAC Tournament, the Zips had a season resurgence, winning all of their tournament matches in regulation, en route to their 7th straight Mid-American Conference Men's Soccer Tournament title, and their 11th MAC title in the last 14 years. The championship was a rematch of last year's championship, where the Zips took on Western Michigan. The win guaranteed that the Zips would return to the NCAA Tournament, where their chances prior to the tournament had been on the bubble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 77], "content_span": [78, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281172-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Road to the final, Akron\nThe Zips did not earn a seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2013. In the first round, Akron hosted Rider, where they won 3\u20131. The victory led to a rematch against Syracuse. The match, played at nearby Colgate University, was a triumph for Akron, as they won by the same 3\u20131 score. The Zips then took on top-seed Wake Forest in the Sweet Sixteen, and earned a 1\u20130 away victory. In the Elite Eight, Akron took on Stanford, the three-time defending NCAA champions. Akron had been eliminated in penalties for the last 2 tournaments by Stanford. In the match, Akron avenged their losses, and won 3\u20132 at Stanford booking their spot in the College Cup. There, the Zips prevailed 5\u20131 against Michigan State, making it the most lopsided semifinal match in nearly 20 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 77], "content_span": [78, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281172-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Pre-match, Venue selection\nThe National Collegiate Athletic Association determined the host of the final on April 18, 2017. The announcement of Meredith Field at Harder Stadium was in conjunction with WakeMed Soccer Park being announced as the 2019 and 2021 College Cup venue, while Harder Stadium would host the College Cup again in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 79], "content_span": [80, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281172-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Pre-match, Analysis\nAhead of the match, both programs had a similar storyline of having a late season resurgence. Akron was considered by some to be the favorite given their longer run of form, and their emphatic win over Michigan State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281172-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Danny Thornberry (United States)Tom Felice (United States)Fourth official:Chris Penso (United States)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281173-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament was the 60th edition of the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, a postseason tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I men's college soccer. The first four rounds of the competition were held at the home ground of the higher seed, while the College Cup (semifinals and final) were held at Harder Stadium on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. The championship match was held on December 10, 2018 with the Maryland Terrapins defeating the Akron Zips 1\u20130 to claim their fourth title in program history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281173-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament\nMaryland did not yield any goals in this year's College Cup, maintaining a clean-sheet and out-scoring opponents, 6\u20130. This was Sasho Cirovski's third title as the Maryland coach. The Stanford Cardinal came into this tournament as the three-time defending NCAA champions. In last year's final, Stanford defeated Indiana in extra time, 1\u20130. This year, however, Stanford was defeated by eventual runner-up, Akron, 3\u20132, in the quarterfinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281173-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Qualification\nAs in previous editions of the NCAA Division I Tournament, the tournament features 48 participants out of a possible field of 203 teams. Of the 48 berths, 24 are allocated to the 21 conference tournament champions and to the regular season winners of the Ivy League, Pac-12 Conference, and West Coast Conference, which do not have tournaments. The remaining 24 berths are supposed to be determined through an at-large process based upon the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) of teams that did not automatically qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281173-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Qualification\nThe NCAA Selection Committee also names the top sixteen seeds for the tournament, with those teams receiving an automatic bye into the second round of the tournament. The remaining 32 teams play in a single-elimination match in the first round of the tournament for the right to play a seeded team in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281174-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships were contested from March 21\u201324, 2018 at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the 95th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were the 97th NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships and the 37th NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships held for the sixth consecutive year at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on the campus of the University of Oregon. In total, forty-two different men's and women's track and field events were contested from Wednesday June 6 to Saturday June 9, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 100 meters\nNeeding points in pursuit of the team title, the University of Houston was hoping to score with its three sprinters Cameron Burrell, Elijah Hall, and Mario Burke in the final of the 100 m on June 8th. Though a headwind prevented fast times, Burrell and Hall were able to accelerate and out-lean Florida State University's Andre Ewers, considered by some to be the favorite, at the finish to score 18 points in addition to Burke's one point for finish eighth. In a post-race interview with ESPN, Burrell said he dedicated his win in this race to teammate Brian Barazza who fell after leading in the 3000 m steeplechase hours before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 99], "content_span": [100, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 200 meters\nThe men's 200 m was won by Texas Tech University's Divine Oduduru on May 8th. Running into a strong headwind of 3.1 meters per second, Oduduru ran 20.28 seconds to win the title by only one one-hundredth of a second over 100m contenter Andre Ewers of Florida State University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 99], "content_span": [100, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 400 meters\nHaving set the indoor 400 m world record and having not lost a race all year, the University of Southern California's Michael Norman was considered the prohibitive favorite in the men's 400 m on June 8th. Before the race, he said his goal was to beat Olympic gold medalist Quincy Watts, his coach's personal best in the event, which would have also been a collegiate record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 99], "content_span": [100, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 400 meters\nDespite a fleeting rain, Norman ran conservatively in the beginning but pulled a late charge to win the race in 43.61 seconds, a new collegiate record and a time that made him among the 15 fastest performers of all time. The University of Auburn's Akeem Bloomfield also ran under 44 seconds and his teammate Nathon Allen ran 44.1 seconds, both among the top collegiate times in history, leading some to call the race the greatest collegiate 400m of all time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 99], "content_span": [100, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 800 meters\nThe University of Texas at El Paso's Michael Saruni, coming off his collegiate record, was considered the favorite for the men's 800 m on June 8th. Texas A&M University's Devin Dixon led the field through a quick 400 m split, and soon Saruni and Penn State University's Isaiah Harris were both in contention with a lap to go. But with 300 meters to go, Saruni abruptly accelerated, leaving him with less energy on the final stretch as Harris and eventually Mississippi State University's Marco Arop passed him, with Harris taking his first NCAA title in a quick personal best time of 1:44.76.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 99], "content_span": [100, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 1500 meters\nThe University of New Mexico's Josh Kerr was the favorite for the men's 1500 m on June 8th on account of being the defending champion and collegiate record-holder. Before the race, he had mentioned wanting to break his own collegiate record in the final on June 8th, but wet conditions didn't allow it as the field went out in 61 seconds for the first 400 m. In a late surge, the unheralded Ollie Hoare passed Kerr in the final 100 meters to become the University of Wisconsin's first champion in this event in over 40 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 100], "content_span": [101, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 5000 meters\nFormer indoor and outdoor 5000 m champions Justyn Knight and Grant Fisher were among the favorites in the men's 5000 m on June 8th. Despite finishing in the last three places in the 10,000 m two days prior to the race, Brigham Young University's three runners were also expected to factor on suspicion that they had purposefully ran the 10,000 m easily to avoid getting disqualified from the meet and focus solely on the 5000 m. Wet conditions and a championship-style tactical race prevented fast times as only one athlete in the field set a personal best.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 100], "content_span": [101, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 5000 meters\nUltimately, Stanford University senior Sean McGorty finished the strongest as he took the individual title, with his teammate Fisher being passed by Knight in the final ten meters. The strong finish of Stanford runners scored them sixteen points in this event, which contributed to briefly allowing Stanford to lead the overall team title standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 100], "content_span": [101, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 10,000 meters\nWith last year's champion Marc Scott having graduated, the University of Alabama's Vincent Kiprop, a Kenyan transfer from the NCAA Division II school Missouri Southern State University, was considered the favorite. He was helped in the final by fellow Kenyans and Alabama transfers Gilbert Kigen and Alfred Chelanga, who ran together at a quick pace of 4:22 for the first 1600 m. In the next two miles, the pace substantially slowed as Northern Arizona University runners Tyler Day and Matthew Baxter caught up and alternated the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 102], "content_span": [103, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 10,000 meters\nThe field remained tightly packed, with the top eight athletes less than two seconds apart at 8000 m which Kiprop first passed in 22:59. With two laps remaining, the top six of Kiprop, Day, Baxter, the University of Michigan's Ben Flanagan, Jacob Thomson, and Dillon Maggard began to separate. Kiprop attempted to lengthen his lead with one lap to go, but Flanagan remained in tow and passed Kiprop in the final 50 meters. Directly at the conclusion of the race, he told ESPN cameras, \"Where's my mom?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 102], "content_span": [103, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0007-0002", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 10,000 meters\nFlanagan's final time of 28:34 was a thirty-nine second improvement over his previous best of 29:13. Flanagan credited staying \"as patient as possible\" in part for his win. His victory was the first by a Canadian in this event at the NCAA championships since 2012, when Cam Levins won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 102], "content_span": [103, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 110-meter hurdles\nDefending champion Grant Holloway of the University of Florida won the men's 110 m hurdles on June 8th. Holloway had a fast start and built up a lead 50 meters into the race, but as he approached the finish both the University of Illinois' David Kendziera and Damion Thomas of Louisiana State University began to make up ground, leaning at the finish line but ultimately coming up short.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 106], "content_span": [107, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 400-meter hurdles\nThe men's 400 m hurdles took place on May 8th. The University of Southern California's Rai Benjamin attracted attention during the prelims by stepping twelve times (as compared to the standard thirteen or more) between each hurdle, a feat that only world record holder Kevin Young had notably achieved before. During the final, which took place soon after Southern California teammate Michael Norman set the collegiate record in the flat 400 m, Benjamin stuttered at one of the early hurdles but ultimately pulled away from the field late to run a time of 47.02 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 106], "content_span": [107, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 400-meter hurdles\nThe time was not only a personal best by nearly a full second, but it was also a championship record, Hayward Field facility record, national record for Antigua and Barbuda, an NCAA collegiate record, and the number-two performance of all time, behind only Kevin Young's 46-second performance. The time came as a surprise to many who thought that the wet conditions and puddles on the track were not conducive to running fast times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 106], "content_span": [107, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 3000-meter steeplechase\nThere was no clear favorite in the men's 3000 m steeplechase, as the collegiate yearly leader did not qualify and no scoring athletes returned from last year's final. Most expected the race to be tactical due to wet conditions, but the University of Houston's Brian Barraza gapped the field early, taking the race out at an 8:20 pace for the first few laps -- a time that was over ten seconds faster than any of the athletes' personal bests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 112], "content_span": [113, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 3000-meter steeplechase\nThe frontrunning strategy seemed to have been working as Barazza still held a considerable lead going in to the last lap, but a fall on the one of the last barriers allowed the University of Minnesota's Obsa Ali to pass and win the race in a personal-best time of 8:32 minutes. Barraza had trouble getting up after his fall, and ultimately finished tenth. As Houston was considered by some to be a contender for the team title, Barazza's bold race strategy was considered foolish by some but brave by others. After the race, Barraza's coach Steve Magness said that Barraza felt dazed after the race, and that he was considering being checked for a concussion. The fall was later featured on ESPN's SportsCenter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 112], "content_span": [113, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 4 x 100-meter relay\nDespite rain on the track, the University of Houston won the men's 4x100 m in a new collegiate-record time of 38.17 seconds. The prior record had stood for 30 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 108], "content_span": [109, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 4 x 400-meter relay\nThough the 4 x 400 m was the final men's event of the championships, the team title was already decided as the University of Georgia's points lead was too great for any other team to overtake them in the relays. Nevertheless, the University of Southern California won the event and set a new collegiate record of 2:59.00 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 108], "content_span": [109, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 4 x 400-meter relay\nThe four-man team included both new NCAA record-holders Michael Norman (in the flat 400 m) and Rai Benjamin (in the 400 m hurdles), and both athletes ran under 44 seconds for their legs to have the two fastest split times in the field. Despite Norman having held the third-fastest split time in history with a 43.03 split at the NCAA West Regional, it was Benjamin who had the faster split of 43.6 seconds in the race on June 8th. Norman, who was the anchor, ran largely alone for his leg as he received the baton in the lead and the team won by nearly a full second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 108], "content_span": [109, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's long jump\nZach Baile of Ohio State University won the men's long jump on June 6th in a personal best distance of 8.37\u00a0m (27\u00a0ft 5+1\u20442\u00a0in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 98], "content_span": [99, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's triple jump\nTahar Triki of Texas A&M University won the men's triple jump on June 8th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 100], "content_span": [101, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's high jump\nKansas State University's Tejaswin Shankar won the men's high jump on June 8th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 98], "content_span": [99, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's pole vault\nThe University of South Dakota's Chris Nilsen set an NCAA championship record of 5.83\u00a0m (19\u00a0ft 1+1\u20442\u00a0in) to win the men's pole vault, which took place on June 6th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 99], "content_span": [100, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's shot put\nAfter winning the men's hammer throw earlier in the day, the University of Georgia's Denzel Comenentia won the shot put on June 6th with a throw of 20.61\u00a0m (67\u00a0ft 7+1\u20444\u00a0in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 97], "content_span": [98, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's discus throw\nLuke Vaughn of Memphis University won the men's discus throw on June 8th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 101], "content_span": [102, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's javelin throw\nMississippi State University's Anderson Peters set a championship record of 82.82\u00a0m\u00a0(271\u00a0ft\u00a08\u00a0in) to win the men's javelin throw on June 6th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 102], "content_span": [103, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's hammer throw\nThe men's hammer throw took place on June 6th. University of Georgia junior Denzel Comenentia set a personal best to win his first NCAA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 101], "content_span": [102, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Decathlon\nThe men's decathlon began on June 6th. Only 18 of the 24 competitors completed the event. British athlete Tim Duckworth of the University of Kentucky led the field by a wide margin after the first five events on June 6th, and continued to perform well in the remaining events before sustaining an injury on June 7th. He remained in competition despite the injury, and due to his prior lead was able to win the overall points table despite finishing last place in the final 1500 m event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 92], "content_span": [93, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 100 meters\nComing off a 10.91 time in the prelims that was the fourth-best mark in NCAA history, Aleia Hobbs of Louisiana State University was favored to win the women's 100 m on June 9th. Heavy rain prevented her from besting that time as she won the event by more than 0.2 seconds, and Hobbs said after the race that the rain was so pervasive that she could not see the track while she was running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 103], "content_span": [104, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 200 meters\nThe women's 200 m took place on June 9th. Harvard University's Gabby Thomas, the indoor collegiate record holder in this event, faced Lynna Irby of Georgia University, a freshman who had set the meet record in the 400 m. Facing a strong headwind, both of the favorites took the lead at the start but were slowed substantially on the home stretch as the University of Southern California's Angelerne Annelus passed them both from lane 8, the widest lane, to win the race in 22.76 seconds. After the race, Annelus said she was in shock because she had not even been expected to make the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 103], "content_span": [104, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 400 meters\nUniversity of Georgia freshman Lynna Irby won the women's 400 m in a new meet-record time of 49.80 seconds on June 9th. The time was the number-two NCAA performance of all time in this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 103], "content_span": [104, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 800 meters\nTexas A&M University freshman and high school record-holder Sammy Watson won the women's 800 m on June 9th. The race took place during intermittent heavy rain accounting for slower times, and Watson had to dive at the line exhausted to hold off Middle Tennessee State University's Abike Egbeniyi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 103], "content_span": [104, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 10,000 meters\nThe women's 10,000 m was held on June 7th. Defending outdoor 5000 m and 2016 cross country champion Karissa Schweizer of the University of Missouri was favored by some to take the title in her first attempt at the distance at the championships, but she also faced the previous year's 10,000 m champion Charlotte Taylor from the University of San Francisco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 106], "content_span": [107, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 10,000 meters\nA brisk pace set in part by Taylor put the athletes in reach of the NCAA meet record, and soon Schweizer, Taylor, Notre Dame's Anna Rohrer, University of Kansas junior Sharon Lokedi from Kenya, and former NCAA 3000m steeplechase runner-up Alice Wright, from the University of New Mexico, led the race at times alternating the lead. In the end, Lokedi pulled strongly away from the field in the final lap to win in a new championship record time of 32:09.20, followed by University of Louisville freshman Dorcas Wasike, who moved up the field in the final stages to take second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 106], "content_span": [107, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0026-0002", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 10,000 meters\nLokedi had qualified for six NCAA track championship events before and never finished worse than sixth, but had never won an individual NCAA title before the race. Thanks to the fast pace, all of the first six athletes broke the old NCAA meet record, which had been set by Sylvia Mosqueda in 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 106], "content_span": [107, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 3000-meter steeplechase\nOn June 9th, Boise State University sophomore Allie Ostrander won the women's 3000 m steeplechase, defending her title from last year's race. She described her strategy as being \"relaxed for the first couple of laps and then winding it up,\" helped by Syracuse University's Paige Stoner who also pushed the pace. She became the first NCAA Division I athlete to win back-to-back steeplechase titles as an underclassman, and the second two-time national champion in Boise State Broncos history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 116], "content_span": [117, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's long jump\nFormer American record holder in the triple jump, Keturah Orji of the University of Georgia, won the women's long jump on June 7th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 102], "content_span": [103, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's pole vault\nUniversity of Kentucky junior Olivia Gruver won the women's pole vault on June 7th in a personal best mark of 4.55\u00a0m (14\u00a0ft 11\u00a0in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 103], "content_span": [104, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's shot put\nMultiple-time collegiate record holder Maggie Ewen of Arizona State University won the women's shot put on June 7th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 101], "content_span": [102, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's javelin throw\nAustralian athlete Mackenzie Little won the women's javelin throw on June 7th representing Stanford University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 106], "content_span": [107, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's hammer throw\nUniversity of Mississippi senior Janeah Stewart won the women's hammer throw on June 7th in a personal-best mark of 72.92\u00a0m\u00a0(239\u00a0ft\u00a02\u00a0in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 105], "content_span": [106, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281175-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Heptathlon\nThe women's heptathlon began on June 8th. 20 of the 24 competitors completed the event. The competition was close throughout, but Canadian athlete Georgia Ellenwood of the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison won the event by scoring more points in the 800 m over second-placer Louisa Grauvogel of the University of Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 95], "content_span": [96, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281176-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament was held from May 18 through June 6, 2018 as the final part of the 2018 NCAA Division I softball season. Thirty-two teams were awarded automatic bids as champions of their conferences, and the remaining 32 were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I softball selection committee. The tournament culminated with eight teams playing in the 2018 Women's College World Series at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281176-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament\nThis was the first year since the 2010 Women's College World Series that neither the Florida Gators nor the Oklahoma Sooners made the Championship Series. The Florida State Seminoles played in their first Women's College World Series Championship Series and became the first ACC team to make the Championship Series. The Washington Huskies made their fourth appearance in the Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281176-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Automatic bids\nThe Big West, Mountain West, Pac-12, and West Coast Conference bids were awarded to the regular-season champion. All other conferences have the automatic bid go to the conference tournament winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281176-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National seeds\n16 National Seeds were announced on the Selection Show Sunday, May 13 at 10 p.m. EDT on ESPN2. The 16 national seeds host the Regionals. Teams in italics advanced to Super Regionals. Teams in bold advance to Women's College World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281176-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National seeds\n1. Oregon (47\u20137)2. Florida (50\u20138)3. UCLA (50\u20134)4. Oklahoma (50\u20133)5. Washington (44\u20138)6. Florida State (47\u201310)7. Georgia (43\u201311)8. Arizona State (43\u201311)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281176-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National seeds\n9. South Carolina (45\u201314)10. Tennessee (45\u201312)11. LSU (41\u201314)12. Alabama (33\u201318)13. Arkansas (39\u201315)14. Arizona (40\u201314)15. Texas A&M (40\u201316)16. Kentucky (31\u201319)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281176-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Regionals and Super Regionals\nThe Regionals took place May 17\u201320, 2018. One regional- Eugene, Oregon, took place May 17\u201319, 2018, because of BYU's no-Sunday-play policy; all other regionals occurred May 18\u201320, 2018. The Super Regionals took place from May 24\u201327, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281176-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Women's College World Series\nThe Women's College World Series was held May 31 through June 6, 2018, in Oklahoma City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281176-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Women's College World Series, All-tournament Team\nThe following players were members of the Women's College World Series All-Tournament Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281176-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Record by conference\nThe columns RF, SR, WS, NS, F, and NC respectively stand for the Regional Finals, Super Regionals, College World Series Teams, National Semi-Finals, Finals, and National Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281176-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio\nWestwood One provided nationwide radio coverage of the championship series. It was streamed online at westwoodsports.com, through TuneIn, and on SiriusXM. John Sadak made his softball radio debut and joined returning analyst Leah Amico for Westwood One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281176-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Media coverage, Television\nESPN holds exclusive rights to the tournament. They aired games across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, and ESPN3. For the second time in the history of the women's softball tournament ESPN covered every regional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281177-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament. The game was played on April 1, 2018, at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish defeated the Mississippi State Bulldogs to win their second national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281177-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game\nThe game was won on a made basket by Arike Ogunbowale with 0.1 seconds left on the clock\u2014she made a similar shot with 1.0 second in the semifinal to defeat Connecticut, earning Notre Dame a berth in the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281177-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Mississippi State\nThe Mississippi State Bulldogs were led by sixth-year head coach Vic Schaefer. The Bulldogs opened their season by winning all 15 of their non-conference games, including three wins in the Canc\u00fan Challenge and two wins as a part of the Duel in the Desert (played in Paradise, Nevada), adding a win against the No. 9 Oregon Ducks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 90], "content_span": [91, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281177-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Mississippi State\nThe Bulldogs entered SEC play ranked No. 5 in the nation, and never dropped below that ranking, as they finished the regular season 30\u20130, 16\u20130 in SEC play, including four wins over ranked conference opponents: No. 6 Tennessee, No. 15 Missouri, defending national champions No. 7 South Carolina, and No. 17 Texas A&M. The Bulldogs were seeded first in the SEC tournament, where they defeated (9) Kentucky and (5) Texas A&M en route to the championship game, where they fell to (2) South Carolina, 51\u201362 for their first loss of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 90], "content_span": [91, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281177-0002-0002", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Mississippi State\nThe Bulldogs received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, where they were seeded first in the Kansas City regional. In the tournament, Mississippi State defeated (16) Nicholls State, (9) Oklahoma State, (4) NC State, and (3) UCLA en route to the Final Four, where they beat (1) Louisville in overtime, putting their record at 37\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 90], "content_span": [91, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281177-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Notre Dame\nThe Notre Dame Fighting Irish were led by 31st-year head coach Muffet McGraw. The Fighting Irish opened their season by winning eleven of their first twelve games, including three wins in the Gulf Coast Showcase and a win in the ACC\u2013Big Ten Women's Challenge, with three of those four being ranked opponents, most notably defending champions No. 3 South Carolina. The Irish suffered their first loss in their eighth game of the season, a matchup with No. 1 Connecticut in the Jimmy V Classic. Notre Dame entered ACC play 11\u20131, ranked No. 2 in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 83], "content_span": [84, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281177-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Notre Dame\nThe Irish performed exceptionally in conference, finishing the regular season 27\u20132, with fifteen wins from sixteen ACC games, including three wins against ranked conference opponents (No. 8 Florida State, No. 19 Duke, and No. 21 NC State) and one win against a ranked non-conference opponent (No. 8 Tennessee).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 83], "content_span": [84, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281177-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Notre Dame\nThe Irish's only other loss of the season came against No. 3 Louisville in their fifth conference game; Notre Dame finished the season having won their last twelve games and were seeded second in the ACC tournament, where they defeated (7) Virginia and (3) Florida State en route to the title game, where they once again fell to Louisville. The Irish were seeded first as an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament's Spokane Regional. On their run to the title game, Notre Dame defeated (16) Cal State Northridge, (9) Villanova, (4) Texas A&M, and (2) Oregon to get to the Final Four, where they faced and defeated (1) Connecticut in overtime via a made basket by Arike Ogunbowale with 1.0 seconds left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 83], "content_span": [84, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281177-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Notre Dame\nThe Irish reached this point despite a severely depleted roster with only seven scholarship players by the start of the NCAA tournament\u2014four players missed part or all of the season to torn ACLs. Brianna Turner, an All-American forward in 2016\u201317, suffered the injury in the 2017 NCAA tournament and missed the entire season. Senior guard Mychael Johnson was lost in a preseason practice, freshman center Mikayla Vaughn after six games, and starting senior point guard Lili Thompson was lost on New Year's Eve. Before the title game, McGraw told media, \"I didn't think we'd have more ACL tears than losses. I think it's just an amazing accomplishment for this team and the resilience they've shown all year.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 83], "content_span": [84, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281177-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Media coverage\nThe Championship Game was televised in the United States by ESPN. Adam Amin gave the play-by-play, with Kara Lawson and Rebecca Lobo as the color analysts, and Holly Rowe as the sideline reporter. Maria Taylor, Lobo, Nell Fortner and Andy Landers provided studio coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament began on March 16, 2018, and concluded with the national championship game on Sunday, April 1. The Final Four was played at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. This is the third time that the women's Final Four was played in Ohio after previously being held in Cincinnati in 1997 and Cleveland in 2007\u00a0and the first time that the women's Final Four was played in Columbus. For only the fourth time in the tournament\u2019s 37-year history, all four of the number one seeds made it to the Final Four (1989, 2012, 2015).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament\nTennessee continued its record streak of making every NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament at 37 consecutive appearances. Connecticut also continued its record streak of 11 consecutive Final Four appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure\nPending any changes to the format, a total of 64 teams will enter the 2016 tournament. 32 automatic bids shall be awarded to each program that wins their conference's tournament. The remaining 36 bids are \"at-large\", with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. The tournament is split into four regional tournaments, and each regional has teams seeded from 1 to 16, with the committee ostensibly making every region as comparable to the others as possible[citation needed]. The top-seeded team in each region plays the #16 team, the #2 team plays the #15, etc. (meaning where the two seeds add up to 17, that team will be assigned to play another).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure\nThe basis for the subregionals returned to the approach used between 1982 and 2002; the top sixteen teams, as chosen in the bracket selection process, hosted the first two rounds on campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure\nThe Selection Committee will also seed the entire field from 1 to 64.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 2018 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues\nThe first two rounds, also referred to as the subregionals, were played at the sites of the top 16 seeds, as was done in 2016 and 2017. The following are the sites selected to host the last four rounds of the 2018 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 92], "content_span": [93, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals Tournament and automatic qualifiers\nSelections for the 2018 NCAA Division I Women\u2019s Basketball Championship were announced at 7 p.m. Eastern time, Monday, March 12 via ESPN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 100], "content_span": [101, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals Tournament and automatic qualifiers\nThe basis for the subregionals returned to the approach used between 1982 and 2002; the top sixteen teams, as chosen in the bracket selection process, hosted the first two rounds on campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 100], "content_span": [101, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals Tournament and automatic qualifiers\nA total of 64 teams entered the 2018 tournament. 32 automatic bids teams were given to teams that won their conference tournament. The remaining 32 teams were granted \"at-large\" bids, which were extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 100], "content_span": [101, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals Tournament and automatic qualifiers\nThe Selection Committee also seeded the entire field from 1 to 64.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 100], "content_span": [101, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals Tournament and automatic qualifiers, Automatic qualifiers\nThe following teams automatically qualified for the 2018 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 122], "content_span": [123, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bracket\nAll times are listed as Eastern Daylight Time (UTC\u22124)* \u2013 Denotes overtime period", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Final Four\nDuring the Final Four round, regardless of the seeds of the participating teams, the champion of the top overall top seed's region (Connecticut's Albany Region) plays against the champion of the fourth-ranked top seed's region (Notre Dame's Spokane Region), and the champion of the second overall top seed's region (Mississippi State's Kansas City Region) plays against the champion of the third-ranked top seed's region (Louisville's Lexington Region).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Television\nESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament. During the first and second rounds, ESPN aired select games nationally on ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPNews. All other games aired regionally on ESPN, ESPN2, or ESPN3 and were streamed online via WatchESPN. Most of the nation got whip-a-round coverage during this time, which allowed ESPN to rotate between the games and focus the nation on the game that had the closest score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 78], "content_span": [79, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281178-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio\nWestwood One had exclusive radio rights to the entire tournament. Teams participating in the Regional Finals, Final Four, and Championship were allowed to have their own local broadcasts, but they weren\u2019t allowed to stream those broadcasts online.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 73], "content_span": [74, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281179-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship is the 37th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of Division I NCAA women's college lacrosse. The semifinal and championship rounds will be played at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium in Stony Brook, New York from May 25\u201327, 2018. All other rounds were played at campus sites, usually at the home field of the higher-seeded team, from May 11\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281179-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field\nAll NCAA Division I women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship, and a total of 27 teams were invited to participate. 14 teams qualified automatically by winning their conference tournaments while the remaining 13 teams qualified at-large based on their regular season records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 68], "content_span": [69, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281179-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field, Seeds\n1. Maryland (18-1)2. North Carolina (15-3)3. James Madison (18-1)4. Boston College (19-1)5. Stony Brook (19-0)6. Florida (16-3)7. Towson (15-4)8. Loyola (15-4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 75], "content_span": [76, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281180-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 2018 Women's College Cup) was the 37th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I women's collegiate soccer. The semifinals and championship game were played at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina from November 30 \u2013 December 2, 2018 while the preceding rounds were played at various sites across the country during November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281180-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Qualification\nAll Division I women's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the tournament. 28 teams received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments, 3 teams received automatic bids by claiming the conference regular season crown (Ivy League, Pac-12 Conference, and West Coast Conference don't hold conference tournaments), and an additional 33 teams earned at-large bids based on their regular season records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281180-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 190 goals scored in 63 matches, for an average of 3.02 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281181-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships\nThe 2018 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested March 14-17, 2018 at the 37th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I women's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281181-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships\nThis year's events were hosted by Ohio State University at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281181-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships\nStanford went back-to-back in national titles for the first time since 1996, and their tenth overall title. They finished 220 points ahead of California. The Cardinal scored in every single event except for the 1 meter diving and the platform diving. Stanford also became the third team to sweep all five relays at an NCAA Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281181-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships\nElla Eastin of Stanford was awarded the 2018 CSCAA Swimmer of the Year with her victories in the 200 IM, 400 IM, and 200 butterfly. Her wins in the 200 IM and 400 IM were both American records. She was also a part of two winning relays, the 800 free relay (along with Katie Ledecky, Katie Drabot, and Brooke Forde), and the 400 free relay (along with Drabot, Simone Manuel, and Janet Hu).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281181-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships\nStanford's Greg Meehan was awarded the 2018 CSCAA Division 1 Women's Coach of the Year for the second year, coaching Simone Manuel, Ella Eastin, Katie Ledecky, and Ally Howe to individual wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281182-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began on November 29, 2018 and concluded on December 15 at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The tournament field was announced on November 25, 2018. Stanford beat Nebraska in the final to claim their eighth national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281182-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Record by conference\nThe columns R32, S16, E8, F4, CM, and NC respectively stand for the Round of 32, Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, Final Four, Championship Match, and National Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281182-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Media Coverage\nFirst and second round matches will be streamed or televised by local school RSN's or streaming services. The 3rd round to the finals will all be streamed by WatchESPN or televised by ESPN Networks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281183-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships took place from March 15 to March 17 in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Quicken Loans Arena. The tournament went into its 88th NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, and featured 62 teams across that level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281184-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I baseball rankings\nThe following human polls make up the 2018 NCAA Division I men's baseball rankings. The USAToday/ESPN Coaches Poll is voted on by a panel of 31 Division I baseball coaches. The Baseball America poll is voted on by staff members of the Baseball America magazine. These polls, along with the Perfect Game USA poll, rank the top 25 teams nationally. Collegiate Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association rank the top 30 teams nationally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281184-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball\nThe Preseason poll ranked the top 40 teams in the nation. Teams not listed above are: 31. San Diego; 32. Sam Houston State; 33. Texas A&M; 34. Kent State; 35. Auburn; 36. Arizona; 37. Stetson; 38. Ole Miss; 39 Nebraska; 40. Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281184-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, NCBWA\nThe Preseason poll ranked the top 35 teams in the nation. Teams not listed above are: 31. Dallas Baptist; 32. South Carolina; 33. Oklahoma; 34. LSU; 35. Missouri State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281185-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I baseball season\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 2018. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament and 2018 College World Series. The College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held annually in Omaha, Nebraska at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, ended on June 28, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281185-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment and format changes\nThe 2018 season was also the last for two other teams in their then-current conferences. Both teams moved between the same two conferences, but in opposite directions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281185-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment and format changes\nFinally, one other Division I team changed its institutional and athletic identities immediately after the 2017\u201318 season. Indiana University and Purdue University dissolved Indiana University \u2013 Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) on July 1, 2018. IPFW's academic programs in health sciences transferred to the IU system as Indiana University Fort Wayne; all remaining academic programs were transferred to the Purdue system as Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). From 2018\u201319, the former IPFW athletic program represents only PFW, and its Summit League membership was assumed by PFW. Shortly before the dissolution took effect, but after the school's baseball season had finished, the athletic program announced that it would henceforth be known as the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 851]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281185-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment and format changes, NCAA Tournament\nFor the first time, the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament seeded the top 16 teams, rather than only the top 8 teams as had been the practice since 1999. This ensures that the regional featuring the top-seeded team is paired with the regional hosted by the 16th-seeded team, where in the past Super Regionals were paired generally along geographical lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281185-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I baseball season, Conference standings, Conference winners and tournaments\nOf the 31 Division I athletic conferences that sponsor baseball, 29 end their regular seasons with a single-elimination tournament or a double elimination tournament. The teams in each conference that win their regular season title are given the number one seed in each tournament. Two conferences, the Big West and Pac-12, do not hold a conference tournament. The winners of these tournaments, plus the Big West and Pac-12 regular-season champions, receive automatic invitations to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 94], "content_span": [95, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281185-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I baseball season, College World Series\nThe 2018 College World Series began on June 16 in Omaha, Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281185-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I baseball season, Coaching changes\nThis table lists programs that changed head coaches at any point from the first day of the 2018 season until the day before the first day of the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season was the 60th season of NCAA championship men's college soccer. The regular season began on August 24, 2018 and continued into the first weekend of November 2018. The season culminated with the four-team College Cup at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium in Santa Barbara, California, December 7\u20139, 2018. There were 206 teams in men's Division I competition. The Maryland Terrapins won their fourth NCAA title, defeating the Akron Zips 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, New programs\nMount St. Mary's University reinstated their men's soccer program, which had been dormant since the end of the 2012 season, for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, New programs\nThe California Baptist Lancers began the transition from Division II to Division I and the Western Athletic Conference in 2018\u201319.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, New programs\nThe UC San Diego Tritons will begin the transition from Division II to Division I and will join the Big West Conference in 2020\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, New programs\nThe Merrimack Warriors will begin the transition from Division II to Division I and will join the Northeast Conference in 2019\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, Discontinued programs\nHartwick College, the only Division III school competing in Division I men's soccer for some years moved to Division III with the school's other sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, Discontinued programs\nDespite the program's many successes, the University of New Mexico's Board of Regents, for economic reasons, voted to discontinue the men's soccer program, along with three other sports teams, after the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, Conference realignment\nNOTE 1: The Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners will move from the Western Athletic Conference to the Big West Conference on July 1, 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, Conference realignment\nNOTE 2: The team formerly known as the Fort Wayne Mastodons officially changed its athletic identity to the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons on June 18, 2018, shortly before the creation of Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). Previously, the PFW athletic program represented Indiana University \u2013 Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), but the Indiana University and Purdue University systems agreed to dissolve IPFW on July 1, 2018, with each system establishing a separate Fort Wayne campus. The IPFW athletic program transferred to PFW, representing only that institution, and remains a member of Division I and the Summit League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, Conference realignment\nNOTE 3: After six years of divisional play, with home-and-home series within the divisions, the Big West Conference teams will be playing a single, eight-team, seven game schedule. This move comes two years before Cal State Bakersfield moves in to make the Big West a nine team league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, Conference realignment\nNOTE 4: Central Arkansas announced on September 6 that its men's soccer program would leave its associate membership in the Missouri Valley Conference after the 2018 season and join the Sun Belt Conference as an Associate Member.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Regular season\nThe regular season began on August 24, 2018 and ended in early November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Regular season, Major upsets\nIn this list, a \"major upset\" is defined as a game won by a team ranked 10 or more spots lower or an unranked team that defeats a team ranked #15 or higher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Postseason, Conference winners and tournaments\n\u2020 = A & C denote the Atlantic and Coastal divisions of the ACC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 88], "content_span": [89, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281186-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Postseason, Postseason awards, All-Americans\nOn December 6, 2018; United Soccer Coaches announced the All-America teams for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 86], "content_span": [87, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281187-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I softball season\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I softball season, play of college softball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 2018. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament and 2018 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held annually in Oklahoma City at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, ended on June 4, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281187-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I softball season, National Invitational Softball Championship\nLoyola Marymount Lions defeated the UC Riverside Highlanders in the championship; Hannah Bandimere was named MVP for the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281187-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I softball season, Women's College World Series\nThe 2018 Women's College World Series began on June 1\u20134 in Oklahoma City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281187-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I softball season, Records\nNCAA Division I single game combined strikeouts:46 \u2013 Brianna Jones, Southern Illinois Salukis (20) & Morgan Florey, Evansville Purple Aces (26); April 28, 2018 (16 innings)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281187-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I softball season, Records\nSenior class single game walks:6 \u2013 Ivie Drake, Georgia State Panthers; April 18, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281187-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I softball season, Records\nSenior class 7 inning single game strikeouts:21 \u2013 Alexis Osorio, Alabama Crimson Tide; March 10, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281187-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I softball season, Records\nFreshman class saves:15 \u2013 Taylor Bauman, Florida Gulf Coast Eagles", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281188-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer rankings\nThree polls make up the 2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer rankings, the United Soccer Coaches Poll, the Soccer America Poll, and the Top Drawer Soccer Poll. 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One conference announced that it would no longer use divisions for its women's soccer seasonal competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 77], "content_span": [78, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281189-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer season, Preseason, Conference realignment\nThe Mid-American Conference previously divided its teams into an East and West Division. However, in 2018 the league discontinued this and all teams were considered to be in one division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 77], "content_span": [78, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281189-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer season, Season Overview, Major upsets\nGames won by a team ranked 10 or more spots lower or an unranked squad that defeats a team ranked No. 15 or higher are considered \"major upsets\". United Soccer Coaches rankings are used for this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 73], "content_span": [74, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281190-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division I women's volleyball rankings\nThe 2018 NCAA Division I women's volleyball rankings is a human poll designated to rank the top 25 women's college volleyball programs at the NCAA Division I level. The official rankings recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) are determined by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), and have released rankings for this competition since 1982. The rankings are updated weekly at the beginning of the season and finalized at the conclusion of the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281191-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Division II baseball tournament decided the champion of baseball in NCAA Division II for the 2018 season. The Augustana Vikings of South Dakota claimed their first national title. In the final, Augustana defeated the Columbus State Cougars. The Cougars made their eighth appearance in the College World Series, having won the event in 2002 and two other times finished as runner up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281191-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Central Regional\u2013Magnolia, Arkansas\nHosted by Southern Arkansas at Goodheart Field at Walker Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281191-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament, College World Series, Results, Bracket\nAll Games Played at USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 81], "content_span": [82, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281192-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships\nThe 2018 NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships was the 61st annual NCAA Men's Division II Cross Country Championship and the 38th annual NCAA Women's Division II Cross Country Championship to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA Division II men's and women's collegiate cross country running in the United States. In all, four different titles were contested: men's and women's individual and team championships. Results were track and field results reporting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281192-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships\nIn the men's 10k, Marcelo Laguera of CSU\u2013Pueblo took home the individual title in 31:46.4, while Grand Valley State University won the team title, scoring 89 points and defeating second-placed Colorado School of Mines (99) and third-placed Western Colorado University (117). In the women's 6k, Sarah Berger of the Grand Valley State University won the individual title in 22:07.7, while Grand Valley State University won the team title with 41 points, beating second-placed University of Mary (83) and third-placed Adams State University (90).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281193-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game\nThe 2018 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game that determined a national champion in NCAA Division II for the 2018 season. It was played at McKinney ISD Stadium in McKinney, Texas, on December 15, 2018, with kickoff at 4:00\u00a0p.m. EST (3:00\u00a0p.m. local CST), and television coverage on ESPNU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281193-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game, Teams\nThe participants of the 2018 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game were the finalists of the 2018 Division II Playoffs, which began with four 7-team brackets to determine super region champions, who then qualified for the national semifinals. The game featured the winners of those national semifinal games: No. 3 seed Ferris State and No. 1 seed Valdosta State. This was the first meeting between the two teams. This was Ferris State's first championship game appearance, and Valdosta State's fourth; the Blazers were 3\u20131 in previous appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 55], "content_span": [56, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281193-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game, Teams, National semifinals\nSuper region champions were seeded 1 to 4 for the national semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 76], "content_span": [77, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281194-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament is the 62nd annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball in the United States. Featuring sixty-four teams, it began on March 9, and concluded with the championship game on March 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281194-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe eight regional winners met in the Elite Eight for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. For the second consecutive year, the Elite Eight was held at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281194-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification\nA total of 64 bids are available for each tournament: 24 automatic bids (awarded to the champions of the twenty-two Division II conferences) and 40 at-large bids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281194-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification\nThe sixty-four bids are allocated evenly among the eight NCAA-designated regions (Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, South Central, Southeast, and West), each of which contains three of the twenty-four Division II conferences that sponsor men's basketball. Each region consists of three automatic qualifiers (the teams who won their respective conference tournaments) and five at-large bids (which are awarded regardless of conference affiliation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281194-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification\nFive teams qualified for their first NCAA Division II tournament in 2018: Ohio Dominican, Point Loma Nazarene, Saint Martin's, Southern Nazarene, and West Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281195-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship\nThe 2018 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship was the 47th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division II men's collegiate soccer in the United States. The semifinals and championship game were played at Highmark Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from November 29\u2013December 1, 2018, while the preceding rounds were played at various sites across the country during November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281195-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship\nThe Barry Buccaneers defeated West Chester, 2\u20131, in the DII College Cup Final. James Kirkham and Steven Kosmala scored goals in the final 12 minutes of the second half to give the Buccaneers the school's first men's soccer national title. Barry, who finished the season 16-4-3, were coached by Steve McCrath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281196-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament involved 64 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the NCAA Division II women's college basketball national champion. It began on March 9, 2018, and concluded with the championship game on March 23, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281196-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe first three rounds were hosted by top-seeded teams in regional play. The eight regional winners met for the quarterfinal and semifinals, better known as the \"Elite Eight\" and \"Final Four\" respectively, and National Championship game at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281196-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe Central Missouri Jennies defeated the Ashland Eagles, 66\u201352, to win the championship and end Ashland's 73-game winning streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281196-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Finals\nQuarterfinals, semifinals and finals were hosted at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281197-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II football rankings\nThe 2018 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). 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The playoffs began on November 17 and concluded with the championship game on December 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281198-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division II football season, Playoffs\nThe field consisted of 28 teams, seven from each of the four super regions. The participants in each region were determined by the regional rankings; if a conference's highest-ranked team was ranked in the top nine, that team qualified via the \"earned access\" provision, and all other participants were selected directly from the rankings. The top seed in each region received a first-round bye. After the quarterfinals, the regional winners were reseeded one through four, with No. 1 meeting No. 4 in the semifinals and No. 2 meeting No. 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281199-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 2018 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the 43rd national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wisconsin for the championship. Eight regional tournaments were held to determine the participants in the World Series. Regional tournaments were contested in double-elimination format, with three regions consisting of six teams, and five consisting of eight, for a total of 58 teams participating in the tournament, up from 56 in 2017. The tournament champion was Texas-Tyler, who defeated Texas Lutheran in the championship series in two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281199-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament\nThis was the final DIII World Series contested with the current regional format and World Series location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281199-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Midwest Regional\nFrank Wade Municipal Stadium-Duluth, MN (Host: The College of Saint Scholastica)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 71], "content_span": [72, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281199-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, New York Regional\nLeo Pinckney Field at Falcon Park-Auburn, NY (Host: State University of New York College at Cortland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 72], "content_span": [73, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281199-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, World Series\nNeuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium-Grand Chute, WI (Host: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh/Lawrence University/Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281200-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships\nThe 2018 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships was the 46th annual NCAA Men's Division III Cross Country Championship and the 38th annual NCAA Women's Division III Cross Country Championship to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA Division III men's and women's collegiate cross country running in the United States. In all, four different titles were contested: men's and women's individual and team championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281200-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships\nThe women's race team title was won by Washington University, their 2nd title. Washington narrowly edged out defending champion Johns Hopkins by a single point, making it the narrowest margin of victory since 1987. The women's individual title was won by junior Paige Lawler of Washington University, becoming the first cross country individual champion in program history. In the men's race, the team title was won by North Central, their 19th title (and 3rd in a row).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281200-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships\nThe Cardinals 43 point victory was the 3rd lowest winning score in the history of the men's race (and the lowest score since 2006). The men's individual title went to Dhruvil Patel of North Central, the 8th Cardinal to win the individual men's title in program history, and the first since 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281201-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament was the 44th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college basketball in the United States. Featuring sixty-four teams, it began on March 2, 2018, following the 2017\u201318 season, and concluded with the championship game on March 17, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281201-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament\nOnce again, the national semifinal and championship rounds were held at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281201-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament\nNebraska Wesleyan defeated Wisconsin\u2013Oshkosh in the final, 78\u201372, to win their first national title. Cooper Cook was voted the MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281201-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams, Automatic bids (43)\nThe following 43 teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2018 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 89], "content_span": [90, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281201-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams, At-large bids (21)\nThe following 21 teams were awarded qualification for the 2018 NCAA field by the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee. The committee evaluated teams on the basis of their win-loss percentage, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, results against common opponents, and results against teams included in the NCAA's final regional rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 88], "content_span": [89, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281202-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 2017\u201318 season, the 35th such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with St. Norbert defeating Salve Regina in the championship game 3-2 in double overtime. All First Round and Quarterfinal matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281202-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams\nTwelve teams qualified for the tournament in the following ways: (Pool A) seven teams received bids as a result of being conference tournament champions from conferences that possessed an automatic bid. (Pool B) one team was selected from two conferences that did not possess an automatic bid. (Pool C) four teams from conferences that possessed an automatic bid received at-large invitations based upon their records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 68], "content_span": [69, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281202-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe tournament featured four rounds of play. All rounds were Single-game elimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281202-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nBecause at least four western teams qualified, the tournament was arranged so that there were two eastern and two western quarterfinal brackets. The top two teams from each region were placed in separate quarterfinal brackets and then arranged so that were all to reach the semifinals the top western seed would play the second eastern seed and vise versa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281202-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nSince five western teams and seven eastern teams qualified for the tournament, three western teams received byes into the quarterfinal round while one eastern team was advanced to the second round. In the first round, the fourth- and fifth-seeded western teams played with the winner advancing to play the top western seed. The second- and third-seeded western teams would play one another in the other western quarterfinal bracket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281202-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe eastern teams were arranged so that the second seed would play the seventh seed, the third seed would play the sixth seed and the fourth seed would play the fifth seed. The winner between the fourth- and fifth-seeded eastern teams would play the top eastern seed while the winner between the third- and sixth-seeded eastern teams would play the victor of the second- and seventh-seeded match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281202-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nIn the First Round and Quarterfinals the higher-seeded team served as host.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281203-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III football season\nThe 2018 NCAA Division III football season is the component of the 2018 college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States. The regular season began on August 30 and culminated on November 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281203-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III football season\nThe season's playoffs ended with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, at Woodforest Bank Stadium in Shenandoah, Texas. Hosted by the University of Mary Hardin\u2013Baylor, this was the first Stagg Bowl since 1992 to be played away from the Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281203-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason\nTwenty-six conferences met the requirements for an automatic (\"Pool A\") bid to the playoffs. Other than the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, the NEWMAC was the only conference with no Pool A bid, being in the second year of the two-year waiting period after beginning football sponsorship in 2017. With the loss of Mount Ida, the ECFC fell one below the required seven members \u2013 not counting second-year provisional member Dean \u2013 and entered the first year of the two-year grace period, while the Liberty League was in the second year of the grace period. The American Southwest, which had fallen below seven members in 2013 and lost its Pool A bid after the grace period, regained it, having attained seven members in 2016 and passed through the waiting period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281203-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason\nSchools not in Pool A conferences were eligible for Pool B. The number of Pool B bids was determined by calculating the ratio of Pool A conferences to schools in those conferences and applying that ratio to the number of Pool B schools. The 26 Pool A conferences contained 228 schools, an average of 8.8 teams per conference. Nine schools were in Pool B, enough for one bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281203-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason\nThe remaining five playoff spots were at-large (\"Pool C\") teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281204-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nAn All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position\u2014who in turn are given the honorific \"All-America\" and typically referred to as \"All-American athletes\", or simply \"All-Americans\". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281204-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nThe 2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the Associated Press (AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), the Sporting News (TSN), and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) for the 2017\u201318 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All selectors choose at least a first and second 5-man team. The NABC, TSN and AP choose third teams, while AP also lists honorable mention selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281204-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nThe Consensus 2018 College Basketball All-American team is determined by aggregating the results of the four major All-American teams as determined by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since United Press International was replaced by TSN in 1997, the four major selectors have been the aforementioned ones. AP has been a selector since 1948, NABC since 1957 and USBWA since 1960. To earn \"consensus\" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281204-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nThe point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281204-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nAlthough the aforementioned lists are used to determine consensus honors, there are numerous other All-American lists. The ten finalists for the John Wooden Award are described as Wooden All-Americans. The ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are described as Senior All-Americans. Other All-American lists include those determined by USA Today, Fox Sports, Yahoo! Sports and many others. The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) are termed Academic All-Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281204-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Academic All-Americans\nOn March 12, 2018, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced the 2018 Academic All-America team, with Jevon Carter headlining the NCAA Division I team as the men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year. The following is the 2017\u201318 Academic All-America Division I Men\u2019s Basketball Team as selected by CoSIDA:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281204-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Senior All-Americans\nThe ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are called Senior All-Americans. The first and second teams, as well as the award winner, were announced during the lead-in to the Final Four. The overall award winner is indicated in bold type.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281205-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament was the 49th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I and Division II men's collegiate indoor volleyball. The single-elimination tournament began on April 26 with a play-in match, with the remainder of the tournament hosted by UCLA from May 1\u20135 at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles. Long Beach State became the Champions for the second time in school history with a 5-set victory over UCLA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281205-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament, Qualification\nWith the addition of the Big West Conference, which began sponsoring men's volleyball in the 2018 season, to the ranks of automatic qualifying conferences, the tournament expanded from six teams to seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281205-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament, Qualification\nSince the 2015 season, the first after the completion of the transition of the last Division III institution competing at the National Collegiate level, Rutgers\u2013Newark, to Division III volleyball, only NCAA men's volleyball programs from Division I and Division II have been eligible for this tournament. Five automatic bids are given to the five conference postseason tournament winners. The two remaining teams are given at-large bids by the NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281206-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans\nAn All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position\u2014who in turn are given the honorific \"All-America\" and typically referred to as \"All-American athletes\", or simply \"All-Americans\". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281206-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans\nThe 2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the United Soccer Coaches (USC), Top Drawer Soccer (TDS), Soccer America (TSN), and College Soccer News for the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. All selectors choose at least a first, second, and third 11-man team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281206-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans\nAlthough the aforementioned lists are used to determine consensus honors, there are numerous other All-American lists. The three finalists for the Hermann Trophy are described as Hermann All-Americans. The ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are described as Senior All-Americans. Other All-American lists include those determined by Hero Sports and many others. The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) are termed Academic All-Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281206-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans, Individual All-America teams, By player\nThis list is of players who were named first-team All-Americans by each respective publication.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281206-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans, Academic All-Americans\nCoSIDA names three Academic All-American teams for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281206-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans, Senior All-Americans\nThe 10 finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are considered Senior All-Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281207-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship\nThe 2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship occurred from November 24th, 2018 to December 2nd, 2018 in Stanford, California at the Avery Aquatic Center. This was the 50th NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship. Eight teams across from all divisions participated in this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281207-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Qualification\nThe six-member selection committee selected eight institutions based on a wide number of factors, primarily number of wins, rigor of schedule, level of availability, an indication of an upward trend or winning consistently, and RPI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281207-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Seeding\nLikewise with the criteria mentioned above, seeding was based on level of ranking, geographic proximity to the finals site, and a projected low level of academic commitments missed. The pots outlined feature what level in the championship institutions competed in, ranging from competing away in the first round for Pot 4 to skipping to the semifinals in Pot 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281207-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Bracket\nThe championship featured a knockout format where schools that lost were eliminated from the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281207-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Honors\nThe following distinctions were distributed concluding the championship to athletes that had superior performance of some kind in the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281208-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2018 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament involves eight schools in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. The quarterfinals will be played at the campuses of the seeded teams on Saturday, March 10, 2018. The Frozen Four will be played on March 16 and 18, 2018 at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The University of Minnesota will host the tournament. This will be the fourth time that Ridder Arena will host the Frozen Four and the sixth time it has been played in Minneapolis. This will be the second year that the Big Ten Network will air the Championship Game live and the first year the semifinals will be aired live on BTN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281208-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams\nIn the fourth year under this qualification format, the winners of all four Division I conference tournaments received automatic berths to the NCAA tournament. The other four teams were selected at-large. The top four teams were then seeded and received home ice for the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 77], "content_span": [78, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281208-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Bracket\nChampionship Game Officials: Referee Scott Roth, Shane Paskey Linesmen: Mike Mueller, Glendon Seal", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 68], "content_span": [69, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281208-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Television\nBig Ten Network televised the semifinals and championship during their multi-year contract to carry the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 78], "content_span": [79, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281209-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Rifle Championships\nThe 2018 NCAA Rifle Championships took place from March 9 to March 10 in Charleston, South Carolina, at the McAlister Field House. The tournament went into its 39th consecutive NCAA Rifle Championships, and featured eight teams across all divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281210-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Skiing Championships\nThe 2018 NCAA Skiing Championships took place from March 7 to March 10 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, at the Steamboat Ski Resort. The tournament went into its 65th consecutive NCAA Skiing Championships, and featured twenty-three teams across all divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281211-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans\nAn All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position\u2014who in turn are given the honorific \"All-America\" and typically referred to as \"All-American athletes\", or simply \"All-Americans\". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281211-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans\nThe 2018 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that will include All-American selections from the Associated Press (AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) for the 2017\u201318 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. Both AP and USBWA choose three teams, while WBCA lists 10 honorees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281211-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans\nA consensus All-America team in women's basketball has never been organized. This differs from the practice in men's basketball, in which the NCAA uses a combination of selections by AP, USBWA, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), and the Sporting News to determine a consensus All-America team. The selection of a consensus All-America men's basketball team is possible because all four organizations select at least a first and second team, with only the USBWA not selecting a third team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281211-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans\nBefore the 2017\u201318 season, it was impossible for a consensus women's All-America team to be determined because the AP had been the only body that divided its women's selections into separate teams. The USBWA first named separate teams in 2017\u201318. The women's counterpart to the NABC, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), continues the USBWA's former practice of selecting a single 10-member (plus ties) team. The Sporting News does not select an All-America team in women's basketball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281212-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship\nThe 2018 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships were held April 20\u201321, 2018, at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri. The UCLA Bruins were the team Champions with a total of 198.075 points. The twelve teams invited were Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Nebraska, Oklahoma, UCLA, Utah, and Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281213-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA men's water polo rankings\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Certes (talk | contribs) at 18:05, 2 December 2019 (unlink character (via WP:JWB)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281213-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCAA men's water polo rankings\nThe 2018 NCAA men's water polo rankings is a human poll designated to rank the top 20 men's college water polo programs at the NCAA Division I, II, and III levels.. The official rankings recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) are determined by the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA), and have released rankings for this competition since 2008. The rankings are updated weekly at the beginning of the season and finalized at the conclusion of the 2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281214-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NCHC Tournament\nThe 2018 NCHC Tournament was the fifth tournament in league history. It was played between March 9 and March 17, 2018. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Denver received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281214-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NCHC Tournament, Format\nThe first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. All eight conference teams participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top four seeded teams each earn home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281214-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NCHC Tournament, Format\nThe winners of the first round series advance to the Xcel Energy Center for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281214-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NCHC Tournament, Format, Conference standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281215-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NEAFL season\nThe 2018 NEAFL season was the eighth season of the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL). The season began on 7 April and concluded on 16 September 2018. The Grand Final was won by Southport, who defeated the Sydney Swans reserves by 55 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281215-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NEAFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nThe grand final was dominated by Southport, and at three-quarter time the Sharks led 12.4 (76) to Sydney's 2.4 (16). Then, in the first thirty seconds of the final quarter, Sydney called for a head count, and Southport was found to have had nineteen men on the field due to an error when retaking the field after three-quarter time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281215-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 NEAFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nIn addition to a free kick, the Laws of the Game as written allowed for Southport's entire score to that point of 12.4 (76) to be reset to zero, but did not necessarily require it, with the decision to be made by NEAFL officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281215-0001-0002", "contents": "2018 NEAFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nThe final quarter continued to be played onfield amid the uncertainty, while the NEAFL officials debated the rules; it was not until the 28th minute that officials confirmed that Southport's score would not be cancelled, concluding that the breach was immaterial to the game and should be treated as a routine interchange infringement, rather than the full too many men on the ground infraction. Southport won the game by 55 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281215-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NEAFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nThe national Laws of the Game were amended after the season, removing the penalty under which a team's entire match score can be cancelled, and replacing it with a penalty under which only the score kicked during the quarter in which the infraction occurs would be cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281216-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NEK Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nUlrikke Eikeri and Elitsa Kostova won the title, defeating Dalma G\u00e1lfi and R\u00e9ka Luca Jani in the final, 2\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20138].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281217-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NEK Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nIga \u015awi\u0105tek won the title, defeating Katarina Zavatska in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game\nThe 2018 NFC Championship Game was a National Football League (NFL) game played on January 20, 2019, to determine the National Football Conference (NFC) champion for the 2018 NFL season. The visiting Los Angeles Rams defeated the New Orleans Saints 26\u201323 in sudden death overtime to advance to their first Super Bowl since the 2001 season. The outcome, however, was mired in controversy because of unpenalized pass interference committed by Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman on Saints wide receiver Tommylee Lewis near the end of regulation, which would be nicknamed the \"NOLA No-Call\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game\nThe Saints entered the game slightly favored to win, due to being the NFC's top seed, having homefield advantage at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, and previously defeating the Rams in the regular season 45\u201335. Both finished the regular season with a 13\u20133 record, with the Saints owning the tiebreaker from their prior win over the Rams. In a tight contest that was tied at 20 by the fourth quarter, the Saints reached the Rams' 13-yard line while less than two minutes remained, but the uncalled pass interference caused their drive to stall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game\nHad the penalty been called, the Saints could have run out the clock further and/or scored a go-ahead touchdown to virtually seal their victory. Instead, the Saints settled for a field goal with 1:41 remaining, which the Rams matched on their next possession to force overtime. The Saints took possession first in overtime from winning the coin toss, but an interception from Saints quarterback Drew Brees led to Rams kicker Greg Zuerlein scoring the winning field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game\nThe no-call was met with backlash, particularly in New Orleans where Saints fans attempted to have the game replayed and boycotted the season's Super Bowl. Although both the NFL and Robey-Coleman admitted that a penalty should have been called, league commissioner Roger Goodell determined that the no-call was an act of human error by the referees and not enough to reverse the game's outcome. The Rams subsequently lost Super Bowl LIII to the New England Patriots, who also defeated them in their previous appearance. Following the controversy, the NFL instituted a new rule for the 2019 season that would allow coaches to challenge pass interference calls. Challengable pass interference calls, however, would not be retained after the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Background\nThe 2018 regular seasons saw both the Saints and the Rams improve upon 11\u20135 records to both go 13\u20133. The two teams won their respective divisions for the second year in a row. In the 2017 playoffs, the Saints defeated divisional rival Carolina Panthers in the Wild Card Round before falling to the Minnesota Vikings in the Divisional Round after the Vikings scored a last-second touchdown that would become known as the Minneapolis Miracle. The Rams had fallen to the Atlanta Falcons in the Wild Card Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Background\nIn the 2018 season, the Saints and Rams respectively secured the 1 and 2 seeds, ensuring they would get a first-round bye and play in the NFC Divisional Round. In the Divisional Round, the Saints played the sixth-seeded and defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. Although they fell behind 14-0 in the first quarter after Eagles quarterback Nick Foles scored two touchdowns, the Saints scored 20 unanswered points to win the game, with cornerback Marshon Lattimore intercepting Nick Foles in Saints territory on the Eagles' final drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Background\nIt was the Saints' first NFC Championship game appearance since the 2009 season, when they won Super Bowl XLIV. The Rams played the fourth-seeded Dallas Cowboys and defeated them by a score of 30-22 as running backs C. J. Anderson and Todd Gurley each rushed for over 100 yards and combined for three touchdowns. It was the Rams' first NFC championship appearance since the 2001 season, when they were the St. Louis Rams and advanced to Super Bowl XXXVI, where they lost to the New England Patriots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Game summary\nAfter a Saints field goal, Rams quarterback Jared Goff was intercepted by Saints linebacker Demario Davis at Los Angeles' 17 yard line. The Saints kicked another field goal, and the Rams failed to get a first down again and were forced to punt. The Saints marched 63 yards down the field and scored a touchdown, making the score 13\u20130 at the end of the first quarter. The Rams scored a field goal halfway through the second quarter. After two punts by the Saints and one by the Rams, the Rams scored a touchdown on a 6 yard Todd Gurley run, cutting the lead to 3 points at the end of the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Game summary\nIn the second half, the Rams started with a punt. The two teams then traded touchdowns, making the score 20\u201317 in favor of the Saints. In the fourth quarter, the Rams drove to the 1, but had to settle for a field goal to tie the game with 5:03 remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Game summary, Controversial play\nPrior to the controversial play, the game was tied 20\u201320. The Saints offense had stalled inside the red-zone at the Rams 13-yard line. The play occurred on 3rd down with 10 yards to go for a first down. Had the Saints picked up that first down, they could have run down the clock to under 20 seconds before attempting a field goal, and likely would have punched their ticket to the Super Bowl. Had they failed to convert, they would have left the Rams with plenty of time to drive down the field with a chance to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Game summary, Controversial play\nThe play occurred with 1:49 remaining in the 4th quarter. Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, the announcers on the Fox broadcast, had the following commentary:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Game summary, Controversial play\nBuck: \"Quick snap, Brees. Pass is...incomplete, no flag for Tommylee Lewis. Nickell Robey-Coleman delivered a hit, and the two officials talk to each other...crowd's going crazy as there's no flag right on the Saints sideline\". Aikman: \"Well, if Nickell Robey-Coleman plays the ball, it's an interception! He's probably going the other way with it. I mean the ball's on the other side of Robey-Coleman and...but that should have been a penalty, and Sean Payton is justifiably upset\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Game summary, Controversial play\nThe play began at 1:49, with quarterback Drew Brees taking the ball and dropping back to pass. Brees threw the ball toward the right sideline, intended for receiver Tommylee Lewis. Before Lewis could attempt to catch the ball, he was blindsided by Nickell Robey-Coleman around the 6 yard line, knocking Lewis to the ground. No flag was thrown. The Saints head coach Sean Payton was enraged and appealed to the referees for a call, but to no avail. The controversial play appeared to be a violation of two rules from the NFL Rulebook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Game summary, Controversial play\nRule 8.5.2(a) states that \"contact by a player who is not playing the ball that restricts the opponent's opportunity to make the catch\" is prohibited. Rule 8.5.2(e) prohibits players from \"cutting off the path of an opponent by making contact with him, without playing the ball\". Immediately after the play, Robey-Coleman can be seen looking side-to-side, likely anticipating a penalty flag. He stated after the game that he got away with a penalty, telling reporters \"Hell yeah, that was a PI. I did my part. Referee made the call. We respect it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Game summary, Controversial play\nRobey-Coleman was also reported as stating that he was intentionally committing a penalty to prevent a touchdown. Lewis, too, was looking for a flag. After the game, he stated \"I got up looking for a flag and didn't see one. It was a bad call.\" Had the penalty been called, the Saints would have been granted a first down on the Rams six yard line with 1:45 left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0010-0003", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Game summary, Controversial play\nThe Rams had only one timeout left, meaning the Saints likely could have run the clock down to about 10\u201315 seconds and attempted a short field goal to take the lead. The Saints' win probability was calculated at 98% if pass interference had been called. After the non-call, their win probability dropped to 78%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Game summary, Remainder of fourth quarter\nAlthough the Saints were deprived of a crucial touchdown, they did manage a field goal to take the lead 23\u201320 with 1:41 remaining. The Rams put together a quick nine-play drive and kicked a 48-yard field goal with 15 seconds left in the game to tie the score. The Saints elected to kneel the ball, and send the game into overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Game summary, Overtime\nThe Saints won the overtime coin toss and elected to receive the opening kickoff. They picked up a quick 15 yards on a pass interference call, but the drive stalled. On 2nd and 16, just 1 minute into overtime, Brees was hit on the arm by Rams linebacker Dante Fowler while throwing deep and the ball was intercepted by John Johnson. On the ensuing drive, the Rams drove down the field and Greg Zuerlein kicked the 57-yard game-winning field goal, sending the team to the Super Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Game summary, Media coverage\nThe game received a 27.1 rating and a market share of 49 for television viewing in the US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath\nThe win advanced the Rams to Super Bowl LIII, in which they were defeated by the New England Patriots, 13\u20133. Saints head coach Sean Payton, who had reacted demonstrably to the non-call on the sideline during the game, delivered strong remarks in his postgame press conference:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath\n\"Disappointing way to lose a game...frustrating, you know. Just getting off the phone with the league office. They blew the call. We had a lot of opportunities though, but that call puts it first and ten, we only need three plays, it's a game changing call. That's where it's at\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath\nPayton references a phone call he held directly after the game with the NFL's Senior VP of Officiating, Al Riveron, who admitted the officials had missed the call. Five days after the game, the NFL fined Robey-Coleman $26,739 for the play. A fine issued on a play where no penalty was called is the League's informal post hoc penalty for plays that likely should have been flagged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath\nThe fine was an admission that not only was the play a defensive pass interference violation, but it also should have been called a personal foul for an illegal hit on a defenseless receiver. Payton and Saints players, including Brees, receiver Michael Thomas, and tight end Benjamin Watson, grew restless as Goodell was slow to reach out to players who felt like they were owed an explanation, or at least an admission that they had been wronged. Eleven days after the game, Thomas tweeted \"He ain't talk to us\". The next day, Brees was interviewed on The Dan Patrick Show:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath\n\"Do I really want to be in a position talking about this over and over again? No, but I have to stand up and do it because I have to represent my team, represent the Who Dat Nation, and that's my responsibility. It's the commissioner's responsibility to do the same thing, and yet we don't hear a peep for 10 days, and it's because he has to do it now because he's at the Super Bowl and he does his annual press conference\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath\nIn Goodell's annual Super Bowl interview on January 30, he admitted that officials were \"human,\" but they had missed that call. While his answer did little to quell players' frustrations, it certainly did nothing for Saints fans, who effectively boycotted the Super Bowl. The game received a 26.1 television rating in New Orleans, the lowest of any market and by far the lowest ever in New Orleans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath, Legal action\nA group of Saints fans and season ticket holders upset with the controversial non-call and the subsequent outcome of the game filed a lawsuit against the NFL on January 27, 2019. The lawsuit, filed by Tommy Badeaux and Candis Lambert \"individually and on behalf of New Orleans Saints Season Ticket Holders, New Orleans Saints National Fan Base a/k/a The Who Dat Nation and any party with interest that has been affected by the outcome,\" named Roger Goodell and the NFL as defendants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath, Legal action\nThe lawsuit asked the Louisiana Court \"to mandate the extraordinary step of ordering a replay of the NFC Championship Game, and for damages to all putative class member Saints fans. The consequences of ordering a replay of the NFC Championship Game or any portion of the game cannot be overstated\". Such an order would have been the first in history. The next day, the NFL publicly acknowledged the missed call for the first time. In the same press release, they asked that the lawsuit be thrown out on the grounds that \"this kind of dispute implicates no legally cognizable rights\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0019-0002", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath, Legal action\nThe court denied the plaintiffs request to replay the game days later. There was also petition on Change.org made requesting that Goodell declare a rematch between the Rams and the Saints on January 27, the Sunday before the Super Bowl. A total of 760,512 people signed the petition, but no such action was taken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath, Rule change\nOn January 30, 2019, reports began to surface that the NFL was considering a rule change. Goodell said during his Super Bowl interview that the league would re-examine replay rules, specifically those excluding judgment calls from being reviewable. Further reports indicated that the NFL is considering adopting a rule that would allow a limited basis for coaches to challenge judgment calls, or whether or not a penalty had been called. The rule would include a consequence should the call be upheld.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath, Rule change\nIn March 2019, the NFL proposed a rule for a one-year replay expansion trial. Under the proposed rule, penalties and pass interference calls would be reviewable. On March 27, 2019, NFL owners approved a trial rule change that would allow coaches to challenge pass interference call on both the offense and the defense. The measure was approved by vote of 31\u20131, with the Cincinnati Bengals being the only team vote against it. However, this rule change was reverted prior to the 2020 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath, 2019 incidents\nAnother officiating controversy occurred in a Week 2 matchup of the 2019 season between, again, the Saints and Rams. The game was tied 3\u20133 with 6:11 left in the 2nd quarter. The Rams were at the Saints' 11 yard line, 3rd and 7. As quarterback Jared Goff attempted a pass, Trey Hendrickson stripped the ball from his hand and Cameron Jordan returned it 87 yards for a touchdown. However, the officials called it an incomplete pass. After review, the ruling was changed to a fumble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath, 2019 incidents\nThe officials did not credit Jordan with the touchdown, however, stating that the play had already been blown dead, consistent with league rules. The Rams won the game 27\u20139. Saints head coach Sean Payton said after the game that \"When we get poor officiating or we get an awful call like that, we can't control that.\" Cam Jordan directed a jab at the referees, saying, \"I didn't even hear the whistle. I grabbed the ball, 15, 20 yards down the field. Allegedly a whistle was blown\u2014 clearly, I mean, a whistle was blown. Normally you let the play happen. Any Foot Locker \u2014 I mean, referee \u2014 usually tells you, you let the play happen, then you go back and review the play.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281218-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 NFC Championship Game, Aftermath, 2019 incidents\nDuring the Saints' wild card playoff game, they saw their season end due to another controversial pass interference no-call against the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings won the game on a touchdown pass on the opening drive in overtime from Kirk Cousins to Kyle Rudolph, 26\u201320. However, Rudolph pushed off on Saints cornerback P. J. Williams to gain separation in order to catch the pass and no penalty was called. Had offensive pass interference been called, the Vikings would have faced a 3rd and goal from the 14 and give the Saints a chance to force a field goal that would have kept the game going.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281219-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL Draft\nThe 2018 NFL Draft was the 83rd annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible players for the 2018 NFL season. The draft was held on April 26\u201328 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas; it was the first draft to take place in an NFL stadium and the first to be held in Texas. In order to be eligible to enter the draft, players must be at least three years removed from high school. The deadline for underclassmen to declare for the draft was January 15, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281219-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL Draft\nFive quarterbacks were selected in the first round \u2014 Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, Josh Allen, Josh Rosen, and Lamar Jackson \u2014 the second highest number of first-round quarterback selections (tied with the 1999 and 2021 drafts) after the six selected in 1983. The draft was also the first to have siblings \u2014 safety Terrell Edmunds and linebacker Tremaine Edmunds \u2014 selected in its first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281219-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL Draft\nThe 2018 NFL Draft was the first of two professional sports drafts to be held in the Dallas\u2013Fort Worth metroplex during the calendar year, as the Dallas Stars hosted the 2018 NHL Entry Draft in June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281219-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL Draft, Early entrants\nIn order to be eligible to enter the draft, players must be at least three years removed from high school. The deadline for underclassmen to declare for the draft was January 15, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281219-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL Draft, Early entrants\nThe following is the breakdown of the 256 players selected by position:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281219-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL Draft, Supplemental draft\nA supplemental draft was held on July 11, 2018. For each player selected in the supplemental draft, the team forfeits its pick in that round in the draft of the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281219-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL Draft, Trades\nIn the explanations below, (PD) indicates trades completed prior to the start of the draft (i.e. Pre-Draft), while (D) denotes trades that took place during the 2018 draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281219-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL Draft, Media coverage\nCoverage of the draft was broadcast by ESPN and NFL Network, with Fox also simulcasting NFL Network's coverage of the first two rounds of broadcast television (serving as a prelude for Fox's acquisition of Thursday Night Football for the 2018 season). ESPN aired coverage of the last four rounds on ABC. College GameDay broadcast a special edition from outside AT&T Stadium as a pre-show on ESPN, and its panel hosted a secondary broadcast of the first round on ESPN2. ESPN Deportes broadcast coverage in Spanish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281219-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL Draft, Media coverage\nTelecasts of the first round across all three broadcasters (which included the expansion of coverage to broadcast television) drew a combined Nielsen overnight household rating of 8.4, and total viewership of 11.214 million, making it the most-watched opening round since 2014. ESPN drew the largest single audience, with 5.336 million viewers, while Fox and NFL Network had a combined viewership of 5.74 million across both channels (3.776 and 2.005 million individually).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season\nThe 2018 NFL season was the 99th season of the National Football League (NFL) and the 53rd of the Super Bowl era. The season began on September 6, 2018, with the NFL Kickoff Game with the defending Super Bowl LII champion Philadelphia Eagles defeating the Atlanta Falcons 18\u201312. The season concluded with Super Bowl LIII, the league's championship game, on February 3, 2019, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, between the AFC Champion New England Patriots and the NFC Champion Los Angeles Rams. The Patriots defeated the Rams 13\u20133 for their sixth Super Bowl championship and their third title in five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Player movement\nThe 2018 NFL League year and trading period began on March 14. On March 9, clubs were allowed to exercise options for 2018 on players who have option clauses in their contracts, submit qualifying offers to their pending restricted free agents and submit a Minimum Salary Tender to retain exclusive negotiating rights to their players with expiring 2017 contracts and who have fewer than three accrued seasons of free agent credit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Player movement\nTeams were required to be under the salary cap using the \"Top-51\" definition (in which the 51 highest paid-players on the team's payroll must have a combined salary cap hit below the actual cap). On March 12, clubs were allowed to contact and enter into contract negotiations with the agents of players who were set to become unrestricted free agents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Player movement, Free agency\nOver 550 players were eligible for some form of free agency during the free agency period. Notable players to change teams include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Player movement, Trades\nThe following notable trades were made during the 2018 league year:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Player movement, Draft\nThe 2018 NFL Draft was held from April 26 to 28 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. This was the first draft to take place in an NFL stadium, and the first to be held in Texas. The Cleveland Browns selected Baker Mayfield with the first overall pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Officiating changes, Offseason\nFour referees retired during the 2018 off-season, the most to do so since records on the statistics have been kept.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Officiating changes, Offseason\nIn total, 10 officials left the league in the offseason, and seven were hired. Four officials were promoted to the referee position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Officiating changes, In-season\nDown judge Hugo Cruz was fired for performance-related issues culminating with a missed false start during a Week 6 game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Cleveland Browns. It was the first time in the Super Bowl era that an official was dismissed in-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Rule changes\nThe following playing rule changes have been approved by the Competition Committee for the 2018 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Rule changes\nThe following changes to the kickoff rules were approved at the NFL Spring Owners' Meeting on May 23, 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Rule changes\nThe chain crew was reduced by one member; the \"X\" marker, usually unseen on television but used to mark the start of an offensive drive, was eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Rule changes\nIn response to the recent National Anthem protests in the league the past two seasons, any player or staff member who is on the field during the performance of \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" must stand for the duration of the performance. Such players and staff members are not required to be on the field at that time and may wait in the locker room as an alternative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Rule changes\nThe NFL will not directly fine offending players or staff members for defying the rule, instead fining the teams, who will in turn have power to fine the players or staff members at their own discretion. The National Football League Players Association filed a grievance with the league over the policy on July 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, 2018 deaths\nThe following people associated with the NFL (or AFL) died in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, 2018 deaths, Members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame\nTommy McDonald: A 1998 inductee of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, McDonald played 12 seasons in the NFL, the majority of them with the Philadelphia Eagles, where he had the majority of his success. The six-time Pro Bowler and four-time All-Pro (first or second team) led the league in both receiving yards and receiving touchdowns in 1961 and was the last non-kicking position player to play without a facemask. He died September 24 at the age of 84.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 70], "content_span": [71, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, 2018 deaths, Members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame\nJim Taylor: The nine-year veteran of the Green Bay Packers was the first member of the team's 1961\u20131968 dynasty to be inducted into the Hall as a 1976 inductee. The fullback, who played from 1958 through the first World Championship, appeared in five Pro Bowls, was named first or second team All-Pro six times, and led the league in both rushing touchdowns and yards in 1962, leading the latter category in 1961 as well. He finished his career on the inaugural roster of the New Orleans Saints. He died October 13, aged 83.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 70], "content_span": [71, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Preseason\nTraining camps for the 2018 season were held in late July through August. Teams started training camp no earlier than 15 days before the team's first scheduled preseason game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Preseason\nThe Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, in which the Baltimore Ravens defeated the Chicago Bears 17\u201316, was played on August 2; and was televised nationally by NBC. The Ravens, who made their first Hall of Fame Game appearance, were represented in the 2018 Hall of Fame class by former linebacker Ray Lewis, while the Bears were represented by former linebacker Brian Urlacher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Regular season\nThe 2018 regular season's 256 games were played over a 17-week schedule that began on September 6. Each of the league's 32 teams played a 16-game schedule, with one bye week for each team. The regular season concluded with a full slate of 16 games on December 30, all of which were intra-division matchups, as it had been since 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Regular season, Scheduling formula\nUnder the NFL's current scheduling formula, each team plays the other three teams in its own division twice. In addition, a team plays against all four teams in one other division from each conference. The final two games on a team's schedule are against the two remaining teams in the same conference that finished in the same position in their respective divisions (e.g., the team that finished fourth in its division will play all three other teams in the conference that also finished fourth). The division pairings for 2018 were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Regular season, Scheduling formula\nIntra-conferenceAFC East vs AFC SouthAFC West vs AFC NorthNFC East vs NFC SouthNFC West vs NFC North", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Regular season, Scheduling formula\nInter-conferenceAFC East vs NFC NorthAFC North vs NFC SouthAFC South vs NFC EastAFC West vs NFC West", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Regular season, Scheduling formula\nThe entire season schedule was released on April 19. Highlights of the 2018 season included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Regular season, Saturday flexible scheduling\nWhen the entire season schedule was released on April 19, the league announced flexible scheduling for Saturday games in weeks 15 and 16. The final times of these games were announced on October 24:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 61], "content_span": [62, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Postseason\nThe 2018 playoffs began on the weekend of January 5\u20136, 2019, with the Wild Card Playoff round. The four winners of those playoff games visited the top two seeds in each conference in the Divisional round games the weekend of January 12\u201313. The winners of those games advanced to the Conference Championship games on January 20. (In the event that both Los Angeles teams had advanced to their respective conference championships with both teams as the home team, one of the two games would have been postponed to the evening of January 21.) The 2019 Pro Bowl was held at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida on January 27. Super Bowl LIII was held on February 3 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Awards, Individual season awards\nThe 8th Annual NFL Honors, saluting the best players and plays from 2018 season, was held on February 2, 2019 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Awards, All-Pro team\nThe following players were named First Team All-Pro by the Associated Press:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Awards, Players of the week/month\nThe following were named the top performers during the 2018 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Head coaching and front office personnel changes, Head coaches, Off-season\nWilks was hired on January 22, after serving as a defensive coach for the Chicago Bears, San Diego Chargers, and Carolina Panthers since 2006. Wilks's only previous head coaching experience was at Savannah State in 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 91], "content_span": [92, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Head coaching and front office personnel changes, Head coaches, Off-season\nNagy spent the past five seasons as an offensive assistant with the Kansas City Chiefs, the last two as offensive coordinator; the Bears hired Nagy on January 8 and this will be his first NFL head coaching job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 91], "content_span": [92, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Head coaching and front office personnel changes, Head coaches, Off-season\nOn February 6, the Colts announced that they had planned to hire New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels as the team's next head coach, however, McDaniels informed the Colts that he had changed his mind and was returning to the Patriots. The Colts then hired Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Frank Reich, who was previously a Colts' assistant from 2008\u20132011. This will be Reich's first head coaching job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 91], "content_span": [92, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Head coaching and front office personnel changes, Head coaches, Off-season\nShurmur was announced as the Giants' new head coach on January 22. He had previously served as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns from 2011 to 2012, compiling a record of 9\u201323 (.281), and an offensive coach for the Philadelphia Eagles and Minnesota Vikings since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 91], "content_span": [92, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Stadiums\nTwo teams, the Carolina Panthers and Oakland Raiders, entered the final year of their lease agreements with their current stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Stadiums, Carolina Panthers\nOn December 17, 2017, Jerry Richardson, the Panthers' founding owner, announced he was putting the team up for sale. Richardson had previously indicated the team would be put up for sale after his death, but Richardson was accused of paying hush money to cover up questionable conduct, including racial slurs and sexually suggestive requests of employees, hastening Richardson's decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Stadiums, Carolina Panthers\nThe Panthers' lease on Bank of America Stadium expires after the 2018 season, which would allow any incoming owner to relocate the team out of Charlotte, North Carolina, to another market if they so desired, only being liable for the remaining debt from stadium renovation. At an estimated $35 million, the debt payment would be a small expense compared to the relocation fee the NFL charged for the two teams that relocated in 2016 and 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0032-0002", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Stadiums, Carolina Panthers\nThe two most likely candidates to buy the team as of May\u00a02018 were David Tepper, a hedge fund manager with a higher net worth and a minority stake in the Pittsburgh Steelers but fewer ties to Charlotte; and Ben Navarro, a financial services CEO based in Charlotte who had the backing of Richardson's only living son. Tepper was announced as the new owner on May 16, with the announcement coming in time for the league to vote on his bid at the owners meeting on May 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0032-0003", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Stadiums, Carolina Panthers\nThe sale closed on July 9 with Richardson-era chief operating officer Tina Becker (who ran the franchise after Richardson stepped away from operations) resigning. Tepper immediately stated the franchise would retain the Carolina Panthers name for the time being, but that a new stadium would likely be necessary; he stated that he hoped to build said stadium in Charlotte but would not guarantee the team remains there, claiming he did not know enough about the situation to guarantee the team stays in the Charlotte area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Stadiums, Oakland Raiders\nThe Raiders, prior to the 2017 season, committed to relocating to Las Vegas, Nevada, once a new stadium was constructed for them in 2020. In 2016, the Raiders signed a three-year extension with the Oakland Coliseum. In order to secure another season in Oakland, California, Coliseum management indicated in September 2017 that the Raiders would need to offer major concessions to compensate for the financial losses the Coliseum incurs by hosting Raiders games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Stadiums, Naming rights agreements, Arizona Cardinals\nOn September 4, University of Phoenix Stadium, the home field of the Arizona Cardinals, was renamed State Farm Stadium. The naming rights agreement is for 18 years; however, the cost of the deal was not disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 70], "content_span": [71, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Stadiums, Naming rights agreements, Denver Broncos\nOn June 20, the Denver Broncos' home stadium was renamed Broncos Stadium at Mile High. The sporting goods chain Sports Authority had held naming rights to the stadium's field (as \"Sports Authority Field at Mile High\") but had gone out of business in 2016. The previous signage referring to Sports Authority was removed in March. Just prior to the 2019 season, the naming rights were sold to Empower Retirement, ultimately renaming the stadium to \u201cEmpower Field at Mile High\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 67], "content_span": [68, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Stadiums, Naming rights agreements, Jacksonville Jaguars\nOn February 16, EverBank Field, the home field of the Jacksonville Jaguars, was renamed TIAA Bank Field, after TIAA's 2017 acquisition of EverBank. The naming rights agreement was for 10 years and $43 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 73], "content_span": [74, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Uniforms, Color Rush discontinuation\nThe Color Rush program was discontinued, and teams were no longer required to wear the special uniforms for Thursday Night Football. Teams had the option to continue using the existing Nike designs for the program as standard third jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 53], "content_span": [54, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Broadcast rights, Television\nThis was the fifth year under the current broadcast contracts with ESPN, CBS, Fox, and NBC. This included \"cross-flexing\" (switching) Sunday afternoon games between CBS and Fox before or during the season (regardless of the conference of the visiting team). NBC continued to air Sunday Night Football, the annual Kickoff game, and the primetime Thanksgiving game. ESPN continued to air Monday Night Football and the Pro Bowl. CBS broadcast Super Bowl LIII.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 52], "content_span": [53, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Broadcast rights, Television\nOn January 31, the NFL announced that Fox had acquired the broadcast television rights to the Thursday Night Football package under a five-year deal (aligned with the remainder of the NFL's current broadcast contracts). Fox aired 11 games, in simulcast with NFL Network, with the remaining games in the package airing exclusively on NFL Network to satisfy its carriage contracts (with local broadcasts syndicated broadcast stations in the markets of the teams in each game). CBS and NBC had made bids to renew their previous contracts (CBS had held the rights since 2014, joined by NBC since 2016), but were reluctant to pay a higher rights fee due to the league's ratings downturn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 52], "content_span": [53, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Broadcast rights, Digital\nThe NFL agreed to an extension of its digital rights agreement with Verizon Communications under a 5-year, $2.5 billion deal. Unlike the previous deal, it no longer includes exclusivity for streaming in-market and nationally televised NFL games on mobile devices with screens 7 inches (18\u00a0cm) or less in size (such as smartphones), in order to account for changes in viewing habits, but still includes enhanced access to highlights and other digital content for Verizon-owned properties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Broadcast rights, Digital\nIn addition, Verizon announced that it would no longer make these streams exclusive to Verizon Wireless subscribers, and would leverage its portfolio of media brands (such as Yahoo!, which it acquired in 2017) to distribute them to a larger audience. All of the NFL's current television partners have added mobile streaming rights (which were previously reserved to Verizon) to their existing contracts for the 2018 season, with telecasts becoming available via CBS All Access, the Fox Sports App, the ESPN app, and the NBC Sports app. Under the terms of the agreement, Verizon must give the majority of the advertising revenue to the broadcast partners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Broadcast rights, Digital\nOn April 26, 2018, the NFL announced that it had reached a two-year extension of its agreement with Amazon for shared digital rights to the Thursday Night Football games simulcast with Fox, with a 15% increase in rights fees. To fulfill a request that the streams be available freely, the games will also be made available on Twitch, an Amazon-owned streaming service that was originally designed for video game streaming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Broadcast rights, Radio\nBoth of the NFL's national radio contracts, Westwood One for English language and Entravision for Spanish language, expired after the 2017 season. Westwood One's parent company Cumulus Media filed for bankruptcy in November 2017 and began terminating national broadcast contracts and sports agreements in January 2018, putting any contract extensions on hold. The company emerged from bankruptcy on June 4, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Broadcast rights, Radio\nWith the release of the 2018 schedule, NFL.com listed ESPN Deportes Radio (which had shared NFL rights with Entravision in 2017 and had carried Super Bowl LII) as the league's national Spanish-language broadcaster. The national English-language broadcaster was still identified as Westwood One, which Westwood One has also confirmed; no press release has been issued in regard to a contract extension with that network, and it is unknown when the current arrangement was signed or when it will end. Additionally, Westwood One removed Sunday afternoon games from their package, instead focusing on the primetime matchups as well as the postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0043-0001", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Broadcast rights, Radio\nSportsUSA, Compass and ESPN Radio, which also has broadcast select Sunday afternoon NFL games, will continue to do so. Meanwhile, Entravision extended the Sunday night rights for 3 years, through 2021, and gained two Super Bowls, the entire AFC Playoff package, the Thursday Night Opener, and a Thanksgiving Day game as part of their new deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Broadcast rights, Radio\nOnly one game into the pre-season, Indianapolis Colts announcer Bob Lamey, who had been with the team for most of the time since their 1984 relocation from Baltimore, retired suddenly after a complaint of him using a racial slur in the 1980s was revealed. Sideline reporter Matt Taylor was named his de facto replacement for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Broadcast rights, Radio\nGreg Papa, after 21 years calling play-by-play for the Oakland Raiders, joined the San Francisco 49ers as their play-by-play announcer; Papa cited an ongoing feud with Raiders owner Mark Davis for his departure. Replacing Papa with the Raiders is Brent Musburger, who came out of retirement from sports announcing to sign a three-year deal with the team that will see him serve as broadcaster through the team's relocation to Las Vegas (Musburger maintains a side business, the Vegas Sports Information Network, in Las Vegas).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Personnel changes\nAll four broadcast partners will employ rules analysts for the 2018 season, citing changes in the league's rules that have become too complicated for its broadcast teams to handle. NBC hired Terry McAulay to be their rules analyst for Sunday Night Football. CBS hired Gene Steratore to fill their rules analyst position, a position that had been vacant since CBS released Mike Carey in 2015. ESPN hired Jeff Triplette for Monday Night Football. Fox retained both Mike Pereira and Dean Blandino. Additionally, Pereira assists with Fox's Thursday Night Football Coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Personnel changes\nESPN introduced a fully new broadcast team for Monday Night Football. Joe Tessitore replaced Sean McDonough as lead play-by-play man; McDonough will remain with ESPN as a college football announcer. With previous color analyst Jon Gruden returning to coaching, Monday Night Football hired Jason Witten and Booger McFarland as their color commentators; while McFarland offers his commentary from the sidelines, he fills a role similar to the \"non-football\" player position that Monday Night Football has traditionally relied upon in its past three-person booths (such as Howard Cosell, Dennis Miller and Tony Kornheiser). Lisa Salters, the sideline reporter, carries over from the previous broadcast team. Jeff Triplette will replace Gerald Austin as rules analyst.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Personnel changes\nFox initially had planned to hire a new broadcast team for its Thursday Night Football, making an overture to Peyton Manning to serve as color commentator. Since Manning declined the offer, the network announced that it will be placing its existing lead broadcast team of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman on the package, reducing the number of games the duo will call on Sundays (Buck and Aikman will only call the nationally televised \"America's Game of the Week\" telecasts on Sundays).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0048-0001", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Personnel changes\nA version of Fox NFL Sunday will serve as the lead-in to Thursday Night Football, without Curt Menefee or Jimmy Johnson; the show will instead be hosted by panelist Michael Strahan from New York City, displacing Rich Eisen, the studio host for Thursday night pregame since the package's inception in 2006. Strahan will be joined by fellow Fox colleagues Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Personnel changes\nIn previous seasons, Buck did not call any NFL games during late October, working Major League Baseball playoff games instead. For 2018, Fox coordinated its schedule with MLB so that none of its scheduled broadcasts would land on a Thursday (Fox carries the NLCS and the World Series), so Buck will continue to broadcast both sports, crisscrossing the country in seven cities over a 22-day period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Personnel changes\nIn addition, NBC introduced a new studio team for Football Night in America. Mike Tirico, who was the on-site host and secondary play-by-play announcer in 2017, became the show's studio host from Stamford, Connecticut, while Liam McHugh moved into Tirico's former role. Dan Patrick, who had been the studio host for FNiA since 2008, declined to sign a long-term contract and left NBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Personnel changes\nOn radio, Kurt Warner replaced Boomer Esiason as the color commentator for Westwood One's Monday Night Football broadcasts, after Esiason had filled the role for the previous 18 years. Esiason will continue as a studio host for CBS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Personnel changes\nIn a surprise announcement made two days before its first game, Amazon announced it would provide its own broadcast team for its eleven games, with Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer serving as the lead broadcast team. The announcement makes Kremer the first-ever female color analyst for an NFL game, the first time a game has been broadcast with no men involved in the broadcast team, and the first time since the 1987 season of ESPN Sunday Night NFL that no former coach or player served on the broadcast team in any capacity. Amazon will offer the standard Fox broadcast team, a British broadcasting team, and a Spanish language feed as alternate audio choices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Primetime game time shifts\nThe kick-off times for all three primetime series were moved up to start 5 to 15 minutes earlier to facilitate local newscasts and SportsCenter to start earlier and cause less disruption to late night television schedules in the Eastern and Central time zones. Thursday and Sunday Night games now kick off at 8:20\u00a0p.m. ET, while Monday Night games now kick off at 8:15\u00a0p.m. ET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 50], "content_span": [51, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Most watched regular season games\nAfter two years of decline, television viewership for the NFL slightly rebounded in 2018, with ratings up 3% as a whole through the first ten weeks of the season, despite a major decline (16%) in other programming on the same networks. The season finished with ratings up 5% compared to 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 57], "content_span": [58, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281220-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 NFL season, Media, Most watched regular season games\n*Note \u2014 Late DH matchups listed in table are the matchups that were shown to the largest percentage of the market.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 57], "content_span": [58, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281221-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NHK Trophy\nThe 2018 NHK Trophy was the fourth event of six in the 2018\u201319 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held in Hiroshima on November 9\u201311. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters also earned points toward qualifying for the 2018\u201319 Grand Prix Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281221-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NHK Trophy, Entries\nThe ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281222-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Entry Draft\nThe 2018 NHL Entry Draft was the 56th NHL Entry Draft. The draft was held on June 22\u201323, 2018, at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281222-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Entry Draft\nThe 2018 NHL Entry Draft was the second of two professional sports drafts to be held in the Dallas\u2013Fort Worth metroplex during the calendar year, as the Dallas Cowboys hosted the 2018 NFL Draft in April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281222-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Entry Draft\nThe first three selections were Rasmus Dahlin going to the Buffalo Sabres, Andrei Svechnikov being selected by the Carolina Hurricanes, and Jesperi Kotkaniemi being picked by the Montreal Canadiens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281222-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Entry Draft\nThe 2018 draft featured both the first player trained in England to be drafted in Liam Kirk and the first Jamaican-born player drafted in Jermaine Loewen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281222-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Entry Draft, Eligibility\nIce hockey players that were born between January 1, 1998, and September 15, 2000, are eligible for selection in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. Additionally, undrafted, non-North American players born in 1997 are eligible for the draft; and those players who were drafted in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft, but not signed by an NHL team and who were born after June 30, 1998, are also eligible to re-enter the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281222-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Entry Draft, Draft lottery\nSince the 2012\u201313 NHL season all teams not qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs have a \"weighted\" chance at winning the first overall selection. Beginning with the 2014\u201315 NHL season the NHL changed the weighting system that was used in previous years. Under the new system the odds of winning the draft lottery for the four lowest finishing teams in the league decreased, while the odds for the other non-playoff teams increased. The Buffalo Sabres, Carolina Hurricanes and Montreal Canadiens won the lotteries that took place on April 28, 2018, giving them the first, second and third picks overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281222-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 NHL Entry Draft, Draft lottery\nThe Buffalo Sabres retained the top pick, while Carolina moved up nine spots and Montreal moved up one spot. In the process, the Ottawa Senators and Arizona Coyotes moved down two spots from second and third overall, respectively, while the Detroit Red Wings, Vancouver Canucks, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers and New York Islanders each dropped one spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281222-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round\nThe order of the 2018 Entry Draft is listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281223-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Stadium Series\nThe 2018 NHL Stadium Series (officially the 2018 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series for sponsorship reasons) was a regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game played outdoors, part of the Stadium Series of games held at football or baseball stadiums. The Washington Capitals defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 5\u20132, at Navy\u2013Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, the home stadium of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, on March 3, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281223-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Stadium Series\nThis was the only game in the Stadium Series scheduled for the 2017\u201318 season (as opposed to multiple games in 2014 and 2016), and marked the first appearance of a Canadian team in the Stadium Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281223-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Stadium Series, Background\nNHL commissioner Gary Bettman said the 2018 Stadium Series game is the start of a unique partnership with the U.S. military in which the NHL plans to host outdoor games at military service academies around the United States. In the fall of 2016, the NHL and the New York Rangers had explored the possibility of holding an outdoor game at Michie Stadium on the campus of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281223-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Stadium Series, Game summary\nWashington's Alexander Ovechkin scored his 40th goal of the season, while Nicklas Backstrom, Evgeny Kuznetsov and John Carlson each had a goal and two assists. With ten minutes left in the third period, a power outage at Navy\u2013Marine Corps Memorial Stadium suspended play for about 15 minutes. Despite the power failure delay, the Capitals went on to win the game 5\u20132. In addition to the Ovechkin goal, the other Capitals players who scored were Evgeny Kuznetsov, Nicklas Backstrom, John Carlson and Jakub Vrana. Nazem Kadri and Zach Hyman scored the Maple Leafs' goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281223-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Stadium Series, Game summary\nNumber in parenthesis represents the player's total in goals or assists to that point of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281223-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Stadium Series, Television\nThe game was televised in the United States on NBC, and in Canada as part of the Hockey Night in Canada coverage that was simulcast of both CBC and Sportsnet, and in French on TVA Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281223-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Stadium Series, Television\nTo accommodate NBC's preferred 8 p.m ET. start time for the Stadium Series game, HNIC had an irregular schedule on this particular Saturday: the Montreal Canadiens' game against the Boston Bruins was played earlier at 5 p.m., the Ottawa Senators at Arizona Coyotes contest (on City) also took place at 8 p.m. instead of the normal 7 p.m. start time for the early games, and the late doubleheader game featuring the New York Rangers at the Edmonton Oilers was pushed to 10:30 p.m. ET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281223-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Stadium Series, Television\nDue to the power outage delay, NBC switched the final minutes of the game to NBCSN at 11 p.m. ET, as to prevent local newscasts and Saturday Night Live from being delayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic\nThe 2018 NHL Winter Classic (officially the 2018 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic) was an outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game, part of the Winter Classic series, played on January 1, 2018. The game featured the Buffalo Sabres matched up against the New York Rangers at Citi Field in the New York City borough of Queens, home of Major League Baseball's New York Mets. The game marked the 10th anniversary of the NHL Winter Classic, following the success of the 2003 Heritage Classic in Edmonton, Alberta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic\nThe 2018 game marked the second Winter Classic for each team, following the Rangers' appearance in the 2012 event and the Sabres' in 2008. It was the Rangers' fourth outdoor game, having also appeared in the 2014 Stadium Series. J. T. Miller of the Rangers scored on a rebound in overtime to give the Rangers a 3\u20132 win over the Sabres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic, Background\nOn March 15, 2017, Arthur Staple of Newsday reported that the game had been awarded to the New York Rangers. The Rangers originally had planned to play at Blaik Field at Michie Stadium on the campus of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York but were unable to come up with an agreement to use that facility in time. Yankee Stadium, which hosted the Rangers' games in the 2014 NHL Stadium Series, was ruled out for the Winter Classic because it hosts college football's Pinstripe Bowl a week before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic, Background\nInstead, the Rangers reportedly reached an agreement with Citi Field, home of the New York Mets baseball team, to host the event. The same article identified the Buffalo Sabres as the Rangers' opponent. The Sabres were also in negotiations to host the event, both because it marked ten years since the inaugural Winter Classic and because the 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships had already scheduled an outdoor game at New Era Field for late December 2017, which would have allowed the outdoor ice surface to be used for both that and the Winter Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0002-0002", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic, Background\nLeague vice president Bill Daly argued that having two major outdoor games in the same facility so close together would have stretched the resources of Pegula Sports and Entertainment too thin, hence why New York City was chosen as the host site. The Sabres were chosen as the opponents in a thank-you gesture from NBC and the NHL for taking the risk on the inaugural Winter Classic in 2008, and the team's poor performance and declining television ratings (at a time when the Winter Classic's ratings are also declining) did not concern NBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic, Background\nOn May 10, 2017, commissioner Gary Bettman officially announced that the 2018 Winter Classic would be played at Citi Field, and feature the New York Rangers against the Buffalo Sabres. In order to maintain the tax-exempt status of the Rangers' home arena, Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are designated as the away team for this game as a legal fiction. The tax exemption stipulates that it only applies if the Rangers do not \"cease playing\" home games at MSG, generally interpreted as playing any \"home\" game outside of MSG. Hence, the Rangers' Stadium Series games in 2014 were also subject to this fiction, and all games that the Rangers play at neutral sites (such as the 2011 NHL Premiere) have likewise listed the Rangers as the away team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic, Background\nDespite being the designated home team, the Sabres wore a white throwback uniform during the game (current NHL custom has the home team wear color and the away team white). The uniform is primarily based on the Sabres' 1970s jersey and colors, with some elements borrowed from the team's Buffalo Bisons-inspired 40th Anniversary third jerseys from 2010 to 2012. The Rangers wore navy blue jerseys with the diagonal \"RANGERS\" lettering on the front of the jersey in white, inspired by the lettering worn by the team in the late 1920s, with the sleeve and waist striping inspired by the uniforms of the early 1930s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic, Game summary\nThe Rangers went up 2-0 in the first period with goals by Paul Carey and Michael Grabner. Buffalo's Sam Reinhart had a power play goal in the second period, and then Rasmus Ristolainen tied the game early in the third. The game went into overtime, where J. T. Miller scored on a power play goal with 2:17 left in the extra period to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic, Broadcasting\nThe game was broadcast, as it has been since the Winter Classic's inception, by NBC in the United States. In Canada, Sportsnet simulcast the NBC feed, while TVA Sports used NBC's video to dub their French-language commentary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic, Broadcasting\nThe broadcast of the game set a record low for viewership of the game, with 2.48 million viewers and a 1.4 Nielsen rating, both down slightly from the previous year's record low and continuing the game's continuous decline in ratings since the event's peak in 2014. NBC, however, stated that viewership was still two times higher than the average viewership of regular season games in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic, Broadcasting\nAudience burnout, the Sabres' poor play (which drove ratings for the Sabres' regional telecasts for that season down 20 percent compared to the previous year), competition from a strong slate of bowl games (including the UCF Knights football team's bid for a perfect season airing on the 2018 Peach Bowl opposite the Winter Classic), and fan hangover after the Buffalo Bills broke their 17-year playoff drought the previous day were cited as factors in the continued ratings decline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic, Pregame/Anthem/Entertainment\nDuring the team introductions, Ace Frehley performed New York Groove", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic, Pregame/Anthem/Entertainment\nThe anthem was performed by New York City Children's Choir Every Voice Choirs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281224-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NHL Winter Classic, Pregame/Anthem/Entertainment\nThe ceremonial puck drop was done by first responders from NYPD, FDNY, and New York State Police", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281225-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series\nThe 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Season was announced on June 6, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281225-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series\nIt was the 63rd season of the National Hot Rod Association's top drag racing competition. There were 24 Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock events, and 16 Pro Stock Motorcycle events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281225-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, Schedule\n* Finals televised on tape delay. Ennis, TX race broadcast schedule and channel changed from FS2 to FS1 because of 2018 National League Division Series presented by Doosan Game 3 start times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281225-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, Schedule, Additional Rules for Specially Marked Races\n4 Lanes: The Four-Wide Nationals in both Las Vegas and Charlotte in the spring will compete with cars on four lanes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281225-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, Schedule, Additional Rules for Specially Marked Races\n1.5: The U. S. Nationals and Auto Club Finals will have their race points increased by 50% . Drivers who qualify but are eliminated in the first round receive 30 points, and each round win is worth 30 points. The top four receive 10, 9, 8, and 7 points, respectively, for qualifying positions, with the 5\u20136 drivers receiving 6 points, 7\u20138 drivers receiving 5 points, 9\u201312 receiving 4 points, and 13\u201316 receiving 3 points. Also, the top four, not three, drivers after each session receive points for fastest times in each round (4-3-2-1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281225-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, Schedule, Event changes\nOn January 16, 2018, Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey ceased all drag racing operations at the facility due to ongoing safety concerns as well as rising maintenance costs. Two weeks later, the NHRA Summernationals, already scheduled to take place there in June, was announced to be moved to Virginia Motorsports Park in Petersburg, Virginia. The last NHRA professional event at VMP had taken place in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281225-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, Schedule, Event changes\nBecause of a series of Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series date changes, the NHRA changed the dates of numerous rounds to avoid conflicts. The race in Joliet was moved to early June, as the normal date had been reassigned to the NASCAR meeting at the nearby Chicagoland Speedway, and the Countdown dates in Reading and Charlotte were swapped since the Charlotte date would have been too close to the NASCAR road course playoff race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281225-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, Schedule, Event changes\n2: Due to inclement weather throughout the day, Final Elimination Rounds at the Menards NHRA Heartland Nationals in Topeka, Kansas did not start until around 7 PM CDT on May 20, 2018. After fog began settling in during the second round of pro racing, it was postponed until the following day at 10 AM CDT when the semifinal and final rounds were held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281226-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NLL season\nThe 2018 National Lacrosse League season, also known as the 2017\u201318 season, was the 32nd season in NLL history. It began on December 8, 2017, and ending on June 9, 2018, with the Saskatchewan Rush winning their 3rd title in 4 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281226-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NLL season, Final standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281226-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NLL season, Attendance\nNLL drew 762,367 spectators to its regular-season matches during the 2018 season. The average regular-season home attendance for each team is shown in the table below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281227-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NPF Draft\nThe 2018 NPF College Draft was the 15th annual collegiate draft for the National Pro Fastpitch. It took place April 23, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee at Acme Feed & Seed, a downtown entertainment venue. It was available for internet viewing via NPFTV, the league's streaming platform. The first selection was Paige Lowary of Oklahoma, picked by the Chicago Bandits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281227-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NPF Draft, The Draft\nDrafting an athlete gives an NPF affiliate team the rights to that athlete for two full seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281227-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NPF Draft, The Draft, Draft Selections\nPosition key: C = catcher; INF = infielder; SS = shortstop; OF = outfielder; UT = Utility infielder; P = pitcher; RHP = right-handed pitcher; LHP = left-handed pitcherPositions will be listed as combined for those who can play multiple positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281228-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NPF transactions\nThe following is a list 2018 NPF transactions that have occurred in the National Pro Fastpitch softball league since the completion of the 2017 season and during the 2018 season. It lists which team each player has been traded to, signed by, or claimed by, and for which player(s) or draft pick (s), if applicable. Players who have retired are also listed. Per Commissioner Cheri Kempf's tweet, NPF contracts expire in February, therefore the extension of a contract \"through 2028\" means the player is only contracted to play through the 2027 season, with the contract expiring the following February. \"Thru 2028 season\" therefore would mean a contract that expires in February 2029, covering only games played in 2028.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281228-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NPF transactions, Transactions\nSource:Any transactions listed below without a reference were originally announced on", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season\nThe 2018 National Premier Soccer League season was part of the 106th season of FIFA-sanctioned soccer in the United States and the 16th season of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL). Elm City Express was the defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season\nThe 2018 NPSL champion qualifies to play for the 2019 Hank Steinbrecher Cup organized by the United States Adult Soccer Association. The NPSL has elected to use results of the 2018 league season to determine which NPSL clubs qualify for the 2019 U.S. Open Cup. The United States Soccer Federation has not yet determined how many berths for the U.S. Open Cup will be awarded to NPSL clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season\nMiami FC 2 defeated FC Motown on the road, 3\u20131, to win the 2018 NPSL championship. Dylan Mares was named Man of the Match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Changes from 2017\nThe Atlantic Blue Conference and the Atlantic White Conference were merged to form the North Atlantic Conference. The top four teams in the new conference qualify for the conference playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Changes from 2017\nOnly three teams in the Mid-Atlantic Conference qualify for the conference playoffs instead of four teams as in 2017. The top team gets a bye to the conference final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Changes from 2017\nWith the number of conferences in the Northeast Region reduced from four to three, a wildcard team qualifies for the region semifinals. The wildcard team is the conference final loser with the best regular-season record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Changes from 2017\nThe East and West Divisions of the Southeast Conference are eliminated, and conference playoff qualification is determined on the basis of conference standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Changes from 2017\nThe Lone Star Conference is divided into groups: Red, White and Blue. Teams play the other members of their group twice and other conference members only once. Lone Star Conference playoff qualification is based on standings in the group, not the conference. The top two group winners receive the first and second seeds and a bye to the conference semifinals. The remaining group winner receives the third seed and plays in the conference quarterfinals along with each group's second-place team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Changes from 2017\nNorthwest Conference teams play each other three times instead of two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Changes from 2017\nFollowing the expansion of the Golden Gate Conference, members play each other twice instead of three times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Changes from 2017\nSouth Region Semifinal matchups are predetermined based on pairings of specific conferences and not based on region seeding. The Southeast Conference champion plays the Sunshine Conference champion, and the Lone Star Conference champion plays the Heartland Conference champion. Hone-field advantage for the region semifinals is based on region seeding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Changes from 2017\nThe Golden Gate Conference receives an additional berth to the West Region playoffs, and the region wildcard berth is eliminated. The Southwest Conference continues to have three berths in the West Region playoffs, but the conference's third seed is determined by a play-in game between the third- and fourth-place teams. West Region Quarterfinal matchups are predetermined based on placing within the conference and not based on region seeding. West Region teams are seeded and bracketed for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Changes from 2017\nGreater Binghamton FC Thunder moved from the Keystone Conference in the Northeast Region to the East Conference in the Midwest Region. The move puts the Thunder in the same conference as three other New York state teams: FC Buffalo, the Rochester Lancers and Syracuse FC. The other four New York state NPSL teams, the Brooklyn Italians, Kingston Stockade FC, New York Athletic Club and the New York Cosmos B, all play in the new North Atlantic Conference in the Northeast Region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Teams\nEighteen new clubs joined the NPSL for the 2018 season, including one that returned from a one-year hiatus, and 16 teams departed. Jacksonville Armada FC replaced Jacksonville Armada U-23, the organization's B squad, after the 2018 North American Soccer League season was cancelled. The Clarkstown SC Eagles merged with FC Motown. The resulting combined team used the FC Motown name and played its home matches in Madison, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Teams\nNinety-eight teams competed in the NPSL during the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Influx of NASL talent\nPrior to the start of the season, the NPSL became a beneficiary of the uncertainty surrounding the 2018 North American Soccer League season, since three NASL clubs decided to field many of their Division II-quality players in NPSL matches. First, Jacksonville Armada FC owner Robert Palmer announced that the team would compete in the NPSL in 2018, replacing the club's reserve side, Jacksonville Armada U-23. Palmer said the roster would include five or six players from the NASL squad and that the players would be using the NPSL games as a preseason training opportunity until the then expected start of the NASL season in August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Influx of NASL talent\nThe following day, Miami FC CEO Sean Flynn announced the formation of a reserve squad, Miami FC 2, which entered the NPSL as an expansion team. Flynn said that he created Miami FC 2 to provide Miami FC's players with live match action instead of being confined to training as they waited for the start of the NASL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Influx of NASL talent\nOn February 27, 2018, the NASL announced that it had cancelled its 2018 season; it also announced that three of its teams, Miami FC, Jacksonville Armada FC and the New York Cosmos would be fielding teams in NPSL. Shortly thereafter, Carlos Mendes was hired as head coach of the New York Cosmos B, the organization's reserve side, which had competed in the NPSL since 2015. Within days the Cosmos B signed Danny Szetela, Chris Wingert, Bljedi Bardic, Jonathan Borrajo, Alexis Velela and Wojciech Wojcik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Other developments\nVirginia Beach City FC and D.C. United of Major League Soccer (MLS) announced a partnership aimed at creating opportunities for young players in the Tidewater region to develop into professionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Other developments\nThe NPSL became the second U.S.-based league (after MLS) to conduct advanced training for referees. NPSL director of officials Paul Scott said, \"[W]e need to contribute in a meaningful way in the training of the officials, if we want our product to improve.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Other developments\nCindy Spera was promoted from NPSL director of operations to the position of managing director.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Other developments\nThe NPSL reached an agreement with Select Sport for the Danish sports equipment manufacturer to be the league's official match ball sponsor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Other developments\nThe NPSL announced that A.S. Los Angeles would join the league as an expansion club for the 2019 season. The team will play in the Southwest Conference. Harry Tachian is the club's majority owner and serves as its chairman and president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, NPSL at the U.S. Open Cup\nThe United States Soccer Federation's Open Cup Committee initially allocated 19 berths in the 2018 U.S. Open Cup to NPSL teams. NPSL expansion club El Farolito had made it through the open division qualifying process. However, tournament rules require that a participating team remain a playing member in good standing of the same league from the date of the open division entry deadline through the date of the U.S. Open Cup Final. By jumping from the San Francisco Soccer Football League to the NPSL, El Farolito had disqualified itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, NPSL at the U.S. Open Cup\nAs a Division II league, the NASL was entitled to send all its U.S.-based clubs to the U.S. Open Cup in the past. However, the USSF informed the three NASL clubs playing (either directly or through a reserve team) in the NPSL in 2018, that they were not eligible to participate in the tournament, since NPSL teams qualify based on the previous season's results. Neither the New York Cosmos B nor the Jacksonville Armada U-23 were ranked highly enough by the NPSL to qualify, and Miami FC 2 was new to the league. The three clubs appealed this ruling, requesting berths in the tournament. The USSF ultimately reversed its decision and allowed the three teams to participate, bringing the total number of NPSL teams in the tournament to 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, NPSL at the U.S. Open Cup\nA play-in round was added to the U.S. Open Cup for the New York Cosmos B, the Jacksonville Armada FC and Miami FC 2. Their opponents were selected from NPSL and Premier Development League (PDL) qualifiers based on geographical proximity and a random draw. The three selected teams were given the option to host the matches, which all three elected to do. The New York Cosmos B were drawn against fellow NPSL side the Brooklyn Italians, while the Jacksonville Armada FC and Miami FC 2 drew PDL clubs The Villages SC and FC Miami City, respectively. The Italians defeated the Cosmos, while the Armada topped The Villages, and Miami FC 2 beat FC Miami City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, NPSL at the U.S. Open Cup\nIn the first round of the U.S. Open Cup, NPSL clubs had seven wins in 12 matches against PDL teams and won four of seven matches with local qualifiers. One first-round mach pitted two NPSL teams squaring off against each other. The 12 NPSL teams advancing to the second round was a new record high for the league and four more than in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, NPSL at the U.S. Open Cup\nNPSL clubs lost seven of their nine second-round matches against United Soccer League (USL) opponents. Elm City Express defeated Seacoast United Phantoms in the only second-round match featuring NPSL and PDL teams. One second-round match was an all-NPSL Miami derby with Miami United FC beating Miami FC 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, NPSL at the U.S. Open Cup\nIn the third round of the U.S. Open Cup, Elm City Express fell to USL side Charleston Battery, and FC Wichita fell to local qualifier NTX Rayados. Miami United FC secured a road win against fellow Florida NPSL side Jacksonville Armada to become the only NPSL team to advance past the third round of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, NPSL at the U.S. Open Cup\nMiami United FC hosted Orlando City SC of MLS in the fourth round of the U.S. Open Cup. Orlando City had 70% of the ball possession and was never really challenged in a 3\u20130 victory. The Orlando City goalkeeper need to make only one save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, NPSL at the U.S. Open Cup\nOverall, NPSL clubs had 16 wins and 18 losses against non-NPSL opponents in the U.S. Open Cup. They split their eight matches against local qualifiers, won 10 of 15 matches against PDL teams, lost eight of 10 matches against USL clubs and lost their only match against an MLS squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, NPSL at the Hank Steinbrecher Cup\nThe 2017 NPSL champion Elm City Express represented the league at the 2018 Hank Steinbrecher Cup for the title U.S. National Amateur Champions. Matches were played at Veterans Memorial Stadium in New Britain, Connecticut, less than an hour's drive from the Express's home in New Haven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 68], "content_span": [69, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, NPSL at the Hank Steinbrecher Cup\nThe Express lost its semifinal match, 2\u20130, to defending Steinbrecher Cup winner Michigan Bucks of the PDL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 68], "content_span": [69, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, NPSL at the Hank Steinbrecher Cup\nIn the third-place match, the Express conceded a goal in second-half stoppage time and fell to the 2017 National Amateur Cup champions Lansdowne Bhoys FC of the Cosmopolitan Soccer League, 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 68], "content_span": [69, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nIn the Keystone Conference, FC Motown started the season with nine straight wins before dropping a 2\u20131 decision at home to West Chester United SC in their final match. The loss eventually cost FC Motown home-field advantage in the Northeast Region Final against the New York Cosmos B. Torch FC occupied the bottom of the Keystone Conference, losing all 10 of their matches and scoring only eight goals while conceding 50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nThe New York Cosmos B dominated the North Atlantic Conference, winning all 10 of their matches and conceding only eight goals while scoring 40. After starting the season 2\u20133\u20132, defending NPSL champion Elm City Express won its final three matches, culminating with a 6\u20134 road win over the Rhode Island Reds F.C. in a winner-take-all showdown for the final North Atlantic Conference playoff berth. In five home matches, the Seacoast United Mariners went pointless, were shut out four times and were outscored, 14\u20132. The Mariners suffered shutout losses in three of their five road matches but managed draws in the other two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nFC Baltimore and Northern Virginia United FC entered their final regular-season matches with identical 6\u20132\u20131 records. FC Baltimore took the top seed in the Mid-Atlantic Conference with an 8\u20132 home victory over Charlottesville Alliance FC, while Northern Virginia United lost on the road to Virginia Beach City FC, 7\u20131. A road draw against Charlottesville Alliance in its final regular-season match was just enough for FC Frederick to win a standings tiebreaker over Virginia Beach City and claim the final Mid-Atlantic playoff berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nThe Laredo Heat finished with the best overall regular-season record in the NPSL and was the only team in the South Region with a perfect record, outscoring its opponents, 37\u20134. The Heat conceded only one goal in five home matches while scoring 20. The Shreveport Rafters FC claimed the second playoff berth in the Blue Group of the Lone Star Conference, when Katy 1895 FC suffered a 9\u20130 home loss to the Houston Dutch Lions FC in their final regular-season match. Tyler FC lost all 10 of their matches, scoring just seven goals while conceding 54.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0037-0001", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nIn their opening match of the season hosting the Shreveport Rafters, Tyler scored a late second-half goal to cut their deficit to 2\u20131 but could not get the equalizer. They were never within a goal of the winning score for the rest of the season, and they were shut out five times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nThe top three clubs in the Sunshine Conference made the conference the most competitive in the league. Eventual NPSL champions Miami FC 2, who topped the Sunshine Conference table, had a loss and three draws in its four regular-season matches against second- and third-place finishers Jacksonville Armada and Miami United. However, Miami FC 2 won all eight of their matches against their other four conference opponents. Both matches between the Armada and Miami United ended in draws. At the bottom of the conference, Storm FC scored only one goal all season. It came at home against Naples United FC in a 1\u20131 draw, the only match Storm did not lose. Storm was outscored 27\u20131 at home and 14\u20130 on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nAfter starting the season 2\u20133\u20130, the Little Rock Rangers closed by winning their final five matches. However, it was not enough to catch FC Wichita in the Heartland Conference. Wichita started the season 7\u20130\u20130 before stumbling to the finish line with two losses (including one to the Rangers) and a draw in their final three matches. Ozark FC lost all five of their home matches and were outscored, 9\u20132. Ozark was outscored, 13\u20132, on the road but did manage a draw against Saint Louis Club Atletico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nChattanooga FC went 4\u20130\u20133 in the first half of the season and 4\u20132\u20131 in the second half to take the top seed in the Southeast Conference. The Atlanta Silverbacks were 4\u20134\u20132 in their first 10 matches and 3\u20130\u20131 in their final four to take second place. Chattanooga and the Silverbacks met in the final match of the regular season and played to a 1\u20131 draw at Atlanta Silverbacks Park, but Chattanooga entered the match with a four-point lead in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nMinneapolis City SC was the only undefeated team in the Midwest Region, posting a record of 10\u20130\u20134 to win the North Conference title. They were 6\u20130\u20131 at home. LaCrosse Aris FC went winless at 0\u201313\u20131. Oddly, LaCrosse Aris earned their only point of the season with a scoreless draw at home against conference champion Minneapolis City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nAFC Ann Arbor won the Great Lakes Conference title and claimed the second seed in the Midwest Region playoffs with a 9\u20131\u20132 record, losing only on the road to second-place Grand Rapids FC. FC Columbus won both of its matches against Grand Rapids, who started the season 5\u20131\u20131 in their first seven games but closed by going 2\u20132\u20131 in their final five, including the pair of losses to Columbus. Meanwhile, Columbus followed a 1\u20132\u20132 start by going 5\u20131\u20130 over the next six games to put themselves in position to take the conference's second playoff berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nWith Grand Rapids having completed their schedule with a 7\u20133\u20132 record, Columbus was 6\u20133\u20132 and holding the tiebreaker over Grand Rapids heading into their final match at the 2\u20135\u20134 Milwaukee Torrent. The Torrent got the better of Columbus, 1\u20130, with a goal in the 87th minute and denied them a trip to the postseason. The late-season stumble by Grand Rapids cost them home-field advantage in their Midwest Region Quarterfinal match against Duluth FC. At the bottom of the Great Lakes Conference, FC Indiana lost all 12 of their matches, scoring only four goals while conceding 75. Indiana was outscored on the road, 42\u20130, in six matches. In Indiana's only match decided by a single goal, the Torrent scored in the 78th minute to break a 2\u20132 tie and held on for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nWith the East Conference title on the line, the Erie Commodores FC hosted Cleveland SC in the final match of the regular season for both clubs, who each had identical 7\u20131\u20133 records. Cleveland held the standings tiebreaker and needed only a draw for the conference championship, because it had won the first match between the teams, 3\u20132. Cleveland's 70th-minute goal was not enough to overcome two first-half tallies by the Commodores who held on for the win despite playing more than half the match with only 10 men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0043-0001", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nCleveland rested four of their regular starters with injuries, all of whom were expected to be available for the opening playoff match. With Ann Arbor likely to win as they finished up their regular season at home against pointless Indiana, the Commodores and Cleveland were nearly assured at game time that they would be playing each other in the West Region Quarterfinals, and the East Conference champions would host. After starting the season 3\u20133\u20133, the Rochester Lancers won their final three matches, but it was not enough to challenge the Commodores and Cleveland for a playoff berth. The Greater Binghamton FC Thunder lost all 12 of its matches, scoring nine goals and conceding 66.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nFC Golden State hosted ASC San Diego in a showdown for the Southwest Conference title in the final match of the regular season for both clubs. Golden State entered the match in first place by one point with an 8\u20131\u20132 record, losing only at San Diego. ASC San Diego was in second place at 8\u20132\u20131, having lost both their matches against Orange County FC. After Golden State built a 2\u20130 lead, ASC San Diego struck in the 71st, 76th and 79th minutes to win the match, 3\u20132, and claimed the Southwest Conference championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0044-0001", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nThe first and third goals in ASC San Diego's dramatic comeback were tallied by their leading goalscorer, Amani Walker. Two days later, Orange County, at 7\u20131\u20133, had a chance to claim second place in the Southwest Conference and avoid the play-in game, if they could earn a road win against Riverside Coras USA. The second-place team in the Southwest Conference would also have home-field advantage in the West Region Quarterfinals. Orange County's Peter Gregory scored his second goal of the match in the 76th minute to break a 2\u20132 deadlock that had stood since halftime. However, Coras tied the match five minutes later on an own goal, the second Orange County had conceded in the match, and the game ended in a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nEl Farolito went undefeated at 9\u20130\u20135 to win the Golden Gate Conference championship. After starting the season 0\u20133\u20132, the Sonoma County Sol finished 7\u20131\u20131 to claim the final Golden Gate Conference playoff berth. The Sol and the East Bay FC Stompers entered their June 9 match with identical 3\u20134\u20133 records. A go-ahead goal in the 68th minute by NPSL leading goalscorer Omar Nu\u00f1o was the difference in a 3\u20132 home win for the Sol. Following the win over the Stompers, the Sol outscored its opponents, 16\u20130, in its final three matches. FC Davis started the season 3\u20131\u20135 but lost their final five matches to fall out of the playoff picture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Regular season\nSpokane SC Shadow and FC Mulhouse Portland were the only two teams in the Northwest Conference with winning records and claimed the conference's two playoff berths. The Shadow went undefeated at 7\u20130\u20135 to claim the conference championship. In head-to-head matchups of the conference leaders, the Shadow had a win and a draw in its two home matches with Portland, which were played on consecutive days, and the only match played in Portland ended in a tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nWith some conferences still playing regular-season matches, the NPSL postseason got underway on June 30, with the Southwest Conference Play-in Game. An early goal by Jonathan Bryant put Orange County in the lead, but a red card issued to Michael Bryant in the 31st minute forced them to play down a man. Daniel Crisostomo doubled Orange County's lead in the 70th minute. A dangerous challenge and a scuffle in the 82nd minute resulted in two red cards for Arizona and a yellow card for Orange County. Cody Shelton scored in the 90th minute to seal Orange County's 3\u20130 victory. Bennett Sneddon kept the clean sheet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nThe Lone Star Conference Quarterfinals were played on July 7. The sixth-seeded Shreveport Rafters FC pushed the Houston Dutch Lions FC to extra time with the match scoreless. Jacob Powell got the Dutch Lions on the board in the third minute of extra time. \u00c1ngel Lopez followed with a goal in the final minute before the first half of extra time expired. Dylan Armstrong rounded out the scoring in the 115th minute to give the Dutch Lions a 3\u20130 victory. Sullivan Lauderdale earned the 120-minute shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nThe Fort Worth Vaqueros FC dominated FC Brownsville, 5\u20130, in the other Lone Star Conference Quarterfinal. Jamie Lovegrove and Kall\u00e9 Son\u00e9 each contributed a brace, and Jesse Miralrio scored the other goal. Grant Makela kept a clean sheet for the Vaqueros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nThe West Region Quarterfinals were played on July 7 and 8. El Farolito got a first-half goal from Arnhold Rivas to take the lead over the Sonoma County Sol but had to play with 10 men after Ademar Rodr\u00edguez drew a red card in the 62nd minute. The Sol could not get the equalizer, and Camilo Campo provided another goal in the 90th minute to give El Farolito a 2\u20130 win. Mario Martinez recorded the shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nFor the third time in three matches this season, Orange County FC defeated ASC San Diego. San Diego's leading scorer Amani Walker put them on the board first in the 51st minute. However, Jose Montes de Oca and Daniel Crisostomo both scored in the 58th minute to turn the match around. Dakota Collins provided insurance for Orange County in the 84th minute, and Orange County secured a 3\u20131 victory over the Southwest Conference champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nThe Northwest Conference champions Spokane SC Shadow got a goal from Micheal Ramos in the 7th minute of their West Region Quarterfinal to take an early lead. However, Christian Thyron replied a minute later for FC Mulhouse Portland. Fred Braun gave Portland a 2\u20131 lead in the 40th minute, and the Shadow was unable to equalize, suffering its first loss of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nFC Golden State got goals from Gabriel Henrique Silva, Allisson, Gustavo Villalobos and Jose Perez-Flores and cruised to a 4\u20132 West Region Quarterfinal victory over CD Aguiluchos USA. Simon Rawnsley and Anthony De Souza scored goals for Aguiluchos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nThe Southeast Conference Quarterfinals were played on July 10. Both lower seeds, who had losing records during the regular season, prevailed with road wins. The Georgia Revolution FC upset the New Orleans Jesters, 3\u20132, on goals by Ehjayson Henry, Isaac Promise and Jumar Oakley. Oliver Roberts scored both goals for the Jesters. Wesley Sprague saved a Thomas Peers penalty kick in the 73rd minute to keep the Revolution in the lead, 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nAsheville City SC got goals from Siavash Jamehdar, Elma Nfor and Tyson Hichman to win the other Southwest Conference Quarterfinal over Inter Nashville FC. Jonathan Remond scored in the 90th minute to spoil the shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nNine NPSL playoff matches were played on July 11. Led by two goals from Christopher Katona, FC Motown beat FC Monmouth, 4\u20131, in the Keystone Conference Semifinals. Walter Calderon and Christopher Riordan also scored for Motown. Chase Covello scored Monmouth's goal on a free kick from just outside the box that deflected off Motown's wall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nIn the other Keystone Conference Semifinal, Junior Lone Star FC fell behind West Chester United SC, 2\u20131, when they conceded an own goal in the 41st minute. Three minutes into the second half, Junior Lone Star tied the match on Anthony Allison's second goal of the game. Extra time did not settle the matter, and West Chester United advanced on penalty kicks, 4\u20133. Charles Wilson's goal in the 12th minute had given United an early 1\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nThe New York Cosmos B and defending NPSL champion Elm City Express each held one-goal leads in the first half of their North Atlantic Conference Semifinal match. Bljedi Bardic scored both Cosmos B goals, and Tyler Carlos had both tallies for the Express. Neither team scored in the second half. The Cosmos B broke through in extra time on goals by Wojciech Wojcik in the 111th minute and Zaire Bartley in the 112th minute. Since the Cosmos B had the best regular-season record in the Northeast Region, the berth in the North Atlantic Conference Final guaranteed them a spot in the region semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nJames Thristino's hat trick led the Brooklyn Italians to a 3\u20130 victory over Hartford City FC in the other North Atlantic Conference Semifinal. Michael Bernardi kept a clean sheet for the Italians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nJ. C. Banks and Ciar\u00e1n Kilduff each had a brace to lead the Jacksonville Armada FC to a 4\u20131 win over Miami United FC in the Sunshine Conference Semifinal. Nicolas Micoli scored for United in the 26th minute to tie the match, 1\u20131, which was where the teams stood at the half. The four goals was the most conceded by Miami United in an NPSL or U.S. Open Cup match in 2018. The win was the first for the Armada in 2018 over Miami United in their fourth match. Miami United won at Jacksonville in the third round of the U.S. Open Cup. Both regular-season matches between the teams ended in draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nAfter Arthur Rogers scored in the 41st minute to give the Houston Dutch Lions FC a lead in the Lone Star Conference Semifinals, the Midland-Odessa Sockers FC temporarily rescued their season, when Maxiliano Galizzi scored in the second minute of second-half stoppage time. Yinka Lawal broke through for the Dutch Lions, scoring in the 113th minute. Jacob Powell added an insurance goal in the second minute of extra-time stoppage time. Two minutes later, Andres Felipe Rodriguez-Becerra scored from the penalty spot for the Sockers, but the referee blew the final whistle shortly thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nThe Laredo Heat got a brace from Gabriel Rodriguez, and Rafael Montabes added a goal to lead the Heat to a 3\u20131 Lone Star Conference Semifinal win over the Fort Worth Vaqueros FC. Declan O'Shea scored for the Vaqueros in the 59th minute to spoil the shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nThe Little Rock Rangers and Tulsa Athletic were engaged in a scoreless duel in the Heartland Conference Semifinals until Donald Benamna scored in the 90th minute to give the Rangers a 1\u20130 victory. Walid Birrou kept a clean sheet for the Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nMatt Clare's brace led FC Wichita to a 4\u20130 Heartland Conference Semifinal win over Saint Louis Club Atletico. Leonardo Perez and late substitute Teylor Cubero also scored for Wichita in a game free from disciplinary actions. Mark Weir recorded the shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nThree NPSL playoff matches were contested on July 12. Saidou Toure scored in the 60th minute to give FC Frederick, who qualified for the postseason by winning a standings tiebreaker, a lead over Northern Virginia United FC in the Mid-Atlantic Conference Semifinal. Collin Verfurth responded with the equalizer three minutes later, but that was all the scoring for regulation time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0065-0001", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nUnited went in front in the 97th minute, when Christopher Welsh scored on a penalty kick, but Brian Flatter, who entered the match as a substitute after the Welsh goal, responded for Frederick three minutes later, and the match went to penalty kicks. Bilal Hassane put home the winner on Frederick's fifth kick, giving them the shootout, 4\u20133. Three of the four players who scored for Frederick in the shootout entered the match as substitutes. Northern Virginia United had won both regular-season matches between the clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nThe Georgia Revolution FC held top seed Chattanooga FC scoreless in their Southeast Conference Semifinal match, until Juan Hernandez-Mendizabal curled a free kick around the Revolution's wall to give Chattanooga a 1\u20130 lead in the 73rd minute. Joao Costa added an insurance goal in the 89th minute, and Philip D'Amico kept a clean sheet in Chattanooga's 2\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nAsheville City SC kept the Atlanta Silverbacks FC off the scoreboard in the other Southeast Conference Semifinal, until Aaron Walker converted a penalty kick in the 68th minute, and Nyambi Jabang, who was returning to action after a hamstring injury and entered the match as a halftime substitute, followed with a goal on a counterattack two minutes later, that bounced off the goalpost and into the net. Bryce Billington recorded the shutout in a 2\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nThe Midwest Region Quarterfinals were played on July 13 and 14. The Erie Commodores FC hosted Cleveland SC at McConnell Family Stadium for the second time in six days. The Commodores had won the previous match and claimed the East Conference title and home-field advantage in this clash. All four regular starters Cleveland had rested in the previous match returned from their injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0068-0001", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nAfter Vincent Bell scored the second of his three goals in the 56th minute to give Cleveland a 2\u20130 lead, Jacob Alatorre received a part of yellow cards a minute later to put the Commodores down a man. Antonio Manfut's goal in the 63rd minute put Cleveland up, 3\u20130, and Bell struck again in the 76th minute to complete the scoring in a 4\u20130 Cleveland victory. Austin Solomon got his second yellow card in the 89th minute, and the Commodores finished the match playing with only nine men. Marijo Musa kept a clean sheet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nDuluth FC went ahead of Grand Rapids FC in the other Midwest Region Quarterfinal, 2\u20130, on Ryan Tyrer's header off a corner kick in the 46th minute and David Rice' goal in the 51st minute. However, Grand Rapids mounted a furious comeback, getting goals from Matthew Whelan in the 83rd minute and Kenroy Howell in the second minute of stoppage time to tie the score and send the match to extra time. In the 118th minute, Duluth substituted Alberto Ciroi for NPSL Golden Glove winner Jan Hoffelner in preparation for a penalty kick shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0069-0001", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs\nEarlier in extra time, they had substituted Ricardo Ramos, who was returning from an injury, into the match for his penalty kick prowess. After a scoreless 30 minutes of extra time, the teams went to penalty kicks. Ciroi saved the efforts of Trent Vegter and Joe Broekhuizen on Grand Rapids's third and fourth kicks, respectively. After David Rice hit the crossbar on Duluth's fourth penalty kick, captain Kyle Farrar's goal made it 4\u20133 and sent Duluth to the region semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Conference finals\nAll seven conferences that have conference championship matches staged them on July 14. After Joshua Fawole put FC Baltimore in the lead in the 18th minute, FC Frederick responded with goals by Justin Lee in the 26th minute and Graham Guidry in the 47th minute to gain the lead. After Shawn Baker drew a red card in the 86th minute for serious foul play, Frederick was forced to weather the storm for the balance of regulation and five minutes of stoppage time as Baltimore sought an equalizer. Frederick held on to earn an upset victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0070-0001", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Conference finals\nFrederick, who qualified for the playoffs on the regular season's final day by a standings tiebreaker and had to overcome a one-goal deficit in extra time and win a penalty-kick shootout in the conference semifinal against an opponent that had beaten them twice in the regular-season, had overcome the odds to beat Baltimore, to whom they had also lost both regular-season matches, and win the Mid-Atlantic Conference title. The loss by Baltimore meant they needed both New York Cosmos B and FC Motown to win their conference titles in order to reach the Northeast Region Semifinals as the wildcard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Conference finals\nWest Chester United SC, who had been responsible for FC Motown's only regular-season loss, took an early lead over Motown in the Keystone Conference Final on Charles Wilson's goal in the 28th minute. The score remained 1\u20130, until Lucas Terci equalized for Motown in the 90th minute. No goals were scored in extra time, and the match went to penalty kicks. Down, 4\u20133, in the shootout and needing a goal on their fifth kick, United goalkeeper Charlie Sales failed to score and gave Motown the Keystone Conference championship and a trip to the region semifinals. The loss eliminated West Chester United, who had 2.1 average points per game, since FC Baltimore, who averaged 2.2, had already lost the Mid-Atlantic Conference Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Conference finals\nJames Thristino's goal in the 67th minute gave the Brooklyn Italians a lead over the New York Cosmos B. Zaire Bartley scored an equalizer for the Cosmos B in the 75th minute. However, two minutes later, Rafael Garcia was issued a red card for violent conduct, and the Cosmos B were forced to play with 10 men. Neither team was able to score in the balance of the second half or extra time, and the match went to penalty kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0072-0001", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Conference finals\nAfter Kevin Tenjo saved Thomas Suchecki's effort on the Italians' fourth kick, Jonathan Borrajo scored to give the Cosmos B a 5\u20133 win in the shootout and the North Atlantic Conference title. The Italians and FC Baltimore had identical 7\u20132\u20131 regular-season records. Baltimore won the tiebreaker for the Northeast Region wildcard on average goal difference per game at 2.7 compared with 2.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Conference finals\nKris Tyrpak's goal in the eighth minute staked Miami FC 2 to a 1\u20130 lead over the Jacksonville Armada FC in the Sunshine Conference Final. The Armada tied the match in the 29th minute on Ciar\u00e1n Kilduff's goal. Five minutes later, Dar\u00edo Su\u00e1rez gave Miami FC 2 another lead. Tyrpak scored again in the 53rd minute, and Miami FC 2 went on to a 3\u20131 victory and the Sunshine Conference championship in a game free from disciplinary actions by the referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Conference finals\nPhilip D'Amico of Chattanooga FC and Bryce Billington of the Atlanta Silverbacks FC both kept clean sheets for 120 minutes. D'Amico saved Aaron Walker's penalty kick in 112th minute to preserve his shutout. Soren Yuhaschek swept away a 78th minute shot, which had been deflected by D'Amico but trickled past him, just before the ball reached the goal line, to ensure the Southeast Conference Final would be decided by penalty kicks. On the Silverbacks's third and fourth penalty kicks, D'Amico made saves but was called for moving before the ball was kicked. The Silverbacks scored on both re-kicks. With the shootout tied at 5, Cameron Woodfin's shot went over the crossbar on Chattanooga's sixth kick. Mohammed Issahaku followed with a goal to win the shootout for the Silverbacks, 6\u20135, and give Atlanta the Southeast Conference title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 900]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Conference finals\nFC Wichita and the Little Rock Rangers also played 120 scoreless minutes in the Heartland Conference Final. Mark Weir recorded the shutout for Wichita, and Walid Birrou kept the clean sheet for the Rangers. Andres Ochoa failed to score on Wichita's third kick, and Donald Benamna scored to make it 5-for-5 for the Rangers and give them a 5\u20133 win in the shootout and the Heartland Conference title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Conference finals\nArthur Rogers scored two first-half goals, the second on a penalty kick, to put the Houston Dutch Lions FC in front of the Laredo Heat in the Lone Star Conference Final. The Heat battled back on goals by Ziyad Fares in the 67th minute and Petteri Pietola in the 74th minute to send the match to extra time. Tor Trosten scored twice in extra time, in the 96th and 101st minutes, to give the Heat the lead. Yinka Lawal answered for the Dutch Lions in the 104th minute, but Houston could not get an equalizer, and the Heat won the Lone Star Conference championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Conference finals\nHome teams won four of the seven conference championship matches. Four of the seven conference championship matches were decided by penalty kicks, and one more was decided in extra time. Three teams that were trailing in conference championship matches scored equalizers in the 74th minute or later and ended up winning their matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region semifinals\nThe West Region Semifinals were contested on July 14 and 15. El Farolito fell behind FC Mulhouse Portland on a Reed McKenna goal in the 21st minute. Luis Galeano, a 55th minute substitute, added an insurance goal in the 77th minute. With Portland leading, 2\u20130, Farolito goalkeeper Mario Martinez saved a penalty kick to keep his team in the game. Following the save, Farolito pressed and forced Portland goalkeeper Scott Dalrymple to make several saves and earn his clean sheet and a road victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region semifinals\nAlessandro Canale's brace led Orange County FC to a 4\u20132 road win over FC Golden State in a West Region Semifinal match. Golden State got on the board first when Gabriel Henrique Silva scored in the 22nd minute, but Canale's goals in the 33rd and 63rd minutes sandwiched a Dakota Collins tally in the 61st minute. Adrien Perez scored in the 84th minute to cut Golden State's deficit to 3\u20132, but Kevin Jeon's 90th-minute goal sealed the victory for Orange County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region semifinals\nThe South Region Semifinals were played on July 17. Miami FC 2 and the Atlanta Silverbacks FC exchanged first-half goals. Sean McFarlane Jr. opened the scoring for Miami in the 22nd minute, and Thierry Jules answered in the 36th minute. Atlanta's David Koloko drew a red card for serious foul play in the 79th minute, and Miami capitalized on the man advantage two minutes later, when Kris Tyrpak scored the winner in a 2\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region semifinals\nThe Little Rock Rangers took an early lead over the Laredo Heat in the other South Region Semifinal, when Trevor Reed scored in the 31st minute. The Heat got the equalizer from Rodave Murray in the 87th minute to send the game to extra time. Donald Benamna's goal in the 115th minute gave the Rangers a 2\u20131 upset victory and handed the Heat its first loss of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region semifinals\nThe Northeast Region Semifinals were contested on July 18. The New York Cosmos B got a brace from Zaire Bartley and a clean sheet from Kevin Tenjo to beat FC Frederick, 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region semifinals\nA brace by Daryl Kavanagh and a goal by Christopher Katona led FC Motown to a 3\u20130 victory over FC Baltimore in the other Northeast Region Semifinal. Abdou Karim Danso earned the shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region semifinals\nThe final four teams in the Midwest Region met in Ann Arbor, Michigan on July 20, for the region semifinals. Duluth FC took an early lead over the region's top seed, Minneapolis City SC, on a 17th-minute goal by their captain, Kyle Farrar. In the opening moments of the match, Minneapolis City starter Abdallah Bah was removed from the field, and City was unable to get a substitute on for him for just over 15 minutes. They played a man down until Farrar's goal, after which they sent Martin Browne, Jr. into the game to replace Bah. After they returned to full strength, Branden McGarrity responded for Minneapolis City in the 36th minute, and the score remained tied, until Ricardo Ramos converted a penalty kick in the 115th minute, giving Duluth a 2\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region semifinals\nSerge Gamwanya scored a goal in the 55th minute, and AFC Ann Arbor made it hold up in a 1\u20130 Midwest Region Quarterfinal victory over Cleveland SC. Nick Barry kept the clean sheet for Ann Arbor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region finals\nAll four region final matches were contested on July 21. Miami FC 2 cruised to a 3\u20130 victory over the Little Rock Rangers to win the South Region championship. Jaime Chavez, Dylan Mares and Dar\u00edo Su\u00e1rez each scored for Miami FC 2, and Mario Daniel Vega earned the shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 58], "content_span": [59, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region finals\nWalter Calderon, Christopher Katona and Dilly Duka (on a penalty kick) each had a second-half goal to give FC Motown a 3\u20130 lead over the New York Cosmos B. Ivan Berterame scored two goals for the Cosmos B during second-half stoppage time. Seconds before the referee blew the final whistle, Abdoukarim Danso dove to his left to get a hand on Darwin Espinal's free kick, and the rebound attempt by Joey Sanchez went wide with the flag up for offside anyway. Motown held on for a 3\u20132 win and the Northeast Region championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 58], "content_span": [59, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region finals\nRyan Tyrer opened the scoring for Duluth FC in the 12th minute of the Midwest Region Final against AFC Ann Arbor. Chrispinus Odhiambo answered in the 23rd minute, but Ann Arbor conceded an own goal a minute later to fall behind again. Duluth increased their lead to 3\u20131, when their captain, Kyle Farrar, scored in the 39th minute. Jack Cawley's 42nd-minute goal brought Ann Arbor within a goal at the half. Azaad Liadi kept Ann Arbor's hopes alive with a goal in the forth minute of second-half stoppage time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 58], "content_span": [59, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0088-0001", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region finals\nJust as they had in their region quarterfinal match, Duluth substituted Alberto Ciroi for NPSL Golden Glove winner Jan Hoffelner in the 118th minute in preparation for a penalty kick shootout. In the second minute of extra-time stoppage time, Ciroi took a kick to the head from Odhiambo, who was shown a yellow card. Three other players drew yellow cards in the ensuing scuffle. Neither team scored in extra time. In the shootout, Ciroi saved Matthieu Braem's attempt on Ann Arbor's second kick and Michael Shaikly's effort on their fourth kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 58], "content_span": [59, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0088-0002", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region finals\nAnn Arbor goalkeeper Nick Barry extended the shootout by saving Aidan Hill's attempt on Duluth's fourth kick. Kyle Breitmeyer's shot hit the crossbar and then Ciroi's back before settling into the net and keeping Ann Arbor in the match. Liam Moore won the shootout for Duluth, 4\u20133, when he scored on their fifth kick, and Duluth celebrated the Midwest Region championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 58], "content_span": [59, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, Region finals\nOrange County FC and FC Mulhouse Portland played a wild first half in the West Region Final. Both teams held the lead for stretches of a half that ended 3\u20133. Orange County got goals from Alessandro Canale, Michael Bryant and Dakota Collins. Fred Braun, Christian Thyron and Alex White scored for Portland. Orange County took a 4\u20133 lead, when Cody Shelton scored in the 53rd minute, but Portland responded in the 60th minute with Braun's second goal of the match. Reed McKenna's goal put Portland in front in the 78th minute. Jonathan Bryan drew a red card for a serious foul play in the 84th minute that forced Orange County to play with 10 men. Luis Galeano's 90th-minute goal put away a 6\u20134 win for Portland that gave them the West Region championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 58], "content_span": [59, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, National semifinals\nThe NPSL National Semifinals were played on July 28. Miami FC 2 got goals from Ariel Mart\u00ednez (on a penalty kick), Sean McFarlane Jr. and Jeff Michaud to beat Duluth FC, 3\u20130. Jan Hoffelner had 10 saves for Duluth, before leaving the match in the 88th minute, after suffering an injury. Mario Daniel Vega kept the clean sheet for Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, National semifinals\nIn the other semifinal match, Dilly Duka put FC Motown in front of FC Mulhouse Portland with a goal in the 55th minute. Nick Evans responded for Portland in the 63rd minute to tie the score. David Nigro, who had just entered the match as a substitute in anticipation of a penalty-kick shootout, headed in the game winner on a cross from Lucas Terci in the first minute of extra-time stoppage time to send Motown to the NPSL Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Season overview, Playoffs, NPSL Final\nFC Motown hosted Miami FC 2 in the NPSL Final on August 4, in front of a sellout crowd of 2,143 spectators. Miami struck first on a Jonny Steele goal in the 33rd minute. Dilly Duka answered for Motown two minutes later. Motown was reduced to playing with 10 men in the 58th minute, when Chris Riordan drew his second yellow card. One minute later, Dylan Mares's goal put Miami back into the lead. Jeff Michaud added an insurance goal in the 81st minute, and Miami FC 2 went on to win the NPSL championship in its inaugural season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format\nSource: In the Northeast and South Regions, conference champions are determined by postseason playoff tournaments. In the Midwest and West Regions, conference champions are determined by regular-season standings. The playoff qualification and format rules vary among regions and conferences. Once teams reach the regional playoffs, either by their performance in their conference tournament, their regular-season results or, in the case of the Northeast Region wildcard team, a combination of the two, all matches are knockout matches. The four regional champions advance to the national semifinals and are seeded based on regular-season average points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0093-0001", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format\nRegular-season average goal difference per game is the first tiebreaker used to determine seeding, if needed. Regular-season average goals scored per game is the second tiebreaker. If the tie is still not broken, a coin toss determines seeding. The #1 seed plays the #4 seed in one national semifinal, and the #2 seed plays the #3 seed in the other national semifinal on July 28. Semifinal winners advance to the NPSL Championship Match on August 4. Home-field advantage in national semifinal and final matches is awarded to the highest seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format, Northeast Region Playoffs\nFour teams qualify for the Northeast Region Semifinals. These are the three winners of the conference championship playoffs and the conference finals loser with the best regular-season average points per game. The four semifinalists are seeded based on regular-season points per game. The three conference champions are not automatically awarded the highest seed; the wildcard team could be the top seed. The #1 seed plays the #4 seed in one regional semifinal. The #2 seed plays the #3 seed in the other regional semifinal. Semifinal winners advance to the Northeast Region Championship Match. Home-field advantage in a regional playoff match is awarded to the highest seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 59], "content_span": [60, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format, Northeast Region Playoffs, Keystone Conference Playoffs\nThe top four teams qualify based on conference standings. The #1 seed plays the #4 seed in one conference semifinal. The #2 seed plays the #3 seed in the other conference semifinal. Semifinal winners meet in the Keystone Conference Championship Match. Home-field advantage in conference playoff matches is awarded to the highest seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 89], "content_span": [90, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format, Northeast Region Playoffs, Mid-Atlantic Conference Playoffs\nThe top three teams qualify based on conference standings. The #2 seed plays the #3 seed in a semifinal match, and the winner plays the #1 seed in the Mid-Atlantic Conference Championship Match. Home-field advantage in conference playoff matches is awarded to the highest seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 93], "content_span": [94, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format, Northeast Region Playoffs, North Atlantic Conference Playoffs\nThe top four teams qualify based on conference standings. The #1 seed plays the #4 seed in one conference semifinal. The #2 seed plays the #3 seed in the other conference semifinal. Semifinal winners meet in the North Atlantic Conference Championship Match. Home-field advantage in conference playoff matches is awarded to the highest seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 95], "content_span": [96, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format, South Region Playoffs\nThe four conference playoff champions qualify for the South Region Semifinals. Teams are seeded based on regular-season average points per game for hosting purposes, but the semifinal matchups are fixed with the Heartland and Lone Star Conference champions meeting in one semifinal, and the Southeast and Sunshine Conference champions matched up in the other semifinal. Semifinal winners advance to the South Region Championship Match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format, South Region Playoffs, Southeast Conference Playoffs\nThe top six teams qualify based on conference standings. The top two teams receive byes to the conference semifinals. The #3 seed plays the #6 seed, and the #4 seed plays the #5 seed in conference quarterfinal matches. The #1 seed plays lowest seeded quarterfinal winner in one semifinal match; the #2 seed plays higher seeded quarterfinal winner in the other semifinal match. Semifinal winners meet in the Southeast Conference Championship Match. Home-field advantage in conference playoff matches is awarded to the highest seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 86], "content_span": [87, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format, South Region Playoffs, Sunshine Conference Playoffs\nThe top three teams qualify based on conference standings. The #2 seed plays the #3 seed in a semifinal match, and the winner plays the #1 seed in the Sunshine Conference Championship Match. Home-field advantage in conference playoff matches is awarded to the highest seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 85], "content_span": [86, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format, South Region Playoffs, Lone Star Conference Playoffs\nThe conference is split into three groups: Red, White and Blue. The top two teams from each group receive playoff berths. The three teams that finish first in their groups are awarded the top three seeds based on conference standings. The three teams that finish second in their groups are awarded the fourth through sixth seeds based on conference standings. The top two seeds receive byes to the conference semifinals. The #3 seed plays the #6 seed, and the #4 seed plays the #5 seed in conference quarterfinal matches. The #1 seed plays the lowest seeded quarterfinal winner in one semifinal match; the #2 seed plays higher seeded quarterfinal winner in the other semifinal match. Semifinal winners meet in the Lone Star Conference Championship Match. Home-field advantage in conference playoff matches is awarded to the highest seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 86], "content_span": [87, 924]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0102-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format, South Region Playoffs, Heartland Conference Playoffs\nThe top four teams qualify based on conference standings. The #1 seed plays the #4 seed in one conference semifinal. The #2 seed plays the #3 seed in the other conference semifinal. Semifinal winners meet in the Heartland Conference Championship Match. Home-field advantage in conference playoff matches is awarded to the highest seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 86], "content_span": [87, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0103-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format, Midwest Region Playoffs\nConference champions are determined based on the regular-season conference standings. The top two teams from each conference qualify for the region playoffs based on conference standings. The three conference champions are awarded the top three seeds. The three teams that finish second in their conferences are awarded the fourth through sixth seeds. The top two seeds receive byes to the region semifinals. The #3 seed hosts a region quarterfinal match against the team seeded 4 through 6 that is geographically closest to it. The remaining two lower seeds play each other with the higher seed hosting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0103-0001", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format, Midwest Region Playoffs\nThe #1 seed plays the lowest seeded quarterfinal winner in one semifinal match; the #2 seed plays higher seeded quarterfinal winner in the other semifinal match. Semifinal winners meet in the Midwest Region Championship Match. The semifinals and final are held at one venue voted upon by Midwest Region club owners; designation of home teams is determined by the highest seed in each match. Riverbank Stadium at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan was selected as the host venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0104-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format, West Region Playoffs\nConference champions are determined based on the regular-season conference standings. Eight teams qualify for the region playoffs based on conference standings and one conference playoff match: two from the Northwest Conference, three from the Golden Gate Conference and three from the Southwest Conference. The third team from the Southwest Conference is determined by a play-in game between the third and fourth-place finishers in the conference standings, hosted by third place team. The region quarterfinals are fixed pairings with the top seeds from each conference hosting lower seeds from their own conference and one interconference match as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0105-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff format, West Region Playoffs\nFollowing the region quarterfinals, the teams are reseeded 1 through 4. The #1 seed plays the #4 seed in one regional semifinal. The #2 seed plays the #3 seed in the other regional semifinal. Semifinal winners advance to the West Region Championship Match. Home-field advantage in regional playoff matches is awarded to the highest seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0106-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff results, Northeast Region conference playoffs results, Keystone Conference Playoffs results\nBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout scoreAll times Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 117], "content_span": [118, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0107-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff results, Northeast Region conference playoffs results, Mid-Atlantic Conference Playoffs results\nBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout scoreAll times Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 121], "content_span": [122, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0108-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff results, Northeast Region conference playoffs results, North Atlantic Conference Playoffs results\nBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout scoreAll times Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 123], "content_span": [124, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0109-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff results, South Region conference playoffs results, Southeast Conference Playoffs results\nBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout score", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 114], "content_span": [115, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0110-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff results, South Region conference playoffs results, Sunshine Conference Playoffs results\nBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout scoreAll times Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 113], "content_span": [114, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0111-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff results, South Region conference playoffs results, Lone Star Conference Playoffs results\nBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout scoreAll times Central Daylight Time (UTC\u22125)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 114], "content_span": [115, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0112-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff results, South Region conference playoffs results, Heartland Conference Playoffs results\nBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout scoreAll times Central Daylight Time (UTC\u22125)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 114], "content_span": [115, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0113-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Playoff results, Regional and National Playoff results\nBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout score", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 72], "content_span": [73, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0114-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, U.S. Open Cup qualification\nThe NPSL ranks its top 30 clubs based on results of the 2018 season for the purposes of qualification for the 2019 U.S. Open Cup. The NPSL champion earns the top ranking, and the other finalist is second. The national semifinal loser from the region with the larger number of teams is ranked third, and the remaining national semifinalist is ranked fourth. The four regional final losers are ranked fifth through eighth based on the number of teams in their region, from largest to smallest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0114-0001", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, U.S. Open Cup qualification\nThe remaining 22 slots in the rankings are allocated among the regions based on their sizes. The total number of slots allocated to each region are South 9, Northeast 8, Midwest 7 and West 6. Since the United States Soccer Federation has not yet determined how many berths NPSL clubs will be awarded in the U.S. Open Cup, each of the 22 slots available in the rankings for teams that did not reach the region finals are each allocated to a specific region. This ensures that, regardless of the number of berths awarded to NPSL clubs, the berths will have been allocated as fairly as possible, taking into account the relative sizes of the regions. The allocation of the ninth through 30th slots for this season is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0115-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, U.S. Open Cup qualification\nStarting with the ninth slot, no conference that already has a team in the rankings may have an additional team claim a slot, until every conference in the region has at least one team in the rankings. Ties in the standings are broken using regular-season conference tiebreaker procedures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0116-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Statistics, Top goalscorers\nThe NPSL's top ten goalscorers for the 2018 season were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0117-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Statistics, Awards\nThe NPSL presented the awards shown in the table below in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281229-0118-0000", "contents": "2018 NPSL season, Statistics, Awards\nThe NPSL National XI shown below were selected by teams, media and supporters through an online voting process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott\nIn February 2018, a boycott emerged against the U.S. gun rights advocacy group National Rifle Association (NRA) and its business affiliates. The boycott and social media activism campaign arose in the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. The NRA was criticized for its response, including its recommendation for schools to arm teachers and opposition to bans on certain weapons. Calls for companies to sever their ties to the NRA resulted in several companies discontinuing their business relationships with the NRA and cancelling discount programs offered to NRA members. The boycott extended to Canada where Mountain Equipment Co-op and the Running Room cut supplier relationships with Vista Outdoor. Public pressure also caused a number of gun retailers to increase the age required to buy firearms and place other restrictions on gun sales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 901]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Background\nAfter the Parkland shooting, there was an unprecedented upsurge of public support for gun control advocacy groups and significant backlash against the NRA for its response to the shooting, having argued that schools required more armed security to protect against the possibility of future attacks, and its continued calls to preserving the right to own semi-automatic firearms, such as those used in the shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Background\nOn February 20, 2018, ThinkProgress asked over two dozen corporations offering discounts to NRA members whether they would continue their relationships with the NRA. Several companies terminated their agreements with the NRA, and their announcements went viral, along with hashtags such as #BoycottNRA, started by activists like Michael Skolnik. One of the first to respond to the boycott, First National Bank of Omaha, the largest privately held bank in the United States, announced that it will not renew its deal for the \"official credit card of the NRA.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Affinity marketing\nOne class of companies targeted generally offer or offered discounts or free trials to NRA members, often advertised on the NRA website, in what is often termed affinity marketing. Access to discounts is a benefit of paying NRA membership dues and the NRA promotes the opportunity to save hundreds of dollars more than the cost of membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Affinity marketing, Severed ties\nCompanies that have severed ties with the NRA as of February 24, 2018, span banks, airlines, car rental services, hotels, and software companies. They include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 70], "content_span": [71, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Affinity marketing, Retained ties\nSeveral companies have been pressured to disaffiliate with the NRA, but have not, or have not issued statements indicating that they will.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 71], "content_span": [72, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Affinity marketing, FedEx\nPressure on FedEx to drop NRA discounts of up to 26 percent had been going on for nearly a year before the Florida shooting. After several companies cut ties with the NRA, calls to boycott FedEx arose on social media under the hashtag #BoycottFedEx. In a statement, FedEx affirmed that while it does not fully agree with the NRA on issues of gun policy, it will continue its business relationship with the organization. Due to a drop in NRA related volume that made the organization ineligible for discounts, the NRA was dropped from the program on October 30, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 63], "content_span": [64, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Insurance providers\nIn response to the NRA boycott several companies discontinued insurance products targeted at NRA members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Vista Outdoor\nVista Outdoor manufactures AR-15-style rifles under the Savage Arms brand and ammunition under the CCI and Federal brands as well as a range of bike related and other outdoor products including the Bell, Giro, CamelBak, and Blackburn brands. After the Parkland shooting, consumers called on retailers to stop selling all Vista Outdoor products specifically over the company's support of the NRA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 51], "content_span": [52, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Vista Outdoor\nBicycle retailers in several states stopped selling all Vista Outdoor products, citing the company's support for the NRA. Some cancelled orders or returned existing stock. Canadian retail cooperative Mountain Equipment Co-op similarly announced on March 1, 2018, that, in response to a petition by its members, it would no longer stock products by Vista Outdoor brands in its 22 stores. The co-op does not sell guns. In the United States Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) announced that they would stop ordering all Vista Outdoor products due to the company's NRA support. Running Room, Canada's largest dealer of athletic apparel announced it will discontinue Camelbak products across the chain of 120 Canadian and two US stores, citing strong customer support for the move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 51], "content_span": [52, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Broadcasters of NRA programming\nNRATV, the NRA's online video channel, is a prominent forum used by the organization to disseminate its message and with a large follower base on social media. In the aftermath of the events in Parkland, activists created the hashtags #stopNRAmazon and #DumpNRATV asking Amazon to discontinue streaming programs from NRATV, an initiative supported by celebrities like Alyssa Milano, Denis O\u2019Hare, Evan Handler, Ben Gleib, Joshua Malina, Warren Leight, Genevieve Angelson, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Misha Collins. Other companies offering NRATV programs as part of their streaming services became the target of a similar campaign launched by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense and Everytown for Gun Safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 69], "content_span": [70, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Broadcasters of NRA programming\nThe following companies continue to stream NRATV, despite petitions for them to stop:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 69], "content_span": [70, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Gun dealers\nOn February 28, 2018 Dick's Sporting Goods discontinued the sale of all assault-style rifles, high-capacity magazines and bump stocks. The company also immediately restricted the sale of any guns to customers aged 21 or older. As justification for the move, Dick's praised the Stoneman Douglas students who are campaigning for gun control and for businesses to side against the NRA. They also noted that Dick's had legally sold a shotgun (not used in the assault) to the Parkland shooter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Gun dealers\nDick's also launched a corporate campaign for officials \"to enact common sense gun reform\" including regulations to require universal background checks, raise the age to purchase guns to 21, and ban the firearms and accessories that Dick's no longer sells.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Gun dealers\nSince Dick's is a large gun dealer their moves were cited as \"one of the biggest steps taken by a US company\" after the Parkland shooting energized the gun control debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Gun dealers\nCiting \"recent events\" on February 28, 2018, Walmart announced it would raise the required age to buy all guns and ammo to 21 and require background checks on all purchasers. Walmart also stopped all sales of air rifles and toys that look like assault rifles on its website and called for tougher gun control measures. Walmart stopped selling semi-automatic rifles in 2015, and has been reducing the number of stores that sell guns for some years. It does not sell handguns (except in Alaska) and it does not sell bump stocks or high capacity magazines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Gun dealers\nOn March 1, 2018, US grocery chain Kroger announced it would stop selling guns and ammunition to people under 21 at 45 of its Fred Meyer locations. Their grocery stores do not sell firearms, but did sell a variety of gun periodicals until March 16, 2018, when Kroger announced it would no longer sell gun periodicals that included content about assault-style rifles. L.L.Bean also announced it would end sales of guns to anyone under 21 years old. In response, several lawsuits were filed against Dick's and Walmart claiming age discrimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Companies involved, Gun dealers\nIn the wake of boycott, Dick's first quarter net income increased to $60.1 million compared to $58.2 million for the same quarter the previous year, and sales were up by 4.6%. The results suggest that threats of a boycott against Dick's have not had the intended effect and that the company's policy change has had a positive business impact. This trend reversed in the second quarter. The decline was blamed in part on new firearms sales policies adopted after the Parkland, FL school shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Publix\nNational grocery retailer Publix suspended all political donations after Stoneman Douglas survivor David Hogg organized a \"die in\" and a public boycott to protest the company's support of Adam Putnam, an NRA-backed candidate for Florida governor. The NRA had labeled Putnam with its highest endorsement and Putnam called himself on Twitter a \"proud NRA sellout.\" Hogg stated \"Anyone who supports an NRA sellout is an NRA sellout,\" as the reason for the action. Prior to the in store protests Hogg called on Publix to donate $1 million to the Stoneman Douglas Victims fund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Response\nIn a statement released February 24, 2018, the NRA accused the companies involved in the boycott of \"a shameful display of political and civic cowardice\" and added, \"Let it be absolutely clear. The loss of a discount will neither scare nor distract one single NRA member from our mission to stand and defend the individual freedoms that have always made America the greatest nation in the world.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Response\nFollowing the NRA's response, conservative commentators and gun rights supporters voiced opposition to the boycott, calling it \"mob justice\" and accusing supporters of silencing free speech. Tim Hentschel of HotelPlanner.com said he would not mix business and politics, and that his decision to maintain the company's relationship with the NRA was not based on money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281230-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 NRA boycott, Response\nRepublicans in the Georgia state Senate voted to remove $50 million in jet fuel tax sale exemptions from a tax bill in response to Delta Air Lines' decision to sever ties with the NRA. Republican Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle tweeted \"I will kill any tax legislation that benefits @Delta unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with @NRA. Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back.\" Delta CEO Ed Bastian responded, saying, \"Our decision was not made for economic gain and our values are not for sale.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281231-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Finals Series\nThe 2018 NRL finals series determines the winner of the 2018 National Rugby League season. The series ran over four weekends in September 2018, culminating with the 2018 NRL Grand Final at Sydney's ANZ Stadium on 30 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281231-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Finals Series\nThe top eight teams from the 2018 NRL Season qualified for the finals series. NRL finals series have been played under the current format since 2012. The qualifying teams are Melbourne, Sydney, South Sydney, Cronulla-Sutherland, Penrith, Brisbane, St George Illawarra and New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281231-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Finals Series, Qualification\nMelbourne qualified for their 8th straight finals series. Sydney qualified for their 2nd straight final series. South Sydney qualified for their first finals series since 2015. Cronulla-Sutherland qualified for their 4th straight finals series. Penrith qualified for their 3rd straight finals series. Brisbane qualified for their 5th straight finals series. St George Illawarra qualified for their first finals series since 2015. New Zealand qualified for their first finals series since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281231-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Finals Series, Venues\nThe matches of the 2018 NRL finals series were contested at four venues in three different states around the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281231-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Finals Series, Venues\nMelbourne's AAMI Park hosted 2 matches, Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium hosted one match and Sydney hosted the remaining 6 matches, which were played at Allianz Stadium and ANZ Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281231-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Finals Series, Finals structure\nThe system used for the 2018 NRL finals series was a final eight system. The top four teams in the eight received a \"double chance\" when they played in week-one qualifying finals, such that if a top-four team lost in the first week it still remained in the finals, playing a semi-final the next week against the winner of an elimination final. The bottom four of the eight played knock-out games \u2013 only the winners survived and moved on to the next week. Home-state advantage went to the team with the higher ladder position in the first two weeks, to the qualifying final winners in the third week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281231-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Finals Series, Finals structure\nIn the second week, the winners of the qualifying finals received a bye to the third week. The losers of the qualifying final played the elimination finals winners in a semi-final. In the third week, the winners of the semi-finals from week two played the winners of the qualifying finals in the first week. The winners of those matches moved on to the grand final at ANZ Stadium in Sydney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281232-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Grand Final\nThe 2018 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 2018 National Rugby League season and was played on Sunday September 30 at Sydney's ANZ Stadium. The match was contested between minor premiers the Sydney Roosters and defending premiers the Melbourne Storm. In front of a crowd of 82,688, Sydney won the match 21-6 to claim their 14th premiership title and their first since 2013. Roosters five-eighth Luke Keary was awarded the Clive Churchill Medal as the game's official man of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281232-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Grand Final\nThe match was preceded by the inaugural NRL Women's Premiership Grand Final and the 2018 NRL State Championship. Pre -match entertainment was headlined Sydney alternative rock band Gang of Youths. Australian singer Samantha Jade performed the Australian National anthem. The match was broadcast live throughout Australia by the Nine Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281232-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Grand Final, Background\nIt was the first time the Melbourne Storm and the Sydney Roosters contested for an NRL premiership, with both teams having made the most grand final appearances since the beginning of the NRL era in 1998. Only on six occasions since 1998 has there been a grand final that did not feature either club. Both sides have also claimed every minor premiership since 2013, with the Roosters finishing first in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2018, and the Storm doing the same in 2016 and 2017. The Roosters qualified for their first grand final since they won the premiership in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281232-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 NRL Grand Final, Background\nThe club had reached the preliminary finals in 2014, 2015, and 2017, yet were denied a grand final berth on each occasion when they were defeated by the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Brisbane Broncos and North Queensland Cowboys, respectively. The Storm qualified for their third-straight grand final, replicating the milestone they achieved in 2006, 2007 and 2008. They are the first NRL side to make three consecutive grand finals on more than one occasion. It was Trent Robinson's second grand final in his sixth year coaching the Roosters, while Craig Bellamy equalled Wayne Bennett in reaching eight grand finals as a first grade coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281232-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Grand Final, Background\nSydney and Melbourne finished first and second on the premiership ladder respectively, making up a top four in which all teams (together with the South Sydney and Cronulla-Sutherland) finished on 34 points. The sides faced each other only once during the regular season, with the Storm edging out a 9-8 victory over the Roosters at Adelaide Oval courtesy of a Cameron Smith field goal. Having a double home game advantage, both teams defeated the third-placed Rabbitohs and fourth-placed Sharks to earn a week off from the semi finals and a place into the grand final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281232-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 NRL Grand Final, Background\nSydney, playing at Allianz Stadium, defeated the Sharks 21-12 in the second qualifying final. In the preliminary final, they defeated the Rabbitohs 12-4 in front of a record crowd of 44,380 in the last ever NRL game held at Allianz Stadium before its scheduled knock-down and rebuild. Melbourne, playing at AAMI Park, narrowly defeated the Souths 29-28 in the first qualifying final, before beating their 2016 grand final opponents Cronulla-Sutherland 22-6 to join the Roosters in the premiership decider. Sydney and Melbourne last played each other in the finals in 2015, where the fourth-placed Storm defeated the minor-premiership winning Roosters 20-18 in the first week of the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281232-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Grand Final, Teams\nThe grand final would be Billy Slater's final game before his retirement after playing 319 first grade games in the NRL, becoming the 16th player to finish their career playing over 300 games at one club. However, many felt Slater was extremely lucky to be playing in the game after being charged for a shoulder charge against Cronulla player Sosaia Feki in the preliminary final the week before. The judiciary cleared Slater of any wrongdoing, presenting him with the opportunity to win a grand final in the final game of his illustrious career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281232-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 NRL Grand Final, Teams\nMelbourne captain Cameron Smith surpassed Darren Lockyer in becoming the most capped finals player in the NRL, with 36 appearances. Brodie Croft, Joe Stimson, Christian Welch, and Brandon Smith were the only new additions to the Storm's grand final winning squad from the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281232-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 NRL Grand Final, Teams\nRoosters halfback Cooper Cronk played in his eighth grand final, after playing all seven previous grand finals for the Storm; he equalled Steve Menzies in becoming the fourth most-capped NRL player in history; he also became the first player to win back-to-back premierships with different clubs since Johnny Mayes accomplished the feat in 1973 with Manly-Warringah then 1974 with Eastern Suburbs. Daniel Tupou, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, Jake Friend, Boyd Cordner, and Mitchell Aubusson were the last remaining members from their 2013 premiership winning squad, while Frank-Paul Nu'uausala wasn't selected to play. Luke Keary was the only other Roosters player to have experienced premiership success, having played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in their victorious 2014 Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281232-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Grand Final, Aftermath\nAs premiership winners, the Sydney Roosters qualified to play in the 2019 World Club Challenge. Against the Super League XXIII champions the Wigan Warriors, the Roosters won the match 20-8 at Wigan's DW Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281233-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Touch Premiership Season\nThe 2018 NRL Touch Premiership season is the inaugural season of the NRL Touch Premiership in Australia, and coincided with matches in the 2018 NRL season. The premiership was launched in partnership with Touch Football Australia and the National Rugby League, and was made up of a three round regular season split into two conferences - Queensland and New South Wales - with the first-placed teams in both conferences progressing to the grand final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281233-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Touch Premiership Season, Teams\nThe premiership included six teams in its inaugural season, extracted from the 2018 Elite 8 Series. Each team was aligned to a current NRL club, and was made up of players selected by Queensland Touch Football and NSW Touch Football based on their performances at the 2018 National Touch League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281233-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Touch Premiership Season, Regular season\nThe regular season was broken into two conferences, consisting of three teams each - Cowboys, Titans, and Broncos in the Queensland conference and Eels, Knights, and Tigers in the NSW conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281233-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Touch Premiership Season, Grand Final\nThe grand final is played between the first-placed team in the Queensland conference, and the first-placed team in the New South Wales conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281234-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Women's season\nThe 2018 NRL Women's Premiership (NRLW) was the first season of professional women's rugby league in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281234-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Women's season, Pre-season\nOnly two of the four sides, the Brisbane Broncos and New Zealand Warriors, took part in pre-season trial games. The Warriors played two fixtures against a combined Auckland side, while the Broncos played the Papua New Guinea Orchids as a curtain-raiser to the Brisbane Broncos-Manly Sea Eagles NRL fixture. The Sydney Roosters were due to play the North Sydney Bears but the game was cancelled due to player availability. They instead underwent an opposed session with the Roosters' under-20 Jersey Flegg Cup side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281234-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Women's season, Regular season\nThe inaugural season will operate under a round-robin format, with games played as curtain-raisers to the 2018 NRL Finals Series. The top two finishing teams will then contest the Grand Final, which is to be played before the men's Grand Final on 30 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281235-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL Women's season results\nThe 2018 NRL Women's Premiership is the first season of professional women's rugby league in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281236-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL season\nThe 2018 NRL season was the 111th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 21st season run by the National Rugby League. The main competition, known as the 2018 Telstra Premiership due to sponsorship from Telstra, featured 16 teams playing 25 weekly rounds of matches from March until September, resulting in the top eight teams playing a series of finals matches to determine which two teams reached the 2018 NRL Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281236-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL season, Teams\nThe lineup of teams remained unchanged for the 12th consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281236-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL season, Pre-season\nThe 2018 pre-season featured the 2018 World Club Challenge match with the NRL premiers Melbourne Storm defeating the Super League champions Leeds Rhinos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281236-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL season, Regular season\nWith the City vs. Country representative game having been scrapped, the NRL scheduled 6 games to take place in regional areas of New South Wales and Queensland as a replacement: Tamworth, Bathurst & Mudgee, and Toowoomba, Gladstone & Cairns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281236-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL season, Regular season\nThe overall structure of the season's draw was also revised. The second game of the 2018 State of Origin series was played as a stand-alone fixture on a Sunday to avoid conflict with the regular season. Due to this the competition was shortened to 25 rounds and each team got 1 bye as opposed to 2 in previous years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281236-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL season, Regular season\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Opposition's Home gameX\u00a0\u2013 Bye*\u00a0\u2013 Golden point gameOpponent for round listed above margin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281236-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL season, Player statistics and records\nThe following statistics are as of the conclusion of Round 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 46], "content_span": [47, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281237-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL season results\nThe 2018 NRL season was the 112th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 21st season run by the National Rugby League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281237-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NRL season results, Regular season\nAll times are in AEST (UTC+10:00) on the relevant dates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281238-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NWHL Draft\nThe 2018 NWHL Draft took place on the 19th and 20 December 2018, the first and only draft in NWHL history to happen while the season was underway. The expansion Minnesota Whitecaps would take part in the draft for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281238-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NWHL Draft\nA total of 30 players were drafted, of which twenty were American, four were Canadian, and one was Swedish. Four players were drafted from Boston College, along with three each from Merrimack College, Colgate University, and Wisconsin University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281238-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NWHL Draft\nThe 2018 draft was the first draft in NWHL history not to see a goaltender selected in the first two rounds, and the first to see an NCAA Division III player selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281238-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NWHL Draft, Format\nThere was five rounds, with each team having one pick in each and having 90 seconds to make that pick. Draft order was decided using each team's winning percentage in the first half of the season, with goal difference being the tiebreaker. The final draft order was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281238-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NWHL Draft, Format\nPlayers who were drafted were not guaranteed to sign with the team that drafted them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281239-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NWSL College Draft\nThe 2018 NWSL College Draft was held on January 18, 2018 at the United Soccer Coaches Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281240-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NWSL Dispersal Draft\nThe 2018 NWSL Dispersal Draft was held by the National Women's Soccer League on January 30, 2018, after the Boston Breakers ceased operations on January 28, 2018. The draft order is determined using a random weighted draw based on teams' playoffs qualification in the 2017 NWSL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281240-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NWSL Dispersal Draft\nEligible players include Boston's contracted players, 2018 NWSL College Draft selections, players on its Discovery List, and all other players whose NWSL rights were held by Boston. Eligible players who opt out of the draft would not be eligible to play in the 2018 NWSL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281240-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NWSL Dispersal Draft\nContracted players and 2018 draftees, if selected, will not count against a team's roster size limit, salary cap, or international player limit for the 2018 NWSL season. Any players who opted to participate in the draft but were not selected immediately become discovery eligible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281241-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nadeshiko League\nThe 2018 L. League season is the 30th edition since its establishment. NTV Beleza are the defending champions, having won the Division 1 title in each of the past three seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281241-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nadeshiko League, Nadeshiko League Division 1\nThe season began on 21 March 2018 and ended on 3 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281241-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nadeshiko League, Nadeshiko League Division 2\nThe season will begin on 21 March 2018 and will end on 28 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281243-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nadeshiko League Cup Final\n2018 Nadeshiko League Cup Final was the 11th final of the Nadeshiko League Cup competition. The final was played at Nishigaoka Soccer Stadium in Tokyo on July 21, 2018. Nippon TV Beleza won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281243-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nadeshiko League Cup Final, Overview\nNippon TV Beleza won their 7th title, by defeating INAC Kobe Leonessa 1\u20130 with Mina Tanaka goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281244-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nadkarni Cup\nThe 2018 Nadkarni Cup is the 111th season of the Nadkarni Cup, a football competition played in Mumbai, a city in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The 16 teams will play the tournament on knockout cum basis. The matches will be played at RCF Ground, Chembur. The cup will commence from 6 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281245-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Naga, Cebu landslide\nOn September 20, 2018, a landslide caused by heavy rainfall and quarrying operations by Apo Land and Quarry Corporations (ALQC) in Naga, Cebu, Philippines, killed 78 people. Five others are missing. This is the second deadly landslide to occur in the country in five days; the first occurred in Itogon, Benguet, on September 15, triggered by Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong), leaving at least 35 dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281245-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Naga, Cebu landslide, Background\nAccording to the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB), the area had long been identified as landslide-prone. Prior to the landslide, the MGB discovered the cracks in the mountain on August 28. On August 29, the letter from MGB addressed to the Naga Mayor Kristine Chiong said that the cracks \"do not pose an imminent danger to the neighboring community\". This prompted Chiong to order the mining operator, Apo Land and Quarry Corporation (ALQC), to cease all operations of quarrying. The MGB replied to Chiong, saying that, based on her technical report, they \"considered decision\" to resume the operation. Chiong allowed the operations to resume on September 5 with the conditions given, including the \"creation of an evacuation and relocation plan\". However, on September 11, the size of the crack increased from a previous 3\u00a0mm to 35\u00a0mm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281245-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Naga, Cebu landslide, Landslide\nEarly on the morning of September 20, 2018, a hillside began to crack and collapse into several homes in Sitio Sindulan, Tinaan, Naga, Cebu after days of heavy rainfall, killing at least 53. About 50 people were reported to have been trapped. According to the local authorities, there were 6 partially damaged and 77 totally damaged houses due to the landslide. The landslide also covered part of the river, prompting officials to dig a temporary canal. The landslide covered about 80.12 hectares.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281245-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Naga, Cebu landslide, Aftermath\nThe local government issued a state of calamity in the villages of Tinaan, Naalad, Mainit, Pangdan, and Cabungahan. According to a local resident named Cristita Villarba, they heard a rumbling sound coming from the mountain and then the ground shook as if it was like an earthquake. More than 600 families were evacuated from their homes, fearing that the landslide will occur again. According to the police chief inspector Roderick Gonzales, they received messages coming from a person who was trapped in the rubble, indicating signs of life. At least 77 bodies were recovered in the rescue operations. A total of 2,087 families or 8,655 persons have been affected by the landslide. An actual video of the landslide was recorded on CCTV camera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281245-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Naga, Cebu landslide, Aftermath\nOn the afternoon of September 21, President Rodrigo Duterte visited the landslide victims and mourned the deaths caused by the disaster. Duterte also vowed to relocate the affected residents. The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said that they temporarily suspended all quarrying activities around the country, following the landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281245-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Naga, Cebu landslide, Aftermath\nThe Department of Social Welfare and Development reported a total of \u20b180,475,632.13 worth of relief assistance, with the department extending relief support and financial assistance worth \u20b18,653,230.18 and local government units providing \u20b145,282,880.60. The National Housing Authority (Philippines) also committed \u20b1175 million to build 320 housing units for the landslide victims, while the city government of Naga allotted an initial amount of P25 million for the construction of 50 housing units. The provincial government of Cebu also donated 2.7 hectares of the \"Balili property\" to be used as the relocation site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281246-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election\nThe Nagaland Legislative Assembly election, 2018 was held on 27 February 2018 in 59 out of 60 constituencies of the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland. The scheduled election in Northern Angami II constituency did not take place as only incumbent MLA Neiphiu Rio was nominated and was therefore declared elected unopposed. The counting of votes took place on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281246-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThe tenure of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly ended on 13 March 2018. On 22 Jan 2018, former CM KL Chishi joined the BJP along with 12 other leaders and former lawmakers, including former Independent legislator Jacob Zhimomi, at an event in Dimapur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281246-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election, Background\n11 parties issued a statement calling for the postponement of the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281246-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThe BJP-led National Democratic Alliance and the ruling Naga Peoples' Front dissolved their electoral alliance prior to the election. The BJP instead chose to form an alliance with the newly formed Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, led by former CM Neiphiu Rio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281246-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election, Schedule\nThe dates of the election were announced on 18 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281246-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election, Result\n9 parties registered to contest the election, as well as a further 11 independent candidates. Lok Sabha MP and former Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party was declared elected uncontested in the Northern Angami II constituency after no other candidate was nominated against him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281246-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election, Government Formation\nNeiphiu Rio, the leader of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Nagaland on 8 March 2018. The ministry had 12 Cabinet ministers including the Chief Minister. 5 incumbents including the Chief Minister belong to the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, while 6 ministers including the Deputy Chief Minister belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party. 1 minister is an Independent MLA. NPP party MLA's merge their party with Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281247-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nagasaki gubernatorial election\nA gubernatorial election was held on 4 February 2018 to elect the next Governor of the Nagasaki Prefecture. Incumbent Governor H\u014dd\u014d Nakamura ran for a third consecutive term, challenged by Toshihiko Haraguchi from the Japanese Communist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281247-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nagasaki gubernatorial election\nWhile Haraguchi focused his campaign on welfare issues, Nakamura prioritized the creation of new jobs and the domestic migration from other Japanese prefectures. Subsequently, Nakamura came out victorious, securing his third term by receiving 76.8% of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281248-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nagoya Grampus season\nThe 2018 Nagoya Grampus season was Nagoya Grampus' first season back in the J1 League following their relegation at the end of the 2016 season, their 25th J1 League season and 35th overall in the Japanese top flight. They also took part in the Emperor's Cup and the J. League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281248-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nagoya Grampus season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281249-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Naiste Meistriliiga\nThe 2018 Naiste Meistriliiga was the 26th season of women's league football in Estonia. The season was played between 31 March 2018 and 10 November 2018. Flora won their first Estonian league title and qualified for the Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281249-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Naiste Meistriliiga, Format\nThe eight teams played each other twice, for a total of 14 matches, with the top four teams qualifying for a championship round and the bottom four teams playing a relegation round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281249-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Naiste Meistriliiga, Playoff\nTammeka won 5\u20131 on aggregate and remain in the Naiste Meistriliiga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281250-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Namibia FA Cup\nThe 2018 Debmarine Namibia Cup is the 25th edition of the Namibia FA Cup, the knockout football competition of Namibia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281251-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nashville SC season\nThe 2018 Nashville SC season will be the club's inaugural season both as an organization and as a member in the United Soccer League (USL). Nashville SC plays in the Eastern Conference of the USL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281252-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nashville mayoral special election\nThe 2018 Nashville mayoral special election took place on May 24, 2018, and elected the mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. David Briley, a Democrat who became interim mayor after the resignation of Megan Barry, won outright without a runoff election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281252-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nashville mayoral special election\nFormer Mayor Megan Barry resigned on March 6, 2018, and the Davidson County Election Commission scheduled an election for August 2, 2018 to coincide with the state primary elections, school board elections and the election of several other municipal officials. However, mayoral candidate Ludye Wallace sued on the basis of state law (T.C.A. \u00a7 2-14-102) and a 2007 Metropolitan government charter amendment, both requiring an earlier election if the next general metropolitan election was more than twelve months away. The Tennessee Supreme Court agreed with Wallace's argument, unanimously ordering a mayoral election between May 21 and May 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281252-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nashville mayoral special election\nEarly voting was scheduled from May 4 to May 19. The election is officially nonpartisan. If no candidate had won a majority of the vote, a runoff would have been held on June 28 between the top two finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281252-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nashville mayoral special election, Candidates\nFourteen candidates nominated for the mayoral election. David Briley was the sole candidate in support of Nashville's transit plan, which was decided in a referendum on May 1. Nashville voters overwhelmingly rejected the plan, by about a 2\u20131 margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281253-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National\nThe 2018 Boost National was held from December 11 to 16 at the Conception Bay South Arena in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador. This will be the fourth Grand Slam and second major of the 2018\u201319 curling season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281253-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National\nThe first all-Scottish Grand Slam final saw Ross Paterson of Glasgow beat defending champions Bruce Mouat of Edinburgh 4\u20133 in an extra end to win his team's first Grand Slam. Rachel Homan beat Kerri Einarson 4\u20131 in the women's final, to win her ninth slam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281253-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National\nThe event was sold out all week, owing to the popularity of the hometown Brad Gushue rink. The total attendance was 23,500 which was a Grand Slam record at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281253-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National, Qualification\nThe top 14 men's and women's teams on the World Curling Tour order of merit standing as of November 5, 2018 qualified for the event. The Grand Slam of Curling may fill one spot in each division as a sponsor's exemption. In the event that a team declines its invitation, the next-ranked team on the order of merit is invited until the field is complete. The sponsor's exemption was not used, and the spot was allocated to the highest-ranked remaining team on the order of merit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 28], "content_span": [29, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281253-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National, Qualification, Men\nTop Order of Merit men's teams as of November 5:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 33], "content_span": [34, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281253-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National, Qualification, Women\nTop Order of Merit women's teams as of November 5:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 35], "content_span": [36, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281253-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 National, Men, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Newfoundland Standard Time (UTC\u22123:30).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281253-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 National, Women, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Newfoundland Standard Time (UTC\u22123:30).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 41], "content_span": [42, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281254-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Camogie League\nThe 2018 National Camogie League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Littlewoods Ireland Camogie Leagues, commenced in January 2018 and was won by Kilkenny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281254-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Camogie League, Format, League structure\nThe 2018 National Camogie League consists of three divisions: eleven teams in Division 1, thirteen teams in Division 2 and four in Division 3; Divisions 1 and 2 are divided into two groups. Each team plays every other team in its group once. 3 points are awarded for a win and 1 for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281254-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National Camogie League, Format, League structure\nIf two teams are level on points, the tie-break is:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281254-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National Camogie League, Format, League structure\nIf three or more teams are level on league points, rankings are determined solely by points difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281254-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National Camogie League, Format, Finals, promotion and relegation\nThe top two teams in each group in Division 1 contest the National Camogie League semi-finals. The last-placed team in each group contest the relegation playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281254-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National Camogie League, Format, Finals, promotion and relegation\nThe top two teams in each group in Division 2 contest the Division 2 semi-finals. The last-placed team in each group contest the relegation playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281254-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 National Camogie League, Format, Finals, promotion and relegation\nAll four teams in Division 3 contest the Division 3 semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281255-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Challenge Cup\nThe 2018 Pakistan National Football Challenge Cup was the 27th edition of domestic cup competition in Pakistan. 24 teams participated in the competition, from 21 April\u201310 May 2018. The Pakistan National Challenge Cup is held in Karachi after FIFA lifts ban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281255-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Challenge Cup, Teams\nThe 24 teams participating in the tournament are as below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281256-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Challenge Cup final\nThe 2018 National Challenge Cup final was a football match between Pakistan Air Force and WAPDA played on 10 May 2018 at KPT Football Stadium in Karachi. Pakistan Air Force won their second National Challenge Cup title after having won the first in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281257-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Football League (Ireland)\nThe 2018 National Football League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Allianz National Football League, was the 87th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for Gaelic Athletic Association county teams. Thirty-one county teams from the island of Ireland, plus London, compete. Kilkenny do not participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281257-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Football League (Ireland)\nThe first six rounds in all four divisions were scheduled to have been played before 24 March 2018, allowing the final round seven matches to be played on that date. Due to poor winter weather, some fixtures in Division 2 (round 6) and Division 4 (rounds 5 and 6) had not been played by that date. The GAA decided to proceed with the final round seven matches in the four divisions before the completion of the earlier rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281257-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 National Football League (Ireland)\nThis decision proved controversial - for instance, in the rescheduled Division 2 match between Louth and Meath which was played on 31 March 2018, Meath needed to win to avoid relegation while Louth had nothing to play for as they were already relegated irrespective of the result. Meath beat Louth by 1-12 to 0-07, thereby ensuring that Down were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281257-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National Football League (Ireland)\nEir Sport and TG4 provide live TV coverage of the league on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons respectively. The highlights programmes are RT\u00c92's League Sunday on Sunday evenings and TG4's GAA 2018 on Monday evenings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281257-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National Football League (Ireland)\nThe league concluded on 1 April 2018 with Dublin defeating Galway in the division 1 final. It was their fifth Division 1 title in six years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281257-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National Football League (Ireland), Format, League structure\nThe 2018 National Football League consists of four divisions of eight teams. Each team plays every other team in its division once, usually four home and three away or three home and four away. Two points are awarded for a win and one point for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281257-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Tie-breaker\nIf only two teams are level on league points -", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281257-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Tie-breaker\nIf three or more teams are level on league points, score difference is used to rank the teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281257-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Finals, promotions and relegations, Division 1\nThe top two teams in Division 1 contest the National Football League final. The bottom two teams are relegated to Division 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 95], "content_span": [96, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281257-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Finals, promotions and relegations, Division 2, Division 3 & Division 4\nThe top two teams in Divisions 2, 3 and 4 are promoted and contest the finals of their respective divisions. The bottom two teams in Divisions 2 and 3 are relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 120], "content_span": [121, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game\nThe 2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game took place at Amalie Arena in Tampa, home of the Tampa Bay Lightning on January 28, 2018. Tampa last held the NHL All-Star Game in 1999. The All-Star Game was played in lieu of NHL participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics, as the NHL Board of Governors ruled against interrupting the season to send players to Pyeongchang from February 10 to 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game\nThe Pacific All-Stars won the All-Star Game, which was in its third straight year of a four-team, 3-on-3, single elimination format, with one team representing each of the league's four divisions. Rookie Brock Boeser of the Vancouver Canucks was named the Most Valuable Player, scoring two goals with an assist. He became the first rookie to win MVP since Mario Lemieux in 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Format\nThe 2018 All-Star Game again used the 3-on-3 tournament format successfully introduced in 2016, in which teams representing each of the NHL's four divisions (the Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central, and Pacific) played a single-elimination tournament, with each game consisting of two 10-minute halves played 3-on-3 and going directly to a shootout if tied after 20 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Format\nIn keeping with the four-team format, four separate uniforms were unveiled on January 3, one for each division. As with the previous year, the jerseys are meant to be of high contrast against one another to avoid confusion regardless of which teams face off. The primary colors of each jersey mirror the colors used by the event's host, the Lightning, with the Pacific division in white, the Central in black, the Atlantic in blue, and the Metropolitan in gray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Format\nAccent colors of \"solar red\" (on the Western Conference uniforms) and \"UV yellow\" (on the Eastern Conference uniforms) are meant to evoke the \"warm, vibrant sunset tones and the energy of the Tampa Bay area.\" The custom-designed number font also includes a pattern based on the suspension cables of the nearby Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The uniforms also see a nod to classic 1980s All-Star uniforms in the inclusion of stars on the sleeves, one for each division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Skills Competition\nThe NHL All-Star Skills Competition took place the day before the All-Star Game on January 27, 2018, at Amalie Arena. Event winners were awarded a $25,000 prize, with new events the passing challenge and goalie save streak added to the competition. The winners were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\nAs in the previous two All-Star Games, captaincy of each division was determined by a fan vote, running from December 2, 2017 until January 1, 2018. On January 3, 2018, after a month of fan voting, the four captains were announced by the NHL. Steven Stamkos of the hosting Lightning was selected captain for the Atlantic Division. Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals was selected for the Metropolitan Division. P. K. Subban of the Nashville Predators and Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers were selected to captain the Central and Pacific Divisions, respectively, for the second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\nOn January 7, Jon Cooper of the Lightning was named head coach of the Atlantic Division Team. Joining him as coaches are Peter Laviolette of the Predators (Central), Barry Trotz of the Capitals (Metropolitan), and Gerard Gallant of the Golden Knights (Pacific). Coaches are chosen from the team in each division with the highest points percentage through January 6, the season's halfway point: the Lightning sat at 0.744 with 61 points as the top team in the NHL, trailed by the Golden Knights at 0.725 with 58 points. The Predators, with a 0.659 percentage and 54 points, were ranked fourth while the Capitals, sitting at a 0.646 percentage for 53 points, ranked sixth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\nFull team rosters were announced on January 10, 2018. Brock Boeser, the Vancouver Canucks' first-round draft pick in 2015, was the sole rookie selected to appear in the 2018 All-Star Game. As of January 10, he led all rookies in goals and points with 22 and 40 respectively through 40 games, placing him fifth overall in goal scoring in the entire NHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\nUnder a week prior to the game, Jonathan Quick of the Los Angeles Kings elected to not accept his invitation. As a consequence, he was suspended for one regular season game. Mike Smith of the Flames replaced Quick and joined Marc-Andre Fleury as the goalies for the Pacific Division. As well, Taylor Hall of the New Jersey Devils was injured and replaced by Brian Boyle in the Metropolitan Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Uniforms\nAs with the previous game, the NHL used four uniquely-colored jerseys for each of the four division teams. As this was the first game with Adidas as the uniform supplier, the uniforms all featured Adidas' trademark three stripes down the sides of the jerseys, underneath the arms. The colors for each division were: blue with yellow trim, with blue pants, for the Atlantic; gray with yellow trim and black pants for the Metropolitan; black with reddish-orange trim and black pants for the Central; and white with reddish-orange trim and white pants for the Pacific. White pants had previously only been worn in the NHL by the 1974\u201375 Washington Capitals for a few games, and the Los Angeles Kings for the 2015 NHL Stadium Series game. The numbers on the back of the jerseys featured a pattern based on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 881]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Festivities and entertainment\nAll-Star celebrations began on January 26 with the 2018 NHL All-Star pregame near the arena. Events included an opportunity to meet NHL mascots, participate in skills challenges in the NHL All-Star Skills Zone, view the NHL's various trophies, including the Stanley Cup, and meet past and present NHL players for autographs. The pregame was a recurring event open all of All-Star Weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Festivities and entertainment\nAll-Star Friday Night included the Enterprise NHL All-Star Friday Night concert at Curtis Hixon Park headlined by Fitz and the Tantrums.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Festivities and entertainment\nThe 2018 Gasparilla Pirate Festival and the Gasparilla Parade of the Pirates took place nearby on January 27, prior to the All-Star Skills Competition at Amalie Arena. Former Lightning center Vincent Lecavalier was named the grand marshal for the parade, and regarded as a \"perfect choice\" by Christopher Lykes, the Captain of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla, who have hosted the parade annually since 1904. According to Lykes, \"Vinny was a force with the Lightning and a force as an NHL All-Star. He has continued his leadership by being an active and positive role model in our community.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Festivities and entertainment\nThe All-Star Red Carpet began prior to the All-Star Game at 1:00 pm on January 28, with further opportunities for fans to interact with the players as they enter the arena. Kid Rock performed during the second intermission, prior to the start of the championship game. News of his performance was announced during NBCSN's pregame coverage for the January 16 Flyers-Rangers game. The announcement was received with mixed opinions, due to a combination of factors including the length of time since his last major musical hit and his political stances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Festivities and entertainment\nLindsay Ell sang the Canadian national anthem while Brett Young sang the American national anthem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281258-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Television\nThe All-Star Game and skills competition were broadcast in the United States by NBC and NBCSN, respectively. This marked the second consecutive season that the All-Star Game was broadcast on American broadcast network television: the year before, it returned to NBC and network television at large for the first time since 2004. In Canada, both the All-Star Game and skills competition were broadcast on both CBC and Sportsnet, and on TVA Sports in French.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League\nThe 2018 National Hurling League was the 87th season of the National Hurling League for county teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League\nWexford finished top of Division 1B in 2017 and were promoted to Division 1A for 2018. Galway finished second in Division 1B in 2017 and so missed out on promotion, even though they subsequently won the Division 1 league final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League\nCavan re-entered the National Hurling League in Division 3B, having previously withdrawn. Lancashire also entered in Division 3B for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League\nEir Sport and TG4 provided live TV coverage of the league on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons respectively. Highlights programmes \u2013 RT\u00c92 broadcast League Sunday on Sunday evenings, TG4 broadcast GAA 2018 on Monday evenings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League\nKilkenny were the winners, defeating Tipperary in the final on 8 April by 2\u201323 to 2-17. It was an 18th League title for Kilkenny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League\nAs National Hurling League champions Kilkenny played the 2017 All-Ireland champions Galway in Australia on 11 November 2018 for the Wild Geese Trophy as part of the Sydney Irish Festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League, Format\nThirty five teams compete in the 2018 NHL \u2013 six teams in the top five divisions (Divisions 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A) and five teams in Division 3B. All thirty-two county teams from Ireland take part. London, Lancashire and Warwickshire complete the lineup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League, Format\nEach team plays all the other teams in their division once, either home or away. Two points are awarded for a win, and one for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League, Format\nThe Division 1 hurling quarter-finals and semi-finals will finish on the day the games are played avoiding the need for replays. If a quarter-final or semi-final is level after the initial seventy minutes, still level after two ten minute periods of extra time played each way, and still level after two further five minute periods of extra time, the outcome will be decided by a free-taking competition. This will prevent games from going to a replay and allow the league finals to be held on the scheduled date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League, Division 1A, Division 1 Format\nThe 12 teams in Division 1 are ranked into two groups - teams ranked one to six in Division 1A and teams ranked seven to twelve in Division 1B. Each team plays all the other teams in its group once. Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw. The top four teams in both 1A and 1B advance to the league quarter-finals with the top team in 1A playing the fourth team in 1B, the second team in 1A playing the third in 1B, etc. Two semi-finals and a final follow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League, Division 1 Knockout, Division 1 Quarter-Finals\nThe hurling quarter-finals finish on the day the games are played, avoiding the need for replays. If the score is level after the initial seventy minutes, still level after two ten minute periods of extra time played each way, and still level after a further two five minute periods of extra time, a free-taking competition is held. Each team nominates five players to take frees from their chosen position on a sixty five metre line selected by the referee and without defenders. The nominated players from each team take alternate turns. If the teams score an equal number of the five frees, the outcome of the match is decided by sudden death frees using the same nominated players in the same order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League, Division 1 Knockout, Division 1 Quarter-Finals\nThe fixtures are 1st in Division 1A plays 4th in Division 1B, 2nd in Division 1A plays 3rd in Division 1B, etc. Home advantage is decided by whichever team has played fewer home games in their five league games, with a coin toss taking place if this number is the same for both teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League, Division 1 Knockout, Division 1 Semi-Finals\nThe hurling semi-finals finish on the day the games are played, avoiding the need for replays. If the score is level after the initial seventy minutes, still level after two ten minute periods of extra time played each way, and still level after a further two five minute periods of extra time, a free-taking competition is held. Each team nominates five players to take frees from their chosen position on a sixty five metre line selected by the referee and without defenders. The nominated players from each team take alternate turns. If the teams score an equal number of the five frees, the outcome of the match is decided by sudden death frees using the same nominated players in the same order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League, Division 1 Knockout, Division 1A Relegation Play-Off\nThe losing team is relegated and plays in next year's Division 1B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 82], "content_span": [83, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League, Division 1 Knockout, Division 1B Relegation Play-Off\nThe losing team is relegated and plays in next year's Division 2A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 82], "content_span": [83, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281259-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 National Hurling League, Division 2B, Division 2B Relegation Play-Off\nThe losing team is relegated and plays in next year's Division 3A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 74], "content_span": [75, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281260-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Invitation Tournament\nThe 2018 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I college men's basketball teams that were not selected to participate in the 2018 NCAA Tournament. The first three rounds of the annual tournament were played on campus sites (the host team being the higher seeded team). The semifinals and championship game were held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281260-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Invitation Tournament, Experimental rules\nIn February 2018, the NCAA approved a number of experimental rule changes for use in this tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281260-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National Invitation Tournament, Participants, Automatic qualifiers\nThe following teams were guaranteed berths into the 2018 NIT field by having the best regular season record in their conference but failing to either win their conference tournament or earn an at-large berth in the 2018 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281260-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National Invitation Tournament, Participants, Automatic qualifiers\nGrambling State won the SWAC regular season title but was banned from the postseason due to low graduation rates and did not participate in the conference tournament. There was thus no automatic qualifier from the SWAC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281260-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National Invitation Tournament, Schedule\nThe NIT Tournament began on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. Due to a conflict at Taco Bell Arena (with the NCAA tournament), Boise State travelled to the University of Washington for their first round match. The first three rounds were played on campus sites. The Semifinals were held on Tuesday, March 27, and the Championship Game was held on Thursday, March 29, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281260-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National Invitation Tournament, Bracket\n^ Game played at Washington due to Taco Bell Arena hosting First and Second Round 2018 NCAA Tournament games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281260-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 National Invitation Tournament, Media\nESPN, Inc. had exclusive television rights to all of the NIT Games. It was telecast every game across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN3. Westwood One had exclusive radio rights to the semifinals and the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281261-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Central tie-breaker game\nThe 2018 National League Central tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2018 regular season, played between the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs to determine the champion of the National League's (NL) Central Division. It was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois on October 1, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281261-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Central tie-breaker game\nThe Brewers won, 3\u20131, and became the top seed in the NL playoffs. The Cubs hosted the NL West runner-up Colorado Rockies in the NL Wild Card Game on October 2, with the Rockies winning 1\u20130 in 13 innings to advance to face the Brewers in the National League Division Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281261-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Central tie-breaker game\nThe Cubs and Brewers ended the 2018 season tied for the division lead and the NL's best win-loss record at 95\u201367 (.586), thereby guaranteeing that whoever came in second will host the Wild Card Game two days later. The tie-breaker was counted as a regular season game for both teams, with all events in the game added to regular season statistics. October 1 also marked the first time two division tie-breakers had been played in a single season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281261-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Central tie-breaker game, Background\nChicago had won two consecutive National League Central division championships, and were expected to win a third-consecutive Division Title. The Milwaukee Brewers finished 2017 six games back of the Cubs, despite leading the 2017 division race by 5.5 games at the All-Star break. Milwaukee's last playoff appearance was its 2011 division title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281261-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Central tie-breaker game, Background\nTo challenge for the 2018 division, the Brewers made several key offseason acquisitions, among them starter Jhoulys Chacin, former Kansas City Royal Lorenzo Cain and then-Marlins outfielder Christian Yelich. The Cubs' high-profile offseason acquisitions, Yu Darvish and Brandon Morrow, were lost to injury during the season, and both missed the tie-breaker game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281261-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Central tie-breaker game, Background\nMilwaukee emerged from a crowded early division race on May 18. Chicago took the division lead from the Brewers on July 14 and maintained sole possession of first place until falling to a third-place St. Louis club at home in the penultimate game of the season. Chicago had surged out of the All-Star break to a five-game lead over the Brewers lead on September 2, but Milwaukee put together a 19\u20137 September record that included four wins over the Cubs in nine days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281261-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Central tie-breaker game, Background\nThe Brewers ended the season on an 8-game win streak, while the Cubs won their final game 10\u20135 over the Cards to force the tiebreaker. The Cubs won the right to host the tie-breaker with an 11-8 head-to-head record against the Brewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281261-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Central tie-breaker game, Game summary\nJos\u00e9 Quintana started for Chicago, and Jhoulys Chac\u00edn started for Milwaukee. ESPN broadcast the game, with Karl Ravech, Eduardo P\u00e9rez, Tim Kurkjian, and Buster Olney. The game was also broadcast on ESPN Radio, with Jason Benetti and Chris Singleton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281261-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Central tie-breaker game, Game summary\nChristian Yelich had a run batted in (RBI) single for the Brewers in the third inning. Anthony Rizzo of the Cubs tied the game with a home run in the fifth inning, the first hit the Cubs had off of Chac\u00edn. Lorenzo Cain and Ryan Braun of the Brewers added RBI singles in the eighth inning. Orlando Arcia had his first career four hit game and scored two of Milwaukee's runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281261-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Central tie-breaker game, Aftermath\nWith the win, the Brewers extended their regular-season win streak to 9 and qualified for home-field advantage throughout the NL playoffs. Finishing one loss behind the Brewers, the Cubs hosted the 2018 NL Wild Card Game and the NL West runner-up Rockies the following day. Colorado defeated the Cubs in 13 innings. It was Chicago's first opening-round exit since the Dodgers swept the Cubs in the 2008 NLDS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281261-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Central tie-breaker game, Aftermath\nMilwaukee swept the Rockies in the NLDS, but their win streak ended at 14 in the 2018 NLCS when the Dodgers beat Milwaukee 4\u20133 on October 13, the Brewers' first loss in 27 days. L.A. would win the NL pennant at Miller Park in seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281261-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Central tie-breaker game, Aftermath\nYellich won the NL MVP over Baez, who finished in second. Both men won Silver Slugger awards and finished as Gold Glove runners up at their respective positions. Rizzo, Cain, Brewers third baseman Travis Shaw and Cubs right fielder Jason Heyward were also Gold Glove runners up. Brewers manager Craig Counsell would finish second in NL Manager of the Year voting, losing to Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series\nThe 2018 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff pitting the Milwaukee Brewers against the Los Angeles Dodgers, for the National League (NL) pennant and the right to play in the 2018 World Series against the AL Champions, the Boston Red Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series\nThe series was the 49th in league history, with Fox airing all games in the United States. This series was the first time two teams that won their division in a tiebreaker game faced each other in a playoff series, as well as the first postseason match-up between the Brewers and Dodgers. For the first time since 2012, the NLCS reached a game seven, with the Dodgers defeating the Brewers and winning back-to-back pennants for the first time since 1977\u20131978. The Dodgers lost in five games to the Boston Red Sox in the World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series\nFor the second year, Major League Baseball sold presenting sponsorships to all of its postseason series; as with the ALCS, this NLCS was sponsored by Google Assistant and was officially known as the National League Championship Series presented by Google Assistant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Background\nThe Brewers won the National League Central division for the first time since 2011 in a tie-breaker game over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, and then swept the Colorado Rockies in the National League Division Series. Dating back to the regular season, the Brewers had won 11 straight going into the NLCS. By virtue of their regular season record, highest in the league, the Brewers hold home-field advantage throughout the National League playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Background\nThis is the Brewers\u2019 third League Championship Series and second in the National League, their prior NL appearance being a 2011 NLCS loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in six games. Milwaukee also appeared in and won the 1982 ALCS, occurring during their 29-year stay in the American League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Background\nLike the Brewers, the Dodgers won the National League West in a tie-breaker game, defeating the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium for their sixth straight division title. The Dodgers then beat the Atlanta Braves in four games in the National League Division Series. This is the Dodgers\u2019 third straight appearance in the NLCS, and their fourth appearance in the past six seasons. Overall, this is their 13th NLCS trip, tying the Cardinals for most appearances by a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Background\nThis is the first ever playoff matchup between the Brewers and Dodgers. The two cities did meet with the pennant on the line in 1959 when the Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Braves (now the Atlanta Braves) in a best-of-three playoff. However, MLB counts the tie-breaker series as regular season games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Background\nThis is also the first ever League Championship Series between two teams that won tiebreakers, and only the third postseason meeting of any sort between two MLB teams involved in tiebreakers. The first ever such meeting was the 2018 National League Wild Card Game in which the Rockies defeated the Cubs and the second was the NLDS in which the Brewers defeated the Rockies. The Dodgers became the first tiebreaker team since the 2007 Colorado Rockies to reach the World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Background\nLos Angeles was 4\u20133 in their seven games against Milwaukee during this year's regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Background\nThe Brewers and Dodgers were considered the most serious suitors for Manny Machado, the biggest star traded near the 2018 trade deadline. On July 18, 2018, Machado was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Yusniel Diaz, Dean Kremer, Rylan Bannon, Breyvic Valera and Zach Pop. He made his debut as a Dodger on July 20 against the Milwaukee Brewers and had two singles and two walks. Throughout the National League Championship Series, Machado caught the ire of Brewer fans for his controversial play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nBrewers announcer and former MLB player Bob Uecker threw the ceremonial first pitch. Clayton Kershaw started game one for the Dodgers, while Gio Gonz\u00e1lez started for the Brewers. The Dodgers scored first, on a homer by Manny Machado in the second inning, which was the only run and hit allowed by Gonz\u00e1lez who was replaced after only two innings. His replacement, relief pitcher Brandon Woodruff, homered off Kershaw to tie the game in the third inning. A sacrifice fly by Hern\u00e1n P\u00e9rez scored Lorenzo Cain to put the Brewers up 2\u20131 after three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nA two-run pinch-hit single by Domingo Santana in the fourth inning extended the lead to three and a single by Ryan Braun scored Santana to make it 5\u20131. Kershaw allowed five runs on six hits and two walks in a little over three innings, the shortest post-season outing of his career. Yasmani Grandal of the Dodgers became the first catcher in post-season history to have two errors and two passed balls in the same game. The Brewers added on to their lead when Jes\u00fas Aguilar hit a homer off of Julio Ur\u00edas in the seventh inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nThe Dodgers loaded the bases in the eighth inning against Joakim Soria and managed to score three runs on back-to-back RBI singles by Machado and Matt Kemp off of Jeremy Jeffress to narrow the gap to 6\u20134. Chris Taylor hit an RBI triple in the ninth off Corey Knebel, who managed to retire Justin Turner to save the 6\u20135 win for the Brewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nBrandon Woodruff became only the third relief pitcher in major league history to homer in a postseason game, matching the feat of Rosy Ryan (in Game 3 of the 1924 World Series) and Travis Wood (in Game 2 of the 2016 NLDS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nFormer Brewers All-Star player Prince Fielder threw the ceremonial first pitch. Hyun-jin Ryu started the second game for the Dodgers and Wade Miley for the Brewers. The game remained scoreless into the fifth inning, when Orlando Arcia hit a homer to put the Brewers on the board. They scored a second run on an RBI groundout by Ryan Braun. Ryu was lifted after 41\u20443 innings, he allowed two runs on six hits with four strikeouts. Miley pitched 52\u20443 shutout innings with no walks and only two hits allowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nTravis Shaw homered off Alex Wood in the sixth inning to extend the lead to three. An RBI single by Cody Bellinger in the seventh inning off Corbin Burnes gave the Dodgers their first run of the game. A bases loaded walk issued by Jeremy Jeffress scored another run for the Dodgers. The Dodgers took the lead in the top of the eighth when Justin Turner hit a two-run home run off of Jeffress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0012-0002", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nThis was Turner's second career go-ahead home run in the seventh inning or later in the postseason, joining Kirk Gibson as the only other Dodger to accomplish this feat multiple times. The Dodgers bullpen kept the Brewers from scoring and they won the game 4\u20133 to even up the series at one all. Kenley Jansen earned his second save of the postseason. This was the Brewers first loss since September 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nFormer Dodgers All-Star player Andre Ethier threw the ceremonial first pitch. The Dodgers' starting pitcher was Walker Buehler, while the Brewers started Jhoulys Chac\u00edn. The Brewers scored in the top of the first inning, when Christian Yelich walked and Ryan Braun drove him in with a double. The Brewers added a second run in the sixth inning when Travis Shaw tripled and then scored on a wild pitch by Buehler. Chac\u00edn pitched 51\u20443 innings, and allowed only three hits and two walks while striking out six batters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nOrlando Arcia hit a two-run homer in the seventh to put the Brewers up 4\u20130. Buehler pitched seven innings, allowing four runs on five hits with eight strikeouts. The Dodgers loaded the bases in the ninth against Jeremy Jeffress, but Brian Dozier struck out looking to end the game. The Brewers finished off a five-hit shutout of the Dodgers to take a two games to one lead. It was the first time the Dodgers had been shutout in a post-season game at home since Game 1 of the 1983 NLCS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nFor Game 4, former Dodger All-Star Shawn Green threw the ceremonial first pitch. The Brewers started Gio Gonz\u00e1lez on short rest, after his Game 1 start. The Dodgers countered with Rich Hill, making his first appearance of the series. The Dodgers took an early lead on a RBI single by Brian Dozier in the bottom of the first inning. Gonz\u00e1lez left the game in the second inning after injuring his ankle fielding a grounder from the first batter of the inning. He allowed one run on two hits and one walk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nDomingo Santana tied the game up, driving Orlando Arcia in with a pinch-hit double in the fifth inning. Hill pitched five innings, with the one run allowed on three hits and three walks with six strikeouts. There was no further scoring through the end of regulation. In the 10th inning, benches briefly emptied after Manny Machado intentionally kicked Milwaukee first baseman Jes\u00fas Aguilar on a ground out, . In the bottom of the 13th, Machado singled with one out, and advanced to second on a wild pitch with two outs. Cody Bellinger hit a walk-off single to score Machado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nJunior Guerra picked up the loss in his fourth inning of relief for Milwaukee, while Julio Ur\u00edas, who had pitched the top of the 13th for Los Angeles, got the win. The game lasted five hours and 15 minutes, making it the second longest NLCS game; Game 5 of the 1999 NLCS had lasted five hours and 46 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nWith the Dodgers in danger of going down 3\u20132, this game featured the second starts of the series for Clayton Kershaw and for the Brewers Wade Miley, the latter of whom was pitching on short rest. Miley (who throws left-handed) walked the first batter he faced and was immediately removed by Brewers manager Craig Counsell in favor of Brandon Woodruff (who throws right-handed). The Brewers got on the board first in the third inning with an RBI double by Lorenzo Cain. Austin Barnes drove in Chris Taylor with a single in the fifth inning to tie the score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nA single by Max Muncy drove in the go-ahead run (Justin Turner) in the sixth inning. A pinch-hit single by Yasiel Puig added another run to put the Dodgers up by two after six innings. Woodruff wound up pitching 51\u20443 innings, and allowed the three runs on five hits, one walk and two hit batters while striking out eight. In the seventh inning, the Dodgers added two more runs. Turner drove in a run with a single off Joakim Soria and another run scored on a ground out by pinch hitter Brian Dozier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0015-0002", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nKershaw pitched seven innings, allowing one run on three hits and two walks while striking out nine. He also walked twice as a batter, becoming just the third pitcher in the last 20 years to do so in a post-season game (Jon Lester in the 2016 NLCS and Derek Lowe in the 2008 NLDS). Pinch hitter Curtis Granderson doubled in a run off Ryan Madson in the ninth inning to cut the score to 5\u20132. Kenley Jansen came in and struck out Mike Moustakas to end the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nThe sixth game in the series featured a rematch between Game 2 starters Hyun-jin Ryu and Wade Miley. Following his abbreviated start in Game 5, when he faced a single batter, Miley became the first pitcher in 88 years to start back-to-back games in the postseason. The last pitcher to do so was George Earnshaw of the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1930 World Series. Miley also was just the sixth pitcher to start three games in a league championship series. Commissioner Emeritus of Baseball and former Brewers owner Bud Selig threw the ceremonial first pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nDavid Freese, batting leadoff for the first time in the series, opened the game with a home run off of Miley to give the Dodgers the lead. Back-to-back RBI doubles by Jes\u00fas Aguilar and Mike Moustakas and a RBI single by Erik Kratz scored four runs for the Brewers in the bottom of the inning. A double by Ryan Braun added another run in the second. Ryu was removed after three innings. He allowed five runs on seven hits and two walks with only three strikeouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0016-0002", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nFreese drove in a second run for the Dodgers in the fifth inning with a double. Miley allowed two runs on five hits and two walks with four strikeouts in 41\u20443 innings. A wild pitch by Kenta Maeda in the seventh inning scored another run and a single by Aguilar off Rich Hill in the eighth put the Brewers up 7\u20132, which wound up being the final score, setting up a game seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nFor his role in the benches clearing confrontation in Game 4, Manny Machado was booed by Milwaukee fans for the entirety of all his at-bats throughout the remainder of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 7\nFor the first time since 2012, when the Giants defeated the Cardinals, and the tenth time in NLCS history, the NLCS went to a game 7. With this NLCS the Dodgers tied for the fourth most game sevens in history with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Red Sox. The starting pitchers\u2014Walker Buehler for Los Angeles and Jhoulys Chac\u00edn for Milwaukee\u2014were the same as Game 3, won by the Brewers. Hall of Fame inductee and former Brewer Robin Yount threw the ceremonial first pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 7\nChristian Yelich homered off Buehler in the first inning to give the Brewers the early lead and then Cody Bellinger hit a two-run homer in the second to put the Dodgers on top. Chac\u00edn only pitched the first two innings, allowing two runs on three hits and one walk. Buehler pitched 42\u20443 innings, allowing one run on six hits with seven strikeouts. Chris Taylor made a run saving catch in the bottom of the fifth off the bat of Yelich and then Yasiel Puig hit a three-run home run off Jeremy Jeffress in the sixth to extend the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0018-0002", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 7\nThe Dodgers would go on to win 5\u20131 as Clayton Kershaw retired Shaw, Aguilar and Moustakas to claim their second straight National League title, 40 years after they accomplished the feat in 1977 and 1978. The Dodgers were the first team to clinch a pennant on the road in a game seven since the 2006 Cardinals. This was also Los Angeles' first playoff series win where they did not win Game 1 since the 1988 NLCS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281262-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 7\nCody Bellinger was named the NLCS MVP, becoming the youngest to win the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series\nThe 2018 National League Division Series were two best-of-five-game series to determine the participating teams of the 2018 National League Championship Series. The three divisional winners (seeded first through third) and a fourth team\u2014the Wild Card Game winner\u2014played in two series. These matchups were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series\nThe Dodgers would go on to defeat the Brewers in the NLCS, then lose the 2018 World Series to the American League champion Boston Red Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series\nUnder sponsorship agreements with Doosan, the series was formally known as the National League Division Series presented by Doosan. The Brewers and the Dodgers won their respective series to advance to the Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Background\nThe 2018 National League division races were unexpectedly surprising, considering the Nationals, Cubs, and Dodgers came into the season as heavy betting favorites. The Brewers entered the NLDS as the top seed, having completed the regular season with a record of 96\u201367 and winning the NL Central via a tie-breaker game. The second-seeded Dodgers went 92\u201371 in the NL West, also winning their division via a tie-breaker game. The NL East champion Braves were seeded third via their 90\u201372 record. The final participant was the winner of the NL Wild Card Game, the Rockies. This was the first year in baseball history two divisions in the same league came down to a Game 163.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Background\nThis was the 14th NLDS appearance for Atlanta, 13th for Los Angeles, fourth for Colorado and third for Milwaukee (who also played in the 1981 ALDS, before joining the National League in 1998).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Background\nThe Brewers and Rockies met seven times during the regular season, with Milwaukee winning five of the games. The Dodgers and Braves also met seven times during the regular season, with Los Angeles holding a 5\u20132 edge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Milwaukee vs. Colorado\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Brewers and Rockies. It is also the first postseason meeting to pit one team who won a tie-breaker game (Brewers) and one team who lost a tie-breaker game (Rockies).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Milwaukee vs. Colorado, Game 1\nThe Brewers took the lead in the bottom of the third inning, on a two-run home run by Christian Yelich off of Rockies starting pitcher Antonio Senzatela. The Rockies tied it in the top of the ninth, getting two runs off of Brewers closer Jeremy Jeffress via three singles, an error, and a sacrifice fly. The two runs the Rockies scored in the top of the 9th inning would turn out to be the only runs and the only inning they would score in during the entire series. Milwaukee won the game in the bottom of the tenth, when Mike Moustakas hit a two-out walk-off single off of Adam Ottavino with runners on first and third. Brewers reliever Joakim Soria, who had retired the Rockies in order in the top of the tenth, got the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 795]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Milwaukee vs. Colorado, Game 2\nAfter three scoreless innings, Milwaukee took the lead in the bottom of the fourth, on back-to-back doubles by Mike Moustakas and Hern\u00e1n P\u00e9rez. The lead was extended to 4\u20130 in the eighth, with three runs coming off a total of two walks and three singles. Brewers starter Jhoulys Chac\u00edn got the win after allowing three hits in five innings while striking out three and walking three; closer Jeremy Jeffress earned the save, pitching the eighth and ninth while allowing two hits and striking out three. Rockies starter Tyler Anderson allowed one run on four hits in six innings of work, and took the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Milwaukee vs. Colorado, Game 3\nThe Brewers opened the game with a run in the top of the first inning, coming on a walk, single, and fielder's choice, with Christian Yelich scoring for the 1\u20130 lead. A Jes\u00fas Aguilar home run in the top of the fourth inning gave Milwaukee a 2\u20130 lead. The Brewers doubled their lead to 4\u20130 in the top of the sixth inning; with runners on second and third with two outs, Rockies reliever Scott Oberg gave up one run via balk and another via a wild pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Milwaukee vs. Colorado, Game 3\nHome runs by Orlando Arcia and Keon Broxton in the top of the ninth inning increased the lead to 6\u20130. In the bottom of the ninth, the Rockies got two men on base with one out, before Milwaukee reliever Josh Hader came in and recorded the final two outs, completing the sweep. Brewers pitcher Corbin Burnes got the win after pitching two innings of no-hit relief, while Rockies starter Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez allowed seven hits and two runs in five innings and took the loss. The Brewers' 122\u20443 innings from starters were the fewest ever for a team that won a Division Series. The Brewers will play the Dodgers in the NLCS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Atlanta\nThis was the third postseason meeting between the Dodgers and Braves. The previous two match-ups were the 1996 National League Division Series and 2013 National League Division Series. They also met in the 1959 National League tie-breaker series. The Braves formerly were an NL West member for 24 years (1969-1993); the Braves and Dodgers finished in the top two positions in the division in 1982, 1983, and 1991, all of which came down to the final week of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Atlanta, Game 1\nHyun-jin Ryu started the game for the Dodgers and Mike Foltynewicz for the Braves. Joc Pederson hit Foltynewicz's third pitch of the game for a home run, his 10th leadoff homer of the season, to start the scoring. In the second inning, Max Muncy hit a three-run home run to put the Dodgers up, 4\u20130. Muncy became just the eighth player to hit a home run and walk three times in a playoff game. Foltynewicz only lasted two innings, allowing four runs on four hits, three walks and one hit batter. He also struck out five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Atlanta, Game 1\nRyu pitched seven innings, struck eight batters, and did not allow a run or walk. It was his second career postseason start of seven scoreless innings. The only other Dodgers to do it multiple times were Sandy Koufax, Jerry Reuss and Orel Hershiser. Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez added a homer in the sixth inning and the Dodgers scored one more run in the eighth on a sacrifice fly to win game one of the series, 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Atlanta, Game 2\nClayton Kershaw started the game for the Dodgers, allowing only two hits in eight innings. The Dodgers established an early lead via a two-run homer by Manny Machado in the bottom of the first inning and added another run on a homer by Yasmani Grandal in the fifth, both off of Braves starter An\u00edbal S\u00e1nchez, who lasted 42\u20443 innings. Kenley Jansen closed out the Braves in the ninth for the save. Los Angeles became just the second team in postseason history to open a postseason run with two shutouts, joining the 1921 Yankees. Consequently, Atlanta became just the second team in postseason history to open a postseason run by being shut out in two straight games, joining the 1921 Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Atlanta, Game 3\nWalker Buehler started for the Dodgers, while Sean Newcomb started for the Braves. Atlanta took a 5\u20130 lead in the bottom of the second inning. The first run came when Newcomb forced a run with a bases-loaded walk, the first time in postseason history a pitcher has done this. Four more runs were scored on a grand slam by Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. Acu\u00f1a (20 years, 293 days old) became the youngest player to hit a grand slam in post-season history, surpassing Mickey Mantle (who was 21 years, 349 days old in the 1953 World Series).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Atlanta, Game 3\nLos Angeles got back two runs in the top of the third, on an RBI single by Justin Turner with the second run scoring on error by Acu\u00f1a. Newcomb was replaced after allowing two runs (one earned) in 2+2\u20443 innings. Chris Taylor hit a two-run home run in the fifth off of Kevin Gausman to cut the lead to one run and then Max Muncy tied the game with a homer off Max Fried. After the second inning, Buehler settled down and pitched five innings with only two hits and seven strikeouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Atlanta, Game 3\nHe also walked two and allowed the five runs. The Braves recaptured the lead when Freddie Freeman homered off Alex Wood in the sixth inning. The Dodgers got a couple of baserunners on in the ninth but Arodys Vizca\u00edno managed to close out the win for the Braves, 6\u20135, extending their season. The game's attendance of 42,385 was the largest yet at the two-season old SunTrust Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Atlanta, Game 4\nMike Foltynewicz made his second start of the series for the Braves, after his abbreviated start in Game 1, while Rich Hill made his first start of the post-season for the Dodgers. An RBI double by Manny Machado in the first inning gave the Dodgers an early lead. A two RBI pinch hit single by Kurt Suzuki in the fourth inning put the Braves ahead by a run. Foltynewicz was removed after four innings, where he struck out five and only allowed two hits, four walks and one run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281263-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Atlanta, Game 4\nHill pitched 41\u20443 innings, with three strikeouts, and allowed four hits while walking five. A pinch-hit two RBI single by David Freese off Brad Brach put the Dodgers back ahead in the sixth inning. A three-run home run by Machado in the seventh inning off of Chad Sobotka extended the lead to 6\u20132. The Dodgers bullpen held on and they won the game and the series, advancing to their third straight National League Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281264-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National League West tie-breaker game\nThe 2018 National League West tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2018 regular season, played between the Colorado Rockies and Los Angeles Dodgers to determine the champion of the National League's (NL) West Division. It was played at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California on October 1, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281264-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National League West tie-breaker game\nThe game was won by Los Angeles, 5\u20132. The Dodgers became the second seed in the NL playoffs and advanced to play the NL East champion Atlanta Braves in the National League Division Series. The Rockies were hosted by the NL Central runner-up Chicago Cubs in the NL Wild Card Game on October 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281264-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National League West tie-breaker game\nThe tie-breaker counted as a regular season game for both teams, with all events in the game added to regular season statistics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281264-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National League West tie-breaker game, Background\nThe Los Angeles Dodgers entered the 2018 Major League Baseball season having won the last five consecutive National League West division championships. The Colorado Rockies made the Major League Baseball postseason in 2017 as a wild card. Despite this being their fifth postseason appearance, the Rockies had not won a division title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281264-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National League West tie-breaker game, Background\nBoth the Dodgers and Rockies finished the 2018 regular season with 91\u201371 (.562) win-loss records, necessitating a tie-breaking game to determine the division champion. As the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers tied for first place in the National League Central division, they also played in a tie-breaker game, marking the first time in Major League Baseball that two tie-breakers were needed in a single year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281264-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National League West tie-breaker game, Game summary\nThe Dodgers hosted the tie-breaker game based on their head-to-head record against the Rockies in the regular season. Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez started for Colorado and Walker Buehler started for Los Angeles. ESPN broadcast the game, with Jon Sciambi, David Ross, and Rick Sutcliffe. They also carried the game on ESPN Radio, with Adam Amin and Jim Bowden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281264-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 National League West tie-breaker game, Game summary\nThe Dodgers got two-run home runs from Cody Bellinger in the fourth inning and Max Muncy in the fifth inning off of M\u00e1rquez, who struck out nine in 4+2\u20443 innings. Meanwhile, Buehler did not allow a hit in his first five innings, and allowed one hit in 6+2\u20443 total innings. The Rockies got solo homers in the ninth inning from Nolan Arenado and Trevor Story off of Kenley Jansen. However, they ended the game with only four hits. The Dodgers won the game 5\u20132 to clinch their sixth consecutive division championship. They became the first team to win six straight division championships since the New York Yankees won 13 straight from 1995-2007 and only the third overall (the Atlanta Braves won 14 from 1991-2005).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281264-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 National League West tie-breaker game, Aftermath\nWith the victory, the Dodgers clinched the second seed in the NL postseason. They beat the Atlanta Braves in the NLDS in four games. The Dodgers defeated the Brewers in the NLCS in seven games, and moved onto the World Series, where they lost in five games to the Boston Red Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281264-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 National League West tie-breaker game, Aftermath\nWith the loss, the Rockies were relegated to the second Wild Card spot. The Rockies defeated the Chicago Cubs in the 2018 National League Wild Card Game the next day, but were then swept by the Brewers in the NLDS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281265-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Wild Card Game\nThe 2018 National League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2018 postseason between the National League's two wild card teams, the Colorado Rockies and the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs earned home field advantage by virtue of having a better regular season record. The game occurred on October 2, 2018, with the Rockies victorious by a score of 2\u20131 in 13 innings\u2014the longest winner-take-all game in MLB postseason history. The Rockies advanced to face the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Division Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281265-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Wild Card Game\nFor sponsorship reasons with Hankook Tire the game was formally known as the National League Wild Card Game presented by Hankook Tire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281265-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Wild Card Game, Background\nAt the scheduled end of the regular season, the NL Central and NL West divisions each had two teams tied for the division lead; Cubs and Brewers in the Central, and Dodgers and Rockies in the West. This resulted in two tiebreaker games being played on October 1 to determine division winners, with the losers of the tiebreaker games\u2014the Rockies and Cubs\u2014relegated to this Wild Card Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281265-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Wild Card Game, Background\nThis was the first Wild Card Game to require tiebreakers to determine both teams, and the first NL Wild Card Game to require any tiebreaker game, as the only other Wild Card Game to require a tiebreaker was the 2013 AL Wild Card Game. The Cubs and Rockies became the first teams in MLB history to lose tiebreaker games at the end of the regular season yet still enter postseason play, as they played in the first divisional tie-breaker games needed since MLB's addition of a second Wild Card team in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281265-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Wild Card Game, Background\nThe Cubs entered the Wild Card Game with a record of 95\u201368, while the Rockies entered at 91\u201372. The Cubs and Rockies tied the six-game regular season series 3\u20133, with each team winning two of the three games in its opponent's ballpark. This was the first postseason meeting between the two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281265-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National League Wild Card Game, Game results, Line score\nCharlie Blackmon walked to lead off the game for the Rockies, and DJ LeMahieu followed with a double. They recorded their first run in the first inning when Nolan Arenado hit a sacrifice fly that scored Blackmon. In the eighth inning, Anthony Rizzo hit a single for the Cubs. Pinch runner Terrance Gore stole second base, and scored on an RBI double by Javier B\u00e1ez. Tony Wolters, who entered the game in the 12th inning in a double switch, had an RBI single for Colorado in the 13th inning, scoring Trevor Story. Scott Oberg recorded the win, striking out Gore, Baez and Albert Almora in the bottom of the 13th to secure a spot in the NLDS. Oberg became the first reliever to win a postseason game when facing at least four batters and striking out all of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281266-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National League play-off Final\nThe 2018 National League play-off Final , known as the Vanarama National League Promotion Final for sponsorship reasons, was a football match played at Wembley Stadium in London on 12 May 2018 to decide the second team to be promoted from the National League to EFL League Two for the 2018\u201319 season. The culmination of the 2018 National League play-offs saw Tranmere Rovers beat Boreham Wood to earn promotion alongside the National League champions Macclesfield Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281266-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National League play-off Final\nBoreham Wood entered the play-offs having finished fourth in the 2017\u201318 National League while Tranmere Rovers finished two places above in second. The play-off format was changed for this season with second and third place teams receiving a bye to the semi-finals while the fourth to seventh place teams played a qualifying round to determine the other two semi-finalists. Boreham Wood beat seventh-placed AFC Fylde 2\u20131 in their qualifying round and third-placed Sutton United 3-2 in the semi-final. Tranmere faced sixth-placed Ebbsfleet United in their semi-final, after Ebbsfleet beat Aldershot Town in the other qualifying round via a penalty-shootout, Tranmere won 4\u20132 to reach the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281267-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National League speedway season\nThe National League speedway 2018 was the 2018 season of the third tier/division of British speedway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281267-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National League speedway season\nEastbourne Eagles won the Play offs and were declared champions. They completed the double by winning the Knockout Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281267-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National League speedway season, Results, Fixtures\nTeams face each other two times: once home and once away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281267-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National League speedway season, Results, Fixtures\nThe following National League matches were not staged during the 2018 league seasonBuxton Hitmen Vs Coventry BeesEastbourne Eagles Vs Mildenhall Fen Tigers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281267-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National League speedway season, Results, Table\nFinal National League Table Up To And Including Sunday 28 October", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281267-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National League speedway season, Results, Table\nCoventry Bees were in fourth place and higher in the league table then Birmingham Brummies at the cut-off date to decide the National League play-off places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281267-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 National League speedway season, Results, Play-Offs\nHome team scores are in boldOverall aggregate scores are in red", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281267-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 National League speedway season, National League Knockout Cup\nThe 2018 National League Knockout Cup was the 21st edition of the Knockout Cup for tier three teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281267-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 National League speedway season, National League Knockout Cup, KO Cup Stages\nHome team scores are in boldOverall aggregate scores are in red", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281267-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 National League speedway season, National Trophy, Fixtures\nTeams face each other two times: once home and once away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281267-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 National League speedway season, National Trophy, Table\nNational Trophy Northern Section Table Up to And Including Wednesday 1 August", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281267-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 National League speedway season, National Trophy, Fixtures\nTeams face each other two times: once home and once away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281267-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 National League speedway season, Teams, Cradley Heathens\nThe Cradley team only took part in the National Trophy competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281268-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Oil Corporation attack\nThe 2018 National Oil Corporation attack was a terrorist attack that occurred on 10 September 2018, in which at least six gunmen from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Libya carried out an attack, taking several hostages and killing at least 2 staff members from the National Oil Corporation. During the attack, a shootout occurred with security forces loyal to the Tripoli-based government. An al-Jazeera journalist reported that the gunmen attacked the main gate of the facility, and the attack caused a wave of panic in Tripoli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281268-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Oil Corporation attack, Reactions\nItaly: Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Milanesi condemned the attack in a phone call to Fayez al-Sarraj.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281269-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Party of Australia leadership election\nA leadership election was held on 26 February 2018 to select Barnaby Joyce's replacement as leader of the National Party of Australia and Deputy Prime Minister. Michael McCormack was elected party leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281269-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Party of Australia leadership election\nOn the morning of 26 February, the Nationals held a party room meeting at which Joyce formally resigned to the backbench. McCormack was seen as the favourite to become leader, and was the only declared candidate as at 25 February. At the meeting he secured the support of a majority of the 21 National Party parliamentarians, seeing off a last-minute challenge from Queensland MP George Christensen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281269-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National Party of Australia leadership election, Background\nBarnaby Joyce, who had led the National Party since replacing Warren Truss in February 2016, announced on 23 February 2018 that he would resign as party leader during a party room meeting on 26 February. His resignation followed scandals involving an affair with a former staffer and a sexual harassment allegation. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who was on a state visit to the United States at the time, appointed Regional Development Minister John McVeigh, from the Liberal branch of the Liberal National Party of Queensland, to take on Joyce's cabinet role as Acting Minister for Transport and Infrastructure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281269-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National Party of Australia leadership election, Background\nPrior to the events of February 2018, Joyce was viewed as a charismatic leader, who had been re-elected as the member for New England with a substantial and increased majority in a December 2017 by-election. He maintained the support of a majority of his party members even as scandals unfolded, with some exceptions including the party's Western Australian branch and Andrew Broad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281269-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National Party of Australia leadership election, Background\nUnder the Coalition agreement between the Liberal and National Parties, the Nationals' leader serves as deputy prime minister in a Coalition government. Therefore, the decision of National Party members would determine who succeeded Joyce as deputy PM. Following the 2016 election, sixteen National Party MPs sat in the Australian House of Representatives (including six from the Queensland Liberal National Party, and Joyce himself as a backbencher since his announcement). Some of the highest-profile National Party parliamentarians, namely deputy leader Bridget McKenzie and Resources Minister Matt Canavan, sit in the Senate; no senator has served as deputy prime minister in the history of the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281270-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National People's Congress\nThe 2018 National People's Congress, or the First Session of the 13th National People's Congress, was held in March 2018 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. The session opened on 5 March and concluded on 20 March. Major state positions were elected in this session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281270-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National People's Congress\nThe Communist Party of China proposed amending the Constitution, for the first time after 2004, including writing Scientific Outlook on Development and Xi Jinping Thought into the Preamble, and removing the provision that the President and Vice President \"shall serve no more than two consecutive terms\" from the Constitution. Amending the Constitution of China requires a majority vote of two-thirds of all the deputies to the Congress. On 11 March 2018, the Congress passed the amendment in the third plenary meeting of this session, attended by 2,964 out of 2,980 deputies, with 2,958 votes for, two against, three abstaining, and one void.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281270-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National People's Congress\nOn 17 March 2018, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, was unanimously re-elected as the President of the People's Republic of China and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Li Zhanshu was elected as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281270-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National People's Congress\nLi Keqiang was nominated as the Premier by President Xi Jinping and approved by the Congress on 18 March 2018. Han Zheng, Sun Chunlan, Hu Chunhua and Liu He are nominated as the Vice Premiers by Premier Li Keqiang and approved by the Congress on 19 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281270-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National People's Congress, Elected Members\nBelow is the number of deputies elected from each delegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281271-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Premier Leagues\nThe 2018 National Premier Leagues was the sixth season of the Australian National Premier Leagues football competition. The league competition was played amongst eight separate divisions, divided by FFA state and territory member federations. The divisions are ACT, NSW, Northern NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia. The winners of each respective divisional league competed in a finals playoff tournament at season end, culminating in a Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281271-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Premier Leagues\nCampbelltown City were crowned National Premier Leagues Champions and qualified directly for the 2019 FFA Cup Round of 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281271-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National Premier Leagues, Final Series\nThe winner of each league competition (top of the table) in the NPL will compete in a single match knockout tournament to decide the National Premier Leagues Champion for 2018. The quarter final match-ups were decided by an open draw. Home advantage for the semi-finals and final is based on a formula relating to time of winning (normal time, extra time or penalties), goals scored and allowed, and yellow/red cards. The winner will additionally qualify for the 2019 FFA Cup Round of 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281272-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Premier Leagues Grand Final\nThe 2018 National Premier Leagues Grand Final was the sixth National Premier Leagues Grand Final, It was played on the 30 September 2018 at Steve Woodcock Sports Centre in Adelaide between Campbelltown City and Lions FC. Campbelltown won 2\u20131 to secure their first National Premier Leagues title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281272-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Premier Leagues Grand Final, Route to the final\nThis is the how the two teams qualified for the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281273-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Premier Leagues Victoria\nThe 2018 National Premier Leagues Victoria was the fifth season of the National Premier Leagues Victoria, the top league in Victorian football. Bentleigh Greens were the defending champions, having won their second championship title the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281273-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Premier Leagues Victoria, Teams\nFourteen teams competed in the league \u2013 the top twelve teams from previous season and the two teams promoted from the NPL Victoria 2. The promoted teams were Dandenong Thunder from the Eastern conference and Northcote City from the Western conference. They replaced North Geelong Warriors and St Albans Saints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281274-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Pro Fastpitch season\nThe 2018 National Pro Fastpitch season was the 15th season of professional softball under the name National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) for the only professional women's softball league in the United States. From 1997 to 2002, NPF operated under the names Women's Pro Fastpitch (WPF) and Women's Pro Softball League (WPSL). Each year, the playoff teams battle for the Cowles Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281274-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Pro Fastpitch season, Milestones and events\nOn October 12, 2017, it was reported the Texas Charge would be dissolving, effective immediately. The NPF did not make an announcement regarding the Charge, but all Charge players under contract were added to the league's transactions page as free agents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281274-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National Pro Fastpitch season, Milestones and events\nIn an arrangement similar to the Beijng Eagles', NPF announced in December 2017 that Softball Australia would be operating a 2018 expansion team, the Aussie Spirit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281274-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National Pro Fastpitch season, Milestones and events\nOn January 28, 2018, the Scrap Yard Dawgs announced via press release they would no longer be affiliated with the NPF. They indicated they would continue as an independent team. On the same day, Ohio.com reported that the Akron Racers would be replaced by a Chinese team, similar to the Beijing Eagles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281274-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National Pro Fastpitch season, Player acquisition, College draft\nThe 2018 NPF College Draft will be the 13th annual collegiate draft for NPF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281275-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Ringette League playoffs\nThe 2018 National Ringette League Playoffs are the postseason tournament of 2017-18 National Ringette League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281275-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Ringette League playoffs, Format\nThe format is same as 2015-16. The draws are E3 vs E8, E4 vs E7, E5 vs E6 and W3 vs W4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281275-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National Ringette League playoffs, Elite Eight\nAll games will play at Bell MTS Iceplex, Seven Oaks Arena and Bell MTS Place which located at Winnipeg from April 9 to April 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281276-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Rugby Championship\nThe 2018 National Rugby Championship was the fifth season of the top flight of Australian domestic rugby union. The competition began on 1 September and concluded on 27 October. Matches were roadcast on Fox Sports and the championship featured eight professional teams, seven from Australia and one from Fiji.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281276-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Rugby Championship\nThe Fijian Drua won their first NRC title, defeating reigning champion side Queensland Country by 36\u201326 in the grand final held at Churchill Park in Lautoka. The Drua secured home ground advantage in the final by winning the minor premiership for the regular season and then beating Canberra Vikings in their semifinal. Queensland Country defeated the Western Force in the other semifinal to progress to the grand final. Fijian Drua also finished the season as winners of the Horan-Little Shield for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281276-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National Rugby Championship, Teams\nThere were two major changes for the 2018 season. The Greater Sydney Rams team was removed from the competition, leaving New South Wales with two participating sides in the NRC, one Sydney team and one Country team. In Perth, the Western Force replaced Perth Spirit as the team in Western Australia, following the removal of the Force from the Super Rugby competition in 2018. The eight teams for the 2018 NRC season include two from New South Wales, two from Queensland, and one each from Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, Western Australia, and Fiji:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281276-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National Rugby Championship, Television coverage and streaming\nTwo of the NRC matches each weekend are broadcast live via Fox Sports, with the remaining matches shown live on the Fox Sports streaming platform. Discussion of the NRC competition is included on the Fox Sports review show NRC Extra Time on Monday nights, and the Kick & Chase program on Wednesday evenings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281276-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National Rugby Championship, Experimental Law Variations\nWorld Rugby adopted all global law variations being trialled as of May 2018 into the rugby law book with immediate effect. As such, the NRC 2017 trial changes to Laws 15, 16 and 20 (renumbered as 14, 15 and 19 in the simplified 2018 laws)\u200a were officially incorporated by World Rugby and thus became variations no more. The other law variations used for the NRC in 2017 were retained for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281276-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National Rugby Championship, Regular season\nThe eight teams competed in a round-robin tournament for the regular season. During this section of the competition, teams also played for the Horan-Little Shield, a challenge trophy put on the line when a challenge is accepted by the holders or mandated by the terms of competition for the shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281276-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 National Rugby Championship, Regular season\nPoints for the regular season standings were accumulated by the same method as for The Rugby Championship and Super Rugby. A slightly modified version of the standard competition points system was used, with a bonus point awarded to a winning team scoring at least 3 tries more than their opponent; and a bonus point awarded to a losing team defeated by a margin of 7 points or under. Four points were awarded for a win and none for a loss; two points were awarded to each team if a match was drawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281276-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 National Rugby Championship, Regular season\nEach team's placement was based on its cumulative points total, including any bonus points earned. For teams level on table points, tiebreakers apply in the following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281276-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 National Rugby Championship, Regular season\nThe top four teams at the end of the regular season qualified for the title play-offs in the form of semi-finals followed by a final to determine the champion team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281276-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 National Rugby Championship, Regular season, Standings\nSource: \u00a0\u2022 Teams 1 to 4 (Green background) at the end of the regular season rounds qualify for the title playoffs. HL denotes the holder of the Horan-Little Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281276-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 National Rugby Championship, Title playoffs, Final\nAssistant Referees:Jordan Way (Australia)Aaron Pook (Australia)Television match official:Tevita Rokovereni (Fiji)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281276-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 National Rugby Championship, 2018 Emerging States Championship\nFrom 2018 an additional competition was formed for teams from so-called \"Emerging States\", featuring the Adelaide Black Falcons, Victoria Country Barbarians, Northern Territory Mosquitoes and Tasmania Jack Jumpers. The first Competition was held in Adelaide in September 2018, and the Black Falcons were the inaugural winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281277-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Society of Film Critics Awards\nThe 53rd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 2019, honored the best in film for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281277-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners\nWinners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281278-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Sports Sedan Series\nThe 2018 National Sports Sedan Series was an Australian motor racing competition open to Sports Sedans and Trans Am type automobiles. It was sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) as an Authorised Series, with Sports Sedans Pty Ltd appointed as the Category Manager by CAMS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281278-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Sports Sedan Series\nThe series was won by Steven Tamasi, driving Holden Calibra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281279-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Women's League (New Zealand)\nThe 2018 National Women's League was the sixteenth season of the NWL, New Zealand's top level women's football league since its establishment in 2002. Seven teams were again involved in this season representing the different regions in New Zealand. This was the first year that the league had two rounds with the two highest-placed sides progressing to a one-off grand final. The season also featured a double header round over Labour weekend, in which all sides except Capital played two matches over the weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281279-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Women's League (New Zealand), Regular season, Fixtures and results\nNew Zealand women's football league matches took place from September to December 2018 and also for the first time include a double header round over Labour weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 80], "content_span": [81, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281280-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 National Women's Soccer League season\nThe 2018 National Women's Soccer League season was the sixth season of the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States. Including the NWSL's two professional predecessors, Women's Professional Soccer (2009\u20132011) and the Women's United Soccer Association (2001\u20132003), it was the twelfth overall season of FIFA and USSF-sanctioned top division women's soccer in the United States. The league is operated by the United States Soccer Federation and receives major financial backing from that body. Further financial backing is provided by the Canadian Soccer Association. Both national federations pay the league salaries of many of their respective national team members in an effort to nurture talent in those nations and take the financial burden off individual clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 854]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281280-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 National Women's Soccer League season\nThe off-season brought significant changes, with FC Kansas City and the Boston Breakers ceasing operations, while new club Utah Royals FC joined the league. The 2018 season began on March 24, and ended on September 8. Teams once again played 24 regular-season games this year, with the top four teams making a single-elimination playoff. The North Carolina Courage won the NWSL Shield with 15 more points than second place Thorns. The NWSL Playoffs began on September 15 with the two semifinal matches, which were won by the Thorns and the Courage. The NWSL Championship Game was held on September 22 at Providence Park in Portland. The Courage won 3\u20130, becoming the first team to win both the NWSL Shield and the NWSL Championship in the same season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281280-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 National Women's Soccer League season, Teams, stadiums, and personnel, Stadiums and locations\nTwo teams, the Dash and Reign, do not make their stadiums' entire capacity available for home games, instead restricting ticket sales at a lower level. The full capacities of their venues are included in parentheses and italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 98], "content_span": [99, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281280-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 National Women's Soccer League season, Teams, stadiums, and personnel, Personnel and sponsorship\nNote: All of the teams use Nike as their kit manufacturer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 101], "content_span": [102, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281280-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 National Women's Soccer League season, League standings, Tiebreakers\nThe initial determining factor for a team's position in the standings is most points earned, with three points earned for a win, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss. If two or more teams tie in point total, when determining rank and playoff qualification and seeding, the NWSL uses the following tiebreaker rules, going down the list until all teams are ranked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 73], "content_span": [74, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281280-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 National Women's Soccer League season, League standings, Tiebreakers\nNOTE: If two clubs remain tied after another club with the same number of points advances during any step, the tie breaker reverts to step 1 of the two-club format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 73], "content_span": [74, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281280-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 National Women's Soccer League season, NWSL Playoffs\nThe top four teams from the regular season compete for the NWSL Championship. The North Carolina Courage secured the number one seed on August 5, winning their second straight NWSL Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281280-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 National Women's Soccer League season, NWSL Playoffs, Semi-finals\n*Originally scheduled for September 16 at Sahlen's Stadium in Cary, North Carolina; rescheduled and moved due to Hurricane Florence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281281-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Navajo Nation presidential election\nThe Navajo Nation presidential election of 2018 was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. The candidates for President of the Navajo Nation in the general election were Jonathan Nez and Joe Shirley, Jr. Jonathan Nez and running mate Myron Lizer won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281281-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Navajo Nation presidential election\nThe primary election was held on Tuesday, August 28, 2018 between 18 candidates for the office of Navajo Nation President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281281-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Navajo Nation presidential election, Results\nJonathan Nez received 39,783 votes while Joe Shirley, Jr. received 20,146 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281281-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Navajo Nation presidential election, Results\nA referendum for a salary increase for President and Vice-President did not pass with 37,693 votes against and 18,802 votes for.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 2018 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Midshipmen were led by eleventh-year head coach Ken Niumatalolo and played their home games at Navy\u2013Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Navy was a member of the American Athletic Conference (AAC) in the West Division. The Midshipmen finished the season 3\u201310, the team's worst record since 2002. They went 2\u20136 in AAC play to tie fifth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Previous season\nThe Midshipmen finished the 2017 season 7\u20136 overall and 4\u20134 in AAC play to tie for third place in the West Division. They were invited to the Military Bowl where they defeated Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Preseason, AAC media poll\nThe AAC media poll was released on July 24, 2018, with the Midshipmen predicted to finish in third place in the AAC West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nHAW \u2013 QB Cole Macdonald 7 yard TD pass to WR Cedric Byrd. K Ryan Meskell point-after TD kick (12 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nHAW \u2013 RB F. Holly III 1 yard TD run. Ryan Meskell PAT kick (10 plays, 71 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nHAW \u2013 Cole MacDonald 34 yard TD pass to WR JoJo Ward. Ryan Meskell PAT kick, (4 plays, 40 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nHAW \u2013 PR M. Hendrie 19 yard TD punt return, Ryan Meskell PAT kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nNAVY \u2013 WR/QB Zach Abey 3 yard TD run, K Bennett Moehring PAT kick, (8 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nHAW \u2013 Cole MacDonald 50 yard pass to John Ursua 50 yard pass, Ryan Meskell PAT kick. (6 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nNAVY \u2013 QB Malcolm Perry 75 yard TD run, Bennett Moehring PAT kick, (1 play, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nHAW \u2013 Ryan Meskell 23 yard field goal, (12 plays, 71 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nNAVY \u2013 Zach Abey 1 TD yard run, Bennett Moehring PAT kick, (12 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nNAVY \u2013 Zach Abey 7 TD yard run, Bennett Moehring PAT kick, (3 plays, 9 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nHAW \u2013 Cole MacDonald 31 yard TD pass to Cedric Byrd, Ryan Meskell PAT kick, (7 plays, 71 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nNAVY \u2013 Malcolm Perry 19 yard TD pass to SB Tre Walker, Bennett Moehring PAT kick, (6 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nHAW \u2013 Cole MacDonald 75 yard pass to JoJo Ward, Ryan Meskell PAT kick, (2 plays, 78 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nHAW \u2013 Cole MacDonald 9 yard TD pass to WR John Ursua, Ryan Meskell PAT kick, (9 plays, 60 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Hawaii\nNAVY \u2013 Zach Abey 2 yard TD run, QB Garret Lewis 2-point conversion rush failed, (11 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nNAVY \u2013 Kicker Bennett Moehring 23 yard field goal (12 plays, 32 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nMEM \u2013 RB Darrell Henderson 2 yard TD run. Kicker Riley Patterson point-after TD kick (12 plays, 86 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nNAVY \u2013 QB Malcolm Perry 7 yard TD run. QB Gerret Lewis failed 2-point conversion (11 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nMEM \u2013 Darrell Henderson 78 yard TD run. Riley Patterson PAT kick (2 plays, 78 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nMEM \u2013 Darrell Henderson 59 TD run. Riley Patterson PAT kick (1 play, 54 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nNAVY \u2013 Malcolm Perry 19 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick (2 plays, 27 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nNAVY \u2013 WR/QB Zach Abey 3 yard TD run. Zach Abey 2-point conversion failed (13 plays, 56 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Lehigh\nNAVY \u2013 QB Malcolm Perry 5 yard TD run. Kicker Bennett Moehring point-after TD kick. (7 plays, 67 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Lehigh\nLEH \u2013 RB Rashawn Allen 75 yard TD run. Kicker Ed Mish PAT kick. (1 play, 75 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Lehigh\nNAVY \u2013 Malcolm Perry 24 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (2 plays, 28 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Lehigh\nNAVY \u2013 WR/QB Zach Abey 1 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (4 plays, 73 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Lehigh\nNAVY \u2013 SB Myles Felles 52 yards TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (7 plays, 83 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Lehigh\nNAVY \u2013 Bennett Moehring 29 yard field goal. (8 plays, 32 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Lehigh\nNAVY \u2013 Bennett Moehring 37 yard field goal kick. (3 plays, 24 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Lehigh\nNAVY \u2013 Malcolm Perry 30 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (10 plays, 85 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Lehigh\nNAVY \u2013 QB Garrett Lewis 4 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (4 plays, 52 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Lehigh\nLEH \u2013 Allen Rashawn 26 yard TD run. Ed Mish PAT kick. (10 plays, 75 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Lehigh\nNAVY \u2013 Bennett Moehring 45 yard field goal kick. (9 plays, 50 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Lehigh\nLEH \u2013 QB Tyler Monaco 2 yard TD pass to WR Cam Richardson. Ed Mish PAT kick. (9 plays, 32 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at SMU\nSMU \u2013 Kicker Kevin Robledo 26 yard field goal. (14 plays, 72 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at SMU\nNAVY \u2013 QB/WR Zach Abey 1 yard TD run. Kicker Bennett Moehring point-after TD kick. (18 plays, 78 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at SMU\nSMU \u2013 QB William Brown 20 yard TD pass to RB Roberson Jr. Kevin Robledo PAT kick. (6 plays, 36 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at SMU\nNAVY \u2013 QB Garrett Lewis 25 yard TD pass to WR Mychal Cooper. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (7 plays, 62 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at SMU\nSMU \u2013 PR Roberson Jr. 98 yard TD kickoff return. Kevin Robledo PAT kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at SMU\nSMU \u2013 QB William Brown 2 yard TD pass to WR M. Gailliard. Kevin Robledo blocked kick. (4 plays, 2 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at SMU\nNAVY \u2013 CB Jarid Ryan 98 yard TD PAT return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at SMU\nNAVY \u2013 SB C.J. Williams 52 yard. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (5 plays, 81 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at SMU\nNAVY \u2013 QB Garrett Lewis 1 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (9 plays, 25 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at SMU\nSMU \u2013 QB Ben Hicks 4 yard TD pass to WR James Proche. Ben Hicks 2-point conversion pass to WR Hunter Thedford 2-point. (7 plays, 25 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Air Force\nNAVY \u2013 QB Garrett Lewis 2 yard TD run to. Kicker Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (9 plays, 34 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Air Force\nAF \u2013 QB Donald Hammond III 61 yard TD pass to WR Ronald Cleveland. Kicker Jake Koehke PAT kick. (3 plays, 65 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Air Force\nAF \u2013 Joseph Saucier 48 yard TD run. Jake Koehke PAT kick. (2 plays, 63 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Air Force\nAF \u2013 Donald Hammond III 5 yard TD run. Jake Koehke PAT kick. (7 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Air Force\nAF \u2013 Donald Hammond III 1 yard TD run. Jake Koehke PAT kick. (14 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Air Force\nAF \u2013 Donald Hammond III 2 yard TD run. Jake Koehke PAT kick. (8 plays, 44 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Temple\nNAVY \u2013 Kicker Bennett Moehring 24 yard field goal. (17 plays, 71 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Temple\nTEM \u2013 RB Tyliek Raynor 15 yard TD run. Kicker Will Mobley point-after kick. (9 plays, 77 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Temple\nNAVY \u2013 QB Garrett Lewis 1 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (11 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Temple\nNAVY \u2013 FB Nelson Smith 12 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (4 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Temple\nTEM \u2013 Will Mobley 31 yard field goal. (6 plays, 31 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Temple\nTEM \u2013 RB Rob Ritrovato 1 yard TD run. Will Mobley PAT kick. (8 plays, 65 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Temple\nTEM \u2013 QB Anthony Russo 62 yard TD pass to WR Ventell Bryant. Will Mobley PAT kick. (1 play, 62 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Houston\nNAVY \u2013 Kicker Bennett Moehring 43 yard field goal. (9 plays, 22 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Houston\nHOU \u2013 RB Patrick Carr 22 yard TD run. Kicker David Witherspoon point-after kick. (8 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Houston\nNAVY \u2013 SB Malcolm Perry 32 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (9 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Houston\nNAVY \u2013 QB/WR Zach Abey 1 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (12 plays, 76 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Houston\nHOU \u2013 QB D'Eriq King 17 yard TD run. David Witherspoon PAT kick. (8 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Houston\nNAVY \u2013 SB Tazh Malloy 32 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (2 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Houston\nHOU \u2013 QB D'Eriq Malloy 65 yard TD pass to WR Courtney Lark. David Witherspoon PAT kick. (2 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Houston\nHOU \u2013 QB D'Eriq Malloy 14 yard TD pass to WR Romello Booker. David Witherspoon PAT kick. (10 plays, 88 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Houston\nHOU \u2013 RB Marq Stevenson 1 yard TD run. David Witherspoon PAT kick. (5 plays, 71 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Houston\nHOU \u2013 QB D'Eriq Malloy 2 yard TD pass to WR Keith Corbin. David Witherspoon PAT kick. (9 plays, 54 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Houston\nHOU \u2013 LB Nick Watkins 50 yard INT. (David Witherspoon PAT kick.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Houston\nNAVY \u2013 SB Myles Fells 14 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (15 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Houston\nNAVY \u2013 WR Taylor Jackson 14 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (3 plays, 65 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nND \u2013 RB Jafar Armstrong 1 yard TD run. Kicker Jonathan Doerer PAT kick failed. (8 plays, 73 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nND \u2013 RB Dexter Williams 12 yard TD run. Jonathan Doerer PAT kick. (4 plays, 80 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nND \u2013 Dexter Williams 9 yard TD run. Jonathan Doerer PAT kick. (13 plays, 67 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nND \u2013 Dexter Williams 2 yard TD run. Jonathan Doerer PAT kick. (10 plays, 83 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nNAVY \u2013 QB/WR Zach Abey 1 yard TD run. Kicker Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (4 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nND \u2013 Jonathan Doerer 30 yard field goal. (11 plays, 61 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nNAVY \u2013 Zach Abey 1 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (7 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nND \u2013 QB Ian Book 4 yard TD pass to WR Miles Boykin. Jonathan Doerer PAT kick. (9 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nNAVY \u2013 SB Mike Martin 33 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (O.J. Davis pass). (2 plays, 39 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nND \u2013 Ian Book 22 yard TD pass to Miles Boykin. Jonathan Doerer PAT kick. (8 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Cincinnati\nCIN \u2013 RB Michael Warren 8 yard TD run. Kicker Cole Smith PAT kick. (6 plays, 60 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Cincinnati\nCIN \u2013 QB Desmond Ridder 7 yards TD run. Cole Smith PAT kick. (14 plays, 89 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Cincinnati\nCIN \u2013 Michael Warren 1 yard TD run. Cole Smith PAT kick. (12 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Cincinnati\nCIN \u2013 QB Haden Moore 11 yard TD pass to WR Josiah Deguara. Cole Smith PAT kick. (5 plays, 47 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Cincinnati\nCIN \u2013 Desmond Ridder 55 yard TD pass to WR Rashad Medaris. Cole Smith PAT kick. (6 plays, 76 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Cincinnati\nCIN \u2013 RB Charles McClelland 40 yard TD run. Cole Smith PAT kick. (1 play, 40 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at UCF\nUCF \u2013 RB Greg McCrae 11 yard TD run. Kicker Matthew Wright PAT kick. (11 plays, 86 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at UCF\nUCF \u2013 Taj MacGowan 2 yard TD run. Matthew Wright PAT kick. (11 plays, 62 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at UCF\nUCF \u2013 QB McKenzie Milton 34 yard TD pass to WR D. Snelson. Matthew Wright PAT kick. (6 plays, 66 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at UCF\nNAVY \u2013 Kicker Bennett Moehring 24-yard field goal. (10 plays, 58 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at UCF\nNAVY \u2013 QB/WR Zach Abey 5 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (11 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at UCF\nUCF \u2013 McKenzie Milton 1 yard TD run. Matthew Wright PAT kick. (12 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at UCF\nNAVY \u2013 SB Mike Martin 14 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (10 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at UCF\nUCF \u2013 McKenzie Milton 12 yard TD pass to D. Snelson. Matthew Wright PAT kick. (10 plays, 85 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at UCF\nNAVY \u2013 Zach Abey 8 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (8 plays, 51 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nTLSA \u2013 RB Corey Taylor II 1 yard TD run. Kicker John Parker Romo PAT kick. (14 plays, 51 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nNAVY \u2013 SB Nelson Smith 10 yard TD run. Kicker Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (11 plays, 69 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nNAVY \u2013 Nelson Smith 26 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (5 plays, 60 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nTLSA \u2013 R. Robinson II 98 yard PAT run. (2 point score)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0102-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nNAVY \u2013 QB Zach Abey 2 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (6 plays, 31 yards)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0103-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nTLSA \u2013 RB Keylon Stokes 19 yard TD run. John Parker Romo PAT kick. (5 plays, 61 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0104-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nNAVY \u2013 Zach Abey 2 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (12 plays, 70 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0105-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nNAVY \u2013 Bennett Moehring 21 yard field goal. (8 plays, 93 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0106-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nTLSA \u2013 Corey Taylor II 3 yard TD run. John Parker Romo PAT kick blocked. (10 plays, 76 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0107-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nNAVY \u2013 SB Tre Walker 33 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (9 plays, 74 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0108-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nTLSA \u2013 Corey Taylor II 1 yard TD run. J. Romo PAT kick. (7 plays, 45 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0109-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Tulane\nTULN \u2013 QB Justin McMillan 55 yard TD pass to WR Darnell Mooney. Kicker M. Glover PAT kick. (3 plays, 80 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0110-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Tulane\nNAVY \u2013 Kicker Bennett Moehring 48 yard field goal. (13 plays, 44 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0111-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Tulane\nTULN \u2013 Justin McMillan 5 yard TD run. M. Glover PAT kick. (7 plays, 77 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0112-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Tulane\nTULN \u2013 Justin McMillan 52 yard TD pass to WR J. Clewis. M. Glover PAT kick. (4 plays, 75 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0113-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Tulane\nNAVY \u2013 Bennett Moehring 19 yard field goal. (4 plays, 4 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0114-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Tulane\nNAVY \u2013 SB Malcolm Perry 37 yard TD pass to QB Zach Abey (trick play). Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (4 plays, 61 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0115-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Tulane\nNAVY \u2013 Zach Abey 73 yard TD pass to Malcolm Perry. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (1 play, 73 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0116-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Tulane\nNAVY \u2013 SB Tazh Malloy 9 yard TD run. Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (14 plays, 80 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0117-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, at Tulane\nTULN \u2013 Justin McMillan 26 yard TD pass to WR J. Toles. WR Charles Jones pass 2-point conversion. (7 plays, 71 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0118-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Army\nARMY \u2013 QB Kelvin Hopkins Jr. 10 yard TD run. Kicker John Abercrombie PAT kick. (5 plays, 82 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0119-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Army\nARMY \u2013 John Abercrombie 33 yard field goal. (14 plays, 64 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0120-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Army\nNAVY \u2013 QB Garrett Lewis 1 yard TD run. Kicker Bennett Moehring PAT kick. (4 plays, 48 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0121-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Army\nARMY \u2013 Kelvin Hopkins Jr. 1 yard TD run. John Abercrombie PAT kick. (4 plays, 22 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281282-0122-0000", "contents": "2018 Navy Midshipmen football team, Game summaries, vs. Army\nNAVY \u2013 Bennett Moehring 46 yard field goal. (10 plays, 47 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281283-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 2018 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by first-year head coach Scott Frost and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as members of the West Division of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281283-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nAfter Nebraska's season opener against Akron was canceled due to inclement weather, the Cornhuskers began the season with six straight losses, the worst start in program history. This, combined with their four losses at the end of 2017, formed a school-record 10-game losing streak. The team's performance improved in the second half of the season, and the team won four of their last six games to finish at 4\u20138 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281283-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nFreshman quarterback Adrian Martinez led the team on offense, finishing with 2,617 passing yards, 17 passing touchdowns, and 8 rushing touchdowns. Senior running back Devine Ozigbo finished with 1,082 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns, becoming the first Nebraska running back to exceed 1,000 rushing yards since Ameer Abdullah in 2014. Senior wide receiver Stanley Morgan Jr. finished with 1,004 receiving yards and was named second-team All-Big Ten. Linebacker Mohamed Barry led the team in tackles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281283-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Previous season\nThe Cornhuskers finished the 2017 season 4\u20138 and 3\u20136 in Big Ten conference play, a fifth-place finish in the West Division. On November 25, 2017, the school fired head coach Mike Riley after three seasons. On December 2, the school hired UCF head coach and Nebraska alum, Scott Frost, as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281283-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Offseason, Recruiting, Recruits\nThe Cornhuskers signed a total of 12 recruits during the Early Signing Period from December 20\u201322, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281283-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Schedule\nThe 2018 schedule consisted of seven home and five away games in the regular season. Nebraska hosted conference foes Purdue, Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan State and the Cornhuskers traveled to play Michigan, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Ohio State, and Iowa in Big Ten play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281283-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota\nAfter starting the season 0-6, Nebraska finally got its first win under Scott Frost against Minnesota", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281284-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska Danger season\nThe 2018 Nebraska Danger season was the eighth season for the Nebraska Danger as a professional indoor football franchise and their eighth in the Indoor Football League (IFL). They were one of six teams that competed in the IFL for the 2018 season. The Danger played in the Eihusen Arena at the Heartland Events Center in Grand Island, Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281284-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska Danger season\nThe Danger were led by head coach Mark Stoute in his first season with the Danger but was released on May 20 after losing six straight games. He was replaced for the rest of the season by coordinators Adam Shackleford and Pig Brown as co-coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281284-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska Danger season\nDespite losing their final nine games, the Dangers still made the four-team playoff and lost to the Iowa Barnstormers 48\u201317 in the league semifinal. After the season was complete, interim co-coach Pig Brown was promoted to the full-time head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281285-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska State Legislature election\nThe 2018 Nebraska State Legislature elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Nebraska voters elected state senators in the 24 even-numbered seats of the 49 legislative districts in the Nebraska Unicameral. Nebraska is unique among American states in that there is only one chamber in its state legislature, and this chamber is called the Unicameral and the State Legislature interchangeably. State senators serve four-year terms in the Nebraska Unicameral.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281285-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska State Legislature election\nA top two primary election on May 15, 2018 determined which candidates appear on the November 6 general election ballot. Each candidate technically runs as a non-partisan (i.e., no party preference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281285-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska State Legislature election\nFollowing the 2016 elections, Republicans maintained effective control of the Nebraska State Legislature with 32 seats. Democrats increased their numbers from 15 to 16 seats when State Senator Bob Krist of the 10th legislative district switched parties from Republican to Democrat. Furthermore, Republican State Senator Jim Smith resigned from office, leaving an open seat for Republicans to defend in the 14th legislative district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281285-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska State Legislature election\nOn election day 2018, the Unicameral consisted of 31 Republican seats, 16 Democratic seats, and 1 seat each for Independent Sen. Ernie Chambers and Libertarian Sen. Laura Ebke. The Democrats net gained 2 seats, while the Republicans net lost one and the chamber's lone Libertarian was defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Nebraska on November 6, 2018. All of Nebraska's executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat, and all of Nebraska's three seats in the United States House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor Pete Ricketts ran for re-election to a second term. Republican state senator Bob Krist announced that he would give up his party affiliation and run for governor as a Democrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, Attorney general\nIncumbent Republican attorney general Doug Peterson ran for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, Attorney general, General election\nOmaha Attorney Evangelos Argyrakis, ran in the Democratic primary. However, after being charged with felony strangulation following an altercation with his 82-year-old father on April 8, 2018, Nebraska Democratic Party called on him to step aside, which he did on June 25, 2018. This left Peterson running unopposed in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Republican Secretary of State John Gale, who was appointed to the position in December 2000, has announced he will not run for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, State Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican Nebraska State Treasurer Don Stenberg is term-limited and is not eligible to run for re-election to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, State Treasurer, Republican primary\nState Senator John Murante ran for the Republican nomination. He faced off against Taylor Royal in the Republican primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, State Treasurer, Republican primary\nJohn Murante defeated Taylor Royal in the Republican primary, and ran unopposed in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, Auditor of Public Accounts\nIncumbent Republican Auditor of Public Accounts of Nebraska Charlie Janssen ran for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, Public Service Commission, District 1\nNebraska Public Service Commission District 1 incumbent Republican Frank Landis, who was first elected in 1988, has not announced whether he will run for re-election to a sixth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, Public Service Commission, District 3\nNebraska Public Service Commission District 3 incumbent Republican Tim Schram, who was first elected in 2006, ran for re-election to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, State Legislature\nNebraska's state legislature is unique among American states in that it is unicameral, meaning that it is only one chamber. Consisting of 49 legislative districts, the Nebraska State Legislature had 24 seats up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, United States Senate\nIncumbent Republican senator Deb Fischer ran for re-election to a second term. She faced Democratic challenger Jane Raybould. Fischer defeated Raybould in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, United States House of Representatives\nAll of Nebraska's three seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281286-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska elections, United States House of Representatives\nIn District 2, Republican Incumbent Don Bacon ran for re-election. Kara Eastman defeated Brad Ashford, who held the seat prior to losing to Bacon in 2016, in the Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281287-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Nebraska gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Nebraska, concurrently with the election of Nebraska's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various Nebraska and local elections. Incumbent Republican Governor Pete Ricketts won re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281287-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nebraska gubernatorial election, Independents\nState Senator Bob Krist announced in September 2017 he left the Republican Party in order to mount a third party challenge against Governor Ricketts. Krist planned to create a new party in order to run, which will require submitting 5,000 signatures to qualify the party for the ballot. However, in February 2018 he abandoned the independent candidacy and became a Democrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281288-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Negeri Sembilan FA season\nThe 2018 season was Negeri Sembilan's 95th season in club history and first season in the Malaysia Super League since promoted of the Malaysia Premier League in 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281288-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Negeri Sembilan FA season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\n= Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281289-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Negeri Sembilan state election\nThe 14th Negeri Sembilan State election was held on 9 May 2018. The previous state election was held on 5 May 2013. The state assemblymen is elected to 5 years term each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281289-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Negeri Sembilan state election\nThe Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly was dissolved on 7 April 2018 by the Head of State (Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan) on the advice of the Head of Government (Menteri Besar of Negeri Sembilan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281289-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Negeri Sembilan state election, Contenders\nBarisan Nasional (BN) contested in all 36 seats in Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly. United Malays National Organisation (UNMO) contested in 24 seats, Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) contested in 10 seats, Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) and Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan) contested in 2 seats each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281289-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Negeri Sembilan state election, Contenders\nPakatan Harapan (PH) contested in 35 seats in Negeri Sembilan. People's Justice Party (PKR) contested in 12 seats, Democratic Action Party (DAP) contested in 11 seats, Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Bersatu) contested in 6 seats and National Trust Party (Amanah) contested in 7 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281289-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Negeri Sembilan state election, Contenders\nPan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) contested in 27 seats in Negeri Sembilan and lost in all of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281289-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Negeri Sembilan state election, Election pendulum\nThe 14th General Election witnessed 20 governmental seats and 16 non-governmental seats filled the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 11 safe seats and 1 fairly safe seat, while the non-government side has 3 safe seats and 3 fairly safe seats. In addition, there were 1 seat that win uncontested in non-governmental seats; namely Rantau (won by incumbent assemblyman, Mohamad Hasan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281290-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nepal Basketball League season\n2018 Nepal Basketball League also known as Kwiks Basketball League for sponsorship reasons, was the first season of Nepal Basketball League. The league began on 17 February 2018 and ended on 31 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281290-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nepal Basketball League season\nGolden Gate International College were crowned the first champions after beating Nepal Army Club 97-96 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281291-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nepalese National Assembly election\n2018 National Assembly elections were held in Nepal on 7 February 2018 across all seven provinces to form the first National Assembly since the adoption of the new constitution in 2015. According to Article 86 of the Constitution of Nepal 2015, the members of the National Assembly are elected every six years through an electoral college. In addition to this, one-third of the members are retired every two years for six years by drawing a lottery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281291-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nepalese National Assembly election, Electoral college\nThe electoral college consists of members of the provincial assembly and Chairperson/Mayor and Vice Chairperson/Deputy Mayor of the local bodies within the state. Each provincial assembly members vote has a weight of forty eight whereas each Chairperson/Mayor/Vice Chairperson/Deputy Mayor vote has a weight of eighteen. The electoral college elects 56 members to the National Assembly and three members, including one woman, are nominated by the president on the recommendation of the Government of Nepal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281291-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nepalese National Assembly election, Results, Nominated\nIn addition to the elections, three members were nominated to the National Assembly on 20 February 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281292-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nepalese presidential election\nThe third presidential election of Nepal was held on 13 March 2018. As a new election law was developed (which is foreseen by the Constitution of Nepal) and as, due to the Nepalese election in 2017, an electoral college could be established, the election took place three years after the previous presidential elections despite the presidential term of office actually being set at 5 years. The President was elected by an electoral college composed of the members of federal parliament and provincial assemblies. The total number of voters was thus 880, however the 331 members of Federal Parliament have a vote weight of 79, while the 549 members of Provincial Assemblies have a vote weight of 48. In total 862 lawmakers participated in the election leading to a turnout of 97.95%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281292-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nepalese presidential election, Results\nBhandari's election was supported by her own party, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist\u2013Leninist) and coalition partner Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) as well as Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal, Rastriya Janata Party Nepal, Rastriya Janamorcha and Rastriya Prajatantra Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281292-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nepalese presidential election, Vice-presidential election\nThe election for the Vice President of Nepal was scheduled to take place on 23 March 2018. However, as incumbent Nanda Bahadur Pun, was the only candidate for the office and no complaints were filed against him, he was declared Vice President of Nepal by the Election Commission on 18 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281293-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Netball New Zealand Super Club\nThe 2018 Netball New Zealand Super Club was the second edition of the invitational club-based netball tournament organised by Netball New Zealand. The tournament featured three teams from the domestic ANZ Premiership, and one team each from Australia, Fiji, Scotland, Singapore and South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281293-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Netball New Zealand Super Club\nThe tournament was won by Central Pulse. Defending champions Southern Steel finished in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281293-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Netball New Zealand Super Club, Teams\n\u2020 Indicates team is a composite squad selected by the relevant organising body and does not compete in a domestic competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281294-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Netball Quad Series (January)\nThe 2018 Netball Quad Series was the fourth Netball Quad Series of test matches, contested by four of the five highest ranked nations in netball. New Zealand were the defending series champion, having won the previous series held in late 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281294-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Netball Quad Series (January)\nAustralia were the winners of the series after winning all three of their matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281295-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Netball Quad Series (September)\nThe 2018 Netball Quad Series was the fifth Netball Quad Series of test matches, contested by four of the five highest ranked nations in netball. Australia won the series, winning all three of their matches to claim their fourth Quad Series title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281295-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Netball Quad Series (September)\nThe series took place in the month of September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281296-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Netball Superleague season\nThe 2018 Netball Superleague season was the thirteenth season of the Netball Superleague, the elite domestic netball competition in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281296-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Netball Superleague season, Overview, Format\nThe format was the same as the previous season, with a double round-robin structure utilised. The top four teams qualify for the semi-finals, with the winners of these matches meeting in the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281297-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Netherlands Tri-Nation Series\nThe 2018 Netherlands Tri-Nation Series was a cricket tournament, that took place in June 2018 in the Netherlands. It was a tri-nation series between Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland, with all the matches played as Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is). The intention is that the tri-series will become an annual event between the three teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281297-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Netherlands Tri-Nation Series\nPrior to the series, Scotland played two T20I matches against Pakistan, while Ireland used the matches as preparation for their matches against India, that took place later in June. Ahead of the series, Ireland named Gary Wilson as their new T20I captain, after William Porterfield stepped aside to focus on Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281297-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Netherlands Tri-Nation Series\nThe fourth match of the series, between Ireland and Scotland, ended in a tie, with no Super Over contested to determine the winner. However, both teams knew that there would not be a Super Over in the event of a tie before the match. The International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that there should have been a Super Over, and apologised for the oversight. In the event, the tied game proved pivotal as Scotland won the series, after two wins and a tie, with the Netherlands in second place and Ireland in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281297-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Netherlands Tri-Nation Series, Squads\nTimm van der Gugten, Paul van Meekeren, Roelof van der Merwe and Ryan ten Doeschate were all tentatively named in the Netherlands' squad, with their availability confirmed on a match-by-match basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281298-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada Attorney General election\nThe 2018 Nevada Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281298-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada Attorney General election\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Adam Laxalt did not run for re-election to a second term and instead ran unsuccessfully for governor. Nevada Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford won the Democratic nomination and defeated Republican nominee and former Nevada Assembly member Wesley Duncan in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281299-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada State Senate election\nThe 2018 Nevada State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Nevada voters elected state senators in 11 of the state senate's 21 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Nevada State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281299-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada State Senate election\nA primary election on June 12, 2018 determined which candidates appear on the November 6 general election ballot. Primary election results can be obtained from the State of Nevada's Secretary of State website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281299-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada State Senate election\nDue to resignations and appointments, on election day 2018, there were 10 Democrats, 1 Independent (caucusing with Democrats), 8 Republicans, and 2 vacancies in the Nevada Senate. To claim control of the chamber from Democrats, the Republicans needed to net 3 Senate seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281299-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada State Senate election, Background\nFollowing the 2016 state senate elections, Democrats flipped control of the Senate away from the Republicans with a slim majority of 11 Democrats to 10 Republicans. On November 14, 2016, Sen. Patricia Farley switched from Republican to non-partisan and began caucusing with the Democrats, increasing their majority to 12 seats. Democrat Ruben Kihuen of District 10 resigned to become a member of the U.S. House, and he was replaced by Democrat Yvanna Cancela on December 6, 2016. Democrat Mark Manendo of District 21 resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment on July 19, 2017 and Republican Becky Harris of District 9 resigned in January 2018 to chair the Nevada Gaming Control Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281300-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada Wolf Pack football team\nThe 2018 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada, Reno in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Wolf Pack were led by second\u2013year head coach Jay Norvell and played their home games at Mackay Stadium. They were members of the West Division of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 8\u20135 and 5\u20133 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for second place in the West division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281300-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, Previous season\nThe Wolf Pack finished the 2017 season 3\u20139 and 3\u20135 in Mountain West play to finish in fourth place in the West Division and did not qualify for a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281300-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days\nThe Mountain West media days were held on July 24\u201325, 2018, at the Cosmopolitan in Paradise, Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281300-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days, Media poll\nThe preseason poll was released on July 24, 2018. The Wolf Pack were predicted to finish in fourth place in the MW West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 84], "content_span": [85, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281300-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days, Preseason All\u2013Mountain West Team\nThe Wolf Pack had three players selected to the preseason All\u2013Mountain West Team; one from the offense and two from the defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 106], "content_span": [107, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections\nThe Nevada general election, 2018 was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018 throughout Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, United States Senate\nIncumbent Republican U.S. Senator Dean Heller ran for re-election to a second term and lost to Democratic U.S. Representative Jacky Rosen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, United States House of Representatives\nAll of Nevada's four seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor Brian Sandoval was term-limited for life and could not run for re-election to a third term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, Lieutenant governor\nIncumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor Mark Hutchison did not run for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, Attorney general\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Adam Laxalt did not run for re-election to a second term and instead ran unsuccessfully for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Republican Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske ran for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican State Treasurer Dan Schwartz did not run for re-election to a second term and instead ran unsuccessfully for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, Controller\nIncumbent Republican Controller Ron Knecht lost re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, State Legislature, Nevada Senate\nEleven out of twenty-one seats in the Nevada Senate were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, State Legislature, Nevada Assembly\nAll 42 seats in the Nevada Assembly were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, State Judicial Branch, Supreme Court Seat C\nIncumbent Justice Michael Cherry, who has served on the Nevada Supreme Court since 2007, did not run for re-election to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, State Judicial Branch, Supreme Court Seat F\nIncumbent Justice Michael L. Douglas, who has served on the Nevada Supreme Court since 2004, pledged to retire in January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, State Judicial Branch, Supreme Court Seat F\nCourt of Appeals Chief Judge Abbi Silver ran for the seat unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281301-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada elections, State Judicial Branch, Supreme Court Seat G\nIncumbent Justice Lidia S. Stiglich, who has served on the Nevada Supreme Court since 2017, was eligible to run for a first full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281302-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Nevada gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next Governor of Nevada. Incumbent Republican Governor Brian Sandoval, was ineligible to run for re-election, due to the absolute two-term limit established by the Nevada Constitution. Nevada is one of eight U.S. states (or nine U.S. states and territory) that prohibits its governors or any other state and territorial executive branch officials from serving more than two terms, even if they are nonconsecutive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281302-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada gubernatorial election\nThe candidate filing deadline was March 16, 2018 and the primary election was held on June 12, 2018. The Republican nominee was Adam Laxalt and the Democratic nominee was Steve Sisolak. Sisolak won the election, becoming the first Democrat to be elected Governor of Nevada since Bob Miller won his second full term in 1994 and the first non-incumbent Democrat to win since 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281302-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada gubernatorial election, General election, Results by county\nWhile Laxalt won 15 of Nevada's county-level jurisdictions (14 counties and the independent city of Carson City), Sisolak carried the two largest, Clark (home to Las Vegas) and Washoe (home to Reno). Sisolak ultimately prevailed by winning his home county, Clark, by over 86,000 votes, double his statewide margin of 39,700 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281303-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nevada wildfires\nThe 2018 wildfire season in Nevada began in June 2018 and ended November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281304-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2018 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship of New Brunswick was held January 4 to 7 at Curl Moncton in Moncton. The winning team, the Sylvie Robichaud rink from Moncton represented New Brunswick at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Penticton, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281305-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Brunswick general election\nThe 2018 New Brunswick general election was held on September 24, 2018, to elect the 49 members of the 59th New Brunswick Legislature, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281305-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Brunswick general election\nTwo smaller parties \u2014 the People's Alliance and the Greens \u2014 made breakthroughs, winning three seats each, and potentially holding the balance of power. The People's Alliance entered the legislature for the first time, while the Greens increased their seat count from one. This marked the first time since the 1991 election that four parties won representation in the legislature. The election was also contested by the provincial New Democrats, newcomers KISS NB, and eight independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281305-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Brunswick general election\nThis is the first election since 1920 that did not return a majority for any party. The Progressive Conservatives won the most seats, with 22, but incumbent Liberal Premier Brian Gallant, whose party secured only 21 seats despite winning the popular vote by six percentage points, indicated that he would seek the confidence of the legislature and attempt to form a minority government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281305-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Brunswick general election\nOn September 25, Gallant met with the Lieutenant Governor Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau and received permission to continue in office. On November 2, Gallant's minority government was defeated in a non-confidence vote. On November 9, Progressive Conservative leader Blaine Higgs was sworn in as premier with a minority government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281305-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Brunswick general election, Aftermath\nOn election night, Higgs claimed victory, saying his team had received a mandate; however, Gallant did not resign, instead stating his intent to remain in office by securing support on a vote-by-vote basis. The following day, Gallant met with Lieutenant Governor Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau and received permission to continue in office and attempt to seek confidence of the legislature. On September 27, Higgs met with Roy-Vienneau, and was told that if Gallant was unable to secure the confidence of the House, he would be called on to form government; shortly afterwards, Higgs called on Gallant to either resign or immediately recall the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281305-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Brunswick general election, Aftermath\nIn the immediate aftermath of the election, both Kris Austin of the People's Alliance and David Coon of the Green Party were noncommittal in their support: Austin pledged to work with any party willing to work with him, but said the party won't sacrifice its \"values and ideals\" to do so; while Coon said his caucus would take time to figure out how they would align themselves, but would not be able to work with anyone uncommitted to rights for linguistic minorities or combatting climate change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281305-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 New Brunswick general election, Aftermath\nGallant opted to pursue a partnership with the Green Party, ruling out any arrangement with the PCs or PA because they don't share Liberal \"values\". Higgs initially ruled out any formal agreements with other parties, but later said that a four-year agreement like in British Columbia would be ideal for stability.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281305-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Brunswick general election, Aftermath\nAustin agreed to support to a Progressive Conservative government for 18 months, though no formal agreement was made. Coon said his party would negotiate with both the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives. On October 10, Coon announced that the Green Party would not formally side with either party, and would base their votes on their own \"declaration of intent\". Accordingly, Coon said that their support for the throne speech depends on its \"merits\", and that his caucus would be free to vote their own way on the speech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281305-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New Brunswick general election, Aftermath\nThe results drew notice elsewhere in Canada. Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois leader Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lis\u00e9e described the results as \"an advertisement for our proposal for proportional representation.\" Andrew Weaver, leader of the Green Party of British Columbia, suggested that Coon should make an agreement with the Progressive Conservatives. The Globe and Mail published an editorial calling for electoral reform, as did National Post columnist Andrew Coyne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281305-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New Brunswick general election, Aftermath\nOn November 1, Gallant's Liberal minority government was defeated by a non confidence vote (25-23) by the opposition Progressive Conservatives and People's Alliance. On November 9, Blaine Higgs was sworn in as premier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281305-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New Brunswick general election, Candidates by region\nNOTE: Candidates' names are as registered with Elections New Brunswick", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281306-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonia Super Ligue\nThe New Caledonia Super Ligue 2018 is the 45th season of top-tier Caledonian football. It was originally scheduled to start on 31 March 2018, but was postponed to 7 April 2018. Twelve teams take part in the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281306-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonia Super Ligue, Standings\nNote: 4 points for a win, 2 points for a draw, 1 point for a defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum\nAn independence referendum was held in New Caledonia on 4 November 2018. Voters were given the choice of remaining part of France or becoming an independent country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum\nAnnounced in the evening of polling day, the result was 56.4% for maintaining the status quo and 43.6% in favour of independence. The turnout was 81% of the 174,995 voters eligible to vote in this referendum. Recent inhabitants who are registered to vote in general elections were ineligible to vote in the referendum, as agreed in the 1998 Noum\u00e9a Accord, representing 17% of the total of 210,105 registered voters of New Caledonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum\nPrior to the vote, the government and authorities in Metropolitan France stated that they would recognise and abide by the results of the referendum. Despite the failure of the motion, New Caledonians, under the terms of the Noum\u00e9a Accord, had the opportunity to vote again in 2020. Since the 2020 referendum resulted in New Caledonia remaining French, there will be a third, and final, referendum in 2022 if one third of the Congress of New Caledonia, the local legislature, agrees to allow the vote to be held. Following a request in April 2020 by pro-independence members of Congress, the third referendum was scheduled for 12 December 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Background\nNew Caledonia was formally annexed by France in 1853, and Europeans and Polynesians, as well as other settlers, have since made the indigenous Kanaks a minority (27%, 11% and 39% respectively in the 2014 census). The territory was used as a penal colony from 1864 to 1897, and the Kanaks were \"excluded from the French economy and from mining work, and ultimately confined to reservations\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Background\nBetween 1976 and 1988, conflicts between the French government and the independence movement saw periods of serious violence and disorder (culminating in the Ouv\u00e9a cave hostage taking in 1988), with the emerging Kanak independence movement gaining support from many Kanaks frustrated with their lower socio-economic status and lack of involvement in the economy, seen as problems caused by the French \"exploitation\". Though GDP per capita (nominal) is high at $38,921 and though New Caledonia is a major producer of nickel, there is significant inequality in income distribution, with many claiming that the mining revenue benefits people outside the territory and its (declining) mining communities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Background\nSince 1986, the United Nations Committee on Decolonization has included New Caledonia on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. The 1987 New Caledonia independence referendum, the first referendum on independence, was held the following year on 13 September 1987, but independence was rejected by a large majority, with 842 people (1.7%) voting for independence and 48,611 people (98.3%) voting to remain a part of France. Many pro-independence groups, such as the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), boycotted the vote. The participation was 59.10%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Background\nThe Matignon Agreements, signed on 26 June 1988 by Jean-Marie Tjibaou and Jacques Lafleur, set up a ten-year period of stability and made certain provisions for the Kanak population. The Noum\u00e9a Accord, signed 5 May 1998 by the French government and the main independence and anti-independence parties, set in motion a 20-year transition period that transferred certain powers to the local government and laid the groundwork for an independence referendum in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Background\nThe Noum\u00e9a Accord stated a vote must take place by the end of 2018. On 2 November 2017, \u00c9douard Philippe, the French Prime Minister, led a meeting to begin work on the referendum of independence, to be held by November 2018. On 20 March 2018, it was announced that the independence referendum would be held on 4 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Vote restriction\nIn New Caledonia, there are three electoral rolls: one general roll for the Congress, French president and French Parliament consisting of all French citizens, one special roll for elections to the provincial assemblies, and one liste \u00e9lectorale sp\u00e9ciale (LESC, a special electoral roll for referendums). To be registered on the LESC, voters had to fulfill at least one of the following conditions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Vote restriction\nA total of 35,948 registered voters on the general list were thus excluded from the vote, equating to 17.11% out of a total of 210,105 registered voters on the general electoral roll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Vote restriction\nAccording to a statement made by the independentist party FLNKS on 18 September 2018, 63% of the 174,154 registered voters on the LESC were Kanak, for a total of 109,892; of these, 80,120 belonged to the droit coutumier (common law) and 29,772 to the droit civil (civil law). Vote restriction restricts the voting power of recent inhabitants\u2014 derogatively known as Zoreilles\u2014and enlarges the voting power of native Kanaks, and was long sought after by FLNKS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Question\nVoulez-vous que la Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie acc\u00e8de \u00e0 la pleine souverainet\u00e9 et devienne ind\u00e9pendante\u2009?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Question\nEnglish translation: \"Do you want New Caledonia to attain full sovereignty and become independent?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Results\nPolling stations\u2014a total of 284, distributed across all New Caledonia's communes\u2014were open from 8:00\u00a0a.m. to 6:00\u00a0p.m. on 4 November. Voters were given pre-printed ballot papers marked OUI (yes) and NON (no) and instructed to indicate their choice by placing one of the two inside an envelope and depositing it in the ballot box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Results\nProvisional results issued that evening by the French government indicated that 56.4% of the votes cast were in favour of maintaining the territory's current status against 43.6% for independence: a tighter margin of victory than polling had forecast and commentators had expected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Results\nThe turnout rate of over 80%, surpassing figures reported in both the 2014 election for the territorial Congress and the 2017 French presidential election, was also described as \"exceptional\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Results\nThe regional results were very polarised, with several provinces voting one way or the other by large margins. Four provinces had greater than 90% support for independence; two others had greater than 90% opposition to independence. In the capital, four-fifths of votes were against independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Results, By province\nSupport for independence was highest in the North Province and in the Loyalty Islands, which have Kanak majorities (73.8 and 96.6% respectively in 2009) and lower population densities (5.3 and 9.2/km\u00b2 in 2014, respectively) than South Province (29/km\u00b2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Reactions\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron, who had visited the island in May 2018, stated that the result showed \"confidence in the French Republic\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Reactions\nAloisio Sako, a leading member of the independentist FLNKS and president of the Pacific Democratic Rally, a political party representing ethnic Wallians and Futunians in New Caledonia, was optimistic about what he saw as a narrow loss for his side, saying \"We're a short step away from victory and there are still two votes to come\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281307-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, Reactions\nIn April 2020, 26 pro-independence members of Congress requested that a third vote take place. On 2 June, the French government announced that the third referendum was scheduled for 12 December 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281308-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Democratic Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election\nThe 2018 New Democratic Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election was held in St. John's in April 2018 to nominate the successor of New Democratic Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leader Earle McCurdy, who resigned as head of the party effective September 30, 2017. Former leader Lorraine Michael was appointed interim leader before the convention. The deadline to register as a candidate was February 28, 2018. The deadline to become a party member to vote in the election was March 9, 2018. Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh delivered the keynote address. St. John's Centre MHA Gerry Rogers won the nomination on the first ballot. Rogers therefore became the first openly LGBT person to lead a political party in Newfoundland and Labrador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [74, 74], "content_span": [75, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281308-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Democratic Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Rules\nLeadership candidates must have been NL NDP members in good standing, as defined by Article 4 of the Constitution of the Party, and had to have meet the following requirements:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 81], "content_span": [82, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281308-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Democratic Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Declared candidates, Gerry Rogers\nMHA for St. John's Centre (2011\u2013present), documentary filmmaker, social worker", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 109], "content_span": [110, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281309-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Democratic Party of Prince Edward Island leadership election\nA Prince Edward Island New Democratic Party leadership convention was held on April 7, 2018, as a result of the resignation of Michael Redmond on December 6, 2017, after he placed fourth place in the Charlottetown-Parkdale by-election held on November 27, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281309-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Democratic Party of Prince Edward Island leadership election\nJoe Byrne was elected party leader on the first ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281310-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Democratic Party of Quebec leadership election\nThe New Democratic Party of Quebec elected a permanent leader on January 21, 2018 to lead it into the 2018 provincial election. Interim leader Pierre Ducasse announced he would not be a candidate in the leadership election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281310-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Democratic Party of Quebec leadership election, Candidates, Rapha\u00ebl Fortin\nCandidate in the 2015 federal election in Pierre-Boucher\u2014Les Patriotes\u2014Verch\u00e8res and 2008 in Verch\u00e8res\u2014Les Patriotes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 83], "content_span": [84, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281311-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Black Wolves season\nThe New England Black Wolves are a lacrosse team based in Uncasville, Connecticut playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2018 season will be the team's 4th season in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281311-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Black Wolves season, Regular season, Current standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281311-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Black Wolves season, Roster, Entry Draft\nThe 2017 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 18, 2017. The Black Wolves made the following selections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season\nThe 2018 New England Patriots season was the franchise's 49th season in the National Football League, the 59th overall, and the 19th under head coach Bill Belichick. The Patriots entered the season as two-time defending AFC champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season\nThe Patriots' losses to the Jacksonville Jaguars and Detroit Lions in Week 2 and 3 marked the franchise's first back-to-back double-digit losses since 2002. After this slow 1\u20132 start, the Patriots improved to 7\u20132 after Week 9. Following a notable Week 14 loss to the Miami Dolphins, the Patriots could not match their 13\u20133 record from 2017. A defeat to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 15 meant the Patriots had lost five games for the first time since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season\nAfter a win over the Buffalo Bills in Week 16, the Patriots clinched the AFC East for the tenth consecutive season, surpassing the Dallas Cowboys (1975\u20131983) and the Indianapolis Colts (2002\u20132010) for the most consecutive playoff appearances. New England went undefeated at home with a Week 17 win over the New York Jets in which they clinched a first-round bye, and wrapped up the regular season with an 11\u20135 record that gave them the AFC's 2nd seed in the postseason. Despite their five losses, the team achieved the rare distinction of going unbeaten against teams that qualified for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season\nThe 2018 Patriots became the second team ever in the four major American sports leagues to win at least 10 straight division titles, joining Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves (1991\u20132005, excluding the strike-shortened 1994 season). The Patriots also secured their 16th-straight 10-win season, tying the San Francisco 49ers' league record streak, set from 1983\u201398. Notable records set during the season include QB Tom Brady achieving the record for most career passing touchdowns (including playoffs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season\nIn the playoffs, the Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Chargers in the Divisional round, 41\u201328, to advance to the AFC Championship game for a record eighth straight season. The Patriots defeated the Chiefs, 37\u201331 in overtime, to advance to the Super Bowl for a third straight year, becoming only the third team in NFL history to appear in three consecutive Super Bowls (joining the 1971\u201373 Miami Dolphins and 1990\u201393 Buffalo Bills). In Super Bowl LIII, they faced the Los Angeles Rams in a rematch of Super Bowl XXXVI, in which the Patriots defeated the then-St. Louis Rams 20\u201317. The Patriots won on this occasion by a score of 13\u20133 to win their sixth Super Bowl, tying the Pittsburgh Steelers for most Super Bowl championships in NFL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Offseason\nOn February 5, 2018, the Detroit Lions hired Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia to serve as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Offseason\nOn February 6, the Indianapolis Colts announced hiring Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels as their new head coach. The next day, McDaniels abruptly rejected the offer citing personal reasons, and decided to stay a part of the Patriots' organization. The controversy surrounding this decision led McDaniels' then-agent Bob LaMonte to terminate their professional relationship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Roster changes, Suspensions\nWide receiver Julian Edelman was suspended for the first four games of the 2018 season for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances. Edelman, who missed the entire 2017 season due to a torn ACL suffered during the preseason, unsuccessfully appealed the suspension, and returned to the Patriots' roster for the team's Week 5 Thursday Night game vs. the Indianapolis Colts on October 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Roster changes, Suspensions\nOn December 20, 2018, Wide receiver Josh Gordon was suspended indefinitely for violating the terms of his reinstatement under the league's substance abuse policy. This is the second time Gordon was suspended indefinitely by the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nThe Patriots faced the Jaguars in a rematch of the previous season's AFC Championship Game. The Patriots started off well, reaching Jaguars territory in just four plays, but the drive stalled, and Stephen Gostkowski missed a 54-yard field goal attempt. With great field position, the Jaguars raced 56 yards in 9 plays, scoring on a 4-yard touchdown pass from Blake Bortles to Donte Moncrief for the early lead. After a three-and-out, Patriots' punter Ryan Allen pinned the Jaguars back at their own 16-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nThe Jaguars took the ball and cashed in, marching 84 yards on just 7 plays, with Bortles hitting Keelan Cole on a 24-yard touchdown pass, extending the Jags lead to 14\u20130. After stopping the Jaguars early in the second quarter, the Patriots drove 83 yards in over 8 minutes, but were forced to settle for a 29-yard field goal, trimming the deficit to 14\u20133. However, the Patriots defense was gashed again, with the Jags racing 75 yards, concluding with Bortles 4-yard touchdown pass to Austin Seferian-Jenkins and a 21\u20133 Jaguars lead with 0:09 seconds remaining in the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nThe Jags started right where they left off, taking the opening drive of the second half all the way to the Patriots 10, but were held to a 28-yard field goal by Josh Lambo. After another Patriots punt, Bottles hit D. J. Chark for a 13-yard gain to the Jaguars 49, but Stephon Gilmore forced him to fumble with Duron Harmon recovering at the Jags 46. With the excellent field position, the Patriots finally reached the endzone with Brady finding Chris Hogan for a 7-yard touchdown pass to cap off the 46-yard drive, trimming the deficit to 24\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0008-0003", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nAfter a Jaguars three-and-out, the Patriots drove all the way to the Jags 28, but settled for a 46-yard field goal, making the score just 24\u201313. Bortles made his only real mistake on the next drive, throwing an interception to Kyle Van Noy at the Jags 25 early in the fourth quarter. The Patriots were set up perfectly, it appeared to be a vintage Brady comeback, but on 3rd down, Dante Fowler stripped Brady and recovered the resultant fumble at the Jags 32. The Patriots forced a Jaguars punt and had another shot, but went three-and-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0008-0004", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nOn the next play from scrimmage for Jacksonville, Bottles hit Dede Westbrook for a 61-yard touchdown pass, extending the lead to 31\u201313. The Patriots marched 75 yards in 8 plays on their next drive with Brady connecting with Hogan again for a 29-yard touchdown pass, making the score 31\u201320; however, by now less than 4 minutes remained in the game. The Jags ran out the rest of the clock to win the game, their first ever regular season victory over the Pats, while the Patriots fell to 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Detroit Lions\nAfter a Patriots three-and-out opened the game, the Lions marched 65 yards in 12 plays, taking over 7 minutes off the clock and facing only one 3rd down before settling for a 38-yard field goal by Matt Prater. After another Patriots three-and-out and set up with good field position, the Lions marched 60 yards in over 5 minutes to score on a 4-yard pass from Matthew Stafford to Kenny Golladay. Stafford completed all 5 pass attempts on the drive for 44 yards and the Lions didn't even face a 3rd down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Detroit Lions\nThe Patriots offense continued to appear lifeless with another three-and-out. Meanwhile, the Lions' efficiency shined again by slowly moving 71 yards, converting three 3rd downs and eating over seven more minutes off the clock, before settling for a 25-yard field goal, upping the Lions lead to 13\u20130. After 9 plays for 13 yards on their first three drives combined, the Patriots marched 57 yards to the Lions' 18, settling for a 36-yard field goal and trailed 13\u20133 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Detroit Lions\nOn 3rd down, just over a minute into the third quarter, Stafford was intercepted by linebacker Ja'Whaun Bentley at the Patriots 48. The Patriots look excellent on their next drive, racing 52 yards in just 7 plays with Brady hitting James White for a 10-yard touchdown, trimming the deficit to 13\u201310. The Lions continued their clock-draining game plan on their next drive, tracking 75 yards in over six minutes and converting three 3rd downs before Stafford bombed Marvin Jones Jr. for a 33-yard touchdown, pushing the score to 20\u201310 late in the 3rd quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0009-0003", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Detroit Lions\nAfter a Patriots' punt, the Lions drove all the way to the Patriots' 14, but settled for a 32-yard field goal, increasing their lead to 23\u201310 a few minutes into the fourth quarter. Two possessions later, from the Patriots' 43, Brady heaved a desperation pass that was intercepted by Darius Slay, who returned it 34 yards to the Lions' 49, but an illegal block penalty sent the ball back to the 19. After a Lions' punt, the Patriots turned the ball over on downs. The Lions closed out the scoring with a 30-yard field goal, making the final score 26\u201310. The Patriots drove to the Lions' 40, but the clock expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Detroit Lions\nWith the loss (their first to Detroit since the 2000 season), the Patriots fell to 1\u20132 for the first time since the 2012 season. The Lions were able to blanket the Patriots' receivers, stifling the Patriots' offense. The Lions had an excellent balanced attack with 159 yards rushing to go along with 255 yards passing from Stafford. The Patriots newest acquisition, superstar wide receiver Josh Gordon, was inactive for the game. Ironically, the Patriots' last loss to the Lions in 2000 was also Tom Brady's first ever NFL game, where he only appeared in the final seconds and completed one-of-three passes for 6 yards in a 34\u20139 loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Miami Dolphins\nAfter taking the opening kickoff, a 22-yard pass from Ryan Tannehill to Kenny Stills helped the Dolphins reach midfield. On 2nd-and-7 from midfield, Dolphins offensive lineman Daniel Kilgore was flagged for holding, killing the drive, and the Dolphins punted. Starting at their own 24, the Patriots reached as far as the Dolphins 1-yard line, but were forced to settle for a 20-yard field goal and a 3\u20130 lead. After a Dolphins punt, the Patriots gave it right back when Brady was intercepted at the Dolphins 36 by Bobby McCain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 92], "content_span": [93, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Miami Dolphins\nThe Dolphins went three-and-out, but the Patriots drove 67 yards to score on Brady's 55-yard touchdown pass to Cordarrelle Patterson, extending the Patriots lead to 10\u20130. Both teams punted on their next drive, but midway through the 2nd quarter, Tannehill fumbled the snap with Kyle Van Noy recovering for the Patriots at the Dolphins 22. On the very next play, James White scampered to the end zone on a 22-yard run, giving the Patriots a 17\u20130 lead which was their largest of the season to this point. The Dolphins offense continued to go in reverse on another three-and-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 92], "content_span": [93, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Miami Dolphins\nThe Patriots responded by converting four 3rd downs on a 15-play, 85-yard drive, scoring with Brady's 9-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Phillip Dorsett to go up 24\u20130 with 0:17 seconds remaining in the first half. After both teams punted on their initial second-half possession, the Patriots marched 59 yards in just over five minutes, with Brady capping off another touchdown drive with his 14-yard touchdown pass to White, blowing the game open with a 31\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 92], "content_span": [93, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0011-0003", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Miami Dolphins\nThe Dolphins reached the Patriots 45 on their next possession, but Tannehill's desperation pass was intercepted at the 10-yard line by J. C. Jackson. The Patriots hot streak continued with a 12 play, 90-yard drive, scoring on a 12-yard touchdown run from rookie running back Sony Michel, his first career rushing touchdown. After yet another three-and-out from the Dolphins, the Patriots drove to the Dolphins 32, but Brady was intercepted at the Dolphins 14 by Minkah Fitzpatrick who returned it 11 yards to the Dolphins 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 92], "content_span": [93, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0011-0004", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Miami Dolphins\nWith Tannehill pulled from the game, old Patriots' nemesis Brock Osweiler led the Dolphins 75 yards in 7:30, scoring on his 6-yard touchdown pass to Frank Gore, making the score 38\u20137 with less than three minutes remaining in the game. The Patriots ran the rest of the clock out to end the game. With the exception of the two turnovers, the Patriots dominated the Dolphins in every aspect of the game, outgaining them 446\u2013172 and holding the ball for 14 minutes longer. Tom Brady threw for 274 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 92], "content_span": [93, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0011-0005", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Miami Dolphins\nMichel had his best game of the season to date with 25 carries for 112 yards and a touchdown. White had the best day overall with 16 touches for 112 total yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns. The Patriots avoided a 3-game losing streak for the first time since 2002 or a 1\u20133 start for the first time since their 2001 Super Bowl-winning season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 92], "content_span": [93, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nThe Patriots faced the Colts on Thursday Night Football, with Brady hoping to remain undefeated against Andrew Luck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nThe Patriots took the opening kickoff and marched 75 yards in over 6 minutes, scoring on a 1-yard touchdown pass from Tom Brady to Cordarrelle Patterson for the early lead. The next possession ended in a punt for both teams, but on the Colts' second possession, they drove from their own 6 to the Patriots 20, but ageless wonder Adam Vinatieri missed a 38-yard field goal attempt off the left upright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nThe Patriots took advantage off the missed opportunity and raced 72 yards to score on Brady's 1-yard touchdown run, extending the Patriots' lead to 14\u20130 early in the second quarter. The Colts drove to the Patriots 36 on their next drive and Vinatieri redeemed himself with a 54-yard field goal. After both teams punted on their resultant drive, the Patriots raced 68 yards to score on a 6-yard touchdown pass from Brady to James White for a 21\u20133 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nFollowing this, Luck was intercepted at the Patriots 49 by Patrick Chung who returned it 2 yards to the 49 of the Colts with less than a minute remaining in the first half. With the excellent field position, the Patriots reached the Colts' 27 and took a commanding 24\u20133 lead into halftime after a 45-yard field goal from placekicker Stephen Gostkowski. Early in the third quarter, Chester Rogers returned a punt from Ryan Allen 33 yards to Patriots 35.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0013-0003", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nIt took the Colts just 4 plays to score on a 14-yard pass from Luck to Eric Ebron, trimming the deficit to 24\u201310. The Patriots drove to the Colts 30 on their next drive, but Matthias Farley intercepted Brady's pass at the 23 and returned it 7 yards to the Colts' 30. But four plays later, Jordan Wilkins fumbled after a 9-yard catch with Devin McCourty recovering for the Patriots at midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0013-0004", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nThe Patriots drove to the Colts' 25, but the turnover streak continued when Brady was intercepted at the Colts' 4 by Najee Goode who returned it 16 yards to the Colts' 20. The Colts proceeded to drive 80 yards in 10 plays with Luck finding Erik Swoope for a 13-yard touchdown pass, trimming the Patriots' lead to a thin 24\u201317 early in the fourth quarter. However, any hope for a Colts comeback died when the Patriots marched 75 yards to score on a 34-yard touchdown bomb from Brady to Josh Gordon, widening the Patriots lead to 31\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0013-0005", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nAny chance of a miraculous comeback died on the Colts' next drive when Luck was intercepted at the Patriots 38 by Jonathan Jones who returned it 28 yards to the Colts' 34. On the very next play, Sony Michel scored on a 34-yard touchdown burst, putting the game out of reach with a 38\u201317 Patriots lead. The Colts turned the ball over on downs on their next drive, but after forcing the Patriots to punt, marched 60 yards to score on Luck's 1-yard touchdown pass to Ebron. The Patriots ran out the rest of the clock to win the game 38\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nTom Brady completed 34/44 passes for 341 yards and 3 TDs but threw 2 interceptions while Michel ran the ball 18 times for 98 yards and a touchdown. Andrew Luck threw for 365 yards and 3 TDs but threw 2 costly interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Buffalo Bills\nWith the win, the Patriots improved to 6\u20132. Devin McCourty's interception return marked the first defensive touchdown for the Patriots since the 2015 season, breaking a league-leading 40-game drought.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Green Bay Packers\nWith the win, the Patriots improved to 7\u20132. This was the first game of the season where the Patriots defense did not record an interception, after recording at least one in each of their first eight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 95], "content_span": [96, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Tennessee Titans\nThis was the Pats' first loss to Tennessee in 16 years; coincidentally, it was also at Nissan Stadium (then known as Adelphia Coliseum). The blowout loss ended the Pats' six-game winning streak as they fell to 7\u20133. It was also the Pats\u2019 first time meeting with former players Malcolm Butler and Dion Lewis since leaving the Pats to join the Titans in free agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 94], "content_span": [95, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Miami Dolphins\nThe Patriots lost to the Dolphins on a last second lateral at the end of regulation. With the heartbreaking loss, the Patriots fell to 9\u20134 for the first time since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 92], "content_span": [93, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nThis was the Pats' first loss to Pittsburgh for the first time since 2011 with a final score of 10\u201317. With the loss, the Patriots fell to 9\u20135 for the first time since 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Buffalo Bills\nAfter receiver Josh Gordon left the team and was later suspended, the Patriots relied on their run game and defense against Buffalo. The Pats clinched their 10th straight AFC East title with the win (though in the event of a loss to Buffalo, Miami's loss to Jacksonville also would've clinched the division for New England), improving their record to 10\u20135, and for the second time this season, denied a 3-game losing streak for the first time since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 92], "content_span": [93, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Buffalo Bills\nWith the Houston Texans' loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, the Patriots moved to the #2 seed in the AFC, and would have the chance to secure a playoff bye with a win in the following week's game. Tom Brady eclipsed 4,000 yards at the same time as Philip Rivers, becoming the third and fourth quarterback in NFL history to reach 4,000 yards in 10 seasons or more, joining Peyton Manning & Drew Brees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 92], "content_span": [93, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281312-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. New York Jets\nThe Pats finish the 2018 season undefeated at home, and an 11\u20135 record overall, their first in 10 years and with the win, the Patriots clinched a 1st round bye for the 9th straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 92], "content_span": [93, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281313-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Revolution season\nThe 2018 New England Revolution season is the team's 23rd season of existence, and their 23rd season in Major League Soccer, the top-flight of American soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281313-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New England Revolution season, Transfers, In\nPer Major League Soccer and club policies terms of the deals do not get disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281314-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Executive Council election\nThe 2018 New Hampshire Executive Council elections were held on November 6, 2018 to elect all five members of the Executive Council of New Hampshire. The party primaries were held on September 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281314-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Executive Council election\nThe Democrats gained a majority on the council for the first time since 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281314-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Executive Council election, District 1\nDistrict 1 covered all of Coos, Carroll, and Grafton counties, plus the municipalities of Alton, Center Harbor, Gilford, Laconia, Meredith, New Hampton, Sanbornton, Tilton in Belknap County, the towns of Andover, Danbury, Hill, New London, and Wilmot in Merrimack County, the towns of Middleton, Milton, and New Durham in Strafford County, and the municipalities of Claremont, Cornish, Croydon, Grantham, Newport, Plainfield, Springfield, and Sunapee in Sullivan County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281314-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Executive Council election, District 1, General election\nIncumbent Republican councillor Joseph Kenney was defeated by Democratic challenger Michael Cyrans, a former banker and high school teacher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281314-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Executive Council election, District 2\nDistrict 2 covered the towns of Barnstead, Belmont, and Gilmanton in Belknap County, the municipalities of Alstead, Chesterfield, Dublin, Gilsum, Harrisville, Hinsdale, Keene, Marlborough, Marlow, Nelson, Roxbury, Stoddard, Sullivan, Surry, Walpole, Westmoreland, and Winchester in Cheshire County, the town of Hancock in Hillsborough County, the municipalities of Boscawen, Bradford, Canterbury, Concord, Franklin, Henniker, Hopkinton, Newbury, Northfield, Salisbury, Sutton, Warner, and Webster in Merrimack County, the municipalities of Dover, Durham, Farmington, Madbury, Rochester, Rollinsford, Somersworth, and Strafford in Strafford County, and the towns of Acworth, Charlestown, Goshen, Langdon, Lempster, Unity, and Washington in Sullivan County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281314-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Executive Council election, District 2, General election\nIncumbent Democratic councillor Andru Volinsky won re-election over Republican challenger James Beard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281314-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Executive Council election, District 3\nDistrict 3 covered the municipalities of Atkinson, Brentwood, Chester, Danville, Derry, East Kingston, Epping, Exeter, Fremont, Greenland, Hampstead, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Kensington, Kingston, New Castle, Newfields, Newington, Newmarket, Newton, North Hampton, Plaistow, Portsmouth, Raymond, Rye, Salem, Sandown, Seabrook, South Hampton, Stratham, and Windham in Rockingham County, and the town of Pelham in Hillsborough County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281314-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Executive Council election, District 4\nDistrict 4 covered the municipalities of Bedford, Goffstown, and Manchester Hillsborough County, the towns of Allenstown, Bow, Chichester, Epsom, Hooksett, Loudon, Pembroke, and Pittsfield in Merrimack County, the towns of Auburn, Candia, Deerfield, Londonderry, Northwood, and Nottingham in Rockingham County, and the towns of Barrington and Lee in Strafford County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281314-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Executive Council election, District 5\nDistrict 5 covered the towns of Fitzwilliam, Jaffrey, Richmond, Rindge, Swanzey, and Troy in Cheshire County, the town of Dunbarton in Merrimack County, and the municipalities of Amherst, Antrim, Bennington, Brookline, Deering, Francestown, Greenfield, Greenville, Hillsborough, Hollis, Hudson, Litchfield, Lyndeborough, Mason, Merrimack, Milford, Mont Vernon, Nashua, New Boston, New Ipswich, Peterborough, Sharon, Temple, Weare, Wilton, and Windsor in Hillsborough County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281315-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 New Hampshire House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. New Hampshire voters elected all 400 state representatives from 103 districts. State representatives serve two-year terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. A primary election on September 11, 2018 determined which candidates appear on the November 6 general election ballot. All the members elected serve in the 166th New Hampshire General Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281315-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire House of Representatives election, Retiring incumbents\n86 incumbent Representatives (54 Republicans and 32 Democrats) did not seek re-election in 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281315-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire House of Representatives election, Defeated incumbents, In primary\n17 incumbent representatives (11 Republican and 6 Democrats) sought reelection but were defeated in the September 11 primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 85], "content_span": [86, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281315-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire House of Representatives election, Defeated incumbents, In general election\n42 incumbent representatives (35 Republicans, 5 Democrats and 2 Libertarians) sought reelection but were defeated in the November 6 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 94], "content_span": [95, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election\nThe 2018 New Hampshire Senate election was held on November 6, 2018, concurrently with the elections for the New Hampshire House of Representatives, to elect members to the 166th New Hampshire General Court. All 24 seats in the New Hampshire Senate were up for election. It resulted in Democrats gaining control of both chambers of the New Hampshire General Court, ending the total control of New Hampshire's state government, that Republicans had held in New Hampshire since the 2016 state elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Background\nIn the 2016 New Hampshire state elections, Republicans held on to their majority in the New Hampshire Senate by a margin of 14\u201310. Republicans also maintained control of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. In addition, Republican Chris Sununu won the open 2016 New Hampshire gubernatorial election giving the New Hampshire Republican Party total control of the state government for the first time since Republican Governor Craig Benson was defeated by Democrat John Lynch in the 2004 New Hampshire gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Background\nIn the aftermath of his 2016 election, then president-elect Donald Trump claimed in a tweet that voter fraud had occurred in New Hampshire. In February 2017, Trump advisor Stephen Miller reaffirmed that position by claiming \"busing voters in to New Hampshire is widely known by anyone who\u2019s worked in New Hampshire politics\". These claims were called \"baseless\" by several observers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Background\nIn response to those allegations, the Republican majorities in the New Hampshire General Court drafted bills changing voter registration rules. Senate Bill 3 (SB 3) passed both chambers of the New Hampshire General Court on party-line votes and was signed in to law by Governor Sununu on July, 10 2017. The new law requires voters to declare a \"domicile\" in New Hampshire. It also included jail sentences of up to one year or a fine of up to $5,000, if voters registered and not provided necessary paperwork as proof within 10 day or 30 days in smaller towns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Background\nRepublicans pointed to over 5,000 voters who voted in the 2016 election after identifying with an out-of-state driver's licence, that have not gotten an in-state licence as of September 2017. Democrats suspected a voter suppression scheme, that targeted college students, that they think are most likely to use identification issued by other states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Background\nThe League of Women Voters, the New Hampshire Democratic Party and several college students challenged the new law in court. They pointed to the Supreme Court's decision in Symm v. United States, that guaranteed college students the right to vote at their university. The trial judge of the Hillsborough Superior Court decided on October 22, 2018, that the state cannot apply the law in the upcoming elections. The Attorney General of New Hampshire's office then filed an emergency motion with the New Hampshire Supreme Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Background\nThe State Supreme Court sided with the state in a unanimous 5-0 decision arguing that overturning the law so close to elections was potentially confusing and disruptive. The State Supreme Court did not decide on the merits of the law in this decision. Therefore, SB3 was first applied in the 2018 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Analysis\nIn the 2018 elections, Democrats saw gains in state elections across the countries, gaining multiple Governorships and legislative chambers. Democrats also won control of the United States House of Representatives for the first time since 2010. Commentators called the election results a \"blue wave\", that was especially pronounced in state elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Analysis\nIn the New Hampshire Senate, Democrats were able to flip Districts 9, 11, 12, 23 and 24, while the Republicans flipped District 1. The Democratic gains were mostly in less rural areas in Southern and Eastern New Hampshire while the Republican gains were limited to the rural Senate District 1 in the North Country. The incumbent Democratic Senator in District 1, Jeff Woodburn, had been accused of domestic violence and criminally charged a few months before the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 1\nIncumbent Democratic State Senator Jeff Woodburn had represented the New Hampshire's 1st State Senate District since 2012. Senator Woodburn had also served as Senate Minority Leader since 2014. Woodburn was arrested on August 2, 2018 on simple assault, domestic violence, criminal mischief, and criminal trespass charges. Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley called on him to resign. On August 6, Woodburn announced he would resign as the minority leader but would remain as a senator. He won the Democratic primary on September 11, 2018, but was defeated by Republican David Starr in the 2018 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 2\nIncumbent Republican State Senator Bob Giuda had represented the New Hampshire's 2nd State Senate District since 2016. He won reelection against Democrat Bill Bolton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 3\nIncumbent Republican State Senator Jeb Bradley had represented the New Hampshire's 3rd State Senate District since 2009. He won reelection against Democrat Christopher Meier and Libertarian Tania Butler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 4\nIncumbent Democrat State Senator David Watters had represented the New Hampshire's 4th State Senate District since 2012. He was reelected without opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 5\nIncumbent Democratic State Senator Martha Hennessey had represented the New Hampshire's 5th State Senate District since 2016. She won reelection against Republican Patrick Lozito.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 6\nIncumbent Republican State Senator James Gray had represented the New Hampshire's 6th State Senate District since 2016. He won reelection against Democrat Anne Grassie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 7\nIncumbent Republican State Senator Harold F. French had represented the New Hampshire's 7th State Senate District since 2016. He won reelection against Democrat Mason Donovan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 8\nIncumbent Republican State Senator Ruth Ward had represented the New Hampshire's 8th State Senate District since 2016. She won reelection against Democrat Jenn Alford-Teaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 9\nIncumbent Republican State Senator Andy Sanborn had represented the New Hampshire's 9th State Senate District since 2010. He did not run for reelection in 2018. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for New Hampshire's 1st congressional district. The open seat was won by Democrat Jeanne Dietsch against Republican Dan Hynes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 10\nIncumbent Democratic State Senator Jay Kahn had represented the New Hampshire's 10th State Senate District since 2016. He won reelection against Republican Dan LeClair and Libertarian Ian Freeman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 11\nIncumbent Republican State Senator Gary L. Daniels had represented the New Hampshire's 11th State Senate District since 2014. He was defeated for reelection by Democratic State Representative Shannon Chandley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 12\nIncumbent Republican State Senator Kevin Avard had represented the New Hampshire's 12th State Senate District since 2014. He was defeated for reelection by former Democratic State Representative Melanie Levesque.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 13\nIncumbent Democratic State Senator Bette Lasky had represented the New Hampshire's 13th State Senate District since 2012. She did not run for reelection in 2018. The open seat was won by Democrat Cindy Rosenwald against Republican David Schoneman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 14\nIncumbent Republican State Senator Sharon Carson had represented the New Hampshire's 14th State Senate District since 2008. She won reelection against Democrat Tammy Siekmann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 15\nIncumbent Democratic State Senator Dan Feltes had represented the New Hampshire's 15th State Senate District since 2014. He won reelection against Republican Pamela Ean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 16\nIncumbent Democratic State Senator Kevin Cavanaugh had represented the New Hampshire's 16th State Senate District since a 2017 special election. He won reelection in a rematch against former Republican State Senator David Boutin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 17\nIncumbent Republican State Senator John Reagan had represented the New Hampshire's 17th State Senate District since 2012. He won reelection against Democrat Christoper Roundy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 18\nIncumbent Democratic State Senator Donna Soucy had represented the New Hampshire's 18th State Senate District since 2012. She won reelection against Republican State Representative George Lambert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 19\nIncumbent Republican State Senator Regina Birdsell had represented the New Hampshire's 19th State Senate District since 2014. She won reelection against Democrat Kristina Durocher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 20\nIncumbent Democratic State Senator Lou D'Allesandro had represented the New Hampshire's 20th State Senate District since 1998. D'Allesandro is the longest-serving member of the body. He won reelection against Republican Carla Gericke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 21\nIncumbent Democratic State Senator Martha Fuller Clark had represented the New Hampshire's 21st State Senate District since 2012. She won reelection against Republican Peter Macdonald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 22\nIncumbent Republican State Senator Chuck Morse had represented the New Hampshire's 22nd State Senate District since 2010. He won reelection against Democrat Richard O'Shaughnessy and Libertarian Mitch Dyer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 23\nIncumbent Republican State Senator Bill Gannon had represented the New Hampshire's 23rd State Senate District since 2014. He was defeated for reelection by Democrat Jon Morgan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281316-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Senate election, Results, Detailed results, District 24\nIncumbent Republican State Senator Daniel Innis had represented the New Hampshire's 24th State Senate District since 2016. He was defeated for reelection by Democratic State Representative Tom Sherman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281317-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Wildcats football team\nThe 2018 New Hampshire Wildcats football team represented the University of New Hampshire in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 20th-year head coach Sean McDonnell and played their home games at Wildcat Stadium. They were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 4\u20137, 3\u20135 in CAA play to finish in ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281317-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Wildcats football team, Previous season\nThey Wildcats finished the 2017 season 9\u20135, 5\u20133 in CAA play to finish in a tie for fourth place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Central Connecticut and Central Arkansas before losing in the quarterfinals to South Dakota State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281317-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Wildcats football team, Preseason, CAA Poll\nIn the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Wildcats were predicted to finish in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281317-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire Wildcats football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CAA Team\nThe Wildcats had three players selected to the preseason all-CAA team including quarterback Trevor Knight being selected as offensive player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281318-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire elections\nNew Hampshire state elections in 2018 were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, with the primary elections being held on June 5, 2018. Voters elected 2 members to the United States House of Representatives, the Governor of New Hampshire, all five members to the Executive Council, all 24 members to the New Hampshire Senate, and all 400 members to the New Hampshire House of Representatives, among other local elected offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281318-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire elections, Overview, Turnout, Primary Election\nThe Primary election was held on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. Turnout by county:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281318-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire elections, Overview, Turnout, General Election\nThe General election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Turnout by county:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281318-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire elections, United States Congress, Senate\nNew Hampshire held no election for the United States Senate in 2018, as the state is not represented in the Senate by a seat of Class 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281318-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire elections, United States Congress, House of Representatives\nNew Hampshire's two seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election. Both seats were retained by the Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 78], "content_span": [79, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281318-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire elections, State's constitutional offices, Governor\nIncumbent Republican Chris Sununu was reelected against Democratic nominee Molly Kelly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281318-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire elections, State's constitutional offices, Executive council\nAll 5 seats of the New Hampshire Executive Council were up for election. Democrats were able to gain one seat and thus achieved a 3-2 majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 79], "content_span": [80, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281318-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire elections, State Legislature, State Senate\nAll 24 seats of the New Hampshire Senate were up for election. Democrats achieved a 14-10 majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281318-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire elections, State Legislature, State House of Representatives\nAll 400 seats of the New Hampshire House of Representatives were up for election. Democrats achieved a 234-166 majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 79], "content_span": [80, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281319-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 New Hampshire gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of New Hampshire. Incumbent Republican Governor Chris Sununu won re-election to a second term, defeating former state senator Molly Kelly. Sununu was the first incumbent Republican to win reelection as governor since Steve Merrill was reelected in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281319-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire gubernatorial election\nPrimary elections were held on September 11, 2018. The gubernatorial election was coincident with races for the state legislature and the United States House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281319-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Hampshire gubernatorial election, Background\nNew Hampshire is one of only two states, along with Vermont, where governors are elected to two-year terms. Republican Chris Sununu was elected in the 2016 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281320-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico Bowl\nThe 2018 New Mexico Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 15, 2018, with kickoff scheduled for 2:00\u00a0p.m. EST (12:00\u00a0p.m. local MST). It was the 13th edition of the New Mexico Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281320-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico Bowl, Teams\nThe game featured Utah State from the Mountain West Conference and North Texas from Conference USA (C-USA). This was the eighth all-time meeting against the Mean Green and the Aggies, with Utah State leading the series, 4\u20133; this meeting was the first in a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281320-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico Bowl, Teams, Utah State\nUtah State accepted a bid to the New Mexico Bowl on December 2. The Aggies entered the bowl with a 10\u20132 record (7\u20131 in conference). Due to the resignation of head coach Matt Wells, who accepted the same position with the Texas Tech Red Raiders on November 29, the Aggies were coached in the bowl game by interim head coach Frank Maile. Utah State previously appeared in the 2014 New Mexico Bowl, defeating UTEP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281320-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico Bowl, Teams, North Texas\nNorth Texas accepted a bid to the New Mexico Bowl on December 2. The Mean Green entered the bowl with a 9\u20133 record (5\u20133 in conference). This was the first appearance by North Texas in a New Mexico Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281321-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 New Mexico House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. New Mexico voters elected state representatives in all 70 of the state house's districts. State representatives serve two-year terms in the New Mexico House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281321-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico House of Representatives election\nA primary election on June 5, 2018 determined which candidates appear on the November 6 general election ballot. Primary election results can be obtained from the New Mexico Secretary of State's website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281321-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico House of Representatives election\nIn the 2016 state House elections, Democrats flipped 5 seats from Republican hands and took control of the House by increasing their seats from 33 to 38. This put Democrats in effective control of the New Mexico House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281321-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico House of Representatives election\nTo claim control of the chamber from Democrats, the Republicans would need to net 4 House seats. However, in the elections, the Democrats made a net gain of 8 seats, increasing their seats from 38 to 46.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281321-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico House of Representatives election, Retiring incumbents\n10 incumbent Representatives (7 Republicans, 3 Democrats) chose to not seek reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 70], "content_span": [71, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281322-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico Lobos football team\nThe 2018 New Mexico Lobos football team represented the University of New Mexico in the Mountain Division of the Mountain West Conference (MW) during 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team played its home games at Dreamstyle Stadium. In their seventh season under head coach Bob Davie, the team finished with a 3\u20139 record, 1\u20137 against MW opponents to finish last in the Mountain Division. They were outscored by a total of 434 to 319.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281322-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico Lobos football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Sheriron Jones with 1,402 passing yards, Tyrone Owens with 687 rushing yards, and Andrew Shelley with 55 points scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281322-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico Lobos football team, Previous season\nThe Lobos finished the 2017 season 3\u20139 and 1\u20137 in Mountain West play to finish in last place in the Mountain Division and did not qualify for a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281322-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico Lobos football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days\nDuring the Mountain West media days held July 24\u201325 at the Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip, the Lobos were predicted to finish in last place in the Mountain Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281322-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico Lobos football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days, Preseason All-Mountain West Team\nThe Lobos had one player selected to the preseason all-Mountain West team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 106], "content_span": [107, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281323-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico State Aggies football team\nThe 2018 New Mexico State Aggies football team represented New Mexico State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Aggies were led by sixth\u2013year head coach Doug Martin and played their home games at Aggie Memorial Stadium. They competed as an independent. They finished the season 3\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281323-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico State Aggies football team, Previous season\nThe Aggies finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 4\u20134 in the final Sun Belt play to finish in a three-way tie for fifth place. The Aggies received a bowl bid for the first time in 57 years where they defeated Utah State in the Arizona Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of New Mexico on November 6, 2018. All of New Mexico's executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat, and all of New Mexico's three seats in the United States House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor Susana Martinez was term-limited and could not run for election to a third consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Hector Balderas ran for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Democratic Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, who was elected in the 2016 special election, ran for re-election to a full term in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Secretary of State\nFor the general election, Governing magazine projected the race as \"leans Democratic\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Secretary of State, Republican primary\nAfter winning the primary, Cox decided to withdraw from the race. As a result, the New Mexico Republican Party chose Gavin Clarkson as their nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Secretary of State, Libertarian primary\nJeff was replaced as the Libertarian nominee by Ginger Grider after withdrawing from the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Democratic State Treasurer Tim Eichenberg ran for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, State Auditor\nAfter incumbent Democratic State Auditor Tim Keller was elected Mayor of Albuquerque in the 2017 mayoral election, and resigned to take office, Governor Martinez appointed Bernalillo County Commissioner Wayne Johnson (R) to be the new State Auditor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Commissioner of Public Lands\nIncumbent Libertarian Commissioner of Public Lands Aubrey Dunn Jr. is not running for re-election to a second term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Public Regulation Commission\nThree of the five seats on the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission will be up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Public Regulation Commission\nDistrict 2 Republican incumbent Pat Lyons did not run for re-election in order to run for Commissioner of Public Lands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Public Regulation Commission\nDistrict 4 Democratic incumbent Lynda Lovejoy and District 5 Democratic incumbent Sandy R. Jones were eligible to run for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Public Education Commission\nFive of the ten seats on the New Mexico Public Education Commission were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Public Education Commission\nDistrict 2 incumbent Republican Millie Pogna, District 3 incumbent Democrat Carmie Lynn Toulouse, District 5 incumbent Democrat James F. Conyers, District 6 incumbent Democrat Gilbert Peralta, and District 7 incumbent Democrat Patricia Gipson were eligible to run for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, Supreme Court\nGary L. Clingman, appointed by Governor Susana Martinez was eligible to run for a full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, New Mexico House of Representatives\nIn 2018, all 70 seats in the New Mexico House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats have a majority in the chamber heading into the election. On election day 2018, Democrats hold 38 seats and Republicans hold 32 seats. To re-claim control, Republicans needed to net 4 seats from Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, New Mexico House of Representatives\nDemocrats increased their majority by flipping 9 seats from Republican control. Following the 2018 election, Democrats held a 47 to 23 seat advantage over Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, New Mexico House of Representatives, New Mexico State Senate\nThe New Mexico State Senate only holds regularly-scheduled elections every four years; therefore, no State Senate seats are up for election in 2018, but all 42 will be in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 87], "content_span": [88, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, United States Senate\nIncumbent Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich was re-elected to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281324-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico elections, United States House of Representatives\nAll of New Mexico's three seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats maintained District 1 and District 3 as well as flipped District 2 from Republicans. This means that there were no Republicans representing New Mexico in the federal government following the 2018 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281325-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 New Mexico gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next Governor of New Mexico, concurrently with the election of New Mexico's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281325-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor Susana Martinez was term-limited and could not seek reelection to a third consecutive term. Following party primaries on June 5, 2018, U.S. Representative Steve Pearce was the Republican nominee and U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham was the Democratic nominee. Lujan Grisham won the election by a substantial margin, which in fact was a complete reversal of the 2014 gubernatorial results. Her win also signaled a continuation of the pattern of the partisanship of the office changing every two terms, beginning with Gary Johnson's first election in 1994. Furthermore, the pattern of the partisanship changing with each officeholder was continued, a pattern first started after Toney Anaya left office in 1987. Furthermore, the margin between the candidates (57.2% to 42.8%) was the same as the previous election, albeit with the parties switched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 925]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281325-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico gubernatorial election, Background\nAt the presidential level, New Mexico has begun to trend into a Democratic-leaning swing state. It has gone Democratic in all but one presidential election since 1992. The only break in this trend came in 2004, when George W. Bush won it by less than a point. However, in 2008, Barack Obama won the state over John McCain by 15 points and in 2012 by 10 points over Mitt Romney. In 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton defeated Republican Donald Trump by eight points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281325-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico gubernatorial election, Background\nHowever, in 2010, then-District Attorney of New Mexico's Third Judicial District Susana Martinez won the election, becoming the first US Latina Governor, over Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish, former running mate of two-term Democrat Bill Richardson, by approximately seven points. In 2014, Martinez was re-elected over state Attorney General Gary King by nearly 15 points. It has been described as one of the Democrats' best chances at a pickup, due to Gov. Martinez's unpopularity and because \"she's leaving behind a high unemployment rate and struggling education system.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281325-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico gubernatorial election, Background\nThe 2018 primary election results show 116,311 votes for Democratic candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham and a total of 175,182 for all three Democratic candidates while Republican candidate/nominee Steve Pearce received 74,705; note that 23% of New Mexico's registered voters are third party or independents (280,000), who do not vote in the primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281325-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Mexico gubernatorial election, Libertarian primary\nBased on the party's voter registration numbers and presidential nominee Gary Johnson's result in 2016, the Libertarian Party holds major-party status in New Mexico. Under New Mexico law, both gubernatorial and lieutenant governor candidates must receive each at least 230 signatures from registered Libertarian voters to formally receive the nomination and be placed on the ballot as the Libertarian nominees. Both Walsh and Dunn failed to meet that requirement and will not be on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281326-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Bowl\nThe 2018 New Orleans Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 15, 2018, with kickoff scheduled for 9:00\u00a0p.m. EST (8:00\u00a0p.m. local CST). It was the 18th edition of the New Orleans Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by freight company R+L Carriers, the game was officially known as the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281326-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Bowl, Teams\nThe game featured the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders from Conference USA and the Appalachian State Mountaineers, the 2018 Sun Belt Conference champions. The teams previously met three times (1974, 1989, and 1992) with Middle Tennessee holding a 2\u20131 edge in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281326-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Bowl, Teams, Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders\nMiddle Tennessee was defeated in the 2018 Conference USA Football Championship Game on December 1; they subsequently received and accepted an invitation to the New Orleans Bowl on December 2. The Blue Raiders entered the bowl with an 8\u20135 record (7\u20131 in conference). Blue Raider quarterback Brent Stockstill is the son of head coach Rick Stockstill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 59], "content_span": [60, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281326-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Bowl, Teams, Appalachian State Mountaineers\nAppalachian State defeated Louisiana in the 2018 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game to secure a berth in the New Orleans Bowl. The Mountaineers entered the bowl with a 10\u20132 record (7\u20131 in conference). Due to the resignation of head coach Scott Satterfield, who took the same position with the Louisville Cardinals on December 4, the Mountaineers were coached in the bowl game by interim head coach Mark Ivey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281327-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Privateers baseball team\nThe 2018 New Orleans Privateers baseball team represented the University of New Orleans (UNO) during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Privateers played their home games at Maestri Field at Privateer Park as a member of the Southland Conference. They were led by head coach Blake Dean, in his 3rd season at UNO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season\nThe 2018 season was the New Orleans Saints' 52nd in the National Football League, their 43rd at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and their 12th under head coach Sean Payton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season\nThis season was the first since 1984 without owner Tom Benson, who died in March. In Week 11, the Saints defeated the Philadelphia Eagles to reach their first nine-game winning streak since their Super Bowl winning season in 2009, ensuring they clinched their second consecutive winning season for the first time since 2010\u20132011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season\nThey swept their division rivals, the Atlanta Falcons, after a 31\u201317 victory on Thanksgiving night for the first time since 2015 while extending their second longest winning streak in franchise history to 10 games, which came to an end when the Saints lost to the Dallas Cowboys 13\u201310, on November 29. On December 9, the Saints clinched their second straight NFC South division championship when they defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, their first back-to-back division titles in franchise history. On December 17, after beating the Carolina Panthers, the Saints improved on their 11\u20135 record from 2017. After a Week 16 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Saints clinched home field advantage throughout the playoffs for the first time since 2009. The Saints finished the season with a 13\u20133 record, tied for the most wins in a season in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 888]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season\nIn the playoffs, the Saints defeated the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles 20\u201314 in the Divisional Round. However, the Saints' season came to an end in a 26\u201323 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC Championship Game in controversial fashion, which ended their hopes of returning to the Super Bowl for the first time since Super Bowl XLIV. Additionally, it marked the first time since 1992 that the Saints lost a postseason game at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Washington Redskins\nThis game was one year removed from last season, where the Saints overcame a 15-point deficit against the Redskins at home with three minutes remaining. This time, the Saints dominated the entire game. This game marked Drew Brees passing Brett Favre and Peyton Manning on most passing yards. The win improved the Saints to 4-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 95], "content_span": [96, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Baltimore Ravens\nDrew Brees would throw his 500th touchdown pass against Baltimore, and becoming the third quarterback in modern NFL history to defeat all 32 teams playing in the 2018 season \u2013 after Peyton Manning and Brett Favre. In doing so, he improved his record against the Ravens to 1-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe Saints travelled to Minnesota for the first time since the 2017 Divisional round; during which safety Marcus Williams missed a tackle on the game's final play that allowed a 61-yard game-winning touchdown reception by Stefon Diggs. In this divisional round rematch, despite a good offensive showing from Kirk Cousins and Stefon Diggs, and Drew Brees who was held to just 120 passing yards, New Orleans still won the game 30-20 to go to 6-1 and avenge their aforementioned playoff loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 92], "content_span": [93, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Los Angeles Rams\nWith the victory, the Saints extended their winning streak to 7 games (Starting from week 2) and ended the previously 8-0 Rams' chances at completing a perfect season. Also, star wide receiver Michael Thomas, after scoring on his 12th reception, paid homage to former Saints wide receiver Joe Horn by pulling out a cell phone from underneath the goalpost pretending to make a call. This celebration drew a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 92], "content_span": [93, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Cincinnati Bengals\nAfter losing the newly acquired Dez Bryant for the year with an Achilles' tear in practice, several players, including Michael Thomas, and running backs Mark Ingram and Alvin Kamara paid tribute by throwing up Bryant's signature 'X' celebration each time they scored. Safety Marcus Williams returned a long interception to end the first half with the Saints leading 35-7. New Orleans would eventually stun the Bengals in a 51-14 victory and their streak continued, going 8-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 94], "content_span": [95, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nAfter head coach Sean Payton lost a golf bet to Eagles head coach Doug Pederson, the Saints, despite being the home team, wore their white color rush uniforms. It was the first time the Saints used the uniforms at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 96], "content_span": [97, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Dallas Cowboys\nMichael Thomas recorded his 90th catch of the season, joining Odell Beckham Jr. as the only players in NFL history to record at least 90 receptions in their first three seasons. However, Drew Brees would lose the game for the Saints by throwing an interception to Jourdan Lewis, thus snapping the Saints' 10-game win streak and dropping them to 10\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 90], "content_span": [91, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nThe New Orleans Saints trailed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 14-3 halfway through the 3rd quarter when Taysom Hill sparked a rally by blocking a punt and setting up New Orleans inside Tampa Bay territory. The Saints would go on to win in a comeback 28-14 and clinching a playoff berth in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 96], "content_span": [97, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nWith the win, the Saints clinched home field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs. Mark Ingram recorded his 50th touchdown, surpassing Deuce McAllister for the Saints franchise record for rushing touchdowns. The Saints were the only NFC South team to defeat all four of their AFC North opponents in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 96], "content_span": [97, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Carolina Panthers\nTeddy Bridgewater started in this game. With the loss, the Saints finish the season 13-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 94], "content_span": [95, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Single player milestone\nLate in the first half of the Week 5, Monday Night game against the Washington Redskins, Quarterback Drew Brees surpassed Brett Favre (71,838) and Peyton Manning (71,940) for the most career passing yards. Brees surpassed Favre on a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Josh Hill, and later he surpassed Manning with a 62-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Tre'Quan Smith, giving him the NFL's All-Time Career pass yardage record. Brees also threw his 500th touchdown pass against the Baltimore Ravens, with a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Benjamin Watson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281328-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New Orleans Saints season, Postseason, NFC Championship: vs. (2) Los Angeles Rams\nThe game was marred with controversy after the referees missed a pass interference call of Nickell Robey-Coleman's hit on Tommylee Lewis on 3rd-and-10 with 1:45 remaining in the 4th quarter. Some fans, players, and analysts believe the missed call is among the worst in NFL history. The NFL admitted to missing the call soon after the game was over, but did not apologize for the situation until a week and a half later. The fallout from the missed call was a factor in the NFL's decision to expand instant replay, making pass interference (including non-calls) reviewable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281329-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New South Wales Waratahs season\nThe 2018 New South Wales Waratahs season was the club's 22nd season since the inception of Super Rugby in 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281330-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours\nThe 2018 New Year Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations at the start of January and were officially announced in The London Gazette on 30 December 2017. Australia, an independent Realm, has a separate honours system and its first honours of the year, the 2018 Australia Day Honours, coincide with Australia Day on 26 January. New Zealand, also an independent Realm, has its own system of honours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281330-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours\nThe 2018 honours list includes knighthoods for music legends Ringo Starr\u2014which was reported by the press a week before the list was made public\u2014and Barry Gibb. Veteran actor Hugh Laurie, who was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2007, was advanced to a Commander of the Order (CBE). Former ballerina Darcey Bussell was created a Dame Commander of the Order (DBE) and Lady Antonia Fraser, author and historian, received the Order of the Companions of Honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281330-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours\nThe highest chivalric honour was awarded to Richard Scott, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, who was appointed a Knight Companion of the Order of the Thistle, filling the vacancy since the death of Lady Marion Fraser on 25 December 2016. The ancient order is reserved for Scots and is limited to 16 ordinary members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281330-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by the country (in order of precedence) whose ministers advised The Queen on the appointments, then by honour with grades i.e. Knight/Dame Grand Cross, Knight/Dame Commander etc. and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281330-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours, United Kingdom\nBelow are the individuals appointed by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of the United Kingdom with honours within her own gift and with the advice of the Government for other honours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281330-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours, Antigua and Barbuda\nBelow are the individuals appointed by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of Antigua and Barbuda, on advice of Her Majesty's Ministers in Antigua and Barbuda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281330-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours, Bahamas\nBelow are the individuals appointed by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of Bahamas, on advice of Her Majesty's Ministers in the Bahamas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281330-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours, Barbados\nBelow are the individuals appointed by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of Barbados, on advice of Her Majesty's Barbados Ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281330-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours, Belize\nBelow are the individuals appointed by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of Belize, on advice of Her Majesty's Belize Ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281330-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours, Grenada\nBelow are the individuals appointed by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of Grenada, on advice of Her Majesty's Grenada Ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281330-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours, Saint Christopher and Nevis\nBelow are the individuals appointed by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of Saint Kitts and Nevis, on advice of Her Majesty's Saint Christopher and Nevis Ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281330-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours, Solomon Islands\nBelow are the individuals appointed by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of the Solomon Islands, on advice of Her Majesty's Solomon Island Ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281331-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours (New Zealand)\nThe 2018 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders, and to celebrate the passing of 2017 and the beginning of 2018. They were announced on 30 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281331-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Year Honours (New Zealand)\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281332-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Attorney General election\nThe 2018 New York Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018. New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, a Democrat, was elected. James is the first woman and the first African-American to be elected New York Attorney General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281332-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Attorney General election\nFormer Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned on May 8, 2018 after allegations of domestic abuse and withdrew from his then-ongoing reelection campaign. Incumbent Solicitor General Barbara Underwood was chosen by the Legislature to complete her unexpired term, but opted not to seek election to a full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281332-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Attorney General election\nOn September 13, 2018, James won the Democratic nomination for Attorney General, defeating Leecia Eve, former senior policy advisor to U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton; Sean Patrick Maloney, U.S. Representative for New York's 18th congressional district; and Zephyr Teachout, professor at Fordham University School of Law. In the general election, James defeated Republican Party candidate Keith Wofford with over 60% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281332-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Attorney General election\nIn the general election, James carried every county won by Andrew Cuomo in the concurrent gubernatorial election as well as Franklin, Clinton, Essex, Orange, Duchess, Columbia, Broome, Cortland and Schenectady counties. As of 2021, this along with the concurrent comptroller election and senate election is the last time Franklin, Cortland and Orange counties have voted Democratic, and along with the concurrent gubernatorial election, the last time Saratoga County has voted Republican as of 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281332-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Attorney General election, Background\nAttorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, was first elected to the office of Attorney General in 2010, winning reelection in 2014. He was in the midst of campaigning for a third term in office when on May 7, 2018, The New Yorker revealed allegations that he had physically abused several women he had dated during his tenure in office. Schneiderman resigned hours after the story was released, with the resignation taking effect at the end of the business day May 8; he did not seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281332-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Attorney General election, Background\nBarbara Underwood, the Solicitor General, took on the duties of Attorney General upon Schneiderman's resignation. A joint session of the New York State Legislature formally appointed Underwood to fill the rest of Schneiderman's term on May 22, after interviewing several potential candidates; of the 209 members in the State Legislature, 190 votes were cast in favor, with one (Charles Barron) voting against her in protest of the process, and 18 abstaining. Underwood has confirmed that she will not run for the office in the 2018 elections and returned to her previous position as Solicitor General following the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281332-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Attorney General election, Democratic primary, Candidates, Filed\nThe following candidates were certified by the State Board of Elections as having filed for the primary ballot (James by state convention nomination and the others by submitting sufficient signatures):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281332-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Attorney General election, Republican primary, Candidates, Nominee\nWofford grew up in Buffalo, New York and attended Harvard College on scholarship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281332-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Attorney General election, Qualified third parties, Conservative\nConservative Party of New York State chairman Michael R. Long indicated the party would cross-endorse the Republican nominee for Attorney General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281332-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Attorney General election, Qualified third parties, Working Families\nNominee: Letitia James. The party endorsed both Letitia James and Zephyr Teachout prior to the September 13 primary election. Kenneth Schaefer, who was nominated as the Working Families Party's dummy candidate, withdrew by October 9 in favor of Democratic nominee Letitia James.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 82], "content_span": [83, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281332-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Attorney General election, Qualified third parties, Independence Party\nNominee: Letitia James. Victor J. Messina, Jr., the original nominee, withdrew by October 9 as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 84], "content_span": [85, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281332-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Attorney General election, Qualified third parties, Reform\nOn May 20, 2018, the Reform Party of New York State authorized four candidates to run for Attorney General in its September 13, 2018 primary:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281332-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Attorney General election, General election, Results\nLetitia James (D) went on to easily win the election, with 62% of the vote versus Wofford\u2019s (R) 35%. James is the first woman and the first African-American to be elected New York Attorney General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281333-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City FC season\nThe 2018 New York City FC season is the club's fourth season of competition and its fourth in the top tier of American soccer, Major League Soccer. New York City FC plays its home games at Yankee Stadium in the New York City borough of The Bronx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281333-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City FC season, Player movement, In\nPer Major League Soccer and club policies, terms of the deals do not get disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281333-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City FC season, Player movement, Loans\nPer Major League Soccer and club policies, terms of the deals do not get disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281334-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City Marathon\nThe 2018 New York City Marathon was a marathon race held in New York City, United States, which took place on November 4, 2018. It was the 48th edition of the New York City Marathon, which is organised by New York Road Runners. The men's race was won by Lelisa Desisa, who held off a late challenge at the finish by Shura Kitata. The women's race was won by Mary Keitany, her fourth win of the event. Both Desisa and Keitany recorded the second fastest times on the course. In the wheelchair races, Daniel Romanchuk (1:36:21) and Switzerland's Manuela Sch\u00e4r (1:50:27) won the men's and women's races, respectively. A total of 52,704 runners finished the race, comprising 30,592 men and 22,112 women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281334-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City Marathon, Course\nThe marathon distance is officially 42.195 kilometres (26.219\u00a0mi) long as sanctioned by World Athletics (IAAF). The New York City Marathon starts at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, New York City. The first two miles of the course stay on the island, before the runners cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn. The streets in this borough are flat and the runners remain here until mile 12. The runners then enter Queens before crossing the Queensboro Bridge at mile 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281334-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City Marathon, Course\nAfter crossing the bridge, the runners enter Manhattan and run down First Avenue. The runners then enter The Bronx for miles 19 and 20 and pass the 'Entertainment Zone' which includes bands and dancers. The course then re-enters Manhattan for the final 6.2 miles (10.0\u00a0km). After running through Harlem, there is a slight uphill section along Fifth Avenue before it flattens out and runs parallel to Central Park. The course then enters the park around mile 24, passes Columbus Circle at mile 25 and re-enters the park for the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281334-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City Marathon, Field\nThe \"hot favorite\" for the men's race was Geoffrey Kamworor, who had won the previous edition in 2:10:53, three seconds ahead of Wilson Kipsang. Kamworor had been training with Eliud Kipchoge, who Ken Belson of The New York Times called the \"greatest marathoner ever\", in the lead up to the race. Also in the race were 2013 and 2015 Boston Marathon winner Lelisa Desisa, Shura Kitata, who came second at the 2018 London Marathon, and 2017 London winner Daniel Wanjiru. In the elite women's field, there were 11 former winners of the race, including the defending champion Shalane Flanagan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281334-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City Marathon, Field\nOthers in the field included Des Linden, winner of the 2018 Boston Marathon, Mary Keitany, runner-up in the previous edition, winner of the 2014, 2015, and 2016 editions, and who also held the quickest personal best time of 2:17:01 in the field, and Vivian Cheruiyot, winner of the 2018 London Marathon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281334-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City Marathon, Race summary\nIn the women's race, a group of 24 runners remained in the lead group until just before the halfway point when Keitany, along with others such as Rhama Tusa and Netsanet Gudeta, broke away. A group of eight, led by Tusa and Gudeta, went through halfway in 1:15:49. Tusa, Gudeta, Keitany broke away from the group leaving a chasing pack, containing the likes of Cheruiyot, Flanagan, and Molly Huddle. However, by 20 miles (32\u00a0km), Gudeta had fallen out of the group and eventually dropped out of the race at mile 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281334-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City Marathon, Race summary\nTusa was also dropped by Keitany, who ran a second-half split of 1:06:58 to win in a time of 2:22:48, just 17 seconds off the course record. Meanwhile, the chasing group managed to catch Tusa, and Cheruiyot, who reportedly ran with a hamstring injury, finished second in 2:26:02 and Flanagan finished third, 20 seconds behind. For her victory, Keitany was awarded $100,000, with an additional $45,000 for finishing in under 2:23:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281334-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City Marathon, Race summary\nThe elite men's race was \"far more competitive\". Kitata pushed the pace in the first half of the race, with Desisa and Tamirat Tola also contributing to the pace-setting. A leading group comprising Desisa, Kitata, Tola, Kamworor, and Festus Talam went through halfway in 1:03:55. By this point, Wanjiru had been dropped. Talam and Tola dropped out of the group at 20 miles (32\u00a0km) and 22 miles (35\u00a0km), respectively. Kamworor then moved to the front of the group and made a move, with Desisa following.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281334-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City Marathon, Race summary\nIn the last 800 metres (2,600\u00a0ft), however, Kitata was able to catch Kamworor and closed in on Desisa, who was able to increase the pace to take the win in 2:05:59, the second fastest time in the race's history. Kitata was just two seconds back. Kamworor finished third in 2:06:26. Like the women's race, Desisa won $100,000 and $45,000 for finishing in under 2:06:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281334-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City Marathon, Race summary\nIn the wheelchair men's race, Daniel Romanchuk went into the lead over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and was joined by David Weir and Marcel Hug, as they broke clear from the rest of the field. The race came down to a sprint which was won by Romanchuk, who completed the race in a time of 1:36:21, one second ahead of Hug and two seconds ahead of Weir. Romanchuk became the first American and the joint youngest winner of the wheelchair men's category in the race's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281334-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City Marathon, Race summary\nHis win also came after victory in the Chicago Marathon on October 7, where he also finished ahead of Hug. In the women's race, Tatyana McFadden, who was using a borrowed wheelchair as hers was damaged, took an early lead and led for the first half of the race. After an hour of racing, McFadden and Manuela Sch\u00e4r were clear of the rest of the field. Entering into Central Park, Sch\u00e4r dropped McFadden to win in a time of 1:50:27, with McFdden in second in 1:50:48 and Lihong Zou in third in 1:56:14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281334-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City Marathon, Results\nResults reported by NBC Sports and New York Road Runners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix\nThe 2018 New York City ePrix (formally the 2018 Qatar Airways New York City E-Prix) were a pair of Formula E electric car races held on 14 and 15 July 2018 at the Brooklyn Street Circuit in Red Hook, Brooklyn. They were the 11th and 12th rounds of the 2017\u201318 Formula E season, and it was the second annual edition of the event. The first race, contested over 43 laps on July 14, was won by Lucas di Grassi of the Audi team after starting 11th. His teammate Daniel Abt finished second, and e.Dams-Renault driver S\u00e9bastien Buemi was third. The second race on July 15 also lasted 43 laps, and was won by Techeetah's Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne from third. Di Grassi and his teammate were second and third, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix\nBuemi took the tenth pole position of his career by posting the fastest lap in qualifying and held the lead until Abt passed him on the fifth lap. Di Grassi overtook Buemi for second 15 laps later. Abt maintained the lead through the mandatory pit stops to change into a second car. On lap 24, di Grassi passed Abt for first after his teammate made a driver error. A safety car on lap 35 closed the field up to allow marshals to clear debris after Alex Lynn of Virgin crashed The race restarted with two minutes to go, and di Grassi retained the lead to secure his second consecutive victory, and the eighth of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix\nFor the second day running, but on a wet track, Buemi won the pole position with the fastest qualifying lap, the eleventh of his career, but he immediately lost the lead to Vergne at the start. The race was neutralised on lap eight because the Dragon car of Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez needed to be moved after his suspension failed, and for a three car accident on the straight linking turns ten and eleven. Racing resumed four laps later with Vergne leading through the next 12 laps, and the switch into a second vehicle at the halfway point. In the final six laps, Vergne held off di Grassi to take his fourth victory of the season, and the fifth of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix\nThe race results won Vergne his first Drivers' Championship after finishing fifth in the first race. Di Grassi's results saw him pass Sam Bird, Vergne's rival entering the event, for second. Buemi maintained fourth, and Abt finished the season in fifth. In the Teams' Championship, Audi outscored Techeetah in both races to win the title by two points. Virgin took third with 160 points. The battle for fourth position was won by Mahindra by five points over e.Dams-Renault in fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Background\nThe 2018 New York City ePrix double header was confirmed as part of Formula E's 2017\u201318 series schedule by the FIA World Motor Sport Council in September 2017. They were the 11th and 12th scheduled single-seater electric car races of the 2017\u201318 season, and it was the second annual edition of the event. The races were held at the 14-turn 1.47\u00a0mi (2.37\u00a0km) Brooklyn Street Circuit in Red Hook, Brooklyn on July 14 and 15. It was the final two races for the Spark-Renault SRT 01E car, which was replaced by the SRT05e from the 2018\u201319 season onward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Background\nRenault made its final appearance as a Formula E team and powertrain manufacturer, and were replaced by corporate partner Nissan. Organisers of the ePrix expected 40,000 people to converge to the circuit over the weekend. Formula E arranged a partnership with the New York City Economic Development Corporation to provide organizations in the Red Hook community with a 1,000 race day tickets to give away to local residents for free.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Background\nBefore the race, Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne of Techeetah led the Drivers' Championship with 163 points. Virgin's Sam Bird was second with 140 points, and Audi driver Lucas di Grassi was third with 101 points. With 92 points, S\u00e9bastien Buemi of e.Dams-Renault was fourth and Mahindra driver Felix Rosenqvist was six points behind in fifth. In the Teams' Championship, Techeetah led with 219 points, 33 ahead of Audi. Virgin were third with 157 points with Mahindra (116 points) and Jaguar (105) fourth and fifth. 58 points were available for the final two races of the season, which meant Vergne could win the Drivers' Championship in the first race if he won and Bird did not earn one point for the fastest lap and three for taking the pole position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Background\nBird began the season by leading the championship after the 2017 Hong Kong ePrix, and losing it to Vergne after the Santiago ePrix but remained in contention by consistently finishing in the top five over the next seven races. At the preceding Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Vergne's lead in the Drivers' Championship was lowered from 40 to 23 points after Bird finished second and Vergne tenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Background\nBird, the winner of both New York City races in 2017, was the underdog for the Drivers' Championship and believed Vergne was under pressure, saying in his situation, he would be anxious of close racing due to car-to-car contact or a driver error causing him to crash, \"The thought of him having a bad Saturday must almost keep him awake at night because if that happens and I have a good Saturday he has to deliver the following day.\" Vergne said Techeetah would not alter its approach and had maximum preparation, \"No matter how this weekend goes, we have shown that a customer team can take on the manufacturers and be successful.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Background\nThe Brooklyn Street Circuit was modified for this round. The track was extended farther north and west to Summit Street and Hamilton Avenue. As opposed to the original right-hand hairpin at the end of the main straight on Bowne Street, a four-turn complex was added featuring a left-hander and three right-hand corners leading to the second straight that formed the previous track configuration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Background\nThe changes increased the overall length of the circuit by 0.5\u00a0km (0.31\u00a0mi), and were made to accommodate the more powerful second generation and more downforce efficient Formula E car.. Di Grassi opined the elongated track could increase overtaking on the back straight, and create more excitement during the races. Bird however stated the alterations would hinder his team as its car was less energy efficient than others, and the flowing corners would not help him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Background\nThere was one change of driver for the weekend. Venturi driver Edoardo Mortara had a Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters commitment for Mercedes-Benz at the Circuit Zandvoort due to his championship position of second in that series. He was replaced by the team's test and reserve driver Tom Dillmann. This was the second time in the season Dillmann replaced Mortara with the first at the Berlin ePrix two months prior and had driven for Venturi seven times in the 2016\u201317 season. Venturi's request to switch competitors was granted by the stewards through bypassing a series regulation stating any changes of driver in the final three races of the season was forbidden except in unforeseen circumstances such as the suspension of an e-licence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Practice and qualifying\nTwo practice sessions\u2014both on Saturday morning\u2014were held before the late afternoon race. The first session was scheduled to run for 45 minutes and the second lasted half an hour. An untimed half hour shakedown session was held late Friday afternoon to allow teams to check the reliability of their cars and electronic systems. Although no major accidents were reported during the session, Buemi crashed into the wall, but he escaped with minor damage to his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Practice and qualifying\nIn the first practice session, held in warm and dusty conditions, di Grassi was fastest with a 1-minute and 13.566 seconds lap he set with 200\u00a0kW (270\u00a0hp) of power late on. Buemi was 0.350 seconds slower in second. Jaguar's Mitch Evans, Vergne, Daniel Abt of Audi, Bird, Dragon driver Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez, NIO's Oliver Turvey, Alex Lynn for Virgin and Techeetah's Andr\u00e9 Lotterer occupied positions three through ten. Nick Heidfeld for Mahindra made the track impassible after hitting the turn 11 chicane exit kerb. He went straight into the wall beside the circuit with Abt close by.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Practice and qualifying\nThe session was red flagged for three minutes while the field dispersed. Seven minutes later, L\u00f3pez sheared his right-rear suspension over the turn 12 kerb. A second stoppage was needed when L\u00f3pez lost the ability to drive, after stopping at pit lane entrance. The session was extended by ten minutes to allow drivers to better familiarise themselves with the track. A yellow flag was waved for Nelson Piquet Jr.'s Jaguar which stopped at the turn twelve exit, and Maro Engel lightly damaged his Venturi car in a collision with the turn two tire barrier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Practice and qualifying\nIn the second half hour practice session, most teams used the opportunity to simulate their qualifying laps at 200\u00a0kW (270\u00a0hp) of power, as several drivers had to scythe their way past traffic on the narrow circuit, and dust off the racing line reduced visibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Practice and qualifying\nRosenqvist recorded a benchmark time that Buemi bettered, and St\u00e9phane Sarrazin bent the right-rear suspension on his Andretti at the wall in the turn seven left-hander. Di Grassi began his maximum power lap when he grazed the barrier at the turn two 90-degree right-hander with the right-rear of his car, and he entered the pit lane for repairs. Dragon's J\u00e9r\u00f4me d'Ambrosio led until Evans went fastest with a time of 1 minute and 13.207 seconds with two minutes remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Practice and qualifying\nD'Ambrosio, Bird, L\u00f3pez, Buemi, Nico Prost of e.Dams-Renault, Ant\u00f3nio F\u00e9lix da Costa of Andretti, Turvey, and the Audis of Abt and di Grassi completed the top ten ahead of qualifying. After second practice, Turvey was transported to the trackside medical center, and then to a hospital in Brooklyn, because he fractured the fifth metacarpal bone on his left hand; he lost control of his car while on a maximum power lap, and collided with the outside barrier at the turn 14 left-hander, causing him to miss qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Practice and qualifying\nSaturday's afternoon qualifying session ran for an hour and was divided into four groups of five cars. Each group was determined by a lottery system and was permitted six minutes of on-track activity. All drivers were limited to two timed laps with one at maximum power. The fastest five overall competitors in the four groups participated in a \"super pole\" session with one driver on the track at any time going out in reverse order from fifth to first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Practice and qualifying\nEach of the five drivers was limited to one timed lap and the starting order was determined by the competitor's fastest times (super pole from first to fifth, and group qualifying from sixth to twentieth). The driver and team who recorded the fastest time were awarded three points towards their respective championships. In the first group, Vergne narrowly avoided a collision with Buemi, but he was the early pace setter with a provisional fastest lap of any driver in all four groups at 1 minute and 13.890 seconds. Buemi and di Grassi were provisionally second and third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0012-0002", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Practice and qualifying\nBird and Rosenqvist were group one's slowest two drivers. Lotterer was provisionally group two's fastest competitor. Abt and the Jaguar duo of Evans and Piquet were second to fourth. The absent Turvey was unclassified because of his withdrawal. At the conclusion of the second group, it was announced that the Techeetahs of Vergne and Lotterer were under investigation for a possible overuse of power. In group three, d'Ambrosio was fastest and he demoted Buemi from super pole contention. Positions two through five were made up by Engel, Heidfeld, F\u00e9lix da Costa and Lynn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Practice and qualifying\nDuring the fourth group, Vergne and his teammate Lotterer had their lap times in group qualifying nullified because they were confirmed to have overused the maximum amount of allocated power. This was related to a software glitch affecting a section of updated code that improved reliability to a control system that regulates power usage. Prost set group four's fastest lap, followed by L\u00f3pez, Dillmann and NIO's Luca Filippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Practice and qualifying\nSarrazin was the slowest driver to set a lap time in group qualifying after he slid sideways into the barrier lining the circuit at turn eleven; race control did not halt the session because he continued driving. At the end of group qualifying, the lap times set by Abt, Evans, d'Ambrosio, Buemi and Prost progressed them to super pole. Buemi took his second pole position of the season, and the tenth of his career with a time of 1 minute and 13.911 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Practice and qualifying\nHe was joined on the grid's front row by Evans who was 0.554 seconds slower as a consequence of him sliding wide at turn five. Prost qualified in third place, and d'Ambrosio started from fourth after a driver error at turn six. Abt made a mistake at turn seven and he began from fifth. The rest of the grid lined up as Piquet, L\u00f3pez, Engel, Dillmann, Heidfeld, di Grassi, F\u00e9lix da Costa, Lynn, Bird, Filippi, Rosenqvist, Sarrazin, Vergne and Lotterer. After qualifying, Turvey was withdrawn on medical grounds, and he was replaced by NIO's test and reserve driver Ma Qinghua for the Sunday race through the application of force majeure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Race\nThe first 43-lap race began at 15:33 Eastern Daylight Time (UTC\u221205:00) on July 14. The weatherat the start were dry and clear with the air temperature between 31.6 to 32.1\u00a0\u00b0C (88.9 to 89.8\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperature was from 43.25 to 45\u00a0\u00b0C (109.85 to 113.00\u00a0\u00b0F). A special feature of Formula E is the \"FanBoost\" feature, an additional 100 kilowatts (130\u00a0hp) of power to use in the driver's second car. The three drivers who were allowed to use the boost were determined by a fan vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Race\nFor the first New York City race, Abt, Buemi and Vergne were handed the extra power. Evans moved only a few metres from his starting slot due to a broken driveshaft, as Buemi maintained the lead going into the first corner with his teammate Prost in second and Abt third. D'Ambrosio swerved to avoid striking Evans' car, and that allowed his teammate L\u00f3pez to draw alongside him on the run to the first turn. This resulted in L\u00f3pez removing his front wing when he hit the rear of d'Ambrosio's vehicle, knocking his teammate's rear wing off. As both Dragon drivers delayed the field, Lynn passed F\u00e9lix da Costa on the inside line, while Vergne dropped to the rear so he could conserve electrical energy. Abt passed Prost for second around the inside heading towards turn six, as Bird moved into tenth with a pass on d'Ambrosio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 867]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Race\nComing to the conclusion of the first lap, Buemi led Abt, Prost, the fast-starting Piquet and Dillmann as L\u00f3pez entered the pit lane for a replacement rear wing. Prost lost third and fourth to Piquet and Dillmann on the second lap, as Lynn allowed his teammate Bird through into tenth. At the conclusion of lap three, d'Ambrosio drove into the pit lane to have a new nose cone fitted to his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Race\nOn lap five, di Grassi overtook Engel around the outside for sixth going into the turn eleven chicane as the Techeetahs of Lotterer and Vergne began to move up the field. At the front of the pack, Buemi came under pressure from Abt with the latter plotting where to execute an overtaking manoeuvre. During the sixth lap, Abt steered left to the inside of Buemi at the end of the straight going into the turn eleven chicane to pass him for the lead. Elsewhere, Dillmann overtook Piquet into the same corner for third on the next lap. On the 11th lap, Rosenqvist went to the outside of F\u00e9lix da Costa, and forced him wide at turn one for 12th. This allowed Vergne to pass F\u00e9lix da Costa on the inside for 13th going into turn two, and out-braked Rosenqvist on the entry to turn seven for 12th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Race\nThat same lap, Lotterer overtook Bird for tenth driving into the turn eleven chicane. Lotterer then delayed Bird enough to allow Vergne to draw closer. Vergne got ahead of Lynn around the outside on the approach to the turn 11 chicane on lap 13. Di Grassi lapped faster than anybody and he overtook Dillmann on the outside for third into the same corner two laps later. Lotterer moved marginally farther away from Bird to provide his teammate Vergne with an opportunity to pass. This came on lap 16 as Vergne passed Bird on the inside into turn six for tenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Race\nOn lap 17, Lotterer passed Engel for eighth. A lap later, Heidfeld overtook Prost on the back straight to move into sixth. Di Grassi caught and passed Buemi into turn six for second on the 20th lap. Prost lost seventh to Lotterer on the next lap. In the meantime, Bird returned to the top ten by passing Engel on the main straight. At the end of lap 22, the field except for Sarrazin made their mandatory pit stops to change into a second car. Rosenqvist stopped in the pit lane's center to avoid colliding with his teammate Heidfeld; drivers scrambled for space to avoid hitting him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Race\nAfter the pit stops, Abt still led but di Grassi reduced the gap due to a faster car switch. Dillmann lost fourth to Piquet but he regained the position after Piquet stopped exiting the pit lane because he inadvertently switched his car off and lost positions. On lap 24, di Grassi began to challenge his teammate Abt for first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Race\nAbt ran wide leaving turn seven, and di Grassi nudged the rear of his teammate's car. Di Grassi turned to the outside to pass Abt for first into the turn 11 chicane with an aggressive overtake that saw them make minor contact in the braking zone. He sought a way back past going into turn six on the next lap but di Grassi repelled the manoeuvre. Both Audi drivers were given the instruction Code 100, which was surmised as a potential team order to hold position. On the 29th lap, Techeetah instructed Lotterer to allow his teammate Vergne past into turn six. However, as Engel overtook Bird on the inside for tenth on lap 35, Lynn lost control of his car's rear, and struck the turn five outside wall .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Race\nAlthough Lynn was uninjured and clambered out of his vehicle, the full course yellow procedure, and then the safety car was deployed to close the field up, and allow marshals to clean the track clearing and repair the barriers. The race was restarted with two minutes left as it switched to a timed event. Heidfeld overtook Lotterer for sixth and challenged Vergne for fifth. Engel overtook Prost for eighth, and Bird followed through for ninth. On the final lap, Filippi enterd the pit lane to retire for unknown reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Race\nAbt also set the fastest lap in the top ten at 1 minute and 15.082 seconds to earn one championship point. Di Grassi crossed the finish line to take his second victory in a row after the race in Z\u00fcrich a month prior, and the eighth of his career. Abt was 0.965 seconds behind in second, and Buemi completed the podium in third. Off the podium, Dillmann took a season best result of fourth. Vergne finished fifth to claim the Drivers' Championship as Bird could not catch his points total with a race to go. The final finishers were Heidfeld, Lotterer, Engel, Bird, Prost, F\u00e9lix da Costa, Sarrazin, d'Ambrosio, Rosenqvist and Fillippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Post-race\nThe top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference. Di Grassi praised the speed of his car, his on-track battles and said having a large lead in Formula E was nonsensical because of a disruption such as the deployment of the safety car meaning a driver had wasted electrical energy in pulling away from the rest of the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Post-race\nAbt stated he was unsure if there was an inter-team miscommunication over di Grassi passing him, \"I'm happy for Audi \u2013 the team deserves this but of course I can't sit here and smile like crazy.\u201d Third-placed Buemi revealed that he did not challenge di Grassi for electrical energy management purposes and focused on his own performance after brake and battery temperature issues, \"In the end, I didn't have the pace and they were stronger. Still, there's one more race to go and then I have to work on next year as clearly in terms of efficiency they [Audi] were in a different league today, so I'm happy to be the best of the rest.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Post-race\nOn his way back to the pit lane, Vergne dedicated his first motor racing Drivers' Championship since the 2010 British Formula 3 International Series to his friend and fellow racing driver Jules Bianchi, who died nine months after sustaining severe head injuries in an accident at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix. During the celebration, Vergne said he was happy to win the championship but that he could not celebrate the achievement until the end of the second race because he needed to focus on that event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Post-race\nAlthough Bird congratulated Vergne on the title, he bemoaned his powertrain's lack of energy efficiency on a longer circuit and the extra distance covered by drivers than had been observed in 2017, \"we're still very proud of what we\u2019ve achieved and the whole team has done an amazing job to put us in this position.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Post-race\nRegarding Audi's inter-team battle, Abt was unhappy over the situation and spoke of his belief that di Grassi disobeyed a team order to hold position after his teammate passed him. He urged Audi to hold internal discussions about the practice, \"I don't care if team orders are imposed, but if they are they need to be respected, and today they have not been respected. That's why I'm unhappy.\" Di Grassi insisted he had received no team orders until after the battle, \"There was no call.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Post-race\nThere was no call until the end of the first third of the second stint, when we had to save energy. That was it.\" Allan McNish, team principal of Audi, clarified that no instructions had been given, and revealed the decision to end the inter-team battle was made because of the potential threat from the Techeetahs in the event the safety car was dispatched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0021-0002", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Post-race\nHe later stated that both di Grassi and Abt were allowed to race each other unless certain circumstances prompted a strategy change, \"Opinions can differ of course like they did in New York a little, but we should a day later that it was water under the bridge and we got the job done. Therefore our overall strategy of allowing them to race, within reason, will remain.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race one, Post-race\nThe result of the ePrix meant Vergne's fifth-place finish won him his maiden Drivers' Championship with a 31-point lead over his nearest rival Bird. Di Grassi's victory enabled him to maintain the third position but he drew to within 16 points of Bird in the battle for second. Buemi was still in fourth, and Abt's second-place finish advanced him from sixth to fifth. Although the Drivers' Championship had been decided, the Teams' Championship had not. Techeetah continued to lead with 235 points, but Audi's one-two finish meant the manufacturer was now just five points adrift in second place. Virgin maintained third with 159 points. Mahindra (124 points) and e.Dams-Renault (118) contended for fifth with a round to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Practice and qualifying\nOne 45-minute practice session on Sunday morning was held before the early afternoon race. Overnight rain saturated the track, and it recommenced just before the start of the third practice session, causing several drivers to aquaplane on standing water, as they all ran on the standardised all-weather tires. Abt set the fastest lap 15 minutes in with a time of 1 minute and 18.699 seconds before weather conditions deteriorated. He was followed by Evans, F\u00e9lix da Costa, Buemi, di Grassi, Sarrazin, Lotterer, Vergne, Rosenqvist, and Bird. L\u00f3pez pirouetted through 360 degrees at turn seven but avoided hitting the wall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Practice and qualifying\nBird lost traction under braking, and broke his right-rear suspension in an impact with the outside barrier at the turn eleven chicane after 15 minutes. He drove his car back to the pit lane for repairs. Rosenqvist locked his tyres, and he removed the front wing from his car in a head-on collision with the TecPro wall at the same corner as Bird in practice's final ten minutes. He extricated himself from the wall, and drove to the pit lane for a replacement nose cone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Practice and qualifying\nSunday's qualifying session was held in the morning rather than the customary time of the beginning of the afternoon. In the first group, held on a damp racing surface, Sarrazin set the early pace, ahead of Dillmann (who ran deep on the run into the first corner), Filippi, and Prost. Ma was group one's slowest competitor after he crashed into the wall at the exit of turn 14 as he began his maximum power lap, damaging the right-rear suspension. Di Grassi set the fastest overall time of any driver in group qualifying with a 1-minute and 17.867 seconds lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Practice and qualifying\nBuemi was 0.272 seconds slower in second. The second group's slowest three drivers were Abt, Vergne, and Bird. As more rain fell, L\u00f3pez was fastest in group three, followed by his teammate d'Ambrosio, Engel, and Lynn. F\u00e9lix da Costa did not set a quick lap because of a battery management system failure on his car while on an out-lap. He began from the rear of the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0024-0002", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Practice and qualifying\nIn group four, rain continued to fall as Lotterer went fastest, with the Jaguars of Evans and Piquet second and third after Piquet broke the steering arm of his car on the barrier leaving turn one. The Mahindras of Rosenqvist and Heidfeld were the fourth group's two slowest competitors. At the conclusion of group qualifying, di Grassi, Buemi, Lotterer, Abt and Vergne's lap times advanced them to super pole. Buemi was circumspect en route to his second consecutive pole position, and the eleventh of his career with a lap of 1 minute and 17.973 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0024-0003", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Practice and qualifying\nHe was joined on the grid's front row by Lotterer, and his teammate Vergne qualified in third after he glanced the barrier on the entry to turn five, losing more time in the track's final sector. Abt lost time in the opening two sectors but a quick third sector placed him fourth. Fifth-placed di Grassi slowed to pass through standing water and oversteered into the turn two outside TecPro barrier with the right-rear of his car. After qualifying, Lynn and F\u00e9lix da Costa were penalised ten places on the starting grid for changing their gearboxes. The rest of the grid lined up after penalties as Evans, Piquet, Bird, Rosenqvist, Sarrazin, L\u00f3pez, d'Ambrosio, Heidfeld, Dillmann, Filippi, Prost, Engel, Ma, Lynn, and F\u00e9lix da Costa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Race\nThe second 43-lap race commenced at 15:03 local time on July 15. A few hours beforehand, the event was temporarily suspended because of a lightning storm that was due to pass through Red Hook, and race organisers ordered a full evacuation of the track. The storm subsided an hour later, and the race began on schedule. The air temperature was between 26.7 and 27.85\u00a0\u00b0C (80.06 and 82.13\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperature ranged from 28.85 to 30.6\u00a0\u00b0C (83.93 to 87.08\u00a0\u00b0F).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Race\nWhen the five red lights went out to begin the ePrix, Buemi made a slow start and turned left to block Lotterer's path. That allowed the fast-starting Vergne to go to the inside of Buemi and out-brake him for take the lead before the first corner. Abt fell to seventh when Piquet and Rosenqvist passed him into the turn 11 chicane. However, Abt returned to sixth by passing Rosenqvist, as Lynn went entered pit lane to serve a ten-second stop-and-go penalty because he did not take his full grid penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0025-0002", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Race\nBuemi defended from Lotterer on the outside under braking for the turn 11 chicane at the conclusion of lap one, just as Lotterer defended from di Grassi who made minor contact with him. On the third lap, it was announced that the Techeetahs of Vergne and Lotterer were under investigation for a potential jump start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Race\nEvans went to the inside of Rosenqvist going into turn six but Rosenqvist blocked the pass on the next lap. On lap five, Lotterer turned to the inside to overtake Buemi for second entering the turn eleven chicane, as di Grassi sustained minor front wing damage during a failed pass on Buemi. Dillmann entered the pit lane to retire with a transmission failure on the lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Race\nOn the eighth lap, a full course yellow flag was necessitated because L\u00f3pez broke his right-rear suspension on the turn two kerb, stopping at the side of the track at turn six to retire, as his front wing almost caught fire when he hit the barrier. As the full course yellow was activated, Filippi went to the inside of F\u00e9lix da Costa into the turn 11 chicane, but F\u00e9lix da Costa moved towards Filippi. That caused Filippi to strike the rear of F\u00e9lix da Costa's car. Filiippi drifted across the track with a broken front wing and right-front wheel bearing, collecting d'Ambrosio who was behind him in the turn's braking zone. It was during the full course yellow that the stewards imposed a ten-second stop-and-go penalty on Lotterer; Vergne was not penalised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Race\nThe full course yellow procedure was lifted on lap eleven, and racing resumed with Vergne leading at the rolling restart. Lotterer took his ten-second stop-and-go penalty in the pit lane at the start of the following lap. He emerged in fifteenth as Buemi moved into second and di Grassi took over third. That lap, di Grassi overtook Buemi around the inside to move into second at the turn 11 chicane. His teammate Abt used extra electrical energy to replicate a similar manoeuvre on Piquet for fifth. Engel retired with a sudden loss of car power on the next lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Race\nAbt earned one championship point with the race's fastest lap at 1 minute and 15.552 seconds on lap 15. On lap 18, F\u00e9lix da Costa incurred a ten-second stop-and-go penalty for the collision with Filippi and three e-licence penalty points. On the same lap, Vergne, Buemi and Abt were announced as the winners of the FanBoost vote. As di Grassi closed up to Vergne, his teammate Abt overtook Buemi on the inside for third entering the turn 11 chicane on the 19th lap. Piquet allowed his teammate Evans through on the inside for fifth but later lost sixth to Rosenqvist at the final corner on lap 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Race\nAt the end of lap 22, the mandatory pit stops to change into a second car commenced when Abt entered the pit lane after a strategy miscommunication. The rest of the front runners made their stops at the conclusion of the following lap. After the pit stops, Vergne retained the lead with di Grassi close behind in second, Abt in third and Buemi fourth. Rosenqvist passed Evans for fifth. Buemi used his FanBoost to overtake Abt by out-braking him for third amidst a heavy defence from Abt on the approach to turn eleven on the 26th lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0028-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Race\nThis allowed Vergne to draw clear as Buemi and Abt slowed each other in the process. Three laps later, a driver error from Buemi at turn two made him vulnerable to Abt. The Audi driver had additional momentum and used it to retake third from Buemi into turn six. On lap 36, Heidfeld overtook Piquet for seventh before the turn eleven chicane, and repelled his subsequent attack into the final corner. Lotterer overtook Prost for 11th two laps later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Race\nIn the meantime, di Grassi sought to get by Vergne for the lead. Vergne used his FanBoost to mitigate di Grassi's attack though he subsequently conserved electrical energy by slowing. On lap 39, as Vergne continued to conserve electrical energy, di Grassi was caught out by him, and pushed the rear of his car heading into the final turn, knocking the rear camera out of alignment. Further down the field, Lotterer passed Sarrazin for tenth going into turn six on the next lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Race\nHe passed the electrical energy conservative Bird for ninth on the straight linking turns ten and eleven on the 41st lap. Di Grassi could not find a way past Vergne, and the latter finished the race first to take his fourth victory of the season, and the fifth of his career. Di Grassi and Abt finished in second and third to claim the Teams' Championship for Audi. Off the podium, Buemi finished fourth, ahead of Rosenqvist in fifth, and Evans sixth. Piquet, Heidfeld, Lotterer, Bird rounded out the top ten. The final finishers were Prost, Sarrazin, Ma, Lynn, and F\u00e9lix da Costa. No lead changes occurred as Vergne led the race from start to finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Post-race\nThe top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Post-race\nVergne congratulated Audi on claiming the Teams' Championship and Techeetah for its effort during the season and said his team did not allow any errors to be made. Di Grassi reserved praise for Vergne taking the Drivers' Championship and said he was delighted for Audi winning the Teams' Championship because of the manufacturer's commitment to Formula E and the work its staff at the team's garage put in, \" Every time we say the same but I'm very proud that Audi committed to Formula E, suffering a lot, keeping their head high, recovering and in the last race winning by two points is just unbelievable.\u201d Third-placed Abt hailed the conclusion of Audi's season and that they would be stronger for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Post-race\nAudi Formula E Project Leader Tristan Summerdale eulogised the team's comeback throughout the season after multiple inverter failures in its opening four rounds, and praised di Grassi and Abt for their perseverance, \u201cI think what we achieved is pretty special and the whole team and our suppliers have to take so much credit. To consider where we were after Santiago and then to see the number of points we have been able to put on the board is mighty. It's a great comeback and shows the great resilience we have at Audi.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Post-race\nMark Preston, team principal of Techeetah, said that the outfit's loss of the Teams' Championship to Audi would not deduct itself from their achievements, and it provided them with additional motivation for an improved performance in the 2018\u201319 season, \"This has been a wonderful season. Against all the odds, we have built a team that is capable of taking on the best manufacturers in the championship and compete right to the very end.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Post-race\nVergne and his teammate Lotterer were fined \u20ac5,000 and incurred two penalty points on their e-licences after scrutineers found during inspection that both drivers were wearing \"non-compliant underwear\" during the second qualifying session, a transgression of series regulations. Regarding his jump start, Lotterer admitted he was at fault because he was no longer able to hold his grip on the clutch, and apologised for losing Techeetah the Teams' Championship, \"It's hard to accept now losing the championship like this, although it's a season's result, but I was the one that messed it up. I'm gutted for the team. We win together, we lose together. They tried to cheer me up, they're a nice team, and I'm really thankful to race with these guys. It's a shame because we put in so much hard work, but we lost it like this and they really deserved it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 899]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281335-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City ePrix, Race two, Post-race\nThe final championship standings meant Vergne won the Drivers' Championship by 54 points over di Grassi whose second-place finish saw him pass Bird for second as Bird was tenth in the second race. With 120 points, Buemi finished in fourth place, and Abt was a further five points behind in the fifth position. Audi won the Teams' Championship by two points over Techeetah in second. Virgin placed third with 160 points. After both its drivers finished in the top ten, Mahindra held fourth from e.Dams-Renault in the final standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash\nOn March 11, 2018, a sightseeing helicopter crashed into the East River off the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, killing 5 people. Two passengers died at the scene, and three others were pronounced dead at the hospital. The pilot escaped the helicopter following the crash. The aircraft was operated by Liberty Helicopters for FlyNyon. Two people were from New York state; another two were from Dallas, Texas; and the fifth was from Argentina. The pilot is from Connecticut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft involved in the incident was a Eurocopter AS350 \u00c9cureuil, that had not been involved in any prior accidents. The tour company had had two other crashes in the preceding 11 years. The helicopter flew with open doors, and passengers were required to wear both the helicopter's primary restraints (seatbelts) along with a supplemental harness (provided by NYONair), designed to keep them inside the helicopter; the supplemental harnesses underwent scrutiny as a potential cause of fatality due to the difficulty of releasing the harness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Aircraft\nThe helicopter was equipped with primary restraints for the pilot and each passenger provided by the manufacturer compliant with 14\u00a0CFR . Each passenger was also equipped with a supplemental harness system which allowed them to move within the cabin and sit in the door sill while airborne. The center passengers in the four-abreast rear bench seat were allowed to remove their primary restraints, leave their seat, and sit on the sills; they were prevented from falling out of the helicopter by the supplemental harnesses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Aircraft\nThe passengers on the outboard ends of the rear seat and front passenger seat were allowed to rotate outboard, but their primary restraints were not intended to be released. The supplemental harness was an off-the-shelf nylon fall arrest device which anchored each passenger to the helicopter; ground crew were responsible for attaching and detaching a locking carabiner to the back of each passenger's supplemental harness at the start and end of each flight. Each carabiner was at the end of a tether attached in the helicopter's cabin. The supplemental harnesses were provided by FlyNYON, the vendor which had sold the passenger tickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Aircraft\nThe flight was being conducted by the operator Liberty Helicopters under 14\u00a0CFR rules as an air tour for aerial photography for FlyNYON under 14\u00a0CFR rules. According to a 2014 study, the crash rate of Part 91 air tours is 3.5 per 100,000 hours flown, \"similar to the reported crash rates in categories considered to be 'high hazard' commercial aviation\" such as medevac and off-shore drilling transport. Liberty Helicopters spent $120,000 lobbying the mayor's office and the Economic Development Corporation in 2015, according to an article about the curtailment of tourist flights from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in 2016. Liberty and FlyNYON stated the flights met exemption criteria under 14\u00a0CFR (e)(4)(iii) for aerial photography.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Accident\nThe flight originated from Helo Kearny Heliport (FAA LID: 65NJ) at approximately 1900 EDT on March 11, 2018. The pilot had been flying passengers for FlyNYON on flights lasting 15 to 30 minutes since 1100 that day, although he could not recall how many flights he had completed. When the van carrying the passengers arrived, the pilot checked each passenger's harness and put their life vests on. After seating the passengers in the helicopter, he locked their harness tethers to the helicopter and provided safety instructions, including where the cutting tool was on their harness and how to use it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Accident\nThe pilot, following the passengers' requests for sights, flew toward the Statue of Liberty at an altitude ranging from 300\u2013500\u00a0ft (91\u2013152\u00a0m) above ground level (agl), then proceeded to the Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park. After contacting the tower at LaGuardia Airport to request entry into its controlled airspace, the pilot started to climb to approximately 2,000\u00a0ft (610\u00a0m) agl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Accident\nDuring the climb, he noticed the front passenger had removed his primary restraint, and reminded the passenger to keep the restraint fastened, as the passengers in the left front, left rear, and right rear seats were supposed to stay restrained while the inboard passengers in the center rear seats were allowed to unclip their primary restraints and sit on the floor with their feet on the skids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Accident\nOnboard video reviewed after the crash showed the front passenger turned in his seat so he was facing outboard with his legs outside the helicopter. While taking several photographs between 19:00 and 19:05, he leaned backward and his supplemental harness tether hung down loosely near the helicopter's floor-mounted controls. At 19:05:51, when he sat up again, video showed the tail of the tether became taut, then suddenly released; this was followed two seconds later by decreased engine noises. Radar showed the helicopter began to descend at 19:06:11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Accident\nAccording to several witnesses, the helicopter suddenly descended near the northern end of Roosevelt Island and then plummeted into the river. The helicopter was described to be autorotating at low altitudes immediately prior to its crash. The pilot stated, in a post-crash interview with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), that a low rotor rpm alarm began to sound and warning lights came on, indicating low engine and fuel pressure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Accident\nAt that point, he believed the engine had failed and considered landing at Central Park, but thought there were too many people present to attempt a landing, and directed the helicopter towards the East River instead, starting the turn at 19:06:30. The pilot radioed a mayday call to LaGuardia at 19:06:58.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Accident\nDuring the descent, the pilot attempted to restart the engine at least twice, and then he confirmed the fuel flow control lever was still positioned for normal operation. After he was sure the helicopter could reach the river, the pilot activated the skid-mounted floats at 19:07:02, 800\u00a0ft (240\u00a0m) agl. When he reached to engage the emergency fuel shutoff lever in preparation for a hard landing, he realized it had already been activated, and that part of a passenger's fall protection tether was underneath the fuel shutoff lever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Accident\nWhen he disengaged the fuel shutoff lever, he was able to restart the engine, but at that point, the helicopter had already descended past 300\u00a0ft (91\u00a0m) agl and the engine \"wasn't spooling up fast enough\" to avoid a crash landing. He put the helicopter in a nose-up flare before it hit the water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Accident\nWith the doors off, the cabin began to fill with water, first on the pilot's side (right side) of the cabin. The pilot stated he started to unlock the carabiner securing the front passenger's tether to the helicopter, but had gotten no more than two or three rotations before the helicopter began to sink, rolling past a 45\u00b0 list. Subsequent review of a video showing the descent (recorded by a witness using a cellphone) led aviation experts to believe the passengers would have survived had the helicopter not turned over and sunk. The aircraft sank 11 seconds after touching down on the water, at approximately 19:07:26, when the onboard video camera's lens became submerged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Accident\nThe pilot, who was not attached to the aircraft by a supplemental harness, unbuckled his manufacturer-provided primary restraint after the helicopter was submerged and escaped. All five passengers drowned after the helicopter rolled over into the water as they were trapped by their supplemental harnesses. To leave the aircraft, a passenger would have had to either reach behind them and unscrew the locking carabiner (or assist another passenger with their carabiner), or use a cutting tool (provided by FlyNYON and attached to each harness) to sever the tether.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Accident\nA passing tugboat heard the mayday call from the pilot and tied up to the helicopter to keep it from sinking further. Rescue divers responded seven minutes after the first 911 call. The passengers were cut out of the wreck by emergency responders, some after having been dragged for 50 blocks south in the upside-down helicopter: a 3-knot (5.6\u00a0km/h; 3.5\u00a0mph) current pulled the helicopter from 86th to 34th during the rescue. The pilot was taken to the hospital for observation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Investigation, Supplemental harness\nAlmost immediately, passengers on previous flights pointed out the \"complicated system of straps, carabiners and an emergency blade for cutting [the proprietary eight-point Safety Harness System] off in case of trouble\" and inadequate training as probable causes for the passengers' deaths in a March 12 New York Times article about the crash. Several internal documents showed that pilots for Liberty and FlyNYON had requested better-fitting supplemental passenger harnesses as well as better tools that would make it easier for passengers to free themselves for up to two months preceding the fatal flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Investigation, Supplemental harness\nThe supplemental harnesses used in most flights were yellow nylon harnesses designed as fall protection for construction workers, and the pilots stated they preferred a more expensive blue harness which was more adjustable, had been certified by the FAA for helicopter operations (under technical standard order C167), and had more attachment points, some of which were more accessible to passengers. Patrick Day, CEO of FlyNYON, stated to the New York Times that on October 31, 2017, \"inspectors observed the harness and tethering process [at FlyNYON's facility] and continued to permit their use on Liberty and FlyNYON operated flights without issue\". A spokesman for the FAA stated that supplemental harnesses are not subject to inspection. FlyNYON staff were instructed to use zip ties to modify the harnesses to fit smaller passengers, and applied masking tape, which FlyNYON called \"NYON blue safety tape\", to prevent inadvertent release of harnesses and restraints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 1045]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Investigation, Supplemental harness\nPassengers were provided with a hook-shaped seat belt cutter to sever the restraint tether in case of an emergency, but internal testing in November 2017 demonstrated how difficult it was to use that tool on the restraint tethers used in flight, which were made using the ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene branded Dyneema.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Investigation, Supplemental harness\nIn February, a pilot for Liberty identified a different knife and tether that could be cut \"very easily\" as well as a supplier that had more than fifty of each in stock, but social media postings by FlyNYON passengers showed the older tethers and cutters were still in use up to the fatal flight. When discussing the restraint system used on the accident flight, NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt said: \"The contraption that FlyNYON rigged up turned a perfectly good helicopter into a death trap.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Investigation, Skid floats\nAlthough the Airbus AS350 B2 helicopter is not certified for ditching in water, it can be equipped with an emergency flotation system; in this case, the helicopter was equipped with a system manufactured by Dart Aerospace, type certificate SR00470LA. To prevent inadvertent activation, a shear pin is designed to break under 12 pounds-force (53\u00a0N) of force; the activator is installed on the cyclic control lever. The flotation system was installed by EuroTec Canada in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Investigation, Skid floats\nSubsequent evaluation of the wreck showed the right-side floats for the emergency flotation system were not as inflated as the left-side floats. The float system must operate flawlessly according to specification and certification. The post-crash examination of N350LH showed the left skid emergency float's pressurized gas cylinder gauge indicated about 0\u00a0psi (0\u00a0kPa) while the right skid's pressurized gas cylinder gauge indicated about 4,000\u00a0psi (28,000\u00a0kPa), implying the right side had failed to fully inflate. According to the NTSB report: \"The trigger mechanism was smooth with no evidence of binding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Investigation, Skid floats\nContinuity of the float system control was established between the trigger, dual cable block, and the activation cable clevis connection. When the trigger was released, the dual cable block returned to its normal position (via spring within the junction box) but the upper and lower turnbuckles remained in their actuated positions.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Investigation, FlyNYON and Liberty\nFlyNYON is a spinoff of NY On Air (NYONair), which was founded by Patrick Day, Jr. in 2012 to coordinate aerial photography flights for professional and corporate photographers. FlyNYON sold single-seat tickets for aerial photography flights, reducing the per-passenger cost to facilitate access to doors-off photography flights for tourists. FlyNYON marketed its services via social media by encouraging passengers to post pictures with the hashtag #ShoeSelfie, where the photographer's shoes could be seen in an aerial photograph. Day is the son of the director of operations for Liberty Helicopters, Patrick Day Sr. simultaneously held the director of operations position for FlyNYON, and Patrick Jr. was listed as the VP of charter and aircraft management for Liberty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 844]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Investigation, FlyNYON and Liberty\nA safety video was shown to the passengers, which included a segment on how to release the supplemental harness in case of an emergency. The video demonstrated one passenger helping another passenger to disengage the locking carabiner and also stated that a cutting tool was secured to a chest strap and could be used to cut the tether if necessary; the video showed the passenger cutting the tether with a single stroke. Pilots were concerned about the adequacy of the cutting tools, and in one test, took more than 30 seconds to cut through a tether with the tools available to passengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Investigation, FlyNYON and Liberty\nNYONair performed an independent investigation and made the following recommendations:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Aftermath\nThe family of one victim sued FlyNYON and Liberty Helicopters on March 14, alleging that it was impossible for passengers to free themselves from their harnesses during an emergency. The lawsuit was later amended to add Airbus as a defendant. According to NTSB safety recommendations A-10-129 and -130, issued on October 20, 2010, the design of the emergency fuel shutoff lever in the Eurocopter AS350 cockpit \"allows for easy access to and inadvertent movement of (the lever), which could cause a serious or catastrophic accident if the movement occurs at a critical point during flight or on the ground.\" Airbus (then Eurocopter) had previously reviewed the design of the fuel cutoff lever prior to the safety recommendation and developed a new design, but the FAA did not require a retrofit of the new design.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 859]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Aftermath\nOn March 19, NTSB issued Aviation Safety Recommendation ASR-18-02 to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). ASR-18-02 recommends the prohibition of all open-door passenger flights that use additional passenger harness systems, unless the harness system is designed to allow passengers to \"rapidly release the harness with minimal difficulty and without having to cut or forcefully remove the harness.\" The FAA released a statement on March 20 saying they intended to impose a ban on open-door passenger flights that use harnesses which could not be released quickly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Aftermath\nEmergency Order of Prohibition 8900.456 (FAA-2018-0243; 83 FR ) was issued by the FAA on March 23, effective for one year, prohibiting \"doors-off\" flights with supplemental passenger restraint systems unless those systems have FAA approval through Form 337. 8900.456 was superseded by 8900.457 in April 2018; 8900.457 in turn was superseded by 8900.506, which renewed the ban on doors-off flights for another year starting in April 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281336-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 New York City helicopter crash, Aftermath\nThe NTSB adopted Aircraft Accident Report (AAR) 19-04 on December 10, 2019. AAR\u00a019-04 concluded the pilot had successfully ditched the helicopter into the water in a survivable manner using an autorotative descent; however, the supplemental restraints provided by NYONair prevented the passengers from exiting the helicopter after it turned over and sank, causing them to drown. In addition, the supplemental restraint was the immediate cause of the accident; one restraint caught on and caused an inadvertent activation of the fuel shutoff lever, resulting in a loss of power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281337-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Excelsior season\nThe 2018 New York Excelsior season was the first season of New York Excelsior's existence in the Overwatch League. The team finished the league-leading regular season record of 34\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281337-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Excelsior season\nNew York qualified for all four of the Stage Playoffs. The team lost in the Stage 1 finals to the London Spitfire, won in the Stage 2 finals against Philadelphia Fusion, won in the Stage 3 finals against Boston Uprising, and lost in the Stage 4 finals against the Los Angeles Valiant. The team also qualified for the Season Playoffs, but lost to the Philadelphia Fusion in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281337-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Excelsior season, Preceding offseason\nOn October 30, 2017, New York Excelsior unveiled their inaugural season roster, consisting of the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281337-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Excelsior season, Preceding offseason\nThe team also announced the signings of coaches Yu \"Pavane\" Hyeon-sang and Kim \"WizardHyeong\" Hyeong-seok, and Meta Athena's Kim \"Libero\" Hae-seong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281337-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Excelsior season, Review\nOn January 11, the Excelsior played their first regular season Overwatch League match in a 3\u20131 victory over the Boston Uprising. They would end Stage 1 of the 2018 Season with a 9\u20131 record, earning them the top spot and first-round bye in the Stage 1 Playoffs. However, the team lost in the finals to the London Spitfire (3\u20132) in a reverse sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281337-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Excelsior season, Review\nStage 2 played out much like Stage 1 for New York, as the team went on to post again a 9\u20131 record and a first-round bye into the Stage 2 Playoffs. Also like Stage 1, the playoff finals ended in a 3\u20132 reverse sweep, but this time New York was on the winning side, defeating the Philadelphia Fusion on March 25 to claim the Stage 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281337-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Excelsior season, Review\nIn Stage 3, New York once again posted a 9\u20131 record, giving them the second seed for the Stage 3 Playoffs. In the semifinals, the Excelsior swept the Los Angeles Valiant 3\u20130. The team won in the Stage 3 finals against Boston Uprising in another 3\u20130 sweep, giving New York back-to-back stage titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281337-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Excelsior season, Review\nNew York posted their worst record (7\u20133) in Stage 4, but still claimed the third seed for the Stage 4 Playoffs. Their first matchup was in the semifinals against the Dallas Fuel, in which the Excelsior won 3\u20132. However, they lost in the Stage 4 finals against the Los Angeles Valiant by a score of 1\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281337-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Excelsior season, Review\nNew York ended their season with a league-leading 34\u20136 record and qualified for the Season Playoffs prior to the beginning of Stage 4. The team had a first-round bye and faced the Philadelphia Fusion in the semifinals on July 18 and 21. New York lost both matchups by scores of 0\u20133 and 2\u20133, eliminating them from the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281337-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Excelsior season, Review\nOn July 11, 2018, Blizzard officially named support player Bang \"JJonak\" Seong-hyun the inaugural Overwatch League season MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281337-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Excelsior season, Final roster, Transactions\nTransactions of/for players on the roster during the 2018 regular season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281338-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Film Critics Circle Awards\nThe 84th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2018, were announced on November 29, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281339-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Film Festival\nThe 56th New York Film Festival took place from September 28 to October 14, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season\nThe 2018 season was the New York Giants' 94th in the National Football League, their ninth playing their home games at MetLife Stadium and their first under head coach Pat Shurmur. The Giants entered the season looking to improve on their 2017 campaign, which saw the team finish with a 3\u201313 record, their worst since the adoption of a 16-game regular season. Despite starting 1\u20137 for the second consecutive year, the Giants managed to improve on their 3\u201313 campaign with a 30\u201327 win over the Chicago Bears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season\nAfter a 17\u20130 shutout loss to the Titans in Week 15, the Giants missed the playoffs for the second straight season. The season was highlighted by blown fourth-quarter leads much like 2015, the Giants were in 12 one-possession games and lost eight games by seven points or fewer. The Giants finished the season 5\u201311 and last place in the NFC East for the second straight year and the first time they finished last in back to back years since 1977 and 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season\nDespite the 5\u201311 record, the season was highlighted with rookie running back Saquon Barkley who won many awards including Pepsi Rookie of the Year, FedEx Ground NFL Player of the Year, AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year and was named to the PFWA All-Rookie Team and AP All-Rookie teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Player movements, Undrafted free agents\nThe Giants signed a number of undrafted free agents. Unless stated otherwise, they were signed on May 11, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Player movements, Other signings, Practice squad\nHaving been cut as the roster was trimmed to the 53-man limit on September 1, Jawill Davis, Garrett Dickerson, Grant Haley, Jhurell Pressley, Alonzo Russell, Victor Salako, Avery Moss and Calvin Munson cleared waivers and were resigned to the practice squad. They were joined over the following days by linebacker Ukeme Eligwe and defensive tackle Josh Banks, who had been waived by the Giants on September 2. On September 13, Munson was released and replaced by offensive tackle Brian Mihalik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 77], "content_span": [78, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Player movements, Trade details\nOn March 7, 2018, the Giants acquired linebacker Alec Ogletree from the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for a 4th (#135, John Franklin-Myers) and a 6th (#176. John Kelly) round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. In the deal, the Giants also acquired a 7th round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Player movements, Trade details\nOn March 22, 2018, the Giants traded defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in exchange for their 3rd round pick and swapping 4th round picks in the 2018 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Player movements, Trade details\nOn April 20, 2018, the Giants acquired punter Riley Dixon from the Denver Broncos in exchange for a conditional 7th round draft pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Player movements, Trade details\nOn August 26, 2018, the Giants traded center Brett Jones to the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for a 7th round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Player movements, Trade details\nOn October 23, 2018, the Giants traded cornerback Eli Apple to the New Orleans Saints in exchange for a 4th round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft and a 7th round pick in the 2020 draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nWith the loss, the Giants started 0\u20131 for the second consecutive season. First round pick Saquon Barkley scored his first career NFL touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 87], "content_span": [88, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 2: at Dallas Cowboys\nWith the loss, the Giants started 0\u20132 for the second consecutive season. It was 20\u20133 for most of the 4th quarter until the Giants scored 10 points in the final 2:09.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 3: at Houston Texans\nOdell Beckham surpassed Lionel Taylor (319) for the most receptions by a player through his first 50 career games with 337 catches (he would be passed by Michael Thomas (346) in 2019).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 5: at Carolina Panthers\nOdell Beckham threw a touchdown pass to Saquon Barkley and also caught his first touchdown pass since breaking his ankle the year before. Similar to the Eagles game in Week 3 last season, the Giants rallied back in the 4th quarter, but were overshadowed by a 63-yard game-winning field goal by Graham Gano. However, controversy surrounded after the game, where players believed there was a wrong call on the final drive on a 3rd and 1 run by Christian McCaffrey and another wrong pass interference call on Landon Collins. This game marked the first time the Giants scored 30 or more points in a game since Week 17 of the 2015 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nSaquon Barkley starred in his first primetime game as a pro, but the rest of the Giants were overmatched by the Eagles on a rainy Thursday night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 86], "content_span": [87, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 7: at Atlanta Falcons\nThe Giants failed to capitalize on offense, including missing a critical 4th and Goal at the 1 yard line. They were unable to complete a comeback, and fell to 1\u20136 with the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 81], "content_span": [82, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Washington Redskins\nWith the loss, the Giants entered their bye week at 1\u20137. This is the last time Washington beat the Giants as the Redskins, as they changed their name before the 2020 NFL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 86], "content_span": [87, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 10: at San Francisco 49ers\nThe Giants managed to complete a comeback over the 49ers with Sterling Shepard's game-winning touchdown with 53 seconds remaining. The Giants snapped a 5-game losing streak and improved to 2\u20137. They beat an NFC team other than the Washington Redskins for the first time since Week 15 of the 2016 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 86], "content_span": [87, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nThe Giants improved to 3\u20137 with 152 total yards and 3 touchdowns from Saquon Barkley. Eli Manning completed 17 of 18 passes with a 155.8 passer rating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 88], "content_span": [89, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 12: at Philadelphia Eagles\nThe Giants squandered a 19\u20133-second quarter lead and the Eagles offense controlled the time of possession in the second half. Jake Elliott kicked a game-winning field goal with 22 seconds remaining, his second against the Giants in as many seasons. With the loss, the Eagles tied the all-time series at 86\u201386\u20132, and is tied for the first time since it was 0\u20130 in 1933.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 86], "content_span": [87, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Chicago Bears\nThe Giants won in overtime and was Eli Manning's 37th and final game-winning drive in his career, putting him in 9th place all-time which has since been surpassed by Matt Ryan and tied by Matthew Stafford. Odell Beckham Jr. also threw and caught touchdown passes in his final game with the Giants, as he was inactive for the last 4 games of the season with a quad injury and then traded to the Cleveland Browns in the offseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 81], "content_span": [82, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Chicago Bears\nWith the win, the Giants improved to 4\u20138 and surpassed their win total from 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 81], "content_span": [82, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 14: at Washington Redskins\nWith this win, the Giants became the first team in NFL history to defeat a single opponent 100 times. This was the first time the Giants scored 40 or more points since Week 8 of the 2015 season and they improved to 5\u20138. Saquon Barkley also set a career high for rushing yards in a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 86], "content_span": [87, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Tennessee Titans\nThe Titans were able to silence Saquon Barkley on a rainy and windy day and were shut out for the first time since 2017. They fell to 5\u20139 and were eliminated from the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 16: at Indianapolis Colts\nAndrew Luck orchestrated the final game-winning drive of his career and the Giants fell to 5\u201310. The Colts were one of three teams Eli Manning never defeated in his career (the other two being the Giants and the Los Angeles Chargers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281340-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Giants season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nIn a meaningless game for both teams, Dak Prescott and Eli Manning traded shots in the air, but it was Prescott and the Cowboys who had the last word. Prescott connected with Cole Beasley on a 4th Down and also connected with Michael Gallup on the ensuing two-point conversion. The Giants season ended at 5\u201311 and they lost their 4th consecutive game to the Cowboys. Saquon Barkley went on to win Rookie of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281341-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Jets season\nThe 2018 season was the New York Jets' 49th in the National Football League, their 59th overall and their fourth and final under head coach Todd Bowles. Despite starting 3\u20133, they lost 9 of their last 10 games. In Week 3, the Jets lost to the Browns by a score of 21\u201317, becoming the first team to lose to the Browns since the Chargers lost 20\u201317 on Christmas Eve 2016. The win by the Browns ended a 19-game winless streak. Week 6 marked the first season the Jets have scored 40+ points in multiple games since the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281341-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 New York Jets season\nThey were officially mathematically eliminated from playoff contention for the 8th consecutive season after the Titans defeated the Jaguars 30\u20139 in Week 14. This also marks the first time since 2016 to feature pro bowlers. The Jets failed to improve on their 5\u201311 record from the previous season with a 38\u20133 blowout loss in Week 17 to the Patriots and finished 4\u201312 and dead last in the AFC East. Following the season finale, the Jets fired Bowles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281341-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Jets season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Detroit Lions\nIn their first game of the season, the Jets overcame a nightmarish start by outscoring the Lions 48-10 after Sam Darnold threw a pick 6 on his first career pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 83], "content_span": [84, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281341-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Jets season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Cleveland Browns\nWith the loss, the Jets fell to 1-2 and ended the Browns 19-game winless streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 86], "content_span": [87, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281341-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Jets season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Tennessee Titans\nWith the loss, the Jets dropped to 3-9, and were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention for the eighth consecutive season after the Titans defeated the Jaguars the following Thursday night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 87], "content_span": [88, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281342-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Liberty season\nThe 2018 WNBA season is the 22nd season for the New York Liberty franchise of the WNBA. The season tips off on May 20. During the off-season the Liberty hired Katie Smith as head coach. Smith replaced Bill Laimbeer, who left to coach the Las Vegas Aces. It was also announced in the offseason that the team would play its home games at the Westchester County Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281342-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Liberty season\nThe 2018 season ended up being a difficult one for the Liberty. After having achieved a 22-win season in 2017, the team could only muster 7 wins in 2018. The team started 1\u20132 in May, but quickly fell behind the playoff pace going 3\u20139 in June. Things did not improve in July when the team went 3\u20137. The team finished the season on a thirteen-game losing streak, including an 0\u20139 August to finish the season 7\u201327. This was the franchise's worst record in its history. The previous worst was 11\u201323 in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281343-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Lizards season\nThe 2018 New York Lizards season was the eighteenth season for the New York Lizards of Major League Lacrosse. The Lizards came off a down season in 2017, where they finished 7-7 and missed the playoffs for the first time in four years. In 2018, the Lizards won their last three games of the regular season, clinching the fourth seed in the postseason. However, their playoff run was short-lived as they lost to the Dallas Rattlers in the semifinal round, 15-12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281343-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Lizards season\nJoe Spallina enters his eighth season as head coach of the Lizards. Because Tim Soudan did not make the move with the Rattlers to Dallas, Spallina is now the longest-tenured head coach in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281344-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Mets season\nThe 2018 New York Mets season was the franchise's 57th season and the team's 10th season at Citi Field. They attempted to return to the postseason after an injury-plagued under-performance in 2017. This was their first season with Mickey Callaway as manager, succeeding Terry Collins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281344-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Mets season\nThe Mets got off to a franchise record 11-1 start and ended the month of April with a 17-9 record, in 1st place in the National League East. However, they went 61-76 the rest of the way, and were eliminated from playoff contention by mid-September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281344-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Mets season, Spring training\nThe Mets had a rough spring training with a record of 7\u201315\u20133 (ties). They ended the spring by winning an exhibition game 3\u20131 over the Las Vegas 51s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281344-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Mets season, Regular season, March\nThe Mets began the regular season on March 29, 2018, with their home opener with a 9\u20134 win over the St. Louis Cardinals at Citi Field in Queens, New York. They ended up winning the first two games of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281344-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Mets season, Regular season, April\nOn April 1, the Mets started the month losing 1\u20135 to the St. Louis Cardinals, finishing the series two out of three. After, they went on a 9\u2013game win streak, which put them in first place in the NL East. They finished the month going 15\u20139 and having a strong win (14\u20132) over the San Diego Padres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281344-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Mets season, Regular season, May\nOn May 1, the Mets started the month losing 2\u20133 to the Atlanta Braves at Citi Field. They went on a 6\u2013game losing streak, but broke out of it seven days later by beating the Cincinnati Reds 7\u20136. The one highlight of the month was a three\u2013game sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks. However, the remaining weeks didn't fare well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281344-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Mets season, Regular season, June\nThe Mets started the month continuing their losing streak when the Chicago Cubs swept them in four games. They snapped their 8\u2013game losing streak by beating their crosstown rivals, the New York Yankees 2\u20130 in the last game of the three-game Subway Series, handing the Bronx Bombers their first shutout loss of the season. The Mets finished the month 5\u201321, second to last place in the NL East behind their division rivals, the Miami Marlins, losing the first two games of the series to them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281344-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Mets season, Regular season, July\nThe Mets started the month winning the last game of the series with the Miami Marlins by a score of 5\u20132. The team set a franchise record on July 31 for its worst loss ever, suffering a 25\u20134 defeat against the Washington Nationals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281344-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Mets season, Regular season, August\nThe Mets started the month continuing their loss from last month in a two game set to the Washington Nationals. The team also lost two in a row to the Atlanta Braves, however, they snapped their three game losing streak by a 3\u20130 shutout win in the next game against their rivals. A day after trouncing the Baltimore Orioles 16\u20135, on August 16, the Mets went on another tear and set a franchise record by scoring 24 runs in a win over division rivals\u00a0Philadelphia Phillies; the final score was 24\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281344-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 New York Mets season, Regular season, August\nThey went on to win 3 out of 5 games. The highlight of the series, the Mets beat the Phillies 8\u20132 in the second annual Little League Classic at BB&T Ballpark in Williamsport, PA. The month ended with the Mets losing against the San Francisco Giants 7\u20130, finishing August with equal wins and losses at 15\u201315.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281344-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Mets season, Regular season, September\nThe Mets started the month with beating the San Francisco Giants two games in-a-row, taking 2 out of 3 games in the series. After that, they took 2 of 3 games from the Los Angeles Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies, thus spoiling their playoff hopes. They also clinched their 7th straight season with a winning record against the Phillies, one short of a major league record, in that series. The Mets then played a rainy 4-game series with the Miami Marlins managing to win 3 out of 4; the one loss by the NL Cy Young candidate Jacob deGrom. deGrom pitched 7 innings and gave up two runs making his current ERA 1.71, but Jose Urena outdueled him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281344-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Mets season, Season standings, Record vs. opponents\nThe October 1 tiebreaker games were regular-season games that are included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281345-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Open\nThe 2018 New York Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the event in New York after it moved from Memphis, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. The event took place at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, United States, from February 12 through 18, 2018. The tournament was the first on the ATP World Tour to use black tennis courts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281345-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281345-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281346-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Open \u2013 Doubles\nMax Mirnyi and Philipp Oswald won the title, defeating Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak in the final, 6\u20134, 4\u20136, [10\u20136].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281347-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Open \u2013 Singles\nKevin Anderson won the title, defeating Sam Querrey in the final, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(7\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281347-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281348-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Red Bulls II season\nThe 2018 New York Red Bulls II season is the club's fourth season of existence, and their third in United Soccer League, the second-tier of the American soccer pyramid. The Red Bulls II play in the Eastern Division of USL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281349-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Red Bulls season\nThe 2018 New York Red Bulls season was the club's twenty-third season in Major League Soccer, the top division of soccer in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281349-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Red Bulls season, U.S. Open Cup\nNew York entered the 2018 U.S. Open Cup with the rest of Major League Soccer in the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281349-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Red Bulls season, Player statistics, Assist Leaders\nAs of 29 November 2018. This table does not include secondary assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281350-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Assembly election\nElections to the New York State Assembly were held on November 6, 2018 along with elections for the State Senate, Governor, and U.S. Senator, among others. The Democrats retained their majority with no net change in seats from 2016. Eight seats changed hands, four from Republican to Democrat and four from Democrat to Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281351-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Comptroller election\nThe 2018 New York Comptroller election was held on November 6, 2018, alongside other New York elections for Governor, State Senate, State Assembly, and Attorney General. Incumbent Democrat Thomas DiNapoli easily won a third term, defeating Republican nominee Jonathan Trichter and minor party candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281351-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Comptroller election\nAs of 2021, this is the last statewide election where Putnam, Montgomery, Madison, Niagara and Chautauqua counties voted Democratic. As of 2021, this, along with the concurrent senate election is the last time Ontario, Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Warren, Washington, Otesgo, Saint Lawrence and Sullivan counties have voted Democratic in a statewide election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election\nElections to the New York State Senate took place on November 6, 2018. Primary elections were held on September 13, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election\nIn April 2018, The Wall Street Journal described the State Senate as the \"last bastion of power\" of the Republican Party in the State of New York. On Election Day, Democrats gained control of the chamber from the Republicans by picking up eight seats. The following day, The New York Times wrote that the Democrats had \"decisively evict[ed] Republicans from running the State Senate, which they [had] controlled for all but three years since World War II\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election\nEnrolled Democrats won 40 of the chamber's 63 seats, including all but one seat in New York City and six of the nine seats on Long Island, the latter of which had been under total Republican control since the early 1970s. Brooklyn Senator Simcha Felder, a Democrat who had previously caucused with the Republicans, sought to re-join the Senate Democratic Conference, but was turned down in December 2018; he was later accepted into the Conference on July 1, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election\nThe Democrats' election victories made possible the January 2019 election of Andrea Stewart-Cousins as the first female Majority Leader and Temporary President in the chamber's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Retiring incumbents\nFive incumbent Republican senators did not seek re-election in 2018. They were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Incumbents defeated, In primary\nSeven incumbent Senators (all Democrats) ran for re-election, but were defeated in the September 13 primaries. They were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Incumbents defeated, In primary\nWith the exception of Sen. Dilan, all politicians had been members of the Independent Democratic Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Incumbents defeated, In general election\nThe six Democratic members of the IDC who were defeated in the September primaries (Sens. Avella, Peralta, Hamilton, Alcantara, Klein, and Valesky) were also on the ballot in November on either the Independence Party line, the Women's Equality Party line, or both (Sen. Peralta also received votes on the Reform Party line). With the exception of Sen. Avella, none publicly campaigned after being defeated on primary day. None of the six were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 1\nThe 1st district consists of roughly the eastern half of Long Island, including East Hampton, Hampton Bays, and Riverhead. Republican incumbent Kenneth LaValle has represented this district since 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 2\nThe 2nd district is located on Long Island and includes Centereach, Smithtown, and Stony Brook. Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan has represented this district since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 3\nThe 3rd district is located on Long Island and includes Medford, Ronkonkoma, and Sayville. Republican Thomas Croci has represented this district since 2015. Croci did not run for reelection. Republican Assemblymember Dean Murray and Democrat Monica Martinez ran for election to this seat, and Martinez prevailed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 4\nThe 4th district is located on the South Shore of Long Island including the towns of Babylon and Islip. Republican Phil Boyle has represented this district since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 5\nThe 5th district is located on the North Shore of Long Island including Huntington and Oyster Bay. Republican Carl Marcellino has represented this district since a 1995 special election. After having nearly upset Marcellino in 2016, Democratic challenger Jim Gaughran challenged Marcellino again in 2018 and won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 6\nThe 6th district is located in western Long Island including Garden City, Hempstead, and Levittown. Republican Kemp Hannon has represented this district since a 1989 special election. In an unexpected upset, Democratic challenger Kevin Thomas defeated Hannon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 7\nThe 7th district is made up of the Northern Nassau suburbs, including Manhasset, Mineola, and New Cassel. Republican Elaine Phillips was narrowly elected in 2016. Democrat Anna Kaplan defeated Phillips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 8\nThe 8th district is located on the South Shore of Long Island and includes Amityville, Freeport, and Seaford. Democrat John Brooks was first elected in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 9\nThe 9th district is made up of southwestern Nassau County, including Long Beach, Rockville Centre, and Valley Stream. Democrat Todd Kaminsky was initially elected in a 2016 special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 10\nThe 10th district includes the southern neighborhoods of Queens, such as Richmond Hill & Springfield Gardens, as well as parts of the Rockaway Peninsula including Arverne and Edgemere. Democrat James Sanders Jr. has represented this district since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 11\nThe 11th district is located in the northeast suburbs of Queens, including the neighborhoods of Bayside, College Point, and Little Neck. Democrat Tony Avella, a member of the former IDC, has represented this district since 2011. Avella was defeated by John Liu in the Democratic primary, but remained in the race on third-party lines. On Election Day, Liu prevailed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 12\nThe 12th district is located in Queens, including the neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, and Sunnyside. Democrat Michael Gianaris has represented this district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 13\nThe 13th district is located in Queens, including the neighborhoods of Corona, East Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights. Democrat Jose Peralta, a member of the former IDC, has represented this district since a 2010 special election. Democratic challenger Jessica Ramos won the Democratic primary and the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 14\nThe 14th district is centered around the Queens neighborhood of Jamaica, and also includes Laurelton and St. Albans. Democrat Leroy Comrie has represented this district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 15\nThe 15th district includes the central neighborhoods of Queens, such as Middle Village & Ozone Park, and the western half of the Rockaway Peninsula. Democrat Joseph Addabbo Jr. has represented this district since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 16\nThe 16th district contains the Queens neighborhoods of Elmhurst and Flushing. Democrat Toby Ann Stavisky has represented this district since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 17\nThe 17th district is located in southwestern Brooklyn, including the neighborhoods of Borough Park, Kensington, and Midwood. Democrat Simcha Felder, a Democrat that has caucused with the Republicans from 2013 to 2018, has represented this district since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 18\nThe 18th district includes the northern Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bushwick, Cypress Hills, and Williamsburg. Democrat Martin Malave Dilan has represented this district since 2013. He previously represented the 17th District from 2003-2012. Democrat Julia Salazar won the Democratic primary and the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 19\nThe 19th district is located in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Canarsie, East New York, and parts of Sheepshead Bay. Democrat Roxanne Persaud was initially elected in a 2015 special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 20\nThe 20th district is centered around the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. It also includes parts of Brownsville and Sunset Park. Democrat Jesse Hamilton, a member of the former IDC, has represented this district since 2015. Democratic challenger Zellnor Myrie won the Democratic primary and the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 21\nThe 21st district includes the Brooklyn neighborhoods of East Flatbush, Flatlands, and Park Slope. Democrat Kevin Parker has represented this district since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 22\nThe 22nd district is located in southwestern Brooklyn, including Dyker Heights and Manhattan Beach. Republican Martin Golden has represented this district since 2003. Democratic challenger Andrew Gounardes defeated Ross Barkan in the Democratic primary and narrowly defeated Golden in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 23\nThe 23rd district includes the southwestern Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bath Beach & Coney Island, as well as parts of the North Shore neighborhoods of Staten Island, such as Port Richmond and Stapleton. Democrat Diane Savino, a member of the former IDC, has represented this district since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 24\nThe 24th district contains the majority of Staten Island, including the South Shore neighborhoods of Annadale and Pleasant Plains. Republican Andrew Lanza has represented this district since 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 25\nThe 25th district includes the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bedford\u2013Stuyvesant and Red Hook. Democrat Velmanette Montgomery has represented this district since 1983. She previously represented the 18th District from 1993-2012 and the 22nd District from 1985-1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 26\nThe 26th district includes the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights & Greenpoint, as well as a significant portion of Lower Manhattan, including the Financial District, SoHo, and Tribeca. Democrat Brian Kavanagh was first elected in a 2017 special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 27\nThe 27th district includes the Lower Manhattan neighborhoods of East Village & Greenwich Village, as well as parts of Midtown Manhattan, such as Hell's Kitchen & the Garment District. Democrat Brad Hoylman has represented this district since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 28\nThe 28th district includes the Manhattan neighborhoods of Murray Hill and the Upper East Side. Democrat Liz Krueger has represented this district since 2013. She previously represented the 26th District from 2002-2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 29\nThe 29th district includes the Manhattan neighborhoods of parts of the Upper West Side & Yorkville, and parts of southern The Bronx including Highbridge & Mott Haven. Democrat Jos\u00e9 M. Serrano has represented this district since 2013. He previously represented the 28th District from 2005 to 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 30\nThe 30th district is located in Upper Manhattan and includes Hamilton Heights and Harlem. Democrat Brian Benjamin was initially elected in a 2017 special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 31\nThe 31st district stretches along the western coast of Manhattan , spanning across the Hudson River, taking in Inwood, Washington Heights, and parts of Hell's Kitchen and the Upper West Side. Democrat Marisol Alcantara, a member of the former IDC, was initially elected in 2016. Democrat Robert Jackson defeated Alcantara in the Democratic primary and went on to win the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 32\nThe 32nd district is located in south Bronx, including Castle Hill, and parts of Hunts Point and Parkchester. Democrat Luis Sep\u00falveda has represented this district since winning a special election in April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 33\nThe 33rd district is located in West Bronx, including Fordham Heights and Tremont. Democrat Gustavo Rivera has represented this district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 34\nThe 34th district includes the Bronx neighborhoods of Riverdale and Schuylerville, as well as some inner suburbs of New York City, including Pelham and parts of Mount Vernon. Democrat Jeff Klein, the leader of the former IDC, has represented this district since 2005. Democrat Alessandra Biaggi defeated Klein in the Democratic primary and won the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 35\nThe 35th district is located in the inner suburbs of New York City, including Greenburgh, Yonkers, and parts of New Rochelle. Democrat Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the Senate Minority Leader, has represented this district since 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 36\nThe 36th district includes the northern neighborhoods of the Bronx, including Norwood, Wakefield, and Williamsbridge, as well as the majority of Mount Vernon. Democrat Jamaal Bailey was initially elected in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 37\nThe 37th district is located in the New York City suburbs, including the towns of Bedford, Eastchester, Rye. Democrat Shelley Mayer has represented this district since winning a special election in April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 38\nThe 38th district is located within the New York City suburbs of Briarcliff Manor and Clarkstown. Democrat David Carlucci, a former member of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), was first elected in 2010. Like other former IDC members, Carlucci received a Democratic primary challenge in 2018. After defeating Julie Goldberg in the primary, Carlucci turned back Republican Scott Vanderhoef in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 39\nThe 39th district is located in the Hudson Valley region, including Crawford, Marlborough, and Stony Point. Republican Sen. William J. Larkin Jr. did not seek re-election. Democratic Assemblymember James Skoufis defeated Republican Tom Basile in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 40\nThe 40th district is located in the Hudson Valley, including Beekman, Carmel, and New Castle. Republican Terrence Murphy has represented this district since 2015. Murphy was challenged by Democrat Peter Harckham. As of November 8, Murphy had not conceded the race, and Harckham led Murphy by 2,121 votes. Harckham defeated Murphy by 3,834 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 41\nThe 41st district is located in the Hudson Valley, including Philipstown, Poughkeepsie, and Stanford. Republican Susan J. Serino has represented this district since 2015. As of November 8, Democratic candidate Karen Smythe had not conceded the race, although she trailed Serino by 2,146 votes. Smythe conceded on December 3, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 42\nThe 42nd district is located in the Hudson Valley, including Liberty, Middletown, and New Paltz. Republican John Bonacic, who has represented this district since 1999, did not seek re-election, and was succeeded by Democrat Jen Metzger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 43\nThe 43rd district is located in the Capital District, including the eastern suburbs of Albany, such as East Greenbush, as well as Hudson, Saratoga Springs, and Schaghticoke. Republican Kathy Marchione, who had represented this district since 2013, did not seek re-election, and was succeeded by fellow Republican Daphne Jordan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 44\nThe 44th district is centered around the state capital, Albany, and the surrounding suburbs including: Bethlehem, Colonie, and Troy. Democrat Neil Breslin has represented this district since 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 45\nThe 45th district is located in rural Upstate New York, specifically the North Country region, including Malone, Plattsburgh, and Queensbury. Republican Betty Little has represented this district since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 46\nThe 46th district takes in areas of the Capital District, such as Amsterdam & Rotterdam, as well as parts of the Hudson Valley, including Kingston & Woodstock. Republican George Amedore has represented this district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 47\nThe 47th district starts in Central New York, including, Rome & Utica, and then spans into the rural North Country, taking in Lowville & Potsdam. Republican Joseph Griffo has represented this district since 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 48\nThe 48th district runs along the New York-Ontario border near Lake Ontario, including Ogdensburg, Oswego, and Watertown. Republican Patricia Ritchie has represented this district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 49\nThe 49th district is located in the greater the Capital District and is centered around the outer Albany suburbs. It includes Malta and part of the City of Schenectady. The district also takes in the parts of North Country, such as rural areas of Hamilton County and Herkimer County. Republican Jim Tedisco was first elected to represent District 49 in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 50\nThe 50th district is located within the Syracuse metropolitan area, including the Syracuse suburbs of Clay and Manlius, as well as a majority of Auburn. Republican John DeFrancisco has represented this district since 1993 and did not seek re-election. As of November 7, 2018, Republican Bob Antonacci led Democrat John Mannion by 2,829 votes and declared victory in the race, although absentee ballots remained to be counted. On November 21, 2018, elections officials confirmed Antonacci's victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 51\nThe 51st district is located in South-Central New York and includes Cortland, Herkimer, and Oneonta. Republican James Seward has represented this district since 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 52\nThe 52nd district is located in the Southern Tier region and is centered around Binghamton and the surrounding areas including Chenango and Oxford. Republican Fred Akshar has represented this district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 53\nThe 53rd district is centered around Syracuse and the surrounding area including: Chittenango, Cicero, and Oneida. Democrat David Valesky, a member of the IDC, has represented this district since 2005. Democrat Rachel May defeated Valesky in the Democratic primary and won the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 54\nThe 54th district is located in the Finger Lakes region and includes Canandaigua, Geneva, and Seneca Falls. Republican Pam Helming was initially elected in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 55\nThe 55th district is located in the Rochester metropolitan area, including roughly the eastern half of Rochester, and the surrounding suburbs including Irondequoit and Mendon. This district also stretches down into Naples and Richmond. Republican Richard Funke has represented this district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 56\nThe 56th district is centered around parts of Rochester and the surrounding suburbs including: Greece, Hamlin, and Parma. Republican Joseph Robach has represented this district since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 57\nThe 57th district is located in the Southern Tier region, including: Alfred, Jamestown, and Olean. Republican Catharine Young has represented this district since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 58\nThe 58th district is located in the Southern Tier region, including: Elmira, Hornell, and Ithaca. Republican Tom O'Mara has represented this district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 59\nThe 59th district stretches from the Rochester suburbs of Avon and Henrietta westward into parts of the Buffalo suburbs of Aurora & West Seneca. Republican Patrick Gallivan has represented this district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 60\nThe 60th district is located in the Buffalo metropolitan area, centered around the Buffalo suburbs along the shore of Lake Erie, including Evans, Grand Island, and Tonawanda. Republican Chris Jacobs has represented this district since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 61\nThe 61st district is primarily located within the Finger Lakes region, stretching from parts of Rochester to Batavia, Le Roy, and the outer Buffalo suburbs of Amherst and Clarence. Republican Michael Ranzenhofer has represented this district since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 62\nThe 62nd district is located in Western New York, including the outer Rochester suburbs, such as Sweden, stretching west into Albion, Lockport, and Niagara Falls. Republican Robert Ortt has represented this district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Detailed results, District 63\nThe 63rd district is centered around the city of Buffalo and the immediate surrounding suburbs of Cheektowaga and Lackawanna. Democrat Tim Kennedy has represented this district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281352-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 New York State Senate election, Aftermath\nOne question that remained after the election results came in was which caucus Democratic Senator Simcha Felder would join. Felder, since his first election in 2012, has been a member of the Republican majority, in order to deliver results to his heavily Jewish district, particularly education funding for yeshivas. After the dissolution of the Independent Democratic Conference and the rejoining of its seven members into the mainline caucus, Felder remained with the Republicans as the decisive vote for control. Felder maintained throughout his tenure that he would rejoin the Democrats if doing so would benefit his district, but after the overwhelming Democratic win in 2018, the Democratic conference disallowed him from joining the new majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season\nThe 2018 New York Yankees season was the 116th season in New York City for the Yankees, and the 118th season overall for the franchise. This was the team's first season without manager Joe Girardi since 2007, and first season with manager Aaron Boone. The Yankees defeated the Oakland Athletics in the Wild Card Game before losing to the Boston Red Sox in four games in the Division Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Offseason\nAfter the 2017 season, the Yankees decided not to retain Joe Girardi as their manager. The Yankees hired former player Aaron Boone to succeed him on December 4, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Transactions\nOn December 9, 2017, the Yankees traded All-star second baseman Starlin Castro and two minor league prospects to the Miami Marlins for reigning NL MVP Giancarlo Stanton. The deal was made official December 11. After the deal was announced, General Manager Brian Cashman received a contract extension for 5 years, reportedly worth $25 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Transactions\nOn December 12, 2017, the first day of the MLB Winter Meetings, the Yankees traded Chase Headley and Bryan Mitchell to the San Diego Padres for Jabari Blash. This will be Headley's second stint with the Padres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Transactions\nOn February 20, 2018, the Yankees acquired infielder Brandon Drury from the Arizona Diamondbacks in a three team trade along with the Tampa Bay Rays. As part of the deal, the Yankees sent prospect Nick Solak to the Rays and Arizona received prospect Taylor Widener along with Steven Souza Jr. from Tampa Bay. To make room for Drury on the 40-man roster, the Yankees traded Blash to the Los Angeles Angels for a PTBNL or cash considerations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Transactions\nOn March 12, 2018, the Yankees signed second baseman Neil Walker to a 1-year, $4 million contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Spring Training\nThe Yankees finished their spring training in 4th place in the Grapefruit league with an 18\u201313 record with a .581 winning percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, March\nThe Yankees began the regular season on March 29, 2018, with a 6\u20131 win over the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada. They ended up going 2\u20131 in the first 3 games of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, April\nOn April 20, following their loss to the Toronto Blue Jays, they had a record of 9\u20139, and were in third place in the American League East, seven games behind the first place Boston Red Sox. They would follow this by winning 17 out of their next 18 games which would, at 26\u201310, give them the best record in all of MLB. They finished the month going 16\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, April, Yankees\u2013Red Sox brawl\nOn April 11, 2018, the Yankee-Red Sox rivalry heated up at Fenway Park when the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox game broke out into a brawl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 74], "content_span": [75, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, April, Yankees\u2013Red Sox brawl\nWith the Yankees leading 10\u20136 in the 7th inning, Yankees first basemen Tyler Austin got hit by a pitch thrown by reliever Joe Kelly. Austin was drilled with a 98 MPH fastball, possibly in retaliation after Austin slid foot-first into Red Sox shortstop Brock Holt in the 3rd inning, striking his leg and breaking up a double play. Holt questioned the slide and Austin briefly got in his face before the second base umpire David Rackley intervened. The benches emptied but it turned into a harmless stare down. The play was under review and was deemed a \"bona fide slide\" and did not break up the double play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 74], "content_span": [75, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, April, Yankees\u2013Red Sox brawl\nAustin charged the mound and both teams benches and bullpens cleared with both Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton helping to protect their teammates, as well as conducting damage control with Red Sox players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 74], "content_span": [75, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, April, Yankees\u2013Red Sox brawl\nWhen the altercation settled down, Yankees third base coach Phil Nevin, who was \"jawing\" towards the Red Sox dugout, and Austin were ejected, along with Kelly. Also Yankees reliever Tommy Kahnle was tossed because he was \"incensed\" after he was pushed by an umpire in the scuffle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 74], "content_span": [75, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, April, Yankees\u2013Red Sox brawl\nDiscipline actions were set the next day: Kelly was fined and suspended for 6 games; Austin was fined and suspended for 5 games; while Nevin and Red Sox manager Alex Cora were issued undisclosed fines. Players on the Disabled List were also fined for entering the field during the skirmish: Yankees pitcher C.C. Sabathia and Red Sox infielders Xander Bogarts, Marco Hern\u00e1ndez, and Dustin Pedroia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 74], "content_span": [75, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, May\nThe Yankees started the month winning against the Houston Astros 4\u20130 on a go-ahead 3-run home run by Gary Sanchez. They took over first place from the Boston Red Sox on May 9 by winning against them, 9\u20136. They finished the month going 17\u20137, putting them with a season record of 35-17. Even so, this set them back to second place in the division, 1 1/2 games behind the Red Sox (39\u201318).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, June\nThe Yankees started the month with a 4\u20131 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. They finished the series with baseball's best record (37\u201317), even though they were still one game behind the Boston Red Sox (41\u201319) for the division lead. This happened several more times throughout the month. On June 21, the Yankees made franchise history with a win over the Seattle Mariners, making it their 50th win on the season in just their 72nd game. In previous seasons, they reached that feat eight times (7 out of 8 they made it to the World Series). The Yankees finished the month losing 11\u20130 against the Red Sox. They went 18\u20139 for the month, putting their record at 53\u201327, one game back of the Red Sox (56\u201328).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, July\nThe Yankees started the month by blowing out the Red Sox 11\u20131, putting them back into a tie for first place in the division. They hit 6 home runs in the game (Aaron Judge started it off with a solo shot, Gleyber Torres had a three-run blast, Aaron Hicks hit 3, and Kyle Higashioka had one for his first MLB hit), setting the team record for the most home runs hit by a team before the All-Star break with 137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, July\nThe Yankees sent four players to the All-Star Game in Washington, D.C. Judge and Luis Severino played, while Torres and Aroldis Chapman sat out due to injuries. Before the Trade Deadline, the team acquired J. A. Happ from the Blue Jays, Zach Britton from the Orioles, Lance Lynn from the Twins, and Luke Voit from the Cardinals. The Yankees finished the month winning against the Orioles 6\u20133, going 15\u201310 for the month and 68\u201337 overall. This, however, pushed them 5 games back of the Red Sox, who continue to own the best record in baseball at 75\u201335.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, August\nThe Yankees started the month losing to the Orioles 7\u20135 in the series finale. They traveled to Fenway Park to face the Boston Red Sox and tried to get closer to first place in the division. However they lost in a four-game sweep to their division rivals. The Yankees snapped their five-game losing streak (their longest of the season) with a 7\u20130 shoutout win over the Chicago White Sox, sweeping them in three games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, August\nAt home, they then took three out of four from the Texas Rangers and lost the one-game matchup against the New York Mets 8\u20135, that was postponed previously due to weather inclements. The Yankees played the Baltimore Orioles in a four-game series spread out over three days, which saw the Yankees sweep the series and coming back to 6 games behind the Red Sox. The month ended with the Yankees winning against the Detroit Tigers 7\u20135, putting them (85-50) 8 games back of the Red Sox (93\u201342).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, September\nThe Yankees started the month winning 2\u20131 against the Detroit Tigers. Masahiro Tanaka completed back-to-back outings of 7 or more innings for the first time since September 2, 2017. The Boston Red Sox clinched the AL East title by winning against the Yankees 11\u20136 on September 20. However, the Yankees clinched an AL Wild Card spot two days later by winning against the Baltimore Orioles 3\u20132 in 11 innings. This will be the Yankees third postseason appearance in five years, all of which will begin with the Wild Card Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, September\nOn September 28, with a win over the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees clinched home field advantage and will face the Oakland Athletics in the AL Wild Card Game. The next day, with a 4th inning two-run home run by Gleyber Torres, the Yankees broke single season home run record set by the 1997 Seattle Mariners with 265 home runs (a game later 267). Also, the Yankees became the first team in MLB history to have at least 20 home runs from every spot in the batting order. As well as sharing history with the Red Sox. For the first season in MLB history both teams reached 100 wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281353-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 New York Yankees season, Regular season, October\nThe Yankees began the postseason by defeating the Athletics in the 2018 American League Wild Card Game 7-2. They moved on to face the Boston Red Sox in the ALDS. This was the first time since the 2004 American League Championship Series that the two teams faced each other in the postseason. They fell short in 4 games, as Boston defeated the Yankees 3 games to 1. This marks the first time in franchise history that they would lose in the postseason as a Wild Card team in back-to-back seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 New York gubernatorial election occurred on November 6, 2018. Incumbent Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo won re-election to a third term, defeating Republican Marc Molinaro and several minor party candidates. Cuomo received 59.6% of the vote to Molinaro's 36.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election\nCuomo defeated actress and activist Cynthia Nixon in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Cuomo's running mate, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, outpolled New York City Councillor Jumaane Williams in the Democratic primary. Democratic candidates Cuomo and Hochul also ran on the ballot lines of the Independence Party, the Liberal Party and the Women's Equality Party; after Nixon and Williams withdrew from the race in October, Cuomo and Hochul received the nomination of the Working Families Party as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election\nDutchess County Executive and former New York State Assemblymember Marc Molinaro was the Republican, Conservative, and Reform Party candidate. Molinaro's running mate was former Rye City Councilmember Julie Killian. Third-party gubernatorial candidates appearing on the general election ballot included Howie Hawkins, repeat candidate for the Green Party; former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, running on the newly created Serve America Movement line; and Larry Sharpe of the Libertarian Party, who was the runner-up in the 2016 Libertarian primary contest for Vice President of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election\nCuomo flipped Monroe, Suffolk and Ulster counties back into the Democratic column; all three had supported him in 2010 but narrowly backed Republican Rob Astorino in 2014. Molinaro, however, flipped the North Country counties of Clinton, Franklin, and Essex, as well as Broome County in the Southern Tier, into the Republican column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election\nAs of 2021, this, along with the concurrent Attorney General election, Senate election and Comptroller election, is the last time Richmond or Suffolk counties have voted Democratic. This is also the last time as of 2021 that Dutchess, Columbia, Rensselaer, Clinton or Essex counties have voted Republican, and along with the concurrent attorney General election, the last time Saratoga County voted Republican as of 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Background\nIncumbent Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo decided to seek re-election in 2014 to a second term in office. Governor Cuomo defeated Zephyr Teachout in a primary election, 63% to 33%, and went on to defeat the Republican nominee, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, 54% to 40%, in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Background\nNew York gubernatorial elections operate on a split primary system: governor and lieutenant governor candidates in each party run in separate primary elections. In the general election, candidates are chosen as unified governor/lieutenant governor tickets. New York allows electoral fusion, in which candidates may appear on multiple ballot lines in the same election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Background\nThe results of the gubernatorial election also determine ballot access and ballot order. A party's gubernatorial candidate must receive 50,000 votes or more for that party to obtain automatic ballot status in New York for the following four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Background\nThe last Republican to win a gubernatorial election in New York was George Pataki in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nOn November 15, 2016, incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his intention to seek a third term in office. On May 23, 2018, incumbent governor Andrew Cuomo secured the nomination of the Democratic Party at the state convention after winning support from more than 95% of the state delegates. No other candidates qualified for the primary ballot at the convention, as they all failed to meet the required 25% delegate threshold. Actress and activist Cynthia Nixon sought to petition her way onto the Democratic primary ballot. By July 12, Nixon had obtained 65,000 petition signatures, which is more than four times the 15,000 required to force a primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Debates and forums, Results\nOn September 13, 2018, Cuomo defeated Nixon in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Debates and forums, Nominee\nKathy Hochul defeated New York City Councillor Jumaane Williams in the Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nOn May 23, 2018, the party unanimously nominated Marc Molinaro as its candidate for Governor of New York at its state convention. No challengers attempted to petition onto the primary ballot, so no Republican primary took place. Deputy Senate Majority Leader John A. DeFrancisco ran for the Republican nomination, but withdrew his candidacy on April 25, 2018, after party leaders\u2014who had initially given him their support\u2014threw their support to Molinaro instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Third-party candidates and independent candidates, Third parties with automatic ballot access\nIn addition to the Democratic and Republican Parties, six other political parties will have automatic ballot access; all six have chosen to exercise it. In order of ballot appearance, those parties are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 131], "content_span": [132, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Third-party candidates and independent candidates, Independent candidates and third parties without automatic ballot access\nAny candidate not among the eight qualified New York political parties (Democratic, Republican, Conservative, Green, Working Families, Independence, Women's Equality and Reform, respectively) was required to submit petitions to gain ballot access. Such candidates did not face primary elections. Third parties whose respective gubernatorial candidates received at least 50,000 votes in the general election secured automatic ballot access in all state and federal elections through the 2022 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 161], "content_span": [162, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Third-party candidates and independent candidates, Independent candidates and third parties without automatic ballot access, Libertarian Party\nOn July 12, 2017, Larry Sharpe, business consultant and runner-up in the 2016 Libertarian Party vice presidential primary, officially announced that he would run for Governor of New York in 2018. Sharpe was the first person to announce his candidacy to run against incumbent governor Andrew Cuomo. On August 19, 2018, the Libertarian Party announced it had collected over 30,000 signatures to place its ticket onto the November ballot. Sharpe's petitions survived a petition challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 180], "content_span": [181, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Third-party candidates and independent candidates, Independent candidates and third parties without automatic ballot access, Serve America Movement\nOn June 18, 2018, former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, after expressing informal interest in the Working Families and Reform nominations, entered the gubernatorial race as a third-party candidate. Miner \"plans to run under the banner of an upstart new group, the Serve America Movement, which calls itself SAM, formed by people disaffected by the existing party structure after the 2016 elections. She will be the group's first candidate.\" Miner circulated designating petitions to create a SAM Party in New York, and on August 21, her campaign announced that it had submitted over 40,000 petition signatures. Miner's submitted petitions far exceeded the 15,000 required to qualify for the November ballot. Persons tied to the Cuomo campaign, after reviewing the petitions, failed to find enough specific objections to challenge their validity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 185], "content_span": [186, 1032]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Third-party candidates and independent candidates, Independent candidates and third parties without automatic ballot access, Rent Is Too Damn High Party (disqualified)\nJimmy McMillan, the party's founder and figurehead indicated on the party website that he would make another attempt at the office. He submitted petitions on August 21, 2018, with himself as the gubernatorial nominee and Christialle Felix as his running mate. When the ballot order was released, McMillan and the Rent Is Too Damn High Party had been disqualified and removed from the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 205], "content_span": [206, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, General election, Results\nOn November 6, 2018, the Cuomo-Hochul ticket defeated the Molinaro-Killian ticket by a margin of 59.6%\u201336.2%. Cuomo received 3,635,430 votes, making him the top vote earner in any New York gubernatorial election in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Aftermath\nCuomo was sworn in for a third term as governor on January 1, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Aftermath\nHowie Hawkins retained ballot access for the Green Party for four more years (albeit falling to Line E while the Working Families line rose to Line D).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Aftermath\nStephanie Miner narrowly surpassed the 50,000-vote threshold to allow the Serve America Movement ballot access, on Line H.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Aftermath\nThe Libertarian Party of New York achieved ballot access with Larry Sharpe's 95,033 votes, the first time in the over 40-year history of the party that it has achieved the feat despite several previous efforts; Sharpe performed most strongly in the rural counties upstate, finishing with nearly 10% of the vote in Schuyler County and at or near 5% in most others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281354-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 New York gubernatorial election, Aftermath\nThe Women's Equality Party and Reform Party of New York both lost automatic ballot access by failing to receive 50,000 votes for the candidates on their lines, respectively Cuomo and Molinaro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections\nThe 2018 New York state elections took place on November 6, 2018. On that date, the State of New York held elections for the following offices: Governor and Lieutenant Governor (on one ticket), Attorney General, Comptroller, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, New York State Senate, New York State Assembly, and various others. Primary elections took place on September 13, 2018. As of May 2018, Democrats had won all 19 elections to statewide offices that have occurred in New York since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections\nOn Election Day, the Democratic ticket of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul was re-elected, as were incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and incumbent Democratic Comptroller Tom DiNapoli. Democrat Letitia James was elected Attorney General. Democrats gained eight New York State Senate seats, decisively ousting the Republicans from control of that chamber. Democrats also gained three seats in New York's congressional delegation and maintained their State Assembly supermajority. As a result, the Democrats won complete control of New York state government for only the second time since World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections, Governor\nIncumbent Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo was re-elected to a second term in 2014. Cuomo ran for a third term in 2018. Actress and activist Cynthia Nixon unsuccessfully challenged Cuomo in the Democratic primary. Incumbent Democratic Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul sought re-election to her current post. Hochul defeated Democratic New York City Councilmember Jumaane Williams in the Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections, Governor\nIn the general election, the Cuomo/Hochul ticket (running on the Democratic, Working Families, Independence, and Women's Equality lines) defeated Marcus Molinaro and Julie Killian (Republican, Conservative and Reform Parties), Howie Hawkins and Jia Lee (Green Party), Larry Sharpe and Andrew Hollister (Libertarian Party candidate), and Stephanie Miner and Michael Volpe (running on the Serve America Movement line).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections, New York State Attorney General\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has been in office since 2011, was re-elected in 2014 with 56% of the vote. On May 7, 2018, he resigned his position, the day that an article in The New Yorker reported detailed allegations of abusive behavior toward several women he had dated during his time in the office. A joint session of the New York State Legislature appointed Solicitor General Barbara Underwood to fulfill the remainder of the term; Underwood agreed not to pursue election to a full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections, New York State Attorney General\nNew York City Public Advocate Letitia \"Tish\" James secured the state Democratic Party official endorsement in May 2018; Leecia Eve, Sean Patrick Maloney and Zephyr Teachout challenged her in the Democratic primary. The Republicans nominated Keith Wofford for the post. James prevailed in the Democratic primary on September 13, 2018 with 40.6% of the vote. James went on to easily win the general election, with nearly 60% of the vote versus Wofford's 34%. James is the first woman and the first African-American to be elected New York Attorney General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections, New York State Comptroller\nIncumbent Democratic Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who had been in office since 2007, was re-elected in 2014 with 60% of the vote. Jonathan Trichter, a campaign operative and former public finance banker, received the Republican nomination despite his past Democratic Party enrollment. DiNapoli easily defeated Trichter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections, United States Senate\nIncumbent Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand sought re-election to a second full term. The Republican Party nominated private equity executive Chele Chiavacci Farley to challenge Gillibrand. Gillibrand defeated Farley by a wide margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections, United States House of Representatives\nAll of New York's twenty-seven seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats defeated three Republican incumbents and won a total of 21 New York House seats, while Republicans won six. Nationally, the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives on Election Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections, New York State Senate\nIn April 2018, The Wall Street Journal called the New York State Senate the \"last bastion of power\" of the Republican Party in New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections, New York State Senate\nAll 63 seats of the New York State Senate were up for election in 2018. Five Republican members of the State Senate\u2014Sens. John Bonacic, Tom Croci, John A. DeFrancisco, Bill Larkin, and Kathy Marchione\u2014had announced that they would not seek re-election in the fall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections, New York State Senate\nIn May 2018, City & State rated the following State Senate races as competitive:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections, New York State Senate\nOn Election Day 2018, Democrats gained eight Senate seats, taking control of the chamber from the Republicans. The following day, The New York Times wrote that the Democrats had \"decisively evict[ed] Republicans from running the State Senate, which they [had] controlled for all but three years since World War II.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281355-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state elections, New York State Assembly\nAll 150 seats in the New York State Assembly were up for election in 2018. The Democrats retained their supermajority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281356-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state high school boys basketball championships\nThe 2018 Federation Tournament of Champions took place at the Cool Insuring Arena in Glens Falls on March 23, 24 and 25. Federation championships were awarded in the AA, A and B classifications. Archbishop Stepinac in White Plains won the Class AA championship. Alan Griffin of Archbishop Stepinac was named the Class AA tournament's most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281356-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state high school boys basketball championships, Class AA\nParticipating teams, results and individual honors in Class AA were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 71], "content_span": [72, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281356-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state high school boys basketball championships, Class AA, Results\nThere was controversy in the Archbishop Stepinac-Long Island Lutheran semifinal game. With the score tied at 8.3 seconds remaining in the game, Long Island Lutheran called a timeout, but officials determined that the team had no timeouts remaining. Long Island Lutheran was assessed a technical foul. Archbishop Stepinac made two technical free throws to take the lead and was awarded possession of the ball. Archbishop Stepinac made two more free throws after play resumed, to win by four points. Long Island Lutheran claimed it did have one timeout remaining and protested the game, arguing that the final 8.3 seconds should be replayed. Officials acknowledged the next day that the official scorekeeper had made an error, but denied the protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 80], "content_span": [81, 829]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281356-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state high school boys basketball championships, Class AA, Individual honors\nThe following players were awarded individual honors for their performances at the Federation Tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 90], "content_span": [91, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281356-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state high school boys basketball championships, Class A\nParticipating teams, results and individual honors in Class A were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 70], "content_span": [71, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281356-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state high school boys basketball championships, Class A, Results\nThe Park School of Buffalo finished the season with a 25-5 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 79], "content_span": [80, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281356-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state high school boys basketball championships, Class A, Individual honors\nThe following players were awarded individual honors for their performances at the Federation Tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 89], "content_span": [90, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281356-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state high school boys basketball championships, Class B\nParticipating teams, results and individual honors in Class B were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 70], "content_span": [71, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281356-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state high school boys basketball championships, Class B, Results\nFannie Lou Hamer Freedom finished the season with a 29-4 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 79], "content_span": [80, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281356-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New York state high school boys basketball championships, Class B, Individual honors\nThe following players were awarded individual honors for their performances at the Federation Tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 89], "content_span": [90, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election\nThe 2018 New York's 14th congressional district election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. The primaries for New York's federal elections were held earlier in the year on June 26. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated incumbent congressman Joe Crowley in the primary and went on to defeat Republican opponent Anthony Pappas in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election\nAs a political newcomer, Ocasio-Cortez was not expected to defeat Crowley in the primary election. As the results were tabulated, the race drew national recognition when it became clear that Ocasio-Cortez would win over Crowley, the Democratic Caucus Chairman and a 10-term incumbent. Ocasio-Cortez began her campaign in April 2017 while waiting tables and tending bar at Flats Fix, a taqueria in New York City's Union Square. She was the first person since 2004 to challenge Crowley in a primary, and she undertook a grassroots campaign without donations from corporations or PACs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election\nOcasio-Cortez went on to defeat Pappas in the district election. Taking office at age 29, Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman to serve in the United States Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Background\nThe 14th district is located in New York City and includes the Eastern Bronx and part of North-Central Queens. The incumbent was Democrat Joe Crowley, a leader of the New Democrat Coalition. Crowley had represented the district since 2013, after representing the 7th district from 1999 to 2013. He was re-elected for a tenth term, with 83% of the votes, in 2016. Crowley, who had been named as a potential successor to Nancy Pelosi as House Leader or Speaker, sought re-election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Background, Primary candidates, Joe Crowley\nAt the time of the election, Crowley was the incumbent U.S. Representative from New York's 14th congressional district. First elected to the seat in 1998, Crowley replaced Thomas J. Manton who, having already circulated petitions and filed for re-election, withdrew on the last day it was legally possible. Manton phoned Crowley to tell him his name would be on the general election ballot. During his tenure, Crowley served as Chair of the House Democratic Caucus from 2017 to 2019, as well as the local chairman of the Queens County Democratic Party from 2006 to 2019. He previously served in the New York State Assembly from 1987 to 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 97], "content_span": [98, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Background, Primary candidates, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\nBefore running for Congress, Ocasio-Cortez was an activist and worked as a waitress and bartender. She majored in international relations and economics at Boston University, graduating cum laude in 2011. She was an organizer in Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign. Backed by the organization Brand New Congress, Ocasio-Cortez challenged Crowley in the June primary alleging that Crowley was not progressive enough for the district. Ocasio-Cortez began her campaign in April 2017 while waiting tables and tending bar at Flats Fix, a taqueria in New York City's Union Square. \"For 80 percent of this campaign, I operated out of a paper grocery bag hidden behind that bar,\" she told Bon App\u00e9tit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 110], "content_span": [111, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Background, Primary candidates, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\nOcasio-Cortez was the first person since 2004 to challenge Crowley in a primary. She faced a financial disadvantage, saying: \"You can't really beat big money with more money. You have to beat them with a totally different game.\" Ocasio-Cortez's campaign undertook grassroots mobilization and did not take donations from corporations. It was reported that the designs of the campaign posters were inspired by \"revolutionary posters and visuals from the past.\" During the campaign, Ocasio-Cortez resided in Parkchester, Bronx, with web developer and boyfriend, Riley Roberts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 110], "content_span": [111, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Primary election\nBecause residents of the 14th district are overwhelmingly Democratic, the primary election was more significant than the general election. Ocasio-Cortez's victory against Crowley was widely seen as the biggest upset of the 2018 midterm elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Primary election, Primary endorsements\nOcasio-Cortez was endorsed by progressive and civil rights organizations such as MoveOn, Black Lives Matter, and Democracy for America, and by actress and first-time candidate Cynthia Nixon. Nixon, like Ocasio-Cortez, also challenged a longtime incumbent: She ran against Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo in the 2018 New York gubernatorial election but lost by 66% to 34%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 92], "content_span": [93, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Primary election, Primary endorsements\nGovernor Cuomo endorsed Crowley, as did both of New York's U.S. Senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, as well as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, 11 U.S. Representatives, 31 local elected officials, 31 trade unions, and groups such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the Working Families Party, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and others. California representative Ro Khanna, a Justice Democrat like Ocasio-Cortez, initially endorsed Joe Crowley but later endorsed Ocasio-Cortez in an unusual dual endorsement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 92], "content_span": [93, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Primary election, Primary election debate\nOn June 15, the candidates' only face-to-face encounter during the campaign occurred on a local political talk show, Inside City Hall. The format was a joint interview conducted by Errol Louis, which NY1 characterized as a debate. On June 18, a debate in the Bronx was scheduled, but Crowley did not participate. He sent former New York City Council member Annabel Palma in his place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 95], "content_span": [96, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Primary election, Results\nOn June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez received 57.13% of the vote (15,897) to Joe Crowley's 42.5% (11,761), defeating the 10-term incumbent by almost 15 percentage points. Her win, and Crowley's defeat, came as a shock to many political commentators and analysts and immediately garnered nationwide attention. Time called her victory \"the biggest upset of the 2018 elections so far\". CNN made a similar statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 79], "content_span": [80, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Primary election, Results\nThe New York Times described Crowley's loss as \"a shocking primary defeat on Tuesday, the most significant loss for a Democratic incumbent in more than a decade, and one that will reverberate across the party and the country.\" The Guardian called it \"one of the biggest upsets in recent American political history.\" She was outspent by a margin of 18 to 1 ($1.5 million to $83,000) but won the endorsement of some influential groups on the party's left. Merriam-Webster reported that searches for the word \"socialism\" spiked 1,500% after her victory. Crowley conceded defeat on election night, but did not telephone Ocasio-Cortez that night to congratulate her, fueling short-lived speculation that he intended to run against her in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 79], "content_span": [80, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Primary election, Results\nBernie Sanders and Noam Chomsky congratulated Ocasio-Cortez. Several commentators noted the similarities between Ocasio-Cortez's victory over Crowley and Dave Brat's Tea Party movement-supported 2014 victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the Republican primary for Virginia's 7th congressional district. Like Crowley, Cantor was a high-ranking member in his party's caucus. After her primary win, Ocasio-Cortez endorsed several progressive primary challengers to Democratic incumbents nationwide, capitalizing on her fame and spending her political capital in a manner unusual even for unexpected primary winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 79], "content_span": [80, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Primary election, Results\nWithout campaigning for it, Ocasio-Cortez won the Reform Party primary as a write-in candidate in a neighbouring congressional district, New York's 15th, with a total vote count of nine, highest among all 22 write-in candidates. She declined the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 79], "content_span": [80, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, General election\nOcasio-Cortez faced Republican nominee Anthony Pappas in the November 6 general election. Pappas, who lives in Astoria, is an economics professor at St. John's University. According to the New York Post, Pappas did not actively campaign. The Post also wrote that \"Pappas' bid was a long shot,\" since the 14th has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+29, making it the sixth most Democratic district in New York City. Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by almost six to one. The district and its predecessors have been in Democratic hands for all but two years since 1923 and without interruption since 1949.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, General election\nOcasio-Cortez was endorsed by various politically progressive organizations and figures, including former President Barack Obama and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. She spoke at the Netroots Nation conference in August 2018 and was called \"the undisputed star of the convention.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, General election\nCrowley also remained on the ballot as the nominee of the Working Families Party (WFP) and the Women's Equality Party (WEP). Neither Crowley nor the WFP party actively campaigned, with both having endorsed Ocasio-Cortez after her Democratic primary victory. Ocasio-Cortez described the WEP, which Governor Cuomo created ahead of the 2014 New York gubernatorial election, as a cynical, centrist group that endorsed male incumbents over female challengers like her and Nixon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, General election\nFormer Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, who won reelection in 2006 on a third-party line after losing the Democratic Primary in 2006, penned a July 17 column in the Wall Street Journal expressing his hope that Crowley would actively campaign on the WFP ballot line. Dan Cantor, Executive Director of the WFP, wrote an endorsement of, and apology to, Ocasio-Cortez for the New York Daily News. He asked voters not to vote for Crowley if his name remained on the general election ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, General election\nOcasio-Cortez won the election with 78% of the vote (110,318) to Pappas' 14% (17,762). Crowley, on the WFP and WEP lines, received 9,348 votes (6.6%). Saikat Chakrabarti, who had been her campaign co-chair, became chief of staff for her congressional office. As co-creator of two progressive political action committees, he has been called a significant political presence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, General election, Media coverage\nThe first media network to give Ocasio-Cortez a platform and extensively cover her campaign and policies was The Young Turks (TYT), a left-wing online news program. After her primary win, she quickly garnered nationwide media attention, including numerous articles and TV talk-show appearances. She also drew a great deal of media attention when she and Sanders campaigned for James Thompson in Kansas in July 2018. A rally in Wichita had to be moved from a theater with a capacity of 1,500 when far more people said they would attend. The event drew 4,000 people, with some seated on the floor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 86], "content_span": [87, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, General election, Media coverage\nIn The New Yorker, Benjamin Wallace-Wells wrote that while Sanders remained \"the de-facto leader of an increasingly popular left, [he is unable to] do things that do not come naturally to him, like supply hope.\" Wallace-Wells suggested that Ocasio-Cortez had made Sanders's task easier, as he could point to her success to show that ideas \"once considered to be radical are now part of the mainstream.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 86], "content_span": [87, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, General election, Media coverage\nUntil she defeated incumbent Joe Crowley in the 2018 Democratic primary, Ocasio-Cortez received little coverage on most traditional news media outlets. Jimmy Dore interviewed her when she first announced her candidacy in June 2017. After her primary win, Brian Stelter wrote that progressive-media outlets, such as The Young Turks and The Intercept, \"saw the Ocasio-Cortez upset coming\" in advance. Margaret Sullivan wrote in The Washington Post that traditional metrics of measuring a campaign's viability, like total fundraising, were contributing to a \"media failure.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 86], "content_span": [87, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, General election, Media coverage\nOcasio-Cortez's campaign was featured on the cover of the June 2018 edition of The Indypendent, a free New York City-based monthly newspaper. In a tweet, she hailed the cover appearance on \"NYC's classic monthly\" as a significant breakthrough for her campaign. Otherwise, Ocasio-Cortez was barely mentioned in print until her primary win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 86], "content_span": [87, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, General election, Media coverage\nThe Young Turks have continued to cover Ocasio-Cortez and defend her from political and media elites who see her as outside the political culture of DC, with occasional criticism on some of her policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 86], "content_span": [87, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Post election\nIn November 2018, on the first day of congressional orientation, Ocasio-Cortez participated in a climate change protest outside the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Also, in that month, she backed Pelosi's bid to be Speaker of the House once the Democratic Party reclaimed the majority on the condition that Pelosi \"remains the most progressive candidate for speaker.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Post election\nDuring the orientation for new members hosted by the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter in December 2018 about the influence of corporate interests by sponsors such as the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies: \"Lobbyists are here. Goldman Sachs is here. Where's labor? Activists? Frontline community leaders?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Post election\nTaking office at age 29, Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman to serve in the United States Congress. She has been noted for her substantial social media presence relative to other Congress members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Post election\nOcasio-Cortez is among the first female members of the Democratic Socialists of America elected to serve in Congress. She advocates a progressive platform that includes Medicare for All, a federal jobs guarantee, the Green New Deal, abolishing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, free public college and trade school, and a 70% marginal tax rate on millionaire fortunes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Post election\nIn January 2019, when Ocasio-Cortez made her first speech on the floor of Congress, C-SPAN tweeted the video. Within 12 hours, the video of her four-minute speech set the record as C-SPAN's most-watched Twitter video by a member of the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Post election\nIn an attempt to embarrass Ocasio-Cortez just before she took office, Twitter user \"AnonymousQ\" shared a video dating to Ocasio-Cortez's college years: a Boston University student-produced dance video in which she briefly appeared. Many social media users came to her defense, inspiring memes and a Twitter account syncing the footage to songs like \"Mambo No. 5\" and \"Gangnam Style.\" Ocasio-Cortez responded by posting a lighthearted video of herself dancing to Edwin Starr's \"War\" outside her congressional office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Post election\nIn 2019, Elizabeth Warren wrote the entry on Ocasio-Cortez for that year's Time 100. In January 2019, the documentary Knock Down the House, which focuses on four female Democrats in the 2018 United States elections who were not career politicians, including Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush, and Paula Jean Swearengin, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Ocasio-Cortez was the only one of the women featured to win. Two years later, Swearengin won the Democratic primary for the 2020 United States Senate election in West Virginia, and Bush won the Democratic Primary for MO-01. Knock Down the House was released by Netflix on May 1, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Post election\nWhen the 116th Congress convened on January 3, 2019, Ocasio-Cortez entered with no seniority but with a large social media presence. Axios has credited her with \"as much social media clout as her fellow freshman Democrats combined.\" As of June\u00a02020, she had 7.3\u00a0million Twitter followers, up from 1.4\u00a0million in November 2018 and surpassing Nancy Pelosi. By July 2019, that had risen to almost 4.8 million, or about seven times the population of her congressional district. She had 2.2\u00a0million Instagram followers as of January 2019 and 500,000 followers on Facebook as of February 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Post election\nHer colleagues appointed her to teach them social media lessons upon her arrival in Congress. In early July 2019, two lawsuits were filed against her for blocking Joseph Saladino and Dov Hikind on Twitter in light of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that it was a violation of the First Amendment for President Trump to block people on Twitter. On November 4, 2019, it was announced that they settled the lawsuit with Ocasio-Cortez issuing a statement apologizing for the Twitter block.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281357-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, Post election\nIn an interview with the Yahoo! News podcast Skullduggery, Ocasio-Cortez said she had stopped using her private Facebook account and was minimizing her usage of all social media accounts and platforms, calling them a \"public health risk\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281358-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 25th congressional district special election\nA special election for New York's 25th congressional district was held following the death of U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter. Democrat Joseph Morelle defeated Republican Jim Maxwell on November 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281358-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 25th congressional district special election, Background\nIncumbent Representative Louise Slaughter died at the age of 88 on March 16, 2018, after suffering a concussion earlier in the month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281358-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 25th congressional district special election, Background\nFollowing precedent set in 2010, concurrent elections were held in November, one to fill the remainder of Slaughter's term, and the other to fill the seat for the next term. The district was left without Congressional representation until then.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281358-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 25th congressional district special election, Background\nNominees for special elections are selected by the parties in the counties that comprise the congressional district. There are no primaries. The filing deadline for party nominations was August 30, 2018, and for independent petitions was September 4, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281358-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 25th congressional district special election, Democratic primary\nThe following information pertains to the regular election for the 25th District for a full term to the 116th Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 80], "content_span": [81, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281358-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New York's 25th congressional district special election, General election, Results\nAs the winner of the special election, Morelle was sworn in on November 13 rather than waiting until the new Congressional term. He also won the regular election for a new two-year term beginning in January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 87], "content_span": [88, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281359-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Derby\nThe 2018 New Zealand Derby was a horse race which took place at Ellerslie Racecourse on Saturday 3 March 2018. It was the 143rd running of the New Zealand Derby, and it was won by Vin De Dance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281359-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Derby\nVin De Dance was offered at the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale as a two-year-old, but was passed in. A sale was later negotiated for $70,000, with breeder Luigi Muollo retaining a share alongside new owners OTI Racing and the Kilted Taniwha Syndicate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281359-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Derby\nThe son of Roc de Cambes was sent to the Cambridge stable of Hall of Famer Murray Baker and his training partner Andrew Forsman. The team has won multiple New Zealand training premierships, and guided Mongolian Khan to victory in the 2015 New Zealand Derby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281359-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Derby\nVin De Dance made a winning debut at Pukekohe in early September, then was placed in two subsequent appearances at Te Rapa. He was sent to Melbourne, where he finished third at Flemington and fifth in the Moonee Valley Vase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281359-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Derby\nWithdrawn from the Victoria Derby and given several months off to strengthen and develop, Vin De Dance returned with fourth and sixth placings over 1400 and 1600 metres in late January and early February. He moved into Derby contention with a fighting third in the Avondale Guineas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281359-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Derby\nThe fifth favourite for the Derby at $9.90, Vin De Dance was handy throughout the 2400-metre race and loomed as a major threat around the home turn. He hit the lead inside the last 200 metres, but was joined by Mongolianconqueror in a desperate two-horse battle to the finish that Vin De Dance won by a nose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281359-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Derby\nOTI Racing's Terry Henderson described the New Zealand Derby win as the fulfilment of a long-held dream.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281359-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Derby\nIt was the first Derby win for jockey Jason Waddell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 75]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281359-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Derby\nMongolianconqueror's trainers Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards came up a mere nose short of winning the Derby two years in a row, having won the 2017 running with Gingernuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281359-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Derby, Winner's details, The road to the Derby\nEarly-season appearances in 2017-18 prior to running in the Derby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 63], "content_span": [64, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281359-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Derby, Winner's details, Subsequent Group 1 wins\nSubsequent wins at Group 1 level by runners in the 2018 New Zealand Derby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281360-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand First Party deputy leadership election\nAn election for the parliamentary Deputy leadership of the New Zealand First Party took place in the NZ First Party parliamentary caucus on 27 February 2018. Incumbent deputy leader and sitting List MP, Ron Mark was challenged for the position by fellow list MP Fletcher Tabuteau. In the election Tabuteau won the required number of votes and replaced Mark as deputy leader of the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281360-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand First Party deputy leadership election, Background\nRumors that incumbent deputy leader Ron Mark, who had successfully challenged deputy leader Tracey Martin in 2015 was set to be rolled by a member of the NZ First caucus were first published in a Stuff.co.nz article on February 22, with the only candidate being list MP Fletcher Tabuteau. Other possible candidates Tracey Martin and Shane Jones had both ruled themselves out, both citing their heavy ministerial workloads that had taken on after the formation of the Coalition government at the 2017 New Zealand general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 67], "content_span": [68, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281360-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand First Party deputy leadership election, Background\nPrior to the leadership election, a change of hands seemed all but guaranteed, with stuff citing that party leader Winston Peters, who was assumed to have voted for Mark's opponent Martin in the 2015 deputy leadership election, would probably be throwing his support behind Tabuteau, who was a close ally of his.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 67], "content_span": [68, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281360-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand First Party deputy leadership election, Aftermath\nThe deputy leadership election was held by the NZ First caucus on 27 February 2018, with Tabuteau, as expected, gaining the needed 5 caucus votes to roll Mark as deputy leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 66], "content_span": [67, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281360-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand First Party deputy leadership election, Aftermath\nFollowing the election, Mark stated he was privileged to have held the role, and looked forward to being able to focus on his ministerial profiles of Veterans' Affairs and Minister of Defence, and that losing the deputy leadership freed him up to win the Wairarapa electorate come the 2020 New Zealand general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 66], "content_span": [67, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281361-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Grand Prix\nThe 2018 New Zealand Grand Prix event for open wheel racing cars was held at Circuit Chris Amon near Feilding on 11 February 2018. It was the sixty-third New Zealand Grand Prix and fielded Toyota Racing Series cars. The event was also the third race of the fifth round of the 2018 Toyota Racing Series, the final race of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281362-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Music Awards\nThe 2018 New Zealand Music Awards was the 53rd holding of the annual ceremony featuring awards for musical recording artists based in or originating from New Zealand. It took place on 15 November 2018 at Spark Arena in Auckland and was hosted by Kanoa Lloyd and Stan Walker. The awards show was broadcast live nationally on Three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281363-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand NBL season\nThe 2018 NBL season was the 37th season of the National Basketball League. In 2018, the league welcomed back the Manawatu Jets after a two-season hiatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281363-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand NBL season\nThe regular season commenced on Thursday 26 April in Napier with the Hawke's Bay Hawks hosting the Southland Sharks at Pettigrew Green Arena. The season contained 14 weeks of regular season games followed by a Final Four weekend in August. The competition included a one-week international break, from 25 June to 1 July, and started later than normal due to the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281364-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand National Party leadership election\nThe 2018 New Zealand National Party leadership election was held on 27 February 2018 to determine the 12th Leader of the National Party. On 13 February 2018, Bill English announced his resignation as leader of the National Party, effective on 27 February 2018. He left Parliament on 13 March 2018. On 20 February, Deputy Leader Paula Bennett announced that a concurrent deputy leadership election would take place, in which she would stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281364-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand National Party leadership election\nAfter a secret caucus ballot Simon Bridges was declared the new leader of the National Party and Paula Bennett was re-elected as deputy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281364-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand National Party leadership election, Background\nThe Fifth National Government of New Zealand came to an end after the 2017 general election saw the National Party win 44% of the vote and Labour and New Zealand First form the minority Sixth Labour Government with confidence and supply from the Green Party. On 13 February 2018 Bill English, the leader of the National Party and Prime Minister from 2016 to 2017, announced his resignation as party leader effective on 27 February, and as a Member of Parliament effective on 13 March. Deputy leader Paula Bennett asked National senior whip Jami-Lee Ross for her role to also be put up for election, but she would run to keep the position. No other candidate declared an intention to run for the deputy leadership before 27 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281364-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand National Party leadership election, Candidates, Declared candidates\nAt the time of the election, the following individuals were candidates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 84], "content_span": [85, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281364-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand National Party leadership election, Candidates, Declined\nThe following individuals were speculated as being possible leadership candidates, but ruled out a bid:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281364-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand National Party leadership election, Result\nThe election was conducted as a secret ballot of the National Party parliamentary caucus. An exhaustive ballot method was used, so that the support of 29 of the 56 MPs were required to elect the leader. Bridges was elected party leader after two rounds of voting. Bennett and Collins ran for the deputy leadership, and Bennett was re-elected to the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281364-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand National Party leadership election, Outcomes\nOn 6 March Joyce announced his retirement from politics following speculation he would lose the finance portfolio. Joyce wouldn't confirm or deny this but said Bridges offered him a \"high-ranking\" portfolio. On 11 March Bridges announced his shadow cabinet which saw Adams, Collins and Mitchell receive promotions; ranked 3rd, 4th and 7th respectively. Two weeks later, former leadership contender Jonathan Coleman resigned from Parliament; Adams announced her own upcoming retirement in early 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281364-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand National Party leadership election, Outcomes\nBridges held the leadership for two years, before being successfully challenged for the role by Todd Muller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281365-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 New Zealand Open (officially known as the Barfoot & Thompson New Zealand Open 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at North Shore Events Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, from 1 to 6 May 2018 and had a total purse of $150,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281365-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 New Zealand Open was the eighth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the New Zealand Open championships which had been held since 1990. This tournament was organized by Badminton New Zealand and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281365-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at North Shore Events Centre in Auckland, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281365-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 300 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281365-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$150,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281365-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Open (badminton), Men's singles, Wild card\nBadminton New Zealand awarded a wild card entry to Abhinav Manota of New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281365-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Open (badminton), Women's singles, Wild card\nBadminton New Zealand awarded a wild card entry to Sally Fu of New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards\nThe 2018 New Zealand Radio Awards were the awards for excellence in the New Zealand radio industry during 2017. It was the 41st New Zealand Radio Awards, recognising staff, volunteers and contractors in both commercial and non-commercial broadcasting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees\nThis is a list of nominees, with winners in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Community Access Programmes\nHeritage Matters - 105.4FM - Bill Southworth, Dougal Stevenson, Jane Edwards, Judy Southworth, Keith Scott, Anne Barrowclough, Richard Stedman", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 85], "content_span": [86, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Content\nVoice of the Iceberg - RNZ National - Alison Ballance, Marc Chesterman", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Content\nThe 9th Floor - RNZ National - Tim Watkin, Guyon Espiner, Claire Eastham-Farrelly, Rebekah Parsons-King, Damian Golfinopoulos, Diego Opatowski, Jeremy Ansell, Rangi Powick, Blair Stagpoole, Jeremy Veal", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Content\nThe Mike Hosking Breakfast - Newstalk ZB Network - Emily Winstanley", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Content\nBhuja TV- Neil Finn - Hauraki Network - Matt Ward, Leigh Hart, Jason Hoyte, Brent Spilane", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best News & Sport\nPort Hills Fire - Newshub/RadioLIVE Network - Newshub Auckland & Christchurch Teams", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best News & Sport\nThe Devlin Radio Show - Radio Sport Network - Martin Devlin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best News & Sport\nThe America's Cup - Newstalk ZB/ Radio Sport Network - Peter Montgomery, Jason Winstanley, Gareth Lischner, Radio Sport Team, Newstalk ZB team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best On Air\nZM's Fletch, Vaughn & Megan - ZM Network - Carl Fletcher, Vaughn Smith, Megan Papas, Caitlin Marett, James Johnston, Anna Henvest", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best On Air\nMore FM Breakfast with John, Flash & Toast - More FM Northland - John Markby, Angela 'Flash' Gordon, Tauha 'Toast' TeKani, Bryn Ingham", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best On Air\nMore FM Social Club with Toast - More FM Northland - Tauha ' Toast' TeKani", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best On Air\nThe Rock Drive with Thane and Dunc - The Rock Network - Thane Kirby, Duncan Heyde, Jeremy Pickford", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best On Air\nRock Workday Afternoons - The Rock Network - Jim Cawthorn", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best On Air\nThe Mike Hosking Breakfast - Newstalk ZB Network - Mike Hosking", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best On Air\nMarcus Lush Nights - Newstalk ZB Network - Marcus Lush", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Promotion\nThe ACC Mammoth Summer of Cricket - NZME Network - Jeremy Wells, Matt Heath, Leigh Hart, Jason Hoyte, Mike Lane, Lee Baker, Paul Ford, Joseph Durie", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Promotion\nJono, Ben and Sharyn's Cool Town Bro with Hallenstein Brothers - The Edge Network - Finlay Robertson, Rob Dickey, Rebekah Dewhurst", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Promotion\nTourism & Events Queensland - More FM Canterbury - Michelle Jones, Chris Goodyear", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Promotion\n- ZM Network - Ellie Harwood, Trinette Sands, Sarah Mount, Lucy Carthew", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Promotion\nZM's $50,000 Secret Sound - ZM Network - Justine Black, Fiona Kerr, Ashleigh Van Graan, Alistair Cockburn", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Radio Creative\nNZTA - Dem Phones - More FM Northland - Alastair Barran, Chris Hurring", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Radio Creative\nMoola - The Rock Network - Alistair Barran, Chris Hurring", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Spoken Programmes\nEdge Heads - The Edge Southland - Mitchell Fulton, Steve Broad", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Spoken Programmes\nJim's All About The Nookie Campaign - The Rock Network - Jim Cawthorn, Stacey McLeod, Michael Baker", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Spoken Programmes\nThis Way Up - RNZ National - Simon Morton, Alison Ballance, Richard Scott", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Spoken Programmes\nThe 9th Floor - RNZ National - Tim Watkin, Guyon Espiner, Claire Eastham-Farrelly, Rebekah Parsons-King, Damian Golfinopoulos, Diego Opatowski, Jeremy Ansell, Rangi Powick, Blair Stagpoole, Jeremy Veal", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Technical Production\nNZTA Dem Phones - More FM Northland - Chris Hurring, Alistair Barran", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Station of the Year\nOne Double X - One Double X Whakatane - Glenn Smith", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Station of the Year\nMore FM - More FM Canterbury - Jason Mac, Rob McDonald, Christian Boston", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Other\nMediaWorks Trade Marketing Team - MediaWorks Radio - Jessica Knox, Cathy Fali, Alex Jolly, Isaiah Tour, Megan Leach, Emily Hargest", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Other\nJay-Jay, Dom & Randell's Tom Cruise Prank - The Edge Network - Jay-Jay Harvey, Dominic Harvey, Clinton Randell, Tom McKenzie", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Other\nTe Kupenga o Taramainuku Commemorations - Tumeke FM - Jarrod Dodd, Tracey Patrick, Casino Stevens, Wiremu Huta-Martin, Anituatua Balck, Maraea Davies, Danae Lee", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Other\nThe Rock 1500 - The Rock Network - Brad King, Reagan White, Stacey Wouters, Michael Baker, Jacqueline Williams, Jim Cowan, Andre Upston, Dave Wernham", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Other\nPledge for Plunket - The Hits Network - Ben Humphrey, Jenny Mulligan, Todd Campbell, Laura Campbell, Celia Whitley", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Other\nThe Radio Bureau - The Radio Bureau National - Peter Richardson, Fraser McGergor, Jane Hitchfield, Jennifer Came, Karen McPherson, Missy Dare, Dusan Matic, Kenneth d'Souza, Michael Matthews, Tom Raybould, Ally Myers, Jimmy Hills, Hannah Bourke, Ellen-Marie Atkinson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Other\nThe Crazy Kiwi Christmas Kids Show - Christian Broadcasting Assoc & NZME - Phil Guyan, Bjorn Brickell, Dayna Vawdrey, Levi Guyan, Daryl Habraken, Phil Yule, Chris Newbold, Erin Carpenter, Colin Cassidy, Steph Couch, Jacinda Ardern, Mike Hosking, Kerre McIvor", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281366-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Radio Awards, Winners and nominees, Other\nKevin HercockBrendan TelferBarry PattersonJames DanielsLloyd ScottWarren MaleJohn BedfordBryan WaddlePeter EverettMark Perry", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281367-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Sevens\nThe 2018 New Zealand Sevens was the fourth tournament within the 2017\u201318 World Rugby Sevens Series and the nineteenth edition of the New Zealand Sevens, and the first to be held in Hamilton. It was held over the weekend of 3\u20134 February 2017 at FMG Stadium Waikato.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281367-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Sevens, Format\nThe teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each, with each team playing every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/5th place brackets. The bottom two teams from each group went to the Challenge trophy/13th place brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281367-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Sevens, Teams\nFifteen core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, the highest-placing non-core team of the 2017 Oceania Sevens Championship, Papua New Guinea:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281367-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Sevens, Players, Dream Team\nThe following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281368-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Warriors season\nThe 2018 New Zealand Warriors season was the 24th season in the club's history. Coached by Stephen Kearney and captained by Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, the Warriors completed the National Rugby League's 2018 Telstra Premiership regular season in the number eight position, qualifying for the finals. They were defeated in the 1st Elimination Final by Penrith and did not progress further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281368-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Warriors season, Jersey and sponsors\nIn 2018 the Warriors jerseys will again be made by Canterbury of New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281368-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Warriors season, Fixtures, Pre-season training\nPre -season training began on 1 November, with the exception of 14 players involved in the 2017 Rugby League World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281368-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Warriors season, Fixtures, Pre-season matches\nThe Warriors and Melbourne will headline a two-day festival in Rotorua that includes a regional nines tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281368-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Warriors season, Fixtures, Regular season\nHome matches were played at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland, while one away game was also played in New Zealand, at AMI Stadium in Christchurch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281368-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand Warriors season, Fixtures, Regular season\nThe Warriors opened their season in Perth against the South Sydney Rabbitohs on 10 March as part of a double header at Perth Stadium. Mount Smart Stadium will hosted a double header on 7 April when the Warriors played the North Queensland Cowboys and the Wests Tigers played the Melbourne Storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281369-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand budget\nThe New Zealand budget for fiscal year 2018/19 was presented to the New Zealand House of Representatives by Finance Minister Grant Robertson on 17 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281369-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand budget\nThis was the first budget by the Sixth Labour Government of New Zealand, and the first presented by Grant Robertson as Minister of Finance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281369-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand budget, Background\nIn mid-May 2018, the Government allocated NZ$2.8 billion in operational funding and NZ$3.8 billion in capital funding to the 2018 New Zealand Budget. According to a New Zealand Herald report, 38% of the Budget's funding was generated from adopting a slower debt track than the previous National Government; 23% from extra revenue from economic growth; 6% from cutting previous programmes and greater tax collection compliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281369-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand budget, Major announcements, Employment and immigration\nInvesting NZ$88 million into increasing the number of labour inspectors, funding compliance and border activities to combat migrant exploitation, and training programmes for unemployed youths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 72], "content_span": [73, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281369-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand budget, Reaction\nAs is tradition, the Leader of the Opposition, Simon Bridges, moved a motion of no confidence in reply to the Budget speech. Bridges claimed the Budget showed \"a Government that is borrowing more, taxing more and spending more \u2014 but has no plans for how we as a country can earn more.\" In response, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern claimed the Opposition was \"a lot of shouty shouty, and not a lot of planny planny.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census\nThe 2018 New Zealand census was the thirty-fourth national census in New Zealand, which took place on Tuesday 6 March 2018. The population of New Zealand was counted as 4,699,755 \u2013 an increase of 457,707 (10.79%) over the 2013 census.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census\nResults from the 2018 census were released to the public on 23 September 2019, from the Statistics New Zealand website. The next New Zealand census is set to be held in March 2023.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, History, Background\nThe Census Act 1877 required censuses to be held every fifth year and is well embedded in legislation and government systems. Since 1881, censuses have been held every five years, with the exceptions of those in 1931 and 1941 and the one in 2011 which was cancelled due to the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, which displaced many Canterbury residents from their homes only a few weeks before census day. It was rescheduled for March 2013, so the 2013 census is the previous census completed before this one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, History, Issues and controversies\nIn July 2018, it was estimated that the 2018 census had a \u201cfull or partial\u201d response for 90 percent of individuals, down from 94.5 percent in the 2013 census and the planned release date for census information was changed from October of the same year to March 2019. This drop, which already amounted to the lowest census response rate for fifty years, was blamed on a 'digital-first' policy for the census. An independent review was initiated by the Government Statistician in October 2019, and in November Statistics NZ announced that release of census data would be pushed back to at least April 2019 due to \"the complex nature of the task\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, History, Issues and controversies\nIn early April 2019, the Government Statistician, Liz MacPherson was facing possible charges of contempt of parliament. She had twice refused, on 13 February and in early April, to disclose the number of partially and fully completed responses. On 9 April, she reported that one in seven New Zealanders, 700,000 people, failed to complete the census.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, History, Issues and controversies\nIn July 2019 the independent inquiry returned its findings to the Government Statistician, the Minister of Statistics and the State Services Commissioner, reporting that too little attention had been paid to the non-digital aspects of the census, but also blamed operational complexity and flaws in management. Due to a decision to conduct the census primarily online, the census attracted only an 83% response rate, even lower than the 90% earlier reported, and well short of the 94% census percent target and a nine percent drop from the previous 2013 New Zealand census.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, History, Issues and controversies\nOn 13 August 2019 the report was released to the public and Liz MacPherson offered her resignation, taking ultimate responsibility for the results, stating \u201cI'm sorry, the buck stops with me.\u201d State Services Commissioner Peter Hughes agreed with her assessment, and asked MacPherson to remain in her role until Christmas of 2019, noting that \u201cshe is the best person to finish the remediation work.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Projections\nStatistics New Zealand annually conducts population projections for New Zealand as a whole, which are based on data from the previous census (in this case, the 2013 census) and calculated using a cohort-component method. Population projections also take into consideration births, deaths, and net migration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Projections\nIn 2016, New Zealand's population at the time of the 2018 census was projected to be between 4,807,000 and 4,944,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results\nData uses fixed random rounding to protect confidentiality; each data point is rounded either to the nearest multiple of 3 (2\u20443 chance) or the next-nearest multiple of 3 (1\u20443 chance).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results\nThe census usually-resident population count of New Zealand is a count of all people who usually live in and were present in the country on census night (6 March 2018), and excludes overseas visitors and New Zealand residents who are temporarily overseas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results\nDue to the high rate of non-response in the census, the published results combine answers from census forms with data from the 2013 Census and from government administrative data. Reports from an External Data Quality Review Panel include quality ratings for each variable, taking the added data into account", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results, Population and dwellings\nPopulation counts for regions of New Zealand. All figures are for the census usually-resident population count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results, Birthplace\nIn 2018, 3,370,122 people (71.7%) were born in New Zealand, with 1,329,633 (28.3%) born overseas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results, Ethnicity\nThere was no change in the top five ethnicities between the 2013 and 2018 censuses, which are New Zealand European (64.1%), M\u0101ori (16.5%), Chinese (4.9%), Indian (4.7%), and Samoan (3.9%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results, Religion\nMost New Zealanders, 48.5% of the population, identify as being irreligious. Data is for the census usually-resident population count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results, Language\nThe vast majority of New Zealanders, 95.4%, speak English; in second place is M\u0101ori, with 4.0% of the population being able to speak it. Data is for the census usually-resident population count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results, M\u0101ori descent\n18.5% of New Zealanders have at least some M\u0101ori descent. Data is for the census usually-resident population count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results, Age\nThe largest age group is people aged 25 to 29, who comprise 7.3% of the population. Data is the census usually-resident population count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results, Income\nData is for the census usually-resident population count of people aged 15 years and over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results, Industry of employment\nData is for the census usually-resident population count of employed people aged 15 years and over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results, Home ownership\nData is for the census usually-resident population count of people aged 15 years and over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281370-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand census, Results, Marriage status\nData is for the census usually-resident population count of people aged 15 years and over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281371-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand rugby league season\nThe 2018 New Zealand rugby league season was the 111th season of rugby league played in New Zealand. The main feature of the year was the National Competition, run by the New Zealand Rugby League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281371-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nThe New Zealand national rugby league team played an end of season test match against the Australian side, before they toured Great Britain and played a three match test series against the England team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281371-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Rugby League Cup\nAuckland were the holders of the Rugby League Cup but have not defended the trophy since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281371-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, National Competition\n2017 will be the ninth year of the National Competition. The same four teams as 2017 will contest the National Championship, after Counties Manukau won the 2017 promotion/relegation game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281371-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand rugby league season, Australian competitions\nThe New Zealand Warriors will play in their 24th first grade season in the Australian competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281371-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand rugby league season, Australian competitions\nThe Warriors will also fielded teams in the Intrust Super Premiership NSW and its associated under-20s competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281371-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 New Zealand rugby league season, Australian competitions\nDuring the 2018 NRL season, Auckland's Mount Smart Stadium will host a double header on 7 April where the Warriors will play the North Queensland Cowboys and the Wests Tigers will play the Melbourne Storm. It will be the first NRL double-header to be staged outside Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281372-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Newark mayoral election\nThe 2018 election for Mayor of Newark took place in Newark, the most populous city in New Jersey, USA, on May 8, 2018. Elections for all seats on the nine member Municipal Council of Newark was held the same day. A runoff election, if necessary, would have taken place on June 5, 2018. Elections are non-partisan and candidates are not listed by political party. Incumbent Mayor Ras Baraka avoided a runoff after winning a second term with 77 percent of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281372-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Newark mayoral election, Candidates\nThe deadline for candidates to file for election is March 5, 2018, at which time each potential candidate must submit a petition signed by at least 1413 voters. As of Monday January 8, 2018 six people had requested petitions necessary to mount a mayoral campaign:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281372-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Newark mayoral election, Candidates\nBy election day, however, Newark councilwoman Gayle Chaneyfield Jenkins, who had entered the race on January 9, 2018, was Mayor Baraka's only challenger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281373-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Newcastle 500\nThe 2018 Coates Hire Newcastle 500 was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on the weekend of 23 to 25 November 2018. The event was held on the Newcastle Street Circuit in Newcastle East, New South Wales and consisted of two races, 250 kilometres in length. It was the sixteenth and final event in the 2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 30 and 31 of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281374-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Newcastle City Council election\nThe 2018 Newcastle City Council elections took place on 3 May 2018, on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281374-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Newcastle City Council election\nFor the first time since 2004, boundary changes occurred across Newcastle upon Tyne and the entire council was up for re-election. In June 2016, the Boundary Commission published draft proposals of potential new ward boundaries, with significant changes throughout the entirety of the city, though with some wards remaining the same.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281374-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Newcastle City Council election\nThe Conservative Party candidate for the Manor Park ward, Florence Kirkby, is 96 years old and is believed to be one of the oldest people to stand in the United Kingdom in an election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281374-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Newcastle City Council election, Council Composition\nPrior to the election, the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281375-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Newcastle Knights season\nThe 2018 Newcastle Knights season was the 31st in the club's history. Coached by Nathan Brown and co-captained by Jamie Buhrer and Mitchell Pearce, they competed in the NRL's 2018 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season in 11th place (out of 16).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281375-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Newcastle Knights season, Jerseys and sponsors\nIn 2018, the Knights' jerseys were made by ISC and their major sponsor was nib Health Funds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281375-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Newcastle Knights season, Representative honours\nThe following players appeared in a representative match in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281376-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council in England. It was held on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281376-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election\nNewcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council decided in November 2015 to move to whole council elections, starting from this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281377-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Newfoundland and Labrador Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2018 Newfoundland and Labrador Women's Curling Championship, the women's provincial curling championship for Newfoundland and Labrador, was held from January 2 to 7 at the Re/Max Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The winning Stacie Curtis rink represented Newfoundland and Labrador at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Penticton, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281378-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Newfoundland and Labrador Tankard\nThe 2018 Newfoundland and Labrador Men's Curling Championship (also known as the Tankard), the men's provincial curling championship for Newfoundland and Labrador, was held from January 29 to February 4 at the St. John's Curling Club in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The winning Greg Smith team represented Newfoundland and Labrador at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier at the Brandt Centre in Regina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281378-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Newfoundland and Labrador Tankard\nIt was the first time since 2006 that the event was not won by Brad Gushue, as his team represented Team Canada at the 2018 Brier as defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281378-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Newfoundland and Labrador Tankard, Playoffs\nDue to finishing the round robin undefeated, Smith must be defeated twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281379-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Newham London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Newham London Borough Council election was held on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Newham London Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281379-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Newham London Borough Council election\nElections were held for the Mayor of Newham and for all 60 seats on the council. The Labour Party candidate Rokhsana Fiaz won the mayoral election. Labour candidates won all 60 seats on the council, as they did in 2014 and 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281379-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Newham London Borough Council election, Summary results\nThe Labour Party won 67% of the vote and all 60 seats for the third election in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281379-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Newham London Borough Council election, Background\nA total of 181 candidates stood in the election for the 60 seats being contested across 20 wards. Candidates included a full slate from the Labour party (as had been the case at every election since the borough council had been formed in 1964), whilst the Conservative party also ran a full slate for the second election in a row, and the Liberal Democrats ran 14 candidates. Other candidates running were 25 Christian Peoples Alliance, 11 Greens, 4 TUSC, 2 UKIP, 2 Democrats and Veterans, 1 Communist League and 2 Independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281379-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Newham London Borough Council election, By-elections between 2018 and 2022, Boleyn\nThe by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr Veronica Oakeshott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281379-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Newham London Borough Council election, By-elections between 2018 and 2022, East Ham\nThe by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr Julianne Marriott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 89], "content_span": [90, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281380-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Next Generation ATP Finals\nStefanos Tsitsipas defeated Alex de Minaur in the final, 2\u20134, 4\u20131, 4\u20133(7\u20133), 4\u20133(7\u20133) to win the 2018 Next Generation ATP tennis finals. Chung Hyeon was the 2017 champion, but was ineligible to compete this year due to his age.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281380-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Next Generation ATP Finals\nThe 2018 Next Generation ATP Finals was a men's exhibition tennis tournament played in Milan, Italy, from 6 to 10 November 2018. It was the season-ending event for the best singles players who were age 21 and under on the 2018 ATP World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281380-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Next Generation ATP Finals, Qualification\nThe top seven players in the Emirates ATP Race to Milan qualified. The eighth spot went to Italian wild card Liam Caruana, who won a national qualifying tournament. Eligible players had to be 21 or under at the start of the year (born in 1997 or later for 2018 edition). 19-year-old Alex de Minaur was the youngest and only teenage player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281380-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Next Generation ATP Finals, Qualification\nDue to participation in the ATP Finals the following week, Alexander Zverev again withdrew from the tournament because of an injury, as did Denis Shapovalov, citing exhaustion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281380-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Next Generation ATP Finals, Draw, Group B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, then percentage of games won, then head-to-head records; 5) ATP rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281381-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 NextEra Energy Resources 250\nThe 2018 NextEra Energy Resources 250 was the first stock car race of the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season, and the 19th iteration of the event. The race was held on Friday, February 16, 2018 in Daytona Beach, Florida at Daytona International Speedway, a 2.5 miles (4.0\u00a0km) triangle-shaped superspeedway racetrack. The race would take 100 laps to complete. In a wreck filled race, Johnny Sauter driving for GMS Racing would survive and hold off the field to win the race. To fill out the podium, Justin Haley of GMS Racing and Joe Nemechek, driving for his own team NEMCO Motorsports would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281381-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 NextEra Energy Resources 250, Background, Background\nDaytona International Speedway is one of two superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the other being Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long. The track's turns are banked at 31 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 18 degrees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281381-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 NextEra Energy Resources 250, Practice, 1st practice\nThe first practice was held on Thursday, February 15 at 1:00 PM EST. Grant Enfinger of ThorSport Racing would set the fastest time in practice with a 46.867 and an average speed of 192.033 miles per hour (309.047\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281381-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 NextEra Energy Resources 250, Practice, 2nd practice\nThe second practice was held on Thursday, February 15 at 3:32 PM EST. Ben Rhodes of ThorSport Racing would set the fastest time in practice with a 46.657 and an average speed of 192.897 miles per hour (310.438\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281381-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 NextEra Energy Resources 250, Practice, 3rd and final practice\nThe third and final practice was held on Thursday, February 15 at 5:28 PM EST. Johnny Sauter of GMS Racing would set the fastest time in practice with a 49.397 and an average speed of 182.197 miles per hour (293.218\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281381-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 NextEra Energy Resources 250, Qualifying\nQualifying was held on Friday, February 16 at 5:49 PM EST. Qualifying was held in two rounds, both consisting of two lap runs. The first round included every driver, and the second would take the 12 fastest qualifiers from the first round and make them run another two lap run; whoever was fastest won the pole. David Gilliland driving for Kyle Busch Motorsports would run the fastest time in both rounds and win the pole, with a time of 49.017 and an average speed of 183.610 miles per hour (295.492\u00a0km/h) in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281381-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 NextEra Energy Resources 250, Qualifying\nBobby Gerhart, Josh Reaume, Cody Ware, and B. J. McLeod would all fail to qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281382-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Niagara Region municipal elections\nElections were held in the Niagara Region of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281382-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Niagara Region municipal elections, Regional Chair\nFor the first time, the chair of regional council was to be directly elected. However, on the last day of candidate registration the Ontario Government announced they would be cancelling this council race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281382-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Niagara Region municipal elections, Regional Chair\nAt the time of this cancellation, five candidates were registered to run for he chair position. Incumbent chair Al Caslin and Pelham Mayor Dave Augstyn both decided to run for a regional council seat in their respective municipalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281382-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Niagara Region municipal elections, Niagara Falls, Regional Council\nThree to be elected. Regional councillors do not sit in city council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281382-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Niagara Region municipal elections, St. Catharines\nThe 2018 St. Catharines municipal election took place on Monday October 22, 2018 to determine a mayor, regional and city councillors and school trustees in the city of St. Catharines, Ontario. The election of a regional chair was also scheduled, but was cancelled by the provincial government led by Premier Doug Ford on Friday July 27, 2018, the registration deadline for candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281382-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Niagara Region municipal elections, St. Catharines, Regional Council\nSix to be elected at-large. Regional councillors do not sit in city council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281382-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Niagara Region municipal elections, Welland, Welland City Council, Ward 3\nA by-election was held on August 9, 2021 in Ward 3 to fill the vacancy of Lucas Spinosa who resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281383-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicholls Colonels football team\nThe 2018 Nicholls Colonels football team represented Nicholls State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Colonels were led by fourth-year head coach Tim Rebowe and played their home games at Manning Field at John L. Guidry Stadium. They were a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 9\u20134, 7\u20132 in Southland play to win a share of the Southland Conference championship. They received the Southland's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated San Diego in the first round, before losing in the second round to Eastern Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281383-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicholls Colonels football team, Previous season\nThe Colonels finished the 2017 season with an overall record of 8\u20134 and a 7\u20132 record in Southland play to finish in a tie for third place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they were defeated by South Dakota in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281383-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicholls Colonels football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Teams\nOn July 12, 2018, the Southland announced their Preseason All-Conference Teams, with the Colonels having a conference leading 14 players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281383-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicholls Colonels football team, Preseason, Preseason Poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Southland announced their preseason poll, with the Colonels predicted to finish in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281383-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicholls Colonels football team, Game summaries, Sam Houston State\nat Manning Field at John L. Guidry Stadium, Thibodaux, LA", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281383-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicholls Colonels football team, Game summaries, Lamar\nat Manning Field at John L. Guidry Stadium, Thibodaux, LA", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281383-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicholls Colonels football team, Game summaries, Incarnate Word\nat Manning Field at John L. Guidry Stadium, Thibodaux, LA", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281383-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicholls Colonels football team, Game summaries, Stephen F. Austin\nat Manning Field at John L. Guidry Stadium, Thibodaux, LA", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281383-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicholls Colonels football team, Game summaries, Southeastern Louisiana\nat Manning Field at John L. Guidry Stadium, Thibodaux, LA", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281383-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicholls Colonels football team, FCS Playoffs, San Diego (First Round)\nat Manning Field at John L. Guidry Stadium, Thibodaux, LA", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281384-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicky Rackard Cup\nThe 2018 Nicky Rackard Cup was the 14th staging of the Nicky Rackard Cup hurling championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 2005. It was the fourth tier of senior inter-county hurling as of 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281384-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicky Rackard Cup\nThe competition began on Saturday 12 May 2018 and ended on Saturday 23 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281384-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicky Rackard Cup\nDerry were the 2017 champions, beating Armagh in the final. Both teams were promoted to the 2018 Christy Ring Cup as a result of the restructuring of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Following the withdrawal of the Fingal team from the competition in 2017, there was no relegation from the 2017 competition and Warwickshire were promoted from the 2017 Lory Meagher Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281384-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicky Rackard Cup, Format\nBeginning in 2018, the Nicky Rackard Cup changed to an initial stage of two groups, which in 2018 consisted of one group of four teams and one group of three teams. Previously it was a double elimination tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281384-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicky Rackard Cup, Format\nThe top two teams from both groups advance to the knockout semi-finals. The winners of the 2018 Nicky Rackard Cup are promoted to the 2019 Christy Ring Cup. Two teams will be relegated from the 2018 Christy Ring Cup to the 2019 Nicky Rackard Cup to make the 2019 completion into two groups of four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281384-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicky Rackard Cup, Format\nThe bottom teams from each group playoff in a relegation match with the losers playing in the 2019 Lory Meagher Cup. They are replaced by the winners of the 2018 Lory Meagher Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281384-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicky Rackard Cup, Knockout Stage, Semi-finals\nThe Group 1 winners play the Group 2 runners-up and the Group 2 winners play the Group 1 runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281384-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicky Rackard Cup, Knockout Stage, Cup Final\nThe semi-final winners met in the Nicky Rackard Cup final at Croke Park with the winners being promoted to the Christy Ring Cup for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281384-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Nicky Rackard Cup, Relegation Playoff\nThe bottom teams in each group - the fourth placed team in group 1 and the third placed team in group 2 - meet in a relegation playoff. The winners remain in the Nicky Rackard Cup for 2019, while the losers are relegated to the 2019 Lory Meagher Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281385-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nidahas Trophy\nThe 2018 Nidahas Trophy was a cricket tournament that was held in Sri Lanka in March 2018. It was a tri-nation series between Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. Each team played each other twice, with two teams progressing to the final. The tournament was played to celebrate Sri Lanka's 70th year of independence; the title derives from the Sinhalese \u0db1\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dc4\u0dc3\u0dca nidahas, meaning \"freedom.\" Sri Lanka Cricket confirmed that the matches would be played as Twenty20 International fixtures. The fixtures and venue were announced in November 2017, with all the matches played at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. This was the first occasion that Discovery Networks Asia Pacific channel DSport acquired media rights to broadcast live cricket matches involving the Indian cricket team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281385-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nidahas Trophy\nThe opening match of the tournament, between Sri Lanka and India, was held under tight security following the a state of emergency in Sri Lanka. It was imposed by Sri Lanka's government following the violence between Muslims and Sinhalese Buddhists in areas such as Ampara and Kandy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281385-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nidahas Trophy\nIndia progressed to the final after they beat Bangladesh by 17 runs in the fifth T20I match. Bangladesh joined India in the final, after they beat Sri Lanka by 2 wickets in the final group game. In the final, India beat Bangladesh by four wickets to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281385-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nidahas Trophy, Squads\nInitially, Shakib Al Hasan was ruled out of Bangladesh's squad before the start of the tournament due to injury. He was replaced by Liton Das with Mahmudullah named as captain. However, Shakib rejoined the Bangladesh squad ahead of the sixth T20I match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281385-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Nidahas Trophy, Squads\nSri Lanka's captain Dinesh Chandimal was given a two-match ban for a slow over-rate following the match against Bangladesh on 10 March 2018. Thisara Perera was named as Sri Lanka's captain in Chandimal's absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281385-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Nidahas Trophy, Controversy\nDuring the sixth T20I match between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, Shakib Al Hasan accused the umpires for not signalling a no-ball delivery when Isuru Udana bowled two bouncer deliveries to Mustafizur Rahman in the last over of the match, when Bangladesh needed 12 runs off six balls to win. Mahmudullah, who was on the non-striker's end when Mustafizur Rahman was batting, demanded that a no-ball be signalled by the on-field umpires. Shakib later threatened to leave the field and recalled the batsmen from the field as a result of the umpiring errors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281385-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Nidahas Trophy, Controversy\nReserve Bangladeshi cricketer Nurul Hasan was also suspected to have breached the code of conduct for arguing with Sri Lankan captain Thisara Perera. It was also revealed that Shakib exchanged insults with Sri Lankan commentator Russell Arnold. The International Cricket Council (ICC) later imposed a 25 percent fine on match fees and issued a demerit point to both Shakib and Nurul Hasan for breaching the code of ethics. After the sixth T20I between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh concluded, the door to the Bangladeshi dressing room was shattered. It was later revealed that Shakib Al Hasan accidentally broke the glass door by pulling it backwards rather than pulling from the forward position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281386-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships\nThe 2018 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 27th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Winnetka, United States between 9 and 14 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281386-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281386-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281387-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nSanchai Ratiwatana and Christopher Rungkat were the defending champions but only Rungkat chose to defend his title, partnering Roberto Mayt\u00edn. Rungkat lost in the final to Austin Krajicek and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281387-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nKrajicek and Nedunchezhiyan won the title after defeating Mayt\u00edn and Rungkat 6\u20137(4\u20137), 6\u20134, [10\u20135] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281388-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nAkira Santillan was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281388-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nEvgeny Karlovskiy won the title after defeating Jason Jung 6\u20133, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281389-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Niger Cup\nThe 2018 Coupe nationale du Niger is the 43rd edition of the Coupe nationale du Niger, the knockout football competition of Niger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281389-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Niger Cup, Round 1\nAS Forces Arm\u00e9es Nig\u00e9riennes (Niamey)\t lt US Gendarmerie Nationale (Niamey)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281389-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Niger Cup, Round 1\nUrana FC d' Arlit (Agadez) \t\t bt Arewa FC de Doutchi (Dosso)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281389-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Niger Cup, Round 2\nUrana FC d' Arlit (Agadez)\t\t drw AS Universit\u00e9 AM (Niamey)\t\t[AS Universit\u00e9 on pen]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281389-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Niger Cup, Round 2\nAS Garde Nationale (Niamey)\t\t 2-1 Akokana FC d' Arlit (Agadez)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281389-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Niger Cup, Semifinals\nAS Garde Nationale (Niamey)\t\t2-0 ASN NIGELEC (Niamey)\t\t[3-0 agg]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281389-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Niger Cup, Final\nAS Garde Nationale (Niamey)\t\t0-0 Racing FC (Niamey)\t\t\t[5-4 pen]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup\nThe 2018 Nigeria Federation Cup (known as the 2018 Aiteo Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the 77th edition of the football tournament. This edition of the competition began on 9 September 2018 and ended on 24 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, First round\nFirst round matches were played from 9 September to 11 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Second round\nSecond round matches were played from 16, 17 September and 19 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Group stage, Group A\nRound 2 [Sep 26]Katsina United 0-1 Enyimba J. Atete 1-3 Plateau United", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Group stage, Group A\nRound 3 [Sep 27]J. Atete 2-4 Katsina UnitedPlateau United 1-1 Enyimba", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Group stage, Group A\nRound 1 [Sep 28] (moved from Sep 24)Plateau United 0-1 Katsina UnitedJ. Atete 0-5 Enyimba", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Group stage, Group B\nRound 1 [Sep 24] Enugu Rangers 2-1 El-Kanemi WarriorsSunshine Stars 1-1 Supreme Court", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Group stage, Group B\nRound 2 [Sep 26]Sunshine Stars 1-1 El-Kanemi Warriors Supreme Court n/p Enugu Rangers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Group stage, Group B\nRound 3 [Sep 28]Enugu Rangers 0-0 Sunshine StarsEl-Kaneni Warriors 1-0 Supreme Court", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Group stage, Group C\nRound 1 [Sep 24]Kwara United 5-1 Abia WarriorsKano Pillars 3-2 Rivers United", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Group stage, Group C\nRound 2 [Sep 26]Kano Pillars 1-2 Abia WarriorsRivers United 0-1 Kwara United", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Group stage, Group C\nRound 3 [Sep 28]Kano Pillars 2-1 Kwara UnitedRivers United 0-1 Abia Warriors", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Group stage, Group D\nRound 1 [Sep 24]Akwa United 1-0 Wikki TouristsNasarawa United 0-0 Kogi United", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Group stage, Group D\nRound 2 [Sep 26]Kogi United 0-1 Akwa UnitedNasarawa United 1-0 Wikki Tourists", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Group stage, Group D\nRound 3 [Sep 28]Akwa United 0-2 Nasarawa UnitedWikki Tourists 1-0 Kogi United", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Quarter-finals\nEnugu Rangers 1-1 Akwa United [4-2 pen] [Sani Abacha stadium, Kano]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Semi-finals\n[ Oct 10]Enugu Rangers 4-2 Nasarawa United [Sani Abacha stadium, Kano]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281390-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Federation Cup, Semi-finals\nKatsina United 2-2 Kano Pillars [1-4 pen] [Agege stadium, Lagos]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281391-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Professional Football League\nThe 2018 Nigeria Professional Football League was the 47th season of the Nigeria Premier League, the top Nigerian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1972, and the 28th since the rebranding of the league as the \"Professional League\". Plateau United won the 2017 season, their first ever title, which came in their second season after being promoted to the top flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281391-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Professional Football League, Clubs\nA total of 20 teams contested the league including 16 teams from the previous season and four teams promoted from the Nigeria National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281391-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Professional Football League, League table\nThe league was suspended after 24 rounds due to administrative problems. On 31 August 2018, the Nigeria Professional Football League announced the season was deemed concluded. No champions were awarded and the bottom four teams were not relegated. Lobi Stars, as leaders at the time of the suspension, were nominated as the Nigerian representatives in the 2018\u201319 CAF Champions League. Four teams were promoted from the Nigeria National League and 24 teams will compete in the 2018\u201319 Nigeria Professional Football League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281392-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Women Premier League\nThe 2018 Nigeria Women Premier League began on April 7 in a game featuring defending champions Nasarawa Amazons from Nasarawa State and FC Robo of Lagos State. The date was decided following a congress held in Ikeja on March 3. Prior to the game, a maiden super cup named the NWFL Champions Shield match was played between Aiteo Cup winners, Rivers Angels and Nasarawa Amazons to officially open the new season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281392-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Women Premier League\nAt the end of the 2017 season, Sure Babes of Ilorin, Jokodolu Babes of Ogbomosho and Taraba Queens of Taraba State were promoted to compete in the elite division pending registration procedures, while Saadatu Amazons of Minna and Heartland Queens of Owerri were relegated to the pro league. In May 2018, the league went on a mid-season break due to the 2018 FIFA World Cup, this was further elongated after an emerging NFF leadership crisis. In August 2018, it was announced that the remaining games of the league will commence September 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281392-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Women Premier League, Format\nThe teams are divided into two groups of eight teams, of which the top two teams from each group will play in a super 4 mini-tournament tagged the NWPL Super 4 at the end of the season to determine the overall winner of the league. Each team is to play every team in her group twice on a home and away basis. The last placed teams in each group will be relegated to the pro league (division 2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281392-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Women Premier League, Memorable moments\nIn a week 8 fixture, FC Robo defeated Abia Angels with Nigerian international, Rasheedat Ajibade scoring 4 goals in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281392-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nigeria Women Premier League, Nigeria Women Pro League - Division 2\nThe division two teams seeking to gain promotion ahead of the 2019 Nigeria Women Premier League were Moje Queens of Kwara State, Police Machine of Akwa Ibom, Saadatu Amazons of Minna, Gift of Life, Invincible Angels of Gboko, Dream Stars of Lagos and Faith Hill Queens. In November 2018, it was confirmed that Dream Stars and Invincible Angels will be promoted to the elite division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281393-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Niigata gubernatorial election\nA gubernatorial election was held on 10 June 2018 to elect the next Governor of Niigata. Incumbent Governor Ryuichi Yoneyama resigned on 18 April 2018 in the wake of a sex scandal. This was also the first gubernatorial election in Niigata since the voting age was lowered to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281393-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Niigata gubernatorial election\nThe election was initially expected to be a de facto referendum on the anti-nuclear policies pursued by Gov. Yoneyama, particularly his opposition to the restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Central Niigata. Both the pro-nuclear and the anti-nuclear camps are coalescing towards one candidate to represent each camp. The pro-nuclear camp will be represented by Hideyo Hanazumi, who is endorsed by the governing LDP and Komeito. Anti -nuclear Chikako Ikeda will be the opposition's unity candidate in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281393-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Niigata gubernatorial election\nIn contrary to the policy of the parties that endorsed him, Hanazumi followed the opposition's line on nuclear energy, not unlike the one held by the incumbent governor. Hanazumi won the gubernatorial election by a narrow 3.4% margin. He vowed to continue Governor Yoneyama's approach on the issue of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant restart and related safety evaluations. In his victory speech, he also mentioned the possibility of resigning and holding another election mid-term to ask the populace whether the reactor should be restarted or not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281394-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ningbo Challenger\nThe 2018 Ningbo Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ningbo, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281394-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ningbo Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281395-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ningbo Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nRadu Albot and Rubin Statham were the defending champions but only Statham chose to defend his title, partnering Hiroki Moriya. Statham lost in the first round to Sriram Balaji and Saketh Myneni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281395-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ningbo Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nGong Maoxin and Zhang Ze won the title after defeating Hsieh Cheng-peng and Christopher Rungkat 7\u20135, 2\u20136, [10\u20135] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281396-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ningbo Challenger \u2013 Singles\nMikhail Youzhny was the defending champion but retired from professional tennis earlier in the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281396-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ningbo Challenger \u2013 Singles\nThomas Fabbiano won the title after defeating Prajnesh Gunneswaran 7\u20136(7\u20134), 4\u20136, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala\nThe 2018 Kerala Nipah virus outbreak was an outbreak of the Nipah virus in Kerala, traced to the fruit bats in the area. The outbreak was localized in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts of Kerala and claimed 17 lives, The outbreak was contained and declared over on 10 June 2018. This was the third Nipah Virus outbreak in India, the earlier being in 2001 and 2007, both in the eastern state West Bengal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Timeline\nThe index case of the outbreak was reported at sub-divisional hospital in Perambra in Kozhikode district on May 2. This patient\u2014was later taken to the Government Medical College, Kozhikode for further treatment, where he later succumbed to the virus. Later, his brother Mohammed Salih was admitted to Baby Memorial Hospital, Kozhikode, with suspected viral encephalitis. A team of doctors at Baby Memorial Hospital, Kozhikode suspected Nipah, as the symptoms were similar to that of his brother who had died by then. The samples were tested at the Manipal Institute of Virology where it was confirmed as a case of Nipah; samples were also tested positive at National Institute of Virology, Pune.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Timeline\nThe index patient had passed the virus to 16 persons at Medical College Hospital; later two more were infected, increasing the total count of infected to 18. There were 10 deaths in the first week, including a nurse named Lini Puthussery who treated the index patient before diagnosis. The outbreak began in Kozhikode district and later spread to the adjoining Malappuram district. Health advisories were issued for Northern Kerala as well as the adjoining districts of Karnataka, with two suspected cases detected in Mangalore on 23 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Timeline\nOver 2,000 people in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts were quarantined and kept under observation during the period of the outbreak. To fight the outbreak, M 102.4\u2014a human monoclonal antibody for which clinical trials are still going on\u2014was imported from Australia. This was facilitated by renowned Nipah researcher Christopher Broder. The outbreak also lead to the revival of World Health Organization's Nipah Drug Trials Group, lead by Soumya Swaminathan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Timeline\nAfter Sabith, 16 of the affected patients succumbed to the disease and two patients recovered fully. The outbreak was officially declared over on 10 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Timeline, Other Nipah outbreaks\nA new case of a 23-year-old student was detected again on 4 June 2019 in Kochi. Over 300 people were put under observation, but no further cases were reported. The student later recovered. This is the fourth occurrence reported in India, with previous ones having occurred in 2001 (45 deaths), 2007 (5 deaths), and 2018 (17 deaths).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Timeline, Other Nipah outbreaks\nThree years later, on September 5, 2021, a 12-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus in Pazhur, Kozhikode, prompting an investigation and the possibility of a new outbreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Virology and epidemiology\nThe presence of the Nipah virus in patients was confirmed from RT-PCR tests conducted at the and the National Virology Institute, Pune.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Virology and epidemiology\nThough the first set of samples did not detect the virus in bats, later tests proved that fruit bats in the area were the source of the virus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Response\nOn 23 May 2018, Kerala Health Department issued a travel advisory asking travelers to the Northern districts of Kerala to be extra cautious.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Response\nOn 23 May 2018, State of Kerala, requesting medical advisory from Malaysian Health Department (Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia), for treatment and medicines for Nipah virus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Response\nOn 25 May 2018, sharing of Information of Virus was posted in the WHO EIS at Malaysian Time. On the same day, the Ministry of Health and Prevention of the United Arab Emirates advised postponing unnecessary travel to Kerala and avoiding its fruits and vegetables until the situation was under control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Response\nOn 30 May 2018 construction began on the Institute of Advanced Virology, Kerala, which was founded in response to the outbreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Response\nOn 1 June 2018, Thamarassery diocese in northern Kerala urged churches to stop giving Communion on the tongue, to postpone religious classes, and to avoid weddings and family get-togethers and unnecessary travel until the virus spread was contained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Recognition\nKerala's efforts in containing the outbreak under the leadership of the Health Minister K. K. Shailaja and the Health Secretary Rajeev Sadanandan and the then district collector were lauded by many, including the Kerala High Court and Robert Gallo of the Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Recognition\nKerala Government gave early increments to 61 people to reward them for their efforts in tackling this outbreak: 4 assistant professors, 19 staff nurses, 7 nursing assistants, 17 cleaning staff, 4 hospital attenders, 2 health inspectors, 4 security staff, 1 plumber, and 3 lab technicians. Twelve junior residents and two senior residents were also awarded gold medals of one sovereign each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Recognition\nLini Puthussery, a 28 year old nurse at the Perambra Taluk hospital who fell victim to Nipah was hailed on social media and by doctors as a hero for her sacrifice. A note she had written addressed to her husband Sajish was widely circulated on social media. Kerala Government Hospital Development Society (KGHDS) employees union instituted an award in Puthussery's name to an outstanding person in the sector. The \"Best Nurse in Public Service Award\" was instituted in memory of Puthussery. Jim Campbell, the Director of the Health Workforce of World Health Organisation also paid tribute, tweeting \"Remember them, lest we forget: Razan al-Najjar (Gaza); Lini Puthusserry (India), Salome Karwah (Liberia)\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, Recognition\nFollowing the outbreak government modernized it's only virology lab in Alappuzha and decided to establish more virology institutes in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281397-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, In popular culture\nVirus, a 2019 Indian Malayalam medical thriller film co-produced and directed by Aashiq Abu, released on 7 June 2019 was based on 2018 Kerala Nipah virus outbreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281398-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nipissing District municipal elections\nElections were held in the organized municipalities in the Nipissing District of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281399-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nippon Professional Baseball draft\nThe 2018 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on 25 October 2018 at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur baseball players to the NPB. It was arranged with the special cooperation of Taisho Pharmaceutical Co. with official naming rights. The draft was officially called \"The Professional Baseball Draft Meeting supported by Lipovitan D\". 2018 marked the 6th consecutive year in which Taisho Pharmaceuticals had sponsored the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281399-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nippon Professional Baseball draft, Summary\nOnly the first round picks were allowed to be contested with all picks from the second round onward being based on table placing in the 2018 NPB season in a waiver system. Waiver priority was based on inter-league results. As the Pacific League teams came out on top against Central League opposition, Pacific League teams were given preference. From the third round the order was reversed continuing in the same fashion until all picks were exhausted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281400-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nippon Professional Baseball season\nThe 2018 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 69th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281400-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nippon Professional Baseball season, Interleague results\nInterleague results are placed in order of current regular season standings. The 'I' column indicates the teams' interleague position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281400-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nippon Professional Baseball season, Interleague results\nThe interleague results are indicative only of the teams playing ability against those teams in the opposing league, and have no bearing on the placings or Climax Series'. The sponsor, Nippon Life, does hand out awards to players and teams based on their finishing in the Interleague standings, however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize\nThe 2018 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad \"for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict,\" according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee announcement on 5 October 2018 in Oslo, Norway. \"Both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on, and combating, such war crimes,\" according to the award citation. After reading the citation, Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen told reporters that the impact of this year's award is to highlight sexual abuse with the goal that every level of governance take responsibility to end such crimes and impunities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize\nThe citation also highlighted the historic context of the 2018 award: \"This year marks a decade since the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1820 (2008), which determined that the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict constitutes both a war crime and a threat to international peace and security. This is also set out in the Rome Statute of 1998, which governs the work of the International Criminal Court. The Statute establishes that sexual violence in war and armed conflict is a grave violation of international law. A more peaceful world can only be achieved if women and their fundamental rights and security are recognised and protected in war.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize\nMukwege is the first Congolese and Murad the seventeenth woman and first Iraqi to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Each delivered a Nobel lecture on December 10 at Oslo City Hall as part of the Nobel Peace Prize Award ceremony, which took place among main events scheduled during the December 9\u201311 \"Nobel days in Oslo.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Award announcement\nDenis Mukwege is a gynecologist specializing in the treatment of women victimized by sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nadia Murad is a Yazidi human rights advocate who survived sexual slavery by the Islamic State in Iraq and published a memoir of the ordeal. \"Each of them in their own way has helped to give greater visibility to war-time sexual violence, so that the perpetrators can be held accountable for their actions,\" reads the award citation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Award announcement\nNorwegian Nobel Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen commented on whether the Me Too movement inspired the Committee's award decision: \"Metoo and war crimes are not quite the same. But they have in common that they see the suffering of women, the abuse of women and that it is important that women leave the concept of shame behind and speak up.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Award announcement\nAt the time of the announcement in Oslo, neither awardee could be reached and informed of winning the prize. \"I was in the operating room so when they started to make noise around (it) I wasn't really thinking about what was going on and suddenly some people came in and told me the news,\" Mukwege told Norwegian daily VG after completing his second surgery of the day, \"It was so touching when I was operating and I heard people start to cry and it was so, so, so touching.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Award announcement\n\"I can see in the faces of many women how they are happy to be recognised, and this is really so touching,\" he said when informed by phone of the news. Later addressing colleagues and supporters at the hospital, he said: \"dear survivors around the world, I want to tell you that through this prize the world is listening to you and refuses indifference ... We hope that the world will no longer delay taking action in your favour, with force and determination, because the survival of humanity depends on you. It's you women who carry humanity.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Award announcement\n\"I hope that it will help bring justice for those women who suffered from sexual violence,\" said Murad, learning of the award while in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She said she will share her award \"with Yazidis, Iraqis, Kurds, other persecuted minorities and all of the countless victims of sexual violence around the world\" and will be thinking of her mother, who was slain by IS militants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Award announcement\nMiddlebury College President Laurie L. Patton wrote in an email, \"This is by far the best cancellation notice I have ever had to write,\" when Murad had to cancel as guest speaker delivering the night of the award announcement a presentation entitled \"Hope Has an Expiration Date: Exploring the Plight of Victims of Ethnic and Religious Violence in the Middle East.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions\nTweeted reactions began pouring in immediately following the announcement, with Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth calling it a \"long awaited Nobel recognition\", Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland calling it \"the best Nobel Prize in a long time\", and the government of Iraq expressing \"deepest respect\" for Murad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions\nThe only Yazidi in Iraq's Parliament, Vian Dakhil wrote in a statement that Murad \"proved to the whole world that the will of life and peace is above the savagery of terrorism and hard-liner ideas,\" and Iraqi President Barham Salih tweeted that \"Nadia's honor reflects the world's recognition of the Yazidis tragedy, and all victims of terrorism in Iraq.\" \"We hope that this recognition will help Nadia and Yazidis endeavours to bring justice, peace, and coexistence\", tweeted the non-governmental organization Yazda. Hussam Abdullah of the Yazidi Organization for Documentation said \"this win represents the international recognition of the genocide that was committed by Daesh,\" referring to the Sinjar massacre in August 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions\nAmong various remarks from the United Nations, UN\u00a0Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said: \"By honouring these defenders of human dignity, this prize also recognizes countless victims around the world who have too often been stigmatized, hidden and forgotten. This is their award, too...\u00a0Let us honour these new Nobel laureates by standing up for victims of sexual violence everywhere.\" And UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said: \"Nadia and Denis, I'm sure I speak for all human rights defenders, when I say we salute you, we admire you beyond words.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions\nYou have fought for the pain women have suffered through sexual abuse to be recognized and confronted, and for their dignity to be restored. We need more people to stand up the way you have stood up for the rights of women, for justice, for the rights of minorities, for the rights of everyone.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions\nOther world leaders applauding the two laureates included DR Congo government spokesman Lambert Mende, President of the European Council Donald Tusk, European Commission spokesperson Natasha Bertaud, Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg, and Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Laureates' work\nSince 1999, at the onset of the Kivu conflict, Mukwege and Panzi Hospital which he founded in Bukavu have treated some 50,000 women sexually victimized and their children born of sexual violence. Journalist Nicholas Kristoff recounts Dr. Mukwege's efforts in eastern Congo, since interviewing him in 2010, at repairing mass rape victims' horrific internal injuries and speaking out on their behalf at risk of his and his family's life, and Murad's efforts since her abduction and enslavement in 2014 at speaking publicly about the plight of the Yazidis especially women and girls forced into sexual slavery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Award ceremony\nSince 1990, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded every year on 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, by the Norwegian Nobel Committee chair in a ceremony at Oslo City Hall that includes the laureate's Nobel lecture in the presence of the King of Norway and royal family. The laureate receives a Nobel diploma, medal and document confirming the Nobel Prize amount.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Award ceremony\nIn the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize award presentation speech, committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen reiterated the committee's decision to award Mukwege and Murad for their respective efforts to address the war crimes of sexual violence, commending them to the \"long tradition of champions of human dignity\" also celebrated on this date, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Award ceremony\nIn her Nobel lecture, Nadia Murad described the plight of the Yazidi community from her own experience and yet her \"hope that today marks the beginning of a new era ... to define a new roadmap to protect women, children and minorities from persecution, in particular victims of sexual violence,\" calling on the international community to \"unite to fight injustice and oppression\" and \"raise our voices together\" to say \"no to violence, yes to peace, no to slavery, yes to freedom, no to racial discrimination, yes to equality and to human rights for all.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Award ceremony\nIn his Nobel lecture, Dennis Mukwege recounted unspeakably horrific suffering of especially babies, girls and women he has treated at Panzi Hospital for mass rape and mutilation since the First Congo War, suffering \"that shames our common humanity.\" With hundreds of thousands raped, 4 million internally displaced and 6 million killed, he said, \"only the fight against impunity can break the spiral of violence.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Award ceremony, Torchlight parade\nThe traditional torchlight parade in honour of the Nobel laureates on 10 December 2018 was organised by the Norwegian Peace Council in cooperation with five NGOs who work in the field of women's rights and humanitarian relief, the Norwegian Women's Lobby, the Forum for Women and Development, Norwegian Church Aid, Plan International Norway and JOIN Good Forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Committee\nTasked with reviewing nominations from September of the previous year through February 1 and ultimately selecting the Prize winners, the Norwegian Parliament-appointed members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee at the time of the 2018 prize were listed as:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Committee\nThe Nobel Committee considered 331 nominations for the 2018 prize, of which 216 were individuals and 115 were organizations, second highest to the record 376 candidates in 2016. Odds makers' favorites included the Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un, the President of South Korea Moon Jae-in, and the President of the United States Donald Trump for their role in the earlier 2018 thaw in North Korea\u2013South Korea relations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281401-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Committee\nThe PRIO Director's \"shortlist\" included the World Food Programme for addressing hunger and food security; Dr. Denis Mukwege, Nadia Murad and Tarana Burke for their respective advocacies against sexual violence; SOS M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e, Doctors Without Borders and the International Rescue Committee for their respective humanitarian work on migration crises in the Mediterranean region and Libya; Oby Ezekwesili and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative for championing anti-corruption and transparency in the link between armed conflict and extractive natural resource governance; and Reporters Without Borders for highlighting injustices against journalists reporting on conflicts and atrocities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281402-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Prize in Literature\nThe 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk \"for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281402-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Prize in Literature\nThe prize was awarded in 2019. It was announced by the Swedish Academy on 10 October 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281402-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, Laureate\nOlga Tokarczuk is noted for a mythical tone in her writing and she is often inspired by maps and the perspective from above. Her magnum opus is considered to be the historical novel The Books of Jacob.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281402-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, Reactions\nThe choice of Olga Tokarczuk as Nobel Prize Leareate was generally well received. \"The Swedish Academy has made many mistakes in recent years\", wrote Claire Armistead in The Guardian, \"but in the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, it has found not only a fine winner but a culturally important one.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281402-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, Award ceremony prize presentation\nIn his award ceremony prize presentation on 10 December 2019 Per W\u00e4stberg, member of the Swedish Academy, said of Tokarczuk: \"Her fusion of intensive embodiment and ephemeral unreality, intimate observation and mythological obsession, make her one of our time\u2019s most original prose writers, with new ways of viewing reality. She is a virtuoso of instant portraiture, capturing characters in the act of escaping daily life. She writes of what no one else does: \u201cthe world\u2019s excruciating strangeness\u201d. \"Her prose \u2013 drastic, rich in ideas \u2013 is in nomadic movement throughout her fifteen or so books. Her villages are centres of the universe, the place a protagonist, its singular destinies woven into a fresco of fable and myth.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281402-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel lecture\nIn her Nobel lecture The Tender Narrator, delivered at the Swedish Academy on 7 December 2019, Olga Tokarczuk spoke about her belief in the power of literature in a world of information overload and divisive narratives. The lecture was named \"Emerging Europe's Artistic Achievement 2020\" by the organisation Emerging Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281403-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nokere Koerse\nThe 2018 Nokere Koerse was the 73rd edition of the Nokere Koerse road cycling one day race. It was held on 14 March 2018 as part of the UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281403-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nokere Koerse\nThe race was won by Fabio Jakobsen of Quick-Step Floors, ahead of Amaury Capiot and Hugo Hofstetter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281403-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nokere Koerse, Teams\nTwenty-three teams of up to seven riders started the race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281404-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nor.Ca. Men's Handball Championship\nThe 2018 Nor.Ca. Men's Handball Championship was the second edition of the Men's Nor.Ca. Men's Handball Championship. The tournament was held in Mexico City at the Centro deportivo Olimpico Mexicano from 3 to 8 April 2018. It acted as the North American and Caribbean qualifying tournament for the 2018 Pan American Men's Handball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281405-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2018 Nordic Artistic Gymnastics Championships was an artistic gymnastics competition held in Farum, Denmark. The event was held between 29 June and 1 July. The competition featured both senior and junior fields.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281406-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Golf League\nThe 2018 Nordic Golf League was the 20th season of the Nordic Golf League, one of four third-tier tours recognised by the European Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281406-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Golf League, Graduates\nThe top five players on the Nordic Golf League Ranking earn Challenge Tour cards for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281407-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships\nThe FIS Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Championships 2018 took place in Kandersteg and Goms, Switzerland from 27 January to 4 February 2018. This was the 41st Junior World Championships and the 13th Under-23 World Championships in nordic skiing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281408-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Naturals Challenger\nThe 2018 Nordic Naturals Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 31st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Aptos, United States between 6 and 12 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281408-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Naturals Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281408-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Naturals Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281408-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Naturals Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw using special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281409-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Naturals Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nJonathan Erlich and Neal Skupski were the defending champions but chose to defend their title with different partners. Erlich partnered Ruan Roelofse but lost in the first round to Thanasi Kokkinakis and Matt Reid. Skupski partnered Luke Bambridge but lost in the semifinals to Kokkinakis and Reid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281409-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Naturals Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nKokkinakis and Reid won the title after defeating Jonny O'Mara and Joe Salisbury 6\u20132, 4\u20136, [10\u20138] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281410-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Naturals Challenger \u2013 Singles\nAlexander Bublik was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281410-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Naturals Challenger \u2013 Singles\nThanasi Kokkinakis won the title after defeating Lloyd Harris 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281411-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Opening\nThe 2018 Nordic Opening or the third Lillehammer Triple was the 9th edition of the Nordic Opening, an annual cross-country skiing mini-tour event. The three-day event was the second competition round of the 2018\u201319 FIS Cross-Country World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281411-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Opening, Overall leadership\nThe results in the overall standings were calculated by adding each skier's finishing times on each stage. On the sprint stage, the winners were awarded 30 bonus seconds, no bonus seconds were awarded on stages two and three. The skier with the lowest cumulative time would be the overall winner of the Nordic Opening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281411-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Opening, Overall leadership\nA total of CHF 240,000, both genders included, was awarded in cash prizes in the race. The overall winners of the Nordic Opening received CHF 22,500, with the second and third placed skiers getting CHF 17,500 and CHF 11,000 respectively. All finishers in the top 20 were awarded money. CHF 5,000 was given to the winners of each stage of the race, with smaller amounts given to places second and third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281411-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Opening, World Cup points distribution\nThe overall winners were awarded 200 points. The winners of each of the three stages are awarded 50 points. The maximum number of points an athlete can earn is therefore 350 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281412-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nordic Under-17 Football Championship\nThe 2018 Nordic Under-17 Football Championship was the 42nd edition of the Nordic Under-17 Football Championship. It was held in Faroe Islands from 5 to 11 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281413-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Norfolk State Spartans football team\nThe 2018 Norfolk State Spartans football team represented Norfolk State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Latrell Scott and played their home games at William \"Dick\" Price Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). They finished the season 4\u20137, 2\u20135 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281413-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Norfolk State Spartans football team, Previous season\nThe Spartans finished the 2017 season 4\u20137, 4\u20134 in MEAC play to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281413-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Norfolk State Spartans football team, Preseason, MEAC preseason poll\nIn a vote of the MEAC head coaches and sports information directors, the Spartans were picked to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281413-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Norfolk State Spartans football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MEAC Teams\nThe Spartans had seven players at eight positions selected to the preseason all-MEAC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 78], "content_span": [79, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281413-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Norfolk State Spartans football team, Schedule\nDespite also being a member of the MEAC, the game vs South Carolina State will be considered a non-conference game and have no effect on the MEAC standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281413-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Norfolk State Spartans football team, Game summaries, James Madison\nDue to inclement weather, the JMU\u2013Norfolk State game was mutually ended after the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281413-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Norfolk State Spartans football team, Game summaries, at Liberty\nThis game was originally scheduled for September 15, but was moved to December 1 due to Hurricane Florence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281414-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Norrbotten regional election\nNorrbotten County or Region Norrbotten held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281414-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Norrbotten regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 71 with the Health Care Party winning the most seats at 27, overtaking the Social Democrats at 23, after having trailed the Social Democrats by eight seats in 2014. The Health Care Party became the first party to supplant the Social Democrats as the largest party in any election in Norrbotten in the post world-war era. The party received 34.7\u00a0% compared to 29.6\u00a0% for the Social Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281415-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Alabama Lions football team\nThe 2018 North Alabama Lions football team represented the University of North Alabama during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Chris Willis. The Lions played their home games at Braly Municipal Stadium and were competing as an FCS Independent. They finished the season 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281415-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Alabama Lions football team, Previous season\nThe Lions finished the season 5\u20135, 5\u20133 in Gulf South Conference (GSC) play to finish in a five-way tie for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281415-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Alabama Lions football team, Previous season\nThis was their final season as a member of the GSC and NCAA Division II as they will begin a transition to NCAA Division I and the Football Championship Subdivision where they will be a member of the Big South Conference in 2019 after playing 2018 as an FCS independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281416-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North American Soccer League season\nThe 2018 North American Soccer League season would have been the eighth season of the modern North American Soccer League (NASL), but was canceled after the league was denied a preliminary injunction to prevent the loss of their Division II status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281416-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North American Soccer League season, League news\nThe previous season's champion was the San Francisco Deltas who defeated the New York Cosmos in Soccer Bowl 2017. The Deltas folded after the 2017 season, citing financial difficulty and the uncertainty surrounding the future of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281416-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North American Soccer League season, League news\nPrior to the 2017 season, the league's Division II status was downgraded by the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) to a provisional sanctioning after league membership decreased to less than the 12 required by the Federation. At the same time, the USSF also promoted the former Division III league, the United Soccer League (USL), to a provisional Division II sanctioning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281416-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North American Soccer League season, League news\nDuring the 2017 season, the NASL announced two more expansion teams in California: San Diego 1904 FC in San Diego and California United FC in Orange County. The additions would have brought the 2018 league members only up to 10, still short of the 12 required for Division II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281416-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North American Soccer League season, League news\nOn September 5, 2017, the USSF announced the NASL would not be granted Division II sanctioning for the upcoming 2018 season. Two weeks later on September 19, the NASL announced it was filing an antitrust lawsuit against the USSF over the sanctioning. A federal judge denied the league's request for a mandatory injunction against the USSF to regain its Division II designation in November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281416-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North American Soccer League season, League news\nTwo weeks later on November 16, North Carolina FC left the league to join the USL. FC Edmonton and the San Francisco Deltas then announced they would cease professional operations citing the uncertainty about the divisional status of the league. Indy Eleven would also join the USL in January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281416-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North American Soccer League season, League news\nDue to the continuing litigation in regards to its status with the USSF, the league announced a move to an international season in January 2018. The new schedule postponed the start of the season until August 2018. Following the postponement of the 2018 season, Jacksonville Armada FC and Miami FC announced they would launch teams in the lower division National Premier Soccer League for at least the spring portion of the 2018 season, but had not ruled out continuing in the NASL once the season begins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281416-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North American Soccer League season, League news\nOn February 23, 2018, the appeals court denied that NASL a preliminary injunction to prevent the loss of their Division II sanctioning. Four days later, the NASL announced that it had canceled the 2018 season entirely and hoped to return for a 2019 season. Following that announcement, San Diego 1904 FC announced that it had withdrawn from the NASL the previous month and was looking to move to the USL for 2019 instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave\nThe 2018 North American heat wave affected regions of Canada, where at least 70 deaths in Quebec were heat-related, the United States, where 18 states between Michigan and New Mexico issued heat advisories to a population of over 60 million people, and of Mexico, particularly the northwest and central regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, Canada, Quebec and Ontario\nFrom 1 to 6 July 2018, the air temperature consistently rose above 35\u00a0\u00b0C (95.0\u00a0\u00b0F) in parts of Quebec and Ontario. The humidex value for Ottawa on Canada Day between noon and 3 pm was 47, the highest ever recorded in the city. The humidex also peaked at 46 in Toronto and 45 in Montreal. The heat wave also affected the Maritimes, with the humidex value reaching 35 in Halifax and 45 at Greenwood in the Annapolis Valley, on 5 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, Canada, Quebec and Ontario\nOn 4 July, Montreal emergency services reported twelve hundred calls per day about the heat, up 30% from prior busiest days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, Canada, Quebec and Ontario\nAs of 10 July, seventy-four people, most of them already ill, had died heat-related deaths in Quebec. This province's death toll is reported as much higher than others' because of its looser rules for attributing death to heat. In Ontario, where only accidental deaths directly caused by heat are counted, the coroner's office is investigating three possible cases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, Canada, Maritime provinces\nWhile the heat wave ended on 10 July in Central Canada, this was not so for the Maritimes. On the 23rd of July, the interaction between a far-northwest Azores-Bermuda High and a trough over Ontario led to the issuing of heat warnings for all three Maritime Provinces, with several locations reporting humidex values in excess of 36. In Halifax, the heat wave contributed to a record-breaking number of hot days in July, with the airport reporting daily high temperatures in excess of 25 degrees Celsius on twenty-two days that month, breaking the previous record of twenty-one days set in 2008, 2003, and 1924.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, Canada, Western Canada, British Columbia\nOn 8 and 9 August, temperatures reached high levels in Metro Vancouver. The daily highs in Abbotsford were 35.6\u00a0\u00b0C (96.1\u00a0\u00b0F) and 34.1\u00a0\u00b0C (93.4\u00a0\u00b0F) respectively. Temperatures on the waterfront of Vancouver reached 31.0\u00a0\u00b0C (87.8\u00a0\u00b0F) and 30.8\u00a0\u00b0C (87.4\u00a0\u00b0F). The hottest temperature reached in the Lower Mainland was 36.5\u00a0\u00b0C (97.7\u00a0\u00b0F) in Cultus Lake. Cranbrook broke its record for August of 37.2\u00a0\u00b0C (99.0\u00a0\u00b0F), and the all-time record of 38.9\u00a0\u00b0C (102.0\u00a0\u00b0F), with temperatures reaching 40.5\u00a0\u00b0C (104.9\u00a0\u00b0F). Creston broke its August record of 38.0\u00a0\u00b0C (100.4\u00a0\u00b0F), reaching 38.7\u00a0\u00b0C (101.7\u00a0\u00b0F), but did not break the all-time record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, Canada, Western Canada, Alberta\nThe largest city to break an all-time record was Calgary, with temperatures reaching 36.7\u00a0\u00b0C (98.1\u00a0\u00b0F). The previous record for August was 35.6\u00a0\u00b0C (96.1\u00a0\u00b0F), while the all-time record was 36.1\u00a0\u00b0C (97.0\u00a0\u00b0F). Temperatures in Lethbridge reached 40.5\u00a0\u00b0C (104.9\u00a0\u00b0F), breaking the previous August record of 38.9\u00a0\u00b0C (102.0\u00a0\u00b0F), and surpassing its all-time record of 40.0\u00a0\u00b0C (104.0\u00a0\u00b0F). Medicine Hat reached 40.4\u00a0\u00b0C (104.7\u00a0\u00b0F), the warmest recorded temperature since 1969. Barnwell recorded the highest temperature of 40.8\u00a0\u00b0C (105.4\u00a0\u00b0F) during the heat wave on August 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, Canada, Western Canada, Saskatchewan\nThe core heat passed over Saskatchewan on August 10 and 11. Numerous temperature readings above 40.0\u00a0\u00b0C (104.0\u00a0\u00b0F) were recorded across the province including in Assiniboia and Swift Current, which both recorded 2 consecutive days with high temperatures above 40.0\u00a0\u00b0C (104.0\u00a0\u00b0F). This was the first time maximum temperatures greater than 40.0\u00a0\u00b0C (104.0\u00a0\u00b0F) were recorded since 2003. Numerous monthly records were set including in Moose Jaw, where the temperature reached 42.3\u00a0\u00b0C (108.1\u00a0\u00b0F), and Regina where the maximum temperature was 41.3\u00a0\u00b0C (106.3\u00a0\u00b0F).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, Canada, Western Canada, Manitoba\nNumerous daily records were set across Manitoba on August 11 and 12. High temperatures of 40.0\u00a0\u00b0C (104.0\u00a0\u00b0F) were recorded on Manitoba Agriculture weather stations in both Elm Creek and Waskada on August 12. These were the first 40.0\u00a0\u00b0C (104.0\u00a0\u00b0F) readings in Manitoba since 1989. Melita recorded three consecutive days with temperatures above 35.0\u00a0\u00b0C (95.0\u00a0\u00b0F) from August 10\u201312, peaking at 39.6\u00a0\u00b0C (103.3\u00a0\u00b0F) on August 12. On August 12 in Winnipeg, temperatures peaked at 37.5\u00a0\u00b0C (99.5\u00a0\u00b0F), the warmest temperature since 1995, with the humidex reaching 45.0, the third highest August humidex on record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, California\nOn 6 July, the temperature at UCLA was 111\u00a0\u00b0F (43.9\u00a0\u00b0C), breaking the all-time high temperature record of 109\u00a0\u00b0F (42.8\u00a0\u00b0C) set in 1939 but still 6\u00a0\u00b0F (3.3\u00a0\u00b0C) lower than the record 117\u00a0\u00b0F (47.2\u00a0\u00b0C) set in Woodland Hills, a Los Angeles neighborhood, at about 1 p.m. local time the same day, according to the weather service. Elsewhere in California, Santa Ana and Ramona hit respective record highs of 114\u00a0\u00b0F (45.6\u00a0\u00b0C) and 117\u00a0\u00b0F (47.2\u00a0\u00b0C). The combined conditions of heat and dryness fueled wildfires that caused one fatality and hundreds of evacuations. In Palm Springs the temperature reached 119\u00a0\u00b0F (48.3\u00a0\u00b0C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, California\nOn 7 July, approximately 34,000 customers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (about 2.5% of its base) experienced power outages, some for up to 24 hours. The previous day, peak energy-demand set a new record for any July day in the city, at 6,256 megawatts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, California\nOn July 23 Palm Springs' temperature reached 119\u00a0\u00b0F (48.3\u00a0\u00b0C) again. On July 24 the temperature hit 121\u00a0\u00b0F (49.4\u00a0\u00b0C), two degrees Fahrenheit less than its all-time record set in July 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, California\nCalifornia's state authorities and the California Independent System Operator both urged power conservation by people and business from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on July 24 and July 25, 2018. Flex Alerts were issued as the power grid began to overload. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health also urged people to stay out of the sun on July 24. Thousands lost electricity in California due to sporadic temporary power cuts on July 24 as record temperatures hit the southwestern United States, including much of Arizona and parts of California and Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, California\nOn July 26, the visitor center at Furnace Creek, California in Death Valley had been over 111\u00a0\u00b0F (43.9\u00a0\u00b0C) since 10:00am and it climbed to 124.3\u00a0\u00b0F (51.3\u00a0\u00b0C) at 4pm local time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, California, Wildfires\nThe forest fires that started near the Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks on July 13 grew Jul 22, 2018. The fires were visible for several miles on the south side of the Mineral King Road and Slapjack Creek, a National Park officials said on July 22. The Atwell-Hockett Trail and the Tar Gap Trail are closed due to the fire, But the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks remain open on July 22. A bulldozer on July 13 and 4 firefighters had died by July 22. More than 2,800 firefighters, a fleet of aircraft and bulldozers had contained only 7% of its perimeter by July 22. An air tanker dropped fire retardant drop on the Horse Creek Fire in Sequoia National Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, California, Wildfires\nSeveral fires hit Whiskeytown, California; whilst others expanded past the Sacramento River and into Redding, California on July 28. At least 500 homes, businesses and other structures have been destroyed and 5 died by 28 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, California, Wildfires\nAbout 12,000 firefighters battled to contain wildfires in \"erratic\" winds across northern California on July 29. 6 Californians and 5 others elsewhere had died by June 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, Arizona\nPhoenix, Arizona recorded 116\u00a0\u00b0F (46.7\u00b0 Celsius) on July 24 and 25, 2018 which was lower than the all-time high of 122\u00a0\u00b0F (50\u00b0 Celsius) set on June 26, 1990", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, Arizona\nYuma, Arizona recorded 118\u00a0\u00b0F (47.8\u00b0 Celsius) on July 24, and 117\u00a0\u00b0F (47.2\u00b0 Celsius) on July 25. This passed the previous record high of 110.8\u00a0\u00b0F (43.8\u00a0\u00b0C) in 1957.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, Colorado\nThe temperature in Denver, Colorado, on 28 June, tied the city's record at 105\u00a0\u00b0F (40.6\u00a0\u00b0C). The record was set in 1878, then matched in 2005 and 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, Louisiana\nThe temperature in Shreveport, Louisiana on July 21 was 106\u00a0\u00b0F (41.1\u00a0\u00b0C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, Nevada\nThe temperature in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 25, 26 and 27 was 113\u00a0\u00b0F (45.0\u00a0\u00b0C); on July 28 it reached 112\u00a0\u00b0F (44.4\u00a0\u00b0C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, Oklahoma\nThe temperature in Lawton, Oklahoma on July 19 was 111\u00a0\u00b0F (43.9\u00a0\u00b0C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, Texas\nThe temperature in Dallas, Texas on July 22 was 112\u00a0\u00b0F (44.4\u00a0\u00b0C). The temperature in Wichita Falls on July 19 and July 22 reached 112\u00a0\u00b0F (44.4\u00a0\u00b0C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, Utah\nThe temperature in St. George, Utah on July 24 and 25 was 109\u00a0\u00b0F (42.8\u00a0\u00b0C); on July 26 it reached 110\u00a0\u00b0F (43.3\u00a0\u00b0C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, United States, Montana\nThe temperature in Glacier National Park Reached Temperatures of 90\u00b0F, and 32.22\u00b0C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, Mexico\nBy the end of May 2018, Mexico was already one week into the heat wave. The states of Baja California, Sonora, Nayarit, Jalisco, Oaxaca, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi, Quer\u00e9taro and Morelos registered temperatures between 40\u00a0\u00b0C (104.0\u00a0\u00b0F) to 45\u00a0\u00b0C (113.0\u00a0\u00b0F), while Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Michoac\u00e1n and Hidalgo between 45\u00a0\u00b0C (113.0\u00a0\u00b0F) and 50\u00a0\u00b0C (122.0\u00a0\u00b0F). The states of Hidalgo, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Zacatecas and Jalisco broke historical highs going back more than 50 years. Chihuahua broke its 1978 record temperature and Sinaloa surpassed the high recorded there in 1961. The federal Ministry of the Interior announced that a state of emergency was declared in 573 municipalities in 22 states, and it stated that food and water was being delivered to prevent people from suffering dehydration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, Mexico\nBy early June 2018, the Mexican government had declared a state of emergency in more than three hundred municipalities. The extraordinary sales of cold beverages, ice creams, pops and other items popular during hot weather increased to such an extent that Canacope Puebla, a Mexico City business chamber, estimated the nation's GDP would increase by approximately 260 million pesos ($13 mln).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281417-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 North American heat wave, Mexico\nPeak temperatures in July 2018 included: Hermosillo, Sonora, where on July 23 the temperature reached 117\u00a0\u00b0F (47.2\u00a0\u00b0C), and Mexicali, Baja California, where on July 23, 24 and 25 the temperature reached 115\u00a0\u00b0F (46.1\u00a0\u00b0C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281418-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Antrim recall petition\nThe North Antrim recall petition was a 2018 recall petition for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of North Antrim, in Northern Ireland, the first since the procedure was introduced by the Recall of MPs Act 2015. It was triggered by when North Antrim's MP, Ian Paisley Jr, was suspended from the House of Commons for 30 days for advocating for Sri Lanka after failing to declare that its government had paid for his visits there. In the prescribed six-week period, 9.4% of the registered electorate signed the petition, short of the 10% required to unseat Paisley and force a by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281418-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Antrim recall petition, Background\nPaisley was first elected MP for North Antrim in the 2010 general election, retaining his seat in 2015 and 2017. In September 2017, The Daily Telegraph alleged that Paisley received hospitality from the government of Sri Lanka for two visits there in 2013 without declaring it, and pointed out that he had been involved in securing a post-Brexit trade deal with that country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281418-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Antrim recall petition, Background\nIn July 2018, the Commons Select Committee on Standards recommended that Paisley be suspended from the Commons for 30 sitting days, for not declaring visits to Sri Lanka paid for by the Sri Lankan government, and for breaking the Commons rule banning paid advocacy. On 24 July 2018, MPs voted to suspend Paisley from the House of Commons for a period of 30 sitting days, beginning on 4 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281418-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Antrim recall petition, Background\nThe Recall of MPs Act 2015 provides that a recall petition is automatically initiated by any of several events happening to an MP, one of which is suspension from the House of Commons for a period of more than 10 sitting days or 14 calendar days. Under the procedure, 10% of the constituency's electorate had to sign the petition to cause a by-election. Ian Paisley Jr would have been permitted to stand, and had indicated his intent to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281418-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Antrim recall petition, Signing arrangements\nThe recall petition was the responsibility of the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland. It was available for signature to constituents on weekdays from 8 August to 19 September 2018 from 9am to 5pm, with opening hours extended to 9pm on 6 and 13 September, in three centres:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281418-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Antrim recall petition, Signing arrangements\nVoters could also apply to sign by post on the same basis as postal voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281418-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Antrim recall petition, Signing arrangements\nThe limitation to three venues, where up to ten are permitted by law, drew criticism from the Ulster Unionist Party and Sinn F\u00e9in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281418-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North Antrim recall petition, Result\nThe result was confirmed in the early hours of Thursday 20 September, with 7,099 people (9.4% of the electorate) signing the petition, below the 10% required, which would have been 7,543.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281419-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team\nThe 2018 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team represented North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University as member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. This season marked the 95th for the program, which was led by first-year head coach Sam Washington. The Aggies finished the season with a record of 9\u20132 and 6\u20131 in MEAC play, capturing their tenth conference title. The Aggies also earned an invitation to the Celebration Bowl where they defeated Southwestern Athletic Conference champion Alcorn State, earning their sixth black college football national championship. The Aggies played their home games at the newly renamed BB&T Stadium. They are a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281419-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Previous season\nThe Aggies finished the season 12\u20130, 8\u20130 in MEAC play, to finish in first place and capturing their ninth MEAC Championship. The Aggies were invited to compete in the 2017 Celebration Bowl, where they defeated Southwestern Athletic Conference champion Grambling State, earning their fifth black college football national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281419-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Before the season\nAt the conclusion of the 2017 football season, the Aggies lost key players such as three-time MEAC Offensive Lineman of the year and two-time All-American Brandon Parker, two-time first-team All-MEAC center Darriel Mack & Khris Gardin, who finished his career second all-time in NCAA history in punt return yards. The Aggies also lost third-team all-MEAC outside linebacker Marcus Albert, Jeremy Taylor & two-time first-team All-MEAC safety/linebacker Jeremy Taylor, who was the team's leading tackler in 2017. In addition to the players, the program lost head coach Rod Broadway, who is the program's all-time leader in winning percentage. Broadway decided to retire in January after weeks of speculation following the team's undefeated season and national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 63], "content_span": [64, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281419-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Before the season, Recruiting\nPrior to National Signing Day in February 2018, three players enrolled for the spring semester in order to participate in spring practice. On National Signing Day, A&T signed 15 additional players out of high school that completed the 2018 recruiting class. Of the class, 9 players were from North Carolina, including three players from Greensboro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281419-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Before the season, MEAC preseason poll\nIn a vote of the MEAC head coaches and sports information directors, the Aggies were unanimously picked as the favorites to win the MEAC championship receiving 19 of 20 first place votes (coaches are not allowed to vote for their own team).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 84], "content_span": [85, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281419-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Before the season, Preseason All-MEAC Teams\nThe Aggies had nine players selected to the preseason all-MEAC teams. Quarterback Lamar Raynard was selected as the preseason offensive player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 89], "content_span": [90, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281419-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Schedule\nDespite also being a member of the MEAC, the game vs. Morgan State will be considered a non-conference game and will not effect the MEAC standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281419-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, at East Carolina\nThe Aggies upset East Carolina, 28-23, and in the post-game celebration, head coach Sam Washington declared in response to the team being a so-called \"buy game\" for the Pirates: \"Tell them to bring me my money.\" The statement and ensuing celebration has since become an internet meme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281419-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Post season, 2019 NFL Draft\nThe 2019 NFL Draft will be held on April 25\u201327 in Nashville, Tennessee. The following A&T players were either selected or signed as undrafted free agents following the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281419-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Post season, 2019 CFL Draft\nThe 2019 CFL Draft took place on May 2, 2019. The following A&T players were either selected or signed as undrafted free agents following the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281420-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Central Eagles football team\nThe 2018 North Carolina Central Eagles football team represented North Carolina Central University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year interim head coach Granville Eastman. The Eagles played their home games at O'Kelly\u2013Riddick Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). They finished the season 5\u20136, 3\u20134 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281420-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Central Eagles football team, Previous season\nThe Eagles finished the 2017 season 7\u20134, 5\u20133 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281420-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Central Eagles football team, Previous season\nOn December 8, head coach Jerry Mack resigned to become the offensive coordinator at Rice. He finished at North Carolina Central with a four-year record of 31\u201315.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281420-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Central Eagles football team, Preseason, MEAC preseason poll\nIn a vote of the MEAC head coaches and sports information directors, the Eagles were picked to finish in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281420-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Central Eagles football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MEAC Teams\nThe Eagles had nine players selected to the preseason all-MEAC teams. Defensive back Davanta Reynolds was selected as the preseason defensive player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 85], "content_span": [86, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281421-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Courage season\nThe 2018 North Carolina Courage season is the team's second season as a professional women's soccer team. North Carolina Courage plays in the National Women's Soccer League, the top tier of women's soccer in the United States. On August 5, the Courage clinched the 2018 NWSL Shield for the second consecutive season after a 2\u20131 win over Portland. The Courage finished the 2018 regular season with only 1 loss and broke the record for most wins in a season (17), most points (57) and most goals (53).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281421-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Courage season\nOn September 22 North Carolina defeated the Portland Thorns 3-0 to win the 2018 NWSL Championship and completed one of the most successful seasons for a professional women's soccer team in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281421-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Courage season, Team, First-team roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281421-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Courage season, Competitions, International friendlies\nAs defending 2017 Shield winners and playoff finalists, the Courage were selected to participate in the inaugural Women's International Champions Cup. They defeated French side Paris Saint-Germain Women in the semi-final round and French side and defending UEFA Women's Champions League titleholders Lyon Women in the final at Miami Garden's Hard Rock Stadium to become the first ever champions of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281422-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Education Lottery 200\nThe 2018 North Carolina Education Lottery 200 was the 7th stock car race of the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season, and the 16th iteration of the event. The race was held on Friday, May 18, 2018 in Concord, North Carolina at Charlotte Motor Speedway, a 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) tri-oval permanent racetrack. The race took the scheduled 134 laps to complete. Johnny Sauter of GMS Racing would dominate the race and win the race, the 20th of his career and the 2nd of the season. To fill the podium, Kyle Busch and Brandon Jones, both from Kyle Busch Motorsports would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281422-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Background\nThe race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway, located in Concord, North Carolina. The speedway complex includes a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) quad-oval track that was utilized for the race, as well as a dragstrip and a dirt track. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams based in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI) with Marcus G. Smith serving as track president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281422-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Practice, First practice\nFirst practice was held on Friday, May 18, at 9:05 AM EST. Matt Crafton of ThorSport Racing would set the fastest time with a 29.813 and an average speed of 181.129 miles per hour (291.499\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281422-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Practice, First practice\nAustin Wayne Self of Niece Motorsports would hit the wall in the opening minutes of practice, forcing him to go to a backup truck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281422-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Practice, Second and final practice\nSecond and final practice was held on Friday, May 18, at 10:35 AM EST. Dalton Sargeant of GMS Racing would set the fastest time with a 30.176 and an average speed of 178.950 miles per hour (287.992\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 78], "content_span": [79, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281422-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Starting lineup\nQualifying was meant to be held on Friday, May 18, but rain would force the cancellation of qualifying. As a result, the starting lineup was determined by owner's points. Johnny Sauter of GMS Racing would end up winning the pole for the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281422-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Starting lineup\nDue to the cancellation, Korbin Forrister, Timothy Peters, and Bo LeMastus would all not qualify for the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281423-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina FC season\nThe 2018 North Carolina FC season was the club's 12th season of existence. Until the 2017 season, the club was previously known as the Carolina RailHawks. The 2018 season was the clubs first in the USL, having left the NASL at the end of the 2017 season. For the first time since 2009 and its fourth in club history, North Carolina won the Southern Derby, a fan-based U.S. professional soccer cup competition between North Carolina, Charleston Battery, and Charlotte Independence. North Carolina finished the regular season in 9th place with 47 points, missing out on the playoffs by 2 points to Nashville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281423-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina FC season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281423-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina FC season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281423-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina FC season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281423-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina FC season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election\nAn election was held on November 6, 2018 to elect all 120 members to North Carolina's House of Representatives. The election coincided with the elections for other offices, including U.S. House of Representatives and state senate. The primary election was held on May 8, 2018 with a run-off on June 26, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election\nRepublicans retained control of the House, despite losing the popular vote, but lost their three-fifths supermajority after a net loss of nine seats (compared to the results of the 2016 elections), winning 65 seats compared to 55 seats for the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 1\nIncumbent Republican Bob Steinburg has represented the 1st District since 2013. Steinburg retired to run for the 1st district in the NC Senate. Republican Ed Goodwin won the open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 2\nIncumbent Republican Larry Yarborough has represented the 2nd district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 3\nIncumbent Republican Michael Speciale has represented the 3rd district since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 4\nIncumbent Republican Jimmy Dixon has represented the 4th district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 5\nIncumbent Democratic Howard Hunter III has represented the 5th district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 6\nIncumbent Republican Beverly Boswell lost the Republican primary to Bobby Hanig. Hanig won the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 7\nIncumbent Democrat Bobbie Richardson has represented the 7th district since 2013. Richardson was defeated for re-election by Republican Lisa Stone Barnes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 8\nIncumbent Republican Susan Martin has represented the 8th district since 2013. Martin did not seek re-election. Democrat Kandie Smith won the open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 9\nIncumbent Republican Greg Murphy has represented the 9th district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 10\nIncumbent Republican Majority Leader John Bell has represented the 10th district since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 11\nIncumbent Democrat Duane Hall has represented the 11th district since 2013. Hall lost re-nomination to fellow Democrat Allison Dahle. Dahle won the open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 12\nIncumbent Democrat George Graham has represented the 12th district since 2013. He was defeated for re-election by Republican Chris Humphrey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 13\nIncumbent Republican Pat McElraft has represented the 13th district since 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 14\nIncumbent Republican George Cleveland has represented the 14th district since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 15\nIncumbent Republican Phil Shepard has represented the 15th district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 16\nIncumbent Republican Bob Muller has represented the 16th district since 2017. Muller didn't seek re-election. Republican Carson Smith won the open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 17\nIncumbent Republican Frank Iler has represented the 17th district since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 18\nIncumbent Democrat Deb Butler has represented the 18th district since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 19\nIncumbent Republican Ted Davis Jr. has represented the 19th district since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 20\nIncumbent Republican Holly Grange has represented the 20th district since 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 21\nIncumbent Democrat Larry Bell has represented the 21st district and its predecessors since 2001. Bell didn't seek re-election and was succeeded by Raymond Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 22\nIncumbent Republican William Brisson has represented the 22nd district since 2007. In 2017 Brisson switched from the Democratic Party to Republican Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 23\nIncumbent Democrat Shelly Willingham has represented the 23rd district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 24\nIncumbent Democrat Jean Farmer-Butterfield has represented the 24th district since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 25\nIncumbent Republican Jeff Collins has represented the 25th district since 2011. He did not seek re-election. Democrat James Gailliard won the open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 26\nIncumbent Republican Donna McDowell White has represented the 26th district since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 27\nIncumbent Democrat Michael Wray has represented the 27th district since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 28\nIncumbent Republican Larry Strickland has represented the 28th district since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 29\nIncumbent Democrat MaryAnn Black has represented the 29th district since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 30\nIncumbent Democrat Marcia Morey has represented the 30th district since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 31\nIncumbent Democrat Mickey Michaux has represented the 31st district and its predecessors since 1983. Michaux didn't seek re-election and was succeeded by Democrat Zack Forde-Hawkins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 32\nIncumbent Democrat Terry Garrison has represented the 32nd district since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 33\nIncumbent Democrat Rosa Gill has represented the 33rd district since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 34\nIncumbent Democrat Grier Martin has represented the 34th district since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 35\nIncumbent Republican Chris Malone has represented the 35th district since 2013. Malone lost re-election to Democrat Terence Everitt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 36\nIncumbent Republican Nelson Dollar has represented the 36th district since 2005. Dollar lost re-election to Democrat Julie von Haefen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 37\nIncumbent Republican John Adcock has represented the 37th district since 2018. Adcock lost re-election to Democrat Sydney Batch", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 38\nIncumbent Democrat Yvonne Lewis Holley has represented the 38th district since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 39\nIncumbent Democratic Minority Leader Darren Jackson has represented the 39th district since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 40\nIncumbent Democrat Joe John has represented the 40th district since 2017.", "metadata": 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Ford successfully sought election to NC Senate District 33 while Warren successfully sought re-election here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 77\nThe new 77th district overlaps with much of the former 79th district. 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Keith Kidwell won the open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 80\nIncumbent Republican Sam Watford, who has represented the 80th District since 2015, ran for the NC Senate. He was succeeded by Republican Steve Jarvis", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 81\nIncumbent Republican Larry Potts has represented the 81st District since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 82\nThe new 82nd district overlaps with much of the former 83rd district. 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Incumbent Republican Larry Pittman, who has represented the 82nd district since 2011, was re-elected here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 84\nIncumbent Republican Rena Turner has represented the 84th District since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 85\nIncumbent Republican Josh Dobson has represented the 85th District since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 86\nIncumbent Republican Hugh Blackwell has represented the 86th District since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 87\nIncumbent Republican Destin Hall has represented the 87th District since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 88\nIncumbent Democrat Mary Belk has represented the 88th District since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 89\nIncumbent Republican Mitchell Setzer has represented the 89th District and its predecessors since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 90\nIncumbent Republican Sarah Stevens has represented the 90th District since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 91\nIncumbent Republican Kyle Hall has represented the 91st District since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 92\nIncumbent Democrat Chaz Beasley has represented the 92nd District since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 93\nIncumbent Republican Jonathan Jordan has represented the 93rd District since 2011. Jordan was defeated for re-election by Democrat Carl Ray Russell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 94\nIncumbent Republican Jeffrey Elmore has represented the 94th District since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 95\nIncumbent Republican John Fraley has represented the 95th District since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 96\nIncumbent Republican Jay Adams has represented the 96th District since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 97\nIncumbent Republican Jason Saine has represented the 97th District since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 98\nIncumbent Republican John Bradford has represented the 98th District since 2015. Bradford was defeated for re-election by Democrat Christy Clark", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 99\nIncumbent Democrat Rodney Moore has represented the 99th District since 2011. Moore lost re-nomination to fellow Democrat Nasif Majeed. Majeed won the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 100\nIncumbent Democrat John Autry has represented the 100th District since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0102-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 101\nIncumbent Democrat Beverly Earle has represented the 101st District and its predecessors since 1995. Earl didn't seek re-election. Democrat Carolyn Logan won the open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0103-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 102\nIncumbent Democrat Becky Carney has represented the 102nd District since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0104-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 103\nIncumbent Republican Bill Brawley has represented the 103rd District since 2011. Brawley lost re-election to Democrat Rachel Hunt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0105-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 104\nIncumbent Republican Andy Dulin has represented the 104th District since 2017. Dulin lost re-election to Democrat Brandon Lofton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0106-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 105\nIncumbent Republican Scott Stone has represented the 105th District since 2016. Stone lost re-election by Democrat Wesley Harris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0107-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 106\nIncumbent Democrat Carla Cunningham has represented the 106th District since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0108-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 107\nIncumbent Democrat Kelly Alexander has represented the 107th District since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0109-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 108\nIncumbent Republican John Torbett has represented the 108th District since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0110-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 109\nIncumbent Republican Dana Bumgardner has represented the 109th District since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0111-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 110\nIncumbent Republican Kelly Hastings has represented the 110th District since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0112-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 111\nIncumbent Republican Speaker of the House Tim Moore has represented the 111th District since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0113-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 112\nIncumbent Republican David Rogers has represented the 112th District since 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0114-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 113\nIncumbent Republican Cody Henson has represented the 113th District since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0115-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 114\nIncumbent Democrat Susan Fisher has represented the 114th District since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0116-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 115\nIncumbent Democrat John Ager has represented the 115th District since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0117-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 116\nIncumbent Democrat Brian Turner has represented the 116th District since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0118-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 117\nIncumbent Republican Chuck McGrady has represented the 117th District since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0119-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 118\nIncumbent Republican Michele Presnell has represented the 118th District since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0120-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 119\nIncumbent Republican Mike Clampitt has represented the 119th District since 2017. In a rematch of the 2016 election, Clampitt was defeated by Democrat Joe Sam Queen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281424-0121-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina House of Representatives election, Detailed Results, District 120\nIncumbent Republican Kevin Corbin has represented the 120th District since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election\nThe 2018 North Carolina Senate elections elected 50 members to serve in the North Carolina Senate for a two-year term starting in January 2019. 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Representative Bob Steinburg won the open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 2\nIncumbent Republican Norman W. Sanderson has represented the 2nd district since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 3\nIncumbent Democrat Erica D. Smith has represented the 3rd district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 4\nIncumbent Democrat Milton F. (Toby) Fitch, Jr. has represented the 4th district since 2018. Fitch won his first full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 5\nIncumbent Democrat Donald G. Davis has represented the 5th district since 2013 and previously from 2009 to 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 6\nIncumbent Republican Majority Leader Harry Brown has represented the 6th district since 2004. District 6 had the lowest number of votes cast in any district election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 7\nIncumbent Republican Louis Pate has represented the 7th district and its predecessors since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 8\nIncumbent Republican Bill Rabon has represented the 8th district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 9\nIncumbent Republican Michael Lee has represented the 9th district since 2014. Lee was defeated for re-election by Democrat Harper Peterson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 10\nIncumbent Republican Brent Jackson has represented the 10th district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 11\nIncumbent Republican Rick Horner has represented the 11th district since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 12\nIncumbent Republican Ronald J. Rabin has represented the 12th district since 2013. Rabin didn't seek re-election. Republican Jim Burgin won the open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 13\nIncumbent Republican Danny Earl Britt, Jr. has represented the 13th district since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 14\nIncumbent Democrat Dan Blue has represented the 14th district since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 15\nFollowing redistricting, the old 16th district became the new 15th district. Incumbent Democrat Jay Chaudhuri who has represented the 16th district since 2016, successfully sought re-election here. Brian Lewis won the highest percentage vote of any Libertarian State Senate candidate in 2018 with 3.61%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 16\nFollowing redistricting, the new 16th district is an open seat which is expected to favor Democrats. Brian Irving won the highest number of votes of any Libertarian State Senate candidate in 2018 with 3,382 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 17\nIncumbent Republican Tamara Barringer has represented the 17th district since 2013. Following redistricting, this seat was made more competitive. Barringer lost re-election to Democrat Sam Searcy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 18\nFollowing redistricting, Incumbent Republicans Chad Barefoot and John Alexander had their homes both drawn into the new 18th district. The new 18th district, unlike the former 15th and 18th districts, is a competitive district which isn't safe for either party. Chad Barefoot retired, while John Alexander narrowly won re-election. The election in district 18 had the highest number of votes cast of any district election in the 2018 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 19\nIncumbent Republican Wesley Meredith has represented the 19th district since 2011. Meredith lost re-election to Democrat Kirk deViere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 20\nIncumbent Democrat Floyd McKissick Jr. has represented the 20th district since 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 21\nIncumbent Democrat Ben Clark has represented the 21st district since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 22\nIncumbent Democrat Mike Woodard has represented the 22nd district since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 23\nIncumbent Democrat Valerie Foushee has represented the 23rd district since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 24\nIncumbent Republican Rick Gunn has represented the 24th district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 25\nIncumbent Republican Tom McInnis has represented the 25th district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 26\nFollowing redistricting, the old 29th district became the new 26th district. Incumbent Republican Jerry Tillman, who has represented the 29th district since 2003, successfully sought re-election here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 27\nIncumbent Republican Trudy Wade has represented the 27th district since 2013. Wade lost re-election to Democrat Michael Garrett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 28\nIncumbent Democrat Gladys Robinson has represented the 28th district since 2011. This district had the largest margin of any district election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 29\nFollowing redistricting, the new 29th district overlaps with much of the former 33rd district. Incumbent Republican Cathy Dunn, who has represented the 33rd district since 2017, didn't seek re-election. Eddie Gallimore defeated representative Sam Watford to win the Republican nomination and easily won the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 30\nFollowing redistricting, most of the old 26th district became the new 30th district. Incumbent Republican President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, who has represented the 26th district and its predecessors since 2001, successfully sought re-election here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 31\nIncumbent Republicans Joyce Krawiec, who has represented the 31st district since 2014, and Dan Barrett, who has represented the 34th district since his appointment in August 2017, sought re-election here. Krawiec narrowly defeated Barrett in the Republican primary and then she easily won the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 32\nIncumbent Democrat Paul Lowe, Jr. has represented the 32nd district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 33\nAfter redistricting, the old 33rd district became the new 29th district, and a new 33rd district was created. The new district includes Rowan County and Stanly County. State representative Carl Ford was the Republican nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 34\nIncumbent Republican Dan Barrett has represented the 34th district since his appointment in August 2017. Barrett chose to seek re-election in the 31st district after his home in Davie County was drawn into that district. The new 34th district includes Iredell & Yadkin counties and is expected to favor Republicans. Republican Vickie Sawyer was elected to a full term here, though after already winning the GOP primary for this seat, she had been appointed to serve the balance of David Curtis's term in the 44th district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 35\nIncumbent Republican Tommy Tucker has represented the 35th district since 2011. Tucker didn't seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 36\nIncumbent Republican Paul Newton has represented the 36th district since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 37\nIncumbent Democrat Jeff Jackson has represented the 37th district since 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 38\nIncumbent Democrat Joel D. M. Ford has represented the 38th district since 2013. Ford lost the Democratic primary to Mujtaba A. Mohammed, who easily won the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 39\nIncumbent Republican Dan Bishop has represented the 39th district since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 40\nIncumbent Democrat Joyce Waddell has represented the 40th district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 41\nIncumbent Republican Jeff Tarte has represented the 41st district since 2013. Tarte lost re-election to Democrat Natasha Marcus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 42\nIncumbent Republican Andy Wells has represented the 42nd district since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 43\nIncumbent Republican Kathy Harrington has represented the 43rd district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 44\nIncumbent Republican David L. Curtis has represented the 44th district since 2013. Curtis lost re-nomination to fellow Republican Ted Alexander. Curtis resigned before the end of his term and Vickie Sawyer was appointed to replace him. Alexander easily won the open seat here, while Sawyer was simultaneously elected to the newly created 34th district which contained her home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 45\nFollowing redistricting, incumbent Republicans Deanna Ballard and Shirley B. Randleman had both of their homes drawn into the 45th district. The district was more Ballard's district than Randleman's, and Ballard defeated Randleman in the Republican primary. Ballard easily won the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 46\nIncumbent Republican Warren Daniel has represented the 46th district and its predecessors since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 47\nIncumbent Republican Ralph Hise has represented the 47th district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 48\nIncumbent Republican Chuck Edwards has represented the 48th district since 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 49\nIncumbent Democrat Terry Van Duyn has represented the 49th district since 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281425-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Senate election, Results, District 50\nIncumbent Republican Jim Davis has represented the 50th district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281426-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team\nThe 2018 North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team are representing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. Head Coach Mike Fox is in his 20th year coaching the Tar Heels. They play their home games at Bryson Field at Boshamer Stadium and are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281426-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team\nThe Tar Heels won the ACC Coastal Division, and matched Clemson for the best record in the conference. They reached the 2018 College World Series, their eleventh time advancing to Omaha and first since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281426-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team, Schedule\nRankings are from the Collegiate Baseball poll for that week. Numbers in parentheses indicate tournament seeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281426-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team, Ranking movements\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281427-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 2018 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a member of Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tar Heels were led by seventh-year head coach Larry Fedora and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. They finished the season 2\u20139 overall and 1\u20137 in ACC play to place last out of seven teams in the Coastal Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281427-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nOn November 25, one day after the conclusion of the season, Fedora was fired. He finished at North Carolina with a seven year record of 45\u201343. On November 27, the school rehired Mack Brown, who had previously helmed the program from 1988 to 1997, as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281427-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Previous season\nThe Tar Heels finished the 2017 season 3\u20139 overall and 1\u20137 in ACC play to place last in the Coastal Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281427-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Preseason, ACC media poll\nThe ACC media poll was released on July 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281427-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Schedule\nThe Tar Heels' schedule was released on January 17, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281428-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team\nThe 2018 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 72nd season of the university fielding a program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281428-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team\nThe 2018 season saw North Carolina win the inaugural U.S. Soccer Spring Men's College Program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281428-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team\nFetzer Field was undergoing construction during the 2018 soccer season so the Tar Heels split their home matches between three stadiums:WakeMed Soccer Park, Bryan Park, and Koskinen Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281428-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team, Background\nThe 2017 North Carolina men's soccer team finished the season with a 17\u20134\u20131 overall record and a 6\u20131\u20131 ACC record. The Tar Heels were seeded second\u2013overall in the 2017 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament. The Tar Heels were upset in the Quarterfinals by the seventh seed Notre Dame. The Tar Heels earned an at-large bid into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. As the third-overall seed in the tournament, the Tar Heels defeated, UNC Wilmington, SMU, and Fordham before losing to Indiana in the College Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281428-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team, Background\nAt the end of the season, one Tar Heels men's soccer player was selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft: Alan Winn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281428-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team, Squad, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281429-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of North Carolina on November 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281430-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina judicial election\nOne justice of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and three judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 6, 2018, concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years. These elections were partisan for the first time since the elections of 2002. A law passed by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2017 cancelled primary elections for judicial elections in 2018 only, meaning that an unlimited number of candidates from any party could run in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281430-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina judicial election\nDemocrats won all four races in November 2018, representing an increase of one Democrat on the Supreme Court and an increase of two Democrats on the Court of Appeals (with one Democrat elected to the seat he already held by appointment).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281430-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina judicial election, Supreme Court Seat 1 (Jackson seat)\nThe seat held by Justice Barbara Jackson was on the 2018 ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 74], "content_span": [75, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281430-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina judicial election, Court of Appeals Seat 1 (Arrowood seat)\nThe seat held by Judge John S. Arrowood was on the 2018 ballot. Arrowood was appointed to the seat in 2017 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Douglas McCullough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281430-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina judicial election, Court of Appeals Seat 2 (Calabria seat)\nThe seat held by Judge Ann Marie Calabria, a Republican, was on the 2018 ballot. Calabria did not run for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281430-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina judicial election, Court of Appeals Seat Seat 3 (Elmore seat)\nThe seat held by Judge Rick Elmore, a Republican, was on the 2018 ballot. Elmore announced in 2017 that he would not seek a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281431-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina teachers' walkout\nThe 2018 North Carolina teachers' rally was a rally and protest on May 16, 2018, with teachers in North Carolina walking out in protest of deflating wages and decreased employee benefits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281431-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina teachers' walkout\nThe rally is part of the larger wave of teachers' strikes in the United States where protests occurred in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281431-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina teachers' walkout, Background, State of education in North Carolina\nAhead of the protests the average salary for a teacher in North Carolina was $49,970, which ranked 44th in the nation according to a report by the National Education Association. Public school revenue per student in North Carolina ranked 43rd in the nation at $9,675.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 87], "content_span": [88, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281431-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina teachers' walkout, Background, Demands\nThe North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) demanded that the Government of North Carolina enacted legislation that increase per pupil spending, a multi-year pay plan for teachers, support staff, administrators, and all school personnel, which includes the restoration of compensation for longevity and advanced degrees. Additionally, the NCAE demanded that public schools in North Carolina increase the number of school nurses, counselors, social workers and other support personnel and expand Medicaid to improve community health. NCAE also demanded that the state legislature set up a statewide school construction board to fix older schools and reduce large class sizes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281431-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina teachers' walkout, Response, Government of North Carolina\nRoy Cooper, a Democrat, and the Governor of North Carolina, urged local and state officials to stop attacking teachers and unite together to support teachers and schools in the state. Cooper tweeted an editorial of The Charlotte Observer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 77], "content_span": [78, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281431-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina teachers' walkout, Response, Government of North Carolina\nMembers from the North Carolina Republican Party sent out mass emails to constituents across the state explaining their support for public education and teachers. Joseph Kyzer, a spokesperson for House speaker Tom Moore stated that Republican leadership has continuously raised teachers salaries and that it was Democratic leadership in the state that stalled out spending. Teachers pointed out although salaries have increased, the increases have been modest and lagged far behind the national average, and that despite this, general education funding on supplies and per pupil spending have been continuously cut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 77], "content_span": [78, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281431-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina teachers' walkout, Response, Government of North Carolina\nA fellow Republican member, Mark Brody, who serves on the board of Union Day School in Waxhaw, N.C., called teachers protesting and the backers of the protest 'Union Thugs', that want to control the education process. Brody said he was speaking up because he did not want his local Union County schools or North Carolina schools in general to turn into Chicago. \"Let the Union thugs get their way now and we are half way there,\" he said. Brody would defend his statement, but emphasize that the \"thug\" remark was about trade unions, and not the teachers themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 77], "content_span": [78, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281431-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina teachers' walkout, Response, Labor unions\nThe Raleigh-Durham chapter of the Industrial Workers of the World helped coordinate transportation for protestors who wished to rally with the teachers in Raleigh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281431-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina teachers' walkout, Response, Political organizations\nSeveral North Carolina chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America stood in solidarity with the NCAE, and offered coordination for individuals wishing to join the protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election\nThe 2018 election in North Carolina's 9th congressional district was held on November 6, 2018, to elect a member for North Carolina's 9th congressional district to the United States House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election\nRepublican Mark Harris, an evangelical minister, defeated incumbent Republican Congressman Robert Pittenger in the primary and then faced Democrat Dan McCready, a veteran and businessman, in the general election. Initial tallies put Harris 905 votes ahead, but the state election board refused to certify the results, pending a criminal investigation into allegations of fraud in handling of absentee ballots. The seat was unrepresented at the start of the 116th Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election\nThe North Carolina State Board of Elections held an evidentiary hearing in February 2019. On February 21, the board unanimously voted to call a new election because of fraud by Republican operatives. Several Republican campaign operatives have been indicted for their role in an illegal ballot harvesting and ballot tampering operation. In addition to illegal collection and handling of ballots, ballot tampering was admitted in witness testimony, including filling in blank votes to favor Republican candidates. Harris declined to run again. The state legislature passed a law requiring new party primaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election\nDan McCready was nominated again by the Democratic Party for the special election for this seat, scheduled for September 2019. Dan Bishop, a state senator, won the Republican primary and defeated him in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, Background\nThe ninth district is in south-central North Carolina. It comprises Union, Anson, Richmond, Scotland, and Robeson counties; the southeast portion of Mecklenburg County; and parts of Cumberland and Bladen counties. The district has been held by the Republican Party since 1963. Much of the district's share of Mecklenburg County had been represented by Republicans without interruption since 1953.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, Background\nRobert Pittenger, a Republican, was elected to represent the district in 2012. In the 2016 election, Pittenger was challenged for the Republican nomination by Mark Harris and Todd Johnson. Pittenger won the nomination, defeating Harris by 134 votes. Questions were raised about the role of convicted perjurer and campaign operative McCrae Dowless, when Johnson won 221 of the 226 Bladen County absentee votes cast in the race. Pittenger was re-elected in 2016 over Democratic Party nominee Christian Cano by over 54,000 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, Democratic primary, Candidates\nThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) supported McCready during the primary election. He was among the first 11 candidates added to the DCCC's \"Red to Blue\" program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 89], "content_span": [90, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, Democratic primary, Results, By county\nMcCready won every county by varying margins. Blue represents counties won By McCready.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 97], "content_span": [98, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, Republican primary, Candidates\nHarris resigned from his church in June 2017 in order to devote his full attention to the 2018 campaign. Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson campaigned for Pittenger during the primary election campaign. Harris criticized Pittenger for voting in favor of the March 2018 omnibus spending bill, and claimed Pittenger was part of the \"Washington swamp\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 89], "content_span": [90, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, Republican primary, Results, By county\nRed represents counties won by Harris. Green represents counties won by Pittenger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 97], "content_span": [98, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election\nThrough September 30, McCready reported raising $4.3\u00a0million while Harris had raised $1.6 million. President Donald Trump and Second Lady Karen Pence traveled to the district to campaign for Harris, while Representative John Lewis campaigned for McCready.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 75], "content_span": [76, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election\nHarris and McCready debated on October 10 on WBTV in Charlotte and October 17 at Spirit Square.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 75], "content_span": [76, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Endorsements\nHarris was endorsed by Donald Trump, President of the United States and Libertarian Jeff Scott was endorsed by Christian Cano, 2016 Democratic primary candidate for North Carolina's 9th congressional district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 89], "content_span": [90, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Results\nWhen all precincts had reported their unofficial counts on Election Day, the race remained too close to call. The next night, trailing by about 2,000 votes, McCready conceded defeat to Harris. After all the votes were tallied, Harris had a 905-vote lead over McCready, making the election the closest race in the district in over six decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 84], "content_span": [85, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Refusal of certification\nThe North Carolina State Board of Elections voted 9\u20130 on November 27 not to certify the election results. On November 30, the board voted 7\u20132 to hold a public hearing on December 27 regarding the tampering allegations. In early December, the North Carolina Democratic Party filed affidavits with the State Board of Elections claiming that Harris had used independent contractors to collect absentee ballots from voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 101], "content_span": [102, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Refusal of certification\nThe board opened an investigation around Dowless, a campaign operative with felony fraud and perjury convictions, who was hired by the Harris campaign. Dowless was suspected of electoral fraud in 2014, allegedly mishandling absentee ballots. Dowless had worked for Jim McVicker's campaign for Sheriff. McVicker won that race by a narrow margin and did not respond to inquiries about it in 2018. Dowless worked for McVicker again in the 2018 Republican primary and the general election for Sheriff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 101], "content_span": [102, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Refusal of certification\nIn the 2018 general election, Dowless has been accused of paying workers to illegally collect absentee ballots from voters, after Harris had directed the hiring of Dowless for his campaign, despite the allegations concerning his efforts in prior campaigns. There had been warnings about and concerns raised in 2016 that Dowless used questionable tactics to deliver votes for Todd Johnson in his 2016 Republican congressional primary against Pittinger and Harris. Earlier, Dowless had worked for a Democrat competing in a 2012 state House primary, and ran as a Democrat himself, in a losing race for school board, in 2014. No questions had been raised in those races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 101], "content_span": [102, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Refusal of certification\nIn Robeson County, the easternmost county in the 9th district, twice as many absentee ballots from African-American voters were not returned compared to white voters. In neighboring Bladen County, the return rates were the same for the two groups. As of December\u00a02018, the outcome of the election had not been certified, as state election officials continued to investigate alleged fraud. Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman said it was possible over 1,000 ballots had been destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 101], "content_span": [102, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Refusal of certification\nOn November 30, the Associated Press retracted its call of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 101], "content_span": [102, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Refusal of certification\nOn December 5, 2018, Buzzfeed News detailed its independent investigative reporting of the alleged vote thefts, a practice that targeted southern rural elderly black voters in the 9th District congressional race. It termed the affair, \"...the most serious federal election tampering case in years.\" Campaign workers, who included Jessica Dowless, whose husband is distantly related to Leslie McCrae Dowless, revealed that the vote tampering went on in a pervasively chaotic atmosphere. McCrae Dowless tracked votes on yellow pads and used cash to pay his employees, including some family members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 101], "content_span": [102, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Refusal of certification\nSome of those workers were said to be under the obvious influence of drugs while on the job. One, said Jessica Dowless, \"...was so fucking high the other day she passed out at the fucking computer.\" Another who picked up absentee ballots was a \"pill head.\" She said McCrae's field workers \"...would come to your house, they would get you to fill out an absentee ballot to be sent to your house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 101], "content_span": [102, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0019-0002", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Refusal of certification\nThey would go back and pick it up and then seal it and then find two witnesses,\" to certify their validity, bringing them to the office and telling her to witness them, She said she told McCrae she didn't want to do that but \"...we had no else,\" to accomplish the task. Such handling of ballots and completed applications by other than board and postal workers is legally prohibited. McCrae provided a car for one gatherer a week after she began working, lending a van to another.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 101], "content_span": [102, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0019-0003", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Refusal of certification\nJessica Dowless tabulated the number of ballots delivered to the county election board and said McCrae gave the Harris campaign updates on the operation's most recent totals. The interim director of Bladen County's Board of Elections denied her office paid Jessica Dowless, but a public records request revealed that to be untrue. McCrae Dowless was employed by political consultants Red Dome, and received in excess of $428,000 from the Harris campaign. Jessica Dowless said she dropped off completed absentee ballot applications once, and records confirmed she had delivered 185 to the Board. McCrae personally delivered 592 applications before October 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 101], "content_span": [102, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0019-0004", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Refusal of certification\nBuzzfeed contacted McCrae's stepdaughter Lisa Britt, who was later indicted for her alleged role in the case. She admitted to being paid in cash for her work. Although she denied physically gathering votes, her account was disputed by Jessica Dowless who also said that McCrae gathered ballots, a prohibited practice, but only from Democratic voters. Britt denied that Democrats were targeted, claiming they only facilitated voting by those without vehicles, though those ballots could have been returned by postal mail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 101], "content_span": [102, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Refusal of certification\nMcCready withdrew his concession on December 6, and NBC News withdrew its call of the race. McCready prepared to run in a special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 101], "content_span": [102, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Refusal of certification\nIn December 2018, the Republican-controlled North Carolina General Assembly passed a bill into law that would require new primary elections if a new election were called, overriding a veto by Democratic Governor Roy Cooper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 101], "content_span": [102, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Election board hearings\nPrior to the election, in October 2018, a state court had ruled that North Carolina's nine-member State Board of Elections was unconstitutional due to changes made by the state legislature in 2017. The court allowed the election board to continue operating during the election and subsequent fraud investigation. On December 28, in an unexpected decision, the court dissolved the election board, before it had certified election results, accusing the board of ignoring court instructions. This left the state without certified election results and without an elections board until January 31, 2019, when a new, five-member board was to be seated under a new law taking effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Election board hearings\nThe court's dissolution of the election board prompted responses from all quarters. Republican candidate Harris filed an emergency petition requesting that the board certify the results with him as the winner, but only two of nine board members requested an emergency session, and no action was taken before the board dissolved. Democratic candidate McCready publicly called for the fraud investigation to continue. Cooper attempted to name an interim elections board to serve until January 31, but was overridden by the state's Republican-controlled legislature. Meanwhile, incoming United States House of Representatives Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Democrat, announced that the House of Representatives will not seat Harris under any circumstances until the fraud investigation is completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 897]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Election board hearings\nOn January 2, 2019, the staff of the dissolved election board announced that they would continue the investigation, but delayed a January 11 hearing until a new election board is seated on January 31. The same day, Harris announced he would seek court intervention to have him immediately certified as the winner with the goal of being seated in the 116th Congress on January 3. On January 3, the 116th Congress was sworn in with North Carolina's 9th Congressional seat vacant. On the same day, Harris was interviewed by investigators from the North Carolina Board of Elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Election board hearings\nIn early January, by refusing to provide the names of Republican candidates for the state elections board, as requested by Cooper, and urging Republicans not to accept seats on the board, North Carolina Republicans blocked the board's intent and ability to hold a scheduled hearing on January 11, 2019, meant for the purposes of investigating the possibility of fraud in the November 9 District election, leaving the District seat in Congress vacant. Republican party officials refused to send Cooper the names of their party's candidates to fill vacancies on the board. Responding to their obstructionism, Cooper said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Election board hearings\nAll North Carolinians deserve to have confidence in a system of voting that ensures honest and fair elections. If politicians and the people they hire are manipulating the system to steal elections, all of us should pull together to get to the bottom of it and stop it \u2014 regardless of whether the candidate who finished ahead in a tainted election is a Republican or a Democrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Election board hearings\nOn January 22, 2019, Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway refused Harris's request to order him seated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Election board hearings\nOn January 31, the new board, composed of three Democratic and two Republican members, voted to schedule a February hearing on the allegations of election irregularities. On February 4, the new board set the hearing for February 18. On February 18, 2019, the regulator reported that it had found evidence of \"a coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme\" that may have involved more than 1,000 ballots or ballot request forms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0028-0001", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Election board hearings\nThat day, Lisa Britt, the daughter of Dowless's ex-wife, admitted to tampering with ballots on the direction of Dowless \u2013 including filling in blank votes to favor Republican candidates and falsifying voter and witness signatures. On February 20, Harris's son, John Harris, a federal prosecutor in North Carolina, testified to the election board that he had repeatedly warned his father not to hire Dowless because Dowless appeared to have previously engaged in illegal tactics to win votes. John Harris also testified that he had expressed similar concerns to his father's chief campaign strategist, Andy Yates. Email records were shown of his discussion of the issue with his father. His father had maintained that he had not been warned of problems with Dowless's reputation and had testified to that effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 912]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, General election, Election board hearings\nOn February 21, Harris admitted that he had made inaccurate statements in his testimony, blaming a recent sepsis infection that had affected his memory and caused him to have two strokes. He said that he had concluded that \"public confidence in the 9th District has been undermined to an extent that a new election is warranted.\" The board unanimously voted to set a new election, with the date to be determined in a later hearing. The board also called for new elections for two local county offices in Bladen County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, Aftermath\nFreeman announced that she would call upon a grand jury to investigate the fraud allegations to determine whether or not to file criminal charges. On February 26, Harris, citing ill health, declared that he would not compete in the new congressional election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 68], "content_span": [69, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281432-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, Aftermath\nDowless was indicted on felony charges on February 27, consisting of three counts of obstruction of justice, two counts of conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice, and two counts of possession of absentee ballots. Four others were also charged in relation to the absentee ballot collection. In March 2019, the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice began to issue subpoenas for a federal grand jury investigation related to the case. Documents were requested for a grand jury proceeding to be held April 16\u201318, 2019. In July 2019, the Wake County district attorney also announced charges against Lisa Britt, Ginger S. Eason, Woody D. Hester, James Singletary, Jessica Dowless and Kelly Hendrix, and additional charges against Leslie McCrae Dowless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 68], "content_span": [69, 850]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281433-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team\nThe 2018 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team represents the University of North Dakota during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Bubba Schweigert and played their home games at the Alerus Center. The Fighting Hawks competed as an FCS independent. They finished the season 6\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281433-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team\nNorth Dakota will leave the Big Sky Conference for all sports except football in 2018 and join the Summit League. Their football program will join the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2020. Although being classified as an independent for football in 2018 and 2019, they will continue to play a full Big Sky schedule and their games will count in the conference standings for their opponents but the Fighting Hawks will be ineligible to win the conference championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281433-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team, Previous season\nIn their final season as a full member of the Big Sky, the Fighting Hawks finished the 2017 season 3\u20138, 2\u20136 in Big Sky play to finish in a three-way tie for 9th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281434-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Secretary of State election\nThe 2018 North Dakota Secretary of State election occurred on November 6, 2018, to elect the North Dakota Secretary of State, concurrently with various other state and local elections. Six-time incumbent Republican Secretary of State Alvin Jaeger was eligible to run for re-election to a seventh term in office, but withdrew from his party's primary after failing to receive the endorsement. When the primary winner withdrew from the general election race, Jaeger and fellow Republican Michael Coachmaneach gathered and turned in signatures to run as independent candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281434-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Secretary of State election\nLibertarian Party candidate Roland Riemers failed to get enough primary election votes to make the general election ballot both in an initial count and in a court-ordered recount. Democratic-NPL state representative Joshua Boschee was the only candidate who advanced from the primary and the only candidate that had his party listed on the general election ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281434-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Secretary of State election, Background\nNorth Dakota Secretaries of State are elected to four-year terms, with no limit on the number of terms a candidate may serve. Prior to the election, incumbent Republican Alvin Jaeger had been elected to the office six times and planned to run for a seventh term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281434-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Secretary of State election, Republican primary, State convention\nDelegates to the North Dakota Republican Party state convention held a vote to endorse a candidate for the race on April 7. Though any candidate may submit petitions to be placed on the party's primary ballot, the endorsement brings automatic ballot access. State convention delegates voted to endorse Gardner, and Jaeger withdrew from the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 83], "content_span": [84, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281434-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Secretary of State election, Republican primary, Primary election, Disorderly conduct incident\nBetween the convention and the primary election, North Dakota news outlets reported that Gardner had pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for \"peeping in numerous female dorm rooms\" while working for NDSU in 2006. According to campus security guards on the scene that night, Gardner, who was 29 years old and employed as webmaster for NDSU's libraries at the time, was seen approaching multiple windows of a women's dorm building, attempting to look around window coverings, apparently to see the people inside. When stopped by security guards, the fly of Gardner's pants was unzipped. Gardner was charged with surreptitious intrusion, but accepted a deal from prosecutors where he instead plead guilty to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct. He received a sentence of 30 days in jail, but that sentence was suspended in its entirety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 112], "content_span": [113, 949]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281434-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Secretary of State election, Republican primary, Primary election, Disorderly conduct incident\nIn the aftermath of that incident becoming public, Gardner announced his intention to withdraw from the race for Secretary of State on May 20. Despite that intention, it was too late to withdraw his name from primary ballots or for any other candidate to add his or her name to the race. Write-in candidates had two days to officially declare their candidacy, but none did so publicly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 112], "content_span": [113, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281434-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Secretary of State election, Republican primary, Primary election, Aftermath\nDespite winning the primary election, Will Gardner officially declined the nomination by submitting a letter of withdrawal to the current Secretary of State, Al Jaeger. By doing so, he ensured that his name would be omitted from the general election ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 94], "content_span": [95, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281434-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Secretary of State election, Republican primary, Primary election, Aftermath\nAfter Gardner officially withdrew, the North Dakota Republican Party state committee gave a letter of endorsement to incumbent Secretary of State Al Jaeger. This letter had no meaning in state law and did not allow Al Jaeger to appear as a Republican on the general election ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 94], "content_span": [95, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281434-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Secretary of State election, Libertarian primary, Recount\nIn order to qualify for access to the general election ballot, a candidate requires 300 votes in the primary election. Libertarian candidate Roland Riemers failed to reach that threshold and so therefore was not slated to appear on the November ballot. Riemers petitioned the North Dakota Supreme Court to require a recount of all ballots; the court agreed and ordered the recount, but in the end, it only found one additional vote for Riemers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281434-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Secretary of State election, Independent candidates\nIn order to be placed on the general election ballot, independent candidates must turn in a list of signatures, at least 1,000 of which must be valid North Dakota electors, to the Secretary of State's office by September 14. Candidates who gain access to the ballot in this way appear alongside party-nominated candidates and will not have a party affiliation displayed alongside their name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281434-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Secretary of State election, Independent candidates, Michael Coachman\nFormer Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor Michael Coachman turned in signatures on August 14. Since at least 1,000 of those were legal signatures from valid North Dakota electors, he appeared on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 87], "content_span": [88, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281434-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota Secretary of State election, Independent candidates, Alvin Jaeger\nShortly after Republican candidate Will Gardner announced his withdrawal from the race, incumbent Republican Alvin Jaeger announced that he would re-enter the race as an independent politician. Jaeger had withdrawn from the race for the Republican party nomination to the office when he failed to pick up the party endorsement. With their candidate having withdrawn his candidacy, the North Dakota Republican State Committee endorsed Jaeger in a letter of support, an instrument that carries no weight of law, but which the party hoped would keep the office out of their rivals' control. On August 9, Jaeger turned in 1,300 signatures. As Secretary of State, Jaeger himself was responsible to certify the validity of those signatures, though Jaeger said he delegated that responsibility to others in his office. Enough signatures were found valid to allow Jaeger to appear on the General Election ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 83], "content_span": [84, 988]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281435-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota State Bison football team\nThe 2018 North Dakota State Bison football team represents North Dakota State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Chris Klieman, who also coached his final season with the Bison before heading off to take over for the retiring Bill Snyder at Kansas State. The team played their 26th season in the Fargodome in Fargo, North Dakota as members of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They entered the season as defending National Champions and had won six of the last seven FCS titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281435-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 North Dakota State Bison football team\nIn 2018, the Bison finished the regular season 11\u20130, the first undefeated Bison season since the 2013 campaign, and won their eighth consecutive MVFC title. They received an automatic qualifying bid to the FCS playoff tournament and were seeded as the No. 1 team. The Bison then went 4\u20130 in the FCS playoffs to finish 15\u20130 and FCS champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281435-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota State Bison football team, Previous season\nThe Bison finished the 2017 season 14\u20131, 7\u20131 in MVFC play to win the MVFC championship for the seventh consecutive year. As a result, the Bison received the conference's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs as the No. 2 seed. In the playoffs, they defeated San Diego, Wofford, and Sam Houston State to advance to the National Championship game. There they defeated James Madison 17\u201313 to win the school's sixth National Championship in seven years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281435-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota State Bison football team, Preseason, Preseason MVFC poll\nThe MVFC released their preseason poll on July 29, 2018, with the Bison predicted unanimously to win the MVFC championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281435-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota State Bison football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MVFC Teams\nThe Bison placed eleven players on the preseason all-MVFC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281436-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota elections\nNorth Dakota held two statewide elections in 2018: a primary election on Tuesday, June 12, and a general election on Tuesday, November 6. In addition, each township elected officers on Tuesday, March 20, and each school district held their elections on a date of their choosing between April 1 and June 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281436-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota elections, Primary Election\nOn Tuesday, June 12, North Dakota voters selected which candidates for statewide and legislative office will appear on the November ballot. Because North Dakota does not have party registration, any eligible voter may vote in any one party's primary election. Though primary elections often include any number of constitutional amendments, initiated measures, or referred measures placed on the ballot by petition, none were included in this particular election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281436-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota elections, General Election\nOn Tuesday, November 6, concurrent with other statewide elections across the United States, North Dakota voters selected one United States Senator, one United States Representative, Secretary of State, Attorney General, and several other statewide executive and judicial branch offices. Voters in odd-numbered legislative districts also selected their representatives to the North Dakota House of Representatives and North Dakota Senate. Finally, voters faced four ballot measures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281436-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota elections, General Election, United States Senator\nIncumbent Democratic\u2013NPL Senator Heidi Heitkamp ran for reelection to a second term, but was defeated by Republican United States Representative Kevin Cramer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281436-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota elections, General Election, United States Representative\nThough incumbent Republican Kevin Cramer had announced that he would run for re-election to a fourth term, he later decided to run for the Senate instead. Republican state Senator Kelly Armstrong defeated Democratic-NPL former state Senate Minority Leader Mac Schneider for the open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 75], "content_span": [76, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281436-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota elections, General Election, Secretary of State\nSix-term incumbent Republican Secretary of State Alvin Jaeger was not re-endorsed by his party to serve a seventh term, so did not run for his party's nomination. When nominated Republican Will Gardner withdrew from the general election, Jaeger collected enough valid signatures to appear on the ballot as an independent. No candidate appeared on the ballot with the label of Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281436-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota elections, General Election, Secretary of State\nThe incumbent defeated two challengers, including two-term Democratic-NPL state representative Joshua Boschee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281436-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota elections, General Election, Secretary of State\nGoverning magazine projected the race as being a likely victory for Jaeger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281436-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota elections, General Election, Attorney General\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem won re-election against his Democratic-NPL challenger, trial attorney David Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281436-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota elections, General Election, Other statewide races\nAll North Dakota voters faced partisan races for Agriculture Commissioner, Tax Commissioner, one full term seat and one partial term seat on the Public Service Commission, and a nonpartisan ten-year term as Justice of the Supreme Court", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281436-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota elections, General Election, State legislative races\n24 seats in the North Dakota Senate and 48 seats in the North Dakota House of Representatives were up for election. Voters in all odd-numbered districts had those races on their ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281436-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 North Dakota elections, General Election, Measures\nVoters faced four measures placed on the ballot by petition. They passed Measure 1, which will establish government ethics rules and an ethics commission; the Secretary of State approved it for the ballot on July 24. They also passed Measure 2, which removes language in the state constitution currently guaranteeing all citizens to right to vote and replaces it with language banning non-citizens from voting; it had been approved on August 10. Measure 3 would have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, but was not passed. They did, however, approve Measure 4, which establishes personalized vehicle plates for volunteer emergency responders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election\nThe 2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of North East Lincolnshire Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Council make up\nAfter the 2018 local election, the political make up of the council was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Council make up\nLabour remained in minority control of the authority, with the support of Liberal Democrats. The authority was a target area for the Labour Party, hoping to regain seats that they had lost to UKIP in 2014. However, the Conservatives pulled off some unexpected victories in several wards on the authority, including wins in Freshney and Immingham for the first time since the late 2000s, and in Yarborough, Park and Croft Baker, where they hadn't won seats for over 25 years, long before NELC's creation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Council make up\nSince the 2016 elections, former UKIP councillors Stephen Harness and Matthew Stinson who were sat as Independents at the time, joined the Conservative Party, while two further UKIP councillors, Nick Pettigrew and James Cairns, joined the Conservatives in 2017. Labour councillor Hazel Chase resigned her party and sat as an Independent, and would continue to do so after these elections, when she became the mayor for the 2018/19 municipal year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Council make up\nLiberal Democrat councillor Christina McGilligan-Fell quit her party in 2017 in protest at not being chosen as a parliamentary candidate for either Great Grimsby or Cleethorpes in the 2017 general election, and ran as an Independent in the former - losing her deposit. She rejoined the Liberal Democrats months after, in order to seek re-election under the party banner, but lost her seat nonetheless to the Conservatives. Less than a year after losing her seat, she was seen campaigning with the Conservatives for their candidate in her former ward in the 2019 local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Council make up\nTwo seats were fought in Immingham, due to the death of councillor Mike Burton in March 2018. Labour's Dave Bolton retained his seat on the authority by 3 votes after several recounts, but only for one year - the remaining term of office Burton had been elected for in 2015. The four-year seat was gained by Stewart Swinburn, a former Conservative councillor for the ward, who had lost his seat to Burton in 2011, and had failed to regain his seat in 2012, 2014 and 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Council make up\nShortly after these elections took place, a by-election was held to fill the vacancy in the Freshney ward in July 2018 due to the resignation of councillor Ray Sutton, following his decision to move out of the area. Labour's Sheldon Mill, who stood in Park in the elections in this set of elections, held the seat by a small margin of 42 votes over the Conservatives, but his win was short-lived and he lost the seat in the 2019 local elections to the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results\nVote share changes are compared with the 2016 elections, with the exceptions of Waltham, West Marsh and Wolds, which are compared with 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Croft Baker\nNote: Incumbent Labour councillor Matthew Brown sought re-election in Yarborough having failed to be re-selected by party members here. This was also the first time the Liberal Democrats had not stood in Croft Baker since NELC's creation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Freshney\nNote: There was a recount ahead of the declaration of the result. Incumbent councillor Nick Pettigrew, who had since defected to the Conservatives, sought re-election in Waltham - which his new party had deemed a more likely seat he would win, but the new Conservative candidate narrowly won nonetheless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Heneage\nNotes: Smith had fought this seat as an Independent in 2012 and for UKIP in 2015. O'Flynn quit TUSC only days before the election took place. This was the first time since 1995 that there was no Liberal Democrat candidate in the ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Humberston & New Waltham\nNote: Harness had been elected as a UKIP councillor for this ward in 2013 and 2014, so an effective hold for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 85], "content_span": [86, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Immingham\nNote: Two seats were fought in Immingham, due to the death of councillor Mike Burton in March 2018. Labour's Dave Bolton retained his seat after several recounts due to the closeness of the result, but only for one year, which was the remaining term of office Burton had been elected for in 2015. The four-year seat was gained by Stewart Swinburn, a former Conservative councillor for the ward, who had lost his seat to Burton in 2011 and had failed to regain a seat in Immingham in 2012, 2014 and 2016. His wife, Karen, who had been unsuccessful on this occasion, had been a councillor for Immingham between 2006 and 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Park\nNote: This was only the second occasion the Liberal Democrats had lost Park since NELC's creation (the first being when Labour gained it in 2012), in addition to being the first time the Conservatives had won Park on NELC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Scartho\nNote: Bailey was formerly a Lib Dem councillor for Yarborough between 2009 and 2012. Incumbent UKIP councillor Henry Hudson chose not to seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Sidney Sussex\nNote: Rodwell was the only Labour candidate to have won more than 50% vote share on the night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, South\nNotes: Mickleburgh had been a West Marsh councillor since 2014 but was deselected by local members. Batson had previously fought this seat for UKIP in 2015 and fought it for the Conservatives in the June 2016 by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Waltham\nNote: Pettigrew had been a councillor in Freshney since 2014 (originally elected as UKIP, having joined the Tories in 2017).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, West Marsh\nNote: Watkin had been a councillor for this ward between 1999 and 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281437-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Yarborough\nNote: Cairns had been a councillor here since 2014 (originally elected as UKIP, having joined the Tories in 2017), so effectively a hold for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281438-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Greenville Crusaders football team\nThe 2018 North Greenville Crusaders football team will represent North Greenville University during the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They will be led by sixth-year head coach Jeff Farrington. The Crusaders will play their home games at Younts Stadium, and are members of the Gulf South Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281438-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Greenville Crusaders football team\nThe 2018 season marks as the first season as members of the Gulf South Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281438-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Greenville Crusaders football team, Preseason, Gulf South Conference coaches poll\nOn August 2, 2018, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Crusaders predicted to finish in 7th place in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281438-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Greenville Crusaders football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team\nThe Crusaders had no players selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 98], "content_span": [99, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281438-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Greenville Crusaders football team, Schedule\nNorth Greenville 2018 football schedule consists of five home and six away games in the regular season. The Crusaders will host GSC foes Mississippi College, Shorter, West Alabama, and West Florida, and will travel to Delta State, Florida Tech, Valdosta State, and West Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281438-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Greenville Crusaders football team, Schedule\nThe Crusaders will host one of the three non-conference games against Lenoir\u2013Rhyne from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC), and will travel to North Alabama, which is a FCS Independent team and Tusculum from the SAC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281438-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Greenville Crusaders football team, Schedule\nTwo of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281439-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Hertfordshire District Council election\nThe 2018 North Hertforshire District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect 19 of the 49 members of North Hertfordshire District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections around the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281439-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Hertfordshire District Council election, Summary Result, Where elections took place\nThe following table shows a summary of the results where elections took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 94], "content_span": [95, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281439-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Hertfordshire District Council election, Summary Result, Overall composition of district council\nThe following shows the composition and change of the district council overall as a result of the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 107], "content_span": [108, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe 2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was one of the most active North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons since 1992, with the formation of fourteen depressions and seven cyclones. The North Indian Ocean cyclone season has no official bounds, but cyclones tend to form between April and December, with the two peaks in May and November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe scope of this article is limited to the Indian Ocean in the Northern Hemisphere, east of the Horn of Africa and west of the Malay Peninsula. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean\u00a0\u2014 the Arabian Sea to the west of the Indian subcontinent, abbreviated ARB by the India Meteorological Department (IMD); and the Bay of Bengal to the east, abbreviated BOB by the IMD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) and the National Meteorological Center of CMA (NMC) unofficially release full advisories. On average, three to four cyclonic storms form in this basin every season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season summary\nThe season started with ARB 01 which was formed on March 14 making one of the rarest system formed in March since tropical cyclone development stays relatively low between January and March. It caused heavy rainfall in Maldives, Lakshadweep and Kerala. After a two-month gap, another low formed near the Horn of Africa, which later became Sagar. It became unofficially the strongest cyclone to make landfall until it was broken by Gati in 2020. It caused heavy rainfall in Somaliland and local flooding was reported in the Yemeni coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season summary\nThe storm made the westernmost landfall surpassing the record of Tropical Storm One. A day after Sagar dissipation, another low pressure formed off the coast of Oman which later organised into Cyclone Mekunu. It then peaked as a Category 3 tropical cyclone according to JTWC and an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm according to IMD. It caused 30 people dead and heavy rainfall recorded in Salalah, Oman. After that, a low pressure quickly intensified into a deep depression and peaking as a tropical storm made landfall in Myanmar causing heavy downpour. Five monsoonal depression also formed between June and September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season summary\nCyclogenesis continued with Cyclone Daye which made landfall in Odisha state. Heavy downpour and flood mainly in Malkangiri district and its outer bands also caused heavy rainfall in West Bengal. Following with Daye, Luban and Titli both formed in the Arabian sea and the Bay of Bengal respectively, causing heavy damages in Oman and Andhra Pradesh. Gaja on November 10, also formed and caused extensive damage in Tamil Nadu and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The season ended with Cyclone Phethai causing agricultural damage and four dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression ARB 01\nA trough developed near the equator in the eastern Indian Ocean on March\u00a07. A low-pressure area formed on March\u00a010 to the southwest of Sri Lanka, in an area with warm sea surface temperatures and low wind shear. Moving into the eastern Arabian Sea, the low organized into a depression on March\u00a013 at the low latitude of 5\u00b0\u00a0N. After its formation, the depression encountered cooler, drier air, which prevented the system from strengthening beyond an intensity of 45\u00a0km/h (30\u00a0mph). Moving northwest, the depression passed between the Maldives and the Lakshadweep islands, and weakened into a remnant low-pressure area on March\u00a015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression ARB 01\nOfficials advised fishermen to avoid sailing off India's southwest coast for a few days. The depression produced heavy rainfall across southern India. The coastal port city of Thoothukudi near the southern tip of India recorded 200\u00a0mm (7.9\u00a0in) on March\u00a013, its highest daily precipitation ever recorded. Minicoy Island in Lakshadweep received 177\u00a0mm (7.0\u00a0in) of rain from the system. Heavy rainfall also occurred in Aryankavu, Kerala, and Chintamani, Karnataka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Sagar\nA low-pressure area formed on May\u00a014 near Socotra in the western Arabian Sea. The weather system moved northwestward, steered by a ridge to the northeast and the flow of the regional geography. On May\u00a016, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) classified the low as a depression at 12:00\u00a0UTC about 200\u00a0km (125\u00a0mi) northeast of Cape Guardafui, Somalia. On the same day, the JTWC designated the depression as Tropical Cyclone 01A. The IMD upgraded the system to a cyclonic storm on May\u00a017, naming it Sagar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Sagar\nThe storm entered the Gulf of Aden that day, gradually intensifying while paralleling the coast of Yemen. Sagar developed an eye on microwave imagery, a sign of an intensifying storm. Late on May\u00a018, the IMD estimated Sagar's peak intensity at 85\u00a0km/h (55\u00a0mph). Around the same time, the JTWC estimated Sagar attained peak 1\u00a0minute sustained winds of 120\u00a0km/h (75\u00a0mph), while located about 165\u00a0km (105\u00a0mi) south of Aden, Yemen, or about 95\u00a0km (60\u00a0mi) north of Berbera, Somalia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0007-0002", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Sagar\nSagar weakened slightly before it made landfall near Lughaya in northwestern Somaliland, with winds of 75\u00a0km/h (45\u00a0mph) according to the IMD. According to the JTWC, Sagar was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to strike Somalia, with estimated 1-minute landfalling winds of 95\u00a0km/h (60\u00a0mph). The storm also made the westernmost landfall in the North Indian Ocean, surpassing a tropical storm in 1984, which took a nearly identical track to the east. Sagar rapidly weakened over land, degenerating into a low-pressure area over eastern Ethiopia on May\u00a020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Sagar\nThe cyclone first affected Socotra, and later the Yemeni mainland, producing locally heavy rainfall and flooding. High winds from Sagar contributed to a house fire near Aden, resulting in one fatality. In parts of northern Somalia and Somaliland, Sagar dropped a years' worth of heavy rainfall, or around 200\u00a0mm (7.9\u00a0in), resulting in deadly flash flooding. The floods washed out farms, livestock, boats, and houses, forcing families to evacuate. Roads, medical facilities, and other infrastructure were also damaged. Three people died in Puntland and another 50\u00a0people died in Somaliland due to Sagar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Sagar\nIn neighboring Djibouti, flooding from the storm damaged about 10,000\u00a0houses, with damage in the country estimated at US$30\u00a0million. Two people died in the country. In the Somali Region of eastern Ethiopia, Sagar produced strong winds and heavy rainfall, resulting in flooding and landslides. Near the border of SNNPR and Oromia, a landslide killed 23\u00a0people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Mekunu\nAn area of convection developed to the northwest of the Maldives on May 18. Over the next two days, it became better organized and the IMD reported that it had developed into a low-pressure area on May 20, giving it the identifier ARB 03. The system slowly drifted northwestwards into favorable environment for tropical cyclogenesis and developed good outflow. The JTWC issued a TCFA on May 21 after convective bands began to wrap into the broad low-level circulation center (LLCC). Around the same time, the IMD had announced that the system intensified into a depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 87], "content_span": [88, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Mekunu\nOver the next 24 hours, the depression continued to drift further northwestwards into warm waters and faced low vertical wind shear. As a result, it continued to intensify and the JTWC began tracking it as a tropical storm. Subsequently, the IMD upgraded it to a deep depression and Cyclonic Storm Mekunu later the same day. Multi-spectral satellite imagery revealed that Mekunu had developed an eye as early as May 23, at which time the IMD upgraded it to a severe cyclonic storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 87], "content_span": [88, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Mekunu\nBenefiting from favorable environmental conditions, the cyclone became more symmetric, intensifying into a very severe cyclonic storm six hours later. The cyclone continued to track northwestward under the influence of a subtropical ridge. On May 25, it reached its peak intensity as an extremely severe cyclonic storm, with the JTWC estimating peak 1-minute sustained winds of 185\u00a0km/h (115\u00a0mph), equivalent to a Category\u00a03 storm on the Saffir\u2013Simpson scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 87], "content_span": [88, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Mekunu\nUnder the influence of Mekunu, Socotra received widespread rainfall leading to flash flooding and downed power lines. At least 40 people were initially reported to be missing after two ships were capsized off Socotra. Mekunu made landfall on the Omani coast near the city of Salalah at peak intensity. Gusts of 67\u00a0mph (108\u00a0km/h) were recorded at the Salalah Airport before the landfall while areas in the Salalah recorded rainfall of 194\u00a0mm (7.6\u00a0in). As of 31 May, at least 30 people have died in Oman and Yemen due to Mekunu, including 20 on Socotra, four in Yemen, and six in Oman. Insurance claims in Oman reached \ufdfc108\u00a0million (US$281\u00a0million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 87], "content_span": [88, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 01\nOn May\u00a028, a low-pressure area formed over the eastern Bay of Bengal, three days after the IMD first mentioned such a possibility. That day, the JTWC noted a low chance for development, before raising it to a medium chance. The system moved northeastward and organized, becoming a depression at 06:00\u00a0UTC on May\u00a029. With warm waters and low wind shear, the system strengthened further. The IMD upgraded the system to a deep depression at 12:00\u00a0UTC on May\u00a029, estimating peak winds of 55\u00a0km/h (35\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 01\nThe JTWC meanwhile estimated peak winds of 85\u00a0km/h (55\u00a0mph), designating the system as Tropical Cyclone 03B; however, the agency did not issue any advisories on the cyclone in real time. Late on May\u00a029, the deep depression moved ashore northern Myanmar near Kyaukphyu, and it rapidly weakened over land, degenerating into a low on May\u00a030.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 01\nWhile in its formative stages, the depression brought heavy rainfall to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with a peak daily total of 230\u00a0mm (9.1\u00a0in) recorded in Port Blair. The storm later brought heavy rainfall to northeast India. Ahead of the depression's landfall, Myanmar's Meteorology and Hydrology Department issued a red-code emergency alert warning. High winds and heavy rains destroyed more than 500\u00a0homes in the Yangon region, with shelters opened for residents left homeless. The strong wind knocked down trees, cutting power supply in areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 02\nA monsoonal low formed in the northern Bay of Bengal on June\u00a08, which was anticipated by the IMD as early as June\u00a03. Low wind shear and warm waters fueled development as the system moved to the north-northwest. On June\u00a010, the system organized into a depression near the coastline of Bangladesh, with peak winds of 45\u00a0km/h (30\u00a0mph). A few hours after its formation, the depression moved ashore the country south of Feni. Due to land interaction, the system weakened into a low at 00:00\u00a0UTC on June\u00a011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 02\nThe depression brought heavy rainfall to Bangladesh and across eastern India. Sabroom in northeastern India recorded 440\u00a0mm (17\u00a0in) of rainfall over two days. In Bangladesh, two-day rainfall totals reached 150\u00a0mm (5.9\u00a0in), causing flooding and landslides. The flooding closed some roads and forced more than 29,000\u00a0people to be evacuated. At least 12\u00a0people died related to the floods, including two people in Rohingya refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh. Nearly 900\u00a0refugee camps were damaged, along with 200\u00a0latrines, two health facilities, and two food distribution centers. Heavy rains also caused flooding in the port city of Chittagong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 03\nA monsoonal low formed on July\u00a019 in the northern Bay of Bengal. With favorable conditions such as warm water temperatures, the system gradually organized, becoming a depression on July\u00a021 just off the coast of eastern India. The system only attained peak winds of 45\u00a0km/h (30\u00a0mph), as it soon after moved ashore the Indian coastline near the borders of Odisha and West Bengal. Continuing to the northwest, the depression maintained a flow of moisture that helped sustain its intensity for 36\u00a0hours over land, before the system weakened into a low on July\u00a023 over Jharkhand. The depression dropped torrential rainfall over eastern India, reaching as far west as Rajasthan. The highest 24\u00a0hour total was 620\u00a0mm (24\u00a0in) in Burla in Odisha, resulting in flooding. Flood-related incidents killed five people in Odisha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 881]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 04\nA monsoonal low formed in the northwestern Bay of Bengal on August\u00a06. With low wind shear and high water temperatures, the system quickly organized into a depression by August\u00a07, located a short distance off eastern India. The system soon after moved ashore near the border of Odisha and West Bengal, failing to intensify beyond winds of 45\u00a0km/h (30\u00a0mph). The depression moved across northern Odisha and weakened into a low on August\u00a08 over Chhattisgarh. Heavy rainfall accompanied the depression across India, reaching as far west as Rajasthan. The highest 24\u00a0hour rainfall total was 390\u00a0mm (15\u00a0in) in Puri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 05\nOn August\u00a013, a low formed in the northwestern Bay of Bengal from a circulation that was present for the prior four days. The system organized as it moved west-northwestward toward the Indian coastline, becoming a depression on August\u00a015 near the coastline of Odisha, with winds of 45\u00a0km/h (30\u00a0mph). The depression progressed across central India, weakening into a low on August\u00a017 over Madhya Pradesh. Along its path, the depression dropped heavy rainfall, with a peak 24\u00a0hour total of 400\u00a0mm (16\u00a0in) in Bhopalpatnam in Chhattisgarh state. In Odisha, the heavy rainfall prompted the cancelation of Independence Day activities at schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 06\nA low-pressure area formed in the northern Bay of Bengal on September\u00a05. With low wind shear and high water temperatures, the system organized further, becoming a depression on September\u00a06, just off the coast of West Bengal. The depression quickly intensified into a deep depression, reaching winds of 55\u00a0km/h (35\u00a0mph) before moving onshore eastern India. Continuing westward, the deep depression moved across northern Odisha and weakened, degenerating into a low over Chhattisgarh on September\u00a07. The low continued across India and dissipated over Rajasthan. Throughout much of India, the deep depression brought heavy rainfall, with a peak 24\u00a0hour precipitation total of 410\u00a0mm (16\u00a0in) in Paradeep, Odisha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Daye\nOn September 19, a depression formed over the east central Bay of Bengal, receiving the designation BOB 07. Soon afterward, the JTWC has issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert (TCFA). Early on September 20, the storm intensified into a deep depression over the west central Bay of Bengal. The system intensified further, becoming Cyclonic Storm Daye later that day, while situated over the northwestern Bay of Bengal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Daye\nEarly on September 21, Daye made landfall on south Odisha, also impacting the adjoining north Andhra Pradesh coast near Gopalpur, during the morning, local time, resulting in heavy rains and strong winds of 65 to 75\u00a0km/h in various districts in the regions. Upon its landfall, Daye brought heavy to very heavy rainfall in various districts of Odisha. Following landfall, Daye weakened into a depression. Over the next two days, Daye continued moving westward, while dropping heavy amounts of rain across India. On September 22, Daye weakened into a well-marked low, with the IMD issuing its final advisory on the system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Daye\nPrior to the cyclone's landfall at midnight, local time, on September 21, the government of Odisha deployed emergency teams in Malkangiri, with more teams on standby in Rayagada, Gajapati, and Puri. One NDRF team had each been deployed in Kalahandi, Rayagada, Gajapati, Puri, Nayagarh, and Kandhamal districts, with 17 boats and other emergency equipment. Local cautionary Signal Number LC-III had been kept hoisted at all ports of Odisha when the cyclone was a deep depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Daye\nMalkangiri was worst affected, with many houses submerged. Several parts of outer Malkangiri city and rural areas of the district reportedly received heavy cyclonic rains. Several houses had submerged into water, leaving many people homeless. According to reports, a maximum rainfall total of 284\u00a0mm was recorded at Malkangiri by the India Meteorological department (IMD). In Balasore District, the water was flowing above the danger level in the Jalaka River. Water level increased in the Kolab Dam and two gates were opened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Daye\nThe outer rainbands of the storm dropped extremely heavy rain in the southern parts of West Bengal. Digha recorded 229\u00a0mm of rain, Contai received 331\u00a0mm of rain, Diamond Harbour recorded 66\u00a0mm of rain, Midnapore received 79\u00a0mm of rain, and Halisahar recorded 51\u00a0mm of rain. Torrential rains and flash floods were also reported in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Punjab, resulting in at least 25 deaths. The floodgates of the famous Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh were opened, for the first time in 10 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Daye\nAs Daye weakened into a low-pressure area, the storm interacted with another western disturbance to the north, leading to widespread rainfall in the northern Himalayas and the plains to the south, from September 22\u201324. Delhi received heavy rains between September 22\u201324 totaling 58.6\u00a0mm, resulting in severe waterlogging. Maximum temperatures in Delhi were up to 6 Degrees Celsius below normal. Amritsar in Punjab received large amounts of rainfall ending early on September 24, with a total of 203.0\u00a0mm, while Karnal in Haryana received one of its highest 24-hour rainfall totals in September, with a total of 142.0\u00a0mm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Luban\nVery Severe Cyclonic Storm Luban was the third tropical cyclone to affect the Arabian Peninsula during the 2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, after cyclones Sagar and Mekunu in May. Luban developed on October\u00a06 in the central Arabian Sea, and for much of its duration, maintained a general west-northwestward trajectory. On October\u00a010, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) upgraded Luban to a very severe cyclonic storm \u2013 equivalent to a Category\u00a02 hurricane \u2013 and estimated maximum sustained winds of 155\u00a0km/h (100\u00a0mph). On October\u00a014, Cyclonic Storm Luban struck Yemen in the midst of a civil war and a cholera outbreak. The storm quickly weakened over the dry, mountainous terrain of the Arabian Peninsula, before dissipating on October\u00a015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Luban\nUpon moving ashore, Cyclone Luban produced flooding rains in Somalia, Oman, and Yemen. Luban forced 2,203\u00a0families to leave their houses, utilizing 38\u00a0schools for shelter. The storm killed 14\u00a0people in the country, and injured another 124\u00a0people, with 10\u00a0people still being missing. Heavy rainfall cut off villages and damaged roads. Damage in the country was estimated at US$1\u00a0billion. In Oman, desert rainfall caused a small locust outbreak. Luban coexisted with Cyclone Titli in the Bay of Bengal, marking the first time since 1977 that two storms of such intensity were active at the same time in the North Indian Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Titli\nOn October 6, a low-pressure area formed in the Andaman Sea. Over the next two days, the disaster entered the Bay of Bengal and became a depression on October 8, receiving the designation BOB 08 from the IMD. Afterward, the storm rapidly strengthened, becoming a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm on October 9, with the strength of a Category 3 major hurricane on the Saffir\u2013Simpson scale (SSHWS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Titli\nBetween 4:30\u00a0a.m. and 5:30\u00a0a.m. IST on October 11 (23:00\u201300:00 UTC on October 10\u201311), Titli made landfall near Palasa, Andhra Pradesh, at peak intensity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Titli\nTitli killed at least 77 people in Odisha and left a couple of others missing, due to heavy flooding and landslides, and caused another 8 deaths in Andhra Pradesh. The storm weakened into a depression before entering West Bengal, wreaking havoc in some parts of South Bengal, and bringing torrential rain and gale-force wind. Damage from flooding caused by Titli totaled at \u20b93,673.1 crore (US$507 million) in Andhra Pradesh, and \u20b93,000 crore (US$413 million) in Odisha. The storm also caused serious damage to the East Coast railway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Gaja\nOn November 5, a low-pressure system formed over the Gulf of Thailand. The system crossed through Southern Thailand and the Malay Peninsula on November 8. On the next day, it crossed into the Andaman Sea and lingered there, organizing further throughout the day, before intensifying into a depression over the Bay of Bengal on November 10, with the IMD designating the system as Depression BOB 09. Soon afterward, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert (TCFA) on the system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Gaja\nAt 00:00 UTC on November 11, the deep depression strengthened into a cyclonic storm, and was named Gaja. After tracking west-southwestward for a number of days, it made landfall in Tamil Nadu, on November 16. The storm survived crossing over into the Arabian Sea later that day; however, it degenerated into a remnant low in hostile conditions only several days later, on November 20. On the next day, the storm's remnants dissipated near Socotra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Gaja\nIn India, 52 people were killed by the storm. Damage nationwide was about \u20b95,400 crore (US$775 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Phethai\nAn area of convection developed in the southern Bay of Bengal on December 13. The disturbance was forecasted having little chance to develop; however, the storm's convection persisted and organized, resulting in the storm being classified as Depression BOB 10. The depression gradually organized and intensified into a deep depression on December 14. Within 24 hours, the deep depression attained 3-minute sustained winds of 40\u00a0mph, and the storm was named Phethai. Phethai steadily strengthened and on December 16, Phethai peaked with 65\u00a0mph winds and at severe cyclonic storm status. The storm steadily weakened and made landfall at Katrenikona on December 17, with 3-minute sustained winds of 50\u00a0mph. Phethai rapidly weakened as it traversed Andhra Pradesh, and finally dissipated over a tropical rainforest south west of Kolkata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 913]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Phethai\nEight people were reported dead after Phethai, and the agricultural damage in Andhra Pradesh was estimated at \u20b9294.54 crore (US$41.1 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Storm names\nWithin this basin, a tropical cyclone is assigned a name when it is judged to have reached Cyclonic Storm intensity, with winds of 65\u00a0km/h (40\u00a0mph). The names were selected by members of the ESCAP/WMO panel on Tropical Cyclones between 2000 and May 2004, before the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center in New Delhi started to assign names in September 2004. There is no retirement of tropical cyclone names in this basin, as the list of names is only scheduled to be used once before a new list of names is drawn up. Should a named tropical cyclone move into the basin from the Western Pacific, then it will retain its original name. The next eight available names from the List of North Indian Ocean storm names are below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281440-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season effects\nThis is a table of all storms in the 2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. It mentions all of the season's storms and their names, duration, peak intensities (according to the IMD storm scale), damage, and death totals. Damage and death totals include the damage and deaths caused when that storm was a precursor wave or extratropical low, and all of the damage figures are in 2018 USD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281441-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea Census\nThe Government of North Korea had planned to hold a census in the country in 2018, ten years after the 2008 Census. However, the census was reportedly canceled because South Korea had stopped funding the project (because such funding would be in violation of international sanctions, specifically Resolution 2371 which sanctions the nation's Foreign Trade Bank).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281441-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea Census\nBefore it was canceled, it was expected that the census would show a moderate increase in population, with growth lower than in previous decades. This is because the Total Fertility Rate stayed constant at about 1.9 births/woman between 2008 and 2018, slightly below the replacement rate of 2.1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281441-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea Census\nIn 2019, North Korea reportedly told the UN that it planned to hold a census that year, but without UN funding. This is reportedly because few nations wanted to give North Korea the funding because they feared violating sanctions. The UN believed that the data will be less reliable, which would hurt aid efforts in the country. Despite the North's claim, the results of the census were never made public internationally, so it is unknown whether or not it actually took place. A similar situation occurred with the 2008 Census, whose results were not made public until 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281442-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea bus accident\nOn 22 April 2018, a bus in North Hwanghae Province, North Korea transporting Chinese tourists fell off a bridge, killing thirty-two Chinese tourists and four North Koreans. The cause of the accident was not immediately disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281442-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea bus accident, Accident\nThe bus was traveling from Kaesong to Pyongyang, when the bus went off of the bridge in the North Hwanghae Province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281442-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea bus accident, Reaction\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited the Chinese embassy in Pyongyang to express his condolences regarding the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281443-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korean floods\nThe 2018 North Korean floods began on 28 August 2018, killing at least 76 people, leaving around 75 more missing, destroying more than 800 buildings, and causing about 10,700 people to become homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281443-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korean floods\nThe most affected area were the North and South Hwanghae provinces, where volunteers from the national Red Cross conducted search and rescue operations. Landslides also occurred after the floods, and thousands of people were in need of health services, shelter, food, safe drinking water and sanitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit\nThe 2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, commonly known as the Singapore Summit, was a summit meeting between North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump, held at the Capella Hotel, Sentosa, Singapore, on June 12, 2018. It was the first-ever meeting between leaders of North Korea and the United States. They signed a joint statement, agreeing to security guarantees for North Korea, new peaceful relations, the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, recovery of soldiers' remains, and follow-up negotiations between high-level officials. Both leaders also met separately with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit\nImmediately following the summit, President Trump announced that the U.S. military would discontinue \"provocative\" joint military exercises with South Korea, and stated that he wished to bring the U.S. soldiers back home at some point, but he reinforced that it was not part of the Singapore equation. On August 1, 2018, the U.S. Senate passed the military budget bill for 2019, forbidding funding the reduction of active USFK personnel below 22,000; significant removal of US forces is considered a non-negotiable item in denuclearization talks with the North.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit\nAfter a period of heightened conflict that included North Korea successfully testing what it claims was its first hydrogen bomb and the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in late 2017, tensions began to de-escalate after Kim Jong-un announced his desire to send athletes to the 2018 Winter Olympics being held in South Korea. During the games, Kim proposed talks with South Korea to plan an inter-Korean summit. On March 8, the South Korean delegation returned from the talks and traveled to the United States to deliver an invitation by Kim Jong-un to Donald Trump for a meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit\nHigh-level exchanges between the two sides then took place, including a visit by then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo to Pyongyang and a visit by Kim Yong-chol, Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, to the White House. Both sides threatened to cancel the summit after a round of joint military exercises by the U.S. and South Korea, with Trump even delivering a formal letter to Kim to call off the meeting; however, the two sides eventually agreed to meet. A second meeting was held between Trump and Kim in February 2019 in Hanoi, Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Background\nKorea has been divided since 1945. The Korean War of 1950\u20131953 ended with an armistice agreement but not a peace settlement. A sporadic conflict has continued, with American troops remaining in the South as part of a mutual defense treaty. The North began building a nuclear reactor in 1963, and it began a nuclear weapons program in the 1980s. North Korea first committed to denuclearization in 1992 in the Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Background\nIn a speech authored by David Frum, President George W. Bush referred to North Korea as part of an \"axis of evil\" during his 2002 State of the Union address, but in the 2005 Joint Statement of the Fourth Round of the Six-Party Talks, North Korea reaffirmed the 1992 Joint Declaration and the goal of verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. In 2008, North Korea voluntarily gave information on its nuclear program in exchange for sanction relief, and they were taken off the State Sponsors of Terrorism list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Background\nDespite this, nuclear inspectors were barred from surveying any North Korean weapons facilities. The Obama administration had a policy of \"strategic patience\", in which perceived North Korean provocations would not be \"rewarded\" with presidential attention or the sending of high-level envoys but instead be punished with sanctions and greater military coordination with South Korea and Japan. More nuclear tests were conducted in the succeeding years, and the 2010 bombardment of Yeonpyeong markedly raised tensions between North Korea and South Korea. The escalation of North Korea's nuclear program advanced particularly under the rule of Kim Jong-un, who became the leader in December 2011, after his father Kim Jong-il died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Background\nDonald Trump was elected US president in 2016 with a position of opposition to Barack Obama's policy of \"strategic patience\" towards North Korea. While advocating a tough stance, he also expressed openness to dialogue, saying he would be prepared to \"eat a hamburger\" with Kim. He put himself at odds with military allies, saying that it would be better if South Korea and Japan protect themselves. In return, a pro-North Korean website, DPRK Today, described him as a \"wise politician\". The editorial suggested that Trump might make the slogan \"Yankee go home\" a reality. In 2017, Moon Jae-in was elected President of South Korea with a promise to return to the Sunshine Policy of friendly relations with the North.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Background\nDuring a period of heightened tensions with the United States, North Korea successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), named Hwasong-14, in July 2017. In response to heightened North Korean rhetoric, Trump warned that any North Korean attack \"will be met with fire, fury and frankly power, the likes of which the world has never seen before\". In response, North Korea announced that it was considering a missile test in which the missiles would land near the US territory of Guam. North Korea tested what some sources argued may have been its first hydrogen bomb on September 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Background\nThe test was internationally condemned, and further economic sanctions were put on North Korea. The United States also added North Korea back to its State Sponsors of Terrorism list after nine years. On November 28, North Korea launched the Hwasong-15, which, according to analysts, would be capable of reaching anywhere in the United States. The United Nations responded by placing further sanctions on the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Background\nAfter North Korea claimed that the missile was capable of \"carrying [a] super-heavy [nuclear] warhead and hitting the whole mainland of the U.S.\", Kim-Jong-Un announced that they had \"finally realized the great historic cause of completing the state nuclear force\", putting them in a position of strength to push the United States into talks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Background\nIn his New Year address for 2018, North Korean chairman Kim Jong-un celebrated completing their nuclear capabilities and proposed talks for sending a delegation to the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea. In January a false missile alert alarmed Hawaii. The Seoul\u2013Pyongyang hotline was reopened after almost two years. North Korea sent an unprecedented high-level delegation, headed by Kim Yo-jong, sister of Kim Jong-un, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam, and including performers like the Samjiyon Orchestra. The delegation passed on an invitation to President Moon to visit North Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Background\nThe United States was represented by Vice President Mike Pence. After arriving late to a dinner hosted by President Moon, he was asked to greet the other dignitaries, but he shook hands with everyone except Kim Yong-nam and left early. North and South Korean athletes marched together in the Olympics opening ceremony and fielded a united women's ice hockey team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Announcement\nOn March 5, 2018, South Korea's special delegation agreed to hold the third inter-Korean summit at Inter-Korean Peace House in Panmunjom on April 27, 2018. On March 6, after returning to South Korea, the national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, and National Information Director Suh Hoon traveled to the United States on March 8 to report to Trump about the upcoming inter-Korean summit and relayed to President Trump the North Korean chairman Kim Jong-un's invitation. Trump endorsed the North Korea\u2013United States summit about an hour after receiving the report. The South Korean National Security Adviser (SKNS), Mr. Jeong briefed the public that the North Korea\u2013United States summit would be held sometime in May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Announcement\nThe White House announced that the UN Sanctions would remain in place until an agreement between the United States and North Korea is reached. On March 6, Sarah Sanders said that the White House would need to see \"concrete and verifiable steps\" toward the denuclearization of North Korea before Trump would meet with Kim Jong-un. Later that day, an unidentified Trump official told The Wall Street Journal that Trump had still accepted Kim Jong-un's invitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Announcement\nSouth Korea's national security adviser Chung Eui-yong visited China on March 12 to meet with the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, of the foreign officials and report on the planned inter-Korean summit as well as the North Korea-United States summit and asked their advice. Russia on March 14, 2018, for explaining North Korea and the United States Visit Summary, seeking guidance for upcoming 2018 inter-Korean summit. National Information Director Suh Hoon visited Japan and had a consultation with Prime Minister Shinz\u014d Abe including the foreign officials about the denuclearization and Permanent Peace on the Korean Peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Preparatory talks\nSouth Korea's foreign ministry announced on March 18 that selected informal delegations from North Korea, South Korea, and the US would meet for denuclearization discussions in April in Vantaa, Finland. (This type of discussions, as held previously, had sometimes been referred to as track-2 talks.) According to South Korea's Yonhap news, Choe Kang-il, a deputy director general for North American affairs at North Korea's foreign ministry, would also attend the event, which Yonhap termed \"track-1.5 talks\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Kim Jong-un's meeting with Xi Jinping\nNorth Korea's supreme leader Kim was in Beijing on March 25\u201328, 2018, arriving by special train for talks with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping, Kim's first known out-of-country excursion since taking power six years previously. China stated that North Korea was \"committed to denuclearization\" and willing to hold a summit with the United States. It was organized by the invitation of Xi. During the meeting between two leaders, Kim officially invited Xi to the North Korean capital Pyongyang when it was convenient in his schedule, and Xi accepted the invitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 100], "content_span": [101, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Kim Jong-un's meeting with Xi Jinping\nXi urged Kim to strengthen the strategic and diplomatic future partnership between China and North Korea. Kim stressed to Xi that North Korea and China are communist countries and that there are many ways to cooperate in various aspects in the future. Kim and Xi met again on May 7, 2018, in the city of Dalian, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 100], "content_span": [101, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Announcement within North Korea\nAccording to North Korea's state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim led a meeting of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea's political bureau on April 9, 2018, where he spoke about the planned summit with Trump for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 94], "content_span": [95, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Proposed conditions by North Korea\nOn April 11, North Korea presented five entreaties as conditions for the dismissal of their nuclear-capable ICBMs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Proposed conditions by North Korea\nAlthough North Korea was previously expected to request the withdrawal of United States Forces Korea (USFK) from South Korea, North Korea publicized they would embrace the continuous deployment of 25,000 USFK troops in South Korea as long as the security of North Korea is guaranteed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, April 2018 inter-Korean summit\nAt an inter-Korean summit on April 27, 2018, held at the Peace House in Panmunjom, the leaders of North and South Korea agreed to formally end the Korean War before the end of the year and confirmed the goal of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula through denuclearization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 93], "content_span": [94, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Release of the American detainees\nOn May 10, 2018, three Americans held by North Korea were released following negotiations between the Trump administration and the North Korean regime. Some have speculated that their release was part of an attempt of the regime to motivate the US to continue the negotiations and perhaps ease the pressure upon the North Koreans. Nevertheless, their release has managed to ease the tensions between the Trump administration and the North Korean regime, enabling both sides to proceed to further negotiations, possibly leading to the 2018 North Korea\u2013United States summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 96], "content_span": [97, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Release of the American detainees\nThe three Americans Kim Dong-chul, Kim Sang-duk, and Kim Hak-song left North Korea accompanied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and were greeted by the president and the first lady upon their landing on US soil at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 96], "content_span": [97, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Tensions, cancelation, and reinstatement\nAmerican Vice President Mike Pence said on May 21, 2018, that \"this will only end like the Libyan model ended if Kim Jong-un doesn't make a deal\" to \"dismantle his nuclear weapons program\". Trump had made similar remarks on May 17, as he described that Libya's fate is \"what will take place if we don't make a deal\". These comments were in reference to the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi after military intervention by Americans and Europeans in 2011. After a NATO airstrike prevented Gaddafi's escape, the Libyan rebels captured, assaulted, sodomized, and executed Gaddafi. However, Libya under Gaddafi had already in 2003 voluntarily ended its nuclear weapons program and complied with conditions set by Western powers. As a result, North Korean vice foreign minister Choe Son-hui called Pence's remarks \"ignorant and stupid\" and threatened a \"nuclear-to-nuclear showdown\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 103], "content_span": [104, 989]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Tensions, cancelation, and reinstatement\nTrump canceled the summit on May 24, 2018, via a letter to Chairman Kim, writing that \"based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting\u00a0... You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used.\" Even though it was Trump who decided to cancel, Trump told Kim, \"If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 103], "content_span": [104, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Tensions, cancelation, and reinstatement\nSouth Korean President Moon was left \"very perplexed\" by Trump's cancellation, while the South Korean minister in charge of inter-Korean affairs Cho Myoung-gyon said that North Korea \"remains sincere\" on \"efforts on denuclearization and peace building\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 103], "content_span": [104, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Tensions, cancelation, and reinstatement\nIn response to Trump's cancellation, North Korean vice foreign minister Kim Kye-gwan expressed his country's \"willingness to sit down face-to-face with the US and resolve issues anytime and in any format\", being \"open-minded in giving time and opportunity to the US\" for the \"peace and stability for the world and the Korean Peninsula\". Trump's cancellation had come on the day North Korea had detonated explosives at its only known nuclear test site, at Punggye-ri in front of international journalists; North Korea claimed that this would have demolished the test site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 103], "content_span": [104, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Tensions, cancelation, and reinstatement\nOn May 25, however, Trump announced that the summit could resume as scheduled following a \"very nice statement\" he received from North Korea and that talks were now resuming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 103], "content_span": [104, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Tensions, cancelation, and reinstatement\nThe following day, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed in a statement that a \"pre-advance team for Singapore will leave as scheduled in order to prepare the summit should take place\". The team, consisting of about thirty staffers from both the White House and State Department, met with North Korean counterparts over Memorial Day weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 103], "content_span": [104, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Tensions, cancelation, and reinstatement\nOn May 30, North Korean general Kim Yong-chol arrived in New York City to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Negotiations between Kim and Pompeo continued the next day, and Pompeo later stated at a press conference that \"good progress\" had been made. Kim Yong-chol, who is the Vice Chair of Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, is the highest-ranking North Korean official to visit the US since 2000 (when Jo Myong-rok met with US President Bill Clinton in Washington, D.C.).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 103], "content_span": [104, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Tensions, cancelation, and reinstatement\nOn June 1, Trump announced the summit would resume as scheduled for June 12 after he met Kim Yong-chol at the White House. Kim Yong-chol delivered a letter from Kim Jong-un to Trump, of which Trump first told reporters that it was \"a very nice\" and \"a very interesting letter\", yet eight minutes later said \"I haven't seen the letter yet. I purposely didn't open the letter\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 103], "content_span": [104, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, US\u2013South Korea summit\nOn May 22, 2018, South Korea President Moon Jae-in visited the United States to meet President Trump, to promote Trump-Kim summit progress, and to coordinate the two countries' common strategy regarding the upcoming summit, following harsh rhetoric from North Korea towards Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 84], "content_span": [85, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Closure of Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site\nOn 12 May 2018, North Korea announced the closure and planned dismantlement of its Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, and invited journalists to witness the destruction of its tunnels and other testing infrastructure. On 24 May 2018, reporters witnessed explosions to purportedly close those tunnels, although independent inspectors were not present. Those explosions destroyed the portals to several test tunnels, but the extent of the damage to the tunnels themselves was not clear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 102], "content_span": [103, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Replacement of North Korean generals\nOn June 3, North Korea's Chairman Kim Jong-un replaced three general officers responsible for the development of North Korea's ICBM nuclear weapons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 99], "content_span": [100, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, May 2018 inter-Korean summit\nTwo leaders of North and South Koreas exchanged their opinions about the issues and solutions for the Trump-Kim summit as Trump abruptly cancelled the upcoming US-North Korea summit on 12 June. The principal agenda of the meeting was trying to get U.S. summit back on track and keep progressing the denuclearization talks. The second 2018 summit was established by Kim Jung-un's suggestion within a whirlwind 24 hour notice, but Moon Jae-in accepted Kim's invitation as per the critical nuclear agenda between North and South Korea. Moon Jae-in had expressed his belief, and he discussed with Kim Jong Un about Kim's willingness to join nuclear interventions with Trump. Both leaders also agreed to accelerate the implementation of the Panmunjom Declaration and meet again at \"anytime and anyplace\" without formality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 91], "content_span": [92, 909]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Potential denuclearization process\nDuring President Donald Trump's meeting with North Korea envoy, the former spy chief Kim Yong-chol at the White House, Trump said that he would choose the \"denuclearization process\" in North Korea. The nuclear warheads and the ICBM nuclear missiles completed in North Korea could be transferred outside of North Korea and economic sanctions on North Korea could be partly alleviated. The next step would be comprehensive inspections on North Korea's nuclear facilities and nuclear ICBM weapons program by IAEA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Potential denuclearization process\nOn July 7, 2018, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung Wha met in Tokyo, where they reaffirmed their unity in urging North Korea to denuclearize as promised. The ministers stressed the need to call on North Korea to take concrete steps toward denuclearization and to keep existing U.N. economic sanctions in place. Ten days later, Donald Trump said there is \"no time limit\" for North Korea to denuclearize and that there is no need to rush the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Logistical preparations\nOn June 3, a \"special event area\" was declared by the Ministry of Home Affairs around the area surrounding the Shangri-La Hotel Singapore and stringent security measures will be in force from June 10\u201314. On the same day, a smaller segment within the \"special event area\" was declared a \"special zone\" by the Singapore Police Force where enhanced police powers will be in effect during the same period. On June 5, the Ministry of Home Affairs (Singapore) declared the whole of Sentosa Island, including waters off its south-west beaches, a \"special event area\" from June 10\u201314. The summit venue Capella Singapore sits on the \"special event area\". The government also issued an order exempting four bulletproof and bombproof vehicles from certain traffic rules for the purposes of conveying \"non-citizen\" individuals for the summit from June 5\u201330.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 932]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Logistical preparations\nThe F1 Pit Building has also been designated as the summit's International Media Centre for international journalists to cover the summit and will be operated from 10 am on June 10 to 10 pm on June 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Logistical preparations\nOn June 6, Singapore's aviation authorities announced that temporary airspace restrictions will be put in place for parts of June 11, 12 and 13. Aircraft arriving at Singapore Changi Airport will be required to reduce speed and some restrictions are placed on runway use. Aviators are also informed to stay away from Paya Lebar Air Base, a facility used by US Presidents on their previous visits to Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Logistical preparations\nThe Singapore Mint also released three commemorative medallions to mark the summit. They are available in gold proof, silver proof, and nickel plated zinc proof.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Logistical preparations\nOn June 9, the Singapore Police Force and the Land Transport Authority announced that security measures, such as road closures and security checks, will kick in. Some bus stops in the Tanglin area will be skipped and security checks will be conducted along stretches of roads around the Shangri-La Hotel Singapore and the St Regis Hotel Singapore, the two hotels Trump and Kim are believed to be staying in. Bag searches and other security checks may be conducted for visitors entering Sentosa Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Logistical preparations\nOn June 11, Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan announced that the Singapore government would be paying for the North Korean contingent's hotel bill, forming part of the total US$20 million expenditure for the summit, as it was \"hospitality that we would have offered them\". On June 25, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) announced that the summit cost S$16.3 million, lower than the initial planned cost mentioned by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Diplomatic preparations\nIn preparation for the summit, Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan visited the United States on a working visit and met with the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John R. Bolton. He visited North Korea and met with North Korea's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ri Yong-ho and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam to further lay the groundwork for the Trump-Kim summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Diplomatic preparations\nThe United States did not convene a Cabinet-level National Security Council meeting to discuss the summit with North Korea. Trump said: \"I think I'm very well prepared\u00a0... I don't think I have to prepare very much\u00a0... this isn't a question of preparation, it's a question of whether or not people want it to happen, and we'll know that very quickly.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Preparations, Media center\nSingapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong visited the summit's International Media Centre on June 10 when it opened. At a media conference, Lee mentioned that the summit cost S$20 million, with security costs taking up S$10 million and the setting up of the International Media Centre costing S$5 million, but it is a cost that Singapore is \"willing to pay\". The media center opened to journalists and they were given customized items, including a bottle of water, a fan, and a notebook. The center hosted more than 2500 local and international journalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Meeting location, Background\nOn March 31 and possibly also April 1, then-CIA director Mike Pompeo had secretly met with Kim in Pyongyang to lay the groundwork for the summit, including their discussing possible venues. On April 17, on the day of a meeting at Mar-a-Lago of Trump with Prime Minister of Japan Shinz\u014d Abe, sources revealed to reporters the identities involved in the discussions in Pyongyang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Meeting location, Locations considered\nTrump administration sources said on April 28 that the meeting would be held in either Singapore or Mongolia. On April 30, Trump remarked on a possibility the Peace House and inter-Korean House of Freedom (Joint Security Area) in Panmunjom would serve as venues. Trump believed that Panmunjom in DMZ would be the reasonable location for the meeting to remove nuclear weapons and to sign the preparatory peace treaty on the Korean peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Meeting location, Locations considered\nThe inter-Korean Peace House was where the 2018 inter-Korean summit was held earlier in April. Singapore was the site of a recent China\u2013Taiwan summit. Mongolia has sponsored a number of talks in recent years involving regional and international players and is accessible by train from North Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Meeting location, Locations considered\nOn April 30, Trump confirmed that Singapore, the Peace House and the inter-Korean House of Freedom were under consideration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Meeting location, Locations considered\nAmerican officials said the most likely mutually-agreed-upon choice of venue would be in Southeast Asia or Europe, especially from among the choices of Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Switzerland (where Kim and his two siblings had some schooling), or Sweden (whose embassy acts as intermediary for Americans traveling in North Korea). Another possible location of the summit would be Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Meeting location, Locations considered\nAdditionally proposed venues included Pyongyang, North Korea (favored by Kim); the Inter-Korean Peace House in Panmunjom near the boundary of the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea (site for the April 27, 2018 inter-Korean summit; a site possibly favored by Kim for the summit with the US as well); the Russian port city of Vladivostok (accessible to Kim by land or sea and nearby Vyatskoye, Kim's predecessor and father Kim Jong-il's February 16, 1941 birthplace); a Chinese city such as Shenyang, Changchun, or Beijing (favored by China); Seoul or South Korea's Jeju Island; or, aboard a US ship in international waters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Meeting location, Announcement on holding the talks in Singapore\nCNN reported on May 9 that Singapore will be hosting the meeting on June 12. As per CNBC, a White House official said Singapore was chosen as it has diplomatic relations with both United States and North Korea, and was one of the few countries that have relationships with both countries. Trump confirmed the location on May 10 and announced that the summit is set for June 12. At 4,700 kilometres (2,900\u00a0mi) from Pyongyang's Sunan airport, Singapore is easily within the range of Kim's Soviet-made Il-62M aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 113], "content_span": [114, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0046-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Meeting location, Announcement on holding the talks in Singapore\nLocal media reported that the most likely choice of venue would be the Shangri-La Hotel Singapore near Orchard Road, known for hosting the annual Shangri-La Dialogue and the 2015 Ma\u2013Xi meeting. A South Korean report also cited The Istana, the official residence of the President of Singapore, as a possible venue to host the summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 113], "content_span": [114, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Meeting location, Announcement on holding the talks in Singapore\nSingapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs further provided information on the summit stating that \"Singapore is pleased to host the meeting between President of the United States Donald J. Trump and Democratic People's Republic of Korea State Affairs Commission Chairman Kim Jong-un on 12 June 2018. We hope this meeting will advance prospects for peace in the Korean Peninsula\". However, the ministry did not provide any details on the venue and the arrangements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 113], "content_span": [114, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Meeting location, Announcement on holding the talks in Singapore\nFollowing Trump's renewed commitment to the summit on June 1, Singapore's Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen welcomed the move and stated that Singapore would cover some of the costs of the summit. Advance team members of the American and North Korean delegations that were meeting in Singapore in prior weeks were believed to have been staying in Capella Singapore on Sentosa, and the Fullerton Hotel Singapore in the city's Downtown Core respectively, both of which were additional venue options for the summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 113], "content_span": [114, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Meeting location, Announcement on holding the talks in Singapore\nThe White House announced on June 4 that the meeting will take place at 9:00 am (SGT), and confirmed the next day that Capella Singapore will be the venue for the June 12 summit. The US clarified that they would not pay for North Korea's officials' accommodation. They also affirmed that they would talk with the South Korean and Japanese governments if asked about the possible declaration of the end of the Korean War during the summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 113], "content_span": [114, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Meeting location, Announcement on holding the talks in Singapore\nOn June 9, 2018, at a press conference at the G7 Summit in Quebec, Trump estimated that the interpersonal chemistry between him and Leader Kim Jong-un would be a deciding factor in the success of the Summit in Singapore and that this would be a one-time chance for North Korea to strike a deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 113], "content_span": [114, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Pre-summit events, Leaders' arrivals\nUS President Donald Trump left the 44th G7 summit around four hours earlier than scheduled and departed directly for Singapore. He reportedly viewed the G7 summit as a \"distraction\" from his summit with Kim. Trump landed at Singapore's Paya Lebar Airbase at 20:20 local time and was welcomed by Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan. A US Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III transport plane was already at the air base ahead of his arrival. Trump stayed at the Shangri-La Hotel Singapore, which has also hosted previous US Presidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 85], "content_span": [86, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Pre-summit events, Leaders' arrivals\nNorth Korean chairman Kim Jong-un landed at Singapore Changi Airport on Sunday at about 14:35 local time and was welcomed by Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan and Minister for Education Ong Ye Kung. Kim flew to Singapore on a Boeing 747 operated by Air China, a plane used by the highest echelons of the Chinese leadership. According to media reports, a cargo plane, an Air Koryo Ilyushin Il-76, containing food items and other perishables landed in Singapore from North Korea before Kim's plane landed. Chiller trucks ferried them to the St. Regis Hotel Singapore where Kim stayed. A third plane from North Korea, an Air Koryo Ilyushin Il-62, landed shortly afterward; Kim's sister and Vice Director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department, Kim Yo-jong, was believed to be on board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 85], "content_span": [86, 899]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Pre-summit events, Working-level meetings\nBoth Trump and Kim met separately with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Kim met Lee on Sunday evening at The Istana. Trump met Lee on Monday afternoon, also at The Istana. He was accorded a bilateral meeting, followed by a working lunch and then an expanded bilateral meeting. During the meeting, Trump accepted President Halimah Yacob's invitation to make a State Visit to Singapore in November 2018, in conjunction with the 6th ASEAN-US Summit and 13th East Asia Summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 90], "content_span": [91, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Pre-summit events, Working-level meetings\nA working-level meeting was held between the United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Son-hui, at The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore on Monday morning. The meeting lasted over two hours and was believed to further work out the details of the summit between Trump and Kim and to push forward their agendas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 90], "content_span": [91, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Pre-summit events, Working-level meetings\nMeanwhile, North Korea's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ri Yong-ho met with his Singaporean counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan on Monday morning too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 90], "content_span": [91, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Pre-summit events, Pre-summit activities, Trump's activities\nAfter meeting Singapore's Prime Minister, Trump and Secretary of State Pompeo met and thanked the team at the United States embassy in Singapore and Task Force 73 at Shangri-La Hotel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 109], "content_span": [110, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Pre-summit events, Pre-summit activities, Trump's activities\nTrump then discussed the summit with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in in a 40-minute phone call, expressing that he is willing to take \"bold decisions\" while Moon said that South Koreans are praying for Trump to \"create a miraculous result\". He also spoke with Japan's Prime Minister Shinz\u014d Abe on the phone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 109], "content_span": [110, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Pre-summit events, Pre-summit activities, US press briefing\nSecretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a press briefing at the White House press room set up at the JW Marriott Hotel Singapore South Beach Hotel on Monday afternoon. He mentioned details of the preparations done by the US delegation and that the US is willing to offer North Korea security guarantees in exchange for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 108], "content_span": [109, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Pre-summit events, Pre-summit activities, South Korea press briefing\nA South Korean official spoke at a closed-door press briefing held at South Korea's Korea Press Center, confirming that Moon Jae-in will not travel to Singapore to attend the summit, despite earlier speculations. Instead, South Korea sent a delegation to Singapore to monitor the summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 117], "content_span": [118, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Pre-summit events, Pre-summit activities, Kim's tour of Singapore\nKim visited several of Singapore's attractions in the Central Area together with his sister, Kim Yo-jong, on Monday evening. They visited the Flower Dome at Gardens by the Bay, the Jubilee Bridge, and the Marina Bay Sands integrated resorts. They were accompanied by Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan and Minister for Education Ong Ye Kung, the same ministers who welcomed him at Changi Airport the previous day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 114], "content_span": [115, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Pre-summit events, Pre-summit activities, Dennis Rodman\nRetired U.S. basketball star Dennis Rodman, who made a number of visits to North Korea to promote sports and developed a personal relationship with Chairman Kim over several years, announced that he would be in Singapore during the summit but would not be involved in the meeting. Rodman arrived the day before the summit. The basketball star broke down in tears live on CNN as he recounted the hostility he faced for meeting Kim Jong-un.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 104], "content_span": [105, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Summit meeting, One-on-one meeting\nUnited States President Donald Trump arrived at Capella Hotel first before North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived seventeen minutes later. They started the summit at 9:05 am local time with a 12-second handshake and then participated in a one-on-one meeting, with interpreters only. Trump and Kim emerged from the one-on-one talks and walked down the corridor to the Cassia where the expanded bilateral meeting took place. Trump described the one-on-one meeting as \"very very good\" when asked by a reporter. When Trump was asked if he had notes of the one-on-one meeting to refer back and verify, Trump replied, \"I don't have to verify because I have one of the great memories of all time\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 83], "content_span": [84, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Summit meeting, Expanded bilateral meeting and working lunch\nBoth countries' delegations proceeded to participate in an expanded bilateral meeting and a working lunch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 109], "content_span": [110, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Summit meeting, Expanded bilateral meeting and working lunch\nBoth delegations dined together on Korean, Southeast Asian and Western dishes with ice cream, trop\u00e9zienne, and dark chocolate ganache tartlet for dessert. After the lunch, Trump and Kim took a short walk together and viewed the interior of the presidential state car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 109], "content_span": [110, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Summit meeting, Joint signing ceremony\nSubsequently, Trump and Kim signed a joint statement, titled \"Joint Statement of President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong-un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the Singapore Summit\", which Trump described as a \"very important\" and \"comprehensive\" agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Summit meeting, Joint signing ceremony\nPresident Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un state the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Summit meeting, Joint signing ceremony\nIn addition to the numbered provisions, the joint statement also mentions Trump's commitment to providing security guarantees to North Korea. Follow-up negotiations between Pompeo and an undetermined high-level North Korean official are also called for by the joint statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Summit meeting, US news conference\nTrump held a news conference at 16:15 local time which lasted for more than an hour. In his news conference, Trump said that further discussions will take place with North Korean officials and that he would consider visiting Pyongyang. Referring to his commitment in the Joint Statement to \"provide security guarantees\" to North Korea, Trump announced the end of the joint military exercises with the South Korean military, which he described as \"provocative\". U.S. Forces Korea and South Korea were apparently not consulted. He expressed his hope that the removal of 32,000 American troops defending South Korea would become part of the equation. The next round of joint military exercises was scheduled for late August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 83], "content_span": [84, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Summit meeting, End of summit\nOn June 12, Trump left Singapore from Paya Lebar Air Base at around 18:30 local time, earlier than his planned departure time of 19:00 while Kim Jong-un left Singapore from Changi Airport at around 22:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Summit meeting, End of summit\nUpon returning to the United States the following day, President Trump declared that North Korea was no longer a nuclear threat. On June 22, 2018, Trump provided a \"Notice Regarding the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to North Korea,\" which extended the Executive Order 13466 of 2008 by one year, reaffirming \"the current existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Summit meeting, End of summit\nIn October 2018, a second North Korea\u2013United States summit was announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Reactions\nThe summit received a mixed international reaction, with many countries expressing praise or hope for achieving a peace deal from the summit. Some commentators expressed skepticism towards the signed agreement, pointing to a history of failed past agreements and to the vague wording of the declarations. China raised the possibility of sanction relief following the summit, but Pompeo said sanction relief would only be granted after complete denuclearization. Joint-military exercises between the United States and South Korea were halted, a demand that North Korea had long made. Visitors to North Korea reported that anti-American posters, postcards, stamps and similar items were no longer sold in tourist shops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Incidents\nOn June 9, two South Korean media personnel from South Korean broadcaster KBS News were arrested for trespassing at the home of the North Korean ambassador in Singapore. KBS News subsequently issued an apology for not being cautious. The two media personnel were deported the next day on June 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Incidents\nOn June 11, five South Korean women were arrested on Monday night for protesting outside the St. Regis Hotel where Chairman Kim and his delegation were staying. The police warned the women for violating the Public Order Act but they refused to cooperate, leading to their arrests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Progress of joint statement\nThe director of USC Korean Studies Institute David C. Kang wrote an analysis of North Korea's solution which was published in The New York Times. Writing that the Trump administration should proceed with the necessary action items of U.S. side in order to ask North Korea to give up their Nuclear Weapons, Kang emphasized that unilateral disarmament of the DPRK would be impractical, and that a \"phased\" and \"synchronous\" approach with \"step by step\" negotiations would be a more reasonable way forward, with respect to the US-DPRK Joint Statement signed at the Singapore summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0075-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Progress of joint statement\nThe DPRK has shown eight or more types of various actions on their portion of the agreement; a moratorium on missile/nuclear tests, dismantling the Sohae atomic test and satellite launch site, the shutting down of an intercontinental ballistic missile assembly facility near Pyongyang, the returning of the remains of 55 U.S. Soldiers killed in the Korean War, the removal of domestic anti-American propaganda, and the release of three American Citizens arrested and imprisoned in the DPRK, as North Korean action items of the summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0075-0002", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Progress of joint statement\nHowever, the US has thus far taken only one action; the cancelling of joint military exercises between the US and South Korean Air Forces in the peninsula. If the United States should complete more of its action items under the Singapore agreement, with regard to North Korea's security concerns, the North Korean government in turn may be willing to make further actions toward denuclearization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0075-0003", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Progress of joint statement\nNorth Korean minister Ri Yong-ho has claimed that the US is backtracking or has made no progress on the American side of the Singapore Summit agreement, while saying that North Korea itself has taken some measures including the cessation of nuclear and missile testing, along with the removal of a primary nuclear site. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has made a request for North Korea to hand over 60 to 70 percent of its nuclear arsenal within six to eight months. However, the DPRK has not yet accepted that proposal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0075-0004", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Progress of joint statement\nThe North Korean foreign minister released an announcement criticizing unilateral denuclearization, and Ri Yong-ho has emphasized that it is only equitable to perform a \u201cbalanced, simultaneous, step-by-step implementation\u201d of the US-DPRK Joint Statement. There are four action items in the Joint Statement, the first and second items being the renewal of North Korea\u2013United States relations, the third item being the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and the final item the recovery of American POW/MIA remains from the Korean War. Currently, there are still three American nuclear capable jets stationed in South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0075-0005", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Progress of joint statement\nAdditionally, North and South Korea, still lacking a proper peace treaty, are still technically at war. The DPRK urged the US to guarantee the DPRK's security by a formal declaration of the ending of the Korean War, in exchange for the DPRK ending its nuclear program and forfeiting its nuclear weapons. Doug Bandow, a special assistant to former President Ronald Reagan, suggested that the US provide the DPRK with a safety framework in the form of a peace treaty, in exchange for the DPRK ending their nuclear program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Removed anti-American propaganda in DPRK\nThe DPRK government toned down aspects of its anti-American propaganda after the Singapore summit, with many anti-American posters being removed in the capital to give way to less politicized messages. The government also cancelled North Korea's annual \"anti-US imperialism\" rally on 27 July, a national holiday commemorating the start of the Korean War (Fatherland Liberation War in DPRK historiography).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 100], "content_span": [101, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Pompeo's subsequent visits to North Korea\nOn July 6\u20137, Pompeo travelled to North Korea for the third time to continue the negotiations with Kim Yong-chol, \"a senior official who has been [North Korea's] point person in deliberations with the United States, South Korea and China\". After the meeting, Pompeo said that the talks were productive and that progress had been made \"on almost all of the central issues\". However, North Korean state media criticized the meeting soon after, saying the U.S. had shown a \"gangster-like attitude\" and calling the demands of the Trump administration \"deeply regrettable\". Notwithstanding the stern reports, Pompeo delivered a letter from Kim to Trump, in which the latter expressed his hope for successful implementation of the US-North Korea Joint Statement and reaffirmed his will for improving the relations between the countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 101], "content_span": [102, 931]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Pompeo's subsequent visits to North Korea\nPompeo announced on August 23, 2018, that he would return to North Korea the following week for the fourth round of talks. The following day, Trump tweeted that he had asked Pompeo not to make the trip because he felt \"we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 101], "content_span": [102, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0078-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Pompeo's subsequent visits to North Korea\nConcerning the cancellation of Pompeo's planned North Korea trip, Vox summarized the background based on the reports by The Washington Post and CNN thatNorth Korea delivered an irate letter to Pompeo and the letter was shown to Trump in the Oval Office on Friday, and Trump tweeted the cancellation of Pompeo's trip. The message from DPRK was North Korea's evident disappointment as Washington had shown no real eagerness to sign a peace treaty to end the Korean War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 101], "content_span": [102, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Pompeo's subsequent visits to North Korea\nSouth Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha spoke to Pompeo by telephone on August 25, urging the U.S. and DPRK to continue talks relating to denuclearization and peace on the Korean peninsula, in spite of concerns over the cancellation of the trip by Trump. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono revealed appreciation for Pompeo's \"prompt communication\u201d with South Korea, and said Japan would be pleased to cooperate with the U.S. for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 101], "content_span": [102, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Return of remains of US soldiers\nOn June 27, Pompeo said North Korea was planning to hand over presumed remains of U.S. soldiers killed during the Korean War in the near future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 92], "content_span": [93, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Return of remains of US soldiers\nFollowing Pompeo's second visit to Pyongyang, a lower ranks meeting took place on July 15 regarding the retrieving of remains of US soldiers from the Korean War. Pompeo called the talks \"productive\" and said the two sides had reached firm commitments on the issue. On July 27 North Korea handed over 55 boxes of human remains, thus starting to fulfill their pledge in the Singapore declaration. The remains were saluted in a ceremony in their honor by US soldiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 92], "content_span": [93, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0081-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Return of remains of US soldiers\nMore than 36,000 American troops died during the Korean War, but some 7,700 remain unaccounted for, including 5,300 believed to have died in North Korea. Earlier, 220 remains were recovered during 1996\u20132005. North Korea reported to the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency that they couldn't be sure how many individuals were represented in each of the 55 boxes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 92], "content_span": [93, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Return of remains of US soldiers\nThere was uncertainty about the nationality of the war remains, whether the individuals were American or from other countries that took part in the Korean War, such as Australia, Belgium, France, and the Philippines. Kelly McKeague, the director of the POW/MIA Accounting Agency, said a preliminary review showed that the remains are \"consistent\" with being American and are from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. The next phase would be matching the dental records, X-rays and DNA testing to further analyze the remains for possible identification. McKeague expressed his opinion that North Korea needs to allow the resumption of joint U.S.-North Korean searches of battlefields and POW camp graveyards to discover more war remains as soon as practical.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 92], "content_span": [93, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Shutdown of ICBM assembly facility near Pyongyang\nThe Voice of America (VOA) reported on July 25 that there is evidence that North Korea has dismantled an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) construction facility near Pyongyang. It was confirmed by analyzing satellite images taken around the March 16 with the latest satellite images in July. It was the investigated place of the factory that the Hwasong-15 ICBM that North Korea test-launched on November 29, 2017, was assembled at this plant and then moved on a transporter-erector-launcher (TEL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 109], "content_span": [110, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0083-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Shutdown of ICBM assembly facility near Pyongyang\nKim Jong-un was at this vehicle factory that was connected to the ICBM assembly factory when he gave the command for the transfer of the TEL carrying the Hwasong-15 ICBM. State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert announced that the U.S would be looking for DPRK's consent for allowing the Verification process of the denuclearization of North Korea. Heather also added \u201cVerification is obviously something that is paramount. Verification from legitimate groups and done by legitimate countries.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 109], "content_span": [110, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Destruction of missile test site\nOn July 24, it was reported that North Korea had begun to dismantle a rocket launching and testing site near Tonchang, an action which Kim had pledged to Trump. South Korean President Moon called the move \"a good sign for North Korea\u2019s denuclearization\". The North Korea monitoring specialist group 38 North found that the Sohae Station, a satellite-launch site in North Korea, was being demolished. Satellite imagery shows that several significant structures were destroyed: a missile-launching stand and a building near a launchpad for satellites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 92], "content_span": [93, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0084-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Destruction of missile test site\n38 North suggested that it is an essential beginning step towards achieving a commitment made by Kim Jong Un at the June 12 Singapore Summit. On 7 August, there is more progress on Dismantling Facilities at the Sohae Satellite and Missile Launching Station. it entails the demolition of the test stand's concrete foundations, launch pad's gantry tower and pad foundation, etc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 92], "content_span": [93, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0084-0002", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Destruction of missile test site\nWhile the previous dismantlement of the vertical engine test stand on 23 July, represents a fulfilment of Chairman Kim's arrangement with President Trump conducted publicly during the post-Singapore Summit press conference, activity at the launch pad and concrete foundation appears to go exceeding that pledge. These activities, however, must be viewed cautiously as \u201cprincipal steps\u201d since neither are presently permanent or irreversible. Concerning 38 North's scrutiny, it would characterize more durable and irreversible actions as there is no identified facility with equivalent capabilities elsewhere in the DPRK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 92], "content_span": [93, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Destruction of missile test site\nNorth Korea announced in December 2019 that it had recently conducted a \"very important test\" at the Sohae site. Some analysts believed the test involved a new ICBM engine, as the country was believed to be migrating from its liquid-fueled missiles to new solid-fueled versions that were easier to transport, conceal and launch. The country announced it had conducted a \"crucial test' at the Sohae site days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 92], "content_span": [93, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Negotiation process between US and DPRK\nIn August, during the ASEAN Regional Forum 2018, North Korea's nuclear program was the critical agenda item. ASEAN forum foreign ministers issued a joint statement calling for a \"complete denuclearization\" which is the same phrase used in the joint statement issued after the summit, and represents a change from last year's call for a \"complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization\". South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha has said that she had \"considerable\" consultations over the issue of the declaration to a formal end of the 1950-53 Korean war with the Chinese and U.S. foreign ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 99], "content_span": [100, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0086-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Negotiation process between US and DPRK\nChinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said \"everyone can announce a declaration ending the war if they do not want the war to happen again\". North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said he was \u201calarmed\u201d by U.S. insistence on maintaining sanctions until North Korea denuclearizes and what he said was U.S. reluctance to declare a formal end to the Korean War. United States Forces in Korea maintains several nuclear bomber fighters and DPRK is demanding USA safety guarantee for giving up nuclear weapon programs of Pyongyang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 99], "content_span": [100, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Questions about missile development\nThe media source 38 North, an American agency which monitors North Korea, told CNN that only two small roof buildings had been newly erected, which might be used for hospitality roles for senior officials or nuclear inspectors. Other improved infrastructures were already developed before the Trump-Kim Summit. On June 30, NBC reported that, according to an assessment by the U.S. intelligence agencies, North Korea might have increased production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites after the summit, though if the process of enrichment had occurred, it must have begun before the summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 95], "content_span": [96, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0087-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Questions about missile development\nOn August 3, experts monitoring U.N. sanctions against North Korea sent a report to the UN Security Council saying North Korea \"has not stopped its nuclear and missiles programs\" and is still violating sanctions by transferring coal at sea and flouting an arms embargo and financial sanctions. However, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri-Yong Ho said in a privilege speech at the ASEAN summit, that a \u201cgood-faith implementation of the Joint Statement (between the USA and DPRK) would be necessary\u201d. Referring to this same speech, the North Korea monitoring specialist Group, 38 North, believes that in order to achieve the goal to denuclearize, a scheme of ALL TAKE-NO GIVE will never work with DPRK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 95], "content_span": [96, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Questions about missile development\nThe New York Times reported on November 12, 2018 that \"satellite images suggest that the North has been engaged in a great deception\" by offering to dismantle one missile launch site while continuing to develop sixteen others. The Times reported that American intelligence had determined that North Korea's production of fissile material, nuclear weapons and mobile missile systems had continued since the summit, adding that the missile network was \"long known to American intelligence agencies but left undiscussed as President Trump claims to have neutralized the North\u2019s nuclear threat.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 95], "content_span": [96, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0088-0001", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Questions about missile development\nThe following day, Trump called the report of North Korea developing missile sites \"inaccurate\" and \"just more fake news,\" adding \"We fully know about the sites being discussed, nothing new.\" The Times stood by the accuracy of its report. On November 13, 2018, Kim Eui Keum, a spokesman for South Korean President Moon Jae-In, described the report and images as \"nothing new\" and further stated that North Korea \"has never signed any agreement, any negotiation that makes shutting down missile bases mandatory.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 95], "content_span": [96, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Aftermath, Questions about missile development\nCNN acquired satellite images in December 2018 that indicated North Korea was continuing to significantly expand a major long-range missile site in the mountainous interior of the country, including an \"extremely large underground facility\" that could be under construction as of August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 95], "content_span": [96, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Second U.S.\u2013North Korean Summit\nOn October 7, 2018, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kim met in Pyongyang and agreed to a second U.S.\u2013North Korea summit, with South Korea's presidential office stating that it would take place \"as soon as possible.\" It is unknown at this time when the second summit will take place. However, Pompeo stated it would happen \"soon\" and that details have been revealed to South Korean President Moon Jae-In during a meeting in the South Korean capital of Seoul. During the State of the Union Address President Trump announced Vietnam to host the second meeting between the two leaders. According to President Trump, this summit will be held in Vietnam on February 27\u201328, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281444-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 North Korea\u2013United States Singapore Summit, Second U.S.\u2013North Korean Summit\nOn February 8, 2019, President Trump announced that Hanoi will host the summit meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281445-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Melbourne Football Club season\nThe 2018 AFL season was the 93rd season in the Australian Football League (AFL) contested by the North Melbourne Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281445-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Melbourne Football Club season\nNorth Melbourne were widely predicted for a second-straight bottom six finish, including several predictions which would see them winning the wooden spoon. Strong performances by Shaun Higgins and Ben Brown meant the Kangaroos finished comfortably mid-table, finishing 9th with 48 points and a percentage of 108.9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281445-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Melbourne Football Club season, VFL\nThe 2018 VFL season was the 1st season in the Victorian Football League contested by the North Melbourne Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 46], "content_span": [47, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281446-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Queensland Cowboys season\nThe 2018 North Queensland Cowboys season was the 24th in the club's history. Coached by Paul Green and co-captained by Johnathan Thurston and Matthew Scott, they competed in the NRL's 2018 Telstra Premiership. The team finished the regular season in 13th position and did not qualify for the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281446-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Queensland Cowboys season, Representatives\nThe following players have played a representative match in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281447-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Sumatra gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 North Sumatra gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of North Sumatra alongside with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281447-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Sumatra gubernatorial election\nCandidates were former Governor of Jakarta Djarot Saiful Hidayat and former commander of Kostrad Lt. Gen Edy Rahmayadi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281447-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Timeline\nOn 10 September 2017, the KPU declared that there will be 10,194,368 eligible voters in the province. The North Sumatran KPU set a budget of Rp 855 billion (US$59.9 million) for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281447-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Timeline\nRegistration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The candidates were assigned their ballot numbers on 13 February 2018. The campaigning period would commence between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281447-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Candidates\nUnder regulations, candidates are required to secure the support of a political party or a coalition thereof comprising at least 20 seats in the regional house. Alternatively, independent candidates may run provided they are capable of securing support from 6.5 percent of the total voter population (764,578) in form of photocopied ID cards subject to verification by the local committee although no candidates expressing interest managed to do this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281447-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Candidates\nWhile acting governor Tengku Erry Nuradi was eligible to run, he failed to secure sufficient support with his party Nasdem placing their support behind Edy-Musa instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281447-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Candidates\nRahmayadi first registered at Hanura to run for the gubernatorial seat on August 2017, through his running mate and young entrepreneur Musa Rajeckshah. Gerindra, PKS and PAN declared their support for him in late December 2017. In order to participate in the election, Rahmayadi resigned from his position as Commander of the Kostrad in 2018. While initially expressing support for incumbent Tengku Erry Nuradi, Golkar and Nasdem diverted their support for Edy-Musa as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281447-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Candidates\nDjarot Saiful Hidayat, who lost as a running mate in the 2017 elections in Jakarta and briefly became its governor following the incarceration of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, was declared by PDI-P as their candidate on 5 January 2018. Sihar Sitorus became his running mate, and the pair secured the support of PPP making them eligible to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281447-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Candidates\nAlso registering as early as August, J.R. Saragih who was also the regional chair of Demokrat obtained official support on September. Closer to the registration limit, PKB declared their support once their cadre Ance Selian became running mate. PKPI, which held 3 seats in the regional parliament despite having none in the People's Representative Council, declared their support for the pair allowing them to run, but diverted their support to Djarot-Sihar after the registration process had been completed. However, the pair was disqualified due to failing verification in February 2018. After a failed lawsuit, the pair withdrew from the election and asked for their supporters to vote for Djarot instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281448-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Texas Mean Green football team\nThe 2018 North Texas Mean Green football team represented the University of North Texas in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Mean Green played their home games at the Apogee Stadium in Denton, Texas, and competed in the West Division of Conference USA (C\u2013USA). They were led by third-year head coach Seth Littrell. They finished the season 9\u20134, 5\u20133 in C-USA play to finish in a three-way tie for second place in the West Division. They were invited to the New Mexico Bowl where they lost to Utah State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281448-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Texas Mean Green football team\nFollowing a 44\u201317 victory over Arkansas and a 3\u20130 record, the Mean Green received votes in both the AP Poll (4 votes) and Coaches Poll (5 votes), the first time since 2013 North Texas received votes in a poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281448-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 North Texas Mean Green football team, Previous season\nThe Mean Green finished the 2017 season 9\u20135, 7\u20131 in C-USA play to win the West Division. They lost the C-USA Championship Game to Florida Atlantic. They received an invite to the New Orleans Bowl where they lost to Troy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281448-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 North Texas Mean Green football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CUSA team\nConference USA released their preseason all-CUSA team on July 16, 2018, with the Mean Green having two players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 77], "content_span": [78, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281448-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 North Texas Mean Green football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nConference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Mean Green predicted to finish as champions of the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281448-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 North Texas Mean Green football team, Schedule\nNorth Texas announced its 2018 football schedule on January 23, 2018. The 2018 schedule consists of six home and six away games in the regular season. The Mean Green will host C\u2013USA opponents Florida Atlantic, Louisiana Tech, Rice, and Southern Miss, and will travel to Old Dominion, UAB, UTEP, and UTSA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281448-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 North Texas Mean Green football team, Schedule\nThe Mean Green hosted two of their four non-conference opponents, SMU from the American Athletic Conference and Incarnate Word from the FCS Southland Conference, and traveled to Arkansas from the Southeastern Conference and Liberty which is a FBS Independent. North Texas won all four non-conference games to begin the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281448-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 North Texas Mean Green football team, Game summaries, SMU\nThe Mean Green's offense went off with 529 total yards, including 444 passing yards from junior quarterback Mason Fine. North Texas's defense held SMU's offense to only 256 yards, forced a turnover, and held the Mustangs scoreless through the first three quarters. 29,519 people attended the game, setting an attendance record at Apogee Stadium. This record would be broken 4 weeks later against Louisiana Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281448-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 North Texas Mean Green football team, Game summaries, at Liberty\nKickoff was delayed until 6:48\u00a0p.m. due to rain and lightning. With the victory, the Mean Green started a season 4\u20130 for the first time since 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281449-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was held on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281449-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election\nAll of the seats being contested were last contested in 2014, and these results are compared to the results of 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election\nThe 2018 Northcote by-election was a New Zealand by-election that was held in Northcote on 9 June 2018. The seat became vacant on 15 April 2018, following the resignation of then-Member for Northcote Jonathan Coleman, a member of the New Zealand National Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election\nNational Party candidate Dan Bidois retained the seat for National, but with a significantly reduced majority blamed on low voter turnout; it was therefore described as a victory for the National Party Leader Simon Bridges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election, Background\nThe Northcote electorate is based around the southern and western suburbs of Auckland's North Shore. In addition to the eponymous Northcote, there are Birkenhead, Birkdale, Beach Haven and the southern end of Glenfield. It was created ahead of the change to mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting in 1996 by merging the seat of Birkenhead with most of the old Glenfield electorate. A small boundary adjustment was done prior to the 1999 election, but no further boundary adjustments were undertaken in the subsequent redistributions in 2002, 2007, and 2013/14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election, Background\nNorthcote continues the electoral habits of its predecessor seats; Birkenhead was a reasonably safe seat for the National Party, supplying it with Jim McLay, who led the party in the mid-1980s. In 1987, the seat that would provide National with a leader provided Labour with a gain, before swinging back into the blue column when Labour's fortunes thinned out at the 1990 election. Glenfield also followed this boom and bust model, being held by Labour Party Member Judy Keall through the duration of the fourth Labour government before the National Party landslide in 1990 claimed Keall as one of its victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election, Background, Outgoing Member\nAt the 2005 election, National Party's Jonathan Coleman secured the seat, defeating Labour's Ann Hartley. Coleman went on to be re-elected at the 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2017 elections. At the 2017 election, he secured a majority of 6,210. When National formed a government after the 2008 election, Coleman was appointed as Minister of Broadcasting and Minister of Immigration; after the 2011 election he was promoted to be Minister of Defence for the government's second term. Following the government's re-election in 2014, Coleman became Minister of Health\u2014ultimately his most senior role\u2014which he held until the government's defeat in the 2017 election. Coleman contested for the leadership of the National Party in the 2016 leadership election, which was won by Bill English.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election, Background, Outgoing Member\nOn 22 March 2018, Coleman announced he would resign from Parliament, triggering the by-election. It was the first by-election of the 52nd Parliament. On 29 March, it was confirmed that his resignation would take effect at \"midnight on 15 April 2018\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election, Candidates\nLabour's 2017 general election candidate Shanan Halbert stated his intention to contest his party's nomination again. On 10 April Labour released the three nomination candidates; Halbert, Paul McGreal and Auckland Councillor Richard Hills. Shanan Halbert was chosen as Labour's candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election, Candidates\nFormer Green Party candidate Vernon Tava confirmed he was seeking the National Party nomination. Tava, a member of the Waitemat\u0101 Local Board, stood in Northcote for the Greens in 2011 and unsuccessfully contested the co-leadership in 2015. He later left the party believing the Greens were becoming \"too socialist\". Tava did not make National's shortlist. The five candidates who did were economist Dan Bidois, Kaip\u0101tiki Local Board chair Danielle Grant, Darren Ward, Upper Harbour Local Board member Lisa Whyte, and Simon Watts. Dan Bidois was selected as National's candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election, Candidates\nPerennial candidate Peter Wakeman offered himself to the electorate, but later withdrew. After quitting he endorsed Democrats candidate Tricia Cheel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election, Candidates\nThe Green Party also decided to field a candidate in the by-election. Co -leader Marama Davidson said \"The Northcote by-election is an opportunity for the Green Party to promote our early successes in Government while highlighting our points of difference\". Rebekah Jaung was announced as the party's candidate on 11 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election, Candidates\nNew Zealand First announced that they would not contest the by-election. New Zealand First's candidate from 2017, Kym Koloni, decided to stand as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election, Candidates\nOn 6 May 2018, ACT leader David Seymour announced that Stephen Berry was the party's candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election, Results\nNotes: Blue background denotes the winner of the by-election. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list prior to the by-election. Yellow background denotes the winner of the by-election, who was a list MP prior to the by-election. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281450-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Northcote by-election, Aftermath\nBidois held the seat for two years before being defeated at the 2020 general election by Halbert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281451-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Asia heat wave\nThroughout much of July 2018, a record-breaking heat wave affected large areas of Japan, Korean peninsula, China. Many areas in Japan experienced temperatures in excess of 35\u00a0\u00b0C (95\u00a0\u00b0F), and Kumagaya recorded a maximum temperature of 41.1\u00a0\u00b0C (106.0\u00a0\u00b0F) on 23\u00a0July \u2013 the highest ever observed in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281451-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Asia heat wave, Synopsis\nFollowing flooding and mudslides that lasted from late June through mid-July 2018, an extensive heat wave spread across the Japanese mainland. In the prefectures that had been hit the worst by floods and landslides, Hiroshima, Okayama, and Ehime, 145 people were hospitalized with heat stroke symptoms as temperatures there rose above 35\u00a0\u00b0C (95.0\u00a0\u00b0F). On 15 July, 200 out of 927 stations in the nationwide observation network recorded maximum temperatures exceeding 35\u00a0\u00b0C (95.0\u00a0\u00b0F). On 23 July, a high temperature of 41.1\u00a0\u00b0C (106.0\u00a0\u00b0F) was observed in Kumagaya, 65\u00a0km (40\u00a0mi) northwest of Tokyo. This constitutes an all-time high for all of Japan. Many cities recorded temperatures near 40\u00a0\u00b0C (104\u00a0\u00b0F) on this day. In Kyoto, temperatures stood above 38\u00a0\u00b0C (100\u00a0\u00b0F) for seven days in a row for the first time since records began to be kept in the 19th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 900]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281451-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Asia heat wave, Synopsis\nBy 24\u00a0July, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) called the event a natural disaster and indicated many areas were observing \"unprecedented levels of heat\". A study depicted the three\u2010phase lifecycle of the East Asian summer monsoon and the corresponding timing of the 2018 consecutive extreme events (indicated in the bottom). The sequential yet contrasting extreme events in Japan therefore reflect an amplified monsoon lifecycle projected in a warmer climate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281451-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Asia heat wave, Effects\nIn South Korea, some 42 people died, while North Korea witnessed crop destruction. In Shenyang, China, air conditioner sales in one company spiked 35-fold over the previous years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281451-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Asia heat wave, Effects\nIn Japan, at least 138 people have died from heat-related causes and at 71,266 required hospitalization for heat stroke through early August. Fatalities have occurred in 28 of the nation's 47\u00a0prefectures. Between 15 and 22 July, 65 people died from the heat, including 11 on 21\u00a0July and 13 on 23\u00a0July. The number of casualties from the heat was the greatest seen in a single-week period since the government started keeping detailed records in 2008. On 17\u00a0July, the Tokyo Fire Department dispatched ambulances 2,900\u00a0times\u2014the greatest number in a single day since the department began in 1936. This was surpassed only four days later, 21\u00a0July, when ambulances were dispatched 3,125\u00a0times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281451-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Asia heat wave, Effects\nThe Japanese Education Ministry issued a warning to schools to take precautions against heat stroke, following the death of one six-year-old boy who was attending an outdoor event. Fewer than half of schools in the country have air conditioning, and government officials discussed extending school holidays for safety. Furthermore, the government considered covering the cost of installing air conditioners in schools. Kyushu Electric Power offered 10\u00a0percent discounts to customers aged 75\u00a0years and older for their August and September bills to facilitate the use of air conditioners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281452-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament began on May 24 and ended on May 27, 2018 at Senator Thomas J. Dodd Memorial Stadium in Norwich, Connecticut. The league's top four teams finishers competed in the double elimination tournament. LIU Brooklyn won their first tournament championship and earned the Northeast Conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281452-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament\nEntering the event, Central Connecticut had won the most tournament championships among current members, while Fairleigh Dickinson and LIU Brooklyn had never won a championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281452-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format\nThe top four finishers were seeded one through four based on conference regular season winning percentage. They then played a double-elimination tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281452-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player\nGregory Vaughn Jr. earned the Tournament Most Valuable Player award. Vaughn was a junior outfielder for LIU Brooklyn, who recorded 5 RBI and 3 stolen bases in the Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281453-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Northeast Conference for the 2017\u201318 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All tournament games were played at the home arena of the highest seed, on February 28, March 3, and March 6, 2018. The No. 4 seed LIU Brooklyn defeated No. 1 seed Wagner in the championship game to earn the NEC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281453-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nThe top eight teams in the Northeast Conference were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 60], "content_span": [61, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281453-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nOn February 17, 2018, Wagner defeated LIU Brooklyn to win the NEC regular season championship outright, their second regular season championship in the previous three years, and received the No. 1 seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 60], "content_span": [61, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281453-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and results\nNote: Bracket is re-seeded after quarterfinal matchups, with highest remaining seed playing the lowest remaining seed in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 75], "content_span": [76, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281453-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket and results\nTeams are reseeded after each round with highest remaining seeds receiving home court advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281454-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Northeast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was the concluding event of the 2017\u201318 season of the Northeast Conference (NEC), held from March 7\u201311, 2018. Unlike most NCAA Division I basketball conference tournaments, the NEC tournament does not include all of the league's teams. The tournament instead features only the top eight teams from regular-season NEC play. Regular-season co-champion Saint Francis of Pennsylvania won the tournament and with it the NEC's automatic berth in the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281454-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Format\nFor the first time, the NEC Women's Basketball Tournament did not use what the conference calls a \"complete high-seed hosting\" format, in which all games are played at the home of the higher seed. In addition, the tournament did not reseed teams after each round, a format it had used since the 2011 edition. Instead, each half of the bracket was hosted by one of the league's two top seeds. The final continues to be played at the home court of the top remaining seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 63], "content_span": [64, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281454-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nThe NEC uses the following criteria for breaking two-way ties in the conference standings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 62], "content_span": [63, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281454-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nThe procedure for breaking ties in which three or more teams are involved will not be discussed here, since no such ties existed this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 62], "content_span": [63, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281454-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Bracket\nThe top two seeds each hosted their half of the bracket; the final was hosted by the top remaining seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281455-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northeast Conference Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Northeast Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Northeast Conference held on November 2 and 4, 2018. The three-match tournament took place at Central Connecticut Soccer Field in New Britain, Connecticut, home of the regular season champions and tournament #1 seed Central Connecticut State Blue Devils. The four-team single-elimination tournament consisted of two rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the Saint Francis Red Flash but they were unable to defend their title, losing 2\u20131 in the final to Central Connecticut. This was the ninth Northeast Conference tournament title for the Central Connecticut women's soccer program, seven of which have come under the direction of head coach Mick D'Arcy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 867]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281456-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team\nThe 2018 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team represented Northern Arizona University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 21st-year head coach Jerome Souers and played their home games at the Walkup Skydome. They were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 4\u20136, 3\u20134 in Big Sky play to finish in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281456-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team\nOn November 19, Jerome Souers announced his retirement. He finished with a 21 year record of 123\u2013114.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281456-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team, Previous season\nThe Lumberjacks finished the 2017 season 7\u20135, 6\u20132 in Big Sky play to finish in a three-way tie for third place. They received an at-large bid into the FCS Playoffs where they were lost to San Diego in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281456-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team, Preseason, Polls\nOn July 16, 2018 during the Big Sky Kickoff in Spokane, Washington, the Lumberjacks were predicted to finish in third place by both the coaches and media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281456-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nThe Lumberjacks had three players selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 89], "content_span": [90, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281456-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team, Schedule\nDespite also being a member of the Big Sky, the game vs. Eastern Washington will be a non-conference game and will have no effect on the Big Sky standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281457-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Colorado Bears football team\nThe 2018 Northern Colorado Bears football team, represented the University of Northern Colorado in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by eighth-year head coach Earnest Collins Jr. and played their home games at Nottingham Field. They were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 2\u20139, 2\u20136 in Big Sky play to finish in 11th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281457-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Colorado Bears football team, Previous season\nThe Bears finished the 2017 season 3\u20137, 2\u20136 in Big Sky play to finish in a three-way tie for ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281457-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Colorado Bears football team, Preseason, Polls\nOn July 16, 2018 during the Big Sky Kickoff in Spokane, Washington, the Bears were predicted to finish in eleventh place in the coaches poll and twelfth place in the media poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281457-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Colorado Bears football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nThe Bears had one player selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 84], "content_span": [85, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281457-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Colorado Bears football team, Schedule\nDespite also being a member of the Big Sky, the game vs. Sacramento State will be a non-conference game and will have no effect on the Big Sky standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Northern Cyprus on 7 January 2018 to elect the 50 members of the Assembly of the Republic for a five-year term. Going into the elections, the government was led by Prime Minister H\u00fcseyin \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn, who had served since 16 April 2016, leading a coalition consisting of the National Unity Party and the Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election\nFollowing the elections, a new coalition government was formed by the Republican Turkish Party (CTP), the People's Party, Communal Democracy Party and the Democratic Party, with CTP leader Tufan Erh\u00fcrman becoming Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Background, 2013 parliamentary election\nThe 2013 parliamentary elections resulted in the election of \u00d6zkan Yorganc\u0131o\u011flu of the center-left Republican Turkish Party (CTP) as Prime Minister. His party formed a coalition with the right-leaning Democratic Party (DP), led by Serdar Denkta\u015f. Meanwhile, the nationalist National Unity Party (UBP) became the main opposition party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 85], "content_span": [86, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Background, 2013 parliamentary election\nThe CTP secured 38% of the vote and 21 seats. Its rivals in the UBP fell to 27% of the vote and 14 seats. Two other parties, the DP and the Communal Democracy Party (TDP), managed to enter parliament with 23% and 7% of the vote respectively. Owing to a 5% election threshold, the United Cyprus Party failed to win any seats, having won only 3% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 85], "content_span": [86, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Background, 2015 presidential election\nThe 2015 presidential elections were held on 19 April, with a runoff the following week on 26 April. In the first round of voting, the incumbent, UBP-backed President Dervi\u015f Ero\u011flu received 30,328 votes, or slightly above 28% of the total. Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131, a former MP for the TDP, came second with 27%, while Sibel Siber of the CTP and the independent candidate Kudret \u00d6zersay won 22.5% and 21% respectively. As a result, Ero\u011flu and Ak\u0131nc\u0131 proceeded to a second round of voting on 26 April. Ultimately, Ak\u0131nc\u0131 secured a landslide victory, securing 60.5% of the vote against 39.5% for Ero\u011flu. Ak\u0131nc\u0131 was formally inaugurated as the fourth President of Northern Cyprus on 30 April 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 84], "content_span": [85, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Background, 2015 presidential election\nMehmet Ali Talat then challenged Prime Minister Yorganc\u0131o\u011flu for the leadership of the CTP; this was owing in part to the poor performance of the party in the presidential race. Talat defeated the prime minister, triggering the latter's resignation. Since only MPs may serve in the Cabinet of Northern Cyprus, Talat did not become prime minister; the position ultimately went to \u00d6mer Kalyoncu, who was sworn in on 16 July 2015. Kalyoncu formed a grand coalition of the CTP and the UBP, as opposed to the former CTP\u2013DP constellation. His administration was short-lived, however; H\u00fcseyin \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn managed to establish a right-wing coalition on 16 April 2016, consisting of the DP of Serdar Denkta\u015f\u2014son of the TRNC's pater patriae, Rauf Denkta\u015f\u2014and the UBP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 84], "content_span": [85, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe fifty members of the Assembly were elected by proportional representation in six multi-member constituencies with an electoral threshold of 5%. Voters can vote for either a party list or individual candidates. If they choose the latter, they may cast as many votes as there are seats in each constituency. Voters are not limited to their constituency if they wish to vote for individual candidates; they may vote for candidates in any constituency so long as the total number of votes cast is between 24 and 50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Participating parties, Change and Liberation Alliance\nMehmet \u00c7ak\u0131c\u0131's TKP-YG had agreed to form an \"election coalition\" with the United Cyprus Party (BKP). Under this arrangement BKP members were to run for the parliament on the TKP-YG list. T\u00f6z\u00fcn Tunal\u0131's Social Democrat Party, and a fraction from the CTP led by Sonay Adem, had previously joined with TKP-YG. The New Cyprus Party was also asked to join, but refused to be a part of the Alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 99], "content_span": [100, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, National Unity Party (UBP)\nThe first six UBP candidates were announced by \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn, Prime Minister and the leader of the party, on 16 November. These candidates included \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn himself, as well as \u00d6zdemir Berova and Hakan Din\u00e7y\u00fcrek who were serving at the time as independent MPs, having been previously elected from the DP list. Other candidates and their order on the ballot were determined in a primary election on 18 November, in which 11,616 party members were eligible to vote. The three candidates that received the highest numbers of votes were Faiz Sucuo\u011flu, Ersin Tatar and Hasan Ta\u00e7oy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, National Unity Party (UBP)\nIn the run-up to the election, the government's practice of accepting numerous people into citizenship and delivering land titles was criticised as corrupt. \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn countered these accusations by saying that these were practices carried out by previous governments as well and that the Republic of Cyprus actually bestowed citizenship in return for money. Furthermore, he claimed that \"the reactions of our Greek Cypriot brothers\" were behind the criticism directed to his government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, National Unity Party (UBP)\n\u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn refused to rule out forming a coalition with any party, but said that he would resign as party leader if his party was not in the first place in the elections. With regards to the Cyprus dispute, he stated that whilst a solution would have been the ultimate aim, talks on a federation had been stalled \"because Greek Cypriots refused to accept political equality\", and that two states could co-exist on the island in the meanwhile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, National Unity Party (UBP)\nHe proposed a policy of opening Varosha, a ghost quarter of the city of Famagusta that is subject to intercommunal negotiations, under Turkish Cypriot control. He claimed that significant economic development had taken place during his tenure, pointing out to a 30% rise in the minimum wage, and claimed credit for the successful delivery of water from the Northern Cyprus Water Supply Project that took place during his tenure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, National Unity Party (UBP)\nThe UBP initially used the slogan \"Thousands of hearts united in one heart!\" (Turkish: Binlerce y\u00fcrek tek y\u00fcrek!) for the campaign. At the launch of its formal campaign on 12 December, the party set a target of winning a majority. Subsequent slogans included \"Our path is one for service to the people\", \"Our party is one, our path is one\" and \"There is only one target, a single-party government\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, National Unity Party (UBP)\nThe UBP announced its \"targets and projects for a new period of development\" on 18 November. Core policies include the provision of electricity from Turkey to Northern Cyprus via cables under the Mediterranean Sea, increased cooperation with Turkey in searching for natural gas and oil, instituting a general health insurance system, expanding the Ercan Airport, reforming local administrations and building five new hospitals in five districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, National Unity Party (UBP)\nDuring the campaign, \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn was the subject of controversy after the revelation of his financial details as part of his ongoing divorce case with his wife and his affair with another woman. His wife's lawyer stated that \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn had bought two luxurious cars for his lover, and demanded that these should be included in the division of properties during the divorce. This was followed by the leak of documents submitted about his bank transactions, showing a spending of more than $1,000,000. This was followed by calls for \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn to announce the source of this income. \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn's lawyer called this \"an operation on people's perception\" and claimed that the source of this income was obvious.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, Republican Turkish Party (CTP)\nThe CTP saw a renewal of its cadre in the run-up to the election, with established politicians stepping down and younger candidates taking their place. Those who did not sign up to become candidates in the 2018 election included four former prime ministers: Ferdi Sabit Soyer, Sibel Siber, \u00d6zkan Yorganc\u0131o\u011flu and \u00d6mer Kalyoncu. In total, seven sitting MPs did not apply to become candidates. Except for the ten candidates determined at the discretion of the party leader, Erh\u00fcrman, the party list was determined at a party congress on 18 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, Republican Turkish Party (CTP)\nOne of the candidates picked by Erh\u00fcrman, Fikri Toros, had been serving at the time as the head of the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce and had made statements on the economy espousing a liberal position. This move, seen as part of a \"transformation strategy\", was controversial within the party, especially in more hard-left circles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, Republican Turkish Party (CTP)\nCTP slogans for the election included \"This system will change\" (Turkish: Bu sistem de\u011fi\u015fecek) and \"We will work to achieve it\" (Turkish: \u00c7al\u0131\u015f\u0131r yapar\u0131z). Erh\u00fcrman promised \"social transformation\" and \"a change of the established order\", calling the \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn cabinet the most corrupt of all UBP governments in power to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, Republican Turkish Party (CTP)\nOn 15 December, the CTP announced its manifesto for the election, titled \"Programme for Economic and Social Development\". Core policies include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, People's Party (HP)\nThe HP slogan for the election was \"For the administration that we have always desired, the hope of the people is the Party of the People\" (Turkish: Hep \u00f6zledi\u011fimiz y\u00f6netim i\u00e7in Halk\u0131n umudu, Halk\u0131n Partisi). His party being a newcomer to politics, leader Kudret \u00d6zersay called the election a \"referendum\" between \"the established order and a new, fairer order\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, People's Party (HP)\nCore policies proposed by the party included the establishment of a health insurance system, the extension of doctors' working hours at public healthcare services, state-subsidised housing projects, increases in benefits, restrictions on property being rented in more stable foreign currency, the introduction of new laws for the accountability of politicians, a new citizenship law, renegotiating the free movement protocol with Turkey to prevent the entry of those with criminal record in Turkey into Northern Cyprus, the opening of Varosha under Turkish Cypriot control, the introduction of a public transport system and night buses and additional anti-corruption measures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Campaigns, People's Party (HP)\nThe process of candidate selection in the party officially took place in the Party Assembly. However, the process was controversial as it was secretive, and it was claimed that \u00d6zersay personally chose the candidates and presented the list to the Party Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Reactions and aftermath\nThe results were considered a victory for the UBP specifically and for the right-wing in Northern Cyprus in general. The total share of votes obtained by left-wing parties saw a major decrease. The election produced the first six-party parliament in the history of Northern Cyprus and yielded the greatest number of female MPs ever elected to the parliament in the country, forming 18% of the 15th Parliament of Northern Cyprus at 9 MPs. This was seen as a positive result achieved thanks to the gender quota introduced before the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Reactions and aftermath\nAccording to K\u0131br\u0131s Postas\u0131, the UBP \"renewed trust\" in the election. Party leader \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn thanked the voters in a victory address, which was also attended by the party's historic leader, Dervi\u015f Ero\u011flu. He said that his party would continue working \"in unity\" for \"grand projects\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Reactions and aftermath\nCTP's major losses in the election met with \"great disappointment\" in the party and were considered \"catastrophic\" by some commentators. Party leader Erh\u00fcrman said that the party respected the results but found them \"undesirable\", accepting that the election had not been successful for the CTP. He ruled out forming a grand coalition with the UBP and said that \"this was only a beginning for the struggle\", which would \"continue tomorrow\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Reactions and aftermath\nThe HP achieved a \"remarkable\" result for a new party, but it was commented that the party had not met its own expectations and thus viewed the results with dismay. Despite this, the HP was described as one of the winners of the election. Party leader \u00d6zersay stated that the party viewed the results as \"not bright for the future of the country\" as the voters had voted for the \"continuation of the status quo\". \u00d6zersay stated that his party would keep working to encourage voters to mobilise for change and that his party would not be a part of this status quo. The HP ruled out any coalition talks with the UBP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Reactions and aftermath\nThe Rebirth Party (YDP), a party dominated by the Turkish settlers in Northern Cyprus, was also considered as one of the winners in the election. K\u0131br\u0131s Postas\u0131 called the share of votes achieved by the YDP \"a surprise\". YDP leader Ar\u0131kl\u0131 also called his party's results a \"great success\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Reactions and aftermath\nK\u0131br\u0131s stated that the government formation process would yield either a three-party coalition of the UBP with two of the smaller parties or a re-run of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Reactions and aftermath\nThe office of Nicos Anastasiades, the President of the Republic of Cyprus, released a statement stating that they hoped that the results of the election would not lead to \"further hardening of [the Turkish Cypriot community's] positions and its intransigence\" in relation to a solution for the Cyprus problem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Reactions and aftermath\nRecep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, President of Turkey and Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m, Prime Minister of Turkey, called \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn to congratulate him on the election results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281458-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Reactions and aftermath\nHowever, \u00d6zg\u00fcrg\u00fcn's UBP was ousted from power and a new coalition government was formed by the Republican Turkish Party (CTP), the People's Party, Communal Democracy Party and the Democratic Party, with CTP leader Tufan Erh\u00fcrman becoming Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281459-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Illinois Huskies football team\nThe 2018 Northern Illinois Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Huskies were led by sixth-year head coach Rod Carey. They played their home games at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb, Illinois as members of the West Division of Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 8\u20136, 6\u20132 in MAC play to finish as champions of the West Division. They represented the West Division in the MAC Championship Game where they defeated East Division champion Buffalo to become MAC champions for the first time since 2014. They were invited to the Boca Raton Bowl where they lost to UAB.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281459-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Illinois Huskies football team, Previous season\nThe Huskies finished the 2017 season 8\u20135, 6\u20132 in MAC play to finish in a tie for second place in the West Division. The Huskies received an invitation to the Quick Lane Bowl, their 11th bowl game in the previous 14 years. There they lost to Duke 36\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281459-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Illinois Huskies football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe MAC released their preseason media poll on July 24, 2018, with the Huskies predicted to finish as champions of the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 77], "content_span": [78, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281460-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Iowa Panthers football team\nThe 2018 Northern Iowa Panthers football team represented the University of Northern Iowa in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was led by Mark Farley in his 18th season and played their home games in the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls, Iowa as a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They finished the season 7\u20136, 5\u20133 in MVFC play to finish in a tie for third place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they defeated Lamar in the first round before losing to UC Davis in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281460-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Iowa Panthers football team, Previous season\nThe Panthers finished the 2017 season 8\u20135, 6\u20132 in MVFC play to finish in a tie for second place. The Panthers received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Monmouth in the first round before losing in the second round to South Dakota State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281460-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Iowa Panthers football team, Preseason, Preseason MVFC poll\nThe MVFC released their preseason poll on July 29, 2018, with the Panthers predicted to finish in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281460-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Iowa Panthers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MVFC Teams\nThe Panthers placed six players on the preseason all-MVFC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 78], "content_span": [79, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281461-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Ireland Open\nThe 2018 BetVictor Northern Ireland Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 12 and 18 November 2018 in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the eighth ranking event of the 2018/2019 season and a part of the Home Nations Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281461-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Ireland Open\nMark Williams was the defending champion, but he was beaten 3\u20134 by Ali Carter in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281461-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Ireland Open\nJudd Trump won his ninth professional ranking title with a 9\u20137 final victory against Ronnie O'Sullivan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281461-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Ireland Open, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281462-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands general election\nThe 2018 Northern Mariana Islands general election were held on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, corresponding with the 2018 United States midterm elections. Originally scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, the elections were delayed by one week due to the impact and aftermath of Typhoon Yutu. Early voting was held from Tuesday, November 6, until Monday, November 12, 2018. An estimated 18,975 voters were eligible to vote in the 2018 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281462-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands general election\nNinety-seven candidates competed for 45 elected positions across the Northern Mariana Islands. High-profile races included the 2018 gubernatorial election between incumbent governor Ralph Torres, a Republican, and former governor Juan Babauta, as well as the race for non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives between incumbent Gregorio Sablan and challenger Angel Demapan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281463-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Northern Mariana gubernatorial election took place on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, to elect the Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands and the Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands to a four-year term in office. The election, which corresponds to the larger Northern Mariana general election and the United States midterms, was originally scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. However, Governor Ralph Torres postponed all elections in the territory until November 13 due to the impact of Typhoon Yutu, which struck the Northern Mariana Islands as a Category 5 storm in October 2018, shortly before the planned elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281463-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican governor Ralph Torres, who ascended to governorship in December 2015 following the death of Governor Eloy Inos, sought election to a full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281463-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election\nUnlike past gubernatorial elections, there was no runoff election in 2018, since there are only two candidates contesting the gubernatorial contest, incumbent Ralph Torres and former governor Juan Babauta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281463-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election\nOn November 13, 2018, Governor Torres won his first full term as Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281463-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election, Election background\nIn the 2014 gubernatorial race, Republican governor Eloy Inos and his running mate, Ralph Torres, were elected to a full four-year term. The Inos-Torres ticket defeated independent candidate, Heinz Hofschneider, in the gubernatorial runoff on November 18, 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281463-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election, Election background\nGovernor Eloy Inos died in office at a hospital in Seattle, Washington, on Monday, December 28, 2015 (local time in Seattle). Because of the time difference between Seattle, it was already Tuesday morning, December 29, in the Northern Mariana Islands at the time of Governor Inos' death. Lieutenant Governor Ralph Torres became the new Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands on Tuesday, December 29, to serve the remainder of Inos' unexpired term. Victor Hocog, the then-President of the Northern Mariana Islands Senate, was sworn in as the new Lieutenant Governor later that day on December 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281463-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election, Election background\nOn November 8, 2017, Lt. Governor Victor Hocog announced that he would not run for re-election as lieutenant governor in 2018. Instead, Hocog would seek election for one of the two Senate seats representing the island of Rota in the 2018 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281463-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election, Election background\nGovernor Ralph Torres declared his candidacy for a full term in a press conference on November 19, 2017, at his home in As Teo. Torres chose Senate President Arnold Palacios as his new running mate for lieutenant governor in 2018 gubernatorial contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281463-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election, Election background\nJuan Babauta, the former Governor from 2002 to 2006, announced his candidacy on April 12, 2018, as an independent. He selected Dr. Rita Sablan, the former commissioner of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System, as his running mate for lieutenant governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281463-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election, Election postponement\nThe Northern Mariana Islands' general and gubernatorial elections were originally scheduled for Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to correspond with the nationwide 2018 United States midterm elections. However, Typhoon Yutu made landfall in the Northern Mariana Islands as a Category 5 super typhoon, devastating the main islands of Saipan and Tinian. In response, Governor Torres postponed all elections in the Northern Mariana Islands until Tuesday, November 13, 2018, including the gubernatorial race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281463-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election, Election postponement\nEarly voting was held from Tuesday, November 6, 2018, until Monday, November 12, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281463-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election, Results\nThe gubernatorial contest was held on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, having been delayed one week due to recovery efforts from Typhoon Yutu. Early voting began on November 6. Incumbent Ralph Torres won re-election to his first full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281464-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern NSW Football season\nThe 2018 Northern NSW Football season was the fifth season under the new competition format in northern New South Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281464-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern NSW Football season, League Tables, 2018 NEWFM Northern League One\nThe NEWFM Northern League One (formerly Northern NSW State League Division 1) season was the fifth season of the new Northern NSW State League Division 1 as the second level domestic association football competition in the district of Northern NSW. The top team at the end of the year can be promoted to the 2019 National Premier Leagues Northern NSW, subject to meeting criteria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281464-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern NSW Football season, League Tables, 2018 Zone Premier League\nThe 2018 Zone Premier League season was the fifth edition of the Newcastle Zone Premier League as the third level domestic football competition in the district of Northern NSW.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281464-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern NSW Football season, League Tables, 2018 Zone League 1\nThe 2018 Zone League 1 season was the fifth edition of the Zone League 1 as the fourth level domestic football competition in the district of Northern NSW.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281464-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern NSW Football season, League Tables, 2018 Zone League 2\nThe 2018 Zone League 2 season was the fifth edition of the Zone League 2 as the fifth level domestic football competition in the district of Northern NSW.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281464-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern NSW Football season, League Tables, 2018 Zone League 3\nThe 2018 Zone League 3 season was the fifth edition of the Zone League 3 as the sixth level domestic football competition in the district of Northern NSW.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281464-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern NSW Football season, League Tables, 2018 Women's Premier League\nThe highest tier domestic football competition in Northern NSW for women is known for sponsorship reasons as the Herald Women's Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281464-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern NSW Football season, Cup Competitions, FFA Cup Preliminary Rounds\nNorthern NSW soccer clubs competed in 2018 within the Northern NSW Preliminary Rounds for the 2018 FFA Cup. In addition to the A-League club Newcastle Jets, the two Round 7 winners - Broadmeadow Magic and Charlestown City Blues - qualified for the final rounds of the FFA Cup, entering at the Round of 32. Broadmeadow Magic reached the Round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281465-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2018 Northern Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Northern Ontario women's curling championship, was held January 11\u201314 at the Idylwylde Golf & Country Club in Sudbury, Ontario. The winning Tracy Fleury rink represented Northern Ontario at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Penticton, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281466-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Pride RLFC season\n2018 was the eleventh competitive season for the Cairns based Sea Swift Northern Pride Rugby League Football Club. They played in the QRL state competition, the Intrust Super Cup. 14 clubs competed, with each club playing 23 matches (12 home and 11 away) over 25 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281466-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Pride RLFC season, Squad\nLinc Port (Fullback/Centre) Khan Ahwang (Fullback/Centre) Luke George (vc) (Wing) Justin Castellaro (Centre) Rajan Opetaia-Halls (Wing/Centre) Akeripa Tia-Kilife (Wing/Centre) Brayden Torpy (Halfback) Jordan Biondi-Odo (Five-eighth) Jared Allen (Five-eighth)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281466-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Pride RLFC season, Squad\nRyan Ghietti (c) (Hooker) Jack Svendsen (Prop) David Murphy (Prop) Sheldon Powe-Hobbs (Lock/Second Row) Vaipuna Tia Kilifi (Second Row) Rajan Opetia-Halls (Second Row) Tom Hancock (Second Row) Ben Reuter (Second Row) Lachlan Parmenter (Second Row) Ben Schell Denzel King (Dummy Half) Keelan White", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281466-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Pride RLFC season, Squad\nBen Spina (Prop) Javid Bowen (Wing) Patrick Kafusi (Prop) Shaun Hudson (Wing) Lachlan Coote Scott Bolton Antonio Winterstein", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281466-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Pride RLFC season, Squad\nGreg Miglio (Tully Tigers)Colin Wilkie (Innisfail Leprechauns)Fred Koraba (Innisfail Brothers) Shawn Bowen (Mossman-Port Douglas Sharks)Sam Pau (Kangaroos)Ned Blackman (Atherton Roosters)Ben Schell (Cairns Brothers)Daniel Tatipata (Edmonton Storm)Ian King (Mareeba Gladiators)Jack Brock (Southern Suburbs)Menmuny Murgha (Yarrabah Seahawks)Broski Emery-Hunia (Brothers)Aidan Day (Southern Suburbs)Patrick Lewis (Kangaroos)Luke La Rosa (Brothers)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281466-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Pride RLFC season, Sponsors\nOther sponsors: Brothers World of Entertainment; Calanna Pharmacy; BDO; James Cook University; CDRL; hm Health Management; Queensland Country Credit Union; Phoenix Dynamic Sports Entertainment; Cairns Colonial Club Resort; First Response; ASN; Cairns Sports Performance Clinic; Kennards Hire; Proarch Podiatry; Brilliant Technologies; Cairns Total Physio; Queensland Country Health Fund; Pacific Toyota; Ransom Specialty Coffee Roasters; Cairns Hardware; Visual Imaging; Devenish Law. Media partners: Sea FM; WIN Television; Cairns Post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281466-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Pride RLFC season, Televised games, Channel Nine\nIn August 2012 as part of the historic $1 billion five-year broadcasting agreement with Nine and Fox Sports, the Australian Rugby League Commission confirmed that Intrust Super Cup matches would be televised by Channel 9 until 2018. One match a week is shown live across Queensland at 2.00pm (AEST) on Sunday afternoons on Channel 9 (or GEM), on WIN Television (RTQ) in regional areas and on Imparja Television in remote areas. The match is also broadcast in Papua New Guinea on Kundu 2 TV. The 2015 commentary team is Peter Psaltis, Scott Sattler and Mathew Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281467-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Province floods (Sri Lanka)\n2018 Northern Province floods in Sri Lanka caused from heavy rainfall in five main districts of Northern Province including Jaffna, Mannar, Mullaithivu, Vavuniya and Kilinochchi beginning around 22 December 2018 on a full moon Poya Day. As of 22 December according to Disaster Management Centre (DMC), more than 45000 people from mere nearly 14000 families were reported to have been affected. According to the reports two casualties have been reported so far due to the flash floods. The floods receded in all 5 main districts of the Northern Province with significant damages to agricultural crops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281467-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Province floods (Sri Lanka)\nAs of 25 December 2018 (eve of Christmas), over 75000 people have been affected by the torrential rainfall and flash floods in the Northern part of the island. More than 11000 people are staying in 35 evacuation centres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281467-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Province floods (Sri Lanka)\nThe sluice gates of Iranamadu Tank were opened and the people near the Iranmadu area were safely evacuated. It was also revealed that the overflow of recently renovated Moragahakanda Dam which was reopened by President Maithripala Sirisena was also linked to the course of floods in the Northern Province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281467-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Province floods (Sri Lanka), Background\nSri Lanka is reported to have been identified as the second most vulnerable nation in the world to confront climatic changes due to the effects of global warming. The floods caused in Northern Province is the second worst natural disaster to have occurred in Sri Lanka in the month of December, after the horrible tragic effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on Sri Lanka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281468-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Vietnam floods\nOn 23 June, floods started across the northern provinces of Vietnam. The flood waters have receded from the northern mountainous provinces of Lai Chau, Ha Giang and Lao Cai while several towns and villages were inaccessible. 23 people were confirmed dead in the floods: in Lai Chau 16 were killed, 5 in Ha Giang Province while two others in other provinces. An estimated VND530 billion ($23.2 million) of damage was recorded in Lao Cai, Ha Giang and Lai Chau and over 80 houses had been destroyed and over 700 hectares of rice fields damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281468-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Vietnam floods, Other floods\nOn 21 July, floods triggered by heavy rains hit the northern part of the country after tropical storm Son-Tinh made landfall in northern coastal areas, killing 27 people and wounding 14, while 7 others were declared missing. Also, 17,000 animals were killed, 82,000 hectares of crops were damaged and 5,000 houses were destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281468-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Vietnam floods, Other floods\nOn 1 August, two children and a man drowned as new floods has overflowed one bank of the Bui River, engulfed several villages and threaten to submerge parts of Hanoi. On 3 August, floods triggered landslides that killed six people, injuring two and leaving five others missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281468-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northern Vietnam floods, Other floods\nOn 2 September, floods started again across the country. As of 4 September, at least 14 people were confirmed dead while four others are declared missing. Also, 375 houses were damaged and 661 cattle killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281469-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northumberland County municipal elections\nElections were held in Northumberland County, Ontario, on October 22, 2018, in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281469-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northumberland County municipal elections, Northumberland County Council\nThe Northumberland County Council consists of the seven mayors of its constituent municipalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281470-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northwest Territories Men's Curling Championship\nThe 2018 Northwest Territories Men's Curling Championship was played February 6-10 at the Inuvik Curling Club in Inuvik. The winning Jamie Koe team represented the Northwest Territories at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier in Regina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281471-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northwest Territories Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2018 Northwest Territories Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Northwest Territories, was held January 4-7 at the Inuvik Curling Club in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. The winning Kerry Galusha team represented Northwest Territories at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281472-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northwestern State Demons football team\nThe 2018 Northwestern State Demons football team represented Northwestern State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Demons were led by first-year head coach Brad Laird and played their home games at Harry Turpin Stadium. They were a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 5\u20136, 4\u20135 in Southland play to finish in a tie for eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281472-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northwestern State Demons football team, Previous season\nThey finished the season 4\u20137, 4\u20135 in Southland play to finish in a tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281472-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northwestern State Demons football team, Previous season\nOn November 17, it was announced that the contract of head coach Jay Thomas would not be renewed after the season. He finished at Northwestern State with a five-year record of 21\u201336.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281472-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northwestern State Demons football team, Preseason, Preseason Poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Southland announced their preseason poll, with the Demons predicted to finish in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281473-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Northwestern Wildcats football team\nThe 2018 Northwestern Wildcats football team represented Northwestern University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Wildcats played their home games at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois and competed in the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They were led by 13th-year head coach Pat Fitzgerald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281473-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Northwestern Wildcats football team\nNorthwestern began the year with a 1\u20133 record after winning its conference road opener against Purdue but falling to non-conference foes Duke and Akron, as well as Michigan in their conference home opener. The team won their next four games, including wins over ranked opponents Michigan State and Wisconsin, before falling to Notre Dame, which secured a winless non-conference slate. Regardless, the Wildcats clinched their first Big Ten West Division title by defeating No. 21 Iowa the following week. They won their remaining two conference games to finish the regular season with a conference record of 8\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281473-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Northwestern Wildcats football team\nIn the 2018 Big Ten Football Championship Game, they lost to East Division champion Ohio State 45\u201324. The team was invited to the Holiday Bowl to play Pac-12 Conference runner-up Utah. The Wildcats won by a score of 31\u201320, their third consecutive bowl victory, which was a program first. In the final AP Poll of the season, the Wildcats were ranked 21st.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281473-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Northwestern Wildcats football team\nQuarterback Clayton Thorson led the team's offense, finishing with 3,183 passing yards, third most in the Big Ten Conference, to go along with 17 passing touchdowns and nine rushing touchdowns. Thorson, a fourth-year starter, finished his career as the school's all-time leading passer. Freshman running back Isaiah Bowser led the team in rushing with 866 yards, and wide receiver Flynn Nagel led the team in receiving with 780 yards. On defense, linebacker Blake Gallagher led the Big Ten in total tackles with 127. Fellow linebacker Paddy Fisher was named first team all-conference by the coaches, while defensive back Montre Hartage was named to the first team by the media. Head coach Pat Fitzgerald received the conference's coach of the year award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 795]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281473-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Previous season\nThe Wildcats finished the 2017 season 10\u20133, 7\u20132 in Big Ten play to finish in second place in the West Division. They received an invitation to the Music City Bowl where they defeated Kentucky 24\u201323.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281474-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Norwegian Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 Norwegian Athletics Championships (Norwegian: NM i friidrett 2018) was the year's national outdoor track and field championships for Norway. It was held from 17\u201319 August at the Byrkjelo Stadium in Gloppen. The King's trophy was awarded to women's javelin thrower Sigrid Borge and Karsten Warholm, who won both the men's 400\u00a0m hurdles and sprint events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281475-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Norwegian Football Cup\nThe 2018 Norwegian Football Cup was the 113th edition of the Norwegian annual knock-out football tournament. It began with qualification matches in March and April 2018. The first round was played from 17\u201319 April 2018 and the tournament concluded with the final on 2 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281475-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Norwegian Football Cup\nRosenborg won their twelfth Cup title. The victory would have earned them a place in the first qualifying round of the 2019\u201320 UEFA Europa League, but since the club already had qualified to the 2019\u201320 UEFA Champions League as winners of the 2018 Eliteserien, this berth was passed down to Haugesund, fourth-place finishers in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281475-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Norwegian Football Cup, Calendar\nBelow are the dates for each round as given by the official schedule:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281476-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Norwegian Football Cup Final\nThe 2018 Norwegian Football Cup Final was the final match of the 2018 Norwegian Football Cup, the 113th season of the Norwegian Football Cup, the premier Norwegian football cup competition organized by the Football Association of Norway (NFF). The match was played on 2 December 2018 at the Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo, and opposed two Eliteserien sides Rosenborg and Str\u00f8msgodset. Rosenborg defeated Str\u00f8msgodset 4\u20131 to claim the Norwegian Cup for a twelfth time in their history and equaled Odd's record number of cup titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281477-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Norwich City Council election\nThe 2018 Norwich City Council election took on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Norwich City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. 13 of 39 seats (one-third) were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281477-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Norwich City Council election\nThe Labour Party retained overall control of the council, winning 12 out of 13 seats up for election and 49% of the vote, their best result in over 20 years. The Greens lost every seat they were defending, whilst the Liberal Democrats retained their single seat in Eaton ward. The Conservatives once again failed to elect any councillors, although they did increase their share of the vote by 3 percentage points. As of the 2018 election, the Conservatives have not won a seat on Norwich City Council for over 10 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281477-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Norwich City Council election\nAll changes in vote share are calculated with reference to the 2014 election, the last time these seats were contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281477-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Norwich City Council election, Background\nIn the 2016 election, the Labour Party achieved its best result in the city since 1998, winning 44% of the vote and 11 of 13 seats up for election, with the Greens dropping to their worst percentage result since 2005 (21%) and losing 4 of the 5 seats they were defending. The scale of the Labour victory was reported to have surprised both Labour and the Green Party and was partly attributed to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party bringing \"some voters who had previously switched to the Greens back to Labour\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281477-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Norwich City Council election, Background\nThe following year, in the Norfolk County Council election, Labour bucked its national trend of poor results and gained 4 seats in Norwich, all from the Green Party, leaving the Greens with no representation on the County Council for the first time since 2001. This was followed by a general election on 8 June, which saw Labour win Norwich South with 61% of the vote, with the Green Party candidate achieving a total of 3%. Labour also came within 507 votes of winning Norwich North from the Conservative Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281477-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Norwich City Council election, Overall result\nChanges in vote share are relative to the last time these seats were contested in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281477-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Norwich City Council election, Council Composition\nPrior to the election the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team\nThe 2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by head coach Brian Kelly, who was in his ninth season at Notre Dame, and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in Notre Dame, Indiana. The Fighting Irish competed as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team\nNotre Dame, coming off a 10\u20133, Citrus Bowl-winning season in 2017, began the year ranked 12th in the AP Poll. In the first game of the year, they hosted rival No. 14 Michigan, in the first game played in the series since 2014. Notre Dame won by a score of 24\u201317. The Irish continued to roll, and after convincing wins against ranked opponents Stanford and Virginia Tech, rose to third in the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team\nNotre Dame finished the regular season with a perfect 12\u20130 record, and were ranked third in the final College Football Playoff rankings, earning them a spot in the national semifinal to be played at the Cotton Bowl against second-ranked Clemson. The Irish lost to the eventual national champion Tigers by a score of 30\u20133. Their final record of 12\u20131 and final ranking of 5th in the nation represented the program's best season since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team\nQuarterback Brandon Wimbush led the offense for the first three games, after which he was benched in favor of Ian Book. Book ended the year with 2,628 passing yards and 19 touchdowns. The running attack was led by Dexter Williams, who finished with 995 yards and 12 touchdowns. On defense, cornerback Julian Love was named a consensus first-team All-American, and defensive tackle Jerry Tillery also received All-America honors by several selectors. Head coach Brian Kelly was named AP Coach of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Previous season\nThe 2017 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team finished 10\u20133, culminating the season with a 21\u201317 victory over LSU in the Citrus Bowl. Notre Dame began the season with a 49\u201316 home thrashing of Temple before a highly anticipated showdown with Georgia in Notre Dame under the lights, with the Bulldogs winning 20\u201319 in their first trip north of the Mason\u2013Dixon line since 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Previous season\nFollowing the 1\u20131 start, the Irish reeled off seven consecutive wins\u2014including a 49\u201314 annihilation of arch-rival USC at night and a 35\u201314 drubbing of NC State\u2014that earned Brian Kelly's program a #3 ranking in the initial 2017 College Football Playoff rankings. However, the luck of the Irish ran out, as the team found itself on the losing end of a 41\u20138 humiliation against the Miami Hurricanes in a primetime game at Hard Rock Stadium. Notre Dame, wearing its new Rockne Heritage Uniforms for the first time, then eked out a 24\u201317 victory against Navy on senior day before ending the regular season with a thud, losing 38\u201320 at Stanford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Offseason\nThe disheartening finish in the latter stages of the season was only compounded by defensive coordinator Mike Elko being lured to Texas A&M by first-year head coach Jimbo Fisher three days following the Citrus Bowl victory over LSU. However, rather than make an outside hire to replace Elko, Brian Kelly chose to stay in-house, elevating linebackers coach Clark Lea to defensive coordinator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Offseason\nOne week following Elko's departure, the Irish would suffer another significant coaching loss, as Harry Hiestand accepted the offensive line coach position on Matt Nagy's staff with the Chicago Bears. In a surprise decision and after a national search, head coach Brian Kelly chose to promote senior offensive analyst Jeff Quinn to replace Hiestand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Offseason\nThe unexpected personnel loss within the program eventually spread to the roster, as running backs C.J. Holmes and Deon McIntosh, wide receiver Kevin Stepherson, and defensive lineman Brandon Tiassum were each dismissed from the program. Holmes and Stepherson were dismissed due to shoplifting charges, while McIntosh and Tiassum were booted for a violation of team rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Offseason\nHowever, the tide began to shift in a positive direction for the program beginning on January 30, when Notre Dame announced the hiring of Terry Joseph as safeties coach to fortify defensive coordinator Clark Lea's staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Offseason\nThe good news was compounded a week later, as Notre Dame closed out National Signing Day with the nation's 10th-ranked recruiting class, per 247sports.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Offseason, The Shirt 2018 and Blue-Gold Game\nThe Irish then finished up their winter conditioning program led by Matt Balis, in just his second year on the coaching staff, before heading into spring practices. The annual Blue-Gold Game, a spring exhibition with Notre Dame's offense pitted against its defense, ended the spring football season and was played at Notre Dame Stadium on April 21, 2018, with Blue defeating Gold 47\u201344.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 90], "content_span": [91, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Offseason, The Shirt 2018 and Blue-Gold Game\nA day before the Blue-Gold Game was arguably more exciting for Irish fans and especially Notre Dame students, as the 2018 Notre Dame Football Shirt was revealed in front of the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore at the Eck Center. There was much debate as to which color The Shirt would be this year, and Coach Kelly ended the suspense by ripping off his jacket to reveal the Kelly green shirt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 90], "content_span": [91, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Offseason, The Shirt 2018 and Blue-Gold Game\nThe front of The Shirt features the iconic image of the top of the outside of the stadium directly above the Knute Rockne Gate, which displays \"University of Notre Dame\" etched in gold under two flags\u2013one for Notre Dame and the other for the team that the Irish happens to be playing that week. Below this image is \"Fighting Irish Football 2018,\" printed in large gold letters. The back of The Shirt features a portrayal of Notre Dame's defensive line with \"No Breaking Point\" printed below it, which is a reference to one of late coach Ara Parseghian's famous mottos. The Shirt would then be sold immediately following its reveal, with many cheerful fans and students alike walking out of The Bookstore, proudly donning The Shirt just minutes after it was revealed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 90], "content_span": [91, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Offseason, 2018 NFL Draft\nThe following former Notre Dame players were selected in the 2018 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Offseason, Recruiting, Recruits\nNotre Dame signed 21 recruits during college football's second-ever early signing period (December 20\u201322) before inking an additional six on National Signing Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 77], "content_span": [78, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nThe #12 Notre Dame Fighting Irish took care of business against their bitter rival #14 Michigan Wolverines, 24\u201317 in perhaps the most raucous atmosphere ever at Notre Dame Stadium. Notre Dame's \"Irish Wear Green\" initiative really paid off, even selling a green Under Armour shirt with the phrase on it and laying a green towel with the phrase on it on each seat of the Fighting Irish student section, and the Stadium was almost entirely wearing green, including the coaching staff and the Band of the Fighting Irish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nThe Irish got off to the best start possible by scoring on each of their first two drives of the season opener. On their first drive of the game, it only took Irish senior quarterback Brandon Wimbush 7 plays in 1:25 to drive his offense down the field 75 yards for a touchdown. Wimbush made 15+ yard completions on consecutive passes to junior receiver Chase Claypool and senior receiver Miles Boykin, before sophomore running back Jafar Armstrong ran the ball up the middle for 13 yards and the first Notre Dame touchdown of the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nAfter forcing a Michigan punt, the Irish again drove down the field in 7 plays, this time covering 96 yards in 3:07. The Irish got the benefit of a couple of third down conversions\u2013one coming from a targeting penalty called against a Michigan defender on senior tight end Aliz\u00e9 Mack that ejected the defender from the game, and the other resulting from a Wimbush 7-yard run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nThe very next play was the signature play of the game, as Wimbush threw up a heave over the middle all the way to the end zone, which senior receiver Chris Finke muscled away from two Michigan defenders to take control of and give the Irish a 14\u20130 lead, just halfway into the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nTo start off the second quarter, Michigan got just 3 points off a couple of drives. Most notable from those drives were junior defensive lineman Khalid Kareem's sack of Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson for a 16-yard loss, forcing a punt, as well as senior defensive tackle Jerry Tillery's sack when Michigan was deep into the red zone, pushing it back 8 yards and forcing it to settle for a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nOn the ensuing Notre Dame drive, the Irish relied on the run game to get the ball into the end zone again, mostly by way of Wimbush and junior running back Tony Jones Jr. Notre Dame again benefited from a couple of costly Michigan penalties, both on 3rd down, which extended the drive and allowed Armstrong to get into the end zone with his second touchdown run of the game, this one a 4-yard scamper, to extend the Irish lead to 21\u20133. Michigan did return the following kickoff for a touchdown, but Notre Dame still held a substantial 21\u201310 lead at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nMichigan's started the second half already in desperation mode, as it turned over on downs each of its first two drives (one of which resulted from a botched hold on a field goal attempt by Michigan's Will Hart). Wimbush did throw a long interception in that span, but then he made perhaps the best play of his life when he ran up the middle for 22 yards to keep the chains moving on 3rd and 18. Wimbush also completed a 19-yard pass to Chase Claypool, who tapped his feet in bounds to earn the first down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nWimbush appeared to have completed a 26-yard touchdown pass to Boykin later in the drive, but it was called back due to a Notre Dame penalty, meaning that the Irish would need to settle for a 48-yard field goal by senior kicker Justin Yoon. Junior defensive end Julian Okwara then wreaked havoc by intercepting a Shea Patterson pass in Irish territory, thwarting another Michigan drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nThe Irish did not do much offensively in the fourth quarter, but the Wolverines again turned the ball over on downs to return possession to Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nThe Michigan offense did conjure up a fairly impressive 80-yard touchdown drive in less than 3:00 to put some pressure on the Irish, and the Wolverines indeed had the ball with 1:48 remaining in regulation in a one-possession game, but Tillery made sure that Notre Dame would keep marching onward to victory, sacking Patterson and forcing a fumble that senior linebacker and tackling machine Te'von Coney gobbled up to effectively end the game in the greatest way possible, a 24\u201317 Irish win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nAfter the thrilling win over the Michigan Wolverines, the Fighting Irish moved up to #8 in the AP poll and took on an in-state foe, the Ball State Cardinals out of the MAC, in the first-ever matchup between the teams. It was a somewhat chilly afternoon At Notre Dame, and even though head coach Brian Kelly claimed that there would not be a let-down from the previous week's win, the Irish offense also looked cold this week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nThe game started off in exactly the manner that most expected\u2013with Notre Dame scoring just 1:52 into the game. After a solid kick return by freshman C'Bo Flemister on his first collegiate touch, senior quarterback Brandon Wimbush unleashed a 27-yard completion to senior receiver Chris Finke on the game's first play from scrimmage, which was then followed up by a 42-yard scamper by sophomore running back Jafar Armstrong to set up the Irish with 1st and Goal on the Ball State 5 yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nThe Irish continued using Armstrong until he finally busted into the end zone on 3rd and Goal from the 1 (with the handoff, interestingly enough, coming from \"1B\" senior quarterback Ian Book, who also handed off for two rushing touchdowns against Michigan the prior week), giving the Irish an early 7\u20130 lead. What happened next was the realization that Ball State, knowing that absolutely no one was giving it a chance to win this game, came to play. The Cardinals pushed through a 19-play, 85-yard drive that took almost 7 minutes and culminated in a field goal by Morgan Hagee, cutting Notre Dame's lead to 7\u20133, which would hold up until the end of the 1st quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nAfter two consecutive punts for each team, the Irish offense found some rhythm again going into the second quarter, as Armstrong ran for an 11-yard first down on the first play of the ensuing drive and Wimbush orchestrated lengthy completions to sophomore tight end Cole Kmet and junior receiver Chase Claypool to get the Irish into prime field goal range. On the Ball State 16, however, Wimbush suffered a 10-yard sack, prompting a field goal attempt by senior kicker Justin Yoon, which was pushed wide right. Thus, a promising Notre Dame drive resulted in no points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nAfter a Ball State punt, Wimbush rattled off a few other solid passes to Armstrong and Claypool (including 23- and 27-yard completions to Armstrong), although the Irish found themselves in 4th and 8 on the Ball State 26, as they were when Yoon missed the field goal the previous drive. In a decision tough to wrap one's head around, Notre Dame decided to go for it but Wimbush's pass to Claypool was just a bit off target, so yet another Irish drive stalled near the red zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0020-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nAfter the Cardinals took over on downs, though, it did not take long for the Irish to get the ball back, as junior safety Jalen Elliot picked off a tipped pass by Ball State quarterback Riley Neal, and on the very next play, junior running back Tony Jones Jr. rushed into the end zone from 31 yards out to extend the Irish lead to 14\u20133. Ball State then punted the football back to Notre Dame again, but Wimbush returned possession to the Cardinals with his first of three interceptions on the day, this one to Josh Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0020-0003", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nWimbush was heavily pressured on this play and took a questionable hit that led to the interception, prompting both junior left tackle Liam Eichenberg and Wimbush to scuffle with a couple of the Ball State defensive linemen. Ball State only turned this gift into a field goal, though, and the Irish would punt again before the teams hurried to the locker rooms, with Notre Dame up 14\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nThe third quarter began with some traction on Ball State's opening second-half drive before Neal threw his second interception of the game to Elliot, who returned his pick to almost midfield, starting the Irish drive with solid field position. Said drive then featured a substantial 9-yard run by Wimbush followed up by him firing completions to Finke and senior receiver Miles Boykin, which set up Jones Jr. for his second touchdown run of the game, this one a 1-yard walk-in. This extended Notre Dame's lead to 21\u20136 early in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nFor the remainder of the game, the Irish defense really made its presence felt as Wimbush and the offense struggled mightily, as Ball State was forced to punt on its next 3 drives, which sandwiched Wimbush's second interception of the game, which came off a tipped ball behind his intended receiver that caromed into the hands of Antonio Phillips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0021-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nThe Irish also had to punt later in the third quarter but followed it up with a nice 8-play, 33-yard drive that featured senior tight end Aliz\u00e9 Mack as well as Boykin helping Wimbush out by providing some nice catches, when his throwing was inconsistent and spotty at best. Yoon then got back to his converting ways by kicking it through the uprights from 46 yards out, extending the Irish lead to its most at any point in the game at 24\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nAlthough Notre Dame's defense seemed to be handing Ball State opportunities on a silver platter with its inconsistency, it was not until early in the 4th quarter when the Cardinals finally capped off a 13-play, 79-yard drive with a Riley Neal 10-yard touchdown pass to Nolan Givan, putting Ball State within two scores of the Irish at a 24\u201313 deficit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nThe Irish seemed to potentially be getting something going again offensively, but then Wimbush threw his third interception of the game, this one to Ray Wilborn in Ball State territory, giving Ball State a legitimate chance to put substantial pressure on Notre Dame. Such pressure would not come on this drive, though, as the Cardinals ended a 13-play, 41-yard drive that took almost 4 minutes off the clock with a missed 46-yard field goal by Hagee, giving it right back to the Irish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0022-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nNotre Dame had every opportunity to put this game away throughout but a 3-and-out on its next drive kept Ball State in it, especially when Hagee converted on a 49-yard field goal to bring Ball State to within one possession at 24\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0022-0003", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nFifth-year captain linebacker Drue Tranquill recovered the Cardinals' onside kick attempt, and even though Ball State still had 2 timeouts at its disposal to begin the drive, Wimbush ran for a 5-yard first down that effectively ended the game, with the result being an ugly 24\u201316 Irish win, in a game that most expected Notre Dame to blow out and put in a good number of its backups and especially freshmen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nAfter Notre Dame's close win over Ball State, the Vanderbilt Commodores came to Notre Dame Stadium for the third home game for the Irish in as many weeks. In a game that many fans were hoping would be a bounce-back game for the Irish as a 13.5 point favorite, Vanderbilt held its own and had legitimate opportunities to win one at Notre Dame, although Notre Dame would hang on for a 22\u201317 victory in conditions of extreme heat and sun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nYet again, the Irish got off to a red hot start, as their first five plays of the game consisted of junior running back Tony Jones Jr. running for 41 yards and senior quarterback Brandon Wimbush rushing for 9 yards and completing a 17-yard pass to junior receiver Chase Claypool. Notre Dame would get all the way down to the 2-yard line, but Vanderbilt's defense stood tall and the Irish also suffered a false start penalty, prompting senior kicker Justin Yoon to put the ball through the uprights to give the Irish a 3\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nThe Commodores' first drive of the game was looking promising, but a key tackle by fifth-year captain linebacker Drue Tranquill forced the drive to stall and Vanderbilt to punt the ball to the Irish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0024-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nJones Jr. then got the ensuing Notre Dame drive off on the right foot by scurrying around the left side for a first down and then rushing for 2 more yards on the next play, sophomore running back Jafar Armstrong rushed for 16 yards on 3 carries, and the Irish passing game got going, with Jones Jr. gaining 24 yards on a catch-and-run along the right sideline, which all resulted in a 15 play, 94 yard, 5:21 drive that culminated in Wimbush's first rushing touchdown of the season, from 12 yards out and finishing with a dive into the end zone, allowing the Irish to take a 10\u20130 lead and keep the Irish faithful fired up. Not much would get going offensively for either team on the next five drives combined, all of which resulting in punts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nMidway through the second quarter, though, Jones Jr. rushed for 30 more yards on 2 carries and Notre Dame reaped the benefit of a 15-yard penalty against Vanderbilt, but the drive again stalled and Justin Yoon tacked on a 33-yard field goal to put the Irish up 13\u20130. The next drive would provide the crucial play of the game. Ke'Shawn Vaughn would start off the drive with a nice run and Vanderbilt's passing game really got going on this drive, led by NFL prospect Kyle Shurmur's connections with Kalija Lipscomb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nShurmur then completed a pass to Donaven Tennyson for 20 yards, but junior safety Alohi Gilman stripped the ball out of Tennyson's hands. It was a mad scrum to get on top of the football and the Commodores had a couple of chances to turn this miscue into a touchdown, but eventually junior cornerback Julian Love fell on the football in the end zone for a touchback, bringing the ball out to the 20 yard line and giving possession to Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0025-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nThe Irish could only turn this gift into another field goal, as Wimbush rushed for 17 more yards and 3 more carries and also benefited from a roughing the passer penalty on the Commodores, but again the Irish could not turn this promising drive into six points as Yoon hit his third field goal of the game, this one from 46 yards out, to give Notre Dame a 16\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0025-0003", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nThe Commodores then marched down the field by way of just 8 plays on 72 yards and 1:15, and Tennyson dropping a pass on the doorstep of the end zone proved costly, as Vanderbilt would settle for a Ryley Guay 21-yard field goal, taking the teams into the halftime locker rooms with the Irish leading 16\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nShurmur then led the Commodores with his explosive passing game to another lengthy drive to start the third quarter, but it resulted in no points, as Guay missed a 43-yard field goal. The Irish would then punt the football away each of their next 2 drives, which was sandwiched between an interception in the end zone by junior cornerback Troy Pride to thwart another solid Vanderbilt drive, but Pride took the ball out of the end zone and was tackled at the Notre Dame 1, rather than taking the touchback. Towards the end of the third quarter, the Commodores would finish off a short drive after having the ball past midfield, as Vaughn would waltz into the end zone for a 3-yard score, sending the game into the fourth quarter as a 16\u201310 contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nThe Irish came out firing to start the fourth quarter, as Wimbush completed passes to senior receivers Miles Boykin and Chris Finke and tight end Aliz\u00e9 Mack, as well as what was probably his best throw of the day on a fly route that ended up in the hands of Jones Jr. for a 32-yard gain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nOn 3rd and 3 on the Vanderbilt 5, junior backup quarterback Ian Book came into the game to deliver a strike to fifth year tight end Nic Weishar, which was ruled short of the line to gain, but Wimbush then took the quarterback dive to give the Irish a fresh set of downs on the 2-yard line. Book then replaced Wimbush again, and Book threw a touchdown pass that Weishar hauled in, putting the Irish up 22\u201310 after the failed two-point conversion attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0027-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nThe Commodores would then rattle off an efficient 9-play, 75-yard drive in just 3:42 that resulted in Shurmur connecting with Jared Pinkney, who pushed his way into the end zone to put Vanderbilt within one possession again at 22\u201317. Sophomore receiver Michael Young Jr. bursted out for a 48-yard kickoff return to the Notre Dame 49, but the drive would consist solely of runs by Wimbush and Jones Jr., and Yoon would uncharacteristically miss a 32-yard field goal to give the Commodores a chance to drive the length of the field to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0027-0003", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nVanderbilt was looking like it might indeed pull off the upset, especially after getting the benefit of a pass interference penalty against the Irish defense on 4th and 10, allowing the Commodores a fresh set of downs. This drive would stall, however, as junior safety Jalen Elliott made an incredible play by taking the ball away from Lipscomb on 4th and 4 on the Notre Dame 31, forcing a turnover on downs that went right back to the Irish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0027-0004", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nNotre Dame would simply run out the clock on this drive, and a 63-yard mammoth of a punt by fifth year punter and captain Tyler Newsome, who received the game ball after the game from Coach Kelly for his amazing game, essentially sealed the deal and put this one in the books as the Irish barely eked out a home win against an underrated Vanderbilt squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nEven though the Irish started off the season 3\u20130 under the direction of senior quarterback Brandon Wimbush, Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly made a bold move by turning to junior quarterback Ian Book for the start against Wake Forest, and his decision did not disappoint. Book rushed for 43 yards and threw for 325 yards, more passing yards in a single game than Wimbush could ever boast, and the entire Irish offense had a monstrous performance, blowing out the Wake Forest Demon Deacons 56\u201327 in Notre Dame's first road game of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nAlthough the game was not in doubt for nearly all of the second half, this contest began fairly rocky for the Irish. Both teams punted on their first possessions of the game, and after having a short field to work with on its second drive, Notre Dame stalled and eventually turned the ball over on downs, as it was unable to convert a 4th and 8 on the Wake Forest 33, just one of many questionable calls by Kelly this season to go for it in such a position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nThe woes continued for the Irish as the Demon Deacons drove down the field, but ultimately they came up empty-handed as kicker Nick Sciba failed to realize that he was supposed to be on the field for his field goal attempt before missing it to preserve the scoreless tie. It seemed to get worse for Notre Dame as sophomore receiver Michael Young Jr. was hit and lost the football after catching a screen pass, giving Wake Forest another prime scoring opportunity in the red zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0029-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nThe Demon Deacons would only gain one yard on their drive, however, and Sciba eventually got into formation on time and kicked it through the uprights from 30 yards out for an early 3\u20130 lead. Sciba's field goal was significant because it marked the first time that Notre Dame had trailed this entire season in Week 4, but the Irish would not trail for long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0029-0003", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nSuch would be the case because \"The Book Club\" got going, as Book rattled off 3 consecutive strikes to senior tight end Aliz\u00e9 Mack, for gains of 8, 9, and 24 yards, respectively, and sophomore running back Jafar Armstrong topped the drive off by hurrying to the right side of the field en route to a 30-yard touchdown run, putting the Irish up 7\u20133, in a lead that would only grow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nOn the first play of the second quarter, Sciba converted a 39-yard field goal, his second of the day, to make it a 7\u20136 game. Such points resulted from another solid Wake Forest drive, but the Demon Deacons defense had no idea what they had coming to them in the form of this potent Notre Dame offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nBook hit 5 different receivers on the ensuing Irish drive, and Armstrong and fellow sophomore running back Avery Davis contributed sizable runs, leading to a touchdown pass from Book to sophomore tight end Brock Wright, the first touchdown reception of his career, to extend the Irish lead to 14\u20136. Wake Forest simply would not have an answer for the Notre Dame defense on its next drive, as true freshman quarterback Sam Hartman would be sacked by fifth-year senior and captain Drue Tranquill, giving the Irish the ball back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0030-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nNotre Dame was fueled by a rare 52-yard punt return by senior receiver Chris Finke, giving the Irish the ball on the Wake 4-yard line. On 2nd and Goal from that spot, junior running back Tony Jones Jr. ran the ball up the gut, putting the Irish up 21\u20136. The Demon Deacons showed some more bright spots on its next possession that totaled 10 plays and 75 yards in just 2:53, ending with a Matt Colburn touchdown run, which moved the game back to within one possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0030-0003", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nWhen the Irish got the ball back, they were fueled again by a big play, this time by Young Jr. bursting away from defenders for a 66-yard gain off a screen pass, and Book followed up his throw to Young Jr. by running it into the end zone himself for a 2-yard touchdown run, cementing the Irish lead at 28\u201313 going into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nWhile Notre Dame's defense and team as a whole showed a tendency in their first three games of the season to let down a bit in the second half, no such downfall was seen today. The Demon Deacons would get the ball to start the second half but would punt shortly thereafter, overwhelmed by junior defensive end Julian Okwara's 8-yard sack of Hartman on 3rd and 11 from Wake's 33.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nThe next Notre Dame drive would begin with Davis rattling off a 12-yard run to move the chains, and it would be continued by Book's 30-yard pass to Jones Jr. to put the Irish on the Wake 8, leading to Book finding junior receiver Chase Claypool on a 7-yard touchdown pass, running up the score to 35\u201313. The Irish would then force a Wake punt and receive the benefit of a 15-yard penalty against the Demon Deacons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0031-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nOn this drive, though, the running game would prove to be the key for the Irish, as Armstrong sprinted into the red zone by way of a 28-yard run and Book added a slick 11-yard waltz to the Wake 3, at which point Armstrong and Notre Dame's offensive line pushed forward for yet another Irish touchdown and a commanding 42\u201313 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0031-0003", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nAs if things couldn't get any worse for the Demon Deacons, Hartman would be picked off on the very next play from scrimmage by Notre Dame junior cornerback Troy Pride, his second interception in as many weeks, giving the Irish a short field with the ball on the Wake 47. Book caught even more fire by delivering a 35-yard dime to Claypool, setting up Notre Dame in the red zone again, and after another Davis run and ensuing penalty against the Demon Deacons, Book would run it in from 2 yards out again to put the Irish up 49\u201313. Wake Forest would respond with a 9-play, 75-yard touchdown drive in 3:34 of game clock, although it struggled all day to get its star receiver Greg Dortch going, thanks to Notre Dame's defensive scheme under first-year coordinator Clark Lea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nThe Irish would not let up at all to begin the fourth quarter, as Book threw strikes to Austin Jr. on consecutive gains of 6 and 29 yards, respectively, setting up Notre Dame on the doorstep of the red zone yet again. Book then connected with Finke for 12 yards to put the ball at the Wake 1, and on the very next play, Book would waltz in to the end zone again for his third rushing touchdown of the afternoon, giving the Irish a 56\u201320 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nNotre Dame did not have many answers for Wake Forest quarterback Jamie Newman and his designed quarterback runs late, as he led the Demon Deacons with ease through a 13-play, 79-yard touchdown drive that chewed up 6:34 of game clock, but it would not matter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0032-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nThe Irish would use the blowout to their advantage in the form of allotting playing time to some of their freshmen, including running back Jahmir Smith and quarterback Phil Jurkovec, and Notre Dame would be marching onward to victory again and to a 4\u20130 start, leaving Winston-Salem with smiles on their faces after their 56\u201327 trouncing of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nJunior quarterback Ian Book made his second consecutive start for the Irish and played another sensational game, Dexter Williams rushed for 161 yards including a 45-yard touchdown run in his season debut, and Notre Dame's defense limited the Stanford offense to just 10 total first downs, as the #8 Fighting Irish took down the #7 Cardinal 38\u201317, in a cool, fall, primetime atmosphere and the first top 10 matchup at Notre Dame Stadium since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nThe Notre Dame defense took the field first to start off this contest for a change, and it limited the Stanford offense to no yards on a 3-and-out. On Notre Dame's first offensive drive of the game, Book hit senior receiver Miles Boykin on an extremely impressive 11-yard throw for a first down, but the Irish ended up turning the ball over on downs after junior running back Tony Jones, Jr. ran on four consecutive plays but could not convert on 4th and 1 near midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0034-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nThe Cardinal would not do anything on its next drive, though, and would punt it back to the Irish. Notre Dame would score on this drive, as Book connected with Boykin for a nice 19-yard completion and Jones, Jr. manufactured a few runs, with senior running back Dexter Williams capping off the drive with a 45-yard touchdown run in his very first carry of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0034-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nStanford would then match Notre Dame's touchdown drive with one of its own, as Cardinal running back Bryce Love broke a few tackles to run 39 yards for a touchdown, tying the game at 7 apiece. The Irish would then put together another impressive drive, ultimately resulting in another touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0034-0003", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nWilliams ran for an 18-yard first down early in the drive, but the signature plays of this drive were Book's passes to tight ends Cole Kmet and Nic Weishar, respectively; the former for a 19-yard completion on 4th down, and the latter for a 6-yard touchdown pass on 3rd and 2. The first quarter would end with the Irish having a 14\u20137 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nThe Cardinal began the second quarter with an 84-yard touchdown drive to knot the game at 14\u201314, with the culmination of its drive coming on quarterback K.J. Costello's 4-yard touchdown pass to receiver J. J. Arcega-Whiteside, who made a nice play in rather contested coverage in the end zone. The next four drives would all result in punts, the only notable plays from the Irish perspective being three consecutive runs totaling 18 yards, as well as Book running for 10 yards and a first down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nAfter Stanford's second consecutive punt, however, Notre Dame conjured up its signature drive of the game. Not only did Book hit Boykin on three consecutive completions of 10, 9, and 33 yards, respectively, but he more impressively got outside of the pocket, escaped a sack, and fired a 10-yard touchdown pass right on the money to junior receiver Chase Claypool as he rolled out to his left. Stanford would then end the first half after a woeful effort at best to get something going in the final 39 seconds, going into the locker rooms with Notre Dame holding a 21\u201314 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nBoth teams started relatively static in the second half, each gaining 1 yard and going 3-and-out on their respective first drives of the third quarter. Notre Dame employed a little bit of everything\u2013explosive runs by Williams and Jones, Jr., Book completing a pass to senior receiver Chris Finke for a 16-yard first down, and Book escaping the pocket and running a couple of times himself\u2013on its drive that resulted in a 37-yard field goal by senior kicker Justin Yoon. Stanford would punt on its next drive, as would Notre Dame, keeping the lead at 24\u201314 for the Irish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nStanford would convert on a field goal of its own by kicker Jet Toner, from 46 yards out, which was the best that the Cardinal could do after junior defensive end Khalid Kareem unleashed his will on Costello, sacking him for a loss of 6 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0036-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nThe Irish responded with a promising drive of their own, highlighted by a solid Book pass to Boykin for 20 yards and a first down as well as a Williams run of 17 yards that also moved the chains, but Notre Dame would come up empty-handed on this drive, suffering some costly penalties that put them in a tough position, resulting in the Cardinal special teams unit tipping Yoon's 50-yard field goal attempt and causing it to wind up no good.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nIn the fourth quarter, where the Cardinal has thrived against the Irish in its three consecutive wins in this historic rivalry, Stanford did exactly the opposite. In fact, it managed a mind-boggling \u221223 yards on its final three drives combined, as its offensive line had absolutely no answers for the relentless Irish front seven. In the midst of this defensive stranglehold that the Irish strengthened on the Cardinal in the fourth quarter, Notre Dame's offense also soared and built up a lead that would put the game out of reach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0037-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nNotre Dame's fourth touchdown drive of the game was impressive on every front, most notably because of Book's pinpoint accuracy and escapability as a passer. Especially important was when Book completed a 10-yard pass to Boykin on the right sideline for a first down on 3rd and 9, and he also kept the drive going with passes to Finke and Claypool of 14 and 7 yards, respectively. The drive finished with Book throwing a screen pass to Boykin, who proceeded to run it 8 yards into the end zone for a score, putting the Irish up 31\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0037-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nOn the very next play from scrimmage, Costello was picked off by senior linebacker Te'von Coney, as Costello became so flustered by the pressure that the Irish continued to apply up front, allowing Coney to record his first career interception. When Book lined up under center at the Stanford 35, he proceeded to easily senior tight end Aliz\u00e9 Mack, who somehow ended up as wide open as could be, and he marched into the end zone, extending the Irish lead to 38\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0037-0003", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nTo put the icing on the cake in Notre Dame's first win over a Top 10 opponent since 2012, senior defensive tackle Jerry Tillery recorded his third and fourth sacks of the game on consecutive plays on Stanford's final offensive drive of the night, resulting in losses of 10 and 8 yards, respectively, and the Irish were able to get true freshman running back Jahmir Smith into the game against the #7 team in the country, as the Irish team was able to face the student section while swaying and signing the alma mater in a feeling of jubilant victory, demolishing the Cardinal 38\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nThe #6 Irish hit a bit of lull in the first half, but they turned it on in the second half, fueled by Dexter Williams' 97-yard touchdown run, and went on to demolish the #24 Virginia Tech Hokies 45\u201323 on the road, in one of the loudest primetime atmospheres in all of college football at Lane Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nThe Irish kept the trend going of starting fast by embarking on a 12-play, 78-yard touchdown drive, gobbling up the first 5:36 of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0039-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nJunior quarterback Ian Book put his spectacular passing skills on display again on this night and especially throughout this first drive, putting the pigskin right on the money to senior receiver Miles Boykin and junior receiver Chase Claypool, as well as senior tight end Aliz\u00e9 Mack, setting up Dexter Williams for an easy 1-yard touchdown run the play after Book himself lunged forward for a first down on 4th and 1 at the Virginia Tech 2. The Hokies would go 3-and-out on their first offensive drive of the game, punting the ball back to the Irish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0039-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nBook came back right where he left off on the first drive, launching the ball downfield to senior receiver Chris Finke for a 59-yard gain. Notre Dame would stall, however, and settle for a 31-yard field goal by senior kicker Justin Yoon, making it 10\u20130 Irish. Yoon would become Notre Dame's all-time leading scorer by converting an extra point later in the game, etching his name into the Fighting Irish history books. The next drive would prove to be crucial for the momentum of the game as a whole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0039-0003", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nVirginia Tech had something good going and then appeared to have completed a 49-yard touchdown pass play, but it was called back due to an ineligible man downfield on a Hokie offensive lineman. This took much of the life out of Lane Stadium, meaning that Virginia Tech would rely on kicker Brian Johnson to bury one through the uprights from 39 yards out, making it a one-possession game again at 10\u20133 Irish, which would continue into the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nNotre Dame started off the second quarter with a promising drive, highlighted by a 13-yard run by senior running back Dexter Williams and a solid 15-yard pass connection from Book to Boykin, although the Irish would be forced to punt at midfield. This is when all hell broke loose for a second\u2013junior long snapper John Shannon bounced the ball to fifth-year captain and punter Tyler Newsome, who appeared baffled by the disarray, being taken down by some Hokie coverage men near midfield, setting up Virginia Tech with prime field position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nThe Hokies would not get much on their ensuing drive, however, as junior defensive ends Julian Okwara and Khalid Kareem took Hokie freshman quarterback Ryan Willis down for an 11-yard sack, forcing Virginia Tech to settle for another Brian Johnson field goal, this one from 43 yards out. Book completed some nice passes to Claypool and sophomore tight end Cole Kmet on the next drive, but eventually the Irish would punt again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0040-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nVirginia Tech would punt quickly on its next drive too, but would get the ball right back on the plus-side of the field by Reggie Floyd intercepting an Ian Book pass. The Hokies seemed to be in perfect position to take the lead, but Virginia Tech running back Steven Peoples was stopped just short of the goal line at the 1 yard line after a speedy 41-yard run, and then the Hokies could not get the ball in the end zone from there, even showing signs of panicking as Willis ran into Peoples on their 3rd down play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0040-0003", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nThus, Johnson would kick a 22-yard field goal to make it 10\u20139 Irish. Notre Dame was not very impressive on its next drive and would punt, but suddenly the luck of the Irish seemed to take over this game. Kareem almost got to Willis on his initial rush, but after being brought down to the ground, he got back up and stripped the ball from Willis, allowing junior cornerback Julian Love to pick it up and take it to the house for a 42-yard scoop 'n score. The Hokies looked strong offensively on their next drive, with Willis completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to Damon Hazelton, making it a one-point contest at 17\u201316 going into the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nThe second half was a completely different story. The Hokies eventually punted to open up the second half and pinned the Irish down at their own 5. This would not matter, though, as Williams showed his second-level speed by running through the hole and bursting all the way to the end zone for a 97-yard touchdown run, putting the Irish up 24\u201316. Virginia Tech had an offensive response on its next drive, but said drive ended up producing no points as Johnson missed a 47-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0041-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nNotre Dame's offense then slowly chipped away at this Hokie defense on its next drive by employing many short passes, with the exception being Book's completion to Finke for 10 yards and a first down. Later in the drive, Book found Boykin all alone for an easy pass down the left sideline, which he easily ran to the house, totaling 40-yard touchdown play and a 31\u201316 Notre Dame lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nIt would get even worse for the Hokies. After both teams traded punts, Virginia Tech got some momentum going offensive but then Johnson missed his second field goal of the night, this one from 52 yards out. Notre Dame took over by officially putting this game away, as Book had a couple of nice completions to Boykin before firing to him for a 5-yard touchdown pass, causing many in the Virginia Tech faithful to head for the exits at Lane Stadium, as the game became out of hand at 38\u201316 Irish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nThe Hokies would respond with a touchdown drive of their own, capped off by Willis' pass to Eric Kumah from 15 yards out, but the Irish would not let up at all, showing the focus and tenacity to put this Virginia Tech team away, as Coach Kelly had been preaching all season long, recovering the onside kick and then giving it to Williams, who covered 13 yards on his first run and then 31 yards on his second run of the drive, catapulting Notre Dame to the end zone and a 45\u201323 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0042-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nJust for good measure, Love picked off Willis with less than four minutes remaining to seal the deal, getting true freshman running back C'Bo Flemister and former starting quarterback senior Brandon Wimbush into the game for a bit, as the Irish picked up a huge win against a ranked opponent in a primetime road atmosphere, improving to 6\u20130 and a #5 AP rank on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nThe Pittsburgh Panthers are the ultimate \"trap game\" opponent, which was apparent from the get-go at Notre Dame Stadium on this chilly but sunny fall afternoon. Though trailing for most of the game, the #5 Notre Dame Fighting Irish were able to find its rhythm offensively late in the game, ultimately pulling out a close 19\u201314 victory to send Notre Dame students off to fall break on the right note.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nThe Irish started off the first quarter against Pitt with a tough drive to swallow, as though junior quarterback Ian Book completed short-mid length passes to senior tight end Aliz\u00e9 Mack and senior receiver Chris Finke, Book also took a devastating 16-yard sack, forcing Notre Dame to punt on its first possession. Pitt's first drive would prove to be essentially all of the offense that it would get on the day, as the Panthers embarked on a 17-play, 88-yard drive that spanned 9:43 and resulted in a Qadree Ollison 9-yard touchdown run. When the Irish took over on their next drive, Book scrambled for a remarkable 22-yard first down on 3rd and 5, but he threw an interception to Jason Pinnock on a bad decision on the very next play, ending the first quarter with Pitt holding a 7\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 864]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nPitt would not do anything with this interception, punting the ball back to the Irish. Book made a nice completion to sophomore tight end Cole Kmet on Notre Dame's drive, but this drive would also result in a punt. Pitt would end up being even less effective than the Irish on its next drive, punting the ball away again. At this point the Irish offense would start to show some life, and they also benefitted from starting their ensuing drive on the Pitt 49.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0045-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nSpecifically, junior running back Tony Jones Jr. got going early in the drive, and then the Irish would earn 15 yards on a roughing the passer penalty against the Panthers, setting up the Irish just outside of the red zone. Book completed nice passes to Finke and Mack again, but the Irish drive eventually stalled, resulting in senior kicker Justin Yoon making a 22-yard field goal to close the deficit to 7\u20133. Pitt again would have next to nothing offensively, giving the ball back to the Irish with just over 3:30 remaining in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0045-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nOn this final drive of the half, Book really got it going with his arm, as he completed passes of 13 and 30 yards, respectively, to true freshman receiver Kevin Austin Jr. and senior receiver Miles Boykin, as well as a couple of other short passes to 3 other receivers, but he would end up taking 2 sacks that stifled the drive and forced another field goal from Yoon, this one from 41 yards out, making it a 7\u20136 game at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nNotre Dame was hoping to start off the second half strong, but what happened was the exact opposite\u2013Maurice Ffrench took the opening kickoff 99 yards to the house, extending Pitt's lead to 14\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0046-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nOnce Book got the ball back, though, he seemed to be in true form again in all respects, as he started off the drive with an impressive 15-yard run and then followed it up with more passes right on the money to his usual targets, most notably to junior receiver Chase Claypool on an 8-yard completion, that would have been taken all the way to the end zone if not for a shoestring tackle by a Pitt defender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0046-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nSenior running back Dexter Williams also got into the act a bit with some short runs, but ultimately what looked to be a drive that would result in a touchdown ended in Book being hit as he threw, leading to his second interception of the game, this one caught by Jazzee Stocker near the goal line, as Notre Dame was almost into the red zone at that point in the drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0046-0003", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nPitt moved the ball considerably well after this interception, but ultimately its drive stalled and they needed Alex Kessman to make a 47-yard field goal, which he was not able to do. Picking up where he left off, Book made some magical throws again, starting off the drive with a solid 21-yard completion to Claypool. Then, after a 10-yard holding penalty on senior left guard Trevor Ruhland, filling in for injured fifth-year captain Alex Bars, Book wasted no time getting all of these lost yards by firing a dime to Finke for 26 yards and a first down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0046-0004", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nBook later kept the drive alive on 3rd and 6 by finding Finke over the middle for 15 yards, and on the very next play, he completed a 16-yard strike to Claypool for the first Irish touchdown of the day, cutting Pitt's lead to 14\u201312. Notre Dame decided to try to tie the game then and there by going for two, but Book's pass to Boykin in the end zone was just out of reach, keeping the score exactly where it was. The Irish would trail going into the fourth quarter for the first time this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nPitt started off the fourth quarter by getting a nice drive going and even getting into the red zone, but that drive again resulted in no points as Kessman missed his second field goal of the game, this one from 36 yards out, to keep the Irish within a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0047-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nThe next Irish drive was not promising, though, so they had to give the ball back to the Panthers, still trailing by 2. Pitt had yet another opportunity to make it much tougher for the Irish in the fourth quarter, but it could not do it and had to punt yet again. When Notre Dame got the ball back, it wasted no time in taking the lead for good. The Irish started out with an automatic first down after a pass interference call on a Pitt defender who was covering Claypool, and the Irish offense caught fire at this point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0047-0002", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nWilliams rattled off an explosive 13-yard run, and then Book found Boykin on two consecutive plays\u2013the first being a pivotal 12-yard completion with Boykin making a solid catch near the sidelines for a first down on 3rd and 5, and the second being what very well may have been the best throw that Book has made thus far in his Notre Dame career, as one could not have placed it in Boykin's hands in a better spot than Book threw it to him for a 35-yard touchdown reception and a 19\u201314 Irish lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0047-0003", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nWhen Pitt got the ball back, its offense continued to perform so woefully that the Panthers needed to rely on some trickery via a fake punt, but it looked like one of the intended targets fell down during the play and, at any rate, the pass by Jeff George was incomplete and Notre Dame would take over on downs near midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0047-0004", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nThe Irish would not fare much better on their ensuing offensive possession, though, as their attempts to run out the clock to a victory would not work, forcing a 4th and 1 that Notre Dame would go for, but Book's roll out did not work, giving the ball back to the Panthers with a chance to drive downfield to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0047-0005", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nIf the Panthers could manufacture a semblance of an offense, then they might have had a chance to win the game, but junior defensive end Khalid Kareem sacked Pitt quarterback Kenny Pickett for a 14-yard loss, and then Pitt suffered a penalty before Pickett's intended receiver caught the ball well out of bounds on 4th and 29 from the Pitt 19, effectively ending the game, allowing the Irish to march out of Notre Dame Stadium with a 19\u201314 win in what ended up being a much closer game than many predicted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Navy\nPrevious meetings between the Irish and Navy have been back and forth, along with being competitive. This game had a different story line. Notre Dame would fumble the ball on the first offensive play of the game, setting Navy up at the Irish 36 yard line. Notre Dame would then stop Navy on 4th and 2, forcing a turnover on downs, and not giving up any points on the turnover. From there, the Irish would dominate the 1st half, scoring four straight touchdowns to take a commanding 27-0 lead at halftime, while forcing Navy to punt on 4 straight possessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281478-0048-0001", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Navy\nNavy would score 22 2nd half point, but would never get closer than 15 points. The Irish would finish with 584 yards of offense, including 28 first downs, while holding Navy to 384 yards and just 14 first downs. This is the biggest win by the Irish over Navy since 2012, when Notre Dame won 50-10. The win would push the Irish record to 8-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281479-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's soccer team represented University of Notre Dame during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the program's 41st season. It was the program's 6th season competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Fighting Irish were be led by head coach Chad Riley, in his first year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281479-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's soccer team, Background\nThe 2017 Notre Dame men's soccer team finished the season with an 11\u20137\u20132 overall record and a 3\u20133\u20132 ACC record. The Fighting Irish were seeded seventh\u2013overall in the 2017 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament, where they lost to Virginia in the semifinals. The Fighting Irish earned an at-large bid into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament for the fifth season in a row. As the twelfth\u2013overall seed in the tournament, Notre Dame hosted Wisconsin. Notre Dame was upset 0\u20131 in overtime to end their season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281479-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's soccer team, Background\nAt the end of the season, one Fighting Irish men's soccer player was selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft: Jon Gallagher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281479-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's soccer team, Background\nDuring the offseason, Bobby Clark retired as head coach and was replaced by Chad Riely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281479-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's soccer team, Squad, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281480-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nottingham Open\nThe 2018 Nottingham Open (also known as the Nature Valley Open for sponsorship purposes) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 11th edition of the event for women and the 23rd edition for men. It was classified as a WTA International tournament on the 2018 WTA Tour for the women, and as an ATP Challenger Tour event for the men. The event took place at the Nottingham Tennis Centre in Nottingham, United Kingdom from 11 through 17 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281480-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nottingham Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281480-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nottingham Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281480-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Nottingham Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281481-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nottingham Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nKen and Neal Skupski were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Frederik Nielsen and Joe Salisbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281481-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nottingham Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nNielsen and Salisbury won the title after defeating Austin Krajicek and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281482-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nottingham Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nDudi Sela was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281482-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nottingham Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nAlex de Minaur won the title after defeating Dan Evans 7\u20136(7\u20134), 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281483-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nottingham Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMonique Adamczak and Storm Sanders were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281483-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nottingham Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAlicja Rosolska and Abigail Spears won the title, defeating Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu and Heather Watson in the final, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(7\u20135).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281484-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nottingham Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nDonna Veki\u0107 was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Johanna Konta in a rematch of the previous year's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281484-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nottingham Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nAshleigh Barty won the title, defeating Konta in the final, 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281485-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2018 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship of Nova Scotia, was held from January 9 to 14 at the Dartmouth Curling Club in Dartmouth. The winning Mary-Anne Arsenault team represented Nova Scotia at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Penticton, British Columbia. At the National tournament, they finished tied for 2nd in Pool A, 3rd in the Championship pool, but lost the semi-final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season\nThe 2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season started with the Tie Break Tens event in Melbourne, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Early Hard Court Season, Tie Break Tens\nDjokovic returned from his six month injury hiatus since 2017 Wimbledon Championships at the Tie Break Tens event where he played a tune-up for the 2018 Australian Open. He was defeated by Lleyton Hewitt in his first match, 10\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Early Hard Court Season, Australian Open\nDjokovic played his first official match since Wimbledon at the Australian Open. After defeating Donald Young in straight sets, he defeated Ga\u00ebl Monfils in the second round after dropping the first set, with Monfils succumbing to extreme heat in the latter stages of the match. With a victory over Albert Ramos Vi\u00f1olas in third round, Djokovic set up a meeting with Korean Chung Hyeon. In a match of constant breaks of serve, Djokovic eventually lost in straight sets due to relentless backcourt defense from Chung and copious unforced errors on critical points. After his loss, Djokovic decided to undergo a surgery on his right elbow, which he claimed was affecting him from previous two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 91], "content_span": [92, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Early Hard Court Season, Indian Wells Masters\nDjokovic surprisingly returned to tour since his surgery at the Indian Wells Masters. After receiving a first round bye, he was upset in the second round by World No. 109 Taro Daniel in three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Early Hard Court Season, Miami Open\nDjokovic's next event was at the Miami Open, where his spring slump continued as he lost to Beno\u00eet Paire in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Clay Court Season, Monte Carlo Masters\nHoping to regain form at the clay court events, Djokovic played at the Monte Carlo Masters. He won his first two matches in straight sets, defeating Du\u0161an Lajovi\u0107 and Borna \u0106ori\u0107 in first and second rounds respectively. His 6\u20130, 6\u20131 win over Lajovi\u0107 was particularly dominant and suggested significant improvements in form. In the third round, he lost to World No. 7 and clay court specialist Dominic Thiem. After the match, Djokovic stated\u00a0: \"After two years finally I can play without pain\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 89], "content_span": [90, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Clay Court Season, Barcelona Open\nInspired by his improvement, Djokovic took a wildcard to play at Barcelona Open He was unable to carry on his run there, and lost to Martin Klizan in his opening round match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 84], "content_span": [85, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Clay Court Season, Madrid Open\nDjokovic next competed at the Madrid Open. In his first victory over a top-20 opponent in over eight months, he defeated former World No. 5 Kei Nishikori in the first round, before falling to Briton Kyle Edmund. As a result of the loss and failing to defend his semifinals position at the event, Djokovic fell to No. 18, his lowest ranking in twelve years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Clay Court Season, Italian Open\nDjokovic's next event was the Italian Open, where he has previously won four times and was the defending finalist. He progressed to his first quarterfinals appearance since 2017 Wimbledon, defeating Alexandr Dolgopolov, Nikoloz Basilashvili and Albert Ramos in straight sets. He would go on to beat Kei Nishikori, but lose to eventual champion Rafael Nadal in the semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Clay Court Season, French Open\nIn Roland Garros, Djokovic beat Roberto Bautista Agut and Fernando Verdasco en route to the quarterfinals, where he suffered a shocking defeat to Marco Cecchinato in four sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Grass Court Season, Queen's Club\nDjokovic took a wildcard to play at Queen's Club for the first time since 2010. He beat second seed Grigor Dimitrov, Adrian Mannarino, and J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy to reach the final. In the final, he lost to Marin \u010cili\u0107 in three sets, despite holding a match point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Grass Court Season, Wimbledon\nShowing further improvement in form, Djokovic beat Australian Open quarter-finalist Tennys Sandgren, British number one Kyle Edmund, and Kei Nishikori to set up a semifinal against Rafael Nadal. In the second longest Wimbledon semifinal to date, Djokovic beat Nadal in five sets played over two days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Grass Court Season, Wimbledon\nHe then defeated Kevin Anderson in the final in straight sets to win his fourth Wimbledon title and 13th overall Grand Slam title. This was his first title of the season, which catapulted him from 21st back into the 10th spot in the rankings. He also became the lowest ranked male player to win a Wimbledon title since Goran Ivani\u0161evi\u0107 won it in 2001 as a wildcard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, US Open Series, Canadian Open\nDjokovic started his US Open series campaign with straightforward wins against Mirza Ba\u0161i\u0107 and Peter Polansky in Toronto, but fell in the third round to Stefanos Tsitsipas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, US Open Series, Cincinnati Masters\nNext for Djokovic was the Cincinnati Masters, the only Masters 1000 tournament he hadn't won. After beating Steve Johnson in straight sets, Djokovic faced several difficult matches in a row. He had to come back from a one-set deficit against Adrian Mannarino and ATP number 5 Grigor Dimitrov, and needed three sets to beat Milos Raonic in the quarterfinals and Marin \u010cili\u0107 in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, US Open Series, Cincinnati Masters\nDjokovic then beat top-seeded and number 2 ranked Roger Federer in straight sets in the final. It was their first match since their semifinal match at the 2016 Australian Open. With this win, Djokovic became the first singles player to complete the Career Golden Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, US Open Series, US Open\nStruggling with the heat and humidity, Djokovic survived an upset scare and beat M\u00e1rton Fucsovics in four sets in the first round. He would again need four sets to overcome Tennys Sandgren in the second round. With cooler conditions, the next rounds proved to be easier: Richard Gasquet in the third round, Jo\u00e3o Sousa, and John Millman in the quarterfinal were all defeated in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, US Open Series, US Open\nHe would then face Kei Nishikori in their first match at the US Open since Nishikori's upset over Djokovic in 2014. This time Djokovic prevailed in straight sets to set up a final against Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro. In the final, Djokovic took control of the match early, winning the first set and securing a break early in the second. However, a spirited comeback from del Potro prolonged the second set, with Djokovic winning in a tiebreaker after a 95 minute set. Djokovic eventually closed out the match in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, US Open Series, US Open\nThe victory earned Djokovic his third US Open and 14th Grand Slam title overall, tying Pete Sampras. He also climbed back to number 3 in the ATP rankings and qualified for the ATP Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Fall hard court season, Shanghai Masters\nSeeded second at the Shanghai Masters, he defeated J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy, 16th seed Marco Cecchinato, 7th seed Kevin Anderson, 4th seed Alexander Zverev, and 13th seed Borna \u0106ori\u0107 in a decisive run. He did not drop a set nor have his serve broken during the tournament. This was his fourth title in Shanghai and second Masters title of the year. With this win, he overtook Roger Federer and returned to the #2 ranking for the first time since the 2017 French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 91], "content_span": [92, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Fall hard court season, Paris Masters\nDjokovic defeated Jo\u00e3o Sousa, Damir D\u017eumhur, Marin \u010cili\u0107, and his rival Roger Federer en route to the final, where he lost in straight sets to Karen Khachanov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly summary, Fall hard court season, Paris Masters\nHowever, with Rafael Nadal's withdrawal from the tournament, Djokovic regained the No. 1 ranking after the tournament concluded. It was exactly two years ago when he lost the No. 1 ranking in Paris, following a quarterfinals exit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, All matches\nThis table lists all the matches of Djokovic this year, including walkovers W/O (they are marked ND for non-decision)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281486-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly records, Head-to-head matchups\nNovak Djokovic has a 53\u201313 (80.3%\u00a0of wins) ATP match win-loss record in the 2018 season. His record against players who were part of the ATP Rankings Top Ten at the time of their meetings is 15\u20135 (75.0%\u00a0of wins). Bold indicates player was ranked top 10 at the time of at least one meeting. The following list is ordered by number of wins:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281487-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council election was held on 3 May 2018, as part of 2018 United Kingdom local elections. Half of the council was up for election and the Labour Party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281487-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council election, Election results, Council make up\nTotal number of seats on the Council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 86], "content_span": [87, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281488-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Nyk\u00f6ping municipal election\nNyk\u00f6ping Municipality held a municipal election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and regional elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281488-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Nyk\u00f6ping municipal election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 61 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 20, a drop of two from 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281488-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Nyk\u00f6ping municipal election, Electoral wards\nThere were three constituencies, the Eastern, Northern and Western. The number of late-incoming postal ballots were 704 or 1.9\u00a0% of the total ballots cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281489-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 N\u00fcrnberger Versicherungscup\nThe 2018 N\u00fcrnberger Versicherungscup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 6th edition of the tournament, and part of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place in Nuremberg, Germany, between 21 and 26 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281489-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 N\u00fcrnberger Versicherungscup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281489-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 N\u00fcrnberger Versicherungscup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281489-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 N\u00fcrnberger Versicherungscup, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281490-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 N\u00fcrnberger Versicherungscup \u2013 Doubles\nNicole Melichar and Anna Smith were the defending champions, but Smith chose to compete in Strasbourg instead. Melichar played alongside Kv\u011bta Peschke, but lost in the semifinals to Demi Schuurs and Katarina Srebotnik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281490-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 N\u00fcrnberger Versicherungscup \u2013 Doubles\nSchuurs and Srebotnik went on to win the title, defeating Kirsten Flipkens and Johanna Larsson in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20137].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281491-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 N\u00fcrnberger Versicherungscup \u2013 Singles\nKiki Bertens was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Kirsten Flipkens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281491-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 N\u00fcrnberger Versicherungscup \u2013 Singles\nJohanna Larsson won her second WTA title, defeating Alison Riske in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281492-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Byrne Cup\nThe 2018 O'Byrne Cup was played by county teams of Leinster GAA. It began in December 2017 and ended in May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281492-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Byrne Cup\nOn 14 January 2018, the result of the Meath versus Longford semi-final was determined by a free-taking competition, as the score was level at the end of both normal time and extra time. Each side took five free kicks from the forty five metre line and Meath won 2-1. This was the first inter-county Gaelic match to be decided in this way (previously the match would have been replayed).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281492-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Byrne Cup\nThe final was delayed on multiple occasions due to bad weather; it was finally played in May, with Meath the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281492-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Byrne Cup, Format\nThere are 11 teams, in three groups of three teams and one group two teams. In the three-team groups, each team plays the other teams once; in the two-team group, the teams play each other in two games. Two group points are awarded for a win and one for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281492-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Byrne Cup, Format\nThe four group winners play in the semi-finals and final. If a game is level after the normal seventy minutes, two ten minute periods of extra time are played each way. If the score is still level after extra time, a free-taking competition is held to determine the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500\nThe 2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on April 8, 2018, at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. Contested over 334 laps on the 1.5-mile (2.4\u00a0km) intermediate quad-oval, it was the seventh race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Report, Background\nTexas Motor Speedway is a speedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas\u00a0\u2013 the portion located in Denton County, Texas. The track measures 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) around and is banked 24\u00a0degrees in the turns, and is of the oval design, where the front straightaway juts outward slightly. The track layout is similar to Atlanta Motor Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway (formerly Lowe's Motor Speedway). The track is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., the same company that owns Atlanta and Charlotte Motor Speedways, as well as the short-track Bristol Motor Speedway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, First practice\nKurt Busch was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 27.523 seconds and a speed of 196.200\u00a0mph (315.753\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Qualifying\nKurt Busch scored the pole for the race with a time of 27.360 and a speed of 197.368\u00a0mph (317.633\u00a0km/h) after only one round of qualifying was completed due to lightning in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice\nDaniel Su\u00e1rez was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 27.136 seconds and a speed of 198.998\u00a0mph (320.256\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice\nJimmie Johnson was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 27.253 seconds and a speed of 198.143\u00a0mph (318.880\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, First stage\nKurt Busch led the field to green at 2:10 p.m., and the first caution flew on lap 4 when Austin Dillon, Daniel Su\u00e1rez, Paul Menard and Alex Bowman were involved in an accident in turn four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, First stage\nThe race restarted on lap 7, The second caution of the race flew on lap 82 when Martin Truex, Jr. spun out, Truex was running second to Harvick when his right front tire blew entering Turn 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Second stage\nThe race restarted on lap 91 and stayed green for the start of stage 2, Kyle Larson was making up for a bad start after having to start the race at the back of the field after failing pre-race inspection. That all changed on Lap 128 with Larson running second. He blew a right front tire and crashed hard into the Turn 2 wall, bringing out the third caution of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Second stage\nThe race restarted on lap 135, Kyle Busch passed his brother Kurt Busch to win his second stage of the season. Kurt Busch finished second followed by Joey Logano, Jones, Clint Bowyer, Chase Elliott, Keselowski, Stenhouse, Hamlin and Almirola, The fourth caution flew again for the conclusion of the second stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Final stage\nThe race restarted on lap 178 and the fifth caution flew for a seven-car wreck, The final stage got off to a rough start as Hamlin and Aric Almirola made contact which sent Hamlin spinning back and collecting both Keselowski and Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Final stage\nThe seven-car incident, which also collected Austin Dillon, brought out a red flag that stopped the race for more than 11 minutes with Jones leading the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Final stage\nThe seventh caution flew when Trevor Bayne and Kasey Kahne were involved in an accident in turn four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Final stage\nThe race restarted on lap 258, Busch and Harvick wenth side-by-side with Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. and Darrell Wallace, Jr. behind them, and the eighth caution flew when Ryan Newman hit the wall in turn 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Final stage\nKyle Busch edging Kevin Harvick for his first victory of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Final stage\nHarvick, gunning for his fourth victory of 2018, finished three-tenths of a second behind. Busch, who won the second stage, led for 116 laps, while Harvick, who dominated the first stage, led 87.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Post-race, Driver comments\n\u201c(Harvick) was probably just a tick faster overall, but I just had to make sure I did everything I could to hit all my marks and everything, and did the right things to block his air and everything, but this Camry was really awesome today,\" Busch said in victory lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Post-race, Driver comments\n\"This has been a trying couple of months, you know? After Daytona, we\u2019ve just been on a roll of finishing real good and been really pumped and excited about that and the momentum we were able to carry, but frustrated at the same time trying to get to victory lane,\" added Busch, who finished second in three of the first six races of 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Media, Television\nFox Sports covered their 18th race at the Texas Motor Speedway. Mike Joy, 2009 race winner Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip had the call in the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the pit road duties for the television side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281493-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Media, Radio\nThe race was broadcast on radio by the Performance Racing Network and simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281494-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 O1 Properties Ladies Cup\nThe 2018 O1 Properties Ladies Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Khimki, Russia, on 30 April\u20135 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281494-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 O1 Properties Ladies Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281495-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 O1 Properties Ladies Cup \u2013 Doubles\nOlesya Pervushina and Anastasia Potapova were the defending champions, but Pervushina chose not to participate. Potapova partnered Galina Voskoboeva, but lost in the first round to Natela Dzalamidze and Nina Stojanovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281495-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 O1 Properties Ladies Cup \u2013 Doubles\nOlga Doroshina and Anastasiya Komardina won the title, defeating Veronika Pepelyaeva and Anastasia Tikhonova in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281496-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 O1 Properties Ladies Cup \u2013 Singles\nDejana Radanovi\u0107 was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Ivana Jorovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281496-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 O1 Properties Ladies Cup \u2013 Singles\nVera Lapko won the title, defeating Anastasia Potapova in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281497-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Kaohsiung\nThe 2018 OEC Kaohsiung was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Kaohsiung, Taiwan between 17 and 23 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281497-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Kaohsiung, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281497-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Kaohsiung, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281498-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Kaohsiung \u2013 Doubles\nSanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Hsieh Cheng-peng and Yang Tsung-hua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281498-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Kaohsiung \u2013 Doubles\nHsieh and Yang won the title after defeating Hsu Yu-hsiou and Jimmy Wang 6\u20137(3\u20137), 6\u20132, [10\u20138] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281499-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Kaohsiung \u2013 Singles\nEvgeny Donskoy was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281499-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Kaohsiung \u2013 Singles\nGa\u00ebl Monfils won the title after defeating Kwon Soon-woo 6\u20134, 2\u20136, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281500-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger\nThe 2018 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and part of the 2018 WTA 125K series, offering a total of $125,000 in prize money. It took place in Taipei, Taiwan, on 12\u201318 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281500-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281500-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger, Doubles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281501-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nVeronika Kudermetova and Aryna Sabalenka were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281501-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nAnkita Raina and Karman Thandi won the title against Olga Doroshina and Natela Dzalamidze, when their opponents retired in the match tiebreak because of a hamstring injury suffered by Dzalamidze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281502-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger \u2013 Singles\nBelinda Bencic was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Houston instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281502-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger \u2013 Singles\nLuksika Kumkhum won the title, defeating Sabine Lisicki 6\u20131, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League\nThe 2018 OFC Champions League was the 17th edition of the Oceanian Club Championship, Oceania's premier club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and the 12th season under the current OFC Champions League name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League\nIn the final, Team Wellington defeated Lautoka 10\u20133 on aggregate and qualified as the OFC representative at the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Auckland City are the defending champions, having won the last seven titles straight, but they were eliminated in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League, Format change\nFor this season, the top two teams of each group (instead of only the group winners) in the group stage advanced to the knockout stage, which included a quarter-final round played as a single match hosted by the group winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League, Teams\nA total of 18 teams from all 11 OFC member associations enter the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League, Qualifying stage\nThe draw for the qualifying stage was held on 15 September 2017 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. The champions of the four developing associations were drawn from Pot A into each of the four positions 1\u20134 to determine the fixtures. The four teams in the qualifying stage played each other on a round-robin basis at a centralised venue. The winners and runners-up advanced to the group stage to join the 14 direct entrants. Matches were played between 20\u201326 January 2018 in Pago Pago, American Samoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League, Group stage\nThe draw for the group stage was held on 15 September 2017 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. The 16 teams (14 teams entering the group stage and two teams advancing from the qualifying stage) were drawn into four groups of four, with each group containing two teams from Pot B (which were drawn into positions 1\u20132 to determine the fixtures) and two teams from Pot C (which were drawn into positions 3\u20134 to determine the fixtures). Teams from the same association, as well as the two teams advancing from the qualifying stage, could not be drawn into the same group. The teams were seeded based on the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League, Group stage\nThe four teams in each group played each other on a round-robin basis at a centralised venue. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage. The hosts of each group were announced by OFC on 31 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League, Knockout stage\nThe eight teams in the knockout stage played on a single-elimination basis. In the quarter-finals, each tie was played as a single match, while in the semi-finals and final, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League, Knockout stage, Bracket\nThe bracket was decided after the draw for the knockout stage (quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final) was held on 5 March 2018 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League, Knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nIn the quarter-finals, the winners of one group played the runners-up of another group (teams from same group cannot play each other), with the group winners hosting the match, and the matchups decided by draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League, Knockout stage, Semi-finals\nIn the semi-finals, the four quarter-final winners played in two ties, with the matchups and order of legs decided by draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League, Knockout stage, Final\nIn the final, the two semi-final winners played each other, with the order of legs decided by draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League, Awards\nThe following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281503-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League, Awards\nNote: Although Angus Kilkolly and Emiliano Tade both scored eight goals in the competition, Kilkolly won the Golden Boot as he played less minutes than Tade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281504-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League Final\nThe 2018 OFC Champions League Final was the final of the 2018 OFC Champions League, the 17th edition of the Oceania Cup, Oceania's premier club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), and the 12th season under the current OFC Champions League name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281504-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League Final\nThe final was contested in two-legged home-and-away format between Team Wellington from New Zealand and Lautoka from Fiji. The first leg was hosted by Team Wellington at David Farrington Park in Wellington on 13 May, while the second leg was hosted by Lautoka FC at Churchill Park in Lautoka on 20 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281504-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League Final\nTeam Wellington won the tie 10\u20133 on aggregate for their first OFC Champions League title. As winners, Team Wellington earned the right to represent the OFC at the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup, entering at the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281504-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League Final, Teams\nIn the following table, finals until 2006 were in the Oceania Club Championship era, since 2007 were in the OFC Champions League era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281504-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League Final, Teams\nThis was Team Wellington's fourth consecutive and overall final appearance. However, they have yet to win the OFC Champions League, having lost to Auckland City in all three of their previous final appearances. This was the first final for Lautoka in their third season in the OFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281504-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League Final, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281504-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League Final, Format\nThe final was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the order of legs decided by the draw for the knockout stage, which was held on 5 March 2018 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281504-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League Final, Format\nThe away goals rule, extra time and a penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281504-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League Final, Matches, First leg\nAssistant referees:Tevita Makasini (Tonga)Bernard Mutukera (Solomon Islands)Fourth official:Mederic Lacour (New Caledonia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281504-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League Final, Matches, Second leg\nAssistant referees:Philippe Revel (Tahiti)Bertrand Brial (New Caledonia)Fourth official:David Yareboinen (Papua New Guinea)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281505-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League group stage\nThe 2018 OFC Champions League group stage was played from 10 February to 3 March 2018. A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2018 OFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281505-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League group stage, Draw\nThe draw for the group stage was held on 15 September 2017 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. The 16 teams (14 teams entering the group stage and two teams advancing from the qualifying stage) were drawn into four groups of four, with each group containing two teams from Pot B (which were drawn into positions 1\u20132 to determine the fixtures) and two teams from Pot C (which were drawn into positions 3\u20134 to determine the fixtures). Teams from the same association, as well as the two teams advancing from the qualifying stage, could not be drawn into the same group. The teams were seeded based on the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281505-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League group stage, Draw\nThe following were the winners and runners-up of the qualifying stage which join the 14 direct entrants in the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281505-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League group stage, Format\nThe four teams in each group played each other on a round-robin basis at a centralised venue. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281505-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League group stage, Schedule\nThe hosts of each group were announced by OFC on 31 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281506-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League knockout stage\nThe 2018 OFC Champions League knockout stage was played from 7 April to 20 May 2018. A total of eight teams competed in the knockout stage to decide the champions of the 2018 OFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281506-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League knockout stage, Qualified teams\nThe winners and runners-up of each of the four groups in the group stage advanced to the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281506-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League knockout stage, Format\nThe eight teams in the knockout stage played on a single-elimination basis. In the quarter-finals, each tie was played as a single match, while in the semi-finals and final, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281506-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League knockout stage, Bracket\nThe bracket was decided after the draw for the knockout stage (quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final) was held on 5 March 2018 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281506-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nIn the quarter-finals, the winners of one group played the runners-up of another group (teams from same group cannot play each other), with the group winners hosting the match, and the matchups decided by draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281506-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League knockout stage, Semi-finals\nIn the semi-finals, the four quarter-final winners played in two ties, with the matchups and order of legs decided by draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281506-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League knockout stage, Final\nIn the final, the two semi-final winners played each other, with the order of legs decided by draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281507-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League qualifying stage\nThe 2018 OFC Champions League qualifying stage was played from 20 to 26 January 2018. A total of four teams competed in the qualifying stage to decide two of the 16 places in the group stage of the 2018 OFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281507-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League qualifying stage, Draw\nThe draw for the qualifying stage was held on 15 September 2017 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. The champions of the four developing associations were drawn from Pot A into each of the four positions 1\u20134 to determine the fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281507-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League qualifying stage, Format\nThe four teams in the qualifying stage played each other on a round-robin basis at a centralised venue. The winners and runners-up advanced to the group stage to join the 14 direct entrants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281507-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Champions League qualifying stage, Schedule\nMatches were played between 20 and 26 January 2018 in Pago Pago, American Samoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship\nThe 2018 OFC U-16 Championship was the 18th edition of the OFC U-16/U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the men's under-16/under-17 national teams of Oceania. The qualifying stage was held in Tonga between 14 and 20 July 2018, and the final tournament was held in the Solomon Islands between 9\u201322 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship\nBefore the last tournament the age limit was reduced by a year to 16 years of age. However the last tournament remained the name U-17 Championship. For this tournament, the name has changed to U-16 Championship. So players who want to participate in the tournament needed to be born on or after 1 January 2002. At an OFC Executive Committee meeting held at its Auckland headquarters in November 2013 the competition format was modified. The competition was brought forward a year and the age limit was lowered to 16 years of age. The changes were made in order to allow the winner of the competition plenty of time for preparation and player development for upcoming World Cups at Under 17 level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship\nIn March 2015, FIFA decided that the OFC gets two slots at every FIFA U-20 and U-17 World Cup. So the top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil as the OFC representatives. New Zealand, the defending champions, won the title for the eighth time, and qualified together with runners-up Solomon Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship, Format\nThe draw for the tournament was held on 2 February 2018 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. In both the qualifying stage and the final tournament, the hosts (Tonga and Solomon Islands) were assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the remaining teams were drawn into the other positions without any seeding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship, Teams\nAll 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC entered the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship, Teams\nNote: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (since 2017).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship, Venues\nThe hosts of the qualifying stage and final tournament were announced by OFC on 31 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship, Squads\nPlayers born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team can name a maximum of 20 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship, Group stage\nThe top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship, Goalscorers\nIn the qualifying stage, there were 33 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 5.5 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship, Goalscorers\nIn the final tournament, there were 67 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 4.19 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship, Goalscorers\nIn total, there were 100 goals scored in 22 matches, for an average of 4.55 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship, Awards\nThe Golden Ball Award is awarded to the most outstanding player of the tournament. The Golden Glove Award is awarded to the best goalkeeper of the tournament. The Golden Boot Award is awarded to the top scorer of the tournament. The Fair Play Award is awarded to the team with the best disciplinary record at the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup\nThe following two teams from OFC qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship, Age fraud controversy\nThe Solomon Islands, which originally finished second, were found by the OFC to have deliberately fielded overage player Chris Satu during the tournament and would forfeit all results and their place in the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup. The decision was reviewed under appeal from the Solomon Islands Football Federation. The OFC Executive Committee announced on 3 May 2019 that Solomon Islands would keep their spot for the FIFA U-17 World Cup on the grounds that the federation had not knowingly broken the rules as Satu had a government issued passport showing his eligibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281508-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship, Age fraud controversy\nOn 11 December 2019, it was found that Solomon Islands' player Maxwell Keana played in five games with a \"false birth certificate and passport to improperly seek eligibility\" for the competition. As a result, the Solomon Islands Football Federation was sanctioned and the Oceania Football Confederation banned the Solomon Islands from entering a team in the 2020 OFC U-16 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281509-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-16 Championship squads\nThe teams of the preliminary stage were announced two days before the kick off, so on July 12. The caps and goals are as of 1 August 2018, after the preliminary stage and before the main tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship\nThe 2018 OFC U-19 Championship was the 22nd edition of the OFC U-19/U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the men's under-19/under-20 national teams of Oceania. The qualifying stage was held in the Cook Islands between 26 May \u2013 1 June 2018, and the final tournament was held in Tahiti between 5\u201318 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship\nBefore the tournament in 2016, the age limit was reduced by a year to 19 years of age. However, the last tournament remained the name U-20 Championship. For this tournament, the name has changed to U-19 Championship. So, players who wanted to participate in the tournament needed to be born on or after 1 January 1999. At an OFC Executive Committee meeting held at its Auckland headquarters in November 2013 the competition format was modified. The competition was brought forward a year and the age limit was lowered to 19 years of age. The changes were made in order to allow the winner of the competition plenty of time for preparation and player development for upcoming World Cups at Under 20 level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship\nIn March 2015, FIFA decided that the OFC gets two slots at every FIFA U-20 and U-17 World Cup. So, the top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland as the OFC representatives. New Zealand, the defending champions, won the title for the seventh time, and qualified together with runners-up Tahiti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship, Format\nThe draw for the tournament was held on 2 February 2018 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. In both the qualifying stage and the final tournament, the hosts (Cook Islands and Tahiti) were assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the remaining teams were drawn into the other positions without any seeding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship, Teams\nAll 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC entered the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship, Teams\nNote: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (since 2016).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship, Venues\nThe hosts of the qualifying stage and final tournament were announced by OFC on 31 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship, Venues\nAfter two Group B matches were played at Stade Fautaua on 6 August, it was announced on 8 August that the remaining Group B matches would be moved to Stade Pater due to the floodlights being deemed less than optimal. However, it was announced on 10 August 2018 that after heavy rain caused the pitch of Stade Pater to deteriorate, the last two Group A and Group B matches on 11 and 12 August would be moved to Stade Fautaua with earlier kick-off times (12:00 and 15:00 instead of 15:00 and 18:00).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship, Squads\nPlayers born on or after 1 January 1999 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team can name a maximum of 20 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship, Group stage\nThe top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship, Goalscorers\nIn the qualifying stage there were 14 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 2.33 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship, Goalscorers\nIn the final tournament there were 68 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 4.25 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship, Goalscorers\nIn total, there were 82 goals scored in 22 matches, for an average of 3.73 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship, Awards\nThe Golden Ball Award was awarded to the most outstanding player of the tournament. The Golden Glove Award was awarded to the best goalkeeper of the tournament. The Golden Boot Award was awarded to the top scorer of the tournament. The Fair Play Award was awarded to the team with the best disciplinary record at the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281510-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup\nThe following two teams from OFC qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281511-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC U-19 Championship squads\nThe 2018 OFC U-19 Championship was the 22nd edition of the OFC U-19/U-20 Championship. Before the tournament in 2016, the age limit was reduced by a year to 19 years of age. However, the last tournament remained the name U-20 Championship. For this tournament, the name has changed to U-19 Championship. So, players who wanted to participate in the tournament needed to be born on or after 1 January 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281512-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup\nThe 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup was the 11th edition of the OFC Women's Nations Cup (also known as the OFC Women's Championship), the quadrennial international football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the women's national teams of the Oceanian region. The tournament was held in New Caledonia between 18 November \u2013 1 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281512-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup\nThe tournament served as the Oceanian qualifiers to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the champions qualifying for the World Cup in France. The champions also qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281512-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup\nNew Zealand were the defending champions. They won the tournament for their fourth consecutive and sixth overall OFC Women's Nations Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281512-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Format\nThe draw for the tournament was held on 21 March 2018 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. In both the qualifying stage and final tournament, the hosts (Fiji and New Caledonia) were assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the remaining teams were drawn into the other positions without any seeding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281512-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Qualification\nFor the first time, the OFC Women's Nations Cup is a compulsory tournament, so all 11 OFC member national teams have entered the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281512-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Qualification\nNote: New Caledonia and Tahiti are not members of the International Olympic Committee and thus not eligible to qualify for the Olympic Football Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281512-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Venues\nThe host nation of the final tournament was New Caledonia. The matches were played at four venues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281512-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Group stage\nThe top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281512-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Knockout stage, Final\nWinners qualified for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2020 Summer Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281512-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Goalscorers\nThere were 108 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 6.75 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281512-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Awards\nThe Golden Ball Award was awarded to the most outstanding player of the tournament. The Golden Boot Award was awarded to the top scorer of the tournament. The Golden Glove Award was awarded to the best goalkeeper of the tournament. The Fair Play Award was awarded to the team with the best disciplinary record at the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281512-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Qualification for international tournaments, Qualified teams for FIFA Women's World Cup\nThe following team from OFC qualified for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 117], "content_span": [118, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281512-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Qualification for international tournaments, Qualified teams for Summer Olympics\nThe following team from OFC qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympic women's football tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 110], "content_span": [111, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281513-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification\nThe 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification tournament was a football competition that took place from 24 to 30 August 2018 in Lautoka, Fiji to determine the final women's national team which joined the seven automatically qualified teams in the 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup final tournament in New Caledonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281513-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Teams\nOn 31 October 2017, the OFC announced its executive's decision on the teams to compete in the tournament. For the first time, the OFC Women's Nations Cup is a compulsory tournament, so all 11 OFC member national teams entered the tournament. The four lowest-ranked teams, based on previous regional performances of all women's national teams, entered the qualification tournament while the remaining teams were given a bye to the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281513-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Format\nThe four lowest-ranked teams based on previous regional performances of all women\u2019s national teams (American Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji) entered the qualification tournament, which was played in a single round-robin format in Fiji.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281513-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Format\nThe winner advanced to the 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, held from 18 November to 1 December 2018 in New Caledonia, joining the other seven teams which received a bye into the group stage. The Nations Cup serves as the Oceanian qualifiers to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the champions qualifying for the final tournament in France, as well as the 2020 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Japan, as long as they are a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281513-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Draw\nThe draw for the qualification tournament was held on 21 March 2018 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. The hosts Fiji were assigned to position 1 and were exempted from the draw, while the remaining teams were drawn into the other positions without any seeding in order to determine the match schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281513-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Draw\nThe draw for the match schedule resulted in the following positions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281513-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Draw\nNote: Bolded team qualified for the 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281513-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Venue\nThe qualification tournament was held at Churchill Park in Lautoka, Fiji. The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Pago Pago, American Samoa from 27 August to 4 September 2018, but in March 2018 the venue was changed to Fiji. The qualification tournament in Fiji was originally scheduled to take place from 25\u201331 August 2018, but was later adjusted to 24\u201330 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281513-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Schedule\nThe match schedule was revealed on 6 July 2018. The schedule of qualification is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281513-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Goalscorers\nThere were 12 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 2 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281514-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup squads\nThe 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup is an international football tournament being held in New Caledonia from 18 November to 1 December 2018. The eight national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of up to 23 players, including two goalkeepers. Only players in these squads are eligible to take part in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281514-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup squads\nThe position listed for each player is per the official squad list published by the OFC. The age listed for each player is on 18 November 2018, the first day of the tournament. The numbers of caps and goals listed for each player do not include any matches played after the start of tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated. A flag is included for coaches that are of a different nationality than their own national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281515-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 OKC Energy FC season\nThe 2018 OKC Energy FC season was the club's fifth season of existence, and their fifth consecutive season in the United Soccer League, the second tier of American soccer. Energy FC also played in the U.S. Open Cup. The season covered the period from November 5, 2017 to the beginning of the 2019 USL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281515-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 OKC Energy FC season\nThe 2018 season was the first for OKC under new head coach Steve Cooke, who had previously been the interim head coach of Colorado Rapids. Cooke became just the second head coach in club history; Jimmy Nielsen had been in charge for the previous four seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281515-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 OKC Energy FC season\nEnergy FC finished tenth place in the Western Conference, missing the playoffs for just the second time in club history and the first time since 2014. OKC took points from 16 of their last 21 matches, after losing 10 of their first 13 games, but still finished 10 points outside the final playoff spot. In the U.S. Open Cup, Energy FC was knocked out by amateur club NTX Rayados, who play in the North Texas Premier Soccer Association. It marked the first season in club history in which OKC did not win at least one game in the cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281515-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 OKC Energy FC season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nIn August 2017, the USL announced that the 2018 season would span 34 games, the longest regular season the league had ever run. The expansion was spurred by the addition of six new clubs for the 2018 season: Atlanta United 2, Fresno FC, Indy Eleven, Las Vegas Lights, Nashville SC, and North Carolina FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281515-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 OKC Energy FC season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nOn January 12, 2018, the league announced home openers for every club. Energy FC opened their home slate with the season's first fixture of the Black Gold Derby against Tulsa Roughnecks, the second time in four years that Energy FC and Tulsa faced off in the season opener. The teams had previously faced off to open the 2015 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281515-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 OKC Energy FC season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nThe schedule for the remainder of the 2018 season was released on January 19. Energy FC played three times against both Colorado Springs Switchbacks and Tulsa. They faced every other Western Conference team twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281516-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Athletics season\nThe 2018 Oakland Athletics season was the 118th season for the Oakland Athletics franchise, all as members of the American League, and their 51st season in Oakland (all at Oakland Coliseum). The A's were managed by Bob Melvin in his eighth year as manager of the A's. They played their home games at Oakland Coliseum as members of Major League Baseball's American League West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281516-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Athletics season\nThe A's began the season on March 29 against the Los Angeles Angels and finished the season on September 30 against the Angels as well. On September 24, they clinched their first playoff berth since 2014. They went on to lose to the New York Yankees in the Wild Card Game, 7\u20132. Their 97 wins were the most of any Athletics team since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281516-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Athletics season, Offseason\nThe Oakland Athletics made a move to acquire outfielder Stephen Piscotty from the St. Louis Cardinals for Yairo Mu\u00f1oz on December 14, 2017. The trade allowed Piscotty to be closer to his mother who was suffering from ALS. His mother died on May 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season\nThe 2018 season was the Oakland Raiders' 49th in the National Football League, their 59th overall, their 24th since their return to Oakland, and their first under head coach Jon Gruden since his rehiring by the organization (fifth overall). The Raiders finished the season with a 4\u201312 record, failing to improve upon their previous season's record of 6\u201310, and their worst since 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season\nWith a loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 13, the Raiders were eliminated from playoff contention for the second consecutive season. With their week 15 loss to the Bengals, the Raiders failed to improve their record from the previous season. The loss also secured their spot at last in the AFC West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season\nOn December 10, the Raiders fired general manager Reggie McKenzie who had been with the Raiders since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season, Stadium issues\nAlthough the league approved the Raiders' eventual relocation to Las Vegas on March 27, 2017, the team maintained its lease at the Oakland\u2013Alameda County Coliseum and used the stadium for the 2018 season while the team's new stadium in Las Vegas was under construction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season, Stadium issues\nInitially in April 2017, the operators of the Coliseum stated they would be unwilling to sign a lease extension for the team to play at the stadium while their new venue in Las Vegas was being built; however by September of that year, the Coliseum operators expressed willingness to negotiate, but insisted on concessions to compensate for the million-dollar deficit the Coliseum runs by hosting Raiders games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season, Stadium issues\nOwner Mark Davis stated he preferred to stay in Oakland for the 2019 season but was considering other options, including Las Vegas's Sam Boyd Stadium, Berkeley's California Memorial Stadium, Mackay Stadium in Reno, Nevada; the San Francisco 49ers's Levi's Stadium and even the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, a venue thought to have been ruled out in 2014. Davis acknowledged that if fans failed to support the team similarly to the 1996 Houston Oilers, it could hasten the relocation. Team management also indicated they would relocate after 2018 if there were any lawsuits filed against the team; the city of Oakland sued the Raiders and all other teams in the league on December 11, 2018, however the Raiders remained in Oakland for the final year despite the lawsuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 816]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nOn January 6, 2018, the Raiders hired their former head coach, Jon Gruden, who returned to the Raiders and coaching from ESPN's Monday Night Football. Gruden received a 10-year, $100-million contract to return to the Raiders. Gruden last coached in the NFL in 2008 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and last coached the Raiders in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nAt the press conference announcing the hiring of Gruden on January 9, Gruden announced that Los Angeles Rams quarterbacks coach Greg Olson had been hired as offensive coordinator, though Gruden would call plays, while former Cincinnati Bengals defensive coordinator Paul Guenther was hired as the new defensive coordinator. Gruden also announced that former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia was hired to serve as special teams coordinator. On January 29, the Raiders named Brian Callahan, son of their former head coach Bill Callahan, as the new quarterbacks coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season, Offseason, Khalil Mack holdout and trade to Chicago\nOn September 1, 2018, the Raiders traded defensive star Khalil Mack along with their 2020 2nd round pick to the Chicago Bears for two first round picks (RB Josh Jacobs and CB Damon Arnette), a 2019 6th round pick, and a 2020 3rd round pick, after he had held out of training camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season, Offseason, Trades\n6th round pick (2019 draft)(Traded to the New York Jets in the 2019 offseason)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season, Preseason\nThe Raiders' preseason opponents and schedule were released on April 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season, Schedule and results\nOn January 11, the NFL announced that the Raiders will play host to the Seattle Seahawks in a London Game in London, England. The game site, originally slated for Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, was later moved to Wembley Stadium. This marked the fourth time in five seasons in which the Raiders played a game outside the United States, as well as their second visit to London (the other being 2014).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Los Angeles Rams\nDuring the game, tight end Jared Cook set a new franchise record for most receiving yards in a game by a Raiders tight end finishing the night with 180 yards on nine catches. The previous record was held by Todd Christensen with 173 yards on November 20, 1986 against the San Diego Chargers. He was one of only six tight ends to ever record over 180 yards receiving since 1999. Quarterback Derek Carr threw three interceptions in a game for his second time in his career, the previous time was against the Kansas City Chiefs in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 89], "content_span": [90, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281517-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nThis game was the first game for the Raiders without wide receiver Amari Cooper, as the Dallas Cowboys traded their 2019 1st round draft pick in exchange for Cooper the week before the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 91], "content_span": [92, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281518-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oakland mayoral election\nThe 2018 Oakland mayoral election was held on November 6, 2018 to elect the mayor of Oakland, California. Incumbent mayor Libby Schaaf was reelected. The election was held using instant-runoff voting, but Schaaf received a majority of votes in the first round, so no additional rounds were necessary. Municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281519-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oaxaca earthquake\nThe 2018 Oaxaca earthquake occurred on February 16, 2018 at 17:39 local time (23:39 UTC) in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains in Oaxaca state in Southern Mexico. It had a magnitude of 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale and a maximum felt intensity of VII (very strong) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The hypocenter was located at a depth of 24.6\u00a0km and approximately 37\u00a0km northeast of Pinotepa de Don Luis. There were only two reports of injuries from the earthquake, but later a military helicopter surveying the damage crashed and killed 14 people. There were also 15 people injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281519-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oaxaca earthquake, Tectonic summary\nOaxaca lies on the destructive plate boundary where the Cocos Plate is being subducted beneath the North American Plate. In the region of this earthquake, the Cocos Plate moves approximately northeastward at a rate of 60\u00a0mm/yr. The earthquake occurred as a result of thrust faulting at a shallow depth. The depth and focal mechanism solutions of the event are consistent with its occurrence on the subduction zone interface between these plates, approximately 90\u00a0km northeast of the Middle America Trench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281519-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oaxaca earthquake, Tectonic summary\nHistorically, several significant earthquakes have occurred along the southern coast of Mexico. In 1932, a M 8.4 megathrust earthquake struck in the region of Jalisco, several hundred kilometers to the northwest of the Oaxaca event. On October 9, 1995, a M 8.0 earthquake struck in the Colima-Jalisco region, resulting in at least 49 fatalities and leaving 1,000 people homeless. The deadliest nearby earthquake occurred on September 19, 1985, in the Michoac\u00e1n region 500\u00a0km to the northwest of the February 16th event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281519-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Oaxaca earthquake, Tectonic summary\nThis M 8.0 earthquake resulted in at least 9,500 fatalities, injured about 30,000 people, and left 100,000 people homeless. In 2003, a M 7.6 earthquake in Colima, Mexico, resulted in 29 fatalities, destroyed more than 2,000 homes and left more than 10,000 people homeless. In March 2012, a M 7.4 earthquake 60\u00a0km to the northwest of the February 16, 2018 event killed 2 and injured 11 in the Oaxaca region. The hypocenter of the M 8.2 earthquake off the shore of Chiapas in September 2017 was located 440\u00a0km southwest of this earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281519-0002-0002", "contents": "2018 Oaxaca earthquake, Tectonic summary\nThe Chiapas event caused at least 78 fatalities and 250 injuries in Oaxaca, and a further 16 deaths in Chiapas. Eleven days later, a M 7.1 earthquake struck closer to Mexico City, 230\u00a0km northeast of today\u2019s earthquake, resulting in over 300 fatalities and significant damage in Mexico City and the surrounding region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281519-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oaxaca earthquake, Tectonic summary\nA second quake, registering 5.9, struck Oaxaca on February 19, 2018, around 12:57 AM local time. The quake, believed to be an aftershock, had an epicenter about 69 miles southwest of Oaxaca City; its impact was registered in Mexico City. No deaths were reported from this quake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281519-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oaxaca earthquake, Helicopter crash\nAlejandro Murat Hinojosa, the Governor of Oaxaca, was in Tuxtepec at the time the earthquake struck and immediately left to survey the damage in Pinotepa Nacional with Alfonso Navarrete Prida, who had become the Secretary of the Interior the month before. The Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk military helicopter in which Murat and Navarrete, along with the state head of civil protection and one other person, were traveling, crashed in Santiago Jamiltepec while attempting to land nearby when the pilot lost control of the aircraft. The helicopter crashed on two cars that were parked in a field, where a family was spending the night outside after the earthquake. A total of 14 people, all of them on the ground, were killed, and 15 others were injured. All four people on board the helicopter survived unharmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 850]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281520-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Badminton Championships\nThe XIII 2018 Oceania Badminton Championships is the continental badminton championships in Oceania sanctioned by the Badminton Oceania, and Badminton World Federation. This championship is organized by Badminton New Zealand, and will be the 13th edition of the Oceania Badminton Championships. It is being held in Hamilton, New Zealand from 6 to 11 February 2018. The team event will start on 6 February, and will be the qualification stage for the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals to be played in Thailand, while the individual event will start on February 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281520-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Badminton Championships, Venue\nThe tournament will be held at the Eastlink Badminton Stadium, Hamilton East, Hamilton, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281520-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Badminton Championships, Individual event\nThe individual event of the 2018 Oceania Badminton Championships were held from 8 to 11 February, at the Eastlink Badminton Stadium, in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand. Australia had secured four titles in the women's singles and three doubles event, with Sawan Serasinghe and Setyana Mapasa winning two doubles titles each, and the men's singles title goes to New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281520-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Badminton Championships, Individual event\nThe three doubles event present all the Australian pair. Serasinghe who was teamed-up with Matthew Chau beat their compatriot Robin Middleton and Ross Smith in the final with the score 21\u201317, 23\u201321. Mapasa claimed the women's doubles title after beat Renuga Veeran and Leanne Choo with the score 21\u201314, 22\u201320. In the mixed doubles event Mapasa and Serasinghe again became the champion defeat Chau and Choo 21\u201319, 21\u201318. The women's singles final also present the Australian players, and Wendy Chen claimed the title after beat Louisa Ma 21\u20137, 21\u201314. Abhinav Manota of New Zealand broke the Australian stranglehold on the Oceania championships by winning the men's singles gold medal. Manota beat Remi Rossi of Tahiti in the straight games 21\u201312, 21\u201314 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281520-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Badminton Championships, Team event\nThe 2018 Oceania Team Championships officially crowns the best male and female national teams in Oceania and at the same time works as the qualification event towards the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals. 4 teams both in the men's and women's team have entered the tournament. Australia men's and women's team were clinched the Oceania Team titles, and qualified for the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals, after topping the standings both in the men's and women's team. New Zealand men's and women's team were placing second both in the men's and women's team, while Tahiti men's team and Fiji women's team were in the third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281520-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Badminton Championships, Team event, Seeds\nThe seeding, which is based on BWF world rankings, for both the men's and women's competition is the same:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281521-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Judo Championships\nThe 2018 Oceania Judo Championships was the ninth edition of the Oceania Judo Championships, organised by the Oceania Judo Union. It took place in Noum\u00e9a, New Caledonia from 6\u20138 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281521-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Judo Championships, Participating nations\nThere was a total of 59 participants from 11 nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281522-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Men's Handball Challenge Trophy\nThe 2018 Men's Oceania Handball Challenge Trophy is to be held at the L'Arene du Sud, New Caledonia between 10 and 15 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281522-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Men's Handball Challenge Trophy\nThis is the sixth ever championship. The competition participants were defending champions Tahiti, Australia, Cook Islands, New Zealand, hosts New Caledonia and Fiji.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281522-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Men's Handball Challenge Trophy\nAustralia won their fourth title beating defending champions Tahiti. Hosts New Caledonia were third followed by New Zealand, Fiji and the Cook Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281523-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship\nThe 2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20s, was the fourth edition of the Oceania Rugby Junior Championship. Tonga played in the tournament for the first time, replacing Samoa from the previous year and joining Fiji, New Zealand and hosts Australia at Bond University on the Gold Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281523-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship\nThe Oceania Championship was played over three rounds in nine days, with New Zealand defeating Australia by 43\u201328 in the last match of the round-robin tournament to take the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281523-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship, Teams\nThe teams for the 2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20 tournaments were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281523-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship, Trophy\nThe Oceania Trophy was played at Lotopa, near Apia in Samoa, as a two-match series between Samoa and Tonga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281523-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship, Trophy, Standings\nClassification:Teams standings are calculated as follows:Most log points accumulated from all matchesMost log points accumulated in matches between tied teamsHighest difference between points scored for and against accumulated from all matchesMost points scored accumulated from all matches", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281524-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Sevens Championship\nThe 2018 Oceania Sevens Championship was the eleventh Oceania Sevens in men's rugby sevens. It was held at ANZ Stadium in Suva, Fiji on 9\u201310 November. Host nation Fiji won the tournament, defeating New Zealand by 17\u201312 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281524-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Sevens Championship\nTonga finished fifth and, as the highest-placed side without core status on the World Rugby Sevens Series, won berths to the Sydney Sevens and Hamilton Sevens for 2019. Tonga also joined the sixth-placed Cook Islands as Oceania's representatives for the 2019 Hong Kong Sevens qualifying tournament for the 2020 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281524-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Sevens Championship, Teams\nParticipating nations for the 2018 tournament was almost the same as the previous year with Niue replacing American Samoa in the teams being entered:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281524-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Sevens Championship, Pool stage\nThe draw for the pool stage was done by a random order with the top four seeds being set as the top team in each of the four pools with the remaining spots in the draw being done by bands (5-8th, 9-12th).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281525-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Swimming Championships\nThe 2018 Oceania Swimming Championships was held from 25 to 30 June 2018 at the Taurama Aquatic Centre in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. It was the twelfth edition of the biennial championships as well as the first to be held in Port Moresby. The tournament featured competition in swimming and open water swimming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281525-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Swimming Championships, Participating nations\nA total of sixteen teams have confirmed participation for the 2018 Oceania Swimming Championships:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281526-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Table Tennis Championships\nThe 2018 Oceania Table Tennis Championships was held in Gold Coast, Australia, from 15\u201319 March 2018. The competition took place in two venues: the Gold Coast Table Tennis Association, and Oxenford Studios, which was also used as the venue for the table tennis events at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281526-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Table Tennis Championships, Schedule\nThe competition featured 14 events: seven for senior players and seven for under-21 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281526-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Table Tennis Championships, Schedule\nThe schedule below was released by the International Table Tennis Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281527-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship\nThe 2018 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship was the eighth Oceania Women's Sevens tournament. It was held in Suva, Fiji on 9\u201310 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281527-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship\nAustralia won the tournament by defeating defending champions New Zealand in a thrilling final, 14-10. While host Fiji beat Papua New Guinea for third place. Papua New Guinea as the highest ranked non-core team for the 2018\u201319 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series qualified for the 2019 Sydney Women's Sevens and 2019 Hong Kong Women's Sevens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281528-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Youth Handball Championship\nThe 2018 Men's Oceania Youth Handball Championship is to be held at the L'Arene du Sud, New Caledonia between 10 - 15 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281528-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Youth Handball Championship\nThis is the first championship since 2011. The competition participants were defending champions New Zealand, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, hosts New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281528-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Youth Handball Championship\nNew Zealand successfully defended their title, beating out New Caledonia for first place. Third was Australia followed by Fiji, Papua New Guinea and The Cook Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281529-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (boys' field hockey)\nThe 2018 Oceania Youth Olympic Games Qualifier for boys' field hockey was held from the 25 to 28 April 2018 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The tournament also served as a direct qualifier for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, with the winner, runner-up and third placed team qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281529-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (boys' field hockey), Format\nThe four teams will each play each other two times, having played six games in total. The top two teams advance to the final, while the bottom two teams play for the third and fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 71], "content_span": [72, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281530-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (girls' field hockey)\nThe 2018 Oceania Youth Olympic Games Qualifier for girls' field hockey was held from 25 to 28 April 2018 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The tournament also served as a direct qualifier for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, with the winner and runner-up qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281530-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oceania Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (girls' field hockey), Format\nThe four teams will each play each other two times, having played six games in total. The top two teams advance to the final, while the bottom two teams play for the third and fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 72], "content_span": [73, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281531-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Odds BK season\nOdds Ballklubb, commonly known as Odd, is a Norwegian football club from Skien. Originally the football section of a multi-sports club, founded in 1894 nine years after the club's founding. All other sports than football were discontinued and the club became dedicated to football only. Odd plays in the Norwegian top division, Tippeligaen, and holds the record winning the Norwegian Football Cup the most times, the last coming in 2000. The club was known as Odd Grenland between 1994 and 2012. During the 2018 season the club will be participating in the Eliteserien and NM Cupen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281531-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Odds BK season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281531-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Odds BK season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281531-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Odds BK season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281531-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Odds BK season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281531-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Odds BK season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281532-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open\nThe 2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the thirteenth (ATP) and sixteenth (ITF) editions of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on 13\u201319 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281532-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281532-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281532-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281532-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281533-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJames Cerretani and Neal Skupski were the defending champions but only Skupski chose to defend his title, partnering Luke Bambridge. Skupski successfully defended his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281533-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBambridge and Skupski won the title after defeating Marc Polmans and Max Purcell 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20136] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281534-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nCedrik-Marcel Stebe was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281534-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nDan Evans won the title after defeating Jason Kubler 4\u20136, 7\u20135, 7\u20136(7\u20133) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281535-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nJessica Moore and Jocelyn Rae were the defending champions, however Rae retired from professional tennis in December 2017, while Moore decided not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281535-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nDesirae Krawczyk and Giuliana Olmos won the title, defeating Kateryna Kozlova and Arantxa Rus in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281536-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nMaryna Zanevska was the defending champion, but lost to Nao Hibino in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281536-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nMisaki Doi won the title after defeating Heather Watson 6\u20137(4\u20137), 6\u20131, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281537-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship was the 121st edition of Offaly GAA's premier gaelic football competition for senior graded clubs in County Offaly, Ireland. Eight teams compete, with the winner representing Offaly in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281537-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship\nThe championship starts a league stage and progresses to a knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281537-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship\nRhode were the defending champions after they defeated Clara in the previous years final, and they successfully defended their title to claim a \"3-in-a-row\" when defeating Ferbane in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281537-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship\nThis was Durrow's return to the senior grade after claiming the 2017 Offaly Senior 'B' Football Championship title, however they were relegated back to Senior 'B' for 2019 when suffering relegation at the hands of Durrow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281537-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281537-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship, League Phase\nThe top two in the group go directly to the semi final. The third through sixth place teams will contest the quarter finals. The two bottom finishers will qualify for the Relegation Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281537-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship, Relegation Play Off\nThe two bottom placed teams from each group play off in the relegation final with the loser relegated to the 2019 Senior 'B' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281538-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Attorney General election\nThe 2018 Ohio Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281538-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Attorney General election\nIncumbent Attorney General Mike DeWine was term-limited and ran for governor. Republican nominee and Ohio State Auditor Dave Yost defeated Democratic nominee and former US Attorney Steve Dettelbach in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281538-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Attorney General election, Republican primary\nDave Yost won the Republican primary unopposed on May 8, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281538-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Attorney General election, Democratic primary\nSteve Dettelbach won the Democratic primary unopposed on May 8, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281538-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Attorney General election, General election, Results\nDave Yost won the general election by a 4.4% margin of victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281539-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Bobcats football team\nThe 2018 Ohio Bobcats football team represented Ohio University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by 14th-year head coach Frank Solich and played their home games at Peden Stadium in Athens, Ohio as members of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 9\u20134, 6\u20132 in MAC play to finish in a tie for second place in the East division. They were invited to the Frisco Bowl where they defeated San Diego State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281539-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Bobcats football team, Previous season\nThe Bobcats finished the 2017 season 9\u20134, 5\u20133 in MAC play to finish in second play in the East Division. They received an invitation to the Bahamas Bowl where they defeated UAB.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281539-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Bobcats football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe MAC released their preseason media poll on July 24, 2018, with the Bobcats predicted to finish as champions of the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281540-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio House of Representatives election\nAn election was held on November 6, 2018 to elect all 99 members to Ohio's House of Representatives. The election coincided with the elections for other offices, including U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, state governor and state senate. The primary election was held on May 8, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281540-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio House of Representatives election\nRepublicans retained a supermajority in the House despite a net loss of four seats, winning 62 seats compared to 37 seats for the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281540-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio House of Representatives election, Results by district, Detailed results\nResults of the 2018 Ohio House of Representatives election by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281541-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Machine season\nThe 2018 Ohio Machine season is the seventh season for the Ohio Machine of Major League Lacrosse. The reigning champion Machine come into the year looking to repeat as Steinfeld Cup Champions. They would be the first team since the Chesapeake Bayhawks in 2012 and 2013 to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281541-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Machine season\nThe Machine opened their title defense on April 29 with a historic output from Marcus Holman, who scored a league record 11 goals in a 25-13 victory over the New York Lizards. The team took a hard fall, though, losing ten of their last 11 games and finishing with a league-worst 3-11 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281542-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Senate election\nThe 2018 Ohio Senate election was held on November 6, 2018, with the primary election held on May 8, 2018. Ohio voters elected state senators in the 17 odd-numbered Ohio Senate districts. State senators elected in 2018 are eligible to serve a four-year term beginning January 2019 and ending December 2022. These elections coincided with elections for Ohio Governor, the Ohio House, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and other statewide offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281542-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Senate election\nDespite a moderate statewide swing that allowed the Democrats to win the popular vote, the Republicans retained their supermajority of 24 seats in the Senate, compared to the Democrats' 9 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281543-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Buckeyes played their home games at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. This was the Buckeyes' 129th overall season and 106th as a member of the Big Ten Conference. They were led by head coach Urban Meyer in his seventh and final season at Ohio State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281543-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nShortly before the season, head coach Urban Meyer was placed on administrative leave due to allegations that he was aware of domestic violence incidents involving former wide receivers coach Zach Smith. Ryan Day was named acting head coach. After a lengthy investigation, Meyer was suspended for three games for poor handling of the situation. Day acted as the head coach during Meyer's suspension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281543-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe Buckeyes won each of their three games under Ryan Day to open the season, including a victory over then-No. 15 TCU in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. After Urban Meyer's return, Ohio State won their following four games, including a close win on the road over then-No. 9 Penn State. Ohio State rose to second in the AP Poll, but suffered a devastating loss on the road to Purdue, 49\u201320. The Buckeyes won their remaining regular season games, however, and secured a spot in the 2018 Big Ten Football Championship Game after defeating rival No. 4 Michigan 62\u201339.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281543-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nOhio State defeated West Division champion Northwestern in that game convincingly, 45\u201324, but in the final College Football Playoff rankings of the year, the Buckeyes were ranked sixth, leaving them just outside the playoff for the second consecutive year. The team was invited to the Rose Bowl to play Pac-12 Conference champion Washington. In the weeks before the game, Urban Meyer announced that he would retire at the end of the season, and the Rose Bowl would be his final game as head coach. The Buckeyes won the game to finish the year at 13\u20131, and were ranked third in the final polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281543-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe team was led offensively by quarterback Dwayne Haskins, who led FBS with 4,831 passing yards and 50 passing touchdowns, both of which set school records by wide margins. Haskins was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year and was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, finishing in third. On the ground, running backs J. K. Dobbins and Mike Weber combined for over 2,000 yards rushing. Wide receiver Parris Campbell led the team with 1,063 receiving yards and a Big Ten-leading 12 receiving touchdowns. Defensive star and pre-season All-American lineman Nick Bosa suffered a groin injury during the game against TCU. He underwent surgery and elected not to return to the team, instead focusing on recovering for the 2019 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281543-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Previous season\nThe Buckeyes finished the 2017 season 12\u20132, 8\u20131 in Big Ten play to win the East division. They defeated Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship 27\u201321. However, despite an 11\u20132 record, they failed to receive an invitation to the College Football Playoff. Instead, they received a bid to the Cotton Bowl Classic where they defeated USC 24\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281543-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Recruiting, Recruiting class\nThe Buckeyes signed a total of 26 recruits. The class was rated as the second best in the country behind Georgia by the 247Sports Composite, and the best class in the Big Ten Conference. Headlining the class were consensus five star recruits Nicholas Petit-Frere (offensive tackle), Taron Vincent (defensive tackle), and Tyreke Johnson (safety).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281543-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, at Maryland\nat Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium \u2022 College Park, Maryland", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281543-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Awards and honors\n*The NCAA and Ohio State only recognize the AP, AFCA, FWAA, Sporting News and WCFF All-American teams to determine if a player is a Consensus or Unanimous All-American. To be named a Consensus All-American, a player must be named first team in three polls and to be Unanimous, they must be named first team in all five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281544-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament will be held from May 22\u201327. The top eight regular season finishers met in the double-elimination tournament, held at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama. As tournament champion, Morehead State earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament Among current members, Austin Peay has won the most championships, with six, while Belmont (joined in 2012), SIU Edwardsville (joined in 2008),and Tennessee\u2013Martin (joined in 1992) have never won championships. The Tournament began in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281544-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format\nThe top eight regular season finishers will be seeded by conference winning percentage. After a play-in round between the bottom two seeds, the remaining seven teams will play a double-elimination tournament, with the top seed receiving a single bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 67], "content_span": [68, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281545-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament that completed the 2017\u201318 season in the Ohio Valley Conference. The tournament was held February 28 through March 3, 2018 at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281545-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nRegular-season champion Murray State defeated Belmont in the championship game to win the tournament and received conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281545-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nOnly the top eight teams in the conference qualified for the Tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the division and conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds received double byes to the semifinals under the merit-based format. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds received a single bye to the quarterfinals. records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 62], "content_span": [63, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281545-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nSoutheast Missouri State, despite finishing in seventh place, was ineligible for the tournament due to Academic Progress Rate violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 62], "content_span": [63, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281546-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament ended the 2017\u201318 season of Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball. The tournament was held February 28\u2013March 3 at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. Regular-season champion Belmont won the tournament and with it the OVC's automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281546-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Format\nThe OVC women's tournament is a traditional single-elimination tournament featuring the top eight teams in the conference regular-season standings. This differs from the format used in the OVC men's tournament; while that tournament also involves only eight of the league's 12 members, it has a radically different format, consisting of two stepladder brackets that produce the tournament finalists. The women's tournament is seeded so that the #8 seed faces the #1 seed in the first round, #7 faces #2, and so on. There is no reseeding, so if the #8 team were to defeat the #1 seed it would continue in the tournament playing the team which would have faced the #1 seed in the subsequent round (winner of #4 vs. #5).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281547-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Ohio Valley Conference held from October 26 through November 4, 2018. The first round and quarterfinals of the tournament were held at campus sites hosted by the #3 and #4 seeds, while the semifinals and final took place at Skyhawk Soccer Field in Martin, Tennessee. The eight-team single-elimination tournament consisted of four rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Murray State Racers were the defending champions and successfully defended their title with a 2\u20131 win over the Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks in the final. The conference tournament title was the fourth for the Murray State women's soccer program and the third for head coach Jeremy Groves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281548-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio elections\nThe Ohio general elections, 2018, were held on November 6, 2018, throughout Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281548-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio elections, Federal, Senate\nDemocratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown\u2014the only elected Democratic statewide officeholder in Ohio as of July 2017\u2014won re-election to a third term, defeating Republican U.S. Representative Jim Renacci in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281548-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio elections, Federal, House of Representatives\nAll of Ohio's 16 seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281548-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio elections, State, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nIncumbent Republican governor John Kasich and Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor are term-limited and cannot run for a third consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281548-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio elections, State, Attorney General\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine is term-limited and cannot run for a third term as attorney general. DeWine instead ran for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281548-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio elections, State, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted is term-limited and cannot run for a third term as secretary of state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281548-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio elections, State, Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican State Treasurer Josh Mandel is term-limited and cannot run for a third term as treasurer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281548-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio elections, State, Auditor\nIncumbent Republican State Auditor Dave Yost is term-limited and cannot run for a third term as auditor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281548-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio elections, General Assembly, Senate\nThe 17 odd-numbered districts out of 33 seats in the Ohio Senate are up for election in 2018. Nine of these seats are currently held by Republicans, seven are held by Democrats, and one is vacant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281548-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio elections, General Assembly, House of Representatives\nAll 99 seats in the Ohio House of Representatives are up for election in 2018. 65 of these seats are currently held by Republicans, 33 are held by Democrats, and one seat is vacant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281548-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio elections, Judiciary, Supreme Court\nWhile judicial races in Ohio are technically non-partisan (party affiliations are not listed on the ballot), candidates run in party primaries. Terms are six years, and justices may run for re-election an unlimited number of times before their 70th birthday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281548-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio elections, Judiciary, Court of Appeals\nThe Ohio District Courts of Appeals consists of 69 judges in 12 districts. Judges serve a 6-year term. Approximately 1/3 of these positions were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281549-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Ohio gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next governor of Ohio, concurrently with the election of Ohio's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various Ohio and local elections. Incumbent Republican Governor John Kasich could not seek reelection as Ohio governors are limited to two terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281549-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio gubernatorial election\nRepublicans nominated Ohio Attorney General and former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine, while Democrats nominated former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director and former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray. This was the second contest between DeWine and Cordray, following the 2010 attorney general election, which DeWine won, 47.5% to 46.3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281549-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio gubernatorial election\nIn 2018, DeWine defeated Cordray 50.4% to 46.7%, in what was considered a minor upset. Despite Cordray's loss, he became the first Democratic gubernatorial candidate to win Cincinnati's Hamilton County since Dick Celeste in 1982. Likewise, DeWine became the first Republican to win in the historically Democratic Monroe County in a gubernatorial election since 2002 as the county took a sharp turn to the right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281550-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio's 12th congressional district special election\nA special election for Ohio's 12th congressional district was held August 7, 2018, following the resignation of Republican U.S. Representative Pat Tiberi. The Republican Party nominated State Senator Troy Balderson for the seat while the Democratic Party nominated Franklin County Recorder Danny O'Connor. Balderson led O'Connor in preliminary results; however, the race was not officially called on election night. Counting of outstanding ballots began on August 18 and was completed on August 24. The outstanding ballots did not change the margin enough to trigger an automatic recount, so Balderson was declared the winner on August 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281550-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio's 12th congressional district special election, Background\nOn October 19, 2017, nine-term incumbent Republican Representative Pat Tiberi announced that he would leave office before January 31, 2018, in order to lead the Ohio Business Roundtable. On January 3, 2018, he announced that he would officially resign January 15. On January 5, Ohio Governor John Kasich set the primaries for the special election for May 8, and the general election for August 7. The winner of this special election would serve for five months until January 2019, unless also elected in the regularly scheduled November general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281550-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio's 12th congressional district special election, Background\nOhio's 12th congressional district at the time was located in the central portion of the state and includes Delaware, Licking, and Morrow counties with the addition of portions of Franklin, Marion, Muskingum, and Richland counties. The district had been in Republican hands for all but one term since 1939, and without interruption since 1983.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281550-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ohio's 12th congressional district special election, General election, Results\nO'Connor dominated the district's portion of Franklin County, home to the largest share of the district's population. However, he could not overcome a 4,800-vote deficit in normally heavily Republican Delaware County, the largest whole county in the district. Still, this was the closest that a Democrat had come to winning the district since 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 83], "content_span": [84, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281551-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Okayama GT 300km\nThe 2018 Okayama GT 300km was the first round of the 2018 Super GT Series. It was held at the Okayama International Circuit in Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281551-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Okayama GT 300km\nThe GT500 category was won by Koudai Tsukakoshi and Takashi Kogure in the #17 Real Racing Honda NSX-GT, whilst Yuhki Nakayama and Takashi Kobayashi won the GT300 category in the #18 Team UpGarage Toyota 86.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281551-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Okayama GT 300km, Race Report, Qualifying\nRain affected both qualifying sessions for the GT500 and GT300 categories, which shuffled the grid owing to changing track conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281551-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Okayama GT 300km, Race Report, Qualifying, GT500\nIn a what was tumultuous qualifying session, the #17 Real Racing outfit piloted by Koudai Tsukakoshi and Takashi Kogure achieved pole position, after the #24 Kond\u014d Racing Nissan GT-R of Mitsunori Takaboshi and Jo\u00e3o Paulo de Oliveira had set the pace in the first qualifying session. 2009 Formula One World Champion Jenson Button qualified fifth on his Super GT debut, whilst Swede Felix Rosenqvist qualified in fourth place, cementing a solid run in his debut. One of the biggest shocks to come out of qualifying was the defending champions Ry\u014d Hirakawa and Nick Cassidy failing to get into the second part of qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281551-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Okayama GT 300km, Race Report, Qualifying, GT300\nThe qualifying session for the GT300 category was just as hectic. The Toyota 86 MC entries in the GT300 class appeared to be the pace setters throughout the weekend, with the #25 Tsuchiya Engineering entry of Takamitsu Matsui and Sho Tsuboi set the initial pace in Q1 with a time of 1:25.232. But, it was ultimately the #88 JLOC Lamborghini Hurac\u00e1n GT3 of Marco Mapelli and Kazuki Hiramine took the pole with a time of 1:33.925 in Q2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281552-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Okinawa gubernatorial election\nA gubernatorial election was held on 30 September 2018 to elect the next Governor of Okinawa. As there is no term limits in Japan, incumbent Governor Takeshi Onaga was eligible for re-election before his death in August 2018. The election was originally scheduled to be held on 9 December 2018, but this was brought forward after Onaga's untimely death. Onaga's deputy, Kiichiro Jahana temporarily assumed his post for three days until being replaced as interim governor by Moritake Tomikawa. This was the first gubernatorial election in Okinawa since the voting age was lowered to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281552-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Okinawa gubernatorial election\nThe relocation of the US air base in Ginowan to Nago was a major issue in the race. The campaign period ran from 13 September until election day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281552-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Okinawa gubernatorial election\nThe election was won by Denny Tamaki. Tamaki, like Onaga, wants a fundamental reduction of the U.S. presence in Okinawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281552-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Okinawa gubernatorial election, Campaign\nSimilar to the previous gubernatorial election, the issue of the relocation of the US air base in Ginowan to Nago dominated the campaign. The two main candidates were on opposing camps on the issue with Tamaki opposing any relocation within the prefecture and Sakima supporting the relocation. Tamaki made the relocation issue the main plank of his campaign. On the other hand, Sakima downplayed the relocation issue and instead focused on the local economy in his pitch. Voters that cited the base relocation as their most important issue mostly supported Tamaki, while those more concerned with the economy supported Sakima.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281552-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Okinawa gubernatorial election, Results\nThe exit poll on election night indicated a large victory for Tamaki and the NHK called the election for Tamaki early during the count. He gained 396,632 votes, the most votes ever obtained by a candidate in an Okinawa-wide election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281553-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma City mayoral election\nThe 2018 Oklahoma City mayoral election took place on February 13, 2018, to elect the Mayor of Oklahoma City. The election was won by David Holt. Since Holt won a majority in the initial round of the election, a runoff was not required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281553-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma City mayoral election\nIncumbent mayor Mick Cornett did not seek a fifth term as mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281554-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Question 788\nOklahoma Question 788, the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Legalization Initiative, was a 2018 ballot measure on the June 26 ballot (alongside primaries for various statewide offices) to legalize medical marijuana in the state of Oklahoma. It passed with over 56% \"yes\" votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281554-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Question 788, Contents\nThis measure amends the Oklahoma State Statutes. A yes vote legalizes the licensed use, sale, and growth of marijuana in Oklahoma for medicinal purposes. A license is required for use and possession of marijuana for medicinal purposes and must be approved by an Oklahoma Board Certified Physician.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281554-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Question 788, Contents\nThe State Department of Health will issue medical marijuana licenses if the applicant is eighteen years of age and an Oklahoma resident. A special exception will be granted to an applicant under the age of eighteen, however these applications must be signed by two physicians and a parent or legal guardian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281554-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Question 788, Contents\nThe Department will also issue seller, grower, packaging, transportation, research and caregiver licenses. Individual and retail businesses must meet minimal requirements to be licensed to sell marijuana to licensees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281554-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Question 788, Contents\nThe punishment for unlicensed possession of permitted amounts of marijuana for individuals who can state a medical condition is a fine not exceeding four hundred dollars. Fees and zoning restrictions are established. A seven percent state tax is imposed on medical marijuana sales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281554-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Question 788, Contents\nA \"YES\" vote is a vote in favor of this measure. A \"NO\" vote is a vote against this measure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281555-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team represents the University of Oklahoma in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the 124th season for the Oklahoma Sooners. The team is led by Lincoln Riley, who is in his second year as head coach. They play their home games at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. They are a charter member of the Big 12 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281555-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nConference play began with a 37\u201327 win against Iowa State in Ames, Iowa and ended with a 59\u201356 win against West Virginia in Morgantown, West Virginia. Oklahoma finished conference play with the best record in the conference with an 8\u20131 record. They went on to play Texas in the 2018 Big 12 Championship Game which they won 39\u201327 to win their twelfth, and fourth consecutive, Big 12 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281555-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nIn the final College Football Playoff rankings of the season, Oklahoma was ranked fourth, earning them a spot in the 2018 Orange Bowl, in a national semi-final game against first-seeded Alabama. This was Oklahoma's second consecutive and third overall CFP bid. The Sooners lost to the Crimson Tide, 34\u201345, marking the sixth consecutive loss for the school in CFP semi-finals or BCS national championship games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281555-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nSooners quarterback Kyler Murray, following in the wake of Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield, earned several national honors himself, including winning the school's second consecutive and seventh overall Heisman Trophy. This was the first time that quarterbacks from the same school won the award in back to back seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281555-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Previous season\nThe Sooners finished the season 12\u20132, 8\u20131 in Big 12 play. Finishing with the best record in conference play the Sooners clinched a berth in the conference championship game where they defeated TCU 41\u201317 to win their 11th Big 12 Championship. Oklahoma was selected as the second seed to play in the 2017 College Football playoff against third seed Georgia Bulldogs in the 2018 Rose Bowl, which ended up being a 48\u201354 loss in double overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281555-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll\nThe Big 12 media poll was released on July 12, 2018 with the Sooners predicted to win the Big 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281555-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Schedule\nOklahoma announced its 2018 football schedule on October 26, 2017. The 2018 schedule consists of 7 home games, 4 away games and 1 neutral-site game in the regular season. The Sooners will host three non-conference games against FAU, UCLA and Army. Oklahoma will host Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and travel to Iowa State, TCU, Texas Tech, West Virginia in regular conference play. Oklahoma will play Texas in Dallas, Texas at the Cotton Bowl Stadium on October 6 in the Red River Showdown, the 113th game played in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281555-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nKansas State has a week off between the previous win against Oklahoma State and their next game against Oklahoma. Oklahoma's new defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill was able to simplify the defensive plan which helped turn out good results against Texas Christian in the previous week with a Sooner victory 52-27. K-State's Coach Snyder commented: \"They're very much the same football team that they were on the defensive side of the ball, on both sides actually, but certainly on the defensive side. I saw some tweaks, a few things, that you might consider to be changes -- don't know if they're changes or are just there and hadn't surfaced previously. But by and large, it's the same defense.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281555-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nWhen the game rolled around, both the offense and the defense for Oklahoma performed to control the game from start to finish, with a final score of 51-14 and an Oklahoma win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281556-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe 2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cowboys played their home games at the Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma and competed in the Big 12 Conference. They were led by 14th-year head coach Mike Gundy. They finished the season 7\u20136, 3\u20136 in Big 12 play to finish tied for seventh. They were invited to the Liberty Bowl where they defeated #24 Missouri 38-33, ending the season with a 4-1 record against teams in the top 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281556-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, Previous season\nThe Cowboys finished the 2017 season 10\u20133, 6\u20133 in Big 12 play to finish in third place. They were invited to the Camping World Bowl where they defeated Virginia Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281556-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll\nThe Big 12 media poll was released on July 12, 2018, with the Cowboys predicted to finish in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281556-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nIowa State's Freshman Brock Purdy replaced Zeb Noland at quarterback and passed 18-for-23 for 318 yards and produced four touchdowns. He then ran for another 84 yards and another score. The final score was a loss for the Cowboys at 48-42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281556-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State\nThe previous week loss against Iowa State put extra pressure on the Cowboys to win coming into the game against Kansas State. Some of the issues the Cowboys bring in to the include lack of discipline, a disconnected defense, and a failure to force turnovers on defense. The 2018 loss to Iowa State had many similarities to the 2017 game between Oklahoma State and Kansas State that resulted in a K-State victory 45-40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281557-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2018. Republican businessman Kevin Stitt was elected the 28th governor of the state, succeeding fellow Republican Mary Fallin, who was term-limited. Primary elections occurred on June 26, 2018, with primary runoff elections having occurred on August 28, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281557-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election\nThe Democratic Party nominated former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. The Republican primary eliminated Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb, resulting in a runoff election between former Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett and businessman Kevin Stitt. On August 28, 2018, Stitt won the Republican primary runoff and became the Republican nominee for the office. The Libertarian primary also advanced to a runoff, with Chris Powell, a former chair of the Libertarian Party of Oklahoma, winning the nomination. This was also the first election in which the Libertarian Party has been on the ballot to participate in a gubernatorial election in Oklahoma, and the first time since 1986 that a candidate from the president's party was elected Governor of Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281557-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election\nA member of the Cherokee Nation, Stitt became the first tribally-enrolled Native American to serve as governor of a U.S. state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281557-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election, General election\nOklahoma determines ballot order by a random drawing which took place for this election cycle on July 12, resulting in the Libertarian Party being listed first, Republicans second, and Democrats third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281557-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election, General election, Results, County results\nStitt won 73 counties, while Edmondson won four. Stitt won 56 counties with at least 60% of the popular vote, 14 counties with at least 70%, and three counties \u2013 Beaver, Cimarron, and Ellis \u2013 with upwards of 80%. Stitt had the largest margin of victory in Cimarron with 73.09% more votes than Edmondson's 12.27%, the latter's lowest county performance in the election. The largest county per vote count won by Stitt was Tulsa County, home of Tulsa. Oklahoma County, of which Oklahoma City is county seat, was the only county where Stitt failed to acquire three out of every seven votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281557-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election, General election, Results, County results\nEdmondson won Muskogee by a single vote, and had an 11.84% margin of victory \u2013 his only margin of victory above 10% \u2013 in Oklahoma County. Edmondson won his four counties with typically narrower margins than that of Stitt, having missed 50% of the popular vote in Muskogee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281557-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election, General election, Results, County results\nPowell never came close to winning any counties, but won his highest percentage of votes in Washita County, with 4.97%", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections\nThe 2018 general election was held in the U.S. state of Oklahoma on November 6, 2018. All of Oklahoma's executive officers were up for election as well as the state's five seats in the United States House of Representatives, half of the 48 seats in the Oklahoma Senate and all 101 seats in the Oklahoma House, and five offices in each of Oklahoma's 77 counties. Voter turnout was 42.5% of the eligible population, a 12.6% increase over the 2014 midterms but still the third lowest in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections\nDue to Gary Johnson's results in the 2016 presidential election, the Oklahoma Libertarian Party had ballot status to run candidates in 2018. This was the first time an alternative party has been able to participate in mid-term elections in the state since 1998. Five Independents, led in a loosely coordinated effort by former Oklahoma Democratic Party chair Ivan Holmes, were candidates for statewide executive offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections\nThe ballot order was determined by random drawing for placement of candidates by party. Results of the drawing on July 12 were that Libertarian candidates would be placed first, Republicans second, and Democrats third. By statute, Independents are always listed after partisan candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor Mary Fallin was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, Lieutenant governor\nIn Oklahoma, the governor and lieutenant governor are elected separately. Incumbent Republican lieutenant governor Todd Lamb was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, Attorney general\nIncumbent Republican attorney general Scott Pruitt was term-limited and could not run for a third term. Pruitt resigned on February 17, 2017, upon being confirmed as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican State Treasurer Ken A. Miller is term-limited and cannot run for a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, State Auditor and Inspector\nIncumbent Republican State Auditor and Inspector Gary Jones is term-limited and cannot run for a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, Commissioner of Insurance\nIncumbent Republican Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak was term-limited and could not run for a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, Commissioner of Labor\nRepublican labor commissioner Mark Costello, who was re-elected to a second term in 2014, was fatally stabbed on August 23, 2015. Attorney General Scott Pruitt's chief of staff Melissa Houston was appointed to serve for the remainder of the term, but pledged that she would not run for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, Corporation commissioner\nOne of the three seats on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission are up for election. Incumbent Republican commissioner Bob Anthony, the chairman of the commission, is eligible to run for re-election to a sixth six-year term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, Congress, United States House of Representatives\nOklahoma's five seats in the United States House of Representatives were be up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions\nState questions are ballot propositions to proposed either a legislative measure or an amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution. State questions are filed with the Oklahoma Secretary of State by either order of the legislature (termed a \"legislative referendum\") or directly by the people of Oklahoma (termed an \"initiative petition\"). The secretary of state assigns a number to the state question and notifies the State Election Board of the propositions submission. The governor, by executive proclamation, sets the election date for submission of the state questions to the people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions, State Question 788\nOklahoma State Question 788 was an initiative petition which sought to legalize the licensed use, sale, and growth of marijuana in Oklahoma for medical purposes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions, State Question 793\nOklahoma State Question 793 was an initiative petition which sought to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to allow optometrists to practice within a mercantile establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions, State Question 794\nOklahoma State Question 794 was a legislative referendum which sought to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to expand the rights of victims of crime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions, State Question 798\nOklahoma State Question 798 was a legislative referendum which sought to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to provide that the governor and lieutenant governor be jointly elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions, State Question 800\nOklahoma State Question 800 was a legislative referendum which sought to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to create a new trust fund consisting of a portion of all taxes collected against the extraction of oil and gas resources.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281558-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions, State Question 801\nOklahoma State Question 801 was a legislative referendum which sought to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to allow voters within a local school district to expand the permissible use of property taxes to include school operations rather than just for school buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281559-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike\nThe 2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike began on April 2, 2018, with teachers across the state walking out to protest low pay, overcrowded classrooms, and tax cuts that resulted in lower state-wide education spending. It was the first such action in Oklahoma since 1990. The OEA declared an end to the strike on April\u00a012 after an agreement to increase salaries and state funding for education was reached. The call to end the strike faced some objection from teachers and parents who do not believe that enough concessions were made by lawmakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281559-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike\nUnlike the similar action in West Virginia, the strike was not a \"wildcat\" strike, as it received endorsement from union leadership, albeit only after pressure from teachers. The protest occurred concurrent with similar protests in Arizona, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281559-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Background, State of public education in Oklahoma\nSince 2008, education spending per student in Oklahoma has fallen 28%. Due to the decrease in funding, twenty percent of schools run on four-day weeks, and many have eliminated art and language classes and shut down sports programs. Gains from last teachers' strike in Oklahoma, in 1990, which resulted in an agreement to lower class sizes, expand kindergarten programs, and increase teacher wages were later reversed due to budget cuts. The decline in funding and subsequent decline in the quality of public education has resulted in the expansion of charter schools in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281559-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Background, Plans for a Walkout\nIn 2016, State Question 779 was placed on the ballot, but failed to gain enough votes. SQ 779 propsed a one cent increase in sales tax and was estimated to bring in $615 million for education funding (including educator pay raises) in its first year. Failure of SQ 779 left many educators frustrated. Support for a strike began to build in early March of 2018, after another proposal (dubbed the \"Step Up\" plan) failed to pass the required 75% threshold for tax increases. The \"Step Up\" plan would have increased certain taxes and boosted teacher pay by $5,000. Both Democrats and Republicans voted for and against the bill. Some Democrats who voted \"no\" believed the plan did not go far enough to restore funding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281559-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Background, Plans for a Walkout\nPlans for a strike beginning on April 2 were first floated in March. On April 2, schools throughout Oklahoma were scheduled to take standardized tests; preventing these tests from taking place could potentially jeopardize millions in federal funds allocated to Oklahoma. After the Oklahoma legislature passed a tax increase to fund teach pay raises with the required 75% in each body on Friday, March 30, a strike beginning on the 2nd was announced. Thus, even before the walkout, teachers won greater school funding and salary increases, funded in part by increases in the cigarette tax, motor fuel tax, and the gross production tax on petroleum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281559-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Walkout\nThe strike lasted from April 2nd to April 12th. Strike leaders had called for the introduction of a capital gains tax to avoid a regressive tax, but the terms were nevertheless accepted. The legislature passed no further tax increases after the walkout began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281559-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Walkout, Salary demands\nPublic school teacher salaries in Oklahoma prior to the strike were the third lowest in the United States (after South Dakota and Mississippi), resulting in some teachers and staffers working second or third jobs. An initial offer of a $6,000 wage increase, ratified by the governor, was rejected, as the initial demands were for a $10,000 raise for teachers and a $1250 raise for support staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281559-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Reactions from state officials\nGovernor Mary Fallin likened teacher demands to \"...teenager(s) wanting a better car\". The quote was appropriated by teachers and used in chants during protests at the Oklahoma State Capitol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281559-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Reactions from state officials\nState representative Kevin McDugle, a Republican, indicated he would not pass any bill or measure to increase education spending due to the protests undertaken by the teachers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281559-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Results\nA survey in 2019 found that the pay raise obtained by the strike had lifted the State's teacher pay ranking to 34th in the nation, higher than the surrounding states of New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas, but still lower than Colorado or Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281559-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Results\nTen Republican representatives who were opposed to raising taxes to increase teacher salaries were up for re-election in 2018. Two, Scott McEachin and Chuck Strohm, were eliminated by other Republican nominees during the initial primary, while a further seven did not gain enough votes to win their primaries uncontested. These seven faced runoff elections in August 2018, and six lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281560-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Okolo Slovenska\nThe 2018 Okolo Slovenska (transl. Tour of Slovakia) was a five-stage men's professional road cycling race. The race is the 62nd edition of the Okolo Slovenska. It was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour. The race started in Poprad on 12 September and finish on 16 September in Galanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281560-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Okolo Slovenska\nThe Frenchmen rider Julian Alaphilippe of Quick-Step Floors won the general classification, by taking first place at the summit finish in \u0160trbsk\u00e9 Pleso. He won the race by sixteen seconds overall, from CCC\u2013Sprandi\u2013Polkowice's Jan Tratnik, Benedetti completed the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281560-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership\nIn the 2018 Tour of Slovakia, five jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The leader of the general classification received a yellow jersey sponsored by national lottery TIPOS. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Tour of Slovakia, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281560-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership\nThe second classification was the points classification. Riders were awarded points for finishing in the top ten in a stage. Points were also won in intermediate sprints. The leader of the points classification was awarded a white jersey with blue polka-dots sponsored by \u008a\u0160koda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281560-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership\nThere was also a mountains classification for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. The climbs were categorized, in order of increasing difficulty, as second and first-category. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a white jersey with red polka-dots sponsored by private equity company janom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281560-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership\nThe fourth jersey represented the under-23 classification, marked by a white jersey sponsored by Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport. Only riders born after 1 January 1996 were eligible; the under-23 best placed rider in the general classification was the leader of the under 23 classification. Additionally there was also a classification for Slovakian riders, marked by a white, blue and red jersey. Only Slovakian riders were eligible and they were awarded according to their placement in the general classification of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281560-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership\nThere was also a classification for Combativity given after each stage to the rider considered, by the organisers, the most combative rider. The winner wore a red bib for the next stage. The final classification was the team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists in a team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest cumulative time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281561-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Old Dominion Monarchs football team\nThe 2018 Old Dominion Monarchs football team represented Old Dominion University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Monarchs played their home games at the Foreman Field in Norfolk, Virginia as members of the East Division of Conference USA (C\u2013USA). They were led by tenth-year head coach Bobby Wilder. They finished the season 4\u20138, 2\u20136 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for sixth place in the East Division. ODU's streak of home sell-outs (59 total games) ended with the FIU game. ODU had sold out every home since they restarted the football program in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281561-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Previous season\nThe Monarchs finished the 2017 season 5\u20137, 3\u20135 in C-USA play to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281561-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CUSA team\nConference USA released their preseason all-CUSA team on July 16, 2018, with the Monarchs having three players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281561-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nConference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Monarchs predicted to finish in sixth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281561-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nThis marked Old Dominion's first win over a Power Five program in their FBS history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281562-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Oldham Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Oldham Council in England. The election took place on the same day as other local elections in England. The election saw the majority Labour Party increase its number of seats by two. The Conservative Party also gained two seats, while the Liberal Democrats lost one seat. UKIP ceased to have representation on the council following this election. The election left Labour with 47 seats, the Liberal Democrats 8 and the Conservatives 4 with the remaining seat being held by an Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281562-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results\nCouncillors seeking re-election are denoted with an asterisk. They were elected in 2014 and changes in vote share are compared on that basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 63], "content_span": [64, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281562-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results, Chadderton Central\nDue to a vacancy 2 candidates were elected to this ward. The candidate with the most votes received a full 4-year term and the second-placed candidate received the remaining term of the vacated seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281562-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results, Hollinwood\nDue to a vacancy 2 candidates were elected to this ward. The candidate with the most votes received a full 4-year term and the second-placed candidate received the remaining term of the vacated seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 75], "content_span": [76, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281562-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results, Saddleworth North\nIncumbent councillor Nicola Kirkham did not stand; she was elected as an independent in 2014 before joining Labour in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 82], "content_span": [83, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281562-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election, Changes after this election, Labour party suspensions: September 2018\n2 councillors were suspended from the Labour party in September 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 120], "content_span": [121, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281563-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team\nThe 2018 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team represented the University of Mississippi in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Rebels played their home games at Swayze Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281564-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Rebels played their home games at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi and competed in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by second-year head coach Matt Luke. They finished the season 5\u20137, 1\u20137 in SEC play to finish in sixth place in the Western Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281564-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nOn December 1, 2017, the University of Mississippi was dealt multiple sanctions by the NCAA, including a 2-year post-season ban. As Ole Miss already self-imposed a post-season ban during the 2017 season, 2018 will be the last season without post-season play due to the sanctions. On February 5, 2018, the university submitted a written appeal to the NCAA regarding the penalties, stating: \u201cThis Committee should vacate and reverse the penalties and factual findings, because the COI (Committee of Infractions) abused its discretion, departed from precedent, committed procedural errors, and reached factual conclusions inconsistent with the evidence.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281564-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Previous season\nThe Rebels finished the 2017 season 6\u20136, 3\u20135 in SEC play to finish in sixth place in the Western Division. They did not participate in a bowl game while serving a one year self imposed bowl ban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281564-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Preseason, SEC media poll\nThe SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018 with the Rebels predicted to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281564-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SEC teams\nThe Rebels had three players selected to the preseason all-SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281564-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Preseason, Recruiting\nThe Rebels\u2019 2018 recruiting class was ranked 32nd in the nation and 10th in the SEC by 247Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281564-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Schedule\nOle Miss announced its 2018 football schedule on September 19, 2017. The 2018 schedule consists of 7 home and 5 away games in the regular season. The Rebels will host SEC foes Alabama, Auburn, South Carolina, and Mississippi State, and will travel to LSU, Arkansas (game played in Little Rock), Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281564-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Schedule\nThe Rebels will be hosting three of their four non-conference opponents, hosting Southern Illinois (FCS), Kent State from the Mid-American Conference, Louisiana\u2013Monroe from the Sun Belt Conference, and will then travel to Houston for their neutral site season opener against Texas Tech from the Big 12 Conference, which is the 2018 edition of the AdvoCare Texas Kickoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281565-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Olt County referendum\nThe 2018 Olt County referendum was a referendum held in the Olt County in Romania to rename it to the \"Olt-Romana\u021bi County\" in 6 and 7 October 2018. This referendum was demanded by the inhabitants of the former Romana\u021bi County, especially those of its former capital Caracal, as they said it was to defend their identity and to remember the abolished county. The referendum did not attempt to enforce any administrative changes, only changes in the county's name. For it to pass, the voter turnout had to be of 30% or more out of the approximately 300,000 people eligible to vote in the Olt County at the time and the results had to be of 50%+1 votes or more saying \"yes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281565-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Olt County referendum\nThe referendum was held at the same time as the 2018 Romanian constitutional referendum, which sought to prohibit same-sex marriage in Romania, reason for which Olt County voters were given two ballots. The referendum cost about 900,000 Romanian lei, which was seen as an unnecessary expense by many locals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281565-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Olt County referendum\nAlthough the referendum was originally scheduled for 15 October 2017, it was held in the end in 6 and 7 October 2018. The question of the referendum was the following: \"Do you agree with the assignment of the name Olt-Romana\u021bi to the Olt County?\" (Sunte\u021bi de acord cu atribuirea denumirii Olt-Romana\u021bi jude\u021bului Olt?). Around 369,000 people signed up for the Olt County's voting lists. The turnout was 27.19%, so the referendum failed. The nationwide referendum regarding same-sex marriage also failed for the same reason. Unlike the nationwide referendum, no official data was released for the Olt County one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281566-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad\nThe 2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 24 February 2018 in Belgium. It was the 73rd edition of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the fourth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour. It was won by Danish rider Michael Valgren for the Astana team, soloing to victory by 12 seconds ahead of Team Sky's \u0141ukasz Wi\u015bniowski of Poland, with the podium completed by the highest-placed home rider Sep Vanmarcke (EF Education First\u2013Drapac p/b Cannondale).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281566-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Teams\nAs the race was only added to the UCI World Tour calendar in 2017, all UCI WorldTeams were invited to the race, but not obligated to compete in the race. As such, seventeen of the eighteen WorldTeams \u2013 with the exception of the Movistar Team \u2013 competed in the race, up two on 2017. Eight UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281567-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (women's race)\nThe 13th running of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad women's race in Belgium was held on 24 February 2018. Widely regarded as the start of the Classics season, it was a 1.1 event of the women's international calendar. The race started in Ghent and, for the first time, finished in Ninove. The total distance was 122.1\u00a0km (75.9\u00a0mi), covering eight classified climbs in the Flemish Ardennes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281567-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (women's race)\nDanish rider Christina Siggaard claimed a surprise win in the sprint of a 25-strong group. American Alexis Ryan finished second, Italian Maria Giulia Confalonieri third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281567-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (women's race), Teams\nTwenty-four teams participated in the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281568-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held January 10 to 14 at the Whitby Curling Club in Whitby, Ontario. The winning team represented Ontario at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Penticton, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281568-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe defending champion Rachel Homan rink from Ottawa represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and thus will not have the opportunity to defend their provincial crown. Had they not qualified for the Olympics, they still would not have had a chance to defend their title, as they would have represented Team Canada at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281568-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe event had a triple knock out format, rather than the traditional round robin event as was done in previous years. The number of qualified teams increased from 8 to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281568-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification Process\n12 teams qualified from two regional qualifiers (three each), a challenge round (three teams), the winner of the Trophy competition, plus the top two southern Ontario teams in the CTRS standings (as of November 12).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281568-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification\nEast and west regional qualifiers will run November 24\u201327, 2017. Two teams from each region qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281568-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification, West Qualifier\nNovember 25-26, 2017 at the St. Thomas Curling Club, St. Thomas", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 73], "content_span": [74, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281568-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification, Trophy Championship, Regional qualifiers\nQualifiers in bold. Two teams qualify from each event for the provincial Trophy Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 99], "content_span": [100, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281568-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification, Challenge Round\nDecember 15, 2017 at the Leaside Curling Club, East York, Toronto", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 74], "content_span": [75, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281569-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario Tankard\nThe 2018 Ontario Tankard, known as the Dairy Farmers of Ontario Tankard for sponsorship reasons is the 2018 provincial men's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held from January 31 to February 4 at the Canada Summit Centre in Huntsville, Ontario. The winning John Epping team represented Ontario at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier in Regina, Saskatchewan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281569-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario Tankard\nThe event had a triple knock out format, rather than the traditional round robin event as done in previous years. The number of qualified teams increased from 10 to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281569-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario Tankard, Qualification Process\n12 teams will qualify from two regional qualifiers (three each), a challenge round (three teams), the winner of the Colts competition, plus the top two southern Ontario teams in the CTRS standings (as of December 10, 2017). The east and west 'provincial qualifiers' are preceded by four regional qualifiers in which three teams qualify for the provincial qualifiers, plus the teams ranked 3-10 on the CTRS standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281569-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario Tankard, Qualification\nThe following teams have qualified for the east or west provincial qualifiers based on their ranking on the CTRS standings and will not have to play in the regional qualifiers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281569-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario Tankard, Qualification, Colts Championship, Regional qualifiers\nQualifiers in bold. Two teams qualify from each event for the provincial Colts Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 76], "content_span": [77, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election\nThe 2018 Ontario general election was held on June 7, 2018, to elect the 124 members of the 42nd Parliament of Ontario. The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, led by Doug Ford, won a majority government with 76 of the 124 seats in the legislature. The Ontario New Democratic Party, led by Andrea Horwath, formed the Official Opposition. The Ontario Liberal Party, led by incumbent Premier Kathleen Wynne, lost official party status in recording both the worst result in the party's 161-year history and the worst result for any incumbent governing party in Ontario. The Green Party of Ontario won a seat for the first time in their history, while the Trillium Party of Ontario lost its single seat gained by a floor-crossing during the 41st Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Redistribution of seats\nThe Electoral Boundaries Act, 2015 increased the number of electoral districts from 107 to 122, following the boundaries set out by the federal 2013 Representation Order for Ontario, while preserving the special boundaries of the 11 seats in Northern Ontario set out in the 1996 redistribution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Redistribution of seats\nThe Far North Electoral Boundaries Commission, appointed in 2016, recommended the creation of the additional districts of Kiiwetinoong and Mushkegowuk\u2014James Bay, carved out from the existing Kenora\u2014Rainy River and Timmins\u2014James Bay ridings, which accordingly raised the total number of seats to 124. This was implemented through the Representation Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Redistribution of seats\nThe new districts have been criticized as undemocratic, as they have a population of around 30,000 people compared with over 120,000 people in some southern Ontario constituencies. National Post columnist Josh Dehaas suggested that the small population sizes of the ridings might violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Redistribution of seats\nIn September 2017, a research firm analyzed the impact of redistribution if the boundaries had been in effect for the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Change of fixed election date\nUnder legislation passed in 2005, Ontario elections were to be held on \"the first Thursday in October in the fourth calendar year following polling day in the most recent general election\", subject to the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario's power to call an election earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Change of fixed election date\nAs the current government had a majority, the passage of a non-confidence motion was not a likely option for calling an early election, though Premier Kathleen Wynne stated in June 2015 that she would likely advise to dissolve the Legislature in spring 2018 rather than in October of that year in order to avoid any conflict with municipal elections and take advantage of better weather and longer days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Change of fixed election date\nTo put this on a statutory footing, in October 2016 Attorney General of Ontario Yasir Naqvi introduced a bill in the Legislative Assembly which, in part, included moving the election date to \"the first Thursday in June in the fourth calendar year following polling day in the most recent general election\", and it came into effect in December 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Prelude to campaign\nThe Ontario Liberal Party attempted to win their fifth consecutive general election, dating back to 2003. The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario won their first election since 1999, and the Ontario New Democratic Party attempted to win their second election (having previously won in 1990). Numerous other extra-parliamentary political parties also vied for votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Prelude to campaign\nThe Liberals under Kathleen Wynne headed into the 2018 campaign trailing far behind the Progressive Conservatives, led by former Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford. The Liberals' standing with voters had been badly hurt when they partially privatized Hydro One in 2015, after campaigning against it in the 2014 election, as well as rising criticism over \"ballooning provincial debt, high electricity prices and costly, politically expedient decisions\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Prelude to campaign\nIn early April, the CBC published their analysis of aggregate polls showing that Ford and the Progressive Conservatives were ahead of the other parties averaging 42.1% support, compared to 27.2% for the governing Liberals, 23.4% for the NDP and 5.7% for the Greens and with 11 Liberal MPPs announcing they would not be running for re-election or having already resigned their seats in the months leading up to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Prelude to campaign\nAccording to Wynne, voters were offered a \"stark choice\", between \"cutting and removing supports from people\" with \"billions in cuts\", which she alleged the Progressive Conservatives would do if they won the election, and expanding investments in social programs such as prescription drugs and childcare, which the Liberal platform promised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Prelude to campaign\nIn March 2018, the Liberals tabled a pre-election budget in the provincial legislature which promised billions of dollars in new spending for free childcare and expanded coverage for dental care but replaced the government's previous balanced budget with a $6.7\u00a0billion deficit projected to last until 2024\u20132025. PC leader Doug Ford called the budget a \"spending spree\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Mood of the voters\nAccording to Toronto Star columnist Susan Delacourt, voters were motivated by a desire for change\u2014such desire being more driven by emotion than by ideology\u2014and one researcher estimated that more than half of the electorate was undecided in who they were likely to vote for. The Huffington Post reported that half of voters were basing their vote intentions on how best to block the party they oppose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Mood of the voters\nIn February 2018, Campaign Research conducted a gap analysis on voter intentions in Ontario, and determined the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Background, Mood of the voters\n= Not voting for party; not considered\u00a0 = Not voting for party; shared consideration\u00a0 = Not voting for party; exclusive consideration\u00a0 = Will vote for party; others considered\u00a0 = Will vote for party; no others considered", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Candidates, Candidate nominations\nIn February 2018, the PC leadership overturned the nomination of candidates Karma Macgregor in Ottawa West\u2014Nepean and Thenusha Parani in Scarborough Centre because of irregularities and allegations of ballot stuffing at their nomination meetings. Both candidates denied these claims. The nomination meetings were reorganized, and both candidates lost the nomination at those meetings. However, the PC leadership decided not to overturn the nomination meeting's result in Hamilton West\u2014Ancaster\u2014Dundas, where a similar situation took place, because of an ongoing police investigation on this situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Candidates, Candidate nominations\nIn March 2018, the NDP nominated Lyra Evans as their candidate in Ottawa\u2014Vanier. Evans was the first openly transgender candidate nominated by a major party to run in an Ontario general election. She later went on to become the first openly trans school board trustee in Canada. Her work at the school board caused controversy when she moved an amendment to defund the police at two urban schools, citing discrimination against Black and Indigenous students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Results\nElections Ontario used electronic vote tabulator machines from Dominion Voting Systems for counting the ballots. Tabulators were deployed at 50 per cent of polling stations at a cost of CA$32,000,000. This election was the first time Ontario used vote counting machines for a provincial election, although tabulators have been used in Ontario civic elections for more than 20 years, and also in a 2016 by-election in Whitby-Oshawa. The original paper ballots marked by voters will be kept for a year along with the digital scans of each ballot by the tabulator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Results\nThe percentage of votes cast for the Progressive Conservatives by riding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Results\nThe percentage of votes cast for the NDP by riding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Results\nThe percentage of votes cast for the Liberals by riding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Results\nChange in Progressive Conservative vote share by riding compared to the 2014 Ontario election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Results\nEach dot represents five-thousand votes for the party of the associated colour. Data is based on individual riding results. Dots are placed at random positions within the ridings that they belong to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Results\nThe disproportionality of elections to the Legislative Assembly in the 2018 election was 17.96 according to the Gallagher Index, significantly in favour of the PCs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281570-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario general election, Results, Significant results among independent and minor party candidates\nThose candidates not belonging to a major party, receiving more than 1,000 votes in the election, are listed below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 104], "content_span": [105, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections\nThe 2018 municipal elections in Ontario were held on October 22, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections\nVoters in the province of Ontario elected mayors, councillors, school board trustees and all other elected officials in all of the province's municipalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Electoral period\nAs per the Ontario Municipal Elections Act, 1996, nomination papers for candidates for municipal and school board elections can be filed from May 1, 2018, at which time the campaign period will begin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Electoral period\nNominations close on July 27, 2018, at 2 PM local time. Certification of nomination papers is to be completed by 4 PM on July 30, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Electoral period\nVoting starts on October 22 from 10 AM to 8 PM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Ranked ballots\nIn 2016, the provincial government passed Bill 181, the Municipal Elections Modernization Act, which permitted municipalities to adopt ranked ballots for municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Ranked ballots\nLondon was the only municipality to use ranked ballots in the 2018 election itself, with the decision in that city being made by London City Council in 2017, while Kingston and Cambridge held referendums concurrently with their 2018 elections on whether to adopt ranked ballots for the next municipal elections in 2022. Both of the referendums passed, although the adoption of ranked ballots in both cities may remain in question as the referendums failed to reach the 50 per cent turnout required to make the results legally binding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Online voting\nThe 2018 elections were also noted for a significant increase in the adoption of online voting. Across Ontario, over 150 municipalities conducted their elections primarily online, with physical polling stations either abandoned entirely or limited to only a few central polling stations for voters who could not or did not want to vote online.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Online voting\nOn election day, however, 51 of those municipalities, all of which had selected Dominion Voting Systems as their online voting contractor, were affected by a technical failure. According to Dominion the company's colocation centre provider imposed a bandwidth cap, without authorization from or consultation with Dominion, due to the massive increase in voting traffic in the early evening, thus making it impossible for many voters to get through to the server between 5:00 and 7:30\u00a0p.m. All of the affected municipalities extended voting for at least a few hours to compensate for the outage; several, including Pembroke, Waterloo, Prince Edward County and Greater Sudbury, opted to extend voting for a full 24 hours into the evening of October 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Single tier municipalities, Kawartha Lakes, Kawartha Lakes Municipal Council\nFor 2018, the Kawartha Lakes council will be reduced from 16 to 8 seats, plus the mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 110], "content_span": [111, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Single tier municipalities, Norfolk County, Norfolk County Council\nThere were some slight alterations to Norfolk County's ward map.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 100], "content_span": [101, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Single tier municipalities, Norfolk County, Norfolk County Council\nA by-election was held on June 3, 2021, in Ward 2 to fill the vacancy of Roger Geysens who retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 100], "content_span": [101, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Separated municipalities, Barrie, Barrie City Council\nA by-election was held on February 24, 2020, in Ward 3 to fill the vacancy of Doug Shipley who was elected to the House of Commons. Results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 87], "content_span": [88, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Separated municipalities, Guelph, Guelph City Council\nTwo councillors to be elected in each ward. Results for Guelph city council are as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 87], "content_span": [88, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Separated municipalities, Kingston, Referendum\nReferendum on ranked ballots. The \"yes\" side won decidedly with 62%, but the turnout to make the referendum binding did not reach the 50% mark. However, Kingston City Council has promised to pursue the matter anyway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 80], "content_span": [81, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Separated municipalities, Peterborough, Councillors\nTwo councillors were elected from each of the 5 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 85], "content_span": [86, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Separated municipalities, Quinte West, Quinte West City Council\nElections results for Quinte West city council are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281571-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Ontario municipal elections, Separated municipalities, St. Thomas, St. Thomas City Council\nThe results for St. Thomas city council are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 95], "content_span": [96, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281572-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open 13\nThe 2018 Open 13 was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 25th edition of the Open 13, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took at the Palais des Sports in Marseille, France, from 19 February through 25 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281573-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open 13 \u2013 Doubles\nJulien Benneteau and Nicolas Mahut were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281573-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open 13 \u2013 Doubles\nKlaasen and Venus went on to win the title, defeating Marcus Daniell and Dominic Inglot in the final, 6\u20137(2\u20137), 6\u20133, [10\u20134].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281574-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open 13 \u2013 Singles\nJo-Wilfried Tsonga was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281574-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open 13 \u2013 Singles\nKaren Khachanov won the title, defeating Lucas Pouille in the final, 7\u20135, 3\u20136, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281574-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Open 13 \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds who played received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281575-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne\nThe 2018 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Quimper, France between 29 January and 4 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281575-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281575-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281575-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281576-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne \u2013 Doubles\nMikhail Elgin and Igor Zelenay were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281576-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne \u2013 Doubles\nKen and Neal Skupski won the title after defeating Sander Gill\u00e9 and Joran Vliegen 6\u20133, 3\u20136, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281577-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne \u2013 Singles\nAdrian Mannarino was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281577-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne \u2013 Singles\nQuentin Halys won the title after defeating Alexey Vatutin 6\u20133, 7\u20136(7\u20131) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281578-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n\nThe 2018 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 33rd edition, for men, and 4th edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in El Espinar, Segovia, Spain, between 30 July \u2013 5 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281578-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281578-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281579-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n \u2013 Men's Doubles\nAdri\u00e1n Men\u00e9ndez Maceiras and Sergiy Stakhovsky were the defending champions but withdrew before their quarterfinal match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281579-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n \u2013 Men's Doubles\nAndr\u00e9s Artu\u00f1edo and David P\u00e9rez Sanz won the title after defeating Mat\u00edas Franco Descotte and Jo\u00e3o Monteiro 6\u20137(3\u20137), 6\u20133, [10\u20136] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281580-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n \u2013 Men's Singles\nJaume Munar was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281580-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n \u2013 Men's Singles\nUgo Humbert won the title after defeating Adri\u00e1n Men\u00e9ndez Maceiras 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship\nThe 2018 Open Championship was the 147th Open Championship, and was held from 19\u201322 July 2018 at Carnoustie Golf Links in Angus, Scotland. It was the eighth Open Championship to be played at Carnoustie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship\nPlaying conditions were unusual as a result of the heatwave in Scotland which had produced brown, dry and sun-baked fairways and brown rough. The fairways played quickly, enabling several players to hit drives that covered over 400 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship\nFrancesco Molinari posted a bogey-free final round of 69 to win his first major championship. Molinari finished two shots ahead of Kevin Kisner, Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose and Xander Schauffele. He became the first Italian player to win a major.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship\nThis was the final appearance for 1985 champion Sandy Lyle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Media\nThe 2018 Open Championship was the third to be televised domestically by Sky Sports on dedicated channel Sky Sports The Open. In the United States, it was the third Open Championship to be televised by NBC (Golf Channel's parent network).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Venue\nThe 2018 event was the eighth Open Championship played at the Carnoustie Golf Links. The most recent was in 2007, with P\u00e1draig Harrington winning the first of his two consecutive Open titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Field\nEach player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Field\nMark Calcavecchia, Stewart Cink (2), Darren Clarke (2), David Duval, Ernie Els (2), Todd Hamilton, P\u00e1draig Harrington (2), Zach Johnson (2), Tom Lehman, Sandy Lyle, Rory McIlroy (2,3,4,5,10), Phil Mickelson (2,4,15), Louis Oosthuizen (2,4,15), Jordan Spieth (2,3,4,8,9,12,15), Henrik Stenson (2,4,5), Tiger Woods", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Field\nRafa Cabrera-Bello (4,5), Branden Grace (4,5,15), Brooks Koepka (4,8,12,15), Matt Kuchar (4,12,15), Marc Leishman (4,12,15), Li Haotong (4,5), Alex Nor\u00e9n (4,5,6), Matthew Southgate", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Field\nKiradech Aphibarnrat (5), Daniel Berger (12,15), Patrick Cantlay (12), Paul Casey (12), Kevin Chappell (12,15), Jason Day (10,11,12,15), Bryson DeChambeau, Tony Finau (12), Ross Fisher (5), Matthew Fitzpatrick (5), Tommy Fleetwood (5), Rickie Fowler (12,15), Sergio Garc\u00eda (5,9,12), Adam Hadwin (12,15), Brian Harman (12), Tyrrell Hatton (5), Charley Hoffman (12,15), Dustin Johnson (8,12,15), Kim Si-woo (11,15), Kevin Kisner (12,15), Satoshi Kodaira (20), Alexander L\u00e9vy (5), Hideki Matsuyama (12,15), Francesco Molinari (5,6), Pat Perez (12), Ian Poulter, Jon Rahm (5,12), Patrick Reed (9,12,15), Justin Rose (5,12), Xander Schauffele (12), Charl Schwartzel (5,15), Webb Simpson (11,12), Cameron Smith, Kyle Stanley (12), Brendan Steele, Justin Thomas (10,12,15), Bubba Watson (9), Gary Woodland (12)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Field\nNicolas Colsaerts, Paul Dunne, Dylan Frittelli, Scott Jamieson, Shane Lowry, Thorbj\u00f8rn Olesen, Thomas Pieters, Jordan Smith, Hideto Tanihara, Peter Uihlein, Lee Westwood, Fabrizio Zanotti", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Field\nThe Open Qualifying Series (OQS) consists of 11 events from the six major tours and the Korean Tour. Places are available to the leading players (not otherwise exempt) who finish in the top n and ties. In the event of ties, positions go to players ranked highest according to that week's OWGR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Field\nThe Final Qualifying events were played on 3 July at four courses covering Scotland and the North-West, Central and South-coast regions of England. Three qualifying places were available at each location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Field\nTo make up the full field of 156, additional places are allocated in ranking order from the Official World Golf Ranking at the time that these places are made available by the Championship Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, First round\nKevin Kisner opened with 66 (\u22125) for a one-shot lead over Tony Finau, Zander Lombard, and Erik van Rooyen. Kisner was one-over after his first five holes before making a 40-foot eagle putt at the 6th. He made another 35-footer for birdie at the following hole, and added three straight birdies on the back-nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, First round\nFinau made eight birdies in his round to join Van Rooyen and Lombard in second place. Defending champion Jordan Spieth was 3-under before playing his final four holes in 4-over, including a double bogey at the 15th. He finished with 72 (+1). Three-time champion Tiger Woods, playing at the Open for the first time since 2015, had two early birdies but made three bogeys on the back-nine to finish even-par.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nZach Johnson, the 2015 champion, holed a 30-foot putt at the 18th to post a round of 67 (\u22124) and tie first round leader Kevin Kisner. Kisner held a two-shot lead playing the 18th, but hit his approach in the burn guarding the green and made double bogey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nPat Perez, Tommy Fleetwood and Xander Schauffele were a shot behind at five-under. Perez was tied for the lead playing the 18th, but hit into a bunker and made bogey. Fleetwood, runner-up at the U.S. Open after shooting 63 in the final round, shot a bogey-free 65 (\u22126); Fleetwood owns the course record of 63 at Carnoustie, made at the 2017 Dunhill Links Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nRory McIlroy, the 2014 champion, shot 69 (\u22122) for a second straight day to join a group two shots out of the lead. Jordan Spieth, one-over after the first round, rebounded with a 4-under 67 to get within three of the lead, while Tiger Woods shot another even-par round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nWorld No. 1 and 2 Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas both missed the cut, Johnson making a double bogey at the last while Thomas made three straight double bogeys on the front-nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Third round\nDefending champion Jordan Spieth shot a six-under 65 to tie Kevin Kisner and Xander Schauffele for the 54-hole lead. Spieth, beginning the third round three off the lead, drove the green on the par-four 1st and made eagle, and then added a birdie on the 4th to tie. At the 10th, he hit his tee shot into the rough but managed to escape with a birdie, and then made another at 11. He birdied the par-5 14th, and then holed a long birdie putt at the par-3 16th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Third round\nSchauffele shot a four-under 67 that included six birdies, finishing his round with a long putt at the 18th from just off the back of the green. Kisner, tied for the lead coming into the round, shot a bogey-free 68 (\u22123).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Third round\nFrancesco Molinari didn't make a bogey while getting six birdies to shoot 65 (\u22126) and move to three off of the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Third round\nTiger Woods began the round six behind but made three straight birdies on holes 9\u201311, and then briefly tied for the lead after a birdie at 14. He made bogey on the 16th but managed to save par at the last after his tee shot narrowly missed the burn. He finished with a round of 66 (\u22125) and was four back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Third round\nZach Johnson was tied with Kisner entering the round but made bogey at 11 and double bogey at the 12th, settling for a one-over round of 72 and falling four shots behind. Justin Rose had the round of the day with 64, tying for the lowest round at an Open Championship at Carnoustie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nFrancesco Molinari shot a bogey-free round of 69 (\u22122) to become the first Italian to win a major championship. Molinari was three shots behind at the start of the round and began with 13 straight pars before a birdie at the par-5 14th. He hit his approach close to the pin at the 18th and converted another birdie to post 8-under. Molinari didn't make a bogey in his last 37 holes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nTiger Woods, paired with Molinari, made two birdies on the front-nine to take solo possession of the lead. At the 11th, however, he hit his tee shot in the rough and his approach over the green. His chip shot came up short of the green and he failed to get up-and-down, settling for a double bogey. He made another bogey at the 12th, and despite getting a birdie at the par-5 14th after chipping from close to the 4th pin on the double green he finished three shots behind after an even-par 71.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nXander Schauffele was in a three-way tie for the lead at the start of the round but found trouble at the 5th when his approach shot buried in a greenside bunker. That led to a bogey, and he made another bogey at the 6th after hitting into a bunker once again. At the 7th Schauffele hit his tee shot into the rough and failed to get out on his second shot. His third went over the green and he made double bogey. He rebounded with a birdie at the 10th to get back into the lead, and another at the 14th. One shot back of Molinari playing the 17th, Schauffele's approach went well right of the green and he made bogey to finish two behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nKevin Kisner was also tied for the lead, but began his round with a double bogey at the 2nd after having to play sideways out of a fairway bunker. He made three more bogeys on the front-nine for a four-over 40. He began the second nine with a birdie at 10, joining a six-way tie for the lead at six-under. A dropped shot at the 12th, however, saw Kisner fall out of the lead and he also finished two behind Molinari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nDefending champion Jordan Spieth, tied with Kisner and Schauffele at the start of the round, failed to make a birdie on his way to a five-over 76. He made a bogey at the 5th after hitting into a fairway bunker, then had a double bogey at the 6th after taking an unplayable lie from a bush. He made two more bogeys on the back-nine to finish four shots back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nRory McIlroy was two-over par after his first eight holes, before birdies at the 9th and 11th. At the 14th he holed a long putt for eagle to tie for the lead at 6-under. But he failed to make another birdie the rest of the round and settled into the four-way tie for second. Justin Rose, who needed a 13-foot birdie at the 18th Friday just to make the cut, eagled the 14th after his approach hit the flag, then birdied the 18th after a close approach to also finish runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281581-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Final leaderboard\nNote: Top 10 and ties qualify for the 2019 Open Championship; top 4 and ties qualify for the 2019 Masters Tournament", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 71], "content_span": [72, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281582-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Citt\u00e0 della Disfida\nThe 2018 Open Citt\u00e0 della Disfida was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 19th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Barletta, Italy between 9 and 15 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281582-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Citt\u00e0 della Disfida, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281583-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Citt\u00e0 della Disfida \u2013 Doubles\nMarco Cecchinato and Matteo Donati were the defending champions but only Donati chose to defend his title, partnering Simone Bolelli. Donati lost in the first round to Nikola Milojevi\u0107 and Mohamed Safwat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281583-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Citt\u00e0 della Disfida \u2013 Doubles\nDenys Molchanov and Igor Zelenay won the title after defeating Ariel Behar and M\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez 6\u20131, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281584-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Citt\u00e0 della Disfida \u2013 Singles\nAlja\u017e Bedene was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281584-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Citt\u00e0 della Disfida \u2013 Singles\nMarco Trungelliti won the title after defeating Simone Bolelli 2\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281585-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Harmonie mutuelle\nThe 2018 Open Harmonie mutuelle was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Saint-Brieuc, France between 26 March and 1 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281585-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Harmonie mutuelle, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281585-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Harmonie mutuelle, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281586-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Harmonie mutuelle \u2013 Doubles\nAndre Begemann and Frederik Nielsen were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281586-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Harmonie mutuelle \u2013 Doubles\nSander Arends and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn won the title after defeating Luke Bambridge and Joe Salisbury 4\u20136, 6\u20131, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281587-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Harmonie mutuelle \u2013 Singles\nEgor Gerasimov was the defending champion but lost in the second round to J\u00fcrgen Zopp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281587-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Harmonie mutuelle \u2013 Singles\nRi\u010dardas Berankis won the title after defeating Constant Lestienne 6\u20132, 5\u20137, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281588-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon\nThe 2018 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 3rd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Lyon, France between 11 and 17 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281588-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281589-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon \u2013 Doubles\nSander Gill\u00e9 and Joran Vliegen were the defending champions but only Vliegen chose to defend his title, partnering Rameez Junaid. Vliegen lost in the quarterfinals to Pedro Mart\u00ednez and David Vega Hern\u00e1ndez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281589-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon \u2013 Doubles\nElliot Benchetrit and Geoffrey Blancaneaux won the title after defeating Hsieh Cheng-peng and Luca Margaroli 6\u20133, 4\u20136, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281590-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon \u2013 Singles\nF\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime was the defending champion and successfully defended his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281590-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon \u2013 Singles\nAuger-Aliassime won the title after defeating Johan Tatlot 6\u20137(3\u20137), 7\u20135, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281591-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sud de France\nThe 2018 Open Sud de France was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 31st edition of the Open Sud de France, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took placed at the Arena Montpellier in Montpellier, France, from February 5 to February 11, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281591-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sud de France, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281591-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sud de France, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281591-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sud de France, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 71], "content_span": [72, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281592-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sud de France \u2013 Doubles\nAlexander and Mischa Zverev were the defending champions, but Alexander chose not to participate this year. Mischa played alongside Karen Khachanov, but lost in the first round to Ben McLachlan and Hugo Nys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281592-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sud de France \u2013 Doubles\nKen and Neal Skupski won the title, defeating McLachlan and Nys in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281593-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sud de France \u2013 Singles\nAlexander Zverev was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281593-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sud de France \u2013 Singles\nLucas Pouille won the title, defeating Richard Gasquet in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281593-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Open Sud de France \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281594-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans\nThe 2018 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Orl\u00e9ans, France between 24 and 30 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281594-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281595-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans \u2013 Doubles\nGuillermo Dur\u00e1n and Andr\u00e9s Molteni were the defending champions but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281595-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans \u2013 Doubles\nLuke Bambridge and Jonny O'Mara won the title after defeating Yannick Maden and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn 6\u20132, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281596-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans \u2013 Singles\nNorbert Gombos was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Luca Vanni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281596-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans \u2013 Singles\nAlja\u017e Bedene won the title after defeating Antoine Hoang 4\u20136, 6\u20131, 7\u20136(8\u20136) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281597-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer\nThe 2018 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the twenty-first edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, on 7\u201313 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281597-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281598-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer \u2013 Doubles\nChang Kai-chen and Hsieh Su-wei were the defending champions, but Chang chose not to participate, while Hsieh chose to compete at the 2018 Mutua Madrid Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281598-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer \u2013 Doubles\nKaitlyn Christian and Sabrina Santamaria won the title, defeating Vera Lapko and Galina Voskoboeva in the final, 2\u20136, 7\u20135, [10\u20137].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281599-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer \u2013 Singles\nBeatriz Haddad Maia was the defending champion, but chose to compete at the 2018 Mutua Madrid Open instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281599-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer \u2013 Singles\nRebecca Peterson won the title, defeating Dayana Yastremska in the final, 6\u20134, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281600-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Guadeloupe\nThe 2018 Open de Guadeloupe was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Le Gosier, Guadeloupe between 27 March and 1 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281600-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Guadeloupe, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281600-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Guadeloupe, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281600-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Guadeloupe, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281601-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Guadeloupe \u2013 Doubles\nJames Cerretani and Antal van der Duim were the defending champions but only Cerretani chose to defend his title, partnering Nicholas Monroe. Cerretani lost in the first round to Ruben Bemelmans and Jonathan Eysseric.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281601-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Guadeloupe \u2013 Doubles\nNeal Skupski and John-Patrick Smith won the title after defeating Bemelmans and Eysseric 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281602-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Guadeloupe \u2013 Singles\nMalek Jaziri was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281602-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Guadeloupe \u2013 Singles\nDu\u0161an Lajovi\u0107 won the title after defeating Denis Kudla 6\u20134, 6\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281603-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Limoges\nThe 2018 Open de Limoges was a professional tennis tournament, played on indoor hard courts. It was the 12th edition of the tournament and part of the 2018 WTA 125K series, offering a total of $125,000 in prize money. It took place in Limoges, France, from 5 to 11 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281603-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Limoges, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281603-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Limoges, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281603-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Limoges, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the main draw as a lucky loser:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281604-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Limoges \u2013 Doubles\nValeria Savinykh and Maryna Zanevska were the defending champions, but neither player chose to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281604-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Limoges \u2013 Doubles\nVeronika Kudermetova and Galina Voskoboeva won the title, defeating Timea Bacsinszky and Vera Zvonareva in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281605-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Limoges \u2013 Singles\nMonica Niculescu was the defending champion, but she lost in the second round to Margarita Gasparyan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281605-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Limoges \u2013 Singles\nEkaterina Alexandrova won the title after defeating Evgeniya Rodina 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281606-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Rennes\nThe 2018 Open de Rennes was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament and part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rennes, France between 22 and 28 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281606-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Rennes, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281606-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Rennes, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281606-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Rennes, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281607-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Rennes \u2013 Doubles\nEvgeny Donskoy and Mikhail Elgin were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281607-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Rennes \u2013 Doubles\nSander Gill\u00e9 and Joran Vliegen won the title after defeating Sander Arends and Antonio \u0160an\u010di\u0107 6\u20133, 6\u20137(1\u20137), [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281608-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Rennes \u2013 Singles\nUladzimir Ignatik was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Alexey Vatutin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281608-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open de Rennes \u2013 Singles\nVasek Pospisil won the title after defeating Ri\u010dardas Berankis 6\u20131, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281609-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open du Pays d'Aix\nThe 2018 Open du Pays d'Aix was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Aix-en-Provence, France between 7 and 13 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281609-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open du Pays d'Aix, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281609-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Open du Pays d'Aix, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281610-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open du Pays d'Aix \u2013 Doubles\nWesley Koolhof and Matw\u00e9 Middelkoop were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281610-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open du Pays d'Aix \u2013 Doubles\nPhilipp Petzschner and Tim P\u00fctz won the title after defeating Guido Andreozzi and Kenny de Schepper 6\u20137(3\u20137), 6\u20132, [10\u20138] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281611-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Open du Pays d'Aix \u2013 Singles\nFrances Tiafoe was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281611-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Open du Pays d'Aix \u2013 Singles\nJohn Millman won the title after defeating Bernard Tomic 6\u20131, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281612-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Opportunities Party leadership election\nThe 2018 Opportunities Party leadership election was held in New Zealand in December 2018 to determine the future leadership of The Opportunities Party (TOP) political party. The election was won by previous deputy leader Geoff Simmons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281612-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Opportunities Party leadership election, Background\nTOP was founded in November 2016 by wealthy economist Gareth Morgan to advocate for \"a prosperous, fair and equitable society\". TOP contested the 2017 general election gaining 2.44% of the vote, but won no seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives. Three months after the election, Morgan resigned as leader of the party but said TOP would contest the 2020 election though he would not lead it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281612-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Opportunities Party leadership election, Background\nIn August 2018, The Opportunities Party appointed a new board and former deputy leader Geoff Simmons was appointed as an interim leader. The new board embarked on a \"listening tour\" across the country to gauge supporters reactions and future interest. Additionally, a ballot of party members would be conducted to determine a new party leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281612-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Opportunities Party leadership election, Aftermath\nIn addition to Simmons being elected leader, fellow leadership contestant Donna Pokere-Phillips was elected in a concurrent election to serve as TOP's membership representative on the party board. In March 2019 Morgan announced his resignation from TOP altogether, Simmons thanked Morgan for creating the party and his subsequent contributions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281613-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Chicago\nThe 2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Chicago was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. This tournament was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 WTA 125K series. The first edition took place from September 4 to 9, 2018 in Chicago, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281613-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Chicago, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281613-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Chicago, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281613-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Chicago, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 91], "content_span": [92, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281614-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Chicago \u2013 Men's Doubles\nLuke Bambridge and Neal Skupski won the title after defeating Leander Paes and Miguel \u00c1ngel Reyes-Varela 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281615-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Chicago \u2013 Men's Singles\nDenis Istomin won the title after defeating Reilly Opelka 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281616-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Chicago \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMona Barthel and Krist\u00fdna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 won the title, defeating Asia Muhammad and Maria Sanchez in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281617-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Chicago \u2013 Women's Singles\nPetra Marti\u0107 won the title, defeating Mona Barthel in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281618-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Houston\nThe 2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Houston was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. This tournament was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 WTA 125K series. The first edition took place at the George R. Brown Tennis Center from November 12 to 18, 2018 in Houston, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281618-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Houston, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281618-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Houston, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 91], "content_span": [92, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281618-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Houston, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the main draw as lucky losers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 91], "content_span": [92, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281618-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Houston, Women's doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 91], "content_span": [92, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281619-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Houston \u2013 Men's Doubles\nAustin Krajicek and Nicholas Monroe won the title after defeating Marcelo Ar\u00e9valo and James Cerretani 4\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20133), [10\u20135] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281620-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Houston \u2013 Men's Singles\nBradley Klahn won the title after defeating Roy Smith 7\u20136(7\u20134), 7\u20136(7\u20134) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281621-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Houston \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMaegan Manasse and Jessica Pegula won the title, defeating Desirae Krawczyk and Giuliana Olmos in the final, 1\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20138].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281622-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Houston \u2013 Women's Singles\nPeng Shuai won the title, defeating Lauren Davis in the final 1\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281623-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Indian Wells\nThe 2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Indian Wells is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. This tournament is part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 WTA 125K series. The first edition took place on February 26 through March 4, 2018 in Indian Wells, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281623-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Indian Wells, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 94], "content_span": [95, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281623-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Indian Wells, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 94], "content_span": [95, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281623-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Indian Wells, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 94], "content_span": [95, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281623-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Indian Wells, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281623-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Indian Wells, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following team received wildcard into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 92], "content_span": [93, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281624-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Indian Wells \u2013 Men's Doubles\nAustin Krajicek and Jackson Withrow won the title after defeating Evan King and Nathan Pasha 6\u20137(3\u20137), 6\u20131, [11\u20139] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281625-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Indian Wells \u2013 Men's Singles\nMartin Kli\u017ean won the title after defeating Darian King 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281626-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Indian Wells \u2013 Women's Doubles\nTaylor Townsend and Yanina Wickmayer won the title after defeating Jennifer Brady and Vania King 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281627-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Indian Wells \u2013 Women's Singles\nSara Errani won the title, defeating Kateryna Bondarenko in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281628-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Newport Beach\nThe 2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Newport Beach was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament, which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 WTA 125K series. It took place January 22 through 28, 2018 in Newport Beach, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281628-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Newport Beach, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 95], "content_span": [96, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281628-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Newport Beach, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 97], "content_span": [98, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281629-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Newport Beach \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJames Cerretani and Leander Paes won the title after defeating Treat Huey and Denis Kudla 6\u20134, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281630-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Newport Beach \u2013 Men's Singles\nTaylor Fritz won the title after defeating Bradley Klahn 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281631-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Newport Beach \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMisaki Doi and Jil Teichmann won the title after defeating Jamie Loeb and Rebecca Peterson 7\u20136(7\u20134), 1\u20136, [10\u20138] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281632-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Newport Beach \u2013 Women's Singles\nWildcard Danielle Collins won the title, defeating Sofya Zhuk in the final 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281633-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Orakzai bombing\nOn 23 November 2018, at least 33 people were killed and 56 others were injured in a suicide bombing in Kalaya, Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281633-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Orakzai bombing\nOn the same day, an armed assault on the Chinese consulate in Karachi, Pakistan resulted in the deaths of four people and the three attackers. However, the two attacks are likely unconnected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281633-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Orakzai bombing, Incident\nOn 23 November 2018, around 10:30 am PST a bomb blast on Friday in market Kalaya, Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant later claimed responsibility for the bombing. At least 33 people were killed which included three members of the minority Sikh community and 56 others were injured. However a statement on Amaq, a news outlet associated with ISIL, claimed \"57 Shiites were killed and 75 were wounded\" in the bombing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281634-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange Bowl\nThe 2018 Orange Bowl was a college football bowl game played on Saturday, December 29, 2018. It was the 85th edition of the Orange Bowl. The Orange Bowl was one of two College Football Playoff semifinal games, with the winner advancing to the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship. It was one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Capital One Financial Corporation, the game was officially known as the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281634-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange Bowl, Teams\nThe game featured top-ranked Alabama of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) against fourth-ranked Oklahoma of the Big 12 Conference. The programs had previously met five times, with Oklahoma leading the series, 3\u20131\u20131. They first met in the 1963 Orange Bowl, won by Alabama, 17\u20130. Their most recent meeting was in the 2014 Sugar Bowl, a 45\u201331 Oklahoma victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281634-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange Bowl, Teams, Alabama Crimson Tide\nAlabama defeated Georgia in the 2018 SEC Championship Game on December 1, then received their bid to the Orange Bowl with the release of final CFP rankings on December 2. The Crimson Tide entered the bowl with a 13\u20130 record (8\u20130 in conference). On December 25, it was announced that three Alabama players, including starting offensive lineman Deonte Brown, would not play in the game due to an unspecified violation of team rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281634-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange Bowl, Teams, Oklahoma Sooners\nOklahoma defeated Texas in the 2018 Big 12 Championship Game on December 1, then received their bid to the Orange Bowl with the release of final CFP rankings on December 2. The Sooners entered the bowl with a 12\u20131 record (8\u20131 in conference); their only loss was to Texas, by a score of 45\u201348 in the 113th Red River Showdown on October 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281635-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County Board of Supervisors election\nThe 2018 Orange County Board of Supervisors elections was on June 5, 2018 as part of the primary election on June 5, 2018. Three of the five seats of the Orange County, California Board of Supervisors were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281635-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County Board of Supervisors election\nCounty elections in California are officially nonpartisan. A two-round system will be used for the election, starting with the first round in June; followed by a runoff in November between the top-two candidates in each district. Runoffs are only held if no candidate receives a majority in each district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281635-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County Board of Supervisors election, District 2\nDistrict 2 consists of coastal Orange County, including Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Cypress, La Palma, Los Alamitos, Newport Beach, Seal Beach, most of Fountain Valley, and neighborhoods in southern Buena Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281635-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County Board of Supervisors election, District 4\nDistrict 4 consists of inland northwestern Orange County, taking in Fullerton, La Habra, Placentia, Brea, western Anaheim, and most of Buena Park. Incumbent Shawn Nelson retired to run for California's 39th congressional district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281635-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County Board of Supervisors election, District 5\nDistrict 5 encompasses southern Orange County, including Aliso Viejo, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Woods, Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, San Juan Capistrano, Laguna Beach, San Clemente, and Dana Point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281636-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County SC season\nThe 2018 Orange County SC season was the club's eighth season of existence, and their eighth consecutive season in the United Soccer League, the second tier of American soccer. Orange County also competed in the U.S. Open Cup. The season covered the period from October 14, 2017 to the beginning of the 2019 USL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281636-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County SC season\nOCSC won the Western Conference in the regular season, finishing one point ahead of runners-up Sacramento Republic. It marked the second time in club history that Orange County had topped the conference, after 2015. However, the club would be knocked out in the conference finals by eventual USL Cup runners-up Phoenix Rising. In the U.S. Open Cup, Orange County were eliminated in the second round by Golden State Force, failing to win a game in the competition for the fourth time in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281636-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County SC season\n2018 marked the first season with Braeden Cloutier as the club's head coach, and Cloutier's first season as a professional head coach. The season averaged 3,095 fans per home match, and was the second consecutive season that the average attendance had increased.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281636-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County SC season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nIn August 2017, the USL announced that the 2018 season would span 34 games, the longest regular season the league had ever run. The expansion was spurred by the addition of six new clubs for the 2018 season: Atlanta United 2, Fresno FC, Indy Eleven, Las Vegas Lights, Nashville SC, and North Carolina FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281636-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County SC season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nOn January 14, 2018, the league announced home openers for every club. Orange County opened the season with a home match against Phoenix Rising, marking the first season-opening match to ever be played at Championship Soccer Stadium. In 2017, the club played its first four matches on the road before getting to open the new stadium on May 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281636-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County SC season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nThe schedule for the remainder of the 2018 season was released on January 19. Orange County played three times against both LA Galaxy II and Phoenix. They played every other Western Conference team twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election\nThe 2018 Orange, County, California District Attorney election took place on June 5, 2018 for the first round. Because no candidate received a majority in the first round, a runoff took place November 6, 2018, to elect the Orange County, California District Attorney. County-level elections in California are officially nonpartisan. Because no candidate received a majority, a runoff was held on November 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election\nIncumbent District Attorney Tony Rackauckas is running for a sixth term. Rackauckas was re-elected in 2014 with 73% of the vote in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election\nIn July 2017, Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer declared that he will challenge Rackauckas due to scandals within the Orange County District Attorney's office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election\nIn May of 2018, former mayor of Brea Brett Murdock declared candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election\nRackauckas has faced criticism for allegedly mishandling jailhouse informants, making it more difficult to convict and sentence defendants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election\nOn September 22, 2017, Scott Dekraai was sentenced to eight terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole, one term for each of his victims and to seven years to life for attempted murder in a Seal Beach salon shooting. The jailhouse informant scandal allegedly involving Rackauckas made it impossible to seek the death penalty for Dekraai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election\nThe American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint claiming the alleged widespread use of jailhouse informants by Orange County law enforcement officeholders has continued for decades. The United States Department of Justice and California Attorney General's office both launched probes investigating the jailhouse informant case. As of April 4, 2018, no charges have been filed against any Orange County law enforcement official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election\nOn April 26 2018, A forum for candidates sponsored by conservative PAC Hispanic 100 was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election\nAssistant Orange County Public Defender Scott Sanders claims California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions have turned a blind eye to the use of jailhouse informants. Sanders discovered that more than 140 cases might have been mishandled due to the use of jailhouse informants. Sanders claims that it is the largest jailhouse informant scandal in United States history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election\nOn November 6, 2018, Spitzer, a Republican, defeated incumbent Republican Rackauckas, denying Rackauckas a sixth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election, General election, Results by county supervisorial district\nRackauckas won all 5 county supervisorial districts by varying margins. Red represents county supervisorial districts won by Rackauckas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 117], "content_span": [118, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election, General election, Results by congressional district\nRackauckas won all 7 congressional districts by varying margins. Red represents congressional districts won by Rackauckas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 110], "content_span": [111, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election, Runoff, Results by county supervisorial district\nSpitzer won all 5 county supervisorial districts. Green represents county supervisorial districts won by Spitzer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 107], "content_span": [108, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281637-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election, Runoff, Results by congressional district\nGreen represents congressional districts won by Spitzer. Red represents congressional districts won by Rackauckas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281638-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ballot Measure 101\nOregon Measure 101 was a ballot measure approved by voters in the U.S. state of Oregon in the special election on January 23, 2018. The measure approved taxes on hospitals and some health insurers to fund the Oregon Health Plan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281639-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ballot Measure 102\nOregon Ballot Measure 102 was a ballot measure passed by voters in the November 6, 2018 general election. If passed, the measure \"would allow local governments to issue bonds to pay for affordable housing projects that involve nonprofits or other nongovernmental entities\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281639-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ballot Measure 102\nThe Oregon state legislature voted to put the measure on the ballot for voter approval and it received broad bipartisan support during the election, including from both major party candidates in the 2018 Oregon gubernatorial election, Democrat Kate Brown and Republican Knute Buehler. The measure also had the support of vocal opponents of an affordable housing bond that was put before Portland-area voters in the same election. It faced no major organized opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281639-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ballot Measure 102\nEarly results from election night showed that the measure passed easily, and the official results later published by the Oregon Secretary of State showed that the measure passed with 56.90% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281640-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ballot Measure 103\nOregon Ballot Measure 103 was a ballot measure defeated by voters in the upcoming 2018 election. Voters considered \"a constitutional amendment that would bar new taxes on groceries, including food and soda, as well as freeze the state's corporate minimum tax for supermarkets\". It was defeated with 42.69% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281641-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ballot Measure 104\nOregon Ballot Measure 104 was a ballot measure defeated by voters in the upcoming 2018 election. Voters considered \"a constitutional amendment that would require a three-fifths supermajority for legislation that raises revenue through changes in tax exemptions, credits and deductions\". It was defeated with 35% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281642-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ballot Measure 105\nOregon Ballot Measure 105 was a ballot measure defeated by voters in the upcoming 2018 election. If passed, the measure \"would overturn 1987 sanctuary law that prohibits state and local police from enforcing immigration law if a person's only violation is being in the country illegally\". It was defeated with 37% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281643-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ballot Measure 106\nOregon Ballot Measure 106 was a ballot measure on the 2018 election ballot in the U.S. state of Oregon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281643-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ballot Measure 106\nThe measure, a proposed amendment to the state Constitution, would have barred the use of public funds to pay for abortions in Oregon, \"except when medically necessary or required by federal law.\" The measure would have affected persons with Medicaid health insurance coverage and state employees. The measure was defeated by a broad margin, with 1,195,718 \"no\" votes (64%), and 658,793 \"yes\" (35%) votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281643-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ballot Measure 106\nThe measure was sponsored by anti-abortion activists, who succeeded in placing the measure on the ballot in 2018 after failures in the previous three election cycles. Planned Parenthood and other groups opposed the measure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281644-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ducks football team\nThe 2018 Oregon Ducks football team represented the University of Oregon during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Mario Cristobal who took over for Willie Taggart who departed for Florida State. Oregon played their games at Autzen Stadium and competed as members of the North Division of the Pac-12 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281644-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ducks football team\nComing off a 7\u20136 season under Taggart in 2017, Oregon began the year ranked 24th in the preseason AP Poll. After sweeping their non-conference slate, they fell to then-No. 7 Stanford in overtime. The team bounced back with wins over No. 24 California and No. 7 Washington and rose to 12th in the polls before losing three of their next four games. The Ducks finished the regular season in fourth in the Pac-12 North Division with a conference record of 5\u20134. They were invited to the Redbox Bowl, where they defeated Michigan State to end the year at 9\u20134 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281644-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ducks football team\nThe Oregon offense was led by junior quarterback Justin Herbert, who finished in second the Pac-12 Conference with 31 total touchdowns (29 passing and 2 rushing). Running back C. J. Verdell finished with 1,018 rushing yards and 10 rushing touchdowns. Defensively, the team was led by defensive end Jalen Jelks, who was named first-team all-conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281644-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ducks football team, Previous season\nThe Ducks finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 4\u20135 in Pac-12 play to finish in fourth place in the North Division. They were invited to the Las Vegas Bowl where they lost to Boise State 28\u201338.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281644-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon Ducks football team, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days\nThe 2018 Pac-12 media days are set for July 25, 2018 in Hollywood, California. Mario Cristobal (HC), Justin Herbert (QB) & Jalen Jelks (DL) at Pac-12 Media Days. The Pac-12 media poll was released with the Ducks predicted to finish in third place at Pac-12 North division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team\nThe 2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team represented Oregon State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Beavers played their home games at Goss Stadium at Coleman Field and were members of the Pac-12 Conference. The team was coached by Pat Casey in his 24th and final season at Oregon State. The Beavers began the season ranked #2 by Baseball America and were unanimously selected by Pac-12 coaches to repeat as conference champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team\nThey won their third national championship by defeating Arkansas in the 2018 College World Series. It was only the second time in College World Series history that a team won the championship after losing their first game of the tournament and the first game of the championship series. The first team to do that was the 2006 Oregon State Beavers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, Season\nOn March 11th, head coach Pat Casey was suspended by the NCAA for 4 games as a result of contact made on March 9th with third base umpire Mark Buchanan while disputing a check-swing call against a Cal State Fullerton batter. Casey was ejected following the contact and the game resulted in the Beavers' first loss of the season 3\u20135. Associate head coach Pat Bailey led the team during Casey's suspension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, Season\nEntering into the final game of the regular season against UCLA Oregon State found itself 1\u20442 game behind Stanford for the Pac-12 crown. A win against UCLA coupled with a Stanford loss to Washington, who was also in contention for the league championship, would have given the Beavers their second straight Pac-12 championship. Oregon State would go on to lose against UCLA and Stanford rallied to win against Washington to give them their first Pac-12 championship since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, Season\nIn the postseason tournament the Beavers were selected as the #3 overall national seed, which guaranteed home field advantage for both the Regionals and Super Regionals. Only defending national champion Florida (#1) and Pac-12 champion Stanford (#2) were seeded higher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, College World Series\nOn June 16, 2018, Oregon State dropped the opening game of the CWS to North Carolina by a score of 8\u20136. Oregon State was first on the board when Trevor Larnach tripled in the bottom of the 1st to drive in leadoff batter Steven Kwan. The Tarheels matched the Beavers 1\u20131 in the 2nd, before taking a commanding 6\u20131 lead in the top of the 3rd. This marked the first time all season Oregon State gave up 6 runs in the first 3 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, College World Series\nA controversial safe call at third base in the top of the 7th helped sustain The Tarheels inning, when Beavers' 3rd baseman Gretler appeared to tag Tarheels runner Martorano, but was ruled safe. Instant replay would say otherwise, but the call was non-reviewable. Martorano was driven in by the next batter, increasing the Tarheels lead to 7\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, College World Series\nOn June 18, 2018, Oregon State defeated the Washington Huskies in the first elimination game of the CWS by a score of 14\u20135. This marked the 4th meeting between the two conference rivals this season, with Oregon State leading the series 2\u20131. Washington took a 3\u20130 lead in the bottom of the 3rd, before giving up 4 runs and surrendering the lead in the top of the 5th. Washington was quick to respond, taking a 5\u20134 lead before a 4+1\u20442-hour rain delay in the top of the 6th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, College World Series\nWashington walked in the tying run after play resumed in the 6th, and would be shutout for the remainder of the game. Lead-off hitter Steven Kwan injured his hamstring while at bat in the top of the 3rd inning. Kwan would sit out the majority of the College World Series, starting only the opening game of the finals against Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, College World Series\nOn June 20, 2018, Oregon State defeated the North Carolina Tarheels in an elimination game by a score of 11\u20136. The Beavers jumped out to an early 3\u20130 lead, before the Tarheels tied the game in the bottom of a 3rd with the assist of a controversial fair ball call. The hit drove in 2 runs and was deemed non-reviewable. Oregon State trailed 6\u20133 in the top of the 8th with 1 out, before Adley Rutchman crushed a base hit double to center field, driving in 3 runs to tie the game 6\u20136. The Beavers continued to pile on runs into the 8th inning, while shutting the Tarheels out for the remainder of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, College World Series\nOregon State vs Mississippi St (Game 11)On June 22, 2018, Oregon State defeated the Mississippi State Bulldogs by a score of 12\u20132. Mississippi State appeared to have the blessings of the College Baseball Gods throughout the tournament, staving off five elimination games before arriving in Omaha. Mississippi State quickly put up 1 run in the top of the 1st, and but failed to establish their presence for the remainder of the game. Oregon State went on a hitting frenzy with a barrage of runs in the 2nd and 7th inning. In the 7th inning, head coach Pat Casey sent his son, Joe Casey, to pinch hit for Tyler Malone. Casey dug a pitch out of the ground for a base hit over 2nd and his first CWS RBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, College World Series\nOregon State vs Mississippi St (Game 13)On June 23, 2018, Oregon State defeated the Mississippi State Bulldogs by a score of 5\u20132. The Beavers scored all 5 runs with 2 outs in the top of the 3rd, the final three runs coming on DH Tyler Malone's home run. The Bulldogs appeared to have regained favor of the College Baseball Gods with a last minute rally brewing in the bottom of the 9th, as Oregon State pitcher, Jake Mulholland, loaded the bases with a 5\u20132 lead and Jordan Westburg at bat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, College World Series\nWestburg was fresh off a CWS Grand Slam against North Carolina, and was looking to become the first player ever to hit 2 CWS Grand Slams. Westburg blasted a grounder to shortstop Cadyn Grenier, which appeared to be glued to the inside of Grenier's glove, before finding its way to 2nd baseman Nick Madrigal for the final out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, College World Series\nOn June 26, 2018, the Arkansas Razorbacks defeated the Oregon State Beavers, 4\u20131, in the opening game of the CWS Finals. The CWS Finals were scheduled to begin on the previous day, but were delayed due to rain, giving Oregon State an extra day to rest their bullpen. This defeat marked Oregon State's first loss to an SEC team all season, and the first loss to an SEC team since losing game 2 of the CWS Semi Finals to LSU in 2017. The game was marred by a controversial interference call which lead to a double play and took a run off the board for the Beavers. Oregon State was unable to recover from the shift in momentum, going scoreless for the remainder of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, College World Series\nOn June 27, 2018, Oregon State defeated Arkansas 5\u20133 to even the series 1\u20131. Arkansas appeared in complete control of the game, and on their way to certain victory, when Arkansas missed a game winning pop-up foul ball off the bat of Cadyn Grenier in the top of the 9th. The ball fell between the first base line and the wall, with the first baseman, right fielder, and second baseman honing in on the game sealing pop-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, College World Series\nThe second baseman, Carson Shaddy, bumped first baseman Jared Gates while running towards the ball, causing Gates to take his eye off the ball, Shaddy to overrun the ball, and right fielder Eric Cole to pull up. The ball landed foul between the 3 Arkansas players, giving Oregon State a second chance. Cadyn Grenier knocked in the game-tying run 2 pitches later. Trevor Larnach came to the plate with Arkansas still in shock, boasting the most home runs of the season for the Beavers, and hit a two-run shot over the head of Cole to win the game, 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, College World Series\nOn June 28, 2018, Oregon State defeated Arkansas, 5\u20130, to win their third College World Series championship. Oregon State pitcher Kevin Abel worked himself into a jam in the top of the 3rd, loading the bases with one out against the Razorbacks, before going on to retire 20 batters in a row. Abel became the first pitcher to win four games in the CWS, and two games in the CWS Finals. He pitched only the 4th complete game shutout in a championship game, with the lowest hit total of those games (2). Oregon State catcher Adley Rutchman set the CWS hits record during this game, with 17 hits. Rutchman won the CWS Most Outstanding Player Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, Major League Baseball Draft\nIn the 2018 Major League Baseball draft Nick Madrigal became the highest draft pick in Oregon State history when the Chicago White Sox selected him with the 4th pick of the 1st Round. The previous record holder was Michael Conforto, who was selected 10th overall by the New York Mets in the 2014 MLB draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, Major League Baseball Draft\nPitcher Drew Rasmussen, who missed the entire 2018 season due to undergoing his second Tommy John surgery, was originally selected 31st overall in the 2017 MLB draft by the Tampa Bay Rays but was unable to come to terms with the team before the July 7th deadline. He was later denied free agency by Major League Baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281645-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, Major League Baseball Draft\nTwo-time Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year, Luke Heimlich, went undrafted for the second straight year. The Texas Rangers announced a month before the draft that they would not select the winningest pitcher in Oregon State history after it was revealed Heimlich pled guilty to sexually molesting a family member when he was 15. Heimlich has since denied the allegations to which he pled guilty as a juvenile saying the guilty plea was \"a decision me and my parents thought was the best option to move forward as a family.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281646-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers football team\nThe 2018 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team played their home games on campus at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, Oregon as a member of the North Division of the Pac-12 Conference. They were led by first-year head coach Jonathan Smith. The schedule was released on November 16, 2017. The Beavers finished the season with a 2\u201310 record. They went 1\u20138 in Pac-12 play and finished in last place in the North Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281646-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers football team, Previous season\nThe Beavers finished the 2017 season 1\u201311, 0\u20139 in Pac-12 play to finish in last place in the North Division. The Beavers entered the season with Gary Andersen as coach in his third year. After his squad opened with losses in five of their first six games, with their only win against Portland State, Andersen resigned and was replaced by interim head coach Cory Hall for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281646-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon State Beavers football team, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days\nThe 2018 Pac-12 media days were on July 25, 2018 in Hollywood, California. Oregon State was represented by Jonathan Smith (HC), Blake Brandel (OL) & Kee Whetzel (LB) at Pac-12 Media Days. The Pac-12 media poll was released with the Beavers predicted to finish in last place in the North Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281647-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Oregon gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018 to elect the Governor of Oregon who would serve a full four-year term, after the 2016 special election, where Governor Kate Brown was elected to serve the last two years of a four-year term. Incumbent Democratic Governor Kate Brown ran for a full term. The Republican Party nominated Knute Buehler to run against Brown; the Independent Party of Oregon nominated Patrick Starnes. Kate Brown was re-elected as governor in a rematch of the 2012 Oregon Secretary of State Election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281648-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon legislative election\nThe 2018 elections for the Oregon Legislative Assembly determined the composition of both houses for the 80th Oregon Legislative Assembly. The Republican and Democratic parties held primary elections on May 15, 2018 with general elections on November 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281648-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon legislative election\nAs a result of the elections, the Democratic Party expanded its advantage in both houses of the state legislature. The party gained one seat in the Oregon State Senate and three seats in the Oregon House of Representatives, bringing its advantage over the Republican Party to 18-12 and 38-22, respectively. These gains gave the Democratic Party a 3/5 (or 60%) supermajority in both chambers for the 80th Oregon Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281648-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon legislative election, Oregon Senate\nThe 30 members of the Oregon State Senate are elected to four-year terms, and only half of those seats (15) are up for election every two years. In addition to these 15 regular elections, there were two special elections to determine who would complete the four-year terms of Senators that were replaced during the first half of their term. These 17 seats up for election were represented by 10 Democrats and 7 Republicans. The Democrats decreased their advantage over Republicans from 18-12 to 17-13 in the 2016 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281648-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon legislative election, Oregon House of Representatives\nThe 60 members of the Oregon House of Representatives are elected to two-year terms, so all 60 seats were up for election. In this election, these seats were represented by 35 Democrats and 25 Republicans. The Democrats maintained their 35-25 advantage in the 2016 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281649-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon state elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Oregon on November 6, 2018. Primary elections were held on May 15, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281649-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon state elections, United States House of Representatives\nAll five of Oregon's seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for re-election in 2018. All five incumbents, four Democrats and one Republican, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281649-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon state elections, Governor\nIncumbent Democratic Governor Kate Brown was originally elevated to the role in February 2015 upon the resignation of her predecessor, Governor John Kitzhaber. Then serving as the Oregon Secretary of State, Brown was first in the line of succession to replace the Kitzhaber. Brown won a special election the following year to serve the final two years of Kitzhaber's four-year term. Brown won re-election to her first full term in this election. Brown was challenged by Republican Knute Buehler, representative of Oregon's 54th House district, and several third party candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281649-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon state elections, Commissioner of Labor\nIncumbent Brad Avakian elected not to seek re-election to the office of Oregon Commissioner of Labor. A nonpartisan primary election was held alongside partisan primary elections on May 15, 2018. Three candidates appeared on the primary election ballot:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281649-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon state elections, Commissioner of Labor\nSince the Commissioner of Labor is a nonpartisan role, a general election is only held if no one in the primary election secures 50% of the vote. Hoyle avoided a runoff vote and was elected to the role by winning 52.28% of the vote in the primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281649-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon state elections, Legislative\nOf the 30 seats in the Oregon State Senate, 17 were up for election (15 regular elections and 2 special elections). All 60 seats in the Oregon House of Representatives were up for election. As a result of the election, the Democratic Party expanded its advantage over the Republican Party and held a supermajority in both chambers. Democrats had a 18-12 majority in the Senate and 38-22 majority in the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281649-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon state elections, Ballot measures\nThere were five statewide Oregon ballot measures on the general election ballot. As a result of the election, one ballot measure passed while the other four failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281650-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon wildfires\nWildfires in the U.S. state of Oregon in 2018 include the Boxcar Fire, Graham Fire, and Jack Knife Fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281650-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon wildfires\nIn July, one person was killed by the Substation Fire, which also destroyed the Charles E. Nelson House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281650-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oregon wildfires, Wildfires\nThe following is a list of fires that burned more than 1,000 acres, or produced significant structural damage or loss of life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281651-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Orienteering World Cup\nThe 2018 Orienteering World Cup was the 24th edition of the Orienteering World Cup. The 2018 Orienteering World Cup consisted of 11 individual events and 9 relay events. The events were located in Switzerland, Latvia, Norway and Czech Republic. The European Orienteering Championships in Ticino, Switzerland and the 2018 World Orienteering Championships in Riga, Latvia were included in the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281651-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Orienteering World Cup\nMatthias Kyburz of Switzerland won his third consecutive overall title in the men's World Cup, his fifth title in total. Tove Alexandersson of Sweden won her fifth overall title in the women's World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281651-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Orienteering World Cup, Points distribution\nThe 40 best runners in each event were awarded points. The winner was awarded 100 points. In WC events 1 to 9, the eight best results counted in the overall classification. In the finals (WC 10 and WC 11), both results counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281651-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Orienteering World Cup, Overall standings\nThis section shows the final standings after all 10 individual events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281651-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Orienteering World Cup, Overall standings, Relay\nThe table shows the final standings after all 9 relay events. All results counted in the overall standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season\nThe 2018 Orlando City SC season was the club's eighth season of existence in Orlando and fourth season in Major League Soccer, the top-flight league in the United States soccer league system. Alongside Major League Soccer, the club also competed in the U.S. Open Cup. The team played its home games at Orlando City Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, Pre-season\nOn December 17, 2017, Kak\u00e1 announced his retirement, after turning down offers from former clubs S\u00e3o Paulo FC and A.C. Milan. With the options of several players declined at the end of the previous season, Orlando City set its sights on the off-season to rebuild its roster. The club began the winter transfer window by acquiring midfielder Sacha Kljestan from the New York Red Bulls in exchange for attacker Carlos Rivas and defender Tommy Redding. During this time, it was announced that Orlando City B had elected to not participate in the 2018 USL season, sparking alarm in regards to the club's youth development and depth. Just a few days later, Paraguayan midfielder Josu\u00e9 Colm\u00e1n signed with the club as a Young Designated Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, Pre-season\nIn early January, Orlando City Stadium played host to two games in the 2018 edition of the Florida Cup. This was followed by the club also hosting the 2018 MLS Combine from January 11 to 17, which resulted in forward Chris Mueller being picked by Orlando City in the MLS SuperDraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, Pre-season\nBy mid-January, attention shifted to forward Cyle Larin after images of him undergoing a medical with Be\u015fikta\u015f J.K. were posted on the Turkish club's Twitter account. While Orlando City was aware of the social media posting, no transfer agreement had been made at that time and the club was preparing to take legal action as Larin was still \"under contract with Orlando City through 2019.\" When training camp officially commenced on January 22, Larin was absent and appeared to be training with Be\u015fikta\u015f in a video released the following day. A week later, Orlando City announced that they had come to terms with Be\u015fikta\u015f for the transfer of Larin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, Pre-season\nOn January 29, it was announced that Orlando City had acquired midfielder Justin Meram from Columbus Crew SC in exchange for $1.05 million in allocation money plus an international roster spot. Further transfers were made throughout January and February, with a total of 13 new players making the move to Orlando. On February 28, center back Jonathan Spector was named the new captain of Orlando City following Kak\u00e1's departure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, March\nOrlando City began their fourth Major League Soccer campaign on March 3 at home against D.C. United. Despite Joe Bendik making a penalty save early on, D.C. United opened the scoring in the 32nd minute with a Yamil Asad free kick. In the 41st minute, PC was issued a red card and Orlando City played the remainder of the game with 10 men. The Lions maintained pressure throughout the second half and eventually equalized in stoppage time following a forward run by Jonathan Spector that set Stefano Pinho up for his debut goal, securing a point with a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, March\nOrlando remained at home for its second match, falling 2\u20131 to Minnesota United following a brace by Ethan Finlay. The club then hit the road for its first away match of the season against New York City FC. This marked the first Orlando City appearances for Lamine San\u00e9 and Josu\u00e9 Colm\u00e1n, who both came on as second half subs, as well as Sacha Kljestan. Despite holding a 0\u20130 scoreline at half, the Lions ended up falling 2\u20130 from goals by Ismael Tajouri and Maxi Moralez. Following a two-week hiatus, Orlando City returned home to host the New York Red Bulls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, March\nAfter conceding in the seventh minute, City soon struck back with a tap-in goal by Will Johnson. The Red Bulls regained the lead shortly after, but the Lions equalized once again via a Dom Dwyer header to end the half at 2\u20132. Dwyer opened the second half with a goal that came from a throw-in assist by Mohamed El Monir. The visitors were able to level the scoreline in the 82nd minute, but a shot from Scott Sutter that deflected off of Colm\u00e1n made its way into the back of the net and secured City all three points in the club's first victory of the 2018 Major League Soccer season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, April\nOn April 8, the Lions made team history by securing their first win from a 2-goal deficit, with Dwyer scoring the game-winning goal in the 87th minute for a dramatic 3\u20132 comeback victory against the Portland Timbers. The result also marked the first back-to-back wins for the club since April 29, 2017. With all three goals scored in the final ten minutes, they lead the league with 25 in the last three seasons, reaffirming the nickname \"Cardiac Cats.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, April\nFive days later, Joe Bendik picked up his first clean sheet of the season to go along with four saves, while Dwyer scored his 99th goal in all career caps, for the Lions' first away win of the season: a 2\u20130 shutout of the Philadelphia Union. The winning streak stretched to four in a 3\u20132 home victory against the San Jose Earthquakes, courtesy of goals from Mueller, Kljestan, and Dwyer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, April\nBoth Mueller and Dwyer's goals were milestones: Mueller's strike came 63 seconds into the match, making it the fastest MLS goal in the club's history, and Dwyer's goal marked his 100th career goal in all competitions. Then, in yet another come-from-behind thriller and their fifth straight win to close out the month, Orlando City defeated the Colorado Rapids with a 2\u20131 scoreline at the high altitude of DSG Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, May\nThe first major test of the season comes early, as four of the next five matches for Orlando City come against the top four 2017 Eastern Conference teams: Atlanta United FC, Toronto FC, the Chicago Fire, and New York City FC. A new club record was reached as the \"Cardiac Cats\" opened the month of May with their sixth straight victory, and fourth when conceding the first goal, in a 3\u20131 result against Real Salt Lake. Lamine San\u00e9 scored his first goal in purple, while Chris Schuler made his debut in the squad's starting 11, against his former team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, May\nOn May 13, Justin Meram opened his account with a second-half goal against the Five Stripes. However, the Lions' comeback fell short in a 2\u20131 loss, their second of the season at home. The game was marred by fans throwing trash onto the field in frustration. Orlando City was later criticized by local authorities and news organizations for routinely condemning behavior without taking any significant action to decrease such incidents. The rough patch continued with another 2\u20131 loss at Toronto FC. A 2\u20131 defeat at home to the Chicago Fire extended the losing streak to three games to close out the month, as the Lions looked ahead to a 4-game, 12-day road trip with stops in New York, Miami, Vancouver, and Montreal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, June\nThe losing streak continued into the month of June, as Orlando City fell 3\u20130 to New York City FC. With Dom Dwyer out due to injury, the Lions have found it difficult to score in their last four matches. The club was able to turn things around in their first match of the 2018 U.S. Open Cup when they defeated NPSL side Miami United FC 3\u20130 with goals from PC, Stefano Pinho, and Dillon Powers. However, the club's MLS losing streak stretched to five games after the Lions were reduced to 10 men and were outscored 5\u20132 in Vancouver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, June\nThe 12-day road trip came to an end in Montreal, where Orlando City suffered its third consecutive three-goal margin defeat. Two days later, the club announced that it had parted ways with head coach Jason Kreis and that assistant coach Bobby Murphy would assume the role of interim coach. Under Bobby's leadership, and changing to a three-back formation that showed much-improved stability in the defense, the Lions were able to eke out a 1-1 win on PKs (4-2), against D.C. United in the Round of 16 in the U.S. Open Cup on June 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, June\nOrlando played their first MLS match following Kreis' departure on June 23, 2018 when they faced Montreal for the second consecutive game. Murphy continued with the three-back formation he had used in the Open Cup four days earlier but Orlando fell to a 2-0 defeat, only registering one shot on target on the way to their seventh consecutive league defeat, a performance Bobby and several of the players apologized for post-game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, June\nOn June 29, the club announced that Louisville City FC manager and former Orlando City player-coach James O'Connor would take over as the Lion's new head coach. The day after, Murphy took control of his final game as interim manager prior to O'Connor filling the position permanently. The result was a 4\u20130 defeat away to Atlanta United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, July\nJames O'Connor's first game in charge was away at Los Angeles FC, marking the first time Orlando had ever played the new expansion side. The original kick off time was moved to 11:00\u00a0p.m. ET to avoid triple-digit temperatures. The team returned to the 4\u20132\u20133\u20131 formation that had been implemented earlier in the season under Jason Kreis but lost 4\u20131, breaking their three-game scoreless streak but extending the losing streak to nine. On July 14, O'Connor took charge of his first home game with the visit of Toronto FC. Orlando won 2\u20131 to end their winless streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, July\nIt was the first MLS match of the season to not feature Joe Bendik after Earl Edwards Jr. was given the start in goal. Orlando were knocked out of the U.S. Open Cup at the quarterfinals stage on July 18, losing 1\u20130 away to Philadelphia Union. On July 22, Orlando traveled to Columbus Crew SC where they led for most of the match. However, a penalty call and a controversial lack of VAR led to a game-tying 88th-minute penalty. Columbus would go on to win the game 3\u20132 in stoppage time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, July\nIn response, Professional Referee Organization released a statement acknowledging the error and reaffirming that the organization holds all officials \"accountable and takes appropriate action when necessary.\" Orlando returned home to face NYCFC for the third and final time of the year on July 26, falling to a 2\u20130 defeat and hitting the woodwork four times in the process. Then, despite taking the lead three times, Orlando lost 4\u20133 away to LA Galaxy on July 29, a game in which Cristian Higuita broke Cyle Larin's club record 89 appearances. Galaxy's Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107 notably scored his first MLS hattrick in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, August\nOn August 3, Orlando City traded Justin Meram back to Columbus Crew SC for $750,000 in Targeted Allocation Money and a 2019 international roster slot. The following day, the Lions returned home to face New England Revolution. After trailing by two goals early on, City equalized in the 71st minute. While New England gained the lead five minutes later, the Lions equalized again in stoppage time \u2013 resulting in a 3\u20133 draw. The team ended the month with two losses, both by a one-goal margin, to DC United and Atlanta United. The DC game marked the first time Orlando played at the newly-opened Audi Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, September\nOn September 1, Orlando hosted Philadelphia Union and held them to a 2\u20132 draw thanks to a Scott Sutter goal in stoppage time. It was the first time Orlando had avoided defeat against the same opponent twice in MLS this season. The following weekend the team lost 1\u20130 away to Sporting Kansas City as Dom Dwyer returned to face his former team for the first time. The team finished the month winless, losing on two away trips to Sporting Kansas City and Chicago Fire before earning a 0\u20130 draw at home to Houston Dynamo, with Adam Grinwis securing only the team's second league clean sheet of the season on his debut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, October\nPrior to the team's game against FC Dallas on October 6, Orlando were officially eliminated from playoff contention following Montreal's win over Columbus Crew earlier that day. They went on to lose 2\u20130. Orlando remained on the road for the next match against New England Revolution which also ended 2\u20130 and extending the team's scoreless run to five games. On October 17 the team set a new MLS single season record for number of goals conceded when V\u00edctor Rodr\u00edguez opened the scoring for Seattle Sounders, the 71st goal Orlando had given up that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, October\nThis surpassed the previous total of 70 set by Minnesota United in their inaugural season in 2017. Seattle went on to win 2\u20131. Orlando's final home game of the season, played on October 21, saw them win only their second game under the stewardship of James O'Connor when Kljestan scored penalty in stoppage time to beat Columbus Crew 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, October, Decision Day\nOn October 28, the final day of the regular season, Orlando traveled to a New York Red Bulls side who were one of two teams with the potential to win the Supporters' Shield. They started the day one point behind Atlanta United but their 1\u20130 win over Orlando combined with Atlanta's 4\u20131 defeat against Toronto FC meant they finished top of the standings and lifted the Shield for the third time. Orlando finished the season bottom of the Eastern Conference and, because of Colorado Rapids' decision day win, dropped to 22nd in the Supporters' Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Season review, November\nOn November 26, 2018, Orlando City parted ways with General Manager Niki Budali\u0107 who had been at the club since January 2016 and held the role of GM for two years. The day after, the club announced it had decided not to exercise the contract options of eight players: Joe Bendik, Richie Laryea, Tony Rocha, Chris Schuler, Jonathan Spector, Scott Sutter, Donny Toia and Jose Villarreal. Earl Edwards, Jr. would also be released as a result of his expired contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Competitions, Friendlies\nThe pre-season schedule was announced on January 16, 2018, outlining five closed-door pre-season friendlies over the course of February. Training camp began on Monday, January 22, for the first of three training sessions before the club traveled to Jacksonville for a 10-day pre-season training camp at Davis Park. The club then relocated back to its training facility at Sylvan Lake Park. A sixth pre-season friendly was played on February 25 against Nashville SC of the United Soccer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Competitions, Major League Soccer\nThe opening home match was announced on December 19, 2017, while the remaining MLS schedule was released on January 4, 2018. Outside of the club, there were several changes made throughout the league. The most significant change came via the addition of Los Angeles FC as the 23rd franchise in MLS and 12th member of the Western Conference. Orlando City SC played LAFC for the first time on July 7, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup\nAfter the fourth round draw was held on May 24, Orlando City entered the 105th edition of the U.S. Open Cup on the road in South Florida, against Miami FC on June 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup\nHost team listed first. Bold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout score", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Squad statistics, Appearances\nStarting appearances are listed first, followed by substitute appearances after the + symbol where applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Player movement\nPer Major League Soccer and club policies, terms of the deals do not get disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Player movement, MLS SuperDraft picks\nDraft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. The 2018 draft was held on January 19, 2018. Orlando had one selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Broadcasting\nOrlando City were featured on national television 13 times during the 2018 season, while all remaining matches were televised locally on WRDQ. Six of the nationally televised games were shown on ESPN, tied with three other clubs for the most appearances. Additionally, certain matches were streamed live on Twitter following the announcement of a three-year agreement between Major League Soccer and the social networking service. In May 2018, the club announced a deal it had made with YouTube TV in which all of its locally televised matches would be streamed live through the subscription service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281652-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando City SC season, Broadcasting\nEnglish-language radio was be split between WTKS 104.1 and WYGM 740 AM/96.9 FM/101.1-2 HD for the 2018 season, with WYGM airing 18 regular-season matches and WTKS airing 14 regular-season matches. Spanish-language radio broadcasts were conducted on WDYZ 990 AM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281653-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando Pride season\nThe 2018 season was Orlando Pride's third season in the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States. The team played its home games at Orlando City Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281653-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando Pride season, Transfers and loans, 2018 NWSL College Draft\nDraft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. The 2018 college draft was held on January 18, 2018. Orlando had one selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281653-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Orlando Pride season, Media\nThe NWSL website and the Go90 app have the exclusive rights to streaming all games live on each of their platforms. In addition, the league has partnered with the Lifetime Network to air a \"Game of the Week\" on Saturdays for the 24-week Regular Season. The Pride were selected for 8 matches on the slate. The dates are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281654-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Orl\u00e9ans Masters\nThe 2018 Orl\u00e9ans Masters was a badminton tournament which took place at Palais des Sports in France from 27 March to 1 April 2018 and had a total purse of $75,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281654-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Orl\u00e9ans Masters, Tournament\nThe 2018 Orl\u00e9ans Masters was the first Super 100 tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Orl\u00e9ans Masters championships which had been held since 2012. This tournament was organized by the Cercle La\u00efque des Tourelles Orl\u00e9ans Badminton (CLTO) with the sanction from the French Badminton Federation (FFBaD) and BWF. It was also the first ever new Super 100 Level 6 tournament of the BWF World Tour schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281654-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Orl\u00e9ans Masters, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Palais des Sports in Orl\u00e9ans, Centre-Val de Loire, France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281654-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Orl\u00e9ans Masters, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF Tour Super 100 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 52], "content_span": [53, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281654-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Orl\u00e9ans Masters, Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$75,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281655-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oruro attacks\nOn 10 February 2018, an explosion occurred in the afternoon of the Bolivian city of Oruro during the traditional carnival of the city. In a street food stand, 8 people were killed by an explosion near the main street of Oruro. At first it was thought that it was the explosion of a gas canister due to mishandling, but not finding fragments of the alleged canister or a gas leak that caused it, the government has discarded this theory. It also left more than forty people injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281655-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oruro attacks\nThree days later, another attack occurred at 18:57. Approximately three kilos of dynamite mixed with ANFO were used, which were detonated a short distance from the first explosion. The explosion caused the death of four persons, two of them children, and left nine people injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281655-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oruro attacks\nThe culprit of both explosions is unknown, but there have been several detainees. Three suspects who were in the explosion site of the second explosion were arrested the following day, but later it was discovered that they had no relation at all with the event. Another suspect of the first explosion continues apprehended since 27 March 2018. They were the most serious explosive attacks in Bolivian history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281655-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oruro attacks, Aftermath, First explosion\nInitially, the first detonation was attributed to the mishandling of a gas canister from a food stall installed in the street, but this was ruled out upon the announcement of the second explosion, which caused the conclusion of the investigation of the first explosion to be reviewed. It was discovered that the weapons used were 3 kilos of dynamite with hydrogel. It is thought that this dynamite was placed next to a carafe of liquefied petroleum gas with the intention of exploiting it. All the victims belonged to the same family, so it is possible that there were interests involved and that it was a targeted killing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281655-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oruro attacks, Aftermath, First explosion\nIt was requested that the nearby houses and businesses deliver the filmings of between February 10 and 12 as a result of the non-functioning of the security cameras due to flaw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281655-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Oruro attacks, Aftermath, First explosion\nThe culprit is not known, but a suspect has been arrested, Juan Carlos Herrera Beltr\u00e1n. He was arrested by the police on 27 March 2018 thanks to the recordings obtained by volunteers who offered to help. According to studies, it has been determined that the explosives were placed in a blue container placed in the middle of the victims, which implies that it was an attack directed at these people. It has also been claimed that Herrera left the place minutes before the attack. In the recordings, it was observed how Herrera did not help his wife when she was still alive. Herrera was remanded in custody. It is suspected that the crime is passionate, since he maintained a loving relationship with his sister-in-law, Amanda Balderrama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281655-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Oruro attacks, Aftermath, First explosion\nThree days after the first explosion, the second would take place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281655-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Oruro attacks, Aftermath, Second explosion\nThe Bolivian Police assured that there is no risk of a new attack and that there is a device deployed in the city. It has been criticized that the government did not exercise any preventive measure and that the second explosion would have been avoided had it not been for their ineptitude. Three suspects who were in the explosion site were arrested the following day, of which two of them circulated in a vehicle that presented damage presumably produced by explosives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281655-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Oruro attacks, Aftermath, Second explosion\nLater, it was discovered that they were not related to the attack and that they were separated at the time of the explosion, but they continued to be detained because of the possession of illegal weapons. The explosion caused the death of four persons, two of them under-ages, and left nine people injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281655-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Oruro attacks, Aftermath, Second explosion\nThe Bolivian authorities classified the event as a terrorist attack, too. It has been suggested that the explosion was caused by a gas leak, but due to the dimensions of the crater, that has been ruled out. The general commander of the Bolivian Police, Faustino Mendoza, declared that they had found the remains of a detonator for more than 3 kilos of dynamite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281655-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Oruro attacks, Aftermath, Second explosion\nThe company YPFB, a state-owned oil and gas company, cut the supply of gas in the area and verified that there was no gas leak, while conveying condolences to the families of the victims, action that also made the President Evo Morales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281655-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Oruro attacks, Aftermath, Second explosion\nThe places where both explosions occurred remain closed. Several parents decided not to send their children to school the next day. Many schools did not teach, and those that did were under strong police protection. Other people did not leave their homes because of the fear of being victims of a new explosion. Morales offers an amount of 150,000 bolivianos for all who of reliable information about the authors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281655-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Oruro attacks, Aftermath, Second explosion\nIn social networks, a lot of false information was spread like other alleged explosions or armed people in the street. Mendoza condemned these acts and called disinformation as part of terrorism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281656-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Osaka earthquake\nOn 18 June 2018, around 7:58\u00a0a.m. Japan Standard Time, an earthquake measuring 5.6 Mw on the moment magnitude scale (preliminary 5.5 Mw) struck in northern Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The earthquake's epicenter was near Takatsuki and occurred at a depth of approximately 13 kilometres (8.1\u00a0mi). The Japan Meteorological Agency registered a magnitude of 6.1 Mj and an intensity of lower 6 on the shindo scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281656-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Osaka earthquake\nShaking from the earthquake was felt strongly in the prefecture and the nearby metropolitan areas of Osaka and Kyoto, temporarily disrupting electrical and gas service to 170,000 homes and buildings. The earthquake struck during rush hour, disrupting train services for several hours, and also damaged water pipes and hundreds of homes. Four people were killed, 15 serious injuries were reported and 419 people had minor injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281656-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Osaka earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake occurred at 7:58\u00a0a.m. Japan Standard Time on 18 June, with its epicenter in the Takatsuki area of northeastern Osaka, at a depth of approximately 13 kilometres (8.1\u00a0mi). The Kansai region sits atop several active faults, which can produce inland shallow earthquakes. Three of the region's fault zones (Arima-Takatsuki, Uemachi, and Ikoma) are located near the epicenter and are suspected to have caused the earthquake. The Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995 struck nearby Kobe with great intensity, causing thousands of deaths. It was felt strongly in northern Osaka and also affected parts of nearby Kyoto. Within the following week, a total of 40 strong aftershocks were detected by the Japan Meteorological Agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281656-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Osaka earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake triggered the national earthquake warning system, which set alarms approximately 3.2 seconds for the Osaka and Kyoto areas after the detection of seismic waves. No tsunami waves were generated as a result of the earthquake. The Japan Meteorological Agency assigned an initial magnitude of MJMA5.9, which it later upgraded to MJMA\u202f6.1 (moment magnitude of 5.6 Mw). The earthquake registered as 6 (\"lower 6\") on the shindo intensity scale, and the United States Geological Survey reported a magnitude of 5.5 Mw. It was the first time a lower 6 was registered in Osaka Prefecture since 1923 when the government started to keep seismic records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281656-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Osaka earthquake, Earthquake\nThe later research shows that the earthquake source was case of geometrically complex faulting on at least two different faults. The activated strike-slip fault was parallel to the Arima-Takatsuki fault zone (and Itami fault). Next, the activated reverse fault might have a relationship with the deeper segments of the Uemachi fault zone. Shear movements on both of these buried faults contribute significantly to the total seismic moment of this earthquake. Therefore, this event is case of joint movements on multiple faults.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281656-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Osaka earthquake, Damage and effects\nThe earthquake caused the partial collapse of several buildings, as well as damage to underground water pipes that left residents without running water. A total of 6,766 structures were found by government surveys to have sustained partial damage, primarily in Osaka Prefecture but also including several in Kyoto Prefecture, Nara Prefecture, and Hy\u014dgo Prefecture. As many as 450 people remained in public shelters a week after the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281656-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Osaka earthquake, Damage and effects\nRoof tiles and stone ornaments at homes and historic temples and shrines fell to the ground. At least 170,000 homes in Osaka were initially under an electrical blackout, but power was restored later in the morning. Gas services were also stopped for over 112,000 households in Ibaraki and Takatsuki for several days, but was fully restored by 25 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281656-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Osaka earthquake, Damage and effects\nThe earthquake disrupted train services, including the Shinkansen, during the morning rush hour but had resumed service six hours later, in time for the afternoon commute. During the shutdown, passengers disembarked from trains and walked along the tracks, due to fears of aftershocks causing further damage. The Osaka Monorail reopened for service on 23 June, but was forced to suspend operations the following day due to the discovery of additional damage to the train cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281656-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Osaka earthquake, Damage and effects\nOperations at the JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy's oil refinery in Osaka and various manufacturing plants in the Kansai region were suspended to check for damage. Flights at two of the airports in the Kansai region were temporarily suspended, but resumed hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281656-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Osaka earthquake, Casualties\nThere were four confirmed deaths resulting from the earthquake, including a child in Takatsuki who was crushed by a collapsing wall outside her elementary school. The wall did not meet modern safety codes and prompted Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga to order safety checks of similar concrete block structures at schools across the country. 417 people were also injured and treated at hospitals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281656-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Osaka earthquake, Response\nShortly after the earthquake, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a pledge by the government to assist in rescue and recovery efforts. The Japanese Self Defense Force dispatched several teams to deliver water to residents, at the request of the prefectural government. Fears of landslides triggered by rains and further aftershocks led to hundreds of residents moving into public shelters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281656-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Osaka earthquake, Response\nAfter the earthquake, online rumors of ethnic non-Japanese residents committing dangerous crimes, such as looting and robbery, emerged on Twitter and other social media websites. The prefecture government and national Human Rights Bureau warned of false information being shared during the disaster and the Asahi Shimbun published an editorial criticizing the spread of hateful comments, comparing to similar rumors shared after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake that resulted in racial riots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281657-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ostrava municipal election\nMunicipal election in Ostrava will be held as part of Czech municipal elections in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281657-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ostrava municipal election, Background, Previous election\nPrevious election was held in 2014. ANO 2011 has won the election. ANO then negotiated with Ostravak, KDU-\u010cSL and ODS about possible coalition. Negotiations were unsuccessful and Ostravak agreed to form coalition with \u010cSSD and KS\u010cM. This coalition broke quickly afterwards giving ANO 2011 new opportunity. Coalition was finally formed between ANO, \u010cSSD and KDU-\u010cSL and leader of Ostravan ANO Tom\u00e1\u0161 Macura became new Mayor. Coalition ruled Ostrava until December 2015 when \u0106SSD and KDU-\u010cSL left the coalition. ANO 2011 the formed new coalition with ODS and Ostravak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281657-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ostrava municipal election, Background, Campaign\nANO 2011 decided to nominate incumbent Mayor Rom\u00e1\u0161 Macura as its leader on 20 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281657-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ostrava municipal election, Background, Campaign\nThe Civic Democratic Party (ODS) announced on 12 February 2018 that Senator Zden\u011bk Nytra will lead party in the election. TOP 09 and Freeholder Party of the Czech Republic decided to support ODS in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281657-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ostrava municipal election, Background, Campaign\nCzech Social Democratic Party (\u010cSSD) had to deal with inner problems during March 2018. 6 deputies left the party. It reduced \u010cSSD to only 7 seats in Assembly. Deputies who left the party, included Lum\u00edr Palyza who led the party in previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281658-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Osun State gubernatorial election\nThe Osun State gubernatorial election took place on September 22, 2018. The election was held alone where national and state level elections will be held by 2019. Two-terms incumbent Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress is in-eligible to run for re-election. He won in the 2014 Osun State gubernatorial election with a total of 394,684 votes, winning the highest number of votes in 22 of the 30 Local Government Areas of the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281658-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Osun State gubernatorial election, Background\nRauf Aregbesola previously served as a commissioner in Lagos State under Bola Tinubu's administration prior to becoming governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281659-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa Fury FC season\nThe 2018 Ottawa Fury FC season is the club's 5th season at the professional level and its 2nd in the United Soccer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281660-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa Redblacks season\nThe 2018 Ottawa Redblacks season was the fifth season for the team in the Canadian Football League. The Redblacks improved upon their 8\u20139\u20131 record from 2017, winning their ninth game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in an October 19 game, and finished with an 11\u20137 record. The team clinched a playoff berth and home playoff game for the fourth season in a row following the Toronto Argonauts' week 17 loss on October 6, 2018. After defeating the Tiger-Cats in the East Final, the Redblacks played in their third Grey Cup championship in four years, but lost to the Calgary Stampeders in the 106th Grey Cup game. This was the fifth season with Marcel Desjardins as general manager and Rick Campbell as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281660-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa Redblacks season, Off-season, Open Tryout Sessions\nOn February 15, 2018, the Redblacks announced they would be holding open tryouts across North America during the spring. The dates and locations are listed in the table below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281660-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa Redblacks season, Off-season, Coaching Staff\nOn November 29, 2017 the Redblacks announced they would not bring back four of their assistant coaches (Travis Moore, Bryan Chiu, Derek Oswalt & Ike Charlton) from the previous season. On December 4, 2017 the Redblacks announced the hire of Noel Thorpe as defensive coordinator (Thorpe will double as the defensive backs coach as well). Mark Nelson, who had been the team's defensive coordinator for four seasons, will remain with the club as a linebackers coach. Thorpe had been the defensive coordinator and assistant head coach of the Montreal Alouettes for the previous five seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281660-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa Redblacks season, Off-season, Free-Agency\nThe 2018 CFL free agency period officially opened at 12:00pm EST on February 13, 2018. Key transactions are listed below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281660-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa Redblacks season, Off-season, Free-Agency, CFL Draft\nThe 2018 CFL Draft took place on May 3, 2018. The Redblacks held seven selections in the eight round draft after trading their fifth-round pick to Calgary for Drew Tate and forfeiting their sixth-round pick after selecting Austin Reuland in the 2017 Supplemental Draft. They then acquired another fourth-round pick after trading Jake Ceresna to Edmonton for Odell Willis and then trading Willis to the BC Lions for the draft pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281660-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa Redblacks season, Post-season, Schedule\nWith their victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the Ottawa Redblacks clinched their third Grey Cup birth in four years having won the 2016 Championship Game in Toronto. Trevor Harris threw a playoff record six touchdown passes in the game, surpassing a record Anthony Calvillo set in the 2009 East Final against the BC Lions. With the victory, the Redblacks qualified to play the Calgary Stampeders in the 106th Grey Cup, a re-match of the game from two years prior. The Redblacks lost 27-16 in a game that they never had the lead against the heavily favoured Stampeders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281660-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa Redblacks season, Team, Roster\nItalics indicate International player updated 2018-11-25 \u2022 46 roster, 9 one-game injured,2 six-game injured, 8 practice1 disabled", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281661-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa municipal election\nThe Ottawa municipal election was held on October 22, 2018 to elect the mayor of Ottawa, Ottawa City Council and the Ottawa-Carleton Public and Catholic School Boards. The election was held on the same day as elections in every other municipality in Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281661-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa municipal election, Mayoral candidates, Hamid Alakozai\nNominated May 10. Former CF reservist member. Considered running for president of Afghanistan in 2011. Past advisor to the attorney general of Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281661-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa municipal election, Mayoral candidates, Ahmed Bouragba\nNominated July 26. Bilingual teacher and former elected Council member for the Ontario College of Teachers. Bouragba is a social justice advocate and civil liberties activist. Ran for Conseil des \u00e9coles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario trustee in 2014. Citation: Y.B. v. Conseil des \u00e9coles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario, 2017 HRTO 1240 (CanLII)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281661-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa municipal election, Mayoral candidates, Bernard Couchman\nNominated May 1. Immigrant from Guyana; operates a marketing company. He ran for mayor in 2014, finishing in last place (8th) with 1,255 votes (0.51%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281661-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa municipal election, Mayoral candidates, Clive Doucet\nNominated July 27. City councillor for Capital Ward from 2001 to 2010. He represented Capital Ward on the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Council from 1997 to 2000. Ran for mayor in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281661-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa municipal election, Mayoral candidates, Joey Drouin\nNominated July 27. Businessman. Running on a platform of combining Ottawa and Gatineau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281661-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa municipal election, Mayoral candidates, Craig MacAulay\nNominated July 11. Ran for city council in 2010 and 2014 in College Ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281661-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa municipal election, Mayoral candidates, Bruce McConville\nNominated July 26. Garage operator from Vanier. Ran for city council in 2003 and 2006 in Rideau-Vanier Ward. McConville was born August 30, 1962 in Eastview, Ontario (now Vanier). He dropped out of high school and would later start his garage in 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281661-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa municipal election, Mayoral candidates, Michael Pastien\nNominated May 16. Self described \"futurist\". Ran for city council in 2014 in Bay Ward and for public school trustee in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281661-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa municipal election, Mayoral candidates, Moises Schachtler\nNominated July 4. A former student of the University of Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281661-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa municipal election, Mayoral candidates, Jim Watson\nMayor Jim Watson had declared his intention to run for re-election in early 2017. He filed his nomination forms on May 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281661-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa municipal election, City Council, Innes Ward\nIncumbent councillor Jody Mitic announced he would not be running for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281661-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Ottawa municipal election, City Council, Kanata North Ward\nIncumbent councillor Marianne Wilkinson had announced she would not be running for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks\nOn 2 March 2018, at least eight heavily armed militants launched an assault on key locations throughout Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. Targets included the French embassy and the headquarters of Burkina Faso's military.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Background\nIn the aftermath of the 2011 Libyan Civil War, militant attacks have increased due to a large influx of weapons and fighters into the region. Neighbouring Mali faced conflict in Azawad that threatened to split the country. Since 2015, Burkina Faso has faced cross-border attacks and sporadic raids in its territory, the result of instability and unrest in neighboring countries. Two major attacks have occurred in the capital Ouagadougou in recent years: In 2016, attacks on a hotel and restaurant killed 30 people, including foreigners; and in 2017, similar attacks killed 19 people, including foreigners. Both of these attacks were carried out by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Background\nBurkina Faso also faced an uprising in 2014 leading to the downfall of President Blaise Compaor\u00e9 later that year. Burkina Faso is a member of the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership and its commitment of peacekeeping troops in Mali and Sudan has made it a target for extremists in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Attacks\nAt around 10:00 a.m., the attackers began their assault on the military headquarters, detonating a car bomb in an apparent attempt at targeting a meeting of senior officers. The blast destroyed one room in the building. Shortly after the assault on the army headquarters, gunmen converged on the French embassy, exchanging fire with local security forces and French special forces soldiers. The French Institute, a cultural organisation located in the city, was targeted as well according to an embassy statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Attacks\nLocal police believes that \"Islamic extremists\" were behind the attack, which involved the use of gunfire and at least one car bomb. Many of the gunmen were also reportedly wearing army uniforms. Five of the militants were killed at the embassy, and at least three others were killed near the army headquarters, according to Communications Minister Remy Danjuinou. Eight soldiers have been killed, and 85 others wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Attacks\nTo the west of the capital, heavy smoke rose from the army joint chief of staff\u2019s office, where unnamed witnesses reported loud explosions. Windows were broken there and in the surrounding buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Perpetrators\nThe day after the attack, the group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), an affiliate group of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb led by Iyad Ag Ghaly, claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it retaliation for a previous raid during Operation Barkhane by the French army in northern Mali.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Perpetrators\nOn 5 March, the group released a picture of the suicide bomber who detonated the explosives at the army headquarters, identifying him as Yunus al-Fulani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Perpetrators\nOn 7 March, eight people were arrested in connection to the attack including two military officers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Reactions\nBurkina Faso: Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thieba condemned the attacks, labeling them \"revolting.\" In a statement, President Christian Kabor\u00e9 said the country had again become the \"target of dark forces.\u201d During a subsequent meeting with the presidents of Niger and Togo, Kabor\u00e9 vowed to \"end terrorism no matter what\" and claimed \"no sacrifice will be too high in the defense of our fatherland.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Reactions\nEgypt: Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced the attacks in the \"strongest terms.\" The Ministry released a statement expressing support for \"the efforts of France and Sahel states in facing this phenomena that attacks security and stability worldwide.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Reactions\nFrance: French President Emmanuel Macron spoke by telephone with Burkinabe president Christian Kabor\u00e9 to issue condolences and pledge his continuing support to the country. French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced that a \"crisis unit\" had been established and said that the security of French nationals in the region was \"his priority.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Reactions\nJapan: Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement strongly condemning the attacks and expressing condolences to those affected. The statement went on to express the commitment of the Japanese government \"to continue to support the efforts of the Government of Burkina Faso to improve the security situation in Burkina Faso, in cooperation with the international community.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Reactions\nSaudi Arabia: The Saudi foreign ministry condemned the attack, issued condolences to the victims, and reiterated the Kingdom's rejection of terrorism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Reactions\nTurkey: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a press conference while visiting neighboring Mali, \"We strongly condemn the terrorist attacks that took place in Ouagadougou\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Reactions\nUnited Nations: United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres spoke over the phone with President Kabor\u00e9, and expressed his solidarity with Burkina Faso as well as his \"profound sympathy.\" The UN Security Council called the attacks \"barbaric and cowardly\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281662-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Ouagadougou attacks, Reactions\nUnited States: In a statement condemning recent violence in West Africa, the White House expressed its \"deepest sympathies\" to the families of those killed and claimed that the attacks only served to \"strengthen the resolve of the United States.\" The State Department also issued a travel advisory, urging Americans to avoid Burkina Faso due to \"terrorism.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281663-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Outback Bowl\nThe 2018 Outback Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on January 1, 2018, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The 32nd annual Outback Bowl was one of the 2017\u201318 NCAA football bowl games concluding the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The game was nationally televised on ESPN2, and its title sponsor is the Outback Steakhouse restaurant franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281663-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Outback Bowl, Teams\nThe game featured the Michigan Wolverines of the Big Ten Conference, and the South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference in their fourth meeting against each other, and second meeting in the Outback Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281663-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Outback Bowl, Teams, Michigan\nAfter finishing their regular season with an 8\u20134 record, the Wolverines were selected to their sixth Outback Bowl appearance, the most Outback Bowl appearances by any team. This was their 46th bowl game appearance, the 11th-highest total all-time among FBS schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281663-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Outback Bowl, Teams, South Carolina\nAfter finishing their regular season with an 8\u20134 record, the Gamecocks were selected to their fifth Outback Bowl appearance, tying them with four other teams for the second-most Outback Bowl appearances. This was their 22nd bowl game appearance. South Carolina won the previous meeting against the Michigan Wolverines in the 2013 Outback Bowl, by a score of 33\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281663-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Outback Bowl, Mascot\nThe 2018 Outback Bowl marked the first appearance of SB Nation sportswriter Ryan Nanni as the Bloomin' Onion mascot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281664-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Overton's 400\nThe 2018 Overton's 400, is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race that was held on July 1, 2018 at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5-mile (2.4\u00a0km) intermediate speedway, it was the 17th race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281664-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Overton's 400, Report, Background\nChicagoland Speedway is a 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) tri-oval speedway in Joliet, Illinois, southwest of Chicago. The speedway opened in 2001 and currently hosts NASCAR racing. Until 2011, the speedway also hosted the IndyCar Series, recording numerous close finishes including the closest finish in IndyCar history. The speedway is owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation and located adjacent to Route 66 Raceway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281664-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Overton's 400, Practice, First practice\nRyan Blaney was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 30.169 seconds and a speed of 178.992\u00a0mph (288.060\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 44], "content_span": [45, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281664-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Overton's 400, Practice, Final practice\nBrad Keselowski was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 29.863 seconds and a speed of 180.826\u00a0mph (291.011\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 44], "content_span": [45, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281664-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Overton's 400, Qualifying\nPaul Menard scored the pole for the race with a time of 29.998 and a speed of 180.012\u00a0mph (289.701\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281664-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Overton's 400, Qualifying, Starting Lineup\n\u2020 The cars of Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, and Chris Buescher all started in the rear of the field after failing post-qualifying inspection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281664-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Overton's 400, Media, Television\nNBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and 2005 race winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281664-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Overton's 400, Media, Radio\nThe Motor Racing Network had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281665-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game\nThe 2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game was the Overwatch League's (OWL) first edition of an all-star game that matched the top players in the Atlantic Division (ATL) against those in the Pacific Division (PAC). The game was played on August 26, 2018 at Blizzard Arena in Burbank, California and was the culmination of the league's All-Star Weekend. The Atlantic took the first All-Star title by defeating the Pacific by a score of 4\u20131. The game was televised by Disney XD and ESPN3 and streamed live on Twitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281665-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game, All-Star Game\nThe All-Star Game was a five-map match between players from the Atlantic Division and Pacific Division using standard competitive settings. All 18 players on each team were required to have play-time, and substitutions were allowed between each map change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281665-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Rosters and coaches\nThe rosters and coaches for the All-Star game were selected through a voting process. The starters were chosen by the fans, with voting beginning on June 1 and ending on June 17. Out of the two DPS, two tank, two support, and two flex players in each division with the highest cumulative vote, the top six players with the highest cumulative vote were named their division's All-Star starters. After the starting rosters were announced, an additional 12 players from each division were selected as reserves by Overwatch League players, coaches, casters, and staffers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281665-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Rosters and coaches\nThe All-Star Game starters were announced on June 22. In the Atlantic Division, four of the six starters were represented by New York Excelsior, and in the Pacific, two of the six starters were represented by Seoul Dynasty. The All-Star reserves were announced on July 10. London Spitfire had the most reserve players in the Atlantic Division, with four out of twelve of the spots, and Los Angeles Valiant lead the Pacific Division with five out of twelve reserve spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281665-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend\nThe season's All-Star Skill Matches took place on August 25, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281665-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, L\u00facioball Showdown\nThe Atlantic and Pacific teams competed in a 3v3 best-of-three series using standard L\u00facioball settings on the Busan L\u00facioball Arena map. Each match lasted five minutes; if a match was tied at the end of five minutes, then a sudden death overtime would begin, and the next goal would win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281665-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Mystery Heroes\nThe Atlantic and Pacific teams competed in a 6v6 Mystery Heroes game using standard competitive settings in a best-of-three series on control maps Nepal, Ilios, and Lijiang Tower. Players are assigned a random hero at the start of each map and a new random hero after each non-self-inflicted death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281665-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Widowmaker 1v1\nThe coaches of the Atlantic and Pacific Divisions selected their four best Widowmaker players for this tournament. The four players competed head-to-head to determine one Atlantic and one Pacific champion, which played each other in the finals. Every match-up prior to the finals was first-to-seven eliminations, while the final was first-to-nine eliminations. Eliminations were head-shot only, and automatic firing was disabled. There were no capture points, but after 30 seconds, player locations were visible to both players. A match would result in a draw after five minutes. The matches were played on Castillo (quarterfinals), Necropolis (semifinals), and Ecopoint: Antartica (final).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281665-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Talent Takedown\nPrior to All-Star Weekend, the Atlantic and Pacific coaches drafted two teams of casters and analysts. The two teams squared off in a 6v6 best-of-three series using standard competitive settings. The match started on Hybrid map King's Row, after which the team that lost the select the second map. If the series were to be tied 1-1, a game of L\u00facioball would have been the tiebreaker. Overwatch League players helped call the game along with the casters and analysts not playing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281665-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Lockout Elimination\nThe Atlantic and Pacific teams squared off in this 6v6 competition using standard lockout elimination settings. The winner was determined in a best-of-three series. The maps for this mode were Oasis University, Necropolis, and Castillo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281665-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game, Charity cheer\nDuring the All-Star Weekend, 100% of all \"Cheers\", a special form of emoticon purchased as a microtransaction, on Twitch while watching any of the Overwatch League channels were donated to Child's Play, a charitable organization that donates toys and games to children's hospitals worldwide. At the conclusion of the weekend, viewers raised $34,304.37 for the charity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281665-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game, Broadcasting\nThe entire All-Star Weekend was televised nationally by ESPN3 and Disney XD and live-streamed on Twitch, the Overwatch League website, and Major League Gaming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals\nThe 2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals was the first championship series of the Overwatch League (OWL), which took place from July 27 to July 28. The series was the conclusion of the 2018 Overwatch League playoffs and was played between the London Spitfire and the Philadelphia Fusion at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals\nLondon qualified for the playoffs as the fifth seed and defeated the fourth-seeded Los Angeles Gladiators and second-seeded Los Angeles Valiant in the playoffs. Philadelphia qualified for the playoffs as the sixth seed and defeated the third-seeded Boston Uprising and top-seeded New York Excelsior in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals\nLondon Spitfire defeated Philadelphia Fusion in the first and second matches by scores of 3\u20131 and 3\u20130, respectively, to claim the title of Overwatch League Grand Finals Champions before a two-day attendance of 22,434 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals\nThe Grand Finals are the post-season championship series of the Overwatch League (OWL), a professional international esports league; the teams of the Grand Finals compete for a $1.4 million prize pool, where the winners receive $1 million. 2018 season was the first in OWL history and consisted of twelve teams in two divisions. Each team played 40 matches throughout the regular season. The playoffs were contested by six team \u2013 the two teams with the best regular season record in each division and the following four teams with the best regular season record, regardless of division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals\nAt the conclusion of the regular season, both London and Philadelphia had regular season records of 24\u201316 and were the fifth and sixth seeds, respectively, making them the bottom two teams to qualify for the season playoffs. The teams faced each other five times throughout the 2018 season, with one of those match-ups being the Stage 2 Semifinals \u2013 a game in which Philadelphia won. Overall, Philadelphia had beaten London in three out of their five match-ups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, London Spitfire\nCloud9 was awarded the London slot for an OWL franchise on August 10, 2017 and was later named the London Spitfire. Shortly afterwards, they disclosed their 12-player inaugural season roster, the maximum permitted, which would be entirely composed of South Korean players. The roster would mainly be an amalgamation of their current Cloud9 KONGDOO core and OGN's Overwatch APEX Season 4 champions GC Busan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, London Spitfire\nLondon started the season with a win to the a 3\u20131 victory over the Florida Mayhem and continued that winning trend through their first five games, resulting in the team's best win streak of the 2018 regular season. On March 7, the Spitfire parted ways with head coach Lee \"Bishop\" Beom-joon for undisclosed reasons; Bishop had led the team to a 10\u20134 record until his departure. Struggling as the season went on, the Spitfire had to bank on their earlier results to edge them over the finish line. They ended the season with a 24\u201316 record, good for 5th place and a spot in the postseason where they faced the 4th-seeded Los Angeles Gladiators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, London Spitfire\nLondon lost their first postseason matchup against the Gladiators on July 11 by a score of 0\u20133 in the quarterfinals. The Spitfire turned it around the next two games against the Gladiators, winning in 3\u20130 sweeps in matches two and three and advancing the team to the semifinals. London won both games against the Los Angeles Valiant in the semifinals, winning 3\u20130 in match one and 3\u20131 in match two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, Philadelphia Fusion\nOn September 20, 2017, Overwatch developer Activision Blizzard officially announced that Philadelphia Flyers owner Comcast Spectacor had acquired the rights to the Philadelphia-based Overwatch League franchise; later the team name was revealed as the Philadelphia Fusion. Shortly afterwards on November 3, their roster was revealed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, Philadelphia Fusion\nPhiladelphia's season began with a 3\u20132 victory against the Houston Outlaws. While Philadelphia did upset the undefeated New York Excelsior in Stage 1, which marked New York's first lost in the regular season, the team had, overall, an inconsistent season. Philadelphia claimed the sixth, and final, seed of the playoffs on June 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, Philadelphia Fusion\nFusion defeated third-seeded Boston Uprising in the Quarterfinals by two matches to one. The team went on to face the top-seeded New York Excelsior in the Semifinals, a game the Fusion were considered heavy underdogs. Philadelphia dominated New York in the first match, winning three maps to zero, and took the second match by three maps to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Venue and ticketing\nThe Barclays Center in New York was selected as the 2018 OWL Grand Finals host venue on May 9, 2018. Overwatch League commissioner Nate Nanzer noted that the league chose the venue due to its location in a major global city and its world-class status. Opened in 2012, the $1 billion stadium has a capacity of about 19,000 and is used by the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). The arena has also hosted concerts, conventions and other sporting and entertainment events, including the 2013 NBA Draft, the 2015 NBA All-Star Weekend, the 2016 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, UFC 223, and the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Venue and ticketing\nTicket sales for the finals began on May 18, 2018. Two-day general admission tickets sold for $60, with \"Master\" and \"Grandmaster\" upgrade packages available for an additional $40 and $75, respectively. The package upgrades included extra access to fans, including photos, meet-and-greets, and Overwatch League \"swag\". The Grandmaster packages sold out after few hours of being on sale, leaving only general admission and master package upgrades available. The remaining tickets for the event sold-out exactly two weeks later, leaving resell tickets in excess of $125.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Broadcast and viewership\nOn the first day of the season playoffs, Disney and Blizzard announced a multi-year partnership that would bring the league and other professional Overwatch competitive events to ESPN, Disney XD, and ABC, starting with the playoffs and throughout all of the following season. The partnership marked the time that a live esports competition had aired on ESPN in prime time and the first time that an esports competition had aired on ABC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Broadcast and viewership\nNielsen ratings for the Grand Finals include a 0.18 rating (approximately 218,000 households) for the Friday match airing on ESPN, while the recap of the series airing on ABC on the Sunday after the event had a 0.3 rating (approximately 359,000 households). Blizzard estimated that over a million people were watching the Grand Finals at any time, between broadcast and streaming formats, with a total viewership of over 10.8 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Entertainment\nSpeed-painter David Garibaldi created his own take on the Overwatch League logo during a performance on July 27; the art piece was given away to a fan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Entertainment\nDJ Khaled performed live at the Barclays Center on July 28, prior to the first match of the second day. The performance was streamed live exclusively on Twitch. The performance was deemed by many to be underwhelming and awkward, as the audience often did not react to his attempts at livening the crowd and left voids of silence when the artist attempted to get them to sing the verses to his songs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Entertainment\nDJ Envy performed during breaks on July 28, and opened for DJ Khaled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Match summaries, Match one, Map 1: Dorado\nThe first map of the match was escort map Dorado \u2013 a map that Philadelphia had a just-under 70 percent win rate in the regular season. Philadelphia was the first to attack and claimed all three points; London was able to effectively attack the first two points of Dorado, but after a nearly five-minute hold by Fusion, they were denied a third, giving Fusion the map win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Match summaries, Match one, Map 2: Oasis\nWith the help of a 7.5 E/D ratio by Lee \"Carpe\" Jae-hyeok's Widowmaker in second map of the night, control map Oasis, London was able to quickly even the score, as the team won the map 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Match summaries, Match one, Map 3: Eichenwalde\nComing out of the half-time break and into the third map of the night, hybrid map Eichenwalde, Fusion subbed-in tank player Gael \"Poko\" Gouzerch for Isaac \"Boombox\" Charles, and was able to take the first point before being held. London was able to push the payload further than Fusion and secured a win for the third map.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Match summaries, Match one, Map 4: Volskaya Industries\nThe fourth, and final, map of the night was assault map Volskaya Industries. Philadelphia started out on attack, and while they were able to secure the first point, they only able to claim 57 percent of the second point. After London claimed their own the first point, Park \"Profit\" Jun-young came up big, securing five final blows in the final 93 seconds to lead the Spitfire to a victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 90], "content_span": [91, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Match summaries, Match two, Map 1: Junkertown\nEscort map Junkertown was the first map of the night, and Philadelphia was the first to attack. Fusion was able to secure two points of the map, but a well-timed halt by Jae-Hui \"Gesture\" Hong's Orisa followed by a Dragonstrike by Jun-Young \u201cProfit\u201d Park's Hanzo lead to four kill with under two minutes remaining, held Fusion short of capping the third. London's attack went relatively smoothly, as the team was able to escort the payload further and claim map one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Match summaries, Match two, Map 2: Lijiang Tower\nLondon dominated Philadelphia on the first point of the second map, control map Lijang Tower. While the second point proved to be slightly more difficult, London was able secure a 2\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 84], "content_span": [85, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281666-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Match summaries, Match two, Map 3: King's Row\nThe third, and final, map of the day was hybrid map King's Row. Fusion was able to finish all three points of the map, however, they completed it in overtime. London was also able to complete the map, but they still had a time-bank of 1:10 remaining. Since both teams earned three points on their respective attacks, the game went into time-bank rounds. Because Spitfire had over a minute left and Fusion was in overtime, by rule, only Spitfire was able to attempt an attack, meaning the best Fusion could hope for was a draw for the map. London felt little resistance, capping the first tick of point A, and secured the title of Grand Finals Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs\nThe 2018 Overwatch League playoffs began on July 11, after the 2018 Overwatch League regular season ended, and concluded on July 28 with the 2018 Grand Finals, the first championship match of the Overwatch League (OWL). Six teams competed in the OWL Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs\nThe winner of each round of the Playoffs was determined by a best-of-three match series, with match determined by best-of-five maps. The Quarterfinals had the third-seeded team playing the sixth-seeded team, while the fourth-seeded team played the fifth-seeded team. In the Semifinals, the top-seed team played the lowest remaining seed, while the second-seeded team played the next-lowest. The winners advanced to the Grand Finals, which took place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on July 27\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs\nLondon Spitfire defeated Philadelphia Fusion in the Grand Finals to become the first Overwatch League Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs, Map pool and rotation\nThe postseason map pool consisted of eight maps, with a ninth map as the tie-breaking map (if necessary), and was decided by a lottery system on June 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs, Participants\nSix teams qualified for the Season Playoffs based on their season overall records. The two division leaders were awarded the top two seeds, and the following top four teams, regardless of division, were awarded seeds three through six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs, Quarterfinals, (3) Boston Uprising vs. (6) Philadelphia Fusion\nThe Fusion pulled off a 2\u20131 victory in their first match against the Uprising, who had been high in the standings early in the regular season but had lost momentum in the latter half. Fusion used a tank-heavy roster, including Reinhardt played by Sado, which forced the Uprising to move away from their sniper-based strategy. Fusion's Eqo and Carpe also showed skill across several heroes to help with the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 94], "content_span": [95, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs, Quarterfinals, (4) Los Angeles Gladiators vs. (5) London Spitfire\nThe Spitfire had been underdogs in their match against the Gladiators, having never won a regular season match against them. The Gladiators took the first match, 3\u20130, including a trick play that involved Surefour staying in the spawn room as a different hero until well into the match before changing to his regular Widowmaker hero and readily picking off the open Spitfire players. The Spitfire responded in the following matches with adaptive changes in their team composition that prevented the Gladiators from maintaining their defense lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 97], "content_span": [98, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs, Quarterfinals, (4) Los Angeles Gladiators vs. (5) London Spitfire\nNotably, the Gladiators chose to bench their primary main tank player Fissure, who came second place for Season MVP, for the playoffs, opting instead to replace him with the team's other main tank player, iRemiix. The official reason given for this decision was that \"the Gladiators believe that the most effective practice and preparation is necessary in order to perform well in playoffs.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 97], "content_span": [98, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs, Semifinals\nAfter each quarterfinal series, the sixth-seeded Fusion, being the lowest seed of the two quarterfinals winners, faced the top-seeded Excelsior, whereas the fifth-seeded Spitfire played against the second-seeded Los Angeles Valiant. The semi-final saw upsets in both brackets with the lower-seed Fusion and Spitfire winning over the top seeds Excelsior and Valiant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs, Semifinals, (1) New York Excelsior vs. (6) Philadelphia Fusion\nFusion had taken the first series 3\u20130 over Excelsior. While the second set ran for all five maps, Fusion won the series and the spot in the Grand Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 94], "content_span": [95, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs, Semifinals, (2) Los Angeles Valiant vs. (5) London Spitfire\nThe Spitfire had kept their traction from the victory over the Gladiators in the previous round, and took their spot in the finals after two matches, winning each 3\u20131 and 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs, Grand Finals\nThe London Spitfire defeated the Philadelphia Fusion in the Grand Finals series in 2 sets. The Spitfire's Jun-Young \"Profit\" Park was named the Grand Finals Most Valuable Player; Profit was observed to be a key offensive player in the series, in one match using Hanzo's ultimate ability to eliminate five of the six Fusion players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs, Winnings\nTeams in the Season Playoffs competed for a total prize pool of US$1.7 million, with the payout division detailed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs, Broadcast and viewership\nOn the first day of the season playoffs, Disney and Blizzard announced a multi-year partnership that would bring the league and other professional Overwatch competitive events to ESPN, Disney XD, and ABC, starting with the playoffs and throughout all of the following season. The partnership marked the time that a live esports competition had aired on ESPN in prime time and the first time that an esports competition had aired on ABC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281667-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League playoffs, Broadcast and viewership\nNielsen ratings for the Grand Finals include a 0.18 rating (approximately 218,000 households) for the Friday match airing on ESPN, while the recap of the series airing on ABC on the Sunday after the event had a 0.3 rating (approximately 359,000 households). Blizzard estimated that over a million people were watching the Grand Finals at any time, between broadcast and streaming formats, with a total viewership of over 10.8 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season\nThe 2018 Overwatch League season was the inaugural season for the Overwatch League, an esports league based on the video game Overwatch which began on January 10, 2018. Regular season play continued through June 16, 2018, while post-season play ran from July 11\u201328, 2018. The London Spitfire won the Grand Finals over the Philadelphia Fusion to become the League champions, with the Spitfire's Park \"Profit\" Jun-young named the Finals MVP. An All-Star Weekend was held following the post-season from August 25\u201326, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Schedule\nThe season's format and schedule were announced in November 2017. The inaugural regular season ran from January 10 to June 17, 2018, broken out into four stages. Each stage lasted five weeks, with a one-week break between each stages. Each regular season week featured twelve games, three matches per day from Wednesday to Saturday, with each team having played in two games that week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Schedule\nDuring stages one and two of season one, at the end of each stage, the top three teams across both divisions, based on their standings in that stage, played a final set of matches to win a US$100,000 prize with the runner-up taking a US$25,000 prize. As of season one stage three, four teams made each stage playoff. The #1 seed chose their opponent in the first round between the remaining three qualified teams. These matches are played on the final day of the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Schedule\nThe season's free agency signing window opened on January 22, 2018, and closed on April 3, 2018 (the start of Stage 3). During this period, teams could sign any eligible free agent player or make trades with other teams. Any player on a new team contract before the start of Stage 2 on February 21, 2018 was eligible to play during Stage 2. Otherwise, they had to wait until the start of Stage 3. After April 3, team rosters could not be changed until after the completion of the post-season games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Schedule\nThe post-season playoffs were held over three weeks in July 2018. It was a single-elimination playoff featuring 6 teams: each division leader, and the next top four teams from both divisions, with their position seeded by their standings. The Grand Finals were held on July 26 and 27, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Schedule\nAll matches in the inaugural season (except for the Grand Finals) were played at the 350-seat Blizzard Arena, located on the former soundstage for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in Burbank, California. Games were broadcast on the Overwatch League's website and through Major League Gaming (owned by Blizzard), and by third-party broadcaster Twitch. The Grand Finals were played at Barclays Center in New York City, where all 11,000 seats available were sold out for both days of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Pre-season\nPre -season matches were held from December 6 to 8, 2017. Pre -season matches are exhibition only, and do not count towards the regular season standings. The Philadelphia Fusion had to pull out of pre-season play just before these events, citing \"player logistics issues\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Broadcast and viewership\nThe Overwatch League began the season with a two-year exclusive contract for Overwatch League broadcasting. Its debut week held an overall peak of 441,000 concurrent viewers on its three Twitch channels, with 392,000 English, 65,000 Korean, and 11,500 French viewers. Through the season, average online viewership ran between 80,000 and 170,000. At least 310,000 viewers watched the final match of the Grand Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Broadcast and viewership\nOn the first day of the season playoffs, Disney and Blizzard announced a multi-year partnership that would bring the league and other professional Overwatch competitive events to ESPN, Disney XD, and ABC, starting with the playoffs and throughout all of the following season. Nielsen ratings for the Grand Finals include a 0.18 rating (approximately 218,000 households) for the Friday match airing on ESPN, while the recap of the series airing on ABC on the Sunday after the event had a 0.3 rating (approximately 359,000 households). Blizzard estimated that over a million people were watching the Grand Finals at any time, between broadcast and streaming formats, with a total viewership of over 10.8 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Regular season\nA team's standing is based on both their overall match win/loss record, with ties broken by their overall round record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Regular season\nAt the end of Stages 1 and 2, the top three teams overall in the current stage, regardless of division, made the stage playoffs. The first seeded team earned a bye, with the second and third seeded teams playing a best-of-5 series to advance to the stage finals. Beginning with Stage 3 of the 2018 season, Blizzard announced changes to the Stage Playoff format. Introduced was a four-team Stage playoffs going forward, so that both teams in the final match will have played the same number of games on that day. The first seed has the option of selecting their opponent for the first round and has home team advantage, with the remaining two teams assigned based on seed ranking. These stage playoffs have no effect on overall standings and are only for bonus prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Regular season\nTeams' overall standings were used for placement in the post-season playoffs. The top team of each division received an automatic bye, while the next top four teams, regardless of division, filled in the remaining tournament slots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Regular season, Stage 1\nStage 1 ran from January 10, 2018 to February 10, 2018, with Stage playoffs occurring on February 10, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Regular season, Stage 1, Playoffs\nWith a league best 9\u20131 stage record, the New York Excelsior earned a bye directly into the stage finals. In the semifinal match, the Houston Outlaws took an early 1\u20130 lead over the London Spitfire, but were ultimately defeated 3\u20131. In the stage final, the New York Excelsior took a commanding 2\u20130 lead over the Spitfire, but New York could not secure their third match win. The London Spitfire completed a reverse sweep, winning the series 3\u20132 and their first stage title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Regular season, Stage 2\nStage 2 ran from February 21 to March 24. Following Stage 1, Blizzard took input from players and fans and moved all future Stage playoff matches to Sunday, with Stage 2's playoffs taking place on March 25. This avoided a twelve-hour day of matches, which could see a team playing as many as three different matches in the same day. Stage two introduced the Overwatch patch that weakened Mercy's resurrection abilities, which outside of League play had caused her to be played less frequently.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Regular season, Stage 2, Playoffs\nThe New York Excelsior finished with the best stage record again, earning another bye into the stage finals. The semifinal match featured the London Spitfire, looking to repeat on their Stage 1 championship, against the Philadelphia Fusion. The Fusion won the series, 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Regular season, Stage 2, Playoffs\nIn the finals, the Fusion took 2\u20130 lead over the Excelsior, though New York came back and completed a reverse sweep to win the series and their first stage title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Regular season, Stage 3\nStage 3 ran from April 4 to May 5, with the stage playoffs occurring on May 6. This stage introduced a four-team stage playoffs format so both teams in the final match will have played the same number of games on that day. The first seed was given the option of selecting their opponent for the first round and received home team advantage, with the remaining two teams assigned based on seed ranking. Stage 3 introduced the Hybrid map \"Blizzard World,\" which was released in November 2017, to the map pool. Stage 3 also introduced the patch that buffed Sombra's abilities, making her a more frequent component in winning team combinations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Regular season, Stage 3, Playoffs\nFollowing the conclusion of Stage 3, the top seeded Boston Uprising became the first team in Overwatch League history to go undefeated in a stage. As the top seed, they earned the right to choose their first round opponent for the stage playoffs. They chose the fourth seed Los Angeles Gladiators, achieving a 3\u20130 match win. The second seed New York Excelsior also defeated the Los Angeles Valiant with a 3\u20130 win. The Excelsior won the final match over the Uprising in a 3\u20130 victory, marking their second stage championship win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Regular season, Stage 4\nStage 4 ran from May 16 to June 16, with the Stage playoffs occurring on June 17. Teams competed using the version of Overwatch which first introduced the support hero Brigitte, but prior to a patch that adjusted her strength and which introduced a revamped skill kit for Hanzo. The decision to play on the former patch was made due to a bug in the later patch that could not be fixed before the start of Stage 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Regular season, Stage 4, Playoffs\nAfter the group stage, the Los Angeles Gladiators finished atop the league via a map differential tiebreaker. They earned the right to choose their opponent for the first round of the playoffs. For the first time in this selection process, the team with the best record did not choose the lowest ranked team. They choose their crosstown rivals, the second-seeded Los Angeles Valiant. The Valiant won the series in 5 maps. In the next series, the two-time stage champion New York Excelsior defeated the Dallas Fuel, 3\u20132. The Excelsior were unable to win their third consecutive stage championship, losing to the Valiant, 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Playoffs\nAfter the regular season, the New York Excelsior and the Los Angeles Valiant finished atop their respective divisions, earning first-round byes. The next four remaining teams, Boston Uprising, Los Angeles Gladiators, London Spitfire, and Philadelphia Fusion, were seeded according to regular season record, regardless of division. The third-seeded Uprising played the sixth-seeded Fusion, while the fourth-seeded Gladiators played the fifth-seeded Spitfire. Each series was a best of 3 matches (each match was best of 5 maps). The winners of the two semifinal matches advanced to the Grand Finals, which took place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York from July 27\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Awards\nFrom JJonak's MVP award, Blizzard created a special cosmetic skin for Zenyatta, the character that JJonak most frequently played, which was offered to viewers and players during the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, All-Star Game\nThe 2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game was the Overwatch League's first edition of an all-star game that involved the All-Star players of the league. The game was played on August 26, 2018 and was the culmination of the league's All-Star Weekend, a two-day event that consisted of L\u00facioball, Mystery Heroes, a Widowmaker 1v1 tournament, Talent Takedown, and Lockout Elimination. All of the events were played at Blizzard Arena in Burbank, California. The game was televised by Disney XD and ESPN3 and streamed live on Twitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281668-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch League season, Winnings\nTeams in the first season competed for a total prize pool of US$3.5 million across regular season play, stage finals, and playoffs. By league rules, at least 50% of these winnings were split among the team's members, the remaining going to the team's owner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281669-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch World Cup\nThe 2018 Overwatch World Cup was an Overwatch esports tournament, organized by Blizzard Entertainment, the game's developer. It was the third Overwatch World Cup. It featured 24 represented nations from around the world, with the final tournament taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center during BlizzCon from November 2\u20133, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281669-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch World Cup\nThe final took place on November 2 between South Korea and China. South Korea won 4\u20130, winning their third straight World Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281669-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch World Cup, Teams, Committees\nEach country has a National Competition Committee, consisting of a general manager, head coach, and community lead. Blizzard selected each team's general manager, while the head coach and community leads were selected through a two-step voting process, that took place from May 24 to May 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281669-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch World Cup, Teams, Committees\nAny player with a Blizzard account in good standing was welcome to apply for a head coaching position for their country; the country's top 150 players voted for who they would like to be their country's head coach. The top three candidates from the first round of voting moved on to a second round of voting, and the person with the most votes in the second round was selected as the country's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281669-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch World Cup, Teams, Committees\nThe community leaders are responsible for \"rallying their community and marketing their team to the masses.\" Like the head coaches, the community lead for each country was chosen through a two-step voting process. A country's entire player base voted for the community lead. After the first round of voting, the top 10 from that round were candidates for the second round; the person with the most votes in the second round was selected as their country's community lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281669-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch World Cup, Teams, Players\nThey players representing each country were selected by their National Competition Committee. The Committees selected up to 12 players from June 1 to July 5 to represent their country and then had to cut it down to 7 players to be their final roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281669-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch World Cup, Teams, Qualification\nFrom March 28 to April 28, 2018, Blizzard tracked the average skill rating of the top 150 players from the top 20 countries to determine the countries who qualified for the tournament. The four host countries, South Korea, Thailand, France, and the United States, automatically qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281669-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch World Cup, Group stage\nThe top 24 national teams were grouped into four different round-robin style groups, with the matches played in Incheon, Los Angeles, Bangkok, and Paris. The top two teams in each group advanced to a single-elimination playoff bracket, with the matches played in Anaheim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281669-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch World Cup, Knockout stage\nThe top two teams from each group advanced to the playoff bracket. All of the playoff rounds took place at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California during BlizzCon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281669-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Overwatch World Cup, Knockout stage\nTo coincide with the event, Blizzard launched the \"Overwatch World Cup Viewer,\" a standalone program that allows users to view World Cup matches in real time in Overwatch's spectator mode, roam around the map in a free camera, and take the perspectives of the players. Users were also able to view replays of each map played in the client.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281670-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxel\u00f6sund municipal election\nOxel\u00f6sund Municipality held a municipal election on 9 September 2018 as part of the local elections. This was held on the same day as the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281670-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxel\u00f6sund municipal election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 31 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 12, a drop of one from 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election\nThe 2018 Oxford City Council election took place on 3 May 2018, to elect 24 of the 48 members of Oxford City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections in England. Each of Oxford's 24 wards elected one councillor, with the other seat in each ward next due for election in May 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election\nThe Labour Party sought to defend its majority on the Council, which it had controlled since 2008. Key issues in the election campaign included affordable housing, homelessness and air pollution. The results saw Labour gain two seats from the Green Party while losing one to the Liberal Democrats. This left Labour with 36 seats, the Liberal Democrats with 9 and the Greens with 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Background\nBefore the election, the Labour Party held a majority of seats on Oxford City Council. When the 24 seats up for election in 2018 were contested at the 2014 Oxford City Council election, 17 were won by Labour, 4 by the Liberal Democrats, and 3 by the Green Party of England and Wales. The 2016 election, at which the Council's other 24 seats were contested, saw a stronger result for Labour (18 seats won) and weaker for the Greens (1 seat).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Background\nThe 2018 election was the first regular election to Oxford City Council since the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, at which Oxford defied a UK-wide vote to leave the European Union by returning a 70% vote to remain. A year after the referendum, in the 2017 UK general election, Labour significantly increased its majority in the parliamentary constituency of Oxford East (which includes most of the city of Oxford), while the Liberal Democrats gained Oxford West and Abingdon from the Conservative Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Background\nNew Statesman commentator Stephen Bush suggested in March 2018 that a successful result for Labour in the 2018 Oxford City Council election, building on its strong parliamentary performance in 2017, would be to win all the available Green seats. The Oxford Mail's political correspondent Nathan Briant predicted, \"Labour are likely to return a healthy number of councillors\", but identified potential difficulties for the party: a rise in homelessness in Oxford as in other cities, controversy of the Council's use of community protection notices to threaten to fine homeless people, and a perception of the national Labour leadership as too eurosceptic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Background\nStephen Bush argued that if the Liberal Democrats' national strategy of appealing to pro-European voters succeeded, one benchmark for this would be an expansion from eight seats on Oxford City Council to double figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Policies and campaigns, Conservative\nThe Oxford Conservative Association's chair Mark Bhagwandin criticised the Labour administration for a lack of affordable housing in Oxford, including at the recent Barton development. He stated he was confident that the Conservatives could improve on their previously weak position in Oxford, and that they would hold Labour to account. The party pledged to freeze the salaries of senior council staff, which Bhagwandin described as \"huge\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Policies and campaigns, Green\nThe Green Party's campaign also emphasised a need for scrutiny and opposition; co-leader Caroline Lucas stated while campaigning in Oxford that \"one more Labour councillor won't make any difference\", while \"one more Green councillor\" would ensure the council was \"forced to deliver\". Lucas identified homelessness as the issue on which Oxford's Green councillors been most active, and the Greens' manifesto highlighted their past campaigns for the council to provide additional homeless shelters and consider the use of rent controls, as well as their role in challenging fines for rough sleepers and removal of their property. Green policies also included addressing air pollution in St. Clement's by extending the council's proposed zero-emission zone, and redesignating the entire development on the Lucy Faithfull House site for affordable housing (instead of half as proposed by the council).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 962]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Policies and campaigns, Labour\nOxford's governing Labour Party pledged in its manifesto, subtitled Fighting Austerity for a Fairer City, to build 1000 affordable homes and work with adjacent councils on \"high quality urban extensions that will increase the availability of affordable homes\". The Leader of the Council, Susan Brown, advocated more development in the Oxford Green Belt to meet the city's housing needs. Emphasising Oxford's \"strong cycling tradition\", the manifesto included policies to provide more lanes and parking for cyclists, while supporting cycle hire businesses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Policies and campaigns, Labour\nOn homelessness, Labour pledged increased spending and cooperation with charitable and voluntary organisations \"with the objective of ensuring that no-one has to sleep rough in Oxford\". Other \"key pledges\" included promotion of an Oxford living wage, support for sports clubs and facilities, and measures to reduce the city's carbon footprint and air pollution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Policies and campaigns, Labour\nLaunching the manifesto, Susan Brown and Shadow Secretary of State for Housing John Healey attacked the central government's austerity programme as responsible for homelessness and other social problems in Oxford and elsewhere, while Healey praised Oxford City Council's track record under its Labour administration. The Guardian journalist and Labour activist Owen Jones canvassed for the party's candidate Rabyah Khan in Summertown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Policies and campaigns, Liberal Democrat\nLiberal Democrat leader Vince Cable highlighted the issues of homelessness and unaffordable housing during a visit to Oxford, while the party's Oxford West and Abingdon MP Layla Moran argued that Labour was over-dominant on the council and that additional Lib Dem councillors would provide improved scrutiny. The party's manifesto included pledges to re-examine potential sites in Oxford in order to build \"hundreds more houses\", with their councillors suggesting that land designated for business development could be reallocated for housing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Policies and campaigns, Liberal Democrat\nThe Lib Dems supported a review of the Green Belt for new sites for development, with safeguards for \"areas of natural, historic, or scientific interest\". They proposed increased accommodation and support for homeless people, while opposing fining of rough sleepers. Other pledges included a tourism tax as a source of revenue for public works. The Lib Dem leader on the council, Andrew Gant, suggested that some voters would support the party because of opposition to Brexit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Candidates\nThe Labour and Conservative parties nominated candidates for all 24 seats, while the Greens contested 23 and the Liberal Democrats 21. The current Leader of the Council, Susan Brown (Labour), stood for re-election in Churchill ward. David Thomas, the leader of the council's Green group who was previously elected in Holywell, constested St. Clement's against the Labour incumbent Tom Hayes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Candidates\nSome councillors whose terms ended in 2018 did not seek re-election, including former Leader Bob Price (Labour, Hinksey Park) and Lord Mayor Jean Fooks (Liberal Democrat, Summertown).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Results\nLabour increased its majority on the Council, holding 36 of 48 seats after the election. The Greens, in what the Oxford Mail described as \"an awful night\" for the party, saw two of their three seats up for election won by Labour, while their leader David Thomas lost his place on the Council when his attempt to win St Clement's from Labour failed. This left the party with just two councillors. The Liberal Democrats won Quarry and Risinghurst from Labour, which was Labour's first loss of a seat in Oxford since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Results\nThe highest turnout was 54.9% for Iffley Fields, and the lowest 19.9% for Northfield Brook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Results\nNote: no UKIP candidates stood in this election, compared with two in 2016 and six in 2014. Two independent candidates were standing, compared with three in 2016 and four in 2014. Plus/minus percentages are calculated with respect to the 2016 Oxford City Council election. In addition to the 2 seats that Labour gained relative to the 2016 election, Labour also took back a seat they previously held that had become vacant in November 2017 (see Northfield Brook).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Results\nTotal number of seats on the Council after the election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Results, Results by ward\nWard results are taken from the Oxford City Council website. Results are described as holds or gains based on comparison with the 2014 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281671-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford City Council election, Results, Results by ward, Northfield Brook\nThe Northfield Brook seat contested at this election had been won by Labour in 2014. It was vacant between the death of Councillor Jennifer Pegg in November 2017 and the May 2018 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281672-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford County municipal elections\nElections were held in Oxford County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281672-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Oxford County municipal elections, Oxford County Council\nCounty council consists of the mayors of the municipalities plus two \"city and county\" councillors from Woodstock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281673-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA All-Star Week\nThe 2018 PBA All-Star Week is the annual all-star week of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)'s 2017\u201318 season being held on May 23 to 27, 2018 on three different venues covering Luzon (Batangas), Visayas (Iloilo) and Mindanao (Davao).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281673-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA All-Star Week, Luzon leg, Obstacle Challenge\nThis edition was exclusively only for big men (power forwards and centers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281673-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA All-Star Week, Luzon leg, Obstacle Challenge\nGabby Espinas replaced Yancy de Ocampo, who was unable to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281673-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA All-Star Week, Luzon leg, Three-Point Shootout\nThis year's shootout featured a new format. Each of the five racks now has two moneyballs, with the first and fifth balls being valued as two points. This was a departure from the previous years' feature of having an \"all-moneyball rack\". This also increased the maximum possible points to 35 from 34.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281673-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA All-Star Week, Luzon leg, Slam Dunk Contest\nThis year's contest only featured four judges instead of the traditional five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281673-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA All-Star Week, Logo making contest\nThe league launched a logo-making contest for the All-Star week on February 23, 2018. The winner of the contest will win an all-expense-paid trip for two to one of the All-Star week legs (Davao, Batangas or Iloilo).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281673-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA All-Star Week, Logo making contest\nOn March 15, an entry by John Paul Limos was selected as the winner of the contest by a selection committee composed of Commissioner Willie Marcial, PBA Press Corps president Gerry Ramos and Magnolia Hotshots team manager Alvin Patrimonio. The winning entry however got disqualified the following day since the logo had a very similar look from the logo used by PlayPark All-Stars (an e-sports tournament).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281673-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA All-Star Week, Logo making contest\nOn March 19, a new logo, designed by Jerome Allan Moreno was selected as the winner of the logo making contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281674-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup\nThe 2018 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner's Cup, also known as the 2018 Honda\u2013PBA Commissioner's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the second conference of the 2017\u201318 PBA season. The tournament allows teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of 6'10\". The conference started on April 22 and ended on August 8, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281674-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup, Format\nThe following format will be observed for the duration of the conference:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281674-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup, Semifinals, (1) Rain or Shine vs. (5) Barangay Ginebra\nNote: Game 2 of the Rain or Shine \u2013 Barangay Ginebra semifinals series was originally scheduled on July 17, 2018 but was postponed due to inclement weather brought by Tropical Storm Son-Tinh (Henry).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281674-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup, Semifinals, (2) Alaska vs. (6) San Miguel\nNote: Game 3 of the Alaska \u2013 San Miguel semifinals series was originally scheduled on July 18, 2018 but was postponed due to inclement weather brought by Tropical Storm Son-Tinh (Henry).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281674-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup, Imports\nThe following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281674-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup, Awards, Conference\nThe Best Player and Best Import of the Conference awards were handed out prior to Game 4 of the Finals, at the Smart Araneta Coliseum:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281675-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals\nThe 2018 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner's Cup Finals was the best-of-7 championship series of the 2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup and the conclusion of the conference's playoffs. The Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and the San Miguel Beermen competed for the 18th Commissioner's Cup championship and the 123rd overall championship contested by the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281675-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals\nThis was the sixth Finals match-up between the two teams, with the Beermen winning four of the first five series. They last met during the 2016\u201317 Philippine Cup Finals which the Beermen won, 4\u20131. Barangay Ginebra's sole series win came during the 2007 Philippine Cup Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281675-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals\nThe series highlighted the match-up between Greg Slaughter and 4-time MVP June Mar Fajardo, arguably two of the best centers in recent PBA history, who last faced each other in a finals series during their college days in CESAFI in 2009, which Slaughter's University of Visayas won. The series also featured the match-up between the PBA Best Import of the Conference award front-runners Justin Brownlee and Renaldo Balkman, who won a title as teammates with the San Miguel Alab Pilipinas of the ABL three months back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281675-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals, Background, Barangay Ginebra San Miguel\nThis was Barangay Ginebra's fourth Commissioner's Cup Finals and 25th overall. They last appeared in a Comm's Cup Finals in 2013, with their last Commissioner's Cup title coming in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281675-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals, Background, San Miguel Beermen\nThis was the Beermen's 40th Finals appearance, who won all of their six previous Finals in the last ten conferences. This was their sixth Commissioner's Cup Finals appearance, and was the defending champion entering the series having won the previous year's series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281675-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nEntering the game, Barangay Ginebra won 10 of their last 11 games and had the momentum to start strong in the series. They got into a fast start, leading by 15 in the first quarter and 19 after the half. Import Justin Brownlee was red-hot, having scored 29 points at halftime, with 18 coming in the first period. The Beemen tried to stage a comeback in the second half and was trailing by 19 after three quarters. However, Barangay Ginebra started the last period with a 25\u20135 run for a 39-point advantage, 119\u201380, the largest of the game. They never looked backed and dealt the Beermen their worst loss of the conference. Chris Ross tweaked his ankle in the fourth quarter and had to head to the locker room. After the game, he confirmed that he will be able to play in Game 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281675-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nBrownlee led the Gin Kings with 42 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists on 17-for-19 shooting and had support from the locals, with 4 other players scoring in double figures led by Joe Devance who had 22 points. For the Beermen, import Renaldo Balkman scored 27 points and top rookie Christian Standhardinger added 26, with four-time MVP June Mar Fajardo registering a double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281675-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nGinebra shot 62 percent from the field and shot 13-for-25 from the arc. San Miguel only shot 39% and was 7-for-29 from 3. Ginebra also registered 37 assists. During the third quarter, Devance scored his 500th 3-point field goal made. He was the 41st PBA player and 19th among active players to reach that milestone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281675-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals, Broadcast notes\nThe 2018 Commissioner's Cup Finals was on TV5 with simulcasts on PBA Rush (both in standard and high definition). TV5's radio arm, Radyo5 provided the radio play-by-play coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281675-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals, Broadcast notes\nESPN5 provided online livestreaming via their official YouTube account using the TV5 feed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281675-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals, Broadcast notes\nThe PBA Rush broadcast provided English-language coverage of the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281676-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup\nThe 2018 PBA D-League Aspirants Cup was the first conference of the 2017-18 PBA Developmental League season. It was opened on January 18, 2018 at the Ynares Sports Arena and competed by 13 teams and it was finished on May 1, 2018 where the Zark's Burger - LPU defeated the Che'Lu Bar & Grill in the best-of-3 finals showdown, 2 games to 1 and clinching their first ever title in their franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281676-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup, Standings\nThese are the final team standings at the end of elimination round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281676-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup, Finals\nThe finals is a best-of-three series, the team to win two games win the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281677-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA D-League Foundation Cup\nThe 2018 PBA D-League Foundation Cup is the second conference of the 2018 PBA Developmental League season. The tournament opened on June 4, 2018 at the Ynares Sports Arena, Pasig.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281677-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA D-League Foundation Cup, Team standings\nThese are the team standings at the end of the elimination round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281678-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Governors' Cup\nThe 2018 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup, also known as the 2018 Honda Click\u2013PBA Governor's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the third and last conference of the 2017\u201318 PBA season. The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of 6'5\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281678-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Governors' Cup, Imports\nThe following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281679-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Governors' Cup Finals\nThe 2018 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup Finals was the best-of-7 championship series of the 2018 PBA Governors' Cup, and the conclusion of the conference's playoffs. The Alaska Aces and the Magnolia Hotshots competed for the 18th Governors' Cup championship and the 124th overall championship contested by the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281679-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Governors' Cup Finals\nDue to the preparations of the Philippines men's national basketball team for the fifth window of the 2019 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers, the start of this finals series started on December 5, 2018; two weeks after the semifinal round finished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281679-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Governors' Cup Finals, Broadcast notes\nThe Governors' Finals is aired on The 5 Network (TV5) with simulcasts on PBA Rush (both in standard and high definition). TV5's radio arm, Radyo5 provides the radio play-by-play coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281679-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Governors' Cup Finals, Broadcast notes\nSports5 also provide online livestreaming via their official YouTube and Facebook accounts using the TV5 feed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281679-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA Governors' Cup Finals, Broadcast notes\nThe PBA Rush broadcast will provide English-language coverage of the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281680-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA draft\nThe 2018 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) rookie draft was an event that allowed teams to take turns selecting amateur basketball players and other eligible players, including half-Filipino foreign players. The league determined the drafting order based on the performance of the member teams from the 2017\u201318 season, with the worst team picking first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281680-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA draft, Draft order\nThe draft order is determined based on the overall performance of the teams from the previous season. The Philippine Cup final ranking comprises 40% of the points, while the rankings of the Commissioner's and Governors' Cups are 30% each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281680-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA draft, Draft order\nOn draft day, Alaska and Magnolia were playing in the 2018 PBA Governors' Cup Finals. Alaska would've finished either with 3.8 or 3.5 points, in 9th position. Magnolia would've finished with 3.2 or 3.5 points, in 10th position. Magnolia eventually won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281680-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA draft, Draft selections, 6th round\nA sixth round was held, but both Blackwater and NorthPort passed, thus ending the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281680-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA draft, Trades involving draft picks, Pre-draft trades\nNote: The rights to Barako Bull's draft pick were retained by Phoenix. Prior to the day of the draft, the following trades were made and resulted in exchanges of picks between the teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281680-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PBA draft, Trades involving draft picks, Draft-day trades\nNo trades were allowed during the draft day as requested by commissioner Willie Marcial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281681-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PCCL National Collegiate Championship\nThe 2018 PCCL National Collegiate Championship is the tenth edition of the Philippine Collegiate Champions League (PCCL) in its current incarnation, the postseason tournament to determine the national collegiate champions in basketball. The tournament will be the 15th edition overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281681-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PCCL National Collegiate Championship, Qualifying rounds, Visayas qualifier\nThe knockout game between the Iloilo champion Iloilo Doctors' College and Negros Occidental champions Colegio de Santa Ana de Victorias was held at the STI West Negros University Gym in Bacolod on November 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 80], "content_span": [81, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281681-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PCCL National Collegiate Championship, Qualifying rounds, Visayas qualifier\nCSA-V's decisive 17-0 run at the start of the third quarter sealed the win for the Titans. They qualify to the Davao regionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 80], "content_span": [81, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281681-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PCCL National Collegiate Championship, Qualifying rounds, NCR qualifiers\nThe NCR (Metro Manila) qualifiers were held from November 22 to 24 at the La Consolacion College - Manila and Lyceum of the Philippines University gyms in Manila.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 77], "content_span": [78, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281681-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PCCL National Collegiate Championship, Qualifying rounds, South Luzon/Bicol qualifiers\nThe South Luzon/Bicol qualifiers shall take place at the Jesse M. Robredo Coliseum in Naga, Camarines Sur from November 27 to December 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 91], "content_span": [92, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281681-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PCCL National Collegiate Championship, Qualifying rounds, Mindanao qualifiers\nThe Mindanao qualifiers is taking place at the Davao City Recreation Center from December 1 to 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 82], "content_span": [83, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281681-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 PCCL National Collegiate Championship, Regional rounds, VisMin regional\nThe VisMin regional shall be held at the Arcadia Active Lifestyle Center in Davao City from December 4 to 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 76], "content_span": [77, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281681-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 PCCL National Collegiate Championship, Final Four, Philippine Regional Championship\nThe Philippine Regional Championship was held at the Arcadia Active Lifestyle Center in Davao City from December 6 to 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 88], "content_span": [89, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281682-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PD20\n2018 PD20 is a small asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 9\u201320 meters (30\u201366 feet) in diameter. On 11 August 2018, it was first observed by ATLAS at the Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii (T08), when it passed 33,500 kilometers (20,800 miles) from the Earth. This is notable because it came within a tenth of the lunar distance, or 0.10 LD which is closer to Earth than satellites in a geostationary orbit. These have an altitude of 0.11 LD, about 36,000\u00a0km (22,000\u00a0mi), approximately 3 times the width of the Earth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281682-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PD20, Orbit and classification\n2018 PD20 orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.82\u20131.66\u00a0AU once every 17 months (503 days; semi-major axis of 1.24\u00a0AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.34 and an inclination of 9\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281682-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PD20, Orbit and classification\nThe asteroid has an Earth minimum orbital intersection distance of 0.000181761\u00a0AU (27,191\u00a0km), which translates into 0.078 lunar distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281683-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Calendar\nThis is the schedule of Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events on the 2018 calendar, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage where applicable. This list includes European tour events, Players Championships events, World Series of Darts events and PDC majors. This list includes some regional tours, such as the ones in Nordic, Baltic and Oceanic regions, but does not include British Darts Organisation (BDO) events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281683-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Calendar, March\nStephen Bunting Rob Cross Dimitri Van den Bergh John Henderson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281683-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Calendar, April\nJaikob Selby Patrick van den Booggard Carl Batchelor Owen Maiden", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281683-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Calendar, May\nMichael van Gerwen Jamie Lewis Raymond van Barneveld Rob Cross", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281683-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Calendar, May\nDawson Murschell Ted Evetts Dimitri Van den Bergh Justin van Tergouw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 22], "content_span": [23, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281683-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Calendar, June\nDimitri Van den Bergh Simon Whitlock Adam Hunt Dave Chisnall", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281683-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Calendar, November\nMike De Decker Ryan Meikle Justin van Tergouw Brian Raman", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281683-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Calendar, November\nBrian Raman Luke Humphries Danny van Trijp Mike De Decker", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281683-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Calendar, November\nPatrick van den Boogaard Jack Male William Borland Harry Ward", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281683-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Calendar, November\nPatrik Kov\u00e1cs Danny van Trijp Dimitri Van den Bergh Luke Humphries", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281683-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Calendar, November\nJonny Clayton Michael Unterbuchner Simon Whitlock Dimitri Van den Bergh", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281684-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 1\nThe 2018 PDC Players Championship 1 was the first of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Barnsley, England on 17 February 2018. It featured a field of 128 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. It was won by Michael van Gerwen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281685-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 10\nThe 2018 PDC Players Championship 10 was the tenth of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 29 April 2018. It featured a field of 128 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. The winner was Jeffrey de Zwaan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281686-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 11\nThe 2018 PDC Players Championship 11 was the eleventh of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Milton Keynes, England on 19 May 2018. It featured a field of 127 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. The winner was Gary Anderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281687-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 12\nThe 2018 PDC Players Championship 12 was the twelfth of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Milton Keynes, England on 20 May 2018. It featured a field of 128 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. The winner was Josh Payne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281688-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 13\nThe 2018 PDC Players Championship 13 was the thirteenth of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 16 June 2018. It featured a field of 128 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. The winner was Rob Cross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281689-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 14\nIn darts the 2018 PDC Players Championship 14 was the fourteenth of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 17 June 2018. It featured a field of 128 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. The winner was Peter Wright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281690-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 2\nThe 2018 PDC Players Championship 2 was the second of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Barnsley, England on 18 February 2018. It featured a field of 128 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. It was won by Michael van Gerwen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281691-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 3\nThe 2018 PDC Players Championship 3 was the third of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Barnsley, England on 10 March 2018. It featured a field of 128 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. It was won by Gary Anderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281692-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 4\nThe 2018 PDC Players Championship 4 was the fourth of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Barnsley, England on 11 March 2018. It featured a field of 128 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. It was won by Gary Anderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281693-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 5\nThe 2018 PDC Players Championship 5 was the fifth of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Milton Keynes, England on 17 March 2018. It featured a field of 128 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. It was won by Michael van Gerwen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281694-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 6\nThe 2018 PDC Players Championship 6 was the sixth of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Milton Keynes, England on 18 March 2018. It featured a field of 128 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. The winner was Ian White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281695-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 7\nThe 2018 PDC Players Championship 7 was the seventh of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Barnsley, England on 7 April 2018. It featured a field of 128 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. The winner was Michael Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281696-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 8\nThe 2018 PDC Players Championship 8 was the eighth of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Barnsley, England on 8 April 2018. It featured a field of 128 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. The winner was Mickey Mansell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281697-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Players Championship 9\nThe 2018 PDC Players Championship 9 was the ninth of twenty-two Players Championship events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 28 April 2018. It featured a field of 128 players and \u00a375,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. Michael van Gerwen won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281698-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Pro Tour\nThe 2018 PDC Pro Tour was a series of non-televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Players Championships, UK Open Qualifiers and European Tour events are the events that make up the Pro Tour. In this year there are 41 PDC Pro Tour events being held \u2013 22 Players Championships, six UK Open Qualifiers and 13 European Tour events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281698-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Pro Tour\nThis page also includes results from the PDC\u2019s affiliated tours including the Development and Challenge Tours and all the regional tours as well as the results from the World Championship regional qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281698-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Pro Tour, Prize Money\nThe prize money for the UK Open Qualifiers and Players Championship and European Tour events stay the same as 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281698-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Tour Card\n128 players are granted Tour Cards, which enables them to participate in all Players Championships, UK Open Qualifiers and European Tour events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281698-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Tour Card, Tour Cards\nAfterwards, the playing field will be complemented by the highest qualified players from the Q School Order of Merit until the maximum number of 128 Pro Tour Card players had been reached. In 2018, that means that a total of 21 players will qualify this way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281698-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Tour Card, Q-School\nIn a change to previous years, The PDC Pro Tour Qualifying School (or Q-School) was split into a UK and European Q-School. Players that are not from Europe can choose which Q-School they want to compete in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281698-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Tour Card, Q-School\nThe following players won two-year tour cards on each of the days played:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281698-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Tour Card, Q-School\nAn Order of Merit was also created for each Q School. For every win after the first full round (without byes) the players get awarded 1 point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281698-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Tour Card, Q-School\nTo complete the field of 128 Tour Card Holders, places were allocated down the final Qualifying School Order of Merits in proportion to the number of entrants. The following players picked up Tour Cards as a result:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281698-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Pro Tour, Professional Darts Corporation Nordic & Baltic\nThe Professional Darts Corporation Nordic & Baltic replaced the events in Norway and Latvia with new events in Lithuania and Iceland in 2018. As with 2017, there were 10 events held over 5 weekends. Two players from the Tour earned a 2019 PDC World Darts Championship spot, Darius Labanauskas and Daniel Larsson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 65], "content_span": [66, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281698-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Pro Tour, Professional Darts Corporation Asia\nThe PDC introduced the PDC Asian Tour in 2018, with 12 events held over 6 weekends. Five players from the Tour earned a 2019 PDC World Darts Championship spot after Seigo Asada won the Japanese Qualifier. The other players to qualify were Lourence Ilagan, Royden Lam, Noel Malicdem and Paul Lim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 54], "content_span": [55, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281698-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC Pro Tour, Championship Darts Circuit Pro Tour\nThe top American and Canadian players over the 2018 CDC Tour qualified for the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship. Chuck Puleo and Jim Long took the two places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 54], "content_span": [55, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281699-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Cup of Darts\nThe 2018 Betway World Cup of Darts was the eighth edition of the PDC World Cup of Darts. It took place between 31 May\u20133 June 2018 in at the Eissporthalle in Frankfurt, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281699-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Cup of Darts\nThe Netherlands pairing of Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld were the reigning champions and they retained the title by defeating Scotland's Peter Wright and Gary Anderson 3\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281699-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Cup of Darts, Format\nThe tournament will remain at 32 teams this year, with the top 8 teams being seeded and the remaining 24 teams being unseeded in the first round. Like last year, there are no groups in 2018 with the tournament being a straight knockout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281699-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Cup of Darts, Format\nFirst round: Best of nine legs doubles. Second round, quarter and semi-finals: Two best of seven legs singles matches. If the scores are tied a best of seven legs doubles match will settle the match. Final: Three points needed to win the title. Two best of seven legs singles matches are played followed by a best of seven doubles match. If necessary, one or two best of seven legs singles matches in reverse order are played to determine the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281699-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Cup of Darts, Prize money\nTotal prize money remained at \u00a3300,000, like last year. The prize money will be per team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281699-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Cup of Darts, Teams and seedings\nThe Top 8 nations based on combined Order of Merit rankings on 14 May were seeded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281699-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Cup of Darts, Results, Second round\nTwo best of seven legs singles matches. If the scores were tied, a best of seven legs doubles match settled the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281699-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Cup of Darts, Results, Quarter-finals\nTwo best of seven legs singles matches. If the scores were tied, a best of seven legs doubles match will settle the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281699-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Cup of Darts, Results, Semi-finals\nTwo best of seven legs singles matches. If the scores were tied, a best of seven legs doubles match will settle the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281699-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Cup of Darts, Results, Final\nThree match wins were needed to win the title. Two best of seven legs singles matches followed by a best of seven doubles match. If necessary, one or two best of seven legs reverse singles matches are played to determine the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship\nThe 2018 William Hill World Darts Championship was a darts event, held between 14 December 2017 and 1 January 2018 at the Alexandra Palace in London, United Kingdom. It was the 25th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship\nMichael van Gerwen was the defending champion, but lost 6\u20135 to Rob Cross in the semi-finals. Cross went on to win the World Championship on his debut by defeating Phil Taylor 7\u20132 in the final. This was Taylor's 29th and final World Championship, surpassing the record of 28 appearances he jointly held with John Lowe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship\nJamie Lewis became the first player to reach the semi-finals after entering the championship through a preliminary round event, first introduced at the 2004 Championship. Lewis eventually fell to Taylor in the semi-final, by a score of 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification\nThe 2018 PDC World Darts Championship is the 25th World Darts Championship to be organised by the Professional Darts Corporation; and the tenth to be held at Alexandra Palace, London. It was held between 14 December 2017 and 1 January 2018, the culmination of the 2017 Professional Darts Corporation season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification\n72 players competed in the championship; with the 32 highest ranked players on the PDC Order of Merit being seeded, and the next sixteen highest ranked players from the 2017 PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit and the top eight ranked players from a number of international and invitational qualifiers also going straight into the first round. The remaining sixteen international and invitational qualifiers competed in a preliminary round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification\nMichael van Gerwen, the winner of the 2014 and 2017 championships, was top of the two-year PDC Order of Merit and number one seed going into the tournament. The tournament was to be the last for Phil Taylor, who had won the PDC World Championship fourteen times previously, most recently in 2013. As well as van Gerwen and Taylor, three other previous PDC world champions qualified as seeds, two-time champions Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis, and 2007 champion Raymond van Barneveld.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification\nThe top seeds below van Gerwen were 2017 UK Open winner Peter Wright, Gary Anderson, 2017 World Grand Prix winner Daryl Gurney and 2017 Champions League of Darts winner Mensur Suljovi\u0107. Rob Cross, the runner-up at the 2017 European Championship, made his World Championship debut as the 20th seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification\nRichard North, in his debut year, was the highest ranked non-seed on the 2017 PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit. As well as North, three other qualifiers through the Pro Tour made their debut, Peter Jacques, Steve Lennon and Martin Schindler. The list of qualifiers also included the 2017 Youth Champion Dimitri Van den Bergh and the 2004 runner-up Kevin Painter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification\nAmongst the international and invitational qualification tournaments there was, for the first time, a South and Central American Qualifier. The majority of tournaments were the same as had been for the previous championship, but there was no longer a Philippines Championship. Gordon Mathers was the first player to qualify for the Championships, having finished top of the Dartplayers Australia rankings. The top two players on the Nordic & Baltic rankings also qualified, as did the winners of the fifteen international qualifiers, including the 2017 PDC World Youth Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification\nThe final four qualification places were announced on 19 October, with places being given to the highest ranked Eastern European, Krzysztof Ratajski, the National Darts Federation of Canada number one Jeff Smith, the highest ranked African, Devon Petersen, and the then-undetermined 2017 Development Tour winner, Luke Humphries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification\nThe sudden announcement of these places, and the granting of them to Ratajski, who had declined an invitation to the rival 2018 BDO World Darts Championship before failing to qualify through the 2017 PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit; and Jeff Smith, who had failed to qualify for the BDO World Darts Championship and not played a single PDC event in the previous year, were criticized by some, with ITV4 pundit and tour card holder Paul Nicholson saying he had written to the Professional Darts Players Association to seek clarification over the placings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification\nThe final three placings were determined by the PDPA qualifier held at Arena MK on 27 November, with Ted Evetts securing a first round place by winning the tournament, and runner-up Brendan Dolan and third-place playoff winner Jamie Lewis both qualifying to the preliminary round. The third place had become available as the 2017 PDC World Youth Championship, which carries a qualification place, was won by Dimitri Van den Bergh, who qualified through the Pro Tour Order of Merit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification\n15 of the international and invitational qualifiers were making their PDC World Championship debuts, Seigo Asada, Willard Bruguier, Ted Evetts, Cody Harris, Luke Humphries, Kai Fan Leung, Alan Ljubi\u0107, Gordon Mathers, Kenny Neyens, William O'Connor, Diogo Portela, Krzysztof Ratajski, Bernie Smith, Jeff Smith, and Zong Xiao Chen. Portela was the first ever Brazilian to qualify for the World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Prize money\nThe prize money for the tournament was a record high of \u00a31,800,000 in total. The winner's prize money has increased from \u00a3350,000 to \u00a3400,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary\nThe top quarter of the draw saw reigning champion Michael van Gerwen dominate, knocking fellow Dutchman Christian Kist out in the first round, before defeating James Wilson, without losing any of the twelve legs played, and Gerwyn Price, to set up a quarter-final with fellow Dutch former world champion Raymond van Barneveld. In the quarter-final, van Gerwen took an early lead, but missed a dart in the fifth set to take a 4\u20131 lead and ended up being pulled back to 3\u20133. The two took one more set each before van Gerwen won the deciding set 3\u20131 to qualify for the semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary\nIn the second quarter, the fourth seed, Daryl Gurney, was eliminated in the second round by John Henderson. Debutant Rob Cross defeated Michael Smith in the second round after Smith missed two match darts, and Cross went on to defeat Henderson to set up a quarter-final against the World Youth Champion Dimitri Van den Bergh, who had defeated fifth seed Mensur Suljovi\u0107 in the third round. In the quarter-final, Cross led his Belgian opponent early on, leading 4\u20131 in the best-of-nine match after five sets. Van den Bergh took the next three sets in succession, setting up a decider which Cross won 3\u20131, hitting double one in the final leg to qualify for the semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary\nThe two highest-ranked seeds in the third quarter fell early on. Two-time champion and seventh seed Adrian Lewis was knocked out in the first round by German qualifier Kevin M\u00fcnch, while the second seed Peter Wright was knocked out in the second round by Jamie Lewis, who had qualified for the event by coming third in the final PDPA Qualifier. Welshman Jamie Lewis went past the unseeded James Richardson in the third round, becoming the first player to go from the preliminary round to the quarter-final in the history of the championship; before whitewashing Darren Webster to reach the semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary\nTwo former world champions, two-time champion Gary Anderson and retiring sixteen-time champion Phil Taylor, met in the last quarter-final. Anderson's run to the quarter-final included a second round win over 63-year-old Singaporean, Paul Lim, a match noted for a leg in which Lim, who in 1990 had become the first player to throw a perfect nine-dart leg in the World Darts Championship, missed a dart at double twelve to repeat the feat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary\nTaylor had faced English opposition in his three previous rounds, beating Chris Dobey in the first round before whitewashing Justin Pipe and Keegan Brown in the next two rounds to set up the quarter-final. Taylor took a 4\u20131 lead after winning six consecutive legs, and despite Anderson winning the next two sets, Taylor took advantage of missed darts in the eighth set to triumph, 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary\nThe semi-final between Taylor and Lewis was the first to be played, and, despite Lewis winning the first set, Taylor took the next three, with Lewis having missed darts in all three sets to have potentially been 4\u20130 up. Taylor won the next two sets as well, before Lewis took the first two legs in the seventh set, with Taylor taking advantage of three missed set darts from Lewis to steal the set and qualify for the twenty-first World Darts Championship final in his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary\nIn the second semi-final, debutant Cross took on reigning world champion van Gerwen. The first eight sets in the match all went with throw, with Cross taking a lead before being pegged back by van Gerwen. Michael van Gerwen got the first break in the ninth set, taking a 5\u20134 lead to throw for the match, but Cross fought back to win the tenth set 3\u20131 to force a deciding set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary\nIn the deciding set \u2013 which had to be won by two clear legs until the eleventh leg was reached \u2013 Cross missed a match-winning dart at the bull with the score at 3\u20132, before van Gerwen won two legs in succession to take a 5\u20134 lead. With both players under pressure, van Gerwen missed five darts to win the tenth leg, before Cross hit a double 18 to force a sudden death leg. Both Cross and van Gerwen missed match darts at double 16 before Cross hit double 8 to qualify for the final in his debut entry, becoming the first player to make the final on his debut since Kirk Shepherd in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary\nIn the final, held on New Year's Day 2018, Phil Taylor won the bull-off, but opted to allow Cross to throw first. Rob Cross held the first set 3\u20131, and broke in the second set by the same scoreline, before winning the third set 3\u20130. Taylor scored his first set with a 3\u20130 win in the fourth, before missing a dart at double twelve for a potential perfect nine-dart leg in the first leg of the fifth set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary\nCross won that leg and the next two to restore his three set lead, before breaking Taylor in the first leg of the sixth set, and the fourth leg of the seventh, taking a 6\u20131 lead in the best-of-thirteen match. Taylor held the eighth set 3\u20130, but Cross held the first leg in the ninth set, before hitting double-eight to break and go one leg away from the championship, and in the final leg, hit a 140 finish, treble-18, treble-18, double-16 to win the world championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary, Main draw\nThe draw for the main round was made live on Sky Sports News on 27 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament statistics, Top averages\nThis table shows the highest averages achieved by players throughout the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament statistics, Representation from different countries\nThis table shows the number of players by country in the World Championship, the total number including the preliminary round. Twenty-four countries were represented in the World Championship, two more than in the previous championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 97], "content_span": [98, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Media coverage\nThe tournament was available in the following countries on these channels:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Media coverage\nAdditionally, there was coverage in Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, France, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Moldova, Monaco, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan on Eurosport Player, and coverage in all countries except the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands on the Professional Darts Corporation's streaming service, PDCTV-HD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281700-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Darts Championship, Media coverage\n\u2020 Sky Sports Arena was renamed as Sky Sports Darts for the duration of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281701-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Youth Championship\nThe 2018 PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship was the eighth edition of the PDC World Youth Championship, a tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation for darts players aged between 16 and 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281701-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Youth Championship\nIn a change mirroring that of the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship, the field of this competition increased from 64 to 96 players, who competed in 32 groups of three, with the winner of each progressing to the knockout stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281701-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Youth Championship\nThe group stage and knock-out phase from the last 32 to the semi-finals was played at Robin Park Centre, Wigan, on 5 November 2018. The final took place on 25 November 2018, before the final of the 2018 Players Championship Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281701-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Youth Championship\nBelgium's Dimitri Van den Bergh was the defending champion after defeating English player Josh Payne 6\u20133 in the 2017 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281701-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Youth Championship\nVan den Bergh successfully defended his youth title by beating Germany's Martin Schindler 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281701-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Youth Championship\nVan den Bergh became the first player to defend the title and overall to win two times the PDC World Youth Title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281701-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 PDC World Youth Championship, Qualifiers\n74 players from the final 2018 PDC Development Tour Order of Merit qualified, as did 22 international qualifiers. Tahuna Irwin, who would have been the 23rd international qualifier, withdrew due to an issue with immigration. Bradley Brooks, Dawson Murschell and Rusty-Jake Rodriguez qualified through the Development Tour Order of Merit as well as through an International Qualifier, which means the players ranked 75, 76 and 77 all qualified. Levy Frauenfelder replaced Jakob Kelly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281702-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PDL season\nThe 2018 Premier Development League season was the 24th season of the PDL, and the last under the PDL name. The regular season started on May 4 and ended on July 16. Calgary Foothills FC won the final championship under the PDL branding, having defeated Reading United AC 4\u20132 in extra time in the Championship game on August 4, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281702-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PDL season, Changes from 2017, New teams\nA total of 12 new member clubs join the PDL for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281702-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PDL season, Playoffs\nBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout score", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281702-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PDL season, Playoffs, Conference Championships\nThe PDL Conference Championships were held over the weekend of July 20\u201321. Matches were played at: Whittier, CA (Western Conference, host FC Golden State Force); Reading, PA (Eastern Conference, host Reading United AC); Des Moines, IA (Central Conference, host Des Moines Menace); and Statesboro, GA (Southern Conference, host South Georgia Tormenta FC). The four conference champions advanced to the PDL semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281702-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PDL season, All-League and All-Conference Teams, Eastern Conference\nF: Ifunanyachi Achara (BLR), Khori Bennett (REA), Charlie Ledula (LIR)M: Jakov Basic (BOS), Ricardo Gomez (MYB), Aaron Molloy (REA) *, Brian Saramago (NYR)D: Prosper Figbe (BLR), Kamal Miller (REA), Kevin O'Toole (NYR)G: Bennet Strutz (REA)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 72], "content_span": [73, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281702-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PDL season, All-League and All-Conference Teams, Central Conference\nF: Austin Ricci (MIB), Kinoshita Ryosuke (DMM) *, Tucker Stephenson (KAW)M: Kyle Carr (LNU), Brad Dunwell (MIB), Luka Prpa (CHI) *, Tate Robertson (DAY) * D: Ebenezer Ackon (LNU), Mark Lindstrom (CIN), Grant Stoneman (CHI)G: Carlos Mercado (DMM)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 72], "content_span": [73, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281702-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 PDL season, All-League and All-Conference Teams, Southern Conference\nF: Brandon Guhl (BVC), Juan Tejada (LAK), Marek Weber (SCU) * M: David Graydon (SIM), Marco Micaletto (SGT) *, Leonardo Paiva (VIL), Toni Soler (SGT)D: Mathieu Laurent (BIR), Jordan Skelton (MIS) *, Gabriel Torres (VIL) * G: Pablo Jara (SGT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 73], "content_span": [74, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281702-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 PDL season, All-League and All-Conference Teams, Western Conference\nF: Moses Danto (CGY) *, Santiago Patino (SEA), Samuel Villava (GSF)M: Elijah Adekugbe (CGY), Nico Pasquotti (CGY), Matteo Polisi (TSS), Willy Spurr (LAN)D: Henry Lander (TUC), Callum Montgomery (VIC) *, Dominick Zator (CGY)G: Marco Carducci (CGY) *", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 72], "content_span": [73, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281703-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PEI Tankard\nThe 2018 PEI Tankard, the provincial men's curling championship of Prince Edward Island, was held from January 13 to 9 at the Cornwall Curling Club in Cornwall, Prince Edward Island. The winning Eddie MacKenzie team represented Prince Edward Island at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281704-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PFF Women's League\nThe 2018 PFF Women's League season is the second season of the women's national league of the Philippines following the 2016\u201317 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281704-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PFF Women's League\nThe organization of a second season for the league was reported as early as July 2018. Ten clubs participated for the second season which will run from August 25 to November 11 2018, with De La Salle Zobel and Tuloy F.C. making their debuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281704-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PFF Women's League\nThe University of Santo Tomas and the De La Salle University played against each other in the de facto final on November 11, 2018 where the latter won 2\u20131 over the former.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281704-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PFF Women's League, Format\nThe league followed a single round robin format for the second season. Matches are to be played on weekends. The primary venue for the league's matches is the PFF National Training Centre in Carmona, Cavite with the Rizal Memorial Stadium designated as an alternate venue. As of this season the league's players reportedly are compliant with the MyPFF online registration system of the Philippine Football Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281704-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PFF Women's League, Clubs\n10 teams participated in the second season of the league with De La Salle Zobel and Tuloy F.C. making their debuts. 2016\u201317 season participants, Fuego Espa\u00f1a and The Younghusband Football Academy decided not to enter for this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship\nThe 2018 PGA Championship was the 100th PGA Championship, held August 9\u201312 at Bellerive Country Club in Town and Country, Missouri, a suburb west of St. Louis. This was the second PGA Championship (1992) and third major (1965 U.S. Open) held at Bellerive. It was also scheduled to be the last held in the month of August (although the 2020 tournament would later be moved to August due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Just before the 2017 tournament, the PGA announced that the Championship would move to May in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship\nBrooks Koepka won his third career major title, finishing two strokes ahead of runner-up Tiger Woods. Koepka's 72-hole total of 264 set a PGA Championship record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Media\nThe 2018 PGA Championship was the 35th overall and 28th straight PGA Championship to be televised by CBS, with first and second round coverage provided by Turner Sports for the 28th year. In the UK and Ireland, the Championship was being streamed online by Eleven Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Field\nThe following qualification criteria were used to select the field. Each player is listed according to the first category by which he qualified with additional categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Field\nRich Beem, Keegan Bradley (9), John Daly, Jason Day (5,7,9,11), Jason Dufner (9), P\u00e1draig Harrington, Martin Kaymer (3,10), Davis Love III, Rory McIlroy (4,9,10,11), Shaun Micheel, Phil Mickelson (9,10,11), Vijay Singh, Justin Thomas (7,9,11), Jimmy Walker (9,10), Tiger Woods (9), Yang Yong-eun", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Field\nSergio Garc\u00eda (10), Patrick Reed (7,9,10,11), Jordan Spieth (3,4,9,10), Bubba Watson (9,11), Danny Willett (10)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Field\nScott Brown, Paul Casey (9,11), Rickie Fowler (9,10), James Hahn, Brian Harman (9), Kevin Kisner (9), Matt Kuchar (9,10), Marc Leishman (9,11), Hideki Matsuyama (9), Ryan Moore (9,10), Jordan Smith, Chris Stroud", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Field\nDanny Balin, Rich Berberian Jr., Michael Block, Matt Borchert, Craig Bowden, Matt Dobyns, Jaysen Hansen, Craig Hocknull, Marty Jertson, Zach J. Johnson, Ben Kern, Johan Kok, Sean McCarty, David Muttitt, Jason Schmuhl, Brian Smock, Bob Sowards, Omar Uresti, Ryan Vermeer, Shawn Warren", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Field\nAn Byeong-hun, Ryan Armour (11), Daniel Berger, Rafa Cabrera-Bello (10), Patrick Cantlay (11), Kevin Chappell, Austin Cook (11), Bryson DeChambeau (11), Tony Finau, Tommy Fleetwood, Brian Gay, Emiliano Grillo, Chesson Hadley, Adam Hadwin, Russell Henley, Charley Hoffman, J. B. Holmes (10), Billy Horschel (11), Beau Hossler, Charles Howell III, Kim Meen-whee, Patton Kizzire (11), Andrew Landry (11), Luke List, Kevin Na (11), Alex Nor\u00e9n, Pat Perez (11), Scott Piercy (11), Ted Potter Jr. (11), Ian Poulter (11), Jon Rahm (11), Chez Reavie, Justin Rose (10,11), Xander Schauffele (11), Ollie Schniederjans, Charl Schwartzel, Cameron Smith, J. J. Spaun, Kyle Stanley, Brendan Steele (11), Jhonattan Vegas, Aaron Wise (11), Gary Woodland (11)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Field\nMatthew Fitzpatrick, Thomas Pieters, Brandt Snedeker, Andy Sullivan, Chris Wood", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Field\nBrice Garnett, Michael Kim, Satoshi Kodaira, Troy Merritt, Andrew Putnam", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Field\nKiradech Aphibarnrat, Alexander Bj\u00f6rk, Jorge Campillo, Stewart Cink, Paul Dunne, Ross Fisher, Ryan Fox, Dylan Frittelli, Jim Furyk, Branden Grace, Bill Haas, Seungsu Han, Justin Harding, Tyrrell Hatton, Yuta Ikeda, Im Sung-jae, Shugo Imahira, Russell Knox, Mikko Korhonen, Anirban Lahiri, Alexander L\u00e9vy, Li Haotong, Mike Lorenzo-Vera, Jamie Lovemark, Shane Lowry, Y\u016bsaku Miyazato, Joaqu\u00edn Niemann, Thorbj\u00f8rn Olesen, Adri\u00e1n Otaegui, Eddie Pepperell, Adam Scott, Shubhankar Sharma, Brandon Stone, Julian Suri, Ryuko Tokimatsu, Peter Uihlein, Matt Wallace, Nick Watney", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Round summaries, First round\nGary Woodland holed five birdies on the back nine to lead by one over Rickie Fowler. A total of 47 players ended the opening day under par.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nPlay was suspended Friday afternoon at 3:35 pm due to dangerous weather with half of the field still on the course. Play was set to resume Saturday morning at 7 am local time with the third round to follow at about 11:15 am. Gary Woodland was the clubhouse leader at 130 (\u221210), which set a PGA Championship record for low 36-hole score. Two players, Brooks Koepka and Charl Schwartzel, shot record-tying rounds of 63.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Third round\nBrooks Koepka's 66 gave him a two-shot lead as he attempted to become the first player since Tiger Woods in 2000 to win both the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship in the same season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nBrooks Koepka duplicated his Saturday score of 66 to win by two strokes ahead of runner-up Tiger Woods, who fired a 64 in the best final round of his career in a major. Koepka became the fifth American player to win three majors before the age of 29, joining Jack Nicklaus, Jordan Spieth, Tom Watson and Woods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nHis 72-hole score of 264 set the PGA Championship record (previously 265 set by David Toms in 2001) and equaled the lowest total in major championship history (set by Henrik Stenson at the 2016 Open Championship).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281705-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Final leaderboard\nNote: Top 15 and ties qualify for the 2019 PGA Championship; top 4 and ties qualify for the 2019 Masters Tournament", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 70], "content_span": [71, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281706-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA EuroPro Tour\nThe 2018 PGA EuroPro Tour was the 17th season of the PGA EuroPro Tour, one of four third-tier tours recognised by the European Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281706-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA EuroPro Tour, Schedule\nStandard events had a minimum prize fund of \u00a346,735, which increased depending on how many players made the cut; any unused prize money from the \u00a350,000 maximum was added to the prize fund for the Tour Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281706-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA EuroPro Tour, Graduates\nThe money list was known as the Race to Challenge Tour; the top five players (not otherwise exempt) earned Challenge Tour cards for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281707-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Tour Canada\nThe 2018 PGA Tour Canada season ran from May 31 to September 16 and consist of 12 official golf tournaments. This was the 49th season of PGA Tour Canada (previously known as the Canadian Professional Golf Tour), and the sixth under the \"PGA Tour Canada\" name. It is also the fourth under the Mackenzie Tour \u2013 PGA Tour Canada name after Mackenzie Investments signed a six-year sponsorship deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281707-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Tour Canada\nThe purses increased for 2018. Most events had a purse of $200,000 with first place earning $36,000. The final event of the season, the Freedom 55 Financial Championship, had a purse of $225,000, with $40,500 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281707-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Tour Canada, Order of Merit leaders\nThe top five players on the Order of Merit earned Korn Ferry Tour cards for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281708-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Tour Champions season\nThe 2018 PGA Tour Champions season is the 39th in which PGA Tour Champions, a golf tour for men age 50 and over, has operated. The tour officially began in 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281708-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Tour Champions season, Tournament results\nThe following table shows the official money events for the 2018 season. \"Date\" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they will have on the tour up to and including that event. Senior majors are shown in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281709-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Tour Latinoam\u00e9rica\nThe 2018 PGA Tour Latinoam\u00e9rica was the seventh season of PGA Tour Latinoam\u00e9rica. PGA Tour Latinoam\u00e9rica was operated and run by the PGA Tour. The season began in March at the Stella Artois Open in Antigua, Guatemala and concluded in December at the Shell Championship at Trump National Doral Miami, marking the return of a PGA Tour-sanctioned event to the Miami resort that hosted events from 1962 to 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281709-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Tour Latinoam\u00e9rica, Schedule\nThe table below shows the 2018 schedule. \"Date\" is the ending date of each event. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on tour up to and including that event. OWGR is the number of Official World Golf Ranking points awarded for that tournament. All tournaments had a purse of US$175,000, except the Bupa Match Play which has a purse of $125,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281709-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Tour Latinoam\u00e9rica, Order of Merit\nAs in previous seasons, the top five players on the tour, known as 'Los Cinco', earned status to play on the 2019 Web.com Tour. This was based on the leaders on the Order of Merit after the conclusion of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281710-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Tour of Australasia\nThe 2018 PGA Tour of Australasia was a series of men's professional golf events played mainly in Australia. The main tournaments on the PGA Tour of Australasia were played in the southern summer, so they were split between the first and last months of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281710-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PGA Tour of Australasia, Tournament results\nThe table below shows the 2018 schedule. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of PGA Tour of Australasia events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for PGA Tour of Australasia members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281711-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PKNS F.C. season\nThe 2018 season is PKNS's 5th season in the top flight of Malaysian football, the Malaysia Super League after being promoted from 2016 Malaysia Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281711-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PKNS F.C. season, Transfers, First transfer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281711-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PKNS F.C. season, Transfers, First transfer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281711-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PKNS F.C. season, Transfers, Mid season transfer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281711-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PKNS F.C. season, Transfers, Mid season transfer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281712-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PP leadership election\nThe 2018 PP leadership election\u2014officially the 19th PP National Congress\u2014was held on 20\u221221 July 2018, with a primary election being held on 5 July, after it was called by the party's National Board of Directors on 11 June as a consequence of Mariano Rajoy's resignation as People's Party leader on 5 June. Rajoy's decision to resign the party leadership came as a result of a motion of no confidence which had voted down Rajoy's government on 1 June. The leadership election is the first whereby PP members directly participate in choosing a leader for the party. On 26 June 2018, it was announced that only 66,706 PP members out of the 869,535 reported by the party had registered to vote in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281712-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PP leadership election\nSoraya S\u00e1enz de Santamar\u00eda, former Deputy Prime Minister of Spain (2011\u20132018), and Pablo Casado, the party's Vice Secretary-General of Communication since 2015, topped the poll in the primary election held on 5 July 2018, becoming eligible for the run-off to be held among party's delegates on 20\u221221 July. After preliminary data was published, S\u00e1enz de Santamar\u00eda conceded the election and acknowledged Casado's victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281712-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PP leadership election\nCasado's victory was considered a party swing towards the right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281712-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PP leadership election, Election system\nThe election system consists on a two-round system. In the first round on 5 July 2018, all registered party members who have their payment fees up to date are allowed to vote. In the second round, to be held concurrently with the party congress on 20\u221221 July, 3,082 delegates will elect the new party leader from among the two candidates who have previously received the most votes. Concurrently with the first ballot, party members will also elect 2,612 out of the 3,082 delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281712-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 PP leadership election, Election system\nNo second ballot is required should a candidate obtains at least 50 percent of the vote, secures such a percentage in an absolute majority of the 60 constituencies and is at least 15 points ahead of the runner-up. Candidates required the signatures of at least 100 party members in order to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281712-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PP leadership election, Candidates, Announced\nA further candidate, Jos\u00e9 Luis Bayo, announced his intention to run for the primary election, but was rejected by the PP Organizing Committee as a result of not meeting the endorsement requirements in time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281712-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PP leadership election, Opinion polls\nPoll results are listed in the tables below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first, and using the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. If such date is unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the candidate's colour. In the instance of a tie, the figures with the highest percentages are shaded. Polls show data gathered among PP voters/supporters as well as Spanish voters as a whole, but not among party members, who are the ones ultimately entitled to vote in the primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281713-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PRISAA National Games\nThe 2018 PRISAA National Games was this year's edition of the annual sports competition for student-athletes from privately-owned schools throughout the 17 regions of the Philippines. The National Games is organized by the Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281713-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PRISAA National Games\nThe games were hosted by Bohol and it ran from April 22\u201327, 2018. The opening ceremony was held at the Carlos P. Garcia Sports Complex and the closing ceremony will be held at the Bohol Cultural Center, both located in Tagbilaran City, Bohol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281713-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PRISAA National Games\nThis was the first time that Bohol hosted the games, after 71 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281713-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PRISAA National Games\nAt the end of the event, Central Visayas dominated the PRISAA National Games with 255 medals, claiming their fourth-straight overall seniors championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281713-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PRISAA National Games, Sports\nAn estimated number of 4,000 student-athletes from 17 (formerly 18 due to dissolution of the Negros Island Region in 2017) regions in the country participated in 18 regular sports and non-sporting competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281714-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PSA Annual Awards\nThe 2018 SMC-PSA Annual Awards was an annual ceremony recognized the athletes, teams, executives and personalities in the past year 2017. The awards is organized by the Philippine Sportswriters Association, a Philippine-based media organization composed of sports writers and reporters, section editors and columnists from print (broadsheet and tabloids) and online media. PSA is headed by Eduardo \"Dodo\" Catacutan of Sports Interactive Network Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281714-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PSA Annual Awards\nThe awards night, with the theme \"A Night of Greatness\", was held on February 27, 2018 at the Maynila Hall of the Manila Hotel in Ermita, Manila. The awards night is mainly sponsored by San Miguel Corporation, Milo, Philippine Sports Commission, Cignal and Tapa King.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281714-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PSA Annual Awards\nCue artist Carlo Biado, bowler Krizziah Lyn Tabora and boxer Jerwin Ancajas were awarded as the co-Athletes of the Year. PSC Chairman Butch Ramirez and Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President Ricky Vargas attended the occasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281714-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PSA Annual Awards\nSecretary of Agriculture and former sports columnist Manny Pi\u00f1ol was served as the guest speaker representing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281714-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PSA Annual Awards, Honor roll, Main awards\nThe following are the list of main awards of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281714-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PSA Annual Awards, Honor roll, Major awardees\nThese are the major awardees of the event. Sorted in alphabetical order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281714-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 PSA Annual Awards, Honor roll, Special citations\nThe citations were given to the gold medalists of the Southeast Asian Games and the ASEAN Para Games both held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the period of August 19 to 30 and September 17 to 23, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281715-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PSIS Semarang season\nIn the 2018 season, the Indonesian football club PSIS Semarang played in Liga 1. Bruno Silva was the top goalscorer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281716-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PSL All-Filipino Conference\nThe 2018 Chooks-To-Go PSL All-Filipino Conference was the fourth conference and third indoor tournament for the Philippine Super Liga's sixth season. The games began on October 30, 2018 at the Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281717-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PSL Beach Volleyball Challenge Cup\nThe 2018 PSL Beach Volleyball Challenge Cup was the second conference of the Philippine Super Liga's sixth season. The tournament was held at the Sands SM By the Bay, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay from May 23\u201327, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281718-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PSL Collegiate Grand Slam Conference\nThe 2018 PSL Collegiate Grand Slam Conference was the fifth conference and fourth indoor tournament for the Philippine Super Liga's sixth season. The games began on November 3, 2018 at the Ynares Sports Arena, Pasig. The conference coincided with the 2018 All-Filipino Conference and utilized a round robin system during the preliminary round with the top four teams advancing to the next round. The losers of the semifinal round competed for the bronze medal while the winners advance to the championship round. The champion will go to a training camp in Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281719-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PSL Grand Prix Conference\nThe 2018 Chooks-To-Go PSL Grand Prix Conference was the first conference and first indoor tournament for the Philippine Super Liga's sixth season. The games commenced February 17, 2018 at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig and the formal opening ceremony was held on February 24, 2018 at the Santa Rosa Multipurpose Complex in Santa Rosa, Laguna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281719-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PSL Grand Prix Conference\nThe tournament was moved from October to February in order to align with the new competition calendar approved by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) and the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281720-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PSL Invitational Cup\nThe 2018 Chooks-to-Go PSL Invitational Cup was the third conference and second indoor volleyball tournament of the Philippine Super Liga's sixth season. The tournament commenced on June 23, 2018 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City. As with the 2017 Invitational, the tournament used an all-to-play format to give playing time for every player in each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281720-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PSL Invitational Cup, Tune-up games with the Philippine national team\nThe Philippines women's national volleyball team that will participate in the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia on August 18\u2013September 2, 2018 will be a guest team in the tournament. The team will play tune up games against some of the regular PSL teams. National players will play for their respective mother teams in games pitting the Philippine team against their mother team. Alyssa Valdez and Jia Morado will not play for the national team in the PSL tune up games due to obligations with their mother team, the Creamline Cool Smashers in the ongoing 2018 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 74], "content_span": [75, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281721-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PSMS Medan season\nThe 2018 PSMS season is PSMS Medan's first season in the Liga 1. It will see them compete in the Liga 1, as well as the Indonesia's President Cup and Piala Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281721-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PSMS Medan season, Players, Squad information\nPlayers and squad numbers last updated on 22 March 2018. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281722-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PSSI Anniversary Cup\nThe 2018 PSSI Anniversary Cup is a four-team under-23 association football tournament held at Pakansari Stadium in Cibinong, Bogor Regency from 27 April until 3 May 2018. The tournament is organised to commemorate the 88th anniversary of Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI). Earlier, the tournament was expected to be kicked off on 28 April, however PSSI later changed it on 27 April due to Liga 1 matches that will be held on that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281722-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PSSI Anniversary Cup\nBahrain emerged as the tournament champion with 7 points ahead the rest teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281722-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PSSI Anniversary Cup, Participating nations\nA total of four nations comprising host Indonesia, Bahrain, North Korea and Malaysia have earlier announced their participation in the tournament. On 12 April 2018, Malaysia announcing their withdrawal as the tournament date is coinciding with their league schedule that resulting each of their players will be busy with their respective club matches that will preventing them from playing with the national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281722-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 PSSI Anniversary Cup, Participating nations\nTwo replacement candidates from Senegal and Uzbekistan are then called by PSSI, with Thailand, Vietnam, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan are also decided as other potential candidates despite both Thailand and Vietnam had responding that their players also busy with tight league schedules in their country. The PSSI later decide Uzbekistan as the suitable replacement candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281722-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PSSI Anniversary Cup, Match officials\nThe following referees and their assistants were chosen for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281722-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PSSI Anniversary Cup, Regulation\nThe tournament follow Asian Games regulation with all participating teams will be using their U-23 national team with an advantage to use three senior players. It is decided through a round-robin format with team with the highest point will become the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281722-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PSSI Anniversary Cup, Venue\nThe sole venue stadium is the Pakansari Stadium in Cibinong of Bogor Regency. Earlier, the PSSI also expected the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta to be used for the tournament, but the stadium are currently being renovated to host the upcoming 2018 Asian Games, where Indonesia becoming the host.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281723-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 PT Prachuap F.C. season\n2018 was the first seasons in top-tier of Thai football league, Thai League 1 . This season, the club sent the team under the name of PT Prachuap F.C. for sponsorship purposes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281723-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 PT Prachuap F.C. season\nOn this season, PT Prachaup F.C. participate in 3 official competitions, Thai League T1, Chang FA Cup and Toyota League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281723-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 PT Prachuap F.C. season, Players, Current squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281723-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 PT Prachuap F.C. season, Players, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281723-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 PT Prachuap F.C. season, Players, Foreign players registration\nThe number of foreign players is restricted to five per Thai League team (3 foreign players, 1 AFC player and 1 ASEAN player) . A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281723-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 PT Prachuap F.C. season, Players, Foreign players registration\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been registered to the official Thai League T1. Players may hold more than one FIFA and non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281723-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 PT Prachuap F.C. season, Competitions, Season goalscorers & Man of the Match list\nBelow is a list of PT Prachaup F.C. goalscorer and man of the match (MoM) statistic on 2018 season, Recorded after a game of 2018 Thai League T1 with Suphanburi, As of 26\u00a0May\u00a02018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 86], "content_span": [87, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281723-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 PT Prachuap F.C. season, Season Transfers\nFirst Thai footballer's market is opening on November 14, 2017, to February 5, 2018 Second Thai footballer's market is opening on June 11, 2018, to July 9, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281724-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Pac-12 Conference and was played during March 7\u201310, 2018, at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. Number 1 seed Arizona defeated Number 2 seed USC in the championship game. Deandre Ayton was the Tournament MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281724-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nThe bracket was announced on March 3, 2018. All 12 Pac-12 schools were eligible to participate in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. As a result, the top four teams receive a bye to the quarterfinals of the tournament. Tiebreaking procedures were remain unchanged from the 2017 Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281724-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule\nThe tournament schedule was announced at the same time as the seeding on March 3, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281724-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket\nTeams were reseed after each round with highest remaining seeds receiving home court advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281724-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Awards and honors, Hall of Honor\nThe following former players will be inducted into the Pac-12 Hall of Honor on Friday, March 7, during a ceremony prior to the semifinals of the 2018 Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament presented by New York Life. They are: Michael Wright (Arizona men's basketball), Linda Vollstedt (Arizona State women's golf), Matt Biondi (California men's swimming), Bill Toomey (Colorado men's track and field), Andrew Wheating (Oregon men's track and field), Carol Menken-Schaudt (Oregon State women's basketball), Kerri Walsh Jennings (Stanford women's volleyball), Rafer Johnson (UCLA track and field and men's basketball). Cheryl Miller (USC women's basketball), Missy Marlowe (Utah gymnastics), Sonny Sixkiller (Washington football), and Laura Lavine (Washington State women's track and field).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 871]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281724-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament notes\nEight teams were invited to postseason play from the Pac-12 conferenceThree Pac-12 teams earned bids to the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 68], "content_span": [69, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281724-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament notes\nBoth Arizona State and UCLA were placed in the First Four, games between the four lowest-ranked at-large teams at Dayton, Ohio. Both teams lost their first game on the first Tuesday of the Tournament. Arizona lost its first-round game as well, leaving the Pac-12 with no teams in the round of 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 68], "content_span": [69, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281724-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament notes\nFive Pac-12 teams were placed with at-large bids in the 2018 National Invitation Tournament, the most-ever for the Conference: USC, Utah, Oregon, Stanford, and Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 68], "content_span": [69, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281725-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament presented by New York Life was the postseason tournament that ended the 2017\u201318 season of the Pac-12 Conference. The tournament was held at KeyArena in Seattle, Washington from March 1\u20134, 2018. Regular-season champion Oregon won the tournament and with it the automatic Pac-12 berth in the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281725-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nTeams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken in the following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 59], "content_span": [60, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season\nThe 2018 Pac-12 Conference football season represented the 40th season of Pac-12 football that took place during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season began on August 30, 2018 and ended with 2018 Pac-12 Championship Game on November 30 at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The Pac-12 is a Power Five conference under the College Football Playoff format along with the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big 12 Conference, the Big Ten Conference, and the Southeastern Conference. The 2018 season was the Pac-12's eighth for the twelve teams divided into two divisions of six each, named North and South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Previous season\nUSC defeated Stanford again 31\u201328 in a rematch from Week Two in the 2017 season for the Pac-12 Football Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Previous season\nNine teams participated in bowl games. Utah defeated West Virginia 30\u201314 in the Heart of Dallas Bowl. Oregon lost to Boise State 28\u201338 in the Las Vegas Bowl Arizona lost to Purdue 35\u201338 at the Foster Farms Bowl. Arizona State lost to NC State 31\u201352 in the Sun Bowl. UCLA lost to Kansas State 17\u201335 in the Cactus Bowl. Washington State lost to Michigan State 17\u201341 in the Holiday Bowl. Stanford lost to TCU 37\u201339 in the Alamo Bowl. USC lost to Ohio State 7\u201324 in the Cotton Bowl Classic and Washington lost to Penn State by a score of 28\u201335 in the Fiesta Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Preseason\n2018 Pac-12 Spring Football and number of signees on signing day:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days\nThe Pac-12 conducted its annual media days at the Loews Hollywood Hotel, \u2013 The Loews Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood, CA on July 25. The event commenced with a speech by Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott, and all 12 teams sent their head coaches and two selected players to speak with members of the media. The event along with all speakers and interviews were broadcast live on the Pac-12 Network. The teams and representatives in respective order were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days, Preseason media polls\nThe Pac-12 Media Days concluded with its annual preseason media polls on July 25, 2018. Since 1992, the credentialed media has gotten the preseason champion correct just five times. Only eight times has the preseason pick even made it to the Pac-12 title game. Below are the results of the media poll with total points received next to each school and first-place votes in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 91], "content_span": [92, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Head coaches, Coaching changes\nThere were five coaching changes following the 2018 season including Kevin Sumlin with Arizona, Herm Edwards with Arizona State, Mario Cristobal with Oregon, Johnathan Smith with Oregon State & Chip Kelly with UCLA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Schedules\nRankings reflect those of the AP poll for that week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Schedules, Regular season, Week 14\nThe Stanford\u2013California football game was moved from November 17 to December 1 due to poor air quality from wildfires in the Bay Area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Schedules, Pac-12 Championship Game\nThe championship game will played on Friday November 30, 2018. It will feature the teams with the best conference records from each division, the North (Washington) and the South (Utah). This will be the eighth championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Pac-12 vs other conferences, Pac-12 vs Power Five matchups\nThis is a list of the power conference teams (ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Notre Dame and SEC) that the Pac-12 plays in the non-conference games. Although the NCAA does not consider BYU a \"Power Five\" school, the Pac-12 considers games against BYU as satisfying its \"Power Five\" scheduling requirement. All rankings are from the AP Poll at the time of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 98], "content_span": [99, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Pac-12 vs other conferences, Records against other conferences\n2018 records against non-conference foes as of November 26, 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 102], "content_span": [103, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Postseason, Bowl games\nRankings are from AP Poll. All times Pacific Time Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Awards and Honors, Player of the week honors\nFollowing each week's games, Pac-12 conference officials select the players of the week from the conference's teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Awards and Honors, All-conference teams\nThe following players earned All-Pac-12 honors. Any teams showing (_) following their name are indicating the number of All-Pac-12 Conference Honors awarded to that university for 1st team and 2nd team respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Awards and Honors, All-conference teams\nUtah leads the Pac-12 with 9 First team and 4 Second team, followed by Washington with 5 First team and 3 Second team, Stanford at 2 First team and 6 Second team, Oregon at 2 First team and 3 Second team, Washington Stateand Arizona State both with 2 First team and 2 Second team, UCLA with 1 First team and 1 Second team, Arizona, Colorado and California all with 1 First team, USC with 5 Second team, and Oregon State receiving none for either team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Awards and Honors, Pac-12 individual awards\nThe following individuals won the Pac-12 conference's annual player and coach awards:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 83], "content_span": [84, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Awards and Honors, All-Americans\nThe following Pac-12 players were named to the 2018 College Football All-America Team by the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WCFF), Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), Sporting News (SN), and American Football Coaches Association (AFCA):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Awards and Honors, All-Academic\nHonorable mentions: ARIZ:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Awards and Honors, All-Academic\nCody Creason, Jake Glatting, Jamie Nunley; ASU: Eno Benjamin, Cody French, Jordan Hoyt, Malik Lawal, Josh Pokraka, John Riley, Brandon Ruiz, Michael Sleep-Dalton; CAL: Siulagisipai Fuimaono, Chase Garbers, Ryan Gibson, Chris Landgrebe, Malik McMorris, Chinedu Udeogu, Ricky Walker III; COLO: Lucas Cooper, Josh Goldin, Aaron Haigler, Tim Lynott, Nico Magri, Davis Price, Colby Pursell, Carson Wells; ORE: Brady Aiello, Kaulana Apelu, Jacob Breeland, Brady Breeze, Braxton Burmeister, Jacob Capra, Drayton Carlberg, Jake Hanson, Hunter Kampmoyer, Shane Lemieux, Blake Maimone, Sampson Niu; OSU: B.J. Baylor, Conor Blount, Andre Bodden, Blake Brandel, Jordan Choukair, Isaiah Dunn, Keegan Firth, Champ Flemings, Andrzej Hughes-Murray, Isaiah Hodgins, Sumner Houston, Drew Kell, Connor Kelsey, Luke Leonnig, Jeffrey Manning Jr., Trent Moore, Mason Moran, Artavis Pierce, Daniel Rodriguez, Kolby Taylor, Moku Watson; STAN:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 990]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0017-0002", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Awards and Honors, All-Academic\nJoey Alfieri, Malik Antoine, Jake Bailey, Treyjohn Butler, K.J. Costello, Obi Eboh, Tucker Fisk, Jordan Fox, Scooter Harrington, Henry Hattis, Nate Herbig, Stuart Head, Houston Heimuli, Alijah Holder, Trenton Irwin, Thunder Keck, Walker Little, Bryce Love, Alameen Murphy, Colby Parkinson, Andrew Pryts, Gabe Reid, Cameron Scarlett, Kaden Smith, Trevor Speights, Jovan Swann, Dayln Wade-Perry, Reagan Williams; UCLA:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281726-0017-0003", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference football season, Awards and Honors, All-Academic\nMichael Alves, Johnny Den Bleyker, Ethan Fernea, Stefan Flintoft, Dymond Lee, Christian Pabico, Adarius Pickett, Shea Pitts, Jay Shaw, Jayce Smalley, Caleb Wilson; USC: JJordan Austin, Reid Budrovich, Erik Krommenhoek, Wyatt Schmidt; UTAH: Jordan Agasiva, Marquise Blair, Nick Ford, Javelin Guidry, Tyler Huntley, Jake Jackson, Josh Nurse, Darrin Paulo, John Penisini, Hauati Pututau, Jason Shelley, Demari Simpkins, Mika Tafua, Mason Woodward; WASH: ndre Baccellia, Jake Browning, A.J. Carty, Nick Harris, Peyton Henry, Jared Hilbers, Ty Jones, Jordan Miller, Cade Otton, Race Porter, Henry Roberts, Joe Tyron, Jusstis Warren, Joel Whitford; WSU: Brandon Arconado, Tristan Brock, Jack Crane, Cole Dubots, Travell Harris, Liam Ryan, Trey Tinsley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281727-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season\nThe 2018 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season was the 19th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season began on August 24, 2018 and concluded on November 9, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281727-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season\nThe four-time defending champions, Stanford, successfully defended their Pac-12 title. The Cardinal entered the NCAA Tournament as the three-time defending champions, but were eliminated by Akron in the quarterfinals. Joining Stanford in the tournament were Oregon State, Washington, and UCLA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281727-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season, Awards and Honors, Player of the week honors\nFollowing each week's games, Pac-12 conference officials select the player of the week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 88], "content_span": [89, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281728-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Football Championship Game\nThe 2018 Pac-12 Football Championship Game was played on November 30, 2018 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California to determine the champion of the Pac-12 Conference in football for the 2018 season. It was the eighth edition of the Pac-12 Football Championship Game and was televised nationally by Fox Sports. Washington defeated Utah 10\u20133 to win their second conference title in the Pac-12 era. The Huskies went on to represent the Pac-12 Conference in the 2019 Rose Bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281728-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Football Championship Game, History\nWashington played in its second Pac-12 Football Championship Game while Utah made its debut. With Utah's qualification, all six members of the South Division have now appeared in the Pac-12 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281728-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Football Championship Game, History\nThe matchup was the 13th meeting between the Utes and the Huskies. They last played each other earlier in the season when Washington defeated Utah 21\u20137 at Rice\u2013Eccles Stadium. Following that result, Washington led the all-time series 11\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281728-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Football Championship Game, Teams, Utah\nAfter starting 0\u20132 in conference play, Utah won six of their remaining seven conference games, officially clinching the South Division with a win against Colorado on November 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281728-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pac-12 Football Championship Game, Teams, Washington\nWashington claimed the North Division's berth in the championship game by winning their head-to-head matchup with Washington State in the 111th Apple Cup. The two rivals finished with 7\u20132 conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281729-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific Handball Cup\nThe 2018 Pacific Handball Cup is a multi venue Handball tournament featuring countries based on the Pacific Ocean from April to December 2018. This will be the first tournament since 2006 and the first to feature countries from the American continent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281729-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific Handball Cup\nThe first leg was carried out in Mexico during April. The other legs will be completed by October with the finals to be held on Hawaii in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281729-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific Handball Cup\nThe championships were abandoned, as the Oceania teams concentrated on the 2018 Oceania Men's Handball Challenge Trophy and both the Australian Women's and New Zealand women's team's playing in the 2018 Asian Women's Handball Championship. The Vanuatu Handball Association was also recovering from the October 2015 earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281730-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific League Climax Series\nThe 2018 Pacific League Climax Series (PLCS) consisted of two consecutive series, Stage 1 being a best-of-three series and Stage 2 being a best-of-six with the top seed being awarded a one-win advantage. The winner of the series advanced to the 2018 Japan Series, where they competed against the 2018 Central League Climax Series winner. The top three regular-season finishers played in the two series. The PLCS began on with the first game of Stage 1 on October 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281731-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2018 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships is the fifteenth edition of the Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships. The competition was held on April 27\u201329, 2018 at the Coliseo Iv\u00e1n de Bedout in Medell\u00edn, Colombia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281731-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, Background\nThe 2018 edition of the Pacific Rim Championships took place in Medell\u00edn, Colombia from April 27 - 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281731-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, Venues\nThe Pacific Rim Championships took place at Coliseo Iv\u00e1n de Bedout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281731-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, Medalists, Artistic gymnastics, Women's events\nGymnasts from Cuba and Argentina were not eligible to win medals given they are not members of the Pacific Alliance of National Gymnastic Federations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281732-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific Rugby League Tests\nThe 2018 Pacific Rugby League Tests are a group of rugby league test matches that were played on 23 June 2018 at Campbelltown Stadium in Sydney, Australia and the end of October at Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281732-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific Rugby League Tests, Fixtures - June 2018, Melanesian Cup\nTouch judges:Kasey Badger (Australia)Michael Wise (Australia)Video referees:Henry Perenara (New Zealand)Bryan Norrie (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281732-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific Rugby League Tests, Fixtures - June 2018, Polynesian Cup\nTouch judges:Chris Butler (Australia)Chris Sutton (Australia)Video referees:Luke Patten (Australia)Ben Cummins (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281732-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific Rugby League Tests, Fixtures - June 2018, England vs New Zealand\nTouch judges:Chris Kendall (England)Chris McMillan (New Zealand)Video referee:Jared Maxwell (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281732-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific Rugby League Tests, Fixtures - October 2018, ANZAC test\nTouch judges:Nick Beashel (Australia)David Munro (Australia)Video referees:Steve Chiddy (Australia)Ben Galea (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281732-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific Rugby League Tests, Fixtures - October 2018, Tonga vs Australia\nTouch judges:Nick Beashel (Australia)David Munro (Australia)Video referees:Steve Chiddy (Australia)Ben Galea (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season\nThe 2018 Pacific hurricane season was one of the most active Pacific hurricane seasons on record, producing the highest accumulated cyclone energy value on record in the basin. The season had the fourth-highest number of named storms\u00a0\u2013 23, tied with 1982. The season also featured eight landfalls, six of which occurred in Mexico. The season officially began on May\u00a015 in the Eastern Pacific, and on June\u00a01 in the Central Pacific; they both ended on November\u00a030. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Pacific basin. However, tropical cyclone formation is possible at any time of the year, as illustrated when the first tropical depression formed on May\u00a010, five days prior to the official start of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season\nThe second named storm of the season, Hurricane Bud, struck Baja California Sur in mid-June, causing minor damage. Tropical Storm Carlotta stalled offshore of the Mexican coastline, where it also caused minor damage. In early August, Hurricane Hector became one of the few tropical cyclones to cross into the Western Pacific from the Eastern Pacific, while also affecting Hawaii. Tropical Storm Ileana brought torrential rainfall to southwestern Mexico during early August, causing relatively minor damage. A few weeks later, Hurricane Lane obtained Category 5 intensity while also becoming Hawaii's wettest tropical cyclone on record and the second wettest tropical cyclone in United States history, only behind Hurricane Harvey of the previous year. Hurricane Olivia also struck Hawaii, resulting in relatively minor damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season\nIn late September, Hurricanes Rosa and Sergio formed, both of which eventually brought thunderstorms and flash flooding to the Baja California Peninsula and the Southwestern United States. Tropical Depression Nineteen-E became the first tropical cyclone to form in the Gulf of California before it brought severe flooding to Sinaloa, Mexico, causing significant damage. Meanwhile, Hurricane Walaka attained Category 5 intensity before causing disruptions in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. In late October, Hurricane Willa became the record-tying third Category 5 hurricane of the season (tied with the 1994 and 2002 seasons) before striking Sinaloa as a major hurricane, causing severe damage. Tropical Storm Vicente simultaneously affected the region just south of where Willa made landfall, causing severe flooding and dozens of landslides. Damage across the basin reached $1.46\u00a0billion (2018\u00a0USD), while 56\u00a0people were killed by the various storms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 985]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts\nThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual forecast on May 24, 2018, predicting an 80% chance of a near- to above-average season in both the Eastern and Central Pacific basins, with a total of 14\u201320 named storms, 7\u201312 hurricanes, and 3\u20137 major hurricanes. The reason for their outlook was the possible development of an El Ni\u00f1o, which reduces vertical wind shear across the basin and increases sea surface temperatures. In addition, many global computer models expected a positive Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) that had been ongoing since 2014 to continue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts\nPDO is a phase of a multi-decade cycle that favors much warmer than average sea surface temperatures, which is in contrast to the 1995\u20132013 period, which featured below-normal activity. The Servicio Meteorol\u00f3gico Nacional (SMN) issued its first forecast for the season on May 25, predicting a total of 18 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 4 major hurricanes to develop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nThe accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index for the 2018 Pacific hurricane season was around 316\u00a0units. Broadly speaking, ACE is a measure of the power of a tropical or subtropical storm multiplied by the length of time it existed. Therefore, a stronger storm with a longer duration contributes more to the seasonal total than several short-lived, weaker storms combined. 2018 had the highest total ACE of any Pacific hurricane season on record, having surpassed the 1992 Pacific hurricane season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nOverall, 26 tropical depressions formed, with 23 reaching tropical storm intensity. Thirteen of the tropical storms became hurricanes, with 10 reaching major hurricane intensity. El Ni\u00f1o-like conditions prevailed across much of the basin, leading to elevated activity. Sea surface temperatures were above average for much of the season, stretching from the coast of North America to near the 150th meridian east. A subpolar gyre located in the Northern Atlantic increased atmospheric convection and reduced vertical wind shear across the Eastern Pacific. Wind shear near Hawaii's Big Island decreased even more after the subtropical jet pushed northward in September. Higher levels of humidity were present between 10\u00b0N\u201320\u00b0N at a height of 4,781\u20139,882\u00a0ft (1,457\u20133,012\u00a0m). Storms were also kept in more favorable environments by stronger easterlies as a result of an above-normal subtropical ridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 945]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nThe season officially began on May\u00a015 in the Eastern Pacific, and on June\u00a01 in the Central Pacific; they both ended on November\u00a030. The season started with the formation of Tropical Depression One-E on May 10, which was five days before the official start of hurricane season in the Eastern Pacific. The month of June saw record activity, with the formation of six tropical cyclones\u00a0\u2013 Aletta, Bud, Carlotta, Daniel, Emilia, and Seven-E. With five named systems, the record for most June tropical storms, which was set in 1985, was tied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nAletta and Bud both intensified into Category 4 major hurricanes, marking the first time since 2010 that two occurred in June. Tropical Storm Carlotta moved along the southern coast of Mexico, causing flooding rains. Activity during the month of July was below normal across the basin. Although a total of four tropical depressions formed, only two became storms\u00a0\u2013 Fabio and Gilma. Fabio's intensification into a tropical storm on July\u00a01 marked the earliest date of a season's sixth named storm, beating the previous record of July\u00a03 set in both 1984 and 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nAugust was an above-average month for the Eastern Pacific, with a total of seven named storms occurring during the month\u00a0\u2013 Hector, Ileana, John, Kristy, Lane, Miriam, and Norman. Forming from a July tropical depression, Hurricane Hector spent more days as a major hurricane than any other storm in the basin. It also had the highest accumulated cyclone energy since Hurricane John in 1994. Around the same time, Tropical Storm Ileana paralleled the southwestern coast of Mexico, bringing heavy rainfall to the region. Forming in mid-August, Hurricane Lane became the first Category 5 hurricane to form during the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nLane brought record rainfall to Hawaii's Big Island, becoming the wettest tropical cyclone for that state and the second wettest in the United States. September saw the formation of five tropical cyclones\u00a0\u2013 Olivia, Paul, Nineteen-E, Rosa, and Sergio. Hurricane Olivia became the first tropical cyclone in recorded history to make landfall on the islands of Maui and Lanai on September 12. Tropical Depression Nineteen-E formed in the Gulf of California on September 19, the first such instance in recorded history. It made landfall in Sonora on the next day, causing severe flooding. Additionally, one named storm formed in the Central Pacific in September\u00a0\u2013 Walaka. In October, Walaka intensified into a Category 5 hurricane in the Central Pacific\u00a0\u2013 the season's second Category 5 storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nOctober yielded an above-average number of tropical cyclones with three named storms forming\u00a0\u2013 Tara, Vicente, and Willa. Sergio became the eighth system to obtain Category 4 intensity during the season, breaking the old record of seven which was set in 2015. Rosa and Sergio both made landfall on the Baja California Peninsula during October, bringing gale-force winds and rain to the region before impacting western Mexico. Willa became the season's third Category 5 hurricane before making landfall in Sinaloa, Mexico, in late October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nThe cyclone brought strong winds to the area where it made landfall and dropped torrential rainfall throughout the region. Tropical Storm Vicente caused severe flooding and landslides in western Mexico at the same time as Willa, compounding the latter's effects in some areas. November featured the season's last system, Tropical Storm Xavier, which dissipated on November 6, marking the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression One-E\nIn early May, a disturbance formed within the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec. The system propagated westward over the next several days, spawning an area of low pressure on May 8. Convection or thunderstorm activity initially decreased, before steadily increasing and organizing around the system's center on May 10. A tropical depression formed at 12:00 UTC on the same day, while located approximately 1,265\u00a0mi (2,035\u00a0km) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression One-E\nModerate-to-high wind shear produced by an upper-level trough located to the west prevented the depression from strengthening any further as it continued westward. By 18:00 UTC on May 11, the depression had weakened into a remnant low after losing all of its convection as a result of the increasing shear. The depression's remnants dissipated one day later while about 1,495\u00a0mi (2,410\u00a0km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Aletta\nA tropical wave departed from the western coast of Africa on May 22. The wave traversed the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean, before later crossing over Central America and entering the Pacific Ocean. Convection associated with the system increased on June 3 while it was located south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec. Over the next couple of days, the system continued to organize, with banding features becoming established. After the storm's center became demarcated, a tropical depression formed at 00:00 UTC on June 6, while located approximately 345\u00a0mi (555\u00a0km) south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. At that time, the system was located within favorable environmental conditions of near-86\u00a0\u00b0F (30\u00a0\u00b0C) sea surface temperatures and very low wind shear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Aletta\nThe depression intensified into Tropical Storm Aletta at 06:00 on June 6, and gradually strengthened over the next day before rapid intensification ensued. Aletta peaked as a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 140\u00a0mph (220\u00a0km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 943\u00a0mbar (27.85\u00a0inHg) at 12:00 UTC on June 8, while located about 575\u00a0mi (925\u00a0km) south-southwest of Manzanillo. Meanwhile, the hurricane was traveling north of west by the flow of a subtropical ridge, which was located over the southwestern United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Aletta\nAletta began to rapidly weaken on June 9 after it moved into a region of cooler sea surface temperatures and stable air. The system was downgraded to a remnant low at 12:00 UTC on June 11 after it lost all of its convection. Aletta's remnants were influenced by a surface flow for several days before they dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Bud\nA tropical wave departed from the western coast of Africa on May 29 and propagated westward across the Atlantic Ocean, eventually entering the Eastern Pacific on June\u00a06. Associated convective activity increased considerably on June 8 as the result of a nearby Kelvin wave. A low-pressure area formed the next day and continued to increase in organization, spawning a tropical depression at 18:00 UTC on June 9, about 330\u00a0mi (530\u00a0km) south of Acapulco, Mexico. At that time, the storm was moving in a west-northwest to northwest direction around a mid-level ridge that was located over Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Bud\nThe depression quickly strengthened into Tropical Storm Bud and rapidly intensified thereafter due to warm sea surface temperatures and abundant mid-level moisture. Bud became a hurricane at 18:00 UTC on June 10 and a Category 3 major hurricane by 12:00 UTC on June 11. The cyclone ultimately peaked as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140\u00a0mph (220\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 943\u00a0mbar (27.85\u00a0inHg) around 00:00 UTC on June 12, while located approximately 200\u00a0mi (320\u00a0km) southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Bud\nAfter Bud's peak intensity, the hurricane rapidly weakened back to a tropical storm. Moderately warm sea surface temperatures allowed Bud to maintain some of its strength, although its structure degraded as it approached Baja California Sur. Bud made landfall near San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo around 02:00 UTC on June 15, with winds of 45 miles per hour (75\u00a0km/h). Increasing wind shear and the mountainous terrain of Baja California Sur caused Bud to weaken into a post-tropical cyclone by 12:00 UTC. The circulation opened up into a trough about 12 hours later, located around 35\u00a0mi (55\u00a0km) southwest of Huatabampito, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Bud\nHurricane Bud prompted the issuance of tropical cyclone watches and warnings along Baja California Sur and the northwestern coast of Mexico. Strong wind gusts were recorded in Baja California, causing minimal damage. Despite remaining offshore for most of its track, the hurricane caused torrential rainfall and severe flooding in several regions. A peak rainfall total of 6.50\u00a0in (165\u00a0mm) was recorded in San Lorenzo, Sinaloa. In Guadalajara, Jalisco, hundreds of vehicles were inundated and swept away. A canal overflowed in Guadalajara, causing damage to multiple stores in a mall. At least 100 additional structures were damaged in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Bud\nIn Guerrero, hundreds of businesses and homes were flooded. Over 100 businesses in Pie de la Cuesta were damaged by strong waves. More than 60 homes in Maruata, Michoac\u00e1n, experienced flood or wind damage. Heavy rainfall from Bud generated currents that swept away a child who was crossing a road in Mexico City. The remnants of Bud brought moisture to drought-stricken regions of the Southwestern United States, and slowed the advance of wildfires in Colorado and Wyoming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Carlotta\nA low-pressure area developed on June 12 south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec. Two days later, the system's convection organized enough for the low to be classified as a tropical depression approximately 140\u00a0mi (225\u00a0km) south of Acapulco, Mexico. The nascent depression tracked north-northeastward toward the Mexican coast. Wind shear prevented strengthening initially, but the depression became Tropical Storm Carlotta around 18:00 UTC on June 15. The storm temporarily stalled on June\u00a016 just off the coast of Acapulco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Carlotta\nAt 00:00 UTC on June 17, Carlotta reached its peak intensity with winds of 65\u00a0mph (100\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 997\u00a0mbar (29.44\u00a0inHg). Land interaction, dry air, and increasing wind shear caused the storm to weaken as it progressed to the west-northwest. Carlotta weakened to a tropical depression late on June\u00a017, and deteriorated into a remnant low by early on June\u00a019. The system dissipated offshore betweenManzanillo and Zihuatanejo, Mexico shortly after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Carlotta\nTropical Storm Carlotta warranted the issuance of tropical storm watches and warnings along the southern coast of Mexico. Carlotta caused severe flooding in the states of Aguascalientes, Guerrero, Michoac\u00e1n, Oaxaca, and Puebla, as well as the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula; the storm also killed a total of three people. A peak rainfall total of 11.2\u00a0in (285\u00a0mm) was recorded in Melchor Ocampo, Michoac\u00e1n. Carlotta and two other systems dropped 3\u201320\u00a0in (70\u2013400\u00a0mm) of rain across the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula, resulting in severe flooding. In Oaxaca, dwellings, a hospital, utilities, and roads and bridges sustained wind and flood damage. Multiple rivers overflowed their banks in Michoac\u00e1n, flooding several homes and damaging water pumps. Carlotta also caused several landslides throughout the state. Insurance claims related to the storm reached US$7.6\u00a0million (MX$156\u00a0million) statewide. Another 12 houses were flooded in Aguascalientes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 987]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Daniel\nThe dissipating Tropical Storm Carlotta dragged a part of the ITCZ northward. This resulted in the formation of an area of thunderstorms on June\u00a018, and after a tropical wave entered the region, a weak low-pressure area developed on June 21. The disturbance improved in organization over the next couple of days, forming a tropical depression on June 24 at 00:00 UTC, approximately 725\u00a0mi (1,165\u00a0km) south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Throughout the day, the storm was propelled northward by a mid- to upper-level low that was located to the west.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Daniel\nAround 12:00 UTC, the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Daniel as a result of warm sea surface temperatures and low wind shear. The cyclone peaked six hours later with 45\u00a0mph (75\u00a0km/h) winds and a pressure of 1,004\u00a0mbar (29.65\u00a0inHg). It maintained this intensity for twelve hours before succumbing to decreasing sea temperatures as it traveled northwestward. The convection of the storm completely dissipated, resulting in it becoming a remnant low around 06:00 UTC on June 26, while about 615\u00a0mi (990\u00a0km) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. The remnants of the storm journeyed south of west under the influence of the low-level trade winds, before later opening up into a trough on June 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Emilia\nA well-defined tropical wave departed from the western coast of Africa during the middle of June 14. It moved across the Atlantic Ocean without development, and the wave entered the Pacific Ocean on June 24. There, its convection increased as it interacted with the Pacific monsoon trough. The system continued to organize over the next couple of days as it moved north of west, developing into a tropical depression on June 27 at 18:00 UTC, while about 470\u00a0mi (755\u00a0km) southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. The depression slowly intensified, becoming Tropical Storm Emilia around 12:00 UTC on June 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Emilia\nDespite moderate wind shear, Emilia attained peak winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h) on June\u00a029 about 600\u00a0mi (965\u00a0km) southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. The storm briefly maintained this intensity before a combination of shear, mid-level dry air, and cooling sea surface temperatures caused it to weaken. By 12:00 UTC on June 30, Emila had weakened into a tropical depression. The system decayed into a remnant low by 00:00 UTC on July 2 as it continued west-northwest. The remnants of Emilia dissipated around 54 hours later while over 1,495\u00a0mi (2,410\u00a0km) west of Baja California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Fabio\nA tropical wave emerged from the western coast of Africa on June 16, and ten days later it crossed Central America into the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Convection increased markedly thereafter as the wave continued westward for the next couple of days, developing a low-pressure area on June\u00a028. A tropical depression developed at 18:00 UTC on June 30, while approximately 575\u00a0mi (925\u00a0km) south of Manzanillo, Mexico. A mid-level ridge located over central Mexico steered the nascent depression towards the west-northwest as the storm continued to intensify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Fabio\nThe depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Fabio around 06:00 UTC on July 1. Located within a favorable environment of warm sea surface temperatures, moist air, and low wind shear, Fabio continued to consolidate over the next couple of days. Fabio became a Category 1 hurricane around 12:00 UTC on July 2. The storm peaked at 18:00 UTC on the next day as a high-end Category 2 hurricane with winds of 110\u00a0mph (175\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 964\u00a0mbar (28.47\u00a0inHg), while located 645\u00a0mi (1,035\u00a0km) southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Fabio\nAfter 12 hours at peak intensity, Fabio began to decay as a result of having tracked into a region of cooler, sub-79\u00a0\u00b0F (26\u00a0\u00b0C) sea surface temperatures; the storm later rapidly weakened as it moved over sea surface temperatures near or below 68\u00a0\u00b0F (20\u00a0\u00b0C). The hurricane weakened into a tropical storm around 06:00 UTC on July 4, while about 920\u00a0mi (1,480\u00a0km) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Fabio's convection degraded significantly as it entered a more stable environment; it weakened into a post-tropical cyclone by 06:00 UTC on July 6. The remnants continued towards the west-northwest and dissipated by 12:00 UTC on July 9, located approximately 1,840\u00a0mi (2,965\u00a0km) west-northwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Gilma\nA tropical wave exited the western coast of Africa on July 13, and moved across the Atlantic, eventually entering the Pacific Ocean on July 22. Over the next couple of days, the wave continued westward with its convection pulsing intermittently. The low-level center and the convection organized into a tropical depression by 12:00 UTC on July 26, approximately 1,035\u00a0mi (1,665\u00a0km) southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Gilma\nOver the next 12 hours, the nascent depression traveled northwest along the south-southwestern edge of a mid-level ridge while intensifying; the system became Tropical Storm Gilma six hours after formation. Gilma reached its peak intensity of 45\u00a0mph (75\u00a0km/h) winds and a pressure of 1,005\u00a0mbar (29.68\u00a0inHg) at 06:00 UTC on July 27, while located 1,210\u00a0mi (1,945\u00a0km) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0021-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Gilma\nThe tropical storm began to succumb to increasing northwesterly wind shear soon after, resulting in the degradation of its convection; Gilma weakened into a tropical depression by 18:00 UTC on the same day. The depression had limited thunderstorm activity over the next couple of days before weakening into a remnant low around 12:00 UTC on July 29. The remnants crossed into the Central Pacific basin and dissipated two days later, around 405\u00a0mi (650\u00a0km) southeast of Hilo,Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Nine-E\nA passing Kelvin wave and a tropical wave increased convection within the ITCZ; after this increase, a low-pressure trough spawned within the monsoon trough on July 21, approximately 635\u00a0mi (1,020\u00a0km) south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. Over the next several days, the system moved westward while experiencing northeasterly wind shear, which was imparted by an upper-level trough. The aforementioned combined with a moderately dry environment prevented the low-pressure trough from organizing further. The system generated some convection on July 23, but increasing wind shear prevented significant organization until July 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Nine-E\nThe system reached a col or neutral point between the upper-level trough to the east and an upper-level ridge to the west. This allowed a tropical depression to form around 18:00 UTC on that day, approximately 1,440\u00a0mi (2,315\u00a0km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii. The depression's convection was quickly removed to the south and west of its center as it entered a region of higher wind shear. This caused the depression to decay into a trough of low-pressure by 00:00 UTC on July 28, located about 1,210\u00a0mi (1,945\u00a0km) southeast of Hilo, Hawaii. The remnants produced sporadic convection as they continued westward over the Central Pacific during the next few days before dissipating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Hector\nA disturbance began generating thunderstorms as it traveled across northern South America. The system entered the Eastern Pacific Ocean on July 25, and a low-pressure trough formed on the next day to the south of Central America and Mexico. The trough moved westward for several days before a passing Kelvin wave improved the environment; this allowed the trough's convection to gradually become more organized. A tropical depression spawned by 12:00 UTC on July 31, about 805\u00a0mi (1,295\u00a0km) south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Hector about 12 hours later, at 00:00 UTC on August 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Hector\nHector was steered westward during the next several days. The storm was located over warm sea surface temperatures, fueling a 30-hour period of rapid intensification. Hector reached its initial peak on August 2 at 18:00 UTC as a 105\u00a0mph (165\u00a0km/h) Category 2 hurricane. Shortly after, northerly shear abraded the northern eyewall of the hurricane before intensification resumed later on August 3. While about 1,680\u00a0mi (2,705\u00a0km) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, Hector became a Category 3 major hurricane around 00:00 UTC on August 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Hector\nAfter entering the Central Pacific Ocean, Hector tracked west-northwest. Hector peaked on August 6 at 18:00 UTC as a high-end Category 4 hurricane with winds of 155\u00a0mph (250\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 936\u00a0mbar (27.64\u00a0inHg). The storm's movement gradually shifted westward over the next few days. During this time, lower sea surface temperatures and ocean heat content as well as mid-level dry air caused Hector to gradually weaken into a low-end Category 3 storm. The storm began to intensify again on the next day as a result of improving environmental conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0024-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Hector\nHector reached its secondary peak as a 140\u00a0mph (220\u00a0km/h) Category 4 hurricane at 18:00 UTC on August 10. Afterward, Hector tracked towards the west-northwest and later northwest. Southerly shear imparted by an upper-level low caused gradual weakening over the next few days. Hector weakened into a tropical storm around 00:00 UTC on August 13. The storm crossed the International Date Line over 12 hours later, entering the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Hector\nHector approached several islands on its journey through the Central Pacific Ocean, prompting the issuance of tropical storm watches and warnings for islands in Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea Marine National Monument as well as Johnston Atoll. Overall, the impact to land was minimal; high surf was reported along the southern shores of Hawaii's Big Island and several dozen people were rescued on Oahu. During Hector's track across the Eastern Pacific, it spent more consecutive days as a major hurricane than any other storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ileana\nA tropical wave left the western coast of Africa on July 26 with minimal convection. The wave moved across the tropics and the Caribbean Sea before traversing Central America and entering the Eastern Pacific Ocean on August 4. Despite its close proximity to the larger disturbance which later became Hurricane John, the system rapidly organized into a tropical depression by 18:00 UTC, 230\u00a0mi (370\u00a0km) south-southeast of Puerto \u00c1ngel, Mexico. The larger disturbance imparted northwesterly wind shear, uncovering the low-level center and preventing further intensification for multiple hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ileana\nDespite the shear, a central dense overcast soon developed near the depression's center. The system was upgraded into Tropical Storm Ileana around 12:00 UTC on August 5. Warm sea surface temperatures allowed Ileana to strengthen further as it tracked west-northwest, just off the southwestern coast of Mexico. Ileana reached its peak intensity at 12:00 UTC on August 6 with winds of 65 miles per hour (105\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 998\u00a0mbar (29.47\u00a0inHg), while located 115\u00a0mi (185\u00a0km) southwest of Acapulco. A combination of disruption from Hurricane John located to the west, as well as the Sierra Madre mountains, caused the storm's structure to decay over the next day. Ileana was absorbed into John's outer bands around 12:00 UTC on August 7, just off the coast from Cabo Corrientes, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 855]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ileana\nTropical Storm Ileana's close proximity to the Mexican coast prompted the issuance of tropical cyclone watches and warnings. Ileana impacted multiple states, causing damaging floods and eight deaths. The storm caused flooding, which inundated houses and streets, as well as power outages in the state of Guerrero. Ileana left a total of four people dead in the state. In the nearby state of Oaxaca, rainfall peaking at 7.72\u00a0in (196\u00a0mm) caused a landslide that destroyed a house. Another four individuals were killed within the state of Chiapas. The cyclone caused US$737,000 (MX$13.6\u00a0million) in damage to roads in Michoac\u00e1n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane John\nAn enervated tropical wave departed from the western coast of Africa on July 25. It then traveled westward across the tropical Atlantic, with most of its convection located within the ITCZ until it arrived at South America on July 30. The wave entered the Eastern Pacific two days later and convection drastically increased as a result of the active portion of the Madden\u2013Julian oscillation. An area of low pressure formed on August 4 and became more organized over the day. A tropical depression formed around 12:00 UTC on August 5, about 335\u00a0mi (540\u00a0km) south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0028-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane John\nThe depression then strengthened into Tropical Storm John about 12 hours later as it traveled along the edge of a mid-level ridge, which was located over Mexico. A period of rapid intensification ensued as a result of John being located in a favorable environment of low wind shear, warm sea surface temperatures, and a high quantity of mid-level moisture. John peaked on August 7 at 18:00 UTC as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 110\u00a0mph (175\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 964\u00a0mbar (28.47\u00a0inHg), while it approached Socorro Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane John\nA combination of increasing northwesterly wind shear and cooling sea surface temperatures caused John to fall below hurricane strength on August 9. Convection quickly dissipated near the center of the cyclone, causing it to be downgraded to a post-tropical system by 12:00 UTC on August 10, approximately 345\u00a0mi (555\u00a0km) west-southwest of Punta Eugenia, Mexico. The remnants continued northwestward and later eastward, before opening into a trough of low-pressure around 18:00 UTC on August 13, about 405\u00a0mi (650\u00a0km) west of Punta Eugenia. Although John never made landfall, it produced high surf along the coastlines of Baja California Sur and Southern California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Kristy\nA tropical wave departed from the western coast of Africa on July 22 and traveled quickly across the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The wave remained without convection until it entered the Caribbean Sea and moved over South America from July 27\u201329. Convection began to increase overland before the wave crossed into the Eastern Pacific on July 29\u201330. Continuing westward, the system slowly organized over the next several days, exhibiting intermittent convection and improving cloud cover. Deep convection increased near the system's center on August 6, resulting in the formation of a tropical depression by 18:00 UTC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Kristy\nThe depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Kristy six hours later, approximately 1,035\u00a0mi (1,665\u00a0km) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. During August 7, Kristy became embedded within deep-layer easterlies affiliated with a subtropical ridge which was located to the northeast; this steered the storm westward. The storm continued to increase in organization because it was located within a favorable environment of warm sea surface temperatures and low wind shear. An upper-level low located to the northwest imparted northwesterly wind shear and dry air, causing Kristy to weaken slightly late on August 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Kristy\nHurricane John eroded the subtropical ridge on August 8, causing Kristy to track towards the northwest. The storm resumed strengthening on the same day as wind shear decreased. Kristy peaked on August 10 at 06:00 UTC with 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h) winds and a pressure of 991\u00a0mbar (29.26\u00a0inHg). The cyclone maintained this intensity for around 12 hours before wind shear increased once more and sea surface temperatures cooled. This caused Kristy to rapidly weaken to a tropical depression by 12:00 UTC on August 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Kristy\nWhile the storm lost most of its convection as it weakened, it still produced bursts of convection. Kristy was downgraded to a remnant low on August 12 at 12:00 UTC after having been devoid of convection. The remnants then traveled westward as a swirl of low-level clouds before dissipating on August 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lane\nA tropical wave departed from the western coast of Africa on July 31 and traveled westward across the Atlantic Ocean with limited thunderstorm activity. The wave entered the Pacific Ocean on August 8 and became more organized by August 11, however, development was significantly impeded after convection became sporadic. A low-pressure area developed on August 13 and gained banding features as it strengthened. A tropical depression spawned around 00:00 UTC on August 15, about 1,075\u00a0mi (1,730\u00a0km) southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. At that time, the depression was tracking west-southwest under the influence of a subtropical ridge, which was located to the north. Over the next few days, the ridge weakened, allowing for a westward and later west-northwestward movement. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Lane by 12:00 UTC on August 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 937]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lane\nSoon after, a period of rapid intensification commenced as Lane entered a favorable environment of warm sea surface temperatures, low wind shear, and moist air. Lane became a hurricane by 00:00 UTC on August 17 and reached its initial peak as a 140 miles per hour (230\u00a0km/h) Category 4 major hurricane by 12:00 UTC on the next day. The cyclone began to weaken after entering the Central Pacific due to moderate southwesterly wind shear imparted by an upper-level trough located near the Hawaiian Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0033-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lane\nLane continued slightly north of west after it bottomed out as a Category 3 storm on August 19. Wind shear decreased by midday August 20, allowing Lane to intensify once more. The storm peaked around 06:00 UTC on August 22 as a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 160 miles per hour (260\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 926\u00a0mbar (27.34\u00a0inHg); this intensity made Lane the fifth storm to achieve Category 5 status in the Central Pacific in recorded history. Over the next few days, Lane weakened as it tracked north-northwest into a region of high wind shear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0033-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lane\nThe cyclone moved around the western edge of a mid-level ridge, shifting its track northward; at its closest point to the state of Hawaii, Lane was about 150\u00a0mi (240\u00a0km) away from most islands. The cyclone weakened below Category 3 status early on August 24 and then rapidly weakened into a tropical storm by 06:00 UTC on August 25. The storm then turned westward, away from the Hawaiian Islands, while continuing to weaken. Lane fell to tropical depression status by 12:00 UTC on August 26, and became a tropical storm again a day later despite the shear. Lane weakened into a remnant low by 00:00 UTC on August 29, while 185\u00a0mi (300\u00a0km) north-northeast of Johnston Atoll. The remnants traveled northward and dispersed 12 hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lane\nHurricane Lane warranted the issuance of tropical cyclone watches and warnings for the Hawaiian Islands as it remained in close proximity to them for multiple days. Although the core of Lane remained off-shore, the hurricane dropped a record 58\u00a0in (1,473\u00a0mm) in Akaka Falls State Park on Hawaii's Big Island. This made Lane the westtest tropical cyclone on record for the state of Hawaii; it is also second wettest in the United States, behind 2017's Hurricane Harvey. Landslides on the Big Island covered highways and destroyed multiple homes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0034-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lane\nRivers exceeded their banks, flooding homes and necessitating the rescue of 100 people. The excessive rainfall caused sewer pipes to overflow, dumping 9\u00a0million US gallons (30\u00a0million liters) of raw sewage into Hilo Bay. Damage on the island totaled about US$25\u00a0million. Windgusts from the cyclone sparked wildfires in the Kauaula Valley on Maui, burning 2,800 acres (11\u00a0km2) and causing over US$4.3\u00a0million in damage. A man drowned in a river near Koloa on Kaua\u02bbi. Overall, the total losses from Lane exceeded US$250\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0034-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lane\nPresident Donald Trump signed a disaster declaration on September 27 for all counties except Honolulu, allowing FEMA to provide about US$10\u00a0million in aid. The Hawaii County Council used US$10\u00a0million from its budget to help repair county facilities; the cost to repair roads and bridges was estimated at US$35\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Miriam\nA tropical wave departed from the western coast of Africa on August 14 and traveled westward with minimal convection. Thunderstorm activity increased by August 15\u201316 before dwindling as the wave encountered drier, stabler air as well as easterly wind shear. The wave moved across the southern Windward Islands, northern South America, and the southern Caribbean Sea before crossing into the Pacific Ocean on August 20. The wave then entered a favorable environment which caused convection to increase. The system gradually organized over the next several days as it tracked west-northwest. A tropical depression spawned around 06:00 UTC on August 26, approximately 1,130\u00a0mi (1,815\u00a0km) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Miriam six hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 882]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Miriam\nEmbedded within a favorable environment of moist air, low wind shear, and 82\u00a0\u00b0F (28\u00a0\u00b0C) sea surface temperatures, Miriam strengthened to 65 miles per hour (105\u00a0km/h) by 12:00 UTC on August 27, while located 1,485\u00a0mi (2,390\u00a0km) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. The storm encountered moderate northwesterly wind shear after turning westward later in the day; this caused Miriam's intensification to halt. Two days later, the wind shear subsided, allowing convection to reignite around Miriam's uncovered low-level center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Miriam\nMiriam became a hurricane at 18:00 UTC on August 29, while around 1,035\u00a0mi (1,665\u00a0km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii; the system entered the Central Pacific about six hours later. Soon after, the cyclone was forced northwestward and later northward between a mid-level ridge which was located over the southwestern United States and an upper-level trough which was located northeast of Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0036-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Miriam\nMiriam peaked at 18:00 UTC on August 31 as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 100 miles per hour (160\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 974\u00a0mbar (28.76\u00a0inHg), while 910\u00a0mi (1,465\u00a0km) east of Hilo, Hawaii. Shortly after peaking, high southwesterly wind shear and cooling sea surface temperatures caused Miriam to rapidly weaken. The cyclone fell to tropical storm status by 18:00 UTC on September 1 as its low-level center became entirely vulnerable. Wind shear increased even further, preventing the reformation of convection near the storm's center. Miriam weakened into a tropical depression by 12:00 UTC on September 2 and was downgraded to a remnant low six hours later while more than 805\u00a0mi (1,295\u00a0km) northeast of the Hawaiian Islands. The low continued northwest before opening up into a trough around 06:00 UTC on September 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 884]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Norman\nA tropical wave left the western coast of Africa on August 14 and tracked westward across the tropics with little convection. The wave moved over Central America and entered the Pacific Ocean on August 22. Convection subsequently increased and became better organized over the next couple of days. An area of low-pressure developed and convection gradually became more organized. A tropical depression spawned around 12:00 UTC on August 28, at approximately 490\u00a0mi (790\u00a0km) west-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Norman about six hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Norman\nThe cyclone began traveling towards the west-northwest shortly after, moving along the southern edge of a subtropical ridge that extended over the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Located within a favorable environment of moist air, low wind shear, and 84\u201386\u00a0\u00b0F (29\u201330\u00a0\u00b0C) sea surface temperatures, Norman began a two-day period of rapid intensification around 18:00 UTC on August 28. The storm strengthened into a hurricane one day later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0038-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Norman\nIt reached its peak intensity on August 30 at 18:00 UTC as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 miles per hour (240\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 937\u00a0mbar (27.67\u00a0inHg), while 520\u00a0mi (835\u00a0km) southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. During this time, the hurricane turned westward and later towards the west-southwest as the ridge consolidated and extended further west. Increasing northeasterly wind shear caused Norman to gradually weaken over the next couple of days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0038-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Norman\nThe storm fell to Category 2 status by 06:00 UTC on September 1 and maintained that intensity for around a day. Norman then began tracking west-northwestward while the wind shear relaxed, allowing for another period of rapid strengthening. Norman reached its secondary peak at 18:00 UTC on September 2 as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour (230\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Norman\nSoon after, the hurricane began to weaken once more as it traveled through a region of cooler sea surface temperatures. Norman crossed into the Central Pacific after 00:00 UTC on September 4 as a high-end Category 1 hurricane. The weakening trend continued as Norman tracked westward under the influence of a subtropical ridge that was located to the north and northeast; the cyclone's eye filled in with clouds. The hurricane began a third period of rapid intensification as it moved across warmer sea surface temperatures and an area of low wind shear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0039-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Norman\nNorman reached its tertiary peak intensity on September 5 at 18:00 UTC as a 120 miles per hour (190\u00a0km/h) Category 3 hurricane; at that time, it possessed a well-defined eye. On the next day, declining sea surface temperatures and moderate wind shear caused Norman to weaken as it turned northwest. By 18:00 UTC on September 7, Norman had weakened into a tropical storm, while over several hundred miles northeast of the Hawaiian Islands. Wind shear further increased as the system turned northward, exposing the low-level center and prompting more weakening. Norman was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone around 00:00 UTC on September 9. The remnants turned northeastward and dissipated on September 10 by 12:00 UTC, around 805\u00a0mi (1,295\u00a0km) north-northeast of the Hawaiian Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Olivia\nA disturbance spawned over the southwestern Caribbean Sea on August 26 and tracked westward, crossing over Central America and entering the Pacific Ocean a couple of days later. Associated convection increased as the disturbance gradually organized over the next few days. A tropical depression formed by 00:00 UTC on September 1, approximately 405\u00a0mi (650\u00a0km) southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. The nascent depression tracked west-northwestward as northeasterly shear inhibited the system from intensifying for nearly a day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Olivia\nDespite the shear, the system became Tropical Storm Olivia around 00:00 UTC on September 2, while it was about 520\u00a0mi (835\u00a0km) south of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The storm then moved northwest and strengthened gradually before the shear abated on September 3. Olivia turned towards the west and began a period of rapid intensification, reaching hurricane intensity on September 4 at 00:00 UTC, while located 575\u00a0mi (925\u00a0km) southwest of Cabo San Lucas. The cyclone reached its initial peak intensity as a high-end Category 3 hurricane by 00:00 on September 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Olivia\nSoon after, increasing shear and dry air caused Olivia to weaken. The storm weakened into a minimal Category 2 hurricane before an unexpected, second period of intensification commenced on September 6. Olivia peaked at 00:00 UTC on September 7 as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 miles per hour (210\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 951\u00a0mbar (28.08\u00a0inHg), while over 1,265\u00a0mi (2,035\u00a0km) west of Cabo San Lucas. Lower sea surface temperatures and a more stable environment caused the hurricane to begin weakening before it crossed into the Central Pacific around 00:00 September 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0041-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Olivia\nThis trend continued until slightly higher sea surface temperatures allowed the now-minimal Category 1 hurricane to restrengthen slightly and reach a secondary peak by 00:00 UTC on September 10. After 12 hours, the cyclone began to weaken again, falling to tropical storm strength by 06:00 UTC on September 11. Olivia made landfall as a 45 miles per hour (72\u00a0km/h) tropical storm at 19:10 UTC on September 12, about 10\u00a0mi (15\u00a0km) northwest of Kahului, Maui. Just over 40 minutes later, the storm made a second landfall about 5\u00a0mi (8.0\u00a0km) north-northwest of Lanai City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0041-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Olivia\nOlivia's two landfalls were the first time in recorded history that a tropical cyclone had made landfall on both islands. The storm moved west-southwestward, away from the Hawaiian Islands, and weakened into a tropical depression on September 13 at 06:00 UTC. Olivia became a tropical storm once more by 18:00 UTC but failed to intensify further. Strong wind shear and disruption from its two landfalls in Hawaii caused the cyclone to become post-tropical by 06:00 UTC on September 14 and open up into a trough about 12 hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Olivia\nOlivia's approach towards the Hawaiian Islands prompted the issuance of tropical storm watches and warnings for Hawaii County, Oahu, Maui County, and Kauai County. Hawaii Governor David Ige declared Hawaii, Maui, Kalawao, Kauai, and Honolulu counties disaster areas prior to Olivia's landfall in order to activate emergency disaster funds and management. Olivia made brief landfalls in northwest Maui and Lanai on September 12, becoming the first tropical cyclone to impact the islands in recorded history. Tropical-storm-force winds mainly affected Maui County and Oahu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Olivia\nTorrential rainfall occurred on both Maui and Oahu, peaking at 12.93\u00a0in (328\u00a0mm) in West Wailuaiki, Maui. On Maui, Olivia felled trees, caused thousands of power outages, and caused severe flooding. In Honokohau Valley, the Honokohau stream rose over 15\u00a0ft (4.6\u00a0m), submerging a bridge and inundating over a dozen homes. Multiple homes and vehicles were swept away by floodwaters. Olivia left the valley without potable water for more than a week. Several hundred power outages occurred on Molokai, and around 1,100 lost power in Honolulu. A pipe overflowed from excessive rainfall on Oahu, sending raw sewage into Kapalama Stream and Honolulu Harbor. President Donald Trump issued a disaster declaration for Hawaii to aid with emergency response efforts. Olivia caused a total of US$25 million in damage throughout Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Paul\nA tropical wave departed from the western coast of Africa on August 17. It then moved westward across the Atlantic Ocean with minimal convection until it crossed over Central America, entering the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Convection began to increase during the next few days, but this trend was hampered by strong northeasterly wind shear. The system produced sporadic convection until September 8, when thunderstorm activity became continuous. A tropical depression formed around 06:00 UTC on September 8, approximately 680\u00a0mi (1,095\u00a0km) south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0043-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Paul\nThe system intensified into Tropical Storm Paul by 00:00 UTC on September 9. The storm traveled westward before turning northwest as it rounded the southwestern edge of a mid-level ridge, which was located over Central Mexico. Paul intensified slightly, peaking at 18:00 UTC with winds of 45 miles per hour (72\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 1,002\u00a0mbar (29.59\u00a0inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Paul\nBy September 10, Paul began to be affected by an unfavorable environment of dry air, wind shear, and cooling sea surface temperatures. This caused the storm to weaken into a tropical depression by 06:00 UTC on September 11. The depression's convection dispersed later in the day, resulting in the system being downgraded to a remnant low around 00:00 UTC on September 12 while it was about 1,035\u00a0mi (1,665\u00a0km) west of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. A low-level ridge located north of the remnants caused them to return to a westward motion for a couple of days, before a high-pressure system located over the Central Pacific caused them to quickly turn southwestward. The system became elongated and dissipated by 00:00 UTC on September 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Nineteen-E\nA tropical wave departed from the western coast of Africa on August 29 and traveled across the tropical Atlantic before reaching the Pacific Ocean around September 6\u20137. The wave then meandered south of Mexico for around a week. Around the same time, a mid-level trough, which was moving southward, sent moisture into the region. This allowed a surface trough to develop in a north to south orientation over Baja California Sur and the Gulf of California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0045-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Nineteen-E\nInitially quite disorganized, thunderstorm activity gathered around a circulation center on September 19, causing a tropical depression to spawn around 12:00 UTC, just off the coast of Loreto, Mexico. This made the system the first tropical cyclone to form in the Gulf of California in recorded history. Tropical Depression Nineteen-E moved mainly northward and reached its peak intensity by 18:00 UTC with winds of 35 miles per hour (56\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 1,002\u00a0mbar (29.59\u00a0inHg). Wind shear and land interaction inhibited further intensification before the cyclone made landfall between Guaymas and Ciudad Obreg\u00f3n on the Sonoran coast, around 03:00 UTC on September 20. The depression dissipated by 06:00 UTC, about 60\u00a0mi (95\u00a0km) inland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Nineteen-E\nTropical Depression Nineteen-E brought torrential rainfall to western Mexico, with a peak total of 15.06\u00a0in (382.5\u00a0mm) occurring in Ahome, Sinaloa. In Nogales, Sonora, over 300 metric tons (330.7 US tons) of debris had to be cleared from roadways. Floodwaters killed and swept away the bodies of two people in the state. The depression directly killed five people and indirectly killed two in Sinaloa state. Over 300,000 structures were inundated in state, leaving behind hundreds of millions (USD) in flood damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0046-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Nineteen-E\nThe storm caused an additional US$41\u00a0million (MX$800\u00a0million) in damage after destroying 35,000 acres (14,000 hectares) of crops and associated equipment. Nineteen-E also left over 500,000 livestock dead in the state. The cyclone killed another three people in Chihuahua state. The remnants of Nineteen-E drew moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and entered the U.S. states of Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, causing US$250\u00a0million in damage. The highest rainfall in the United States, 15.81\u00a0in (401.6\u00a0mm), occurred in Johnston County, Oklahoma. One person was killed by flooding in the state of Texas. Fonden announced that it would provide US$1.5\u00a0million (MX$33\u00a0million) for the reconstruction of Culican, Sinaloa, in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Rosa\nA robust tropical wave departed from the western coast of Africa on September 6 and was located south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec by September 22. Upon arrival, thunderstorm activity increased significantly and the system developed a center of circulation. A tropical depression spawned at 06:00 UTC on September 25, around 405\u00a0mi (650\u00a0km) south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. Despite being affected by northeasterly shear, the depression developed banding features. This increase in organization led to the depression becoming Tropical Storm Rosa around 12:00 UTC on the same day. While tracking northwest, Rosa began to develop a low-level eye feature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0047-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Rosa\nA period of rapid intensification ensued with Rosa becoming a hurricane at 12:00 UTC on September 26. This trend continued as Rosa turned more westward. Rosa peaked as a Category 4 hurricane on September 28 at 06:00 UTC with winds 150 miles per hour (240\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 936\u00a0mbar (27.64\u00a0inHg). An eyewall replacement cycle began shortly after, causing a period of weakening to commence. As Rosa turned northwestward, a worsening environment aloft caused the weakening trend to continue. The cyclone was tracking northeastward by September 30 and rapidly weakened. Rosa made landfall around 11:00 UTC on October 2 as a 35 miles per hour (56\u00a0km/h) tropical depression, about 70\u00a0mi (115\u00a0km) southeast of Punta San Antonio on the Baja California Peninsula. Rosa interacted with mountainous terrain after landfall and dissipated by 18:00 UTC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 900]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Rosa\nRosa warranted the issuance of tropical storm watches and warnings along the western and eastern coasts of the Baja California Peninsula. Rainfall from Rosa was heaviest in Baja California, with a peak total of 6.54\u00a0in (166\u00a0mm) occurring in Percebu. Flooding caused road damage and sinkholes in San Felipe, Baja California; the town's port lost US$530,000 (MX$10\u00a0million) after having been closed. In Sonora, thunderstorms caused power outages and flooding; the flooding swept away vehicles, left roadways impassable, damaged dozens of homes and businesses, and killed one woman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0048-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Rosa\nIn the United States, Rosa's remnants caused torrential rainfall and flooding in the Four Corners region; 6.89\u00a0in (175\u00a0mm) of rain was reported at Towers Mountain, Arizona. In addition to flooding, Rosa's remnants caused power outages, several dozen accidents near Phoenix, and two traffic-related deaths outside Phoenix. A community near Sells, Arizona had to be evacuated on October 2 after an earthen dam neared maximum capacity; the dam did not breach and residents were allowed to return two weeks later. Damage caused by Rosa's remnants totaled about US$50\u00a0million in the Southwestern United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Sergio\nA disturbance located over South America on September 24 crossed over Central America during the next couple of days. Convection associated with the system increased, however, the system remained quite disorganized. Continual convection occurred by September 28 as the system began producing gale-force winds. A low-level center developed on September 29 and became better defined. Tropical Storm Sergio formed by 12:00 UTC on that day, around 385\u00a0mi (620\u00a0km) south of Zihuatanejo, Mexico. During its first few days, Sergio tracked westward and later towards the west-southwest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0049-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Sergio\nIt only slowly strengthened as a result of its large size and dry air entanglement. The cyclone became a hurricane at about 00:00 UTC on October 2 after its eyewall fully closed. The storm then rapidly intensified over the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0049-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Sergio\nAn eyewall replacement cycle that took place during October 3 caused the intensification to temporarily cease; Sergio began to intensify again by 18:00 UTC. Sergio peaked around 06:00 UTC on October 4 as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour (230\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 942\u00a0mbar (27.82\u00a0inHg), while located 825\u00a0mi (1,325\u00a0km) southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Sergio\nA second eyewall replacement cycle caused the cyclone to weaken into a Category 3 on October 5 before it reintensified later in the day. Sergio traveled towards the west and west-southwest throughout this period. The cyclone went through a third eyewall replacement cycle on October 8 as it tracked northeastward. Sergio acquired annular characteristics as it weakened slightly during the next couple of days. The storm then quickly weakened as it was propelled towards the Baja California Peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0050-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Sergio\nSergio made landfall near Los Castros, Baja California Sur around 12:00 UTC on October 12 with 50 miles per hour (80\u00a0km/h) winds. The tropical storm then emerged into and traversed the Gulf of California before making a second landfall as a tropical depression around 18:00 UTC, about 25\u00a0mi (40\u00a0km) west-northwest of Guaymas, Sonora. Sergio dissipated over mountainous terrain a few hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Sergio\nSergio necessitated the issuance of tropical storm watches and warnings for the Baja California Peninsula. Gale-force winds damaged infrastructure in Guaymas, Sonora, causing US$2.12\u00a0million (MX$40\u00a0million) in damage. Rainfall from the storm peaked at 5.05\u00a0in (128\u00a0mm) in Punta de Aqua II. Houses were inundated by floodwaters in the states of Sonoroa and Chihuahua, leaving behind damage. Moisture from Sergio's remnants led to the development of thunderstorms over Texas around October 12\u201313. Ten tornadoes spawned across the state as a result, collectively inflicting about US$445,000 in damage. Strong winds and hail from the thunderstorms caused another US$30,000 in damage. Sergio's remnants also caused flash flooding in the state of Arizona, dealing US$73,000 in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Walaka\nA weak surface trough entered the Central Pacific Ocean on September 26 and continued westward for the next couple of days. The system began to organize on September 29 as continual convection and banding features developed near its center. A tropical depression formed around 12:00 UTC and strengthened into Tropical Storm Walaka six hours later, while located around 690\u00a0mi (1,110\u00a0km) south of Honolulu, Hawaii. A favorable environment below the storm and aloft allowed Walaka to rapidly intensify into a hurricane by 18:00 UTC on September 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0052-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Walaka\nThe cyclone's eye and the surrounding clouds became well established late on October 1. Walaka peaked as a Category 5 hurricane at 00:00 UTC on October 2 with winds of 160 miles per hour (260\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 921\u00a0mbar (27.20\u00a0inHg). This intensity made Walaka the fourth major hurricane in the Central Pacific and second Category 5 hurricane of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Walaka\nAfter peaking, Walaka began to undergo an eyewall replacement cycle. The cyclone weakened into a minimal Category 4 hurricane by 00:00 UTC on October 3 before briefly reintensifying later in the day. Increasing wind shear and lower sea surface temperatures caused Walaka to quickly weaken over the next couple of days, with the system falling to tropical storm strength by 06:00 UTC on October 5. Walaka transitioned into an extratropical system by 12:00 UTC on October 6 as it traveled north-northeastward. The extratropical system continued in that direction and dissipated by 18:00 UTC on October 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Walaka\nTropical cyclone watches and warnings were issued for Johnston Atoll and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as a result of the threat Walaka posed. The cyclone made landfall 35\u00a0mi (55\u00a0km) west-northwest of French Frigate Shoals as a high-end Category 3 hurricane around 06:20 UTC on October 4. Walaka's only impact to land was that its storm surge completely destroyed East Island, wiping out the nesting grounds for the endangered green sea turtle and critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Tara\nA low-level gyre located over Central America, which was also associated with the formation of Hurricane Michael in the Caribbean Sea, contributed to the genesis of Tropical Storm Tara. During the period of October 7\u201310, the disturbance moved into the Gulf of Tehuantepec, after which convection increased. The system then traveled west-northwest over the next several days, parallel to the western coast of Mexico. The system's convection then increased in organization, resulting in the genesis of a tropical depression at approximately 12:00 UTC on October 14, around 185\u00a0mi (300\u00a0km) southeast of Manzanillo, Mexico. The nascent depression turned from the west-northwest to the north-northwest as it tracked through a weakness in a trough located over northern Baja California and a mid-level high located over the Gulf of Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 893]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Tara\nDespite the presence of easterly wind shear, the system became a tropical storm around 06:00 UTC on October 15, while located about 110\u00a0mi (175\u00a0km) south-southeast of Manzanillo, Mexico. The cyclone continued to intensify and peaked at 00:00 UTC on October 16 with winds of 65 miles per hour (105\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 995\u00a0mbar (29.38\u00a0inHg). Steering currents around Tara significantly weakened, almost halting the cyclone's forward motion. A combination of land interaction and increasing southeasterly wind shear caused weakening to commence. Tara opened into a trough just west of Manzanillo around 00:00 on October 17 and dissipated soon after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Vicente\nA tropical wave departed from the western coast of Africa on October 6 and traveled westward, arriving at Central America on October 16. Soon after, convection formed along the monsoon trough near the wave. Convection increased and gradually organized over the next few days. A tropical depression formed on October 19 around 06:00 UTC, around 90\u00a0mi (145\u00a0km) west-southwest of Puerto San Jos\u00e9, Guatemala. Located within a favorable environment, the nascent depression quickly became better organized, developing banding features around its center. This led to the development of Tropical Storm Vicente by 18:00 UTC on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0057-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Vicente\nDuring the course of the day, the cyclone tracked northwestward at around 6\u00a0mph (9.7\u00a0km/h), while it was also very close to the Guatemalan shore. Vicente began traveling west-northwest on October 20, just off the coast of southeastern Mexico. Vicente peaked at 18:00 UTC with winds of 50 miles per hour (80\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 1,002\u00a0mbar (29.59\u00a0inHg), while less than 115\u00a0mi (185\u00a0km) off the Mexican coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Vicente\nDuring the overnight, Vicente began tracking westward. Dry air intrusion caused the tropical storm to weaken on October 21 as it traveled south of west. The dry air abated on October 22, allowing for some re-intensification. Outflow from Hurricane Willa, which was located to the northwest, produced northerly wind shear, which caused Vicente to weaken to a tropical depression by 06:00 UTC on October 23. Vicente made landfall near Playa Azul in Michoac\u00e1n around 13:30 UTC and dissipated by 18:00 UTC after interacting with land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Vicente\nVicente brought torrential rainfall to southern Mexico, peaking at over 12\u00a0in (300\u00a0mm) in the state of Oaxaca. Twenty-seven neighborhoods were flooded in Morelia, Michoac\u00e1n; hundreds of homes were inundated throughout several neighborhoods after flooding 3.3\u00a0ft (1\u00a0m) deep occurred. Heavy rainfall caused flooding and landslides in Oaxaca, leaving 13 people dead. Roadways in the state suffered severe damage after dozens of landslides occurred. Flood waters swept away cars, created a sinkhole, and inundated dozens of homes and businesses. Flooding in the state of Veracruz left another three people dead. Nearly two dozen landslides occurred in the state, damaging over three dozen roads and schools. The overflow of the Coatzacoalcos River flooded several hundred houses. The storm left agricultural losses of US$7.05\u00a0million (MX$136\u00a0million) in Colima state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 926]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Willa\nA tropical wave departed from the western coast of Africa on October 2 and moved across the tropical Atlantic with minimal convection. The wave arrived at Central America on October 15 and entered the Pacific Ocean on the next day. Convection formed around the wave on October 17; a low-pressure system developed in association with the wave early on October 18. Thunderstorm activity continued to coalesce, and a tropical depression formed by 00:00 UTC on October 20, approximately 265\u00a0mi (425\u00a0km) south of Manzanillo, Mexico. The system tracked west-northwest and northwest as it continued to organize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0060-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Willa\nAn increase in convection and the formation of a central dense overcast resulted in the depression being upgraded to Tropical Storm Willa by 12:00 UTC on the same day, about 290\u00a0mi (465\u00a0km) south-southwest of Manzanillo. A favorable environment along with Willa's smaller size allowed the cyclone to rapidly intensify for nearly two days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0060-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Willa\nWilla reached hurricane intensity by 06:00 UTC on October 21 and became a major hurricane around 18:00 UTC. Willa peaked as a Category 5 hurricane on October 22 at 06:00 UTC with winds of 160 miles per hour (260\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 925\u00a0mbar (27.32\u00a0inHg), while located 195\u00a0mi (315\u00a0km) south-southwest of Cabo Corrientes, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Willa\nAfter peaking, a combination of cooling sea surface temperatures and an eyewall replacement cycle caused Willa to steadily weaken. The hurricane's eye increased sixfold in size between Willa's peak intensity and the start of October 23. After the replacement cycle ended later that day, the now-Category 3 hurricane tracked northeastward. Around 01:20 UTC on October 24, Willa made landfall near Palmito del Verde, Sinaloa with 115 miles per hour (185\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0061-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Willa\nStrong southwesterly shear along with the mountainous terrain of Mexico caused Willa to rapidly decline in intensity; the cyclone was a mid-grade tropical storm around 06:00 UTC, while located only 10\u00a0mi (15\u00a0km) southeast of Durango, Mexico. The storm dissipated six hours later and sent remnant moisture into southern Texas and Louisiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Willa\nHurricane Willa necessitated the issuance of tropical cyclone watches and warnings along the southwestern coast of Mexico. As a precautionary measure, over 200,000 people were evacuated from coastal regions in advance of the storm. Willa brought winds up to 115 miles per hour (185\u00a0km/h) to the region where it made landfall and torrential rainfall to multiple states; rainfall peaked at 15.39\u00a0in (391\u00a0mm) in San Andr\u00e9s Milpillas, Nayarit. Willa wrought catastrophic damage throughout the region where it made landfall, with damage totaling US$825\u00a0million (MX$17.2\u00a0billion).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0062-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Willa\nThe town of Los Sandovales in Acaponeta Municipality, Nayarit, was completely destroyed by Willa. The cyclone left a total of 9 people dead throughout four Mexican states. The storm isolated multiple communities in Sinaloa and Nayarit; the San Pedro and Acaponeta rivers flooded, leaving 180,000 people without food and outside communication for at least one week after the storm. Multiple cities in the states of Sinaloa and Nayarit were left without any potable water, and in some cases, this remained the case for several months after the storm. Around 100,000 people were left homeless in Nayarit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0062-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Willa\nIn Sinaloa, 2,000 families were living under plastic rooves half a year after the storm. Reconstruction in Sinaloa did not occur in the months after the storm; a state official stated it could take years to receive federal funding. Reconstruction efforts in Nayarit were hampered by the state government's bankruptcy. The Mexican federal government allocated US$94\u00a0million (MX$2.25\u00a0billion) towards Nayarit reconstruction, with work slated to begin in February 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Xavier\nA tropical wave moved off of the western coast of Africa on October 17 and traveled westward across the tropics and the Caribbean Sea with limited thunderstorm activity. The wave moved over Central America on October 26 and later into a cyclonic gyre that extended over a large portion of the Eastern Pacific on October 31. A passing Kelvin wave fueled an increase in convection along the wave, leading to the formation of a low-pressure system. Over the next couple of days, associated convection continued to increase and organize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0063-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Xavier\nA tropical depression spawned at 12:00 UTC on November 2, about 520\u00a0mi (835\u00a0km) southwest of Manzanillo. The nascent depression tracked towards the east-northeast between a mid-level ridge which was located to the southeast and a mid- to upper-level trough which was located to the north and northwest. Despite being located in a region of high southwesterly wind shear, disparate upper-level flows allowed the depression to intensify into Tropical Storm Xavier by 00:00 UTC on November 3. The tropical storm continued to gradually strengthen over the next day and a half. Xavier reached its peak intensity at 12:00 UTC on November 4 with winds of 65 miles per hour (105\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 995\u00a0mbar (29.38\u00a0inHg), while around 130\u00a0mi (210\u00a0km) southwest of Manzanillo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Xavier\nAt its closest position to the coast, Xavier was only 90\u00a0mi (145\u00a0km) southwest of Manzanillo. Meanwhile, the storm turned northward and subsequently entered a region of dry mid-level air and more powerful southwesterly wind shear. This caused Xavier to quickly weaken; the low-level center completely detached from the storm's convection by 12:00 UTC on November 5. Xavier was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone by 00:00 UTC on November 6. The remnants traveled west-northwest and later west-southwest while continuing to weaken. The post-tropical system opened up into a trough by 00:00 UTC on November 9, while located around 345\u00a0mi (555\u00a0km) west-southwest of Socorro Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Other systems\nAn upper-level low absorbed the remnants of Hurricane Lane to the west-northwest of Hawaii on August 29. The storm was assigned the designation 96C by the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Traversing an area of sea surface temperatures about 3.6\u00a0\u00b0F (2\u00a0\u00b0C) above-normal, the system coalesced into a subtropical storm by August\u00a031. However, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Satellite Products and Service Division analyzed it as a tropical storm through the Dvorak technique.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0065-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Other systems\nAt 23:30 UTC that day, Scatterometer data revealed that 96C attained peak winds of 45 miles per hour (72\u00a0km/h) about 980\u00a0mi (1,575\u00a0km) south of Adak, Alaska. The system reached its peak intensity early on September 2, displaying an eye feature. Afterward, 96C gradually began to weaken, while accelerating northward into colder waters. The system weakened into an extratropical low on September 3. The system was absorbed by a larger extratropical storm in the Bering Sea on September 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nThe following list of names was used for named storms that form in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean during 2018. No names were retired, so this list will be used again in the 2024 season. This is the same list used in the 2012 season. The name Vicente was used for the first time this year, while the names Willa and Xavier were both used once in 1962 and 1992, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nFor storms that form in the Central Pacific Hurricane Center's area of responsibility, encompassing the area between 140 degrees west and the International Date Line, all names are used in a series of four rotating lists. Only the name Walaka was used during the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281733-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific hurricane season, Season effects\nThis is a table of all the storms that have formed in the 2018 Pacific hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, affected areas, damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a tropical wave, or a low, and all the damage figures are in USD. Potential tropical cyclones are not included in this table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season\nThe 2018 Pacific typhoon season was at the time, the costliest Pacific typhoon season on record, until the record was beaten by the following year. The season was above-average, producing 29 storms, 13 typhoons, and 7 super typhoons. It was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation, in which tropical cyclones form in the western Pacific Ocean. The season ran throughout 2018, though most tropical cyclones typically develop between May and October. The season's first named storm, Bolaven, developed on January 3, while the season's last named storm, Man-yi, dissipated on November 28. The season's first typhoon, Jelawat, reached typhoon status on March 29, and became the first super typhoon of the year on the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season\nThe scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, to the north of the equator between 100\u00b0E and the 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pacific Ocean, there are two separate agencies that assign names to tropical cyclones, which can often result in a cyclone having two names, one from the JMA and one from PAGASA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season\nThe Japan Meteorological Agency\u00a0(JMA) will name a tropical cyclone should it be judged to have 10-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 65\u00a0km/h (40\u00a0mph) anywhere in the basin, while the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration\u00a0(PAGASA) assigns names to tropical cyclones which move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135\u00b0E and 115\u00b0E and between 5\u00b0N\u201325\u00b0N regardless of whether or not a tropical cyclone has already been given a name by the JMA. Tropical depressions that are monitored by the United States' Joint Typhoon Warning Center\u00a0(JTWC) are given a number with a \"W\" suffix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts\nDuring the year, several national meteorological services and scientific agencies forecast how many tropical cyclones, tropical storms, and typhoons will form during a season and/or how many tropical cyclones will affect a particular country. These agencies included the Tropical Storm Risk\u00a0(TSR) Consortium of University College London, PAGASA and Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau. The first forecast of the year was released by PAGASA on January 15, within its seasonal climate outlook for the period January\u2013June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts\nThe outlook noted that one to three tropical cyclones were expected between January and March, while two to four were expected to develop or enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility between April and June. PAGASA also mentioned that the La Ni\u00f1a would be short-lived, predicting that it would last until February or April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts\nOn March 15, the Vietnamese National Center for Hydro Meteorological forecasts (VNCHMF) predicted that roughly twelve to thirteen tropical cyclones would affect Vietnam during 2018, which is above average. On March 23, the Hong Kong Observatory predicted that five to eight tropical cyclones would come within 500 kilometres of Hong Kong, which is normal to above normal, with the first tropical cyclone affecting Hong Kong in June or earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts\nOn May 11, the Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) issued their first forecast for the season, predicting that the 2018 season would be a slightly above average season with 27 named storms, 17 typhoons, and nine intense typhoons. The TSR released their second forecast on July 6, still predicting that the season will be above average, with the only changes to their forecast increasing the number of intense typhoons from 9 to 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts\nThe PAGASA issued their second and final outlook on July 13 for the period of July \u2013 December, predicting six to eight tropical cyclones were expected to develop or enter their area of responsibility between July and September, while four to six were forecast during October to December. On August 7, TSR released their final forecast, with its only changes decreasing the numbers of intense typhoons from 10 to 9, as well as decreasing its ACE forecast from 331 units to 319 units.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Season summary\n2018 opened with Tropical Depression Agaton active to the east of the Philippines. Over the course of two days, the system moved into the South China Sea and intensified into the first named storm, Bolaven. A month later, Tropical Storm Sanba developed and affected the southern Philippines. About another month later, Tropical Depression 03W formed in the open Pacific and was named Jelawat. Jelawat intensified into the season's first typhoon on March 30, and then the season's first super typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Season summary\nTropical activity fired up by June, when a series of storms developed, with Tropical Storm Ewiniar making landfall over mainland China. Later that month, Typhoon Prapiroon developed and affected the Korean Peninsula, becoming the first to do so since 2013. Thereafter, Typhoon Maria developed and reached its peak intensity as a Category 5 super typhoon, being the first typhoon to reach that intensity since Typhoon Nock-ten in 2016. Hurricane Hector crossed the International Date Line on August 13, the first to do so since Genevieve in 2014. Systems like Tropical Storms Son-Tinh, Ampil, Josie, Wukong, Jongdari, Shanshan, Yagi, Leepi, Bebinca, and Rumbia formed between late July to early August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Season summary\nOn August 16, Typhoon Soulik developed and headed north, until a Fujiwhara interaction with Typhoon Cimaron (which formed after Soulik) made it head west towards the East China Sea. It later made landfall on South Korea, making it the first typhoon to make landfall on South Korea since Typhoon Chaba in 2016. Cimaron made landfall near Kyoto, Japan on August 23. As Cimaron was nearing landfall, Tropical Depression Luis formed, which made landfall on China and Taiwan. Later that month, Typhoon Jebi developed over the West Pacific and intensified into the third super typhoon of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Season summary\nIn September, Typhoon Mangkhut became the fourth super typhoon of the season and made landfall on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. On the same day, Tropical Depression Neneng formed, which later became Tropical Storm Barijat and made landfall on Vietnam. By late September, Typhoon Trami (Paeng) formed, becoming the 5th super typhoon of 2018. While Typhoon Trami was in the Western Pacific, nearing Okinawa with winds of 165\u00a0km/h (105\u00a0mph), Tropical Depression 30W formed, and was named Kong-rey by the JMA after strengthening into a tropical storm. It intensified into a super typhoon on October 2, becoming the 5th Category 5 super typhoon. Later on in the month, it was followed by the sixth and final Category 5-equivalent storm of the season, Yutu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Bolaven (Agaton)\nA low-pressure area developed into a tropical depression northeast of Palau on December 29, 2017. The system moved generally westward, and on the first day of 2018, the PAGASA began issuing advisories on the system and locally named it Agaton. Both the JMA and the JTWC followed suit, with the latter designating the system as 01W. By January 3, the system had intensified into a tropical storm according to the JMA and was named Bolaven, thus becoming the first named storm of the season. However, several hours later, Bolaven started to weaken and rapidly deteriorate. The system was last tracked by the JMA to the east of Vietnam on January 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Bolaven (Agaton)\nThe impact caused by Bolaven (Agaton) was moderate but not as significant as the previous two systems, Kai-tak and Tembin, with about 2,000 passengers stranded in ports in the Visayas. As of January 22, three people have been reported killed by the storm, while total damages were up to Ph\u20b1554.7 million (US$11.1 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Sanba (Basyang)\nA low-pressure system developed into a tropical depression north of Chuuk early on February 8. It developed into a tropical storm on February 11, receiving the international name Sanba by the JMA. Shortly afterwards, Sanba entered the Philippine area of responsibility and was assigned the local name Basyang by the PAGASA. On February 13, Sanba made landfall on Cortes, Philippines, causing it to weaken to a tropical depression. On the next day, the system weakened into a remnant low as it made another landfall in Surigao del Sur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Sanba (Basyang)\nApproximately 17,000 people were affected by the storm and there were 14 fatalities. Total agricultural damages were at Php 168 million (US$3.23 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jelawat (Caloy)\nOn March 24, a tropical depression formed to the south of the Mariana Islands, and the JTWC assigned it the numerical identifier 03W. On March 25, the system intensified into a tropical storm and was named Jelawat by the JMA, and at the same time it entered PAGASA's Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) and was assigned the local name Caloy. Due to strong southwesterly wind shear, the cyclone remained poorly organized, with disorganized convection near an exposed low-level circulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jelawat (Caloy)\nConditions gradually became more favorable for further development, resulting in Jelawat steadily strengthening and gaining organization before intensifying into a severe tropical storm at 18:00\u00a0UTC on March 28. Later on March 29, an eye began to emerge within a growing central dense overcast, leading to the JMA classifying it as a typhoon at 00:00\u00a0UTC on March 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jelawat (Caloy)\nExplosive intensification then ensued over the following 36 hours as the eye became sharply defined, and Jelawat attained its peak intensity later that morning, with estimated 10-minute sustained winds of 195\u00a0km/h (120\u00a0mph) and a central pressure of 915 hPa (27.02 inHg). At the same time, the JTWC assessed it as peaking with 1-minute sustained winds of 240\u00a0km/h (150\u00a0mph), making it a Category 4 super typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jelawat (Caloy)\nImmediately after peaking in intensity, Jelawat began weakening rapidly due to a sharp increase in wind shear and dry air, and the storm fell below typhoon strength late on March 31. During the next couple of days, Jelawat drifted to the northeast and then turned eastward before dissipating on April 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 04W\nA low-pressure area east of Mariana Islands was upgraded to a tropical depression by the JMA late on May 10 shortly before the JTWC issued a TCFA. By May 12, deep convection was observed near its center as the JTWC began issuing advisories on the system, giving it the designation 04W. Roughly twelve hours later, it was reported that 04W had intensified into a tropical storm by the JTWC after satellite imagery had depicted a well-defined center. Tracking on a west-northwesterly course, the system began to weaken as it entered an area of unfavorable conditions. 04W rapidly weakened as the JTWC issued their final advisory on the system early on May 14 as wind shear affected the system and exposed the elongated low-level circulation. The JMA, however, tracked the system until early on May 15, when it dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 881]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ewiniar\nA low-pressure area developed into a tropical depression over the South China Sea on June 2. Later that day, the JTWC followed suit and assigned the designation 05W to the system. 05W meandered in a westward direction until it curved northward, and after three days, the JTWC upgraded the system to a tropical storm. The JMA did the same three hours later early on June 6, naming it Ewiniar. Shortly thereafter, Ewiniar made landfall over South China. Ewiniar maintained its intensity while over land until the JTWC issued its final advisory late on June 7. The JMA, however, tracked the system until early on June 9, when Ewiniar had weakened into a tropical depression and degenerated into a remnant low. However, Ewiniar's remnants moved out to sea and continued to persist, before dissipating on June 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 869]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ewiniar\nA total of 13 people were killed, while total damages in Mainland China were counted to be \u00a55.19 billion (US$812 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Maliksi (Domeng)\nA low-pressure area northwest of Palau developed into a tropical depression late on June 3. On the next day, the system received the local name Domeng from the PAGASA as the JTWC issued a TCFA on the system. After the system had consolidated further, the JMA upgraded the system to a tropical storm, naming it Maliksi. The JTWC, however, did not track the system until 03:00 UTC on June 8 when it gave Maliksi the designation of 06W.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 76], "content_span": [77, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Maliksi (Domeng)\nMoving northward, Maliksi continued to intensify until it reached its peak strength early on June 10 with winds of 110\u00a0km/h (70\u00a0mph), just shy of typhoon intensity, and a minimum pressure of 970 hPa. Operationally, the JMA briefly classified Maliksi as a typhoon, but it was downgraded to a severe tropical storm in post-analysis. Maliksi began to weaken as it began extratropical transition, and on June 11 as it encountered more unfavorable conditions, both agencies stopped issuing warnings on Maliksi as the system's center became exposed and as it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone. The JMA tracked the remnants of Maliksi until 00:00 UTC on June 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 76], "content_span": [77, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Maliksi (Domeng)\nDespite not making landfall on the Philippines, Maliksi prompted the PAGASA to declare the official start of the rainy season on June 8, 2018. Two people were killed by heavy monsoonal rains enhanced by Maliksi in the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 76], "content_span": [77, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Subtropical Storm 07W\nA disturbance formed southwest of Taiwan on June 12 just within the meiyu front, and the JTWC subsequently indicated the formation of a subtropical depression. At 21:00 UTC on June 13, the JTWC issued its first advisory on the system and designated it as 07W, classifying it as a tropical depression. Despite being affected by moderate to severe wind shear, the system was located over relatively warm sea-surface temperatures as it produced patches of convection, and this prompted the JTWC to upgrade 07W to a tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Subtropical Storm 07W\nThe JTWC later issued their fourth but final advisory on 07W at 15:00 UTC on June 14 when the system was rapidly undergoing a phase of extratropical transition and as the system was rapidly losing its structure. 07W fully became an extratropical cyclone just to the south of mainland Japan at 06:00 UTC on June 15, although its remnant was still tracked until June 25, when the system was last located near the coast of British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Gaemi (Ester)\nOn June 13, a tropical depression formed on the South China Sea from the trough of 07W. On June 14, the PAGASA announced it had entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility, assigning it the local name Ester. Tropical Depression Ester (08W) made landfall on Taiwan by midnight, and after emerging off the coast, it was assigned the name Gaemi by the JMA. On June 16, Gaemi transitioned into an extratropical cyclone. On June 19, the NDRRMC reported that 3 people had died from monsoonal rains enhanced by Gaemi. Agricultural damage in Okinawa Prefecture were estimated at \u00a584.58 million (US$764,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Prapiroon (Florita)\nA low-pressure area west of Okinotorishima developed into a tropical depression on June 28. On the next day, the PAGASA began issuing advisories, assigning it the local name Florita. 6 hours later, Florita became a tropical storm, with the JMA assigning it the name Prapiroon. By July 2, Prapiroon intensified into a Category 1 typhoon as it neared Japan and Korea. By July 3, Prapiroon had attained peak intensity. On the same day, Prapiroon made landfall on Japan. After making landfall, Prapiroon briefly weakened to a tropical storm. Prapiroon became a low-pressure area on the next day, though the JMA still tracked its remnants until July 10, when it finally dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Prapiroon (Florita)\nAs of July 2018, 1 person from South Korea was killed by the storm. Agricultural damage in Okinawa Prefecture were about \u00a549.39 million (US$446,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Maria (Gardo)\nA tropical disturbance formed over the Marshall Islands late on June 26. After slow development and as it drifted westward for five days, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert early on July 2 and upgraded the system to a tropical depression, designating it 10W late on the same day. Early on July 3, the Japan Meteorological Agency upgraded the low-pressure area into a tropical depression southeast of Guam and subsequently started to issue tropical cyclone warnings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Maria (Gardo)\nFavorable environmental conditions, including moderate vertical wind shear, poleward outflow enhanced by tropical upper tropospheric trough (TUTT) cells located to the northeast and to the northwest, sea surface temperatures between 30 and 31 \u00b0C, were contributing to the development of the system on July 4. As a result, the system continued to organize and the JMA upgraded it to a tropical storm and assigned it the international name Maria at around 12:00 UTC, with the JTWC also upgrading it to a tropical storm. Six hours later, when the storm struck Guam directly, surface observations at Andersen Air Force Base recorded one-minute maximum sustained winds of 50 knots (93\u00a0km/h; 58\u00a0mph) and a minimum pressure of 984\u00a0hPa (29.06\u00a0inHg), indicating a rapidly consolidating system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 844]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Maria (Gardo)\nOn July 5, Maria drifted northwestward slowly under the influences of a weak north-south oriented steering ridge and a strong east-west oriented subtropical ridge entrenched to the north. After being upgraded to a severe tropical storm by JMA and a typhoon by JTWC early on the same day, Maria began undergoing extremely rapid intensification due to highly favorable conditions, intensifying from a tropical storm to a Category 5 on the Saffir\u2013Simpson scale in under 24 hours. Microwave imagery revealed an eye and the JMA upgraded Maria to a typhoon in the afternoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Maria (Gardo)\nThe JTWC upgraded Maria to a super typhoon and reported that it reached its initial peak intensity with one-minute maximum sustained winds of 260\u00a0km/h (160\u00a0mph) at around 00:00 UTC on July 6, making it the first Category 5-equivalent tropical cyclone in the northern hemisphere since Hurricane Maria in September 2017, and the first in the western Pacific since Typhoon Nock-ten. At around 01:10 UTC on July 11, Maria made landfall over the Huangqi Peninsula of Lianjiang County, Fuzhou in Fujian, China with ten-minute maximum sustained winds of 155\u00a0km/h (100\u00a0mph) and a central pressure of 955\u00a0hPa (28.20\u00a0inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Maria (Gardo)\nWhen it made landfall in East China on July 10, it soaked Southern Japan and killed 1 person. Total damages in Mainland China were estimated to be CN\u00a54.16 billion (US$623 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Son-Tinh (Henry)\nAn area of low-pressure strengthened into a tropical depression on July 15 to the northwest of Manila, Philippines. The JTWC designated it as 11W while the PAGASA gave it the local name Henry. As the system moved fast in a westward direction, the system gradually intensified and was declared a tropical storm on July 17, with the JMA naming it as Son-Tinh as its convective structure improved. Thereafter, Son-Tinh slightly weakened as it neared Hainan Island while experiencing moderate shear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Son-Tinh (Henry)\nDuring the next day, however, Son-Tinh slightly intensified over the Gulf of Tonkin due to warm sea-surface temperatures before it made landfall on northern Vietnam. Both agencies issued their final warnings on Son-Tinh on July 19 as the system had weakened back into an area of low-pressure embedded into the monsoon. However, the JTWC continued to track the system's remnants for another two days before it dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Ampil (Inday)\nOn July 17, a weak tropical depression developed over the Philippine Sea. The JTWC upgraded the system to a tropical depression on the same day, designating it as 12W as it was located over a favorable environment. On the next day, the PAGASA followed suit and it was given the local name Inday. By 12:00 UTC on July 18, the JMA upgraded the system to a tropical storm, assigning it the name Ampil. As Ampil moved in a northward direction, the system's structure had broadened, being accompanied by sustained deep convection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Ampil (Inday)\nDespite unfavorable ocean heat content, Ampil still remained over relatively warm sea surface temperatures with the inclusion of extensive deep convection, therefore Ampil was classified as a severe tropical storm. With an improved convective system, the JTWC assessed that Ampil had reached maximum 1-minute sustained winds of 95\u00a0km/h (60\u00a0mph). Ampil reached its peak intensity with a minimum pressure of 985 hPa and maintained that intensity for the next few days as the track of Ampil changed direction. On July 21, the system's center became exposed as the system slightly weakened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0026-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Ampil (Inday)\nOn the next day, the JMA downgraded Ampil back to a tropical storm as it made landfall on China with a lack of convection. Ampil weakened further to a tropical depression on July 23, and both agencies issued their final advisories on the system. The JMA continued tracking the system until it weakened into an area of low pressure at 18:00 UTC on July 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Ampil (Inday)\nHeavy rain in Shandong Province\u2014accumulating to 237\u00a0mm (9.3\u00a0in) in Tianjin\u2014caused significant flooding, inundating 31,600\u00a0hectares of crops and affecting 260,000\u00a0people. One person was killed in China and total economic losses reached CN\u00a51.63 billion (US$241 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 13W (Josie)\nA tropical depression formed in the South China Sea on July 20 according to the JMA. On July 21, the system entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility and was assigned the local name Josie, making it the 10th named storm to enter the PAR. The JTWC upgraded the system to a tropical storm on the same day. The system missed landfall within kilometers on Saud, Ilocos Norte. It moved north and exited the PAR on the next day. The remnants of 13W dissipated off the coast of China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 13W (Josie)\nAfter the formation of the previous two systems, the southwest monsoon had been extremely active in the Philippines. By August 1, a total of 16 people had been killed due to extreme flooding, while damages have been recorded at \u20b14.66 billion (US$87.4 million). The southwest monsoon had been active since Typhoon Maria. July had 5 days of class suspensions in Metro Manila, making it the second in history since Typhoon Ketsana struck Metro Manila and caused ocean-high flooding since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Wukong\nLate on July 21, the JTWC began to issue advisories on Tropical Depression 14W as it developed about 603\u00a0km (381\u00a0mi) east-southeast of the Japanese island of Minami-Tori-shima. The JMA began tracking the system on the early hours of July 22. Later that day, the JTWC upgraded 14W to a tropical storm, though convection was sheared and the system was located in unfavorable southwesterly shear. Within the next 24 hours, 14W began to organize with deep convection obscuring its LLCC, and at 12:00 UTC on July 23, the JMA upgraded the system to a tropical storm, naming it Wukong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Wukong\nMoving poleward, Wukong gradually intensified while entering an area of favorable environment with lesser shear, and at 00:00 UTC on July 25, the JMA upgraded Wukong to a severe tropical storm. Nine hours later, the JTWC upgraded Wukong to a Category 1 typhoon after satellite images depicted a 30-nmi ragged eye. By July 26, both the JMA and the JTWC issued their final advisories on Wukong as the system rapidly transitioned into an extratropical cyclone. Wukong's extratropical remnants were tracked until late on July 27 when it was last noticed off the eastern coast of Russia Far East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jongdari\nA tropical disturbance formed southeast of Guam on July 19 and tracked westward steadily. After issuing a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on July 21, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) upgraded the system to a tropical depression early on July 22, although the location of its low-level circulation center was not clear. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), however, kept reporting it as a low-pressure area until it was upgraded to a tropical depression late on July 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jongdari\nAfter slow consolidation for several days, the system was upgraded to a tropical storm near Okinotorishima at around 18:00 on July 24 by the JMA and the JTWC, being assigned the international name Jongdari. Microwave imagery revealed a low-level eyewall forming on the next day, indicating a consolidating system. After the JMA upgraded Jongdari to a severe tropical storm at noon, the system accelerated northeastward under the influence of a near-equatorial ridge to the south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jongdari\nOn July 26, as Jongdari started to interact with an upper-level cold-core low to the north which significantly enhanced poleward outflow, it intensified to a typhoon in the afternoon despite increasingly unfavorable vertical wind shear. Over the warm sea surface temperatures between 29 to 30\u00a0\u00b0C (84 to 86\u00a0\u00b0F) near the Ogasawara Islands, JMA reported that Jongdari had reached peak intensity at 00:00 UTC on July 27, with ten-minute maximum sustained winds of 140\u00a0km/h (85\u00a0mph) and a minimum central pressure of 965\u00a0hPa (28.50\u00a0inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jongdari\nAlthough the JTWC indicated Jongdari reached peak intensity at 12:00 UTC with one-minute maximum sustained winds of 175\u00a0km/h (110\u00a0mph), the rugged eye of Jongdari remained periodically visible with an elongated structure due to further interaction of the upper-level low which had moved to the northwest side of the typhoon. As the steering influence transitioned to a subtropical ridge to the northeast, Jongdari executed a counter-clockwise turn to the southeast of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jongdari\nJongdari began to be inundated by subsidence on July 28 as the Fujiwhara effect had made the upper-level low move to the west of the typhoon. It also initiated a weakening trend while accelerating northwestward and then westward toward the Japanese island of Honshu. At around 01:00 JST on July 29 (16:00 UTC July 28), Jongdari made landfall over Ise, Mie Prefecture with ten-minute maximum sustained winds of 120\u00a0km/h (75\u00a0mph) and a central pressure of 975 hPa (28.79 inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0033-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jongdari\nThe storm weakened rapidly inland before making its second landfall over Buzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, at around 17:30 JST (08:30 UTC), with ten-minute sustained winds of 75\u00a0km/h (45\u00a0mph) and a central pressure of 992\u00a0hPa (29.29\u00a0inHg). At around 10:30 CST (02:30 UTC) on August 3, Jongdari made landfall over Jinshan District, Shanghai as a tropical storm. Jongdari rapidly weakened after landfall, dissipating on the next day. No fatalities were recorded for this storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 16W\nA tropical disturbance developed about 807\u00a0km (503\u00a0mi) north-northeast of Iwo To by July 29. The JTWC upgraded the system to Tropical Depression 16W during the next day after its convective structure had slightly improved despite the system located in moderate to strong wind shear. By July 31, the JMA followed suit on classifying the system as a tropical depression. 16W's center late became exposed with deep convection displaced due to continued shear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0034-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 16W\nOriginally, the system was forecast to reach tropical storm intensity with only 35 knot winds, but the system's center had become asymmetric with a fully sheared center. The JTWC issued their final advisory on 21:00 UTC of the same day, after 16W had fully transitioned into a subtropical cyclone, though both agencies continued to track the system until August 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Shanshan\nA tropical depression developed east-northeast of Guam on August 2. At 21:00 UTC on the same day, the JTWC began tracking the system, giving it the identifier 17W. 17W intensified into a tropical storm on August 3, with the JMA assigning it the name Shanshan. The storm was located over a favorable environment as the system was gradually consolidating, and it intensified into a severe tropical storm on August 3. During the next day, both the JMA and JTWC upgraded Shanshan to a typhoon after deep convection was seen wrapping into its developing center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Shanshan\nThe JMA later analysed that the storm had peaked in intensity with 10-minute winds of 130\u00a0km/h (80\u00a0mph) and a minimum pressure of 970 hPa, remaining that intensity for several days. The JTWC stated that Shanshan had slightly weakened after a strengthening trend by August 6 after its eye became ragged and slightly displaced. On August 7, Shanshan began to re-intensify and reached its peak strength as a Category 2 typhoon with 1-minute winds of 165\u00a0km/h (105\u00a0mph) while nearing southeastern Japan. Thereafter, Shanshan began to change its course towards the east as it rapidly weakened. The JTWC issued their final advisory on August 9, though the JMA tracked the system until it became extratropical at 06:00 UTC on August 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Shanshan\nLosses in Miyagi Prefecture were counted at \u00a596.2 million (US$866,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Yagi (Karding)\nA tropical disturbance had persisted towards the southwest of Iwo To on August\u00a01. After the course of five days, the system was upgraded into a tropical depression by the JMA, with the JTWC following suit several hours later, designating it as 18W. The PAGASA also began issuing bulletins on the system, assigning it the local name Karding. Karding maintained its intensity as a tropical depression due to moderate to strong easterly shear despite persistent convection surrounding the system. By August\u00a08, a METOP-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0037-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Yagi (Karding)\nA ASCAT image showed that the system had winds of 35\u00a0knots, which prompted the JTWC to upgrade it to a tropical storm. The JMA around the same time did the same, assigning it the name Yagi. Within the next day, Yagi curved towards the northwest, struggling to intensify due to wind shear. At 12:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a011, the JMA estimated that Yagi reached its peak strength with 10-minute winds of 75\u00a0km/h (45\u00a0mph) and a minimum pressure of 990\u00a0hPa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Yagi (Karding)\nThe JTWC declared that Yagi reached winds of 85\u00a0km/h (50\u00a0mph) at 12:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a012 after the storm had consolidated further with an improved structure. Yagi made landfall shortly thereafter over Wenling, in Taizhou of Zhejiang, China, at around 23:35\u00a0CST (15:35\u00a0UTC) on August\u00a012. By 21:00\u00a0UTC of that day, the JTWC issued their final advisory on Yagi, though they continued to track it until it weakened further into a tropical depression early on August\u00a013. The JMA did the same on 06:00\u00a0UTC of August\u00a013. The JMA tracked Yagi until it became an extratropical system on August\u00a015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Yagi (Karding)\nDespite not making landfall on the Philippines, the storm enhanced the southwest monsoon which brought extreme flooding to many regions within the country. According to the NDRRMC, 5 people died along with \u20b1996 million (US$19 million) worth of damages. In East China, Yagi killed a total of 3 people and total damages were counted to be CN\u00a52.51 billion (US$367 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Bebinca\nOn August\u00a09, a tropical depression formed within the South China Sea. The system remained weak and remained stationary for a few days until the JTWC began tracking the system, giving it the designation 20W on August\u00a012. On the next day, the JMA upgraded the system to a tropical storm, naming it Bebinca. The JTWC followed suit nine hours later as deep convection flared near its compact center. Despite consistent convection along with warm sea-surface temperatures, Bebinca remained weak for the next few days due to strong shear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Bebinca\nBy August\u00a016, however, Bebinca began to undergo a phase of rapid intensification as its center was obscured by a central dense overcast, which resulted in the JMA briefly upgrading Bebinca to a severe tropical storm, though in post-analysis it was downgraded to a tropical storm. The JTWC analysed a few hours later that the system had reached peak intensity with 1-minute winds of 110\u00a0km/h (70\u00a0mph). After Bebinca made landfall, the system rapidly weakened and both agencies issued their final warnings on August\u00a017, with the system fully dissipating on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Bebinca\nBebinca killed a total of 6\u00a0people, and total economic losses in South China were counted to be \u00a52.31 billion (US$333 million). 13 people lost their lives in Vietnam and total damages were counted to be \u20ab786.55 billion (US$33.7 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Leepi\nOn August 10, a tropical depression formed near the Mariana Islands, and on the next day at 12:00 UTC, the JMA upgraded it to a tropical storm, assigning it the name Leepi. By August 13, Leepi began to threaten Japan, and on August 14, Leepi intensified into a severe tropical storm, with the JTWC upgrading it to a typhoon. Shortly before 03:00 JST (18:00 UTC) on August 15, Leepi made landfall over Hy\u016bga, Miyazaki in Japan. Leepi was downgraded into a tropical depression and dissipated on August 15, though its remnants were still noted near Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Hector\nOn August 13 at 18:00 UTC, both the JMA and the JTWC declared that Tropical Storm Hector has crossed the International Date Line and entered the West Pacific basin from the East Pacific basin. At this point, Hector was still located in a favorable environment with only moderate shear, though deep convection was limited as it only persisted just near its center. Due to an upper tropospheric trough cell located to the west of Hector, the storm failed to intensify and began to weaken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0043-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Hector\nThe JTWC downgraded Hector to a tropical depression after the system rapidly entered an area of high vertical wind shear. By the early hours of August 15, both agencies issued their final warnings on Hector, mentioning that Hector's low-level circulation had become elongated and that the storm already transitioned into a subtropical cyclone. The JMA, however, continued to monitor the system until 00:00 UTC on August 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Rumbia\nOn August 15, a tropical depression in the East China Sea intensified into a tropical storm, being given the name Rumbia by the JMA. Shortly after reaching peak intensity over the Hangzhou Bay on August 16, Rumbia made landfall over Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China at around 04:05 CST on August 17 (20:05 UTC), becoming the third tropical storm to hit Shanghai in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Rumbia\nRumbia killed a total of 53 people in East China and total economic losses were counted to be CN\u00a536.91 billion (US$5.36 billion). Shouguang received 174.7\u00a0mm (6.88\u00a0in) of rain and was particularly hard-hit, with 10,000\u00a0homes destroyed and 13\u00a0people killed. The city is regarded as the nation's greatest producer of vegetables and agriculture suffered tremendous losses; 200,000\u00a0greenhouses sustained damage. Upstream on the Mi River rainfall reached 241.6\u00a0mm (9.51\u00a0in) and caused significant flooding. Water levels at three reservoirs rose dangerously high, prompting officials to release excess water to avoid collapse. The resulting increase downstream exacerbated the flooding in Shouguang. The extratropical remnants of Rumbia were last tracked northeast of Hokkaido before dissipating off the coast of the Russian Far East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 888]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Soulik\nA low-pressure area in the Philippine Sea organized into a tropical depression late on August\u00a015. The JTWC followed suit at 00:00\u00a0UTC at August\u00a016 and was designated as 22W. Later on that day, the JMA upgraded 22W to tropical storm and it was given the international name Soulik. On August\u00a017, JMA upgraded Soulik to a typhoon, marking the sixth typhoon of the season. Then Soulik rapidly intensified onto a severe typhoon, and on the next day, Soulik reached its peak intensity, with winds of 165\u00a0km/h (103\u00a0mph), and remained that intensity for several days. It also began to display some annular characteristics. After passing the Ryukyu Islands early on 22\u00a0August, the storm gradually weakened due to low sea-surface temperatures. On August\u00a023, Soulik made landfall over Haenam County, South Jeolla Province of South Korea at around 23:00\u00a0KST (14:00\u00a0UTC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 911]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Soulik\nTotal damage in South Korea were at \u20a950.7 billion (US$45 million). Economic loss in Northeast China were counted to be CN\uffe5550 million (US$79.9 million). Flooding in North Korea triggered by Soulik killed 86 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Cimaron\nOn August 17, a tropical depression formed near the Marshall Islands. It was named Tropical Storm Cimaron a day later. Soon after, it was upgraded to a Severe Tropical Storm. Cimaron gradually intensified over the course from August 20\u201322. Typhoon Cimaron threatened Southern Japan, at the same time as Typhoon Soulik ravaged the area. Typhoon Cimaron intensified to reach its peak intensity at Category 4 severe typhoon with 130\u00a0mph winds before its landfall on Japan on August 23 over the southern part of Tokushima Prefecture, Japan at around 21:00 JST (12:00 UTC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0048-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Cimaron\nTyphoon Cimaron emerged off the north coast as a weak tropical storm, before becoming extratropical and headed into Northern Japan again. Cimaron was a significant Category 4 storm, and the 12th typhoon to strike Japan in 2018 and was surpassed by Typhoon Jebi a month later. Then, it made landfall over Himeji, Hy\u014dgo Prefecture shortly before 24:00 JST (15:00 UTC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Cimaron\nAgricultural damage in Kyoto, Wakayama and Shiga Prefecture were about JP\u00a53.41 billion (US$30.6 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 24W (Luis)\nA tropical depression formed at the South China Sea near Taiwan. Despite entering an area of high wind shear, the system was in a favorable environment, so the JTWC and the PAGASA followed suit, with the JTWC naming it 24W, and the PAGASA named it Luis. 24W then made landfall over Fujian, China shortly after 08:00 CST (00:00 UTC) on August 25, and degenerated into a low-pressure area on next day. The JMA would continue monitoring the system until the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 24W (Luis)\nTropical Depression 24W killed 7 people and damages of NT$1.022 billion (US$34 million) in Taiwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jebi (Maymay)\nA low-pressure system formed near the Marshall Islands on early August 25, developing and being upgraded to a tropical depression on August 27 by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). There was a persistent deep convection in the system which lead to the upgrade to a tropical storm by the JMA and was given the name 'Jebi'. On August 29, the storm abruptly underwent rapid intensification and became the third super typhoon and the second category 5 of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0052-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jebi (Maymay)\nOn September 4, a weakened but still powerful Jebi made landfall over the southern part of Tokushima Prefecture at around 12:00 JST (03:00 UTC) before moving over Osaka Bay and making another landfall at around Kobe, Hy\u014dgo Prefecture at around 14:00 JST (05:00 UTC). Osaka was hit badly with a maximum wind gust of 209\u00a0km/h recorded at Kansai International Airport and 171\u00a0km/h at Osaka city's weather station, where the minimum sea level pressure (962 mb) was the lowest since 1961's record of 937 mb (Typhoon Nancy) and the fifth lowest on record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0052-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jebi (Maymay)\nA 3.29 metre storm surge led to flooding along the Osaka Bay, including Kansai International Airport, where the runways were flooded and some airport facilities were damaged by wind and water. Osaka's iconic Universal Studios Japan was also closed during the event of the typhoon. Wakayama also recorded a maximum wind gust of 207\u00a0km/h. Jebi then moved over Kyoto which wrecked more havoc. Multiple shrines were closed during the duration of the typhoon. Kyoto Station received a lot of damage, the glass above the atrium covering the central exit, shops and hotel, collapsed, narrowly missing a few by centimeters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0052-0003", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jebi (Maymay)\nThe typhoon ultimately emerged into the Sea of Japan shortly after 15:00 JST (06:00 UTC). Simultaneously, a cold front formed southwest of the typhoon, initiating the beginning of an extratropical transition on September 4. On September 5, after JTWC issued a final warning at 00:00 JST (15:00 UTC), Jebi was downgraded to a severe tropical storm at 03:00 JST (18:00 UTC) when it was located near the Shakotan Peninsula of Hokkaido. The storm completely transitioned into a storm-force extratropical cyclone off the coast of Primorsky Krai, Russia shortly before 10:00 VLAT (09:00 JST, 00:00 UTC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0052-0004", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jebi (Maymay)\nLater, the extratropical cyclone moved inland. The terrain of Khabarovsk Krai contributed to the steadily weakening trend as the system moved inland northwestward and then northward; extratropical low passed northeast of Ayan early on September 7. Jebi's extratropical remnant continued northward and then turned northeastward, before dissipating early on September 9 over the Arctic Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Jebi (Maymay)\nJebi was the strongest storm to hit Japan since Typhoon Yancy of 1993. In total, Jebi killed 17 people and inflicted around US$15 billion. 11 deaths were reported from Japan and 6 deaths were reported from Taiwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong)\nOn September 6, a tropical depression formed near the Marshall Islands. However, operationally, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) did not initiate advisories on the system until September 7. The JTWC followed suit at 03:00 UTC on September 7, and classified the system as 26W. Late on the same day, the system strengthened into a tropical storm, and the JMA named the system Mangkhut. By September 11, Mangkhut became a typhoon, and made landfall on the islands of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0054-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong)\nOn September 12, at 3 pm Philippine Standard Time, Mangkhut entered the PAR as a Category 5 super typhoon, and accordingly, PAGASA named the storm Ompong. The JTWC noted additional strengthening on September 12, and assessed Mangkhut to have reached its peak intensity at 18:00 UTC, with maximum one-minute sustained winds of 285\u00a0km/h (180\u00a0mph). On September 13, the Philippine Government initiated evacuations for residents in the typhoon's expected path. Late on September 14, Mangkhut made landfall on the Philippines as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon, with 1-minute sustained winds of 165 miles per hour (266\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0054-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong)\nWhile moving inland, Mangkhut weakened into a strong Category 4-equivalent super typhoon, and soon weakened further into a Category 2 typhoon. A large eye then appeared and the system slowly strengthened into a Category 3 typhoon, as the storm moved over Hong Kong. As Mangkhut made its final landfall, it weakened into a weak Category 1 typhoon and maintained its intensity inland with deep convection, before subsequently weakening further. Late on September 17, Mangkhut dissipated over Guangxi, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong)\nAs of September 23, at least 134 fatalities have been attributed to Mangkhut, including 127 in the Philippines, 6 in mainland China, and 1 in Taiwan. As of October 5, the NDRRMC estimated that Mangkhut caused \u20b133.9 billion (US$627 million) in damages in the Philippines, with assessments continuing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Barijat (Neneng)\nOn September 8, a tropical depression formed near Batanes in the Philippines. The storm was named Tropical Depression Neneng by PAGASA, with Batanes placed under TCWS #1. By the next day, Neneng exited the PAR and became a tropical storm, with the JMA assigning the name Barijat to the storm, while TCWS were raised in the absence of the storm. Over the next 2 days, Tropical Storm Barijat moved westward across the South China Sea, reaching its peak intensity with 10-minute maximum sustained wind speeds of 85\u00a0km/h on the night of September 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0056-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Barijat (Neneng)\nOn September 13, Tropical Storm Barijat (Neneng) made landfall on the Leizhou Peninsula, near the area where Tropical Storm Son-tinh (Henry) had made landfall 2 months ago, before making a second landfall on northern Vietnam later on the same day. During the evening of September 13, Barijat became a remnant low, dissipating on the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Barijat (Neneng)\nTropical Storm Barijat made a dozen landslides over Batanes, which increased the risk of major landslides and major flooding in the saturated soil influenced by this storm and later by Mangkhut (Ompong). Damages in China were at \u00a550 million (US$7.3 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Trami (Paeng)\nOn September 19, the NRL began to monitor a large tropical disturbance that formed near Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia. The system drifted westwards and strengthened into a tropical depression on September 20 according to the JMA, while the JTWC issued a TCFA. Trami managed to find itself in favorable conditions for strengthening and on September 21, it gained tropical storm status and was named Trami. On September 22, Trami still strengthened and became a Severe Tropical Storm before strengthening to a Category 1 typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0058-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Trami (Paeng)\nOn September 23, Trami, yet again in favorable conditions, continued to strengthen and became a Category 3-equivalent typhoon while undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle at the same time. Early on September 24, Trami strengthened further and attained Category 4 super typhoon status once it finished its eyewall replacement cycle. At 18:00 UTC on September 24, Trami strengthened even further and subsequently became a Category 5 super typhoon. On its route to Okinawa, Japan, Trami slowed down considerably and was almost stationary before moving north-northeastward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0058-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Trami (Paeng)\nDuring this period of time, another eyewall replacement cycle that eventually failed later on, coupled with decreasing sea surface temperatures, started to slowly weaken Trami, although it still remained an organized storm. On September 30, Trami reached the most organized point of its duration after its peak, but Trami's structure started to deteriorate afterward, and the storm's winds gradually dropped as Trami resumed weakening. The typhoon made landfall over Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture at around 20:00 JST (11:00 UTC) on September 30 as a Category 2-equivalent typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0058-0003", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Trami (Paeng)\nThe storm's structure deteriorated rapidly after landfall, and the JMA issued their last advisory on Trami on October 1. After Trami impacted Honshu, it completely transitioned into a hurricane-force extratropical cyclone and impacted the Kuril Islands and weakened to a storm-force system. Its extratropical remnants were last tracked in the Bering Sea, near the Aleutian Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Trami (Paeng)\nAgricultural damage in Japan were at \u00a561.65 billion (US$542 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 29W\nOn September 25, a tropical depression formed to the southeast of Japan. The JTWC gave the system the designation 29W on next day. However, Tropical Depression 29W remained a weak system, and developed an exposed low-level circulation center later that day. Afterward, the tropical depression accelerated northward and then north-northeastward, until it was eventually absorbed into a developing extratropical cyclone east of Japan on September 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kong-rey (Queenie)\nIn late September, a tropical disturbance formed in the waters near Pohnpei Island in the Federated States of Micronesia. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center also gave the storm, Invest 94W, a low chance of development. Over the next couple of days, the system moved westward and organized into a tropical depression on September\u00a027, and the JMA initiated advisories on the storm, while the JTWC issued a TCFA. On September 28, the JTWC designated the system as 30W, while the JMA issued a gale warning for the system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0061-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kong-rey (Queenie)\nAs Tropical Depression 30W continued strengthening, the system became a tropical storm and was named Kong-rey by the JMA. On September 29, the system moved further west, found itself in favorable conditions for strengthening, and became a tropical storm. Later that day, Kong-rey strengthened into a severe tropical storm, and on September 30, the storm attained typhoon status at 03:00 UTC. Kong-rey continued strengthening, and at 18:00 UTC on October 1, Kong-rey became a Category 4-equivalent super typhoon. Early on October 2, Kong-rey strengthened into a Category 5 super typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0061-0002", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kong-rey (Queenie)\nAffected by vertical wind shear, low ocean heat content and decreasing sea surface temperatures, the storm gradually weakened to a Category 3 typhoon on October 3 while undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle. Increased vertical wind shear and lower sea surface temperatures hampered Kong-rey's strength, and Kong-rey was downgraded to a tropical storm on October 4. Early on October 6, Kong-rey made landfall in Tongyeong, South Gyeongsang Province in South Korea as a high-end tropical storm, and later on the same day, Kong-rey transitioned into an extratropical cyclone, while impacting southern Hokkaido, such as areas near Hakodate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kong-rey (Queenie)\nAs of October 2018, 3 people have been killed by the storm, including 2 people from South Korea. Damage nationwide totaled at \u20a954.9 billion (US$48.5 million). Although Kong-Rey did not make a direct landfall on Kyushu and Shikoku, its outer rainbands affected the two islands. At an area in Shikoku, rain accumulated to 300\u00a0mm. In Nagasaki, more than 12,000 families lost power; in Fukuoka Prefecture, a person died because of the rain. Agricultural damage in Okinawa and Miyazaki Prefecture were about JP\u00a513.99 billion (US$123 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kong-rey (Queenie)\nUnrelated to Kong-rey, Hurricane Walaka was a Category 5 hurricane at the same time Kong-rey intensified to Category 5 super typhoon intensity, marking the first time since 2005 when two tropical cyclones of Category 5 strength existed simultaneously in the Northern Hemisphere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Yutu (Rosita)\nEarly on October 21, a tropical depression developed to the east of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, with the JMA initiating advisories on the system. Shortly afterward, the JTWC assigned the storm the identifier 31W. The system began to strengthen, becoming a tropical storm several hours later, and the JMA named the system Yutu. Favorable conditions, including low wind shear and high ocean-surface temperatures, allowed Yutu to explosively intensify on the following day, with the storm reaching severe tropical storm strength and then typhoon intensity a few hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0064-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Yutu (Rosita)\nFrom October 23 to 24, Yutu continued to organize and explosively intensify, reaching Category 5 super typhoon intensity on October 24. The typhoon continued to strengthen and displayed a healthy convective structure, while moving towards the island of Saipan. Later on the same day, Typhoon Yutu made landfall on the island of Tinian, just south of Saipan, at Category 5 intensity, with 1-minute sustained winds of 285\u00a0km/h (175\u00a0mph), becoming the most powerful storm on record to impact the northern Mariana Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Yutu (Rosita)\nAfter making landfall on Tinian, Yutu underwent an eyewall replacement cycle, which it successfully completed on the next day, and the storm strengthened back to Category 5 super typhoon status on October 26, at 15:00 UTC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Yutu (Rosita)\nOn October 27, Yutu's eye became cloud-filled, indicative of weakening, and the storm weakened to a Category 4 super typhoon. On the same day, the storm entered PAGASA's area of responsibility, and Yutu was given the name Rosita by PAGASA. On October 28, Yutu quickly weakened, as ocean sea-surface heat content significantly declined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Yutu (Rosita)\nAfter making landfall on October 30, Yutu rapidly weakened, and when it emerged over the South China Sea, low ocean heat content and westerly wind shear caused Yutu to weaken below typhoon status. On November 2, Yutu weakened into a remnant low off the coast of China, before dissipating on the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Yutu (Rosita)\nOn October 25, in Saipan, the typhoon killed a woman when it destroyed the building she was staying in, and injured 133\u00a0other people, three of whom were severely injured. On Saipan and nearby Tinian, high winds from Yutu knocked down more than 200\u00a0power poles. Most of the buildings in southern Saipan lost their roofs or were destroyed, including a high school that was wrecked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Usagi (Samuel)\nOn November 3, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center began monitoring a disturbance that had formed in the Central Pacific basin. This disturbance soon moved out of the basin and into the West Pacific without further development on November 6. Tracking westward, the system did not organize until late on November 18, when it reached tropical depression status on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The PAGASA named the system Tropical Depression \"Samuel\" and issued warnings for Mindanao and Visayas. Samuel made landfall on November 20 in the Philippines, crossing the archipelago and weakening slightly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 74], "content_span": [75, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0069-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Usagi (Samuel)\nSamuel began to restrengthen over the South China Sea, and was subsequently named \"Usagi\". Usagi underwent rapid intensification, and became a severe tropical storm on November 21 while moving slowly. By November 22, Usagi (Samuel) intensified into a Category 1 typhoon. On November 24, Usagi weakened back to a severe tropical storm while heading to Vietnam because of the land interaction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 74], "content_span": [75, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Usagi (Samuel)\nUsagi caused one death in the Philippines, and the agricultural damage were at \u20b152.2 million (US$994,000). On November 25, Usagi made landfall on Mekong Delta. The typhoon caused flooding in Ho Chi Minh City and killed three people. Losses in Vietnam were at \u20ab925 billion (US$39.5 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 74], "content_span": [75, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Toraji\nA low pressure system exited the PAR on November 15. Late on November 16, a tropical disturbance formed east of Vietnam. It slowly tracked west-northwest and strengthened into a tropical-depression strength storm early on November 17. Toraji made landfall on November 18 and quickly weakened; the remnants emerged into the Gulf of Thailand, and the remnants briefly reorganized, regaining tropical-depression strength on November 20. However, as Toraji made a second landfall on the Malay Peninsula, it weakened once more and dissipated late on November 21, due to wind shear over the Strait of Malacca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Toraji\nToraji caused flooding in Nha Trang, resulting in 20 dead and \u20ab1.24 trillion (US$53.6 million) in damages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Man-yi (Tomas)\nOn November 19, a tropical depression formed well east of the Philippines and intensified into a tropical storm soon thereafter, receiving the name Man-yi. After reaching typhoon status on November 21, Man-yi entered the Philippine basin and received the name Tomas from PAGASA. Shortly after, Man-yi intensified into a Category 2 typhoon. However, after completing an anticyclonic loop due to the influences of nearby weather systems, entering and exiting the PAR multiple times, Man-yi dipped to Category 1 status and moved into cooler waters. Succumbing to hostile conditions, Man-yi weakened into a tropical storm once more on November 25 and degenerated into a tropical depression by the end of the next day, while tracking northeast, and became an extratropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 35W (Usman)\nA tropical depression formed in the Philippine Sea on December 25. It entered the PAR later that evening and the PAGASA named the significant tropical depression \"Usman\". Usman made its first landfall on Samar, Eastern Visayas on December 28. It passed over Palawan and other areas in the weekend. Usman did not survive the passage of the Philippines and degenerated into a remnant low. The remnants of 35W were absorbed by an invest on December 30 which would later become Tropical Storm Pabuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 35W (Usman)\nWhile passing over the Philippines, Usman brought heavy rains that caused several landslides, which killed 156 people, with damages amounting to Php5.41 billion (US$103 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Other systems\nOn June 4, the JMA began tracking a weak tropical depression that had formed northeast of Yap. However, the system was absorbed by a nearby tropical depression, which would eventually become Severe Tropical Storm Maliksi on the next day. After Gaemi became extratropical, a tropical depression formed south of Hong Kong early on June 17, and dissipated over the east coast of Guangdong, China one day later. On July 16, a tropical depression developed over the South China Sea. The system remained weak and moved into Vietnam, before dissipating on the next day. On August 4, the JTWC began to track a subtropical storm that had developed just west of the International Date Line; the storm subsequently became extratropical on the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Other systems\nA tropical depression formed southeast of Okinawa on August 24; two days later, it made landfall over Shanghai and quickly dissipated over Jiangsu, in East China. The remnants associated with Hurricane Olivia entered this basin on September 19, and it developed into a tropical depression on September 21, while slowly drifting westward. Two days later, it degenerated into a remnant low again, as the JMA reported the system's dissipation. On September 25, the system's remnant energy developed into Tropical Depression 29W.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Other systems\nOn October 19, the JMA began tracking a tropical depression in the Gulf of Thailand. On October 20, the tropical depression made landfall on the Malay Peninsula and weakened into a remnant low, before moving out of the basin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Other systems\nA tropical depression formed over the southern portion of the South China Sea on December 31, with the JTWC designation 36W. The system intensified into Tropical Storm Pabuk on January 1, 2019, becoming the first named storm of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names\nWithin the Northwest Pacific Ocean, both the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) assign names to tropical cyclones that develop in the Western Pacific, which can result in a tropical cyclone having two names. The Japan Meteorological Agency's RSMC Tokyo\u00a0\u2013 Typhoon Center assigns international names to tropical cyclones on behalf of the World Meteorological Organization's Typhoon Committee, should they be judged to have 10-minute sustained windspeeds of 65\u00a0km/h (40\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0080-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names\nPAGASA names tropical cyclones which move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135\u00b0E and 115\u00b0E and between 5\u00b0N and 25\u00b0N, even if the cyclone has had an international name assigned to it. The names of significant tropical cyclones are retired, by both PAGASA and the Typhoon Committee. Should the list of names for the Philippine region be exhausted then names will be taken from an auxiliary list of which the first ten are published each season. Unused names are marked in gray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, International names\nDuring the season 28 tropical storms developed in the Western Pacific and each one was named by the JMA, when the system was judged to have 10-minute sustained windspeeds of 65\u00a0km/h (40\u00a0mph). The JMA selected the names from a list of 140 names, that had been developed by the 14 members nations and territories of the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee. During the season, the names Ampil, Jongdari and Barijat were used for the first time, after they replaced the names Bopha, Sonamu and Utor which were all retired after the 2012 and 2013 seasons respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, International names, Retirement\nAfter the season, the Typhoon Committee announced that the names Rumbia, Mangkhut, and Yutu were removed from the naming lists. They were replaced with Pulasan, Krathon, and Yinxing, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, Philippines\nDuring the season PAGASA used its own naming scheme for the 21 tropical cyclones, that either developed within or moved into their self-defined area of responsibility. The names were taken from a list of names, that had been last used during 2014 and are scheduled to be used again during 2022.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0083-0001", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, Philippines\nThe names Gardo, Josie, Maymay, Rosita, Samuel and Usman were used for the first (and only, in the cases of Rosita and Usman) time during the year after the names Glenda, Jose, Mario, Ruby, and Seniang were retired, as both the names Ruby and Rosita were used only for the first times due its damages in the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, Philippines, Retirement\nAfter the season, the names Ompong, Rosita and Usman were retired, as they caused \u20b11\u00a0billion in damages. Rosita and Usman were only used for the first and last time. They were replaced with Obet, Rosal and Umberto for the 2022 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281734-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific typhoon season, Season effects\nThis table summarizes all the systems that developed within or moved into the North Pacific Ocean, to the west of the International Date Line during 2018. The tables also provide an overview of a systems intensity, duration, land areas affected and any deaths or damages associated with the system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships\nThe 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships were held from November 3 to 10 at the Gangneung Curling Centre in Gangneung, South Korea. The top two men's and women's teams qualified for the 2019 World Men's Curling Championship and 2019 World Women's Curling Championship respectively. The third and fourth-placed teams qualified for the World Qualification Event, a chance to qualify for the World Curling Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Men, Teams\nSkip : Zou QiangThird: Wang ZhiyuSecond: Xu JingtaoLead: Shao ZhilinAlternate: Jiang Dongxu", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Men, Teams\nSkip : Jason ChangThird: Derek LeungSecond: Justin ChenLead: Martin YanAlternate: Teddie Leung", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Men, Teams\nSkip : Yuta MatsumuraThird: Tetsuro ShimizuSecond: Yasumasa TanidaLead: Shinya AbeAlternate: Kosuke Aita", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Men, Teams\nFourth: Abylaikhan ZhuzbaySkip: Viktor KimSecond: Roman KazimirchikLead: Muzdybay KudaibergenovAlternate: Azizbek Nadirbayev", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Men, Teams\nSkip : Kim Soo-hyukThird: Jeong Byeong-jinSecond: Lee Jeong-jaeLead: Lee Dong-hyeongAlternate: Hwang Hyeon-jun", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Men, Teams\nSkip : Scott BeckerThird: Simon NeilsonSecond: Anton HoodLead: Warren DobsonAlternate: Peter Becker", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Men, Teams\nSkip : Nassar AlyafeiThird: Ahmed Al-FahadSecond: Abdulrahman Ali-MohsenLead: Abdulrahman AlyafeiAlternate: Salim Ali", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Men, Teams\nSkip : Randolph ShenThird: Nicholas HsuSecond: Brendon LiuLead: Ting-Li LinAlternate: Henry Cheng", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Men, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Korean Standard Time (UTC+09).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Women, Teams\nSkip : Tahli GillThird: Laurie WeedenSecond: Lynette GillLead: Kirby GillAlternate: Jayna Gill", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Women, Teams\nFourth: Jiang YilunSkip: Liu SijiaSecond: Dong ZiqiLead: Jiang XindiAlternate: Wang Rui", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Women, Teams\nSkip : Ling-Yue HungThird: Julie MorrisonSecond: Ada ShangLead: Ashura WongAlternate: Grace Bugg", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Women, Teams\nSkip : Satsuki FujisawaThird: Chinami YoshidaSecond: Yumi SuzukiLead: Yurika YoshidaAlternate: Kotomi Ishizaki", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Women, Teams\nSkip : Sitora AlliyarovaThird: Anastassiya SpirikovaSecond: Angelina EbauyerLead: Regina EbauyerAlternate: Yekaterina Kolykhalova", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281735-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Women, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Korean Standard Time (UTC+09).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281736-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Paf Masters Tour\nThe 2018 Paf Masters Tour was held October 18 to 21, 2018 at the Vianor Curling Center in Ecker\u00f6, \u00c5land Islands, Finland as a part of the 2018\u201319 curling season. The event was held in a round robin format with six teams advancing to the playoffs. The purse for the event was \u20ac 18,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281736-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Paf Masters Tour\nIn the final, Team Isabella Wran\u00e5 of Sweden capped off a perfect 6\u20130 tournament by defeating the previously undefeated Sayaka Yoshimura rink from Japan 5\u20133 in the final. In the third place game, Tova Sundberg, also of Sweden, doubled up on Aline Fellmann of Switzerland 6\u20133. To reach the final, Wran\u00e5 defeated Fellmann 6\u20134 in one semifinal and Yoshimura beat Sundberg 7\u20133 in the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281736-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Paf Masters Tour, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281737-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pahang FA season\nThe 2018 season was Pahang's 15th season in the Malaysian Malaysia Super League since its inception in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281738-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pahang state election\nThe 14th Pahang State election will be held on or before 23 August 2018. The previous state election was held on 5 May 2013. The state assemblymen is elected to 5 years term each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281738-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pahang state election\nThe Pahang State Legislative Assembly would automatically dissolve on 1 July 2018, the fifth anniversary of the first sitting, and elections must be held within sixty days (two months) of the dissolution (on or before 1 September 2018, with the date to be decided by the Election Commission), unless dissolved prior to that date by the Head of State (Sultan of Pahang) on the advice of the Head of Government (Menteri Besar of Pahang).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281738-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pahang state election, Contenders\nBarisan Nasional (BN) is set to contest all 42 seats in Pahang State Legislative Assembly. Barisan Nasional (BN) linchpin party United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) is to set to contest major share of Barisan Nasional (BN) seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281738-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pahang state election, Contenders\nPan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) is set to contest all 42 seats in Pahang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281738-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pahang state election, Contenders\nPakatan Harapan have decided to contest all 42 seats in Pahang. However, Pakatan Harapan has yet to finalize in 1 or 2 seats. On 17 March 2018, Pakatan Harapan has completed the distribution of seats in Pahang. People's Justice Party (PKR) will contest in 14 seats while the National Trust Party (Amanah) will have 11 seats. Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Bersatu) and the Democratic Action Party (DAP) will contest 9 and 8 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281738-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pahang state election, Election pendulum\nThe 14th General Election witnessed 25 governmental seats and 17 non-governmental seats filled the Pahang State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 2 safe seats and 4 fairly safe seats, while the non-government side has 4 safe seats, but has no fairly safe seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281739-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Cup\nThe 2018 Pakistan Cup was the third edition of the Pakistan Cup, a List A cricket competition which was contested between five teams. It was held from 25 April to 6 May 2018, with all the matches played at the Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad. Federal Areas were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281739-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Cup\nFederal Areas were the first team to advance to the final, after they beat Punjab by 7 wickets. They were joined in the final with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, after the last group stage match, between Punjab and Sindh, finished as a tie. Federal Areas won the tournament, beating Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by five wickets in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281739-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Cup, Squads\nPrior to the start of the tournament, the following squads were announced:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League\nThe 2018 Pakistan Super League (also known as PSL 3 or for sponsorship reasons, HBL PSL 2018) was the third season of the Pakistan Super League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league which was established by the Pakistan Cricket Board in 2015. It featured six teams, which was the first expansion of the league since its formation in 2015. The group stage took place in the United Arab Emirates, with two playoff matches played in Lahore and the final at the National Stadium, Karachi. The tickets for the final were sold out quickly, within fifteen hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League\nIn the final match, the inaugural champions Islamabad United defeated the defending champions Peshawar Zalmi by three wickets in Karachi to win the title for a second time. Luke Ronchi of Islamabad United was named the Man of the Match of the Final, as well as the player of the tournament and also the leading run scorer, scoring 435 runs in the tournament. Faheem Ashraf of Islamabad United was awarded the best bowler award; as both he and Wahab Riaz of Peshawar Zalmi took 18 wickets to lead the wicket-takers list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Background\nAfter the success of holding the previous tournament's final at the Gaddafi Stadium, the PCB decided to play eight games of PSL 3 in Pakistan. In addition the PCB chairman Najam Sethi confirmed there would be a sixth team being added in the 2018 edition, with the idea having previously been rejected in 2017. There was much interest in what the sixth team would be, with the PCB shortlisting Hyderabad, Dera Murad Jamali, FATA, Faisalabad and Multan. In the end, the winning party was Multan with Sch\u00f6n Properties paying $5.2 million a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Ceremonies, Opening ceremony\nIn the opening ceremony, which was hosted in Dubai, American pop singer Jason Derulo featured alongside Pakistani singers including Abida Parveen, Ali Zafar and Shehzad Roy. Hareem Farooq and Bilal Ashraf hosted the ceremony. The ceremony also featured the Pakistani Sachal Orchestra and a firework display, with a teaser of Zafar's first Pakistani film Teefa in Trouble also being shown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Ceremonies, Closing ceremony\nThe Closing ceremony took place at National Stadium, Karachi, on 25 March ahead of the final. The ceremony was hosted by Bilal Ashraf, with Pakistani singers Ali Zafar, Shehzad Roy, Strings, Aima Baig and Farhan Saeed performing live in front of 33,000 people in the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Teams and squads\nThe 2018 PSL featured six team franchises, with five teams that appeared in previous seasons; and a new team based in Multan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Teams and squads\nThe player draft for the 2018 season was held in Lahore on 12 November 2017. 501 players, including both Pakistani and international players, were divided into five different categories. Each franchise was allowed to pick a maximum of seven foreign players in their squads, which could have a maximum of 21 members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Officials\nThe panel of officials for the tournament consisted of eight umpires and two match referees. Aleem Dar, Ranmore Martinesz and Tim Robinson stood in matches during the tournament. Pakistani umpires Ahmed Shahab, Shozab Raza, Rashid Riaz, Khalid Mehmood and Asif Yaqoob were also part of the panel as well. The match referees panel consisted of former Sri Lankan ICC match referee Roshan Mahanama and Pakistani match referee Mohammad Anees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Venues\nLike the 2016 and 2017 seasons, most of the matches of 2018 season were played in the UAE. However, the playoffs and final took place in Pakistan; they were played in Lahore and Karachi. Each foreign cricketer who played matches in the country was paid an extra US$10,000 for each of these matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Venues\nThe International Cricket Council security team visited National Stadium, Karachi, on 23 October, to ensure its condition. The chairman of the PCB Najam Sethi was quoted on 22 November saying \"that the renovation of stadium will be completed in February 2018, to host the PSL Final.\" The tickets for the final were sold out within 3 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Promotion in media\nThe league was promoted on social media by the hashtag #HBLPSL 2018, due to its three-year contract (2016\u201318) with HBL Pakistan for title sponsorship. Also, the six teams are promoted by #AbKhel6Ka. It was also promoted by #DilSeJaanLagaDe, the hashtag for the league's official anthem by Ali Zafar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, League stage\nThe league stage of the tournament ran from 22 February to 16 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, League stage, Summary, Week 1\nThe month long tournament began on 22 February between the defending champions, Peshawar Zalmi and the new team the Multan Sultans. Peshawar batted first and, despite losing a wicket in the second over, went on to score 151/6 with Mohammed Hafeez top-scoring with 59 runs. The Sultans chased the score down, losing just 3 wickets, giving them a 7 wicket win, and winning on their PSL debut. The first double-header of the group stage saw wins for Karachi and Multan by 19 and 43 runs respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, League stage, Summary, Week 1\nThe Multan win brought up an interesting stat which was that both of the first two PSL hat tricks took place in Dubai, on a Friday, under Shoaib Malik's captaincy, against the Lahore Qalandars. The next four games were all one-sided; in the first the defending champions Peshawar restricted Islamabad to 149/9 from Islamabad's 20 overs, to get their first win of the tournament with Umaid Asif taking a 4-fer (4 wicket haul) on debut for Zalmi. On the same day, the Quetta Gladiators quickly chased down 119 inside 14 overs against the Lahore Qalandars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0012-0002", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, League stage, Summary, Week 1\nIn the sixth game, the Multan Sultans' winning run came to an end against Islamabad United. In the game, the Sultans were all out for 113 with United winning by 5 wickets. In the next game despite Dwayne Smith's 71 not out, the Karachi Kings chased down 131 to beat Peshawar by 5 wickets. At Dubai, the rivals Lahore and Karachi faced off, Lahore's poor form continued as they lost their third consecutive game in the tournament with Karachi winning by 27 runs and Shahid Afridi taking 3-19. In the final game of week 1, which was the first game of the tournament in Sharjah, the Gladiators won comfortably by 6 wickets against Islamabad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, League stage, Summary, Week 2\nThe second week began dramatically, with Peshawar having a batting collapse to fall to 125/5 in their innings against the Quetta Gladiators in Sharjah. In next the Zalmi captain Daren Sammy, who was earlier taken off with an injury, came out and hit two sixes and a four to get Zalmi a win. After game 11 between Multan and Karachi in Sharjah was abandoned at the toss, the other game on the day was also hosted at Sharjah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, League stage, Summary, Week 2\nThe game between Lahore and Islamabad was the first in PSL history at that point, to finish with a super over as both teams were tied on 121. In Lahore's over they finished with 15/1, while in Islamabad's over they got 19 winning the game with a last ball 6. The game after was more straightforward, with an Imran Tahir hat-trick downing Quetta and giving Multan the win. The game after made history as the first ever 10 wicket win in the PSL, as Peshawar Zalmi chased down 101 without losing a wicket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, League stage, Summary, Week 2\nThe next day, Islamabad United beat Karachi Kings by 8 wickets with help from a Luke Ronchi 71. On the same day, a Sohaib Maqsood* carried the Multan Sultans' to another win against Peshawar Zalmi, this time by 19 runs. The day after Umar Gul rolled back the years taking 6/24 for the Multan Sultans', but the effort was in vain as the then Pakistan under 19 captain Hasan Khan hit a last over 6 to give Quetta a 2 wicket win. The last day of week 2 saw a double-header, with both games being played at Dubai. In the first game a Luke Ronchi 77 helped Islamabad beat Lahore by 6 wickets, while in the second game Quetta beat Karachi by 67 runs. This was at the time the biggest win by runs in PSL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, League stage, Summary, Week 3\nWeek 3 started with a Lahore win, as future Pakistan international Shaheen Shah Afridi took 5/4 in his 3.4 overs against the Multan Sultans. In game 21 despite 3/30 and 33 not out from Wahab Riaz, Islamabad United beat Peshawar Zalmi by 26 runs taking Islamabad to the top of the table. The day after was a double header, with a Joe Denly 78 from 55 balls helping the Karachi Kings to a comfortable win over Multan by 63 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, League stage, Summary, Week 3\nThe second game of the day involved Peshawar and Quetta, with a Sarfaraz Ahmed 45* guiding Quetta home with 6 wickets to spare and eliminating Lahore in the process. A super over was needed again to separate Lahore and Karachi with them both being tied 163 after both of their 20 overs, in the end though Sunil Narine held his nerve to give Lahore their second win of the season. A crucial encounter followed 2 days later, with Islamabad and Multan facing off at Sharjah Cricket Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, League stage, Summary, Week 3\nIn the end though despite 73 of 47 from Kieron Pollard, Islamabad won by 33 runs meaning that they and Quetta both advanced to the playoffs. In game 26, Lahore continued their winning run against Quetta thanks to 94 of 50 from Fakhar Zaman. The next day, Peshawar beat Karachi helped by 75 by Kamran Akmal and 3/17 from Liam Dawson keeping Peshawar in the tournament. Islamabad continued their winning run in game 28, ensuring that they finished at the top of the table by beating Quetta by 6 wickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, League stage, Summary, Week 4\nWeek 4 only consisted of two games as the tournament moved from the League stage to the knockouts, in the penultimate game the Lahore Qalandars scored 172 in their innings against Peshawar. In response Kamran Akmal scored his 2nd century in the PSL becoming the first player to score two centuries in the history of the tournament, and guiding Peshawar into the playoffs with a win. While in the final game taking place on the same day Islamabad United collapsed to 121, allowing the Karachi Kings to claim a playoff spot and eliminate the Multan Sultans in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Playoffs, Preliminary, Qualifier 1\nThe qualifiers meant the top two teams on the table, Karachi and Islamabad, would face off. Karachi Kings won the toss and chose to bat first. One of the openers Khurram Manzoor, got out early while the other Joe Denly got his half century before getting out hit-wicket. Their number 3 batsman Babar Azam also got out cheaply as he got out second ball for a silver duck. Next came in Karachi's captain Eoin Morgan who made 21 before being sent back to the pavalion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Playoffs, Preliminary, Qualifier 1\nThe top-scorer of the kings innings was Colin Ingram with an unbeaten 61 helping Karachi get to 150. The pick of the bowlers was the former Pakistan international Mohammad Sami with 2-20. In response the game never looked in doubt as a quickfire 94 not out from Luke Ronchi sent Islamabad to the final. Ronchi was well supported by the other opener Sahibzada Farhan who made 29 with Samit Patel hitting the winning runs, to get the fastest victory in terms of balls remaining ever in the PSL at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Playoffs, Preliminary, Eliminator\nThe eliminator put the teams in 3rd and 4th against each other, with these being Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators. The two teams previously played against each other in the year before's final. Quetta Gladiators won the toss and chose to field. The Gladiators dismissed the Zalmi openers quite cheaply with Kamran Akmal out for a duck. Andre Fletcher came in but was soon sent back to the pavilion as well for a single run. Liam Dawson and Mohammed Hafeez steadied the ship for Zalmi with 62 and 25 respectively to help get Peshawar over 150.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Playoffs, Preliminary, Eliminator\nRahat Ali was the pick of the bowlers with 4-16. In response both of Quetta's openers fluctuated and were both out cheaply. Afterwards twin 35's from the Gladiators captain Sarfaraz Ahmed and Mohammad Nawaz brought some stability to their innings. Going in to the final over it looked like the game was over for the gladiators who needed 25 off it .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0017-0002", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Playoffs, Preliminary, Eliminator\nHowever Anwar Ali scored 23 of the first five balls against Liam Dawson meaning Quetta needed 3 off the last ball to win, then a dropped catch followed but Mir Hamza was run out trying to get back for 2 and draw the game. This meant Peshawar Zalmi won by 1 run having previously lost twice to the Quetta by a run. All of Zalmi's bowlers took 2 wickets except Dawson with Hasan Ali and Sameen Gul both taking 2-21", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Playoffs, Preliminary, Eliminator 2\nThe second eliminator put the loser of the qualifier the Karachi Kings against the winner of the first eliminator Peshawar Zalmi. \"Eliminator 1 Scorecard The game got off to a late start due to rain which meant that both teams innings were reduced to 16 overs. Karachi Kings won the toss and decided to field first. Both of Zalmi's openers got off to a good start with Andre Fletcher making 34 and Kamran Akmal smashing a quick half-century (50 of 17 balls).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Playoffs, Preliminary, Eliminator 2\nZalmi's middle order supported Akmal helping him finish on 77 Zalmi on 170 with Ravi Bopara taking the most wickets with 3-35. In response one of Karachi's openers, Joe Denly scored 79 not out from 46 and he was well supported by Babar Azam who made 63 of 46 before getting out to Hasan Ali in the end though Zalmi won by 13 runs and went through to the final. Sameen Gul was the pick of the bowlers conceding just 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Playoffs, Final\nThe final took place at National Stadium, Karachi, after the semi finals which had taken place in Lahore, with it being the first high-profile match in the stadium in 10 years. Peshawar won the toss an elected to bat, there innings started badly with Kamran Akmal and Andre Flecher getting out cheaply. Mohammed Hafeez came in next but was soon back in the pavilion only scoring 8. Zalmi recovered with Liam Dawson and Chris Jordan both scoring thirties with Jordan scoring 36 and Dawson 33.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281740-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League, Playoffs, Final\nAfter they both departed Zalmi's lower middle orde collapsed before a late onslaught from Wahab Riaz got Zalmi close to 150. The pick of the bowlers was Shahdab Khan with 3-25. In response Islamabad got off to a good start with Luke Ronchi and Sahibzada Farhan scoring big. Ronchi got his half-century before getting out on 52, while Farhan scored 44 before losing his wicket. With Islamabad near their target a middle order collapse followed with 5 batsman only contributing 20 runs. However, in the end 3 sixes in a row from Asif Ali got united over the line and gave them their second PSL title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281741-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League Final\nThe 2018 Pakistan Super League Final was a Twenty20 cricket match, played on 25 March 2018 at the National Stadium in Karachi, Pakistan to determine the winner of the 2018 Pakistan Super League. The inaugural champions Islamabad United defeated the defending champions Peshawar Zalmi by 3 wickets to win their second title. Luke Ronchi was awarded player of the match and player of the tournament awards. The tickets for final were sold out within 3 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281741-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League Final, Route to the Final\nDuring the group stage of the 2018 Pakistan Super League each team played ten matches, two against each of the other sides contesting the competition. All matches were played in the United Arab Emirates due to the security situation in Pakistan. The top four teams progressed to the playoff stage. Islamabad United finished the group stage with first position by winning seven of their matches and losing three. Peshawar Zalmi finished the group stage with third position by winning five of their matches and losing five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281741-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League Final, Match\nThe final took place on 25 March 2018 at National Stadium in Karachi, Pakistan. This was also the first PSL match taking place in Karachi and a high-profile tournament final match taking place there after almost a decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281741-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League Final, Match, Report\nPeshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to bat first. Peshawar's in-form batsman Kamran Akmal was out lbw for 1 run off 8 balls, with Samit Patel taking the wicket in the third over early on. The fourth-wicket fifty-partnership between Chris Jordan and Liam Dawson; and Wahab Riaz's 28 runs off 14 balls ensured their side reached to a total of 148 runs in the innings in which Islamabad's Shadab Khan took three wickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281741-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League Final, Match, Report\nIslamabad batting second had Luke Ronchi hit five sixes in the first five overs as he raced to 45 runs off just 15 balls, before he got out in the ninth over after scoring a 26-ball 52. By the time, Ronchi and Sahibzada Farhan - who played his own part with 44 runs off 33 balls - had put on 96 runs for the opening partnership in under nine overs. But a sudden collapse resulted in Islamabad losing six wickets for 20 runs leaving them at 116/6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281741-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League Final, Match, Report\nAkmal then dropped a catch at fine leg when Asif Ali attempted a pull shot off Umaid Asif with Islamabad needing 30 runs off 33 balls. Asif Ali then hit three sixes on the trot off Hasan Ali. While the winning runs were scored by Faheem Ashraf who hooked Wahab Riaz for six with just one run required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281741-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League Final, Scorecard\nToss: Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to bat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281741-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League Final, Scorecard\nFall of wickets: 12/1 (K Akmal, 2.4 ov), 24/2 (Hafeez, 4.1 ov), 38/3 (Fletcher, 5.6 ov), 90/4 (Jordan, 12.3 ov), 101/5 (Saad Nasim, 14.1 ov), 111/6 (Sammy, 15.4 ov), 111/7 (Umaid, 15.5), 117/8 (LA Dawson, 16.4 ov), 121/9 (Hasan Ali, 17.5 ov)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281741-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League Final, Scorecard\nFall of wickets: 96/1 (L Ronchi, 8.5 ov), 97/2 (Walton, 9.1 ov), 102/3 (JP Duminy, 10.3 ov), 112/4 (Farhan, 11.6 ov), 115/5 (SP Patel, 13.1 ov), 116/6 (Shadab, 13.6 ov), 148/7 (Hussain, 16.1 ov)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281742-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League players draft\nThe 2018 Pakistan Super League player draft was the player draft for third season of the Pakistan Super League, held on 12 November 2017 in Lahore. Each franchise was allowed to pick 16 players from total 501 players; including Pakistani and foreign cricketers who took part in the draft. They divided into five different categories; Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver and Emerging and Supplementary. This was Multan Sultans' inaugural season, they were allowed to pick 9 players prior to the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281742-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League players draft, Retained players\nThe list for the names of 9 retained players in each five teams was announced on 5 October 2017. The new team Multan Sultans picked their 9 pre-draft players from the players released by other franchises, and their names were announced on 10 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281742-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League players draft, Transfers\nOn 3 October 2017, it was confirmed that Shahid Afridi has been transferred from Zalmi to Kings in return of one Gold and two Silver picks, which was named as the biggest trade of the season. It was also announced on 5 October that the gold pick Mohammad Rizwan has been picked by Kings in trade for the gold pick Sohail Khan to Qalandars. On 6 October, it was reported that United brought Iftikhar Ahmed from Zalmi in exchange of supplementary pick in second round of draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281742-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League players draft, Players released\nFurther players; who played in 2017 PSL, were released by their franchises, who are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281742-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League players draft, New players\nOn 30 September, Chairman PCB Najam Sethi announced that following players are the new top signings for the league:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281742-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League players draft, New players\nOn 14 October, some more names for the new signed in players were revealed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281742-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League players draft, New players\nIt was reported on 20 October that the two players from the China national cricket team were signed in by franchise Zalmi:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281742-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League players draft, Draft picks\nA total of 501 players; 193 Pakistani and 308 overseas were a part of the draft. Earlier, each franchise had a purse of US$1.2 million, but then PCB decided to increase the salary cap of each franchise by US$25,000 on 13 November. They were allowed to stack up their squad with a maximum of 21 players by picking them from the categories in following order with a varying range and limit in price:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281742-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League players draft, Draft picks\nFollowing players were picked by the franchises in the draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281743-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistan Super League squads\nThis is a list of the squads of the six franchise teams which competed in 2018 Pakistan Super League. The five existing team franchises submitted their list of nine retained players on 5 October 2017. Since this was the inaugural season for the new team Multan Sultans, they were allowed to pick nine pre-draft selections and announced their names on 10 October. Complete squad was finalised after the 2018 Pakistan Super League players draft on 12 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election\nThe triennial Senate Elections of Pakistan were held on 3 March 2018 to replace 52 retiring senators - half of the Senate's strength - with the winning candidates serving six-year terms. Overall, Pakistan Muslim League (N) came out as the largest party, followed by the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. The results of these elections were steeped in controversy due to rampant allegations of horse trading and vote-buying, which lead to the Prime Minister and opposition leader Imran Khan calling for reforms. Prior to this election, PML (N) candidates were declared as independents by the Election Commission of Pakistan owing to a Supreme Court judgment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election\nElections for the chairmanship and deputy chairmanship of the senate were held on 12 March 2018. Both posts were won by joint opposition's candidates with Sadiq Sanjrani and Saleem Mandviwalla being elected chairman and deputy chairman, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Background\nThe Senate of Pakistan is the upper house of the Parliament of Pakistan. It consists of 104 senators with each senator serving a 6-year term. The elections are conducted triennially for half the seats in the senate. This staggered nature of the terms means that at any given time senators from two different elections are serving in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Background\nThe 2018 elections were conducted on 3 March 2018 to replace the senators elected during the 2012 elections. The electoral process is based on an indirect single transferable vote. This is in contrast to the methodology of direct first-past-the-post voting used in all other parliamentary elections in the country. Thus, effectively, the senators in Pakistan are voted for by serving members of the country's National and Provincial Assemblies and not the public. This reduction in electorate, the transferable nature of the vote, and secrecy of the ballot have resulted in the senate elections in the country being almost always marred by allegations of vote trading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Background\nIn terms of seats, there is fixed representation of each of the country's administrative unit in the senate, apart from the disputed territories of Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir. There are 23 seats from each province, 8 from Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and 4 from the capital region of Islamabad. In a given election, half of these seats are contested for. Due to the odd nature of the number of seats from the provinces, each election cycle sees two provinces elect all 12 representatives, while the remaining two elect 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Background\nThis year's elections took place in an environment of uncertainty as one of the electing houses, the Balochistan Assembly, saw an in-house change, the lower house's speaker, Ayaz Sadiq, voiced concerns that 'hidden elements' might not let the current government complete its term, and the candidacy of PML-N candidates was stripped mere days before the election. Further still, in the lead up to the elections, the ruling PML-N was of the opinion that the provincial assemblies in which it is not in power, namely, Balochistan, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, might be prematurely dissolved to postpone the senate elections until after the general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Background, Candidacy of PML-N Nominees\nOn 28 July 2017, the Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding public office. Following this, the Elections Act 2017 was passed, which allowed Sharif to serve as party head despite being disqualified. However, in a later judgement passed by the Supreme Court on 21 February 2018, Sharif was disqualified from holding office as party president. In this judgement, all decisions taken by Sharif during his tenure as party president were declared null and void, including Senate tickets which he had signed himself. To prevent delay in Senate elections, the Election Commission of Pakistan declared all PML(N) candidates as Independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Voting\nVoting is conducted on the basis of single transferable vote where a voter prioritizes their vote among a list of candidates. First priority votes are given the highest weightage and carry 100 points. Election Commission of Pakistan establishes the criteria for the minimum number of points required to attain a senate seat. During the first count, when a candidate breaches that criteria, they are declared a winner for the seat. Any surplus points they have are divided among other preferences in successive iteration(s). Similarly, a candidate who falls well short of this criteria during the first count has their points transferred among other preferences in subsequent count(s). This whole exercise is repeated iteratively until all vacant seats are filled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Voting\nIt is pertinent to mention that the points system is only used for senators to be elected from general, women, and technocrat seats in provincial assemblies. For senators who are elected from the National Assembly or are running for a minority/non-Muslim seat in the provinces, only a vote count is used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Voting\nIn a typical election, a total of 52 seats are contested. Of which 33 are general seats (7 from each province, 4 from FATA, and 1 from Islamabad), 9 are technocrat seats (2 from each province, and 1 from Islamabad), 8 are women seats (2 apiece from each province), and 2 are minority seats (1 each from 2 provinces).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Voting, Voting Requirements\nThe following table outlines the voting requirements in the current senate elections. The Minimum Votes Required column only considers first priority votes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Voting, Voting Requirements\n\u2021Minority Seats are filled for only 2 provinces in a given election. This way the elections for these seats alternate between Punjab/Sindh and Balochistan/KPK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Candidates\nA total of 131 candidates were in the run for the 52 seats. 33 from Sindh, 26 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 24 from FATA, 23 from Balochistan, 20 from Punjab, and 5 from Islamabad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Results, Summary\nOverall, PML (N) backed Independents won the most seats, securing 15 of the 52 seats up for election. 11 of these seats were from Punjab, 2 of them from Islamabad and 2 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) closely trailed behind, securing 12 of the 52 seats. Of these, 10 were won in Sindh and 2 were won in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Meanwhile, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) secured 6 seats of which 5 came from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and one from Punjab.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Results, Summary\nThe strong performance of the PPP raised many eyebrows and led to allegations of 'horse trading' by the party. Noting that MQM, despite having 52 MPAs in the Sindh Assembly, only managed to secure one senator, whilst the PPP managed to secure two senators - including one on the women's seat - from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with only 7 MPAs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Results, Summary\nAnother surprise win was by Chaudhry Sarwar of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf from a general seat in Punjab who gained 44 first priority and 2 second priority votes - the most in the assembly this election. This was a surprise because the result came about despite the PTI-PML (Q) alliance only having 38 votes. This indicated that Sarwar had also been voted for by members of Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan Peoples Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Results, Summary\nFinally, on a Women seat from Sindh, Krishna Kolhi of the PPP became the first Dalit to be elected to the Senate of Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Results, Results by Administrative Units, Federally Administered Units\nNOTE: FATA only has general seats, while Islamabad has 1 general and 1 technocrat seat that were up in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 102], "content_span": [103, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Election of Chairman and Deputy Chairman\nAfter the winning candidates have been notified by the Election Commission, there is a one-week delay until they take oath. During that time, retiring senators make their farewell speeches and any objections on the successful candidates is handled. After this time has lapsed, the reconstituted senate elects their Chairman and Deputy Chairman by a simple majority via a secret ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281744-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani Senate election, Election of Chairman and Deputy Chairman, Candidates and Results\nTwo candidates apiece, from the opposition and treasury benches, contested the elections on 12 March 2018. Joint opposition's candidates, Sadiq Sanjrani and Saleem Mandviwalla, won the elections for their respective seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 96], "content_span": [97, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election\nGeneral elections were held in Pakistan on Wednesday, 25 July 2018 to elect the members of National Assembly and the four provincial assemblies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election\nIn the National Assembly elections, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) received the most votes and won the most seats. At the provincial level, the PTI remained the largest party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP); the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) retained its dominance in Sindh and the newly formed Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) emerged as the largest party in Balochistan. In Punjab, the result was a hung parliament with the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) winning the most seats. However, after several independents MPAs joined the PTI, the latter became the largest party and was able to form a government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election\nOpinion polling prior to the campaigns starting had initially shown leads for the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) over the PTI. However, from an 11-point lead, the PML-N's lead began to diminish in the final weeks of the campaign, with some polls close to the election showing the PTI with a marginal but increasing lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election\nIn the lead-up to the elections, there were rumours about some pre-poll rigging being conducted by the judiciary, the military and the intelligence agencies to sway the election results in favour of the PTI and against the PML-N. However, Reuters polling suggested PML-N's lead had genuinely narrowed in the run-up to the elections, and that the party had suffered \"blow after blow\" which caused setbacks to any hopes of re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election\nElection day saw the PTI receive 31.82% of the vote (its highest share of the vote since its foundation), while the PML-N received 24.35%. Following the elections, six major parties including PML-N claimed there had been large-scale vote rigging and administrative malpractices. Imran Khan, chairman of the PTI, proceeded to form a coalition government, announcing his cabinet shortly after the elections. The newly formed coalition government included members of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Pakistan Muslim League (Q).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election\nRegarding the voting process, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) outrightly rejected reports of rigging and stated that the elections had been fair and free. A top electoral watchdog, Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN), also said that the 2018 general elections in Pakistan had been \"more transparent in some aspects\" than the previous polls. In its preliminary report, the European Union Election Observation Mission said that no rigging had been observed during the election day in general, but found a \"lack of equality\" and criticized the process more than it had in the Pakistani election of 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election\nThis was also the third consecutive election from Pakistan's most recent transition to democracy where a democratic handover of power was observed. The day after the election, despite reservations over the result, PML-N conceded defeat. Pakistan's election commission reiterated its position, rejecting reports of rigging. The voter turnout dropped from 55.0% in 2013 to 51.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election\nAlthough the election commission rejected rigging allegations, there were claims that Khan was able to lure more electable candidates to his party than PML-N, which led to suggestions that there was electoral inequality. However, the newly minted opposition decided against boycotting parliament, lending legitimacy to the electoral process by parliamentary participation. Initially a recount was ordered in 14 constituencies because of procedural errors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election\nMoreover, procedural errors then led to a recount on 70 constituencies by the election commission (more than the winners margin of victory in Punjab and Federal elections) after which, Khan's PTI was officially declared the winner in Federal elections. The margin for the Punjab election was narrow between Khan's PTI and Pakistan Muslim League (N), but independents and Pakistan Muslim League (Q) factions endorsed federal winners PTI, which led to Khan's party forming government in Punjab also. Thus PML-N lost the elections both at the provincial and the federal level, becoming the opposition, nominating Shehbaz Sharif to be leader of the opposition at the federal level and his son Hamza Shahbaz as opposition leader in Punjab.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Background, 2013 elections\nFollowing the elections in 2013, Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), led by twice Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, emerged as the largest party with 166 seats out of a total of 342 in the National Assembly. Although this was short of a majority, Sharif was able to form a government after several independents joined his party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Background, 2013 elections\nDuring the election campaign, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), led by prominent cricketer turned politician Imran Khan, was widely expected to have huge success in the polls. The party fell short of these expectations, instead only taking 35 seats. It became the 3rd largest party in the National Assembly and formed a coalition government in the restive north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Background, Azadi march (2014)\nPTI had initially conceded the elections to PML (N), although they asked for manual recounts to be carried out in several constituencies where rigging had been allegedly carried out. These calls were not answered by the government or the Supreme Court, despite a 2,100 page white paper by the party which allegedly contained evidence of vote-rigging in favour of the PML (N). An \u2018Azadi March\u2019 was started by Khan on 14 August 2014 which demanded the government to call a snap election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Background, Azadi march (2014)\nThe sit-in in Islamabad continued for 126 days, until the 2014 Peshawar school massacre occurred, which forced Khan to end the protest for the sake of \u2018national unity\u2019. A judicial commission was formed by the government which would probe the allegations of vote-rigging: it found the election to have been largely conducted in a free and fair manner, while also stating that PTI's request for a probe was not \"entirely unjustified\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Background, Panama Papers case (2016)\nOn 3 April 2016 the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) made 11.5 million secret documents, later known as the Panama Papers, available to the public. The documents, sourced from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, among other revelations about other public figures in many other countries, included details of eight offshore companies with links to the family of Nawaz Sharif, the then-incumbent Prime Minister of Pakistan, and his brother Shehbaz Sharif, the incumbent Chief Minister of Punjab. According to the ICIJ, Sharif's children Maryam Nawaz, Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz \u201cwere owners or had the right to authorise transactions for several companies\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Background, Panama Papers case (2016)\nSharif refused to resign and instead make an unsuccessful attempt to form a judicial commission. The opposition leader Khan filed a petition to the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 29 August seeking the disqualification of Sharif from the premiership and as a member of the National Assembly. Political leaders Sheikh Rasheed and Siraj-ul-Haq also supported this petition. Khan called, once again, for his supporters to put Islamabad in lockdown until Sharif resigned, although this was called off soon before it was meant to take place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Background, Panama Papers case (2016)\nOn 20 April 2017, on a 3-2 verdict, the Supreme Court decided against the disqualification of Sharif, instead calling for a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to be created which would probe these allegations further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Background, Panama Papers case (2016)\nOn 10 July 2017, JIT submitted a 275-page report in the apex court. The report requested NAB to file a reference against Sharif, his daughter Maryam, and his sons under section 9 of National Accountability Ordinance. Additionally, the report claimed that his daughter Maryam was guilty of falsifying documents, as she submitted a document from 2006 which used the Calibri font despite the font itself not being available for public use until 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Background, Disqualification of Nawaz Sharif (2017)\nOn 28 July 2017, following the submittal of the JIT report, the Supreme Court unanimously decided that Sharif was dishonest, therefore not fulfilling the requirements of articles 62 and 63 of the constitution which require one who holds public office to be Sadiq and Ameen (Urdu for Truthful and Virtuous). Hence, he was disqualified as Prime Minister and as a Member of the National Assembly. The court also ordered National Accountability Bureau to file a reference against Sharif, his family and his former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on corruption charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Electoral system\nThe 342 members of the National Assembly are elected by two methods in three categories; 272 are elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting; 60 are reserved for women and 10 for religious minority groups; both sets of reserved seats use proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold. This proportional number, however, is based on the number of seats won rather than votes cast. To win a simple majority, a party would have to take 137 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Electoral system\nThe 2018 General Elections were held under new delimitation can of constituencies as a result of 2017 Census of Pakistan. Parliament of Pakistan amended the Constitution, allowing a one-time exemption for redrawing constituency boundaries using 2017 provisional census results. As per the notification issued on 5 March 2018, the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) now has three constituencies, Punjab 141, Sindh 61, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 39, Balochistan 16 and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has 12 constituencies in the National Assembly. 106 million people were registered to vote for members of the National Assembly of Pakistan and four Provincial Assemblies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Electoral system\nLikewise for elections to provincial assemblies, Punjab has 297 constituencies, Sindh 130, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 99 and Balochistan 51.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Electoral system, Electoral reforms\nIn June 2017 the Economic Coordination Committee approved the procurement of new printing machines with a bridge loan of 864 million rupees. The government has also developed new software for the Election Commission of Pakistan and NADRA to ensure a \"free, fair, impartial, transparent and peaceful general election.\" The former Federal Law Minister Zahid Hamid elaborated that youth reaching the age of 18 will automatically be registered as voters when they apply for a CNIC from NADRA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Major by-elections (2017\u20132018)\nFollowing the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif, several by-elections were held throughout Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Major by-elections (2017\u20132018), Lahore by-election, September 2017\nThe first of these was the by-election in Sharif's former constituency, NA-120 Lahore, which is located in the capital city of the Punjab province, a province where the PML (N) was the ruling party. It retained this seat, albeit with a much reduced majority due to gains by the PTI and minor Islamist parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 109], "content_span": [110, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Major by-elections (2017\u20132018), Peshawar by-election, October 2017\nThe second of these was a by election in Peshawar, capital city of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf| was the ruling party. NA-4 once again voted for PTI, despite a reduced majority: once again mainly due to the rise of Islamist parties. These by-elections largely were largely seen as indicators that the ruling parties in both Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab were still electorally strong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 109], "content_span": [110, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Major by-elections (2017\u20132018), Lodhran by-election, 2018\nOn 15 December 2017, Jahangir Khan Tareen, General Secretary of the PTI, was disqualified from holding public office. Hence, his NA-154 Lodhran seat was vacated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 100], "content_span": [101, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Major by-elections (2017\u20132018), Lodhran by-election, 2018\nIn a previous by-election in this constituency in 2015, Tareen won this seat with a majority in excess of 35,000 votes. Therefore, this seat was seen as a stronghold for the PTI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 100], "content_span": [101, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Major by-elections (2017\u20132018), Lodhran by-election, 2018\nIn what was seen as an upset result, Iqbal Shah of the PML (N) won this by-election with a majority over 25,000 votes against Jahangir Tareen's son, Ali Tareen. Many saw this as a failure on the PTI's behalf, and the result led to a drop in morale for PTI workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 100], "content_span": [101, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Campaigning\nThe National Assembly and provincial assemblies of Pakistan dissolved as early as 28 May for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, and as late as 31 May for Punjab, Balochistan, and the National Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Campaigning\nThe assemblies dissolved during the holy month of Ramadan, a month where Muslims worldwide refrain from eating or drinking from sunrise to sundown. Hence, most major parties did not start campaigning until late June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Campaigning, Nomination papers\nOn 4 June, parties and individuals started filing nomination papers for the elections. This process continued until 8 June. After this, the returning officer in each constituency began scrutiny of the nominated candidates and decided whether or not to accept the nomination papers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Campaigning, Nomination papers\nThe scrutiny resulted in many high-profile politicians having their nomination papers rejected: Imran Khan (chairman of PTI), Farooq Sattar (chairman of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Pakistan) (MQM-P)) and Pervez Musharraf (chairman of All Pakistan Muslim League and former President), had their nomination papers rejected. Both Sattar and Khan had their nomination papers later accepted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Campaigning, Nomination papers\nAdditionally, politicians Fawad Chaudhry (Information Secretary of PTI) and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (former Prime Minister) were disqualified from contesting these elections by election tribunals due to the non declaration of assets in their nomination papers. This was controversial because election tribunals were seen as not having the jurisdiction to disqualify candidates, rather only to accept or reject their nomination papers. The Lahore High Court eventually overturned these judgements and allowed the respective candidates to contest their elections. Two major politicians of Tehreek-e-Insaf from Chakwal, Sardar Ghulam Abbas and Sardar Aftab Akbar Khan were disqualified to contest elections producing major problem in Chakwal district for the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Campaigning, Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)\nPakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) launched its election campaign on 25 June 2018 from Karachi. On 5 July 2018, PMLN unveiled its election manifesto. Nevertheless, it has been stated there was, \"lack of equality of opportunity\" in the pre-election campaign, and there were systematic attempts to undermine the ruling party PML-N.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Campaigning, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf\nPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf started its election campaign on 24 June 2018 from Mianwali. On 9 July 2018, Imran Khan launched PTI's election manifesto. On 23 July 2018, PTI concluded its electioneering with rallies in Lahore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Campaign, Campaigning, Pakistan Peoples Party\nOn 28 June 2018, PPP became the first political party to unveil its election manifesto. PPP kicked off its election campaign on 30 June 2018, as Bilawal inaugurated their election office in Lyari, Karachi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 78], "content_span": [79, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Opinion polls\n*Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal is an alliance of Islamist political parties, formed in 2002 and dissolved after the 2008 elections. The restoration of this alliance occurred in December 2017. Polls conducted before the restoration show the sum for Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), the major political party in this alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct\nThere were 272 national and 577 provincial assembly constituencies, contested by over 3,600 and 8,800 candidates respectively. A total of 811,491 staff were deployed for election duties as presiding officers, assistant presiding officers, and polling officers, in addition to 371,000 armed forces personnel who provided security duties alongside police and other law enforcement agencies. There were 85,317 polling stations set up, comprising over 242,000 polling booths. The election watchdog FAFEN deployed 19,683 neutral observers accredited with the Election Commission to observe the voting and counting process at over 72,000 polling stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Pre-poll\nThere have been allegations by some international journalists and scholars, claiming that there was a plan between judiciary and military bodies to influence the outcome of the election. These allegations were also made by the outgoing PML-N following Nawaz Sharif's disqualification for corruption. It was suggested that alleged goal of these attempts was to halt the party of Nawaz Sharif from coming into power and to bring the results in favor of PTI, so that Imran Khan \u2013 who is alleged as close to the military \u2013 can be installed as the prime minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Pre-poll\nKhan has denied these allegations as a \"foreign conspiracy\" and \"against the facts\", while the military also categorically rejected them. There have been claims of PML (N)'s campaign material being ripped apart by authorities while leaving alone material belonging to PTI. There have been suggestions that candidates belonging to PML (N) have been coerced by ISI to switch to those parties whose future government can be better controlled by military.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0035-0002", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Pre-poll\nOn the last day of scrutiny of nomination papers, seven PML (N) candidates from Southern Punjab returned their tickets leaving no option for PML (N) to field replacement candidates, depriving them an opportunity to win those seats. There have also been reports of election engineering by army and intelligence agencies in Balochistan province in favor of Balochistan Awami Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Pre-poll\nReports further suggested that there was evidence of collusion between the judiciary and military, in that two military officials were appointed to the Joint Investigation Team to investigate corruption allegations against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, which were further strengthened by the circumstances of the Avenfield case verdict against the Sharifs. Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, an Islamabad High Court senior justice, released a statement on 22 July alleging that judges were pressured by ISI not to release Sharif before the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Pre-poll\nHowever, he provided no evidence and was at the time facing corruption and misconduct charges pending at the Supreme Judicial Council, leading to rumours about the timing of his statement. Pakistan's Chief Justice Saqib Nisar said he felt \"saddened\" at Siddiqui's comments, and whilst criticising them, stated that \"as the head of judiciary, I assure you that we are not under any sort of pressure\". There have been allegations that the micromanagement of political parties and the censorship of the newspapers, social media and TV channels is to further influence the election result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0036-0002", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Pre-poll\nAn official from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan stated that \"The level of army interference and political engineering is unprecedented.\" The summary of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan fact finding exercise reported curbs on freedom of expression, including curbs to distribution in newspapers, TV, journalists, digital media and press advice and intimidation by intelligence agencies. The curbs were in favor of PTI, with respondents reporting that \"criticism of the PTI\" was a topic unpopular with the intelligence agencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0036-0003", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Pre-poll\n\"nother reportedly common piece of press advice to the broadcast media [from the intelligence agencies] that the channel should give greater coverage to PTI rallies and only minimal coverage to other parties\u2019 events\". Another institution, the National Accountability Bureau has been described as being used by military intelligence agencies, including ISI, to bring politicians in line by threatening to bring corruption cases against them. Due to interference by military and intelligence agencies, The Financial Times described these elections as \"the dirtiest in years\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Pre-poll\nFurthermore, the EU observer mission released their report after the election stating that there were \"systematic attempts to undermine the ruling party\", \"lack of equality of opportunity\", pressure on the media, far stronger efforts than usual to encourage switching parties and judicial conduct had all negatively influenced the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Pre-poll\nSome of these allegations have also been made by certain political parties and figures more prominently by PML (N). Among the politicians, Farhatullah Babar has been very vocal against the election meddling by military describing it as a \"creeping coup against civilian authority\". Raza Rabbani also leveled same allegations including the Election Commission of Pakistan, National Accountability Bureau and security agencies as the culprit behind pre-poll rigging.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Election day\nAlmost all political parties, with the exception of PTI, have alleged large scale election day rigging. The winning PTI have alleged rigging in some constituencies as well. Doubts were raised by unprecedented delays in the declaration of results. The fairness of the election was also criticized due to the Election Commission's failure to provide Form 45s, official forms which include the tally of votes and are prepared in the presence of political agents of all the candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0039-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Election day\nParty leaders alleged that their representatives were barred from polling stations before counting began and the Form 45s were prepared in their absence and behind closed doors. In some instances, the representatives were given results on plain paper instead of official forms. In another instance, the presiding officer signed blank forms, allowing the possibility of results being manipulated afterwards. Independent candidate Jibran Nasir also made similar allegations. There was also an incident of seven people being arrested for alleged vote rigging in Karachi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0039-0002", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Election day\nAccording to FAFEN observer Sarwar Bari, \"Only one polling agent of every party is allowed when Form 45 is given out by the polling staff, so we can\u2019t rule out the fact that it could be a misunderstanding.\" A few days after the election, in the NA-241 (Korangi Karachi-III) constituency, ballots cast for candidates of PML (N), PPP, and MQM-P were found in a garbage heap. A PTI candidate won the election in that constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Election day\nChairman of winning party Imran Khan pledged that he will allow to open any constituency his opponents think are rigged, he said that opposition has full right into recounting or accountability over election process to ensure transparency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Election day\nThe Free and Fair Election Network, an election watchdog, said the 2018 polls were \"more transparent\" in some aspects than the previous elections and that \"significant improvements in the quality of critical electoral processes\" inspired \"greater public confidence\". According to former Indian Chief Election Commissioner S. Y. Quraishi, a member of the international observers group in Pakistan, the election system was transparent, free and fair, and the minor technical glitches which showed up later in the day were due to inexperience.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Conduct, Allegations of election meddling, Election day\nOn 12 August 2018, it was reported that 90% of Form-45s were not signed by any polling agent, which is a violation of Election Act 2017. However, an ECP spokesperson clarified the discrepancy by stating that there was no designated space on the Form-45s to obtain the signatures of polling agents. The signatures were instead done on tamper-evident bags that were used to transport the results. For the transparency reasons and to combat controversy surrounding form 45, election commission of Pakistan published all form 45 publicly on their website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Government formation\nDespite rejecting the results of the election due to alleged rigging, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) made the decision to take oath in the elected assemblies for the sake of democracy, conceding that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf\u2019s Imran Khan was likely to be the Prime Minister. Hence, the government formation at the federal level was left to the PTI alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Government formation\nTalks began with smaller parties and independents to form a government. Muttahida Qaumi Movement which won six seats, Pakistan Muslim League (Q) which won four, Balochistan Awami Party which won four, Grand Democratic Alliance which won two, and thirteen independent candidates were invited to join the PTI-led government. Additionally, Awami Muslim League led by Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, the party\u2019s only MNA, had already vowed its support to PTI before the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Government formation\nOn 28 July, PML (Q) pledged its support to PTI\u2019s candidates for Chief Minister of Punjab, making it unlikely to oppose PTI in the National Assembly. On 31 July, Balochistan Awami Party announced its support for a PTI led federal government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Government formation\nOn 1 August, Muttahida Qaumi Movement was told by the PPP that it had to choose between sitting in a coalition with them in Sindh or sitting in a coalition with PTI in the centre. On the same day, MQM-P convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui announced the party\u2019s six MNAs would lend their support to the PTI in the National Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Government formation\nOn 2 August, Pakistan Muslim League (N), Pakistan Peoples Party, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal and Awami National Party announced to form a \u201cGrand Opposition Alliance\u201d whereby the Speaker, Prime Minister and other key posts would be jointly nominated and elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0047-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Government formation\nThe Speakership would be given to the PPP, the Deputy Speakership to the MMA and the Premiership to the PML-N. However, on 16 August, after the elections for speaker, PPP decided to withdraw their support for Shehbaz Sharif for the post of Prime Minister, owing to previous statements made by the individual about the party's co-chairman and ex-President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Government formation\nOver the next few weeks, other parties pledged their support towards the PTI nominees for speaker, deputy speaker. These parties include Balochistan National Party (Mengal), Grand Democratic Alliance and Jamhoori Watan Party. In addition to this, 9 independents joined the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Government formation, Election for Speakers of the National Assembly\nThe election for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly took place on 15 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 101], "content_span": [102, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Government formation, Election for Prime Minister\nThe election for the premiership took place on 17 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 82], "content_span": [83, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Reactions, Domestic\nAs the results began to pour in, many of the main opposition parties declared that the elections were not 'free and fair'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Reactions, Domestic\nThe Election Commission of Pakistan denied the allegations but announced that it would be willing to investigate if proof was provided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Reactions, Domestic\nPTI chairman Imran Khan also addressed the allegations in his first national address and said that he would be willing to look into any allegations of rigging. He also added that he thought that the elections were the \"cleanest in Pakistan's history.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Reactions, Domestic\nCelebrations across Pakistan also erupted as early results indicated a win for Tehreek-e-Insaf. Khan's fellow cricketers and celebrities took to Twitter in celebration of his assumed victory even before election results were finalized or a government formed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281745-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election, Reactions, Economic\nThe Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) reacted positively and opened 2% higher as the prospect of a hung government dissipated. The KSE index closed 749 points higher on Thursday. On 3 July 2018, the benchmark KSE-100 index gained 314 points to reach 43,100 points. It closed up 770 points at 43,556 points. The US dollar shed Rs5.36 against the rupee in the inter-bank market for the first time in four years, falling to Rs122.5. The positive economic indicators are considered to be largely driven by what investors consider the return of political stability following the 25 July polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence\nOn the election day, there were series of violent attacks that occurred in the four provinces of Pakistan. The first attack occurred early in the morning in Larkana on Pakistan Peoples Party camp in which at least three people were injured in a grenade attack. The second incident occurred in Swabi District when a gun fight broke out between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Awami National Party (ANP) agents in which the PTI agent was shot dead. Later in the day, two attacks occurred in the Balochistan province. The first was in the capital Quetta, in which 31 people were killed and several more were injured. Then two people were injured in Nasirabad District. In Sindh, there were several violent clashes between members of Pakistan Peoples Party and Grand Democratic Alliance leaving many severely injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Pre-election violence\nThe attacks came 12 days before general elections. In the beginning of the month, a bombing took place in Ramzak Tehsil of North Waziristan at the office of Malik Aurangjeb Khan, Pakistan Movement of Justice's candidate for NA-48 (Tribal Area-IX), leaving 10 people injured. A week before the current attack in Bannu, a bomb planted in a motorcycle was remotely exploded at an election campaign of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal's PK\u201389 candidate Shein Malik in the Takhti Khel area of the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Pre-election violence\nTwo days prior to the attacks, a suicide bombing at an election rally of the Awami National Party's leader Haroon Bilour in Peshawar left 20 people, including Bilour, dead and wounded 63 others. On 12 July, the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP)'s office in Khuzdar came under gunfire before a bomb detonated injuring 2 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Pre-election violence\nOn 13 July, two separate bombings on election rallies in Mastung and Bannu left 154 people dead and injured more than 220 others. In Bannu, 4 citizens were killed and 10 were injured after a planted bomb exploded near the car of JUI-F candidate Akram Khan Durrani. In Mastung, a suicide bomber affiliated with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) blew himself up at the election rally of BAP's candidate for the Balochistan Assembly, Nawabzada Siraj Raisani, killing him and 148 others people and injured over 186.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Pre-election violence\nOn 22 July, PTI's candidate for constituency PK-99 Ikramullah Gandapur and his driver were killed after a suicide bomber blew himself near his car as he was headed towards a corner meeting in the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan. The same day, unknown gunmen opened fires on the vehicle of Durrani in Bannu. No one was hurt during firing as the vehicle was bulletproof. This was second unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Durrani and third terrorist incident in the city in the span of two weeks. On 24 July, 3 soldiers and a civilian were ambushed at Dashtuk, in eastern Balochistan, and killed while escorting polling staff, 14 more were injured, 10 seriously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, 2018 Quetta suicide bombing\nOn 25 July, during polling of general elections, a bomb blast outside a polling station in Quetta resulted in 31 people being killed with over 35 injured. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the group\u2019s Amaq news agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Other violent incidents, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\nIn Swabi, a city in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one person was killed and three injured after PTI supporters exchanged fire with those from the secularist Awami National Party (ANP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Other violent incidents, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\nIn Kohistan, at least seven people were injured after a scuffle broke out between two different groups of independent candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Other violent incidents, Sindh\nIn Larkana, at least three other people were injured in a grenade attack outside a polling station in Larkana, in the southern province of Sindh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Other violent incidents, Sindh\nIn Sanghar District, a violent clash occurred between Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) party members. The dispute started after a woman was stopped from casting the vote on technical reasons. In this incident, several people were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Other violent incidents, Sindh\nIn Dadu, a town in the province of Sindh, three people were injured in a firing incident. Police have arrested seven, including the shooter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Other violent incidents, Sindh\nIn Badin, another clash occurred between Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) party members. In the incident, six people were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Other violent incidents, Sindh\nIn Karachi, a group of unknown people painted the word 'Nawaz' over a donkey following Imran Khan's statement calling supporters of their opponent Pakistan Muslim League (N) donkeys. The donkey was tortured by mob afterwards and hit with a car. Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation, an animal's charity, tried to save the donkey but it succumbed to injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Other violent incidents, Punjab\nIn Khanewal, a man was shot dead and another one was injured in a political clash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Other violent incidents, Punjab\nIn Rajanpur, several people were injured after clash between Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Other violent incidents, Punjab\nIn Faisalabad, two suspects have been arrested by police for carrying weapons outside NA-105. AK-47 Kalashnikovs and magazines, found to be on their person, were seized by the police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281746-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani general election violence, Other violent incidents, Balochistan\nIn Nasirabad District, two people were injured in a firing incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election\nThe 2018 Presidential elections (Urdu: \u0635\u062f\u0627\u0631\u062a\u06cc \u0627\u0646\u062a\u062e\u0627\u0628\u0627\u062a\u200e) were held in Pakistan on 4 September 2018. The elections saw Arif Alvi of PTI being elected as the 13th President of Pakistan after defeating Fazal-ur-Rehman of MMA and Aitzaz Ahsan of PPP. Although the incumbent President Mamnoon Hussain, whose term was to expire on 9th September 2018, was eligible for re-election, he declined to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election\nThe PTI-led government coalition nominated a founding member of the party Arif Alvi, right after a week of the announcement of the official victory of PTI in the general elections. The PPP on the other hand took a solo flight in announcing the candidature of PPP stalwart, a law expert and a veteran politician Aitzaz Ashan without having done the consensus with the remaining opposition. Against PTI's Alvi and PPP's Ahsan, the PML-N-led Opposition came up with Fazal-ur-Rehman, the leader of Far-right Islamist MMA, as their joint candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election\nThe Elections witnessed a decisive victory for Arif Alvi who managed to get 352 votes from the Electoral College. Opposition's Fazal-ur-Rehman followed with 184 votes, while Aitzaz Ahsan got only 124 votes. Alvi managed to emerge victorious in Punjab, KPK, and Balochistan, as well as the Parliament. Meanwhile, Aitzaz Ahsan was triumphant in Sindh. Although having a higher vote count than Ahsan, Fazal-ur-Rehman wasn't able to win in the Parliament or any Provincial Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election\nThe President-elect Arif Alvi was sworn in as the 13th President of Pakistan on 9th September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election, Schedule\nThe Election Commission of Pakistan announced the initial election schedule on 16 August 2018. Polling was conducted on following five places on 4 September 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election, Schedule\nMembers of Senate and National Assembly cast their vote at Parliament House whereas members of Provincial Assemblies cast their vote at respective assemblies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election, Electoral system\nThe President of Pakistan is indirectly elected by the Electoral College of Pakistan \u2013 a joint sitting of the Senate, National Assembly and Provincial Assemblies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election, Electoral system\nThe votes of the members of the Senate and National Assembly are counted as single votes. Meanwhile, the votes given by the provincial assembly legislators are adjusted so as to give each province an equal share in the election. This is so because, each provincial assembly has a varying number of members, depending upon population size. The largest province by population size, Punjab, has a total of 371 members in its assembly, whereas the smallest province of Balochistan has a mere 65 members in its legislature. Therefore, the provincial votes are weighted against the Balochistan assembly in the following manner:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election, Electoral system\nRegarding timing, the constitution states that election to the office of President must be held no earlier than sixty days and no later than thirty days before the expiration of the term of the incumbent president. If assemblies are not present, the constitution allows the election of president to be delayed thirty days after the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election, Electoral system\nThe electoral process itself is done via a secret ballot due to the post of the president being constitutionally non-partisan. Therefore, unlike during the election of the Prime Minister, cross-party voting is not liable to be considered defection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election, Electoral College\nThe Electoral College of Pakistan is formed by a joint sitting of the six leading political bodies in Pakistan:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election, Electoral College\nThe maximum strength of the electoral college is 706. However, considering the vacant seats, the electoral college for this presidential election stood at 679. A simple majority is required in a two-candidate contest to claim victory. But in a three-candidate race, the victory requirement goes down considerably depending on how the votes are split.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election, Electoral College\nThe weighted votes of each political party in the six bodies constituting the electoral college are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281747-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Pakistani presidential election, Voting\nThe voting started at around 10:00 am PST. Prime Minister Imran Khan came to the Parliament House and cast his vote with an hour left in the voting deadline. The voting ended at 04:00 pm PST. A total of 1,110 votes were cast during the election out of which 28 votes were declared invalid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa\nThe 2018 Palarong Pambansa was the 61st edition of the Palarong Pambansa multi-sports event and was held in Vigan, Ilocos Sur from April 15 to 21, 2018. Student athletes from 17 athletic associations representing the 17 regions of the Philippines competed in different sporting events and disciplines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa, Bidding\nThe cities of Baguio, Iligan, Vigan and the province of Bukidnon made a bid to host the 61st Palarong Pambansa. In 2017, Vigan was selected host of the Games. In January 2018, the Department of Education and the provincial government of Ilocos Sur signed a memorandum of agreement regarding the hosting of the games to be held primarily in Vigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa, The Games\nThe opening ceremony of the 2018 Palarong Pambansa was held at the Quirino Stadium in Bantay, Ilocos Sur on April 15, 2018. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was the guest speaker of the event for the second consecutive year. Duterte stated that the event is a breeding ground for future sports icons and nation-builders, \"whose values and principles are founded on perseverance, discipline, teamwork, integrity, and love of country\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa, The Games\nSports personalities including chess grandmaster Eugene Torre, cue artist Efren \"Bata\" Reyes, bowler Paeng Nepomuceno, swimmer Eric Buhain, long jumper Elma Muros, 1996 Summer Olympics silver medalist Mansueto Velasco, 2014 Youth Olympic Games gold medalist Luis Gabriel Moreno and 2016 Summer Olympics silver medalist Hidilyn Diaz led the carrying of the giant Philippine flag. Moreno then lit the friendship cauldron using an arrow shot, symbolizing the commencement of the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa, The Games\nLydia de Vega-Mercado, considered as Asia's fastest woman in the 1980s, was honored as the Palarong Pambansa Lifetime Achievement Awardee during the opening rites. Her daughter, Stephanie represented her in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa, The Games\nOn the second day of the Games on 16 April 2018, barefoot runner Lheslie de Lima from Camarines Sur won the first gold medal of the event in the 3,000 meter run (secondary girls category). She dedicated the win to her distant relative Senator Leila de Lima, who is currently in prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa, The Games\nAt the final day of the Games on April 21, 2018, the National Capital Region capped off their campaign with their 14th straight-overall championship, winning 100 gold, 70 silver and 50 bronze medals. Calabarzon and Western Visayas ended up with 1st and 2nd runner-up finishes, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa, The Games, Sports, Regular Sports\nThese are the regular sports disciplines that were played in the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa, The Games, Sports, Demonstration sports\nThese are the seven demonstration sports played at this year's Palarong Pambansa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 63], "content_span": [64, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa, The Games, Sports, Special Para Games\nThese are the four para sports that were contested at this year's Palarong Pambansa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa, The Games, Participating regions\nA total of 17 athletic associations coming from 17 regions of the country participated in the athletic meet. The provinces of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental which competed under the Negros Island Region in the previous two editions of the games (2016 Palarong Pambansa and 2017 Palarong Pambansa) will now compete and merge with their previous original regions, Western Visayas and Central Visayas respectively, after the Negros Island Region which was created in 2015 was dissolved by President Rodrigo Duterte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa, Playing Venues\nAt least 34 different locations in various towns across Ilocos Sur and its capital city Vigan were selected as the playing venues for the 26 sports disciplines of the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa, Billeting Areas, Athletic Delegations\nSeveral public and private elementary, secondary and tertiary schools, colleges and universities situated at the provincial capital Vigan and nearby towns were selected as the billeting areas for delegates and officials of the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281749-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Palarong Pambansa, Billeting Areas, Athletic Delegations\nCS - central school, NCS - north central school, SCS - south central school, ES - elementary school, IS - integrated school, NHS - national high school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281750-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pampanga Lanterns season\nThe 2018 Pampanga Lanterns season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281751-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Am Badminton Championships\nThe XXII 2018 Pan Am Badminton Championships is a continental championships tournament of badminton in Pan America. This tournament were held as two events in different countries. From 15 to 18 February, the team event was held in Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago. From 26 to 29 April, the individual event will be held in Guatemala City, Guatemala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281751-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Am Badminton Championships, Tournament\nThe team event of 2018 Pan Am Badminton Championships officially Male & Female Pan Am Team Continental Championships 2018, is a continental stage tournament of Thomas and Uber Cups, and also to crown the best men's and women's badminton team in Pan America. This event organized by the Badminton Pan Am and Trinidad and Tobago Badminton Association. 15 teams, consisting of 8 men's teams and 7 women's teams entered the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281751-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Am Badminton Championships, Tournament\nThe individual event of Pan Am Badminton Championships is an individual continental championships tournament of badminton, to crowns the best male and female players and pairs in Pan America. The point of this tournament graded as BWF World Tour Super 100 event. This event organized by the Badminton Pan Am and Federacion Nacional de Badminton Guatemala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281751-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Am Badminton Championships, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the individual event tournament based on the BWF points system for the Pan Am Badminton Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281752-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2018 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships were held in Lima, Peru, from November 29 to December 1, 2018. The competition was organized by the Peruvian Gymnastics Federation, and approved by the International Gymnastics Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281753-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Archery Championships\nThe 2018 Pan American Archery Championships was held in Medell\u00edn, Colombia from 14 to 19 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281754-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Cross Country Cup\nThe 2018 Pan American Cross Country Cup took place on February 17, 2018. in La Libertad, El Salvador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281754-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Cross Country Cup, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, athletes from 20 countries participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281755-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Fencing Championships\nThe 2018 Pan American Fencing Championships was held in Havana, Cuba from 15 to 20 June 2018 at the Coliseo de la Ciudad Deportiva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281755-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Fencing Championships\nThe top seven teams (+ hosts Peru) in each team event qualified for the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. After the seven teams in each event were determined, the top two athletes per individual event not qualified through a team would also qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281756-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2018 Pan American Gymnastics Championships was held in Lima, Peru, in September, 2018. Three gymnastics disciplines were contested: artistic gymnastics (from September 11 to 16), rhythmic gymnastics (from September 26 to 30) and trampoline (from September 5 to 9). The event was organized by the Peruvian Gymnastics Federation under the supervision of the Pan American Gymnastics Union and the International Gymnastics Federation, and served as qualification for the 2019 Pan American Games, which will also be held in Lima, Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281757-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Judo Championships\nThe 2018 Pan American Judo Championships was held in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica from 20 to 21 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281758-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Men's Club Handball Championship\nThe 2018 Pan American Men's Club Handball Championship was the XI and last edition of this tournament, held in Taubat\u00e9, Brazil from 23 to 27 May 2018. It acted as a qualifying tournament for the 2018 IHF Super Globe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281758-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Men's Club Handball Championship, Modus\nThe seven teams played in two groups a round Robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281758-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Men's Club Handball Championship, Modus\nThe last from Group A and the two last from Group B played a Consolation round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281758-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Men's Club Handball Championship, Modus\nThe first from each group played against the second from the other group the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281758-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Men's Club Handball Championship, Modus\nThe losers of the semis played Third place game and the winners the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281759-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Men's Handball Championship\nThe 2018 Pan American Men's Handball Championship was the 18th official competition for senior men's national handball teams of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. It was held from 16 to 24 June 2018 in Nuuk, Greenland. It also acted as the qualifying competition for the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship in Denmark and Germany, securing three vacancies for the World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281759-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Men's Handball Championship\nArgentina won the tournament for the seventh time after defeating Brazil 29\u201324 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281759-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Men's Handball Championship, Draw\nThe draw was held on 14 April 2018 at Buenos Aires, Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 51], "content_span": [52, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281760-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Table Tennis Championships\nThe 2018 Pan American Table Tennis Championships were held in Santiago, Chile from 20 to 25 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281761-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Track Cycling Championships\nThe 2018 Pan American Track Cycling Championships took place at the Aguascalientes Bicentenary Velodrome, in Aguascalientes, Mexico, from August 29 until September 2, 2018. The event served as a qualifier for the 2019 Pan American Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281762-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Weightlifting Championships\nThe 2018 Pan American Weightlifting Championships was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic between May 12 and May 19, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281762-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Weightlifting Championships\nA total of 126 weightlifters qualified to compete at the 2019 Pan American Games through scores from both the 2017 and 2018 Pan American Championships combined. A nation may enter a maximum of 12 weightlifters (six per gender). The host nation (Peru) automatically qualified the maximum team size.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281762-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Weightlifting Championships, Medal summary\nResults are obtained from the Pan American Weightlifting Federation website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281763-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Women's Junior Handball Championship\nThe 2018 Pan American Women's Junior Handball Championship was the 12th edition of the tournament, Took place in the city of Goi\u00e2nia, Brazil at the Goi\u00e2nia Arena from 21 to 25 March 2018. It acts as the American qualifying tournament for the 2018 Women's Junior World Handball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281764-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Women's Youth Handball Championship\nThe 2018 Pan American Women's Youth Handball Championship was the 12th edition of the tournament, held in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina at the CeNARD from 10 to 14 April 2018. It acts as the American qualifying tournament for the 2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281765-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Wrestling Championships\nThe 2018 Pan American Wrestling Championships was held in Lima, Peru, from 3 to 6 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281765-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Wrestling Championships\nThe top three countries in the 18 weight categories scheduled to be held at the 2019 Pan American Games (also in Lima) qualified for the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281766-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (boys' field hockey)\nThe 2018 Pan American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier for boys' field hockey, also known as 2018 Youth Pan American Championship, was an international field hockey competition which served as a qualification for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. The event was held from 12 \u2013 17 March 2018 in Guadalajara, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281766-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (boys' field hockey)\nThe winner and runner-up of this tournament will qualify for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Argentina and Mexico became the winner and runner-up. However, since Argentina had already qualified at the host nation, the third placed team (Canada) has also qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281766-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (boys' field hockey), Participating Nations\nAlongside the host nation, 7 teams competed in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 91], "content_span": [92, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281766-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (boys' field hockey), Results\nAll times are local (UTC-6). Each game lasts for 20 minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 77], "content_span": [78, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281767-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (girls' field hockey)\nThe 2018 Pan American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier for girls' field hockey, also known as 2018 Youth Pan American Championship was the third edition of the Youth Pan American Championship, an international field hockey competition held from 12 \u2013 17 March 2018 in Guadalajara, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281767-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (girls' field hockey)\nThe tournament also served as a direct qualifier for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, with the winner and runner-up qualifying. However, since Argentina has already qualified as the hosts, but also won this competition, the second and third-placed teams (Uruguay and Mexico) qualified for the Summer Youth Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281767-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (girls' field hockey), Format\nThe six teams will all be competing in one pool. The top four teams advance to the semifinals to determine the winner in a knockout system. The bottom two teams play for the 5th/6th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 77], "content_span": [78, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281768-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships\nThe 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, a long course (50\u00a0m) event, was held in Tokyo, Japan, from 9 to 14 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281768-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, Qualifying criteria\nUnlike the World Championships and Olympic Games, nations can enter as many people as they like in the preliminaries of each event (in most international meets, only two swimmers from each nation are permitted). However, only two swimmers per nation can qualify for the semi-finals and finals. Prior to FINA's creation of semi-finals in the late 1990s, a total of 3 swimmers per country could qualify for the final and consolation heats of an event, with no more than 2 swimmers per country in a final or consolation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281768-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, Qualifying criteria\nFor relays, each country may enter up to one team in each relay event to swim in the final heat and count toward the team score. Countries may also enter a \u201cB\u201d relay that will swim in a preceding heat. These \u201cB\u201d relays may not score points and are not eligible for medals. An NOC may enter up to 1 swimmer per sex (2 total), if they have no swimmers meeting any qualifying B standard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281769-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 10 kilometre open water\nThe men's 10 kilometre open water competition of the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships was held on 14 August at the Hojyo Beach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281769-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 10 kilometre open water, Results\nUnlimited number of swimmers are permitted per country, but only the top two swimmers from each country was classified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 80], "content_span": [81, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281770-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre backstroke\nThe men's 100 metre backstroke competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 10 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Ryosuke Irie of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281770-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre backstroke, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 77], "content_span": [78, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281770-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre backstroke, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 10 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 84], "content_span": [85, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281770-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre backstroke, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 84], "content_span": [85, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281770-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre backstroke, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 10 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 86], "content_span": [87, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281770-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre backstroke, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 10 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 86], "content_span": [87, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281771-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre breaststroke\nThe men's 100 metre breaststroke competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 9 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Yasuhiro Koseki of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281771-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre breaststroke, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 79], "content_span": [80, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281771-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre breaststroke, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 9 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281771-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre breaststroke, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281771-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre breaststroke, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 9 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 88], "content_span": [89, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281771-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre breaststroke, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 9 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 88], "content_span": [89, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281772-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre butterfly\nThe men's 100 metre butterfly competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 11 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Michael Phelps of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281772-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre butterfly, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281772-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre butterfly, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 11 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 83], "content_span": [84, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281772-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre butterfly, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 83], "content_span": [84, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281772-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre butterfly, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 11 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 85], "content_span": [86, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281772-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre butterfly, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 11 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 85], "content_span": [86, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281773-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre freestyle\nThe men's 100 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 10 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Cameron McEvoy of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281773-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre freestyle, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281773-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 10 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 83], "content_span": [84, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281773-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country does not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 83], "content_span": [84, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281773-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre freestyle, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 10 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 85], "content_span": [86, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281773-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre freestyle, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 10 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 85], "content_span": [86, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281774-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metre freestyle\nThe men's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 9 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Connor Jaeger of United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281774-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metre freestyle\nThis event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once. Early heat was swum at the end of the preliminary heats on that day from slowest to fastest. The fastest timed final heat was swum with the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281774-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metre freestyle, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 77], "content_span": [78, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281774-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metre freestyle, Results\nThe timed final was held on 9 August from 10:00 to the slowest heat and from 17:30 to the fastest heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 77], "content_span": [78, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281774-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metre freestyle, Results\nOnly two swimmers from each country was classified in the award ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 77], "content_span": [78, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281775-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre backstroke\nThe men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 12 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Tyler Clary of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281775-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre backstroke, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 77], "content_span": [78, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281775-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre backstroke, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 12 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 84], "content_span": [85, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281775-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre backstroke, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 84], "content_span": [85, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281775-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre backstroke, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 12 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 86], "content_span": [87, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281775-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre backstroke, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 12 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 86], "content_span": [87, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281776-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre breaststroke\nThe men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 12 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Yasuhiro Koseki of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281776-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre breaststroke, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 79], "content_span": [80, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281776-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre breaststroke, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 12 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281776-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre breaststroke, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281776-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre breaststroke, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 12 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 88], "content_span": [89, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281776-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre breaststroke, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 12 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 88], "content_span": [89, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281777-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre butterfly\nThe men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 10 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Daiya Seto of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281777-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre butterfly, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281777-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre butterfly, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 10 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 83], "content_span": [84, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281777-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre butterfly, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 83], "content_span": [84, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281777-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre butterfly, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 10 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 85], "content_span": [86, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281777-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre butterfly, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 10 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 85], "content_span": [86, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281778-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre freestyle\nThe men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 9 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Thomas Fraser-Holmes of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281778-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre freestyle, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281778-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 9 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 83], "content_span": [84, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281778-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 83], "content_span": [84, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281778-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre freestyle, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 9 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 85], "content_span": [86, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281778-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre freestyle, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 9 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 85], "content_span": [86, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281779-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre individual medley\nThe men's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 11 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Kosuke Hagino of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [75, 75], "content_span": [76, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281779-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre individual medley, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [77, 84], "content_span": [85, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281779-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre individual medley, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 11 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [77, 91], "content_span": [92, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281779-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre individual medley, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [77, 91], "content_span": [92, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281779-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre individual medley, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 11 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [77, 93], "content_span": [94, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281779-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre individual medley, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 11 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [77, 93], "content_span": [94, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281780-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metre freestyle relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 100 metre freestyle relay competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 11 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281780-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metre freestyle relay, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 86], "content_span": [87, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281781-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metre medley relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 100 metre medley relay competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 12 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [74, 74], "content_span": [75, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281781-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metre medley relay, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 83], "content_span": [84, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281782-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 200 metre freestyle relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 200 metre freestyle relay competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 10 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281782-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 200 metre freestyle relay, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 86], "content_span": [87, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281783-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metre freestyle\nThe men's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 11 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Park Tae-hwan of South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281783-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metre freestyle, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281783-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 11 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 83], "content_span": [84, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281783-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 83], "content_span": [84, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281783-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metre freestyle, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 11 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 85], "content_span": [86, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281783-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metre freestyle, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 11 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 85], "content_span": [86, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281784-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metre individual medley\nThe men's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 9 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Kosuke Hagino of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [75, 75], "content_span": [76, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281784-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metre individual medley, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [77, 84], "content_span": [85, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281784-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metre individual medley, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 9 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [77, 91], "content_span": [92, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281784-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metre individual medley, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [77, 91], "content_span": [92, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281784-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metre individual medley, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 9 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [77, 93], "content_span": [94, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281784-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metre individual medley, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 9 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [77, 93], "content_span": [94, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281785-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 50 metre freestyle\nThe men's 50 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 12 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Bruno Fratus of Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281785-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 50 metre freestyle, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 75], "content_span": [76, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281785-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 50 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 12 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281785-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 50 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281785-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 50 metre freestyle, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 12 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281785-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 50 metre freestyle, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 12 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281786-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metre freestyle\nThe men's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 12 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Ryan Cochrane of Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281786-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metre freestyle\nThis event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once. Early heat was swum at the end of the preliminary heats on that day from slowest to fastest. The fastest timed final heat was swum with the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281786-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metre freestyle, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281786-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metre freestyle, Results\nThe timed final was held on 12 August from 10:00 to the slowest heats and from 17:30 to the fastest heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281786-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metre freestyle, Results\nOnly two swimmers from each country was classified in the award ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281787-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Mixed 4 \u00d7 100 metre medley relay\nThe mixed 4 \u00d7 100 metre medley relay competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 9 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [74, 74], "content_span": [75, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281787-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Mixed 4 \u00d7 100 metre medley relay, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 83], "content_span": [84, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281788-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 10 kilometre open water\nThe women's 10 kilometre open water competition of the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships was held on 14 August at the Hojyo Beach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [73, 73], "content_span": [74, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281788-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 10 kilometre open water, Results\nUnlimited number of swimmers are permitted per country, but only the top two swimmers from each country was classified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [75, 82], "content_span": [83, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281789-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre backstroke\nThe women's 100 metre backstroke competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 10 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Emily Seebohm of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281789-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre backstroke, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 79], "content_span": [80, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281789-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre backstroke, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 10 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281789-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre backstroke, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281789-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre backstroke, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 10 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 88], "content_span": [89, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281789-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre backstroke, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 10 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 88], "content_span": [89, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281790-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre breaststroke\nThe women's 100 metre breaststroke competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 9 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Rebecca Soni of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281790-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre breaststroke, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 81], "content_span": [82, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281790-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre breaststroke, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 9 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 88], "content_span": [89, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281790-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre breaststroke, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country does not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 88], "content_span": [89, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281790-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre breaststroke, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 9 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 90], "content_span": [91, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281790-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre breaststroke, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 9 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 90], "content_span": [91, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281791-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre butterfly\nThe women's 100 metre butterfly competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 11 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Alicia Coutts of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281791-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre butterfly, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 78], "content_span": [79, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281791-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre butterfly, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 11 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 85], "content_span": [86, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281791-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre butterfly, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 85], "content_span": [86, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281791-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre butterfly, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 11 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 87], "content_span": [88, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281791-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre butterfly, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 11 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 87], "content_span": [88, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281792-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre freestyle\nThe women's 100 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 10 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Cate Campbell of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281792-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre freestyle, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 78], "content_span": [79, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281792-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 10 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 85], "content_span": [86, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281792-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country does not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 85], "content_span": [86, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281792-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre freestyle, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 10 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 87], "content_span": [88, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281792-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre freestyle, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 10 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 87], "content_span": [88, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281793-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metre freestyle\nThe women's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 12 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Katie Ledecky of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281793-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metre freestyle\nThis event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once. Early heat was swum at the end of the preliminary heats on that day from slowest to fastest. The fastest timed final heat was swum with the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281793-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metre freestyle, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 79], "content_span": [80, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281793-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metre freestyle, Results\nThe timed final was held on 12 August from 10:00 to the slowest heats and from 17:30 to the fastest heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 79], "content_span": [80, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281793-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metre freestyle, Results\nOnly two swimmers from each country was classified in the award ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 79], "content_span": [80, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281794-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre backstroke\nThe women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 12 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Belinda Hocking of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281794-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre backstroke, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 79], "content_span": [80, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281794-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre backstroke, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 12 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281794-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre backstroke, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281794-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre backstroke, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 12 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 88], "content_span": [89, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281794-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre backstroke, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 12 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 88], "content_span": [89, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281795-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre breaststroke\nThe women's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 12 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Kanako Watanabe of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281795-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre breaststroke, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 81], "content_span": [82, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281795-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre breaststroke, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 12 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 88], "content_span": [89, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281795-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre breaststroke, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 88], "content_span": [89, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281795-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre breaststroke, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 12 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 90], "content_span": [91, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281795-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre breaststroke, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 12 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 90], "content_span": [91, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281796-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre butterfly\nThe women's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 10 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Cammile Adams of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281796-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre butterfly, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 78], "content_span": [79, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281796-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre butterfly, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 10 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 85], "content_span": [86, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281796-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre butterfly, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 85], "content_span": [86, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281796-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre butterfly, Results, B Final\nAs only one swimmer has advanced the B final was not held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 87], "content_span": [88, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281796-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre butterfly, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 10 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 87], "content_span": [88, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281797-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre freestyle\nThe women's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 9 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Katie Ledecky of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281797-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre freestyle, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 78], "content_span": [79, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281797-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 9 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 85], "content_span": [86, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281797-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country does not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 85], "content_span": [86, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281797-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre freestyle, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 9 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 87], "content_span": [88, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281797-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre freestyle, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 9 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 87], "content_span": [88, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281798-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre individual medley\nThe women's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 11 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Maya DiRado of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281798-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre individual medley, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 86], "content_span": [87, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281798-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre individual medley, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 11 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 93], "content_span": [94, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281798-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre individual medley, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 93], "content_span": [94, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281798-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre individual medley, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 11 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 95], "content_span": [96, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281798-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre individual medley, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 11 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 95], "content_span": [96, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281799-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metre freestyle relay\nThe women's 4 \u00d7 100 metre freestyle relay competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 11 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 79], "section_span": [79, 79], "content_span": [80, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281799-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metre freestyle relay, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 79], "section_span": [81, 88], "content_span": [89, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281800-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metre medley relay\nThe women's 4 \u00d7 100 metre medley relay competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 12 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281800-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metre medley relay, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 85], "content_span": [86, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281801-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 200 metre freestyle relay\nThe women's 4 \u00d7 200 metre freestyle relay competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 10 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 79], "section_span": [79, 79], "content_span": [80, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281801-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 200 metre freestyle relay, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 79], "section_span": [81, 88], "content_span": [89, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281802-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metre freestyle\nThe women's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 11 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Katie Ledecky of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281802-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metre freestyle, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 78], "content_span": [79, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281802-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 11 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 85], "content_span": [86, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281802-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 85], "content_span": [86, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281802-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metre freestyle, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 11 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 87], "content_span": [88, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281802-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metre freestyle, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 11 August from 18:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 87], "content_span": [88, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281803-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metre individual medley\nThe women's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 9 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Elizabeth Beisel of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281803-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metre individual medley, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 86], "content_span": [87, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281803-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metre individual medley, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 9 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 93], "content_span": [94, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281803-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metre individual medley, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country does not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 93], "content_span": [94, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281803-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metre individual medley, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 9 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 95], "content_span": [96, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281803-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metre individual medley, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 9 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 95], "content_span": [96, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281804-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metre freestyle\nThe women's 50 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 12 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Cate Campbell of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281804-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metre freestyle, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 77], "content_span": [78, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281804-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nThe first round was held on 12 August from 10:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 84], "content_span": [85, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281804-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metre freestyle, Results, Heats\nOnly two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 84], "content_span": [85, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281804-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metre freestyle, Results, B Final\nThe B final was held on 12 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 86], "content_span": [87, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281804-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metre freestyle, Results, A Final\nThe A final was held on 12 August from 17:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 86], "content_span": [87, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281805-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metre freestyle\nThe women's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 9 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Katie Ledecky of United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281805-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metre freestyle\nThis event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once. Early heat was swum at the end of the preliminary heats on that day from slowest to fastest. The fastest timed final heat was swum with the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281805-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metre freestyle, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 78], "content_span": [79, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281805-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metre freestyle, Results\nThe timed final was held on 9 August from 10:00 to the slowest heats and from 17:30 to the fastest heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 78], "content_span": [79, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281805-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metre freestyle, Results\nOnly two swimmers from each country was classified in the award ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 78], "content_span": [79, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281806-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan-American Korfball Championship\nThe Second Pan-American Korfball Championship was held in Colombia from 2 March 2018 to 4 March 2018, with 6 national teams in competition. The tournament also served as an American qualifier for the 2019 IKF World Korfball Championship, with the top two nations qualifying for the world championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281806-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan-American Korfball Championship\nBrazil was the defending champion but had to settle for third as Suriname and Dominican Republic took the top two spots and qualified for the 2019 IKF World Korfball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281806-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pan-American Korfball Championship, Results\nThe six teams played a simple group stage tournament, with the top team crowned Pan-American champions. Suriname secured the title on 3 March with one match to play as they had a three point lead over Brazil and Dominican Republic, two teams which they had already beaten and which still had to play each other in the final match to determine second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis\nThe 2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis was a diplomatic stand-off between Panama and Venezuela after the Panamanian government imposed sanctions on President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and several key officials of the Bolivarian government over alleged involvement with \"money laundering, financing of terrorism and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction\" on 29 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis\nOn 5 April 2018, Maduro imposed sanctions on Panamanian companies and as well as prominent Panamanian officials, including President Juan Carlos Varela in response to the sanctions imposed by Panama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis\nThe diplomatic crisis ended on 26 April 2018 when President Maduro announced that he had called President Varela and agreed to the return of the ambassadors and the return of air communication between both countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Background\nBilateral relations between the Panama and Venezuela have been suspended on two previous occasions under the Bolivarian government. In 2004, diplomatic relations were suspended by Venezuelan President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez (together with Cuba), when the Panamanian government refused to extradite a Cuban exile militant and CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles, claiming his life was in danger if extradited to those countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Background\nIn March 2014, Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro broke off diplomatic relations between the two countries, after President Ricardo Martinelli expressed support for the demonstrators during the 2014 Venezuelan protests. Relations were later restored in July 2014, after Vice President Jorge Arreaza attended the inauguration of President Juan Carlos Varela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Start of the crisis\nOn March 29, 2018, the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Panama published a list of Venezuelan people, for their history of banking operations, were subject to investigations by cash or bank fraud laundering, so the list sought to warn both public and private institutions that limit their economic and financial operations with the listed group, considering them to be \"high risk\". The Panamanian government accuses these officials for alleged involvement with \"money laundering, financing of terrorism and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Start of the crisis\nThe list contained high-profile officials of the Bolivarian government including president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, 2017 Constituent National Assembly President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, Vice President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) Diosdado Cabello, Head of Local Committees for Supply and Production (CLAP) Freddy Bernal, ANC member and brother of former President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez Ad\u00e1n Ch\u00e1vez, Prisons Minister Iris Varela, President of the TSJ Maikel Moreno, Attorney General of Venezuela Tarek William Saab, President of the pro-government CNE Tibisay Lucena, Minister of Interior N\u00e9stor Reverol and Head of SEBIN Gustavo Gonz\u00e1lez L\u00f3pez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Start of the crisis\nA group of Venezuelan opposition deputies, Freddy Superlano, Luis Florido and Ismael Garc\u00eda traveled to Panama on April 3 to request the Panamanian Vice President and Foreign Minister, Isabel Saint Malo, the detailed list of the 55 Venezuelan officials. included in the list and the express reasons. In response, the foreign minister promised to provide all possible information in the way of cooperation between both countries, always respecting the applicable law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Start of the crisis, Venezuelan government reaction\nOn 5 April 2018, the Venezuelan government imposed sanctions on 22 people and 46 Panamanian companies, among which were key officials of the government, including the President and Foreign Minister or Panama-based companies operating in Venezuela, such as Copa Airlines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 92], "content_span": [93, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Start of the crisis, Panamanian government reaction\nOn 6 April 2018, the Panamanian government ordered to recall its ambassador to Venezuela, Miguel Octavio Mejia Miranda, in Caracas and urged the Venezuelan government to do the same with the Venezuelan ambassador, Jorge Luis Dur\u00e1n Centeno, in Panama City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 92], "content_span": [93, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Start of the crisis, Panamanian government reaction\nCopa Airlines was forced to suspend its operations from Caracas, Maracaibo and Valencia in response to the sanctions but resumed on 1 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 92], "content_span": [93, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Start of the crisis, Panamanian government reaction\nAccording to President Varela, the sanctions imposed against Copa Airlines by the Maduro government will hurt Venezuelans since Panama is a logistic route for supplying medicine and food in response to the outgoing shortages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 92], "content_span": [93, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Sanctions between both countries, Sanctions on Panama by Venezuela\nVenezuela imposed commercial sanctions by breaking commercial relations with Panama to 22 personalities and 46 Panamanian companies in response to the sanctions that Panama had imposed on Venezuela while reporting on the future publication of the list of Venezuelan personalities susceptible to money laundering.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 107], "content_span": [108, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Sanctions between both countries, Sanctions on Panama by Venezuela\nVenezuelan Vice President Tareck el Aissami announced that President Maduro has suspended commercial relations with several Panamanian companies, which will be added to the list of 46 announced originally on April 5. The measure became effective on April 13, 2018, adding 50 more companies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 107], "content_span": [108, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Sanctions between both countries, Sanctions on Venezuela by Panama\nPanamanian president Juan Carlos Varela indicated that his government would not recognize the 2018 Venezuelan presidential election results to persist the bilateral conflict. In addition, it is reported that his executive is preparing new sanctions in response to the \"aggressive and disproportionate\" measures that Venezuela done before the imposition of sanctions by Panama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 107], "content_span": [108, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Sanctions between both countries, Sanctions on Venezuela by Panama\nThe Government of Panama approved retaliation measures against the Venezuelan government, based on the Panamanian retaliation law and by virtue of the principle of reciprocity that governs international relations. The Cabinet Council ordered the suspension, for a period of ninety (90) days extendable, of all activities of air transport, passengers and cargo of Venezuelan airlines operating in Panama, the companies are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 107], "content_span": [108, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Sanctions between both countries, Sanctions on Venezuela by Panama\nThe measures took effect from April 25, 2018. In addition, the government approved an extension of 60 days tourist visa for Venezuelans stranded in Panama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 107], "content_span": [108, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Reactions\nOn March 28, 2018, the government of Switzerland imposed economic sanctions on Venezuela and froze the accounts of several senior government officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Reactions\nThe Lima Group quickly positioned itself on the Panamanian side, condemned the Venezuelan sanctions imposed against Panama and assessed the possibilities of imposing additional international sanctions on the Maduro government, while at the same time recalling its non-recognition of the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election and the repudiation of the upcoming presidential elections in Venezuela scheduled for May 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Reactions\nThe United States has welcomed the measures taken by Panama to expose and block Venezuelan money laundering and urged the international community \"to follow Panama\u2019s example and stand together against the Maduro regime\u2019s corruption and illegitimate rule.\u201d It also reiterated that Venezuela must restore democracy and end the repression and suffering of the Venezuelan people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Mediation by Dominican Republic\nAt the request of President Maduro, the President of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina, was asked to act as mediator in a meeting in order to resolve the conflict with Panama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Mediation by Dominican Republic\nThe meeting was held on April 11 in a secret manner by both sides, between Venezuelan Minister Wilmar Castro Soteldo and Panamanian Vice President Isabel Saint Malo, mediated by Dominican Foreign Minister Manuel Vargas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, Mediation by Dominican Republic\nHowever, the talks collapsed on April 18, President Maduro himself revealed the existence of this meeting and blamed the head of the Panamanian delegation for \"insults\". Subsequently, the Panamanian government confirmed the meeting and argued that the commercial list published by Panama only formalizes lists published by the international community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281807-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Panama\u2013Venezuela diplomatic crisis, End of the crisis\nOn April 26, President Maduro announced that he made a phone call with President Varela and agreed to the return of the ambassadors of both countries, including the restitution of air communication between both countries, which was being affected from day. Likewise, an open diplomatic channel was left to discuss other pending issues, with a progress report that will be made in the next 30 days. The agreement was confirmed by the Panamanian Foreign Ministry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281808-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Panda Cup\nThe 2018 Panda Cup was the fifth edition of the under-19 association football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281808-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Panda Cup\nThe tournament was hosted in Chengdu between 23 and 27 May. Players born on or after 1 January 1999 are eligible to compete in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281808-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Panda Cup, Participating teams\nIn May 2018, it was announced that hosts China would join England, Hungary and Uruguay by participating in the 2018 Panda Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281809-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Papa John's Pizza Tankard\nThe 2018 Papa John's Pizza Tankard, the provincial men's curling championship of New Brunswick was held February 7 to 11 in Miramichi, New Brunswick. The winning James Grattan rink represented New Brunswick at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier in Regina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281810-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea Hunters season\nThe 2018 Intrust Super Cup was the PNG Hunters fifth season in the Queensland Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281810-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea Hunters season, Season summary\nThe Hunters started with a trial against the Brisbane Broncos in Port Moresby on February 24, 2018 where they lost 26-12. The Hunters finished the season in seventh spot missing out on the finals series. Ten PNG Hunters players from the 2018 squad were recruited by overseas clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281810-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea Hunters season, Fixtures, Pre-season\nThe Hunters lost to the Brisbane Broncos 26-12 in Port Moresby on February 24,2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281811-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League\nThe 2018 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League was the 12th edition of Papua New Guinea National Soccer League. The league ran from 13 January to 26 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281811-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League\nThe title was won by Toti City, formerly Lae City Dwellers, who picked up their fourth title with a 3\u20130 victory over Besta PNG United in the Grand Final. Toti, alongside FC Morobe Wawens, qualified for the 2019 OFC Champions League by virtue of their final league position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281811-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Teams\nThe season was the second and final following the league split, with the league expanding to seven teams from six the previous season. Reigning champions Lae City Dwellers returned under a new name \u2013 Toti City FC \u2013 while Besta PNG United, Madang FC and Buang FC also returned. Southern Strikers, who had initially planned to take part in the 2017 season, were the first team confirmed as competing, while there were debuts for FC Morobe Wawens and FC Momase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281811-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Format\nSeven teams played in the league during the regular season, and teams played home and away, with the team at the top of the league after all matches were played crowned as 'Minor Premiers'. The top two secured qualification for the 2018 OFC Champions League. At the end of the regular season, the top four teams advanced to a knockout competition, the winners of which were crowned Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281811-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary\nIn early January, shortly after the season began, the PNGFA were banned from using all PNG Sports Foundation facilities due to outstanding payments from the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, which took place in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281811-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary\nReigning champions Toti City made a strong start to the season, picking up big wins in their second and third fixtures, defeating Buang FC 8\u20131 and Madang FC 7\u20132 on back-to-back weekends to go clear at the top after just three weeks. It was a position they would not relinquish for the remainder of the season, eventually going unbeaten, dropping points in the second half of the season with draws against Madang and Southern Strikers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281811-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary\nThe battle for second place, and with it the second OFC Champions League spot, was far closer. Initially, it looked like Madang would be Toti's closest rivals, as they sat four points ahead of third-placed Morobe Wawens in mid-March. However, a 2\u20130 defeat on 17 March to Besta PNG United and a defeat by the same scoreline to Wawens on the final official matchday 21 April saw them slip to fourth, while Wawens' victory propelled them into the second spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281811-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary\nOn May 3, after the end of the officially scheduled fixtures, it was decided that all the remaining matches were to be forfeited, as only the top four sides had paid their affiliation fee in full. However, by the following week, Southern Strikers settled their fee, and their remaining matches were rescheduled, while Buang and Momase had 0\u20133 defeats awarded against them in all their outstanding fixtures. Southern Strikers eventually finished fifth, outside the qualification to the playoffs, and their rearranged matches had no effect on the final standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281811-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary\nIn the playoffs, Toti City reached their fourth consecutive Grand Final with a penalty shoot-out victory over Madang in the first semi-final, while third-placed Besta PNG United defeated second-placed Wawens. In the final Toti City claimed their fourth title with a 3\u20130 victory over Besta PNG.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake\nThe Papua New Guinea earthquake was a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that occurred in the Hela Province of Papua New Guinea on 26 February 2018 (25 February UTC), at 3:44\u00a0a.m. local time (25 February, 17:44 UTC). The earthquake's epicenter was 10 kilometres (6.2\u00a0mi) west of the town of Komo. The maximum felt intensity was IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale. A total of 160 people were killed and many others were injured. An aftershock of M6.0 killed 11 people on 4 March, while another aftershock of M6.7 occurred at 00:13 local time on 7 March, killing at least 25 more. A 6.3 aftershock killed another 4 people on 7 April, more than a month after the first tremors hit the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Tectonic setting\nPapua New Guinea lies within the complex zone of collision between the Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate, which converge at a rate of 107\u00a0mm per year at the earthquake's location. The Papuan fold and thrust belt, which is responsible for the mountainous New Guinea Highlands, forms the boundary between the Stable Platform area to the south and the Mobile Belt to the north. The Stable Platform consists of little deformed continental crust of the Australian Plate. The Mobile Belt consists of a series of arc terranes and continental fragments previously accreted to the Australian Plate. Current convergence across the fold and thrust belt are estimated at up to 15\u00a0mm per year. The thrusting is thick-skinned in type, involving reverse reactivation of much older extensional faults.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Earthquake\nThe main shock struck at a depth of 23.4\u00a0km below the northern slopes of Mt. Sisa, and was followed by a 5.5 Mb aftershock less than 30 minutes later. The Geohazards Management Division in Port Moresby characterized it as \"typical for the Papuan fold and thrust belt\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks\nThere have been more than 270 aftershocks reported by USGS in total, 68 of which were above magnitude 5, and 6 of which were above magnitude 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Aftermath, Damage\nOn the morning of 26 February, ExxonMobil announced that they would temporarily shut down the Hides gas field conditioning plant, situated about 8 kilometres (5.0\u00a0mi) from the epicenter, in order to assess damage. Officials later confirmed that all of the staff were \"safe and accounted for\", while the administration buildings, living quarters, and mess hall had all sustained damage. The company was planning on evacuating all non-essential personnel. Flights into the Komo airfield were temporarily suspended until the runway could be surveyed. Sinkholes and landslides were reported across the affected areas, with electricity supplies also being disrupted. On 10 March, ExxonMobil officials announced that the Hides facility will not be operational for at least 8 weeks, a significant economic loss for the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 872]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Aftermath, Damage\nPapua New Guinea's largest oil and gas exploration and development company Oil Search also announced it would shut down production in the Southern Highlands until it could ensure the safety of its employees. The Porgera Gold Mine suffered damage to its gas and electricity infrastructure, while landslips blocked the access road to the Ok Tedi Mine and damaged parts of the highway between Tabubil and Kiunga in the Western Province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Aftermath, Damage\nA week after the quake, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement officials estimated that at least 7,000 people had their homes destroyed or damaged, and 150,000 people were in urgent need of emergency supplies, with food and clean water among the biggest concerns. Lack of road access and landslides were hampering deliveries in the area. By 7 March the number of displaced people had risen to 17,000, with continuing problems due to damaged roads and communication difficulties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Aftermath, Damage\nThe first UNDAC situational overview was released on 10 March, prepared in collaboration with local and international agencies. Over 544,000 people were reported to be affected by the quake, with half of them being targeted for assistance, and more than 26,000 displaced across the western parts of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Aftermath, Damage\nOn 15 March, nearly three weeks after the earthquake, UNICEF estimated that 275,000 people were in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, including 125,000 children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Aftermath, Damage, Indonesia\nThe quake and its aftershocks caused panic in Jayapura, the capital of Indonesia's Papua province. The country's National Board for Disaster Management later confirmed that several buildings were damaged in the Boven Digoel Regency, including a mosque, a military post, and a district office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Aftermath, Casualties\nA total of 160 people were reported to have been killed, while many others were badly injured. Hela Province had at least 80 confirmed deaths, while 45 casualties were reported from the Southern Highlands Province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Aftermath, Casualties\nOn 4 March, a M6.0 aftershock killed 11 people after a landslide buried the small village of Huya. A further 25 people were reported killed by a M6.7 aftershock on 7 March. A M6.3 aftershock on 7 April caused more damage, and four people were killed when houses collapsed in Tari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Aftermath, Response\nThe government of Papua New Guinea dispatched disaster assessment teams to parts of the Southern Highlands and Hela provinces following the earthquake. Members of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force were also mobilised to assist with the delivery of supplies to affected people, as well as the restoration of services and infrastructure. A state of emergency was declared on 1 March for the provinces of Hela, Southern Highlands, Enga and Western, together with a promise of 450 million kina (about 138 million US$) to help deal with the aftermath of the quake. On 8 March, the country's Commerce and Industry Minister Wera Mori estimated that reconstruction will cost at least 600 million kina (about 185 million US$). In addition to the four provinces under a state of emergency, Gulf Province was also discovered to be seriously affected in the quake's aftermath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 919]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Aftermath, Response\nThe Australian government promised $AU 200,000 in aid and sent a C-130 Hercules aircraft for aerial surveys. The first shipment of supplies arrived at Moro Airport on 3 March. Four days later the country pledged a further 1,000,000 US$ in support of vulnerable women and children in the earthquake-affected areas, as well as three CH-47 Chinook helicopters and additional Australian Defence Force personnel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Aftermath, Response\nThe New Zealand government sent two Lockheed C-130 Hercules planes carrying hygiene kits, shelter supplies, water containers and tarpaulins. The government of China donated over 2.8 million kina (about 880,000 US$) in the weeks after the disaster. On 8 March 40 electricity generators were delivered from Israel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Aftermath, Response\nThe Red Cross released $221,000 in funds and announced it would send first aid, water, mosquito nets and shelters to the stricken areas. ExxonMobil donated $1,000,000 to relief efforts, and allowed the government to use its experts, resources and helicopters in the recovery process, while Santos Limited released a total of $1,200,000 to the Hela Provincial Hospital and aid agencies working in Papua New Guinea. Bank South Pacific donated 1 million kina (about 310,000 US$) to the emergency relief and reconstruction fund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281812-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake, Aftermath, Response\nBy 16 March, the total amount of cash donations had reached 150 million kina (about 46 million US$), with the government announcing it had already committed about one third of them to humanitarian aid and road reconstruction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281813-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Papua gubernatorial election took place in Papua, Indonesia on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of Papua alongside with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281813-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Lukas Enembe ran for his second term against the regent of Jayawijaya Regency John Wempi Wetipo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281813-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua gubernatorial election, Timeline\nRegistration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017 although none registered. The candidates were assigned their ballot numbers on 21 February 2018. The campaigning period would commence between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281813-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua gubernatorial election, Timeline\nThe General Elections Commission planned to release a list of eligible voters by 22 April 2018, but it was delayed citing delays from several regions. A placeholder count from March 2018 placed the voter count at 3,125,047.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281813-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua gubernatorial election, Candidates\nAs per regulations due to the province's special autonomy status, candidates are required to garner the support of political parties totaling 15 percent of the popular vote in the 2014 election or parties controlling 15 percent of the 55-seat provincial council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281813-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Papua gubernatorial election, Candidates\nThe Lukas-Klemen pair (abbreviated as Lukmen) are both incumbents. After garnering the support of most political parties in 2017, several media outlets and his party Demokrat speculated that the election will be uncontested. On January 4, however, PDI-P leader Megawati Sukarnoputri declared that the party will place its support behind John Wempi Wetipo, regent of Jayawijaya Regency with former regent of Jayapura Regency Habel Melkias Suwae as his running mate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281813-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Papua gubernatorial election, Candidates\nThe John-Suwae ticket (abbreviated as Josua) also received the endorsement of Gerindra, despite the two parties being the main parties of the government (Koalisi Indonesia Hebat) and opposition (Koalisi Merah Putih) coalitions in the People's Representative Council. Deputy speaker of the parliament and Gerindra vice-chairman Fadli Zon noted that the alliance was \"reflecting the aspirations of local areas\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281814-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Paradise Jam Tournament\nThe 2018 Paradise Jam Tournament was a set of men's and women's preseason college basketball tournaments that took place in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands at the Sports and Fitness Center on the campus of the University of the Virgin Islands, after a year's absence due to major damage to the Virgin Islands from Hurricanes Irma and Maria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281814-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Paradise Jam Tournament\nThe men's tournament was played November 16\u201319, 2018, with the women's tournament to be held November 22\u201325.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281814-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament\nThe women's tournament will be played from November 22\u201324. The women's tournament consists of 8 teams split into two 4-team, round-robin divisions: Island and Reef.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281815-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 2018 Divisi\u00f3n Profesional season (officially the Copa de Primera TIGO-Visi\u00f3n Banco 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was the 84th season of top-flight professional football in Paraguay. The season began on 2 February and ended on 8 December. Cerro Porte\u00f1o were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281815-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nIn the Torneo Apertura, Olimpia won their forty-first league title with two matches to spare following a 2\u20131 win over Libertad on 30 May. Olimpia also clinched their forty-second league title in the Torneo Clausura with two matches to spare after beating Guaran\u00ed 4\u20131 on 28 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281815-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Teams, Stadia and locations\nNote: Teams occasionally play their home games at Estadio Defensores del Chaco in Asunci\u00f3n. Derbies between Cerro Porte\u00f1o and Olimpia are also played at this stadium. a: Deportivo Santan\u00ed played their Torneo Apertura home match against Olimpia at Estadio Antonio Aranda in Ciudad del Este instead of their regular stadium Estadio Juan Jos\u00e9 V\u00e1zquez in San Estanislao. b: Guaran\u00ed played their home games at Estadio Defensores del Chaco in Asunci\u00f3n until mid-May while their regular stadium Estadio Rogelio Livieres underwent maintenance works. Guaran\u00ed played their Torneo Apertura home match against Olimpia at Estadio Antonio Aranda in Ciudad del Este.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281815-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Torneo Apertura\nThe Campeonato de Apertura, named \"Centenario del Estadio Defensores del Chaco\", was the 117th official championship of the Primera Divisi\u00f3n and the first championship of the 2018 season. It started on February 2 and concluded on June 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281815-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Torneo Clausura\nThe Campeonato de Clausura, named \"Dr. Ger\u00f3nimo Angulo Gast\u00f3n\", was the 118th official championship of the Primera Divisi\u00f3n and the second championship of the 2018 season. It started on July 17 and concluded on December 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281815-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Relegation\nRelegation is determined at the end of the season by computing an average of the number of points earned per game over the past three seasons. The two teams with the lowest average were relegated to the Divisi\u00f3n Intermedia for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281816-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Paraguayan general election\nGeneral elections were held in Paraguay on Sunday, 22 April 2018. President Horacio Cartes and Vice-President Juan Afara of the Colorado Party were not eligible for re-election. The presidential elections were won by the Colorado Party's Mario Abdo Ben\u00edtez, who defeated Efra\u00edn Alegre of the GANAR alliance. The Colorado Party also won the most seats in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. The new President and Vice-President took office on 15 August 2018 and will leave office in August 2023.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281816-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Paraguayan general election, Electoral system\nThe President of Paraguay is elected in one round of voting by plurality. The 80 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by closed list proportional representation in 18 multi-member constituencies based on the departments. The 45 members of the Senate are elected from a single national constituency using closed list proportional representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281817-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Para\u00f1aque Patriots season\nThe 2018 Para\u00f1aque Patriots season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281818-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris Motor Show\nThe 2018 Paris Motor Show took place from 4 October to 14 October. For the first time, it consists in three shows dedicated to automobiles, motorcycles and new mobility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281819-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris Sevens\nThe 2018 Paris Sevens was the final event of the 2017\u201318 World Rugby Sevens Series and the eleventh edition of the France Sevens. The tournament was held between 9\u201310 June 2018 at Stade Jean-Bouin, Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281819-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris Sevens, Teams\nThe fifteen core teams will be participating in the tournament, along with one invited team, Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281819-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris Sevens, Pool stages\nAll times in Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00). The games as scheduled are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281819-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris Sevens, Players, Dream Team\nThe following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix\nThe 2018 Paris ePrix (formally the 2018 Qatar Airways Paris E-Prix) was a Formula E electric car race held before a crowd of 48,000 spectators at the Circuit des Invalides in the Les Invalides building complex on 28 April 2018. It was the eighth race of the 2017\u201318 Formula E season and the third edition of the event. The 49-lap race was won by Techeetah driver Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne from pole position. Audi's Lucas di Grassi finished second and Virgin driver Sam Bird was third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix\nVergne won the pole position by recording the fastest lap in qualifying and maintained the lead for the next 23 laps as Bird had more electrical energy available. This allowed Bird to shorten Vergne's lead and unsuccessfully tried to overtake him. Through the pit stop phase to get into a second car, di Grassi took the lead for two laps after conserving electrical energy. Edoardo Mortara led the following lap before Vergne retook the position after the pit stops. Vergne was unchallenged for the final third of the race and took his third victory of the season after his teammate Andr\u00e9 Lotterer battled Bird and di Grassi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix\nThe consequence of the race extended Vergne's Drivers' Championship lead over Bird to 31 points and Felix Rosenqvist kept third despite placing eighth. S\u00e9bastien Buemi kept fourth position while di Grassi moved him from eighth to fifth. In the Teams' Championship, Techeetah increased their advantage over Virgin from 34 to 55 points. Audi overtook Mahindra for third with four races left in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Background\nThe 2018 Paris ePrix was confirmed as part of Formula E's 2017\u201318 schedule in September 2017 by the FIA World Motor Sport Council. It was the eighth of twelve scheduled single-seater electric car races of the 2017\u201318 season, and the third edition of the event. The ePrix was held at the 14-turn 1.930\u00a0km (1.199\u00a0mi) clockwise Circuit des Invalides in the Les Invalides building complex of the city's 7th arrondissement on 28 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Background\nIt was switched from May to April because organisers wanted less traffic in the area owing to the 2017 race being held outside the French school holidays. Construction of the circuit took around six days with workers using 5,000\u00a0t (5,000,000\u00a0kg) of material shipped to the Port Gros-Caillou. Additionally, 1.5\u00a0km (0.93\u00a0mi) of road was resurfaced to make it smoother. Organisers of the race expected around 50,000 people in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Background\nGoing into the race, Techeetah driver Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne led the Drivers' Championship with 119 points. Sam Bird of Virgin followed in second place with 101 points and Mahindra's Felix Rosenqvist was third with 82 points. S\u00e9bastien Buemi of the e.Dams-Renault team was fourth with 60 points and Audi driver Daniel Abt was fifth with 50 points scored. Techeetah led the Teams' Championship with 152 points; Virgin were second with 118 points and Mahindra were 15 points behind in third. Audi in fourth and Jaguar in fifth were separated by one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Background\nBird had won the preceding Rome ePrix two weeks prior and narrowed Vergne's championship lead to 18 points. He spoke of his team's belief they were closer than they had been in the title contest and aimed to capitalise on their current situation, adding that \"I won last time out so I'm feeling good. It's getting to crunch time now in the championship and thankfully I'm there and fighting for the world title this year.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Background\nVergne did not finish the 2017 event due to a suspension failure and spent a week testing in Techeetah's simulator with his mechanics and looked forward to driving in Paris, saying that \"Having grown up in Paris, this race is extra special for me. I'm really looking forward to racing now and to meet all the French fans that have been an incredible support so far this season.\" Lucas di Grassi (Audi), the 2016 Paris ePrix winner, was stimulated to keep getting podium finishes and took a plethora of momentum from Rome, adding that \"Now we need to perfectly nail everything down.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Background\nThere was one change of driver heading into the event. Having been in one of the NIO cars since the season-opening Hong Kong ePrix double header, Luca Filippi was dropped for the race and replaced by the team's reserve and simulation driver Ma Qinghua. The change was necessitated following Filippi's poor performances over the season compared to teammate Oliver Turvey and the lack of significant results and internal pressure was applied to allow a Chinese driver to race once during the campaign. This caused Ma to miss the FIA World Rallycross Championship round at Montalegre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Practice\nTwo practice sessions\u2014both on Saturday morning\u2014were held before the late afternoon race. The first session ran for 45 minutes and the second lasted half an hour. An untimed half hour shakedown session was held late Friday afternoon to allow teams to check the reliability of their cars and electronic systems. Bird set the fastest lap late in the first practice session at 1 minute, 1.698 seconds, followed by di Grassi, Abt, Mitch Evans (Jaguar), Vergne, Alex Lynn (Virgin), Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez (Dragon), Ant\u00f3nio F\u00e9lix da Costa (Andretti), J\u00e9r\u00f4me d'Ambrosio (Dragon) and Andr\u00e9 Lotterer (Techeetah).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Practice\nTwo red flags were necessitated in a session where several drivers went off the track: Nelson Piquet Jr. (Jaguar) lost control of his car heading onto the start/finish straight, and deranged his front-right suspension by striking the turn 14 barrier 15 minutes in. Though Piquet was unhurt, the session was stopped for ten minutes and the safety car returned him to the pit lane as his car was moved. The second stoppage came with 15 minutes left when Rosenqvist struck the kerb at turn 12, and lost control of his vehicle's rear by going airborne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0007-0002", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Practice\nHe oversteered into an outside exit wall and broke his front-left suspension. Di Grassi used 200\u00a0kW (270\u00a0hp) of power to set the fastest lap at the end of second practice at 1 minute, 0.881 seconds, a tenth of a second ahead of Vergne. Positions three through ten were filled by Evans, Rosenqvist, Abt, Turvey, Bird, Piquet, Buemi and Lotterer. Though the session passed relatively smoothly, Piquet crashed for a second time by locking his tyres, losing control of his second car, and bent his front-left tyre in a collision at the long-right turn five barrier, stopping the session for about five minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Qualifying\nSaturday's afternoon qualifying session ran for an hour and was divided into four groups of five cars. Each group was determined by a lottery system and was permitted six minutes of on-track activity. All drivers were limited to two timed laps with one at maximum power. The fastest five overall competitors in the four groups participated in a \"Super Pole\" session with one driver on the track at any time going out in reverse order from fifth to first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Qualifying\nEach of the five drivers was limited to one timed lap and the starting order for the ePrix was determined by the competitor's fastest times (Super Pole from first to fifth, and group qualifying from sixth to twentieth). The driver and team who recorded the fastest time were awarded three points towards their respective championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Qualifying\nIn the first group of five competitors, which had nobody venture onto the dusty track until midway through the session, Vergne set the fastest lap time of any driver in group qualifying at 1 minute, 1.508 seconds. Bird was close behind in second with Buemi third. Rosenqvist and Abt had weak attempts that left him more than half a second slower than Vergne and completed the first group's drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Qualifying\nLotterer led the second group in which traffic was expected to impede others less often and the track conditions were expected to improve but this proved not to be the case due to dust and debris accumulation. Second to fourth places were taken by di Grassi, Turvey and Evans. Piquet did not partake in qualifying because his two cars were being re-built after his two crashes in practice. Jaguar contravened series regulations which obliges teams to send their cars to parc ferm\u00e9 five minutes before qualifying. The stewards later granted Piquet dispensation to start the ePrix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Qualifying\nIn group three, F\u00e9lix da Costa was fastest by setting a quick second sector and was followed by L\u00f3pez in second. Nick Heidfeld (Mahindra) delayed his lap for as long as possible but he lost time in the final third of a lap and came third. Lynn and Edoardo Mortara (Venturi) struggled on the bumpy track and were the third group's slowest two competitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Qualifying\nAll five drivers of the fourth group ventured onto the track as soon as it commenced and had Maro Engel (Venturi) record the fastest lap in spite his first two sector times being off the pace of the fastest overall runners and stopped di Grassi from entering super pole. D'Ambrosio out-qualified teammate L\u00f3pez for the first time in the season and was second-quickest in group four. Tom Blomqvist (Andretti), Nico Prost (e.Dams-Renault) and Ma were group four's slowest three drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Qualifying\nAt the end of the group stages, Vergne, F\u00e9lix da Costa, Engel, Bird and Lotterer's lap times progressed them to super pole. Vergne (fined \u20ac1,000 for pit lane over-speeding during qualifying) was the last driver to set a lap and recorded overall best times to earn his fourth pole position of the season with a 1-minute, 1.144 seconds lap. He was joined on the grid's front row by Bird who held the pole until Vergne's lap in spite of glancing a wall on his try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Qualifying\nLotterer attained his highest qualifying start in Formula E at the time with third after locking his tyres entering turn three. In his second super pole appearance, Engel also had his best career qualifying effort in fourth after losing momentum in the final sector. Fifth-placed F\u00e9lix da Costa locked his tyres and ran wide at the exit of the third corner to not be in contention for pole position. After qualifying, Evans changed the gearbox in one of his cars and dropped ten places because he had taken up his \"joker\" change in Punta del Este.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0010-0003", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Qualifying\nHowever, he could not serve the full penalty and was penalised five seconds during the mandatory change into his second car. Mortara incurred a three-place grid penalty for exceeding the 50\u00a0km/h (31\u00a0mph) speed limit under red flag conditions in the second practice session. The rest of the grid lined up after penalties as di Grassi, d'Ambrosio, Buemi, Turvey, L\u00f3pez, Rosenqvist, Heidfeld, Prost, Abt, Lynn, Blomqvist, Ma, Piquet, Mortara and Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nThe weather at the start was dry but cloudy with the air temperature between 15.55 and 15.84\u00a0\u00b0C (59.99 and 60.51\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperature from 22.75 to 23.35\u00a0\u00b0C (72.95 to 74.03\u00a0\u00b0F). A special feature of Formula E is the \"Fan Boost\" feature, an additional 100\u00a0kW (130\u00a0hp) of power to use in the driver's second car. The three drivers who were allowed to use the boost were determined by a fan vote. For the Paris race, Abt, Buemi and di Grassi were handed the extra power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nWhen the race began before a crowd of 48,000 at 16:03 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00), Vergne maintained the lead driving into the opening corner. Lotterer made a brisk start to pass Bird but the latter regained second position as the two avoided an accident. Further back, di Grassi passed F\u00e9lix da Costa for fifth as the latter was slow off the grid and fell to seventh. D'Ambrosio similarly had an unclean first lap and switched positions with his fast-starting teammate L\u00f3pez. A problem with Ma's inverter meant he moved just a few metres off his starting slot and went several laps down on the leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nAt the turn nine hairpin, Evans attempted to pass Blomqvist with an aggressive manoeuvre and ended up ramming the back of Blomqvist's car. The resulting concertina effect caused Blomqvist to mount the rear of Prost's vehicle. The damage to Evans and Blomqvist's cars led them to enter the pit lane for repairs and dropped them to the rear of the field. The consequence of Ma's stationary car and the Evans, Blomqvist and Prost incident led the race director to activate the full course yellow procedure to allow marshals to clear debris. Racing resumed on the second lap with Vergne leading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nOn that lap, F\u00e9lix da Costa locked his brakes due to a software glitch that switched off his car when he applied his brakes and drove onto the turn eight run-off area. He later returned to the pit lane to retire. Abt passed d'Ambrosio by braking later than him on the outside into turn one for tenth on lap four. At the front, Vergne, Bird and Lotterer opened up a small gap over Engel in fourth who was pressured by di Grassi and Buemi who conserved electrical energy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nAbt overtook Rosenqvist on the outside for ninth at the start of lap eight and passed L\u00f3pez in the same area but on the inside the next lap. On lap 13, the black flags with an orange disc were waved for Prost, ordering him to enter the pit lane and replace his front wing because the one mounted on his car was damaged by Blomqvist in the first lap accident. Abt overtook Turvey for seventh on lap 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nBird had slightly more usable electrical energy than race leader Vergne, allowing him to shorten the latter's advantage and replicate a duel from 2016 at the same track. Lotterer joined the battle soon after as he set at that point the race's fastest lap at 1 minute, 3.073 seconds. However, on lap 22, Lotterer lost a small amount of time to Bird when he locked his tyres into turn eight. Lotterer narrowly avoided glancing the wall but later caught back up. With electrical energy running low on the next lap, Bird tried again to pass Vergne by braking later than him on the right entering turn one but locked his front tyres and turned back onto the racing line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nVergne, Bird and Lotterer were separated by half a second when they made their mandatory pit stops to change into a second car at the end of lap 24. Di Grassi and Buemi's strategy allowed the duo to complete two more laps in first and second. Rosenqvist made a prior pit stop and was being lapped by the top two but did not yield to di Grassi, allowing Buemi to close up but could not overtake him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nMortara led for one lap after conserving the most electrical energy out of any driver as he sought to gain positions after his qualifying performance. After the pit stops, Vergne retained first place and extended his lead over Bird by more than a second. Lotterer remained in third despite his pit stop lasting two seconds longer. Di Grassi demoted Engel to fifth by having a faster pit stop and he held off Engel upon rejoining the circuit. Abt began to duel Buemi for sixth on lap 30. Rosenqvist took ninth from L\u00f3pez by moving between him and the turn ten inside wall on that lap. Rosenqvist braked later than Turvey and took eighth from him on the outside at turn one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nMeanwhile, di Grassi's electrical energy advantage allowed him to pull away from Engel whom Buemi and Abt battled with and recorded the race's fastest lap on lap 34 of 1 minute, 2.367 seconds to earn one point. On lap 35, Lotterer had drawn close enough to Bird to affect an overtake on him. Lotterer turned left and passed Bird entering turn ten but locked his tyres midway through by missing his braking point. The two collided since Bird's path was blocked. Lotterer sustained rear wing damage but continued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nThis allowed di Grassi to close up and overtake Bird on the inside entering turn one the lap after. Entering the final ten laps, most drivers had 40 per cent of electrical energy available which meant everyone had to use 4 per cent for the rest of the race due to the short length of the track but the possibility of some not reaching the end increased as Bird had just 22 per cent left with six laps to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0015-0002", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nOn lap 41, a short yellow flag phase was prompted when L\u00f3pez hit Mortara at turn ten and the latter drifted into a barrier but reversed to continue driving. Abt used his FanBoost to overtake Buemi on the inside into turn one for sixth three laps later and then unsuccessfully attempted to pass Engel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nLotterer and di Grassi drew closer to race leader Vergne as they distanced fourth-placed Bird in the closing laps. Di Grassi came close to passing Lotterer through turns eight and nine on lap 46 and the manner of Lotterer's defensive manoeuvres drew an angry response from di Grassi over the radio and both drivers lost momentum. On the final lap, Abt lost fifth to Buemi at the turn nine chicane in a manoeuvre that damaged Abt's sidepod and the latter narrowly avoided going into a wall. Abt stopped, steered 360 degrees and re-accelerated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nThis left him without enough electrical energy to cross the finish line at full racing speed and his car shut down. Unchallenged in the final third of the race, Vergne extended his lead to almost five seconds and slowed across the line with a small amount of electrical energy for his third victory of the season. Meanwhile, Lotterer ran out of electrical energy at turn nine and di Grassi took second from him. Bird sought a way past the slow Lotterer but he could not do so due to the tight circuit and rammed into the rear of his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0016-0002", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race\nThe crash littered debris on the track, damaging Bird's front-left wheel, but took third while Lotterer's rear wing was cracked. Engel took his best career finish in fourth and positions five to ten were taken by Buemi, Lotterer, Abt. Rosenqvist, Turvey and L\u00f3pez. Heidfeld, d'Ambrosio, Mortara, Lynn, Evans, Prost and Ma were the final classified finishers. Piquet was the only other retirement when he stopped with a loose seat belt on lap 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference. Vergne declared his victory as the \"most emotional\" of his career up to that point, \"I can't find words, It's an incredible feeling, by far my best victory. If there was a race I wanted to win this year it was clearly Paris\". He reserved praise for his team, thanked them for their work over the weekend and affirmed they would continue to work hard for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race\nSecond-placed di Grassi spoke of his happiness at another podium and maintaining his record of scoring points after repairs were made to his car to improve its reliability, \"I had another good run today. It was a shame about qualifying, as I missed super pole by five-thousandths of a second and it was super tight.\" Bird complimented Vergne on the way he ran the race but stated his feeling he was sometimes being put into Lotterer's path, \"If he could use him, I'm sure he would've liked to have used him to create a buffer as he is fighting me for the title currently.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe stewards deemed Lotterer to have caused the final lap collision with Bird and imposed a ten-place grid penalty on him for the Berlin ePrix but did not penalise him for the lap 35 contact with the latter. Bird was vocal in his criticism of Lotterer, telling the press the issue of moving under braking was discussed in the pre-race drivers briefing, and called for the consistent application of penalties, \"That is not correct in any form of motorsport and I believe what we saw today was not correct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race\nI had a bit of it in Punta [del Este] and it's too aggressive.\" Di Grassi said he saw no logic of Lotterer impeding him once his energy had been depleted and warned that such manoeuvres could become common in Formula E. He agreed with Bird's view and wanted the enforcement of improved competitor etiquette and urged the series' governing body, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile, to impose harsher penalties on those deemed to have inadequate driving standards. Lotterer dismissed the criticism towards him and targeted di Grassi in his comments, \"I don't know, I was just racing. I don't know what he was complaining about. He actually drove into me twice in this race. I don't care what he says\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race\nEngel scored eleven points prior to the Paris ePrix and stated his career-best fourth-place finish gave him the confidence to aim for the podium at Berlin, \"We've always said that if we have a car that enables us to regularly be in top ten, and on good days, when everything comes together, we can fight for the top five, maybe even get on the podium. We had a good day in Paris. We were so close to the podium but we can be happy with P4.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race\nAudi team principal Allan McNish revealed Abt declared his intention to overcome the narrow circuit in the team's pre-race briefing. Abt argued Buemi got too close to him on the final lap and stated his feeling he was overly defensive once past. Buemi countered this argument by suggesting Abt left him space to pass on the left. Piquet retired with a seat belt problem for the second successive race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0019-0002", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race\nHe renewed criticism of Formula E's decision to drop the minimum pit stop time, suggesting the new regulation mandated other drivers to risk too much in shortening the amount of time spent in the pit lane and claimed those running in the top ten refitted their seat belts after the race, \"It caused us to get the seatbelts loose at one point when I was adjusting them during the run. They got loose, they opened, and I had to stop.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281820-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe consequence of Vergne's victory increased his lead in the Drivers' Championship to 31 points over Bird. Rosenqvist now had 86 points and retained third position despite his eighth-place finish while Buemi kept fourth position with 70 points. Di Grassi's second-place finish moved him three positions from eighth to fifth with 58 points. In the Teams' Championship, Techeetah moved further ahead of Virgin by 19 points. Audi overtook Mahindra for third position, while Jaguar scored no points but retained fifth place with four races left in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281821-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris knife attack\nOn 12 May 2018, a 21-year-old Chechnya-born French citizen, armed with a knife, killed one pedestrian and injured four others near the Palais Garnier, the opera house in Paris, France, before being fatally shot by police. The stabbings were in the area of Rue Saint-Augustin and Passage Choiseul. French President Emmanuel Macron said France had \"paid once again the price of blood but will not cede an inch to the enemies of freedom.\" The suspect, identified as Khamzat Azimov, had been on a counter-terrorism watchlist since 2016. Amaq News Agency posted a video of a hooded person pledging allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, claimed to be the attacker. Europol classified the attack as jihadist terrorism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281821-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris knife attack, Incident\nThe attack occurred at around 8:47\u00a0p.m., in the second arrondissement of Paris. Police first tried twice to stop the attacker with a stun-gun before shooting the suspect fatally when the stun-gun failed to incapacitate him. Footage from the scene shows people running northward from Rue Mehul into Rue Marsollier, and at least one individual on the corner of the streets potentially wounded. An unnamed witness was interviewed by France's BFM network, who stated that a young woman at the entrance of a restaurant was knifed in the neck, before being rescued, and the attacker moved to another street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281821-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris knife attack, Suspect\nThe attack was put under investigation of a counter-terrorism unit of the Paris Police Prefecture. The pro-ISIL Amaq News Agency claimed the suspect as a \"soldier of the Islamic State\", responding to its call to attack coalition citizens. Prosecutor Francois Molins stated that the attacker shouted \"Allahu Akbar\" during the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281821-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris knife attack, Suspect\nThe suspect was named as Khamzat Azimov, a French citizen and nursing student, born in November 1, 1997 in Argun, Chechnya. He came with his parents to France in the early 2000s where the family was granted refugee status in 2004. Growing up in Strasbourg, in the Region of Alsace, in 2010, his mother became a French citizen, which allowed him to be naturalized also. The then-19-year-old suspect became a person of interest for the DGSI in 2016, when some of his acquaintances planned to travel to Syria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281821-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris knife attack, Suspect\nHe had no previous criminal record; however, NBC reported that the \"suspect was on a police watch list for radicalism.\" A judicial source told French media that his parents were being held for questioning. In Chechnya, security forces deployed armored personnel carriers in Argun to round up relatives of Azimov for questioning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281821-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris knife attack, Suspect\nA high-school friend of Azimov was arrested in Strasbourg and transferred to Paris. Shortly before the attack, he had sent his sister a text message of \"a jihadist chant regularly used by the Islamic State\" from one of his at least eight cellphones. The suspect, identified as Abdul Hakim A, also a Chechen-born French national who had appeared on terror watch lists, was charged with \"associating with criminal terrorists with plans to attack people.\" Two women were detained for questioning, one reportedly Hakim A's radicalised wife who in 2017 had attempted to leave for Syria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281821-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris knife attack, Reactions\nParis Mayor Anne Hidalgo wrote on Twitter about the attack that \"tonight, our city has been bruised\" and that \"all Parisians are by their side\", referring to the families and friends of the victims. French President Emmanuel Macron categorized the attacker a \"terrorist\". French Interior Minister G\u00e9rard Collomb praised the cool and quick response of the French police who \"neutralized\" the assailant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281821-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris knife attack, Reactions\nPresident of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, blamed French authorities and his upbringing in France for the attack, declaring that \"In this light, I see fit to declare that all responsibility for the fact that Azimov has embarked on the criminal path rests with the French authorities.\" This caused French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to respond by blaming it on \"extrajudicial crackdowns against Chechen civilians\" by Kadyrov's security forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281822-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Nice\nThe 2018 Paris\u2013Nice was a road cycling stage race that took place between 4 and 11 March 2018 in France. It was the 76th edition of the Paris\u2013Nice and the sixth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281822-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Nice\nThe race was won on the final day by the Movistar Team's Marc Soler from Spain. Having started the final stage 37 seconds down on race leader Simon Yates (Mitchelton\u2013Scott) in sixth place overall, Soler attacked around halfway into the stage along with compatriot David de la Cruz (Team Sky); the duo joined Omar Fraile (Astana) at the head of the race, and the trio managed to stay clear of the rest of the field by the time they reached Nice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281822-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Nice\nAs de la Cruz and Fraile contested stage honours, Soler finished third \u2013 acquiring four bonus seconds on the finish in addition to three gained at an earlier intermediate sprint \u2013 and with a 35-second gap to Yates and the remaining general classification contenders, it was enough to give Soler victory over Yates by four seconds. The podium was completed by Bahrain\u2013Merida's Gorka Izagirre, moving ahead of teammate and brother Ion Izagirre due to bonus seconds won on the final day, 14 seconds behind Soler, who also won the white jersey as best young rider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281822-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Nice\nLotto\u2013Soudal won the two other jerseys on offer in the race; Tim Wellens won the green jersey for the points classification, taking five top-ten finishes over the course of the week, while Thomas De Gendt was the winner of the mountains classification. With the performances of the Izagirre brothers, Bahrain\u2013Merida were the winners of the teams classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281822-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Nice, Teams\nAs Paris\u2013Nice is a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Four UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 22-team peloton. Paris\u2013Nice is the first race for Groupama\u2013FDJ under this nomenclature, as French insurance company Groupama signed a co-naming sponsorship deal with the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281822-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Nice, Route\nThe route of the 2018 Paris\u2013Nice was announced on 9 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281822-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Nice, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Paris\u2013Nice, four jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages except for the individual time trial: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints \u2013 three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The leader of the general classification received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Paris\u2013Nice, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281822-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Nice, Classification leadership table\nThe second classification was the points classification. Riders were awarded points for finishing in the top ten in a stage. Unlike in the points classification in the Tour de France, the winners of all stages were awarded the same number of points. Points were also won in intermediate sprints; three points for crossing the sprint line first, two points for second place, and one for third. The leader of the points classification was awarded a green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281822-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Nice, Classification leadership table\nThere was also a mountains classification, for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. Each climb was categorised as either first, second, or third-category, with more points available for the more difficult, higher-categorised climbs. For first-category climbs, the top seven riders earned points; on second-category climbs, five riders won points; on third-category climbs, only the top three riders earned points. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a white jersey with red polka-dots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281822-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Nice, Classification leadership table\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. Only riders born after 1 January 1993 were eligible; the young rider best placed in the general classification was the leader of the young rider classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists in a team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest cumulative time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281823-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 2018 Paris\u2013Roubaix was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 8 April 2018 in France. It was the 116th edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix and the fifteenth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281823-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nFor the first time since Bernard Hinault in 1981, the race was won by the incumbent world champion, Peter Sagan (Bora\u2013Hansgrohe). Sagan attacked the main group of riders, on sector 12 of pav\u00e9 between Auchy-lez-Orchies and Bers\u00e9e, catching the head of the race not long after. Only Swiss champion Silvan Dillier, riding for the AG2R La Mondiale team, was able to stay with Sagan all the way to the finish at Roubaix Velodrome, where Sagan won the two-up sprint finish. Third place, 57 seconds later, went to Tour of Flanders winner Niki Terpstra, for Quick-Step Floors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281823-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe race was marred by the death of V\u00e9randas Willems\u2013Crelan rider Michael Goolaerts. During the race, he suffered a cardiac arrest, and later died in hospital in Lille.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281823-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Roubaix, Teams\nAs Paris\u2013Roubaix was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Seven UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281824-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Tours\nThe 2018 Paris\u2013Tours was the 112th edition of the Paris\u2013Tours cycling classic. The race was held on 7 October 2018 as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour as a 1.HC-ranked event. S\u00f8ren Kragh Andersen won in a time of 4h 37' 55\" ahead of Niki Terpstra and Beno\u00eet Cosnefroy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281824-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Tours, Teams\nTwenty-three teams of up to seven riders started the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281825-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Troyes\nThe 2018 Paris\u2013Troyes was the 60th edition of Paris\u2013Troyes road cycling one day race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281825-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Paris\u2013Troyes, Teams\nTwenty-two teams were invited to take part in the race. These included five UCI Professional Continental teams and seventeen UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281826-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Parramatta Eels season\nThe 2018 Parramatta Eels season is the 72nd in the club's history. Coached by Brad Arthur, they finished the NRL's 2018 Telstra Premiership in last place, and did not qualify for the 2018 NRL Finals Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281826-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Parramatta Eels season, Controversies, Tony Williams drink driving\nOn 14 February 2018, Tony Williams was fined $1,000, had his driver\u2019s licence suspended for 12 months, and was placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond after appearing in Parramatta local court for mid-range drink driving. Williams had insisted on driving home when his wife came to pick him up after a birthday celebration at the Albion Hotel in Parramatta on 16 December 2016. His three young children were in the car at the time. His driving was so erratic that members of the public called the police, who discovered Williams had a blood alcohol level of 0.122. \"Shame on you, Mr Williams,\" Magistrate Jennifer Giles said at sentencing. She said the \"community does not feel safe with you with a licence; you are exceptionally lucky you did not hurt or kill someone, or yourself.\" Williams also has handed a 2-week suspension by the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 914]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281826-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Parramatta Eels season, Controversies, Corey Norman drinking fine\nIn May 2018, Corey Norman was handed a breach notice by Parramatta and fined $20,000 for drinking alcohol and posting pictures of himself drinking on Instagram despite being on the injured list which is against team protocols. Norman reacted to the fine saying \"I take full responsibility, I'll cop it on the chin\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281826-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Parramatta Eels season, Controversies, Kenny Edwards contract termination\nOn May 19, 2018, Edwards' contract with the club was terminated by mutual agreement as the player had been caught by police driving on a suspended licence. Edwards was alleged to have fled from police after trying to avoid a roadside breath test. Edwards subsequently failed to notify Parramatta of the incident for two weeks after it happened. Parramatta released a statement saying \"Today, Kenny Edwards through his management company, request a release from his playing contract with Parramatta National Rugby League Club Pty Limited, this release was granted by the club effective immediately\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281826-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Parramatta Eels season, Controversies, Tony Williams and Nathan Davis failed drug test\nOn September 25, Davis and Williams were both terminated by Parramatta after failing a second drugs test. Both players were found guilty of testing positive for cocaine. As punishment, the NRL handed down a 12 match suspension and a fine to Davis and Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 91], "content_span": [92, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281827-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Parry Sound District municipal elections\nElections were held in the organized municipalities in the Parry Sound District of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281828-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Parry Sound forest fire\nThe Parry Sound forest fire (officially designated as Parry Sound 33) was a wildfire in unorganized parts of Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281828-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Parry Sound forest fire, Progression\nThe fire was first discovered on July 18, 2018. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF), the Ontario government ministry responsible for battling forest fires, began immediate efforts to contain the blaze. By July 23, 2018, the fire had covered 50\u00a0km2 (12,000 acres), forcing evacuations and a state of emergency in the community of Henvey Inlet First Nation, as well as evacuations of people in French River Provincial Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281828-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Parry Sound forest fire, Progression\nThe fire grew to 67\u00a0km2 (17,000 acres) by July 26, 2018. By July 28, 2018, the fire was within 7 kilometres (4.3\u00a0mi) of Highway 69. By August 5, the fire had grown to 112.3\u00a0km2 (27,700 acres), but the fire was successfully contained within a few days after this. On October 31, 2018 the wildfire was declared extinguished by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281828-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Parry Sound forest fire, Investigation\nAn investigation by the MNRF ruled that the fire was started by a disabled ATV near Henvey Inlet. This confirmed unofficial reports that construction crews working on the Henvey Inlet Wind Project were unable to contain a fire started by one of their vehicles. The ministry has decided not to raise charges against the construction company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281829-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pasamayo bus crash\nOn 2 January 2018 a Peruvian bus carrying 57 passengers from Huacho to Lima went over a cliff after being struck by a tractor trailer near Pasamayo, Peru, killing 51 people and injuring at least 5 others. It is the deadliest road accident in Peruvian history, tied with the 2013 Peru bus disaster. The crash occurred near the 'Devil's Curve' highway, a precariously nicknamed route that is known for fatal traffic accidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281829-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pasamayo bus crash, Accident\nPeruvian Transportation Minister Bruno Giuffra stated on Twitter that both vehicles were in \"excess of speed\" when the accident occurred shortly before noon. The area of the crash, which is 43 kilometers from Lima, was an isolated, rocky beach below the Devil's Curve not readily reachable by roadways. The route the accident occurred on, the Devil's Curve, received its nickname from treacherous conditions created by frequent fog, a lack of barriers, and its unpredictable shape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281829-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pasamayo bus crash, Accident\nWhen the bus fell during the accident, the particular cliff it was knocked off was 260 ft (79m) high. The crash was reportedly very violent, with many passengers being thrown outside of the bus and 12 of the deceased not being immediately removable from the vehicle. 5 individuals were airlifted to hospital after emergency crews managed to extract them from the wreckage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281829-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pasamayo bus crash, Accident\nAs a result of the accident, Peru banned buses on Devil's Curve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281830-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pasay Voyagers season\nThe 2018 Pasay Voyagers season is the first season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281831-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pasig Pirates season\nThe 2018 Pasig Pirates season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281832-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Patriot League Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Patriot League Baseball Tournament took place on consecutive weekends, with the semifinals held May 12\u201313 and the finals May 18\u201320. The higher seeded teams each hosted best of three series. As champion, Army earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281832-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Patriot League Baseball Tournament, Seeding\nThe top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four, with the top seed hosting the fourth seed and second seed hosting the third. The visiting team was designated as the home team in the second game of each series. Navy hosted Holy Cross while Army hosted Bucknell in the semifinals. Navy hosted Army in the final after both teams won their previous series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281833-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Patriot League for the 2017\u201318 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held on February 27, March 1, 4, and 7, 2018 with the higher seed in each matchup hosting at their respective campus sites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281833-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament\nBucknell defeated Colgate in the championship game to win the tournament and received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281833-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll 10 Patriot League teams were eligible for the tournament. The top six teams received a first round bye. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281833-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nWith a win over Loyola (MD) on February 14, 2018, Bucknell clinched the Patriot League regular season championship for the seventh time in the previous eight years and earned the No. 1 seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281834-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament, will be the 29th edition of the tournament. It determined the Patriot League's automatic berth into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281834-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe Colgate Raiders are the two-time defending champions, and successfully defended their title defeating Army 1\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281834-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament, Background\nThe 2017 tournament was won by Colgate Raiders, who qualified for the tournament on the last day of the regular season as the sixth and final seed in the tournament. Colgate were able to capture their seventh Patriot League Tournament championship, tying them with Lafayette. En route to the final, Colgate upset third-seed Bucknell and top seed Loyola. In the final, a 67th minute striker from Oliver Harris sealed the title for the Raiders against Holy Cross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281834-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament, Background\nWith the championship, Colgate earned an automatic berth into the 2017 NCAA Tournament. There they made a run to the Sweet Sixteen, upsetting No. 24 UMass and No. 13 Michigan along the way. Colgate ultimately fell to Louisville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281835-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Patriot League Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Patriot League Women's Basketball Tournament was from held March 3, 5, 8 and 10 at campus sites of the higher seed, except that both semi-final games will be played at the same site of the highest seed. American won the Patriot League Tournament will earn an automatic trip to the NCAA Women's Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281835-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Patriot League Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nTeams are seeded by conference record, with ties broken in the following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 56], "content_span": [57, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281836-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Patriot League Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Patriot League Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Patriot League held from October 30 through November 4, 2018. The quarterfinals of the tournament will be held at campus sites, while the semifinals and final took place at Nickerson Field in Boston, Massachusetts. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the Bucknell Bison, however they were unable to defend their crown, losing to Lehigh 2\u20131 in the first round. The tournament was won by the Boston University Terriers, who were the #1 seed and defeated Lehigh 1\u20130 in the final. The conference championship was the fourth for the Boston University women's soccer program, all of which have come under coach Nancy Feldman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 884]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281837-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Paul Hunter Classic\nThe 2018 Paul Hunter Classic was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place in August 2018 at the Stadthalle in F\u00fcrth, Germany. It was the third ranking event of the 2018/2019 season. The tournament is named in honour of former snooker professional, Paul Hunter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281837-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Paul Hunter Classic\nMichael White was the defending champion, however he lost 1\u20134 to Zhang Anda in the last 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281837-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Paul Hunter Classic\nKyren Wilson won his second ranking tournament, beating Peter Ebdon 4\u20132 in the final after Ebdon had taken a two-frame lead. Ebdon reached his 18th ranking final at the age of 47 a day before his birthday. It was his first ranking final since 2012. He was the oldest player to reach a ranking event final since 48-year-old Steve Davis reached the final of the 2005 UK Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281837-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Paul Hunter Classic\nMichael Georgiou made the 140th official maximum break in the third frame of his last 128 match against Umut Dikme. It was Georgiou's first professional maximum break. Later on the same day Jamie Jones made the 141st official maximum break in the third frame of his last 64 match against Lee Walker. It was also Jones' first professional maximum break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281837-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Paul Hunter Classic\n13 year old amateur Ben Mertens made his debut at a professional ranking tournament with a 4\u20131 win over Adam Stefanow. He then exited the tournament in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281837-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Paul Hunter Classic, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281837-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Paul Hunter Classic, Prize fund\nThe \"rolling 147 prize\" for a maximum break stood at \u00a320,000, and was split by both Michael Georgiou, in the last 128 round against Umut Dikme, and Jamie Jones in his last 64 match against Lee Walker. This was both players' first maximum break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281837-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Paul Hunter Classic, Main rounds\nPlayed from 24 to 26 August 2018. All matches were the best of 7 frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281837-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Paul Hunter Classic, Amateur pre-qualifying\nThese matches were played in F\u00fcrth on 22\u201323 August 2018. All matches were the best of 7 frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281838-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (December)\nThe 2018 Peach Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 29, 2018. It was the 51st edition of the Peach Bowl, and the second Peach Bowl to be played in Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The game was one of the College Football Playoff New Year's Six bowl games, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Chick-fil-A restaurant franchise, the game was officially known as the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281838-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (December)\nThe game featured the Michigan Wolverines of the Big Ten Conference and the Florida Gators of the Southeastern Conference. Going in to the bowl, the Michigan defense had given up an average of 263 yards per game, the best in the nation. Florida was the highest-ranked team that did not appear in the preseason AP top 25 poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281838-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (December), Teams\nThe game featured the Michigan Wolverines of the Big Ten Conference and the Florida Gators of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in their fifth meeting against each other. Michigan had won each of its prior games against Florida, most recently in the 2017 Advocare Classic by a score of 33\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281838-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (December), Teams, Michigan Wolverines\nAfter finishing their regular season with a 10\u20132 record (8\u20131 in conference), the Wolverines were selected to their first Peach Bowl appearance. This was their 47th bowl game appearance, tied for 11th-highest total all-time among FBS schools. Several Michigan players, including RB Karan Higdon, DL Rashan Gary, and LB Devin Bush Jr., sat out the game in order to focus on the 2019 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281838-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (December), Teams, Florida Gators\nAfter finishing their regular season with a 9\u20133 record (5\u20133 in conference), the Gators were selected to their third Peach Bowl appearance. This was their 44th bowl game appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281838-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (December), Game summary, Statistics\nNote: 74,006 was the officially announced attendance figure; \"turnstile count\" subsequently reported as 68,413.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January)\nThe 2018 Peach Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2018, between the UCF Knights and the Auburn Tigers. It was the 50th edition of the Peach Bowl, and the first Peach Bowl to be played in Mercedes-Benz Stadium, after spending the previous 25 editions in the now demolished Georgia Dome. The 50th Peach Bowl was one of the College Football Playoff New Year's Six bowl games, and was one of the 2017\u201318 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Chick-fil-A restaurant franchise, the game was officially known as the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January)\nThe game was televised on ESPN and ESPN Deportes, and broadcast on ESPN Radio and XM Satellite Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January), Teams\nThe two participants for the game were the UCF Knights (automatically qualifying as the highest ranked conference champion team from the \"Group of Five\" conferences) and the Auburn Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January), Teams\nEntering the game, the Tigers led the all-time series with the Knights, 3\u20130; the most recent matchup saw the Tigers defeat the Golden Knights (as the Knights were then known as) by a score of 28\u201310 on November 6, 1999, in Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January), Game summary, First half\nThe high-powered UCF offense got off to a shaky start, but superb defensive play kept the Knights in the game during the first half. A mishandled snap was fumbled by quarterback McKenzie Milton and recovered by Auburn, which led to a Tigers field goal and a 3\u20130 lead. Jarrett Stidham then led Auburn on a 14-play, 45-yard drive to the UCF 36 line. Daniel Carlson missed a 53-yard field goal attempt, and the score remained 3\u20130. Milton, with two long quarterback runs, put the Knights in field goal range, and the score was tied 3\u20133 partway through the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January), Game summary, First half\nFour play later, Stidham near midfield, ran up the middle for a 6-yard gain. But the ball was punched out of his hands and bounced into the hands of Knights defender Tre Neal. Tightroping down the sidelines, Neal returned the ball 36 yards to the Auburn 21 yard line. Two plays later, McKenzie Milton scored the game's first touchdown, on an 18-yard quarterback run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January), Game summary, First half\nMcKenzie Milton's passing numbers were thus far unimpressive, finishing the first half only 3-of-17 for 30 yards. But Milton's 83 yards rushing, coupled with five first half sacks, and eight tackles for loss by the Knights defense, gave UCF a 13\u20136 halftime lead. Meanwhile, Auburn had racked up 185 yards, and 21:01 time of possession, but had only two field goals to show for it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January), Game summary, Second half\nThe third quarter belonged to the Tigers, as Noah Igbinoghene took the second half kickoff back 72 yards to the UCF 26 yard line. Jarrett Stidham threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Will Hastings, then Kerryon Johnson had a rushing touchdown on the next possession. The Tigers flipped the scoreboard, now leading by the score of 20\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January), Game summary, Second half\nMcKenzie Milton and the Knights offense finally revved into high gear. Facing 3rd down & 8 at their own 37, Milton connected with Jordan Akins for a 26-yard pass completion to the Auburn 37. Milton followed it up with a 12-yard screen pass to running back Otis Anderson. Hit at the 2 yard line, Anderson dragged two defenders into the endzone for the Knights' second touchdown. The UCF defense forced a three-and-out, and at the start of the fourth quarter, Milton and the Knights took over at their own 41. After two long completions, Milton quickly drove the Knights to the 8 yard line. Under pressure and scrambling, Milton found Dredrick Snelson at the back of the endzone for a leaping touchdown catch and a 27\u201320 UCF lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January), Game summary, Second half\nThe Tigers went three-and-out for a second time, and Milton slowly began wearing down the Tigers defense. The Knights drove to the Auburn 8 line, with Tre'Quan Smith's 34-yard catch a key play of the drive. But Matthew Wright's field goal attempt was tipped and blocked. The Knights did manage to burn nearly four minutes off the clock, and clung to a 7-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January), Game summary, Second half\nAt the 40 yard line with just over 6 minutes remaining in regulation, Jarrett Stidham's pass was intercepted by Chequan Burkett, who returned the ball 45 yards for a UCF touchdown. With the Knights now leading 34\u201320 with under six minutes to go, Auburn fans began heading for the exits, and the UCF side of the stadium turned into a frenzy. Auburn managed a quick touchdown on their next drive, and trimmed the score to 34\u201327 with 4:12 to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January), Game summary, Second half\nLooking to run out the clock, and ice the game, the Knights drove to the Auburn 21, where they faced 4th down & 7 with 2:18 left in regulation. Wright's field goal attempt shockingly sailed wide left, and the game continued. With one last chance to tie the game and potentially force overtime, the Tigers drove to the UCF 21 yard line. They had converted on a 4th & 8, and the Knights defense was bending but did not break. With 33 seconds to go, Stidham was under pressure by Shaquem Griffin, and threw up a desperation pass. With no receivers in the area, the ball was easily intercepted in the endzone by Antwan Collier. The Knights took a knee, and secured the victory, and a 13\u20130 undefeated season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January), Game summary, Post-game\nMcKenzie Milton was selected as the offensive MVP with 245 yards passing, two touchdown passes, no interceptions, 116 yards rushing, and one rushing touchdown. Auburn narrowly edged UCF in total yards (421 to 411), but the Tigers had three turnovers compared to only one for the Knights. Shaquem Griffin had 12 tackles and 1.5 sacks, and pressured Stidham all game. Griffin was voted defensive MVP, in his final game for the Knights. Following the game, the school claimed a national championship. A few days later, UCF was ranked number 1 by the Colley Matrix, an NCAA-designated major selector of football national championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281839-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Peach Bowl (January), Game summary, Statistics\nAuburn's Field Goal at the end of the First Half", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections\nPeel Region municipal elections, 2018, were part of the larger Ontario municipal elections, that took place on Monday, October 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections\nAfter ballots were cast, Patrick Brown was elected as the mayor of Brampton, Bonnie Crombie re-elected as the mayor of Mississauga and Allan Thompson re-elected as the mayor of Caledon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections\nThe election was intended to be the first ever direct election of the Peel Regional chair. However, the election of this position was cancelled after the Doug Ford government introduced The Better Local Government Act, 2018 (Bill 5) in August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Open races\nJim Tovey, Mississauga councillor for Ward 1, died suddenly in January 2018. Tovey was in the midst of planning for massive waterfront redevelopment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Open races\nIn February 2018, Brampton councillor Chris Gibson announced his retirement in Wards 1 & 5. Officially a city councillor, he had been given the city's additional Regional seat for multiple terms. Regional councillor Elaine Moore, from the same wards, announced her retirement in late March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Open races\nGael Miles retirement was made public the evening before the start of registration. Caledon's Doug Beffort retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Peel Region chair, Original nomination process\nIn 2016, the provincial Liberal government announced voters in the 2018 election would elect regional chairs. Across the province, the selection of regional chairs varies, with some regional councils electing chairs while other chairs being selected by councillors. Peel Region traditionally appointed the regional chair from existing councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Peel Region chair, Original nomination process\nIn early 2018, the candidates for the position of regional chair began to be nominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Peel Region chair, Original nomination process\nStarting the year \"85% sure\" he would run, Ron Starr officially announced his intention to run for Regional Chair in late March 2018. Later, after the cancellation of the position, Starr withdrew to run for re-election in Ward 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Peel Region chair, Original nomination process\nRumours that were circulating of Patrick Brown running for Regional chair were neither confirmed or denied, when asked by Metroland in May 2018. Brown was accused of sexual misconduct in January, which he denies, forcing his resignation as Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leader. He moved to Mississauga after being removed from the party caucus. He did not run for re-election as a Barrie MPP in the June provincial election. Patrick Brown also withdrew from the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Peel Region chair, Original nomination process\nBob Delaney, former MPP for Mississauga-Streetsville, registered in July. Charles Sousa and Harinder Takhar, also former MPPs, agreed to not run, in an effort to not split the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Peel Region chair, Original nomination process\nA shift in Ontario's government after the provincial elections, saw Doug Ford announce the cancellation of the voter elected position of regional chair in Peel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Peel Region chair, Original nomination process\nWhile this prompted Brown to pull his Chair nomination, to run for Mayor of Brampton, Delaney continued his campaign, noting that the law had yet to pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Peel Region chair, Original nomination process\nIncumbent Frank Dale has indicated he may change his mind on retirement, according to The Mississauga News.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Peel Region chair, Appointment process\nTVO journalist Steve Paikin has heard suggestion of the following candidates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Peel Region chair, Appointment process\nFormer Caledon Regional councillor Barb Shaughnessy, who had run for Mayor of Caledon, indicated that she would not be pursuing the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton\nBrampton had 313,273 eligible voters during the 2018 election. A total of 169 voting locations were open across the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Mayor\nIn October 2017, incumbent Brampton Mayor Linda Jeffrey announced her intent to run for a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Mayor\nReal estate lawyer Wesley Jackson was noted in a February 2018 Peel Daily News article as \"hoping to become Brampton's next mayor.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Mayor\nIn July, John Sprovieri announced his intention to run for Mayor of Brampton. Omar Mansoury withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Mayor\nOn Election Day on October 22, Patrick Brown was declared the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Mayor, Debates\nBrampton Board of Trade is hosting debates of city council candidates throughout the day on September 17, 2018, through live stream, concluding with a Mayoral debate. Brown, Gosal, Jackson, Jeffrey, and Sprovieri were invited to the event. Questions were pre-selected from membership. According to the Guardian, the majority of the event saw \"Brown and Sprovieri focusing much of their attention on Jeffrey's record and vice versa.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Mayor, Debates\nThe first Mayoral debate to allow physical attendance will be held September 20, 2018, at Sheridan College, Davis Campus, through The Pointer, an online news outlet for Brampton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Mayor, Debates\nBrampton Focus hosted a debate on September 25 at the Rose Theatre Brampton, inviting Jeffrey, Brown, Gosal, and Sprovieri. Media reports suggest that the debate was often drowned out by cheering and jeering.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Mayor, Debates\nA debate was held by the Brampton Real Estate Board on October 4. All candidates were in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Mayor, Debates\nPrime Asia TV Canada hosted a debate on October 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Mayor, Endorsements\nJeffrey held a fundraiser at the Albany Club of Toronto, a venue associated with the Conservative Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Mayor, Polling\nIncumbent Linda Jeffrey and candidate Patrick Brown both polled at 40%, John Sprovieri polled at 7%, Wesley Jackson at 5%, Bal Gosal at 4%, Vinod Kumar Mahesan at 4%, and Mansoor Ameersulthan at 1%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Mayor, Polling\nMainstreet's numbers were based on decided voters; 5.6% of voters were voting for other candidates. The complete survey found 17.4% of all voters were undecided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Regional council, Ward 1 & 5\nMoffat, Rai, Russo, and Vicente attended the Brampton Board of Trade debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Regional council, Ward 1 & 5\nOf the candidates, only McClelland has held political office, as a Liberal MPP. He surrendered his law license in 2015, after allegations of professional misconduct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Regional council, Ward 1 & 5\nRusso is a citizen member of the city's Committee of Adjustment, serving as its chair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Regional council, Ward 2 & 6\nBains, Campbell, Jones, and Palleschi attended the Brampton Board of Trade debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Regional council, Ward 3 & 4\nMartin Medeiros won the wards over Shan Gill in 2014, by 100 votes. Incumbent Martin Medeiros lived in Mississauga in 2014, but began a move to Brampton, allowing him to run in the election. Resident Peter Bailey filed a legal proceeding to try and remove Medeiros from office, but was unsuccessful. The action was in advance of a vote on the then-Hurontario Main Light Rail Transit project, which Medeiros wanted and Bailey did not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Regional council, Ward 3 & 4\nFormer incumbent John Sanderson is a nominee for 2018; he ran for Mayor of Brampton in 2014, finishing second. Sanderson has noted that the 2018 campaign is the \"dirtiest\" he's experienced, blaming Medeiros for the tone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Regional council, Ward 3 & 4\nGrewal, Kus, Medeiros, and Sanderson attended the Brampton Board of Trade debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Regional council, Ward 7 & 8\nCody Vatcher has been critical of Mayor Jeffrey, suggesting that she \"simply never learned to graciously accept defeat,\" when her votes were defeated. He also campaigned on standing up to an incumbent who hasn't \u201cstood up for our fair share\u201d and \u201crolled out the red carpet\u201d for certain health care announcements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Regional council, Ward 7 & 8\nBruce Marshall has the endorsement of retiring incumbent Gael Miles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Regional council, Ward 7 & 8\nAll of the candidates attended the Brampton Board of Trade debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, Regional council, Ward 9 & 10\nAll three candidates attended the Brampton Board of Trade debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, City council, Ward 1 & 5\nBoucher, Pimentel, Santos, and Tatangelo attended the Brampton Board of Trade debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, City council, Ward 1 & 5\nPimentel spent 30 years as a City of Brampton employee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, City council, Ward 2 & 6\nChambers, Mann, and Pearce attended the Brampton Board of Trade debate. Whillans, chair of a hospital fundraiser golf tournament, was unable to attend. The tournament was scheduled in March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, City council, Ward 3 & 4\nHansra and Rennie attended the Brampton Board of Trade debate. Incumbent Bowman was unable to attend, due to the debate being scheduled against a hospital fundraising golf tournament, of which he is vice-chair, and had been scheduled since March. Candidate Nishi Sidhu also cited a \"previous engagement\", and Omar Mansoury accepted the invitation but did not attend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, City council, Ward 3 & 4\nBowman has taken time off work at City Hall to campaign, noting that other incumbents continued to collect a wage during their campaigning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, City council, Ward 7 & 8\nMartin Singh and Charmaine Williams were in attendance at the Brampton Board of Trade debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, City council, Ward 7 & 8\nDhaliwal's election advertising is shared with Region incumbent Pat Fortini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Brampton, City council, Ward 9 & 10\nDabb, Farquharson, Singh, and Tharani attended the Brampton Board of Trade debate whilst various other prominent debates have included Singh, Dabb, Gupta and Sidhu among the candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Caledon, Mayor\nIn January 2018, Allan Thompson confirmed that he'd be seeking re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Caledon, Mayor, Debates\nOn September 24, the candidates discussed Bolton development at the Inglewood Community Centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Caledon, Mayor, Debates\nA Mayoral debate, which would have also been a debate for Ward 5 councillors, was scheduled and cancelled. A resident organized a new debate, for October 9. The event had extensive debate on a new paramedic deployment model.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Caledon, Council\nRob Mezzapelli and Doug Beffort are both retiring from area council. Gord McClure has yet to announce intent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Caledon, Council, Ward 2 Regional Councillor\nDowney's campaign literature included free children's passes for the Brampton Fall Fair, passes available for free at schools and stores. Corrigan has objected to the practice, as a possible breach of municipal campaign laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Caledon, Council, Ward 5 Area Councillor\nCandidates for Ward 5 Regional and Area Councillor, as well as Mayoral candidates, will appear in a debate organized by a resident, after a scheduled debate was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga\nDuring the campaign, former Mississauga News editor John Stewart noted that the election was marked by a dearth of information or debates, in contrast to previous elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Mayor\nBonnie Crombie was the incumbent and re-elected with a substantial majority on October 22, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Mayor\nKevin J. Johnston announced his intention to run in March 2018. Peel Regional Police charged Johnston in July 2017 with \"willfully promoting hatred, a charge under the Criminal Code of Canada that carries a maximum penalty of two years in jail,\" according to Mississauga News. Johnston withdrew his mayoral candidacy on July 25 and registered to run for Ward 9 city councillor instead. Then on July 26, withdrew his councillor candidacy and re-registered as a mayoral candidate. Johnston stated in September to be talking with four organizations a day. Johnston ran for the same position in the previous election, placing 11th out of 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Mayor\nUniversity of Toronto Mississauga Students\u2019 Union hosted a debate on October 4, that was attended by Chapman, Crombie, Lee, Pouragheli, and Rizvi. They confirmed that Johnston was not invited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 1\nDave Cook was the appointed incumbent for Ward 1. As per promise on receiving the position, he did not stand for election in the 2018 contest. Cook replaced elected councillor Jim Tovey, who died in January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 1\nFormer Conservative Party of Canada federal MP Brad Butt, currently the Mississauga Board of Trade Director of Government Relations, is a notable candidate. Butt also considered running in Ward 6, but changed his intentions when Ron Starr re-entered that race, after the cancellation of the Regional Chair election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 1\nKristian Velkoski withdrew to run for a public school board trustee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 1\nAn all-candidates debate was held September 19, by ratepayers' groups; Marco Pedri did not attend. Topics discussed including speeding reduction, the Lakeview zoning by-law, and cannabis stores. The ward was later profiled by Mississauga News. Three residents' associations held another debate, featuring Burke, Butt, Dasko, Hart, Roque and Setaram. The remaining candidates, Mancini and Pedri, did not attend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 2\nThe incumbent is Karen Ras. She was unopposed until the final week of nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 5\nNikki Clarke was registered as a candidate, but disqualified. Clarke had waited until the last day of the nomination period to file her papers, and was soliciting signatures from City staff. This prompted incumbent Carolyn Parrish to ask for a review of the paperwork by the Clerk's department. A total of 8 discrepancies were found in signatures, and the nominee was not allowed to replace those signatures. Clarke came a close second in the 2018 provincial election, running for the NDP in Mississauga\u2014Malton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 5\nSome of the candidates talked to the Mississauga News about issues important to them. Malton Community Building Project hosted a candidate event on October 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 6\nIncumbent councillor Ron Starr was in his third term on council when on March 28 at a city council session he announced his intention to run for the newly elected Region of Peel Chair. Fourteen candidates entered the race to succeed Starr for the open seat with Joe Horneck being the first to register.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0065-0001", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 6\nJuly 23 one week before the filing deadline Starr decided to drop out of contention for Regional Chair with that race had 10 candidates including former PC leader Patrick Brown (now Brampton Mayor) and Starr re-registered for his incumbent ward, suggesting that he could do more in his existing position then as regional chair. Starr was successful in winning re-election with Ward 6 by a margin of 347 votes proving the closest contest in the city, even though two other wards had no incumbents. Mississauga News columnist John Stewart summarized the race by saying most of the city was a status quo election however \"Horneck's loss is more politically impressive than most wins elsewhere. He almost unseated an entrenched council vet in a stable ward. As it is, he's Ward 6 councillor in waiting.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 866]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 6\nTahir Ali, Syed Mohammad Jaffery, Fazli Manan, and Avtar Minhas have withdrawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 7\nIncumbent councillor Nando Iannicca retired from this riding, and re-emerged later in the nomination period as a candidate for Chair of the Region of Peel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 7\nDipika Damerla, former MPP for Mississauga East\u2014Cooksville and Minister of Seniors Affairs, announced her candidacy for the ward in mid-July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 8\nThe incumbent is Matt Mahoney. He was unopposed until the final week of nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 9\nThe incumbent is Pat Saito. She was unopposed until the final week of nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 10\nCandidate Mazin Al-Ezzi got into an extended spat with a Ward 10 resident over lawn sign, using \"derogatory language\" and insulting \"the residents repeatedly.\" Incumbent Sue McFadden described the incident as \"scary\", while Al-Ezzi says that the resident tried to goad him on every time he intended to leave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Mississauga, Council, Ward 11\nThe incumbent in the ward is George Carlson. The candidates have talked to Mississauga News about issues important to them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Peel District School Board, Brampton Wards 3, 4\nHiteshkumar Prajapati, Raman Rakkar, and Vipul Shah withdrew their nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Peel District School Board, Caledon\nBasmat and Cameron debated the issues at an October 9 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281840-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 Peel Region municipal elections, Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, Caledon/Dufferin\nA trustee candidate debate was held on October 9, however only Roman showed up for the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 100], "content_span": [101, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281841-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pekao Szczecin Open\nThe 2018 Pekao Szczecin Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 26th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Szczecin, Poland between 10 and 16 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281841-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pekao Szczecin Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281841-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pekao Szczecin Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281842-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pekao Szczecin Open \u2013 Doubles\nWesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281842-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pekao Szczecin Open \u2013 Doubles\nKarol Drzewiecki and Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek won the title after defeating Guido Andreozzi and Guillermo Dur\u00e1n 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281843-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pekao Szczecin Open \u2013 Singles\nRichard Gasquet was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281843-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pekao Szczecin Open \u2013 Singles\nGuido Andreozzi won the title after defeating Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election\nThe 14th Penang election was held on 9 May 2018 to elect the State Assemblymen of the 14th Penang State Legislative Assembly, the legislature of the Malaysian state of Penang. The legislature had been dissolved on 9 April by the state's Governor, Abdul Rahman Abbas, on the advice of the then Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, who also led the state's ruling Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election\nThe election was conducted by the Malaysian Election Commission and utilised the first-past-the-post system. Electoral candidates were nominated on 28 April. On 9 May, between 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. Malaysian time (UTC+8), polling was held in all 40 state constituencies throughout Penang; each constituency elects a single State Assemblyman to the state legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election\nThe PH coalition retained power with a stronger mandate, as it swept eight additional constituencies to hold 37 seats (out of 40) in the Penang State Legislative Assembly; the PH thus commands a supermajority in the legislature. Following the simultaneous Malaysian general election, which saw the PH forming Malaysia's federal government for the first time in the country's history, Chow Kon Yeow was selected as Penang's fifth Chief Minister, succeeding Lim who was appointed as the federal Minister of Finance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Background\nThe upcoming state election will be the 14th state election in the State of Penang since the independence of Malaya (now Malaysia) in 1957. The governing Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition sought to secure their third consecutive term in office since 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Background\nAccording to the Constitution of the State of Penang, the maximum term of the Penang State Legislative Assembly, the legislature of Penang, is five years from the date of the first sitting of Assembly following a state election, after which it is dissolved by operation of law. The Assembly would have been automatically dissolved on 28 June 2018, the fifth anniversary of its first sitting on 28 June 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Background\nHowever, the Chief Minister, as the head of government in Penang, may advise the Governor, the head of state, to dissolve the Assembly before the five-year period is up. Following the dissolution of the Malaysian Parliament by the then Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak, on 7 April 2018, the Chief Minister of Penang at the time, Lim Guan Eng, was granted the consent of the Governor of Penang, Abdul Rahman Abbas, on 9 April to dissolve the Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Background\nA state election must be held within sixty days after the dissolution. Accordingly, the Malaysian Election Commission set 28 April as the nomination day and 9 May as the polling day. The timing of the election, which was to be held on a weekday as opposed to the usual practice of holding elections on weekends, sparked outrage on social media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Background, Political parties\nThe Pakatan Harapan (PH), the ruling coalition in Penang, has been in power since 2008 and was led by the then Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng. In the aftermath of the 2013 state election, the PH controlled 29 out of the 40 seats in the Penang State Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Background, Political parties\nThe PH was challenged by two opposition coalitions, Barisan Nasional (BN) and Gagasan Sejahtera (GS), as well as a number of individual independent parties. The BN and GS coalitions were led by Teng Chang Yeow and Muhammad Fauzi Yusoff respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Background, Electoral divisions\nAll 40 state constituencies within Penang, which constitute the Penang State Legislative Assembly, were contested during the election. The Malaysian Election Commission utilised the updated electoral roll as of the fourth quarter of 2017; voters who had registered by the end of 2017 were therefore eligible for polling. Penang had a total of 945,627 voters as of April\u00a02018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Background, Electoral divisions\nthe Malaysian Election Commission's redelineation exercise prior to the 14th Malaysian general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Background, Electoral candidates\nBy 27 April 2018, 471 nomination forms for Penang's state constituencies had been sold by the Malaysian Election Commission, making this election the most hotly contested election in Penang's history. A total of 155 candidates vied for the 40 state constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign\nAnalysts and news agencies, including Channel NewsAsia, The Straits Times and The Edge, predicted another victory for the Pakatan Harapan (PH) in Penang, due to the PH-led state government's achievements in social welfare and infrastructural developments, as well as Penang's economic growth under PH's tenure. Even so, the election was still hotly contested over several issues, including the vulnerability of the city-state to natural disasters such as floods and landslides, the proposed Penang Undersea Tunnel, transportation and public housing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign\nIn particular, the PH administration placed considerable emphasis on Penang's achievements under its tenure, such as the state's solid economic performance, rapid development, overall cleanliness, public housing and the administration's social welfare policies. These were seen in contrast to the perceived discrimination of Penang by the Barisan Nasional-led federal government, especially in matters ranging from transportation to the lack of financial aid for Penang's flood victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Manifestos, Barisan Nasional\nThe Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition launched its Penang-specific manifesto on 15 April 2018 in Seberang Jaya. It pledged, among others, to create a special fund for first time married couples, ban construction projects at hill slopes and at areas 250\u00a0ft (76\u00a0m) above sea level, build low-cost houses (priced at RM40,000 each) in its Rent-To-Own Housing Schemes, and solve traffic congestion within the city-state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Manifestos, Barisan Nasional\nThese were in addition to the previous promises made by various BN politicians, including the Malaysian Prime Minister and BN chairman, Najib Razak, to abolish toll charges for motorcycles on the Penang Bridge and to scrap the Penang Undersea Tunnel project, which had been proposed by Penang's Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration. BN politicians also claimed that the PH-led state government had failed to fulfil 51 promises and attempted to attract public attention on this issue by illegally pasting anti PH-posters throughout George Town on 20 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Manifestos, Barisan Nasional\nIn response, the state government, led by the then Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, slammed BN for deliberately copying the administration's policies into the BN manifesto, stating for the record that the government's policies, including social welfare programmes and reduced assessment rates for low-cost housing, have already been implemented. Notably, the BN manifesto failed to address the need for a rail-based public transportation system, such as LRT and monorail, within Penang; Lim maintained that the BN manifesto \"offered no alternatives to building a public transport system to alleviate traffic congestion except to sabotage our proposed LRT and under-sea tunnel projects\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Manifestos, Barisan Nasional\nMeanwhile, Jagdeep Singh Deo, the incumbent State Assemblyman for Datok Keramat, refuted BN's claims that Penang's PH-led state government had failed to provide affordable housing, reporting that more than 25,000 units of affordable housing have, in fact, been completed within the state. Critics also assert that the BN-led federal government has consistently discriminated the State of Penang by withholding major infrastructure projects and financial grants to the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Manifestos, Pakatan Harapan\nThe Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition unveiled its Penang-specific manifesto on 25 April 2018 at the Penang Chinese Town Hall in George Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Manifestos, Pakatan Harapan\nThe manifesto encompasses 68 pledges, including the implementation of the Penang Transport Master Plan which incorporates the proposed LRT and monorail services throughout the city-state, the construction of the Penang Undersea Tunnel, free-of-charge public bus services, a health-care programme which offers financial aid for lower-income households, a varsity township in Balik Pulau, the completion of more than 75,000 affordable housing units by 2025, a wider variety of public infrastructure, and a two-term limit for the position of the Chief Minister. In officiating the launch of the manifesto, PH leaders in Penang also promised financial funding for Islamic schools in the state and the promotion of interfaith harmony through the construction of a 'Harmony Centre' for non-Muslim affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Social media\nThe election was notable for the extensive use of social media, particularly by the opposing Pakatan Harapan (PH) and Barisan Nasional (BN) coalitions. Both sides created numerous videos to disseminate their policies, pledges and ideologies to the public in the run-up to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Social media\nVideos created by the PH typically depict the improvements experienced by Penangites since 2008, when the coalition's predecessor, the Pakatan Rakyat (PR), was voted into power. The PH-led state government's welfare policies, Penang's economic growth, the refurbishment of existing infrastructure, and efforts to improve cleanliness and reduce crime, as well as the preservation of forest reserves within the state, are often touted in these videos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Social media\nIn contrast, BN's videos generated considerable controversy. On 22 February 2018, a video entitled \"Penang, would you hear my story?\" depicting a woman grousing about her disappointment with the general state of affairs in Penang under PH rule was uploaded online by a BN-linked Facebook page. It received widespread condemnation by netizens and PH politicians alike, and was generally seen as a BN propaganda effort designed to peddle half-truths and myths about Penang's PH-led government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Social media\nAn official of the state government, Zaidi Ahmad, rebutted all the allegations raised in the video, pointing out, among others, that Penangites' median income and average monthly income were greater than the national average, Penang's relatively low unemployment rate and water tariffs, and that the PH administration has indeed built more affordable housing units within the state. Meanwhile, on 23 April, Grace Teoh Koon Gee, a councillor of the Penang Island City Council, lodged a police report over a BN-made video which painted the PH as a racist party. RSN Rayer, a DAP politician, slammed the video as extremely dangerous and stated that the video was intended to \"instigate voters to go against PH\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Social media\nDuring the campaigning period, a number of DAP candidates fell victim to slanderous social media content created by BN. For instance, Ramasamy Palanisamy, the Deputy Chief Minister II of Penang and the incumbent State Assemblyman for Perai, lodged a police report on 2 May over a manipulated video of his speech during a rally in Perai, which was reportedly circulated by BN. DAP's candidate in Seri Delima, Syerleena Abdul Rashid, also lodged a police report over BN's baseless allegations that she supported the Christian domination of Penang. BN cybertroopers targeted Satees Muniandy, the DAP candidate in Bagan Dalam, as well, claiming that he owns a luxurious house worth RM527,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Rallies\nInstead of holding large-scale rallies solely in Penang's capital city, George Town (on Penang Island), as was the practice in the 2008 and 2013 elections, the Pakatan Harapan (PH) organised simultaneous rallies in both George Town and mainland Seberang Perai. This change of tactic was intended to reach out to more voters, particularly in Seberang Perai, thus negating the need for supporters to travel across the Penang Strait to attend the rallies and reducing traffic congestion within George Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Rallies\nThe first PH rallies were held concurrently on 28 April 2018 at George Town's Esplanade and Butterworth on the mainland; both rallies, which featured key speakers such as Lim Guan Eng, Nurul Izzah Anwar and Marina Mahathir, collectively attracted more than 120,000 people. Simultaneous PH rallies were also held on 2 May at George Town's Han Chiang College and Juru on the mainland, with the Han Chiang rally alone attended by a 120,000-strong crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Campaign, Rallies\nThe last PH rallies were held at George Town's Esplanade on 7 and 8 May, the latter of which was held simultaneously with other PH rallies in Bayan Baru, Butterworth and Seberang Jaya. The PH rally at the Esplanade on 7 May collected RM84,335.70 worth of donations, with PH supporters staying on site despite the rain. Meanwhile, PH's last Esplanade rally on 8 May featured former United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) politician, Rafidah Aziz, as one of its key speakers, as well as the live telecast of a speech by Mahathir Mohamad, PH's candidate for the position of the Malaysian Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Controversies\nThe decision by the Malaysian Election Commission to hold the election on a weekday (Wednesday, 9 May 2018), as opposed to the previous practice of holding elections on weekends, sparked considerable uproar on the Internet. Netizens voiced their displeasure and questioned the need to hold the polling day on a weekday, and alleged that this decision was intended to reduce voter turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Controversies\nIn particular, voters residing outside Penang could be hampered from returning home for the polling day due to work commitments, thus carrying the potential of a lower voter turnout which would place the Pakatan Harapan (PH) at a disadvantage. In response to the nationwide criticism of the polling date, the then Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak, subsequently declared 9 May as a national holiday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Controversies\nDuring the polling day on 9 May, PH candidates, including Lim Guan Eng and Zairil Khir Johari, reported that their mobile phones and social media accounts were being subjected to cyber attacks. The candidates alleged that their mobile phones received a continuous stream of automatically generated spam calls from United States-based phone numbers by the minute, disrupting the coalition's communications and operations in the midst of polling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Election pendulum\nThe 14th General Election witnessed 37 governmental seats and 3 non-governmental seats filled the Penang State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 25 safe seats and 2 fairly safe seats. However, none of the non-government side has safe and fairly safe seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Results\nThe Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition scored its best ever electoral results in Penang's history, seizing eight additional seats to increase its tally in the Penang State Legislative Assembly to 37, or 92.5% of the legislature. The election marked the debut of PH's newest component parties - the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Bersatu) and the National Trust Party (Amanah) - into Penang's political arena, with each of the parties winning two constituencies. The People's Justice Party (PKR) also successfully increased its share in the legislature from 10 seats to 14 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Results\nMeanwhile, the Democratic Action Party (DAP) saw an increase in the majority in some of its 19 seats. The incumbent Chief Minister of Penang, Lim Guan Eng, defended the Air Putih constituency with over 80% of the popular vote, while Chow Kon Yeow won in Padang Kota with more than 70% of the popular vote. The largest margin of victory was recorded in Paya Terubong, where Yeoh Soon Hin of the DAP won by 31,189 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Results\nThe election also saw BN's worst performance in Penang's history, as the coalition lost seven constituencies to the PH and retained only two, both of which are won by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). Once again, BN's other component parties, namely Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan), the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) and the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), did not win any seat. Although the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) lost the Permatang Pasir constituency, it managed to capture the Penaga constituency from the BN, thus giving the Islamist party a single seat in the Penang State Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Aftermath\nThe 14th Malaysian general election, which was held simultaneously with the Penang state election, resulted in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition seizing power at the federal level from the incumbent Barisan Nasional (BN), making the election the first time since independence Malaysia experienced a regime change. On 12 May 2018, the incumbent Chief Minister of Penang, Lim Guan Eng, was appointed the Finance Minister by the new Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad. Chow Kon Yeow, the chairperson of the Democratic Action Party in Penang, had been endorsed by Lim to succeed the latter as the Chief Minister; Chow was sworn in as Penang's fifth Chief Minister on 14 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281844-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Penang state election, Aftermath\nMeanwhile, Barisan Nasional's Penang chief, Teng Chang Yeow, announced his retirement from politics in the aftermath of the coalition's rout in the hands of the PH. Aside from the PH administration's exemplary performance in Penang in the preceding 10 years, the trouncing of the BN was also attributed to the Malaysia-wide tsunami against the perceived corruption and maladministration by the previous BN-led federal government. Teng's counterpart in the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), Zainal Abidin Osman, also tendered his resignation as the Penang chief of the BN component party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281845-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pendle Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Pendle Borough Council Election took place on 3 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281845-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pendle Borough Council election, Background\nBefore the election, the Conservatives have 23 councillors, with Labour on 15 and the Liberal Democrats on 9. There is currently no overall control on Pendle Borough Council. 16 seats are up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281845-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pendle Borough Council election, Background\nThe last BNP Councillor in the UK, Brian Parker (Marsden Ward Councillor), is retiring at the election, and has supported the Labour candidate in his constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281846-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn FC season\nThe 2018 season was Penn FC's 15th season of competitive soccer, its second in the second division of American soccer, and its eighth and final season in the United Soccer League, now known as the USL Championship. This was the first season the club operated under the \"Penn FC\" name, having re-branded from the Harrisburg City Islanders in November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281846-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn FC season\nIn October 2018, the club announced that it would not play in the USL's top flight beyond that season. Penn FC will suspend professional operations for the 2019 season and resume play in 2020 as a member of USL League One, a third-level league to be launched in 2019 by the USL parent organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281846-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn FC season, Competitions, USL\nThe 2018 USL season will be contested by 33 teams, 16 of which compete in the league's Eastern Conference. All teams will play a regular season total of 34 matches between teams within their respective conference. At the conclusion of the regular season, the top eight teams from each conference advance to the 2018 USL Playoffs for a chance to compete for the USL Championship Title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281846-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn FC season, Competitions, USL, Results summary\nLast updated: November 16, 2018Source: 2018 USL seasonPld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won; T = Matches tied; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281847-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 2018 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Ray Priore and played their home games at Franklin Field. They were a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 6\u20134 overall 3\u20133 in Ivy League play to place in a three-way tie for fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281847-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn Quakers football team, Previous season\nThe Quakers finished the 2017 season 6\u20134, 4\u20133 in Ivy League play, to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281848-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn State Nittany Lions football team\nThe 2018 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented Pennsylvania State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by fifth-year head coach James Franklin and played its home games in Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania. They were a member of the East Division of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281848-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn State Nittany Lions football team\nPenn State, coming off an 11\u20132, Fiesta Bowl-winning season in 2017, began the year at 10th in the preseason AP Poll. They narrowly escaped an upset in their first game of the year by defeating Appalachian State in overtime. The Nittany Lions won their first four games and entered an anticipated home game against No. 4 Ohio State at No. 9, but lost to the Buckeyes by a score of 26\u201327. The following week the team was upset by Michigan State on homecoming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281848-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Penn State Nittany Lions football team\nThe team rebounded with a home win against then-No. 18 Iowa, but was blown out the following week by Michigan 42\u20137. The Nittany Lions finished the regular season in third in the Big Ten East with a conference record of 6\u20133. They were invited to the Citrus Bowl, where they lost to Kentucky to finish the year at 9\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281848-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn State Nittany Lions football team\nSenior quarterback Trace McSorley led the team in passing, finishing with 2,530 passing yards and 18 passing touchdowns to go along with 12 rushing touchdowns. He was named second team All-Big Ten by both the media and coaches. During the season, McSorely became the all-time school record holder in several categories, including career passing yards, completions, passing touchdowns, and total touchdowns responsible for. Junior running back Miles Sanders finished in second in the conference in rushing with 1,274 yards. On defense, cornerback Amani Oruwariye and lineman Yetur Gross-Matos were named first-team all-conference by the media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281848-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Previous season\nIn 2017, the Nittany Lions finished with an 11\u20132 overall record and finished tied for second in the Big Ten East Division, with a 7\u20132 conference record. They finished ranked eighth nationally in the AP and Coaches Poll after a 35\u201328 win over Washington in the Fiesta Bowl. This marked the school's first time finishing in the top eight in back-to-back seasons since 1993 and 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281848-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Previous season\nOn December 31, 2017, a day after the Fiesta Bowl victory, Junior running back Saquon Barkley announced his intentions to enter the NFL draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281848-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Offseason, Staff Changes\nOn November 29, 2017, it was announced that offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Joe Moorhead was hired to be the head coach for the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Shortly after, it was reported that running backs coach and special teams coordinator Charles Huff would be joining Moorhead at Mississippi State as his assistant head coach, run game coordinator, and running backs coach. On December 1, 2017, James Franklin announced that tight ends coach Ricky Rahne would replace Moorhead as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281848-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Offseason, Staff Changes\nIt was also announced that former Maryland offensive line coach Tyler Bowen was hired to coach tight ends and consultant Phil Galiano was hired to coordinate special teams and assist with the defensive line. On January 12, 2018, former Army wide receivers coach David Corley Jr. was hired to the staff as the running backs coach. Corley was hired as the 10th assistant coach because of a new rule change by the NCAA, that expanded staff sizes by one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281848-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Offseason, Staff Changes\nOn January 24, 2018, wide receivers coach Josh Gattis announced that he would be leaving to serve as the co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach for the Alabama Crimson Tide. The next day it was announced that former Florida Gators running backs coach Ja'Juan Seider would be joining Penn State in the same capacity and David Corley Jr. would be coaching the wide receivers. It was also announced that defensive line coach Sean Spencer received the title of associate head coach, a title previously held by defensive coordinator Brent Pry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281848-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Personnel, Roster\nSeniors Trace McSorley and Nick Scott, and junior Blake Gillikin were elected by their teammates as captains. Running Back C. J. Holmes is a transfer from Notre Dame. On August 4, 2018, Linebacker Manny Bowen returned to the program after being dismissed near the end of the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281848-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Schedule, Regular season\nThe team hosted two of the three non-conference games against the Appalachian State Mountaineers (first ever meeting) from the Sun Belt Conference and the Kent State Golden Flashes from the Mid-American Conference (MAC). They traveled to the Pittsburgh Panthers from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281848-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Schedule, Regular season\nDuring the 2018 Nittany Lions season, Penn State faced Big Ten conference opponents Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan State, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Rutgers and Maryland. Their annual homecoming game was played on October 13. The 2018 regular season schedule consisted of 7 home games and 5 away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281849-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 elections for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives was held on November 6, 2018, with all districts being decided. The term of office for those that were elected in 2018 began when the House of Representatives convened in January 2019. Pennsylvania State Representatives are elected for two-year terms, with all 203 seats up for election every two years. The election coincided with the election for Governor and one-half of the State Senate. The Republican Party maintained its majority in the House of Representatives despite receiving less than 45% of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281849-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Special elections, 35th legislative district\nDemocratic state representative Marc Gergely resigned his seat on November 6, 2017 after pleading guilty to charges regarding an illegal gambling machine ring. A special election for the 35th legislative district was held on January 23, 2018 to fill the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 97], "content_span": [98, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281849-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Special elections, 35th legislative district\nDemocrats selected Austin Davis, an assistant to Allegheny County executive Rich Fitzgerald, as their nominee. Republicans nominated Fawn Walker-Montgomery. Davis won the special election in the heavily Democratic district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 97], "content_span": [98, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281849-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Special elections, 48th legislative district\nDemocratic state representative Brandon Neuman was elected to be a judge on the Washington County Court of Common Pleas in 2017. A special election to fill his House seat was held on May 15, 2018 in conjunction with the 2018 primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 97], "content_span": [98, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281849-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Special elections, 48th legislative district\nDemocrats nominated attorney Clark Mitchell Jr, while Republicans nominated Afghan War veteran Tim O'Neal. Both candidates also ran for their respective party's nomination for the 2018 general election. Libertarian candidate Demosthenes Agoris also ran in this special election. O'Neal won the special election, flipping a seat into GOP hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 97], "content_span": [98, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281849-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Special elections, 68th legislative district\nRepublican state representative Matt E. Baker was appointed by President Donald Trump to serve in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in March 2018. A special election to fill his House seat was held on May 15, 2018 in conjunction with the 2018 primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 97], "content_span": [98, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281849-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Special elections, 68th legislative district\nDemocrats nominated educator Carrie Heath, while Republicans nominated businessman Clint Owlett. Both candidates also ran for their respective party's nomination for the 2018 general election. Owlett won the special election in the heavily Republican district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 97], "content_span": [98, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281849-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Special elections, 178th legislative district\nRepublican state representative Scott Petri was named executive director of the Philadelphia Parking Authority in December 2017. A special election to fill his House seat was held on May 15, 2018 in conjunction with the 2018 primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281849-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Special elections, 178th legislative district\nDemocrats nominated Solebury Township supervisor Helen Tai, while Republicans nominated Council Rock School District board member Wendi Thomas. Both candidates also ran for their respective party's nomination for the 2018 general election. Tai defeated Thomas, flipping a seat for the Democrats, though Thomas would go on to win the seat back from Tai in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281850-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania Senate election\nThe 2018 elections for the Pennsylvania State Senate were held on November 6, 2018, with 25 of 50 districts being contested. Primary elections were held on May 15, 2018. The term of office for those elected in 2018 began when the Senate convened in January 2019. Pennsylvania State Senators are elected for four-year terms, with half of the seats up for election every two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281850-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania Senate election, Overview\nRepublicans have controlled the chamber for 24 years (since the 1994 election). Democrats won five seats but failed to retake the majority despite winning the popular vote by over 200,000 votes. However, in five contests a Democrat ran unopposed with no Republicans appearing on the ballot. Republican senator Randy Vulakovich of the 38th district was the only incumbent to be defeated in the primary elections, losing to Jeremy Shaffer, who in turn lost to Democratic candidate Lindsey Williams in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281850-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania Senate election, Overview\nTwo other Republican incumbents\u00a0\u2013 Thomas J. McGarrigle and John Rafferty Jr. \u2013 were also defeated in the general election by their Democratic challengers (Timothy P. Kearney and Katie Muth, respectively). In the 10th district, Republican Chuck McIlhinney chose to retire, and his seat was won by Democrat Steve Santarsiero, while in the 12th district, Republican Stewart Greenleaf retired and was replaced by Democrat Maria Collett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281850-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania Senate election, Controversy\nDemocrat Lindsey Williams defeated Republican Jeremy Shaffer in the 38th District, a seat previously held by Republican Randy Vulakovich. After the election, Senate Republicans questioned whether Williams met the State-Constitutional requirement to be a \"citizen and inhabitant\" of Pennsylvania for four years prior to the election, as she claimed to have moved to Pennsylvania exactly four years prior to her election. After weeks of speculation and rumors of the GOP majority planning to refuse to seat her, Senate Majority Leader Joe Scarnati announced that he would recommend that she be seated. This announcement came after Williams provided proof that she had accepted a job in Pennsylvania on November 2, 2014. Ultimately, Williams was sworn in with the rest of the senators without any objection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 851]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281851-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference football season\nThe 2018 PSAC football season is the 54th season of college football of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281851-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference football season\n2018 will be the ninth year the PSAC has partnered with ESPN approximately four to six PSAC football games will be aired on ESPN2 ESPN3, ESPNews. The league has also renewed the contract with Pennsylvania sports station PCN and the first year of an agreement between AT&T SportsNet and schools in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281852-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania elections\nThe 2018 Pennsylvania state elections took place on November 6, 2018. On that date, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania held elections for the following offices: Governor and Lieutenant Governor (on one ticket), U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania State Senate, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and various others. Primary elections took place on May 15, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281852-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania elections\nOn Election Day, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf was re-elected with new Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, as was incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Casey Jr. Democrats gained five seats in Pennsylvania's congressional delegation, bringing the delegation to a 9-9 split. Democrats also broke a Republican supermajority in the Pennsylvania State Senate by gaining five seats, and gained eleven seats in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281852-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania elections, United States Senate\nIncumbent Democratic Senator Bob Casey Jr. sought reelection against Republican Congressman Lou Barletta in the general election. He won with 55% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281852-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania elections, United States House of Representatives, Redistricting\nIn January 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state's congressional map, ruling it had been unfairly gerrymandered to favor Republicans. New maps were subsequently adopted in February 2018, for use in 2018's elections and taking effect with representation in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281852-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania elections, United States House of Representatives, Special Elections, 18th Congressional District\nA special election for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district was held on March 13, 2018, following the resignation of Republican Rep. Tim Murphy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 115], "content_span": [116, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281852-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania elections, United States House of Representatives, Special Elections, 7th and 15th Congressional Districts\nAlong with the general election, special elections were also held on November 6 following the resignations of Republican Reps. Pat Meehan (PA-7) and Charlie Dent (PA-15).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 124], "content_span": [125, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281852-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania elections, United States House of Representatives, General Election\nVoters in Pennsylvania elected 18 candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the 18 congressional districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281852-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania elections, Governor & Lt. Governor\nOne-term Governor Tom Wolf and Lt. Governor Mike Stack were both eligible for re-election. Stack was defeated in his primary by Braddock mayor John Fetterman. Wolf and Fetterman went on to defeat the Republican ticket of State Senator Scott Wagner and businessman Jeff Bartos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281852-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania elections, Pennsylvania Senate\n25 of 50 seats (even-numbered districts) in the Pennsylvania Senate were up for election in Pennsylvania's general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281852-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania elections, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Special elections\nSpecial elections were held for the 35th, 48th, 68th, and 178th districts prior to the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281852-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania elections, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, General election\nAll 203 seats in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives were up for election in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281852-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania elections, Pennsylvania ballot measures\nThere were no statewide ballot measures up for election in this general election; however, there were local ballot measures in Allengeny and Philadelphia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281853-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, concurrently with the election of Pennsylvania's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various local elections. Incumbent Democratic Governor Tom Wolf won re-election to a second term by a double-digit margin, defeating Republican challenger Scott Wagner and two third-party candidates from the Green Party, Paul Grover and Libertarian Party, Ken Krawchuk. The primary elections were held on May 15. This was the first time since Bob Casey Jr.'s landslide State Treasurer win in 2004 that Cumberland County voted for the Democrat in a statewide election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281853-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, General election, By congressional district\nGov. Tom Wolf won 12 of 18 congressional districts, including the 1st, 10th & 16th districts which elected Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281854-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election\nA special election for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district was held on March 13, 2018, following the resignation of Republican Representative Tim Murphy. Murphy, who held the seat since January 3, 2003, declared his intent to resign on October 5, 2017, and vacated his seat on October 21 that year. Democrat Conor Lamb defeated Republican Rick Saccone 49.86% to 49.53%. Saccone conceded the race eight days after the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281854-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election, Background\nEight-term incumbent Republican U.S. Representative Tim Murphy was involved in a sex scandal consisting of his allegedly having extramarital sexual relations with a woman and then asking her to have an abortion. This was particularly damaging because Murphy identifies as a pro-life politician. Murphy subsequently announced that he was resigning and that he would leave office on October 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281854-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election, Background\nPrimary elections were not held in the race. Instead, nominees were chosen by each party. The Republican Party held a special convention on November 11, 2017, to choose a nominee through a conferee process involving 215 local Republican activists. The Democratic Party held their nominating convention on November 19, 2017. The Libertarian Party of Allegheny County and the Libertarian Party of Washington County nominated a candidate via party caucus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281854-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election, Background\nAt the time, Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District was located in Western Pennsylvania and bordered the state of West Virginia. It included portions of Greene, Washington, Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. The district had a Cook PVI score of R+11. This was the last election for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district held under the configuration made in 2011 by the Pennsylvania Legislature as new districts have been drawn in accordance with the ruling of the state supreme court in League of Women Voters v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and came into effect for the main 2018 congressional elections in November. The bulk of the old 18th became the 14th District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281854-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election, Libertarian Party nomination\nThe Libertarian candidate was Pittsburgh attorney Drew Gray Miller. Prior to this however, a primary candidate was Philip Mosses, a high school government teacher. Moses ended his campaign in early 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 94], "content_span": [95, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281854-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election, General election, Campaign\nThe major party candidates were Republican Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb, in a district that Donald Trump carried by almost 20 points in the 2016 presidential election. The special election attracted national attention and was seen by many political analysts and commentators as a bellwether on the popularity of Donald Trump, Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, and the Republican Party. Saccone said the special election was a referendum on Trump's presidency and called himself \"Trump before Trump was Trump\". Prominent Republicans including Donald Trump (twice), Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Mike Pence came to the state to campaign for Saccone. The district was contested by a third-party candidate (Libertarian Drew Gray Miller) for the first time since 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 92], "content_span": [93, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281854-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election, General election, Campaign funding\nRepublicans and aligned groups spent more than twice as much as Democrats and aligned groups on the special election. Although Lamb's campaign fund raised more than Saccone's campaign fund, Saccone benefited from far more spending by outside groups than Lamb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 100], "content_span": [101, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281854-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election, General election, Campaign funding\nThe Republican Party and outside pro-Republican \"independent expenditure\" groups spent almost $10.7 million to support Saccone or oppose Lamb in the campaign, while $2.6 million in independent expenditures was spent in support of Lamb. Fourteen outside groups (seven Republican, seven Democrat) comprised over 95% of the spending. For the Republican side, the major groups spending money on Saccone's behalf were Paul Ryan's Congressional Leadership Fund, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the Republican National Committee, and the pro-Trump groups America First Action and 45Committee. For the Democratic side, the major groups spending money on Lamb's behalf were the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Patriot Majority PAC, and the VoteVets.org Action Fund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 100], "content_span": [101, 887]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281854-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election, General election, Debates\nKDKA-TV hosted the first debate on February 19, 2018. WTAE-TV hosted the second and final debate on March 3, 2018, at 7 PM EST. The debate was hosted live by WTAE-TV along with the League of Women Voters of Greater Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 91], "content_span": [92, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281854-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election, General election, Results\nLamb declared victory just after midnight on March 14. With all precincts reporting, Lamb led Saccone by 627 votes, a margin of 0.2 percent. NBC News declared Lamb the apparent winner early on the morning of March 14, based on the remaining absentee ballots from Washington County. The New York Times followed suit later that afternoon. A few other outlets declared Lamb the winner in what has been described as \"a major upset\", but others withheld judgment, citing the closeness of the race and the likelihood of a recount. Saccone conceded the race to Lamb on March 21, the day that the last votes were counted. Allegheny County certified its election results on April 2, making Conor Lamb's victory official. He was sworn in on April 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 91], "content_span": [92, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281854-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election, General election, Results\nLamb's victory came primarily on the strength of winning the Allegheny County portion of the district by almost 15,400 votes, as he lost the rest of the district by 14,700 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 91], "content_span": [92, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281855-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 7th and 15th congressional district special elections\nSpecial elections for the 7th and 15th congressional districts in Pennsylvania were held on November 6, 2018, following the resignations of Republican U.S. Representatives Pat Meehan (7th district) and Charlie Dent (15th district).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [73, 73], "content_span": [74, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281855-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 7th and 15th congressional district special elections, Impact of redistricting\nThese were the last elections held in either district under their configurations made in 2011 by the Pennsylvania Legislature, as new districts drawn in accordance will the ruling of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in League of Women Voters v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were in effect for the main 2018 congressional elections in November. The bulk of the old 7th became the new 5th District and the bulk of the old 15th became the new 7th District. In both cases, the two candidates on the ballot for these special elections were also on the ballot for the regular election held on the same day in their respective successor districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [75, 98], "content_span": [99, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281855-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 7th and 15th congressional district special elections, District 7, Background\nIn January 2018, following revelation that he used taxpayers' money to settle a sexual harassment claim brought by a female staff member, Meehan announced that he would retire from Congress at the end of his current term and not seek reelection in 2018. On April 27, 2018, Meehan resigned and said he would pay back the taxpayer funds used for the settlement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [75, 97], "content_span": [98, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281855-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 7th and 15th congressional district special elections, District 7, Background\nPennsylvania's 7th congressional district under the 2011 configuration is located in the Delaware Valley and borders Delaware. It includes portions of Berks County, Chester County, Delaware County, Lancaster County and Montgomery County. The district has a Cook PVI score of R+1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [75, 97], "content_span": [98, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281855-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 7th and 15th congressional district special elections, District 7, Candidates\nIn Pennsylvania, primaries are not held for special congressional elections. Instead, nominees are chosen by party committee members from each of the counties represented in the district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [75, 97], "content_span": [98, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281855-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 7th and 15th congressional district special elections, District 15, Background\nIn September 2017, Dent announced that he would retire from Congress and not seek re-election to another term in 2018. In April 2018, Dent announced that he would resign in May 2018, not serving out the remainder of his term. He resigned on May 12, 2018, leaving the seat vacant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [75, 98], "content_span": [99, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281855-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 7th and 15th congressional district special elections, District 15, Background\nIn Pennsylvania, primaries are not held for special congressional elections. Instead, nominees are chosen by party members from each of the counties represented in the district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [75, 98], "content_span": [99, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281855-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennsylvania's 7th and 15th congressional district special elections, District 15, Background\nPennsylvania's 15th congressional district under the 2011 configuration is located in the Lehigh Valley and borders New Jersey. It includes portions of Dauphin County, Lebanon County and Northampton County, and the entirety of Lehigh County. The district has a Cook PVI score of R+4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [75, 98], "content_span": [99, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400\nThe 2018 Pennzoil 400 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on March 4, 2018, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5\u00a0mi (2.4\u00a0km) asphalt intermediate speedway, it was the third race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, Report, Background\nLas Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada outside the Las Vegas city limits and about 15 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, is a 1,200-acre (490\u00a0ha) complex of multiple tracks for motorsports racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, First practice\nKyle Larson was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 28.323 seconds and a speed of 190.658\u00a0mph (306.834\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, Qualifying\nRyan Blaney scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.200 and a speed of 191.489\u00a0mph (308.172\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice\nKyle Larson was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 28.791 seconds and a speed of 187.559\u00a0mph (301.847\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 62], "content_span": [63, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice\nRyan Blaney was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.963 seconds and a speed of 186.445\u00a0mph (300.054\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, Race, First stage, Start\nRyan Blaney led the field to the green flag at 3:46\u00a0p.m. Blaney led a total of one lap, and Kevin Harvick took the lead on lap 2, and led 37 laps, but then Michael McDowell took the lead on lap 39 and led 11 laps, and Kevin Harvick regained the lead on lap 49 and led the 80-lap first stage. He finished 3.6 seconds in front of Martin Truex Jr., leading 68 of the 80 laps. Also in the top five were Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano. The first caution of the race flew for conclusion of stage 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, Race, Second stage\nThe race restarted on lap 89, Kyle Busch took the lead on lap 122, and led 4 laps, but then Kevin Harvick regained the lead on lap 126 and dominated the race in its second stage, winning by 5.3 seconds over Ryan Blaney. Following were Kyle Larson, Joey Logano and Kyle Busch. Harvick led 76 of the stage\u2019s 80 laps. The second caution of the race flew for conclusion of stage 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, Race, Final stage\nThe race restarted on lap 167, and it remained green for 10 laps. The third caution of the race flew on lap 176 after Jamie McMurray slapped the outside wall. He parked his Chevrolet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, Race, Final stage\nThe race restarted on lap 183 and the fourth caution of the race flew when Kurt Busch lost control of his car in heavy traffic with 84 laps to go and slid up the track into Chase Elliott and into the wall. Both cars suffered heavy damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, Race, Final stage\nThe race restarted on lap 195. Harvick drove on to score his third career victory and second at Las Vegas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, Race, Final stage, Post race\n\u201cI know how hard it is to get to victory lane, and to know we have been there 100 times is something I almost can't fathom,\u201d Harvick said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 47], "content_span": [48, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, Media, Television\nFox Sports covered their 18th race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Mike Joy, 2001 race winner Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip called from the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the pit road duties for the television side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, Media, Radio\nPRN covered the radio call for the race which was also simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice, Mark Garrow and Wendy Venturini called the race in the booth when the field raced through the tri-oval. Rob Albright called the race from a billboard in turn 2 when the field raced through turns 1 and 2. Pat Patterson called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 when the field raced through turns 3 and 4. Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Jim Noble and Steve Richards worked pit road for the radio side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281856-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Pennzoil 400, Penalties\nOn March 7, 2018, NASCAR assessed the Stewart-Haas Racing No. 4 Ford an L1 penalty for violating sections 20.4.8.1 (dealing with rear window support) and 20.4.18 (rocker panel extensions). A brace that supports the rear window failed and did not meet specifications for keeping the rear window glass rigid in all directions, at all times. Additionally, the rocker panel extension was not aluminum. The team would be docked 20 driver and owner points, the win would not count toward playoffs, crew chief Rodney Childers was fined $50,000 and car chief Robert Smith would be suspended for the next two races. Additionally, the No. 55 team was penalized for a loose lug nut during inspection and crew chief Todd Parrott was fined $10,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281857-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Penrith Panthers season\nThe 2018 Penrith Panthers season was the 52nd in the club's history. Coached by Anthony Griffin (from round 1 to round 21) and Cameron Ciraldo (from round 22 onwards) on caretaker basis and captained by Peter Wallace and James Maloney, the Panthers competed in the National Rugby League's 2018 Telstra Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281857-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Penrith Panthers season, Squad, Player transfers\nA \u2020 denotes that the transfer occurred during the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281857-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Penrith Panthers season, Other teams\nIn addition to competing in the National Rugby League, the Panthers are also fielding semi-professional teams in the 2018 Jersey Flegg Cup (for players aged under 20) and the New South Wales Rugby League's 2018 Intrust Super Premiership (NSW Cup). The JF team is coached by Ben Harden, and the NSW Cup team is coached by Guy Missio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281858-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 People's Justice Party leadership election\nA leadership election will be held by the People's Justice Party (PKR) in Malaysia in 2018 to elect a new leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281858-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 People's Justice Party leadership election\nRafizi contests Azmin, and PKR separated into two camps, Azmin camp and Rafizi Camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281858-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 People's Justice Party leadership election\nAt last, the result is heavily favoured Azmin Ali's aligned camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281859-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Perak TBG F.C. season\nThe 2018 season was Perak The Bos Gaurus Football Club's 15th consecutive season in Malaysia Super League. The team participated in Malaysia Super League, the Malaysia FA Cup, and the Malaysia Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281859-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Perak TBG F.C. season, Management team, Club personnel\nUnder new management, the Presidency was taken over by the Secretary General State of Perak, Yang Berhormat Dato' Seri Abdul Puhat Mat Nayan on 4 October 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281859-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Perak TBG F.C. season, Competitions, Overview\nUpdated to match played 27 October 2018Source: Super League fixtures and results", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281860-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Perak state election\nThe 14th Perak State election was held on 9 May 2018. The previous state election was held on 5 May 2013. Each of the state assemblymen are elected to a five year term each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281860-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Perak state election\nThe Perak State Legislative Assembly automatically dissolved on 28 June 2018, the fifth anniversary of the first sitting, and elections were required to be held within sixty days (two months) of the dissolution (on or before 28 August 2018, with the date to be decided by the Election Commission), unless dissolved prior to that date by the Head of State (Sultan of Perak) on the advice of the Head of Government (Menteri Besar of Perak).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281860-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Perak state election, Contenders\nBarisan Nasional (BN) contested all 59 seats in Perak State Legislative Assembly. Barisan Nasional (BN) linchpin party United Malays National Organisation (UNMO) contested a major share of Barisan Nasional (BN) seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281860-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Perak state election, Contenders\nPakatan Harapan also contested all 59 seats in Perak with Democratic Action Party (DAP) was largest contested 18 seats while National Trust Party (Amanah) contested 13 seats and both People's Justice Party (PKR) and the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Bersatu) contested 14 seats each. Pakatan Harapan will use PKR logo as its logo for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281860-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Perak state election, Contenders\nGagasan Sejahtera contested all 56 seats in Perak. Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) competed for 43 seats. The remaining 16 seats were distributed to Parti Cinta Malaysia (PCM).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281860-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Perak state election, Contenders\nParti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) will contest 5 seats in Buntong, Jelapang, Menglembu, Tronoh and Malim Nawar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281860-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Perak state election, Election pendulum\nThe 14th General Election witnessed 29 governmental seats (2 from non-governmental seats were later decided to support the creation of new state government) and 30 non-governmental seats (currently 28 seats after 2 of them decided to support new government) filled the Perak State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 18 safe seat and 1 fairly safe seat. However, none of the non-government side has safe and fairly safe seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281861-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Perlis state election\nThe 14th Perlis State election was held on 9 May 2018. The previous state election was held on 5 May 2013. The state assemblymen is elected to 5 years term each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281861-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Perlis state election\nThe Perlis State Legislative Assembly would automatically dissolve on 28 June 2018, the fifth anniversary of the first sitting, and elections must be held within sixty days (two months) of the dissolution (on or before 28 August 2018, with the date to be decided by the Election Commission), unless dissolved prior to that date by the Head of State (King of Perlis) on the advice of the Head of Government (Menteri Besar of Perlis).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281861-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Perlis state election\nThe incumbent party Barisan Nasional won simple majority of 10 seats and was able to form a government. The opposition Pakatan Harapan won 3 seats while Gagasan Sejahtera won 2 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281861-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Perlis state election, Background, Electoral system\nEach state constituencies of Perlis will elect one member to the Perlis State Legislative Assembly using the first-past-the-post voting system. If one party obtains a majority of seats, then that party is entitled to form the State Government, with its leader as Menteri Besar. If the election results in no single party having a majority, there is a hung assembly, of which will be dissolved under the royal prerogative of the Raja.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281861-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Perlis state election, Background, Electoral system\nThe redistricting of electoral boundaries for the entire country had been presented to and passed by the Dewan Rakyat, and subsequently gazetted on 29 March 2018 after obtaining the royal consent of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ahead of the 14th general election. Elections are conducted by the Election Commission of Malaysia (EC), which is under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281861-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Perlis state election, Background, Voting Eligibility\nTo vote in the state election, one had to be:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281861-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Perlis state election, Contenders\nBarisan Nasional (BN) contested in all 15 seats in Perlis State Legislative Assembly. Barisan Nasional (BN) linchpin party United Malays National Organisation (UNMO) contested in 13 seats and Malaysian Chinese Association(MCA) contested in 2 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281861-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Perlis state election, Contenders\nPan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) also contested in all 15 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281861-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Perlis state election, Election pendulum\nThe 14th General Election witnessed 10 governmental seats and 5 non-governmental seats filled the Perlis State Legislative Assembly. However, none of the government side has safe and fairly safe seat, while the non-government side has just 1 fairly safe seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281861-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Perlis state election, Results\nThe result of the election was announced after 5pm on 9 May 2018. Barisan Nasional won 10 out of 15 seats and was entitled to form a government in Perlis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281862-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Perm knife attack\nTwo teenaged males entered a classroom on 15 January 2018, in the Motovilikhinsky District in Perm, Russia wielding knives and injured eleven students and one teacher. The teacher was attacked after attempting to subdue them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281862-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Perm knife attack, Incident\nReports initially stated that two masked men had burst into the school and attacked students, but authorities later clarified that the incident began as a fight between two students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281862-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Perm knife attack, Incident\nA security source told reporters that prior to entering the classroom, the two teenagers had engaged in a knife fight in the hallway, and a local source identified one of the boys as a past student who had been expelled while the other was a current student at the school. The fight was then reported to have moved into a classroom in which the teacher and several students attempted to subdue them. The Russian Ombudsman for children, released a statement that said; \"Fourth year pupils were protecting their teacher who was trying to stop older guys fighting with knives.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281862-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Perm knife attack, Incident\nPolice and ambulances were called at 10:20 am local time (00:20 am ET). The school was later evacuated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281862-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Perm knife attack, Victims\nThe teacher and the two perpetrators were admitted to the hospital in critical condition. Twelve other victims were reported to have been transported to a local children's hospital, and nine children received \"superficial injuries\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281862-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Perm knife attack, Perpetrators\nThe two perpetrators were arrested and a criminal case was opened on both on charges of attempted murder of two or more people, including minors, committed by a group of individuals with prior agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281862-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Perm knife attack, Perpetrators, Investigation\nThe Russian Ombudsman raised concerns about the incident, and declared \"We will figure out how armed guys made it to school and who did not respond to the situation at the site. Was there really no-one apart from ten-year-old children who could stop the hooligans. What about the school guards?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281862-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Perm knife attack, Perpetrators, Investigation\nAfter the incident an account on the Russian social network VK, that is believed to be connected to one of the perpetrators was discovered to have posted a video of American High School shooters, including Columbine High School massacre perpetrators Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The account was also connected to a group called (school)shooters and an account under the name of the other perpetrator referenced Slenderman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281863-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Persebaya Surabaya season\nLiga 1 season 2018 is the first season for Persebaya Surabaya after being re-accepted as a member of PSSI, in 2017 Persebaya play in League 2 and successfully become champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281863-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Persebaya Surabaya season, Players, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281863-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Persebaya Surabaya season, Pre-season and friendlies\nAt the beginning of the season 2018 Persebaya preceded by following the pre-season event that is president cup and a friendly match against Sarawak FA from Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281863-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Persebaya Surabaya season, Pre-season and friendlies, President's Cup\nIn this President's Cup 2018 group stages, Persebaya is in group (C) using home match system and Persebaya lucky was chosen as the host.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281863-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Persebaya Surabaya season, Pre-season and friendlies, President's Cup\nPersebaya stalled in the knockout stage because lost against PSMS Medan through a penalty kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281863-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Persebaya Surabaya season, Pre-season and friendlies, Blessing Game\nPersebaya invite Sarawak FA, Malaysia for friendlies titled Blessing game, this friendly match aims to be grateful because Persebaya successfully become Liga 2 champion and promotion to Liga 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281864-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Persib Bandung season\nThe 2018 season is Persib Bandung's 85th competitive season. Along with Liga 1, the club will compete in cup tournaments which yet to be announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281864-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Persib Bandung season, Month by month review, December 2017\nThe team has announced Mario G\u00f3mez as a new coach. The Argentine coach was appointed to handle Persib in 2018 League 1 seasonRoberto Carlos Mario Gomez was signed by Persib for two years. Earlier in 2017 Roberto Carlos Mario Gomez was appointed as Malaysian national football team's head coach by FAM president Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim, but he then asked for a higher salary and was therefore rejected as it was expensive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281864-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Persib Bandung season, Month by month review, January 2018\nSome players were recruited by the coach, including Eka Ramdani, Oh In-kyun, Bojan Malisic, Airlangga Sutjipto, Victor Igbonefo and the coach recruited players from Persib U-19 which is the second winner of League 1 U-19 namely Muhammad Aqil Savik and Indra Mustafa. In spite of all that, Persib must also be left behind the flagship player who is the top scorer of Persib last season, Raphael Maitimo who decided to strengthen the other contestants of League 1, Madura United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281864-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Persib Bandung season, Month by month review, January 2018\nNot only that, Persib also left behind importers from Japan Shohei Matsunaga, Jajang Sukmara which strengthens PSMS Medan, duo young players Angga Febryanto and Ahmad Baasith who strengthen different clubs, namely PS Tira Bantul and Persela Lamongan. Meanwhile, the fate of their strikers Sergio van Dijk and Tantan is still waiting for management's decision regarding their contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281864-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Persib Bandung season, Month by month review, January 2018\nIn their preseason event, Persib decided to follow the annual event of the Presidential Cup which they won in 2015 ago. They are in the \"hell\" group with other big teams, namely PSM Makassar, Sriwijaya F.C and second winner of League 2 PSMS Medan handled by their former coach, Djajang Nurdjaman. Persib Bandung undergo the first fight against Sriwijaya F.C. as well as the opening match of the 2018 Presidential Cup. Despite their dominant defeat of the visitors, they were able to clinch a 1\u20130 victory over the visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281864-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Persib Bandung season, Statistics, Top scorers\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281864-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Persib Bandung season, Statistics, Clean Sheets\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total clean sheets are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281864-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Persib Bandung season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\nIncludes all competitive matches. Players listed below made at least one appearance for Persib Bandung first squad during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281864-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Persib Bandung season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\nLast updated: 14 November 2018 Source: Only competitive matches = Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281865-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Persija Jakarta season\nThe 2018 season is Persija's 85th competitive season. They have not been relegated since the competition started in 1933. This season is Persija's 24th consecutive seasons in top-flight since professional competition formed on 1994. Along with Liga 1, the club will compete in Piala Indonesia and Asian Club Competition since 2001\u201302 season. The season covers the period from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281865-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Persija Jakarta season, Statistics, Top scorers\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281865-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Persija Jakarta season, Statistics, Clean sheets\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total clean sheets are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281865-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Persija Jakarta season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\nIncludes all competitive matches. Players listed below made at least one appearance for Persija Jakarta first squad during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281865-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Persija Jakarta season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\nLast updated: 14 December 2018 Source: Competitions Only competitive matches = Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281866-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Perth County municipal elections\nElections were held in Perth County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281866-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Perth County municipal elections, Perth County Council\nPerth County Council consists of 10 members and uses a weighted voting method so that member's votes match the populations of the constituent communities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281867-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Perth SuperSprint\nThe 2018 Perth SuperSprint was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on 4\u20136 May 2018. The event was held at Barbagallo Raceway near Wanneroo, Western Australia and consisted of two races, 120 and 200 kilometres in length. It was the fifth round of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 11 and 12 of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281868-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Perth by-election\nA by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Perth took place on Saturday 28 July 2018, following the resignation of incumbent Labor MP Tim Hammond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281868-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Perth by-election\nIn early counting, within 90 minutes of the close of polls, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's psephologist Antony Green's electoral computer had predicted Labor to retain the electorate with an increased margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281868-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Perth by-election, Background\nHammond announced on 2 May 2018 of his imminent intention to resign from parliament due to family reasons. Due to the High Court ruling against Senator Katy Gallagher on 9 May 2018 as part of the ongoing parliamentary eligibility crisis, four other MPs in the same situation announced their parliamentary resignations later that day. The Speaker announced on 24 May 2018 that he had scheduled the by-elections to occur on 28 July 2018. Popularly labelled \"Super Saturday\", the occurrence of five simultaneous federal by-elections is unprecedented in Australian political history. The others are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281868-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Perth by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberals declined to contest the Perth and Fremantle federal by-elections, but concentrated their resources on the Darling Range state by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281869-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Peru International\nThe 2018 Peru International is a badminton tournament which takes place at Villa Deportiva Nacional in Peru from 26 June to 1 July 2018 and had a total purse of $10,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281869-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Peru International, Tournament\nThe 2018 Peru International is the thirteenth tournament of the 2018 BWF International Series and also part of the Peru International championships which has been held since 1974. This tournament was organized by the Federacion Deportiva Peruana de Badminton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281869-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Peru International, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament holds at Villa Deportiva Nacional in Lima, Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281869-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Peru International, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF International Series event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281869-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Peru International, Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this year tournament is US$10,000. Distribution of prize money is in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281870-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Peru earthquake\nAn earthquake struck Peru at 04:18:45 PET (09:18:45 UTC) on 14 January 2018. It had a magnitude of Mww 7.1 with a maximum perceived intensity of VII (very strong) on the Mercalli intensity scale. Two deaths have been reported, with a further 139 people injured. Widespread damage to adobe houses was reported with 443 homes being destroyed. An initial tsunami warning was later rescinded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281870-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Peru earthquake, Background\nEarthquakes are common in Peru, especially in the Arequipa coastal area of Peru. This particular earthquake was a result of thrust faulting on the destructive boundary between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate. As evidenced by the 2007 earthquake, many homes are not built to any type of standard making them prone to significant damage. Earthquakes can threaten industry as well as the population. Many of the copper mines are vulnerable to quakes, but there were no reports of damage to them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281870-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Peru earthquake, Earthquake\nOn Sunday, 14 January at 04:18 local time, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Peru. The earthquake was positioned in the Pacific Ocean near the coast at a depth of around 39\u00a0km (24\u00a0mi), about 38\u00a0km (24\u00a0mi) south-southwest of Acari. There was no danger of a tsunami to the coastal area. Residents of Lomas, a town on the cost, were evacuated after feeling an aftershock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281870-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Peru earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake left two dead, and over a hundred and twenty injured. The earthquake caused some homes and roads in remote areas to collapse. Damage to roads delayed the arrival of help to the affected rural zones. Several boroughs were without electricity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281870-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Peru earthquake, Aftermath\nA 55-year-old man was fatally crushed by a rock in the city of Yauca located in the region of Arequipa. No information was released on the second victim except that they were in the same region as the first victim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281871-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian Segunda Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 2018 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season, was the 73rd edition of the second tier of Federaci\u00f3n Peruana de Futbol. The tournament started on 8 April 2018 and ended on 2 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281871-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian Segunda Divisi\u00f3n, Competition modus\nThe season was divided into two phases, a home-and-away round-robin stage and a liguilla stage. The top seven teams at the end of the first stage moved on to liguilla. The first placed team received a bye to the semi-finals. The other six teams played quarter-final, two-leg matches. The semi-finals and final also played over two legs. The liguilla champion was promoted to the 2019 Torneo Descentralizado and the tournament championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281871-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian Segunda Divisi\u00f3n, Teams\nA total of 15 teams played in the league, including 12 sides from the 2017 season, two relegated from the 2018 Torneo Descentralizado and one promoted from the 2018 Copa Per\u00fa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281871-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian Segunda Divisi\u00f3n, Teams\nJuan Aurich, Alianza Atl\u00e9tico, and Atl\u00e9tico Grau debuted in their season in the second division of Peruvian football. The two relegated clubs were La Bocana and Sport \u00c1ncash who will play in the 2018 Copa Per\u00fa starting in the Departamental Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281872-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian agrarian strike\nThe Peruvian agrarian strike of 2018 was a series of initially peaceful protests that took place from January 9 to February 11 in a large part of the Peruvian territory. The strike was performed by medium and small independent farmers who demanded that the government declare the agricultural sector in state of emergency due to serious deficiencies in production and trade, especially in the potato sector. On January 30, 2018 the demonstrations turned violent and expanded to departments that at first did not comply with the strike, until now the clashes between the National Police of Peru and the demonstrators left two people dead and serious material damage in the entire area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281872-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian agrarian strike, Background\nSince the rise to power of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in 2016, Peru was involved in various protests from different areas, such as the education and health sector, the reactions to the pardon to former President Alberto Fujimori at the beginning of January 2018 and, at the same time, the resurgence of the political crisis that plagues the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281872-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian agrarian strike, Background\nThe protests germinated when the national potato price collapsed tremendously due to the low prices of the same tuber exported from abroad by free trade agreements (FTAs) signed by Peru. Farmers called for the renegotiation of the FTAs and economic reparations that are caused by the loss of sales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281872-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian agrarian strike, Strike\nOn January 9, the National Commission of Potato Producers announced the start of the strike with quiet protests in several cities of the Peruvian central highlands. After an agreement between farmers and the government, the demonstrations were halted. On January 25, the strikers expected the arrival of government representatives such as the President of the Council of Ministers, Mercedes Ar\u00e1oz Fern\u00e1ndez and the Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, Jos\u00e9 Arista. On the agreed day, however, they did not arrive, and representatives of each state organization were sent in their place, and the strikers announced that, as a result, the strike would restart on January 30 but in a violent manner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281872-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian agrarian strike, Strike\nOn January 30, demonstrators were blocking motorways and burning state installations in all departments, and in this case two deaths and numerous injuries were reported. On February 2 the main stage of the National Commission of Potato Producers reached an agreement with the government to lift the strike. This measure was only made official in the department of Ayacucho and some districts of other departments, this because the other Departmental proceedings are shown to be in disagreement with the ruling. Later in the same month, Ayacucho and other de facto districts would restart unemployment by a strikers majority that did not know what was agreed with the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281872-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian agrarian strike, Strike\nOn February 11 the Peruvian government managed to reach an agreement to buy the products exceeded the strikers, both the dissidents and the National Commission of Potato Producers lifted the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281873-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Peru on 9 December 2018 alongside the second round of gubernatorial elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281873-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian constitutional referendum\nThe referendum, originally proposed by President Mart\u00edn Vizcarra, saw three of four proposals accepted. The final proposal of a bicameral congress was denied after Vizcarra withdrew his support following modifications during congressional approval that would have resulted with weaker presidential powers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281873-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian constitutional referendum, Background, Odebrecht scandal\nFollowing the Odebrecht scandal which saw four of Peru's former presidents involved in corruption scandals, Peruvians demanded government accountability regarding corruption. President Mart\u00edn Vizcarra following the resignation of President Kuczynski stated upon being sworn in on 23 March 2018 that Peruvians have \"had enough\" of corruption, promising to lead an anti-corruption movement in Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281873-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian constitutional referendum, Background, Vizcarra-Fujimorista relations\nSince being a minister, Vizcarra faced opposition from Fujimoristas. The Fujimorista movement was led by Keiko Fujimori, daughter of Alberto Fujimori, a former Peruvian president imprisoned for corruption and crimes against humanity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281873-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian constitutional referendum, Background, Vizcarra-Fujimorista relations\nUpon Vizcarra's entrance into the office of the presidency, the Fujimoristas, which held the majority of seats within the Congress of the Republic of Peru, immediately began to oppose Vizcarra's projects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281873-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian constitutional referendum, Process, Proposal\nMonths after being sworn in, Vizcarra called for a constitutional referendum on 28 July 2018 to prohibit private funding for political campaigns, to ban the reelection of lawmakers and to recreate a bicameral congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281873-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian constitutional referendum, Process, Proposal\nCongress immediately attempted to prevent judicial and congressional reform from occurring and initially created delays in the process. Due to these actions, Vizcarra raised a motion of no confidence threatening the closure of congress. As a result, congress began the approval process for the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281873-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian constitutional referendum, Process, Congressional approval\nThe first reform approved by Fujimori-led congress on 18 September 2018 would see the National Council of the Magistrature renamed the National Board of Justice. The way its members are appointed would also be changed, with new members chosen by a special commission headed by the Attorney General, the Comptroller General, the president of the constitutional tribunal, the president of the judicial branch and the Public Defender through a public contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281873-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian constitutional referendum, Process, Congressional approval\nThe second reform approved by Congress, on 26 September, was an amendment to article 35 of the constitution regulating political party finances, introducing audits and penalties for illegal donations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281873-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian constitutional referendum, Process, Congressional approval\nAfter the temporary detention of Keiko Fujimori on 10 October, legislators belonging to American Popular Revolutionary Alliance and the Fujimorista-led Popular Force introduced a bill the following day on 11 October 2018 to modify Vizcarra's referendum proposals with their own suggestions to the public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281873-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian constitutional referendum, Process, Congressional approval\nLater in October, the third proposal approved introduced a term limit of one consecutive term for members of Congress\u2013left largely unchanged from Vizcarra's original proposal\u2013while the fourth and final proposal included making Congress a bicameral legislature with 130 deputies and 50 senators. This final proposal was modified by the Fujimoristas in congress to weaken the power of the presidency and President Vizcarra quickly withdrew his support from creating a bicameral congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281873-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian constitutional referendum, Preliminary results\nVoters ultimately accepted the first three referendum proposals, rejecting the final proposal of establishing a bicameral congress that President Vizcarra had withdrawn his support from after the Fujimorista-controlled congress amended the proposal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281873-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian constitutional referendum, Reactions\nPresident Vizcarra and analysts agreed that the referendum was just the first step of combating corruption that has been well-established in Peru. Vizcarra also highlighted that the election occurred on International Anti- Corruption Day and the anniversary of the 1824 Battle of Ayacucho, which sealed independence for not only Peru, but for the entire South American continent. Gesti\u00f3n stated that results were a victory for Vizcarra while on the other hand, Peruvians had \"harshly punished Congress\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281874-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian promotion play-offs\nThe 2018 Peruvian promotion play-offs or Cuadrangular de Ascenso 2018 was held in December 2018 with all games being played at Estadio Miguel Grau, Callao. The play-offs determined the third and fourth team to be promoted to the Torneo Descentralizado following that tournament's expansion. The teams place 2nd and 3rd in the 2018 Peruvian Segunda Divisi\u00f3n and 2018 Copa Per\u00fa took part in the promotion play-offs. The top two placed team in the play-offs gained promotion in the 2019 Torneo Descentralizado and the bottom two qualified to the 2019 Peruvian Segunda Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281874-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian promotion play-offs, Background\nThe Peruvian Football Federation took control of the local domestic league from the Professional Football Sports Association, the tournament organizers, in 2018 and announced that the Peruvian first division tournament would be re-branded for 2019. With this re-branding, the tournament was expand from 16 to 18 teams. At the beginning of the 2018 season, it was announced that the teams that finished 2nd and 3rd in the bottom two tiers of the Peruvian football league system would compete on the promotion play-offs at the end of the year to decide which two teams would receive the expansion slots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281874-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian promotion play-offs, Road to the play-offs, Segunda Divisi\u00f3n, Liguilla\nCarlos A. Mannucci and Cienciano advanced to the Promotion play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 84], "content_span": [85, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281875-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian regional and municipal elections\nMunicipal and regional elections were held in Peru on 7 October 2018. In the election, Peruvians voted for governors, vice governors and regional councilors at a regional level while at a municipal level, citizens voted for mayors and municipal councilors. Those elected took office 1 January 2019 and serve their term until 31 December 2022.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281875-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian regional and municipal elections, Race summary\nJorge Mu\u00f1oz Wells of Popular Action was elected Mayor of Lima.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281875-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Peruvian regional and municipal elections, Race summary\nPopular Force, the party of Keiko Fujimori which held the majority in the Congress of the Republic of Peru at the time, saw little success in the elections. The party saw no candidates elected into Lima or regional governments within Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281876-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Peshawar suicide bombing\nOn 10 July 2018, a suicide bombing occurred at the Awami National Party's workers rally in Yaka Toot area of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Haroon Bilour, ANP's candidate for PK-78 and prime target of the attack, was killed as a result of the bombing. The attack left 22 people dead and wounded 75 others. Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281876-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Peshawar suicide bombing, Background, Attacks against ANP leaders\nThe leaders of Awami National Party (ANP) have frequently been ambushed by militants. In December 2012, Bashir Ahmad Bilour, leader of ANP and Haroon Bilour's father, was killed by a suicide bomber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281876-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Peshawar suicide bombing, Background, Motive\nThe motive behind the assault was to kill the ANP leader Haroon Bilour. Bilour was to contest the next elections from PK-78. On 16 April 2013, a suicide attack claimed by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on ANP election rally that targeted Haroon Bilour, killed 15 people. However, Haroon Bilour was not at the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281876-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Peshawar suicide bombing, Bombing\nOn late night 10 July 2018, Haroon Bilour arrived at Yakatoot area in Peshawar where ANP workers had gathered for a corner meeting. As his vehicle arrived, a loud explosion occurred. Bilour suffered serious injuries and was shifted to hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281876-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Peshawar suicide bombing, Aftermath, Rescue services\nSoon after the explosion, the Law enforcement agencies reached the site and initiated investigation. Peshawar's CCPO Qazi Jameel said that nearly 8 kilograms of TNT was used in the bomb. All the deceased and injured were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital. AIG KPK Shafqat Malik said that a suicide bomber blew himself up and Haroon was the target of the attack. Initially the death toll was 13 but later it rose to 21 according to Lady Reading Hospital officials. The attack also left 75 people wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281876-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Peshawar suicide bombing, Aftermath, Rescue services\nApart from Bilour, the other 17 deceased were identified as Asif Khan, Mohammad Naeem, Mohammad Shoib, Haji Muhammad Gul, Yaseen, Najeebullah, Khan Muhamad, Huzaifa, Abidullah, Arif Hussain, Imran, AKhtar Gul, Zameer Khan, Asrar, Rizwan, Sadiq and Sameen. Two dead bodies remained unidentified. On 12 July 2018, two days after the attack, another person succumbed to his injuries, bringing the number of deaths to 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281876-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Peshawar suicide bombing, Aftermath, Bilour's remains\nBilour's body was shifted to his residence at Bilour House. ANP supporters gathered outside his residence and shouted slogans against government for his \"failure to provide security\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281876-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Peshawar suicide bombing, Aftermath, PK-78 elections delay\nFollowing the incident, the Election Commission of Pakistan postponed the polls for PK-78, constituency from which Bilour was to contest election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281876-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Peshawar suicide bombing, Reactions, Security forces\nIG KPK Mohammad Tahir formed a seven-member team to probe the incident and directed it to submit report within 7 days. The following day, police conducted raids across the city. Nine units of Police and Quick Reaction Forces (QRF) were deployed at all entry and exit points of the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281876-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Peshawar suicide bombing, Reactions, Perpetrators\nTehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the bombing calling the assassination of Bilour \"a revenge of previous government\" (referring to 2008-2013 tenure of ANP's KPK governance) and also warned the security forces of more attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281877-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Peterborough City Council election\nElections to Peterborough City Council took place on 3 May 2018. This was on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281877-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Peterborough City Council election, Results Summary\nFollowing the 2016 election, two councillors from Gunthorpe ward left the Liberal Democrat group to sit as Independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281878-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Peterborough County municipal elections\nElections were held in Peterborough County, Ontario, on October 22, 2018, in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281878-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Peterborough County municipal elections, Peterborough County Council\nPeterborough County Council consists of two members from each of the county's constituent municipalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281879-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Petit Le Mans\nThe 2018 Petit Le Mans (formally known as the 2018 MOTUL Petit Le Mans for sponsorship reasons) was the 21st running of the Petit Le Mans, and was held on October 15th 2018. It was the last race in the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship, and the last race of the 2018 Tequila Patron North American Endurance Cup, and was run at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. The race was won overall by the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281879-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Petit Le Mans, Background, Entry List\nDue to a highly controversial change made by the FIA/ACO in the 2018-19 FIA World Endurance Championship, which saw the date of the 6 Hours of Fuji moved to allow Fernando Alonso to compete at the home race of the sole LMP1 manufacturer, Toyota, several drivers which were due to compete in both events were unable to do so. As such, the entry list featured a large number of changes compared to the previous rounds of the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season\nThe 2018 season was the Philadelphia Eagles' 86th season in the National Football League and their third under head coach Doug Pederson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season\nThe Eagles entered the season as the defending champions of Super Bowl LII, when they defeated the previous defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots 41\u201333 and attempted to become the first team since the 2004 New England Patriots to repeat as Super Bowl Champions. They opened the season with the NFL Kickoff Game on September 6, beating the Atlanta Falcons 18\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season\nA vast majority of their Super Bowl-winning squad from the 2017 season was retained, although some notable losses included tight end Trey Burton (who contributed to the Philly Special in the Super Bowl), defensive end Vinny Curry, and cornerback Patrick Robinson. Franchise quarterback Carson Wentz, who had been injured late in the 2017 season, returned as a starter in Week 3, but a back injury would bump him down as the number 3 quarterback instead of being placed on injured reserve, and Nick Foles would start in his place for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season\nThe Eagles struggled through the first three months of the season to a 4\u20136 record, with inconsistent play and multiple injuries to players such as safety Rodney McLeod and running back Jay Ajayi. With a 21\u201317 loss to the Carolina Panthers in Week 7, the Eagles failed to improve or match their record from the previous season. The Eagles also made history in Week 11 with a 48\u20137 loss in New Orleans, the largest loss by a defending Super Bowl champion in league history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season\nDespite this, the Eagles proceeded to win 5 of their last 6 games, including two division wins over the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins to move to 9\u20137. A three-game win streak to end the season which included upset wins over the Rams, Texans, and Redskins helped the Eagles make the playoffs with a Vikings loss to the Bears. This is the first time the Eagles made the playoffs in back to back seasons since the 2008\u201310 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season\nThe Eagles played in their first NFL Kickoff Game and their first game at London's Wembley Stadium in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season\nIn the playoffs, the Eagles upset the third-seeded Chicago Bears 16\u201315 in the Wild Card round to advance to the Divisional round, where they lost 14\u201320 to the top-seeded New Orleans Saints, ending their hopes of defending their Super Bowl title. The Eagles were the first defending champions to win a postseason game on the road since the 2004 Patriots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Schedule\nOn January 11, the NFL announced that the Eagles will play the Jacksonville Jaguars in one of the London Games at Wembley Stadium in London, England, with the Jaguars serving as the home team. It will be the Eagles' first appearance in the International Series. The game would occur during Week 8 (October 28), and will be televised in the United States. The exact date, along with network and kickoff time, were announced in conjunction with the release of the 2018 regular season schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nThe Eagles kicked off the 2018 season hosting Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons in a rematch of last year's Divisional Round. The Falcons struggles in the red zone continued as they were stopped on fourth and goal on their first drive. The Eagles, however, had struggles of their own being held scoreless until midway through the second when Jake Elliott kicked a 26-yard field goal to tie the game. The Falcons responded with a Matt Bryant field goal to take a 6\u20133 lead at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nThe Eagles offense finally found life midway through the third in a remake of the Philly Special with the reigning Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles catching a pass from Nelson Agholor on a trick play. A 1-yard TD run by Jay Ajayi gave the Eagles their first lead of the night. A couple of drives later, the Eagles defense came up big again with a Rasul Douglas interception that ended a potential scoring drive for the Falcons. However, Foles (who struggled for most of the game) return the favor after throwing an interception to Deion Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nAtlanta took advantage and scored on a 9-yard TD run by Tevin Coleman to give them a 12\u201310 lead (Bryant missed the extra point). The Eagles scored with under 3 minutes left on an 11-yard TD run by Ajayi and converted a two-point conversion to take a 6-point, 18\u201312 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0006-0003", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nRyan and the Falcons had one more shot to win the game but in a repeat of last year's playoff matchup, the game came down to the final play with the Eagles stopping the Falcons on five consecutive plays, with the last being an incomplete pass from Matt Ryan to Julio Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nThe Eagles won a nailbiter and open the season with a 1\u20130 record for the seventh time in their last nine openers dating back to 2010. Despite the defense's outstanding game, the offense struggled mightily. Foles finished 19/34 for just 117 yards and the latter interception. Atlanta and Philadelphia combined for 26 penalties by the end of regulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nThe Eagles traveled to Tampa Bay for Game 2 of the 2018 season. The Eagles defense struggled throughout most of the game as Ryan Fitzpatrick threw for 400+ yards and four TDs for the second consecutive week. The Eagles late comeback attempt fell short after the Bucs offense converted on a 3rd-and-3 aided by a penalty en route to a 27\u201321 loss. Cornerback Jalen Mills was heavily criticized after his poor performance which included allowing a 75-yard TD to DeSean Jackson on the first play of regulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nCarson Wentz made his 2018 debut returning from a torn ACL he had suffered during Week 14 of the 2017 season in this game against the Colts. The Eagles offense struggled after the first drive, but the defense played well, holding Colts quarterback Andrew Luck to under 100 passing yards until late in the fourth quarter. Wentz led the offense to an 11-minute drive in the fourth quarter (aided by penalties) which resulted in running back Wendell Smallwood rushing for a touchdown to take the lead with 3 minutes left. The Colts got into the red zone but failed to score or at least get a first down. The final play came down to Jacoby Brissett attempting a Hail Mary that ended up barricaded in the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nThe win earned the Eagles a 2\u20131 record, tying with the Redskins for first in the NFC East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Tennessee Titans\nThe Eagles played sparingly well for the first three-quarters holding Tennessee to just a field goal. Wentz threw for two TDs including one to Alshon Jeffery who made his 2018 debut after an offseason surgery which kept him out for the first three weeks. However, the Eagles broke down completely in the fourth allowing Marcus Mariota and the Titans to comeback and take a 20\u201317 late in the fourth. A 42-yard punt return by DeAndre Carter set up a 30-yard field goal by Jake Elliott tied the game leading to overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Tennessee Titans\nElliott kicked a 37-yarder to give the Eagles the lead in overtime. The defense was unable to stop the Titans offense allowing a 4th-and-15 conversion. The drive ended with Mariota throwing a 10-yard TD to Corey Davis. The loss proved to be humiliating for the Eagles. Wentz in his second game back went 33/50 for 348 yards and two TDs. A defense decimated by injuries were once again criticized heavily for the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Tennessee Titans\nThe loss dropped the Eagles to 2\u20132, tied for second place with the Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nIn a rematch of last year's Conference Championship game, the Eagles dropped their second straight game of the season to Minnesota 23\u201321. A slow start aided with poor defensive play costed the Eagles as their rally attempt fell short.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nWith this loss, the Eagles matched their loss total from 2017. There were multiple plays that proved critical to the outcome, including a controversial roughing-the-passer call on Michael Bennett at the end of the first half that continued a touchdown-scoring drive, and a third-quarter Jay Ajayi fumble near the goal line. They were also flagged 3 times for illegal formation penalties, and Carson Wentz was flagged for intentional grounding that cost the Eagles an opportunity to kick a field goal with 9:33 left in the 4th quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nThe loss dropped the Eagles to 2\u20133, still tied for second place since Dallas lost later to the Texans in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at New York Giants\nWhat was considered a must win game, the Eagles looked dominant and never looked back. The game started off with linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill intercepting Eli Manning setting up a Wentz TD pass to Alshon Jeffery. The Giants responded with a field goal making it 7\u20133. Later in the first, a Corey Clement 1-yard TD run put the Eagles up 14\u20133 The Eagles shut down the Giants for the most part in the first half leading 24\u20136 by half time. All the Giants mustered was a 50-yard TD run by rookie Saquon Barkley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at New York Giants\nThe Eagles mostly burned out time in the fourth adding more points with an Elliott 30-yard field goal to make it 34\u201313. The Eagles offense resembled their Super Bowl winning offense while the defense stepped up and shut down Eli Manning and Odell Beckham Jr. However, Barkley had 130 rushing yards and a TD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at New York Giants\nWith this win, the Eagles had increased their record to 3\u20133 and have now won four straight games over the Giants dating back to December 2016. However the Eagles remained tied second place in the division since the Cowboys and Redskins won their games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Carolina Panthers\nAfter a big road win, the Eagles came back home to square off against Cam Newton and the Panthers. The Eagles again looked poised to win; going up 10\u20130 before halftime, then going up 17\u20130 before the end of the 3rd Quarter. But in a much similar narrative to their Week 4 loss in Tennessee, the Eagles broke down in the fourth quarter allowing the Panthers to score 21 unanswered points; including a 2-point conversion from Cam Newton to Jarius Wright following the second of their 3 touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThe offense was shut down and did not respond to Cam Newton's three TDs to Curtis Samuel, Devin Funchess and Greg Olsen. The Eagles had one more shot to win after a defensive pass interference penalty moved them deep in Panthers territory, but they didn't convert on a key fourth down, sealing yet another loss with a blown lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThe loss dropped the Eagles to 3\u20134 and third in the NFC East, and allowed the Redskins to take a two-game lead in the division after they beat the Cowboys later that evening. Also with this loss, they could no longer match their win total from their Super Bowl-winning season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nThis marked the Eagles first appearance in the NFL International Series in London as they faced the Jacksonville Jaguars who were also struggling after a strong 2017 campaign. After two turnovers on their first two processions, the Eagles offense played well. Wentz had another strong game after facing criticism after last week, throwing for three TDs. Rookie tight end Dallas Goedert scored a TD for the second straight week and his third in his career. The defense managed to stop the Jaguars on their last drive to prevent a game winning drive. The Eagles sealed the win on their last drive, making two key conversions on second down, which helped them milk out the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nWith the close win, the Eagles headed into their bye week with a 4\u20134 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: Bye week\nDuring their bye week, the Eagles traded a 2019 third-round pick to the Detroit Lions for WR Golden Tate at the trade deadline. The Eagles also gained better position in the NFC East with the Redskins and Cowboys both losing their games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nThe Eagles returned home for a crucial Sunday Night game against their bitter rivals the Dallas Cowboys who had struggled with a dismal 3\u20135 record. Despite being favored to dominate, they struggled in the first half trailing 13\u20133 at the half, and despite keeping neck and neck, never once led. After finding a spark on offense, the defense struggled to contain the Cowboys. A last second desperation drive with Zach Ertz lateraling the ball to Golden Tate ended up falling short of the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nWith this loss, they not only dropped them to 4\u20135, but it also raised many concerns on whether or not if the team were still contenders. Also with the loss, they dropped to third place in the NFC East division, standing at the brink of playoff contention just 9 months after winning the Super Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Eagles entered this game with a gruesome injury list and shorthanded on defense. The Eagles struggled to get anything going on offense while the defense (which consisted of third string/practice squad players) was unable to contain Drew Brees and the Saints. The Eagles suffered a major meltdown all evening long as fans started to boil over on social media and question their defending champs inconsistent performance. Even the voice of the Eagles; Merrill Reese commented on Twitter, \"What a disaster!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at New Orleans Saints\nI didn't expect the Eagles to win but I didn't expect them to be completely dominated in every respect from beginning to end. Where are they going to get corners to play against the Giants next week\u00a0?\". The Saints were too much for the Eagles as the team fell to 4\u20136 on the season and at the brink of the playoff picture. Carson Wentz had the worst game of his career; being held to 156 yards, no touchdowns and 3 interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at New Orleans Saints\nFurthermore, the Eagles' loss to the Saints by 41 points is the biggest defeat for a defending Super Bowl Champion. In addition, this was their worst loss since their 42\u20130 defeat to the Seahawks in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. New York Giants\nAfter last week's meltdown, the Eagles returned home for round 2 against the Giants who were having an underwhelming season. The Eagles struggles continued as they fell through early facing a 19\u20133 deficit. However, the offense turned around and scored 22 unanswered points led by young running backs Corey Clement and rookie Josh Adams while the defense shutdown Eli Manning and held them to just 3 points in the second half. The Eagles would win with a Jake Elliott game-winning field goal completing their comeback and snapping their 3-game losing streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. New York Giants\nThe Eagles advanced to 5\u20136 after what it seemed like all hope was lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. New York Giants\nWith this win, the all-time series is tied 86\u201386\u20132. Furthermore, the Eagles have now won five straight games over the Giants dating back to December 2016 and extended their home win streak against the Giants to five games (dating back to October 2014).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Washington Redskins\nAfter a big comeback last week, the Eagles stayed home for a Monday Night showdown against Adrian Peterson and the Redskins. The Eagles mostly dominated throughout the game although there were some self-inflicted wounds that could've costed them. The offense was solid for the most part although there were some questionable plays. The defense mostly contained the Redskins, despite allowing a 90-yard Adrian Peterson TD run. The defense knocked out veteran backup Colt McCoy (who was filling in for Alex Smith who was out for the year). Former Eagles QB Mark Sanchez came in for the Redskins. A Nathan Gerry INT setup the Eagles to essentially pull the game away with a 4-yard TD pass to Jordan Matthews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 97], "content_span": [98, 803]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Washington Redskins\nWith this win against the Redskins, the Eagles now evened their record at 6\u20136. They have now won three straight games over the Redskins dating back to 2017. Also with this win they won back to back games for the first time this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 97], "content_span": [98, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Dallas Cowboys\nThe Eagles came in feeling good about themselves as they looked to take the division. However, with a slow start, the Eagles seemed to lose life again. However, they came back and it was a back and forth battle between the two teams. While the Eagles offense got it going, the defense was unable to contain Dak Prescott and the Cowboys; who torched the Eagles with 455 yards, 192 yards from scrimmage by Ezekiel Elliott and 3 touchdowns to Amari Cooper. Eventually, the Cowboys won with an Amari Cooper TD in overtime. The loss proved to be crumbling for the Eagles as they fell back at the brink of the playoff picture. After the game, controversy filled among fans on social media blaming the officiating by the referees which affected the outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Dallas Cowboys\nWith the loss, the Eagles fell to 6\u20137, and they were swept by the Cowboys for the first time since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Los Angeles Rams\nAfter a heartbreaking loss, the Eagles came into LA wounded with injuries, including QB Carson Wentz, who was ruled out for the game. It was Nick Foles who was going to start against Jared Goff and the red hot Rams. The Eagles shocked the Rams with a 30\u201313 lead by the end of the third quarter. However, the Rams rallied back within one score with one last shot to send the game into overtime. The Eagles defense stalled them on their last drive and sealed the upset. The defense was praised for containing one of the NFL's top offenses while the offense was praised for its strong performance led by Foles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Los Angeles Rams\nWith the win in Los Angeles, the Eagles climbed back to 7\u20137, and kept their playoff hopes alive. They entered the game as 13.5-point underdogs. Nick Foles once again came into LA and beat the Rams after taking over for an injured Carson Wentz, as he had done in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Houston Texans\nThe Eagles defeated the Texans after a last-second field goal attempt from Jake Elliott was successful, despite turning the ball over three times and a late rally attempt by Houston. The offense continued dominating with Foles taking down another big opponent. The defense was solid despite the late collapse that could've ended their playoff hopes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Houston Texans\nWith the win, the Eagles advanced to 8\u20137 with higher hopes of making the playoffs only needing a win and a Vikings loss. The Eagles now have a record of 4\u20131 since a 48\u20137 loss to the Saints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Washington Redskins\nThe Eagles entered Week 17 needing a win over the Redskins and help from the Chicago Bears to keep their playoff hopes alive. Philadelphia dominated Washington from start to finish in a 24\u20130 shutout win. The offense was consistent despite losing Foles midway through the fourth quarter dominating time of possession having the ball for over 40 minutes compared to just over 15 minutes for Washington. Third string QB Nate Sudfeld sealed the win with a 22-yard TD pass to Nelson Agholor. The defense shutdown QB Josh Johnson and the Redskins who were held to just 89 total yards and 8 first downs. CB Rasul Douglas set the tone early with an INT on the first play of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Washington Redskins\nWith the win, the Eagles finished the 2018 season with a 9\u20137 record. The Eagles would eventually clinch the final playoff berth when the Bears defeated the Minnesota Vikings 24\u201310. The Eagles made the playoffs for consecutive seasons for the first time since the 2008\u20132010 seasons. The Eagles became the first defending champions to qualify for the postseason as a wild card team since the 2010 Saints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Postseason, NFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (3) Chicago Bears\nThe Eagles started their playoff run by traveling to Chicago to square off against Mitchell Trubisky and the Bears, who helped the Eagles get to the playoffs in the first place. In an intense defensive battle, the Eagles got the edge with a Golden Tate TD with just under a minute left. The Bears drove down the field, but after an upright and crossbar \"Double Doink\" by Bears kicker Cody Parkey (also a former Eagles kicker), the Eagles narrowly escaped the Windy City with a 16\u201315 win and advanced to New Orleans for a rematch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Postseason, NFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (3) Chicago Bears\nThe Eagles won their first road playoff game since 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281880-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season, Postseason, NFC Divisional Playoffs: at (1) New Orleans Saints\nThe Eagles traveled to New Orleans to face the Saints in a rematch of the Week 11 game which ended in a 48\u20137 rout in the Saints' favor. Despite jumping out to an early 14\u20130 first-quarter lead over the top-seeded Saints on touchdowns by Jordan Matthews and Nick Foles, the Eagles could not keep up the pace. New Orleans responded with 20 unanswered points over the final three-quarters, including the eventual game-winning third-quarter touchdown pass from Drew Brees to Michael Thomas, to defeat the Eagles 20\u201314 and end Philadelphia's reign as Super Bowl Champions. The loss was just the second career postseason loss for Foles, the other being a 26\u201324 loss in the 2013 season, also to the Saints. New Orleans' victory over Philadelphia meant that, for the 14th straight season, a new Super Bowl champion would be crowned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 919]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281881-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Freedoms season\nThe 2018 Philadelphia Freedoms season was the 18th season of the franchise (in its current incarnation) in World TeamTennis (WTT).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281881-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Freedoms season, Season recap, Drafts\nAt the WTT Player Draft on March 13, 2018, the Freedoms selected Amanda Anisimova, Kevin King and Kevin Anderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281881-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Freedoms season, Season recap, Season\nLed by returning coach and Coach of the Year, Craig Karden, US Open (tennis) champion Sloane Stephens, WTT Male Rookie of the Year, Kevin King and returning fan favorite and Female MVP Taylor Townsend, the Freedoms managed to put together a successful regular season by going 12-2 and qualifying for a spot in the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281881-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Freedoms season, Season recap, Season\nWhile the Freedom's played their home games at Hagan Arena at St. Joe's, the championship game was held at the Daskalakis Athletic Center at Drexel University. The Freedom's took on the Springfield Lasers and lost the first two sets of the match in men's and women's doubles and went down 10-5 at the half. However, the Freedoms managed to re-take the lead 15-14 following two convincing wins in mixed doubles and a dominating woman's singles performance by Taylor Townsend. The championship came down to the final set in the form of men's singles where Kevin King took a 3-1 lead over Miomir Kecmanovi\u0107. However, Kecmanovi\u0107 stormed back and won four straight games including a break of King twice to give the Lasers a 19-18 victory and the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281882-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Fusion season\nThe 2018 Philadelphia Fusion season was the first season of the Philadelphia Fusion's existence in the Overwatch League. The team finished with a regular season record of 24\u201316, which was the fifth best in the Overwatch League. Philadelphia had the same record as the London Spitfire, but London held the tiebreaker by map differential. Philadelphia qualified for the Stage 2 playoffs, in which they lost in the finals against the New York Excelsior. The team also qualified for the Season Playoffs, in which they lost in the Grand Finals against the London Spitfire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281882-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Fusion season, Preceding offseason\nOn November 3, 2017, Fusion announced their inaugural season roster, consisting of the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281882-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Fusion season, Preceding offseason\nDue to \"player logistics issues,\" the Philadelphia Fusion did not participate in preseason play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281882-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Fusion season, Review, Regular season\nPhiladelphia's first regular season OWL match was a 3\u20132 victory against the Houston Outlaws on January 11. On January 25, Philadelphia upset the undefeated New York Excelsior, which marked New York's only loss in Stage 1. With a lack of preparation time heading into the regular season, the team struggled for form in Stage 1 and would only manage to notch 6 victories, missing the Stage 1 Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281882-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Fusion season, Review, Regular season\nUsing the stage-break to catch up on lost practice time and welcoming the arrival of Israeli DPS player Josue \"Eqo\" Corana, Stage 2 would prove to be a turning point for the team. After opening up the stage with back-to-back sweeps over the Boston Uprising and Florida Mayhem, the team would continue to impress and go on to achieve a much improved 3rd-place finish \u2013 good enough for a stage playoffs berth. During the Stage 2 Playoffs, the team surprised many after defeating heavily favored Stage 1 champions London Spitfire in the semi-finals, however a finals match-up with the New York Excelsior would prove a juggernaut too much as the Fusion would fall short in a hard-fought 5-map match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281882-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Fusion season, Review, Regular season\nHeading into the final match of Stage 3 on May 5, the Fusion needed a win over the Los Angeles Valiant for a shot to claim the 4th seed in the Stage 3 playoff bracket. However, the Valiant proved too much to handle, as they defeated the Fusion by a score of 3\u20132 and claimed the 4th seed for their own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281882-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Fusion season, Review, Regular season\nAfter Dallas Fuel's upset 3\u20131 win over the Los Angeles Valiant on June 15, Philadelphia needed a 4\u20130 sweep over the London Spitfire in order to make the Stage 4 Playoffs. While the Fusion were victorious in that matchup, they were only able to win by a score of 3\u20131 and subsequently, missed the Stage 4 Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281882-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Fusion season, Review, Season playoffs\nPhiladelphia Fusion claimed the 6th seed in the Season Playoffs on June 15, after Seoul Dynasty lost to the Los Angeles Gladiators. During the Post-Season Playoffs, Philadelphia Fusion first faced the Boston Uprising. After a dominant first game they lost the second one, forcing a tie-breaker game which Fusion managed to win. After that they faced the New York Excelsior, who were heavy favorites to win the Post-Season playoffs. Fusion upset them in the first game, winning 3\u20130 and then narrowly winning the second game 3\u20132, which sent them to the grand finals. In the Grand Finals they faced another underdog; the London Spitifire. The Spitfire however showed the potential their team had and beat the Fusion in a best-of-3-game series, winning 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281883-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe 2018 Philadelphia Phillies season was the 136th season in the history of the franchise, its 15th season at Citizens Bank Park, and the 1st season with manager Gabe Kapler. They improved from their 66\u201396 season in 2017 by posting an 80\u201382 record, but missed the postseason for the seventh consecutive season. Kapler had the second-most wins among Phillies managers historically after 100 games (56), and under Kapler, the 2018 team improved its end-of-season won-lost record by 14 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281883-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Phillies season, Season standings, Record vs. opponents\nThe October 1 tiebreaker games were regular-season games that are included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281883-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Phillies season, Roster\nAll players who made an appearance for the Phillies during 2018 are included.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281884-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Soul season\nThe 2018 Philadelphia Soul season was the thirteenth season for the franchise in the Arena Football League. The Soul played at the Wells Fargo Center. The team finished tied for second at the end of the regular season but was seeded third in the playoffs due to the AFL tiebreak procedure. They then lost both games in their aggregate score semi-final series against the Baltimore Brigade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281884-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Soul season, Staff, Roster\nRookies in italics updated July 18, 201824 Active, 12 Inactive", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281884-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Soul season, Schedule, Regular season\nThe 2018 regular season schedule was released on February 13, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281885-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Union season\nThe 2018 Philadelphia Union season was the club's ninth season in Major League Soccer, the top flight of American soccer. The team was managed by Jim Curtin, his fifth season with the club. The Union reached the MLS Cup Playoffs as the bottom seed in the MLS Eastern Conference. The club also reached the 2018 U.S. Open Cup final for the third time in club history, but finished runners-up to Houston Dynamo. The 2018 season was the Union's most successful to date, earning the highest points total (50) and most wins (15). Additionally, the 2018 season transitioned Sporting Directors with Earnie Stewart accepting a general manager position with the United States Soccer Federation, and the Union hiring Ernst Tanner; former academy manager for Red Bull Salzburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281885-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Union season, Background, MLS SuperDraft\nThe Union selected three players from the third and fourth rounds of the 2018 SuperDraft", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281885-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Union season, Personnel, Roster\nDP indicates Designated PlayerGA indicates Generation Adidas PlayerHGP indicates Home Grown PlayerINT indicates MLS International Player and qualifies for an international roster spot", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281885-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Philadelphia Union season, Honors and awards, Retirement\nIn May 2018, long time Philadelphia Union forward Sebastian Le Toux announced his retirement from professional soccer. Making a name for himself as a top player for the Philadelphia Union, Le Toux signed a ceremonial one-day contract to retire as a Philadelphia player. His retirement ceremony was held on June 23, 2018 during a home match against Vancouver Whitecaps, where he was the first inductee into the Union's Ring of Honor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281886-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine National Games\nThe 2018 Philippine National Games was the sixth edition in the modern era (ninth overall) of the Philippine National Games. It was co-hosted by the City of Cebu and the Province of Cebu, Philippines from May 19 to 25, 2018. The games will be organized by the Philippine Sports Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281886-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine National Games\nThis edition marks the first time in 20 years that Cebu will be hosting the games. The province first hosted the games in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281886-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine National Games\nIt was first scheduled for December 10\u201316, 2017, but rescheduled on April 15\u201321, 2018, and later moved to May 19\u201325, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281886-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine National Games, Host selection\nThere was no bidding held, and Cebu City and Cebu Province were both awarded the hosting rights outright after an impromptu meeting called for by the Philippine Sports Commission and the Philippine Olympic Committee, where the topic of the hosting of the next PNG was brought up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281886-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine National Games, Venues\nMajority of the venues were held in Cebu City with selected events hosted in other cities and towns in Cebu province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281886-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine National Games, The Games, Opening ceremony\nPresident Rodrigo Duterte formally commenced the games during the opening ceremony of the 2018 Philippine National Games at the Cebu City Sports Complex held on May 19, 2018. The competition proper began the day after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281886-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine National Games, The Games, Participating teams\nA total of 92 local government units (provinces and independent cities) participated in the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281886-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine National Games, The Games, Medal table\nThe local government unit of Cebu City was named as the overall champions of the Philippine National Games surpassing the performance of Baguio which were the champions of the 2016 edition. A total of 2,578 medals, including 770 gold medals, 770 silver medals and 1,038 bronze medals in 19 disciplines were contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281887-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine Super Liga season\nThe 2018 PSL season was the sixth season of the Philippine Super Liga (PSL). It introduced its first all-star weekend and a fourth indoor tournament, the Collegiate Grand Slam Conference, featuring collegiate women's teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281887-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine Super Liga season, All-star weekend\nThe PSL staged its all-star weekend at Silay, Negros Occidental on May 18 to 19, 2018, where two all-star games were played. The games were not televised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections\nBarangay elections in the Philippines were held on May 14, 2018. The election shall elect the Punong Barangay, more commonly known as barangay captains, and members of the Sangguniang Barangay, or barangay council, in 41,948 barangays (villages) throughout the country whose terms start on June 30, 2018. Barangays are the smallest local government unit in the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections\nElections for the reformed Sangguniang Kabataan (SK; youth councils) will also be held at the same time. This shall be the first SK elections since 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections\nOriginally scheduled for October 2016, these elections supposedly concluded the 2016 election cycle that started in May with the election of the Philippine president, the members of Philippine Congress and provincial, city and municipal officials. It was then postponed to October 2017, then was postponed further to May 2018. There were attempts to postpone it further, but Congress ran out of time to pass a law to postpone the elections further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections\nUpon their election, barangay captains shall elect their cities' or municipalities' League of Barangays of the Philippines chairman, also known as the Association of Barangay Captains or ABC Chairman, who will also sit on their respective local municipal or city council. The provincial ABC chairman will also sit on the provincial board. The provincial and some city ABC chairmen shall elect among themselves the national leadership of the League. The SK chairpersons shall do the same among their ranks. The SK national president shall become a member of the National Youth Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections\nThe winning officials were originally to serve until June 30, 2020, but since the 2020 elections were postponed to 2022 in 2019, their terms were also extended to January 1, 2023.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Electoral system\nEach barangay has an elected chief executive, the Punong Barangay, and an 8-seat legislature, the Sangguniang Barangay, of which seven are elected at-large in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 77], "content_span": [78, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Electoral system\nThe youth also elect among themselves the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) chairman, who is the eighth member of the Sangguniang Barangay, and all 7 members of the Sangguniang Kabataan at-large. Both barangay and SK chairmen are elected via the first-past-the-post system, while the legislatures are elected via multiple non-transferable vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 77], "content_span": [78, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Preparations, Postponement\nOn October 18, 2016, or roughly two weeks before the elections, it was confirmed that President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law a bill postponing the October 2016 barangay elections to October 2017. In addition, the subsequent election would be on the second Monday of May 2020, and every three years thereafter. Officials who were elected in 2013 shall continue to serve until 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 87], "content_span": [88, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Preparations, Postponement\nBy March 2017, Duterte expressed that he wanted to postpone the barangay elections until 2020, and replace the barangay officials whose terms are expiring, with his own appointees. This allegedly due to prevent drug money from influencing the result of the elections. His allies in Congress moved to enact a bill doing such. Experts later said that appointing barangay officials is unconstitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 87], "content_span": [88, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Preparations, Postponement\nOn October 2, 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law a bill postponing again the 2017 barangay and SK election to May 2018. The House of Representatives then passed a bill to postpone the election from May to October, but it was defeated in the Senate as there was no counterpart bill submitted there. At the hearings at the attempt to postpone it to October 2018, League national president Edmund Abesamis, who was supporting the election's postponement defending that it wasn't self-serving, was berated by Congressman Antonio Tinio of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers who branded him as shameless. Tinio added that several barangay officials are term limited and should have been replaced by an election as early as 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 87], "content_span": [88, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Preparations, Nominations\nAs there was no law postponing the elections further, the commission released the schedule for the election. Filing of candidacies will be on April 14 to 20. The eligible ages for the Sangguniang Kabataan elections were changed to 18\u201324 years old for candidates, and 15-30 for voters. Candidates were required to submit a resum\u00e9. The commission also told politicians to keep the elections non-partisan, for candidates to refrain mentioning politicians' names, and for them to lower expenses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 86], "content_span": [87, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Preparations, Nominations\nFiling for candidacies was extended until April 21. There were concerns that the number of candidates is less than the number of positions that shall be contested. The Sangguniang Kabataan posts were a concern, with only 181,296 candidacies as opposed to 338,584 positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 86], "content_span": [87, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Preparations, Nominations\nMay 4, 2018 will be the start of the campaign period, that will end on May 12. Election silence is on May 13, and election day is on Monday, May 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 86], "content_span": [87, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Preparations, Candidates allegedly involved in the drug trade\nFollowing the pronouncements of President Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) released on 30 April 2018, the list of barangay officials allegedly involved in the drug trade. PDEA Director-General Aaron Aquino and DILG Officer-in-Charge Eduardo A\u00f1o stated that nearly 200 personalities are in the list. PDEA admitted that the said list that were based on existing police and military intelligence reports, lacks adequate veracity hence cases have not been filed against the said personalities in the courts. The list is considered part of the earlier extensive narco list that was partially released by President Duterte in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 122], "content_span": [123, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Statistics\nThe Philippines has 42,044 barangays, each with 1 chairperson, 7 councilors, 1 SK chairperson and 7 SK councilors. In addition, the SK chairperson is an ex officio member of the barangay council. The newest barangays are in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, Asipulo, Ifugao, Dumalneg, Ilocos Norte, and in Navotas, Metro Manila, where the barangays were reorganized. Furthermore, Barangay Rizal was transferred from Burdeos, Quezon to Panukulan, Quezon after a Supreme Court decision became final and executory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Statistics\nAll 96 barangays in Marawi are not holding elections in May 2018 due to the aftermath of the Battle of Marawi. This means only 41,948 barangays shall be holding elections. The commission shall determine at a later date when to hold elections in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Statistics\n*Aside from the 7 regular members, the SK chairperson is also an ex officio member of the barangay council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Results\nThere was no nationwide campaign, and the election was nonpartisan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 68], "content_span": [69, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Aftermath\nAfter election day, the Commission on Elections said that there were no failure of elections for the first time, except for a case in Northern Samar. The Philippine National Police said that 35 people died in the run-up to the election, with election day itself \"relatively peaceful\". While most leading politicians voted, President Duterte notably didn't, saying he didn't want to disappoint his friends who ran against each other. Several candidates in the \"narcolist\" still won, while others lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 70], "content_span": [71, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Aftermath\nThree days after the election, the commission said 100% of the positions have been proclaimed. The DILG asked the commission to hold special elections in 39 barangays where no SK candidates ran. The DILG said that this the most democratic way in determining who gets the positions, as against to appointment of members to the posts. Furthermore, the commission also suspended the 729 candidacies of people who were either overage to run in the SK, or did not satisfy residency requirements; if any of these won, their proclamations would be suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 70], "content_span": [71, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Aftermath\nAfter the winners were determined, the winning barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan chairmen started to vote among themselves on who would be sitting in their respective local legislatures as their representatives. The DILG has released a schedule and guidelines for these series of indirect elections. After nominations and candidacies were made, elections at the municipal and component city level was held on July 16. The winners shall sit in their respective Sangguniang Bayan or Sangguniang Panlungsod.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 70], "content_span": [71, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Aftermath\nMeanwhile, those who won in the component city and municipal level shall vote among themselves to determine who shall sit among them in their respective Sangguniang Panlalawigan, on July 30. Chairmen from independent component and highly urbanized cities also hold their elections on this date to determine their representatives in their respective Sangguniang Panlungsod.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 70], "content_span": [71, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Aftermath\nThe sitting representatives in all Sangguniang Panlalawigan, and Sangguniang Panlungsod of independent component and highly urbanized cities shall vote among themselves the officials of the national chapter of the league, including the president on August 29. In the national convention held at the Manila Hotel, Barangay Captain Faustino Dy V of San Fabian, Echague, Isabela was elected national president of the Liga ng mga Barangay unopposed. Dy is the son of Isabela Governor Faustino Dy III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 70], "content_span": [71, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Aftermath\nFor deadlocked legislatures, these elections determine on whether the sitting executive will or will not have control of the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 70], "content_span": [71, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Marawi elections\nBy mid-July, the commission has planned to hold the Barangay elections in Marawi in September 2018. The commission is uncertain though if the voters have returned to the city. On July 31, the commission decided to hold the elections on September 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 77], "content_span": [78, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281888-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Marawi elections\nOn Election Day, a brawl and allegations of vote-buying marred the proceedings. Despite this, Col. Romeo Brawner, deputy commander of Joint Task Force Ranao, said that there were no casualties during the day. The commission later said that all winners were proclaimed at least by 6:00\u00a0a.m. the following morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 77], "content_span": [78, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding\nA bidding was held in November 2018 to determine the prospective third major telecommunications service provider in the Philippines which is meant by the Philippine government to compete with the existing duopoly of PLDT, Inc.\u2013Smart Communications and Globe Telecom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding\nThe winning firm or consortium was granted a certificate of public convenience and necessity and six radio frequency bands by the Philippine government which would help establish a third major player in the Philippine telecommunications industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding\nThe Mislatel consortium led by Udenna Corporation and China Telecom was named the provisional winner of the bid on November 7, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Background\nThe Philippines' telecommunication industry is dominated by the duopoly of PLDT, Inc.\u2013Smart Communications and Globe Telecom. The situation has been cited by critics of the duopoly as the reason for the country's poor internet infrastructure and the country has consistently ranked at the bottom-tier among countries in terms of internet speed. In 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte has urged the two established telecommunications to improve their services and said that he would allow the entry of new competitors if they refused to comply. In his third State of the Nation Address in 2018, Duterte has directed the DICT and the NTC to name the third telecommunications provider before the end of that year saying that the firm should selection process should be fair, reasonable and comprehensive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 867]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Background\nA report by Open Signal, a wireless coverage mapping firm, released in November 2017, conducted a study on Long-term Evolution (LTE) technology in 77 countries where the Philippines ranked 69th in LTE availability and 74th in LTE speeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Background\nMajority of the radio frequency spectrum in the Philippines has already been assigned to either PLDT Inc. and Globe Telecom by the National Telecommunications Commission leaving only less than a third of frequency spectrum available to a potential major telecommunications provider although the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has said that the prospective telco provider can still operate in the country and noted that as of October 2018 that there is a pending bill in the Congress which seeks to redistribute unused spectrum frequencies by PLDT and Globe to other companies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Background\nPresident Duterte has invited Chinese firms to enter the bid a move which has been described as a \"political decision\" by then Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Format\nThe bidding for the third major telecommunications provider in the Philippines was overseen by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and an oversight committee. The highest committed level of service (HCLoS) selection model was adopted for the bidding with three selection criteria: national population coverage, minimum average broadband speed and capital and operational expenditures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Format\nThe selection model was selected after a vote by 15 telecommunication companies in an impromptu survey during the third stakeholders consultation organized by the DICT on July 6, 2018. All but 2 companies favored the HCLoS model over the more traditional auction model.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Format\nThe final terms of reference was published by the DICT through Memorandum Circular 09-09-2018 on September 21, 2018, allowing interested firms to acquire bidding documents at \u20b11 million each from the NTC starting October 6, 2018 with the deadline of submitting documents set on November 5, 2018, and by the same day participating firms as well as the \"provisional new major player\" would already be announced. A selection committee was to process the bidding documents of the provisional new major players and if the bid was ascertained to be valid, the company will be declared as the third telecommunications player. The winning company will have to submit prerequisite documents for the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity within 90 days from the issuance of the confirmation order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Format, Selection criteria\nThe three selection criteria and their weight for the HCLoS selection process are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 85], "content_span": [86, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Format, Selection criteria\nThe bidding parties' offered commitments were judged based on the three selection criteria over a five-year commitment period which was used as a basis of their rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 85], "content_span": [86, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Format, Bidder eligibility\nAs per the terms of reference of the bid, the winning bidder are discouraged to have plans of merger or enter into a joint agreement with the existing two dominant players PLDT Inc. and Globe Telecom. If they do so they are required to return awarded frequencies back to the NTC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 85], "content_span": [86, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Format, Bidder eligibility\nPT&T questioned the national scale requirement for bidding companies which was defined by the terms of reference of the bidding process as \"the provisioning, delivery, and operations of telecommunications services for a country, or particular regions thereof.\" which it said allows foreign bidders with regional operations to participate while requiring local firms to have operations nationwide in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao which it deemed as discriminatory to local firms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 85], "content_span": [86, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Format, Bidder eligibility\nForeign companies are allowed to submit bids by themselves but must partner with a local company once it commence operations in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 85], "content_span": [86, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Format, Bidder eligibility\nParticipating companies and consortium are also subjected to fees to ensure their financial capability to compete with the existing telecommunication players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 85], "content_span": [86, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Format, Bidder eligibility\nOne of the companies which expressed interest to participate in the bid, NOW Telecom filed a petition before the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 24 against the NTC which seeks for an issuance of a writ of preliminary injunction. since bidders are required to put up a \u20b1700 million participation security, \u20b114\u221224-billion performance security, and a \u20b110 million non-refundable appeal fee. The court rejected the petition to nullify the financial provisions and found such as reasonable saying that these needed to ensure that the third major provider will have financial capability to compete against Globe and PLDT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 85], "content_span": [86, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Bids, Uninterested firms\nThe following are companies which has expressed non-interest in participating in the bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 83], "content_span": [84, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Bids, Expressed interest\nThe following has expressed interest in participating in the bid but decided not to submit their bids for various reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 83], "content_span": [84, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Result\nThe Mislatel consortium led by Udenna Corporation and China Telecom was named the \"provisional new major player\" on November 7, 2018. The other two submitted bids by the SEARS Telecom consortium and PT&T were disqualified after the NTC alleged that they have submitted incomplete bidding documents. Both losing parties plans to file an appeal to the NTC. The NTC said that PT&T failed to meet technical requirements it has set for bidders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Result\nThe Sear Telecom consortium questioned the eligibility of the Mislatel consortium saying that it breached an alleged existing and exclusive binding agreement between the Mislatel franchise and Tier1. The Mislatel consortium insists its bid was valid said that the agreement meant for \"small projects\" was already terminated and the said agreement did not made any reference to the third telecommunications provider bid. This is refuted by Digiphil, as demonstrated by the documents between the two, and an Enforcement of Contract proceeding is underway in the Pasig Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281889-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding, Result\nMislatel was granted permission to operate in July 2019 and was renamed as Dito Telcommunity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281890-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Football League\nThe 2018 Philippines Football League was the second season of the Philippines Football League (PFL), the professional football league of the Philippines. The season started on 3 March and concluded on 25 August. The league was contested by six teams from last season's eight, after Meralco Manila and Ilocos United withdrew before the season began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281890-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Football League\nCeres\u2013Negros won their second consecutive league title on 25 July with three matches to spare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281890-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Football League\nDue to several issues with the league\u2014such as the expensive home-and-away format as well as the lack of sponsors and TV coverage\u2014the PFL was abolished after the 2018 season and was replaced by the Philippine Premier League. However, the Philippine Premier League also had numerous issues and was folded after only a single match day. The PFL was then renewed for a third season in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281890-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Football League, Changes from 2017\nFor this season, the league discontinued the play-off final, or the Final Series due to the introduction of the Copa Paulino Alcantara, the domestic cup tournament which was held after the league season. Thus, the PFL became a pure quintuple round-robin tournament where each club played the others five times\u2014each club playing 25 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281890-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Football League, Teams\nThe eight clubs which participated in the inaugural season were granted license to partake in the 2018 season by November 2017. However, on 8 January 2018, FC Meralco Manila ceased operations in the senior club level and on 18 January Ilocos United F.C. announced their withdrawal from the league leaving only 6 teams for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281890-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Football League, Teams, Stadiums and locations\nOn 6 February 2018, Kaya F.C. transferred from Makati to Iloilo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281890-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Football League, Teams, Stadiums and locations\nThe following are alternate home venues for Davao Aguilas, Global Cebu, and JPV Marikina as approved by Liga Futbol, Inc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281890-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Football League, Foreign players\nA maximum of four foreigners are allowed per club which follows the Asian Football Confederation's (AFC) '3+1 rule'; three players of any nationality and a fourth coming from an AFC member nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281890-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Football League, Foreign players\nPlayers name in bold indicates the player was registered during the mid-season transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281890-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Football League, Results\nThe six clubs will play each other in two rounds of home and away matches. The final round hosting will be via drawing of lots. 75 league matches will be played in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281891-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Piper PA-23 crash\nOn 17 March 2018, a Piper PA-23 Apache crashed into a residential area in Plaridel, Bulacan, Philippines, killing all five passengers on board and five others on the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281891-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Piper PA-23 crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft involved was a six-seater Piper PA-23 light aircraft operated by Lite Air Express, with tail number RP-C299.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281891-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Piper PA-23 crash, Crash\nThe Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said the aircraft bound for Laoag, Ilocos Norte crashed upon takeoff from Plaridel Airport at 11:21, local time (UTC+8). Shortly before the crash, eyewitnesses on the ground observed the aircraft flying low, hitting a tree and an electric post, before slamming into the house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281891-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Piper PA-23 crash, Crash\nAuthorities said the plane carried five people. The five other casualties, which included three minors, belonged to a family living in the house the plane crashed into. In addition, two other people were injured by burning debris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281891-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines Piper PA-23 crash, Investigation\nCAAP's accident investigators and a team from Flight Safety & Inspectorate Service (FSIS) were immediately dispatched to the crash site. CAAP said that all aircraft operated by Lite Air Express are grounded pending results of investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281892-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines national basketball team results\nThe Philippines men's national basketball team, led by head coach Chot Reyes continues their campaign to advance from the first round of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Asian qualifiers. The national team is set to face Australia in Melbourne and Bocaue, Japan in Pasay, and Chinese Taipei in an away game. After the first round of the World Cup qualifiers, Yeng Guiao took over as head coach of the national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281892-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines national basketball team results\nThe first training of the national team for 2018 commenced on January 8, as they prepare for the second window of the first round of the World Cup Asian qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281892-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines national basketball team results, Tournaments, 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification, First round\n1 A bench-clearing brawl broke out with 4:02 remaining in the third quarter, resulting in 13 players (nine from the Philippines and four from Australia) being ejected. The game was halted with 1:57 remaining in the third quarter when two of the remaining Philippines players fouled out, and awarded to Australia as a default. Potential penalties from FIBA are pending.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 121], "content_span": [122, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281892-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines national basketball team results, Exhibition games\n2 The match was abandoned in the fourth quarter with 6:26 minutes remaining following arguments between Philippines coach Yeng Guiao and Jordan coach Joseph Steibing following a Jordanian player throwing a ball at Filipino player Scottie Thompson during a dead ball situation. Tensions began as early as the second quarter when Christian Standhardinger was hard fouled by a Jordanian player. Steibing called off the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 67], "content_span": [68, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281892-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines national basketball team results, Rosters, 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Asia) \u2013 First Round\nVersus AustraliaA 14-man roster was revealed by head coach, Chot Reyes on February 18, 2018 for the Australia game to be held February 22 in Melbourne. A final lineup of 12 players is set to be announced. On February 21, Jayson Castro and Jio Jalalon were excluded from the final 12-man roster due to injury concerns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 125], "content_span": [126, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281892-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Philippines national basketball team results, Rosters, 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Asia) \u2013 First Round\nVersus JapanKevin Alas, Carl Brian Cruz and Abu Tratter, who played in the Australia game were replaced for the national team's match against Japan. The three were replaced by Jayson Castro, Jio Jalalon, and Troy Rosario, who were previously not fielded due to injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 125], "content_span": [126, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281893-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Phillip Island 500\nThe 2018 Phillip Island 500 (formally known as the 2018 WD-40 Phillip Island 500) was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on 20\u201322 April 2018. The event was held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit on Phillip Island, Victoria, and consisted of two races, both 250 kilometres (57 laps) in length. It was the fourth event of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 9 and 10 of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281894-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Phoenix Mercury season\nThe 2018 WNBA season was the 22nd season for the Phoenix Mercury franchise of the WNBA. The season tipped off on May 14th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281894-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Phoenix Mercury season\nThe Mercury started the season slowly, going 2\u20133 in May. They won the first two games, but lost the next three. All five games were against eventual playoff teams. However, the Mercury caught fire in June, posting an 11\u20132 record which included an 8 game winning streak. The June high turned into a July low. The team was 2\u20137 in July with their only wins coming against Connecticut, and league-worst Indiana. The Mercury managed to turn it around and end the season on a high, going 5\u20132 in August. Their regular season ended on a three game winning streak, with all games coming against playoff teams. The Mercury finished the season 20\u201314, with the 5th seed in the 2018 WNBA Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281894-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Phoenix Mercury season\nAs the fifth seed, the Mercury had to play an opening round game against the Dallas Wings at home. The Mercury won by 18 points, 101\u201383. This win saw them advance to the second round where they played the fourth seeded Connecticut Sun in Connecticut. Again, the Mercury won, this time by 10 points. With the win, the Mercury advanced to the Semifinals to face the first seeded Seattle Storm. The home team won each game in the five game series. However, the Mercury did not have home court advantage, due to being the lower seed, and lost the series 2\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281895-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Phoenix Rising FC season\nThe 2018 Phoenix Rising FC season is the club's fifth season in the United Soccer League and their second under the Rising FC name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281895-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Phoenix Rising FC season, Friendlies\nAll times from this point are on Mountain Standard Time (UTC-07:00)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281896-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Phuket boat capsizing\nOn 5 July 2018, two tourist boats capsized and sank near Phuket, Thailand, during a sudden storm. 46 people died and three were missing, all of whom were on the double-decker ship Phoenix PC Diving, which carried 101 people, including 89 tourists (all but 2 were Chinese nationals). All 42 passengers aboard the second boat, Serenita, were rescued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281896-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Phuket boat capsizing, Capsizing of the Phoenix\nOn Thursday 5 July 2018, the double-decker cruise boat Phoenix PC Diving sailed from Phuket, one of the most visited resorts in Thailand, for Koh Racha, a popular snorkeling island off the coast of Phuket. She carried 101 people, including 89 tourists, all but 2 of whom were Chinese nationals, 11 crew members and a tour guide. The boat set off despite a severe weather warning against \"strong winds and storms\", which had been in effect since 4 July. Survivors reported that the sky was clear at the time of departure, and a number of other boats, including the Serenita, also ignored the warning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281896-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Phuket boat capsizing, Capsizing of the Phoenix\nWhen returning from Koh Racha, the Phoenix was caught in bad weather off the coast of Phuket, with waves reaching 5 meters (16 feet) high. Somjing Boontham, the captain of the Phoenix, said that as the huge waves slammed the boat, his crew members frantically lowered the lifeboats and he urged the passengers to put on their life jackets. Some passengers, including children, made it to the lifeboats, but others were presumed to have been trapped inside the ship when she overturned and sank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281896-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Phuket boat capsizing, Search and rescue\nA fishing trawler nearby arrived at the scene and was able to rescue 48 passengers from the water. Another woman was rescued several miles away from the boat, although several other people found with her were all dead. 37 people were sent to hospitals in Phuket for treatment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281896-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Phuket boat capsizing, Search and rescue\nPhuket's provincial government organized a search-and-rescue mission involving helicopters and police and fishing boats. As of 6 July, 33 bodies were found and 23 people were still missing, all Chinese nationals. Most of the passengers found were wearing life jackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281896-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Phuket boat capsizing, Search and rescue\nDiplomats from the Chinese consulate and the embassy in Bangkok rushed to Phuket to visit the survivors and assist with search and rescue. Chinese divers who had gone to northern Thailand to assist in the Tham Luang cave rescue also went to Phuket to search for possible survivors in the sunken ship, which was believed to be 120 feet (37\u00a0m) under water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281896-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Phuket boat capsizing, Victims\nAs of 12 July, 46 people were confirmed dead and 3 were still missing. All of the dead and missing passengers were Chinese tourists, who constitute more than a quarter of foreign tourists in Thailand. 37 passengers on board the Phoenix were employees and family members of Haipai Furniture Company in Haining, Zhejiang Province. 19 of them were rescued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281896-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Phuket boat capsizing, Serenita and other boats\nAnother tourist boat, the Serenita, sank in the same storm near the small island of Koh Mai Thon off Phuket. All of the 42 people on board were rescued. A jet ski also sank and its occupants were rescued. Ten other boats were stranded in the storm on 5 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281896-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Phuket boat capsizing, Thai response\nFollowing the Marine Office's announcement that the police would take over the salvage investigation after the contracted salvage team dropped out, Immigration Bureau Maj-Gen Surachate Hakparn said the salvage operation would be completed by 12 November 2018. The salvage, utilizing a crane shipped from Singapore, contains important evidence for upcoming court cases according to the police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281897-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Piala Belia\nThe 2018 Piala Belia (transl. Youth Cup) is the eighth season of the Piala Belia since its establishment in 2008. The league is currently the youth level (U19) football league in Malaysia. Kedah U19 are the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281897-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Piala Belia, Teams\nThe following teams are participating in the 2018 Piala Belia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281898-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Piala Presiden (Malaysia)\nThe 2018 Piala Presiden (transl. President Cup) is the 34th season of the Piala Presiden, the youth level (Under-21) football league of Malaysia. The competition organized by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281898-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Piala Presiden (Malaysia), Rule changes\nThe Piala Presiden is the amateur football competition in Malaysia for under-21 players. Since its inception in 1985, Piala Presiden has been the major tournament for under-21 and under-23 players. In 2009, the format of the competition was changed with only under-20 players eligible to be fielded for the tournament. In 2015 the format of the competition reverted to the original format with under-21 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281898-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Piala Presiden (Malaysia), Teams\nThe following teams will be participate in the 2018 Piala Presiden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281898-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Piala Presiden (Malaysia), Knock-out stage, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs were played on 6 August, and the second legs were played on 10 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281898-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Piala Presiden (Malaysia), Knock-out stage, Semi-finals\nThe first legs will be played on 16 August, and the second legs will be played on 20 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281899-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Piala Sumbangsih\nThe 2018 Piala Sumbangsih was the 33rd Piala Sumbangsih, an annual Malaysian football match played between the winners of the previous season's Malaysia Super League and Malaysia Cup. But since both competitions are won by the same club the previous year, the match will be played against Malaysia FA Cup winner's instead. The game was played between the Kedah FA, winners of the 2017 Malaysia FA Cup, and Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C., champions of the 2017 Malaysia Super League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281900-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pingshan Open\nThe 2018 Pingshan Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifth (ATP) and fourth (ITF) editions of the tournament and part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Shenzhen, China between 12 and 18 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281900-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pingshan Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281900-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pingshan Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 68], "content_span": [69, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281900-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pingshan Open, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281901-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pingshan Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nSanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281901-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pingshan Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nHsieh Cheng-peng and Rameez Junaid won the title after defeating Denys Molchanov and Igor Zelenay 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281902-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pingshan Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nY\u016bichi Sugita was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281902-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pingshan Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nIlya Ivashka won the title after defeating Zhang Ze 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281903-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pingshan Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nLyudmyla and Nadiia Kichenok were the defending champions, but they chose to compete at the 2018 BNP Paribas Open instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281903-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pingshan Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAnna Kalinskaya and Vikt\u00f3ria Ku\u017emov\u00e1 won the title after defeating Danka Kovini\u0107 and Wang Xinyu 6\u20134, 1\u20136, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281904-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pingshan Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nEkaterina Alexandrova was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281904-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pingshan Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nVikt\u00f3ria Ku\u017emov\u00e1 won the title, defeating Anna Kalinskaya in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281905-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pinstripe Bowl\nThe 2018 Pinstripe Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 27, 2018. It was the ninth edition of the Pinstripe Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by the New Era Cap Company, the game was officially known as the New Era Pinstripe Bowl. The game was a rematch of the 2017 Orange Bowl, won by Wisconsin, 34\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281905-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pinstripe Bowl, Teams\nThe game was played between teams from the Big Ten Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281905-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pinstripe Bowl, Teams, Miami Hurricanes\nMiami received and accepted a bid to the Pinstripe Bowl on December 2. The Hurricanes entered the bowl with a 7\u20135 record (4\u20134 in conference). This was the second time Miami has played in a New York City bowl game, with their first visit (also in Yankee Stadium) resulting in a 34\u201336 loss to Nebraska in the 1962 Gotham Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281905-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pinstripe Bowl, Teams, Miami Hurricanes\nOn December 26, senior Malik Rosier was named Miami's starting quarterback over redshirt freshman N'Kosi Perry. Head coach Mark Richt made it clear that Perry was not suspended and that he was available to play \"as of right now\" in response to questions by the media regarding his eligibility as a result of sexually explicit videos posted to Perry's social media accounts. In the game, Rosier was 5-for-12 passing (with three interceptions) and gained 90 yards rushing, while Perry was 1-for-5 passing (with one interception) and 11 yards rushing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281905-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pinstripe Bowl, Teams, Wisconsin Badgers\nWisconsin received and accepted a bid to the Pinstripe Bowl on December 2. The Badgers entered the bowl with a 7\u20135 record (5\u20134 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281906-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pirelli World Challenge\nThe 2018 Pirelli World Challenge is the twenty-ninth season of the Pirelli World Challenge. Patrick Long was the defending champion in the highest class, the GT class. It is the second season sanctioned by the United States Auto Club. The season began on 9 March in St. Petersburg and ended on 2 September at Watkins Glen. It is the first season of the new TCR class, while the TCB class has been removed from the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281906-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pirelli World Challenge\nOn 25 May 2018, the series announced it had been acquired by the SRO Motorsports Group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281906-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pirelli World Challenge, Calendar\nOn 17 November 2017, WC Vision announced the 2018 calendar. Circuit of the Americas will be the SprintX season opener instead of Virginia. Mid -Ohio and Sonoma were dropped from the schedule in favor of Portland and Watkins Glen. Laguna Seca, which played host for the Touring Car classes season finale weekend in 2017, will not return to the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281906-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pirelli World Challenge, Championship standings, Drivers' championships\nChampionship points were awarded for the first twenty positions in each race. The pole-sitter also received one point with the exception of the GTA and GTSA classes. Entries were required to complete 50% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281906-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pirelli World Challenge, Championship standings, Manufacturers' championships\nOnly those manufacturers who are SCCA Pro Racing corporate members were eligible to receive points toward the Manufacturers' championship. Points were awarded based on finishing positions as shown in the chart below. Only the highest finishing car of each eligible manufacturer earned points for its finishing position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 82], "content_span": [83, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281907-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Panthers football team\nThe 2018 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Panthers were led by fourth-year head coach Pat Narduzzi and played their home games at Heinz Field. They were a member of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). This was Pitt's sixth season as a member of the ACC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281907-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Previous season\nThe Panthers finished the 2017 season 5\u20137, 3\u20135 in ACC play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place in the Coastal Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281907-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, ACC media poll\nThe ACC media poll was released on July 24, 2018 with the Panthers predicted to finish in fifth place in the Coastal Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281907-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Schedule\nThe Cathedral of Learning, which usually lights up after every Pitt sports win, was darkened following Pitt's 54-45 victory over Duke on October 27 out of respect for the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in nearby Squirrel Hill, which had occurred earlier that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281908-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Panthers men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Pittsburgh Panthers men's soccer team represented University of Pittsburgh during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Panthers were led by head coach Jay Vidovich, in his third season. They played home games at Ambrose Urbanic Field. This was the team's 65th season playing organized men's college soccer and their 6th playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281908-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Panthers men's soccer team, Background\nThe 2017 Pittsburgh men's soccer team finished the season with an 8\u201310\u20130 overall record and a 2\u20136\u20130 ACC record. The Panthers were seeded tenth\u2013overall in the 2017 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament, where they lost in the first round to Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281908-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Panthers men's soccer team, Background\nThe Panthers were not invited to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. The Panthers had one player selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft: Pol Calvet, by Los Angeles FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281908-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Panthers men's soccer team, Player movement, Players arriving\nPittsburgh signed eight players in its 2018 recruiting class. Top Drawer Soccer ranked the class as 5th in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 77], "content_span": [78, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281908-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Panthers men's soccer team, Squad, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281909-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 2018 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the franchise's 137th season overall, 132nd season as a member of the National League, and the 18th season at PNC Park. The Pirates finished the season in 4th place with a record of 82\u201379.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281909-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Season standings, Record vs. opponents\nThe October 1 tiebreaker games were regular-season games that are included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281909-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Transactions\nThe Pirates were involved in the following transactions during the 2018 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281910-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC season\nThe 2018 Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC season was the club's nineteenth season of existence, and their eighth consecutive season in the United Soccer League, the second tier of American soccer. Pittsburgh also competed in the U.S. Open Cup. The season covered the period from October 15, 2017 to the beginning of the 2019 USL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281910-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC season\nBob Lilley took charge of his first season as Riverhounds manager, jumping over from Rochester Rhinos after that club went on hiatus. In his 20th season as a professional manager, Lilley continued a personal record of his teams never failing to qualify for their respective playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281910-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC season\nPittsburgh finished in third place in the Eastern Conference, the club's best regular season performance since 2010, and qualified for the playoffs for the first time in three years. The Riverhounds were eliminated in the conference quarterfinals by Bethlehem Steel FC, who prevailed after an eight-round penalty shootout. Pittsburgh won a game in the U.S. Open Cup for the first time in three years, prevailing against Erie Commodores in the second round. However, the club was knocked out in the third round by fellow USL side FC Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281910-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC season, Preseason\nThe Riverhounds released their preseason schedule on January 29, 2018. The club played nine games in just over a month, seven coming against collegiate programs and two against fellow USL teams. All nine games were played in the state of Pennsylvania, seven at home and two on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281910-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nIn August 2017, the USL announced that the 2018 season would span 34 games, the longest regular season the league had ever run. The augmented schedule was spurred by the addition of six new clubs for the 2018 season: Atlanta United 2, Fresno FC, Indy Eleven, Las Vegas Lights, Nashville SC, and North Carolina FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281910-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nOn January 12, 2018, the league announced home openers for every club. Pittsburgh began the season on the road against expansion club Nashville SC, taking part in the first match in that club's history. The Riverhounds then played their home opener against Penn FC, the first time since 2015 that Pittsburgh opened its home slate with a Keystone Derby Cup match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281910-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nThe schedule for the remainder of the 2018 season was released on January 19, 2018. Pittsburgh played three times against four different clubs: Penn FC, FC Cincinnati, Indy Eleven, and Toronto FC II. They played every other Eastern Conference team twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281910-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC season, Statistics, Appearances and goals\nKevin Kerr entered the season among the top 10 in club history for both appearances and goals. He was third in appearances, needing to play 17 times this season to pass Gary DePalma for second all-time. He was also tied with Jos\u00e9 Angulo for sixth all-time in goals, and needed three to pass Phil Karn for fifth place in the club's history. On July 4, Kerr hit both of those marks, with the Riverhounds' victory over North Carolina FC marking his seventeenth appearance and third goal in all competitions on the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nThe 2018 season was the Pittsburgh Steelers' 86th as a professional sports franchise and as a member of the National Football League. It also marked the 19th season under leadership of general manager Kevin Colbert and the 12th under head coach Mike Tomlin. After starting the season 7\u20132\u20131, the Steelers lost four of their last six games (including losing three straight to the AFC West), allowing the Ravens to clinch the AFC North on the last day of the season, and missing the playoffs for the first time since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off-the-field events\nThe team was mocked in the media due to conflict between team members and staff during both the off-season and the regular season, and for subsequently missing the playoffs after a 7\u20132\u20131 start in light of the conflict. Star running back Le'Veon Bell refused to sign his franchise tag, holding out for a more permanent contract for what was first expected to be the first few weeks of the season, but later missing out on the entire season. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger received criticism for openly calling out teammates during public interviews with the media, as well as for his initial reaction to the team drafting quarterback Mason Rudolph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off-the-field events\nMost notably, wide receiver Antonio Brown was involved with a string of incidents, ranging from tossing furniture out of his apartment window in the off-season, arguing with offensive coordinator Randy Fichtner, clashing with the media about his role on the offense, and getting cited for speeding in excess of over 100\u00a0mph along a suburban highway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off-the-field events\nThese incidents culminated in Brown reportedly getting into a heated argument with Roethlisberger and benched for the final game of the season against the Cincinnati Bengals as a result, then storming out of the team facility and ignoring all contact from teammates, coaches, and the front office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0002-0002", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off-the-field events\nBrown's tipping point was suggested to be the Steelers' decision to name receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster as team MVP leading up to Week 17 which also led up to Brown demanding a trade from the Steelers a few days after the season where he would be eventually traded to the Oakland Raiders at the start of the new NFL year. Brown also openly called out Smith-Schuster via Twitter and Instagram in April 2019 due to his game losing fumble in a Week 16 loss to the New Orleans Saints, which crippled the Steelers playoff chances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off-the-field events\nFollowing the season, numerous current and former Steelers lamented the conflict inside the organization, with some blaming the team culture for the late season collapse (which included four close, mistake-filled and penalty-prone losses within the final six games) and head coach Mike Tomlin for his inability to control a drama-filled locker room. The Steelers' 2018 season was most notably chronicled in satirical fashion by UrinatingTree, a Pittsburgh-based YouTube personality, former video game reviewer, and prominent Steelers fan known for his colorful and rant-filled videos poking fun at sports franchises. UrinatingTree (a.k.a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off-the-field events\nSteve Linkowski) dubbed his video series focusing on the off-the-field drama as \"Days of our Steelers\" as a parody to NBC's soap opera TV show Days of Our Lives. In addition to gaining viral popularity, the series received praise for its honest look at the drama within the team, especially from a fan-centered standpoint. The team blocked UrinatingTree on Twitter. The series has continued, albeit more sporadically, during the 2019 and 2020 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Transactions\nThe Steelers were involved in the following transactions during the 2018 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Draft, Undrafted free agents\nAll undrafted free agents were signed after the 2018 NFL draft concluded on April 28 unless otherwise noted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Schedule\nThe Steelers' regular season schedule was announced on April 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Cleveland Browns\nThe Steelers started their season on the road against the Browns. After a scoreless first quarter, the Steelers struck first in the second when second-year RB James Conner ran for a 4-yard touchdown to make it 7\u20130 at halftime. After the break, the Browns went to work as Tyrod Taylor ran for a 20-yard touchdown to tie the game up at 7\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Cleveland Browns\nHowever, the Steelers retook the lead with 2 more touchdowns: Ben Roethlisberger found Antonio Brown on a 22-yard pass followed up by Conner's second touchdown of the day from 22 yards out to make it 14\u20137 and then 21\u20137. In the fourth quarter however, it was all Browns when Carlos Hyde ran for a 1-yard touchdown followed by Taylor connecting with Josh Gordon on a 17-yard touchdown to make it 21\u201314 and then 21\u201321. In overtime, both teams' defenses showed out. Neither team would score, leading to a tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Cleveland Browns\nWith the tie, the Steelers started their season 0\u20130\u20131. It was the first time ever that they played the Browns to a tie game. This would snap their 6-game winning streak over the Browns. Also, the team's winning streak against division rivals was snapped. They also had their first tie game since 2002 against the Atlanta Falcons. Roethlisberger tied his career high of 5 turnovers in a game (3 interceptions, 2 lost fumbles) as the team turned the ball over 6 times including a Conner fumble late in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Cleveland Browns\nOn a positive note, the team's defense was able to get a turnover of their own (1 interception) and sack Taylor 7 times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nThe Steelers had their home opener against the Chiefs. In the first quarter, it was all Chiefs when Patrick Mahomes threw 3 touchdowns: a 15-yard pass to Chris Conley, a 19-yard pass to Travis Kelce, and a 5-yard pass to Kareem Hunt to make the score 7\u20130, 14\u20130, and then 21\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nIn the second quarter, the Steelers responded with 3 touchdowns of their own to tie the game up when Ben Roethlisberger connected with Jesse James on a 26-yard pass, followed up with him connecting with JuJu Smith-Schuster on a 2-yard pass (with a failed PAT), and then connecting with James Washington on a 14-yard pass (with a successful 2-point conversion pass to James Conner) to make it 21\u20137, 21\u201313, and then 21\u201321 at halftime. In the third quarter, the Chiefs moved back into the lead when Mahomes found Kelce again on a 25-yard pass to make it 28\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nThe Steelers would tie it up when James Conner ran for a 1-yard touchdown to make it 28\u201328. The Chiefs would pull away again as Mahomes connected with Demarcus Robinson on a 3-yard pass to make it 35\u201328. In the fourth quarter, the Chiefs moved ahead by double digits as Mahomes found Tyreek Hill on a 29-yard pass to make it 42\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0010-0003", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nThe Steelers scored twice to come within 5: first when Hunt was tackled by Artie Burns and Morgan Burnett in the end zone for a safety followed by Roethlisberger's 3-yard run for a touchdown to make it 42\u201330 and then 42\u201337. With seconds left, the defense was able to get the stop and was about to get their offense back on the field for likely one final play. But a flag for roughing the kicker kept the Chiefs' offense on the field, which sealed the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nWith the loss, the Steelers dropped to 0\u20131\u20131. With the Browns' loss to the Saints, both teams remain tied for third place in the AFC North.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nRoethlisberger's record against the Chiefs would drop to 6\u20132. He passed John Elway for seventh-most passing yards in NFL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nDuring the game, WR Antonio Brown was caught on camera arguing with offensive coordinator Randy Fichtner for not getting enough playing time during the game. This was only the start of a turmoil-filled season for the Steelers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nAfter a tough loss at home, the Steelers traveled to Tampa Bay to take on the Buccaneers. The Bucs scored first when Cameron Brate caught a 4-yard pass from Ryan Fitzpatrick to make it 7\u20130. The Steelers would answer when Ben Roethlisberger found Vance McDonald on a 75-yard pass to make it 7\u20136. The Steelers continued to score heading into the second quarter: they took the lead with Chris Boswell's 38-yard field goal to make it 9\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nThis would be followed up by Roethlisberger finding Antonio Brown on a 27-yard pass to make it 16\u20137, and then Bud Dupree intercepted Fitzpatrick to return it 10 yards for a touchdown to make it 23\u20137. The Bucs came closer when Chandler Catanzaro kicked a 21-yard field goal to make it 23\u201310. The Steelers wrapped up the first half scoring when Roethlisberger found Ryan Switzer on a 1-yard pass to make it 30\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nIn the second half, it was all Bucs as they would outscore the Steelers 17\u20130 heading into the fourth quarter when Catanzaro kicked a 28-yard field goal to make it 30\u201313 in the third. In the fourth, the Bucs ended up coming within 3 when Fitzpatrick threw 4-yard and 24-yard passes to Chris Godwin and Mike Evans to make it 30\u201320 and then 30\u201327. The Steelers' defense held them off at the last moment to win the game, sealing the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nWith the win, the Steelers improved to 1\u20131\u20131. This would be the team's first 1\u20131\u20131 start since 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nThe defense which had earned 2 turnovers in their first 2 games earned 4 turnovers in this game alone (3 interceptions, 1 recovered fumble).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nAfter winning in prime time on the road, the Steelers returned home for a prime time game against their arch-rival, the Ravens. In the first quarter, it was all Ravens when Joe Flacco threw 2 touchdowns: a 33-yard pass to John Brown followed up by a 3-yard pass to Alex Collins to make it 7\u20130 and then 14\u20130. In the second quarter, the Steelers responded as Chris Boswell nailed field goals from 34 and 39 yards out to make it 14\u20133 and then 14\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nThis would be followed by Ben Roethlisberger finding Antonio Brown on a 26-yard pass (with a successful 2-point conversion) to tie the game up at 14\u201314 going into halftime. In the second half, Justin Tucker kicked a 47-yard field goal in the third quarter to make it 17\u201314 for the Ravens. He would kick 3 more in the fourth to seal the game from 49, 28, and 31 yards out to make it 20\u201314, 23\u201314, and the final score 26\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nWith the loss, the Steelers fell to 1\u20132\u20131. Also, their 3-game winning streak against the Ravens was snapped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nAfter a tough loss, the Steelers stayed at home for a duel against the Falcons. In the first quarter, it was all Steelers as James Conner ran for a 1-yard touchdown (with a failed PAT) to make it 6\u20130. Ben Roethlisberger then connected with JuJu Smith-Schuster on an 18-yard pass to make it 13\u20130. In the second quarter, the Falcons responded when Matt Ryan found Mohamed Sanu on a 43-yard pass to make it 13\u20137. This would be followed by Matt Bryant kicking a 47-yard field goal to make it 13\u201310 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nIn the third quarter, Roethlisberger found Antonio Brown on a 9-yard pass to make it 20\u201310. This would be followed up by Conner running for a 2-yard touchdown to make it 27\u201310. In the fourth quarter, the Falcons drew closer when Ito Smith ran for a 2-yard touchdown to make it 27\u201317. However, the Steelers sealed the game with 2 more touchdowns: Roethlisberger found Brown on a 47-yard pass to make it 34\u201317 followed by L. J. Fort recovering a fumble in the end zone to make the final score 41\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nAfter being outscored 29\u20130 in the second half of their previous 2 games, the Steelers outscored the Falcons 28\u20137 in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nWith the win, the Steelers won their 100th regular season game at Heinz Field since its opening in 2001 with a record of 100-38-1 at that point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Cincinnati Bengals\nAfter a huge win at home, the Steelers traveled to Cincinnati for Game 1 against the Bengals. The Bengals scored first when Andy Dalton found Tyler Boyd on a 2-yard pass to make it 7\u20130 for the only points of the first quarter. In the second quarter, the Steelers took the lead when James Conner ran for 2 1-yard touchdowns to make it 7\u20137 and then 14\u20137. The Bengals managed to tie the game up at halftime when Dalton found Boyd on a 14-yard pass to make it 14\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Cincinnati Bengals\nIn the third quarter, the Steelers scored when Chris Boswell kicked a 21-yard field goal to make it 17\u201314. They would increase their lead in the fourth quarter when Boswell kicked another one from 24 yards out to make it 20\u201314. However, the Bengals would take the lead when Joe Mixon ran for a 4-yard touchdown to make it 21\u201320. The Steelers completed the comeback when Ben Roethlisberger found Antonio Brown on a 31-yard pass (with a successful 2-point conversion) to make the final score 28\u201321. With just :10 on the game clock, Dalton tried for the eventual home run ball. Though, the pass fell incomplete ending the game and giving the Steelers the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Cincinnati Bengals\nWith the win and their 7th straight victory against the Bengals, the Steelers go into their bye week 3\u20132\u20131. The team was also able to snap being tied with the Browns as they would move into first place in the AFC North.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Cleveland Browns\nAfter coming off the bye week, the Steelers returned home for their second game against the Browns. In the first quarter, the Browns would score 2 field goals as Greg Joseph kicked them from 34 and 45 yards out to make it 3\u20130 and then 6\u20130. In the second quarter, the Steelers took the lead when Ben Roethlisberger found Antonio Brown on 2 touchdown passes: from 43 and 1 yard to make it 7\u20136 and then 14\u20136 by halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Cleveland Browns\nIn the third quarter, the Steelers increased their lead as a holding penalty in the end zone on Browns offensive tackle Desmond Harrison led to a safety, making the score 16\u20136. The Browns came within 4 when Baker Mayfield found Antonio Callaway on a 1-yard pass (with a failed PAT) to make it 16\u201312. The Steelers responded with James Conner's 12-yard touchdown run to make it 23\u201312. In the fourth, the Steelers increased their lead when Chris Boswell kicked a 42-yard field goal to make it 26\u201312. This would be followed by Conner's second touchdown run from 22 yards out to make the score 33\u201312. The Browns scored on their last offensive play of the game as Mayfield found Seth DeValve on a 24-yard pass (with a failed 2-point conversion) to make the final score 33\u201318.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Cleveland Browns\nWith the win, the Steelers improved to 4\u20132\u20131 and maintained their lead in the AFC North. This also marked the Steelers' fifteenth consecutive win over the Browns in Pittsburgh. This was Hue Jackson's final game as the Browns head coach as he would be fired the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Cleveland Browns\nA day prior to this game, eleven people were killed when a mass shooting occurred in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh. A moment of silence was observed for the victims prior to the game's kickoff. Two days later members of the Steelers attended the memorial services of Cecil and David Rosenthal sister of former community relations manager Michelle Rosenthal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: at Baltimore Ravens\nAfter winning over the Browns at home, the Steelers traveled to Baltimore for their second game against the Ravens. The Ravens scored first when Justin Tucker kicked a 23-yard field goal to make it 3\u20130. The Steelers however took the lead when Ben Roethlisberger found James Conner on a 7-yard pass to make it 7\u20133. In the second quarter, the Steelers went up by double digits as Ben Roethlisberger found Antonio Brown on a 6-yard pass to make it 14\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: at Baltimore Ravens\nThe Ravens closed the scoring of the first half with Tucker's second field goal from 23 yards out to make it 14\u20136 at halftime. In the third quarter, the Steelers went back to work as Roethlisberger ran for a touchdown (with a failed PAT) from a yard out to make it 20\u20136. The Ravens scored one of their own when Alex Collins made it into the end zone with a 1-yard touchdown to make it 20\u201313. The Steelers pulled away in the fourth quarter as Chris Boswell kicked a 29-yard field goal to make it 23\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0027-0002", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: at Baltimore Ravens\nTucker then kicked a 37-yard field goal to get the Ravens closer and to make it 23\u201316. Both teams' defenses showed up late, and Roethlisberger was sacked at the Steelers' 41-yard line. However, trapped in their own territory, the Ravens failed to convert a 4th and long, sealing the win for the Steelers with the final score 23\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: at Baltimore Ravens\nWith the win, the Steelers improved to 5\u20132\u20131 and maintained their lead in the AFC North.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Carolina Panthers\nAfter a tough road win, the Steelers went back home to take on the Panthers on Thursday Night Football. The Panthers scored first in the first quarter when Cam Newton found Christian McCaffrey on a 20-yard pass to make it 7\u20130. However, the Steelers responded with 3 touchdowns of their own to close out the quarter: Ben Roethlisberger found JuJu Smith-Schuster on a 75-yard pass on the team's first offensive play of the game, and on the next scrimmage play, Vince Williams intercepted Cam Newton and returned it 17 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Carolina Panthers\nJames Conner closed out the scoring in the first quarter when he scored from 2 yards out to make it 21\u20137. The Steelers would score again in the second quarter when Chris Boswell kicked a 50-yard field goal to make it 24\u20137. The Panthers would draw closer when Newton and McCaffrey connected again on a 25-yard pass to make it 24\u201314. Roethlisberger then found Antonio Brown on a 53-yard pass to make the score 31\u201314 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0029-0002", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Carolina Panthers\nIn the third quarter, it was all Steelers when Roethlisberger threw 2 more touchdown passes: a 12-yarder to Vance McDonald and then an 8-yarder to Jesse James to increase their lead to 45\u201314. In the fourth quarter, Roethlisberger found Jaylen Samuels on a 6-yard pass to put the Steelers up 52\u201314. McCaffrey then put up a 1-yard touchdown in the closing minutes to make the final score 52\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Carolina Panthers\nWith the win, the Steelers improved to 6\u20132\u20131. The team's 52 points was the most ever scored in a single game at Heinz Field, and the most by the franchise since 1984. Ben Roethlisberger became the second quarterback to record a perfect 158.3 passer rating in four games in his career, after Peyton Manning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nAfter a blowout victory against the Panthers, the Steelers traveled to Jacksonville to face the Jaguars. After a scoreless first quarter, the Jags put up 3 field goals in the second when Josh Lambo converted from 48, 38, and 43 yards out to make it 3\u20130, 6\u20130, and then 9\u20130 at halftime. In the third quarter, the Jaguars would make it 16\u20130 after Leonard Fournette ran for a 2-yard touchdown. From then on, it was all Steelers scoring when Ben Roethlisberger found Antonio Brown on a 78-yard pass to make it 16\u20136 heading into the fourth quarter. In the final quarter, Roethlisberger found Vance McDonald on an 11-yard touchdown pass to draw the Steelers within three points. On the Steelers' final offensive drive, Roethlisberger ran for a 1-yard touchdown to make it 20\u201316 with five seconds remaining in the game, completing the comeback victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 97], "content_span": [98, 942]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nWith the win, the Steelers improved to 7\u20132\u20131. This would be the team's third straight season with a 6-game winning streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 97], "content_span": [98, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Denver Broncos\nAfter a tough win over the Jags, the Steelers traveled out west to face the Broncos. The Broncos scored first when Brandon McManus kicked a 41-yard field goal to make it 3\u20130 for the first quarter's only points. The Steelers tied it up in the second quarter when Chris Boswell kicked a 41-yard field goal of his own to make it 3\u20133. The Broncos retook the lead when Case Keenum found Matt LaCosse on a 10-yard pass to make it 10\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0033-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Denver Broncos\nThe Steelers tied it up when Boswell found Alejandro Villanueva on a 2-yard pass on a fake field goal to make it 10\u201310 at halftime. After the break, the Steelers went back to work as Ben Roethlisberger found JuJu-Smith Schuster on a 97-yard pass to take the lead 17\u201310. The Broncos then tied it up again when Keenum found Emmanuel Sanders on a 5-yard pass to make it 17\u201317 following a Chris Harris Jr. interception of Roethlisberger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0033-0002", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Denver Broncos\nIn the fourth the Broncos retook the lead and went on to win the game when Philip Lindsay ran for a 2-yard touchdown to make the score 24\u201317. Roethlisberger tried to rally the Steelers into a potential overtime period, but his 3rd-and-goal pass intended for Antonio Brown would be intercepted by Shelby Harris with a minute left to play, sealing the win for the Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Denver Broncos\nWith their 6-game winning streak snapped, the Steelers fell to 7\u20133\u20131. This was the first road loss for the Steelers since Week 3 of the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Los Angeles Chargers\nAfter a tough road loss, the Steelers returned home for a Sunday Night Football duel against the Chargers. The Steelers struck first in the first quarter when James Conner ran for two 1-yard touchdowns to make it 7\u20130 and then 13\u20130 (due to a failed PAT) but the Chargers would respond on a controversial touchdown, due to movement on the Chargers offensive line before the ball was snapped, when Philip Rivers found Travis Benjamin on a 46-yard pass to make it 13\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 98], "content_span": [99, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Los Angeles Chargers\nIn the second quarter, the Steelers pulled away as Chris Boswell kicked a 48-yard field goal to make it 16\u20137. This would be followed up with Ben Roethlisberger finding Antonio Brown on a 28-yard pass to make it 23\u20137 at halftime. In the third quarter, the Chargers drew closer when Rivers found Keenan Allen on a 10-yard pass (with a successful 2-point conversion) to make it 23\u201315. In the fourth quarter, they would tie the game up as Desmond King returned a punt 73 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 98], "content_span": [99, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0035-0002", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Los Angeles Chargers\nRivers then connected with Allen for another 2-point conversion to make it 23\u201323. The Chargers would then take the lead when Justin Jackson ran for an 18-yard touchdown to make it 30\u201323. The Steelers tied it up later on however when Roethlisberger found Jaylen Samuels on a 10-yard pass, making it 30\u201330. The Chargers would seal the game when Mike Badgley kicked a 29-yard field goal to make the final score 33\u201330.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 98], "content_span": [99, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Oakland Raiders\nAfter a tough loss at home, the Steelers traveled out west to face the Raiders. The Raiders scored first in the first quarter when Doug Martin ran for a 1-yard touchdown to make it 7\u20130 for that period's only score. The Steelers managed to tie it up in the second quarter when Stevan Ridley ran for a 2-yard touchdown to make it 7\u20137. The Raiders would retake the lead when Daniel Carson kicked a 44-yard field goal to make it 10\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Oakland Raiders\nThe Steelers moved back into the lead when Ben Roethlisberger found JuJu-Smith Schuster on a 1-yard pass to make it 14\u201310 at halftime. After a scoreless third quarter, the Raiders would retake the lead in the fourth when Derek Carr found Lee Smith on a 3-yard pass to make it 17\u201314. The Steelers then retook the lead when Roethlisberger found Smith-Schuster on another 1-yard pass to make it 21\u201317. The Raiders quickly answered when Carr found Derek Carrier on a 6-yard pass to retake the lead 24\u201321. Pittsburgh got the ball one final time, advancing deep into Raiders territory with a hook and lateral play from James Washington to Smith-Schuster, but kicker Chris Boswell slipped and missed the potential game-tying field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Oakland Raiders\nWith their third straight loss, the Steelers fell to 7\u20135\u20131 and finished 0\u20134 against the AFC West. Roethlisberger's record against the Raiders in Oakland also dropped to 0\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. New England Patriots\nAfter a tough road loss, the Steelers returned home for a game against the Patriots. In the first quarter, the Steelers scored first when Ben Roethlisberger found Vance McDonald on a 5-yard pass to make it 7\u20130. The Patriots tied the game up when Tom Brady found Chris Hogan on a 63-yard pass to make it 7\u20137. In the second quarter, the Steelers moved back into the lead when Roethlisberger found Antonio Brown on a 17-yard pass to make it 14\u20137 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 98], "content_span": [99, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0038-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. New England Patriots\nIn the third quarter, the Pats managed to score and come within 4 when Stephen Gostkowski kicked a 33-yard field goal to make it 14\u201310 for the quarter's only score. However, the Steelers moved up ahead by 7 in the fourth quarter when Chris Boswell kicked a 48-yard field goal to make it 17\u201310. The Pats were able to drive down the field with under 2 minutes left, but after a penalty which would back them further away from the first down marker, Brady would throw 4 straight incompletions to end the game with that final score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 98], "content_span": [99, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. New England Patriots\nWith the win and 3-game losing streak snapped, the Steelers improved to 8\u20135\u20131. Roethlisberger's career record against the Patriots improved to 4\u20138. The team was also able to snap their 5-game losing streak to the Pats, beating them for the first time since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 98], "content_span": [99, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at New Orleans Saints\nAfter a tough win over the Patriots, the Steelers traveled south to take on the Saints. In the first quarter, the Steelers scored first when Chris Boswell kicked a 49-yard field goal to make it 3\u20130. In the first quarter, on 4th and 1 from the Pittsburgh 35, the Saints tried a long pass into the endzone, on which a defensive pass interference was called, giving the Saints 1st and goal at the 1, on which they would take the lead when Mark Ingram II ran for a 1-yard touchdown to make it 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at New Orleans Saints\nIn the second quarter, the Steelers came within a point as Boswell kicked another field goal from 30 yards out to make it 7\u20136. The Saints pulled away when Alvin Kamara ran for an 8-yard touchdown to make it 14\u20136. The Steelers would tie it up when Ben Roethlisberger found Jaylen Samuels on a 3-yard pass (with a successful 2-point conversion) to make it 14\u201314. The Saints moved up 17\u201314 at halftime when Wil Lutz kicked a 43-yard field goal. In the third quarter, the Saints increased their lead when Kamara ran for a 1-yard touchdown to make it 24\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0040-0002", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Steelers would take the lead when Roethlisberger found Antonio Brown on touchdown passes from 3 and 20 yards out to narrow the Saints' lead to 24\u201321 and then take the lead 28\u201324. In the fourth quarter, the Saints were able to complete the comeback when Drew Brees found Michael Thomas on a 2-yard pass to make the final score 31\u201328. Roethlisberger's best effort at a late rally would come up short when star wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster fumbled in Saints territory with less than a minute remaining, effectively sealing the win for the Saints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at New Orleans Saints\nWith the loss, the Steelers fell to 8\u20136\u20131 and second place in the AFC North.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at New Orleans Saints\nThe game, ironically, was also Brown's last in a Steelers uniform. He would then tie with Brandon Marshall for most seasons with 1,000 yards and 100 receptions in NFL history with 6. He was subsequently benched for week 17 after his heated confrontation with Roethlisberger at practice. The Steelers would eventually trade Brown to the Oakland Raiders on March 10, 2019 for a third-round and a fifth-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nAfter a tough loss and their playoff chances on the line, the Steelers went home for the season finale at home for Round 2 against the Bengals. After a scoreless first quarter, the Bengals would score in the second quarter when Shawn Williams returned an interception 58 yards for a touchdown to make it 7\u20130. They made it 10\u20130 after Randy Bullock kicked a 49-yard field goal. The Steelers managed to get on the board before halftime when Matt McCrane kicked a 39-yard field goal to make it 10\u20133 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0043-0001", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nThe Steelers managed to tie it up when Ben Roethlisberger found JuJu Smith-Schuster on an 11-yard pass to make it 10\u201310. They would then make it 13\u201310 when McCrane kicked a 47-yard field goal. The Bengals tied it up when Bullock kicked a 32-yard field goal. However, the Steelers would retake the lead when McCrane kicked a 35-yard field goal to make it 16\u201313 for the final score of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281911-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nWith the 8th straight win over the Bengals, the Steelers finished their season 9\u20136\u20131. At the conclusion of the game, the Jumbotron showed the conclusion of the Browns-Ravens game, with most of the fans sticking around and most of players waiting on the field. However, the Ravens would win that game sending the Steelers to second place in the division, officially missing the playoffs for the first time in 5 years, thus capping off a disappointing and bitter end to one of the most turbulent seasons in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281912-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election\nThe 2018 election for the leader of the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru began on 7 August. Voting closed at midnight on 27 September. Adam Price was declared the winner on 28 September, defeating the two other candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281912-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election\nA prospective leadership election was first announced after Rhun ap Iorwerth, assembly member (AM) for Ynys M\u00f4n and Adam Price, AM for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, both declared their intention to challenge the incumbent leader, Leanne Wood. Speculation about a leadership election arose after what were perceived to be disappointing showings in recent elections, which led some figures within the party to comment that Plaid was potentially stagnant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281912-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election, Background\nLeanne Wood was elected leader of Plaid Cymru in March 2012 with 57% of the vote, defeating Elin Jones and Dafydd Elis-Thomas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281912-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election, Background\nUnder Plaid Cymru's constitution, the leader is subject to re-election every two years, but this is usually uncontested. The window for any leadership challenge closed on 4 July 2018, when Wood was challenged by two of her Assembly colleagues. Wood submitted her nomination papers in June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281912-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election, Background\nWood admitted that she was preparing to resign following Plaid's results in the 2017 General Election until the result in Ceredigion came through showing a Plaid Cymru gain. During the summer of 2017, Rhun ap Iorwerth publicly announced that it would be 'very probable' that he would stand when a vacancy arose. On 13 June 2018 Wood stated that she would resign as leader in 2021 if she failed to become First Minister. She had previously stated that she would welcome any challenge to her leadership. On 14 June it was revealed that a letter had been circulated by AMs Llyr Huws Gruffydd, Si\u00e2n Gwenllian and Elin Jones, asking colleagues to consider putting their names forward. The Carmarthenshire Plaid council group wrote to encourage Adam Price to stand against Wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281912-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election, Background\nOn 26 June former MP Elfyn Llwyd said in a BBC Radio Cymru podcast that \"[Plaid Cymru has] been standing still for five to seven years now and perhaps that suggests that it's time to change the team.\" On 1 July 2018, fifty-three (out of about 200) of Plaid Cymru's principal Councillors wrote to pledge their allegiance to Leanne Wood ahead of any potential leadership challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281912-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election, Campaign\nOn 4 July 2018, both Rhun ap Iorwerth and Adam Price formally announced that they would be challenging Wood for the party leadership. Wood reaffirmed her plan to stand as a candidate in the ensuing election. Whilst Wood is seen as ideologically close to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, ap Iorwerth is considered more willing to work with the Conservative Party, while Price has advocated \"equidistance\", advocating for Plaid Cymru to position itself equally between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281912-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election, Campaign\nWood ruled out making any sort of deal with the Conservatives after the 2021 assembly election, while Adam Price ruled out a coalition deal with either the Conservative Party or the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281912-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election, Campaign\nPrice proposed changing the name of the party to the \"New Wales Party\", and set out a timeline for Welsh independence by 2030.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281912-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election, Campaign\nThe candidates disagreed about Wylfa Newydd, a proposed nuclear power station on Anglesey. Adam Price opposed it, describing it as \"incompatible with independence\", whilst ap Iorwerth, who represents the area in the Assembly, supported the scheme. Wood said that the party would review its energy policies if she were to be re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281912-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election, Campaign\nIn July, Price proposed increasing income tax by 1p to fund education. In August, he proposed reducing all income tax rates by 9p as well as abolishing business rates and council tax. He said that this second proposal would be funded by a 3% land value tax levied on non-agricultural land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281912-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election, Campaign\nAp Iorwerth proposed a new infrastructure commission, and increasing the proportion of government procurement spending inside Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281912-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election, Hustings\nHustings were held across Wales during the campaign period in September. The location and dates were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281913-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Play In Challenger\nThe 2018 Play In Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Lille, France between 19 and 25 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281913-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Play In Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281914-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Play In Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nHugo Nys and Tim P\u00fctz won the title after defeating Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Purav Raja 7\u20136(7\u20133), 1\u20136, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281915-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Play In Challenger \u2013 Singles\nGr\u00e9goire Barr\u00e8re won the title after defeating Tobias Kamke 6\u20131, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281916-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship\nThe 2018 Players Championship was a professional golf tournament, held from May 10\u201313 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The flagship event of the PGA Tour, this was the 45th edition of The Players Championship, and the 37th edition held at the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. The tournament was won by Webb Simpson, four strokes ahead of three runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281916-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship\nDefending champion Kim Si-woo opened with a five-under 67, but finished 15 strokes back, tied for 63rd place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281916-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship\nThis was the twelfth consecutive Players Championship held in May; it returned to March in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281916-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship, Field\nThe field consisted of 144 players meeting the following criteria. Each player is listed according to the first category by which he qualified with additional categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281916-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship, Field\nRyan Armour, Daniel Berger (2,9), Patrick Cantlay (2,9), Austin Cook, Jason Day (2,4,5,7,8,9), Bryson DeChambeau (2,9), Jason Dufner (2,4,8), Brice Garnett, Billy Horschel (2), Dustin Johnson (2,4,7,9,13), Kim Si-woo (2,5,9), Kevin Kisner (2,9), Patton Kizzire (2,13), Satoshi Kodaira (9), Brooks Koepka (2,4,9), Andrew Landry (13), Marc Leishman (2,8,9), Hideki Matsuyama (2,7,9), Rory McIlroy (2,4,6,8,9), Phil Mickelson (2,4,7,9,13), Grayson Murray (2), Pat Perez (2,9), Scott Piercy (2), Ted Potter Jr., Ian Poulter (2,9), Jon Rahm (2,9,13), Patrick Reed (2,4,9,13), Justin Rose (2,4,9,13), Xander Schauffele (2,6,9), Jordan Spieth (2,4,6,9), Kyle Stanley (2,9), Brendan Steele (2,9), Henrik Stenson (2,4,9), Chris Stroud (2), Justin Thomas (2,4,9,13), Jhonattan Vegas (2), Bubba Watson (2,4,9,13), Gary Woodland (2,9)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 855]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281916-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship, Field\nAn Byeong-hun, Blayne Barber, Ryan Blaum, Jonas Blixt, Dominic Bozzelli, Keegan Bradley, Scott Brown, Wesley Bryan, Rafa Cabrera-Bello (9), Chad Campbell, Bud Cauley, Kevin Chappell (9), Stewart Cink, Harris English, Derek Fathauer, Tony Finau (9,13), Martin Flores, Rickie Fowler (5,9), Sergio Garc\u00eda (4,9), Robert Garrigus, Brian Gay, Lucas Glover, Branden Grace (9), Cody Gribble, Emiliano Grillo, Bill Haas, Adam Hadwin (9), James Hahn, Brian Harman (9), Russell Henley (9), J. J. Henry, Charley Hoffman (9), J. B. Holmes, Charles Howell III, Mackenzie Hughes, John Huh, Zach Johnson (4), Kang Sung-hoon, Michael Kim, Kim Meen-whee, Chris Kirk, Russell Knox (7), Jason Kokrak, Kelly Kraft, Matt Kuchar (9), Anirban Lahiri, Martin Laird, Danny Lee, David Lingmerth (8), Luke List, Jamie Lovemark, Ben Martin, William McGirt (8), Francesco Molinari (9), Ryan Moore, Kevin Na, Geoff Ogilvy, Sean O'Hair, Louis Oosthuizen (9), Rod Pampling, Pan Cheng-tsung, D. A. Points, Chez Reavie, Patrick Rodgers, Rory Sabbatini, Ollie Schniederjans, Charl Schwartzel, Adam Scott (7), Webb Simpson (9), Cameron Smith (9), Brandt Snedeker, J. J. Spaun, Scott Stallings, Robert Streb, Kevin Streelman, Steve Stricker, Hudson Swafford, Nick Taylor, Vaughn Taylor, Kevin Tway, Tyrone van Aswegen, Harold Varner III, Jimmy Walker (4), Nick Watney, Richy Werenski", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 1378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281916-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship, Field\nKiradech Aphibarnrat, Ross Fisher, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton, Alexander L\u00e9vy, Li Haotong, Alex Nor\u00e9n", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281916-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship, Field\nBrandon Harkins, Tom Hoge, Beau Hossler, Keith Mitchell, Trey Mullinax", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281916-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship, Round summaries, First round\nKim Si-woo shot 67 (\u22125), the lowest first round score by a defending champion since the event moved to Florida; six players were a shot better at 66.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281916-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nWebb Simpson tied the course record with a round of 63 (\u22129) to open up a five-shot lead. Simpson had six consecutive birdies on holes 11\u201316 which also tied a tournament record. He was 11-under on his round until his tee shot found the water on the par-3 17th and made double bogey. His score of 129 (\u221215) after 36 holes tied Jason Day (2016) for the tournament record, while his five-shot lead set a new record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281916-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nFor the second consecutive year, at least eighty players made the 36-hole cut, which invoked a 54-hole cut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281917-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship (snooker)\nThe 2018 Ladbrokes Players Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 19 to 25 March 2018 in Llandudno, Wales. It was the eighteenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281917-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship (snooker)\nJudd Trump was the defending champion, but he was beaten by Ronnie O'Sullivan 6\u20135 in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281917-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship (snooker)\nRonnie O'Sullivan captured his 33rd ranking title and fifth ranking title of the season by defeating Shaun Murphy 10\u20134 in the final, equalling the record of most ranking titles in a season shared by Stephen Hendry, Ding Junhui and Mark Selby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281917-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship (snooker), Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281917-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship (snooker), Prize fund\nThe \"rolling 147 prize\" for a maximum break stood at \u00a330,000", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281917-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship (snooker), Seeding list\nThe seedings were conducted on the basis of the one-year ranking list up to and including the 2018 Gibraltar Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281918-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship Finals\nThe 2018 Ladbrokes Players Championship Finals was the eleventh edition of the PDC darts tournament, which saw the top 64 players from the 22 Players Championship events of 2018 taking part. The tournament took place from 23\u201325 November 2018 at Butlin's Resort in Minehead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281918-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship Finals\nDaryl Gurney won his 2nd major PDC title by defeating defending champion Michael van Gerwen 11\u20139, bringing an end to his 22-match winning streak in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281918-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship Finals, Prize money\nThe 2018 Players Championship Finals had a total prize fund of \u00a3460,000, the same as 2017. The following is the breakdown of the fund:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281918-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship Finals, Qualification\nThe top 64 players from the Players Championships Order of Merit, which is solely based on prize money won in the twenty-two Players Championships events during the season, qualified for the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281918-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship Finals, Qualification\nOn 20 November, Mensur Suljovi\u0107 withdrew from the tournament citing family reasons. Under the rules of the tournament, the next highest qualifier took his place, which happened to be Benito van de Pas, with no draw adjustments being made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281918-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship Finals, Qualification\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281918-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Players Championship Finals, Draw\nThere was no draw held, all players were put in a fixed bracket by their seeding positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 38], "content_span": [39, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281919-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Players' Championship\nThe 2018 Players' Championship was held from April 10 to 15, 2018 at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, Ontario. It was the seventh men's and sixth women's Grand Slam event of the 2017\u201318 World Curling Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281919-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Players' Championship\nOn the men's side, Calgary's Kevin Koe won his first Players' Championship as a skip (he had previously won in 2004 playing third for John Morris). On the women's side, Minnesota's Jamie Sinclair rink became the first American ever team to win a Grand Slam championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281919-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Players' Championship, Qualification\nThe top 12 ranked men's and women's teams on the World Curling Tour's year to date ranking as of March 12 qualify:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281919-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Players' Championship, Men, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04:00).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281919-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Players' Championship, Women, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04:00).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281919-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Players' Championship, Women, Round robin results, Draw 13\n*Hasselborg missed the game due to illness. The team was skipped by Sara McManus for this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281920-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Plymouth City Council election\nThe 2018 Plymouth City Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Plymouth City Council in England. The election was won by the Labour Party, who gained enough seats to achieve an overall majority and took control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281920-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Plymouth City Council election\nA coalition of Conservative and UK Independence Party (UKIP) councillors had taken control of the council after the 2016 election, with thirty members in total and a working majority. The three UKIP councillors defected to the Conservative Party in September 2017, giving the Conservatives overall control of the council. The Conservative Party defended twelve seats and Labour defended seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281920-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Plymouth City Council election, Background\nPlymouth City Council held local elections on 3 May 2018 along with councils across England as part of the 2018 local elections. The council elects its councillors in thirds, with a third being up for election every year for three years, with no election in the fourth year. Councillors defending their seats in this election were previously elected in 2014. In that election, nine Conservative candidates, seven Labour candidates and three UKIP candidates were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281920-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Plymouth City Council election, Background\nIn September 2017, the three councillors elected as UKIP candidates defected to the Conservative Party. Following the 2016 Plymouth City Council election, the council had been controlled by a coalition of Conservative and UKIP councillors, with thirty members between them. Following the defections of the UKIP councillors, the Conservative Party held an overall majority, with thirty councillors compared to Labour's twenty-seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281920-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Plymouth City Council election, Background\nThe Local Government Chronicle described Labour as 'well placed to regain control' by winning the seats won by UKIP councillors in 2014. Rob Ford in the Guardian wrote that a Labour victory in Plymouth would help the party 'demonstrate strength in critical English swing areas'. The election was the first in which the Liberal Democrats field a candidate in every ward in Plymouth since 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281920-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Plymouth City Council election, Overall results\nNote: All changes in vote share are in comparison to the corresponding 2014 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281920-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Plymouth City Council election, Overall results\nThe Labour Party won an overall majority on the council, with 31 of the council's 57 councillors. The party had last had a majority on the council in 2015. Plymouth was the only council Labour gained control of from the Conservatives in the 2018 local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281920-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Plymouth City Council election, Overall results\nAfter the previous election, the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281920-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Plymouth City Council election, Aftermath\nFollowing this election, the Labour group had a majority of councillors. This meant that Labour group leader Tudor Evans became the new leader of Plymouth City Council. Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn visited Plymouth to celebrate the result. Outgoing council leader Ian Bowyer remained leader of the Conservative group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281920-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Plymouth City Council election, Aftermath\nConservative MP for Plymouth Moor View Johnny Mercer said that the result was due to Plymouth voters believing that defence funding was reducing under the Conservatives. Defeated Drake councillor Steve Ricketts wrote that his defeat was due to students voting Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281920-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Plymouth City Council election, Aftermath\nThe Herald described the election as voters deserting UKIP, with Plymouth returning to a two-party political system. The newspaper also emphasised Sima Davarian-Dehsorkhe as the best-performing Liberal Democrat candidate, winning more than 10% of the vote in Plymstock Dunstone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281920-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Plymouth City Council election, Aftermath\nLabour held its seat in a subsequent by-election in Stoke ward, which took place in July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281921-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Plze\u0148 municipal election\nThe Plze\u0148 municipal election in 2018 was beheld as part of 2018 Czech municipal elections on 5 and 6 October 2018. Plze\u0148 was led by a coalition of the Civic Democratic Party, Czech Social Democratic Party, Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party and Citizens Patriots. ANO 2011 was the strongest opposition party. ANO 2011 has won the popular vote but tied with the Civic Democratic Party by number of seats. Coalition formed after the election was formed on 15 October 2018 consisting ANO 2011, Civic Democratic Party, TOP 09 and Czech Social Democratic Party. Martin Baxa became the new Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281921-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Plze\u0148 municipal election, Background\nThe previous election was held in 2014. ANO 2011 tied with the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and Czech Social Democratic Party (\u010cSSD). ODS and \u010cSSD then formed a coalition and Martin Zrzaveck\u00fd became the new Mayor. ANO 2011 remained in opposition. The coalition between ODS and \u010cSSD also included Citizens Patriots (OPAT) and Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU\u2013\u010cSL). The leader of local ANO 2011 Pavel \u0160r\u00e1mek resigned his positions in regional organisation following the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281921-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Plze\u0148 municipal election, Background\nThe Czech Pirate Party was the first party to introduce its leader. Pavel Bos\u00e1k won the party's primaries and became candidate for Mayor. Bos\u00e1k stated that he wants to thank pirates for his chance and that he wants to introduce his vision for the city to its citizens. Bos\u00e1k isn't a member of the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281921-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Plze\u0148 municipal election, Background\nThe first opinion poll was published on 24 April 2018. Seven parties would be elected to assembly. ANO 2011 would receive 24% of votes and while the Civic Democratic Party would receive 12.7% of votes. The Pirate party would come third with 10%. The Social Democratic Party would be fourth with 9.6%. TOP 09 and The Communist Party would both receive 7%. Far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy would receive 8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281921-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Plze\u0148 municipal election, Background\nRoman zarzyck\u00fd became nominee of ANO 2011 for the position of Mayor. ODS decided to nominate Martin Baxa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281922-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pocono 400\nThe 2018 Pocono 400 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on June 3, 2018 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Contested over 160 laps on the 2.5-mile (4.0\u00a0km) triangular racecourse, it was the 14th race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281922-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pocono 400, Report, Background\nThe race was held at Pocono Raceway, which is a three-turn superspeedway located in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. The track hosts two annual Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races: the Pocono 400 and the Gander Outdoors 400, as well as one Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series event. Since 2013, the track is also host to a Verizon IndyCar Series race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281922-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pocono 400, Report, Background\nPocono Raceway is one of a very few NASCAR tracks not owned by either Speedway Motorsports, Inc. or International Speedway Corporation. It is operated by the Igdalsky siblings Brandon, Nicholas, and sister Ashley, and cousins Joseph IV and Chase Mattioli, all of whom are third-generation members of the family-owned Mattco Inc, started by Joseph II and Rose Mattioli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281922-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pocono 400, Report, Background\nOutside of the NASCAR races, the track is used throughout the year by Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) and motorcycle clubs as well as racing schools and an IndyCar race. The triangular oval also has three separate infield sections of racetrack \u2013 North Course, East Course and South Course. Each of these infield sections use a separate portion of the tri-oval to complete the track. During regular non-race weekends, multiple clubs can use the track by running on different infield sections. Also some of the infield sections can be run in either direction, or multiple infield sections can be put together \u2013 such as running the North Course and the South Course and using the tri-oval to connect the two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281922-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pocono 400, First practice\nKyle Busch was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 50.865 seconds and a speed of 176.939\u00a0mph (284.756\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281922-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pocono 400, Qualifying\nRyan Blaney scored the pole for the race with a time of 50.877 and a speed of 176.897\u00a0mph (284.688\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281922-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pocono 400, Final practice\nKyle Busch was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 51.550 seconds and a speed of 174.588\u00a0mph (280.972\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281922-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Pocono 400, Media, Television\nFox NASCAR televised the race in the United States on FS1 for the fourth consecutive year. Mike Joy was the lap-by-lap announcer, while six-time Pocono winner, Jeff Gordon and four-time winner Darrell Waltrip were the color commentators. Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281922-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Pocono 400, Media, Radio\nRadio coverage of the race was broadcast by Motor Racing Network (MRN) and simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and four-time Pocono winner Rusty Wallace announced the race in the booth while the field was racing on the front stretch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281922-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Pocono 400, Media, Radio\nDave Moody called the race from atop a billboard outside of turn 1 when the field was racing through turn 1 while Mike Bagley called the race from a billboard outside turn 2 when the field was racing through turn 2. Kurt Becker reported the race from a billboard outside turn 3 when the field was racing through turn 3. Alex Hayden, Winston Kelley and Steve Post reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281923-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Podgorica City Assembly election\nCity Assembly elections will be held in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, on 27 May 2018. Parties and coalitions ran for 61 seats in the Assembly, with 3% election threshold required to win seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281923-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Podgorica City Assembly election, Electoral system\nVoters in Podgorica determine the composition of the City Assembly, which in turn elects the Mayor. This means that the Mayor is only indirectly elected by the voters. Only parties which reach an electoral threshold of 3% may enter the Assembly. The Mayor may or may not be a councilor of the Assembly. Assembly's composition is subject to a 4-year election cycle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281923-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Podgorica City Assembly election, Electoral lists\nThe following are the electoral lists proclaimed by the Capital City Electoral Commission:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281923-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Podgorica City Assembly election, Campaign\nDemocratic Montenegro (DCG) and United Reform Action (URA) decided to run together under the name the \"Podgorica for 21st century\", with DCG member Vladimir \u010ca\u0111enovi\u0107 as ballot carrier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281923-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Podgorica City Assembly election, Campaign\nSocial Democratic Party (SDP) decided to form a pre-election alliance with Democratic Alliance (DEMOS) under the name the \"Civic Alliance for Changes\", with SDP member Ivan Vujovi\u0107 as ballot carrier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281923-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Podgorica City Assembly election, Campaign\nBosniak Party (BS) decided to sign an agreement with ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and Liberal Party (LP), as did the Montenegrin (CRN), Positive Montenegro (PCG) and Democratic Union of Albanians (DUA), with university professor Ivan Vukovi\u0107 as ballot carrier, while the current Mayor Migo Stijepovi\u0107 took second place on electoral list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281923-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Podgorica City Assembly election, Campaign\nSocial Democrats (SD) decided to run independently under the slogan \"Consistently for Podgorica\", with current president of Podgorica City Assembly \u0110or\u0111e Suhih as ballot carrier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281923-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Podgorica City Assembly election, Campaign\nSocialist People's Party (SNP) and Democratic Front (DF) agreed to form a pre-election local alliance under the slogan \"Everything for my City\", with DF member and MP Slaven Radunovi\u0107 as ballot carrier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281924-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Poker Masters\nThe 2018 Poker Masters was the second season of the Poker Masters. It took place from September 8-15, 2018, from the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event was sponsored by Poker Central, and every final table was streamed on PokerGO. There were seven events on the schedule including five No-Limit Hold'em tournaments, along with a Pot-Limit Omaha and Short Deck event. Buy-ins ranged from $10,000 to the $100,000 Main Event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281924-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Poker Masters\nThe Main Event was won by America's David Peters, and the Poker Masters Purple Jacket was awarded to Bosnia and Herzegovina's Ali Imsirovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281924-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Poker Masters, Schedule\nThe schedule for the 2018 Poker Masters included five No-Limit Hold'em tournaments, and both a Pot-Limit Omaha and Short Deck event. The first six events lasted two days with the first day ending once the final table was down to six players. Those players returned the next day to resume play with the action streamed on PokerGO. The Main Event was a $100,000 buy-in and played out over three days with the final two days streamed on PokerGO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281924-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Poker Masters, Purple Jacket standings\nThe 2018 Poker Masters awarded the Purple Jacket to the player that accumulated the most points during the series unlike in 2017 when the winner was determined by the most winnings. Bosnia and Herzegovina's Ali Imsirovic won two events, and cashed three times on his way to accumulating $1,288,600 in winnings. Imsirovic accumulated 660 points and was awarded the Purple Jacket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281925-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Polaris Music Prize\nThe 2018 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 17, 2018. The gala was hosted by broadcaster Raina Douris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281925-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Polaris Music Prize, Grand jury\nThe Polaris committee announced the grand jury in August 2018. Jurors were Matt Carter of Grid City , Jill Krajewski of Noisey, Erin Lowers of Exclaim!, Dustin Riel McGladrey of the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta, Marc-Andr\u00e9 Mongrain of Radio-Canada, Josh O'Kane of The Globe and Mail, Rosina Riccardo of CJAM-FM, Kate Wilson of The Georgia Straight, and freelance music writers J.D. Considine, Marie Mello and Anubha Momin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281925-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Polaris Music Prize, Longlist\nThe prize's preliminary 40-album longlist was announced on June 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281925-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Polaris Music Prize, Heritage Prize\nNominees for the Polaris Heritage Prize, a separate award to honour classic Canadian albums released before the creation of the Polaris Prize, were announced at the main Polaris gala, and the winners were announced on October 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281926-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 Polish Athletics Championships was the 94th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for athletes in Poland. It was held between 20 and 22 July 2018 in Lublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281926-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Athletics Championships, Cross country\nThe 90th Polish Cross Country Championships took place on 17 March in \u017baga\u0144.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281926-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Athletics Championships, 50 km walk\nThe 1st Polish Championships in women's 50 kilometres race walk took place on 24 March in Dudince, hosted within the annual Dudinsk\u00e1 P\u00e4\u0165desiatka race. The men's race wook place on 6 October in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281926-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Athletics Championships, Marathon\nThe 88th Polish Marathon Championships took place on 22 April in Warsaw, hosted within the annual Orlen Warsaw Marathon. The 38th Polish Women's Marathon Championships took place on 8 April as part of the 45th D\u0119bno Marathon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281926-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Athletics Championships, 10,000 metres\nThe Polish Championships in the 10,000 metres took place on 28 April in \u0141om\u017ca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281926-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Athletics Championships, Relay and Combined Events Championships\nThe Polish Relay and Combined Events Championships took place on 1 and 2 June in Suwa\u0142ki. It was the first time that the Mixed 4 \u00d7 400 and 4 \u00d7 800 metres relays were held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281926-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Athletics Championships, 5K run\nThe 7th Polish 5K Championships took place on 16 June in Warsaw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281926-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Athletics Championships, 20 km walk\nThe Polish Championships in the 20 kilometres race walk took place on 23 June in Warsaw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281926-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Athletics Championships, 10K run\nThe 9th Polish 10K Championships were held on 4 August in Gda\u0144sk as part of the 25th edition of the Saint Dominic Road Race. The 7th Polish Women's 10K Championships took place on 7 October in Warsaw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281926-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Athletics Championships, Half marathon\nThe 27th Polish Half Marathon Championships took place on 2 September in Pi\u0142a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281926-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Athletics Championships, 24-hour run\nThe 2019 Polish Championships in 24-hour run were held from 8\u20139 September near \u0141yse, Masovian Voivodeship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281927-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Basketball Cup\nThe 2018 Polish Basketball Cup (Polish: Puchar Polski 2018) was the 54th edition of Poland's national cup competition for men basketball teams. It was managed by the Polish Basketball League (PLK) and was held in Warsaw, in the Arena Ursyn\u00f3w in February 2018. Polski Cukier Toru\u0144 won its first-ever Cup title in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281927-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Basketball Cup, Qualified teams\nThe eight first qualified after the first half of the 2017\u201318 PLK season qualified to the tournament. The highest placed four teams would play the lowest seeded teams in the quarter-finals. Legia Warsaw qualified as host of the tournament, and gained automatic qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281928-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Super Cup\nThe 2018 Polish SuperCup was the 28th Polish SuperCup, an annual Polish football match played between the reigning winners of the Ekstraklasa and Polish Cup. It was held on 14 July 2018 between the 2017\u201318 Ekstraklasa and 2017\u201318 Polish Cup winners Legia Warsaw and the 2017\u201318 Polish Cup runners-up Arka Gdynia at Legia's home, the Stadion Wojska Polskiego in Warsaw. Arka played its second SuperCup match, while Legia played its 13th and sixth consecutive SuperCup. It was a rematch of the previous SuperCup edition, during which Arka ended their first SuperCup appearance with a victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281928-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish Super Cup\nArka won 3\u20132 to retain their SuperCup trophy, while Legia lost the SuperCup match for the sixth consecutive time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281929-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish disability protests\nThe Polish Protest for the Rights of People with Disabilities 2018 was a protest in Warsaw, Poland, lead by Polish activists with disabilities in response to the inadequate treatment of persons with disabilities by the Polish government. Activists occupied the Polish Parliament for 38 days, while subsequent protests occurred outside the parliament building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281929-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish disability protests, Cause of the Protests\nFamilies of disabled children in Poland are left in dire circumstances, as the institutional support for disabled children proves inadequate. Before the protest in 2018, the support offered by the government was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281929-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish disability protests, Cause of the Protests\n\u201cWe will never understand why in our country people with disabilities, incapable of independent existence, are condemned to life in poverty and indignity and the state forces them to live on less than PLN900 per month,\" said Iwona Hartwich, the mother of the 25-year-old disabled Kuba Hartwich and an organizer of the protest, in a press conference following 38 days of the sit-in in the Polish Sejm. \"We will never understand, why the current government did not want to assist the weakest segment of society with a modest benefit of PLN500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281929-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Polish disability protests, Cause of the Protests\nWe came forward with four compromise solutions, yet there was no good will to help people with disabilities in their already difficult life\u201d. The conditions deteriorate when children with disabilities reach the age of 18, as at that point their families are no longer entitled to benefits. However, disability does not disappear with age. Oftentimes after a child with disabilities has turned 18, caretakers do not get full-time employment due to the time required to nurse their child, further exasperating the detriments of insufficient support from the Polish government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281929-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish disability protests, Cause of the Protests\nProtesters put forward two key demands. First, they demanded the payment of an additional 500 z\u0142, or 120 euros, every month for persons with disabilities who are not able to live independently upon reaching the age of 18. Second, they demanded the raising of subsidies to the amount of the lowest subsidy of the Polish Social Insurance Institution for persons incapable of working in perpetuity in order to raise the subsidy to the social minimum for a household with a person with disabilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281929-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish disability protests, How the Protests Unfolded\nThe protest started on April 18, 2018 and lasted for 38 days. It occurred inside as well as in front of the Parliament. Conditions provided by the authorities were extremely poor \u2014 adults with disabilities and their carers were denied \u201caccess to fresh air (ban on opening the windows); their freedom of movement curtailed (the elevators were blocked and they could not leave Parliament building); their basic human needs of proper sanitation were unmet (no access to the bathroom)\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281929-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Polish disability protests, How the Protests Unfolded\nThe protesters slept on the Parliament's floor, with authorities keeping the lights turned on throughout the night while denying protestors' physiotherapists entry into the building to bring aid. During the protest, a NATO Parliamentary Assembly took place in the building. In order to hide the demonstrators, the ruling party (Law and Justice Party - PiS) placed them behind a thick grey curtain. Before the arrival of international guests, protesting mothers were trying to put up a sign in English saying, \u201cPolish children with disabilities are begging for dignity\u201d, which resulted in physical violence from Parliament security. Protesters were also insulted by some of the politicians, such as government spokeswoman Joanna Kopcinska who told them that \u201cmost of us have to deal with misfortunes like yours\u201d. The mothers replied that their children were not their misfortunes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 937]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281929-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish disability protests, Outcomes of the Protest\nMinister of Labor Rafalska suggested an agreement which included the rise of the social allowance to the requested amount but did not cover the second postulate about the requested PLN500. Instead of that, the Ministry offered priority lines to some doctors and pharmacies. The protesters rejected the proposal, as they said that their two demands are inextricable. Finally, the government, without the participation of protesters, made an agreement with a group of organizations working for people with disabilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281929-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Polish disability protests, Outcomes of the Protest\nAlthough only one of the demands were fulfilled by the government, without doubt the protest increased the visibility of the struggle of disabled people in Poland. The protest was heavily discussed in newspapers and on TV stations for several weeks. Another result of the protest was the enriching of new alliances between activist groups: feminist organizations were one of the main supporters of the protesters. On the other hand, the protest brought to light some Polish politicians' negative perceptions regarding persons with disabilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281929-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 Polish disability protests, Outcomes of the Protest\nPoliticians widely commented on the protesters themselves and the type of fighting for rights they chose, e.g. Stanis\u0142aw Pi\u0119ta said that the protest was actually a political action with the aim of overthrowing the government, Jacek \u017balek stated that children are used by their parents as \u201clive ammunition,\u201d and Krystyna Pawlowicz commented on a supposed \"extremely bad smell\" in the Parliament because of the protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281930-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish local elections\nThe 2018 Polish local elections were held on October 21 for all 16 provincial (voivodeship, wojew\u00f3dztwo) assemblies, 380 county (powiat) councils, and 2477 commune (gmina) councils. There were also direct elections for commune heads (mayors and city presidents), with a second, run-off round for these offices on November 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281930-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Polish local elections\nThe local elections were a victory of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS), though the opposition Civic Coalition (KO) maintained control of the majority of cities, including the capital Warsaw. 2023 Polish local elections", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281931-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Poprad-Tatry ATP Challenger Tour\nThe 2018 Poprad-Tatry ATP Challenger Tour was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Poprad, Slovakia between 18 and 23 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281931-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Poprad-Tatry ATP Challenger Tour, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281932-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Poprad-Tatry ATP Challenger Tour \u2013 Doubles\nMateusz Kowalczyk and Andreas Mies were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281932-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Poprad-Tatry ATP Challenger Tour \u2013 Doubles\nTomislav Brki\u0107 and Ante Pavi\u0107 won the title after defeating Nikola \u010ca\u010di\u0107 and Luca Margaroli 6\u20133, 4\u20136, [16\u201314] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281933-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Poprad-Tatry ATP Challenger Tour \u2013 Singles\nCedrik-Marcel Stebe was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281933-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Poprad-Tatry ATP Challenger Tour \u2013 Singles\nJozef Koval\u00edk won the title after defeating Arthur De Greef 6\u20134, 6\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281934-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pore\u010d Trophy\nThe 2018 Pore\u010d Trophy was the 19th edition of the Pore\u010d Trophy road cycling one day race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281934-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pore\u010d Trophy, Teams\nThirty teams were invited to take part in the race. All of them were UCI Continental or club teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281935-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia\nThe 2018 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia was the sixteenth running of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia series. It began on April 13 at the Shanghai International Circuit and finished on November 16 at the same circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281935-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, Calendar\nThe series contested of 12-rounds, which started at the Shanghai International Circuit on the 15th of April and concluded at the same circuit on the 18th of November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281936-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Carrera Cup Australia\nThe 2018 CAMS Porsche Wilson Security Carrera Cup Australia Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars. The series, which was the 14th Porsche Carrera Cup Australia, commenced on 1 March at the Adelaide Street Circuit and finish on 21 October at the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit after eight rounds. 2018 saw the introduction of the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup type 991.II model to the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281937-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Carrera Cup Germany\nThe 2018 Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland season was the 33rd German Porsche Carrera Cup season. It began on 14 April at Oschersleben and finished on 23 September at Hockenheimring after six double-header meetings, It is a support championship for the ADAC GT Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281938-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain\nThe 2018 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain was a multi-event, one-make motor racing championship held across England and Scotland. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, competing in Porsche 911 GT3 cars that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. It formed part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the BTCC centrepiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281938-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain\nThe 2018 season was the 16th Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain season, commencing on 8 April at Brands Hatch \u2013 on the circuit's Indy configuration \u2013 and finished on 30 September at the same venue, utilising the Grand Prix circuit, after sixteen races at eight meetings. Fourteen of the races were held in support of the 2018 British Touring Car Championship, with a round in support of the 2018 European Le Mans Series at Monza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281938-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain, Race calendar and results\nThe majority of the races will held in the United Kingdom, with the exception of the round held at Monza in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281939-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche GT3 Cup Brasil\nThe 2018 Porsche Imp\u00e9rio GT3 Cup Challenge Brasil is the first one-make Porsche racing championship in South America for 911 GT3 Cup cars and this was the fourteenth season. It began on March 24 at Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional de Curitiba and finished on November 11 at Aut\u00f3dromo Jos\u00e9 Carlos Pace. It was first held in 2005 and follows the same formula basis used in the Porsche Supercup and Porsche Carrera Cup championships held around the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281939-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche GT3 Cup Brasil, Drivers\nAll cars are overseen by the Dener Motorsport team. From the 2018 season, the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 991), will now have the new Porsche 911 Cup (Type 991.2), making the category to align to the same molds played in other countries, now being called Porsche Imperio Carrera Cup 4.0 and Porsche Imperio Carrera Cup 3.8 (Equivalent to category Cup series) and Porsche Imperio GT3 Cup 4.0 and Porsche Imperio GT3 Cup 3.8 (Equivalent to category Challenge series).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281939-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche GT3 Cup Brasil, Drivers' Championship\nPoints are awarded for each race at an event to the driver/s of a car that completed at least 70% of the race distance and was running at the completion of the race. The sprint races has the partially top 6 reserve grid. Only the best 10 results in each series counts for the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281939-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche GT3 Cup Brasil, Drivers' Championship, Carrera Cup\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Pole positionItalics\u00a0\u2013 Fastest lap\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Retired, but classified", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281939-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche GT3 Cup Brasil, Drivers' Championship, GT3 Cup\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Pole positionItalics\u00a0\u2013 Fastest lap\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Retired, but classified", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281940-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Australia\nThe 2018 Porsche Michelin GT3 Cup Challenge Australia Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars. It was the eleventh running of the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Australia. The series commenced at The Bend Motorsport Park on 13 April and concluded at Sydney Motorsport Park on 22 September. 2017 series winner Jordan Love opted not to defend his title, instead concentrating his efforts on the 2018 Porsche Carrera Cup Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281940-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Australia\nThe series was won by Simon Fallon. with Daniel Stutterd and Christian Pancione winning the Pro-Am and B classes respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281940-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Australia, Team and drivers\nAll A class teams used Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Type 997 (MY2010-2012) all B class team used Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Type 997 (MY2006-2009). They all used Pirelli Tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281940-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Australia, Series standings\nThe series was won by Simon Fallon. Fallon also won the Pro class, Danny Stutterd won the Pro-Am class and Christian Pancione won Class B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281941-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Supercup\nThe 2018 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup was the 26th Porsche Supercup season. It began on 13 May at Circuit de Catalunya and ended on 28 October at Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez, after ten scheduled races, all of which were support events for the 2018 Formula One season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281941-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Supercup, Championship standings, Drivers' Championship\n\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 68], "content_span": [69, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281941-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Supercup, Championship standings, Drivers' Championship\n^\u00a0\u2013 Drivers took part in the races with different competition numbers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 68], "content_span": [69, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281942-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor clay courts. It was the 41st edition of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, and part of the Premier tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany, from 23 to 29 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281942-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281943-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix \u2013 Doubles\nRaquel Atawo and Je\u013cena Ostapenko were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together this year. Atawo successfully defended the title alongside Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld, defeating Nicole Melichar and Kv\u011bta Peschke in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20137(5\u20137), [10\u20135]. Ostapenko teamed up with Olga Savchuk, but lost in the quarterfinals to Atawo and Gr\u00f6nefeld.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281944-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix \u2013 Singles\nLaura Siegemund was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to CoCo Vandeweghe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281944-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix \u2013 Singles\nKarol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 won the title, defeating Vandeweghe in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281944-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix \u2013 Singles\n15-year-old Marta Kostyuk became the youngest player to win a main draw match in Stuttgart since Martina Hingis in October 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281944-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election\nA by-election was held on 13 October 2018 for the Dewan Rakyat seat of Port Dickson. The seat became vacant after the resignation of the incumbent member Danyal Balagopal Abdullah, a member of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and the governing Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. This was the first federal by-election since the 9 May 2018 general election (GE14), which saw the first-ever change of federal government in Malaysia's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election\nDanyal Balagopal resigned his seat to pave a way for PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim to return to Parliament, it was dubbed as the 'PD Move'. Anwar was unable to contest the earlier GE14 due to his imprisonment on sodomy charges, which were widely accepted as politically motivated. He received a royal pardon after PH defeated the then-ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) and came into power, restoring his political rights and his eligibility to contest in elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election\nThe Port Dickson parliamentary constituency had 75,770 registered voters in this by-election. 43% were Malays, 33% Chinese, 22% Indian and 2% other races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election\nAnwar won the by-election with an increased majority, returning to Parliament for the first time in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Nomination\nThe nomination day for the by-election was 29 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Nomination\nWhile PH confirmed early that it would field Anwar in the by-election, the oppositions did not announce its candidate until close to the nomination day. The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) was initially expected not to contest the by-election and lend its support to the BN, like they did in the Sungai Kandis and Balakong by-elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Nomination\nCriticisms were landed at PH for engineering the by-election too soon after the general election. BN politicians lambasted PH's move as an attempted coronation of Anwar. This was repudiated by prominent PH leaders such as Democratic Action Party (DAP) secretary-general and Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng. Lim said Anwar's return to Parliament was overdue and criticised BN's role in jailing Anwar when they were in government, thus preventing him to contest in the first place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Nomination\nA candidate from the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) was initially expected to contest for BN. Another BN component party, the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), announced that it would not contest the by-election for the coalition. The MIC said that their decision was a protest against UMNO's exclusion of their party from the candidacy consultations. They have previously contested the seat and its predecessor seat Telok Kemang for BN as recently as the 2018 federal elections. Another BN component party, the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), also criticised UMNO's sidelining of other BN component parties and its cooperation with PAS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Nomination\nUMNO itself was divided on what approach it will be taking in the by-election. While most leaders were saying that the party would contest the seat, some prominent leaders were suggesting that the party should not contest and let Anwar win in a walkover. Several UMNO politicians were even planning to support Anwar, therefore bucking their party's official stance. The most notable politician in the last category was former Tourism Minister Nazri Aziz. BN ended up deciding not to contest, as a boycott and protest against the government's forcing of the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Nomination\nTo prevent the absence of opposition candidates, PAS moved to field their own candidate, a retired Lt Col ranked air force officer, Mohd Nazari Mokhtar. Close to the nomination day, the field became more crowded with the surprise entry of two independent candidates, namely Mohd Isa Abdul Samad the former Menteri Besar of Negeri Sembilan and Saiful Bukhari Azlan the former personal aide of Anwar who was also the accuser in his second sodomy trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Nomination\nThe other independent candidates contested were social media activist Stevie Chan Keng Leong, former lecturer Lau Seck Yan and management consultant Kan Chee Yuen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Nomination\nAn eight and last independent candidate A. Rajendra who had filed his nomination papers, was disqualified because his proposer was not a registered voter in the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Nomination\nParti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM) originally stated that they would contest this by-election, but ended up not fielding a candidate. PRM eventually sacked its designated candidate, Ahmad Kamarudin, an ex-PKR member for withdrawing from the by-election claiming insufficient funds for the electoral deposit only at the eleventh hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Controversies\nA voter in Port Dickson, Rosmadi Mohd Kassim filed a judicial review at the High Court on 27 September 2018, seeking the court to declare that the resignation of incumbent MP Danyal Balagopal Abdullah unconstitutional, thus rendering the move by Election Commission (EC) to hold the by-election as null and void. The High Court dismissed the application on 2 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Controversies\nAnother Port Dickson voter, Noraziah Mohd Shariff filed on 28 September 2018 for a court declaration to invalidate the royal pardon received by Anwar on the grounds that it was a \"full pardon\" and not a \"free pardon\" under the Federal Constitution, which allows a former convict to contest. PAS had hoped that the court would disqualify Anwar after he won and if their candidate finished second, he would instead be declared as the new constituency MP. EC chairman Azhar Azizan Harun affirmed the agency's stand that Anwar was free and eligible to contest and proceed in the by-election. The High Court dismissed the application finally when the applicant and her counsel failed to show up in court on 22 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Campaigning\nOn 8 October 2018 Mahathir Mohamad broke a prime ministerial tradition by coming to Port Dickson to campaign in the by-election. He also spoke on the same stage with Anwar for the first time in twenty years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Campaigning\nSome UMNO members defied their party's official boycott and supported Mohd Isa including his own son. The Indian-based political party Indian Progressive Front (IPF) expressed support for PAS in the by-election. The Negeri Sembilan Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (GERAKAN) announced their support for Anwar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Result\nAnwar won the Port Dickson by-election with 31,016 votes securing a 23,560-vote majority, with runner-up Mohd Nazari garnering 7,456 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281945-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Dickson by-election, Result, Result according to polling districts\nPH won all polling districts and post and early votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281946-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Port F.C. season\nThe 2018 season is Port's 22nd season in the Thai League, FA Cup, League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281946-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Port F.C. season, Players\nPlayers and squad numbers last updated on 6 February 2018.Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281946-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Port F.C. season, Reserve team in Thai League 4\nPort send the reserve team to compete in T4 Bangkok Metropolitan Region as Port B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281946-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Port F.C. season, Transfers\nFirst Thai footballer's market is opening on 14 November 2017 to 5 February 2018Second Thai footballer's market is opening on 11 June 2018 to 9 July 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281947-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Orchard tornado\nThe 2018 Port Orchard tornado was a rare strong tornado that struck the city of Port Orchard, Washington on December 18, 2018. The National Weather Service office in Seattle rated the tornado as an EF2 following an on-site survey of the storm damage the day after the event. There were no fatalities or major injuries reported. This was the first tornado to have touched down in Western Washington since an EF0 tornado in 2017 near Monroe. Damage was most pronounced near the South Kitsap Regional Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281947-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Orchard tornado\nThe tornado was the largest recorded in Kitsap County, and the 12th recorded F2/EF2 tornado to touch down in Washington since 1950. Washington state averages 2.5 tornadoes annually, but only 0.1 tornadoes in the month of December; the majority of these are rated EF0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281947-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Orchard tornado, Meteorological Synopsis\nThe tornado was part of an atmospheric river event pointed straight at the Pacific Northwest causing $18 billion (2018 USD) of damage between December 10 and December 25. This system caused flooding, severe erosion, and widespread power outages. Washington Governor Jay Inslee sought funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for damages caused during the prolonged stormy period, including for the Port Orchard tornado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281947-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Orchard tornado, Meteorological Synopsis\nThere was not a tornado warning issued for the storm that produced the tornado. The Storm Prediction Center placed the Kitsap Peninsula and nearby Olympic Peninsula under a risk for general thunderstorms for the day, but did not note a chance of severe thunderstorms for the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281947-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Orchard tornado, Meteorological Synopsis\nThe storm was a product of the Olympic Mountain velocity shear zone, a meteorological phenomenon that occurs when an incoming onshore flow in usually in the wake of a cold front from the Pacific Ocean is forced around the Olympic Mountains and adds the needed low-level wind shear that can enhance rotating storms moving through the area. Velocity scans show that this storm had mesoscale rotation to about 10,000 and rotation could be seen by the Langley Radar on Camano Island Doppler weather radar imagery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281947-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Orchard tornado, Damage and Response\nMost of the damage from the tornado occurred near Salmonberry and Bethel Roads to the north of SR 160. There were approximately 250 homes damaged during the storm, including a few that had their roofs partially or completely ripped off. This number was lowered from earlier estimates of around 450 structures. Many large trees were snapped and uprooted, and several homes were also severely damaged when trees fell into them. Some of the most intense damage was inflicted to a dry storage facility, which sustained roof loss and collapse of numerous walls. A strip mall sustained considerable damage as well. About twenty homes were initially evacuated because of fears of a gas leak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281947-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Port Orchard tornado, Damage and Response\nSeveral roads were closed after the event, both because of debris on the roads and to limit access to damaged neighborhoods. Shelters were also opened to help victims affected by the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281948-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Port-au-Prince massacre\nOn 13 November 2018, a massacre began within the La Saline slums of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. According to reports, 15 to 25 civilians were killed over a 24-hour period. It is alleged that the killings were either due to local gang wars or the actions of Haitian officials attempting to quell anti-corruption protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281948-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Port-au-Prince massacre, Background\nIn October 2017, U.N. peacekeepers ended their mission in Haiti after 13 years. Since the departure of the U.N., the number of gang-controlled areas in the city has apparently grown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281948-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Port-au-Prince massacre, Background\nThe massacre occurred in the middle of various protests within Haiti: Jovenel Mo\u00efse was elected president in November 2016, but protestors saw him as a sign of corruption within the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281948-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Port-au-Prince massacre, Incident\nWitness reports state that a police truck carrying uniformed men arrived in Port-au-Prince's La Saline slums at around 3pm on 13 November 2018. The men then opened fire upon civilians, while local gang members killed others with gunfire and machetes. According to witnesses, a human-rights group, at least 21 men were killed in the massacre. A local human-rights group, Fondasyon Je Klere, estimated that between 15 and 25 people were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281948-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Port-au-Prince massacre, Arrests\nAccording to police, one person has been arrested in connection with the killings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281948-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Port-au-Prince massacre, Identity of perpetrators\nFondasyon Je Klere suggested links between armed gangs, corrupt police officers and government officials may point towards the perpetrators of the massacre. Those who witnessed the massacre also alleged that the killers may have been corrupt police officers, leading the National Police chief to suspend two officers accused of involvement in the killings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281948-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Port-au-Prince massacre, Responses\nThe United Nations has launched an investigation into the killings. In December 2020, the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control announced sanctions against Jimmy Ch\u00e9rizier, a gang leader, and Fednel Monchery and Joseph Pierre Richard Duplan, two officials in the Moise administration, for their alleged involvement in the massacre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281949-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland State Vikings football team\nThe 2018 Portland State Vikings football team represented Portland State University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Bruce Barnum and played their home games at Hillsboro Stadium and Providence Park. They were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 4\u20137, 3\u20135 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281949-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland State Vikings football team, Previous season\nThe Vikings finished the 2017 season 0\u201311, 0\u20138 in Big Sky play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281949-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland State Vikings football team, Preseason, Polls\nOn July 16, 2018 during the Big Sky Kickoff in Spokane, Washington, the Vikings were predicted to finish in last place in both the coaches and media poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281949-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland State Vikings football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nThe Vikings had one player selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281950-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Thorns FC season\nThe 2018 Portland Thorns FC season is the team's and the league's sixth season of existence. The Thorns play in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the top division of women's soccer in the United States. The Thorns are coming into the season as reigning NWSL Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281950-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Thorns FC season, Season review, Off-season\nOn September 21, 2017, Raso signed a loan with Brisbane Roar for the 2017\u201318 W-League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281950-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Thorns FC season, Season review, Off-season\non September 24, 2017, the club announced that midfielder Amandine Henry and forward Nadia Nadim will not be returning to the Portland Thorns in 2018 season. The moves were made for financial reasons, NWSL has a strict salary cap of $315,000 for each team and the Thorns could not compete with the offers made by Lyon and Manchester City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281950-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Thorns FC season, Season review, Off-season\nIn October 2017, Boureille was loaned to Brisbane Roar for the 2017\u201318 W-League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281950-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Thorns FC season, Season review, Off-season\nOn October 24, 2017, it was announced that Sonnett signed a loan with Sydney FC for the 2017\u201318 W-League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281950-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Thorns FC season, Season review, Off-season\nOn January 11, 2018, the club acquired the rights to Australian forward Caitlin Foord and a 2020 conditional natural second-round draft pick from the Seattle Reign in exchange for Allie Long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281950-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Thorns FC season, Season review, Off-season\nOn January 12, 2018 Portland acquired Brazilian midfielder Andressinha from the Houston Dash in exchange for forward Savannah Jordan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281950-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Thorns FC season, Season review, Off-season\nOn January 17, 2018, Portland Thorns FC selected midfielders Sandra Yu and Gabby Seiler and goalkeeper Bella Geist from the 2018 NWSL College Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281950-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Thorns FC season, Season review, Off-season\nOn February 15, 2018, Ashleigh Sykes announced her retirement from professional soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281951-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers 2 season\nThe 2018 Portland Timbers 2 season is the 4th season for Portland Timbers 2 in United Soccer League (USL), the second-tier professional soccer league in the United States and Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season\nThe 2018 Portland Timbers season is the 32nd season in their existence and the 8th season for the Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer (MLS), the top-flight professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. The season covers the period from the end of MLS Cup 2017 to the end of MLS Cup 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, April\nFrom April 5 until April 8 the eMLS Cup took place at PAX East in Boston. Timber's eSports player Edgar Guerrero (X_Thiago_Silva_0) finished 7th in the Preliminary Round, giving him a spot in the Western Quarter Finals. Guerrero would fall to Sporting Kansas City eSports player Alex Betancourt (SKC Alekzandur) in the Western Quarter Finals to a score of 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, April\nThe Timbers traveled to Orlando, again without the injured Liam Ridgewell for their last away match before the home opener. In the 16th minute, Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco was issued a 2nd yellow card for diving; however, VAR was called to review and the card was overturned and a penalty issued. Even with Joe Bendik guessing the right way, Diego Valeri sent the ball into the far left side of the net, putting the Timbers up 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, April\nIn the 59th minute, Bill Tuiloma was able to head the ball into the net with from a free kick from Diego Valeri that would put the Timbers up 2\u20130. Starting from the 80th minute, Orlando City SC would begin their comeback starting with a flick from Chris Mueller from a corner kick taken by Yoshimar Yot\u00fan, putting Orlando on the board at 2\u20131. Shortly after in the 81st minute, a controversial penalty was awarded to Orlando from a foul to Dom Dwyer inside the box. It was taken and successfully converted by Sacha Kljestan. Finally, Orlando would seal the win in the 87th minute from a shot inside the box from Dom Dwyer. The final score of the match was 3\u20132 to Orlando City SC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, April\nOn April 14, Portland hosted their home opener for the 2018 campaign against Minnesota United FC. The Timbers Army sang the national anthem for the home opener, as is tradition in the MLS era, followed by unveiling their Singin' in the Rain themed tifo. In the 20th minute, Larrys Mabiala passed the ball to Alvas Powell who was a few feet past the halfway line. Powell was able to run the ball all the way into the box and take a shot sending the Timbers up 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, April\nShortly after in the 23rd minute, Powell was able to perform a cross to Diego Valeri. The Timbers went up 2\u20130. In the 27th minute, Minnesota's Miguel Ibarra had a goal disallowed after VAR caught him offside. In the 30th minute, Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco had a howler shot from about 30 yards out to almost have another goal, but instead hit the crossbar. In the 42nd minute, Ibbara attempted a header which Gleeson was able to make an extremely quick one handed save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, April\nIn the 64th minute, Minnesota's Darwin Quintero was able to break through the box and score their first goal of the match, changing the score to 2\u20131. In the 74th minute, Blanco crossed the bar to Valeri who was deep inside the box. Valeri dropped the ball back to Cristhian Paredes and sent it to Fanendo Adi. Adi was quick to react and used his head to send the ball to the right side and putting the Timbers up 3\u20131, their highest lead of the season so far. In the 78th minute, Adi would score once again, but would be called offside. Finally in the 81st minute, Bill Tuiloma would accidentally volley the ball past Jake Gleeson's head and score an own goal. The final score was 3\u20132, giving the Timbers their first win of the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, April\nOn April 17, Alvas Powell was awarded MLS Week 7 Player of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, April\nOn April 19, Alvas Powell won MLS Week 7 Goal of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, April\nOn April 22, The Timbers defeated New York City FC 3\u20130 who at the time was undefeated. Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco, Fanendo Adi, and Larrys Mabiala were the goal scorers and Jeff Attinella delivered the Timbers their first clean sheet of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, April\nOn April 23, Larrys Mabiala and coach Giovanni Savarese were awarded to MLS Team of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, May\nOn May 5, Portland defeated San Jose Earthquakes 1\u20130 with a free kick goal from Diego Valeri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, May\nOn May 13, Portland defeated their rivals, Seattle Sounders 1\u20130 with goal from Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, May\nOn May 19, Portland continued their 5-game win streak with a 2\u20131 victory to Los Angeles FC. Goals scored by Cristhian Paredes and Samuel Armenteros. Both players achieved their first goal in MLS. Liam Ridgewell suffered an unknown injury and was subbed off in the 6th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, May\nOn May 21, Samuel Armenteros was nominated for Goal of the Week (Week 12).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, May\nOn May 24, The Timbers drew to host San Jose Earthquakes in the fourth round of the 2018 U.S. Open Cup on June 6. Later that day, Samuel Armenteros won Goal of the Week (Week 12).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, May\nOn May 26, Portland defeated Colorado Rapids 3\u20132 away. Samuel Armenteros achieved a brace and Diego Valeri moved back into the top goalscorers for the Timbers, tied with Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco at 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, May\nOn May 29, Samuel Armenteros was awarded a spot on Team of the Week (Week 13). Later on that day, he would be announced as a nominee for Goal of the Week (Week 13).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, May\nOn May 31, Samuel Armenteros won his second Goal of the Week (Week 13).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, June\nOn June 2, Portland drew LA Galaxy at home with a score of 1\u20131. Diego Valeri converted a Penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, June\nOn June 4, David Guzm\u00e1n of Costa Rica and Andy Polo of Peru, both made the final 23 man roster for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, June\nOn June 6, Portland signed Andre Lewis, Marvin Lor\u00eda, Darixon Vuelto and Renzo Zambrano from Portland Timbers 2 on short term contracts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, June\nLater on, Portland defeated San Jose Earthquakes at home 2\u20130 in the 2018 U.S. Open Cup round four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, June\nOn June 7, Portland drew to host LA Galaxy on June 15 for the fifth round of the 2018 U.S. Open Cup. The other possible teams in the west pot were LAFC and USL side Sacramento Republic FC. If Portland wins round five they will either travel to LAFC or Sacramento Republic FC depending on that match's outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, June\nOn June 9, Portland hosted Sporting Kansas City with a result of 0\u20130. Their unbeaten streak continues to nine but dropped to sixth place in the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, June\nOn June 15, Portland defeated LA Galaxy 1\u20130 in the round of 16 for the 2018 U.S. Open Cup. The lone goal was scored by Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco, assisted by Fanendo Adi. The Timbers have increased their undefeated streak to 10 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, June\nOn June 20, Portland found out they will travel to face Los Angeles FC in the quarterfinal of the 2018 U.S. Open Cup on July 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, June\nOn June 24, Portland resumed play after the MLS 2018 FIFA World Cup break by traveling to Atlanta United FC. Portland ended up drawing 1\u20131 with a goal from Larrys Mabiala, extending their unbeaten streak to 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, June\nOn June 25, Jeff Attinella was award a spot on MLS Team of the Week: Week 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, June\nOn June 30, Portland traveled to face their rivals Seattle Sounders FC for their first official Cascadia Cup match of the year. Portland defeated Seattle 3\u20132 with Larrys Mabiala capturing a brace and Samuel Armenteros getting a goal. The Timbers are now 12 matches unbeaten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, July\nOn July 2, Diego Valeri and Larrys Mabiala were awarded a spot on Team of the Week (Week 18).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, July\nOn July 7, Portland defeated San Jose Earthquakes at home 2\u20131 with Samuel Armenteros receiving a brace. Portland is now undefeated in 13 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, July\nOn July 9, Samuel Armenteros and Diego Valeri we're awarded a spot on Team of the Week (Week 19).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, July\nOn July 12, Marco Farfan was announced as part of the roster for the 2018 MLS Homegrown match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, July\nOn July 15, Portland drew Los Angeles Football Club at Banc of California Stadium with a score of 0\u20130. Portland is now undefeated in 14 matches. Diego Chara received another yellow card this match and will be suspended for the next league match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, July\nOn July 17, Portland signed Argentinian midfielder Tom\u00e1s Conechny on a 2018 loan with purchase option at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, July\nOn July 18, Portland fell to Los Angeles Football Club at Banc of California Stadium with a score of 2\u20133. Ending their unbeaten streak across all competitions at 14. They are still unbeaten in league play at 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, July\nOn July 19, Portland placed a protest stating that Los Angeles Football Club broke a U.S. Open Cup rule by playing 6 international players when the rule is 5 for professional level clubs. The draw was delayed due to this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, July\nOn July 21, Portland hosted and drew Montreal Impact 2\u20132. Samuel Armenteros and Diego Valeri were the goal scorers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, July\nOn July 28, Portland defeated Houston Dynamo 2\u20131 with goals from Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco and Fanendo Adi. Adi would score his final goal as a timber and push the Timber's league undefeated streak to 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, July\nOn July 30, Fanendo Adi was traded to FC Cincinnati for $850,000 in allocation money. Portland now has an open Designated Player slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, August\nOn August 2, Portland's assistant head coach Sean McAuley stepped down to become an assistant coach at Orlando City SC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, August\nOn August 4, Portland defeated Philadelphia Union 3\u20130 at home with two successfully converted penalties by Diego Valeri and Dairon Asprilla and a goal by David Guzm\u00e1n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, August\nOn August 8, Vytautas Andriu\u0161kevi\u010dius was traded to D.C. United for $50,00 in Target Allocation Money (TAM). Portland later that day signed their former 2015 MLS Cup winner left back, Jorge Villafa\u00f1a from Liga MX side Santos Laguna. Portland traded their way to number 1 on the allocation list by giving LA Galaxy the number 16 position in the Allocation Ranking, $75,000 in General Allocation Money (GAM) and $100,000 in 2019 TAM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, August\nOn August 9, Lucas Melano returns to Portland from loan with Estudiantes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, August\nOn August 11, Portland lost for the first time at home this season and ended their 15 league unbeaten streak against their rivals, Vancouver Whitecaps FC. The final was a score of 2\u20131 with Diego Valeri converting a penalty kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, August\nOn August 15, Portland traveled to Audi Field for the first time in Washington, D.C. and lost 4\u20131. The lone goalscorer was Samuel Armenteros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, August\nOn August 17, Portland signed goalkeeper Steve Clark off waivers from D.C. United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, August\nOn August 18, Portland traveled to Children's Mercy Park to face Sporting Kansas City with a defeat of 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, August\nOn August 26, Portland hosted Seattle Sounders FC in their third out of four Cascadia matches. Portland lost 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, August\nOn August 28, Portland loaned out midfielder Eryk Williamson to Portuguese first-division side Clube Desportivo Santa Clara for the club's 2018\u201319 season with the ability to recall the player in January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, August\nOn August 29, Portland defeated Toronto FC at home 2\u20130. Goals were scored by Diego Char\u00e1 and David Guzm\u00e1n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, September\nOn September 1, Portland traveled to Gillette Stadium to face New England Revolution. The match ended in a 1\u20131 draw with a goal from Lawrence Olum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, September\nOn September 4, three players were called up to play for their national teams. Andr\u00e9s Flores for El Salvador, David Guzm\u00e1n for Costa Rica, and Alvas Powell for Jamaica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, September\nOn September 8, Portland defeated Colorado Rapids at home 2\u20130. The goalscorers were Jeremy Ebobisse and Diego Valeri. Both goals were assisted by Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, September\nOn September 10, Jeremy Ebobisse, Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco, Zarek Valentin, Diego Char\u00e1, and Diego Valeri were all awarded spots on MLS: Team of the Week: Week 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, September\nOn September 11, Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco was awarded MLS Player of the Week: Week 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, September\nOn September 15, Portland traveled to BBVA Compass Stadium and lost to the Houston Dynamo 1\u20134. The lone goal was an own goal from Houston's Alejandro Fuenmayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, September\nOn September 19, Portland defeated Columbus Crew SC at home 3\u20132 with goals from David Guzm\u00e1n, Andy Polo, and an own goal from Lalas Abubakar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, September\nOn September 22, Portland traveled to TCF Bank Stadium to play Minnesota United FC. Portland lost 2\u20133 with goals from Alvas Powell and Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, September\nOn September 23, Alvas Powell was nominated for Goal of the Week: Week 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, September\nOn September 24, Andy Polo was awarded a bench spot on Team of the Week: Week 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, September\nOn September 29, Portland hosted FC Dallas that ended in a 0\u20130 draw. Liam Ridgewell was sent off with a straight red in the 90+4 minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, October\nOn October 6, Portland traveled to Rio Tinto Stadium where they defeated Real Salt Lake 4\u20131. Goals were scored by Jeremy Ebobisse, a brace by Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco, and Lucas Melano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, October\nOn October 9, Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco was awarded a spot on Team of the Week:Week 32 and nominated for Goal of the Week:Week 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, October\nOn October 21, Portland hosted Real Salt Lake. Portland won 3\u20130, with goals from Larrys Mabiala, Diego Valeri, and Diego Char\u00e1. Steve Clark received a clean sheet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, October\nOn October 22, Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco was awarded a spot on Team of the Week:Week 34.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, October\nOn October 28, Portland traveled to BC Place to play their final Cascadia Cup and league match against Vancouver Whitecaps FC. Portland lost 2\u20131 with a goal from Andr\u00e9s Flores. At the end of the match, Portland finished eighth for the Supporters' Shield, fifth in the MLS Western Conference, and third in the Cascadia Cup. Portland is set to play in the 2018 MLS Cup Playoffs knockout round against fourth seed FC Dallas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, October\nOn October 31, Portland began its 2018 MLS Cup Playoffs run by traveling to Toyota Stadium where they would face FC Dallas. Portland advanced to the 2018 MLS Western Conference Semi-final round with a 2\u20131 victory. Both goals were scored by Diego Valeri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, November\nOn November 4, Portland hosted Seattle Sounders FC for leg one of the 2018 MLS Western Conference Semi-final. Portland emerged victorious 2\u20131 with goals from Jeremy Ebobisse and Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, November\nOn November 5, left back Jorge Villafa\u00f1a was called up for U.S. Men's National Team roster for international friendlies against England, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, November\nOn November 8, Portland traveled to CenturyLink Field to take on Seattle Sounders FC for the second leg of the 2018 MLS Western Conference Semi-final. Coming into the second leg, Portland are up 2\u20131 on aggregate. The match would end at full time at 2\u20131 with a goal from Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco, sending the match into added extra time. During the added extra time, both teams would score a goal with Dairon Asprilla being the only scorer for Portland. The match had to be decided by penalties where Portland emerged victorious with the outcome of 4\u20132 with successful converted penalties by Lucas Melano, Diego Valeri, Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco, and Dairon Asprilla. Portland will now face Sporting KC in the 2018 Western Conference Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, November\nMidfielders Cristhian Paredes (Paraguay) and Andy Polo (Peru) were called up by their respective national teams on November 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, November\nOn November 25, Portland hosted Sporting KC for the start of the first leg in the 2018 MLS Western Conference Finals. The game ended in a 0\u20130 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, November\nOn November 29, Portland traveled to Children's Mercy Park to finish the second leg of the 2018 MLS Western Conference Final. Portland defeated Sporting KC 3\u20132 and won on aggregate by the same score. Portland will travel to Mercedes-Benz Stadium to play Atlanta United FC in the 2018 MLS Cup final on December 8, 2018. This will be Portland's second appearance at an MLS Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Season review by month, December\nOn December 8, Portland traveled to Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the 2018 MLS Cup Final against Atlanta United FC where they were defeated 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Competitions, Competitions overview\nUpdated to match played December 10, 2018Source: Competitions* Major League Soccer and Cascadia Cup are all part of MLS regular season league play. As a result, only Major League Soccer portion is included in the total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, MLS regular season\nThe 2018 MLS regular-season schedule was released on January 4, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 83], "content_span": [84, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Cascadia Cup\nThe Cascadia Cup is a trophy that was created in 2004 by supporters of the Portland Timbers, Seattle Sounders FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC. It is awarded to the club with the best record in MLS regular-season games versus the other participants. The Portland Timbers are the current Champions. Due to the offset schedule for the 2018 MLS season, the May 13 match against Seattle does not count towards the Cascadia Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 77], "content_span": [78, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup\nThe Timbers and all other MLS clubs join the U.S. Open Cup in round 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Player/Staff Transactions\nPer league and club policy, terms of the deals are not disclosed except Targeted Allocation Money, General Allocation Money, draft picks, and international rosters spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Statistics, Appearances\n(T2) = Players called up from Portland Timbers 2 for short term contracts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Statistics, Goalkeeper stats\nThe list is sorted by total minutes played then by jersey number.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Statistics, Top scorers\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Statistics, Top assists\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total assists are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281952-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 Portland Timbers season, Statistics, Clean sheets\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total clean sheets are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281953-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Portsmouth City Council election\nThe 2018 Portsmouth City Council election took place on Thursday 3 May 2018 to elect members of Portsmouth City Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281953-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Portsmouth City Council election\n14 of 42 seats were contested during this elections within the unitary authority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281953-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Portsmouth City Council election\nAfter this year's local elections, the composition of the council is now (compared to the situation immediately prior to the election):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281953-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Portsmouth City Council election\nThe Statement of Persons Nominated was made on 6 April 2018 by Returning Officer David Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281953-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Portsmouth City Council election\nFollowing the elections, a Liberal Democrat minority administration was formed, with the support of Labour. This replaced the previous Conservative minority administration that had governed since 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281953-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Portsmouth City Council election, Ward results, Charles Dickens\n1: After nominations were closed, Udy resigned from the Labour Party citing a lack of support from the local party while under investigation by the National Executive Committee. 2: Godier's share compared to his performance under UKIP label in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281954-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election\nThe 2018 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election was held on 13 January 2018. The leadership election was held after then PSD leader Pedro Passos Coelho confirmed he would not run for another term in the aftermath of the poor results of the PSD in the 2017 local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281954-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election\nOnly two candidates came forward: Rui Rio, former mayor of Porto, and Pedro Santana Lopes, former PSD leader, Prime Minister and mayor of Lisbon. This was Santana Lopes 5th leadership campaign, as he also ran in 1995, 1996, 2000, and 2008. As only two candidates were on the ballot, a second round wasn't necessary. On January 13, 2018, Rui Rio defeated Pedro Santana Lopes by a 54% to 46% margin, thus becoming the new leader of the PSD. Pedro Santana Lopes was, again, defeated in a PSD leadership contest for a 5th time. Rui Rio was confirmed as the new party leader on a party national congress held in Lisbon between 16 and 18 February 2018. Six months after this leadership election, Santana Lopes left the PSD to for his own party, Alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 808]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281955-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pozna\u0144 Open\nThe 2018 Pozna\u0144 Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place at the Park Tenisowy Olimpia in Pozna\u0144, Poland from 5 to 10 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281955-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pozna\u0144 Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281955-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pozna\u0144 Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281956-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pozna\u0144 Open \u2013 Doubles\nGuido Andreozzi and Jaume Munar were the defending champions but only Andreozzi chose to defend his title, partnering Ariel Behar. Andreozzi lost in the first round to Roberto Mayt\u00edn and Nathan Pasha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281956-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pozna\u0144 Open \u2013 Doubles\nMateusz Kowalczyk and Szymon Walk\u00f3w won the title after defeating Attila Bal\u00e1zs and Andrea Vavassori 7\u20135, 6\u20137(8\u201310), [10\u20138] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281957-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pozna\u0144 Open \u2013 Singles\nAlexey Vatutin was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Hubert Hurkacz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281957-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pozna\u0144 Open \u2013 Singles\nHurkacz won the title after defeating Taro Daniel 6\u20131, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281958-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague Military Parade\nThe Prague Military Parade of 2018 was a military parade in the Czech Republic which took place on Prague's European Street on 28 October 2018. It took place as part of the 3-day centennial celebrations of the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918. The parade was the first of its kind in 10 years and the largest in the country since the 1985 Victory Parade. It saw over 4,000 Czech and Slovak military personnel take part in the event, which included troops the United Kingdom, France, Italy and the United States. Czech President Milos Zeman presided over the parade as foreign dignitaries, such as Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini and U.S Defense Secretary James Mattis watched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election\nThe 2018 Prague municipal elections were held in Prague in on 5 and 6 October 2018 as part of nationwide municipal elections. All 65 seats of the Prague Assembly were up to elect. Full results were presented a day later, on 7 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election\nThe result was a narrow victory of conservative Civic Democratic Party (ODS), which received 17.9 per cent of votes and 14 seats. The ODS won for the fifth time in Prague. Followed by liberal Czech Pirate Party (Pirates), receiving 17.1 per cent (almost 12 per cent more than in 2014 election), and 13 seats. Praha sob\u011b (\"Prague Together\", 16.6 per cent) and the United Forces for Prague (16.3 per cent) won 13 seats as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election\nCentrist populist ANO, the strongest party of the Czech Republic at that time, as well as the strongest party in Prague, lost 5 seats and 6.7 per cent of votes, receiving 12 seats and 15.4 per cent of votes. The Freedom and Direct Democracy received only 3.5 per cent, failed to reach 5% threshold. The Communist Party received 3.3 per cent, and the Czech Social Democratic Party received 2.9 per cent, both failed to reach the threshold for the first time. Pirate Party's Zden\u011bk H\u0159ib was elected as mayor with the support of Prague Together and UFP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Background\nANO 2011 won the 2014 municipal elections, with Adriana Krn\u00e1\u010dov\u00e1 becoming Mayor of Prague. The coalition in Prague consists of Czech Social Democratic Party and Three-Coalition (Green Party, Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party, Mayors and Independents).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Background\nPreparations for the 2018 elections started in December 2017. Krn\u00e1\u010dov\u00e1 was expected to run for second term as a candidate of ANO 2011. TOP 09 announced Ji\u0159\u00ed Posp\u00ed\u0161il as its candidate for Mayor. The party suggested electorali alliance with Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party and Mayors and Independents. The Civic Democratic Party was speculated to stand Alexandra Ud\u017eenija or Bohuslav Svoboda as its candidate for Mayor. Czech Pirate Party also plans to have its candidate for Mayor. Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party MP Jan \u010ci\u017einsk\u00fd announced his candidacy for Mayor on 14 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Background\nHe is candidate of Civic Initiative Prague Together. During February 2018, Krn\u00e1\u010dov\u00e1's position within ANO 2011 weakened due to some problems with her management of the city. Czech Pirate Party launched its primaries for Mayor candidate on 5 February 2018. Zden\u011bk H\u0159ib won the primary. On 6 February 2018, Parlamentn\u00ed Listy reported that the Czech Social Democratic Party started negotiations with Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 about his possible candidacy for Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Background\nTOP 09 and Mayors and Independents agreed to participate on joint list. Hana Marvanov\u00e1 became electoral leader of the alliance. Adriana Krn\u00e1\u010dov\u00e1 announced on 11 April 2018 that she will end in politics after the election and won't run for another term as Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Background\nThe Civic Democratic Party announced on 7 June 2018 that Bohuslav Svoboda will be its candidate for Mayor. Svoboda stated that he wants to return Prague to people of Prague. Party of Free Citizens and Realists will participate in election on the Civic Democratic Party list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Background\nIn July 2018, it was reported that Patrik Nacher will be replaced by Petr Stuchl\u00edk as ANO 2011 electoral leader. It was confirmed on 13 July 2018 when Stucl\u00edk was announced to be party's candidate for Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Campaign, ANO 2011\nANO launched campaign on 3 September 2018. It uses slogan \"Make Prague richer.\" Petr Stuchl\u00edk is party's candidate for Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Campaign, ANO 2011\nStuchl\u00edk held a press conference on 19 September 2018. He called Transportation issues a priority for ANO 2011. He stated that Prague should focus on finishing D0 motorway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Campaign, Civic Democratic Party\nThe Civic Democratic Party launched its campaign on 9 March 2018. Party had installed its posters in Public transportation and in streets. Campaign was called \"We will start up the Prague together.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Campaign, Civic Democratic Party\nThe party announced Bohuslav Svoboda as its candidate for Mayor during July 2018. Svoboda stated that he believes that Prague citizens remember what he built in the city when he used to be the Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Campaign, Civic Democratic Party\nThe main phase of party's campaign was launched on 5 September 2018. Svoboda called transportation the main problem in Prague. The party criticised previous council that consisted of ANO, \u010cSSD and Three-Coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Campaign, Civic Democratic Party\nODS was also very critical of Pirate Party during its campaign against anarchy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Campaign, Czech Pirate Party\nPirates launched main phase of its campaign on 4 September 2018. Zden\u011bk H\u0159ib stated that party aims to win the election. Party used slogans \"On the Edge of Change\" and \"We keep course.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281959-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Prague municipal election, Campaign, Czech Social Democratic Party\n\u010cSSD launched campaign on 20 August 2018. Party promised public transportation for free and building of transportation infrastructure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281960-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team\nThe 2018 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team represented Prairie View A&M University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Panthers were led by first-year head coach Eric Dooley and played their home games at Panther Stadium at Blackshear Field in Prairie View, Texas as members of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281960-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team, Previous season\nThe Panthers finished the 2017 season 6\u20135, 4\u20133 in SWAC play to finish in third place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281960-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team, Previous season\nOn December 9, head coach Willie Simmons resigned to become the head coach at Florida A&M He finished at PVA&M with a three-year record of 21\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281960-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team, Preseason, SWAC football media day\nDuring the SWAC football media day held in Birmingham, Alabama on July 13, 2018, the Panthers were predicted to finish third in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281960-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team, Preseason, Presason All-SWAC Team\nThe Panthers had seven players selected to Preseason All-SWAC Teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 79], "content_span": [80, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281961-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Preakness Stakes\nThe 2018 Preakness Stakes was the 143rd running of the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the American Triple Crown. It was a Grade I stakes race with a purse of $1.5 million for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1+3\u204416 miles (1.9\u00a0km). It was held on May 19, 2018, at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland and was broadcast on NBC from 5:00 pm to 7:15 pm EDT with coverage of the undercard on NBCSN starting at 2:30 pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281961-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Preakness Stakes\nIt was a very muddy track and extremely foggy at post time with visibility down to a sixteenth of a mile. Out of the gate, Justify went to the early lead while Good Magic rushed up his inside to challenge. The two matched strides for the first mile before Good Magic tired somewhat down the stretch. Justify held off a fast closing Bravazo to win by half a length, keeping alive his hopes of winning the Triple Crown. The Maryland Jockey Club reported a track record total attendance of 134,487, the second highest attendance for American thoroughbred racing events in North America during 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281961-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Preakness Stakes, Field\nEntries for the 2018 Preakness were taken on May 16. As is commonly the case with the Preakness, the field for the race featured the winner and other top horses from the Kentucky Derby, facing off with several \"new shooters\"\u00a0\u2013 horses who either did not qualify for the Derby or whose connections chose to bypass that race to focus on the Preakness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281961-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Preakness Stakes, Field\nThe heavy favorite for the race was Justify, the 2018 Kentucky Derby winner, even though he bruised his heel during the running of that race. His main rival was Good Magic, the champion two-year-colt of 2017 and runner-up in the Derby. Six other horses completed the field: Quip, winner of the Tampa Bay Derby and second in the Arkansas Derby, bypassed the Kentucky Derby to focus on the Preakness; Bravazo (sixth in the Derby); Lone Sailor (eighth); Diamond King (winner of the Federico Tesio Stakes); Sporting Chance (fourth in the Blue Grass Stakes); and Tenfold (fifth in the Arkansas Derby).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281961-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Preakness Stakes, Race description\nThe conditions for the race were so poor that the Washington Post jokingly said the track \"should have been downgraded from 'sloppy' to 'biblical'\". After heavy downpours over several days, the rain finally stopped shortly before the race but then a heavy fog descended, limiting visibility to about a sixteenth of a mile. Despite the weather, a crowd of 134,487 watched at the track, the third-largest attendance in history. Total wagering on the race was a record $61.97 million, boosted by increases in wagering on exotics such as the trifecta and superfecta. The NBC broadcast received a 5.5 overnight rating and 12 share, a 12% increase over 2017. The ratings during the race itself peaked at 6.6 overnight with a 15 share.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281961-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Preakness Stakes, Race description\nThe start was critical, and Justify broke well to take the early lead. To his inside, Good Magic rushed up to challenge and the two matched strides around the first turn and down the backstretch while setting moderate fractions. They picked up the pace rounding the final turn and opened a gap on the rest of the field. However, in mid-stretch, Tenfold started closing ground rapidly to Justify's outside while Bravazo, who had trailed by five lengths in mid-stretch, was moving fastest of all in the center of the track. Justify dug in to win by half a length over Bravazo, with Tenfold just a neck further back in third, another neck in front of Good Magic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281961-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Preakness Stakes, Race description\nIt was a record-tying seventh win of the Preakness for Justify's trainer, Bob Baffert. Five of those wins came with horses who had just won the Kentucky Derby: Silver Charm, Real Quiet, War Emblem and American Pharoah. Of these, only American Pharoah went on to complete the Triple Crown by winning the Belmont Stakes. Justify later duplicated this feat in the 2018 Belmont Stakes, making Baffert only the second person to train two Triple Crown winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281961-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Preakness Stakes, Results\nTimes: 1\u20444 mile \u2013 0:23.11; 1\u20442 mile \u2013 0:47.19; 3\u20444 mile \u2013 1:11.42; mile \u2013 1:36.10; final \u2013 1:55.93. Splits for each quarter-mile: (:23.11) (:24.08) (:24.23) (:24.68) (:19.83 for final 3\u204416)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts\nThe 2018 Unibet Premier League Darts was a darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation \u2013 the fourteenth edition of the tournament. The event began on Thursday 1 February at the 3Arena in Dublin and ended with the Play-offs at The O2 Arena in London on Thursday 17 May. This was the first year that the tournament is sponsored by Unibet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts\nMichael van Gerwen won his fourth Premier League title (and his third in a row, after winning in 2016 and 2017) by defeating Michael Smith 11\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts\nThis was also the first time that the event has had a round in Germany, when the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin hosted the 4th round on 22 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts\nStorm Emma resulted in the Exeter round of the event being postponed on 1 March. This was the first time ever since the Premier League started in 2005 that a whole round in the league phase of Premier League Darts was postponed. The same extreme conditions would also go on to cause severe problems in the staging of that weekends UK Open in Minehead which resulted in the event having to be played entirely behind closed doors. In 2010, the play-offs were postponed for 24 hours after a power cut at Wembley Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts, Format\nThe tournament format was identical to that since 2013. During the first nine weeks (Phase 1) each player played the other nine players once. The bottom two players were then eliminated from the competition. In the next six weeks (phase 2) each player played the other seven players once. Phase 2 consisted of four weeks where five matches were played followed by two weeks where four matches were played. At the end of phase 2, the top four players contested the two semi-finals and the final in the play-off week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts, Players\nThe players in this year's tournament were announced following the 2018 PDC World Darts Championship final on 1 January, with the top four of the PDC Order of Merit joined by six Wildcards. This was the first time in the event's history in which Phil Taylor did not take part, following his decision to retire. Unlike in previous years the six wildcards were joint decisions by the PDC and Sky Sports this year. There were no PDC specific wildcards or Sky Sports specific wildcards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts, Players\nThe tournament was noteworthy for its high-number of debuting players. Rob Cross qualified by right due to being in the world's top four at the end of the season, with wildcards going to World Grand Prix champion Daryl Gurney, Champions League winner Mensur Suljovi\u0107, and world number 12 Gerwyn Price. In fact, only four of the previous year's ten players (van Gerwen, Wright, Anderson and van Barneveld) were included this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts, Prize money\nThe prize fund remained the same as last year, \u00a3825,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts, League stage, 1 March \u2013 Initial Week 5 Cancelled\nThe scheduled 5th week was cancelled due to Storm Emma. The matches, which were scheduled to be played that day, were instead played in Week 9 in Liverpool, with that week's games now being Judgement Night. In order to complete the schedule within the timescale, two rounds of Phase 2 were played on Wednesday 18 April and Thursday 19 April (Week 11) in the Rotterdam Ahoy complex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts, League stage, 5 April \u2013 Week 9 (Phase 1 \u2013 Judgement Night)\nThe night was overshadowed by the sudden death of 5 time World Champion Eric Bristow, who suffered a heart attack outside the venue. His death was announced during the Gurney v Wright match. The crowd paid tribute to Bristow at the end of the night's play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 86], "content_span": [87, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts, Table and streaks, Table\nAfter the first nine weeks (phase 1), the bottom two in the table are eliminated. In the next six weeks (phase 2) the eight remaining players each play a further seven matches. The top four players then compete in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts, Table and streaks, Table\nTwo points are awarded for a win and one point for a draw. When players are tied on points, leg difference is used first as a tie-breaker, after that legs won against throw and then tournament average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts, Table and streaks, Table\nLast updated: 10 May 2018Source: Match reports from the results section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281962-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier League Darts, Table and streaks, Table\nTop four will qualify for the Play-offs after Week 14. NB: LWAT = Legs Won Against Throw. A = Average. C% = Checkout Percentage. HC = High Checkout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281963-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier Volleyball League Collegiate Conference\nThe 2018 Premier Volleyball League Collegiate Conference is the 5th conference of the Premier Volleyball League (32nd conference of the former Shakey's V-League). Conference started on July 21, 2018 and ended on September 12, 2018 at the Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan, Metro Manila.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281964-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier Volleyball League Open Conference\nThe 2018 Premier Volleyball League Open Conference is the sixth conference of the Premier Volleyball League (33rd conference of the former Shakey's V-League). The conference started on September 22, 2018 at the Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281964-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier Volleyball League Open Conference\nTeams played a double-round robin elimination round to determine the final four teams that will advance to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281965-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference\nThe 2018 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference was the fourth conference of the Premier Volleyball League (31st conference of the former Shakey's V-League). Conference will start on April 27, 2018 with a Grand Fans Day at the Trinoma Activity Center, Quezon City, 9 days before its opening ceremonies and games on May 6, 2018 at the Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan City, Philippines. PLDT returns as PayMaya after two years of absence in the league and newcomer teams, Tacloban Fighting Warays and Petro Gazz Angels are expected to join the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281965-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference\nTeams will play a single round robin in the preliminary round. The top two teams (ranks 1 and 2) after the preliminary round will automatically enter the semifinals round. The bottom teams after the preliminary round will play a single round robin to determine the two teams (as ranks 3 and 4) that will advance to the semifinals round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281966-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier Volleyball League season\nThe 2018 Premier Volleyball League (PVL) season was the second season of the Premier Volleyball League (15th season of the former Shakey's V-League). There are three indoor conferences for this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281966-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier Volleyball League season, Men's Division, Open conference, Final round\nThe number 1 seeded Sta. Elena-NU pulled out of the conference after advancing in the semi-finals to represent the Philippines in the 2018 ASEAN University Games in Myanmar. Cignal HD Spikers and Philippine Air Force Aguilas will play a one-game knockout match to determine the team that will face the PLDT Home Power Hitters in the finals. PLDT has twice-to-beat advantage in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281966-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Premier Volleyball League season, PVL on Tour\nThe Premier Volleyball League\u2019s \u201cPVL on Tour\u201d staged by Sports Vision and Grid Athletic Sports, organizer of the immensely successful Beach Volleyball Republic, the October tour of the PVL marks the first time ever in its storied history that Sports Vision is bringing its games to the countryside. Matches were held in the Bren Z. Guiao Sports Complex in City of San Fernando, Pampanga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281967-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Premiership Rugby Sevens Series\nThe 2018 Premiership Rugby Sevens Series would be the eighth rugby union sevens competition for the twelve clubs who compete in the 2018\u201319 Premiership Rugby clubs. It was also the second to feature the new format in which all twelve Premiership Rugby teams feature together in one venue over two days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281967-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Premiership Rugby Sevens Series\nThe competition would be held at Franklin's Gardens for the second successive year on 27 and 28 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281967-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Premiership Rugby Sevens Series, Format\nThe twelve teams were split into four groups \u2013 A, B, C & D. Each team in the group played each other once, to World Rugby Laws of the Game \u2013 7s Variations. Based on the result, teams received:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281967-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Premiership Rugby Sevens Series, Format\nFollowing all matches in each group, the winner and runner-up in each group progressed to the quarter-finals. The winners of each quarter-final qualified for the cup semi-finals, with the losers eliminated. Thereafter, competition was a simple knockout bracket, with the winner of the cup final being declared the series winner. The third placed team in each pool compete in the plate competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281967-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Premiership Rugby Sevens Series, Finals stage\nThe four pool winners played a quarter-final against the runners-up in a 1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6 4 v 5 format. The winner of these quarter-finals competed in the cup competition, while the losers were eliminated. The third placed team in each pool competed in the plate competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281968-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Premi\u00e8re Ligue de soccer du Qu\u00e9bec season\nThe 2018 Premi\u00e8re Ligue de soccer du Qu\u00e9bec season was the seventh season of play for the Premi\u00e8re Ligue de soccer du Qu\u00e9bec, a Division 3 semi-professional soccer league in the Canadian soccer pyramid and the highest level of soccer based in the Canadian province of Qu\u00e9bec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281968-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Premi\u00e8re Ligue de soccer du Qu\u00e9bec season\nAS Blainville was the defending champion and won the title again this season. This was the inaugural female season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281968-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Premi\u00e8re Ligue de soccer du Qu\u00e9bec season, Changes from 2017\nFor the first time, the league had eight teams, with CS Fabrose beginning their first season in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 65], "content_span": [66, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281968-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Premi\u00e8re Ligue de soccer du Qu\u00e9bec season, Men's Division, Teams\nThe following eight teams took part in the 2018 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281968-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Premi\u00e8re Ligue de soccer du Qu\u00e9bec season, Men's Division, Cup\nThe cup tournament is a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all eight teams from the league take part, and is unrelated to the season standings. It is not a form of playoffs at the end of the season (as is typically seen in North American sports), but is a competition running in parallel to the regular season (similar to the Canadian Championship or the FA Cup), albeit only for PLSQ teams. All matches are separate from the regular season, and are not reflected in the season standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 67], "content_span": [68, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281968-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Premi\u00e8re Ligue de soccer du Qu\u00e9bec season, Men's Division, Cup\nIn a change from previous seasons, all ties were played on a single match basis. Due to the expansion of the league to 8 teams, all clubs began in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 67], "content_span": [68, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281968-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Premi\u00e8re Ligue de soccer du Qu\u00e9bec season, Women's Division, Teams\nThe following five teams took part in the inaugural season in 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281969-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Presbyterian Blue Hose football team\nThe 2018 Presbyterian Blue Hose football team represented Presbyterian College in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Tommy Spangler, in his second stint as PC head coach, as he coached the Blue Hose from 2001\u201306. The Blue Hose played their home games at Bailey Memorial Stadium as a member of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 2\u20138, 0\u20135 in Big South play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281969-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Presbyterian Blue Hose football team, Previous season\nThe Blue Hose finished the 2017 season 4\u20137, 1\u20134 in Big South play to finish in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281969-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Presbyterian Blue Hose football team, Preseason, Big South poll\nIn the Big South preseason poll released on July 23, 2018, the Blue Hose were predicted to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281969-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Presbyterian Blue Hose football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Big South team\nThe Big South released their preseason all-Big South team on July 23, 2018, with the Blue Hose having one player on the honorable mention list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 82], "content_span": [83, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281969-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Presbyterian Blue Hose football team, Game summaries, Bluefield\nThis win was the 500th in program history for Presbyterian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281970-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Presbyterian Blue Hose women's soccer team\nThe 2018 Presbyterian Blue Hose women's soccer team represents Presbyterian College during the 2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. This season is the 30th in program history. The Blue Hose play their home games at Martin Stadium in Clinton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281970-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Presbyterian Blue Hose women's soccer team, Previous season\nIn 2017, the Blue Hose finished the season 3\u201313, 1\u20138 in Big South play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281971-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Prescott and Russell United Counties municipal elections\nElections were held in Prescott and Russell United Counties, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281971-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Prescott and Russell United Counties municipal elections, Prescott and Russell United Counties Council\nThe Council consists of the mayors of the eight constituent municipalities:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 107], "content_span": [108, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281971-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Prescott and Russell United Counties municipal elections, Russell, Councillors\nThere are 4 seats being contested for Russell Town Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 83], "content_span": [84, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281972-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 President of Ireland's Cup\nThe 2018 President's Cup was the fifth President's Cup contested for. The match was played between the champions of 2017 League of Ireland Premier Division and 2017 FAI Cup, Cork City and the runners-up of the 2017 FAI Cup, Dundalk on 11 February 2018, at Oriel Park. Cork City won the game 4-2 in a match played during snow showers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election\nElection of the President of the Senate of the Czech Republic was held on 14 November 2018. It was held after 2018 Senate election. Civic Democratic Party nominated Jaroslav Kubera, Mayors and Independents nominated Jan Horn\u00edk and Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party nominated V\u00e1clav Hampl. Incumbent President Milan \u0160t\u011bch doesn't seek reelection. It was the first time in the history of the Senate that more than 2 candidates run for the position. Senate factions usually came to an agreement about the new President in the past.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election\nJaroslav Kubera and V\u00e1clav Hampl advanced to the second round. Kubera then defeated Hampl with 46 votes to 24 and became the new Senate President. His victory was considered a surprise as it was expected that Mayors and Independents and Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party will support other party's Candidate against Kubera in the second round. Kubera's victory was attributed to Kubera's Charisma and strategy of his Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Background\nPrior 2018 Senate election it was believed that Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party will become largest senate party and its nominee will replace Milan \u0160t\u011bch as the President of the Senate. V\u00e1clav Hampl was speculated as the likeliest candidate as he was offered the position by the party. It was viewed as an unwritten rule that a representative of the largest Senate faction holds the position of the President of the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Background\nThe Civic Democratic Party eventually won the election and was tied with Mayors and Independents in the position of largest Senate faction. Leader of the Civic Democratic Party stated that he considers Jaroslav Kubera as the most logical candidate for the Senate president. Kubera was endorsed by Milo\u0161 Zeman. Kubera himself stated that party's nomination would be an Honor for him but noted that it isn't something that he couldn't live without. He stated that he believes that all parties should keep the rule that President of the Senate comes from the largest faction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Background\nMayors and Independents declined to support Kubera as he didn't view him as a counterbalance to the President Milo\u0161 Zeman. Christian Democrats also declined Kubera. Both parties didn't like Kubera's previous politically incorrect statements and his strongly right-wing stances. Mayors and Independents announced on 23 October 2018 that it would nominate Ji\u0159\u00ed R\u016f\u017ei\u010dka as its candidate. The Civic Democratic Party announced it could withdraw Kubera's nomination if other parties agreed to their terms. Civic Democrats were negative towards R\u016f\u017ei\u010dka's nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Background\nChristian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party announced on 31 October 2018 it would nominate V\u00e1clav Hampl. Christian Democrats also announced they are prepared to uphold Hampl by force. Mayors and Independents criticised Hampl's candidacy as Christian Democrats have only 15 Senators while Civic Democrats and Mayors and Independents both have 18 Senators. Mayors and Independents decided withdrawn R\u016f\u017ei\u010dka's nomination and nominated Jan Horn\u00edk instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Background\nANO 2011 announced on 2 November 2018 that its Senators will support Kubera's candidacy. Civic Democrats also negotiated with the Czech Social Democratic Party and Senator 21 about possible support for Kubera. V\u00e1clav Hampl on the other hand was endorsed by leader of Senator 21 V\u00e1clav L\u00e1ska. Leader of Mayors and Independents admitted on 4 November 2018 that it is possible that his party won't find an agreement with Civic Democrats and the election could become a \"shot up.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Background\nPolitical scientist Luk\u00e1\u0161 Jel\u00ednek noted on 6 November 2018 that Kubera's chances to become the new Senate President were very low but grew due to negotiations of Civic Democrats with Social Democrats and ANO 2011. Chances of Jan Horn\u00edk to become new Senate President are viewed by Jel\u00ednek as low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Background\nCivic Democrats announced on 6 November 2018 that they will stand after Kubera as its candidate. Horn\u00edk attacked Kubera and stated that he would support Hampl against Kubera if they face each other in the second round. Kubera was at the time supported by his party and ANO 2011. Part of Czech Social Democratic Party faction also supported him. Hampl had support of most of Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party faction and most of Senator 21 senators. Horn\u00edk was supported by his party. Representatives of ODS, STAN and KDU-\u010cSL senate factions met on 7. November 2018 but didn't come to an agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Background\nA of 8 November 2018, Kubera had support of ODS and ANO 2011 faction with 24 votes. Hampl had support of KDU-\u010cSL and SEN 21 faction with 21 votes. Horn\u00edk was supported by STAN faction with 18 votes. \u010cSSD faction was split between candidates. It was believed due to the faction endorsements that Kubera and Hampl will advance to the second round. No candidate was viewed as the clear front-runner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Background\nKubera, Hampl and Horn\u00edk met on a debate held by \u010cesk\u00e1 televize on 10 November 2018. Kubera stated that his main advantage are his political experiences. He stated that he runs because position of the President of the Senate would allow him to fight Bureaucracy and growing freedom limitations more effectively. Hampl stated that he considers himself a candidate of compromise and stated that he could use his experiences as a Rector of the Charles University. Horn\u00edk noted that he worked within Senate for a long time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Background\nThe incumbent President Milan \u0160t\u011bch stated on 11 November 2018 that there could be a fourth candidate of compromise. He didn't say who would be such candidate but ruled out his own candidacy. Main Senate factions refused possibility of fourth candidate. Nominations were closed on 12 November 2018. Kubera, Horn\u00edk and Hampl became official candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Endorsements\nThis section lists notable public Personas who publicly endorsed Kubera, Hampl or Horn\u00edk excluding Members of parties that nominated each of Candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 73], "content_span": [74, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Voting\nVoting is held on 14 November 2018. No candidate was elected in the first round. Kubera received 35 votes, Hampl received 22 votes and Horn\u00edk received 18 votes in the first round. Kubera and Hampl advanced to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 67], "content_span": [68, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Voting\nKubera received 46 votes while Hampl received 24 votes in the second round. Kubera was thus elected and became the new Senate President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 67], "content_span": [68, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Aftermath\nKubera thanked senators for their votes and stated that he will endeavor for Senate to be the true Upper Chamber of Czech parliament and not the poor brother of the Chamber of Deputies. He also thanked his predecessor Milan \u0160t\u011bch for dignified representation of Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 70], "content_span": [71, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Aftermath\nFive vice-presidents were elected after the election of the president. Milan \u0160t\u011bch, Ji\u0159\u00ed Oberfalzer, Ji\u0159\u00ed R\u016f\u017ei\u010dka and Jan Horn\u00edk became new vice-presidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 70], "content_span": [71, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Aftermath, Reactions\nV\u00e1clav Hampl stated that he wasn't pleased with Kubera's victory due to Kubera's views on European Union. He admitted that he considers the election his first big political defeat and noted that he didn't expect the result. Jan Horn\u00edk on the other hand noted that he believes that Kubera could be a good Senate President. He noted that the result didn't surprise him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 81], "content_span": [82, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Aftermath, Reactions\nLeader of the Civic Democratic Party Petr Fiala congratulated Kubera for his victory. He stated that Kubera is an experienced politician and strong Persona who will be great President of the Senate. Senator Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161 congratulated Kubera and stated that he is looking forward to their collaboration. TOP 09 MP Miroslav Kalousek congratulated Kubera but criticised Mayors and Independents for his support in second round. He stated that he doesn't understand why they preferred Kubera over V\u00e1clav Hampl whom he considers a Persona of European Formate. Kalousek then criticised Kubera for his previous statements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 81], "content_span": [82, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Aftermath, Reactions\nLeader of Mayors and Independents Petr Gazd\u00edk defended party's decision and reminded that TOP 09 Senators are also part Mayors and Independents senate faction. The Civic Democratic Party defended Kubera and noted that Kalousek criticised Kubera for statement he made in a different context. Civic Democrats then thanked TOP 09 senators for their votes to Kubera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 81], "content_span": [82, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281973-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Aftermath, Reactions\nKubera himself stated that he hopes to be the President of the Senate for three Terms until his Senate post expires in 2024. His Wish hasn't been fulfilled as he unexpectedly passed away on 20 January 2020. Milo\u0161 Vystr\u010dil became his Successor on 19 February 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 81], "content_span": [82, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281974-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 President's Cup (tennis)\nThe 2018 President's Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the thirteenth (ATP) and tenth (ITF) editions of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 16\u201322 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281974-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 President's Cup (tennis), Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281974-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 President's Cup (tennis), Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281975-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 President's Cup (tennis) \u2013 Men's Doubles\nToshihide Matsui and Vishnu Vardhan were the defending champions but only Matsui chose to defend his title, partnering Saketh Myneni. Matsui lost in the first round to Ivan Gakhov and Roman Safiullin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281975-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 President's Cup (tennis) \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMikhail Elgin and Yaraslav Shyla won the title after defeating Arjun Kadhe and Denis Yevseyev 7\u20135, 7\u20136(8\u20136) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281976-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 President's Cup (tennis) \u2013 Men's Singles\nEgor Gerasimov was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Jurij Rodionov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281976-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 President's Cup (tennis) \u2013 Men's Singles\nSebastian Ofner won the title after defeating Daniel Brands 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281977-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 President's Cup (tennis) \u2013 Women's Doubles\nNatela Dzalamidze and Veronika Kudermetova were the defending champions, but decided not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281977-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 President's Cup (tennis) \u2013 Women's Doubles\nBerfu Cengiz and Anna Danilina won the title after defeating Akgul Amanmuradova and Ekaterine Gorgodze 3\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281978-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 President's Cup (tennis) \u2013 Women's Singles\nZhang Shuai was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281978-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 President's Cup (tennis) \u2013 Women's Singles\nEkaterine Gorgodze won the title after defeating Sabina Sharipova 6\u20134, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281979-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Presidential Tour of Turkey\nThe 2018 Presidential Tour of Turkey was a road cycling stage race that took place between 9 and 14 October 2018 in Turkey. It was be the 54th edition of the Presidential Tour of Turkey and the thirty-fifth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour. It was won by Eduard Prades of Euskadi\u2013Murias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281979-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Presidential Tour of Turkey, Teams\nTwenty teams started the race. Each team had a maximum of seven riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281980-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Preston City Council election\nCouncil elections for the City of Preston, Lancashire were held on 3 May 2018 as part of the 2018 United Kingdom local elections. Due to the \"in thirds\" system employed in Preston local elections, the previous elections to Preston council occurred in the 2014 Preston City Council election, consequently this means gains, losses, and vote share comparisons this year are with those fought in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281980-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Preston City Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who are aged 18 or over on polling day are entitled to vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281980-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Preston City Council election, Ward results, Greyfriars\nDue to the resignation of Damien Moore there will be a double election making direct comparison with 2014 impossible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281981-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pretoria Convair 340 crash\nOn 10 July 2018, a Convair 340 owned by Dutch aviation museum Aviodrome crashed during a trial flight in Pretoria, South Africa. The aircraft suffered an engine fire moments after takeoff and crashed into a factory building as the crew attempted to return it to Wonderboom Airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281981-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pretoria Convair 340 crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft, a Convair 340 registered ZS-BRV, was originally delivered to the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1954 as a C-131D. It was retired from USAF service in 1987 and was stored for five years before its conversion for civilian use and operation by several companies, eventually being acquired by Rovos Air (the aviation division of South African rail operator Rovos Rail), which began using the aircraft for luxury safari trips in South Africa in 2001. The aircraft was retired in 2009 and sat unused until May 2018, when Rovos Air donated it to Dutch aviation museum Aviodrome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281981-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Pretoria Convair 340 crash, Aircraft\nThe museum had the aircraft restored and painted in the colours of Martin's Air Charter, a Dutch air charter company that operated Convairs in the 1950s (still operating in 2018, as cargo airline Martinair); and plans were made to fly the aircraft to the Netherlands through eastern Africa and central Europe, departing on 12 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281981-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pretoria Convair 340 crash, Accident\nThe aircraft was operating a test flight in preparation for its delivery flight. Shortly after takeoff, the aircraft's left engine began trailing brown smoke. Footage taken from inside the aircraft shows the engine began to vibrate and fire trailed from its exhaust. The pilots immediately initiated a return to Wonderboom Airport, but were unable to complete the manoeuvre and the aircraft crashed into a factory approximately 2\u00a0km (1.2\u00a0mi) from the airport at about 4:30 pm local time. The flight engineer was killed in the crash. The pilot in command succumbed to his injuries about 18 months after the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281981-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pretoria Convair 340 crash, Passengers and crew\nThe aircraft was carrying 16 passengers and had a crew of three: two pilots and a flight engineer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281981-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pretoria Convair 340 crash, Passengers and crew\nThe two pilots were Australian; the captain was a retired Qantas A380 senior check captain. The co-pilot was a check-and-training captain for the airline's fleet of Airbus A380s. Both men were members of Australia's Historical Aviation Restoration Society (HARS) and had previously flown another former Rovos Air Convair aircraft to HARS' home base at Illawarra Regional Airport south of Sydney in 2016; and each had over 30 years' flying experience in various aircraft types. The flight engineer was South African and was killed in the accident. The pilot in command succumbed to his injuries about 18 months later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281981-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pretoria Convair 340 crash, Investigation\nThe Accident and Incident Investigations Department of the South African Civil Aviation Authority began an investigation, and pledged to have an initial report within 30 days of the crash. A preliminary report was released in August 2018. It said the pilots did not follow the prescribed checklist procedures when they discovered an engine had caught fire. Recovered video footage from the cockpit showed the captain was the pilot flying, while the first officer was doing the radio work. The footage also showed the licensed aircraft maintenance engineer (LAME) operating the engine controls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281981-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Pretoria Convair 340 crash, Investigation\nFurther, \u201cduring taxi, takeoff and flight, until moments before the crash, one of the passengers was seen standing in the cockpit area behind the LAME. \u201cThe GoPro also shows that the pilots were not sure if they had retracted the landing gears, as they can be heard asking each other whether the gears are out or not. It also shows that though the pilots and LAME were informed of the left engine fire, they were asking each other which engine was on fire,\u201d the preliminary report reads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281981-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 Pretoria Convair 340 crash, Investigation\nThe GoPro footage also showed that \u201cat no stage did the pilots or the LAME discuss or attempt to extinguish the left engine fire, as the left engine fire extinguishing system was never activated\u201d. The preliminary report noted the aircraft was certified for operation by two pilots and it was \u201cnot clear why the LAME was allowed to operate the engine controls during the operation of the aircraft\u201d and noted \u201ccrew resource management in the cockpit was found lacking\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281981-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pretoria Convair 340 crash, Investigation\nThe South African Civil Aviation Authority released its final report on 28 August 2019. In the report it indicated that the probable cause of the accident was poor maintenance of the engines and multiple mistakes by unqualified pilots, such as continuing the flight after the left engine had caught fire. Early indications of the engine fault were misdiagnosed by maintenance personnel as an instrument reading erratically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281982-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Prime Minister Cup\nThe 2018 Prime Minister Cup was the second edition of Prime Minister One Day Cup, which featured 10 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281983-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Primera B de Chile\nThe 2018 Primera B de Chile, known as the 2018 Campeonato Loto for sponsorship purposes, was the 65th season of Chile's second-tier football league. The competition began on 2 February 2018 and ended on 1 December 2018. Coquimbo Unido were the champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281983-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Primera B de Chile, Format\nThe tournament was played by 16 teams which played each other twice (once at home and once away), for a total of 30 matches. The team that finished in first place at the end of the round-robin tournament earned promotion to the Campeonato Nacional for the 2019 season. Meanwhile, the teams finishing from second to sixth place played in a playoff tournament for the second promotion berth, with the season runners-up having a bye to the final. The team finishing in bottom place at the end of the season was relegated to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n Profesional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281983-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Primera B de Chile, Promotion playoff, Finals\nCobresal won 4\u20133 on aggregate and earned promotion to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281984-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2018 Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Prince Edward Island, was held January 4\u20139 at the Cornwall Curling Club in Cornwall, Prince Edward Island. The winning Robyn MacPhee team represented Prince Edward Island at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281984-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Playoffs\nGame 2 was not needed as Team MacPhee needed to be beaten twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 65], "content_span": [66, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281985-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Prince Edward Island municipal elections\nMunicipal elections were held in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island on November 5, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281986-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 2018 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by ninth-year head coach Bob Surace and played their home games at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. Princeton was a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 10\u20130 overall and 7\u20130 in Ivy League play to win the Ivy League title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281986-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Princeton Tigers football team, Previous season\nThe Tigers finished the 2017 season 5\u20135, 2\u20135 in Ivy League play to finish in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281987-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe\nThe 2018 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was a horse race which was held at Longchamp on Sunday 7 October 2018. The race was run at Longchamp Racecourse for the first time since 2015, having been staged at Chantilly Racecourse in 2016 and 2017 while Longchamp was closed for major redevelopment. It was the 97th running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281988-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro A Leaders Cup\nThe 2018 LNB Pro A Leaders Cup season was the 22nd edition of this tournament, the fifth since it was renamed as Leaders Cup. The event included the eight top teams from the first half of the 2017\u201318 Pro A regular season and was played in Disneyland Paris. AS Monaco Basket won its third consecutive title after beating Le Mans Sarthe in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281989-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro Bowl\nThe 2018 Pro Bowl was the National Football League's all-star game for the 2017 season, which was played at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida on January 28, 2018. For the first time since 2008, the game started during afternoon hours instead of primetime hours for U.S. Mainland viewers with a 3:00 PM ET start. It marked the second year the game was played in Orlando. It was televised nationally by ESPN and simulcasted on ABC. The roster was announced on December 19 on NFL Network. The AFC team won the game 24\u201323, the second straight year the Pro Bowl was won by the AFC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281989-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro Bowl, Background, Host selection process\nUnder a three-year deal that began in 2017, the Pro Bowl will once again be hosted by Camping World Stadium in Orlando.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 49], "content_span": [50, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281989-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro Bowl, Background, Side events\nThe Pro Bowl Skills Challenge was held on January 25 at the Walt Disney World Resort and its ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281989-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro Bowl, Game format, Rule changes\nThe game format was the same as for 2017, highlighted by:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 40], "content_span": [41, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281989-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro Bowl, NFC rosters, Special teams\nNotes:Players must have accepted their invitations as alternates to be listed; those who declined are not considered Pro Bowlers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 41], "content_span": [42, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281989-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro Bowl, Broadcasting\nThe 2018 Pro Bowl was televised nationally by ABC, ESPN, and ESPN Deportes. The simulcast marked the game's return to broadcast television, as well as its return to ABC for the first time since 2003. To accommodate the return to broadcast television, the game moved from primetime to an afternoon start time to avoid interfering with ABC's Primetime Lineup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281989-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro Bowl, Cheerleaders\nAll selected in a different way, some by fan vote, some by team vote and some by choice of their director, the 2018 Pro Bowl Cheerleaders were a team composed of only one representative from each NFL team. This elite group of women attended events, performed for fans, and learned new routines all throughout the week leading up to the game. The team performed for the entirety of the game and in the half-time routine with Jordan Fisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281990-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro Golf Tour\nThe 2018 Pro Golf Tour was the 22nd season of the Pro Golf Tour, one of four third-tier tours recognised by the European Tour. Events took place in Central Europe and North Africa. Events carried Official World Golf Ranking points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281990-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro Golf Tour, Schedule\nThe season consisted of 20 events in seven countries. All tournaments have prize funds of \u20ac30,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281990-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro Golf Tour, Order of Merit\nThe top five players (not otherwise exempt) on the Order of Merit earned Challenge Tour cards for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281991-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro Mazda Championship\nThe 2018 Pro Mazda Championship was the 20th season in series history. It was the final season using the Pro Mazda name, as the series was re-branded as \"Indy Pro 2000\" for the 2019 season. A 16-race schedule was announced on 17 October 2017. This was the first season to use the new Tatuus PM-18 chassis and Mazda MZR piston engine. All prior engine packages for the series included a Mazda Wankel engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281992-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro14 Grand Final\nThe 2018 Pro14 Grand Final was the final match of the 2017\u201318 Pro14 season. The 2017\u201318 season is the fourth with Guinness as the title sponsor, the ninth with a Grand Final and the first season with 14 teams, following the admission of two South African teams. The final was played at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin and saw Leinster defeat the Scarlets 40-32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281992-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro14 Grand Final, Route to the final\nThe top side from each of the two conferences are given a bye to the semi-finals and have home advantage. Teams placed second and third in opposite conferences play each other to determine the other two semi-finalists with the team ranked second having home advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281992-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro14 Grand Final, Route to the final\nThe play-offs are scheduled in the four weeks after the regular season has been completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281992-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Pro14 Grand Final, Final Match\nTouch judges:Television match official:Marius Mitrea (Italy)Mike Adamson (ScotlandTelevision match official:Neil Paterson (Scotland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281993-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Professional Fighters League season\nThis is a list of events and standings for the Professional Fighters League, a mixed martial arts organization based in the United States, for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281993-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Professional Fighters League season\nEach weight class had 12 fighters, each of which faced two rivals. The top eight fighters in each weight class qualified to the playoffs. The season concluded on December 31, 2018 with six championship bouts back-to-back with a $10 million prize pool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281993-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Professional Fighters League season, 2018 PFL Heavyweight playoffs\n* Valdrin Istrefi was originally scheduled to face Philipe Lins but was forced to pull out of the bout. He was replaced by Caio Alencar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281993-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Professional Fighters League season, 2018 PFL Middleweight playoffs\n* Shamil Gamzatov was originally scheduled to face John Howard but was forced to pull out of the bout. He was replaced by Eddie Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281993-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Professional Fighters League season, 2018 PFL Welterweight playoffs\n* Jo\u00e3o Zeferino was originally scheduled to face Bojan Veli\u010dkovi\u0107 but was forced to pull out of the bout. He was replaced by Abubakar Nurmagomedov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281993-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Professional Fighters League season, 2018 PFL Welterweight playoffs\n* Abubakar Nurmagomedov was originally scheduled to face Magomed Magomedkerimov but was unable to continue in the tournament. He was replaced by his quarterfinal opponent, Bojan Veli\u010dkovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281993-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Professional Fighters League season, 2018 PFL Lightweight playoffs\n* Islam Mamedov was originally scheduled to face Rashid Magomedov but was unable to continue in the tournament. He was replaced by his quarterfinal opponent, Thiago Tavares.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281993-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Professional Fighters League season, 2018 PFL Featherweight playoffs\n* Timur Valiev was originally scheduled to face Alexandre Almeida but was forced to pull out of the bout. He was replaced by Jumabieke Tuerxun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281993-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Professional Fighters League season, Standings\nThe point system consists of outcome based scoring and bonuses for an early win. Under the outcome based scoring system, the winner of a fight receives 3 points and the loser receives 0 points. If the fight ends in a draw, both fighters will receive 1 point. The bonus for winning a fight in the first, second, or third round is 3 points, 2 points, and 1 point respectively. For example, if a fighter wins a fight in the first round, then the fighter will receive 6 total points. If a fighter misses weight, then the fighter that missed weight will receive 0 points and his opponent will receive 3 points due to a walkover victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281993-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Professional Fighters League season, Standings, Heavyweight\n\u265b = Clinched playoff spot ---\ud83d\udeab = Ruled out ---E = Eliminated", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281993-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Professional Fighters League season, Standings, Heavyweight\nNOTE: Prior to PFL 8, which started the PFL playoff, Valdrin Istrefi was ruled out because of an injury. Caio Alencar was declared the first alternate and participated in the playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281994-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia leadership election\nThe Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia leadership election, 2018 took place on October 27, 2018, due to Jamie Baillie's announcement that he was stepping down as leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia on November 1, 2017. Baillie was to remain in the position until a new leader was elected, however on January 24, 2018, he announced his resignation with immediate effect due to \"allegations of inappropriate behaviour\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281994-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia leadership election\nUnlike the system of delegated conventions previously used, this election was conducted on a One Member One Vote basis, weighted so that each electoral district being allocated 100 points, which were distributed proportionally according to each candidate's level of support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281994-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia leadership election, Candidates, Cecil Clarke\nMayor of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (2012-2020), Attorney General of Nova Scotia (2007-2009), Minister of Justice (2007-2009), Speaker of the House of Assembly (2006-2007), Minister of Energy (2003-2006), Minister of Economic Development (2003), MLA for Cape Breton North (2001-2011)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 102], "content_span": [103, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election\nThe Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, 2018 was held on April 27\u201329, 2018, to select a successor to Paul Davis who announced on October 11, 2016, that he planned to step down as leader once his replacement was elected. St. John's lawyer Ches Crosbie defeated former Health Authority CEO Tony Wakeham to become the new leader. 11,000 members joined the party during this leadership election, of which, just over 4,000 cast their ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [84, 84], "content_span": [85, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Timing\nOn October 11, 2016, Progressive Conservative Party leader Paul Davis announced that he had written party president Mark Whiffen and asked for a leadership convention to be called. Davis, who had been facing a leadership review at the party's upcoming convention, stated he would remain party leader until his successor was chosen. Davis has since stated that will not rule out running again. The party subsequently delayed the leadership vote until 2018 in order to give the party time to change its leadership election system in its constitution from delegated to a mix of one-member-one vote and points per district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 92], "content_span": [93, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Timing\nElection Period means the period of time which begins by the death, retirement or resignation or announcement of the retirement or resignation, of the Leader of the Party; or in which Article 15-2 of the Constitution applies. For the purposes of the leadership selection process occurring between 2016 and 2018 the election period began on October 11, 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 92], "content_span": [93, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Timing\nTo become a candidate, a person must have filed nomination papers with the Chief Electoral Officer by January 15, 2018. To vote, a member of the public must have become a member of the party by January 30, 2018. The election was conducted by mail-in balloting with all party members (as of January 30, 2018) eligible to vote. Ballots must have been returned by April 25, 2018 and were opened and counted at the party's Annual General Meeting on April 28, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 92], "content_span": [93, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Timing, Rules\nTo apply to become an accredited candidate, a prospective or announced candidate shall:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 99], "content_span": [100, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Timing, Rules\nb.\tbe eligible to stand for election as a Member of the House of Assembly;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 99], "content_span": [100, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Timing, Rules\nc.\tapply in writing, using Form B, to be accredited as a Leadership Candidate;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 99], "content_span": [100, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Timing, Rules\nd.\tfile a nomination form, using Form C, containing the", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 99], "content_span": [100, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Timing, Rules\niv. district associations of 100 individuals, representing 51% of electoral districts, who are registered Members or registered Supporters of the Party;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 99], "content_span": [100, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Timing, Rules\ne.\tprovide a non-refundable registration fee in the form of a certified cheque in the amount of $10,000.00 payable to the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 99], "content_span": [100, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Timing, Rules\nf.\tplus a $10,000.00 deposit, in the form of a certified cheque, the amount will be refunded, less any imposed penalties or deductions as per Rules 122, 123 and 186(c).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 99], "content_span": [100, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Declared candidates, Ches Crosbie\nChes Crosbie is a prominent St. John's lawyer and son of former provincial and federal cabinet minister John Crosbie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 119], "content_span": [120, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Declared candidates, Ches Crosbie\nCrosbie states his platform will focus on three issues: rebuilding the economy, restoring confidence in government and revitalizing the PC Party. Specifically, introducing laws to prevent government overspending, and bring in what he calls an \"honesty in politics\" law. Crosbie is also calling for a repeal of the 15% tax on insurance premiums.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 119], "content_span": [120, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Declared candidates, Tony Wakeham\nTony Wakeham is the former CEO Labrador-Grenfell Health. He also worked in senior health management roles in St. John's, Clarenville and Grand Falls-Windsor. Wakeham grew up in Placentia and studied economics at Memorial University. Wakeham, lives in Kippens, and also has deep roots in the sport of basketball, both as a player and coach at the provincial and federal levels. He and his wife Patricia have two adult children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 119], "content_span": [120, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Debates\nTwo debates took place during the course of the leadership campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 93], "content_span": [94, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281995-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Results\nFor the first time in the party's history, the voting was conducted through a one-member, one-vote points system, which divided the province into forty districts worth a hundred points each. The points were allocated based on each candidates share of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [86, 93], "content_span": [94, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election\nThe 2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election was held on March 10, 2018, due to the resignation of party leader Patrick Brown on January 25, 2018, following allegations of sexual misconduct. Winner Doug Ford narrowly defeated runner-up Christine Elliott on the third ballot with 50.6% of allocated points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election\nThe Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election was scheduled for 3 months before the 2018 provincial election scheduled for June 7. It came after a turbulent year of disputed and allegedly fraudulent nominations contests across the province for local PC candidates. In two of these contests; Ottawa West\u2014Nepean and Scarborough Centre the nominations were overturned after Brown's resignation and Brown's own nomination in Barrie\u2014Springwater\u2014Oro-Medonte was cancelled. At the time of the leadership election Newmarket\u2014Aurora and five others remained under active investigation by the party and Hamilton West\u2014Ancaster\u2014Dundas remained under police investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election\nAccording to Article 23.1 of the PC party constitution, when there is a vacancy in the position of leader, the party caucus chooses an interim leader to serve until a new leader is elected in a leadership election, which must be held within 18 months of the vacancy occurring, and in which all party members can vote. Party president Rick Dykstra told the media on January 25 that \"a leadership election will take place at such time as the PC party shall determine in its discretion\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election\nThe party executive met on January 26, 2018, following the caucus election, to determine whether to have a leadership election before the provincial election, and if so, how it would proceed, or whether to have the interim leader lead the party into the election, and called the leadership election for March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Rules and procedures\nAll party members are eligible to cast votes by preferential ballot using electronic balloting, provided that they are members in good standing by February 16, 2018. To be eligible, one must be at least 14 years of age, a Canadian Citizen who is a resident of Ontario, and pay a $10 membership fee with personal funds (i.e. no corporation or union funds may be used).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 88], "content_span": [89, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Rules and procedures\nThe vote was weighted so that each of the province's ridings that has more than 100 votes cast are allocated 100 electoral votes; ridings in which fewer than 100 party members vote were weighted, but instead had the votes counted as individual votes. The lowest-ranked candidate were dropped from the next round as ballots are counted, and the first candidate to get 50 per cent of the votes was declared the new leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 88], "content_span": [89, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Rules and procedures\nCandidates must be nominated by at least 100 party members, must agree to abide by the party's existing platform for the next election, and must be approved by the party's nominations committee as a PC candidate for the 2018 provincial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 88], "content_span": [89, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Rules and procedures, Method and Electronic Security\nThe voting method is solely electronic voting with no other access methods. To cast a ballot, a three-part validation-vote was employed. First each eligible member had to register to vote with a code sent via regular mail. Second, each member who had registered had to validate their identity with one piece of government issued identification by uploading an image. Third, each qualifying member was provided a second access code to use during the voting period via the internet. The system was criticized by all candidates as overly complicated and difficult for elderly members and those with difficulties using or accessing computers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 120], "content_span": [121, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Rules and procedures, Method and Electronic Security\nDoug Ford and Tanya Granic Allen raised concerns over the security and legitimacy of the vote. Ford stated he believed \"party elites\" and \"the establishment\" would try to steal the election and said \"there should be security cameras on the servers\". Past leadership candidate Frank Klees said he had grave concerns about the integrity of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 120], "content_span": [121, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Interim leadership\nNipissing MPP Vic Fedeli was elected as interim leader by the PC parliamentary caucus in a unanimous vote on January 26, 2018. Caucus had favoured having the interim leader lead the party in the election campaign but the party executive opted to hold a leadership election prior to the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 86], "content_span": [87, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Candidates, Christine Elliott\nChristine Elliott, 66, is the former non-partisan Patient Ombudsman for Ontario (2016\u20132018), a past PC leadership candidate (2009 and 2015) and former MPP (Whitby\u2014Ajax 2006\u201307, Whitby\u2014Oshawa 2007\u201315). She is a lawyer by training, and is the widow of former federal Minister of Finance, and 2002 and 2004 Ontario PC leadership candidate Jim Flaherty. Elliott is also a co-founder and director of the Abilities Centre, a facility for those with special needs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 97], "content_span": [98, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Candidates, Christine Elliott\nElliott opposed a carbon tax, and supported building a high-speed rail line between Toronto to Windsor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 97], "content_span": [98, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Candidates, Doug Ford\nDoug Ford, 56, is a businessman and politician who is currently seeking the PC nomination in Etobicoke North for the upcoming June 2018 provincial election. Ford is the brother of former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, and son of former Etobicoke-Humber MPP Doug Ford Sr.. He was a member of Toronto City Council during his brother's term as mayor (2010\u20132014) and the runner-up in the 2014 Toronto mayoral election. Ford announced on February 1, 2018, that he would devote his energy to the leadership race and was no longer intending to run in the 2018 Toronto mayoral election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 89], "content_span": [90, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Candidates, Doug Ford\nFord promised to \"present Ontarians with a compassionate and responsible vision\". He wanted to keep taxes low and eliminate a carbon tax. He stated he would not support policies that make Ontario less competitive. He has promised to fund election promises by finding efficiencies in government. Ford is in favour of expanding public transit in the GTA. He promised to revisit the sex-education curriculum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 89], "content_span": [90, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Candidates, Tanya Granic Allen\nTanya Granic Allen, 37, is a social conservative parental rights activist and the president of Parents As First Educators (PAFE), a group that opposes the province's new sex education curriculum. She also sits on the board of the Catholic Civil Rights League, a conservative Catholic lobby and advocacy group. She previously worked as a political staffer at Toronto City Hall for then Toronto City Councillor John Parker, and as a spokesperson for the Campaign Life Coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 98], "content_span": [99, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Candidates, Tanya Granic Allen\nGranic Allen opposes abortion and also supported repealing and replacing the Liberal government's new sex education curriculum. She promised to rerun contested riding nominations completed under Patrick Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 98], "content_span": [99, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Candidates, Caroline Mulroney\nCaroline Mulroney, 47, is a businesswoman, lawyer and the daughter of former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney and his wife, Mila. Mulroney is the PC candidate in York\u2014Simcoe for the upcoming election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 97], "content_span": [98, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Candidates, Caroline Mulroney\nMulroney wanted to use the \"People's Guarantee\" as a \"starting point\". She supported childcare rebates as well as cuts to hydro rates. Mulroney had been in favour of a carbon tax, but shifted against one. Mulroney remained committed to spending $1 billion to build Hamilton's light rail transit system. Her platform would have had a small deficit to pay for her promises.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 97], "content_span": [98, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Withdrawn candidates, Patrick Brown\nPatrick Brown, 43, is the MPP for Simcoe North (2015\u20132018 as a Progressive Conservative and 2018\u2013present as an independent) and a former Conservative MP for Barrie (2006\u20132015). He was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 2015 until his 2018 resignation triggered this leadership election. Brown was expelled from the PC caucus hours before registering his candidacy on February 16, 2018. On February 21, 2018 the party's nominations committee approved Brown to seek the leadership in a 3 to 2 vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 103], "content_span": [104, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Withdrawn candidates, Patrick Brown\nBrown planned to run on the full \"People's Guarantee\" platform, including a carbon tax which would fund the platform, and which had been the intended 2018 election platform prior to Brown's resignation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 103], "content_span": [104, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Withdrawn candidates, Patrick Brown\nBrown withdrew ten days after announcing his candidacy, claiming that he and his family had been subjected to threats for entering the contest. His withdrawal occurred hours after reports surfaced that as leader he had directed top party officials: \"get me the result I want\", in a riding nomination that has subsequently become the focus of a Hamilton Police Service investigation for alleged fraud and also the same day that the Integrity Commissioner announced an investigation of Brown's travel expenses and other alleged financial improprieties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 103], "content_span": [104, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281996-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Withdrawn candidates, Vic Fedeli\nVic Fedeli, 65, was the Interim Leader (2018), Finance Critic and MPP for Nippissing (2011\u2013present), past leadership candidate (2015) and former mayor of North Bay, Ontario (2003\u20132010). Fedeli told reporters that he will \"let my name stand for leader of our party\". After the party executive announced its decision to schedule a leadership election in March, Fedeli reiterated his intention to run for the permanent leadership. On January 30, 2018, however, he announced that he would not be running for the permanent leadership after all in order to focus on his duties as interim leader and correcting organizational problems within the party in the run up to the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 100], "content_span": [101, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281997-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Prosperita Open\nThe 2018 Prosperita Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 15th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ostrava, Czech Republic between 30 April and 6 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281997-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Prosperita Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281998-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Prosperita Open \u2013 Doubles\nJeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Franko \u0160kugor were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281998-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Prosperita Open \u2013 Doubles\nAttila Bal\u00e1zs and Gon\u00e7alo Oliveira won the title after defeating Luk\u00e1\u0161 Rosol and Sergiy Stakhovsky 6\u20130, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281999-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Prosperita Open \u2013 Singles\nStefano Travaglia was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00281999-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Prosperita Open \u2013 Singles\nArthur De Greef won the title after defeating Nino Serdaru\u0161i\u0107 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282000-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Provo Premier League\nThe 2018 Provo Premier League is the 18th season of the top football division in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The season began on 13 January and concluded on 29 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282001-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pskov Oblast gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Pskov Oblast gubernatorial election was held on 9 September 2018, on common election day. To be elected, a candidate must get more than 50% of votes. Governor Mikhail Vedernikov secured a new term after winning 70.68 percent of the vote. If no one had achieved 50%, a runoff would've been held 14 days later. Only the two most successful candidates from the first round participate in the second round. The Governor will be elected for five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282001-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pskov Oblast gubernatorial election, Background\nThe previous Governor of Pskov Oblast Andrey Turchak resigned ahead of schedule on 12 October 2017, to take up the post of the General Secretary of United Russia. On the same day, Mikhail Vedernikov was appointed as acting Governor until the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282002-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Puebla helicopter crash\nOn December 24, 2018, a helicopter carrying Martha \u00c9rika Alonso Hidalgo, the newly elected Governor of the Mexican state of Puebla, and her husband, Senator and former Governor Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, crashed on a hill in Coronango near the city of Puebla. Five people on board the helicopter were killed in the crash: Alonso, Moreno, the two pilots, Captain Roberto Coppe Obreg\u00f3n and Captain Marco Antonio Tavera Romero, and H\u00e9ctor Baltazar Mendoza, an assistant to the senator. Alonso was 10 days into her term as governor. The accident investigation found a preexisting problem with a stability system on the helicopter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282002-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Puebla helicopter crash, Crash\nThe helicopter was an AgustaWestland AW109S Grand manufactured in 2011 and owned by Servicios A\u00e9reos del Altiplano, S.A. de C.V. (SAASA), an air taxi company headquartered at Puebla International Airport. Its destination was the Helipuerto Radio Capital in Mexico City. It crashed on 24 December at 14:50 local time (20:50 GMT), just ten minutes after takeoff from a heliport in Puebla. The crash site is in the municipality of Santa Mar\u00eda Coronango, approximately 3.5 miles (5.6\u00a0km) north of Puebla International Airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282002-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Puebla helicopter crash, Investigation\nThe investigation of the crash was conducted by Mexican authorities from the Direcci\u00f3n General de Aeron\u00e1utica Civil and the office of the federal Attorney General. They were assisted by representatives from Agusta and Pratt and Whitney, which manufactured the helicopter's engines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282002-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Puebla helicopter crash, Investigation\nMexico had sought the aid of the United States National Transportation Safety Board; while the NTSB initially stated it could not support the investigation due to the ongoing government shutdown, an exception was made to allow the NTSB to support the investigation alongside investigators from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282002-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Puebla helicopter crash, Investigation\nThe report concluded on March 27, 2020, that the helicopter \u201cshould not have flown\u201d because of a preexisting problem with a stability system on the helicopter that both the operator and the maintenance crew knew about. One piece was found to have two loose screws inside. Investigators found no objects that had collided with the aircraft and no pieces of the aircraft that had fallen off it prior to the crash. The government suspended the helicopter company and the company responsible for maintenance; the case has been turned over to prosecutors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282002-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Puebla helicopter crash, Investigation\nOn 25 December 2020, Mexican authorities announced they had detained four people in connection with the helicopter crash. The four worked at Rotor Flight Services - a company that had a role in the functioning of the helicopter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282002-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Puebla helicopter crash, Responses\nSpanish: Estoy recibiendo informaci\u00f3n de un accidente en Puebla por desplome de un helic\u00f3ptero. Por confirmar que iban la gobernadora Martha Erika Alonso y el ex gobernador Rafael Moreno Valle. He ordenado a todo el gobierno actuar de inmediato.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282002-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Puebla helicopter crash, Responses\nI am receiving information about an accident in Puebla involving a helicopter crash. Pending confirmation that Governor Martha Erika Alonso and former Governor Rafael Moreno Valle were on board. I have ordered the entire government to act immediately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282002-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Puebla helicopter crash, Responses\nFederal and state officials immediately responded to the crash. President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador (AMLO) immediately announced a federal investigation into the accident. Due to the political conflict around the election of Alonso, legislators from the National Action Party commented on the need for a transparent investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282002-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Puebla helicopter crash, Responses\nThe death of Governor Alonso, per provisions in the Puebla state constitution, required the state legislature to name an interim governor and call new elections in three to five months. In a press conference the evening of the accident, Jes\u00fas Rodr\u00edguez Almeida, who had been the general secretary of government, was announced as the interim governor. In the Senate, Moreno Valle was to be replaced by Roberto Moya Clemente, his alternate and Puebla's former state secretary of finances and administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282002-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Puebla helicopter crash, Responses\nServicios A\u00e9reos del Altiplano deleted its website and did not respond to messages and phone calls in the aftermath of the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282003-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Puerto Rico Soccer League season\nThe 2018 Puerto Rico Soccer League season would be the 10th season as Puerto Rico's top-division football league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282004-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Puerto Vallarta Open\nThe 2018 Puerto Vallarta Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 1st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico between 30 April and 5 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282004-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Puerto Vallarta Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282004-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Puerto Vallarta Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282004-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Puerto Vallarta Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282005-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Puerto Vallarta Open \u2013 Doubles\nAnte Pavi\u0107 and Danilo Petrovi\u0107 won the title after defeating Benjamin Lock and Fernando Romboli 6\u20137(2\u20137), 6\u20134, [10\u20135] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282006-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Puerto Vallarta Open \u2013 Singles\nAdri\u00e1n Men\u00e9ndez Maceiras won the title after defeating Danilo Petrovi\u0107 1\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282007-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Pulitzer Prize\nThe 2018 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2017 calendar year. Prize winners and nominated finalists were announced by Dana Canedy at 3:00\u00a0p.m. EST on April 16, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282007-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Pulitzer Prize\nThe New York Times won the most awards of any newspaper, with three, bringing its total to one hundred and twenty-five Pulitzer Prizes. The Washington Post won Investigative Reporting and National Reporting, the latter of which was shared with The New York Times. ' The New York Times' and The New Yorker won the prize in public service, bringing their totals to 125 and five, respectively. The Press-Democrat won Breaking News Reporting, bringing its total to two prizes. The staff of The Arizona Republic and USA Today won for explanatory reporting; The Cincinnati Enquirer for local reporting about the heroin epidemic; and Reuters won international reporting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282007-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Pulitzer Prize\nIn letters, drama, and music, Kendrick Lamar's Damn won the music prize, the first non-classical and non-jazz work to win the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282008-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Punjab provincial election\nProvincial elections were held in Punjab, Pakistan on 25 July 2018 to elect the members of the 17th Provincial Assembly of the Punjab. After the elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was able to form the government in Punjab, with Sardar Usman Buzdar as the Chief Minister of Punjab.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282008-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Punjab provincial election, Background\nIn the 2013 elections, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) came out with well above a supermajority in the assembly with a landslide haul of 313 seats, and were comfortably able to form a government. They were followed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which held only 30 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282008-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Punjab provincial election, Background\nThe election was notable for the downfall of the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (Q), which, before the elections, held 106 and 79 seats respectively but were reduced to merely 8 seats each, due to the rise of PTI and PML (N), although the sheer numbers that the PML (N) held in the assembly shocked many analysts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282008-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Punjab provincial election, Background\nShehbaz Sharif, brother of PML (N) chairman and two-time Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, became Chief Minister for the third time in his life, securing over 300 votes in the assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282008-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Punjab provincial election, Background, Janoobi Punjab Sooba Mahaz\nOn April 10, 2018, 10 of the ruling PML-N's prominent elected candidates from South Punjab, parted ways from the party and announced a movement for the creation of South Punjab province. The movement was titled Janoobi Punjab Sooba Mahaz (lit. Front for South Punjab Province). In the coming weeks, the movement garnered widespread support and dissident MPs from the ruling coalition, as well as independents, started joining it. At its peak, the movement had the backing of 42 MPs. On May 8, 2018, the movement announced its merger with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the opposition party in the province, after PTI assured JPSM's leaders that creating the South Punjab province is a priority item in their manifesto for the 2018 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 808]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282008-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Punjab provincial election, Results\nPTI has 183 members in the assembly, PML-Q 10, PML-N 167 and PPP 7. Pakistan Rah-e-Haq party has one member while three independent members are present in house. Election results from three constituencies are pending while it has been halted from other three. Seven seats of Punjab Assembly were vacated after the member chose to take oath from National Assembly seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282008-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Punjab provincial election, Results\nThe results showed a virtual tie between the Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf and the Pakistan Muslim league (N). With Independents joining the party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf came up just short of an absolute majority. Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf and Pakistan Muslim league (Q) formed a coalition government in Punjab assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282009-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta Open\nThe 2018 Punta Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Punta del Este, Uruguay between 26 February and 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282009-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282010-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta Open \u2013 Doubles\nFacundo Bagnis and Ariel Behar won the title after defeating Simone Bolelli and Alessandro Giannessi 6\u20132, 7\u20136(9\u20137) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282011-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta Open \u2013 Singles\nGuido Andreozzi won the title after defeating Simone Bolelli 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix\nThe 2018 Punta del Este ePrix (formally the 2018 ABB Formula E CBMM Niobium Punta del Este E-Prix) was a Formula E electric car race held at the Punta del Este Street Circuit in the Uruguayan city of Punta del Este, on 17 March 2018. It was the sixth round of the 2017\u201318 Formula E season and the third Punta de Este ePrix as part of the FIA Formula E Championship. The 37-lap race was won by Techeetah driver Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne from pole position. Lucas di Grassi finished second for Audi and Virgin driver Sam Bird was third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix\nVergne won the pole position after di Grassi, Alex Lynn and Oliver Turvey were penalised for exceeding track limits in qualifying and maintained the lead on the first lap. The race was temporarily neutralised between the fourth and sixth laps when officials extracted the car of Nick Heidfeld who stopped with power issues. Vergne led di Grassi at the restart and the latter remained close behind the former in the next 13 laps until the field made mandatory pit stops to change into a second car. Over the remainder of the race, Di Grassi attempted to pass Vergne but the former prevented the latter from doing so and took his second victory of the season and the third of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix\nThe result increased Vergne's lead atop the Drivers' Championship to 30 points over Felix Rosenqvist and Bird maintained third place. S\u00e9bastien Buemi and Nelson Piquet Jr. did not finish due to car issues but stayed in fourth and fifth positions. Techeetah further extended their Teams' Championship lead to 27 points over Mahindra and Virgin overtook Jaguar for third with six races left in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Background\nThe Punta del Este ePrix, discontinued after the 2015\u201316 Formula E season because no financial agreement was reached by the Government of Uruguay to keep it going, was announced as part of the Formula E calendar in a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Paris on 7 December 2017 after S\u00e3o Paulo authorities requested a cancellation of their planned race due to a delay in selling land to a private owner. The Punta del Este ePrix was part of an alternative plan devised by series founder and CEO Alejandro Agag in case any race was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Background\nPunta del Este was the sixth of the twelve single-seater electric car rounds of the 2017\u201318 season and the third edition of the event. The race was held on 17 March 2018, at the 20-turn 2.785\u00a0km (1.731\u00a0mi) Punta del Este Street Circuit, in Uruguay's Maldonado Department. The circuit is situated on the Playa Brava Beach, meaning sand was laid on the tarmac surface and affected the levels of grip available to drivers. Also, the high ambient temperatures strained the car's batteries. Construction of the track started on 24 February, 22 days before the race; and continued for the next three weeks. 370 people were employed to work long shifts to complete the project.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Background\nGoing into the race, Techeetah's Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne led the Drivers' Championship with 81 points, 12 ahead of Felix Rosenqvist of Mahindra in second. Virgin's Sam Bird was third with 61 points with e.Dams-Renault driver S\u00e9bastien Buemi a further nine points behind in fourth. Jaguar's Nelson Piquet Jr. was fifth with 45 points. Techeetah led the Teams' Championship with 99 points with the second-placed Mahindra were nine points behind. Jaguar with 94 points and Virgin on 90 points were third and fourth and e.Dams-Renault were fifth with 59 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Background\nThe circuit underwent three cosmetic changes after the 2015 race. All bar one of the flexible bollards that were situated around the track in the last two Punta del Este races were removed by officials from the world governing body of motorsport, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), and the \"sausage\" kerbing at the entry of the four chicanes was dismantled. However, additional TecPro barriers were erected to improve safety around the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Background\nThese changes prompted officials to establish a specific area for drivers to stop in should they miss the turning point for the chicanes before rejoining the track during all sessions. The alterations received a mixed reception. Piquet spoke his belief that it would assist drivers attacking the track's high-speed sections. Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez (Dragon) agreed that the kerbing could be negotiated without any major issues and Ant\u00f3nio F\u00e9lix da Costa (Andretti) praised the \"fast and dangerous\" nature of the circuit that the changes created. However, the Audi pair of Lucas di Grassi and Daniel Abt called for the further adjustment of the kerbs as they feared the possibility of an accident occurring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Background\nThree days before the race, several drivers, Formula E Teams Association representative and Andretti team principal Roger Griffiths and FIA officials discussed in a meeting procedures of improving the safety of car switches during the mandatory pit stops. It was called after teams were issued clarifications and remainders of pit stop procedures and possibly in response to an injury sustained by a Techeetah mechanic by driver Andr\u00e9 Lotterer in the preceding Mexico City ePrix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Background\nThese clarifications included keeping the steering wheel installed in the driver's first car until it stopped and the FIA wanted all teams not to fully install the safety harness until the driver entered their second vehicle. Additionally, the FIA stressed the responsibility of ensuring the safety of pit stops and seat belt fastening remained with teams and drivers. The FIA also introduced a new regulation authorising stewards to review incidents on and away from the track after races had ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Practice\nTwo practice sessions\u2014both on Saturday morning\u2014were held before the late afternoon race. The first session ran for 45 minutes and the second lasted half an hour. A half hour shakedown session topped by L\u00f3pez and di Grassi was held on the Friday afternoon prior to practice to allow teams to check the reliability of their cars and electronic systems. Conditions for the first practice session were cold and the maximum amount of available grip could not be reached because of the sand on the asphalt surface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Practice\nBuemi used 200\u00a0kW (270\u00a0hp) of power and set the session's fastest lap at 1 minute, 14.536 seconds, 0.343 seconds faster than anyone else on the circuit. His closest challenger was Mitch Evans (Jaguar) in second with di Grassi third. The rest of the top ten were Alex Lynn (Virgin), Vergne, Bird, Piquet, Oliver Turvey (NIO), Abt and Nico Prost (e.Dams-Renault).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Practice\nDuring the session, which saw several drivers finding their limits with the track and kerbing and causing them to venture onto the run-off areas, Evans stopped in the entry to the pit lane with a technical problem with ten minutes remaining and required outside assistance for recovery to his garage. Buemi made a driving error, removing his rear wing endplate by glancing a barrier necessitating its replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Practice\nDi Grassi was fastest in second practice with a new unofficial track record of 1 minute, 13.672 seconds, Bird, Evans, Turvey, Prost, Vergne, Edoardo Mortara (Venturi), Nick Heidfeld (Mahindra), Tom Blomqvist (Andretti) and Lynn filled positions two to ten. Blomqvist possibly broke his right-rear suspension by tapping the turn nine barrier after leaving the corner. An oversteer caused Blomqvist to lose control of the rear of his car and crash against the turn ten and eleven chicane wall after mounting the kerbs, causing the session to be stopped for five minutes. The size of Blomqvist's accident threw his drivetrain onto the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Qualifying\nSaturday's afternoon qualifying session ran for an hour and was divided into four groups of five cars. Each group was determined by a lottery system and was permitted six minutes of on-track activity. All drivers were limited to two timed laps with one at maximum power. The fastest five overall competitors in the four groups participated in a \"Super Pole\" session with one driver on the track at any time going out in reverse order from fifth to first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Qualifying\nEach of the five drivers was limited to one timed lap and the starting order was determined by the competitor's fastest times (Super Pole from first to fifth, and group qualifying from sixth to twentieth). The driver and team who recorded the fastest time were awarded three points towards their respective championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Qualifying\nThe first group of five drivers was predicted to be a disadvantage as the circuit was still slippery from the sand being blown from the beaches but had no one make contact with the barriers lining the track. Di Grassi was the early pace setter with Maro Engel, J\u00e9r\u00f4me d'Ambrosio, Luca Filippi and Blomqvist following in positions two to five. Lynn was the second group's fastest driver despite losing time in the final third of the lap preventing him going quickest overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Qualifying\nLynn demoted the previous fastest group driver L\u00f3pez who made an error on his lap and took third, behind the second-placed Lotterer but ahead of F\u00e9lix da Costa. Prost was the second group's slowest competitor because he bent his car's steering arm when he hit a trackside bollard, which speared him into the wall at a 45-degree angle at high speed leaving the turn 15 and 16 chicane. His team was required to repair his car for the afternoon's race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Qualifying\nIn the third group, a vast improvement in track conditions allowed most drivers to go faster than di Grassi in the first two sectors but not overall. Evans led the group with Turvey second. Both demoted Abt to third and Mortara was fourth. The session was disrupted when Heidfeld entered the turn 17 chicane too fast and understeered into a TecPro barrier. This caused Mortara to abandon his first timed lap and was granted dispensation to set a second, which he did not take up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Qualifying\nThe fourth group had the first five in the Drivers' Championship eager to compete on the track. Vergne overtook di Grassi to go fastest overall in group qualifying with a lap of 1 minute, 13.672 seconds. Buemi lost momentum in the final third of the lap and was second. Bird was the first driver to attempt a timed lap but slower traffic, understeer, and tapping a wall at turn eight left him third. Rosenqvist was similarly slow and minor contact with the turn nine wall put him fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Qualifying\nPiquet was set to qualify for super pole but he mounted the kerbing at turn ten and crashed into the barriers. At the end of group qualifying, Vergne, di Grassi, Lynn, Evans and Turvey entered super pole. Di Grassi clinched provisional pole position through a large amount of commitment into the first chicane with a lap of 1 minute, 13.948 seconds but was put under investigation for hitting the bollard at turn 16 and 17. He was joined on the grid's front row by Lynn who damaged his front wing by striking the bollard on his lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0012-0002", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Qualifying\nEvans was third-fastest after glancing a wall at turn nine through pushing hard. Turvey in fourth drove methodically through the first chicane though he was almost a second slower than Vergne's fastest group qualifying lap due to him being untidy in the final third of the lap. Turvey was also placed under investigation for hitting the bollard. Vergne was the favourite to take pole position but an error at the start of his lap put him fifth but avoided hitting the bollard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Qualifying, Post-qualifying\nAfter qualifying, di Grassi, Lynn and Turvey's lap times were discarded and dropped one place while Evans was demoted to 16th because his car's weight distribution was 300 grams (11\u00a0oz) outside the amount permitted. Filippi dropped three places for overspeeding under red flag conditions during practice and Blomqvist started at the back of the grid for changing his gearbox. L\u00f3pez was ordered to start from 18th after it was discovered the pressure in two of his tyres were below the minimum mandated amount of 1.60-bar (160\u00a0kPa).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Qualifying, Post-qualifying\nMortara originally had a ten-place grid penalty for changing his chassis by damaging it over a kerb in shakedown but annulled it when Venturi determined it could not be fixed sufficiently in Punta del Este and it was shipped to chassis designer Dallara for evaluation and repair. The result of the penalties gave Vergne his third pole position of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race\nThe race began at 16:03 Uruguay Time (UTC\u221203:00) on 17 March. The weather at the start were dry and sunny with the air temperature ranging from 28.85 to 30.56\u00a0\u00b0C (83.93 to 87.01\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperature between 35.5 and 37.2\u00a0\u00b0C (95.9 and 99.0\u00a0\u00b0F). A special feature of Formula E is the \"Fan Boost\" feature, an additional 100\u00a0kW (130\u00a0hp) of power to use in the driver's second car. The three drivers who were allowed to use the boost were determined by a fan vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race\nFor the Punta del Este round, Abt, Buemi and Rosenqvist were handed the extra power. The number of laps contested was increased from 33 in 2015 to 37 in 2018 to showcase Formula E's technological developments. Vergne maintained the lead going into the first corner. Di Grassi stayed in second after holding off Lynn and Turvey followed close behind in fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race\nThe rest of the field negotiated the chicane without incident although Mortara ran wide and fell to 20th. Di Grassi regained some ground and quickly drew closer to Vergne while Turvey was unable to remain with the leaders and Abt began to battle him. Further back, Lotterer and Bird got close to one another in a battle for sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race\nPiquet lost positions to Filippi, Rosenqvist and Evans as he was placed wide at the final chicane and Vergne completed the first lap with di Grassi following closely in second. On the second lap, Bird attacked Lotterer into the turn eight and nine hairpin but the latter blocked his path. Soon after, Heidfeid stopped at the side of the track with a technical system error that shut down his car after leaving the first chicane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race\nRace control offered Heidfeld a small amount of time to restart his car but could not do so while his teammate Rosenqvist overtook Filippi for 12th on the third lap. Meanwhile, Buemi out-braked Bird to pass him for sixth at the turn eight and nine chicane. Buemi slowed to stop him running too deep and prevented Bird from re-passing him. The safety car was deployed on lap four to allow officials to move Heidfeld's car and two drivers made overtakes. Buemi passed Lotterer and Engel likewise overtook Bird but both drivers were not penalised. Vergne led at the lap-six restart with di Grassi second. The pair gradually began pulling away from Lynn. Piquet fell to 20th when his car developed drive train problems due to him hitting a wall earlier in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race\nBird got a fast exit leaving the turn one and two chicane, allowing him to draw alongside Lotterer on the inside line entering the turn eight and nine chicane and made the pass for sixth. The manoeuvre's effectiveness lost Lotterer four places to Engel, F\u00e9lix da Costa and Rosenqvist within two laps. On lap 11, Buemi was out of contention for a strong result when he made an error that put him wide onto the dusty line and into a wall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race\nBuemi's barrier glance deranged his left-rear suspension rod and he entered the pit lane to get into his second car on the following lap since the problem had worsened. Rosenqvist overtook F\u00e9lix da Costa and d'Ambrosio to move into the top ten soon after. Meanwhile, Abt passed Turvey for fourth and Engel overtook Rosenqvist. After damaging his vehicle on lap nine, Mortara got into his second car on the 16th lap because steering damage necessitated the change, requiring him to conserve electrical energy for the rest of the race. As Turvey saved electrical energy, Bird overtook him for fifth place and Abt passed Lynn soon after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race\nVergne was affected by radio communication issues that made him uncertain as to how much electrical energy he had left as di Grassi followed close behind but was unable to affect an overtake by the time they entered the pit lane for the switch into their second cars on lap 19 with the majority of the field following suit. L\u00f3pez led for one lap before he, d'Ambrosio and Prost made their pit stops on the next lap. After the pit stops, Vergne and di Grassi retained first and second places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race\nAbt was third and Bird left the pit lane alongside teammate Lynn and passed him for fourth. Similarly, Rosenqvist and Evans moved to fifth and sixth. Di Grassi attempted to pass Vergne on the left into turn 17 on his first lap out of the pit lane and the two briefly made contact, causing di Grassi to lock his brakes and go sideways. Di Grassi lost almost two seconds of time but began closing back up to Vergne. Two laps later, Bird pressured Abt and the battle continued until Abt entered the pit lane on lap 23 because his seat belts unbuckled under braking though post-race data confirmed that the shoulder harnesses were correctly fitted. Abt rejoined in 15th after Bird took over third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race\nBefore lap 28 ended, Evans overtook Rosenqvist for fifth. Evans latter attempted to repass Rosenqvist by using his FanBoost but was unsuccessful. At the front, di Grassi made several unsuccessful attempts to pass Vergne, allowing Bird to close up. L\u00f3pez earned one point for setting the race's fastest lap on lap 31 by setting a time of 1 minute, 16.811 seconds. Two laps later, Lynn lost fourth to Evans who put him onto the dirty side of the track and overtook him on the left through turn 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race\nLynn was then left to fend off Rosenqvist. Di Grassi's best opportunity to pass Vergne was denied at the end of lap 34 as he nudged the latter wide at the final corner but was not able to accelerate faster than Vergne on the start/finish straight and gain the lead. The duel for first was the main focus for the rest of the race. It enabled Bird to get his best chance of taking the lead but was denied his opportunity after a minor driver error on the final lap. This along with Bird being required to conserve electrical energy and manage battery temperatures dropped him out of contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race\nDi Grassi made one final passing manoevure, which saw him gently nudge the rear of Vergne's car approaching the final turn but Vergne maintained the lead on the start/finish line to achieve his second win of the season and the third of his career. Di Grassi finished 0.447 seconds behind in second place and Bird took third. Off the podium, Evans took fourth with Rosenqvist moving past Lynn late in the race for fifth and Turvey was seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race\nThe Dragon duo of L\u00f3pez and d'Ambrosio took eighth and ninth due to their strategy of running one lap longer than the rest of the field and Engel came tenth. F\u00e9lix da Costa, Lotterer, Filippi, Abt, Prost, Blomqvist and Mortara were the final finishers. Of the other two retirements, Buemi completed 29 laps after he was unable to finish the race due to his early car swap and Piquet's drive shaft failed after 25 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference. Vergne remarked the win was possibly \"the hardest [of his three victories], and probably the one I'm most happy with in terms of my driving, my whole race\", and while his team lacked the resources needed to improve the car, the race demonstrated \"the proof to everybody that I have a lot of pace.\" Second-placed di Grassi spoke of his annoyance over losing pole position which he felt was unfair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race, Post-race\nWhile he acknowledged that overtaking was difficult in Punta del Este, he congratulated Vergne for winning, \"Today we had the fastest car for pole and to win but we came second.\" He affirmed that it would not be the last time Audi would contend for victories in the season. Bird dedicated his third-place to broadcaster and motorsports journalist Henry Hope-Frost who was killed in an motorbike accident in the United Kingdom nine days before the race, \"There was a lot of fever out there today and I think he\u2019d have been pretty happy with the driving out there today.\" He spoke of his effort of staying within reach of Vergne and di Grassi and revealed he wanted them to challenge both slightly more to give him an opportunity to win the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race, Post-race\nDi Grassi was summoned to meet the stewards after the race and incurred a \u20ac10,000 (\u00a38,750) fine and three penalty points on his race licence for wearing non-compliant fireproof underwear. He was allowed to retain second in what AOL's Andrew Evans described as \"one of the strangest racing penalties ever seen.\" Di Grassi apologised to the stewards, vowed not to repeat the infraction in the future and said Punta del Este's hot weather caused his previous pair to soak up body sweat. The stewards also investigated Abt's seat belt incident but decided that no further action was necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race, Post-race\nAbt was mystified as to how his seat belts became unbuckled in the act of braking, saying, \"This we have to figure out, but of course in that situation what do you do? You risk your life or you come in \u2013 for me it's no choice.\" Audi team principal Allan McNish surmised Abt's issue prevented the driver from getting onto the podium but was more positive that his cars finished the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race, Post-race\nEvans reckoned he could have taken his first victory and revealed the weight issue that demoted him to 16th was due to a change of battery between second practice and qualifying being 3\u00a0kg (6.6\u00a0lb) lighter than the one it replaced, \"We can't argue with it \u2013 that's the way it rolls. We had a good fast car, and I'm happy to be heading to the next few races hopefully in a position to fight for the win.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race, Post-race\nEvans's view was reiterated by Jaguar team principal James Barclay who praised the driver's fast pace, overtaking abilities and the car, \"The reality is, we\u2019ve shown we have the car that\u2019s really fast. I\u2019m not surprised considering how much work we\u2019ve put into it, but it\u2019s really positive to see that we\u2019ve made one of the biggest steps and that\u2019s really good and I\u2019m really proud of the team.\" Buemi apologised to his team for hitting a wall on lap 11 and stated his belief he could have completed around three or four more laps had the safety car been deployed for a second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282012-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Punta del Este ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe consequence of the race further extended Vergne's Drivers' Championship lead to 30 points over Rosenqvist while Bird's third-place finish allowed him to further close up to the latter by five points. Buemi and Piquet remained in fourth and fifth places despite both not finishing the event. Techeetah increased their Teams' Championship lead to 27 points over the second-placed Mahindra while Virgin moved to third place. Jaguar followed a further seven points behind in fourth and e.Dams-Renault maintained fifth position with six races left in the season. Though he reiterated his happiness over winning the race, Vergne admitted he was focused on the championship battle and approached it on a race-by-race basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282013-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers baseball team\nThe 2018 Purdue Boilermakers baseball team was a baseball team that represented Purdue University in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Boilermakers were members of the Big Ten Conference and played their home games at Alexander Field in West Lafayette, Indiana. They were led by second-year head coach Mark Wasikowski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282013-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers baseball team, Preseason, Previous season\nIn 2017, Purdue compiled a 29\u201327 record (12\u201312 in conference play) during the regular season, qualifying for a postseason for the first season since 2012. Purdue's 19 win improvement in 2017 from 2016 was the largest improvement in NCAA Division I baseball during the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282013-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers baseball team, Preseason, Coaching staff changes\nOn July 20, 2017, Purdue hired Greg Goff to join the baseball team as a volunteer assistant, replacing Jack Marder who left for the same position with Stanford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282013-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers baseball team, Preseason, MLB Draft\nNo Boilermakers on the 2017 roster were selected in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282013-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers baseball team, Preseason, Departed Players\nThe following Boilermakers on the 2017 roster departed the program prior to the 2018 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282013-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers baseball team, Preseason, Recruiting Class\nThe Boilermakers added the following players to the roster as part of their 2017 recruiting class:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282013-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Boilermakers played their home games at Ross\u2013Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana and competed in the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They were led by second-year head coach Jeff Brohm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nPurdue began the year with three consecutive losses, each by less than four points, at the hands of Northwestern, Eastern Michigan, and Missouri. Their luck began to turn as they went on a four-game winning streak, which started with a victory over No. 23 Boston College and ended with a victory over No. 2 Ohio State, the school's first win over a top-two ranked team since 1984. The Boilermakers also secured a victory over No. 19 Iowa and finished the regular season tied for second in the West Division with a conference record of 5\u20134. The team was invited to the Music City Bowl, where they lost to Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe Boilermakers were led on offense by quarterback David Blough, who finished in second in the conference behind Ohio State's Dwayne Haskins in passing yards (3,705), completions (305), and completion percentage (66%). Freshman wide receiver and return specialist Rondale Moore was named first-team All-Big Ten at wide receiver, and was a consensus first-team All-American as a return specialist. He led the Big Ten Conference with 114 receptions, 1,258 receiving yards, and 12 receiving touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Previous season\nThe Boilermakers finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 4\u20135 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for third place in the West Division. They received a bid to the Foster Farms Bowl, their first bowl game since 2012, where they defeated Arizona, 38\u201335.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Northwestern\nTo begin the season, Purdue hosted Northwestern, the first time the two schools opened the season against each over to open the season since 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Northwestern\nPurdue lost to Northwestern, 31\u201327. Northwestern scored 14 points in the first quarter via a 1-yard touchdown run from Jeremy Larkin and a 2-yard touchdown run by John Moten IV. Purdue responded with 14 points in the first quarter via a 32-yard touchdown pass from Elijah Sindelar to Rondale Moore and a 76-yard touchdown run by Moore. Northwestern regained its lead in the second quarter via a 34-yard field goal by Charlie Kuhbander and a one-yard touchdown run by T. J. Green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Northwestern\nPurdue responded with a 38-yard Spencer Evans field and the final score of the first half came on a 4-yard run by Larkin, which made the score 31\u201317 in favor of Northwestern at half-time. Purdue added a 2-yard touchdown run by D. J. Knox in the third quarter. Purdue reduced Northwestern's lead to four points following a 27-yard field goal from Evans in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Northwestern\nMoore's 313-yard all-purpose yards was the record for most in program history, and first since Otis Armstrong, who had 312 in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Eastern Michigan\nFollowing its opening game against Northwestern, Purdue hosted the Eastern Michigan Eagles. This was the first meeting between the schools since 2012, a game Purdue won in a blowout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Eastern Michigan\nPurdue lost in a close game, 20\u201319. Purdue scored 6 points in the first quarter via a 29-yard and 34-yard field goals by Spencer Evans. Eastern Michigan added 7 points in the first quarter via a 75-yard touchdown pass from Tyler Weigers to Mathew Sexton. In the second quarter, the teams exchanged scores with a 7-yard touchdown pass from Elijah Sindelar to Markell Jones and a 27-yard field goal by Chad Ryland, which made the score 12\u201310 in favor of Purdue at half-time. Eastern Michigan regained the lead in the fourth quarter via a nine-yard touchdown run by Breck Turner. Purdue added seven points in the fourth quarter via a 45-yard touchdown run by D. J. Knox. Eastern Michigan finally won the game late in the fourth quarter with a 24-yard field goal by Ryland as time expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nMissouri defeated Purdue 40\u201337. Missouri scored three times in the first quarter on a 40-yard Tucker McCann field goal, a 21-yard Drew Lock touchdown pass to Johnathan Johnson and another field goal by McCann from 29-yards. Purdue scored just once in the first quarter on a 12-yard touchdown pass from David Blough to Terry Wright. Purdue scored on three of its four possessions during the second quarter with a 33-yard Spencer Evans field goal, 1-yard touchdown run by Blough and a 3-yard touchdown pass to Brycen Hopkins from Blough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nMissouri scored twice during the second, with a 59-yard touchdown pass to Jalen Knox and a 2-yard Albert Okwuegbunam touchdown pass from Lock. Missouri took a 27\u201324 lead into halftime. Purdue tied the game midway through the third quarter with a 29-yard field goal by Evans, but Missouri scored twice after the field goal with an 8-yard touchdown run by Lock and a 31-yard McCann field goal. Blough then found Rondale Moore from 7-yards out for a Purdue touchdown and a 26-yard field goal by Evans. Missouri took the lead via a 25-yard field goal from McCann as the time expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nBlough's 572 passing yards were the most since Curtis Painter threw for 546 against Central Michigan in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Boston College\nFollowing its game against Missouri, Purdue hosted its final non-conference game on the schedule when they hosted the No. 23 Boston College Eagles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Boston College\nPurdue won in a blowout, 30\u201313. Purdue and Boston College each scored 7 points in the first quarter via a one-yard touchdown run by D. J. Knox, and Anthony Brown finding Tommy Sweeney on a 15-yard pass. Purdue added 16 points in the second quarter, via two touchdown passes from David Blough to Rondale Moore, the first a 70-yard and the later a nine-yard touchdown pass, and a 21-yard field goal for J. D. Dellinger, which made the score 23\u20137 in favor of Purdue at half-time. Purdue added 7 points in the third quarter via a 36-yard Blough pass to Terry Wright. Boston College scored a late touchdown in the fourth quarter via a 1-yard touchdown run from E. J. Perry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Boston College\nPurdue ended streaks of six straight Homecoming losses and 18 straight losses to ranked opponents with its win over No. 23 Boston College. Purdue's last win against a ranked opponent came on October 22, 2011, (a homecoming game) to then-No. 23 Illinois. Purdue's 17-point margin of victory was its largest over a ranked opponent since beating then-No. 5 Michigan State by 24 points (52\u201328) on October 16, 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Nebraska\nAfter facing Boston College, Purdue traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska to face the Nebraska Cornhuskers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Nebraska\nPurdue defeated Nebraska 42\u201328. Nebraska scored seven points in the first quarter while Purdue scored ten, via an eighteen-yard touchdown run from Devine Ozigbo and a 42-yard D. J. Knox run and 31-yard Spencer Evans field goal respectively. Purdue extended their lead in the second quarter via a one-yard touchdown run from David Blough and a 25-yard Evans field goal, which made the score 20\u20137 in favor of Purdue at half-time. In the third quarter, Purdue and Nebraska traded touchdowns in the third quarter. Purdue struck first with a twelve-yard touchdown reception by Brycen Hopkins from Blough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Nebraska\nNebraska answered back with a 21-yard J. D. Spielman from Adrian Martinez. Purdue responded with a 6-yard Knox run followed by a two-point conversion. Nebraska capped the third quarter scoring with another 21-yard Spielman touchdown reception from Martinez. Purdue and Nebraska both scored a fourth quarter touchdown, on a six-yard touchdown by Markell Jones and a 23-yard Ozigbo touchdown run respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Nebraska\nPurdue won for the first time in three trips in Lincoln. Nebraska was held scoreless for 36:01 between the first and third quarters as Purdue scored 27 unanswered points Purdue played its most efficient game of the season going six-for-six on its redzone trips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Illinois\nFollowing its road game against Nebraska, Purdue traveled the Illinois Fighting Illini to play for the Purdue Cannon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Illinois\nPurdue won in a blowout, 46\u20137. Illinois got on the board first via a five-yard touchdown run from A. J. Bush. Purdue responded with a 3-yard touchdown reception by Isaac Zico from David Blough, and a 7-yard touchdown reception by Blough from Jared Sparks to close out the first quarter scoring. Purdue scored three times in the second quarter on a one-yard Markell Jones touchdown run, a 37-yard field goal from Spencer Evans and a 42-yard Zico reception from Blough to end the half with a 29\u20137 lead. Purdue extended their lead in the third quarter via a seven-yard touchdown reception by Rondale Moore from Blough. Purdue added 10 more points in the fourth quarter. First with a 32-yard field goal from Evans and a 3-yard touchdown run from Alexander Horvath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Illinois\nPurdue's defense held Illinois to season-lows of 250 total yards, 181 passing yards and 69 rushing yards. Purdue has won 11 of the last 14 against Illinois, including four straight and eight of the last 10 in Champaign, Illinois. Isaac Zico's 127 receiving yards and two touchdowns were career bests. The 39-point win was Purdue's largest margin of victory since 2012, when it defeated Eastern Kentucky, 48\u20136. It was Purdue's largest margin of victory over an FBS opponent since 2008, when it crushed Indiana, 62\u201310. The margin of victory was also Purdue's largest in a Big Ten road game since defeat Indiana in Bloomington, 56\u20137 in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State\nAfter its second consecutive away game at Illinois, Purdue returned to West Lafayette to host the No. 2 ranked, undefeated Ohio State Buckeyes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State\nPurdue shocked Ohio State with a 49\u201320 victory, during which they never trailed. David Blough found Isaac Zico with a 13-yard pass reception to give the Boilermakers the only score of the first quarter. Ohio State had to settle for a 24-yard field goal by Blake Haubeil early in the second quarter. After a fourth down conversion on a fake field goal, Rondale Moore was able to score on a 9-yard reception from Blough to end the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State\nIn the third quarter Ohio State drove to the red zone for the second time in the game, only to come away with a 23-yard Haubeil field goal, and Purdue scored on a one-yard run from D.J. Knox. The teams traded scoring in the fourth quarter, first with Purdue on a 42-yard run from Knox, then Ohio State on a 32-yard reception by Johnnie Dixon from Dwayne Haskins, Purdue with a 40-yard run by Knox, Ohio State with a 34-yard reception by Terry McLaurin from Haskins, and Purdue with a 43-yard reception by Moore from Blough. Purdue capped the game with a 41-yard interception return by Markus Bailey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State\nPurdue was able to win despite Haskins setting a school record for passing yardage in a single game (470). It was the first time they beat a second-ranked team since 1984, when they also defeated the Buckeyes. Purdue swept the Big Ten Players of the Week awards (Blough for Offensive Player, Bailey for Defensive Player, Joe Schopper for Special Teams, and Moore for Co-Freshman), the first time a team has ever accomplished this feat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Michigan State\nAfter facing Ohio State, Purdue traveled to East Lansing, Michigan to face the Michigan State Spartans. Michigan State defeated Purdue 23\u201313. Michigan State scored six points in the first quarter, via 43 and 48-yard field goals from Matt Coughlin. Purdue scored 3 points on a 28-yard field goal by Spencer Evans. Purdue tied the game on a 35-yard field goal by Spencer Evans. Michigan State regained the lead via an eleven-yard touchdown pass from Rocky Lombardi to Darrell Stewart Jr, which made the score 13\u20136 in favor of Michigan State at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Michigan State\nIn the second half, Michigan State held Purdue to just 7 points while accumulating 10 points. First a field goal by Coughlin from 34-yards in the third quarter. Purdue responded with a 1-yard Terry Wright touchdown reception from David Blough. Michigan State closed out the scoring with a 48-yard touchdown pass from Rocky Lombardi to Jalen Nailor", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Michigan State\nBlough fell 23 yards shy of becoming the first quarterback in Purdue history to pass for 300 yards in four consecutive games. Purdue continued its losing streak that was extended to an eight-game losing streak to Michigan State dating back to Nov. 10, 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nAfter losing to Michigan State, Purdue hosted the No. 16 Iowa Hawkeyes in a sellout performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nPurdue knocked off Iowa, 38\u201336 after a walk-off, 25-yard field goal by Spencer Evans. Purdue scored the first points in the first quarter by a 36-yard touchdown pass from David Blough to receiver Isaac Zico. Ivory Kelly-Martin evened the score at 7\u20137 nearly six minutes later; this would be the longest drive of the game. Purdue scored once again via a touchdown run from Markell Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nIn the second quarter, Miguel Recinos opened off to kick a 34-yard field goal to make the score 14\u201310, Boilermakers. Purdue and Iowa then traded touchdowns, the former a touchdown pass to Terry Wright from David Blough, the latter coming from Nate Stanley, the Iowa quarterback, with 17 seconds left in the first half. The score was 21\u201317 at the conclusion of this half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nOn the Boilermakers' opening drive of the second half, David Blough found Terry Wright for a stellar 82-yard reception. This was the Boilermakers' only play of the drive. Two and a half minutes later, the Hawkeyes also found the end zone to make the score 28\u201323. The Hawkeyes, however, made a controversial two-point conversion attempt, which they failed. With 2:26 left in the third quarter, David Blough found Terry Wright in the end zone to make the score 35\u201323. This was Wright's third touchdown reception of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nIn the fourth quarter, Iowa mounted a comeback against the Boilermakers. Boosted by two touchdown runs following an interception from David Blough, the Hawkeyes made the score 35\u201323 after chasing points again. However, the Boilermakers were to make a heroic final, last-breath drive and capped their stellar effort with an amazing field goal from Spencer Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nPurdue earned its third win this season against an AP Top 25 ranked opponent. It is the first time since 2003 that Purdue has defeated three ranked teams in a single season. Markell Jones rushed for his 18th career touchdown, passing Otis Armstrong (17, 1970\u201372) for 10th on Purdue's all-time career rushing touchdowns list. Terry Wright totaled six receptions for a career-high 146 yards and three touchdowns. Wright entered the game with 474 career receiving yards and two previous touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota\nAfter facing in-division rival Iowa, Purdue traveled to the Minnesota Golden Gophers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota\nMinnesota won in a blowout, 41\u201310. Minnesota opened the scoring in the first quarter via a 24-yard field goal by Emmit Carpenter. Purdue responded with a 40-yard Spencer Evans field goal to end the first quarter. Minnesota extended their lead in the second quarter via an 11-yard touchdown pass from Seth Green to Jake Paulson and a 27-yard Carpenter field goal, which made the score 13\u20133 in favor of Minnesota at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota\nMinnesota added 21 points in the third quarter via a 46-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown by Blake Cashman, a two-yard touchdown run by Green and an 11-yard Bryce Williams touchdown run. Minnesota added 7 more points in the fourth quarter via a 12-yard touchdown pass by Tanner Morgan to Tyler Johnson. Purdue finally got another score late in the fourth quarter via a nine-yard touchdown pass to Rondale Moore from David Blough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota\nPurdue was held to its lowest score and fewest total points since a 17\u20139 loss to Wisconsin in 2017. The 31-point margin of defeat was the largest Purdue had suffered since losing to Penn State by 38 points in 2016. Purdue entered the game with a 43 percent third-down conversion rate, but was 0-for-12 on third down against the Gophers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin\nAfter facing Minnesota, Purdue returned home to face the Wisconsin Badgers on Senior Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin\nWisconsin defeated Purdue 47\u201344 in triple overtime. After a scoreless first quarter by both teams, Purdue scored ten points in the second quarter, via an 18-yard touchdown pass to D. J. Knox from David Blough and a 20-yard field goal by Spencer Evans. Wisconsin scored on a 29-yard Rafael Gaglianone field goal bring the score to 10\u20133 in favor of Purdue at half-time. Wisconsin opened the second half scoring when Jonathan Taylor via an 80-yard touchdown run and a 22-yard field goal by Gaglianone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin\nPurdue responded with two third quarter touchdowns via a 12-yard touchdown run by Markell Jones and a 46-yard touchdown pass to Rondale Moore from Blough. Purdue scored first in the fourth quarter on a 20-yard Evans field goal, but two late touchdown receptions by Danny Davis III from Jack Coan of five and 18-yards respectively tied the game before regulation ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin\nIn the first overtime, Purdue scored on its first possession with a 15-yard touchdown reception by Moore from Blough. Wisconsin responded with a 12-yard touchdown run by Taylor. Wisconsin opened the second overtime with a 4-yard Garrett Groshek touchdown run, but Purdue responded on the next play with a 25-yard Issac Zico touchdown pass from Blough. When Purdue scored on a 41-yard Evans field goal to open the third overtime, Wisconsin scored on a 17-yard Taylor touchdown run to seal the victory for Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Indiana\nFollowing its home finale against Wisconsin, Purdue traveled to Bloomington, Indiana to face its arch-rival, the Indiana Hoosiers, in the 94th playing of Old Oaken Bucket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Indiana\nPurdue defeated Indiana 28\u201321. Purdue scored 7 points in the first quarter via an 11-yard touchdown pass from David Blough to Issac Zico. Indiana responded with 7 points in the second quarter via an eight-yard touchdown run by Stevie Scott. Purdue regained its lead in the second quarter via a 56-yard touchdown pass from Blough to Rondale Moore, which made the score 14\u20137 in favor of Purdue at half-time. Purdue added a 33-yard touchdown reception by Moore from Blough in the third quarter. Indiana reduced Purdue's lead to seven points following a 23-yard touchdown run from Peyton Ramsey in the fourth quarter. Purdue responded with a 32-yard touchdown run by Markell Jones. Indiana scored again with 1:17 to play on a 40-yard touchdown reception by Nick Westbrook from Ramsey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282014-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, at Indiana\nPurdue finished in 3rd place of the Big Ten West Division with a 5\u20134 record in conference play. The win also made Purdue bowl eligible for the second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282015-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Cup\nThe 2018 Qatar Cup, more widely known as the Crown Prince Cup, was the sixteenth edition of the Qatar Cup. It was played from April 21\u201327. The cup is contested by the top four finishers of the 2017\u201318 Qatar Stars League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282015-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Cup, Participants\nThe top four teams of the 2017\u201318 Qatar Stars League qualified for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282016-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar ExxonMobil Open\nThe 2018 Qatar Open (also known as 2018 Qatar ExxonMobil Open for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 26th edition of the Qatar Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha, Qatar, from January 1\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282016-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar ExxonMobil Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282016-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar ExxonMobil Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282017-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar ExxonMobil Open \u2013 Doubles\nJ\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy and Fabrice Martin were the defending champions, but Chardy chose not to participate this year and Martin chose to compete in Brisbane instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282017-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar ExxonMobil Open \u2013 Doubles\nOliver Marach and Mate Pavi\u0107 won the title, defeating Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(8\u20136).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282018-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar ExxonMobil Open \u2013 Singles\nNovak Djokovic was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament due to an elbow injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282018-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar ExxonMobil Open \u2013 Singles\nGa\u00ebl Monfils won the title, defeating Andrey Rublev in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282019-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Open (table tennis)\nThe 2018 Qatar Open was the second event of the 2018 ITTF World Tour. It was the first of six top-tier Platinum events on the tour, and took place from 8\u201311 March in Doha, Qatar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282020-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Total Open\nThe 2018 Qatar Total Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 16th edition of the event and a WTA Premier 5 tournament on the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the International Tennis and Squash complex in Doha, Qatar between 12 and 17 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282020-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Total Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282020-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Total Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282020-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Total Open, Champions, Singles\nIt was Kvitova's first Doha title and second of the year and 22nd WTA title overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282021-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Total Open \u2013 Doubles\nAbigail Spears and Katarina Srebotnik were the defending champions, but chose not to compete together. Spears played alongside Alicja Rosolska, but lost in the first round to Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu and Aliz\u00e9 Cornet. Srebotnik teamed up with Shuko Aoyama, but lost in the first round to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Olga Savchuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282021-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Total Open \u2013 Doubles\nGabriela Dabrowski and Je\u013cena Ostapenko won the title, defeating Andreja Klepa\u010d and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282021-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Total Open \u2013 Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282022-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Total Open \u2013 Singles\nKarol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to Catherine Bellis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282022-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Total Open \u2013 Singles\nPetra Kvitov\u00e1 won the title, defeating Garbi\u00f1e Muguruza in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282022-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Total Open \u2013 Singles\nCaroline Wozniacki and Simona Halep were in contention for the WTA no. 1 singles ranking at the beginning of the tournament. Wozniacki retained the no. 1 ranking when she won her quarterfinal match and Halep withdrew from the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282022-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Total Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282022-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar Total Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282023-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Losail International Circuit in Doha on 18 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282024-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Quaker State 400\nThe 2018 Quaker State 400 presented by Walmart is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on July 14, 2018 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Kentucky. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5-mile (2.4\u00a0km) speedway, it was the 19th race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282024-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Quaker State 400, Report, Background\nThe sixth running of the Quaker State 400 was held in Sparta, Kentucky at Kentucky Speedway on July 9, 2016. The track is a 1.5-mile (2.4\u00a0km) tri-oval speedway owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc.. Kentucky Speedway, which has also hosted the ARCA Racing Series, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, and the Indy Racing League, has a grandstand seating capacity of 107,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282024-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Quaker State 400, Practice, First practice\nKyle Larson was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 29.053 seconds and a speed of 185.867\u00a0mph (299.124\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282024-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Quaker State 400, Practice, Final practice\nErik Jones was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.762 seconds and a speed of 187.748\u00a0mph (302.151\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282024-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Quaker State 400, Qualifying\nMartin Truex Jr. scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.588 and a speed of 188.890\u00a0mph (303.989\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282024-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Quaker State 400, Media, Television\nNBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282024-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Quaker State 400, Media, Radio\nPRN had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282025-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2018 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship of Quebec, was held from January 9 to 14 at the Club de curling Etchemin in Saint-Romuald, Quebec. The winning \u00c9milia Gagn\u00e9 team represented Quebec at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election\nThe 2018 Quebec general election was held on October 1, 2018, to elect members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The election saw a landslide victory for the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec (CAQ) led by Fran\u00e7ois Legault won 74 of 125 seats, giving the party a majority and unseating the Quebec Liberal Party. The Liberals became the Official Opposition with 31 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election\nThis election was the first won by the CAQ, which had previously been the third party in the legislature. It was also the first since 1966 that had been won by a party other than the Liberals or Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election, Background\nIn Quebec the Liberal Party had held power since 2003, save for a period of less than two years between 2012 and 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election, Background\nThe National Assembly has had a fixed four-year term since passing a fixed election date law in 2013. The law stipulates that \"the general election following the end of a Legislature shall be held on the first Monday of October of the fourth calendar year following the year that includes the last day of the previous Legislature\", setting the date for October 1, 2018. However, the Chief Electoral Officer could have changed the election date in the event of a natural disaster. Furthermore, the Lieutenant Governor could have called an election sooner should the Premier have requested one, or in the event the government had been dissolved by a motion of no confidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election, Results\nThe CAQ went into the election as the third party in the legislature, but won a decisive victory with 74 seats, exceeding all published opinion polling. The Liberals won 31 seats, while Qu\u00e9bec solidaire and the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois each won 10 seats. This is the second election in a row in which a government has been defeated after only one term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election, Results\nThe CAQ formed government for the first time, mainly by dominating its traditional heartlands of Capitale-Nationale, Chaudi\u00e8re-Appalaches and Centre-du-Qu\u00e9bec, while winning sweeps or near-sweeps in Mauricie, Estrie, Lanaudi\u00e8re, Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie, the Laurentides and northern Quebec. Many of their gains came at the expense of the PQ. The CAQ took a number of seats that had been in PQ hands for four decades or more, in some cases by landslide margins (for instance, Taillon). It did, however, win only two seats in Montreal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election, Results\nThe Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois came up two seats short of official status in the legislature. Notably, it was completely shut out in Montreal for the first time in decades; indeed, it won only one seat (Marie-Victorin in Longueuil) in the entire Greater Montreal area. It was easily the PQ's worst showing in a provincial election in 45 years. For the second election in a row, its leader was unseated in his own riding. According to a postmortem by The Globe and Mail, the PQ was so decisively beaten that there were already questions about whether it could survive. Echoing this, Christian Bourque of Montreal-based pollster L\u00e9ger Marketing told The Guardian that he believed the PQ was likely finished in its present form, and would have to merge with another sovereigntist party to avoid fading into irrelevance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election, Results\nThe election was viewed as the Liberals' worst defeat since the 1976 election. While the party more than held its own in Montreal and Laval, it only won seven seats elsewhere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election, Results\nThis was the first election in which Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire garnered seats outside Montreal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election, Results\nThe CAQ won 37.4 percent of the popular vote, a smaller vote share than the Liberals' 41 percent in 2014 and the lowest vote share on record for a party winning a majority government. However, due to the nature of the first-past-the-post system, which awards power solely on the basis of seats won, the CAQ's heavy concentration of support in the regions they dominated was enough for a strong majority of 11 seats. Quebec elections have historically seen large disparities between the raw vote and the actual seat count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election, Results\nFollowing the elections, both Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lis\u00e9e and Philippe Couillard resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election, Incumbents not running for reelection\nAs of September 5, 2018, a total of 45 MNAs elected in 2014 will not run in the 2018 election, of whom 12 resigned from the National Assembly, one died in office and 32 announced that they will not seek re-election including one who got fired. The latter comprise the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election, Incumbents not running for reelection\nAt the end of his term, Gendron, Dean of the National Assembly, will have served for 41 years and 10 months, representing Abitibi-Ouest for 11 terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282026-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Quebec general election, Campaign, Issues\nThe election was believed to be the first in almost half a century that had not been fought on the issue of whether Quebec should stay in Canada. The PQ had promised not to hold another referendum on sovereignty until 2022 at the earliest had it won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282027-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)\nThe 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on 11 June 2018 by the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282027-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)\nThe Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282028-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Queen's Club Championships\nThe 2018 Queen's Club Championships (also known as the Fever-Tree Championships for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 116th edition of the event and part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It is taking place at the Queen's Club in London, United Kingdom from 18 June until 24 June 2018. The tournament marked the return of five-time champion Andy Murray who had been recovering from a hip injury. First-seeded Marin \u010cili\u0107 won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282028-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Queen's Club Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282028-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Queen's Club Championships, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282029-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Doubles\nJamie Murray and Bruno Soares were the defending champions, but lost in the final to Henri Kontinen and John Peers, 4\u20136, 3\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282030-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Singles\nFeliciano L\u00f3pez was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Nick Kyrgios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282030-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Singles\nMarin \u010cili\u0107 won the title, after beating Novak Djokovic 5\u20137, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20133 in the final, despite being a match point down in the second set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282030-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Singles\nThis was Djokovic's first ATP Tour final in almost a year, and Cilic's overall second victory against him in 16 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282031-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Wheelchair Doubles\nSt\u00e9phane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer won the first Wheelchair Doubles title at the Queen's Club Championships in a round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282032-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Wheelchair Singles\nStefan Olsson won the first Wheelchair Singles title at the Queen's Club Championships, defeating St\u00e9phane Houdet in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282033-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Queensland Cup\nThe 2018 Queensland Cup season was the 23rd season of Queensland's top-level statewide rugby league competition run by the Queensland Rugby League. The competition, known as the Intrust Super Cup due to sponsorship from Intrust Super, featured 14 teams playing a 28-week long season (including finals) from March to September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282033-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Queensland Cup\nThe Redcliffe Dolphins won their sixth premiership after defeating the Easts Tigers 32\u201322 in the Grand Final at Suncorp Stadium. Ipswich Jets prop Nathaniel Neale was named the competition's Player of the Year, winning the Petero Civoniceva Medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282033-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Queensland Cup, Teams\nIn 2018, the lineup of teams remained unchanged for the fourth consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282033-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Queensland Cup, Grand Final\nRedcliffe finished the regular season as minor premiers for the sixth time and earned a bye in the first week of the finals. In the major semi final, they defeated Burleigh 13\u20136 and qualified for their 11th Grand Final. Easts finished fifth on the ladder and defeated the fourth-placed Northern Pride 32\u20130 in the first week of the finals. In the minor semi final, they eliminated Ipswich 50\u201320 before upsetting Burleigh in the preliminary final to qualify for their fifth Grand Final. Redcliffe and Easts last met in a Grand Final in 1997, with the Dolphins winning 18\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282033-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, First half\nRedcliffe were the first to score in the Grand Final thanks to a Kotoni Staggs penalty goal from 20 metres out. The first try of the contest went to Easts, with Conor Carey stretching out to score in the corner. Redcliffe recorded their first four-pointer in the 16th minute when a late Cameron Cullen offload found fullback Trai Fuller who muscled his way over. They scored their second when Jeremy Hawkins leapt high to catch a Bryce Donovan kick and planted it down for a try. Another penalty goal in the 33rd minute gave the Dolphins a 14\u20136 lead. Easts hit back in the shadow of half time when Marion Seve scored out wide to cut the margin to four points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282033-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, Second half\nThe Dolphins opened the second half with an early try when Fuller ducked through the Tigers' defence to score his second try. They extended their lead in the 46th minute when a Donovan grubber was kept alive by Aaron Whitchurch, who batted infield for Staggs to score. Easts got back into the game in the 56th minute when captain Jake Foster barged over from close range to score. In the 62nd minute, Redcliffe all but sealed the win when Donovan set up another try with his boot, this time finding Nathan Watt who dived on his grubber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282033-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, Second half\nThe Tigers got one back two minutes later through fullback Scott Drinkwater but it proved to be a consolation try in the end, as Redcliffe ended the game with a try to Tom Opacic in the 78th minute. Dolphins' second rower Toby Rudolf was awarded the Duncan Hall Medal for man of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282033-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, NRL State Championship\nAfter winning the Grand Final, the Redcliffe Dolphins qualified for the NRL State Championship on NRL Grand Final day. They were defeated by the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, the New South Wales Cup premiers, 18\u201342.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282034-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Queensland Reds season\nThe 2018 Queensland Reds season was the club's 22nd season since the inception of Super Rugby in 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282035-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Quetta suicide bombing\nOn 25 July 2018, during polling for the 2018 Pakistani general election, a bomb blast outside a polling station in Quetta's Eastern Bypass area resulted in 31 people being killed and over 35 injured. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the group\u2019s Amaq News Agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282035-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Quetta suicide bombing, Attack\n\"The bomber was trying to enter the polling station. When police tried to stop him, he blew himself,\" a local administration official in Quetta, Hashim Ghilzai, has said. According to Bomb Disposal Squad, 18-20 kilograms of explosives were used in the suicide attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282035-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Quetta suicide bombing, Responsibility\nIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the group\u2019s Amaq news agency. The group said the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber, but did not provide further detail or evidence for its claim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282035-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Quetta suicide bombing, Aftermath\nElection Commission of Pakistan (ECP) while condemning the attack had summoned report from Balochistan government. ECP also suspended the internet and cellphone services in several districts in Balochistan. Polling resumed in the PB-31 polling station after being suspended briefly, however, the number of voters remained low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282036-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Quezon City Capitals season\nThe 2018 Quezon City Capitals season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282037-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Quick Lane Bowl\nThe 2018 Quick Lane Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 26, 2018, at Ford Field in Detroit. It was the fifth edition of the Quick Lane Bowl, and one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by Quick Lane tire and auto centers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282037-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Quick Lane Bowl, Teams\nThe game was contested between Minnesota from the Big Ten Conference and Georgia Tech from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). This was the first meeting between these teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282037-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Quick Lane Bowl, Teams, Minnesota Golden Gophers\nMinnesota received and accepted a bid to the Quick Lane Bowl on December 2. The Golden Gophers entered the bowl with a 6\u20136 record (3\u20136 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282037-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Quick Lane Bowl, Teams, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets\nGeorgia Tech received and accepted a bid to the Quick Lane Bowl on December 2. The Yellow Jackets entered the bowl with a 7\u20135 record (5\u20133 in conference). In the weeks prior to the game, head coach Paul Johnson announced that this would be his last game coaching.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 56], "content_span": [57, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282038-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Quick-Step Floors season\nThe 2018 season for Quick-Step Floors began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obliged to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282039-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Quidditch Premier League season\nThe 2018 Quidditch Premier League season was the league's second, and was contested by ten teams over the course of the summer of 2018. The ten teams were split into two divisions, with the North Division composed of the Northern Watch, Yorkshire Roses, East Midlands Archers, West Midlands Revolution, and the debuting Scottish Thistles, and the South Division composed of the London Monarchs, Southeast Knights, Southwest Broadside, Eastern Mermaids, and the debuting Welsh Dragons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282039-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Quidditch Premier League season\nDuring the regular season, each division held three 'fixtures', which saw each team in that division attend and participate in round robin games. In total, teams played 12 games each during the regular season, with a total of 60 games played in total. Based on the results of those fixtures, the teams were seeded for the 2018 Quidditch Premier League Championship, which all ten qualified for. The championship was decided with a knockout bracket format", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282039-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Quidditch Premier League season, Regular season, Divisional fixtures\nA total of six fixtures were held across the UK, split between the North and South Divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282039-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Quidditch Premier League season, Championship\nThe London Monarchs won the 2018 Quidditch Premier League Championship, played at the Arms Park Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, ending the season with a perfect 15\u20130 record. They defeated the Southeast Knights 160*-80 in the final match. By winning the title, the London Monarchs took the crown from the 2017 winners, the West Midlands Revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282039-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Quidditch Premier League season, Championship\nThe Championship format consisted of a double elimination bracket which was then split into upper and lower brackets, giving full placings from 1st to 10th. The latter stages of the upper bracket and lower bracket can be seen below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282040-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Qujing International Challenger\nThe 2018 Qujing International Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Qujing, China between 19 and 25 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282040-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Qujing International Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282041-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Qujing International Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nAliaksandr Bury and Peng Hsien-yin won the title after defeating Wu Di and Zhang Ze 6\u20137(3\u20137), 6\u20134, [12\u201310] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282042-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Qujing International Challenger \u2013 Singles\nMalek Jaziri won the title after defeating Bla\u017e Rola 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282043-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RAN Sevens\nThe 2018 RAN Sevens was the 19th edition of the annual rugby sevens tournament organized by Rugby Americas North. It will be played at the Barbados Polo Club in Saint James, Barbados, with the winner eligible for the 2019 Hong Kong Sevens qualifier tournament and two teams advancing to the 2019 Pan American Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282043-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RAN Sevens, Pool stage\nAll times in Atlantic Standard Time (UTC\u221204:00)Top 2 in each group advance to the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282044-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RAN Women's Sevens\nThe 2018 RAN Women's Sevens was the 14th edition of the annual rugby sevens tournament organized by Rugby Americas North. It will be played at the Barbados Polo Club in Saint James, Barbados, with the winner eligible for the 2019 Hong Kong Women's Sevens qualifier tournament and two teams advancing to the 2019 Pan American Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282045-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RBC Pro Challenge\nThe 2018 RBC Pro Challenge was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Tyler, United States, on 29 October\u20134 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282045-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RBC Pro Challenge, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282046-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RBC Pro Challenge \u2013 Doubles\nJessica Pegula and Taylor Townsend were the defending champions, but both players decided not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282046-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RBC Pro Challenge \u2013 Doubles\nNicole Gibbs and Asia Muhammad won the title after defeating Desirae Krawczyk and Giuliana Olmos 3\u20136, 6\u20133, [14\u201312] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282047-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RBC Pro Challenge \u2013 Singles\nKristie Ahn was the defending champion, but retired in the first round against Kurumi Nara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282047-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RBC Pro Challenge \u2013 Singles\nWhitney Osuigwe won the title, defeating Beatriz Haddad Maia in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282048-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas\nThe 2018 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 21st edition of the tournament and part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Dallas, United States between 29 January and 4 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282048-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282049-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas \u2013 Doubles\nDavid O'Hare and Joe Salisbury were the defending champions but only Salisbury chose to defend his title, partnering Leander Paes. Salisbury lost in the final to Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Christopher Rungkat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282049-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas \u2013 Doubles\nNedunchezhiyan and Rungkat won the title after defeating Paes and Salisbury 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282050-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas \u2013 Singles\nRyan Harrison was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282050-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas \u2013 Singles\nKei Nishikori won the title after defeating Mackenzie McDonald 6\u20131, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282051-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Championship\nThe 2018 Rugby Football League Championship is a rugby league football competition played primarily in the United Kingdom, one tier below the first tier Super League. The 2018 season is the fourth to consist of the Super 8s structure combining the Championship and Super League three-quarters of the way through the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282051-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Championship\nThe 2018 Championship features 12 teams, which all play one another twice in the regular season, once at home, and once away, totalling 22 games. The 2018 season also features the \"Summer Bash Weekend\" for a fourth time. This is a 23rd round of fixtures which replicates Super League's Magic Weekend concept for the Championship sides. After these 23 rounds in both the Championship and the Super League, the two divisions of twelve are split into three divisions of eight, the \"Super 8s\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282051-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Championship\nNew sponsors for the league were announced in January 2018, and the league will be known as the Betfred Championship until the end of 2019. The bookmakers, Betfred, extended their sponsorship of rugby league to include the Championship and League 1 as well as Super League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282051-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Championship, Teams\nThis year's competition features 12 teams. The teams consist of nine of the 12 teams from 2017, the champions of the 2017 League One season, the Toronto Wolfpack, and the champion of the League One playoffs, Barrow Raiders. Bradford Bulls and Oldham, the two bottom placed teams in the 2017 season, were relegated to League One, while Hull Kingston Rovers were promoted back to Super League after just one season in the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282051-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Championship, The Qualifiers\nToronto, London, Toulouse and Halifax will play in the 2018 Qualifiers together with Super League sides Leeds, Hull Kingston Rovers, Salford and Widnes. With points reset to zero, after each side has played each other once the top three teams will qualify for Super League XXIV in 2019. The teams finishing fourth and fifth will play each other in the Million Pound Game with the winner also qualifying for Super League XXIV. The losers of the Million Pound Game together with the teams finishing sixth, seventh and eighth in the Qualifiers will play in the 2019 Rugby League Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282051-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Championship, Championship Shield\nThe clubs finishing fifth and below in the regular season play for the Championship Shield. Points earned during the regular season are carried forward and after seven more games the top two clubs play in the shield final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282051-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 RFL Championship, Championship Shield\nPrior to the start of the season it was announced that the two clubs at the bottom of the table will be relegated to the League 1 for 2019, however following an emergency general meeting of the RFL on 13 September 2018 the Championship and League 1 clubs agreed that for 2019 the number of clubs in the Championship would be increased from 12 to 14. To achieve this the team finishing 11th will not be relegated and the team finishing bottom will play-off against the League 1 team that loses the League 1 promotion final to decide which team will play in the Championship for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282052-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Championship season results\nThis is a list of the 2018 RFL Championship season results. The Championship is the second-tier rugby league competition in the United Kingdom. The season is scheduled to begin on February 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282052-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Championship season results\nThe regular season will be played over 23 round-robin fixtures, where each of the twelve teams involved in the competition play each other, once at home and once away. Teams will also play one extra match on the Summer Bash Weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282052-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Championship season results\nThe play-offs will commence after the round-robin fixtures. The top four teams in the Championship will qualify for \"The Qualifiers\", along with the bottom four teams in the Super League. Each team's points totals will be reset to zero and each team will play against each other once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282052-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 RFL Championship season results\nThe top three teams will qualify automatically for the Super League in 2019, the fourth and fifth-placed teams will contest the \"Million Pound Game\" at the venue of the fourth-placed team, with the winner also earning a place in the Super League for 2019, while the losing team and the bottom three teams will enter the Championship in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282052-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Championship season results\nThe fifth-twelfth placed teams in the Championship in 2018 will contest the \"Championship Shield\", where each team will play seven extra games, retaining their original points. The top four teams will contest play-offs, with the first-placed team facing the fourth-placed team and the second-placed team facing the third-placed team; The two winning teams will then contest the Championship Shield Grand Final. The bottom two teams will be relegated to League 1 in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282052-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Championship season results, Regular season\nAll times are UK local time (UTC or UTC+1) on the relevant dates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282053-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL League 1\nThe 2018 RFL League 1 was a professional rugby league football competition played in England and Wales and is the third tier of the sport for Rugby Football League (RFL) affiliated clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282053-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL League 1\nEven before the end of the 2017 season there were news stories that two of the clubs in the league, Gloucestershire All Golds and Oxford were considering a merger and relocating to Bristol. Uncertainty around this move meant that the structure of League 1 for 2018 was undecided until October 2017 when the merger was confirmed by the RFL who also announced that the new Bristol side would not play in the league in 2018 and the league for 2018 will comprise only 14 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282053-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL League 1\nThe format of the season was very different from the 2017 season. There was no Super 8s and the season was of 26 games with each of the 14 teams playing each other home and away. The team finishing top would win automatic promotion to the 2019 Championship and be named league champions for 2018. The teams finishing second to fifth would meet in two play-off semi-finals with the semi-final winners meeting in the League 1 Promotional Final. The winner of the Promotional Final will play in the Championship on 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282053-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 RFL League 1\nFollowing a special general meeting of the Rugby Football League on 14 September 2018, the promotion criteria were changed to allow the expansion of the 2019 Championship from 12 clubs to 14 clubs. Two teams would be promoted as previously agreed however the loser of the Promotion Final would have a further chance at promotion in a single-leg play-off against the team finishing bottom of the Championship with the winner playing in the Championship for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282053-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL League 1\nOldham and Bradford Bulls were relegated from the Championship in 2017. During the close season South Wales Ironmen re-branded as West Wales Raiders following the purchase of the club and a move from Merthyr Tydfil to Llanelli in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282053-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL League 1\nNew sponsors for the league were announced in January 2018 and the league was known as the Betfred League 1, a name that will remain until the end of 2019 as the bookmakers, Betfred, extended their sponsorship of rugby league to include the Championship and League 1 as well as Super League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282053-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL League 1\nYork City Knights won automatic promotion to the 2019 Championship by beating Whitehaven on the last day of the season and ending the season two points ahead of nearest rivals, Bradford Bulls. Bradford were also promoted after beating Workington Town 27\u20138 in the promotion final on 7 October 2018. Defeat for Workington gave them a further shot at promotion in a promotion play-off final on 14 October against Swinton Lions, who finished last in the Championship Shield. Swinton had home advantage in the play-off final following a coin toss between the two clubs and retained their Championship status with a 33\u201320 victory consigning Workington to another season in League 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282053-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL League 1\nPost season West Wales Raiders were deducted four points for having fielded an ineligible player during two games; with the team having lost all of their fixtures during the season it meant that they ended the season on minus four points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282053-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL League 1, Teams\n*capacity for rugby league games may differ from official stadium capacity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282054-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL League 1 results\nThe fixture list for the 2018 season was issued on 15 November 2018. The regular season comprised 26 rounds where each team played each other home and away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282054-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL League 1 results\nAll times are UK local time (UTC or UTC+1) on the relevant dates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282054-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL League 1 results, Round 2\nAll games in the division were postponed on 4 March due to ice and snow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282055-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Women's Super League\nThe 2018 RFL Women's Super League was the second season of the rugby league Women's Super League for female players in clubs affiliated to the Rugby Football League. The grand final was won by Wigan Warriors Women, who beat Leeds Rhinos Women 18\u201316 at the Grand Final at the Manchester Regional Arena. Wigan finished second to League Leaders Shield winners Leeds in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282055-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Women's Super League\nThe defending champions were Bradford Bulls Women, but they failed to make the play-offs in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282055-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Women's Super League\nAt the end of the regular season, the top four teams met in the play-off semi-finals. First placed Leeds beat fourth placed Castleford, while second placed Wigan beat St Helens who finished third. The winners met in the Grand Final at the Manchester Regional Arena on 13 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282055-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Women's Super League, Teams\nTwo of the seven teams are newly formed for this season, one is renamed and the other four were in existence before 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282055-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Women's Super League, Fixtures and results\nThe fixtures are organised into 14 rounds, with each team only having 12 fixtures this means that every team will have a bye in two rounds of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282055-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Women's Super League, Play-offs, Grand final\nThe Grand Final was played at the Manchester Regional Arena on 13 October 2018. Neither team existed when the inaugural Grand Final was played in 2017. Leeds were seeking to complete the treble (League Leaders Shield, Challenge Cup and Grand Final winners) in their first season while Wigan were seeking their first ever trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282055-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Women's Super League, Play-offs, Grand final\nLeeds scored first, when Rhiannion Marshall scored a try from close range, Courtney Hill added the conversion. Wigan hit back a few minutes later when (Rachel Thompson scored their first try. The first half remained 6\u20134 to Leeds until shortly before half-time, when Thompson scored her, and Wigan's second try to make the half-time score 8\u20136 to Wigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282055-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 RFL Women's Super League, Play-offs, Grand final\nIn the second half Georgia Wilson extended Wigan's lead to 12\u20136 and Thompson completed her hat trick to put Wigan further ahead 16\u20136. Leeds struck back with a Caitlin Beevers solo effort, covering 80 metres from a 20-metre restart, Courtney Hill added the extra two points. With the score at 12\u201316, Leeds equalised as Suze Hill scored with only three minutes left to play. The conversion attempt was missed, and in stoppage time, Wigan were awarded a penalty which Charlotte Foley kicked to give Wigan victory by 18 points to 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282056-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RY7\n2018 RY7, is a small near-Earth object of the Apollo group. It is currently trapped in a 3:5 mean motion resonance with Venus. The object was first observed on 14 September 2018, by astronomer B. M. Africano with the Mount Lemmon Survey at Mount Lemmon Observatory, Arizona, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282056-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RY7, Orbit and physical properties\nThe asteroid's orbit determination is in need of some improvement. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.87\u20131.17\u00a0AU once every 374 days (semi-major axis of 1.016\u00a0AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.1470 and an inclination of 13.35\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic. It is a member of Apollo dynamical class in both the JPL Small-Body Database and the Minor Planet Center. Apollo asteroids are Earth-crossing asteroids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 39], "content_span": [40, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282056-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 RY7, Orbit and physical properties, False binary\n2018 RY7 is currently trapped in a 3:5 mean motion resonance with Venus and follows an orbit very similar to that of 2017 SN16. This pair of near-Earth objects show the highest observed level of dynamical coherence among the NEO-population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 53], "content_span": [54, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282056-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 RY7, Physical characteristics\n2018 RY7 has an absolute magnitude of 24.4 which gives a calculated mean diameter between 23 and 103 meters for an assumed geometric albedo of 0.60 and 0.03, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 34], "content_span": [35, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282057-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Race of Champions\nThe 2018 Race of Champions was the 29th running of the event, and took place on 2\u20133 February 2018 at King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh, it was the first-ever international motorsport competition in Saudi Arabia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282058-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships\nThe International Racquetball Federation's 19th Racquetball World Championships were held in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica from August 10\u201318, 2018. Originally, the event was to be held in Haining, China, but on March 17, 2018 the IRT announced via its Facebook page that the venue will be changed due to complications. Cali, Colombia was the first alternative choice, but there were complications there as well, so on June 16, 2018, the IRF announced via Facebook that San Jose, Costa Rica will host Worlds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282058-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships\nRodrigo Montoya of Mexico won Men's Singles for the first time, defeating the USA's Charlie Pratt in the final. In Women's Singles, Ana Gabriela Martinez of Guatemala upset the three-time defending champion Mexican Paola Longoria to win gold. In doubles, Alvaro Beltran and Daniel De La Rosa won Men's Doubles in three games over Rocky Carson and Sudsy Monchik of the US, and Bolivians Valeria Centellas and Yasmine Sabja became the first women from South America to win Women's Doubles after defeating Mexicans Alexandra Herrera and Monserrat Mejia in a three-game final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282058-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships\n2018 was the first year the USA did not win a gold medal at Worlds. On five occasions the USA swept the gold medals in Men's and Women's Singles and Doubles: 1981, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2008. Also, 2018 was the third time that three countries won a gold medal at Worlds; that first happened in 2006 and 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282058-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships, Tournament format\nThe 2018 World Championships used a two-stage format to determine the World Champions. Initially, players competed in separate groups over three days. The results were used to seed players for an elimination round. Thus, there was no team competition. Team standings were based on points earned from the singles and doubles competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282059-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nThe International Racquetball Federation's 19th Racquetball World Championships are being held in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica from August 10-18. This is the first time Worlds have been Costa Rica, and the first time a Central American country has hosted the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282059-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nIn 2016, Mexicans Alvaro Beltran and Javier Moreno won the Men's Doubles World Championship for the third time as a team, when the defeated Americans Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz in the final, 15-12, 15-9. Previously, the Mexicans had won in 2006 and 2012. Moreno also won the title in 2000 with Luis Bustilos. The Mexicans defeated the 2012 World Champions, Sebastian Franco and Alejandro Herrera of Colombia, in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282059-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles, Tournament format\nThe 2018 World Championships used a two stage format with an initial group stage that was a round robin with the results used to seed players for a medal round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282060-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nThe International Racquetball Federation's 19th Racquetball World Championships are being held in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica from August 10-18. This is the first time Worlds have been Costa Rica, and the first time a Central American country has hosted the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282060-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships \u2013 Men's Singles, Tournament format\nThe 2018 World Championships used a two stage format with an initial group stage that was a round robin with the results used to seed players for a medal round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282061-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nThe International Racquetball Federation's 19th Racquetball World Championships are being held in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica from August 10-18. This is the first time Worlds have been Costa Rica, and the first time a Central American country has hosted the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282061-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nBolivians Valeria Centellas and Yasmine Sabja won the Women\u2019s Doubles World Championship for the first time in their careers, and their win was the first for South American women at Worlds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282061-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nThey defeated the Mexican team of Alexandra Herrera and Monsserrat Mejia in the final in three games, including fighting off a match point in game two, winning 8-15, 15-14, 11-2. Centellas and Sabja beat the Guatemala team of Maria Rene Rodriguez and Gabriela Martinez in the semi-finals by injury default, as Martinez hurt her left arm in the second game, and while they finished that game, they couldn't complete the match. Herrera and Mejia defeated Colombians Cristina Amaya and Adriana Riveros in the other semi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282061-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles, Tournament format\nThe 2018 World Championships was a two-stage competition. There was an initial group stage played as a round robin with the results used to seed teams for the medal round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282062-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nThe International Racquetball Federation's 19th Racquetball World Championships were held in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica from August 10\u201318. This was the first time Worlds had been in Costa Rica, and the first time a Central American country hosted the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282062-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nIn 2016, Mexican Paola Longoria won her third World Championship in Women's Singles, which tied her with Cheryl Gudinas and Michelle Gould for most World Championships in Women's Singles. Gabriela Martinez of Guatemala was Longoria's opponent in the final, and she was a surprise finalist, as she was only 16 years old, although she was the World Junior Champion in Girl's U16. Also, neither American player - Michelle Key or Rhonda Rajsich - made the podium, which was the first time a USA woman had not finished in the top three in World Championship history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282062-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Racquetball World Championships \u2013 Women's Singles, Tournament format\nThe 2018 World Championships used a two-stage format with an initial group stage that was a round robin with the results used to seed players for a medal round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282063-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Radical Australia Cup\nThe 2018 Radical Australia Cup was an Australian motor racing series open to Radical SR3 vehicles. It was sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) as an Authorised Series, with Radical Australia Pty Ltd appointed as the Category Manager by CAMS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282063-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Radical Australia Cup\nThe series was won by Kim Burke, driving for RA Motorsports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282064-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Radio Disney Music Awards\nThe 2018 Radio Disney Music Awards were held on June 22, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was shown on Radio Disney and Disney Channel the following night on June 23, 2018, from 8:30\u00a0p.m. to 01:30\u00a0a.m. (EDT) and on Disney International HD and VTV3 on July 29, 2018 from 8\u00a0p.m. to 9\u00a0p.m. (IST). It was cancelled on Disney Channel in Southeast Asia and VTV6 in Vietnam due to unknown reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282064-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Radio Disney Music Awards, Winners and nominees\nNominees were announced via a nomination live stream on April 27, 2018. Voting also began on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282065-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafa Nadal Open Banc Sabadell\nThe 2018 Rafa Nadal Open Banc Sabadell was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Manacor, Spain between 28 August \u2013 2 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282065-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafa Nadal Open Banc Sabadell, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282065-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafa Nadal Open Banc Sabadell, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282066-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafa Nadal Open Banc Sabadell \u2013 Doubles\nAriel Behar and Enrique L\u00f3pez P\u00e9rez won the title after Dan Evans and Gerard Granollers withdrew before the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282067-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafa Nadal Open Banc Sabadell \u2013 Singles\nBernard Tomic won the title after defeating Matthias Bachinger 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(7\u20133) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season\nThe 2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season officially began on 15 January 2018, with the start of the Australian Open, and ended on 8 September 2018, with a loss at the semifinals of the US Open and subsequent injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season\nThe season was largely shortened by the hip, knee, abdominal and ankle injuries Nadal suffered during the year. He played only nine tournaments, his lowest since 2002 (which was his first year on the ATP tour). However, the season still saw Nadal win five titles including a record extending 11th title at the French Open, and have his highest winning percentage of a single season at 91.83%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Exhibition matches\nAs of in his 2017 season, Nadal's schedule before the Australian Open included the World Tennis Championship, in Abu Dhabi, the Brisbane International and the Fast4 Showdown, in Sydney. However, he pulled out of all three events due to a knee injury. His season started in Melbourne with a match against Richard Gasquet, included in the Kooyong Classic exhibition tournament, which he lost in straight sets. On the day after, Nadal moved on to play the Tie Break Tens, another exhibition tournament where only tie-break matches are played. He defeated Lucas Pouille in the quarterfinals and Lleyton Hewitt in the semifinals, before losing in the final against Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych. Nadal closed his Australian Open preparation with another exhibition match against Dominic Thiem in the Margaret Court Arena, which he won in a third-set match tiebreaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 90], "content_span": [91, 937]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Australian Open\nIn the first major tournament of the year, the Australian Open, Nadal was the top seed, knowing that he would need to reach the quarterfinals in order to secure the No. 1 position in the ATP Rankings. Despite playing his first official match in more than two months, Nadal easily defeated V\u00edctor Estrella Burgos in straight sets. Following strong performances in straight sets victories against Leonardo Mayer and Damir D\u017eumhur, he defeated Diego Schwartzman in the fourth round, reaching the quarterfinals and thus retaining the world No. 1 status. In the quarterfinals, however, he was upset by world No. 6 Marin \u010cili\u0107, being forced to retire in the fifth set due to a hip injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Mexican Open\nHaving been relegated to No. 2 in the ATP Rankings a week before, Nadal was set to play at the Mexican Open. However, he was forced to again pull out of the tournament due to the hip injury sustained at the Australian Open that was aggravated in a practice session. On 2 March 2018, through his Facebook account, Nadal announced the withdrawal from the season's first two Masters 1000 tournaments: the Indian Wells Masters and the Miami Open. Despite his absence, Nadal regained the world No. 1 position on 2 April 2018, due to Roger Federer losing in the second round of the Miami Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, Davis Cup World Group quarterfinals\nAs announced on 27 March 2018 by the Spain Davis Cup team captain Sergi Bruguera, Nadal represented his country participating in the Davis Cup World Group quarterfinal tie against Germany, in Valencia. These were Nadal's first matches since his Australian Open defeat, more than two months later. Nadal won both his singles rubbers, against Philipp Kohlschreiber and Alexander Zverev, in straight sets, to help Spain advancing to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 108], "content_span": [109, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, Monte-Carlo Masters\nAt the Monte-Carlo Masters, Nadal successfully defended his title by winning an unprecedented 11th title in Monte-Carlo, reaching the finals without dropping a set and not losing more than 4 games in each set that he played against Alja\u017e Bedene, Karen Khachanov, Dominic Thiem and Grigor Dimitrov. In the final, he halted former top 4 player Kei Nishikori's resurgence by beating him in straight sets, extending his clay winning streak to 36 sets in a row. Additionally, none of his opponents were able to win more than 4 games in each of those 36 sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, Monte-Carlo Masters\nThis tournament victory marked the Spaniard's 31st Masters 1000 title, putting him yet again at the top of most Masters 1000 titles won, passing rival Novak Djokovic who stands at 30. His 36 straight sets won on clay also became a record, surpassing both Ilie Nastase and Guillermo Coria, who won 34 and 35 straight sets respectively and are the only players to win 30 or more consecutive sets on clay other than Nadal. In that process, he also retained his World No. 1 ranking for another week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, Barcelona Open\nComing to Barcelona, Nadal again required to defend his title at the Barcelona Open if he were to retain his no.1 ranking, which he did in pure dominance. He extended his record of straight sets won on clay to 46 consecutive sets, with Martin Klizan, Nadal's quarterfinal opponent becoming the first man to take more than 4 games off in a single set against Nadal since Dominic Thiem beat him at last year's Rome Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, Barcelona Open\nNadal's semifinal win against David Goffin was his 400th match won on clay, making him the only player, of either gender, to win at least 400 matches in both clay and hard courts. In the final, he defeated Greek rising star Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets with the loss of only 3 games, despite the Greek having not lost a single set in the tournament. This victory was his 11th Barcelona Open title and his 77th overall. The win marked his 20th ATP 500 series title, which put him back atop the list of most ATP 500 titles, tied with Roger Federer. Additionally, it marked his 14th consecutive season in which he won at least 1 ATP 500 title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, Madrid Open\nFresh after achieving the 'Undecima' of Monte Carlo and Barcelona titles, Nadal had to defend yet another title at Madrid if he were to retain his No. 1 ranking, with the tournament taking place on his home soil. He reached the quarterfinals, defeating Gael Monfils and Diego Schwartzman in straight sets, to extend his record to 50 consecutive sets on clay starting from 2017 French Open. His win over Schwartzman broke John McEnroe's record of 49 straight sets won on a single surface. McEnroe had previously achieved the record on carpet in 1984. In a surprise, Nadal lost in straight sets to Dominic Thiem in quarterfinals, ending his 21-match and record 50-set winning streak on clay. He also relinquished his world no. 1 ranking to Federer in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, Italian Open\nNadal next participated at the Italian Open with a chance to regain his No.1 ranking if he were to win the tournament, which he did convincingly. He started off fresh and dominant, dispatching both Damir D\u017eumhur and Canadian #NextGen Denis Shapovalov in just the loss of 6 games. He reached the semifinals by mounting a comeback against home-favourite Fabio Fognini after losing the first set. In the semifinals, he faced his resurging arch-rival Novak Djokovic for the 51st time, beating him in two sets after a tight first set tiebreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, Italian Open\nThis victory was his 356th match win in Masters 1000 level, thus surpassing Roger Federer for most matches won in the Principality. He faced in form German Alexander Zverev in the finals who was riding on a 13-match winning streak after reaching his 3rd tournament final in as many weeks, winning the previous two. After easily winning the first set, Zverev won the second set and was up a break in the third set before a rain delay interrupted the match. However, after the delay, Nadal would go on to win 5 straight games to seal the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, Italian Open\nThis was his 8th Italian Open title and overall record-extending 32nd Masters 1000 title. It is also his 78th career title, making him the 4th most title holder in the Open Era, passing John McEnroe whom he was tied with before this tournament. He became world no. 1 again after relinquishing it for only one week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, French Open\nNadal began the French Open by defeating Simone Bolelli, Guido Pella, Richard Gasquet, and Maximilian Marterer all without losing a set en route to the quarterfinals. His opponent in the QF, clay-court specialist Diego Schwartzman, took the first set and became the first person to win a set against Nadal in the tournament since Djokovic defeated Nadal in straight sets in the 2015 French Open, thus ending Nadal's 37 sets win streak at the French Open. Nadal won the next three sets and continued his form by defeating Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro in the semifinals in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, French Open\nIn the final, he met Dominic Thiem, the only man to beat Nadal on clay in 2017 and 2018. Nadal dispatched the Austrian in three sets, never losing more than 4 games in a set, to win his record-extending 11th French Open title, equalling the record for most titles won in a single major by either men or women held by Margaret Court with her 11 titles in the Australian Open. His win was also his 17th major singles title, which is 2nd on the men\u2019s Open Era list behind only Roger Federer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Grass court season, Exhibition matches\nNadal's schedule for 2018 included the Queen's Club Championships, but in the week before he chose to withdraw from the tournament to be able to recover after the clay court season. He chose to participate in the Hurlingham Tennis Classic, an exhibition tournament played from 26 to 29 June at the Hurlingham Club, in London, to get some preparation for the following week's Wimbledon Championships. He first played Matthew Ebden, winning the match in two tight sets, and on the tournament's last day he played Lucas Pouille \u2013 this time losing in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Grass court season, Wimbledon\nDespite being ranked ATP No. 1 coming to Wimbledon, Nadal was seeded 2nd according to their special formula. He successfully replicated his previous result of reaching the 4th round by defeating Dudi Sela, Mikhail Kukushkin, and rising-star Alex de Minaur all in straight sets, guaranteeing himself the No. 1 ranking after Wimbledon. Nadal booked his first quarterfinal spot since reaching the Wimbledon final in 2011 by beating Ji\u0159\u00ed Vesel\u00fd in straight sets. He proceeded towards the semis after outlasting Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro in a five-set thriller which lasted nearly 5 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Grass court season, Wimbledon\nIn the semifinals, he suffered a heart-breaking five set loss to Djokovic after squandering three set points in the third set, that would have put him at a 2-1 set lead after that set. However, a semifinal at Wimbledon indicated his best performances here since 2011. This semifinal match was the second longest ever, the longest was Kevin Anderson vs John Isner which the two had played before the Nadal-Djokovic match earlier on that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, North American hard court season, Canadian Open\nNadal opened his hard court season campaign by beating Beno\u00eet Paire in straight sets. In the round of 16, he beat resurging former World No. 3 Stan Wawrinka in straight sets, and followed this with a comeback victory against World No. 7 Marin Cilic, whom he lost to after retiring in the Australian Open, in the quarterfinals. He remained solid and defeated in-form NextGen player Karen Khachanov in straight sets to reach his first hard court final of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, North American hard court season, Canadian Open\nNadal faced off against Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final and won in straight sets, winning his 4th Rogers Cup title and extending his record Masters 1000 titles to 33 titles. It was his first victory at a hard court Masters 1000 tournament since 2013 Western & Southern Open. He also became the 4th male player to win 80 career singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, North American hard court season, US Open\nHaving not played since his victory in Canada due to withdrawing from Cincinnati, Nadal was seeded No.1 at the US Open, where he was the defending champion. In the first round, Nadal faced compatriot David Ferrer, who was playing in his last grand tournament. In the last grand slam match of his career, Ferrer retired with a foot injury in second set. In the second round, Nadal faced Canadian Vasek Pospisil, who he defeated easily in straight sets. In the third round, Nadal faced Russian Karen Khachanov, who pushed Nadal hard before he managed to win in four tight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, North American hard court season, US Open\nHis next opponent was Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili, whom he defeated in four sets. This marked the first year since 2011 that Nadal had reached the QF of all four majors. In his quarterfinal match, Nadal faced World No. 9 Dominic Thiem, whom he defeated earlier in the year in the French Open final. In an epic match, Nadal managed to seal the victory in the fifth set tiebreak, after having lost the first set 0-6. Nadal went on to then face Juan Martin del Potro, in a rematch of the previous year's semifinal which Nadal had won in four sets. However, Nadal was forced to retire mid match due to a right knee injury. On 19 September, Nadal withdrew from the Asian tournaments at Beijing and Shanghai to fully recover from the injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, European indoor hard court season, Paris Masters\nNadal was scheduled to return from knee injury hiatus in the Paris Masters, but withdrew from an abdominal injury suffered during a training session. In that process, he also lost his world No. 1 ranking to Novak Djokovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, European indoor hard court season, ATP Tour Finals\nOn November 5, Nadal announced his withdrawal from the ATP Finals due to the abdominal injury, and also citing an ankle injury on which he decided to undergo surgery. This marked the end of his 2018 season, having not played since retiring in the semifinals of the US Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 97], "content_span": [98, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, All matches\nThis table chronicles all the matches of Rafael Nadal in 2018, including walkovers (W/O) which the ATP does not count as wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Schedule\nPer Rafael Nadal, this is his current 2018 schedule (subject to change).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Yearly records, Head-to-head matchups\nRafael Nadal had a 45\u20134 (91.8%) ATP match win-loss record in the 2018 season. His record against players who were part of the ATP Rankings Top Ten at the time of their meetings was 10\u20133 (76.9%). Bold indicates player was ranked top 10 at time of at least one meeting. The following list is ordered by number of wins:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282068-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Television\nSome of Nadal's matches had significant audiences on Spanish television:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282069-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rainy River District municipal elections\nElections were held in the organized municipalities in the Rainy River District of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282070-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election\nThe legislative assembly election in the Indian state of Rajasthan was held on 7 December 2018 to elect members of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. The election was held in single phase, but with voting in the single constituency of Ramgarh delayed until January due to the death of the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282070-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election\nIndian National Congress became the single largest party and Rashtriya Loktantrik Party became the third-largest party of the state in 2018. In the last elections in 2013, BJP had won a majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282070-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThe tenure of Rajasthan assembly ended on January 20, 2019. The main fight is between the BJP, INC, BSP and the RLP. However, the AAP is also contesting along with several other parties. Many high profile leaders including sitting MLA, MP and former ministers of the BJP have joined the INC before the elections. Some leaders of the INC have also joined the BJP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282070-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, Schedule\nThe date of the election was 7 December 2018 and the result was announced on 11 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282070-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, Exit polls\nThe exit polls gave a clear edge to the Indian National Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282071-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships\nThe 2018 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 45th edition of the Japan Open, and part of the 500 Series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza in Tokyo, Japan, from October 1\u20137, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282071-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282071-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282072-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nBen McLachlan and Yasutaka Uchiyama were the defending champions but chose not to participate together. McLachlan played alongside Jan-Lennard Struff and successfully defended the title, defeating Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus in the final, 6\u20134, 7\u20135. Uchiyama teamed up with Joe Salisbury, but lost in the semifinals to Klaasen and Venus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282073-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nDavid Goffin was the defending champion, but withdrew before the competition began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282073-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nDaniil Medvedev won the title, defeating Kei Nishikori in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282074-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally America season\nThe 2018 Rally America season was the 14th season of the Rally America series. The championship series began in November 2017 with the Nemadji Trail rally and concluded in October 2018 with the Lake Superior Performance Rally. Rally Wyoming was cancelled twice due to lack of participation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina\nThe 2018 Rally Argentina (formally known as the YPF Rally Argentina 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 26 and 29 April 2018. It marked the thirty-eighth running of Rally Argentina, and was the fifth round of the 2018 World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships. The event was based in Villa Carlos Paz in C\u00f3rdoba Province and consisted of eighteen special stages totalling 358.25\u00a0km (222.61\u00a0mi) competitive kilometres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina\nThierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the defending rally winners. Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja won the rally. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturers' winners, while the \u0160koda Motorsport crew of Pontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a \u0160koda Fabia R5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nS\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia entered the round with a seventeen-point lead in the World Championships for Drivers and Co-drivers. In the World Championship for Manufacturers, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT held a four-point lead over M-Sport Ford WRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 75], "content_span": [76, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Background, Entry list\nThe following crews were entered into the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2, and the World Rally Championship-3. The final entry list consisted of twelve World Rally Car entries and ten crews entered in the World Rally Championship-2. There were no entries for the World Rally Championship-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Report, Pre-event\nCitro\u00ebn expanded its operations to include a third entry. Craig Breen and Scott Martin returned to drive one car, having given up their seats in Mexico and Corsica to make way for S\u00e9bastien Loeb and Daniel Elena. Khalid Al-Qassimi and Chris Patterson are making their first appearance of the season, driving Citro\u00ebn's third car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Report, Pre-event\nTeemu Suninen and Mikko Markkula returned to drive M-Sport Ford's third entry. Suninen and Markkula had been replaced by tarmac specialists Bryan Bouffier and Xavier Panseri in Tour de Corse. Daniel Barritt also returned as Elfyn Evans' co-driver after being forced to miss the Tour de Corse to recover from a concussion sustained in an accident in Rally Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Report, Thursday\nDefending rally winner Thierry Neuville edged Ott T\u00e4nak's Toyota Yaris by 0.3 second over the mixed surface roads in the town centre. Championship leader S\u00e9bastien Ogier was a further 0.1 second back in third in a Fiesta. Andreas Mikkelsen was half a second off the pace, despite twice understeering through roundabouts. From fifth to ninth were Kris Meeke, Esapekka Lappi, Teemu Suninen, Dani Sordo, the Shakedown winner Jari-Matti Latvala. Elfyn Evans, who originally finished eleventh, climbed up to tenth after Craig Breen received a 10-second penalty for checking out late at the time control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Report, Friday\nAlthough Ott T\u00e4nak got a half-spin in the second stage, he managed to gain a significant lead in subsequent stages, winning five of six special stages which earned him a 22.7-second lead over Kris Meeke, much to the astonishment of his rivals. Thierry Neuville ended the day at the third place, margined his teammate Dani Sordo by less than one second, while defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier was a further 6.9 seconds behind. Craig Breen was seventh on the board, 41.2 seconds off the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Report, Friday\nEarly leader Andreas Mikkelsen got a puncture in SS6, relegating him to seventh place, along with Esapekka Lappi who also suffered from two punctures. The Finn was in the thick of the podium battle but plunged to eighth. Elfyn Evans was ninth, the Welshman frustrated by his lack of pace, with Fiesta teammate Teemu Suninen completed the leaderboard. Jari-Matti Latvala was forced to retire from the rally after his Yaris' front right suspension and engine's oiling system sustained significant damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Report, Saturday\nOtt T\u00e4nak was almost unbeatable in the rally. He set another five fastest stage times out of seven. His lead is now up to 46.5 seconds overall. Thierry Neuville and Dani Sordo, who gained the podium place after Kris Meeke suffered a puncture and dropped to eighth, were the only two drivers to snatch stage victories from the Yaris diver. They were separated by 21.7 seconds. Defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Andreas Mikkelsen climbed up to fourth and fifth overall respectively, followed by Esapekka Lappi, another 29.1 seconds behind. Elfyn Evans was seventh in another Fiesta, nearly three minutes off the lead. Teammate Teemu Suninen and WRC 2 leader Kalle Rovanper\u00e4 finished in the top ten. Craig Breen rolled his C3 out of sixth, which damaged his roll cage. He was forced to retire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Report, Sunday\nOtt T\u00e4nak dominated the rally and took his first rally victory of the season and first for his team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT. Thierry Neuville finished second with five Power Stage points, while his teammate Dani Sordo completed the podium. Defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier finished fourth overall, margined Andreas Mikkelsen by just four seconds. Teammate Elfyn Evans finished sixth in another Fiesta, over three minutes off the lead. Kris Meeke finished at the seventh place after Saturday's puncture. Esapekka Lappi, Teemu Suninen and WRC 2 winner Pontus Tidemand, who recapture the position of category leader after Kalle Rovanper\u00e4 rolled out in second to last stage, completed the leaderboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Classification, Top ten finishers\nThe following crews finished the rally in each class's top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Classification, Other notable finishers\nThe following notable crews finished the rally outside top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Classification, Power stage\nThe Power stage was a 16.43\u00a0km stage at the end of the rally. Additional World Championship points were awarded to the five fastest crews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Classification, Penalties\nThe following notable crews were given time penalty during the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282075-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Argentina, Classification, Retirements\nThe following notable crews retired from the event. Under Rally2 regulations, they were eligible to re-enter the event starting from the next leg. Crews that re-entered were given an additional time penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia\nThe 2018 Rally Australia (formally known as the 27. Kennards Hire Rally Australia) was a motor racing event for rally cars that took place between 15 and 18 November. The event was open to entries competing in World Rally Cars and cars complying with Group R regulations. It marked the twenty-seventh running of Rally Australia and was the final round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support series, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships. The 2018 event was based in Coffs Harbour in New South Wales and consisted of twenty-four special stages. The rally covered a total competitive distance of a 316.30\u00a0km (196.54 miles) and an additional 698.91\u00a0km (434.28 miles) in transport stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia\nThierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the defending rally winners. The Finnish crew of Kalle Rovanper\u00e4 and Jonne Halttunen are the reigning winners of the World Rally Championship-2, but did not enter the rally this year. There were no defending crews in the World Rally Championship-3 category since no crews entered here last year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia\nJari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila won their first rally victory since 2017 Rally Sweden. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturers' winners. The M-Sport Ford WRT crew of Alberto Heller and Jos\u00e9 Diaz won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a \u0160koda Fabia R5. In the World Rally Championship-3, there were no classified finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia\nDefending world champions S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia took fifth place, which was enough for them to secure their sixth consecutive drivers' and co-drivers' titles respectively. Following a win and a 4th-place finish, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT won their first manufacturers' title since 1999. In the WRC-3 championships, Enrico Brazzoli and Luca Beltrame still secured the titles although the Italian crews retired from the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nDefending world champions S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia entered the round with a three-point lead over the defending rally winners Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul. Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja were third, a further twenty points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT held a twelve-point lead over Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 75], "content_span": [76, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nIn the World Rally Championship-2 standings, newly-crowned champions Jan Kopeck\u00fd and Pavel Dresler lead the drivers' and co-drivers' standings by thirty-three points. Pontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson were in second, while the Finnish crew of Kalle Rovanper\u00e4 and Jonne Halttunen were another twenty-one points behind in third. However, all of them did not participate in the event. In the teams' championship, \u0160koda Motorsport II held a seventeen-point lead over sister team \u0160koda Motorsport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 75], "content_span": [76, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nIn the World Rally Championship-3 standings, Enrico Brazzoli and Luca Beltrame held a slender one-point lead over Taisko Lario and Tatu H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen, while 2018 Junior World Rally champions Emil Bergkvist and Johan Johansson were in third, eleven and seventeen points further behind in the drivers' and co-drivers' standings respectively. In the teams' championship, ACI Team Italia led Castrol Ford Team Turkiye by sixteen points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 75], "content_span": [76, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Background, Entry list\nThe following crews were entered into the rally. The entry list consisted of twenty-nine crews, including twelve World Rally Car entries, four entries in the World Rally Championship-2 and two in the World Rally Championship-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Report, Leg 1\nComing into Coffs Harbour, S\u00e9bastien Ogier was the championship leader. Being first on the road, he had to endured the lack of grip. He ended the day in seventh after title contender Thierry Neuville suffered a rear-left puncture in the second pass of Sherwood, which dropped him down to tenth overall. Another title rival Ott T\u00e4nak also had some issue. His Yaris' engine took on water in a river crossing, which tore the front aero from his car and affected its handling. The Estonian eventually finished in fifth overall, 16.9 seconds off the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Report, Leg 1\nIt was Mads \u00d8stberg and Craig Breen made full use of advantages of being late on the road that gave Citro\u00ebn a 1\u20132. Jari-Matti Latvala was 1.9 seconds behind Breen in third, followed by Hayden Paddon, another 3.8 seconds behind in fourth. Esapekka Lappi recovered to sixth after of the same watersplash issue as T\u00e4nak's. Ford duo Elfyn Evans and Teemu Suninen completed the day in eighth and ninth respectively after giving positions to their defending world champion Ogier. Andreas Mikkelsen was the only major retirement of the leg. The Norwegian parked his i20 with suspected radiator damage after crashing into a ditch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Report, Leg 2\nBecause of the puncture on Friday, Thierry Neuville was the first manufacturer car on the road. The Belgian managed to catch two places despite dry roads meant he was effectively high-speed road-sweepers, cleaning the surface of thick gravel to expose a faster line with more grip for those starting later. He eventually ended the leg in eighth, more than 50 seconds behind the title rival S\u00e9bastien Ogier, who kept his position in sixth after a trouble free day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Report, Leg 2\nMeanwhile, Ott T\u00e4nak set some brilliant pace, which elevated him to the top spot, around 20 seconds cleared of his teammate Jari-Matti Latvala. If the rally ends today, Ogier will win his sixth consecutive drivers' title with 212 points, while T\u00e4nak will snatch the runner-up spot from Neuville with an advantage of only one point in the championship standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Report, Leg 2\nFollowing two Toyotas, Hayden Paddon was in third, just 4.4 seconds off Latvala. Mads \u00d8stberg came into the day as the rally leader, but he was struggled with his Citro\u00ebn C3\u2019s balance in the afternoon loop. The Norwegian completed the day in fourth, just edged Esapekka Lappi by 3.8 seconds. Teammate Craig Breen fared worse \u2014 He spun into a bank and damaged his rear suspension, which dropped him down to tenth overall. Seventh-place Elfyn Evans provided a convenient buffer between Ogier and Neuville, with teammate Teemu Suninen finished the leg in ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Report, Leg 3\nIt turned out the final leg of the season was a total disaster for two title contenders Thierry Neuville and Ott T\u00e4nak. Neuville, who led the championship for most of the year, clipped a bank and a tree on SS22 and forced to retire. One stage later, T\u00e4nak stopped because of the damage to transmission. Following two title rivals' retirements, S\u00e9bastien Ogier successfully won his sixth drivers' title with a fifth-place finish. Toyota's Jari-Matti Latvala won the rally, which helped the team to win their first manufacturers' title for the first time since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Report, Leg 3\nHayden Paddon and Mads \u00d8stberg rounded out of the podium, followed by Esapekka Lappi in a third Yaris. Elfyn Evans completed the event in sixth after teammate Ogier, while Craig Breen gained one place from Teemu Suninen, who retired his Fiesta before the final test following an impact in the previous stage. WRC-2 category winner Alberto Heller, local driver Steve Glenney and rally veteran Jourdan Serderidis covered out of the leaderboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Classification, Power stage\nThe Power stage was a 7.16\u00a0km stage at the end of the rally. Additional World Championship points were awarded to the five fastest crews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Classification, Penalties\nThe following crews were given time penalties during the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282076-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Australia, Classification, Retirements\nThe following crews retired from the event. Under Rally2 regulations, they were eligible to re-enter the event starting from the next leg. Crews that re-entered were given an additional time penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya\nThe 2018 Rally Catalunya (formally known as the 54. RallyRACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada) was a motor racing event for rally cars that took place between 25 and 28 October. The event was open to entries competing in World Rally Cars and cars complying with Group R regulations. It marked the fifty-fourth running of Rally Catalunya and was the twelfth round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship, the highest class of competition in international rallying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya\nSeventy-six crews, including manufacturer teams and privateers, were entered to compete in the World Rally Championship, the FIA World Rally Championship-2 and FIA World Rally Championship-3 support series and the Spanish national Rally Championship and Peugeot Rally Cup Ib\u00e9rica championship. The 2018 event was based in Salou in Tarragona and consisted of eighteen special stages. The rally covered a total competitive distance of a 331.58\u00a0km (206.03 miles) and an additional 1,132.79\u00a0km (703.88 miles) in transport stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya\nKris Meeke and Paul Nagle were the reigning rally winners, but did not defend their win after Meeke was fired from Citro\u00ebn. The Finnish crew of Teemu Suninen and Mikko Markkula were the reigning winners of the World Rally Championship-2, but did not defend their title as they will compete in the World Rally Championship class. Nil Solans and Miquel Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez Sotos were the reigning World Rally Championship-3 winners, but Marc Mart\u00ed replaced Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez Sotos as Solans' co-driver in the WRC-2 category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya\nNine-time world champions S\u00e9bastien Loeb and Daniel Elena won the rally for the first time since 2013 Rally Argentina. The victory also marked Loeb the third oldest winner overall. The margin between second-place S\u00e9bastien Ogier was 2.9 seconds, which also made the rally become the tenth closest wins in history. The \u0160koda Motorsport II crew of Kalle Rovanper\u00e4 and Jonne Halttunen won in the World Rally Championship-2 in a \u0160koda Fabia R5, while the Italian crew of Enrico Brazzoli and Luca Beltrame won in the World Rally Championship-3. The Czech crew of Jan Kopeck\u00fd and Pavel Dresler finished second in WRC-2, which made them the drivers' and co-drivers' champions of 2018 World Rally Championship-2 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nThierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul entered the round as the leaders of the World Rally Championship for Drivers and the World Rally Championship for Co-Drivers respectively. They held a seven-point lead over defending World Champions S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia. Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja were third, a further fourteen points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT held a twenty-point lead over Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 75], "content_span": [76, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nIn the World Rally Championship-2 standings, Jan Kopeck\u00fd and Pavel Dresler led the drivers' and co-drivers' standings by fourteen points. Pontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson were in second place, but they did not contest the rally. Tidemand was forty-one points ahead of privateers Gus Greensmith in the drivers' standings, while Andersson held a forty-six points lead over Jonne Halttunen in the co-drivers' standings. \u0160koda Motorsport II held a forty-twenty-point lead over sister team \u0160koda Motorsport in the teams' championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 75], "content_span": [76, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nJunior World Rally Champion Emil Bergkvist led the World Rally Championship-3 drivers' standings, three points cleared of Taisko Lario. Denis R\u00e5dstr\u00f6m was another three points behind in third. In the World Rally Championship-3 co-drivers' standings, Tatu H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen led Johan Johansson by three points, while Romain Courbon was slender one point further behind. In the teams' championship, ACI Team Italia led Castrol Ford Team Turkiye by sixteen points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 75], "content_span": [76, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Background, Entry list\nThe following crews were entered into the rally. The entry list consisted of seventy-six crews, including thirteen World Rally Car entries, twenty-one entries in the World Rally Championship-2 and four in the World Rally Championship-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Report, Pre-event\nThe rally marked Volkswagen's return to the World Championship with a factory-supported team after the company withdrew from the category in 2016. Volkswagen Motorsport will enter two Volkswagen Polo GTIs built to Group R5 specifications in the World Rally Championship-2 support series. They will be driven by 2003 World Drivers' Champion Petter Solberg and M-Sport regular Eric Camilli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Report, Leg 1\nOtt T\u00e4nak showed his speed once again in Spain. He pulled away from everyone except his teammate Jari-Matti Latvala, who set three fastest stage times during the day. However, an unexpected puncture cost the Finn around fifty seconds, leaving him fifth at the end of day 1. Local hero Dani Sordo led Hyundai in second, followed by Elfyn Evans in third in a Ford Fiesta WRC. Nine-time world champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb stalled his C3 at the opening stage in Barcelona, but he managed to recover to fourth place overall, just half a second off the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Report, Leg 1\nSixth-place Andreas Mikkelsen was unable to find his form in the morning loop, but a setting adjustment put him on a charge and allowed him to end the day ahead of defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier, who was fastest in Shakedown and the 2.97-kilometer-long street stage on Thursday. Craig Breen was in fifth before the final stage despite a spin, but the Irishman lost a chunk of his C3's rear wing and dropped to eighth overall. Championship leader Thierry Neuville didn't start well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Report, Leg 1\nThe Belgian rolled his Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC at the Shakedown and damaged to the front left, the bonnet and roof. Being first on the road, he was also struggling with his car's handling. He eventually finished the day nearly one minute off the lead in ninth overall ahead of Esapekka Lappi, who slid off the road in the morning and spun later on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Report, Leg 2\nTyre choice was crucial on day 2. Toyota duo Ott T\u00e4nak and Jari-Matti Latvala chose full wet tyres for the morning loop and set brilliant pace. Despite their tyre choices, rally leader T\u00e4nak plunged to eighth after changing a front-left punctured tyre cost them about two minutes of time, which made local hero Dani Sordo the new rally leader. Stage conditions changed in the afternoon, meaning crews who chose wet tyres unable to match the pace set by those who used slick tyres. Championship leader Thierry Neuville benefited from slicks, finishing the day in fifth, 12.7 seconds off the lead. Teammate Sordo didn't have a good run. Although he made the same choice as Neuville, he encountered muddy roads due to being lower in the running order, which dropped him down to sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Report, Leg 2\nAfter the chaotic leg 2, Latvala led the rally, just 4.7 seconds ahead of defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier, who took his chance with wet weather tyres in the afternoon and gained three places. Nine-time world champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb was 3.3 seconds further behind, edging Elfyn Evans by 1.8 seconds. Hyundai's Neuville and Sordo ended in fifth and sixth respectively. The top six crews were separated by just twenty seconds. Esapekka Lappi completed the day in seventh after a lurid sixth-gear spin, followed by early leader T\u00e4nak. Craig Breen had two spins in the day and finished ahead of Andreas Mikkelsen in tenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Report, Leg 3\nChoosing the hard compound tyre, S\u00e9bastien Loeb charged into the lead and eventually won his first rally since 2013 Rally Argentina. This was also Citro\u00ebn's first rally victory of the season. Defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier found something extra in his Ford Fiesta WRC and completed the rally in second with four additional Power Stage points. The Frenchman will go to Rally Australia as the championship leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Report, Leg 3\nTeammate Elfyn Evans also found his form in the rally and successfully held the Hyundai drivers Thierry Neuville \u2014 who suffered an unexpected puncture caused by a stone at the last few kilometers of the event \u2014 and Dani Sordo behind to snatch his second podium finish of the year. Jari-Matti Latvala was leading, but another puncture in the second-last stage pushed him down to sixth. He eventually finished the rally in eighth after giving positions to his title contender teammate Ott T\u00e4nak and Esapekka Lappi respectively, with Craig Breen and Andreas Mikkelsen completing the top ten finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Classification, Power stage\nThe Power stage was a 14.50\u00a0km stage at the end of the rally. Additional World Championship points were awarded to the five fastest crews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Classification, Penalties\nThe following crews were given time penalties during the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282077-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Catalunya, Classification, Retirements\nThe following crews retired from the event. Under Rally2 regulations, they were eligible to re-enter the event starting from the next leg. Crews that re-entered were given an additional time penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282078-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Estonia\nThe 2018 Rally Estonia (formally known as the Shell Helix Rally Estonia 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over three days between 13 and 15 July 2018. It marked the eighth running of Rally Estonia. The event consisted of sixteen special stages totalling 146.40\u00a0km (90.97\u00a0mi) in competitive kilometres. The stages were run on smooth gravel roads of Southern Estonia. Two street stages were also held during the rally, in Tartu and in Elva. Rally headquarters and service park were based in Otep\u00e4\u00e4, at the Tehvandi Sports Center, while city of Tartu hosted the ceremonial start and finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282078-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Estonia\nOtt T\u00e4nak & Martin J\u00e4rveoja won the rally, while Hayden Paddon & Sebastian Marshall finished second and Craig Breen & Scott Martin finished third. For the first time in the competition's history a total of three current WRC works teams entered Rally Estonia. It was also the first time the new Toyota Yaris WRC entered a competition outside the WRC series. T\u00e4nak & J\u00e4rveoja were dominant on their home ground winning eleven stages out of sixteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland\nThe 2018 Rally Finland (formally known as the Neste Rally Finland 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that held over four days between 26 and 29 July 2018. It marked the sixty-eighth running of Rally Finland, and was the eighth round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships, and the fourth round of the Junior WRC championship. The event was based in Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 in Central Finland and consisted of twenty-three special stages totalling 317.26\u00a0km (197.14\u00a0mi) in competitive kilometres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland\nEsapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm were the defending rally winners. Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja were the rally winners. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturers' winners. The TGS Worldwide crew of Eerik Pietarinen and Juhana Raitanen won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a \u0160koda Fabia R5, while Estonian crew Ken Torn and Kuldar Sikk won the World Rally Championship-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nThierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul entered the round with a twenty-seven-point lead in the World Championship for Drivers and Co-drivers. In the World Championship for Manufacturers, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT held a twenty-eight-point lead over M-Sport Ford WRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 73], "content_span": [74, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Background, Entry list\nThe following crews were entered into the rally. The event was opened to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2, and the World Rally Championship-3. The final entry list consisted of twelve World Rally Car entries, eighteen in the World Rally Championship-2, and another eighteen entries in the World Rally Championship-3, fifteen of which were eligible to score points in the Junior World Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Report, Pre-event\nFollowing Citro\u00ebn's sacking of Kris Meeke, the team promoted Mads \u00d8stberg and Torstein Eriksen to replace him and his co-driver Paul Nagle as lead drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Report, Thursday\nOtt T\u00e4nak, driving a Yaris, took a 0.7-second lead over championship leader Thierry Neuville, while defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier was 0.1 second further behind. Andreas Mikkelsen was in fourth place in another Hyundai i20, another slender 0.1 second behind, while defending rally winner Esapekka Lappi was in fifth. Shakedown top two Mads \u00d8stberg and Craig Breen tied in sixth, followed by local Finn Jari-Matti Latvala. Hayden Paddon and Elfyn Evans cleared the stage in ninth and tenth respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Report, Friday\nFriday witnessed a great fight between Ott T\u00e4nak, who drove a Yaris, and Mads \u00d8stberg, who drove a C3. After rally leader changed several times, the Estonian ended the day with a 5.8-second lead. Local Finn Jari-Matti Latvala completed the day in third, with Hayden Paddon led Hyundai in fourth position after Teemu Suninen fell back in the final stage of the day with brake issues in his Fiesta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Report, Friday\nTitle contender S\u00e9bastien Ogier, who was second on the road, climbed up to sixth overall after Ford gave his teammate Elfyn Evans a team order, which ordered him to slow down in SS10 before reaching the finish line. Defending rally winner Esapekka Lappi, who stalled his car at the opening stage of the day, cleared the day in eighth place, while Craig Breen, who suffered an early puncture and a late fuel pressure issue, completed the day in ninth. Championship leader Thierry Neuville, who struggled for grip all the day due to being first on the road, completed the leaderboard. Teammate Andreas Mikkelsen finished down the order after rolling his i20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Report, Saturday\nSaturday in Rally Finland was dominated by three Yarises. Ott T\u00e4nak, who stormed away with a 39-second over Mads \u00d8stberg, Jari-Matti Latvala, who closed the gap the Norwegian to only 5.4 seconds, and Esapekka Lappi, who climbed up four places after his effort, took all eight stage victories of the day to make Toyota a 1-3-4 finish. Hayden Paddon, who led Hyundai in fifth place, manage to stay ahead of local Finn Teemu Suninen despite brake problems and high tyre wear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Report, Saturday\nDefending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier, who struggled to come to terms with new shock absorbers and an upgraded aerodynamic package, and teammate Elfyn Evans cleared the day in seventh and eighth respectively, while Craig Breen completed the day in ninth overall in another C3. Championship leader Thierry Neuville, who failed to make up yesterday's lost time, completed the leaderboard in tenth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Report, Sunday\nOtt T\u00e4nak took his second rally victory of the season with a Power Stage win in Finland to gain a maximum thirty points after a master-class performance. Mads \u00d8stberg edged Jari-Matti Latvala by only 2.8 seconds to finish second overall. Hayden Paddon completed the rally in fourth place after defending rally winner Esapekka Lappi went off in SS20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Report, Sunday\nS\u00e9bastien Ogier climbed up to fifth place after Ford gave another team order to Teemu Suninen, who was ordered to check in late at a time control so that he was given a 20-second time penalty and dropped behind his five-time world champion teammate in sixth. Elfyn Evans finished in seventh in another Fiesta, followed by Craig Breen in eighth. Championship leader Thierry Neuville ended his rally ahead of his teammate Andreas Mikkelsen in ninth place. Despite an unsatisfied outcome, he still leads the championship by twenty-one points over the defending world champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Classification, Top ten finishers\nThe following crews finished the rally in each class's top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Classification, Other notable finishers\nThe following notable crews finished the rally outside top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 59], "content_span": [60, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Classification, Power stage\nThe Power stage was an 11.12\u00a0km stage at the end of the rally. Additional World Championship points were awarded to the five fastest crews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Classification, J-WRC stage winning crews\nJunior World Rally Championship crews scored additional points. Each of the fastest stage time was awarded with one bonus point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Classification, Penalties\nThe following notable crews were given time penalty during the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282079-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Finland, Classification, Retirements\nThe following notable crews retired from the event. Under Rally2 regulations, they were eligible to re-enter the event starting from the next leg. Crews that re-entered were given an additional time penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna\nThe 2018 Rally Italia Sardegna (formally known as the Rally Italia Sardegna 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 7 and 10 June 2018. It marked the fifteenth running of Rally Italia Sardegna, and was the seventh round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships. The event was based in Alghero in Sardinia and consisted of twenty special stages totalling 313.46\u00a0km (194.78\u00a0mi) in competitive kilometres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna\nOtt T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja were the defending rally winners. Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners. The \u0160koda Motorsport II crew of Jan Kopeck\u00fd and Pavel Dresler won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a \u0160koda Fabia R5, while the crew of Jean-Baptiste Franceschi and Romain Courbon won the World Rally Championship-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nThierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul entered the round with a nineteen-point lead in the World Championship for Drivers and Co-drivers. In the World Championship for Manufacturers, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT held a thirteen-point lead over M-Sport Ford WRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Background, Entry list\nThe following crews were entered into the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2, and the World Rally Championship-3. The final entry list consisted of fifteen World Rally Cars, twelve World Rally Championship-2 entries, and four World Rally Championship-3 entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Report, Pre-event\nThe Citro\u00ebn pairing of Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle were entered into the rally, but were subsequently withdrawn when the team released Meeke from his contract. The team did not enter another crew in their place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Report, Thursday\nDefending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier, driving a Fiesta, took a slender 0.1 second lead over Andreas Mikkelsen. Championship leader Thierry Neuville was another 0.6 second behind. Elfyn Evans was fourth, followed by Hayden Paddon and Esapekka Lappi. Teammate Teemu Suninen was seventh, while the shakedown winner Jari-Matti Latvala in eighth. Mads \u00d8stberg and Ott T\u00e4nak were in ninth and tenth respectively to complete the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Report, Friday\nMuddy roads, caused by unpredictable rainy weather, made the first day of Sardegna very tricky. In uncharacteristic conditions, defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier took a dramatic lead over the championship leader Thierry Neuville by 18.9 seconds after Andreas Mikkelsen retired from the day due to gearbox issue. Because of teammate Teemu Suninen's off road and Ott T\u00e4nak's radiator damage caused by a heavy bump, Jari-Matti Latvala climbed up to the podium place, followed by his teammate Esapekka Lappi, another 4.4 seconds behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Report, Friday\nTwo Citro\u00ebn drivers Mads \u00d8stberg and Craig Breen were in sixth and eighth respectively, sandwiched Hayden Paddon in a Hyundai i20. Elfyn Evans dropped out of top twenty after breaking a steering arm due to hitting a rock in his Ford Fiesta. WRC-2 category leader St\u00e9phane Lefebvre, Jan Kopeck\u00fd and Nicolas Ciamin completed the leaderboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Report, Saturday\nAfter a fifteen-stage fight, title rivals S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Thierry Neuville only separated by 3.9 seconds on the top. Jari-Matti Latvala, eighth overall, originally ended the day in third, but an alternator problem forced him to retired from the day, which made his teammate Esapekka Lappi snatch the podium place. Hayden Paddon and Mads \u00d8stberg presented us another great fight. Eventually, the Hyundai edged the Citro\u00ebn by only 2.1 seconds. Craig Breen was in sixth, over a minute further behind, with WRC-2 category leader Jan Kopeck\u00fd in seventh. Ott T\u00e4nak, who was running under Rally2 regulations, recovered to ninth after yesterday's engine damage, followed by Martin Prokop completed the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Report, Sunday\nThe fastest times of the morning stages were all taken by the championship leader Thierry Neuville, which reduced the gap between the rally leader S\u00e9bastien Ogier to just 0.8 second. In the Power Stage, the Hyundai star took another stage win and overtook the defending world champion to snatch the victory from Ogier. The difference between two title rivals was only 0.7 second, the third tightest winning margin in WRC history, which shared with 2017 Rally Argentina. Esapekka Lappi ran out of the podium place in a Yaris, followed by Hayden Paddon in fourth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Report, Sunday\nTwo Citro\u00ebn drivers Mads \u00d8stberg and Craig Breen were in fifth and sixth respectively, ahead of Jari-Matti Latvala, who was running under Rally2 regulations. WRC-2 category leader Jan Kopeck\u00fd was in eighth after Ott T\u00e4nak received a forty-second penalty due to a four-minute late, while Teemu Suninen completed the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Classification, Top ten finishers\nThe following crews finished the rally in each class's top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Classification, Other notable finishers\nThe following notable crews finished the rally outside top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Classification, Power stage\nThe Power stage was a 6.96\u00a0km stage at the end of the rally. Additional World Championship points were awarded to the five fastest crews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Classification, Penalties\nThe following notable crews were given time penalty during the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282080-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Italia Sardegna, Classification, Retirements\nThe following notable crews retired from the event. Under Rally2 regulations, they were eligible to re-enter the event starting from the next leg. Crews that re-entered were given an additional time penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico\nThe 2018 Rally Mexico (formally known as the Rally Guanajuato Mexico 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 8 and 11 March 2018. It marked the fifteenth running of Rally Mexico, and was the third round of the 2018 World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships. The event was based in the town of Le\u00f3n in Guanajuato, and was contested over twenty-two special stages totalling a competitive distance of 344.49\u00a0km (214.06\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico\nKris Meeke and Paul Nagle were the defending rally winners. S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were the rally winners. Their team, M-Sport Ford WRT, were the manufacturers' winners. The \u0160koda Motorsport crew of Pontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a \u0160koda Fabia R5. In the World Rally Championship-3, there were no classified finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nThierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul entered the round with a ten-point lead in the World Championship for Drivers and Co-drivers. In the World Championship for Manufacturers, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT held a one-point lead over Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 72], "content_span": [73, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Background, Entry list\nThe following crews were entered into the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2, and the World Rally Championship-3. The final entry list consisted of eleven World Rally Cars, seven World Rally Championship-2 entries, and one World Rally Championship-3 entry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Background, Route\nAfter starting in Mexico City in 2017, 2018 Rally Mexico returned to its traditional start in Guanajuato. The route featured minor changes and included a new Power Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Report, Pre-event\nThe event marks the return of nine-time world champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb and is his first rally since the 2015 Monte Carlo Rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Report, Thursday\nThursday saw Thierry Neuville topped his Hyundai i20 after Kris Meeke took the shakedown. Ott T\u00e4nak was second on the timesheets, 1.9 seconds slower than the championship leader's storming run. Defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier was third, 2 seconds off the lead. Toyota teammates, Jari-Matti Latvala and Esapekka Lappi, and Norwegian Andreas Mikkelsen completed the top six. Last year winner Meeke was seventh overall, followed by Dani Sordo and Elfyn Evans. Nine-time world champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb finished his first special stage after 2015 with tenth position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Report, Friday\nDani Sordo, who targeted himself for a podium finish, led nine-time world champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb by 7.2 seconds after two days. Both drivers benefited from low start positions in the sweltering mountain speed tests above Le\u00f3n. Ott T\u00e4nak, 11 seconds off the pace in third, drove around overheating problems in his Toyota Yaris, ahead of last year winner Kris Meeke. Defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier limited his losses from second in the start order in fifth place, despite a spin. Norwegian Andreas Mikkelsen was sixth, only 1.5 seconds behind the Frenchman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Report, Friday\nIt was a nightmare catastrophe for championship leader Thierry Neuville. The road opener fared worst in the conditions and lost more than 20 seconds due to a fuel pressure problem and a power steering issue in his i20. He placed seventh overall when Jari-Matti Latvala retired with alternator problems before SS9. Elfyn Evans retired from the rally because of rolling out though he managed to reach the finish line, while teammate Teemu Suninen and Esapekka Lappi retired from the day due to hitting a barrier and crashing respectively. WRC 2 leader Pontus Tidemand, Gus Greensmith and Pedro Heller completed the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Report, Saturday\nNine-time world champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb took an early lead from Dani Sordo, who finished third after the day, until he suffered a front left puncture. The 44-year-old Frenchman conceded almost two and a half minutes when he stopped to change the wheel after hitting a stone in his Citro\u00ebn C3 and plunged to fifth, while defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier took over the lead position with four consecutive stage wins in the afternoon. Teammate Kris Meeke was over half a minute off the pace, second place overall. Ott T\u00e4nak's overnight third vanished in the opening stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Report, Saturday\nThe Estonian limped through the second half with a turbo boost problem in his Toyota Yaris and retired soon after, which made Andreas Mikkelsen and championship leader Thierry Neuville climb up to fourth and sixth respectively. WRC 2 leader Pontus Tidemand was seventh, ahead of category second Gus Greensmith. Jari-Matti Latvala returned to the rally after the previous day's alternator-induced retirement. The Toyota leader finished ninth, while Chile's Pedro Heller completed the leaderboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Report, Sunday\nS\u00e9bastien Ogier sealed his forty-second career victory, despite receiving a 10-second penalty for cutting a chicane. By virtue this win, he recaptured the position of championship leader from Thierry Neuville, who had a terrible weekend and finished sixth overall. Kris Meeke lost second place to Friday leader Dani Sordo after a half roll this morning. Andreas Mikkelsen finished fourth, a further 19.2 seconds behind, after struggling with his i20's handling throughout. Nine-time champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb was fifth and took an extra point at the Power Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Report, Sunday\nWRC 2 winner Pontus Tidemand finished seventh ahead of Jari-Matti Latvala, who fought back onto the leaderboard after retiring his Toyota Yaris on Friday with alternator problems. WRC 2 drivers Gus Greensmith and Pedro Heller completed the top ten. Ott T\u00e4nak finished fourteenth overall, but he took full five points from the Power Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Classification, Top ten finishers\nThe following crews finished the rally in each class's top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 52], "content_span": [53, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Classification, Other notable finishers\nThe following notable crews finished the rally outside top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 58], "content_span": [59, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Classification, Power stage\nThe Power stage was an 11.07\u00a0km stage at the end of the rally. Additional World Championship points were awarded to the five fastest crews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Classification, Penalties\nThe following notable crews were given time penalty during the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282081-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Mexico, Classification, Retirements\nThe following notable crews retired from the event. Under Rally2 regulations, they were eligible to re-enter the event starting from the next leg. Crews that re-entered were given an additional time penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282082-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Sweden\nThe 2018 Rally Sweden (formally known as the Rally Sweden 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 15 and 18 February 2018. It marked the sixty-sixth running of Rally Sweden, and was the second round of the 2018 World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships. It was also the first round of the Junior World Rally Championship. The event, which was based in the town of Torsby in V\u00e4rmland County, was contested over nineteen special stages totalling a competitive distance of 314.25\u00a0km (195.27\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282082-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Sweden\nJari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila were the defending rally winners. Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners. The Belgian also became only the third non-Nordic driver to win the event after the nine-time world champion, S\u00e9bastien Loeb, and the defending world champion, S\u00e9bastien Ogier. The Tommi M\u00e4kinen Racing crew of Takamoto Katsuta and Marko Salminen won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a Ford Fiesta R5, while Swedish crew Denis R\u00e5dstr\u00f6m and Johan Johansson won the World Rally Championship-3 and Junior World Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282082-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Sweden, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nS\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia entered the round with an eight-point lead in the World Championships for Drivers and Co-drivers. In the World Championship for Manufacturers, M-Sport Ford WRT and Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT held a fifteen-point lead over Citro\u00ebn Total Abu Dhabi WRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 72], "content_span": [73, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282082-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Sweden, Background, Entry list\nThe following crews were entered into the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2, World Rally Championship-3 and Junior World Rally Championships. The final entry list consisted of fourteen World Rally Car entries, fifteen in the World Rally Championship-2, and fifteen entries in the World Rally Championship-3, twelve of which were eligible to score points in the Junior World Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282082-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Sweden, Report, Thursday\nOtt T\u00e4nak drove a Yaris, defeated Thierry Neuville in their head-to-head heat on snow roads and stopped the clocks 0.3 second faster than Latvala, who beat Mads \u00d8stberg in their battle by 0.3 second. The Norwegian was impressive on his Citro\u00ebn C3 debut to hold third as competitors headed north to Torsby for an overnight halt. Kris Meeke, driving another C3, and Hyundai i20 pilot Andreas Mikkelsen were tied in fourth, a further 0.3 second behind, while Neuville completed the top six. Toyota's Esapekka Lappi and championship leader S\u00e9bastien Ogier lost time after running wide on the same corner near the finish. They were eighth and ninth respectively but just 2.9 seconds off the pace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282082-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Sweden, Report, Friday\nThe early starters lost time ploughing a clean route through fresh snow. Championship leader S\u00e9bastien Ogier was the first on the road. He was struggle with the grip all day and conceded almost three minutes en route to twelfth. So were Ott T\u00e4nak and Jari-Matti Latvala. The Toyota teammates separated by eighth and ninth. Craig Breen was third on the board, and the Irishman was delighted with his form with two afternoon stages wins. Teammate Mads \u00d8stberg was 0.5 second further back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282082-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Sweden, Report, Friday\nLying sixth after last night's curtain-raising speed test, Thierry Neuville moved his i20 to the front on this morning's second stage and held off a chasing pack which had the advantage of better conditions. Norwegian Andreas Mikkelsen, who started further behind, had a trouble-free day while Hayden Paddon running out of the top three to make Hyundai 1-2-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282082-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Sweden, Report, Saturday\nThierry Neuville was the rally leader, but the gap between him and his main opponent was not big enough, especially for the Citro\u00ebn driver, Craig Breen, who was eager to claim his first WRC victory. The Irish driver have once narrowed the gap to less than five seconds. However, the Hyundai star set four fastest stage times to build a 22.7-second lead, though he suffered a paddle shift gearchange system issue at the opening stage. Teammate Andreas Mikkelsen finished third after a spin today which made him dropped from second to fourth place, 9.3 seconds behind Breen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282082-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Sweden, Report, Saturday\nHayden Paddon's car set-up was unsuited to this morning's forest roads. The New Zealander stuck on the inside of a hairpin in the final stage, which made him lost some time. He ended the day 16.6 seconds behind Mikkelsen. Mads \u00d8stberg changed his C3's settings to improve his car's balance but the switches affected his confidence and he reversed the adjustments. There was also an accident in SS13. Kris Meeke nosed into a snow bank but lost engine power when he regained the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282082-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 Rally Sweden, Report, Saturday\nHe stopped to clean snow from his Citro\u00ebn's cooling system and as Ott T\u00e4nak tried to overtake in a narrow section, the two cars collided and the Estonian's Toyota Yaris bounced into a ditch. That ended with the Briton's retirement and made five-time world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier finally get into the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282082-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Sweden, Report, Sunday\nWith a comfortable lead, Thierry Neuville finally eased through Sunday's final three speed tests to head Ireland's Craig Breen, driving a Citro\u00ebn C3, for whom second was a career-best result. Andreas Mikkelsen finished third after a spun at exactly the same point as Neuville. Esapekka Lappi fought back and gained two places in the final three stages to finish fourth, 17.5 seconds adrift of Mikkelsen, after he plunged down the order after burying his Toyota Yaris in a snow bank. A final stage mistake from Hayden Paddon cost him a place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282082-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Sweden, Report, Sunday\nThe Kiwi stalled his i20 a couple of kilometres from the finish and trailed the Finn by 8.6 seconds. After only a day's pre-event testing, Mads \u00d8stberg was sixth on his debut drive in a C3. Jari-Matti Latvala finished seventh after being delayed by a troublesome front differential and adverse road conditions. Fellow Finn Teemu Suninen was eighth in a Ford Fiesta, the highest place among M-Sport World Rally Team drivers. Ott T\u00e4nak and Monte-Carlo winner S\u00e9bastien Ogier dropped lot of time in Friday's opening leg as they ploughed a path through deep snow. They were unable to regain lost ground and finished ninth and tenth respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey\nThe 2018 Rally Turkey (formally known as the Marmaris Rally Turkey 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 13 and 16 September 2018. It marked the return and the eleventh running of Rally Turkey, last held in 2010. The event was the tenth round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support series, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships. It was also the fifth and the last round of the Junior WRC championship. The event was based in Marmaris in Mu\u011fla and consists of seventeen special stages totalling 312.44\u00a0km (194.14\u00a0mi) in competitive kilometres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey\nComing into the event, S\u00e9bastien Loeb and Daniel Elena were the reigning rally winning crew, but they chose not to participate in this year's event. Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja were the rally winners. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturers' winners. The \u0160koda Motorsport II crew of Jan Kopeck\u00fd and Pavel Dresler won in the World Rally Championship-2 in a \u0160koda Fabia R5, while the Swedish crew of Emil Bergkvist and Joakim Sj\u00f6berg won in the World Rally Championship-3 and Junior World Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey\nAfter five rounds' battle, Emil Bergkvist and Johan Johansson became the drivers' and co-drivers' champion of 2018 Junior World Rally Championship respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nThierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul entered the round with a twenty-three-point lead in the World Championship for Drivers and Co-drivers. In the World Championship for Manufacturers, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT held a thirteen-point lead over Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 72], "content_span": [73, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Background, Entry list\nThe following crews were entered into the rally. The entry list consisted of thirteen World Rally Car entries, fifteen in the World Rally Championship-2, and fourteen entries in the World Rally Championship-3, thirteen of which were eligible to score points in the Junior World Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Report, Pre-event\nJunior WRC championship will be worth double points to encourage crews to contest all five events of the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Report, Thursday\nAndreas Mikkelsen, driving an i20, won the first stage of the rally, 2.5 seconds faster than Craig Breen. Ott T\u00e4nak cleared the stage in third, ahead of championship leader Thierry Neuville. Two WRC 2 cars Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Jan Kopeck\u00fd completed the stage in fifth and sixth place respectively. From seventh to tenth were Esapekka Lappi, Mads \u00d8stberg, Jari-Matti Latvala and Elfyn Evans, who was the only Fiesta in top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Report, Friday\nChampionship leader Thierry Neuville, who was being first on the road, squeezed his i20 on top. Defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Andreas Mikkelsen completed the day in second and third respectively. The gap between the top three was only 2.6 seconds. Jari-Matti Latvala and teammate Ott T\u00e4nak finished in fourth and fifth, with Hayden Paddon in sixth. Esapekka Lappi, who was struggling with his Yaris' differential, cleared the day in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Report, Friday\nEarly leader Craig Breen suffered a puncture and dropped down to eighth place, while his teammate Mads \u00d8stberg and Elfyn Evans both retired from the day in the penultimate stage with broken suspension. Teemu Suninen completed the day in ninth place after a consistent performance, with rally veteran Henning Solberg covered the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Report, Saturday\nThe second leg of the rally turned out to be disastrous for some of the crews. Friday leader and championship leader Thierry Neuville retired from the day when the front left suspension punched though his i20's bonnet in the morning's opening stage, which made S\u00e9bastien Ogier the new rally leader for a while; this lead was short-lived when Ogier's Ford Fiesta sustained damage on the front right wishbone, dropping the defending champion's lead down to fourth after a one-minute time penalty for being late due to a roadside fix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Report, Saturday\nIn the afternoon loop, his rally went from bad to worse \u2014 he went off the road and forced to retire from the day. Andreas Mikkelsen reclaimed the position of rally leader, but a transmission problem, which left his i20 with only rear-wheel drive all afternoon, caused him drop down to fifth overall. Craig Breen fared far worse when his C3 emitted smoke during SS11 and after that stage, the car was on fire and completely burned out, forcing the Irishman to retire from the rally. Teammate Mads \u00d8stberg suffered a turbo issue and also retired from the leg. Esapekka Lappi retired his Yaris from the event in sixth when he crashed went perching from a cliff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Report, Saturday\nThe biggest beneficiary from the chaotic rally was Ott T\u00e4nak, who ended the day on top, while his teammate Jari-Matti Latvala, who overcame a hydraulic pressure issue, completed the day 13.1 seconds behind in second place. Hayden Paddon and Teemu Suninen got a trouble-free day and cleared the leg in third and fourth respectively. Andreas Mikkelsen, who was the last RC1 driver without retirement in top ten, finished the leg in fifth, over six minutes off the lead. Rally veteran Henning Solberg completed the day in sixth place, followed by Elfyn Evans, who was running under Rally2 regulations. Three WRC 2 category drivers Jan Kopeck\u00fd, Simone Tempestini and Chris Ingram completed the leaderboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Report, Sunday\nAfter a four-day battle, Ott T\u00e4nak won his third consecutive rally victory in Marmaris, while teammate Jari-Matti Latvala, who had to defer to T\u00e4nak following team orders from the Toyota team management, finished 22.3 seconds behind in second place. With a 1-2 formula, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT moved up on top on the manufacturers' championships, five points over Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT. Hayden Paddon and Teemu Suninen stayed in third and fourth, with erstwhile leader Andreas Mikkelsen recovering from a broken front right driveshaft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Report, Sunday\nRally veteran Henning Solberg, WRC 2 category winner Jan Kopeck\u00fd, Simone Tempestini and Chris Ingram covered from sixth to ninth. Defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier returned to the rally under Rally2 regulations and finished in tenth overall after teammate Elfyn Evans was given a team order, which ordered the Welsh to check in five minutes early. This meant Evans was given a five-minute time penalty so that the Frenchman could gained one place. He eventually ended his weekend in tenth place, but claimed four Power Stage points. The winner of the Power Stage was championship leader Thierry Neuville, who was forced to retire from the leg on Saturday. Despite his Power Stage victory, his championship lead went down to thirteen points over the hat-trick player Ott T\u00e4nak, whose championship standings went up to second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 871]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Classification, Top ten finishers\nThe following crews finished the rally in each class's top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 52], "content_span": [53, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Classification, Other notable finishers\nThe following notable crews finished the rally outside top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 58], "content_span": [59, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Classification, Power stage\nThe Power stage was a 7.14\u00a0km stage at the end of the rally. Additional World Championship points were awarded to the five fastest crews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Classification, J-WRC stage winning crews\nJunior World Rally Championship crews scored additional points. Each of the fastest stage time was awarded with one bonus point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Classification, Penalties\nThe following notable crews were given time penalty during the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282083-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally Turkey, Classification, Retirements\nThe following notable crews retired from the event. Under Rally2 regulations, they were eligible to re-enter the event starting from the next leg. Crews that re-entered were given an additional time penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal\nThe 2018 Rally de Portugal (formally known as the Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 17 and 20 May 2018. It marked the fifty-second running of Rally de Portugal, and was the sixth round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships, and the third round of the Junior WRC championship. The event was based in Matosinhos in Porto and consisted of twenty special stages totalling 358.19\u00a0km (222.57\u00a0mi) competitive kilometres. The event was also part of the Portuguese national championship (first 9 stages) and Peugeot Rally Cup Ib\u00e9rica (first 12 stages); their participants did not feature in the overall placings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal\nS\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were the defending rally winners. Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners. The \u0160koda Motorsport crew of Pontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a \u0160koda Fabia R5, while Swedish crew Denis R\u00e5dstr\u00f6m and Johan Johansson won the World Rally Championship-3 and Junior World Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nS\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia entered the round with a ten-point lead in the World Championship for Drivers and Co-drivers. In the World Championship for Manufacturers, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT held a fifteen-point lead over M-Sport Ford WRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 77], "content_span": [78, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Background, Entry list\nThe following crews were entered into the rally. The final entry list consisted of fourteen World Rally Cars, seventeen World Rally Championship-2 entries, and fourteen entries in the World Rally Championship-3. All of the World Rally Championship-3 drivers and co-drivers were eligible to score points in the Junior World Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Report, Pre-event\nHaydon Paddon and Sebastian Marshall returned to the championship with Hyundai. Paddon and Marshall had previously contested Rally Sweden before handing the car over to Dani Sordo and Carlos del Barrio for the next three events as part of a drive-sharing agreement in the team. As part of the agreement, Paddon and Sordo will contest seven events each, leading Hyundai to enter a fourth i20 Coupe WRC in Rally de Portugal to allow both crews to compete in seven rallies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Report, Pre-event\nMads \u00d8stberg and Torstein Eriksen returned to the championship, making their second appearance of the season with Citro\u00ebn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Report, Thursday\nArgentina winner Ott T\u00e4nak defeated Andreas Mikkelsen, who set fifth fastest time, in front of 30,000 fans in their head-to-head heat and topped his Yaris by 0.4 second. Defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier and his Fiesta teammate Teemu Suninen tied in second, while Kris Meeke finished fourth. Last year runner-up Thierry Neuville completed in sixth, while Elfyn Evans was another one tenth of a second behind. Dani Sordo finished eighth in the fourth Hyundai. Returned Mads \u00d8stberg was in ninth, while Esapekka Lappi completed the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Report, Friday\nIt was full of dramas in Friday of the rally. Ott T\u00e4nak first retired from the rally due to hitting a rock, which damaged his engine's cooling system. Next was his teammate Jari-Matti Latvala, who hit a rock and broke his front right suspension. Defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier was fourth on the road until he fell off the road in his Fiesta. Hayden Paddon was the rally reader after SS6. However, a heavy impact damaged the front left of his Hyundai i20 and blocked the stage. Teammate Andreas Mikkelsen suffered power steering and engine issues and retired from the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Report, Friday\nBack to the front, Thierry Neuville was the rally reader. Elfyn Evans completed the day in the second place, 17.7 seconds off the lead. Dani Sordo, who had to slow down as his soft tyres became worn, was another 6.6 seconds behind. Teemu Suninen finished in fourth after a consistent performance. Esapekka Lappi and Mads \u00d8stberg separated by two and a half seconds in fifth and sixth. Tyre troubles forced Kris Meeke to drive the final Porto stages with just a wheel rim on the rear left of his car and he conceded a minute. Teammate Craig Breen dropped from third to eighth after a puncture. WRC-2 category leader Gus Greensmith and \u0141ukasz Pieni\u0105\u017cek completed the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Report, Saturday\nKris Meeke started the day in seventh, but he crashed his Citro\u00ebn C3 on SS12. Fortunately, both Meeke and co-driver Paul Nagle were unhurt. Thierry Neuville ended the day with a 39.8-second advantage over Elfyn Evans. Chances are that the Hyundai star is going to snatch the position of the championship leader from the defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier, who ran under WRC-2 rule as well as Andreas Mikkelsen and Jari-Matti Latvala today, after the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Report, Saturday\nTeemu Suninen just edged Dani Sordo, who stiffened his Hyundai i20's set-up, by 4.7 seconds in third after the Spaniard received a 10-second penalty from stewards late on Saturday night for dislodging two bales on a Porto street stage roundabout in SS8 on Friday night. Esapekka Lappi completed the day in fifth in a Toyota, another 11.1 seconds behind. Mads \u00d8stberg and teammate Craig Breen, who had to clear the road today, completed the day in sixth and seventh place respectively, followed by WRC-2 leader Pontus Tidemand, \u0141ukasz Pieni\u0105\u017cek and St\u00e9phane Lefebvre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Report, Sunday\nThierry Neuville took his first Portugal and eighth WRC victory after a four-day battle. Because of championship leader S\u00e9bastien Ogier did not manage to score any points, he now leads the championship over the defending world championship by nineteen points. Ford teammates Elfyn Evans and Teemu Suninen, who reach his first podium, finished second and third to help the team narrow the gap to Hyundai to thirteen points. Esapekka Lappi, who took another Power Stage win, overtook Dani Sordo to completed the event in fourth in a Yaris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Report, Sunday\nHowever, he was given a ten-second penalty for displacing one of the three dividing bales on SS9's third roundabout later on. As a result, he lost his fourth place to the Spaniard. Mads \u00d8stberg and teammate Craig Breen finished in sixth and seventh overall, which brought some valuable points to Citro\u00ebn, while WRC-2 leader Pontus Tidemand, \u0141ukasz Pieni\u0105\u017cek and St\u00e9phane Lefebvre completed the leaderboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Classification, Top ten finishers\nThe following crews finished the rally in each class's top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Classification, Other notable finishers\nThe following notable crews finished the rally outside top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 63], "content_span": [64, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Classification, Power stage\nThe Power stage was an 11.18\u00a0km stage at the end of the rally. Additional World Championship points were awarded to the five fastest crews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Classification, J-WRC stage winning crews\nJunior World Rally Championship crews scored additional points. Each of the fastest stage time was awarded with one bonus point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Classification, Penalties\nThe following notable crews were given time penalty during the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282084-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Rally de Portugal, Classification, Retirements\nThe following notable crews retired from the event. Under Rally2 regulations, they were eligible to re-enter the event starting from the next leg. Crews that re-entered were given an additional time penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland\nThe 2018 Rallye Deutschland (formally known as the ADAC Rallye Deutschland 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars held over four days between 16 and 19 August 2018. It marked the thirty-sixth running of Rallye Deutschland, and was the ninth round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships. The event was based at Sankt Wendel in the countryside surrounding the Bostalsee in Saarland, and consisted of eighteen special stages totalling 325.76\u00a0km (202.42\u00a0mi) in competitive kilometres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland\nOtt T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja were the defending rally winners and they successfully defended their title. The \u0160koda Motorsport II crew of Jan Kopeck\u00fd and Pavel Dresler won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a \u0160koda Fabia R5, while Finnish crew Taisko Lario and Tatu H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen won the World Rally Championship-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nThierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul entered the round with a twenty-one-point lead in the World Championship for Drivers and Co-drivers. In the World Championship for Manufacturers, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT held a twenty-six-point lead over M-Sport Ford WRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 78], "content_span": [79, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Background, Entry list\nThe following crews were entered into the rally. The event was opened to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2, and the World Rally Championship-3. The final entry list consisted of thirteen World Rally Car entries, nineteen entries in World Rally Championship-2, and three World Rally Championship-3 entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Report, Thursday\nOtt T\u00e4nak, who won the Shakedown, topped his Yaris over the WRC 2 category leader Kalle Rovanper\u00e4 by just one-tenth of a second, while the young Norwegian Ole Christian Veiby was another slender 0.1 second behind. Returned Dani Sordo cleared the stage in fourth, followed by another experienced WRC 2 driver Jan Kopeck\u00fd. Defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier finished in seventh, ahead of Andreas Mikkelsen and Craig Breen by 0.1 and 0.2 second respectively. Two WRC 2 drivers, Umberto Scandola and Kajetan Kajetanowicz completed the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Report, Friday\nFive-time world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier was the fastest man to finish the day other than the defending rally winner Ott T\u00e4nak, who set five out of six fastest stage times and built a 12.3-second lead over the Frenchman, while championship leader Thierry Neuville was another 15.1 seconds behind. Elfyn Evans climbed up three places in the afternoon loop and edged Jari-Matti Latvala by a second. Dani Sordo completed the day in sixth, only one-tenth of a second ahead of Esapekka Lappi, who failed to come to terms with dirt dragged onto the roads by the early starters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Report, Friday\nCraig Breen lost some time due to being caught in a heavy rain shower in the early stage in the eighth place, followed by Andreas Mikkelsen, who was struggling with his i20's handling and chose to change his driving style, in ninth, only one second behind. Teemu Suninen, driving a third Fiesta, in tenth. Lacking of power caused Mads \u00d8stberg to fail to find the pace like Finland, which made him cleared the day off the leaderboard in eleventh overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Report, Saturday\nSaturday turned out to be a total disaster for Ford. First in the early stage, Elfyn Evans retired his Ford Fiesta from the day after sliding into a field, damaging the left front wheel in the process. Then in the afternoon loop, Second-place S\u00e9bastien Ogier suffered a puncture due to hitting a rock in the second pass through the marathon Panzerplatte military road test, dropping him five places to seventh overall, half a second behind Andreas Mikkelsen in front. This further extended Ott T\u00e4nak's lead to 43.7 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Report, Saturday\nThis time over Dani Sordo, who edged Jari-Matti Latvala by just 0.8 second after a hot fight. Championship leader Thierry Neuville struggled for pace in his i20. He switched back to yesterday's differential and gearbox settings and found a comfortable rhythm. The Belgian eventually ended the day in fourth, eight seconds ahead of Esapekka Lappi. Teemu Suninen climbed up to eighth after Craig Breen crashed in the final stage and damaged his Citro\u00ebn C3's rear left suspension and dropped down to tenth place, followed by Mads \u00d8stberg cleared the day in ninth after a trouble free day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Report, Sunday\nThe opening stage saw a dramatic start to final day of the event. Tenth-place Mads \u00d8stberg, who was third on road, went off into a field and forced to retire from the event. Dani Sordo and Jari-Matti Latvala should have a fierce competition for second place, but an accident damage, which is happened on the Spaniard\uff0cand a transmission failure, which is happened on the Finn, burned the battle to ash. The biggest beneficiary of the chaos is championship leader Thierry Neuville, who was pushed up to the second place after the two's retirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Report, Sunday\nThe king of the event is obviously Ott T\u00e4nak, who led the entire rally but one stage. The Estonian took his first back-to-back victory in his career and now eats the gap to top to thirty-six points in the drivers' championships. Teammate Esapekka Lappi finished third, 21.7 seconds behind Thierry Neuville. With a 1-3 finish, Toyota overtook Ford to second in the manufacturers' championships, only thirteen points behind Hyundai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Report, Sunday\nAlthough defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier won the Power Stage, the outcome of fourth place finish still failed to narrow the gap to championship leader Thierry Neuville \u2014 it is up to twenty-three points after the event. Teammate Teemu Suninen completed the rally with a fifth-place finish after a consistent weekend, followed by Andreas Mikkelsen in sixth. Craig Breen finished in seventh, while localman Marijan Griebel finished in eighth. WRC 2 leader Jan Kopeck\u00fd and seventeen-year-old Kalle Rovanper\u00e4 completed the leaderboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Classification, Top ten finishers\nThe following crews finished the rally in each class's top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Classification, Other notable finishers\nThe following notable crews finished the rally outside top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Classification, Power stage\nThe Power stage was a 14.97\u00a0km stage at the end of the rally. Additional World Championship points were awarded to the five fastest crews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Classification, Penalties\nThe following notable crews were given time penalty during the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282085-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Rallye Deutschland, Classification, Retirements\nThe following notable crews retired from the event. Under Rally2 regulations, they were eligible to re-enter the event starting from the next leg. Crews that re-entered were given an additional time penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282086-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ramazan Veteran's Cup, Group stage\nFrom each group, the top two teams will be advanced for the Semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282087-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ranheim Fotball season\nThe 2018 season was Ranheim Fotball's first season in the Eliteserien following their promotion. They finished the season in 7th position and reached the Fourth Round of the Norwegian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282087-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ranheim Fotball season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282087-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ranheim Fotball season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282088-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ratchaburi Mitr Phol F.C. season\nThe 2018 season is Ratchaburi Mitr Phol Football Club's 12th existence. It is the 3rd season in the Thai League and the club's 6th consecutive season in the top flight of the Thai football league system since promoted in the 2013 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282089-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Reading Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Reading Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Reading Borough Council. There were three casual vacancies in Kentwood, Katesgrove and Church wards due to the early retirement of Councillors. The Labour Party held on to control of Reading Borough Council seeing their vote increase in seats across the Reading East constituency but suffering setbacks in the marginal seat of Kentwood where The Conservative Party gained a seat. The Conservatives also succeeded in gaining Tilehurst ward from the Liberal Democrats, reducing the Liberal Democrats to one remaining Councillor. The election was held on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282090-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Monarchs season\nThe 2018 Real Monarchs season is the fourth season for Real Monarchs in the United Soccer League (USL), the second-tier professional soccer league in the United States and Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282091-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Salt Lake season\nThe 2018 Real Salt Lake season is the team's 14th year of existence, and their 14th consecutive season in Major League Soccer, the top division of the American soccer pyramid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282091-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Salt Lake season, Competitions, MLS regular season, Results summary\nLast updated: October 22, 2018Source: MLS ResultsPld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won; T = Matches tied; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 77], "content_span": [78, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship\nThe 2018 Real Tennis World Championship was a real tennis tournament held at the Queen's Club in London, England. 12-time world champion Rob Fahey regained the world title defeating the defending champion Camden Riviere by a score of 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, Qualification\nAs the defending champion, Camden Riviere qualified directly to the World Championship Challenge. The challenger was determined through a series of eliminator matches. Qualification to the eliminator matches was based on results in major tournaments in 2016 and 2017. Four players were declared eligible to compete:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, Qualification\nThis was the first year that Fahey had participated in the challenge tournament since 1994, as he had held the title of World Champion continuously until 2016. During the World Race, he won the 2016 Australian Open in Melbourne against Ben Taylor-Matthews and was runner up in both the 2016 and 2017 French Open as well as the 2017 US Open, losing in all cases to Camden Riviere. Before commencing the first round eliminator, he won the 2018 Australian Open in Hobart, although this did not count towards the World Race for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, Qualification\nVirgona had qualified to be the World Championship challenger on two occasions: first in 2010 in Melbourne and again in 2012 at the Queen's Club, losing both times to Fahey. In both 2014 and 2016, he lost the final eliminator to Camden Riviere. During the qualification period, he was runner-up at both the 2016 US Open and 2017 Australian Open, again losing both times to Riviere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, Qualification\nUnlike the other qualifiers, this would be Chapman's first appearance in the World Championship eliminators, although he had competed in the early rounds of the World Doubles Championship. He was also the only competitor not to have previously won an open event. His best result was reaching the final of the 2016 British Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, Qualification\nSayers was competing in the challenge for the third time, having reached the final eliminator in 2014 and the first round in 2012, losing both times to Virgona. His best result in the qualification period was as runner-up in the 2017 British Open to world champion Camden Riviere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, Eliminators\nThe format for the world championship eliminators was changed for 2018. In previous years, the matches were held on a home and away basis as three best-of-five set matches. In 2018, the first round eliminator were held at a single venue as a single best-of-nine set match, across two days. Four sets would be played on the first day, with the option for a fifth set if one player were to win the first four sets. The final eliminator would retain the home and away format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, Eliminators\nThe venues for the first round eliminators were chosen via a bidding process. Each player had the right to put in a bid for their chosen court, with the first and second seeds able to match their opponents bid if their bid was at least 80% of the rival bid. The third and fourth seeded players successfully out-bid their higher-seeded opponents, so the venues were the two London courts of Queen's and the Royal Tennis Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, Eliminators, First Round Eliminators\nThe first eliminator was held at the Queen's Club in London, the home court of Bryn Sayers. The venue also regularly hosts the British Open and was scheduled to host the World Championship challenge later that year. Only a few months prior, Sayers had defeated Fahey in four sets on the same court in the British Open semi-final. Sayers started strong, winning the first set 6/4, although Fahey brought back momentum to win the next two sets 6/3 and 6/1. The final set of the first day was a narrow-fought 6/5 to Fahey. On the second day, Fahey needed two sets to progress; Sayers needed four. Although Sayers won the first set of the day again, Fahey held onto two tight sets to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, Eliminators, First Round Eliminators\nAcross at the Royal Tennis Court at Hampton Court, the other match saw battle between the local professional Chris Chapman and his then-doubles partner Steve Virgona. Virgona dominated the play winning the first four sets of the day. He then opted to play the fifth and ultimately final set on the same day, winning it also and negating the need for a second day of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, Eliminators, Final Eliminator\nThe Final Eliminator was a match-up between Virgona and Fahey. As the higher ranked player, Fahey had the choice of court for the second and third (if required) matches of the eliminator. Virgona elected to play the first match at his home club of Chicago. In the first Leg at Chicago, Virgona took an early lead in the best-of-five set match, taking the first set 4/6. But the visitor and former world champion came back strong, to take the leg in four sets. A week later at the second leg at Prested Hall, despite some tight games and excellent play, Fahey raced through in straight sets to return to the World Championship Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, World Challenge\nThe 2018 World Championship Challenge was held as a best-of-13 set match between defending champion Camden Riviere and 12-time former champion Robert Fahey. In March 2017, the venue for the challenge was announced as the Queen's Club in London. It was the eighth time Queen's would host a World Championship, having previously hosted in 1905, 1955, 1957, 1976, 1981, 1985, 1987 and 2012. It was also the venue for Jeu de Paume at the 1908 Olympic Games. Both the champion and the challenger had played regularly at the venue, as it hosts the annual British Open. However, they had not met in the British Open since the semi-final in 2012, where Fahey won in straight-sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, World Challenge\nThe pair had previously met in three World Championship Challenges, all of which featured Fahey as the defending champion. Their first meeting was in Fontainebleau, France in 2008, which was Riviere's first challenge. Then, Riviere had never before beaten Fahey, but gave a strong showing to win five sets from Fahey. They would next meet in Melbourne, Australia in 2014. Again, Fahey successfully defended his championship 7\u20133. However, since then Riviere had an undefeated record over a four-year period which included winning the World Championship at his then-home club of Newport, Rhode Island in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, World Challenge\nRiviere had won seven consecutive Major Opens including a Grand Slam, from the 2016 US Open to the 2017 British Open, after which he missed the 2018 Australian Open. Nonetheless, despite his age Fahey boasted an unrivalled pedigree in the sport, with 49 Major Opens and 12 World Championships, although he had only won five opens since 2013. Prior to the match, Fahey admitted \"I'm going to be the biggest underdog since the 1930s\" as his 50th birthday would be two days after the match's conclusion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, World Challenge, Day 1\nThe match was attended by Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and marked by Andrew Lyons, the former Queen's Club head professional. Despite a reputation for starting matches slowly, Fahey began the match by taking the first set 6/4. Riviere then applied the pressure throughout the remainder of the day, winning back the second set and narrowly gaining the advantage in the third as Fahey tried to hold on. By the fourth set, he was cruising and did not drop a game as Fahey started to look tired. At the end of the day, Riviere had a solid 3 sets to 1 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, World Challenge, Day 2\nGiven his lead from the first day, his strong history and his opponent's age, many expected the second day to be all about Riviere. However Fahey fought back hard with a tight and varied serving game and strong power hitting, as Riviere struggled to find momentum from his high-energy style of play. The fifth and six sets took nearly an hour each, with momentum swinging back and forth, but ultimately, Fahey prevailed in both. A niggling hipinjury break to Riviere did not help, as Fahey went from strength to strength. Ultimately, Fahey won every set by increasing margins to recover a 5\u20133 lead in the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, World Challenge, Day 3\nGoing into the final day, Fahey needed only win two sets to recover his World Championship. The first set of the day was long and tight, with Riviere narrowly gaining the upper hand. He followed it up by winning the second set of the day comfortably to bring the match score to 5 sets all. Although it looked like the momentum was with Riviere he was struggling with his serve, which allowed Fahey to capitalise and fight back one last time to win the final two sets and thus the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282092-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Real Tennis World Championship, World Challenge, Result\nFahey won the match 7\u20135 to claim his record 13th World Championship. He also became the first male singles champion since Fred Covey in 1922 to recover the title after previously losing it. He re-established himself as the second-oldest world champion to Pierre Etchebaster, the match occurring two days prior to his 50th birthday. Upon claiming the trophy, he said \"I used to think that I owned this trophy. Now I know I'm just borrowing it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282093-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan presidential campaign\nRecep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, incumbent President of Turkey since 2014, was officially nominated as the presidential candidate of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) on 3 May 2018. Shortly thereafter, the nominally oppositional Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) reiterated that it would endorse Erdo\u011fan's candidacy, and would jointly apply to the electoral commission for its formal registration. After the MHP announced that they will endorse Erdo\u011fan\u2019s campaign, the BBP announced the support for Erdo\u011fan\u2019s candidacy. In early May, it was confirmed by Erdo\u011fan that he would be visiting the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo in the early stages of the campaign, most likely on 20 May 2018, and hold campaign rallies with the Bosnian Turks to drum up support for his re-election bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282094-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Recopa Sudamericana\nThe 2018 CONMEBOL Recopa was the 26th edition of the CONMEBOL Recopa (also referred to as the Recopa Sudamericana, or Portuguese: Recopa Sul-Americana), the football competition organized by CONMEBOL between the winners of the previous season's two major South American club tournaments, the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282094-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Recopa Sudamericana\nThe competition was contested in two-legged home-and-away format between Brazilian team Gr\u00eamio, the 2017 Copa Libertadores champions, and Argentinian team Independiente, the 2017 Copa Sudamericana champions. The first leg was hosted by Independiente at Estadio Libertadores de Am\u00e9rica in Avellaneda on 14 February 2018, while the second leg was hosted by Gr\u00eamio at Arena do Gr\u00eamio in Porto Alegre on 21 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282094-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Recopa Sudamericana\nTied 1\u20131 on aggregate, Gr\u00eamio won 5\u20134 on penalties to win their second Recopa Sudamericana title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282094-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Recopa Sudamericana, Format\nThe Recopa Sudamericana was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the Copa Libertadores champions hosting the second leg. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would not be used, and 30 minutes of extra time would be played. If still tied after extra time, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner. If extra time was played, a fourth substitution would be allowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282094-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Recopa Sudamericana, Matches, First leg\nAssistant referees:Byron Romero (Ecuador)Christian Lescano (Ecuador)Fourth official:Luis Quiroz (Ecuador)Video assistant referee:Mario D\u00edaz de Vivar (Paraguay)Milc\u00edades Sald\u00edvar (Paraguay)Assistant video assistant referee:Gery Vargas (Bolivia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282094-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Recopa Sudamericana, Matches, Second leg\nAssistant referees:Eduardo Cardozo (Paraguay)Juan Zorrilla (Paraguay)Fourth official:\u00c9ber Aquino (Paraguay)Video assistant referee:Andr\u00e9s Cunha (Uruguay)Nicol\u00e1s Tar\u00e1n (Uruguay)Assistant video assistant referee:Jos\u00e9 Argote (Venezuela)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282095-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Red Bull Air Race World Championship\nThe 2018 Red Bull Air Race World Championship was the thirteenth Red Bull Air Race World Championship series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282095-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Red Bull Air Race World Championship, Race calendar and results\nThe eight-event calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 8 November 2017. Chiba of rounds 3 were announced on 6 March 2018. On 24 July 2018, the season finale was announced to be held at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282096-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup\nThe 2018 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup was the twelfth season of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. The season, for the sixth year contested by the riders on equal KTM 250cc 4-stroke Moto3 bikes, was held over 12 races in seven meetings on the Grand Prix motorcycle racing calendar, beginning at Jerez on 5 May and ending on 23 September at MotorLand Arag\u00f3n. Turkish rider Can \u00d6nc\u00fc won the championship, securing the title after the Misano race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282096-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, Championship standings\nPoints were awarded to the top fifteen riders, provided the rider finished the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282097-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Red Rock Pro Open\nThe 2018 Red Rock Pro Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Las Vegas, United States, on 5\u201311 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282097-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Red Rock Pro Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282098-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Red Rock Pro Open \u2013 Doubles\nAn-Sophie Mestach and Laura Robson were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282098-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Red Rock Pro Open \u2013 Doubles\nAsia Muhammad and Maria Sanchez won the title, defeating Sophie Chang and Alexandra Mueller in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282099-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Red Rock Pro Open \u2013 Singles\nSesil Karatantcheva was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Grace Min.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282099-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Red Rock Pro Open \u2013 Singles\nBelinda Bencic won the title, defeating Nicole Gibbs in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282100-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Redbox Bowl\nThe 2018 Redbox Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December 31, 2018 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, with kickoff at noon PST (3:00\u00a0p.m. EST). It was one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. This was the 17th annual edition of a game that has gone by different names, and was known as the Foster Farms Bowl for the previous four years. For 2018 the game was renamed for its new sponsor, the DVD and video game rental company Redbox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282100-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Redbox Bowl, Teams\nThe game was played between Michigan State of the Big Ten Conference and Oregon of the Pac-12 Conference. The two teams have met six times previously, with each winning three times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282100-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Redbox Bowl, Teams, Oregon Ducks\nOregon received and accepted a bid to the Redbox Bowl on December 2. The Ducks entered the bowl with an 8\u20134 record (5\u20134 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282100-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Redbox Bowl, Teams, Michigan State Spartans\nMichigan State received and accepted a bid to the Redbox Bowl on December 2. The Spartans entered the bowl with a 7\u20135 record (5\u20134 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282101-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Redbridge London Borough Council election\nAn election for Redbridge London Borough Council took place on 3 May 2018, the same day as for other London Boroughs. All 63 seats were up for election, with new ward boundaries in place. The Labour Party retained control of the council with an increased majority, taking 81% of the seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282101-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Redbridge London Borough Council election, Results\nThe election was fought on new ward boundaries. The Labour Party won 51 seats (up 16 from 2014), the Conservatives won 12 (down 13 from 2014). Three LibDem councillors were elected in 2014, but none in 2018. Due to the boundary changes, the BBC calculated 'notional' seat changes of +13 for Labour and -13 for the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282102-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Redditch Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Redditch Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Redditch Borough Council in England. The Conservatives won control of the council from Labour with 17 seats, compared to 12 for Labour and 0 for the UKIP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282102-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Redditch Borough Council election, Background\nRedditch Borough Council was one of the smallest councils in England to hold elections in 2018 and ten of its 29 councillors were up for election. The election came with the Labour majority council being under criticism for \"controversial\" proposals for four new 'quarters' of Redditch, the demolition of the library and police station and the relocation of the borough's civic headquarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282102-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Redditch Borough Council election, Background\nThree sitting councillors did not seek re-election at this election (1 Labour, 2 Conservatives).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282102-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Redditch Borough Council election, Background\nThe Conservatives ultimately gained four seats to take their total to 17 and which meant that they took control of the council, the only example of a direct change of power from Labour to Conservatives at these elections. Labour lost three seats while UKIP lost its last remaining councillor in the Winyates ward. The result also meant that Labour no longer controlled any local authority in Worcestershire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282103-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Regional Women's Twenty20 Championship\nThe 2018 Regional Women's Twenty20 Championship was the fourth season of the women's Twenty20 cricket competition played in the West Indies. It took place in June 2018, with 6 teams taking part and mainly taking place in Kingston. Barbados won the tournament, claiming their first T20 title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282103-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Regional Women's Twenty20 Championship\nThe tournament was followed by the 2018 Women's Regional Super50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282103-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Regional Women's Twenty20 Championship, Competition format\nTeams played in a round-robin in a group of six, therefore playing 5 matches overall. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format. The top team in the group were crowned the Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282103-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Regional Women's Twenty20 Championship, Competition format\nThe group worked on a points system with positions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282104-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Reinert Open\nThe 2018 Reinert Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Versmold, Germany, on 9\u201315 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282104-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Reinert Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282105-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Reinert Open \u2013 Doubles\nKatharina Gerlach and Julia Wachaczyk were the defending champions, but they lost to Amina Anshba and Albina Khabibulina in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282105-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Reinert Open \u2013 Doubles\nPemra \u00d6zgen and Despina Papamichail won the title, defeating Olga Danilovi\u0107 and Nina Stojanovi\u0107 in the final, 1\u20136, 6\u20132, [10\u20134].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282106-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Reinert Open \u2013 Singles\nMihaela Buz\u0103rnescu was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282106-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Reinert Open \u2013 Singles\nOlga Danilovi\u0107 won the title, defeating Laura Siegemund in the final, 5\u20137, 6\u20131, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282107-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Remus F3 Cup\nThe 2018 Remus F3 Cup was the 37th Austria Formula 3 Cup season and the sixth Remus F3 Cup season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282107-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Remus F3 Cup, Teams and drivers\nAll Cup cars were built between 2008 and 2011, while Trophy cars were built between 1992 and 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282107-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Remus F3 Cup, Teams and drivers\nNumbers used at Remus F3 Cup events listed; numbers used at races run to F2000 Italian Formula Trophy regulations displayed in tooltips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282107-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Remus F3 Cup, Calendar & Race results\nRound 2 to 4 and 6 (Red Bull Ring, Monza, Most and Imola) were held together with the F2000 Italian Formula Trophy, however, all F2000 competitors will be ineligible to score Remus F3 Cup points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282107-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Remus F3 Cup, Championship standings, Drexler Automotive Formula 3 Cup\nAll German drivers or drivers that use a Drexler Automotive gearbox are eligible to score points for the Drexler Automotive Formula 3 Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 75], "content_span": [76, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282107-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Remus F3 Cup, Championship standings, Drexler Automotive Formula 3 Cup\n\u2020 Although Wachter and Martucci weren't participating in any Remus F3 Cup classes, they were eligible to score points in the Drexler Automotive Formula 3 Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 75], "content_span": [76, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282107-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Remus F3 Cup, Championship standings, HORAG Swiss Formula 3 Cup\n\u2020 Antoine Bottiroli was competing in F2000 Italian Trophy at the Red Bull Ring races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 68], "content_span": [69, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282108-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Renault UK Clio Cup\nThe 2018 Renault UK Clio Cup is a multi-event, one make motor racing championship held across England. The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers competing in the Clio Renaultsport 200 Turbo EDC that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. Organised by the British Automobile Racing Club, it forms part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the British Touring Car Championship. It will be the 23rd Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom season and the 43rd of UK motorsport undertaken by Renault and Renault Sport. The first race takes place on 1 April at Brands Hatch on the circuit's Indy configuration and concluded on 30 September at the same venue, utilising the Grand Prix circuit, after eighteen races held at nine meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282108-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Renault UK Clio Cup, Teams and drivers\nThe following teams and drivers are currently signed to run the 2018 season. All teams and drivers were British-registered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282108-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Renault UK Clio Cup, Championship standings, Drivers' championship\nBold\u00a0\u2013 PoleItalics\u00a0\u2013 Fastest Lap (+2 points)*\u00a0\u2013 Leading Lap (+1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282109-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Renfrew County municipal elections\nElections were held in Renfrew County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282109-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Renfrew County municipal elections, Renfrew County Council\nCounty council has no direct elections; its membership is made up of the mayors and reeves of the lower-tier municipalities of the county (including the reeves - rather than mayors - of Deep River, Laurentian Valley, Renfrew and Whitewater Region), while Arnpror elects a separate councillor for county council. Therefore, elections in those municipalities determine the members of council for the new term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282110-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Reno 1868 FC season\nThe 2018 Reno 1868 FC season is the club's second season of existence, their second in the second tier of American soccer and their second in the United Soccer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282111-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Reno mayoral election\nThe 2018 Reno mayoral election was held on November 6, 2018 to elect the mayor of Reno, Nevada. It saw the reelection of Hillary Schieve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282112-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Republika Srpska general election\nGeneral elections were held in Republika Srpska on 7 October 2018 as part of the Bosnian general elections. Voters elected the President of Republika Srpska and the 83 members of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska. Incumbent President Milorad Dodik was ineligible for re-election. Incumbent Prime Minister \u017deljka Cvijanovi\u0107 was nominated by the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) and was elected to the Presidency, running on a joint platform with the Democratic People's Alliance and Socialist Party. SNSD also remained the largest in the National Assembly, and Radovan Vi\u0161kovi\u0107 became Prime Minister after a brief interim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282113-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Reykjavik Tournament\nThe 2018 Reykjavik Tournament was the 18th season of Iceland's annual men's pre-season tournament. The tournament involved nine of Reykjav\u00edk's top football sides from the top two leagues in Iceland, \u00darvalsdeild karla and 1. deild karla, and used a combination of group and knockout rounds to determine which team was the winner of the tournament. The competition began on 6 January 2018 and concluded on 5 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282113-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Reykjavik Tournament, Semifinals\nThe top two teams from each group entered the semifinals stage. The ties were played on 1 February 2018 at Egilsh\u00f6ll, Reykjav\u00edk, one after the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282113-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Reykjavik Tournament, Final\nThe 2018 Reykjavik Tournament final was contested between the winners of the two semifinal matches. The final was played at Egilsh\u00f6ll, Reykjav\u00edk, on 5 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282114-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island Rams football team\nThe 2018 Rhode Island Rams football team represented the University of Rhode Island in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Jim Fleming and played their home games at Meade Stadium. They were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 6\u20135, 4\u20134 in CAA play to finish in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282114-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island Rams football team, Previous season\nThe Rams finished the 2017 season 3\u20138, 2\u20136 in CAA play to finish in a tie for tenth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282114-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island Rams football team, Preseason, CAA Poll\nIn the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Rams were predicted to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282114-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island Rams football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CAA Team\nThe Rams had two players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282115-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Rhode Island on November 6, 2018. The party primaries for the election occurred on September 12, 2018. All of Rhode Island's executive officers went up for election as well as Rhode Island's Class I U.S. Senate seat and both of Rhode Island's two seats in the United States House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282115-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island elections, Governor\nIncumbent Democratic Governor Gina Raimondo sought re-election to a second term and won, defeating Republican Allan Fung in a rematch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282115-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island elections, Lieutenant Governor\nIncumbent Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island Daniel McKee sought and won re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282115-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island elections, Lieutenant Governor, Democratic primary\nThe two had a debate on WPRI on September 7, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282115-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Peter Kilmartin was term-limited and could not run for re-election to a third term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282115-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Democratic Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea is eligible to run for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282115-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island elections, General Treasurer\nIncumbent Democratic General Treasurer Seth Magaziner is eligible to run for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282115-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island elections, United States Senate\nIncumbent Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse won reelection to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282115-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island elections, United States House of Representatives\nBoth of Rhode Island's two seats in the United States House of Representatives will be up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282116-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Rhode Island, concurrently with the election of Rhode Island's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282116-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nOn September 12, 2018, incumbent governor Gina Raimondo and Cranston mayor and 2014 gubernatorial nominee Allan Fung won the Democratic and Republican primaries respectively, facing each other in a rematch of the 2014 election. Raimondo defeated Fung in the general election on November 6 to win a second term as governor, improving on her plurality win in 2014 to earn a majority of the votes, and becoming the first Gubernatorial candidate (incumbent or challenger) to win a majority of votes since Donald Carcieri in 2006. It was also the first time that a Democrat got re-elected as Governor of Rhode Island since Bruce Sundlun won a second term in 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282117-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics Asian Cup\nThe 1st Rhythmic Gymnastics Asian Cup was held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from October 26 to 28, 2018. The competition had senior and junior divisions, and a team event consisting of two senior gymnasts and one junior gymnast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282118-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships\nThe 2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships was the 34th edition of the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, which took place on 1\u20133 June 2018 at the Palacio Multiusos de Guadalajara in Guadalajara, Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282119-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships\nThe 2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, the 36th edition, were held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 10 September to 16 September 2018. Russia was the most successful nation of the competition with seven gold medals, and Bulgaria and Italy each won a title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282119-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, Groups, Group All-Around\nThe top 8 scores in the apparatus qualifies to the group apparatus finals and the top 8 in overall qualification scores advance to the group all-around final. The top 24 groups in the All-Around qualified for the 2019 World Championships in Baku. The top 3 groups in the All-Around automatically qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282120-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Riau gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Riau gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of Riau along with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282120-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Riau gubernatorial election\nFour pairs of candidates contested the election, including incumbent governor Arsyadjuliandi Rachman. Other candidates are Firdaus, mayor of the province's capital Pekanbaru, DPR member and former cabinet minister Muhammad Lukman Edy, and Siak Regency regent Syamsuar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282120-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Riau gubernatorial election\nAfter winning 38.2 percent of the votes, Syamsuar would defeat the incumbent and become governor for the 2018-2023 period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282120-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Riau gubernatorial election, Timeline\nRegistration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The candidates were assigned their ballot numbers on 13 February 2018. The campaigning period would commence between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June. In April 2018, KPU declared that there were 3,622,488 eligible voters for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282120-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Riau gubernatorial election, Candidates\nUnder regulations, candidates are required to secure the support of a political party or a coalition thereof comprising at least 20 percent of the seats in the regional house. Alternatively, independent candidates may run provided they are capable of securing support from 8.5 percent of the total voter population (333,119 voters) in form of photocopied ID cards subject to verification by the local committee although no candidates expressing interest managed to do this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282120-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Riau gubernatorial election, Candidates\nSyamsuar, having won elections in Siak Regency twice, was approved by PAN to run in the gubernatorial election despite himself being a member of Golkar. After securing the support of Nasdem and PKS, he was eligible to run with 13 seats in the provincial council. His running mate Edi Nasution is a brigadier general in the Indonesian Army, who was stationed at Pekanbaru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282120-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Riau gubernatorial election, Candidates\nMuhammad Lukman Edy had previously ran twice for governor - in 2008 and 2013 - and lost in both occasions. In addition to being member of DPR and holding a deputy chair post at MPR, he was the chairman of PKB's Riau office, and secured the support of his party to run. His running mate Hardianto is a member of Riau's provincial council, and the pair secured just enough seats in it to run (7 from PKB, 6 from Gerindra).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282120-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Riau gubernatorial election, Candidates\nAlso with 13 seats in the council, Pekanbaru mayor Firdaus ran for governorship. The supporting parties are his own (Demokrat, with 9 seats) and PPP (4 seats). His running mate, Rusli Effendi, is a PPP member who had served 10 years in the provincial council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282120-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Riau gubernatorial election, Candidates\nIncumbent Arsyadjuliandi Rachman (who was made governor following the arrest of his predecessor by the Corruption Eradication Commission in 2014) managed to secure the support of Golkar, PDI-P and Hanura. His running mate Suyatno was the regent of Rokan Hilir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282121-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rice Owls football team\nThe 2018 Rice Owls football team represented Rice University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Owls played their home games at the Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas, and competed in the West Division of Conference USA (C\u2013USA). They were led by first-year head coach Mike Bloomgren. They finished the season 2\u201311, 1\u20137 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for sixth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282121-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rice Owls football team, Previous season\nThe Owls finished the 2017 season 1\u201311, 1\u20137 in C-USA play to finish in sixth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282121-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rice Owls football team, Previous season\nOn November 27, head coach David Bailiff was fired. He finished at Rice with an 11-year record of 57\u201380.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282121-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rice Owls football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CUSA team\nConference USA released their preseason all-CUSA team on July 16, 2018, with the Owls having one player selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282121-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rice Owls football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nConference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Owls predicted to finish in a tie for sixth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282122-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond Football Club season\nThe 2018 season was the 111th season in which the Richmond Football Club participated in the VFL/AFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282122-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond Football Club season, Reserves\nThe 2018 season marked the fifth consecutive year the Richmond Football club ran a stand-alone reserves team in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Richmond senior and rookie-listed players who were not selected to play in the AFL side were eligible to play for the team alongside a small squad of VFL-only listed players. The team was captained by former AFL listed defender Steve Morris. Hugh Beasley, Jake Aarts, Jacob Ballard and Tom Silvestro are also in the team's 2018 leadership group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282122-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond Football Club season, Reserves\nThe team finished the home and away season with 14 wins and four losses, earning the minor premiership as a result. They were eliminated from the finals series after successive qualifying and semi finals matches against Williamstown and Essendon respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282122-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond Football Club season, Reserves\nAFL-listed midfielder Anthony Miles won the club's best and fairest award for the second year running, along with the league's best and fairest award, the J. J. Liston Trophy. AFL-listed small forward Tyson Stengle led the team's goal-kicking with 33 across his 19 matches. Another AFL-listed small forward, Shai Bolton, received both the league's Mark and Goal of the Year awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282122-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond Football Club season, Women's team\nThe 2018 season marked the first year the Richmond Football club ran a women's team and the first year in the VFL Women's competition (VFLW). Former men's VFL assistant coach Tom Hunter was named the team's head coach in November 2017. Jess Kennedy was named the team's inaugural captain in May 2018. The team finished the season with four wins and 10 losses, placing 11th on the ladder of 13 teams and failing to qualify for the finals competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282123-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond Kickers season\nThe 2018 Richmond Kickers season was the club's 26th season of existence. It was also the club's 11th season playing in the second tier of American soccer, and their seventh straight season in the United Soccer League, since renamed the USL Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282123-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond Kickers season\nThe Kickers failed to improve on their 2017 campaign, and saw the team failed to qualify for the playoffs for consecutive seasons for the first time in club history. It was the fourth season in the club's history where they failed to qualify for the postseason. The Kickers finished with six wins, their fewest since 1994, and 24 losses, their most ever. During the season, the Kickers saw their long-time head coach, Leigh Cowlishaw step down from the post, and David Bulow take up coaching duties for the second half of the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282123-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond Kickers season\nOn September 11, 2018, the Kickers announced that due to financial issues associated with competing in the main USL, they would leave that league to become a founding member of USL League One, a new third-tier professional league operated by USL's parent company, United Soccer League (not to be confused with the former name of its top league).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282123-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond Kickers season, Background\nThe club is looking to improve off of a historically poor season. During the 2017 campaign, the Kickers finished with an 8\u201316\u20138 record, causing them to miss the playoffs for the first time since 2003. The Kickers amassed a club low 25 goals in the 32-match season. The club finished 14th out of 15 teams in the USL's Eastern Conference, and finished 26th in the 30-team league. The Kickers also suffered a second round exit in the U.S. Open Cup, losing to amateur outfit, Christos FC. It was the Kickers' shortest spell in the Open Cup since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282124-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 2018 Richmond Spiders football team represented the University of Richmond in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Russ Huesman and played their home games at E. Claiborne Robins Stadium. The Spiders were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 4\u20137, 2\u20136 in CAA play to finish in a tie for tenth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282124-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond Spiders football team, Previous season\nThe Spiders finished the 2017 season 6\u20135, 4\u20134 in CAA play to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282124-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond Spiders football team, Preseason, CAA Poll\nIn the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Spiders were predicted to finish in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282124-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond Spiders football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CAA Team\nThe Spiders had four players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282125-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council Election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council in England, on the same day as other local elections. The previous time the seats were up for election was 22 May 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282126-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RideLondon\u2013Surrey Classic\nThe 2018 Prudential RideLondon\u2013Surrey Classic was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 29 July in London, England. It was the seventh edition of the London\u2013Surrey Classic and was the twenty-sixth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282126-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RideLondon\u2013Surrey Classic\nThe race was won in a sprint finish by Germany's Pascal Ackermann, riding for Bora\u2013Hansgrohe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282127-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Riga Masters\nThe 2018 Kaspersky Riga Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 27 and 29 July 2018 at the Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia. It was the first ranking event of the 2018/2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282127-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Riga Masters\nRyan Day was the defending champion, however he lost 3\u20134 to Ali Carter in the last 64.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282127-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Riga Masters\nLiang Wenbo made the highest break of the tournament with 140 in the second round against Neil Robertson. Liang potted all blacks with reds during the break but this was not a maximum break as he potted 13th and 14th reds in the same shot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282127-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Riga Masters\nNeil Robertson won the event for the second time in three years, winning his 14th ranking title, defeating Jack Lisowski 5\u20132 in the final. This was Lisowski's first ranking event final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282127-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Riga Masters, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282127-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Riga Masters, Prize fund\nThe \"rolling 147 prize\" for a maximum break stood at \u00a310,000", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282127-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Riga Masters, Qualifying\nThese matches were held between 2 and 5 July 2018 at the Preston Guild Hall in Preston, England. All matches were the best of 7 frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282128-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rink Hockey Continental Cup\nThe 2018 Rink Hockey Continental Cup was the 38th season of the Continental Cup, Europe's roller hockey Super Cup, organized by the World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282128-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rink Hockey Continental Cup\nFour teams from two federations played for the title on 29 and 30 September 2018 in Barcelos, Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282129-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rink Hockey European Championship\nThe 2018 Rink Hockey European Championship, also named as EuroHockey 2018, was the 53rd edition of the Rink Hockey European Championship, a biennial tournament for men's national roller hockey teams of Europe organised by World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey, which took place between 14 and 22 July in A Coru\u00f1a, Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282129-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rink Hockey European Championship\nSpain won the tournament and took its seventeenth title overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282129-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rink Hockey European Championship, Teams\nEleven teams joined the tournament. Andorra, Belgium and Netherlands joined the other eight teams from the previous edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282129-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rink Hockey European Championship, Venue\nAll the games of the tournament took place at Pazo dos Deportes de Riazor, in A Coru\u00f1a, Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282130-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rink Hockey Female European Championship\nThe 2018 Rink Hockey Female European Championship was the 14th edition of this tournament, held between 8 and 14 October 2018 in Mealhada, Portugal. The competition was contested by seven teams under a round-robin format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282130-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rink Hockey Female European Championship, Controversies\nThe final match between Portugal and Spain was suspended with less than two minutes left, due to the effects of Ex-Hurricane Leslie. Spain was winning by 3\u20132. As such, the assignation of the champion was suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282130-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rink Hockey Female European Championship, Controversies\nFinally, the last two minutes were played on 1 November 2018 and Spain achieved the title with one more goal, finally winning by 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282131-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio Grande Valley FC season\nThe 2018 Rio Grande Valley FC Toros season is the 3rd season for Rio Grande Valley FC Toros in United Soccer League (USL), the second-tier professional soccer league in the United States and Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282131-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio Grande Valley FC season, Club\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Squad correct as of March 16, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 38], "content_span": [39, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282132-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio Open\nThe 2018 Rio Open was a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 5th edition of the tournament, and part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between February 19\u201325, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282132-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio Open, Points and prize money, Prize money\n1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 50], "content_span": [51, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282132-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282132-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 57], "content_span": [58, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282133-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio Open \u2013 Doubles\nPablo Carre\u00f1o Busta and Pablo Cuevas were the defending champions, but withdrew before the tournament began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282133-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio Open \u2013 Doubles\nDavid Marrero and Fernando Verdasco won the title, defeating Nikola Mekti\u0107 and Alexander Peya in the final, 5\u20137, 7\u20135, [10\u20138]. Marrero and Verdasco were the first lucky loser team to win an ATP World Tour doubles title since 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282134-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio Open \u2013 Singles\nDominic Thiem was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Fernando Verdasco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282134-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio Open \u2013 Singles\nDiego Schwartzman won the title, defeating Verdasco in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282135-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial election\nThe Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial election of October 2018 was for the election of the Governor and Vice Governor of Rio de Janeiro and 70 State Deputies. People also voted for 2 of 3 Senators of the state representation in the Federal legislative power, with 45 federal deputies representatives of the Rio de Janeiro State. A second round was held after no candidate managed to secure more than 50% of the Governor votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282135-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial election\nThe previous gubernatorial election in the state was held in October 2014. Supported by the Brazilian Democratic Movement, Luiz Fernando Pez\u00e3o was re-elected in second round with 55.78% of the votes, against 44.22% of Marcelo Crivella.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282135-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial election\nIn the second round runoff, Wilson Witzel was elected Governor of Rio de Janeiro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282135-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial election, Results\nPSC candidate Wilson Witzel secured 39 percent of the vote in the October 7. His nearest rival, DEM candidate Eduardo Paes, secured 21% of the vote. Both advanced to a second round runoff which was held on October 28. In the runoff, Witzel won the election after securing 59.87% of the vote to Paes' 40.13%", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282136-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rising Phoenix World Championships\nThe 2018 Rising Phoenix World Championships was an IFBB Wings of Strength female professional bodybuilding competition and held in conjunction with the IFBB Arizona Pro. It was held on September 8, 2018 at the Wild Horse Pass Hotel & Casino in Chandler, Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282136-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rising Phoenix World Championships, Prize money, Best poser award prize money\nThis award was sponsored by Elevation Solar, MuscleGirlzLive, and Wings of Strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 82], "content_span": [83, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282136-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rising Phoenix World Championships, Prize money, Best intro video award prize money\nThis award was sponsored by Offerpad, MAS Body Construction, and MELODY and KARLETTA SPETKO .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 88], "content_span": [89, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282136-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rising Phoenix World Championships, Prize money, Most muscular award prize money\nThis award was sponsored by Muscle Angels, HerBiceps.com, and Wings of Strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282136-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rising Phoenix World Championships, 2018 Rising Phoenix World Championships Qualified, Points standings\n1 In the event of a tie, the competitor with the best top five contest placings will be awarded the qualification. If both competitors have the same contest placings, than both will qualify for the Rising Phoenix World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 108], "content_span": [109, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282137-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 River Plate Montevideo season\nRiver Plate took part in the Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n and Torneo Intermedio. At the same time, u-20 squad competed in 2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores and reached top three. This tournament was held in Uruguay from 10 to 24 February 2018. River Plate qualified for 2019 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282137-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 River Plate Montevideo season\nPablo Tiscornia was removed on August 27 due to bad results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282137-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 River Plate Montevideo season, Squad, First team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282137-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 River Plate Montevideo season, Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Apertura 2018, Matches\n1: El Tanque Sisley withdrew from the league due to outstanding debts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282137-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 River Plate Montevideo season, Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Clausura 2018, Matches\n1: El Tanque Sisley withdrew from the league due to outstanding debts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282137-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 River Plate Montevideo season, 2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282138-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Riverview killings\nOn March 18, 2018, in Riverview, Florida, a 29-year-old man, Ronnie Oneal III, murdered his girlfriend, 33-year-old Kenyatta Barron, and their 9-year-old daughter and attempted to kill their 8-year-old son Ronnie Oneal IV. Ronnie Oneal IV, the sole survivor of the attack, managed to escape the home, alerting detectives, \"My father shot my mother\", before being escorted to a local hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282138-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Riverview killings, Events\nAt 11:43\u00a0p.m. EDT, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office received a 911 emergency call from an unknown woman, now believed to have been Kenyatta. An unknown male voice can be heard screaming \"Allah Akbar\" (which means \"God is the greatest\"). Then the female caller said, \"I\u2019m so sorry Ronnie,\" as she screamed loudly. A male caller could be heard in the background saying, \"She killed me,\" and, \"Don\u2019t come outside, call 911 now,\" according to the news release. The 911 call ended shortly thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282138-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Riverview killings, Events\nEight minutes later, a second 911 call came in at 11:51\u00a0p.m., this time featuring a male caller claiming to have been attacked by \"white demons\" and accusing Kenyatta (addressed as \"Ke-Ke\" in the call) of trying to kill him, and that he \"just killed her.\" Ronnie III gave their home address. Deputies arrived at the home at 11:49\u00a0p.m. to find a woman, later identified as Kenyatta, lying unconscious in the yard of the home at the mentioned address. Prior to killing her, Ronnie III yelled, \"Come in here, kill this bitch!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282138-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Riverview killings, Events\nRonnie III also beat his daughter with an ax, killing her, and stabbed his son, Ronnie IV, leaving him critically wounded. Ronnie III then proceeded to set fire to their home, but Ronnie IV escaped the home with stab wounds and burns and told a detective, \"My father shot my mother\" and was promptly transported to a hospital for treatment of his serious injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282138-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Riverview killings, Events\nRonnie III resisted arrest until being tasered by police, who were then able to quickly arrest him. While inside the squad car, he called his murdered victim Kenyatta \"the devil\" and said, \"The kids are the devil's kids.\" He was booked into Hillsborough County Jail the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282138-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Riverview killings, Events\nOn March 22, four days after the attack, Ronnie IV told detectives his account of the events of March 18 that left his mother and sister dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282138-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Riverview killings, Sentencing\nThe sentencing hearing for Ronnie III began on June 16, 2021. The survivor, Ronnie IV, testified in court as a witness to the case. Ronnie III asked him, \"Did I hurt you that night of the incident? \", to which the boy replied \"Yes\". Ronnie III then asked him, \"How did I hurt you?\" The boy replied, \"You stabbed me.\" Ronnie III had served as his own attorney, cross-examining Ronnie IV and claiming that his son had lied to investigators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282138-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Riverview killings, Sentencing\nInitially, court documents filed by attorneys claimed that Ronnie III was acting in self-defense, thus invoking the \"stand-your-ground law\". However, on June 21, 2021, Ronnie III was still found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder, as well as counts of aggravated child abuse, arson, and resisting a law enforcement officer. On July 23, 2021, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus 90 years, run consecutively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282138-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Riverview killings, Sentencing\nOwing to the details and facts about the case, sentencing judge Michelle Sisco described it as the \"worst case [she's] ever seen\" in her long career, dating back to 2002, of being a judge. State Attorney Andrew Warren's response to the attacks was \"These murders are among the most cruel and vicious our community has ever seen.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282138-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Riverview killings, Aftermath\nOn November 25, 2019, Ronnie IV was adopted by detective Mike Blair, who saved his life on the night of the killings. Ronnie IV changed his name to Ronnie Blair and became a brother to the five biological children, aged 16 to 23, of Mike Blair and his wife Danyel. Mike recalls the night of the killings, saying that there was \"no expectation Ronnie would live\", and considers Ronnie's recovery to be a miracle. Of the adoption, Ronnie says that he is \"loved\" and \"part of the family.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282139-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Riyadh missile strike\nThe 2018 Riyadh missile strike was a series of seven missiles launched into Saudi Arabia by Shiite Houthi rebels on 26 March 2018, targeting the King Khalid International Airport and other sites. Saudi forces claimed to have destroyed all seven missile, three of them targeting Riyadh, two targeting Jazan, and one targeting Najran. However according to Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at CNS, the Saudis failed to intercept the missiles following a malfunction of the MIM-104 Patriot system. One video appeared to show a Patriot missile launch on Sunday night go rapidly wrong, with the missile changing course midair, crashing into a neighborhood in Riyadh and exploding. Another appeared to detonate shortly after being launched in the Saudi capital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282139-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Riyadh missile strike\nThe news channel, Al Arabiya, aired footage that it said showed Patriot missile batteries firing at the incoming Houthi missiles. Online videos showed what appeared to be a missile fuselage lying on a street in Riyadh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282139-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Riyadh missile strike\nThe UN Security Council condemned the attack. An Egyptian man was killed and two others were wounded when a fragment of one of the missiles over Riyadh fell over a neighborhood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282139-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Riyadh missile strike\nAl Masirah, a Houthi-run satellite news channel, identified some of the missiles fired as the Burkan, or Volcano missile. The United Nations, Western countries and the Saudi-led military coalition fighting in Yemen all said the Burkan mirrors characteristics of an Iranian Qiam ballistic missile. They said that suggests Iran either shared the technology or smuggled disassembled missiles to the Houthis, who then rebuilt them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282139-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Riyadh missile strike\nA spokesperson for the embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia said \"seven ballistic missiles were shot toward Saudi Arabia from within Yemen.\" A press conference was held the same day at 1 p.m. \"to provide more details about this aggressive act.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282140-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rizal Crusaders season\nThe 2018 Rizal Crusaders season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282141-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 RoPS season\nThe 2018 season is RoPS's 6th Veikkausliiga season since their promotion back to the top flight in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282141-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 RoPS season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282141-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 RoPS season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282141-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 RoPS season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282141-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 RoPS season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282141-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 RoPS season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby\nThe 2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby was a series of races through which horses qualified for the 2018 Kentucky Derby, which was held on May 5. The field for the Derby was limited to 20 horses, with up to four 'also eligibles' in case of a late withdrawal from the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby\nThere were three separate paths for horses to take to qualify for the Derby: the main Road consisting of 34 races in North America plus one in Dubai, the Japan Road consisting of three races in Japan, and a new European Road consisting of seven races in England, Ireland and France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby\nThe races in the Road to the Kentucky Derby were held from September 2017 (when the horses were age two) through April 2018 (when they had turned three). The top four finishers in the specified races earned points, with the highest point values awarded in the major preparatory races held in late March or early April. Earnings in non-restricted stakes acted as a tie breaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby, Changes from 2017 series\nFor 2018, several changes were made from the 2017 series:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby, Changes from 2017 series\nThe Delta Downs Jackpot Stakes, which would have been the 36th race in the main series, was cancelled in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby, Main Road to the Kentucky Derby, Standings\nThe following table shows the points earned in the eligible races for the main series. Entries for the Derby were taken on May 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby, Main Road to the Kentucky Derby, Prep season events\nNote: 1st=10 points; 2nd=4 points; 3rd=2 points; 4th=1 point (except the Breeders' Cup Juvenile: 1st=20 points; 2nd=8 points; 3rd=4 points; 4th=2 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby, Main Road to the Kentucky Derby, Championship series events, Second leg of series\nThese races are the major preps for the Kentucky Derby, and are thus weighted more heavily. Note: 1st=100 points; 2nd=40 points; 3rd=20 points; 4th=10 points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 114], "content_span": [115, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby, Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby\nThe Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby is intended to provide a place in the Derby starting gate to the top finisher in the series. If the connections of that horse decline the invitation, their place is offered to the second-place finisher and so on through the top four finishers. If neither of the top four accept, this place in the starting gate reverts to the horses on the main road to the Derby. Eligible Earnings, defined as career earnings through April 14, 2018, serves as the tie-break if two or more horses have the same number of points. For 2018, none of the invitations was accepted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby, Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby, Qualification Table\nThe top four horses (colored brown within the standings) are eligible to participate in the Kentucky Derby provided the horse is nominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby, Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby, Events\nNote: Cattleya Sho and Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun: 1st=10 points; 2nd=4 points; 3rd=2 points; 4th=1 pointsNote: Hyacinth: 1st=30 points; 2nd=12 points; 3rd=6 points; 4th=3 points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby, European Road to the Kentucky Derby\nThe European Road to the Kentucky Derby is designed on a similar basis to the Japan Road and is intended to provide a place in the Derby starting gate to the top finisher in the series. If the connections of that horse decline the invitation, their place is offered to the second-place finisher and so on. If neither of the top four accept, this place in the starting gate reverts to the horses on the main road to the Derby. Eligible Earnings, defined as non-restricted stakes earnings through April 14, 2018, serves as the tie-break if two or more horses have the same number of points. If non-restricted stakes earnings happen to be identical, career earnings through April 14, 2018 would be used to break the tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby, European Road to the Kentucky Derby\nThe series consists of seven races \u2013 four run on the turf in late 2017 when the horses are age two, plus three races run on a synthetic surface in early 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282142-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby, European Road to the Kentucky Derby, Qualification Table\nThe following table shows the points earned in the eligible races for the European series. The top four horses (colored brown within the standings) were eligible for the invitation to participate in the Kentucky Derby, provided the horse was nominated. The connections of Gronkowski, who finished first with 50 points, accepted the invitation but Gronkowski subsequently became ill and had to miss the race. The second place finisher, Mendelssohn, separately qualified on the main Road by winning the UAE Derby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282143-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Oaks\nThe 2018 Road to the Kentucky Oaks was a points system by which Thoroughbred fillies qualified for the 2018 Kentucky Oaks, held on May 4. The races were held from September 2017 (when the fillies were age two) through April 2018 (when they turned three). The top four finishers in the specified races earned points, with the highest point values awarded in the major preparatory races held in late March or early April. Earnings in non-restricted stakes acted as a tie breaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282143-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Oaks\nFillies who instead wished to enter the Kentucky Derby had to earn the necessary points in the races on the Road to the Kentucky Derby: points earned on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks were not transferable. However, if a filly did earn qualifying points for the Derby by racing in open company, those points also counted towards qualifying for the Oaks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282143-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Oaks, Changes from 2017\nChurchill Downs announced the schedule for the 2018 Road to the Kentucky Oaks on August 31, 2017. The only changes from the 2017 season were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282143-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Oaks, Changes from 2017\nThe Delta Princess Stakes, which would have been the 31st race in the series, was cancelled in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282143-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Road to the Kentucky Oaks, Standings\nThe following table shows the points earned in the eligible races. Entries for the Kentucky Oaks were taken on April 30. The race was won by Monomoy Girl, who qualified by winning the Rachel Alexandra and Ashland Stakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282144-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Robert Morris Colonials football team\nThe 2018 Robert Morris Colonials football team represented Robert Morris University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Bernard Clark and played their home games at Joe Walton Stadium. They were a member of the Northeast Conference. They finished the season 2\u20139, 0\u20136 in NEC play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282144-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Robert Morris Colonials football team, Previous season\nThe Colonials finished the 2017 season 2\u20139, 0\u20136 in NEC play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282144-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Robert Morris Colonials football team, Previous season\nOn November 19, head coach John Banaszak announced his retirement. He finished at Robert Morris with a four-year record of 8\u201334.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282144-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Robert Morris Colonials football team, Preseason, NEC coaches poll\nThe NEC released their preseason coaches poll on July 24, 2018, with the Colonials predicted to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 71], "content_span": [72, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282144-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Robert Morris Colonials football team, Preseason, Preseason All-NEC team\nThe Colonials placed two players on the preseason all-NEC team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 77], "content_span": [78, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282145-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Rochdale Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Rochdale Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282145-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election, By-elections and other changes\nKathleen Nickson of Balderstone and Kirkholt ward defected from Labour to the Liberal Democrats in January 2019, saying that the Labour leadership \"told [me] what to do, what to say and how to vote.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282146-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rochester Knighthawks season\nThe Rochester Knighthawks were a lacrosse team based in Rochester, New York, that played in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2018 season was the 24th in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282146-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rochester Knighthawks season, Regular season, Final standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282146-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rochester Knighthawks season, Roster, Entry Draft\nThe 2017 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 18, 2017. The Knighthawks made the following selections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282147-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rochford District Council election\nThe 2018 Rochford District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Rochford District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282147-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rochford District Council election, Ward results, Lodge\nNo UKIP (-20.7), Labour (-11.3) or Liberal Democrat (-11.3) candidates as previous.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282147-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rochford District Council election, Ward results, Roche North & Rural\nNo UKIP (-30.6) or Liberal Democrat (-11.1) candidates as previous.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season\nRoger Federer's 2018 tennis season officially began on 30 December 2017, with the start of the Hopman Cup, and ended on 17 November 2018, with a loss in the semifinals of the ATP Finals. He finished the year ranked No. 3 in the ATP Rankings. This season saw Federer improving his career best start to a season at 17\u20130 (21\u20130 if including victories at the Hopman Cup). Federer won his twentieth major at the Australian Open and extended his then-record of weeks at World No. 1 to 310 weeks in this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Hopman Cup\nAs in the 2017 edition, Roger Federer paired with Belinda Bencic to represent Switzerland at the Hopman Cup. In the group stage, Federer defeated Y\u016bichi Sugita, Karen Khachanov and Jack Sock, from Japan, Russia and United States respectively, all in straight sets, to help Switzerland advance to the final. They proceeded to defeat Germany 2\u20131, with Federer beating Alexander Zverev in three sets before the mixed doubles decider, in which he and Bencic defeated the pairing of Zverev and Angelique Kerber. This was Federer's second and Switzerland's third Hopman Cup title overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Australian Open\nFederer began his participation in the first major tournament of the year by defeating Alja\u017e Bedene in three sets in the first round. He proceeded to defeat Jan-Lennard Struff, Richard Gasquet, and M\u00e1rton Fucsovics, all in straight sets, to reach the quarterfinals. There, he faced Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych, defeating him for the ninth straight time in three sets and advancing to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Australian Open\nWith Chung Hyeon retiring mid-match, Federer reached a record 30th major final and his seventh at the Australian Open, before defeating Marin \u010cili\u0107 in a five-set match to win his 20th Grand Slam trophy, extending his own all-time record. This was his sixth Australian Open title, matching the record of Roy Emerson and Novak Djokovic for most tournament wins. At 36 years and 173 days, he became only the third man in the Open Era to win four Grand Slam championship trophies after turning 30 years old. This was the first time since the 2008 US Open when Federer was able to successfully defend a Grand Slam title, and overall marked a historic record 10th Grand Slam title defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Rotterdam Open\nFederer was given a wild card to play the Rotterdam Open, where he defeated Ruben Bemelmans and Phillip Kohlschreiber in straight sets to advance to the quarterfinals. There, he defeated Robin Haase in three sets, which guaranteed him a return to No. 1 in the ATP Rankings the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 87], "content_span": [88, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Rotterdam Open\nAt 36 years and 195 days of age, he surpassed Andre Agassi to become the oldest ATP world No. 1 by more than three years and broke the ATP record for the longest period between two stints at world No. 1 with 5 years and 106 days having elapsed since he last held the No. 1 ranking on 4 November 2012, as well as the record for the longest timespan between the first and most recent dates that he has held the No. 1 ranking: 14 years and 17 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 87], "content_span": [88, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Rotterdam Open\nIn the semi-finals, he defeated Andreas Seppi in straight sets before beating Grigor Dimitrov in straight sets in the final to win his second title of the year and his third title in Rotterdam, tying him with Arthur Ashe for most titles at this event. This victory also marked Federer's 97th tour level title and a record 20th ATP Tour 500 level title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 87], "content_span": [88, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Indian Wells Masters\nFederer proceeded to play in the first Masters 1000 tournament of the year, the Indian Wells Masters, knowing that he needed to reach the semifinals in order to keep his world No. 1 ranking. He received a first round bye and was victorious over Federico Delbonis and Filip Krajinovi\u0107 in rounds two and three. He then proceeded to defeat J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy in the fourth round and Chung Hyeon in the quarterfinals to reach the semifinals, thus retaining his world No. 1 ranking. With a close semifinal victory over Borna \u0106ori\u0107 in three sets, Federer compiled a career-best 17\u20130 start to his season. However, in the final, he fell to Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro in a close three set match, despite having three match points on his own serve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Miami Open\nFederer entered the Miami Open as the defending champion, knowing that he needed to reach the quarterfinals in order to preserve his world No. 1 ranking. However, after receiving a first round bye, he was upset by Australian qualifier Thanasi Kokkinakis in the second round. At world No. 175, Kokkinakis was the lowest ranked player to defeat a world No. 1 since Francisco Clavet defeated Lleyton Hewitt at the same tournament in 2003. With this loss, he lost the world No. 1 ranking back to Rafael Nadal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Miami Open\nFederer then announced that he would skip the entire clay court season, including the French Open, for the second consecutive year. Despite this, he spent one more week as world No. 1 \u2013 the week of 14 May 2018 \u2013 as a result of Nadal's quarterfinal loss in the Madrid Open. Nadal went on to regain the ATP Rankings' top position the following week, by winning the Italian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Grass court season, Stuttgart Open\nFederer returned to the ATP tour to play the Stuttgart Open, which marks the beginning of the grass court season. After a bye in the first round, he proceeded to defeat Mischa Zverev in three sets to advance to the quarterfinals, ending his streak of 30 consecutive sets won on grass. In the quarterfinals, he defeated Guido Pella in straight sets. He advanced to the final with a three-set victory over Nick Kyrgios, thereby reclaiming the ATP No. 1 ranking from Rafael Nadal in the following week, and defeated Milos Raonic in straight sets to win the Stuttgart Open for the first time and the 98th title of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Grass court season, Halle Open\nFederer advanced to the Halle Open, bidding for a tournament-record tenth title. He defeated Alja\u017e Bedene in straight sets in the first round, setting up a second round match against Beno\u00eet Paire which he won in a third set tiebreak after saving two match points. He defeated Matthew Ebden in the quarterfinals and qualifier Denis Kudla in the semifinals, both in straight sets, to reach the final. He faced Borna \u0106ori\u0107 in the final, but lost in three sets despite having a set point in the first set. This loss also meant that he dropped to world No. 2 after one week on top of the rankings. Nevertheless, the match saw an improvement in form from Federer, after a difficult run to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Grass court season, Wimbledon\nFederer moved on to play the Wimbledon Championships, looking to defend his 2017 title. He was seeded first in a Grand Slam for the first time since the 2012 US Open. During his first-round match, Federer walked onto Centre Court wearing Uniqlo sportswear, officially ending his 20-year relationship with Nike and confirming the rumoured ten-year $300 million contract with the Japanese clothing company. He went on to defeat Du\u0161an Lajovi\u0107, Luk\u00e1\u0161 Lacko, Jan-Lennard Struff and Adrian Mannarino, all in straight sets, to reach the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, he surprisingly lost to Kevin Anderson in a long five-setter (lasting 4 hours and 14 minutes), with a result of 11\u201313 in the fifth set, despite having led by two sets to love and having held a match point in the third set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 867]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, North American hard court season, Cincinnati Masters\nOn July 23, Federer announced the withdrawal from his previously scheduled Canadian Open, citing his career longevity strategy. This way, he began the North American hard court season in the Cincinnati Masters. He started his campaign by defeating Peter Gojowczyk and Leonardo Mayer in straight sets, setting up a clash with countryman Stan Wawrinka in the quarterfinals. He defeated Wawrinka in three sets, advancing to the semifinals to face David Goffin. Federer won the first set and Goffin was forced to retire in the second set with a shoulder injury. This set up a final between Federer and Novak Djokovic, which Federer lost in straight sets, adding the 46th chapter to their storied rivalry approximately two and a half years after their last meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 100], "content_span": [101, 861]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, North American hard court season, US Open\nFederer moved on to play the US Open, the season's last major, as the No. 2 seed. He did not drop a set in the opening three rounds, defeating Yoshihito Nishioka, Beno\u00eet Paire and Nick Kyrgios in the first three rounds. However, Federer proceeded to lose in the fourth round against John Millman in four sets, having missed set points in the second and third sets before losing a fourth-set tiebreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, North American hard court season, US Open\nHe committed 77 unforced errors, including 10 double faults, and only hit 49% of first serves in what was widely regarded as one of the worst serving performances of his career. However, Federer assured the number of points needed to qualify for the ATP Finals for the sixteenth time in his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Asian swing, Shanghai Masters\nFederer started the Asian swing by playing the Shanghai Masters, the eighth Masters 1000 tournament of the season. Due to the absence of his rival Rafael Nadal, the No. 1 player in the ATP Rankings, he was the first seed. As a top-eight seed, he earned a first round bye. In the second round, he defeated Daniil Medvedev in three sets, advancing to the third round, where he defeated Roberto Bautista Agut \u2013 also in three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Asian swing, Shanghai Masters\nIn the quarterfinals he encountered No. 8 seed Kei Nishikori, defeating him in straight sets and advancing to a semifinal clash with the No. 13 seed, Borna \u0106ori\u0107. It was their third meeting of the season, with one victory for each in the previous two. Federer ended up losing to \u0106ori\u0107 in straight sets and dropped to No. 3 in the ATP Rankings at the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, European indoor hard court season, Swiss Indoors\nFederer then moved on to play his home tournament, the Swiss Indoors, in Basel, as the defending champion. In an interview, Federer shared that he had sustained a hand injury in training prior to the grass court season that had caused severe pain in his forearm. He stated that this injury significantly hindered his play, particularly his forehand, from the Stuttgart Open until the US Open. In the first two rounds of the tournament, Federer defeated Filip Krajinovi\u0107 and Jan-Lennard Struff, in three and two sets respectively, advancing to the quarterfinals. There, he defeated Gilles Simon in a tough three-set match, reaching his 200th career semifinal. Federer then bested Daniil Medvedev and Marius Copil in straight sets in the semifinal and final respectively, claiming a record-extending ninth Basel title and the 99th title of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 946]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, European indoor hard court season, Paris Masters\nAt the beginning of the season, Federer had not expected to play the Paris Masters \u2013 the last Masters 1000 tournament of the year. However, he was featured in the draw as the No. 3 seed and later confirmed his presence in the tournament. After getting a bye in the first round, he was supposed to face Milos Raonic in the second round. However, Raonic was forced to withdraw from the tournament due to an elbow injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, European indoor hard court season, Paris Masters\nFederer then advanced to the third round, where he defeated No. 13 seed Fabio Fognini in straight sets to set a quarterfinal clash with Kei Nishikori. In the quarterfinals he defeated Nishikori, also in straight sets, to set a semifinal match with Novak Djokovic, who was on a 21-match winning streak. In their 47th encounter, Federer lost to the red-hot Serb in three very close sets, despite having a set point in the first set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, European indoor hard court season, ATP Finals\nHaving qualified for the ATP Finals, Federer was drawn in the group Lleyton Hewitt with Kevin Anderson, Dominic Thiem and Kei Nishikori. In his first match, he lost in straight sets to Nishikori for his ninth defeat of the season. He then defeated Thiem and Anderson, both in straight sets, to ultimately win the group and secure a semifinal place in the tournament. However, in his fifteenth tournament semifinal, Federer lost in straight sets to eventual champion Alexander Zverev to finish the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, All matches\nThis table chronicles all the matches of Roger Federer in 2018, including walkovers (W/O) which the ATP does not count as wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Yearly records, Head-to-head matchups, ATP and Grand Slam sanctioned matches\nRoger Federer has a 50\u201310 (83.3%) ATP match win-loss record in the 2018 season. His record against players who were part of the ATP Rankings Top Ten at the time of their meetings is 5\u20136 (45.5%). Bold indicates player was ranked top 10 at time of at least one meeting. The following list is ordered by number of wins:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 110], "content_span": [111, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282148-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season, Yearly records, Head-to-head matchups, ITF sanctioned matches\nHis official ITF sanctioned season record for 2018 is 54\u201310 (84.4%). While these are official sanctioned matches per the ITF, the ATP does not count them in their totals. Bold indicates player was ranked top 10 at time of at least one meeting. The extra ITF matches are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 95], "content_span": [96, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282149-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup\nThe 2018 Rogers Cup presented by National Bank was a tennis tournament to be played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 138th edition (for the men) and the 127th (for the women) of the Canadian Open. The tournament was part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 of the 2018 ATP World Tour, and of the WTA Premier 5 tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour, and was also a 2018 US Open Series event. The men's event was held at the Aviva Centre in Toronto and the women's event was held at the IGA Stadium in Montr\u00e9al, both from August 6 to August 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282149-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds\nThe following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP rankings as of July 30, 2018. Rankings and points before are as of August 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282149-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds\n\u2020 The player used an exemption to skip the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282149-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup, ATP singles main draw entrants, Withdrawals\nThe following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282149-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 63], "content_span": [64, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282149-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282149-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 63], "content_span": [64, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282149-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 63], "content_span": [64, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282149-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282149-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 63], "content_span": [64, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282150-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Men's Doubles\nPierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut were the defending champions, but lost in the second round to Kevin Anderson and Novak Djokovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282150-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Men's Doubles\nHenri Kontinen and John Peers won the title, defeating Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20137(7\u20139), [10\u20136].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282151-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Men's Singles\nRafael Nadal defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20134), to win his fourth Rogers Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282151-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Men's Singles\nAlexander Zverev was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Tsitsipas; Tsitsipas beat four top 10-ranked players en route to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282151-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282151-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282152-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Doubles\nEkaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina were the two-time defending champions, but Vesnina chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282152-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAshleigh Barty and Demi Schuurs won the title, defeating Makarova and Latisha Chan in the final, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20138].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282152-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Doubles\nBy reaching the final with Makarova, Chan regained the WTA no. 1 doubles ranking at the end of the tournament. T\u00edmea Babos and Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 were also in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282152-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received byes into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282153-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Singles\nElina Svitolina was the defending champion, but lost to Sloane Stephens in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282153-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Singles\nWorld No. 1 Simona Halep won the title, defeating Stephens in the final, 7\u20136(8\u20136), 3\u20136, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282153-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282153-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282154-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rolex Paris Masters\nThe 2018 Rolex Paris Masters was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 46th edition of the tournament, and part of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, between 29 October and 4 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282154-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rolex Paris Masters, Singles main draw entrants, Seeds\nThe following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP rankings as of 22 October 2018. Rankings and points before are as of 29 October 2018. Points defending include points from the 2017 ATP Finals, which will be dropped at the end of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282154-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rolex Paris Masters, Singles main draw entrants, Seeds\n\u2020 The player used an exemption to skip the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead. \u2021 The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282154-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rolex Paris Masters, Singles main draw entrants, Withdrawals\n\u2020 del Potro is entitled to use an exemption to skip the tournament and substitute his 18th best result (20 points) in its stead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282154-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rolex Paris Masters, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282154-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rolex Paris Masters, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282155-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rolex Paris Masters \u2013 Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Marcel Granollers and Rajeev Ram.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282155-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rolex Paris Masters \u2013 Doubles\nGranollers and Ram won the title, defeating Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tec\u0103u in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282156-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rolex Paris Masters \u2013 Singles\nKaren Khachanov defeated Novak Djokovic in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20134, to win the Singles title at the 2018 Paris Masters. It was his first ATP Tour Masters 1000 title. Khachanov saved two match points in his third round match against John Isner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282156-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rolex Paris Masters \u2013 Singles\nJack Sock was the defending champion, but lost to Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals. As a result of his failure to defend his title as well as his failure to qualify for the ATP Finals, Sock fell out of the top 100 in the rankings after starting the season inside the top 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282156-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rolex Paris Masters \u2013 Singles\nRafael Nadal and Djokovic were in contention of the ATP no. 1 singles ranking. Djokovic regained the top spot after winning his opening match alongside Nadal's withdrawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282156-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rolex Paris Masters \u2013 Singles\nThis tournament marked the first time since the 1998 Stuttgart Masters that no French or Spanish players made it through to the round of 16 in a Masters event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282156-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rolex Paris Masters \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282157-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Derby World Cup\nThe 2018 Roller Derby World Cup was the third international women's Roller Derby World Cup, taking place on February 1\u20134 at EventCity, in Manchester, United Kingdom, with 38 teams competing. An international roller derby tournament, it was organised by a committee consisting of ten representatives from various areas of the roller derby community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282157-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Derby World Cup\nSome teams selected their skaters as early as October 2016, when the tournament was expected to be held in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282157-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Derby World Cup\nUSA Roller Derby successfully defended their title, defeating Team Australia in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282157-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Derby World Cup, Participating teams\nTeams representing 38 countries participated. While most national teams are representing a country in the conventional sense, the members of Team Indigenous comprise skaters of Indigenous heritage from Canada, the United States, Argentina, New Zealand and Samoa. The Korean team does not specify North or South Korea in its name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282157-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Derby World Cup, Tournament structure\nThe tournament ran on four tracks over four days, with an opening round of short, 30-minute games on the first day to determine seedings for the second and third days, via a ranking algorithm. The second and third days saw two additional games for each team (for a total of four games guaranteed for all participants), resulting in a final rating and ranking by the same algorithm. The top eight teams in that ranking proceeded to an 8-way elimination tournament, with losing teams playing additional games for final ranking. The teams in positions ninth through sixteenth played one additional game for final ranking. (This system is essentially, a modified Swiss-system tournament for the first three days, with strengths for matchings derived from a power ranking, and Fontes-style matching of multiple games between recalculation of strengths.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 898]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282157-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Derby World Cup, Exhibition matches\nIn addition to competition matches, three exhibition matches were played during the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282157-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Derby World Cup, Broadcast\nThe entire weekend was broadcast online via pay-per-view streaming, and the tournament's fourth day was additionally carried on BBC Sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282158-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Hockey Asia Cup\nThe 2018 Roller Hockey Asia Cup was the 18th edition of this tournament, played in Namwon, South Korea between 7 and 13 September 2018. Australia conquered their first title ever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282158-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Hockey Asia Cup\nThis tournament served as qualifier for the 2019 Roller Hockey World Cup, by giving only one place in the Intercontinental Championship, second tier, by and five for the Challenger Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282159-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Hockey Intercontinental Cup\nThe 2018 Roller Hockey Intercontinental Cup is the 17th edition of the roller hockey tournament known as the Intercontinental Cup, endorsed by World Skate. It was held in the Estadio Aldo Cantoni in San Juan, Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282159-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Hockey Intercontinental Cup\nFor the first time, it was played together with the newly-created 2018 Roller Hockey Women's Intercontinental Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282159-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Hockey Intercontinental Cup, Format\nThe tournament was a knockout competition in a final four format; four teams entered, with the host selected after the teams became known. Entered the tournament the from the 2017\u201318 Euroleague finalists and the South American Club Championship/Pan-American Club Championship finalists of the 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282159-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Hockey Intercontinental Cup, Matches\nIn all matches, extra time and a penalty shootout were used to decide the winner if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282160-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Hockey Pan American Championship\nThe 2018 Roller Hockey Pan American Championship was the ninth edition of this tournament, played in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia between 4 and 9 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282160-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Hockey Pan American Championship\nThis was the first time that the tournament was played independently from the Pan American Games and also the first time that served as qualifier for the 2019 Roller Hockey World Cup, by giving only three place to the World Cup and one more for the Intercontinental Cup, second tier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282161-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Hockey Women's Intercontinental Cup\nThe 2018 Roller Hockey Women's Intercontinental Cup is the first edition of the roller hockey tournament known as the Women's Intercontinental Cup, endorsed by World Skate. It was held in the Estadio Aldo Cantoni in San Juan, Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282161-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Hockey Women's Intercontinental Cup, Format\nThe tournament was a knockout competition in a final four format; four teams entered, with the host selected after the teams became known. Entered the tournament the from the 2017\u201318 Euroleague finalists and the South American Club Championship/Pan-American Club Championship finalists of the 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282161-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Roller Hockey Women's Intercontinental Cup, Matches\nIn all matches, extra time and a penalty shootout were used to decide the winner if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282162-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian Masters\nThe 2018 Romanian Masters was a non-ranking snooker tournament that took place from 14 to 18 March 2018 in Bucharest, Romania. Sanctioned by World Snooker, the tournament was organised by McCann/Thiess Events and McCann Bucharest and was a 16-player invitational event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282162-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian Masters\n12 of the world's top 16 players returned to Romania, after Bucharest staged the 2016 European Masters in the 2016/2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282162-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian Masters\nRyan Day won his third trophy of the 2017/2018 season, beating Stuart Bingham 10\u20138 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282162-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian Masters, Main draw\n* Mark King replaced 4th seed Shaun Murphy after the draw had taken place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282163-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian constitutional referendum\nA referendum took place in Romania on 6 and 7 October 2018 regarding the definition of the family in the Romanian Constitution. The referendum asked voters whether or not they approve a change to the family's definition as provided by Article 48 of the Constitution, to prohibit same-sex marriage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282163-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian constitutional referendum\nThe referendum followed a citizens' initiative launched by Coali\u021bia pentru Familie (the Coalition for Family) in late 2015 which gathered over three million signatures, substantially more than the 500,000 required to initiate the process for a constitutional amendment referendum. The Romanian Constitution defines the family as being founded on the free-willed marriage \"between spouses\", but the initiative's promoters sought to amend the gender-neutral language with an explicit reference to marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Had the measure passed, it would have made same-sex marriage unconstitutional in the country. Romanian statute law does not permit same-sex marriage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282163-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian constitutional referendum\nThe referendum failed as the turnout was only 21.1%, below the required voter turnout threshold of 30%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282163-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian constitutional referendum, Background\nThe Government announced plans to hold a referendum in late 2017, following a successful citizens' initiative by a group opposed to same-sex marriage, Coali\u021bia pentru Familie, which collected around three million signatures in support of banning same-sex marriage. The Chamber of Deputies approved the initiative on 9 May 2017, in a 232\u201322 vote, but no referendum took place that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282163-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian constitutional referendum, Background\nIn late March 2018, the Government announced that the referendum would be held sometime in May 2018, though it later moved the date to 10 June 2018. However, this date also passed without a referendum being held. Some Socialist lawmakers subsequently suggested that the referendum could be held in late September or early October 2018. Liviu Dragnea, President of the Chamber of Deputies, announced that the referendum could be organized on 30 September or the first Sunday in October. In early September, Dragnea announced that the referendum would take place on 7 October 2018. The initiative was approved by the Senate on 11 September 2018. On 14 September, Amnesty International, the European Commission on Sexual Orientation Law and ILGA-Europe filed a challenge with the Constitutional Court against the amendment. On 17 September 2018, the Court decided to allow the referendum to take place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 951]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282163-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian constitutional referendum, Background\nPrevious referendums in Romania failed due to a requirement for a 50% turnout in order for the results to be valid. This rule was changed in 2014 and the turnout threshold was lowered, to require only 30% of registered voters to participate in the referendum and 25% of voters to cast a valid (yes/no) vote for the result to be validated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282163-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian constitutional referendum, Background\nThe amendment was supported by many politicians and religious groups, but opposed by President Klaus Iohannis and the opposition Save Romania Union. The final turnout was 21.1%, below the 30% threshold necessary to make it valid. Many human rights activists called for a boycott, so as to maximise the chance of the referendum not meeting the minimum 30% turnout rate required in order for the vote to be valid. A poll conducted the week before the referendum indicated a 34% participation rate, with 90% of those participating intending to vote yes. The only question posed to appear on the ballot was whether the voter agreed with the constitutional amendment as approved by the Parliament, without the text of the amendment appearing on the ballot paper itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 816]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282163-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian constitutional referendum, Support and opposition\nThe amendment was supported by many religious groups, including neo-Protestant groups, and the Romanian Greek Catholic Church. The Romanian Orthodox Church endorsed the initiative in mid-January 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282163-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian constitutional referendum, Support and opposition\nFew politicians openly support civil partnerships or same-sex marriage in Romania. Exceptions include centrist-liberal President Klaus Iohannis, an ethnic German (Transylvanian Saxon), who has said that as a member of an ethnic and religious minority, he supports tolerance and openness towards others who are different while rejecting religious fanaticism and ultimatums. The opposition Save Romania Union (USR) also held an internal vote on the issue and decided to oppose the referendum. The Romania Together Movement, led by former Prime Minister Dacian Ciolo\u0219, advised its supporters not to participate in the referendum, arguing it would limit rights and freedoms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282163-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian constitutional referendum, Results\nIn the morning, the turnout was low at 5.72%. Following the end of the voting period, the results of the referendum were determined on 6 October by 21:45 EEST, with Romanian election officials declaring that the referendum had failed due to a lower than required voter turnout rate of 21.1%. The lower turnout came as a surprise, with polls predicting that turnout would fall somewhere around 34%. Of those who did participate in the referendum, an overwhelming majority of more than 90% approved of the amendment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282163-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian constitutional referendum, Reactions\nMany commentators hailed the results of the referendum as being a victory for opponents of PSD leader Liviu Dragnea. Leaders of the Save Romania Union\u2014a group which spearheaded the boycott movement\u2014claimed that the referendum result constituted evidence that Romanians were in favour of further integration within the European Union, stating that Romania has shown it \"is a tolerant and modern nation that refused in these last two days to take steps back\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282163-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian constitutional referendum, Reactions\nSupporters of the referendum from within the governing coalition lamented that the referendum's failure represented a failure of Romanian society as a whole to partake in civic engagement. Critics within the National Liberal Party\u2014a party whose leadership had come out in support of the referendum\u2014further accused party President Ludovic Orban of \"pushing the party into a political failure\" by pursuing policies which were outdated and out of touch with contemporary social circumstances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282163-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Romanian constitutional referendum, Reactions, In popular media\nIn November 2018, Romanian singer Delia Matache released the single \"Acadele\" (\"Lollipops\"), which references the controversy around the LGBT community in Romania by repeating \"Boicot, boicot\" (\"boycott, boycott\"). She further alludes to the referendum in the line: \"\u00cen dulcele stil clasic \u0219i deloc tradi\u021bional/Noi n-o ardem \u00een plastic, noi facem totul natural\" (\"In the sweet classic style and not at all traditional/We don't live in plastic, we do everything naturally\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix\nThe 2018 Rome ePrix (formally the 2018 CBMM Niobium Rome E-Prix Presented By Mercedes EQ) was a Formula E electric car race held at the Circuito Cittadino dell'EUR in the EUR residential and business district of the Italian capital of Rome on 14 April 2018 before a crowd of 45,000 people. It was the seventh round of the 2017\u201318 Formula E season and the inaugural running of the event. The 33-lap race was won by Virgin driver Sam Bird from a second position start. Lucas di Grassi finished second for Audi and Techeetah driver Andr\u00e9 Lotterer took third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix\nFelix Rosenqvist of Mahindra won the pole position by recording the fastest lap in qualifying and maintained the lead through the mandatory pit stops for the change into a second car until he hit a kerb on the 22nd lap and retired with a broken rear-left suspension. That allowed Bird into the lead but he was challenged by Jaguar's Mitch Evans, who had made a pit stop one lap later and had more electrical energy, with four laps left but he could not get ahead. Evans was then passed by di Grassi and Lotterer in the final laps as his energy depleted and Bird held off di Grassi to take his second victory of the season and the seventh of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix\nThe result allowed Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne of Techeetah to retain his lead in the Drivers' Championship but his points advantage was reduced to 18 as Bird's victory put him ahead of Rosenqvist. e.Dams-Renault driver S\u00e9bastien Buemi maintained fourth and di Grassi's teammate Daniel Abt moved into fifth after coming fourth. Techeetah extended their advantage in the Teams' Championship to thirty-eight points over Virgin. Mahindra scored no points and fell to third with five races left in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Background, Preview\nComing into the race from Punta del Este four weeks earlier, Techeetah driver Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne led the Drivers' Championship with 109 points and was 30 points ahead of Felix Rosenqvist of Mahindra in second. Virgin's Sam Bird was a further three points behind in third and S\u00e9bastien Buemi of e.Dams-Renault was fourth with a total of 52 points accrued. Jaguar driver Nelson Piquet Jr. was fifth with 45 points. Techeetah led the Teams' Championship with 127 points; Mahindra followed 27 points behind in second position. Virgin (93 points) and Jaguar (86) were third and fourth and e.Dams-Renault were fifth with 59 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Background, Preview\nAfter the world governing body of motorsport, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), abolished the minimum pit stop time at the Santiago ePrix three races ago, Techeetah and Dragon were fined for modifying their seat felts and Andr\u00e9 Lotterer (Techeetah) clipped one of his mechanics in Mexico. These events prompted the FIA to hand all teams two cameras to aid the stewards in analysing footage after the race and were instructed to install them above the second car of their respective drivers and be positioned in an unobstructed area of the garage effective from the Rome ePrix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Background, Preview\nJean Todt, the FIA president, reiterated his position that the responsibility of ensuring safe pit stops laid solely with teams and drivers and revealed that the decision to discard the minimum pit stop time was made following two years of research, \"If you want to try and save time and to be unbuckled before you stop, [or] to buckle after you have started \u2013 you will be reported to the stewards to make some strong decisions. But if you follow the rules and the procedure, I feel that there is no problem of safety. I hope that every driver and every team will be responsible and we shouldn't have any problems.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Background, Preparations\nPlans for a Formula E race around the streets of the Italian capital of Rome were discussed on 1 December 2012 by Todt, and series founder and CEO Alejandro Agag with Gianni Alemanno, the mayor. They agreed to hold a race in the city in the 2014\u201315 season. On 1 October 2013 however, these plans changed when the initial season calendar was released, dropping the Rome race with Hong Kong. A new administration had been elected in the intervening period of time and it decided against taking further action in restoring the ePrix to the calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Background, Preparations\nBut, the project was revitalised when in November 2016, Rome's councillor for sports Daniele Frongia told news agency Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata that the recently elected administration of Virginia Raggi was in the process of planning for major events slated for 2017 and 2018. Raggi maintained written correspondence with the FIA concerning the restoration of Rome to the Formula E calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Background, Preparations\nAfter a meeting of councillors at Rome City Hall, Agag met Raggi and a congregation of city officials in February 2017 to discuss a series of requests and evaluated a potential circuit. The group held another meeting a few weeks later for further negotiation. Two months later on 20 April, the proposal for a motor race on the streets of Rome was put forward to authorities from the local assembly who voted unanimously in favour to approve permits to allow racing in the city's EUR residential and business district for the next five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Background, Preparations\nThe ePrix was added to the FIA's provisional 2017\u201318 calendar on 19 June, and was officially confirmed as part of the series by the FIA World Motor Sport Council three months later. It was the seventh of twelve scheduled single seater electric car rounds of the 2017\u201318 season and took place at the Circuito Cittadino dell'EUR street circuit on 18 April 2018. Prior to the ePrix, Rome last hosted a street circuit race at the Baths of Caracalla in 1951. Organisers expected 30,000 people to attend the ePrix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Background, Preparations\nThe layout of the 21-turn 2.86\u00a0km (1.78\u00a0mi) street circuit was unveiled to the public on 19 October 2017. It was the second longest track on the Formula E calendar after the Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan in Marrakesh. The start line was positioned on the Via Cristoforo Colombo and the finish line was positioned near the Marconi Obelisk. The circuit negotiated past major city buildings such as the Rome Convection Center and the Palazzo dei Congressi. Construction of the track began on 3 April, eleven days before the ePrix, and was completed on 12 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Background, Preparations\nIt was dismantled two days after the race. The circuit received a mixed response. Lucas di Grassi (Audi) disliked the chicane while Nick Heidfeld (Mahindra) believed the turn would be more challenging than it appeared. Nico Prost of e.Dams-Renault felt that turns four and five would provide a great amount of challenge and it reminded him of the Montreal Street Circuit. However, several drivers raised concerns over the position of the starting grid. Di Grassi argued it should have been placed after turn two while Heidfeld doubted that moving the start line would make any significant difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Practice\nTwo practice sessions\u2014both on Saturday morning\u2014were held before the late afternoon race. The first session ran for 45 minutes and the second lasted half an hour. A half an hour untimed shakedown session was held on Friday afternoon to enable teams to check the reliability of their cars and electronic systems. Piquet incurred a suspended three place grid penalty for exceeding the maximum amount of permitted laps (six) during shakedown and a repeat transgression before the session ended would require him to serve it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Practice\nIn the first practice session, held in relatively cold weather, Piquet set the fastest time of 1 minute, 36.134 seconds lap, followed by Bird, Mitch Evans (Jaguar), Vergne, Buemi, Lotterer, Rosenqvist, J\u00e9r\u00f4me d'Ambrosio (Dragon), di Grassi and Alex Lynn (Virgin). During the session, several drivers were caught out by the track and some including Lotterer ventured onto its run-off areas as they learnt the limits of the track and finding a rhythm they liked. Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez (Dragon) glanced the turn five barrier and damaged his car's rear-right corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Practice\nLynn ended the session five minutes prematurely with a slide at a 45-degree angle into the turn one barrier, deranging his front-left suspension. Rosenqvist led for most of the second session and recorded a 200\u00a0kW (270\u00a0hp) lap late on of 1 minute, 35.467 seconds. He was three-tenths of a second faster than the second-placed Bird. Di Grassi, L\u00f3pez, Prost, Buemi, d'Ambrosio, Piquet, Tom Blomqvist (Andretti) and Evans were in third to tenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0008-0003", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Practice\nWith five minutes left, Lynn crashed for the second time when he lost control of the rear of his car approaching the turn sixteen/seventeen chicane because of an overspeed that sent him into an outside barrier sideways with the left hand side of his vehicle. Lynn was unhurt but the crash significantly damaged his car and ended the session early due to the limited amount of available time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Qualifying\nSaturday's afternoon one hour qualifying session was divided into four groups of five cars. Each group was determined by a lottery system and was permitted six minutes of on-track activity. All drivers were limited to two timed laps with one at maximum power. The fastest five overall competitors in all four groups participated in a \"Super Pole\" session with one driver on the track at any time going out in reverse order from fifth to first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Qualifying\nEach of the five drivers was limited to one timed lap and the starting order was determined by the competitor's fastest times (Super Pole from first to fifth, and group qualifying from sixth to twentieth). The driver and team who recorded the fastest time were awarded three points towards their respective championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Qualifying\nIn the first group of five drivers, Blomqvist was the early pace setter and was followed by Maro Engel (Venturi) and Prost. Both Luca Filippi (NIO) and d'Ambrosio set one timed warm-up lap as the duo crossed the timing team after the first group ended due to a mistimed run that prevented them from recording a lap at maximum power. Rosenqvist immediately went the fastest of anyone in the track's first sector and topped group two. Buemi followed in second with Bird third and Vergne fourth. Piquet struggled with the tight track and was the second group's slowest driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Qualifying\nIn the third group, Evans was the fastest competitor and put himself amongst the top five overall runners as he eliminated Vergne from super pole. Di Grassi was second-quickest with Oliver Turvey (NIO) third and Daniel Abt (Audi) fourth. The third group's slowest driver Edoardo Mortara (Venturi) made contact with a wall leaving the Obelisk chicane and broke his rear-left suspension and steering arm, causing him to fight for control of his car for the rest of his lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Qualifying\nBefore the final group commenced, a miscommunication caused L\u00f3pez to be released from his garage at the wrong time and hit the sidepod of Ant\u00f3nio F\u00e9lix da Costa's Andretti car at low speed. L\u00f3pez was consequently pushed into a wall because he could not steer away from F\u00e9lix da Costa. Both cars sustained suspension damage and neither L\u00f3pez nor F\u00e9lix da Costa set a lap time as Formula E regulations obliged teams to nominate one of the driver's two cars for use in qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Qualifying\nLotterer surprised all by setting the fastest overall group stage lap of 1 minute, 36.593 seconds by gaining four-tenths of a second in the circuit's final sector after two previous average sector times on its last lap. Heidfeld drove tidily on his lap to place second and Lynn was third. At the end of group qualifying, the lap times set by Lotterer, Rosenqvist, Buemi, Bird and Evans qualified them into super pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Qualifying\nAlthough Rosenqvist glanced a barrier with his right-rear wheel leaving the Obelisk chicane, he took his third pole position of the season and the sixth of his career with a time of 1 minute, 36.311 seconds. He was joined on the grid's front row by Bird who had the pole until Rosenqvist's lap. Evans, third, locked his tyres at turn nine, battled for control of his car over the bumps while braking for the turn 13 hairpin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0011-0003", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Qualifying\nLotterer could not replicate his group qualifying performance due to a lack of tyre cooling and was fourth after losing four-tenths of a second in the first sector. Buemi appeared to win pole by going fastest early on but an error with the retardation of his regenerative system entering turn 13 put him deep after missing his braking point on the bumpy track and started fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Qualifying, Post-qualifying\nAndretti were issued a \u20ac10,000 fine as the stewards deemed them to have released F\u00e9lix da Costa's car \"in an unsafe manner and [da Costa] then collided with car number six that was approaching in the fast lane.\u201d F\u00e9lix da Costa (penalised ten grid positions for the afternoon's race), L\u00f3pez, Filippi and d'Ambrosio (also dropped two places on the grid for passing the chequered flag twice) were granted permission by the stewards to start the race. After the application of penalties, the rest of the order consisted of di Grassi, Turvey, Vergne, Abt, Heidfeld, Lynn, Blomqvist, Piquet, Engel, Prost, Mortara, Filippi, d'Ambrosio, L\u00f3pez and F\u00e9lix da Costa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race\nThe race began before a crowd of 45,000 people at 16;00 Central European Summer Time (UTC\u221202:00). The weather at the start was dry but cloudy with the air temperature between 25.05 to 26.25\u00a0\u00b0C (77.09 to 79.25\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperature ranged from 24 and 26\u00a0\u00b0C (75 and 79\u00a0\u00b0F). A special feature of Formula E is the \"Fan Boost\" feature, an additional 100\u00a0kW (130\u00a0hp) of power to use in the driver's second car. The three drivers who were allowed to use the boost were determined by a fan vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 21], "content_span": [22, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race\nOn the grid, Rosenqvist spun his tyres and turned left to stop Bird from passing him. That allowed Evans to try and pass the pair on the inside, only to slide wide and return to third. Meanwhile, Turvey made a brisk start from seventh to pass di Grassi and Buemi on the outside for fifth. As the field approached the second turn, Lynn mounted the rear of Vergne's car, damaging both cars' bodywork with Lynn shown a black flag with an orange disc to dictate he enter the pit lane for repairs. Engel and F\u00e9lix da Costa gained three places by the end of the first lap, while Blomqvist lost the same amount of positions over the same distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 21], "content_span": [22, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race\nThe gaps in the top ten stabilised as Rosenqvist began to build a small advantage over Bird. Further back, F\u00e9lix da Costa continued to move up the order by getting ahead of Filippi and Mortara followed through. Yet, Mortara abandoned his attempt at steering back onto the racing line as L\u00f3pez occupiee the space and the former was briefly sideways. L\u00f3pez could not find any room to overtake him but untangled with Mortara before entering the hairpin. Buemi, di Grassi and Filippi were announced as the winners of the FanBoost vote on the fourth lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 21], "content_span": [22, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race\nSoon after, L\u00f3pez almost completed a double overtake on Filippi and Prost which saw his axle interconnect as he moved past Filippi but reached the apex of the corner, allowing Prost to keep fourteenth for the time being. At the front, Rosenqvist had extended his lead over Bird to three seconds, which remained about the same until the former responded to set consecutive fastest laps and close the gap before the mandatory pit stops to change into a second car. Buemi pressured Turvey and got past him for fifth on lap 15. He then began drawing closer to the fourth-placed Lotterer and was right behind him within one lap. An overtaking attempt by Buemi on Lotterer resulted in minor contact but both sustained no damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 21], "content_span": [22, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race\nEntering the pit stop window, Evans and Lotterer had seven percent more electrical energy than the top two and fell back so they could remain on track for one extra lap while di Grassi and Vergne also conserved energy. As the pit stops drew nearer, localised yellow flags were necessitated for a four-car pileup at the turn 13 hairpin on lap 16. Heidfeld was close to Turvey; the two collided into the hairpin and the former hit a barrier. L\u00f3pez on the inside pushed Turvey into Heidfeld.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 21], "content_span": [22, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race\nThen, Turvey's teammate Filippi attempted to pass Mortara and rammed into the rear of his car with Mortara following suit. All four drivers were able to continue. Meanwhile, F\u00e9lix da Costa made the first pit stop of the race on the lap. Rosenqvist and Bird came in simultaneously with the former retaining the lead. After the pit stops, Buemi moved past Evans for third and di Grassi was close behind Lotterer in fifth as the full course yellow procedure was activated for Lynn who was stranded in the turn ten run-off area after a crash on lap 18. Then, Piquet became the second retiree after stopping his car with an unrectifiable seat belt problem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 21], "content_span": [22, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race\nOnce racing resumed, Bird in second was still close behind Rosenqvist in the lead and Evans passed Buemi for third place. On lap 22 Bird took the lead as Rosenqvist drove over the turn 17 kerbs and broke his car's rear-left suspension assembly and drive shaft. It was initially attributed to an aggressive driving style but it was later traced to a loose bolt. Rosenqvist pulled up at the side of the track to retire. Race control activated the second full course yellow procedure to allow marshals to move Rosenqvist's car to a safe location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 21], "content_span": [22, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race\nMeanwhile, di Grassi passed Lotterer, and soon after, used his FanBoost to overtake Buemi on the inside cresting a hill for third on lap 24. He began to gain on Evans, who in turn, was drawing nearer to Bird by having more electrical energy. As the battle for the lead commenced, Buemi defended from Lotterer, allowing Abt and Vergne to duel them. Although Lotterer was conscious over conserving electrical energy, he overtook Buemi at turn five on lap 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 21], "content_span": [22, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race\nAbt lacked access to energy readouts due to a radio failure in his second car, but made a similar overtaking attempt on the outside of Buemi entering the hairpin on the lap. Vergne temporarily took sixth and fifth away from Abt and Buemi two laps later before going deep at the hairpin. Evans used his electrical energy advantage to challenge Bird into turn nine for the lead on lap 29 but Bird defended by steering right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 21], "content_span": [22, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race\nAbt earned one point for setting the race's fastest lap of 1 minute and 37.910 seconds on lap 30, and passed Buemi at turn nine soon after. Vergne then overtook Buemi on the inside heading towards turn three. Evans used his extra electrical energy to close up to Bird and had neither slowed nor regenerated for energy conservation purposes, leaving him vulnerable to di Grassi and Lotterer. This enabled Bird to open up a small lead and di Grassi got by Evans for second place at turn nine with three laps left. Lotterer then tried to pass Evans driving towards turn nine. Evans held third as Lotterer was alongside him going into the Obelisk chicane but Evans kept the place by out-braking him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 21], "content_span": [22, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race\nWith two laps left, L\u00f3pez tagged the rear of Mortara's car, damaging the latter's rear wing and causing the former to retire with suspension damage. The full course yellow was not activated on the final lap because L\u00f3pez stopped his car in a place where he would not obstruct anyone. This proved detrimental to Evans as he had five percent of electrical energy left while Lotterer had two percent more. Lotterer turned left to pass Evans at turn ten for third. Evans then slowed due to electrical energy depletion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 21], "content_span": [22, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race\nDi Grassi's conservative strategy drew him nearer to Bird but was not close enough to affect an overtake and Bird earned his second victory of the season and the seventh of his career by 0.970 seconds. Lotterer was third and Abt fourth. Fifth-placed Vergne sprained his thumb at his pit stop which left him unable to attack the left-hand turns for fear of oversteering into a barrier. Buemi, d'Ambrosio, Engel, Evans, Mortara, F\u00e9lix da Costa, Turvey, Filippi, Prost, Blomqvist, Heidfeld and L\u00f3pez were the final classified finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 21], "content_span": [22, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference. Bird admitted that he may have not won the race had Rosenqvist retired with suspension damage and stated a driving error on his part allowed Evans and di Grassi to close up on him, \"I knew they'd be hunting on the last lap but I tried to give myself the best scenario and held on.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race, Post-race\nHe stated he would take a race-by-race approach until New York City when he would read into the points standings, \"I\u2019ve just got to do the best job I can and then we\u2019ll see when we get to New York where we were strong last year.\" Di Grassi called the race \"extraordinary\", and although he did not expect to draw close to Buemi at the start, he was delighted to finish second. He hoped to contend for the win in every race until the season ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0019-0002", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThird-place finisher Lotterer admitted that he was still learning Formula E and on how luck changes hands in the series, \"I saved a bit too much energy and the performance was good, but I learned a lot again today and I'm happy to be on the podium\u2026 I'm getting it bit by bit.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race, Post-race\nRosenqvist's retirement from the lead was his second in three races after a battery failure lost him the Mexico City ePrix. He described the race as a \"perfect day in every sense\" and vowed to return to contention, \"We're all quite tired and I think the guys deserved a win today \u2013 that's going to be hard for everyone but we're going to come back.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race, Post-race\nEvans said the second full course yellow stopped him from securing his second podium finish of the season and was aware his sole opportunity to pass Bird was missed, \"It spiralled out of control very, very quick. I\u2019ll take it on the chin. The guys did a great job, and I feel bad for the team. We could have easily got a podium. Maybe we were just a little bit impatient, but it's my first time racing for the win in this championship.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0020-0002", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race, Post-race\nConcerning the lap 16 four-car pileup at the hairpin, Turvey called it \"unfortunate\" and said he could not avoid it from occurring. Heidfeld argued since Turvey depleted electrical energy, possibly due to excess frontal brake bias, he was rendered unable to steer. Heidfeld said he would discuss the crash with Turvey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race, Post-race\nTowards the end of the race, di Grassi was investigated by the stewards for the placement of his mechanics' hands at his mid-race car change pit stop. Di Grassi was later summoned to the stewards where footage of his pit stop was re-examined for clarification and Audi were cleared of any wrongdoing when they demonstrated their procedure was legal. Di Grassi subsequently called for technology to have a greater involvement to allow for consistent instructions and decisions could be enforced and lower the stewards' workload.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race, Post-race\ne.Dams-Renault team principal Jean-Paul Driot explained Buemi had Bird's strategy but his battle with Turvey obliged him to attack too much. Driot believed an alternative strategy of one extra lap could have been adopted had Buemi began on the grid's front row. The unbuckling of Piquet's seat belt in his second car was one of several incidents involving the safety device and a similar issue affected Abt in Punta del Este. He revealed that his team decided to retire him because the problem took too long to rectify and they wanted to conserve equipment, \"It's pretty clear, these cars are not made for quick pit stops and everyone is taking risks as there's no minimum time.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282164-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe result kept Vergne the lead of the Drivers' Championship but his advantage was reduced to 18 points. Bird's victory moved him to second place and Rosenqvist's retirement demoted him to third. Buemi maintained fourth position while Abt took over fifth position by finishing sixth. In the Teams' Championship, Techeetah extended their advantage over Virgin (who gained second place from Mahindra) at the top to 34 points. Mahindra scored no points and dropped to third while Audi's strong result moved them from sixth to fourth. Jaguar scored two points courtesy of Evans but fell to fifth with five races left in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282165-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome escalator accident\nThe 2018 Rome escalator accident was an incident where twenty-four people, mostly fans of the CSKA Moscow Football team, were injured after a crowded escalator at a Rome Metro station malfunctioned and suddenly sped up and hurled people down the escalator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282165-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome escalator accident, Incident\nThe escalator at the Repubblica Metro station in Rome malfunctioned on 23 October. The station was crowded due to many fans traveling to the Rome Olympic stadium to watch a Champions League game between CSKA Moscow and AS Roma. Witnesses claimed a group of CSKA fans going down into the station were jumping and singing before the incident. The escalator suddenly sped up with little time for those at the bottom to get out of the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282165-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome escalator accident, Incident\nSome fans attempted to escape by utilizing the median to either slide down, or get to the other escalator. After the escalator was stopped, a photo was released of the escalator stairs crumpled at the bottom with jagged and exposed metal plates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282165-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome escalator accident, Victims\nSeven people were reported to have been seriously injured, with varying accounts of the total amount of injured. Some of the injured were trapped between the metal plates of the steps at the bottom of the escalator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282165-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome escalator accident, Aftermath\nRome Mayor Virginia Raggi issued a request for a formal inquest over the cause of the malfunction. The entire Repubblica station was closed so that investigators and firefighters could carry out all investigations and rescue operations. In the week following the accident protests against Raggi, and raised concerns about her failing to address the city's issues such as the accident and lack of funds for city upkeep and infrastructure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282165-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rome escalator accident, Aftermath\nA representative from ATAC, Rome's public transport company, issued a statement that \"all maintenance checks of the escalator were carried out regularly and the results were in accordance to the norms.\" Police after studying the accident footage concluded that the fans were not jumping on the escalator. The CSKA fans released a statement on 24 October that; \"Italian officials, without conducting an investigation, were quick to accuse us of the accident. Apparently, they are trying to shun the responsibility of what happened.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282166-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ronde van Drenthe\nThe 2018 Ronde van Drenthe was the 56th edition of the Ronde van Drenthe road cycling one day race. It was held on 11 March 2018 as part of the UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282166-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ronde van Drenthe, Teams\nTwenty-two teams of up to seven riders started the race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282167-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ronde van Drenthe (women's race)\nThe 12th running of the Ronde van Drenthe, a women's cycling race in the Netherlands, was held on 11 March 2018. Held over a distance of 157.2 kilometres (97.7 miles), starting and finishing in Hoogeveen. It was the second race of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour. The race was won by Dutch rider Amy Pieters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282168-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Roscommon Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Roscommon Senior Football Championship is the 118th edition of Roscommon GAA's premier Gaelic football tournament for senior graded clubs in County Roscommon, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner representing Roscommon in the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282168-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Roscommon Senior Football Championship\nThe championship starts with a seeded group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282168-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Roscommon Senior Football Championship\nSt. Brigid's were the defending champions for the second season running after they defeated Roscommon Gaels in the previous years final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282168-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Roscommon Senior Football Championship\nMichael Glavey's (as Connacht I.C.F.C. champions and All-Ireland I.C.F.C. runners-up bounced straight back to the top flight for this season from the Intermediate ranks after relegation in 2016, through claiming the 2017 I.F.C. title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282168-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Roscommon Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282168-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Roscommon Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nThe competition split into two groups, based on their performance in the 2017 Group stages. Group 1 consists of teams who reached the Quarter-Finals last year or better. Group 2 consists of two bottom placed finishers in Group 1 last year as well as 3rd and 4th placed in Group 2 last year, the 2017 Relegation Playoff winners and the 2016 Intermediate champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282168-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Roscommon Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nThe top 2 teams in Group 1 go into the Semi-Finals, where they await the winners of the Quarter-Finals, which are composed of the 3rd and 4th placed teams in Group 1 along with the top 2 finishers in Group 2. The bottom 2 teams in Group 2 will enter a Relegation Playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl\nThe 2018 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Georgia Bulldogs, played on January 1, 2018 at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California. The 104th Rose Bowl Game was a semifinal for the College Football Playoff (CFP), matching two of the top four teams selected by the system's selection committee. Georgia and Oklahoma competed for a spot at the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship game, to be played on January 8, 2018 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl\nThe Georgia Bulldogs won the game with a 27-yard run by Sony Michel, shortly after Lorenzo Carter blocked Oklahoma Sooners' field goal attempt in the second overtime. The game lasted four hours and five minutes. With 26.8 million viewers on ESPN, the game ranked as the fifth most-viewed cable program of all time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl\nThe game was one of the 2017\u201318 bowl games that concluded the 2017 FBS football season. It was televised on ESPN and ESPN Deportes, and broadcast on ESPN Radio and XM Satellite Radio, with the kickoff at 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. local time). The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association organized the game. Sponsored by the Northwestern Mutual financial services organization, the game was officially known as the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game activities\nPre -game activities were held at the Rose Bowl parking lots and at Brookside Golf Course. The 2017 Rose Bowl Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was held at the Rose Bowl Stadium Lot K on December 30, 2017 from 12:00 to 1:30 PM. The 2017 Class members were Mack Brown (Texas), Cade McNown (UCLA), Charles Woodson (Michigan) and Dr. Charles West (Washington & Jefferson), represented by his daughter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game activities, Pre-game Rose Parade\nThe 2018 Rose Parade started at 8:00\u00a0a.m. Pacific Time and featured floral floats, marching bands, and equestrian units marching down the 5.5 mile route of the parade down Colorado Boulevard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game activities, Pre-game Rose Parade\nThe 2018 Rose Parade's theme was \u201cMaking A Difference,\u201d and actor Gary Sinise was its Grand Marshal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Team selection\nIn the 2018 Rose Bowl, the #2-ranked Oklahoma Sooners, champions of the Big 12 Conference, faced the #3-ranked Georgia Bulldogs, champions of the Southeastern Conference. This was the first meeting between the University of Georgia and the University of Oklahoma football teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Team selection\nTraditionally, the Rose Bowl pits the winners of the Big Ten Conference and Pac-12 Conference. However, any teams may be selected every three years, when the Rose Bowl is a CFP semifinal. The Big 12 and SEC champions traditionally meet in the Sugar Bowl. The 2018 Sugar Bowl was used as the other semifinal this year, allowing any team to be selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Team selection\nAs a result of Oklahoma and Georgia making it to the Rose Bowl, it was the first time since the 2015 Rose Bowl (CFP Semifinal) that the Big Ten Conference was not featured in the game. It was the first time since the 2011 edition that the Pac-12 Conference was not featured. It was the first time since the 2006 edition (BCS National Championship Game) in which one of the participants was a Power 5 team outside of the two traditional conferences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Team selection\nThat same 2006 game was also the last time the Big 12 Conference appeared in the Rose Bowl until 2018. It was also the first time since the 1946 Rose Bowl that an SEC appeared in the game. Lastly, it was the first time since the 2002 edition of the bowl game (also a BCS National Championship Game) that neither the Big Ten Conference nor the Pac-12 Conference was in the Rose Bowl (Nebraska was still in the Big 12 at the time).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Team selection\nThe matchups for the semifinals are geographically selected to ensure the top two teams do not play in road environments. More than one team from the same conference may participate in the game, and avoiding rematches is not a selection factor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Experience in the Rose Bowl\nGeorgia won their only previous Rose Bowl appearance when their 1942 team, which claims a national championship, beat the Pacific Coast Conference (predecessor to the Pac-12) champion UCLA 9\u20130 in 1943, a matchup which occurred prior to the Big Nine-PCC agreement. Oklahoma won their only previous Rose Bowl appearance when their 2002 team beat the then Pac-10 champion Washington State 34\u201314 in 2003, a matchup which occurred since Big Ten champion Ohio State was selected for the Fiesta Bowl, which was being used as that year's BCS National Championship Game, and Oklahoma was selected to replace them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 61], "content_span": [62, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Georgia\nGeorgia opened the 2017 season as the No. 15 team in both the AP and Coaches Polls. In the season opener, the Georgia Bulldogs faced the Appalachian State Mountaineers. During the first quarter, starting quarterback Jacob Eason was injured in an out-of-bounds hit that strained his knee. Freshman quarterback Jake Fromm replaced Eason. Fromm started as quarterback the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Georgia\nGeorgia traveled to its first away and out-of-conference game against the No. 24 Notre Dame Fighting Irish on September 9, 2017. The score was back-and-forth the whole game, until Rodrigo Blankenship scored a field goal with 3:34 to go in the fourth quarter, giving Georgia a 20\u201319 lead. On 1st-and-10, Georgia linebacker Davin Bellamy sacked quarterback Brandon Wimbush, and forced a fumble, which Georgia's Lorenzo Carter recovered. The Bulldogs held the field, winning the game. The Bulldogs returned home for the next two weeks, beating the Samford Bulldogs 42\u201314 and the No.17 Mississippi State Bulldogs 31\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Georgia\nOn September 30, 2017, No. 7 Georgia traveled to Knoxville to play longtime SEC East rival the Tennessee Volunteers after losing to them at home in 2016. The Bulldogs defeated the Volunteers in a 41\u20130 shutout, which was Tennessee's worst home loss since 1905. The following week, Georgia returned to Tennessee to play the Vanderbilt Commodores, winning 45\u201314. Undefeated No. 4 Georgia faced the Missouri Tigers back home in Athens, winning 53\u201328. During that game, Georgia gained 696 total yards, the second-highest in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Georgia\nWhen Georgia faced their biggest rival, the Florida Gators, in the annual neutral-location game, Georgia remained undefeated and beat Florida 42\u20137, the biggest win in the rivalry since 1982. After Florida's loss to Georgia, they fired head coach Jim McElwain. The following week, Georgia beat the South Carolina Gamecocks 24\u201310, clinching the SEC East and their spot in the SEC Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Georgia\nOn November 11, 2017, Georgia lost to the Auburn Tigers 17\u201340 in what would be their only loss of the regular season. Georgia wrapped up the regular season by beating the Kentucky Wildcats 42\u201313 and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 38\u20137. On December 2, 2017, No.6 Georgia joined No. 4 Auburn in the SEC Championship, the only team who beat them during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Georgia\nIn the rematch, Georgia took the lead in the second quarter when Georgia linebacker Davin Bellamy stripped the ball from Auburn quarterback Jarrett Stidham, recovered by Roquan Smith and leading to Georgia's drive that tied the score. Georgia took the SEC title for the first time since 2005, almost certainly securing their spot in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Oklahoma\nIn the 2017 preseason polls, Oklahoma was ranked No. 7 in the AP Poll and No. 8 in the Coaches Poll. Oklahoma opened the season against the University of Texas at El Paso Miners, winning 56\u20137 and showcasing a strong offense. Next, No. 6 Oklahoma traveled to the No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes and won 31\u201316. In Oklahoma's first meeting with the Tulane Green Wave, No. 2 Oklahoma won 56\u201314. They went on to play the Baylor Bears, eking out an expected blowout but still winning 49\u201341.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Oklahoma\nIn Oklahoma's big upset of the season, they lost to the Iowa State Cyclones 31\u201338. They went on to beat the Texas Longhorns 29\u201324 after Texas recovered from a 20-point deficit. The Sooners also began the next game against the Kansas State Wildcats with a 14-point deficit in the first half, but in a second-half comeback, Rodney Anderson scored a 22-yard touchdown with seven seconds left in the game, winning 42\u201335. Against the Texas Tech Red Raiders, Mayfield led the team to a 49\u201327 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Oklahoma\nOklahoma met the Oklahoma State Cowboys for their annual rivalry game, and quarterback Baker Mayfield completed 598 yards, winning 62\u201352. The No. 5 Sooners beat the No. 6 Texas Christian University Horned Frogs 38\u201320, taking 1st place in the Big 12. In the next away game against the Kansas Jayhawks, Mayfield accounted for his 127th touchdown, breaking Landry Jones's record as completing the most touchdowns in school history, and they won the game 41\u20133. During the game, Mayfield lost his captaincy for the following game against the West Virginia Mountaineers when he screamed profanity and grabbed his crotch, which he directed at the Kansas sideline. Mayfield's replacement, Kyler Murray, started the game, but Mayfield returned and won 59\u201331.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Pre-game buildup, Oklahoma\nOn December 2, 2017, No. 2 Oklahoma joined No. 10 TCU in a rematch in the Big 12 Championship, winning 41\u201317. The game secured Oklahoma's spot in the College Football Playoff semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Game summary\nOklahoma scored on five of six possessions in the first half, and they entered halftime leading Georgia by 14 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Game summary\nThe 54\u201348 score made this the highest-scoring Rose Bowl, edging out 2017's University of Southern California 52\u201349 win over Penn State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nAfter winning the coin toss, Oklahoma elected to defer and kick off. Georgia was forced to punt the ball on the first drive of the game, giving Oklahoma its first possession. Oklahoma's quarterback Baker Mayfield completed three passes, the third to Marquise Brown in the end zone, scoring the first touchdown of the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nAt the end of the second quarter, the Sooners employed a double reverse, and Baker Mayfield caught his first pass in college to score a 2-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nGeorgia received its possession with only 6 seconds on the clock, and Rodrigo Blankenship scored a 55-yard field goal. Blankenship set a Rose Bowl record for longest field goal kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nThe Sooners led 31\u201317 at halftime but the Bulldogs scored fourteen unanswered points in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nThe game went back and forth in the last quarter. Baker Mayfield threw the first interception of the game, as Dominick Sanders intercepted his pass. Jake Fromm completed a 4-yard pass to Javon Wims, taking the lead for the first time in the game, at 38\u201331.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nOklahoma tied the game back up, with Dimitri Flowers scoring a touchdown with 8:47 left in the game. Sony Michel fumbled in the next possession, and Oklahoma's Steven Parker recovered the fumble and returned it 46 yards to score a touchdown, putting the Sooners in the lead again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nWith fifty-five seconds left in the game, Nick Chubb took a direct snap and rushed for two yards for a game-tying touchdown. Oklahoma did not score on its last drive of regulation game, forcing overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Game summary, First overtime\nThe game went into overtime and was the first Rose Bowl in history to do so. The Sooners won the overtime coin toss and elected to play defense first. The teams traded field goals in the first overtime, sending the game into a second overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Game summary, Second overtime\nGeorgia's Lorenzo Carter blocked Oklahoma kicker Austin Seibert's 27-yard field goal attempt, meaning Georgia would win the game with any points during its possession. When Georgia had the ball, Sony Michel took a direct snap on a second down and rushed for a 27-yard touchdown, winning the game for the Bulldogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 45], "content_span": [46, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282169-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose Bowl, Rose Bowl records\nIn this game, a number of Rose Bowl records were set:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 33], "content_span": [34, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282170-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose of Tralee\nThe 2018 Rose of Tralee was the 59th edition of the annual Irish international festival held on 20\u201321 August 2018. The competition was televised live on RT\u00c9 television. 57 women from all over the world took part during the Rose of Tralee festival with 32 going on to the live shows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282170-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rose of Tralee\nThe Waterford Rose, 21-year-old Kirsten Mate Maher was named as the 2018 International Rose of Tralee. Of Irish and Zambian heritage, Mate Maher is the first African-Irish rose to win the competition. Roscommon man Paul Clabby won the Rose of Tralee Escort of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282171-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosenborg BK season\nThe 2018 season is Rosenborg's 39th consecutive year in the top flight now known as Eliteserien, their 51st season in the top flight of Norwegian football. They will participate in Eliteserien, the Cup, the 2018 Mesterfinalen and the 2018-19 UEFA Champions League, entering at the First qualifying round stage. K\u00e5re Ingebrigtsen started the season as manager but the club decided to remove him from the job after 4 years on July 19 and made Head of the academy Rini Coolen the manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282171-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosenborg BK season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282171-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosenborg BK season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282171-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosenborg BK season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282171-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosenborg BK season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282171-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosenborg BK season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282172-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships\nThe 2018 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships (also known as the Lib\u00e9ma Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 29th edition of the event, and part of the 250 Series of the 2018 ATP World Tour, and of the WTA International tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Autotron park in Rosmalen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, from June 11 through June 17, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282172-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 87], "content_span": [88, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282172-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 87], "content_span": [88, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282173-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Dominic Inglot and Franko \u0160kugor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282173-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nInglot and \u0160kugor went on to win the title, defeating Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20133), 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282174-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nGilles M\u00fcller was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Matthew Ebden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282174-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nRichard Gasquet won the title, defeating J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy in the final, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(7\u20135).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282174-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 62], "content_span": [63, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282175-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nDominika Cibulkov\u00e1 and Kirsten Flipkens were the defending champions, but Cibulkov\u00e1 chose not to participate this year. Flipkens played alongside Kiki Bertens, but lost in the final to Elise Mertens and Demi Schuurs when Flipkens had to retire with the score at 3\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282176-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nAnett Kontaveit was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Veronika Kudermetova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282176-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nAleksandra Kruni\u0107 won her first WTA singles title, defeating Kirsten Flipkens in the final, 6\u20137(0\u20137), 7\u20135, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282177-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rostelecom Cup\nThe 2018 Rostelecom Cup was the fifth event of six in the 2018\u201319 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held on November 16\u201318, 2018 in Moscow, Russia. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2018\u201319 Grand Prix Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282177-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rostelecom Cup, Entries\nThe ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282177-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rostelecom Cup, Records\nThe following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282177-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rostelecom Cup, Results, Men\nYuzuru Hanyu set a new world record for the short program (110.53).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282178-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Royal Bank Cup\nThe 2018 Royal Bank Cup was the 48th Canadian junior A Ice Hockey National Championship for the Canadian Junior Hockey League and the 48th consecutive year a national championship was awarded to this skill level since the breakaway of Major Junior hockey in 1970. The tournament was played at the Prospera Centre in Chilliwack, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282179-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Royal London One-Day Cup\nThe 2018 Royal London One-Day Cup tournament was a limited overs cricket competition that formed part of the 2018 domestic cricket season in England and Wales. Matches were contested over 50 overs per side and have List A cricket status. All 18 first-class counties competed in the tournament, which ran from the middle of May until the end of June, when the final took place at Lord's. Nottinghamshire were the defending champions of the tournament, having beaten Surrey in 2017 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282179-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Royal London One-Day Cup, Format\nThe competition featured two groups of nine teams, based on a rough North\u2013South geographical split. Each team played eight matches during the group stage, playing every other member of their group once, with four matches at home and four away. The group stage took place from the middle of May to the beginning of June, with the group winners progressing straight to the semi-finals and the second and third placed teams in each group playing a play-off against a team from the other group with the winner progressing to one of the semi-final matches. The only change for the 2018 competition from 2017 is the quarter-finals stage is renamed as the play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282179-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Royal London One-Day Cup, Knockout stage\nThe winner of each group progressed straight to the semi-finals with the second and third placed teams playing a play-off match against a team from the other group which made up the play-offs. The winner of each play-off played one of the group winners in the semi-finals. The final took place at Lord's on 30 June 2018, with Hampshire defeating Kent Spitfires by 61 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282180-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Africa season\nThe 2018 Rugby Africa season contains a series of rugby union tournaments scheduled for 2018 and organised by the governing body of rugby union in Africa, Rugby Africa. The top-tier event is the Rugby Africa Gold Cup \u2013 formerly simply known as the Africa Cup \u2013 a six-team competition which was played on a round-robin basis from May to August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282180-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Africa season, Teams\nThe following teams will take part in the 2018 Rugby Africa season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282180-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Africa season, Gold Cup\nThe 2018 edition of the Rugby Africa Gold Cup will be played by the national teams of Namibia, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, Zimbabwe and Tunisia. The competition will be played in a league format with 15 home or away matches (dependent on their 2017 league position) between the 16th of June and the 18th of August 2018. Points accumulated for the 2018 edition are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282180-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Africa season, Gold Cup\nVictory: 4 points + 1 bonus point for winning by three tries or more. Draw: 2 pointsLoss: 0 point + 1 bonus point for losing by 7 points or less", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282180-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Africa season, Gold Cup\nThis year's edition also doubles as qualification for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. The first place team will qualify for the World Cup directly, while the 2nd place team will qualify for the Repechage competition. All others will be eliminated from World Cup contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282180-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Africa season, Silver Cup\nUnlike the 2017 edition, the 2018 Silver Cup will be split into two groups of 3 teams each. By beating Zambia 31-0, Algeria won the competition and will automatically join the Gold Cup alongside Zambia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282180-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Africa season, Bronze Cup\nThe 2018 Bronze Cup was contested as a single elimination bracket with 4 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282181-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Americas North Championship\nThe 2018 Rugby Americas North Championship, the 11th edition of the tournament, is a rugby union championship for Tier 3 North American and Caribbean teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282181-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Americas North Championship, Format\nA significant restructuring of the tournament took place for the 2018 edition in order to accommodate the launch of the Americas Rugby Challenge. Unlike previous editions of the tournament, the teams will not be split geographically into north and south conferences, but will instead be combined into three tiered divisions: the Championship, the Cup, and the Trophy. Mexico and Guyana do not return to the RAN Championship as they are competing in the 2018 Americas Rugby Challenge. The lower placed of those two teams will enter a promotion/relegation playoff with the top team in the RAN Championship (excluding USA South) for a place in the 2019 Americas Rugby Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282181-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Americas North Championship, Championship\nWhile Trinidad and Tobago played two of their games, they were removed from tournament standings due to being unable to rearrange their fixture against Cayman Islands, scheduled for June 23, due to a lack of funding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282182-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Challenge\nThe 2018 Rugby Challenge \u2013 known as the SuperSport Rugby Challenge for sponsorship reasons \u2013 was the second edition of the Rugby Challenge, the secondary domestic rugby union competition in South Africa. The competition was organised by the South African Rugby Union and was played between 21 April and 15 July 2018. The competition featured all fourteen South African provincial unions plus Namibian side the Welwitschias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282182-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Challenge\nThe competition was won by the Pumas for the first time, after they beat Griquas 32\u201330 in the final in Oudtshoorn. Pumas fly-half Chris Smith was the top scorer in the competition with 131 points, while Griquas wing Enver Brandt was the top try scorer with 11 tries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282182-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Challenge, Competition rules and information\nThe fifteen teams in the competition were divided into three regional sections of five teams. Each team played home and away matches against the other four teams in their section over a ten-week period. The top two teams from each pool, along with the two third-placed teams with the best record progressed to the play-offs, which consisted of quarter finals, a semi-final and a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282182-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Challenge, Teams\nThe teams that competed in the 2018 Rugby Challenge are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282182-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Challenge, Northern Section, Round-by-round\nThe table below shows each team's progression throughout the season. For each round, each team's cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282182-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Challenge, Central Section, Round-by-round\nThe table below shows each team's progression throughout the season. For each round, each team's cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282182-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Challenge, Southern Section, Round-by-round\nThe table below shows each team's progression throughout the season. For each round, each team's cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282182-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Challenge, Honours\nThe honour roll for the 2018 Rugby Challenge was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282182-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Challenge, Players, Squads\nThe following squads were named for the 2018 Rugby Challenge:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282182-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Challenge, Players, Top scorers\nThe top ten try and point scorers during the 2018 Rugby Challenge were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282182-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Challenge, Referees\nThe following referees officiated matches in the 2018 Rugby Challenge:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship\nThe 2018 Rugby Championship was the seventh edition of the expanded annual southern hemisphere Rugby Championship, featuring Argentina, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. The competition is operated by SANZAAR, a joint venture of the four countries' national unions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship\nThe tournament continued to use the same sequence of games across the schedule, starting on 18 August with Australia hosting reigning champions New Zealand and South Africa hosting Argentina, and ending after eight weeks (six rounds and two bye weeks) on 6 October when New Zealand visited South Africa and Australia played in Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship\nNew Zealand won the Championship for the sixth time after a 35-17 win over Argentina in Buenos Aires on 29 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Background\nThe tournament is operated by SANZAAR and known for sponsorship reasons as The Castle Rugby Championship in South Africa, The Investec Rugby Championship in New Zealand, The Mitsubishi Estate Rugby Championship in Australia, and The Personal Rugby Championship in Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Format\nThe format for the 2018 tournament retained the previous Championship format that changed in 2017. Each side played the other once at home, and once away, giving a total of six matches each, and twelve in total. A win earned a team four league points, a draw two league points, and a loss by eight or more points zero league points. A bonus point was earned in one of two ways: by scoring at least three tries more than the opponent in a match, or by losing within seven points. The competition winner was the side with the most points at the end of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Results, Round 1\nTouch judges:Wayne Barnes (England)Luke Pearce (England)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Results, Round 1\nTouch judges:Angus Gardner (Australia)Andrew Brace (Ireland)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Results, Round 2\nTouch judges:Jaco Peyper (South Africa)Luke Pearce (England)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Results, Round 2\nTouch judges:Ben O'Keeffe (New Zealand)Andrew Brace (Ireland)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Results, Round 3\nTouch judges:Nigel Owens (Wales)Nic Berry (Australia)Television match official:Rowan Kitt (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Results, Round 3\nTouch judges:John Lacey (Ireland)Paul Williams (New Zealand)Television match official:Glenn Newman (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Results, Round 4\nTouch judges:Pascal Ga\u00fcz\u00e8re (France)Nic Berry (Australia)Television match official:Rowan Kitt (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Results, Round 4\nTouch judges:Glen Jackson (New Zealand)Paul Williams (New Zealand)Television match official:Glenn Newman (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Results, Round 5\nTouch judges:Wayne Barnes (England)Matthew Carley (England)Television match official:Graham Hughes (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Results, Round 5\nTouch judges:Jaco Peyper (South Africa)Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa)Television match official:David Grashoff (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Results, Round 6\nTouch judges:J\u00e9r\u00f4me Garc\u00e8s (France)Matthew Carley (England)Television match official:Graham Hughes (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Results, Round 6\nTouch judges:Mathieu Raynal (France)Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa)Television match official:David Grashoff (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, Summary\nNote: Ages, caps and clubs/franchises are of 18 August 2018 \u2013 the starting date of the tournament", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, Argentina\nOn 6 August, newly appointed head coach Mario Ledesma named a 36-man squad for the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, Argentina\n1 Ahead of the traveling to South Africa for the opening match, Tom\u00e1s Lezana joined the squad after recovering from injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, Argentina\n2 On 9 August, Juan Figallo became the first European based player to be selected for the national side since the 2015 World Cup, after a change of selection policy under Ledesma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, Argentina\n3 On 19 August, Santiago \u00c1lvarez, Facundo Bosch and Santiago Carreras joined the ahead of the round 2 home clash against South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, Argentina\n4 On 27 August, Gaston Cortes joined the squad for the Oceania leg of the Championship in rounds 3 and 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, Argentina\n5 On 19 September, Ramiro Herrera, Mat\u00edas Osadczuk, Lucas Paulos and Enrique Pieretto joined were added as part of the training squad ahead of the fifth round clash with New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, Argentina\n6 On 24 September, Manuel Montero joined the squad as injury cover for Ramiro Moyano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, Argentina\nNote: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, Australia\nOn 5 August, Michael Cheika named a 36-man extended squad ahead of the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, Australia\n1 On 21 September, Jake Gordon and Angus Cottrell were added to the squad for the final two rounds of the Championship, with the latter replacing Lukhan Tui who withdrew from the squad for personal reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, New Zealand\nOn 6 August 2018, Hansen named a 33-man squad ahead of the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, New Zealand\nLiam Coltman and Ngani Laumape were included in the squad as injury covers for Dane Coles and Sonny Bill Williams respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, New Zealand\n1 On 16 August, Ofa Tu'ungafasi, after being named in the match-day team for the opening round, was withdrawn due to injury and Jeffery Toomaga-Allen joined the squad as a precautionary injury cover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, New Zealand\n2 On 30 August, Angus Ta'avao joined the squad as an injury replacement for Joe Moody who was ruled out of the rest of the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, New Zealand\n3 On 9 September, Patrick Tuipulotu joined the squad as an injury replacement for Brodie Retallick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, New Zealand\nNote: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, South Africa\nOn 26 May 2018, head coach Rassie Erasmus named the following 35-man squad for South Africa's Rugby Championship campaign:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, South Africa\nCyle Brink withdrew from the squad on 16 August 2018 after sustaining a knee injury in training. He was not replaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, South Africa\n1 On 31 August, Schalk Brits, Damian de Allende and Cheslin Kolbe were added to the squad ahead of the Australasian leg of the Championship in rounds 3 and 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282183-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Championship, Squads, South Africa\n2 On 23 September, Vincent Koch, Ruhan Nel and S'busiso Nkosi were added to the squad ahead of round 5 and 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282184-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Championship\nThe 2018 Rugby Europe Championship is the premier rugby union competition outside of the Six Nations Championship in Europe. This is the second season under its new format, that saw Georgia, Germany, Romania, Russia, Spain and Belgium compete for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282184-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Championship\nThis year's edition of the Rugby Europe Championship also served as a key stage of the European region qualification process for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. The team with the best record across the 2017 and 2018 Championships qualified as Europe 1. As Georgia have already secured qualification automatically, results involving that team are discarded for the purposes of Rugby World Cup qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282184-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Championship\nBoth the Championship and the Qualification Process were heavily affected by controversial disciplinary issues involving player eligibility and the selection of neutral officials (namely, Romanian referee Vlad Iordachescu in Belgium-Spain). In respect of matters relating to the eligibility of players, following a full review of the evidence, including statements and submissions from World Rugby, Rugby Europe, Belgium, Romania, Spain and Russia, the independent committee found:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282184-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Championship\nIn respect of sanctions, pursuant to Regulation 18, the independent committee determined the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282184-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Championship\nThe deduction of 5 points for any match in which a union fielded an ineligible player. in practice this meant the following", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282184-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Championship\nTherefore, based on a re-modelling of the Rugby Europe Championship tables in the context of Rugby World Cup 2019 qualifying, Russia would qualify as Europe 1 into Pool A replacing Romania and Germany will replace Spain in the European play-off against Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282184-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Championship\nGeorgia's victory in the 2018 Rugby Europe Championship itself was unaffected. Germany's proposed promotion/relegation play-off with Portugal, however, becomes a Romania-Portugal play-off. Ironically, Germany would now face Portugal in the Rugby World Cup European qualification play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282185-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Sevens Conferences\nThe 2018 Rugby Europe Sevens Conferences are the lower divisions of Rugby Europe's 2018 sevens season. Conference 1 is held in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the two top-placing teams advancing to the 2019 Trophy, while Conference 2 is held in Tallinn, Estonia, with the top two advancing to Conference 1 for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282185-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Sevens Conferences, Conference 1\nWill be held in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 23\u201324 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282186-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series\nThe 2018 Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series serves as a qualifying tournament for the 2019 Hong Kong Sevens qualifier. The three top placing 2018-2019 non-core World Series teams \u2014 Ireland, Germany, and Russia \u2014 advance to the 2019 Hong Kong Sevens qualification tournament. Ireland won the series, winning three out of the four tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282186-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series\nThe non-hosting team with the fewest points \u2014 Sweden \u2014 is relegated to the 2019 Trophy tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282186-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series, Standings\n\u237b Russia started this series as a World Series core team but lost its core status at the 2018 Paris Sevens on June 10, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282186-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series, Standings\n* Poland cannot be relegated due to being a host nation", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282187-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Sevens Trophy\nThe 2018 Rugby Europe Sevens Trophy is the second division of Rugby Europe's 2018 sevens season. This edition was hosted by the cities of Zagreb and \u0160iauliai from 7 June to 1 July, with the winner promoted to the 2019 Grand Prix and the two teams with the fewest points relegated to 2019 Conference 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282188-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Women's Championship\nThe 2018 Rugby Europe Women's Championship was the 22nd edition of Rugby Europe's top division competition for women's national rugby union teams, and the tenth such tournament for which the European Championship title was awarded. The tournament was held in Belgium from 27 February to 3 March 2018 as a knockout competition, with matches played at Brussels and Waterloo. Spain won the championship to take its third European title and second in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282188-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Women's Championship, Format\nThe four teams, based on the world rankings at the time of issuing the tournament regulations, were assigned a seeding from 1 to 4, the highest being that of Spain and, subsequently, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The format was a four team semifinal bracket, with the teams seeded 1 and 2 meeting the teams seeded 4 and 3 respectively. A final for the title was played between the two winners and a match for third place was played by the defeated semifinal teams. All competitions took place at the Stade du Pachy in Waterloo\u200a except for the final held at the Petit Heysel in Brussels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282189-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Conference\nThe 2018 Rugby Europe Women's Conference is the third division of the 2018 season of the Rugby Europe Women's Sevens. The tournament will be held in Zagreb, Croatia on 8\u20139 June, with the two highest-placing teams promoted to the 2019 Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282190-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Grand Prix Series\nThe 2018 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Grand Prix Series was the 2018 edition of the annual rugby sevens competition for national women's teams in Rugby Europe. The top non-core teams will participate in a 2019 Hong Kong Women's Sevens for qualification into 2019-20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, and the bottom two will be relegated to the 2019 Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282191-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Trophy\nThe 2018 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Trophy is the second division of the 2018 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens. This edition was hosted by the cities of Dnipro and Szeged from 23 June to 1 July, with the two highest-placed teams promoted to the 2019 Grand Prix and the two teams with the fewest points relegated to the 2019 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282192-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby League Commonwealth Championship\nThe 2018 Rugby League Commonwealth Championship was a rugby league nines tournament organised by the Rugby League International Federation (RLIF) to be played in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia in February 2018. The event, featured eight men's teams, six women's teams and three physical disability teams, was one of the exhibition sports for the 2018 Commonwealth Games and was in support of the bid for rugby league nines to be a full medal event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282192-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby League Commonwealth Championship\nThe tournament was dominated by Australia, who won all three competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282192-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby League Commonwealth Championship, Competing nations and pools\nThe 2014 tournament limited the men's competition to under-18 players. For this competition the upper age was increased to make the tournament an under-23 competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282192-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby League Commonwealth Championship, Fixtures\nAll the games were played at Dolphin Stadium, home of Queensland rugby league side, Redcliffe Dolphins, on 23 and 24 February. All the pool games in the men's and women's teams were played on 23 February with the play-offs and medal matches played on 24 February. In the physical disability tournament four match were played on the first day with two more and the gold medal match played on the second day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282192-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby League Commonwealth Championship, Physical disabilities tournament, Play-off\nAustralia were declared the gold medalists due to having a better pool result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282193-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby League European Championship\nThe 2018 European Championship is an international rugby league tournament that took place in October and November 2018. Four teams competed in the tournament, which forms the top tier of European international competition, and the first stage of qualification for the 2021 Rugby League World Cup. The winner and runner-up will automatically qualify for the World Cup, while the third and fourth placed teams will enter the European play-off qualifying competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282193-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby League European Championship, Teams\nThe championship will be contested by the national teams of France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Wales are the defending champions having won the previous competition, the 2015 European Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282193-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby League European Championship, Standings\nThe championship is a single round-robin tournament with two points awarded for a win and one point for a draw. The matches will take place over three consecutive weekends commencing 26 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282194-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby League European Championship B\nThe 2018 Rugby League European Championship B (known as Euro B) was the second phase of European qualifying to the 2021 Rugby League World Cup. The series involved three teams in pool play and took place in October 2018. The two highest ranked teams, Russia and Spain, advanced to the European play-off. In August 2019 Russia withdrew from the play-off tournament and were replace by Serbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282195-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby League Qualifiers\nThe 2018 Rugby League Qualifiers is the format used in European rugby league, to determine promotion and relegation between the top two divisions, and forms the second phase of Super League XXIII and the 2018 Rugby League Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282195-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby League Qualifiers\nExisting Super League sides; Salford Red Devils, Leeds Rhinos and Hull Kingston Rovers reconfirmed their Super League status but Widnes Vikings were relegated to the Championship after only winning one of their seven games. They will be replaced in Super League by London Broncos, who defeated Toronto Wolfpack 4-2 in the Million Pound Game, ending the Broncos four year exile from Super League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282195-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby League Qualifiers, Format\nThe Qualifiers sees the bottom four teams from Super League, join the top 4 teams from the Championship. The points totals are reset to zero, and each team plays seven games each, playing every other team once. The teams finishing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd will gain qualification to the Super League XXIV season. The teams finishing 4th and 5th, will play in the \"Million Pound Game\", at the home of the 4th place team to determine who will take the final place to gain promotion to Super League XXIV. The loser, along with teams finishing 6th, 7th and 8th, will be relegated to the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282195-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby League Qualifiers, Fixtures and results\nEach team plays seven fixtures. The teams that finished 9th and 10th in Super League and 1st and 2nd in the Championship each play four home fixtures and three away with the other four teams playing three at home and four away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282196-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens\nThe 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens was the seventh edition of the Rugby World Cup Sevens. Organised by World Rugby, it was held at AT&T Park, now known as Oracle Park, in San Francisco, United States. A total of 84 matches were played over three days from July 20\u201322, 2018. The men\u2019s tournament had 24 teams and the women\u2019s tournament 16, with both tournaments being played for the first time in a knock-out only format. New Zealand won the championship for both events \u2014 defeating England in the men's final and France in the women's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282196-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Bidding\nThe bidding timeline for hosting the tournament was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282196-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Bidding\nThe following 14 countries declared their interest in bidding to host the event:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282196-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Venue\nUSA Rugby selected the San Francisco Bay Area as the host candidate. The venue was AT&T Park, home to the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282196-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Venue\nWhen the event was awarded to the Bay Area in May 2015, Avaya Stadium, home to the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer, was announced as a second venue. However, the following year, Avaya Stadium was dropped as a venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282196-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Popularity\nThe three-day tournament was the most-watched live rugby cast in the USA on record. In the U.S. Day 2 coverage achieved a rating of 1.0, while Day 3 coverage attained a 1.1. Coverage reached nine million viewers across NBC five telecasts, with finals day coverage averaging 1.365 million viewers. Over 100,000 fans attended the three day event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282196-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Schedule\nOver the three days of competition there was a total of 84 matches played across both the men's and women's competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282196-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Qualifying \u2013 Men\nTwenty four teams participate in the men's World Cup Sevens. Nine teams automatically qualify \u2014 eight by reaching the quarterfinals at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens, and one host nation. Additionally, the top four teams not already qualified from the 2016\u201317 World Sevens Series also qualify. The remaining 11 teams qualify through continental qualifiers \u2014 two from each of the six regions, except North America which gets only one additional place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282196-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Qualifying \u2013 Women\nSixteen teams play at the women's World Cup Sevens. Four teams automatically qualified by reaching the semifinals at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens. Additionally, the top four teams not already qualified from the 2016\u201317 Women's World Sevens Series also qualified. The remaining eight places will be filled via continental qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282197-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Men\nThis is the qualifications of the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens aimed at selecting men's rugby sevens national teams that appeared in the finals in San Francisco. A total of 55 nations took part in the qualifying process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282197-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Men, General\nThe tournament is organized by World Rugby to be held on 20\u201322 July 2018, with twenty-four teams in attendance. Automatic qualification is extended to the host and the eight quarterfinalists of the previous World Cup. Four more teams qualified based on placement in the 2016-17 World Rugby Sevens Series, and the remainder are to be decided in each of the six regions' respective tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282197-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Men, Qualifying, Africa\nTen teams competed in Rugby Africa's Sevens tournament on 6\u20137 October 2017 in Kampala, Uganda, and contested the two qualifying slots. By making it to the finals then winning, Uganda makes its first ever World Cup appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282197-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Men, Qualifying, North America\nThe qualifying tournament, which is also Rugby Americas North Sevens, took place at the Campo Marte in Mexico City, 25\u201326 November 2017. Jamaica won the tournament to make its first World Cup appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282197-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Men, Qualifying, South America\nThe 2017 Bolivarian Games rugby sevens tournament on 19\u201321 November served as the first part of the South American qualification process. Silver-winning Paraguay advanced to the 2018 Sudam\u00e9rica Rugby Sevens, where from 6\u201314 January they compete alongside Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay and some invitational teams. After the two tournaments, respective third and fourth-place finishers Uruguay and Chile qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282197-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Men, Qualifying, Asia\nFrom 1 September to 14 October, eight teams competed in Hong Kong, Incheon and Colombo for two World Cup slots. Japan and Hong Kong respectively rounded up the top two teams, making them eligible for the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282197-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Men, Qualifying, Europe\nFrom 4 June to 16 July 2017, twelve teams competed at the Sevens Grand Prix in Moscow, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Clermont-Ferrand and Exeter, of which nine contested two World Cup spots with England, France and Wales already automatically qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282197-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Men, Qualifying, Oceania\nThirteen teams competed on 10\u201311 November 2017 in Suva, Fiji, of which nine teams sought one of the two allotted World Cup slots based upon their placement with Australia, Fiji, New Zealand and Samoa already qualified. With Papua New Guinea claiming that slot, the second continental slot was awarded to the champion of the 2017 Pacific Mini Games tournament on 8\u20139 December. Through edging out Solomon Islands for the Bronze Medal, only behind Fiji and Samoa, Tonga qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282198-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women\nThis is the qualifications of the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens \u2013 Women's tournament aimed at selecting women's Rugby sevens national teams that appeared in the finals in San Francisco. A total of 52 nations took part in the qualifying process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282198-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, General\nThe tournament is organized by World Rugby to be held on 20\u201322 July 2018, with sixteen teams in attendance. Automatic qualification is extended the semi-finalists of the previous World Cup (of which host United States is one). Four other bids were determined by placement in the 2016-17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, with the remainder decided in each of the six regions' respective tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282198-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, Qualifying, Africa\nThe tournament was held 16\u201317 September 2017 in Monastir, Tunisia, with South Africa beating Kenya 17\u201312 to obtain the one allotted Africa slot for the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282198-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, Qualifying, Americas North\nThe qualifying Tournament, which is also Rugby Americas North Women's Sevens, took place at the Campo Marte in Mexico City, 25\u201326 November 2017. With Mexico having the best record, it will make its first World Cup appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282198-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, Qualifying, South America\nThe 2017 Torneo Valent\u00edn Mart\u00ednez served as the South American qualifier, with the winner heading to the World Cup. It was held at Carrasco Polo Club in Montevideo, Uruguay on November 10-11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282198-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, Qualifying, South America\nThe format was a round robin tournament. All matches in Uruguay Standard Time (UTC\u221203:00)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282198-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, Qualifying, Asia\nFrom 23\u201324 September and 14\u201315 October, eight teams competed in Incheon and Colombo for two world cup slots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282198-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, Qualifying, Europe\nTwelve teams competed at the Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Grand Prix at 17\u201318 June 2017 in Malemort, France, then 8\u20139 July in Kazan, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282198-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, Qualifying, Oceania\nEight teams competed in Suva, Fiji on 10-11 November 2017, with Australia, Fiji and New Zealand already qualified. Papua New Guinea, as the highest-ranked team not yet qualified, was eligible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 67], "content_span": [68, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282199-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens squads \u2013 Men\nThe rosters of all participating teams at the men's tournament of the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282200-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens squads \u2013 Women\nThe rosters of all participating teams at the women's tournament of the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282200-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens squads \u2013 Women, United States\nAlev Kelter was initially selected as part of the squad, but was still recovering from injuries and so was substituted with Kelsi Stockert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282201-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens \u2013 Men's tournament\nThe men's tournament in the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens was held at AT&T Park in San Francisco. New Zealand won the tournament and took home the Melrose Cup by defeating England 33\u201312 in the final; South Africa won the bronze by deafeating Fiji 24\u201419. The tournament was dominated by the World Series core teams, which accounted for all eight of the teams that reached the quarterfinals. Ireland was the highest placed non core team in ninth, notching wins against core teams Kenya, Wales, and Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282201-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens \u2013 Men's tournament\nThe top point scorer was Papua New Guinea's Emmanuel Guise with 37 points. The joint top try scorers were New Zealand's Joe Ravouvou and South Africa's Siviwe Soyizwapi with 6 each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282201-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens \u2013 Men's tournament, Format\nUnlike previous editions, the tournament will be played for the first time in a knock-out only format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282201-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens \u2013 Men's tournament, Match officials\nWorld Rugby announced a panel of ten match officials for the men's tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282202-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens \u2013 Women's tournament\nThe women's tournament in the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens was held at AT&T Park in San Francisco alongside the men's tournament in which the teams competed for the Women's Rugby Sevens World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282202-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens \u2013 Women's tournament, Format\nUnlike previous editions, the tournament was played for the first time in a knock-out only format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282202-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens \u2013 Women's tournament, Match officials\nWorld Rugby announced a panel of nine match officials for the women's tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282203-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rushmoor Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Rushmoor Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Rushmoor Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282203-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rushmoor Borough Council election\nTwo seats were up for election in the West Heath ward due to the resignation of an incumbent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282204-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Air Force Antonov An-26 crash\nOn 6 March 2018 an Antonov An-26 transport aircraft crashed on approach to Khmeimim air base in Syria, killing all 39 people on board. All of them were servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces, including Major-General Vladimir Yeremeyev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282204-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Air Force Antonov An-26 crash, Aircraft\nThe accident aircraft was an Antonov An-26, registration RF-92955, msn 10107. It had first flown in 1980. This accident is the fifteenth An-26 fatal crash in this decade with a total of 159 deaths, none of these flights were scheduled passenger airline operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282204-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Air Force Antonov An-26 crash, Crash\nAt about 14:00 local time (12:00 UTC) the Russian Antonov An-26 went down about 500 metres (1,640\u00a0ft) from the runway. The preliminary cause was attributed to technical malfunction. Based on reports from the location, the Russian Ministry of Defense ruled out the possibility that it was shot down. The Investigative Committee of Russia and the Russian Military Prosecutor's Office opened criminal cases concerning the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282204-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Air Force Antonov An-26 crash, Crash\nThe Islamic militant group Jaysh al-Islam later claimed the responsibility for the crash; according to Ad-Diyar, five militants shot at the aircraft with heavy machine guns when it was 100 m from the ground. It was suggested that the claim might be false, as the group has made opportunistic claims in the past, as have some other groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282204-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Air Force Antonov An-26 crash, Cause\nThe aircraft flew on final approach with a tail wind and was caught by windshear on final. It banked, lost height and crashed some 500 metres before the runway threshold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282205-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2018 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held in Kazan, Russia between 18\u201322 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 Russian Athletics Championships was held July 19-22 at Central Stadium in Kazan. The capital of Tatarstan hosted the event for the third time, having done so previously in 2008 and 2014. Around 1000 athletes from 76 regions of the country participated in the competition. Over the course of four days, 38 events were contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships\nFor the third year in a row, the national championships did not include the selection of an international team (on this occasion, for the 2018 European Athletics Championships). This was due to the continuation Russia's ban from international athletics by the IAAF due to doping, which began in 2015. Three Russians, who competed at that competition as Authorised Neutral Athletes (Sergey Shubenkov, Anzhelika Sidorova and Danil Lysenko), chose not to compete at the national event, instead competing at the Herculis 2018 IAAF Diamond League meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships\nVladimir Nikitin won the men's 1500 metres in a championship record of 3:35.85. After the collapse of the USSR, only two people showed faster results at this distance: the country's record holder Vyacheslav Shabunin and Andrei Loginov. Aleksandr Lesnoy improved his personal record to 21.58 m, bringing him to fourth among Russia's all-time men's shot putters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships\nThe 2012 Olympic champion Anna Chicherova returned from her doping ban but was beaten into second place by world-leader Mariya Lasitskene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships\nEkaterina Ivonina set a European-leading time of 9:16.68 to win the 3000 metres steeplechase. She led from start to finish and beat the silver medalist by 22 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships\nSeveral athletes extended their list of national honours: Dmitry Tarabin won the javelin for the sixth time in a row, while hurdler Konstantin Shabanov became a six-time champion in the 110 metres hurdles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Championships\nDuring 2018, Russian championships were held in various cities in individual athletics disciplines:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Results, Women\nOn October 25, 2018, the All-Russian Federation of Athletics announced a 4-year disqualification of the hammer thrower Natalia Polyakova for 4 years. Methenolone was detected in her doping test at this event. The result of the athlete in this tournament (3rd place, 66.54 m) was annulled in accordance with the rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Mountain running (uphill)\nThe 19th Russian Mountain Running Championship (uphill) took place on March 31, 2018 in Zheleznovodsk, Stavropol Territory. The race circuit was on the slopes of Mount Beshtau. A total of 82 participants (51 men and 31 women) from 25 regions of Russia started the race. Alexey Pagnuev repeated last year's success, winning the men's race. Since 2011, for the sixth time, Alexei was in the top three of the country's uphill mountain running championship. Galina Egorova became the national champion of Russia for the seventh time in her career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Mountain running (uphill)\nShe won previous victories in the indoor 5000 metres (2007), mountain (up and down) (2010, 2011, 2017) and the uphill mountain race (2012, 2013). For the third year in a row, Anastasia Rudnaya, the world champion in orienteering, climbed the podium in the women's event. After two bronze medals, she won the silver medal, only 16 seconds behind the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Cross country (spring)\nThe 2018 Russian Spring Cross Country Championships were held on 28 April in Zhukovskiy, Moscow Oblast. A total of 73 runners (34 men and 39 women) from 33 regions of Russia took part in four senior races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Marathon\nThe 2018 Russian Marathon Championships was held on 30 April in Volgograd, incorporated into the city's annual marathon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Mountain running (uphill-downhill)\nThe 2018 Russian Mountain Running Championships (uphill-downhill) was the 20th edition of the competition. It was held on 6 May 2018 in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast. A total of 48 runnes (33 men and 15 women) from 17 regions started the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, 24-hour run\nThe Russian 24-hour Championship was held on May 12\u201313 at the Iskra Stadium in Moscow as part of the XXVII Super Day marathon. A total of 55 athletes (40 men and 15 women) from 19 regions of Russia took the start. Nadezhda Gubareva became the youngest winner of the championship: at the time of the finish she was 22 years 240 days. The men's champion, Konstantin Chekulov, won the national championship for the first time in his career. A 60-year-old Yuriy Galkin, after two wins in 2016 and 2017, appeared on the podium for a third time. For the third year in a row, the silver medal in the women's race was won by Nadezhda Shikhanova, and the bronze medal by Anna Sidorova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Relay\nThe Russian Relay Championships was held in Smolensk on May 30\u201331 at the stadium of the Smolensk Academy of Physical Culture. Competitions were held simultaneously with the Russian Team Athletics Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Relay, Women\nV estafete 4\u00d71500 metrov u zhenschin uchastvovali tolko 2 komandy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Racewalking\nThe 2018 Russian Race Walking Championships was held June 9-10 in Cheboksary. The route was laid along the embankment of the Cheboksary Bay. The competition was attended by 59 athletes (33 men and 26 women) from 9 regions of the country. For the first time, a women's 50 km race took place at the Russian Championship, following the IAAF's international recognition of the event in 2016. The first champion and record holder of Russia was Klavdiya Afanasyeva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Racewalking\nThe 19-year-old Sergey Shirobokov claimed the men's title over 20\u00a0km: his result (1:17:25) made him the fourth fastest ever in Russia and the ninth in the world among adults. Elena Lashmanova exceeded the 20\u00a0km world record time by almost a minute, 1:23:39 versus 1:24:38. Her time was a new national record, but was not ratified by the IAAF as a global one due to the disqualification of the national federation due to the doping scandal and, as a result, the lack of international judges at the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, 10,000 metres\nThe 2018 Russian Championships in the 10,000 metres was held on June 30 as part of the Znamensky Brothers Memorial. Competitions were held at Meteor Stadium in the suburban town of Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast. The races took place in the evening in warm and windless weather. A total of 44 athletes (29 men and 15 women) from 29 regions of the country started the championships. Elena Sedova defended the title of champion of the country, leading from the start. In the men's race, Vladimir Nikitin won his first national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Combined events\nThe 2018 Russian Combined Events Championships was held on July 4\u20135 in Smolensk. The competition was attended by 51 athletes (28 men and 23 women) from 18 regions of the country. Competitions were held at the stadium of the Smolensk Academy of Physical Culture. Artyom Makarenko and Victoria Vaseykina won the outdoor national championship for the first time in their career. Vaseykina's victory was secured by 5743 points - the lowest winning score among for the heptathlon championship since 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Half marathon\nThe 2018 Russian Half Marathon Championships was held on 2 September in Yaroslavl as part of the Yaroslavl Half Marathon. The circuit was a circular 10.55 km route set in the historic part of the city. A total of 47 athletes (29 men and 18 women) from 24 regions of the country took the start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Half marathon\nCompetitions were held in warm and sunny weather. In the women's run, Irina Sergeeva took the lead from the start. Tatyana Arkhipova overtook her on the second lap of the course and won by a margin of twelve seconds. In the men's race, the top three contenders for the medals were determined after the 15th kilometer. Artem Aplachkin, who won the Russian title for the second time in his career, was the fastest in the final segment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, 15K\nThe 2018 Russian 15K Championships were held on 9 September in Saransk as part of the 46th run in the memory of Peter Bolotnikov. A total of 49 athletes (31 men and 18 women) from 12 regions of the country entered the competition. 31-year-old Ilya Zmaznev for the first time in his career became national champion. Elena Nagovitsyna won the women's race, following a fourth place finish at the half marathon championship a week earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 41], "content_span": [42, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, 100 km\nThe 2018 Russian 100 km Championships was held on 9 September in Saint Petersburg. The competition took place on Krestovsky Island on a circular track 2.5 km long under comfortable weather conditions (cloudy, up to +20 degrees). A total of 33 athletes (21 men and 12 women) from 20 regions of the country took the start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, 100 km\nThe main surprise of the men's race was the withdrawal of the current champion and record holder of Russia Vasily Larkin. From the start, he stepped forward along with Vsevolod Khudyakov, after the 30th kilometer he made a successful break-away attempt and at some point had an almost minute advantage. However, after the middle of the distance, the gap began to decrease: by 60 km, the leaders again caught up, and after the 75th km, Larkin stopped running altogether. After the main competitor had vanished, Khudyakov was 17 minutes ahead of the nearest pursuer, which was more than enough to maintain the first position and win the Russian championship in the 100 km run for the third time in his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, 100 km\nSeveral favorites stopped the fight in the course of the race and in the women's race. The current champion of the country Alsou Asanova came down after 57 km, the world champion Marina Zhalybina ran a little more than 30 km. In the middle of the race, the leader was Olga Ukolova, the bronze medalist of the previous year's championship. At the beginning of the second half, she was ahead of Nadezhda Gogoleva and Dina Zakharchenko, who led the fight for the victory to the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, 100 km\nAt certain moments, Gogoleva's advantage reached almost two minutes, but by 85 km only 10 seconds remained. Zakharchenko closely approached the leader, but she did not have the strength for the final segment. Nadezhda Gogoleva became the champion of Russia for the second time in her career, Dina Zakharchenko won the silver medal, losing by less than a minute. For the second year in a row, Nadezhda Shikhanova reached the national podium in both supermarathon disciplines, 24 hours and 100 km.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Cross country (autumn)\nThe 2018 Russian Autumn Cross Country Championships was held in Orenburg on 20\u201321 October. A total of 58 runners (38 men and 20 women) from 29 regions of Russia took part in two senior races. Competitions were held in cool weather with strong gusty wind. Alexey Vikulov added the title of the strongest on the autumn highway in Orenburg to the victory in the spring national championship in cross country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282206-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Athletics Championships, Mountain running (long-distance)\nThe 12th Russian Championship in Long Distance Mountain Running took place on 28 October in Krasnaya Polyana, Krasnodar Territory. A total of 42 participants (30 men and 12 women) from 13 regions of Russia took part. Nadezhda Leshchinskaya won the women's run for the fourth year in a row, ahead of Nailiya Yulamanova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282207-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Circuit Racing Series\nThe 2018 SMP Russian Circuit Racing Series was the fifth season of the Russian Circuit Racing Series, organized by SMP Racing. It is the fourth season with TCR class cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282207-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Circuit Racing Series, Teams and drivers, Touring / TCR Russian Touring Car Championship\nAll teams are Russian-registered. All drivers, excepting Belarusian driver Vladislav Gorlach, raced under Russian racing license.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 101], "content_span": [102, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282207-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Circuit Racing Series, Teams and drivers, Super Production & Touring-Light\nAll teams and drivers are Russian-registered. All drivers raced under Russian racing license.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 87], "content_span": [88, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282207-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Circuit Racing Series, Teams and drivers, National\nAll teams are Russian-registered. All drivers raced under Russian racing license.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282207-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Circuit Racing Series, Teams and drivers, National Junior\nAll teams and drivers are Russian-registered. All drivers raced under Russian racing license.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282207-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Circuit Racing Series, Calendar and results\nThe 2018 schedule was announced on 12 October 2017, with all events scheduled to be held in Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282207-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Circuit Racing Series, Championship standings, Touring / TCR Russian Touring Car Championship\nIn the Russian Championship only pilots with a Russian racing license earn points, foreign pilots take part only in TCR Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 106], "content_span": [107, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282207-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Circuit Racing Series, Championship standings, Touring / TCR Russian Touring Car Championship\n\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 106], "content_span": [107, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282207-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Circuit Racing Series, Championship standings, National-Junior\n\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282207-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Circuit Racing Series, Championship standings, National-Junior, National-Junior Team's Standing\n\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 108], "content_span": [109, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282208-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Cup Final\nThe 2018 Russian Cup Final decided the winner of the 2017\u201318 Russian Cup, the 26th season of Russia's main football cup. It was played on 9 May 2018 at the Volgograd Arena, between Tosno and Avangard Kursk. Tosno won the game courtesy of goals from Aleksei Skvortsov and Reziuan Mirzov, with Igor Kireyev scoring a consolation goal for the second division side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282208-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Cup Final\nAs winners, Tosno qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Europa League and were also set to face the champions of the Russian Premier League, Lokomotiv Moscow in the 2018 Russian Super Cup held on 27 July. However, on 9 June 2018, it was announced that FC Tosno was dissolved because of financial problems and CSKA Moscow replaced them as participants in the Super Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282208-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Cup Final, Background\nThis was the first Russian Cup final appearance for either side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282208-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Cup Final, Background\nWith Tosno having only been formed in 2013, they came into the game, in their first season in the Russian Premier League, in the relegation zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282208-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Cup Final, Background\nAvangard Kursk, midtable in the second division, would also have claimed their first-ever piece of silverware and have never before played in the Russian top flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282209-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2018 Russian Figure Skating Championships (Russian: \u0427\u0435\u043c\u043f\u0438\u043e\u043d\u0430\u0442 \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438 \u043f\u043e \u0444\u0438\u0433\u0443\u0440\u043d\u043e\u043c\u0443 \u043a\u0430\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0438\u044e \u043d\u0430 \u043a\u043e\u043d\u044c\u043a\u0430\u0445 2018) were held from 19 to 24 December 2017 in Saint Petersburg. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The results were among the criteria used to select Russia's teams to the 2018 European Championships, 2018 Winter Olympics, and 2018 World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282209-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Competitions\nIn the 2017\u201318 season, Russian skaters will compete in domestic qualifying events and national championships for various age levels. The Russian Cup series will lead to three events \u2013 the Russian Championships, the Russian Junior Championships, and the Russian Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282209-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Senior Championships\nThe senior Championships were held in Saint Petersburg from 19 to 24 December 2017. Competitors qualified through international success or by competing in the Russian Cup series' senior-level events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282209-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Senior Championships, Entries\nThe Russian figure skating federation published the full list of entries on 15 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282209-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Junior Championships\nThe 2018 Russian Junior Championships (Russian: \u041f\u0435\u0440\u0432\u0435\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438 \u0441\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0438 \u044e\u043d\u0438\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0432 2018) will be held in Saransk, Mordovia from 23 to 26 January 2018. Competitors will qualify by competing in the Russian Cup series' junior-level events. The results of the Junior Championships are part of the selection criteria for the 2018 World Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282209-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Junior Championships, Entries\nThe Russian figure skating federation published the full list of entries on 22 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282209-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, European Championships\nRussia's team to the 2018 European Championships was published on 24 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 96], "content_span": [97, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282209-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, Winter Olympics\nRussia's team to the 2018 Winter Olympics was published on 21 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282209-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, World Junior Championships\nRussia's team to the 2018 World Junior Championships. The International Skating Union published the full list of entries on 13 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 100], "content_span": [101, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282209-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, World Championships\nRussia's team to the 2018 World Championships. The International Skating Union published the full list of entries on 28 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 93], "content_span": [94, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282210-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Russian Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 2018 VTB Russian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 30 September 2018 at the Sochi Autodrom in Sochi, Russia. The race was the 16th round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 7th running of the Russian Grand Prix and the 5th time the race had been held in Sochi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282210-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Grand Prix\nMercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 40-point lead over Sebastian Vettel in the Drivers' Championship. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes led Ferrari by 37 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282210-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Grand Prix\nThe race was one of controversy, as Mercedes enacted team orders to swap their two drivers, handing Lewis Hamilton the win and Valtteri Bottas would move to 2nd place for the race finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282210-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Grand Prix\nThe race result sparked discussion regarding the future of team orders in the sport, and some even going as to call for an outright ban on the practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282210-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThe race was moved from its April date to September to fill the vacancy of the Malaysian Grand Prix, which was discontinued at the end of the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282210-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nDuring the weekend, the first DRS zone was extended by 100 meters so that the beginning of the DRS zone started 95 meters before turn 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282210-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAt the start, Sebastian Vettel got a better start than Lewis Hamilton, but there was no room to overtake heading into turn one. On lap 4, both Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley suffered brake failures which forced both to retire, they were the only retirements of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282210-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nLater on lap 14, Hamilton made his one and only pitstop of the race, putting him behind Vettel. Two laps later, Hamilton made a move on Sebastian Vettel at turn 3 and passed him into fourth place into turn 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282210-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe most notable moment of the race came on lap 26, when Mercedes asked Valtteri Bottas to let Lewis Hamilton through into second at turn 13, gifting the Briton the race win. Max Verstappen, who led the race since lap 19, came in for his pitstop on lap 42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282210-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nHamilton won the race for the third time in his career, with Valtteri Bottas second and Sebastian Vettel completing the podium in third place. As a consequence, Hamilton extended his lead over Vettel in the championship to 50 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282210-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Grand Prix, Classification, Qualifying\nDespite receiving no penalties, both of the Renault drivers elected not to run any laps on Q2 due to them automatically receiving places 11 and 12. They were then able to start the race on fresh tyres of their choice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282211-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian National Freestyle Wrestling Championships\nThe Russian National Freestyle Wrestling Championships 2018 (also known as the Russian Nationals 2018) was held in Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia by the Russian Wrestling Federation at the Odintsovo Sport Complex from 3\u20135 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282212-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian National Women's Freestyle Wrestling Championships\n2018 Russian National Women's Freestyle Wrestling Championships (also known as the Russian Women's Nationals 2018) was the national ranking tournament for the Russian international wrestling squad for the year of 2018, it was held in Smolensk, Russia from 10 August - 13 August. This event was held in the 1150th Anniversary Palace of Sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282213-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Russian Open was a badminton tournament which took place at Sport Hall Olympic in Vladivostok, Russia, from 24 to 29 July 2018 and had a total purse of $75,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282213-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Russian Open was the fifth Super 100 tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Russian Open championships which had been held since 1992. This tournament was organized by the National Badminton Federation of Russia with the sanction from the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282213-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Sport Hall Olympic in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282213-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF Tour Super 100 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282213-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$75,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282214-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Super Cup\nThe 2018 Russian Super Cup (Russian: \u0421\u0443\u043f\u0435\u0440\u043a\u0443\u0431\u043e\u043a \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438) was the 16th annual Russian Super Cup match which was contested between the 2017\u201318 Russian Premier League champion, Lokomotiv Moscow, and the 2017\u201318 Russian Premier League runner-up, CSKA Moscow. 2017\u201318 Russian Cup winner FC Tosno was dissolved in the summer 2018 and was replaced by CSKA in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282215-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian Women's Football Championship\nThe 2018 Russian Women's Football Championship was the 27th season of the Russian women's football top level league. Zvezda-2005 Perm were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282216-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian elections\nElections in the Russian Federation took place mostly on 9, 16 and 23 September, with the exception of the presidential election, which occurred on 18 March and a special gubernatorial election in Primorsky Krai, which occurred in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282216-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian elections, By-elections to the State Duma\nThe by-elections in four constituencies took place on a single voting day on 9 September:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282216-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian elections, Gubernatorial and head elections\nGubernatorial elections in 19 subjects of the Federation were held on 9 September. The second round, if necessary, will be held on September 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282217-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian gubernatorial elections\n2018 Gubernatorial elections in Russia were held in 26 federal subjects of Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282217-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian gubernatorial elections\n22 federal subjects had direct elections and 4 federal subjects had indirect elections of governors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282217-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian gubernatorial elections\nThe main election day was held on 9 September. In addition, the second round was held in four regions: in two regions it was held on 26 September, in one region on 11 November. In Primorsky Krai, the second round was held on 16 September, but its results were declared invalid, in connection with which new elections will be held on 16 December. In addition, the election of the Governor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug was held on 1 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests\nThe 2018 Russian pension protests were a series of country-wide protests and demonstrations in Russia demanding abandoning of the retirement age hike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests\nA plan of the pension reform was unexpectedly announced by Dmitry Medvedev's Second Cabinet on June 14, 2018, which was the opening day of the 2018 FIFA World Cup hosted in Russia. During the tournament, any demonstrations were prohibited but from July 2018 thousands of Russians expressed their negative opinion on the planned reform of the pension system. The anti-reform rallies and other actions were mostly organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia party; however, other political parties, trade unions and individuals also contributed to coordination of these protests. The corresponding bill was signed into law on October 3, and afterwards some actions against the reform were continued, although with a lower intensity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests\nAn intention to hike the national retirement age and the more so a final decision to launch the reform have drastically downed the rating of the president Vladimir Putin and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev in Russia. In July 2018, just 49% would vote for Putin if the presidential elections were held in that moment; during the elections in March, he got 76,7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Background\nOn June 14, 2018, using a start of the FIFA World Cup as a cover, the Russian government announced the plan of the pension reform presuming a substantial increase of the retirement age (for men from 60 to 65 and for women from 55 to 63). Previously, until the 2018 Russian presidential election, this topic was practically silenced in Russian state media, in particular several days before the election the RIA Novosti agency published an article denying existence of any intentions to raise the pension age until 2030. In the previous years the problem was sporadically discussed but with no special accent. So an announcement of the reform plan by Prime Minister Medvedev has shocked the majority of Russian citizens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Background\nThe pension reform became the central question in Russia at that time. Immediate protests during the World Cup were, however, not allowed (except Internet-activism) from security reasons. The street protest actions were appointed for the end-July and subsequent months. The government was accused of misusing soccer for hiding the unpopular measures. Near 90% of Russian citizens do not approve of the reform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Background\nOn July 19, during the first reading of the corresponding bill in the State Duma, the pro-Putin political party United Russia (with a single exception of Natalia Poklonskaya) has supported the retirement age hike, while all the opposition fractions, left-wing and liberal, were against it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Key protest events\nStatistical studies show that the number of protest actions in the country has nearly tripled in the third quarter from the year before, almost exclusively because of the plan to raise the retirement age.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Key protest events, July\u2013August 2018\nThe first noteworthy street rallies, related with the retirement-age reform, proceeded on July 1. Several thousand people protested across Russia against an extremely unpopular government decision to hike the pension age that has led to a record slump in President Vladimir Putin's approval ratings. No protests were held in World Cup host cities due to a regulation banning protest in the cities for the duration of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Key protest events, July\u2013August 2018\nFrom mid-July, protest rallies and demonstrations were organized practically every weekend, and sometimes also on working days. They occurred in nearly all major cities countrywide including Novosibirsk, Saint-Petersburg and Moscow. Total number of participants exceeded 200 thousands. These events were coordinated by all opposition parties, who usually have nothing common in political affairs. Also trade unions and individual politicians (Alexey Navalny, Sergei Udaltsov) functioned as organizers of the public actions. The largest protest events of the summer occurred on July 18 and July 28\u201329. In particular, on July 28, more than 10,000 people attended a rally in the capital, Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Key protest events, September 2018\nOn September 2, large-scale anti-reform manifestations were led by the Russian communists and some other left-wing oppositional political forces. In Moscow, about 9,000 people attended a rally against the governmental pension reform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Key protest events, September 2018\nA week later, on September 9, the demonstrations against the plans to raise the national retirement age were organized by Alexey Navalny all over Russia. The events occurred in more than 80 cities including the capital. The most of actions were not permitted by the authorities, and the police detained in total about 1000 participants. Beyond the anti-reform slogans, the participants chanted \"Russia without Putin\" and held signs with messages like \"Putin, when will you go on pension? \".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Key protest events, September 2018\nFurther rallies were announced for every Saturday or Sunday of September 2018. So, on September 22, the countrywide protest actions were organized by the Communist party. In Moscow, several thousands demanded abandoning the pension reform and blamed the Russian government for this unpopular initiative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Key protest events, September 2018\nThe reform has heavily affected the Russia's local elections in September 2018: the results of the governmental United Russia party was the worst for more than 10 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Key protest events, September 2018\nUnited Russia lost the Khabarovsk Krai gubernatorial election and Vladimir Oblast gubernatorial election to the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, and lost Khakassia election to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Reaction of authorities\nThe reform was passed by the State Duma on first reading on July 19, with a 328-104 vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Reaction of authorities\nFollowing strong protests (and a strong fall in Putin's and United Russia's popularity), the president of Russia Vladimir Putin has submitted to the Duma some amendments to reduce the hike of the retirement age for women from 63 to 60 years (i.e. +5 instead of +8). Also some other softenings were foreseen, e.g. for women having 3 and more children. The amendments were unanimously passed by the State Duma on September 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Reaction of authorities\nNevertheless, the opposition forces and the overwhelming majority of ordinary Russians estimated the presidential changes as by far insufficient and were disappointed at his decision. So in addition to the requirement of abandoning the reform in general and of the resignation of the Government, also the requirement of resignation of Vladimir Putin was raised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, Reaction of authorities\nDespite the protests, on September 27, the amended version of the bill was passed by the State Duma on second reading with a 326-59 vote and 1 abstention . On October 3, the bill was also passed by the Federation Council with a 149-5 vote, with 3 abstentions. Finally, Putin signed the pension bill into law later on the same day. It entered into force after it was published on the Rossiyskaya Gazeta some days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, After signing the bill into law\nThe oppositional political parties intended to continue fighting against the reform in order to convince the authorities to stop it. However the activity has gradually diminished and, except on November 5\u20137 (which commemorated the 101st anniversary of the October Revolution), no large anti-reform rallies were organized. Many people came to conclusion that neither the Government nor the president would react to street protests, if any.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282218-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian pension protests, After signing the bill into law\nA countrywide anti-reform movement was resumed from early spring 2019. Numerous picketing actions and conferences aiming at attracting attention to the potential dangers of the new pension law were organized by the left-patriotic Sut Vremeni group (leader: S. Kurginyan). Furthermore, on March 23, the CPRF called the meetings against the social politics of the Russian government (including the retirement age hike) in the largest cities of Russia, e.g. in Moscow there were several thousand attendees. Nevertheless, an intensity of the street protests has not returned to the level of 2018 \u2014 and from 2020 under the COVID-19 pandemic the large-scale actions became impossible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election\nThe 2018 Russian presidential election was held on 18 March 2018. Incumbent Vladimir Putin won reelection for his second consecutive (fourth overall) term in office with 77% of the vote. Vladimir Zhirinovsky from the Liberal Democratic Party was the perennial candidate, having unsuccessfully run in five previous presidential elections. Other candidates included Pavel Grudinin (Communist Party), Sergey Baburin (Russian All-People's Union), Ksenia Sobchak (Civic Initiative), Maxim Suraykin (Communists of Russia), Boris Titov (Party of Growth) and Grigory Yavlinsky (Yabloko). Anti", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election\n-corruption activist Alexei Navalny announced his intent to run in December 2016 but was barred from doing so due to a prior criminal conviction, which is widely seen as politically motivated, for corruption. Consequently, Navalny called for a boycott of the election. He had previously organized several public rallies against corruption among members of Putin's government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election\nThe incumbent Vladimir Putin was eligible to run. He declared his intent to do so on 6 December 2017, being widely expected to win. This came following several months of speculation throughout the second half of 2017 as, although he was widely expected to run for another term, Putin made evasive comments including that he had still not decided whether he would like to \"step down\" from the post of president, that he would \"think about running\", and that he \"hadn't yet decided whether to run for another term\". Different sources predicted that he would run as an independent to capitalize more support from the population, and although he could also have been nominated by the United Russia party as in 2012, Putin chose to run as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background\nThe President of Russia is directly elected for a term of six years, since being extended from four years in 2008 during Dmitry Medvedev's administration. According to Article 81 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, a candidate for president must be at least 35 years old, hold no dual nationality, have permanently resided in Russia for the past 10 years, and cannot serve more than two terms consecutively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background\nParties with representation in the State Duma are able to nominate a candidate to run for the office while candidates from officially registered parties that are not in parliament have to collect at least 100,000 signatures. Independent candidates have to collect at least 300,000 signatures with no more than 7,500 from each federal subject of Russia and also from action groups made up of at least 500 people. The nomination process took place during Russia's winter holiday period, and 31 January 2018 was the last day for submitting signatures in support of contested access candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Change of date\nOn 3 March 2017, senators Andrey Klishas and Anatoly Shirokov submitted to the State Duma draft amendments to the electoral legislation. One of the amendments involves the transfer of elections from the second to the third Sunday in March, i.e. from 11 to 18 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Change of date\nAccording to article 5, paragraph 7 of Russian Federal law No. 19-FZ, \"If the Sunday on which presidential elections are to be held coincides with the day preceding a public holiday, or this Sunday falls on week including a public holiday or this Sunday in is declared to be a working day, elections are appointed on the following Sunday\". The second week of March includes International Women's Day (8 March), which is an official holiday in Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Change of date\nThe bill passed through the State Duma and Federation Council without delay in May 2017 and was signed into law by Vladimir Putin on 1 June 2017. On 15 December, the upper house of the Federal Assembly, the Federation Council, officially confirmed that 18 March 2018 will be the date of the election, officially beginning the process of campaigning and registration for candidates. This date is significant in the country as it is the fourth anniversary of Russian annexation of Crimea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Change of date\nA total of 97,000 polling stations were open across the country from 08:00 until 20:00 local time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Nomination of candidates, Free access\nPolitical parties represented in the State Duma or the legislative bodies of not less than one-third of the federal subjects could nominate a candidate without collecting signatures. The following parties could nominate candidates without collecting signatures: Civic Platform, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, A Just Russia, Rodina and United Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 85], "content_span": [86, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Nomination of candidates, Free access\nOn 1 July 2017, Chairman of Rodina Aleksey Zhuravlyov announced that his party would only support incumbent president Vladimir Putin in the election. On 11 December, the leader of Civic Platform Rifat Shaykhutdinov also said that his party would support Putin. On 24 December, the leader of A Just Russia Sergey Mironov stated that his party would not put forward a candidate. Senior party member Mikhail Yemelyanov confirmed that A Just Russia would support Putin's candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 85], "content_span": [86, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Nomination of candidates, Contested access\nIndividuals belonging to a party without any seats in the State Duma had to collect 105,000 signatures to become candidates, while those running as independents had to collect 315,000 and also to form a group of activists made up of at least 500 people. Multiple political commentators, including former presidential hopeful Irina Khakamada, talked about the difficulty of gathering signatures without the support of a political party, a hurdle which cast doubt on many of the claims of the large number of people who said that they would run for president as independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 90], "content_span": [91, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Nomination of candidates, Contested access\nHowever, according to CEC Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova, the conditions for contested-access candidates were easier than ever because such potential candidates no longer had to collect 1,000,000 signatures. Pamfilova incorrectly predicted that there could be even more candidates in this election than there were in 2000, when 11 candidates contested the presidency (the largest number of candidates in the history of presidential elections in Russia).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 90], "content_span": [91, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Primaries, Party of Growth\nIn July 2017, Party of Growth announced that it would hold primaries to nominate a presidential candidate. Four candidates participated in the primaries: Oksana Dmitriyeva, Dmitry Potapenko, Dmitry Marinichev and Alexander Huruji. Voting was conducted via the internet from August to November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Primaries, Party of Growth\nOn 10 August 2017, the party's press secretary told the media that the results of the primaries will be taken into account at the party congress which will be held to decide the candidate for Party of Growth. However, the winner of the primaries would not guarantee themselves the right to run on behalf of the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Primaries, Party of Growth\nOn 26 November, it was announced that the party would nominate Boris Titov, who was not involved in the primaries. According to a person from the party leadership, none of the proposed candidates were able to obtain sufficient support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Primaries, Left Front\nOn 2 November 2017, the Left Front headed by Sergei Udaltsov started online primaries for the nomination of a single left-wing candidate. Primaries were held in two rounds, the first round took place from 2 to 23 November, and the second round \u2013 from 24 to 30 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Primaries, Left Front\nThe first round included 77 candidates, among whom were representatives of various left-wing political parties and organizations, including Pavel Grudinin, Yury Boldyrev, Gennady Zyuganov, Sergey Mironov (who later supported Vladimir Putin), Sergey Glazyev, Zakhar Prilepin, Viktor Anpilov, Valery Zorkin, Zhores Alferov, Sergey Baburin (who later was nominated as a candidate from the party Russian All-People's Union), Natalia Lisitsyna (who was later nominated as a candidate from the Russian United Labour Front), Maxim Suraykin (who was nominated as a candidate from the Communists of Russia) and others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Primaries, Left Front\nBoldyrev and Grudinin made it through to the second round, which was won by Grudinin, who garnered 4,086 votes (58.4%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Primaries, Left Front\nAt the end of December 2017, Grudinin was officially nominated as the candidate from the Communist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Primaries, Third Force\nThe bloc Third Force held primaries among candidates from ten non-parliamentary parties to nominate presidential candidates. According to the organizers, the primaries would determine four presidential candidates representing different views.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Primaries, Third Force\nThe official presentation of the candidates was held on 30 October 2017. The candidates included: Andrei Bogdanov, Andrey Getmanov, Olga Onishchenko, Stanislav Polishchuk, Sirazhdin Ramazanov, Ildar Rezyapov, Vyacheslav Smirnov, Irina Volynets and Alexey Zolotukhin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Background, Primaries, Third Force\nHowever, the block failed to identify a clear winner, then all candidates, except for Olga Onishchenko has declared that they would participate in the elections. Later, however, all of the candidates refused to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Candidates\nThese candidates were officially registered by the CEC. Candidates are listed in the order they appear on the ballot paper (alphabetical order in Russian).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Sergey Baburin\nSergey Baburin was nominated at the party congress on 22 December 2017. On 24 December, Baburin filed registration documents with the CEC, but the documents were rejected 25 December because the CEC identified violations in the information provided regarding 18 of his party's 48 representatives. On 29 December, Baburin resubmitted the documents and they were approved by the CEC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Sergey Baburin\nRussian All-People's Union started to collect signatures in support of Baburin on 9 January 2018. Signatures were collected in 56 federal subjects. On 30 January 2018, Sergey Baburin handed over the signatures to the CEC. When testing revealed only 3.28% of invalid signatures, Sergey Baburin was admitted to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Pavel Grudinin\nAt the end of November 2017, Pavel Grudinin won the primaries of Left Front, a coalition of left-wing parties with no representation in the State Duma. Some branch of the Communist Party voted to support the candidacy of Grudinin and did not deny his nomination from the Communist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Pavel Grudinin\nDespite the fact that in early November the First Secretary of the Communist party, Gennady Zyuganov, said that his nomination is supported by all left-wing organizations, which the media felt was the official statement from Zyuganov to participate in the election, Zyuganov later denied this, saying that the official decision will be made at the party Congress in December. On 21 December, it was reported that Zyuganov proposed to nominate Grudinin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Pavel Grudinin\nInitially, the Communist Party and the National Patriotic Forces of Russia (NPFR) planned to nominate a single candidate: Grudinin, supported by the Communists, or Yury Boldyrev, supported by the NPFR. Boldyrev also participated in the primaries of the Left Front, where he lost in the second round to Grudinin. According to Deputy Alexander Yushchenko, Gennady Zyuganov was still among the candidates for the nomination. He named the other candidates as Yury Afonin, Sergey Levchenko, and Leonid Kalashnikov. On 22 December, Zyuganov, Levchenko, and Kalashnikov withdrew their bids, and Zyuganov rejected the candidacies of Afonin and Boldyrev, leaving Grudinin as the sole candidate. Grudinin was officially selected as the presidential candidate from the Communist Party at its congress on 23 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 869]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Alexei Navalny\nRussian opposition figure and anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny started his presidential campaign on 13 December 2016. In early 2017, he traveled to different cities across Russia to open campaign offices and meet with his supporters, despite his involvement in legal cases that might have barred him from running. As noted in an article by Newsweek and by the former Russian presidential administration adviser Gleb Pavlovsky, the American-style campaign by Navalny was unprecedented in modern Russia as most candidates do not start campaigning until a few months before the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Alexei Navalny\nThe primary focus of Navalny's campaign was combating corruption within the current government under Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. On 2 March, Navalny published a documentary on YouTube titled He Is Not Dimon To You, detailing the corrupt dealings of Prime Minister Medvedev. He then called for mass rallies to be held on 26 March to bring attention to this after the government did not respond to the documentary, which only about 150.000 people attended across Russia. 2017\u20132018 Russian protests 26 March rally was the largest protest held in Russia since the protests in 2011. Navalny called for another protest to be held on Russia Day, which is 12 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Alexei Navalny\nOn his website, Navalny listed the main principles of his presidential program: combating government corruption, improving infrastructure and living standards in Russia, decentralizing power from Moscow, developing the economy instead of remaining in isolation from the West, and reforming the judicial system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Alexei Navalny\nHis more specific economic proposals included instituting a minimum wage, lowering prices of apartments and reducing bureaucracy of home construction, making healthcare and education free, lowering taxes for many citizens, taxing the gains from privatization, decentralization of financial management and increase in local governance, increasing transparency in state-owned firms, implementing work visas for Central Asian migrants coming into the country for work, and increasing economic cooperation with western European states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Alexei Navalny\nIn April 2017, it was reported that Navalny's campaign staff had collected more than 300,000 pledged signatures from people across 40 regions of Russia electronically. More than 75,000 people signed up to volunteer for his campaign and nearly $700,000 has been donated. However, his eligibility was put into question by his five-year suspended sentence for embezzlement of timber from the company Kirovles, when Navalny was working as an aide to Governor Nikita Belykh of the Kirov Oblast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Alexei Navalny\nThe Russian Supreme Court overturned his sentence in November 2016 after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) determined that Navalny's rights were violated, and sent the case back to a district court in the city of Kirov for review. In February 2017, the district court upheld Navalny's suspended sentence. The Constitution of Russia does not allow convicted criminals to run for office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0025-0002", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Alexei Navalny\nNavalny promised to appeal the result to the ECHR, and said he would continue campaigning, while in early May the deputy head of the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) commented that he would not be allowed to run unless the sentence is overturned. In August, the head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, reinforced this sentiment, saying that it would \"take a miracle\" for Navalny to be granted permission to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0025-0003", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Alexei Navalny\nShe cited two scenarios in which Navalny could run: if his conviction was overturned, or if the federal election law was rapidly changed to allow those with criminal convictions to run. Pamfilova added that the probability of either scenario was \"extremely low\". Pamfilova later commented that Navalny could legally run for president by \"some time in 2028\", i.e., ten years after his sentence expires. The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Navalny as a political prisoner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Alexei Navalny\nMembers of the Navalny campaign were harassed and detained by the police, including his chief of staff Leonid Volkov, who was sentenced to thirty days in jail in early December for organizing an unauthorized rally (requests for rallies in city centers are often denied in Russia) in Nizhny Novgorod.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Alexei Navalny\nNavalny published his election manifesto on 13 December 2017, two days prior to the official start of campaigning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Alexei Navalny\nHe officially submitted his documents for registration as a candidate on 24 December 2017, and was rejected by the CEC the following day due to his conviction. Later that same day, 25 December, Navalny called on his supporters to boycott the election in response. Mass street protests were planned for 28 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Vladimir Putin\nVladimir Putin announced his run on 6 December 2017, during his speech at the GAZ automobile plant. A Just Russia, Civic Platform, The Greens, Great Fatherland Party, Labor Party, Party of Pensioners, Patriots of Russia, Rodina, and United Russia have endorsed his presidential bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Ksenia Sobchak\nRumors about the nomination of Ksenia Sobchak in the 2018 election appeared a month before she officially announced that she would run for president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Ksenia Sobchak\nSobchak officially announced that she would run for president on 19 October 2017, in a YouTube video. In the video, Sobchak said she is the candidate \"against all\", because since the 2004 election, the \"against all\" option (or \"none of the above\" as it is more commonly known in English-speaking countries) has been excluded from the ballot, and Sobchak wants to give people the opportunity to again vote \"against all\". At the same time, Sobchak said she will withdraw her candidacy if Alexey Navalny is registered as a candidate by the Central Election Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Ksenia Sobchak\nOriginally Sobchak put herself forward as an independent candidate. In this case she would have had to collect at least 300,000 signatures in order to be admitted to the election. Soon after, however, Sobchak's campaign team said that would be nominated by a political party, namely the People's Freedom Party or Civic Initiative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Ksenia Sobchak\nOn 15 November 2017, it was announced that Sobchak will be nominated by Civic Initiative at its congress in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Ksenia Sobchak\nOn 23 December 2017, at Civic Initiative's congress Sobchak was officially nominated for president. On the same day, she joined the party. Sobchak's team began gathering signatures in support of her candidacy on 27 December, soon after her registration documents were approved by the CEC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Maxim Suraykin\nIn December 2017, it became known that the party Communists of Russia nominated Maxim Suraykin as presidential candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Maxim Suraykin\nOn 28 May 2017, the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communists of Russia took the decision on nomination of Maxim Suraykin as presidential candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Maxim Suraykin\nIn November 2017, Maxim Suraykin was one of the candidates proposed by the Left Front as a single candidate from the left opposition. The results of the voting on the website of the Left Front Suraikin won 59 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Maxim Suraykin\nOn 24 December Maxim Suraykin were officially nominated at the Communists Russia National Convention. On the same day he also submitted to the Central Election Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Boris Titov\nInitially the Party of Growth conducted primaries which were attended by four candidates: Oksana Dmitriyeva, Dmitry Potapenko, Dmitry Marinichev and Alexander Khurudzhi. Boris Titov did not participate in the primaries. However, at the meeting of the federal council of the party it was decided to nominate Titov. According to a person from the party leadership, none of the proposed candidates were able to obtain sufficient support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Boris Titov\nAccording to Titov, the main task of participation in election is to promote the party's Growth Strategy economic program, which was prepared by the Stolypin Club and presented to President Vladimir Putin in May 2017. During the campaign Titov and his team intend to travel around the country to promote the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Boris Titov\nTitov was officially nominated by his party on 21 December. He submitted to the CEC the documents required for registration the next day. Titov's documents were approved by the CEC on 25 December, which meant that he could begin collecting signatures. A party spokesman commented that the collection signatures in support of Titov will begin in early January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Grigory Yavlinsky\nEconomist Grigory Yavlinsky announced his presidential bid in February 2016 as the candidate for the liberal party Yabloko, though suggestions that he would run were first voiced in 2013 after he was barred from taking part in the 2012 election. His policies mainly focus on improving the economic situation through governance reforms and stopping involvement in conflicts. He was nominated by the party leader, Emilia Slabunova, who stressed the need to unite all \"democratic forces\" behind one candidate and noted his political experience, and also received an endorsement from opposition politician Vladimir Ryzhkov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Grigory Yavlinsky\nYavlinsky had previously run in the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections, getting 7.4% of the vote in the former. He spoke at a party forum announcing the start of the campaign in February 2017. Among the other proposals he made were to give out several acres of free land to families so they can build home there and develop it, which he said would house 15\u00a0million families, and to turn the Russian Armed Forces into a fully professional military by abolishing conscription.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Grigory Yavlinsky\nIn March 2017, Yavlinsky stated that he will be visiting several major cities in fifteen different regions across the country to raise support. He used Alexei Navalny's recent tour of different cities as an example, refusing to use the traditional model of campaigning a few months before the election. Since he is unable to visit more locations, Slabunova, the leader of Yabloko, and Nikolai Rybakov, his chief of staff, will go to other cities to campaign as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Grigory Yavlinsky\nOn 1 November 2017, Yabloko launched the official website of Yavlinsky's campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Vladimir Zhirinovsky\nVladimir Zhirinovsky announced his participation in the presidential elections on 28 October 2016 as the candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party. In the event of his election, Zhirinovsky promised to amend the Constitution of Russia and to radically change the policies of the country. In particular, Zhirinovsky promised to abolish the federal structure of Russia and to return to the Governorates, rename the post of \"President of Russia\" to the \"Supreme Ruler of Russia\" and to restore Russia's borders to the borders of the USSR as of 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Campaigning, Vladimir Zhirinovsky\nIn March 2017, Zhirinovsky promised to declare a general amnesty if elected president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Debates\nOn 14 February 2018, the CEC set the schedule for the distribution of airtime for presidential candidates. Debates took place on five federal TV channels: Russia 1, Russia 24, Channel One, TV Center and PTR, as well as on three radio stations: Radio Rossii, Radio Mayak and Vesti FM. As in previous election campaigns, incumbent President Vladimir Putin refused to participate in the debates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Debates\nDebates occurred from 26 February to 15 March. Vladimir Zhirinovsky was the only candidate to attend the first debate, with the other three candidates sending representatives. The second debate, which didn't actually involve any candidate-to-candidate discussion, was attended by six candidates and Boris Titov's representative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Opinion polls\nOpinion polls published in the months preceding the election consistently showed Putin with an overwhelming lead over his competitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Elections on Crimea\nThe European Union had already announced in advance that it would not recognize the results of the Russian presidential election on the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said the EU would follow through with its non-recognition policy and called on Russia to respect the rights of Ukrainian citizens. President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen also warned that Moscow could not hold a legal election on the Crimean peninsula because the annexation of Crimea was illegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Elections on Crimea\nThe EU and the OSCE had made it clear that they would not send any election observers to Crimea, as neither organizations see it as a legitimate part of Russia. Russian authorities then invited a number of friendly and sometimes marginalized foreign politicians to give the elections in Crimea the appearance of international acceptance. Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the parliament's foreign affairs committee, named Andreas Maurer from the Left, Hendrik Weber from an organization called People's Diplomacy Norway, Pedro Agramunt and Thierry Mariani. Russia commissioned Slutsky's own organization, the Russian Peace Foundation, and the Polish association European Council on Democracy and Human Rights, which in the past had brought election observers from right-wing populist and right-wing extremist circles to Crimea, to organize their trips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 902]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Results\nThe final results of the elections were approved by the CEC on 23 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Reactions\nIndia was the first world power to react to the election results, saying in a congratulatory message to Putin that it vowed to push ties with Russia to a \"higher level.\" Other countries which sent their congratulations included: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, Guatemala, Hungary, China, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Moldova, North Korea, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United States, Uzbekistan and Venezuela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Reactions\nWestern reaction to the election result was predominantly muted as the election came at a time of heightened tensions between the West and Russia due to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the ongoing U.S. investigation of the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and a series of other issues. The European Union said that violations and shortcomings in the election flouted international standards while the White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley initially said that there was no congratulatory phone call scheduled between U.S. president Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0054-0001", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Reactions\nDonald Trump later congratulated Putin in a phone call while the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker later congratulated Putin; their actions in turn drew criticism. France and Germany acknowledged Putin's victory but both countries avoided explicitly using the word \"congratulate\", instead \"wishing success\" to Putin for his new six-year term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Reactions\nVoting irregularities were reported by independent election monitoring group Golos. Edward Snowden criticized what he claimed was ballot stuffing and Russian opposition entities Alexei Navalny and Open Russia criticized what they alleged to be voting fraud. Ella Pamfilova, the head of the Central Electoral Commission, said that there were no serious violations and those involved in the violations would be caught; she later said that Putin's level of support showed that society had united in the face of pressure from abroad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0055-0001", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Reactions\nAccording to one monitor group who observed voters in a number of voting stations which showed \"suspicious\" results in previous elections, the actual turnout at these stations was 21-34% while official results from these stations showed 76-86% (in one station 8,765 physical voters were counted, official results showed 13,235 votes). The group concluded that in these elections the government and local administration officers chose to simply falsify the voting protocols rather than use easy-to-spot ballot stuffing or carousel voting. Election statistician Sergey Shpilkin said that while this election was slightly \"cleaner\" than the preceding ones, there were around 10 million votes added in favor of Putin illegally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Reactions\nProminent Russian dissident Garry Kasparov said that the elections were a \"charade.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Reactions\nThe Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said that the election \"took place in an overly controlled legal and political environment marked by continued pressure on critical voices, while the Central Election Commission (CEC) administered the election efficiently and openly.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282219-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian presidential election, Reactions\nThe head observer of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation described the election as \"transparent, credible, democratic\" while Maxim Grigoriev, deputy head of the monitoring group of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation called it \"unprecedentedly clean\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282220-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian wildfires\nDry, warm conditions in the spring set the stage for fires in Siberia. By May, more fires per month were seen in Amur Oblast than any year since 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282220-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian wildfires, History\nIn mid-July 2018, smoke from the fires could be seen by satellites reaching North America. The Siberian Times reported 321,255 hectares (793,840 acres) were burning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282220-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Russian wildfires, History\nOn July 24, the U.S. National Weather Service said smoke had crossed the Canada-U.S. border and reached Bellingham, Washington. Siberian fires were partly blamed by Environment Canada which issued an air quality statement on July 25 for Prince George, BC. On July 29, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency stated the Puget Sound region would experience \"moderate air quality at times with some upper level smoke making for pretty sunsets. This smoke comes from distant fires, mostly originating from Siberia.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit\nThe 2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, also known as the Trump\u2013Putin summit, was a summit meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 16, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland. The Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs officially titled the summit as the #HELSINKI2018 Meeting and it was hosted by the President of Finland Sauli Niinist\u00f6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit\nDuring a post-summit joint press conference with Putin, Trump did not accept Russian interference was part of the 2016 U.S. elections. Trump's omissions provoked an uproar across the political spectrum, including from some of his usual allies. One day later, Trump amended part of his remarks, contending that he had misspoken due to an incorrectly perceived \"double-negative\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit\nAlthough the proceedings of the summit were orderly and diplomatic, both Trump and Putin were received poorly by both sides of the political spectrum in the United States, with some commentators saying that the summit became the event where Putin \"cemented his status, and the status of his country, as public enemy #1 in America,\" ushering in the lowest point of Russia\u2013United States relations since the early 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, History\nHelsinki previously served as the location for the signing of the Helsinki Accords in 1975, following a series of meetings intended to reduce tensions between the Western and Soviet blocs during the Cold War. The U.S. National Security Advisor John R. Bolton met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 27, 2018, to discuss the details of the summit and other bilateral issues. On June 28, the location of the summit was announced by the White House and the Kremlin to be Helsinki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Background\nThe summit was officially called the #HELSINKI2018 Meeting by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was hosted by the President of Finland Sauli Niinist\u00f6. The summit took place in the Presidential Palace and marked the first official meeting between the leaders after previous unofficial talks between Trump and Putin at the G20 Hamburg and APEC Vietnam summits held in 2017. Topics Trump announced to be discussed at the summit included the situations in Syria and Ukraine. The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met his Russian and Finnish counterparts Sergey Lavrov and Timo Soini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Background\nNiinist\u00f6 held bilateral meetings with both presidents on the day of the summit. That morning, Niinist\u00f6 and Finnish First Lady Jenni Haukio welcomed Trump and U.S. First Lady Melania Trump at their main official residence in M\u00e4ntyniemi. During the presidents' meeting, the two women met for a joint breakfast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Background\nThe #HELSINKI2018 meeting began at the Presidential Palace after midday (at approximately 1 pm) with Niinist\u00f6 officially welcoming Putin, followed by Trump. The bilateral discussions between the American and Russian presidents took place in the Presidential Palace's Gothic Hall; Trump and Putin met with only interpreters present. Their meeting was followed by a working lunch including additional officials in the Hall of Mirrors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Background\nNATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said they welcomed Trump's planned meeting with Vladimir Putin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Background\nOn July 13, 2018, three days before the summit, Rod Rosenstein, the United States Deputy Attorney General, announced indictments of twelve Russian GRU officers for their efforts in the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak, through the establishment of false identities as DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0, as well as charges of money laundering using bitcoin. The timing of these indictments led to closer scrutiny of the upcoming meeting and pressure for Trump to discuss election meddling with Putin. Bloomberg News reported the day after the summit that Trump permitted the indictments to be announced prior to the summit hoping it would strengthen his position in negotiations with Putin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Background\nTwo days before the scheduled meeting, a group of top Senate Democrats urged Trump to not meet with Putin one-on-one. Signers of a letter advising him not to meet alone with Putin included Minority Leader Charles Schumer, Minority Whip Dick Durbin, and the top Democrats on the Senate Intelligence (Mark Warner), Foreign Relations (Bob Menendez), Judiciary (Dianne Feinstein), Armed Services (Jack Reed), Appropriations (Patrick Leahy), and Banking (Sherrod Brown) committees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Background, Controversial remarks\nDuring an interview on the eve of the summit with CBS News, Trump was asked who America's biggest foe is. He said Russia is \"a foe in certain aspects\" and called the European Union the biggest trade foe of the United States. Trump tweeted on the morning of the summit that the relationship between Russia and the U.S. has \"never been worse\". He blamed this on \"foolishness and stupidity\" on the part of the U.S., and referenced the ongoing Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections, calling it a \"witchhunt\". The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs retweeted Trump's message, adding \"We agree\". Trump also indicated his inclination to accept Putin's denial of Russian interference, saying \"President Putin says it's not Russia. I don't see any reason why it would be.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 872]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Demonstrations\nAccording to the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle, more than 10 demonstrations were planned for the summit. On Sunday 15 July, about 2,500 protesters gathered for the \"Helsinki Calling\" pro-human rights demonstration at the Helsinki Senate Square. Simultaneously, the youth section of the nationalist Finns Party staged a pro-Trump rally. The \"Welcome Trump\" event gathered a crowd of 50 people including Finns Party youth and Soldiers of Odin members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Demonstrations\nMore demonstrations were planned for Monday 16 July, including the \"Stop Putin\" and \"Helsinki against Trump and Putin\" rallies and protests for women's rights, Afghanistan and against Russophobia. The youth section of the right-wing National Coalition Party said they would hold a demonstration against President Trump's trade policy and Russia's annexation of Crimea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Private meeting\nTrump and Putin met privately for two hours, without aides or note-takers, accompanied only by their respective interpreters. The meeting had been scheduled for 90 minutes but lasted two hours. The private meeting was followed by a working lunch that included senior advisors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Private meeting, Topics discussed\nNo agenda was published for their discussion, and no communique was issued afterward. Some issues were touched on at the press conference. In the following days Russia issued multiple statements about what it said were agreements made at the summit, \"shaping a narrative of the meeting with no confirmation or alternative account from the Trump administration.\" In the press conference immediately following the meeting, both leaders described some of their positions. On the question of the Syrian civil war, Trump wanted Iranian troops to leave Syria, while Putin would not commit to their departure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Private meeting, Topics discussed\nBoth agreed that Iranian troops should be kept away from the Israel-Syria border, with Trump noting that \"Creating safety for Israel is something both Putin and I would like to see very much.\" Trump said he is willing to help Syria with humanitarian aid, even if there is no wider peace settlement. That may contradict the earlier Trump administration position that it will not provide reconstruction assistance to any part of Syria that remains under the control of Bashar al-Assad, whom Russia backs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Private meeting, Topics discussed\nThe Russian ambassador to the U.S. later said that Syria had been the major topic of discussion, along with \"the removal of the concerns that the United States has regarding the well-known claims about alleged interference in the elections\". Four days after the meeting, a Russian military spokesman said Russia has sent formal proposals for a joint U.S.-Russian effort to reconstruct Syria and facilitate the return home of Syrian refugees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Private meeting, Topics discussed\nIn a Fox News interview the next day, Putin indicated that the two had agreed to disagree about Crimea. Putin said he wanted acceptance of the disputed 2014 referendum in which Crimeans voted to become part of Russia, and insisted that Ukraine must never become part of NATO. He said they had agreed to hold talks on extension of the START treaty, which expires in 2021, but he wants to see evidence that the U.S. has lived up to the terms of the treaty. He also wants to negotiate on the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Treaty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Private meeting, Topics discussed\nThe day after the meeting, a Russian military spokesman said that Russia is \"ready for practical implementation of the agreements reached between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in the sphere of international security achieved at the Helsinki summit.\" His statement said the agreements include cooperation in Syria and discussions about extending the START Treaty. No agreements were announced at the summit, and White House and Pentagon spokesmen said they were not aware of any new agreements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Private meeting, Topics discussed\nA spokesman for the National Security Council said \"As President Trump stated, the two sides agreed that their national security council staffs will follow up on the presidents' meetings, and these discussions are underway. There were no commitments to undertake any concrete action, beyond agreement that both sides should continue discussions.\" The spokesman said they are also reviewing suggestions by Putin for a \"cyber-group\" and an anti-terrorism group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Private meeting, Topics discussed\nAt a press conference four days after the summit, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats stated, \"I\u2019m not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in Helsinki,\" and ceded the podium to national security advisor John Bolton, who explained that the issue of election interference was discussed. Despite this, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer remarked, \"It is utterly amazing, utterly amazing, that no one knows what was said.\" Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Representative Bill Pascrell called for Trump's interpreter, Marina Gross, to testify before Congress, while House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff called for her to testify to the Committee in closed session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Press conference\nAfter the private meeting and the working lunch, Trump and Putin gave a joint press conference. When Trump was asked whether he would condemn Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, he demurred, saying that Putin had denied it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Press conference\nJONATHAN LEMIRE, ASSOCIATED PRESS: President Trump, you first. Just now, President Putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. Every U.S. intelligence agency has concluded that Russia did. My first question for you sir is, who do you believe? My second question is would you now, with the whole world watching, tell President Putin, would you denounce what happened in 2016 and would you want him to never do it again?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Press conference\nTRUMP: So let me just say that we have two thoughts. You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server. Why haven't they taken the server? Why was the FBI told to leave the office of the Democratic National Committee?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Press conference\nI've been wondering that. I've been asking that for months and months and I've been tweeting it out and calling it out on social media. Where is the server? I want to know where is the server and what is the server saying?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Press conference\nWith that being said, all I can do is ask the question.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Press conference\nMy people came to me, Dan Coats, came to me and some others they said they think it's Russia. I have President Putin. He just said it's not Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Press conference\nI will say this: I don't see any reason why it would be. But I really do want to see the server but I have, I have confidence in both parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Press conference\nI have great confidence in my intelligence people but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today and what he did is an incredible offer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Press conference\nHe offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators, with respect to the 12 people. I think that's an incredible offer. Ok ? Thank you.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Press conference\nDuring the press conference, Jeff Mason from Reuters asked whether Putin had wanted Donald Trump to win the 2016 presidential election and had he directed any of his officials to help him do that? Putin replied: \"Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the US-Russia relationship back to normal.\" This contradicted a tweet sent by Trump in which he claimed: \"I'm very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don't want Trump!\" All reference to that exchange between Mr Mason and the Russian leader was omitted from the official White House transcript.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Press conference\nAsked whether Russia possessed any compromising material on Trump, Putin laughed and talked about the number of businessmen who visit Russia, but did not give a direct answer. Trump commented that if any such material existed \"it would have been out long ago\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Reaction\nThe hours immediately following the summit drew bipartisan criticism in the United States. Criticism focused on Trump's perceived acceptance of Putin's denial of involvement in Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, which contradicted the findings of the United States Intelligence Community, and stood in pointed contrast to the indictment of twelve Russian GRU agents just three days earlier in the ongoing Special Counsel investigation: U.S. media reaction was almost universally negative, even from many commentators on Fox News who normally support the president. International news coverage of the summit was mostly negative in Europe, triumphant in Russia, and muted in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Reaction\nDemocrats universally condemned Trump's performance. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi called it a \"sad day for America.\" Senate Democrats led by Jeanne Shaheen called for American interpreter Marina Gross, who sat in on the private meeting with Putin, to be questioned before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Shaheen added, if the administration is to exert executive privilege, \"we need to find another way to get the information.\" Senator Chuck Schumer said \"We need hearings as soon as possible\", with testimony from members of Trump's national security team present during the Helsinki summit, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Reaction\nNBC News reported that \"key senators were preparing to grill\" Pompeo \"on Russia and North Korea\" when he briefs them and that \"tempers flared\" during a July 18, 2018 Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing at which this was discussed. New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stated \"If the administration is unwilling to consult with this committee in a meaningful fashion on vital national security issues, then we must consider all appropriate responses.\" Republican committee chairman Bob Corker stated, \"On challenging what happened at NATO, what happened at Helsinki, I will take a backseat to no one in this body,\" after previously stating that \"the dam has broken.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Reaction\nMany Republicans in Congress strongly criticized Trump as well. Senator Bob Corker claimed Trump \"made us look like a pushover\", Senator Ben Sasse called Trump's remarks \"bizarre and flat-out wrong\", while Senator Tim Scott wondered if \"day was a step backwards\". Others including Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell reaffirmed support for the U.S. intelligence community without directly condemning Trump. Newt Gingrich, a longtime Trump supporter, said Trump's statements about the U.S. intelligence community were \"the most serious mistake of his presidency and must be corrected \u2014 immediately\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Reaction\nSenator John McCain and former Governor Mitt Romney, the Republican nominees for president in 2008 and 2012, respectively, both strongly criticized Trump. Romney said Trump's siding with Putin rather than U.S. intelligence agencies was \"disgraceful and detrimental to our democratic principles\", while McCain called the summit \"one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Reaction\nRepublican Senator Rand Paul was the lone voice in the Senate to support Trump in the matter, saying that Trump should be \"lauded and not belittled\" for being \"willing to meet with adversaries to try to prevent us from having World War 3.\" A few Republican members of the House of Representatives also made supportive comments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Reaction\nShortly after the summit concluded, CNN reported that Trump's \"stunned aides wonder what went wrong\" and \"openly admitted they don't know how to respond to questions,\" quoting one official involved with the summit as saying \"this was not the plan.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0033-0001", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Reaction\nThe Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal later reported that there was extensive planning before the summit to confront Putin, with one official saying the plan was for Trump to \"shove [the Mueller indictments of 12 Russians] in Putin's face and look strong doing it\" during both the private meeting and public press conference, but that Trump \"did the exact opposite.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Reaction\nThe New York Times, Time magazine, and The New Yorker magazine mocked Trump and the summit. The New York Times' online opinion page displayed homoerotic imagery of Trump and Putin in an animated cartoon by Bill Plympton. A morphed image of a Trump-Putin hybrid was published on the Time magazine cover. The New Yorker magazine cover art displayed a parody of Trump's June 15, 2015 escalator announcement of his candidacy, showing a dead and flattened Trump laid out face down, but giving the \"thumbs-up\" at the bottom of the escalator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Reaction\nTelevision commentators presented criticism of Trump and the summit. David Gergen, an advisor to four presidents including Ronald Reagan, stated \"I've never heard an American president talk that way, but I think it's especially true that when he's with someone like Putin \u2014 who is a thug, a world-class thug \u2014 that he sides with him again and again against his own country's interests.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Reaction\nFox & Friends, a morning program which Trump is known to regularly watch, was critical of Trump's performance, with co-host Brian Kilmeade speaking directly to the president, \"I will say this to the president: when Newt Gingrich, when General Jack Keane, when Matt Schlapp say the president fell short and made our intelligence apparatus look bad, I think it's time to pay attention.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0035-0002", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Reaction\nOn MSNBC, Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks said that the Russian meddling attempts were as serious to her \"as the Cuban Missile Crisis...or the 9/11 attack\" and further stated that the summit will \"live in infamy as much as\" the Attack on Pearl Harbor or Kristallnacht. Former national security advisor Susan Rice stated that the US-Russia summit was a bad mistake, citing many reasons, and that any future meeting would be premature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Reaction\nPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, one of the founding editors of The Intercept, said that \"90 percent of the world\u2019s nuclear weapons are in the hands of two countries\u2014the United States and Russia\u2014and having them speak and get along is much better than having them isolate one another and increase the risk of not just intentional conflict, but misperception and miscommunication, as well.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Trump viewed as being under Putin's influence\nThe Trump\u2013Russia dossier alleges that the Russians possess kompromat on Trump which can be used to blackmail him, and that the Kremlin promised him that the kompromat will not be used as long as he continues his cooperation with them. Trump's actions at the Helsinki summit in 2018 \"led many to conclude that Steele's report was more accurate than not.... Trump sided with the Russians over the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Moscow had waged an all-out attack on the 2016 election,... The joint news conference,.. cemented fears among some that Trump was in Putin's pocket and prompted bipartisan backlash.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Trump viewed as being under Putin's influence\nAt the joint news conference, when asked directly about the subject, Putin denied that he had any kompromat on Trump. Even though Trump was reportedly given a \"gift from Putin\" the weekend of the pageant, Putin argued \"that he did not even know Trump was in Russia for the Miss Universe pageant in 2013 when, according to the Steele dossier, video of Trump was secretly recorded to blackmail him.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Trump viewed as being under Putin's influence\nIn reaction to Trump's actions at the summit, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke in the Senate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Trump viewed as being under Putin's influence\nMillions of Americans will continue to wonder if the only possible explanation for this dangerous and inexplicable behavior is the possibility \u2014 the very real possibility \u2014 that President Putin holds damaging information over President Trump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Trump viewed as being under Putin's influence\nSeveral operatives, and lawyers in the U.S. intelligence community reacted strongly to Trump's performance at the summit. They described it as \"subservien[ce] to Putin\" and a \"fervent defense of Russia's military and cyber aggression around the world, and its violation of international law in Ukraine\" which they saw as \"harmful to US interests\". They also suggested that he was either a \"Russian asset\" or a \"useful idiot\" for Putin, and that he looked like \"Putin's puppet\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0041-0001", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Trump viewed as being under Putin's influence\nFormer Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wondered \"if Russians have something on Trump\", and former CIA director John O. Brennan, who has accused Trump of \"treason\", tweeted: \"He is wholly in the pocket of Putin.\" Former acting CIA director Michael Morell has called Trump \"an unwitting agent of the Russian federation\", and former CIA director Michael V. Hayden said Trump was a \"useful fool\" who is \"manipulated by Moscow\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Trump's followup\nThe next day, Trump, reading from a prepared statement, claimed that he had mistakenly used the word \"would\" when he had meant to say \"wouldn't\", acknowledging Russian attempts at meddling in the 2016 election but denying Trump-Russia collusion. Trump paused reading his prepared statement to interject that the interference \"Could be other people also. A lot of people out there.\" In the past, Trump had questioned many times if Russia was responsible, and on several previous occasions when he did say Russia was responsible, he also said that other countries might also have meddled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Trump's followup\nThe American intelligence community has consistently concluded that Russia was responsible for the hacking, with three intelligence agencies having \"high confidence\" that Russian interference was ordered by Putin himself. Trump then suggested on Twitter that his critics would rather go to war with Russia than see him get along with Putin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Trump's followup\nDuring an interview three days after the summit, Trump told CBS News that he holds the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, personally responsible for Russia's attempts at meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Trump's followup\nTrump asked his national security adviser, John R. Bolton, to invite Mr. Putin to Washington, to continue dialogue that began in Helsinki. In a tweet, Trump indicated he looked forward to a second meeting with Mr. Putin \"so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed\" in Helsinki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Russian public opinion\nSurvey results published by Levada-Center indicate that, as of July 2018, Russians increasingly viewed the United States positively following the presidential summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Possibility of Russia interrogating U.S. citizens\nDuring his joint press conference with Putin, Trump stated, \"And what [Putin] did is an incredible offer; he offered to have the people working on the [Special Counsel investigation] come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 [Russians who were under indictment in America]. I think that's an incredible offer.\" Trump did not mention the quid pro quo for Putin's offer, which was to have Russians interrogate 11 U.S. citizens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0046-0001", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Possibility of Russia interrogating U.S. citizens\nTwo days later, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed that Putin and Trump had discussed the possibility of Russian officials questioning Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia, as well as Putin critic Bill Browder and others, in exchange for allowing investigators of the Special Counsel investigation to question twelve Russians who are under indictment in America. Sanders stated in a press conference, \"The president will work with his team and we'll let you know if there's an announcement on that front.\" State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert called the Russian request \"absolutely absurd.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0046-0002", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Followup, Possibility of Russia interrogating U.S. citizens\nCritics assailed Trump for even considering subjecting a former American diplomat to questioning by a hostile foreign power. As the Republican-controlled Senate prepared to vote on a resolution opposing the Putin proposal, Sanders stated that Trump \"disagrees\" with the Putin proposal. The Senate approved the non-binding \"sense of the Senate\" resolution, which stated that no current or former diplomat or other government employee should be made available to the Russians for interrogation, on a 98\u20130 vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Gallery\nJoint photo session (left to right): First Lady of the US Melania Trump, US President Donald Trump, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Finland Sauli Niinist\u00f6 and First Lady of Finland Jenni Haukio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Gallery\nPutin gifts Trump a Telstar Mechta, the official match ball for the knockout stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282221-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, Gallery\nAdvertisement in downtown Helsinki, with a message aimed at President Putin, in light of perceived lack of press freedom in Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282222-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team\nThe 2018 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team represented Rutgers University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Scarlet Knights played their home games at HighPoint.com Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey and competed as members of the East Division of the Big Ten Conference. They were led by third-year head coach Chris Ash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282222-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team\nRutgers began the year with a 35\u20137 victory over Texas State, but things quickly turned south for the team. After a blowout loss to Ohio State in Rutgers' conference opener, the team traveled to play Kansas, who had lost 39 of their previous 42 games against FBS opponents. Rutgers lost in a blowout, 55\u201314. The next week, the team was blown out 42\u201313 by Buffalo of the Mid-American Conference. In the remainder of conference play, the Scarlet Knights were mostly outmatched, losing the rest of their games, despite holding fourth quarter leads in games against Northwestern and Michigan State. Rutgers' final record of 1\u201311 matched the previous school record for losses in a season with their 1\u201311 2002 team and 0\u201311 1997 team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282222-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team\nFreshman quarterback Artur Sitowski led the team in passing, finishing with 1,158 passing yards, 4 touchdowns, and 18 interceptions. Sophomore running back Raheem Blacksheer led the team in both rushing and receiving yards, and had 953 yards from scrimmage on the year. On defense, senior linebacker Trevor Morris finished in sixth in the conference with 105 total tackles. He concluded his career in ninth on the school's all-time leaderboard for total tackles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282222-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team, Previous season\nThe Scarlet Knights finished the 2017 season 4\u20138, 3\u20136 in Big Ten play to finish in fifth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282223-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rwandan Cup\nhe 2017\u201318 Rwandan Cup is the 36th season of the football cup competition of Rwanda. The competition is organized by the Rwandese Association Football Federation (RAF) and open to all clubs in Rwanda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282223-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rwandan Cup, Round of 32\nThe Round of 32 are played on 6 & 7 February 2018 first legs and 21 & 22 February 2018 second legs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282223-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rwandan Cup, Round of 32\n1\u20130 on aggregate. Sorwathe FC failed to turn up for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282223-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Rwandan Cup, Round of 32\nSunrise won with 3\u20130 on aggregate, after Miroplast failed to turn up for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282224-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Rwandan parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Rwanda on 3 September 2018, with Rwandan overseas voting the day before. The result was a victory for the Rwandan Patriotic Front coalition, which won 40 of the 53 elected seats while losing its absolute majority over the total of seats, whilst the Democratic Green Party and Social Party Imberakuri both entered parliament for the first time. With 49 of the 80 seats in the newly elected parliament held by women (61%), the elections maintained Rwanda's position as the country with the highest proportion of female MPs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282224-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Rwandan parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe 80-seat Chamber of Deputies is elected by two methods: 53 seats are directly elected by closed list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency with an electoral threshold of 5%; seats are allocated using the largest remainder method. The remaining 27 seats are indirectly elected by local and national councils, including 24 reserved for women (six from Eastern, Southern and Western provinces, four from Northern Province and two from Kigali), two for representatives of youth and one for representatives of handicapped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282224-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Rwandan parliamentary election, Results\nErnest Kamanzi and Clarisse Maniriho were elected as the youth representatives, whilst Eugene Mussolini was elected as the disabled representative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup\nThe 42nd Ryder Cup Matches were held in France from 28 to 30 September 2018 on the Albatros Course of Le Golf National in Guyancourt, a suburb southwest of Paris. It was the second Ryder Cup to be held in Continental Europe (rather than Great Britain or Ireland), after the 1997 contest, which was held in Spain. The United States were the defending champions, but had lost the last five matches in Europe, having last won there in 1993. Europe regained the Ryder Cup, winning by 171\u20442 points to 101\u20442.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Format\nThe Ryder Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. The competition format was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Format\nOn the first two days there were four fourball matches in the morning and four foursome matches in the afternoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Format\nWith a total of 28 points available, 141\u20442 points were required to win the Cup, and 14 points were required for the defending champion, the United States, to retain the Cup. All matches were played to a maximum of 18 holes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Bidding for the 2018 Ryder Cup\nRyder Cup Europe confirmed originally six countries\u2014France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden\u2014to be interested in bidding for the 2018 Ryder Cup. The deadline for the submission of bids was set for 30 April 2010; Sweden withdrew from the bidding early that month, while the Spanish bidding host city of Tres Cantos showed poor popular support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 46], "content_span": [47, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Bidding for the 2018 Ryder Cup\nFrance was announced as host on 17 May 2011, despite calls for the Cup to be held in Spain as a tribute to the late Seve Ballesteros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 46], "content_span": [47, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, Europe\nThe European team qualification rules were announced on 18 January 2017. There were a number of changes compared to 2016 with an increase in the number of captain's picks from three to four, based on recommendations from the analytics team behind Team Europe. The team consisted of:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 56], "content_span": [57, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, Europe\nMembership criteria for the European Tour were reduced from five tournaments to four (outside the majors and WGCs) for the 2018 season. As in previous Ryder Cups, all players had to be members of the European Tour to be eligible to play for Europe. Changes were also made to the eligibility of future captains and vice-captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 56], "content_span": [57, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, Europe\nPaul Casey became a member of the European Tour at the start of 2018. Since he was not a member during 2017 he did not earn points until the start of 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 56], "content_span": [57, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, Europe\nThe leading players in the European Ryder Cup points lists were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 56], "content_span": [57, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, Europe\nThe remaining three players selected as captain's picks, Ian Poulter, Sergio Garc\u00eda and Paul Casey, finished in 22nd, 24th and 35th place respectively on the European points list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 56], "content_span": [57, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, United States\nThe United States qualification rules were announced on 8 February 2017. The majority of the team were selected from the Ryder Cup points list which was based on prize money won in important tournaments. Generally one point was awarded for every $1,000 earned. The team consisted of:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 63], "content_span": [64, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, United States\nThe qualification rules were similar to those used for the 2016 Ryder Cup. The points given for the 2018 season major championships were reduced from double to 50% extra (except for the winner who still received double points). The dates on which the captain's picks were made were brought forward by one or two weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 63], "content_span": [64, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, United States\nThe leading 15 players in the final points list after the final qualifying event, the 2018 PGA Championship were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 63], "content_span": [64, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, United States\nPlayers in qualifying places are shown in green. Captain's picks are shown in yellow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 63], "content_span": [64, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Teams, Captains\nThomas Bj\u00f8rn was named as the European captain on 6 December 2016. He was chosen by a five-man panel made up of the three most recent European Ryder Cup captains (Darren Clarke, Paul McGinley and Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Olaz\u00e1bal), the Chief Executive of the European Tour, Keith Pelley, and European Tour Tournament Committee member Henrik Stenson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Teams, Captains\nJim Furyk was named as the USA captain on 11 January 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Teams, Vice-captains\nEach captain selected a number of vice-captains to assist him during the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Teams, Vice-captains\nBj\u00f8rn selected Robert Karlsson as his first vice-captain in May 2017. In May 2018 he selected four more vice-captains: Luke Donald, P\u00e1draig Harrington, Graeme McDowell and Lee Westwood. Rapha\u00ebl Jacquelin was also on hand for the Europeans, as an assistant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Teams, Vice-captains\nFuryk named Davis Love III as a vice-captain, soon after his appointment in January 2017. He later added Steve Stricker and Tiger Woods in February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Teams, Vice-captains\nOn 4 September 2018, Furyk named David Duval, Zach Johnson, and Matt Kuchar as additional vice-captains. Tiger Woods, who had previously been named a vice-captain, would no longer serve in this position as he was chosen to be one of Furyk's captain's picks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Teams, Players\nThomas Bj\u00f8rn announced the four captain's picks at 2 pm BST on 5 September. Captain's picks are shown in yellow. The world rankings and records were at the start of the 2018 Ryder Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Teams, Players\nCaptain's picks are shown in yellow. Jim Furyk announced three captain's picks at 5 pm EDT on 4 September. The final captain's pick was announced on 10 September after the conclusion of the BMW Championship. The world rankings and records were at the start of the 2018 Ryder Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Friday's matches, Morning fourballs\nThe opening round of four fourball matches started at 8:10 am local time. Pairings were announced after the Opening Ceremony on Thursday. The first point of the 2018 Ryder Cup was won by Team USA, with Dustin Johnson and Rickie Fowler winning 4 & 2 against Rory McIlroy and Thorbj\u00f8rn Olesen. Despite being two up with six holes to play, Jon Rahm and Justin Rose lost out to Brooks Koepka and Tony Finau on the 18th hole, while Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas also won by one against Paul Casey and Tyrrell Hatton, putting Team USA 3\u20130 ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Friday's matches, Morning fourballs\nA spectator struck by Koepka's drive on the 6th hole lost the sight in one eye. Coming back from two down, Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari defeated Tiger Woods and Patrick Reed 3 & 1 to secure Team Europe's first point of the tournament, and to end the first morning 3\u20131 in favour of Team USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Friday's matches, Afternoon foursomes\nEurope's first clean sweep of the afternoon foursomes in the history of the Ryder Cup saw Team Europe end the day 5\u20133 ahead of Team USA. Sergio Garc\u00eda and Alex Nor\u00e9n won 5 & 4 over Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau, Rory McIlroy and Ian Poulter came from two down after the first three holes to beat Bubba Watson and Webb Simpson 4 & 2, Fleetwood and Molinari repeated their morning success with a 4 & 3 win over Spieth and Thomas, while Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson beat Dustin Johnson and Rickie Fowler 3 & 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 53], "content_span": [54, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Saturday's matches, Morning fourballs\nThe Saturday fourballs saw Europe continue to dominate with wins for Garc\u00eda/McIlroy (2 & 1) against Koepka and Finau, Casey/Hatton (3 & 2) against Fowler/Johnson and Molinari/Fleetwood (4 & 3) against Reed/Woods. Team USA secured their only point of the morning session with Thomas and Spieth defeating Poulter and Rahm 2 & 1, to leave the overall tournament at 8\u20134 in Team Europe's favour. Despite the strong performance, Team Europe captain Thomas Bj\u00f8rn reiterated: \"Nothing's won, we're just over the halfway stage. There's no bit happiness yet, there's still a determination and work to be done\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 53], "content_span": [54, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Saturday's matches, Afternoon foursomes\nThe afternoon session was drawn 2\u20132. It saw Team Europe's Molinari and Fleetwood win for the fourth time, a European record in the Ryder Cup, this time 5 & 4 over Woods and DeChambeau. Team USA's Spieth and Thomas defeated Poulter and McIlroy 4 & 3, while Simpson and Watson's green play saw them defeat Europe's Garc\u00eda and Nor\u00e9n 3 & 2. The fourth pairing saw Rose and Stenson narrowly beat Johnson and Koepka 2 & 1 as a result of some good putting late in the round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 55], "content_span": [56, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Sunday's singles matches\nThe United States put their best players at the top of the card on Sunday, and despite the four point deficit threatened a comeback in the singles, as they won 31\u20442 points from the first four matches. Justin Thomas beat Rory McIlroy on the final hole as the latter's approach found the water, and Tony Finau defeated the previously unbeaten Tommy Fleetwood 6 & 4. However, from then on Europe dominated, winning the next six matches to lead 161\u20442\u201391\u20442.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Sunday's singles matches\nGuarantees of at least a half-point each for Garc\u00eda and Stenson (both of whom later got full points) meant that victory was already assured before the 141\u20442-point winning post was officially reached when Phil Mickelson, already three holes down, found the water on the 16th hole and conceded the hole and match to Molinari, who became the first player for Europe to score what is now the maximum possible five points in a single Ryder Cup. The remaining two matches were shared between the teams, leaving the final score 171\u20442\u2013101\u20442 to Europe. Sergio Garc\u00eda's singles win made him the all-time Ryder Cup points leader, with 251\u20442 points in nine appearances, overtaking Nick Faldo's 25 points in 11 appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282225-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Ryder Cup, Individual player records\nEach entry refers to the Win\u2013Loss\u2013Half record of the player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282226-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 R\u00e9union Premier League\nThe 2018 R\u00e9union Premier League is the 69th season of the R\u00e9union Premier League, the professional league for association football clubs in R\u00e9union, since the league's establishment in 1950. The season started on 17 March and concluded on 16 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282227-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF Championship\nThe 2018 SAFF Championship, also known as 2018 SAFF Suzuki Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 12th edition of the SAFF Championship, the biennial international men's football championship of South Asia organized by SAFF. It was initially scheduled to be hosted by Bangladesh in December 2017, but later rescheduled to 4\u201315 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282227-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF Championship, Host selection\nOn 2 January 2016, SAFF executive committee made a decision that Bangladesh would host the 2017 SAFF Championship at a meeting held in Trivandrum, India. Maldives and Bhutan made bids to host the games but the latter withdrew its bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282227-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF Championship, Host selection\nThis was the third SAFF Championship hosted by Bangladesh, after victory in the 2003 edition and semi finalists in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282227-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF Championship, Host selection\nThe draw ceremony was held on 18 April 2018 in Dhaka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282227-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF Championship, Awards\nThe following awards were given for the 2018 SAFF Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282227-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF Championship, Goalscorers\nThere were 29 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2.42 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282228-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF Championship Final\nThe 2018 SAFF Championship Final is a football match that took place on 12 September 2018 at the Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka. It was announced that the matches during the tournament, including the final, would take place at the Bangabandhu nation stadium, Dhaka. The Maldives came out 2\u20131 winners against India to secure their second SAFF Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282229-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF Championship squads\nThis article lists the confirmed national football squads for the 2018 SAFF Championship tournament held in Bangladesh, between 4 September and 15 September 2018. The position listed for each player is per the squad list in the official match reports by the SAFF. The age listed for each player is on 4 September 2018, the first day of the tournament. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. A flag is included for coaches that are of a different nationality than their own national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282230-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-15 Championship\nThe 2018 SAFF U-15 Championship was the 5th edition of the SAFF U-15 Championship, an international football competition for men's under-15 national teams organized by SAFF. The tournament was hosted by Nepal from October 25 to November 3, 2018 at ANFA Complex in Lalitpur, Nepal. Six out of seven teams from the region took part, as Sri Lanka later withdrew their team, and the teams were divided into two groups. On 3 November 2018, Bangladesh beat Pakistan to claim their second SAFF title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282230-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-15 Championship, Host selection\nA draw for tournament ceremony was held on 13 September 2018 at conference room of Bangladesh Football Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282230-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-15 Championship, Host selection\nBFF general secretary Abu Naeem Shohag, chairman of the BFF Media Committee Amirul Islam Babu and Mindu Dorji, the deputy general secretary of Bhutan Football Federation was also present on the occasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282230-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-15 Championship, Host selection\nInitially all of seven countries team participated for the draw, two groups A and B were made, A consisted of Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives and Pakistan and group B consisted of India, Bhutan and Sri Lanka", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282230-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-15 Championship, Host selection\nBut later Sri Lanka had its team withdrawn from the tournament and the groups are redefined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282230-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-15 Championship, Squads\nPlayers born on or after 1 January 2003 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team had to register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom had to be goalkeepers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282230-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-15 Championship, Awards\nThe following awards were given for the 2018 SAFF U-15 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282230-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-15 Championship, Goalscorers\nThere were 47 goals scored in 10 matches, for an average of 4.7 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282231-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-15 Women's Championship\nThe 2018 SAFF U-15 Women's Championship was the 2nd edition of the SAFF U-15 Women's Championship, an international football competition for women's under-15 national teams organized by SAFF. The tournament was hosted by Bhutan from 9\u201318 of August, 2018 at Changlimithang Stadium. Six teams from the region took part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282231-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-15 Women's Championship, Host selection\nA draw for tournament ceremony was held on 7 July 2018 in Motijheel at conference room of Bangladesh Football Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282231-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-15 Women's Championship, Host selection\nSAFF general secretary Anwarul Haque Helal and BFF general secretary Abu Nayeem Shohag, were among others present on the occasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282231-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-15 Women's Championship, Player eligibility\nPlayers born on or after 1 January 2003 are eligible to compete in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282232-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-18 Women's Championship\nThe 2018 SAFF U-18 Women's Championship was the 1st edition of the SAFF U-18 Women's Championship, an international football competition for women's under-18 national teams organized by SAFF. The tournament was hosted from 28 September \u2013 7 October 2018 at Changlimithang Stadium. Six teams from the region took part (Sri Lanka had its team withdrawn from the tournament).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282232-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-18 Women's Championship, Draw\nA draw for tournament ceremony was held on 7 July 2018 in Motijheel at conference room of Bangladesh Football Federation. SAFF general secretary Anwarul Haque Helal and BFF general secretary Abu Nayeem Shohag, were among others present on the occasion. Initially all of seven countries team participated for the draw, two groups A and B were made: group A consisted of India, Sri Lanka and Maldives and group B consisted of Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Pakistan. Later, however, Sri Lanka had their team withdrawn from the tournament and the groups were redefined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282232-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-18 Women's Championship, Squads\nEach team had to register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282232-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-18 Women's Championship, Players Eligibility\nPlayers born on or after 1 January 2000 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team had to register a squad of minimum 16 players and maximum 23 players, minimum two of whom must be goalkeepers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282232-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-18 Women's Championship, Group stage\nTeams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282232-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-18 Women's Championship, Goalscorers\nThere were 65 goals scored in 10 matches, for an average of 6.5 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282233-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SAFF U-18 Women's Championship squads\nAll team squads must consist of, minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282234-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SANFL Grand Final\nThe 2018 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) grand final was played at the Adelaide Oval on Sunday, 23 September to determine the premiers for the 2018 SANFL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282234-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SANFL Grand Final\nThe Grand Final was contested by Norwood and North Adelaide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282234-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SANFL Grand Final\nNorth Adelaide won the grand final, defeating Norwood by 19 points, winning their first premiership since 1991. The Jack Oatey Medal for the best player on the ground was won by Norwood's Mitch Grigg - the first member of a losing grand final side to win the medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282234-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SANFL Grand Final\nThis marked the highest scoring grand final since 1983, with both teams kicking over one hundred points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282234-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 SANFL Grand Final, Background\nNorwood were minor premiers, and progressed directly to the Grand Final by defeating Woodville-West Torrens in the Second Semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282234-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 SANFL Grand Final, Background\nNorth Adelaide finished the minor round in fifth place, although only one and a half wins behind second place. They progressed to the Grand Final by successively defeating South Adelaide, Sturt and Woodville-West Torrens. A major incident in this latter match, the Preliminary Final, caused lingering uncertainty about the result. North Adelaide commenced the final quarter with 19 players on the field (one more than permitted under the rules), before correcting their error after \"about five minutes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282234-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 SANFL Grand Final, Background\nWoodville-West Torrens, being unaware of the situation, did not request that an umpire count the players and annul North Adelaide's score of 56 points to that stage. During those 5 minutes, North Adelaide advanced its score by 8 points, being greater than the final margin of 5 points. Michael David QC, sitting as the SANFL tribunal, later analysed events fully, and confirmed that there was no legal basis on which to disqualify North Adelaide, so the match result stood. On a charge of being \"grossly negligent\" he penalised North Adelaide $10,000 and 4 premiership points for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282235-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SANFL Women's League season\nThe 2018 SANFL Women's League season was the second season of the SANFL Women's League (SANFLW). The season commenced on 2 February and concluded with the Grand Final on 25 April 2018. The competition was contested by six clubs (two more than the previous season following the admission of South Adelaide and Sturt), each affiliated with clubs from the men's South Australian National Football League (SANFL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282236-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SANFL season\nThe 2018 South Australian National Football League season (officially the SANFL Macca\u2019s League) is the 139th season of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Australian rules football competition. The season commenced on Friday, 30 March (Good Friday) and concluded with the SANFL Grand Final on Sunday, 23 September. North Adelaide, who had finished last in 2017 and fifth place at the end of the home-and-away season, defeated minor premier Norwood by 19 points to win their fourteenth premiership, their first since 1991.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282236-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SANFL season, Finals Series, Preliminary Final\nThe preliminary final was highly controversial after it was discovered that North Adelaide played part of the final quarter with nineteen men on the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282236-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SANFL season, Finals Series, Preliminary Final\nWoodville-West Torrens led North Adelaide by as much as 47 points during the third quarter, before North Adelaide staged a comeback, and by three-quarter time the lead was only twenty points, Woodville-West Torrens 10.8 (68) to North Adelaide 7.6 (48). At the start of the final quarter, North Adelaide midfielder Aiden Tropiano, who was listed as starting the quarter on the bench, instead took to the field, and North Adelaide played the first 3:39 with nineteen on the field before the club recognised its error and took the extra man off the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282236-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 SANFL season, Finals Series, Preliminary Final\nDuring that time, Woodville-West Torrens officials are understood to have complained to the reserve umpire and interchange steward, but no head count was staged \u2013 as this procedure requires the team captain to request one from the on-field umpire \u2013 nor was a free kick awarded. North Adelaide scored 1.2 (8) during the period of the extra man.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282236-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SANFL season, Finals Series, Preliminary Final\nThe rest of the quarter was high-scoring and thrilling, with Woodville-West Torrens pushing the margin back out to 21 points, before North Adelaide kicked seven straight goals in twelve minutes of play to take a 22-point lead in the 23rd minute of the game. Woodville-West Torrens responded, kicking three goals in five minutes, just falling short of completing their own comeback. At the final siren, North Adelaide 15.10 (100) defeated Woodville-West Torrens 14.11 (95) by five points. Immediately, the eight points North Adelaide had scored with the extra man on the field came under question.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282236-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 SANFL season, Finals Series, Preliminary Final\nOn Monday 17 September, Woodville-West Torrens lodged an official protest against the result, and a SANFL tribunal hearing was held on Monday night. After the hearing, the tribunal ruled that North Adelaide's five point win would stand, owing to there being no provision in the SANFL constitution, rules or regulations allowing for the result to be changed in these circumstances; but it fined the club $10,000 and docked four premiership points from the club's 2019 result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282236-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 SANFL season, Finals Series, Preliminary Final\nThe national Laws of the Game were amended the following season, introducing a formal provision for a league to review, identify and impose a penalty (including reversal of the match result) for an incident of too many players on the ground if that incident was identified in a post match video review, without a head count having been executed during the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282237-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SBS Drama Awards\nThe 2018 SBS Drama Awards (Korean:\u00a0SBS \uc5f0\uae30\ub300\uc0c1; RR:\u00a0SBS Yeon-gi Daesang), presented by Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS), took place on December 31, 2018 at SBS Prism Tower, Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul. It was hosted by Shin Dong-yup, Shin Hye-sun, and Lee Je-hoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282238-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SBS Entertainment Awards\nThe 2018 SBS Entertainment Awards (Korean:\u00a0SBS \uc5f0\uc608\ub300\uc0c1; RR:\u00a0SBS Yeon-ye Daesang) presented by Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS), took place on December 28, 2018 at SBS Prism Tower in Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul. It was hosted by Park Soo-hong, Han Go-eun and Kim Jong-kook. The nominees were chosen from SBS variety, talk and comedy shows that aired from December 2017 to November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282239-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SC Waterloo Region season\nThe 2018 season was SC Waterloo Region's eighth season in the Canadian Soccer League. Their season official commenced on June 2, 2018 in a home match against SC Real Mississauga. Overall the season was a successful one for the club as they finished in the top four by finishing third in the First Division. The previous time Waterloo finished in the top four was in 2015. In the postseason Waterloo defeated the Serbian White Eagles FC, but were eliminated in the semifinals to FC Vorkuta. The club's top goalscorer was Miodrag Kovacevic, a former player in the Serbian First League with six goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282239-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SC Waterloo Region season, Summary\nIn preparation for the 2018 season Waterloo appointed Radivoj Pani\u0107 as the new head coach. The roster consisted of notable veterans such as Vladimir Zelenbaba, Adis Hasecic, Mohammad-Ali Heydarpour, and Sven Arapovic. After a slow start to the season the club rebounded to a seven match undefeated streak, and secured a postseason by finishing third in the standings. In the first round of the postseason Waterloo defeated Serbian White Eagles FC. In the semifinals they faced FC Vorkuta, but were eliminated in a penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282239-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SC Waterloo Region season, Team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282239-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SC Waterloo Region season, Competitions, Canadian Soccer League, Results summary\nLast updated: September 20, 2018. Source: 2018 Canadian Soccer League season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282240-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SCG Muangthong United F.C. season\nThe 2018 season is SCG Muangthong United Football Club's 12th existence in the new era since they took over from Nongchok Pittaya Nusorn Football Club in 2007. It is the 3rd season in the Thai League and the club's 10th consecutive season in the top flight of the Thai football league system since promoted in the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282240-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SCG Muangthong United F.C. season, Transfers\nFirst Thai footballer's market is opening on 14 November 2017 to 5 February 2018Second Thai footballer's market is opening on 11 June 2018 to 9 July 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282241-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SEC Championship Game\nThe 2018 SEC Championship Game was played on Saturday, December 1, 2018, in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, to determine the 2018 football champion of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The game featured the East Division champion Georgia against the West Division champion Alabama. Georgia, the East Division Champion, was the designated home team. The game was televised by CBS for the eighteenth straight year. Alabama came back from a 28\u201314 deficit in the third quarter to defeat Georgia, 35\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282241-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SEC Championship Game, 2017 season\nIn the 2017 SEC Championship Game, the East champion Georgia defeated the West champion Auburn 28\u20137 in a rematch from three weeks prior where Auburn defeated Georgia 40\u201317. It was the first time since 2008 an East Division team won the SEC Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282241-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SEC Championship Game, Teams, Alabama\nAlso on November 3, Alabama secured its spot in the title game by defeating LSU by a score of 29\u20130. This gave Alabama a two-game lead over LSU in the West Division, with the Crimson Tide holding the potential tiebreaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282241-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SEC Championship Game, Teams, Georgia\nGeorgia won its November 3 game against Kentucky, securing the East Division. While Georgia could have finished in a tie for the division title with any combination of Kentucky and Florida, Georgia also defeated Florida during the season, giving the Bulldogs all possible divisional tiebreakers. The Bulldogs ultimately won the East title by two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282241-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 SEC Championship Game, Teams, Alabama vs. Georgia series history\nThis match up was the 69th all time meeting against the Crimson Tide and Bulldogs. They last played each other last season for the College Football Playoff National Championship . Alabama defeated Georgia, in overtime, 26\u201323. The win brought Alabama to its 17th National Title. After the January 8, 2018 match up, Alabama leads the all time series 39\u201325\u20134. This match up was the first time since 2012, that the two teams face off in the conference title game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282241-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 SEC Championship Game, Game summary, Statistics\nNote: 77,141 was the officially announced attendance figure; \"turnstile count\" subsequently reported as 69,614.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282242-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference held at Scottrade Center, now known as Enterprise Center, in St. Louis, Missouri, from March 7 through March 11, 2018. Kentucky defeated Tennessee, 77\u201372, in the championship game to earn an automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282243-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Southeastern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference held at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, from February 28 through March 4, 2018. South Carolina defeated the regular-season champions Mississippi State to earn an automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282244-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SEC Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 SEC Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the SEC. The Texas A&M Aggies were the defending champions, but they were eliminated from the 2018 tournament with a 2\u20131 loss to the South Carolina Gamecocks in the quarterfinals. The LSU Tigers won the tournament title via a penalty kick shootout win over the Arkansas Razorbacks in the final. This was the first SEC women's soccer tournament title for LSU, and the first for coach Brian Lee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282244-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SEC Women's Soccer Tournament, Qualification\nThe top ten teams earned a berth into the SEC Tournament. The tournament is held at Orange Beach Sportsplex in Orange Beach, Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282244-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SEC Women's Soccer Tournament, Schedule\nAll matches are played at Orange Beach Sportsplex in Orange Beach, Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282245-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's soccer team\nThe 2018 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's soccer team represents Southern Illinois University Edwardsville during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, the school's 52nd season. The Cougars are coached by Mario Sanchez. The team plays their home games on Bob Guelker Field at the Ralph Korte Stadium as an affiliate member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282245-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's soccer team, Preseason\nTwelve players returned from the 2017 team, along with three players who were redshirted as freshmen. Eleven of the returners started games for the 2017 Cougars. They are joined by seven freshmen and seven student-athletes who have transferred from other schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282245-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's soccer team, Preseason\nThe Cougars played two exhibition games, both versus teams from the American Athletic Conference, losing 0\u20133 at Tulsa and gaining a 0\u20130 draw while hosting Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282245-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's soccer team, Preseason\nIn the preseason poll of the MAC's soccer coaches, the Cougars were picked to finish fourth, behind #4 ranked Akron (also named favorite to win the MAC tournament), #14 Western Michigan, and West Virginia. :", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282245-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's soccer team, Preseason\nIn the Top Drawer Soccer' listing of picks as the Preseason Top 20 players in the MAC, Jorge Gonzalez was #6, Johan DePicker was #10, and Greg Solawa was #18'\u00a0:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282245-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's soccer team, Season\nThe season opener was against the Memphis Tigers in Memphis, where the Cougar have never won, going 0\u20135\u20131 since 1987. (Memphis is 0\u20136\u20130 in Edwardsville in the same span. In the 18th minute, McLean stole the ball and passed to an open Gonzalea, who opened the scoring for the game and the season. The Tigers got an equalizer on a free kick in the 59th minute, but in the 61st minute, McLean put the Cougars back on top, with an assist from Pettersen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282245-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's soccer team, Season\nReminiscent of last year, the defense gave up a late goal, as Memphis scored in the 86th minute to send the game to overtime. Both defenses stymied the offenses in OT, and the game ended in a 2\u20132 draw. The Tigers outshot the Cougars for the game, but SIUE was hotter in the second half, and new keeper Heim made eight saves. As would be the case through the season, SIUE displayed a deep bench, with 19 players seeing action, eleven playing their first game as Cougars (1 redshirt freshman, 4 true freshmen, and six transfers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282245-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's soccer team, Season\nThe Cougers opened a five-game homestand versus the UMKC Kangaroos, coached by SIUE Athletic Hall of Fame member Rick Benben. SIUE dominated action, but UMKC's goalkeeper made nine saves, several spectacularly. With only a minute left in regulation time, Solawa made a pass to Gonzalez that was headed into the net for a Cougars win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282245-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's soccer team, Postseason\nOn the day before the start of the 2018 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament, the conference announced the season's awards. SIUE defender Johan DePicker and Cougar forwards Jorge Gonzalez and Lachlan McLean were named First Team All-MAC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282245-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's soccer team, Coaches\n2018 will be Mario Sanchez' fourth year as the Cougars' head coach. Jeremy Proud is in his third season as assistant coach and Simon Bird is in his second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282245-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's soccer team, Roster\nBuff background indicates returning players from 2017. Pink background indicates players \"redshirted\" in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282245-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's soccer team, Schedule & results\nVisiting team on the left, the home team on the right. Rankings from the United Soccer Coaches polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 67], "content_span": [68, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282246-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SJK season\nThe 2018 season is Sein\u00e4joen Jalkapallokerho's 11th competitive season, and fifth in the Veikkausliiga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282246-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SJK season, Season events\nOn 22 May, SJK announced that Aleksei Yeryomenko had replaced Tommi Kautonen after their poor start to the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282246-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SJK season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282246-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SJK season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282246-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 SJK season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282246-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 SJK season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282247-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SK Brann season\nThe 2018 season is Brann's third season back in Eliteserien since their relegation at the end of the 2014 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282247-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SK Brann season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282247-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SK Brann season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282247-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SK Brann season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282247-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 SK Brann season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282247-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 SK Brann season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282247-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 SK Brann season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282248-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SLC T20 League\nThe 2018 SLC T20 League was a domestic Twenty20 cricket tournament that was held in Sri Lanka, between 21 August and 2 September 2018. Four teams took part in the tournament: Colombo, Dambulla, Galle and Kandy. The Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Pallekele International Cricket Stadium and the R. Premadasa Stadium hosted all the matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282248-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SLC T20 League\nThe third match, between Colombo and Kandy, finished as a tie, therefore going to a Super Over to determine the winner. However, the match was still tied after the Super Over, with both teams scoring five runs each. Colombo were declared the eventual winners, as they had scored the most boundaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282248-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SLC T20 League\nColombo were the first team to qualify for the final, after remaining unbeaten in their first four matches. They were joined in the final by Dambulla, who finished second in the group stage. Colombo won the final by 7 wickets, with Upul Tharanga scoring an unbeaten century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282248-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SLC T20 League, Squads\nThe following teams and squads were named to compete in the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282249-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SLFA First Division\nThe 2018 SLFA First Division is the 40th season of top-division football league in Saint Lucia. The season began on 11 February 2018 and ended on 14 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282250-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SMP F4 Championship\nThe 2018 SMP F4 Championship was the fourth season of the SMP F4 Championship. The series is also known as the FIA North-European Zone (NEZ) championship. Koiranen GP, despite creating Formula Academy Finland, continued as the promoter. The season started in Smolensk Ring on 5 May and finished in Assen Circuit on 21 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282250-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SMP F4 Championship\nChampion Konsta Lappalainen won seven races, with runner-up Michael Belov and third-placed Isac Blomqvist taking five and three victories respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282250-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SMP F4 Championship, Race calendar\nOn 27 April 2018 the calendar was announced. For the first time of the existence of the championship Sochi Autodrom hadn't received a slot in the schedule. Circuit Zandvoort was replaced with a round at the Assen Circuit, whilst Autodrom Moscow and NRING Circuit were included to the calendar for the first time. Round 6 was originally scheduled to be held at Auto24ring on 15\u201316 September, but was rescheduled to take place at Alastaro Circuit on 22\u201323 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282250-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SMP F4 Championship, Championship standings\nPoints were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in each race. No points were awarded for pole position or fastest lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team\nThe 2018 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Mustangs played their home games at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas, Texas and competed in the West Division of the American Athletic Conference. They were led by first-year coach Sonny Dykes. They finished the season 5\u20137, 4\u20134 in American Athletic play to finish in fourth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Previous season\nThe Mustangs finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 4\u20134 in AAC play to finish in a tie for third place in the West Division. They were invited to the Frisco Bowl where they lost to Louisiana Tech. The Mustangs were led by third-year coach Chad Morris during the entire regular season until December 6, when he resigned to become the head coach at Arkansas. On December 11, SMU hired Sonny Dykes as head coach, and he led them in their bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Preseason, AAC media poll\nThe AAC media poll was released on July 24, 2018, with the Mustangs predicted to finish in fourth place in the AAC West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, at North Texas\nTo start the 2018 season, the Mustangs traveled to Denton, Texas to take on the Mean Green in the 38th Safeway Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, at North Texas\nSMU received the opening kickoff and started at their own 25-yard line. Ben Hicks completed a 6-yard pass to C. J. Sanders for the Mustangs' first offensive play. On the next play, SMU was backed up 5-yards after a false start penalty against Larry Hughes, making it 3rd and 9. On third down, Hicks was sacked by E.J. Ejiya for a 10-yard loss to bring up 4th and 19 and the Mustangs were forced to punt. Before the punt, SMU was backed up another 5-yards due to a delay of game penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, at North Texas\nJaelon Darden received the punt for North Texas, returning it 4-yard to the SMU 49-yard line. Following a Mason Fine sack and an offensive holding penalty, the Mean Green were backed up to their own 49-yard line on 3rd and 25, but a personal foul against Trevor Denbow moved North Texas up to the SMU 36-yard line with an automatic first down. Three plays later, Mason Fine found Jalen Guyton for a 15-yard touchdown pass. The two teams punted on their next drives after both went three and out. On the first play following North Texas's punt, Hicks was intercepted by Kemon Hall who returned it 36-yard for a pick six touchdown. The Mustangs punted three more times before halftime, while the Mean Green punted once and scored six more points with Cole Hedlund making two field goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, at North Texas\nNorth Texas received the second half kickoff and started at their own 25-yard line. The Mean Green ended the drive with a 5-yard touchdown pass from Mason Fine to Nic Smith. The Mustangs punted on their next three drives, while North Texas scored another touchdown and made another field goal, extending the lead to 36\u20130. On their 4th drive of the game, the Mean Green turned the ball over on downs at the SMU 37-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, at North Texas\nOn the 5th play following the turnover on downs, Hicks found Jr. Robinson for a 37-yard pass, putting the Mustangs at the North Texas 5-yard line. On the next play, Braeden West found the end zone on a 5-yard run, giving SMU its first score of the game. On the next drive, Hedlund made a 51-yard field goal to make it 39\u20137. On the kickoff, Sanders returned the kick 23-yards to the SMU 26-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, at North Texas\nOn the 4th play of the drive, Hicks found James Proche for a 59-yard touchdown pass; the Mustangs made the two-point conversion to trail 15\u201339 with 1:41 left to play. On the following kickoff, DeAndre Torrey returned Kevin Roblebo's kick 96-yards for a touchdown. On the next drive, Hicks made another long touchdown pass, this time a 71-yard pass to West. Receiving the ball back, the Mean Green took a knee to end the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, at North Texas\nThe Mustangs' offense was shutout through the first three quarters, getting their first score of the game on a five-yard run from Braeden West with just over 8 minutes left in the game. SMU only had 256 yards of total offense, while North Texas had 529. SMU's defense couldn't stop Mean Green quarterback Mason Fine, who threw for 444 yards and 3 touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, TCU\nKickoff was scheduled for 7:00\u00a0p.m., but was delayed due to lightning in the area. The delay lasted for nearly 2 hours, with kickoff happening at 8:59\u00a0p.m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, TCU\nThe Mustangs received the opening kickoff, starting at their own 25-yard line. Following a 10-yard run, quarterback Ben Hicks had to sit out a play after losing his helmet. On the following play, running back Braeden West went 51-yards for a touchdown to take an early 7\u20130 lead following Will Moore's kick. The Horned Frogs started the following drive at their own 30-yard line. TCU made it to their own 45-yard line, but quarterback Shawn Robinson fumbled the ball on a play for a loss of 2-yards following the recovery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, TCU\nOn 3rd and 14 at the TCU 41, Robinson threw an incomplete pass that was almost intercepted. Reggie Roberson Jr. returned Adam Nunez's punt to the TCU 10-yard line, but an illegal block in the back against SMU forced the offense to start at their own 25-yard line. Making it to the TCU 41-yard line, Hicks was sacked on 3rd and 10, forcing the Mustangs to punt. The Horned Frogs started their next drive at their own 10-yard line. TCU made it 18-yards to the 28-yard line, but were forced to punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, TCU\nOn the punt, Nunez fumbled the ball, with the ball rolling out of the end zone for a safety. Following the safety, the Mustangs' next drive ended in a punt. The Horned Frogs started at their own 2-yard line, making it to the SMU 31-yard line. On 4th and 7, TCU kicker Cole Bunce missed a 48-yard field goal, with the ball bouncing off of the center post. TCU got its first touchdown of the game in the 2nd quarter with a 78-yard punt return from KaVontae Turpin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0008-0003", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, TCU\nThe Horned Frogs scored on their next drive when running back Sewo Olonilua ran the ball 24-yards, but fumbled; the fumble was recovered in the end zone by Jaelan Austin for a touchdown, giving TCU its first lead of the game. To close out the first half, SMU kicker Kevin Robledo made a 49-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, TCU\nTCU received the second half kickoff and made it all the way to the SMU 24-yard line, but a Robinson pass was intercepted by Shaine Hailey. On the second play of the next drive, Hicks fumbled the football, which was recovered by Alec Dunham, who returned it 25-yards for a touchdown. The Horned Frogs continued to extend their lead on their next offensive drive, with Robinson running 18-yards for a touchdown. The Mustangs failed to score in the second half, while the Horned Frogs scored 28 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282251-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, TCU\nSMU only had 242 yards of total offense, while TCU had 387. The Horned Frogs turned the ball over twice, while the Mustangs only committed one turnover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282252-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs men's soccer team\nThe 2018 SMU Mustangs men's soccer team represented the Southern Methodist University during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season and the 2018 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season. The regular season began on August 24 and concluded on November 2. It was the program's 44th season fielding a men's varsity soccer team, and their 6th season in the AAC. The 2018 season was Kevin Hudson's fourth year as head coach for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282252-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs men's soccer team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282253-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs women's soccer team\nThe 2018 SMU Mustangs women's soccer team represented Southern Methodist University during the 2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. The regular season began on August 16 and concluded on October 26. It was the program's 25th season fielding a women's varsity soccer team, and their 6th season in the AAC. The 2018 season was Chris Petrucelli's seventh year as head coach for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282253-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SMU Mustangs women's soccer team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282254-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 STP 500\nThe 2018 STP 500 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on March 26, 2018, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. Contested over 500 laps on the .526 mile (.847 km) paperclip-shaped short track, it was sixth race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season. The race was postponed from Sunday, March 25 to Monday, March 26 due to snow accumulation in Martinsville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282254-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 STP 500, Report, Background\nMartinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation-owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Henry County, in Ridgeway, Virginia, just to the south of Martinsville. At 0.526 miles (0.847\u00a0km) in length, it is the shortest track in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. The track was also one of the first paved oval tracks in NASCAR, being built in 1947 by H. Clay Earles. It is also the only remaining race track that has been on the NASCAR circuit from its beginning in 1948.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 32], "content_span": [33, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282254-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 STP 500, Practice, First practice\nMartin Truex Jr. was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 19.776 seconds and a speed of 95.752\u00a0mph (154.098\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 38], "content_span": [39, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282254-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 STP 500, Practice, Final practice\nMartin Truex Jr. was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 19.846 seconds and a speed of 95.415\u00a0mph (153.556\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 38], "content_span": [39, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282254-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 STP 500, Qualifying\nQualifying for Saturday was cancelled due to snow and Martin Truex Jr., the point leader, was awarded the pole as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282254-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 STP 500, Media, Television\nFox Sports was covering their 18th race at the Martinsville Speedway. Mike Joy, nine-time Martinsville winner Jeff Gordon and 11-time Martinsville winner Darrell Waltrip called in the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled pit road duties for the entire race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 31], "content_span": [32, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282254-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 STP 500, Media, Radio\nMRN had the radio call for the race which would also be simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and seven-time Martinsville winner Rusty Wallace called the race in the booth as the cars were on the frontstretch. Dave Moody called the race from atop the turn 3 stands as the field is racing down the backstretch. Alex Hayden, Winston Kelley and Steve Post worked pit road for the radio side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 26], "content_span": [27, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282255-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Southwestern Athletic Conference for the 2017\u201318 season. Tournament first round games were played at the campus of the higher seeded team on March 6. The remainder of the tournament was held on March 9 and 10, 2018 at the Delmar Fieldhouse in Houston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282255-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nTexas Southern won the tournament by defeating Arkansas\u2013Pine Bluff in the championship game, the Tigers' second consecutive championship. As a result, Texas Southern received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282255-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nThe top eight teams competed in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Grambling State, the conference's regular season champion, was ineligible for postseason play due to APR violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282256-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SWAC Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 SWAC Women's Basketball Tournament is an event which took place March 6\u201310, 2018. Tournament quarterfinal games were held at campus sites, hosted by the higher seed, on March 6. The semifinals and championship are at Delmar Fieldhouse in Houston. The winner, Gambling State, received the Southwestern Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282257-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SWAC Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 SWAC Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Southwestern Athletic Conference held November 1\u20134, 2018. The seven-match tournament took place at the Prairie View A&M Soccer Stadium in Prairie View, Texas. The eight-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the Alabama State Hornets, however they were unable to defend their title, losing 1\u20130 to the Grambling State Tigers in the Semifinals. The eventual champions were the Howard Bison, who defeated Grambling State 1\u20130 in the final. The conference tournament title was the third in the history of the Howard women's soccer program, all of which have come under the direction of head coach Brent Leiba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282258-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SaarLorLux Open\nThe 2018 SaarLorLux Open was a badminton tournament that took place at Saarlandhalle in Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany, from 30 October to 4 November 2018 and had a total prize of $75,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282258-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SaarLorLux Open, Tournament\nThe 2018 SaarLorLux Open was the tenth Super 100 tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the SaarLorLux Open championships, which had been held since 1988. This tournament was organized by German Badminton Association and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282258-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SaarLorLux Open, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Saarlandhalle in Saarbr\u00fccken, Saarland, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282258-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SaarLorLux Open, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF Tour Super 100 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 52], "content_span": [53, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282258-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 SaarLorLux Open, Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this year's tournament was US$75,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282259-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sabah state election\nThe 2018 Sabah state election took place on 9 May 2018 in concurrence with the 14th Malaysian general election. This election was to elect 60 members of the 15th Sabah State Legislative Assembly. The previous Assembly was dissolved on 7 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282259-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sabah state election\nBarisan Nasional (BN), with the most seats, would be able to form a minority government alone. But BN and Homeland Solidarity Party (STAR) decided to form a group of 31 seats, which would allow them to form a coalition government. Musa Aman reinstalled as Chief Minister on 10 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282259-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sabah state election\nHowever, Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN) (including 6 BN assemblymen who switched allegiance to WARISAN), Democratic Action Party (DAP) and People's Justice Party (PKR), with confidence and supply of United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (UPKO), managed to form a pact of 39 seats in order to form a coalition government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282259-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sabah state election\nGovernor Juhar Mahiruddin installed Mohd. Shafie Apdal as the 15th Chief Minister on 12 May 2018. That marks the end of 24-year rule of BN in Sabah and the change of governing party in Sabah for the fifth time since 1963.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282259-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sabah state election, Election pendulum\nThe 14th General Election witnessed 29 governmental seats (later with addition of 10 members from non-governmental seats (6 from UPKO and 4 from UMNO) that decided to support the creation of new state government) and 31 non-governmental seats (later became 21 seats after 10 of them decided to support new government) filled the Sabah State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 11 safe seat and 4 fairly safe seat, while the non-government side has 2 safe seats and 5 fairly safe seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282259-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sabah state election, Results\nThe following political parties contested in this election. The following is a summary of results of this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282259-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sabah state election, Government formation\nIn the 2018 general election, WARISAN together with the coalition of Pakatan Harapan (PH) are tied up with 29-29 seats with the Barisan Nasional in the election. Jeffrey Kitingan with his party of Homeland Solidarity Party (STAR) under the United Sabah Alliance (USA) which are not aligned from either the two sides, has won two seats in the election and subsequently emerged as the decision maker for the formation of a state government from the two sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282259-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Sabah state election, Government formation\nKitingan then decide to team up with the BN to form coalition state government with him appointed as a Deputy Chief Minister while Musa Aman from BN to become the Chief Minister for another 5 years under the new coalition government. However, the situation changed when six seats assemblymen from the BN allied parties of United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (UPKO) and United Sabah People's Party (PBRS) switched their allegiance to WARISAN, giving Shafie an advantage with 35 seats which is sufficient to establish a coalition state government. Earlier, Musa Aman had initially been sworn in as Chief Minister following the help of two seats from STAR. This situation has left Sabah with two ruling Chief Ministers, the second time in its history since the dispute between PBS and USNO in 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282259-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sabah state election, Government formation\nThe result of these events sparks a constitutional crisis in Sabah, and the need to review and change the current constitution so as to curb the \"allegiance switching\" of assemblymen, after the swearing-in ceremony of the chief minister. Another four seats assemblymen from BN allied parties of UMNO and UPKO switching their allegiance to WARISAN on 13 May 2018. The Yang di-Pertua Negeri (TYT) Juhar Mahiruddin also had requested for Musa to step down, despite Musa still stressing that he still the rightful Chief Minister. Musa was then issued a letter from the TYT that he is no longer the Chief Minister effective from 12 May 2018 that was delivered into his residence on 14 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282260-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sacramento Republic FC season\nThe 2018 Sacramento Republic FC season is the club's fifth season of existence. The club is playing in the United Soccer League, the second tier of the American soccer pyramid. Sacramento Republic FC is competing in the Western Conference of the USL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282261-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sacramento State Hornets football team\nThe 2018 Sacramento State Hornets football team represented California State University, Sacramento in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Jody Sears and played their home games at Hornet Stadium. They were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 2\u20138, 0\u20137 in Big Sky play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282261-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sacramento State Hornets football team\nOn November 26, head coach Jody Sears was fired. He finished at Sacramento State with a five-year record of 20\u201335.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282261-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sacramento State Hornets football team, Previous season\nThe Hornets finished the 2017 season 7\u20134, 6\u20132 in Big Sky play to finish in a three-way tie for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282261-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sacramento State Hornets football team, Preseason, Big Sky Kickoff\nOn July 16, 2018, during the Big Sky Kickoff in Spokane, Washington, the Hornets were predicted to finish in fifth place in the coaches poll and seventh place in the media poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282261-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sacramento State Hornets football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nThe Hornets had three players selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 85], "content_span": [86, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282261-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sacramento State Hornets football team, Schedule\nDespite also being a member of the Big Sky, the game vs. Northern Colorado will be a non-conference game and will have no effect on the Big Sky standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282262-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sacred Heart Pioneers football team\nThe 2018 Sacred Heart Pioneers football team represented Sacred Heart University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Mark Nofri and played their home games at Campus Field. They were a member of the Northeast Conference. They finished the season 7\u20134, 5\u20131 in NEC play to be NEC co-champions with Duquesne. Due to their head-to-head loss to Duquesne, they did not receive the NEC's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs and did not receive and at-large bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282262-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sacred Heart Pioneers football team, Previous season\nThe Pioneers finished the 2017 season 4\u20137, 2\u20134 in NEC play to finish in a tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282262-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sacred Heart Pioneers football team, Preseason, NEC coaches poll\nThe NEC released their preseason coaches poll on July 24, 2018, with the Pioneers predicted to finish in sixth place. They did not place any players on the preseason all-NEC team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282263-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saga gubernatorial election\nA gubernatorial election was held on 16 December 2018 to elect the Governor of Saga Prefecture. Yoshinori Yamaguchi was re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282264-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sagan Tosu season, Squad\nAs of 10 July 2018. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282265-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sailing World Championships\nThe 2018 Hempel Sailing World Championships were held in Aarhus, Denmark, from 30 July to 12 August 2018. It was the fifth edition of the Sailing World Championships. It was the world championships for all disciplines used at the next olympics. Sailors from over 100 nations raced in the waters of the Bay of Aarhus for world championships medals and the possibility to be qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282265-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sailing World Championships\nThe event took place on the Docklands, at the exact spot where the Vikings founded Aarhus. A new world class sailing centre was the venue for 14 days leaving significant impact on Denmark's sailors and on the further urban development in Aarhus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282265-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sailing World Championships, Overview\nThe Sailing World Championships are held every four years, the Worlds is one of the biggest global sailing events in the world. Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018 is the first big qualification for the Olympic games in Tokyo 2020. The World Championships included all 10 Olympic boat classes. Kite surfing was added to the programme for the first time. 1,100 sailboats and 1,500 participants from approximately 100 nations are expected to take part in the events. The event expects to draw 400,000 visitors to Aarhus, and more than 800 volunteers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282265-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sailing World Championships, Bidding process\nThe following cities competed to win the right to host the Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282265-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sailing World Championships, Venue\nSailing was held on Aarhus Bay with the regatta centre at Navitas Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282265-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sailing World Championships, Competition format, Competition schedule\nThe competition started on 2 August and finish on 12 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 74], "content_span": [75, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282266-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sailing World Cup\nThe 2018 Sailing World Cup is a series of regattas staged during the 2017\u201318 season. The series features sailing classes which are currently included on the Summer Olympics programme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282267-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Andrew North Western by-election\nA by-election to the House of Representatives was held for the Saint Andrew North Western constituency on March 5, 2018. The seat was declared vacant after the resignation of Derrick Smith as member of Parliament effective January 15, 2018. The election was won by Nigel Clarke of the Jamaica Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282267-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Andrew North Western by-election, Background\nThe incumbent Derrick Smith was first elected to Parliament from the Saint Andrew North Western constituency during the 1989 general election, representing the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). He lost the seat in the next 1993 general election to Jepthah Ford of the People's National Party (PNP). However, Smith regained the seat in the subsequent 1997 general election, holding it until his retirement from active politics on January 15, 2019. On February 4, 2018, Prime Minister Andrew Holness declared the seat vacant and announced the date of the by-election as March 5, 2018 with Nomination day set for February 12, 2018. The by-election was contested by Nigel Clarke of the JLP and Keisha Hayle of the PNP. Clarke won 60.7% of the vote, compared with the 38.3% garnered by Hayle, with 1% of ballots rejected. Only 24.3% of eligible voters cast their vote, down from 40.9% in the 2016 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 951]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team\nThe 2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team represents the University of Saint Francis, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the 2018 NAIA football season. They are led by head coach Kevin Donley, who serves in his 21st year as the first and only head coach in the history of Saint Francis football. The Cougars play their home games at Bishop John M. D'Arcy Stadium as members of the Mid-States Football Association (MSFA) Mideast League (MEL). The Cougars entered the season as back-to-back, two-time defending national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Robert Morris\nThe #1-ranked Cougars opened their back-to-back title defense with a home game against Robert Morris. The August home opener was the earliest opening date in the 21-year history of Cougar football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Robert Morris\nComing into the game, the Cougars were riding a 23-game win streak. In the end, the Cougars prevailed over RMU by a score of 42\u20139. The game featured a balanced offense that accumulated 208 yards passing and 180 yards rushing. The Cougars scored on 3 runs, 2 passes, and 1 kick-off return of 84 yards to open the second half. Transfer sophomore quarterback Matt Crable started his first game as a Cougar, completing 16 of 23 passes for 189 yards, good for 2 touchdowns and 1 interception. Justin Green ran for 113 yards and tallied 2 of the rushing touchdowns in addition to the kick-off return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Robert Morris\nAfter a bye week, the Cougars resume play on the road in Joliet, Illinois. The Cougars face the MSFA's other USF, the St. Francis Fighting Saints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, St. Francis (IL)\nThe Cougars traveled to Joliet, Illinois in an MSFA crossover game against their namesake opponent from the Midwest League. At the final siren, the Indiana team won by a score of 49-19. It was a strong display on both offense and defense. The Cougars offense rolled up 534 yards of total offense while the defenders held the Fighting Saints to 208 yards. Defense against the rush was strong for each team. Cougar running back Justin Green was held to 51 net yards on 20 carries, an average of 2.6 yards per attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, St. Francis (IL)\nHis longest run of the game was for 9 yards. The Cougars team was limited to 138 yards on 39 attempts, an average of 3.5 yard per carry. But their defense was even stingier, giving up 53 yards on 25 attempts, or 2.1 yard each try. Fighting Saints running back Dwayne Milton was the leading rusher in the game, netting 74 yards on 16 attempts, including a 35 yard run on the first play from scrimmage after the opening kick of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, St. Francis (IL)\nQuarterback Matt Crable passed for 340 yards, finishing the game with 3 touchdown tosses and 0 interceptions. For the second game in a row, backup quarterback Clay Senerius also had a touchdown pass. The touchdown passes were 22 and 45 yards to Rocky James, 56 yards to Dan Ricksy, and 20 yards to Jahni Cooper. The other touchdowns were scored on a 1-yard run by Green, a 26-yard run by Eli Wallace, and a 21-yard pick-6 interception returned by Wilmer Cole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, St. Ambrose\nThe Cougars were effective at moving the ball forward, and they also had their share of moving the ball backward on penalties. The Cougars defeated the visiting St. Ambrose Fighting Bees 60-14. The Cougars collected 313 yards rushing on 42 attempts, or 7.5 yards per carry; they passed for 369 yards, connecting on 24 of 27 pass attempts and no interceptions; and they also had 244 yards on kick returns and an interception. For the second straight game, Wilmer Cole contributed a pick-6 interception return, and Mitchell Thornbury added a safety. Kicker Gavin Gardner opened the scoring with a field goal. On a down note, however, he lost his perfect season of point-after-touchdown kicks by hitting a goalpost, causing the ball to deflect wide in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, St. Ambrose\nThe Cougars' offense was playing the game without their #1 running back Justin Green. Green was sidelined with an ankle injury that is expected to keep him out of play for only one week. Backup rushers took advantage of Green's absence to attain some impressive stats of their own. In a balanced attack, PJ Dean ran for 154 yards and 3 touchdowns, including one run of 76 yards. Eli Wallace added 79 yards and 1 touchdown, and Martell Williams contributed 76 yards and 1 touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, St. Ambrose\nQuarterback Matt Crable added his second straight 300-yard game, throwing for 303 yards passing on 18 completions out of 20 attempts. The throws were good for 2 touchdowns, 1 each to Rocky James and Dan Ricksy. With the completion percentage of .900 (18/20), Crable established a new single-game record for Saint Francis quarterbacks attempting 20 or more passes in a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, St. Ambrose\nThe Cougars' defense had an impressive game, holding the Bees' quarterback to 173 yards passing on 14 completions of 30 attempts. On 37 rushing attempts, the Bees achieved -29 yards. This was due to several tackles for losses, including 7 quarterback sacks totaling 35 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, St. Ambrose\nFor the game, the obvious shortfall for the Cougars was the number of penalties that were flagged. The Cougars received 17 penalties for an amazing 223 yards, including numerous calls for offensive holding and multiple plays that had multiple penalties called.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, St. Ambrose\nThe Cougars are on the road again next Saturday. They return to Chicago to play the always-challenging Saint Xavier Cougars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Saint Xavier\nTwo Saints, two Cougars, but only one could win. One hosting a Homecoming Day, the other a defending national champion. The scene was set for another rival game played without a trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Saint Xavier\nSaint Francis met its match as Saint Xavier's record coming into the game was deceptive. Two losses, one to the current #6 NAIA team, one to a Division I NCAA member. The swift, physical Saint Xavier defense provide many challenges for the USF offense. The SXU defenders recorded 5 sacks of quarterback Matt Crable, and they pressured him into several hurried pass attempts. On the day, Saint Xavier had more total yards, 327 to USF's 313. Saint Xavier won the passing battle 259 yards to 158. Saint Francis countered by winning the rushing contest 155 yards to 68.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Saint Xavier\nEach team's passes were only effective about half the time, with Saint Francis completing 16 of 30 attempts for 1 TD and no interceptions; Saint Xavier completed 23 of 44 attempts for 1 TD and 1 interception. The Saint Xavier TD was a 98-yard bomb that contributed much toward Saint Xavier's win in the offensive stats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Saint Xavier\nRight from the start, the defensive domination was noted. Saint Francis received the ball first after Saint Xavier deferred possession to the second half. The two teams traded several punts, and the first quarter ended in a scoreless tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Saint Xavier\nThe second quarter began with Saint Francis possessing the ball. Several plays, including two passes for 21 and 26 yards, moved the ball to the 1-yard line. PJ Dean rushed the ball for the game's first score. Dean was subbing as the main running back for the second straight game due to the absence of Justin Green with a minor injury. The extra point brought the score to 7-0 in favor of the visitors from Saint Francis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Saint Xavier\nSaint Xavier responded with a scoring drive of their own. But the drive stalled, so they kicked a field goal to trail 7-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Saint Xavier\nWith 2 minutes left in the half, Saint Francis forced and recovered a fumble at their own 45-yard line. In perhaps their most efficient drive of the day, Saint Francis moved down the field and scored with 20 seconds left, a 10-yard pass to Nick Brickens. The extra point gave USF a 14-3 lead at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Saint Xavier\nAfter Saint Xavier punted when their 3rd quarter drive stalled, Saint Francis drove the ball down the field for another score. At 21-3, it looked like a blow-out was beginning. The next time USF got the ball, they punted again, this time a beauty that was downed on the SXU 2-yard line. But Saint Francis was stunned as a SXU receiver got behind a Saint Francis defender and raced down the sideline for a 98-yard TD. The play was the longest play ever completed against the Saint Francis defense. The extra point was missed, and the 3rd quarter ended 21-9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Saint Xavier\nThe 4th quarter had drama of its own. A USF punt was blocked and returned for a Saint Xavier TD. That made the scored 21-16, and SXU was in upset mode. But later in the quarter, USF's Ryan Johnson intercepted a pass and returned it for a TD, the third straight game the defense had accomplished that feat. A failed extra point set the score at 27-16, close enough for a TD and field goal to tie the game. Saint Xavier scored the field goal on their next possession, bringing the score to 27-19 with 2:47 left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Saint Xavier\nAt that point, the USF defense stopped SXU one final time, and the victory was theirs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Saint Xavier\nDuring the game Saint Francis linebacker Piercen Harnish established the new record for tackles made in a career. He surpassed a former NAIA National Player of the Year, 2006 award-winner Brian Kurtz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Marian\nOn paper, it was to be another classic rivalry game between these two respected NAIA football programs. One is the #1 two-time defending NAIA national champion;the other, currently #6, appeared in the championship game for two straight years before that, winning one title. Marian came in with the top-ranked offense in the MSFA Mideast League, while Saint Francis was #2. Marian came in with the #2 defense in the Mideast League, while Saint Francis was #3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Marian\nSadly, the classic game never materialized. Marian dominated in virtually all statistical aspects of the game, in a manner that was more one-sided than the final score suggested. Marian won, 37-28, but they controlled the game from both sides of the line with relative ease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Marian\nThe team statistics were quite telling: Marian pounded out 480 yards of total offense while holding Saint Francis to just 140 yards. Marian passed for 167 yards while yielding just 72 yards to the Cougars. And the rushing was even more lopsided: Marian won the rushing portion of the contest with 313 yards while holding USF to just 68 yards. Perhaps the most telling stat was the time of possession. Marian's offense controlled the ball for 40:12 of the 60 minute game clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Marian\nThe game broke quickly in favor of Saint Francis. Marian won the coin toss and chose to defer possession until the second half. The opening kick was then returned 91 yards; the only thing that prevented a touchdown was a desperation lunge by the kicker that tripped up sophomore runner Matt Kominkiewicz. From the Marian 9-yard line, Saint Francis needed 4 plays to push into the end zone for a quick 7-0 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Marian\nMarian took the following kickoff and marched down the field before their drive stalled. Their possession ended with a field goal attempt that sailed wide of the goalposts. The game then settled into a defensive struggle as the teams traded punts for most of the rest of the first quarter. The next break for Saint Francis when a fumble was recovered by the Cougars at Marian's 17 yard line. It took the Cougars four plays to score early in the second quarter to extend the lead to 14-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Marian\nMarian's offense finally started clicking, and they scored on their next two possessions before the half. Missing one extra point attempt left USF ahead at halftime , 14-13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Marian\nThe second half began with Marian receiving the kick and moving only 6 yards. They punted the ball, and they regained possession of the ball when USF call.ed for a fair catch and then fumbled the catch attempt. It took Marian just three plays to reach the endzone and take a 20-14 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Marian\nThat Marian score was the first time this season that the Cougars had trailed in a game. When the following USF drive died, the Cougars punted the ball. Marian's had a drive going, advancing to their own 31-yard line. But on the next play, the Marian quarterback fumbled the snap, and USF defender Marcus Stepp scooped the ball and returned it for a 31-yard touchdown. This was the fourth consecutive game in which the Saint Francis had contributed to the scoring with a turnover returned for a touchdown. With the extra point kick, Saint Francis regained the lead, 21-20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Marian\nMarian was not impressed. They took the next kickoff and drove 61 yards on only four plays to regain the lead 27-21. After Saint Francis punted once again, Marian consumed over 8 minutes on the clock. They drove 92 yards for another score, extending the lead to 34-21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Marian\nFinally, Saint Francis responded with a meaningful drive of their own. They marched 73 yards in only six plays, scoring a TD in less than three minutes of clock. That score left the Cougars trailing 34-28. But the score was too little, too late; Marian controlled the ball again, this time marching down and kicking a field goal to extend their lead to nine with nine seconds left on the game's clock. USF's fate was sealed. Their winning streak had been ended by the same team who had given them their last previous loss. (In fact, the Cougars' last three losses, dating back to 2015, have all come at the hands of the Marian Knights.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Marian\nThe Cougars won 27 consecutive games during the run. Fans can find hope knowing that the Cougars rebounded from that last loss in 2016 to go on and claim their first national championship. The game revealed several things that can be worked on between now and a possible rematch when the yearly play-off season comes. Once again, Saint Francis played the game without their primary running back, Justin Green, playing at full strength. Green suited for the game, but his action was limited to 7 carries for 31 yards. After his last action, Green limped off the field. This was the fourth consecutive game that Green has either missed or seen limited playing action. Defensive pressure kept forcing quarterback Matt Crable to rush out of the pocket, hurry his throws or take sacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Marian\nThe Franciscan Bowl trophy was awarded to Marian as winner of this rival game. Marian now leads the trophy series, 2-1, while the entire Marian-Saint Francis rivalry is now tied with seven wins each. The game was played in front of a standing-room only crowd of 4,579.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Concordia\nThe anticipated rebound from last week's defeat never materialized. Once again, the Cougars experienced an upset loss, this time at the hands of the Concordia Cardinals. It was a defensive struggle. Our defense made only one mistake, but our offense was non-existent. After playing a scoreless first half, the Cougars kicked a field goal in the third quarter to take a lead, 3-0. The kick was Gavin Gardner's second attempt on the day, having missed a long field goal attempt to end the first half. But Concordia trumped our score with a touchdown in the fourth quarter. That was all the scoring; after 60 minutes of play, Concordia walked off the field with a 7-3 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Concordia\nThe loss hurt on many levels. It was the first time Saint Francis had lost two consecutive games since October 11, 2014. It was the first time the team lost to someone other than the Marian Knights since that same date, in a year when the Cougars lost three games in a row on their way to a 6-5 regular season with no subsequent playoff participation. That was the last time USF had lost two or more conference games. It was the first time that the Cougars had ever lost a game to Concordia. And perhaps most painful, the three-point production was the lowest score ever generated by any regular season team in the history of Saint Francis football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Concordia\nBoth defenses excelled at pressuring the offense and getting off the field. USF won the total offense battle, 231 yards to 174. The Cougars outgained Concordia through the air, 229 yards to just 63 yards by the home team. But the rushing offense was dominated by Concordia as the Cardinals tallied 111 yards to just 2 net yards by the Cougars. The Cougar effort was devastated by a whopping 10 quarterback sacks for a total of 62 yards. The leading Cougar rusher, PJ Dean, ran for 68 yards. But that effort was overshadowed by Concordia's Joe Conner, who gained 95 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Concordia\nEach offense was limited to just one big play. USF's passing yards included one play for 57 yards, a fourth quarter trick play executed to try to get the offense moving. On the play, quarterback Matt Crable completed a short toss to Rocky James, who almost immediately turned hook-and-ladder style and lateraled the ball to Dan Ricksy. Ricksy sped down the right sideline for what looked to become a touchdown. Then, as a Concordia defender pushed Ricksy out of bounds, Dan turned and lateraled the ball back to an oncoming Will Chrisman. Chrisman advanced the ball several yards more, but the official ruled that Ricksy was out of bounds before he completed the toss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Concordia\nConcordia's one big play was even more dramatic. On a fourth-and-2 play, running back took the ball to the left. He crossed the line of scrimmage near the left sideline before abruptly working his way across the field. After 31 yards, Conner had scored a touchdown, entering the end zone near the right sideline. The score gave Concordia the lead and the eventual win in the ballgame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Concordia\nInjuries continued to impact the Cougars. Once again, running back Justin Green sat out the entire game. And defensive All-American Piercen Harnish was seen on the field for only one play when he lined up as protection on a punt. He sustained a noticeable injury in last week's loss to Marian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Concordia\nWith the second conference loss, Saint Francis now finds itself in the anxious position of needing some help to make the postseason to try to defend their back-to-back national titles. A third loss will almost certainly move them out of any hope to play in the postseason. The two losses means they will likely not be their conference champion, and that means the Cougars will need to finish high enough in the rankings to receive an at-large invitation to play in the playoffs. (Every conference champion who finishes ranked in the top 20 in the final regular season poll will receive an automatic berth in the playoff field; there are 12 conferences, so it is possible that only four at-large invitations will be available.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Concordia\nSimply stated, the Cougar offense needs to get better production. From sputtering in recent games to nonexistent in the most recent contest, the Cougars have struggled on a significant number of recent offensive drives. In the Concordia game, quarterback Matt Crable attempted 34 passes for 229 yards and one interception. He ran the ball 12 times for a loss of 66 yards and one lost fumble. That's 46 plays for 163 yards net, or about 3.5 yards per play. The Cougars only ran 67 plays during the game. Whether the low output is attributed to poor blocking by the offensive line or poor execution on the part of the quarterback, or some combination of the two, things simply must get better.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Concordia\nThe Cougars' next test will be their next game. Undefeated and top-25-ranked Siena Heights will visit Fort Wayne for another conference match. The Siena Heights defense is another highly regarded group, and they will bring a challenge that will be comparable to the one faced in the two recent contests against Marian and Concordia. To get another shot at being the best, the Cougars will need to beat the best.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Siena Heights\nIt was an exciting Homecoming game, and those who stayed until the end were treated to one of the best comebacks in the history of Saint Francis Cougar football. With 1:17 left on the game clock, Siena Heights was leading by a score of 12-11. They scored another touchdown and extra point to extend the lead to 19-11. Many fans began filing out of Saint Francis stands, certain that their team would fall in their third consecutive loss to a conference and nationally ranked team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Siena Heights\nBut USF snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat. They took the following kickoff and brought it to their own 34-yard line. So, with 1:12 left in the game, the Cougars needed to travel 66 yards for a chance to tie the score. After 2 incomplete passes and a quarterback sack of 7 yards, USF faced a fourth-down play that became a pivotal moment in the contest. Quarterback Matt Crable completed a 27-yard sideline pass to the Saints' 41-yard line, and Siena Heights regrouped by calling a timeout with 42 seconds left. On the next two plays, Crable dropped back to pass but chose instead to run the ball through two large holes that presented themselves. The two plays were good for 14- and 15-yards, advancing the ball to the Saints' 12-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Siena Heights\nCrable spiked the ball to stop the clock on the next play. The following play saw a Siena Heights personal foul advance the ball half the distance to the goal and resulted in another Cougars' first down. Crable ran a keeper play for 3 yards, and another Siena Heights penalty gave the Cougars another first down. The drive was completed when Crable handed the ball to running back PJ Dean. But instead of running into the end zone, Dean pulled up short of the line of scrimmage and completed a touchdown toss to a waiting Dylan Hunley. With 11 seconds left on the clock, the Cougars were within 2 points with the all-important 2-point conversion yet to be tried.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Siena Heights\nThe Cougars executed another trick play to score the needed 2 points. The play first started to the left, but Crable flipped the ball to a reversing wide receiver, Dan Ricksy. Once again, Ricksy pulled up short of the line of scrimmage, jumped into the air, and completed the conversion pass to Will Chrisman. The Cougars had tied the score, 19-19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Siena Heights\nOvertime followed, and Siena Heights won the coin toss to take possession of the ball first. Three plays advanced the ball 10 yards for a first down at the USF 15. Another run moved the ball a yard to the USF 14. The Saints were in position for a field goal attempt, but they continued to try for a touchdown. After one incomplete pass, the next pass attempt was intercepted by the Cougars' Blake Schumaker. The ball was returned 14 yards, and the ball control was given to USF at the same 25-yard line where Siena Heights had just begun their drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Siena Heights\nPJ Dean rushed the ball 1 yard, followed by Crable rushing the ball for 5 yards. Another Dean rush was good for 8 yards, giving the Cougars first down at the Saints' 11-yard line. Dean then rushed the ball for 4 yards. On second down, Dean took the ball again and made sure he was tackled in the middle of the field in a play designed for field goal placement. On third down, Gavin Gardner kicked a 26-yard field goal, and the comeback was complete. The Cougars won, 22-19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Siena Heights\nThe Cougars actually got into position to tie (and then win) the game with another odd 2-point conversion. With the Cougars leading 9-6 in a game where the only scoring was 5 field goals, Siena Heights scored the first touchdown of the contest early in the fourth quarter to take a 12-9 lead. But the Cougars' Marcus Stepp blocked the following extra point kick, and the live ball was scooped up by Wilmer Cole and returned the length of the field in a touchdown-like fashion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0048-0001", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Siena Heights\nThe Cougars were awarded the two points that are normally given for a rushing conversion attempt. That made the score 12-11 in favor of the Saints; their touchdown had only resulted in a four-point swing in the score difference. That \"win\" for the Cougars would prove to be vital to put them into position to win as the game's final moments unfolded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Siena Heights\nKicker Gavin Gardner's four field goals in one contest set a new record for most USF field goals in one game. In other game trivia, early in the fourth quarter, USF defender Stan Jackson was thrown out of the game after the officials claimed he targeted one of the Siena Heights' receivers. That kind of infraction is normally followed by a suspension from the following game. But Coach Kevin Donley submitted a protest of the call to the governing body, and they overturned the on-the-field call. Jackson was suited up and able to play in the following week's game against Missouri Baptist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Missouri Baptist\nThe schedule finally eased a bit as the Cougars faced a non-ranked opponent. In their final home game of the season, the Cougars offense came alive. The final result was a Senior Day victory by a score of 51-7. The Cougars controlled all aspects of the contest, outgaining the Spartans in total yards, 438-166. The Spartan's rushing game, which featured one of the Mid-States' conference-best in Chris Baldwin, was held to 49 net yards on 34 attempts. Baldwin was held to 48 yards net, his lowest production of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Missouri Baptist\nIn contrast, the Cougars gained 237 net rushing yards on 39 attempts. The load was spread equally among three players. Matt Crable and Martell Williams each netted 74 yards rushing, and PJ Dean added 73 yards of his own. Passing yardage was won by USF, 201-117. Matt Crable completed 17 of 24 attempts for 180 yards and 3 touchdowns and no interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Missouri Baptist\nThe Cougars led 24-0 at half-time, and the lead was extended to 37-0 before Missouri Baptist got on the scoreboard. The Cougars completed the scoring with 14 fourth-quarter points. The game was decided early. Saint Francis nearly ran back the opening kick-off for a touchdown, with Cougar Stan Jackson - who was not expected to play this game because of his previous-game targeting violation - being driven out of bounds at the 2-yard line. A penalty brought the ball back to midfield, but a few plays later the Cougars contributed their first score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Missouri Baptist\nAfter last week when Jackson was tossed out of that game, Cougar coach Kevin Donley appealed the suspension to the governing body. The body agreed with Donley; the call was overturned, and Jackson was allowed to suit up this week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Missouri Baptist\nIn the third quarter, Dan Ricksy succeeded in returning a kick for a touchdown. He returned a punt 50 yards for his contribution to the game's final score. Gavin Gardner added a field goal and the back-up kicker, senior Brandon Grasha, added 3 of the extra point kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nThe fans who made the trip to the St. Louis area to Belleville, Illinois were treated to a game that had many things you are lucky to see once in a lifetime. Yet this one game included them all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nThe game pace was set quickly as Lindenwood won the coin toss and elected to defer possession until the second half. The Cougars received the opening kickoff and returned it 2 yards to their own 17-yard line. A 5-yard penalty against the Lynx gave the Cougars a chance for a re-kick, which they accepted. This time, a poorer kick and a better return advanced the ball to the Cougars' 45-yard line; the election to re-kick had given the Cougars 28 yards of forward progress. On the first play from scrimmage, PJ Dean rushed for 30 yards to the Lynx 25-yard line. Five plays later, the Cougars were in the end zone with a three-yard touchdown pass. They added the extra point for a 7-0 advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nThe kickoff was returned by the Lynx to their own 23-yard line. The Lynx quarterback attempted a pass on their first play, and the ball was intercepted and returned 30 yards for a touchdown by Wilmer Cole. With still more than 12 minutes left in the opening quarter, the Cougars held a 14-0 lead. The interception by Cole was his third pick-6 touchdown return of the season, setting a new USF team record for most interceptions returned for a touchdown in a single season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nThe Saint Francis defense held on the next possession, and the ball returned to the Cougars after an unsuccessful attempt on 4th down to the Lynx 48-yard line. After a 5-yard penalty, the Cougars executed three consecutive plays of 15 yards or more, moving the ball to the Lynx 5-yard line. The drive was completed with a 4-yard TD pass to Will Chrisman. That completed the 21 points scored in the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nOnce again, the USF defense held on the next Lynx drive, and a punt gave USF possession again at their own 12-yard line. After a couple of plays, quarterback Matt Crable was replaced by backup Clay Senerius. Senerius and the offense advanced the ball to the Lynx 6-yard line. A key play in the drive was a 27-yard pass completion to Jordan Schmeling. But the drive stalled there, and Gavin Gardner kicked a 34-yard field goal early in the second quarter for a 24-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nThe ball returned to the Lindenwood offense. After an unsuccessful 3-and-out sequence, the Lynx lined up to punt. But the kick was blocked by Eric Dunten, and USF defender Malachi Manion recovered the ball and ran it back 20 yards for another touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nYet again, the USF defense forced a punt after a brief bit of Lindenwood success on offense. Their punt was returned to the USF 10-yard line, and a 5-yard penalty moved it back to force the Cougars to begin from their own 5-yard line. Crable returned as the quarterback, and he led a 95-yard drive for yet another touchdown. The drive featured a 58-yard pass completion to Rocky James. The final play was a 35-yard touchdown rush by Crable. The added extra point made the score USF 38, Lindenwood 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nAnother Lindenwood drive stalled. The Lynx punter booted the ball to the USF 24-yard line, where it was collected by Dan Ricksy. Ricksy returned the ball the entire 76 yards to the goal line for another Cougar touchdown, his second touchdown return in as many games. For his effort, Ricksy was named Mid-States Football Conference special teams Player-of-the-Week for the second successive week. There was still 5:22 left in the second quarter as USF extended their lead to 45-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nAfter the extra point kick, tempers flared. A Lindenwood player followed the USF team back to the USF side of the field, voicing his disturbance about something. He was soon joined by 2 other Lynx players who left their bench on the other side of the field to race across and join the display of emotion. Both benches soon gathered around, and the game was delayed for a few moments while the officials sorted the players and returned order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nAfter the altercation, Lindenwood was penalized an unprecedented three successive times of 15 yards each, an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty awarded against the original three Lynx players. Instead of being kicked from the Cougars own 25-yard line, the ball was moved 45 yards forward to the Lynx 30-yard line. The Cougars were in field goal position! They had no other alternative to kicking an on-side squib, which the Cougars successfully recovered. Once again, the Cougars had the ball. But mercy stepped in, and the Cougars were limited to a field goal after a three-and-out possession. The score advanced the USF lead to 48-0, and we were still in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nThe Lynx received the following kickoff, and a touchback gave them possession at their own 35-yard line. By now, most of the USF defenders had exited the game, and substitutes were on the field. Before the half ended, Lindenwood was finally able to put together a successful drive of their own. They moved the ball 65 yards for a touchdown, a drive that featured a 44-yard pass completion. With the extra point kick, the score became USF 48, Lindenwood 7. Shortly after, the first half ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nThe second half was (mostly) controlled by Lindenwood. Lindenwood actually scored more points, 18-16. Operating against USF substitutes, the Lindenwood offense scored three touchdowns. Oddly, each of the scores resulted in only six points as each extra-point effort was stopped. Dunten blocked another kick, a two-point try failed, and another kick was blocked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nBlocked kicks were a highlight of the day: in addition to the three already mentioned, USF blocked another punt. This time, the kicker was in the end zone, and the ball went out of bounds before anyone could recover it. That resulted in a safety and two more points for the Cougars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nWith no USF scoring in the third quarter, their first-team offense was returned to the game in the fourth quarter. After the safety, they scored on a 65-yard drive that ended with a 22-yard touchdown pass from Crable to Dan Ricksy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nThe final scoring of the day came after Lindenwood's last touchdown. USF recovered an on-side kick at the 50-yard line. From here, third-team quarterback Danny Naylor led a 50-yard drive that ended with a 16-yard rushing touchdown by Tony Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nThe full day came to an end when the Lynx quarterback was tackled for a loss. With several seconds left on the clock, he remained down. He did not get up until time had fully expired. In light of the heated emotions that had been displayed earlier in the game, the two sides did not exchange mid-field handshakes when play concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Lindenwood-Belleville\nThe win was a milestone victory for coach Kevin Donley. It moved Donley into a 7th place tie with legendary coach Bear Bryant on the all-time wins list for college football. With his next victory, Donley will become the sole holder of the 7th-place position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nThe pre-playoff playoff season continued with a road game regular season finale in Upland, Indiana. A Taylor win would likely have brought a repeat of the 2009 season. That year, a final game road loss at Taylor ended the Cougar hopes for the playoffs as the Trojans handed USF their 3rd loss of the season. On the other hand a Saint Francis victory would be appreciated for a couple of reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nFirst, a win would be the 324th of Kevin Donley's collegiate coaching career, a number that would give him sole possession of 7th place on the all-time list of college wins. Donley entered the game in a tie with Bear Bryant, the legend best known for his coaching days at the University of Alabama. But perhaps more importantly, a win would give the Cougars a likely first-round home game in the playoffs. The Cougars entered the game ranked #9 in the latest 2018 NAIA football rankings. The top 8 teams in the final regular season poll host the first-round games. A win this week would likely move the Cougars up at least one position in the rankings because this week also featured a game with the current #8 team visiting the current #5 team. The loser of that game would likely slip below Saint Francis in the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 886]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nSaint Francis won the coin toss, and they elected to defer possession until the second half. They kicked off to Taylor, and their defense forced a punt on that first possession. A fair catch gave the ball to USF at their own 39-yard line. It took the Cougars seven plays to move the 61 yards for a touchdown, scored on a 4-yard rush by quarterback Matt Crable. The drive featured a 19-yard pass to Dylan Hunley and a 22-yard rush by PJ Dean. The extra point snap was muffed, resulting in no extra point kick. The Cougars had to settle for a lead of 6-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nOn the next Taylor possession, the Cougar defense held again, and the Trojans punted again. The punt was returned, and the Cougars possession once again began at their own 39-yard line. And once again, the Cougars marched 61 yards for a touchdown. The scoring play was a 6-yard jet sweep by Jordan Schmeling. The drive also included pass completions of 15 yards and 26 yards to, respectively, Kyle May and Dylan Hunley. This time the kick was good, extending the lead to 13-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nAnother Taylor punt came after their offense was held to a three-and-out performance. This time, Saint Francis took possession at their own 43-yard line, 4 yards better than their first two drives. That was the only difference. The first quarter ended, and play moved to the second period. Then this possession ended with another Cougar touchdown to complete the 57-yard drive. Dan Ricksy scored the touchdown on a 7-yard pass. Another good kick made the score 20-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nThe teams then traded possessions. Taylor turned over the ball on an interception by Blake Schumaker, and Saint Francis lost the ball on a fourth-down sack of their quarterback. Taylor capitalized on the play by driving for a score with 19 seconds left in the half. That made the score USF 20, Taylor 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nA Stan Jackson return of the following kick gave Saint Francis great field position. Their drive started at the Taylor 39-yard line with 13 seconds left in the half. A 14-yard pass moved the ball to the Taylor 25-yard line with just 1 second on the clock. USF's Gavin Gardner used that last tick to kick a 42-yard field goal. The halftime score was USF 23, Taylor 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nThe highlight of the third quarter was a 46-yard field goal by Gardner. It was thought to be the longest field goal in Saint Francis history, moving the margin to 26-7. But that margin didn't last long. Taylor returned the following kick 41 yards, giving them possession at their 42-yard line. A pair of 12 yard rushes and a 28-yard touchdown pass made the score 26-13. The score stayed that way when Cougar linebacker Eric Dunten blocked the extra point try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nThe final score was a win of 40-20. USF scored twice in the 4th quarter on a 43-yard rush by Matt Crable and a 14-yard pass completion from Crable to Will Chrisman. Taylor also drove the ball one more score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nFor the day, Crable had a nice effort of passing, completing 21 of 31 for 265 yards, 2 touchdowns and no interceptions. Crable also led the Cougar rushers, gaining 96 yards and scoring another 2 touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Taylor\nWith their final regular season game, the Cougars have a bye week next week before they learn the details of their playoff seeding. The first playoff game will be in two weeks, on November 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Grand View\nSaint Francis began their quest for a third consecutive championship with a home game against the Grand View Vikings. The Cougars looked strong on both offense and defense as they prevailed, 34-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Grand View\nGrand View came into the game as the #1-ranked rushing defense in the NAIA, and Saint Francis was ranked #3. At the end of the game, Saint Francis had outrushed Grand View, 272 yards to 65 yards. USF had two different runners who outproduced the entire Grand View team. PJ Dean ran for 102 yards on 12 attempts, and Justin Green ran for 97 yards on 19 attempts. Not far behind was Matt Crable, who added 51 yards to the total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Grand View\nTotal yards passing was also won by the Cougars, 166-73. Crable was 13-of-20 passing for 3 touchdowns and no interceptions. More than half of Crable's passes were caught by Rocky James. James' seven receptions were good for 93 yards and 2 touchdowns. For his effort, James was named the game's Most Outstanding Offensive Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Grand View\nThe Outstanding Defensive Player was James Jamicich. On this day, his 5 tackles included 2.5 sacks and 3.5 tackles for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Grand View\nThe Cougars defense would have had a shutout were it not for one extra play at the end of the first half. On the last play before time expired, the Cougars intercepted a desperation pass in their endzone. But a 15-yard penalty on the play advanced the ball, and Grand View was giveIn one last untimed down. The penalty moved the ball into field goal range, and the Grand View kicker split the goalposts to put the Vikings' only 3 points on the scoreboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Grand View\nIn the category of trivia, Grand View played the entire game without one penalty being called on their team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Grand View\nAn odd set of circumstances combined to give the Cougars another home game in the quarterfinal round. Exactly four teams were upset in the first round of play, meaning four of the eight remaining teams have seedings that are higher than USF. As one of the top four teams remaining, the Cougars will play at least one more game in 2018 at Bishop D'Arcy Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Baker\nThe game featured a rematch between the two opponents from the 2016 national championship game. It was an evenly-matched game, with Baker edging out Saint Francis in most offensive categories. Baker rushed for 137 yards, and USF rushed for 132 yards. Baker running back JD Woods, the NAIA's leading rusher coming into the game, was held to 73 yards net, about 50 yards below his per game average. Baker passed for 200 yards, and Saint Francis threw for 186 yards. But the score sided with Saint Francis, by a final margin of 33-23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Baker\nBaker opened the scoring with the only score of the first quarter. The two teams ended the first three possessions with punts, giving Saint Francis their second possession of the day. After a couple first downs, the Cougars' drive stalled. On fourth down, they lined up for another punt. But the ball was snapped over the punter's head, and he recovered it for a 33-yard loss that gave Baker the ball at the USF 30-yard line. Two plays produced a 5-yard loss to the 35-yard line. But the next play was a flare-out to JD Woods, who was also a skilled pass receiver. He sped 35 yards to the end zone. After the extra point kick was good, Baker led 7-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Baker\nThe Saint Francis offense responded on the next drive with a score of their own. They drove 66 yards to the end zone; the drive was capped by a 3-yard rushing touchdown by PJ Dean. The kick after the score was good, and the game was tied 7-7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Baker\nIt took the Cougars only 38 more seconds to take the lead. Baker started its next possession, and the first play produced an interception to Jalen Moss. He was dropped immediately at the Baker 30-yard line. The very next play produced the score for the Cougars on a 30-yard pass completion to Dan Ricksy. After a successful kick, USF led 14-7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Baker\nThe Cougars kicked-off with a short, high pooch kick that was intended to catch Baker by surprise. But Baker recovered the 20-yard kick, which actually resulted in a 5-yard loss. They had a nice starting position at their own 40-yard line. Baker drove the ball for an apparent game-tying touchdown. But the extra point was missed, so Saint Francis maintained the lead, 14-13. USF scored on the following possession. But they also missed a kick, and the score at halftime was USF 20, Baker 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Baker\nAfter the two teams traded a couple of possessions in the second half, Saint Francis put together a 72-yard scoring drive, aided largely by a 42-yard pass completion to Dylan Hunley. A 16-yard touchdown pass to Dan Ricksy completed the drive. But once again, the Cougars had after-touchdown woes. The extra point attempt failed once again, leaving USF with a 26-13 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Baker\nOn their next drive, Baker moved the ball into position to kick a 46-yard field goal, closing the score the 26-16. Saint Francis drove the ball on their next possession, but the drive ended early in the fourth quarter with a goal-line interception by a Baker defender. The ball was returned to the Baker 15-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Baker\nThe Cougar defense held, and a punt returned possession to USF. But on the first play of that possession, PJ Dean fumbled the ball, and it was recovered by Baker at the USF 34-yard line. Baker advanced to the Cougar 22-line. But the next play produced the defensive play-of-the-game for the Cougars. A hand-off was mishandled, and the ball was fumbled backward for a 3-yard loss. At that point, Cougars defensive end Mitchell Thornbury scooped up the ball. He raced 75-yards down the sideline, outmaneuvering two Baker players who tried to force a fumble of their own. Thornbury maintained control of the ball, and he landed in the end zone with a score on the turnover. A successful kick extended the Cougar lead to 33-16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Baker\nBaker scored one last time, with 5:15 left on the game clock. That was the final score in the game. Saint Francis punted, and Baker turned the ball over on downs before USF ran out the clock with a couple of plays from the victory formation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nThe location changed, but the semifinal match was a replay of last year's game between Morningside and USF. This season, Morningside brought an undefeated record to the contest. When the Cougars lost the #1 ranking earlier in the year, it was Morningside who stepped in to claim the top spot, and they maintained that spot throughout the rest of the season. Morningside featured the top-scoring offense in the entire NAIA, as well as the #1 defense for points and yards allowed. This game was the third straight time the two teams met in the postseason tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nThe game was played in blizzard-like conditions, with strong-and-steady winds literally blowing the falling snow sideways. Significant amounts of snow had to be removed from the field before, during, and after the contest, and temperatures hovered around the mid-30s all afternoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nThe opening coin toss was won by Saint Francis, and they elected to defer possession of the ball. USF chose to kick into the strong wind so they would benefit from its presence in the second quarter. That may have been the turning point of the game as Morningside scored twice after only three offensive plays. The opening kick was returned to the 50-yard line. On the first play from scrimmage, Morningside quarterback Trent Solsma completed a touchdown pass to wide receiver Connor Niles. After only 14 seconds had elapsed, Morningside led 7-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0102-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nMorningside kicked off, and USF failed to move the ball for a first down. A three-and-out punt returned possession to Morningside at their 48-yard line. A Morningside run went for 22 yards, moving the ball to the USF 30-yard line. On the next play, Solsma lofted another touchdown pass. With 12:15 left in the first quarter, Morningside extended its lead to 14-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0103-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nA touchback gave USF the ball at their own 25-yard line. A 31-yard pass completion to Dylan Hunley moved the ball into Morningside territory. But the drive netted 4 yards on the next 3 plays, and USF punted again, this time giving Morningside a start from their own 12-yard line. The USF defense was effective on that possession, and a 3-and-out punt returned the ball to the Cougars at the Morningside 48-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0104-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nSaint Francis used the good field position to ignite their first score of the day. Two plays and a 32-yard pass to Dylan Hunley game USF a first down at the Morningside 15-yard line. It took two more plays to score, a 13-yard pass from Crable to PJ Dean. The extra point made the score 14-7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0105-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nMorningside was unfazed. Their offense posted a 59-yard touchdown drive on the next possession to return the 2-score lead, 21-7. With all this scoring, there was still 5:04 left in the first quarter. Morningside kicked off, and USF once again failed to move the ball. They punted the ball back to the Mustangs, and Morningside took over at their own 41-yard line. They moved the ball downfield, gaining two first downs before the USF defense stopped them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0105-0001", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nOn the last play of the drive, Solsma was stunned by a Cougar defender on a pass that was broken up for a downfield incompletion. Morningside took a timeout and considered inserting their backup quarterback into the game. But in the end, they opted to attempt a 41-yard field goal. But USF's defense blocked the kick, and the score remained 21-7 as the first quarter clock expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0106-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nThe block motivated the Cougar offense. Three rushing plays advanced the ball to midfield, exactly on the 50-yard line. A 25-yard run by PJ Dean advanced to Morningside's 25-yard line. A 5-yard run and a 5-yard pass gave the Cougars another first down at the 15-yard line. And the drive was concluded with a 15-yard touchdown pass from Crable to Will Chrisman. With the extra point, Saint Francis trailed by 7 points, 21-14 with 11:08 left in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0107-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nAt this point, the game reached a stalemate. Morningside consumed over 7 minutes in a 17-play drive before eventually turning the ball over on downs. Saint Francis then lost the ball on a fumble; Morningside lost the ball on an interception; and Saint Francis had another punt blocked to give Morningside the ball at the USF 26-yard line. Two pass completions later, Morningside was in the end zone again. With 3 seconds left on the first half clock, Morningside's score extended the lead back to 14 points, 28-14. That is how the half ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0108-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nSaint Francis got back into the ballgame by holding Morningside scoreless in the second half. They scored a touchdown in each of the third and fourth quarters to tie the game and send it to overtime. In the third quarter, Piercen Harnish intercepted a Solsma pass at the goal line to prevent another Morningside score. He returned the ball to the USF 20-yard line. It took Saint Francis only 4 plays to move the 80 yards for a touchdown. Featured in the drive was a 35-yard pass completion from Crable to Rocky James. The score was made on a 29-yard pass completion from Crable to Dylan Hunley. Adding the extra point brought USF back to within 7 points, now trailing 28-21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0109-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nAfter the next kickoff, Morningside advanced the ball to the USF 5-yard line and was threatening another score. But the USF defense stepped up. Pass incompletions and a penalty moved the ball back to the 10-yard. Then the drive was halted as USF forced a fumble that Morningside recovered for a 17-yard loss. As a result of the failed 4th down play, the ball was given to USF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0110-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nWith 6:25 left in the fourth quarter, Saint Francis began the drive that tied the score. Morningside punted the ball from deep inside their own territory, and Saint Francis began possession at the Morningside 44-yard line. A running play lost 3 yards. But then two consecutive pass completions to Rocky James moved the ball 46 yards to the 1-yard line. PJ Dean completed the drive with a rushing play. The all-important extra point was good once again, and the score was tied, 28-28. The teams traded punts, and USF then held Morningside scoreless the last 98 seconds to send the game to overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282268-0111-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries, Morningside\nMorningside won the coin toss and elected to defer their possession. In overtime, each team gets one chance to start from 25 yards away from the goal line. Saint Francis began with a running play and 2 pass incompletions that moved the ball 1 yard. They opted to try a 42-yard field goal from the 24-yard line. But the kick was wide to the right, and no score was posted. On Morningside's first play from scrimmage (does this sound familiar? ), a 25-yard pass from Solsma to Connor Niles was grabbed for the winning score. No extra point was needed, so Morningside claimed a 34-28 OT win and made plans to play for the national championship in two weeks. (Morningside won that game, 35-28, to claim their first national championship with an undefeated, 15-0 record.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282269-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Red Flash football team\nThe 2018 Saint Francis Red Flash football team represented Saint Francis University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by ninth-year head coach Chris Villarrial and played their home games at DeGol Field. They were a member of the Northeast Conference. They finished the season 4\u20137, 2\u20134 in NEC play to finish in a tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282269-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Red Flash football team, Previous season\nThe Red Flash finished the 2017 season 5\u20136, 3\u20133 in NEC play to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282269-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Red Flash football team, Preseason, NEC coaches poll\nThe NEC released their preseason coaches poll on July 24, 2018, with the Red Flash predicted to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 71], "content_span": [72, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282269-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Francis Red Flash football team, Preseason, Preseason All-NEC team\nThe Red Flash placed five players on the preseason all-NEC team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 77], "content_span": [78, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282270-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint John's Johnnies football team\nThe 2018 Saint John's Johnnies football team represented Saint John's University in the 2018 NCAA Division III football season. The Johnnies, led by sixth-year head coach Gary Fasching, were members of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) and played their home games at Clemens Stadium in Collegeville, Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282270-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint John's Johnnies football team, Schedule\nSaint John's 2018 schedule consists of 6 home and 4 away games in the regular season. The Johnnies hosted UW-Stout, Carleton, St. Thomas, St. Olaf, Hamline, and Thomas More. Away games were at Gustavus Adolphus, Augsburg, Bethel, and Concordia-Moorhead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282270-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint John's Johnnies football team, Schedule\nThe Johnnies hosted their first two playoff games, against Martin Luther and Whitworth. For the playoff quarterfinals, the Johnnies travelled to Belton, Texas to face Mary Hardin\u2013Baylor, where their season ended with a 21\u201318 loss to the Crusaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282271-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Louis FC season\nThe 2018 Saint Louis FC season is the club's fourth season of existence, and their fourth consecutive season in the United Soccer League, the second tier of American soccer. Saint Louis will additionally compete in the U.S. Open Cup. The season covers the period from October 16, 2017 to the beginning of the 2019 USL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282271-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Louis FC season\nSaint Louis moved back to the Western Conference this season, after spending 2017 in the Eastern Conference. The team will also have a new head coach this season, with Anthony Pulis coming over from Orlando City B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282271-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Louis FC season, Competitions, Preseason\nSaint Louis revealed their preseason schedule on January 18. They announced six games over a span of about a month, with three coming against collegiate programs, two against an adult amateur club, and one against a fellow professional team. Saint Louis opened preseason with two games in Florida, followed by three games back in Missouri and the finale in Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282271-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Louis FC season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nIn August 2017, the USL announced that the 2018 season will span 34 games, the longest regular season the league has ever run. The expansion was spurred by the addition of six new clubs for the 2018 season: Atlanta United 2, Fresno FC, Indy Eleven, Las Vegas Lights, Nashville SC, and North Carolina FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282271-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Louis FC season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nOn January 14, 2018, the league announced home openers for every club. Saint Louis opened the season on the road against Rio Grande Valley FC Toros, opening the 2018 USL season from Edinburg. The club had to wait until March 31 to open up Toyota Stadium, hosting Colorado Springs Switchbacks in their home opener.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282271-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Saint Louis FC season, Competitions, USL, Match results\nThe schedule for the remainder of the 2018 season was released on January 19. Saint Louis will play three times against Swope Park Rangers and Tulsa Roughnecks. They will face every other Western Conference team twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282272-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sakhir Formula 2 round\nThe 2018 Bahrain FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races for Formula 2 cars that took place on 7 and 8 April 2018 at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the first round of the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship and ran in support of the 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282272-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sakhir Formula 2 round\nThe round saw the competitive d\u00e9but of the new Dallara F2 2018 chassis and its turbocharged Mecachrome engine. The F2 2018 was introduced as a replacement for the aging Dallara GP2/11 chassis and its naturally-aspirated engine, which had been used by the championship and its predecessor, the GP2 Series since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282272-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sakhir Formula 2 round, Report, Background\nThe race saw the introduction of a brand new chassis to replace the Dallara GP2/11 which had been used since 2011 when the series was known as the GP2 Series. The new car, the Dallara F2 2018, features substantial technical revisions to its design, making it similar to the current Formula One cars. It features the \"halo\" cockpit protection device for driver head protection and is also powered by a brand new engine, a 3.4 litre (207 cu in) single-turbocharged V6 engine developed by Mecachrome. This was brought in as a replacement for the 4.0 litre (244 cu in) naturally aspirated V8 engine which was used since the GP2 Series began back in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282272-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sakhir Formula 2 round, Report, Background\nDriver changes for this season saw reigning champion Charles Leclerc join Formula One with the Alfa Romeo Sauber team, replacing Pascal Wehrlein. His teammate from Prema Racing last year, Antonio Fuoco, joined the new Charouz Racing System team, joining Louis Del\u00e9traz, who joined the team after racing with Racing Engineering and Rapax in 2017. Reigning teams' champions Russian Time signed Japanese driver Tadasuke Makino to partner Artem Markelov. Luca Ghiotto, who raced for Russian Time in 2017, joined Campos Racing. DAMS signed Alexander Albon to replace Oliver Rowland, Prema Racing brought in Sean Gelael and Nyck de Vries, and MP Motorsport signed Roberto Merhi and Ralph Boschung, who were also teammates at Campos at the Catalunya round in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282272-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sakhir Formula 2 round, Report, Background\nOther d\u00e9butants this season were Roy Nissany, son of Chanoch Nissany, who joined Campos, Maximilian G\u00fcnther and Nirei Fukuzumi, who both moved up from the FIA Formula 3 European Championship and GP3 Series respectively with BWT Arden, Arjun Maini, who also graduated from the GP3 Series, joined Trident, partnering Santino Ferrucci. ART Grand Prix promoted Jack Aitken and reigning GP3 Series champion George Russell to their F2 team, and Lando Norris began his first full season with Carlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282272-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sakhir Formula 2 round, Report, Qualifying\nTwo Formula 2 full-time rookies Lando Norris and George Russell occupied the front row of the grid. While the second row was locked by more experienced Alexander Albon and Nyck de Vries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282272-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sakhir Formula 2 round, Report, Feature race\nAfter starting from pole Lando Norris dominated the race, finishing ahead of his teammate S\u00e9rgio Sette C\u00e2mara with almost seven second margin. Sette C\u00e2mara defended his runner-up spot on the podium after pressure in the final laps from Russian Time driver Artem Markelov, who was forced to start from pitlane after stalling on the grid. Alexander Albon finished ahead of Russell, who was the highest-placed driver without previous Formula 2 starts. The Prema pairing of Nyck de Vries and Sean Gelael finished behind Russell. Rookie Maximilian G\u00fcnther finished eighth and subsequently started from pole in the sprint race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282272-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Sakhir Formula 2 round, Report, Feature race\nRussell's teammate and another rookie driver Jack Aitken finished ninth. Ralph Boschung completed the top-ten. Nicholas Latifi, Luca Ghiotto, Louis Del\u00e9traz and Santino Ferrucci were unable to use their experience to score points. Arjun Maini and Roy Nissany finished 15th and 16th on their F2 race debut. Antonio Fuoco finished ahead of the pair of the Japanese rookies Nirei Fukuzumi and Tadasuke Makino, who were the last finished drivers. Like Markelov, Roberto Merhi stalled on the grid, but was unable to start the race from pit lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282272-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sakhir Formula 2 round, Report, Sprint race\nArtem Markelov took his first victory of the season with Maximilian G\u00fcnther second, S\u00e9rgio Sette C\u00e2mara rounding out the podium in third and Lando Norris fourth. The final points places went to Nyck de Vries, who also set the fastest lap, Luca Ghiotto, Ralph Boschung, and Nirei Fukuzumi scored his first points with 8th. All drivers finished in this race, with Santino Ferrucci the last finisher in 20th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282273-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Salford City Council election\nThe 2018 Salford City Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Salford City Council in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282273-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Salford City Council election\nThis result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council before the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282274-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Salvadoran legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in El Salvador on 4 March 2018 to choose 84 members of the Legislative Assembly and 262 mayors. The elections were carried out by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282274-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Salvadoran legislative election, Electoral system\nThe 84 members of the Legislative Assembly are elected by open list proportional representation from 14 multi-member constituencies based on the departments, with seats allocated using the largest remainder method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282275-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Salzburg state election\nThe 2018 Salzburg state election was held on 22 April 2018 to elect the members of the Landtag of Salzburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282275-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Salzburg state election\nThe conservative Austrian People's Party (\u00d6VP) placed first, taking 37.8% of votes on a swing of almost nine percentage points, a decisive lead over the second-placed Social Democratic Party of Austria (SP\u00d6) which slipped four points, finishing on just over 20%. The Freedom Party of Austria (FP\u00d6) made small gains. The Greens were the main loser of the election; their voteshare fell by over half from 2013. NEOS \u2013 The New Austria (NEOS) contested their first state election in Salzburg, debuting at 7.3%. Team Stronach, which had won 8.3% in the previous election, did not compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282275-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Salzburg state election\nThe previous government coalition of the \u00d6VP, Greens, and Team Stronach now lacked a majority due to the absence of Team Stronach. After negotiations, NEOS agreed to join a coalition with the \u00d6VP and Greens, marking the first time NEOS had participated in a state government in Austria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282275-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Salzburg state election, Background\nAfter the 2013 election, the SP\u00d6 government was replaced by a coalition of the \u00d6VP, Greens, and Team Stronach. In November 2015, Hans Mayr, the only member of the state government from Team Stronach, left the party, but continued to serve in government as an independent. In 2016 he founded his own party, the Salzburg Citizens' Community (SBG), with the intention of running in the 2018 state election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282275-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Salzburg state election, Background\nIn June 2015, conflicts arose between the federal FP\u00d6 and the party's Salzburg branch, culminating in the expulsion of former regional chairmen Strache Schnell and Rupert Doppler from the party. They subsequently founded the Free Party Salzburg (FPS), which was joined by five of the FP\u00d6's six Landtag deputies. They sought to run in the 2018 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282275-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Salzburg state election, Electoral system\nThe 36 seats of the Landtag of Salzburg are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between six multi-member constituencies. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 5 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hare quota, with any remaining seats allocated using the D'Hondt method at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282275-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Salzburg state election, Contesting parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282275-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Salzburg state election, Contesting parties\nTeam Stronach, which contested the previous election and won 8.3% of votes and three seats did not contest the 2018 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282275-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Salzburg state election, Contesting parties\nIn addition to the parties already represented in the Landtag, five parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282275-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Salzburg state election, Aftermath\nOn 23 April, Astrid R\u00f6ssler announced her resignation as Greens leader, but remained in office on an interim basis and to participate in coalitions negotiations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282275-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Salzburg state election, Aftermath\nThe \u00d6VP initiated exploratory talks with all parties in the Landtag. On 2 May, the state \u00d6VP executive voted to begin negotiate with the Greens and NEOS for a governing coalition. Haslauer described this arrangement as \"a political alliance of the centre\"; however, \u00d6VP federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz advocated a coalition with the FP\u00d6. On 25 May, coalition negotiations between the three parties were finalised, and the cabinet was presented. It was dubbed the \"Dirndl coalition\", after a traditional dress which is coloured similarly to the parties involved (black, green, and pink). The government was sworn in on 13 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282276-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sam Houston State Bearkats football team\nThe 2018 Sam Houston State Bearkats football team represented Sam Houston State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bearkats were led by fifth-year head coach K. C. Keeler and played their home games at Bowers Stadium. They were a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 6\u20135, 5\u20134 in Southland play to finish in a four-way tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282276-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sam Houston State Bearkats football team, Previous season\nThe Bearkats finished the 2017 season 12\u20132, 8\u20131 in Southland play to finish in second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS playoffs where they defeated South Dakota in the first round and Kennesaw State in the quarterfinals before losing in the semifinals to North Dakota State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282276-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sam Houston State Bearkats football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Teams\nOn July 12, 2018, the Southland announced their Preseason All-Conference Teams, with the Bearkats having seven players at nine positions selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282276-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sam Houston State Bearkats football team, Preseason, Preseason Poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Southland announced their preseason poll, with the Bearkats selected as the favorites to win the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282277-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Samarkand Challenger\nThe 2018 Samarkand Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 22nd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan between 14 and 19 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282277-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Samarkand Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282277-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Samarkand Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282278-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Samarkand Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nLaurynas Grigelis and Zden\u011bk Kol\u00e1\u0159 were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282278-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Samarkand Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nSriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan won the title after Mikhail Elgin and Denis Istomin withdrew from the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282279-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Samarkand Challenger \u2013 Singles\nAdri\u00e1n Men\u00e9ndez Maceiras was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282279-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Samarkand Challenger \u2013 Singles\nLuca Vanni won the title after defeating Mario Vilella Mart\u00ednez 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282280-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Samford Bulldogs football team\nThe 2018 Samford Bulldogs football team represented Samford University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Chris Hatcher and played their home games at Seibert Stadium. They were a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). They finished the season 6\u20135, 5\u20133 in SoCon play to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282280-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Samford Bulldogs football team, Previous season\nThe Bulldogs finished the 2017 season 8\u20134, 6\u20132 in SoCon play to finish in a tie for second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they lost to Kennesaw State in the first round..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282280-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Samford Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe SoCon released their preseason media poll on July 25, 2018, with the Bulldogs predicted to finish as SoCon champions. The same day the coaches released their preseason poll with the Bulldogs also predicted to finish as SoCon champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282280-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Samford Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SoCon Teams\nThe Bulldogs placed seven players on the all-SoCon teams. Quarterback Devlin Hodges was selected as preseason offensive player of the year and Defensive lineman Ahmad Gooden was selected as preseason defensive player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282281-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Samoa National League\nThe 2018 Samoa National League is the 28th edition of the Samoa National League, the top association football league of Samoa organised by the Football Federation Samoa. This season kicked off on 4 August 2018, and will be competed by 12 teams from the island of Upolu. The winner will qualify for the 2019 OFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282282-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Samsung fat-finger error\nThe 2018 Samsung fat-finger error was a fat-finger error on April 8, 2018, in which an employee of Samsung Securities mistakenly distributed shares worth US$100 billion to employees. The company is the stock trading arm of the Samsung conglomerate and is engaged in financial services including securities and investment banking sectors primarily in Korea, China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Hong Kong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282282-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Samsung fat-finger error, Error\nThe error happened when Samsung Securities tried to pay a dividend to about 2,000 employees who participated in the company stock ownership plan. The intent was to give each of those employees 1,000 South Korean won worth, about US$1, but instead issued 2.8 billion shares. These shares were worth about 112.6 trillion won, or 30 times the market capitalization of the company. The company noticed the error 37 minutes later. However, while the shares were issued and before the company noticed, 16 employees sold the shares which the company gave them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282282-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Samsung fat-finger error, Error\nSome of these employees, according to the country's Financial Supervisory Service, proceeded with the sale despite receiving warnings from the company. The employees who sold their shares could have gotten US$9 million each. A South Korean financial watchdog later found that 21 employees traded or attempted to sell their shares to profit from the error and were promptly reported to prosecutors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282282-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Samsung fat-finger error, Error\nWhen Samsung Securities provided the shares, it used a process of naked short selling which is illegal in Korea and which the computer infrastructure was not supposed to allow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282282-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Samsung fat-finger error, Consequences\nThe error caused the price of Samsung stock to drop by 11 percent within a day and to fluctuate after that. The Financial Supervisory Service said that the incident undermined trust in the Korean capital market.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282282-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Samsung fat-finger error, Consequences\nThe National Pension Service halted trading immediately after the error. This pension has 136 trillion won or US$127 billion invested in the Korean stock market. By May 7, 2018, Samsung Securities stated that it would file criminal lawsuits against employees who sold their shares during the fat finger incident. On May 28, 2018, government prosecutors raided the Samsung offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282283-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Antonio FC season\nThe 2018 San Antonio FC season was the club's third season of existence. Including the San Antonio Thunder of the original NASL and the former San Antonio Scorpions of the modern NASL, this was the 9th season of professional soccer in San Antonio. The club played in the United Soccer League, the second division of the United States soccer league system, and participated in the U.S. Open Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282283-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Antonio FC season, Pre-season\nThe pre-season match against FC Dallas was announced by FCD on 18 January 2018. Remaining pre-season matches were announced on 30 January 2018 by SAFC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282283-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Antonio FC season, Competitions, United Soccer League, Matches\nThe first three matches of 2018 were announced on 12 January 2018. The remaining schedule was released on 19 January 2018. Home team is listed first, left to right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282283-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 San Antonio FC season, Competitions, Exhibition\nOn 7 June 2017, it was announced that San Antonio would play an exhibition match against Santos Laguna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282283-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 San Antonio FC season, Statistics, Top scorers\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282283-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 San Antonio FC season, Statistics, Clean sheets\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total clean sheets are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282284-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Benedetto Tennis Cup\nThe 2018 San Benedetto Tennis Cup was a professional tennis tournaments played on clay courts. It was the 14th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. The event took place in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, from 16 to 22 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282284-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Benedetto Tennis Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282284-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Benedetto Tennis Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282284-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 San Benedetto Tennis Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282285-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Benedetto Tennis Cup \u2013 Doubles\nCarlos Taberner and Pol Toledo Bagu\u00e9 were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282285-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Benedetto Tennis Cup \u2013 Doubles\nJulian Ocleppo and Andrea Vavassori won the title after defeating Sergio Gald\u00f3s and Federico Zeballos 6\u20133, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282286-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Benedetto Tennis Cup \u2013 Singles\nMatteo Berrettini was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282286-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Benedetto Tennis Cup \u2013 Singles\nDaniel Elahi Gal\u00e1n won the title after defeating Sergio Guti\u00e9rrez Ferrol 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282287-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Bernardino mayoral election\nThe 2018 San Bernardino mayoral election was held on June 5, 2018, and November 6, 2018, to elect the mayor of San Bernardino, California. It saw the election of John Valdivia, who defeated incumbent mayor R. Carey Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282288-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego City Council election\nThe 2018 San Diego City Council election occurred on November 6, 2018. The primary election was held June 5, 2018. Four of the nine seats of the San Diego City Council were contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282288-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego City Council election\nMunicipal elections in California are officially non-partisan, although most members do identify a party preference. A two-round system was used for the election, starting with a primary in June followed by a runoff in November between the top-two candidates in each district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282288-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego City Council election\nThe election resulted in a net gain of one seat for self-identified Democrats. This gave Democrats a two-thirds majority on the City Council, allowing them to override vetoes by Republican Mayor Kevin Faulconer on issues that divide along partisan lines. Additionally two incumbent council members were defeated, marking the first time any incumbent had lost a City Council election in the city since 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282288-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego City Council election, Campaign\nThe even-numbered districts 2, 4, 6, and 8 were up for election in 2018. It was the first City Council election using the new rules that requires a runoff in November between the top-two candidates in the June primary whether or not any of the candidates get a majority of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282288-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego City Council election, Campaign\nIncumbents Lorie Zapf (District 2), Myrtle Cole (District 4), and Chris Cate (District 6) stood for reelection. David Alvarez (District 8) was ineligible to run due to term limits. Republicans were considered more vulnerable to lose seats in the election due to the two Republican-held seats, Districts 2 and 6, being considered swing districts while the two Democrat-held seats, Districts 4 and 8, were considered safe districts. However, incumbents historically had not lost reelection to the San Diego City Council, and both Zapf and Cate had raised far more money than their challengers as of February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282288-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego City Council election, Results, District 2\nDistrict 2 consisted of the communities of Bay Ho/Bay Park/Morena, Midway/North Bay, Mission Beach, Ocean Beach, Pacific Beach, and Point Loma. A large field of seven challengers qualified to run against incumbent council member Lorie Zapf. In the June primary, Zapf advanced to the general election to face retired doctor Jennifer Campbell. Campbell was elected to the City Council in the November general election, making Zapf one of the first incumbents on the City Council to lose a reelection bid since 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282288-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego City Council election, Results, District 4\nDistrict 4 consisted of the communities of Alta Vista, Broadway Heights, Chollas View, Emerald Hills, Encanto, Greater Skyline Hills, Jamacha, Lincoln Park, Lomita Village, North Bay Terrace, Oak Park, O'Farrell, Paradise Hills, Redwood Village, Rolando Park, South Bay Terrace, Valencia Park, and Webster. Three challengers qualified to run against incumbent Council President Myrtle Cole, all from her own party. In the June primary, Cole advanced to the general election to face civil rights lawyer Monica Montgomery. Montgomery was elected to the City Council in the November general election, making Cole one of the first incumbents on the City Council to lose a reelection bid since 1992. This did not impact the partisan composition of the City Council since both Cole and Montgomery are Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 864]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282288-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego City Council election, Results, District 6\nDistrict 6 consisted of the communities of Clairemont Mesa, Kearny Mesa, Mira Mesa, Mission Valley, North Clairemont, and Rancho Pe\u00f1asquitos. Five challengers qualified to run against incumbent council member Chris Cate. In the June primary, Cate advanced to the general election to face environmental advocate Tommy Hough. Cate was reelected in the November general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282288-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego City Council election, Results, District 8\nDistrict 8 consisted of the southern communities of San Diego and those along the Mexico\u2013United States border, including the communities of Barrio Logan, Egger Highlands, Grant Hill, Logan Heights, Memorial, Nestor, Ocean View Hills, Otay Mesa West, Otay Mesa East, San Ysidro, Sherman Heights, Stockton, and Tijuana River Valley. Incumbent council member David Alvarez is ineligible to run due to term limits. Four candidates qualified to run for the open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282288-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 San Diego City Council election, Results, District 8\nIn the June primary, Vivian Moreno, a political staffer in Alvarez's office, and Antonio Martinez, a community health clinic worker and member of the San Ysidro School District Board of Education, advanced to the general election. Moreno was then elected to the City Council in the November general election with a majority of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282288-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego City Council election, Council President\nOn December 10, 2018, the new council was sworn in. For their first action, the council voted unanimously to appoint Georgette Gomez as council president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282289-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego Padres season\nThe 2018 San Diego Padres season was the 50th season of the San Diego Padres franchise. The Padres played their home games at Petco Park as members of Major League Baseball's National League West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282289-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego Padres season, Offseason\nOn December 12, 2017, the first day of the MLB Winter Meetings, the Padres traded Jabari Blash to the New York Yankees for Chase Headley and Bryan Mitchell. This will be Headley's second stint with the Padres, having played with them to start his career. To make room in the 40-man roster for both players, the Padres traded Ryan Schimpf to the Tampa Bay Rays for minor leaguer Deion Tansel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282289-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego Padres season, Offseason\nOn February 19, 2018, the Padres signed free agent 1B Eric Hosmer to an 8-year, $144 million contract. This was the largest contract in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282289-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego Padres season, Season standings, Record vs. opponents\nThe October 1 tiebreaker games were regular-season games that are included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282290-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego State Aztecs baseball team\nThe 2018 San Diego State Aztecs baseball team represented San Diego State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season as a member of the Mountain West Conference. The team was coached by Mark Martinez and played their home games at Tony Gwynn Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282290-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego State Aztecs baseball team, Previous season\nThe Aztecs finished 42\u201321 overall, and 20\u201310 in the conference. During the season, the Aztecs were invited and participated in the Tony Gwynn Classic in San Diego, California. San Diego State defeated Notre Dame to earn 5th place. In the postseason, San Diego State defeated New Mexico in the semifinals and Fresno State twice in the quarterfinals and championship to earn 1st place in the 2017 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Aztecs were invited and participated in the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, where they defeated UCLA but lost to Long Beach State twice in the Long Beach Regional in Long Beach, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282290-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego State Aztecs baseball team, Previous season, MLB Draft Selections\nThe Aztecs had five individuals selected in the 2017 MLB draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282291-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego State Aztecs football team\nThe 2018 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented San Diego State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Aztecs were led by eighth-year head coach Rocky Long and played their home games at SDCCU Stadium. San Diego State was a member of the Mountain West Conference in the West Division. They finished the season 7\u20136, 4\u20134 in Mountain West play to finish in fourth place in the West Division. They were invited to the Frisco Bowl where they lost to Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282291-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego State Aztecs football team, Previous Season\nSan Diego State started the season 6\u20130, where one of the wins is against No. 19 Stanford in front of 43,040 spectators at home on CBS Sports Network. The winning streak resulted the Aztecs ranked in the AP Poll for four consecutive weeks, with the No. 19 ranking as San Diego State's peak. The Aztecs then lost to Boise State and rival Fresno State, and began a new winning streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282291-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 San Diego State Aztecs football team, Previous Season\nThe end result was an eighth straight bowl appearance in the 2017 Armed Forces Bowl, where the Aztecs lost to Army 35\u201342 then finished the season 10\u20133 overall, and 6\u20132 in conference play. In spite of a bowl loss, head coach Rocky Long agreed to a contract extension until the 2022\u201323 school year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282291-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego State Aztecs football team, Previous Season, NFL Draft Selections\nThe Aztecs had two individuals selected in the 2018 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282291-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego State Aztecs football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days\nDuring the Mountain West media days held July 24\u201325 at the Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip, the Aztecs were predicted to finish in second place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 78], "content_span": [79, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282291-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego State Aztecs football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days, Preseason All-Mountain West Team\nThe Aztecs had three players selected to the preseason all-Mountain West team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 112], "content_span": [113, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282292-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego Toreros football team\nThe 2018 San Diego Toreros football team represented the University of San Diego during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Dale Lindsey and played their home games at Torero Stadium. They were a member of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 9\u20133, 8\u20130 in PFL play to be PFL champions. They earned the PFL's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost in the first round to Nicholls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282292-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego Toreros football team, Previous season\nThe Toreros finished the 2017 season 10\u20133, 8\u20130 in PFL play to be crowned Pioneer Football League champions. They received the PFL's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Northern Arizona in the first round before losing to North Dakota State in the second round for the second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282292-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego Toreros football team, Preseason, Preseason All-PFL team\nThe PFL released their preseason all-PFL team on July 30, 2018, with the Toreros having four players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282292-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 San Diego Toreros football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe PFL released their preseason coaches poll on July 31, 2018, with the Toreros predicted to finish as PFL champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season\nThe 2018 season was the San Francisco 49ers' 69th in the National Football League, their 73rd overall, their fifth playing their home games at Levi's Stadium and their second under the head coach/general manager tandem of Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season\nAfter finishing 6\u201310 from a 0\u20139 start in the previous year, the 49ers were looking to improve from that record and make the playoffs for the first time since 2013. However, the 49ers' season ended with a record of 4\u201312 and were plagued by multiple season-ending injuries, which have included RB Jerick McKinnon tearing his ACL in training camp and QB Jimmy Garoppolo also tearing his ACL in Week 3 against the Kansas City Chiefs. The 49ers were eliminated from playoff contention following a Week 13 loss to the Seattle Seahawks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season\nIn Week 15, however, the 49ers upset the Seahawks 26\u201323 in overtime at home, snapping the 49ers' 10\u2013game losing streak to them that dated back to 2013 Playoffs. The win also stopped the Seahawks from clinching a playoff spot that week. The 49ers failed to improve on their 6\u201310 record from last year. The 49ers also went 0\u20138 on the road for the first time since 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season\nThe 49ers defense would also go on to set multiple NFL records for futility. During the entire 16 game schedule of the 2018 NFL season, the 49ers defense would accumulate just two interceptions, breaking the previous mark of three. Incredibly, that included strike shortened NFL seasons. Putting that into perspective, a total of 40 different players throughout the league would go on to have more interceptions than the entire 49ers team. The 49ers would also have just seven total takeaways on the season, smashing the previous record of 11. The 49ers were also last in the league with a \u221225 turnover differential, the worst mark since 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season\nThe 2018 49ers would go on to set one more notable \"futility\" mark after the team went 8\u20130 to start the following season, thus giving the 2018 49ers the worst record in NFL history of any team that went on to go undefeated that far into the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Minnesota Vikings\nThree interceptions by Jimmy Garoppolo, who earned his first loss as an NFL starter, would hurt the 49ers in the end. The 49ers lost 24\u201316, with the difference being a Garoppolo pick-six as well several key drops by receivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Detroit Lions\nDespite the Lions' attempted comeback in the fourth quarter, the 49ers would hang on to win 30-27 as the team earns their first win of the season behind 2 TDs from Garoppolo and Matt Breida's 138 yards rushing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 90], "content_span": [91, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Kansas City Chiefs\nNot only did the 49ers lose the game, Jimmy Garoppolo got carted off in the fourth quarter with a serious knee injury. The next day, an MRI further revealed that Garoppolo had torn his ACL, ruling him out for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Kansas City Chiefs\nThese two teams would meet again the following season in Super Bowl LIV, with the 49ers falling short 31\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Los Angeles Chargers\nThe first post-Garoppolo game of the season was a surprisingly competitive game, mostly due to safety Antone Exum getting a pick-six in the first quarter, but the 49ers still lost 29\u201327 and dropped to 1\u20133 on the season and 0\u20131 after Garoppolo's injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nPlaying a winless Cardinals team desperately seeking a win, the 49ers held rookie QB Josh Rosen in check, but were hurt by five offensive turnovers, one of which resulted in a defensive touchdown for Arizona. The 49ers drop to 1\u20134 (0\u20132 since Garoppolo's injury) heading into a Monday Night road game against the Packers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Green Bay Packers\nThe 49ers held a 30\u201323 lead in the final three minutes, but Aaron Rodgers threw a touchdown pass to Davante Adams to tie the game with less than 2 minutes left. On the 49ers' next drive, a critical C. J. Beathard interception plus an illegal contact penalty on Richard Sherman in the final minute led to a 27-yard game-winning field goal by Mason Crosby to send the 49ers to a 33\u201330 loss and a 1\u20135 record heading into next week's home game against the undefeated Rams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Arizona Cardinals\nWith the loss, the Niners dropped to 1\u20137 and last place in the NFC West. They were also swept by the Cardinals for the 4th consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Oakland Raiders\nThis was the first start for Nick Mullens at QB, who replaced C. J. Beathard. The game was incredibly one-sided, with the 49ers winning by over 30 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nThis was the first time since 2013 that the 49ers beat the Seahawks, snapping a 10-game losing streak which dates back to the 2013-14 NFC Championship Game. This also prevented the Seahawks from clinching a Wild-Card Berth that week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282293-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Los Angeles Rams\nWith the loss, the 49ers finished 0\u20138 on the road for the first time since 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282294-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Education election\nThe 2018 election for the San Francisco Board of Education was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the next three commissioners for the San Francisco Board of Education.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282294-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Education election, Background\nThe 2018 San Francisco Board of Education election drew 19 candidates, which is \"the most crowded in recent memory\" according to San Francisco Chronicle. They originally competed for two seats, with Commissioners Shamann Walton and Hydra Mendoza declining to seek re-election. Walton ran for the District 10 seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors while Mendoza opted out for a job with New York State Education Department. Mendoza's last meeting was in the end of September. On October 15, 2018, Mayor of San Francisco London Breed appointed candidate Faauuga Moliga to fill Mendoza's seat for the remaining three months of her term. Moliga was the first Pacific Islander to serve as a citywide official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282294-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Education election, Background\nCommissioner Emily Murase did not file for reelection in the 2018 San Francisco Board of Education race. This opened up a third seat for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282294-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Education election, Candidates\nOn September 10, 2018, candidate Josephine Zhao withdrew from the race amid the resurfacing of previous racist, homophobic, and transphobic remarks made in Cantonese. Zhao was considered a leading candidate, as she fundraised more than her opponents and had support from many prominent San Francisco political figures. Her withdrawal, however, came after the deadline to withdraw; she still appeared on the ballot, and on October 13 supporters of Zhao canvassed at the district's annual enrollment fair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282294-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Education election, Election, Endorsements\nSan Francisco Examiner endorsed Alison Collins, Gabriela L\u00f3pez, and Faauuga Moliga. The San Francisco Chronicle endorsed Phil Kim, Michelle Parker, and Alida Fisher. The Bay Area Reporter endorsed Martin Rawlings-Fein, Mia Satya, and Faauuga Moliga. The San Francisco Bay Guardian endorsed Allison Collins, Faauuga Molina, and Li Miao Lovett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282294-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Education election, Election, Endorsements\nMayor London Breed endorsed Faauuga Moliga, Michelle Parker, Monica Chinchilla, and Josephine Zhao.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282294-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Education election, Results\nOn November 6, 2018, San Francisco residents chose three new members for the Board from among nineteen candidates, with Alison Collins, Gabriela L\u00f3pez, and Faauuga Moliga being elected with the most votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282294-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Education election, Results\nLopez became the first bilingual Spanish speaker and youngest woman ever elected to the school board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282294-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Education election, Special appointment to replace Matt Haney\nCommissioner Matt Haney was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the concurrent 2018 San Francisco Board of Supervisors election in November 2018, which allowed Mayor London Breed to appoint his replacement for the remainder of his term. Haney had recommended that either a Chinese or transgender candidate replace him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 89], "content_span": [90, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282294-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Education election, Special appointment to replace Matt Haney\nOn November 14, 2018, the Bay Area Reporter published an editorial pushing for Breed to appoint Mia Satya, who had placed 12th in the election, to the open seat, arguing that \"it's time for the mayor to appoint a trans person\" due to Breed's previous lack of queer appointees. On January 22, 2019, Breed appointed Jenny Lam to Haney's seat on the board. Lam, who had been the Mayor's education adviser for the prior three months, is a social justice advocate as well as a parent and a second generation Chinese-American.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 89], "content_span": [90, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282294-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Education election, Special appointment to replace Matt Haney\nIt was Breed's fourth appointment as mayor and brought forth questions of potential conflict of interests between having a commissioner who also is serving as education advisor under the mayor. A similar incident occurred when Mayor Gavin Newsom's education advisor Hydra Mendoza was elected to the Board of Education in 2006. Mendoza later became Mayor Ed Lee's education advisor while remaining on the Board of Education.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 89], "content_span": [90, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282295-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Supervisors election\nIn 2018, five of the eleven seats of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors were on the ballot in the 2018 San Francisco Board of Supervisors elections. A special election was held on June 5 for one of the five seats, while the other four were decided on the November 6 general election ballot. The elections followed the ranked-choice voting format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282295-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Supervisors election, Results, District 2\nIncumbent Supervisor Mark Farrell was ineligible to run for reelection due to term limits. On January 23, 2018, he was appointed interim mayor, succeeding London Breed, who had been acting mayor since the death of Ed Lee. Farrell appointed Catherine Stefani as his successor, and she announced she would run for a full term in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282295-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Supervisors election, Results, District 2\nKat Anderson, a labor attorney; Schuyler Hudak, a startup founder; and Nick Josefowitz, the San Francisco BART Board Director, are candidates. Former Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier was considered a potential candidate, but a ballot proposition on the June 2018 ballot limiting Supervisors to two terms in their lifetime, rather than the present two consecutive term limit, prevented Alioto-Pier from running for a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282295-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Supervisors election, Results, District 4\nIncumbent Supervisor Katy Tang was eligible to run for reelection, but announced her intention not to seek re-election. Candidates to succeed her included Gordon Mar, Li Miao Lovett, Jessica Ho, Lou Ann Bassan, Arthur Tom, and Trevor McNeil. Tang supported Ho, who worked for Tang as a legislative aide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282295-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Supervisors election, Results, District 6\nIncumbent Supervisor Jane Kim was ineligible to run for reelection due to term limits. Matt Haney, Christine Johnson, Sonja Trauss and Jason Jones ran to succeed her.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282295-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Supervisors election, Results, District 8\nIncumbent Supervisor Jeff Sheehy was eligible to run for reelection in the June 5, 2018 special election. He ran for reelection against Rafael Mandelman and Lawrence \"Stark\" Dagesse. Mandelman won the seat, with 60% of the vote, while Sheehy received 38%. Mandelman was sworn in on July 11. Mandelman and Dagasse ran again in the November election, but Sheehy did not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282295-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Board of Supervisors election, Results, District 10\nIncumbent Supervisor Malia Cohen was ineligible to run for reelection due to term limits. Candidates who ran to succeed her included President of the San Francisco Board of Education Shamann Walton, Theo Ellington, and Tony Kelly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282296-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Giants season\nThe 2018 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 136th year in Major League Baseball, their 60th year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 19th at AT&T Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282296-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Giants season, Season standings, Record vs. opponents\nThe October 1 tiebreaker games were regular-season games that are included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282297-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Shock season\nThe 2018 San Francisco Shock season was the first season of the San Francisco Shock's existence in the Overwatch League. The team finished with a regular season record of 17\u201323 placing them ninth overall. San Francisco did not qualify for any of the Stage Playoffs and did not qualify for the Season Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282297-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Shock season, Preceding offseason\nOn September 28, 2017, NRG Esports announced its official inaugural roster consisting of the following eight players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282297-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Shock season, Preceding offseason\nOn the same day, the team announced the hiring of head coach Bradford Rajani. On October 30, Shock signed flex player Andreas \"Nevix\" Karlsson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282297-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Shock season, Review\nSan Francisco Shocks first regular season OWL match was a 0\u20134 loss against the Los Angeles Valiant on January 10, 2018. The team's first victory came two days later in a 3\u20131 win over the Shanghai Dragons. The Shock did not find much success in the 2018 Overwatch League season; they finished with a 17\u201323 record and placed 9th of 12th in the overall league standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282297-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco Shock season, Final roster, Transactions\nTransactions of/for players on the roster during the 2018 regular season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282298-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco mayoral special election\nA special election was held for Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco on June 5, 2018, to fill the remainder of the term of Ed Lee, who was elected in 2011 and 2015 and died in office on December 12, 2017. Upon Lee's death, London Breed, President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, became Acting Mayor of San Francisco, but a vote of six supervisors replaced Breed with Supervisor Mark Farrell. The mayoral election was held concurrently with the statewide direct primary election. In San Francisco, the election for the eighth district member of the board of supervisors was also on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282298-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco mayoral special election\nEight candidates qualified to appear on the ballot, and a ninth qualified as a write-in. The four major candidates were former Supervisor Angela Alioto, former Acting Mayor London Breed, Supervisor Jane Kim and former state senator Mark Leno. All four main candidates identify as Democrats, though the position is officially nonpartisan per the Constitution of California. Leno conceded the race to Breed on June 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282298-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco mayoral special election, Background\nEd Lee, who was appointed Mayor of San Francisco in 2011 following Gavin Newsom's election as Lieutenant Governor of California, elected to a full term in 2011, and reelected in 2015, died of cardiac arrest on December 12, 2017. London Breed, the president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, became the city's acting mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282298-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco mayoral special election, Background\nOn January 23, 2018, the board of supervisors selected Mark Farrell to serve as interim mayor until the special election could be held. Citing Ron Conway's role as a benefactor to Breed, Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Jane Kim, considered the progressive members of the board, sought to deny Breed the benefits of incumbency going into the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282298-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco mayoral special election, Background\nAs San Francisco elections use ranked choice voting, Kim and Mark Leno chose to align with each other, each endorsing the other as their preferred second choice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282298-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco mayoral special election, Candidates\nThe filing deadline was 5 p.m. on January 9, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282298-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco mayoral special election, Candidates, Qualified\nThe following eight candidates qualified for the ballot by filing all nomination documents and paying the filing fee. The deadline for a candidate to drop out of the race and remove himself or herself from the ballot was January 30, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282298-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco mayoral special election, Results\nFirst-place votes counted on election night had Breed leading with 35.6 percent, Leno in second with 25.9 percent, and Kim with 22.8 percent. As candidates began to be eliminated, Leno took the lead the next day. He maintained a small lead during the week. On June 9, Breed took the lead over Leno. On June 13, with only 8,000 ballots left to count, Leno conceded defeat and congratulated Breed on her victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282298-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco mayoral special election, Results, Results summary\nThe following table shows a summary of the instant runoff for the election. The table shows the round in which the candidate was defeated or elected the winner, the votes for the candidate in that round, and what share those votes were of all votes counting for any candidate in that round. There is also a bar graph showing those votes for each candidate and categorized as either first-round votes or votes that were transferred from another candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282298-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco mayoral special election, Results, Vote counts by round\nThe following table shows how votes were counted in a series of rounds of instant runoffs. Each voter could mark which candidates were the voter's first, second, and third choice. Each voter had one vote, but could mark three choices for how that vote can be counted. In each round, the vote is counted for the most preferred candidate that has not yet been eliminated. Then one or more candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated. Votes that counted for an eliminated candidate are transferred to the voter's next most preferred candidate that has not yet been eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282298-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 San Francisco mayoral special election, Results, Vote counts by round\nContinuing votes are votes that counted for a candidate in that round. Exhausted ballots represent votes that could not be transferred because a less preferred candidate was not marked on the ballot. Voters were allowed to mark only three choices because of voting system limitations. Over votes are votes that could not be counted for a candidate because more than one candidate was marked for a choice that was ready to be counted. Under votes are ballots were left blank or that only marked a choice for a write-in candidate that had not qualified as a write-in candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282299-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Jose Earthquakes season\nThe 2018 San Jose Earthquakes season is the club's 36th year of existence, their 21st season in Major League Soccer and their 11th consecutive season in the top-flight of American soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282299-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Jose Earthquakes season, Background\nThe 2017 season was one of continued change under the leadership of general manager Jesse Fioranelli, with head coach Dominic Kinnear and assistant coach John Spencer being replaced by San Jose's technical director Chris Leitch and Director of Methodology Alex Covelo on June 25, 2017. The San Jose Earthquakes finished the 2017 season with a victory over Minnesota United FC that sent them to the MLS playoffs for the first time since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282299-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Jose Earthquakes season, Background\nOn November 24, 2017, the Earthquakes announced their second coaching change of the year with Mikael Stahre taking on the role of head coach. Leitch and Covelo would return to their former positions of technical director and director of methodology respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282299-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 San Jose Earthquakes season, Competitive, U.S. Open Cup\nThe Earthquakes and all other MLS clubs join the U.S. Open Cup in round 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282299-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 San Jose Earthquakes season, Player movement, In\nPer Major League Soccer and club policies terms of the deals do not get disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282300-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Jose State Spartans baseball team\nThe 2018 San Jose State Spartans baseball team represented San Jos\u00e9 State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season as a member of the Mountain West Conference. The team was coached by Brad Sanfilippo and played their home games at San Jose Municipal Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282300-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Jose State Spartans baseball team, Previous season\nThe Spartans finished 19\u201335\u20131 overall, and 10\u201318\u20131 in the conference. San Jos\u00e9 State had two Spartans drafted in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft, who were Josh Nashed for the Cleveland Indians in the 19th round and Matt Brown for the San Francisco Giants in the 27th round. This was the first Major League Baseball draft San Jos\u00e9 State experienced since the 2013 Major League Baseball draft, which took place in the 2012\u201313 school year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282301-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Jose State Spartans football team\nThe 2018 San Jose State Spartans football team represented San Jose State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Spartans were led by second-year head coach Brent Brennan and played their home games at CEFCU Stadium. San Jos\u00e9 State was a member of the Mountain West Conference in the West Division. They finished the season 1\u201311, 1\u20137 in Mountain West play to finish in last place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282301-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Jose State Spartans football team, Previous season\nSan Jos\u00e9 State fired former head coach Ron Caragher due to Caragher's failure of continuing the success of the 2012 San Jose State Spartans football team. As a result, San Jos\u00e9 State hired Brent Brennan as the head coach, who was a wide receivers coach at Oregon State. The Spartans came in with a completely new coaching staff, only to finish 2\u201311 in the season, and 1\u20137 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282301-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 San Jose State Spartans football team, Previous season, NFL Draft selections\nThe Spartans had one individual selected in the 2018 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 81], "content_span": [82, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282301-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 San Jose State Spartans football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days\nDuring the Mountain West media days held July 24\u201325 at the Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip, the Spartans were predicted to finish in last place in the West Division. They did not have any players selected to the preseason all-Mountain West team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282302-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Jose mayoral election\nThe 2018 San Jose mayoral election was held on June 5, 2018 to elect the Mayor of San Jose, California. Incumbent mayor Sam Liccardo was reelected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282303-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Juan Knights season\nThe 2018 San Juan Knights season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282304-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Luis Open Challenger Tour\nThe 2018 San Luis Open Challenger Tour was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 25th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in San Luis Potos\u00ed, Mexico between 27 March and 1 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282304-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Luis Open Challenger Tour, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282305-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Luis Open Challenger Tour \u2013 Doubles\nRoberto Quiroz and Caio Zampieri were the defending champions but only Quiroz chose to defend his title, partnering Yannick Hanfmann. Quiroz lost in the quarterfinals to Jay Clarke and Kevin Krawietz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282305-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Luis Open Challenger Tour \u2013 Doubles\nMarcelo Ar\u00e9valo and Miguel \u00c1ngel Reyes-Varela won the title after defeating Clarke and Krawietz 6\u20131, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282306-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Luis Open Challenger Tour \u2013 Singles\nAndrej Martin was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282306-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 San Luis Open Challenger Tour \u2013 Singles\nMarcelo Ar\u00e9valo won the title after defeating Roberto Cid Subervi 6\u20133, 6\u20137(3\u20137), 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282307-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2018 San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli in Misano Adriatico on 9 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282308-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sandefjord Fotball season\nThe 2018 season is Sandefjord's second season in a row in the Eliteserien following their promotion in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282308-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sandefjord Fotball season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282308-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sandefjord Fotball season, Squad, Players out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282308-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sandefjord Fotball season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282308-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sandefjord Fotball season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282308-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sandefjord Fotball season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282308-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sandefjord Fotball season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282309-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sandown 500\nThe 2018 Sandown 500 (known for sponsorship purposes as the 2018 Rabble.club Sandown 500) was a motor racing event for Supercars, held on the weekend of 14 to 16 September 2018. The event was held at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and consisted of one race, 500 kilometres in length. It was the twelfth event of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Race 24 of the series. It was also the first event of the 2018 Enduro Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282309-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sandown 500\nThe race was won by Jamie Whincup and Paul Dumbrell driving a Holden Commodore ZB.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282309-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sandown 500, Background\nThe event was the 48th running of the Sandown 500, which was first held in 1964 as a six-hour race for series production touring cars. It was the fourteenth time the race had been held as part of the Supercars Championship and the sixth time it formed part of the Enduro Cup. The defending winners of the race were Cameron Waters and Richie Stanaway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282309-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sandown 500, Background\nThe event was promoted as a \"retro round\", with teams encouraged to use adaptations of Australian touring car liveries from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, although some teams extended beyond these parameters when devising a livery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282309-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sandown 500, Background\nThe following cars carried a retro livery during the event:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282310-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282311-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sanfrecce Hiroshima season\nThe 2018 Sanfrecce Hiroshima season is the club's tenth consecutive season in J1 League, and 48th overall in the Japanese top flight. Sanfrecce Hiroshima are also competing in the Emperor's Cup, J.League Cup, and J.League Asia Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282312-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Santaizi ATP Challenger\nThe 2018 Santaizi ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Taipei, Taiwan between 9 and 15 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282312-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Santaizi ATP Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282312-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Santaizi ATP Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282313-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Santaizi ATP Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nMarco Chiudinelli and Franko \u0160kugor were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282313-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Santaizi ATP Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nMatthew Ebden and Andrew Whittington won the title after defeating Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Saketh Myneni 6\u20134, 5\u20137, [10\u20136] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282314-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Santaizi ATP Challenger \u2013 Singles\nLu Yen-hsun was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282314-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Santaizi ATP Challenger \u2013 Singles\nYuki Bhambri won the title after defeating Ramkumar Ramanathan 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix\nThe 2018 Santiago ePrix (formally the 2018 Antofagasta Minerals Santiago E-Prix) was a Formula E electric car race held at the Santiago Street Circuit in the Chilean capital city of Santiago on 3 February 2018. It was the fourth round of the 2017\u201318 Formula E season and the inaugural running of the event. The 37-lap race was won by Techeetah driver Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne from pole position. Vergne's teammate Andr\u00e9 Lotterer finished second and e.Dams-Renault driver S\u00e9bastien Buemi was third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix\nVergne won pole position by recording the fastest lap in qualifying, and held off Nelson Piquet Jr. early in the race, which was neutralised for four laps after two cars were left stranded at the side of the track from getting involved in separate accidents on the first lap. Vergne kept the lead after every driver made their mandatory pit stops to enter into a second car and his teammate Lotterer passed Piquet for second. Vergne, who was saving electrical energy due to a loss in pit-to-car radio communication, held off his teammate Lotterer for the rest of the race to win for the second time in Formula E and Lotterer finished second to achieve the first one-two finish in series history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix\nThe result moved Vergne to the lead of the Drivers' Championship for the first time with 71 points, five ahead of previous leader Felix Rosenqvist. Sam Bird finished fifth and fell to third as Buemi's third-place finish moved him to fourth. Techeetah took the lead of the Teams' Championship with Mahindra two points behind in second. Virgin fell to third while e.Dams-Renault moved to fourth with eight races left in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Background\nIn February 2017 a diplomatic committee led by former driver Eliseo Salazar began talking to Formula E CEO Alejandro Agag in Buenos Aires about the possibility of holding a race in the Chilean capital of Santiago. The race was officially confirmed by the world governing body of motorsport, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), in June, and was added to the 2017\u201318 Formula E calendar by the FIA World Motor Sport Council three months later. It was the fourth of twelve single seater electric car races of the season and took place on 3 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Background\nPrior to the event, a non-championship Formula One race won by Juan Manuel Fangio was held on the streets of Santiago in 1950. Despite also having hosted regional soccer tournament Copa Am\u00e9rica (in 1991 and 2015) or Dakar Rally (in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015), the press predicted the race would be the largest sporting event in Chile since the 1962 FIFA World Cup, and organisers expected 20,000 people to attend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Background\nHeading into the ePrix Mahindra driver Felix Rosenqvist led the Drivers' Championship with 54 points, four ahead of Sam Bird in second and a further seven in front of Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne in third. Nelson Piquet Jr. was fourth with 25 points and Edoardo Mortara (24 points) was the highest-placed rookie in fifth. In the Teams' Championship, Mahindra led with 75 points with Virgin 18 points behind in second place. Techeetah and Jaguar were third and fourth with 43 and 40 points respectively and Venturi was fifth with 30 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Background\nStarting from Santiago, the minimum pit stop time, which had been implemented since the championship began in 2014, was discarded. It came after the world governing body of motorsport, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), deferred the ruling at the preceding Marrakesh ePrix three weeks before the Santiago race after teams raised concerns over safety. To prepare for the change, chassis manufacturer Spark Racing Technology designed an endurance racing-style seat belt in its aim to improve the efficiency of its application and team and driver safety. Some teams were handed samples to practice with. The FIA later permitted teams to employ spotters behind the pit lane wall and directly opposite their garages to guide drivers into their correct stopping positions. Someone holding a sign to direct the driver into the garages was allowed to move outside the boundaries of their pit box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 938]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Background\nThe layout of the 1.53-mile (2.46\u00a0km) clockwise 12-turn track was unveiled on 12 October 2017. Drivers started on Santa Maria Avenue before crossing the Mapocho River and passed through Parque Forestal before returning to Santa Maria Avenue to finish a lap of the circuit. Construction of the track began on 22 January, 12 days before the race, and finished on 2 February. In response to concerns over several dogs frequenting the Parque Forestal, a local veterinary company was employed to feed them in non-circuit areas in an attempt to stop them straying onto the circuit during the weekend. Piquet believed that the layout of the track would be \"technical\", while the series manager of the championship's tyre supplier Michelin felt it would be a mixture of the Montreal and the Berlin Street Circuits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Practice\nTwo practice sessions\u2014both on Saturday morning\u2014were held before the late afternoon race. The first session ran for 45 minutes and the second lasted half an hour. A half an hour untimed shakedown session was held on Friday afternoon to allow teams to check the reliability of their cars and their electronic systems. The track was cleaned overnight after drivers described the tarmac surface as dirty and slippery, but nobody chose to set a lap time at 200\u00a0kW (270\u00a0hp) as several participants ventured onto the track's run-off areas after locking their tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Practice\nBird set the fastest lap in the cold first practice session at 1 minute, 19.439 seconds, more than two-tenths of a second faster than any one else on the circuit. Rosenqvist, Vergne, Mitch Evans, Andr\u00e9 Lotterer, Alex Lynn, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez, Mortara, Oliver Turvey and Piquet rounded out the top ten drivers. S\u00e9bastien Buemi pushed, and lost control of his car's rear after losing grip leaving turn twelve. Buemi struck a tyre barrier, damaging his right-rear suspension and ending his session early. Race director Scot Elkins stopped the session with three minutes to go when Maro Engel locked his brakes and understeered into the turn three TecPro barrier, damaging his front wing. Engel was unhurt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Practice\nIn the second practice session, Vergne used 200\u00a0kW (270\u00a0hp) of power to set the fastest lap of the whole race meeting at 1 minute, 18.662 seconds. Lynn followed three-hundredths of a second behind in second and Evans followed in third. The Mahindra duo of Nick Heidfeld and Rosenqvist were fourth and fifth and Bird, Mortara, Daniel Abt, Buemi and Lucas di Grassi completed the top ten ahead of qualifying. Ten minutes into practice, Piquet slid into the turn three run-off area and stopped his vehicle before he could hit the barrier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Practice\nAn oversteer caused L\u00f3pez to make light contact with the turn one wall but was able to return to the pit lane and switch into a second car. Nico Prost ran wide driving towards the 90-degree left-hand turn nine and ploughed into the barrier, removing his rear wing, and prematurely ending the session with five minutes remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Qualifying\nSaturday's afternoon qualifying session ran for an hour and was divided into four groups of five cars. Each group was determined by a lottery system and was permitted six minutes of on-track activity. All drivers were limited to two timed laps with one at maximum power. The fastest five overall competitors in the four groups participated in a \"Super Pole\" session with one driver on the track at any time going out in reverse order from fifth to first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Qualifying\nEach of the five drivers was limited to one timed lap and the starting order was determined by the competitor's fastest times (Super Pole from first to fifth, and group qualifying from sixth to twentieth). The driver and team who recorded the fastest time were awarded three points towards their respective championships. Car grip appeared to be affected as track temperatures rose between second practice and qualifying and saw many drivers glancing or narrowly avoiding the tyre barriers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Qualifying\nIn the first group of five runners, Buemi was the early pace setter with Abt second. Heidfeld took third and Ant\u00f3nio F\u00e9lix da Costa fourth. Evans locked his brakes, meaning he drove straight into the turn three barrier, and began from the tenth row of the grid. Bird was the fastest driver in the second group, followed by Vergne in second and Piquet third. Rosenqvist was fourth-quickest after he made errors, and Mortara locked his front left wheel entering the hairpin, meaning he was the slowest driver in the second group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Qualifying\nLynn led the third group, going a tenth of a second faster than Turvey. Prost was third-fastest while L\u00f3pez and Engel rounded out the third group's slowest two drivers. Di Grassi was the initial pace setter in group four until Lotterer surprised everyone by setting the fastest overall lap in group qualifying at 1 minute, 18.796 seconds. J\u00e9r\u00f4me d'Ambrosio (Dragon), Tom Blomqvist (Andretti) and Luca Filippi (NIO) rounded out group four's top five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Qualifying\nAt the end of group qualifying, Lotterer, di Grassi, Bird, Vergne and Buemi qualified for super pole. Vergne took his second pole position of the season and the sixth of his career with a time of 1 minute, 19.161 seconds, and was joined on the grid's front row by Buemi. Di Grassi was unable to replicate his pace from group qualifying and was third. Lotterer hit a bump in the tarmac surface entering turn one, and broke his front wing against the turn one wall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Qualifying\nLotterer slowed for the rest of his lap as the front wing slowly lodged itself under his car's bodywork. Bird lost control of the rear of his car entering the turn five and six double-right hand turn through carrying too much speed into the corner. Bird struck a TecPro barrier with his vehicle's rear but was able to drive back to pit lane for a replacement rear wing and the session was briefly red-flagged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Qualifying\nAfter qualifying, di Grassi was automatically demoted ten places on the grid for changing his inverter, and Prost dropped two places for exceeding the number of permitted laps. The rest of the grid lined up after penalties as Piquet, Lynn, Turvey, L\u00f3pez, Abt, Prost, Engel, d'Ambrosio, di Grassi, Rosenqvist, Heidfeld, F\u00e9lix da Costa, Mortara, Blomqvist, Filippi and Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race\nThe 37-lap race began at 16:00 Chile Summer Time (UTC+03:00). The weather was hot and sunny and the air temperature ranged from 29.1 to 29.9\u00a0\u00b0C (84.4 to 85.8\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperature was between 36.1 and 36.67\u00a0\u00b0C (96.98 and 98.01\u00a0\u00b0F). A special feature of Formula E is the \"Fan Boost\" feature, an additional 100\u00a0kW (130\u00a0hp) of power to use in the driver's second car. The three drivers who were allowed to use the boost were determined by a fan vote. For the Santiago race, Buemi, di Grassi and L\u00f3pez were handed the extra power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race\nAfter his poor qualifying performance, NIO started Filippi from the pit lane for tactical reasons. Vergne led the field into the first corner. Piquet made a quick start to move from fifth to second and Vergne held him off. Lotterer overtook the slow-starting Buemi for third place, while a brisk start from L\u00f3pez gained him three places. L\u00f3pez attempted to overtake Bird on the outside at turn four; Bird put L\u00f3pez into the tyre wall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race\nAs drivers swerved to avoid piling into L\u00f3pez's stricken car, Heidfeld hit Abt's rear wheel into turn four, causing both of their car's suspensions to fracture. Heidfeld made an unscheduled pit stop while Abt continued driving for a short period of time before doing the same. Engel drew alongside Turvey under braking for turn five and the pair made contact after Turvey braked later than him. Three corners later, Engel drew alongside Turvey on the outside and further contact was made at turn nine, breaking Engel's left-rear suspension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race\nEngel became the race's second retiree when Rosenqvist lunged him on the outside into turn nine, putting him over to the exit and damaged the car's front-left corner, sending him into the right-hand side wall. These incidents prompted Elkins to deploy the safety car to allow marshals to move the cars off the circuit. All surviving vehicles were ordered to drive through the pit lane to prevent any impediment of the recovery work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race\nAmidst all the action, Rosenqvist moved from fourteenth to eleventh while Evans gained eight positions over the same distance in spite of a ten-second penalty for changing one of his car's inverters before the start of the race. The safety car was withdrawn after five laps and Vergne led the field back up to speed at the restart. Piquet was caught off guard, and Vergne distanced himself as Piquet fended off Lotterer and Buemi. Despite this, Piquet closed back up to Vergne. While attacking Vergne, Piquet ran into the rear of the latter's car, detaching its left-rear wheel guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race\nPiquet chose not to brake later than Vergne as he feared he would be put in the wall like in the 2017 Monaco ePrix. Hence the race began to stagnate as the few battle for positions on the circuit could not be completed due to the tight track. The fastest lap was exchanged between Vergne and Piquet later on as the latter started to form another challenge for the lead. However, Piquet was distanced by Vergne who was looking to extend his advantage at the front before the pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race\nFurther back, Abt joined the list of retirements when he drove into his garage because of a loss in power after completing seven laps. Although it was difficult to overtake owing to the tight nature of the circuit, overtaking opportunities occurred throughout the field. Lotterer made an attempt at getting ahead of Piquet for second place but he did not succeed. Di Grassi passed Turvey for eighth, while Mortara half spun on lap 13, dropping him to seventeenth. Di Grassi overtook Prost for seventh soon after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race\nLotterer steered left onto the inside and overtook Piquet for second place into the turn three right-hander on the 19th lap. The mandatory pit stops to change into a second car began on lap twenty when the leaders drove into the pit lane. Bird and F\u00e9lix da Costa led the field for one lap before making their own stops. After the completion of the pit stops, the Techeetahs of Vergne and Lotterer retained first and second while Piquet kept third. Swift work from his pit crew moved Rosenqvist to fifth place while Bird fell to seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race\nFour cars were affected by problems over the next six laps. An electrical problem slowed di Grassi and he stopped in the centre of the track at the exit of the pit lane to retire on lap 23. Turvey lost power in his car leaving the pit lane and performed a full reset to continue driving. Heidfeld lacked electrical energy to complete the race in his second vehicle and parked inside his garage to retire on lap 26. A gearbox issue traced to an accessory production deviation ended Lynn's race early while in seventh two laps later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race\nAs the two Techeetahs began to battle for the lead due to both drivers losing radio communication with their garage owing to a pit lane technical failure and causing Vergne to conserve electrical energy, Buemi used his FanBoost to attack Piquet on lap 28 but the latter blocked the pass. Further round the lap, Buemi tried again, and was successful this time round, passing Piquet for third at the turn eight hairpin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race\nAt the front on the following lap, Lotterer attempted to overtake teammate Vergne on the outside for the lead but was forced wide by the latter. A battle between Buemi and Piquet for third position ended when Piquet locked his brakes during a pass on Buemi on the inside into turn three and drove onto the run-off area. Piquet then lightly hit a TecPro barrier and fell to sixth. Bird set the race's fastest lap on the 30th lap, completing a circuit in 1 minute and 20.235 seconds, earning him one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race\nMeanwhile, Lotterer was focused on closing the distance between himself and teammate Vergne. Driving on the main straight on lap 33, Lotterer attacked Vergne and his attempt caused him to lock his tyres. Lotterer lodged his front nose cone into the rear wing of Vergne's car, pushing him through the braking phase for turn three. Both drivers made the corner without significant damage. This allowed Buemi, Rosenqvist and Bird to close up, and the top five jostled for position on the bumpy tarmac surface over the final four laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race\nBuemi, Rosenqvist and Bird ran close together but electrical energy management restricted their attempts at overtaking, while Vergne successfully held off teammate Lotterer for the rest of the race by having more usable electrical energy to claim his second career victory. With Lotterer second, Techeetah secured the first one-two finish in Formula E history. Buemi took third to complete the final spot on the podium. Off the podium, Rosenqvist finished fourth with Bird close behind in fifth. The Jaguar duo of Piquet and Evans were sixth and seventh. d'Ambrosio, F\u00e9lix da Costa and Prost rounded out the top ten. The final finishers were Blomqvist, Filippi, Mortara and Turvey. There was one lead change throughout the race and two drivers reached the front of the field. Vergne led for a total of 36 laps, out of 37.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference. Vergne spoke of his relief over winning the race and said he hoped the success would strive his team to achieve more but noted the close competition that is seen in Formula E: \"It would be wrong to focus at the championship at the moment because it is won at the end of the season, not now. [", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThis competition] is extremely tough and you need to be on it every time because as soon as you make a small mistake you pay in cash.\" Lotterer was euphoric over finishing second after a poor start to his season due to misfortune, putting it down to additional set-up work undertaken by Techeetah in their simulator before the race, which led to an improved understanding on how his car worked. Third-place finisher Buemi revealed that a chassis defect reappeared from the season-opening Hong Kong double header led to him losing electrical energy and overall pace. He urged his team to focus on rectifying the issue but reserved congratulations for Techeetah on their achievement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race, Post-race\nTecheetah and Dragon were placed under investigation by the stewards on the Saturday evening after the race for issues relating to their car's seat belts. Techeetah were issued with a \u20ac15,000 fine for each of their cars while Dragon were given the same penalty for d'Ambrosio's vehicle; the FIA mandated full payment within 48 hours. It came after the FIA deemed both teams to have modified the harness of the seat belts without consulting its technical delegate before they installed the extra components.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race, Post-race\nHowever, unlike previous rulings in series history, the penalties did not alter the final result of the race. Reaction to the penalty was negative with several Formula E figures expressing anger over the FIA's inconsistency in its decision making and the message it sent out. Mark Preston, the team principal of Techeetah, suggested the wording of the FIA regulations was unclear and the sport's governing body responded by announcing it would clarify the rules before the Mexico City round. The motorsport press theorised the ruling was made after discord among fans and series figures was evident after Abt's disqualification from the victory in Hong Kong and spoke of their belief Techeetah's achievements possibly swayed the FIA into not disqualifying them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race, Post-race\nEngel spoke of his displeasure over retiring on the first lap, accusing Turvey of causing the contact purposefully but stated his feeling Rosenqvist was ahead of him by the time he hit the wall. Turvey did not respond to Engel's accusations. Audi team principal Allan McNish said he was puzzled why Abt did not have the same unreliability as his teammate di Grassi and was uncertain whether it was the same problem from Marrakesh, \"That's the frustrating part for us, for Lucas, and for the guys that put in so much effort from Marrakech until now.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race, Post-race\nWe thought we'd got a solution and we came away with no points.\" Di Grassi described the situation concerning the unreliability of his car as \"unbelievable\", adding that \"To have so many issues consecutively, like that, it's really frustrating because we have the pace. The first thing in racing that you learn is to win a race, first you have to finish. We're not finishing any races.\" Concerning their collision at turn five on the first lap, Abt accepted an apology from Heidfeld on Twitter after Heidfeld admitted to causing it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe result moved Vergne to the lead of the Drivers' Championship for the first time in his career with 71 points. Rosenqvist's fourth-place finish dropped him to second while Bird fell to third another five points behind Vergne. Buemi moved to fourth and Piquet dropped to fifth by finishing sixth. Techeetah's one-two finish promoted to the lead the Teams' Championship with 89 points, two ahead of Mahindra in second place. Virgin fell to third while Jaguar maintained fourth position. e.Dams-Renault's efforts moved them to fifth with eight races left in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Controversies\nThe route of the track was criticized by residents of Barrio Lastarria who argued the race would lead to the further impoverishment of the existing roadside infrastructure and the natural scenery. Claudio Orrego, the intendent of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, later admitted to the press the natural scenery would be left untouched and there would be no bleachers installed. Furthermore, a group of local residents filed an appeal for protection before the Court of Appeal to cancel the race but it was rejected on 31 January. On 20 February, the mayor of Santiago Felipe Alessandri announced Formula E could remain in the city but Parque Forestal was no longer authorised for racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282315-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Santiago ePrix, Controversies\nDespite Orrego's promise, several residents reported that some cobblestones had been damaged in Pur\u00edsima Street after the asphalt layer intended to protect from impoverishment was removed. Additionally, while the trackside structures were being dismantled, a truck collided with the Rebeca Matte Bello designed sculpture of Daedalus and Icarus mounted at the entrance to the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, moving it from its base and fracturing one of the statues's legs. This prompted race organisers to take responsibility for covering all expenses associated with the restoration of the sculpture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282316-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Santos FC season\nThe 2018 season is Santos Futebol Clube's one hundred and sixth season in existence and the club's fifty-ninth consecutive season in the top flight of Brazilian football. As well as the Campeonato Brasileiro, the club competes in the Copa do Brasil, the Campeonato Paulista and also in Copa Libertadores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282316-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Santos FC season, Players, Squad information\nSource: (for appearances and goals), Wikipedia players' articles (for international appearances and goals), (for contracts). Players in italic are not registered for the Campeonato Paulista", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282316-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Santos FC season, Players, Reserve players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282316-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Santos FC season, Players, Copa Libertadores squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282316-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Santos FC season, Players, Appearances and goals\nLast updated: 3 December 2018Source: Match reports in Competitive matches,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282316-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Santos FC season, Players, Goalscorers\nLast updated: 3 December 2018Source: Match reports in Competitive matches", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282316-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Santos FC season, Players, Disciplinary record\nAs of 3 December 2018Source: = Number of bookings; \u00a0 = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final\nThe 2018 Santosh Trophy Final was a match between Kerala and West Bengal, played on 1 April 2018, at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, West Bengal. The match was a culmination of the 2017\u201318 Santosh Trophy, the 72nd edition of the football competition contested by regional state associations and government institutions under the All India Football Federation. Kerala won the match after defeating West Bengal in a penalty shootout 4\u20132. In regulation time, the match ended 1\u20131 while during extra time, a goal each found both sides tied 2\u20132 after 120 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final\nKerala entered this edition of the Santosh Trophy after qualifying from Group B of the South Zone qualifiers. West Bengal entered after qualifying from Group B of the East Zone qualifiers. Prior to the start of the competition proper, both Kerala and West Bengal were placed in Group A for the first round. Both sides faced each other in the final match of the round, both winning their previous three matches. Kerala came away as the 1\u20130 winners to win the group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final\nWest Bengal entered the match as the defending champions after winning the Santosh Trophy the previous year in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Road to the final\nThe Santosh Trophy is an association football knock-out competition contested by the regional state associations and government institutions under the All India Football Federation (AIFF), the sport's governing body in India. Started in 1941, the competition was considered the top domestic football championship in India, prior to the start of the National Football League in 1996. The 2017\u201318 competition is the 72nd edition of the Santosh Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Road to the final\nIn order to enter the competition proper, teams had to go through a qualification round based on their region. Kerala were placed in Group B of the South Zone qualifiers while West Bengal were placed in Group B of the East Zone qualifiers. Kerala topped their group consisting of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu to qualify. West Bengal would also top their group consisting of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Road to the final, Kerala\nPrior to reaching the 2018 final, Kerala had played the final of the Santosh Trophy 13 times, winning on five occasions, most recently in 2004. For this edition of the tournament, Kerala were placed in Group A with Chandigarh, Maharashtra, Manipur, and eventually final opponent West Bengal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Road to the final, Kerala\nKerala's first match of the competition occurred on 19 March against Chandigarh. A brace from Jithin M.S. and three goals from Sajith Poulose, Afdal V.K. and Sreekuttan V.S. respectively earned Kerala an opening 5\u20131 victory. Four days later, Kerala defeated Manipur 6\u20130. Jithin Gopalan scored a brace while Afdal V.K., Rahul K.P., and Jithin M.S. scored the other three goals. The sixth goal came from an own goal by Roshan Singh. Two days later, on 25 March, Kerala would earn another major victory, 3\u20130 over Maharashtra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Road to the final, Kerala\nRahul Raj opened the scoring in the 24th minute before Jithin M.S. scored his fourth goal of the tournament in the 39th. Rahul K.P. scored Kerala's third in the 58th minute. Finally, on 27 March, Kerala played their final match of the group stage against eventually final opponent West Bengal. Rahul K.P. scored his third goal of the tournament in the 90th minute to give Kerala the victory and top of the group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Road to the final, Kerala\nWith the group stage finished, Kerala would take on Mizoram in the knockout semi-final match at the Mohun Bagan Ground. An Afdal V.K. goal in the 54th minute was enough to give Kerala the victory and a spot in their 14th final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Road to the final, West Bengal\nWest Bengal is entering this final as the most winningest team in competition history, winning the competition 32 times, including the final from the previous year. As well as their 32 championships, West Bengal were runners-up in the tournament 12 times. The second most winningest side in the competition is Punjab, with eight championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Road to the final, West Bengal\nFor this edition of the Santosh Trophy, West Bengal were placed in Group A alongside Chandigarh, Maharashtra, Manipur, and their finals opponent, Kerala. Their match was against Manipur on 19 March at the Sailen Manna Stadium. A Sumit Das brace and a goal from Bidyasagar Singh gave West Bengal a comfortable 3\u20130 opening victory. Two days later, West Bengal took on Maharashtra and won 5\u20131. Maharashtra took the lead early in the 8th minute through Leander Dharmai. West Bengal came back in the second half and equalized through Manotosh Chakladar in the 55th minute. Jiten Mumru then gave West Bengal the lead in the 62nd minute before Bidyashagar Singh scored their third in the 79th minute. The scoring was rounded off by a Bidyashagar Singh goal for a brace and Rajon Barman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Road to the final, West Bengal\nThen, on 25 March, Bidyashagar Singh scored his third goal of the tournament as West Bengal defeated Chandigarh 1\u20130. Despite the victory, West Bengal head coach, Ranjan Chowdhury, was displeased with his team's performance: \"I\u2019m not at all happy with the team\u2019s performance. We probably played the worst match of the tournament today.\" Two days later, West Bengal succumbed to their first defeat of the tournament, a 1\u20130 defeat against their finals opponent Kerala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Road to the final, West Bengal\nAfter the group stage, with West Bengal finishing second in Group A, the side were to play Group B winners Karnataka on 30 March. During the match, West Bengal captain Jiten Murmu opened the scoring in the 57th minute before Tirthankar Sarkar secured the victory for West Bengal in the 92nd minute and sent his side to their 45th final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Pre-match, Host selection\nOn 21 February 2018, it was announced by the All India Football Federation that the Santosh Trophy would take place in Kolkata. Prior to the beginning of the tournament, Kushal Das, the AIFF's General Secretary, said that he was looking forward to the Indian Football Association (West Bengal's state football federation) successfully hosting the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Pre-match, Host selection\nBefore the final, during the tournament, three different stadiums were used in and around Kolkata. The Rabindra Sarobar Stadium and the Sailen Manna Stadium were extensively used throughout the group stage before the Mohun Bagan Ground hosted some matches towards the end of the group stage and during the semi-finals. For the final of the competition, the match will be played at the Salt Lake Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nDespite taking the victory in their prior match during the group stage, Kerala will not come into this match as favorites. Due to being hosts in the final and history, West Bengal are favorites. Previously, both Kerala and West Bengal have met in the final of the Santosh Trophy twice, back in 1989 and 1994. On both occasions, West Bengal came out as the winners in penalty shootouts. However, even with history not on Kerala's side, their head coach, Satheevan Balan, was optimistic before the final: \"We know the statistics. But that is not something we are concerned about.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nStats have been against us since the start of the tournament. We were not fancied when we started the campaign and many doubted us to even make it past the qualifiers. But now we are in the final. We have considered every game as a final since arriving here and on Sunday, it will be the same.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nFor West Bengal, the hosts will be looking to reverse their defeat to Kerala from the group stage. \"There is no pressure. The team has confidence in its ability to win the final,\u201d said Bengal head coach Ranjan Chowdhury. \u201cThey are organised and strong defensively. Whoever wins needs to earn the trophy by playing well.\" West Bengal will also enter the match still as reigning champions, after they won in the final the previous season against Goa 1\u20130. For Kerala, this will be their first final appearance since 2013 and their first attempt to win the trophy since 2004. \"We can create history as it was 14 years ago that Kerala last won the prestigious trophy, but we will play without pressure,\" said head coach, Satheevan Balan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282317-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Santosh Trophy Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nComing into the match, West Bengal had the league's best defense, only conceding twice throughout the tournament while Kerala have scored the most goals during the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282318-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sapphire Aviation Bell UH-1 crash\nOn January 17, 2018, a Bell UH-1H Iroquois helicopter of Sapphire Aviation crashed near Raton, New Mexico, United States. Five of the six people on board were killed. The sole survivor was in serious condition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282318-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sapphire Aviation Bell UH-1 crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft involved was a Bell UH-1H Iroquois, registration N658H, msn 9856.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282318-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sapphire Aviation Bell UH-1 crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft served with the United States Army (as serial number \"67-17658\") and saw action during the Vietnam War, it crashed on 31 May 1969 at Firebase Eagles Nest. It was returned to the United States and repaired and used by the Ohio Army National Guard before being retired to the Firelands Military Museum in Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282318-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sapphire Aviation Bell UH-1 crash, Accident\nThe helicopter crashed and caught fire east of Raton, New Mexico. The pilot, pilot rated passenger, and three of the four passengers on board were killed, including Zimbabwean politician Roy Bennett and British world record holder Charles Burnett III. Burnett had set the record for a steam-powered car in 2009. The sole survivor, Andra Cobb, was the daughter of the pilot rated passenger Paul Cobb, and the long term romantic partner of Charles Burnett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282318-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Sapphire Aviation Bell UH-1 crash, Accident\nCobb was seriously injured but was able to raise the alarm by cellphone; although she was unable to give the location of the crash, it was located by New Mexico State Police on a ranch 15 miles (24\u00a0km) east of Raton. The aircraft was flying from Raton Municipal Airport to a site in Folsom, New Mexico. It crashed at about 18:00 local time. The Albuquerque Journal reported that the pilot had said that there had been mechanical problems with the helicopter the day before the accident. It was stated that these had been fixed before the fatal flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282318-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sapphire Aviation Bell UH-1 crash, Investigation\nThe US National Transportation Safety Board opened an investigation into the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282319-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarasota Open\nThe 2018 Sarasota Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 10th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sarasota, United States between 16 and 22 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282319-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarasota Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282319-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarasota Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282320-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarasota Open \u2013 Doubles\nScott Lipsky and J\u00fcrgen Melzer were the defending champions but only Lipsky chose to defend his title, partnering Donald Young. Lipsky lost in the first round to Christian Harrison and Peter Polansky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282320-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarasota Open \u2013 Doubles\nEvan King and Hunter Reese won the title after defeating Harrison and Polansky 6\u20131, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282321-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarasota Open \u2013 Singles\nFrances Tiafoe was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282321-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarasota Open \u2013 Singles\nHugo Dellien won the title after defeating Facundo Bagnis 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282322-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sark general election\nGeneral elections were held in Sark on 12 December 2018. The elections saw 15 candidates contest the nine available seats in the Chief Pleas, the first time seats were contested since 2012. Seven of the nine elected members were new to the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282323-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarpol-e Zahab earthquake\n2018 Sarpol-e Zahab earthquake (\u0632\u0645\u06cc\u0646\u200c\u0644\u0631\u0632\u0647 \u06f1\u06f3\u06f9\u06f7 \u0633\u0631\u067e\u0644 \u0630\u0647\u0627\u0628) with magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck western Iran near its border with Iraq at 20:07 local time (19:37 local time in Iraq) on Sunday night, 25 November 2018 injuring over 700 people and sending fearful residents running into the street. One fatality and 45 injuries were also reported in the neighbouring Iraq. According to CNN, some houses were destroyed in several rural areas of Qasr-e-Shirin and SarPol-e zahab. As soon as the quake stopped, several rescue teams were quickly dispatched, the authorities said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282323-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarpol-e Zahab earthquake\nThe tremor was also felt in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and in Kuwait. It was also experienced in Erbil, in the region of Kurdistan, according to Al Jazeera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282324-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarpsborg 08 FF season\nThe 2018 season is Sarpsborg 08's 7th season in Eliteserien, following their return to the top level in 2012. It is also their fourth season with Geir Bakke as their manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282324-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarpsborg 08 FF season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282324-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarpsborg 08 FF season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282324-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarpsborg 08 FF season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282324-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarpsborg 08 FF season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282324-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sarpsborg 08 FF season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282325-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SaskTel Tankard\nThe 2018 SaskTel Tankard, the provincial men's curling championship for Saskatchewan, was held from January 31-February 4 at the Affinty Place in Estevan, Saskatchewan The winning Steve Laycock team will represent Saskatchewan at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier in Regina, Saskatchewan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282326-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan New Democratic Party leadership election\nAn election for the leadership of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party was held on March 3, 2018, as a result of the resignation of Cam Broten after losing the seat he contested in the 2016 election. Ryan Meili was chosen leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282326-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan New Democratic Party leadership election, Rules\nAll Saskatchewan New Democratic Party members in good standing will be eligible to vote online or by mail-in ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 65], "content_span": [66, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282326-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan New Democratic Party leadership election, Declared candidates, Ryan Meili\nMeili is the MLA for Saskatoon Meewasin (2017\u2013present), a physician by profession who was the runner-up in the 2009 and 2013 leadership elections. Declared his candidacy on May 18, 2017", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 91], "content_span": [92, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282326-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan New Democratic Party leadership election, Declared candidates, Trent Wotherspoon\nWotherspoon is the MLA for Regina Rosemont (2007\u2013present) and third-place finisher in 2013 leadership election. Wotherspoon stepped down as interim party leader on June 13, 2017 and said he was considering running for the permanent position. He announced his candidacy on August 16, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 98], "content_span": [99, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282327-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Party leadership election\nThe 2018 Saskatchewan Party leadership election was held on January 27, 2018, due to the announcement on August 10, 2017, by Premier Brad Wall that he would be retiring from politics once his successor was chosen. The winner, Scott Moe, succeeded Wall as Premier of Saskatchewan on February 2, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282327-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Party leadership election\nThe leadership election was conducted by a one member-one vote preferential ballot system with voters able to either mail-in ballots or vote in person. Candidates had a $250,000 campaign expense limit and were required to disclose the names of contributors who donate $250 or more. The deadline for membership sales for those wanting to vote was on December 8, 2017. Patrick Bundrock is the Chief Electoral Officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282327-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Party leadership election, Declared candidates, Tina Beaudry-Mellor\nTina Beaudry-Mellor was most recently, Minister of Social Services and Minister Responsible for the Status of Women (2016\u20132017), and MLA for Regina University (2016\u20132020)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 85], "content_span": [86, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282327-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Party leadership election, Declared candidates, Ken Cheveldayoff\nKen Cheveldayoff was most recently Minister of Parks, Culture, Sport and Minister responsible for the Public Service Commission (2016\u20132017) and was previously Minister of Crown Corporations (2007\u20132009), Minister of Enterprise (2009\u20132010), Minister of First Nations and M\u00e9tis Relations (2010\u20132012), Minister of Environment, Responsible for SaskWater and the Water Security Agency (2012\u20132014), Government House Leader (2014\u20132016). He was first elected as the MLA for Saskatoon Silver Springs (2003\u20132016) and is currently the MLA for Saskatoon Willowgrove (2016\u2013present)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282327-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Party leadership election, Declared candidates, Alanna Koch\nAlanna Koch has served as Deputy Minister to the Premier (2016\u20132017) and Deputy Minister of Agriculture (2007\u20132016). Before entering the civil service she was executive director of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers and as president of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance, among other organizations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 77], "content_span": [78, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282327-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Party leadership election, Declared candidates, Scott Moe\nScott Moe was most recently Minister of the Environment (2016\u20132017). He was previously Minister of Advanced Education (2015\u20132016). Moe has been MLA for Rosthern-Shellbrook since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282327-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Party leadership election, Declared candidates, Scott Moe\nMoe has promised to fight the federally imposed carbon tax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282327-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Party leadership election, Declared candidates, Gordon Wyant\nGordon Wyant was most recently Minister of Justice (2012\u20132017), and is MLA for Saskatoon Northwest (2010\u2013present)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282328-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Roughriders season\nThe 2018 Saskatchewan Roughriders season was the 61st season for the team in the Canadian Football League. It was the club's 109th year overall, and its 103rd season of play. The Roughriders improved upon their 10\u20138 record from 2017 with a 12\u20136 record and qualified for the playoffs for the second consecutive year. The team hosted the first ever playoff game at the new Mosaic Stadium, but lost to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the West Semi-Final. This was the third season under head coach and general manager Chris Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282328-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Roughriders season\nThe club held their training camp at Griffiths Stadium in Saskatoon, for the sixth consecutive season, with the main camp beginning on May 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282328-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Roughriders season\nThe Roughriders became the first team to defeat the Calgary Stampeders in the 2018 regular season with a 40-27 win on August 19. At the time, they were also the only team to have lost to the Montreal Alouettes in the regular season, thus becoming the first team to be both the only team to beat a previously undefeated opponent and the only one to lose to a different opponent with a previously winless record after playing eight games of a professional football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282328-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Roughriders season, Offseason\nOn December 8, 2017, the Roughriders released Beau Landry, Zach Minter, Ivan Brown and Cameron Ontko. On December 20, 2017, it was announced the Roughriders re-signed Canadian quarterback Brandon Bridge, who split starting duties with Kevin Glenn during the 2017 season. The next day, the Roughriders would re-sign veteran defensive back Jovon Johnson and offensive lineman Thaddeus Coleman. On December 27, 2017, the Roughriders re-signed kick returner and the team's top rookie Christion Jones. Two days later, they would re-sign defensive back Crezdon Butler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282328-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Roughriders season, Offseason\nOn January 3, 2018, the Roughriders acquired quarterback Zach Collaros from the Hamilton Tiger Cats. The next day, the Roughriders released veteran quarterback Kevin Glenn. On January 19, 2018, the Roughriders signed Collaros to a restructured contract for 2018. On January 22, 2018, the Roughriders re-signed star receiver Duron Carter to a one-year contract extension. On January 31, 2018, the Roughriders released linebacker Jeff Knox to pursue an opportunity in the National Football League. On February 1, 2018, the Roughriders released running backs Kienan LaFrance and Shakir Bell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282328-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Roughriders season, Offseason\nThe next day, the Roughriders acquired defensive lineman Charleston Hughes from the Hamilton Tiger Cats in exchange for quarterback Vernon Adams. On February 3rd, the Roughriders released Kacy Rodgers II so he could pursue an NFL opportunity with the New York Jets. The team also released international defensive back Erick Dargan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282328-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Roughriders season, Offseason\nOn February 13, 2018, the first day of CFL free agency, the Roughriders re-signed national offensive lineman Dan Clark and fullback Spencer Moore. The team signed national defensive lineman Zack Evans. They also released international linebacker Glenn Love and offensive lineman Derek Dennis, who was their top free agent signing from 2017. The next day, the Roughriders officially announced the signing of national running back Jerome Messam and national linebacker Sam Hurl, both of whom had played for the team previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282328-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Roughriders season, Offseason\nOn February 15, 2018, the Roughriders signed international offensive lineman Travis Bond and national defensive back Adam Laurensse, but released their top defensive player from 2017 in national linebacker Henoc Muamba. On February 19, the Roughriders announced the signing of national receiver Jake Harty. The next day, the team announced international defensive end Charleston Hughes had signed an extension through 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282328-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Roughriders season, Offseason\nOn February 22, 2018, the Roughriders re-signed international offensive lineman Jarvis Harrison, receiver TJ Thorpe, offensive lineman Terran Vaughn and defensive back Melvin White. They also signed international receivers Shaq Evans and Jacoby Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282328-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Roughriders season, Offseason, CFL Draft\nThe 2018 CFL Draft took place on May 3, 2018. The Roughriders had five selections in the eight-round draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282328-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Roughriders season, Regular season, Schedule\nAs the province of Saskatchewan does not observe Daylight Saving Time, all times quoted here (in CST) are the same as Mountain Daylight Time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282328-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Roughriders season, Team, Roster\nItalics indicate American playerBold indicate Global player updated 2019-09-07 \u2022 46 Active, 1 One-game Injured,10 Six-Game Injured, 13 Practice", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282329-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Rush season\nThe Saskatchewan Rush are a lacrosse team based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2018 season is the 13th in franchise history, 3rd in Saskatchewan. originally they played in Edmonton. this season they have won their 3rd title in 4 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282329-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Rush season, Current standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282329-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Rush season, Current roster, Entry Draft\nThe 2017 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 18, 2017. The Rush made the following selections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282329-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Rush season, Current roster, Runners (Top 10)\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282330-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2018 Viterra Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Saskatchewan, was held from January 2\u20137 at the Northern Lights Palace in Melfort, Saskatchewan. The winning Sherry Anderson team represented Saskatchewan at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282330-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nCandace Chisholm, skip of the Chisholm rink won the Marj Mitchell Award for sportsmanship and competitiveness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282331-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saudari Cup\nThe 2018 Saudari Cup was contested between the women's national teams of Malaysia and Singapore from 9 to 12 August 2018. The Saudari cup is an annual event between the two sides, which started in 2014, and had been won by Malaysia in each of the first three editions. All three previous tournaments were won 2\u20131 by Malaysia, including the most recent which was played in Johor in 2016. The tournament was contested over six Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) matches, with the first five matches played at the Selangor Turf Club in Kuala Lumpur and the final match played at the UKM-YSD Cricket Oval in Bangi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282331-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Saudari Cup\nFollowing the International Cricket Council's decision to grant T20I status to all matches played between women's sides of Associate Members after 1 July 2018, this edition had this enhanced status. Singapore women played their first matches with WT20I status during this series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282331-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Saudari Cup\nMalaysia won the series 4-2, although it is also reported as two separate series (one for 2017 and one for 2018) both of which Malaysia won 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282332-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saudi Super Cup\nThe 2018 Saudi Super Cup was the 5th edition of the Saudi Super Cup, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Saudi Pro League and King's Cup. It was played on 18 August 2018 by Al-Hilal, the winners of the 2017\u201318 Saudi Pro League, and Al-Ittihad, the winners of the 2018 King Cup. The match was held at Loftus Road in London, England for the second time. Al-Hilal won the match 2\u20131 securing their second title in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282332-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Saudi Super Cup, Venue\nLoftus Road was announced as the venue of the final on 27 July 2018. This was the second time Loftus Road hosted the final and was the third time it was hosted in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282332-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Saudi Super Cup, Venue\nLoftus Road was built in 1904 and has been used as the home stadium of Queens Park Rangers since 1917. Its current capacity is 18,439, and the record attendance was 35,353 in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282332-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Saudi Super Cup, Background\nThis was Al-Hilal's third appearance in the competition. Al-Hilal won the 2015 edition and finished as runners-up in 2016. This was Al-Ittihad's second appearance in the competition. They finished as runners-up in 2013 after to Al-Fateh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282332-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Saudi Super Cup, Background\nThe 2017 edition which was supposed to be contested between Al-Hilal and Al-Ittihad was canceled. The decision was based on the request of then-Saudi national team manager, Edgardo Bauza, who expressed his desire to change the calendar of the season to help him set the ideal preparation program for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282332-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Saudi Super Cup, Background\nAl-Hilal qualified by winning the 2017\u201318 Saudi Professional League on the final matchday by defeating Al-Fateh 4\u20131. Al-Ittihad qualified by winning their ninth King Cup title by defeating Al-Faisaly 3\u20131 in the final. The was the 141st meeting between these two sides in all competitions. Al-Hilal won 56 times while Al-Ittihad won 42 times and the two teams drew 42 times. This was the tenth final between these two sides, with Al-Ittihad winning five times and Al-Hilal winning four times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282332-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Saudi Super Cup, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Bahattin Duran (Turkey)Tarik Ongun (Turkey)Fourth official:Mohammed Al-SmailVideo assistant referee:Mark Clattenburg (England)Assistant video assistant referees:Khaled Al-Teris", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282333-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Saudi-Egyptian Super Cup\nThe 2018 Saudi-Egyptian Super Cup is the 3rd Saudi-Egyptian Super Cup, a football match played between the title holders of the domestic league and cup in both countries. The Egyptian Premier League winners will play against the King Cup winners, and the Saudi Professional League winners will play against the Egypt Cup winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282334-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah Challenger\nThe 2018 Savannah Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Savannah, United States between 30 April and 6 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282334-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282334-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282335-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nPeter Polansky and Neal Skupski were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282335-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nLuke Bambridge and Akira Santillan won the title after defeating Enrique L\u00f3pez P\u00e9rez and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282336-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah Challenger \u2013 Singles\nTennys Sandgren was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282336-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah Challenger \u2013 Singles\nHugo Dellien won the title after defeating Christian Harrison 6\u20131, 1\u20136, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282337-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah State Tigers football team\nThe 2018 Savannah State Tigers football team represented Savannah State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers were members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). They were led by third-year head coach Erik Raeburn and played their home games at Ted Wright Stadium. They finished the season 2\u20138, 1\u20136 in MEAC play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282337-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah State Tigers football team\nThis season marked the Tigers' final season playing in Division I as they rejoined Division II after the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282337-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah State Tigers football team\nOn December 9, head coach Erik Raeburn was fired. He finished as Savannah State with a three-year record of 8\u201323.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282337-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah State Tigers football team, Previous season\nThe Tigers finished the 2017 season 3\u20138, 3\u20135 in MEAC play to finish in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282337-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah State Tigers football team, Preseason, MEAC preseason poll\nIn a vote of the MEAC head coaches and sports information directors, the Tigers were picked to finish in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282337-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah State Tigers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MEAC Teams\nThe Tigers had five players selected to the preseason all-MEAC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282337-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Savannah State Tigers football team, Schedule\nDespite also being a member of the MEAC, the game vs Howard will be considered a non-conference game and will have no effect on the MEAC standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282338-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Scarborough SC season\nThe 2018 season was Scarborough SC's fourth season in the Canadian Soccer League. Their season official commenced on May 19, 2018 in an away match against FC Ukraine United. The season proved to be a successful one as Scarborough managed to compete in the top four and ultimately secured a playoff berth by finishing fourth in the First Division. In the postseason tournament Scarborough successfully defeated Hamilton City SC, and FC Ukraine in the earlier rounds in order to reach the CSL Championship final for the second straight season. Their opposition in the finals were FC Vorkuta, but ultimately were defeated in a penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282338-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Scarborough SC season\nWhile in the Second Division their reserve team made their debut, and successfully clinched a postseason berth. Their postseason participation came to an early conclusion after a defeat to Halton United. For the second consecutive season Aleksandar Stojiljkovi\u0107 finished as the club's top goalscorer with 10 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282338-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Scarborough SC season, Summary\nIn the off season Scarborough negotiated a player agreement with York Region Shooters in order to acquire additional talent as the Shooters ceased operations for the 2018 season. Scarborough also launched their first reserve team in the Second Division under the management of Eddy Coronel. Further notable changes included the return of European journeyman Zoran Rajovi\u0107 in order to operate as a player-coach. As former head coach Krum Bibishkov departed after receiving a franchise in the Canadian Soccer League for his soccer academy SC Real Mississauga. Throughout the season Rajovic managed to secure Scarborough their third consecutive playoff berth by finishing fourth in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282338-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Scarborough SC season, Summary\nIn the preliminary round of the postseason Scarborough defeated Hamilton City SC by a score of 4-1.In the following round Toronto faced division champions FC Ukraine United, and defeated them to reach the finals of the CSL Championship for the second consecutive year. In finals Scarborough faced FC Vorkuta, but were defeated in a penalty shootout. Meanwhile in the Second Division their reserve squad secured a postseason berth by finishing third. In the playoffs the team faced an early elimination from Halton United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282338-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Scarborough SC season, Players, First Division roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282338-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Scarborough SC season, Players, Second Division roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282338-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Scarborough SC season, Competitions, Canadian Soccer League, Results summary\nLast updated: September 20, 2018. Source: 2018 Canadian Soccer League season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282339-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Scheldeprijs\nThe 2018 Scheldeprijs was the 106th edition of the Scheldeprijs road cycling one day race, held on 4 April 2017 as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour, as a 1.HC categorised race. More than thirty riders were disqualified from the race, after going through a level crossing that was closing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282340-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Science Olympiad National Tournament\nThe 2018 Science Olympiad National Tournament was the 34th annual edition of the National Science Olympiad tournament, a competition in which 120 teams (sixty middle school and sixty high school) from all fifty states and the District of Columbia compete in twenty three science-related events, in various fields of science, such as chemistry, physics, biology, and geology. The tournament was hosted for the first time by Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, with competitions being held around campus and the opening and closing ceremonies being held at the Moby Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282340-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Science Olympiad National Tournament\nOnly one of the winners from last year's national competition at Wright State University were able to defend their titles; the defending champions were Daniel Wright Junior High School (IL) and Troy High School (CA). Troy finished first to successfully defend their title, and Daniel Wright finished second. Solon Middle School (OH) won the Division B tournament to win their eighth title, keeping them in second for most National championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national women's curling championship, was held from January 27\u2013February 4, 2018 at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton, British Columbia. The winning team represented Canada at the 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship held from March 17\u201325 at the Memorial Gardens in North Bay, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2018 tournament was the first to use a new 16-team format, featuring representation by all fourteen member associations of Curling Canada, the second-place team from the 2017 tournament (as champion Rachel Homan declined to participate due to her qualification for the 2018 Winter Olympics), and a new wildcard team. As part of this new format, the Bronze medal game was removed from the schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nCurling Canada introduced a new 16-team format for both the Tournament of Hearts and Brier for 2018, under which all 14 member associations of Curling Canada were represented in the main field, rather than being limited by a pre-qualifying tournament. The teams were divided into two pools for round robin play, after which the top four teams from each advanced to the Championship Pool. Defending champion Rachel Homan declined to participate as Team Canada in order to prepare for the 2018 Winter Olympics; Michelle Englot's team, who finished as runner-up in the 2017 tournament, participated in her place. The final spot in the tournament was filled by a wildcard play-in game held on the Friday before the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nThe rinks of Hollie Duncan (Ontario), \u00c9milia Gagn\u00e9 (Quebec), and Casey Scheidegger (Alberta) made their Scotties debut; although members of Team Ontario had previous experience at the national women's championship, mostly as alternates. Scotties veteran skip Sherry Anderson (Saskatchewan) led a team of Tournament of Hearts rookies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Michelle EnglotThird: Kate CameronSecond: Leslie Wilson-WestcottLead: Raunora WestcottAlternate: Briane Meilleur", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Casey ScheideggerThird: Cary-Anne McTaggartSecond: Jessie ScheideggerLead: Kristie MooreAlternate Susan O'Connor", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Kesa Van OschThird: Marika Van OschSecond: Kalia Van OschLead: Amy GibsonAlternate: Rachelle Kallechy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Jennifer JonesThird: Shannon BirchardSecond: Jill OfficerLead: Dawn McEwenAlternate Kaitlyn Lawes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Sylvie RobichaudThird: Melissa AdamsSecond: Nicole Arsenault BishopLead: Kendra Lister", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Tracy FleuryThird: Crystal WebsterSecond: Jennifer WylieLead: Amanda GatesAlternate: Jenna Walsh", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Mary-Anne ArsenaultThird: Christina BlackSecond: Jenn BaxterLead: Jennifer CrouseAlternate: Carole MacLean", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Hollie DuncanThird: Stephanie LeDrewSecond: Cheryl KreviazukLead: Karen SagleAlternate: Danielle Inglis", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : \u00c9milia Gagn\u00e9Third: M\u00e9lina PerronSecond: Marie-Pier HarveyLead: Chlo\u00e9 ArnaudAlternate: Isabelle Thiboutot", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Sherry AndersonThird: Kourtney FesserSecond: Krista FesserLead: Karlee KorchinskiAlternate: Kim Schneider", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Amie ShackletonThird: Geneva ChislettSecond: Christianne WestLead: Denise HutchingsAlternate: Robyn Mackey", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Chelsea DuncanThird: Jenna DuncanSecond: Kara PriceLead: Jody SmallwoodAlternate: Loralee Johnstone", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Wildcard game\nA wildcard play-in game was played on January 26; it was contested between the top two teams on the CTRS standings who did not win their respective provincial championships, and was played between The Glencoe Club's Chelsea Carey rink from Calgary and the East St. Paul Curling Club's Kerri Einarson rink from the Winnipeg exurb of East St. Paul. With Einarson's victory, Manitoba was represented by three different teams in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Round Robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Pacific Standard Time (UTC\u22128:00).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Placement Round\nEach team that finished fifth through eight in their pool played the team that finished in the same position in the opposite pool for the purpose of determining final tournament ranking. For example, the winner of the game between fifth place teams was ranked ninth place overall, the loser of that game was ranked tenth place, and so on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Placement Round, Seeding Games\nAll game times are listed in Pacific Standard Time (UTC\u22128:00).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Championship Pool Standings\nAll wins and losses earned in the round robin (including results against teams that failed to advance) were carried forward into the Championship Pool. Wins in tiebreaker games were not carried forward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282341-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Championship Pool Results\nAll draw times are listed in Pacific Standard Time (UTC\u22128:00).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282342-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Challenge Cup Final\nThe 2018 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, also known as the IRN-BRU Cup Final for sponsorship reasons, was a football match that took place on 24 March 2018 at McDiarmid Park, between Dumbarton and Inverness Caledonian Thistle. It was the 27th final of the Scottish Challenge Cup since it was first organised in 1990 to celebrate the centenary of the now defunct Scottish Football League, and the fifth since the SPFL was formed. The match was won by Inverness CT 1\u20130 with a stoppage time winner, marking their second win in the tournament since its inception and their first silverware since the 2014\u201315 Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282342-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, Route to the final\nThe competition is a knock-out tournament and was contested by 56 teams from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in 2017\u201318. Two teams from the Republic of Ireland were added to the competition in 2017\u201318, following the addition of teams from Wales and Northern Ireland in 2016\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282342-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, Route to the final\nThose participating were the 30 clubs that played in the 2017\u201318 Championship, League One and League Two of the Scottish Professional Football League along with the top four teams from the 2016\u201317 Highland and Lowland Leagues. The top two teams from the 2016\u201317 Welsh Premier League and 2016\u201317 NIFL Premiership and the U20s squads of the teams competing in the 2016\u201317 Premiership were also invited to compete. Bray Wanderers and Sligo Rovers, as the League of Ireland's highest-ranked non-European participants in 2016, were also invited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282342-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, Route to the final, Inverness Caledonian Thistle\nInverness received a bye to the second round, as the team that had finished 12th in the 2016\u201317 Scottish Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282343-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Cup Final\nThe 2018 Scottish Cup Final was the 133rd final of the Scottish Cup and the final of the 2017\u201318 Scottish Cup, the most prestigious knockout football competition in Scotland. The match took place at Hampden Park on 19 May 2018 and was contested by Celtic and Motherwell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282343-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Cup Final\nThe fixture was a repeat of the finals in 1931, 1933, 1951 and 2011, all of which were won by Celtic. It was also a repeat of the League Cup final earlier in the same season, which Celtic won 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282343-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Cup Final\nCeltic completed a successive domestic treble (\"double treble\"), a feat which had not previously been achieved in Scottish football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282343-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Cup Final, Match, Summary\nCallum McGregor opened the scoring for Celtic after 11 minutes with a right foot half volley from the edge of the penalty area into the left corner of the net after the ball broke to him. Olivier Ntcham made it 2-0 after 25 minutes with a low right foot finish to the left corner of the net after a pass from Moussa Demb\u00e9l\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282344-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Labour deputy leadership election\nThe 2018 Scottish Labour Party deputy leadership election was an internal party election to choose a new deputy leader of the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament. It was triggered by the resignation on 16 December 2017 of Alex Rowley, who had been suspended from the post on 15 November 2017 following allegations that he had sent abusive text messages to a former partner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282344-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Labour deputy leadership election, Result\nThe only candidate nominated was Lesley Laird, who had been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath since general election in June 2017. Laird was therefore elected unopposed. She had been acting deputy leader since Rowley's resignation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282345-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish League Cup Final\nThe 2018 Scottish League Cup Final was the 73rd final of the Scottish League Cup, which took place on 2 December 2018 at Hampden Park, Glasgow. The clubs contesting the final were Celtic and Aberdeen. Celtic won the match 1\u20130, winning their 18th League Cup and 7th consecutive domestic trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282345-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish League Cup Final, Route to the final\nAs both clubs participated in European competitions, they both received a bye through the 2018\u201319 Scottish League Cup group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282345-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish League Cup Final, Match, Summary\nRyan Christie got the only goal of the game in the fifth minute of time added on in the first half when he took down a ball on the edge of the penalty area from Dedryck Boyata, his initial shot with his right foot was saved by Joe Lewis but he followed up by shooting with his left foot to the roof of the net. Celtic were awarded a penalty in the 52nd minute for a hand-ball by Dominic Ball. Scott Sinclair's took the penalty which was saved by Joe Lewis diving to his right. The win was Brendan Rodgers seventh straight domestic trophy win with Celtic and Celtic's 18th Scottish League Cup win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282346-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish National Party depute leadership election\nThe Scottish National Party depute leadership election ran from 18 May to 8 June 2018. The election was contested for the party's new depute leader following the resignation of Angus Robertson in February 2018, after he lost his Westminster seat in the 2017 snap election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282346-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish National Party depute leadership election\nKeith Brown was announced as the winner of the election on 8 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282346-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish National Party depute leadership election, Procedure\nBallots opened on 18 May. The winner was announced as Keith Brown at the SNP conference in Aberdeen on 8 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282346-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish National Party depute leadership election, Candidates\nNominations closed on 13 April 2018, there were three candidates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 67], "content_span": [68, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282346-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish National Party depute leadership election, Campaign\nThe status of a second Scottish independence referendum was considered as a significant issue surrounding the depute leadership election, with Chris McEleny and Julie Hepburn seen as supporters of such a referendum occurring earlier rather than later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 65], "content_span": [66, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282346-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish National Party depute leadership election, Results\nThe depute leadership election was conducted using the single transferable vote system, with the results being declared on 8 June. Keith Brown was elected as the new Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party with a majority of 55.2% of votes cast in the second round of voting, beating rival candidate Julie Hepburn who secured 44.8%. Candidate Chris McEleny finished third with 16.2%, having been eliminated in the first round of voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282347-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Scottish Open was a badminton tournament that took place at the Emirates Arena in Scotland from 21 to 25 November 2018 and had a total prize of $75,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282347-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Scottish Open was the eleventh Super 100 tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Scottish Open championships, which had been held since 1907. This was the last tournament to be counted for the 2018 BWF World Tour Finals. This tournament was organized by BadmintonScotland and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282347-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282347-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF Tour Super 100 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282347-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$75,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282347-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Open (badminton), Men's singles, Wild card\nBadmintonScotland awarded a wild card entry to Matthew Carder of Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282348-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Open (snooker)\nThe 2018 Scottish Open (known for sponsorship reasons as the BetVictor Scottish Open) was professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 10 to 16 December 2018 at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the tenth ranking event of the 2018/2019 season and a part of the Home Nations Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282348-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Open (snooker)\nThe tournament was won by Mark Allen who beat Shaun Murphy in the final. Allen led 6\u20133 but then Murphy won four frames in a row to take a 7\u20136 lead. Allen, however, won the next three frames to win 9\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282348-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Open (snooker)\nNeil Robertson was the defending champion, but he lost 2\u20134 to Ross Muir in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282348-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Open (snooker)\nJohn Higgins made the ninth maximum break of his career in the third frame of his second-round victory over Gerard Greene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282348-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Open (snooker), Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282349-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Rally Championship\nThe Scottish Rally Championship is a rallying series run throughout Scotland over the course of a year, that comprises seven gravel surface events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282349-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Rally Championship\nThe 2018 series began in the snow-covered forest tracks around Inverness on 10 February, with the season finale taking place around Castle Douglas on 8 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282349-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Rally Championship\nAberdeen based haulage company ARR Craib were the championship sponsors for the sixth year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282349-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Rally Championship\nDriver Euan Thorburn and regular co-driver Paul Beaton who won the 2017 championship did not contest the 2018 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282349-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Rally Championship\nFollowing the Galloway Hills Rally in September driver Andrew Gallacher and co-driver Jane Nicol were declared 2018 champions in their Ford Focus WRC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282349-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Rally Championship, 2018 calendar\nFor season 2018 there was to be seven events held predominantly on gravel surfaces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282349-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Rally Championship, 2018 calendar\nBorder Counties Rally: On 2 March it was announced by press release that the 2018 event would be postponed. This was due to severe winter weather in the area on the weekend prior to the expected date of 10 March that would impede the stage preparation. Organisers were in talks with the SRC to make alternative arrangements however no date could be agreed and the event was abandoned for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282349-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Rally Championship, Drivers Points Classification\nPoints are awarded to the highest placed registered driver on each event as follows: 30, 28, 27, 26, and so on down to 1 point. At the end of the Championship, competitors will count their best 5 scores out of the 6 events as his/her final overall Championship score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282350-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Women's Premier League\nThe 2018 Scottish Women's Premier League season is the 17th season of the Scottish Women's Premier League, the highest division of women's football in Scotland since its inception in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282350-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Women's Premier League\nThe Premier League is split into two divisions of eight teams each. The divisions are named SWPL 1 and SWPL 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282350-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Women's Premier League\nGlasgow City had won the 2017 SWPL1 title unbeaten. It was their eleventh consecutive championship. They retained the title on the last matchday of the 2018 season. Hamilton were relegated, while the promoted team was their Lanarkshire rivals, Motherwell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282350-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Women's Premier League, SWPL 1, Format\nTeams play each other three times. The top team wins the championship and qualifies for the Champions League. The bottom placed team is relegated to the SWPL2 at the end of season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282350-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottish Women's Premier League, SWPL 1, Format\nThe SWPL2 plays the same format with the winning team being promoted and bottom two teams being relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282351-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottsdale shootings\nIn May and June 2018, a spree killer sought out and fatally shot six people in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. The shooting spree began on May 30 and ended June 4, when the shooter killed himself as police closed in. The shooter was identified as 56-year old Dwight Lamon Jones. The story was covered on Dateline NBC on June 29, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282351-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottsdale shootings, Shootings\nThe victims of the initial shootings were a noted forensic psychiatrist, two paralegals, and a counselor; all were shot within 24 hours of each other and within a 10-mile (16\u00a0km) radius in Scottsdale and Phoenix. The other two victims were discovered June 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282351-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottsdale shootings, Shootings\n59-year old Steven Pitt, a well-known forensic psychiatrist, was shot and killed outside his office at 5:20pm on Thursday, May 31. Pitt had examined Jones in connection with a \"bitter\" divorce. In 2006 Pitt helped the police identify the Baseline killer who had raped and murdered a series of women in Phoenix, Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282351-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottsdale shootings, Shootings\n48-year old Veleria Sharp and 49-year old Laura Anderson, paralegals, were shot and killed at 2:15pm on Friday, June 1 in the downtown Scottsdale offices of Burt, Feldman, Grenier, the law firm where they worked. A lawyer at the firm had worked on the Jones divorce. By 11:30 pm on Friday, June 1, police knew that the same gun had been used to kill Anderson, Sharp and Pitt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282351-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottsdale shootings, Shootings\nThe body of 72-year old Marshall Levine, a psychologist and counselor, was found just after midnight, as Friday turned to Saturday, June 2, in his Scottsdale office. Levine was subletting his office from a woman who had provided counseling services to his son during the divorce, Jones' intended target.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282351-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottsdale shootings, Shootings\nBy Sunday afternoon, police had Jones under surveillance as he drove around Fountain Hills in his gold Mercedes Benz. At one point, Jones ditched a small bag containing a .22-caliber pistol, which police later determined to belong to one of two people, 70-year-old Mary Simmons and 72-year-old Bryon Thomas, who were shot and killed inside a Fountain Hills home. Their bodies were not discovered until Monday, June 4. Police stated that ballistics ruled out the 22-caliber gun from having been used in any of the shootings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282351-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottsdale shootings, Investigation\nThe break in the investigation came when Jones' ex-wife issued a statement saying her current husband, a retired Phoenix police detective, \"recognized the connection to my divorce and the three crime scenes and he notified the Phoenix Police violent crime unit on Saturday (June 2) night.\" Once Jones was made a suspect, a DNA sample was obtained from a relative of Jones and matched to a DNA sample from a recovered shell casing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282351-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottsdale shootings, Perpetrator\nThe perpetrator was identified as 56-year old Dwight Lamon Jones who had previously been arrested. According to Rich Slavin, an assistant chief with the Scottsdale Police Department, Jones was arrested in 2008 or 2009 on charges of domestic violence, alleging that he mistreated his wife and a child. Jones had been living at Extended Stay hotels for the past nine years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282351-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Scottsdale shootings, Perpetrator\nHis former wife told reporters that she \"feared for my safety for the past nine years.\" In her statement she continued with \"He was a very emotionally disturbed person as the court records will confirm.\" Less than a week before the spree killings Jones used social media to attempt to bring forward allegations that his ex-wife was the abuser and not Jones. Jones created almost 10 hours of content outlining what he viewed as a conspiracy by his ex-wife, psychiatrists, lawyers and the Maricopa County Judicial system to rig a divorce and custody case to steal his son from him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282352-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Mariners season\nThe 2018 Seattle Mariners season was the 42nd season in franchise history. The Mariners played their 19th full season (20th overall) at Safeco Field, their home ballpark. The Mariners entered this season with the longest active playoff drought in the four major North American professional sports, failing to make their first postseason appearance since 2001. At several points in the season, the Mariners were 10 games ahead of the Oakland Athletics in the AL Wild Card race, but ended up finishing eight games behind them. The Mariners were eliminated from playoff contention on September 22 with the Athletics win against the Minnesota Twins. The Mariners began the season on March 29, 2018 against the Cleveland Indians and finished the season on September 30 against the Texas Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282352-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Mariners season\nThe Mariners were led by manager Scott Servais in his third year as manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282352-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason and spring training\nOn December 7, 2017, the Mariners traded three minor leaguers to the Miami Marlins for Dee Gordon and $1 million in international slot money. General manager Jerry Dipoto stated he planned to use Gordon in center field instead of his usual second base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282352-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason and spring training\nOn March 6, 2018, the Mariners signed free agent Ichiro Suzuki for a $750k salary with incentives up to $2M. He returned to the Seattle Mariners after five years being with the New York Yankees and the Miami Marlins, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282352-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Mariners season, Statistics, Batting\n(Through September 30, 2018)Players in bold finished the season on the active roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282352-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Mariners season, Statistics, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases; BB = Walks; K = Strikeouts; Avg. = Batting average; OBP = On Base Percentage; SLG = Slugging Percentage;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282352-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Mariners season, Statistics, Pitching\n(Through September 30, 2018)Players in bold finished the season on the active roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282352-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Mariners season, Statistics, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282353-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Reign FC season\nThe 2018 Seattle Reign FC season was the club's sixth season of play and their sixth season in the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States. After finishing fifth in the league for two consecutive seasons, the Reign finished third to return to the playoffs, where they lost to Portland Thorns FC in the semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282353-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Reign FC season\nVlatko Andonovski replaced Laura Harvey as head coach on November 7, 2017. Andonovski was previously the head coach of FC Kansas City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282353-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Reign FC season\nThis was ultimately the club's last season in Seattle, as well as its last as Seattle Reign FC. During the 2018\u201319 offseason, the club's principal owners, Bill and Teresa Predmore, announced that the team would move to Tacoma, Washington for 2019 and beyond, rebranding as Reign FC. In addition, the team gained two new minority investors\u2014the ownership group of the Tacoma Rainiers, a Triple-A Minor League Baseball team in the Pacific Coast League, and Adrian Hanauer, the principal owner of the region's Major League Soccer team, Seattle Sounders FC. Reign FC will play in the Rainiers' home of Cheney Stadium until a new soccer stadium in Tacoma already planned for the Sounders' USL Championship affiliate, Tacoma Defiance, opens. At that time, most likely 2021, the Defiance and Reign FC will move to the new stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 851]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282353-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Reign FC season, Club, Current roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282353-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Reign FC season, Transfers\nFor transfers in, dates listed are when the Reign FC officially signed the players to the roster. Transactions where only the rights to the players are acquired (e.g., draft picks) are not listed, and amateur call-ups are not considered official signings either. For transfers out, dates listed are when the Reign FC officially removed the players from its roster, not when they signed with another club. If a player later signed with another club, her new club will be noted, but the date listed here remains the one when she was officially removed from the Reign FC roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282353-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Reign FC season, Transfers, Transfers in, Draft picks\nDraft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only those who are signed to a contract will be listed as transfers in. Only trades involving draft picks and executed on the days of the 2018 NWSL College Draft and the 2018 NWSL Dispersal Draft, respectively, will be listed in the notes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season\nThe 2018 season was the Seattle Seahawks' 43rd in the National Football League and their ninth under head coach Pete Carroll. The Seahawks improved on their 9\u20137 record from the 2017 season, finishing 10\u20136, the sixth time in seven years that they recorded at least ten wins in a season. They also played in London for the first time in franchise history, defeating the Oakland Raiders 27\u20133 in Week 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season\nWith a win over the Kansas City Chiefs and eventual league MVP Patrick Mahomes in Week 16, the Seahawks returned to the playoffs; their seventh appearance in the nine seasons under Carroll. However, the Seahawks suffered their first one-and-done postseason campaign since 2004, as they fell to the Dallas Cowboys in the Wild Card round 22\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season\nThis was the first season since 2011 that the team did not feature the original Legion of Boom defensive unit and did not have Richard Sherman on the roster, as he was released on March 9 and signed with division rival San Francisco 49ers. Michael Bennett, another longtime Seahawk, was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles on March 7. His fellow defensive lineman Cliff Avril was released by the team on May 4. It was also the first season since 2009 that Kam Chancellor was not on the roster; he announced his retirement on July 1 due to the neck injury he sustained in Week 10 of the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season\nTight ends Jimmy Graham and Luke Willson, wide receiver Paul Richardson, and running back Thomas Rawls all departed in free agency as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season\nOn August 20, longtime Seahawks punter Jon Ryan was released from the team. He was the last remaining player from the team before coach Pete Carroll took over in 2010. With his release, the Seahawks shifted the punting duties to their fifth-round rookie Michael Dickson, who went on to make the Pro Bowl and was named First-team All-Pro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season\nThis season is notable for featuring the NFL's first player with only one hand, as the Seahawks drafted Shaquem Griffin in the fifth-round of the 2018 NFL Draft out of the University of Central Florida. He is the twin brother of Seahawks cornerback Shaquill Griffin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season\nPaul Allen, who had owned the team since 1997, died of cancer on October 15, at the age of 65. In tribute, the team wore patches labeled \"PGA\" for the rest of the season beginning at the game against the Detroit Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season, Regular season, Schedule\nOn January 11, 2018, the NFL announced that the Seahawks will play the Oakland Raiders in a London Game in London, England, with the Raiders serving as the home team. The game site, originally slated for Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, was later moved to Wembley Stadium. The game, which was the Seahawks' first appearance in the International Series, occurred during Week 6 on October 14. The network time was announced in conjunction with the release of the 2018 regular season schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season, Regular season, Schedule\nThe remainder of the Seahawks' 2018 schedule, with exact dates and times, was announced on April 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Oakland Raiders\nWith this win, head coach Pete Carroll reached win number 91, becoming the Seahawks' all-time wins leader (including postseason) passing Mike Holmgren with a record of 91-56-1 at that point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Los Angeles Rams\nThe Seahawks were swept by the Rams for the first time since 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at San Francisco 49ers\nThis was the first time since 2013 that the Seahawks have lost to the 49ers, snapping a ten-game winning streak against the 49ers which dates back to 2013 NFC Championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 93], "content_span": [94, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nWith the win, the Seahawks clinched a Wild-Card Berth, which is their first time making the playoffs since 2016. This win also secured their 7th straight winning season dating back to 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 93], "content_span": [94, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282354-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Seahawks season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nWith the win, the Seahawks finished the regular season at 10\u20136, improving on their 9\u20137 record from last year and securing the No. 5 seed heading into the postseason. They also swept the Cardinals for the first time since 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282355-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Sounders FC 2 season\nThe 2018 Seattle Sounders FC 2 season is the club's fourth year of existence, and their fourth season in the United Soccer League, the second tier of the United States Soccer Pyramid. This is the 1st season of the soccer team playing in the Tacoma, Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282355-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Sounders FC 2 season, Current roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Squad correct as of September 29, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282355-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Sounders FC 2 season, Transfers\nFor transfers in, dates listed are when Sounders FC 2 officially signed the players to the roster. Transactions where only the rights to the players are acquired are not listed. For transfers out, dates listed are when Sounders FC 2 officially removed the players from its roster, not when they signed with another club. If a player later signed with another club, his new club will be noted, but the date listed here remains the one when he was officially removed from Sounders FC 2 roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282356-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Sounders FC season\nThe 2018 Seattle Sounders FC season was the club's tenth season in Major League Soccer, the United States' top-tier of professional soccer. The Sounders finished their previous season as MLS Cup runners-up, losing 2\u20130 to Toronto FC. The 2018 season was Brian Schmetzer's second full MLS season as head coach of the Sounders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282356-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Sounders FC season, Background, Current roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Squad correct as of June 30, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282356-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Sounders FC season, Background, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Squad correct as of July 15, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282356-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Sounders FC season, Transfers\nFor transfers in, dates listed are when Sounders FC officially signed the players to the roster. Transactions where only the rights to the players are acquired are not listed. For transfers out, dates listed are when Sounders FC officially removed the players from its roster, not when they signed with another club. If a player later signed with another club, his new club will be noted, but the date listed here remains the one when he was officially removed from Sounders FC roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282356-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Sounders FC season, Transfers, In, Draft picks\nDraft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only those who are signed to a contract will be listed as transfers in. Only trades involving draft picks and executed after the start of 2018 MLS SuperDraft will be listed in the notes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282357-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Storm season\nThe 2018 WNBA season was the 19th season for the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association. The regular season began May 20th and ended on August 19th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282357-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Storm season\nThe Storm started the season strongly posting a 5\u20131 record in May. Their only loss came in the opening game of the season against the Phoenix Mercury. The storm had their worst month of the season in June, going 6\u20134. The team couldn't string together a run of wins, alternating between winning 2 and losing one. The team found their stride in July with a strong 9\u20132 record. The month started with a 4 game winning streak, and the team won 7 of its first 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282357-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Seattle Storm season\nThe only losses in July came in over time to Los Angeles and to eventual #2 playoff seed Atlanta. August was another good month for the Storm. The team went 6\u20131 in the month, with their only loss being at eventual #3 playoff seed Washington. The team's final record of 26\u20138 was their best since 2010. This record earned them the #1 seed in the 2018 WNBA Playoffs and a bye into the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282357-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Seattle Storm season\nThe Storm faced off against the #5 seed Phoenix Mercury in the Semifinals. The series was a hotly contested series, with both teams making large runs in individual games. Eventually the home team won each game in the series, which meant the Storm advanced 3\u20132. In the WNBA Finals, the Storm swept the Washington Mystics in three games, securing the third championship in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282358-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council in England. It was held on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282358-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election\nLabour retained control of the council with an increased majority, winning an additional three seats and winning their first seats in Southport. The Liberal Democrats led by former MP for Southport John Pugh, lost four seats in total whilst the Conservatives gained seats in the wards of Cambridge and Ainsdale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282359-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B play-offs\nThe 2018 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B play-offs (Playoffs de Ascenso or Promoci\u00f3n de Ascenso) are the final playoffs for promotion from 2017\u201318 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B to the 2018\u201319 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. The four first placed teams in each one of the four groups qualify for the promotion playoffs and the four last placed teams in Segunda Divisi\u00f3n are relegated to Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B. It also decides the teams which placed 16th to be relegated to the 2018\u201319 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282359-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B play-offs, Format\nThe four group winners have the opportunity to promote directly and become the overall Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B champion. The four group winners will be drawn into a two-legged series where the two winners will be promoted to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n and will enter into the final for the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B champion. The two losing semifinalists will enter the playoff round for the last two promotion spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282359-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B play-offs, Format\nThe four group runners-up will be drawn against one of the three fourth-placed teams outside their group while the four third-placed teams will be drawn against each other in a two-legged series. The six winners will advance with the two losing semifinalists to determine the four teams that will enter the last two-legged series for the last two promotion spots. In all the playoff series, the lower-ranked club will play at home first. Whenever there is a tie in position (e.g. like the group winners in the Semifinal Round and Final or the third-placed teams in the first round), a draw will determine the club to play at home first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282359-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B play-offs, Controversies about eligibility of teams\nDespite the ineligibility of Deportivo Fabril for promotion, due to the relegation of Deportivo La Coru\u00f1a to Segunda Divisi\u00f3n, the reserve team participated in the promotion playoffs. Fuenlabrada and R\u00e1pido de Bouzas demanded the Royal Spanish Football Federation to not allow the Galicians to play, by filing a lawsuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282359-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B play-offs, Controversies about eligibility of teams\nIn another way, some rumours were published in the media about Racing Santander demanding the Federation not allow Sporting Gij\u00f3n B to play, even though the reserve team of the rojiblancos could be promoted if the main side is promoted to La Liga. However, the Cantabrian club denied that information.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282359-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B play-offs, Relegation play-off, Matches\nThe losers of this tournament will be relegated to the 2018\u201319 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282360-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n play-offs\nThe 2017\u201318 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n play-offs were played from June 6 to June 17, 2018 and determined the third team which would be promoted to the top division. Teams placed between 3rd and 6th position excluding reserve teams took part in the promotion play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282360-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n play-offs, Regulations\nThe regulations were the same as the previous season: in the semi-finals, the fifth-placed team faced the fourth-placed team, while the sixth-placed team faced the third. Each tie was played over two legs, with the team lower in the table hosting the first leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282360-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n play-offs, Regulations\nThe team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule was applied (i.e., the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced). If away goals were also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time would be played. The away goals rule would again be applied after extra time (i.e., if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team advanced by virtue of more away goals scored). If no goals were scored during extra time, the winner would be the best positioned team in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282361-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Segundona\nThe 2018 Segundona was the 24th season of the second-tier football league in Angola. The season started on 9 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282361-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Segundona\nThe league comprises 2 series, one 4 and the other 5 teams, the winner of each series being automatically promoted to the 2018\u201319 Girabola while the runners-up of each group will contest for the third spot. At the end of the regular season, the three series winners will play a round-robin tournament to determine the league champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282361-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Segundona, Draw\nASAASK Drag\u00e3oMpatu a PontaReal M'bucoSanta Rita de C\u00e1ssiaU.R. Cuanza NorteS\u00e3o Salvador", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 20], "content_span": [21, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282361-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Segundona, Draw\nAKC FCBikuku FCFerrovi\u00e1rio do HuamboJackson GarciaSporting de BenguelaSporting do Bi\u00e9", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 20], "content_span": [21, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282361-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Segundona, Draw\nAll teams in each group play in a double round robin system (home and away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 20], "content_span": [21, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282362-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Selahattin Demirta\u015f presidential campaign\nSelahattin Demirta\u015f was officially announced as the candidate of the People's Democratic Party (HDP) on 4 May 2018, after members of the party had hinted at his candidacy weeks in advance. Party leader Pervin Buldan declared that Demirta\u015f, a jailed former co-chair of the HDP, would be leading a five-party \"Kurdish alliance\" into the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282362-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Selahattin Demirta\u015f presidential campaign, Program, Foreign policy\nOn European Union\u2013Turkey relations, Demirta\u015f is known for his long-time support for Turkey\u2019s EU accession process, focusing on the pledge to uphold human rights, local democracy, separation of powers and the rule of law as the main tenets of his future presidency. He distinguishes himself from other candidates in his unwavering criticism of what he sees as Brussels's neo-liberal economic agenda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season\nThe 2018 Selangor FA Season was Selangor FA's 13th season playing soccer in the Malaysia Super League since its inception in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season\nSelangor FA began the season on 4 February 2018. They will also compete in two domestic cups, the Malaysia FA Cup and Malaysia Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, Pre-season\nOn 16 November, Selangor squad manager, Abd Rauf Ahmad confirmed that P. Maniam will retain as Selangor's coach for 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, Pre-season\nOn 28 November, Ariffin Ab Hamid, manager of Selangor U21 squad confirmed that six players will be promoted to the first squad. Those players were Haziq Ridwan, Syukri Azman, Amirul Haziq, Tamil Maran, Azizul Baharuddin and D. Kugan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, Pre-season\nDuring the pre-season planning, P.Maniam also added a few new local players for the season, such as Sean Selvaraj (Negeri Sembilan), Azamuddin Akil (Johor Darul Ta'zim), Ashmawi Yakin (Negeri Sembilan), Joseph Kalang Tie (Pahang) and Shahrul Igwan (Negeri Sembilan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, Pre-season\nA few Selangor key players for the last season left the club including Adam Nor Azlin who joins Johor Darul Ta'zim as the first signing for the club since 2017 season end. Other transfers are Bunyamin Umar and Liberian Forkey Doe to Pahang, Raimi Mohd Nor, Fitri Shazwan and Nigerian Ugo Ukah to Penang who plays in second division, Rizal Fahmi to Negeri Sembilan, Zarif Irfan to PKNS, S. Veenod to Kelantan and star player, Indonesian Andik Vermansyah to Kedah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, Pre-season\nIn early December, Selangor signs for three new foreign players; young Indonesian players, Evan Dimas and Ilham Armaiyn, and a Brazilian defender Willian Pacheco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, Pre-season\nSelangor announces its fifth signing on 28 January, Alfonso Cruz, another Spanish footballer in addition Rufino Segovia, who is retained from last season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, Pre-season and Friendlies Match\nSelangor first planned to go to Indonesia from 7 to 17 January for its pre-season campaign but it is cancelled for undisclosed reason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, Pre-season and Friendlies Match\nOn 30 December, Selangor began its pre-season with a match against ATM at Kementah Stadium, Kuala Lumpur. The game ends with 1-1 draw. The goal from Selangor is contributed by the Spanish footballer, Rufino Segovia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, Pre-season and Friendlies Match\nIn the next match against MISC-MIFA at USIM Mini Stadium in Negeri Sembilan, held on 5 January, Selangor suffers a big defeat with the final score 5-1 against Selangor. MISC-MIFA player, Kpah Sherman scores a hat-trick in the match while Selangor's goal is scored by its captain, Razman Roslan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, Pre-season and Friendlies Match\nSelangor recorded its first win on 10 January during a match against Terengganu II at Sime Darby Football Complex at Bukit Jelutong with 1-0, with the single goal scored by Selangor veteran, Amri Yahyah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, Pre-season and Friendlies Match\nSelangor final friendly match, against Korea Republic third-tier club Daejon Korail was scheduled on 26 January but due to bad weather, the match was postponed to the next morning. On the match played at National Sports Council pitch in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor won 3-1, with goals from Rufino Segovia, Tamil Maran and Faizzudin Abidin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, Pre-season and Friendlies Match\nOverall, Selangor finishes the pre-season with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, January\nAlthough Selangor had signed Evan Dimas and Ilham Armaiyn as early as December, Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) does not allow them to join the rest of the team for their pre-season. On 4 January, Selangor president, Subahan Kamal had flew to Jakarta to meet Edy Rahmayadi, PSSI president to find a solution and understanding between the two bodies. The negotiation is successful as Edy finally grants permission to the two Indonesian players to join Selangor's camp following Selangor agreement to comply to PSSI demand in return, which is to allow them to report to the Indonesia national under-23 football team camp when they are called.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, January\nOn 16 January, Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) President, Tunku Ismail releases a statement on the body official Facebook page that denies Selangor's application to use Bukit Jalil National Stadium as their home venue, citing that certain matches will collide with Malaysia national football team's calendar as the stadium is also used by the national team as their homeground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, January\nFollowing the rejection, Selangor approaches UiTM on 18 January in a bid to share their stadium but they were denied by the ground owner because of logistic and safety issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, January\nOn 26 January, Selangor's vice-president, Abdul Rauf Ahmad confirmed that they had gained permission from Kuala Lumpur City Hall to use Kuala Lumpur Stadium as their venue and only waiting for official confirmation from FMLLP. On 30 January, it is reported that Kuala Lumpur president, Datuk Seri Adnan Md Ikhsan expressed his reluctance to share Kuala Lumpur stadium with Selangor this season because of the rivalries between the two teams. When he was asked to comment on his remarks, he told the reporters that he was joking and refused to comment on it further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, January\nOn 28 January, Selangor launches its kits for 2018 season. The launching ceremony was held at Plaza Alam Sentral, Shah Alam and was attended by hundreds of Red Giants fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, February\nSelangor officially kicks off its 2018 Malaysia Super League campaign on 4 February 2018 with a highly anticipated Klang Valley Derby match against Kuala Lumpur. Playing in their shared venue, Selangor played as away and claimed the title King of Klang Valley as they won the match 2-0, with both goals from Rufino Segovia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, February\nOn 7 February, Selangor won 4-1 against Melaka United, with two goals each from Rufino Segovia and Syahmi Safari. The two consecutive wins allow Selangor to be on top of the league for the first two weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, February\nOn 10 February, Selangor suffers its first lost at Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium in a match against Terengganu. The final score is 1-4 to Terengganu as Selangor's only goal from Amri Yahyah came late at the 89th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, February\nOn 11 February, Selangor announces its collaboration with local musician, Monoloque, to produce a new anthem song for the football team in a pre-launch event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, February\nAfter a week Chinese New Year break, Selangor comes back on 24 February only to lose against Pahang 1-3 on their own homeground. Selangor's goal was contributed once again by Rufino Segovia making him the team topscorer, as he had scored 5 goals for Selangor so far.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, March\nOn 1 March, Football Association of Malaysia's referees committee chairman, Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh announced that two referees from Selangor's match against Pahang FA on 24 February will be suspended for two weeks following the controversial penalty given to Pahang's side. During the match, Selangor's defender Willian Pacheco commits a hand ball outside the penalty box but a penalty was awarded despite Selangor's objection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, March\nSelangor starts its campaign in the FA Cup in the second round match against MOF on 4 March, following a first round bye. They won with 3-0, with a goal each from Amri Yahyah, Rufino Segovia and Syahmi Safari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, March\nFollowing a statement released by Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership (FMLLP) on 19 February where Selangor was announced as one of the team failed to submit their registration document on time, on 7 March FMLLP announced that Selangor will have to pay RM 1.5 mil fine for the offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, March\nOn 11 March, Selangor faces their third defeat in a row in the Super League, this time against rival Perak with 3-0 to Perak. This result had spark anger from the fans that pushes for coach P. Maniam to be fired. On 14 March, Selangor announces that Maniam had been rested and the assistant coach, Nazliazmi Mohd Nasir will takeover as a caretaker coach while Selangor finds a suitable candidate to replace the coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, March\nThe next game was held on 14 March, against Terengganu. It was the first game played by Selangor after the changing in coaching staff. In the third round match of FA Cup, Selangor won 3-1. The goals was contributed by Amri Yahyah, Willian Pacheco and Evan Dimas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, May\nOn 31 May 2018, the departing president, Subahan Kamal confirmed that Tengku Amir Shah will replace him as the football association's president after he left the sports body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, July\nTengku Amir officially became the president of Selangor FA after receiving 81 nominations from 96 affiliates and won uncontested in the extraordinary congress that was held on 3 July 2018. He stated that his goal as the new president is to make FA Selangor self-sustaining and become a commercially viable club. He aimed for the club to be able to not rely on state funding in five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, November\nOn 3 November 2018, a group of individuals called an Extraordinary Congress (EC) to elect new executive committee, citing that the appointment of several committee members are not lawful, including the position of several vice-presidents. The subsequent re-election showed total change in all posts, barring Tengku Amir who was re-elected as the president. However, Tengku Amir later declared that the EC was invalid since it does not followed the proper procedure. It was also held without his consent and was not recognised by him and the association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Season Overview, November\nThis was supported by the Football Association of Malaysia president, Hamidin Amin, who said that Tengku Amir is still the president of FAS and the congress was invalid as it was held without the president's consent. Tengku Amir called the rogue faction to meet him at the palace to voice out their displeasure but only less than half of them attended it. As a result, he removed 43 affiliate clubs from the association, stating that they no longer hold the same values and dreams as FA Selangor. The announcement was made through FAS social media accounts on 15 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282363-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor FA season, Statistics, Squad statistics\nAppearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only including sub appearancesRed card numbers denote: Numbers in parentheses represent red cards overturned for wrongful dismissal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election\nThe 14th Selangor state election was held on 9 May 2018 to elect the State Assemblymen of the 14th Selangor State Legislative Assembly, the legislature of the Malaysian state of Selangor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election\nThe Selangor State Legislative Assembly was dissolved in a simple ceremony on 9 April 2018 by Sharafuddin of Selangor. Alternatively, the legislative would automatically dissolve on 21 June 2018, the fifth anniversary of the first sitting, and elections must be held within sixty days (two months) of the dissolution (on or before 21 August 2018, with the date to be decided by the Election Commission of Malaysia), if it was not dissolved prior to that date by the Head of State, Sultan of Selangor on the advice of the Head of Government, Menteri Besar of Selangor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election\nThe election was conducted by the Malaysian Election Commission and utilised the first-past-the-post system. Electoral candidates were nominated on 28 April. On 9 May, between 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. Malaysian time (UTC+8), polling was held in all 56 state constituencies throughout Selangor; each constituency elects a single State Assemblyman to the state legislature. The incumbent party Pakatan Harapan won a supermajority of 51 seats and was able to formed a government, securing a third term. The opposition Barisan Nasional won 4 seats while Gagasan Sejahtera won 1 seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election\nAzmin Ali returned as the Menteri Besar of Selangor before releasing his position a little over a month later to take the position in the Cabinet of Malaysia as the Minister of Economic Affairs. Amirudin Shari succeeded him as the 16th Menteri Besar of Selangor and was sworn in on 19 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Background\nThe state election is the 14th state election in Selangor since the independence of Malaya (now Malaysia) in 1957. The governing Pakatan Harapan (PH) will seek to secure their third consecutive term in office since 2008. According to the Laws of the Constitution of Selangor 1959, the maximum term of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly, the legislature of Selangor, is five years from the date of the first sitting of Assembly following a state election, after which it is dissolved by operation of law. The Assembly would have been automatically dissolved on 21 June 2018, the fifth anniversary of its first sitting on 21 June 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Background, Electoral system\nEach state constituencies of Selangor will elect one member to the Selangor State Legislative Assembly using the first-past-the-post voting system. If one party obtains a majority of seats, then that party is entitled to form the State Government, with its leader as Menteri Besar. If the election results in no single party having a majority, there is a hung assembly, of which will be dissolved under the royal prerogative of the Sultan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Background, Electoral system\nThe redistricting of electoral boundaries for the entire country had been presented to and passed by the Dewan Rakyat, and subsequently gazetted on 29 March 2018 after obtaining the royal consent of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ahead of the 14th general election. Elections are conducted by the Election Commission of Malaysia (EC), which is under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Background, Voting Eligibility\nTo vote in the state election, one had to be:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Background, Electoral divisions\nAll 56 constituencies within Selangor, which constitute the Selangor State Legislative Assembly, were contested during the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Timeline\nThe key dates are listed below in Malaysia Standard Time (GMT+8):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Contenders\nThe incumbent party, Pakatan Harapan have decided to contest all 56 seats in Selangor. Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Bersatu) expressed their desire to contest in the 12 seats won by the Barisan Nasional in the last general election. National Trust Party (Amanah) will target to contest in 15 seats held by Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) in the last general election. Pakatan Harapan will finalize the remaining 21 seats before 23 February 2018. On 8 March 2018, Pakatan Harapan has successfully finalized 50 seats. Pakatan Harapan has yet to finalize 6 seats. The seats are Sungai Panjang, Sungai Burong, Lembah Jaya, Dusun Tua, Seri Serdang and Kota Damansara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Contenders\nThe opposition Barisan Nasional (BN) is also set to contest all 56 seats in Selangor State Legislative Assembly. Barisan Nasional (BN) linchpin party United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) is to set to contest major share of Barisan Nasional (BN) seats. Gagasan Sejahtera also states that they will contest all 56 seats in Selangor. Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) will compete for 42 seats, while Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) will contest 5 seats in Semenyih, Bukit Lanjan, Kota Damansara, Pelabuhan Klang and Sri Muda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Manifestos\nSeveral parties launched specific manifestos for Selangor ahead of the state election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Manifestos, Barisan Nasional\nBarisan Nasional launches their manifestos on 8 April 2018. Using the theme, Better Selangor. Yakinlah. BN lebih baik! (English: Better Selangor. Rest assured. BN is better! ), the manifestos consist of 10 programs, containing 100 initiatives focusing on the betterment of Selangorians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Manifestos, Gagasan Sejahtera\nGagasan Sejahtera launches their manifestos on 29 March 2018. They use the theme Selangor Sejahtera (English: Prosperous Selangor) in their manifestos. It consist of 10 cores focusing on forming a government and administration that follows the principles of divinity, accountability and competent in making a peaceful environment for the multiracial and multi-religion state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Manifestos, Parti Rakyat Malaysia\nParti Rakyat Malaysia publishes their manifesto on their blog on 30 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Manifestos, People's Alternative Party\nPeople's Alternative Party only has two candidates competing in Selangor. One of the candidates, the Selangor branch chairman Harry Arul Krishnan, states that he will resolve the issue of birth certificate and identity cards for the stateless and launch crime intervention programs among other thing during his manifesto announcement on 3 May 2018 in Sungai Pelek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Manifestos, Independent Candidates\nSome of the independent candidates releases their own manifesto, specific for their contested seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Manifestos, Independent Candidates, Azwan Ali\nAzwan Ali, contested against his elder brother, former Menteri Besar of Selangor, Azmin Ali at Bukit Antarabangsa seat. He announces his manifesto on 27 April 2018, pledging to:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Manifestos, Independent Candidates, Toh Sin Wah\nToh Sin Wah contested at Subang Jaya seat. He didn't announce specific manifesto but regards his participation in the election as \"to bring politics to the people\", going against the exclusive and nepotistic politics concept brought by the two biggest parties, Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Harapan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 77], "content_span": [78, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Nomination\nCandidates were nominated at numerous nomination centres around Selangor on 28 April. The candidates must deliver their nomination papers by 10 am to qualify to contest in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Campaign\nIn April 2018, the Selangor Islamic Council (MAIS) and Selangor Islamic Department (JAIS) released circulars following the decree by Sharafuddin of Selangor, to remind the public about the prohibition of using mosques as campaigning sites for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Campaign\nThe electoral campaign in the northernmost parliament seat Sabak Bernam, which included the assembly seat Sungai Air Tawar and Sabak targeted on issues faced by the locals, who are mostly farmers and fishermen. In Sungai Air Tawar, BN candidate Rizam Ismail planned to build up the town and helping small scale entrepreneurs by upgrading broken stalls and give them exposure to online business. Sallehen Mukhyi, the Sabak incumbent assemblyman and GS candidate, proposed for Sabak to be an agropolitan town to help farmers marketing their produce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Campaign\nAnother candidate, Sallehuddin Iskan from BN used the slogan Berilmu, Berbakti, Berintegriti (in English: Knowledgeable, devoted and has strong moral principle) in his campaign, and pledge to help the local in issues regarding affordable housing and small scale palm oil farmers. Meanwhile, Ahmad Mustain of PH campaigned for Sabak to have modern agriculture practices that gives higher yields, higher wages and to reduce urban migration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Campaign\nJamal Yunos, the Sungai Besar UMNO division chief, organised a consert and offered a cash prize amounted to RM25,000 to a lucky draw winner in return for votes for Barisan Nasional candidates. He also launched a campaign to stick BN stickers to vehicles in exchange of RM10 each. Sekinchan DAP lodges a police report on the incident, claiming it went against the election rules. Sekinchan voters, when interviewed expressed different voting preferences, some voted based on the candidates and some voted based on which party the candidates endorsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Campaign\nSelangor branch of the Royal Malaysia Police stated that 114 reports were lodged throughout the ten days of campaigning duration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Election pendulum\nThe 14th General Election witnessed 51 governmental seats and 5 non-governmental seats filled the Selangor State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 21 safe seats and 8 fairly safe seats. However, none of the non-government side has safe and fairly safe seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Results\nAfter all 56 constituencies had been declared, the results were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Results\nThe result of the election was announced after 5pm on 9 May 2018. Pakatan Harapan won 51 out of 56 seats and was entitled to form a government in Selangor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Results\nThe Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition won its best ever electoral results in Selangor and retained their control of the state. In the previous election, its predecessor informal coalition Pakatan Rakyat only managed to snatch 29 seats to form a simple majority. This time around, they manage to secure 51 out of 56 seats and 63.37% of popular votes, of which PH state leader Azmin Ali had described as 'exceptional result, exceed my own expectations of 40 seats.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Results\nPeople's Justice Party (PKR) and Democratic Action Party (DAP), two of the parties in the coalition won in every seats they were contesting at. The debut of new parties, Malaysian United Indigenous Party (PPBM) and National Trust Party (AMANAH) had gone exceptionally well as they won 6 and 8 seats respectively, out of 9 and 10 seats they are competing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Results\nThe election also saw bad performance on Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition side. Not only the component parties Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) and Malaysian People's Movement Party were unable to snatch any seat in the election but United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) only managed to retained four out of their eight seats won in the previous election. Gagasan Sejahtera lost most seat to PH in the election and was only able to retained one seat, Sijangkang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Results\nThe incumbent Menteri Besar of Selangor, Azmin Ali had defended his Bukit Antarabangsa seat with over 79% popular vote and overwhelming 25,512 majority votes. While GS Selangor leader, Salehen Mukhyi loses his seat in Sabak to AMANAH's Ahmad Mustain Othman with slim margin of 130 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Aftermath\nAs the results were announced in the evening of 9 May, it is recognised that Pakatan Harapan had won a super majority in Selangor state, securing the third term for the coalition the govern the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Aftermath\nAzmin Ali, as the leader of Pakatan Harapan of Selangor, had seek audience with Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah on the morning of 10 May to informed His Royal Highness of the result. In the meeting, Azmin also informed the Sultan that Pakatan Harapan of Selangor had announced their support for him to be the returning Menteri Besar. Sultan Sharafuddin is satisfied with the explanation and elected Azmin as the Menteri Besar of Selangor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Aftermath\nHe was sworn in on the morning of 11 May in front of the Sultan, Tengku Permaisuri Norashikin and members of Selangor Council of the Royal Court at Balairung Seri, Istana Alam Shah. On 13 May, Azmin submitted a list of candidates of Selangor State Executive Council to the Sultan to be considered. The ruler of the state is satisfied with the candidates and they were sworn in at Istana Alam Shah on the next day. In the same ceremony, Sultan Sharafuddin delivered his first address after the general election. His royal highness expressed his disappointment over the fractions among the Malays during the election campaign and encouraged the people to reunite once again. The sultan also reminded the elected state representatives to serve the people well and not to involve themselves with corruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Aftermath\nIn a twist of event, the then Menteri Besar's name was announced as one of the ministers of the newly formed federal government. He was named to head the newly established Ministry of Economic Affairs on 18 May 2018. He was reportedly surprised by the nomination and had only known of it from Selangor State Secretary, Mohd. Amin Ahmad Ahya. He then arranges a meeting with the Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad to discuss his role in the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Aftermath\nAzmin seek audience again with the Sultan of Selangor to discuss the situation since he didn't want to hold the post Menteri Besar and Minister of Economic Affairs at the same time. Selangor Royal Office then released a statement saying that the Sultan had given permission for Azmin to join the federal government and that he will held the Menteri Besar post for the time being while the Sultan consider several candidates to replace him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282364-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Selangor state election, Aftermath\nOn 30 May, Selangor Royal Office released a statement announcing that the swearing in ceremony of the new Menteri Besar will be held on 19 June, after Eid-ul Fitr and Azmin Ali will released his position on the same day. Amirudin Shari, the seat holder of Sungai Tua state constituency and a member of Selangor State Executive Council was appointed as the new Selangor Menteri Besar by the Sultan. His swearing in ceremony was held at Istana Alam Shah on 19 June per scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282365-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Senegal FA Cup\nThe 2018 Coupe du S\u00e9n\u00e9gal is the 56th edition of the Coupe du S\u00e9n\u00e9gal, the knockout football competition of Senegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282366-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Senior Bowl\nThe 2018 Senior Bowl was an all-star college football exhibition game featuring players from the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season, and prospects for the 2018 draft of the professional National Football League (NFL). The game was the last of the 2017\u201318 bowl games and the final game of the 2017 FBS football season. It was sponsored by Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and was officially known as the Reese's Senior Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282366-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Senior Bowl\nThe game was played on January 27, 2018, at 1:30\u00a0p.m. CST, at Ladd\u2013Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, between \"North\" and \"South\" teams; coverage of the event was provided by NFL Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282366-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Senior Bowl\nBowl organizers announced that, for the first time, RFID devices would be used to track players and footballs during practices and the game. The maker of the RFID devices, Zebra Sports Solutions, was also announced as a corporate sponsor of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282366-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Senior Bowl, Rosters\nIn late December 2017, bowl organizers announced that Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield of Oklahoma would appear in the game; the most recent Heisman Trophy winner to play in the Senior Bowl was Tim Tebow in the 2010 game. Full rosters were announced on January 18, 2018. The head coaches were Vance Joseph of the Denver Broncos and Bill O' Brien of the Houston Texans, for the North and South teams, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282366-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Senior Bowl, Rosters, North team\nSource: Luke Falk switched his uniform number from 4 to 3 in honor of Tyler Hilinski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282366-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Senior Bowl, Game summary, Scoring summary\nSource: Note: special playing rules detailed . Senior Bowl rules require teams to attempt 2-point conversions during the 2nd quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282367-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Senior League World Series\nThe 2018 Senior League World Series took place from July 28\u2013August 4 in Easley, South Carolina. Willemstad, Cura\u00e7ao defeated Wilmington, Delaware in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282368-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Senior Open Championship\nThe 2018 Senior Open Championship was a senior major golf championship and the 32nd Senior Open Championship, held from 26\u201329 July at the Old Course at St Andrews in St Andrews, Scotland. It was the first Senior Open Championship played at the course and the 16th Senior Open Championship played as a senior major championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282368-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Senior Open Championship\nMiguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez won by one stroke over defending champion Bernhard Langer. The 2018 event was Jim\u00e9nez's first Senior Open Championship title and his second senior major championship victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282368-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Senior Open Championship, Venue\nThe 2018 event was the first Senior Open Championship played at St Andrews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282368-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Senior Open Championship, Field\nThe field consisted of 144 competitors: 136 professionals and 8 amateurs. An 18-hole stroke play qualifying round was held on Monday, 23 July for players who were not already exempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282368-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Senior Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nAmateurs: Elliott (+2), Howison (+5), Maxfield (+6), Dornell (+7), Lacy (+8), Lutz (+8), McCoy (+9), Hughes (+10)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282369-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seniors Irish Masters\nThe 2018 Seniors Irish Masters was a senior snooker tournament which took place at Goffs in Kill, County Kildare, Ireland, from 6 to 7 January 2018. It was the second event on the newly created World Seniors Tour. The tournament was won by Steve Davis, who became the oldest winner of a World Seniors title at the age of 60.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282369-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Seniors Irish Masters, Main draw\n* A re-spotted black ball shootout replaced final frame deciders at 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282370-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seniors Masters\nThe 2018 Seniors Masters was a senior snooker tournament which took place on 12 April 2018 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the fourth and final event on the newly created World Seniors Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282370-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Seniors Masters\nCliff Thorburn won the title beating Jonathan Bagley 2\u20131 on a re-spotted black ball which replaced the final frame decider in the final. Thorburn, at the age of 70, became the oldest winner of a World Seniors title; the previous record belonged to Steve Davis, who was 60 when he won the 2018 Seniors Irish Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282371-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Dynasty season\nThe 2018 Seoul Dynasty season was the first season of the Seoul Dynasty's existence in the Overwatch League. The team finished with a regular season record of 22\u201318, placing them eighth overall, behind the Houston Outlaws due to tiebreakers, who had the same record. Seoul did not qualify for any of the Stage Playoffs and did not qualify for the Season Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282371-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Dynasty season, Preceding offseason\nOn August 21, 2017, the team announced the acquisition of the players and coaching staff of Korean Overwatch esports team Lunatic-Hai, which consisted of the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282371-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Dynasty season, Preceding offseason\nIn September, the team signed an additional coach in veteran Kim \"nuGget\" Yo-han. In late October, they revealed 3 additional players to their Seoul-based roster, Kim \"Fleta\" Byung-sun, Byeon \"Munchkin\" Sang-beom, and Koo \"xepheR\" Jae-mo. On October 27, the addition of Choi \"Wekeed\" Seok-woo was broadcast in the Dynasty's roster preview video. The final two members for the inaugural season, Chae \"Bunny\" Jun-hyeok and Kim \"KuKi\" Dae-kuk, were revealed by Blizzard in November. Before the season started, Kim \"EscA\" In-jae retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282371-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Dynasty season, Review, Regular season\nThe Dynasty began the first stage of the regular season well, winning their first five games. However, after key losses to New York Excelsior, London Spitfire, and Los Angeles Valiant they fell out of Stage 1 playoff contention and finished the stage in fifth place, sparking discussions about a disappointing start to the season for a team favored to win it. They went on to finish fourth in the second stage as well, once again missing the stage playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282371-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Seoul Dynasty season, Review, Regular season\nAfter the stage playoffs were expanded to include the team in fourth place, the Dynasty were predicted to be able to clinch a playoff spot thanks to their consistent fourth-place finishes in the prior stages, though their inability to defeat the top placing teams in the league brought up concerns over team management. With a rocky start to the third stage, coverage for the Dynasty shifted towards continued failure, with an article by ESPN's Emily Rand stating \"Seoul's dynasty is already starting to crumble.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282371-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Dynasty season, Review, Regular season\nThey once again failed to reach the playoffs in both the third and fourth stages of the regular season, going 5\u20135 in Stage 3 and 3\u20137 in Stage 4. Falling further behind the top teams in map differential. After finishing all four stages with worsening map scores, starting the first stage with a map differential of +9 and ending the last stage with a map differential of -6, the Dynasty fell out of season playoffs contention and finished the season in eighth place overall with a record of 22\u201318, a far cry from the expected and predicted success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282371-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Dynasty season, Review, Regular season\nIn response to their inability to clinch a playoff spot, the team underwent large coaching and staffing changes in July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282371-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Dynasty season, Final roster, Transactions\nTransactions of/for players on the roster during the 2018 regular season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282372-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Open Challenger\nThe 2018 Seoul Open Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament. It was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Seoul, South Korea, between 30 April and 6 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282372-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Open Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282372-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Open Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282373-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Open Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nHsieh Cheng-peng and Peng Hsien-yin were the defending champions but chose to defend their title with different partners. Hsieh partnered Christopher Rungkat but lost in the quarterfinals to Toshihide Matsui and Frederik Nielsen. Peng partnered Aliaksandr Bury but lost in the semifinals to Chen Ti and Yi Chu-huan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282373-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Open Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nMatsui and Nielsen won the title after defeating Chen and Yi 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20133) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282374-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Open Challenger \u2013 Singles\nThomas Fabbiano was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282374-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul Open Challenger \u2013 Singles\nMackenzie McDonald won the title after defeating Jordan Thompson 1\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282375-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seoul mayoral election\nThe 2018 Seoul mayoral election was held on 13 June 2018 as part of the 7th local elections. Incumbent Park Won-soon was elected for his third consecutive term; the South Korean Public Election Act places a limit of three consecutive terms on holders of the post, so that Park will not be able to run in the next mayoral election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282376-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Serbian White Eagles FC season\nThe 2018 season was the twenty second season in the club's participation in the Canadian Soccer League (including Canadian National Soccer League days). Their season began on May 25, 2018 in a home match against FC Vorkuta, which resulted in a 1-1 draw. Before the commencement of the outdoor season the White Eagles became a founding member in the Arena Premier League as an indoor team. Throughout the regular CSL season the Serbs struggled to compete for a top four position as their performance declined in the later stages. The club still managed to secure a postseason berth, but saw an early departure after a defeat to SC Waterloo Region in the opening round. The club's top goalscorer was Luka Bojic with five goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282376-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Serbian White Eagles FC season, Summary\nIn the winter of 2017 the Arena Premier League was formed, and the Serbian White Eagles became involved in the indoor soccer realm as a founding member under the name of Serbia AS. During the indoor season the club selected Milan Mijailovi\u0107 as the new head coach. In their debut season in the APL the Serbs clinched a playoff by finishing fourth in the standings. Before the commencement of the 2018 outdoor season Mijailovi\u0107 maintained the majority of the European veterans in his formation of the roster. In the earlier rounds of the season Toronto achieved a five game undefeated streak, and maintained a strong presence in the top four. Unfortunately their performance dwindled in the final segment of the season, but still managed to secure a postseason by finishing sixth in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282376-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Serbian White Eagles FC season, Summary\nIn the postseason the Serbs were eliminated in the opening round to SC Waterloo Region. While in the Second Division their reserve team finished sixth in the standings as a result failed to secure a playoff berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282376-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Serbian White Eagles FC season, Team, First Division roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282376-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Serbian White Eagles FC season, Team, Second Division roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282376-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Serbian White Eagles FC season, Competitions, Canadian Soccer League, Results summary\nLast updated: September 20, 2018. Source: 2018 Canadian Soccer League season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 90], "content_span": [91, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282376-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Serbian White Eagles FC season, Competitions, Canadian Soccer League, Results summary\nLast updated: September 20, 2018. Source: 2018 Canadian Soccer League season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 90], "content_span": [91, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282377-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seri Setia by-election\nA by-election was held on 8 September 2018 for the Selangor State Legislative Assembly seat of Seri Setia. The seat became vacant after the sudden death of the incumbent assemblyman and Selangor state executive councillor, Shaharuddin Badaruddin on 2 August 2018 from colon cancer. Shaharuddin was a member of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat or People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the state ruling Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. This was the third by-election for the Selangor State Assembly since the 2018 general election, after the Sungai Kandis and Balakong by-elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282377-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Seri Setia by-election\nShaharuddin won the seat with a majority of 19,372 votes, defeating BN\u2019s Yusoff M Haniff, PAS\u2019s Mohd Ghazali Daud and independent S Vigneswaran. This by-election was held on the same day as the Balakong by-election. The nomination day was on 18 August 2018, with a 21-day campaigning period until election day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282377-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Seri Setia by-election\nThe by-election saw a straight fight between Pakatan Harapan (PH) candidate Halimey Abu Bakar from the PKR and Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) candidate Halimah Ali. In opposite to the Sungai Kandis and Balakong by-elections, the Barisan Nasional (BN) decided not to contest in Seri Setia. This was widely regarded as a sign of cooperation between PAS and BN, designed to ensure there is only a single opposition candidate for each by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282377-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Seri Setia by-election\nN32 Seri Setia state constituency border and the districts included within the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282377-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Seri Setia by-election, Campaign\nThe by-election campaign largely focused on bread and butter issues, such as local development and the introduction of a new sales tax replacing the GST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282377-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Seri Setia by-election, Campaign\nA case of negative campaigning marred the final days of campaign. The PAS candidate Halimah claimed that Seri Setia was too \"intelligent\" to vote for \"local boy with an outdated mentality\", insinuating about her opponent's poor origins. These remarks were criticised by the PH camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282377-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Seri Setia by-election, Result\nPKR\u2019s Halimey Abu Bakar, got 13,725 votes, defeating PAS\u2019 Dr Halimah Ali who got 9,698, getting a majority of 4,027 votes thus retaining the seat for PKR and Pakatan Harapan. PAS significantly increased its share of vote, which was credited to the fact BN not contesting the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282378-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana\nThe 2018 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana was a women's cycle stage race that was held in Spain from 22 to 25 February, 2018. The 2018 edition of the race was the second edition of the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282378-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana\nThe race was won by British rider Hannah Barnes, riding for the Canyon\u2013SRAM team, taking two stage victories during the event. Barnes finished 17 seconds clear of her closest competitor, South Africa's Ashleigh Moolman (Cerv\u00e9lo\u2013Bigla Pro Cycling), while the podium was completed by the highest-placed home rider, Alicia Gonz\u00e1lez Blanco of the Movistar Team, a further eight seconds in arrears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282378-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana\nIn the other classifications, Moolman won the polka-dot jersey for winning the mountains classification, while Cristina Mart\u00ednez (Bizkaia Durango\u2013Euskadi Murias) won the yellow jersey for top rider from the Valencian Community. Other jerseys were won by Belle De Gast (mountains for Parkhotel Valkenburg) and Abby-Mae Parkinson (young rider for Trek\u2013Drops), while Canyon\u2013SRAM won the teams classification, placing Barnes, Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot and Katarzyna Niewiadoma in the top-ten overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282379-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali\nThe 2018 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali was a road cycling stage race that took place between 22 and 28 March 2018. The race was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour, and was the 33rd edition of the Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali cycling race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282379-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali\nThe race was won by Italian rider Diego Rosa of Team Sky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282379-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali, Teams\nTwenty-five teams started the race. Each team had a maximum of seven riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 55], "content_span": [56, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282380-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Seychelles First Division\nThe 2018 Seychelles First Division is the top level football competition in Seychelles. It started on 7 March and ended on 29 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282381-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shan United FC season\nThe 2018 season is Shan United's 9th season in the Myanmar National League since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282381-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shan United FC season, 2018 First team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282382-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shandong mine collapse\nOn 20 October 2018, a rock burst destroyed part of a mining tunnel in the Shandong province in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282382-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shandong mine collapse, Incidents\nA rock burst destroyed part of a mining tunnel, in a spontaneous fracture of the rock, while 334 miners were working in the coal mine. The collapse took place around 11:00 pm local time and destroyed part of a water drainage tunnel. Two people were initially killed by the falling rocks. Most of the workers managed to escape, but 18 workers were trapped underground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282382-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Shandong mine collapse, Incidents\nVentilation was returned quickly to around 200 meters of the damaged tunnel. On 26 October it was reported that the trapped miners were discovered 242 feet below the surface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282382-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Shandong mine collapse, Victims\nTwo miners were killed in the initial disaster, but the death toll raised to 11 on 27 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282383-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Challenger\nThe 2018 Shanghai Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Shanghai, China between 10 and 16 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282383-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282384-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nToshihide Matsui and Yi Chu-huan were the defending champions but only Yi chose to defend his title, partnering Peng Hsien-yin. Yi lost in the first round to Gong Maoxin and Zhang Ze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282384-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nGong and Zhang Ze went on to win the title after defeating Hua Runhao and Zhang Zhizhen 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20134] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282385-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Challenger \u2013 Singles\nWu Yibing was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Li Zhe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282385-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Challenger \u2013 Singles\nBla\u017e Kav\u010di\u010d won the title after defeating Hiroki Moriya 6\u20131, 7\u20136(7\u20131) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282386-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Darts Masters\nThe 2018 21.co.uk Shanghai Darts Masters was the third staging of the tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation and the second entry in the 2018 World Series of Darts. The tournament featured 16 players (eight PDC players facing eight regional qualifiers) and was held at the Pullman Hotel in Shanghai, China from 13\u201314 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282386-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Darts Masters\nMichael van Gerwen was the defending champion after defeating Dave Chisnall 8\u20130 in the final of the 2017 event, but he lost 8\u20134 in the semi-finals to Michael Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282386-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Darts Masters\nSmith went on to win his first World Series title by beating Rob Cross 8\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282386-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Darts Masters, Qualifiers\nThe eight invited PDC representatives are (seeded according to the 2018 World Series of Darts Order of Merit):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282386-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Darts Masters, Qualifiers\nThe top 3 players from the PDC Asian Tour Order of Merit after Event 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282386-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Darts Masters, Qualifiers\nOne other qualifier, the criteria for which has not been announced by the Professional Darts Corporation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282387-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Dragons season\nThe 2018 Shanghai Dragons season was the first season of the Shanghai Dragons's existence in the Overwatch League. Shanghai did not record a single win in the entire 2018 Overwatch League season, giving the team a record of 0\u201340; this marked the worst single-season record in professional sports history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282387-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Dragons season, Preceding offseason\nOn October 31, Dragons revealed their Overwatch League roster, consisting of the following eight members:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282387-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Dragons season, Preceding offseason\nThree weeks later, on November 20, Shanghai Dragons announced their coaching staff, including head coach Chen \"U4\" Congshan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282387-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Dragons season, Regular season, Review\nShanghai Dragons' first regular season OWL match was a 1\u20133 loss to the San Francisco Shock. Unfortunately, this result would become a trend for the Dragons for quite some time. The team did not record a win in Stage 1, going 0\u201310. On February 13, 2018, disappointed by their Stage 1 record, the Dragons signed 4 new players in hopes to improve their Stage 2 chances; most notably including the league's first female player, South Korean Kim \"Geguri\" Se-yeon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282387-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Dragons season, Regular season, Review\nAmidst a disaster of a season, Shanghai went through three different head coaches. The Dragons finished the season with a 0\u201340 record and a -120 map differential, having not won a single match. This marked the worst single-season record in professional sports history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282387-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Dragons season, Final roster, Transactions\nTransactions of/for players on the roster during the 2018 regular season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282388-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C. season\nThe 2018 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua season was Shanghai Greenland Shenhua's 15th season in the Chinese Super League and 56th overall in the Chinese top flight. In addition to the domestic league, the club also competed in the Chinese FA Cup, Chinese FA Super Cup and AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282388-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C. season, Squad, First team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282388-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C. season, Squad, First team squad\nRemarks:NA These players are not registered for the group stage of 2018 AFC Champions League but eligible to play at Chinese domestic football competitions. SU These players are eligible to play at Chinese domestic football competitions after mid-season transfer window summer 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282388-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C. season, Squad, Reserve squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282388-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C. season, Squad, Reserve squad\nRemarks:RE Registered for reserve squad after mid-season transfer window summer 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282388-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C. season, Squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282389-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai International Film Festival\nThe 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival, held on June 17\u201324, 2018, was the 21st such festival devoted to international cinema held in Shanghai, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282389-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai International Film Festival, International Jury\nThe members of the jury for the Golden Goblet Award were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282389-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai International Film Festival, Notable Attendees\nNotable attendees at the festival include Jesse Eisenberg, Smriti Kiran, Kirill Razlogov, Peng Yuyan, Xu Qing, Zhou Yun, Yang Zishan and Xu Zheng/", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282390-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Masters\nThe 2018 Shanghai Masters was a professional snooker tournament that took place in Shanghai, China from 10 to 16 September. It was a 24-man non-ranking invitation event, unlike previous editions of the Shanghai Masters which were ranking events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282390-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Masters\nRonnie O'Sullivan successfully defended the title by beating Barry Hawkins 11\u20139 in the final. With this win O'Sullivan became the first player to pass \u00a310 million in career prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282390-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Masters, Field\nThe 24 players were the top-16 in the world rankings after the 2018 World Open, the next four players, outside the top-16 in the world rankings, of Chinese origin, two players from the CBSA under-21 rankings and two from China's Amateur Masters series. The Amateur Masters was won by Pu Qingsong with Guo Hua the runner-up. The two players from the CBSA under-21 rankings were Chang Bingyu and Fan Zhengyi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282390-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Masters, Field\nDefending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was the number 1 seed with World Champion Mark Williams seeded 2. The top 8 seeds received byes into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282391-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters\nThe 2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the tenth edition of the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000, classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena in Shanghai, China from October 7 to 14, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282391-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters, Singles main draw entrants, Seeds\nThe following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP rankings as of October 1, 2018. Rankings and points before are as of October 8, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282391-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters, Singles main draw entrants, Seeds\n\u2020 The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282391-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters, Singles main draw entrants, Withdrawals\nThe following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282391-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters, Singles main draw entrants, Withdrawals\n\u2020 Fognini is entitled to use an exemption to skip the tournament and substitute his 18th best result (90 points) in its stead. Accordingly, his points after the tournament will remain unchanged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282391-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282391-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282392-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters \u2013 Doubles\nHenri Kontinen and John Peers were the defending champions, but lost in the second round to Robert Lindstedt and Dominic Thiem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282392-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters \u2013 Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo won the title, defeating Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282393-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters \u2013 Singles\nRoger Federer was the defending champion, but lost to Borna \u0106ori\u0107 in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282393-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters \u2013 Singles\nNovak Djokovic won his record fourth title at the Shanghai Masters, defeating \u0106ori\u0107 in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134. It was Djokovic's 32nd Masters Series 1000 title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282393-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282393-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282394-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sharks (rugby union) season\nIn 2018, the Sharks participated in the 2018 Super Rugby competition, the 23rd edition of the competition since its inception in 1996. They were included in the South African Conference of the competition, along with the Bulls, Jaguares, Lions and Stormers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282394-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sharks (rugby union) season\nThe Sharks won seven, drew one and lost eight of their matches during the regular season of the competition to finish third in the South African Conference, and in 8th place overall to qualify for the finals as a wildcard team. They lost in their qualifier match to the Crusaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282394-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sharks (rugby union) season, Personnel, Squad\nThe following players were named in the Sharks squad for the 2018 Super Rugby season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282394-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sharks (rugby union) season, Standings\nThe final standings for the 2018 Super Rugby season were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282394-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sharks (rugby union) season, Standings, Round-by-round\nThe table below shows the Sharks' progression throughout the season. For each round, their cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282394-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sharks (rugby union) season, Matches\nThe Sharks played the following matches during the 2018 Super Rugby season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282394-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sharks (rugby union) season, Player statistics\nThe Super Rugby appearance record for players that represented the Sharks in 2018 is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282394-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sharks (rugby union) season, Player statistics\n(c) denotes the team captain. For each match, the player's squad number is shown. Starting players are numbered 1 to 15, while the replacements are numbered 16 to 22. If a replacement made an appearance in the match, it is indicated by . \"App\" refers to the number of appearances made by the player, \"Try\" to the number of tries scored by the player, \"Kck\" to the number of points scored via kicks (conversions, penalties or drop goals) and \"Pts\" refer to the total number of points scored by the player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282395-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SheBelieves Cup\nThe 2018 SheBelieves Cup was the third edition of the SheBelieves Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held in the United States. Featuring national teams from Germany, England, France, and hosts United States, it began on March 1 and ended on March 7, 2018, broadly running in parallel with the 2018 Algarve Cup, 2018 Turkish Women\u2019s Cup, and the 2018 Cyprus Women's Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282395-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SheBelieves Cup, Format\nThe four invited teams played a round-robin tournament. Points awarded in the group stage followed the standard formula of three points for a win, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss. A tie in points was decided by goal differential.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282395-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SheBelieves Cup, Goalscorers\nThere were 16 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 2.67 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282396-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SheBelieves Cup squads\nThis article lists the squads for the 2018 SheBelieves Cup, the 3rd edition of the SheBelieves Cup. The cup consisted of a series of friendly games, and was held in the United States from 1 to 7 March 2018. The four national teams involved in the tournament registered a squad of 23 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282396-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SheBelieves Cup squads\nThe age listed for each player is on 1 March 2018, the first day of the tournament. The club listed is the club for which the player last played a competitive match prior to the tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated. A flag is included for coaches that are of a different nationality than their own national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282396-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SheBelieves Cup squads, Squads, England\nThe final squad was announced on 20 February 2018. On 24 February 2018, Steph Houghton, Karen Carney, and Jordan Nobbs withdrew due to injuries and were replaced by Rachel Daly, Abbie McManus, and Georgia Stanway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282397-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sheffield City Council election\nElections to Sheffield City Council took place on Thursday 3 May; one of a number of local council elections taking place across England on the same day. These were the first elections since 2016; the normal practice of electing one-third of councillors every year resumed this year, after the previous staging had seen all seats up for election as a result of boundary changes. A number of by-elections had also occurred between the 2016 and 2018 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282398-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sheffield City Region mayoral election\nThe inaugural Sheffield City Region mayoral election was held on 3 May 2018 to elect the mayor of the Sheffield City Region. The mayor will lead the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority. Voting is restricted to the four councils which are constituent members of the combined authority: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. Together these councils make up South Yorkshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282398-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sheffield City Region mayoral election\nAs the election took place using the supplementary vote system, electors were able to vote for a \"first preference\" candidate and a \"second preference\" candidate. The leading candidate needed to achieve over 50% of the first preference votes in order to be elected in the first round. As the leading candidate, Dan Jarvis, received 47.1% of the total number of votes in the first round, the election proceeded to the second round and voters second preferences were distributed between the two leading candidates. Dan Jarvis, the Labour and Co-operative candidate, was subsequently elected in the second round with a total number of 144,154 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282398-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sheffield City Region mayoral election\nSubsequent elections will be held in May 2022 and every four years after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282398-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sheffield City Region mayoral election, Electoral system\nThe election used a supplementary vote system, in which voters express a first and second preference of candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282398-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sheffield City Region mayoral election, Electoral system\nThis means that the winning candidate has the support of a majority of voters who expressed a preference among the top two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282398-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sheffield City Region mayoral election, Electoral system\nAll registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in the combined authority area aged 18 or over on 3 May 2018 were entitled to vote in the mayoral election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282399-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open\nThe 2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the second (men) and third (women) editions of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Shenzhen, China between 29 October and 11 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282399-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 76], "content_span": [77, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282399-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282400-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nSriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan were the defending champions but only Balaji chose to defend his title, partnering Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan. Balaji lost in the final to Hsieh Cheng-peng and Christopher Rungkat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282400-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nHsieh and Rungkat won the title after defeating Balaji and Nedunchezhiyan 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282401-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nRadu Albot was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Zhang Ze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282401-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nMiomir Kecmanovi\u0107 won the title after defeating Bla\u017e Kav\u010di\u010d 6\u20132, 2\u20136, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282402-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nJacqueline Cako and Nina Stojanovi\u0107 were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282402-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nShuko Aoyama and Yang Zhaoxuan won the title, defeating Choi Ji-hee and Luksika Kumkhum in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282403-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nCarol Zhao was the defending champion, but lost to Ivana Jorovi\u0107 in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282403-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nJorovi\u0107 went on to win the title, defeating Zheng Saisai in the final, 6\u20133, 2\u20136, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282404-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships\nThe 2018 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on carpet. It was be the 22nd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Kyoto, Japan between 19 and 25 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282404-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 95], "content_span": [96, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282404-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 95], "content_span": [96, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282405-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nSanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Gong Maoxin and Hsieh Cheng-peng.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282405-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nLuke Saville and Jordan Thompson won the title after defeating Go Soeda and Yasutaka Uchiyama 6\u20133, 5\u20137, [10\u20136] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282406-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nYasutaka Uchiyama was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Micha\u0142 Przysi\u0119\u017cny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282406-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nJohn Millman won the title after defeating Jordan Thompson 7\u20135, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282407-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shimizu S-Pulse season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282407-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shimizu S-Pulse season, Squad\nNote: The official club website lists the club mascot as player #0 and the supporters as player #12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282407-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Shimizu S-Pulse season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282408-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shonan Bellmare season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282408-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shonan Bellmare season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282409-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shooting Championships of the Americas\nThe 2018 Shooting Championships of the Americas took place in Guadalajara, Mexico from November 3 to November 10, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282410-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shorter Hawks football team\nThe 2018 Shorter Hawks football team will represent Shorter University during the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They will be led by first-year head coach Zach Morrison. The Hawks will play their home games at Barron Stadium, and are members of the Gulf South Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282410-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shorter Hawks football team, Preseason, Gulf South Conference coaches poll\nOn August 2, 2018, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Hawks predicted to finish in 9th place, last place in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282410-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Shorter Hawks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team\nThe Hawks had two players at two positions selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 85], "content_span": [86, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282410-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Shorter Hawks football team, Schedule\nShorter 2018 football schedule consists of five home and six away games in the regular season. The Hawks will host GSC foes Florida Tech, Mississippi College, West Alabama, and West Georgia, and will travel to Delta State, North Greenville, Valdosta State, and West Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282410-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Shorter Hawks football team, Schedule\nThe Hawks will host one of the three non-conference games against Tusculum Pioneers football from the South Atlantic Conference and will travel to North Alabama, which is a FCS Independent team and Samford from the Southern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282410-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Shorter Hawks football team, Schedule\nTwo of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282411-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shymkent Challenger\nThe 2018 Shymkent Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Shymkent, Kazakhstan between 4 and 9 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282411-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shymkent Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282412-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shymkent Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nHans Podlipnik-Castillo and Andrei Vasilevski were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282412-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shymkent Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nLorenzo Giustino and Gon\u00e7alo Oliveira won the title after defeating Lucas Miedler and Sebastian Ofner 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20134) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282413-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Shymkent Challenger \u2013 Singles\nRi\u010dardas Berankis was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282413-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Shymkent Challenger \u2013 Singles\nYannick Hanfmann won the title after defeating Roberto Cid Subervi 7\u20136(7\u20133), 4\u20136, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour\nThe 2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour is a cycling stage race that took place between 5 and 8 July 2018 in and around Sibiu, Romania. Raced over 441 kilometres (274 miles), the race featured a traditional cobbled prologue along with mountain stages to B\u00e2lea Lake and P\u0103ltini\u0219, and was held as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour\nIn 2018 the race returned to the format last used in 2014 with four days of racing including two mountain top finishes. There were two stages on the final day including the return of the team time trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Teams\nThe peloton featured three Professional Continental Teams, 14 Continental Teams and two national teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Stages, Prologue\nRaced over a technical 2.2\u00a0km (1.4\u00a0mi) with 20 corners and several cobbled sections, the stage was won by Italian Davide Ballerini who would be the only rider to finish in under 3 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Stages, Stage 1\nFor the second year in a row, there was a Colombian victory on the slopes of Balea Lac. With five kilometres remaining in the stage Ivan Sosa attacked a depleted peloton of 15-20 riders. Initially, two riders, Maxim Rusnac and Amaro Antunes remained with him, but with a second attack he shook off the other contenders and rode to a solo victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Stages, Stage 2\nStage 2 was expected to be a 185\u00a0km (115\u00a0mi) mountain stage to the resort of Paltanis. Despite setting off in bright conditions, after 125\u00a0km (78\u00a0mi) the race was engulfed by a storm that saw rain, hail, thunder and lightning, with visibility at less than 20 metres and with police unable to maintain road closures. In coordination with the race organisers, the jury decided to apply the UCI Extreme Weather Protocol, declaring the stage null and void in accordance with article 2.2.029 of the UCI rulebook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, six different jerseys are awarded of which four are worn in the race. The most important is the general classification, which is calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses are awarded to the first three finishers on all stages with the exception of the time trial: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Classification leadership table\nBonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints; three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The rider with the least accumulated time is the race leader, identified by a yellow jersey. This classification is considered the most important of the 2017 Sibiu Cycling Tour, and the winner of the classification is considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Classification leadership table\nThere is also a mountains classification, the leadership of which is marked by a white jersey. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification are won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb is categorised as either category SA, A, B or C, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Classification leadership table\nThe third jersey represents the young rider classification, marked by an orange jersey. This is decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born on or after 1 January 1995 are eligible to be ranked in the classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Classification leadership table\nThe fourth classification is the sprints classification, the leader of which is awarded a blue jersey. In the sprints classification, riders receive points for finishing in the top three at intermediate sprint points during each stage\u00a0\u2013 awarded on a 3\u20132\u20131 scale\u00a0\u2013 and these intermediate sprints also offer bonus seconds towards the general classification as noted above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there is a points classification, which awards a green jersey but that jersey is not represented in the race and only present on the podium. In the points classification, cyclists receive points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage, and unlike in the points classification in the Tour de France, the winners of all stages (with the exception of the prologue) are awarded the same number of points. For winning a stage, a rider earns 25\u00a0points, with 20 for second, 16 for third, 14 for fourth, 12 for fifth, 10 for sixth with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 15th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Classification leadership table\nThe sixth and final jersey represents the classification for Romanian riders, marked by a red jersey. This is decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born in Romania are eligible to be ranked in the classification. Like the points jersey this is only present on the podium and is not worn in race", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282414-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Classification leadership table\nThere are also awards for the team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage are added together; the leading team at the end of the race is the team with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282415-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Open\nThe 2018 Sibiu Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sibiu, Romania between 17 and 23 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282415-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282415-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282416-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Open \u2013 Doubles\nMarco Cecchinato and Matteo Donati were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282416-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Open \u2013 Doubles\nKevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies won the title after defeating Tomasz Bednarek and David Pel 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282417-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Open \u2013 Singles\nCedrik-Marcel Stebe was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282417-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sibiu Open \u2013 Singles\nDrago\u0219 Dima won the title after defeating Jelle Sels 6\u20133, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election\nGeneral elections were held in Sierra Leone on 7 March 2018 to elect the President, Parliament and local councils. Incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma did not run for another term, as he was constitutionally ineligible, having served the maximum ten years in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election\nNo presidential candidate received the 55% of the vote required to win in the first round, meaning a second round of voting was held on 31 March between the top two candidates, opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party and Samura Kamara of the ruling All People's Congress; the two were separated by under 15,000 votes in the first round. Bio was subsequently elected with 51.8% of the vote. International observers hailed the election as being \"orderly, free and fair\" despite the fact it was \"hotly contested.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Electoral system\nThe President of Sierra Leone is elected using a modified two-round system, with a candidate having to receive more that 55% of the vote in the first round to be elected. If this is not achieved, a run-off will be held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Electoral system\nThe 132 elected members of Parliament (increased from 112 in the 2012 elections) were elected from single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. The remaining 12 seats are reserved for Paramount Chiefs, who are elected indirectly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Presidential candidates\nA total of 16 candidates registered to contest the elections; 14 men and two women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Presidential candidates\nPresident Koroma personally selected foreign minister Samura Kamara as the All People's Congress candidate at the party's convention held on 15 November 2017 in the northern city of Makeni. The APC also selected deputy speaker of parliament Chernor Maju Bah as the party's vice presidential candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Presidential candidates\nThe main opposition, the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) selected former military Head of State, retired Brigadier general Julius Maada Bio as its presidential candidate at the party's national convention held on 15 November 2017 in Freetown. Bio's running mate is businessman Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Presidential candidates\nFormer Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana is the candidate of the Coalition for Change. His removal from office by President Koroma was challenged at the ECOWAS Court, which in November 2017 ruled that the removal of Sumana was illegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Presidential candidates\nFormer United Nations senior official Kandeh Yumkella was chosen to be the presidential candidate of the National Grand Coalition (NGC), a breakaway faction of the SLPP. Yumkella's running mate is mechanical engineer Andrew Keillie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Presidential candidates\nThe newly formed Unity Party is fielding Femi Claudius Cole, one of two female presidential candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Presidential candidates\nFormer Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of Lands Musa Tarawally was nominated as the presidential candidate of the Citizens Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Controversy\nDue to the fact that the election falls outside of the five-year term plus three months limit, constitutional lawyers have criticised the announcement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Controversy, Dual citizenship\nThe previously dormant issue of dual citizenship was raised during the election. The ruling party, APC, raised the issue citing Section 76(1) of the 1991 Constitution, which states that \u201cNo person shall be qualified for election as a Member of Parliament \u2014 if he is a naturalised citizen of Sierra Leone or is a citizen of a country other than Sierra Leone having become such a citizen voluntarily or is under a declaration of allegiance to such a country.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Controversy, Dual citizenship\nThe dual citizenship debate engulfed three presidential candidates: Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella of the National Grand Coalition (NGC), Dr. Samura Kamara of the All People's Congress (APC), and Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray of the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP). Yumkella claimed he denounced his American citizenship in 2017, while Mansaray said he has never held any other citizenship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0012-0002", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Controversy, Dual citizenship\nTwo cases were brought to the Supreme Court: one filed on 5 February by an activist of the ruling All Peoples Congress party claiming that Yumkella is a naturalised citizen and therefore unqualified to contest the elections; and another filed by Charles Margai, a flag bearer for People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC), claiming that the APC\u2019s standard bearer is unqualified to run for president because he is a dual citizen and did not resign his ministerial position \u2013 for which he was paid from the state\u2019s consolidated revenue \u2013 long enough to meet the constitutional requirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0012-0003", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Controversy, Dual citizenship\nThe defense of Yumkella appealed to the Supreme Court to have two of the judges removed from the case, then the matter was adjourned until 28 March (after the 7 March election) for the two new judges to study the case. The dual citizenship issue will be remembered by citizens for propagating the slang term two-SIM to describe a person with dual citizenship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Results\nThe National Electoral Commission reported 3,178,663 registered voters (of which 1,654,228 were female) and a voter turnout of 2,676,549 (84.2%) across 3,300 polling centres and 11,122 polling stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282418-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Sierra Leonean general election, Results, Parliament\nA total of 795 candidates contested the parliamentary elections, of which 100 were female.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282419-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Siirt raid\nThe Siirt raid was an armed raid of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on a Turkish military base in Eruh, Siirt province, Turkey, on 29 March 2018. The raid killed six soldiers from a village guard militia that was supporting the Turkish army in the area. Seven soldiers were injured, one of whom, Sergeant Emre Dut, later died of his wounds. The PKK had no casualties. After the attack, Turkish forces launched an operation, killing three PKK militants they claimed were responsible for the raid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282420-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sikkim Premier Division League\nThe 2019\u201320 Sikkim Premier Division League is the eighth season of the Sikkim Premier Division League, the top division football league in the Indian state of Sikkim. The league will kick off from 24 August 2019 with eight teams competing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282421-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Silicon Valley Classic\nThe 2018 Silicon Valley Classic (also known as the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic for sponsorship reasons) was a professional women's tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 47th edition of the tournament, and part of the WTA Premier tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place between 30 July and 5 August 2018 and was the first time the tournament is held in San Jose, California, following a move from Stanford. It is the first women's event on the 2018 US Open Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282421-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Silicon Valley Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282421-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Silicon Valley Classic, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282422-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Silicon Valley Classic \u2013 Doubles\nAbigail Spears and CoCo Vandeweghe were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282422-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Silicon Valley Classic \u2013 Doubles\nLatisha Chan and Kv\u011bta Peschke won the title, defeating Lyudmyla and Nadiia Kichenok in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282423-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Silicon Valley Classic \u2013 Singles\nMadison Keys was the defending champion, but withdrew due to a wrist injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282423-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Silicon Valley Classic \u2013 Singles\nMihaela Buz\u0103rnescu won her first WTA Tour singles title, defeating Maria Sakkari in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282423-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Silicon Valley Classic \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282423-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Silicon Valley Classic \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nNote: Aryna Sabalenka, who would have been placed in the entry list on the initial entry cutoff date of June 18, 2018 and seeded 7th, entered late and played the qualifying tournament. But she was eliminated in qualifying matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282424-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Silverstone Formula 2 round\nThe 2018 Silverstone FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races held on 7 and 8 July 2018 at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, United Kingdom as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the seventh round of the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship and ran in support of the 2018 British Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282424-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Silverstone Formula 2 round\nART Grand Prix driver George Russell entered the round with a ten-point lead over Lando Norris in the drivers' championship. In the teams' championship, Carlin held a twenty-seven point lead over ART Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282424-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Silverstone Formula 2 round\nThis round was also notable for a collision at the end of the sprint race involving Trident teammates Arjun Maini and Santino Ferrucci. Ferrucci was deemed to have deliberately hit the back of Maini's car on the cooldown lap, and he was then banned for the next two rounds by the FIA. He was then sacked from Trident ten days later due to sponsorship issues, and his replacement would be their GP3 Series driver Alessio Lorandi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282424-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Silverstone Formula 2 round, Report, Background\nThe round saw the continued use of rolling starts following a series of drivers stalling on the grid in previous rounds. The procedure was introduced at the previous round in response to a start-line accident in a Formula 3 race that saw a driver crash into a car that had stalled on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282424-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Silverstone Formula 2 round, Report, Background\nThe circuit featured three Drag Reduction System (DRS) zones. The two used in previous years\u2014positioned on the Wellington and Hangar Straights\u2014returned, with a third zone placed on the main straight. As DRS is deactivated when the driver brakes, drivers were able to use the system through the Abbey and Farm corners as these corners could be taken flat-out when the car is low on fuel. This brought increased risk as DRS reduces drag by reducing downforce, with aerodynamic grip improving the car's ability to take corners at speed. Drivers were able to manually deactivate DRS before the corners if they were unable or unwilling to take the corner without the use of DRS. The race marked the first time that drivers were able to use DRS through corners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 808]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282425-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Simcoe County municipal elections\nElections were held in Simcoe County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282425-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Simcoe County municipal elections, Simcoe County Council\nThe county council consists of the mayors and deputy mayors of the municipalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282425-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Simcoe County municipal elections, Bradford West Gwillimbury\nDue to technical delays with internet voting, the voting period in Bradford West Gwillimbury was extended to October 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282425-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Simcoe County municipal elections, Collingwood\nDue to technical delays with internet voting, the voting period in Collingwood was extended to October 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282425-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Simcoe County municipal elections, Innisfil\nDue to technical delays with internet voting, the voting period in Innisfil was extended to October 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282425-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Simcoe County municipal elections, Penetanguishene\nDue to technical delays with internet voting, the voting period in Pentetanguishene was extended to October 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season\nThe 2018 Simona Halep tennis season officially began on 1 January 2018 with the start of the 2018 WTA Tour. Simona Halep entered the season as the No. 1 ranked player in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Shenzhen Open\nHalep began her season at the Shenzhen Open. She was the top seed and advanced to the final after successfully defeating Nicole Gibbs, Duan Yingying, Aryna Sabalenka and Irina-Camelia Begu. She defeated her in the opponent's final that eliminated her one year ago in R16 in three sets, Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 107], "content_span": [108, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Australian Open\nHer next tournament was the Australian Open. She was the main draw favorite for the first time in a Grand Slam career. She defeated Destanee Aiava in straight sets, still in the first round injured at the right leg's ankle. She then beat Eugenie Bouchard, former world rank 5, Lauren Davis in an epic match that lasted 3 hours and 45 minutes taking the third set 15\u201313. The match equaled the Australian Open record for most games played in a women's singles draw match at 48 \u2014 equaling Chanda Rubin's 1996 quarterfinal win over Arantxa S\u00e1nchez Vicario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 109], "content_span": [110, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Australian Open\nShe went on to defeat Naomi Osaka in the 4th round in straight sets and former world No. 1 Karolina Pliskova in the quarter-finals, also in straight sets. She faced former world No. 1 and 2016 Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber in the semi-finals. In the 3rd set, she saved two match points and went on to win, qualifying for the Australian Open final for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 109], "content_span": [110, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Australian Open\nIn the final, Halep was defeated by Caroline Wozniacki in three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 109], "content_span": [110, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Australian Open\nAfter Australian Open fell to second place for four weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 109], "content_span": [110, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Qatar Ladies Open\nHalep then played the Qatar Open, where she received a bye in the first round. She defeated Ekaterina Makarova with a bagel in the second set. The Australian Open finalist put together a dominant performance and needed just 58 minutes. She then defeated Anastasija Sevastova, seed 13 in straight sets. Her next opponent was American, CiCi Bellis. The first set was won by a bagel. In semifinal should have played with, but withdrawing prior to her match against Garbine Muguruza because of a right foot injury. Nevertheless, despite not playing the next week, she returned to the top spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 111], "content_span": [112, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, March sunshine events, Indian Wells Masters\nHalep then played the Indian Wells Masters, where she received a bye in the first round. She defeated Krist\u00fdna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 in straight sets, Caroline Dolehide in three sets, Wang Qiang in straight sets and Petra Marti\u0107 in three sets, in straight sets before she lost to Naomi Osaka again in the semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, March sunshine events, Miami Open\nHalep then entered the Miami Open, where she also received a bye in the first round. In round 2 beat French Oc\u00e9ane Dodin in three sets. However, she lost in the third round to 2012 champion Agnieszka Radwanska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 82], "content_span": [83, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, European clay court season, Fed Cup, World Group-Play Off\nShe kicked off her clay court campaign by leading Romania against Switzerland in their World Group Play-off tie in Cluj-Napoca. By virtue of a 3-1 victory with Halep going 2-0 in the singles rubbers, they secured a place in the 2019 World Group for the first time in two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 106], "content_span": [107, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, European clay court season, Porsche Tennis Grand Prix\nAfter Fed Cup, Halep went to Stuttgart where she knocked a victory on Magdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 before losing to quarters at CoCo Vandeweghe", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 102], "content_span": [103, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, European clay court season, Mutua Madrid Open\nHalep then played the Madrid Open. She defeated Ekaterina Makarova, giving up just one game, Elise Mertens with a bagel in first set, Krist\u00fdna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 and advanced into the quarterfinals. However, she lost Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 in straight sets, after winning the last two editions and after having only 15 victories in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, European clay court season, Italian Open\nHalep's next tournament was the Italian Open, where she received a bye in the first round. She defeated Naomi Osaka, winner at Indian Wells, yielding a single game. In the third round should have played with Madison Keys, but the latter had to retire due to a shoulder injury, so Simona qualified in the quarter-finals without playing in round 3. In the quarter-finals defeated Caroline Garcia, the 7th World Player, with only 5 games. In semifinal has marred one of her rivals Russian, Maria Sharapova winning editions of 2011, 2012 and 2015 in an epic match. Simona won in 3 sets after losing the first set. In the final she lost to the same opponent last year, Elina Svitolina. She lost the first set to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, European clay court season, French Open\nIn the French Open, Halep was the 1st seed for the second time in a Grand Slam. In the first round, she defeated Alison Riske losing the first set. She was forced to compete on the 4th day on Wednesday after the match was postponed due to the dark. In the second round, she easily defeated the American wildcard Taylor Townsend. Her opponent in the third round was the 2014 semi-finalist, Andrea Petkovic. Halep defeated the German in straight sets, not losing a game in the second set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, European clay court season, French Open\nHer next opponent was the 16th seed Elise Mertens, who she defeated in 59 minutes, dropping just 3 games. In the quarterfinals, she met Kerber in a rematch of the Australian Open semifinal, and defeated her once again in three sets.. In the semi-final she met former world No. 1 and French Open champion Garbi\u00f1e Muguruza, and defeated her in straight sets. In the final, Halep met Sloane Stephens, and came back from a set deficit to win her first Grand Slam title, on her fourth attempt. She became the first Romanian woman to win a Grand Slam title since Virginia Ruzici won the French Open in 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282426-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Simona Halep tennis season, Yearly records, Head-to-head matchups\nPlayers are ordered by letter. (Bold denotes a top 10 player at the time of the most recent match between the two players, Italic denotes top 50.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282427-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sindh provincial election\nProvincial elections were held in Sindh on 25 July 2018 to elect the members of the 13th Provincial Assembly of Sindh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282427-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sindh provincial election, Background\nFollowing the 2013 elections, despite a significant drop in vote share, the left-wing Pakistan Peoples Party remained the largest party in the assembly and held a comfortable majority with 91 seats. They were followed by the secularist, Muhajir-centric, Muttahida Qaumi Movement, which repeated its 2008 exploits, by securing 51 seats. New additions into the assembly included Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, a welfarist, anti-establishment party led by former cricketer Imran Khan, who emerged as the second largest party in Karachi and gained 4 seats. Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League (F), PPP's perennial rival in Interior Sindh, held 11 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282427-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sindh provincial election, Background\nFollowing the elections for the slot of chief ministership, Pakistan Peoples Party was easily able to form a government in Sindh for the ninth time in its existence. Party veteran Qaim Ali Shah was elected in the role of provincial chief minister for the third time in his career, and remained at the position until 2016 when he stepped down and was replaced by Syed Murad Ali Shah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282427-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sindh provincial election, Background, MQM Splits\nDuring this tenure, MQM ceased to exist as single party due to internal rifts in the wake of the party's leader, Altaf Hussain, giving a controversial speech in August, 2016. It split into MQM-Pakistan and MQM-London, the former in control of Farooq Sattar, while the latter managed by Hussain, who is in self-imposed exile in London since 1991.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282427-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sindh provincial election, Background, MQM Splits\nMeanwhile, Mustafa Kamal's nascent Pak Sarzameen Party chipped away at MQM-P members. Kamal himself being a former MQM stalwart and erstwhile Mayor of Karachi, who formed the PSP on 23 March 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282427-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sindh provincial election, Background, MQM Splits\nFurther still, in the lead up to 2018 Senate elections, the MQM-P faction saw another split - into Sattar's MQM-PIB and Aamir Khan's MQM-Bahadruabad. The reason for the split being grievances over the allotment of Senate tickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282427-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sindh provincial election, Results\nelection postponed at ps-94 after the death of MQM-P incumbent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach\nThe 2018 SingHealth data breach was a data breach incident initiated by unidentified state actors, which happened between 27 June and 4 July 2018. During that period, personal particulars of 1.5\u00a0million SingHealth patients and records of outpatient dispensed medicines belonging to 160,000 patients were stolen. Names, National Registration Identity Card (NRIC) numbers, addresses, dates of birth, race, and gender of patients who visited specialist outpatient clinics and polyclinics between 1 May 2015 and 4 July 2018 were maliciously accessed and copied. Information relating to patient diagnosis, test results and doctors' notes were unaffected. Information on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was specifically targeted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Discovery\nThe database administrators for the Integrated Health Information Systems (IHIS), the public healthcare IT provider, detected unusual activity on one of SingHealth's IT databases on 4 July, and implemented precautions against further intrusions. Network traffic monitoring was enhanced; additional malicious activity was detected after 4 July, but did not result in the theft of any data. Having ascertained that a cyberattack occurred, administrators notified the ministries and brought in the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) on 10 July to carry out forensic investigations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Discovery\nThe agency determined that perpetrators gained privileged access to the IT network by compromising a front-end workstation, and obtained login credentials to assess the database, while hiding their digital footprints. The attack was made public in a statement released by the Ministry of Communications and Information and Ministry of Health on 20 July. The ten-day delay between the discovery of the attack and the public announcement was attributed to time needed to fortify the IT systems, conduct preliminary investigations, identify affected patients and prepare the logistics of the announcement. Text messages were subsequently sent to patients whose data was affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Investigation\nOn 6 August 2018 in Parliament, S. Iswaran, Minister for Communications and Information, attributed the attack to sophisticated state-linked actors who wrote customized malware to circumvent SingHealth's antivirus and security tools. Iswaran did not name any state in the interest of national security.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Investigation\nA Committee of Inquiry was convened on 24 July 2018 to investigate the causes of the attack and identify measures to help prevent similar attacks. The four-member committee is chaired by former chief district judge Richard Magnus, and comprise leaders of a cyber-security firm, a healthcare technology firm and the National Trades Union Congress respectively. The committee called on the Attorney-General's Chambers to lead evidence, and the Attorney-General's Chambers appointed the Cyber Security Agency to lead the investigations with the support of the Criminal Investigation Department. The committee held closed-door and public hearings from 28 August, with another tranche of hearings from 21 September to 5 October. In addition, the Personal Data Protection Commission investigated into possible breaches of the Personal Data Protection Act in protecting data and hence determine possible action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 947]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nThe Committee of Inquiry hearings began on 21 September 2018. In the first hearing, Solicitor-General Kwek Mean Luck said that a series of staff missteps and gaps in the system contributed to the breach. Some examples mentioned are the EMR system, which was in place since 1999. In addition, it was mentioned that the cyberattacker behind the incident started infecting workstations as early as August 2017 using a hacking tool. The version of Microsoft Outlook being used did not have a patch that prevents attacks by that hacking tool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nBetween December 2017 and May 2018, the cyberattacker moved sideways and gained access to a workstation to infect other computers with malware. Other inadequacies identified include not being able to identify multiple failed attempts to log into the system, which was done with non-existent accounts or accounts that do not have much privileges in the system. Eventually, the cyberattacker successfully gained entry through a coding vulnerability on 26 June, and hence sent SQL queries until 4 July when it was stopped by an administrator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nIn addition, there were three periods where staff failed to respond or responded after a few days when knowledge of the cyberattack was first known. On the same day, two staff members said that while a framework was in place to report cyberattacks, there is insufficient training on what to do, hence it was unclear to staff about what actions should be taken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nAt the next hearing on 24 September, it was revealed that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's personal data and outpatient records along with two other unnamed people were searched by hackers who infiltrated into the servers using NRIC numbers. The rest of the queries were generally done on patient demographic data, like one that involved the first 20,000 records of such data from Singapore General Hospital. An assistant lead analyst who detected unusual activity investigated further even through that was not his scope, and sent alerts to different divisions to find the staff who can make sense of those queries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nThe analyst's supervisor told the analyst to continue monitoring the situation and that he assumed there was no medical data until being informed that there was such a leak. As the analyst informed a reporting officer, there was no point in reporting the query himself, asking the analyst to follow up on the queries. Details about reporting procedures and containment measures were mentioned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nOn the third day, a cybersecurity employee at Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS), who was on holiday when the incident happened, did not follow up after having read the emails as it was thought to have been collection of data from workstations for investigation. In addition, only one computer at IHiS was used to carry out forensic examinations, resulting in delays diagnosing the issue. This is confirmed by the fourth day of the trial, where failings of judgement and organisational processes are exposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nFor instance, meetings with the security management department were not conducted regularly, and no framework was created to set out appropriate responses to cybersecurity risks or to appoint covering officers if any staff go on leave. A clarification on processes was provided, where a standard operating procedure to escalate incidents was approved by the management in March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nIt was also revealed the same day that staffers took six more days after 4 July to confirm the data breach as an IHiS employee mistakenly informed colleagues that no data was stolen, only confirmed after further tests are run by the superior finding that data was stolen. The queries were later recreated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nIt was also revealed on the fifth day that a server exploited by hackers did not receive security updates in more than a year since May 2017 due to the WannaCry ransomware attacks, compared to the normal duration where patches were done several times a month. Besides that, the computer's anti-virus software was too old and must be reinstalled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nThe manager was not supposed to manage the server on paper, but in practice, was given the role in 2014 as the server was located at the National Cancer Centre Singapore, thereby being convenient for staff members to approach him in case help was needed. Once the counterparts resigned, there was no one at IHiS present to take over managing the server. In fact, the IHiS director was not aware that the server was not managed by the firm in practice, only giving a directive in 2014 that IHiS will not manage research servers. The next day, a security loophole that was not plugged was scruntised. Even though the loophole was flagged by an IHiS employee, there was no action taken. In fact, the employee was dismissed after sending details of the flaw to a rival company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nTowards the end of the second tranche of hearings on 5 October 2018, it was revealed a second attempt to hack into the servers was done on 19 July via another server as the attackers are skilled. This was stopped immediately as soon as it began. In addition, malware used was customised for the system and evaded detection from top anti-virus software. A tool called PowerShell was used in the process, being disabled on 13 July. Meanwhile, IHiS stepped up security with changing passwords, removing compromised accounts and rebooting servers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nThe third tranche of hearings started on 31 October 2018. Evidence was shown that managers were reluctant to report the incidents as that would mean an increased amount of work, thereby creating a bottleneck. Meanwhile, the chief information officer told the team to escalate the incident, saying a bottleneck is not acceptable, adding that there was no written protocol on how to report SingHealth-related cybersecurity incidents should IHiS staff discover any incident. Another pointed out that annual cybersecurity exercises are mandated for critical information infrastructure (CII) operators, so staff should be able to identify advanced persistent threats (APTs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nHowever, these tests were for classroom settings and may not necessarily apply to the SingHealth case, thus defeating the purpose of these exercises if situational awareness was not there. There were also plans for secure Internet browsing in the healthcare sector by 2018, but it had to be delayed by a year due to technical issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nThe following day, a 2016 audit that found systemic weaknesses in the network link between Singapore General Hospital and cloud-based systems was brought up, showing more inadequacies in the systems managed by IHiS. The incident was reported by the operations team as \"plugged\" to the management without anyone verifying that works to fix these vulnerabilities were done. The Cyber Security Agency also found similar vulnerabilities in its investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nDue to this, there will be \"three lines of defence\", where compliance checks are performed by the operations team, technology team and internal audit team, and training will be stepped up in IHiS so that early detection of attacks are ensured. As pointed out the next day that even if the weaknesses were found, they may not be fixed as quickly as expected as public healthcare institutions operate around the clock resulting in little downtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nLater in the hearings, SingHealth executives said that they will enhance cyber safety awareness for all employees, as well as roll out new systems to capture patients' data rigorously. It will also allow patients to update their particulars instead of only doing it over the counter. More townhalls will be held to update employees about the latest cyber threats, with log-in messages strengthened to hone the importance of data protection. Storytelling formats will also be used to explain these concepts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nMore cyber security exercises simulating data breaches were called for in a subsequent hearing, with these allowing professionals to be more familiar with what to do in case a similar incident happens again. In addition, the expert recommended all data within the system to be encrypted including inactive data. As full encryption would be unfeasible due to operational concerns, personal data could be anonymised instead with 2-factor authenitication to de-anonymise it. That same hearing, it was updated that many of the written submissions were found to be useful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nTowards the final hearings, a former National Security Agency director suggested having the Government and industry partners work together and share information to learn and update each other about new threats that pop up. That is so as current protection measures are insufficient against ever evolving vulnerabilities. In the same hearing, the Ministry of Health's chief data advisor pointed out that Internet separation resulted in longer wait times for patients, declined productivity, increased staff fatigue and new cyber risks, especially when anti-virus software updates are done only on some computers instead of all within the network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nHence, to continue ISS, these factors would need to be considered. The next day, a security expert recommended having a centralised incident management and tracking system that logs all incidents that occur during a breach to reduce miscommunication, which is one of the causes for delayed reporting. In addition, the usage of different chat platforms meant that crucial details about the attack were lost and hence there was not many linkages to the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nOn the final day, Cyber Security Agency chief David Koh suggested changing the way IT staff in the healthcare sector report incidents so that faster response can be ensured during a cyberattack, along with a review of the sector's IT processes and staff training carried out. It was also suggested that cybersecurity processes be considered as a key instead of it merely existing as an afterthought. The hearings thus concluded on 14 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Committee of Inquiry hearings\nThe closing submissions were held on 30 November 2018. Proposals to improve cybersecurity were shared, including the \"assume breach\" mindset in organisations thus taking necessary measures, having the right people and processes to complement those measures. It was also pointed out that administrator passwords are supposed to be 15 characters long, but one had an problematic password of eight characters which was unchanged since 2012. Lastly, even if measures were put in place to slow down cyberattacks, it is important to note that the attack was done via an advanced persistent threat (APT). Subsequently, the report was submitted to S. Iswaran on 31 December 2018 with the public version released on 10 January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Release of report\nOn 10 January 2019, the Committee of Inquiry released a report on the SingHealth breach. The report found that staff are inadequately trained in cybersecurity, thus they are unable to stop the attacks. The key staff did not take immediate action to stop the attacks fearing pressure. To make things worse, vulnerabilities in the network and systems are not patched quickly, coupled with the fact that the attackers are well-skilled. As a result, the attackers found it easy to break in. The report did point that if the staff had been adequately trained and vulnerabilities fixed quickly, this attack could have been averted. The report also found that this is the work of an Advanced Persistent Threat group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Release of report\nIn the same report, the Committee of Inquiry made 16 recommendations to boost cybersecurity, separated into priority and additional recommendations. They are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Release of report\nOn 15 January 2019, S. Iswaran, Minister for Communications and Information announced in Parliament that the Government accepted the recommendations of the report and will fully adopt them. It has also sped up the implementation of the Cybersecurity Act to increase security of CIIs. Separately, Gan Kim Yong, Minister for Health announced that changes to enhance governance and operations in Singapore's healthcare institutions and IHiS will be made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Release of report\nThe dual role of Ministry of Health's chief information security officer (MOH CISO) and the director of cybersecurity governance at IHiS will be separated, where the MOH CISO has a dedicated office and reports to the Permanent Secretary of MOH, while IHiS will have a separate director in charge of cybersecurity governance, with changes at the cluster level. This will help boost operations and governance of the IT systems. In addition, MOH will establish an enhanced \"Three Lines of Defence\" system for public healthcare, and pilot a \"Virtual Browser\" for the National University Health System. All public healthcare staff will remain on Internet Surfing Separation, which was implemented immediately after the cyberattack, and the mandatory contribution of patient medical data to the National Electronic Health Record (NEHR) system\u00a0will continue to be deferred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 913]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Aftermath\nFollowing the cyberattack, Internet access was temporarily removed from all public healthcare IT terminals with access to the healthcare network, and additional system monitoring and controls were implemented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Aftermath\nThe attack led to a two-week pause in Singapore's Smart Nation initiatives and a review of the public sector's cyber-security policies during that time. The review resulted in implementation of additional security measures, and urged public sector administrators to remove Internet access where possible and to use secure Information Exchange Gateways otherwise. The attack also renewed concerns among some healthcare practitioners regarding ongoing efforts to centralize electronic patient data in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Aftermath\nPlans to pass laws in late 2018 making it compulsory for healthcare providers to submit data regarding patient visits and diagnoses to the National Electronic Health Record system were postponed. In addition, the Ministry of Health announced on 6 August 2018 that the National Electrical Health Record (NEHR) will be reviewed by an independent group made up of Cyber Security Agency and PricewaterhouseCoopers before asking doctors to submit all records to the NEHR, even though it was not affected by the cyberattack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Aftermath\nOn 24 July 2018, the Monetary Authority of Singapore told banks in Singapore to tighten customer verification processes in case leaked data was used to impersonate customers, with additional information requested. Banks are also told to conduct risk assessments and mitigate risks from misuse of information.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Aftermath\nThe Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) has since strengthened public health systems against data breaches. All suspicious IT incidents will have to be reported within 24 hours. 18 other measures are also put in place, including two-factor authentication for all administrators, proactive threat hunting and intelligence, allowing only computers with latest security updates on hospital networks, and a new database activity monitoring. Studies are done to keep Internet Separation Scheme (ISS) permanent in some parts of the healthcare system with a virtual browser being piloted as an alternative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Aftermath\nAfter the report was released, on 14 January 2019, Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) dismissed two employees and demoted one for being negligent in handling and misunderstanding the attack respectively, with financial penalties imposed on two middle management supervisors, and five members of the senior management including CEO Bruce Liang. Three employees were commended by IHiS for handling the incident diligently even when not part of their job scope. IHiS has since fast-tracked a suite of 18 measures for enhancing cybersecurity. The next day, the Personal Data Protection Commission fined IHiS $750,000 and SingHealth $250,000 for not doing enough to safeguard personal data under the Personal Data Protection Act, making it the largest fine imposed for data breaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282428-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 SingHealth data breach, Aftermath\nSubsequently, on 6 March 2019, cybersecurity company Symantec identified a state-sponsored group, known as Whitefly, behind the cyberattack. Although the country is not identified, that group has been found to be behind several related cyberattacks against Singapore-based entities since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282429-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Cup\nThe 2018 Singapore Cup (also known as the RHB Singapore Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the 21st edition of Singapore's annual premier club football knock-out tournament organised by the Football Association of Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282430-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Singapore Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 2018 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 16 September 2018 at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Marina Bay, Singapore. The race was the 15th round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 19th running of the Singapore Grand Prix and the 11th time the race had been held at Marina Bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282430-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Grand Prix\nMercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 30-point lead over Sebastian Vettel in the Drivers' Championship. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes led Ferrari by 25 points. Hamilton won the race from pole position to further extend his championship lead, ahead of Max Verstappen and Vettel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282430-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Grand Prix, Race\nLewis Hamilton won the race to further strengthen his lead in the Championship after Vettel finished 3rd, thus losing further ground to Hamilton, Max Verstappen managed 2nd place. On the first lap with the two Force India cars colliding with Esteban Ocon ending up in the wall after hitting his teammate Perez, bringing out the Safety Car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282431-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore National Football League\nThe 2018 National Football League (also known as the Aminovital National Football League) is the 44th season of the National Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282432-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Singapore Open (officially known as the Singapore Badminton Open 2018) was a badminton tournament which took place at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore from 17 to 22 July 2018 and had a total purse of $355,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282432-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Singapore Open was the fourteenth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Singapore Open championships, which had been held since 1987. This tournament was organized by the Singapore Badminton Association with the sanction from BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282432-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282432-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 500 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282432-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$355,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282433-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Premier League\nThe 2018 Singapore Premier League (also known as the Great Eastern Hyundai Singapore Premier League due to sponsorship reasons) was the inaugural season of the Singapore Premier League, the top-flight Singaporean professional league for association football clubs. The season began on 31 March 2018, and concluded on 3 October 2018. Albirex Niigata (S) won the league and successfully defended their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282433-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Premier League\nEach team will receive $888,200 if they meet key performance indicators that will be made known to them before the March 31 kick-off. This represents a \"19 per cent reduction from the 2017 season\", but funding for the league has been secured for the next five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282433-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Premier League\nIt is the league's first season after rebranding from the S.League to the Singapore Premier League. A major overhaul from the new FAS management is being made from this season onwards to improve the standard of Singapore football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282433-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Premier League\nAn emphasis on youth development from the ground up is underway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282433-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Premier League, Rules\nThe following key changes are being made to the rules for the 2018 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282433-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Premier League, Teams\nA total of 9 teams compete in the league. Albirex Niigata (S) and DPMM FC are invited foreign clubs from Japan and Brunei respectively. Despite large criticism and discussion against the Young Lions project, the Young Lions will continue to compete till 2019 for the purposes of training and preparing for the 2019 SEA Games. The criticism mainly focused on the poor performances every season by the largely youth team made up of Singapore Football's brightest prospects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282433-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Singapore Premier League, Teams\nSeason-long consecutive losses against the rest of the more mature teams inflicts serious long-term consequences on the morale of the players, considering that most of these players are in the developmental ages of their footballing career. The new age restrictions imposed on the rest of the Singapore Premier League clubs could be seen as giving the Young Lions a better advantage in terms of seniority, but most critics and fans of Singapore football are still wanting the FAS to abolish the FAS-managed Young Lions and have them developed under the guidance of genuine local clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282433-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Premier League, Teams, Personnel and sponsors\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282433-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Premier League, Teams, Personnel and sponsors\nNote: 1) ANA Courier Express is Tampines Rovers's Singapore Cup jersey sponsor only2) Hougang United had a partnership with Assisi Hospice via its donation drive. Assisi Hospice will be published on the jersey", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282433-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Premier League, Teams, Foreigners\nThe foreign player quota for clubs will be reduced from three to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282433-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Premier League, Teams, Foreigners\nIn addition, Albirex was reported to have declared their intention to have Singapore players in their squad for 2018 and is understood that a proposal is being put together for Albirex to take in local players and they will be allowed to sign two Singaporean U-23 players. Only DPMM are allowed to sign up to three foreigners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282433-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Premier League, Teams, Foreigners\nPlayers name in bold indicates the player was registered during the mid-season transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282434-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Sevens\nThe 2018 Singapore Sevens was the eighth tournament of the 2017\u201318 World Rugby Sevens Series. The tournament was played on 28\u201329 April 2018 at the National Stadium in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282434-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Sevens, Format\nSixteen teams are drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team plays all the others in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup quarter finals. The bottom two teams from each group advance to the Challenge Trophy quarter finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282434-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Sevens, Pool stage\nAll times in Singapore Standard Time (UTC+08:00). The games as scheduled are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282434-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Singapore Sevens, Players, Dream Team\nThe following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282435-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sint Maarten general election\nSnap general elections were held in Sint Maarten on 26 February 2018 following a no confidence vote in the Second Marlin cabinet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282435-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sint Maarten general election, Background\nIn November 2017, a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister William Marlin and some other ministers was accepted in Parliament, due to Marlin's position in the negotiation with the Dutch government about anti fraud measures and aid funds in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. After the motion of no confidence was accepted, Marlin tendered the resignation of his cabinet to governor Eugene Holiday and requested elections to be held. It is the second early election in a row since the Gumbs cabinet fell in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282435-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sint Maarten general election, Electoral system\nThe 15 seats in the Estates were elected by proportional representation. In order to participate in the election, new parties and parties without a seat in parliament were required to obtain at least 142 signatures; 1% of the valid votes of the 2016 parliamentary elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282436-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sioux Falls Storm season\nThe 2018 Sioux Falls Storm season is the team's nineteenth season as a professional indoor football franchise and 10th in the Indoor Football League (IFL). They are one of six teams that currently compete in the IFL for the 2018 season. The Storm were members of the United Conference in previous seasons, but due to the lack of teams, there is no conference alignment for the 2018 season .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282436-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sioux Falls Storm season\nLed by head coach Kurtiss Riggs, the Storm play their home games at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282437-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sittwe bombings\nThe 2018 Sittwe bombings were a series of three bomb blasts in Sittwe, the capital of Myanmar's Rakhine State. One police officer received minor injuries from the blasts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282437-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sittwe bombings, Background\nEthnic Rakhine insurgent groups have been fighting the government of Myanmar since the early 1950s. Bombings are not uncommon in Myanmar due to the various ongoing insurgencies in the country, but they have been a rare occurrence in Rakhine State. However, Rakhine State has experienced an increase in guerrilla-style attacks by insurgents since 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282437-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sittwe bombings, Bombings\nOne of the bombs exploded at around 4:30 am (MMT) in the backyard of a residence belonging to Tin Maung Swe, a state government secretary, whilst the other two went off near a high court and a land record office. The blasts slightly injured a police officer. Authorities suspected that Swe was targeted because of his high position in the local administration. Three unexploded bombs were recovered and defused by authorities afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282437-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sittwe bombings, Investigation\nSeven suspects were arrested by the Myanmar Police Force immediately after the bombing, whilst two others were detained later in the investigation. Naing Soe, a senior leader of the Arakan National Council (ANC) was among those arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282437-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sittwe bombings, Investigation\nOn 26 March 2018, the police released five of the nine suspects, including Naing Soe, after they failed to find evidence against them within 30 days as police procedure requires. The released suspects were originally charged under Myanmar's counter-terrorism laws, but their release was ordered by the court after the police failed to show evidence linking them to the bombings. An extension for the police's remand of three of the suspects still detained was approved by the court on the same day; two of the suspects were accused of illegally crossing the Bangladesh\u2013Myanmar border, whilst another was accused of being involved with a bombing in Mrauk U.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship\nThe 2018 Six Nations Championship (known as the Natwest 6 Nations for sponsorship reasons) was the 19th Six Nations Championship, the annual international rugby union tournament for the six major European rugby union nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship\nThe championship was contested by France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Wales and defending champions England. Including the competition's previous iterations as the Home Nations Championship and Five Nations Championship, it was the 124th edition of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship\nThe Championship was won by Ireland on 10 March 2018, with their four wins (three with try bonus points) from the first four matches sufficient to place them out of reach of the other participants ahead of the final round. This was the third tournament running where the championship and Wooden Spoon had been decided by the end of round four. After a 24\u201315 victory against England on the final day, Ireland secured a Grand Slam, their third ever, alongside a Triple Crown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Participants\n1 Dylan Hartley was ruled out of round 4 due to injury, and Owen Farrell captained England in his absence. 2 Alun Wyn Jones was dropped from the match-day team to play Italy in round 4, and Taulupe Faletau captained Wales in his absence. 3 Guilhem Guirado was ruled out of round 5 due to injury, and Mathieu Bastareaud captained France in his absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures\nThe fixtures were announced on 16 May 2017. France hosted games in more than one venue, with their Friday night game against Italy taking place at the Stade V\u00e9lodrome, Marseille.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 1\nTouch judges:Romain Poite (France)Matthew Carley (England)Television match official:David Grashoff (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 1\nTouch judges:Wayne Barnes (England)Paul Williams (New Zealand)Television match official:Rowan Kitt (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 1\nTouch judges:J\u00e9r\u00f4me Garc\u00e8s (France)Nic Berry (Australia)Television match official:Glenn Newman (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 2\nTouch judges:Pascal Ga\u00fcz\u00e8re (France)Matthew Carley (England)Television match official:David Grashoff (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 2\nTouch judges:George Clancy (Ireland)Nic Berry (Australia)Television match official:Glenn Newman (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 2\nTouch judges:Nigel Owens (Wales)Paul Williams (New Zealand)Television match official:Rowan Kitt (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 3\nTouch judges:John Lacey (Ireland)Luke Pearce (England)Television match official:David Grashoff (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 3\nTouch judges:Pascal Ga\u00fcz\u00e8re (France)Matthew Carley (England)Television match official:Rowan Kitt (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 3\nTouch judges:J\u00e9r\u00f4me Garc\u00e8s (France)Andrew Brace (Ireland)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 4\nTouch judges:Ben O'Keeffe (New Zealand)Luke Pearce (England)Television match official:George Ayoub (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 4\nTouch judges:Angus Gardner (Australia)Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 4\nTouch judges:Pascal Ga\u00fcz\u00e8re (France)Andrew Brace (Ireland)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 5\nTouch judges:J\u00e9r\u00f4me Garc\u00e8s (France)Andrew Brace (Ireland)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 5\nTouch judges:Jaco Peyper (South Africa)Nigel Owens (Wales)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282438-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 5\nTouch judges:Wayne Barnes (England)Luke Pearce (England)Television match official:George Ayoub (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads\nThis is a list of the complete squads for the 2018 Six Nations Championship, an annual rugby union tournament contested by the national rugby teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. England were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads\nNote: Number of caps and players' ages are indicated as of 3 February 2018 \u2013 the tournament's opening day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, England\nOn 18 January, Eddie Jones named a 35-man squad ahead of their opening Championship match, against Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, England, Call-ups\nOn 29 January, James Haskell and Joe Marler were called up to the squad, although are unavailable for selection for the earlier rounds due to suspension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, England, Call-ups\nOn 5 February, Eddie Jones called up Luke Cowan-Dickie, Nathan Hughes and Richard Wigglesworth, with Wigglesworth replacing Ben Youngs who was injured in round one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, England, Call-ups\nOn 12 February, Sam Moore and Gabriel Ibitoye joined the squad during the first break, with Ibitoye joining Marcus Smith as an apprentice player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, England, Call-ups\nOn 26 February, Charlie Ewels was brought into the squad as part of the training squad ahead of the French game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, England, Call-ups\nOn 3 March, Ewels remained with the squad, whilst Elliot Daly rejoined the squad after recovering for injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, England, Call-ups\nOn 11 March, Don Armand joined the squad as an injury replacement for Nathan Hughes who was ruled out of the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, France\nOn the 17 January, Jacques Brunel named a 32-man squad ahead of France's opening Championship match against Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, France, Call-ups\nOn 22 January, Hugo Bonneval and Baptiste Serin were added to the squad as injury cover for Brice Dulin and Morgan Parra who were injured in the final round of the European Champions Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, France, Call-ups\nOn 24 January, Camille Chat was unable to join the group because of flu like symptoms. He was replaced by Adrien P\u00e9lissi\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, France, Call-ups\nOn 25 January, Anthony Jelonch injured himself in training and was replaced by Alexandre Lapandry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, France, Call-ups\nOn 30 January, Christopher Tolofua injured himself, he was not replaced by another player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, France, Call-ups\nOn 5 February, Lionel Beauxis, Baptiste Couilloud, and Louis Picamoles where called up to replace Matthieu Jalibert, Antoine Dupont, and K\u00e9vin Gourdon respectively, who were injured in the first match against Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, France, Call-ups\nOn 13 February, Mathieu Babillot, Camille Chat, Fran\u00e7ois Trinh-Duc, Mathieu Bastareaud, Ga\u00ebl Fickou, K\u00e9lian Galletier, R\u00e9my Grosso, Bernard Le Roux, and Romain Taofifenua where called up to replace Anthony Belleau, R\u00e9mi Lamerat, F\u00e9lix Lambey, Alexandre Lapandry, S\u00e9kou Macalou, Arthur Iturria, Louis Picamoles, Jonathan Danty, and Teddy Thomas respectively, who were suspended due to inappropriate behaviour after the second match against Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, France, Call-ups\nOn 12 March, Pierre Bougarit was called up because of an injury to Guilhem Guirado which made him uncertain for the match against Wales. Whilst Arthur Iturria was called up to replace the injured Romain Taofif\u00e9nua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, France, Call-ups\nOn 13 March, after an HIA protocol done 48 hours post-match on Hugo Bonneval after the England match, it was confirmed that he must now follow a gradual return to rugby protocol which does not allow him to train with the team until the Friday before the match against Wales, therefore Yoann Huget was called as a backup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Ireland\nOn the 17 January, Joe Schmidt announced a 36-man squad for the opening two rounds of the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Ireland, Call-ups\nOn 22 January, James Cronin was added to the squad as injury cover for Dave Kilcoyne who was injured in the final round of the European Champions Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Ireland, Call-ups\nOn 19 February, John Cooney, Garry Ringrose and Niall Scannell were called into the squad ahead of the round 3 clash with Wales as injury cover for Luke McGrath, Robbie Henshaw and Rob Herring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy\nOn the 25 January, Conor O'Shea announced a 31-man squad for the opening two rounds of the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy\nNote: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy, Call-ups\nOn 27 February, O'Shea named a 32-man squad for the final two rounds of the Championship; Dario Chistolini, Luca Morisi, Guglielmo Palazzani, Jake Polledri and Federico Zani were new additions to the Championship squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland\nOn the 16 January, Gregor Townsend named a 40-man squad for the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups\nOn 22 January, Neil Cochrane was added to the squad as injury cover for George Turner who was injured in the final round of the European Champions Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups\nOn 17 February, Matt Scott and Tim Swinson were called up to the squad as injury replacements for Duncan Taylor and Richie Gray, whilst James Malcolm, WP Nel, Josh Strauss and Tim Visser joined the squad, replacing Murray McCallum, D'Arcy Rae, Magnus Bradbury and Nathan Fowles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups\nOn 5 March, Fraser Brown, Zander Fagerson, John Hardie, George Horne and Darryl Marfo were called up ahead of the Irish test in round 4, with Brown, Fagerson and Marfo rejoining the squad after recovering from respective injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups\nOn 12 March, Scott Cummings, Matt Fagerson, Adam Hastings and Richie Vernon joined the squad ahead of the final round game against Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Wales\nOn the 16 January, Warren Gatland named a 39-man squad for the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Wales, Call-ups\nOn 25 January, Rhys Webb was ruled out of the Championship due to injury, Tomos Williams replaced Webb in the squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Wales, Call-ups\nOn 1 February, Scott Baldwin was released from the squad due to injury, ruling him out of the whole Championship. Ryan Elias was added as his replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282439-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Wales, Call-ups\nOn 6 March, Rhodri Jones was drafted into the squad as an injury replacement for Wyn Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282440-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Six Nations Under 20s Championship\nThe 2018 Six Nations Under 20s Championship, was the 11th series of the Six Nations Under 20s Championship, the annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship. England were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282441-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Six-red World Championship\nThe 2018 SangSom Six-red World Championship was a six-red snooker invitational tournament being held between 3 and 8 September 2018 at the Bangkok Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282441-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Six-red World Championship\nMark Williams was the defending champion, but he lost in the last 16 to amateur player Mohammed Shehab.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282441-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Six-red World Championship\nThe event was won by Kyren Wilson, defeating Ding Junhui 8\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282441-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Six-red World Championship, Round-robin stage\nGroup matches were played from 3\u20135 September. The top two players from each group qualified for the knock-out stage. All matches were the best of 9 frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282441-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Six-red World Championship, Round-robin stage\nPositions within the group were decided by the number of matches won (MW) and then, in the event of a tie, by the frame difference (FD). Where two players were still tied, the result of the match between them determined their positions. Where three players were still tied, the top position was determined by a draw and the other two positions by the result of the match between those two players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282441-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Six-red World Championship, Knockout stage\nThe last 16 matches and quarter-finals were played on 6 September, the semi-finals on 7 September and the final on 8 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282442-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Skate America\nThe 2018 Skate America was the first event of six in the 2018\u201319 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett, Washington on October 19\u201321. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2018\u201319 Grand Prix Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282442-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Skate America, Entries\nThe ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282443-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Skate Canada International\nThe 2018 Skate Canada International was the second event of the 2018\u201319 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Place Bell in Laval, Quebec from October 26\u201328. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2018\u201319 Grand Prix Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282443-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Skate Canada International, Entries\nThe ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282443-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Skate Canada International, Records\nThe following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282444-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sky Blue FC season\nThe 2018 Sky Blue FC season is the team's ninth season as a professional women's soccer team. Sky Blue FC plays in the National Women's Soccer League, the top tier of women's soccer in the United States. Sky Blue had a difficult season in 2018 as they finished in last place. They went 23 games without winning a game, setting the mark for the longest winless streak in NWSL history. Sky Blue finally won on September 8 as they beat the Orlando Pride 1-0 in their final game of the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282444-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sky Blue FC season\nThere were numerous reports of off-field issues that came out after former Sky Blue player Sam Kerr spoke to the media following the Sky Blue vs Chicago game on July 7. Reports of poor management and training facilities as well as housing, travel, and transportation issues were also reported, and were believed to be contributing factors to the team's poor performance on the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282444-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sky Blue FC season, Team, First-team roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282445-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Skyrunner World Series\nThe 2018 Skyrunner World Series was the 17th edition of the global skyrunning competition, Skyrunner World Series, organised by the International Skyrunning Federation from 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282445-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Skyrunner World Series\nIn this edition, compared with 2017, the Sky Extreme and Sky Ultra races have been unified in a single category called Sky Extra. The calendar was announced by ISF in October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282446-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sk\u00e5ne regional election\nSk\u00e5ne County or Region Sk\u00e5ne (English: Scania County) held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282446-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sk\u00e5ne regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 149 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 41, a drop of ten from 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282447-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Slough Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Slough Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Slough Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282448-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak Cup Final\nThe 2018 Slovak Cup Final (known as the Slovnaft Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the final match of the 2017\u201318 Slovak Cup, the 49th season of the top cup competition in Slovak football. The match was played at the Anton Malatinsk\u00fd Stadium in Trnava on 1 May 2018 between \u0160K Slovan Bratislava and MFK Ru\u017eomberok.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282448-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak Cup Final, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282449-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak Open\nThe 2018 Slovak Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 19th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bratislava, Slovakia between 5 and 11 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282449-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282449-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282449-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282450-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak Open \u2013 Doubles\nKen and Neal Skupski were the defending champions but only Ken Skupski chose to defend his title, partnering Jonny O'Mara. Ken Skupski lost in the semifinals to Denys Molchanov and Igor Zelenay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282450-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak Open \u2013 Doubles\nMolchanov and Zelenay won the title after defeating Ramkumar Ramanathan and Andrei Vasilevski 6\u20132, 3\u20136, [11\u20139] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282451-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak Open \u2013 Singles\nLuk\u00e1\u0161 Lacko was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Egor Gerasimov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282451-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak Open \u2013 Singles\nAlexander Bublik won the title after defeating Luk\u00e1\u0161 Rosol 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282452-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak local elections\nThe 2018 Slovak local elections were held on Saturday, 10 November 2018, to elect deputies to municipality councils, city councils and mayors, including mayors of boroughs and members of their councils in Bratislava and Ko\u0161ice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282452-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak local elections\nThe turnout slightly increased compared to last elections in 2014 to 48.67%. The highest turnout rate was recorded in Pre\u0161ov Region (53.18%), and the lowest turnout rate in Bratislava Region (43.74%). Locally the highest percentage of votes cast was in Chorv\u00e1ty, Ko\u0161ice-okolie District (89.88%, 80 out of 89), and the lowest in Ko\u0161ice's borough Lun\u00edk IX (19.44%, 862 out of 4,434).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282452-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak local elections\nIn 762 cities and municipalities, only one candidate ran for mayor, therefore, these candidates needed only one vote to be elected. These included two cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants, Brezno and \u0160a\u013ea. In five municipalities, there was no candidate for mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282452-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak local elections, Electoral system\nThe commune elections in Slovakia use the one-round system for all elected seats. Mayoral elections utilize the first-past-the-post voting system compared to local councils where voters choose from the list same number of candidates as are representing theirs electoral district. The candidates with the highest number of votes are elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282452-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak local elections, Overall results\nThe following tables summarize the elected mayors and council deputies by their party affiliation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282452-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak local elections, Results in major cities, Bratislava\nThe incumbent mayor Ivo Nesrovnal elected as independent candidate decided to run for second term, however, he was defeated by architect and civil activist Mat\u00fa\u0161 Vallo, supported by Progressive Slovakia and Together - Civic Democracy who became new mayor and another independent candidate and former director-general of Radio and Television of Slovakia, V\u00e1clav Mika.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282452-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak local elections, Results in major cities, Bratislava\nOut of 17 new elected mayors of boroughs were 10 independent candidates and 7 candidates with the support of different centre-right coalitions - each with Freedom and Solidarity, We Are Family and New Majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282452-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak local elections, Results in major cities, Ko\u0161ice\nThe previous mayor, 2014-elected Richard Ra\u0161i (SMER-SD), resigned from office after his appointment to new government as Deputy Prime Minister. Responsibility for the mayor office was taken over by Martin Petru\u0161ko (SMER-SD). The campaign was influenced by rumored child harassment scandal of opposition candidate, Jaroslav Pola\u010dek that caused his loss of support from few major political parties. These rumors were later demented and Pola\u010dek won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282452-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak local elections, Results in major cities, Ko\u0161ice\nOut of 22 new elected mayors of boroughs were 13 independent candidates, 7 candidates with the support of different centre-right coalitions - each with Freedom and Solidarity and Christian Democratic Movement, 1 candidate of Direction \u2013 Social Democracy and 1 from Party of the Romani Coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282452-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak local elections, Results in major cities, Pre\u0161ov\nAndrea Tur\u010danov\u00e1 - the incumbent mayor elected with support of center-right coalition confirmed in February 2018 intention to candidate for re-election. Her biggest rival was the former mayor (2006-2014) and independent candidate Pavel Hagyari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282452-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovak local elections, Results in major cities, \u017dilina\nMayor of \u017dilina - Igor Choma (SMER-SD) announced he was not going to run for re-election. On the other hand, in \u017dilina occurred increased number of independent candidates elected to council. Election was won by Peter Fiab\u00e1ne (NEKA) who was externally supported by both liberal and conservative center-right parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match\nThe 2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match was an international friendly association football match between the senior national teams of Slovakia and Denmark. The match took place on 5 September 2018 at the Anton Malatinsk\u00fd Stadium in Trnava, Slovakia. Due to a dispute with the Danish players' union regarding commercial rights, the Danish Football Union replaced the regular national squad, which had not lost a match in nearly two years, with an entirely uncapped squad consisting of semi-professional and amateur players from the third, fourth and fifth tiers of the Danish football league system, as well as futsal players. Despite the vast inexperience of the Danish players, and having only been called up 48 hours prior, the match only finished as a 3\u20130 win for Slovakia. The Danish team were praised for their performance in avoiding humiliation, especially futsal goalkeeper Christoffer Haagh, who made seven saves during the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 981]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background\nThe fixture was the first match for Denmark since the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, where they were eliminated in the round of 16 by Croatia in a penalty shoot-out following a 1\u20131 draw after extra time. As the match is counted as a draw for statistical purposes, Denmark were undefeated in official matches since 11 October 2016, when they lost to Montenegro in World Cup qualifying. The Danish team were tied for 9th in the FIFA World Rankings prior to the match, while Slovakia were ranked 26th. The match was the third meeting between Slovakia and Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background\nFollowing the World Cup, the national team agreement between the Danish players' union (Spillerforeningen) and the Danish Football Union (DBU) had expired on 31 July 2018, and a new one was undergoing negotiations since the start of the year. On 20 August 2018, Denmark national team manager \u00c5ge Hareide named a squad of 21 players for their friendly match against Slovakia and opening UEFA Nations League match against Wales, taking place on 5 and 9 September 2018 respectively. The squad, which later had two more players added on 28 August, largely featured regulars of the national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background\nHowever, negotiations between the players' union and the DBU for a new national team agreement had stalled, largely over issues related to the commercial image rights of the players. The dispute arose as Hummel had the exclusive right to the manufacture and marketing of Danish kits. The DBU wanted to use individual players, without explicit permissions, in their advertising. After failing to meet the last deadline of 31 August 2018, the negotiations were suspended at the start of September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0002-0002", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background\nThe DBU offered to extend the previous agreement for the September 2018 matches, thus allowing for the negotiations to be completed after the international window. The DBU wanted to avoid fines and possible exclusion by UEFA for failing to play their two scheduled September 2018 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0002-0003", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background\nThe DBU were under a four-year probationary period with UEFA for having forfeited a Women's World Cup qualifying match against Sweden in 2017 due to a similar dispute with the women's team, and a further violation could have resulted in Denmark being prohibited from participation in either the Nations League or the UEFA Euro 2020. After no extension agreement could be reached by the evening of 2 September, the Danish Football Union confirmed on 3 September that a new squad and manager would be announced for the upcoming national team matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background\nIt is a deeply regrettable situation we are in. Both for the team, fans and for everyone in Danish football. We had hoped that the players would show up when we offered them the same fees, bonuses, paid insurance and better conditions in terms of aircraft, food and treatment. Now we are working on getting the best possible players to play the two matches for Denmark. It is crucial for the future of Danish football. If the matches are not played, we risk huge fines and exclusions for both national teams \u2013 and Danish football will return to the Stone Age in many extents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background\nOn 4 September, the DBU announced an entirely uncapped squad to play in the friendly against Slovakia in lieu of the regular side. The DBU had decided to wait in announcing the team until the plane had left Danish soil, and airport staff had blocked to the view of the plane using two fire engines to prevent photographs being taken by the press. The search for a replacement squad was complicated by the fact that many of the players in Denmark's first and second divisions were also members of the players' union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background\nSeveral players from the first division had expressed interest in playing for the team, though all later withdrew their statement due to fears over the pressure of potential harassment they would be subjected to. The replacement team consisted of a mixture of futsal players from the Denmark national team, and semi-professional and amateur players from the third, fourth and fifth tiers of Danish football league system. The team was assembled only 48 hours prior to the match. It was feared that the same squad would be used for the competitive Nations League fixture against Wales four days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background\nNational team coach Hareide would similarly not be involved, with the side instead falling under the temporary management of John Jensen, a member of Denmark's UEFA Euro 1992 winning squad, with Hasse Kuhn serving as the assistant manager. Jensen had not met any of the players prior to travelling for the away match. In a news conference, Jensen said, \"I had to start from scratch and ask each player his name and which position he plays on the field.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background\nExpectations for Denmark were low due to the team's inexperience and lack of preparation, and because of Slovakia's full-strength side. Due to the weakened Danish selection, the entrance fee for the match were reduced to \u20ac1, and those who bought tickets in advance received a refund. The Slovak Football Association urged UEFA to review the situation and take appropriate action. Slovakia manager J\u00e1n Koz\u00e1k was frustrated by Denmark's team selection, and said they would not have scheduled the fixture had they known in advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background\nWe were looking forward to Denmark, the team has high quality, and our fans were looking forward... It is a team from the last 16 of the World Cup, it should be a challenge. The situation has changed, we do not know who will come... What is the point of sending this team to meet us? Does Denmark just want to avoid a fine? So that they don't have problems with UEFA? Is it possible for these players to return to the line-up to represent their country? It bothers me. From a sporting perspective, this match will not give us anything. We could have spent our time better if we had known this before. But we have to respect that they will start as the Danish national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background\nSlovakia captain Martin \u0160krtel was also disappointed in the opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background\nWe don't need to talk about that, it doesn't matter what players come. We know why we came here. We need to prepare for the duel with Ukraine, the match against Denmark will be important for us. We will focus on ourselves. For the third-league Danish players, it will be a great experience to play against footballers such as Ham\u0161\u00edk, Lobotka, \u0160kriniar. It's hard to judge, we don't really know what's going on. It's good that the players stand up for themselves, but on the other hand it is to the detriment of our national team match. It could have been a good match for them, for us and for the audience, but unfortunately it will be different. Strange and sad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Squads\nThe age listed for each player is on 5 September 2018, the day of the match. The numbers of caps and goals listed for each player are those prior to the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Squads, Slovakia\nSlovakia called up 24 players for the friendly match, as well as their opening UEFA Nations League match against Ukraine on 9 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Squads, Denmark, Original\nDenmark originally called up 23 players for the friendly match, as well as their opening UEFA Nations League match against Wales on 9 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Squads, Denmark, Replacement\nDenmark called up 24 players for the friendly match, replacing the originally selected squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Squads, Denmark, Replacement\nAll of the players on the team had jobs outside football, including the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Match\nPrior to the match, a moment of silence was held for the footballers Juraj Halen\u00e1r and Vojt\u011bch Varad\u00edn, both natives of Trnava, who had died in the months prior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Match, Summary\nAdam Nemec opened the scoring for Slovakia in the 11th minute of the match with a header past goalkeeper Christoffer Haagh at the back post, following a chipped cross from Juraj Kucka on the right side. Denmark managed to create chances of their own, including two in the 25th minute after Kasper Kempel's cross was missed by Christian Offenberg and a shot from 11 metres (12\u00a0yd) out by Oskar H\u00f8ybye went over the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Match, Summary\nDenmark held off the opposition attacks until the 37th minute, when Kucka registered his second assist of the match after laying a ball back to Albert Rusn\u00e1k, who scored beneath the goalkeeper to put Slovakia up 2\u20130 at half-time. Denmark remained well-organised and compact, despite finishing with one shot on target and only 27% possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0015-0002", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Match, Summary\nThe majority of the second period was played in Denmark's half, though the score remained unchanged until the 79th minute, when Danish substitute futsal player Adam Fogt scored an own goal past Haagh after failing to clear a low cross sent by R\u00f3bert Mak from the left and deflected by Michal \u010euri\u0161. Haagh made seven saves in the match, helping prevent a worse defeat for Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath\nFollowing the match, the Danish team were praised for the result, especially goalkeeper Christoffer Haagh for his role in preventing Slovakia from scoring more. Reuters described the defeat as a \"moral victory\" for the Danish team and stated \"31-year-old Haagh played the game of his life\". In a press conference following the match, temporary Denmark coach John Jensen called the group of players \"heroes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath\nWe got 24 heroes who were called in about 48 hours ago. And [they] played in a very low division compared to Slovakia, who have got world-class players... I'm proud, I'm shocked. These players that were on the pitch, and also these players that didn't come on the pitch, the friendship and what they did was absolutely amazing and I will never forget this defeat. This is my best defeat in my career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath\nIn interviews after the match, many Slovak players expressed their continued frustration for the friendly being inadequate preparation for their upcoming competitive fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath\nThe Danes have laughed at us and the whole of UEFA, such things should not happen, it is sad, but there was nothing we could do about it. This should not happen at such a level. We had a chance for more goals, even though they play in lower leagues, they know how to play football. If they close the space, unless you break them with quick goals, they resist the whole match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath\nMaybe everyone thought, given the leagues in which they compete, that we should beat them 10\u20130. As a result, we managed it, we worked out the chances for more than three goals, it was not easy considering that they defended with ten players. The coach encouraged us not to underestimate anything and stressed to us that it was a preparation for the next match and so we approached it as such. I think that the match fulfilled its purpose, it is definitely better to play such a match rather than not play anything during the week. The opponent did not have the quality of the real team from Denmark, but we could not do anything about it and now we will concentrate on the match against Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath\nIt was such a strange match. We played against an opponent that we knew what they would be like. It was the hardest thing to do in your head. Luckily, we managed to score three goals, we won and the best part is that we already have this match behind us. I would not say that we were only disappointed, we were also angry. We were looking forward to a good opponent and we had to play against the rival we played. However, we must admit that we expected them to be worse than they were. On the other hand, everyone can defend nowadays. They were shut in and we had to push through them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath\nOn 6 September 2018, the day after the match, the DBU announced that the replacement players would return to their clubs, and a temporary agreement until 30 September had been reached with the players' union, thus enabling the originally selected squad, featuring the regular national team players, to play in their first Nations League fixture. On 9 September, Denmark won 2\u20130 at home against Wales in Aarhus with a brace from Christian Eriksen. On the same day, Slovakia lost their opening Nations League match away to Ukraine following a late penalty scored by Andriy Yarmolenko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath\nSlovakia manager J\u00e1n Koz\u00e1k would later resign the following month after over five years as coach, and the team was to be relegated from their Nations League group, but was ultimately saved from relegation by the format change of the Nations League for the upcoming edition. Denmark would go on to finish undefeated in their Nations League group, and were promoted to League A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282453-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath\nOn 29 September 2018, the DBU and the players' union reached a new collective agreement for the men's senior national team, lasting until 2024.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282454-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian local elections\nLocal elections in Slovenia took place on 18 November 2018. Mayors of all 212 Slovenian municipalities and members of municipal councils were elected. A second round of mayoral elections took place on 2 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 3 June 2018. The elections were originally expected to be held later in June 2018, but after the resignation of Prime Minister Miro Cerar on 14 March 2018 all parties called for snap elections. They were the third consecutive snap elections after 2011 and 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background\nOn 14 March 2018, Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia delivered a judgement regarding the railway referendum, held in 2017 on the construction of a second railway connection from Koper to Diva\u010da. In the judgement, the court annulled the results and ordered a new vote. The railway link was the biggest project of the Cerar cabinet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background\nLater that day, Prime Minister Cerar announced that he would resign from the post at a press conference following a cabinet meeting. Cerar explained that he had resigned due to bad relations within the coalition between the Social Democrats (SD) and the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS) following a decision of the Supreme Court earlier that day, which he stated would slow down the infrastructural development of Slovenia due to strikes and demands of public sector trade unions. The following day, he sent his letter of resignation to the Speaker of the National Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background\nCerar was the second consecutive Prime Minister after Alenka Bratu\u0161ek to resign. The two previous Prime Ministers, Janez Jan\u0161a (2012\u20132013) and Borut Pahor (2008\u20132012), were removed from the office by vote of no confidence, meaning that Jan\u0161a's first term in office (2004\u20132008) remains the most recently completed full term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background\nAfter the resignation of a prime minister, a new candidate can be nominated by the president. However, President Borut Pahor announced after a meeting with Cerar that he would not nominate anyone for the post. Members of the National Assembly also announced that they will not nominate a candidate, and called for early elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background\nAccording to the Constitution, regularly scheduled elections should have been held no sooner than two months and no later than 15 days before the expiry of four years from the first session of current National Assembly. Elections were therefore expected to be held between 1 June and 15 July 2018. Following the resignation of Cerar, elections were held on 3 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background\nOn 20 March 2018, the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) announced that after consultations with President Pahor they were calling for elections to be held on 10 June 2018 and that they would nominate a candidate for Prime Minister to postpone the elections if needed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background\nThe Modern Centre Party (SMC) also called for elections to be held at a later date due to the ongoing procedure to adopt a constitutional law protecting the country's biggest bank, NLB, from Croatian actions in violation of international agreement between the countries as well as the upcoming process before the European Court of Justice on arbitration between Slovenia and Croatia. On the same day, independent MP Janko Veber announced that he would try and nominate himself for the position of interim Prime Minister, though none of the political parties expressed its support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background\nAt the time of Cerar's resignation, four investigative commissions were ongoing in the National Assembly. Two of them are investigating banks (one on why an injection of \u20ac3.2 billion of equity capital was needed during the premiership of Alenka Bratu\u0161ek and the other on the possible funding of terrorism through Slovenian banks), one is looking at corruption during the construction of the \u0160o\u0161tanj Thermal Power Plant (TE\u01606); and the other investigating corruption in healthcare system. All four commissions are expected to issue final reports in April and May, which must be approved by a vote in the National Assembly. Some current politicians are expected to be charged with responsibility for the scandals, including Janez Jan\u0161a (SDS) and Borut Pahor (SD). It was suggested in the media that Social Democrats may be in favour of early elections so that the commissions could not finish their work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 953]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background\nOn 14 April 2018, after no candidate for the Prime Minister was nominated, President Pahor dissolved the National Assembly and decided elections will be held on 3 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nThe Italian minority representative in the National Assembly, Roberto Battelli, who has held the post for seven consecutive terms and was the only one to hold this position so far, announced on 16 March 2018 that he would not run again in the following elections. He was one of only two representatives (the other being Janez Jan\u0161a) to be elected in every election since Slovenia gained its independence in 1992 from Yugoslavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nDuring the signing of a treaty with Russian company Gazprom to supply Slovenia with natural gas on April 13, 2018, the Russian Ambassador to Slovenia Doku Zavgayev publicly offered support to DeSUS. This was seen as a diplomatic scandal in Slovenia and an act that violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR) according to Speaker of National Assembly Milan Brglez (SMC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nHowever, Foreign Minister and DeSUS president Karl Erjavec, a supporter of good relations with Russia, did not see the act as a violation of diplomatic protocol, saying that Ambassador only supported their program and that he hoped other ambassadors would also support it. The Slovenian media speculated that the act could have been pre-arranged between Zavgayev and Erjavec. Former Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel also criticized the Russian Ambassador, saying he violated Article 41 and Article 42 of VCDR, which explicitly forbids interference in the internal affairs of a host state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nChairman of the National Assembly Foreign Politics Committee Jo\u017eef Horvat (NSi) said that he had never seen anything like it. President Borut Pahor made no statement about the matter. This was the second time a foreign ambassador had interfered in Slovenian internal affairs after American Ambassador Joseph A. Mussomeli had offered his help in forming a government coalition after the 2011 elections, for which he was criticized by then-President Danilo T\u00fcrk. Ambassador Mussomeli was later called for consultations by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to explain his statements. Then Ambassador of Slovenia to the United States Roman Kirn (now LM\u0160) also met with representatives of State Department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nOn 19 April 2018, two Modern Centre Party (SMC) MPs, Branko Zorman and Bojan Krajnc, left the party after National Assembly did not pass Zorman's bill that would liberalize gambling market in Slovenia (which is according to Zorman under control of Social Democrats), saying that party supports corruption (Prime Minister Cerar personally intervened in the SMC Deputy Group and asked MPs to vote against the bill). On that day Simona Kustec Lipicer MP, leader of the SMC in the National Assembly announced that she would not run again in the 2018 elections. However, the party denied Zorman's accusations, saying that Zorman is not pleased with him not being one of the candidates in the 2018 elections and that Krajnc was not satisfied with the electoral district he would have run in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nOn 23 April 2018, Milan Bala\u017eic (NSD) accused President Borut Pahor of acts which brought Slovenia under the subordination of another country as he had signed the Arbitration Agreement between Croatia and Slovenia when Prime Minister. This is the second charge for President Pahor since 10 April 2018, when the National Assembly charged him in the Final Report of \"TE\u01606 Investigative Commission\". Solidarnost subsequently started a petition calling for Pahor's resignation. In response, Pahor said that he had already paid for these actions when he lost the 2011 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nOn 24 April 2018, Slovenian media reported that Matej Tonin (NSi) possess documents that prove that foreign minister Karl Erjavec (DeSUS) has worked for Croatia during Arbitration between the countries. Tonin revealed the documents and informed MPs at the closed session of the National Assembly Tonin also stated that he cannot release them yet because they are still a state secret. DeSUS accused him of lying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nAfter submitting their candidature lists, some media questioned which MPs supported the lists of candidates of the Party of Alenka Bratu\u0161ek and the party Good Country. Party of Alenka Bratu\u0161ek has only 2 MPs (Alenka Bratu\u0161ek and Mirjam Bon Klanj\u0161\u010dek) and Good Country only has 1 MP (Bojan Dobov\u0161ek) to submit a list of candidates signatures of 3 MPs are needed. State Election Commission refused to announce the names of the MPs that supported the lists of candidates. Media also stressed that not announcing names of the MPs is against Good Country's efforts for transparency in politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nAccording to the media, one of the MPs that supported Good Country's list is Franc Laj, former MP for Modern Centre Party (SMC), now forming Deputy Group of Independent MPs in the National Assembly, together with Bratu\u0161ek, Bon Klanj\u0161\u010dek and Dobov\u0161ek. Names of other two MPs stay unknown, though some media speculate that Branko Zorman and Bojan Kranjc, also former SMC MPs, who left the party just before the beginning of the campaign, could have supported the candidature lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nMPs of Social Democrats and Modern Centre Party (Dobov\u0161ek was elected as SMC MP in 2014, but left the party soon after the elections) are also speculated to offer their signatures. Media later reported that SMC MP Vlasta Po\u010dkaj supported candidature lists of Party of Alenka Bratu\u0161ek and Marija Antonija Kova\u010di\u010d, DeSUS MP, supported candidature list of Dobov\u0161ek's Good Country. The official election campaign began on 4 May 2018. The main topics of the campaign were relations with Croatia (arbitration, NLB), the public healthcare system, banks and corruption, hate speech, level of minimum wage and pensions, level of poverty and foreign policy and positioning of Slovenia in the international community, especially relations with the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nOn 5 May 2018, Slovenian media reported that list of candidates that United Right submitted in the 6th constituency (Novo Mesto) had been rejected because it was not formed according to the law, which stipulates that at least 35% of candidates much be of the opposite sex. United Right submitted a list with 7 male and 2 female candidates, but both female candidates would run in two electoral districts each. The party also contested the decision of the Electoral Commission of the 6th constituency in the Supreme Court, which rejected their appeal on 8 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nThe incident is seen as great damage to the party since the head of the party, Ale\u0161 Primc, would run in this constituency. The Electoral Commission of the 5th constituency rejected the list of United left and Unity for a similar reason. According to the head of Unity Janko Veber, the Supreme Court rejected their appeal and he added that they would contest its decision in the Constitutional Court. However, according to the law a decision by the Supreme Court is final, said Director of the State Election Commission Du\u0161an Vu\u010dko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nUnity proposed delaying the election until the verdict of the Constitutional court after the Supreme Court rejected United Right's appeal as well and they proposed the same. On 14 May, the Constitutional Court rejected United Left's appeal. On 7 May, United Right's list of candidates in the 1st constituency was rejected as well for the same reason as the one in the 6th constituency since Metka Zevnik, another key candidate would run in this constituency, the party lost its possibilities to reach the threshold of 4%, Slovenian media reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0014-0003", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nThis problem opened a broad discussion on gender quotas in politics in Slovenia. The State Election Commission reported on 8 May that the list of Party of Slovenian People in the 2nd constituency had been partially rejected due to a candidate on the list that died in 2017 and was then removed. It also reported that the Social Democrats and the party Andrej \u010cu\u0161 and the Greens of Slovenia (A\u010cZS) had put the same candidate on their lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0014-0004", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nThe candidate was removed from the list of Andrej \u010cu\u0161 and the Greens of Slovenia because the list of Social Democrats had been submitted first. Due to the removal of the candidate from the list of A\u010cZS, the list in the 3rd constituency was rejected by the State Election Commission (DVK) on 9 May for not reaching the gender quota. Media stressed that two of the four members of the DVK who voted to reject the list were appointed by Social Democrats and SDP (which is the former party of Andrej \u010cu\u0161). The Supreme Court annulled the decision made by DVK on 12 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nHungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n, an ally of Janez Jan\u0161a, came to stump with Jan\u0161a in mid-May at a rally in Celje, declaring: \"If Europe surrenders to mass population movement and immigration, our own Continent will be lost [...] The aim is to settle among us people who do not belong to our culture, and who will want to live here according to their own religions and customs\". The Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) would also run on an anti-immigration platform. One of the SDS's posters depicts migrants and refugees behind a stop sign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign\nIn a pre-election debate, a party lawmaker said that \"no migrants means a secure Slovenia\". Hence, a frequent topic of election debates was hate speech, especially due to Janez Jan\u0161a and other members of SDS, who are frequently involved in discussions which include hate speech, especially on Twitter. Lucija U\u0161aj and \u017dan Mahni\u010d MP, both SDS and candidates in the elections, were exposed because of their activity on Twitter, where they frequently publish statements that can arguably be recognized as hate speech against homosexuals, migrants, Muslims, or political opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe 90 members of the National Assembly are elected by two methods. 88 are elected by open list proportional representation in eight 11-seat constituencies and seats are allocated to the parties at the constituency level using the Droop quota. The elected Deputies are identified by ranking all of a party's candidates in a constituency by the percentage of votes they received in their district. The seats that remain unallocated are allocated to the parties at the national level using the d'Hondt method with an electoral threshold of 4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Electoral system\nAlthough the country is divided into 88 electoral districts, deputies are not elected from all 88 districts. More than one deputy is elected in some districts, which results in some districts not having an elected deputy (for instance, 21 of 88 electoral districts did not have an elected deputy in the 2014 elections). Parties must have at least 35% of their lists from each gender, except in cases where there are only three candidates. For these lists, there must be at least one candidate of each gender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Electoral system\nTwo additional deputies are elected by the Italian and Hungarian minorities. Voters rank all of the candidates on the ballot paper using numbers (1 being highest priority). A candidate is awarded the most points (equal to the number of candidates on the ballot paper) when a voter ranks them first. The candidate with most points wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Parties and leaders\nThe table lists all the parties that so far expressed their intention to participate in the elections. SMC, SDS, DeSUS, SD, Levica, NSi, SAB, A\u010cZS, DD and Unity are currently represented in the National Assembly. Not all of the following political parties will be able to take part in the elections due to the criteria set by the law (candidate lists supported with signatures of 3 MPs or 100 signatures in each constituency), especially the smaller ones; and some may form coalitions, such as Third Bloc and United Right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Parties and leaders\nParties had to form their lists of candidates for each constituency by 3 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Results, Elected MPs\nJanez Jan\u0161a became the only MP to be elected in every election since independence. Several former MPs returned to parliament, including Zmago Jelin\u010di\u010d Plemeniti (SNS) and Brane Golubovi\u0107 (LM\u0160, previously PS). All presidents of parliamentary parties were elected except Alenka Bratu\u0161ek (SAB) and Karl Erjavec (DeSUS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Reactions, Domestic\nAfter the election, Jan\u0161a stated that SDS would do everything in their power to form a stable government. He also expressed the opinion that it was impossible to form a new government without SDS. Articles in the journal Delo noted that although winning the most votes, SDS did not win the election as there is no easy way for them to form a coalition, especially due to the fact that Jan\u0161a had acted divisively in the past, making potential coalition partners wary. \u0160arec was viewed as the key player, either as a potential coalition partner with SDS (a scenario that \u0160arec denounced) or as the next-in-line prime minister-designate in case of Jan\u0161a failing to form the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Reactions, Domestic\nAlthough losing a large share of the vote in comparison to the 2014 election, the result of SMC was viewed as a success as the party did not have a strong traditional voting base. In hindsight, Cerar's decision to resign as the PM was seen as a smart tactical move. The results of The Left and Party of Alenka Bratu\u0161ek were seen as a success for respective parties while SD was seen as losing the votes to the Left. DeSUS got fewer MPs than in 2014, the alliance with Zoran Jankovi\u010d not having paid off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Reactions, Domestic\nNSi increased the number of seats but Tonin nevertheless offered his resignation to the party, not having fulfilled his goal of reaching above 10%. Party leaders Alenka Bratu\u0161ek of PAB and Karl Erjavec of DeSUS did not get elected into the parliament. The return of SNS after 7 years of absence was viewed as a side-effect of the nationalist rhetoric in the media while Jelin\u010di\u010d publicly stated that he was interested in joining some government as a minister of culture. SLS, once an influential party that participated in several governments, again failed to reach the 4% vote threshold, likely at the expense of SDS. Marko Zidan\u0161ek, the party president, immediately resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Reactions, International\nSome of the European politicians congratulated Janez Jan\u0161a for his victory, among them are Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Manfred Weber, leader of the EPP group in the European Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Reactions, International\nSeveral international media, including BBC, CNBC and Al Jazeera, reported on the election result, labelling SDS as \"anti-immigration\" party and noted that a formation of a stable government will be difficult. The New York Times highlighted Jan\u0161a's connection to Viktor Orb\u00e1n, the PM of Hungary, who openly supported SDS, including with Hungarian companies financing the pro-SDS media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly\nThe opening session of the National Assembly is expected to be held within 20 days of the elections. It was convened by President Borut Pahor, who announced that the session will be on 22 June 2018 at 11:00. The speaker of the National Assembly will be elected at the session. The speaker is usually elected among the MPs of the second largest coalition party, though this is not a rule. Milan Brglez (SMC) was elected speaker in 2014 and France Cukjati (SDS) in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 91], "content_span": [92, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly\nFirst session will be presided over by Peter Jo\u017eef \u010cesnik (SAB), who is the oldest of the elected MPs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 91], "content_span": [92, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly\nIn the first session only temporary speaker of the National Assembly could be elected, since there is still not outlines of the new coalition. If Speaker will not be elected, Peter Jo\u017eef \u010cesnik will become acting speaker until speaker is elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 91], "content_span": [92, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly\nDeputy speakers of the National Assembly are expected to be elected later after official formation of the coalition. Two deputy speakers will be elected among the MPs of the coalition parties and one will be elected among the MPs of the biggest opposition party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 91], "content_span": [92, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly\nBefore the constitution of the National Assembly, parties have to name temporary leaders of the political groups. Temporary leader meet with the previous speaker of the National Assembly to organise constitutional session of the new NA, including agenda of the session, members of the Commission for Public Office and Elections, which will convene during the first session to confirm mandates of the elected MPs, and sitting order. SDS surprised with naming Danijel Krivec instead of Jo\u017ee Tanko, who led the group of SDS for the last 13 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 91], "content_span": [92, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly\nA reason for that could be disagreements between Tanko and Janez Jan\u0161a and his disobedience. For example, Tanko was the only member of SDS group that voted in favor of same-sex marriages in the last term and SDS later took part in the campaign against the law in the referendum. In SMC, there were also some internal dissents when party named Igor Zor\u010di\u010d as leader instead of Milan Brglez, who wanted the position himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 91], "content_span": [92, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly\nOn 18 June temporary leaders of political groups had a meeting with Speaker Milan Brglez to discuss the first session. Jo\u017ee Tanko (SDS) was chosen to be named President of the Commission for Public Office and Elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 91], "content_span": [92, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly, Election of the Speaker\nMatej Tonin had support of the all parties, except The Left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 116], "content_span": [117, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly, Election of the Speaker\nOn 12 June, Marjan \u0160arec said that LM\u0160 will not propose a candidate for the speaker of the National Assembly. SD claimed the position, since it will be the second biggest coalition party, if Marjan \u0160arec forms coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 116], "content_span": [117, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly, Election of the Speaker\nIf Miro Cerar is elected Speaker it will be the first time that sitting Prime Minister is also President of the National Assembly. According to the Legal Service of the Government of Slovenia, positions are compatible, but only for a short period of time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 116], "content_span": [117, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly, Election of the Speaker\nBefore the first session Marjan \u0160arec stated, that Matej Tonin (NSi) will be nominated for the Speaker by LM\u0160, SD, SMC, NSi, SAB and DeSUS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 116], "content_span": [117, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nPahor announced before the elections that he would grant a mandate to the winner of the elections. On 3 June, he repeated his statement and Janez Jan\u0161a is therefore expected to be granted a mandate to form a coalition government, the third time he has had the opportunity to do so after 2004 and 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nHowever, all of the centre-left and left-wing parties (LM\u0160, SD, SMC, the Left, SAB and DeSUS) have publicly declared that they would not join a government under Jan\u0161a and the SDS, meaning Jan\u0161a can only form a minority right-wing government with NSi and SNS and would have to gain the confidence of either LM\u0160, SD, SMC or the Left, or court both DeSUS and the centrist list of Alenka Bratu\u0161ek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0035-0002", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nA centre-to-centre-left government under the leadership of Marjan \u0160arec is more likely to be formed, consisting of LM\u0160, SD, SMC, SAB, DeSUS and NSi or the Left, though NSi is more likely to be invited to join the coalition. Because of the large number of parties, it is expected that it will be hard to form a government. Some of the political analysts have not ruled out the possibility of new snap elections in November if \u0160arec fails to form a government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nOn 6 June, Marjan \u0160arec met with Alenka Bratu\u0161ek, meetings with Miro Cerar (SMC) and Dejan \u017didan (SD) were on 7 June. \u0160arec stated that he is willing to accept the mandate to form a government only if there will be a clear will among potential coalition partners to form a government. Dejan \u017didan (SD) stated that he expects that before leaders of the parliamentary groups meet with President Pahor to consult about granting the mandate, \u0160arec should already present the outline of the new coalition. \u0160arec also announced that he will soon invite all the parties, except SDS, for talks to see what are the possibilities to form a government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nOn 7 June, Pahor met with Jan\u0161a to discuss his possibilities to form a new government. Pahor once again repeated that he is going to grant a mandate to Jan\u0161a, but Jan\u0161a said that if in the meanwhile another party will form a coalition that will have 46 votes, then he will not accept the mandate to form a government. Jan\u0161a also did not explicitly rule out the possibility to stand down as potential prime minister-designate and let someone else from his party take the post and form a government, though this scenario is not very likely to happen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0037-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nPahor said that he wishes SDS would form a government since governments formed by parties that did not win elections in the past were not very stable, adding governments of Janez Jan\u0161a (2012) and Alenka Bratu\u0161ek (2013) as examples. \u0160arec replied that those two governments cannot be compared with his potential coalition since Jan\u0161a's government was removed from the office because of the corruption allegations and Bratu\u0161ek's government was destabilized by her own party, when Jankovi\u0107 had to resign as leader of the party due to corruption allegations as well and Bratu\u0161ek took over the party. Matja\u017e Han (SD) said in Tar\u010da (political show on RTVSLO) that Social Democrats will not talk with Jan\u0161a about forming a coalition since talks with \u0160arec already began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nOn 8 June, Marjan \u0160arec met with Karl Erjavec (DeSUS) to discuss future cooperation. Matej Tonin (NSi) also confirmed talks with \u0160arec. Meanwhile, SDS is still not commenting on their activities, but Tonin confirmed talks with them as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nOn 12 June, NSi rejected offered resignation of president Matej Tonin, who offered resignation after party did not reach 10% in the election, which was Tonin's goal. The main reason for not accepting his resignation party stated that they improved their result and gained 2 new MPs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nMedia reported on 14 June that Modern Centre Party (SMC), Party of Alenka Bratu\u0161ek (SAB) and List of Marjan \u0160arec (LM\u0160) join into an alliance to form a central liberal bloc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nOn 15 June, SDS stated that they will draft a coalition treaty which will later be sent to all parliamentary parties as a basis for negotiations. Later that day, DeSUS rejected Karl Erjavec's resignation as president of the party. Erjavec offered his resignation after a very bad result in the election in which the party lost 5 MPs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nOn 26 June Executive Committee of the Modern Centre Party (SMC) ejected Milan Brglez from the party in a unanimous decision. Reason for that was his self-candidature for Speaker of the National Assembly, since Miro Cerar did not have support of potential coalition partners (LM\u0160, SD, NSi, SAB and DeSUS) to become Speaker himself. Executive committee also blamed Brglez that he did not respect decision of the parties and has been making statements that were opposite to the statements of Cerar and other party officials. As example they added that Cerar supported US missile strikes against Syria earlier in April and Brglez did not and stated that these acts are against international law and Slovenia's constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nOn 2 July President Borut Pahor began first round of consultations with leaders of the political groups in the National Assembly. Danijel Krivec (SDS) said that SDS supports their president Janez Jan\u0161a as candidate for new Prime Minister. Brane Golubovi\u0107 (LM\u0160) asked President Pahor if he can make another round of consultation on Friday and that they have no problem with granting mandate to Janez Jan\u0161a first. Matja\u017e Han (SD) and Igor Zor\u010di\u010d (SMC) said that they will only support Marjan \u0160arec as Prime Minister. Zor\u010di\u010d also said that they can join coalition with New Slovenia or The Left. Matej Ta\u0161ner Vatovec (Levica) said that they do not support any of the candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nOn 16 July after meeting of the executive council of New Slovenia (NSi) its president Matej Tonin announced that NSi will withdraw for negotiations to form government under \u0160arec. Decision was expected, even though parties negotiated for almost 12 hours on 14 July to finalize the coalition agreement. \u0160arec told after negotiations that they were successful and that significant progress was made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nAfter Matej Tonin (NSi) announced on 24 July that NSi will not further negotiate to form coalition under LM\u0160, Marjan \u0160arec (LM\u0160) announced next day that central parties LM\u0160, SD, SMC, SAB and DeSUS will begin official coalition negotiations with The Left. Coordinator of The Left Luka Mesec confirmed that the party had received an invitation for negotiations. On 31 June, Levica refused to join the coalition but is ready to support a minority government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nOn 2 August Miro Cerar sent a message to members of SMC in which he expressed his doubt about stability of a minority government that could be formed, however he still stressed that they support \u0160arec as new Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0046-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nIt was also reported that The Left presented a project of the government coalition of what they wanted it to look like, which did not have any ministries reserved for the Party of Alenka Bratu\u0161ek, so the SAB decided they will not join a minority government with their proposed-ministers, but will support the government from the opposition in order to achieve a minority government with the backing from The Left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nOn 6 August, Marjan \u0160arec has said he expects to get the mandate of forming a minority coalition. Later on 7 August, it has been said that on the 8th of August, the LM\u0160, SD, SMC, SAB, and DeSUS will \u201cendorse the nomination of Marjan \u0160arec as PM-designate\u201d and that there will be a vote on 13 August. Mr. Sarec is also hoping that The Left will also endorse his nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0047-0001", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nIt has been said that the five parties want the SD leader, Dejan \u017didan, to be named speaker, if the coalition is formed, although it is not a requirement for the SD to join the coalition, it is a \u201ctradition for the job to go to the second-largest coalition partner,\u201d which would be the Social Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nForming a coalition will be in the end a question of positions for leaders and other member of the parties. Positions claimed by some of the leaders of the parties as their conditions to join coalition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282455-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation\nA government was finally formed on 13 September by a LMS-SD-SMC-SAB-DeSUS coalition with support from Levica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282456-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian railway referendum\nEU Member State(Eurozone Member State)(Schengen Area Member State)NATO Member StateCouncil of Europe Member StateOECD Member State", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282456-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian railway referendum\nA referendum on a law governing the Diva\u010da-Koper rail upgrade was held in Slovenia on 13 May 2018. It followed the annulment of the results of a 2017 referendum on the same subject by the Supreme Court in March 2018. The result saw just 309 more votes cast against the law (50.06%) than in favour (49.94%). Voter turnout was even lower than in 2017, at around 15%, meaning that the requirement of 20% of the electorate casting a \"no\" vote to validate the referendum outcome was not met. As a result, the law remained in force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282456-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian railway referendum, Background\nOn 8 May 2017, the National Assembly of Slovenia passed a law on with the construction of the second railway track from Koper to Diva\u010da, specifically regarding the financial plans for the project. The law was opposed by civil activist Vili Kova\u010di\u010d who, supported by several political parties and civil initiatives, called for a referendum to repeal the law. After collecting 40,000 voter signatures, the referendum was set for on 24 September 2017. Although 53.47% of voters approved the law, the referendum was marked by a low turnout of 21%. The project was expected to open first public tenders for construction in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282456-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian railway referendum, Background\nHowever, Kova\u010di\u010d contested the results in the Supreme Court, claiming that the law regulating referendums and civil initiatives were not compatible with the constitution, citing the fact that the government had used \u20ac97,000 of public funds on the campaign in support of the proposed law. On 14 March 2018 Supreme Court delivered a judgement, annulling the results and ordered a new vote, which was set for 13 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282456-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian railway referendum, Background\nThe railway link was the biggest project of the Cerar cabinet. On the same day as the Supreme Court decision, Cerar announced his resignation as Prime Minister, leading to early elections being called on 3 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282456-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian railway referendum, Background\nThe proponents of the referendum expressed a wish for it to be held together with the early general election, thus ensuring a higher voter turnout. However, the Supreme Court backed the decision of the National Election Committee to hold the election and the referendum on separate dates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282456-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Slovenian railway referendum, Reactions\nIn first reaction, Vili Kova\u010di\u010d, who initiated the referendum, announced he was again planning to contest the result at the Constitutional court. Miro Cerar, the acting Prime Minister, and Peter Ga\u0161per\u0161i\u010d, the acting Minister for Infrastructure, expressed their satisfaction with the outcome, stating that they expect the project to continue soon. Cerar further blamed Kova\u010di\u010d and Janez Jan\u0161a for essentially holding the country hostage and delaying the project for a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282457-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Snooker Shoot Out\nThe 2018 Coral Snooker Shoot Out was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 8\u201311 February 2018 in Watford, England. It was played under a variation of the standard rules of snooker, and was the fourteenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282457-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Snooker Shoot Out\nAnthony McGill was the defending champion, but he lost to Mark Davis in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282457-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Snooker Shoot Out\nMichael Georgiou won his first ever ranking title, beating Graeme Dott 1\u20130 (67\u201356) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282457-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Snooker Shoot Out, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282457-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Snooker Shoot Out, Prize fund\nThe \"rolling 147 prize\" for a maximum break stood at \u00a310,000", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282458-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sochi Formula 2 round\nThe 2018 Sochi FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races held on 29 and 30 September 2018 at the Sochi Autodrom in Sochi, Russia as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the eleventh round of the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship and was run in support of the 2018 Russian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282459-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Social Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election\nThe Social Democratic Party of Japan held a leadership election to choose the successor to Tadatomo Yoshida, who declined to run for another term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282459-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Social Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election\nSecretary-General Seiji Mataichi was the only candidate running for the post, and therefore was elected unopposed. Mataichi was inaugurated into his 2-year term at the conclusion of the party conference on 25 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282459-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Social Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election, Summary\nContrary to initial prediction, incumbent Tadatomo Yoshida declined to run for another term as SDP leader, citing the need for the next leader to be an elected SDP lawmaker. As no one filed their candidacy before the original 12 January deadline, the submission deadline was extended to 26 January. In the ensuing weeks, party members pushed for one of its lawmakers to step in. It was anticipated that either Secretary-General Seiji Mataichi or the party's most junior lawmaker Hajime Yoshikawa would run for the leadership. Incumbent SDP lawmakers and Yoshida's supporters in the prefectural government in his native \u014cita also urged Yoshida to rethink his decision and run for re-election, but he declined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282459-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Social Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election, Summary\nFollowing further consultations among SDP leaders, the party decided to support Seiji Mataichi to run as the next party leader. Mataichi's candidacy was officially endorsed by the party's three other lawmakers, Mizuho Fukushima, Kantoku Teruya and Hajime Yoshikawa. Mataichi submitted his candidacy on 26 January and was chosen unopposed as the next leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282459-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Social Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election, Results\nAs Mataichi was the only candidate, there was no vote held and he was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282460-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season\nThe 2018 season was the 104th in Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras' existence. This season Palmeiras participated in the Campeonato Paulista, Copa Libertadores, Copa do Brasil and the S\u00e9rie A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282460-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Players, Squad information\nAs of the end of the season. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282460-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Mid-season friendlies\nDuring the break for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Palmeiras will disputed three friendly matches, two in Panama and one in Costa Rica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 78], "content_span": [79, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282460-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Copa Libertadores, Group stage\nThe draw was held on December 20, 2017. Palmeiras was drawn on Group 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 87], "content_span": [88, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282460-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Copa Libertadores, Round of 16\nThe draw for the round of 16 was held on 4 June 2018, 20:00 PYT (UTC\u22124), at the CONMEBOL Convention Centre in Luque, Paraguay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 87], "content_span": [88, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282460-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Copa do Brasil\nAs a team that disputed the Copa Libertadores, Palmeiras entered in the round of 16. The draw was held on April 20, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282460-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Copa do Brasil, Quarterfinal\nThe draw for the quarterfinal was held on May 30, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 85], "content_span": [86, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282460-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Copa do Brasil, Semifinal\nA draw was held on August 22, 2018 to define the order of the matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 82], "content_span": [83, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282461-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282462-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Solomon Islands S-League\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Abisa\u00ed Romero S\u00e1nchez (talk | contribs) at 00:36, 24 December 2019. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282462-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Solomon Islands S-League\nThe 2018 Telekom S-League is the 15th season of the Telekom S-League, the top football league in the Solomon Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282462-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Solomon Islands S-League\nThe league was originally to kick off on 21 July 2018, but was delayed to 5 August. A total of eight teams have confirmed their participation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282463-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Somali First Division\nThe 2018 Somali First Division is the 45th season of top-tier football in Somalia. The season began on 22 January and ended on 11 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282464-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sopot Open\nThe 2018 Sopot Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 1st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It was moved from Sopot, Poland to Gdynia due to a problem with the facilities in Sopot. The tournament was played between 30 July and 5 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282464-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sopot Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282465-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sopot Open \u2013 Doubles\nMateusz Kowalczyk and Szymon Walk\u00f3w won the title after defeating Ruben Gonzales and Nathaniel Lammons 7\u20136(8\u20136), 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282466-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sopot Open \u2013 Singles\nPaolo Lorenzi won the title after defeating Daniel Gimeno Traver 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20137(5\u20137), 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282467-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Soul Train Music Awards\nThe 2018 Soul Train Music Awards took place on November 17 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The ceremony aired on BET and BET Her on November 25, and was hosted by Tisha Campbell & Tichina Arnold, honoring artists in 12 different categories. During the award ceremony soul singer Erykah Badu was honored with the Legend Award while Faith Evans received the Lady of Soul Award for her contributions to the music industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282468-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Africa Sevens\nThe 2018 South Africa Sevens was the second tournament within the 2018\u201319 World Rugby Sevens Series and the twentieth edition of the South Africa Sevens. It was held on 8\u20139 December 2018 at Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282468-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Africa Sevens, Format\nThe teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup brackets where teams competed for the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals. The bottom two teams from each group went to the playoffs in the Challenge Trophy brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282468-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Africa Sevens, Teams\nFifteen core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, 2018 Africa Men's Sevens winners Zimbabwe:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282468-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Africa Sevens, Players, Dream Team\nThe following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282469-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South African presidential election\nAn indirect presidential election was held in the National Assembly in South Africa on 15 February 2018 following the resignation of Jacob Zuma on 14 February. Acting president Cyril Ramaphosa of the ruling African National Congress won the election unopposed due to no other party nominating a candidate. Ramaphosa was sworn-in by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng at 5pm, 15 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282469-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South African presidential election, Background\nFollowing the announcement of the resignation of President Jacob Zuma late on 14 February 2018, and official receipt of a letter of resignation by the Speaker of Parliament during the morning of 15 February, Parliament was convened to elect a new president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282469-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South African presidential election, Background\nThe President of South Africa is elected by the members of the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament. The upper house, the National Council of Provinces, does not participate in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282469-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South African presidential election, Background\nIn a press conference before the session, Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) announced that his party will not participate in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282469-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South African presidential election, Election\nShortly after the start of the sitting of Parliament the EFF objected to the legitimacy of the process, stating that parliament should be dissolved and a general election called. All members of the EFF then walked out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282469-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South African presidential election, Election\nThe Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Mogoeng Mogoeng presided over the election. He began proceedings by reading Zuma's letter of resignation. Parties traditionally nominate their respective leaders as candidates. Cyril Ramaphosa, leader of the African National Congress and Acting President since Zuma's resignation, was the only nominee. Thus there was no ballot and Ramaphosa was declared duly elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282469-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South African presidential election, Oath of Office\nIn a brief ceremony at Tuynhuys, the office of the Presidency in Cape Town, President Elect Ramaphosa was sworn in as the fifth post-apartheid President of South Africa, shortly after 17:00 SAST (15:00 UTC) on 15 February by the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282470-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Alabama Jaguars football team\nThe 2018 South Alabama Jaguars football team represented the University of South Alabama in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Jaguars played their home games at Ladd\u2013Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, and competed in the West Division of the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by first-year head coach Steve Campbell. They finished the season 3\u20139, 2\u20136 in Sun Belt play to finish in fourth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282470-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Alabama Jaguars football team, Previous season\nThe Jaguars finished the 2017 season 4\u20138, 3\u20135 in Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282470-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Alabama Jaguars football team, Previous season\nOn November 20 following a 52\u20130 loss to previously winless Georgia Southern, head coach Joey Jones, the only head coach in South Alabama football history, announced his resignation. He stayed on to coach the final game of the season and finished at South Alabama with a nine-year record of 52\u201350. On December 7, the school hired Steve Campbell as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282470-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Alabama Jaguars football team, Preseason, Sun Belt coaches poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Sun Belt released their preseason coaches poll with the Jaguars predicted to finish in third place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282470-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Alabama Jaguars football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Sun Belt Teams\nThe Jaguars had five players selected to the preseason all-Sun Belt teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282471-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2018 South American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships were held in Lima, Peru, from July 10 to 15, 2018. The competition was organized by the Peruvian Gymnastics Federation and approved by the International Gymnastics Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282472-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Basketball Championship for Women\nThe 2018 South American Basketball Championship for Women was the 36th edition of the tournament. Eight teams was featured in the competition, held in Tunja, Colombia from August 30\u2013September 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League\nThe 2018 CONMEBOL South American Beach Soccer League was the second edition of the South American Beach Soccer League (named natively in Spanish as the CONMEBOL Liga Sudamericana de F\u00fatbol Playa), a continental league competition for South American men's national beach soccer teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League\nOrganised by the governing body for South American football, CONMEBOL, as part of its Development Department's Evolution Program, all ten members of the continental confederation took part, with both senior and under 20s national teams participating in the league events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League\nThe teams were first divided into two geographically based zones (North and South) to compete in a round robin tournament against other members of their own zone during the regular season; the points earned by both the senior and under 20s teams are combined. The winners of each zone then proceeded to face each other in the finals to contest the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League\nBrazil were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Paraguay in what was a repeat of the finals of the previous edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Format\nThe league operates under the same format established for the inaugural season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Teams\nThe ten member nations of CONMEBOL enter two teams each: their respective senior and under 20s national teams. In total, 20 teams will compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Teams\nThe numbers in parentheses show the South American ranking of each team prior to the start of the season (rankings only apply to the senior teams).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League, North zone\nThe North zone regular season event took place just outside of the Colombian city of Santa Marta. All matches were hosted in a purpose built arena on the beach of El Rodadero resort with a capacity of 1,500, in the town of Gaira, organised in cooperation with the Colombian Football Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League, North zone\nThe event was attended by a total of 12,500 people (avg. of 625 per match).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League, North zone\nMatches are listed as local time in Santa Marta, COL (UTC-5).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League, South zone\nThe South zone regular season event took place in the largest city of Bolivia, Santa Cruz, in cooperation with the Bolivian Football Federation. All matches took place at a purpose built stadium at Villa Olimpica Abraham Telchi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League, South zone\nMatches are listed as local time in Santa Cruz, BOL (UTC-4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Finals\nThe zone winners play each other for the league title; their senior teams play each other over two legs, as do their under 20s representatives for a total of four matches comprising the finals. The winners are the nation which accumulates the most points from all four matches combined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Finals\nThe finals were organised to take place in Encarnaci\u00f3n, Paraguay from 14\u201316 March 2019, in cooperation with the Paraguayan Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Finals\nAll matches took place at the Arena Playa de San Jos\u00e9 adjacent to San Jos\u00e9 Beach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Finals\nMatches are listed as local time in Encarnaci\u00f3n, PYST (UTC-3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282473-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Finals, Matches, Tiebreaker\nWith the series tied after all four matches were complete, a penalty shootout was contested by the senior teams to decide the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282474-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Cricket Championship\nThe 2018 South American Cricket Championship was a cricket tournament held in Mosquera, Colombia from 23 to 26 September 2018. A men's and women's tournament held, with 2018 being the fifteenth edition of the men's South American Cricket Championship and the seventh edition of the women's event. For the first time, women's matches played at the South American Cricket Championship were granted Twenty20 International (T20I) status after the ICC granted Twenty20 International (T20I) status to matches between all of its Members; for women's teams starting from 1 July 2018 and for men's teams from 1 January 2019. Argentina were the defending champions from 2017 in both the men's and women's event, but fielded a developmental 'A' team in the men's tournament and did not enter the women's event in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282474-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Cricket Championship\nMexico won the men's tournament, defeating Uruguay by 6 wickets in the final. Brazil regained the women's title, which they had previously won in 2015 and 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282474-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Cricket Championship, Men's championship\nThe eight participating teams were the national sides of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and an Argentina A side. Costa Rica made their debut in the South American Championship. Matches did not have T20I status. Mexico won for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282474-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Cricket Championship, Women's championship\nThe four participating teams were the national women's sides of Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru. All of these teams were ICC Associate Members, but Peru's squad did not meet eligibility criteria, so all matches other than those involving Peru had WT20I status. Brazil won the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282475-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Cricket Championship \u2013 Men's tournament\nThe 2018 South American Cricket Championship was a cricket tournament took place in Mosquera near Bogot\u00e1, Colombia from 23 to 26 August 2018. This was the fifteenth edition of the men's South American Cricket Championship. Unlike the women's event, which took place simultaneously, matches played in the men's event did not have official Twenty20 International status. The ICC granted Twenty20 International (T20I) status to matches between all of its Members, starting from 1 July 2018 for women's team but not until 1 January 2019 for the men. Argentina were the defending champions having won the event in 2017, but were represented by a development squad, Argentina A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282475-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Cricket Championship \u2013 Men's tournament\nThe eight participating teams were the national sides of hosts Colombia, along with Argentina A, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Costa Rica who were making their debut in the South American Championship. Mexico went undefeated throughout the tournament and defeated Uruguay by six wickets in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282476-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Footballer of the Year\nThe 2018 South American Footballer of the Year award (Spanish: Rey del F\u00fatbol de Am\u00e9rica), given to the best football player in South America by Uruguayan newspaper El Pa\u00eds through voting by journalists across the continent, was awarded to Argentine midfielder Gonzalo \"Pity\" Mart\u00ednez of River Plate on December 31, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282476-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Footballer of the Year\nThe award is part of the paper's \"El Mejor de Am\u00e9rica\" (The Best of America) awards, which also presents the awards for South American Coach of the Year (Entrenador del a\u00f1o en Sudam\u00e9rica) and the Best XI (Equipo Ideal), composed of the best eleven players at their positions. Marcelo Gallardo of River Plate was named Coach of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282477-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Games\nThe 2018 South American Games was a multi-sport event that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It was the 11th edition of the ODESUR South American Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282477-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Games\nA total of 373 sporting events are scheduled to be contested across a variety of sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282477-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Games, Background\nBolivia, Venezuela and Peru submitted a bid to ODESUR to become host. Following a unanimous decision, the organization awarded it to the city of Cochabamba, as the other cities Lima and Puerto La Cruz withdrew their candidacies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282478-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2018 South American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Melgar, Colombia, October 22\u201329, 2018. The competition was organized by the Colombian Gymnastics Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282479-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Rugby League Cup\nThe 2018 South American Rugby League Cup will be held in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil and is going to be held on the 23rd to the 25th of November 2018. The tournament is the inaugural South American Cup. The teams participating in the tournament are Brazil, Argentina and Colombia. The South American Cup also includes a women's international between the Brazilian women's team and Argentinian women's team and a second division game between Brazil and Argentina, as well as an Under-17's match between Brazil and Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282479-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Rugby League Cup, Teams, Brazil\nLiniker Farias (S\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o), Rog\u00e9rio Sim\u00f5es (Bandeirantes Devils), Warlen Junior (Jacare\u00ed), Lucas Drudi (Jacare\u00ed), Douglas Parazi (Piratas), Vin\u00edcius Hideo (SPAC), Lucas Virias (Paran\u00e1), Leandro Caetano (Bandeirantes Devils) Jorge Cabral (Oxford), Gudemberg Silva (Bandeirantes Devils), Gabriel Eduardo (Paran\u00e1), Bruno Gil (Bandeirantes Devils), Zachary Grundy (Nambour Crushers); Interchange: Matheus Marinho (Bandeirantes Devils), Danilo Vieira (Templ\u00e1rios), Johnny Santos (Portuguesa Futebol Americano), Branco Meneses (Portuguesa Futebol Americano). Rafael G\u00f3es (Jacare\u00ed), Caio Ozzioli (Bandeirantes Devils), Denes Cardozo (Piratas), Arthur Isaac (S\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282479-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Rugby League Cup, Teams, Brazil\nMarcos Matioli (Rio de Janeiro), Leandro Pereira (C) (Tatuape), Djalma Dias (Tatuape), Diego Gonsalves (Piratas), Carlos Silva (Sao Lourenco) 6 Liam Piacente (Bandeirantes Devils), Victor Gerheim (Rio de Janeiro), Alexandre Arantes, (Sao Lourenco), Joao Victor, (Sao Lourenco), Diller (Rio de Janeiro Rugby League XIII), Fred Costa, (BH Rugby), Claudio Martins (Rio de Janeiro), Sergio Junior (Rio de Janeiro); Interchange: Joao Paulo da Silva (Rio de Janeiro), Thiago Navarro (Tatuape), Daniel Brito (Rio de Janeiro), Lucas Pires (Athens Itanhaem), Diller Nogueira (Templarios), Samuel Naassom do Nascimento (Bandeirantes Devils), Fernando Mazon (Parana)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282479-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Rugby League Cup, Teams, Brazil\nCarolina Palazzini (C) (Bandeirantes Devils), Camila Santos (SPAC), Juliana Modaneze (Bandeirantes Devils), Paula Ishibashi (SPAC), Grasiele Santos (Bandeirantes Devils), Aline Mayumi (SPAC), Danielle Missau (Pasteur Athletique Club), Andressa Conreras (Niteroi), Camila Giaj-Levra (Bandeirantes Devils), Brunta Lotufu (Bandeirantes Devils), Schwarleny Schwambach (Bandeirantes Devils), Kathleen Silva (Sao Lourenco); Interchange: Ketlen Oliveira (Sao Lourenco), Maria Graf (Desterro), Karina Araujo (Vitoria), Ana Claudia (Rio de Janeiro), Edna Santini (Sao Jose), Tatiane Fernandes (Lenks), Amanda Snaga (USP)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282479-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Rugby League Cup, Teams, Colombia\n1. Nicolas Medina 2. Daniel Vera Girdalo 3. Duvan Barrera 4. Hector Linares 5. Andres Pena 6. Alex Palomeque 7. Juan Camilo Bermudez 8. Steven Bedoya 9. Johan Bastioas 10. Mautricio Patino 11. Diego Vina 12. Sebastian Hernandez 13. Alejandro Munevar 14. Luigui Vanegas 15. Juan David Espinal 16. Alex Estman 17. Luis David Valencia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282479-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Rugby League Cup, Teams, Argentina\nJuan Ignacio Canepa, Marcelo Villalba, Emiliano Rodriguez, Ares Martinez, Ariel Cosso, Facundo Lizarzuay, Lucas Escobar, Gaston Barrera, Dario Moyano, Ulises Silva, Nahuel Lajmanovich, Leandro Donato, Sergio Espinola; Interchange: Dylan Moreira, Juan Carlos Blumetti, Ernesto Di Nucci, Leandro Kwiczor, Brian Avejera", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282480-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Six Nations\nThe 2018 South American Six Nations, or 6 Naciones Sudamericano, was the 40th edition of the rugby union tournament between South American national teams. This year the tournament was renamed South American Six Nations, replacing the South American Rugby Championship, which was last played in 2017. For the first time, the tournament had six nations participating, including Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay and Chile. Because of superior quality of their national teams, Uruguay and Argentina sent Uruguay A national rugby union team and Argentina XV national rugby union team, the nations' second national rugby team, for this tournament. Unlike the previous year, this tournament abolished a round-robin format and was divided in two groups: The West Conference, composed of Argentina XV, Chile, and Colombia; and the East Conference, made up of Brazil, Uruguay XV, and Paraguay. Each team played the teams in the other conference once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 966]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282480-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Six Nations\nAs the first South American Six Nations championship, this tournament marked a few milestones. Brazil was the South American champion for the first time, after defeating the Argentinian XV team for 36-33 in Buenos Aires. This was the first time ever a Brazilian side defeated an Argentinian side in international rugby union. Conquering the Championship was a milestone for Brazilian rugby, which have been improving ever since the 2000s and received more investments preceding the 2016 Summer Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282480-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 South American Six Nations\nAlso a first, reigning champions Uruguay decided to use a second team to play the Championship, failing to produce results as they finished fourth. Furthermore, this tournament was also the first time that Colombia entered a first level South American tournament. Like Brazil, rugby in Colombia is still a underdeveloped sport which have been going through a process of increasing investments and improving results in the sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282481-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Swimming Championships\nThe 44th South American Swimming Championships were held from 7 to 11 November at the Pool Mansiche in Trujillo, Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282482-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Trampoline Championships\nThe 2018 South American Trampoline Championships were held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, from December 5 to 10, 2018. The competition was organized by the Bolivian Gymnastics Federation, and approved by the International Gymnastics Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282483-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship\nThe 2018 South American Under-17 Women's Football Championship was the 6th edition of the South American Under-17 Women's Football Championship (Spanish: CONMEBOL Sudamericano Femenino Sub-17), the biennial international youth football championship organised by the CONMEBOL for the women's under-17 national teams of South America. The tournament was held in Argentina between 7\u201325 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282483-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship\nThe top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Uruguay as the CONMEBOL representatives, besides Uruguay who qualified automatically as hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282483-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship\nBrazil were crowned champions for the third time. Venezuela were the defending champions, but could only finish fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282483-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, Teams\nAll ten CONMEBOL member national teams are eligible to enter the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282483-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, Venues\nAll matches were played in Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario, San Juan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282483-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, Draw\nThe draw of the tournament was held on 28 February 2018, 12:00 ART (UTC\u22123), at the Estadio Aldo Cantoni in San Juan. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five teams. The hosts Argentina and the defending champions Venezuela were seeded into Groups A and B respectively, while the remaining teams were placed into four \"pairing pots\" according to their results in the 2016 South American Under-17 Women's Football Championship: Brazil\u2013Paraguay, Colombia\u2013Uruguay, Chile\u2013Ecuador, Peru\u2013Bolivia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 51], "content_span": [52, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282483-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, Squads\nPlayers born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 22 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282483-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, First stage\nIn the first stage, the teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order (Regulations Article 18.1):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282483-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, First stage\nThe top two teams of each group advance to the final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282483-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, First stage\nOn 11 March 2018, the scheduled Group A match between Argentina and Ecuador was not played as players from several teams showed symptoms for food poisoning. The scheduled Group B matches on 12 March 2018 were also postponed as a result. The matches were rescheduled by CONMEBOL with the first stage ending on 18 March instead of 16 March, and the final stage starting on 21 March instead of 19 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282483-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, Final stage\nIn the final stage, the teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order, taking into account only matches in the final stage (Regulations Article 18.2):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282483-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup\nThe following three teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, including Uruguay which qualified as hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 94], "content_span": [95, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282484-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship\nThe 2018 South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship was the 8th edition of the South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship (Spanish: CONMEBOL Sudamericano Femenino Sub-20), the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONMEBOL for the women's under-20 national teams of South America. The tournament was held in Ecuador between 13\u201331 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282484-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship\nThe top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in France as the CONMEBOL representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282484-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship\nBrazil were crowned champions and maintained their streak of winning all eight editions so far.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282484-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Teams\nAll ten CONMEBOL member national teams are eligible to enter the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282484-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Venues\nThe matches were played in three venues in three cities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282484-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Draw\nThe draw of the tournament was held on 14 December 2017, 19:00 ECT (UTC\u22125), at the Casa de la Selecci\u00f3n in Quito. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five teams. The hosts Ecuador and the defending champions Brazil were seeded into Groups A and B respectively, while the remaining teams were placed into four \"pairing pots\" according to their results in the 2015 South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship: Venezuela\u2013Colombia, Argentina\u2013Chile, Paraguay\u2013Uruguay, Bolivia\u2013Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 51], "content_span": [52, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282484-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Squads\nPlayers born on or after 1 January 1998 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 22 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282484-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Match officials\nA total of 10 referees, 20 assistant referees, and two support referees were selected for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282484-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, First stage\nIn the first stage, the teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order (Regulations Article 18.1):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282484-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, First stage\nThe top two teams of each group advance to the final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282484-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Final stage\nIn the final stage, the teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order, taking into account only matches in the final stage (Regulations Article 18.2):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282484-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup\nThe following two teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 94], "content_span": [95, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282485-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American U18 Championships in Athletics\nThe 24th South American U18 Championships in Athletics were held in Concordia, Argentina on 30 June and 1 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282486-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship\nThe 2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship was the 2nd edition of the South American Under-18 Futsal Championship (Spanish: CONMEBOL Sudamericano de Futsal Sub-18), the biennial international youth futsal championship organised by the CONMEBOL for the men's under-18 national teams of South America. The tournament was held in Luque, Paraguay between 22\u201329 March 2018. Different from the first edition, it was played as an under-18 tournament instead of an under-17 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282486-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship\nThe tournament served as qualifying for the futsal tournament at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, with the winner qualifying for the boys' tournament together with hosts Argentina which qualified automatically (if Argentina were to win the tournament, the runner-up would qualify)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282486-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Venues\nAll matches are played in one venue: Centro de Entrenamiento Ol\u00edmpico in Luque.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282486-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Draw\nThe draw of the tournament was held on 19 March 2018, 11:30 PYST (UTC\u22123), at the headquarters of the Paraguayan Football Association in Asunci\u00f3n. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five teams. The hosts Paraguay and the defending champions Brazil were seeded into Groups A and B respectively, while the remaining teams were placed into four \"pairing pots\" according to their results in the 2016 South American Under-17 Futsal Championship: Argentina\u2013Venezuela, Peru\u2013Ecuador, Uruguay\u2013Bolivia, Chile\u2013Colombia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 54], "content_span": [55, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282486-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Squads\nEach team had to submit a squad of 12 players, including a minimum of two goalkeepers (Regulations Article 4.1). Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to compete in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282486-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Group stage\nThe top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals, while the teams in third, fourth and fifth advance to the fifth place, seventh place, and ninth place play-offs respectively. The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order (Regulations Article 6.2):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282486-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Group stage\nAll times are local, PYST (UTC\u22123) until 24 March 2018, PYT (UTC\u22124) from 25 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282486-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Knockout stage\nIn the semi-finals and final, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 64], "content_span": [65, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282486-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Knockout stage, Final\nWinner qualifies for 2018 Summer Youth Olympics boys' futsal tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 71], "content_span": [72, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282486-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Qualified teams for Youth Olympics\nThe following two teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics boys' futsal tournament, including Argentina which qualified as hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 84], "content_span": [85, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282487-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-20 Futsal Championship\nThe 2018 South American Under-20 Futsal Championship is the 8th edition of the South American Under-20 Futsal Championship (Spanish: CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-20 de Futsal), the biennial international youth futsal championship organised by the CONMEBOL for the men's under-20 national teams of South America. The tournament is held in Lima, Peru between 4\u201311 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282487-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-20 Futsal Championship, Venues\nAll matches are played in one venue: Complejo Deportivo de la Federaci\u00f3n Peruana de F\u00fatbol in Lima.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282487-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-20 Futsal Championship, Draw\nThe draw of the tournament was held on 26 October 2018, 12:00 PET (UTC\u22125), at the headquarters of the Peruvian Football Federation. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five teams. The defending champions Argentina and the hosts Peru were seeded into Groups A and B respectively, while the remaining teams were placed into four \"pairing pots\" according to their results in the 2016 South American Under-20 Futsal Championship: Brazil\u2013Venezuela, Uruguay\u2013Paraguay, Chile\u2013Colombia, Bolivia\u2013Ecuador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 54], "content_span": [55, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282488-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-20 Women's Futsal Championship\nThe 2018 South American Under-20 Women's Futsal Championship is the 2nd edition of the South American Under-20 Women's Futsal Championship (Spanish: CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-20 Femenino de Futsal), the biennial international youth futsal championship organised by the CONMEBOL for the women's under-20 national teams of South America. The tournament is held in Santiago, Chile between 21\u201328 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282488-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-20 Women's Futsal Championship, Venues\nAll matches are played in one venue: Polideportivo del Estadio Nacional in Santiago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 64], "content_span": [65, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282488-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-20 Women's Futsal Championship, Draw\nThe draw of the tournament was held on 5 October 2018. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five teams. The defending champions Brazil and the hosts Chile were seeded into Groups A and B respectively, while the remaining teams were placed into four \"pairing pots\" according to their results in the 2016 South American Under-20 Women's Futsal Championship: Colombia\u2013Paraguay, Uruguay\u2013Bolivia, Peru\u2013Venezuela, Ecuador\u2013Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 62], "content_span": [63, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282489-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics\nThe 2018 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics was the eighth edition of the biennial track and field competition for South American athletes aged under 23 years old, organised by CONSUDATLE.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282490-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics \u2013 Results\nThese are the full results of the 2018 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics which took place between September 29 and 30 at Pista de Atletismo Jefferson P\u00e9rez in Cuenca, Ecuador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282491-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Women's Cricket Championship\nThe 2018 South American Women's Cricket Championship was held in Colombia from 23 to 26 August. The four teams that participated this year were the women's sides of Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru. This was the first time in the tournament's history that the matches were recognized as official WT20I games as the ICC granted WT20I status to all matches played between the associate teams from 1 July 2018. All participating teams made their WT20I debuts during the tournament (except for Peru who included some unqualified 'guest' players in their squad and hence their matches were not granted WT20I status). All matches were played on two fields of the Los Pinos Polo Club in Mosquera, near Bogot\u00e1. Brazil won the tournament by registering a comprehensive win over Chile in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282491-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South American Women's Cricket Championship, Round-robin, Points table\n1CricHQ table incorrectly states that Mexico had 2 wins and 4 defeats; but the results indicate this should be 1 win and 5 defeats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election\nThe 2018 South Australian state election to elect members to the 54th Parliament of South Australia was held on 17 March 2018. All 47 seats in the House of Assembly or lower house, whose members were elected at the 2014 election, and 11 of 22 seats in the Legislative Council or upper house, last filled at the 2010 election, were contested. The record-16-year-incumbent Australian Labor Party (SA) government led by Premier Jay Weatherill was seeking a fifth four-year term, but was defeated by the opposition Liberal Party of Australia (SA), led by Opposition Leader Steven Marshall. Nick Xenophon's new SA Best party unsuccessfully sought to obtain the balance of power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election\nLike federal elections, South Australia has compulsory voting, uses full-preference instant-runoff voting for single-member electorates in the lower house and optional preference single transferable voting in the proportionally represented upper house. The election was conducted by the Electoral Commission of South Australia (ECSA), an independent body answerable to Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Results, House of Assembly, Party-redistributed seats\nThe seats of Colton, Elder, Mawson and Newland were won by Labor at the previous election, but the 2016 redistribution made them notionally Liberal seats. Colton, Elder and Newland were won by the Liberals; Mawson was retained by Labor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 91], "content_span": [92, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Aftermath\nFour hours after the close of polls, at approximately 10pm ACDT, incumbent Premier Jay Weatherill telephoned Steven Marshall and conceded defeat. Weatherill subsequently publicly announced that he had conceded, saying, \"I'm sorry I couldn't bring home another victory, but I do feel like one of those horses that has won four Melbourne Cups and I think the handicap has caught up with us on this occasion.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Aftermath\nMarshall claimed victory saying, \"A massive thank you to the people of South Australia who have put their trust, their faith in me and the Liberal team for a new dawn, a new dawn for South Australia!\" After the SA Best party failed to win a seat including Hartley, Nick Xenophon ruled out a return to federal politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Aftermath\nFollowing the election outcome, Weatherill resigned as state Labor leader and returned to the backbench. Outgoing Minister for Health Peter Malinauskas became Leader of the Opposition, with outgoing Education Minister Susan Close as deputy, following a Labor caucus meeting on 9 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Aftermath\nNotably, the Liberals won 16 of the 33 metropolitan seats, their best showing in the Adelaide area since their landslide victory in 1993, when they took all but nine seats in the capital. Labor had spent all but 12 of the 48 years since the end of the Playmander in government due to its traditional dominance of Adelaide. South Australia is Australia's most centralised state; Adelaide is home to over three-quarters of the state's population. To a greater extent than other state capitals, Adelaide is decisive in deciding state election outcomes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Aftermath\nSince the end of the Playmander, most elections have seen Labor win most of the metropolitan seats, with most of the Liberal vote locked up in safe rural seats. In 2010, for instance, the Liberals won 51 percent of the two-party vote on a swing that should have been large enough to deliver them government. However, they only won nine seats in Adelaide, allowing Labor to eke out a two-seat majority. In 2014, while picking up a two percent two-party swing, the Liberals were only able to win an additional three seats in Adelaide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Campaign\nNick Xenophon announced a few SA Best lower house candidates. Polls had included Xenophon's party as one of the four parties they monitored explicitly since February 2016. Originally, SA Best planned to only contest 12 seats. This was increased to 20. On 27 January, a landmark was passed when Xenophon announced eight new candidates, making a total of 24. This was the minimum number to be theoretically capable of forming majority government in the 47-seat house. On 1 February, Xenophon said it was likely the total number of SA Best lower house candidates would be around 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Campaign\nAfter early opinion polls indicated that it could outperform other parties, the party ultimately contested 36 seats in the House of Assembly and put forward four candidates for the upper house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Campaign\nOpinion polling indicated a strong performance for the party was possible in at least 10 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Campaign\nUltimately, the party failed to secure any lower house seats, although there was a close contest in the seat of Heysen. Xenophon failed to win the seat of Hartley which was retained by the Liberals, with un-finalised results indicating a two-party preferred vote of around 42%. The party came second on primary votes in ten seats; the strongest results were in Chaffey, Finniss, and Hartley, where the party received over 25%. SA Best did, however, secure two upper house positions, with the successful election of Connie Bonaros, the campaign manager, and Frank Pangallo, Xenophon's former media advisor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Campaign\nFollowing the election, NXT Senator Stirling Griff claimed that polling indicated a 5% drop in SA Best's vote as a direct result of negative advertisements by two major parties as well as the Australian Hotels Association (AHA). He also claimed paternity for an election ad that had been described as \"wacky, cheesy\" and that that ad actually led to a polling bump for SA Best.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Campaign\nCory Bernardi's new party Australian Conservatives which merged with Family First Party with its two state incumbents Dennis Hood and Robert Brokenshire with the Australian Conservatives in April 2017 also ran its first election. It would not win any seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Campaign, Key seats for SA Best\nThe table lists, according to The Poll Bludger website and based on the Nick Xenophon Team's Senate vote performance at the 2016 federal election, the strongest SA Best seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Campaign, Key seats for SA Best\nThough most of the listed seats are safe Liberal seats, a third party or candidate with a substantial vote was believed to be more likely to be successful in a traditionally safe seat than a marginal seat due to it being easier to out-poll the comparatively low primary vote of the seat's traditionally uncompetitive major party, usually before but occasionally after the distribution of preferences (see 2009 Frome state by-election).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Campaign, Key seats for SA Best\nIf the third party attracts enough first preference votes away from the dominant party, then it is possible that the preferences of voters for the second traditional party will assist the new party's candidate to overtake and therefore defeat the incumbent on the two-candidate-preferred vote (rather than the normally pivotal two-party-preferred vote). According to The Poll Bludger, Nick Xenophon's SA Best candidates \"will stand an excellent chance in any seat where they are able to outpoll one or other major party, whose voters will overwhelmingly place them higher than the candidate of the rival major party. In that circumstance, the more strongly performing major party candidate will be in serious trouble unless their own primary vote approaches 50%, which will be difficult to achieve in circumstances where approaching a quarter of the vote has gone to SA Best.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 946]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Campaign, Key seats for SA Best\nAnalysis in December 2017 from polling company Essential Research found SA Best preference flows of 60/40 to Liberal/Labor, indicating that the substantial third party presence of SA Best is eating in to the Liberal vote somewhat greater than the Labor vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Overview\nThere were fourteen political parties registered with the Electoral Commission of South Australia at the time of the election, which were consequently eligible to field candidates for election. Aside from the major parties (Labor and Liberal parties), SA-Best, which polled higher figures than the major parties on occasion, ran in 36 seats, more than the 24 theoretically required to form government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Overview\nThe fourteen parties registered with the Commission were Advance SA, Animal Justice Party, Australian Conservatives, Child Protection Party, Danig Party of Australia, Dignity Party, the Australian Greens SA, Australian Labor Party (SA Branch) and Country Labor Party, Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division), Liberal Democratic Party, the National Party of Australia (SA) Inc, Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST, and Stop Population Growth Now. Since the previous election, six new parties had registered: Danig Party of Australia, Animal Justice Party, Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST, Australian Conservatives, Advance SA and the Child Protection Party. Four were no longer registered: FREE Australia Party, Fishing and Lifestyle Party, Multicultural Progress Party and the Family First Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Voting changes\nLike federal elections, South Australia has compulsory voting and uses full-preference instant-runoff voting for single-member electorates in the lower house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Voting changes\nHowever, following similar Senate changes which took effect from the 2016 federal election, South Australia's single transferable vote in the proportionally represented upper house changed from group voting tickets to optional preferential voting \u2212 instructions for above the line votes were to mark '1' and then further preferences optional as opposed to preference flows from simply '1' above the line being determined by group voting tickets, while instructions for voters who instead opt to vote below the line were to provide at least twelve preferences as opposed to having to number all candidates, and with a savings provision to admit ballot papers which indicate at least six below-the-line preferences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Previous election\nThe 2014 election resulted in a hung parliament with 23 seats for Labor and 22 for the Liberals. The balance of power rested with the two crossbench independents, Bob Such and Geoff Brock. Such did not indicate who he would support in a minority government before he went on medical leave for a brain tumour, diagnosed one week after the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Previous election\nUniversity of Adelaide Professor and Political Commentator Clem Macintyre said the absence of Such virtually guaranteed that Brock would back Labor \u2013 with 24 seats required to govern, Brock duly provided support to the incumbent Labor government, allowing Premier Jay Weatherill to continue in office as head of a minority government. Macintyre said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Previous election\nIf Geoff Brock had gone with the Liberals, then the Parliament would have effectively been tied 23 to 23, so once Bob Such became ill and stepped away then Geoff Brock, I think had no choice but to side with Labor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Previous election\nThe Liberals were reduced to 21 seats in May 2014 when Martin Hamilton-Smith became an independent and entered cabinet with Brock. Both Hamilton-Smith and Brock agreed to support the government on confidence and supply while retaining the right to otherwise vote on conscience. It is Labor's longest-serving South Australian government and the second longest-serving South Australian government behind the Playmander-assisted Thomas Playford IV. Aside from Playford, it is the second time that any party has won four consecutive state elections in South Australia, the first occurred when Don Dunstan led Labor to four consecutive victories between 1970 and 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Previous election\nRecent hung parliaments occurred when Labor came to government at the 2002 election and prior to that at the 1997 election which saw the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia, created in 1974, win re-election for the first time. Following the 2014 election, Labor went from minority to majority government when Nat Cook won the 2014 Fisher by-election by five votes from a 7.3 percent two-party swing which was triggered by the death of Such. Despite this, the Jay Weatherill Labor government kept Brock and Hamilton-Smith in cabinet, giving the government a 26 to 21 parliamentary majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0019-0002", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Previous election\nFrances Bedford resigned from Labor and became an independent in March 2017 after minister Jack Snelling was endorsed for Florey pre-selection as a result of the major electoral redistribution ahead of the 2018 election. As with the rest of the crossbench, Bedford will continue to provide confidence and supply support to the incumbent Labor government. Duncan McFetridge resigned from the Liberals and moved to the crossbench as an independent in May 2017 after Stephen Patterson was endorsed for Morphett pre-selection. Troy Bell resigned from the Liberals and moved to the crossbench as an independent in August 2017 due to criminal financial allegations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, By-elections\nIndependent Bob Such died from a brain tumour on 11 October 2014 which triggered a by-election in Fisher for 6 December. Labor's Nat Cook won the by-election by nine votes with a 7.3 percent two-party swing against the Liberals, resulting in a change from minority to majority government. On a 0.02 percent margin it is the most marginal seat in parliament. Despite this, the Weatherill Labor government kept crossbench MPs Geoff Brock and Martin Hamilton-Smith in cabinet, giving the government a 26 to 21 parliamentary majority. ABC psephologist Antony Green described the by-election as a \"very bad result for the Liberal Party in South Australia\" both state and federally, and that a fourth term government gaining a seat at a by-election is unprecedented in Australian history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, By-elections\nLiberal Iain Evans in Davenport resigned from parliament on 30 October 2014 which triggered a 2015 Davenport by-election for 31 January. Liberal Sam Duluk won the seat despite a five percent two-party swing, turning the historically safe seat of Davenport in to a two-party marginal seat for the first time. ABC psephologist Antony Green described it as \"another poor result for the South Australian Liberal Party\", following the 2014 Fisher by-election which saw Labor go from minority to majority government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Upper house casual vacancies\nFollowing the parliamentary resignation of former Labor Minister Bernard Finnigan on 12 November 2015 following his conviction for accessing child pornography. SDA secretary Peter Malinauskas filled the Legislative Council casual vacancy in a joint sitting of the Parliament of South Australia on 1 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Upper house casual vacancies\nFollowing the parliamentary resignation of Labor MLC Gerry Kandelaars on 17 February 2017, Justin Hanson filled the Legislative Council casual vacancy in a joint sitting of the Parliament of South Australia on 28 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Dates\nThe last state election was held on 15 March 2014 to elect members for the House of Assembly and half of the members in the Legislative Council. In South Australia, section 28 of the Constitution Act 1934, as amended in 2001, directs that parliaments have fixed four-year terms, and elections must be held on the third Saturday in March every four years unless this date falls the day after Good Friday, occurs within the same month as a Commonwealth election, or the conduct of the election could be adversely affected by a state disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Dates\nSection 28 also states that the Governor may also dissolve the Assembly and call an election for an earlier date if the Government has lost the confidence of the Assembly or a bill of special importance has been rejected by the Legislative Council. Section 41 states that both the Council and the Assembly may also be dissolved simultaneously if a deadlock occurs between them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Background, Dates\nThe Electoral (Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 2013 introduced set dates for writs for general elections in South Australia. The writ sets the dates for the close of the electoral roll and the close of nominations for an election. The Electoral Act 1985 requires that, for a general election, the writ be issued 28 days before the date fixed for polling (S47(2a)) and the electoral roll be closed at 12 noon, six days after the issue of the writ (S48(3(a)(i)). The close of nominations will be at 12 noon three days after the close of rolls (Electoral Act 1985 S48(4)(a) and S4(1)).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Redistributions and the two-party vote\nTo produce \"fair\" electoral boundaries, the Electoral Commission of South Australia (ECSA) has been required following the 1989 election to redraw boundaries after each election through a \"fairness clause\" in the state constitution, with the objective that the party which receives over 50 percent of the statewide two-party vote at the forthcoming election should win the two-party vote in a majority of seats in terms of the two-party-preferred vote calculated in all seats regardless of any differing two-candidate-preferred vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Redistributions and the two-party vote\nThe Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission released a new draft redistribution in August 2016, as calculated from the 24 Liberal\u221223 Labor seat count by two-party vote as recorded in all 47 seats at the 2014 state election (subsequent by-election results including the significant 2014 Fisher by-election are not counted). The net change proposed would have seen a 25 Liberal\u221222 Labor notional seat count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Redistributions and the two-party vote\nThe proposed changes in the draft redistribution contained significant boundary redrawing. Seven seats would be renamed \u2212 Ashford would become Badcoe, Mitchell would become Black, Bright would become Gibson, Fisher would become Hurtle Vale, Napier would become King, Goyder would become Narungga, while Little Para would once again become Elizabeth. In two-party terms since the previous election, the seats of Mawson and Elder would become notionally Liberal seats, while Hurtle Vale would become a notionally Labor seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0028-0001", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Redistributions and the two-party vote\nMawson in the outer southern suburbs would geographically change the most, stretching along the coast right through to as far as and including Kangaroo Island. Hurtle Vale's margin change of 9 percent would be the largest in the state, with Mawson to change 8.3 percent and King to change 8 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Redistributions and the two-party vote\nUpon the release of the draft redistribution, Liberal MP Rachel Sanderson organised the mass distribution of a pro forma document in the two inner metropolitan suburbs of Walkerville and Gilberton, which aimed for residents to use the pro forma document to submit their objection to the commission in support of Sanderson's campaign to keep the two suburbs in her seat of Adelaide, which in the draft would have been transferred to neighbouring Torrens. Sanderson's position however was at odds with her own party's submission which in fact agreed with the commission that Walkerville should be transferred to Torrens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Redistributions and the two-party vote\nUnder the commission's draft proposal, the Liberal margin in Adelaide would have been reduced from 2.4 percent to 0.6 percent, but would have also resulted in the Labor margin in Torrens reduced from 3.5 percent to 1.1 percent. Of a record 130 total submissions received in response to the draft redistribution, about 100 (over three quarters of all submissions) were from Walkerville and Gilberton. As a result, the commission reversed the draft decision in the final publication.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Redistributions and the two-party vote\nAlong with other various alterations in the final publication released in December 2016, in addition to Hurtle Vale becoming a notionally Labor seat and Mawson and Elder becoming notionally Liberal seats in the draft redistribution, the final redistribution additionally turned Newland and the bellwether of Colton in to notionally Liberal seats. These further changes provide a 27 Liberal\u221220 Labor notional seat count in two-party terms, a net change of three seats from Labor to Liberal since the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Redistributions and the two-party vote\nLabor objected to the commission's interpretation of the fairness requirements and appealed against it to the Supreme Court of South Australia in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution Act 1934 (SA). Labor sought to have the redistribution order quashed and have the Boundaries Commission make a fresh redistribution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Redistributions and the two-party vote\nThe Grounds of Appeal were stated to relate to the Commission's interpretation of section 77 relating to the number of electors in each electoral district, with the redistribution reducing the number of voters in rural seats and increasing the number of voters in metropolitan seats, though still within the one vote, one value 10 percent tolerance. The Supreme Court appeal was rejected on 10 March 2017. Labor considered but decided against an appeal to the High Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Redistributions and the two-party vote, Post-redistribution pendulum\nBelow post-redistribution margins listed were calculated by the South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission, and differ somewhat from those calculated by the ABC's Antony Green. The EDBC is the only redistribution authority in Australia that is required to examine voting patterns in drawing electoral boundaries, and in doing so, assume that the proportion of each party's vote in the declaration vote (postal, pre-poll and absent votes) is evenly distributed across the whole of each former electorate. Antony Green's margin estimates are more accurately calculated using declaration votes from the redistributed polling booths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 106], "content_span": [107, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Polling\nThe July to September 2014 Newspoll saw Labor leading the Liberals on the two-party preferred (2PP) vote for the first time since 2009. The October to December 2015 Newspoll saw Marshall's leadership approval rating plummet 11 points to 30 percent, the equal lowest Newspoll approval rating in history for a South Australian Opposition Leader since Dale Baker in 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Polling\nThe first state-level Newspoll to be conducted in two years, in late 2017, did not publish a 2PP figure, claiming that calculating it had become difficult due to the large third-party primary vote of SA Best. Roy Morgan ceased publishing a 2PP figure from January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282492-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 South Australian state election, Polling\nEssential polling's 2PP figures were calculated with approximated SA Best preference flows of 60/40 to Liberal/Labor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282493-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Cambridgeshire District Council election\nElections to South Cambridgeshire District Council were held on Thursday 3 May 2018 as part of the 2018 United Kingdom local elections. Forty five seats, making up the whole of South Cambridgeshire District Council, were up for election in twenty six wards. The council previously had 57 members, last elected by thirds in 2016, 2015 and 2014. Following a boundary review, there has been a reduction of twelve seats to 45 and the electoral pattern has changed from election by thirds to all out elections, meaning that all seats were up for election on this occasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282493-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Cambridgeshire District Council election\nIn a surprise result, the Liberal Democrats took control of the council, winning 30 seats. The district had been controlled outright by the Conservative Party since the 2007 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282493-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Cambridgeshire District Council election, Summary\nThe list of candidates was published on 6 April 2018. Both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party fielded a full slate of 45 candidates, while the Liberal Democrats contested 41 seats. The Green Party had 26 candidates, and there were seven independent candidates. The United Kingdom Independence Party stood one candidate in Bar Hill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282493-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Cambridgeshire District Council election, Summary\nThere was media speculation in the build-up to the election that the Liberal Democrats could make a surprise breakthrough on the council. The Guardian identified South Cambridgeshire as a district where the Conservative Party's approach to Brexit may damage the party's appeal to \"Tory Remain\" voters who had predominantly voted to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282493-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Cambridgeshire District Council election, Summary\nDuring the campaign, one of the Conservative candidates for the Fen Ditton and Fulbourn ward was suspended from the party after a number of offensive posts he had made on Twitter received national media attention. However he remained on the ballot paper as the deadline for withdrawals had passed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282494-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team\nThe 2018 South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team represented the University of South Carolina in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Gamecocks played their home games at Founders Park. The team was led by first year head coach Mark Kingston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282494-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282495-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team (variously USC, SC, South Carolina, or The Gamecocks) represents the University of South Carolina in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. This season marks the Gamecocks 125th overall season, 27th as a member of the SEC, and 3rd under head coach Will Muschamp. The Gamecocks play their home games at Williams\u2013Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282495-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Background, Previous season\nSouth Carolina started out the 2017 season with a win over NC State in the Belk Kickoff Game 35\u201328. They then followed it up with a road win against Missouri 31\u201313. In the following game vs Kentucky, star wide receiver Deebo Samuel broke his right fibula, and would miss the remainder of the season. After close losses to Texas A&M and Kentucky, South Carolina defeated 3 SEC schools in a row; Arkansas, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282495-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Background, Previous season\nAfter a hard-fought 24\u201310 loss to rivals #1 Georgia on the road, South Carolina defeated Florida 28\u201320 finishing 5\u20133 in SEC play good enough for 2nd in the SEC East. South Carolina recorded their fifth 9-win season in the last 8 years, going 9\u20134, 5\u20133 in the SEC. The Gamecocks finished in the top 2 in the SEC East for the 4th time in 8 years, and won their fifth bowl game in 7 years defeating Michigan 26\u201319 in the Outback Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282495-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Preseason, Returning starters\nSouth Carolina will have sixteen returning players on offense, nine on defense and two on special teams that started games in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282495-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Preseason, SEC media poll\nThe SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018, with the Gamecocks predicted to finish in second place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282495-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SEC teams\nThe Gamecocks had three players at five positions selected to the preseason all-SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282495-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Preseason, Recruiting, Incoming transfers\nSouth Carolina added two grad transfers, and two regular transfers to the 2018 roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 86], "content_span": [87, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282495-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Schedule, Spring game\nThe 2018 South Carolina Gamecocks Garnet and Black spring game took place in Columbia, South Carolina on March 31, at 12:00\u00a0p.m. EST. The game was broadcast live on the SEC Network. The Black team defeated the Garnet team by a score of 34\u201320, QB Jake Bentley completed 15 of 25 passes for 174 yards and 2 TD's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282495-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Schedule, Regular season\nSouth Carolina announced its 2018 football schedule on September 19, 2017. The schedule consists of 7 home games and 5 away games for the regular season. The Gamecocks hosted SEC opponents Georgia (rivalry) on September 8, Missouri on October 6, Texas A&M on October 13, and Tennessee, on October 27. South Carolina traveled to four SEC opponents: Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Ole Miss and Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282495-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Schedule, Regular season\nSouth Carolina's out of conference opponents represent the ACC, MAC, SoCon and Sun Belt conferences. The Gamecocks hosted three non\u2013conference games which are against Coastal Carolina of the Sun Belt, Akron of the MAC and Chattanooga of the SoCon. South Carolina traveled to archrival Clemson of the ACC for 116th annual Palmetto Bowl to finish the regular season. The Gamecocks were originally scheduled to face Conference USA opponent Marshall on September 15, but this game was cancelled due to Hurricane Florence. Akron was then scheduled as a replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282495-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Personnel, Coaching staff\nSouth Carolina head coach Will Muschamp will enter his third-year in 2018. Muschamp has led the Gamecocks to 15 wins and 11 losses over his first two years, tying Steve Spurrier, and Joe Morrison for most wins in the first two seasons as a Gamecock head coach. On December 6, Offensive Coordinator Kurt Roper was terminated after offensive struggles. Co -offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach Bryan McClendon served as the offensive coordinator for the Outback Bowl win against Michigan, and was promoted to permanent offensive coordinator to replace Roper. On January 5, Dan Werner accepted the role of quarterbacks coach. Werner has previously been on Ole Miss, Miami, and Alabama's coaching staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282495-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Personnel, Coaching staff\nOn January 11, it was announced that former South Carolina star running back Marcus Lattimore would be joining the staff as the director of player development.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282496-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 South Carolina House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. South Carolina voters elected state representatives in all 124 of the state house's districts. State representatives serve two-year terms in the South Carolina State House. A statewide map of South Carolina's state House districts can be obtained from the South Carolina House's website , and individual district maps can be obtained from the U.S. Census .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282496-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina House of Representatives election\nA primary election on June 12, 2018, and a primary runoff on June 26, 2018, in races in which no candidate received over 50% of his/her party's primary vote, determined which candidates appeared on the November 6 general election ballot. Primary election results can be obtained from the South Carolina Secretary of State's website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282496-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina House of Representatives election\nFollowing the 2016 state house elections, Republicans maintained effective control of the House with 80 members. Democrats held 44 seats following the 2016 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282496-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina House of Representatives election\nIn the 2018 election, although multiple seats flipped between parties, there was no net change. Therefore, Republicans maintained an 80-to-44-seat majority over Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282497-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina State Bulldogs football team\nThe 2018 South Carolina State Bulldogs football team represented South Carolina State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 17th-year head coach Oliver Pough and played their home games at Oliver C. Dawson Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). They finished the season 5\u20136, 4\u20133 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282497-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina State Bulldogs football team, Previous season\nThe Bulldogs finished the 2017 season 3\u20137, 2\u20136 in MEAC play to finish in a three-way tie for eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282497-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina State Bulldogs football team, Preseason, MEAC preseason poll\nIn a vote of the MEAC head coaches and sports information directors, the Bulldogs were picked to finish in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282497-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina State Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MEAC Teams\nThe Tigers had four players selected to the preseason all-MEAC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 85], "content_span": [86, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282497-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina State Bulldogs football team, Schedule\nDespite also being members of the MEAC, games against Florida A&M and Norfolk State will be considered non-conference games and will not have an effect on the MEAC standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 58], "content_span": [59, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282498-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina elections\nA general election was be held in the U.S. state of South Carolina on November 6, 2018. All of South Carolina's executive officers were up for election as well as all of South Carolina's seven seats in the United States House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282498-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nBeginning with the 2018 gubernatorial election, the offices of governor and lieutenant governor were elected jointly as a ticket instead of being elected separately as in prior years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282498-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nFormer incumbent Republican Governor Nikki Haley was term-limited and could not run for re-election to a third consecutive term. Haley was selected as United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Donald Trump administration. Haley's nomination was confirmed. Former Lieutenant Governor Henry McMaster became governor on January 24, 2017, for the remainder of the term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282498-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Alan Wilson ran for re-election to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282498-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina elections, Attorney General\nOther Republican candidates included State Representative Todd Atwater, like Wilson, from Lexington and Greenville attorney William Herlong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282498-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Republican Secretary of State Mark Hammond ran for re-election to a fifth term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282498-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina elections, Secretary of State\nState Representative Joshua Putnam is challenged Hammond for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282498-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican Treasurer Curtis M. Loftis, Jr. is eligible to run for re-election to a third term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282498-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina elections, Comptroller General\nIncumbent Republican Richard Eckstrom won re-election to a fifth term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282498-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina elections, Superintendent of Education\nIncumbent Republican Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman is eligible to run for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282498-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina elections, Commissioner of Agriculture\nIncumbent Republican Commissioner of Agriculture Hugh Weathers, who was appointed to the position in September 2004, is eligible to run for re-election to a fourth full term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282498-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina elections, United States House of Representatives\nAll of South Carolina's seven seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282498-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina elections, South Carolina State House of Representatives\nAll 124 seats in the South Carolina House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. On election day 2018, Republicans controlled 80 seats as compared to the Democrats' 44. Although four seats flipped party, there was no net change in the composition of the state House because Republicans flipped Districts 42 and 97 while Democrats flipped Districts 15 and 117. Republicans maintained their 80-to-44 seat majority in the South Carolina House following the 2018 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282499-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Carolina gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of South Carolina. Incumbent Republican Governor Henry McMaster, who took office after Nikki Haley resigned to become U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, ran for election to a full term. The primary was held on June 12, with the Democrats nominating State Representative James E. Smith Jr. McMaster failed to win a majority of the vote, and then defeated John Warren in the Republican runoff on June 26. In the general election, McMaster defeated Smith, winning election to a full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282500-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South China Sea Parade\nThe 2018 South China Sea Parade (simplified Chinese: 2018\u5e74\u5357\u6d77\u519b\u4e8b\u6f14\u4e60; traditional Chinese: 2018\u5e74\u5357\u6d77\u8ecd\u4e8b\u6f14\u7fd2; pinyin: 2018ni\u00e1n N\u00e1nha\u01d0 J\u016bnsh\u00ec Y\u01cenx\u00ed) was a military parade held in the South China Sea near Sanya, Hainan on April 13, 2018. It is the biggest marine parade since the establishment of the Communist State in 1949 and according to the Chinese government, the biggest in 600 years. It saw 50 warships, 76 fighters and more than 10,000 military officers and soldiers taking part. Xi Jinping, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, reviewed the People's Liberation Army Navy on April 11, 2018. More than half of the vessels were commissioned after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in November 2012, when Xi succeeded the Communist Party's General Secretary (paramount leader).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282501-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota Coyotes football team\nThe 2018 South Dakota Coyotes football team represented the University of South Dakota in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Bob Nielson and played their home games in the DakotaDome. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They finished the season 4\u20137, 3\u20135 in MVFC play to finish in a three-way tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282501-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota Coyotes football team, Previous season\nThe Coyotes finished the 2017 season 8\u20135, 4\u20134 in MVFC play to finish in a three-way tie for fifth place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs, which was the schools first ever FCS Playoff bid, where they defeated Nicholls State in the first round before losing to Sam Houston State in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282501-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota Coyotes football team, Preseason, Preseason MVFC poll\nThe MVFC released their preseason poll on July 29, 2018, with the Coyotes predicted to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282501-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota Coyotes football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MVFC Teams\nThe Coyotes placed seven players on the preseason all-MVFC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282501-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota Coyotes football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State\nKansas State's Isaiah Zuber was credited for saving the game with two key plays: an 85-yard punt return with South Dakota leading 24\u201312. Later in the game caught a touchdown pass from Skylar Thompson with 7:21 left to give K-State its first lead of the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282501-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota Coyotes football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State\nKansas State scored all but seven of its points on field goals and special teams. Sophomore kicker Blake Lynch scored Kansas State\u2019s first 12 points on field goals of 22, 24, 38 and 44 yards. Kansas State racked up 13 penalties for 129 yards, but maintained more control of the ball with 37:39 of offense compared to South Dakota's 22:21. going over 100 years for the first time since 2016 against Florida Atlantic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282501-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota Coyotes football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State\nSouth Dakota quarterback Austin Simmons threw for 257 yards and one touchdown, continually finding receiver Levi Falck (11 catches, 140 yards) open against top K-State cornerback Duke Shelley. The Coyotes led 24\u201312 at halftime. ESPN reported \"... one solid takeaway is how well the Coyotes were in control for much of the game. They did a great job limiting the Kansas State offense for three quarters and had many Kansas State fans, players and coaches frustrated throughout the night.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282502-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team\nThe 2018 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team represented South Dakota State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 22nd-year head coach John Stiegelmeier and played their home games at Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium in Brookings, South Dakota as members of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They finished the season 10\u20133, 6\u20132 in MVFC play to finish in second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Duquesne in the second round and Kennesaw State in the quarterfinals, before losing in the semifinals to North Dakota State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282502-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team, Previous season\nThe Jackrabbits finished the 2017 season 11\u20133, 6\u20132 in MVFC play to finish in a tie for second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Northern Iowa in the second round and New Hampshire in the quarterfinals before losing in the semifinals to James Madison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282502-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team, Preseason, Preseason MVFC poll\nThe MVFC released their preseason poll on July 29, 2018, with the Jackrabbits predicted to finish in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 81], "content_span": [82, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282502-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MVFC Teams\nThe Jackrabbits placed seven players at eight positions on the preseason all-MVFC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 86], "content_span": [87, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282503-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota attorney general election\nThe 2018 South Dakota attorney general election was held on November 6, 2018. Incumbent Attorney General Marty Jackley was term-limited and ran for Governor of South Dakota. In June 2018, the South Dakota Republican party nominated Jason Ravnsborg for Attorney General and the Democratic party nominated Randy Seiler. Ravnsborg won the election to become the 31st Attorney General of South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282503-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota attorney general election, Background\nIn 2009, Republican incumbent Marty Jackley was first appointed Attorney General by then-Governor Mike Rounds. Jackley succeeded one-term Republican incumbent Larry Long, who opted to be appointed by Governor Mike Rounds to be a circuit court judge in Sioux Falls. Jackley was then elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282503-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota attorney general election, Background, Democratic Nomination\nFormer U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota, Randy Seiler won the nomination at the Democratic Convention", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282503-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota attorney general election, Background, Democratic Nomination\nOn June 15, 2018, Seiler defeated former Oglala Lakota Attorney General Tatewin Means at the Democrat Convention held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota by an approximate 2 to 1 margin. Means made history by becoming the first indigenous woman to run for Attorney General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282503-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota attorney general election, Background, Republican Nomination\nYankton Attorney, Jason Ravnsborg won the South Dakota Republican nomination at its state convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282503-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota attorney general election, Background, Republican Nomination\nOn June 23, 2018, In the second round of voting, Ravnsborg defeated South Dakota State Senator Lance Russell of Hot Springs, South Dakota for the Republican nomination by a margin of 63% to 37% at the Republican Convention in Pierre, South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282503-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota attorney general election, Background, Republican Nomination\nIn the first Round of voting at the Convention Ravnsborg lead with 47% of the vote; Russell had 27% and Lawrence County States Attorney John Fitzgerald had 26%. Therefore, Fitzgerald was eliminated after the first round of voting and Ravnsborg and Russell would go head to head.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282503-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota attorney general election, Background, Republican Nomination\nChief Deputy Attorney General Charlie McGuigan withdrew from the race prior to the convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282503-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota attorney general election, Background, No Third party candidates\nWhile both the Libertarian and the Constitution party had party status, neither nominated anyone for this race. Furthermore, no Independents ran in this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282503-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota attorney general election, General Election\nBoth Seiler and Ravnsborg were alumni of the University of South Dakota School of Law ensuring that the school's graduate would continue to hold the office, a streak that has continued since 1959.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282503-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota attorney general election, General Election\nRavnsborg secured a number of endorsements during the election. He was endorsed by forty county sheriffs; the Fraternal Order of Police; thirty states attorneys; the National Rifle Association; South Dakota Right to Life; and the Family Heritage Alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282504-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of South Dakota on November 6, 2018. All of South Dakota's executive officers were up for election as well as South Dakota's at-large seat in the United States House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282504-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota elections, United States House of Representatives\nIncumbent Republican U.S. Representative Kristi Noem did not run for re-election and instead ran for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282504-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282504-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Marty Jackley was term-limited and could not run for re-election to a third term. Jackley ran for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282504-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota elections, Attorney General, Republican primary\nLawrence County State's Attorney John Fitzgerald, Chief Deputy Attorney General Charlie McGuigan, and attorney and 2014 U.S. Senate candidate Jason Ravnsborg ran for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282504-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota elections, Attorney General, Democratic primary\nFormer U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota, Randy Seiler won the nomination at the South Dakota Democratic Convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282504-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Republican Secretary of State Shantel Krebs did not run for re-election and instead ran for Congress. Governing magazine projected the race as \"safe Republican\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282504-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota elections, State Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican State Treasurer Rich Sattgast was term-limited and so could not run for re-election to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282504-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota elections, State Treasurer, Republican primary\nJosh Haeder, Northeast Director for Senator Mike Rounds, ran for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282504-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota elections, State Auditor\nIncumbent Republican State Auditor Steve Barnett was term-limited and could not run for re-election to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282505-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 South Dakota gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next governor of South Dakota. Incumbent Republican governor Dennis Daugaard was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282505-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota gubernatorial election\nRepublican candidate Kristi Noem won against Democratic candidate Billie Sutton in the closest gubernatorial election in South Dakota since 1986, when Republican candidate George S. Mickelson (51.8%) defeated Democratic nominee Ralph Lars Herseth (48.2%) with a 152,543 to 141,898 advantage. Noem also became the first female governor of the state. Her victory extended the longest active hold on a governorship by one party; the GOP has won every gubernatorial election in South Dakota since 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282505-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican primary, First Debate\nIn the first debate both candidates tried to define the other. Jackley stated: \u201cIt\u2019s Washington experience versus South Dakota experience.\u201d \u201cMarty\u2019s background has been being a government lawyer,\u201d Noem said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282505-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Second Debate\nIn the second debate, Noem discussed Jackley\u2019s scandals. \u201cIn EB5, the state oversite program, nobody went to jail. On Gear-Up, still, nobody\u2019s been punished. When we talk about what\u2019s been going on in Brookings with the Global Aquaponics scam\u2014a con artist, Tobias Ritesman, held a fundraiser for Marty Jackley. Marty attended his phony groundbreaking for his phony project,\u201d Noem says. \u201cPeople lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Still, nobody\u2019s been investigated and nobody\u2019s been prosecuted. That needs to change in our state.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282505-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Second Debate\nJackley was on the defensive during the second debate. \u201cCongresswoman, he didn\u2019t hold a fundraiser for me. I was at an event that he was at, and I did go to a ground breaking because that\u2019s what important in South Dakota,\u201d Jackley says. \u201cWhen we have businesses expanding I think it\u2019s important that we attend those. You talk about Gear-Up, there hasn\u2019t been a sentencing because these defendants are presumed innocent. But I as attorney general, unlike Washington, have done something about it. I actually formed a grand jury. Indictments have been issued. They\u2019re schedule to begin jury trials in July\u2014or, excuse me\u2014June, June 26th and I plan on trying those personally, because that\u2019s what a leader does.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282505-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Final Debate\nIn the final debate, Jackley and Noem took tough questions about workforce development, anti-discrimination laws, drugs, uniting democrats and republicans in the state to make critical decisions and much more. While they spent a lot of time talking about their plans for the state, they also spent a lot of time attacking each others' records. A major topic of contention you might not expect? Boards and commissions. The state currently has 134 of them. Noem says she wants to streamline different processes for licensure, eliminating \"red tape\" but Jackley disagrees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282505-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Final Debate\n\"Every time that a proposal comes forward to create a new 'blue ribbon' task force, a board or a commission, what typically comes with that is another layer of bureaucracy,\" Noem said. Jackley defended the government bureaucracy. \"We need a governor that understands that various different boards, isn't out there criticizing different boards and saying that type of service isn't important,\" Jackley said. Jackley spoke about putting together a task force to work on government transparency and open records laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282505-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Final Debate\n\"I'm committed when I become governor to put forth a taskforce ...because we need to take a look at the open records law,\" he said. And they both ended the debate with another jab at one another. \"It really comes to down to Washington experience versus South Dakota experience,\" Jackley said. \"The congresswoman has been spending considerable time and effort talking about Marty Jackley, but I'm talking about you, South Dakota.\" \"Days ago he stood up and talked about protecting victims while behind the scenes he was actively working to silence one to further his political career,\" Noem said. \"You deserve a governor who will be honest with you, who will tell you the truth and who is willing to be accountable.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282505-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Constitution Party\nFollowing an internal controversy within the Constitution Party of South Dakota over who was the legal party chair, Dan Lederman\u2014individually and in his capacity as chair of the South Dakota Republican Party\u2014sued Republican secretary of state Shantel Krebs to prevent her from certifying any Constitution Party nominees for the general-election ballot. For somewhat complex reasons, state circuit judge Patricia DeVaney ruled in favor of the Republican Party on August 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282505-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Constitution Party\nG. Matt Johnson and Lora Hubbel\u2014Constitution Party nominees for the state's at-large U.S. House seat and governor respectively\u2014then sued Krebs in federal court on August 29 seeking ballot access for themselves and four other Constitution Party nominees. For various procedural reasons, federal district judge Roberto Lange ruled against the Constitution Party on October 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282506-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South East Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships\nThe 24th South East Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships 2018 were held in Naga City, Philippines, from 4 to 8 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282507-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South East Asian Table Tennis Championships\nThe 2018 South East Asian Table Tennis Championships were held in Bali, Indonesia from 15 to 18 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282508-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Florida Bulls football team\nThe 2018 South Florida Bulls football team represented the University of South Florida (USF) in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They played their home games at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, and were led by second-year head coach Charlie Strong. The Bulls competed as members of the East Division of the American Athletic Conference. They finished the season 7\u20136, 3\u20135 in AAC play to finish in fourth place in the East Division. They were invited to the Gasparilla Bowl where they lost to Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282508-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Florida Bulls football team\nThe 2018 Bulls became the first team in college football history to start a season 7\u20130 and lose their final six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282508-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Florida Bulls football team, Previous season\nThe Bulls finished the 2017 season with a record of 10\u20132. After ending the regular season with a record of 9-2, 6-2 in the AAC, the Bulls were invited to the Birmingham Bowl, where they defeated Texas Tech 38-34.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282508-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Florida Bulls football team, Preseason\nThe Bulls replaced 11 starters from a 10-2 season in 2017. One of the biggest storylines of the offseason was the addition of graduate transfer Blake Barnett who was named the starting quarterback following stints at Alabama and Arizona State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282508-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Florida Bulls football team, Preseason, AAC media poll\nThe AAC media poll was released on July 24, 2018, with the Bulls predicted to finish in second place in the AAC East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282509-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2018 South Korean Figure Skating Championships (Korean: \uc81c72\ud68c \uc804\uad6d \ub0a8\ub140 \ud53c\uaca8\uc2a4\ucf00\uc774\ud305 \uc885\ud569\uc120\uc218\uad8c\ub300\ud68c) were held from January 5\u20137, 2018 at the Mokdong Ice Rink in Seoul. It was organized by Korea Skating Union. This was the 72nd edition of those championships held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282509-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean Figure Skating Championships\nSkaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, ice dancing on the senior, junior levels and pair skating on the senior levels for the title of national champion of South Korea. The results of the national championships were used to choose the Korean teams to the 2018 World Junior Championships, 2018 World Championships and 2018 Winter Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282509-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, Senior results\nCha Jun-hwan and You Young both won their second senior national titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282509-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, Four Continents Championships\nThe 2018 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships will be held on 22\u201328 January 2018, in Taipei City, Chinese Taipei. Based on the results of the 2017 KSU President Cup Ranking Competition from December 1\u20133, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 108], "content_span": [109, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282509-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, Winter Olympic Games\nThe 2018 Winter Olympics will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, February 9\u201325, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 99], "content_span": [100, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282509-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, World Junior Championships\nThe 2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, March 5\u201311, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 105], "content_span": [106, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282509-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, World Championships\nThe 2018 World Figure Skating Championships will be held in Milan, Italy, March 19\u201325, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 98], "content_span": [99, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282510-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean by-elections\nThe 2018 South Korean by-elections was held in South Korea on 13 June 2018, coinciding with the local elections. 12 seats to the National Assembly of South Korea were contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282510-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean by-elections, Reasons for by-elections\nThe following Members of National Assembly lost or resigned from their seats:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282511-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean local elections\nThe 7th local elections were held in South Korea on 13 June 2018. The election coincided with the by-elections for the vacant seats in the National Assembly. The election was a landslide victory for the Democratic Party of Korea, the ruling party, after two successful summits with the third inter-Korean summit on 27 April and the first North Korea-United States summit in Singapore on 12 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282511-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean local elections, Metropolitan mayors and governors\nA total of 17 metropolitan mayors and governors were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282511-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean local elections, Metropolitan mayors and governors, Candidates\nBold on the candidate's name indicates that a candidate has won as metropolitan mayor or governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282511-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean local elections, Metropolitan and provincial councillors\nA total of 824 Metropolitan and provincial councillors were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282511-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean local elections, Municipal mayors\nA total of 226 municipal mayors (municipal city, county, autonomous district) were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282511-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South Korean local elections, Municipal councillors\nA total of 2,926 municipal councillors (municipal city, county, autonomous district) were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282512-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Lakeland District Council election\nThe 2018 South Lakeland District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of South Lakeland District Council in Cumbria, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2016, these major changes to boundaries were recommended by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282512-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Lakeland District Council election, Election result\nThis result has the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282512-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Lakeland District Council election, By-Elections\nA by-election was held on 20 December 2018 to fill a vacancy in Arnside & Milnthorpe following the death of Councillor Ian Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Point 400\nThe 2018 South Point 400 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on September 16, 2018 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas. Contested over 272 laps -- extended from 267 laps due to an overtime finish, on the 1.5\u00a0mi (2.4\u00a0km) asphalt intermediate speedway, it was the 27th race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, first race of the Playoffs, and the first race of the Round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Point 400, Report, Background\nLas Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada outside the Las Vegas city limits and about 15 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, is a 1,200-acre (490\u00a0ha) complex of multiple tracks for motorsports racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Point 400, First practice\nJoey Logano was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 28.473 seconds and a speed of 189.653\u00a0mph (305.217\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Point 400, Qualifying\nErik Jones scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.705 and a speed of 188.121\u00a0mph (302.751\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Point 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice\nRyan Newman was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 29.365 seconds and a speed of 183.892\u00a0mph (295.945\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 65], "content_span": [66, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South Point 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice\nErik Jones was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 29.793 seconds and a speed of 181.251\u00a0mph (291.695\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South Point 400, Race, Stage Results\nFor pre-race ceremonies, Motor Racing Outreach chaplain Billy Maudin would give the invocation and Las Vegas country music singer Sierra Black would sing the anthem. Brendan Gaughan, a former NASCAR driver and the son of the South Point's owner, Michael Gaughan would give out the starting command. Temperatures were nearly 100 degrees at the start of the race. Erik Jones would start from the pole, however he would get passed for the lead on lap 1 by Joey Logano, who would go on to lead the first 34 laps until green flag pit stops occurred. At the end of the pit cycle, Kevin Harvick would lead, but was quickly swallowed up by Martin Truex Jr. on lap 59, who then proceeded to stay in the lead for the rest of the stage and win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 South Point 400, Race, Stage Results\nThe green flag would come out on lap 87. However, just three laps later NASCAR threw the caution for debris caused by Ricky Stenhouse Jr hitting the wall in turn 3. Truex would go on to lead the first 32 laps in the stage until on lap 112, Ty Dillon would suffer a tire failure. Keselowski would lead on the restart on lap 116. Truex would go back to the lead just 9 laps later. On lap 148, the first major crash happened in the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 South Point 400, Race, Stage Results\nKevin Harvick, who was battling Jimmie Johnson for 7th, would blow a right front and smash his car into the wall. Erik Jones, who was running the high side ran into the back of Harvick, taking both of them out. Keselowski would end up as the leader on the restart, and after a 5 lap shootout would win stage 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 South Point 400, Race, Final Stage Results\nKeselowski would lead the field to green, and would battle Kyle Larson until lap 184 when William Byron suffered a flat tire and hit the Turn 3 wall. Truex would take the lead back on lap 202. 10 laps later, Jamie McMurray, who had hit the wall laps earlier, would spin with another tire failure, collecting Chase Elliott, causing both of them to retire. Logano would pull out to the lead on the restart against Keselowski. Kyle Busch then would get loose and spin coming out of turn 4, with the splitter hitting the frontstretch grass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 South Point 400, Race, Final Stage Results\nLarson would lead on the restart, then on lap 248 Denny Hamlin would suffer a similar crash to Kyle Busch, this time destroying Hamlin's car and taking him out. The field would restart, but just 2 laps later on lap 253 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. would hit the back stretch wall hard, similar to Jeff Gordon's 2008 crash at the same track. On the restart, Alex Bowman and Jimmie Johnson would suffer tire problems. Due to debris caused by the incidents, NASCAR was forced to throw the caution with 7 to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 South Point 400, Race, Final Stage Results\nWith just 2 laps to go, Keselowski would lead the field to green and would battle with Logano. However, a crash started by David Ragan and Michael McDowell would cause the big one of the day, tearing Matt Dibenedetto's right side and massively damaging Kurt Busch's car. NASCAR would throw the red flag due to the accident. The field would attempt a green-white checkered finish, with Brad Keselowski eventually pulling away and winning the inaugural South Point 400.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 South Point 400, Media, Television\nNBC Sports called the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282513-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 South Point 400, Media, Radio\nPRN covered the radio call for the race which was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice, Mark Garrow and Wendy Venturini called the race in the booth when the field raced through the tri-oval. Rob Albright called the race from a billboard in turn 2 when the field raced through turns 1 and 2. Pat Patterson called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 when the field raced through turns 3 and 4. Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Jim Noble and Heather DeBeaux worked pit road for the radio side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282514-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sudan Football Championship\nThe 2018 South Sudan Football Championship (also called the 2018 South Sudan Champions League or 2018 South Sudan Premier League) was the 4th season of the South Sudan Football Championship, the top-level football championship of South Sudan. It was played between 10 and 23 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282514-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sudan Football Championship, Group stage\nThere were two groups, with Group A played in Juba and Group B played in Rumbek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282514-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sudan Football Championship, Group stage\nAl-Merreikh won Group A and Al-Hilal Wau won Group B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282514-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sudan Football Championship, Final\nThe final was played on 23 October 2018 at the Juba Stadium in Juba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282514-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sudan Football Championship, Final\nAl-Merreikh later filed an appeal that Al-Hilal Wau fielded an ineligible player, and were awarded the title, but this was later overturned by South Sudan Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282515-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sudan National Cup\nThe 2018 South Sudan National Cup is the 6th edition of the South Sudan National Cup, the knockout football competition of South Sudan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282515-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sudan National Cup, Group stage\nThere were two groups, with Group A played in Juba and Group B played in Aweil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282515-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sudan National Cup, Final\nThe final was played on 14 August 2018 at the Juba Stadium in Juba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282516-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sulawesi gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 South Sulawesi Gubernatorial Election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of South Sulawesi alongside with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282516-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sulawesi gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Syahrul Yasin Limpo was barred from participating in the elections due to a constitutional term limits. Official candidates were sitting Deputy Governor of South Sulawesi Agus Arifin Nu'mang (id), former chairman of PSSI and current Program Coordinator of Golkar Nurdin Halid, Syahrul Yasin Limpo's brother and former Regent of Gowa Regency Ichsan Yasin Limpo (id) and incumbent Regent of Bantaeng Regency Nurdin Abdullah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282516-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sulawesi gubernatorial election, Timeline\nThe election will have a voter count of 6,323,711, spread across 24 cities and regencies in South Sulawesi across over 17,000 polling stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282516-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sulawesi gubernatorial election, Timeline\nRegistration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The campaigning period would commence between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282516-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sulawesi gubernatorial election, Candidates\nThe Ichsan Yasin Limpo and Andi Mudzakar pair was the only independent pair in the election, having submitted over 500,000 verified identity cards in comparison to the required 483,514 (7.5 percent of the voter population) although several political parties still declared their support for the ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282516-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sulawesi gubernatorial election, Candidates\nCandidates backed by political parties are required to have the backing of at least 17 seats in the DPRD (regional council) to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282516-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sulawesi gubernatorial election, Results, Quick count\nThe following data provides the result of the formal quick count conducted by the National Election Commission (KPU) for the 2018 South Sulawesi Gubernatorial Election. The quick count provided by the National Election Commission (KPU) serves as a basis of information for the people to know the result of the Simultaneous Local Elections held on 27 June 2018 as fast and as transparent as possible. The data which serves as the basis of this formal quick count comes from the C1 Model entries. The formal quick count is a temporary result and is not final. Should there be any errors found in the conducting process of the formal quick count, fixes shall be made in the national recapitulation process. The data provided originates from 16,256 ballot centres from a total of 17,145 ballot centres (94.81%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 872]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282517-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sumatra gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 South Sumatra gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of South Sumatra alongside with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282517-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sumatra gubernatorial election\nIncumbent governor Alex Noerdin was barred from participating due to constitutional term limits. Four pairs of candidates contested the election, including incumbent vice governor Ishak Mekki. Other candidates are regents of regencies within the province: Herman Deru from East Ogan Komering Ulu, Aswari Rivai from Lahat and Dodi Reza Alex Noerdin from Musi Banyuasin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282517-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sumatra gubernatorial election\nHerman Deru would proceed to win the election, winning around 36 percent of the votes, ahead of Noerdin who placed second with 31 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282517-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sumatra gubernatorial election, Timeline\nRegistration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The candidates were assigned their ballot numbers on 13 February 2018. The campaigning period would commence between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282517-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sumatra gubernatorial election, Candidates\nUnder regulations, candidates are required to secure the support of a political party or a coalition thereof comprising at least 20 percent of the seats in the regional house. Alternatively, independent candidates may run provided they are capable of securing support from 7.5 percent of the total voter population (~503 thousand voters) in form of photocopied ID cards subject to verification by the local committee although no candidates expressing interest managed to do this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282517-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sumatra gubernatorial election, Candidates\nHerman Deru, who served as the regent of East Ogan Komering Ulu Regency for two terms between 2005 and 2015, ran with fellow two-term regent of Ogan Ilir Regency Mawardi Yahya as his running mate. The ticket secured support from PAN (6 seats), Nasdem (5) and Hanura (5), totaling 16 seats in the provincial council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282517-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sumatra gubernatorial election, Candidates\nAswari Rivai, who was the leader of South Sumatra's Gerindra and also two-term regent of Lahat Regency, paired up with 2013-2018 mayor of Pangkal Pinang Muhammad Irwansyah. The pair had support from Gerindra (10 seats) and PKS (5 seats).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282517-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sumatra gubernatorial election, Candidates\nIshak Mekki, in addition to being the incumbent vice governor, was another former two-term regent contesting the gubernatorial election, having governed as the regent of Ogan Komering Ilir between 2004 and 2013. He had also served as the leader of South Sumatra's Demokrat. His running mate Yudha Pratomo was an academician. The ticket was supported by Demokrat (11 seats), PPP (2 seats) and PKB (6 seats).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282517-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sumatra gubernatorial election, Candidates\nDodi Reza Alex Noerdin, was the son of incumbent Alex Noerdin and also regent of Musi Banyuasin since 2017 in addition to being a former member of the People's Representative Council between 2009 and 2016. He also served as deputy secretary general in Golkar. His running mate Giri Ramanda Kiemas is the nephew of the late PDI-P figure Taufiq Kiemas, who was also leader of the South Sumatra PDI-P. Golkar and PDI-P had 10 and 13 seats in the provincial assembly, respectively, for a total of 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282518-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Sydney Rabbitohs season\nThe 2018 South Sydney Rabbitohs season was the 109th in the club's history. Coached by Anthony Seibold and captained by Greg Inglis, they competed in the National Rugby League's 2018 Telstra Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282519-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 South Tyneside Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of South Tyneside Council in England, the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282520-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 South and Central American Women's Handball Championship\nThe 2018 South and Central American Women's Handball Championship was the first edition of the South and Central American Women's Handball Championship, which took place in Macei\u00f3, Brazil from 29 November to 4 December 2018. It acted as the South and Central American qualifying tournament for the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282521-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southampton City Council election\nElections to Southampton City Council took place on Thursday 3 May 2018, alongside nationwide local elections, alongside other local elections across the country. The elections saw no changes in the overall composition of the council, however saw seats being exchanged. The Labour Party lost Bitterne, Millbrook and Peartree to the Conservative party while the Conservatives lost Freemantle, Portswood and Swaythling to Labour. This led to the Labour leader of the council, Simon Letts, and the leader of the Conservative group in the city, Jeremy Moulton, losing their seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282521-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southampton City Council election, Background and Campaigning\nIn the lead up to the election, the BBC had summarised that the situation in Southampton for the Labour Party was incredibly precarious and one seat loss could deprive the party of a majority. They cited the Redbridge ward as a target for the main opposition the Conservatives, yet the Conservatives came third to the Southampton Independents candidate. Labour targeted the Conservative seats of Freemantle, Portswood and Swaythling, as well as the independent Coxford ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282521-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southampton City Council election, Background and Campaigning\nLabour made a commitment to building 1,000 homes in the city over five years, invest further in council services, build a modular home factory and create a Clean Air Zone for the city. The Conservative Party offered a series of policies to tackle air pollution and traffic in the city: suggesting two new railway stations in the city, one at St Mary's Stadium and one in Ocean Village potentially where the old Southampton Terminus Station was, allow free parking for electric vehicles and introducing more electric charge points in the city. The Liberal Democrats focused on the quality of roads within the city and was sceptical of the way resources were used by the Labour administration to tackle homelessness in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282521-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southampton City Council election, Background and Campaigning\nThe council had come under scrutiny for its decision to close the Kentish Road respite centre, which was due to budget cuts. Activists Lisa Stead and Amanda Guest, who have campaigned on the issue, stood in Bitterne and Shirely, respectively, with the 'Putting People First' group on the council. The Conservatives committed to fully reopening the respite centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282521-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Southampton City Council election, Election results, Overall election result\nAs the council is elected in thirds, one councillor for each of the 16 wards are elected each year. All comparisons in seats and swing are to the corresponding Southampton Council election, 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282522-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeast Asian Girls' U17 Volleyball Championship\nThe 2018 Southeast Asian Girls' U17 Volleyball Championship, referred to as the 2018 Est Cola Southeast Asian Girls' U17 \"Princess Cup\" Volleyball Championship for sponsorship reasons, will be the twentieth edition of the Princess Cup Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), Southeast Asian Zonal Volleyball Association (SEAZVA) with Thailand Volleyball Association (TVA) for the girls' under-17 national teams of Southeast Asia. The tournament will be held in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, from 13 to 17 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282522-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeast Asian Girls' U17 Volleyball Championship\nA total of seven teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2001 eligible to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282522-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeast Asian Girls' U17 Volleyball Championship, Qualification\nThe three SEAZVA member associations, also four invited team from the another two AVC affiliated zonal member associations will participate in the tournament with Thailand already qualified as host country, all teams participated in the 2018 Asian Girls' U17 Volleyball Championship, excluded Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 70], "content_span": [71, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282522-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeast Asian Girls' U17 Volleyball Championship, Preliminary round, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loserMatch forfeited: 0 match points for each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 99], "content_span": [100, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282523-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team\nThe 2018 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team represented Southeast Missouri State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Tom Matukewicz and played their home games at Houck Stadium. They were a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 9\u20134, 6\u20132 in OVC play to finish in second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they defeated Stony Brook in the first round before losing in the second round to Weber State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282523-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team, Previous season\nThe Redhawks finished the 2017 season 3\u20138, 3\u20135 in OVC play to finish in a tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 69], "content_span": [70, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282523-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team, Preseason, OVC media poll\nOn July 20, 2018, the media covering the OVC released their preseason poll with the Redhawks predicted to finish in eighth place. On July 23, the OVC released their coaches poll with the Redhawks predicted to finish in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 79], "content_span": [80, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282523-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-OVC team\nThe Redhawks had thee players selected to the preseason all-OVC team. Running back Marquis Terry was also selected as the preseason offensive player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 87], "content_span": [88, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282524-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeast Sulawesi gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Southeast Sulawesi gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of Southeast Sulawesi alongside with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282524-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeast Sulawesi gubernatorial election\nFormer governor Ali Mazi came out on top of the three-candidate race, defeating former Kendari mayor Asrun and North Kolaka regent Rusda Mahmud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282524-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeast Sulawesi gubernatorial election, Timeline\nRegistration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The candidates were assigned their ballot numbers on 13 February 2018. The campaigning period would commence between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June. In May 2018, KPU declared that there were 1,628,320 eligible voters for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282525-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 22 through May 27 at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. The annual tournament determined the tournament champion of the Division I Southeastern Conference in college baseball. The tournament champion earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282525-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe tournament has been held every year since 1977, with LSU claiming twelve championships, the most of any school. Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 1992 addition Arkansas have never won the tournament. This is the twentieth consecutive year and twenty-second overall that the event has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known from 2007 through 2012 as Regions Park. Texas A&M joined in 2013, and won its first title in 2016. Missouri, which also joined in 2013, has yet to win the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282525-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding\nThe regular season division winners claimed the top two seeds and the next ten teams by conference winning percentage, regardless of division, claimed the remaining berths in the tournament. The bottom eight teams played a single-elimination opening round, followed by a double-elimination format until the semifinals, when the format reverted to single elimination through the championship game. This was the sixth year of this format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282526-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference Softball Tournament\nThe 2018 SEC Softball tournament will be held at Mizzou Softball Stadium on the campus of University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri from May 9 through May 12, 2018. The tournament will earn the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament. The Championship game was broadcast on ESPN2 and the semifinals were broadcast on ESPNU, while all other SEC tournament games will be live on the SEC Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282527-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference football season\nThe 2018 Southeastern Conference football season represents the 86th season of SEC football taking place during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season began on August 30 and will end with the SEC Championship Game, between Alabama and Georgia, on December 1. The SEC is a Power Five conference under the College Football Playoff format along with the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big 12 Conference, the Big Ten Conference, and the Pac-12 Conference. For the 2018 season, the SEC has 14 teams divided into two divisions of seven each, named East and West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282527-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference football season, Background, Previous season\nGeorgia defeated Auburn 28\u20137 in a rematch from Week Ten in 2017 season (loss to Auburn by 40\u201317) for the 2017 SEC Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282527-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference football season, Background, Previous season\nTen SEC teams participated in bowl games. Mississippi State defeated Louisville 31\u201327 in the TaxSlayer Bowl. South Carolina defeated Michigan 26\u201319 in the Outback Bowl. Missouri lost to Texas 16\u201333 in the Texas Bowl. Texas A&M lost to Wake Forest 52\u201355 in the Belk Bowl. Kentucky lost to Northwestern 23\u201324 in the Music City Bowl. LSU lost to Notre Dame 17\u201321 in the Citrus Bowl. Auburn lost to UCF 27\u201334 in the Peach Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282527-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference football season, Background, Previous season\nGeorgia defeated Oklahoma 54\u201348 at second overtime in the Rose Bowl semifinal game and Alabama defeated Clemson 24\u20136 in the Sugar Bowl semifinal game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282527-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference football season, Background, Previous season\nAlabama defeated Georgia 26\u201323 at overtime in the CFP National Championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282527-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference football season, Preseason, SEC media days\nThe SEC conducted its annual media days at the Hyatt Regency Birmingham \u2013 The Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover, Alabama on July 16\u201319. The event commenced with a speech by commissioner Greg Sankey, and all 14 teams sent their head coaches and three selected players to speak with members of the media. The event along with all speakers and interviews were broadcast live on the SEC Network and streamed live on ESPN.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282527-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference football season, Preseason, SEC media days, Preseason media polls\nThe SEC Media Days concluded with its annual preseason media polls. Since 1992, the credentialed media has gotten the preseason champion correct just six times. Only nine times has the preseason pick even made it to the SEC title game. Below are the results of the media poll with total points received next to each school and first-place votes in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 94], "content_span": [95, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282527-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season\nRankings reflect those of the AP poll for that week until week ten when CFP rankings are used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282527-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference football season, SEC vs other conferences, SEC vs. Power 5 matchups\nThis is a list of teams considered by the SEC as \"Power Five\" teams for purposes of meeting league requirements that each member play at least one \"power\" team in non-conference play. In addition to the SEC, the NCAA officially considers all football members of the ACC, Big 10, Big 12 and Pac-12, plus independent Notre Dame (a full but non-football ACC member), as \"Power Five\" teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282527-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference football season, SEC vs other conferences, SEC vs. Power 5 matchups\nAll rankings are from the current AP Poll at the time of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282527-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference football season, Awards and Honors, SEC Individual Awards\nThe following individuals won the conference's annual player and coach awards:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 86], "content_span": [87, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282527-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Conference football season, Home game attendance\nGame played at Arkansas' secondary home stadium War Memorial Stadium, capacity: 54,120.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282528-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team\nThe 2018 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team represented Southeastern Louisiana University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Lions were led by first-year head coach Frank Scelfo and played their home games at Strawberry Stadium. They were a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 4\u20137, 4\u20135 in Southland play to finish in a tie for eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282528-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Previous season\nThe Lions finished the 2017 season 6\u20135, 6\u20133 in Southland play to finish in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282528-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Previous season\nOn January 19, head coach Ron Roberts resigned to become the defensive coordinator at Louisiana. He finished at Southeastern Louisiana with a six-year record of 42\u201329.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282528-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Teams\nOn July 12, 2018, the Southland announced their Preseason All-Conference Teams, with the Lions having four players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 90], "content_span": [91, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282528-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Preseason, Preseason Poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Southland announced their preseason poll, with the Lions predicted to finish in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 74], "content_span": [75, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282528-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, at Nicholls\nat Manning Field at John L. Guidry Stadium, Thibodaux, LA", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid\nThe 2018 Southeastern Provisions raid was a workplace raid that occurred at Southeastern Provisions, a cattle slaughterhouse and meat-packing facility in Grainger County, Tennessee, United States, 9 miles west of the town of Bean Station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid\nThe facility was raided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP). 11 workers were arrested and 86 more were detained, all of whom were suspected of residing in the United States unlawfully. As of 2021, the event remains one of the largest workplace raids in United States history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, Southeastern Provisions investigation\nSoutheastern Provisions is a cattle slaughterhouse and meat-packing facility that began operations under the ownership of James Brantley in 1988. It was one of the largest sources of employment in Grainger County. The plant was under investigation a year previous to the raid by the IRS after the agency hearing reports from local banking officials stating that Brantley was making weekly withdrawals of $100,000 to make in cash payroll for workers. Reports have suggested that Brantley hired an estimated amount of 150 undocumented workers in an attempt to reduce business expenses as much as possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, Southeastern Provisions investigation\nIn May 2017, as part of the newly established Trump administration's immigration policy targeting employers of undocumented workers, federal agents selected Southeastern Provisions and placed an informant to work at the facility. The individual was hired without documentation and was paid in cash. The informant had observed harsh working conditions such as workers handling hazardous materials with no personal protective equipment and another losing several fingers while operating an electric saw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, Southeastern Provisions investigation\nA month prior the raid, Southeastern Provision's sewage treatment system had failed, causing waste containing bodily fluids and parts from slaughtered cattle to disperse into the groundwater of the surrounding area. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) would impose a $12,000 civil penalty on Southeastern Provisions until a new sewage treatment facility was constructed at the plant site. An investigation by the TDEC found dangerous strands of E. coli and Coliform bacteria in water wells and gardens in the homes of the neighborhoods located downward from the facility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, Southeastern Provisions investigation\nBean Station, the town nearest to Southeastern Provisions, did not have a sewer system for the excess waste to be relocated to, prompting the TDEC to mandate a \"pump and dump\" plan to wastewater facilities in nearby municipalities such as Morristown and Greeneville until the new sewer plant was constructed at the plant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, The raid\nOn April 5, 2018, a federal search warrant executed by the ICE, IRS, and the THP had the agencies raid Southeastern Provisions around 9:00\u00a0a.m EST. Federal agents had discovered 104 undocumented workers employed at the facility, detaining 86 and arresting 11. IRS officials had obtained information concluding that James Brantley had paid the undocumented workers at a rate of $8\u201310 dollars an hour, with no extra pay for overtime. Law enforcement officials had surrounded the perimeter of the plant's complex, blocking every exit and then flooded the plant with armed officers telling those inside to freeze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, The raid\nWorkers at the plant reported that federal agents targeted those of Hispanic descent, yelling racial slurs at the nearly 100 Latino workers of Southeastern Provisions, and ordering them to stop working immediately and raise their hands. White workers were reportedly ordered to stay put and some were allowed to smoke on site. Actions of violence performed by agents included workers being booted, punched in the face, and one worker having a gun pointed at his head while having to urinate supervised by several agents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, The raid\nReymunda Lopez, one of the detained plant workers, described the raid as a hostile situation, \"They gathered us in the middle of all of the cattle, and told us to put our hands behind our heads, and not to resist arrest because if they did they were going to hand cuff us.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, The raid\nThose detained were sent to a National Guard center in Morristown in neighboring Hamblen County, where they were questioned by authorities. Families of the detained gathered where they found out whether their family members were released or deported. 54 undocumented laborers were sent to ICE detention facilities in Louisiana and Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, Aftermath, Community and political impact\nIn the immediate aftermath of the immigration raid, over 500 Hispanic students in the neighboring city of Morristown skipped school the following day in fear of being deported along with several arrested at Southeastern Provisions. Many churches and non-profit organizations in the Morristown-Hamblen area had planned together activities for those who had family or friends involved in the raid. An estimated crowd of 300 individuals led a protest against ICE and the Trump administration, which had then recently planned the raids of workplaces across the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, Aftermath, Community and political impact\nThe support given to the immigrant families became a talking point for the political realm of the area's impacted by the raid. Politicians from Hamblen and Grainger counties provided various comments on the raid and its impact on their represented communities. Mayor Gary Chesney of Morristown would analyze both sides of the argument, \u201cIt involves more focus when things land in our lap. There are many who\u2019ve hollered that we want illegal immigrants gone. At the same time, we don\u2019t think children need to go to bed at night afraid.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, Aftermath, Community and political impact\nIn Grainger County, then county mayor Mark Hipsher invoked uproar from the county's many conservative residents after making statements that provided a sympathetic approach to those detained. Hipsher was later defeated the county's Republican primary. When asked to speak about the raid by a Rolling Stone reporter, an unnamed Grainger County Republican politician suggested that the reporter 'expose' a political rival who had allegedly hired undocumented workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, Aftermath, Community and political impact\nSteve Cohen, a Democratic representative representing Tennessee's 9th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, condemned the actions of ICE performed at Southeastern Provisions at a Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition conference, stating: \"This is unacceptable. The raid in Bean Station has created a humanitarian crisis in our very own state. We\u2019ll be educating candidates in this year\u2019s elections about the devastating impact of worksite raids and their responsibility as elected officials to speak out against these injustices and use the power of their office to limit the damage ICE can do to our communities.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, Aftermath, Community and political impact\nFollowing the raid, Southeastern Provisions would temporarily close, causing a disruption in the beef distribution market with an estimated loss of $20 million dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, Aftermath, Legal action\nIn September 2018, James Brantley was found guilty of multiple state and federal crimes, including tax evasion up to $2.4 million dollars, wire fraud, employing immigrants not authorized to work in the US, and many other workplace violations. He would be sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and was forced to pay over $1.3 million dollars to the IRS, and $1.42 million in restitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, Aftermath, Legal action\nMany of the workers that had been detained and later released had filed a lawsuit against ICE with the Southern Poverty Law Center and the National Immigration Law Center on their behalf. Despite this, the ICE officials involved had been granted immunity from legal actions, leading to calls from the workers and civil rights groups to lift ICE's immunity for the lawsuit to proceed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, Aftermath, Legal action\nThe groups would find success two years later when Chief U.S. District Judge Travis McDonough published a public appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States to lift the immunity granted to the federal law enforcement officers involved, writing, \"Perhaps a higher court will recognize causes of action that more directly address agents\u2019 searches and seizures based on skin color.\u201d In April 2021, the United States Department of Homeland Security urged the Eastern District Court of Tennessee to exclude 41 agents involved in the raid from litigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, Aftermath, Legal action\nSoutheastern Provisions would restart operations in August 2019 under the leadership of the family of James Brantley. While incarcerated, James Brantley filed and signed a consent order agreeing to give an estimated $610,000 in a three-year period in pay to 150 current and former workers of Southeastern Provisions, most of whom are Hispanic, in July 2020. The United States Department of Labor sued Brantley for failing to properly compensate workers at the slaughterhouse. Brantley would be released in January 2021 from a Montgomery, Alabama work camp. Three years after the events of the raid, Southeastern Provisions encountered another investigation, this time by the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration, after one of the plant's employees would die from on-site injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282529-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, In film\nThe consequences of the raid for undocumented workers, their families and members of the impacted communities, were documented in After the Raid, a 2019 documentary film by film director Rodrigo Reyes. The film was released on the streaming platform Netflix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282530-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election\nElections to Southend-on-Sea Borough Council took place on 3 May 2018. This was on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282530-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election, Composition\nDirectly after the 2016 election the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282530-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election, Composition\nPrior to the election the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282530-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election, Ward results, Shoeburyness\nNo UKIP (\u221212.3), Green (\u22122.3) or two Independent candidates (\u221229.0, \u221221.0) as previous.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282530-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election, Ward results, Thorpe\nNo Independent (\u221263.1), UKIP (\u221210.0) or Green (\u22122.8) candidates as previous.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282530-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election, Ward results, Victoria\nNo UKIP (\u221219.8) or Liberal Democrat (\u22123.7) candidates as previous.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282531-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Appalachian earthquake\nAn earthquake measuring 4.4 MW on the moment magnitude scale struck 6.8 miles (10.9\u00a0km) north-northeast of Decatur, Tennessee in the eastern part of the state on December 12, 2018 at 4:14\u00a0a.m. Eastern Standard Time. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.0 kilometres (5.6\u00a0mi). The earthquake occurred along the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone (ETSZ), a geographic band stretching from northeastern Alabama to southwestern Virginia that is subject to frequent small earthquakes. The earthquake was felt throughout the Southeast, primarily in eastern Tennessee and the Atlanta metropolitan area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282531-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Southern Appalachian earthquake\nWhile relatively minor, this earthquake was the largest to occur on the ETSZ since the 4.6 MW 2003 Alabama earthquake, the third largest to have been recorded in the area, becoming the fourth largest earthquake recorded in the region. Robert Sanders from the U.S. Geological Survey told WSB-TV that aftershocks would be possible throughout the day after the quake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282531-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Appalachian earthquake, Geologic background\nThe ETSZ is one of the most seismically active areas in the relatively calm eastern United States. Most earthquakes that occur in the zone are small, measuring under 3 MW; however, earthquakes in the zone tend to be more felt more than earthquakes of similar intensity more seismically active places like the West Coast of the United States due to higher strength of in the rock in the East. Earthquakes also are felt over wider areas than those of similar intensity in the West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282531-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Appalachian earthquake, Damage and effects\nDamage was expected in the small towns near the quake's epicenter, but should not be considered catastrophic. The earthquake's epicenter was located two miles east of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. They reported that their facilities are designed to withstand seismic events and were not impacted by the earthquake, but personnel would conduct further inspections as a precaution. The Tennessee Department of Transportation was not notified of any damages to bridges, but teams carried out inspections on them as a precautionary measure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282532-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern California mudflows\nA series of mudflows occurred in Southern California in early January 2018, particularly affecting areas northwest of Los Angeles in Santa Barbara County. The incident was responsible for 23 deaths, although the bodies of two victims were not found. Approximately 163 people were hospitalized with various injuries, including four in critical condition. The disaster occurred one month after a series of major wildfires. The conflagrations devastated steep slopes, which caused loss of vegetation and destabilization of the soil and greatly facilitated subsequent mudflows. The mudflows caused at least $177 million (2018 USD) in property damage, and cost at least $7 million in emergency responses and another $43 million (2018 USD) to clean up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282532-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern California mudflows, Background\nThe 2017 California wildfire season was at the time the most destructive in California's history, with approximately 9,133 wildfires that burned over 1.3\u00a0million acres (5,300\u00a0km2) and killed 46 people. At the beginning of December, the Santa Ana winds fanned wildfires across southern California, which were fueled by a lack of rainfall during what is normally the region's rainy season. The December fires burned 307,953 acres (124,624\u00a0ha) of which 281,893 acres (114,078\u00a0ha) were burned during the Thomas Fire, the largest fire in the state's history at the time. The Thomas Fire, which devastated parts of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, burned large amounts of vegetation whose roots had helped stabilize topsoil in hillsides and other vulnerable areas. After burning for more than a month, the fire was declared fully contained on January 12, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 903]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282532-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern California mudflows, Background\nA strong low-pressure system and cold front developed off the coast of California on January 5, 2018. The system moved onto the mainland on January 8, bringing heavy rain to Southern California and prompting mandatory evacuations in parts of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties, over potential mudslides in areas affected by wildfires. The storm intensified on the following day, with at least four inches (100\u00a0mm) of rain falling over the two-day period, before ending on January 9, causing several major mudflows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282532-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern California mudflows, Landslides, Santa Barbara County\nEarly on the morning of January 9, mudflows struck Montecito, which had been affected by the Thomas Fire, and other areas of Santa Barbara County. An estimated 0.5 inches (13\u00a0mm) of rain fell within a five-minute period at approximately 3:30\u00a0a.m., causing mud and boulders from the Santa Ynez Mountains to flow down creeks and valleys into Montecito. The debris flows were up to 15 feet (5\u00a0m) in height of mud, boulders and tree branches, moving at estimated speeds of up to 20 miles per hour (30\u00a0km/h) into the lower areas of Montecito.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282532-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Southern California mudflows, Landslides, Santa Barbara County\nOver 20,000 people lost power, and a 30-mile (50\u00a0km) section of U.S. Route 101 (US\u00a0101) from Santa Barbara to Ventura was shut down as sections filled with two feet (60\u00a0cm) of mud and debris, some of which also reached beaches 2.25 miles (3.6\u00a0km) from the mountains. Following the closure, access to Santa Barbara from the Los Angeles area was limited to a 260-mile (420\u00a0km) detour around the Los Padres National Forest or through the use of private ferries to Ventura. On January 11, Amtrak train service was restored to Santa Barbara and US 101 was partially reopened as far west as Carpinteria. The highway was fully reopened on January 21, after Caltrans crews cleared 12 feet (3.7\u00a0m) of mud from the roadway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282532-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern California mudflows, Landslides, Santa Barbara County\nApproximately 21,000 residents of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in high elevation zones affected by the Thomas Fire were evacuated, but low-lying areas were outside of the mandatory evacuation area. Warning messages sent by the National Weather Service and the county government arrived too late to prompt Montecito residents to seek safe areas. Many residents in the mandatory evacuation zone, and most residents in the voluntary evacuation area, ignored warnings and stayed in their homes, probably a result of \"evacuation fatigue\" left over from the recent wildfires. The mandatory evacuation zone was expanded to cover a majority of Montecito's estimated 10,000 residents two days later (January 11) due to disruptions in electricity, gas, water, sewage and Internet, and due to emergency road works and ongoing search and rescue operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 918]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282532-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern California mudflows, Landslides, Santa Barbara County\nAs of January 21, the mudflows caused at least 21 confirmed deaths, mostly in the Montecito area, and an additional two people were reported as missing in Montecito. Over 150 people were hospitalized with various injuries, including four in critical condition. The mudflows destroyed over 100 homes and damaged an additional 300. Writer T.C. Boyle, whose home was proximate to both the fire and mudslides, documented the collective trauma in The New Yorker magazine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282532-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern California mudflows, Landslides, Santa Barbara County\nCleanup efforts began a week after the initial mudflows, with debris being sent to the Ventura County Fairgrounds for sorting and the Calabasas Landfill for disposal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282532-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern California mudflows, Landslides, Los Angeles County\nParts of Burbank and Sun Valley, previously affected by the La Tuna Fire in 2017, received four inches (100\u00a0mm) of rain and were evacuated ahead of potential mudslides. A debris flow into a residential area of Sun Valley damaged 40 to 45 homes and carried a vehicle that struck a natural gas pipeline, which began to leak. Mandatory evacuations were ordered for nearby areas of the San Fernando Valley affected by the Creek Fire before the storm, but no major damage was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282532-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern California mudflows, Landslides, Orange and Riverside counties\nHeavy rain in Corona, affected by the Canyon Fire, covered streets with mud and flooded into several homes, but no major damage was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282532-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern California mudflows, Response\nMore than 1,250 firefighters from California and other states, along with the California Conservation Corps and California National Guard, were dispatched to Santa Barbara County for search and rescue operations. Numerous civilian volunteers also came out in force to help with the clean up effort. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that emergency assistance funds related to the wildfires would be extended to cover damage from the mudflows. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers also worked quickly in awarding contracts that involved removal of debris from various water basins and channels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282532-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern California mudflows, Response\nApproximately 300 residents of the Romero Canyon neighborhood near Montecito were rescued via a helicopter airlift after roads were blocked by debris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282533-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 22 through May 27 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. The annual event determines the conference champion of the Southern Conference (SoCon) in NCAA Division I college baseball. Samford won their second tournament championship and earned the league's bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. This was the last of 20 athletic championships held by the conference in the 2017\u201318 academic year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282533-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe tournament was originally held from 1950-53, when the SoCon was a large conference composed of several small schools and several large schools, the latter of which would form the Atlantic Coast Conference after the 1953 season. The event was re-established in 1984 and has been held every year since. Defending champion Western Carolina has claimed ten championships, the most of any school, with The Citadel close behind at eight tournament wins. Furman is the only other school current school with multiple championships, having won two. East Tennessee State and VMI have never won a title, although they both returned to the conference in 2015 after over ten years in other conferences. Mercer claimed the conference championship in its first ever appearance in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282533-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe tournament was played in Greenville, which had hosted five of the previous nine events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282533-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format\nAll nine teams participated in the tournament, with the bottom two seeds playing a single-elimination play-in round. The remaining teams were then divided into two brackets and played double-elimination tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282534-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Southern Conference for the 2017\u201318 season. All tournament games were played at the U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville, North Carolina, from March 2 through 5, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282534-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nUNC Greensboro defeated East Tennessee State in the championship game to win the tournament and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282534-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll ten teams in the Southern Conference were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top six teams received a first-round bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 59], "content_span": [60, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282535-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Conference Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Southern Conference Men's Soccer Tournament, was the 31st edition of the Southern Conference Men's Soccer Tournament. It determined the Southern Conference's automatic berth into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. The tournament began on October 31, 2018 and conclude on November 11, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282535-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Conference Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe defending champion, Mercer, lost to UNCG 0\u20131 in the semifinals, who lost to the champions Furman. Furman defeated UNCG 3\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282536-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Southern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was held between March 1 and 4 in Asheville, North Carolina, at the U.S. Cellular Center. Mercer defeated ETSU to claim their first-ever SoCon tournament championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282536-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nTeams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 61], "content_span": [62, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282536-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Schedule\nAll tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282537-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Conference Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Southern Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Southern Conference held from October 24 through November 4, 2018. The first round and quarterfinals of the tournament were held at campus sites, while the semifinals and final took place at Betts Stadium in Macon, Georgia. The ten-team single-elimination tournament consisted of four rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The UNC Greensboro Spartans were the defending champions and successfully defended their crown with a 2\u20131 win over the Furman Paladins in the final. This was the eighth Southern Conference tournament title for the UNC Greensboro women's soccer program and the second for head coach Michael Coll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282538-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Illinois Salukis football team\nThe 2018 Southern Illinois Salukis football team represented Southern Illinois University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Nick Hill and played their home games at Saluki Stadium. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They finished the season 2\u20139, 1\u20137 in MVFC play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282538-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Illinois Salukis football team, Previous season\nThe Salukis finished the 2017 season 4\u20137, 2\u20136 in MVFC play to finish in a tie for eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282538-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Illinois Salukis football team, Preseason, Preseason MVFC poll\nThe MVFC released their preseason poll on July 29, 2018, with the Redbirds predicted to finish in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282538-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Illinois Salukis football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MVFC Teams\nThe Salukis placed four players on the preseason all-MVFC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 81], "content_span": [82, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282539-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Jaguars football team\nThe 2018 Southern Jaguars football team represented Southern University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Jaguars were led by sixth-year head coach Dawson Odums and played their home games at Ace W. Mumford Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as members of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282539-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Jaguars football team, Previous season\nThe Jaguars finished the 2017 season 7\u20134, 5\u20132 in SWAC play to finish in second place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282539-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Jaguars football team, Preseason, SWAC football media day\nDuring the SWAC football media day held in Birmingham, Alabama on July 13, 2018, the Jaguars were predicted to finish second in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282539-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Jaguars football team, Preseason, Presason All-SWAC Team\nThe Jaguars had two players at four positions selected to Preseason All-SWAC Teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282540-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team\nThe 2018 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team represented the University of Southern Mississippi in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Golden Eagles played their home games at the M. M. Roberts Stadium in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and competed in the West Division of Conference USA (C\u2013USA). They were led by third-year head coach Jay Hopson. They finished the season 6\u20135, 5\u20133 in C-USA play to finish in a three-way tie for second in the West Division. Despite being bowl eligible, they were not invited to a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282540-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team, Previous season\nThe Golden Eagles finished the 2017 season 8\u20135, 6\u20132 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for second place in the West Division. They were invited to the Independence Bowl where they lost to Florida State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282540-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team, Preseason, C-USA preseason awards\nOn July 16, 2018, Conference USA released their preseason awards, including the preseason all-CUSA team. Kicker Paker Shaunfield was selected as the preseason special teams player of the year. He was the only player named to the all-CUSA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282540-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nConference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Golden Eagles predicted to finish in fourth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive\nThe 2018 Southern Syria offensive, code-named Operation Basalt (Arabic: \u0639\u0645\u0644\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0627\u0632\u0644\u062a\u200e), was a military operation launched by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies against the rebels and ISIL in Southern Syria. The fighting started with a surprise attack on rebel-held areas in the eastern part of the Daraa Governorate in an attempt to fracture rebel-held lines and weaken morale, ahead of their offensive in the greater Southern Syria region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Background\nDaraa city is known as 'the cradle of the revolution', as the torture and murder of youths from Daraa had been one of the defining events that led to a growth of the protest movement against the Assad government in 2011. Thus, analysts have said that its capture by the government would be a key symbolic victory over the rebels, as well as consolidate the government's power in the south of Syria. An estimated 750,000 civilians lived in the region prior to the outbreak of fighting, according to the United Nations (UN).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Background\nThe offensive was launched in one of the de-escalation (safe) zones agreed upon by Russia, Turkey, and Iran in May 2017. In July that year, the U.S., Russia, and Jordan announced an agreement they had reached for a cease-fire in the areas of Daraa, Quneitra and Sweida. Washington then reportedly promised a robust response to any campaign that violated the agreement. However, US forces took no action to stop the assault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Background\nTo ease Israeli concerns and prevent possible Israeli intervention, Russia and Israel reached an agreement prior to the offensive that Iranian-backed forces would not aid the Syrian government with the attack on Daraa, and the US government warned rebel forces that they could not expect military support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Capture of al-Lajat\nOn 18 June, during the night, the Syrian Army captured several farms near Busra Al-Harir and Masekah. Government forces also attacked the rebel-held towns of Busra Al-Sham, Eastern Ghariyah, and Western Ghariyah. The attacks were focused on rebel fortifications inside the towns. It was also reported that the first phase of the government's offensive in Daraa would focus on Eastern Daraa and capturing the Nasib Border Crossing. While the Syrian Army launched their attacks, rebel forces attempted to push back against the offensive by pushing into the Suwayda Governorate but they were repelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Capture of al-Lajat\nOn 19 June, the rebels shelled the city of As-Suwayda in response to the government's attacks on their positions, while the Syrian Army simultaneously had another offensive active against ISIL in the northeastern part of the Suwayda Governorate. Meanwhile, the Syrian Army shelled half a dozen villages outside Daraa city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Capture of al-Lajat\nEarly in the morning on 20 June, the Syrian Army, led by the Tiger Forces, began using heavy artillery and missiles to attempt to take the town of Busra Al-Harir, after capturing a nearby air defense base. Later on the same day, government troops reportedly captured two villages and cut-off the rebel-held al-Lajat region, although the rebels denied this. Subsequently, the Syrian Army's artillery struck many villages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Capture of al-Lajat\nOn 21 June, during the middle of the night, the Syrian Air Force conducted an air raid in the area specifically targeting an Ahrar al-Sham base near Al-Hirak killing 10 fighters from the group. The air raid also targeted almost half a dozen other towns and villages. Along with aerial bombardment, the military also used surface-to-surface missiles and artillery on the villages. The Syrian Army also reportedly cut off rebel supply lines in the area. With government forces firing missiles into rebel-held areas and making excessive gains, the rebels fired missiles into Suwayda in retaliation to the government's offensive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Capture of al-Lajat\nOn 22 June, because of the increased fighting along the Jordan\u2013Syria border, the Jordanian Army was deployed across Jordan's northern border with Syria. Pro -opposition sources reported that government forces had dropped 12 barrel bombs on Busra al-Harir and surrounding towns, while pro-government sources reported that the Syrian Army fired 30 missiles into Busra Al-Sham, Busra Al-Harir, and Al-Karak. On 23 June, after losing five towns, the rebels attacked government-held positions in Daraa itself. The attack included the use of missiles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Capture of al-Lajat\nOn 24 June, Russian military jets provided air cover for the offensive for the first time; the Syrian Network for Human Rights and the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations reported pro-government strikes on a medical facility in Busra al-Harir. Pro -government sources reported that rebel forces managed to infiltrate government-held checkpoints inside the Suwayda Governorate, but were later repelled. On the next day, the Syrian Army captured 400\u00a0km2 of territory, including the whole of the al-Lajat area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Rapid government gains\nOn 26 June, the Syrian Army took control of Busra al-Harir after the Tiger Forces attacked the town on multiple axes and broke through rebel lines defending the city. During the clashes, a Syrian Brigadier General was killed. Later in the morning of the same day, Syrian Government forces captured two other towns, with rebel fighters withdrawing to Al-Hirak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Rapid government gains\nA rebel counter-attack during the night of 26 June partially reversed the Syrian Army's gains; however, by the early hours of 27 June, the Syrian Army had fully re-established control, pushing forward to capture three more villages and thus reaching the eastern outskirts of Al-Hirak. By this point, the World Food Programme reported that close to 50,000 people had fled their homes in northern Daraa in a week to escape bombs, sheltering in makeshift camps in the south of the governorate and in Quneitra governorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Rapid government gains\n27\u201328 June saw particularly heavy civilian casualties, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) recording 46 dead in two days in the shelling of Bosra al-Sham and other towns. On 27 June, the SAA seized the Brigade 52 Base, as well as a village south of it. Later in the day, government sources said eight locations were deserted or surrendered by rebel forces in sequence, including Al-Hirak and two bases, although the SOHR said that fighting continued in Al-Hirak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Rapid government gains\nTwo days later, government sources reported that some rebel groups and leaders in the southern part of the Daraa province in towns such as Tafas, Da'el, Ibta, Al-Karak, Al-Jay'lah, east of Daraa city agreed to surrender to the Syrian government. The Syrian Army also reportedly captured three other locations from rebel factions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Rapid government gains\nOn 30 June, pro-rebel sources reported that as a result of shelling by pro-government forces the Roman Theatre at Bosra suffered significant damage, having already been hit by Russian airstrikes on 28 June. Between 30 June and 1 July, the Army took control of 13 rebel-held towns, including Bosra al-Sham, after surrender agreements were reached with rebel forces in the area. This extended the government's control to some 60 percent of the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Rapid government gains\nBy this time, the UN estimated the number of internally displaced civilians at over 160,000 and the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that over 214 civilians had been killed, including 65 children and 43 women, and that the government and its allies had used 258 surface-to-surface rockets, 293 artillery shells, and at least 397 barrel bombs in the first 15 days of the offensive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push towards the Jordanian border\nBetween 1 and 4 July, the Syrian Army made three unsuccessful attempts to push towards the Nasib Border Crossing, each time being repelled by the rebels. During the fighting, pro-government sources reported that the Army did not have much Russian air support due to the ongoing Russian negotiations with the rebels. However, Syrian warplanes reportedly bombarded Tafas on 1 July, as Republican Guard and Liwa Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas fighters advanced on the ground towards it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push towards the Jordanian border\nOn 2 July, the UN estimated that 270,000 civilians were displaced by the fighting, including 70,000 seeking shelter on the Jordanian border but blocked from entering the country. The civilian half of the opposition's delegation to peace talks withdrew from talks with the government and Russia. The next day, while the offensive was halted, an explosion occurred at a warehouse used by Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed militias in the northern part of the Daraa Governorate along a road between Damascus and Daraa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push towards the Jordanian border\nSeveral media outlets accused the IDF of carrying out an attack on the facility, but no comment was made by the Israeli Government, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was also unable to verify the cause of the explosion. By 4 July, humanitarian agencies said eight hospitals had been bombed since the offensive began, with six medical workers killed, and in total more than 210 civilians killed and 500 injured. Meanwhile, the ISIL-affiliated Khalid ibn al-Walid Army launched an attack against pro-government forces in the village of Sheikh Maskin resulting in the death of several National Defense Force militiamen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push towards the Jordanian border\nOn 3 July, after the failure of previous rounds, negotiations re-opened with Jordanian mediation between Russia and rebel factions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push towards the Jordanian border\nThe following day, the Syrian Army captured the town of Saida, bringing them about six kilometers from the Nasib Border Crossing. The advance came after about 600 airstrikes were conducted in the province over the previous 15 hours. Eventually, the bombardment lasted a total of 22 hours, within which 870 airstrikes and 1,400 rocket and artillery strikes were conducted. Later in the day, the Army captured half a dozen other towns and five border points after launching an attack south of Busra Al-Sham. The advance cleared 230 square kilometers of territory along the border and brought back government troops on the Jordanian frontier for the first time since 2015. That night, between 5 and 6 July, the Syrian Army also seized Al-Naimah, the last town east of Daraa city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push towards the Jordanian border\nOn 6 July, the Syrian Army was closing in on Nasib, coming within three kilometers of the border crossing. The Army was advancing towards the crossing on two axes, squeezing rebel forces. A military source predicted that the crossing might \"fall within a few hours\". Soon after, the crossing was seized and the following day soldiers celebrated the capture as troops fanned out across towns and villages in the area. With control being established over the Damascus-Amman highway, the Syrian Army started setting up checkpoints and removing roadblocks along the highway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push towards the Jordanian border\nOn 7 July, Syrian official state media and rebels reported that a ceasefire had been signed by rebel groups to hand over weapons, and that those who rejected the agreement would be transported to Idlib.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Encircling and capture of Daraa city\nOn 8 July, the Syrian Army began mustering troops for the capture of Daraa city. With several rebel groups surrendering to the government, 11 rebel groups formed the Army of the South to continue fighting the Syrian government and their allies in the south. The group rejected surrendering to the government and vowed to continue fighting for the opposition's cause. The Russian and Syrian air forces conducted 72 airstrikes starting at dawn. The strikes were reportedly conducted after rebels fired on a military convoy on the highway, near Um al-Mayazeen. The Syrian Army then started an assault on Um al-Mayazeen. The fighting postponed the rebels' evacuation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Encircling and capture of Daraa city\nIn an interview with a representative of the Syrian Army Tiger Forces' Taha Regiment conducted by regional expert Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, the representative described the offensive as intense as the rebels were well-fortified and well-armed. He also stated that many villages captured by the government had rejected Russian-backed reconciliation agreements and that the village of Jabib betrayed a cease-fire agreement, leading to the death of several soldiers in the village. The representative also confirmed that Russia's involvement and support in the offensive was essential to the government's offensive, even more so than Iran's involvement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Encircling and capture of Daraa city\nOn 10 July, it was reported that around 4,000 people fled towards Israeli-controlled territory from the pocket of the province held by ISIL-affiliated Khalid ibn al-Walid Army, expecting a government assault. Later that day, ISIL carried out an SVBIED attack on government forces in the village of Zayzun in western Daraa, claiming that the attack killed more than 35 pro-government fighters. However, pro-opposition activists reported the death toll to be 14 and that it also included recently reconciled rebels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Encircling and capture of Daraa city\nOn 11 July, pro-government media reported that the Syrian Air Force provided air support to the FSA in clashes against Khalid ibn al-Walid Army in the town of Hayt in the Yarmouk Basin, and opposition sources reported that Russian planes and government helicopters targeted Khalid ibn al-Walid Army-held Saham al-Golan, the latter dropping barrel bombs. The next day, the ISIL affiliate took control of Hayt from the FSA. Meanwhile, the government reported a deal had been concluded for rebels to hand over southern Daraa City to government forces; Russian military police and government officers entered the city with journalists to raise the government flag, although rebel fighters remained in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Encircling and capture of Daraa city\nBy this time in the offensive, the government had captured 84% of the territory in the Daraa Governorate, and since the surrender agreements between the government and rebel forces, reports had emerged of pro-government militiamen looting property and stealing from locals in reconciled towns - with Russian military police ignoring and turning a blind eye to it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push into Quneitra and rebel surrender\nOn 15 July, the Syrian Army bombarded Tahrir al-Sham positions in western Daraa, and the Army's Tiger Forces attempted to attack Tahrir al-Sham positions but were repelled. According to government sources, Tahrir al-Sham refused to surrender the area, while the Syrian government stated they were not willing to allow Tahrir al-Sham fighters to reconcile like other rebel groups in the area, but they were offering to deport their fighters to northern Syria. However, Tahrir al-Sham refused this offer and continued to fight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push into Quneitra and rebel surrender\nThe Syrian Air Force also targeted the rebel-held towns of Al-Harrah and Kafr Nasij in the northwestern part of the Daraa province. According to the Syrian Army, they called on the FSA and residents of the town of Al-Harra and its corresponding hilltop, which they considered a strategic point, to expel HTS from the area; HTS also arrested and killed several opposition members that had surrendered to the government, as well as those whom were attempting to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0024-0002", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push into Quneitra and rebel surrender\nOn the same day, the first round of rebels and their families (around 400-500 individuals) to be deported to northern Syria departed from Daraa city. By this point, Reuters, the World Health Organization and UNICEF reported the government controlled 80% of Daraa province, and that over 160,000 residents displaced by the offensive on Daraa were trapped in Quneitra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push into Quneitra and rebel surrender\nSyrian Army troops pushed into Quneitra Governorate that day, with the Russian and Syrian air forces conducting over 25 airstrikes on the village of Masahara, 11\u00a0km from the Golan frontier. Syrian Army and Iranian forces reportedly fired over 800 rockets into rebel-held areas in the Quneitra Governorate, and they also targeted a rebel supply line between Daraa and Quneitra. The Syrian Army along with the National Defense Forces paramilitary group attacked the village of Masharah along the border with the Golan Heights, which they said was controlled by Tahrir al-Sham and its allies, and captured the village. However, a rebel official in Quneitra denied government forces had captured the village and said fighting continued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push into Quneitra and rebel surrender\nOn 16 July, the Syrian Army continued shelling western Daraa, with the SOHR estimating that 230 shells hit the area, adding that barrel bombs had been deployed as well. On the same day, the Syrian Army captured the towns of Al-Harra, Al-Nimr, five villages and several hills including the strategic hilltop of Tell al-Harra. After those advances the Syrian Army expanded their control to about 90% of Daraa Province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push into Quneitra and rebel surrender\nOn 17 July, Syrian Army shelling led to significant casualties across the area. Opposition sources and the UN reported that a Syrian Air Force jet targeted Ain al-Tana town in Quneitra, striking a school building sheltering displaced persons, killing six civilians including three children and injuring several others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push into Quneitra and rebel surrender\nThe UN and the NGO Action on Armed Violence also reported Syrian Air Force bombing of Nawa town and surrounding villages that left at least 14 dead and 150 injured, with the World Health Organization reporting that an airstrike hit and damaged Nawa's hospital, one of the only functioning health facilities in the area. An FSA commander told pro-opposition media that rebels continued to repel the pro-government attack on Mashara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0027-0002", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push into Quneitra and rebel surrender\nOn 18 July, Reporters Without Borders called on the UN to protect reporters at risk due to pro-government advances in the area, reporting 69 journalists in grave danger in Quneitra and Daraa. From 17\u201319 July, the UN reported government air and ground-based strikes on Tasil, Nawa and Ash Shaykh Sa'd in western Daraa, and on Nabe'a Al Sakher in Quneitra governorate. The number of displaced people fluctuated: the UN reported that following these heightened hostilities in Quneitra, IDP numbers had increased to 203,500 individuals, including 45-80,000 newly displaced by the fighting of 17\u201319 July, as well as people displaced by fighting in ISIL-controlled Yarmouk valley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Push into Quneitra and rebel surrender\nOn 20 July, rebel fighters in the Quneitra Governorate began departing for Idlib after an evacuation agreement was made with the Syrian government, allowing the Syrian Army and allied forces to take control of multiple villages. At about the same time, the plan was being finalized for evacuating several hundred members of the civil defense group known as the White Helmets from areas near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and into Jordan. The operation was carried out by the Israeli Defense Forces on 22 July 2018; however some 300 White Helmets failed to be evacuated as they were trapped by intense fighting between the Syrian Army and ISIL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Assault on the ISIL pocket\nOn 21 July 2018, the Syrian Army began their assault on the ISIL-held pocket in the southwest Daraa Province, capturing the Tell al-Jumou hilltop to the southwest of Nawa, and also advancing near the town of Jallin, capturing Tell Ashtara and other nearby areas. ISIL claimed to have killed 25 fighters from the Syrian Army and Syrian opposition in the clashes, and also claimed to capture some villages. Early on the next day, the Syrian army advanced into the village of Jallin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Assault on the ISIL pocket\nOn 25 July, a series of suicide bombings and raids were carried out by ISIL, targeting civilians in villages and towns in around Suweida, a mainly Druze area under nominal government control but functionally autonomous, with a death toll of up to 255 reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Assault on the ISIL pocket\nOn 26 July, according to the Israeli Defense Forces, a Syrian Su-22 jet was shot down by IDF Patriot missiles after the jet was monitored flying around two kilometres (1.2 miles) into Israel. The pilot, Colonel Umran Mare, was killed and the plane crashed in an area on the Syrian side of the border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Offensive, Assault on the ISIL pocket\nOn 31 July, the Syrian Army fully captured the remainder of the ISIL-held pocket in the Yarmouk Basin. Around that time, it was reported that 150-200 ISIL militants had surrendered to the Syrian Army. After the surrender of ISIL forces on July 31, there were reports that former Daraa FSA fighters who reconciled with the Syrian government and joined the Syrian Army in Yarmouk basin offensive executed dozens of captured fighters of the Khalid Ibn al-Walid army on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Aftermath\nBy mid-August 2018, Russia set up four Russian military police-manned posts along the Bravo line of the buffer zone in the Golan Heights, with two more planned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282541-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Syria offensive, Aftermath\nIn December 2018 SAA forces allegedly seized United States-made weapons in Daraa after local citizens informed the army of weapons caches left behind by the rebels, with Sputnik News releasing footage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282542-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Utah Thunderbirds football team\nThe 2018 Southern Utah Thunderbirds football team represented Southern Utah University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Demario Warren and played their home games at Eccles Coliseum in Cedar City, Utah as seventh-year as members of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 1\u201310, 1\u20137 in Big Sky play to finish in 12th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282542-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Utah Thunderbirds football team, Previous season\nThe Thunderbirds finished the 2016 season 9\u20133, 7\u20131 in Big Sky play to earn a share of the conference championship with Weber State. They received the conference's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost to Weber State in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282542-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Utah Thunderbirds football team, Preseason, Polls\nOn July 16, 2018 during the Big Sky Kickoff in Spokane, Washington, the Thunderbirds were predicted to finish in sixth place in both the coaches and media poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282542-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Utah Thunderbirds football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nThe Thunderbirds had five players selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 87], "content_span": [88, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282543-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Vipers season\nThe 2018 season was Southern Vipers' third season, in which they competed in the Women's Cricket Super League, a Twenty20 competition. The side finished bottom of the group stage, winning two of their ten matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282543-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Vipers season\nThe side was captained by Suzie Bates and coached by Nicholas Denning. They played three of their home matches at the Rose Bowl and one home match apiece at the Arundel Castle Cricket Ground and the County Ground, Hove.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282543-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southern Vipers season, Squad\nSouthern Vipers announced a 15-player squad on 5 July 2018. Tash Farrant was ruled out of the squad during the tournament due to injury and replaced by Emily Windsor for the final four group-stage matches. Age given is at the start of Southern Vipers' first match of the season (22 July 2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282544-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 23\u201326. The top eight regular season finishers of the league's thirteen teams met in the double-elimination tournament, which was held at Constellation Field in Sugar Land, Texas. As the winner of the tournament, Northwestern State earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was Northwestern State's first Tournament championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282544-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format\nThe top eight finishers from the regular season were seeded one through eight. They played a two bracket, double-elimination tournament, with the winner of each bracket meeting in a single championship final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282544-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player\nDavid Fry was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Fry was a first baseman for Northwestern State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282545-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament that completes 2017\u201318 season in the Southland Conference. The tournament was held at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas from March 7\u201310, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282545-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nStephen F. Austin won the tournament by defeating Southeastern Louisiana in the championship game. As a result, the Lumberjacks received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282545-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nTeams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Only the top eight teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. The top two seeds received double byes into the semifinals in the merit-based format. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds received single byes to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 60], "content_span": [61, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282546-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Softball Tournament\nThe 2018 Southland Conference tournament was held at Joe Miller Field on the campus of McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana from May 8 through May 11, 2018. The tournament winner earned the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament. The Championship game was broadcast on ESPNU. The remainder of the tournament aired on the Southland Digital Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282546-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Softball Tournament, Format\nWith Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word both being eligible for the tournament, the Southland Conference expanded from 6 teams to the top 8 teams. The first two games were single elimination while the rest of the tournament was a double elimination format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282547-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Southland Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2017\u201318 NCAA Division I women's basketball season, took place March 8\u201311, 2018 at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas. The winner of the tournament received the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282547-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds and regular season standings\nOnly the top eight teams advanced to the Southland Conference Tournament. This chart shows all the teams records and standings and explains why teams advanced to the conference tourney or finished in certain tiebreaking positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 91], "content_span": [92, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282547-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds and regular season standings\nTwo way tie-breaker: NIC was 2\u20130 vs. UNO. A&MCC was 1\u20131. NIC gets advantage, No. 4 seed", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 91], "content_span": [92, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282547-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds and regular season standings\nTwo way tie-breaker: NIC was 2\u20130 vs. UNO. A&MCC was 1\u20131. NIC gets advantage, A&MCC. 5 seed", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 91], "content_span": [92, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282548-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Southland Conference Women's Soccer Tournament, the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Southland Conference, was held from October 31\u2013November 4, 2018. The seven-match tournament took place at the Lamar Soccer Complex in Beaumont, Texas. The eight-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282548-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southland Conference Women's Soccer Tournament, Media and TV\nBroadcast of the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds were on the Southland Conference Digital Network. The championship game was broadcast on ESPN+", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 65], "content_span": [66, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282549-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southwark London Borough Council election\nThe election for Southwark London Borough Council took place on 3 May 2018, the same day as for other London Boroughs. All 63 seats were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282549-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southwark London Borough Council election\nNew boundaries were used, using 23 two- and three-member wards (there were previously 21 three-member wards), following a Local Government Boundary Commission for England review that concluded in 2016. The review reflected demographic growth, shifting seats from the south of the borough to its northwest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282549-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southwark London Borough Council election, Ward results, Newington\nIn May 2019, Coldwell resigned from Labour in opposition to the then leader Jeremy Corbyn and the parties stance on Brexit. He now sits as an Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282550-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament was at Wesley Barrow Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana from May 16 through May 20. As winner of the tournament, Texas Southern earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282550-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe double elimination tournament features four teams from each division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282550-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format\nThe four eligible teams in each division were seeded one through four, with the top seed from each division facing the fourth seed from the opposite division in the first round, and so on. The teams then played a two bracket, double-elimination tournament with a one-game final between the winners of each bracket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 77], "content_span": [78, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282551-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spa-Francorchamps Formula 2 round\nThe 2018 Spa-Francorchamps FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races held on 25 and 26 August 2018 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Stavelot, Belgium as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the ninth round of the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship and was run in support of the 2018 Belgian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282552-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Space Coast Pro Tennis Classic\nThe 2018 Space Coast Pro Tennis Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the thirteenth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Indian Harbour Beach, United States, on 9\u201315 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282552-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Space Coast Pro Tennis Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282553-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Space Coast Pro Tennis Classic \u2013 Doubles\nKristie Ahn and Quinn Gleason were the defending champions but only Gleason chose to defend her title, partnering Francesca Di Lorenzo. Gleason and Di Lorenzo lost in the quarterfinals to Sophie Chang and Alexandra Mueller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282553-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Space Coast Pro Tennis Classic \u2013 Doubles\nIrina Bara and S\u00edlvia Soler Espinosa won the title after defeating Jessica Pegula and Maria Sanchez 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282554-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Space Coast Pro Tennis Classic \u2013 Singles\nOlga Govortsova was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Pelham instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282554-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Space Coast Pro Tennis Classic \u2013 Singles\nCaroline Dolehide won the title after defeating Irina Bara 6\u20134, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282555-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spain Masters\nThe 2018 Spain Masters (officially known as the Barcelona Spain Masters 2018) was a badminton tournament which took place at Pavell\u00f3 de la Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona, Spain, from 28 August to 2 September 2018 and had a total prize of $150,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282555-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Spain Masters, Tournament\nThe 2018 Spain Masters was the fifteenth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Spain Masters championships, which was held for the first time. This tournament was organized by Spanish Badminton Federation, and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282555-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Spain Masters, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Pavell\u00f3 de la Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona, Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282555-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Spain Masters, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 300 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282555-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Spain Masters, Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this year's tournament was US$150,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282556-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 Spanish Athletics Championships was the 98th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Spain. It was held on 21 and 22 July at the Polideportivo Juan de la Cierva in Getafe. It served as the selection meeting for Spain at the 2018 European Athletics Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282556-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Athletics Championships\nThe club championships in relays and combined track and field events were contested separately from the main competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282557-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Spanish Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio de Espa\u00f1a Emirates 2018) is a Formula One motor race that was held on 13 May 2018 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmel\u00f3, Spain. The race was the 5th round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 48th running of the Spanish Grand Prix as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950, and the 28th time that a World Championship round had been held at the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282557-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Grand Prix\nMercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 4-point lead over Sebastian Vettel in the World Drivers' Championship. In the World Constructors' Championship, Ferrari led Mercedes by 4 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282557-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background, Circuit changes\nOver the winter of 2017\u201318, modifications were made to the circuit. A new runoff area was installed at turn 12, resulting in the relocation of a grandstand from the entry of turn 12 to the entry of turn 13. Additionally, the track was resurfaced, which saw the Formula One cars break the track record in February testing. These changes were made primarily in response to the demands of MotoGP riders, who expressed their concern over the lack of grip present on the old surface, which had been in place since 2004. Another reason for the improvements was the death of Moto2 rider Luis Salom, who sustained fatal injuries in a crash at turn 12 during the motorcycle race in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282557-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background, Circuit changes\nMany Formula One drivers were critical of the new track surface despite the improved ride. Lewis Hamilton was especially critical, stating that the resurfacing was \"a waste of money\" and that the track had \"lost its character\" and \"is no longer challenging\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282557-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background, Chassis updates\nThe race saw several teams, particularly Red Bull Racing and McLaren, introduce their first major chassis updates of the season. Ferrari used the race to trial halo-mounted rear view mirrors. Sebastian Vettel claimed that the design improved visibility but Ferrari's approach was controversial because the mirrors incorporated additional fins, which led to accusations that Ferrari had used the pretense of improving visibility to introduce aerodynamic devices into an area of the car where aerodynamic aids are banned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282557-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background, Chassis updates\nFollowing an investigation by race stewards, the practice of mounting mirrors with winglets on the halo was banned from the Monaco Grand Prix, with Ferrari permitted to continue using them in Spain because of the complexity and impracticality of converting the SF71H chassis back to its pre-Barcelona specification in time for the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282557-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background, Penalties\nIn the week before the race, Williams filed an appeal against a grid penalty handed down to Sergey Sirotkin. Sirotkin had been penalised three grid places for causing avoidable accidents with Sergio P\u00e9rez, Fernando Alonso and Nico H\u00fclkenberg on the opening lap of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Williams argued that the penalty was too severe compared to penalties awarded for other, similar incidents during the race and that although the contact had forced Sirotkin to retire, P\u00e9rez and Alonso were largely unaffected as both went on to score points. H\u00fclkenberg had retired on lap 11 in a separate accident. The appeal was rejected by the race stewards on the grounds that Williams had not provided any new evidence for review and that the ability of other drivers to continue racing did not offset Sirotkin's role in the incidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 885]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282557-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background, Driver changes\nRobert Kubica replaced Sergey Sirotkin at Williams during the first Free Practice session. Kubica's participation marked his first appearance at a Grand Prix since the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and an injury sustained in a rally car accident in 2011 that came close to seeing his arm amputated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282557-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nBrendon Hartley crashed heavily in third practice (which resulted in his car's rear end snapping in two) and was unable to take part in qualifying, but was cleared to race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282557-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nLewis Hamilton took pole position with a time of 1:16.173, a new track record. Valtteri Bottas completed the front row, giving Mercedes their first front row lockout of the season. McLaren made Q3 for the first time in 2018, with Fernando Alonso qualifying in P8. Nico Hulkenberg was out in Q1 after having a gearbox problem. In Q3, some of the top drivers set their laps on the soft tyre, rather than the supersoft, after finding it difficult to get the supersoft in their optimal operating window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282557-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe front runners got away well at the start, but at Turn 3, Romain Grosjean spun across the track, creating a smokescreen from his rear tyres and eliminating Nico Hulkenberg and Pierre Gasly in the process. This caused a safety car that remained out until Lap 6. On Lap 25, Kimi Raikkonen lost power in his car and retired with an engine issue. On Lap 40, Esteban Ocon retired with an engine problem in his Force India, bringing out the Virtual Safety Car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282557-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nVettel pitted under the VSC, rejoining in P4 behind Max Verstappen behind whom he remained until the chequered flag. As this VSC ended, Max Verstappen collided with the rear of Lance Stroll's Williams, causing endplate damage to Verstappen's front wing. The front wing, however, was structurally intact, and so Verstappen did not need to pit. On Lap 47, Stoffel Vandoorne retired at the pit exit with mechanical issues. Hamilton won the race, having been a long way ahead of anyone the entire race, and leading home the first 1-2 of the season for Mercedes. Hamilton extended his championship lead to 17 points and Mercedes gained the lead of the constructors championship, leading Ferrari by 26 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282557-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nRomain Grosjean was given a 3 place grid penalty for the next race in Monaco, for his role in causing the first lap collision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282558-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships was the 54th edition of the annual indoor track and field competition organised by the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA), which serves as the Spanish national indoor championship for the sport. A total of 26 events (divided evenly between the sexes) were contested over two days on 17 and 18 February at the Luis Puig Palace in Valencia, Valencian Community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282558-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships\n\u00d3scar Husillos set a Spanish indoor record of 20.68 seconds in the men's 200 metres semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282559-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish International (badminton)\nThe 2018 Spanish International, officially IBERDROLA Spanish International Villa de Madrid 2018 was a badminton tournament which took place at Polideportivo Municipal in Spain from 14 to 17 June 2018 and had a total purse of $25,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282559-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish International (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Spanish International is the ninth tournament of the 2018 BWF International Challenge and also part of the Spanish International championships which has been held since 1974. This tournament was organized by the Spanish Badminton Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282559-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish International (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Polideportivo Municipal in Madrid, Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282559-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish International (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF International Challenge event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282559-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish International (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this year tournament is US$25,000. Distribution of prize money is in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282560-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuito de Jerez-\u00c1ngel Nieto in Jerez de la Frontera on 6 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282561-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish women's strike\nOn 8 March 2018, International Women's Day, Spanish women went on strike for the day to denounce sexual discrimination, domestic violence and the wage gap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282561-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish women's strike, Description\nParticipants, led by women's organizations and the trade unions, did not go to their paid jobs, especially in education, and did not do any housework or child-rearing for the whole day; some groups additionally called for a consumption strike. The unions estimate that 5 million women participated in the strike, with massive demonstrations taking place in the most populated cities of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282561-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Spanish women's strike, Description\nThe action was part of the annual International Women's Strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282562-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sparkassen ATP Challenger\nThe 2018 Sparkassen ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Ortisei, Italy between 8 and 14 October 2018. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282562-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sparkassen ATP Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282563-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sparkassen ATP Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nSander Arends and Antonio \u0160an\u010di\u0107 were the defending champions but only \u0160an\u010di\u0107 chose to defend his title, partnering Purav Raja. \u0160an\u010di\u0107 lost in the finals to Sander Gill\u00e9 and Joran Vliegen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282563-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sparkassen ATP Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nGill\u00e9 and Vliegen won the title after defeating Raja and \u0160an\u010di\u0107 3\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20133] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282564-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sparkassen ATP Challenger \u2013 Singles\nLorenzo Sonego was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Constant Lestienne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282564-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sparkassen ATP Challenger \u2013 Singles\nUgo Humbert won the title after defeating Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282565-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sparkassen Open\nThe 2018 Sparkassen Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 25th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Braunschweig, Germany between 9 and 14 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282565-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sparkassen Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282565-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sparkassen Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282566-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sparkassen Open \u2013 Doubles\nJulian Knowle and Igor Zelenay were the defending champions but only Zelenay chose to defend his title, partnering Denys Molchanov. Zelenay lost in the quarterfinals to Andre Begemann and Dustin Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282566-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sparkassen Open \u2013 Doubles\nSantiago Gonz\u00e1lez and Wesley Koolhof won the title after defeating Sriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282567-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sparkassen Open \u2013 Singles\nNicola Kuhn was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Yannick Hanfmann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282567-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sparkassen Open \u2013 Singles\nHanfmann won the title after defeating Jozef Koval\u00edk 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282568-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament election\nThe 2018 Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament election was the 6th legislative speaker election since the implementation of the Taif Agreement, held on 23 May 2018 during the first session of the 23rd parliament. The incumbent Speaker Nabih Berri and head of the Amal Movement was re-elected to a sixth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282568-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament election\nUnder the article 44 of the constitution, the speaker is elected at the start of each parliamentary cycle by an absolute majority of the deputies' vote. By convention, he is always a Shia Muslim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282568-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament election\nBerri won the majority of the votes cast, receiving 98 votes and 76.5% out of 128 deputies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282569-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Special Honours\nAs part of the British honours system, Special Honours are issued at the Monarch's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer to the awards made within royal prerogative, operational honours and other honours awarded outside the New Years Honours and Birthday Honours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282570-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Special Honours (Australia)\nThe Special Honours Lists for Australia are announced by the Sovereign and Governor-General at any time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282570-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Special Honours (Australia)\nSome honours are awarded by other countries where Queen Elizabeth II is the Head of State and Australians receiving those honours are listed here with the prevalent reference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282571-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Special Photo Edition\n2018 Special Photo Edition is an extended play from South Korean boy band UP10TION. It was released on August 20, 2018, by TOP Media. The album consists of four tracks, including the title track, \"So Beautiful\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282571-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Special Photo Edition, Commercial performance\nThe EP sold 23,320+ copies in South Korea. It peaked at number 3 on the Korean Gaon Chart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282572-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway European Championship\nThe 2018 Speedway European Championship season was the sixth season of the Speedway European Championship (SEC) era, and the 18th UEM Individual Speedway European Championship. It was the fifth series under the promotion of One Sport Lts. of Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282572-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway European Championship\nThe championship was won by Denmark's Leon Madsen, who finished 11 points ahead of Jaros\u0142aw Hampel in second. Madsen won the last two rounds of the series, scoring a full 15-point maximum in the final round. Robert Lambert finished third overall, with Antonio Lindb\u00e4ck and Mikkel Michelsen completing the top five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282572-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway European Championship, Qualification\nFor the 2018 season, 15 permanent riders were joined at each SEC Final by one wildcard and two track reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282572-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway European Championship, Qualification\nDefending champion, And\u017eejs \u013bebedevs from Latvia was automatically invited to participate in all final events, while V\u00e1clav Mil\u00edk, Krzysztof Kasprzak and Andreas Jonsson secured their participation in all final events thanks to being in the top five of the general classification in the 2017 season. Artem Laguta, who finished second in 2017, declined his invite, meaning an extra wildcard was announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282572-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway European Championship, Qualification\nFive riders qualified through the SEC Challenge, while Leon Madsen, Jaros\u0142aw Hampel, Piotr Pawlicki Jr., Antonio Lindb\u00e4ck, Kai Huckenbeck and Robert Lambert were named as series wildcards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282572-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway European Championship, Calendar, Qualification\nThe calendar for qualification consisted of 3 Semi-final events and one SEC Challenge event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282572-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway European Championship, Calendar, Championship Series\nA four-event calendar was scheduled for the final series, with events in Poland, Germany and Latvia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282573-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 24th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 73rd FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the eighteenth series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282573-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix\nThe world title was won by Tai Woffinden, who finished 10 points ahead of Bartosz Zmarzlik in second with Fredrik Lindgren taking the bronze medal. It was Woffinden's third world title, following his wins in 2013 and 2015, making him the most successful British rider in history. Defending champion Jason Doyle finished the season in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282573-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix, Qualification\nFor the 2018 season there were 15 permanent riders, joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282573-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix, Qualification\nThe top eight riders from the 2017 championship qualified automatically. Those riders were joined by the three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282573-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix, Qualification\nThe final four riders were nominated by series promoters, Benfield Sports International, following the completion of the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282573-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix, Calendar\nThe 2018 season consisted of 10 events, two less than the 2017 series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282574-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification\nThe 2018 Individual Speedway World Championship Grand Prix Qualification was a series of motorcycle speedway meetings that were used to determine the three riders that qualified for the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix. The series consisted of four qualifying rounds at Esbjerg, \u017darnovica, Lonigo and Abensberg, two semi-finals at Olching and Terenzano and the Grand Prix Challenge at Togliatti. The three riders that qualified were Przemys\u0142aw Pawlicki, Artem Laguta and Craig Cook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282575-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic\nThe 2018 Anlas Czech Republic FIM Speedway Grand Prix was the second race of the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on May 26 at the Mark\u00e9ta Stadium in Prague, Czech Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282575-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated V\u00e1clav Mil\u00edk as the wild card, and Josef Franc and Eduard Kr\u010dm\u00e1\u0159 both as Track Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282575-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic, Results\nThe Grand Prix was won by Fredrik Lindgren, who beat Patryk Dudek, Emil Sayfutdinov and Tai Woffinden in the final. Woffinden has initially top scored with 14 points in the qualifying heats, dropping just one point to Artem Laguta, however he was beaten by Dudek in the semi-finals and then finished last in the final. Lindgren's win saw him maintain his lead in the overall world championship standings, two points ahead of Woffinden in second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282575-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic, Results, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282576-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark\nThe 2018 WD-40 Danish FIM Speedway Grand Prix was the third race of the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on June 30 at the CASA Arena in Horsens, Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282576-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Michael Jepsen Jensen as the wild card, and Mikkel Michelsen and Mikkel Bech Jensen both as Track Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282576-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark, Results\nThe Grand Prix was won by Tai Woffinden, who beat Artem Laguta, Greg Hancock and defending world champion Jason Doyle in the final. As a result, Woffinden took the overall world championship standings. Former leader Fredrik Lindgren failed to make the semi-finals, leaving him ten points behind Woffinden in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282576-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark, Results, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282577-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany\nThe 2018 German FIM Speedway Grand Prix was the ninth race of the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on September 22 at the Bergring Arena in Teterow, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282577-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany, Riders\nFirst reserve Niels-Kristian Iversen replaced the injured Patryk Dudek. The Speedway Grand Prix Commission also nominated Kai Huckenbeck as the wild card, and Martin Smolinski and Kevin W\u00f6lbert both as Track Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282577-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany, Results\nThe Grand Prix was won by Tai Woffinden, who beat defending world champion Jason Doyle, Bartosz Zmarzlik and Greg Hancock in the final. As a result of winning the Grand Prix, Woffinden extended his overall lead over Zmarzlik in the world championship standings to ten points with just one round remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282577-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany, Results, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282578-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain\nThe 2018 Adrian Flux British FIM Speedway Grand Prix was the fifth race of the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 21 July at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282578-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Robert Lambert as the wild card, and Daniel Bewley and Jason Garrity both as Track Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282578-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain, Results\nThe Grand Prix was won by Bartosz Zmarzlik, who beat Tai Woffinden, Maciej Janowski and Greg Hancock in the final. As a result of finishing second, Woffinden extended his overall lead in the championship to 20 points. Fredrik Lindgren, who failed to make the semi-finals, remained in second place, just two points ahead of Janowski in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282578-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain, Results, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282579-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland\nThe 2018 BOLL Warsaw FIM Speedway Grand Prix of Poland was the first race of the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on May 12 at the Stadion Narodowy in Warsaw, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282579-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Krzysztof Kasprzak as the wild card, and Maksym Drabik and Bartosz Smekta\u0142a both as Track Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282579-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland, Results\nThe Grand Prix was won by Tai Woffinden, who beat Maciej Janowski, Fredrik Lindgren and Artem Laguta in the final. It was the eighth Grand Prix win of Woffinden's career, taking him level with Leigh Adams in seventh on the all-time list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282579-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland, Results\nLindgren had initially top scored with 12 points during the qualifying heats, and despite finishing third in the final, he topped the overall standings with 16 points, one ahead of Woffinden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282579-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland, Results, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282580-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland II\nThe 2018 MIB Nordic Gorz\u00f3w FIM Speedway Grand Prix of Poland was the seventh race of the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on August 25 at the Edward Jancarz Stadium in Gorz\u00f3w, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282580-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland II, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Szymon Wo\u017aniak as the wild card, and Wiktor Lampart and Rafa\u0142 Karczmarz both as Track Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282580-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland II, Results\nThe Grand Prix was won by Martin Vacul\u00edk, who beat Bartosz Zmarzlik, Tai Woffinden and Patryk Dudek in the final. Overall Zmarzlik moved into second place in the standings, cutting Woffinden's world championship lead to 16 points. Fredrik Lindgren dropped to fourth overall, below Janowski in third, after picking up just two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282580-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland II, Results, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282581-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland III\nThe 2018 Toru\u0144 FIM Speedway Grand Prix of Poland was the tenth and final race of the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on October 6 at the Marian Rose MotoArena in Toru\u0144, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282581-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland III, Riders\nFirst reserve Niels-Kristian Iversen replaced the injured Patryk Dudek, while second reserve V\u00e1clav Mil\u00edk Jr. replaced the injured Craig Cook. The Speedway Grand Prix Commission also nominated Daniel Kaczmarek as the wild card, and Igor Kope\u0107-Sobczy\u0144ski and Dominik Kubera both as Track Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282581-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland III, Results\nThe Grand Prix was won by Tai Woffinden, who beat Artem Laguta, Emil Sayfutdinov and Niels-Kristian Iversen in the final. Woffinden was crowned world champion for the third time in his career when finishing second in the second semi-final, while his nearest rival Bartosz Zmarzlik was eliminated. Laguta had initially top scored during the qualifying heats, scoring a 15-point maximum, but was denied a full maximum when finishing second to Woffinden in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282581-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland III, Results, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282582-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia\nThe 2018 Betard Scandinavian FIM Speedway Grand Prix was the sixth race of the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on August 11 at the G&B Arena in M\u00e5lilla, Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282582-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Peter Ljung as the wild card, and Oliver Berntzon and Joel Kling both as Track Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282582-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia, Results\nThe Grand Prix was won by Nicki Pedersen, who beat Matej \u017dagar, Fredrik Lindgren and Martin Vacul\u00edk in the final. Bartosz Zmarzlik has initially top scored in the qualifying heats, but was excluded in the semi-finals. Overall Tai Woffinden retained his world championship lead, however Lindgren cut the deficit to 17 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282582-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia, Results, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282583-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Slovenia\nThe 2018 Aztorin Slovenian FIM Speedway Grand Prix was the eighth race of the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on September 7 at the Matija Gubec Stadium in Kr\u0161ko, Slovenia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282583-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Slovenia, Riders\nFirst reserve Niels-Kristian Iversen replaced the injured Matej \u017dagar. The Speedway Grand Prix Commission also nominated Matic Iva\u010di\u010d as the wild card, and Nick \u0160korja and Denis \u0160tojs both as Track Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282583-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Slovenia, Results\nThe Grand Prix was won by Patryk Dudek, who beat defending world champion Jason Doyle, Greg Hancock and Fredrik Lindgren in the final. It was the second Grand Prix win of Dudek's career. Overall leader Tai Woffinden finished 14th, scoring just five points, while his nearest challenger Bartosz Zmarzlik scored 12 points on the way to reaching the semi-finals. As a result, Zmarzlik closed the gap at the top of the world championship standings to just nine points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282583-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Slovenia, Results, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282584-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden\nThe 2018 Norrbil Swedish FIM Speedway Grand Prix was the fourth race of the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on July 7 at the HZ Bygg Arena in Hallstavik, Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282584-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Andreas Jonsson as the wild card, and Linus Sundstr\u00f6m and Kim Nilsson both as Track Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282584-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden, Results\nThe Grand Prix was won by Maciej Janowski, who beat Fredrik Lindgren, Bartosz Zmarzlik and Tai Woffinden in the final. Woffinden retained his overall world championship lead, in fact he extended it to 11 points after outscoring Lindgren by a point. Janowski moved up to fourth place, one point behind Emil Sayfutdinov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282584-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden, Results, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282585-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway of Nations\nThe 2018 Speedway of Nations was the first FIM Speedway of Nations. The competition consisted of two race-off events and a two-legged final. The event was won by Russia, who beat Great Britain in the Grand Final. It replaced the Speedway World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282585-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway of Nations, Format\nThe 2018 Speedway of Nations was a pairs event, with each nation being represented by two senior riders and one rider under the age of 21. Each meeting was staged over 21 heats with the scores from each rider added together to give a total for each nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282585-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway of Nations, Format\nThe two race-off events consisted of seven teams, with three qualifying for the final. The final, which included hosts Poland, was staged over two legs with the scores from each added together. The top scoring nation went straight through to the Grand Final, while the second and third placed nations competed in the final qualifier for the chance to reach the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282585-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway of Nations, Format\nThe final qualifier and Grand Final were one-off heats. In the event of a tie, the second and third placed riders were considered the victors over the first and fourth placed riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282585-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Speedway of Nations, Format\nThe winner of the Grand Final determined the overall winner of the 2018 Speedway of Nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282586-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spengler Cup\nThe 92nd Spengler Cup was held from 26 to 31 December 2018 at the Vaillant Arena, Davos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282587-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spielberg Formula 2 round\nThe 2018 Red Bull Ring FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races for Formula 2 cars that took place on 30 June and 1 July 2018 at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, in Austria as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the sixth round of the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship and ran in support of the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282587-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Spielberg Formula 2 round, Background\nThe round saw the introduction of rolling starts following a series of drivers stalling on the grid in previous rounds. The procedure was introduced in response to a start-line accident in a Formula 3 race that saw a driver crash into a car that had stalled on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282588-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spikers' Turf Open Conference\nThe 2018 Spikers\u2019 Turf Open Conference is the revival conference of the Spikers' Turf. After the 2016 season of the Spikers' Turf, its affiliate league, the Premier Volleyball League (PVL), assumed the tournaments of the Spikers' Turf under its men's division until the collegiate conference of year 2018. The tournament began on October 6, 2018 at the Blue Eagle Gym, Ateneo de Manila University campus, Quezon City, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282588-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Spikers' Turf Open Conference, Final round\nThe number 1 seeded Sta. Elena-NU pulled out of the conference after advancing in the semi-finals to represent the Philippines in the 2018 ASEAN University Games in Myanmar. Cignal HD Spikers and Philippine Air Force Aguilas will play a one-game knockout match to determine the team that will face the PLDT Home Power Hitters in the finals. PLDT has twice-to-beat advantage in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282589-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Split district elections\nThe 2018 Split district elections were held on 17 June 2018 for the councils of 34 city districts and local committees of Split. The Croatian Democratic Union won 122 council seats, while the Social Democratic Party of Croatia won 42 seats in coalition with the New Left party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282590-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200\nThe 2018 Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 was a NASCAR Xfinity Series race held on September 1, 2018 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. Contested over 147 laps on the 1.366-mile (2.198\u00a0km) egg-shaped oval, it was the 24th race of the 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282590-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200, Practice, First practice\nChristopher Bell was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 29.037 seconds and a speed of 169.356\u00a0mph (272.552\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282590-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200, Practice, Final practice\nElliott Sadler was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 29.625 seconds and a speed of 165.995\u00a0mph (267.143\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282590-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200, Qualifying\nRoss Chastain scored the pole for the race with a time of 29.007 and a speed of 169.531\u00a0mph (272.834\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282591-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sport Club Corinthians Paulista season\nThe 2018 season was the 109th season in the history of Sport Club Corinthians Paulista.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282591-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sport Club Corinthians Paulista season, Background, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282591-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sport Club Corinthians Paulista season, Background, Managerial changes\nOn May 22, F\u00e1bio Carille accepted an offer from Saudi club Al-Wehda to become their manager. Assistant manager Osmar Loss then assumed as the new manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282591-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sport Club Corinthians Paulista season, Background, Managerial changes\nOn September 5, Loss was dismissed after losing an away match against Cear\u00e1. It was announced that he would remain in the technical staff as an assistant coach. The next day, Jair Ventura was announced as the new manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282591-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sport Club Corinthians Paulista season, Campeonato Paulista\nFor the 2018 Campeonato Paulista, the 16 teams are divided in four groups of 4 teams (A, B, C, D). They will face all teams, except those that are in their own group, with the top two teams from each group qualifying for the quarterfinals. The two overall worst teams will be relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282591-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sport Club Corinthians Paulista season, Copa do Brasil\nDue to being qualified to the 2018 Copa Libertadores, Corinthians entered the competition on the round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282592-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SportPesa Super Cup\nThe SportPesa Super Cup is an annual football tournament created and sponsored by bookmakers SportPesa, which pits teams in East Africa against one another in one full week of high class football action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282592-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SportPesa Super Cup, Overview\nThe first edition of the SportPesa SuperCup took place in June, 2017 at the Uhuru Stadium in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The winner inaugural edition, Gor Mahia, played against English Premier League side Everton at the National Stadium in Dar Es Salaam", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282592-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SportPesa Super Cup, Overview\nThe second edition of the regional football tourney pitting East Africa\u2019s finest teams took place on June 3\u201310, 2018. Eight teams, four from Kenya and four from Tanzania, participated in this year's edition. The winning team will earn a chance to travel to the UK in July for a face-off with English Premier League club, Everton FC at Goodison Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282592-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 SportPesa Super Cup, Overview\nThe tournament intended to bring about enhanced cohesion within the region as well as showcase only the greatest in East African football talent. As a unique franchise, the Super Cup further served as a uniting initiative between football fans across the region and to some extent the continent as well. It is intended to raise the profile of African football and what it represents \u2013 a sense of pride for all who partake in it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282592-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 SportPesa Super Cup, Participants\nThe teams that participated in the 2018 SportPesa SuperCup edition were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282593-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sporting Kansas City season\nThe 2018 Sporting Kansas City season is the twenty-third season of the team's existence in Major League Soccer and the eighth year played under the Sporting Kansas City moniker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282593-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sporting Kansas City season, Current roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282593-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sporting Kansas City season, Player Movement, In\nPer Major League Soccer and club policies terms of the deals do not get disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282593-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sporting Kansas City season, Player Movement, In, Draft picks\nDraft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only trades involving draft picks and executed after the start of 2018 MLS SuperDraft will be listed in the notes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282593-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sporting Kansas City season, Player Movement, Loans\nPer Major League Soccer and club policies terms of the deals do not get disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282594-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring European League of Legends Championship Series\nThe 2018 Spring European League of Legends Championship Series split (2018 Spring EU LCS) is the sixth season and eleventh split of the European League of Legends Championship Series, (EU LCS) the highest level of professional League of Legends play in Europe. Most games are being played at Studio K/L in Adlershof, Berlin, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282594-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring European League of Legends Championship Series, Format\nPlans to break league into 4 regions and applying franchising business model was postponed until season 2019. Best-of-three format with dividing teams into two groups has been replaced by a Double Round Robin Format with \"best of one\" matches in a single group owing to EU LCS viewership falling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 66], "content_span": [67, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282594-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring European League of Legends Championship Series, Format\nSecond-tier competition in Europe from season 2014 to 2017 was Challenger Series. In season 2018 it has been replaced by European Regional Leagues (ERLs). Promotion Tournament was cancelled, the European Cup provided in addition to ERLs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 66], "content_span": [67, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season\nThe 2018 Spring United Premier Soccer League season was the 10th season of the UPSL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season\nIn some parts of the country, UPSL is organized into Pro Premier and Championships Divisions with promotion and relegation between the Pro Premier division and the Championship Division. The 2018 Spring UPSL season had 136 clubs participate in the Pro Premier divisions and 28 clubs participate in the Championship divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season\nThe overall structure of the League by Conference and roughly from west to east is represented in the table below", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Central Conference\nThe Central Conference is new for this season. It was split geographically into two divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Central Conference, North Division\nThe North Division covers the state of Oklahoma, as well as North Texas. The division will play an 8 game home-and-away double round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Central Conference, North Division\nThe following 5 clubs joined the division for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Central Conference, South Division\nThe South Division covers South Texas. It will play an 8 game home-and-away double round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Central Conference, South Division\nThe following 5 clubs joined the division for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Central Conference, Central Conference Playoffs\nThe 1st place team in each division will host the 2nd place team in the other division. The two winners will meet in the championship, hosted by the team with the most points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 72], "content_span": [73, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Colorado Conference, Pro Premier\nThe division will play an 8 game home-or-away single round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Colorado Conference, Pro Premier\nThe following 2 clubs left the division before the season -", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Colorado Conference, Pro Premier\nThe following 3 clubs joined the division before the season -", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Colorado Conference, Championship\nThe division will play a 10 game home-and-away double round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Colorado Conference, Championship\nThe following 4 clubs left the division before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Colorado Conference, Championship\nThe following 5 clubs joined the division before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Midwest Conference\nThe Midwest Conference is new for this season. It was founded through a merger with the Premier League of America. The conference was split geographically into four divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Midwest Conference, Central Division\nThe Central Division covers the states of Illinois and Iowa. It will play a 10 game home-and-away double round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Midwest Conference, Central Division\nThe following 6 clubs joined the division for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Midwest Conference, East Division\nThe East Division covers the states of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. It will play a 10 game home-and-away double round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Midwest Conference, East Division\nThe following 6 clubs joined the division for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Midwest Conference, North Division\nThe North Division covers the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Midwest Conference, North Division\nThe following 6 clubs joined the division for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Midwest Conference, West Division\nThe West Division covers the states of Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Midwest Conference, West Division\nThe following 5 clubs joined the division for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Midwest Conference, Midwest Conference Playoffs\nThe regular season champions of each division advanced directly to the conference playoffs. All games were hosted at the Bavarian Soccer Complex, home of Milwaukee Bavarian SC. The semi-finals were seeded based on each participant's points-per-game average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 72], "content_span": [73, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Mountain Conference\nThe Mountain Conference is new for this season. It was formed from the Idaho and Utah clubs from the Desert Mountain Conference. The conference will play a 10 game home-and-away double round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Mountain Conference\nThe following Utah club left the Desert Mountain Conference before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Mountain Conference\nThe following 6 clubs joined the conference for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Northeast Conference\nThe Northeast Conference is new for this season. It was split geographically into two divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Northeast Conference, American Division\nThe American Division covers the states of Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Northeast Conference, American Division\nThe following 8 clubs joined the division for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Northeast Conference, American Division, American Division Playoffs\nAll games will be played at Marina Auto Stadium, home of Rochester Super 9 Pro SC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 92], "content_span": [93, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Northeast Conference, American Division, American Division Playoffs\nRochester Super 9 Pro SC advance to the Northeast Conference Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 92], "content_span": [93, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Northeast Conference, Patriot Division\nThe Patriot Division covers the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Northeast Conference, Patriot Division\nThe following 9 clubs joined the division for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Northeast Conference, Northeast Conference Playoffs\nRochester Super 9 Pro SC, as the division champion with the most regular season points per game, will host.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Southeast Conference\nThe Southeast Conference is new for this season. It absorbed the South Florida Conference as its Florida South Division, and then added three addition divisions with all new teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Southeast Conference, Atlanta Caribbean Division\nThe Atlanta Caribbean Division was founded through a merger with the Atlanta Caribbean Soccer League. It overlaps geographically with the Mid-Atlantic Division, with all games taking place at the Southeast Sports Compelex in Lithonia, GA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Southeast Conference, Atlanta Caribbean Division\nThe following 8 clubs joined the division for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Southeast Conference, Florida Central Division\nThe following 10 clubs joined the division for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 71], "content_span": [72, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Southeast Conference, Florida South Division\nThe following 2 clubs left the South Florida Conference before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 69], "content_span": [70, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Southeast Conference, Florida South Division\nThe following 12 clubs joined the division before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 69], "content_span": [70, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Southeast Conference, Mid-Atlantic Division\nThe Mid-Atlantic Division covers the states of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. The division will play a 14 game home-and-away double round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Southeast Conference, Mid-Atlantic Division\nThe following 8 clubs joined the division for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Southeast Conference, Southeast Conference Playoffs\nThe champions of the Florida Central and Florida South divisions played at Ives Estates Park, home of Florida Soccer Soldiers. The champions of the Mid-Atlantic and Atlanta Caribbean divisions were originally to play at the neutral location of Spartanburg Day School, home of Sparta 20/20 FC. That match was abandoned due to lightning and was rescheduled for West Orange High School, home of America SC, immediately before the conference final at the same venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Southwest Conference\nThe Southwest Conference is new for this season. It was formed from the Arizona clubs from the Desert Mountain Conference, and also includes New Mexico and West Texas. The conference was originally going to contain Nevada clubs as well, but ultimately none competed in this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Southwest Conference\nThe following 3 Nevada clubs left the Desert Mountain Conference before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Southwest Conference\nThe following 6 clubs joined the conference for its inaugural season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Western Conference, SoCal Division, Pro Premier\nThe following 6 clubs left the division before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 72], "content_span": [73, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Western Conference, SoCal Division, Pro Premier\nThe following 5 clubs joined the division before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 72], "content_span": [73, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Western Conference, SoCal Division, Championship\nThe following 12 clubs left the division before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Western Conference, SoCal Division, Championship\nThe following 14 clubs joined the division before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Western Conference, Wild West Division\nFor this season, the Red and Blue divisions were merged into a single Wild West Division as a part of the Western Conference. The division was expanded to include the state of Oregon. It will play a 12 game home-or-away single round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Western Conference, Wild West Division\nThe following 4 clubs left the Wild West Conference before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Western Conference, Wild West Division\nThe following 7 clubs joined the division before the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, Western Conference, Wild West Division, Wild West Division Cup\nConcurrently with the season, all Wild West Division teams except for Visalia Golden Bears took part in a knockout competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 87], "content_span": [88, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282595-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring UPSL season, National Playoffs\nThe national playoffs will be played in Arvada, Colorado and Lakewood, Colorado on August 10\u201312, hosted by Athletic Club of Sloan's Lake. Teams were randomly paired by draw on July 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282596-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring Vietnam Championship Series\n2018 Spring Vietnam Championship Series split (2018 Spring VCS) was the first half of the 6th season of the Vietnam Championship Series, a Vietnamese professional league for League of Legends, the multiplayer online battle arena video game. It was the first VCS staging since Vietnam became independent competitive region from the Garena Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282596-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring Vietnam Championship Series\nThe winner of the playoffs, EVOS Esports, automatically qualified for the 2018 Mid-Season Invitational.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282596-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring Vietnam Championship Series, Format, International tournaments spots\nAfter becoming an independent competitive region, Vietnam got their own spots in Play-in stage of the Worlds and MSI. Also it was placed in the Rift Rivals Green Rift zone to Turkey and CIS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282596-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring Vietnam Championship Series, Regular season\nThe regular season began on January 18 and ended on March 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282596-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring Vietnam Championship Series, Playoffs\nThe playoffs started on March 30 and ended on April 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282596-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Spring Vietnam Championship Series, Summer Promotion\nPromotion tournament for two spots in the 2018 VCS Summer was held from May 4 to May 8. Both VCS teams, FFQTV Gaming and Hall of Fame, remains in the league for the next split.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282597-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SprintX GT Championship Series\nThe 2018 SprintX GT Championship Series is the second season of the SprintX GT Championship Series. Michael Cooper and Jordan Taylor are the defending champions in the highest class, the Pro class in GT. It is the second season sanctioned by the United States Auto Club. The season began on 23 March at Circuit of the Americas and will end on 12 August at Utah Motorsports Campus. GTS cars are separated from GT and GT Cup, as the GT4-based category has its own races this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282597-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SprintX GT Championship Series, Calendar\nOn 17 November 2017, WC Vision announced the 2018 calendar. All rounds are headliner events held in the United States. Circuit of the Americas was the season opener instead of Virginia. Mosport was dropped from the schedule in favor of Portland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282597-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SprintX GT Championship Series, Championship standings, Drivers' championships\nChampionship points were awarded for the first twenty positions in each race. The overall pole-sitter also received one point. Entries were required to complete 50% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 83], "content_span": [84, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282598-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lanka FA Cup\nThe 2018 Sri Lanka FA Cup (or Vantage FA Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 56th season of Sri Lanka FA Cup, the top-tier knockout football tournament in Sri Lanka. A total of 715 teams would participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282598-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lanka FA Cup, Round of 16\nSLTB SC 1 \u2013 1 (4 \u2013 2 p) Uruthirapuram SC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 75]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282598-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lanka FA Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals was held on 5 November 2018. All matches take place on 17 & 18 November at the Sugathadasa Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282598-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lanka FA Cup, Quarter-finals\nColombo FC 0 \u2013 0 (4 \u2013 1 p) New Youngs FC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 78]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282598-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lanka FA Cup, Quarter-finals\nRenown SC 0 \u2013 0 (1 \u2013 3 p) Police SC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282598-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lanka FA Cup, Semi-finals\nThe draw for the semi-finals was held on 19 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282598-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lanka FA Cup, Semi-finals\n25 Nov \u2013 Army SC 1 \u2013 0 Police SC \u2013 5.00pm \u2013 Sugathadasa Stadium", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282598-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lanka FA Cup, Semi-finals\n25 Nov \u2013 Saunders SC 2 \u2013 0 Colombo FC \u2013 7.30pm \u2013 Sugathadasa Stadium", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis\nA constitutional crisis began in Sri Lanka when President Maithripala Sirisena appointed former president and member of parliament Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister on 26 October 2018 before formally dismissing the incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe, resulting in two concurrent Prime Ministers. Wickremesinghe and the United National Party (UNP) viewed the appointment as illegal, and he refused to resign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis\nSirisena's sudden decision instigated \"political turmoil in the country\", and drew international criticism. Wickremesinghe, the majority of the parliament, and opposition parties refused to acknowledge his removal and the appointment of Rajapaksa, stating that Sirisena's move was unconstitutional. Wickremesinghe claimed that he still commands a majority in parliament and requested that Speaker of the Parliament Karu Jayasuriya convene parliament immediately. Sirisena ignored all calls to reconvene parliament and on 27 October prorogued parliament, delaying its meeting till 16 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis\nAfter an attempt to form a new cabinet of ministers with Rajapaksa as Prime Minister failed, Sirisena attempted to dissolve parliament on 9 November. The UNP declared the move unconstitutional and subsequently the Supreme Court stayed Sirisena's dissolution until December 2018, when it ruled that the move was unconstitutional and illegal. Rajapaksa backed down from claiming the office and Wickremesinghe was once again reinstated, ending the crisis after 7 weeks of political and economic turmoil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis\nThe roots of the crisis date back to the late Rajapaksa presidency which turned increasingly authoritarian in its second term, after the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War. During his time in office President Rajapaksa expanded the power of the presidency, centralising power under his control, while drawing the country closer to China. He and his close family have been accused of and are currently under investigation for corruption, and the former president has also been accused of war crimes and human rights violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis\nThe crisis was triggered by a false allegation of an assassination plot against President Sirisena and lasted for 7 weeks but had a lasting political and economic impact on the country. Due to the fragile Sri Lankan economy the crisis cost the country a billion US dollars in reserves, dropping from $7.991 billion in forex reserves to $6.985 billion. The Sri Lankan rupee ultimately devalued by 3.8% during the same time, while US$312.9 million, in the form of treasury bonds, and US$29.8 million in the form of treasury bills left the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis\nSri Lanka's credit was also downgraded as a result of the crisis, while the United States and Japanese governments froze more than a billion US dollars worth of development aid. November saw industrial activity in Sri Lanka slow as a result of the crisis, falling 3.7% from October to November, the largest seen since it began in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Background, Rajapaksa presidency\nThe presidency of Mahinda Rajapaksa, from 2005 to 2015 was an increasingly authoritarian regime characterised by the diminishing human rights in the country, nepotism, weakening of government institutions, slow progress of national reconciliation in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan Civil War, and close ties to China. Before serving as president, Rajapaksa also served as Prime Minister. In 2009, Rajapaksa ended the 27-year long Sri Lankan Civil War, but has been accused of war crimes and human rights abuses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Background, Rajapaksa presidency\nAt the height of his power, Rajapaksa and his family controlled 80 percent of the national budget where Rajapaksa simultaneously served as finance minister and four other cabinet posts on top of the presidency, while his three brothers served as the defence secretary and ministers of economy and ports and the Speaker of the Parliament. Many of those, including journalists, who were critical of him disappeared. According to Reuters, in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Rajapaksa borrowed \"billions of dollars\" from China to build infrastructure projects, though these had little economic value to the country. These projects were seen as vanity projects or white elephants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Background, 2015 presidential election\nIn response to the degrading democracy in the country, the United National Party (UNP), along with several other parties and civil organisations, signed a Memorandum of Understanding and decided to field the then Secretary General of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Maithripala Sirisena, as the Common Candidate for the 2015 Presidential Election. Sirisena, a former health minister under Rajapaksa, pledged to appoint UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister if he were to win the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 77], "content_span": [78, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Background, 2015 presidential election\nSirisena won the January 2015 election and became the 7th President of Sri Lanka and appointed Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister as promised. The presidential election was followed by a General Parliamentary Elections, held on 17 August 2015, in which the UNP-lead coalition gained 106 seats in the Parliament and formed a National Government with several other parties. Wickremesinghe and the UNP came to power promising accountability for alleged atrocities committed during the Sri Lanka civil war and during the Rajapaksa presidency. Following the 2015 election defeat, Mahinda Rajapaksa held India's intelligence service, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), among those responsible for the change in regime. The Government of India also welcomed Rajapaksa's defeat, claiming that the former leader had strained ties with them while moving the country closer to China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 77], "content_span": [78, 951]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Background, 2015 presidential election\nA national unity government was formed, which passed the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka on 28 April 2015, stipulating that the Prime Minister should remain in office for as long as his cabinet functions, unless he resigns or ceases to be a member of parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 77], "content_span": [78, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Background, Uneasy coalition\nThe Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government had been struggling to repay the debts incurred during the Rajapaksa presidency. The Magampura Mahinda Rajapaksa Port, built with Chinese money, was handed over to Beijing in a 99-year lease in 2017 as a form of payment. Sri Lanka also recorded just 3.1% economic growth rate, the lowest for 16 years in 2017. By 2018, following Mahinda Rajapaksa's proxy Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna winning a landslide victory in the 2018 local authority elections, disputes among the members of the National Government began to surface and a major rift between the President and Prime Minister appeared. Sirisena claimed Wickremesinghe to have led to the loss of 11\u00a0billion Sri Lankan rupees ($65 million; \u00a350 million) in the controversial central bank bond sale, and also alleged that a cabinet minister was involved in a plot to kill him and that police had obstructed an investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 980]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Background, Uneasy coalition\nIn 2017 opinion poll conducted by the Centre for Policy Alternatives revealed Fifty-six percent of respondents are unhappy with the coalition government. Specially 63 percent of majority Sinhalese respondents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Background, Special high courts for bribery and corruption cases\nIn May 2018, the Sri Lanka parliament approved a special high court that would expedite the hearing and trial of bribery and corruption related cases. The concept for the High Court Trial-at-Bar was instituted with the passage of amendments to the Judicature Act, the purpose of expediting cases from the Rajapaksa Government era. The Sunday Times of 15 July 2018 stated that \"the former Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation chairman Gamini Senarath and its Managing Director Piyadasa Kudabalage will be the first to be indicted before the newly set up court.\" Senarath was the chief of staff of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Special Courts are also strongly regarded as a factor in the creation of the 2018 Constitutional Crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 103], "content_span": [104, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Background, Alleged assassination attempt\nReports of an assassination plot emerged in September when an individual named Namal Kumara claimed he was aware of a plan to assassinate President Sirisena and former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Kumara was interrogated by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and in late September the police arrested an Indian national, Marceli Thomas, from Kerala, claiming he knew of the plot. Kumara alleged the Director of the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) of the Sri Lanka Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police Nalaka de Silva had masterminded the plot. Nalaka de Silva was suspended pending a formal investigation by the CID and later arrested by CID on 25 October under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and remanded till 7 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 80], "content_span": [81, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Background, Alleged assassination attempt\nIn mid October 2018, Indian newspaper The Hindu reported that Sirisena told Cabinet members that India's intelligence service, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), had devised a plot to assassinate him, though Sirisena denied the report. Sirisena in the cabinet meeting told Ministers that RAW was \"trying to kill\" him, but \"Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not be aware of the plan.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 80], "content_span": [81, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Background, Alleged assassination attempt\nOn 18 October 2018, a statement released by India's Prime Minister Office (PMO) said that Sirisena called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reject the media reports about him alluding to the involvement of India in the alleged assassination plot. Sirisena also stated that he \"regards the [Indian] Prime Minister as a true friend of Sri Lanka, as also a close personal friend. He stressed that he greatly valued the mutually beneficial ties between India and Sri Lanka, and remained steadfast to work with the Prime Minister for further strengthening them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 80], "content_span": [81, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Background, Alleged assassination attempt\nOn 26 October 2018, the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) withdrew from the government, ending the national government that was in place since 2015. The same day, Sirisena also alleged that a cabinet minister was involved but did not name the cabinet minister. However said \"Under these political problems, economic troubles, and the strong plot to assassinate me, the only alternative open to me was to invite former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and appoint him as Prime Minister to form a new government.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 80], "content_span": [81, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Background, Alleged assassination attempt\nIn February 2019 Sri Lankan police refused to press charges against Indian national, Marceli Thomas and cleared the man of wrongdoing due to lack of evidence. \"There is no sufficient evidence to file charges against him and we will not file charges against him\", S. Wijesuriya, an investigating official, told the Colombo Magistrate Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 80], "content_span": [81, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Two Prime Ministers\nThe president's UPFA had earlier on Friday, 26 October, quit the national unity government that had governed with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's UNP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Two Prime Ministers\nLater at about 7:00\u00a0pm without a prior announcement, President Maithripala Sirisena unexpectedly appointed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister in a live swearing-in ceremony broadcast over television. Rajapaksa took an oath of office in the presence of Sirisena and representatives of the military inside the Presidential Secretariat. He was sworn in while Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was still the incumbent and away touring in the south of the country. The situation in Colombo was uneasy with some cabinet ministers immediately declaring the move unconstitutional, while other Cabinet ministers and parliamentarians began defecting to the new government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Two Prime Ministers\nWickremesinghe addressed the nation saying, \"I am addressing you as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. I still hold the majority of the house. [ ...] Convene parliament and I will prove it.\" Three ministers, including Mangala Samaraweera and Cabinet Spokesman Rajitha Senaratne, tried to address the nation during a live television program. That day Rajapaksa loyalists stormed two state-owned television networks which they regarded loyal to Wickremesinghe and the sitting government, including Rupavahini, and forced them off the air. Troops were brought in to protect the channel's staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Two Prime Ministers\nFinance Minister Mangala Samaraweera tweeted that Rajapaksa's appointment was \"unconstitutional and illegal. This is an anti-democratic coup,\" saying Wickramasinghe remained leader as he could not constitutionally be removed by the president. While UPFA MP Susil Premajayantha told reporters that a new cabinet would be sworn in soon. Speaker of the Parliament Karu Jayasuriya said he was to decide on Saturday (27th), after seeking legal advice, whether to recognise Rajapaksa or not. The Parliament was not due to meet until 5 November when the 2019 national budget was to be presented. The Supreme Court, which is empowered to resolve constitutional disputes, was shut for the weekend, to be reopened on Monday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Two Prime Ministers\nOn 27 October President Sirisena issued a formal notice for Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to step down. Sirisena later issued gazettes formalising and defending the dramatic move. Wickremesinghe however entered Temple Trees, the Prime Ministers residence, refusing to accept the appointment of Mahinda Rajapaksa and his dismissal, insisting in a letter to Sirisena that he was still in office. Sirisena and Rajapaksa announced their intent to form a new cabinet. Nalaka Kaluwewa, an Acting Additional Secretary in the Presidential Secretariat, was appointed as Acting Director General of Information under the instructions of President Sirisena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Two Prime Ministers\nThe day after Rajapaksa's appointment, the Parliament, which was due to meet on 5 November to discuss the budget for the next year, was prorogued by the President, delaying its meeting till 16 November. President Sirisena stated on Saturday night that the main reason for him to form a new government with Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister was the alleged plot to assassinate him. He claimed that the name of Sarath Fonseka had come up in the investigation of the CID but was suppressed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Two Prime Ministers\nOn 27 October, Mangala Samaraweera tweeted that the security personnel and official verticals assigned to the Prime Minister were withdrawn from Wickremesinghe and assigned to Rajapaksa on orders from the President. The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Jayasundara had ordered the 1,008 police and STF personnel assigned to Wickremesinghe as Prime Ministerial security to be withdrawn and replaced with 10 police personnel from the Ministerial Security Division (MSD). The security details of ministers of the former government have been also reduced to the levels provided to parliamentarians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Two Prime Ministers\nChina, Burundi and Pakistan had recognised Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister. Chinese President Xi Jinping was one of the first to congratulate the pro-Beijing leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Calls to reconvene Parliament\nThe Speaker of Parliament, Karu Jayasuriya requested the President to reconvene parliament following consultations with party leaders of the UNP, ITAK, JVP and the SLMC on 30 October. The Attorney General Jayantha Jayasuriya stated that it is inappropriate for him to express an opinion on the matter, in response to a request for comment by the Speaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 88], "content_span": [89, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Calls to reconvene Parliament\nUPFA MP Susil Premajayantha stated that Parliament would reconvene on 16 November as per the Gazette and not on 5 November as said by Rajapaksa the day before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 88], "content_span": [89, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Calls to reconvene Parliament\nOn 2 November 119 MPs from several parties met and passed a resolution calling for immediate convention of Parliament claiming that the removal of the Prime Minister and the appointment of another was unconstitutional. The Speaker has stated that the President agreed to convene Parliament on 7 November. However, if the President fails to issue the gazette notification to convene Parliament, the Speaker has stated that he will convene Parliament on 7 November under the powers vested in him. Speaker Jayasuriya later in a statement announced that he will not accept any changes that had happened in Sri Lanka after 26 October until they are verified in parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 88], "content_span": [89, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Calls to reconvene Parliament\nOn 7 November UPFA MP Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said that the only item on Parliamentary agenda on 14 November is the policy statement by President Sirisena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 88], "content_span": [89, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Calls to reconvene Parliament\nPresident Sirisena met with a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) delegation whom he asked to abstain from a vote of no confidence if it were moved. The TNA told Sirisena it had taken a decision to vote against the appointment of Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Prime Minister. The President in response is reported to have said that he will not reappoint Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister, even if his party secured a majority in Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 88], "content_span": [89, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0028-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Calls to reconvene Parliament\nWhile making an address on 8 November the SLFP executive committee meeting Sirisena said that \"he had used only one trump card and there were more trump cards still in his hand\", and that he would not go back on any decisions that he had taken already, during this crisis. Sirisena said he was going to make a request to the UNP to support the government's work plan when Parliament reconvenes on the 14th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 88], "content_span": [89, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Calls to reconvene Parliament\nThe UNP said it would explore the possibility of removing President Sirisena in conformity with Article 38 (2) of the Constitution. The Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) responded it would not support any impeachment move as, while they do not support the appointment of Rajapaksa, \"they are not in favour of adding more fire to the current crisis\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 88], "content_span": [89, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Sirisena-Rajapaksa cabinet appointments\nOn 29 October, President Maitripala Sirisena appointed the first members of a new cabinet at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, with four UNP MPs appointed as ministers including Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, Vadivel Suresh, Vasantha Senanayake and Ananda Aluthgamage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Sirisena-Rajapaksa cabinet appointments\nUNP MP Dunesh Gankanda was sworn in as State Minister of Environment along with a dozen secretaries to various ministries on 30 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Sirisena-Rajapaksa cabinet appointments\nUNP MP Ashoka Priyantha was appointed on 4 November as Deputy Minister of Cultural and Internal Affairs, and Regional Development (Wayamba). While UPFA MPs Dinesh Gunawardena was appointed Minister of Megapolis and Western Development; Vasudeva Nanayakkara, Minister of National Integration, Reconciliation, and Official Languages and Keheliya Rambukwella State Minister of Mass Media and Digital Infrastructure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Sirisena-Rajapaksa cabinet appointments\nOn 6 November Deputy Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment and UPFA MP Manusha Nanayakkara resigned from his ministerial position and pledged support to Ranil Wickremesinghe. Nanayakkara says that staying true to his heart he cannot join or participate in the recent appointments made and the change in government. UPFA MP Dinesh Gunawardena was appointed Leader of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Bribery allegations\nIn an effort to show a majority in parliament for a vote of confidence the Sirisena-Rajapaksa group have been seeking defections from opposing parties in an attempt to reach 113 MPs. Amid these attempts have been claims of bribery and threats against those opposing the Sirisena-Rajapaksa group. UNP MP Hirunika Premachandra's political career had been threatened, over a phone call to her aunt, if she failed to accept a ministerial portfolio with the Sirisena-Rajapaksa group. The UNP alleged that Rajapaksa loyalists had been luring its MPs to support Sirisena and Rajapaksa with the offer of significant bribes and ministerial portfolios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0034-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Bribery allegations\nSome say they have been offered over Rs. 500 million (US$2,796,150, Dec 2018) to defect. Another UNP legislator claimed he had been approached by Sirisena\u2019s party to defect with an offer of 500 million rupees and an apartment in Malaysia along with free passage for the entire family to a foreign destination. Some UNP MPs have said the bribery is being financed by China, which Beijing has denied. Namal Rajapaksa responded on Twitter saying his party had no information about bribes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Bribery allegations\nPalitha Range Bandara told Speaker Jayasuriya he had been offered a bribe of Rs. 500 million to defect to Mr. Rajapaksa\u2019s party. On 3 November, the UNP released an audio recording, which claimed to attempt to buy UNP MPs which contained a phone conversation allegedly taken place between UPFA MP S. B. Dissanayake and UNP MP Palitha Range Bandara. Bandara said he would hand over the electronic and documentary evidence to the Bribery Commission to file a complaint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Bribery allegations\nMembers of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, who have 7 MPs, have said its members have been approached with offers to join the Sirisena-Rajapaksa camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Bribery allegations\nIn an interview, with the Daily Mirror in early December, President Sirisena confirmed the bribery allegations made by the UNP remarking he personally knew about the situation. \"Some MPs even asked for Rs. 500 million ($2,796,150 USD, Dec 2018) to crossover. I personally know about such situations. It was like calling for tenders. That is why Mahinda Rajapaksa could not show a majority in Parliament\" he said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0037-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Bribery allegations\nSirisena openly admitted his candidate for Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa attempted to bribe members of parliament in order to show majority in the House, he went on to say that the current crisis could have been avoided had he been able to the 113 MPs. However he said he \"believes that Mahinda Rajapaksa couldn't show majority because MPs demanded millions, as high as Rs. 500 million to crossover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Bribery allegations\nThe Daily Mirror later removed the video of the interview from its Facebook page upon coming under increasing pressure from the President\u2019s Media Division. The video was replaced with an audio based short video of photographs of Sirisena. A second version did not carry Sirisena\u2019s remarks about MPs asking for bribes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Dissolution of parliament and elections\nPresident Sirisena issues a gazette notification bringing the Sri Lanka Police under the purview of the Ministry of Defence, which was earlier under the Ministry of Law and Order. This was followed with the transfer of the Department of Government Printing which publishes the government Gazette under the Ministry of Defence. Sirisena has brought the Military, Police and the Gazette under his direct control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Dissolution of parliament and elections\nAmid calls to reconvene parliament Sirisena and his party admitted they did not have enough votes to support Mahinda Rajapaksa against Ranil Wickremesinghe to decide the office of Prime Minister. Ahead of the president's announcement the UPFA said they were at least eight legislators short of getting a majority for Rajapaksa in the parliament. \"At the moment we have 104 or 105 MPs,\" UPFA's spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told reporters. He further went on to say the Sirisena-Rajapakse group hoped to secure support from \"crossover\" legislators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Dissolution of parliament and elections\nThis is in contrast to what Sirisena claimed on the 5th, that he had the support of 113 legislators when he sacked Wickremesinghe. According to an AFP count, 120 MPs support Wickremesinghe and his allies. President Sirisena dissolves Parliament by proclamation, from midnight of 9 November and declared snap elections to be held on around 5 January 2019. The move was swiftly denounced by the United National Party in a post on Twitter, saying it \"vehemently rejects\" the sacking of the parliament. The party also accused Sirisena of robbing the \"people of their rights and democracy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0040-0002", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Dissolution of parliament and elections\nThe act was in violation of the 19th Amendment to the constitution, which he co-sponsored. A short while later it was announced through an extraordinary gazette notice that general elections will be held on 5 January 2019, with the first meeting of the new Parliament to be held on 17 January 2019. UPFA MP Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said \"The nominations would be tendered from 9 to 26 November\". The JVP has accused Sirisena of trying to consolidate his power grab. The election date was announced even before preparing the government's annual budget for the next fiscal year in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Dissolution of parliament and elections\nSirisena inducted more cabinet ministers prior to signing the order to dissolve the parliament. Supporters of Ranil Wickremesinghe were in the process of preparing legal papers to challenge the latest move in the country's Supreme Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Dissolution of parliament and elections, Sri Lanka Freedom Party Split\nSucceeding the dissolution of parliament and the announcement of snap elections, Mahinda Rajapaksa and 44 other members of parliament on 11 November defected from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, led by President Maithripala Sirisena, to join the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). The SLPP was formed in 2016 by Basil Rajapaksa, younger brother of Mahinda. A member of the SLPP said that 65 out of 82 Sri Lanka Freedom Party MPs will eventually join Rajapaksa's party. Other prominent defectors include Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Rohitha Abeygunawardena, Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, Johnston Fernando and Namal Rajapaksa. Namal Rajapaksa said relating to the defections, \"We will strive to create a broader coalition with many stakeholders under the leadership of Maithripala Sirisena & Mahinda Rajapaksa to face the upcoming General Election and come out victorious.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 129], "content_span": [130, 994]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Dissolution of parliament and elections, Supreme Court stays proclamation dissolving parliament\nOn 12 November, twelve Fundamental Right petitions were submitted to the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka challenging the president's decree sacking parliament and calling a snap election, by the UNP, TNA, JVP, SLMC and others including Prof Ratnajeevan Hoole, a member of the Election Commission. Arguing that Sirisena's actions were unconstitutional, illegal and against the people of Sri Lanka, Hoole demanded the restoration of status quo prevailing prior to 26 October. Hoole's position strengthens the argument of 11 other petitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 154], "content_span": [155, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0043-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Dissolution of parliament and elections, Supreme Court stays proclamation dissolving parliament\nThese were taken up for hearing on the same day by a three-member bench of the Supreme Court consisting of the Chief Justice Nalin Perera, Justices Prasanna Jayawardena and Priyantha Jayawardena. Responding to the petitions, Attorney General Jayantha Jayasuriya made submissions stating that \"the court had no jurisdiction to hear and determine the Fundamental Rights petitions against the dissolution of Parliament\". On the same day, 5 petitions by Prof G. L. Peiris, Minister Udaya Gammanpila, Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara and two others supporting the dissolution of parliament were filed at the Supreme Court. However, in the evening the three Judge bench issued an interim order till 7 December staying the proclamation issued by President Sirisena to dissolve parliament and granted leave to proceed with the Fundamental Rights petitions that challenged the President's dissolving parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 154], "content_span": [155, 1054]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Dissolution of parliament and elections, Supreme Court stays proclamation dissolving parliament\nFollowing the stay order of the Supreme Court, President Sirisena convened the National Security Council at the Presidential Secretariat; where he ordered the police and armed forces to maintain the peace in the country. Soon after the IGP Jayasundara ordered senior police officers to maintain the law and order in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 154], "content_span": [155, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Parliamentary clashes, 1st Motion of no confidence\nThe Speaker office stated on 13 November, following the stay order from the Supreme Court, that Parliament would convene on 14 November as per the gazette issued by President Sirisena on 4 November. On 14 November the Parliament gathered for the vote. Rajapaksa and his son Namal walked out of the chamber just before the Speaker called for a vote. Amid shouting, speaker Karu Jayasuriya took a voice vote while members loyal to Rajapaksa attempted to grab the mace, the symbol of authority of the legislature, to disrupt it. The vote went ahead and a no-confidence motion against Mahinda Rajapaksa was passed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 109], "content_span": [110, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Parliamentary clashes, 1st Motion of no confidence\nWickremesinghe said he submitted a petition carrying signatures of 122 MPs who support the no-confidence motion. Jayasuriya confirmed that the no-confidence motion against Rajapaksa had support of 122 members in the 225-member house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 109], "content_span": [110, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Parliamentary clashes, 2nd Motion of no confidence\nA second Motion of no confidence took place on 16 November which was approved. However it too was not accepted by the President, who later requested for a third motion of no confidence to be passed in parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 109], "content_span": [110, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Parliamentary clashes, Motion of confidence\nOn 12 December, the parliament passed a vote of confidence in support of Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 102], "content_span": [103, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Rajapaksa led government moves\nDuring the period of the crisis the disputed government hastily made controversial government decisions and contracts in order to win over public opinion. The Rajapaksa led government had made plans to lower fuel prices and income taxes in a bid to increase public support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 89], "content_span": [90, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Rajapaksa led government moves, Transferral of Nishantha Silva\nThe intervention of the Police Commission in preventing the arbitrary executive actions of transferring an officer is an important result of the independent commissions introduced by the 19th Amendment. Robust democratic institutions are key to protecting the freedoms of citizens from arbitrary actions of the state. We must defend and strengthen such institutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 121], "content_span": [122, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Rajapaksa led government moves, Transferral of Nishantha Silva\nSince the start of the crisis, President Sirisena has taken the police under his direct control. Inspector of Police Nishantha Silva is the officer in charge of Criminal Investigation Department's (CID) Organised Crimes Investigation Unit. Silva is handling investigations into major incidents including those during the Rajapaksa administration, most notably the abduction and the assault of Journalist Keith Noyahr, in 2008 and the murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge in 2009, in addition to at least 60 crimes committed by the LTTE.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 121], "content_span": [122, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0051-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Rajapaksa led government moves, Transferral of Nishantha Silva\nHe is also investigating the rape and the murder of student Sivaloganathan Vithya and the abduction of 11 youths in Colombo, in 2008-09 where Chief of Defence Staff Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne is allegedly involved in harbouring a suspect of the abduction. Mahinda Rajapaksa, his family and associates are directly connected to these investigations, and as Silva pursued inquiries into them, on 18 November he was transferred by IGP Pujith Jayasundara on the orders of President Sirisena to the Negombo Division with \"immediate effect on service requirements\". Silva had just secured an arrest order for Admiral Wijegunaratne when he was shifted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 121], "content_span": [122, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0051-0002", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Rajapaksa led government moves, Transferral of Nishantha Silva\nWijegunaratne, however has retained the office of Chief of Defence Staff. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the Former defence secretary and brother of the former president, is being investigated on allegations of defrauding the state and was indicted in September. Silva was also investigating Gotabhaya for alleged corruption in aircraft purchases from Ukraine during his time in the Rajapaksa administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 121], "content_span": [122, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Rajapaksa led government moves, Transferral of Nishantha Silva\nIn response to the transferral Silva had appealed to the National Police Commission (NPC). The Commission requested a report from IGP Pujith Jayasundara as to why the officer handling several high-profile investigations had been transferred. The intervention by the NPC prompted IGP Jayasundara to reverse his order and withdraw the transfer, on the 19th, allowing Silva to continue in the same capacity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 121], "content_span": [122, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0052-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Rajapaksa led government moves, Transferral of Nishantha Silva\nIt was learnt in a letter to IGP Jayasundara, written by CID Director Senior DIG Ravi Seneviratne that it was Admiral Wijegunaratne who had orchestrated the transferral by framing allegations against Silva of maintaining connections with the LTTE, during the last security council meeting chaired by President Sirisena. The daughter of Lasantha Wickrematunge, Ahimsa Wickrematunge wrote to the President against the obstruction of justice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 121], "content_span": [122, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Rajapaksa led government moves, Sugar tax\nThe disputed government controversially lowered taxes on sugary drinks which attracted immediate criticism. The tax that was introduced by the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government sought to tackle the prevalence of diabetes in the country. The sweet tax, which taxed 50 cents on every gram of sugar in fizzy and fruit drinks was cut to 30 cents starting 1 December. Mahinda Rajapaksa who holds the Ministry of Finance in the disputed government instructed the cut the sugar tax by 40 percent, a move made after a meeting with business leaders in the industry. The measure could reduce soft drinks prices by 30%, Prime Minister's Office said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 100], "content_span": [101, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Court order restraining Prime Minister and Ministers\nThe damage that will be posed by temporarily restraining a lawful cabinet of ministers from functioning would be \u2026 outweighed by the damage that would be caused by allowing a set of persons who are not entitled in law to function as the Prime Minister or the cabinet of ministers,\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 111], "content_span": [112, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Court order restraining Prime Minister and Ministers\nFollowing a quo warranto writ petition filed by 122 MPs against the appointment of Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister and other Ministers, the Court of Appeal issued an interim order on 3 December restraining the functioning of the respondents Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister as well as other cabinet ministers, deputy ministers and state ministers. The following day Rajapaksa filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the interim order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 111], "content_span": [112, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Court order restraining Prime Minister and Ministers\nOn 14 December 2018, the Supreme Court refused to issue an interim order vacating the earlier interim order of the Court of Appeal restricting the functions of the Prime Minister's office, the matter was set down for hearing in mid-January 2019. Following this decision, the Prime Minister indicated his intention to resign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 111], "content_span": [112, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Court order restraining Prime Minister and Ministers\nConcerns have been raised over a possibility of a government shutdown similar to those in the United States, without the parliament passing finances for the government spending for the year 2019. Without a lawful finance minister it is unclear if the government's $1 billion foreign debt repayment due in early January can be serviced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 111], "content_span": [112, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Supreme Court rules dissolution of Parliament unconstitutional\n\"It has been said by some of the added Respondent that refusing the Petitioner\u2019s applications will enable a General Election to be held in pursuance of the Proclamation marked \"P1\" and, therefore, justified because it will give effect to the franchise of the people. That submission is not correct. Giving effect to the franchise of the people is not achieved by the court permitting a General Election held consequent to dissolution of Parliament which has been effected contrary to the provision of the Constitution. Such a General Election will be unlawfully held and its result will be open to question. A General election will be valid only if it is lawfully held. Thus, a General Election held consequent to dissolution of Parliament which has been done contrary to the provisions of the constitution will not be a true exercise of the franchise of the people\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 121], "content_span": [122, 989]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Supreme Court rules dissolution of Parliament unconstitutional\nOn 13 December 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that President Sirisena\u2019s decision to dissolve the Parliament 20 months before the end of its term was unconstitutional. A full (seven-judge) bench unanimously ruled on that the President cannot dissolve Parliament until it completes a four-and-a-half-year term. The court also said the President's decision to call snap elections was illegal. On 14 December in response to the Supreme Court rulings, according to party members, Mahinda Rajapaksa said he would relinquish his claim to be Prime Minister and would back down after an address to the nation on Saturday (15th).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 121], "content_span": [122, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0059-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Supreme Court rules dissolution of Parliament unconstitutional\nRajapaksa's son Namal wrote in a Twitter post \"to ensure stability of the nation, Former President Rajapaksa has decided to resign from the Premiership tomorrow after an address to the nation\". Namal Rajapaksa went on to say \"his family\u2019s political party would work with Mr. Sirisena\u2019s party to form a broader coalition in Parliament\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 121], "content_span": [122, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Supreme Court refused to vacate Court of Appeal interim order\nThe following day, the Supreme Court also refused to vacate the interim order given by the Court of Appeal restraining Rajapaksa and his cabinet from functioning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 120], "content_span": [121, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Rajapaksa relinquishment of his claim and reinstatement of Wickremesinghe\nOn 15 December 2018, Mahinda Rajapaksa signed a letter of resignation as Prime Minister. He stated he has no intention of remaining as Prime Minister without a general election and does not wish to hamper the president forming a new government. Former minister S. B. Dissanayake claimed that Rajapaksa intends to become the Leader of the Opposition while Dinesh Gunawardena intends to become the Chief Opposition Whip. On the same day, it was announced that Wickremesinghe would be reinstated as Prime Minister the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 132], "content_span": [133, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Rajapaksa relinquishment of his claim and reinstatement of Wickremesinghe\nRanil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Prime Minister at 11:16am on 16 December at the Presidential Secretariat. The UNP has said it will appoint a UNP government but several legislators from the SLFP have expressed interest in joining the new government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 132], "content_span": [133, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Timeline of events, Rajapaksa relinquishment of his claim and reinstatement of Wickremesinghe\nMeanwhile, Rajapaksa said he will continue to work with Sirisena to establish a majority or push for a general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 132], "content_span": [133, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Outcomes, Political\nWith the presidential election in 2019 and parliamentary elections in 2020 coming President Sirisena and Rajapaksa's moves to consolidate power backfired due to the political and economic instability during this whole crisis. The turmoil angered many Sri Lankans and weakened both the president and Rajapaksa ahead of the polls. Senior political scientist Jayadeva Uyangoda, called President Sirisena and his party the SLFP the \"ultimate casualties\" of the crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0064-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Outcomes, Political\nIt saw the split of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party when Rajapaksa and his loyalists broke away from the party days after being appointed Prime Minister and took up membership in the Rajapaksa-backed Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. Prof. Uyangoda said Sirisena, after the crisis, has no independent power base with his party having been virtually absorbed by the pro-Rajapaksa SLPP. \"Sirisena has proved to be the country's poorest political leader when it comes to political strategising\", Prof. Uyangoda told The Hindu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0064-0002", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Outcomes, Political\nRajapaksa and his allies continued to demand for early elections, but as they are seen as the chief architects of the recent political turmoil the Rajapaksa family will probably enter any race with considerably less popular support than it had before the crisis. The Rajapaksa's were surprised when they were unable to secure enough votes in Parliament to form a government and have admitted privately that the political crisis has hurt their chances in an election in the urban areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Outcomes, Political\nThe crisis saw a central role for the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. Its significance was huge in restoring constitutional governance for democracy in the country. The greatest outcome of the Supreme Court\u2019s rulings against President Sirisena is the re-emergence of the judiciary with a clear sense of institutional autonomy and independence. In doing so, it also protected the constitutional protection to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet was ensured as well as the institutional autonomy of the legislature. The two decisions by the Supreme Court in the last week of the crisis were not only landmark judgments but will go on to define judicial verdicts of the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Outcomes, Political\nThe crisis which gave the prospect of a new Mahinda Rajapaksa backed government coming to power prompted authorities in United States to publicly disclose money laundering and visa fraud charges against the former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States Jaliya Wickramasuriya to ensure that he is swiftly prosecuted before a Rajapaksa administration could restore his diplomatic immunity. Wickramasuriya who is the cousin of Rajapaksa has become the first Rajapaksa relative to be prosecuted abroad. He will face a possible lengthy jail term following five counts of charges ranging from wire fraud to immigration offences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Outcomes, Economic\nThe fragile Sri Lankan economy was badly hurt during the political upheaval with the steep loss in value in its currency, downgrading of its economy and loss in tourist revenue. The economic loss and financial slippage, according to a provisional assessment, caused to the country during this period has exceeded Rs. 102 billion. In January 2019 it was revealed that the crisis cost the country a billion US dollars in reserves. The government on 26 October had $7.991 billion in forex reserves but by the end of this period reserves had depleted to $6.985 billion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Outcomes, Economic\nThe Colombo Stock Exchange recorded some growth during the crisis. However, the rupee reached a record low during the same time, but was boosted by Central Bank dollar sales. The Sri Lankan rupee was ultimately devalued by 3.8% during the 7-week political crisis. USD $312.9 million, in the form of treasury bonds, and US$29.8 million in the form of treasury bills had also gone out of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Outcomes, Economic\nSri Lanka's credit was also downgraded during the period. On 20 November credit rating agency Moody's released a statement downgrading the Sri Lankan government's foreign currency issuer and senior unsecured ratings to B2 from B1 and changed the outlook to stable from negative. Moody's says the downgrade was driven by the \"ongoing tightening in external and domestic financing conditions and low reserve adequacy, exacerbated most recently by a political crisis which seems likely to have a lasting impact on policy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0069-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Outcomes, Economic\nIn the wake of the political crisis and doubts about the future of democracy in the nation, the United States and Japanese governments froze more than a billion US dollars worth of development aid. The European Union also warned that if it did not stick to commitments on national reconciliation, it could withdraw duty-free concessions for Sri Lankan exports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Outcomes, Economic\nIn November industrial activity in Sri Lanka slowed as a result of the crisis. The Index of Industrial Production compiled by the Department of Census and Statistics fell 1.2% to 107.3 points in November when compared to the same time a year earlier. Food production, which contributes 35.2% to overall manufacturing activities fell 2.7% in November. Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products, the third largest industrial production, fell 11.3% compared to a year earlier. Sri Lanka's leading export however, which forms 19.8% of industrial activity, apparel production grew 3.8% and exports of garments during the month grew 9.9%. Coke and refined petroleum production, Sri Lanka's fourth largest manufacturing activity, and rubber and plastic product manufacturing, the fifth largest, also grew 5.8% and 13.3% respectively. Overall the index recorded a 3.7% fall from October to November, the largest seen since it began in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 999]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Outcomes, Social\nThe crisis saw the resilience of Sri Lanka\u2019s democracy among its citizens amid multiple setbacks. Activism by citizens in defence of political freedom, political consciousness, education and participation greatly increased. Activism, participation and resistance was particularly large among young voters, whose political weapons were the use of political humour shared through social media. President Sirisena's betrayal of the 2015 mandate, which opened a democratic space for Sri Lankans, shook and angered many citizens who spontaneously mobilised to defend constitutional governance, democracy, and freedom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Outcomes, 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings\nThe political fallout of the constitutional crisis and the bitter infighting between the country's leaders has been questioned by various individuals on whether it may have contributed to a breakdown of the government's functionality contributing to the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Protests\nThe UNP held a protest near the Temple Trees on 31 October, where thousands of Sri Lankans have taken to the streets urging President Sirisena to uphold democracy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Protests\nThe JVP held protest rally at Nugegoda on 1 November demanding the president to reconvene parliament immediately and to restore democracy in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Protests\nTens of thousands of Sri Lankans marched Monday 5 November in support of a new government of Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithripala Sirisena. Sri Lanka Police estimated 120,000 people attended the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Protests, Violence\nRival groups supporting Mahinda Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe have been gathering at different locations around Colombo. Hundreds of supporters of Wickremesinghe have gathered around Temple Trees and say they will stay there to protect the ousted Prime Minister. So far demonstrations have been mostly peaceful, but Speaker Jayasuriya, and others, have warned of a \"blood bath\" if Parliament was not permitted to meet and end the constitutional crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Protests, Violence\nWith the rushed swearing in of Rajapaksa, Rajapaksa loyalists stormed two state-owned television networks which they regarded loyal to Wickremesinghe and the sitting government and forced them off the air. Trade unions linked to Rajapaksa's party have also been blocking access to ministers who are from the United National Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Protests, Violence\nOn Sunday 28 October, the bodyguards of a deposed government minister opened fire on a crowd of protestors resulting in the death of one person. The first reported outbreak of violence occurred at the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), which houses the headquarters of national oil and gas company, resulted in a shooting between members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party CPC Trade Union and the personal security detail of deposed petroleum minister, Arjuna Ranatunga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0078-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Protests, Violence\nCrowds loyal to the president attempted to prevent Ranatunga from entering the government building in Colombo as he was attempting to retrieve belongings from the CPC offices. One union member was killed and two or three injured by shots fired by a member of the police MSD security detail as the crowd tried to take Ranatunga hostage. Ranatunga was rushed into the building in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. The SLFP CPC Trade Union went on strike until Ranatunga was arrested, causing long queues at filling stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0078-0002", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Protests, Violence\nRanatunga was dressed in a helmet and camouflage, and escorted by the Special Task Force, dozens of regular police were deployed in order to pacify a still-agitated crowd. He was arrested by police on 30 October, and was subsequently released on bail. The strike was called off. One security member was arrested and an investigation has begun into the incident, police have confirmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282599-0078-0003", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, Protests, Violence\nAfter being rescued by police commandos, later on Sunday speaking to reporters Ranatunga said his bodyguards opened fire because the crowd \"They came to kill me \u2013 I state this responsibly \u2013 and you can check the CCTV footage,\" \"For the first time, I feared for my life. I thought of my children and my family.\"\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections\nLocal elections were held in Sri Lanka on 10 February 2018. 15.7 million Sri Lankans were eligible to elect 8,327 members to 340 local authorities (24 municipal councils, 41 urban councils and 275 divisional councils) in the country. It was the largest election in Sri Lankan history. This was also the first election under the mixed electoral system where 60% of members were elected using first-past-the-post voting and the remaining 40% through closed list proportional representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections\nIn a surprise result the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, led by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, came first by winning 40% of the votes and securing the most number of seats and local authorities. The United National Front led by Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe came second with 29% of the votes whilst the United People's Freedom Alliance led by President Maithripala Sirisena came third with 12% of the votes. However, most local authorities were hung with no overall control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Background\nThe last major round of local government elections was held in 2011 when elections were held in 322 of the then 335 local authorities. Elections to two other local authorities in Mullaitivu District were due but were repeatedly postponed due to alleged delays in resettling internally displaced persons following the end of the civil war in 2009. Elections to the remaining 11 local authorities were not due as they had their last election in 2008 or 2009. Since 2011 six new local authorities have been created (1 MC, 5 DC) taking the total number of local authorities to 341 (24 MC, 41 UC, 276 DC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Background\nThe normal term of a local authority is four years but the law allows the central government to extend this by a further year. The term of the 234 local authorities (3 MC, 30 UC, 201 DC) that had their election on 17 March 2011 was due to expire on 31 March 2015 but on 27 March 2015 their term was extended to 15 May 2015. These 234 local authorities were then dissolved and their administration placed under special commissioners appointed by the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Background\nThe term of the 65 local authorities (1 MC, 9 UC, 55 DC) that had their election on 23 July 2011 expired on 31 July 2015 after which their administration was placed under special commissioners. The term of the 23 local authorities (16 MC, 1 UC, 6 DC) that had their election on 8 October 2011 was due to expire on 15/31 October 2015 but in October 2015 their term was extended to 31 December 2015. This was subsequently extended to 30 June 2016. These 23 local authorities were then dissolved and their administration placed under special commissioners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Background\nOn 10 October 2012 Parliament passed the Local Authorities (Special Provisions) Act, No. 21 of 2012 and Local Authorities Elections (Amendment) Act, No. 22 of 2012, changing the electoral system for electing local authority members from open list proportional representation (PR) to a mixed electoral system whereby 70% of members would be elected using first-past-the-post voting (FPTP) and the remaining 30% through closed list PR. The number of local authority members was increased significantly from around 4,500 to 8,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Background\nA five member National Delimitation Committee headed by Jayalath Dissanayake was appointed by Minister of Local Government and Provincial Councils A. L. M. Athaullah on 12 December 2012 to demarcate the new local authority wards. After much delay the committee's final report was handed over to Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government Faiszer Musthapha on 19 June 2015. The committee recommended that the number of members elected using FPTP be increased by 595 to 5,081. On 21 August 2015 a gazette was published detailing the wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Background\nThe new wards received more than 1,000 complaints and as a result the government appointed the Delimitation Appeals Investigation Committee headed by Ashoka Peiris to review the complaints. The appeals committee's report was handed over to Musthapha on 17 January 2017. The revised ward details were gazetted on 17 February 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Background\nIn February 2016 Parliament passed Local Authorities Elections (Amendment) Act, No. 1 of 2016 requiring 25% of candidates at local elections to be female. Small parties and those representing ethnic minorities complained that the new mixed electoral system put them at a disadvantage and as a result the government agreed to change the ratio between FPTP and PR. On 25 August 2017 Parliament passed Local Authorities Elections (Amendment) Act, No. 16 of 2017 which, amongst things, changed the ratio between FPTP and PR from 70:30 to 60:40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Background\nOn 15 November 2017 six voters filed a petition with the Court of Appeal challenging the legality of the gazette on demarcation of wards issued in February 2017, affecting 208 local authorities. On 22 November 2017 the Court of Appeal suspended the implementation of the gazette until 4 December 2017, preventing elections from being called to the 208 local authorities. Nominations to 93 local authorities not affected by the petition were called by the Election Commission on 27 November 2017. Nominations to 40 other local authorities not affected by the petition could not be called due to errors in the gazette.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Background\nThe legal petition was withdrawn on 30 November 2017 following which the Court of Appeal rescinded the suspension of the gazette. The gazette correcting the errors in respect of 40 local authorities was published on 2 December 2017. Nominations to the remaining 248 local authorities were called by the Election Commission on 4 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Prior to the election\nOpinion poll conducted by the Centre for Policy Alternatives revealed Fifty-six percent of respondents said the coalition government should not continue. Specially 63 percent of majority Sinhalese respondents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Details, Nominations\nNominations to 93 local authorities (7 MC, 18 UC, 68 DC) without any legal issues took place between 11 and 14 December 2017. 523 nominations (466 form registered political parties, 57 from independent groups) were received of which 500 were accepted (447 form registered political parties, 53 from independent groups) and 23 rejected (19 form registered political parties, 4 from independent groups).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Details, Nominations\nNominations to the remaining 248 local authorities (17 MC, 23 UC, 208 DC) took place between 18 and 21 December 2017. 1,582 nominations (1,399 form registered political parties, 183 from independent groups) were received of which 1,553 were accepted (1,379 form registered political parties, 174 from independent groups) and 29 rejected (20 form registered political parties, 9 from independent groups).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Details, Nominations\nOn 18 December 2017 the Election Commission announced that elections to all 341 local authorities would be held on 10 February 2018. Around 13,000 polling stations were used. The election is expected to cost around Rs. 4 billion and required 300,000 staff, including public sector employees. Postal voting has taken place on 25 and 26 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Details, Nominations\nOn 30 January 2018 the Supreme Court issued an injunction preventing election in Elpitiya DC following a petition by the Democratic United National Front against the rejection of their nomination list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Details, Calculation of seats\n60 percent of the seats in each local government authority were elected under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system. The candidate who receives the most votes were declared the elected representative. The other 40 percent of seats were elected based on the proportion of votes received by each contesting political party or independent group. To complete the seat calculation, the district returning officers first counts the total number of valid votes cast and divides that number by the total number of seats up for election in a given local authority. This number represents the average number of votes cast per seat (X).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Details, Calculation of seats\nTo identify the number of seats a political party or independent group gained (Y), the district returning officer then takes the total number of valid votes a party or group received in the local authority and divides that by the average number of votes per seat (X). Finally, to account for seats already won through the FPTP system, the district returning officer takes the total number of seats a political party or independent group gained (Y) and subtracts the total number won through FPTP. The result is the number of seats a political party or group is entitled to under the proportional representation system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Parties that contested, United People's Freedom Alliance\nThe United People's Freedom Alliance's main constituent- the Sri Lanka Freedom Party- underwent a split before the election, with loyalists of ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa breaking away and creating a political front of their own. The UPFA thus contested for some seats as an alliance while the Sri Lanka Freedom Party contested alone in others, both being led by incumbent president Maithripala Sirisena. This marks the first time since 1991 that the SLFP contested under their own election symbol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Parties that contested, United National Front\nThe United National Front led by the United National Party's Ranil Wickramasinghe contested under their elephant election symbol, bringing together constituent parties including the Jathika Hela Urumaya led by Champika Ranawaka, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress led by Rauff Hakeem, and the Tamil Progressive Alliance led by Palani Digambaran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 78], "content_span": [79, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Parties that contested, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna\nMahinda Rajapakse's Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna contested under their flower bud election symbol, gaining the majority of the seats on offer and control over most of the island's local authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Results\nThe elections resulted in parties winning an absolute majority of seats in only 141 of the 340 local authorities - Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) in 126 LA's, United National Front (UNF) in five, independents in two, National Congress in two, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in two, United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in two, Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) in one and Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) in one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Results\nThe remaining 199 LA's were hung with no overall control. Of these, the SLPP was the largest party in 95 LA's, TNA in 36, UNF in 29, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress in four, UPFA in four, Independents in three, CWC in two, Tamil National People's Front in two, EPDP in one, United Lanka Great Council in one, Muslim National Alliance in one, Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal in one and Tamil United Liberation Front in one. The remaining 19 LA's were tied (SLPP/UNF in nine LA's, ACMC/UNF in two, TNA/TMVP in two, CWC/UNF in one, SLFP/ SLPP in one, SLMC/SLPP/UPFA in one, SLMC/UNF in one, TNA/UNF in one and UNF/UPFA in one).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282600-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan local elections, Aftermath\nWith so many local authorities hung with no overall control the path was open for back-room deals between parties to take control of local authorities. As result the leadership of several local authorities was captured by a party other than that which won the most number of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods\n2018 Sri Lanka floods and landslides caused from an annual heavy southwest monsoon beginning around 19 May. As of 26 May 2018; the monsoon floods affected in about 19 districts, killed at least 21 people, about 150, 000 people were affected and further left approximately 23 people missing. The death casualties were reported from 22 May onwards in the provinces including South, Northwest, North and East. About 4 people were reported dead due to lightning, 5 people were killed due to floods and lightning, 8 people died due to drowning and further left 4 people dead resulting from fallen trees. The DMC report claimed about 400, 000 people have been displaced to safer locations. About 105 houses were reported to have fully damaged and over 4832 houses have been partially damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods\nThe red alert was issued to areas which are surrounded near rivers such as Kelani Ganga, Kalu Ganga, Gin Ganga and Nilwala Ganga. Residents who were living surrounding the red alerted areas were forced to be evacuated by security personnel. The reports also stated that the rivers Kelani river and Kalu river have been overflowing due to heavy flash floods. Further the Meteorological Department of Sri Lanka predicted further rainfall in the coming days especially in the south and west parts of the country before the conclusion of the monsoon season. After the end of the monsoon period, few parts of the country including commercial capital Colombo received torrential rains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, Causes\nThe southwest monsoon typically peaks during late May to the beginning of June in Sri Lanka, with prevailing winds from the south and southwest, streaming toward the Bay of Bengal. The areas that usually receive the heaviest rain are the south and west of the country, including Kalutara, Ratnapura, and Colombo. May is generally considered as the wettest month of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, Causes\nThe 2017 Sri Lanka floods affected 15 districts, killed at least 208 people and left a further 78 people missing. 698, 289 people were affected, while 11, 056 houses were partially damaged and another 2 093 houses completely destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, Floods\nThe annual southwest monsoon rains started from May 19 and caused severe damages throughout the nation with heavy rainfall causing flash floods. The flooding severely affected Sri Lanka's Sabaragamuwa Province, Central Province, Northern Province, Southern Province and Western Province leaving 13 dead, 23 missing and about 125, 954 have been affected by the floods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, Floods\nGampaha was one of the worst affected areas with having about 42, 973 people affected and 33, 832 had been sheltered in the area. 28, 328 were affected in Ratnapura, the second most affected area in the island due to the prevailing weather conditions. Puttalam also was one of the hardly hit areas with Ratnapura as it received about 122.7mm rainfall on 23 May within 24 hours. The Ministry of Disaster Management revealed that Ja-Ela was overflowing due to the rise of water levels of Attanagala Oya which is located in Attanagalla close to Ja-ela area. People living in low-lying areas near Ja-ela were earlier asked to displace to safer places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, Floods\nThe water levels of both Kelani river and Kalu river were assumed to be rising due to the heavy rain and leaving the Kaduwela-Biyagama bridge to submerge. On 24 May 2018, the bridge which connects both Kaduwela and Biyagama which lie in the Western Province was officially announced to be closed for 7 hours from 10pm until 5am on 25 May due to soil erosion. The roads in low-lying areas Kaduwela, Biyagama and Malwana were flooded with temporary closure was determined for the particular roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, Floods\nThe people who were living along the river banks were warned to be evacuated following the rise of river water levels in the entire country. The spill gates of Deduru Oya and other tanks were also opened as a result of extreme weather conditions. Unnichchei tank in Batticaloa also reached spill levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, Floods\nFurther landslide warnings were also issued to districts such as Colombo, Kegalle, Gampaha, Badulla, Kurunegala, Nuwara Eliya, Kalutara, Galle and Ratnapura as a result of the high rainfall. On 24 May, the Colombo-Hatton main road was blocked and disrupted due to landslides which caused traffic block in the main road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, Health issues, Spread of virus flu\nThe deadly virus flu which mainly affects the children and infants (most common type of virus among babies) was spread in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka including Galle, Hambantota, Tissamaharama and Matara following the monsoon rain season which affected the Southern region of the country. The particular virus was considered to be an unidentified viral fever initially since its outbreak and was later described to be a pneumonia. Nearly, cases related to the viral fever were increased with 50 percent in Southern Province since the start of the monsoon season from May 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, Health issues, Spread of virus flu\n14 people including 11 children were killed due to pneumonia with about 400 patients being treated at hospitals in the South. The health authorities in the country also warned there would be an increased risk of viral flu in the southern part of the island due to the prevailing inclement weather situation. Some preschools in Galle, Matara, Tissamaharama and Hambantota were scheduled closed for a week since the virus outbreak during the early month of May. However, later the health authorities stated that the viral fever which prevailed in down south region was under controlled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, Health issues, Spread of dengue, cholera\nThe Health Ministry of Sri Lanka warned people that diseases such as dengue, cholera, leptospirosis and other skin related disorders could spread in the areas affected by floods with flood waters receding in several districts after the end of monsoon period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, Response\nThe Sri Lanka Navy deployed 38 officials to help the affected people due to flash floods. The Sri Lanka Navy launched operations to rescue the affected people who were caught trapped due to heavy torrential rains at their homes in the Pothuvil area. The army also joined hands with the Sri Lankan Navy with starting the evacuation process by sending more than 100 soldiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, Response\nThe National Disaster Relief Services also donated 12.7 million rupees to the affected 12 district secretaries in order to address the issues of the affected people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, International response\nAustralia, UN - Australian government jointly with the UNICEF promised to raise funds as compensation during the monsoon period in Sri Lanka by signing a 3-year deal between 2018 and 2020 with the Sri Lankan government for AUD 750, 000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282601-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods, International response\nChina - China and Sri Lanka signed an agreement on constructing tunnels to prevent flooding situation in Colombo in the future following the deadly floods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282602-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sriwijaya F.C. season\nThe 2018 season was the Sriwijaya's 12th season in the club's football history. Along with Liga 1, the club will compete in Piala Indonesia. In the pre-season, Sriwijaya attended two competitions, 2018 Indonesia President's Cup and 2018 East Kalimantan Governor's Cup with resulted in third place and champion respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282602-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sriwijaya F.C. season, Month by month review, November 2017\nThe team has announced former T-Team coach, Rahmad Darmawan as their new head coach. He is also Sriwijaya's former coach from 2007 season to 2009 season. Several players from previous season left the club as their contract terms came to their end and the club didn't renew their contracts. Esteban Vizcarra, Makan Konat\u00e9, Adam Alis, Alfin Tuasalamony, and Yogi Rahardian joined the club not long after the appointment of the new coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282602-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sriwijaya F.C. season, Month by month review, December 2017\nThe club started their training for 2018 season on 4 December 2017 without their head coach due to his pilgrimage to Mecca. As of 8 December 2017, 13 new players had been signed for Sriwijaya, including 2017 AFC Cup best player and former FC Istiklol player, Manuchekhr Dzhalilov. However, two Semen Padang players, Irsyad Maulana and Agung Prasetyo cancelled from signing to Sriwijaya due to them accepted their previous club's new contract. Alberto Gon\u00e7alves and Esteban Vizcarra applied for Indonesian citizenship and expected to be completed before the new season league. The club held two friendly matches with local clubs with good results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282602-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sriwijaya F.C. season, Month by month review, January 2018\nSeveral new players signed for Sriwijaya in January 2018, including ex-Borneo FC, Patrich Wanggai. The club also held one more friendly match with local club before heading to Java to hold two more friendly matches in Cilegon and Bekasi. Then, the team went to Bandung to compete in 2018 Indonesia President's Cup Group A with Persib Bandung, PSMS Medan, and PSM Makassar, booked their place in quarterfinal as the group leader with two wins and one loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282602-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sriwijaya F.C. season, Month by month review, February 2018\nSriwijaya went into President's cup quarterfinal against Arema FC in Manahan Stadium, Surakarta and won against them with 3\u20131 score. The team failed to proceed to the final after they lost against Bali United by 0-1 aggregate. Sriwijaya won the third place of the cup after they defeated PSMS Medan with 4\u20130 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282602-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sriwijaya F.C. season, Month by month review, February 2018\nThe team went to Balikpapan to attend 2018 East Kalimantan Governor's Cup in Group B with Persiba Balikpapan, Madura United, and Persebaya Surabaya. After having a win streaks against Persiba and Madura United, the team played their second team and lose against Persebaya 0-2 and booked the second place in the group and faced Borneo FC in Samarinda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282602-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sriwijaya F.C. season, Month by month review, March 2018\nOn 2 March, Sriwijaya won against Borneo 5\u20134 in penalty shootout. In this match, Sriwijaya's wingback Marckho Meraudje was punched by two match officials on the corridor leading to the dressing room after being sent off by referee after a red card for his foul against Borneo player Abdur Rahman, sparking outrage from his club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282602-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sriwijaya F.C. season, Month by month review, March 2018\nOn 4 March, Sriwijaya won 2018 East Kalimantan Governor's Cup after defeating Arema 3\u20132. Four days later, the throphy was brought to a parade in Palembang as the team came back from Kalimantan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282602-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sriwijaya F.C. season, Month by month review, March 2018\nOn 25 March, Sriwijaya's first match was ended in an away draw against Borneo 0\u20130 in Samarinda. Under fears of the cup incident, the team played stagnantly in the first half of the match with little improvisation and predictable attack plans. The team situation improved in the second half with aggressive approaches and increased pace as the team spent less time in holding the ball and attacking more aggressively, but they can't score any goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282602-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Sriwijaya F.C. season, Month by month review, April 2018\nOn 1 April 2018, Sriwijaya earned their first home victory against Persib Bandung 3\u20131. The first half marked by a sluggish start by Sriwijaya as the home stunned by Ezechiel N\u2019Douassel in a counterattack, making Persib leads 1\u20130 against Sriwijaya. Two minutes on the second half, a long shot by Ezteban Viscarra equalised the score, then Sriwijaya leads the game 2-1 as Marckho Meraudje launched a strike to the upper left corner of the goal. Dzhalilov earned his first goal in the league as he ran onto Vizcarra's slide-rule pass before lifting his shot over Wirawan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282603-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 St Albans City and District Council election\nThe 2018 St Albans City and District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of St Albans City and District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282604-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. It saw the Green Party get the biggest vote growth, However the only seat change was in Rainhill where an Independent beat Labour. Elsewhere UKIP's Vote share collapsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282605-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 St Kilda Football Club season\nThe 2018 St Kilda Football Club season was the St Kilda Football Club's 120th season in the AFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282606-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 St Patrick's Athletic F.C. season\nThe 2018 season was St. Patrick's Athletic F.C. 's 89th year in existence and was the Supersaints' 67th consecutive season in the top flight of Irish football. It was the seventh year that Liam Buckley is the team's manager (in his current spell), following replacing Pete Mahon in December 2011. Buckley resigned from his post as manager on 25 September with assistant Ger O'Brien taking over for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282606-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 St Patrick's Athletic F.C. season\nIt was the first year of the new format of the League of Ireland Premier Division where by there will be 10 teams playing each other four times, twice home and twice away. On 19 December 2017 the fixtures were announced with Pat's down to play champions Cork City on the opening day of the season on 16 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282606-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 St Patrick's Athletic F.C. season, Squad, Squad statistics, Appearances, goals and cards\nNumber in brackets represents (appearances of which were substituted ON). Last updated \u2013 28 October 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 93], "content_span": [94, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282606-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 St Patrick's Athletic F.C. season, Squad, Squad statistics, Captains\nLast updated: 28 October 2018Source: Competitive match reports. Competitive matches onlyMatches started as captain onlyCountry: FIFA nationality; No. : Squad number; P: Position; Name: Player name; No. Games: Number of games started as captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282606-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 St Patrick's Athletic F.C. season, Club, Kit\nSupplier: UmbroSponsor(s): MIG Insurance Brokers (Front of Jersey)Bill Griffin Motors (Back of Jersey)Flomax.ie (Back of Jersey)Greenisle Hotel (Sleeves)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282606-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 St Patrick's Athletic F.C. season, Club, Kit\nThe club released a new home kit for the season, with the away kit being retained from the 2017 season. During the season, a new limited edition third kit was released for the friendly game with Newcastle United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282607-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 St. George Illawarra Dragons season\nThe 2018 St. George Illawarra Dragons season was the 20th in the joint venture club's history. The Dragons competed in the NRL's 2018 Telstra Premiership season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282607-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 St. George Illawarra Dragons season, Gains And Losses of Squad 2018, Ladder progression\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Opposition's Home gameX\u00a0\u2013 Bye*\u00a0\u2013 Golden point gameOpponent for round listed above margin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 92], "content_span": [93, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season\nThe 2018 St. Louis Cardinals season was the 137th for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB), a franchise in St. Louis, Missouri. It was the 127th season for the Cardinals in the National League (NL), and their 13th at Busch Stadium III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season\nForbes ranked the Cardinals as the seventh-highest valued team of the 30 teams in 2017 for its $1.9 billion valuation (+6%), with a $319 million revenue, and $40 million operating income. The Cardinals also had baseball's second-highest local television rating, averaging 7.18 on FS Midwest. On September 29, the Dodgers beat the Giants, keeping the Cardinals out of the playoffs for a third consecutive season, a first since 1997\u20131999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Busch Stadium update\nThe Cardinals removed several sections of seats in right field and began construction on a new mingling area like the ones at Coors Field (Colorado Rockies), and Petco Park (San Diego Padres). The area will have bars and open spaces from which to watch games, and it will be open to all fans at the ballpark. The Cardinals sold ticket subscriptions this past year, and such a mix zone in the ballpark would be a place to go for standing-room only. The area is scheduled to open with the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Busch Stadium update\nThe new space will be called Budweiser Terrace, renovating a 20,000 square feet (0.46 acres) area that cost the club 1,000 seats from six sections on the fourth level. In their place, they will be adding two full-service bars, standing areas, and lounge seating from which fans can still view the full playing field. This area will be used by live bands/DJs and for outdoor games, Cardinals Theme Ticket events and other pregame performances. Seating and lounge areas in the Budweiser Terrace will be available to fans on a first-come, first-served basis and will not require a special ticket for access. The renovations are scheduled to be completed ahead of the Cardinals' 2018 home opener on April 5. The website is: .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Injuries\nAdam Wainwright was scheduled to undergo elbow surgery on October 3, 2017, for a bone bruise there; he will have a piece of cartilage shaved down. Doctors said he will need six weeks of recovery before beginning rehabilitation. He last pitched two innings in relief on September 23, 2017, before the Cardinals shut him down for the remainder of 2017. He finished the season 12\u20135 with a 5.11 ERA. Only eight of his 23 starts registered as quality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Coaching staff changes\nThe Cardinals wasted no time making changes to personnel after the October 1, 2017, end to that frustrating baseball season with a third-place finish, their lowest since 2008. Pitching coach Derek Lilliquist and bullpen coach Blaise Ilsley were told on October 3, 2017, they would not be retained for the 2018 season. John Mozeliak, President of Baseball Operations noted that the organization would like to employ a pitching coach who is more willing to utilize advanced metrics and data compiled by the baseball operations staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Coaching staff changes\nThe Cardinals were among a growing number of teams to utilize an eight-man bullpen for the majority of the season, a move that came out of a league wide trend of starters not pitching as deeply into games. That has made in-game pitching decisions more complex and increasingly data driven. After posting a Major-League low 2.94 ERA in 2015, the Cardinals' team ERA jumped to 4.08 in 2016, and 4.01 in 2017. Those represented the club's highest season ERAs since Matheny took over as manager. Mozeliak said he expects the rest of manager Mike Matheny's staff to return in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Coaching staff changes\nThe exception to that is Ron \"Pop\" Warner, who stepped in as \"quality control coach\" when the organization underwent a midseason 2017 staff shakeup. Warner is likely to return to his previous role of assistant field coordinator. Bench coach for the past three seasons, David Bell, left the team on October 20, 2017, to become the vice president of player development for the San Francisco Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Coaching staff changes\nOn October 23, 2017, the Cardinals announced that Jose Oquendo, 54, would return as third base coach, after a two-year hiatus in which he recovered from multiple knee surgeries and served as a special assistant to the general manager at the team's Roger Dean Stadium (Jupiter, Florida) complex. Before his March 2016 leave of absence, he served for 16 years in that same job title, and played the majority of his 12-year career with the Cardinals, 1986\u201395. Former centerfielder and 1985 NL MVP, Willie McGee, 58, joins the coaching staff for the first time, not yet given a job title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Coaching staff changes\nHe was a special assistant to the GM in 2013, after an 18-year playing career; 13 with the Cardinals, 1982\u201390, 1996\u201399. He has become a regular guest instructor at Spring Training, and he made frequent visits to the organization's affiliates to assist with instruction. Mike Shildt, 48, has been promoted to bench coach from quality control and then third base coach in his 2017 position as a first-year coach, filling the vacancy left when David Bell accepted a job with the San Francisco Giants. Shildt previously managed for eight years in the Cardinals' farm system. Ron (\"Pop\") Warner will return to his role as assistant field coordinator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Coaching staff changes\nThree days after hiring their third base coach and bench coach, the Cardinals on October 26, hired long-time MLB pitching coach Mike Maddux, 56, older brother of Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux. Mike Maddux was the Washington Nationals pitching coach for the past two seasons. The Cardinals also promoted AAA-Memphis pitching coach Bryan Eversgerd, 48, as their new bullpen coach, who has been a pitching coach for 15 years, including the last five with Memphis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nOn November 2, LH Zach Duke, RH Lance Lynn, Juan Nicasio, and Seung Hwan Oh elected to be free agents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nOn November 6, the Cardinals decided to give an unconditional release to RH (former) closer Trevor Rosenthal, making him a free agent. He was in recovery from Tommy John surgery from August, making him unavailable for most of the 2018 season. Rosenthal was under team control for 2018, but the Cardinals would have had to pay him a salary well beyond what he would be able to pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nOther moves from the 40-man roster included removing SS Alex Mejia and C Alberto Rosario both outrighted to the AAA-Memphis Redbirds, bringing the roster down from 36 to 34, with Rosenthal on the 60-day disabled list. The Cardinals put a higher value on keeping a roster spot open for the coming season and this winter. They have a handful of prospects that must be added to the 40-man roster to be protected from the Rule 5 draft. The deadline to do that is November 20, 7pm CT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nAs expected, the Cardinals tendered a qualifying offer to RH starter Lance Lynn, 30. The one-year, $17.4-million deal will be rejected by Lynn as he enters free agency. It does mean that the Cardinals will secure a compensatory draft pick if Lynn signs with another team. That pick will come after the second round. Shortstop Paul DeJong is one of the top three vote-getters for the National League Rookie of the Year award. No other free agents with the Cardinals were offered a qualifying offer. Lynn has until 4pm CT on Thu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0008-0003", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nNovember 16 to decide whether to accept or decline the qualifying offer. He is expected to decline. If he signs elsewhere, the value of his new contract would not be a factor in determining the slot of that Competitive Balance Round B pick. He made a team-high 33 starts in 2017, finishing with an 11\u20138 record and 3.43 ERA. His home run rate (1.3 per nine innings) and walk rate (10.1 percent) were career highs, but Lynn's durability and career 124 ERA+ should make him one of the more attractive free-agent starters. Lynn rejected the qualifying offer, and became a first-time free agent, one of nine players in MLB who also rejected the $17.4 million one-year offer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nThe Cardinals receive a Competitive Balance Round A draft pick (#39), assigned between the first and second rounds because of the reverse order in the standings from the 2017 season. They will also pick #19 in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nThe Cardinals added four players to the 40-man roster before the 7pm CT deadline on November 20, to protect them from the Rule 5 draft, bringing the roster to 39. The categories are: 19 pitchers, 2 catchers, 9 infielders, and 9 outfielders. Protected are three in the team's Top 20 prospects: RHP Derian Gonzalez (22), LHP Austin Gomber (24 on Nov. 23, 2017; #15 prospect), plus two OF's: Tyler O'Neill (22; #4 prospect), and Oscar Mercado (22, #18 prospect).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nThe most notable player left unprotected by the Cardinals is corner infielder Patrick Wisdom, who slugged .507 with 25 doubles, 31 homers and 89 RBIs for AAA-Memphis last season. He will be available for Rule 5 selection, along with Daniel Poncedeleon, Matt Pearce, Trey Nielsen, Andrew Morales and others. Wisdom has been passed over in the Rule 5 Draft before. O'Neill was acquired in a Trade Deadline swap with the Seattle Mariners in July 2017, and the former third-round pick finished the year with 31 homers and 95 RBIs at the Triple-A level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nO'Neill has a career .850 OPS in the Minors. Gomber was a fourth-round selection by the Cardinals in the 2013 MLB Draft, he went 10\u20137 with a 3.34 ERA, 1.168 WHIP and 140 strikeouts over 143 innings at Double-A Springfield in '17. Mercado was drafted as a shortstop in the 2013 MLB Draft, he became a full-time outfielder for the first time in 2017. He coupled a smooth defensive transition with his best offensive season, slashing .287/.341/.428 with a .769 OPS in 120 games with Double-A Springfield. Mercado, then followed with a standout showing in the Arizona Fall League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0010-0003", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nGonzalez went 4\u20137 with a 4.33 ERA in 18 games (15 starts) for Class A Advanced Palm Beach last season. In 79 innings, Gonzalez struck out 72, walked 30 and posted a 1.37 WHIP. The Cardinals signed Gonzalez as a non-drafted free agent out of Venezuela in September 2012. Eligibility for the Rule 5 Draft is dependent upon how old a player was when he signed with the organization. Players who signed at the age of 18 or younger become eligible after five seasons. Those who were 19 or older have four years before they must be protected. This year's Rule 5 Draft is scheduled for December 14, the final day of baseball's Winter Meetings in Lake Buena Vista, FL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nSS Aledmys Diaz, 27, was traded for minor leaguer (A-level, Midwest League) OF prospect J.B. Woodman, 22, in the Toronto Blue Jays organization, on December 1, dropping the 40-man roster number to 38. Diaz hit .259 with a .682 OPS in 79 games. Woodman, the Jays' second-round Draft pick in 2016, was Toronto's No. 28 prospect according to MLBPipeline.com. The left-handed-hitting outfielder batted .240 with a .699 OPS, seven home runs and eight steals in 96 games for the Class A Lansing in 2017. Woodman, who turns 23 on Dec. 13, has mostly played center and right field. Starter Michael Wacha, OF'er Randal Grichuk, and LH-reliever Tyler Lyons, all arbitration-eligible, were unsurprisingly offered contracts for next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nOn December 5, the Cardinals signed RH starter Miles Mikolas, 29, in a two-year deal for $15.5 million. He had pitched in Japan (Yomiuri Giants) since 2015, with a record over 62 games of 31\u201313 with a 2.18 ERA, striking out 378 batters in 4242\u20443 innings. In 2017, he had an 8.13 strikeouts/walk rate. He last pitched in MLB for the Texas Rangers in 2014. He was born in Jupiter, Florida, where the Cardinals hold spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nOn December 8, the Cardinals failed to acquire Giancarlo Stanton, 28, the reigning NL MVP (2017, .281 59 HR, 132 RBI), when he turned down the Cardinals' trade offer to him, because of his no-trade clause with the Miami Marlins. He has 10 years and $295 million remaining from his November 2014 ($325 million, 13-years) contract, plus an after age-30 opt-out with the Marlins. A report by Craig Mish of SiriusXM late Thursday (December 7) indicated that Stanton would accept trades only to the Dodgers, Cubs, Yankees and Astros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nKnowing that they have been eliminated from the mix now allows the Cardinals to focus their attention elsewhere as they seek to upgrade the offense with the addition of a middle-of-the-order hitter. The Cardinals have prepared for this pivot by spending the last several weeks having conversations with other teams and agents about potential Plan B fits. Stanton later that same day, turned down an offer from the San Francisco Giants. Stanton has reportedly signed a deal, pending a physical, with the New York Yankees on December 9. Stanton said about the Cardinals and the Giants: \"But that just wasn't the fit for me. We (the Marlins and Cardinals) shared the same spring training, so I've noticed how they go about their business, how it's a winning-first culture, the fans, everything,\" Stanton said. \"It's a great organization.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 925]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nThe Cardinals announced the signing of free agent RH reliever Luke Gregerson, 33, on December 13. It was a reunion, because the Cardinals selected him back in the 28th round of the 2006 MLB Draft. Gregerson spent five years with the San Diego Padres before pitching for the Oakland A's and Houston Astros. He posted a 4.57 ERA and gave up 13 home runs in 61 innings pitched. But he has a career 3.02 ERA and a 9.1 K/9 rate over nine MLB seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nThe big impact bat the Cardinals were searching for happened on December 13, finalized on December 14, with the trade of Marcell Ozuna (LF), 27, from the Miami Marlins. The Cardinals gave up prospects Magneuris Sierra (OF), and pitchers Sandy Alcantara (RH), 22, the centerpiece of the deal, Zac Gallen (RH), 22, and Daniel Castano (LH), 23. Ozuna hit .312/.376/.548, 37 HR, 124 RBI in 2017. Ozuna will likely stay in left with the Cardinals, who plan to use Tommy Pham in center field and Dexter Fowler in right. It's an alignment the Cards can keep for at least the next two seasons, as Ozuna will not become a free agent until after the 2019 season. Castano, (LHP), 23, is unranked among the Cardinals' top 30 prospects, while Alcantara is the 9th-rated prospect, and Gallen the 13th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 877]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nThe Cardinals completed a deal with the Oakland Athletics also on December 14, trying to unload the outfield logjam, sending Stephen Piscotty (OF), 26, to them, in exchange for infield prospects Yairo Munoz, 22 (RH, SS), and Max Schrock, 23, (LH, 2b). Piscotty is a Bay Area native, took time off in 2017 to be with his mother, struggling with ALS. Piscotty hit .235/.342/.367, 9 HR, 39 RBIs (341 AB, 107 G) in 2017. Munoz, who signed with the A's in 2012, hit .267 in six Minor League seasons with Oakland, totaling 41 home runs in 473 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nHe hit .300 between Double-A Midland and Triple-A Nashville this year, and he plays multiple positions. He was ranked No. 13 among A's prospects by MLBPipeline.com. Schrock, primarily a second baseman, also had a nice season, earning a place on the Texas League Midseason and Postseason All-Star teams after batting .321 with seven homers and 46 RBIs for Midland. He was Oakland's No. 17 prospect The Cardinals gave Piscotty a six-year $33.5 million extension prior to his ill-fated 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nOn January 11, Randal Grichuk became the first of four arbitration-eligible players to reach an agreement as he signed a one-year $2.6 million contract. Grichuk made $557,200 in 2017, entered the offseason eligible for arbitration for the first time in his career. In 442 plate appearances last season, Grichuk slashed .238/.285/.473 for a .758 OPS. The deal comes one day before clubs and any remaining unsigned arbitration-eligible players will exchange desired salary figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nMichael Wacha, Marcell Ozuna, and Tyler Lyons, all of whom remain unsigned, need to find common ground with the Cardinals without bringing a third-party arbiter in to make the decision. The next day, the other three arbitration-eligible players signed contracts. All agreed to 1-year deals, and the amounts were not disclosed by the Cardinals, but MLB Network insider Jon Heyman said Ozuna's contract is worth $9 million up from $3.5 million. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Derrick Goold said Wacha's salary almost doubled from $2.775 million to $5.3 million. Tyler Lyons earned $549,800 in 2017, and will receive $1.2 million in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nPresident of Baseball Operations, John Mozeliak said on January 13, that (RHP) Luke Gregerson, 33, will be the new closer, \"going into the season. ... He has experience doing it.\" The former Houston Astro pitcher returns to the Cards' organization with 66 career saves, including 31 for the 2015 Houston Astros that made the postseason. He had a 4.57 ERA in 2017, while giving up 13 homers in 61 innings. But in his eight previous seasons, the highest ERA he ever posted was 3.28. And for his career, Gregerson has a 9.1 strikeout-per-nine-inning rate. In 2017, he was 2\u20133, with 1 save, walking 20, and giving up 62 hits with a 1.344 WHIP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nOn January 19, the Cardinals traded OF Randal Grichuk to the Toronto Blue Jays for two RH relievers: Dominic Leone, 26, and Connor Greene, 22. Leone ranked 12th among qualifying American League relievers with a 2.56 ERA last season and struck out 81 in 70 1/3 innings. Leone had success against both right-handed (.211 average) and left-handed (.183) batters, while posting a 1.05 WHIP and registering 11 holds. Leone stranded 78 percent of inherited runners, the 13th-highest percentage among AL relievers. The Cardinals will have him under team control for another four seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nGreene reached Double-A last year, and finished 5\u201310 with a 5.29 ERA in 26 games (25 starts). He struck out 92 and walked 83 over 132 2/3 innings. According to MLB Pipeline's scouting report, Greene features a fastball in the mid-to-upper 90s, as well as an above-average changeup. He is also developing a slider and curveball, both of which scouts believe will improve once he finds a more consistent release point. With the additions of Leone and Greene, the Cardinals' 40-man roster is once again full. This marks the second trade the Cardinals have made with the Blue Jays this winter. In December, the Cardinals dealt away shortstop Aledmys Diaz for Minor League outfielder J.B. Woodman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nEleven days (Feb. 2) before pitchers and catchers were to report (Feb. 13) to Spring Training, the Cardinals invited 23 players as Non-roster invites (NRI). Included are 10 pitchers, five catchers, six infielders, and two outfielders. The pitching prospects are headed by Dakota Hudson, Jordan Hicks, and Ryan Helsley, who are ranked 7, 13, and 22, respectively in the 2017 by MLB Pipeline. A snapshot of the 23 NRIs with their jersey's new numbers are listed at the reference. The beat writer (Goold) provides a status report on these NRIs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nThe Cardinals officially signed RH reliever Bud Norris on February 14. To make room for him on the 40-man roster, the team designated for assignment RH Rowan Wick. Wick was claimed off waivers on February 16, by the San Diego Padres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nFormer reliever and closer Jason Motte, 35, was signed to a minor league deal on February 19, and given an invite to Spring Training. He joins nine other NRI pitchers trying to make the roster. Motte steadily climbed the Cardinals' bullpen depth chart for six seasons after debuting with the club in 2008, elevating to the closer role late during the '11 season, and finishing with a NL-best 42 saves in 2012, with a 2.75 ERA and a career-high 72 innings. Using predominantly a fastball that could reach triple digits, Motte struck out 10.8 batters per nine innings that season, walking just 2.1 batters per nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nFrancisco Pena (C) was signed and given an invitation to spring training on February 23. He is left-handed in everything but throwing. No left-handed player has caught in the Major Leagues, even semi-regularly, since Fred Tenney in 1902. Francisco's father was former Cardinals' catcher Tony Pena for three seasons, 1987\u201389", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Off-season, Overview, Player acquisitions and departures\nFormer Cardinas' closer Edward Mujica, 33, was signed to a minor league contract on March 15, and got the save in the March 17 game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Schedule\nThe Cardinals announced their spring training schedule on November 2, 2017. They will play 30 games in the Grapefruit League starting on Friday, February 23, against the Miami Marlins, who share the Roger Dean Stadium complex with the Cardinals in Palm Beach. The schedule consists of 14 home games and 16 road games, with four of the latter at Roger Dean Stadium with the Marlins as the home team. Cardinals' pitchers and catchers are scheduled to report to Jupiter, Fla., on Tuesday, Feb. 13, while the rest of the team will report on Sunday, Feb. 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Schedule\nAfter their set of Spring Training games, the Cardinals will break camp on Sunday March 25, and play two exhibition games against the Toronto Blue Jays at Olympic Stadium in Montreal on March 26 and 27. The regular season will begin on Thursday, March 29, with a road game against the New York Mets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Schedule\nThe first physicals and official workouts began for pitchers and catchers on (Wed.) February 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Schedule\nThey were 3\u20133\u20130 (Feb. 23-Feb. 28), and 14\u201310\u20132 (Mar. 1\u201327) for a 17\u201313\u20132 (.567) record, fifth-best in the Grapefruit League. including the two exhibition games, Mar. 26\u201327) against the Toronto Blue Jays. in Olympic Stadium in Montreal, their first visit to Montreal since May 2004. March 26 game: W 5\u20133. March 27 game: L 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Miscellaneous\nTommy Pham (CF) was named to MLB writer Anthony Castrovince's \"2018 All-Underrated Team\" on February 7. Rookie Jack Flaherty will start the first Grapefruit League opener for the Cardinals against the Miami Marlins on (Fri.) February 23. He was 0\u20132 with a 6.33 ERA in six games (five starts) in 2017. MLBPipeline ranks him as the .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Miscellaneous\nPaul DeJong (SS), signed a six-year contract extension finalized on March 5, worth a guaranteed total of $26 million, through the 2023 season. The deal also includes two option years and a total possible value of $51.5 million, confirmed a source. The deal is one of the largest ever given to a player who has not had a full year of service. DeJong did not reach the majors until May 28 for the 2017 Cardinals, taking over the shortstop position, swatting a team-high 25 HRs as the #3 hitter in the lineup. He hit .285, with 65 RBIs, and his 25 HRs led all NL shortstops. He hit 38 HRs total in 2017, counting the 13 he hit for the AAA Memphis Redbirds. He was runner-up in the 2017 NL Rookie of the Year Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Miscellaneous\nOn the same day the Cardinals signed DeJong, they renewed Tommy Pham (CF) for 2018, three days before his 30th birthday, and he signed for $570,000; one of the largest contracts for a third-year player. Discussions on a two-year deal never went anywhere. Pham will be arbitration-eligible after this season. He came a few days shy of being arbitration-eligible because he was in the minors, cracking out production, for a few extra days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Miscellaneous\nFree agent and former Cardinals' starter Lance Lynn signed a one-year deal with the Minnesota Twins (AL) for $12 million. It was less than the $17.4 million in a qualifying offer the Cardinals extended to him in the off-season. Minnesota needed to strengthen their pitching that ranked 19th (of 30) with a 4.59 ERA in 2017. Lynn was 11\u20138, with a 3.43 ERA with 33 starts in 2017. The signing guarantees the Cardinals will secure a compensatory draft pick. That pick will come after the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Injuries\nTyler O'Neill (OF), 22, is battling a strained, left oblique muscle, and has yet to appear in a game, as of March 4. Arturo Reyes (P), who had an ankle injury at the start of camp, will rejoin the big-league camp. He's available to pitch in the coming days. There are 56 in major-league camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Injuries\nMatt Carpenter (INF) may not be ready by Opening Day, March 29, due to an ongoing back injury. No Cardinals' player has appeared in more games over the last five years than Carpenter, whom Matheny tabbed as his No. 3 hitter before camp opened. Nearly a month later, Carpenter has been one of the least visible players in camp, his days spent rehabbing in the trainer's room.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Injuries\nProspective closer Luke Gregerson was also battling an irritated oblique muscle, first reported on (Tue.) March 6. He will be held back for at least one week, and possibly two weeks. Spring Training ends on Sun. March 25. He has pitched three scoreless innings in Grapefruit League play this spring, but he had not pitched since March 20 because of a left hamstring sprain suffered after the oblique strain. He will start the season on the DL, manager Mike Matheny announced on March 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Injuries\nAnnounced on March 25, Adam Wainwright (#2 starter) will also begin the season on the disabled list, with a left hamstring strain, injured during conditioning drills. He will miss the home opener on April 5. Jack Flaherty will be the fifth starter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Cuts\nJordan Schafer, Jacob Woodford, Hector Mendoza, and Daniel Poncedelon, were four pitchers, plus catchers Jeremy Martinez and Dennis Ortega, and infielder Max Schrock, all seven on the NRI list, cut to minor-league camp following the 1\u20134 loss on March 4, leaving 17 on the NRI list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Cuts\nNine were cut on March 11. 46 now in camp. Optioned to AAA-Memphis were: Tyler O'Neill (OF), Edmundo Sosa (INF), and Austin Gomber (LHP). Optioned to AA-Springfield were: Derian Gonzalez (RHP), and Connor Greene (RHP). Reassigned 4 NRIs to minor-league camp were: Ryan Helsley (RHP), Dakota Hudson (RHP), and Arturo Reyes (RHP), and Tommy Edman (INF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Cuts\nSix players were optioned on March 18, including two of their top prospects. Jack Flaherty (RHP) and Carson Kelly (C), plus pitchers John Gant (RH) and Ryan Sherriff (LH), plus Breyvic Valera (2B), and Oscar Mercado (OF). Flaherty, the #2 Cardinals prospect, struck out 20 batters over 13 innings, forcing officials to look past his 4.85 ERA over four starts. Much of that was skewed by one bad inning against Baltimore, when he allowed a grand slam to Manny Machado. Kelly, the #3 Cardinals' prospect, went 3-for-30 (.100) this spring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Cuts\nThe Cardinals gave their former closer Jason Motte, 35, his unconditional release on March 21, but he has two days to find a job with another major league team. If he clears that two-day period without an offer, he can elect to return to the Cardinals and has already been told they have a spot for him. He would have to sign a new deal, as he'll be a free agent. If Motte agrees, he'll be assigned to Class AAA Memphis at that time, an official said. This series of moves is necessary because of the service time Motte has and his rights as a major-league free agent who agreed to a minor-league deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Cuts\nThree were optioned to AAA-Memphis on March 23. Josh Lucas (P), Luke Voit (1B), and Harrison Bader (OF) were the ones selected. Yairo Mu\u00f1oz, 23, had a terrific spring training, winning the final bench spot over Bader. Mu\u00f1oz's versatility gave him the edge over Bader, who is strictly an outfielder. Munoz played five positions, hitting .375/.423/.625 with 18 hits and 3 HRs, scoring 13 runs over 48 at-bats. The Cardinals expected Munoz to begin the year at AAA, where he held his own in 2017, after slugging through the Texas League. Munoz hit .289/.316/.414 in 65 games at AAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Cuts\nHe was acquired in the off-season trade that sent Stephen Piscotty to the Oakland Athletics. These cuts reduced the active roster to 26, with one more remaining between right-handers John Brebbia and Mike Mayers, for the final bullpen spot. Mu\u00f1oz has played shortstop, center field, right field, and second base. Manager Mike Matheny said on Mu\u00f1oz's varied skills, \"\"I haven't seen anyone whose two primary positions are center field and shortstop.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0040-0002", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Cuts\nLuke Gregerson (P), earlier troubled by an oblique strain, did not make a road trip from Jupiter because of a \"mild\" hamstring injury, and would be probable that since he was not fully healthy, would be played on the 10-day disabled list. He was targeted to be the Cardinals' closer, has pitched just three innings, retiring all nine hitters faced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Cuts\nFrancisco Pe\u00f1a (C), Mu\u00f1oz, Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez (OF), and Greg Garcia will make up a four-man bench, with 13 pitchers for Opening Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Cuts\nMike Mayers (RHP) and John Brebbia (RHP) will both be on the 25-man roster, with Luke Gregerson (10-day DL) and Alex Reyes probably on the 60-day DL. Mayers in spring training pitched 12 innings, striking out 13, giving up just five hits, with no runs, no walks. Gregerson has a grade 1 strain, the least severe, and will be out for at least two weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Cuts\nIn a stunning change of heart by the Cardinals in one week, High Class-A pitcher Jordan Hicks (RHP), 21, was promoted to the Opening Day roster on March 27, with John Brebbia optioned to AAA-Memphis. Hicks has a fastball that was clocked at 102\u00a0mph during spring training, and throws a fastball at 99\u00a0mph that has sink to it. He offsets that pitch with a slider that he can throw for a strike, and a changeup that showed greater command and depth this past spring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0043-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Cuts\nHe was demoted from big-league camp early because he had failed to be punctual for at least two mandatory team functions. To make room for Hicks and backup catcher Francisco Pe\u00f1a on the 40-man roster, the Cardinals will have to make two corresponding moves. They intend to designate a player for assignment, and not place Alex Reyes on the 60-day disabled list because that would push Reyes' return to May 28, at the earliest. Hicks, the , was 8\u20133 with a 2.74 ERA in 22 games (19 starts) split between Class A Peoria, and High Class-A in 2017. He struck out 95 batters, and allowed just three home runs in 105 Minor League innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training, Cuts\nIn the final tweaks to the roster for the regular season on March 28, Alex Reyes was placed on the regular 10-day DL, designated two players: infielder Breyvic Valera, and pitcher Josh Lucas. Francisco Pe\u00f1a was added to the 40-man roster, as was Jordan Hicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Season standings, National League head-to-head records\nThe October 1 tiebreaker games were regular-season games that are included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary\nThe Cardinals announced their 2018 schedule on September 12, 2017. They open on the road versus the New York Mets on March 29, their earliest date ever. A day off and then the March 31, and April 1 games complete that series. It will mark the first time the Cardinals have opened the season at Citi Field, and the team's first opener in New York since 1996, when the Mets still played at Shea Stadium. They host the Arizona D-backs in their home opener on April 5. First pitch at Busch Stadium that day is scheduled for 6:15\u00a0p.m. CT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0046-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary\nThe Cardinals are also slated to finish the season at Wrigley Field, marking the first time the Cardinals and Cubs will end the regular season against each other in Chicago since 1991. MLB pushed up the start of the 2018 season in order to accommodate the addition of four extra off-days during the six-month season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, Busch Stadium ranking\nBusch Stadium ranked third out of the 30 baseball stadiums by Forbes magazine on March 19. The methodology includes: overall aesthetics of the ballpark design, including integration with additional structures, such as in Baltimore and San Diego; its setting; the visuals from within the seating bowl or surrounding views; the amenities offered at the facility; historic relevance; and external development that adds to the experience. AT&T Park (San Francisco Giants), and Oriole Park (Baltimore Orioles) were one and two, respectively. Maury Brown ranked Busch Stadium third, \"thanks to the incredible views of the Gateway Arch and downtown St. Louis.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 78], "content_span": [79, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, Rawlings sold\nSt. Louis County-based Rawlings Sporting Goods (est. 1887) is sold from Newell Brands, announced on June 5, to a Los Angeles private equity firm, Seidler Equity Partners (SEP) owning LA Fitness, with MLB a co-investor in the $395 million deal. Rawlings employs 150 people in the St. Louis area, and 1,200 globally. The deal is expected to close by mid-July. Rawlings previously made some custom baseball gloves at its plant in Washington, Missouri, but no longer makes any baseball gloves in the United States, with the factory open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, Opening Day\nAs expected, Carlos Martinez was named on March 10 to start on Opening Day, March 29. Few aces are as undisputed as Martinez, who set career highs in starts, complete games, innings and strikeouts last season, when he made his second National League All-Star team. It will be his second consecutive Opening Day start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, Opening Day\nOpening Day did not go as planned with a disappointing loss to the New York Mets, 4\u20139. Carlos Martinez walked six, hit another batter, gave up five hits, and allowed five runs in 41\u20443 innings. Rookie reliever Jordan Hicks made his major-league debut, giving up an infield hit, but getting a double-play ball and then an inning-ending strikeout, his first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, March\nThe Cardinals found a closer in free agent Greg Holland (RHP), 32, reaching agreement with him a few hours before the first pitch on Opening Day. Making it official is contingent on him passing a physical. Holland signed a one-year deal for a reported $14 million. He led the NL with 41 saves last season with the Colorado Rockies, and had a 3.61 ERA in an MLB-best 58 games finished. He signed for less than the qualifying offer the Rockies offered this past winter, and the Cardinals lose a draft pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0051-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, March\nHolland missed all of 2016, recovering from Tommy John surgery. He recorded 166 saves in four seasons before the injury, including an NL-best 41 in 2017 with the Rockies. He won the NL's Comeback Player of the Year Award last season. He owns a 2.60 ERA over 377 career innings, and has struck out 11.9 per 9 IP over the course of his seven-year career. He went 3\u20136 with a 3.61 ERA for Colorado last season, when he struck out 70 batters in 57 1/3 innings. His numbers took a dive after the 2017 All-Star break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0051-0002", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, March\nHe saved 28 games with a 1.62 ERA in the first half, but saved only 13 with a 6.38 ERA in 26 games after it. In another last-minute change, the Cardinals decided on March 31 to make room for the now-finalized Holland purchase by delaying Alex Reyes return in changing his 10-day DL to the 60-day DL, which makes him ineligible to return until May 28. Holland was optioned to the High-A Palm Beach team for a required minimum of 10 days. Brett Cecil (LH reliever) was placed on the DL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, March\nIn another move on March 31, the team traded Josh Lucas (RH) to the Oakland A's for pitching prospect Casey Meinser (RH), 22, presently at the AA level. Lucas was DFA'd prior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, March\nFor MARCH, the team played two games, with a 0\u20132 record, scoring 6 runs, giving up 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nOn April 1, the Cardinals traded previously-DFA'd INF Breyvic Valera to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Johan Mieses (OF), 22. Mieses led the California League (High-A) with 28 home runs in 2016. He excelled at Class A Advanced (High-A) again last season, but struggled after a promotion to AA-Tulsa (Texas League), where he hit .160/.246/.347 over 90 games. He has been assigned to High-A Palm Beach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nJack Flaherty, 22, was optioned to AAA-Memphis on April 4, after pitching a masterful game at Milwaukee the night before. He struck out nine, and allowed one run over five innings against them. Adam Wainwright, 36, will return from the DL to make his first start, the home opener on (Thu.) April 5. He is a three-time All-Star over 12 seasons for the Birds. He missed six games and one start while on the disabled list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nRyan Sherriff, suffered a right great toe fracture from a hit ball on April 5, landing on the DL on April 8. John Brebbia was recalled from AAA-Memphis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nA bench-clearing incident that started with a vulgarity to Yadier Molina from Arizona Diamondbacks' manager Torey Lovullo in the second inning of the April 8 game, led to the ejection of only the manager. He was suspended for arguing balls and strikes on A.J. Pollock, with Molina suspended for making contact with home plate umpire Tim Timmons. Molina is appealing and will play until his appeal is heard; managers cannot appeal. On April 10, MLB gave one-game suspensions to both, and the manager was fined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0057-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nUmpire Timmons said the contact from Molina was incidental in going after the manager, and that is why he was not ejected. Crew chief Mike Winters said all details will be on his report, including the specific expletive used. Molina dropped his suspension appeal on the morning of April 11 for that afternoon game, and sat out the rubber game of the Brewers' series. Manager Matheny had planned to rest Molina, his first off-day after 11 consecutive games played from the start of the season, as it was a day game after a night game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nGreg Holland was recalled on April 9, with Mike Mayers optioned to AAA, with Holland making his Cardinals' debut that evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nSam Tuivailala was placed on the DL on April 12, with a left knee sprain, Mike Mayers was recalled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nOn April 13, at the end of the fifth inning against Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Yadier Molina passed the Reds' catching icon Johnny Bench for 13th place in MLB history, having caught 14,489.1 innings in his 15-year career. With the remaining four innings, Molina has 14,493.1 innings as catcher. Former Cardinals' catcher Ted Simmons is next on the list in 12th place, with 15,692.1 innings. The top catcher for innings is Iv\u00e1n Rodr\u00edguez, with 20,347.1 innings. Greg Garcia had his first career multi-homer day with two, plus a double, giving him 10 total bases, another career high. He had two home runs in 133 at-bats in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nJedd Gyorko and Luke Gregerson were activated from the DL on April 16, before the night's postponed game at Wrigley Field, that was to be nationally televised on ESPN. Mike Mayers and Yairo Munoz were optioned to AAA-Memphis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nRH-hitting OF Tyler O'Neill, 22, , was promoted to the majors before the April 19 game. John Brebbia was optioned to AAA. O'Neill enjoyed a torrid start at Memphis, which owns one of the best records in the Pacific Coast League. He hit .246/.321/.499 with 31 home runs in his first season at Triple-A in 2017. O'Neill is tied for the Minor League league in home runs with six, and presently hitting .388/.385/.837 with 18 RBIs across 12 games. Oblique and hamstring injuries limited O'Neill to just 12 at bats in Grapefruit League play this spring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0062-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nHe might be the strongest man in baseball, squatting 585 pounds (265\u00a0kg). He is the sixth Canadian-born (Burnaby, British Columbia) player currently on a big league roster, joining Nick Pivetta, Russell Martin, Joey Votto, James Paxton and John Axford. He made his major league debut later that day, striking out in his one at-bat as a pinch-hitter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nReliever Jordan Hicks got his first career win, pitching 2.1 innings, with a game-ending double play with the bases jammed on April 21, the team's sixth win in six games against Cincinnati this season, and the 10th consecutive win against the NL Central's last-place team, MLBs worst team, now 3\u201317 (.150). The last two losses by the Reds came after their previous manager, Bryan Price was dismissed after their April 18 loss in a dismal 3\u201315 (.167) start, in favor of interim manager Jim Riggleman. Price was 279\u2013387 (.419) with the Reds in his five years as manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nAdam Wainwright, 36, goes on the DL for the second time this season on April 22 (retroactive to April 20), with a right elbow inflammation. He has a history of elbow issues. He is 1\u20132, with a 3.45 ERA. He was scheduled to start on April 24, but with the team enjoying off-days on April 23 and April 30, reliever John Brebbia was recalled, team can get by with four starters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nJedd Gyorko hit his 100th career home run, and reliever John Brebbia got his first save in the 9\u20131 win against the New York Mets on April 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, April\nFor the month of APRIL, the club was 15\u201310 (.600), scoring 120 runs, giving up 86 in the 25 games, but ending the month on a three-game losing streak (at Pittsburgh) that dropped them out of first place in the NL Central, now in fourth place. For the season they are 15\u201312 (.556) 11\u20442 games out of first, with Chicago in first, followed by Pittsburgh (1\u20442 game behind), and Milwaukee (1.0 game behind) ahead of them'. For 2018, scored 126 runs, giving up 101 in their 27 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nManager Mike Matheny managed his 1,000th game on May 1, joining Tony La Russa, Red Schoendienst, and Whitey Herzog as managers of the Cardinals. Matheny's .560 winning percentage is the best of the four through 1,000 games, and the fifth-best in MLB since 1976. Matt Carpenter helped Matheny celebrate with his 100th career home run in the ninth, tying the game, leading to a win later that inning. Carpenter was hitting .155/.305/.274 going into the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nThe game after Matheny's 1,000th, Yadier Molina on May 2, passed Johnny Bench with his 1,743rd game catching, 16th all-time on the MLB catcher's list. Molina got the walk-off hit to win the May 1 game. He passed Bench on the career innings-caught list in April. In that May 2 game, starter Carlos Martinez hit his first career home run in the sixth inning, giving the team a 1\u20130 lead. It was only his seventh extra-base hit (six doubles) in a previous 227 plate appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0068-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nHe had not hit a batter for the first time this season, and for the first time in eight starts dating back to last year. The seven-game streak with at least one hit batsman tied for the third longest in baseball history. He earned his third win against one loss in seven starts, with a 1.40 ERA. In the next inning, Dexter Fowler hit a two-run home run, giving them a 3\u20130 lead that held up for a 3\u20132 win. It was his career 100th home run. He was hitting .161 before that at-bat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nRelievers Sam Tuivailala (R) and Ryan Sherriff (L) were both activated from the DL before the May 4 game. Austin Gomber (P) and Luke Voit (1B) were optioned to AAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nA few minutes after the end of the May 4 game, former Cardinals' superstar Albert Pujols, 38, playing 1B, became the 32nd major leaguer to get to the coveted 3,000 hit level with his Los Angeles Angels, against the home Seattle Mariners. He lined out in the first, walked and scored in the fourth, and got his 3,000th on a line drive single to right field in the fifth inning off former Cardinals' starter Mike Leake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0070-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nHe later added another hit for 3,001 surpassing the late Roberto Clemente (who was also 38 in his 3,000th and last hit of his career in 1972), for 31st place with his 33rd hit (129 AB) of 2018 in his 31st game. Pujols got 2,073 hits with the Cardinals (2001\u20132011), and 928 hits over the past 61\u20446 seasons. His 620 home runs rank seventh all-time. He is now hitting .256/.284/.450 (.733 OPS), with 6 HR, 19 RBI in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nCatcher Yadier Molina suffered a groin injury from a foul tip in the ninth inning of the wild afternoon game on May 5, with the Cardinals winning 8\u20136 in 10 innings after trailing early 0\u20134, and then 4\u20136 in the ninth, for the biggest comeback of the season. He underwent surgery that evening, and is expected to miss a month. He was hitting .272/.292/.456 (.748 OPS), with six home runs and 17 RBIs. It was revealed the following day that Molina had a traumatic hematoma that needed immediate medical help. He was plaed on the DL and Carson Kelly, 23, was recalled from Memphis. Dominic Leone (RH) reliever suffered a right biceps injury and was also placed on the DL, with Mike Mayers recalled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nThe first-place Cardinals, up by just 1\u20442 in the NL Central at 19\u201312, and 21\u20442 over the third-place Cubs had won the first two of the three-game series at Busch against their arch-rivals. Going for the sweep in the nationally televised ESPN game on May 6, they did it with their second consecutive extra-inning win after trailing in their half of the inning, with a two-run home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0072-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nThis night in a 14-inning 4\u20133 victory that featured a 30-minute rain delay in the first inning, and a 29-minute rain delay with the team batting in the third inning of the official 4:46 contest. Kolten Wong hit the first triple in the season after 31 games for the team without one, that tied the game at 2-all in the sixth inning. They were the last team in the majors to have a triple.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0072-0002", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nAfter the Cubs went ahead in the 14th 3\u20132 with a home run, the Cardinals stormed back in the bottom half after two outs, with an infield single by Harrison Bader, followed by a two-strike game-winning home run by the .156 hitting former Cub Dexter Fowler, who was 0-for-5 before the hit, to complete the sweep and their fifth consecutive win; still unbeaten in May. The win pushed them to a season-high eight games over .500 at 20\u201312 (.625), and a 11\u20442 game lead over second-place Milwaukee (20\u201315), 21\u20442 over surprising third-place Pittsburgh (19\u201316), and 31\u20442 over the 16\u201315 Cubs with 14 games remaining against them head-to-head.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nFormer Cardinals' outfielder Stephen Piscotty received condolences from MLB, his former team, and his current team (Oakland A's) after his mother Gretchen died of ALS on Sunday, May 6, at 55. The Cardinals traded Piscotty this past off-season in part so he could be closer to his family and help care for his mother, who was diagnosed with ALS in May 2017. The trade meant Piscotty would play home games just a short drive from his hometown of Pleasanton, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nAce starter Carlos Martinez was placed on the DL with a right lat strain, on May 10. Martinez was leading the NL with a 1.62 ERA, and led the Cardinals with 50 innings and 47 strikeouts. Mike Mayers was recalled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nOn May 11, the Cardinals activated Brett Cecil (LH) reliever from the DL, and placed Tyler Lyons (LH) reliever on the DL (retroactive to May 9) with a mid back strain. Lyons co-leads the team with 18 relief appearances, having a 1\u20130 record and 6.17 ERA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nA season-high five home runs (13 hits) against San Diego (now 14\u201326, .350 last in NL West) on May 11, in a 9\u20135 win, was the most for the Cardinals since June 16, 2017 against Baltimore. The three home runs in one inning (3rd) was the first time since April 6, 2012, with Carlos Beltran, Matt Holliday, and David Freese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0076-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nThe five home runs were by, in order: Paul DeJong (3-run HR, 2nd inn. ), Harrison Bader (3rd inn. ), Marcell Ozuna (3rd inn. ), Jedd Gyorko (3rd inn., and his 8th in 12 games against S.D. ), and Tommy Pham (2-run HR, 6th inn.). Gyorko was a former Padre, and is now batting .525 (21-for-40), prior to this game at .500, against his former team. Gyorko has 19 RBIs against his former team, and is being paid $2.5 million by the Padres. Petco Park had a very low HR index of 81, Batting Average of 92, and Runs at 83, in 2017, compared to the average NL park of 100. Busch Stadium's index numbers in 2017 were: 86 (HR), 99 (BA), and 89 (R).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nAdam Wainwright was activated from the DL on May 13 after missing 17 games (4 starts) with elbow inflammation. John Brebbia was optioned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nFor the third time in less than two months, Adam Wainwright, 36, was placed on the DL, the second time with right elbow inflammation, on May 15. He pitched 21\u20443 IP with a career-high six walks, and three hits on May 13. Jack Flaherty, 22, was recalled to start on May 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nRH-reliever Luke Gregerson has a right shoulder impingement, placing him on the DL before the May 16 afternoon game. He pitched 1\u20443 IP the night before, giving up two runs. John Brebbia was recalled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nFormer Cardinals' starter Lance Lynn, 31 on May 12 (wearing uniform #31), makes a start on May 16 against his former team, for the Minnesota Twins (AL), at Target Field. Lynn is 1\u20133, with a 7.34 ERA, in seven starts (164 batters faced), giving up 43 hits (6 HR), 25 walks, and 36 strikeouts in 341\u20443 innings for a 1.98 WHIP. Batters are hitting .312/.415/.522 (.936 OPS) against him. He is 6' 5\" and 280 pounds. The Cardinals beat their former teammate, 7\u20135, with Lynn only pitching three innings, giving up four hits and three runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0080-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nHe walked four and struck out five. His ERA is now 7.47 with a 1\u20134 record. At the one-quarter mark for 2018, the team is 23\u201317 (.575), third place in the NL Central, one game behind Pittsburgh (25\u201317, .595) and Milwaukee (26\u201318, .591) tied for first, with the Cubs at 22\u201318 (.550), two games behind. Cincinnati is far behind in fifth place 15\u201329 (.341).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nAnother player goes on the disabled list: Carson Kelly (C) was the one on May 17, with a right hamstring strain. AAA-Memphis catcher Steven Baron, 27, was recalled. To make room for Baron on the 40-man roster, Adam Wainwright was moved to the 60-day DL, with more tests planned after a number of them failed to reveal the source of pain in his reconstructed right elbow,. Kelly, 23, is 2-for-18 (.111) with one RBI at the plate in eight games. He joins seven other Cardinals on the DL, four others and Kelly in the past week. Baron signed as a Minor League free agent in December 2017, and returns the Majors for the first time since he appeared in four games for the Mariners in 2015. In 2018 at Memphis, he was hitting .153/.167/.186 with two doubles and two RBIs in 17 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nMay 18 saw two more Cardinals added to the long disabled list. Matt Bowman (RHP) has blisters on his right index and middle fingers. Paul DeJong (SS) has a fractured left hand after hit by a pitch in the eighth inning of the previous night's game. Yairo Munoz (INF) and Tyler O'Neill (OF) were recalled. The team now has 10 players on the disabled list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nA season-high 15 hits, and second-highest 12 runs in a 1-hour 35-minute rain delayed game, led to a 12\u20134 win over the Philadelphia Phillies, May 18. Rookie OF'er Tyler O'Neill got his first major league hit. Starter Michael Wacha got his fifth win, tying him with Miles Mikolas for the team lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nJack Flaherty, 22, was dominant in a 13-strikeout performance in 72\u20443 innings in a 5\u20131 win at Busch Stadium on a May 20 afternoon game. He gave up only two hits, including a home run in the fourth inning, walking only one. He allowed only three baserunners in 26 batters faced, a personal high of 120 pitches; 80 for strikes. It was his first major league win, after a 0\u20131 start over three previous starts totaling 152\u20443 innings and 14 strikeouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0084-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nHis ERA dropped to 2.31 and his WHIP from 1.34 to 1.03 leading all Cardinals' starters along with his 10.4 K's per nine. OF'er Tyler O'Neill hit his second home run in as many days, his first career home run in the May 19 game. Flaherty also got his first major league hit, a single in the third inning. His 13 strikeouts were the most since Carlos Martinez struck out the same number on Aug. 29, 2016. The 13 K's also were the most ever by a Cardinals' pitcher in his first 10 games, and the most this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nAnother highlight occurred in the ninth inning of that May 20 game, when reliever Jordan Hicks, 21, fired off the five fastest pitches of any pitcher in 2018. His sinker was recorded as high as 105\u00a0mph, passing Aroldis Chapman of the New York Yankees. In the previous May 19 game, he hit 103 on the radar gun for his fastest recorded pitch. Hicks owns eight of the 10 fastest pitches, and 13 of the top 20 this year. He and Chapman are the only two pitchers to hit 105\u00a0mph since Statcast began tracking pitches in 2008. Hicks twice hit 105\u00a0mph in that ninth inning against the one opposing hitter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nThe next game, against the cross-state Kansas City Royals on May 21, brought the team its first complete game, shutout of the season. Miles Mikolas went the full nine innings, giving up only four hits, walking one, striking out nine, in facing only 31 batters. He remains perfect at 6\u20130. It was his first major-league complete game and shutout. Playing in RF, Tyler O'Neill continued his hot hitting, complementing Mikolas' strong pitching. O'Neill hit his third home run in as many games, a three-run blast, and later added a double, driving in his fourth run of the night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0086-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nHe was 2-for-4, hitting .368/.409/.895 (7-for-19, one double, one walk, one hit-by-pitch, five strikeouts, and a sacrifice fly, five runs scored), for a terrific 1.304 OPS, with seven RBIs in only his 10th major league game. Matt Carpenter continued his breakout at-bats in the last six games from a season-long slump, going 3-for-4, including a double and his fourth home run. He is now hitting .210 with a .722 OPS after hitting a career low .140 after his first 39 games. Marcell Ozuna had the other RBI in the game, in a 2-for-3 night; now hitting .241 with a .607 OPS. Carpenter has hit 13-for-24 (.542) in his last six games including seven doubles and his fourth home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nIn a good news report for the Cardinals #1 prospect on May 21, it was decided that disabled pitcher Alex Reyes will join the starting rotation instead of going to the bullpen, when he comes off the 60-day list on May 28. He has had three rehabilitation assignments, with his final fourth scheduled for May 24, at AAA-Memphis. He will be prepped to possibly start the May 29 game against the Milwaukee Brewers at their home park. He enjoyed great success in his previous assignment, going 72\u20443 innings at AA-Springfield, striking out 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0087-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nHis final rehab start at AAA-Memphis on May 24, resulted in 13 strikeouts, including nine consecutively, in the win after 7 innings and 90 pitches, giving up only one hit, no runs, and two baserunners. He threw 23 scoreless innings across four rehab starts at four different levels. He struck out 44 and walked seven (82 batters faced), going 3\u20130. Reyes' major league start will be his first since Sept. 29, 2016. He went 4\u20131 with a 1.57 ERA in 12 appearances (five starts) in 2016, before injuring his right elbow in the spring of 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0087-0002", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nWhen Carlos Martinez returns from the DL, the team will have three high-powered arms: Reyes, Jack Flaherty, and Luke Weaver, fighting for two spots. Reyes, 23, will make his return start on Wednesday, May 30, the final series game against the Milwaukee Brewers, another team fighting for first-place in the NL Central. That game is televised only to active Facebook users, with no other networks allowed. The Cardinals are not planning any special restrictions on Reyes compared to any other of their pitchers. In delaying his return to the end of May by placing him on the 60-day DL, the club doesn't foresee having to shut him down for the post-season, if the Cardinals were to get there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nCarson Kelly (C) and LH-reliever Tyler Lyons are activated from the DL before the afternoon May 26 game at Pittsburgh. Reliever Greg Holland was placed on the DL with a right hip impingement. Steven Baron (C) was optioned to AAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nAlex Reyes, 23, returned to the active roster after missing all 52 games played while on the 60-day DL until his May 30 activation and starter against the NL Central Division leading Milwaukee Brewers. Dominic Leone (RH-reliever) was moved to the 60-day DL to make room on the 40-man roster, while Mike Mayers was optioned to make room on the 25-man roster. The 12:10pm game is not on any television network, only viewed on the Facebook platform, for the second time this season, on April 11, also against the Brewers. It is broadcast on KMOX radio, the flagship station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0089-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nHis first game back from Tommy John surgery did not go as expected. He was removed after only four innings, facing 15 batters in throwing only 73 pitches. He gave up no runs, but walked two and gave up three hits, striking out two. He was removed for a pinch-hitter in the fifth inning, with the team suffering the second loss in three games to the NL Central Division leaders (36\u201321), now trailing them by five games; three on the loss side at 29\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nAfter pitching his four innings, Reyes was again placed on the DL (10-day) the next day, May 31, with a right lat strain. LH-reliever Austin Gomber, 24, was recalled. He was 4\u20133 with a 3.60 ERA in nine starts at AAA-Memphis. He was Pacific Coast League Pitcher of the Week last week. John Gant (P) and Tyler O'Neill (OF) were optioned, with Mike Mayers (P) recalled, as was !B Luke Voit. Voit was batting .237 with one homer and 12 RBIs in 34 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nThe Cardinals placed more players on the DL in May than any of the other 29 major league teams, with 11. The New York Mets placed eight, and the Detroit Tigers (AL) placed seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, May\nFor the month of MAY, the club was 15\u201312 (.556), scoring 111 runs, giving up 111 in the 27 games, but ending the month on a thrilling, rare, come-from-behind (5 runs) win in the ninth, 10\u20138 at home against Pittsburgh. Exactly after 1\u20443rd of the season, they are 30\u201324 (.556) 41\u20442 games out of first, with Milwaukee in first (36\u201321), followed by Chicago 4 games behind (30\u201323), and then the Cardinals, with Pittsburgh 61\u20442 games behind (29\u201327), and Cincinnati 16 games back (20\u201337). For 2018, scored 237 runs, giving up 212 in their 54 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nAustin Gomber (LH-reliever), 24, made his major league debut on June 2, pitching three scoreless innings (sixth-through-eighth) giving up no hits, walking one, striking out two and inducing a double play. Kolten Wong hit his second walk-off HR of the year, to lead the team to a 3\u20132 win over the Pirates, who hold a 5\u20134 advantage with the fourth game of the weekend (Th.-Sun.) on June 3, out of 19 head-to-head. Marcell Ozuna hit his 100th career home run, fourth of the season, and first as a Cardinal at Busch Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0093-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nThe Cardinals lead the majors in 2018 with seven walk-off wins, with five of them via the home run. The game also marked the 1,000th game at this Busch Stadium III since its opening in 2006. The Cardinals are 590\u2013410 at home in that span, with their .590 home winning percentage ranking third behind only the L.A. Dodgers and N.Y. Yankees since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nMichael Wacha pitched eight scoreless no-hit innings at Busch Stadium on June 3, against the Pirates in the finale of their four-game set, taking three of four. Wacha's bid for a no-hitter was broken up by a pinch-hit single in the ninth, the 27th batter Wacha faced. Wacha gave up two earlier walks, striking out eight, throwing 111 pitches (74 strikes), now 7\u20131, 2.41 ERA. He was relieved by Jordan Hicks for the three outs to finish a team shutout, 5\u20130, with Marcell Ozuna's first-inning grand slam giving Wacha all the runs he would need. In 2013 (Sep. 24) as a 22-year-old rookie, he came within an out of no-hitting the Washington Nationals. The last Cardinals' no-hitter was September 3, 2001, by Bud Smith against the San Diego Padres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nJune 5, gave the team its star pitcher Carlos Martinez, and its star catcher Yadier Molina from the disabled list. Other roster changes include optioning reliever Mike Mayers, placing INF Greg Garcia on the paternity list, DFA backup catcher Steven Baron, and purchasing the contract of RH-reliever Preston Guilmet from AAA-Memphis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nAlex Reyes underwent season-ending surgery to reattach a tendon in his right lat on June 6. He pitched four innings and 73 pitches on May 30 before being removed. LH-reliever Ryan Sherriff also underwent Tommy John surgery on June 5, losing him for the remainder of the season. He made five appearances with the team in 2018, allowing four runs over 52\u20443 innings of relief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nAlbert Fred \"Red\" Schoendienst, wore the Cardinals' uniform longer than anybody else in the franchise's long and storied history, 67 years, with a total of 76 years in professional baseball in 2018. He died at his home in Town and Country, Missouri on June 6, 2018, at 95. The Germantown, Illinois native was part of baseball as a player (1945\u201356, 1961\u201363), coach (1964, 1979\u201395), manager (1965\u201376) and interim manager (1980, 1990) had been in his current executive role with the team since 1996. He was the oldest living member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, in 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nLH-reliever Tyler Lyons was placed on the DL with a left elbow strain, June 8, and recalled Mike Mayers for the sixth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nDaniel Poncedeleon (RH-starter) 26, is recalled, after a shocking fractured skull in May 2017 at AAA-Memphis from a line drive that hit him in the right temple. He was 5\u20132, 2.41 ERA with 49 hits, 2 HR, 35 walks, 71 strikeouts in 12 games (11 starts) for a 1.41 WHIP and .222 O-BA over 592\u20443 IP. He will become the fifth player to make his MLB debut for the Cardinals this season and the 23rd pitcher summoned to St. Louis. In 2017, the team used 25 pitchers in the season. Luke Voit (1B) optioned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nRed Schoendienst, will have his public funeral mass on Friday, June 15, at Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, at 10am. It will be broadcast on KPLR-TV11. The Cardinals most consistent hitter, #3 in the lineup Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez will be on the paternity list, fly to his native Venezuela, and will miss the three-game weekend series with the Cubs (June 15\u201317) to attend the birth of his second child. He is hitting 322/.391/.522 with 10 HR and 42 RBIs. Luke Voit will replace him at 1B. Red Schoendienst's life was celebrated at a two-hour Mass, with eulogies given by owner Bill DeWitt Jr., broadcaster and player for Red, Mike Shannon, Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson, and Red's daughter Colleen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nMatt Bowman was activated before the critical three-game Cubs series on June 15, restoring the full 25-man active roster. He missed 25 games since May 18. Daniel Poncedeleon was optioned, without getting into any games of the three while on the active roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0102-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nYadier Molina tied Gabby Hartnett's record of 1,756 games caught for one team on June 17. Hartnett played 19 years, Molina is in his 15th year. John Brebbia recorded his first major league win, salvaging the ESPN-televised final game (5\u20130) of the three with the Cubs (40\u201328). The Cardinals (37\u201332) are 31\u20442 games behind them for second, with Milwaukee 1\u20442 game ahead (42\u201329) in the Central Division. He set the major league record of 1,757 games caught for one team in the next game, June 18, and will continue to add for each game caught for the Cardinals until his expected retirement after the 2020 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0103-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nMarcell Ozuna, 27, was named NL Player of the Week for the week of June 11\u201317. Ozuna hit .455/.478/1.000 (10-for-22, 1.478 OPS) with four home runs and eight RBIs in six games last week, raising his average from .282 to .294. He hit .260/.308/.337 (.645 OPS) with three home runs in the first two months of the season (50 games), and he is slashing .411/.450/.821 (1.271 OPS) with seven homers through 15 games in June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0104-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nA franchise record 19 strikeouts for Cardinals' batters was one reason for a frustrating 5\u20136 loss in 10-inn. at Philadelphia on June 18, after fighting back to a 5\u20134 lead in the top of the 10th until 2-outs in the bottom of that inning. Miles Mikolas started the game, and after the first inning, trailed 0\u20134, with the Cardinals striking out during the game at a rate rarely seen in their 126-year NL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0104-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nThe team trailed with 2-outs in the top of the 9th with a runner on third base, when a third strike on Yairo Munoz eluded the Phillies' catcher, allowing Yadier Molina to score and the Cardinals to tie it at 4\u20134. They went ahead in the 10th from a solo Tommy Pham home run, happily setting up for a remarkable come-from-behind win in the bottom half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0104-0002", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nBut reliever Matt Bowman could not get the third out after issuing a hit, and then after an out moved him to second, manager Matheny ordered an intentional walk to their best hitter, Carlos Santana. The next batter made the second out, but Aaron Altherr delivered the crushing blow: a sinking, game-winning double to left that Marcell Ozuna came within inches of catching in a dive for it that would have ended the game in a 5\u20134 win for the Birds. Ozuna later said he would have caught it if it hadn't sunk at the last moment. Statcast said he had only a 4% chance of catching it, having to cover 47 feet toward the left-field line in only 3.1 seconds. It was the Cardnals' fifth loss in six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0105-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nMatt Bowman was placed back on the DL with blisters on his middle finger June 19, only four days after re-activated from the DL due to blistering. Greg Holland was activated from the DL to take his place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0106-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nIn the June 20 game, Michael Wacha strained his left oblique in the fourth inning at Philadelphia. He is likely headed to the disabled list. He was off to the best start of his career as he entered the day 8\u20132 with a 3.24 ERA. He was added to the DL on June 21. John Gant, 25, was recalled for the third time. he is 5\u20131, 1.65 ERA, with 42 strikeouts in 49 IP in eight starts at AAA-Memphis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0107-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nJohn Gant, replacing the injured Michael Wacha in the rotation, threw a one-hit shutout for seven innings against the AL Cleveland Indians on June 25, after a 1-hour 21-min rain delay. Gant gave up the strange infield hit when the ground ball in the second inning hit the third base bag, bouncing high in the air, making a throw to first impossible to retire the batter. Bud Norris got his 15th save. The 4\u20130 win, the team's third consecutive, snapped the Indians' seven-game winning streak who outscored their opponents 54\u20139 in those games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0107-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nTheir 41st win (36 losses) also was significant as the 10,000th NL win for the Cardinals in their 127 years in that league's play, becoming the sixth team to do so. Gant had only one win of the previous 9,999 until his brilliant second win. The franchise is credited with 10,780 total wins counting the 10 years 1882\u20131891 in the American Association league, joining the NL in 1892. The other NL teams are the Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Since joining the NL in 1892, only the Giants, Dodgers, and Yankees have won more games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0108-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nMatt Carpenter, had a career night in a five-for-five game with three RBIs on June 26. The team had to endure another rain delay: this delay was five minutes longer than last night's game, 1-hour 26-minutes, but buried the Indians in an 11\u20132 rout, with 13 hits, for the team's fourth straight win (42\u201336). Cleveland's ace Corey Kluber suffered the shortest start of his career in 1.2 innings, giving up six runs, six hits including two home runs. He is now 11\u20134 in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0108-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nJose Martinez hit a three-run home run to end Kluber's night to highlight a five-run second inning, that boosted them to a 6\u20132 lead they would not relinquish. Carpenter's night included two singles, a double, and bookend home runs in the first and eighth innings. His leadoff home run was the 18th of his career, trailing only Lou Brock's 21 in Cardinals' history. it was his second career five-for-five game, and he became the first Cardinals' player to have five hits, five runs, and two home runs in a game. For the month of June over the past 20 games, he has eight home runs, scored 22, with 15 RBIs, and jumped his average from .140 to .259.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0109-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nOn June 29, the Cardinals claimed LH-reliever, Tyler Webb, 27, off-waivers from the San Diego Padres. Webb has been assigned to AAA-Memphis. To make room for him on the 40-man roster, Alex Reyes was transferred to the 60-day disabled list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0110-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, June\nFor the month of JUNE, the team was 12\u201315 (.444), scoring 108 runs, giving up 126 in the 27 games. Exactly at the half-way mark of the season (HOME: 23\u201321, AWAY: 19\u201318), they are 42\u201339 (.519) 51\u20442 games out of first, with Milwaukee in first (48\u201334), followed by Chicago 11\u20442 games behind (46\u201335), and then the Cardinals, with Pittsburgh 9 games behind (39\u201343), and Cincinnati 131\u20442 games back (35\u201348). For 2018, scored 345 runs, giving up 338 in their 81 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0111-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nDexter Fowler was given a three-day paternity leave on July 2, for the impending birth of his second child. Tyler O'Neill was recalled from AAA-Memphis, where he was hitting .304 with 19 home runs and 48 RBIs. With the Cardinals in 2018, he hit .237 with three home runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0112-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nThe team acquired Philadelphia Phillies AA-level Elniery Garcia, 23, a lefty starter, for a portion of their $5-million international spending purse on July 5. He is 0\u20136 with a 6.38 ERA in 10 games (nine starts). In 421\u20443 innings, he's allowed 30 earned runs (and 11 unearned runs) to go with 21 walks against 29 strikeouts. The lefty has also been on and off the disabled list most of the season with foot and leg injuries, presently on the disabled list with turf toe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0113-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nDexter Fowler was activated from his three-day paternity leave on July 5. Matt Bowman was activated from the disabled list, and optioned to AAA-Memphis. Tyler O'Neill was placed on the disabled list with a left groin sprain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0114-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nSS Paul DeJong was activated from the disabled list on July 6, after missing 45 games since May 18. RH-reliever Austin Gomber was optioned to AAA-Memphis. RF Harrison Bader and INF-SS Yairo Munoz were kept. Munoz hit in 40 games (32 starts) batting .302/.341/.429. with four home runs, and 19 RBIs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0115-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nStarting pitcher Miles Mikolas (10\u20133, 2.65 ERA as of July 8) was picked to represent the Cardinals for the NL pitching staff in the 2018 All-Star Game on July 17 in Washington, D.C.'s Nationals Park. As he will be starting the Sunday (July 15) prior to the All-Star Game, so by the rules on starting pitchers who pitch that Sunday he will not pitch, taken off the official roster and replaced, but still be invited at Nationals Park for the festivities. This his first official All-Star Game. His wife suddenly went into labor, with twins, earlier than expected, prompting Mikolas to fly to his home in Jupiter, Florida from Washington, D.C. on Monday, July 16, and miss all the All-Star Game festivities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0116-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nCatcher Yadier Molina, 35 (36 on July 13) replaces Buster Posey on the July 17 All-Star Game roster, due to Posey's ailing hip. It will be the ninth time Molina has made an All-Star roster. This ties Bob Gibson and Albert Pujols, each of whom earned nine such selections as Cardinals. Only Joe Medwick (10), Red Schoendienst (10), Enos Slaughter (10), Ken Boyer (11), Ozzie Smith (14), and Stan Musial (24) had more. Since his first All-Star selection in 2009, Molina has been left off the NL roster only once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0116-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nMolina is in the midst of his best offensive season since 2012, when he finished fourth in the NL Most Valuable Player vote. His .500 slugging percentage ranks second-best among NL catchers, and he's tied for the league lead among catchers with 13 home runs. He ranks fourth at his position in both batting average (.279) and RBIs (38).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0117-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nLuke Gregerson (R) and Tyler Lyons (L) were activated from the DL on July 13. Gregerson missed 52 games, Lyons 31. Starter Luke Weaver and reliever John Brebbia were optioned. With off-days from the All-Star Game, the team won't need five starters until after the break. John Gant shifted from starter to bullpen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0118-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nAfter two consecutive lopsided home losses to the last-place in the Central Division Cincinnati Reds (43\u201352 .453) dropping the team to 47\u201346 (.505) in third place, now seven games behind the division leading Cubs (53\u201338 .582) and second place Milwaukee Brewers (55\u201342 .567) by six games, with the Pirates right behind them in fourth place at 47\u201349 (.490), the Cardinals dismissed manager Mike Matheny that July 14 (Saturday) night, the day before the final game before the All-Star break. Also dismissed were hitting coach John Mabry and assistant hitting coach Bill Mueller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0118-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nBench coach Mike Shildt will take over as interim manager. Matheny since his hiring, managed from 2012. His record after 1,065 games was 591\u2013474 (.555). His record after the first four years was 375\u2013273 (.579), but these last 2.57 years his record was only 216\u2013201 (.518). The team leads all of MLB with a lowest .978 fielding average, and 75 errors (92 games; now 77, with 2 more in game 93), with the NL team average making 53 errors. The Cardinals announced on its an 11am press conference Sunday morning to discuss the firings and further staff changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0118-0002", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nAt the news conference, chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. said, \"it was time for a fresh voice and some new leadership\" in dismissing Matheny, Mabry, and Mueller. Mark Budaska, 65, was announced as the new batting coach. Budaska was their hitting coach at AAA-Memphis for years. George Greer, 71, a hitting coordinator in the minors is the new hitting coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0119-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nThe new manager, Mike Shildt, 49 (50 on Aug. 9), won his first major league game, 6\u20134, on July 15 at home. The 45,808 attendance made the Cardinals the second major league team (Los Angeles Dodgers, 2,382,991 in 51 home games) to pass the 2-million tickets sold. They have sold 2,030,250 tickets in 48 home games (24\u201324; 195 Runs, 206 Runs against), road record is 24\u201322, 218 Runs, 196 Runs against.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0119-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nLeading off in the game, Matt Carpenter hit his fifth leadoff home run in 2018, second consecutive game hitting a leadoff homer (19th in 2018), with the five in 2018 tying his own Cardinals record from 2015, set by Lou Brock (1967, 1970), and Ray Lankford (1994). It was also Carpenter's 20th leadoff home run of his career, one behind the Cardinals' record of 21, set by Brock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0120-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nMiles Mikolas, was placed on the paternity list (Wed.) July 18, up to three days, to attend the birth of twins, with wife Lauren previously saying she was not expecting until September. Reliever Matt Bowman will join the roster until Mikolas returns. Mikolas is scheduled to start the final game of the five-game series in Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0121-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nManager Shildt named Ron \"Pop\" Warner, 49, as his new bench coach on July 19, replacing himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0122-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nMatt Carpenter tied the Cardinals' franchise record held by Lou Brock, with his 21st lead-off home run on, and 21st for the season on July 20, plus a new franchise record six lead-off HRs in a season. But, he wasn't finished setting records for the game. He hit two more HRs, his 22nd and 23rd, plus two doubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0122-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nHe became the first Cardinals' player and only the second in MLB history (the Cubs' Kris Bryant) to have three HRs and two doubles in a game, going 5\u2013for\u20135 and doing it all by the first six innings, in an 18\u20135 thrashing of the Cubs at Wrigley Field. He scored four runs with a career\u2013high seven RBIs, and tied a franchise\u2013record 16 total bases, surpassing Albert Pujols' 15, set on this same date 14 years ago (2004). The co\u2013holder with 16 total bases is Mark Whiten with his MLB\u2013record 4 HRs on September 7, 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0122-0002", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nCarpenter set an MLB record with the five extra\u2013base hits in the first six innings of a game. His averages jumped from .262/.371/.532 and .904 OPS to .274/.381/.576 and .958 OPS. The team hit a season\u2013high with the 18 runs, and the same for the 18 hits. The 18 hits included five doubles and five HRs. He started his first 140 plate appearances hitting a weak .140/.286/.272 and .558 OPS. Since then, Carpenter has pulled his season OPS up to .958 by hitting .346/.435/.738. The 18 runs scored has not been done by the Cardinals since August 22, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0123-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nBefore the third game against the Cubs on July 21, the Cardinals placed Carlos Martinez on the 10-day DL from a right oblique strain (backdated to July 20), from the last inning of his July 19 start. Recalled John Brebbia, a long reliever. Optioned Matt Bowman. Miles Mikolas activated from the paternity list, and added Luke Weaver as the 26th man for the doubleheader that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0124-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nMatt Carpenter becomes the first Cardinal player, and 28th in MLB history to hit a HR in six consecutive games in the same season, with one in each of the July 21 doubleheader games at Wrigley Field. He also became the only player to hit six HRs in a series at that stadium. He has hit eight HRs in 12 games against the Cubs in 2018, and the first Cardinal to have 12 consecutive hits go for extra bases. He has slugged .761 and 1.202 OPS over his past 58 games, and credits his secret salsa recipe for his resurgence. The record for consecutive HR games is eight, held by Dale Long, Don Mattingly, and Ken Griffey Jr..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0125-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nThe St. Louis market is #1 nationally among individual teams' local telecast ratings, and again had a strong performance in viewers for the 2018 All-Star Game and Home Run Derby. St. Louis ranked second for Fox's telecast of the game (KTVI, Channel 2), and tied for 10th for the Derby (on ESPN). It marked at least the 17th consecutive year that St. Louis has outperformed the national average \u2014 often by a significant amount. Ratings for the events are readily available dating to 2002. Nationally, the All-Star Game received a 5.2 rating, while in St. Louis it got double, a 10.3. The HR Derby got 3.2 nationally, but 4.9 in St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0126-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nMatt Carpenter became the second Cardinals' player in 2018 to be named the NL Player of the Week on July 23, for the shortened week July 19\u201322 (All-Star Game break), hitting .529/.620/1.706 (2.325 OPS), with his 9\u2013for\u201317 performance in 5 games, including 2 Doubles, 6 HRs, 3 Walks, 8 Runs, and 10 RBIs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0127-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nDaniel Poncedeleon (RHP), 26, made his major league debut after his recall on July 23. His start comes less than 15 months since having emergency brain surgery after being hit with a comebacker on the forehead at AAA\u2013Memphis. He became one of the best PCL starters, at 9\u20133, 2.15 ERA in 18 games (17 starts). Kolten Wong goes on the disabled list with a left knee inflammation. He pitched seven scoreless and hitless innings, before lifted after throwing 116 pitches (75 strikes), facing 24 batters with six groundouts and the same for flyouts. He walked three, with three strikeouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0127-0001", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nHe became the fifth pitcher to carry a no\u2013hitter through seven innings in his MLB debut in the Expansion Era (1962), coming all the way back from his near\u2013fatal head injury in May 2017. Leaving with a 1\u20130 lead, the Cardinals got through the eighth inning, but closer Bud Norris gave up a game\u2013tying home run with two outs in the ninth, and lost the game 1\u20132 later that inning at Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0128-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nAfter 100 games played with the loss on July 23, the Cardinals fell to 50\u201350 (.500), with 24\u201324 at home and 26\u201326 on the road. Now in fourth place in the NL Central, 81\u20442 games behind the Cubs, and 11\u20442 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0129-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season summary, July\nThe day after starter Daniel Poncedeleon made his dazzling MLB debut, he was optioned to AAA on July 24, so that lefty starter Austin Gomber can be recalled and make his first major league start. Gomber is 0\u20130, 3.77 ERA in 15 appearances (14.1 IP, 11 hits, 1 HR, 8 walks, 2 hit batters, 10 strikeouts, a .233 Opp\u2013BA, 1.33 WHIP in 59 batters faced) as a reliever this year, and was 7\u20133, 3.42 ERA in 12 games (11 starts) at AAA\u2013Memphis. The Cardinals' relief corps has allowed 21 runs in six games since the All-Star break, a 2\u20134 stretch pushing them down to .500 and fourth place in the NL Central.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0130-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Schedule and results\nMost games are broadcast on Fox Sports Midwest, unless noted on the game dates. The April 11 home game against the Brewers has the distinction of one of 25 weekday afternoon games with a video broadcast only on Facebook Watch. The Cardinals won't be allowed to broadcast the game on Fox Sports Midwest. Facebook said on March 9, that recorded broadcasts also will be available globally, excluding select international markets. The away game against the Brewers on May 30, is also an exclusive Facebook broadcast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0131-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Schedule and results, Game log\nLegend:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 = Win\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 = Loss\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 = PostponementBold = Cardinals player", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0132-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Statistics, Batting statistics\nBelow double line: Ranked by AB regardless of position for position players / Role, then IP for pitchers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0133-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Statistics, Batting statistics\nPlayers in italics not on active roster BOLD = leads team / NL in category", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0134-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Statistics, Pitching statistics\nBelow double line: Ranked by AB regardless of position for position players / Role, then IP for pitchers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0135-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Statistics, Pitching statistics\nPlayers in italics not on active roster BOLD = leads team / NL in category", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282608-0136-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Louis Cardinals season, Minor league system and first-year player draft, Major League Baseball draft\nThe 2018 Major League Baseball (MLB) First-Year Player Draft will begin on Monday, June 4, 2018, at Secaucus, NJ, and ends on June 6. The draft will assign amateur baseball players to MLB teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 109], "content_span": [110, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282609-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy\nThe 2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 9th edition of the tournament and third time as a WTA Premier tournament. It was part of the 2018 WTA Tour and was held between 29 January and 4 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282609-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy, Prize money\n1Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money. *per team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282609-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282609-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282610-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nJe\u013cena Ostapenko and Alicja Rosolska were the defending champions, but Ostapenko chose not to participate this year. Rosolska played alongside Lara Arruabarrena, but lost in the first round to Alla Kudryavtseva and Katarina Srebotnik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282610-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nFirst-time pairings Timea Bacsinszky and Vera Zvonareva won the title, defeating Kudryavtseva and Srebotnik in the final, 2\u20136, 6\u20131, [10\u20133].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282611-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy \u2013 Singles\nKristina Mladenovic was the defending champion, but lost in the final to unseeded Petra Kvitov\u00e1, 1\u20136, 2\u20136. As a result, Kvitov\u00e1 became the first left-handed player to win a singles title in Russia. She was also the first wildcard to win the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282611-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282612-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Open\nThe 2018 St. Petersburg Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was be the 23rd edition of the St. Petersburg Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Sibur Arena in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from September 17 through 23, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282612-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282612-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282613-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Open \u2013 Doubles\nRoman Jebav\u00fd and Matw\u00e9 Middelkoop were the defending champions, but lost in the final to Matteo Berrettini and Fabio Fognini, 6\u20137(6\u20138), 6\u20137(4\u20137).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282614-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Open \u2013 Singles\nDamir D\u017eumhur was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Stan Wawrinka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282614-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Open \u2013 Singles\nDominic Thiem won the title after defeating Martin Kli\u017ean 6\u20133, 6\u20131 in the final. Notably, this was Kli\u017ean's first defeat in a deciding match, after 10 consecutive titles at ATP World Tour level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282614-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Open \u2013 Singles\nThe tournament marked the last appearance of Mikhail Youzhny in professional tennis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282614-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 St. Petersburg Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282615-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stab\u00e6k Fotball season\nThe 2018 season is Stab\u00e6k's fifth season back in the Eliteserien following their relegation in 2012, their 22nd season in the top flight of Norwegian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282615-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stab\u00e6k Fotball season\nThe season was marred by several long-term injuries, mostly sustained in pre-season or even the previous season. Moussa Njie missed the first half of the season due to an ankle injury, Luc Kassi due to a thigh injury, and H\u00e5kon Skogseid with a hip. Raymond Gyasi broke his leg in late March whereas Steinar Str\u00f8mnes sustained a head injury in a B-team match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282615-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stab\u00e6k Fotball season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282615-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stab\u00e6k Fotball season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282615-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Stab\u00e6k Fotball season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282615-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Stab\u00e6k Fotball season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282615-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Stab\u00e6k Fotball season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season\nThe 2018 Speed Energy Stadium Super Trucks season was the sixth season of the Stadium Super Trucks series. The season consisted of 20 races; it began on January 27, 2018 at Lake Elsinore Diamond and concluded on January 20, 2019 at Foro Sol in conjunction with the 2019 Race of Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season\nWith a series-high six wins and 540 total points, Matthew Brabham won his first championship. Gavin Harlien finished second in the standings with 490 points and five wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season, Season summary\nThe season began at the Lake Elsinore Diamond, where the 2017 finale had been held. Apdaly Lopez won the Feature event, but confusion arose in the days following the race as multiple drivers took the Joker Lap on the final lap, which is not allowed per series rules. After video review by series officials, Bill Hynes \u2013 who ran the Joker on the penultimate lap \u2013 was declared the winner, though Lopez was allowed to keep his win. Matthew Brabham, who finished seventh, was also revealed to have utilized the same strategy as Hynes, and had his finishing position upgraded to second alongside Jeff Hoffman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season, Season summary\nA tripleheader at Australia's Adelaide Street Circuit followed. In the first race, rookie Cole Potts took advantage of Robby Gordon's transmission problem and Brabham locking his brakes entering a turn to win his first SST race. Gordon rebounded to win the second, while Brabham won the final round; Gordon had been in position to win the third race when he entered the final corner too deep, allowing Brabham to capitalize and win. Behind him, Gavin Harlien's truck landed off a jump at a poor angle, resulting in a broken right rear wheel that caused him to hit the wall. Harlien continued to accelerate until he crossed the start/finish line to finish sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season, Season summary\nAt the Grand Prix of Long Beach, the first race was stopped after Apdaly Lopez rolled his truck with 17 minutes left; race officials chose not to resume the event and leader Harlien was declared the winner, scoring his maiden series victory. Series commentator Sean Sermini criticized the decision during the broadcast, calling it \"Very upsetting.\" Brabham won the second round of the weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season, Season summary\nIn May, the series returned to Australia to race at Barbagallo Raceway in Perth. Matt Nolan, running his first points race, flipped while jumping on a ramp in the first event, causing his truck's left rear wheel to come off; the wheel eventually hit a vacant spectator bridge. The incident eventually spurred the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) to suspend the series from CAMS-sanctioned races for safety concerns, though SST officials were not notified of the news until July. The weekend concluded with Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Jeff Hoffman scoring their first series wins, while Brabham recorded the overall weekend win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season, Season summary\nHarlien and Luyendyk won at Detroit, the former holding off Aaron Bambach and Luyendyk for the win in the first race. Six laps into the second round, Luyendyk was the race leader when the red flag came out for Paul Morris' wreck in turn three that sent him airborne and onto his truck's roof after hitting a tire barrier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season, Season summary\nThe series returned to Texas Motor Speedway for a second year in June. Japanese rally driver E. J. Chiba made his series debut, while Gordon returned for the weekend after missing the Detroit weekend to race in the Baja 500. On lap 16 of 18, Harlien passed Morris for the lead and eventually won Race One, while Brabham took advantage of the field fighting among themselves for position to win Race Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season, Season summary\nIn August, the trucks made their debut at Road America in support of the NASCAR Xfinity Series' Johnsonville 180, running a shortened course that bypassed turns 6\u201312, though the full circuit was utilized for the final laps. NASCAR drivers Casey Mears and Greg Biffle competed in the weekend, the latter making his SST debut. Gordon and Brabham won the weekend's races, while Biffle finished second in the latter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season, Season summary\nNolan's wreck at Perth and the CAMS suspension forced the series' planned competition in October's Gold Coast 600 at Surfers Paradise to be called off. During the month, the series, represented by Queen's Counsel barrister Stewart Anderson, went to court against CAMS in a case overseen by the Supreme Court of Victoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season, Season summary\nAnderson argued new wheels would be built with forged billet aluminium that makes them heavier and less likely to detach than the current cast alloy; in an inspection conducted by retired V8 Supercar driver Larry Perkins, he gave his approval of the trucks and pointed out their safety was comparable to the Supercars. Anderson also claimed CAMS and SST had formed an agreement in February in which the former agreed the series was being operated within CAMS' satisfaction, while the delay until July to inform SST officials was a breach of contract. On October 11, judge John Digby ruled in favor of CAMS. The ban would not be lifted until August 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season, Season summary\nSix days after the trial, SST partnered with the Australian Auto Sport Alliance, which is not affiliated with CAMS, and the Australian Motor Racing Series (AMRS), ensuring the series' future in the country. After a risk assessment, the AASA and NSW Sport and Recreation approved the series for competition in AMRS event. The trucks' first race weekend under the AMRS banner took place nine days later at the Sydney Motorsport Park, won by Brabham and Harlien. 2005 V8 Supercar Championship Series champion Russell Ingall contested his first SST weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season, Season summary\nTo close out the 2018 calendar year, the series participated in the Robby Gordon Off-Road World Championships at Glen Helen Raceway. Hoffman and Harlien were victorious in the two rounds, while Brabham finished second in both races, placing him in position to win the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282616-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Stadium Super Trucks season, Season summary\nThe 2019 Race of Champions at Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez's Foro Sol in Mexico City served as the season finale. Due to the Race of Champions' track and race format, the trucks utilized a head-to-head bracket system in which two drivers competed against each other, with the winner advancing to the next round; should a driver lose in the first two rounds, they may proceed if they were the fastest of the defeated drivers as the \"Fastest Loser\". After three rounds, the final two drivers competed in the final round. Gordon won Saturday's racing after defeating Brabham, while Brabham clinched the championship when he won against Harlien in the third round on Sunday; Brabham ended the 2018 season by beating Hoffman in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282617-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stallion Laguna F.C. season\nThe 2018 season is Stallion Laguna's 2nd season in the top flight of Philippine football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282617-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stallion Laguna F.C. season, League squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282618-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanford Cardinal football team\nThe 2018 Stanford Cardinal football team represented Stanford University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cardinal were led by eighth-year head coach David Shaw. They played their home games at Stanford Stadium and were members of the North Division of the Pac-12 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282618-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanford Cardinal football team\nStanford, coming off a 9\u20135 season and an appearance in the Pac-12 Championship Game in 2017, began the year ranked 13th in the preseason AP Poll. They won their first four games of the year, including wins over No. 17 USC and No. 20 Oregon, and rose to 7th in the polls. The Cardinal then lost four of their next five games, compiling losses to Notre Dame, Utah, Washington State, and Washington. After closing out the regular season with three straight wins, Stanford was third in the Pac-12 North with a conference record of 6\u20133. They were invited to the Sun Bowl, where they defeated ACC runner-up Pittsburgh to end the year at 9\u20134 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282618-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanford Cardinal football team\nStanford's offense was led by junior quarterback K. J. Costello, who led the Pac-12 Conference in passer rating and finished in second in passing yards and touchdowns. Wide receiver J. J. Arcega-Whiteside finished with 1,059 receiving yards and a Pac-12-leading 14 receiving touchdowns. Offensive tackle Walker Little was named first-team all-conference. On defense, cornerback Paulson Adebo led the team with four interceptions and 17 passes defended, and was also named first-team all-conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282618-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanford Cardinal football team, Previous season\nThe Cardinal finished the 2017 season 9\u20135, 7\u20132 in Pac-12 play to win a share of the North Division title with Washington. Due to their head-to-head win over Washington, they represented the North Division in the Pac-12 Championship Game where they lost to USC. They were invited to the Alamo Bowl where they lost to TCU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282618-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanford Cardinal football team, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days\nThe 2018 Pac-12 media days are set for July 25, 2018 in Hollywood, California. David Shaw (HC), J. J. Arcega-Whiteside (WR) & Alijah Holder (CB) at Pac-12 Media Days. The Pac-12 media poll was released with the Cardinal predicted to finish in second place at Pac-12 North division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282618-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, at Oregon\nLate in the 3rd quarter, Oregon led 24\u20137 and had a 1st & Goal at the Stanford 1-yard line. An ensuing fumble returned for a touchdown by the Stanford defense sparked an epic comeback where the Cardinal were able to win in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282618-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, Utah\nStarting running back Bryce Love sat the game out due to an ankle injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282618-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nStanford beat Oregon State on a smoky night caused by the Camp Fire. The Air Quality Index was close to 150, which qualified as \"Dangerous\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282618-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, at California\nThe 121st installment of the Big Game was delayed due to unhealthy air quality caused by the Camp Fire. It was only the second time in 27 years that both teams had 7 or more wins. The Cardinal quickly jumped out to a 10\u20130 start and never looked back. From there, the game was mostly a defensive struggle as cornerback Paulson Adebo intercepted two passes from Cal's Chase Garbers. As a result of this game, Stanford extended its winning streak to 9 games, the longest by either team in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282619-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanford Cardinal men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Stanford Cardinal men's soccer team will represent Stanford University during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282619-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanford Cardinal men's soccer team\nThe Cardinal enter the season as the three-time defending national champions. This is the first team season since 1994 that a program enters the season as a three-time defending champion. In 1994, the Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer program entered the season as three-time defending national champions, where they would go on to win an unprecedented fourth-consecutive title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282619-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanford Cardinal men's soccer team, Background\nStanford enters the 2018 season as the three-time defending national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282619-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanford Cardinal men's soccer team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals\nThe 2018 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2017\u201318 season and the culmination of the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs. The Eastern Conference champion Washington Capitals defeated the Western Conference champion Vegas Golden Knights four games to one to win their first championship, in their 44th season. The Vegas Golden Knights made the Finals in their first season, while this was the second Finals appearance for the Capitals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals\nThis was the first Finals series since 2007 where neither team had previously won the Stanley Cup and the third consecutive year in which a Western Conference team made their Finals debut. This was the first Finals since 2014 to require fewer than six games. Washington captain Alexander Ovechkin was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals\nThe series began on May 28 and ended on June 7. The Vegas Golden Knights had home ice advantage in the series since the Golden Knights won the Pacific Division with 109 points during the regular season, while the Capitals won the Metropolitan Division with 105 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Path to the Finals, Washington Capitals\nThis was Washington's second Finals appearance; the Capitals were swept in four games by the Detroit Red Wings in 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Path to the Finals, Washington Capitals\nThe Capitals did not make many major offseason transactions with the exception of signing forward Devante Smith-Pelly. Major re-signings during the off-season included forwards T. J. Oshie, Evgeny Kuznetsov, and Andre Burakovsky; and goalie Philipp Grubauer. Washington then re-signed Lars Eller during the season. The team was conservative during the trade deadline. Wanting to make a Stanley Cup run with the core players that they already had, they only acquired defensemen Michal Kempny from the Chicago Blackhawks and Jakub Jerabek from the Montreal Canadiens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Path to the Finals, Washington Capitals\nThe Capitals finished the regular season with 105 points (49\u201326\u20137), winning their division. Left winger and team captain Alexander Ovechkin was the winner of this season's Maurice \"Rocket\" Richard Trophy, leading the league with 49 regular-season goals. Kuznetsov led the team in assists with 56.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Path to the Finals, Washington Capitals\nIn the first round of playoffs, Washington came back from a 0\u20132 series deficit to win four in a row to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets in six games. The Capitals then won a 4\u20132 series against their division rival and two-time defending champion Pittsburgh Penguins, whom the Capitals had beaten in a playoff series only once in ten previous attempts since 1994; losing the last seven prior series to them. The Penguins had eliminated Washington from the playoffs in the second round the previous two years. Washington then defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference Finals in seven games, winning game seven on the road for only the second time in franchise history and first since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Path to the Finals, Vegas Golden Knights\nVegas became the first expansion team since the 1967\u201368 St. Louis Blues to make the Stanley Cup Finals in their inaugural season. However, the 1967\u201368 expansion was structured so that an expansion team was guaranteed to make the final. By contrast, the Golden Knights entered the season as long shots to make the postseason, let alone the Finals, with sources like Deadspin and Newsweek predicting that the Golden Knights would be among the worst teams in the league. However, the Golden Knights exceeded even the most optimistic projections to turn in one of the strongest debut seasons for an expansion team in North American professional sports history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Path to the Finals, Vegas Golden Knights\nLas Vegas was awarded as the NHL's 31st franchise on June 22, 2016, to begin to play for the 2017\u201318 season. On April 13, 2017, the team announced the hiring of their inaugural head coach, Gerard Gallant. The team then participated in the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft on June 21, selecting an available player from all of the other 30 NHL teams. Some notable selections included goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, who had won three Stanley Cups as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins, winger James Neal from the Nashville Predators, and Jonathan Marchessault from the Florida Panthers. Fleury was left exposed by the Penguins because of the emergence of Matt Murray. The Panthers, who had salary cap issues, traded Reilly Smith to the Golden Knights in exchange for Vegas selecting Marchessault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Path to the Finals, Vegas Golden Knights\nThe team started winning, despite Fleury being injured for most of the first months of the season. The team relied on four other goaltenders while their starter was injured. Instead of being sellers trying to unload players with one-year contracts by the trade deadline, Vegas became surprise buyers, acquiring Ryan Reaves from the Penguins and Tomas Tatar from the Detroit Red Wings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Path to the Finals, Vegas Golden Knights\nOn March 26, 2018, Vegas became the first team to make the playoffs in their inaugural season in the league since the Edmonton Oilers and Hartford Whalers in the 1979\u201380 season. Following that achievement, on March 31, Vegas became the first modern-era expansion team from any of the four major sports and the first NHL team since the 1926\u201327 New York Rangers to win their division in their inaugural season (excluding the 1967\u201368 Philadelphia Flyers, as all teams in the West Division that year were expansion teams). The Golden Knights ended up finishing the regular season with 109 points (51\u201324\u20137). In the playoffs, Vegas swept the Los Angeles Kings in four games, defeated the San Jose Sharks in six games, and eliminated the Winnipeg Jets in the Western Conference Finals in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Path to the Finals, Vegas Golden Knights\nWith Vegas' trip to the 2018 Finals, a brand-new team in the league has now reached the Stanley Cup Finals every 50 years dating back to 1918. The Toronto Arenas reached the 1918 Stanley Cup Finals and won the Cup, but this was the first year of the new NHL (after every team except the Toronto Blueshirts left the National Hockey Association). The St. Louis Blues reached the 1968 Stanley Cup Finals and got swept by the Montreal Canadiens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Path to the Finals, Vegas Golden Knights\nHowever, the Blues and five other brand-new expansion teams all entered the league at the same time and were all placed in the West Division, with the Original Six comprising the East Division. The playoffs were structured so that one of the newly minted teams was guaranteed a berth in the Finals. In contrast, the Golden Knights were the first true expansion team in NHL history to advance all the way to the Finals while not playing in an all-expansion division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Path to the Finals, Vegas Golden Knights\nThe Golden Knights were only the second captainless team since 1973 to be in the Finals, and the first since the New York Rangers in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game one\nBoth teams scored twice in the opening period. The first goal came from Vegas Golden Knights defenceman Colin Miller whose slap shot went past Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby. Washington struck back later in the period as both Brett Connolly and Nicklas Backstrom scored 42 seconds apart. William Karlsson then snuck the puck in between Holtby and the left post to tie the game. Early in the second period, a rebound off the glass came to Deryk Engelland who passed to an open Reilly Smith firing one past Holtby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game one\nCapitals defenceman John Carlson tied up the score after some nice passing from the defender and T. J. Oshie left himself wide open for the goal. In the third period, Tom Wilson redirected Alexander Ovechkin's shot past Vegas goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury to take the lead in the game. However, Vegas responded 1:41 later as Ryan Reaves went top-shelf to tie the game yet again. This goal proved to be controversial, as Ryan Reaves illegally cross-checked John Carlson to get into position to score. Tomas Nosek was able to score for Vegas later in the period, taking the pass from Shea Theodore. Vegas kept the lead in the penultimate minutes, grabbing an empty-net goal in the final minute to finish the game 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game two\nDuring the first period of game two, James Neal took a pass from Luca Sbisa, firing a wrist shot past Braden Holtby. The Capitals tied the game during a four-on-four when Lars Eller shot into an empty net from Michal Kempny's pass. During the second period, Golden Knights rookie Alex Tuch was penalized for cross-checking, and on the ensuing power-play, Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin fired a shot from a tight angle to give Washington the lead. Brooks Orpik extended the Capitals' lead to two goals when his shot deflected off Alex Tuch past Marc-Andre Fleury. Vegas cut the deficit by one goal when T. J. Oshie interfered with Colin Miller and Shea Theodore scored on the power-play. In the third period Holtby backstopped Washington to the victory, stopping the final fifteen shots from Vegas to win 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game three\nAfter a tense first period in which neither team scored, Alexander Ovechkin scored early in the second period to give Washington the lead. Evgeny Kuznetsov, who was believed to have suffered an arm injury the game prior, scored 11:40 after Ovechkin, extending Washington's lead to two. Tomas Nosek scored off of a Braden Holtby giveaway to cut the deficit in half early in the third period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game three\nHowever, 10 minutes later Shea Theodore mishandled the puck in his own zone and Jay Beagle capitalized on the error, making a pass to an open Devante Smith-Pelly who restored the two-goal lead for Washington. The Capitals played defensively for the final minutes of the game to win 3\u20131, and took the series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game four\nDuring the first period, a penalty called on Colin Miller for tripping allowed T. J. Oshie to give Washington the first lead. The Capitals extended the lead after Evgeny Kuznetsov fed a pass to Tom Wilson who fired a wrist shot past Marc-Andre Fleury. Devante Smith-Pelly then gave Washington a 3\u20130 lead after a pass by Matt Niskanen deflected off Vegas forward Jonathan Marchessault to the stick of Smith-Pelly, who scored top-shelf on Fleury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game four\nEven with the Golden Knights more than doubling the shots of Washington, John Carlson gave the Capitals a 4\u20130 lead, firing a slap shot on the power-play. In the third period, Vegas ended the shutout as James Neal scored just as Evgeny Kuznetsov's tripping penalty had expired. Reilly Smith cut the deficit to two goals, scoring on the backhand past Braden Holtby. Washington restored a three-goal lead during a four-on-four; as Nicklas Backstrom fed an open Michal Kempny, firing the shot past Fleury. Brett Connolly added an insurance goal with less than two minutes remaining, giving the Capitals a commanding 6\u20132 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game five\nAlthough no goals were scored in the first period, the Capitals had the shot advantage nine to seven. During the second period, Tom Wilson passed to a speedy Jakub Vrana going past the Golden Knight's defender and beating Marc-Andre Fleury to take the lead. The Golden Knights tied the game soon after as former-Capitals defenceman Nate Schmidt shot through a flurry of players and the puck deflected off of Matt Niskanen past Braden Holtby. Alexander Ovechkin gave the Capitals the lead again on the power play, firing a shot onto Fleury, bouncing off his back and into the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game five\nWith the goal, it broke a tie with John Druce for most goals in a postseason by a Capitals player with fifteen. David Perron tied the game for Vegas, scoring his first goal of the postseason via deflection. Coach Barry Trotz of the Capitals challenged the play on goaltender interference as Perron appeared to hit the skate of Holtby as he was battling for position; the challenge was unsuccessful. An open Reilly Smith gave the Golden Knights the lead in the final minute of the second period, taking the pass from Alex Tuch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0016-0002", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game five\nHalfway through the third period, Devante Smith-Pelly tied the game for the Capitals. Less than three minutes later, a shot came from the slot and went between Fleury's pads, but, unbeknownst to Fleury and his defensemen, the puck sneaked through and was lying in view just behind him, and Lars Eller forehanded it into the net to give the Capitals the lead with 7:37 left. With two minutes left, Vegas pulled Fleury for an extra attacker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0016-0003", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game five\nAt 18:11 of the third period, the game clock froze; however, the next stoppage in play occurred at 28.9 seconds remaining, allowing the clock to be readjusted. Nevertheless, the attempts of the Golden Knights were thwarted as the Capitals held on to win the game and their first Stanley Cup. Ovechkin was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Team rosters, Vegas Golden Knights\nNote: Deryk Engelland served as the Golden Knights unofficial team captain during the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs. Engelland was the alternate captain with the longest tenure in the league on the roster at the time of the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe Stanley Cup was presented to Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman following the Capitals 4\u20133 win over the Golden Knights in game five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe following Capitals players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Television and radio\nIn Canada, the series was broadcast by Sportsnet and CBC Television in English, and TVA Sports in French. In the U.S., the Finals were split between NBC (Games 1, 4 and 5) and NBCSN (Games 2 and 3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282620-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup Finals, Television and radio\nIn the U.S., with an average of 4.918 million viewers across all games, they were the highest-rated Stanley Cup Finals without an \"Original Six\" team since 1994. Game 5 drew 6.714 million viewers, making it the most-watched game 5 since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs\nThe 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs was the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL). The playoffs began on April 11, 2018, after the 2017\u201318 regular season and concluded on June 7, 2018, with the Washington Capitals winning their first Stanley Cup in franchise history defeating the Vegas Golden Knights four games to one in the Stanley Cup Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs\nThe Nashville Predators made the playoffs as the Presidents' Trophy winners with the most points (i.e. best record) during the regular season. The Pittsburgh Penguins increased their post-season appearance streak to twelve seasons, the current longest streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs\nThe Vegas Golden Knights became the first team to make the playoffs in their inaugural season in the league since the 1979\u201380 Hartford Whalers and the Edmonton Oilers. They also became the first expansion team to make the playoffs in their inaugural season since the 1967 NHL expansion. From there, they eventually became the first team since the 1967\u201368 St. Louis Blues to win their respective conference, and reach the Stanley Cup Finals in their inaugural season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs\nThe only difference is that the 1967\u201368 season through to the 1969\u201370 season ensured that an expansion team would be able to reach the Stanley Cup Finals. For the fourth time in league history (2000, 2001, 2007), only two Original Six teams, the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs, clinched a berth for the playoffs. For the first time since 1966, no playoff games were played in the state of New York. For the fifth time in eight years, all three California-based teams made the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0002-0002", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs\nFor the first time in league history, the Montreal Canadiens and the Detroit Red Wings missed the playoffs in the same year. For the first time since 1969, both the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings missed the playoffs in the same season. For the first time since 2009, no California-based team reached the Conference Finals. For the first and only time since 2012, the New Jersey Devils made the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs\nThe playoffs featured ten overtime games, the fewest since 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds\nThis was the fifth year in which the top three teams in each division made the playoffs, along with two wild cards in each conference (for a total of eight playoff teams from each conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Playoff bracket\nIn each round, teams competed in a best-of-seven series following a 2\u20132\u20131\u20131\u20131 format (scores in the bracket indicate the number of games won in each best-of-seven series). The team with home ice advantage played at home for games one and two (and games five and seven, if necessary), and the other team was at home for games three and four (and game six, if necessary). The top three teams in each division made the playoffs, along with two wild cards in each conference, for a total of eight teams from each conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Playoff bracket\nIn the First Round, the lower seeded wild card in the conference played against the division winner with the best record while the other wild card played against the other division winner, and both wild cards were de facto #4 seeds. The other series matched the second and third place teams from the divisions. In the first two rounds, home ice advantage was awarded to the team with the better seed. Thereafter, it was awarded to the team that had the better regular season record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (A1) Tampa Bay Lightning vs. (WC2) New Jersey Devils\nThe Tampa Bay Lightning finished first in the Atlantic Division earning 113 points. New Jersey finished as the Eastern Conference's second wild card, earning 97 points. This was the third playoff meeting between these teams with New Jersey winning both previous series. They last met in the 2007 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, which New Jersey won in six games. New Jersey won all three games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 124], "content_span": [125, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (A1) Tampa Bay Lightning vs. (WC2) New Jersey Devils\nThe Lightning defeated the Devils in five games. Although Taylor Hall scored his first playoff goal in game one, the Devils were beaten 5\u20132 as Ondrej Palat recorded three points for Tampa Bay. In game two, a four-goal barrage by the Lightning during the second period forced Devils goaltender Keith Kinkaid to be pulled. Tampa won the game 5\u20133. The Devils recovered in game three as Taylor Hall scored a goal and two assists in a 5\u20132 victory. J. T. Miller and Nikita Kucherov both had three points in a 3\u20131 victory for the Lightning in game four. In game five, Kucherov's goal was the series-winner as the Lightning held off a late attack by the Devils to win 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 124], "content_span": [125, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (A2) Boston Bruins vs. (A3) Toronto Maple Leafs\nThe Boston Bruins finished second in the Atlantic Division earning 112 points. The Toronto Maple Leafs earned 105 points to finish third in the Atlantic Division. This was the fifteenth playoff meeting between these two teams with Toronto winning eight of the fourteen previous series. They last met in the 2013 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, which Boston won in seven games. Toronto won three of the four games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 119], "content_span": [120, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (A2) Boston Bruins vs. (A3) Toronto Maple Leafs\nThe Bruins defeated the Maple Leafs in seven games. Tuukka Rask made 26 saves for the Bruins in game one, winning the game 5\u20131. During the game, Maple Leafs forward Nazem Kadri was given a five-minute major for a charging penalty for his hit on Tommy Wingels; he would later be suspended for three games. David Pastrnak had a hat trick and three assists in a 7\u20133 victory for the Bruins in game two, becoming the first player since Claude Giroux in 2012 to score a hat trick and three assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 119], "content_span": [120, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (A2) Boston Bruins vs. (A3) Toronto Maple Leafs\nIn game three, Patrick Marleau scored twice for the Maple Leafs in a 4\u20132 victory. Pastrnak assisted twice on two goals in a 3\u20131 triumph for the Bruins, taking a 3\u20131 series lead in the process. In game five, Toronto prevented a come-back by Boston, fending off the Bruins 4\u20133 as Frederik Andersen made 42 saves for the Maple Leafs. Nikita Zaitsev assisted twice in a 3\u20131 Maple Leafs victory, forcing a seventh game in the series. In game seven, Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron scored a goal and recorded two assists in a 7\u20134 victory to advance his team to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 119], "content_span": [120, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (M1) Washington Capitals vs. (WC1) Columbus Blue Jackets\nThe Washington Capitals finished first in the Metropolitan Division earning 105 points. The Columbus Blue Jackets finished as the Eastern Conference's first wild card earning 97 points. This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. Washington won three of the four games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 128], "content_span": [129, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (M1) Washington Capitals vs. (WC1) Columbus Blue Jackets\nThe Capitals came back from a 2\u20130 series deficit to defeat the Blue Jackets in six games. Columbus came back from a two-goal deficit in game one to force overtime, during which Artemi Panarin scored 6:02 into the extra session to give the Blue Jackets their first lead in a playoff series. The Blue Jackets overcame another two-goal deficit in game two, taking the game into overtime yet again. Matt Calvert scored the game-winning goal for Columbus as they took a 2\u20130 series lead. The Capitals took game three 3\u20132 in double-overtime as Lars Eller scored the game winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 128], "content_span": [129, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (M1) Washington Capitals vs. (WC1) Columbus Blue Jackets\nThe Capitals tied the series after game four as Washington's Alexander Ovechkin had a goal and an assist in a 4\u20131 victory. Nicklas Backstrom's tip-in was the overtime-winner for the Capitals in game five as they prevented a two-goal comeback by the Blue Jackets. In game six, Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin scored twice to seal the series for Washington, winning the affair 6\u20133. With playoff series victories by Winnipeg and Vegas this season, Columbus became the last active NHL franchise without a playoff series win until they defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 128], "content_span": [129, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (M2) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (M3) Philadelphia Flyers\nThe Pittsburgh Penguins finished second in the Metropolitan Division earning 100 points. The Philadelphia Flyers earned 98 points to finish third in the Metropolitan. This was the seventh playoff meeting between these two rivals with Philadelphia winning four of the six previous series. They last met in the 2012 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, which Philadelphia won in six games. Pittsburgh won all four games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 125], "content_span": [126, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (M2) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (M3) Philadelphia Flyers\nThe Penguins defeated the Flyers in six games. In game one, Sidney Crosby capped off a hat trick to end a 7\u20130 rout over the Flyers. The Flyers defeated the Penguins in game two, riding on Sean Couturier's goal and two assists in a 5\u20131 victory. Pittsburgh took game three 5\u20131 as Crosby recorded a goal and three assists. Matt Murray recorded a shutout in game four stopping all 26 shots he faced in a 5\u20130 victory for Pittsburgh. Prior to game five, Flyers captain Claude Giroux guaranteed his team a victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 125], "content_span": [126, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (M2) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (M3) Philadelphia Flyers\nGiroux scored the first goal of the game, and Couturier scored game-winning goal with 1:15 left in regulation time to force a sixth game in a 4\u20132 victory for Philadelphia. In game six, Sean Couturier recorded a hat trick on a torn MCL. Jake Guentzel recorded a natural hat trick and scored four goals in total, including two within ten seconds of each other, to seal the series for the Penguins in an 8\u20135 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 125], "content_span": [126, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (C1) Nashville Predators vs. (WC2) Colorado Avalanche\nThe Nashville Predators earned the Presidents' Trophy as the NHL's best regular season team with 117 points. The Colorado Avalanche finished as the Western Conference's second wild card earning 95 points. This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. Nashville won all four games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 125], "content_span": [126, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (C1) Nashville Predators vs. (WC2) Colorado Avalanche\nThe Predators defeated the Avalanche in six games. Filip Forsberg scored twice in Nashville's 5\u20132 game one victory, one of which was considered a highlight-reel goal. Nashville had five different players score in their 5\u20134 victory over Colorado in game two to take a 2\u20130 series lead. Nathan MacKinnon scored twice and Gabriel Landeskog had a goal and two assists to take game three for the Avalanche 5\u20133. In game four, Pekka Rinne made 31 saves for the Predators who took a 3\u20131 series lead with a 3\u20132 win. Andrew Hammond made 44 saves and Sven Andrighetto scored with 1:28 left in the third period to force a sixth game for the Avalanche in a 2\u20131 triumph. The Predators shut out the Avalanche in game six, with Rinne stopping all 22 shots he faced in a 5\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 125], "content_span": [126, 891]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (C2) Winnipeg Jets vs. (C3) Minnesota Wild\nThe Winnipeg Jets finished second in the Central Division earning 114 points. The Minnesota Wild earned 101 points to finish third in the Central. This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. Winnipeg won three of the four games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 114], "content_span": [115, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (C2) Winnipeg Jets vs. (C3) Minnesota Wild\nThe Jets defeated the Wild in five games and earned their first playoff series victory in franchise history after entering the league in 1999 as the Atlanta Thrashers. The Jets also became the first Winnipeg-based NHL team to advance past the opening round of the playoffs since 1987. After firing 40 shots on Minnesota goaltender Devan Dubnyk, the Jets won game one 3\u20132, winning their first playoff game in franchise history and the city's first playoff victory since 1996, after which the original Jets relocated to Phoenix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 114], "content_span": [115, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (C2) Winnipeg Jets vs. (C3) Minnesota Wild\nIn game two, Patrik Laine had a goal and an assist to provide the Jets a 4\u20131 victory as well as a 2\u20130 series lead. In game three, the Wild scored four goals in the second period to chase Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck in a 6\u20132 affair. Hellebuyck came back in game four, stopping all 30 shots he faced in a 2\u20130 victory. Hellebuyck continued his shutout streak in game five, stopping another 30 shots after a first period blitz by the Jets to win the series-clinching game 5\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 114], "content_span": [115, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (P1) Vegas Golden Knights vs. (WC1) Los Angeles Kings\nThe Vegas Golden Knights finished first in the Pacific Division earning 109 points. The Los Angeles Kings earned 98 points to finish as the Western Conference's first wild card. This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams and the first playoff series for the Golden Knights. These teams split their four-game regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 125], "content_span": [126, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (P1) Vegas Golden Knights vs. (WC1) Los Angeles Kings\nThe Golden Knights defeated the Kings in a four-game sweep. In game one, Marc-Andre Fleury stopped all 30 shots to give the Golden Knights their first playoff victory. Even though Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick made 54 saves in game two, the Golden Knights topped Los Angeles in double overtime thanks to Erik Haula's goal at 15:23, taking a 2\u20130 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 125], "content_span": [126, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (P1) Vegas Golden Knights vs. (WC1) Los Angeles Kings\nAfter the Golden Knights took the lead late in the third period of game three with two goals in 21 seconds Vegas pushed the Kings to the brink of elimination with a 3\u20132 win; Vegas goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury made 37 saves in the victory. In game four, former-King Brayden McNabb scored the only goal of the game for the Golden Knights as they swept Los Angeles for their first playoff series victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 125], "content_span": [126, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0020-0002", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (P1) Vegas Golden Knights vs. (WC1) Los Angeles Kings\nThis series tied the record for the fewest goals scored by both teams in a best-of-seven playoff series: the Golden Knights scored seven goals to the Kings' three goals for a total of ten goals, tying the record set in 2003. In addition, the 7 goals scored by Vegas is the lowest amount by a series-winning team in NHL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 125], "content_span": [126, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (P2) Anaheim Ducks vs. (P3) San Jose Sharks\nThe Anaheim Ducks finished second in the Pacific Division earning 101 points. The San Jose Sharks earned 100 points to finish third in the Pacific Division. This was the second playoff meeting between these teams. They last met in the 2009 Western Conference Quarterfinals, which Anaheim won in six games. San Jose won three of the four games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 115], "content_span": [116, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (P2) Anaheim Ducks vs. (P3) San Jose Sharks\nThe Sharks defeated the Ducks in a four-game sweep. Evander Kane scored twice in his first playoff game and Sharks goaltender Martin Jones posted a 25-save shutout blanking the Ducks 3\u20130 in game one. In game two, Logan Couture scored a goal and recorded an assist in a 3\u20132 victory. Martin Jones made 45 saves as the Sharks routed the Ducks 8\u20131 in game three; eight different players scored for San Jose in the victory. Tomas Hertl broke the tie for San Jose, scoring the series-clinching goal midway through the third period of game four as the Sharks defeated Anaheim 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 115], "content_span": [116, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Second Round, Eastern Conference Second Round, (A1) Tampa Bay Lightning vs. (A2) Boston Bruins\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams. Their only previous series occurred in the 2011 Eastern Conference Final, which Boston won in seven games. Boston won three of the four games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 121], "content_span": [122, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Second Round, Eastern Conference Second Round, (A1) Tampa Bay Lightning vs. (A2) Boston Bruins\nThe Lightning defeated the Bruins in five games. In game one, the line of Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron, and David Pastrnak combined for eleven points in a 6\u20132 triumph. Brayden Point scored a goal and recorded three assists in the Lightning's 4\u20132 victory in game two, evening the series. Ondrej Palat scored twice in the Lightning's 4\u20131 win in game three taking a 2\u20131 series lead. Tampa Bay captain Steven Stamkos forced overtime on a controversial goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 121], "content_span": [122, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Second Round, Eastern Conference Second Round, (A1) Tampa Bay Lightning vs. (A2) Boston Bruins\nWhile circling behind the net Bruin defender Charlie McAvoy was hauled down by Nikita Kucherov leading to a turnover deep in the Bruins defensive zone. Daniel Girardi scored the game-winning goal to give the Lightning a 4\u20133 victory. During game four, Brad Marchand licked the face of Tampa Bay forward Ryan Callahan during a scrum. Marchand received no penalty or further punishment from the League. The Lightning scored twice in the second period of game five to take the lead and Anton Stralman scored an empty-net goal to give Tampa Bay a 3\u20131 victory and a 4\u20131 series win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 121], "content_span": [122, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Second Round, Eastern Conference Second Round, (M1) Washington Capitals vs. (M2) Pittsburgh Penguins\nThis was the third consecutive year that these two rivals have met in the second round and was the eleventh overall playoff meeting with Pittsburgh winning nine of the ten previous series. They last met in the previous year's Eastern Conference Second Round which Pittsburgh won in seven games. These teams split their four-game regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 127], "content_span": [128, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Second Round, Eastern Conference Second Round, (M1) Washington Capitals vs. (M2) Pittsburgh Penguins\nThe Capitals defeated the Penguins in six games, defeating Pittsburgh for the second time in franchise history and the first time since 1994. Pittsburgh rallied from a two-goal deficit to take game one 3\u20132 leading on Jake Guentzel's goal and two assists. In game two, Braden Holtby made 32 saves for Washington, defeating the Penguins 4\u20131. Alexander Ovechkin scored with 1:07 left in the third period of game three to give the Capitals a 4\u20133 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 127], "content_span": [128, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Second Round, Eastern Conference Second Round, (M1) Washington Capitals vs. (M2) Pittsburgh Penguins\nDuring the game, Tom Wilson made an illegal check to the head of rookie Zach Aston-Reese who suffered a broken jaw along with a concussion. Wilson was suspended three games for his action. In game four, Guentzel scored twice for Pittsburgh in a 3\u20131 victory, evening the series 2\u20132. Both Evgeny Kuznetsov and Jakub Vrana had a goal and two assists for the Capitals in game five who took a 3\u20132 series lead after a 6\u20133 victory. In game six, the Capitals fired 30 shots and Evgeny Kuznetsov's goal in overtime ended the series in a 2\u20131 victory, moving Washington to the Conference Finals for the first time since 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 127], "content_span": [128, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Second Round, Western Conference Second Round, (C1) Nashville Predators vs. (C2) Winnipeg Jets\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. Nashville won three of the five games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 121], "content_span": [122, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Second Round, Western Conference Second Round, (C1) Nashville Predators vs. (C2) Winnipeg Jets\nThe Jets eliminated the Predators in seven games. Mark Scheifele scored twice and Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck made 47 saves in game one to defeat the Predators 4\u20131. In game two, Kevin Fiala scored 5:37 into overtime to give the Predators a 5\u20134 victory to even the series. The Jets overcame a three-goal deficit in game three with both Blake Wheeler and Dustin Byfuglien scoring twice in a 7\u20134 win. Pekka Rinne made 32 saves for the Predators in game four, allowing his team to win 2\u20131 and even the series 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 121], "content_span": [122, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0028-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Second Round, Western Conference Second Round, (C1) Nashville Predators vs. (C2) Winnipeg Jets\nIn game five, Kyle Connor scored twice and captain Blake Wheeler provided three assists in the Jets' 6\u20132 victory. The Predators forced a seventh game following game six in which both Viktor Arvidsson and Filip Forsberg scored twice and recorded an assist along with Pekka Rinne stopping all 34 shots in a 4\u20130 shutout. After recording a shutout the game prior, Pekka Rinne got pulled for the third time in the series after letting in the first two goals of game seven. His counterpart, Connor Hellebuyck, made 36 saves in the victory as the Jets won the game 5\u20131, advancing to the Conference Finals for the first time in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 121], "content_span": [122, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Second Round, Western Conference Second Round, (P1) Vegas Golden Knights vs. (P3) San Jose Sharks\nThis was the first playoff series between these two teams. Vegas won three of the four games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 124], "content_span": [125, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Second Round, Western Conference Second Round, (P1) Vegas Golden Knights vs. (P3) San Jose Sharks\nThe Golden Knights defeated the Sharks in six games. In game one, Marc-Andre Fleury stopped all 33 shots he faced and Vegas scored with seven different players to defeat San Jose 7\u20130. The Sharks used double-overtime to take game two 4\u20133 as Logan Couture's second goal of the game ended the Golden Knights' playoff winning streak. Game three also went into overtime, however, this time the Golden Knights' William Karlsson got the best of the Sharks, scoring the overtime-winner in a 4\u20133 victory for Vegas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 124], "content_span": [125, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Second Round, Western Conference Second Round, (P1) Vegas Golden Knights vs. (P3) San Jose Sharks\nMartin Jones shut out the Golden Knights in game four, stopping all 34 shots he faced, giving the Sharks a 4\u20130 victory to even the series 2\u20132. After the Golden Knights put up a 4\u20130 lead in game five, including two goals from rookie Alex Tuch, the Sharks scored three goals in the third period to come within one goal. However, Vegas halted the comeback when Jonathan Marchessault scored an empty-net goal to secure a 5\u20133 win. In game six, Marc-Andre Fleury recorded a 28-save shut out in a 3\u20130 victory to send the Golden Knights to their first Conference Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 124], "content_span": [125, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Final, (A1) Tampa Bay Lightning vs. (M1) Washington Capitals\nThis was the third playoff meeting between these teams with Tampa Bay winning both previous series. They last met in the 2011 Eastern Conference Semifinals, which Tampa Bay won in a four-game sweep. Also since 2011, this was the first conference final between two division champions. This was the Lightning's fifth appearance in the Conference Finals, and their third in the last four seasons. Tampa Bay last went to the Conference Finals in 2016; they lost to the Pittsburgh Penguins in seven games. This was Washington's third Conference Finals appearance. They last made the Conference Finals in 1998; they defeated the Buffalo Sabres in six games. Tampa Bay won two of the three games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 125], "content_span": [126, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Final, (A1) Tampa Bay Lightning vs. (M1) Washington Capitals\nThe Capitals defeated the Lightning in seven games. In game one, Washington scored four consecutive goals across the first two periods forcing Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper to pull goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy; the Capitals won 4\u20132. Lars Eller and Evgeny Kuznetsov had a goal and two assists in Washington's 6\u20132 triumph in game two. The Lightning struck back in game three as Victor Hedman potted a goal and two assists in Tampa's 4\u20132 victory. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 36 saves in game four as the Lightning won the game 4\u20132 and thus tied the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 125], "content_span": [126, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Final, (A1) Tampa Bay Lightning vs. (M1) Washington Capitals\nIn game five, Ryan Callahan had a goal and an assist for the Lightning as they hung on for 3\u20132 victory. In game six, Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby made 24 saves in a 3\u20130 shutout victory to force a seventh game. Braden Holtby stopped all 29 shots and Andre Burakovsky scored twice in game seven for Washington, advancing the Capitals to the Finals for the first time since 1998 in a 4\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 125], "content_span": [126, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Final, (C2) Winnipeg Jets vs. (P1) Vegas Golden Knights\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. This was the first time since 2003 where two teams were making their Conference Finals debut. The Jets advanced to the Conference Finals for the first time in their 19th year (seventh in Winnipeg) after entering the league in 1999 as the Atlanta Thrashers; they also became the first Winnipeg-based team in league history to make it past the second round. Vegas made the Conference Finals in their inaugural season becoming the first expansion team since the St. Louis Blues in 1968 to advance past the second round of the playoffs. Vegas won two of the three games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 120], "content_span": [121, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Final, (C2) Winnipeg Jets vs. (P1) Vegas Golden Knights\nThe Golden Knights defeated the Jets in five games. In game one, Mark Scheifele scored a goal and recorded an assist in a 4\u20132 triumph over the Golden Knights. Jonathan Marchessault scored twice in Vegas' bounce-back win in game two, evening the series after a 3\u20131 victory. Marc-Andre Fleury made 33 saves for Vegas, including 15 in the third period of game three, to take a 4\u20132 victory. Fleury made an additional 35 saves in game four with Vegas forward Reilly Smith scoring the game-winning goal 13:02 into the third period. In game five, the Golden Knights held onto a 2\u20131 lead, after Ryan Reaves scored in the second period to break the tie, to win the game and became the first expansion team to move onto the Stanley Cup Finals since the St. Louis Blues in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 120], "content_span": [121, 888]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. Vegas was making their Finals debut in their inaugural season, becoming the first team since the aforementioned St. Louis Blues to make the Finals in their first season. Washington made their second Finals appearance. Their only previous appearance in the Finals ended in a four-game sweep by the Detroit Red Wings in 1998. This was the first Finals since 2007 to feature two teams that had not previously won a Stanley Cup. Vegas won both games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nThis is a combined table of the top five goaltenders based on goals against average and the top five goaltenders based on save percentage, with at least 420 minutes. The table is sorted by GAA, and the criteria for inclusion are bolded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Television\nThis was the seventh postseason under NBC Sports' current 10-year contract for American television rights to the NHL. All national coverage of games was aired on either NBCSN, the NBC broadcast network, NHL Network, USA Network, or CNBC. Due to original programming commitments involving CNBC and USA Network, two first round games on April 18 were aired by Golf Channel. During the first round, excluding games exclusively broadcast on NBC, the regional rights holders of each participating U.S. team produced local telecasts of their respective games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0037-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Television\nFor the second year, the first round national broadcasts were not blacked out on television in the markets of participating teams, and could co-exist with the local broadcasts (however, NBC-provided coverage was restricted in Pittsburgh and Las Vegas, where AT&T SportsNet holds the regional rights to the Penguins and the Golden Knights respectively).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Television\nIn Canada, for the fourth postseason under Rogers Media's current 12-year contract, coverage was broadcast by Sportsnet and CBC under the Hockey Night in Canada brand, and streamed on Sportsnet Now, CBCSports.ca (for games televised by CBC), or the subscription service Rogers NHL Live. The Winnipeg Jets' first round series against the Minnesota Wild was assigned to Sportsnet, due to the Maple Leafs' series being prioritized to CBC, and to encourage subscription to the network since it is not carried on basic cable in Winnipeg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Television\nIn a surprise move, Sportsnet did not give any on-air assignments to Bob Cole during the playoffs\u2014an exclusion that caught the veteran commentator off-guard. Instead, Sportsnet replaced Cole with Calgary Flames announcer Rick Ball, joining Jim Hughson, Paul Romanuk and Dave Randorf on play-by-play during the first two rounds of the playoffs. It was subsequently announced that Cole would retire from broadcasting the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Television\nFuelled by viewer interest in the Golden Knights' inaugural season and playoff run, and in Canada, the deep playoff run of the Winnipeg Jets, viewership of these playoffs saw noticeable increases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282621-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, Television\nNBC reported that viewership of the conference finals collectively saw a 15% increase over 2017, with an average cross-platform viewership of 1.841 million (23% increase year-over-year) for the Western Conference finals featuring the Golden Knights, game one of said series (televised on NBC) seen by 2.374 viewers total, and game seven of the Lightning/Capitals Eastern Conference final pulling a 2.14 overnight rating\u2014the highest viewership for a non-overtime game seven since 2015, and the highest cable viewership of the 2018 playoffs to-date. The Jets also contributed to strong viewership numbers in Canada, with Sportsnet reporting an average of 2.2 million across their second-round series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282622-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Star Nursery 100\nThe 2018 Star Nursery 100 was a NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race held at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Dirt Track in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event marked the first K&N Pro Series race on a dirt track since 1979. Sheldon Creed won the race, followed by Bill McAnally Racing's Hailie Deegan and Sunrise Ford Racing's Derek Thorn in second and third respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282623-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 StarCraft II World Championship Series\nThe 2018 StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS) is the 2018 edition of the StarCraft II World Championship Series, the top esports tournament circuit for StarCraft II. Featuring the top eight players from each WCS region, World Championship Series Korea and the World Championship Series Circuit, the Global Finals received greater coverage than most prior events when Finnish professional player Joona \"Serral\" Sotala became the first non-Korean world champion in the StarCraft series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282623-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 StarCraft II World Championship Series, Format\nThe 2018 StarCraft II World Championship Series was separated into two regions, WCS Circuit and WCS Korea. The former featured four large events with accompanying qualifiers under the WCS Challenger branding, while the latter featured three seasons of the long-running Global StarCraft II League (GSL) Code S with two smaller GSL Super Tournament events interspersed. Two shared World Championship Series Global events featured players from both regions prior to the Global Finals. All these events gave out WCS Circuit and/or WCS Korea points that determined the seeding of the Global Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282623-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 StarCraft II World Championship Series, Format\nFollowing the introduction of the War Chest for the 2017 Global Finals, two events received War Chest crowdfunding in 2018, with $150,000 and $200,000 added to the prize pools of IEM Katowice and the WCS Global Finals, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282623-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 StarCraft II World Championship Series, Format, Seeding\nEight players from each WCS region qualify to the event based on their WCS Points-based rankings. Winners of WCS Circuit stops, GSL Code S events, and IEM Katowice receive automatic qualification. The sixteen players are then seeded into four four-player groups for the first round based on their region-specific ranking. A draw is held for the quarterfinals bracket, with winners of each group facing second-place finishers of other groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282623-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 StarCraft II World Championship Series, Results\nFor the first time in StarCraft II competition, both regions had all of their large events won by a single person. For WCS Circuit this was Joona \"Serral\" Sotala, who won all four stops and all related European Challenger events. For WCS Korea this was Cho \"Maru\" Seong Ju, who won all three GSL Code S seasons. WCS Global event IEM Katowice was won by the previous year's WCS champion, Lee \"Rogue\" Byung Ryul, with the other WCS Global event, GSL vs. the World, going to Joona \"Serral\" Sotala, marking the first non-Korean Global StarCraft II League champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282623-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 StarCraft II World Championship Series, Results, Global Finals\nThe WCS Global Finals were held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California as part of BlizzCon 2018. They featured a group stage as the first round of play, played out the prior week as part of the BlizzCon Opening Week 2018, followed by bracket play from the quarterfinals onward at the convention center itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282625-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 State of Origin series\nThe 2018 State of Origin series was the 37th annual best-of-three series between the Queensland and New South Wales rugby league teams. Before this series, Queensland had won 21 times, NSW 13 times, with two series drawn. The 2018 series was won by New South Wales, after winning the first 2 games of the series, their first since 2014, and their second since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282625-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 State of Origin series\nKevin Walters coached Queensland for the third year in a row, while New South Wales were coached by Brad Fittler after he replaced Laurie Daley in November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282626-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Nation Address (Philippines)\nThe 2018 State of the Nation Address was the third State of the Nation Address delivered by President Rodrigo Duterte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282626-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Nation Address (Philippines), Preparations\nOn June 5, 2018, Joyce Bernal who is known for her romance comedy films, was selected to direct the 2018 State of the Nation Address. She was recommended by actor Robin Padilla to President Rodrigo Duterte with the head of state approving the suggestion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282626-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Nation Address (Philippines), Delay and House of Representatives leadership dispute\nGloria Macapagal Arroyo was installed as Speaker of the House of Representatives with 161 members voting for her appointment. Pantaleon Alvarez disputes the appointment and his allies blocked the declaration of the position as vacant. This caused the delay to the lower house's ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282626-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Nation Address (Philippines), Delay and House of Representatives leadership dispute\nThe State of the Nation Address was delayed by around 30 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282626-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Nation Address (Philippines), Address content and delivery\nRodrigo Duterte opened his speech vowing to continue pursuing his controversial campaign against illegal drugs saying that he is \"for human lives\" criticizing human rights activists opposing the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282626-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Nation Address (Philippines), Address content and delivery\nHe also mentioned the Philippines partnership with Malaysia and Indonesia against piracy in their shared maritime borders as well as the country's cooperation with China against illegal drugs. Duterte added that the cooperation of the country with China doesn't mean the Philippines will stop pursuing its national interest in relation to the South China Sea dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282626-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Nation Address (Philippines), Address content and delivery\nIn relation to the issue of endo contractualization, Duterte reiterates he cannot put a stop to the issue himself having issued Executive Order 51 on May 1, 2018, prohibiting the illegal contracting and sub-contracting of workers. He called for the Congress to pass a legislation putting an end to contractualization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282626-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Nation Address (Philippines), Address content and delivery\nThe President also urged the implementation of Republic Act 11032 or the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of 2018 calling for the deduction of red tape in government agencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282626-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Nation Address (Philippines), Address content and delivery\nDuterte also warned the mining industry regarding destructive mining practices saying it should be \"used for the benefit of the Filipino people, not just a select few\" and that complying with tax requirements isn't satisfactory compensation since he \"can get it from other sources\". He also condemned rice cartels for creating an artificial rice shortage and urged the Congress for the passage of a legislation relating to rice importation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282626-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Nation Address (Philippines), Address content and delivery\nThe Bangsamoro Organic Law, which had its ratification by the House of Representative delayed due to a leadership dispute in the lower house, will be signed within 48 hours as per Duterte's pledge during the speech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282626-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Nation Address (Philippines), Address content and delivery\nDuterte ended the speech saying he would not bore the audience with a list of projects by the administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address\nThe 2018 State of the Union Address was given by the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, on Tuesday, January 30, 2018, at 9 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 115th United States Congress. It was Trump's first State of the Union Address and his second speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Paul Ryan, accompanied by Mike Pence, the vice president, in his capacity as the president of the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address\nThe Address was watched by 45.6 million viewers. There were also 21 million interactions regarding the address on social media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address\nU.S. Representative Joe Kennedy III and Virginia Delegate Elizabeth Guzm\u00e1n gave the Democratic Party's response in English and Spanish respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Background\nArticle II, Section 3, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution states that the president \"shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.\" On November 30, 2017, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan sent an invitation to the President to deliver a \"State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on January 30, 2018, in the House Chamber.\" The speech was Trump's first State of the Union address and his second speech to a joint session of Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Background\nOn January 26, 2018, a senior administration official told reporters that \"the tone [of the address] will be one of bipartisanship and it will be very forward looking.\" The official said that the theme of Trump's speech would be \"building a safe, strong, and proud America.\" Five major policy issues were discussed by the president: the economy, infrastructure, immigration, trade, and national security. More specifically, Trump touted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and echoed his campaign call for \"fair\" and \"reciprocal\" trade deals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Background\nSenior policy adviser Stephen Miller and staff secretary Rob Porter took the lead in writing the speech. The full draft of the speech was completed two weeks before the State of the Union Address, but it was still being edited with reviews and suggestions from Cabinet secretaries and senior White House aides. National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis offered feedback on the national security portion of the speech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Contents and delivery, Taxation\nA significant portion of the scripted speech was dedicated to the tax package passed in December, which Trump labeled as the largest tax reform bill in U.S. history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Contents and delivery, Economy and employment\nThe speech also focused on the economic successes of the first year of the presidency. Trump highlighted the creation of new jobs, specifically 200,000 manufacturing jobs. To support this claim, Trump pointed to invited guests from Staub Manufacturing in Dayton, Ohio, a business that has seen their greatest earnings since starting their business 20 years ago. The president also reiterated a 45-year low in unemployment, with the lowest rate of African-American and Hispanic unemployment ever recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 78], "content_span": [79, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Contents and delivery, Infrastructure\nTrump called on Congress to support a plan to spend $1.5 trillion on rebuilding infrastructure across the country. His speech reflected on the building of the Empire State Building, claiming that it was built in one year while current regulations delay construction of some roads by 10 years. Trump concluded by declaring \"we will rebuild infrastructure with American heart, American hands and American grit.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Contents and delivery, Immigration\nMuch of the State of the Union came in the form of general policy goals. This was especially the case for the issue of immigration. Trump used personal accounts in order to support his pitch for an overhaul in the U.S. immigration system. Two Long Island families, both of whom had children who were killed by a member of the MS-13 gang, a group with ties to Central America, were used to highlight the need to close \u201cglaring loopholes\u201d in the immigration system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Contents and delivery, Immigration\nAn Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer\u2019s fight with MS-13 was used as an example for greater border security. After listing the perceived dangers of the current immigration system, Trump gave \u201cfour pillars\u201d of what he sees as the ideal path forward. He offered a broad framework that includes an eventual pathway to citizenship for \u201cDreamers\u201d that will take 12 years and increased border security, two tenets of the current budget negotiations between Democrats and the White House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Contents and delivery, Immigration\nTrump repeated his desire to move away from the visa-lottery system, and towards a more merit-based system, which will likely prioritize foreigners with a higher-level of education and wealth. The fourth pillar was to end what has become known as chain migration, the practice of prioritizing the family members of immigrants who are already state-side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Contents and delivery, Foreign policy\nIn a nod to foreign policy and recent provocations against North Korea\u2019s nuclear ambitions, the speech also said that \u201cas part of our defense, we must modernize and rebuild our nuclear arsenal, hopefully never having to use it, but making it so strong and powerful that it will deter any acts of aggression.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Contents and delivery, Foreign policy\nMuch of the foreign policy portion of the speech criticized North Korea over human rights. Trump introduced both the parents of Otto Warmbier, the American university student who returned to the U.S. in a coma and eventually died following a long detention in North Korea, as well as Ji Seong-ho, an amputee who escaped North Korea as a child after being tortured by authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Contents and delivery, Healthcare\nIn an aim to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Trump highlighted the GOP's action in repealing the individual mandate as part of their tax overhaul. He also shared that the FDA had approved more drugs in 2017 than in any year prior. Additionally, his speech covered his administration's goal to give veterans choice for their healthcare, as well as allowing patients with terminal illnesses to get access to experimental treatments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Contents and delivery, Healthcare\nTrump emphasized that one of his top priorities in 2018 is to reduce the price of prescription drugs, citing that drugs in other countries cost far less than the same drugs in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Address\nThe State of the Union Address was given at 9\u00a0pm EST on January 30, 2018. Distribution of the tickets for the event was delayed because the first printing of the tickets misspelled the event as the \"State of the Uniom\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Address\nJohn Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States, and Associate Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Neil Gorsuch were the only justices of the Supreme Court of the United States in attendance for the speech. The other five justices were absent. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not attend the address to participate in a \"fireside chat\" at Roger Williams University School of Law with U.S. Circuit Judge Bruce M. Selya, which was scheduled in August 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Address\nU.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue was named the designated survivor and was at an undisclosed location during the address so that, in case of a catastrophe, the continuity of government was upheld.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Protests\nA group of female Democratic members of Congress wore black outfits to the address in solidarity with movements protesting sexual harassment and assault in numerous industries. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) wore red pins to honor Recy Taylor, a black woman who was gang raped by six white men in 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Protests, Democratic boycotts\nOn January 5, 2018, U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer announced that he would be in his district rather than attend the State of the Union Address. In light of reporting that Trump called Haiti, El Salvador, and several nations in Africa \"shithole countries\", Representative John Lewis announced on January 12 that he was not planning on attending the address. Joining Lewis in the boycott, Representative Maxine Waters said, \"[Trump] does not deserve my attention.\" Representative Frederica Wilson became the fourth member of Congress to boycott the address on January 14, calling Trump a racist and liar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Protests, Democratic boycotts\nOn January 15, Representative Pramila Jayapal announced she too was boycotting the address because of \"racism and hatred\" from Trump. On January 17, CBC chairman Cedric Richmond said that the group was pondering a potential boycott or demonstration of the address. The press secretary of Representative Barbara Lee said she would not attend the address, which was decided before Trump's disparaging remarks were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Protests, Democratic boycotts\nOn January 26, Representative Jan Schakowsky announced she was not going to attend the address, citing the travel ban, Trump's response to the violence at the Unite the Right rally, and his use of vulgar language to refer to African nations as reasons for her boycott. Representative Gregory Meeks announced on January 28 that he would be boycotting, saying, \"I cannot give this man, who does not respect me, the respect to be in that audience.\" The spokesperson for Representative Albio Sires said, \"The congressman is not attending the State of the Union because many of his constituents are offended by the president's rhetoric and behavior.\" On January 29, Representatives Bobby Rush and Danny Davis announced they were boycotting the address.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Protests, Counter-programming, People's State of the Union\nActor Mark Ruffalo, other stars, and members of \"the resistance movement\" hosted a \"People's State of the Union\" on January 29, saying, \"In essence, it's a better reflection of our state of the union based on a more populist point of view, based on the people's point of view. I think it's important because we have a president who has a difficult time with the truth, who has a radical, divisive agenda, and spends an enormous amount of time focusing on the negative and hopelessness and despair.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Protests, Counter-programming, People's State of the Union\nThe event was held on January 29, 2018, at The Town Hall in New York City. Attendees included Bill de Blasio, John Leguizamo, Michael Moore, Cynthia Nixon, Rosie Perez, Mark Ruffalo, and Gloria Steinem, and performers included Andra Day, Common, and Rufus Wainwright. \"We Stand United\" was the lead organizer, and additional support was provided by MoveOn.org Political Action and Stand Up America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Protests, Counter-programming, State of the Dream\nOn January 25, actress Alyssa Milano announced that she would host counter-programming called \"State of the Dream\", which would solicit and present brief videos from Americans describing their dreams for the country that would be posted on Twitter and other social media simultaneously while Trump is giving his address.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 82], "content_span": [83, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Notable invitations, White House\nAlong with First Lady Melania Trump, the White House invited certain people affected by the issues that the president will address in his speech. On January 28, 2018, the mother of Kayla Cuevas, who was murdered on Long Island in 2016 by MS-13 gang members, said the White House invited her to attend the State of the Union Address. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders named several people on January 29 who would attend the address. Among those who were named was a police officer who adopted a baby born to a homeless woman addicted to heroin. Ji Seong-ho, a North Korean defector was invited to the address.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Notable invitations, Republican\nOn January 17, U.S. Representative Sean Duffy invited U.S. Army veteran Ricky Taylor, better known by his Twitter username as \"Deplorable Vet\", to be his guest at the address after Taylor sought to take Maxine Waters' unused seats. Representative Jim Bridenstine, who was nominated by Trump to be NASA administrator, invited Bill Nye on January 18 to be his guest at the address. On January 24, U.S. Senator John Hoeven announced that Miss America Cara Mund was his guest at the address.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Notable invitations, Republican\nRepresentative Kevin Cramer invited Tommy Fisher, a corporate executive whose company was given a contract to develop a prototype for construction of a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, to attend the address. On January 26, Representative Carlos Curbelo announced he was inviting a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Representative Kevin Yoder announced on January 27 that he was inviting the widow of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an Indian immigrant who was killed in the 2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Notable invitations, Democratic\nHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and several other Democratic members of Congress said they would be inviting DREAMers and other immigrants to the address. Representative Debbie Dingell announced on January 18 that she was inviting Cindy Garcia, whose husband was deported to Mexico after spending nearly three decades living and raising a family in Michigan, to the address. Several House Democrats invited members of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements to attend the address. Representatives Jackie Speier, Bonnie Watson Coleman, and Suzan DelBene respectively invited Fatima Goss Graves, the President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center; the niece of Recy Taylor; and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner to be their guests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Notable invitations, Democratic\nOn January 25, Representative Mark Pocan invited U.S. House candidate Randy Bryce, who is challenging Paul Ryan in the 2018 midterm elections, to the address. Representative Robin Kelly invited Illinois Attorney General candidate Kwame Raoul to attend the address, saying, \"As a first-generation Haitian American, his presence and voice at the State of the Union is greatly needed, especially in light of the president's recent racist and derogatory comments about Haiti and other nations.\" On January 26, Senator Richard Blumenthal invited a survivor of child sex trafficking to the address. On January 27, Representative Val Demings invited a first responder to the Orlando nightclub shooting to the address. Senator Jeanne Shaheen invited to the address a woman whose son died of drug overdose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Notable invitations, Democratic\nSenator Kirsten Gillibrand invited San Juan mayor Carmen Yul\u00edn Cruz on January 29 to attend the address. On Twitter, Gillibrand wrote, \"Throughout the crisis in Puerto Rico, Mayor Cruz has shown extraordinary leadership and fearless advocacy for her city. I hope Mayor Cruz's presence at #SOTU will remind the president and my colleagues in Congress of our urgent responsibility to help Puerto Rico fully recover and rebuild. Our fellow citizens must not be forgotten or left behind.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Responses, Democratic Party\nOn January 25, 2018, it was announced that U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy III would give the Democratic response to the State of the Union Address and the Spanish language response would be given by Virginia Delegate Elizabeth Guzm\u00e1n, who became the first Hispanic female immigrant elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. Nancy Pelosi said, \"Congressman Kennedy profoundly understands the challenges facing hardworking men and women across the country.\" Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, \"In their responses to the President's address, Congressman Kennedy and Virginia Delegate Guzm\u00e1n will both do an excellent job in making clear that Democrats are laser-focused on enacting policies to benefit middle class Americans, not special interests or the wealthiest.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Responses, Democratic Party\nKennedy said he was honored to be chosen to give the Democratic response, saying, \"From health care to economic justice, to civil rights, the Democratic agenda stands in powerful contrast to President Trump's broken promises to American families.\" In a statement, Guzm\u00e1n also said she was honored and added, \"Through his rhetoric and policies, the president has marginalized members of my community who are simply trying to work hard and support their families. I look forward to standing up for all working people on Tuesday.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Responses, Democratic Party\nThe selection of Kennedy to give the Democratic response came after criticism that the Democratic Party relied too heavily on its oldest leaders since the 2016 presidential election. In choosing Kennedy, the party is trying to bridge the gap with a new face attached to one of the most famous names in American politics. Joe Kennedy III is the second member of his family to give the Democratic response after his great uncle Ted Kennedy gave one to the 1982 State of the Union Address.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Responses, Democratic Party\nIt was announced on January 29 that Kennedy would be giving the Democratic response from Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School in Fall River, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Responses, Libertarian Party\nNicholas Sarwark, the chairman of the Libertarian National Committee, gave the Libertarian Party response to the State of the Union Address. Additionally, Libertarian 2020 presidential candidate Adam Kokesh gave a response to the State of the Union address.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Responses, Green Party\nOn January 25, 2018, the Green Party issued a press release stating that it would stream an online response to the State of the Union Address, featuring Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka, the 2016 presidential and vice presidential nominees respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Responses, Other\nIt was announced on January 26, 2018, that Maxine Waters would be on the BET program, Angela Rye's State of the Union, after the State of the Union Address to address the country. On January 29, the office of Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent, announced that he would be giving his own response to the address.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Coverage\nThe State of the Union Address was televised on all the major U.S. broadcast and cable television networks. Facebook and Twitter streamed the address online. Nine media outlets (ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Bloomberg News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Telemundo, Univision, and C-SPAN) and the White House would provide ten separate livestreams of the address on YouTube.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Coverage\nOn January 24, NBC News announced that it would begin its coverage of the address at 9\u00a0pm EST, with NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt leading it. Holt was joined by Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd, Megyn Kelly Today anchor Megyn Kelly, special correspondent Tom Brokaw, and chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell. Starting at 8\u00a0pm EST, NBC News will also be livestreaming the event on YouTube and NBCNews.com with national political correspondent Steve Kornacki and correspondent Katy Tur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Coverage\nOn January 26, CBS News announced it was beginning its coverage at 9\u00a0pm EST, but CBSN would start streaming its coverage of the event at 5\u00a0pm EST. CNN stated that it would start its coverage at 7\u00a0pm EST and stream on CNNgo. Fox News announced on January 28 that it would begin coverage at 9 pm EST with Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Coverage, Viewership\nAcross twelve broadcast and cable television networks, 45.8 million viewers watched the speech. The address was the most-tweeted of its kind with a record total of 4.5 million tweets, surpassing the former record of 3 million tweets, set during Trump's 2017 joint session address\u2014which was broken less than an hour into the 2018 address.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Reactions, Fact checkers\nFactCheck.org stated, \"The president exaggerates his accomplishments in his address to Congress.\" PolitiFact assessed one true, three mostly true, two half true, four mostly false, and two false statements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Reactions, Fact checkers\nOn February 1, Trump said that viewership of his address was \"the highest number in history\", but there were five addresses given by Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama that had higher viewership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Reactions, Late-night talk shows\nComedy Central's The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and The Opposition with Jordan Klepper were aired live to offer instant analysis and commentary on the State of the Union Address. Both shows planned to simulcast the first segment of their live episodes via Facebook Live. CBS also aired a live edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Reactions, Politicians\nAlex Seitz-Wald of NBC News described that during the address, \"many Democrats showed how little stock they put in Trump's calls for cooperation by staying seated during rhetoric that would have prompted bipartisan applause if it came from almost any other president.\" Representative Seth Moulton asked on Twitter if people believed that Trump would follow through on infrastructure. Senator and former 2016 vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine offered advice on what would have convinced Democrats that Trump was serious about cooperation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Reactions, Politicians\nIn a statement, Representative Adam Schiff said, \"Tonight, the president showered law enforcement with praise, even as he and his congressional allies launch an all out attack on the FBI, the pre-eminent federal law enforcement agency.\" Senators Doug Jones and Joe Manchin were the only Democrats showing consistent support for Trump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282627-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 State of the Union Address, Reactions, Public opinion\nIn a CBS News poll, 42 percent of respondents who watched the State of the Union Address identified themselves as Republicans, 33 percent as Independents, and 25 percent as Democrats. 75 percent of those who were polled approved of the speech. A CNN poll of viewers determined that 48 percent of viewers had a very positive impression of the speech and 22 percent had a somewhat positive impression, which was the lowest net positive rating since CNN first began asking the question in 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282628-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Station Square Derailment\nThe 2018 Station Square Derailment happened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, on the afternoon of August 5, 2018. The incident composed of 46 double-stack intermodal containers, and 23 well cars. The train was a Norfolk Southern, carrying Listerine and Pampers, and was traveling at approximately 25 MPH. The cars fell onto the Port Authority of Allegheny County tracks, blocking the line. Nobody was injured, although the accident caused $1.8M in damage. The accident was caught on tape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282628-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Station Square Derailment\nAn investigation by the Federal Railroad Administration agreed with an initial assessment by Norfolk Southern Railroad that a defect in the rails caused the accident. A rail inspection performed approximately 3 weeks earlier failed to detect the defect. The investigation faulted Norfolk Southern's contractor Sherry Rail Services for failing to detect the defect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282628-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Station Square Derailment, Cleanup and removal\nThe cleanup and removal started right after the derailment and ended by August 8, when Port Authority had removed all of the 46 containers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282628-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Station Square Derailment, Train\nThe train involved in the incident was heading from New Jersey to Chicago. It was carrying household items. The train was about 7,500 feet long, and had three locomotives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282629-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks football team\nThe 2018 Stephen F. Austin football team represented Stephen F. Austin State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Lumberjacks were led by interim head coach Jeff Byrd and played their home games at Homer Bryce Stadium. They were a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 2\u20138, 2\u20137 in Southland play to finish in tenth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282629-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks football team\nOn June 18, head coach Clint Conque was suspended indefinitely pending an investigation into alleged violations of university policy. On August 6, Conque announced his resignation from SFA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282629-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks football team, Previous season\nThe Lumberjacks finished the 2017 season 4\u20137, 4\u20135 in Southland play to finish in a tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282629-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Teams\nOn July 12, 2018, the Southland announced their Preseason All-Conference Teams, with the Lumberjacks having five players selected at six positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282629-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks football team, Preseason, Preseason Poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Southland announced their preseason poll, with the Lumberjacks predicted to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282630-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stetson Hatters football team\nThe 2018 Stetson Hatters football team represented Stetson University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Roger Hughes and played their home games at Spec Martin Stadium. They were members of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 8\u20132, 6\u20132 in PFL play to finish in a tie for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282630-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stetson Hatters football team, Previous season\nThe Hatters finished the 2017 season 2\u20139, 1\u20137 in PFL play to finish in tenth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282630-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stetson Hatters football team, Preseason, Preseason All-PFL team\nThe PFL released their preseason all-PFL team on July 30, 2018, with the Hatters having one player selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282630-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stetson Hatters football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe PFL released their preseason coaches poll on July 31, 2018, with the Hatters predicted to finish in ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282631-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stevenage Borough Council election\nElections to Stevenage Borough Council took place on 3 May 2018. This was on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom. One third of the council was up for election; the seats which were last contested in 2014. The Labour Party retained control of the council, which it had held continuously since 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282632-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stock Car Brasil Championship\nThe 2018 Stock Car Brasil Championship was the fortieth season of the Stock Car Brasil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282632-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stock Car Brasil Championship, Race calendar and results\nThe Stock Car Brasil 2018 season schedule, announced on January 18, begins on March 10, on a Saturday, with the return of the Interlagos endurance round with two drivers. There will be a three-month break between the May 20 round in Santa Cruz do Sul-RS and the August 5 \"Million Real\" round at Goi\u00e2nia because of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The 2018 championship will also concluded at Interlagos on December 9. The Stock Light (former Brazilian Tournament Championship, which returns after 10 years) and the Campeonato Brasileiro de Marcas will be the series' support divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282632-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stock Car Brasil Championship, Championship standings\nPoints are awarded for each race at an event to the driver/s of a car that completed at least 75% of the race distance and was running at the completion of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282632-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stock Car Brasil Championship, Championship standings, Drivers' Championship\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Pole positionItalics\u00a0\u2013 Fastest lap\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Retired, but classified", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282633-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stock Car Light season\nThe 2018 Stock Car Light is the sixteenth season of Stock Car Brasil Light. The 2018 season marks the first season since 2007, after the series endured an eleven-year absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282633-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stock Car Light season, Championship standings\nPoints are awarded for each race at an event to the driver/s of a car that completed at least 75% of the race distance and was running at the completion of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282633-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stock Car Light season, Championship standings, Drivers' Championship\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Pole positionItalics\u00a0\u2013 Fastest lap\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Retired, but classified", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282634-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockholm Open\nThe 2018 Stockholm Open (also known as the Intrum Stockholm Open for sponsorship purposes) was a professional men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 50th edition of the tournament, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Kungliga tennishallen in Stockholm, Sweden from 15 to 21 October 2018. Third-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282634-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockholm Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282634-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockholm Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282635-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockholm Open \u2013 Doubles\nOliver Marach and Mate Pavi\u0107 were the defending champions, but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282635-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockholm Open \u2013 Doubles\nLuke Bambridge and Jonny O'Mara won the title, defeating Marcus Daniell and Wesley Koolhof in the final, 7\u20135, 7\u20136(10\u20138).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282636-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockholm Open \u2013 Singles\nJuan Mart\u00edn del Potro was the two-time defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282636-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockholm Open \u2013 Singles\nStefanos Tsitsipas won his first ATP World Tour title, defeating Ernests Gulbis in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134. With the win, he became the first Greek player to win an ATP title. Gulbis lost his first ATP Tour final, after six singles titles in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282636-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockholm Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282637-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockholm regional election\nStockholm County or Region Stockholm held a regional council election on 9 September 2018 on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282637-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockholm regional election, Results\nThere were 149 seats, the same number as in 2014. The Social Democrats supplanted the Moderates as the largest party. However, after protracted negotiations, a majority Blue-Green government was formed between the Alliance parties and the Green Party. Previously, the Alliance parties had a majority since the 2014 regional elections, but losses to the Sweden Democrats necessitated the formation of a cross-bloc coalition with the Greens to gather a governing majority, as the Alliance parties wished to avoid relying on the Sweden Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282637-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockholm regional election, Municipal & Stockholm ward results\nStockholm Municipality was divided into six separate electoral wards (S\u00f6dermalm-Enskede, Bromma-Kungsholmen, Norrmalm-\u00d6stermalm-Gamla Stan, \u00d6stra S\u00f6derort, V\u00e4stra S\u00f6derort and Yttre V\u00e4sterort) and its results were not counted as a unit. These wards have in these lists been translated to English to shorten columns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 68], "content_span": [69, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282638-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. Stockport Council is elected in thirds, which means that in each three member local ward, one councillor is elected every year, except every four years which is classed as a fallow year. The last fallow year was 2017, when no local government elections took place in the borough. Those councillors elected in 2018 will serve a four-year term, expiring in 2022. The election in Edgeley & Cheadle Heath was deferred, owing to the death of the Conservative candidate, until 24 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282638-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council election\nAfter the election, the Labour minority administration that had governed since 2016 was able to continue in office, although without a majority the administrations budget was voted down in March 2019, the first time this had happened since the 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282638-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results by ward\nAsterix indicates incumbent in the Ward, and Bold names highlight winning candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 78], "content_span": [79, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282638-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council election, Deferred election, Edgeley and Cheadle Heath\nOn 17 April 2018, Stockport Council published a notice to confirm that due to the death of the Conservative candidate Maureen Baldwin-Moore the scheduled election for this ward would no longer take place on 3 May 2018, and that a new poll would take place on 24 May 2018. Under the Electoral Administration Act, the Conservatives were allowed to select a replacement candidate, but new nominations by other parties were not permitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 98], "content_span": [99, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282639-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger\nThe 2018 Stockton Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the third and fourth editions of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Stockton, United States, on 1\u20137 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282639-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282639-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 74], "content_span": [75, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282639-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 74], "content_span": [75, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282639-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 76], "content_span": [77, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282639-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw using a junior exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 76], "content_span": [77, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282640-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBrydan Klein and Joe Salisbury were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282640-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger \u2013 Men's Doubles\nDarian King and Noah Rubin won the title after defeating Sanchai Ratiwatana and Christopher Rungkat 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282641-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger \u2013 Men's Singles\nCameron Norrie was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282641-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger \u2013 Men's Singles\nLloyd Harris won the title after defeating Marc Polmans 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282642-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger \u2013 Women's Doubles\nUsue Maitane Arconada and Sofia Kenin were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282642-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger \u2013 Women's Doubles\nHayley Carter and Ena Shibahara won the title, defeating Quinn Gleason and Luisa Stefani in the final, 7\u20135, 5\u20137, [10\u20137].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282643-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger \u2013 Women's Singles\nSofia Kenin was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282643-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stockton Challenger \u2013 Women's Singles\nMadison Brengle won the title, defeating Danielle Lao in an all-American final, 7\u20135, 7\u20136(12\u201310).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team\nThe 2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team represented Stony Brook University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Seawolves competed as sixth-year members of the Colonial Athletic Association with Chuck Priore as the head coach for his 13th season. They played their home games at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium in Stony Brook, New York. They finished the season 7\u20135, 5\u20133 in CAA play to finish in a three-way tie for third place. They received an at-large berth to the FCS Playoffs, where they lost in the first round to Southeast Missouri State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Previous season\nThe Seawolves finished the 2017 season 10\u20133, 7\u20131 in CAA play to finish in second place despite being predicted to finish in 8th. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Lehigh in the first round before losing to James Madison in the second round. It was their most successful season since joining the CAA in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Preseason, CAA Poll\nIn the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Seawolves were predicted to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CAA Team\nThe Seawolves had two players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, at Air Force\nIn the season opener, the Seawolves were held to 75 yards of total offense as they were shut out in a road loss to FBS opponents Air Force. The Falcons gained 362 yards in comparison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, Bryant\nIn the team's home opener, the Seawolves jumped out to a quick 20\u20130 lead. However, Bryant scored three straight touchdowns to take a 21\u201320 lead, helped by turnovers from the Stony Brook offense. In the end, the \"Long Island Express\", the nickname for the senior running back duo of Jordan Gowins and Donald Liotine, managed to wear the Bulldogs defense down. Liotine gained 107 yards and Gowins gained 146 yards. The game ended on a 95-yard pick six from Stony Brook defensive back Damarcus Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, at Fordham\nThe Seawolves traveled to nearby Bronx to play their final non-conference game of the season. Both members of the Long Island Express gained over 100 yards again, as Gowins gained 160 yards with a touchdown and Liotine gained 106 yards with a touchdown. Stony Brook's third defensive touchdown of the year came when defensive lineman Jordan Scarbrough returned a pick six 25 yards in the first quarter. Fordham was shut out until 2:14 in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, Richmond\nIn the CAA opener, Richmond took a 3\u20130 lead and threatened to score more, but Stony Brook defensive back Gavin Heslop returned a Richmond fumble 87 yards for a touchdown. The work of the Long Island Express helped expand the lead, as Jordan Gowins had 192 yards with two touchdowns and Donald Liotine gained 133 yards. Stony Brook ended the game by scoring 20 consecutive points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, Villanova\nStony Brook fell behind early to Villanova, trailing 21\u20130 in the second quarter. A touchdown pass from quarterback Joe Carbone to wide receiver Julius Wingate scored the Seawolves' first points with 1:51 left in the half. The second half kickoff was fumbled by Villanova and recovered by Stony Brook, and Donald Liotine scored a touchdown to reduce the lead to 21\u201313. Carbone threw a second touchdown pass to Wingate, and a successful two-point conversion tied the game at 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, Villanova\nVillanova quarterback Zach Bednarczyk was called for intentional grounding in the end zone, leading to a safety that caused the Seawolves to lead 23\u201321. Carbone's third touchdown of the day, this time to Cal Daniels, extended the lead to 29\u201321 after a missed extra point. With :56 left, Villanova scored another touchdown to bring the lead to 29\u201327, but the Seawolves victory was ensured as the two-point conversion was batted down and the onside kick failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, at Towson\nStony Brook's four-game winning streak came to an end in Maryland, as the Towson Tigers, led by quarterback Tom Flacco (brother of Joe Flacco) jumped out to a 21\u20130 lead, kickstarted by running back Shane Simpson's opening kickoff return for a touchdown. The Seawolves defense forced two Towson turnovers, scoring on both successive drives to whittle their lead down to 21\u201314. However, Flacco threw two more touchdowns before halftime to bring the lead back to 35\u201314. Donald Liotine fumbled the second half kickoff, and Towson would continue to add to their lead as Stony Brook pulled their starters and were upset on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, at New Hampshire\nReeling from last week's upset loss at Towson, Stony Brook traveled up to New Hampshire with one half of the Long Island Express, Jordan Gowins, out with an injury. Donald Liotine carried the load himself, collecting 163 yards on 32 carries. The Seawolves returned both an interception and a fumble for touchdowns, helping extend their lead to 21\u20130 in the second quarter. Backup running back Kameron Pickett scored his first career touchdown in the fourth quarter, sealing the 35\u20137 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, Rhode Island\nOn Stony Brook's Homecoming night, the Seawolves improved to 6\u20132 as they blew out No. 22 ranked Rhode Island. The Long Island Express returned to full force, with both Gowins and Liotine rushing for over 100 yards for the fourth time this season, tying a school record. Stony Brook gained 460 yards of total offense and scored five total rushing touchdowns. With 12,701 in attendance, this was the most watched home game in Stony Brook football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, at James Madison\nStony Brook traveled on the road to Harrisonburg, Virginia to face James Madison as three-touchdown underdogs. An early drive was ended in JMU territory as Joe Carbone was intercepted, and the Dukes took a 7\u20130 lead late in the first quarter. Donald Liotine tied the game with a 30-yard touchdown in the second quarterback, and a JMU fumble led to a Stony Brook field goal right before halftime as the Seawolves took a 10\u20137 lead and looked to upset the No. 3 ranked Dukes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, at James Madison\nThe Seawolves drove deep into JMU territory in the third quarter, but Carbone was picked off again as Stony Brook threatened to extend their lead. Two fourth-quarter field goals by Dukes kicker Tyler Gray helped them take a 13\u201310 lead. Stony Brook got the ball back for one final drive, where Joe Carbone completed two passes on fourth down, including an acrobatic catch by Julius Wingate and a reception that would have went for a touchdown had Wingate not tripped and fell. With three seconds left, the Seawolves tried a 51-yard field goal, but kicker Alex Lucansky's attempt ended up short and Stony Brook's upset bid ended in defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, Delaware\nThe Seawolves took on first-place Delaware on a cold, windy day in New York. Early promising Stony Brook drives stalled due to an interception and a botched snap, but Delaware could not capitalize on Stony Brook's mistakes, as kicker Frank Raggo missed two field goals and botched the snap of a third. Stony Brook kicked a field goal as time expired in the first half and scored a touchdown on 4th and 8 as Donavin Washington caught a Joe Carbone pass in the third quarter. The Seawolves extended their lead as a 33-yard run touchdown by Donald Liotine made it 17\u20133 with 5:27 left in the fourth quarter. Outgaining Delaware 400\u2013201, Stony Brook's tough defense prevented the Blue Hens from ever making a serious comeback attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, at Albany\nIn the final game of the regular season, Stony Brook traveled up to Albany to face a Great Danes team that was winless in CAA play for the Empire Clash. The Seawolves were down early despite being 18.5 point favorites, but entered halftime tied 10\u201310 after a Jordan Gowins touchdown run. Carbone ran it in himself to extend the Stony Brook lead to 17\u201310. However, with five minutes left to play, Albany quarterback Jeff Undercuffler threw an 81-yard touchdown pass to Donavan McDonald; a missed PAT whittled the lead to 17\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282644-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team, Game Summaries, at Albany\nAlbany got the ball back and took back the lead with 1:45 remaining on a Karl Mofor 16-yard touchdown run; a failed two-point conversion meant the lead was only 22\u201316. On the ensuing kickoff, Donald Liotine fumbled the ball and Albany recovered, but Stony Brook used all three timeouts and Albany's Ethan Stark missed a field goal. With 17 seconds remaining, Carbone threw a Hail Mary pass that was caught by Julius Wingate for a touchdown, and the Seawolves took a 23\u201322 lead. However, an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during the celebration pushed Stony Brook's kickoff back 15 yards. The ensuing squib kick was returned to the Stony Brook 42-yard line, and one pass play brought Albany to the 31. As time expired, Stark's 48-yard field goal bounced off the crossbar and in as Albany pulled off a stunning upset in the rivalry game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 904]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282645-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stormers season\nIn 2018, the Stormers participated in the 2018 Super Rugby competition, the 23rd edition of the competition since its inception in 1996. They were included in the South African Conference of the competition, along with the Bulls, Jaguares, Lions and Sharks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282645-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stormers season\nThe Stormers won six and lost ten of their matches during the regular season of the competition to finish fourth in the South African Conference, and in 11th place overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282645-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stormers season, Personnel, Coaches and management\nThe Stormers coaching and management staff for the 2018 Super Rugby season were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282645-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stormers season, Personnel, Squad\nThe following players were named in the Stormers squad for the 2018 Super Rugby season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282645-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Stormers season, Standings\nThe final standings for the 2018 Super Rugby season were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282645-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Stormers season, Standings, Round-by-round\nThe table below shows the Stormers' progression throughout the season. For each round, their cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282645-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Stormers season, Matches\nThe Stormers played the following matches during the 2018 Super Rugby season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282645-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Stormers season, Player statistics\nThe Super Rugby appearance record for players that represented the Stormers in 2018 is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282645-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Stormers season, Player statistics\n(c) denotes the team captain. For each match, the player's squad number is shown. Starting players are numbered 1 to 15, while the replacements are numbered 16 to 23. If a replacement made an appearance in the match, it is indicated by . \"App\" refers to the number of appearances made by the player, \"Try\" to the number of tries scored by the player, \"Con\" to the number of conversions kicked, \"Pen\" to the number of penalties kicked, \"DG\" to the number of drop goals kicked and \"Pts\" refer to the total number of points scored by the player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282646-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties municipal elections\nElections were held in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282646-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties municipal elections, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties Council\nCouncil consists of the mayors and deputy mayors of each of the townships. It does not include the city of Cornwall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 127], "content_span": [128, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282647-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Strade Bianche\nThe 2018 Strade Bianche was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 3 March 2018 in Italy. It was the twelfth edition of the Strade Bianche and the fifth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282647-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Strade Bianche\nTiesj Benoot (Lotto\u2013Soudal) took his first professional victory, after attacking from a chasing group to catch leaders Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale) and Wout van Aert (V\u00e9randas Willems\u2013Crelan) before dropping them in the final sector of dirt roads. Benoot soloed to victory by 39 seconds ahead of Bardet, who dropped van Aert in the final kilometre; van Aert, a three-time world elite cyclo-cross champion, ultimately completed the podium a further 19 seconds in arrears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282647-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Strade Bianche, Teams\nAs the race was only added to the UCI World Tour calendar in 2017, all UCI WorldTeams were invited to the race, but not obligated to compete in the race. As it transpired, all eighteen WorldTeams elected to compete in the race, just like in 2017. Three UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 21-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282647-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Strade Bianche, Teams\nStrade Bianche is the final race for FDJ under that nomenclature; from Paris\u2013Nice the following day, the team becomes known as Groupama\u2013FDJ.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282648-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Strade Bianche Women\nThe fourth edition of the Women's Strade Bianche was held on 3 March 2018. It was the first leg of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour. The race was run in abysmal weather and was won by Dutch rider Anna van der Breggen of the Boels\u2013Dolmans team, after an attack on the penultimate gravel sector of Colle Pinzuto at 17\u00a0km from the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282648-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Strade Bianche Women, Teams\nTwenty-four teams entered the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack\nOn the evening of 11 December 2018, a terrorist attack occurred in Strasbourg, France, when a man attacked civilians in the city's busy Christkindelsm\u00e4rik (Christmas market) with a revolver and a knife, killing five and wounding 11 before fleeing in a taxi. Authorities called the shooting an act of terrorism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack\nThe attacker was 29-year-old Ch\u00e9rif Chekatt, who had multiple criminal convictions and was on a security services watchlist as a suspected Islamist extremist. Chekatt was killed in a shootout with French police on the evening of 13 December after a manhunt involving 700 officers. He had pledged allegiance to the terrorist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) judicial sources said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Background\nChristkindelsm\u00e4rik is the Alsatian dialect name of the Christmas market in Strasbourg, held annually on the square in front of the Strasbourg Cathedral since 1570. In 2000, a bombing plot was foiled by the French and German police when Al-Qaeda-linked operatives had planned to detonate pressure cookers rigged as bombs in the crowd at the Christkindelsm\u00e4rik. Since then, the market has been under reinforced security. In 2016, several people were arrested in Marseille and Strasbourg for planning a terrorist attack; officials considered cancelling the Christmas market, but it was ultimately held as scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Background\nOn the morning of 11 December 2018, the police raided the home of Ch\u00e9rif Chekatt in Neudorf with the intention of arresting him on suspicion of attempted murder. He was not at home, but they found a stun grenade, a loaded .22 calibre rifle, four knives, and ammunition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attack\nThe attack started at approximately 19:50 local time (18:50 UTC) near Place Kl\u00e9ber, where the Christkindelsm\u00e4rik was being held. Ch\u00e9rif Chekatt entered the area through Pont du Corbeau, then went through Rue des Orf\u00e8vres, opening fire and stabbing people in three different locations, first at Carr\u00e9-d'Or (Rue des Orf\u00e8vres), then Rue des Grandes-Arcades. The attack lasted ten minutes and took place in multiple streets, during which time Chekatt was heard shouting \"Allahu akbar\" as he attacked members of the crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attack\nHe then exchanged fire with soldiers of Op\u00e9ration Sentinelle, and then with the National Police; a soldier was hit in the hand, and Chekatt was shot in the arm. A 45-year-old Thai tourist was hit in the head in front of a restaurant and died, despite a passersby attempting to resuscitate him; ambulances took over 45 minutes to arrive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attack\nChekatt then escaped in the direction of Neudorf and Place de l'\u00c9toile, taking a taxi cab; the driver was unharmed and reported to the police having taken an armed and wounded man. His testimony allowed the police to identify the gunman, as the man bragged about killing people and having a grenade at home. Two days after the attack, Chekatt's gun was revealed to be a Mod\u00e8le 1892 revolver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attack\nInitially, 350 men of the security forces hunted for Chekatt, supported by air units. Five hundred more men joined the next day, with a further 1,300 planned to join as reinforcements. The incident led to the closure of locations around the city, including the European Parliament building. Police used Twitter to relay information to the public. The French government raised their security threat level to the highest possible as the search continued, though Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet stated on Public S\u00e9nat that a state of emergency would not be declared for the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attack\nFive thousand people were stranded in a sports facility used as temporary shelter, and the European Parliament was put on lockdown. President Antonio Tajani tweeted that the European Parliament \"will not be intimidated by terrorist or criminal attacks\" and will \"continue to work and react, strengthened by freedom and democracy against terrorist violence\". The incident was declared an act of terrorism by French authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Victims\nFive people were killed; two died at the scene and three others in hospital, while 11 others were injured, four critically. The first of the dead to be identified was a 45-year-old male tourist from Thailand who was shot multiple times and died at the scene. He was on holiday with his wife, who was also shot, but survived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Victims\nThe others were a French 61-year-old former bank employee; a 45-year-old local male mechanic and Muslim originally from Afghanistan who died two days later, Antonio Megalizzi, a 29-year-old journalist from Italy covering the European Parliament plenary session, who died on 14 December; and Barto Pedro Orent-Niedzielski, a 36-year-old French-Polish national who died on 16 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attacker\nThe perpetrator was Ch\u00e9rif Chekatt (French pronunciation:\u00a0\u200b[\u0283\u025b\u0281if \u0283\u025bkat]), a 29-year-old man born of a retired national French-Algerian delivery driver, characterised as a \"hardened criminal\" who \"converted to rigorous Islam\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attacker\nAccording to French authorities, Chekatt had been known to police since the age of 10 and he had his first criminal conviction by age 13. He was known to security services for a total of 27 convictions in France, Germany, and Switzerland, arising from 67 recorded crimes in France alone. His criminal activities started with petty crime, robbery and drug dealing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attacker\nFrench police considered him a \"gangster-jihadist\", a term referring to people convicted of various crimes and \"radicalised\" in prison. Chekatt was released from prison in France in 2015, then received a prison sentence for theft in Singen, Germany and was expelled to France after his release in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attacker\nChekatt was tagged with a fiche \"S\" (\"State Security\" file), a type of extra-judiciary document that French State Security uses to keep track of suspect individuals while not necessarily keeping surveillance on them. He was listed for his recent \"religious radicalisation\" and for \"Islamic extremism\". Neighbours said that he seemed quite ordinary, comparing him to his more traditional brother. His German lawyer told media that \"he was just an ordinary criminal. It was no special case. We didn't notice any radicalisation.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attacker\nSecretary of State Laurent Nu\u00f1ez stated that Chekatt had become a \"terrorism apologist\" in prison, but had not been expected to perform an attack. On the morning of the attack, local police had attempted to arrest him in relation to an attempted murder, but they could not locate him, because Chekatt's father had warned him by SMS that the gendarmes were about to arrest him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attacker\nInvestigators subsequently concluded that Chekatt had made extensive preparations for the attack. He told fellow inmates in 2015 that he would \"commit a robbery before departing for Syria or die a martyr\", and became \"very interested in seeking weapons, according to a friend of the jihadist, Audrey Mondjehi.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attacker, Manhunt and Chekatt's death\nAn investigation was initiated for \"murder and acts of terrorism in relation to a criminal enterprise\". Four people close to Chekatt were detained for questioning after the shooting, namely his father, who is tagged with a fiche \"S\" as well because of his religious fundamentalism, his mother, and two of his brothers, both known for their local Salafist affiliation, and a fifth person was taken into custody on 13 December. A search warrant was issued in Algeria for a \"very radicalised\" third brother, who has his own fiche \"S\" record because of radicalisation and \"contacts with Islamist circles in Strasbourg\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attacker, Manhunt and Chekatt's death\nChekatt was still at large after the attack, and an international manhunt began. There were some initial fears that he had escaped to Germany across the Rhine. Immediate efforts for the manhunt included closing the city's A35 autoroute that leads to Switzerland and Germany, a coordinated security reinforcement between Strasbourg and German state police, and suspending the tramway between the city and Kehl in Germany. Ultimately, more than 700 officers were involved in the manhunt. On 12 December at 19:20 (18:20 UTC), the French National Police released a photograph of Chekatt and asked for any witnesses to come forward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attacker, Manhunt and Chekatt's death\nOn the evening of 13 December, police found Chekatt in Strasbourg between Neudorf and the Stade de la Meinau. He fired on officers when they tried to question him and they returned fire, killing him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Attacker, Manhunt and Chekatt's death\nSoon after his death, the Islamic State claimed him as one of their \"soldiers\" through their propaganda outlet, Amaq. Christophe Castaner, France's interior minister, dismissed the claim as \"completely opportunistic\". In an interview for France 2 Chekatt's father said his son had been an Islamic State supporter. Nine days after Chekatt's death, a USB key containing a video of him pledging allegiance to the Islamic State was found among his belongings judicial sources said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Reactions\nThe leader of the Rassemblement National (RN) party, Marine Le Pen, described the attack as an \"Islamist massacre\". Laurent Wauquiez, leader of the conservative party Les R\u00e9publicains, called for a strengthening of the laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Reactions\nBorder controls were increased due to Strasbourg's proximity to Germany. The Christmas market was closed on the day after the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282649-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Strasbourg attack, Reactions, Conspiracy theories\nConspiracy theorists and some members of the yellow vests movement, which was ongoing at the time of the attack, commented on social media that the shooting was a false flag conspiracy by the French president, to distract attention from the movement's protests. This prompted angry denials from cabinet ministers, who called the claims \"disgusting\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282650-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Stratosphere 200\nThe 2018 Stratosphere 200 was the third stock car race of the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season, and the 22nd iteration of the event. The race was held on Friday, March 2 in North Las Vegas, Nevada at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) permanent D-shaped oval racetrack. The race took the scheduled 134 laps to complete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282650-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Stratosphere 200\nIn a late race restart, Kyle Busch of Kyle Busch Motorsports was able to hold off a charging Sauter and Moffitt for the last 11 laps to win the race, the 50th NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win of his career and the first of the season. To fill out the rest of the podium, Johnny Sauter of GMS Racing and Brett Moffitt of Hattori Racing Enterprises finished 2nd and 3rd, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282650-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Stratosphere 200, Background\nLas Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada outside the Las Vegas city limits and about 15 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, is a 1,200-acre (490 ha) complex of multiple tracks for motorsports racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282650-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Stratosphere 200, Practice, First practice\nThe first practice was held on Thursday, March 1 at 5:05 PM EST. Justin Marks of DGR-Crosley would set the fastest time of the session with a 30.313 and an average speed of 178.141 miles per hour (286.690\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282650-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Stratosphere 200, Practice, Second and final practice\nThe second and final practice was held on Thursday, March 1 at 7:05 PM EST. Johnny Sauter of GMS Racing would set the fastest time with a 30.114 and an average speed of 179.319 miles per hour (288.586\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282650-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Stratosphere 200, Qualifying\nQualifying was held on Friday, March 2, at 6:05 PM EST. The qualifying system was a single car, single lap, two round system where in the first round, everyone would set a time to determine positions 13-32. Then, the fastest 12 qualifiers would move on to the second round to determine positions 1-12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282651-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Str\u00f8msgodset Toppfotball season\nThe 2018 season is Str\u00f8msgodset's twelfth season back in Eliteserien since their promotion in the 2006 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282651-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Str\u00f8msgodset Toppfotball season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Where a player has not declared an international allegiance, nation is determined by place of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282651-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Str\u00f8msgodset Toppfotball season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Where a player has not declared an international allegiance, nation is determined by place of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282651-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Str\u00f8msgodset Toppfotball season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Where a player has not declared an international allegiance, nation is determined by place of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282651-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Str\u00f8msgodset Toppfotball season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Where a player has not declared an international allegiance, nation is determined by place of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282651-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Str\u00f8msgodset Toppfotball season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Where a player has not declared an international allegiance, nation is determined by place of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282651-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Str\u00f8msgodset Toppfotball season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Where a player has not declared an international allegiance, nation is determined by place of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282652-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sud Ladies Cup\nThe 2018 Sud Ladies Cup (officially French: 1\u00e8re Sud Ladies Cup \u2013 Tournoi Maurice Revello) was the first edition of the Sud Ladies Cup women's football tournament. The tournament was named after Maurice Revello, who started the Toulon Tournament in 1967 and died in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282652-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sud Ladies Cup\nIt was held in the region of Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d'Azur from 5 to 10 June 2018. All matches were played in Salon-de-Provence. Similar to the Toulon Tournament, the tournament was contested by under-20 national teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282652-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sud Ladies Cup\nUnited States defeated Germany, Haiti and France to sweep all three games and won their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282652-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sud Ladies Cup, Participants\nFour participating teams were announced on 9 April 2018. All they were qualified for 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282652-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sud Ladies Cup, Goalscorers\n26 goals were scored in 6 matches, for an average of 4.33 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282652-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sud Ladies Cup, Awards\nAfter the final, the following players were rewarded for their performances during the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282653-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sud Ladies Cup squads\nThe 2018 Sud Ladies Cup was an international association football tournament held in Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d'Azur, France. The four national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 22 players; only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282654-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sudam\u00e9rica Rugby Sevens\nThe 2018 Sudam\u00e9rica Rugby Sevens was the twelfth edition of the Sudam\u00e9rica Rugby Sevens, the continental championship for rugby sevens in South America. Five national teams competed for two slots, not only for the 2018 Hong Kong Sevens qualification tournament, but also for participation at the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282654-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sudam\u00e9rica Rugby Sevens, Main Tournament\nThe main South America Sevens series took place over two legs, one in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and one in Vi\u00f1a del Mar, Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282655-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sudan Cup\nThe 2018 Sudan Cup is the 43rd edition of the Sudanese knockout football competition since its inception in 1990. Al Merrikh triumphed over Hilal Al-Obied by a score of 4-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282656-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sudan Premier League\nThe 2018 Sudan Premier League is the 47th season of top-tier football in Sudan. The season began on 3 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282657-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sudan floods\nFrom July to November 2018, Sudan experienced extensive flooding due to extreme rainfall. The most affected states were Kassala, West Kordofan, and Khartoum. By August 16, at least 23 people had been killed and over 60 injured. By November 5, over 19,640 homes had been destroyed, and an estimated 222,275 people had been affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282658-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sudanese protests\nThe 2018 Sudanese protests were a series of peaceful demonstrations and protest actions nationwide targeting the issues they've been living with for a bit of time. Anti -government rioting has also been occurring nationwide. Anti -austerity and anti-corruption agencies have protested as well, demanding democratic reforms and justice. The movement was suppressed by February 1, while 2 has been killed. Protesters first came into the streets demanding the end of the government and an end to corruption. Clashes erupted between the military as tanks was pulled in and the army was deployed to quell mass unrest from spreading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282658-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Sudanese protests\nBread riots occurred in Omdurman, where the demonstrations first broke out. Tear gas was used to disperse protesters who pelted rocks and demanded an end to spiralling food inflation and pressure on doctors. Doctors, students and mothers all joined the protest movement, leading to more violence. The large-scale civil unrest was suppressed on 28 January-1 February when 2 was killed in various acts of Civil disobedience. Massive disorder also rocked Khartoum but was suppressed brutally but ultimately, it led to the Sudanese Revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282659-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sudbury District municipal elections\nElections were held in the organized municipalities in the Sudbury District of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282660-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sugar Bowl\nThe 2018 Sugar Bowl was a College Football Playoff semifinal bowl game that was played on January 1, 2018 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. The 84th Sugar Bowl game, it matched two of the top four teams selected by the Selection Committee to compete for a spot at the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship played on January 8, 2018, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. It was one of the 2017\u201318 bowl games that concluded the 2017 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Allstate insurance company, the game is officially known as the Allstate Sugar Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282660-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sugar Bowl\nThe contest was televised on ESPN and ESPN Deportes, with a radio broadcast on ESPN Radio and XM Satellite Radio, with kickoff at 8:00 PM CT (9:00 PM ET).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282660-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sugar Bowl, Teams\nThe #1-ranked Clemson Tigers, champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference, faced the #4-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide, co-champions of the SEC West Division (along with Auburn who won head-to-head over Alabama.) This was the third consecutive year in which Clemson and Alabama met in the CFPs, though the previous two meetings were in the CFP Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282660-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sugar Bowl, Notes\nThis was Alabama's first Sugar Bowl win of the Nick Saban era. This was also their first win in a Sugar bowl since 1993 against Miami. The Tide had lost games in the 2008\u20132009, 2013\u20132014, and 2014\u20132015 football/bowl seasons. This was also the first win for the Southeastern Conference in the Sugar Bowl since 2010 (Ole Miss has to vacate a win over Oklahoma State), including losses to Louisville, Oklahoma (twice) and Ohio State (twice).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282660-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sugar Bowl, Game summary\nThe Crimson Tide immediately took a 10\u20133 lead at halftime. Alex Spence was the only player to score for the Clemson Tigers with just two field goals. Alabama's defense was a huge factor in the game holding the Tigers to only six points. This matchup was a rematch of the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship in which the Tigers won with quarterback Deshaun Watson leading the team as the game's MVP. The Tigers were not able to perform without Watson and with Kelly Bryant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282661-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukabumi landslide\nOn afternoon 31 December 2018, a landslide struck a settlement in the village of Sirnaresmi in Sukabumi Regency, Indonesia, striking 30 houses and killing at least 18 people. The settlement, populated by around 100 people, was located in a landslide-prone area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282661-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukabumi landslide, Location\nThe impacted areas were in Cigareohong kampung, Cimapag hamlet, Sirnaresmi village, Cisolok subdistrict, Sukabumi Regency, West Java. The settlement is located within the Mount Halimun Salak National Park, at the foot of a steep hill. Cisolok routinely experiences landslides, with one official remarking that landslides occurred there \"every year since 2010\". The already loose soil of the area was made more vulnerable by agricultural terracing and lack of strong vegetation roots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282661-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukabumi landslide, Location\nSirnaresmi, which is listed as a \"cultural village\", has settlements spread across altitudes ranging from 300 to 600 meters above sea level with hilly terrain and high inclination. The impacted area was populated by 107 people, living in 32 households.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282661-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukabumi landslide, Landslide\nShortly before sunset on 31 December, around 5:30\u00a0p.m. local time, the landslide struck and buried 30 houses out of 32. Eyewitness accounts noted that at the time of the landslide, there was no rain, and some reported hearing a loud booming noise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282661-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukabumi landslide, Casualties\nBy 10 a.m. the following day, on New Years' Day, 5 dead bodies had been recovered, 3 had been confirmed injured, while 61 residents had been confirmed safe. By 3 January, 18 dead had been recovered with 15 missing. Some of the bodies were found buried under four meters of mud, with four additional survivors being found under the mud although one, an infant, died at hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282661-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukabumi landslide, Response\nIndonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho noted that early search and rescue operations used manual equipment - with the hundreds of rescuers, locals, police, soldiers and volunteers, using their hands, shovels and hoes - due to poor road access to the affected areas, further strained by disaster tourists. Sutopo also said that across the country, 40.9 million people live in landslide-prone areas. A local military district commander gave a figure of 1,066 people involved in the evacuation. Evacuation procedures was briefly halted on 1 January due to inconsistent weather which was deemed too risky for SAR operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282661-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukabumi landslide, Response\nThe Social Ministry provided Rp 15 million (around USD 1000) in aid for the families of all the fatalities. West Java governor Ridwan Kamil proposed to adopt two children orphaned by the landslide. Head of BNPB Willem Rampangilei - which was set to retire on 2 January - was requested by President Joko Widodo to visit the site, and his replacement's swearing in was delayed. The Indonesian government agreed to finance relocation of the affected victims to a less dangerous area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games\nThe 2018 Sukma Games, officially known as the 19th Sukma Games was a multi-sport event held in Perak from 11 to 22 September 2018. This was Perak's second time to host the Sukma Games and its first time since 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games\nThe games was held from 11 to 22 September 2018, although several events had commenced from 8 September 2018. Around 7464 athletes from 13 states, Federal Territory and Brunei participated at the games which featured 427 events in 29 sports. The games was opened by Nazrin Shah, the Sultan of Perak at the Perak Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games\nThe final medal tally was led by Terengganu, followed by host Federal Territory and Selangor. 5 national and 27 games records were broken during the games. Sabahan archer Eugenius Lo Foh Soon and Terengganuan sprinter Azreen Nabila Alias were announced as best sportsman and best sportswoman of the games respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, Host city\nOn 15 May 2015, during the Sukma executive committee meeting chaired by Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, the committee jointly awarded Perak and Johor the hosting rights of the 2018 and 2020 Sukma Games respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, Development and Preparation, Venues\nOn 29 May 2016, the federal government allocated RM152 million to the Perak state government for organising the Games. This included RM 20 million that was spent on renovation and repair works for some old sporting facilities such as Perak Stadium, Velodrome Rakyat and Stadium Indera Mulia, and the rebuilding of Ipoh City Council Swimming Complex. The government also states that all 12 districts of Perak will host at least one sporting event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, Development and Preparation, Volunteers\nThe organisers estimated that around 3000 volunteers are needed to successfully host the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, Development and Preparation, Baton relay\nA relay of baton (which resembles a torch) was held statewide, began and ended at the host city on 2 and 11 September respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 58], "content_span": [59, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, Marketing, Motto\nThe official motto of the games is \"Wow! Kita Hebat!\" (Wow! We are great!). Wow is the acronym for World of Wonders, a recognition given by Lonely Planet to Perak during the Visit Perak 2017 tourism campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, Marketing, Logo\nThe official logo of the 2018 Sukma Games is an image that combines the elements of human and water wave. The human element symbolises the fighting spirit of the athletes at the highest level to achieve success and their positivity, while the water wave element represents the Perak River as the second longest river in Peninsular Malaysia that is the source of the basic needs for all Perak citizens. It was launched on 21 January 2018 at the Bulatan Amanjaya in Ipoh alongside the motto, mascot and the theme song.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, Marketing, Mascot\nThe official mascot of the 2018 Sukma Games is a Seladang or a Malayan Gaur named \"Chor\". In Perak, Chor is a name given to anyone in the local community who is the eldest in the family in the Perak Malay dialect. The mascot is designed to wear white sports attire, with its cheeks in yellow, both are which colours of the Perak state flag. It was chosen to portray physical and mental strength and burning spirit of overcoming challenges in sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, Marketing, Theme song\nThe theme song of the 2018 Sukma Games is \u201cWow! Kita The Greatest!\u201d (Wow! We are the greatest!). It was composed and sung by Renowned composer and award-winning singer Datuk Wah Idris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, The games, Opening ceremony\nThe opening ceremony was held on 11 September 2018 at the Perak Stadium at 8:00 pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, The games, Closing ceremony\nThe closing ceremony was held on 22 September 2018 at the Perak Stadium at 8:00 pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, The games, Sports\nOn 12 December 2017, sports minister Khairy Jamaluddin announced that weightlifting, sepaktakraw and taekwondo have been dropped from the list of 19 core sports as well as the games' sports list due to decline in performances, doping issues as well as power struggles within the associations, leaves only 16 core sports for the 2018 edition. This decision however had drawn dissatisfaction from several sports council across the country including Sarawak and the Federal Territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, The games, Sports\nOn 8 February 2018 after a discussion with the sports associations involved in the issue, Ahmad Shapawi announced during an organising committee meeting that weightlifting, sepaktakraw and taekwondo were reinstated as the games events but only as elective sports. At the same time, a total of 29 sports were confirmed as part of the games programme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, 2018 Sopma Games\nThe deaf national games known as the 2018 Sopma Games (20th Sopma Games) was held from 15 to 20 October 2018. The opening ceremony was held on 15 October 2018 at 7 pm, while the closing ceremony was held on 20 October 2018 at 7 pm. 551 athletes from 13 states and the federal territories participated at the games. 42 events were featured in 5 sports competed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282662-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma Games, 2018 Para Sukma Games\nThe disabled national games known as the 2018 Para Sukma Games (19th Para Sukma Games) was held from 23 to 28 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282663-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma attack\nOn 13 March 2018, at least nine Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed and six others were injured when Maoists blew up a mine-protected vehicle with an IED in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh, India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282663-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma attack, Background\nThe attack came almost eleven days after Indian security personnel killed 10 alleged Naxalites in the forests of Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on 2 March. It also came almost a year after at least 25 CRPF personnel were killed in one of the deadliest attacks by Maoist rebels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282663-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma attack, Incident\nOn 13 March 2018, an IED blast occurred when a contingent of CRPF's 212th battalion was patrolling in a mine-protected vehicle in the forest of Kistaram area in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh. At least nine Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed and six others were injured in the attack. The blast ripped the vehicle apart and some dead bodies were found 20 to 30 feet away from the blast site. The injured were airlifted for treatment in Raipur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282663-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma attack, Incident\nAccording to Special Director General CRPF D. M. Awasthi, \"There were about 11 men in the vehicle. A patrolling party was going from Kistaram to Palodi in an anti-landmine vehicle which was targeted by Naxals with an IED\". He said that, \"they were only 1km from the nearest camp in Palodi\". According to him, \"there is an exchange of fire almost on a daily basis. The security forces have been running an aggressive campaign against Naxalites\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282663-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma attack, Incident\nThe security forces are trying to figure out if the attack was carried out by a single group of Naxals or multiple.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282663-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma attack, Arrests\nSeven individuals, identified by authorities as Komram Sade, Madkam Joga, Madkam Hindwa, Mandvi Sukka, Madkam Ganga, Vanjam Aayta and Vanjam Singha, have been arrested and are being investigated on suspicion of involvement with the attack. Athhorities assert that all seven members of the \"Jan Militia\". All are residents of Kistram in Sukma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282663-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma attack, Reaction\nIndian President Ram Nath Kovind in a tweet expressed anguish at the attack and saluted the CRPF personnel who lost their lives. He also offered condolences to the bereaved families and stated that, \"we remain firm in our resolve to take on and defeat all forms of terrorism\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282663-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma attack, Reaction\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a tweet saluted the CRPF personnel who were killed in the attack and said that, \"the nation stands shoulder to shoulder\" with the families and friends of those killed \"in this hour of grief\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282663-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma attack, Reaction\nIndian Home Minister Rajnath Singh expressed distress in a tweet. He also expressed condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in Sukma blast and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured. He further stated that, \"I spoke to DG CRPF regarding the Sukma incident and asked him to leave for Chhattisgarh\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282663-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma attack, Reaction\nChief Minister of Chhattisgarh Raman Singh condemned the \"cowardly attack\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282663-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Sukma attack, Reaction\nCongress President Rahul Gandhi tweeted that the attack mirrors a \"deteriorating internal security situation due to flawed policies\". He called the attack \"tragic\" and expressed condolences to the families of those killed and wished speedy recovery to those injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami\nOn 28 September 2018, a shallow, large earthquake struck in the neck of the Minahasa Peninsula, Indonesia, with its epicentre located in the mountainous Donggala Regency, Central Sulawesi. The magnitude 7.5 quake was located 70\u00a0km (43\u00a0mi) away from the provincial capital Palu and was felt as far away as Samarinda on East Kalimantan and also in Tawau, Malaysia. This event was preceded by a sequence of foreshocks, the largest of which was a magnitude\u00a06.1 tremor that occurred earlier that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami\nFollowing the mainshock, a tsunami alert was issued for the nearby Makassar Strait. A localised tsunami struck Palu, sweeping shore-lying houses and buildings on its way. The combined effects of the earthquake and tsunami led to the deaths of an estimated 4,340 people. This makes it the deadliest earthquake to strike the country since the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake, as well as the deadliest earthquake worldwide in 2018, surpassing the previous earthquake that struck Lombok nearly 2 months earlier, killing more than 500. The Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) confirmed that a tsunami had been triggered, with its height reaching an estimated maximum of 4 to 7 metres (13 to 23\u00a0ft), striking the settlements of Palu, Donggala and Mamuju along its path.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami\nThe earthquake caused major soil liquefaction in areas in and around Palu. In two locations this led to mudflows in which many buildings became submerged causing hundreds of deaths with many more missing. The liquefaction was considered to be the largest in the world and was deemed as rare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Tectonic setting\nSulawesi lies within the complex zone of interaction between the Australian, Pacific, Philippine and Sunda Plates in which many small microplates are developed. The main active structure onshore in the western part of Central Sulawesi is the left-lateral NNW-SSE trending Palu-Koro strike-slip fault that forms the boundary between the North Sula and Makassar blocks. The rate of slip along this fault is estimated to be in the range 30\u201340\u00a0mm per year. At Palu, there are several parallel fault strands defining the margins of a pull-apart basin, each of which take up some of the overall slip. Several major earthquakes have been attributed to movement on this fault since 1900 and three larger events in the last 2,000 years have been deduced from studies of the fault zone. In 2017 a study recognised this fault as representing the greatest seismic risk in eastern Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 933]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Earthquake, Foreshocks\nThe mainshock was preceded by a sequence of foreshocks starting about three hours earlier with a M6.1 event, followed by several others, all located in the area immediately south of the mainshock epicentre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Earthquake, Foreshocks\nThe first foreshock occurred at 15:00 WITA (Indonesia Central Standard Time). The earthquake struck at a shallow depth of 10\u00a0km with a magnitude of 5.9 ML(BMKG). The USGS registered the size of the quake as 6.1 Mw\u202f. Strong shaking was felt in Donggala. At least 1 person was killed by fallen debris while 10 others were injured. Authorities confirmed that dozens of structures were either damaged or destroyed in the quake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Earthquake, Mainshock\nThe mainshock occurred at 18:02 WITA, during rush hour traffic. The shaking was felt as far away as Samarinda, the capital of East Kalimantan, to the west and Makassar in the south. It was also felt in several parts in Gorontalo, located on the north and was also felt in Tawau, Malaysia. Violent shaking was reported in Donggala and Palu. Blackouts occurred throughout the area and telecommunications went down. The state-owned Telkomsel reported that more than 500 wireless communication towers had been damaged by the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Earthquake, Mainshock\nThe earthquake happened during the 40th anniversary of the city of Palu. To commemorate the anniversary, the Government of Palu on each year holds a festival, the Palu Nomoni Festival, with its starting point from Wina Hotel to Talise Beach, stretching almost 3.8 kilometres on the coast of Palu. Hundreds of people had gathered on the beach. The festival was expected to attract international paragliders as an international paragliding event was also being held as a part of the festival. Hotel owners in Palu reported that the number of guests had risen significantly due to the festival. In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, the festival was resumed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Earthquake, Mainshock\nThe mainshock magnitude was initially reported as M7.7 by both the USGS and BMKG. The USGS later revised their estimate to M7.5. The focal mechanism of the earthquake showed that it was caused by strike-slip faulting on faults trending either roughly north\u2013south or west\u2013east. Further analysis of seismic waveforms suggests that a fault trending north\u2013south gives a better fit. The earthquake was caused by movement on the Palu-Koro fault. Geodetic evidence suggests that about 150\u00a0km of the fault ruptured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Earthquake, Mainshock\nDuring the mainshock, the rupture propagated at speeds in excess of the S-wave velocity as determined by back-projection of teleseismic data, and supported by satellite geodesy. The possibility of supershear rupture on the Palu-Koro Fault was raised in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Earthquake, Mainshock\nIndonesian authorities confirmed that no one had been able to contact a single person from Donggala, the closest town to the epicentre. As of 1 October, contacts were still hampered by downed telecommunication lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Earthquake, Aftershocks\nThe mainshock was followed by a series of aftershocks, with 14 of M\u22655.0 in the first 24 hours. Since then, a total of 150 aftershocks have struck the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Earthquake, Intensity\nThe earthquake was felt over a wide area. The strongest shaking was felt in Palu with a maximum intensity of IX (violent), according to the United States Geological Survey. energy released by the quake was 200 times to that released in the 1945 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. Analysis also showed that the shoreline which was located near the rupture in Palu and Donggala had a decrease on its height. Height drops of 0.5\u20131 meter were recorded, while an increase of height of around 0.3\u00a0cm was recorded in Banawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Tsunami\nA tsunami warning was issued in Palu and Donggala at 18:07 WITA. Warnings were sent via SMS by the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information. Residents of Donggala were told to expect tsunamis with heights of 0.5 to 3 metres, while residents in Palu were told to expect tsunamis with heights of less than 0.5 metres. The tsunami, however, struck higher than expected. Residents of Palu reported waves with heights of more than 2 metres while several others stated that the waves managed to reach the second floor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Tsunami\nIndonesian officials calculated the estimated time of arrival of the tsunami. Calculations suggested that the tsunami would arrive in Palu approximately 20 minutes after the earthquake. Around 18:27 WITA, the Indonesian meteorological agency (BMKG) in Mamuju detected tsunamis. A tsunami warning was issued, and later lifted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Tsunami\nThe BMKG claimed the warning was lifted after the tsunami had struck, the timing is clear, but since there was a one-hour time difference between the sunset in Palu and Java where many Indonesian in social media reside, many thought the warning was lifted before the tsunami hit, because the video that circulating around was after the sunset, while the warning lifted around 18:27 WITA it was 17:27 WIB for most of these people reside where the sun is still high up, resulting in the agency being criticized on social media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Tsunami\nEven though officials did send warnings via telephone and television, tsunami alarms were not activated. The Palu Nomoni Festival in Talise Beach continued and most of the festival attendees did not realize that there was a possibility of a tsunami. Eyewitnesses even stated that some people were still strolling on the beach when the tsunami struck. It was estimated that hundreds were caught off guard and swept away by the waves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Tsunami\nThe Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) later admitted that the tsunami detectors in Palu were damaged in the earthquake. The shaking was violent enough to damage the tsunami detectors in Palu, as further examination revealed that none of the detectors were able to send signals to alert residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Tsunami\nAs Palu was located at the end of a narrow bay, the tsunami's force was intensified when the waters entered. Officials confirmed that the waves that struck Palu had actually reached a height of 5 metres, with some as nearly as high as 6 metres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Tsunami\nThe tsunami surprised geologists. It was expected to be at a low height, no more than about 2 metres, since the earthquake was a strike-slip earthquake, which usually don't have enough vertical movement to create large tsunamis. One explanation is that the earthquake triggered underwater landslides, causing the tsunami. A study of coastal liquefaction has suggested that 84% of the tsunami amplitude was a result of the combined effect of coastal and submarine landslides, based on an analysis of tide gauge records at Pantoloan. Newer research suggests the earthquake created about 1.5 meters of vertical seafloor movement, which, combined with a very fast rupture speed, could have produced the tsunami, regardless of any landslides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Damage\nMore than 70,000 houses are reported to be damaged, forcing tens of thousands of people to live in shelters and tents. In Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi, 1 mosque and a major section of the Antapura Hospital collapsed. Palu's Tatura Mall, one of the oldest shopping centres in Palu, collapsed, trapping dozens of people. An eight-story hotel, identified as the Roa-Roa Hotel, had also collapsed, trapping numerous hotel guests, several of whom were participants of the Palu's annual paragliding festival. At the time of the earthquake, 76 of the 80 bedrooms of the hotel were occupied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Damage\nPalu's Mutiara SIS Al-Jufrie Airport was forced to close as large cracks, one of which was 500 meters long, had been formed on the runway. Airport officials confirmed that the navigation system was damaged and the control tower of the airport collapsed. An air traffic controller, who was watching the take-off roll of Batik Air 6231 during the earthquake, was killed due to internal injuries. Major structural damage was also reported in the airport, with the roof the airport's terminal reportedly caved in. The airport was reopened for limited operation on 29 September 2018. Due to the damage in the airport, hundreds of passengers were stranded and were told to wait in the airport's apron. Normal operation returned on service on 30 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Damage\nAuthorities confirmed that numerous settlements and residential areas, including more than a thousand homes, had been destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami also caused major damage to ports in Palu. In Pantoloan Harbour, a Quay crane collapsed and was swept by the tsunami. In Wani Harbour, structural damage was reported, while Ogoamas Harbour moved 3\u00a0cm to its right due to the earthquake. The IAIN Datokarama Palu, a university in Palu, was severely damaged by the tsunami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Damage\nOfficials confirmed that Palu's iconic bridge, the Kuning Ponulele Bridge (Jembatan Palu IV), which was also the first arch bridge in Indonesia, was destroyed by the earthquake and the ensuing tsunami. Roads to and from the city, connecting it to Makassar and Poso, were also severely damaged. There were also reports of landslides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Damage\nOf the 24 mosques in Palu, 20 were severely damaged. Only a few survived, including the iconic Floating Mosque of Palu which was partially submerged underwater. The worst-hit mosque was the Baiturrahman Mosque where 300 worshippers were killed during the evening prayers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Damage\nCommunication to the affected area was severely hampered, with President Joko Widodo being initially unable to contact governor Longki Djanggola. Ministry of Communication and Information Technology announced that 1,678 base transceiver station in Central Sulawesi were damaged by the earthquake and disaster. Local hospitals were damaged, with the Director of the Palu Undata Hospital opting to treat victims outside of the hospital and made a public plea for tents, medicine, canvas, and nurses. A warden for a prison in Palu reported that more than half of its 560 inmates fled in panic as the prison walls collapsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Damage\nAn assessment made by the Ministry of Education and Culture showed that nearly 3,000 schools had been damaged by the earthquake and tsunami and more than 100,000 students and 20,000 teachers were affected. Minister of Education and Culture Muhadjir Effendi stated that a period of minimum 1 year would be needed to rebuild and repair the damaged schools in the affected areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Damage\nIn the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, prisoners in the Donggala Penitentiary in Central Sulawesi rioted and set the prison on fire as they demanded to be met by their families. At least 100 prisoners managed to escape. The prison reportedly suffered severe damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Damage\nMinister of Agriculture Amran Sulaiman stated that the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent soil liquefaction damaged 9,718 hectares of crops throughout Palu, Sigi and Donggala, costing 36 billion rupiah in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Damage\nOverall damage cost from combination of earthquake, tsunami and liquifaction is Rp 18 Trillion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Mudflows\nParts of Central Sulawesi have been hit by major mudflows following the earthquake as a result of liquefaction. The most affected areas are the Petobo sub-district in southern Palu and the village of Balaroa, just outside the city, both locations some distance from the coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Mudflows\nIn Petobo, at least 34 Indonesian students from a Bible camp were killed, but it is suspected that many others are dead. Most of the districts 744 houses have been destroyed and 200 bodies have so far been retrieved. Survivors of the mudflow in Petobo stated that as soon as the earthquake struck, 2-meter-high mud came out from the ground. Survivors also recalled that the ground immediately turned into liquid-like substance. Hundreds of houses sank into the soil and hundreds of people were drowned by the mudflow. Out of the 13,000 inhabitants in Petobo, 6,000 are thought to have been buried by the mud. Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management announced that 2,050 houses were destroyed by the mudflow in Petobo and an area of 180 hectares were shifted by the liquefaction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Mudflows\nBalaroa almost disappeared as the ground collapsed, with most of the village's 1,747 houses sinking into the mud. Of the 2,000 inhabitants, 600 are known to have died, while more than a thousand are still missing. The liquefaction reportedly shifted an area of 47,8 hectares. Several places were shifted to the north while several others were shifted to the west and southwest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Mudflows\nMajor soil liquefaction was reported in Sigi Regency, which was located south of Palu. Numerous eyewitnesses stated that the total amount of liquid released by the soil was so immense that buildings and structures were swept away. There were also reports that a whole village was gone. The liquefaction shifted an area of 202 hectares.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Mudflows\nThe major liquefaction shifted hundreds of structures in Palu and Sigi. In Sigi, the Jono Oge village was shifted 3\u00a0km from its initial position. The village was replaced by corn fields, which was also shifted from the mountain up in the north of the village. The liquefaction also reportedly managed to shift the overhead electrical tower in the area to several hundred meters from its initial position. In Palu, hundreds of houses \"crashed into each other\" when the liquefaction occurred, with some shifted to the north and some shifted to the southwest. Roads also became twisted due to the liquefaction. Similar report also came from Balaroa where houses reportedly spun and crashed into each other. The liquefaction in Jono Oge and Palu was recorded on camera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Mudflows\nOn 11 October, the Indonesian Government decided to stop the search and rescue operation in Petobo, Balaroa and Jono Oge. The Governor of Central Sulawesi Longki Djanggola agreed to build memorial park in Petobo, Balaroa and Jono Oge to commemorate thousands of victims who were killed in the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Casualties\nThe 6.1 magnitude foreshock occurred at 15:00 local time while the 7.5 magnitude earthquake on the evening caused severe destruction in Palu, Donggala and Sigi, destroying hundreds of structures. At least 4,340 people are estimated to have died as a result of the disaster and more than 10,000 others injured, of which 4,612 were seriously injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Casualties, Palu\nOn the evening of 28 September, earthquakes followed by a tsunami struck the city. The first place that was hit by the tsunami was the beach where a festival named Festival Pesona Palu Nomoni was ongoing. The majority of the partygoers were later recovered dead from the beach and the sea. Several others were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Casualties, Palu\nLocal residents stated that many bodies were lined and laid on the side of the street and many were also found on the shoreline. The Vice President of Indonesia Jusuf Kalla announced the day after the disaster that the death toll will likely rise to more than a thousand, added that he based his statements on his past experience during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Casualties, Palu\nOn 30 September 2018, officials from the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency reported that at least 100 people were trapped inside Tatura Mall, the oldest and the largest shopping center in Palu. Another 50\u201360 people were still trapped inside the rubble of the 8-story Roa-Roa Hotel, many of whom were heard crying for help. Officials admitted that lack of heavy equipment hampered the search and rescue effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Casualties, Palu\nIndonesian authorities stated that at least 200 survivors in Palu will be evacuated with a Hercules C-130 to Makassar, some for further medical treatment. According to officials, nearly 17,000 people in Palu had been displaced by the earthquake and tsunami. The Head of Data, Information and Public Relations Center of Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, stated that around 2.4 million people were affected by the earthquake and tsunami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Casualties, Palu\nFearing that diseases might spread, the Indonesian Government decided to bury those who had been identified in mass graves. The Indonesian government had made at least one mass grave measuring 1,000 square meters. The grave could hold as much as 1,000 bodies. The Indonesian Government then added that they would probably make another as thousands of people had died in the provincial capital. On 1 October, at least 53 bodies were buried in another mass grave in Palu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Casualties, Donggala\nFrom 28 to 29 September, the victims from Donggala could not be accounted for due to limited access and downed communication lines. In the next days, emergency workers arrived in the city. Donggala was heavily affected by the tsunami, with Banawa District being the worst affected district. Nearly all coastal houses were destroyed by the tsunami, which reportedly had struck Donggala at a height of more than 7 meters. Authorities stated that more than 150 people in Donggala had been killed by the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Casualties, Sigi\nThe Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management stated that Sigi Regency was among the area with the most casualties. Reports from the city revealed that \"dozens of people\" were killed by the earthquake, including the 34 students from a Bible camp that died after being struck by a mudflow. There were also reports of \"massive liquefaction\" which caused homes to be swept away. Officials also reported that several aftershocks with magnitude of over 5.0 had struck Sigi, damaging more buildings and structures. At least 7 districts in Sigi were cut off due to landslides and damaged roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Casualties, Parigi Moutong\nReports of damage were also received from Parigi Moutong. At least a mosque and a temple were damaged by the earthquake. Dozens of homes were also damaged. Authorities stated that at least 15 people in Parigi Moutong were killed while 2 others were missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nIndonesian President Joko Widodo immediately ordered the Coordinating Minister of Politics, Legal and Security Affairs Wiranto to coordinate the relief efforts in the affected areas. He had called the commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces Hadi Tjahjanto for the emergency responses. He also stated that he will declare the earthquake and tsunami in Palu as a major disaster. He added that he had tried to call the governor of Central Sulawesi, whose office is in the city of Palu. However, due to the downed telecommunication lines, the calls weren't able to be received. He later appealed for calm and urged people not to panic in response to the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nJoko Widodo and several other prominent government officials, including head of the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency Bambang Soelistyo, commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces Hadi Tjahjanto and some of his ministers will visit the hardest hit areas on 30 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nCoordinating Minister of Politics and Legal Affairs Wiranto stated that his Ministry will conduct a joint search and rescue effort with the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency, the Indonesian National Armed Forces, the Indonesian BMKG and the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management. Several personnel had been immediately deployed to the disaster zone. He also added that makeshift hospitals, shelters and crisis centres will be set up in multiple locations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nA 14-day emergency period, starting from 28 September, was set up in Central Sulawesi. This was later extended to 26 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nA minute of silence was held during the opening ceremony of the 2018 Asian Para Games to honour the victims of the earthquake and tsunami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nThe Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information deployed at least 30 satellites phone to recover the communication in Palu. On 30 September 2018, the Ministry deployed 100 satellite phones to Sulawesi. Indonesian Ministry of Internal Affairs Tjahjo Kumolo ordered all regional governments in Indonesia to assist the government of Central Sulawesi in handling the disaster. He added that every regional governments in Sulawesi had been ordered to send emergency services and basic supplies to the survivors. On 29 September, he visited Palu to supervise the relief effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0049-0001", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nMinistry of Health sent dozens of medical team and medicines to the affected areas. The Ministry later stated that it would work together with the Indonesian National Armed Forces for the distribution. Military bases were also notified by the Ministry to send medical team to Palu and Donggala. Ministry of Transportation formed a Quick Response Team in Palu and would evaluate and inspect the infrastructures in the affected areas. Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani announced that the ministry would provide 560 billion rupiah for the recovery effort in Central Sulawesi. Minister of Agriculture Amran Sulaiman sent 500 trucks carrying logistics to Palu and Donggala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nIn response to reports that hundreds of inmates had escaped from prisons throughout Central Sulawesi, the Ministry of Law and Human Rights announced an ultimatum for 1 week to the inmates to report and to return to the prison. A special forces unit was also formed by the ministry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nState-owned electric company PLN sent 125 personnel to Palu to check the electricity in the affected areas. State-owned petroleum company Pertamina sent 4,000 liters of diesel fuel from Tarakan to Palu. Indonesian National Lines (Pelni) stated that it will not impose fee to any kind of logistics and aid. Telecommunication company Telkom announced that it will provide free wifi services and telecommunication services in the affected areas. This was also followed by Indosat Ooredoo. It stated that residents in the affected area could use SMS service for free. Indonesian Bureau of Logistics sent rice, 5 tonnes of meat and other logistics to Palu and Donggala. Ministry of State-owned enterprises announced that a total of 20,000 LPG tanks had been distributed to 37 locations in Central Sulawesi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nMinistry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education M. Natsir stated that every college students in Palu who were affected by the disaster would be given scholarship from the government. 38 state universities in Indonesia also offered to the affected college students to temporarily study in their university.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nThe regional government of Jakarta announced that it would donate a total of 60 billion rupiah for the recovery effort. A total of 83 personnel were also sent to Central Sulawesi. The Government of Toli-Toli Regency sent 25 tonnes of rice, sembako and clothes to Donggala. East Luwu Regency sent 18 trucks carrying logistics, blankets and clothes to Palu, Donggala and Sigi while the regional government of East Java sent volunteers and medical team and donated 5 billion rupiah to the victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0053-0001", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nThe local government of Lamongan, East Java, sent 34 trucks carrying more than 4,000 boxes of mineral water, 15.89 tonnes of rice, 2,000 packages of sembako, canned foods and other aids to Central Sulawesi. West Sumatra sent 1.6 tonnes of rendang and donated 1 billion rupiah to the victims. Gorontalo sent 100 police personnel, 16 social workers, 14 marines, 15 BPBD personnel, 15 personnel from the local Indonesian Red Cross and 100 personnel from Korem 133/NWB. Medical team, ambulance, medicine and aids worth of 256 million rupiah were also sent to Palu and Donggala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0053-0002", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nLocal government of Boalemo Regency sent blankets, foods and other essential aids as well as medical team and SAR personnel to Palu and Donggala. Disaster response team, Quick Response team, doctors, paramedics, and trucks carrying logistics and medicines were also sent by Takalar Regency, South Sulawesi. Regent of Jeneponto Regency Iksan Iskandar stated that his government will send logistics and donations to the victims of the disaster. East Kalimantan Province sent a ship carrying tents, clothes, and aids to Palu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0053-0003", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nGovernment of West Java donated 2 billion rupiah to the victims while the government of Central Java sent doctors, nurses and personnel from BPBD to Central Sulawesi. Government of Kampar, Riau, sent 3 tonnes of clothes, 4 tonnes of sembako and a donation of 300 million rupiah to Palu and Donggala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nHelicopters and ships were deployed from Borneo by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency. Regional search and rescue agency from Boolang Mongondow, Kendari and Makassar also sent dozens of personnel to assist the rescue efforts in Sulawesi. Makassar Red Cross stated that they will send 12 personnel and ambulances to the affected areas. Head of the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency Muhammad Syaugi stated that he had ordered the personnel from the regional search and rescue agency in Gorontalo, Banjarmasin and Balikpapan to assist the rescue operation in Palu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nIn the following days, thousands of people began to evacuate from Palu, either via air or land. The Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management noted that, as of 11 October, 18,353 had evacuated from Palu. More than 16,000 people were evacuated to Makassar, Balikpapan or Jakarta. As people began to flee, reports of fuel shortages became widespread. The Indonesian state-owned oil company Pertamina stated that many of their gas stations had run out of fuel due to the mass exodus. Food shortage was reported throughout the city, and survivors screamed for foods outside a military command in Palu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nThe city of Palu became chaotic as multiple convenience stores were looted. During a live TV broadcast of the rescue mission in Tatura Mall, the rescue attempt was interrupted as dozens of looter raided the mall. The Indonesian National Police initially condoned the looting for \"emergency purpose\" and the Indonesian Government, including President Joko Widodo and Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces Hadi Tjahjanto, initially refuted claims of widespread looting in Palu. The Indonesian Government was also heavily criticized by the public for allowing looting to take place for \"emergency reasons\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0056-0001", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nOn 2 October, the Indonesian Government ordered the Indonesian National Police to capture any remaining looters. The Indonesian Government later clarified their statement. As aid distribution was hampered due to the destruction in the city, the government announced that any foods, drinks and essential aids that had been taken from any convenience store in Palu would be paid by the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response\nThere were also reports that trucks carrying logistics and fuel were looted in and around the city of Palu. Due to the rising number of looting, soldiers were also dispatched to secure any remaining convenience store and also to secure the aid distribution. The Indonesian National Police dispatched 1,400 personnel to Palu and Donggala while the Indonesian National Armed Forces sent 3 battalion of army. This resulted in minor clashes between authorities and locals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nA spokesperson for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said that, while no official request for assistance had been made as of 29 September, it was ready to assist if international assistance were required. A UN spokesperson echoed this statement, and was in contact with the Government of Indonesia. On 30 September President Joko Widodo agreed to accept international and private sector aid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nOn 30 September 2018, South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Korean government will provide $1 million in humanitarian assistance and also consider dispatching Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT) after consultation with the relevant ministries and the Indonesian government. On 2 October 2018, Singapore Defence Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen announced that two Republic of Singapore Air Force C-130s were en route to Sulawesi to deliver humanitarian supplies\u2013bottled water, meals, tents and medical supplies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0059-0001", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nAs requested by the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI), both aircraft will stay in Sulawesi to transport survivors to other cities of Indonesia that have better facilities to cope, as the tsunami destroyed much of the existing town. The Foreign Affairs Minister of New Zealand, Winston Peters, reported the country would contribute $1.6\u00a0million to assist in emergency response efforts, with support and contributions to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0059-0002", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nMalaysia, through its Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, had telephoned Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla to inform him of the dispatchment of the SMART team for search-and-rescue efforts along with a donation of RM500,000 in aid for the victims. Taiwan also dispatched 36\u00a0specialists and six sniffer dogs from the New Taipei City Fire Department of the National Fire Agency (NFA) to assist in rescue efforts together with the donation of supplies, a medical team and 10,000 blankets for the victims from the Taiwanese Buddhist humanitarian organisation, the Tzu Chi Foundation. Vietnam offered US$100,000 in relief aid to help the Indonesian people recover from their recent earthquakes and tsunami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nThe Philippine government has pledged $300,000 worth of humanitarian assistance which consist of six units of water filtration systems, six units of generator sets, tents and sleeping kits. The aid will be delivered by a 25-person contingent via a Lockheed C-130 Hercules cargo plane in two batches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nThe European Union on 1 October pledged an initial \u20ac1.5 million in emergency humanitarian assistance to the country. The European Commission also dispatched a humanitarian expert to the region to coordinate European efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nOn 2 October, the United States announced they would provide $100,000 through the United States Agency for International Development in initial aid and further assess the conditions on the ground, together with the Indonesian government, to see if more relief efforts are required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nAustralia announced that it pledged $500,000 through the Indonesian Red Cross. On 3 October, Australia stated that an additional $5 million in aid would be provided to Indonesia. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne stated that the $5 million will include emergency healthcare support in the initial phase up to 21 days. Australia also offered assets from the Australian Defence Force to assist the relief effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nSaudi Arabian Ambassador to Indonesia, Osama Mohammed Al Shuaibi, stated that the Saudi Government has distributed 370 tons of basic necessities, 5,000 units of health equipment, and 3,500 tents for the earthquake and tsunami victims in Palu, noting that the aids were from King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Prince Mohammed bin Salman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nQatari Government sent a financial aid of $5 million to Indonesia for the relief effort in Lombok and Central Sulawesi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that Venezuela would donate a total of $10 million in financial aid to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami, even though the country itself was facing a crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nThe Spanish Government sent 255 tents worth of \u20ac265,000 and stated that it had allocated a total of \u20ac200,000 through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and \u20ac100,000 through non-governmental organization Save the Children. Turkish Government sent two Hercules C-130 aircraft carrying 1,000 sleeping bags, 250 tents and Turkish Red Crescent personnel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nResidents in Switzerland set up donation for the victims of the earthquake, with hotlines reportedly set up in the city of Zurich, Geneva, Lugano and Chur. A total of $6.25 million were collected from the public. Swiss News Agency reported that 900\u00a0kg of aids and 5 experts were also sent to Sulawesi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nThe Salvation Army's Indonesia Emergency Services Team was activated in response and worked to assess the damage and needs of those injured or displaced by the tsunami. The United Kingdom's defense secretary announced that they were to send a RAF A400M Atlas aircraft, a team of military experts, and HMS\u00a0Argyll, and make \u00a32m of aid available for the relief effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nRussian Ministry of Emergency Situations sent mobile electro-stations and other humanitarian aid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nThe CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, stated that Google would donate a total of $1 million for the relief effort and would activate the SOS alert in Palu and Donggala. Apple Inc. also offered to provide financial aid. Both WhatsApp and Facebook donated $1 million to the government of Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Response, International and private\nAid deliveries to affected areas are hampered by the vast destruction of the local infrastructure. Most roads are severely damaged and Palu's local airport does not have the capacities to handle the large influx of material, leading to severe delays in aid distribution across the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282664-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Aftermath\nA month after the quake, 206,524 people had been made refugees. By April 2020, thousands were still without housing or hospital facilities, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282665-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup\nThe 2018 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup was the 27th edition of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. It was held in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia from 3 to 10 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282665-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup\nThe number of teams for this year's cup was the same as last year's tournament where six teams competed. Japan and New Zealand, who competed previously, did not join this edition and were replaced by Argentina and Ireland. England was Great Britain's only country that participated in this edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282665-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup\nAustralia clinched their tenth title in this tournament after defeating England 2\u20131 in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282666-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sultan of Johor Cup\nThe 2018 Sultan of Johor Cup was the eighth edition of the Sultan of Johor Cup, an international men's under\u201321 field hockey tournament in Malaysia. It was held in Johor Bahru, Malaysia from 6 to 13 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282666-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sultan of Johor Cup\nAs in previous editions, a total of six teams competed for the title. The United States who competed in 2017 were absent from the tournament. The team was replaced by New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282666-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sultan of Johor Cup, Participating nations\nIncluding the host nation, 6 teams competed in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282666-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sultan of Johor Cup, Umpires\nA total of eight umpires were appointed by the FIH and National Association to officiate the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282666-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sultan of Johor Cup, Final ranking\nAs per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics\nThe 2018 Summer Youth Olympics (Spanish: Juegos Ol\u00edmpicos de la Juventud de 2018), officially known as the III Summer Youth Olympic Games, and commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, were an international sports, cultural, and educational event held in Buenos Aires, Argentina between 6 and 18 October 2018. They were the first Youth Olympic Games held outside of Eurasia, and the first Summer Games held outside of Asia and the first to be held in the Western and Southern hemispheres. It was the second Olympic Games held in South America after the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Bidding\nSix bids were initially submitted for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Buenos Aires confirmed their bid in September 2011. On 13 February 2013, the IOC selected Buenos Aires as one of the three Candidate Cities for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games. The other two candidate cities were Glasgow and Medell\u00edn. Guadalajara and Rotterdam failed to become candidates. Pozna\u0144 withdrew their bid before the candidate cities were selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Bidding\nThe host city election vote was held at an IOC Session in Lausanne. The results were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Organisation\nIn October 2013, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach appointed Namibian sprinter and four-time Olympic silver medalist Frank Fredericks as Chairman of the Coordination Commission for the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games\u00a0\u2014 Buenos Aires 2018. Fredericks was heading the six-person IOC Coordination Commission made up of several Olympians including Danka Bartekova, the youngest IOC Member and Young Ambassador from the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Organisation\nThis commission was completed by two other IOC members, China's Li Lingwei, winner of three World Badminton Championships, and Barry Maister, a member of New Zealand's hockey team that won the Olympic gold medals at 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal; and Adham Sharara, Canadian President of the International Table Tennis Federation, and Henry Nu\u00f1ez, head of the National Olympic Committee of Costa Rica. Working along with them there was the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (BAYOGOC), that includes member of the Argentine Olympic Committee (AOC), the local government and the national government, and which CEO was Leandro Larrosa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Organisation\nThe local organising committee involves young people in all levels of the organization; including an 'Athlete Commission' and a newly established 'Youth Commission'\u00a0\u2013 a group of young consultants chosen by the AOC from local schools and universities\u00a0\u2013 and the employees within BAYOGOC from junior to director level. The first Coordination Commission meeting took place in Buenos Aires on 27\u201328 September 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Organisation\nDuring June 2015 a small delegation from Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee (NYOGOC) visited Buenos Aires for a series of debriefing workshops and seminars to pass on their expertise focusing on strategic decisions to be made in the early stages such as legacy, the use of the YOG to impact youth and sport, and benefits of the YOG to engage communities. The CEOs of Singapore 2010, Lillehammer 2016 and Innsbruck 2012 also took part of these meetings that were presided over by Frank Fredericks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Organisation\nFootball player and Olympic gold medalist Lionel Messi, originally not from Buenos Aires but from Rosario, was named as an ambassador of the 2018 YOG in March 2014, and he delivered a video welcoming message for the young athletes to Buenos Aires during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. In December 2015, the four-time olympic medalist Luciana Aymar was also named as an ambassador of Buenos Aires 2018. In July 2017, Olympic gold medalist Luis Scola was named ambassador of the 2018 YOG.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Organisation\nJoining the Olympic programme for the first time at Buenos Aires 2018 were BMX freestyle, kitesurfing, cross country running, beach handball, sport climbing, karate, breakdancing, and roller sports; and the event programme saw an increased gender balance. FIFA also decided to replace football with futsal at the Buenos Aires Youth Olympics, while other sports such as skateboarding were being considered for the programme. Roller speed skating was added to the Olympic programme on 17 March 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Organisation\nThree years before the event, a survey showed that public support had reached 82.3 percent in favour of the Youth Olympic games in Buenos Aires. During the second visit of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission to the city, on 13 and 14 August 2015, Mr. Fredericks highlighted the implementation of 13 of the recommendation of the Agenda 2020 by BAYOGOC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues\nThe original plan was based on the bid for the 2004 Summer Olympics, in which a 15\u00a0km long Olympic Corridor would have worked instead of a more concentrated Olympic Park. For the Buenos Aires bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics the Olympic Corridor was adapted into a Green Corridor, one of the two main sports zones as the primary sites of the Games in Buenos Aires 2018, being the other one Parque Roca, to the south of the city. The Green Corridor and the Olympic Corridor shared River Plate Stadium, Tiro Federal, Gimnasia y Esgrima de Buenos Aires, Parque Tres de Febrero, La Bombonera, La Rural and CeNARD as venues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues\nIn order to group the sports in a more compact framework, in September 2014 a new four-clusters concept was revealed, dropping out venues such as La Rural. It was announced then that each cluster will include an area called YOG FEST where sporting experiences, family entertainment and cultural activities will take place. But at the 129th IOC Session, in August 2016, a new venues masterplan was presented, including two new stand-alone venues, adding La Rural once again and replacing Parque Sarmiento with Tecn\u00f3polis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues\nThe International Olympic Committee members stayed at the Sheraton Hotel, located in the district of Retiro and close to Retiro railway station, one of the most important transportation hubs in Buenos Aires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues\nAfter numerous changes, in February 2018, the definitive venues plan was presented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues\nThe Opening Ceremony was held at the Obelisco de Buenos Aires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues, A. Green Park\nAdjacent to downtown Buenos Aires and stretching three kilometres along the scenic banks of the River Plate, this area was distinguished by swathes of parks. It included the barrios of N\u00fa\u00f1ez and Palermo. The Palermo Woods, a highly popular retreat for porte\u00f1os and visitors alike, was the triathlon and cycling venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues, A. Green Park\nVenues located in N\u00fa\u00f1ez can be reached by Belgrano Norte Line (at Ciudad Universitaria railway station) or by nearby Mitre Line (at N\u00fa\u00f1ez Station) or Buenos Aires underground Line D (at Congreso de Tucum\u00e1n Station). Venues located in Palermo can be reached by Mitre Line (Tres de Febrero and Lisandro de la Torre station).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues, B. Olympic Park\nLocated to the South of Buenos Aires, Roca Park is a vast area of 200 hectares in the district of Villa Soldati, a neighborhood that has been targeted by the local Government in need of urban development. One of the greenest areas in the metropolis, it is adjacent to the City Park and the Buenos Aires Automotive Racetrack. The Park, inaugurated in the 1980s, has many sports venues and recreational facilities, including the iconic Roca Park Athletics Stadium and the Roca Park Tennis Stadium. This area was also the site of the Youth Olympic Village (YOV), from where 65 percent of the athletes were able to walk to their competition venues, and after the event it will become the new location for the CeNARD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues, B. Olympic Park\nThe Parque Polideportivo Roca was fully renovated before the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in order to be used as main Olympic Park. Six pavilions were built: Asia Pavilion (judo and wrestling), Africa Pavilion (fencing and modern pentathlon), Europe Pavilion (karate and weightlifting), Oceania Pavilion (boxing and taekwondo), America Pavilion (gymnastics) and natatorium. The complex also includes hockey and athletics field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues, B. Olympic Park\nOlympic Park can be reached by Premetro tram at Cecilia Grierson station, or by the southern Metrobus line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues, C. Urban Park\nLocated to the east of the city, this cluster occupies a significant portion of the R\u00edo de la Plata riverbank and includes the old Puerto Madero docks as venue for water sports. Rowing competitions were held over 500 metres rather than the usual 2,000 metres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues, C. Urban Park\nThis area can be reached by Buenos Aires Underground lines A, B, D and E.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues, D. Techno Park\nLocated west of the city and next to the General Paz Avenue which marks the limit of Buenos Aires city, the 50 hectares science, technology, industry and art mega exhibition Tecn\u00f3polis was inaugurated in 2011 and was the venue for four sports competitions. This area can be access by Mitre Line Railway at Migueletes station or by Belgrano Norte Line at Saavedra or Padilla stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, The Games, Torch Relay\nAthens (Greece) - La Plata (Buenos Aires) - Parana (Entre Rios) - Santa Fe (Santa Fe) - Iguazu (Misiones) - Corrientes (Corrientes) - Jujuy (Jujuy) - Salta (Salta) - Tucuman (Tucuman) - Catamarca (Catamarca) - La Rioja (La Rioja) - Mendoza (Mendoza) - San Juan (San Juan) - Cordoba (Cordoba) - Neuquen (Neuquen) - Bariloche (Rio Negro) - Ushuaia (Tierra del Fuego) - Buenos Aires (Federal Capital) (Argentina)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, The Games, Opening ceremony\nThe opening ceremony of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics was held at the Obelisco de Buenos Aires on 6 October 2018 at 20:00 (8 PM) Argentina Time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, The Games, Sports\nThe 2018 Summer Youth Olympics featured 239 events in 32 sports. 239 events, there will be 12 mixed team events (Mixed-NOCs), 9 mixed team events (NOCs), 1 open event (Equestrian), 113 men's events, and 102 women's events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, The Games, Schedule\nThe schedule for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games was released on 9 May 2018, exactly 150 days before the starting of the games on its official website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, The Games, Closing ceremony\nThe closing ceremony of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics was held at the Youth Olympic Village on 18 October 2018. The Olympic flag was handed over to the next host city, Senegalese capital Dakar for the 2022 Summer Youth Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, The Games, Doping\nSupatchanin Khamhaeng of Thailand originally won the gold medal at the Girls' +63 kg Weightlifting event, but was disqualified in 2019 after testing positive for a banned substance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Marketing, Emblem\nThe official emblem of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics was presented in July 2015, three years before the games. The emblem reflects the diversity of Buenos Aires and it is inspired by the city's vibrant colours, eclectic culture, iconic architecture and the many neighbourhoods that make up the Argentine capital. Each letter represents a famous landmark, including the Floralis Gen\u00e9rica, Space Tower, the Columbus Theatre, the National Library and the Obelisk. A short video produced by the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (BAYOGOC) shows what each letter on the emblem relates to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Marketing, Slogan\nThe slogan of these games is \"Feel the Future\" was unveiled on 8 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Marketing, Mascot\nThe olympic mascot of these games was unveiled on 29 May 2018. The mascot is a young Jaguar, its name \"Pandi\" is a combination of the scientific name of the species (Panthera onca) and the relationship of the mascot with the \"digital world\". The president of the Buenos Aires 2018 Organising Committee, Gerardo Werthein, said that the mascot \"seeks to inspire young people on the transformative power of Olympism and sport\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Marketing, Mascot\nThe mascot was created by the Argentine agency Human Full Agency with direction of Peta Rivero y Hornos. While the animation short was made by the local production company Buda TV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282667-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Marketing, Official song\nThe official song of Buenos Aires 2018 is Alive, performed by Candelaria Molfese and Fernando Dente. It was produced by Radio Disney. The name of the song in Spanish is \"Vamos Juntos\" (\"Let's go together\"), which was also the name of the governing coalition for the 2017 legislative elections in Buenos Aires city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282668-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics medal table\nThe 2018 Summer Youth Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 6 to 18 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282668-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics medal table\nOf the nations that won medals at these Games, two had not won an Olympic medal nor Youth Olympic medal, Honduras and Saint Lucia. Burundi, Iceland, Malaysia, Mauritius, Qatar and Saudi Arabia won their first gold medal at an Olympic/Youth Olympic event, having previously only won silver and bronze medals. Afghanistan, Algeria, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mauritius, Niger, Philippines, Sri Lanka and United Arab Emirates won their first ever Youth Olympics medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282668-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics medal table, Medal table\nThe Organising Committee is not keeping an official medal tally. The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a \"nation\" is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282668-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics medal table, Medal table\nTwo gold medals were awarded for a first-place tie in the Mixed BMX freestyle park event. No silver medal was awarded as a consequence. Two silver medals were awarded for a second-place tie in the Boys' 50 m butterfly swimming, Boys' IKA Twin Tip Racing and Girls' IKA Twin Tip Racing events. No bronze medal was awarded as a consequence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282668-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics medal table, Medal table\nIn November 2019, in the girls' +63 kg event in weightlifting, Thailand gold medallist had tested positive for a banned substance, and the medal was stripped. As a result, Turkey was raised from a silver to gold medal, Uzbekistan from the bronze medal to silver and New Zealand received a bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282668-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Summer Youth Olympics medal table, Medal table\nIn judo (9), karate (6) and taekwondo (10) two bronze medals are awarded in each event (25 additional bronze medals total). Additionally, two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the girls' 50 m butterfly swimming and girls' 50 m freestyle swimming events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282669-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Summit League Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Summit League Baseball Tournament took place from May 23\u201326. The top four regular season finishers of the league's six teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at J. L. Johnson Stadium on the campus of Oral Roberts in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oral Roberts won the tournament and earned the Summit League's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282669-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Summit League Baseball Tournament, Seeding\nThe top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage during the double round robin regular season. The teams then played a double elimination tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282670-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2017\u201318 season. All tournament games were played at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from March 3\u20136, 2018. Regular season champion South Dakota State defeated South Dakota in the championship game to win the tournament and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282670-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll eight teams in the Summit League were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282671-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Summit League Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Summit League Men's Soccer Tournament, was the 25th edition of the tournament. It determined the Summit League's automatic berth into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282671-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Summit League Men's Soccer Tournament\nDenver won the Summit League title, making it their fifth title in the last six years. They defeated the defending Summit League champions, Omaha, 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282671-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Summit League Men's Soccer Tournament, All Tournament Team\nAndy O'Donoghue, Purdue Fort WayneMatthew Lieshout, Purdue Fort WayneKris Luke, Eastern IllinoisCole Harkrader, Eastern IllinoisMarcos Bautista, OmahaNil Ayats, OmahaBilly Hoffman, OmahaMoshe Perez, DenverKenny Akamatsu, DenverJacob Stensson, DenverScott DeVoss, Denver", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282672-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Summit League Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Summit League Women's Basketball Tournament was a post-season women's basketball tournament for The Summit League. The tournament took place March 3\u20136, 2018 at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Top 8 teams in the final standings qualified for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282673-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Summit League Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Summit League Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Summit League held on November 1 and 3, 2018. The three-match tournament took place at Fishback Soccer Park in Brookings, South Dakota. The four-team single-elimination tournament consisted of two rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Denver Pioneers were the defending champions, and successfully defended their title with a 4\u20130 victory over the Omaha Mavericks in the final. The win earned Denver the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The tournament win was Denver's third as a member of the conference, all of which have come under coach Jeff Hooker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282674-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament was held at M. L. Tigue Moore Field on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana, from May 22 to May 27, 2018. The tournament used a double-elimination format as in past years. Coastal Carolina, the winner of the tournament, earned the Sun Belt Conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282674-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding\nIn a change from previous years, the top ten teams (based on conference results) from the conference earned invites to the tournament. The teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage, with the bottom four seeds competing in a play-in round. The remaining eight teams then played a two bracket, double-elimination tournament. The winner of each bracket played each other in the championship final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282675-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game\nThe 2018 Sun Belt Conference Championship Game was played on December 1, 2018, between the Mountaineers of Appalachian State and the Ragin' Cajuns from Louisiana. The game was played at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone, North Carolina, due to Appalachian State's better conference record. This was the second time these teams played this year; the first meeting finished 27\u201317 in the Mountaineers' favor. The winner of the game would play in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl while the loser would play in the Cure Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282675-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, History\nIn 1987, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) approved a proposal made by two Division II conferences that allowed any conference with 12 football members to split into divisions and stage a championship game between the divisional winners, with that game not counting against NCAA limits on regular-season contests. However, the rule would not see its first use until 1992, when the Southeastern Conference, which had added Arkansas and South Carolina the previous year, launched its title game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282675-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, History\nIn early 2016, NCAA legislation was passed that largely deregulated FBS conference championship games, allowing a conference with fewer than 12 teams to stage a championship game that featured either (1) the top two teams at the end of a full round-robin conference schedule, or (2) the winners of each of two divisions, with each team playing a full round-robin schedule within its division. Several months later the Sun Belt Conference announced that they would be introducing the football championship game to its sponsor sport starting in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282675-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, History\nIn 2017, the conference announced that its teams would compete in two divisions, to determine participants for a conference championship game. The East and West divisions were created with five teams each, with the top teams to meet in a championship game played at the home stadium of the team with the best College Football Playoff ranking. If neither team was ranked in the CFP selection committee, the conference would determine home field using a formula based on six computer ratings that were used in the old Bowl Championship Series standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282675-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, Louisiana\nThe Ragin' Cajuns came into the 2018 season off of a 5\u20137 record. They also entered the season to a new face, Billy Napier, after previous head coach, Mark Hudspeth had been fired after three consecutive years of shortcomings and four consecutive New Orleans Bowl victories. Hoping to capitalize on a new face, the Cajuns did just that finishing 7\u20135 and in the Conference Championship after finishing first in the West Division, but only finishing in a tie for fourth place in the entire conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 69], "content_span": [70, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282675-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, Louisiana\nThe Ragin' Cajun come into the game after beating out-of-conference Grambling State Tigers and the New Mexico State Aggies and Sun Belt Conference foes Texas State Bobcats, Arkansas State Red Wolves, Georgia State Panthers, South Alabama Jaguars, and the winner-take-all game against the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks. The Ragin' Cajuns were defeated by No. 16 Mississippi State Bulldogs, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide, Appalachian State Mountaineers, and the Troy Trojans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 69], "content_span": [70, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282675-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, Appalachian State\nThe Mountaineers came into the 2018 season off of a 9\u20134 season, a Sun Belt Co-Championship, and a Dollar General Bowl victory and shut out 34-0, against the Toledo Rockets. Since coming into the Sun Belt Conference in 2014, the Mountaineers have flourished, finishing every year above .500, two conference championships, two Camellia Bowl wins, a Dollar General Bowl win, and even ranked No. 25 in the nation for a week in 2018, which was the first time in the programs history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 77], "content_span": [78, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282675-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, Appalachian State\nThe Mountaineers come into the game after beating out-of-conference Charlotte 49ers, Gardner\u2013Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, and Sun Belt foes South Alabama Jaguars, Arkansas State Red Wolves, Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Texas State Bobcats, Georgia State Panthers, and the winner-take-all game against the Troy Trojans. Their only losses of 2018 were to No. 10 Penn State Nittany Lions and the Georgia Southern Eagles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 77], "content_span": [78, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282675-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, Appalachian State vs. Louisiana series history\nThis match up will be the 6th all time meeting against the Mountaineers and the Ragin' Cajuns. They last played each other earlier this year on October 20. Appalachian State defeated Louisiana, 27-17. That win made it five in the row, leading to the Mountaineers first appearance in the AP Poll. After the regular season match up, Appalachian State leads the all time series 5-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 106], "content_span": [107, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282676-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the league for the 2017\u201318 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held from March 7\u201311, 2018, in New Orleans, Louisiana, at Lake Front Arena. The tournament winner, Georgia State, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282676-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll 12 conference teams were eligible for the tournament. The top four teams received a bye to the quarterfinals of the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 59], "content_span": [60, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282677-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament was the 24th edition of the Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament will decide the Sun Belt Conference champion. The tournament will be begin on November 7 and conclude on November 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282677-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament\nCoastal Carolina were the defending champions. However, they were unable to defend their title, losing to Georgia State 1\u20132 in the Semifinals. Georgia State went on to win the tournament 4\u20132 over Georgia Southern in the final. This was the first Sun Belt Conference Championship for Georgia State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282678-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 Sun Belt Women's Basketball Tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Sun Belt Conference began on March 6 and ending on March 11, 2018, at the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282679-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Sun Belt Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Sun Belt Conference held from October 31 to November 4, 2018. The seven-match tournament took place at the Foley Sports Complex in Foley, Alabama. The eight-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the South Alabama Jaguars, however they were unable to defend their title, losing in a penalty kick shootout to the Texas State Bobcats in the semifinals. The Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans won the title in another penalty kick shootout over Texas State. This was the first Sun Belt women's soccer tournament title for Little Rock and the first for head coach Mark Foster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282680-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference football season\nThe 2018 Sun Belt conference football season began on August 30, 2018, and ended on November 24, 2018. It was a part of the 2018 season of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the top level of NCAA Division I football. The Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game was played on December 1, 2018, with Appalachian State winning the inaugural game. The entire schedule was released on February 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282680-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference football season, Preseason, Coaches predictions\nThe 2018 preseason coaches football poll was released on July 19, voted from the 10 coaches of the conference. Appalachian State and Arkansas State were chosen to be the finalist for their division, with the Red Wolves predicted to win the first ever Sun Belt Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282680-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference football season, Season\nThis will be the first season with 10 teams as the New Mexico State left the conference to become independent and Idaho downgraded to FCS and compete in the Big Sky Conference. The scheduling format for the ten members were reset for the 2018 season. Each member will play eight other members in the conference with four at home and four away. The conference was split up with five teams representing the east and the other five representing the west division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282680-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference football season, Season\nA team will play each team within their division (4 teams) and four from the other division (two at home and two away). South Alabama (west division) and Troy (east) will be the only two teams to play each other every year due to their rivalry and proximity to each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282680-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Belt Conference football season, Postseason, Bowl games\nBowls based on contractual tie-ins. Actual bowls attended by Sun Belt members may vary and will be announced following the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282681-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Bowl\nThe 2018 Sun Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on Monday, December 31, 2018. It was the 85th edition of the Sun Bowl, and was one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by Hyundai Motor America, the game was officially known as the Hyundai Sun Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282681-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Bowl, Teams\nThe game featured Stanford of the Pac-12 Conference and Pittsburgh of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The two programs have previously met three times, most recently in 1932, with Pittsburgh holding a 2\u20131 series lead. The referee for the game, David Smith of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), was the quarterback and MVP for Alabama in the 1988 Sun Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 20], "content_span": [21, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282681-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Bowl, Teams, Stanford Cardinal\nStanford started off the season with four straight wins, including a victory over rival USC, and they rose in the polls from No. 13 to No. 7 by the time they met Notre Dame on September 29. They lost, 38\u201317, which dropped them to No. 14. This began a stretch where in five games they suffered four losses, to Notre Dame, Utah, Washington State and Washington, which dropped them out of the polls and serious contention for the North Division title in the Pac-12. Stanford finished with three straight wins to end their regular season with eight victories. This was the ninth consecutive season of bowl eligibility for the Cardinal, and it was their first Sun Bowl invite since the 2016 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282681-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sun Bowl, Teams, Pittsburgh Panthers\nPittsburgh started their season with four losses in their first seven games, losing to ranked opponents such as Penn State, UCF, and Notre Dame. However, the Panthers pulled off a four game winning streak, including victories over teams such as No. 23 Virginia before closing out their regular season with a loss to Miami. Pittsburgh's 6\u20132 conference record was good enough for first in the Coastal Division in the ACC, earning them a birth in the ACC Championship Game against No. 2 Clemson, where they were soundly defeated, 42\u201310. This was the Panthers' first Sun Bowl appearance since the 2008 edition, and tenth bowl appearance in the past eleven seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 41], "content_span": [42, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282682-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Suncorp Super Netball season\nThe 2018 Suncorp Super Netball season was the second season of the premier netball league in Australia. The season began on 28 April and concluded with the Grand Final on 26 August 2018. The start of the season was delayed to late April due to the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which was held earlier that month on the Gold Coast. The fixtures for the season were released on 11 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282682-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Suncorp Super Netball season\nSunshine Coast Lightning were the defending premiers and successfully defended their title, defeating West Coast Fever in the Grand Final at Perth Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282682-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Suncorp Super Netball season, Overview, Format\nThe season is played over fourteen rounds, allowing every team to play each other twice, once at home and once away. The top four teams on the ladder at the conclusion of the regular season qualify for the finals series. In the first week of the finals series, the 1st ranked team hosts the 2nd ranked team in the major semi-final (with the winner of that match to qualify for the Grand Final) and the 3rd ranked team hosts the 4th ranked team in the minor semi-final (with the loser of that match eliminated). The loser of the major semi-final then hosts the winner of the minor semi-final in the preliminary final. The winner of the major semi-final then hosts the winner of the preliminary final in the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282682-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Suncorp Super Netball season, Overview, Rule changes\nNetball Australia announced a change to the points system for the regular season, with bonus points being introduced. Under the new system, teams earn 4 points for a win and 1 point for every quarter won in a match. A drawn match earns a team 2 points and drawing a quarter earns no points. The winning team can earn a maximum of 8 points per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282682-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Suncorp Super Netball season, Overview, Rule changes\nAdditionally, teams can request up to two time-outs per half and at any point in time while play is in progress, any one member of the team bench (players and team officials) listed on the official score sheet shall be permitted to move up and down their team bench within the bench zone to communicate with their on-court or off-court players. Finally, umpires can now award a penalty pass for delaying play or intimidation and quarter time and half time breaks will be increased by one and three minutes respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282682-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Suncorp Super Netball season, Overview, Broadcast\nThe Nine Network televised two matches each round during the regular season and also televised all finals matches. Telstra televised the other two matches each round. Every match of the season was available to be streamed live via the Netball Australia App. Unlike 2017, Nine telecast their two matches on the main channel, rather than secondary channel 9Gem. The two matches broadcast on Nine were on Saturday and Sunday afternoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami\nThe 2018 Sunda strait tsunami (Indonesian: Tsunami Selat Sunda 2018) occurred on 22 December 2018 at around 21:38 local time after large parts of the southwestern side of Anak Krakatoa collapsed onto its caldera. The landslide spawned a massive tsunami wave that struck multiple coastal regions in Banten and Lampung, including the popular tourist destination of Anyer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami\nLack of warnings on the arrival of the tsunami, coinciding with the Christmas and New Year holiday season in the nation and night time setting in the area, contributed to the large loss of life. With 426 deaths, the tsunami was the deadliest volcanic tsunami in recorded history in Indonesia since the 1883 Sunda Strait tsunami, which originated from the exact same island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami\nFollowing the tsunami, Indonesian authorities installed multiple emergency early warning systems in tsunami-prone areas. The newer system would detect any significant disturbances on water levels, including changes caused by volcanic activity or undersea landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Background\nLying on the Ring of Fire, Indonesia experiences a high frequency of earthquakes and is home to 127 active volcanoes. One such volcano is Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait. The volcano was famous for its historic eruption in 1883, one of the most violent eruptions in recorded history. That eruption, through tsunamis and ash fall, killed more than 36,000 people, many of whom lived in the same regions where the 2018 tsunami struck. The eruption was violent enough to destroy the majority of the island and causing it to collapse onto its caldera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Background\nApproximately 45 years since the historic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, Anak Krakatau (\"Child of Krakatau\"), emerged from the caldera of Krakatau. Since then, Anak Krakatau has grown to a height of around 300 meters above sea level. Its frequent volcanic activity poses risks to the nearby coastal regions and seafarers. As such, in 1980, the Indonesian government set up a permanent volcano observatory in the island to observe its activity and to prevent the repeat of another disastrous event in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Background\nIn 2012, a study conducted by international researchers suggests that there is a possibility of a major flank collapse on Anak Krakatau at some point in the future, which may produce dangerous tsunami waves. An investigation in 1928 during the volcano's reemergence found that the western slope had grown considerably steeper than its eastern slope, which was caused by the strong current in the region and the steep wall of its basin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Background\nResearchers in 1995 reported that the following eruptions of Anak Krakatau didn't result in an infilling of the caldera and thus concluded that the possibility of a flank collapse couldn't be excluded. The hypothetical tsunami from Anak Krakatau may reach an initial height of 43 meter before finally strike the western coast of Java and southeastern coast of Sumatra at a height of approximately 2\u20133 meters, considerably lower than that in 1883. However, owing to the population density in the region, insufficient mitigation measures to the hazard may cause the resultant tsunami to afflict significant number of deaths and major damages to the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Background\nIn the months leading up to the 2018 tsunami, Anak Krakatau had seen increased activity. Starting on June 2018, Anak Krakatau saw an increase of volcanic activity with a Strombolian eruption, producing lava flows and ash plumes as high as 5 km. One day prior to the collapse, on 21 December, an eruption was observed, lasting more than two minutes and producing an ash cloud 400 metres (1,300\u00a0ft) high.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Tsunami\nThe Volcanological Survey of Indonesia (PVMBG) recorded a dramatic increase in activity of Anak Krakatau. On 22 December, from 12:00 to 18:00 local time, a total of 423 eruptions were recorded by the agency. The danger level of the volcano was increased to Level 2. Authorities warned people not to conduct any activities within two kilometres (1.2\u00a0mi) of the volcano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Tsunami\nOn 22 December 2018, at 21:03 local time (14:03 UTC), Anak Krakatau erupted and damaged local seismographic equipment, though a nearby seismographic station detected continuous tremors. The southwest portion of the volcano then collapsed, triggering a tsunami. Officials stated that approximately 64 hectares (160 acres) of the volcano had collapsed into the ocean. The collapse caused the height of the volcano to be reduced from 338 to 110 metres (1,109 to 361\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Tsunami\nThe Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) detected a tsunami around 21:27 local time (14:27 UTC) at the western coast of Banten, even though the agency had not detected any preceding tectonic events. The Indonesian National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure (BNPB) spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said, \"Dozens of buildings were destroyed by the wave, which hit beaches in Lampung and Banten about 21:30 local time (14:30 UTC) on Saturday.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Tsunami\nAccording to The Jakarta Post, authorities said that the tsunami \"may have been triggered by an abnormal tidal surge due to a full Moon and an underwater landslide following the eruption of Anak Krakatau.\" The Agency initially refused to label the event as a tsunami, claiming that it was a \"normal\" high tide and that no tsunami had occurred on the coast of Banten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Tsunami\nPreviously, BMKG had issued a high wave warning for the waters of the strait. Tide gauges measured the tsunami at around 90 centimetres (35\u00a0in) in Serang and 30 centimetres (12\u00a0in) in Lampung, on top of the two-metre (6\u00a0ft 7\u00a0in) high tide. While Indonesia possesses a tsunami warning system for tsunamis caused by earthquakes, there is none for volcanic tsunamis. Hence there were no early warnings. On 23 December, satellite data and helicopter footage confirmed that the southwest sector of the volcano had collapsed, which triggered the tsunami, and that the main volcanic conduit was erupting from underwater, producing Surtseyan-style activity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Tsunami\nThe waves struck about 313 kilometres (194\u00a0mi) of coastline with various heights. In Carita, the waves reportedly struck with a height of at least two metres (6\u00a0ft 7\u00a0in), while in Tanjung Lesung a height of more than five metres (16\u00a0ft) was reported. Further surveys conducted on 31 December by the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, with assistance from Tohoku University and Chuo University, revealed that the tsunami struck the coastline of Banten and Lampung at a height of 13.4 metres (44\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Tsunami\n\u00d8ystein Lund Andersen, a Norwegian volcano photographer who photographed the eruption of Anak-Krakatau prior to the tsunami, described the eruption as \"quite heavy\". Andersen was alone at the shore when the tsunami waves arrived, but managed to escape \"The wave came out of nowhere,\" he said, \"and within seconds I had to run.\" he stated in an interview with Forbes. Following the event he published an eyewitness account.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Casualties\nThe Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) initially reported 20 deaths and 165 injuries. By the following day, the figure had been revised to 43 deaths\u00a0\u2014 33 in Pandeglang, seven in South Lampung, and three in Serang Regencies, with 584 injured, and two missing; most of the injuries recorded (491) also occurred in Pandeglang. The death toll was further updated to 62 with 20 missing persons later that day. Missing persons were also reported from small islands that are part of Pandeglang Regency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Casualties\nBy 13:00 local time on 23 December, BNPB had confirmed 168 fatalities and 745 injuries with 30 having been reported as missing, and the figure was further increased to 281 dead and 1,016 injured. As of 31 December, the death toll was 437, with 14,059 reported injured and 24 missing. Indonesian officials later revised the death toll to 426, with 24 reported missing and at least 7,202 injured in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Casualties\nThe areas of Pandeglang Regency struck by the wave included beaches that are popular tourist destinations, such as Tanjung Lesung. The tsunami struck during peak season, where hundreds had arrived to celebrate the Christmas and New Year holiday. In Pandeglang, the popular pop group Seventeen was performing a concert when the tsunami struck without warning. A pasar malam (funfair) was also being held in Sumur District, Pandeglang. Eyewitnesses from the funfair recalled the tsunami struck with a height nearly as high as the light pole, with dozens, including children, reportedly dragged by the rushing wave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Casualties\nIndonesian officials stated that most of those who died were found inside villas and hotels, especially those located at Carita Beach, Banten. At least 24 people were killed inside a single villa in Carita, with dozens more reportedly found inside other villas. Indonesian Navy stated that dozens of bodies were also recovered from the sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Casualties\nAmong the victims were Aa Jimmy, an Indonesian actor and comedian, and several members of the Indonesian band Seventeen\u00a0\u2014 bassist Awal \"Bani\" Purbani, guitarist Herman Sikumbang, road manager Oki Wijaya, and crewmember Ujang was declared to be dead at the scene. After one day being announced missing, drummer Windu Andi Darmawan and Dylan Sahara, wife of Seventeen's vocalist Ifan were reported to have been found dead. A video circulated online showing the band's stage being struck by the tsunami in the middle of their show at Tanjung Lesung, causing it to collapse and the audience to flee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Casualties\nOfficials confirmed that dozens of concert-goers had been killed by the tsunami. Tour groups from state-owned company PLN and the Sports and Youth Ministry were also affected by the tsunami. It was confirmed that 260 people had attended the gathering event, where the Seventeen concert was being held. On 23 December, officials from the company stated that at least 14 people related to the PLN had been killed, 89 people from the company had been declared missing and more than 150 had been injured by the tsunami. This number later rose to 23 in the afternoon. On 25 December, it was announced that 43 people from PLN had been killed, while 156 others survived. Most of them were killed while watching the Seventeen concert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Impact, Damage\nWidespread damages were reported throughout southern Lampung and the eastern coast of Banten, particularly in Pandeglang. More than 400 structures, including villas and resorts, were heavily damaged or destroyed by the tsunami. In Sumur District, Pandeglang Regency, a village was virtually wiped out by the tsunami. Sumur District was considered to be the most heavily affected. 7 other villages in Pandeglang were also regarded as the most heavily affected villages. There were widespread reports of blackout in the affected areas in Banten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Impact, Damage\nThe Indonesian state owned electric company PLN reported that at least 248 of their power stations were affected and 41 power lines were toppled by the tsunami. However, there were no electricity problems reported in Lampung. The road connecting Serang and Pandeglang was cut off. South Lampung Regency was the worst affected regency in Lampung, with 4 districts: Kalianda, Rajabasa, Sidomulyo, and Katibung, were listed as the most heavily affected districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Impact, Damage\nThe tsunami however didn't damage much vital infrastructure. Telecommunications in Banten and Lampung were not heavily affected. There were reports that several base transceiver station were temporarily inoperable. 2 days after the tsunami, authorities stated that 99% of telecommunication network in the affected areas had been restored. Electricity in Sumur District, regarded as the most heavily affected area, was restored within 48-hour. Communication was fully restored on 28 December, 5 days after the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Impact, Damage\nThe Indonesian government stated that the tsunami caused an estimated total damage of 150 billion rupiah in Tanjung Lesung alone, which is a popular tourist hotspot located in Pandeglang Regency. At least 30% of structures in Tanjung Lesung were damaged or destroyed. Experts stated that Tanjung Lesung would need at least 6 months to fully recover from the tsunami. The Government of South Lampung Regency reported a preliminary damage cost of 202 billion rupiah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Impact, Effect on local economy\nAs the tsunami struck the region popular with tourist and due to the fact that another tsunami had struck Indonesia in September, the presence of another tsunami in December caused substantial fears among Indonesians to travel to or near the beach. Fishermen in Pacitan, East Java decided not to fish due to fears of tsunami. The Indonesian tourism industry was hit hard. 90% of reservations in Anyer, Banten was cancelled due to the tsunami. Travel industry throughout the country reported a drop in reservations and incomes. Popular beaches in South Lampung had to be closed due to the tsunami. In Ancol, Jakarta, there were reports of significant drop in tourist arrival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Impact, Rising volcanic activity\nAfter the disaster on 22 December, the volcanic activity of Anak Krakatau skyrocketed. A massive eruption occurred on 26 December and the sound of the eruption was noticeably heard by residents in Cianjur, West Java and Ogan Komering Ulu, South Sumatra, which was located more than 200\u00a0km from the volcano. Most people compared the sound of the eruption to a bomb blast or gas tank explosion. The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) stated that sensors would be installed around the volcano and that the volcano would be observed intensively due to its unstable condition. On 27 December, the status of the volcano was raised to Level 3, the second highest danger level. Residents were not allowed to conduct any activities within 5\u00a0km of the volcano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nPresident of Indonesia Joko Widodo ordered immediate field response by BNPB, the Social Ministry, and the Indonesian National Armed Forces. Vice President Jusuf Kalla held an emergency meeting with Minister of Public Works and Public Housing Basuki Hadimuljono, Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Syafruddin and the Directorate General of Indonesia's Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing Danis Hidayat Sumadilaga in Jakarta to discuss the management of the disaster. The Ministry of Tourism temporarily halted all promotion for tourism to Lampung and Banten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nAn emergency response period was set up, spanning two weeks for Pandeglang and a week for South Lampung. The emergency response period in South Lampung Regency was later extended to 19 January 2019. The Ministry of Health sent a freezer container to Pandeglang. Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that emergency funds would be provided to repair damaged government buildings in Banten and Lampung. Minister of State-owned enterprises of Indonesia Rini Soemarmo donated 3 billion rupiah from her ministry to the survivors. The Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Puan Maharani stated that the government would provide a 15 million rupiah compensation to each of the victims. Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management would provide 500 million rupiah to the affected areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nOn 26 December, President Joko Widodo examined the damage in Pandeglang Regency. He would supervise the search and rescue efforts in the affected areas. On his second visit on 2 January, he ordered every local officials in Lampung and Banten to relocate, reconstruct and to \"redesign\" the coastal residential and commercial zone that are located on the coast. This order was then forwarded to every head of the local governments in Indonesia, especially those who live in an earthquake and tsunami prone area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nThe Indonesian Central Government stated that aids worth of 1 million rupiah would be provided to the local governments in Banten and Lampung. The Government of Serang Regency provided aid funds of 4 million rupiah for the rehabilitation process. On 27 December, the Indonesian Government announced that additional aids worth of 1 million rupiah would be sent to the survivors. The Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs announced that 7 community kitchen were set up across Pandeglang, while 5 others were set up in Lampung. Government of West Java sent volunteers, assessment team and emergency funds to Banten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nThe Government of Central Java sent 49 volunteers and deployed 6 trucks carrying aids worth of Rp492 million. Government of Banten announced that they would build 700 new permanent houses for the survivors of the tsunami. In South Lampung Regency, the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management announced that they would build temporary housing for the survivors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nA landslide tsunami in Indonesia is regarded as a rare occurrence by the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management. Thus, it is not considered as an imminent threat and therefore authorities often don't pay enough attention to it. Due to this fact, the Indonesian Coordinating Ministry for Maritime held a joint discussion with the Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, the Indonesian Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology, geological agencies and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences to investigate and to study the tsunami and Mount Anak Krakatau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nMultiple political parties sent aids, volunteers, ambulances and logistics to the affected areas. The Great Indonesia Movement Party announced that a community dinner would be held for the survivors of the tsunami. One of the party's wing, the Kesehatan Rakyat Indonesia (Indonesian People's Healthcare), had sent logistics, volunteers and clothes to Pandeglang. The East Java branch of the Nasdem Party sent trucks carrying logistics to Banten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nHead of the National Awakening Party Muhaimin Iskandar urged his party's MPs to \"secure\" the funds that had been relocated by the government for disaster mitigation and to collaborate for further coordination in the handling of the disaster. The Prosperous Justice Party sent volunteers to the group of islands in Sunda Strait that were cut off by the tsunami to distribute aids. Crescent Star Party set up a command center in Serang Regency, Banten for the management of the aids distribution. The Speaker of the People's Representative Council Bambang Soesatyo issued a recommendation to the Indonesian Regional Board for Disaster Management and the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency to fix the \"disaster early warning systems\" in Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 804]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nMore than a dozen state-owned enterprises of Indonesia offered assistance to the survivors of the tsunami. The Indonesian petrol company Pertamina sent 27,000 LPG tanks to Pandeglang and 200 liters of petroleum to Legundi Island, Lampung. Heavy equipment such as excavator were sent to Banten and Lampung. The state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma sent vaccines and medical team. Free vaccination was also provided by the company. Ignasius Jonan, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, dispatched 17 Emergency Response Team from his ministry to the affected areas. Telkomsel sent 400 units of sembako, dozens of instant food, blankets, and other essential supplies worth of 170 million rupiah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nThe Indonesian Red Cross created a website for the families whose relatives went missing in the tsunami. 300 Indonesian Red Cross volunteers from Banten were sent to Serang and Pandeglang. Banser, a Nahdlatul Ulama affiliated organisation, sent hundreds of volunteers to the affected areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nMore than 5,000 people were displaced by the tsunami, with 3,050 people in Pandeglang Regency, Banten and more than 2,500 in Lampung. Local mosques and fields were turned into evacuation centre. In Lampung, the regional government buildings were declared as a crisis center and as an evacuation center. On 2 January, officials announced that nearly 40,000 people had evacuated to the nearest evacuation centre, of whom more than 22,000 were from Pandeglang Regency and nearly 8,000 were from Lampung. In Pandeglang, more than 12,000 people evacuated due to trauma from the tsunami, while the other 10,000 evacuated as their houses had been either damaged or destroyed. 41 schools were turned into evacuation centers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nFollowing the tsunami, a malfunction caused the tsunami warning siren at a Pandeglang village to ring and prompted residents to evacuate. Meanwhile, the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management warned coastal residents that there was a possibility that another tsunami would strike the region again, citing the unstable condition of the slope due to the landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nOfficials announced that at least 2 new cracks, one of which was 1\u00a0km long, had been formed on the volcano and that these cracks could widen if a magnitude 3.4 earthquake or stronger occur near the volcano, which could cause another landslide and could trigger another devastating tsunami. Residents who lived within 1\u00a0km of the coastline were evacuated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, Domestic\nIn response to the tsunami, Facebook activated its safety check. In social media, thousands of Indonesians offered their condolences and started online fundraising. Charity lines were set up and charity concerts were also conducted throughout the country. Prayer services for the victims were also held throughout the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, International\nHours after the event, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison offered aid for the affected areas. Aids were also sent by Oxfam Australia. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also offered condolences and help. Queen Elizabeth, alongside with Prince Philip, also offered their condolences. Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Moon Jae-in also offered their condolences and wished for quick recovery for the victims. Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail also offered assistance. Singaporean President Halimah Yacob and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong also sent a letter of condolence to President Joko Widodo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, International\nThe Singapore Red Cross pledged S$50,000 in humanitarian aid and would send volunteers and medical team to Banten and Lampung. A public fundraising conducted by the Singapore Red Cross managed to collect a total of S$80,000, which would be used for buying aids and supplies for the survivors. U.S. President Donald Trump sent condolences and prayers to the victims, stating that \"America is with you\". Pope Francis sent condolences to Indonesia, asking people to pray for the victims. Later on, the Pope sent his contribution to the relief efforts through the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0032-0002", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, International\nRussian President Vladimir Putin phoned President Joko Widodo and offered his condolences. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern extended her condolences and offered relief and recovery efforts to Indonesia following the tsunami. New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters stated that the government would send $1.5 million to help the recovery efforts through the International Federation of the Red Cross. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe immediately phoned President Joko Widodo to offer his condolences and also stated that Japan would provide aid to Indonesia. Israeli Foreign Ministry offered \"profound sympathies\" for the affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0032-0003", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, International\nIsrael-based international humanitarian aid agency IsraAID sent emergency response team to Banten and Lampung Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte ordered several national government agencies to prepare the financial assistance to Indonesia. Taiwan Foreign Ministry announced that the Taiwanese Government would donate US$500,000 to support relief efforts in Indonesia. The European Union extended their sympathies for the victims and announced that they would provide \u20ac80,000 for the relief efforts. Jamaica Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, offered assistance through the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre. Japan Governor of Ehime Prefecture Tokihiro Nakamura met with Vice President Jusuf Kalla on 14 January to deliver donations collected from several local governments in Ehime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, International\nThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provided health services, aids and supplies for the survivors. The international humanitarian organisation Islamic Relief provided aids and essential supplies to the affected, stating that they were working together with local humanitarian organisation PKPU Human Initiative. Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services sent emergency team and provided temporary shelter for the survivors. Christian Aid sent medical team to the affected areas. The Malaysian Consultative Council for Islamic Organisations (MAPIM) sent volunteers and aids to the survivors. Humanitarian Care Malaysia (MyCARE) also sent basic aids to the survivors. M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res sent medical team and provided mobile clinics and health services to the survivors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282683-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, Response, International\nIn the aftermath of the tsunami, at least 3 countries; Australia, Canada, and United Kingdom, issued travel advice for its citizens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282684-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sundance Film Festival\nThe 2018 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to January 28, 2018. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 29, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282684-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sundance Film Festival, Juries\nJury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 16, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election\nThe 2018 Sunderland City Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Sunderland City Council in England. The election took place on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Background\nIn the period since the previous local elections in 2016, the Liberal Democrats had won two seats from Labour in by-elections: in January 2017 in Sandhill ward, and February 2018 in Pallion ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Background\nThe Labour, Conservative and Green Parties all fielded 25 candidates in the election. The Liberal Democrats fielded 22 candidates, and there were 4 Independent candidates. UKIP did not field any candidates, despite taking 11% of the vote at the previous election. The election saw a debut for the Populist Party and For Britain, fielding one candidate each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Election results\nThe election saw Labour defend 16 seats and gain one seat, winning the Copt Hill ward from an Independent councillor. The Liberal Democrats took seats from Labour in Millfield, Pallion, and Sandhill. The Conservatives held the seats they were defending in Fulwell, St Michael's, and St Peter's, and gained from Labour in St Chad's and Barnes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Election results\nThe election result was the worst for the Labour Party in Sunderland since 2012. It was the Conservatives' best result since 2008, and the best result for the Liberal Democrats since 1982 (when they stood as the SDP/Liberal Alliance).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Barnes Ward\n\u2020Antony Mullen was suspended by the Conservative Party during the election, and was under investigation due to a series of offensive social media posts he has made about Sunderland and Labour MP Diane Abbott. He remained on the ballot as a Conservative candidate, and was reinstated after being elected. The investigation showed no wrong whatsoever and he was fully reinstated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Castle Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Labour candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Doxford Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Labour candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Fulwell Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Conservative candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Hetton Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Labour candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Houghton Ward\n\u2020Swing to Labour from an Independent candidate, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 74], "content_span": [75, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Pallion Ward\nA by-election had been held in one of the other seats in Pallion Ward in February 2018 following the death of the incumbent Labour councillor. The by-election was won by the Liberal Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Redhill Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Labour candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Ryhope Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Labour candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Sandhill Ward\nA by-election had been held in one of the other seats in Sandhill Ward in January 2017 following the disqualification of the incumbent Labour councillor for non-attendance. The by-election was won by the Liberal Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 74], "content_span": [75, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Shiney Row Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Labour candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Southwick Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Labour candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, St Anne's Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Labour candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, St Michael's Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Conservative candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, St Peter's Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Conservative candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Washington Central Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Labour candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 84], "content_span": [85, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Washington East Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Labour candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Washington North Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Labour candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 82], "content_span": [83, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Washington South Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Labour candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 82], "content_span": [83, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282685-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Washington West Ward\n\u2020Swing to the Labour candidate from UKIP, who had stood last time this seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282686-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sungai Kandis by-election\nA by-election was held on 4 August 2018 for the Selangor State Legislative Assembly seat of Sungai Kandis. The seat became vacant after the death of the former assemblyman, Mat Shuhaimi Shafiei from lymphatic cancer on 2 July 2018. Mat Shuhaimi was a member of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat, a component party of the state ruling Pakatan Harapan coalition. He won his seat after defeating BN, PAS and PRM candidates with a majority of 12,480 votes. It is the first by-election since the historic May 2018 general election that saw the first-ever change of federal government since independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282686-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sungai Kandis by-election\nThe by-election was won by PKR's Zawawi Mughni amidst a drop in turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282686-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sungai Kandis by-election, Background\nThe Sungai Kandis constituency contained the polling districts of Seksyen 34 Shah Alam, Sungai Kandis, Teluk Menegun, LLN Connought Bridge, Kampung Pandan, Kampung Jawa, Kota Raja, Taman Seri Andalas 1, Taman Seri Andalas 2, Taman Klang Jaya 1, Sentosa Dato Yusof Shahbuddin, Bukit Jati, Taman Seri Andalas 3, Taman Desawan, Sentosa Dato Abdul Hamid 1, Sentosa Dato Dagang, Jalan Raya Timur, Taman Klang Jaya 2, Sentosa Dato Abdul Hamid 2, Taman Maznah, Taman Menara Maju. It encompassed the southern part of Shah Alam and part of Klang City around Jalan Kebun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282686-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sungai Kandis by-election, Background\nThe electoral roll to be used for this by-election was from the first quarter of 2018, last updated on 2 July 2018. The electoral roll contained 51,230 registered voters comprising 51,217 ordinary voters and 13 overseas voters. There was no early voters in the by-election, while the overseas and domestic postal voting applications was opened from 8 to 21 July. The Tanjung Hall of the Shah Alam City Council was used as the nomination centre and the official vote tallying centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282686-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sungai Kandis by-election, Background\nIt was estimated that the by-election would cost RM1.4 million. The EC also made several improvements for this by-election, including setting up two polling lanes for voters aged 60 and above, and adding more polling lanes at polling centres that had many voters. A total of 21 new lanes were created to avoid overcrowding of the voting lanes, making it a total of 109 lanes compared to 88 during the 2018 Malaysian general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282686-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sungai Kandis by-election, Background\nThe polling hours was extended from 8 am to 5.30 pm instead of 5pm in the general election. Any non-governmental organisations meeting the conditions were also allowed to observe the election process from the nomination day until the election results were announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282686-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sungai Kandis by-election, Nomination\nThe nomination day for the elections was on 21 July 2018. The nomination for the by-election begun at 9am at Tanjung Hall in Section 19. As initially expected, the by-election was a straight contest between the Pakatan Harapan and Barisan Nasional, with PAS bowing out to make way for BN. Three candidates were contesting the seat. PKR chose Zawawi Mughni as their candidate for the by-election. Barisan Nasional chose Lokman Noor Adam, an UMNO Supreme Council member as their candidate. Independent Murthy Krishnasamy was the third candidate for the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282686-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sungai Kandis by-election, Campaign\nThe Pakatan Harapan candidate used the PKR logo as part of their campaign instead of the Pakatan Harapan logo as this logo was more recognised by the electorate of this constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282686-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sungai Kandis by-election, Result\nZawawi Mughni won the by-election with a majority of 5,842 votes. PAS supporters were split between PH and BN despite PAS leadership's explicit support for the BN candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282687-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunjuwan attack\nOn 10 February 2018, at predawn, Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist attacked an Indian Army camp in Sunjuwan, Jammu, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. 6 soldiers, 3 attackers and 1 civilian were killed and 20 injured including 14 soldiers, five women and children. Notably, this attack coincided with the death anniversary of Afzal Guru, a convict in the 2001 Indian parliament attack. The attack has been described as one of the worst since the 2016 Uri attack. The man described by the Indian Army as the mastermind of the attack, Mufti Waqas, a commander in Jaish-e-Mohammed, was killed in an army operation on 5 March 2018 in south Kashmir's Awantipur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282687-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunjuwan attack, Attack\nIn the early hours of Saturday 10 February 2018, at around 4:10 am IST, three heavily armed militants attacked a camp of 36th Brigade which housed army personnel as well as their families. The attackers were armed with AK-47 assault rifles and grenades. They entered the residential quarters and opened fire, killing four soldiers and injuring at least nine others including women and children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282687-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunjuwan attack, Attack\nThe militants were cornered in a residential complex and special forces were deployed in a battle that lasted over 24 hours, at the end of which all the militants were killed. The army camp consisting of 150 buildings was cleared out. Subsequently, flushing operations were carried out to neutralise the remaining attackers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282687-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunjuwan attack, Attack\nFive soldiers, all serving in the 1st battalion, Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry, were killed in the attack: Sub. Madan Lal Choudhary, Sub. Mohammad Ashraf Mir, Hav. Habibullah Qurashi, Nk. Manzoor Ahmed and L/Nk. Mohammad Iqbal. L/Nk. Mohammad Iqbal's father, a civilian, was also killed. Four of them were Kashmiri Muslims. Attackers were identified as Kari Mushtaq, Mohammad Khalid Khan and Mohammad Adil, all of whom were Pakistani nationals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282687-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunjuwan attack, Attack\nThere were also reports that some of the Illegal Rohingyas living in jammu, might have provided logistical assistance to these terrorists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282687-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunjuwan attack, Aftermath\nThe attack happened at a distance of six kilometers from the University of Jammu. Schools in the region were shut and a high alert was sounded in the entire region following the attack. Anti - Pakistan slogans were raised in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly following the attack. Local residents of Jammu chanted anti-Pakistan slogans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282687-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunjuwan attack, Aftermath\nThe pregnant wife of a soldier, Rfn. Nazir Ahmed, was shot in the back during the attack. She was immediately taken to a military hospital and soon afterwards delivered her baby successfully.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282687-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunjuwan attack, Aftermath\nIndia's defense minister Nirmala Sitharaman visited the injured victims. She blamed Pakistan for the attack and said \"Pakistan will pay\" for the \"misadventure\". Pakistan responded the next day rejecting the allegations and accusing India of generating \"war hysteria\". The US Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, said in his testimony to the Senate Select Committee, that Pakistan-supported terrorist groups would continue to carry out attacks in India. He added that Pakistan's perception of its \"eroding position\" relative to India in economic and domestic security spheres drove it towards goals counter to those of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282687-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunjuwan attack, Aftermath\nControversial Indian parliamentarian Asaduddin Owaisi highlighted the fact that five out of the seven killed in the attack were Kashmiri Muslims. The BJP replied to his statement as giving a \"communal angle\" to the sacrifices made by the Army. The Indian Army said that it was above religion and would not \"communalise [the] martyrs\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282687-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunjuwan attack, Aftermath\nThousands of local residents gathered to mourn the deaths of the slain soldiers in their home towns of Kupwara, Reshipora in Tral, Kewa village in Anantnag. Army soldiers were also present to give a guard of honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282688-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunshine Ladies Tour\nThe 2018 Sunshine Ladies Tour was the 5th season of the Sunshine Ladies Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women based in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282688-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunshine Ladies Tour\nThe season offered a purse of R4,450,000, plus a 100,000 incentive for the Investec Property Fund Order of Merit winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282688-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunshine Ladies Tour, Schedule\nThe season consisted of 8 events, 7 in South Africa and one in Eswatini, played as a block between January and March, with one event in May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282688-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunshine Ladies Tour, Order of Merit\nThis shows the final Investec Property Fund Order of Merit, which featured a R100,000 bonus. The leader received a wild card for an event on the Ladies European Tour and Final Stage exemption into the 2019 LET Q-School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282689-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunwolves season\nIn 2018, the Sunwolves participated in the 2018 Super Rugby competition, the 23rd edition of the competition since its inception in 1996. They were included in the Australian Conference of the competition, along with the Brumbies, Rebels, Reds and Waratahs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282689-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunwolves season, Personnel, Coaches and management\nThe Sunwolves coaching and management staff for the 2018 Super Rugby season were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282689-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunwolves season, Personnel, Squad\nThe following players were named in the Sunwolves squad for the 2018 Super Rugby season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282689-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunwolves season, Standings\nThe final standings for the 2018 Super Rugby season were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282689-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunwolves season, Standings, Round-by-round\nThe table below shows the Sunwolves' progression throughout the season. For each round, their cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282689-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunwolves season, Matches\nThe Sunwolves played the following matches during the 2018 Super Rugby season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282689-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunwolves season, Player statistics\nThe Super Rugby appearance record for players that represented the Sunwolves in 2018 is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282689-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sunwolves season, Player statistics\n(c) denotes the team captain. For each match, the player's squad number is shown. Starting players are numbered 1 to 15, while the replacements are numbered 16 to 22. If a replacement made an appearance in the match, it is indicated by . \"App\" refers to the number of appearances made by the player, \"Try\" to the number of tries scored by the player, \"Kck\" to the number of points scored via kicks (conversions, penalties or drop goals) and \"Pts\" refer to the total number of points scored by the player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282690-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Super 6 Baseball rosters\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation competing at the 2018 Super 6 Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282691-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Super DIRTcar Series\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by 2604:6000:a346:ae00:c4aa:908a:c7b6:3fea (talk) at 13:54, 16 November 2019 (I updated the year of the series). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282691-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Super DIRTcar Series\nThe 2019 Super DIRTcar Series is the 46th season of Big Block Modified racing sanctioned by DIRTcar Northeast & World Racing Group. The season will begin with the DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park on February 12th (featuring 5 non-points races) while the first points scoring race of the season will be the Highbank Holdup at Can-Am Speedway on April 13th The season will end with the Can-Am World of Outlaws World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte on November 9th. Matt Sheppard enters the 2019 season as the defending series champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282691-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Super DIRTcar Series\nThe 2019 season will continue to feature qualifier races for NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week. Any qualifier race winner will have a guaranteed provisional starting spot in the 200 lap event at Oswego Speedway on October 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282691-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Super DIRTcar Series, Schedule\nwill broadcast 20 nights of racing with live video online (12 regular season races, Super DIRT Week & the BBM portion of World Finals). will broadcast all races with live radio coverage, and will have live video for the Volusia races. MavTV will broadcast select races (Volusia, Weedsport, Oswego + others) on tape delay, in partnership with Speed Sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282692-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Formula Championship\nThe 2018 Japanese Super Formula Championship is the 32nd season of premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing, and the sixth under the moniker of Super Formula. The season began on 22 April and is scheduled to end on 28 October at the same place after seven rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282692-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Formula Championship\n2018 was the final season that the Dallara SF14 chassis package\u2014which d\u00e9buted in the 2014 Super Formula Championship\u2014was used in competition; as a brand new chassis package will be introduced for the 2019 season but the engine configuration will remain the same.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282692-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Formula Championship, Race calendar and results\nDue to scheduling restrictions imposed by the concurrent Japan WTCR round, the final round of the calendar at Suzuka Circuit will now feature a single race instead of the originally planned double-header.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282693-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Super GT Series\nThe 2018 Autobacs Super GT Series was the twenty-sixth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the fourteenth season the series has competed under the Super GT name. It was the thirty-sixth overall season of a national JAF sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The season began on April 8 and ended on November 11, after 8 races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282693-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Super GT Series\nIn the GT500 class, Team Kunimitsu won their first-ever championship with the all-star lineup of series veteran Naoki Yamamoto and 2009 Formula One champion Jenson Button, narrowly beating the defending champion Ry\u014d Hirakawa and Nick Cassidy at the final race in Motegi to clinch the title after both teams came in to the race tied in points. It was the first championship title for Honda in the GT500 class since 2010. Yamamoto, who had won the 2018 Super Formula title before the season finale, became just the fourth driver to win both Super GT GT500 class and Super Formula title in the same season, while Button would become the first rookie to win the GT500 class since Tora Takagi in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282693-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Super GT Series\nIn the GT300 class, the #65 LEON CVSTOS AMG fielded by K2 R&D LEON Racing won the championship in Motegi after overcoming a 12-point deficit over the then-points leader #55 ARTA BMW, giving series veteran Haruki Kurosawa and Naoya Gamou their first championship title in the series. The #55 ARTA team, despite winning two races in the season, were ultimately too inconsistent in their championship challenge, as two races without scoring a point coupled with poor performance in both Sugo and Motegi ultimately cost them the championship over the more consistent LEON AMG.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282693-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Super GT Series\nThe #31 Toyota Prius apr GT of Koki Saga and Kohei Hirate would finish third, just one point behind the ARTA BMW, while defending champions Goodsmile Racing finished fourth after a poor start to the season and a tire issue in Autopolis ultimately cost them the chance to defend the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282694-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Super League Grand Final\nThe 2018 Super League Grand Final was the 21st official Grand Final and championship-deciding game of Super League XXIII. It was held at Old Trafford in Manchester on 13 October 2018, kick off 18.00. The final was contested by Warrington Wolves and Wigan Warriors, the third time the two sides have met in the Grand Final with previous meetings in 2013 and 2016 being won by Wigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282694-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the Final, Wigan Warriors\nWigan finished 2nd in regular season and seven wins out of seven in the Super 8's saw them secure 2nd place in the table. A 14\u20130 victory over third placed Castleford Tigers in the semi-final earned Wigan a place in their 10th Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282694-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the Final, Warrington Wolves\nWarrington finished 4th to earn an away trip to League Leaders Shield winners St. Helens in the semi-finals. Warrington Wolves won 18\u201313 with a late try by Tom Lineham. Warrington Wolves contested their 4th Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282694-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Super League Grand Final, Match details\nWarrington opened the scoring in a cagey first half on 13 minutes, through Josh Charnley, against his former club, as he took in Stefan Ratchford's looping pass before sliding over in the corner. The touchline conversion was missed by Tyrone Roberts. (0\u20134) Wigan leveled the score on 25 minutes through Dominic Manfredi, marking his first Grand Final appearance since 2015, (missing the 2016 Final due to injury) with a try in the corner, through great work by Oliver Gildart, as he jinked through the line, before giving it to Manfredi out wide to touch down in the corner. (4-4). Sam Tomkins missed the conversion, and the score would remain level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282694-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Super League Grand Final, Match details\nOn 31 minutes, a George Williams kick into open space, rolled into the in goal area, and Tom Davies managed to beat Josh Charnley to the ball, and score in the corner. The video referee awarded the try after reviewing the footage, and agreed Davies had got a hand on the ball. Again, Tomkins missed the extras and it would remain 8-4 until half time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282694-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Super League Grand Final, Match details\nThe second half would see Warrington come close early on, as Tom Lineham looked to go over in the corner, but a mob of Wigan defenders led by Manfredi and Tomkins forced him into touch. With time running out, Wigan won a penalty on 70 minutes and despite being close to the halfway line, they elected to kick it. Tomkins again missed the kick and the score remained 8\u20134. On 77 minutes, Manfredi would seal the win for Wigan as he would take in Sam Tomkins' inch perfect pass, before diving over in the corner, to seal the win. Tomkins again missing the conversion, (12-4). Toby King almost got what would have been a consolation score for Warrington in the last minute of the game, but the video ref determined that he'd dropped the ball in his attempt at scoring and the score would remain 12\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282694-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Super League Grand Final, Match details\nThe win for Wigan Warriors secured a record 22nd Rugby league title while Warrington's 63 years wait to be crowned champions goes on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282694-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Super League Grand Final, Match details\nThis match was Shaun Wane's last game as Wigan coach before going to Scotland Rugby Union, after 7 seasons as head coach of Wigan. It was also the last game before Sam Tomkins left for Catalans, and John Bateman and Ryan Sutton for Canberra. Wigan would win their 5th Grand Final and 22nd Championship overall, in their 10th appearance, evening up their win/loss record in Grand Finals, their last three wins coming against Warrington, whilst Warrington are still waiting to end their long title drought, stretching back to 1955.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282695-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Super League of Malawi\nThe 2018 Super League of Malawi (known as the TNM Super League for sponsorship reasons) was the 33rd season of the Super League of Malawi, the top professional league for association football clubs in Malawi, since its establishment in 1986. It started on 14 April and ended on 24 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282695-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Super League of Malawi\nBe Forward Wanderers FC are the defending champions of the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282695-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Super League of Malawi, Clubs\n16 teams compete in this season: the top 13 teams from the previous season and three promoted teams from the regional leagues. Karonga United, Nchalo United and TN Stars entered as the three promoted teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282696-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament\nThe 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament was a List A cricket tournament that was played in Sri Lanka between 2 May and 10 June 2018, following the conclusion of the 2017\u201318 Super Four Provincial Tournament. Four teams took part in the competition: Colombo, Dambulla, Galle and Kandy. Galle and Colombo qualified for the final, after they finished first and second respectively in the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282696-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament\nThe final was originally scheduled to take place on 20 May 2018, but Sri Lanka Cricket issued a statement via Twitter to say that it was postponed indefinitely due to bad weather. The final was eventually played on 10 June 2018, at the Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, after nearly a delay of one month. Galle won the tournament, after beating Colombo by 75 runs in the rescheduled final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282696-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament, Squads\nThe following teams and squads were named to compete in the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282697-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby Final\nThe 2018 Super Rugby Final was played between the Crusaders of New Zealand and the Lions of South Africa. The match, held at Rugby League Park in Christchurch, was the 23rd final in the Super Rugby competition's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282697-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby Final\nBoth finalists won their respective conferences during the regular season and both had hosted quarterfinal and semifinal matches in the playoff series. The final was hosted by the Crusaders as the higher placed team from the regular season standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282697-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby Final\nThe Crusaders won the match by a margin of 19 points. The Lions started the final well, however the combination of travel, jet-lag and the sheer dominance of the Crusaders was instrumental in securing the result. The Crusaders extended their record number of Super Rugby title wins to nine and became the first team to win back-to-back titles since the Chiefs in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282697-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby Final, Road to the final\nAfter two seasons in which 18 teams participated, the 2018 season reverted to a 15-team competition, consisting of three geographical conferences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282697-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby Final, Road to the final\nEach conference leader at the end of the regular season, the Crusaders from New Zealand, Lions from South Africa and Waratahs from Australia gained home berths in the quarterfinals, as did the top-ranked wildcard team, the Hurricanes from New Zealand's conference. Their four wildcard opponents in the quarterfinals were the next best teams as ranked at the end of the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282697-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby Final, Road to the final\nAll four home teams won their quarterfinal matches to set up an all-New Zealand clash between the Crusaders and Hurricanes for the first semifinal in Christchurch, while the Lions hosted the Waratahs for the second semifinal in Johannesburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282697-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby Final, Road to the final\nBoth home teams won their semifinal matches with comfortable margins. The Lions then travelled away to Christchurch to play the Crusaders in the 2018 Super Rugby final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282697-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby Final, Match, Details\nAssistant Referees: Glen Jackson (New Zealand) Nic Berry (Australia)Television match official: Shane McDermott (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282698-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby season\nThe 2018 Super Rugby season was the 23rd season of Super Rugby, an annual rugby union competition organised by SANZAAR between teams from Argentina, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa. After two seasons in which 18 teams participated, the 2018 season reverted to a 15-team competition, consisting of three geographical conferences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282698-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby season\nThe South African Rugby Union announced that the Cheetahs and Southern Kings would be dropped for the 2018 season, while the Australian Rugby Union, now known as Rugby Australia, announced the exclusion of the Force. The South African franchises thereafter entered the newly renamed Pro14 competition, while the Western Force took part in the National Rugby Championship, the domestic Australia competition, while preparing to enter the new Global Rapid Rugby competition in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282698-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby season, Competition format\nThe 15 participating teams are divided into three geographical conferences: the Australian Conference (consisting of four Australian teams and the Japanese Sunwolves), the New Zealand Conference (consisting of five New Zealand teams), and the South African Conference (consisting of four South African teams and the Jaguares from Argentina).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282698-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby season, Competition format\nIn the group stages, there are 19 rounds of matches, with each team playing 16 matches and having two rounds of byes, resulting in a total of 120 matches. Teams play eight inter-conference matches and eight cross-conference matches; they play all the other teams in their conference twice - once at home and once away - and play once against four of the teams in each of the other two conferences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282698-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby season, Competition format\nThe top team in each of the three conferences qualify for the quarterfinals, as do the next five teams with the best records across the three conferences, known as wildcards. The conference winners and best wildcard team hosted the quarterfinals. The quarterfinal winners progressed to the semifinal, and the winners of the semifinals advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282698-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby season, Standings\nThe final standings for the 2018 Super Rugby season were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282698-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby season, Standings, Round-by-round\nThe table below shows each team's progression throughout the season. For each round, their cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282698-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby season, Matches\nThe fixtures for the 2018 Super Rugby competition were released on 21 September 2017. The following matches were played during the regular season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282698-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby season, Players, Top scorers\nThe top ten try and point scorers during the 2018 Super Rugby season are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282698-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Rugby season, Referees\nThe following refereeing panel was appointed by SANZAAR for the 2018 Super Rugby season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282699-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Super Taikyu Series\nThe 2018 Super Taikyu Series was the 27th season of the Super Taikyu Series. The season will start on 31 March at Suzuka Circuit and end on 4 November at Okayama International Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282700-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Super W season\nThe 2018 Super W season was the inaugural year of the women's Super W rugby union competition. The winners were the New South Wales Waratahs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282701-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Super2 Series\nThe 2018 Super2 Series (known for commercial reasons as the 2018 Dunlop Super2 Series) was an Australian motor racing competition for Supercars, staged as a support series to the 2018 Supercars Championship. It was the nineteenth running of the Supercars Development Series, the second tier of competition in Supercars racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282701-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Super2 Series\nThe series was won by Chris Pither, driving in a Garry Rogers Motorsport prepared Holden VF Commodore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282701-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Super2 Series, Rule changes, Sporting regulations\nThe \"wildcard\" programme introduced in 2017 to allows teams from the Dunlop Super2 Series to compete in the Supercars Championship continued in 2018. Entries were open for the Winton, Hidden Valley, Ipswich and Tailem Bend rounds, while the Barbagallo round was discontinued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 54], "content_span": [55, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282701-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Super2 Series, Rule changes, Technical regulations\nThe Super2 Series no longer allowed \"Project Blueprint\" cars after fifteen years of use in Supercars and Super2 series. They were replaced by the \"New Generation\" cars first introduced to Supercars racing in 2013, bringing the Super2 Series in line with the technical regulations of its parent series. The Project Blueprint cars were eligible to compete in the V8 Touring Car National Series, the third tier of the sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 55], "content_span": [56, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282702-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 SuperUtes Series\nThe 2018 ECB SuperUtes Series was an Australian motor racing competition for SuperUtes. It was inaugural running of the series. It commenced at the Adelaide Street Circuit on March 1 and concluded at the Newcastle Street Circuit on November 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282702-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 SuperUtes Series\nThe series was won by Ryal Harris driving a Mazda BT-50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282702-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 SuperUtes Series, Calendar\nThe calendar for the 2018 season was announced at the 2017 Newcastle 500 event. The calendar comprised eight rounds, each supporting a Supercars Championship event, starting at the Adelaide Street Circuit on 1 March and concluding at Newcastle Street Circuit on 25 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282703-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Superbike World Championship\nThe 2018 Superbike World Championship was the 31st season of the Superbike World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282703-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Superbike World Championship\n2018 was the final season run with the two-race format, as a three-race format was introduced for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship\nThe 2018 Supercars Championship (known for commercial reasons as the 2018 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship) was an FIA-sanctioned international motor racing series for Supercars. It was the twentieth running of the Supercars Championship and the twenty-second series in which Supercars have contested the premier Australian touring car title. Teams and drivers competed in thirty-one races at sixteen venues across Australia and New Zealand for the championship titles. Scott McLaughin won his maiden title at the final race in Newcastle, while Red Bull Holden Racing Team won the Teams Championship at Pukekohe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship\nThe 2018 season saw the introduction of the first Gen 2 Supercars, which opened up the category up to a wider variety of body shapes and engine configurations. The championship saw the introduction of the hatchback Holden ZB Commodore, marking the first time since 1994 that a car with a body shape other than a four-door sedan has competed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers\nHolden and Nissan were represented by factory-backed teams Triple Eight Race Engineering and Nissan Motorsport respectively. Teams were free to develop new chassis and engine packages under the Gen 2 regulations, while the New Generation cars first introduced in 2013 remained eligible to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes\nThe Holden ZB Commodore was homologated, making it eligible to compete in the championship. All existing Holden teams commenced the season with the new car, either new chassis or reskinned VF Commodores. Triple Eight Race Engineering, who oversaw the development and homologation of the ZB chassis were also developing a V6 twin-turbocharged engine for Holden cars ahead of a full introduction in 2019. However, the programme was put on indefinite hold in April 2018. Triple Eight team were proposing to debut the V6 powerplant with a number of wildcard entries, however the discontinuation of the project resulted in this being scrapped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes\nBritek Motorsport left the championship. Its Racing Entitlements Contract (REC) was leased to Super2 Series team Matt Stone Racing who made their championship d\u00e9but entering an FG X Falcon built by DJR Team Penske. The team switched to competing with a VF Commodore mid-season. Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport (LDM) sold one of its RECs to Prodrive Racing Australia. LDM was rebranded as 23Red Racing after sponsor Phil Munday purchased a 60% stake in the team in the off-season, before taking full ownership in April 2018. The team competed with a Prodrive-built FG X Falcon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes\nSeveral teams underwent rebrandings. Prodrive Racing Australia became Tickford Racing after its lease on the Prodrive name expired, while Walkinshaw Racing was rebranded as Walkinshaw Andretti United when Andretti Autosport and United Autosports purchased stakes in the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes\nSuper2 Series drivers Todd Hazelwood and Anton de Pasquale made their Supercars d\u00e9but. Hazelwood joined Matt Stone Racing\u2014the team he won the 2017 Super2 title with\u2014while De Pasquale replaced Dale Wood at Erebus Motorsport. Wood was one of three drivers to leave the championship, as both Todd Kelly and Jason Bright retired from competition. Andre Heimgartner returned to the championship, replacing the retiring Kelly at Nissan Motorsport, while Richie Stanaway replaced Bright at Tickford Racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes\nWill Davison moved from Tekno Autosports to the newly-formed 23Red Racing team. Davison's place at Tekno Autosports was filled by Super2 Series driver Jack Le Brocq. James Moffat left Garry Rogers Motorsport at the end of the 2017 championship and joined Tickford Racing for the Enduro Cup. Moffat's place at Garry Rogers Motorsport was taken by James Golding, who drove for the team in the Enduro Cup in 2016 and 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Calendar\nThe calendar was expanded to sixteen events in 2018, with the following events taking place:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, which hosted the Supercars Challenge non-championship event between 1996 and 2017, joined the calendar as a championship event for the first time. The event, which was named the Melbourne 400, continued to be run as part of the support bill for the Australian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Bend Motorsport Park in Tailem Bend, South Australia, the first permanent circuit to be built in Australia since Queensland Raceway in 1999, hosted an event of the championship. The Bend SuperSprint ran on the 4.9\u00a0km \"International\" configuration of the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Calendar, Format changes\nThe Melbourne 400 event featured four races. All four were longer than the races that were run as part of the Australian Grand Prix support event in previous years, before it was granted championship status. Two of the races were run at twilight and included mandatory pit stops, while the other two were shorter sprint races run in daylight hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Calendar, Format changes\nSydney Motorsport Park hosted the Sydney SuperNight 300, which consisted of a single 300\u00a0km race held under lights. It was the first night race since the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi hosted the opening event of the 2010 season. The event consisted of two 30 minute practice sessions and a 20-minute qualifying session ahead of a 300\u00a0km race. The race included three compulsory pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Calendar, Format changes\nThe Auckland SuperSprint included a Top 10 Shootout for the Sunday race. A Top 10 Shootout was added to the first race of the Gold Coast 600 after the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport suspended the licence of the Stadium Super Trucks support category on safety grounds, removing the category from the Supercars' support bill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Results and standings, Points system\nPoints were awarded for each race at an event, to the driver or drivers of a car that completed at least 75% of the race distance and was running at the completion of the race. At least 50% of the planned race distance must be completed for the result to be valid and championship points awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282704-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercars Championship, Results and standings, Champion Manufacturer of the Year\nThe Champion Manufacturer of the Year title was awarded to Holden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282705-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000\nThe 2018 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 was a motor racing event for Supercars, held on the weekend of 4\u20137 October 2018. It was staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia and featured of a 1000 kilometre race. The event was the thirteenth of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and incorporated Race 25 of the series. It was also the second event of the 2018 Enduro Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282705-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000\nThe race was won by Craig Lowndes and Steven Richards driving a Holden Commodore ZB for Triple Eight Race Engineering.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282705-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Report, Background\nThe event was the 61st running of the Bathurst 1000, which was first held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in 1960 as a 500-mile race for Australian-made standard production sedans, and marked the 58th time that the race was held at Mount Panorama. It was the 22nd running of the Australian 1000 race, which was first held after the organisational split between the Australian Racing Drivers Club and V8 Supercars Australia that saw two \"Bathurst 1000\" races contested in both 1997 and 1998. It was the 20th time the race had been held as part of the Supercars Championship and the sixth time it formed part of the Enduro Cup. The defending winners of the race were David Reynolds and Luke Youlden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282705-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Report, Background\nShane van Gisbergen entered the event as the championship leader, 55 points clear of DJR Team Penske's Scott McLaughlin. Van Gisbergen's Triple Eight Race Engineering team-mate Jamie Whincup was third in the points standings, 338 points from the lead. In the Teams' Championship, Triple Eight held a 656-point lead over DJR Team Penske. In the Enduro Cup standings, Triple Eight team-mates Jamie Whincup and Paul Dumbrell led the pairing of Van Gisbergen and Earl Bamber by 24 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282705-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Report, Entry list\nTwenty-six cars were entered in the event. As in 2017, there were no additional \"Wildcard\" entries entered in the race. Four drivers would make their first start in the Bathurst 1000 - two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Earl Bamber, Super2 drivers Will Brown and Bryce Fullwood, and 'main-gamer' Anton de Pasquale. Teams Matt Stone Racing and 23Red Racing would also make their debuts in 'the Great Race', however the former contained many crew members from the former Stone Brothers Racing outfit and the latter was a continuation of Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport under new owners. It was the last start in the Bathurst 1000 for Paul Dumbrell and Jason Bright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282706-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercl\u00e1sico Championship\nThe 2018 SuperCl\u00e1sico Championship was a four-way international friendly soccer tournament that was held in Saudi Arabia, in which the Saudi team competes with Iraq, Argentina and Brazil in friendly matches at Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium and King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh, and King Abdullah Stadium in Jeddah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282706-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Supercl\u00e1sico Championship\nIt was planned to be the national team of Egypt as the Arab competitor along with Saudi national team, but after the Egyptian team apologized, the Iraq team was invited to participate in its place and hesitated to participate for its commitment to other matches, then announced its welcome to participate, and the FIFA officially included all the matches of this championship in his agenda for October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282706-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercl\u00e1sico Championship, Format\nTeams played each other once during the FIFA Calendar. with considering Argentina versus Brazil match as a part of Supercl\u00e1sico de las Am\u00e9ricas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282707-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercl\u00e1sico de las Am\u00e9ricas\nThe 2018 Supercl\u00e1sico de las Am\u00e9ricas \u2013 Copa Doctor Nicol\u00e1s Leoz was the fifth edition of the Supercl\u00e1sico de las Am\u00e9ricas. The match was played at the King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282707-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercl\u00e1sico de las Am\u00e9ricas\nBrazil won the game 1\u20130 with an injury time headed goal by Miranda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282707-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercl\u00e1sico de las Am\u00e9ricas, Match\nBrazil won the match by the solitary goal scored by Miranda in the third minute of second half's added time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282708-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa Argentina\nThe 2018 Supercopa Argentina Final was the 7th edition of the Supercopa Argentina, an annual football match contested by the winners of the Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n and Copa Argentina competitions. Initially the match was scheduled for 4 April 2019 at the Estadio Malvinas Argentinas in Mendoza but it was rescheduled for 2 May 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282708-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa Argentina\nBoca Juniors and Rosario Central qualified after winning the 2017\u201318 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n tournament and the 2017\u201318 Copa Argentina, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282708-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa Argentina\nBoca Juniors won the match via a penalty shoot-out after the game had finished 0\u20130. It was their first Supercopa Argentina title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282709-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa MX\nThe 2018 Supercopa MX was a Mexican football match-up played on 15 July 2018 between the champions of the Apertura 2017 Copa MX, Monterrey, and the champions of the Clausura 2018 Copa MX, Necaxa. Like the previous three editions, the 2018 Supercopa MX was contested in a single-leg format at a neutral venue in the United States. This match took place at the StubHub Center in Carson, California for the third consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282709-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa MX\nThe 2018 Supercopa MX was part of a doubleheader, which also included the 2018 Campe\u00f3n de Campeones, organized by Univision Deportes, Soccer United Marketing (SUM), Liga MX, and LA Galaxy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282709-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa MX, Match details\nAssistant referees:Jos\u00e9 Luis Camargo Mario Jes\u00fas L\u00f3pez Fourth official:Fernando Guerrero", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282710-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa Uruguaya\nThe 2018 Supercopa Uruguaya was the first edition of the Supercopa Uruguaya, Uruguay's football super cup. It was held on 26 January 2018 between 2017 Torneo Intermedio winners Nacional and 2017 Primera Divisi\u00f3n champions Pe\u00f1arol. It was originally scheduled to be played on 28 January, however, and due to Nacional's first match in the 2018 Copa Libertadores being scheduled on 31 January, the Supercopa was moved to 26 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282710-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa Uruguaya\nThe match was played at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo. Pe\u00f1arol were the winners after beating Nacional 3\u20131 in normal time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282711-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa de Chile\nThe 2018 Supercopa de Chile (known as the 2018 S\u00faper Copa MG for sponsorship purposes) was the sixth edition of the Supercopa de Chile, championship organised by the Asociaci\u00f3n Nacional de F\u00fatbol Profesional (ANFP). The match was played by the 2017 Chilean Primera Divisi\u00f3n champions Colo-Colo and the 2017 Copa Chile winners Santiago Wanderers. Colo-Colo were the champions after winning 3\u20130 in normal time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282711-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa de Chile, Teams\nThe two teams that contested the Supercopa were Colo-Colo, who qualified as 2017 Transici\u00f3n champions and Santiago Wanderers, who qualified for the match as the 2017 Copa Chile winners, defeating Universidad de Chile 3\u20131 at the Estadio Ester Roa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282712-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a\nThe 2018 Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a was the 35th edition of the Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a, an annual football super cup contested by the winners of the previous season's La Liga and Copa del Rey competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282712-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a\nThe match was played between the Copa del Rey runners-up, Sevilla, and the winners of the 2017\u201318 Copa del Rey and 2017\u201318 La Liga, Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282712-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a\nUnlike all the previous editions, it was a single match hosted at a neutral venue. This year's venue was Stade Ibn Batouta in Tangier, Morocco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282712-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a\nThe match was broadcast on Spanish RTVE public television network La 1, earning an average 36.5% share and 4,785,000 viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282713-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a de Baloncesto\nThe 2018 Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a de Baloncesto was the 15th edition of the tournament since it is organized by the ACB and the 19th overall. It was also called Supercopa Endesa for sponsorship reasons. It was played in the Multiusos Fontes do Sar in Santiago de Compostela in September 2018. Valencia Basket was the defending champion, but did not qualify for the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282713-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a de Baloncesto, Participant teams and draw\nOn 8 June 2018, the ACB confirmed Santiago de Compostela to host the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282713-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a de Baloncesto, Participant teams and draw\nThe semifinals were drawn on 12 September 2018, in which Real Madrid and Bar\u00e7a Lassa were seeded teams, given their status as Liga Endesa and Copa del Rey champions, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282714-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercoppa Italiana\nThe 2018 Supercoppa Italiana was the 31st edition of the Supercoppa Italiana, the Italian football super cup. It was played on 16 January 2019 at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. With Juventus winning both the 2017\u201318 Serie A championship and the 2017\u201318 Coppa Italia, the game was played between Juventus and the 2017\u201318 Coppa Italia runners-up, Milan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282714-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercoppa Italiana\nThis was the third meeting between the two teams in the Supercoppa Italiana. Juventus won the first meeting in 2003 in East Rutherford, New Jersey on penalties, and Milan returned the favour, also on penalties in 2016 in Qatar. Both teams before the match had a record seven Supercoppa titles. Saudi Arabia became the sixth different country to host a Supercoppa Italiana. Juventus won the match, with the only goal coming from Cristiano Ronaldo in the 61st minute, and became the first club to win eight Supercoppa Italiana titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282714-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercoppa Italiana, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Fabiano PretiMatteo PasseriFourth official:Marco Di BelloReserve assistant referee:Daniele BindoniVideo assistant referee:Marco GuidaAssistant video assistant referees:Gianluca Vuoto", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282714-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercoppa Italiana, Controversy\nFollowing the murder of the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Turkey in October 2018, activists and humanitarian associations including Amnesty International have appealed to both the finalist teams and Lega Serie A for the match not to be played in Saudi Arabia. Amnesty International indicated the event as an attempt to \"rebrand\" its tarnished image, known as \"sportswashing\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282714-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercoppa Italiana, Controversy\nMatteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister of Italy, also labelled the decision to play the match in Saudi Arabia as \"disgusting\" due to laws regarding women attending the match. Laura Boldrini stated that \"the lords of football should not be allowed to trade women's rights.\" President of Lega Serie A Gaetano Miccich\u00e9 noted progress compared to a year ago when no women at all were allowed in the stadium. Women will only be allowed in one section of the stadium, which comprises around 15 percent of the 60,000 seats, and will not be allowed to sit elsewhere in the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282714-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Supercoppa Italiana, Controversy\nHowever, Miccich\u00e9 has defended the decision to host the Supercoppa in Saudi Arabia stating that this will help to promote the Italian game to a worldwide audience. He also said that women in Saudi Arabia are allowed to attend matches since January 2018, adding that women will be able to sit in family area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282714-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercoppa Italiana, Controversy\nThe Serie A's MENA rightsholder beIN Sports condemned the hosting of the Supercoppa in Saudi Arabia in response to the pirate broadcaster BeoutQ. beIN Sports had been forced to cease offering its services in Saudi Arabia due to the Qatar diplomatic crisis, which has led to BeoutQ illegally retransmitting its programming in the country as an alternative outlet. beIN Sports has repeatedly accused the service of operating from within Saudi Arabia. In November 2019, beIN Sports threatened to cut its ties with the Serie A over the Saudi deal, accusing it of \"making a quick buck from the very entity that has been stealing its rights for two years.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282715-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercoppa Italiana (women)\nThe 2018 Supercoppa Italiana (women) was the 22rd edition of the Supercoppa Italiana. It was contested by Juventus, the 2017\u201318 Serie A champions and Fiorentina, the 2017\u201318 Coppa Italia champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282715-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercoppa Italiana (women)\nThe match was played in La Spezia at Stadio Alberto Picco on 13 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282715-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercoppa Italiana (women)\nThe match, initially scheduled for 25 August 2018 in La Spezia, was subsequently postponed by the LND to a date to be decided upon request by the companies involved. Once the CONI College of Guarantee reassigned the organization of Serie A and Serie B to the FIGC, the date of the Italian Super Cup was also identified on 13 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282716-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei\nThe 2018 Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei was the 20th edition of the Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei, the annual super cup in Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282716-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei\nThe game was contested by the winners of the previous season's Liga I and Cupa Rom\u00e2niei competitions, CFR Cluj and Universitatea Craiova respectively. It was played at the Ion Oblemenco Stadium in Craiova, on 14 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282716-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei\nCFR Cluj claimed the trophy after defeating Universitatea Craiova 1\u20130, with Emmanuel Culio scoring the only goal of the game. Before the match, CFR had reached the Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei four times, winning two (2009, 2010) and being runners-up two times (2012, 2016); U Craiova had never took part in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282716-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei, Venue\nThe Stadionul Ion Oblemenco was announced as the venue of the Super Cup at the Romanian Football Federation Executive Committee meeting on 7 May 2018. This was the first Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei hosted in Craiova. The new Ion Oblemenco Stadium opened in November 2017. It is the home stadium of Universitatea Craiova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282716-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei, Venue\nThe venue was chosen before the two participants were known. By winning the Romanian Cup, Universitatea Craiova earned the opportunity to play for the Supercup in their home stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282716-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei, Post-match\nEdward Iord\u0103nescu won his first trophy as a manager. The penalty netted by Emmanuel Culio was the first to be awarded in the competition, despite being played intermittently since 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282716-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei, Post-match\nCFR Cluj's Ciprian Deac won the player of the match award, a distinction he had also received at the 2010 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282717-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Superettan\nThe 2018 Superettan is part of the 2018 Swedish football season, and the 18th season of Superettan, Sweden's second-tier football division in its current format. A total of 16 teams contest the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282717-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Superettan\nFixtures for the 2018 season were announced on 21 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282717-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Superettan, Teams\nA total of 16 teams contest the league. The top two teams qualify directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third will enter a play-off for the chance of promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282717-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Superettan, Teams, Personnel and sponsoring\nAll teams are obligated to have the logo of the league sponsor Svenska Spel as well as the Superettan logo on the right sleeve of their shirt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282717-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Superettan, Teams, Personnel and sponsoring\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282717-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Superettan, League table, Playoffs\nThe 13th-placed and 14th-placed teams of Superettan meet the two runners-up from 2018 Division 1 (Norra and S\u00f6dra) in two-legged ties on a home-and-away basis with the team from Superettan finishing at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282718-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Superliga Colombiana\nThe 2018 Superliga Colombiana (known as the 2018 Superliga \u00c1guila for sponsorship purposes) was the seventh edition of the Superliga Colombiana. It was contested by the champions of the 2017 Categor\u00eda Primera A season from 31 January to 7 February 2018. Millonarios defeated Atl\u00e9tico Nacional 2\u20131 on aggregate to win their first Superliga title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282719-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supersport 300 World Championship\nThe 2018 Supersport 300 World Championship was the second season of the Supersport 300 World Championship of motorcycle racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282719-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supersport 300 World Championship\nThe season was won by Ana Carrasco who became the first female rider in history to win a World Championship in solo motorcycle road racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282720-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supersport World Championship\nThe 2018 Supersport World Championship season was the twenty-second season of the Supersport World Championship, the twentieth held under this name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282721-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Superta\u00e7a C\u00e2ndido de Oliveira\nThe 2018 Superta\u00e7a C\u00e2ndido de Oliveira was the 40th edition of the Superta\u00e7a C\u00e2ndido de Oliveira. It was played on 4 August 2018 at the Est\u00e1dio Municipal de Aveiro between the winners of the 2017\u201318 Primeira Liga, Porto, and the winners of the 2017\u201318 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Desportivo das Aves. Porto won 3\u20131 and to secure their first Superta\u00e7a title since 2013 and extend their record to 21 titles overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282721-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Superta\u00e7a C\u00e2ndido de Oliveira, Venue\nThe Est\u00e1dio Municipal de Aveiro was announced as the venue for both the 2017 and 2018 editions of Superta\u00e7a C\u00e2ndido de Oliveira on 6 June 2017, following the decision of the Portuguese Football Federation Directive Board. This was the ninth time that this stadium hosted the Superta\u00e7a C\u00e2ndido de Oliveira, after 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282722-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Supreme Court of India crisis\nThe Supreme Court of India was in crisis after a press conference was given by Supreme Court judges Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur, and Kurian Joseph, in which they spoke against the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra that he allocates certain politically controversial cases to such benches which gives favourable judgements towards a political party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282722-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Supreme Court of India crisis\nThe judges mentioned the allocation of the case of investigation of death of Special CBI Judge \u2014 BH Loya , who was presiding over Sohrabuddin encounter case, in which the BJP President Amit Shah was the prime accused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282722-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Supreme Court of India crisis, Background\nOn 12 January 2018, four Supreme Court judges Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurian Joseph gave a press meeting in an unprecedented manner. Chelameswar said, \u201cWe tried to collectively persuade the chief justice that certain things are not in order and therefore you should take remedial measures....Unfortunately, our efforts failed.\u201d He also said, \u201cthat unless this institution is preserved and it maintains its equanimity, democracy will not survive in this country.\u201d The occurred after Misra headed the bench which dismissed the CJAR petition against him, and after the Justice Loya case had attracted scrutiny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282722-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Supreme Court of India crisis, Background\nThe allegations against Misra were related to the allotment of matters to benches and constituting Constitution Benches in a way that arbitrarily ignored Senior Judges of the Court. That important cases were heard by benches headed by Dipak Misra. The judges claimed to have a written a letter to Dipak Misra for which they had not received a reply. After the press conference, Misra created a new judicial roster which excluded those who spoke against him from all constitution benches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282722-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Supreme Court of India crisis, Proposed impeachment of the Chief Justice of India\nOn 20 April 2018, seven opposition parties submitted a petition seeking impeachment of Dipak Misra to the Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, with signatures from 71 parliamentarians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 86], "content_span": [87, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282723-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Surrey Stars season\nThe 2018 season was Surrey Stars' third season, in which they competed in the Women's Cricket Super League, a Twenty20 competition. The side finished third in the group stage, winning 5 of their 10 matches, therefore progressing to the semi-final, where they played against Western Storm. They went on to beat Storm by 9 runs to advance to the final, where they faced group winners Loughborough Lightning. A century from Lizelle Lee ensured that the Stars beat Loughborough Lightning by 66 runs to claim their first WCSL title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282723-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Surrey Stars season\nThe side was captained by Nat Sciver and coached by Richard Bedbrook. They played three of their home matches at Woodbridge Road, Guildford and two at The Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282723-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Surrey Stars season, Squad\nSurrey Stars' 15-player squad is listed below. Ellen Burt was originally named in the squad, but was ruled out due to injury and replaced by Gayatri Gole. Grace Gibbs was ruled out of the squad during the tournament due to injury, and replaced by Amy Gordon. Age given is at the start of Surrey Stars' first match of the season (22 July 2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282724-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Suruga Bank Championship\nThe 2018 Suruga Bank Championship (Japanese: \u30b9\u30eb\u30ac\u9280\u884c\u30c1\u30e3\u30f3\u30d4\u30aa\u30f3\u30b7\u30c3\u30d72018; Spanish: Copa Suruga Bank 2018) was the eleventh edition of the Suruga Bank Championship (also referred to as the J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship Final), the club football match co-organized by the Japan Football Association, the football governing body of Japan, CONMEBOL, the football governing body of South America, and J.League, the professional football league of Japan, between the champions of the previous season's J.League Cup and Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282724-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Suruga Bank Championship\nThe match was contested between Japanese team Cerezo Osaka, the 2017 J.League Cup champions, and Argentinian team Independiente, the 2017 Copa Sudamericana champions. It was hosted by Cerezo Osaka at the Yanmar Stadium Nagai in Osaka, Japan on 8 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282724-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Suruga Bank Championship\nIndependiente defeated Cerezo Osaka 1\u20130 to win their first Suruga Bank Championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282724-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Suruga Bank Championship, Format\nThe Suruga Bank Championship was played as a single match, with the J.League Cup winners hosting the match. If tied at the end of regulation, extra time would not be played, and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner. A maximum of six substitutions may be made during the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282724-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Suruga Bank Championship, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Mark Rule (New Zealand)Mark Whitehead (New Zealand)Fourth official:Takuto Okabe (Japan)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282725-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sutton London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Sutton Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Sutton Council in London. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282725-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sutton London Borough Council election, Results\nThe Liberal Democrats retained control winning 33 seats (\u221212) with the Conservatives winning 18 seats (+9) and independent candidates winning 3 seats from the Liberal Democrats in Beddington North.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282725-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sutton London Borough Council election, Ward results, Nonsuch\nAs James McDermott-Hill (Conservative) and Samantha Bourne (Lib Dems) were tied on 1,405 votes each. Lots were drawn and McDermott-Hill won the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282726-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Suwon JS Cup\nThe 2018 Suwon JS Cup is an international football friendly tournament. The tournament was used to prepare the host organisers for the 2018 AFC U-19 Championship in South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282727-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Suzhou Ladies Open\nThe 2018 Suzhou Ladies Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Suzhou, China, on 15\u201321 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282727-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Suzhou Ladies Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282728-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Suzhou Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nJacqueline Cako and Nina Stojanovi\u0107 were the defending champions, but Stojanovi\u0107 chose not participate. Cako played alongside Prarthana Thombare, but lost in the quarterfinals to Guo Hanyu and Xun Fangying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282728-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Suzhou Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nMisaki Doi and Nao Hibino won the title, defeating Luksika Kumkhum and Peangtarn Plipuech in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282729-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Suzhou Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nSara Errani was the defending champion, but was unable to participate due to a doping suspension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282729-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Suzhou Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nZheng Saisai won the title, defeating Jana \u010cepelov\u00e1 in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282730-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Suzuka 10 Hours\nThe 2018 Suzuka 10 Hours was endurance event that took place on August 26, 2018 at the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka City, Japan. It was the 47th edition of the Summer Endurance Classic at Suzuka, and the first as part of the Intercontinental GT Challenge, running under the ten-hour format (the race having previously been a 1000-kilometer format). The race was won by the GruppeM Racing team with Maro Engel, Raffaele Marciello and Tristan Vautier driving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282730-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Suzuka 10 Hours\nDue to regulation change, GT300 cars were still eligible to race in Suzuka 10 Hours, while GT500 cars were banned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282731-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Svenska Cupen Final\nThe 2018 Svenska Cupen final was played on 10 May 2018 between Djurg\u00e5rdens IF and Malm\u00f6 FF at Tele2 Arena, Stockholm, the home ground of Djurg\u00e5rdens IF, determined in a draw on 21 March 2018 after the semi-finals. The final was the culmination of the 2017\u201318 Svenska Cupen, the 62nd season of Svenska Cupen and the sixth season with the current format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282731-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Svenska Cupen Final\nDjurg\u00e5rden won their fifth Svenska Cupen title after defeating Malm\u00f6 3\u20130, earning themselves a place in the second qualifying round of the 2018\u201319 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282731-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Svenska Cupen Final, Venue\nSince the 2014\u201315 season, the venue for the Svenska Cupen final is decided in a draw between the two finalists. The draw for the final was held on 21 March 2018 at the annual pre-season kick-off meeting in Stockholm and decided that the final would be played at Tele2 Arena in Stockholm, the home venue of Djurg\u00e5rdens IF. This was the first cup final to be hosted at the venue and the second consecutive final to be played on artificial turf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282731-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Svenska Cupen Final, Background\nThe Allsvenskan clubs Djurg\u00e5rdens IF and Malm\u00f6 FF contested the final, with the winner earning a place in the second qualifying round of the 2018\u201319 UEFA Europa League. Since Malm\u00f6 were qualified for the first qualifying round of the 2018\u201319 UEFA Champions League and Djurg\u00e5rden were qualified for the first qualifying round of the 2018\u201319 UEFA Europa League through their positions in the 2017 Allsvenskan, Sweden's fourth European place was given to BK H\u00e4cken as the 4th team of the 2017 Allsvenskan. Djurg\u00e5rden was given a place in the second qualifying round of the 2018\u201319 UEFA Europa League since they won the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282731-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Svenska Cupen Final, Background\nDjurg\u00e5rden played their first final since 2013 and their ninth in total. Malm\u00f6 played their first final since 2016 and their 19th in total. Both clubs lost in their previous final appearances. Having met in 1951, 1975, and 1989, this was the fourth final to contest the two clubs. Malm\u00f6 had won all of the prior meetings in the final of the competition. The 1989 final was notably the last time Malm\u00f6 won the competition, Djurg\u00e5rden had last won a cup title in 2005. The clubs faced each other twice in Allsvenskan prior to the cup final, at Tele2 Arena on 18 April where Djurg\u00e5rden won 3\u20130, and at Stadion on 3 May where Malm\u00f6 won 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282731-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Svenska Cupen Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282732-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Svijany Open\nThe 2018 Svijany Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 6th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Liberec, Czech Republic between 30 July and 5 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282732-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Svijany Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282732-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Svijany Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282732-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Svijany Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282733-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Svijany Open \u2013 Doubles\nLaurynas Grigelis and Zden\u011bk Kol\u00e1\u0159 were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282733-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Svijany Open \u2013 Doubles\nSander Gill\u00e9 and Joran Vliegen won the title after defeating Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek and Patrik Rikl 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282734-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Svijany Open \u2013 Singles\nPedro Sousa was the defending champion but lost in the final to Andrej Martin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282734-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Svijany Open \u2013 Singles\nMartin won the title after defeating Sousa 6\u20131, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282735-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swan Islands earthquake\nOn 9 January 2018, at approximately 8:51\u00a0p.m. local time (02:51 10 January UTC), a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck in the Yucat\u00e1n Basin of the Caribbean Sea, 44 kilometres (27\u00a0mi) east of Great Swan Island off the coast of Honduras. The earthquake was felt across Central America, and rattled windows in Tegucigalpa. The earthquake was also felt in the Cayman Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282735-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swan Islands earthquake\nTsunami advisories were issued for certain areas by the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center. They were later cancelled after further monitoring. No tsunami was generated since the earthquake was an almost pure strike-slip on a near vertical plane, producing little upward movement of the sea floor that would cause a large displacement of water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282735-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swan Islands earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake occurred at a depth of around 10 kilometres (6.2\u00a0mi) on a transform fault zone known as the Swan Islands Transform Fault in the Cayman Trough, where it forms part of the boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. The area just to the west also produced a large earthquake in 2009 that measured 7.3 on the moment magnitude scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282736-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swazi Cup\nThe 2018 Swazi Bank Cup is the 15th edition of the Swazi Bank Cup (37th edition including earlier cup competitions), the knockout football competition of Swaziland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282737-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swazi general election\nGeneral elections were held in Eswatini on 18 August and 21 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282737-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swazi general election, Electoral system\nThe House of Assembly consists of 59 elected seats and up to ten chosen by the Ngwenyama. The 59 elected members are elected in a two-round system. A primary election is held in each of the 385 chiefdoms to choose a candidate for the secondary election, with between three and twenty candidates in each chiefdom. In the secondary election, the country is divided into 59 constituencies (increased from 55 in the 2013 elections); each winner of the primary election then stands in the constituency that covers their chiefdom. Both rounds operate on a first-past-the-post basis, with all candidates running as independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282737-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swazi general election, Primary election\nThe primary round took place on 24 August 2018, with 156,973 Swazis casting a vote out of a total of 544,310 registered voters, resulting in a 28.83% turnout. These numbers, which suggested a low confidence in the electoral process in the country, were later removed from the Electoral Commission website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282737-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Swazi general election, Secondary election\nThe electoral commission revealed the name of the 59 winners of the secondary election, yet without divulging any numbers of votes being cast for the candidates or in total. In 2013, these results had never been made public. Following the election, King Mswati appointed six members of the royal family to the House of Assembly and eight to the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282738-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden Hockey Games\nThe 2018 Sweden Hockey Games was played between 26\u201329 April 2018. The Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and Russia played a round-robin for a total of three games per team and six games in total. Three of the matches were played in Stockholm, Sweden, two matches in S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje, Sweden and one match in Helsinki, Finland. Finland won the tournament. The tournament was part of 2017\u201318 Euro Hockey Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282738-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden Hockey Games, Games\nAll times are local. S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje and Stockholm\u2013 (Central European Summer Time \u2013 UTC+2) Helsinki \u2013 (Eastern European Summer Time - UTC+3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282739-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden vehicle fire attacks\nOn the evening of 13 August 2018 in Sweden, 89 vehicles were set on fire in several districts in Gothenburg and Trollh\u00e4ttan, in what police assumed was a coordinated attack. In total, 11 different locations were targeted. In Trollh\u00e4ttan a road was barricaded and rocks were thrown at police. The unidentified assailants were described as \"youth\". There were no injured persons and nobody was apprehended at the scenes. In Trollh\u00e4ttan, Police had \"concerned dialogues\" with youths that were at the scene without taking part and with their parents. The following day, two individuals were arrested on suspicion of aggravated arson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282739-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Sweden vehicle fire attacks\nThe following night, five cars were set on fire in M\u00f6lndal, Bor\u00e5s, V\u00e4nersborg and Fr\u00f6lunda. A third suspect, 18 years old, was arrested in Turkey when he tried to enter that country. He had planned to travel to Antalya, but was stopped at the border to Turkey as police in Sweden had issued an alert which prevented his entry ot that country and he was locked into a cell in the transit area. He was later transferred to Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282739-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden vehicle fire attacks\nSwedish prime minister Stefan L\u00f6fven visited the affected Tynnered district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282739-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden vehicle fire attacks\nA 20-year-old suspect was detained for three months but was released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282739-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden vehicle fire attacks\nIn November 2018, a suspect described as young and male was arrested for participation in the extensive vandalism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282739-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden vehicle fire attacks\nIn February 2019, arson attacks were noted in the annual report of the Swedish Institute. The report noted that the arson attacks had been internationally noted in English-language and Spanish-language alternative media which tended to be critical of immigration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282740-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden wildfires\nIn the summer of 2018, a large number of wildfires (primarily forest fires) occurred throughout much of Sweden. According to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, they are the most serious in the country in modern history. The summer was unusually warm and dry, significantly raising the risk of fire. Firefighters from multiple countries were involved in fighting the fires. Many people were evacuated from their homes, but there were no fatalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282740-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden wildfires, Heatwave and cause of fire\nSweden experienced an unusually long heatwave and had only 13\u00a0mm (0.51\u00a0in) of rain from the beginning of May to late July. May 2018 was the warmest May and July 2018 was the warmest July ever recorded in Sweden. As of mid-July, temperatures in Scandinavia were more than 10\u00a0\u00b0C (18\u00a0\u00b0F) above normal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282740-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden wildfires, Heatwave and cause of fire\nSeveral of the fires were started by people using disposable barbecues, though bans on these were in place due to the weather conditions. Some were started by lightning strikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282740-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden wildfires, Heatwave and cause of fire\nWildfires also occurred in the neighbouring countries Denmark, Finland and Norway, but no casualties due to wildfires were reported in Scandinavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282740-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden wildfires, Timeline\nThe first significant wildfires in Sweden were recorded in May, and by 23 July there were more than fifty, covering 250\u00a0km2 (100\u00a0sq\u00a0mi). The fires were distributed throughout much of Sweden, ranging from north of the Arctic Circle to the southernmost county of Scania. The largest areas lost to fire are in G\u00e4vleborg and J\u00e4mtland, each 85\u00a0km2 (33\u00a0sq\u00a0mi), followed by Dalarna at 25\u00a0km2 (10\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) and V\u00e4sternorrland at 5\u00a0km2 (2\u00a0sq\u00a0mi). Based on data from the last decade, the expected number of wildfires in July would be three. It is highly unusual for areas of this size to be affected by wildfires (both individual fires and total size of all), but historically there have been larger, notably in 1888 where 2,000\u00a0km2 (770\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) burned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282740-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden wildfires, Timeline\nMost affected areas in 2018 have relatively low human population densities, but it was still necessary to evacuate many people from several villages. In areas not under risk of fire but affected by smoke thousands of people were asked to stay indoors and close their windows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282740-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden wildfires, Timeline\nIn addition to the country's firefighters and civilian volunteers, Sweden's armed forces were involved, mostly providing manpower and equipment such as helicopters. Locally the air force also used aerial bombings by JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets to make firebreaks and draw oxygen from the wildfires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282740-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden wildfires, Timeline\nBy June, several fires were out of control and Sweden requested help from neighbouring countries and via the European Union's Civil Protection Mechanism. Sweden received help from Denmark (firefighters and equipment), Estonia (firefighters and equipment), France (soldiers, firefighters, water bombing aircraft), Finland (firefighters), Germany (firefighters, helicopters), Italy (water bombing aircraft), Lithuania (helicopter), Norway (firefighters and equipment, water bombing helicopters), Poland (firefighters and equipment), and Portugal (water bombing aircraft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282740-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden wildfires, Timeline\nIn late July, Sweden received its first significant rain in months. Combined with firefighting, this meant that fires generally were reduced, although new ones continued to appear. This, along with the high risk of fire elsewhere in Europe, meant that firefighters from most countries had returned to their own countries by 30 July, although the Danish remained on active duty in Sweden into August. Some water bombing aircraft returned to their own countries, but others remained in Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282740-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Sweden wildfires, 2019\nIn March, several wildfires occurred in the south of Sweden. According to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, the risk of fire was unusually high for the time of year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282741-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Athletics Championships\nThe 2018 Swedish Athletics Championships (Swedish: Svenska m\u00e4sterskapen i friidrott 2018) was the 123rd national outdoor track and field championships for Sweden. It was held on 24 to 26 August at the Ek\u00e4ngens Friidrottsarena in Eskilstuna. It was organised by R\u00e5by-Rekarne FIF, \u00c4rla IF and Eskilstuna FI,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282741-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Athletics Championships, Championships\nSwedish outdoor championships took place at several venues beyond the main track and field championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282742-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Football Division 2\nThe 2018 Division 1, part of the 2018 Swedish football season is the 13th season of Sweden's fourth-tier football league in its current format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282742-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Football Division 2, Teams\n84 teams contest the league divided into six sections - Norra G\u00f6taland, Norra Svealand, Norrland, S\u00f6dra Svealand, S\u00f6dra Svealand and S\u00f6dra Svealand. The Division comprises 60 teams returning from the 2017 season, six relegated from Division 1 and 18 promoted from Division 3. The champion of each section will qualify directly for promotion to Division 1, the runner-up from each section enters a six-team, two-group playoff, with the winner of each group earning promotion to Division 1. The bottom two teams in each section are relegated to Division 3 with the 12th place team in each section entering a relegation playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282743-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Golf Tour\nThe 2018 Swedish Golf Tour was the 35th season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments held in Sweden, Norway and Estonia with a winter series in Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282743-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Golf Tour\nMost of the tournaments also featured on the 2018 Nordic Golf League (NGL) and one on the 2018 Challenge Tour (CHA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282743-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Golf Tour, Schedule\nThe season consisted of 15 events played between May and October with a winter series in February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282744-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Golf Tour (women)\nThe 2018 Swedish Golf Tour was the 33rd season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women held in Sweden and Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282744-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Golf Tour (women)\nA number of the tournaments also featured on the 2018 LET Access Series (LETAS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282744-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Golf Tour (women), Schedule\nThe season consisted of 13 tournaments played between May and September, where two events were held in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282745-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Open\nThe 2018 Swedish Open (also known as the SkiStar Swedish Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts as part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place in B\u00e5stad, Sweden, from 15 through 22 July 2018. The women's tournament was discontinued this year and replaced by the Moscow River Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282745-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282745-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282746-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Open (table tennis)\nThe 2018 Swedish Open was the eleventh event of the 2018 ITTF World Tour. The event was organised by the Swedish Table Tennis Association, under the authority of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It took place from 1\u20134 November in Stockholm, Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282747-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Open \u2013 Doubles\nJulian Knowle and Philipp Petzschner were the defending champions, but Knowle chose not to participate this year. Petzschner played alongside J\u00fcrgen Melzer, but lost in the semifinals to Julio Peralta and Horacio Zeballos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282747-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Open \u2013 Doubles\nPeralta and Zeballos went on to win the title, defeating Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282748-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Open \u2013 Singles\nDavid Ferrer was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Casper Ruud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282748-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Open \u2013 Singles\nFabio Fognini won the title, defeating Richard Gasquet in the final, 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282748-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election\nGeneral elections were held in Sweden on 9 September 2018 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag. Regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The incumbent minority government, consisting of the Social Democrats and the Greens and supported by the Left Party, won 144 seats, one seat more than the four-party Alliance coalition, with the Sweden Democrats winning the remaining 62 seats. The Social Democrats' vote share fell to 28.3 percent, its lowest level of support since 1911.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election\nThe main opposition, the Moderates, lost even more support. The Sweden Democrats made gains, though less than anticipated. Regardless, the party became the largest in two constituencies in southern region Scania and topped the polls in 21 out of 33 Scanian municipalities and in 31 out of 290 municipalities overall. The voter turnout of 87.18% was the highest in 33 years and 1.38 percentage points higher than the 2014 elections. A record 26 out of 29 constituencies returned a hung parliament. 46% of seats were won by women (161 out of 349). The number has since increased to 47.2% (165 out of 349).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election\nFollowing the elections, Prime Minister Stefan L\u00f6fven lost a vote of no-confidence on 25 September, forcing a parliamentary vote on a new government. In the meantime, his government remained in power as a caretaker government. Speaker Andreas Norl\u00e9n nominated Moderate leader Ulf Kristersson to form a government on 9 November. However, Kristersson lost a vote to confirm him in office by a margin of 154\u2013195.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election\nHe was supported by his own Moderate Party, the Christian Democrats and the Sweden Democrats, despite having ruled out this scenario before the election, but the Liberals and the Centre Party, the other parties in the centre-right Alliance, were not willing to form a government reliant on the Sweden Democrats. On 15 November, Norl\u00e9n invited Centre Party leader Annie L\u00f6\u00f6f to try to form a government, but she was unable to do so. Norl\u00e9n then nominated L\u00f6fven, but following unsuccessful negotiations with the Centre Party and the Liberals he lost a confirmation vote 116\u2013200 on 14 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election\nHours after the failed vote to confirm L\u00f6fven, Norl\u00e9n announced that he would be meeting with representatives of the Election Authority regarding a potential extraordinary election. The Speaker also stated that he would be engaging in talks with the parties during the weekend and that he would present the next phase of the government formation process by the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election\nL\u00f6fven was finally re-elected with a 115\u2013153 result as Prime Minister on 18 January 2019 after the Social Democrats struck an agreement with the Greens, the Liberals, and the Centre Party; and after the Left Party reluctantly agreed to abstain from voting against L\u00f6fven. Due to Sweden's principle of negative parliamentarism this result was enough, as less than the majority of the parliament voted against him, while the supporting parties abstained. The result saw a breakup of the Alliance with the remaining right-wing parties aligning closer with the Sweden Democrats in parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election\nWith the government being down to 116 seats (59 short of a majority), this rendered it the government with the lowest electoral support to begin a term during universal suffrage in Sweden and forced to approve several liberal policy platforms the government had campaigned against. With the right-wing opposition having 154 seats, to the coalition and confidence and supply agreements' 167 and the Left Party's 28, it still rendered a hung parliament even after the government formation, which exposed the government to high-profile losses in parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election\nWith the Liberals leaving the confidence and supply after a no-confidence vote in 2021, the de-facto parliamentary blocs ended being 175 to 174 with the de-facto majority for the red-greens being 0.1%. The metropolitan versus small town divide got stronger. With the 2021 constellations the election saw S\u00f6dermanland and V\u00e4stmanland retroactively flip to the right for the first time during universal suffrage dating back a century, while also Blekinge went blue for the first time in the unicameral era. Meanwhile, the six largest municipalities had leftist majorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Context, 2014 budget crisis\nJust two months after having formed a minority government, Prime Minister Stefan L\u00f6fven announced on the afternoon of 3 December 2014 that he intended to make the formal arrangements for calling an extraordinary election on 29 December 2014 \u2013 the earliest date permitted by the constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Context, 2014 budget crisis\nThe election seemed to be necessary after L\u00f6fven's Social Democrat-led government lost a vote on the budget by 182 to 153, owing to the Sweden Democrats voting with the opposition, leading to a cabinet crisis. It would have been the first early election since 1958.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Context, 2014 budget crisis\nHowever, an agreement between the Social Democrats, the Greens, the Moderates, the Centre Party, the Liberals and the Christian Democrats was signed on 26 December 2014, outlining a series of conditions in order to ensure political stability until at least 2022. The agreement included two main provisions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Context, 2014 budget crisis\nAfter negotiations between the Government and the Alliance for Sweden concluded, the snap election was called off on 27 December 2014. On 9 October 2015, following the Christian Democrats' departure from the agreement, the December 2014 agreement was dissolved. However, the Moderates, the Centre Party and the Liberals allowed the Social Democrats minority government to continue to govern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Campaign issues\nIn May 2018, the issues that the Swedish voters considered most important were immigration, healthcare and integration. In the days leading up to the election, the most important issue was the environment, followed by immigration and health care. With the polls showing that the Sweden Democrats could be kingmakers there was speculation over possible government coalitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Campaign issues\nConcerns about foreign influence in the election were raised by the Swedish Security Service and others, leading to various countermeasures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Campaign issues\nThe summer of 2018 saw several violent incidents occur, including the arson of over 100 cars on 15 August, which may have caused 10% of Swedes to state that \"law and order\" is the key issue in the upcoming election. While Sweden has faced sporadic gang violence in recent years at the end of summer break for students, violence in Gothenburg, Falkenberg and Trollh\u00e4ttan was said to be on a larger scale. Prime Minister L\u00f6fven referred to the August violence as if it was organized \"almost like a military operation\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Campaign issues\nIn the following days, Twitter accounts connected to Russia tweeted about the fires, according to the Alliance for Securing Democracy intending to influence English-language readers. According to the Oxford Internet Institute, eight of the top 10 \"junk news\" sources during the election campaign were Swedish, and \"Russian sources comprised less than 1% of the total number of URLs shared in the data sample.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Campaign issues\nIt has been claimed by domestic media that Non-Swedish media frequently emphasize the events in order to advance a narrative of a society in decay, along with some negative but restricted reporting around immigration, to describe great gains by the Sweden Democrats. This has been criticized as a \"false narrative\" and \"misreporting\" by domestic media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Contesting parties, Major parties\nThe Social Democratic Party (S; Socialdemokraterna) was the largest political party in the Swedish Riksdag, with 113 of the 349 seats. It was the major component of the incumbent L\u00f6fven Cabinet, in which it worked with the Green Party. Its leader Stefan L\u00f6fven had been Prime Minister of Sweden since 3 October 2014, and sought a mandate to continue his L\u00f6fven Cabinet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Contesting parties, Major parties\nThe Moderate Party (M; Moderaterna) was the second-largest party in the Riksdag with 84 seats. It was the largest governing party under Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt from 2006 to 2014. The party was involved alongside three other parties in the Alliance; all four sought to return to power together. Reinfeldt resigned as party leader after eight years as Prime Minister, and was succeeded as leader by Anna Kinberg Batra on 10 January 2015. Kinberg Batra's decision as the de facto leader to enter the budgetary procedure agreement with the left-of-centre cabinet saw sharp disgruntlement from some party districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Contesting parties, Major parties\nThe Alliance had more MPs than the government parties, but still found itself in opposition. Owing to her low opinion polling numbers, Kinberg Batra faced internal pressure from multiple party districts and the Moderate Youth League to resign. She announced her resignation in a morning press conference on 25 August 2017. Former prime minister and Moderate Party leader Carl Bildt was suggested as a replacement after Kinberg Batra resigned; however, despite some party districts supporting his candidacy, he declined the offer. Ultimately, Ulf Kristersson was elected to succeed Kinberg Batra as party leader, during an extra Moderate party conference on 1 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Contesting parties, Major parties\nThe Sweden Democrats (SD; Sverigedemokraterna) was the third-largest party in the Riksdag with 49 seats. In the 2014 general election the party increased its number of seats by 29, becoming the third-largest party. Its leader was Jimmie \u00c5kesson, who was the longest-serving party leader. The other Riksdag parties had repeatedly stated that they would not cooperate with the Sweden Democrats in a future government. An extra general election was called after the Sweden Democrats gave its support to the oppositional Alliance budget (see section '2014 budget crisis'). After the proposed extra election was cancelled, the party advertised itself as the 'only opposition party' and in the following months it saw a sharp rise in support (see section 'Opinion polls').", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Contesting parties, Major parties\nThe Green Party (MP; Milj\u00f6partiet) was the fourth-largest party in the Riksdag with 25 seats. The Green Party was the minor component of the L\u00f6fven Cabinet, alongside the Social Democrats. It was the only Swedish party to have two spokespersons, Gustav Fridolin (since 2011), who served as Minister for Education, and Isabella L\u00f6vin (since 2016), who served as Minister for International Development Cooperation. This was the first time in Swedish history that the Green Party had its governmental record tested at an election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Contesting parties, Major parties\nThe Centre Party (C; Centerpartiet) was the fifth-largest party in the Riksdag with 22 seats. It was a part of the Reinfeldt Cabinet from 2006 to 2014, and was involved in the Alliance. The Centre Party had been led by Annie L\u00f6\u00f6f since 2011. It was subject to public attempts by L\u00f6fven to become a cooperation party, but the party traditionally leans towards the Moderate policy positions and stayed within the Alliance after the 2014 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Contesting parties, Major parties\nThe Left Party (V; V\u00e4nsterpartiet) was the sixth-largest party in the Riksdag with 21 seats. Its leader was Jonas Sj\u00f6stedt. He had said that the party sought to participate in a future Red-Green coalition government. The Left Party did not support the L\u00f6fven Cabinet because it was not asked to participate in that cabinet following the 2014 general election, but supported its budget that was voted down on 3 December 2014. Following the budgetary agreement, the Left Party was what tips the left-of-centre minority into a larger minority than the Alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Contesting parties, Major parties\nThe Liberals (L; Liberalerna) was the seventh-largest party in the Riksdag with 19 seats. It was a part of the Reinfeldt Cabinet from 2006 to 2014, and was involved in the Alliance. The Liberals had been led by Jan Bj\u00f6rklund since 2007; his leadership was being increasingly criticized within the party. Opinion polls in the year after the 2014 election suggested that the party was falling significantly behind and struggling to recapture its previous level of support. Having been in charge of the school system and integration of migrants, it came under a lot of criticism owing to falling school results and increased segregation in immigrant-dominated suburbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Contesting parties, Major parties\nThe Christian Democrats (KD; Kristdemokraterna) had been led by Ebba Busch Thor since 2015. It was involved in the Alliance. Despite polling below the 4% electoral threshold for most of the time between the elections, the party saw a boost in support in the time period immediately prior to the election, guaranteeing its presence in the Riksdag (which was seen as essential in order for the Alliance to be able to form a government.). The party held on by a few tens of thousands of votes last time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Contesting parties, Minor parties\nParties with less than 4% of the vote do not get any seats in the Riksdag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Contesting parties, Minor parties\nFeminist Initiative (FI; Feministiskt Initiativ), led by former Left Party leader Gudrun Schyman, was the country's ninth-largest party, and was represented in the European Parliament following the 2014 European election. The party received 0.4% of the vote in the election, compared to 3% in the previous election 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Contesting parties, Minor parties\nThe Pirate Party (PP; Piratpartiet) won representation in the 2009\u201314 European Parliament, but its subsequent runs for office had been less successful. It has been mentioned in some polls as the tenth-largest party, but appeared to be far from having a chance to break the threshold at a domestic level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Contesting parties, Minor parties\nThe Alternative for Sweden (Alternativ f\u00f6r Sverige) was a party with no representation in the Riksdag. It was formed from members expelled from the Sweden Democrats in 2015, and was led by Gustav Kasselstrand. The party received 0.3% of the vote, and thus failed to enter the Riksdag in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Electoral system\nThe Swedish Riksdag is made up of 349 MPs, and all are elected through open list proportional representation on multi-member party lists that are either regional (most major parties) or national (Sweden Democrats). Each of the 29 constituencies has a set number of parliamentarians that is divided through constituency results to ensure regional representation. The other MPs are then elected through a proportional balancing, to ensure that the numbers of elected MPs for the various parties accurately represent the votes of the electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Electoral system\nThe Swedish constitution (Regeringsformen) 1 Ch. 4 \u00a7 says that the Riksdag is responsible for taxation and making laws, and 1 Ch. 6 \u00a7 says that the government is held responsible to the Riksdag. This means that Sweden has parliamentarism in a constitutional monarchy\u2014ensuring that the government is responsible to the people's representatives. A minimum of 4% of the national vote is required for a party to enter the Riksdag, alternatively 12% or more within a constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Electoral system, Vote secrecy and party-specific ballots\nElection officials are responsible for party-specific ballot papers being present in the voting places for parties that have obtained more than one percent of the votes in the previous parliamentary election. If there is no access to the wanted party-specific ballot paper, a voter may cast a vote by writing in the party name of choice on a blank ballot paper. The voter generally chooses a party-specific ballot in the open and only then marks the ballot they chose in the voting booth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Electoral system, Vote secrecy and party-specific ballots\nThe OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights sent an election expert team of two members to the 2018 general election to examine and assess this system, including in relation to questions of the secrecy of the ballot. The observers are to issue a report eight weeks after the election was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Electoral system, Vote secrecy and party-specific ballots\nThe neo-nazi organisation Nordic Resistance Movement was reported shouting slogans and filming voters in several election rooms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Electoral system, Vote secrecy and party-specific ballots\nThere were reports of missing party-specific ballots in some voting districts during the early voting phase. On the election day, the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television reported that the ballots of the Sweden Democrats were missing for 2 hours in one Gothenburg district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Parties\nThe table below lists parties' 2014 representation in the Riksdag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Voter demographics\nVoter demographics of the Swedish general election 2018, according to the Swedish Television's exit polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Analysis\nNumerous media sources noted the gains made by the Sweden Democrats, tying those gains to the simultaneous rise of right-wing populist parties across Europe. However, it was noted that the party did not grow as much as some polls had predicted. While the Social Democrats performed better than expected, the party still saw its worst result since 1908. According to The Guardian, the growth of the SD \"upended perhaps western Europe's most stable political order,\" and other commentators made similar statements. According to Emily Schultheis of Foreign Policy, the SD won an ideological victory, as it \"effectively set the terms for debate\" and forced its rivals to adopt immigration policies similar to its own, and other reporters made similar observations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Analysis\nThe election did not result in a clear victory for any political faction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Analysis\nThe Sweden Democrats performed particularly well in Sk\u00e5ne County, having the highest number of voters in 21 out of the county's 33 municipalities. SVT reported that at least 22 seats in 17 city councils would be empty as the Sweden Democrats won more seats than the number of candidates it had. The party received its first mayor, in H\u00f6rby Municipality. Despite the Social Democrats' worst result nationwide in decades, they overtook the Moderates in the latter's traditional stronghold of Stockholm city. Additionally, the Social Democrats and the Left Party saw an increase in the number of votes cast in that constituency while the Moderates lost votes; consequently, the Red-Green bloc also overtook the Alliance in the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Government formation\nThe election resulted in a hung parliament, with the red-green and centre-right coalitions each holding about 40% of the seats, and the Sweden Democrats holding the remainder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Government formation\nPrime Minister Stefan L\u00f6fven lost the motion of no confidence against him and his cabinet on 25 September 2018, with 142 members of parliament voting to retain L\u00f6fven's cabinet and 204 voting against. This triggered a constitutional procedure wherein the Riksdag is given four chances to vote on a new Prime Minister. If the Riksdag failed all four attempts to elect a new Prime Minister, a snap election would be mandatory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Government formation\nParty negotiations for forming a new government commenced on 27 September, but the deadlock remained as neither L\u00f6fven nor Kristersson could construct a stable coalition. On 14 November, Kristersson was formally nominated as PM, but lost the confidence vote when the Center and Liberal parties refused to back him, as they were unwilling to work in a government that relied on the Sweden Democrats. The vote was historical, as it was the first time a candidate for Prime Minister was rejected by the Riksdag since the abolition of the bicameral legislature in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Government formation\nAfter continued, unfruitful negotiations, Speaker Norl\u00e9n nominated L\u00f6fven to be re-appointed Prime Minister on 12 December. Though the Center and Liberal parties were initially willing to work with him in securing a coalition, talks broke down days before the vote due to disagreements with the budget, and thus L\u00f6fven too lost his confidence vote two days later. On the same day that L\u00f6fven was nominated, the Riksdag rejected the caretaker government's provisional budget, and instead passed a competing budget designed by the Moderates and Christian Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Government formation\nNorl\u00e9n stated after the vote that he would restart negotiations between the parties, while at the same time preparing for the possibility of a snap election. Norl\u00e9n then created a finalized timeline for forming a government, and urged Kristersson and L\u00f6fven to find a compromise. Without nominating a new candidate, he set the next vote for a Prime Minister initially for 16 January (but later postponed to 18 January owing to differences between the Social Democrats and the Left Party), and a final vote on 23 January if the first vote would fail. If neither vote had succeeded, a snap election would have been called immediately, scheduled to take place on 21 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282749-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish general election, Government formation\nOn 11 January 2019, a deal was struck between the Social Democrats, the Greens, the Centre Party, and the Liberals to allow L\u00f6fven to continue governing. However, over the next few days, senior officials of the Left Party expressed concern and were leaning towards voting against the proposed government and instead called on L\u00f6fven to continue negotiations with them. On 16 January, Sj\u00f6stedt agreed to abstain from voting against L\u00f6fven. On 18 January, L\u00f6fven was formally reelected with 192 yes votes and abstentions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282750-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish local elections\nLocal elections were held in Sweden on 9 September 2018 to elect the 20 county councils and 290 municipal councils. Advance voting was allowed between 22 August and 9 September. The elections took place alongside the general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282750-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish local elections\nNewly registered parties participated in the 2018 elections, such as the Citizens' Coalition. Many smaller and local parties which had already been established participated, such as the Swedish Senior Citizen Interest Party, Feminist Initiative, the \u00d6land Party, the Laholm Party and more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282750-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish local elections, Regional councils\nSweden held 20 elections for the Regional Councils. This was the first election where all counties' administrative title had been or were officially being shifted into regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282750-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish local elections, Regional councils, Elections\nGotland County is made up of one municipal council responsible for both local and regional matters and does not count towards the regional elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282750-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Swedish local elections, Municipal councils\nThe total number of seats nationwide totalled to 12,700, down from 12,780 in the 2014 elections. Turnout was 84.1%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282751-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swindon Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Swindon Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018, to elect members of Swindon Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282751-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swindon Borough Council election\nThe Conservatives held on to their majority on the council but it was lowered to one after losing a councillor to the Liberal Democrats in Wroughton & Wichelstowe. The Liberal Democrats lost a councillor to Labour in Eastcott, so the election's net gain of one was to Labour from the Conservatives. Labour had had high hopes of winning control of the council, and the Party's leader Jeremy Corbyn had visited Swindon on five occasions during the local election campaign. The Party was reported to be 'deeply disappointed' with the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282751-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swindon Borough Council election\nThe Conservative Council leader David Renard described himself as \"absolutely delighted\" that his Party \"fended off a significant challenge from the Labour Party\". The BBC's West of England politics editor Paul Barltrop felt Labour's failure to take the council would be more than disappointing to party members, noting that Swindon tends to give an idea of what will happen at the next general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282751-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Swindon Borough Council election\nSwindon was one of the boroughs subject to a trial of voter ID restrictions requiring the production of polling cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282752-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Indoors\nThe 2018 Swiss Indoors was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 49th edition of the event, and part of the 500 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It was held at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, from 22 October through 28 October 2018. First-seeded Roger Federer won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282752-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Indoors, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282752-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Indoors, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282753-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Indoors \u2013 Doubles\nIvan Dodig and Marcel Granollers were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Dodig was scheduled to play alongside Ben McLachlan, but withdrew with a back injury. Granollers teamed up with Rohan Bopanna, but lost in the quarterfinals to Dominic Inglot and Franko \u0160kugor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282753-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Indoors \u2013 Doubles\nInglot and \u0160kugor went on to win the title, defeating Alexander and Mischa Zverev in the final 6\u20132, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282754-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Indoors \u2013 Singles\nRoger Federer was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Marius Copil in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282754-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Indoors \u2013 Singles\nRoger Federer won his ninth Swiss Indoors, 99th singles title and also reached the final the past 12 times he has played this event. By winning the title, his consecutive winning streak in his hometown tournament was extended to 20 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282755-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Swiss Open, officially the Yonex Swiss Open 2018, was a badminton tournament which took place at St. Jakobshalle in Switzerland from 20 to 25 February 2018 and had a total purse of $150,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282755-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Swiss Open was the fifth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Swiss Open championships which had been held since 1955. This tournament was organized by Swiss Badminton with the sanction of the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282755-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282755-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is a table with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 300 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282755-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$150,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282756-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Open Gstaad\nThe 2018 Swiss Open Gstaad (also known as the 2018 J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 51st edition of the Swiss Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Roy Emerson Arena in Gstaad, Switzerland, from 23 July through 29 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282756-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Open Gstaad, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282757-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Open Gstaad \u2013 Doubles\nOliver Marach and Philipp Oswald were the defending champions, but they chose to compete alongside different partners in Hamburg instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282757-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Open Gstaad \u2013 Doubles\nMatteo Berrettini and Daniele Bracciali won the title, defeating Denys Molchanov and Igor Zelenay in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 7\u20136(7\u20135).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282758-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Open Gstaad \u2013 Singles\nFabio Fognini was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to J\u00fcrgen Zopp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282758-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Open Gstaad \u2013 Singles\nMatteo Berrettini won his first ATP World Tour title, defeating Roberto Bautista Agut in the final, 7\u20136(11\u20139), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282758-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss Open Gstaad \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282759-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss referendums\nTen national referendums were held in Switzerland in 2018. Polling took place on 4 March, 10 June, 23 September and 25 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282759-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss referendums, March referendums\nTwo referendums were held on 4 March. One was on a Federal Decree on the new Financial Regulation 2021, which would extend the right of the federal government to levy VAT and direct federal tax until 2035; this was approved by 84% of voters. The other was the \"Yes to the abolition of radio and television fees\" popular initiative, which proposed abolishing the licence fee that provides the majority of funding for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. The proposal was rejected by the Federal Assembly in 2017, and by 72% of voters in the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282759-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss referendums, June referendums\nTwo referendums were held on 10 June; one on the Sovereign Money Initiative proposal and one on the Federal Gambling Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282759-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss referendums, June referendums\nThe Sovereign Money Initiative proposal aims to give the Swiss National Bank a monopoly on money creation. It was launched by the Monetary Modernisation Association, without the support of any political party. The collection of signatures began on 3 June 2014, and the initiative was submitted to the Federal Chancellery on 1 December 2015 with over 110,000 valid signatures, despite its technical subject and without the support of political parties or other civil society organizations. The Federal Assembly recommended rejecting the initiative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282759-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss referendums, September referendums\nThree referendums were held on 23 September. The first was aimed at requiring the federal government to consider cycle paths in the same way as footpaths and hiking trails, the second would require the government to promote environmentally sound, animal-friendly and fairly produced foodstuffs, and the third to focus agriculture policy on small, family farms and to promote sustainable, diverse and gene-technology-free agriculture. The cycle paths initiative was approved, whilst the food and agriculture ones were rejected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282759-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss referendums, November referendums\nThree referendums were held on 25 November. The first proposal aimed to subsidise farmers who did not dehorn their livestock. The second proposal would have explicitly given the Swiss Federal Constitution precedence over international law whenever the two contradict. The third initiative would allow insurance companies to hire their own detectives to spy on individuals suspected of abusing social welfare privileges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative\nThe Swiss sovereign money initiative of June 2018, also known as Vollgeld, was a citizens' (popular) initiative in Switzerland intended to give the Swiss National Bank the sole authority to create money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative\nOn 10 June 2018, the initiative was defeated in the vote, with 76% percent of voters rejecting it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Origin and proposal\nProposals for \"full-reserve banking\", going also by titles such as \"debt-free money,\" have been repeatedly presented to the public and then attacked by both mainstream and heterodox economists who suggest that supporters of such \"populist\" schemes misunderstand central-bank operations, money creation, and how the banking system works. Russian-born British economist Abba Lerner, in 1943, had advocated that the central bank could start \"printing money\" to match government deficit-spending \"sufficient to achieve and sustain full employment.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Origin and proposal\nAccording to the initiative's supporters, money is created as debt, and comes into existence by debt creation when commercial banks borrow from central banks, and when governments, producers, or consumers borrow from commercial banks. Proponents do not want money creation to be under private control as this constitutes a \"subsidy\" to the banking sector. They consider money created by the banks to create significantly adverse effects, such as inflation (since \"the more money [the banks] issue, the higher their profits\"), and amplification of crises (since borrowing occurs pro-cyclically). Furthermore, they claim that bank deposits are not inherently safe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Origin and proposal\nThe proposal for the referendum was initiated in 2014 by the Monetary Modernisation Association, a Swiss non-governmental organization founded in 2011. The collection of signatures began in June 2014 and resulted in over 110,000 valid signatures. The initiative was submitted to the Federal Chancellery in December 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Origin and proposal\nOn 31 January 2018, the Swiss state scheduled the referendum for 10 June 2018, with two issues on the ballot, one about gambling, and another about money creation by banks. The Sovereign Money Initiative aims to give the Swiss Confederation a monopoly on money creation, including demand deposit (full-reserve banking), by including the creation of scriptural money in the legal mandate of the Swiss National Bank. The Swiss National Bank opposed the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Origin and proposal\nThe referendum does not concern the printing of banknotes or the minting of coins, as this remains under the exclusive authority of the Swiss National Bank, i.e. the nation's central bank, which has had this right since 1891. The Federal Constitution states that \"The Confederation [i.e. the Swiss state] is responsible for money and currency; the Confederation has the exclusive right to issue coins and banknotes\" (article 99). Thus, the creation of cash, today less than 10% of all the money in circulation, remain under the control of the central bank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Reactions to the proposal\nThe Swiss National Bank chairman, Thomas Jordan, warned that \"Acceptance of the initiative would plunge the Swiss economy into a period of extreme uncertainty\" because \"Switzerland would have an untested financial system that would differ fundamentally from that of any other country\". The Deutsche Bundesbank does not support the initiative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Reactions to the proposal\nIn 2016, The Economist commented that the Sovereign Money Initiative \"system would be safer for depositors\" but that \"a huge part of the Swiss economy, would be turned inside-out, with unpredictable but probably expensive consequences.\" Global Finance described the Sovereign Money Initiative as \"challenging the current worldwide norm\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Reactions to the proposal\nIn June 2018, Financial Times associate editor and chief economics commentator Martin Wolf urged his readers to vote in favour of the Swiss initiative, stating that existing bank regulation and bank balance sheets would not be sufficient to prevent a major future crisis. Economist L. Randall Wray has argued repeatedly on what he sees as the \"foolishness\" of policy proposals like the Vollgeld initiative. Writer and blogger Tim Worstall believed the initiative itself is ostensibly \"driven by ill-informed loons.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Reactions to the proposal\nThe Icelandic proposal, with exactly the same as the Swiss initiative, cited \"the [private] banks' ability to create credit\" as the reason that Iceland's banking system went overboard. Critics responded, this is not the case at all. The Central Bank of Iceland must provide banks with reserves as needed so that the central bank does not lose control of interest rates and a liquidity crisis between banks is not triggered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Reactions to the proposal\nThe Central Bank of Iceland, critics of the proposal state, had to create and provide new central-bank reserves to accommodate banks as the banks expanded the money supply nineteenfold between 1994 and 2008. They claim that central banks do not and cannot control the money supply, contrary to what Monetarists claim. The money supply would still be endogenous under the Icelandic scheme unless the central bank of the country would be \"willing to tolerate the interest rate going beyond its control\" or for the economy to lack funds for borrowing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Reactions to the proposal\nIceland's banks, they state, failed for other reasons, which were detailed in the special report commissioned by the Icelandic parliament, they state, such as the rapid growth of the banks, the deterioration of the quality of their portfolio, the fact that foreign deposits and short-term, securitized funding became the main source of funding for the three banks; and the prudential regulator was inexperienced and understaffed given the massive foreign exposure of the banking system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Result\nOn 10 June 2018, the Swiss rejected in a \"landslide\" of approximately 75% of negative votes the proposal of the sovereign-money project.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Historical precedents\nThe objective of the Swiss sovereign money initiative of June 2018 was essentially to \"end fractional reserve banking.\" The specific initiative in Switzerland was part of the so-called \"International Movement for Monetary Reform,\" created by the lobbying organisation Positive Money in 2013. The idea of requiring banks\u2019 loans to be fully backed by deposits, according to them, has its roots in the Great Depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Historical precedents\nOpposition to fractional-reserve banking has been prominent for over a century. The genesis of the Swiss initiative can be traced back to the so-called \"Chicago plan\" of reforms after the Great Depression. In March 1933, economists from the University of Chicago circulated a six-page memorandum with a proposal to \"radically\" change the structure of the American financial system. They proposed, among other things, the abolition of the fractional reserve system and the imposition of 100% bank reserves on demand deposits. The proposal in Switzerland to reform the ability of private banks to create money is based on a theory of American economist Irving Fisher from the 1930s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Historical precedents\nThe proposal resurfaced in 1939 and came to be known as the \"Chicago plan.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Historical precedents\nThe Vollgeld initiative's monetary reform ideas had already been the subject of a federal legislation proposal in the United States through U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich. In 2011, Positive Money and the American Monetary Institute backed Kucinich's attempt to introduce the National Emergency Employment Defense Act, a bill of legislation that would assign the authority for money creation exclusively to the U.S. Treasury, thus ending fractional banking. The proposal did not make it to the floor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Historical precedents\nIn 2015, following the 2008-11 crisis, Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur Dav\u00ed\u00f0 Gunnlaugsson commissioned a study for monetary and banking reform. Frosti Sigurj\u00f3nsson, economist and MP, published his findings and recommendations the same year, in which the abolition of fractional banking, among other things, was proposed. Economist Bill Mitchell criticized the Icelandic scheme, on the grounds that, as he stated, even if implemented, \"essentially the money supply would still be endogenous,\" unless the country's central bank would be willing to \"tolerate the interest rate going beyond its control\" or witness \"a lack of funds available for borrowing.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Historical precedents\nMitchell argued that the cause of the crisis in Iceland was not the \"credit-creation capacity of the banks\" but other factors, such as \"banks speculating in foreign-currency debt & assets\"; banks \"no longer behaving like banks\"; the owners of the specific banks \"engaging in devious and self-serving\" actions; and \"lack of prudential control.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282760-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Swiss sovereign-money initiative, Historical precedents\nThe same year, the \u201cOns Geld\u201d (\"Our Money\") organization that supports \"sovereign monetary reform\" in the Netherlands mounted a citizen's initiative that resulted in parliamentary debate and the decision to have the government think tank Scientific Council for Government Policy study the proposal to have fractional banking outlawed and \u201cmoney creation returned to public hands\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282761-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Swope Park Rangers season\nThe 2018 Swope Park Rangers season is the club's third year of play and their third season in the Western Conference of the United Soccer League, the second tier of the United States Soccer Pyramid. The Rangers moved from the Swope Soccer village to Shawnee Mission District Stadium in Overland Park, Kansas for the team's season opener, before playing the rest of the 2018 schedule at Children's Mercy Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282761-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Swope Park Rangers season, Previous season\nThe 2017 Swope Park Rangers season finished the year with a record of 17-7-8 and 4th in the Western Conference qualifying for the 2017 USL Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282761-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Swope Park Rangers season, Previous season\nIn the first round, the Rangers defeated #5 seed Phoenix Rising on penalty kicks 4-2 after a draw in regulation (1-1). In the conference semi-finals, the Rangers would keep rolling with another win facing the #8 seed Sacramento Republic FC 1-0. The Rangers opponent in the conference Finals was the OKC Energy FC; they tied at the end of regulation and would win in penalty kicks 7-6. For the second year in a row, Swope Park Rangers made it to the USL Championship game; and for the second year in a row would lose the Cup, but to Louisville City FC 1-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282762-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International\nThe 2018 Sydney International was a joint 2018 ATP World Tour and 2018 WTA Tour tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW). It was the 126th edition of the tournament and took place at the NSW Tennis Centre in Sydney, Australia. It was held from 7 January through 13 January 2018 as part of the Australian Open Series in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year. Venus Williams played the event for the first time in 17 years, 20 years after her maiden appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282762-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International, Prize money\n1Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money. *per team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282762-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282762-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282762-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282762-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282763-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International \u2013 Men's Doubles\nWesley Koolhof and Matw\u00e9 Middelkoop were the defending champions, but chose to compete with different partners in Auckland instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282763-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International \u2013 Men's Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo won the title, defeating Jan-Lennard Struff and Viktor Troicki in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282764-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International \u2013 Men's Singles\nGilles M\u00fcller was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Beno\u00eet Paire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282764-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International \u2013 Men's Singles\nDaniil Medvedev won his first ATP title, defeating Alex de Minaur in the final, 1\u20136, 6\u20134, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282764-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282765-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International \u2013 Women's Doubles\nT\u00edmea Babos and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282765-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International \u2013 Women's Doubles\nGabriela Dabrowski and Xu Yifan won the title, defeating Latisha Chan and Andrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282766-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International \u2013 Women's Singles\nJohanna Konta was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska in a rematch of the previous year's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282766-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International \u2013 Women's Singles\nAngelique Kerber won the title, defeating Ashleigh Barty in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134. Kerber won the title despite being two match points down in the second set in her first-round match against Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282766-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney International \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe top two seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 50], "content_span": [51, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282767-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney Sevens\nThe 2018 Sydney Sevens was the third tournament within the 2017\u201318 World Rugby Sevens Series and the fifteenth edition of the Australia Sevens, of which the third to be held in Sydney. It was held over the weekend of 26\u201328 January 2018 at Allianz Stadium in Sydney, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282767-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney Sevens, Format\nThe teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each, with each team playing every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/5th place brackets. The bottom two teams from each group went to the Challenge trophy/13th place brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282767-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney Sevens, Teams\nFifteen core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, the highest-placing non-core team of the 2017 Oceania Sevens Championship, Papua New Guinea:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282767-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney Sevens, Players, Dream Team\nThe following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282768-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney SuperNight 300\nThe 2018 Sydney SuperNight 300 (formally known as 2018 Red Rooster Sydney SuperNight 300) was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on the weekend of 3\u20134 August 2018. The event was held at Sydney Motorsport Park in Eastern Creek, New South Wales and consisted of one race, 300 kilometres in length. It was the tenth event of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Race 21 of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282769-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney Swans season\nThe 2018 AFL season is the 122nd season in the Australian Football League contested by the Sydney Swans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282769-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney Swans season, Squad for 2018\nStatistics are correct as of end of 2016 season. Flags represent the state of origin, i.e. the state in which the player played his under 18 football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282769-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney Swans season, Playing list changes\nThe following summarises all player changes between the conclusion of the 2015 season and the beginning of the 2016 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282770-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney Women's Sevens\nThe 2018 Sydney Women's Sevens was the second tournament of the 2017\u201318 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. It was the second edition of the Australian Women's Sevens and was held over the weekend of 26\u201328 January 2018 at Allianz Stadium in Sydney, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282770-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney Women's Sevens\nPerformances at this tournament helped determine the first ten seedings for the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens together with the previous year's series and the 2017 Dubai Women's Sevens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282770-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney Women's Sevens, Format\nThe teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup brackets while the top 2 third place teams also compete in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group play-off for the Challenge Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282770-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney Women's Sevens, Teams\nEleven core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, the highest-placing non-core team of the 2017 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship, Papua New Guinea:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282770-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney Women's Sevens, Players, Dream Team\nThe following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282771-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race\nThe 2018 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the 74th annual running of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, it began on Sydney Harbour at 13:00 on 26 December 2018, before heading south for 628 nautical miles (1,163 kilometres) via the Tasman Sea, Bass Strait, Storm Bay and up the River Derwent, to cross the finish line in Hobart, Tasmania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282771-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race\nLine honours were claimed by Wild Oats XI in a time of 1 day, 19 hours, 7 minutes and 21 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282772-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Syed Modi International\nThe 2018 Syed Modi International Badminton Championships was a badminton tournament which took place at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium in Lucknow, India, from 20 to 25 November 2018 and had a total prize of $150,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282772-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Syed Modi International, Tournament\nThe 2018 Syed Modi International was the twenty-fifth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Syed Modi International Badminton Championships, which had been held since 1991. This tournament was organized by Badminton Association of India and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282772-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Syed Modi International, Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282772-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Syed Modi International, Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 300 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282772-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Syed Modi International, Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$150,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282773-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Sylhet City Corporation election\nThe 2018 election for mayor of Sylhet City Corporation was held on 10 June 2018. Sylhet is a city in Bangladesh. The result was again a victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate Ariful Haque Choudhury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282773-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Sylhet City Corporation election, Reference\nThis Bangladesh-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282774-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Symetra Tour\nThe 2018 Symetra Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from March through October 2018 in the United States. The Symetra Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the \"official developmental tour\" of the LPGA Tour. It was previously known as the Futures Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282774-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Symetra Tour, Schedule and results\nThe number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Symetra Tour including that event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282774-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Symetra Tour, Leading money winners\nThe top ten money winners at the end of the season gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282775-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Syracuse Orange football team\nThe 2018 Syracuse Orange football team represented Syracuse University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Orange were led by third-year head coach Dino Babers and played their home games at the Carrier Dome. They competed as members of the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. After being picked to finish last in the preseason media poll, Syracuse went 10\u20133, 6\u20132 in ACC play to finish in 2nd place in the Atlantic Division. They were invited to the Camping World Bowl, where they defeated West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282775-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Syracuse Orange football team, Previous season\nThe Orange finished the 2017 season 4\u20138, 2\u20136 in ACC play to finish in last place in the Atlantic Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282775-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Syracuse Orange football team, Preseason, ACC media poll\nThe ACC media poll was released on July 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282776-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Syracuse Orange men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Syracuse Orange men's soccer team represented Syracuse University during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the program's 95th season and 6th in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Orange were led by Ian McIntyre, who was in his ninth year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282776-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Syracuse Orange men's soccer team, Background\nThe 2017 Syracuse men's soccer team finished the season with a 6\u20138\u20134 overall record and a 0\u20136\u20132 ACC record. The Orange were seeded twelfth\u2013overall in the 2017 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament, where they lost to Clemson in the first round. The Orange were not invited to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282776-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Syracuse Orange men's soccer team, Background\nAt the end of the 2017 season, one Orange men's soccer player was selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft: Mo Adams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282776-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Syracuse Orange men's soccer team, Squad, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282777-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian Cup\nThe 2018 version of the Syrian Cup is the 48th edition to be played. It is the premier knockout tournament for football teams in Syria. Al-Wahda are the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282777-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian Cup\nThe competition has been disrupted because of the ongoing Syrian Civil War, where some games have been awarded as 3:0 victories due to teams not being able to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282777-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian Cup\nThe winners of the competition will enter the 2019 AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 75]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282778-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian local elections\nLocal elections were held across Syria on 16 September 2018 to elect 18,478 local council members in 88 electoral districts. More than 40,000 to 41,000 candidates contested the elections according to pro-government sources. The election were the first held since the 2011 Syrian local elections and took place amid the Syrian civil war. The election only took place in territory under the control of the Syrian government, with special constituencies set up for areas outside of government control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282778-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian local elections\nThe Syrian government claimed that there was \"good turnout\" in the election, although this has been disputed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282778-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian local elections, Candidates\nBetween 40,000 and 41,000 candidates contested the elections. The majority of the candidates were from the Ba'ath Party-led National Progressive Front under the National Unity List, while 30% of candidates were independents. Legal opposition parties such as the Syrian National Youth Party and the Syria Watan Party criticized the election for not being fully democratic and did not stand any candidates. Some candidates from non-Ba'athist National Progressive Front parties withdrew in opposition to Ba'athist domination of the organisation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282778-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian local elections, Results\nThe Ministry of Local Affairs claimed that turnout of the election was 56%, although some sources say that turnout was lower at 26.5%. The Ba'ath Party dominated the election and won in many areas by default.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282779-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes\nThe 2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes began on 31 October 2018 when the Turkish Armed Forces began to shell People's Protection Units (YPG) positions near the cities of Kobani and Tell Abyad as well as surrounding villages. Turkey views the YPG as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been waging an insurgency in Turkey for over 40 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282779-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes, Background\nJournalist Ahmet S. Yayla stated that the operation by Turkey may have been carried out to relocate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and al-Qaeda elements from Idlib in light of the demilitarization agreement between Russia and Turkey. Salih Muslim, the former co-chairman of the Democratic Union Party, stated that Russia and Turkey were plotting to send jihadists to fight against the YPG as part of the agreement. On 30 October 2018, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said to a public gathering prior to the operation, \"The plan is to remove the YPG, collect their heavy weaponry and finally allow the real Manbij people to be in full control of their city.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282779-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes, Clashes\nThe Turkish military reported that four Kurdish militiamen were killed and another six were injured in the shelling of YPG positions. The Syrian Democratic Forces states that the attack had temporarily halted operations against ISIL near the Iraqi border. The Syrian Democratic Forces also stated that Turkish strikes were not limited to Kobani, but surrounding areas along the Syria\u2013Turkey border held by Rojava. On 30 October 2018, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan vowed to clear the Eastern Euphrates region of Kurdish militias, while on 29 October Turkish forces had targeted YPG positions along the Euphrates river.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282779-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes, Clashes\nIn response to the attack, the SDF redeployed multiple units from the Deir Ez Zor region to confront the Turkish forces. In retaliation, the YPG stated that it destroyed a Turkish vehicle and released a video of the attack; however, the statement has not been acknowledged by the Turkish government. A Turkish military vehicle fired at the border station in the town of Tell Abyad, leaving one dead from the SDF's Self-Defense Forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282779-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes, Clashes\nWith the US holding positive relations with both Turkey and the Syrian Democratic Forces, an American military delegation reportedly arrived in Tell Abyad to attempt to mediate between the two parties to attempt to resolve the conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282779-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes, Clashes\nOn 1 November 2018, the Turkish military targeted Kobani with helicopters as well as howitzers in preparation for an offensive and coordinated plans for an offensive with allied opposition groups based in Afrin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282779-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes, Clashes\nClashes continued with sporadic shelling and on 6 November Turkey targeted the town of Ras al-Ayn, a YPG supply point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282779-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes, Aftermath\nOn 21 November, United States Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis announced the U.S. will set up new observation posts along the Turkish border in northern Syria in order to reduce similar incidences between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants in the region. The endeavor is seen as a way of easing tensions between the two NATO allies and doesn't require additional U.S. troops to be deployed to Syria. The move is controversial due to U.S. lawmakers voicing concerns over mission creep in Syria in recent weeks and months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282779-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes, Aftermath\nA total of three observation posts were to be set up in Tal Abyad and two in Kobani. The first Tal Abyad post was completed on 27 November. Three total observation posts were established by 12 December. \"The positions were clearly marked and any force attacking them would definitely know they are attacking the United States\", said a US official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282779-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes, Aftermath\nOn 12 December 2018, the Turkish government announced it would begin operations against Rojava \"in a few days\" in an apparent rebuke of US efforts at ensuring Turkish border security in the area. In response, the Pentagon said that any unilateral military action taken in northern Syria, where US forces are operating, would be \"unacceptable.\" However, several days later the US announced the withdrawal of their troops from Syria, after which Turkey postponed the planned attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282779-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes, Aftermath\nOn 25 December, the SDF handed over the town of Arima west of Manbij to troops of the Syrian government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282779-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes, Aftermath\nThrough 27-28 December, the Manbij Military Council had invited Syrian troops to enter Manbij in order to ward off a future Turkish advance. Syrian forces gradually deployed to the surrounding countryside as American troops continued to patrol inside the city and along the contact lines with the Syrian National Army, whose units continued to deploy and mobilize along the Manbij frontier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282779-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes, Aftermath\nFollowing criticism of the planned withdrawal of their troops, on 6 January the US imposed the security of their Kurdish-led allies as a condition for the withdrawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282780-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Szuperkupa (men's water polo)\nThe 2018 Szuperkupa (known as the TippMix F\u00e9rfi Szuperkupa for sponsorship reasons). It was played on 22 December 2018 in Budapest, Hungary. With Ferencv\u00e1rosi TC winning both the 2017\u201318 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I championship and the 2017 Magyar Kupa cup winners Szolnoki D\u00f3zsa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282781-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e1nchez-Casal Mapfre Cup\nThe 2018 S\u00e1nchez-Casal Mapfre Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Barcelona, Spain between 8 and 14 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282781-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e1nchez-Casal Mapfre Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282782-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e1nchez-Casal Mapfre Cup \u2013 Doubles\nMarcelo Demoliner and David Vega Hern\u00e1ndez won the title after defeating Rameez Junaid and David Pel 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282783-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e1nchez-Casal Mapfre Cup \u2013 Singles\nRoberto Carball\u00e9s Baena won the title after defeating Pedro Mart\u00ednez 1\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282784-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season\nThe 2018 season was S\u00e3o Paulo's 89th year since the club's existence. Due previous year playing for remaining in first division of national league, the club started his performance at state league, Campeonato Paulista, mistrusted by his own fans and media. The head coach Dorival J\u00fanior was fired after 5 losses in only 14 matches, being defeated by all main rivals in just a month. To replace Dorival, S\u00e3o Paulo selected the Uruguayan Diego Aguirre, a former forward who was in the club for a short period of time in 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282784-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season\nDespite the elimination in the semifinals of Campeonato Paulista and second round of Copa Sudamericana, Aguirre did a consistent job in the early months leading the team. In the first half of league S\u00e3o Paulo ended in first place holding its performance for 8 rounds at the middle of competition. However a couple of draws and the rise of his rival Palmeiras, took place from S\u00e3o Paulo that dropped down in table 4 positions finishing his participation in 5th. Diego Aguirre was fired in the 33rd round after an away draw against Corinthians by 1-1. For the interim charge Andr\u00e9 Jardine trained the club in the last 5 matches, he was announced as the head coach for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282784-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season, Players, Current squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282784-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season, Players, Transfers, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282784-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season, Players, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282785-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Paulo gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 S\u00e3o Paulo gubernatorial election occurred on 7 October 2018 and 28 October 2018, and elected the Governor and Vice Governor of S\u00e3o Paulo and 94 State Deputies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282785-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Paulo gubernatorial election\nThe previous gubernatorial election in the state was held in October 2014, in which Geraldo Alckmin of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party was re-elected in the first round with 57.31% of the vote, against 21.53% of Paulo Skaf and 18.22% of Alexandre Padilha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282786-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe Championship\nThe 2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Principe Championship is the 33rd season of the S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Principe Championship the top-level football championship of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Principe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282786-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe Championship\nThere are two separate championships, one for teams of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 Island and one for teams of Pr\u00edncipe Island. The champions of the two island championships play a home-and-away two-legged final to decide the overall champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282786-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe Championship, Regional Leagues, S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9, Selected results\nS\u00e3o Tom\u00e9's played their next top tier match in a few decades, they suffered their first two losses, first to Agrosport, then to Neves, at the third round, they made a 1-0 win over Vit\u00f3ria Riboque their next at the top tier in decades. The first of three matches that were \u0103to play on May 5, Folha Fede vs. Alian\u00e7a Nacional and Caix\u00e3o Grande and Agrosport were abandoned in the middle of the second half due to heavy rain, they continued on May 9, the first ended in a three goal draw, the second Agrosport won. The third one was Sporting", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282786-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe Championship, National final\nFirst Leg [Dec 8, Est\u00e1dio Regional 13 de Junho, Santo Ant\u00f3nio]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282786-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe Championship, National final\nSecond Leg [Dec 15, Est\u00e1dio Nacional 12 de Julho, S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282787-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe on 7 October 2018. Municipal elections and elections to the regional council on Pr\u00edncipe were held alongside them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282787-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an legislative election, Electoral system\nThe 55 members of the National Assembly are elected by closed list proportional representation in seven multi-member constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282787-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an legislative election, Parties\nThe elections were contested by five parties and two electoral alliances, three of which presented a candidate for Prime Minister; the ruling Independent Democratic Action (ADI) under Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada, the main opposition party the centre-left MLSTP-PSD led by its newly elected president former Minister of Education and Culture Jorge Bom Jesus, and a centre-right coalition formed in August between the MDFM\u2013UDD Union (a merger between the MDFM-PL and UDD) and the Democratic Convergence Party (PCD). The coalition fielded the leader of PCD Arlindo Carvalho as its candidate for Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282787-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an legislative election, Parties\nIn addition, the newly established People's Strength Party, the alliance between the Social Democratic Movement and the Green Party (MSD\u2013PVSTP), the Party for all Santomerese (PTOS), and the Cau\u00e9-based Movement of Independent Citizens of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe (MCISTP) contested the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282787-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an legislative election, Results\nUnlike previous elections in the multi-party era, results were not announced on election night for the two largest constituencies, \u00c1gua Grande and M\u00e9-Z\u00f3chi, containing a total of 26 seats. Results from the five smaller constituencies gave 14 seats to the ADI, 12 to the MLSTP/PSD, one to the PCD\u2013MDFM\u2013UDD coalition and two to the MCISTP in the Cau\u00e9 constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282787-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an legislative election, Results\nOn election night the Secretary General of the ADI Levy Nazar\u00e9 announced the party had gotten 26 seats and would continue to govern with support from the MCISTP, whereas MLSTP/PSD had only gotten 23 seats, but this announcement was made before all votes had been counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282787-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an legislative election, Results\nThe final result was 25 seats to the ADI, 23 to the MLSTP-PSD, 5 to the PCD/MDFM-UDD coalition and 2 to the MCISTP, both in the Cau\u00e9 constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282787-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an legislative election, Aftermath\nAt a joint press conference the leaders of MLSTP/PSD and the PCD\u2013MDFM\u2013UDD coalition announced they had a pre-election agreement to govern together and requested that Jorge Bom Jesus should be made Prime Minister, but ADI insisted that the country had had minority governments before and that they as the biggest party should form the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282787-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an legislative election, Aftermath\nThe ADI asked for verification of the more than 2,000 blank and void votes hoping to gain an extra seat and obtain a majority together with MCISTP. This unleashed riots in parts of the country as opposition supporters feared the government would rig the results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282787-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an legislative election, Aftermath\nOn 12 October the police announced that there would be a 72 hour ban on demonstrations after the Constitutional Court declares the final results. The opposition claimed that this was illegal, as only the President could authorize a ban on the advice of the government and with the consent of the National Assembly, and that they would not comply with the ban if the final results deviate from the ones issued by the electoral commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282787-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an legislative election, Aftermath\nThe proclamation of the ban happened after President Evaristo Carvalho had left the country to participate in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Equatorial Guinea's independence. In the airport Carvalho said that he would follow the constitution and authorize the party with the most seats to form the new government, indicating that Patrice Trovoada could continue as Prime Minister despite the ADI losing their majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282787-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an legislative election, Aftermath\nOn 30 November the President nominated Jorge Bom Jesus as Prime Minister. The new government was sworn in on 3 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282788-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00f6dermanland regional election\nS\u00f6dermanland County or Region S\u00f6rmland held a regional council election on 9 September 2018 across its nine municipalities. This was part of the 2018 Swedish regional elections and held on the same day as the municipal and general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282788-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 S\u00f6dermanland regional election, Results\nThe number of seats rose from 71 to 79. This meant that both the Social Democrats and the Moderates kept their seat numbers in spite of their vote and seat share falling sizeably. The Social Democrats fell the most, going from 33.3\u00a0% to 28.7\u00a0%. The local party V\u00e5rd f\u00f6r pengarna ended up becoming the largest party in both coastal municipalities of Nyk\u00f6ping and Oxel\u00f6sund. This was the first time any other party than the Social Democrats had topped the poll in Oxel\u00f6sund in any election since the location's founding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282788-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 S\u00f6dermanland regional election, Results\nEven so, commanding vote leads in the interior and in the largest town Eskilstuna led to the Social Democrats being the largest party. The Sweden Democrats gained 13.1\u00a0% of the popular vote in a large numerical rise, rendering four parties gaining about 4/5 of the seats as the Green Party lost all their four seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282789-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 T10 League\n2018 T10 League was the second season of the T10 League. The matches had a 10-over-a-side format with a time duration of 90 minutes. The tournament was played as a round robin followed by semifinals and the final. It was played from 21 November to 2 December 2018 at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. Three new teams, Sindhis, Rajputs and Northern Warriors, joined the tournament with the exclusion of Team Sri Lanka from last season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282789-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 T10 League\nBefore the start of the tournament, Karachians changed their name to Sindhis after a Pakistan court order had objected to their title, citing a clash of identity with the Pakistan Super League team Karachi Kings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282790-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 T20 Blast\nThe 2018 Vitality Blast was the 2018 season of the t20 Blast, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in England and Wales. It was the first season in which the domestic T20 competition, ran by the ECB, has been branded as the Vitality Blast due to a new sponsorship deal. The league consisted of the 18 first-class county teams divided into two divisions of nine teams each with fixtures played between July and September. The final day took place at Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham on 15 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282790-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 T20 Blast\nNottinghamshire Outlaws were the champions going into the tournament having beaten the Birmingham Bears by 22 runs in the 2017 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282790-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 T20 Blast, Competition format\nThe 18 first-class county cricket clubs are taking part in the competition. Teams are initially split into two divisions on a geographical basis (North and South) for the group stage of the competition, each group having nine teams. During the group stage, which ran from July until the middle of August, each county played 14 matches, playing six of the other sides in their group twice, once home and once away, and the other two teams once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282790-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 T20 Blast, Competition format\nThe winners of each match received two points for a win, with one point awarded in the case of a tie or if a match was abandoned. Teams are ranked within their groups by total points, then net run rate. At the end of the group stage, the top four teams from each group entered the knockout stage of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282790-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 T20 Blast, League stage, South Division\nThe top four teams from each division qualified for the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282791-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 T20 Inter-Insular Cup\nJersey cricket team hosted Guernsey cricket team from 17 to 18 August 2018 to contest the inaugural T20 Inter-Insular Cup, a series consisting of three Twenty20 (T20) matches. The series took place at Farmers' Field in Saint Martin. The two sides had played an Inter-Insular match annually since 1950, generally as timed or 50-over contests. For the first time, the 2018 Inter-Insular was played as a three-match Twenty20 series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282791-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 T20 Inter-Insular Cup\nThe series provided preparation for both teams ahead of the European T20 qualifying tournament for the 2019 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier; both teams named the same squad for the two events. Despite several senior players being unavailable for selection, Jersey whitewashed Guernsey to win the series 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282791-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 T20 Inter-Insular Cup\nFollowing the International Cricket Council's decision to grant T20I status to all matches played between Associate Members after 1 January 2019, future editions of the Inter-Insular T20 Cup (starting from the 2019 edition) will have this enhanced status. In 2019, the traditional 50-over Inter-Insular Trophy match returned in addition to the Inter-Insular T20 Cup, which would now have a separate trophy awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282792-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TAC Cup Girls season\nThe 2018 TAC Cup Girls season was the second season of the TAC Cup Girls competition for under-18 female Australian rules footballers in Victoria. The season commenced on 3 March and concluded on 19 May. The premiership was won by the Geelong Falcons, who defeated the Northern Knights in the first Grand Final match in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282793-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TAC Cup season\nThe 2018 TAC Cup season was the 27th season of the TAC Cup competition. The season was won by the Dandenong Stingrays who have claimed there first premiership title after five despite losses in grand finals, they defeated the Oakleigh Chargers in the grand final by 1 goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282794-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Asia Series\nThe 2018 TCR Asia Series season is the fourth season of the TCR Asia Series. For the first time at the first three events of TCR Asia, the South-East Asia Cup will be held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282794-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Asia Series, Calendar and results\nThe provisional 2018 schedule was announced on 17 January 2018, with five events scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282795-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR China Touring Car Championship\nThe 2018 TCR China season was the second season of the TCR's Chinese Touring Car Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282795-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR China Touring Car Championship, Calendar and results\nThe 2018 schedule was announced on 18 December 2017, with six events scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282796-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Europe Touring Car Series\nThe 2018 TCR Europe Touring Car Series was the third holding of TCR Europe, and first held as a standalone series. The series began at the Circuit Paul Ricard in May and ended at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282796-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Europe Touring Car Series\nAs part of an deal with the series' promoters, at five of the seven events, the 2018 TCR BeNeLux Touring Car Championship series was held which was its third edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282796-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Europe Touring Car Series\nTCR Europe Series also saw the introduction of the DSG Challenge for cars equipped with Direct-shift gearbox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282796-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Europe Touring Car Series, Results and standings, TCR Europe standings, Drivers' standings\n\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 99], "content_span": [100, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282796-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Europe Touring Car Series, Results and standings, TCR Europe standings, Teams' standings\n\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 97], "content_span": [98, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282796-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Europe Touring Car Series, Results and standings, TCR Europe standings, TCR BeNeLux Drivers' standings\n\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 111], "content_span": [112, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282797-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Italy Touring Car Championship\nThe 2018 TCR Italy Touring Car Championship is the fourth season of the ITCC to run under TCR regulations and the 32nd season since the national touring car series was revived in 1987 as the Campionato Italiano Turismo. The series will begin at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in April and conclude at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282797-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Italy Touring Car Championship, Calendar and results\nThe 2018 calendar was announced on 26 October 2017, with a single round scheduled to be held in France as the only round held outside Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282797-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Italy Touring Car Championship, Calendar and results, TCR Italy Drivers' Standings\n\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 91], "content_span": [92, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282798-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Korea Touring Car Series\nThe 2018 TCR Korea Touring Car Series is the first season of the TCR Korea Touring Car Series. The series supported the TCR Asia Series for their inaugural round held at Korea International Circuit in August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282798-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Korea Touring Car Series, Teams and drivers\nAll teams were Korean registered. All drivers, excepting German driver Peter Terting, raced under South Korean racing license.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282798-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Korea Touring Car Series, Calendar and results\nThe provisional calendar was released on 5 February 2018, with all rounds being held within South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282799-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Middle East Series\nThe 2018 TCR Middle East Series season was the second season of the TCR Middle East Series. The championship started at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi on 19 January and ended at Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir on 24 February. Josh Files and Liqui Moly Team Engstler were the defending drivers' and teams' championships respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282799-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Middle East Series, Calendar and results\nThe 2018 schedule was announced on 10 November 2017, with four events held across the Middle East. On 21 December 2017, was announced that will now be contested over three racing weekends instead of the four included in the previously released schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282800-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship\nThe 2018 TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship was the eighth Scandinavian Touring Car Championship season. This season was the second season since the introduction of the TCR regulations and the last under the promotion of STCC AB, which declared bankruptcy in early February 2019. The season started at Ring Knutstorp on 4 May and ended at Mantorp Park on 22 September, after six rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282800-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship\nRobert Dahlgren is the defending drivers' champion, while Volkswagen Dealer Team Sweden are the defending teams' champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282800-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship, Calendar\nOn 16 November 2017, the calendar was announced which was reduced from seven events to six. The championship will host five rounds in Sweden and the series would make a return to Norway for the first time since 2008 when it was called Swedish Touring Car Championship with the event would be held at the Rudskogen circuit. The Solvalla Circuit in Stockholm and Alastaro Circuit in Finland were dropped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282800-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship, Calendar\nOn 19 December 2017, it was announced that the series would revert to a two-race format after using a three-race format in the previous season. Reversed grids for Race 2 were also reintroduced after being absent from the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282800-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship, Championship standings, Drivers' Championship\nChampionship points were awarded on the results of each race at each event as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282801-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Series seasons\nThis article describes some of the 2018 seasons of TCR Series across the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282801-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Series seasons, VLN TCR Class\nThe 2018 Veranstaltergemeinschaft Langstreckenpokal N\u00fcrburgring TCR Class was the second season for the TCR Class in the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282801-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Series seasons, TCR Baltic Trophy\nThe 2018 TCR Baltic Trophy Ws the second season of the TCR Baltic Trophy. TCR Baltic Trophy was contested within the Baltic Touring Car Championship events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282801-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Series seasons, TCR Baltic Trophy, Calendar and results\nThe 2018 schedule was announced on 15 March 2018. The calendar includes three rounds in Latvia and two in Estonia all supporting the Baltic Touring Car Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282801-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Series seasons, TCR Swiss Trophy\nTCR Swiss Trophy was an event, organized by Auto Sport Switzerland and was the inaugural season. The calendar consisted of 5 events from TCR Europe, TCR BeNeLux, ADAC TCR Germany and TCR Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282801-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Series seasons, TCR Swiss Trophy, Championship standings\n\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282801-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Series seasons, TCR Ib\u00e9rico Touring Car Series\nThe 2018 TCR Ib\u00e9rico Touring Car Series season was the second season of the TCR Ib\u00e9rico Touring Car Series. The championship started at Circuito Internacional de Vila Real in Portugal on 23 June and ended at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain on 21 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282801-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Series seasons, TCR Ib\u00e9rico Touring Car Series, Championship standings\n\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 79], "content_span": [80, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282802-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Thailand Touring Car Championship\nThe 2018 TCR Thailand Touring Car Championship will be the third season of the TCR Thailand Touring Car Championship. The championship will run within the Thailand Super Series' events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282802-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR Thailand Touring Car Championship, Calendar and results\nThe 2018 schedule was announced in December 2017. The first three events will support the 2018 TCR Asia Series, which also marks the first time the series has held a round outside of Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282803-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR UK Touring Car Championship\nThe 2018 TCR UK Touring Car Championship was the first season of the TCR UK Touring Car Championship, promoted by the British Racing and Sports Car Club. The season began on 1 April at Silverstone Circuit and ended on 14 October at Donington Park. The Driver's Champion was Daniel Lloyd, and the Team Champions were WestCoast Racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282803-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TCR UK Touring Car Championship, Calendar and results\nThe 2018 schedule consisted of seven race weekends with two races each weekend, with the grid for Race 1 being determined by a traditional qualifying session. The grid for Race 2 will be made up by reversing the top 10 from the second fastest qualifying lap. The calendar was announced on 13 September 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team\nThe 2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team represented Texas Christian University during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Horned Frogs played their home games at Charlie & Marie Lupton Baseball Stadium as a member of the Big 12 Conference. They were led by head coach Jim Schlossnagle, the winningest coach in TCU baseball history, in his 15th year at TCU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Previous season\nThe Horned Frogs entered the 2018 season on the heels of four consecutive trips to the College World Series. The 2017 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team entered the season as the unanimous preseason #1 team, and the favorite to win the Big 12 regular season championship. They notched a 39\u201314 (16\u20138) regular season record, and won a Big 12 Conference championship for the fourth-straight season, sharing the regular season co-championship with Texas Tech. In the postseason, the Horned Frogs advanced to the Big 12 Tournament semifinals, before being eliminated by Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Previous season\nTCU was selected as the #6 National Seed the NCAA Tournament, the Horned Frogs' highest-ever national seed. Star-first baseman/designated hitter Luken Baker was unavailable for the Tournament after a late-regular season injury. The Frogs coasted to a 3\u20130 record in the Fort Worth Regional, with wins over Central Connecticut, #11 Virginia, and #20 Dallas Baptist, and a 2\u20130 sweep of #8 Missouri State in the Fort Worth Super Regional to advance to the College World Series for the fourth-straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0001-0002", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Previous season\nIn Omaha, the Frogs fell in their opener to eventual-national champion, Florida, an 0\u20133 loss at the hands of Gator starting pitcher Alex Faedo. TCU then eliminated #8 Texas A&M and #4 Louisville to advance to a rematch with Florida in the national semifinals. The Frogs' win over the Aggies marked the third consecutive season, and the fourth in the past six seasons, that TCU eliminated Texas A&M from the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0001-0003", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Previous season\nThe Frogs then beat #3 Florida 9\u20132 in the teams' first rematch before falling to the Gators in a decisive national semifinal game, again an 0\u20133 loss to Alex Faedo. The loss marked the third-straight year that TCU's season ended in the national semifinals. TCU finished the season ranked #4 in every final poll, with a 50\u201318 record (the Frogs' third 50-win season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Preseason, MLB Draft\nThe following Horned Frogs on the 2016 roster were selected in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Preseason, Departed Players\nThe following Horned Frogs on the 2017 roster departed the program prior to the 2018 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Preseason, Recruiting Class\nThe Horned Frogs added the following players to the roster as part of their 2017 recruiting class:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Preseason, Season Projections\nComing off four-straight College World Series appearances in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, returning anticipated starting pitchers Jared Janczak, Rex Hill and Nick Lodolo, and adding a highly ranked recruiting class, the 2018 Horned Frogs were projected as one of the \"Eight for Omaha\" in July 2017 by Baseball America, D1 Baseball, and Perfect Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Preseason, Season Projections\nThe Horned Frogs were ranked in each major preseason poll and ranking. TCU was ranked #3 by Perfect Game, #4 in the USA Today Coaches Poll, #5 in the NCBWA Poll, #7 by D1 Baseball and Baseball America, and #9 by Collegiate Baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Preseason, Season Projections\nBig 12 coaches predicted TCU would finish second in league play, with 4 of the 9 coaches picking TCU to finish in first place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Personnel, Coaching Staff\nTCU will return its entire coaching staff from the Frogs' 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 College World Series seasons. Pitching coach Kirk Saarloos, a California native, was reportedly courted by Stanford to replace 31-season head coach Mark Marquess, but Saarloos opted to remain at TCU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Personnel, Roster\nThe Horned Frogs' 2018 roster consists of 17 returners and 15 new players. Nearly half of the roster (15 of 32 players) are from outside the State of Texas. Sophomore catcher Zach Humphreys and freshman pitcher Russell Smith were high school teammates at Midlothian High School, and sophomore pitcher Cal Coughlin and freshman outfielder Brad Czerniejewski were high school teammates at Lake Forest High School in Illinois. Junior catcher Colton Parrish and junior outfielder Johnny Rizer were teammates at Blinn College before transferring to TCU prior to the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282804-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282805-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs football team\nThe 2018 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The 123rd TCU football team played as a member of the Big 12 Conference and played their home games at Amon G. Carter Stadium, on the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas. They were led by 18th-year head coach Gary Patterson. They finished the season 7\u20136, 4\u20135 in Big 12 play to finish in a tie for fifth place. They were invited to the Cheez-It Bowl where they defeated California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282805-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs football team, Previous season\nThe Horned Frogs finished the 2017 season with a No. 9 national ranking and an 11\u20133 record. The Frogs dropped both a regular season game in Norman and the Big 12 Championship Game to Big 12 champion Oklahoma. TCU defeated Stanford in the Alamo Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282805-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll\nThe Big 12 media poll was released on July 12, 2018 with the Horned Frogs predicted to finish in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282805-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 TCU Horned Frogs football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nWhen the two Big 12 conference teams that both wear purple got together for the 2018 matchup, Kansas State lost quarterback Skylar Thompson to an injury in the first quarter and the Wildcats wen to backup Alex Delton. Kansas State kept the game close but missed a PAT leaving the score 14-13 in favor of TCU. \"Of course I feel horrible for him,\" Snyder said. \"He's one of the young guys. He didn't lose the ballgame for us. There were a bunch of us that made mistakes that contributed.\" With the loss, K-State was left in a position to win the last three games in order to be eligible for post-season bowl games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282806-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 THB Champions League\nThe 2018 THB Champions League is the top level football competition in Madagascar. The season began on 22 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282806-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 THB Champions League, Final phase\nAlso known as Poule des As. Played between 5 August and 23 September (home-and-away basis). Qualified teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282807-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TSL season\nThe 2018 AFL Tasmania TSL premiership season is an Australian rules football competition staged across Tasmania, Australia over twenty-one home and away rounds and six finals series matches between 30 March and 15 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282807-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TSL season\nThe League was known as the Bupa TSL under a commercial naming-rights sponsorship agreement with the company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282807-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 TSL season\nBefore the season started there were three team changes to the competition with Burnie and Devonport departing the league. Hobart City were replaced in the competition by North Hobart who returned to the competition after a 4-year absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282808-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TT Pro League\nThe 2018 TT Pro League season is the 20th season of the TT Pro League, the Trinidad and Tobago professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1999. A total of ten teams are contesting the league, with North East Stars the defending champions from the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282808-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TT Pro League\nThe 2018 football season kicked off with the Charity Shield between defending TT Pro League champions North East Stars and defending Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy champions W Connection. League play officially started on 10 August 2018, and ended on the 7 December with the crowning of W Connection by one point over their Couva rivals Central. It was their first title since the 2013\u201314 season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282808-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 TT Pro League, Teams, Team summaries\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282808-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 TT Pro League, Stadiums Used\nSince the teams do not play in their set home stadium, these are the stadiums that were used to host the matches throughout the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282808-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 TT Pro League, League table, Positions by round\nThe table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for the tenth round of matches, but then postponed and played between rounds 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for round 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282809-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tahiti Championship season\nThe 2018 Tahiti Championship competition was the 45th season of the Tahitian domestic rugby union club competition operated by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Polyn\u00e9sienne de Rugby (FPR).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282810-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwan Football Premier League\nThe 2018 season of the Taiwan Football Premier League (TFPL) is the second season of top-flight association football competition in Taiwan under its current format. The Taiwan Football Premier League includes eight teams. The season began in April 2018. Tatung FC finished at the top of the table, with that result, Tatung FC won the League and earned an automatic berth in the 2018 AFC Cup. However, Hang Yuen was granted the AFC Cup berth after the champions declined the AFC invitation in order to focus on next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282810-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwan Football Premier League, Qualification\nFour teams entered the qualification stages of the tournament to play in the 2018 season of the TFPL. These teams were Ming Chuan University, Tainan City, Taicheng Lions and Bear Bro Ilan. Ming Chuan University and Tainan City were at the bottom of the chart in 2017. FC Taicheng and Bear Bro Ilan were new entrants in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282810-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwan Football Premier League, Qualification\nThe games took place on January 27\u201329, 2018. Taicheng Lions and Tainan City finished first and second in the group, qualifying them for the league season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282811-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwan Open\nThe 2018 Taiwan Open was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the event and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282811-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwan Open, Points and prize money, Prize money\n1 Qualifiers' prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282811-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwan Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282811-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwan Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282812-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwan Open \u2013 Doubles\nChan Hao-ching and Latisha Chan were the defending champions, but Latisha Chan chose not to participate this year. Chan Hao-ching played alongside T\u00edmea Babos, but lost in the semifinals to Nao Hibino and Oksana Kalashnikova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282812-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwan Open \u2013 Doubles\nDuan Yingying and Wang Yafan won the title, defeating Hibino and Kalashnikova in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 7\u20136(7\u20135).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282813-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwan Open \u2013 Singles\nElina Svitolina was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282813-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwan Open \u2013 Singles\nT\u00edmea Babos won the title, defeating Kateryna Kozlova in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282814-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese local elections\nLocal elections were held on 24 November 2018 in Taiwan, to elect county magistrates (city mayors), county (city) councilors, township mayors, township councilors and chiefs of village (borough) in 6 municipalities and 16 counties (cities). Elected officials would serve a four-year term. Polling stations were open from 08:00 to 16:00 on the election day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282814-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese local elections\nThe elections resulted in a substantial defeat for the DPP. The DPP previously held 13 of 22 municipalities and counties, but won only 6 in this election due to widespread public distrust, a de facto vote of no confidence on President Tsai's Administration, both politically (relations with China), economically (agriculture, tourism), and socially (pollution, labor laws, wages), which were reflected in the series of referendum results. The KMT won back executive control of 7 municipalities and counties from the DPP, while Ko Wen-je won his re-election for Taipei mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282814-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese local elections, Background\nThis local election was seen as the first test for the incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen since assuming office in May 2016. The Central Election Commission opened election registration to candidates on 27 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282814-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese local elections, Background\nThe Democratic Progressive Party has won the popular vote against the Kuomintang in all of the last three elections. This trend has continued in the 2016 elections, where the Democratic Progressive Party won a majority in the Legislative Yuan with 68 seats and the presidency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282814-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese local elections, Aftermath\nPresident Tsai Ing-wen announced her resignation as chairperson for the Democratic Progressive Party; Premier William Lai also unilaterally announced his resignation on Facebook ; his resignation was approved in 2019. The DPP secretary general Hung Yao-fu and Secretary-General to the President Chen Chu also announced their resignations. Following the elections, the Taiwanese foreign minister claimed that China had meddled in the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282814-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese local elections, Aftermath\nDefector and self-proclaimed former spy William Wang claimed that the government of China had successfully supported candidates in the 2018 Taiwanese local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282815-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese referendum\nA multi-question referendum was held in Taiwan on 24 November 2018 alongside local elections. The referendum was the first since the December 2017 reform to the Referendum Act, which reduced the threshold for submitting questions to the ballot; under the new system, signatures from 1.5 percent of the electorate (around 280,000 people) were required to successfully put a question on the ballot, reduced from 5 percent previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282815-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese referendum, Background\nA total of ten questions appeared on the ballot. Under Taiwanese law, for their initiative to be presented to the voters, a total of 280,000 signatures (1.5% of eligible voters) were required for a question to be considered by the Central Election Commission (CEC). Five of the questions reviewed and approved by the CEC were about LGBT rights, LGBT sex education and same-sex marriage. Four other questions on the ballot concerned international games representation, nuclear power, coal power and a ban on imports of agricultural products and food from areas affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282815-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese referendum, Background\nThe tenth question asked voters to reject Article 95-1 of the Electricity Act, which stipulated that all of the country's nuclear power generating facilities should be decommissioned by 2025. This question had originally been rejected by the CEC, though the commission reversed its decision after being ordered by the Taipei High Administrative Court to accept an additional 24,000 signatures added to the petition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282815-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese referendum, Background\nFor a proposal to be approved, at least 25 percent of the eligible voters had to vote in favour of the question.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282815-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese referendum, Background, Same-sex marriage proposals\nIn February 2018, a Taiwanese conservative Christian group opposed to same-sex marriage (the Alliance for Next Generation's Happiness) proposed holding a referendum on the issue, aiming to overturn a May 2017 ruling by the Constitutional Court that mandated the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Taiwan within two years. The Central Election Commission reviewed and accepted the group's proposals in April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282815-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese referendum, Background, Same-sex marriage proposals\nTwo of their approved questions were related to same-sex marriage; one on whether marriage should be limited to a bond between a man and a woman and one on whether there should be a special law to protect same-sex couples' right to a \"permanent union\" (effectively introducing civil unions). A third question will ask voters whether to prevent the implementation of laws mandating the inclusion of information about homosexuality in sexual education classes at schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282815-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese referendum, Background, Same-sex marriage proposals\nIn September 2018, a group in favor of same-sex marriage announced that it had collected enough signatures to submit its own questions to a referendum. The group's questions would require the legislature to amend the Civil Code to expressly allow same-sex couples to marry and also mandated the inclusion of gender diversity in sex education.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282815-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese referendum, Questions and results\nThe ten questions that appeared on the ballot and final results were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282815-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese referendum, Olympics controversy\nThe olympics question was proven controversial. While the name Chinese Taipei was seen by many as confusing and even offensive, majority of respondents and athletes were more concerned that forcing the issue would lead to the total exclusion of Taiwanese athletes from the Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282816-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese tax reform protests\nThe 2017-2018 Taiwanese protests was demonstrations and popular protests held throughout Taiwan, mainly in its capital city, Taipei, as part of two waves of massive and violent demonstrations, in 2017, a wave of protests against a new pension reform was dispersed by Riot police as the Taiwanese yellow vests movement was protest campaigns against various new taxing and working laws in December 2018, mainly directed at president Tsai Ing-wen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282816-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese tax reform protests\nDemonstrations first broke out after police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters in January 2017, mainly retirees and military veterans, protesting new pension bills and new reform programs. Protesters rallied in Taipei outside the Legislative Yuan or presidential office in February, on the anniversary of the February 28 incident. Thousands participated in the next few days and next couple of weeks in nonviolent protest rallies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282816-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese tax reform protests\nA lot of chants and episodes of violence during the anti-reform and anti-China protests was recorded, like Down with independence (anti-independence) and Reverse the reforms. After the wave of protests, the government ignored the demands and the protests, soon surpassing the new reform in parliament (Legislative Yuan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282816-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Taiwanese tax reform protests\nThousands participated in an unprecedented wave of mass protests and demonstrations in support of the Yellow vests movement ongoing in France against a new taxing law, threatening workers. Huge crowds with yellow vests nodded and used chants to demand the withdrawal of the new taxing; however, similar to the last time, the government ignored the demands and the bites succeeded in parliament. Their main demands were fair handling of tax disputes and lower taxes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282817-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tajik Cup\nThe 2018 Tajik Cup is the 27th edition of the Tajik Cup, the knockout football tournament of Tajikistan. The cup winner qualifies for the 2019 AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282817-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tajik Cup, Preliminary round\nThe draw of the preliminary round was held on 28 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 33], "content_span": [34, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282817-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tajik Cup, Round of 16\nThe draw for the main rounds was held on 25 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282818-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tajik League\nThe 2018 Tajik League is the 27th season of Tajik League, Tajikistan's top division of association football. The season began on 10 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282818-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tajik League, Teams\nOn 8 February 2017, the Tajikistan Football Federation announced that the season would involve eight teams, with Khayr Vahdat, Parvoz and Ravshan dropping out of the league, and Panjshir gaining promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282818-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tajik League, Relegation play-offs\nThe 2018 season ended with a relegation play-off between the 7th-placed Tajik League team, Panjshir and the runners-up of the Tajik First Division, Eskhata, on a two-legged confrontation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282818-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tajik League, Relegation play-offs\nPanjshir won 11\u20134 on aggregate and therefore both clubs remained in their respective leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282819-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tajik Super Cup\nThe 2018 Tajik Supercup was the 9th Tajik Supercup, an annual Tajik football match played between the winners of the previous season's Tajik League and Tajik Cup. The match was contested by 2017 Tajik League champions Istiklol, and the 2017 Tajik Cup champions Khujand. It was held at the Central Stadium in Hisor on 2 March 2018. Istiklol won the match 3\u20132 thanks to an extra-time winner from Nozim Babadjanov. Khujand led a 2-1 at halftime thanks to goals from Firdavs Chakalov and Agbley Jones, with Istiklol getting one back on the brink of halftime after Chakalov. I the second half Belarusian striker Mikalay Zyanko equalised for Istiklol sending the game in to extra time. At the beginning of the second-half of extra-time Nozim Babadjanov gave Istiklol the lead and completed their comeback to win their 7th Supercup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282820-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger\nThe 2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on green clay courts. It was the 19th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tallahassee, United States between 23 and 28 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282820-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282820-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282821-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nScott Lipsky and Leander Paes were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282821-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nRobert Galloway and Denis Kudla won the title after defeating Enrique L\u00f3pez P\u00e9rez and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6\u20133, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282822-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger \u2013 Singles\nBla\u017e Rola was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Marc Polmans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282822-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger \u2013 Singles\nNoah Rubin won the title after defeating Polmans 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282823-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee mayoral election\nThe 2018 Tallahassee mayoral election took place on August 28 and November 6, 2018, to elect the Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282823-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee mayoral election\nIncumbent mayor Andrew Gillum decided to focus his campaign on the 2018 Florida gubernatorial election instead of seeking re-election which opened up a new seat for the mayor\u2019s office. A blanket primary was held on August 28 with both John E. Dailey and Dustin R. Daniels receiving the most votes. Because neither the candidate received a majority, a run-off election was held on November 8. From there, Dailey defeated Daniels by a close margin of 51% to 49%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282824-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee shooting\nOn November 2, 2018, a mass shooting occurred at Tallahassee Hot Yoga, a yoga studio located in Tallahassee, Florida. The gunman, identified as Scott Paul Beierle, shot six women, two of them fatally, and pistol-whipped a man before killing himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282824-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee shooting\nCriminal investigators attested to the attacker's hatred of women. The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism considers the attack an act of misogynist terrorism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282824-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee shooting, Shooting\nScott Paul Beierle entered the hot yoga studio at 5:37\u00a0p.m. EDT on November 2, 2018, shooting six people, resulting in the deaths of two women, Maura Binkley, 21, and Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, 61. Officers responded to reports of gunfire within three and a half minutes, at which point the perpetrator was found deceased. Partygoers in a bar across the street told reporters how they witnessed people fleeing from the studio and that a man in a bloody white T-shirt who ran into the bar claimed to have charged the shooter only to be pistol whipped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282824-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee shooting, Shooting\nThis claim was later backed up in interviews with survivors who stated that the male customer used a vacuum cleaner and then a broomstick to attack Beierle, which gave other students time to escape. Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo also credited the students who \"fought back and tried not only to save themselves but other people\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282824-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee shooting, Shooting\nThe yoga studio was a part of a plaza that is occupied by restaurants and other businesses. Those eating at the restaurant underneath the studio heard the gunshots and told reporters that the owner came through the dining area shortly after, asking if anyone was a doctor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282824-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee shooting, Victims\nWhen officers arrived, it was discovered that six people had been shot during the attack. Two victims, Maura Binkley and Nancy Van Vessem, were deceased at the scene. Maura Binkley, age 21, was a student at Florida State University, and due to graduate in 2019. Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, age 61, was a doctor and the chief medical director for Capital Health Plan. She was also a faculty member at Florida State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282824-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee shooting, Perpetrator\nScott Paul Beierle (1978 \u2013 November 2, 2018) was later revealed as the perpetrator by police. According to his social media profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn, Beierle was a military veteran and former teacher for the Anne Arundel County Public School System in Maryland, teaching both English and social studies at Meade High School and being affiliated with conservative groups FSU College Republicans and We Are Conservatives. Additionally, Beierle has also taught at numerous other schools as a substitute teacher, yet only briefly due to performance issues and inappropriate behavior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282824-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee shooting, Perpetrator\nIn one instance, Beierle was fired for an incident where he reportedly asked a female student if she was \"ticklish\", while touching her \"below the bra line\" on her stomach. He had been charged twice for battery, in 2012 and 2016, where he was accused of grabbing a woman's buttocks in both situations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282824-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee shooting, Perpetrator\nYouTube videos posted by Beierle in 2014 showed that he identified with the involuntary celibate community while often complaining about his sexual rejections from women. He also sympathized with the shooter behind the 2014 Isla Vista killings, Elliot Rodger, as he too felt lonely and unloved as well as posting misogynistic songs on SoundCloud. Other videos depicted him ranting about African-Americans, illegal immigration and interracial relationships. One of the videos was named \"Dangers of Diversity\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282824-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee shooting, Perpetrator\nThe FBI and the Tallahassee Police Department attested to Beierle's hatred of women, saying he was \"disturbed\" during the shooting. They further noted he had planned the attack months in advance. The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism lists the attack as an act of misogynist terrorism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282824-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tallahassee shooting, Aftermath\nFlorida State University held a vigil for the victims of the shooting on November 4, while another series of tributes were planned for November 5 with the help of Tallahassee's Delta Delta Delta sorority chapter, of which victim Maura Binkley was a member. Other tributes were published by the deceased's families and friends through social media. On November 11, a candlelit vigil was held at Cascades Park. The day after the shooting, a yoga instructor of Hot Yoga Tallahassee led a yoga class for healing in the middle of Adams Street. In 2019, Binkley's parents sued the yoga studio and property owner claiming both were negligent in providing adequate safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282825-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282826-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu Premier League\nThe 2018 season of the Tamil Nadu Premier League is the third edition of the TNPL, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Tamil Nadu, India. The league was formed by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing\nThe 2018 Kaveri River water sharing protests are a series of ongoing protests on the issue of water sharing problems from the River Kaveri between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka which are two states in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing\nThe Kaveri water dispute has been a major controversial issue between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the years and the issue has been raised further with protests have been conducted across the state of Tamil Nadu by several groups including from the large pile of actors and directors who have temporarily stopped working on their projects, films over the Karnataka's sharing the Kaveri water to Tamil Nadu. The delay in establishing a Cauvery Management Board in order to share equal river share award has sparked off protests in Tamil Nadu against the Karnataka state government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing\nSeveral film makers of the Tamil film industry has also criticised and threatened to postpone the IPL matches involving Chennai Super Kings which are to be held in Chennai as a part of the 2018 Indian Premier League season as Chennai Super Kings making their comeback into the IPL league after 2 years as they were serving a 2-year ban along with Rajasthan Royals over the 2013 IPL betting scandal. This situation in Tamil Nadu has been a major concern along with the Nadigar Sangam's strike against the increase of VPF charges which has left the South Indian state vulnerable with no new film releases for about 50 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing\nThe 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election which was a major concern in the state of Karnataka following the breakout of major Kaveri river water scandal has heaped in among several political dramatic turnarounds in the state with both main politicians B. S. Yeddyurappa and Siddaramaiah being historically defeated at the assembly elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Background\nThe genesis of this conflict rests in two agreements in 1892 and 1924 between the Madras Presidency and Kingdom of Mysore. The 802 kilometres (498\u00a0mi) Cauvery river has a 44,000\u00a0km2 basin area in Tamil Nadu and 32,000\u00a0km2 basin area in Karnataka. The inflow from Karnataka is 425 TMC ft whereas that from Tamil Nadu is 252 TMCft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Background\nHowever the Karnataka state does not agree with the sharing of drinking water with the South Indian state, Tamil Nadu, which has been followed according to the British era agreement. The state also believes that the British agreement is a very old one and needs to be renewed because of the rainfall patterns. Karnataka desperately wanted to receive more water share from the River Cauvery and this would ultimately reduce the share of water to South Indian states such as Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala. Due to these arguments this has been the unsolved issue between the two states in the recent times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Background\nOn the other hand, there have been numerous criticisms and controversies regarding Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in the past, as the state has failed to deliver an expected water level to Tamil Nadu in the previous years due to draught despite the court order which has advised the Karnataka government to supply the amount which is expected by Tamil Nadu. Whereas Tamil Nadu has often demanded its complete share without considering the facts of insufficient rains and draught situation in Karnataka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Development\nSupreme Court (SC) on 8 January 2018 declared that it would pronounce its verdict clearing all the pending cases and the confusion within a month. On 16 February 2018, the Supreme Court has pronounced its verdict. The Supreme Court urged to reduce 14 tmc water allocation to Tamil Nadu and requested Karnataka to release only 177 tmc of water to Tamil Nadu for next 15 years. The verdict also mandated to formally constitute the Cauvery river management board by the union government within 40 days for implementing strictly the tribunal award and its verdict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Development\nThe government of Karnataka expressed its displeasure in setting up the Cauvery Management Board, which was instituted to monitor water availability and use, as per the verdict of the Supreme Court. Union government also indicated that it was uncomfortable with the SC verdict, specifically to form the Cauvery management board within the stipulated period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Development\nThe re-allocation of water between the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka by the three-member SC bench is considered as deviation from earlier rulings given by bigger benches of the Supreme Court, in terms of changing the water allocations to a state by reviewing water allocations of a tribunal. As per Article 262 of the Indian Constitution, the role of the Supreme Court in an interstate water dispute is limited only to the interpretation and implementation of the tribunal order and to examine whether tribunal exceeded its limit by violating the constitution and the Interstate River Water Disputes Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Development\nHowever, the Supreme Court pulled out to establish the Cauvery Management Board as the Union Government failed to submit the documents within the deadline. It instructed the Union Government to formulate and draft the Cauvery Management scheme by 3 May. The Supreme Court also directed the authorities of both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to maintain calm and peace till the changes were implemented .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Development\nWith the Union government ignoring the Supreme court verdict to prepare a plan for Cauvery water management board within the time limit and the reason mentioned for that in the court is the law and order situation in Karnataka, tensions mounted among the people in Tamil Nadu. [citation?]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Development\nOn 18 May, the Supreme Court ordered that a marginal increase of 14.75 TMC of water is to be supplied to Karnataka while Tamil Nadu would receive 177 TMC of water, in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions\nThe farmers in Tamil Nadu state have found themselves buried in the banks of the Kaveri river as they were not able to receive sufficient water which is necessary for farming. The farmers also demanded to establish the Cauvery Management Board to solve the water crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions\nOn 7 April, the DMK chief M.K Stalin led the protests from Trichi to recover the Cauvery water sharing rights from Karnataka. On 11 April, the PMK followed and proceeded a rail strike and harthal from morning to evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions\nThe home matches of the Chennai Super Kings in the 2018 IPL season are under threat following the Cauvery river dispute and about 4000 security personnel were deployed in wake of the homecoming match for CSK against the Kolkata Knight Riders on 10 April 2018 at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium. Amidst the IPL boycott threat over the Cauvery water controversy, the fans came in huge crowd to welcome and support the Chennai Super Kings team in the home soil during the clash against KKR. During the 8th over of the contest between CSK and KKR, few spectators who were inside the Chepauk Stadium threw shoes near the boundary line which fell close to Ravindra Jadeja who was fielding near the boundary rope.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions\nMadras high court issued a notice to BCCI after a PIL was filed seeking stay on IPL. The IPL chief, Rajiv Shukla earlier announced that the IPL matches would proceed in Chennai as usual and ordered the security officials to provide extra security for the upcoming IPL matches which are to be held in Chennai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions\nHowever, later BCCI announced that the all 6 home matches of Chennai Super Kings are to be shifted out from hosting them in Chennai as the cops, security personnel couldn't able to control the protesters. The protesters were protesting against hosting the IPL matches outside the M.A Chidambaram Stadium and shown their undesire by burning the jerseys of CSK franchise. It was earlier rumoured that Dhoni's home city, Ranchi could be the neutral venue for the home matches of the Chennai Super Kings team. The home matches of the team were also assumed by the reports to be hosted in the state of Kerala. The Board of Control for Cricket in India later revealed that Pune would be the new temporary home ground for CSK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions\nOn 8 April, the Tamil Film Fraternity organized a silent protest at Valluvar Kottam in Chennai. Veteran actors, including Sathyaraj, Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Vijay, Dhanush, and Vishal joined the protest, demanding the Central Government to resolve the dispute. Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan and Sathyaraj also requested the CSK cricket team players to wear black badges and black bands to show the support for the protests against Karnataka on the Kaveri water share issue. Tamil actor Simbu, who stayed away from the protest, clarified his stance in a press meet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions\nHe mentioned that he believes that the people of Karnataka have no issues in sharing Cauvery water with Tamil Nadu. He condemned the politicising efforts of the media and various political parties. He further requested the people of Karnataka to share a glass of water to their Tamil friends and post videos of the same on social networks, as a symbol of their truce with the people of Tamil Nadu. While this provoked criticism and ridicule in Tamil Nadu, it was well-received in Karnataka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0017-0002", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions\nAnd as requested by Simbu, on 11 April, between 3pm and 6pm, a large number of Kannada people in and around Bengaluru started posting photos of them physically handing over bottles of water to their Tamil friends. Actor Anant Nag appreciated Simbu for being more matured than Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth in this issue and criticised both the veteran Tamil actors Rajnikanth and Kamal Haasan stating that the actors are trying to politicising the Kaveri water share between the two states. Despite some controversies, Simbu's initiative has managed to bring about a significant change in the mindset of people of both states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions\nRJ Balaji, a RJ turned actor who regularly works as a commentator for the Star Sports Tamil, a leading sports channel in India which has got the rights from hosting the 2018 IPL matches refrained himself from doing commentary just prior to the start of the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings as the protests broke out against hosting the Indian Premier League matches in the Tamil Nadu capital on the cause of Cauvery issue. RJ Balaji also hinted that he would not work as a commentator for the upcoming matches involving Chennai Super Kings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions\nHe also later slammed the people of Tamil Nadu for the shift of the IPL league matches from Chennai to a different neutral venue and also argued that it is not correct to stop the professionals from doing their jobs in a peaceful way after he was forced to quit commentary on IPL matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions\nThe Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi was also scheduled to visit Tamil Nadu on 12 April to inaugurate the Def-Expo, infrastructure projects and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief, M. K. Stalin stated that the opposition party would waive black flags during Modi's visit to the ravaged state. The opposition party DMK has also asked the people to hoist black flags in the wake of the Prime Minister's visit in order to oppose his visit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Downfall in Tamil film industry\nThe Kollywood had earlier planned not to release local Tamil language films in Tamil Nadu as of 1 March 2018 due to the conflicts between Nadigar Sangam and Digital Service Providers on the increase of VPF charges which has tremendously affected the South Indian film industry. It is expected that the film industry has been kept losing 2\u20133 crores daily due to the standoff between Tamil Film Producers Council and cinema theatres in Tamil Nadu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 93], "content_span": [94, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Downfall in Tamil film industry\nIn addition to the continuous Tamil film industry strike over the VPF charges which was started around March, in April the industry has also called the boycott over the IPL matches in Chennai and also continued their motive by not to release Tamil films over the Cauvery water row. The Kollywood proceeded their hunger strike until the establishment of the Cauvery Management Board to solve the water crisis. The film industry had also stopped shooting for their upcoming important movies including Sarkar, Viswasam and NGK until 19 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 93], "content_span": [94, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Downfall in Tamil film industry\nRajinikanth's upcoming mass budgeted films such as Kaala and 2.0 have also postponed to be released after the month of April as they were expected to be released in April coinciding the CSK IPL matches. Mercury, a silent thriller film of Prabhu Deva was released in other states of India on 13 April 2018 whereas in Tamil Nadu the film had delay in its release and was finally released on 20 April soon after the Kollywood's decision to end its strike on 19 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 93], "content_span": [94, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0021-0002", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Downfall in Tamil film industry\nThis film was also the first film to have been released in Tamil Nadu around 50 days. Karthik Subbaraj, the director of the film Mercury apologised for not releasing the film in Tamil following the industry's continuous strike since March 2018 which resulted in a huge loss to the film industry within a month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 93], "content_span": [94, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Downfall in Tamil film industry\nOn 19 April 2018, the film industry finally ended their strike even without the establishing of the Kaveri Management Board and pointed out to release new films in Tamil Nadu despite the continuous protests over the water sharing issue. The social media and CSK supporters deeply criticised the Tamil film industry for allowing new Tamil film releases in the state even without the construction of the Cauvery Management Board but to boycott the IPL matches involving Chennai Super Kings in Chennai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 93], "content_span": [94, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Downfall in Tamil film industry, Ban on Kaala release in Karnataka\nThe Karnataka Film Chamber and Commerce stated that the Kaala film which is scheduled to be released on 7 June would be banned from its theatrical release in Karnataka citing the Rajinikanth's influence over the Kaveri water share dispute where he went onto criticise the Karnataka state and the government for not issuing the sufficient amount of water to Tamil Nadu. Actor Vishal stated that necessary actions would be proceeded with immediate effect to lift the ban on Kaala's theatrical release in Karnataka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 128], "content_span": [129, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282827-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Karnataka election polls 2018\nThe 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election which was held on 12 May 2018 sparked criticisms from Tamil Nadu over the Karnataka's government for not addressing the issue properly and for its delay in setting up a Kaveri Management Board. The Supreme Court also issued a strict notice to the Karnataka state government for using the Karnataka Legislative state election as an excuse to resolve the Kaveri riverwater crisis with Tamil Nadu cannot be acceptable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 91], "content_span": [92, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282828-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Thalaivas season\nThe 2018 Tamil Thalaivas season is the second season of the Tamil Thalaivas' existence in the Pro Kabaddi League. The team is currently led by Ajay Thakur and coached by E Baskaran. Tamil Thalaivas play their home matches at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Chennai), Tamil Nadu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282828-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Thalaivas season, Review\nTamil Thalaivas announced Edachery Bhaskaran as their new head coach. Kasinatha Baskaran, who had been at the helm of affairs in the previous season, will move into the role of Technical Director - Strategic Grassroot Program of the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282828-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Thalaivas season, Review\nTamil Thalaivas retained the core in form of Ajay Thakur, Amit Hooda and C Arun along with D. Pratap as a new young player, ahead of the auction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282828-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Thalaivas season, Review\nSukesh Hegde and Darshan J were also purchased by the franchise at an identical amount of Rs 28 Lakh. All-rounder Manjeet Chillar was also picked up by the Thalaivas for Rs. 20 Lakhs. While Rajnish, and Anand join the team as new young players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282828-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Thalaivas season, Review\nThalaivas managed to pick up a lot of players on their base price, snapping up a number of bargain buys in the process. South Korean duo Chan Sik Park and Jae Min Lee were two such players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282828-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tamil Thalaivas season, Sponsors\nTamil Thalaivas announced Muthoot Fincorp India will be the Official Title Sponsor for Season 5, 2017. Powered by , Associate sponsors are , Nippon Paints, and Admiral Sportswear", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season\nThe 2018 season was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 43rd in the National Football League and their third under head coach Dirk Koetter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season\nDuring their season opener against the Saints, was the Bucs' first time since Super Bowl XXXVII scoring 48 points in a game, with quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick having a dominant performance. They would also beat the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles in Week 2 and nearly beat the Pittsburgh Steelers during Week 3, both with Fitzpatrick as starting quarterback. However despite their 2\u20130 start, the first time since 2010 the Bucs began a three game skid with Fitzpatrick being benched for Jameis Winston in Week 4 against the Chicago Bears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season\nWinston started the next three game before being benched in favor for Fitzpatrick against the Cincinnati Bengals. Fitzpatrick went on to start three more games until being benched again for Winston against the New York Giants where Winston would remain the starter for the rest of the season. Despite the Buccaneers leading the league in total passing yards, they only managed to match their 5\u201311 record from the previous season and finished last in the NFC South for the eighth time in ten seasons. After their Week 15 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, the Buccaneers were eliminated from postseason contention for the 11th straight season. Fitzpatrick posted a 2\u22125 record while starting while Winston posted a 3\u22126 recording while starting. The team however set a then franchise record 396 points scored on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season\nOn December 30, 2018, head coach Dirk Koetter was fired following a Week 17 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at New Orleans Saints\nTampa Bay started the 2018 season with Jameis Winston serving a three-game suspension for violating the league's personal conduct policy. Ryan Fitzpatrick started as quarterback and led the Buccaneers to a 48\u201340 victory over division rival New Orleans. The 48 points scored tied a franchise record for most points scored in a game, with the Bucs also scoring 48 points in Super Bowl XXXVII. Also, the combined score of 88 points from both teams set an NFL record for the most points scored in Week 1. Fitzpatrick threw for 417 yards and 4 touchdown passes, and ran for another touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 95], "content_span": [96, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at New Orleans Saints\nThe scoring frenzy started early after the Saints scored a touchdown on their first drive. The Buccaneers answered with a 58-yard touchdown reception by DeSean Jackson, followed by a 3-yard touchdown run by Fitzpatrick, for a 14\u201310 lead at the end of the first quarter. In the third quarter, Mike Evans caught a 50-yard touchdown, the second touchdown pass of 50 or more yards. The Buccaneers tied a franchise record with 48 points, and set a team record with 31 first half points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 95], "content_span": [96, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at New Orleans Saints\nWith under five minutes to go, Chandler Catanzaro missed a 44-yard field goal which would have broken the team record outright. Trailing 48\u201324, the Saints attempted a rally in the fourth quarter. Drew Brees led the Saints on two touchdown drives, and trimmed the deficit to 8 points with just over three minutes remaining. Facing a 3rd down & 11 at their own 24-yard line, Ryan Fitzpatrick scrambled 12 yards for a Buccaneers first down at the two-minute warning. The victory was secure as the Saints had no more time outs, and the Buccaneers took a knee three times to run out the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 95], "content_span": [96, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nTampa Bay won their second straight game, starting the season 2\u20130 for the first time since 2010. Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick threw for 402 yards and 4 touchdown passes, the first player in NFL history to throw for 400 yards and four touchdown passes in the first two weeks of the season. The game started out with a bang as Fitzpatrick threw a 75-yard touchdown pass to DeSean Jackson on the first play of the game. Second-year tight end O. J. Howard also scored on a 75-yard touchdown pass later in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nThe Buccaneers largest lead was 27-7 midway through the third quarter. The Eagles scored two touchdowns in the second half to make it a one-score game, but they were not able to score again. The Buccaneers ran the clock down to 19 seconds, giving the Eagles time to run only three plays. With three seconds left in regulation, a Nick Foles pass followed by series of desperation laterals ran out the clock, securing the win for Tampa Bay. With Atlanta defeating Carolina, the Buccaneers lead the NFC South, and remain the only team in the division with an undefeated record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nIn the final game before Jameis Winston could return from suspension, Tampa Bay lost their first game of the season in their only scheduled primetime game. Ryan Fitzpatrick threw three interceptions in the first half, one returned for a touchdown, as the Buccaneers went into halftime trailing 30\u201310. In the second half, Fitzpatrick lead a comeback throwing two touchdown passes, and Buccaneers closed to within three points late in the fourth quarter. However, the defense could not stop the Steelers offense and the clock ran out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nFitzpatrick finished the game with 411 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions, becoming the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for over 400 yards in three consecutive games. With this loss, the Buccaneers fell to 2\u20131 but still remained atop the NFC South. The Bucs failed to start the season 3-0. The last time they had done so was the 2005 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Chicago Bears\nChicago routed Tampa Bay by the score of 48-10. Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky threw a franchise record-tying six touchdown passes, five in the first half alone, as Chicago jumped out to a 38\u20133 halftime lead. After completing only nine passes in the first half, Ryan Fitzpatrick was benched at halftime. Jameis Winston, fresh off his three-game suspension, came in to quarterback the second half. Winston salvaged the day with 16 completions for 145 yards, one touchdown pass, but two interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Atlanta Falcons\nFollowing this defeat, the Bucs elevated Bucs\u2019 linebackers coach Mark Duffner to defensive coordinator on Monday, replacing Mike Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 92], "content_span": [93, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Cleveland Browns\nAt the end of the third quarter, the Bucs lead 23-9. However, the Browns scored two fourth quarter touchdowns to tie the game at 23. On the final play of regulation, Bucs kicker Chandler Catanzaro missed a 40-yard field goal to take the game into overtime. With under 2 minutes left in OT, Catanzaro came out for another game-winning field goal attempt, this time from 59 yards. The kick was good, giving the Bucs the win and ending their 3 game losing streak. With the win, the Bucs move back to .500 at 3-3 and remain 3rd in the NFC South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 94], "content_span": [95, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Cincinnati Bengals\nThis was the first ever NFL game in which both Head Coaches were graduates of Idaho State University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 95], "content_span": [96, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at New York Giants\nIn the 3rd quarter, Fitzpatrick was benched after throwing his third interception. Winston came into the game for the first time since being benched for Fitzpatrick in Week 8, who was benched for Winston back in Week 4. Down 24-7, the Bucs mounted a comeback, outscoring the Giants 28-14 through the last quarter and a half. However, the Giants held on during their final drive to win the game. With their 4th straight loss, the Bucs fall to 3-7 and remain 4th in the NFC South. The following day, Winston was renamed the starter for Week 12's game against the 49ers by Coach Koetter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nThe Bucs snapped their four game losing streak with a win. Highlights from this game include Jason Pierre-Paul recording his 10th sack of the season, becoming the first Buccaneer to have a double digit sack season since Simeon Rice in 2005, Mike Evans achieving his fifth straight 1,000-yard receiving season and the Buccaneers defense recording their first turnover since Week 3. With this win, the Bucs move to 4-7, but remain last in the NFC South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 98], "content_span": [99, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThe Bucs defeated the Panthers after a good defensive effort, including picking off Cam Newton four times, with Andrew Adams responsible for three of the four interceptions. The defense also sacked Newton four times. On offense, Chris Godwin led the team with 101 yards on 5 catches, including a 13-yard touchdown reception. With the win, the Bucs improved to 5-7 and moved to third place in the NFC South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. New Orleans Saints\nThe Bucs fall to 5-8 with this loss. After being up 14-3 at the half, the Saints outscored the Bucs 25-0 in the second half to get the win. Even with the loss, the Bucs still remain third in the NFC South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282829-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nDespite leading 17-0 shortly before halftime, the Buccaneers lost the lead and fell 20-31 by the fourth quarter. Although they scored twice in the fourth quarter, two failed two-point conversions only gave them a 32-31 lead, and a 37-yard Matt Bryant field goal sealed the 32-34 loss. This loss dropped the Buccaneers to 5-11 and fourth in the NFC South for the second year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 94], "content_span": [95, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282830-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Rays season\nThe Tampa Bay Rays 2018 season was the Rays' 21st season of Major League Baseball, and the 11th as the \"Rays\" (all at Tropicana Field). The Rays played this season with few starting pitchers. Many games were started by pitchers normally used in relief, referred to as openers. This approach saw the Rays set MLB single season records for most no decisions by starters (91) and most wins by relievers (55). They finished the season with a 90\u201372 record, their first winning season since 2013; however, for the fifth consecutive year, they failed to make the postseason. This was because the Red Sox had 108 wins for the division title, while the Yankees had 100 wins and the Athletics had 97 wins for the wild card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282830-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Rays season, Offseason\nOn December 11, 2017, the Rays acquired Joey Wendle in a trade in exchange for a player to be named later. One day later, the Rays traded minor leaguer Deion Tansel to the San Diego Padres for Ryan Schimpf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282830-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Rays season, Offseason\nOn December 20, 2017, the Rays traded longtime franchise player Evan Longoria to the San Francisco Giants for Denard Span, Christian Arroyo, and two other prospects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282830-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Rays season, Offseason\nOn February 21, 2018, the Rays were involved in a three team trade, trading Steven Souza Jr. to the Arizona Diamondbacks and receiving Anthony Banda and two Players later too be named later, from the Diamondbacks and Nick Solak from the New York Yankees. The next day, the Rays traded Corey Dickerson to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Daniel Hudson, minor leaguer Tristan Gray, and $1 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282831-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Rowdies season\nThe 2018 Tampa Bay Rowdies season was the club's ninth season of existence, and their second in the United Soccer League. Including the previous Tampa Bay Rowdies, this was the 25th season of a franchise in the Tampa Bay metro area with the Rowdies moniker. Including the now-defunct Tampa Bay Mutiny, this was the 31st season of professional soccer in the Tampa Bay region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282831-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Rowdies season, Club\nOn October 2, 2018, the Tampa Bay Rays baseball club announced their purchase the Rowdies for an undisclosed amount, pending St. Petersburg City Council approval. Once the sale was finalized, Rays presidents Matthew Silverman and Brian Auld became vice chairmen of the soccer club. They, along with Rowdies vice president and chief operating officer Lee Cohen, became the team's directors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282831-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampa Bay Rowdies season, Competitions, Preseason / Friendlies\nThe Rowdies hosted Major League Soccer teams in the Suncoast Invitational for the third year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282832-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampere Open\nThe 2018 Tampere Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 37th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Tampere, Finland, on 23\u201329 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282832-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampere Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282832-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampere Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 67], "content_span": [68, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282832-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampere Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 67], "content_span": [68, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282832-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampere Open, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282833-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampere Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nSander Gill\u00e9 and Joran Vliegen were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282833-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampere Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMarkus Eriksson and Andr\u00e9 G\u00f6ransson won the title after defeating Ivan Gakhov and Alexander Pavlioutchenkov 6\u20133, 3\u20136, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282834-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampere Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nCalvin Hemery was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282834-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampere Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nTallon Griekspoor won the title after defeating Juan Ignacio Londero 6\u20133, 2\u20136, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282835-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampines Rovers FC season\nThe 2018 S.League season is Tampines Rovers's 23rd season at the top level of Singapore football and 73rd year in existence as a football club. The club will also compete in the Singapore League Cup, Singapore Cup, Singapore Community Shield and the AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282835-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Key events, Pre-Season\nOn 9/12/2017, it was announced that the team had signed 15 players in the preparation for the 2018 AFC Champions Leagues qualifier against Bali United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282835-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Key events, Pre-Season\nOn 25/12/2017, ESPN FC reported that Jordan Webb rebutted the chance to join Portugal League 2 team as he wanted to work with Rabb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282835-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Key events, Pre-Season\nOn 12/1/2018, it was reported that Jordan Webb & Ryutaro Megumi will miss the Tampines' ACL playoff due to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282835-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Key events, Pre-Season\nOn 28/2/2018, Rabb confirmed that Shannon Stephen will be out of the season due to a ligament injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282835-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Transfers, Pre-season transfers, Out\nNote 1: Rafiq Tajudin was initially promoted to the Sleague before being deregistered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282835-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Transfers, Pre-season transfers, Out\nNote 2: Madhu Mohana initially moved to Malaysia before being released and signed with the Stags for the rest of season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282835-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Transfers, Pre-season transfers, Out\nNote 3: Hafiz Sujad initially moved to Malaysia with JDT II before being released and signed with the Stags for the rest of season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282836-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tandridge District Council election\nThe 2018 Tandridge District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Tandridge District Council in Surrey, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party narrowly stayed in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282836-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tandridge District Council election, Election result\nThe Conservative group lost eight seats at the election, a net loss of nine from 2014 (by-election loss to Oxted & Limpsfield Residents' Group (OLRG) in Limpsfield ward - Oct, 2016). The Liberal Democrats gained three of these seats, independents took three with OLRG taking the other three, including Limpsfield they had won in the by-election. This left the Conservatives with 22 councillors, compared to 9 for the Liberal Democrats, 7 Independents and 4 in the residents' group. A Conservative majority of one. Overall turnout at the election was 41%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282837-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tarleton State Texans football team\nThe 2018 Tarleton State Texans football team represented Tarleton State University in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by head coach Todd Whitten, who was in his third consecutive season at Tarleton State and seventh overall as the head coach of the program. The Texans played their home games at Memorial Stadium and were members of the Lone Star Conference. The Texans finished the regular season with a 10-0 record, 8-0 in the LSC, and winning the Lone Star Conference championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282837-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tarleton State Texans football team, Schedule\nTarleton State announced its 2018 football schedule on May 14, 2018. The schedule consisted of six home and five away games in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282837-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tarleton State Texans football team, Schedule\nThe Texans hosted two of the three non-conference games against Delta State from the Gulf South Conference and Lincoln University but had an away game with Stephen F. Austin canceled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282838-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Challenger\nThe 2018 Tashkent Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan between 8 and 13 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282838-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282838-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282839-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nHans Podlipnik Castillo and Andrei Vasilevski were the defending champions but only Vasilevski chose to defend his title, partnering Vladyslav Manafov. Vasilevski lost in the first round to Federico Gaio and Enrique L\u00f3pez P\u00e9rez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282839-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nSanjar Fayziev and Jurabek Karimov won the title after defeating Gaio and L\u00f3pez P\u00e9rez 6\u20132, 6\u20137(3\u20137), [11\u20139] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282840-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Challenger \u2013 Singles\nGuillermo Garc\u00eda L\u00f3pez was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282840-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Challenger \u2013 Singles\nF\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime won the title after defeating Kamil Majchrzak 6\u20133, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282841-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Open\nThe 2018 Tashkent Open was a WTA International tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 20th edition of the Tashkent Open, on the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Olympic Tennis School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, between September 24 and 29, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282841-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Open, Points and prize money, Prize money\n1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282841-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282841-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282842-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Open \u2013 Doubles\nT\u00edmea Babos and Andrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 were the defending champions, but they chose to compete alongside different partners in Wuhan instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282842-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Open \u2013 Doubles\nOlga Danilovi\u0107 and Tamara Zidan\u0161ek won the title, defeating Irina-Camelia Begu and Raluca Olaru in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282843-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Open \u2013 Singles\nKateryna Bondarenko was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282843-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tashkent Open \u2013 Singles\nMargarita Gasparyan won the title, defeating qualifier and compatriot Anastasia Potapova in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20131. Ranked at World No. 299, Gasparyan became the third-lowest ranked player ever to win a WTA singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282844-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmania SuperSprint\nThe 2018 Tyrepower Tasmania SuperSprint was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on the weekend of 6 to 8 April 2018. The event was held at Symmons Plains Raceway in Launceston, Tasmania, and was scheduled to consist of one race of 120 kilometres and one race of 200 kilometres in length. It was the third event of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 7 and 8 of the season. The event was the 46th running of the Tasmania SuperSprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282844-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmania SuperSprint, Report, Background\nShane van Gisbergen of Triple Eight Race Engineering entered the event as the championship leader, 49 points ahead of Erebus Motorsport's David Reynolds and 61 points ahead of DJR Team Penske's Scott McLaughlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282844-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmania SuperSprint, Report, Background\nThe event would see the introduction of a new qualifying format. Similar to MotoGP, there will be three sessions. The fastest ten drivers across the Friday practice sessions will get a bye into the second stage, with the other sixteen drivers required to go through Q1. The fastest six will join the other ten for Q2, with the other ten already having set their starting positions. Q2 will see the top ten advance to Q3, with the slowest six confirming their starting positions. Q3 will see the top ten drivers fight for pole position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282845-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election\nPeriodic elections for the Tasmanian Legislative Council were held on 5 May 2018. The two seats up for elections were Hobart and Prosser. Hobart was previously contested in 2012. Prosser was a new division created in the 2017 redistribution, and was vacant pending this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282845-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Hobart\nThe seat of Hobart, based in the Tasmanian capital of Hobart, has been held by independent member Rob Valentine since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282845-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Prosser\nThe east coast seat of Prosser was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries which came into effect on 5 August 2017. No member was assigned to the seat at its creation, instead the members for the abolished divisions of Apsley (Tania Rattray) and Western Tiers (Greg Hall) were both allocated to the new McIntyre until the expiry of Hall's term at this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election\nThe 2018 Tasmanian state election was held on 3 March 2018 to elect all 25 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election\nThe four-year incumbent Liberal government, led by Premier Will Hodgman, won a second consecutive term. It defeated the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Rebecca White, and the Greens, led by Cassy O'Connor. The Jacqui Lambie Network also competed in a state election for the first time, though the party did not win any seats and its leader Jacqui Lambie did not stand for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election\nThe Tasmanian House of Assembly (the lower house) has five divisions with five members each for a total of 25 seats, 13 of which are required for a majority. The divisions correspond in name and boundaries to the five federal electorates for the House of Representatives. The election was conducted by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission using the Hare-Clark electoral system; five candidate are declared elected once each of them reach 16.7% (one-sixth) of the total formal vote during counting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election\nHouse of Assembly elections are not tied to the election dates for the Legislative Council (the upper house), which occur in May each year for two or three of the 15 divisions, completing a fixed periodic cycle over six years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election\nUltimately, the Liberals suffered a two-seat swing, but were able to hold on to a one-seat majority of 13 seats. It was the first time in 22 years that a Liberal government won a second consecutive term in Tasmania, and the first time since 1986 and only the second time since 1931 that an incumbent conservative government was reelected with an overall majority. It was also the first time a state parliamentary assembly in Australia elected a majority of female members, with thirteen women and twelve men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election, Results\nTasmanian state election, 3\u00a0March 2018House of Assembly << 2014\u20132021 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election, Date\nUnder section 23 of the Constitution Act 1934, terms in the Tasmanian House of Assembly end a maximum of four years from the return of the writs following the previous election, in this case 29 March 2014. The election date is not fixed and can be called at any time with the agreement of the Governor of Tasmania, representing the Crown. The Electoral Act 2004 governs the process of requesting elections. The Governor may then issue writs between five and ten days after the Premier of Tasmania requests an election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election, Date\nCandidate nominations must close on a date seven to 21 days after the issuance of the Governor's writ, and polling day must be a Saturday between 15 and 30 days after candidate nominations close. Accordingly, if the lower house had run to its maximum term in 2018, then the Saturday election date would have been between 28 April and 19 May inclusive. However, on 28 January 2018, Premier Will Hodgman visited the Governor to request issue of writs for an election on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election, Background\nThe results of the previous election saw a substantial swing to the Liberal Party led by Will Hodgman, defeating the then Labor government led by Lara Giddings, which had governed in majority together with the Greens until shortly before the election. The 2014 election saw the Labor party reduced to seven seats and the Greens reduced to three seats in the Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election, Background\nFollowing the loss, Giddings resigned as leader of the Labor Party and was replaced by then opposition Deputy Premier Bryan Green. He subsequently resigned from opposition leadership on 17 March 2017, and Rebecca White was elected Labor leader unopposed. Aside from the Liberals, Labor and Greens, the Jacqui Lambie Network, formed in 2015, fielded several candidates in 2018 and was considered a chance to pick up seats, although they failed to do so. The two other minor parties contesting the 2018 election were the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party and the newly formed T4T \u2013 Tasmanians 4 Tasmania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election, Background, Campaign\nWith polls showing that the Greens and Jacqui Lambie Network were polling well, there was speculation that the Liberals could lose their majority. Nonetheless, Hodgman was adamant that he would only govern if the Liberals retained their majority, saying, \"We will govern alone or not at all.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election, Background, Campaign\nThe Labor party ran on a policy that claimed it would make Tasmania the first state in the country to remove poker machines from pubs and clubs. During the 2018 campaign Federal Group, the largest operator of gaming venues in Tasmania, admitted to supporting its employees campaigning on a pro-pokie platform. Opposition Labor Leader Rebecca White claimed the Liberal Party outspent the Labor election campaign by a factor of 5 to 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election, Background, Campaign\nWhilst the disclosure of political donations in Tasmania is required annually, and donations below $13,000 don't have to be reported, there were widespread calls for greater transparency in campaign spending in the lead up to the 2018 election. Federal Group had no applicable disclosed donations to the Tasmanian Liberal Party in the applicable yearly period prior to the election (2016\u20132017). However more recent donations prior to the election date are not required to be disclosed by the Australian Electoral Commission until FYE 2017\u201318. These disclosures showed that the gambling industry donated over $400,000 to the Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election, Background, Campaign\nOn the day before the election, 2 March 2018, it was revealed that the Liberal Party had tried to push through a plan to soften the state's gun laws, to benefit farm workers and sporting shooters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282846-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Tasmanian state election, Polling\nPolling is regularly conducted for Tasmanian state politics by Enterprise Marketing and Research Services (EMRS). The sample size for each EMRS poll is 1,000 Tasmanian voters. Polling is also conducted irregularly by MediaReach, ReachTEL and Roy Morgan Research, the latter with sample sizes of typically a few hundred voters. The sample size for ReachTEL's 24 February 2018 poll was 3,179.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282847-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tata Open Maharashtra\nThe 2018 Maharashtra Open was a 2018 ATP World Tour tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 23rd edition of the only ATP tournament played in India and took place in Pune, India, from 1 January through 6 January 2018. It was the first edition of the tournament to be held after it was moved from Chennai to Pune.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282847-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tata Open Maharashtra, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282847-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tata Open Maharashtra, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282848-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tathra bushfire\nThe 2018 Tathra bushfire was a bushfire that burned between 18 and 19 March 2018 and primarily affected parts of the South Coast region in the Australian state of New South Wales. The fire, understood to have been caused by a failure in electrical infrastructure, began in the locality of Reedy Swamp, near Tarraganda, which spread east towards Tathra in the municipality of the Bega Valley Shire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282848-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tathra bushfire\nThe fire burned through over 1,250 hectares (3,100 acres) of farmland and forest reserves, before impacting the village of Tathra. The fire burned into the town and resulted in an urban conflagration that destroyed over 100 structures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282848-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tathra bushfire, Background\nBetween July 2017 and February 2018 over 11,000 uncontrolled bushfires burnt 237,869 hectares (587,790 acres) across New South Wales; with major fires in the Sydney, Shoalhaven/Jervis Bay, Hunter, Mid Coast, Port Stephens, the Pilliga, Southern Tablelands, Mid Western and Tamworth/New England areas. December 2017 was the fifth-warmest December on record. In February 2018 the Minister for Emergency Services, Troy Grant, urged the public to help fire agencies by ensuring they remain prepared for fires. The day of the fire, 18 March 2018, was an extremely hot and windy day, with conditions reaching over 37\u00a0\u00b0C (99\u00a0\u00b0F) and winds gusting to over 70 kilometres per hour (43\u00a0mph) at the time the fire started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282848-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tathra bushfire, Response\nThe NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, Member for Bega, Andrew Constance, Member for Eden-Monaro, Mike Kelly and Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, visited Tathra soon after the fire and met with evacuated people at the Bega Showgrounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282848-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tathra bushfire, Response\nOn 26 March 2018 Berejiklian and Constance announced that up to $10\u00a0million was available to remove asbestos-contaminated material and to help residents to clean up their properties; with the clean-up operation coordinated by NSW Public Works in conjunction with insurers and the Bega Valley Shire Council. On 29 March Prime Minister Turnbull officially declared the Tathra and Reedy Swamp areas a disaster zone for the purposes of affected residents accessing Australian disaster relief funds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282848-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Tathra bushfire, Response\nThe NSW Government appointed Euan Ferguson AFSM as the official Recovery Coordinator and announced that impacted residents could access disaster relief grants to eligible individuals and families whose homes and essential household contents have been damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster; small business were provided access to free independent and confidential business advice; NSW Family and Community Services provided a range of temporary housing support options; and a range of other support services were provided. The Bega Valley Shire Council established a Mayoral Appeal Fund, under the chairmanship of Councillor Kristy McBain, the Mayor; over $1,500,000 has been raised to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282848-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations\nImmediately following the fire, numerous criticisms were raised by Fire and Rescue NSW firefighters through the Fire Brigade Employees Union in relation to the handling of the fire. Of immediate concern was the fact that their assistance had been declined in the early stages of the fire, which they believe cost more houses which could have been saved. Further culminating the issue were claims by RFS Deputy Commissioner Rob Rogers that it would have been \"dangerous\" for Fire and Rescue NSW firefighters to attend the fire, a claim which was later refuted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282848-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations\nFollowing the allegations, further information was released detailing numerous incidents across the entire state where the Rural Fire Service had denied help from Fire and Rescue NSW at fires and other emergencies. As a result of this, the NSW Government instituted a commission of inquiry, headed by Mick Keelty AO, APM, a former Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police. The focus of the inquiry was on the call taking and dispatch arrangements of both Fire and Rescue NSW and the NSW Rural Fire Service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282848-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations\nBoth the Fire Brigade Employees Union and former Commissioner Keelty emphasised prior to and following the report, that it would not be a criticism of the action of volunteers, but rather an investigation into the overall co-ordination of emergency incidents in NSW. The inquiry identified numerous issues with the response to, and management of the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282848-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations\nThese included: the fact \"some policies were not followed on the day\"; a deputy incident controller was not appointed; there were delays in feeding information back to the FRNSW ComCen who were on the line to numerous 000 callers seeking assistance; the 'Fires Near Me' app was not regularly updated; an emergency alert was issued too late; ABC radio continued normal broadcasts on the day of the fires rather than broadcasting emergency updates; there were discrepancies in the number of resources attached to the fire between agencies; the RFS were limited to communications by radio with no real time vehicle locators; and that the 000 call taking system was \"cumbersome\" among other issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282848-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations\nThe key issue of the declined FRNSW assistance was addressed by Keelty in the report. Keelty stated that \"It is likely that assistance from FRNSW was initially declined without full situational awareness of the intensity and speed of the fire\" and that \"FRNSW ComCen overruled the decision of the RFS District Duty Officer and deployed to the Bega Valley fires without being called out, but as it happened this was very useful for the overall protection of homes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282848-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations\nKeelty made a number of recommendations, including the abolition of fire district boundaries between the two agencies, the establishment of a centralised 000 call taking system, the roll-out of automatic vehicle locators across the RFS fleet, a review of the effectiveness of emergency public information arrangements and that both services take steps to continue to building a strong mutual respect based relationship with one another, particularly in management areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282848-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations\nUnder the Coroner's Act 2009, the New South Wales Coroner instituted a coronial inquiry to establish the cause and origin of the bushfire, which as of March 2019 is yet to be released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282849-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike\nThe 2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike was a labor strike involving workers for Georgia-Pacific in Taylorsville, Mississippi, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282849-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike\nThe strike began on March 28, 2018 at 11 p.m. The strikers were members of the Carpenters Industrial Council Local 2086, the local union for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. The cause for the strike was related to scheduling issues, with a representative from the union telling WDAM-TV that \"employees are unable to schedule vacations or know when they aren\u2019t scheduled to work.\" At the time, negotiations had been ongoing for almost a year, with union membership previously voting to reject the company's proposals in both December and January. According to a press release issued by the union, the rejections were due to \"severe lack of information throughout the company\u2019s proposal\". An official from the company stated that the negotiations were intended to lead to a schedule that was \"more equitable to all the employees.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 897]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282849-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike\nThe strike, which lasted over two weeks, ended on April 16, with the strikers returning to work that day. Union and company representatives had previously undergone mediation on April 13, without success. A company representative stated that union members had voted to ratify their labor contracts and return to work, with a union representative claiming that the time limit for the strike was approaching and that prolonging the strike would have allowed the company to \"close their doors on us.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282850-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a 12 de Novembro\nThe 2018 Ta\u00e7a 12 de Novembro is the 6th staging of the Ta\u00e7a 12 de Novembro. The season began on 26 September 2018 and was finished in the final match on 20 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282850-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a 12 de Novembro\nThe draw of the tournament was held on 22 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282850-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a 12 de Novembro, Teams\nA total of 20 teams compete in the tournament: eight teams from 2018 LFA Primeira and twelve teams from 2018 LFA Segunda", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282851-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a Nacional da Guin\u00e9 Bissau\nThe 2018 Ta\u00e7a Nacional da Guin\u00e9 Bissau is the 34th edition of the Ta\u00e7a Nacional da Guin\u00e9 Bissau since independence, the knockout football competition of Guinea-Bissau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282851-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a Nacional da Guin\u00e9 Bissau, First round\nDjata FC (Fulacunda)\tawd Os Arados FC (Nhacra)\t[3-0 awarded; Os Arados FC (Nhacra) dns]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282851-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a Nacional da Guin\u00e9 Bissau, First round\nMassaf de Cacine\tawd Flamengo FC de Pefine\t[3-0 awarded; Flamengo FC de Pefine dns]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282851-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a Nacional da Guin\u00e9 Bissau, First round\nLagartos de Bambadinca\tawd Atl\u00e9tico de Bissor\u00e3\t\t[3-0 awarded; Atl\u00e9tico de Bissor\u00e3 dns]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282851-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a Nacional da Guin\u00e9 Bissau, First round\nDesportivo de Farim\tawd Qu\u00ednara FC (Tite)\t\t[3-0 awarded; Qu\u00ednara FC (Tite) dns]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282852-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a Nacional de Cabo Verde\nThe 2018 Ta\u00e7a Nacional de Cabo Verde is the 6th edition of the Ta\u00e7a Nacional de Cabo Verde, the knockout football competition of Cape Verde. The competition, which is played out in a tournament between the cup winners of the nine islands, returns for the first time since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282852-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a Nacional de Cabo Verde, Preliminary stage, South Zone, Group 1\nOnze Unidos\t\t1-1 Sporting da Praia\t\t[1-1 aet; 1-2 pen]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282852-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a Nacional de Cabo Verde, Preliminary stage, South Zone, Group 2\nQualifying round [May 27]Acad\u00e9mica Fogo\t\t1-1 Morabeza\t\t\t[1-1 aet; 0-3 pen]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282853-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final\nThe 2018 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final was the final match of the 2017\u201318 Ta\u00e7a da Liga, the 11th season of the Ta\u00e7a da Liga. It was played on 27 January 2018 at Est\u00e1dio Municipal de Braga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282853-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final\nThe competition involved the 33 clubs playing in the top two tiers of the Portuguese football league system \u2013 18 from Primeira Liga and 15 from Segunda Liga \u2013 during the 2017\u201318 season. Reserve sides of Primeira Liga teams that played in the 2017\u201318 Segunda Liga were excluded from the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282853-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final\nVit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal and Sporting CP faced off in a repeat of the competition's first final, held 10 years previously. Sporting CP won 5\u20134 on a penalty shoot-out after a 1\u20131 draw at the end of 90 minutes, winning the competition for the first time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282853-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Background\nFor the second consecutive season, this competition featured a final four format with both the semi-finals and the final being played over a space of a few days in the same venue. The Est\u00e1dio Municipal de Braga hosted all matches. The two teams had played in the inaugural final in 2008 with Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal winning on penalty kicks. Sporting CP had the chance to win their first Ta\u00e7a da Liga while Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal could be the first team, other than Benfica, to win the competition multiple times. Both teams were aiming for their first title of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282853-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282853-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Match, Summary\nGon\u00e7alo Paci\u00eancia opened the scoreline with an early goal after disputing the ball with Uruguayan Sebasti\u00e1n Coates, a left-foot strike on the turn to the bottom left corner from just outside the box. Both teams had clear chances to score throughout the match, with Sporting CP trying a breakthrough heading to the final third of the match. Sporting CP managed to equalise late in the game when it was determined, with the help of the video assistant referee, Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal midfielder Tom\u00e1s Podstawski had handballed inside his area after a series of saves by their goalkeeper Pedro Trigueira.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282853-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Match, Summary\nDutch forward Bas Dost scored the subsequent penalty low to the middle. After the 90 minutes, the match was settled by a penalty shoot-out. Sporting CP won as Podstawski was the only player to miss his penalty after he hit the crossbar. The match had one of the highest amounts of yellow cards in the competition's final, a total of nine, six for Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal, including Edinho, who was booked after taking his penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282853-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Nuno MansoTiago CostaFourth official:Manuel OliveiraVideo assistant referee:Jo\u00e3o PinheiraAssistant video assistant referee:Nuno Eiras", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282854-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a de Macau\nThe 2018 Ta\u00e7a de Macau was the 2018 iteration of the Ta\u00e7a de Macau, the top football knockout competition in Macau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282854-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a de Macau, Bracket\nBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout score", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282855-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final\nThe 2018 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final was the last match of the 2017\u201318 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, which decided the winner of the 78th season of the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal. It was played on 20 May 2018 at the Est\u00e1dio Nacional in Oeiras, between Desportivo das Aves and Sporting CP. This was the first appearance for Desportivo das Aves in a Ta\u00e7a de Portugal final. The match was won by Desportivo das Aves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282856-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Team Bahrain\u2013Merida season\nThe 2018 Bahrain\u2013Merida Pro Cycling season was the second season of the Bahrain\u2013Merida team, which was founded in 2016. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour, and their season began in January with the Tour Down Under.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282857-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Team Bath netball season\nThe 2018 Team Bath netball season saw Team Bath finish fourth in the 2018 Netball Superleague regular season. They subsequently lost to Wasps in a play-off semi-final. During their pre-season, Team Bath also played in the inaugural Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship and finished as runners up after losing the final to Loughborough Lightning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282857-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Team Bath netball season, Preseason, Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship\nOn 24 September 2017, Team Bath played in the inaugural Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship. Team Bath reached the final but lost to Loughborough Lightning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282857-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Team Bath netball season, Preseason, Tri-Tournament\nOn 6 January 2018 Team Bath hosted and won a three team tournament which also featured Severn Stars and Wasps. The tournament was broadcast live on BBC Sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282857-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Team Bath netball season, Mike Greenwood Trophy\nTeam Bath played three games at the 2018 Mike Greenwood Trophy tournament but failed to register a win. Traditionally a pre-season tournament, the 2018 event, was switched to April this season to act as a warm-up for the restart of the 2018 Netball Superleague season, following the five-week Commonwealth Games break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282858-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Team Ice Racing World Championship\nThe 2018 Team Ice Racing World Championship was the 40th edition of the Team World Championship. The final was held on 10 and 11 February, 2018, in Shadrinsk, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282859-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Team Long Track World Championship\nThe 2018 Team Long Track World Championship was the 12th annual FIM Team Long Track World Championship. The final took place on 1 September 2018 in Moriz\u00e8s, France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282860-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Team LottoNL\u2013Jumbo season\nThe 2018 season for the LottoNL\u2013Jumbo road cycling team which began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282861-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Team Sky season\nThe 2018 cycling season began in Australia at the Tour Down Under for Team Sky in January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282861-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Team Sky season\nAs a UCI WorldTeam, they are automatically invited and obliged to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282862-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Team Speedway Junior World Championship\nThe 2018 Team Speedway Junior World Championship was the 14th FIM Team Under-21 World Championship season. The final took place on 18 August, 2018 at the Outrup Stadium in Outrup, Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282862-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Team Speedway Junior World Championship\nPoland won their 11th Team Under-21 World Championship, and their fifth in succession. The Poles accumulated 46 points, with Bartosz Smekta\u0142a top scoring for them with 13 points. Hosts Denmark finished second with 42 points, with Great Britain in third on 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282863-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Team Sunweb (men's team) season\nThe 2018 season for Team Sunweb began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282864-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Teen Choice Awards\nThe 2018 Teen Choice Awards ceremony was held on August 12, 2018, at the Forum in Inglewood, California. The awards celebrated the year's achievements in music, film, television, sports, fashion, comedy, and the internet, and are voted on by viewers aged 13 and over living in the United States through various social media sites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282864-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Teen Choice Awards\nThe biggest winner of the night was Riverdale, earning nine of its twelve nominations, including Choice Drama Series for the second year running, and only losing to itself in categories where it was nominated twice. The Greatest Showman also won big, earning five of its nine nods including Choice Drama Movie and Choice Movie Drama Actor, won by Zac Efron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282864-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Teen Choice Awards, Winners and nominees\nThe first wave of nominations were announced on June 13, 2018. The second wave was announced on June 22, 2018. Winners are listed first, in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282865-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election\nThe 2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election was held on 30 October 2018 to elect the mayor of Tel Aviv. It saw the reelection of Ron Huldai to a fifth consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282865-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election\nThe election was part of the 2018 Israeli municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282865-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Campaigning\nA popular four-term incumbent, Ron Huldai had never before faced a serious reelection challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282865-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Campaigning\nLacking name recognition when he announced his candidacy, Asaf Zamir's prospects were initially considered a longshot. However, in the months after launching his campaign, Zamir saw his support rise. Before the election results came in, it was anticipated that he would at least force Huldai into a runoff election. As of July, a poll by Walla News showed Zamir in third place with only 11% of the vote, behind Huldai and prospective candidate Stav Shaffir. However, after Shaffir's made clear she would not be a candidate in the election, Zamir gradually climbed in support, posing a credible challenge to Huldai. Some polling shortly before the election showed Huldai with only a single-digit lead over Zamir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282865-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Campaigning\nAttacks on Huldai included accusations of crony capitalism related to his marriage to Maya Wertheimer, which made his grandfather-in-law billionaire Stef Wertheimer. Stef Wertheimer personally funded part of Huldai's reelection campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282865-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Campaigning\nHuldai and Zamir shared many similar political concerns, both advocating for lowering the price of housing, improvements to public transportation, and increasing the livability of the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282865-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Campaigning\nZamir promised to address housing needs by building the city vertically, adding high-rise apartments along busier roadways that can accommodate such buildings. He also proposed expanding the city center by renovating more distant neighborhoods in order to enable people to live further from the city's geographic core, without feeling removed from the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282865-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Results\nThe results in Tel Aviv, with 203,018 voters participating of 440,205 eligible, are as follows. Of the 203,018 votes, 194,451 were valid (marking 44.17% turnout).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282865-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Results\nSince Huldai's share of the vote exceeded the 40% threshold required to avert a runoff election, no runoff was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282865-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Results\nHuldai was seen as managing to both retain his strong support among the city's younger electorate, as well as retain a base of fervent supporters among a minority of the city's older residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282866-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election\nThe Telangana Legislative Assembly election was held in Telangana on 7 December 2018 to constitute the second Legislative Assembly since the formation of the state in 2014. The incumbent Telangana Rashtra Samithi, the Indian National Congress, Telangana Jana Samithi, and Telugu Desam Party were the main contestants in the election. Four opposition parties in the state, the INC, the TJS, the TDP and the CPI announced the formation of a 'Maha Kootami' (Grand Alliance), to defeat the ruling TRS in the elections. However, the Maha Kootami could not win a majority; the TRS won and formed the government once again", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282866-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election, Background\nK. Chandrashekar Rao went for early elections in 2018, when he resigned 6 September 2018, nine months before the completion of his term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282866-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThis election led to the alliance of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Indian National Congress (INC), once arch rivals, coming together as part of Praja or Maha Kuutami for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282866-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election, Background, Electoral process changes (E.C.I)\nElection Commission of India announced that Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines will be used in all 32,574 polling stations in the assembly elections in Telangana. According to the final electoral rolls published on 12 October 2018, Telangana has 2,80,64,680 voters, which is less than 2,81,65,885 voters in 2014 Telangana assembly elections. There were around 2,600+ transgenders in the voters list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 91], "content_span": [92, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282866-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election, Schedule\nThe date of the election was 7 December 2018 and the result were to bre out on 11 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282867-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Telangana T20 League\nThe 2018 season of the Telangana T20 League, also known as Venkataswamy T20 tournament, was the first edition of the TTL, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Telangana, India. The league was formed by the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HYCA) in 2017. After Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Telangana became third state in South India to launch its state T20 league with an initiative to provide major boost to rural cricketers who lag behind dur to lack of proper infrastructure and coaching facilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282867-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Telangana T20 League\nThe owners of the teams competing in the league are announced on 13 January 2018 by HYCA who have been selected on a first-come-first-serve basis after submitting an Expression of Interest and paying Rs 12.5 lakh each to HYCA for one-year contract. The team colours and logos were launched on 2 February 2018 with the inaugural match being held on 3 February at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282867-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Telangana T20 League\nAdilabad Tigers won the inaugural tournament beating Medak Mavericks by 9 runs and Hitesh Yadav was adjudged as the man of the match for the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282867-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Telangana T20 League, Tournament results, Points rable\nHyderabad Thunderbolts along with Rangareddy Risers, Adilabad Tigers and Medak Mavericks moved into semifinals of Telangana T20 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282868-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Telkom Knockout\nThe 2018 Telkom Knockout was the 37th edition of the Telkom Knockout, a South African cup competition comprising the 16 teams in the Premier Soccer League. It took place between October and December 2018, and was won by Baroka, their first-ever major title. The first-place prize money was R4 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282869-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Telus Cup\nThe 2018 Telus Cup was Canada's 40th annual national midget 'AAA' hockey championship contested April 23 \u2013 29, 2018 at the Sudbury Community Arena in Sudbury, Ontario. The Notre Dame Hounds defeated the Cantonniers de Magog in the gold medal game to win their fifth national championship. Sudbury previously hosted the event in 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282869-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Telus Cup, Road to the Telus Cup, Atlantic Region\nMoncton Flyers advance by winning regional championship played March 29-April 1, 2018 at Lantz, Nova Scotia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 54], "content_span": [55, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282869-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Telus Cup, Road to the Telus Cup, Qu\u00e9bec\nCantonniers de Magog advance by winning Quebec Midget AAA Hockey League championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 45], "content_span": [46, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282869-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Telus Cup, Road to the Telus Cup, Central Region\nToronto Young Nationals advance by winning regional championship played April 1\u20138, 2018 at Rockland, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 53], "content_span": [54, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282869-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Telus Cup, Road to the Telus Cup, West Region\nTournament to be played April 5\u20138, 2018 at Fort William First Nation near Thunder Bay, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282869-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Telus Cup, Road to the Telus Cup, Pacific Region\nLethbridge Hurriances advance by winning best-of-three series played April 6\u20137, 2018 at Prospera Centre in Chilliwack, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 53], "content_span": [54, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282870-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Temel Karamollao\u011flu presidential campaign\nTemel Karamollao\u011flu was nominated as the candidate of the Felicity Party (SP) on 6 May 2018, after he had successfully collected the 100,000 signatures required for minor party candidates to gain ballot access. Karamollao\u011flu's campaign adopted the slogan \"T\u00fcrkiye'ye Bilge Ba\u015fkan\" (A Wise Leader to Turkey).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282870-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Temel Karamollao\u011flu presidential campaign, Program, Foreign policy\nOn European Union\u2013Turkey relations, Karamollao\u011flu argues that Turkey as a Muslim majority country would never be allowed membership in the EU. He suggests negotiating a privileged partnership with the EU on issues such as trade, investments, travel arrangements, foreign relations and on other political issues similar to that of Norway, or the status Britain is trying to secure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282871-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Temple Owls football team\nThe 2018 Temple Owls football team represents Temple University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Owls were led by second-year head coach Geoff Collins during the regular season and play their home games at Lincoln Financial Field. They are members of the East Division of the American Athletic Conference. They finished the season 8\u20135, 7\u20131 in AAC play to finish in 2nd place in the East Division. They were invited to play in the Independence Bowl, where they lost to Duke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282871-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Temple Owls football team\nOn December 7, 2018, head coach Geoff Collins left for the head coaching job at Georgia Tech. Tight ends coach Ed Foley led the Owls in the Independence Bowl. On December 13, the Owls initially named Miami defensive coordinator Manny Diaz as their new head coach. However, on December 30, Diaz went back to Miami to become their new head coach following Mark Richt's sudden retirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282871-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Temple Owls football team, Previous season\nThe Owls finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 4\u20134 in AAC play to finish in third place in the East Division. They were invited to the Gasparilla Bowl where they defeated FIU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282871-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Temple Owls football team, Preseason, AAC media poll\nThe AAC media poll was released on July 24, 2018, with the Owls predicted to finish in third place in the AAC East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282871-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Temple Owls football team, Game summaries, at Houston\nDoak Walker Award candidate Ryquell Armstead, playing on a sore ankle and missing part of the game to have his hand x-rayed, tied a career-best with 210 yards rushing and became the first college player in two years with six rushing touchdowns in a game. He was named conference offensive player of the week, and college offensive player of the week by three groups. This moved him from seventh to third on the AAC's all-time rushing touchdown list with 33, and from seventh to fifth on the rushing yards list with 2,692. On Temple's lists, he also passed Jahad Thomas for touchdowns, 100+ yard games, and career yards\u2014also passing Anthony Anderson and Matt Brown in the latter category\u2014to reach third, tied for fourth with Matt Brown, and fourth respectively all-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282871-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Temple Owls football team, Awards and honors, Conference Awards, American Athletic Conference All-Conference Team\nRyquell Armstead, RBShaun Bradley, LBMichael Dogbe, DTDelvon Randall, SRock Ya-Sin, CBIsaiah Wright, KR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 118], "content_span": [119, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282871-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Temple Owls football team, NFL Players, NFL Draft Combine\nOne Temple player was invited to participate in the 2018 NFL Scouting Combine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282871-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Temple Owls football team, NFL Players, 2019 NFL Draft\nFollowing the season, the following members of the Temple football team were selected in the 2019 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282871-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Temple Owls football team, NFL Players, 2019 NFL Draft\nIn addition to the draft selections above, the following Temple players signed NFL contracts after the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282872-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee State Tigers football team\nThe 2018 Tennessee State Tigers football team represented Tennessee State University as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by ninth-year head coach Rod Reed and played their home games at Nissan Stadium and Hale Stadium. Tennessee State finished the season 4\u20135 overall and 3\u20134 in OVC play to place fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282872-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee State Tigers football team, Previous season\nThe Tigers finished the 2017 season 6\u20135, 2\u20135 in OVC play to finish in a tie for seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282872-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee State Tigers football team, Preseason, OVC media poll\nOn July 20, 2018, the media covering the OVC released their preseason poll with the Tigers predicted to finish in fourth place. On July 23, the OVC released their coaches poll with the Tigers predicted to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282872-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee State Tigers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-OVC team\nThe Tigers had three players selected to the preseason all-OVC team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282873-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team\nThe 2018 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team represented Tennessee Technological University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Dewayne Alexander and played their home games at Tucker Stadium. They were a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 1\u201310, 1\u20137 in OVC play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282873-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team, Previous season\nThe Golden Eagles finished the 2017 season 1\u201310, 1\u20137 in OVC play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282873-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team, Previous season\nOn November 19, 2017, head coach Marcus Satterfield was fired. He finished at Tennessee Tech with a two-year record of 6\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282873-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team, Preseason, OVC media poll\nOn July 20, 2018, the media covering the OVC released their preseason poll with the Golden Eagles predicted to finish in last place. On July 23, the OVC released their coaches poll with the Golden Eagles also predicted to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 74], "content_span": [75, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282873-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team, Preseason, Preseason All-OVC team\nThe Golden Eagles had two players selected to the preseason all-OVC team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 82], "content_span": [83, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282874-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Titans season\nThe 2018 Tennessee Titans season was the franchise's 49th season in the National Football League and their 59th overall. It also marks the franchise's 22nd season in the state of Tennessee, their first under head coach Mike Vrabel, and the first with new uniforms and blue helmets, as they have worn white helmets since the club was based in Houston, Texas. This season marks the third straight in which the Titans have finished 9\u20137. The Titans failed to qualify for the postseason after losing a Week 17 win-and-in contest against their division rival Indianapolis Colts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282874-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Titans season\nOne highlight from this season includes the Titans beating the New England Patriots for the first time since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282874-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Titans season, Coaching changes\nOn January 15, 2018, the Titans and former head coach Mike Mularkey agreed to part ways, ending his three year tenure as head coach with a record of 20-21. Five days later, the Titans named former Houston Texans defensive coordinator Mike Vrabel as the new head coach. Vrabel became the 18th head coach in franchise history. Two weeks later of January 30, the Titans announce the hiring of the new offensive coordinator, Matt LaFleur. LaFleur was with the Los Angeles Rams in 2017, and was credited for the development of Jared Goff. On the same day, the Titans hired their new defensive coordinator Dean Pees. The next day, the Titans announced several additions to the coaching staff, including quarterback coach Pat O'Hara, secondary coach Kerry Coombs, outside linebackers coach Shane Bowen, inside linebackers coach Tyrone McKenzie, and wide receivers coach Rob Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 920]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282874-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Titans season, Offseason acquisitions\nThe Titans signed two former New England Patriots players. Running back Dion Lewis and Cornerback Malcolm Butler. The two reunited with current cornerback Logan Ryan, who also played for the Patriots, in which their last season in New England together was capped off with a Super Bowl comeback win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282874-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season, Schedule\nOn January 11, 2018, the NFL announced that the Titans would play the Los Angeles Chargers in one of three London Games at Wembley Stadium in London, England, with the Chargers serving as the home team. It was the Titans' first appearance in the International Series. The game occurred during Week 7 (October 21), and was televised by CBS in the United States. The exact date, along with the network and kickoff time, were announced in conjunction with the release of the 2018 regular season schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282874-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Miami Dolphins\nDue to two weather delays, the game lasted for 7 hours and 10 minutes, the longest game since the AFL\u2013NFL merger in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282874-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Washington Redskins\nThe Titans were the only AFC South team to defeat all four of their NFC East opponents in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282875-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Volunteers baseball team\nThe 2018 Tennessee Volunteers baseball team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Volunteers played their home games at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The team was coached by Tony Vitello in his first season as head coach at Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282876-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 2018 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Volunteers played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee and competed in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by first-year head coach Jeremy Pruitt. They finished the season 5\u20137, 2\u20136 in SEC play to finish in last place in the Eastern Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282876-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Previous season\nThe team finished the season 4\u20138, 0\u20138 in SEC play in last place in the Eastern Division and the SEC. They were also the first Tennessee team in program history to lose eight games in a season, as well as the first to not win an SEC game since becoming a charter member of the conference in 1932. They were led by fifth-year head coach Butch Jones until his firing on November 12. Brady Hoke was named the interim head coach for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282876-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Preseason, SEC media poll\nThe SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018 with the Volunteers predicted to finish in sixth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282876-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SEC teams\nThe Volunteers had one player selected to the preseason all-SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282876-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Schedule\nTennessee announced its 2018 football schedule on September 19, 2017. The 2018 schedule consisted of 7 home games, 4 away, and 1 neutral site game in the regular season. The Volunteers hosted SEC foes Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, and Missouri, and traveled to Georgia, Auburn, South Carolina, and Vanderbilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282876-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Schedule\nThe Volunteers hosted three of its four non\u2013conference games which were against ETSU from the Southern Conference, UTEP and Charlotte, both of whom competed in the Conference USA. They traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, for the Belk Kickoff against West Virginia from the Big 12 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282877-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next Governor of Tennessee. The primaries took place on August 2, with Republican Bill Lee and Democrat Karl Dean winning their respective party nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282877-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor Bill Haslam was term-limited and is prohibited by the Constitution of Tennessee from seeking a third consecutive term. As of February 2019, the election had the largest number of candidates (28) in a statewide election in United States history; the previous record was the 2016 United States presidential election in Colorado. This large surge in candidates was mostly due to the Libertarian Party of Tennessee's protest of the state's party affiliation and ballot access laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282877-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election\nLee was elected with nearly 60% of the vote. This is the first time since 1982 that a candidate from the incumbent U.S. President's party was elected Governor of Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282878-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennis Championships of Honolulu\nThe 2018 Tennis Championships of Honolulu was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Honolulu, United States, on 9\u201315 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282878-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennis Championships of Honolulu, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282879-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennis Championships of Honolulu \u2013 Doubles\nMisaki Doi and Jessica Pegula won the title, defeating Taylor Johnson and Ashley Lahey in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282880-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tennis Championships of Honolulu \u2013 Singles\nNao Hibino won the title, defeating Jessica Pegula in the final, 6\u20130, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282881-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n play-offs\nThe 2018 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n play-offs to Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B from Tercera Divisi\u00f3n (Promotion play-offs) were the final playoffs for the promotion from 2017\u201318 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n to 2018\u201319 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B. The first four teams in each group took part in the play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282881-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n play-offs, Format\nThe eighteen group winners have the opportunity to be promoted directly to Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B. The eighteen group winners were drawn into a two-legged series where the nine winners will promote to Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B. The nine losing clubs will enter the play-off round for the last nine promotion spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282881-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n play-offs, Format\nThe eighteen runners-up were drawn against one of the eighteen fourth-placed clubs outside their group and the eighteen third-placed clubs were drawn against one another in a two-legged series. The twenty-seven winners will advance with the nine losing clubs from the champions' series to determine the eighteen teams that will enter the last two-legged series for the last nine promotion spots. In all the playoff series, the lower-ranked club play at home first. Whenever there is a tie in position (e.g. like the group winners in the champions' series or the third-placed teams in the first round), a draw determines the club to play at home first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282881-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n play-offs, Non-champions Promotion Play-off, First round\nThe teams that finished fourth in their groups are drawn against teams that finished in second place, with the latter hosting the second leg. The teams that finished third in their groups are drawn against each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 78], "content_span": [79, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282881-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n play-offs, Non-champions Promotion Play-off, Second round\nThe nine losers of the Group Winners Promotion Play-off plus the twenty-seven winners of the Non-champions Promotion Play-off first round will take part in this round. The teams will be matched by drawing of lots, subject to the fact that those who obtained the best position in the league face those who got worse, disputing the first match in the sports facilities of the latter and avoiding wherever it is possible that they compete among themselves clubs from the same group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 79], "content_span": [80, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282881-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n play-offs, Non-champions Promotion Play-off, Third round\nThe eighteen winners of the previous qualifying round will be matched by drawing of lots, subject to the fact that those who obtained the best position in the league face those who got worse, disputing the first match in the sports facilities of the latter and avoiding wherever it is possible that they compete among themselves clubs from the same group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 78], "content_span": [79, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282882-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Terengganu F.C. I season\nThe 2018 season was Terengganu's first season in the Malaysia Super League since the rebranding in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282882-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Terengganu F.C. I season, Squad information\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282882-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Terengganu F.C. I season, Statistics, Appearances and goals\n\u2021 Players who played for both Terengganu I and Terengganu II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282883-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Terengganu state election\nThe 14th Terengganu State election will be held on or before 23 August 2018. The previous state election was held on 5 May 2013. The state assemblymen is elected to 5 years term each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282883-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Terengganu state election\nThe Terengganu State Legislative Assembly would automatically dissolve on 17 June 2018, the fifth anniversary of the first sitting, and elections must be held within sixty days (two months) of the dissolution (on or before 17 August 2018, with the date to be decided by the Election Commission), unless dissolved prior to that date by the Head of State (Sultan of Terengganu) on the advice of the Head of Government (Menteri Besar of Terengganu).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282883-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Terengganu state election, Contenders\nBarisan Nasional (BN) is set to contest all 32 seats in Terengganu State Legislative Assembly. Barisan Nasional (BN) linchpin party United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) is to set to contest major share of Barisan Nasional (BN) seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282883-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Terengganu state election, Contenders\nPan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) is set to contest all 32 seats in Terengganu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282883-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Terengganu state election, Contenders\nPakatan Harapan has decided to contest all 32 seats in Terengganu. However, Pakatan Harapan has yet to finalize the seats. Pakatan Harapan will finalize the remaining the seats before 23 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282883-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Terengganu state election, Election pendulum\nThe 14th General Election witnessed 22 governmental seats and 10 non-governmental seats filled the Terengganu State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 3 safe seats and 4 fairly safe seats, while the non-government side has just a safe and fairly safe seat each one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election\nThe first round of a by-election was held in Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency on 28 January 2018, with a second round on 4 February because no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was called due to the invalidation of the election of Ian Boucard, candidate of The Republicans (LR), in the June 2017 legislative elections by the Constitutional Council on 8 December 2017, due to the distribution of misleading electoral leaflets by Boucard's campaign between the two rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election\nThe by-election was the first since the election of Emmanuel Macron as president, and marked the first confrontation between The Patriots and the National Front (FN) since Florian Philippot quit the FN to found his own party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election\nIn the first round on 28 January, Ian Boucard of The Republicans and Christophe Grudler of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) advanced to the second round, as they did in June 2017, with Boucard securing a far higher percentage of votes amid low turnout. Boucard won the second round of the by-election on 4 February by a margin of nearly 18 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nThe night of the second round of the 2017 legislative election in Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency on 18 June, Christophe Grudler, candidate of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), announced that he would file an appeal with the Constitutional Council appealing the election of Ian Boucard of The Republicans (LR). In particular, Grudler suspected that Boucard was responsible for the distribution of an electoral leaflet purporting to be from La France Insoumise (FI) and featuring imagery of Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon between the two rounds; the party subsequently confirmed that it was not responsible for the leaflet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nOn 8 December, the constitutional council resolved to annul the result of the election in the constituency, arguing that the distribution of 10,000 and 15,000 leaflets, respectively, purporting to be from La France Insoumise and the National Front (FN) by the campaign of Boucard \u2013 without the agreement of either party \u2013 would have been sufficient to influence enough voters in the constituency to vote differently than they might otherwise would have, and potentially produced a different result, given the small vote margin separating the candidates. As a result, a by-election was called within the constituency to fill the vacant seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nOn 15 December 2017, the by-election was scheduled for 28 January 2018, with a second round on 4 February should no candidate secure a majority of votes in the first round. Candidates were required to declare their candidacies between 2 and 5 January. It was the first by-election since Emmanuel Macron was elected president, coinciding with the by-election in Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency held on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nPolling stations were open from 8:00 to 18:00 CET during both rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates\nThe first candidates to officially declare their candidacies were Ian Boucard for The Republicans, Christophe Grudler for the MoDem and La R\u00e9publique En Marche! (REM), Yves Fontanive for Lutte Ouvri\u00e8re (LO), and Jonathan Vallart for the Popular Republican Union (UPR), with Jean-Rapha\u00ebl Sandri invested again by the National Front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates\nThe left-of-centre parties discussed the possibility of a union to present a single candidate, with these discussions ultimately resulting in a union candidacy led by Ana\u00efs Beltran for La France Insoumise, supported by the Citizen and Republican Movement (MRC) and French Communist Party (PCF), while the Socialist Party (PS) nominated Arthur Courty as its candidate, and Europe Ecology \u2013 The Greens (EELV) nominated Vincent Jeudy, who received 6.5% of the vote in the department's other constituency during the 2017 legislative elections. Julie Kohlenberg received the investiture of Debout la France (DLF), and Sophie Montel, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) who joined Florian Philippot in leaving the FN to form The Patriots, within which she serves as vice president, also contested the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates\nOn 9 January 2018, the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) announced its support for Ian Boucard, candidate of The Republicans (LR), with UDI deputy Michel Zumkeller, who represents the neighboring constituency, not having faced a LR opponent in the June 2017 legislative elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nNumerous politicians visited the constituency ahead of the by-election in support of their parties' candidates. On 18 January, Christian Jacob, president of the LR group in the National Assembly, visited the constituency in support of Boucard, as did deputy Annie Genevard. On 19 January, MoDem minister Jacqueline Gourault and president of the MoDem group in the National Assembly Marc Fesneau visited in support of Grudler, followed by Philippot in support of Montel and FN deputy Gilbert Collard and mayor of H\u00e9nin-Beaumont Steeve Briois in support of Sandri on 20 January, with S\u00e9bastien Chenu visiting later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nAlexis Corbi\u00e8re visited in support of Beltran on 24 January, as did Cl\u00e9mentine Autain, followed by Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou and Christophe Castaner in a joint meeting in support of Grudler on 25 January. Boris Vallaud was the only Socialist to visit in support of Courty. David Cormand, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan and Fran\u00e7ois Asselineau also visited to support the candidates of their respective parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nA debate co-hosted by Catherine Eme-Ziri of France 3 Franche-Comt\u00e9 and Emilie Pou of France Bleu Belfort Montb\u00e9liard between Boucard, Grudler, Sandri, Montel, Beltran, and Courty was broadcast live online on 12 January, before being shown on \"Dimanche en Politique\" on France 3 Franche-Comt\u00e9 on 14 January. Philippe Piot, journalist for L'Est R\u00e9publicain in Belfort, was also present at the debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nAt the public meeting on 18 January with Jacob and Genevard, Boucard announced he would sue Grudler for calling him a \"cheater\" and \"fraudster\" over the distribution of leaflets by LR activists purporting to be from La France Insoumise and the National Front (which resulted in the invalidation of the election by the constitutional council). The hearing was held on 25 January, the same day as the visit of Bayrou and Castaner in support of Grudler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nAt the hearing, Boucard's lawyer accused Grudler of distributing \"defamatory and injurious\" electoral leaflets that alleged he had committed \"outright electoral fraud\" and a \"robbery\" during the campaign in June, and further added that Grudler's campaign distorted the decision of the constitutional council. The defense lawyer stood by the characterization, emphasizing that the constitutional council ruled in favor of Grudler's challenge and invalidated the election in June. Boucard, along with mayor of Belfort Damien Meslot (who was also accused of \"robbery\"), sought \u20ac500 in damages in the case, which was dismissed on 8 February, after the by-election. Boucard and Meslot were ordered to pay Grudler \u20ac1,000 and cover legal costs associated with the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nThe by-election was the first electoral challenge on the far-right between The Patriots and the National Front, with Montel, the former president of the FN group in the regional council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comt\u00e9 and a currently-serving MEP, having been a prominent member of the National Front within the region before she joined Philippot's party. However, she does not reside within the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nControversial posts by Sandri on social media were discovered by French media, including a tweet evoking the \"problem\" of removal of \"transsexualism\" from the list of mental illnesses. A report in Lib\u00e9ration published a week before the first round uncovered the alleged Facebook account of the FN candidate, connected to several FN officials and apparent family members and with the same date of birth and location, under the name of \"JR Alexandre\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nThough Sandri denied the account was his when questioned about it, and said that the \"journalist and Sophie Montel are in cahoots\", posts by the account were removed the following day. Among the activities of the account were a number of likes on anti-abortion pages, support for Francoism, jokes about the Nazis, and several images of Augusto Pinochet, including one used as the account's profile image. In a statement, Montel denounced Sandri's behavior and support for \"authoritarian regimes\", demanding that Marine Le Pen \"firmly condemn\" the FN candidate in the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nIn the first round on 28 January, Boucard led Grudler by 12 percentage points, reversing the order in June. Beltran lagged well behind with 11.62% of the vote, followed by Sandri, who fell to 7.52% of the vote. While the race between Sandri and Montel was closely watched, the latter ultimately garnered only 1.99% of the vote. Socialist candidate Arthur Courty received 2.60% of the vote, an extremely low score compared to the party's score of 9.10% in the June 2017 legislative elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282884-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nA debate between the two rounds was broadcast on France Bleu Belfort Montb\u00e9liard between 18:30 and 19:00 CET on 1 February, co-hosted with Philippe Piot, journalist for L'Est R\u00e9publicain. Boucard was re-elected by a large margin in the second round on 4 February, securing 58.93% of the vote against 41.07% for Grudler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282885-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan\nThe terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan happened on July 29, 2018 (UTC+05:00). Four Western touring cyclists were killed while cycling in the Danghara District, and two more were injured after five Islamist militants rammed them with a car and then got out of the vehicle and stabbed them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282885-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan, Background\nTerrorist movements are known to be present in Central Asia; Afghanistan, with which Tajikistan shares a long border, has been affected by decades of Islamist murderous attacks. However, terrorist attacks have been infrequent in Tajikistan, mostly targeting the Government agencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282885-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan, Background\nThe country is popular with touring cyclists because of its scenic mountain roads like the Pamir highway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282885-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan, Attack\nOn July 29, 2018 at approximately 3:30\u00a0pm, while seven Western cyclists were cycling the Kulyab-Dushanbe highway (A385) next to the village of Safobakhsh on the Danghara district, about a 100\u00a0km south of Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe, 5 assailants driving a Daewoo sedan made a U-turn and rammed into them with their vehicle; then, they got out of the car and stabbed them with some knives and an ax. Four cyclists died and two were injured. According to Radio Free Europe, the men which were searching a target in order to perpetrate a terrorist attack found the cyclists \"by chance\" on the highway, their backer agreed with the target on July 28 and they then followed them until the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282885-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan, Victims\nFour touring cyclists died, Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, from the US, who were on a world cycling tour, Ren\u00e9 Wokke, a Dutch citizen, and Markus Hummel from Switzerland. One Swiss and one Dutch were admitted in the hospital in critical condition while a Frenchman who had fallen behind the group before the attack remained unharmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282885-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan, Suspects\nAccording to the Tajik authorities, the perpetrators are five Tajik nationals. Hussein Abdusamadov, 33, who had recently come back to Tajikistan, accordingly from Russia, and is said to be the ringleader of the group. He was arrested early on July 30. The other four suspects were killed by the police while, according to the police, resisting their arrest. Zafarjon Safarov and Asomiddin Majidov, both 19-years-old, two relatives of Abdusamadov, had just come back from Russia two days before the attacks. The two others are Jafariddin Yusupov, 26, and Asliddin Yusupov, 21, two siblings. The oldest is said to have been radicalized by Abdusamadov in Russia and accordingly convinced his brother to join the plot. The younger brother had served as a soldier in the Tajik Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 62], "content_span": [63, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282885-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan, Suspects\nThe group of five appear in a video posthumously released by news agencies of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in which they pledge allegiance to its self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. However, the Tajik authorities downplayed the IS responsibility, blaming instead the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan that was banned in 2015, the General prosecutor of Tajikistan consider that the IS allegiance is just a cover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 62], "content_span": [63, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282885-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan, Suspects\nThe backer of the attack appears to be a 45-year-old Tajik cleric named Nosirhoja Ubaidov and known as Qori Nosir who radicalized Hussein Abdusamadov and asked him to carry out a terrorist attack. Tajik authorities have linked him with the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and Iran without presenting any specific evidence, both the IRPT and Iran have denied any links with the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 62], "content_span": [63, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282885-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan, Suspects\nTajikistan experts have put into question the Tajik government allegations, insisting that the attack was most likely perpetuated by grass-roots Islamic State sympathizers, explaining that accusing the Islamic Renaissance Party is an opportunity for the officials to repress opposition groups while downplaying the Islamic State regional threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 62], "content_span": [63, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282885-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan, Suspects\nOn March 2 2020, the ringleader Abdusamadov died in prison. The causes of his death was being investigated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 62], "content_span": [63, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282885-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan, Aftermath\nA memorial plaque was erected in the village of Safobakhsh next to the attack site. Tajik authorities fear the murder will ruin efforts made recently to promote tourism in the country; many travel cancellations occurred after the events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 63], "content_span": [64, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282885-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan, Aftermath\nIn some English-speaking news and social media websites emerged the idea that the American couple had been excessively naive for travelling in Tajikistan, yet, before the attack, the official U.S. travel advisory for Tajikistan was at Level 1, the lowest; it was raised to level 2 (exercise increased caution) in the aftermath of the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 63], "content_span": [64, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282886-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tevlin Women's Challenger\nThe 2018 Tevlin Women's Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Toronto, Canada, on 29 October\u20134 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282886-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tevlin Women's Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282887-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tevlin Women's Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nAlexa Guarachi and Erin Routliffe were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282887-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tevlin Women's Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nSharon Fichman and Maria Sanchez won the title after defeating Maja Chwali\u0144ska and Elitsa Kostova 6\u20130, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282888-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tevlin Women's Challenger \u2013 Singles\nYsaline Bonaventure was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282888-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tevlin Women's Challenger \u2013 Singles\nQuirine Lemoine won the title after defeating Kateryna Kozlova 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282889-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 2018 Texas A&M Aggies football team represents Texas A&M University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Aggies play their home games at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas and compete in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by first-year head coach Jimbo Fisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282889-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Previous season\nThe Aggies finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 4\u20134 in SEC play, to finish in a tie for fourth place in the Western Division. They were invited to the Belk Bowl, where they lost to Wake Forest. This season was the first time since 2009 that Texas A&M was not ranked in the AP Poll during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282889-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Previous season\nOn November 26, 2017, Texas A&M fired head coach Kevin Sumlin. He finished at Texas A&M with a six-year record of 51\u201326. Interim head coach Jeff Banks led the Aggies in the Belk Bowl. On December 2, 2017, A&M hired Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher as Sumlin's replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282889-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Preseason, SEC media poll\nThe SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018, with the Aggies predicted to finish in fourth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282889-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SEC teams\nThe Aggies had five players selected to the preseason all-SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282889-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Northwestern State\nMiddle linebacker Otaro Alaka was ejected in the 1st quarter due to targeting. Safety Donovan Wilson was ejected in the 2nd quarter, also for targeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282889-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, LSU\nWith a final score of 74\u201372 or 146 combined points, the game became the highest-scoring game in NCAA FBS history. The game was also the fifth 7-overtime game in NCAA FBS history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282890-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M\u2013Commerce Lions football team\nThe 2018 Texas A&M\u2013Commerce Lions football team represented Texas A&M University\u2013Commerce in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by head coach Colby Carthel, who was in his sixth season at Texas A&M-Commerce. The Lions played their home games at Memorial Stadium and were members of the Lone Star Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282890-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M\u2013Commerce Lions football team\nThe Lions finished the regular season with a record of 9\u20132 and second place in the conference. The team made the Division II Playoffs, losing in the regional semifinal to Tarleton State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282890-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M\u2013Commerce Lions football team, Previous season\nThe 2017 team finished with an overall record of 14\u20131. The team won the 2017 Division II Championship Game and quarterback Luis Perez was awarded the Harlon Hill Trophy. This was the program's first Division II championship and second overall championship. The team's only loss was to instate rival Midwestern State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282890-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M\u2013Commerce Lions football team, Schedule\nThe schedule consisted of six home games and five away games in the regular season. The Lions hosted conference foes Texas A&M\u2013Kingsville, Tarleton State, West Texas A&M, and Angelo State and traveled to Eastern New Mexico, Midwestern State, Western New Mexico, and Texas\u2013Permian Basin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282890-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M\u2013Commerce Lions football team, Schedule\nThe Lions hosted non-conference foes Lock Haven from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and Colorado State\u2013Pueblo from the Great Plains Athletic Conference and traveled to William Jewell from the Great Lakes Valley Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282891-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M\u2013Kingsville Javelinas football team\nThe 2018 Texas A&M\u2013Kingsville Javelinas football team represented Texas A&M University\u2013Kingsville in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Daren Wilkinson. The Javelinas played their home games at Javelina Stadium and were members of the Lone Star Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282891-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M\u2013Kingsville Javelinas football team, Schedule\nTexas A&M\u2013Kingsville announced its 2018 football schedule on January 9, 2018 with an update on April 30, 2018 and a final release on June 5, 2018. The schedule consists of eleven games including seven home and four away games in the regular season. The Javelinas will host LSC foes Eastern New Mexico, Midwestern State, Western New Mexico and Texas-Permian Basin and will travel to Texas A&M-Commerce, Angelo State, Tarleton State and West Texas A&M.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282891-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas A&M\u2013Kingsville Javelinas football team, Schedule\nThe Javelinas will host three non-conference games against NAIA Texas Wesleyan from the Sooner Athletic Conference, Western Oregon from the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) and New Mexico Highlands from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282892-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Attorney General election\nThe 2018 Texas Attorney General election will take place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Attorney General of Texas. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton ran for re-election. The Democratic Party nominated attorney Justin Nelson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282892-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Attorney General election\nPaxton was re-elected to a second term by a 3.56% margin of victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282893-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Bowl\nThe 2018 Texas Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December 27, 2018, with kickoff at 9:00\u00a0p.m. EST. It was the 13th edition of the Texas Bowl, and was one of the 2018\u201319 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Academy Sports + Outdoors sporting goods company, the game was officially known as the Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282893-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Bowl\nThe 2018 Texas Bowl featured the Baylor Bears of the Big 12 Conference and the Vanderbilt Commodores of the Southeastern Conference. Both teams had a 6\u20136 record coming in to the game, making the Texas Bowl the only bowl game of the season without a team with a winning record. Despite featuring a pair of .500 teams, fans were treated to one of the highest-scoring games of the bowl season that included five touchdown plays of 50 yards or more, and more than 1,200 yards (combined) of total offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282893-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Bowl, Teams\nThe matchup of Baylor from the Big 12 Conference and Vanderbilt from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) was announced on December 2. The teams had previously met twice, with Baylor winning both games, played in 1953 and 1954.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282893-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Bowl, Teams, Baylor Bears\nBaylor received and accepted a bid to the Texas Bowl on December 2. The Bears entered the bowl with a 6\u20136 record (4\u20135 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282893-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Bowl, Teams, Vanderbilt Commodores\nVanderbilt received and accepted a bid to the Texas Bowl on December 2. The Commodores entered the bowl with a 6\u20136 record (3\u20135 in conference).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282894-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 Texas House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Texas voters elected state representatives in all 150 of the state house's districts. State representatives serve two-year terms in the Texas State House. A statewide map of Texas' state House districts can be obtained from the Texas Legislative Council , and individual district maps can be obtained from the U.S. Census .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282894-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas House of Representatives election\nA primary election on March 6, 2018, determined which candidates appeared on the November 6 general election ballot. Primary election results can be obtained from the Texas Secretary of State's website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282894-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas House of Representatives election\nFollowing the 2016 state house elections, Republicans maintained effective control of the House with 95 members. Democrats held 55 seats following the 2016 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282894-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas House of Representatives election\nIn the 2018 election, Democrats flipped 12 seats in the Texas House, leaving Republicans with an 83-67 advantage in the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282895-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe 2018 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the University of Texas at Austin during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Longhorns played their home games at UFCU Disch\u2013Falk Field as a member of the Big 12 Conference. They were led by head coach David Pierce, in his second season at Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282895-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe Longhorns claimed the Big 12 Conference regular season title, then swept the Austin Regional and won the Austin Super Regional to advance to the 2018 College World Series, extending their record for most appearances in Omaha to 36. The Longhorns had not reached the ultimate event in college baseball since 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282895-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282896-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 2018 Texas Longhorns football team, known variously as \"Texas\", \"UT\", the \"Longhorns\", or the \"Horns\u201d, represented the University of Texas at Austin during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Longhorns played their home games at Darrell K Royal\u2013Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, and competed as members of the Big 12 Conference. They were led by second-year head coach Tom Herman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282896-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns football team\nTexas, coming off a 7\u20136 season in Herman's first year, began the year ranked 23rd in the preseason AP Poll. In the first game of the year, the Longhorns were upset by Maryland in a game played at FedExField in Landover, Maryland. The team won its next six games, including a dramatic win over No. 7 Oklahoma in the 113th Red River Showdown. The Longhorns rose to as high as No. 6 in the AP Poll, but fell in consecutive weeks to Oklahoma State and West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282896-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns football team\nAt the end of the regular season, Texas had a record of 7\u20132 in Big 12 play, good for second in the standings and earning them a spot in the Big 12 Championship Game against Oklahoma. The Sooners won the rematch by a score of 39\u201327. Texas was invited to the Sugar Bowl to play SEC runner-up No. 5 Georgia, which Texas won in an upset by a score of 28\u201321. They finished with an overall record of 10\u20134 and were ranked 9th in the final AP Poll, the most wins and highest ranked finish for the school since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282896-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe team was led on offense by sophomore quarterback Sam Ehlinger, who finished with 3,292 passing yards, 25 passing touchdowns, and a Big 12-leading 16 rushing touchdowns. His 41 total touchdowns was third in the conference and seventh nationally. Wide receiver Lil'Jordan Humphrey led the team with 1,176 receiving yards. On defense, the team had three first-team all-conference members in defensive lineman Charles Omenihu and defensive backs Kris Boyd and Caden Sterns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282896-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns football team, Previous season\nThe Longhorns finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 5\u20134 in Big 12 play to finish in four-way tie for fourth place. They were invited to the Texas Bowl where they defeated Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282896-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll\nThe Big 12 media poll was released on July 12, 2018 with the Longhorns predicted to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282896-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State\nTexas lost their first game on the road at Maryland and then won their next three games at home, and their last two victories came against ranked teams\u2014No. 22 Southern California and No. 17 TCU. But the travel games (especially in this series) have not been in the Longhorn's favor. The home team has won last six games between the two teams and Texas has not won in Manhattan since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282896-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State\nTexas was the only team to score in the first half of play, with two touchdowns, a field goal, and a safety. Kansas State had a chance to score a touchdown on the final play of the first half when Alex Delton threw a pass to Adam Harter that was dropped in the end zone. The score at the half was Texas 19, Kansas State 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282896-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State\nKansas State fared better in the second half, holding Texas scoreless and replacing Alex Delton with Skylar Thompson. Thompson led Kansas State to score two touchdowns in the second half with 14 points. In the end, Texas held the lead with a final score of 19-14. For the next week Texas plays Oklahoma after stopping the second-half comeback by Kansas State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282896-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, vs Oklahoma\nThe 2018 edition of this classic rivalry matchup was pivotal for both the Longhorns and the Sooners, as both had something to prove; OU was playing its first ranked opponent of the season, and Texas was trying to show that it could once again compete with the elite of the NCAA after years of very average performances. This year's game, which ended in a Longhorn victory, was the highest-scoring Red River Showdown game in history, with a combined score of 93.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282896-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, vs Oklahoma\nA memorable aspect of this game was Texas' dominance until midway through the fourth quarter, only to eventually surrender a 21-point lead to the Sooners late in the game; Heisman candidate Kyler Murray put on an incredible performance, showcasing his superior speed and accuracy. This comeback, however, did not come to fruition, as Texas kicker Cameron Dicker made a 40-yard field goal with approximately 9 seconds remaining on the clock to win the game for Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282897-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Rangers season\nThe 2018 Texas Rangers season was the 58th of the Texas Rangers franchise overall, their 47th in Arlington as the Rangers, and their 25th season at Globe Life Park in Arlington. The Rangers began the season on March 29 against the Houston Astros and finished the season on September 30 against the Seattle Mariners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282897-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Rangers season\nThe Rangers completed a 5\u20134 triple play in their 8\u20136 win over the Los Angeles Angels on August 16. It was only the third 5\u20134 triple play in the expansion era (since 1961). It was also the first triple play since 1912 in which the batter was not retired. The Rangers set a new club record with 13 extra-base hits in a game against the Minnesota Twins on September 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282897-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Rangers season\nOn September 21, the Rangers fired Jeff Banister as manager following much speculation. Bench coach Don Wakamatsu was promoted to interim manager for the final 10 games of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282898-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Southern Tigers football team\nThe 2018 Texas Southern Tigers football team represents Texas Southern University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers are led by third-year head coach Michael Haywood and play their home games at a BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, Texas as members of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282898-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Southern Tigers football team, Previous season\nThe Tigers finished the 2017 season 2\u20139, 2\u20135 in SWAC play to finish in fourth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282898-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Southern Tigers football team, Preseason, SWAC football media day\nDuring the SWAC football media day held in Birmingham, Alabama on July 13, 2018, the Tigers were predicted to finish fourth in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282898-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Southern Tigers football team, Preseason, Presason All-SWAC Team\nThe Tigers had one player selected to Preseason All-SWAC Teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282898-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Southern Tigers football team, Schedule\nDespite also being a member of the SWAC, the game vs Alcorn State will be considered a non conference game and will have no effect on the SWAC standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282899-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas State Bobcats football team\nThe 2018 Texas State Bobcats football team represented Texas State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bobcats played their home games at Bobcat Stadium in San Marcos, Texas, and competed in the West Division of the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by third-year head coach Everett Withers. They finished the season 3\u20139, 1\u20137 in Sun Belt play to finish in last place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282899-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas State Bobcats football team\nOn November 18, head coach Everett Withers was fired. Defensive coordinator Chris Woods served as the interim head coach in their final game of the season. Withers finished at Texas State with a three-year record of 7\u201328. On November 28, West Virginia offensive coordinator Jake Spavital was hired as head coach for Texas State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282899-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas State Bobcats football team, Previous season\nThe Bobcats finished the 2017 season 2\u201310, 1\u20137 in Sun Belt play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282899-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas State Bobcats football team, Preseason, Sun Belt coaches poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Sun Belt released their preseason coaches poll with the Bobcats predicted to finish in last place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282899-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas State Bobcats football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Sun Belt Teams\nThe Bobcats had three players at four positions selected to the preseason all-Sun Belt teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282899-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas State Bobcats football team, Coaching staff\nAfter the 2017 season, Texas State hired Kyle Hoke as their 10th assistant coach. Defensive coordinator, Randall McCray, left San Marcos to join the coaching staff of the Arizona Cardinals, and Director of Football Operations, John Streicher, joined the staff of the Tennessee Titans. Withers promoted equipment manager, Zack Lucas, to Director of Football Operations. Oklahoma Offensive Quality Coach Chris Woods was hired to replace Randall McCray as the Defensive Coordinator by Withers. Co -Offensive Coordinator Parker Fleming left San Marcos to become the Special Teams Quality Control at Ohio State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282899-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Texas State Bobcats football team, Coaching staff\nOn November 18, 2018 just after the second to last game of the 2018 season Everett Withers was released as the 19th Head Football Coach of Texas State after lack of success and improvement for the program. Defensive Coordinator Chris Woods became the interim coach for the season finale in Bobcat Stadium against Arkansas State. Coach Everett Withers was replaced by West Virginia offensive coordinator Jake Spavital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282900-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas State Senate election\nThe 2018 Texas State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Texas voters elected state senators in 15 of the state senate's 31 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Texas State Senate. A statewide map of Texas's state Senate districts can be obtained from the Texas Legislative Council , and individual district maps can be obtained from the U.S. Census .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282900-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas State Senate election\nA primary election on March 6, 2018, determined which candidates appeared on the November 6 general election ballot. Primary election results can be obtained from the Texas Secretary of State's website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282900-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas State Senate election\nFollowing the 2016 state senate elections, Republicans maintained effective control of the Senate with 20 members. However, they gained an extra seat by flipping the 19th District in the August 2018 special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282900-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas State Senate election\nTo claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats would have needed to net six Senate seats. The Democratic Party gained two seats, leaving the Republicans with a 19 to 12 majority in the chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282901-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team\nThe 2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team represented Texas Tech University during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Red Raiders played their home games at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park as a member of the Big 12 Conference. The team was led by 6th year head coach Tim Tadlock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282901-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team, Previous season\nThe 2017 Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team finished the regular season with a 42\u201313 (16\u20138) record and tied with TCU for first place in the Big 12 Conference standings. The Red Raiders were eliminated from the 2017 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament in game 3 after a 7\u201312 loss to West Virginia. Tech received a bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, losing to Sam Houston State in games 3 and 4 of the regionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282901-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team, Schedule and results\n\"#\" represents ranking. All rankings from Collegiate Baseball on the date of the contest. \"()\" represents postseason seeding in the Big 12 Tournament or NCAA Regional, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282901-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team\nThe 2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by Kliff Kingsbury in his sixth and final season as the program's 15th head coach. The Red Raiders played their home games on the university's campus in Lubbock, Texas at Jones AT&T Stadium, and competed as members of the Big 12 Conference. They finished the season 5\u20137 overall, 3\u20136 in Big 12 play to finish in a 3-way tie for seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team\nOn November 25, head coach Kliff Kingsbury was fired after 6 seasons as head coach, finishing 35\u201340 overall. 4 days later, the school hired Utah State head coach Matt Wells for the head coaching job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Previous season\nThe Red Raiders finished the 2017 season 6\u20137, 3\u20136 in Big 12 play to finish in eighth place. The team's conference wins were against Kansas, Baylor, and Texas. The season ended with a 34\u201338 loss against No. 23 South Florida in the Birmingham Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Previous season, 2018 NFL Draft\nReceiver Keke Coutee was drafted in the 4th round (103rd overall) by the Houston Texans. Receiver Dylan Cantrell was drafted by the Los Angeles Chargers in the 6th round (191st overall).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Coaching changes\nFormer offensive coordinator/receivers coach Eric Morris was hired as the head coach of the Incarnate Word Cardinals on December 30, 2017. Western Michigan Broncos offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Kevin Johns was hired as Texas Tech's new offensive coordinator/receivers coach on January 30, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll\nThe Big 12 media poll was released on July 12, 2018 with the Red Raiders predicted to finish in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Schedule\nTexas Tech announced its 2018 schedule on October 27, 2017. The 2018 schedule will consist of six home games, four away games, and two neutral site games. The Red Raiders began the 2018 season on September 1 against the Ole Miss Rebels (from the SEC) at NRG Stadium in Houston for the AdvoCare Texas Kickoff and ended the season on November 24 against the Baylor Bears at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. The Red Raiders hosted Big 12 foes West Virginia, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and traveled to Oklahoma State, TCU, Iowa State, and Kansas State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Schedule\nThe Red Raiders hosted non-conference foes Houston from the AAC and Lamar from the Southland Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, vs. Ole Miss\nMcLane Carter was named the Red Raiders' starting quarterback for the game. Carter exited the game in the 1st quarter with an ankle injury, with freshman Alan Bowman replacing him. Texas Tech lost its first season opener since the 2002 season, losing to Ole Miss by a score of 27\u201347.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Lamar\nTexas Tech defeated Lamar by a score of 77\u20130, the Red Raiders' first shutout victory since September 2006. The 77 points are the most points scored by Texas Tech since an 80\u201321 victory over Sam Houston State in September 2005 and the largest margin of victory since a 79\u20130 win over Trinity in November 1932.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Houston\nReceiver Antoine Wesley broke a school record for most receiving yards in a game with 261 yards. Quarterback Alan Bowman broke a Big 12 record for most passing yards in a game by a freshman with 605 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Oklahoma State\nWith the 41\u201317 victory, the Red Raiders got their first win in Stillwater since 2001, and their first win over the Cowboys since 2008. This is also Texas Tech's first win over a ranked opponent since the 2013 Holiday Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nStarting quarterback Alan Bowman left the game late in the second quarter with an upper-body injury, with Jett Duffey finishing the game. Bowman finished the game 9/20 for 123 yards with one touchdown and an interception. Bowman was taken to a local hospital where it was revealed he had a partially collapsed lung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at TCU\nJett Duffey started at quarterback for the Red Raiders, the third different starting quarterback in 2018 for Texas Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at TCU\nThe Horned Frogs received the opening kickoff, starting at their own 8-yard line following an illegal block penalty. TCU had two more penalties on the drive (both for a false start) and ended the drive with Andrew David punting from his own 22-yard line. Texas Tech made it to the TCU 5-yard line before the drive stalled, settling for a 22-yard field goal from Clayton Hatfield to take a 3\u20130 lead. On the next drive the Horned Frogs made it to the Texas Tech 8-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at TCU\nThe drive ended when a Shawn Robinson pass was intercepted in the endzone by Jordyn Brooks, who returned the interception to the Texas Tech 3-yard line. The Red Raiders only gained two yards following the interception, punting from their own 5-yard line. The Horned Frogs started their drive from the Texas Tech 40, ending the drive on a 20-yard touchdown pass from Shawn Robinson to Jalen Reagor. Texas Tech made it to the TCU 45-yard line, turning the ball over on downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at TCU\nOn the next drive, TCU went for it on 4th down and picked up the 1st down, but Sewo Olonilua fumbled the ball with it being recovered by Tony Jones for Texas Tech. The two teams traded punts on their next possessions. With less than a minute left in the half, a Duffey pass was intercepted by Julius Lewis at the Texas Tech 44-yard line. Following Duffey's interception, Jonathan Song attempted a 47-yard field goal for the Horned Frogs, with the kick going to the left of the goal posts. The Red Raiders took a knee to end the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at TCU\nMcLane Carter came out at quarterback for Texas Tech to start the second half, playing in his first game since week 1 against Ole Miss. Carter was sacked twice on the first drive of the half, with the Red Raiders having to punt. Duffey returned to the game on Texas Tech's second drive of the half after Carter appeared to be limping off the field following the team's previous drive. Duffey's first drive of the second half ended with a 62-yard touchdown pass to Ja'Deion High. Duffey would also have a 38-yard touchdown run in the 4th quarter to help the Red Raiders edge out the Horned Frogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nAlan Bowman started his first game since suffering a partially collapsed lung three weeks earlier. Bowman left the game midway through the fourth quarter, finishing the game 36/46 for 408 yards and three touchdowns with an interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nQuarterback Alan Bowman left the game at halftime for an unknown reason. It was later revealed that Bowman might have re-aggravated his previous injury where he suffered a partially collapsed lung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State\nThe Red Raiders experienced their fourth consecutive loss when traveling to Manhattan. Tech was without starting quarterback Alan Bowman and offensive players Connor Killian and Mason Reed were also out. Tech ran the ball 26 times for 31 yards and has not had a ball carrier reach 65 yards in the past seven games. Tech's 181 yards of total offense was the lowest output since 2010 against the Texas Longhorns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State\nKansas State kicker Blake Lynch had not completed a successful field goal in a game for nearly two months, but managed to match a career-high with four straight and added an extra point. A blocked punt by Kansas State's Brock Monty added to K-State's success with Texas Tech losing by a score of 21-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282902-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Aftermath\nTexas Tech failed to gain bowl eligibility. Upon the conclusion of the season (after the loss to Baylor), head coach Kliff Kingsbury was fired. Oregon defensive coordinator Jim Leavitt was reported to have interviewed for the position with Texas Tech's athletics director Kirby Hocut. The Red Raiders have their next game scheduled for the 2019 season as the program's home opener on August 31, 2019 against Montana State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections\nThe 2018 general election was held in the U.S. state of Texas on November 6, 2018. All of Texas's executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat, and all of Texas's thirty-six seats in the United States House of Representatives. The Republican and Democratic Parties nominated their candidates by primaries held March 6, 2018. Convention Parties nominated their candidates at a series of conventions. County Conventions held March 17, 2018, District Conventions held March 24, 2018, and a State Convention held April 14, 2018. At the present time there is only one Convention Party in Texas, that is the Libertarian Party. Other parties may seek to achieve ballot access.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections\nTurnout in the November general election reached historic levels, rivaling turnout in a presidential election. While the Republican Party won every statewide position, the margin of victory was narrower than previous elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections, United States Senate\nDemocratic U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke and Libertarian candidate Neal Dikeman challenged U.S. Senator Ted Cruz for re-election. Cruz narrowly defeated O'Rourke by 2.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections, United States House of Representatives\nAll of Texas's thirty-six seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. No open seats changed hands, but two Republican incumbents lost to Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections, Governor\nIncumbent governor Greg Abbott was running for a second term. He was first elected in 2014 after serving twelve years as Texas Attorney General, and he succeeded Rick Perry as governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections, Governor\nAbbott won the March 20, 2018, Republican primary, while Lupe Valdez won the Democratic runoff against Andrew White, becoming the first Latina nominated by a major party for statewide office in Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections, Governor\nLibertarian Mark Tippetts also ran against Abbott. Tippetts defeated Kathie Glass, Patrick \"Not Governor\" Smith, and Kory Watkins at the party convention to earn his nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections, Lieutenant Governor\nOn January 9, 2017, the day before the 85th Texas Legislature began its session, incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick announced he would run for re-election in 2018. He stated his early announcement was in order to dispel rumors of a primary challenge to Governor Greg Abbott or U.S. Senator Ted Cruz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton was eligible to run for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections, Comptroller of Public Accounts\nIncumbent Republican Comptroller Glenn Hegar is eligible to run for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 52], "content_span": [53, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections, Commissioner of Agriculture\nIncumbent Republican Commissioner Sid Miller will be eligible to run for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections, Texas Railroad Commissioner\nIncumbent Republican Commissioner Christi Craddick is eligible to run for re-election to a second six-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections, Texas State Board of Education, Member, District 12, Democratic primary\nMalone-Miller withdrew after the first round, eliminating the need for a runoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 93], "content_span": [94, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282903-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas elections, Texas Legislature\nEvery seat in the Texas House of Representatives and about half of the seats in the Texas Senate will be up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282904-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Texas gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Texas, concurrently with the election of Texas's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as other congressional, state and local elections throughout the United States and Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott successfully won re-election to a second term in office defeating Democratic nominee Lupe Valdez, the former sheriff of Dallas County, and Libertarian nominee Mark Tippetts, a former member of the Lago Vista city council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282904-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas gubernatorial election\nThe Republican and Democratic party primaries were held on March 6, 2018, making them the first primaries of the 2018 electoral season. Abbott won the March 6 primary with 90% of the vote to receive the Republican nomination, while Democratic candidates Lupe Valdez and Andrew White advanced to a May 22 runoff. Valdez defeated White in the runoff with 53.1% of the vote and faced Abbott in the general election as the Democratic nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282904-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas gubernatorial election\nValdez's nomination made her the first openly gay person nominated for governor by a major party in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282904-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas gubernatorial election\nTippetts was nominated at the Libertarian Party of Texas' state convention in Houston April 13\u201315, 2018. He defeated three challengers, as well as the None Of The Above option, on the first ballot and received more than 70% approval from Libertarian party delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282904-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas gubernatorial election\nDespite considerably closer contests in other Texas state elections, Abbott handily won a second term with the highest margin of victory of any state official on the ballot, although Valdez also won the largest vote share for a Democratic gubernatorial candidate since Ann Richards in 1994. Tippetts' showing exceeded the previous record for most votes for a Libertarian nominee for Texas governor; that record had been set in 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282904-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas gubernatorial election\nThe election also took place alongside a closer, higher-profile Senate race between Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz, which may have played a factor in making the Democratic gubernatorial candidate considerably more competitive than in 2014. Abbott won a majority among whites (72% to 26%), while Valdez won majorities among African Americans (80% to 16%) and Latinos (63% to 35%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282904-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Runoff\nLupe Valdez and Andrew White proceeded to a run-off on May 22 since neither received 50% of the vote in the first round of the primary. Lupe Valdez won the runoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282905-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas's 27th congressional district special election\nA special election for Texas's 27th congressional district was held on June 30, 2018, following the resignation of Rep. Blake Farenthold. Republican Michael Cloud won with about 54.7% of the vote, crossing the 50% threshold needed to avoid a runoff. Running again against Eric Holguin in the general election, he won a full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282905-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas's 27th congressional district special election, Background\nThe district is reliably Republican; President Donald Trump carried it by a more-than-20-point margin in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282905-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas's 27th congressional district special election, Background\nRep. Blake Farenthold resigned on April 6, 2018 due to allegations of sexual harassment, therefore a special election was needed in order to fill this seat until the 2018 midterms. Consequently on April 23, 2018, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton approved of Governor Greg Abbott's plan to call a special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282905-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Texas's 27th congressional district special election, Background\nMichael Cloud won this election, and got to serve the remainder of Farenthold's term in the 115th Congress, until January 2019. He previously won the Republican runoff for the same seat, so he appeared on the November ballot where he went on to win the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282906-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai FA Cup\nThe 2018 Thai FA Cup is the 23rd season of a Thailand's knockout football competition. It was sponsored by Chang, and known as the Chang FA Cup (Thai: \u0e0a\u0e49\u0e32\u0e07 \u0e40\u0e2d\u0e1f\u0e40\u0e2d\u0e04\u0e31\u0e1e) for sponsorship purposes. The tournament is organized by the Football Association of Thailand. 92 clubs were accepted into the tournament, and it began with the qualification round on 4 April 2018, and concluded with the final on 27 October 2018. The winner would have qualified for the 2019 AFC Champions League preliminary round 2 and the 2019 Thailand Champions Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282906-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai FA Cup, Results\nNote: T1: Clubs from Thai League 1; T2: Clubs from Thai League 2; T3: Clubs from Thai League 3; T4: Clubs from Thai League 4; T5: Clubs from Thailand Amateur League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282906-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai FA Cup, Results, Qualification round\nThe qualification round will be featured by fifty-six clubs; including eight clubs from T2, eight clubs from T3, nineteen clubs from T4, and twenty-one clubs from T5. Qualification round had drawn on 21 March 2018 by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282906-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai FA Cup, Results, First round\nThe first round will be featured by sixty-four clubs; including twenty-eight clubs which were the winners of the qualification round (eight clubs from T2, three clubs from T3, nine clubs from T4, and eight clubs from T5) and thirty-six clubs that the new entries (eighteen clubs from T1, five clubs from T2, three clubs from T3, three clubs from T4, and seven clubs from T5). First round had drawn on 30 May 2018 by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282906-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai FA Cup, Results, Second round\nThe second round will be featured by thirty-two clubs which were the winners of the first round; including thirteen clubs from T1, eight clubs from T2, five clubs from T3, five clubs from T4, and one club from T5. Second round had drawn on 30 June 2018 by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282906-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai FA Cup, Results, Third round\nThe third round will be featured by sixteen clubs which were the winners of the second round; including eight clubs from T1, four clubs from T2, one club from T3, and three clubs from T4. Third round had drawn on 13 July 2018 by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282906-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai FA Cup, Results, Quarter-finals\nThe quarter-finals round will be featured by eight clubs which were the winners of the third round; including five clubs from T1, two clubs from T2, and one club from T3. Quarter-finals round had drawn on 26 July 2018 by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282906-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai FA Cup, Results, Semi-finals\nThe semi-finals round will be featured by four clubs which were the winners of the quarter-finals round; including three clubs from T1 and one club from T2. Semi-finals round had drawn on 23 August 2018 by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282906-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai FA Cup, Results, Final\nThe final round will be featured by two clubs which were the winners of the semi-finals round; both are the clubs from T1. It was played at the Supachalasai Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand on 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282907-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai FA Cup Final\nThe 2018 Thai FA Cup Final was the final match of the 2018 Thai FA Cup, the 23rd season of a Thailand's football tournament organised by Football Association of Thailand. It was played at the Supachalasai Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand on 27 October 2018, between Chiangrai United a big team from the Northern part and Buriram United a big team from the Northeastern part of Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282907-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai FA Cup Final, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; T1: Clubs from Thai League; T2: Clubs from Thai League 2; T3: Clubs from Thai League 3; T4: Clubs from Thai League 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282907-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai FA Cup Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees: Phattarapong Kijsathit Rawut NakharitFourth official: Songkran BunmeekiatMatch Commissioner: Pakasit SuwannanonReferee Assessor: Mongkol Rungklai", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282908-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 1\nThe 2018 Thai League 1 is the 22nd season of the Thai League 1, the top Thai professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1996, also known as Toyota Thai League due to the sponsorship deal with Toyota Motor Thailand. A total of 18 teams will compete in the league. The season began on 9 February 2018 and is scheduled to conclude on 7 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282908-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 1\nBuriram United are the defending champions, while Chainat Hornbill, Air Force Central and Prachuap have entered as the promoted teams from the 2017 Thai League 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282908-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 1\nThe 1st transfer window is from 14 November 2017 to 5 February 2018 while the 2nd transfer window is from 1 June 2018 to 29 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282908-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 1, Teams, Personnel and sponsoring\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282908-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 1, Teams, Foreign players\nA T1 team could registered five foreign players by at least one player from AFC member countries and at least one player from ASEAN member countries. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC member countries or ASEAN member countries (3+1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282908-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 1, League table, Positions by round\nThe table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282908-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 1, Attendance, Overall statistics\nUpdated to games played on 7 October 2018Source: Notes:\u2020 Teams played previous season in Thai League 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282909-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 2\nThe 2018 Thai League 2 is the 21st season of the Thai League 2, the second-tier professional league for Thailand's association football clubs, since its establishment in 1997, also known as M-150 Championship due to the sponsorship deal with M-150. A total of 15 teams will compete in the league. The season began on 9 February 2018 and is scheduled to conclude on 29 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282909-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 2\nChainat Hornbill are the defending champions[?? ], while Samut Sakhon, Khonkaen and Udon Thani have entered as the promoted teams from the 2017 Thai League 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282909-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 2, Teams, Foreign players\nA T2 team could registered five foreign players by at least one player from AFC member countries and at least one player from ASEAN member countries. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC member countries or ASEAN member countries (3+1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282909-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 2, League table, Positions by round\nThe table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282909-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 2, Attendance, Overall statistics\nUpdated to games played on 29 September 2018Source: Notes:\u2020Teams played previous season in Thai League 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282910-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3\nThe 2018 Thai League 3 (known as the Omsin League Pro for sponsorship reasons) football season will be the 2nd season of Thai League 3. 31 clubs will be divided into 2 groups (regions).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282910-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3, Results, Third place play-off\nThis round was featured by Ayutthaya United, the second place of 2018 Thai League 3 Upper Region and Nara United, the second place of 2018 Thai League 3 Lower Region. Winners of third place play-off would promoted to 2019 Thai League 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282910-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3, Results, Final\nThis round was featured by JL Chiangmai United, the first place of 2018 Thai League 3 Upper Region and MOF Customs United, the first place of 2018 Thai League 3 Lower Region. Both winners and runners-up would promoted to 2019 Thai League 2 automatically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282911-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Lower Region\n2018 Thai League 3 Lower Region is the 2nd season of the Thai football league. It is a part of the Thai League 3 and the feeder league for the Thai League 2. A total of 14 teams will compete in the league this season, after Banbueng withdrew before the season started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282911-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Lower Region, Changes from Last Season, Team changes, Promoted Clubs\nA club was promoted from the 2017 Thai League 4", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282911-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Lower Region, Changes from Last Season, Team changes, Promoted Clubs\nA clubs was promoted to the 2018 Thai League 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282911-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Lower Region, Changes from Last Season, Team changes, Relegated Clubs\nA club was relegated to the 2018 Thai League 4 Western Region", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282911-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Lower Region, Changes from Last Season, Team changes, Relegated Clubs\nA club was relegated from the 2017 Thai League 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282911-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Lower Region, Teams, Foreign players\nA T3 team could registered five foreign players by at least one player from AFC member countries and at least one player from ASEAN member countries. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC member countries or ASEAN member countries (3+1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282911-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Lower Region, League table, Positions by round\nThe table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282911-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Lower Region, Attendance, Attendance by home match played\nSource: Note:Unk.1 Some error of T3 official match report 28 July 2018 (Trang 3\u20131 Ranong United). Unk.2 Some error of T3 official match report 5 August 2018 (Nara United 7\u20130 Simork).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282912-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Play-off Round\nThe Thai League 3 Play-off Round is the last promotion quota of Thai League 2 and determines which club will be the champion of 2018 Thai League 3. The Thai Football clubs that are the champion and runner-up of the 2018 Thai League 3 Upper Region and the champion and the runner-up of the 2018 Thai League 3 Lower Region, compete in the 2018 Thai League 3 Play-off Round. In this round, home and away matches are played against each team, and the clubs that get the highest total scores are promoted to Thai League 2. The away goals rule is used in this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282913-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Upper Region\n2018 Thai League 3 Upper Region is the 2nd season of the Thai football league. It is a part of the Thai League 3 and the feeder league for the Thai League 2. A total of 14 teams will compete in the league this season, after Amnat United and Phayao withdrew before the season started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282913-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Upper Region, Changes from Last Season, Team changes, Promoted Clubs\nThree clubs were promoted from the 2017 Thai League 4", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282913-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Upper Region, Changes from Last Season, Team changes, Promoted Clubs\nTwo clubs were promoted to the 2018 Thai League 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282913-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Upper Region, Changes from Last Season, Team changes, Relegated Clubs\nA club was relegated to the 2018 Thai League 4 Northern Region", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282913-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Upper Region, Changes from Last Season, Team changes, Relegated Clubs\nA club was relegated from the 2017 Thai League 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282913-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Upper Region, Teams, Foreign players\nA T3 team could registered five foreign players by at least one player from AFC member countries and at least one player from ASEAN member countries. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC member countries or ASEAN member countries (3+1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282913-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 3 Upper Region, League table, Positions by round\nThe table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282914-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4\nThe 2018 Thai League T4 (also known as the Omsin League for sponsorship reasons) was the 18th season of the Thai League 4, it had redirected from the regional league division 2, since its establishment in 2006. The 60 clubs will be divided into 6 groups (regions).The 15 clubs advance to Champion league round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282914-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4, Regional League stage All locations, 2018\nRed Zone\u00a0: 2018 Thai League 4 Bangkok Metropolitan RegionYellow Zone\u00a0: 2018 Thai League 4 Eastern RegionPink Zone: 2018 Thai League 4 Western RegionGreen Zone: 2018 Thai League 4 Northern Region Orange Zone: 2018 Thai League 4 North Eastern RegionBlue Zone: 2018 Thai League 4 Southern Region", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 61], "content_span": [62, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282914-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4, Preliminary round 1\n3rd place from each zone of 2018 Thai League 4 have signed to qualifying in this round. Preliminary round 1 will be started after finish all matches of all zone by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282914-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4, Preliminary round 1, Upper region\nThe qualifying round will be played in regions featuring clubs from the 2018 Thai League 4 Northern Region, 2018 Thai League 4 North Eastern Region and 2018 Thai League 4 Eastern Region", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282914-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4, Preliminary round 1, Lower region\nThe qualifying round will be played in regions featuring clubs from the 2018 Thai League 4 Western Region, 2018 Thai League 4 Bangkok Metropolitan Region and 2018 Thai League 4 Southern Region", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282914-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4, Play-off round\nRunner-up and 3rd place from each zone of 2018 Thai League 4 and winners from Preliminary round 1 have signed to qualifying in this round. Play-off round will be started after finish all matches of Preliminary round 1 by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282914-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4, Group Stage round\n9 automatic Thai football teams and Winner teams from Play-off round pass to this round. this round provide 2 part to 2018 Thai League 4 champions league round Upper group and 2018 Thai League 4 champions league round Lower group. Each region has 6 Thai football teams. It plays Round-robin matches. Thai football teams which get champion and runner-up which has the best scores of each region to were promoted to 2019 Thai League 3. Mini-league rule is used to this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282914-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4, Final round, Third place play-off round\nRunner-up of Upper group and Lower group in Group Stage round pass this round. Winner of Third place play-off round was promoted to 2019 Thai League 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 59], "content_span": [60, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282914-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4, Final round, Champion round\nChampion of Upper group and Lower group in Group Stage round pass this round. Winner of Champion round get champion of 2018 Thai League 4", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282915-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Bangkok Metropolitan Region\n2018 Thai League 4 Bangkok Metropolitan Region is the 10th season of the League competition since its establishment in 2009. It is in the 4th tier of the Thai football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282915-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Changes from last season, Promoted clubs\nPromoted from the 2017 Thailand Amateur League Bangkok Metropolitan Region", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 88], "content_span": [89, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282915-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Changes from last season, Relegated clubs\nRelegated to the 2018 Thailand Amateur League Bangkok Metropolitan Region", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 89], "content_span": [90, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282915-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Attendance, Attendance by home match played\nSource: Note:Unk.1 Some error of T4 official match report 10 February 2018 (Police Tero U-23 1\u20132 BGC).Unk.2 Some error of T4 official match report 25 August 2018 (Air Force Robinson 3\u20132 Rangsit University).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 91], "content_span": [92, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282916-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Champions League\nThe champions league round was the next stage from the regional stage of 2018 Thai League 4. The winners of each regions, the runners-up of some regions, and the winners of qualifying play-off would qualified to this round to finding 3 clubs promoting to 2019 Thai League 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282916-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Champions League, Knockout stage\nWinners, runners-up, and third place of 2018 Thai League 4 would promoted to 2019 Thai League 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282917-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Eastern Region\n2018 Thai League 4 Eastern Region is the 9th season of the League competition since its establishment in 2009. It is in the fourth tier of the Thai football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282917-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Eastern Region, Results 3rd match for each team\nIn the third leg, the winner on head-to-head result of the first and the second leg will be home team. If head-to-head result are tie, must to find the home team from head-to-head goals different. If all of head-to-head still tie, must to find the home team from penalty kickoff on the end of each second leg match (This penalty kickoff don't bring to calculate points on league table, it's only the process to find the home team on third leg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282917-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Eastern Region, Attendance, Attendance by home match played\nSource: Note:cancel Pattaya United U-23 don't play Nakhon Nayok vs Pattaya United U-23 game. PLT judge this game to Nakhon Nayok win 2 - 0. Unk.1 Some error of T4 official match report 20 May 2018 (Chonburi U-23 0\u20130 Chanthaburi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282918-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Northeastern Region\n2018 Thai League 4 Northeastern Region is the 10th season of the League competition since its establishment in 2009. It is in the 4th tier of the Thai football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282918-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Northeastern Region, Attendance, Attendance by home match played\nSource: Note:Unk.1 Some error of T4 official match report 8 July 2018 (Mahasarakham 1\u20130 Mashare Chaiyaphum). Unk.2 Some error of T4 official match report 8 July 2018 (Khonkaen United 7\u20130 Ubon UMT United U-23). Unk.3 Some error of T4 official match report 1 August 2018 (Mahasarakham 0\u20130 Muang Loei United).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 83], "content_span": [84, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282919-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Northern Region\n2018 Thai League 4 Northern Region is the 10th season of the League competition since its establishment in 2009. It is in the 4th tier of the Thai football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282919-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Northern Region, Results 3rd match for each team\nIn the third leg, the winner on head-to-head result of the first and the second leg will be home team. If head-to-head result are tie, must to find the home team from head-to-head goals different. If all of head-to-head still tie, must to find the home team from penalty kickoff on the end of each second leg match (This penalty kickoff don't bring to calculate points on league table, it's only the process to find the home team on third leg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282919-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Northern Region, Attendance, Attendance by home match played\nSource: Note:Unk.1 Some error of T4 official match report 8 July 2018 (Uttaradit 4\u20131 Nakhon Mae Sot United). Unk.2 Some error of T4 official match report 15 July 2018 (Uttaradit 3\u20132 Nakhon Sawan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282920-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Southern Region\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by IznoRepeat (talk | contribs) at 18:22, 12 September 2021 (infobox bordered -> wikitable, general cleanup). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282920-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Southern Region\n2018 Thai League 4 Southern Region is the 9th season of the League competition since its establishment in 2009. It is in the fourth tier of the Thai football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282920-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Southern Region, Teams, Foreign players\nA T4 team could registered five foreign players by at least one player from AFC member countries and at least one player from ASEAN member countries. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC member countries or ASEAN member countries (3+1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282920-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Southern Region, League table, Positions by round\nThe table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282920-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Southern Region, Results 3rd match for each team\nIn the third leg, the winner on head-to-head result of the first and the second leg will be home team. If head-to-head result are tie, must to find the home team from head-to-head goals different. If all of head-to-head still tie, must to find the home team from penalty kickoff on the end of each second leg match (This penalty kickoff don't bring to calculate points on league table, it's only the process to find the home team on third leg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282920-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Southern Region, Attendances, Attendances by home match played\nSource: Note:Unk.1 Some error of T4 official match report 15 July 2018 (Krabi (B) 0\u20131 Pattani). Unk.2 Some error of T4 official match report 5 August 2018 (Krabi (B) 3\u20132 Phattalung). Unk.3 Some error of T4 official match report 25 August 2018 (Krabi (B) 2\u20134 Hatyai City).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282921-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Western Region\n2018 Thai League 4 Western Region is the 6th season of the League competition since its establishment in 2013. It is in the 4th tier of the Thai football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282921-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Western Region, Changes from last season, Team changes, Withdrawn Clubs\nRatchaburi Mitr Phol B and Suphanburi B were taking a 1-year break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282921-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Western Region, Results 3rd match for each team\nIn the third leg, the winner on head-to-head result of the first and the second leg will be home team. If head-to-head result are tie, must to find the home team from head-to-head goals different. If all of head-to-head still tie, must to find the home team from penalty kickoff on the end of each second leg match (This penalty kickoff don't bring to calculate points on league table, it's only the process to find the home team on third leg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282921-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League 4 Western Region, Attendances, Attendances by home match played\nSource: Note:Unk.1 Some error of T4 official match report 28 April 2018 (IPE Samut Sakhon United 1\u20131 Nonthaburi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282922-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup\nThe 2018 Thai League Cup is the 9th season in the second era of a Thailand's knockout football competition. All games are played as a single match. It was sponsored by Toyota, and known as the Toyota League Cup (Thai: \u0e42\u0e15\u0e42\u0e22\u0e15\u0e49\u0e32 \u0e25\u0e35\u0e01\u0e04\u0e31\u0e1e) for sponsorship purposes. 82 clubs were accepted into the tournament, and it began with the first qualification round on 28 February 2018, and concluded with the final on 20 October 2018. The tournament has been readmitted back into Thai football after a 10-year absence. The prize money for this prestigious award is said to be around 5 million baht and the runners-up will be netting 1 million baht.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282922-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup\nThe prize money is not the only benefit of this cup, the team winning the fair play spot will get a Hilux Vigo. The MVP of the competition will get a Toyota Camry Hybrid Car. The winner would have qualified for the 2018 Mekong Club Championship final and the 2019 Toyota Premier Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282922-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup\nThis is the first edition of the competition and the qualifying round will be played in regions featuring clubs from the Thai League 3 and Thai League 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282922-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup, Results\nNote: T1: Clubs from Thai League 1; T2: Clubs from Thai League 2; T3: Clubs from Thai League 3; T4: Clubs from Thai League 4; T5: Clubs from Thailand Amateur League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282922-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup, Results, First qualification round\nThere were seventeen clubs from 2018 Thai League 3 and thirty-three clubs from 2018 Thai League 4 have signed to qualifying in 2018 Thai League cup. Qualification round had drawn on 21 February 2018 by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 56], "content_span": [57, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282922-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup, Results, Second qualification round\nThe second qualifying round will be featured by twenty-two clubs which were the winners of first qualification round. There were three clubs which were the winners of the previous round had passed to qualification play-off round automatically by drawing; including Nan, Hua Hin City, and Surat Thani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282922-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup, Results, Qualification play-off round\nThe qualification play-off round will be featured by eleven clubs which were the winners of second qualification round, three clubs which were the winners of first qualification round that advanced to this round automatically by drawing, and fourteen clubs from 2018 Thai League 2. Qualification play-off round had drawn on 27 March 2018 by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 59], "content_span": [60, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282922-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup, Results, First round\nThe first round will be featured by fourteen clubs which were the winners of the qualification play-off round; including eleven clubs from T2, two clubs from T3, and one club from T4 and eighteen clubs from 2018 Thai League. First round had drawn on 22 May 2018 by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282922-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup, Results, Second round\nThe second round will be featured by sixteen clubs which were the winners of the first round; including thirteen clubs from T1, two clubs from T3, and one club from T4. Second round had drawn on 19 June 2018 by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282922-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup, Results, Quarter-finals\nThe quarter-finals round will be featured by eight clubs which were the winners of the second round; including seven clubs from T1 and one club from T3. Quarter-finals round had drawn on 17 July 2018 by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282922-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup, Results, Semi-finals\nThe semi-finals round will be featured by four clubs which were the winners of the quarter-finals round; all are the clubs from T1. Semi-finals round had drawn on 14 August 2018 by FA Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282922-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup, Results, Final\nThe final round will be featured by two clubs which were the winners of the semi-finals round; both are the clubs from T1. It was played at the Thammasat Stadium in Pathum Thani, Thailand on 20 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282923-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup Final\nThe 2018 Thai League Cup Final was the final match of the 2018 Thai League Cup, the 9th season in the second era of a Thailand's football tournament organised by Football Association of Thailand. It was played at the Thammasat Stadium in Pathum Thani, Thailand on 20 October 2018, between Chiangrai United a big team from the Northern part and Bangkok Glass a big team from the metropolitan region of Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282923-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup Final, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; T1: Clubs from Thai League; T2: Clubs from Thai League 2; T4: Clubs from Thai League 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282923-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thai League Cup Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees: Rachen Srichai Komsan KamphaenFourth official: Wiwat Jumpa-onMatch Commissioner: Peerapol Pu-udomReferee Assessor: Pirom Un-prasert", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282924-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand Champions Cup\nThe 2018 Thailand Champions Cup was the 2nd Thailand Champions Cup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Thai League 1 and Thai FA Cup competitions. It was sponsored by Government Savings Bank (Omsin Bank), and known as the Omsin Thailand Champions Cup (Thai: \u0e2d\u0e2d\u0e21\u0e2a\u0e34\u0e19 \u0e44\u0e17\u0e22\u0e41\u0e25\u0e19\u0e14\u0e4c\u0e41\u0e0a\u0e21\u0e40\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e22\u0e19\u0e2a\u0e4c\u0e04\u0e31\u0e1e) for sponsorship purposes. The match was played at Supachalasai Stadium, Bangkok and contested by 2017 Thai League T1 champions Buriram United, and Chiangrai United as the champions of the 2017 Thai FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282925-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand Masters (badminton)\nThe 2018 Thailand Masters, officially the Princess Sirivannavari Thailand Masters 2018, was a badminton tournament which took place at Nimibutr Stadium in Thailand from 9 to 14 January 2018 and had a total purse of $150,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282925-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand Masters (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Thailand Masters was the first tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Thailand Masters championships which had been held since 2016. This tournament was organized by the Badminton Association of Thailand with sanction from the BWF. It was also the first ever new Super 300 Level 5 tournament of the BWF World Tour schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282925-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand Masters (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Nimibutr Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282925-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand Masters (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is a table with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 300 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282925-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand Masters (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$150,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282926-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand National Games\nThe 2018 Thailand National Games (Thai: \u0e01\u0e35\u0e2c\u0e32\u0e41\u0e2b\u0e48\u0e07\u0e0a\u0e32\u0e15\u0e34 \u0e1e.\u0e28. 2561), officially known as the XLVI Thailand National Games (Thai: \u0e01\u0e35\u0e2c\u0e32\u0e41\u0e2b\u0e48\u0e07\u0e0a\u0e32\u0e15\u0e34 \u0e04\u0e23\u0e31\u0e49\u0e07\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48 46) and commonly known as Jiang Hai Games (Thai: \u0e40\u0e08\u0e35\u0e22\u0e07\u0e2e\u0e32\u0e22\u0e40\u0e01\u0e21\u0e2a\u0e4c), was a national multi-sport event of Thailand held between 18 and 28 November 2018 in Chiang Rai, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282926-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand National Games, The Games, Ceremonies\nThe opening ceremony of the 2018 Thailand National Games was held at the Chiang Rai Province Central Stadium on 18 November 2018, and the closing ceremony was on 28 November 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282926-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand National Games, The Games, Sports\nThe 2018 Thailand National Games featured events in 45 sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282927-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Thailand Open (officially known as the Toyota Thailand Open 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Nimibutr Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, from 10 to 15 July 2018 and had a total purse of $350,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282927-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Thailand Open was the thirteenth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Thailand Open championships, which had been held since 1984. This tournament was organized by the Badminton Association of Thailand with the sanction from BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282927-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Nimibutr Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282927-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 500 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282927-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$350,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282928-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thailand motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Thailand motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Buriram International Circuit in Buriram on 7 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282929-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 The Bend SuperSprint\nThe 2018 The Bend SuperSprint (formally known as the 2018 OTR SuperSprint at The Bend Motorsport Park) was a motor racing event for Supercars, held on the weekend of 24\u201326 August 2018. The event was held at The Bend Motorsport Park near Tailem Bend in South Australia and was the first Supercars event to be held at the circuit. It was the eleventh round of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 22 and 23 of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282929-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 The Bend SuperSprint, Background, Entry alterations\nThe round was open to wildcard entries from the Super2 Series and saw the grid expanded to twenty-eight cars with the addition of two extra entries \u2013 Brad Jones Racing entering a third Holden Commodore ZB for Macauley Jones, and Kostecki Brothers Racing entering their Super2 Holden Commodore VF and driver Kurt Kostecki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282929-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 The Bend SuperSprint, Background, Entry alterations\nRookie main game team Matt Stone Racing and driver Todd Hazelwood reverted to the Holden Commodore VF they used to win the 2017 Super2 Series championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282930-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 The Citadel Bulldogs football team\nThe 2018 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bulldogs were led by third-year head coach Brent Thompson and played their home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium. They were members of the Southern Conference (SoCon). They finished the season 5\u20136, 4\u20134 in SoCon play to finish in a three-way tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282930-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 The Citadel Bulldogs football team, Previous season\nThe Bulldogs finished the 2017 season 5\u20136, 3\u20135 in SoCon play to finish in a tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282930-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 The Citadel Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe SoCon released their preseason media poll on July 25, 2018, with the Bulldogs predicted to finish in seventh place. The same day the coaches released their preseason poll with the Bulldogs also predicted to finish in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282930-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 The Citadel Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SoCon Teams\nThe Bulldogs placed five players on the preseason all-SoCon teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 77], "content_span": [78, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282931-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 The Hague Open\nThe 2018 The Hague Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 26th edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Scheveningen, Netherlands between 16 and 22 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282931-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 The Hague Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282932-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 The Hague Open \u2013 Doubles\nSander Gill\u00e9 and Joran Vliegen were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282932-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 The Hague Open \u2013 Doubles\nRuben Gonzales and Nathaniel Lammons won the title after defeating Luis David Mart\u00ednez and Gon\u00e7alo Oliveira 6\u20133, 6\u20137(8\u201310), [10\u20135] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282933-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 The Hague Open \u2013 Singles\nGuillermo Garc\u00eda L\u00f3pez was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282933-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 The Hague Open \u2013 Singles\nThiemo de Bakker won the title after defeating Yannick Maden 6\u20132, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282934-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 The Princess Maha Chackri Sirindhorn's Cup \"Women's Tour of Thailand\"\nThe 2018 The Princess Maha Chackri Sirindhorn's Cup is a women's cycle stage race that is being held in Thailand from 8 to 10 April 2018. The 2018 edition of the race was the seventh running of The Princess Maha Chackri Sirindhon's Cup, being held with a UCI rating of 2.1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [74, 74], "content_span": [75, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282935-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 The Spring League season\nThe 2018 The Spring League season was the second overall in league history, which was played in Round Rock, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282935-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 The Spring League season\nOn December 7, 2017, The Spring League announced it would play its second season in Austin, Texas beginning in late March 2018. The league was also to have a football-specific tech forum and a joint internship program with the University of Texas\u2019 Center for Sports Leadership & Innovation. Turner Sports announced in mid-January 2018, while the league games would be on its new streaming service B/R Live, the league was also finalizing a deal to practice and play games at Circuit of the Americas near Austin, Texas. On March 3, the league did not execute on the contract to play the 2018 season at the Circuit of the Americas and instead announced events to take place at Kelly Reeves Athletic Complex in Round Rock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282935-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 The Spring League season, Players\nThe league had try-outs in various cities in October and November 2017 and February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282935-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 The Spring League season, Players\nOn February 14, the league announced the signing of Heisman Trophy winner and former Cleveland Browns first round pick Johnny Manziel to the league playing on the South team. Games to be played on April 7 and 14. Other former NFL commitments to the league were former Cleveland Browns first round pick Kellen Winslow Jr. and former Baltimore Ravens running back Lorenzo Taliaferro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282935-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 The Spring League season, Signees to professional leagues\nThe following players signed with NFL, CFL or AAF teams following their involvement with The Spring League in 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282935-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 The Spring League season, Spring League Showcases\nFollowing the April games another \"Summer Showcase\" was announced for July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282935-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 The Spring League season, Spring League Showcases\nThe Spring League announced a \"Fall Showcase\" for Miami, Florida to take place November 6\u20139, 2018, which the league intends to prepare players for the AAF and XFL, which play winter/spring seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282936-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 The Women's Tour\nThe 2018 Ovo Energy Women's Tour, is the fifth staging of The Women's Tour, a women's cycling stage race held in the United Kingdom. It ran from 13 to 17 June 2018, as part of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282937-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thindown Challenger Biella\nThe 2018 Thindown Challenger Biella was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Biella, Italy between 17 and 23 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282937-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thindown Challenger Biella, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282937-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thindown Challenger Biella, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282937-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thindown Challenger Biella, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282938-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thindown Challenger Biella \u2013 Doubles\nAttila Bal\u00e1zs and Fabiano de Paula were the defending champions and chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282938-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thindown Challenger Biella \u2013 Doubles\nFabr\u00edcio Neis and David Vega Hern\u00e1ndez won the title after defeating Rameez Junaid and Purav Raja 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282939-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thindown Challenger Biella \u2013 Singles\nFilip Krajinovi\u0107 was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282939-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thindown Challenger Biella \u2013 Singles\nFederico Delbonis won the title after defeating Stefano Napolitano 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282940-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas & Uber Cup\nThe 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup (officially known as the 2018 BWF Thomas & Uber Cup) was the 30th edition of the Thomas Cup and the 27th edition of the Uber Cup, the biennial international badminton championship contested by the men and women's national teams of the member associations of Badminton World Federation (BWF). The tournament was hosted by Bangkok, Thailand 20\u201327 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282940-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas & Uber Cup\nThe matches were played at IMPACT Arena. It was the second time that Thailand hosted the Thomas Cup and the first time hosted the Uber Cup tournament and the first time this event was held in Southeast Asia since 2010 in Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282940-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas & Uber Cup\nDenmark were the defending men's champions, and China were the defending women's champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282940-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas & Uber Cup, Host selection\nBangkok and New Delhi submitted bids for this championships. Bangkok was named as the host in March 2017 during BWF Council meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where BWF also decided the host for 2018 BWF World Championships, 2019 Sudirman Cup and 2019 BWF World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282940-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas & Uber Cup, Draw\nThe draw for the tournament was conducted on 22 March 2018, at 18:00 ICT, at Arnoma Grand Hotel in Bangkok. The 16 men and 16 women teams were drawn into four groups of four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282940-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas & Uber Cup, Draw\nFor the Thomas Cup draw, the teams were allocated to three pots based on the World Team Rankings of 22 February 2018. Pot 1 contained the top seed China (which were assigned to position A1), the second seed Denmark (which were assigned to position D1) and the next two best teams, Indonesia and Chinese Taipei. Pot 2 contained the next best four teams, and Pot 3 was for the ninth to sixteenth seeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282940-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas & Uber Cup, Draw\nA similar procedure was applied for Uber Cup draw, where top seed Japan (which were assigned to position A1), the second seed China (which were assigned to position D1), Korea and Thailand were in Pot 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282940-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas & Uber Cup, Tiebreakers\nThe rankings of teams in each group were determined as follows (regulations Chapter 5 Section 5.2.1. Article 12):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282940-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas & Uber Cup, Tiebreakers\nTeams that won 3 match first win the tie: 1 point for the winner, 0 match points for the loser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282941-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas & Uber Cup squads\nThis article lists the confirmed squads lists for badminton's 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup. Rankings stated are based on BWF World Ranking for 3 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282942-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas Cup group stage\nThis article lists the fixtures of the group stage for the 2018 Thomas Cup in Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282943-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas Cup knockout stage\nThis article lists the fixtures of the knockout stage for the 2018 Thomas Cup in Bangkok, Thailand. It began on 24 May with the quarter-finals and ended on 27 May with the final match of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282944-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas Cup qualification\nThe 2018 Thomas Cup qualification process is a series of tournaments organised by the five BWF confederations to decide 14 of the 16 teams which will play in the 2018 Thomas Cup, with Thailand qualifying automatically as hosts, and Denmark qualifying automatically as trophy holder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282944-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas Cup qualification, Qualification process\nThe number of teams participating in the final tournament is 16. Even though the qualification process began in February 2018, the allocation of slots for each confederation is same the allocation as 2016 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282944-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, Badminton Confederation of Africa\nThe qualification for the African teams was held from 12 to 15 February 2018, at the Hac\u00e8ne Harcha Arena in Algiers, Algeria. The winners of the African qualification will qualified for the Thomas Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282944-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, Badminton Asia\nThe qualification for the Asian teams was held from 6 to 11 February 2018, at the Stadium Sultan Abdul Halim in Alor Setar, Malaysia. The semi-finalist of the Asian qualification will qualified for the Thomas Cup. Thailand qualifying automatically as hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282944-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, Badminton Europe\nThe qualification for the European teams will held from 13 to 18 February 2018, at the Kazan Gymnastics Centre in Kazan, Russia. The semi-finalist of the European qualification will qualified for the Thomas Cup. Denmark qualified automatically as trophy holder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282944-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, Badminton Europe, First round (Group stage)\nDue to group 7 having different number of teams, the results against the fifth-placed teams are not considered for this ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282944-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, Badminton Pan Am\nThe qualification for the Pan American teams was held from 15 to 18 February 2018, at the National Racket Centre in Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago. The winner of the Pan American qualification, Canada was qualified for the Thomas Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282944-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, Badminton Oceania\nThe qualification for the Oceanian teams was held from 6 to 7 February 2018, at the Eastlink Badminton Stadium in Hamilton, New Zealand. The winner of the Oceania qualification qualified for the Thomas Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282944-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Thomas Cup qualification, World team rankings\nBelow is the chart of the BWF World Team Ranking calculated by adding World Ranking of top three Men's Singles players and top two Men's Doubles pairs on 22 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282945-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Three Days of Bruges\u2013De Panne\nThe 2018 Three Days of De Panne (Dutch: Driedaagse De Panne\u2013Koksijde) was the 42nd edition of the Three Days of De Panne cycle race. The race took place on 21 March 2018, between Bruges and De Panne. It was part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour calendar in category 1.HC. The race was won by Elia Viviani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282946-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Three Days of Bruges\u2013De Panne (women's race)\nThe first running of the women's event of the Three Days of Bruges\u2013De Panne was held on 22 March 2018. It started in Bruges and finished in De Panne with two 15\u00a0km (9.3\u00a0mi) loops between De Panne and Koksijde, totaling 151.7\u00a0km (94.3\u00a0mi). It was the fourth leg of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour. Belgian Jolien D'Hoore, who was unaware she was sprinting for victory, won the race in a sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282946-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Three Days of Bruges\u2013De Panne (women's race), Teams\nTwenty-four teams entered the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 56], "content_span": [57, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282947-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Three Rivers District Council election\nThe 2018 Three Rivers District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Three Rivers District Council in England. This was the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282947-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Three Rivers District Council election, Ward Results, Leavesden\nMartin Brooks was elected as a Liberal Democrat in 2014 but stood in the incumbent in 2018 as an Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282948-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thunder Bay District municipal elections\nElections were held in the organized municipalities in the Thunder Bay District of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282949-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Thurrock Council election\nThe 2018 Thurrock Council elections took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Thurrock Council in England. Councillors in 16 out of the 20 electoral wards were to be up for election. The council remained under no overall control, with a minority Conservative administration running the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282949-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Thurrock Council election\nOn 26 January 2018, all sitting UKIP councillors resigned from the party and formed a new opposition group called Thurrock Independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282949-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Thurrock Council election\nOn 13 March 2018, Basildon UKIP announced that they had taken over responsibility for the 6 East Thurrock wards and are now called UKIP Basildon and Thurrock Branch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282949-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Thurrock Council election\nBefore the elections, there was a by-election held in Ockendon which resulted in a Conservative gain after a tie and drawing of lots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282949-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Thurrock Council election, Council Composition\nGoing into the election, the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282949-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Thurrock Council election, Election Results\nComparisons for the purpose of determining a gain, hold or loss of a seat, and for all percentage changes, is to the last time these specific seats were up for election in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282949-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Thurrock Council election, Ward Candidates\nAll percentage changes are versus 2014, the last time the comparable set of wards were fought. Holds / Gains are given against control of ward going in to the 2018 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282949-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Thurrock Council election, Ward Candidates, Aveley & Uplands\n\u2020 Percentage change calculated from the 2014 Aveley & Uplands by-election at which Aker was elected (as a UKIP candidate). He subsequently defected from the UKIP group on Thurrock council and formed Thurrock Independents, although he still sits as a UKIP MEP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282949-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Thurrock Council election, Ward Candidates, Belhus\n\u2020 change calculated from the 2014 election when Baker was originally elected (as a UKIP candidate).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282949-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Thurrock Council election, Ward Candidates, Chadwell St Mary\nNote no UKIP as previously (-39%), no Lib Dem as previously (-2%)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282950-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Th\u00fcringen Rundfahrt der Frauen\nThe 2018 Th\u00fcringen Rundfahrt der Frauen (also known as the Internationalen LOTTO Th\u00fcringen Ladies Tour for sponsorship reasons) was the 31st edition of the Th\u00fcringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, a women's cycling stage race in Germany. It was rated by the UCI as a category 2.1 race and was held between 28 of May and 3 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282950-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Th\u00fcringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Th\u00fcringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, six different jerseys were awarded. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all mass-start stages: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints; three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The rider with the least accumulated time is the race leader, identified by a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2017 Th\u00fcringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 939]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282950-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Th\u00fcringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Classification leadership table\nThere was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a black, white and yellow jersey. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either first, second, or third-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. First-category climbs awarded the most points; the first four riders were able to accrue points, compared with the first three on all other climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282950-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Th\u00fcringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a sprints classification, which awarded a blue jersey. In the sprints classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 5 in a stage, except the time trials. For winning a stage, a rider earned 5\u00a0points, with 4 for second, 3 for third, 2 for fourth and a single point for 5th place. Points were also awarded at intermediate sprints on each mass-start stage\u00a0\u2013 awarded on a 3\u20132\u20131 scale. The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a red and white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born on or after 1 January 1995 were eligible to be ranked in the classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282950-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Th\u00fcringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Classification leadership table\nThe fifth jersey represented the classification for German riders, marked by a white and blue jersey. This was decided on each day's stage results, but only riders born in Germany were eligible to be ranked in the classification. The sixth and final jersey (coloured white and green) was for the most active rider, decided daily by a race jury. A purple jersey, presented on the podium only, was also given to amateur riders. There was also a team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282951-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tianjin Open\nThe 2018 Tianjin Open was a women's professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 5th edition of the tournament, and part of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Tuanbo International Tennis Centre in Tianjin, China between 8 and 14 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282951-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tianjin Open, Points and prize money, Prize money\n1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 54], "content_span": [55, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282951-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tianjin Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282951-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tianjin Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282952-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tianjin Open \u2013 Doubles\nIrina-Camelia Begu and Sara Errani were the defending champions, but Errani is serving a doping suspension. Begu played alongside Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1, but they lost in the quarterfinals to Han Xinyun and Darija Jurak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282952-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tianjin Open \u2013 Doubles\nNicole Melichar and Kv\u011bta Peschke won the title, defeating Monique Adamczak and Jessica Moore in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282953-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tianjin Open \u2013 Singles\nMaria Sharapova was the defending champion, but withdrew due to a shoulder injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282953-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tianjin Open \u2013 Singles\nCaroline Garcia won the title, defeating Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 in the final, 7\u20136(9\u20137), 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282954-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tiburon Challenger\nThe 2018 Tiburon Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tiburon, United States between 24 and 30 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282954-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tiburon Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282954-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tiburon Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282954-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tiburon Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282955-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tiburon Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nAndr\u00e9 G\u00f6ransson and Florian Lakat were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Gerard Granollers and Pedro Mart\u00ednez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282955-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tiburon Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nHans Hach Verdugo and Luke Saville won the title after defeating Granollers and Mart\u00ednez 6\u20133, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282956-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tiburon Challenger \u2013 Singles\nCameron Norrie was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282956-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tiburon Challenger \u2013 Singles\nMichael Mmoh won the title after defeating Marcel Granollers 6\u20133, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500\nThe 2018 TicketGuardian 500 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on March 11, 2018, at ISM Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. Contested over 312 laps on the one-mile (1.6\u00a0km) oval, it was the fourth race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season. It would also be the last Phoenix race to be using the 2011 reconfiguration as the start/finish line will be moved to the back-straightaway just past turn two for the November race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Report, Background\nISM Raceway, is a one-mile, low-banked tri-oval race track located in Avondale, Arizona. The motorsport track opened in 1964 and currently hosts two NASCAR race weekends annually. PIR has also hosted the IndyCar Series, CART, USAC and the Rolex Sports Car Series. The raceway is currently owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, First practice\nKyle Larson was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 26.034 seconds and a speed of 138.281\u00a0mph (222.542\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Qualifying\nMartin Truex Jr. scored the pole for the race with a time of 26.288 and a speed of 136.945\u00a0mph (220.392\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice\nKevin Harvick was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 26.705 seconds and a speed of 134.806\u00a0mph (216.949\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice\nKevin Harvick was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 26.757 seconds and a speed of 134.544\u00a0mph (216.528\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Race, First stage, Start\nMartin Truex Jr.led the field to the green flag at 3:44\u00a0p.m. The afternoon\u2019s first caution flew when the engine in Corey LaJoie\u2019s car blew on lap 25. NASCAR had planned to have a competition caution on lap 35 but blended it into the lap-25 yellow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Race, First stage, Start\nThe race restarted on lap 34. Kyle Larson took the lead on the same lap and led 24 laps, but then Kyle Busch took the lead and scored his first stage win of the season, leading at lap 75. Following in the top 10 were Kevin Harvick, Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., Chase Elliott, Brad Keselowski, Kurt Busch, Joey Logano and Erik Jones. The second caution flew for conclusion of the first stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Race, Second stage\nThe race restarted on lap 84 and it remained green for 39 laps, until Kyle Larson lost control of his car on lap 121, slid through turn four and brought out the race\u2019s third caution. Larson\u2019s rear tires had been shaking before the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Race, Second stage\nThe race restarted on lap 12. Kyle Busch took the lead on lap 129 and led 19 laps. A blown right front tire sent Chris Buescher\u2019s car into the fourth-turn wall on lap 147, causing the fourth caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Race, Second stage\nThe race restarted on lap 150. The second stage ended with a one-lap dash because of a restart. Kurt Busch held off Brad Keselowski to win. Also in the top 10 were Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Kyle Busch, Michael McDowell, Ty Dillon, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., Kasey Kahne and Clint Bowyer. The fifth caution flew for conclusion of the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Race, Final stage\nThe race restarted on lap 159 and remained green for 33 laps. The sixth caution flew when Paul Menard, who had reported brake issues, slid in turn two and backed hard into the outside wall, crushing the car\u2019s rear end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Race, Final stage\nThe race restarted on lap 199. Kevin Harvick held off Kyle Busch and Harvick scored his third career victory of 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Race, Final stage, Post race\n\u201cThis weekend felt like a playoff moment for us,\u201d Harvick said. \u201cWhen you have all the guys and everybody looking at the race car and the determination for every last detail. There's a lot going on in the world, but our team is very good at setting those things aside for 10 weeks during the playoffs. It felt more important to win a race this week than to win a race at Homestead for the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Media, Television\nFox Sports covered their 14th race at the Phoenix International Raceway. Mike Joy, two-time Phoenix winner Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip had the call in the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the pit road duties for the television side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282957-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 TicketGuardian 500, Media, Radio\nMRN had the radio call for the race which also was simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282958-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tilia Slovenia Open\nThe 2018 Tilia Slovenia Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Portoro\u017e, Slovenia between 6 \u2013 11 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282958-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tilia Slovenia Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282958-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tilia Slovenia Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282959-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tilia Slovenia Open \u2013 Doubles\nHans Podlipnik Castillo and Andrei Vasilevski were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282959-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tilia Slovenia Open \u2013 Doubles\nGerard Granollers and Luk\u00e1\u0161 Rosol won the title after defeating Nikola \u010ca\u010di\u0107 and Lucas Miedler 7\u20135, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282960-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tilia Slovenia Open \u2013 Singles\nSergiy Stakhovsky was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Constant Lestienne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282960-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tilia Slovenia Open \u2013 Singles\nLestienne won the title after defeating Andrea Arnaboldi 6\u20132, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier\nThe 2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship, was held from March 3 to 11, 2018 at the Brandt Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan. The winning team represented Canada at the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship from March 31 to April 8 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier\nThis marked the fifth time the Brier was held in Regina, the first time since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier\nThe 2018 tournament was the first to use a new 16-team format, featuring representation by all fourteen member associations of Curling Canada, alongside the defending champions (as Team Canada), and a new wildcard team. As part of this new format, the Bronze medal game was removed from the schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nCurling Canada introduced a new 16-team format for both the Brier and Tournament of Hearts for 2018, under which all 14 member associations of Curling Canada are now represented in the main field, rather than being limited by a pre-qualifying tournament. The teams were divided into two pools for round robin play, after which the top four teams from each advanced to a Championship Pool. Alongside the inclusion of the previous year's champions as Team Canada, the final spot in the tournament was filled by a wildcard play-in game held on the Friday before the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nThe rinks of John Epping (Ontario), Mike Fournier (Quebec), and Greg Smith (Newfoundland and Labrador) made their Brier debuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nTeam Canada's Brad Gushue set a new record for the most Canadian national men's championship game wins as a skip when he skipped the 114th victory of his Brier career over the Northwest Territories on March 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Brad GushueThird: Mark NicholsSecond: Brett GallantLead: Geoff WalkerAlternate: Tom Sallows", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Sean GeallThird: Jeff RichardSecond: Andrew NerpinLead: David HarperAlternate: Brad Wood", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : James GrattanThird: Chris Jeffrey Second: Andy McCannLead: Peter CaseAlternate: Brian King", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Greg SmithThird: Matthew Hunt Second: Andrew TaylorLead: Ian WithycombeAlternate: Connor Stapleton", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Brad JacobsThird: Ryan FrySecond: E.J. HarndenLead: Ryan HarndenAlternate: Tanner Horgan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Eddie MacKenzieThird: Josh BarrySecond: Christopher GallantLead: Sean LedgerwoodAlternate: Robbie Younker", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Mike FournierThird: F\u00e9lix AsselinSecond: William DionLead: Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Tr\u00e9panierAlternate: \u00c9mile Asselin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nFourth: Matt DunstoneSkip: Steve LaycockSecond: Kirk MuyresLead: Dallan MuyresAlternate: Lyle Muyres", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Dave St. LouisThird: Wade KingdonSecond: Peter MackeyLead: Jeff Nadeau", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Thomas ScoffinThird: Tom AppelmanSecond: Wade ScoffinLead: Steve FecteauAlternate: Clint Ireland", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Wildcard game\nA play-in game was held on March 2, 2018 that determined the wildcard team that rounded out the tournament field. It was played between the top two teams on the Canadian Team Ranking System standings who lost in their provincial championship: the Fort Rouge Curling Club's Mike McEwen rink and the Granite Curling Club's Jason Gunnlaugson rink, both from Winnipeg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC\u221206:00).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Placement round\nEach team that finished fifth through eight in their pool played the team that finished in the same position in the opposite pool for the purpose of determining final tournament ranking. For example, the winner of the game between fifth place teams was ranked ninth place overall, the loser of that game was ranked tenth place, and so on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Placement round, Seeding games\nAll game times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC\u221206:00).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Championship pool standings\nAll wins and losses earned in the round robin (including results against teams that failed to advance) were carried forward into the Championship Pool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282961-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Championship pool results\nAll draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC\u221206:00).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282962-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Timiskaming District municipal elections\nElections were held in the organized municipalities in the Timiskaming District of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282962-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Timiskaming District municipal elections, McGarry\nAfter a tied vote, and a recount confirmed the tie, a random draw was held to select the mayor, which Matt Reimer won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282963-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tinsukia killings\nOn 1 November 2018, suspected militants of ULFA (Independent) massacred five Bengali Hindus on the banks of Brahmaputra near Kherbari village in Tinsukia district of Assam. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal condemned the killings. Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal condemned the killings and pointed towards the NRC process as the trigger behind the killings. ULFA (Independent) denied any involvement in the massacre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282963-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tinsukia killings, Background\nAs early as in 2016, ULFA warned Bengali Hindu individuals and organizations not to support the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. On 13 October, the ULFA (Independent) detonated a low intensity bomb in Guwahati to warn the Bengali Hindu organizations protesting the exclusion of names of Bengali Hindu refugees from the NRC. It claimed that the Bengali Hindu organizations were working against the interests of the indigenous Assamese people and conspiring against Assam. A week before the incident, Assam Police received intelligence input about attacks in Bengali inhabited areas. On 25 November the pro-talk faction of the ULFA leadership stated that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 must be stopped from being passed at the Parliament. If it gets passed, he threatened to turn Assam into a 1983-like situation where the Bengali people would be massacred again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 901]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282963-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tinsukia killings, Killings\nIn the evening of 1 November 2018, six or seven Bengali Hindu youths were relaxing at a shop and playing ludo in the Kherbari village. Around 8-30 PM IST five or six unidentified gunmen arrived at the spot and rounded up the youths. They were taken to the banks of the Brahmaputra river, about six kilometers from the Dhola-Sadiya bridge. The gunmen forced the youths to sit on a line. At around 8:55 PM IST the gunmen opened fire on the youths from a point blank range. Five out of the seven people died on the spot. The two critically injured survivors were rushed to the hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282963-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tinsukia killings, Reactions\nChief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal condemned the killings. Sushmita Dev, Member of Parliament from Silchar too condemned the killings. Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal condemned the killings and lay the blame on the NRC process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282964-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Tipperary Senior Football Championship (sponsored by Tipperary Water) was the 128th edition of the Tipperary GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Tipperary, Ireland. The tournament consisted of 16 clubs with the winner going on to represent Tipperary in the Munster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship began with a Group stage before proceeding to a knock-out format. The winning Club received the O'Dwyer Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282964-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary Senior Football Championship\nClonmel Commercials were the defending champions, however the defence of their title came undone at the Semi-Final stage when losing to eventual champions Moyle Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282964-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary Senior Football Championship\nThis was Kiladangan's debut in the senior grade after claiming the 2017 Tipperary I.F.C. title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282964-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary Senior Football Championship\nOn 28 October 2018, Moyle Rovers claimed their 9th Tipperary S.F.C. crown when defeating Ardfinnan by 1-15 to 1-7 in the final at Semple Stadium. This was their first triumph since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282964-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary Senior Football Championship\nDrom-Inch GAA were relegated to the 2019 I.F.C. after losing their Relegation Final to\u00a0???. This ended their four year tenure in the senior ranks since their promotion in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282964-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary Senior Football Championship\nThe draw for the group stage was made on 28 January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282964-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282964-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary Senior Football Championship, Format\nThe 16 teams are drawn into random groups of four. The top two teams automatically enter the knock-out stages. Should a team finish third or fourth in their group but win their regional championship (West Tipperary S.F.C./Mid Tipperary S.F.C./South Tipperary S.F.C. ), they will be re-instated into the county series in a Preliminary Quarter-Final in a random draw against any of the second placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282964-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nAll 16 teams enter the competition at this stage. The top 2 teams in each group go into the Quarter-Finals while the bottom team of each group will enter a Relegation Playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282965-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 128th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887. The draw for the 2018 group stage took place on 29 January 2018. The championship began on 14 April 2018 and ended on 21 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282965-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThurles Sarsfields were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Nenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g at the semi-final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282965-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 21 October 2018, Clonoulty-Rossmore won the championship after a 0-23 to 2-13 defeat of Nenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g in the final at Semple Stadium. It was their third championship title overall and their first title since 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season\nThe 2018 season was Michael Ryan's third and final year as manager of the Tipperary senior hurling team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season\nOn 26 September 2017, it was confirmed that Michael Ryan would continue as Tipperary manager on a new three-year term alongside coach Declan Fanning and selectors John Madden and Conor Stakelum. Brian Horgan left his position as a selector.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season\nIntersport/Elverys continued as sponsors of Tipperary GAA for a fourth year with the same kit as used in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season\nOn 10 November 2017, it was confirmed that P\u00e1draic Maher would retain the captaincy of the Tipperary Senior hurling team for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season\nTipperary again chose not to compete in the Munster Senior Hurling League which was held in January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season\nOn 2 August 2018, Michael Ryan along with his management team stepped down after three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season\nOn 24 September, Liam Sheedy was appointed as the new manager of the Tipperary senior hurling team on a three-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 senior hurling management team, 2018 squad\nThe following players made their competitive senior debut in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 90], "content_span": [91, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 senior hurling management team, 2018 squad\nSquad as per v Kilkenny in the 2018 National Hurling League Final on 8 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 90], "content_span": [91, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, Challenge Games\nA 40-man pre-season training panel was named at the end of October 2017 with nine new players included while there was also a recall for defender Cathal Barrett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, Challenge Games\nIn October 2017, Steven O'Brien confirmed that he would be playing with the Tipperary senior football team in 2018 after two years with the Tipperary hurling team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, Challenge Games\nTipperary played their first challenge game of the new season on 9 December 2017 against Laois in Puckane. The match was hosted by the Kiladangan club with all proceeds going toward the Kiladangan National School defibrillator fund and Living Links Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nIt was confirmed in January that S\u00e9amus Callanan would miss most of the league campaign with a back injury. Tipperary started their league campaign on 28 January against Clare in Ennis, they started with only six of those who lost to Galway in the 2017 All-Ireland semi-final. The match was played in Cusack Park with a 2pm throw-in, and was televised live by TG4. Clare won the game 1-21 to 0-19, and also had a half time lead of 0-13 to 0-10. Goalkeeper Paul Maher, Tom Fox at left half back and Ger Browne at top of the right all started the game to make their league debuts. David Reidy got the clinching score for Clare in injury-time when he ran in on goal to shoot low to the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nA week later on 3 February, Tipperary defeated Waterford. There were six changes from the team that lined out against Clare, Sean O'Brien, Joe O'Dwyer, Brendan Maher, Dan McCormack, Michael Breen and John McGrath all came into the team. Paudie Feehan came into the team a few minutes before the start due to Cathal Barrett picking up a groin injury. The match was played in Semple Stadium with a 7pm throw-in, and was televised live by Eir Sport. Before a crowd of 6,363 Waterford with the wind behind them in the first-half had an 0-10 to 0-9 lead at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nMark O'Brien scored a goal for Waterford after 48 minutes shooting from a tight angle. Tipperary won a penalty when Michael Breen was fouled with Jason Forde shooting low to the left corner. Waterford only scored 1-1 in the second half. Dan McCormack who went off after four minutes of the game with a knee injury and Joe O'Dwyer who suffered a broken thumb will both miss the remainder of the league campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nTwo weeks later on 17 February, Tipperary defeated previously unbeaten Wexford. It was the first meeting between the teams since the league semi-final in April 2017. There were five changes from the team that lined out against Waterford, Daragh Mooney, James Barry, Patrick Maher, Barry Heffernan and Michael Cahill were all named initially in the team, Michael Cahill eventually missed out due to flu. The match was played in Semple Stadium with a 7pm throw-in, and was televised live by Eir Sport before a crown of 8,358.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nJason Forde who was named as the man of the match got the opening goal of the game in the 13th minute when he ran onto a pass from Sean Curran to shoot low past the goalkeeper. With Tipperary leading at half-time by 1-15 to 1-8. Forde got his second goal of the game in the 44th minute with a low powerful shot to the net and with 11 minutes remaining Tipperary were 2-20 to 1-14 ahead, before a comeback by Wexford. With Tipperary leading by three points in injury time, Patrick Maher put the game beyond Wexford when he cut in from the right to shoot low to the right of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nOn 25 February Tipperary played Kilkenny in round four of the league. The match was played in Nowlan Park with a 2pm throw-in, and was televised live by TG4. They were without Jason Forde, John McGrath, Barry Heffernan and Paul Maher due to there involvement in the 2018 Fitzgibbon Cup final the day before. Niall O'Meara started his first league game of the year while Billy McCarthy made his first league start for Tipperary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nKilkenny won the game by a point on a 2-22 to 2-21 scoreline after leading by 0-13 to 0-12 at half-time, Michael Breen who started at full-forward scored 2-9 for Tipperary before an attendance of 10,587. Kilkenny scored two goals in less than three minutes after the restart in the second half, the first from Walter Walsh who ran in on goals to score past the goalkeeper, the second from Luke Scanlon when he cut in from the left to fire into the roof of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0015-0002", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nTipperary responded when Breen kicked the ball low to the net before cutting in from the right before firing to the net to get his second goal of the game. Richie Leahy struck a late winning point for Kilkenny in injury time. Niall O'Meara picked up an arm injury in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nIn round five of the league, Tipperary were due to play Cork on 4 March but the game was postponed along with all the other games due to adverse weather conditions. The match against Cork took place a week later in Semple Stadium with Tipperary winning by three points on a 1-24 to 1-21 scoreline. Tipperary had a 0-15 to 1-9 lead at half time and Billy McCarthy got the Tipperary goal in the second half to put Tipperary seven clear in front of 6,733. Jason Forde ended up with a total of 0-12, 0-5 from play as Tipperary qualified for the hurling League quarter-finals where they would meet Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nTipperary were due to play Dublin in the quarter-finals on 18 March in Parnell Park, but he game was postponed due to heavy snow in Dublin. It was rescheduled for the bank holiday Monday, 19 March but again had to be called off due to the conditions in Dublin. The match was rescheduled for Croke Park on Sunday 25 March as part of a double header with the Dublin football team. The match was televised live by TG4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nTen minutes into the match, Dublin had an 0-9 to 0-1 lead before Tipperary settled and went on to outscore Dublin by nineteen points from the 13th minute of the match to run out winners by 2-25 to 0-20. John McGrath got the first goal for Tipperary in the first half after 27 minutes when he cut in from the right before shooting low to the net at the hill 16 end to put Tipperary into the lead for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0017-0002", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nRonan Maher received a second yellow card at the end of the first half after he wrapped his arm around Ryan Dwyer's neck. At half time Tipperary had a 1-15 to 0-14 lead. In the second half Michael Breen got the second goal for Tipperary in the 54th minute when he shot low to the left of the net after cutting back onto his left side. P\u00e1draic Maher was named as the man of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nTipperary played Limerick in the semi-final on 31 March at Semple Stadium. The match was televised live by TG4 with an attendance of 12,006 . Tipperary won the game on a 2-31 to 1-31 scoreline after extra-time to qualify for the final for the second year in a row. There were three changes to the team from the quarter-final with Willie Connors making his first start at corner forward and Daragh Mooney taking over as goalkeeper with Tom\u00e1s Hamill also named in the half-back line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nTipperary has a 0-12 to 0-10 lead at half-time and lead by 0-26 to 0-22 with three minutes remaining before Limerick came back to take the game into extra-time. During the first minute of extra time, Jason Forde who was named as the man of the match scored the first of his two goals when he intercepted a short Nicky Quaid puck-out and fired low to the net from 20m. He got his second in the 74th minute he flicked the ball into the net from the right from close range after a goalmouth scramble. Limerick pulled a goal back when Graeme Mulcahy fired powerfully into the net but Tipperary held on to win by three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nTipperary went on to play Kilkenny in the league final on Sunday 8 April at Nowlan Park. The match was televised live by TG4 and it was the tenth final meeting between the sides in ten years. Brendan Maher came into the side to start at midfield. Tipperary had lost league finals to Kilkeny in 2009, 2013 and All-Ireland finals to Kilkenny in 2009, 2011 and in 2014 following a draw, while Tipperary had beaten Kilkenny twice in All-Ireland finals during the same period in 2010 and 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nTipperary were hoping to win their 20th league title but had not won the title since 2008. Kilkenny won the game on a 2-23 to 2-17 scoreline in front of 17,608, Tipperary had a 1-10 to 0-11 lead at half time. The first Tipperary goal came from Jason Forde in the 24th minute when he shot low to the net after a pass from John McGrath. Kilkenny scored their first goal 30 seconds into the second half when Walter Walsh escaped past the Tipperary defense to fire to the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0019-0002", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nJohn O'Dwyer had a goal chance saved by Eoin Murphy in the 40th minute. The second Kilkenny goal came in the 63rd minute when Conor Fogarty got free on the right and fired to the net. Tipperary only scored one point from play in the second half from John McGrath in the 38th minute, their second goal again came from Jason Forde with five minutes remaining from a 21m free which was hit low to the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0019-0003", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 National Hurling League, Summary\nThis was Kilkenny's sixth win in seven knockout league games against Tipperary and they have won 14 of their last 17 knockout matches against Tipperary and haven't lost to them at home in a knock out match since 2008. Jason Forde finished as the league's top scored for the year with a total of 7-72 in seven matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship\nThe draw for the Munster championship round-robin fixtures was held off camera on 19 October 2017 and announced on the championship draw broadcast live on RT\u00c92 that evening. After the completion of the league, five players were released from the Tipperary senior hurling panel, Paul Shanahan, Tom Fox, Lyndon Fairbrother, Paddy Caddell and Tomas Hamill. Seamus Callanan returned to training on 17 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 1 (v Limerick 20 May)\nManager Micheal Ryan named four championship debutants for the opening Munster Championship round-robin game against Limerick at the Gaelic Grounds on 20 May with goalkeeper Brian Hogan, Barry Heffernan, Willie Connors and Billy McCarthy all starting, with Alan Flynn making his first start. The match was televised live on RT\u00c92 as part of the Sunday Game presented by Michael Lyster with analysis by Ger Loughnane, Henry Shefflin, and Tom\u00e1s Mulcahy. Commentary on the game was provided by Marty Morrissey alongside D\u00f3nal O'Grady. Limerick won the game on a 1-23 to 2-14 scoreline in front of an attendance of 20,423.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 112], "content_span": [113, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 1 (v Limerick 20 May)\nTipperary had a 1-10 to 0-12 lead at half time, the Tipperary goal coming from Dan McCormack in the 20th minute when he reacted quickly to fire low to the net after John McGrath's one handed effort rebounded off the base of the post. Jason Forde got the second goal for Tipperary against the run of play in the 50th minute to level the game when he caught the ball on the right before firing into the left side of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 112], "content_span": [113, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0021-0002", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 1 (v Limerick 20 May)\nLimerick went on to outscore Tipperary by 1-5 to 0-2 to win the game by 6 points with Barry Murphy getting the Limerick goal in the 67th minute when he batted down past Brian Hogan and into the net. After the match, Michael Ryan issued a media ban until after the completion of the Munster Championship but reversed this decision two days later when he spoke to Tipp FM radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 112], "content_span": [113, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0021-0003", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 1 (v Limerick 20 May)\n\"We're very disappointed with the performance levels we brought on Sunday, they weren't good enough, Fellas get opportunities based on their performances in our training games, the reason why I didn't speak to the media on Sunday immediately after the match was a decision we had taken prior to the campaign,\" Ryan said speaking to Tipp FM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 112], "content_span": [113, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0021-0004", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 1 (v Limerick 20 May)\nThis defeat to Limerick was the fourth consecutive defeat they have suffered in the immediate aftermath of a National Hurling league final loss, following losses to Limerick in 2013 and 2014 and Cork in 2017, games that were next up after the league finals against Kilkenny in 2013 and 2014 and Galway in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 112], "content_span": [113, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 2 (v Cork 27 May)\nA week later Tipperary played Cork at Semple Stadium in round 2 of the Munster Championship group stage on 27 May. The match was televised live on RT\u00c92 as part of the Sunday Game presented by Michael Lyster with analysis by Ger Loughnane, Henry Shefflin, and Cyril Farrell. Commentary on the game was provided by Darragh Maloney alongside Michael Duignan. There were six changes to the team from the previous week with Seamus Callanan, Patrick Maher, Brendan Maher and Sean O'Brien all starting and Michael Cahill and Joe O'Dwyer also coming into the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 108], "content_span": [109, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 2 (v Cork 27 May)\nThe game finished in a draw on a 2-20 to 1-23 scoreline after Cork had a nine-point lead at half-time on a 1-15 to 1-6 scoreline. In front of an attendance of 22,456, Jason Fode got the first goal for Tipperary after 14 minutes with a low powerful finish to the right. Noel McGrath got the other goal when he cut in from the left to score with a low shot to the right. With three minutes to go, Cork lead by three points when goalkeeper Anthony Nash saved low to his right from a ground shot by John O'Dwyer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 108], "content_span": [109, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0022-0002", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 2 (v Cork 27 May)\nJake Morris got the equalizing point for Tipperary with the last puck of the game in the 72nd minute. John McGrath was named as the man of the match. Tipperary manager Michael Ryan was not happy with the first half saying \"It was a horrible first half for us. Cork were all over us and we were literally chasing shadows all over the pitch, We didn't get to express ourselves or take control of any part of that first half. It was Cork, Cork, Cork.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 108], "content_span": [109, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 3 (v Waterford 3 June)\nThe following week Tipperary played Waterford at the Gaelic Grounds in round 3 of the Munster Championship group stage on 3 June. The match was televised live on RT\u00c92 as part of the Sunday Game presented by Joanne Cantwell with analysis by Liam Sheedy, Ken McGrath, and Cyril Farrell. Commentary on the game was provided by Darragh Maloney alongside Anthony Daly. Tipperary made one change to the team with John O'Dwyer starting instead of Patrick Maher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 113], "content_span": [114, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 3 (v Waterford 3 June)\nFor the second week in a row the game finished in a draw on a 2-22 to 2-22 scoreline after Waterford had a six-point lead at half time on a 2-12 to 0-12 scoreline and had an eleven-point lead in the 54th minute. In front of an attendance of 10,237 and in very warm conditions, Michael Cahill was sent off after being shown a second yellow card just before half-time. Patrick Maher got the first goal for Tipperary in the second half with a low powerful finish to the net from the right after 58 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 113], "content_span": [114, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0023-0002", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 3 (v Waterford 3 June)\nJason Forde got the other goal in the 62nd minute when he hit a long range free which dropped short and was juggled by Waterford player Austin Gleeson on the line before being cleared, the umpire gave a goal as he [sic?] taught that the ball had gone over the line before being cleared. Brendan Maher was named as the man of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 113], "content_span": [114, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 4 (v Clare 10 June)\nTipperary went on to play Clare in their last game of the group stage on 10 June in Semple Stadium. They lost the game on a 1-23 to 1-21 scoreline. This was the first championship fixture between the sides in Semple Stadium in 33 years and Clare's first win since 1928. Clare's win was also their first win in Tipperary in the championship since 1928. The match was televised live on RT\u00c92 as part of the Sunday Game presented by Michael Lyster with analysis by Ger Loughnane, Jackie Tyrrell, and Liam Sheedy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 110], "content_span": [111, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 4 (v Clare 10 June)\nCommentary on the game was provided by Marty Morrissey alongside D\u00f3nal O'Grady. Clare won the game by two points to eliminate Tipperary from the championship. There were three changes to the Tipperary team that drew with Waterford the previous week with Donagh Maher, Cathal Barrett and Patrick Maher coming in to replace John O'Dwyer, Noel McGrath and the suspended Michael Cahill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 110], "content_span": [111, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0024-0002", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 4 (v Clare 10 June)\nThe Tipperary goal came from Billy McCarthy in the 13th minute when he burst past David McInerney to fire powerfully past the Clare goalkeeper, this gave Tipperray a six-point lead, 1-4 to 0-1 and they increased the lead to eight in the first half before four Clare points made the half time score 1-10 to 0-9. Tipperary continued to lead the match until injury time when Clare leveled the match and then went on to lead with two points from man of the match Peter Duggan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 110], "content_span": [111, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0024-0003", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 4 (v Clare 10 June)\nThe Clare goal came from Ian Galvin when he received the ball from Podge Collins before side-stepping and finishing low to the left of the net. That Clare goal came 18 seconds after Jake Morris had hit the post from the left which would have put Tipperary into a seven-point lead with 6 minutes left. Late in the match, Brendan Maher tore his cruciate and is expected to be out of action till 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 110], "content_span": [111, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0024-0004", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 4 (v Clare 10 June)\nTipperary manager Michael Ryan speaking after the game was disappointed but happy that the team had finally performed saying \"I didn't see fatigue \u2014 if anything I saw the opposite, that was our best performance out of four yet we didn't get anything out of it. I know the writing was on the wall for us, we had to deliver a performance today to have a chance. I don't think it hurt us today.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 110], "content_span": [111, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0024-0005", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 4 (v Clare 10 June)\nOn 13 June the Tipperary County board released a statement firmly backing Michael Ryan and his management team after criticism of the team's performance in the championship. This is the earliest that Tipperary have been eliminated from the championship since the defeat to Waterford on 7 June 1998 in the Munster semi-final at Pairc Ui Chaoimh, a team that included manager Michael Ryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 110], "content_span": [111, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Round 4 (v Clare 10 June)\nOn 2 August 2018, Michael Ryan along with his management team stepped down after three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 110], "content_span": [111, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282966-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipperary county hurling team season, Awards\nThe nominations for the PwC All-Stars were announced on 13 September with Tipperary receiving one nomination in forward Jason Forde. The award winners were announced on 2 November with Forde not being named in the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282967-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tipsport liga\n2018 Tipsport liga is the twenty-first edition of the annual football tournament in Czech Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282968-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico\nThe 2018 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico NAMEDSPORT was a road cycling stage race that took place between 7 and 13 March 2018 in Italy. It was the 53rd edition of the Tirreno\u2013Adriatico and the seventh event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282968-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico\nA Polish rider won the race for the first time, as Team Sky's Micha\u0142 Kwiatkowski took the overall victory; Kwiatkowski took the race lead after gaining bonus seconds on the fifth stage, and maintained the lead to the end of the race. Kwiatkowski finished 24 seconds clear of Damiano Caruso (BMC Racing Team), while the podium was completed by another Team Sky rider, Geraint Thomas, a further 8 seconds behind Caruso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282968-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico\nIn the other classifications, Jacopo Mosca (Wilier Triestina\u2013Selle Italia) won the orange jersey as points classification winner, while Nicola Bagioli (Nippo\u2013Vini Fantini\u2013Europa Ovini) won the mountains classification and its accompanying green jersey. The young rider classification and the white jersey was won by Lotto\u2013Soudal's Tiesj Benoot, in fourth place overall, while the teams classification was won by Astana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282968-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico, Teams\nAs Tirreno\u2013Adriatico was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Four UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 22-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282968-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico, Route\nThe route of the 2018 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico was announced on 12 January 2018. As part of the route, a stage finish in Filottrano was scheduled in honour of Michele Scarponi, who died the previous April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282968-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico, four jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages except for the time trials: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints; three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The leader of the general classification received a blue jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282968-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico, Classification leadership table\nThe second classification was the points classification. Riders were awarded points for finishing in the top ten in a stage. Unlike in the points classification in the Tour de France, the winners of all stages \u2013 with the exception of the team time trial, which awarded no points towards the classification \u2013 were awarded the same number of points. Points were also won in intermediate sprints; five points for crossing the sprint line first, three points for second place, two for third and one for fourth. The leader of the points classification was awarded an orange jersey, a change from the red jersey awarded in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282968-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico, Classification leadership table\nThere was also a mountains classification, for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. Each of the sixteen climbs was categorised as either Superior-, or single-category, with more points available for the more difficult, Superior-category climb to Sassotetto. For this climb, the top seven riders earned points; on the other climbs, only the top four riders earned points. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282968-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico, Classification leadership table\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. Only riders born after 1 January 1993 were eligible; the young rider best placed in the general classification was the leader of the young rider classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists in a team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest cumulative time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282969-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tocantins gubernatorial special election\nThe 2018 Tocantins gubernatorial special election was summoned by the Superior Electoral Court after the decision that removed the Governor and Vice Governor of Tocantins, who won the 2014 election, by the allegation of abuse of economic power. In the face of such sentence, the President of the Legislative Assembly, Mauro Carlesse, took office as Acting Governor until a new voting decided who would command the state government. Altogether, seven candidacies were registered for the election. Carlesse ran for Governor and defeated Senator Vicentinho Alves in the second round with more than 75% of the valid votes. The term of Carlesse ends on 1 January 2019, when the Governor-elect in the October election will take office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282970-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tochigi SC season, Squad\nAs of 1 July 2019. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282970-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tochigi SC season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282971-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Togolese parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Togo on 20 December 2018. They had been initially scheduled for July 2018, but were postponed until ECOWAS called for polling to take place on 20 December. The main opposition parties, which formed Aliance C14, boycotted the elections following the refusal of President Faure Gnassingb\u00e9 to fully cancel proposed constitution reforms that would allow him to run for two more terms beyond his current ending term in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282971-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Togolese parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe 91 members of the National Assembly are elected by closed list proportional representation from 30 multi-member constituencies ranging in size from two to ten seats. Seats are allocated using the highest averages method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282971-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Togolese parliamentary election, Campaign\nThe elections saw 105 political parties submit lists, alongside 25 lists of independent candidates. A total of 850 candidates ran for the 91 available seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282972-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tokyo Marathon\nThe 2018 Tokyo Marathon (Japanese: \u6771\u4eac\u30de\u30e9\u30bd\u30f3 2018) was the twelfth edition of the annual marathon race in Tokyo and was held on Sunday, 25 February. An IAAF Gold Label Road Race, it was the first World Marathon Majors event to be held that year. The men's race was won by Dickson Chumba in 2:05:30 hours while the women's race was won by Birhane Dibaba in 2:19:51. The men's runner-up Yuta Shitara set a Japanese national record time of 2:06:11 hours. This was also an Asian record. The host nation featured prominently in the men's race, with two runners in the top five and six of the top ten being Japanese. The Japanese women fared less well, with sixth-place Hiroko Yoshitomi being the best national performer (over ten minutes behind the winner).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282972-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tokyo Marathon\nAround 35,500 runners took part in the marathon races, with a further 500 taking part in a 10K run linked to the event. The public section of the race was oversubscribed 9 times over, with nearly 320,000 applications received. From an initial 35,911 starters, a total of 34,542 people finished the marathon distance, 7905 (23%) of which were women and 32 wheelchair racers. The event was broadcast live on television by Fuji TV and live radio commentary was provided by Nippon Broadcasting System. An exhibition about the race was held at Tokyo Big Sight in the three days proceeding the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282972-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tokyo Marathon, Race summary\nThough the men's race was not as fast as the previous year, Chumba won the race in the second fastest time ever recorded at the event. Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich returned to attempt a title defence, and also a world record, but this proved too much for the athlete, who dropped out shortly after the 15\u00a0km mark. The leading men's group were paced through to the halfway point in 1:02:44.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282972-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Tokyo Marathon, Race summary\nAfter the pacemakers dropped out, Chumba forged ahead with fellow Kenyans Amos Kipruto and Gideon Kipketer, though the latter two soon fell behind and Yuta Shitara had a late surge to overhaul them. After those four, Hiroto Inoue was the only other man to finish under two hours and seven minutes in fifth place \u2013 this was a new record in depth of performances at the race. Shitara's national record brought him a 100 million yen bonus (US$950,000) from the Japan Corporate Track and Field Federation as part of their \"Project Exceed\" initiative to improve performances in the build-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Inoue's sub-2:07 run was also worth a 10 million yen bonus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282972-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tokyo Marathon, Race summary\nThe standard of the women's race was diminished by the absence of two major runners due to injury, Purity Cherotich Rionoripo and Meseret Defar. The gap in quality showed as five runners had build up a half minute lead by the first 5\u00a0km point \u2013 Ethiopians Birhane Dibaba, Ruti Aga and Shure Demise, plus American Amy Cragg and Kenya's Helah Kiprop. Kiprop drifted off the pack after 15\u00a0km, being 14 seconds in arrears when the other four women passed the halfway point in 1:10:19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282972-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Tokyo Marathon, Race summary\nShure Demise was the next to go, falling behind by six seconds in the 25\u201330\u00a0km period of the race. The 30\u201335\u00a0km segment saw Cragg drop eight seconds back and Birhane Dibaba put clear distance between herself and runner-up Ruti Aga, eventually winning with nearly a minute and a half to spare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282972-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tokyo Marathon, Race summary\nIn the wheelchair races, Hiroyuki Yamamoto and Tomoki Suzuki were dominant in the absence of Marcel Hug (flight cancellation) and it was Yamamoto who pipped his opponent to take the victory by a margin of one second in 1:26:23. A group of six racers remained in a pack further back, racing tactically some five minutes in arrears to the leaders. A sprint finish between them saw South Africa's Ernst van Dyk edge out Australian Kurt Fearnley by a fraction of a second to take third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282972-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Tokyo Marathon, Race summary\nSix was the total number of entrants in the women's wheelchair race: Swiss Manuela Sch\u00e4r led the pace and pulled away from Tatyana McFadden and Amanda McGrory to win in 1:43:25 \u2013 over a minute and a half clear. McFadden took the runner-up spot and home athlete Tsubasa Kina pulled ahead of a fading McGrory to claim third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282973-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe 2018 Toledo Rockets football team represented the University of Toledo in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Jason Candle and played their home games at the Glass Bowl as members of the West Division of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 7\u20136, 5\u20133 in MAC play to finish in a three-way tie for second place in the West Division. They were invited to the Bahamas Bowl where they lost to FIU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282973-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toledo Rockets football team, Previous season\nThe Rockets finished the 2017 season 11\u20133, 7\u20131 in MAC play to win the West Division. They defeated Akron in the MAC Championship game to become champions of the MAC. They received an invitation to the Dollar General Bowl where they lost to Appalachian State for the second consecutive year in a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282973-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toledo Rockets football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe MAC released their preseason media poll on July 24, 2018, with the Rockets predicted to finish in second place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282974-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tonga Major League\nThe 2018 season of the Tonga Major League is the 39th season of top flight association football competition in Tonga. The winner qualifies for the 2019 OFC Champions League Qualifying stage. Because the Tonga Major League is the only men's senior competition on Tonga there is no relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282974-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tonga Major League\nLotoha\u02bbapai United won the title, beating Veitongo 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282975-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Top Challenge League\nThe 2018 Top Challenge League was the second season of Japan's second-tier domestic rugby union competition, the Top Challenge League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282975-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Top Challenge League\nIt was played from 8 September to 9 December 2018, with eight participating teams. NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes won the competition for the third time \u2013 having previously won in 2010\u201311 and 2016\u201317 and qualified for the promotion play-offs, along with Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars, Kintetsu Liners and Kurita Water Gush. Kamaishi Seawaves and Chugoku Red Regulions finished seventh and eighth respectively to qualify for the relegation play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282975-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Top Challenge League, Competition rules\nIn January 2017, the JRFU announced the format of the Top Challenge League competition. The competition was played in two stages. The First Stage was a round-robin format, where all eight teams played each other once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282975-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Top Challenge League, Competition rules\nThe top four teams in the First Stage progressed to Group A of the Second Stage, while the bottom four teams progressed to Group B. Each of these groups was another round-robin, with all four teams playing each other once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282975-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Top Challenge League, Competition rules\nThe four teams that competed in Group A progressed to promotion play-offs against the bottom four teams in the 2018\u201319 Top League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282975-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Top Challenge League, Competition rules\nThe two team that finished bottom and second-bottom of Group B progressed to the relegation play-offs, along with the winners and the runners-up of the Regional Challenge, held between the champions of the Top East League, Top West League and Top Ky\u016bsh\u016b League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282975-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Top Challenge League, Teams\nThe following teams took part in the 2018 Top Challenge League competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282975-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Top Challenge League, First Stage, Standings\nThe current standings for the 2018 Top Challenge League First Stage are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282975-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Top Challenge League, Second Stage Group A, Standings\nThe standings for the 2018 Top Challenge League Second Stage Group A are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282975-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Top Challenge League, Second Stage Group B, Standings\nThe standings for the 2018 Top Challenge League Second Stage Group B are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282976-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toppserien\nThe 2018 Toppserien is the 32nd season of the highest women's football league in Norway. LSK Kvinner entered the season as the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282976-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toppserien\nLSK Kvinner won their fifth consecutive title with five matchdays to spare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282976-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toppserien, Individual awards\nAt the end of the year Norwegian Football awards Guro Reiten of LSK Kvinner won the 2018 Golden Boot, 2018 Player of the Year and 2018 Goal of the Year awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282977-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open\nThe 2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open is a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 35th edition of the Pan Pacific Open, and part of the Premier Series of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Arena Tachikawa Tachihi in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, on 17\u201323 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282977-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282977-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282977-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282978-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open \u2013 Doubles\nAndreja Klepa\u010d and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez were the defending champions, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282978-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open \u2013 Doubles\nMiyu Kato and Makoto Ninomiya won the title, defeating Andrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 and Barbora Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282979-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open \u2013 Singles\nCaroline Wozniacki was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the second round to Camila Giorgi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282979-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open \u2013 Singles\nKarol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 won the title, defeating Naomi Osaka in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134. Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 won the title after saving two match points Alison Riske had against her in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282979-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado\nThe 2018 Torneo Descentralizado de F\u00fatbol Profesional (known as the 2018 Copa Movistar for sponsorship reasons) was the 102nd edition of the top flight of Association football governed by the Federaci\u00f3n Peruana de Futbol (FPF) (Spanish: Federaci\u00f3n Peruana de Futbol or FPF). There were 16 teams in play; Alianza Lima were the defending champions. Sporting Cristal won their nineteenth domestic championship on 16 December after beating Alianza Lima in both legs of the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Competition format\nThe season was played in four phases: Torneo de Verano (Summer Tournament), Torneo Apertura (Opening Tournament), Torneo Clausura (Closing Tournament), and the Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Competition format\nIn the Torneo de Verano, teams were separated into two groups. Teams in each group played two matches against each team in their group, once at home and once away. The winner of each group qualified to play a double-legged final. The group winner with the most points on the aggregate table chose their home match. The winner of this tournament gained access to the playoffs and the 2019 Copa Libertadores if they finished in the top eight of the aggregate table at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Competition format\nThe Torneo Apertura and Torneo Clausura were two smaller tournament of 15 games in which each team played all others once. In the Torneo Clausura, matches were played in reverse order to the ones in the Torneo Apertura, and Apertura points did not carry over to Clausura. The winners of the Apertura and Clausura qualified to the playoffs and the 2019 Copa Libertadores as long as they finished in the top eight of the aggregate table at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Competition format\nIn the Playoffs, the winners of the three tournaments and the top team in the aggregate table played two semifinals with the winners playing the final. If a team won two out of the three tournaments, they would qualify for the final and the winner of the remaining tournament would play in the semifinal the best team in the aggregate table. The team with the most points on the aggregate table chose the home match. If teams were tied in points, a third match on neutral ground would be played to decide the national champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Competition format\nIf a team won the three tournaments, the playoffs would have been canceled and they would be declared as champions. The 2019 Copa Sudamericana berths were awarded to the four teams with the best record in the aggregate table that did not qualify for the Copa Libertadores. The two teams with the fewest points at the end of the third leg were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Teams\nThere were 16 teams confirmed to play in the 2018 Torneo Descentralizado; 14 teams from the previous season, the 2017 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n champion (Sport Boys), and the 2017 Copa Per\u00fa champion (Binacional).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Teams, Stadia and locations\na: Ayacucho played their home games in the Torneo de Verano and Torneo Apertura at Estadio Eloy Molina Robles in Huanta while their regular stadium Estadio Ciudad de Cuman\u00e1 underwent maintenance works. However, they temporarily moved their home games to Estadio Huancayo in Huancayo since Estadio Eloy Molina Robles in Huanta was deemed unfit for use by the ADFP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Teams, Stadia and locations\nb: Binacional played their home games in the Torneo de Verano at Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi in Arequipa, moving to Estadio 25 de Noviembre in Moquegua for the start of the Torneo Apertura due to poor attendances in their home games. c: Comerciantes Unidos played their home games at Estadio Carlos A. Olivares in Guadalupe due to their regular stadium Estadio Juan Maldonado Gamarra not meeting ADFP's stadium requirements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Teams, Stadia and locations\nComerciantes Unidos played their home games in the Torneo Clausura at Estadio Mansiche in Trujillo and Estadio Cristo El Se\u00f1or in Ba\u00f1os del Inca after they were barred from using the Estadio Carlos A. Olivares for the remainder of the season due to the incidents in their home match against Ayacucho. d: Deportivo Municipal played their home games at Estadio Nacional in Lima and Estadio Miguel Grau in Callao due to their regular stadium Estadio Iv\u00e1n El\u00edas Moreno not meeting ADFP's stadium requirements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0006-0003", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Teams, Stadia and locations\ne: UTC initially planned to play their home games at Estadio Mansiche in Trujillo due to their regular stadium Estadio H\u00e9roes de San Ram\u00f3n not meeting ADFP's stadium requirements. However, and given that Estadio Mansiche was also unable to meet ADFP's stadium requirements, UTC decided to move their home games to Estadio Carlos A. Olivares in Guadalupe and later to Estadio Germ\u00e1n Contreras in Cajabamba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Torneo de Verano, Finals\nThe champion was the team with the most points after the two legs were played. In case both teams tied in points and scored the same number of goals, there would have been 30 minutes of extra time and penalties if still tied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Torneo de Verano, Finals\nSporting Cristal won 2\u20131 on aggregate and secured a spot in the Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Aggregate table\nAll stages (Torneo de Verano, Torneo Apertura, and Torneo Clausura) of the 2018 season were aggregated into a single league table throughout the season to determine one of the teams that will qualify for the Copa Libertadores and the four Copa Sudamericana qualifiers, as well as those to be relegated at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Playoffs, Semi-final, Second leg\nTied 2\u20132 in points, Alianza Lima won on penalties and qualified for the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282980-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Descentralizado, Playoffs, Finals\nSporting Cristal (Torneo de Verano and Torneo Apertura winners) and Alianza Lima (winning semi-finalists) contested the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282981-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Internacional Challenger Le\u00f3n\nThe 2018 Torneo Internacional Challenger Le\u00f3n was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the sixteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Le\u00f3n, Mexico between 23 and 29 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282981-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Internacional Challenger Le\u00f3n, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 85], "content_span": [86, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282982-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Internacional Challenger Le\u00f3n \u2013 Doubles\nLeander Paes and Adil Shamasdin were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282982-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Internacional Challenger Le\u00f3n \u2013 Doubles\nGonzalo Escobar and Manuel S\u00e1nchez won the title after defeating Bradley Mousley and John-Patrick Smith 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282983-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Internacional Challenger Le\u00f3n \u2013 Singles\nAdri\u00e1n Men\u00e9ndez Maceiras was the defending champion but lost in the second round to John-Patrick Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282983-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Internacional Challenger Le\u00f3n \u2013 Singles\nChristopher Eubanks won the title after defeating Smith 6\u20134, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20134) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282984-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Internazionale Femminile Antico Tiro a Volo\nThe 2018 Torneo Internazionale Femminile Antico Tiro a Volo was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Rome, Italy, on 2\u20138 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282984-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Internazionale Femminile Antico Tiro a Volo, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 99], "content_span": [100, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282985-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Internazionale Femminile Antico Tiro a Volo \u2013 Doubles\nAnastasiya Komardina and Nadia Podoroska were the defending champions, but both chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282985-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Internazionale Femminile Antico Tiro a Volo \u2013 Doubles\nLaura Pigossi and Renata Zaraz\u00faa won the title, defeating Anastasia Grymalska and Giorgia Marchetti in the final, 6\u20131, 4\u20136, [13\u201311].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282986-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Internazionale Femminile Antico Tiro a Volo \u2013 Singles\nKateryna Kozlova was the defending champion, but chose to participate at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282986-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo Internazionale Femminile Antico Tiro a Volo \u2013 Singles\nDayana Yastremska won the title, defeating Anastasia Potapova in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282987-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Torneo de Promoci\u00f3n y Reserva\nThe Torneo de Promoci\u00f3n y Reserva is a football tournament in Peru. There are currently 16 clubs in the league. Each team will have a roster of twelve 21-year-old players, three 19-year-olds, and three older reinforcements; whenever they be recorded in the club. The tournament will offer the champion two bonus points and the runner-up one bonus point to the respective regular teams in the 2018 Torneo Descentralizado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282988-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 2018 Toronto Argonauts season was the 61st season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 146th season overall. The Argonauts failed to improve upon their 9\u20139 record from 2017, losing their tenth game of the season to the Calgary Stampeders on September 28. Following their week 17 loss to the BC Lions on October 6, 2018, the Argonauts were the first team eliminated from post-season contention. They became the first team since the 2006 Edmonton Eskimos to fail to qualify for the playoffs in the year after winning the Grey Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282988-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Argonauts season\nThis was the second season with Jim Popp as general manager and Marc Trestman as head coach. It was announced the day following the Argonauts 24-9 loss to the Ottawa Redblacks on November 2 that Trestman would be relieved of his coaching duties for the Toronto Argonauts football team, following a 4-14 season with minimal success in Ricky Ray's absence. Ricky Ray was also indecisive about retirement at the end of the 2018 CFL regular season after sustaining a season-ending injury in the Argonauts 41-7 loss to the Calgary Stampeders on June 23 though he ultimately retired prior to the start of the 2019 Toronto Argonauts season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282988-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Argonauts season, Offseason, CFL Draft\nThe 2018 CFL Draft took place on May 3, 2018. The Argonauts had the last selection in each round of the draft by virtue of winning the 105th Grey Cup, less any traded picks. The Argos traded their third-round pick to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in a trade for Drew Willy, but got Edmonton's when the Argos traded Mason Woods for James Franklin. The Argonauts also made two conditional trades, one of which was fulfilled; they lost their sixth-round selection to Montreal after acquiring S. J. Green and he had a successful season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282988-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Argonauts season, Preseason\nThe Argonauts played their home pre-season game in Guelph due to field maintenance for the grass at their usual home stadium, BMO Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282988-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season\nThe Toronto Argonauts lost their starting quarterback, Ricky Ray, due to a serious neck injury in the team's 41\u20137 loss to the Calgary Stampeders in the second week of the season. He was subsequently discharged from a Toronto hospital several days later. At the time of discharge, it was announced that Ray would miss a significant, but undisclosed, amount of time from on-field responsibilities. At the time of injury, commentators suggested that the team bench Ray in favor of their newly acquired backup quarterback, James Franklin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282988-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Argonauts season, Team, Roster\nItalics indicate international player updated 2018-11-0146 active, 8 one-game injured12 six-game injured, 7 practice roster", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season\nThe 2018 Toronto Blue Jays season was the 42nd season of the franchise in the American League East division of Major League Baseball (MLB), and the 28th full season of play (29th overall) at Rogers Centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason\nDuring his end-of-season press conference on October 3, 2017, general manager Ross Atkins confirmed that the Blue Jays would decline their mutual option on Jos\u00e9 Bautista and allow him to enter free agency. Atkins also announced that the team would retain their entire coaching staff entering 2018. On October 11, the team dismissed their assistant athletic trainer, Mike Frostad, as well as head strength coach Chris Joyner. Darrell Ceciliani, Bo Schultz, and C\u00e9sar Valdez were outrighted to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on November 1. The following day, Brett Anderson, Darwin Barney, Miguel Montero, and Michael Saunders became free agents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason\nOn November 4, Jos\u00e9 Bautista's $17 million mutual option for the 2018 season was officially declined by the Blue Jays, making him a free agent. Leonel Campos, Taylor Cole, Raffy Lopez, and Luis Santos were outrighted to Triple-A on November 6, and pitcher Taylor Guerrieri was claimed off waivers from the Tampa Bay Rays. Former Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay died on November 7, when his ICON A5 amphibious airplane crashed into the Gulf of Mexico near the Tampa Bay area of Florida. He was the only person in the airplane. The Blue Jays organization later announced plans to honour Halladay before their game on Opening Day and throughout the 2018 season, by retiring his number and wearing a black 32 patch on their jerseys for the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason\nOn November 20, the Blue Jays acquired Gift Ngoepe from the Pittsburgh Pirates, outrighted Chris Rowley and Harold Ram\u00edrez, lost Rob Refsnyder on a waiver claim by the Cleveland Indians, and added Conner Greene, Danny Jansen, Reese McGuire, Thomas Pannone, and Rowdy Tellez to the 40-man roster in order to protect them from the Rule 5 draft. The Blue Jays organization experienced a spike in positive tests for performance-enhancing drugs during November. Six players with the Dominican Summer League Blue Jays and one with the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays were suspended after testing positive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason\nThe team announced on November 23 that they would begin an internal investigation into the positive reports. Late in the month, it was announced that assistant general manager Andrew Tinnish had been hired by the Atlanta Braves, who had recently hired former Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos. On December 1, Tinnish announced he had withdrawn from his position with Atlanta and would remain with Toronto. Also on December 1, the Blue Jays non-tendered Ryan Goins and Tom Koehler, and traded minor league outfielder J. B. Woodman to the St. Louis Cardinals for infielder Aledmys D\u00edaz. Head athletic trainer George Poulis, who had been with the Blue Jays organization for 18 years, was hired by the Atlanta Braves on December 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason\nOn January 6, 2018, the Blue Jays traded Edward Olivares and Jared Carkuff to the San Diego Padres for infielder Yangervis Solarte. Ezequiel Carrera, Josh Donaldson, Dominic Leone, Aaron Loup, Kevin Pillar, Aaron Sanchez, and Devon Travis each avoided salary arbitration with the Blue Jays on January 12, agreeing to one-year contracts. Marcus Stroman and Roberto Osuna were unable to reach agreements with the team prior to the deadline. Dominic Leone and prospect Conner Greene were traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for outfielder Randal Grichuk on January 19. Curtis Granderson's one-year, $5 million contract became official on January 23. MLB revealed their top 100 prospects list on January 27, with Blue Jays prospects Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bo Bichette, and Anthony Alford ranking 3rd, 14th, and 47th respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 864]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason\nRoberto Osuna lost his arbitration case with the Blue Jays on February 3, and was awarded the team's $5.3 million contract instead of his requested $5.8 million. Jerry Howarth, the team's play-by-play announcer, announced his retirement on February 13 after 36 seasons with the Blue Jays. On February 15, Marcus Stroman announced through his Twitter account that he had lost his arbitration case and would make $6.5 million for the season instead of his requested salary of $6.9 million. Later that day, the team announced Jaime Garc\u00eda had been signed to a one-year, $8 million contract that included a 2019 team option.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Spring training\nBlue Jays pitchers and catchers reported to spring training on February 14, while position players reported on February 19. Seung-hwan Oh signed a one-year, $2 million contract with Toronto on February 26. To make room on the roster, Ezequiel Carrera was designated for assignment. Carrera later cleared waivers and was invited back to spring training. Nick Tepesch signed a minor league contract with the Blue Jays on March 3, and was invited to spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Spring training\nEarly in spring training, it was announced that Troy Tulowitzki had a bone spur in his right ankle, and that he would miss the start of the Grapefruit League season. On March 4, manager John Gibbons stated Tulowitzki was unlikely to be ready for Opening Day. Top prospects Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette made their Grapefruit League debuts on March 8, and combined to go 6-for-8 with two RBIs and three runs scored in Toronto's 9\u20133 win over the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Spring training\nThe Blue Jays made their first cuts of spring training on March 10, optioning Rowdy Tellez to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons, and sending Jon Harris, Sean Reid-Foley, and Jordan Romano to minor league camp. The following day, Ryan Borucki and Thomas Pannone were optioned to Buffalo, and Ezequiel Carrera was released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Spring training\nOn March 12, Gibbons announced that Marcus Stroman would not start on Opening Day due to shoulder inflammation he suffered early in spring training. Major League Baseball announced an 80-game suspension for Thomas Pannone on March 16, after he tested positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance. On March 20, Gibbons revealed that J. A. Happ would start on Opening Day, and be followed in the five-man rotation by Aaron Sanchez, Marco Estrada, Marcus Stroman, and Jaime Garc\u00eda. On March 26 and 27, the Blue Jays returned to Montreal's Olympic Stadium for two games against the St. Louis Cardinals. The team finished spring training with a 14\u201318 record and one tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, 2018 draft\nThe 2018 Major League Baseball draft began on June 4 and concluded on June 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, March and April\nThe Blue Jays opened the 2018 regular season with a four-game series against the New York Yankees. Roy Halladay, who died in the offseason in a plane crash, was honoured before the game and had his number 32 retired by the team. In the first game, Yankees' offseason acquisition Giancarlo Stanton led the way on offence, hitting two home runs in the 6\u20131 loss for Toronto. Masahiro Tanaka held the Toronto offence at bay in game two, yielding just a single run in six innings as the Jays fell 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, March and April\nToronto earned their first win of the 2018 season in the third game, 5\u20133. Yangervis Solarte hit the go-ahead home run in the eighth inning, before Kevin Pillar added an insurance run by stealing home, after having singled and stolen both second and third base. The Blue Jays split the series with a 7\u20134 win on April 1, thanks to Justin Smoak's grand slam in the eighth inning. The team then began a three-game series against the Chicago White Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, March and April\nRussell Martin's first home run of the season gave the Jays the lead in the seventh inning, and Roberto Osuna earned his second save of the year in the 4\u20132 victory. A seven-run eighth inning by the Jays in the second game led to a 14\u20135 rout of Chicago. The Blue Jays were denied their first sweep of the season, after Jos\u00e9 Abreu's go-ahead solo home run gave the White Sox a 4\u20133 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, March and April\nThe Blue Jays opened their 2018 road play in Arlington for three games against the Texas Rangers. The Jays took an 8\u20130 lead in the sixth inning of the first game, and held on to win 8\u20135. The Rangers took the second game, 5\u20131, with Rangers starter Mike Minor earning his first win as a starting pitcher since the 2014 season. In the rubber match, Rangers ace Cole Hamels allowed two first-inning home runs, and Toronto took the series with a 7\u20134 victory. The Jays then made their first trip to Camden Yards to take on the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, March and April\nJosh Donaldson's late-game grand slam gave the Blue Jays a 7\u20131 win. The game's paid attendance of 7,915 was the lowest in Orioles history, aside from the game played to an empty stadium during the 2015 riots. Aaron Sanchez took a no-hitter into the seventh inning of the second game, as the Jays edged the Orioles 2\u20131 thanks to a late home run by Curtis Granderson. Baltimore took the final game of the series, 5\u20133. To close the season's first road trip, the Blue Jays traveled to Cleveland, to take on the Indians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, March and April\nPrior to the first game, Toronto placed Josh Donaldson on the disabled list. The Jays went down 4\u20130 through two innings in the first game, before scoring eight unanswered runs to take the game 8\u20134. The other two scheduled games of the series were rained out, and postponed to May 3 for a doubleheader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, March and April\nReturning home for a brief, three-game series against the Kansas City Royals, the Blue Jays experienced just their second postponement since moving to the Rogers Centre in 1989. A section of ice, formed during a weekend freezing rain storm, fell from the CN Tower and pierced the roof of the stadium, forcing the team to schedule a doubleheader for the following day due to safety concerns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, March and April\nA six-run sixth inning in the first game cemented the win for the Jays, while backup catcher Luke Maile's walk-off single in the tenth inning of the second game gave Toronto the rare home doubleheader sweep, by scores of 11\u20133 and 5\u20134. The Blue Jays would complete the series sweep with a 15\u20135 win on April 18, led by Curtis Granderson's ninth-career grand slam. The team then returned to the road for four games against the Yankees. They would split the first two games of the series, with the Yankees winning the first 4\u20133 and the Jays taking the second 8\u20135. New York would hold the Blue Jays to a single run in each of the next two games, taking the series with 9\u20131 and 5\u20131 victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, May\nThe Blue Jays struggled through a generally mediocre month of May. Reasons for their struggles throughout the month were generally attributed to the Blue Jays having lost Osuna to administrative leave following accusations of domestic violence, the suspension of Osuna for 75 games for that offence, and injuries to several key players such as Josh Donaldson. For the first time since the month of May 1979, the team failed to win back-to-back games for the entire month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, May\nThe team posted their lowest monthly winning percentage of the season in the month of May (.322) after winning just nine games while losing nineteen. A significant detriment to the team\u2019s record was being swept twice during the month, first by the Boston Red Sox and then the Oakland Athletics, which added seven losses without any wins. The Blue Jays began their season with a three-game series against the Minnesota Twins at their home stadium, Rogers Centre, which they won two games to one behind their strong offensive performance, scoring fourteen runs over the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, May\nThe team travelled to face the Cleveland Indians in two make-up games, which were postponed after rain and inclement weather forced a postponement of the games that were originally scheduled for April 14 and April 15. They won the first game in extra innings 13-11 after they scored four runs in the eleventh inning, but lost the second game 4-13 after the Indians were able to score nine runs in a single inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, May\nOver each of the next three consecutive three-game series, where they played against Tampa Bay Rays, Seattle Mariners, and Boston Red Sox, the Blue Jays posted the same losing record of 1-2. In the first series against Tampa Bay at Tropicana Field, they lost the first two games by a combined five runs to eleven behind a strong pitching performance from the Rays. They won the third and final game of the series 2-1, only after a wild pitch in the ninth inning allowed the winning run to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, May\nAfter having their first day off in two full weeks, the Blue Jays returned home to face the Mariners in a three-game series. They lost the first game 0-5, after pitcher James Paxton, a Canada native, threw a no-hitter to leave the Blue Jays without a hit or run over nine innings. They would win the next game 5-2, as the team got twelve hits to the Rays\u2019 five; however, on the next night, the Rays would get seventeen hits to the Blue Jays\u2019 eight in a 3-9 loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, May\nThe Blue Jays remained at home to play the Red Sox in a three-game series. They won the first game 5-3 in extra innings, as catcher Luke Maile hit two home runs, one to tie the game in the seventh inning, and one to win the game in the bottom of the twelfth inning. However, the team would lose the next two games behind strong pitching and hitting performances from the Red Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, May\nAfter playing the last two series at home, the Blue Jays travelled to Citi Field to play the New York Mets in a two-game series. They lost the first game 2-12 behind a strong pitching and hitting performance from the Mets\u2019 starting pitcher, Noah Syndergaard. However, they won the second game 12-1 as the team got fifteen hits, and their starting pitcher, J.A. Happ, only allowed two hits while striking out ten batters over seven innings. This would be the first time the Blue Jays would win against the Mets in an road game in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, May\nAfter their series against the Mets, the Blue Jays returned home to Rogers Centre to play a four-game series against the Oakland Athletics. Despite both teams having an even 22-22 record following the first game in the series, the Athletics would go on to sweep the Blue Jays. The team was limited to twelve total runs over the four losses, compared to the Athletics\u2019 twenty-seven. This would be the second time, and not the last, that the team would lose four straight games in the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, May\nAfter a day off, the Blue Jays remained at home to play a three-game series against the Los Angeles Angels. They snapped their four-game losing streak with a 5-3 win in the first game, where they scored all five runs in the first inning. However, they would go on to lose the next two games and the series. They were up 3-0 in the bottom of the fifth inning, but after the Angels scored four runs in the top of the ninth inning, the Blue Jays ended up losing 4-5. They would also lose the last game 1-8 behind a robust offensive performance from the Angels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, May\nAfter losing eight of their last ten games, the Blue Jays travelled to Citizens Bank Park to play the Philadelphia Phillies in a three-game series. They won the first game 6-5 as the Blue Jays\u2019 bullpen held on to win a game that the team was winning 6-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning. However, the team would go on to lose the next game 1-2 after two short rain delays and a strong pitching performance from the Phillies\u2019 starter Aaron Nola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, May\nBehind an eight-strikeout pitching performance from their starter J.A. Happ, the Blue Jays won the final game of the series 5-3. This would be the first time in a month that the team would win a series. To complete a rather mediocre month of May, the Blue Jays would get swept by the Boston Red Sox in a three-game series at Fenway Park. They lost both the first and the second game 3-8, as the Red Sox offense was lethal throughout both games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0015-0002", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, May\nThey lost the final game in the series 4-6 to complete the sweep for Boston, as Red Sox outfielder J.D. Martinez hit his league-tying eighteenth home run. By the end of an unexceptional month of May, the Blue Jays would have a subpar 25-31 overall record, and would be fourteen games behind the first-place Boston Red Sox in the American League East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, June\nComing off a below-average month of May, the Blue Jays would look to improve on their 25-31 overall record. Although they would lose the first two games in the month of June to the Detroit Tigers, the Blue Jays would go on to win fourteen games in June while losing twelve. June would be the last month of the regular season where the Blue Jays would post a winning record, and the only such month other than April, when the team posted a 15-10 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, June\nIn the first series of the month, the Blue Jays travelled to Comerica Park to play three games against the Detroit Tigers. They would lose the first two games as the Detroit offense scored twelve combined runs to the Blue Jays\u2019 seven. They would win the next game 8-4 behind a strong performance by their starting pitcher Aaron Sanchez, breaking a five-game losing streak dating back to late May. After a day off, the Blue Jays returned home to play the New York Yankees at the Rogers Centre in a two-game series. They would lose both games after the high-powered offense of the Yankees put up ten combined runs to the Blue Jays\u2019 two. This would not be the last time that the Blue Jays were swept in a series or shutout in a game during the month of June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, June\nAfter losing eight out of their last ten games, the Blue Jays would go on to sweep the Baltimore Orioles in a four-game series at home, their first time being on the positive side of a sweep since the middle of April. They outscored the Orioles by a combined twenty-seven runs to eleven, including a thirteen-run win in the fourth and final game of the series. After winning their last four games, the Blue Jays would travel to Tropicana Field to play a three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, June\nIn their second series against the Rays this season, the Blue Jays would get swept, including a 1-0 shutout in the third and final game. After a day off to return home to Rogers Centre, the Blue Jays would face the Washington Nationals in a three-game series. They would go on to sweep the Nationals in three games, the second of which was as 2-0 shutout, behind strong offensive performances by their starting infielder Yangervis Solarte. After winning seven of their last ten games, the Blue Jays faced the Atlanta Braves in a two-game series at home. They lost the first game 4-11, as the Braves got fourteen hits while hitting two home runs; they would go on to win the second game 5-4 behind a strong performance from their starting pitcher J.A. Happ, who struck out eight batters over 8 1/3 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, June\nThe Blue Jays then travelled to Angel Stadium to face the Los Angeles Angels in a four-game series. The team would lose the first two games, 8-5 and 2-1, despite getting more tying or beating the Angels in hits both games. They would go on to win the next game 4-1, after scoring three runs in the top of the ninth inning. They would also win the following game 7-6 in extra innings, as designated hitter Kendrys Morales hit a pinch-hit home run in the top of the tenth inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, June\nThe Blue Jays then travelled to Minute Maid Park to face the Houston Astros in a three-game series. The team would win the first game 6-3, as starting outfielder Curtis Granderson hit two home runs. They would then go on to lose the next two games, the first of which was a 0-7 shutout behind a dominant performance from Astros\u2019 starting pitcher Charlie Morton, and the second of which was a 6-7 loss as Astros\u2019 starting infielder Alex Bregman hit a two-run walk-off home run to seal the comeback win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0018-0002", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, June\nThe final series of the month of June for the Blue Jays would be a four-game series against the Detroit Tigers at Rogers Centre. As the Blue Jays began the month with two losses to the Tigers, they ended the month with two wins against them. They won the first game 3-2 behind a stellar seven-inning performance from their starting pitcher Marcus Stroman. In their last final game of the month of June, the team won 4-3 as starting first baseman Justin Smoak hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to seal the win. By the end of an adequate month of June, the Blue Jays would have a below-average 39-43 overall record, and would be sixteen games behind the first-place Boston Red Sox in the American League East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, July\nAfter a competent month of June where the team posted a 14-12 record, the Blue Jays would only worsen their 39-43 overall record. The team would post an abysmal 9-15 record in July, their second-worst winning percentage by month (.375), only after May. They would begin by the month by losing their first two games, which were the final two games of a four-game series at home with the Detroit Tigers that began in late June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, July\nThey would lose by a combined 12-3 after a strong offensive performance from the Tigers\u2019 starting outfielder Nicholas Castellanos in the first game, and an exceptional eight-inning performance from the Tigers\u2019 starting pitcher Mike Fiers in the second game. The Blue Jays would then play the New York Mets in Rogers Centre in two-game series. They would win the first game 8-6, but then lose the next one 3-6. After a day off, the Blue Jays played the New York Yankees in a three-game series at home. They would win the first game 6-2 as starting first baseman Justin Smoak hit a three-run home run early, but would then lose the next two 5-8 and 1-2, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, July\nAfter playing three consecutive home series, the Blue Jays travelled to SunTrust Park to play the Atlanta Braves in a two-game series. The team would win the first game 6-2 as starting pitcher Marcus Stroman pitched six innings while only allowing one run. They would lose the second game 5-9 as the Braves scored six runs by the end of the second inning. The Blue Jays then travelled to Fenway Park to play the Boston Red Sox in a four-game series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, July\nThe team would get its lone win in the series in the second game as they won 13-7, but would lose the other three games by a combined seventeen runs to eight. After a four-day break for the MLB Home Run Derby and All-Star Game, which only included one selection from the Blue Jays (J.A. Happ) and symbolically marks the halfway point in the regular season, the Blue Jays faced the Baltimore Orioles in a three-game series at Rogers Centre. Similarly to the last time the team played the Orioles in a series, the Blue Jays completed the sweep. They beat the Orioles in three close games, 8-7, 4-1, and 5-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, July\nLooking to improve on their three-game win streak, the Blue Jays faced the Minnesota Twins in a three-game series at home. The team would go on to lose their next three games, as the Twins completed the sweep. The second game was a 0-5 shutout as Twins\u2019 starting pitcher Jose Berrios threw seven scoreless innings with nine strikeouts. After a day off, the Blue Jays travelled to Guaranteed Rate Field to play the Chicago White Sox in a three-game series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, July\nThe Blue Jays would win the series two games to one, which would be the second and last winning series for the team in the month of July. The month of July would end in a similar way as it began for the Blue Jays, as they lost their final two games by a combined sixteen runs to three in a three-game series against the Oakland Athletics. By the end of a mediocre month of July, the Blue Jays would have a subpar 48-58 overall record, and would be a dispiriting 25 1/2 games behind the first-place Boston Red Sox in the American League East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, August\nAfter an inadequate month of July where the Blue Jays won only nine of their twenty-four games, the team would only perform slightly better in August. They would post a 13-15 record for the month, winning four more games than the previous month but still losing more than winning. The first game of August would be the third and final game of a three-game series against the Oakland Athletics that began in late July. The Blue Jays lost 3-8, and the Athletics were able to sweep to Blue Jays for the second time this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, August\nThe Blue Jays then travelled to T-Mobile Park to face the Seattle Mariners in a four-game series. After a three-game losing streak, the team won the next three games by a combined 19-6 to win the series, but then lost the fourth and final game 3-6. After three consecutive road series, the Blue Jays returned home to Rogers Centre to play the Boston Red Sox in a three-game series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0022-0002", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, August\nThey lost the first two games, as the Red Sox posted ten runs in both games while the Blue Jays scored seven and five, respectively, but then won the third and final game of the series 8-5. The team then faced the Tampa Bay Rays in a three-game series, but ended up losing the series two games to one as they only scored five runs to the Rays\u2019 ten. They lost the first game as they were shutout 0-7, but won the third and final game 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, August\nAfter playing six games at home, the Blue Jays travelled to Kauffman Stadium to face the Kansas City Royals in a four-game series. They lost the first game 1-3 as Royals\u2019 starting pitcher Brad Keller threw seven innings only allowing one run. They won the next two games by the same score, 6-5. The team lost the fourth and final game of the series 2-6, as they scored two runs in the first four innings and did not score again. They then travelled to Yankee Stadium to play a three-game series against the New York Yankees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, August\nThe Blue Jays were swept as the Yankees offense remained strong throughout the series, scoring twenty-eight runs to the Blue Jays\u2019 thirteen. In the final game, J.A. Happ received the win as starting pitcher for the Yankees against his former team, as he was traded from the Blue Jays to the Yankees for an infielder Brandon Drury and outfielder Billy McKinney in the previous month. After being on the negative side of a sweep, the Blue Jays would go on to sweep the Baltimore Orioles in a three-game series at home at Rogers Centre. They outscored the Orioles by a combined nineteen runs to five, including a shutout in the third and final game of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, August\nThe Blue Jays looked to improve on their three-game win streak as they faced the Philadelphia Phillies in a three-game series at home. They would win the first two games, 4-2 and 8-6, respectively, and extend their win streak to five games, but would go on to lose the third and final game of the series, 3-8. The team then travelled to Oriole Park to play the Baltimore Orioles in a three-game series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, August\nOnly a week after the Blue Jays\u2019 last series against the Orioles where they completed the sweep, the Blue Jays were on the losing side of a sweep, as they lost their next three consecutive games to the Orioles. The first game of the series was a 0-7 shutout; the Orioles did not score fewer than seven runs in any of the three games. After a day off, the team travelled to Marlins Park to face the Miami Marlins in a three-game series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0024-0002", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, August\nThe final game of August for the Blue Jays was a 6-5 win against the Marlins to start the series, as the Blue Jays scored five runs in the top of the ninth inning to complete the comeback. By the end of a disappointing month of August, the Blue Jays would have a below-average 61-73 overall record, and would be a discouraging 31 games behind the first-place Boston Red Sox in the American League East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, September\nAfter an insufficient month of August, as the Blue Jays were swept twice and won thirteen games out of a possible twenty-eight, the team\u2019s hopes for making the postseason were in jeopardy as the final month of the regular season began. The team would perform worse in September than they did in the previous month, as they would post a 12-16 record for the month, and be eliminated from playoff contention in early September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, September\nThe first two games of the month of September were the final two games of a three-game series against the Miami Marlins that had begun the previous day in August. The Blue Jays would lose the second game of the series 3-6, but win the third game 6-1, as starting pitcher Sean Reid-Foley pitched seven innings with ten strikeouts. The Blue Jays then returned home to Rogers Centre to play the Tampa Bay Rays in a three-game series. Although they lost the first two games, by a score of 1-7 and 0-4, respectively, they won the third and final game of the series 10-3, after scoring seven runs in the bottom of the first inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, September\nThe Blue Jays remained at home to play a four-game series against the Cleveland Indians. They alternated games with the Indians, losing the first 4-9, winning the second 3-2, losing the third 8-9, and winning the final game 6-2. Following the 8-9 loss in the third game of the series, the Blue Jays were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. After a day off, the team travelled to Fenway Park to face the Boston Red Sox in a three-game series. For the ninth and final time, the Blue Jays were swept.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, September\nThe Red Sox outscored the Blue Jays twelve runs to five during the three-game series. After losing to the best team in their division in the Red Sox, the Blue Jays travelled to Yankee Stadium to play a three-game series against the second-best team in the American League East, the New York Yankees. They would be shutout in the first game 0-11, but would win the final two games 8-7 and 3-2, respectively. The team would then travel to Orioles Park to play the Baltimore Orioles in a three-game series. They would shutout the Orioles in the first game 5-0, win the second game 6-4, and lose 1-2 in the final game of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, September\nAfter playing three consecutive three-game series on the road, the Blue Jays returned home to Rogers Centre to play a four-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays. They would alternate games with the Rays, winning the first game 9-8, losing the second 3-11, winning the third 5-2, and losing the final game 2-5. For their final home series of the regular season, the Blue Jays played the Houston Astros in a three-game series. They would lose the first two games, 3-5 and 1-4, respectively, but would win their final home game of the regular season 3-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, September\nFor their final series of the regular season, the Blue Jays travelled to Tropicana Field to face the Tampa Bay Rays in a three-game series to complete the regular season. This series would mark the third meeting of these teams in the month of September, and the final game for both teams for the 2018 season, as neither team would reach the postseason. The Blue Jays would receive their final win of the season in the first game of the series, as they won 7-6. They would go on to lose the final two games of the series, and the season, 3-4 and 4-9, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282989-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, September\nBy the end of the month of September, the MLB regular season ended, and the season formally concluded for the Blue Jays. The team finished with a below-average 73-89 overall record, did not reach the postseason, and were 35 games behind the Boston Red Sox, who would go on to win the American League East division title, and the 2018 World Series championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282990-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto FC II season\nThe 2018 Toronto FC II season is the fourth season in the club's history. The team finished 16th in the Eastern Conference, missing the playoffs. After the season, Toronto FC II voluntarily moved from the second division United Soccer League to the third division USL League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282990-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto FC II season, Roster, Players\nAs of June 7, 2018. The squad of Toronto FC II will be composed of an unrestricted number of first-team players on loan to the reserve team, players signed to TFC II, and TFC Academy players. Academy players who appear in matches with TFC II will retain their college eligibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282991-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto FC season\nThe 2018 Toronto FC season was the 12th season in the history of Toronto FC. Toronto FC reached the Champions League finals for the first time in their history. After a 2\u20131 home loss to Guadalajara on April 17 in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League final, TFC would win the return away leg 2\u20131 on April 25, leading to a draw on aggregate, but lost 4\u20132 in the penalty shootout. Later in the season, on September 19, Toronto FC played against Tigres UANL in the inaugural Campeones Cup, losing the match 3\u20131 at home. Reigning MLS Cup champions Toronto FC failed to qualify for the playoffs after a 2\u20131 home loss against the Vancouver Whitecaps on October 6, 2018, with three games left to play in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282991-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto FC season, Squad, International roster slots\nToronto has seven MLS International Roster Slots for use in the 2018 season. They traded one spot to Los Angeles FC in exchange of $50,000 of General Allocation Money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282991-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto FC season, Transfers, Loan In, Draft picks\nDraft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only those who are signed to a contract will be listed as transfers in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282992-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto International Film Festival\nThe 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 6 to 16, 2018. In June 2018, the TIFF organizers announced a program to ensure that at least 20 percent of all film critics and journalists given press accreditation to the festival were members of underrepresented groups, such as women and people of color. The People's Choice Award was won by Green Book, directed by Peter Farrelly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282992-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto International Film Festival, Programmes\nThe first slate of galas and special presentations was announced on July 24, 2018. The festival's lineup of Canadian films was announced on August 1, and the lineup for the Platform program was announced on August 8. Two days later, the Documentaries lineup was announced, with additional films added to the Midnight Madness programme. Additional films were added to respective lineups on August 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282992-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto International Film Festival, Canada's Top Ten\nTIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list, of the films selected by festival programmers as the year's ten best Canadian feature and short films, was released on December 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282992-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto International Film Festival, Canada's Top Ten\nUnlike in prior years, the films selected for the Top Ten list were not screened at a dedicated festival in January 2019, but instead each received its own standalone theatrical run at the TIFF Bell Lightbox throughout the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282993-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Rock season\nThe Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2018 season is the 21st in franchise history, and 20th as the Rock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282993-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Rock season, Regular season, Finalstandings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282993-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Rock season, Roster, Entry Draft\nThe 2017 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 18, 2017. The Rock made the following selections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season\nThis article details the Toronto Wolfpack's rugby league football club's 2018 season. This is the Wolfpack's 2nd season in their history and 1st season in the Championship after the Wolfpack dominated the 2017 League 1 season and earned promotion to 2018 Rugby League Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, September 2017\nAfter winning the 2017 League 1 season and promotion to the Championship, Toronto immediately sought to improve their squad as they announced that centre Tom Armstrong had signed from Super League side Widnes Vikings. Warrington Wolves prop forward Ashton Sims signed for the Wolfpack on a 2-year deal. Albanian prop Olsi Krasniqi was the next to sign from Salford Red Devils along with Australian prop David Taylor from Canberra Raiders and NRL halfback Josh McCrone from St George Illawarra Dragons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, October 2017\nOctober started with Toronto paying \u00a3130,000 for the services of loose forward Joe Westerman from Warrington Wolves on a three-year deal. Following this, the Wolfpack acquired hooker Andy Ackers from Championship side London Broncos on a two-year deal. During this month it was revealed that the club would be releasing props Steve Crossley, Tom Dempsey and Shaun Pick whilst halfback Rhys Jacks and hooker Sean Penkywicz would also be released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, November 2017\nThe fixtures for the 2018 season were released and it was revealed that Toronto would travel to relegated Leigh Centurions for the first game of the season, the Wolfpack will play their first 11 games away from home before they host Halifax RLFC on April 28. Toronto would also face Leigh during the annual Summer Bash as the headline match. Club captain, Craig Hall, becomes another departing Wolfpack player, leaving on personal terms for family reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, November 2017\nThe Wolfpack also announced a ground breaking Transatlantic Challenge which would see them face the Bradford Bulls in a pre-season match in 2018 and 2019, with the 2018 fixture being played at Odsal Stadium on 26 January and the 2019 fixture likely to be played in Canada or the United States to promote the sport. Furthermore, Toronto agreed to change their UK base from Brighouse Rangers to Manchester Metropolitan University in order to take advantage of better facilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, December 2017\nDecember started with the announcement that the Wolfpack would kick off the Magic Weekend in 2018 by playing against Toulouse Olympique in order to promote the international teams within the sport and also promote the RFL Championship to a wider audience. It was also revealed that Toronto had signed forward Cory Paterson on a two-year deal from relegated Leigh Centurions. Furthermore, the Wolfpack also signed forward Sam Hopkins and winger Adam Higson on a one-year deals from Leigh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, January 2018\nIt was revealed that prop forward Dan Fleming wanted to remain close to home due to the birth of his first child and approached coach Paul Rowley to be released, this was granted and he signed a 2 year deal with Championship side Halifax RLFC. Toronto announced that prop forwards Fuifui Moimoi, David Taylor and Ryan Bailey left the club by mutual agreement whilst on a pre-season camp to Portugal. The Wolfpack revealed that newcomer Josh McCrone would captain the side for the 2018 season whilst ex Warrington Wolves prop Ashton Sims would be the club's vice captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, January 2018\nDuring a press conference for League 1 side Bradford Bulls it was announced that the Wolfpack had entered a dual registration deal with the Bulls. The Wolfpack signed young centre Nick Rawsthorne from Hull F.C. on a 2 year deal and also prop forward Jack Buchanan from Widnes Vikings on a one year deal. In their only pre-season friendly, the Wolfpack comfortably beat Bradford 34\u20130 with Liam Kay scoring two tries and Quentin Laulu-Togaga'e, Cory Paterson, Blake Wallace and Joe Westerman also scoring tries. Ryan Brierley took over the kicking duties and kicked five from six attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, February 2018\nLife in the Championship started well for the Wolfpack as they beat fellow promotions contenders Leigh Centurions 34\u201312. Former Leigh player Liam Kay scored a hat trick whilst Ryan Brierley, Cory Paterson and Adam Sidlow also scored tries with Brierley rounding things off with five conversions. Following the opening day victory Toronto announced the signing of Australian centre Jake Butler-Fleming from League 1 side York City Knights. A tough trip to Barrow Raiders saw the Wolfpack grind out a hard fought 8\u20138 draw in bad conditions, second row Andrew Dixon and centre Nick Rawsthorne both scored tries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, February 2018\nFollowing this Toronto beat Championship stalwarts Halifax R.L.F.C. 20\u20138, superstar prop Ashton Sims made his debut in this match. Winger Adam Higson scored his first two tries for the club with Greg Worthington and Rawsthorne also crossing the line for a try each whilst Brierley kicked two goals. Toronto bolstered their pack by signing retired player Reni Maitua on a two year deal. Round 4 found Wolfpack with a 47\u201316 loss to top of the league London Broncos which gave the Wolfpack their biggest loss so far, Dixon and Richard Whiting scoring tries whilst Liam Kay continued his try scoring form with a try. Brierley converted two goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, March 2018\nMarch found Wolfpack at the top of the Championship thanks to the wins over Easter against Featherstone Rovers 24\u201316. Game against Swinton Lions was their highest scored so far 52\u201312. Wolfpack strengthen their squad by signing Salford Red Devil's Fullback Gareth O'Brienand NRL's Canterbury Bulldogs Centre Chase Stanley. Impact of the signing was evident during the game against Batley Bulldogs 26\u201318 where O'Brien scored his first hat-trick for Wolfpack. Stanley made his first try for the team week later against Dewsbury Rams 23\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, April 2018\nDespite being plagued with injuries, Easter Monday win against Toulouse Olympique 24\u201322 followed by two more with Batley Bulldogs 26\u201318, Dewsbury Rams 23\u201312 continued Wolfpack dominance at the top of the table. NRL's Manly Sea Eagles Darcy Lussick signing 3 year contract was a much needed addition to the Wolfpack. As Lamport stadium undergoes renovations, first home game was played in London against Halifax RLFC and won by Wolfpack 42-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, May 2018\nPrior their first home game of the season Wolfpack has signed Scottish international and Warrington Wolves Full-back Matty Russell. With Lamport Stadium under maintenance, Canadian opener was played at Fletcher's Fields. Game against Swinton Lions was a decisive win for the Toronto Wolfpack 62\u201314. Clash with Super League's Warrington Wolves ended up in defeat 66-10 thus ending Wolfpack run for Challenge Cup 2018, while game against Toulouse Olimpique at Dacia Magic Weekend found team winning 43\u201330 with debut try for Matty Russell and 7th hat-trick for the Wolfpack by Liam Kay. With 25 points they continued to lead Championship Table. Last away game was played during Summer Bash 2018 with Toronto Wolfpack winning 28\u201326 against Leigh Centurions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, June 2018\nMonth of June found Wolfpack undefeated on their home grounds. Game against London Broncos, the only team Wolfpack lost to in the beginning of the season was a sound 32-12 victory. Gareth O'Brien started as a kicker against Dewsbury Rams and continued through the month with games against Barrow Raiders and Leigh Centurions, rivalry between Wolfpack and the former continues as Wolfpack won all three clashes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Season review, July 2018\nAfter the game against Sheffield Eagles (a 68\u20134 win), Toronto Wolfpack secured the Betfred Championship League Leaders Shield 2018. The Wolfpack had their first home defeat during the regular season against Featherstone Rovers (12\u201330).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282994-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto Wolfpack season, Squad statistics\nStatistics include Championship, Challenge Cup and Super 8s matches, as of 9 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282995-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto mayoral election\nThe Toronto mayoral election of 2018 was held on Monday, October 22, 2018, to elect the Mayor of the city of Toronto. Incumbent Mayor John Tory was re-elected for a second term, defeating former Chief City Planner Jennifer Keesmaat with 63.49% of the vote. Tory won all of Toronto\u2019s 25 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282995-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto mayoral election\nRegistration for candidates for the office of Mayor officially opened on May 1, 2018, and closed on July 27, 2018, at 2 pm. Incumbent John Tory has been Mayor of Toronto since being elected in 2014 and launched his bid for re-election on May 1, 2018. Former city councillor Doug Ford declared his intent to run, but later withdrew to seek the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Former Chief City Planner Jennifer Keesmaat was speculated to be considering entering the race, and after initially indicating she would not run, she announced her candidacy on July 27, 2018, the last day to register as a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282995-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates\nOfficial registration for mayoral candidates opened May 1, 2018, and closed on July 27. At the close of nominations, 35 candidates have registered to run in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election\nThe 2018 Toronto municipal election was held on October 22, 2018, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Registration for candidates for the office of mayor, councillor, and school board trustee opened on May 1, 2018, and initially closed on July 27, 2018. John Tory won the mayoral election with over 60% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election\nTo account for the city's growing population, Toronto's council wards underwent a realignment, with the removal of a ward in the west end, three new wards added in the downtown area, and a new ward in North York, expanding the city to 47 wards. However, in July 2018, newly-elected Premier of Ontario Doug Ford introduced legislation to require that Toronto's municipal elections use the same ridings as it does for provincial and federal elections, thus reducing the council to 25 wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election\nThe bill attracted controversy for its intent to change electoral boundaries in the middle of a campaign, and was struck down as unconstitutional in September 2018. However, a stay on this ruling was granted nine days later by the Court of Appeal for Ontario; the three judge panel ruled that Bill 5 is constitutional and that the previous ruling was \"dubious\", thus reinstating the 25-ward election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election\nSeventeen Toronto councillors were elected with less than half of all votes cast. One councillor, Cynthia Lai was elected with approximately 27% of the votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward boundary adjustment\nThe Toronto City Council commissioned an independent review of its ward boundaries in order to account for predicted population growth in specific areas of the city. The consultants recommended the realignment of the city's 44 wards into 47. Under the 47 ward model, wards would not achieve voter parity until 2026 (when the population projection of 61,000 residents per ward would eventually kick in). The Supreme Court considers voter parity to be crucial to achieving effective representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward boundary adjustment\nThree new wards were added in downtown, one in North York, while one was removed from Toronto's west end by consolidating 3 wards into 2. Based on the patterns of incumbents shifting to successor wards, the four \"new\" wards are Ward 20, Ward 21, Ward 25 and Ward 29; the ward reduction in the west end is reflected in the effective merger of what had been designated as Ward 17 and Ward 18 on the preceding map into new Ward 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward boundary adjustment\nTwo city councillors, Giorgio Mammoliti and Justin Di Ciano, along with several Toronto citizens, appealed the redrawing of ward boundaries at the Ontario Municipal Board. The appeal was rejected and new ward boundaries approved in a 38-page decision. Council had to pass a by-law before January 2018 for the boundaries to be changed before the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward boundary adjustment, Reduction of wards\nOn July 27, 2018, the last day for candidate registration, former councillor and new Ontario Premier Doug Ford introduced the Better Local Government Act, also known as Bill 5. The legislation requires that the Toronto city council align its municipal wards with those of the federal and provincial electoral ridings, thus reducing the size of Toronto's council from 47 to 25 wards. Each council member would serve an area representing an average of 111,000 residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward boundary adjustment, Reduction of wards\nFord justified the legislation by stating that the council had \"failed to act on the critical issues facing the city\", and that expanding it to 47 wards would exacerbate the existing \"dysfunction\". The province claimed that such a reduction would result in a savings of $25 million over the next four years (in comparison to the city's operating budget of $11.12 billion per-year). The bill also cancelled pending elections for regional chair in the regional municipalities of Niagara and Muskoka, Peel, and York, resetting all four positions back to appointed, rather than elected, offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward boundary adjustment, Reduction of wards\nThe bill proved controversial, with the official opposition Ontario NDP disputing its intent and considering it an abuse of power, while other groups (including candidates and the Toronto District School Board) contended that the bill undermined the democratic process. Toronto mayor John Tory suggested that such significant changes be subject to a public referendum. Toronto's city council voted 24-17 on a motion to oppose Bill 5 and support Tory's call for a referendum. Tory also criticized Ford for not providing any opportunities to consult with the municipal government over the bill. Ford denied Tory's statement, stating that he had met with Tory and other officials multiple times. Bill 5 was passed August 14, 2018. Rocco Achampong, a candidate for one of the wards removed in the consolidation, launched a legal challenge over the bill in the Ontario Superior Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 957]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward boundary adjustment, Reduction of wards\nThe government of Ontario argued that the larger wards were intended to improve voter parity for the 2018 municipal election (as the 47 ward model would not achieve voter parity until 2026). However, the city asserted that the 25-ward structure provided no better parity than the newly-implemented 47-ward structure, and a consultant argued that the roughly doubled ward population reduced councillors' capacity to serve their communities\u2014another aspect of effective representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward boundary adjustment, Reduction of wards\nIn an affidavit, Toronto city manager Giuliana Carbone disputed the claimed cost savings, stating that it would only save $6 million over four years, taking into account the increased staffing that would be required to operate the larger wards, and the costs incurred by realigning the election to match the new boundaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward boundary adjustment, Reduction of wards\nOn September 10, 2018, the Better Local Government Act was struck down as unconstitutional by Superior Court Justice Edward Belobaba, ruling that the larger wards infringed on citizens' rights to effective electoral representation, and that unilaterally changing electoral boundaries in the middle of a campaign infringed on candidates' freedom of expression. He explained that \"passing a law that changes the city's electoral districts in the middle of its election and undermines the overall fairness of the election is antithetical to the core principles of our democracy\", and questioned the province's intent and timing of the legislation. Ford criticized the ruling, contending that its only supporters were a \"small group of left-wing councillors looking to continue their free ride on the taxpayers' dollar and a network of activist groups who have entrenched their power under the status quo.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 980]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward boundary adjustment, Reduction of wards\nThe Ford government introduced the Efficient Local Government Act, also known as Bill 31, on September 12, 2018. The bill would have invoked Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, also known as the notwithstanding clause, to implement the effects of Bill 5 in defiance of the court ruling. If passed, it would have been the first time that the notwithstanding clause had ever been invoked in Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward boundary adjustment, Reduction of wards\nThe Toronto city council voted 29\u20137 in favour of directing the city solicitor to challenge the new legislation in court, and to ask the federal government to invoke a constitutional clause allowing it to disallow provincial legislation (a mechanism only used once since 1943) should it pass. At a Liberal Party caucus retreat in Saskatoon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that he would not contribute to the discussions surrounding the sizes of municipal governments in Ontario, as it was \"[not] a role that the federal government needs to take on\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282996-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward boundary adjustment, Reduction of wards\nOn September 19, 2018, the Court of Appeal for Ontario issued a stay on the previous Superior Court decision, ruling that Bill 5 \"disrupted the campaigns that were already underway\" but \"does not limit or restrict any message the candidates wish to convey to voters\", and was a \"dubious ruling that invalidates legislation duly passed by the legislature\". As such, the election would be required to use the 25-ward alignment mandated by Bill 5. Since it was made redundant by the stay, Bill 31 was also withdrawn. The nomination period was reopened as a result of the stay and closed on September 21, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting\nThe 2018 Toronto shooting, known locally as the Danforth shooting, was a mass shooting that occurred on Danforth Avenue in the Greektown neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on the night of July 22, 2018. Faisal Hussain killed two people and wounded thirteen using a Smith & Wesson M&P .40-calibre handgun. He committed suicide after a shootout with Toronto Police Service (TPS) officers. Despite a year long investigation, authorities were unable to determine a motive for the shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Incident\nAround 10:00\u00a0p.m. EDT on July 22, 2018, Faisal Hussain walked along Toronto's busy Danforth Avenue in the Greektown area of the city, randomly shooting pedestrians before opening fire on crowded restaurants. The incident began around Danforth and Logan avenues near the restaurant named Christina's. Witnesses described 10 to 15 blasts similar to firecrackers, while others reported hearing gunshots and seeing a man holding a gun. Further along the Danforth at Chester Avenue, witnesses said they saw a man shooting from a sidewalk into another restaurant named Demetre's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Incident\nThe shooter continued to walk westbound on Danforth Avenue towards Hampton Avenue, where witnesses said the shooter crossed the street from the north side to the south side and fired into the 7Numbers restaurant near Bowden Street where one victim was shot. The shooter chose not to shoot certain people he encountered, telling one man, \"Don't worry, I'm not going to shoot you.\" TPS officers responded to calls from witnesses and located the gunman on Bowden Street and initiated a shootout with the suspect. The gunman ran back to Danforth Avenue where he was found dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Incident\nAt the corner of Danforth and Logan avenues, police cordoned off an area from bystanders and detonated an unidentified package for undisclosed reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Victims\n18-year-old Reese Fallon and 10-year-old Julianna Kozis were killed in the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Victims\nThirteen others suffered gunshot wounds, ranging in age from 17 to 59. Toronto Paramedic Services transported eight victims to trauma centres \u2013 including four people to St. Michael's Hospital, three to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and one to The Hospital for Sick Children. St. Michael's reported it was treating five patients. Three of them underwent immediate lifesaving surgery after the shooting and the others were in serious but stable condition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Victims\nTwo gunshot victims were treated at the nearby Michael Garron Hospital and were in stable condition. Five other patients were treated for issues related to the shooting, but were not shot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Perpetrator\nThe Special Investigations Unit (SIU) identified the perpetrator as 29-year-old Faisal Hussain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Perpetrator\nHussain was born to Canadian parents of Pakistani origin according to people who knew the family. In a public statement, Hussain's parents said that he was psychotic and depressed throughout his life. In 2010, Hussain told a friend that he was seeing a psychiatrist about these problems. A former teacher described him as \"very disturbed\" and recounted having to take him to a psychiatric facility after he started carving into his face with the blade of a pencil sharpener. Another former teacher called the police after Hussain allegedly said, without prompting, that \"it would be really cool to kill someone.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Perpetrator\nHis family had been struggling through the death of his sister in a car accident and his brother's ongoing coma after an overdose or a stroke. According to a neighbour, Hussain was not religious and declined to participate in Friday prayers. According to his brother, Hussain had \"started attending a mosque with his father, but did not seem that interested in religion.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Perpetrator\nIn 2010, Hussain was investigated by TPS under the provincial Mental Health Act. On July 24, 2018, the Ministry of Public Safety said there is currently no connection between him and national security. He was not on any federal watchlists. Some news reports suggested Hussain was inspired by Elliot Rodger and the incel ideology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Investigation\nIn the immediate aftermath of the shooting, police did not identify a motive, saying that they were investigating \"every possible motive, including terrorism.\" In June 2019, authorities finished a year long investigation and could not determine a motive for the attack. Regarding the motive, Toronto police chief Mark Saunders said \"we may never know why\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Investigation\nOn July 23, police executed a search warrant at Hussain's residence in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood of the city. A day later, CBS News published that, according to a law enforcement source, Hussain visited ISIL websites which may have expressed his support for the Islamic militant group; he was also speculated to have previously lived in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the investigation has revealed that his actions did not appear to be directed by ISIL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Investigation\nOn July 25, Amaq News Agency, citing a \"security source\", stated that he was \"from the soldiers of Islamic State\", yet Toronto Police said there was no evidence of an ISIL connection. Amarnath Amarasingam of the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue doubted Amaq's claim and said it may have been prompted by the CBS News article.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Investigation\nSince Hussain was found dead after a shootout, the SIU looked into whether he was shot by police or shot himself. On July 23, it removed a police cruiser from the scene and said the two officers in it were being investigated for their roles in the shootout. Hussain's handgun was also seized. On July 25, a police source told CBC News that Hussain committed suicide. The same day, a police source told CP24 that the gun was from the United States and had been obtained from a \"gang-related source\". A police source later told CTV News it had been stolen in 2015 during a Saskatoon burglary. It may have come to Hussain from his brother who lived at a house in Toronto's eastern suburb of Pickering where 33 guns were seized in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Aftermath\nResidents and business owners in the area started a crowdfunding campaign for funeral expenses of victims who died. Meanwhile, the Canadian Blood Services said that they were closely monitoring response efforts and were encouraging donations in the aftermath of the shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Aftermath\nThe Toronto International Film Festival cancelled an event to promote its planned film slate out of respect for those affected by the shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Reactions\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Ralph Goodale tweeted their condemnation of the shooting and praise of the police. Ontario premier Doug Ford described the attack as \"the most brazen shooting\" of a year full of gun violence. Toronto Mayor John Tory called the shooting an \"unspeakable act\" and an attack on a city with a gun problem. He said he planned to discuss public safety and the legality of guns with provincial and federal officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Reactions\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece expressed solidarity and condolence with the city's Greektown. Calvary Church, located near the site of the shooting, held a prayer vigil, joined by a congregation from the nearby Madinah Mosque.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Reactions\nThe family of Faisal Hussain released a statement expressing \"our deepest condolences to the families who are now suffering on account of our son's horrific actions\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282997-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Toronto shooting, Reactions\nSeveral sports teams and athletes showed their support on social media with the #TorontoStrong hashtag, which was also used after the van attack in North York City Centre in April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282998-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toulon Tournament\nThe 2018 Toulon Tournament (officially French: 46\u00e8me Festival International \"Espoirs\" \u2013 Tournoi Maurice Revello) was the 46th edition of the Toulon Tournament. It was held in the department of Bouches-du-Rh\u00f4ne from 26 May to 9 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282998-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toulon Tournament\nEngland won the tournament for the third successive year beating Mexico 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282998-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toulon Tournament, Matches rules\nEvery match consisted of two periods of 40 minutes each. In a match, every team had nine named substitutes and the maximum number of substitutions permitted was four. In the knockout stage, if a game tied at the end of regulation time, extra time would not be played and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282998-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Toulon Tournament, Group stage\nThe draw was held on 15 March 2018. The twelve teams were drawn into three groups of four. The group winners and the best runners-up qualified for the semi-finals. The Group stage was played from 26 May to 3 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282998-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Toulon Tournament, Classification matches\nThe eliminated teams played another game to determine their final ranking in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282998-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Toulon Tournament, Goalscorers\n68 goals were scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.62 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282998-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Toulon Tournament, Awards, Individual awards\nAfter the final, the following players were rewarded for their performances during the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282998-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Toulon Tournament, Awards, Best XI\nThe best XI team was a squad consisting of the eleven most impressive players at the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00282999-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toulon Tournament squads\nThe 2018 Toulon Tournament was an international association football tournament held in Bouches-du-Rh\u00f4ne, France. The twelve national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 20 players; only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283000-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Challenge\nThe 2018 Tour Challenge was held from November 6 to 11 at the Tournament Centre in Thunder Bay, Ontario. This was the third Grand Slam of the 2018\u201319 curling season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283000-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Challenge\nIn the men's Tier 1 competition, Brad Jacobs defeated Brendan Bottcher in the final 6\u20135. Team Bottcher was playing in their first Grand Slam final. In Tier 2, Kirk Muyres defeated Scott McDonald's team in the final to secure a spot in the 2019 Canadian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283000-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Challenge\nThe women's Tier 1 competition saw Rachel Homan defeat Tracy Fleury 8\u20134. In the Tier 2 final, Elena Stern beat Sayaka Yoshimura 6\u20135, qualifying for the 2019 Canadian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283000-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Challenge, Qualification\nThe Tour Challenge consists of two tiers of 15 teams. For Tier 1, the top 15 teams on the World Curling Tour's Order of Merit rankings as of October 1, 2018. If any teams declined, the next highest team was invited until the field of 15 teams was complete. For Tier 2, the next 10 teams on the OOM rankings are invited. The final 5 teams in Tier 2 are filled by regional invitations extended by the Grand Slam of Curling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283000-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Challenge, Qualification, Men\nTop Order of Merit men's teams as of October 1:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283000-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Challenge, Qualification, Women\nTop Order of Merit women's teams as of October 1:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283000-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Challenge, Men, Tier 1, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Eastern Daylight time (UTC-4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283000-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Challenge, Women, Tier 1, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Eastern Daylight time (UTC-4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283001-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Cycliste F\u00e9minin International de l'Ard\u00e8che\nThe 2018 Tour Cycliste F\u00e9minin International de l'Ard\u00e8che is a women's cycle stage race held in France from 13 September to 18 September, 2018. The tour has an UCI rating of 2.1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283002-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Down Under\nThe 2018 Tour Down Under was a road cycling stage race, that took place between 16 and 21 January 2018 in and around Adelaide, South Australia. It was the 20th edition of the Tour Down Under and the first race of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283002-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Down Under\nDaryl Impey (Mitchelton\u2013Scott) became the first South African rider to win the race overall, after edging out BMC Racing Team's Richie Porte on countback after both riders completed the course in the same time. Porte won on Willunga Hill for the fifth year in succession, but Impey finished eight seconds in arrears in second position, which was enough to take the ochre jersey. The podium placings were completed by another former winner, Tom-Jelte Slagter of Team Dimension Data, who finished third on Willunga Hill, taking four bonus seconds that put him ahead of the four other competitors that he had finished with; Slagter finished 16 seconds down on Impey overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283002-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Down Under\nIn the race's other classifications, world champion Peter Sagan (Bora\u2013Hansgrohe) won the sprints classification, taking five top-five stage finishes during the event, including a stage win into Uraidla. Team Dimension Data's Nicholas Dlamini led the mountains classification from start to finish, while Egan Bernal of Team Sky took the young rider classification in his first start for the team, finishing sixth overall. The teams classification was won by Bahrain\u2013Merida, who placed Gorka Izagirre in the top-ten overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283002-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Down Under, Participating teams\nAs the Tour Down Under was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. One other team was given a wildcard entry into the race: UniSA\u2013Australia. Each team was due to enter seven riders, for a total of 133 participants. However, Lotto\u2013Soudal withdrew Bjorg Lambrecht from the race following an error with the UCI's anti-doping procedures, while Team Sky lost Kristoffer Halvorsen following a crash in the closing metres of the People's Choice Classic, which resulted in a fractured hand. As a result, 131 riders started the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283002-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Down Under, Participating teams\nAmong the field were seven previous winners of the race, three of whom \u2013 Rohan Dennis, Simon Gerrans and Richie Porte \u2013 were racing for the BMC Racing Team. Other previous winners in the field were Luis Le\u00f3n S\u00e1nchez (Astana), Lotto\u2013Soudal rider Andr\u00e9 Greipel, Tom-Jelte Slagter of Team Dimension Data, and Mitchelton\u2013Scott's Cameron Meyer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283002-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Down Under, Route\nThe route of the 2018 Tour Down Under was announced at the beginning of July 2017 and centred around the city of Adelaide in South Australia. There were six mass-start road stages and no time trials. Two days before the start of the Tour, there was a flat criterium race, the People's Choice Classic, which took place in Rymill Park and which was suited for the sprinters. It was won by world champion Peter Sagan (Bora\u2013Hansgrohe) in a sprint finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283002-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Down Under, Route\nThe opening stage started in Port Adelaide, which hosted the race for the first time since the inaugural Tour Down Under in 1999. The fifth stage finished with two climbs of Willunga Hill, which had been decisive in previous editions of the race. The final stage was another criterium around the centre of Adelaide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283002-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Down Under, Route\nAfter stage two, it was announced that the third stage would be shortened due to forecasted high temperatures. Two of the three finishing circuits around Victor Harbor were removed from the itinerary, reducing the racing to 120.5\u00a0km (75\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283002-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Down Under, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Tour Down Under, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints and at the finish of mass-start stages, the leader received an ochre jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Tour Down Under, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283002-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Down Under, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a sprints classification, which awarded a green jersey, a change from red in 2017. In the sprints classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 15\u00a0points, with one point fewer per place down to 6 points for 10th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a white jersey with navy polka dots. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283002-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour Down Under, Classification leadership table\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1994 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time. In addition, there was a combativity award given after each stage to the rider(s) considered, by a jury, to have \"instigated the most attacks, breakaways or assisted their teammates to the best advantage\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283003-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour La Provence\nThe 2018 Tour La Provence was a road cycling stage race that took place between 8 and 11 February 2018. The race was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour, and was the third edition of the Tour La Provence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283003-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour La Provence\nThe race was won by French rider Alexandre Geniez, of the AG2R La Mondiale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283003-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour La Provence, Teams\nSixteen teams were invited to start the race. These included two UCI WorldTeams, eight UCI Professional Continental teams and six UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283003-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour La Provence, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Tour La Provence, four different jerseys were awarded for the main classifications. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, the leader received a blue jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Tour La Provence, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283003-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour La Provence, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a mass-start stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 25 points, with 20 for second, 16 for third, 13 for fourth, 11 for fifth with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 15th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued at intermediate sprint points during each stage. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a red jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283003-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour La Provence, Classification leadership table\nIn the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1995 were eligible to be ranked in the classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283003-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour La Provence, Classification leadership table\nAdditional jerseys were also awarded for the best rider in the overall classification from the Provence region (grey jersey), the most combative rider (black jersey) and the rider placed highest cumulatively across the general, points and mountains classification (multi-coloured jersey).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse\nThe 2018 Tour de Corse (formally known as the Corsica Linea \u2013 Tour de Corse 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 5 and 8 April 2018. It marked the sixty-first running of the Tour de Corse and the fourth round of the 2018 World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships. It was also the second round of the Junior World Rally Championship. The event was based in the town of Bastia in Corsica, and was contested over twelve special stages totalling a competitive distance of 333.48\u00a0km (207.21\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse\nThierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the defending rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the defending manufacturers' winners. S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were the rally winners. Their team, M-Sport Ford WRT, were the manufacturers' winners. The \u0160koda Motorsport II crew of Jan Kopeck\u00fd and Pavel Dresler won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a \u0160koda Fabia R5, while local crew Jean-Baptiste Franceschi and Romain Courbon won the World Rally Championship-3 and Junior World Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nS\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia entered the round with a four-point lead in the World Championships for Drivers and Co-drivers. In the World Championship for Manufacturers, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT held a twelve-point lead over M-Sport Ford WRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 73], "content_span": [74, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Background, Route\nThe route of the 2018 event was substantially revised, with only two of the stages\u2014La Porta \u2013 Valle di Rostino and Novella\u2014carried over from the 2017 rally. The event was based in Bastia, which hosted the rally for the first time since 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Background, Entry list\nThe following crews were entered into the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2, and the World Rally Championship-3. The final entry list consisted of fourteen World Rally Cars, eleven World Rally Championship-2 entries, and fifteen World Rally Championship-3 entries, fourteen of which were eligible to score points in the Junior World Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Report, Pre-event\nIn the week before the rally, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) approved a rule change affecting the Power Stage. Any crew checking in late to the Power Stage will forfeit the opportunity to score bonus championship points in the Power Stage. The changes were introduced in response to a controversy that arose in previous rallies where crews deliberately checked in late, incurring time penalties but securing a preferable road position, thereby improving their chances of scoring bonus points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Report, Pre-event\nElfyn Evans' co-driver Daniel Barritt was replaced by Phil Mills as Barritt did not recover from an accident in Rally Mexico in time for the Tour de Corse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Report, Pre-event\nCitro\u00ebn's new R5 variant of the C3 WRC made its competitive d\u00e9but in the WRC-2 class during the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Report, Thursday\nThursday in Corsica only requires crews to complete a Shakedown. Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle won the stage, over two seconds faster than the Norwegian Andreas Mikkelsen. Last year winner Thierry Neuville finished third, half a second faster than teammate Dani Sordo. Current championship leader S\u00e9bastien Ogier was fifth. From sixth to tenth were Elfyn Evans, S\u00e9bastien Loeb, Ott T\u00e4nak, Jari-Matti Latvala and Esapekka Lappi respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Report, Friday\nDefending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier was absolutely flying in Friday. He set three fastest stage times out of four and built a lead of over half a minute over the last year winner Thierry Neuville, who was struggling with the brakes. Nine-time world champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb, competing in the second of three guest appearances, carried too much pace into a left corner 400 metres after the start and dropped into a deep ditch. The rest stage won by Esapekka Lappi, who finished the day in fifth place, just less than one second ahead of Elfyn Evans and Dani Sordo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Report, Friday\nKris Meeke, who suffered intermittent intercom problems in his C3, was third, 5.5 seconds ahead of Ott T\u00e4nak, who also had handling problems at the rear of his Toyota Yaris. Finland's Jari-Matti Latvala lacked confidence in his Toyota Yaris in eighth. Another 4.2 seconds behind was Andreas Mikkelsen. The Norwegian lost much time with a spin at the first corner in the opening stage and a brief trip into a ditch this morning, issues compounded by understeer when he tried to have a push this afternoon. Local man Bryan Bouffier completed the leaderboard in a Fiesta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Report, Saturday\nChampionship leader S\u00e9bastien Ogier ended the day with a 44.5 seconds advantage over Thierry Neuville. Ott T\u00e4nak snatching position by a tenth of a second from the Belgium in the final Novella test, as Kris Meeke crashed his Citro\u00ebn C3 into retirement after mishearing a pace note. Esapekka Lappi was another 10.3 seconds behind in fourth place. Dani Sordo and Elfyn Evans were evenly matched all day. The Spaniard ended fifth in his i20, with a 3.1-second advantage over the Welshman who lost time after stalling his Fiesta's engine and being too hesitant on the tricky mountain roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Report, Saturday\nAndreas Mikkelsen was bothered by understeering this weekend. He finished seventh, ahead of WRC 2 category leader Jan Kopeck\u00fd. Jari-Matti Latvala retired his Yaris from eighth after slamming the rear into a tree and Bryan Bouffier went out with engine problems in his Fiesta, while nine-time world champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb, returning after yesterday's crash, won three stages in his C3. WRC 2 driver Fabio Andolfi and Ole Christian Veiby completed the provisional leaderboard in \u0160koda Fabia R5s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Report, Sunday\nS\u00e9bastien Ogier led the Corsica linea - Tour de Corse from start to finish to win the three-day asphalt fixture by 36.1 seconds in his Ford Fiesta. Ott T\u00e4nak finished second in a Toyota Yaris, with Thierry Neuville, who suffered an engine issue at the power Stage, running out of the podium. Teammate Dani Sordo finished fourth after another consistent weekend, just 3.5 seconds ahead of Elfyn Evans. There was final day heartbreak for Esapekka Lappi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Report, Sunday\nThe Finn thrust himself into the fight for second yesterday, but his hopes were shattered when he hit a kerb and stopped to change a punctured tyre. He eventually plunged to seventh, but salvaged maximum bonus points by winning the final power Stage in his Yaris as well as overhauling Andreas Mikkelsen to climb to sixth. WRC 2 winner Jan Kopeck\u00fd finished eighth ahead of Kris Meeke, who restarted today after Saturday's accident, with Yoann Bonato completed the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Classification, Top ten finishers\nThe following crews finished the rally in each class's top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Classification, Other notable finishers\nThe following notable crews finished the rally outside top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 59], "content_span": [60, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Classification, Power stage\nThe Power stage was a 16.25\u00a0km stage at the end of the rally. Additional World Championship points were awarded to the five fastest crews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Classification, J-WRC stage winning crews\nJunior World Rally Championship crews scored additional points. Each of the fastest stage time was awarded with one bonus point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Classification, Penalties\nThe following notable crews were given time penalty during the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283004-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Corse, Classification, Retirements\nThe following notable crews retired from the event. Under Rally2 regulations, they were eligible to re-enter the event starting from the next leg. Crews that re-entered were given an additional time penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France\nThe 2018 Tour de France was the 105th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three Grand Tours. The 3,351\u00a0km (2,082\u00a0mi)-long race consisted of 21 stages, starting on 7 July in Noirmoutier-en-l'\u00cele, in western France, and concluding on 29 July with the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es stage in Paris. A total of 176 riders from 22 teams participated in the race. The overall general classification was won by Geraint Thomas of Team Sky. Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb) placed second, with Thomas's teammate and four-time Tour winner Chris Froome coming third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France\nThe opening stage was won by Fernando Gaviria of Quick-Step Floors, who became the Tour's first rider to wear the general classification leader's yellow jersey. Peter Sagan (Bora\u2013Hansgrohe) then took the race lead on the following stage. BMC Racing Team won stage three's team time trial, putting their rider Greg Van Avermaet in yellow. He held the jersey for eight days until the second stage of the three Alpine stages, which Thomas won and took the lead in. He successfully defended it from Dumoulin for the rest of the Tour, which included three stages in the Pyrenees and the penultimate stage's individual time trial, the latter won by Dumoulin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France\nSagan, who won three stages, was placed first in the points classification for the sixth time. Julian Alaphilippe of Quick-Step Floors, winner of two mountain stages, won the mountains classification, and AG2R La Mondiale's Pierre Latour won the young rider classification. The team classification was won by Movistar Team, and Dan Martin of UAE Team Emirates won the combativity award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Teams\nThe 2018 edition of the Tour de France consisted of 22 teams. The race was the 25th of the 37 events in the UCI World Tour, and all of its eighteen UCI WorldTeams were entitled, and obliged, to enter the race. On 6 January 2018, organisers of the Tour, the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), announced the four second-tier UCI Professional Continental teams that received a wildcard invitation to participate in the event. The four teams were Cofidis, Direct \u00c9nergie, Fortuneo\u2013Samsic, from France, and Belgium's Wanty\u2013Groupe Gobert, all of which have participated in the race before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Teams\nThis meant that new French team Vital Concept, with their team leader, sprinter Bryan Coquard, missed out on the race. The presentation of the teams\u00a0\u2013 where the members of each team's roster are introduced in front of the media and local dignitaries\u00a0\u2013 took place on Place Napoleon in the town of La Roche-sur-Yon on 5 July, two days before the opening stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Teams\nNew rules by the cycling's governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), reduced the number of riders per team for Grand Tours from 9 to 8, resulting in a start list total of 176, instead of 198, which had been the number of starters since 2010. Of these, 35 competed in their first Tour de France. The riders came from 30 countries. Seven countries had more than 10 riders in the race: France (35), Belgium (19), the Netherlands (13), Italy (13), Australia (11), Germany (11) and Spain (11). The average age of riders in the race was 29.37 years, ranging from the 21-year-old Egan Bernal (Team Sky) to the 40-year-old Franco Pellizotti (Bahrain\u2013Merida). Groupama\u2013FDJ had the youngest average age while Bahrain\u2013Merida had the oldest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nIn the lead up to the Tour, the favourite for the general classification was Chris Froome of Team Sky. Froome had won the 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017 editions of the Tour, and was also the current defending champion at both other Grand Tours, the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and the Giro d'Italia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nHowever, Froome's participation was unconfirmed due to an ongoing anti-doping investigation that began in December 2017, when it was announced that he had returned a urine sample taken at the Vuelta (which had taken place two months earlier) which contained twice his allowed amount of the asthma drug salbutamol. This was considered not as a positive doping result, but as an \"Adverse Analytical Finding\" (AAF), meaning that he was allowed to continue racing until the case was resolved. He did however face the possibility of losing his Vuelta victory and all subsequent results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nThe ASO were unhappy with the situation, which was very similar to that of the 2011 Tour pre-race favourite Alberto Contador, who started the tour with his case over a positive test for clenbuterol still unresolved. The UCI conducted an investigation into the AAF, which was still unresolved at the time that Froome won the Giro in May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0005-0003", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nWith an outcome before the start of the Tour unlikely, the ASO attempted to bar Froome from starting the race, citing article 28 of the race's rules, saying that the organiser \"expressly reserves the right to refuse participation in\u00a0\u2013 or to exclude from\u00a0\u2013 the event, a team or any of its members whose presence would be such as to damage the image or reputation of ASO or the event\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0005-0004", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nFroome was cleared by the UCI on 2 July, five days before the start of the Tour, with a press statement reading that the authorities had found sufficient evidence \"that Mr Froome's sample results do not constitute an AAF\". He was thereafter cleared to start the Tour by the ASO as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nThe closest rivals of Froome were thought to be Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale), Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb), Mikel Landa (Movistar Team), Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain\u2013Merida), Richie Porte (BMC Racing Team), Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team) and Adam Yates (Mitchelton\u2013Scott). Porte's best result in the Tour was fifth overall in 2016. He had shown his form so far in the 2018 season by winning the general classification of Tour de Suisse. Although Quintana had placed twelfth overall in the 2017 Tour, his 2018 season so far had been consistent and he had finished second behind Froome in previous Tours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nHe came to the Tour with a strong team, which included contender Landa, who in 2018 had moved to Movistar from Sky after being a domestique for Froome. The 2017 Giro winner Dumoulin placed second in the 2018 Giro. Nibali had recently won the classic Milan\u2013San Remo, one of cycling's five one-day race \"monuments\". He had however failed to impress in the stage races leading up to the Tour, finishing 24th in the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 after finishing outside the top 10 in the general classifications at Dubai Tour, Tour of Oman and the Tirreno-Adriaticoo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nHe was the only rider on the start list apart from Froome to have won a Tour, the 2014 edition. Bardet finished second and third overall in the two previous Tours and placed third in the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 leading up to the 2018 Tour. Yates' best overall Tour result was fourth 2016; he had shown his form during the season before the Tour with top-five placings in four stage races, including second in the Dauphin\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nSome of the other riders considered as contenders for the general classification were Dan Martin (UAE Team Emirates), Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team), Rigoberto Ur\u00e1n (EF Education First\u2013Drapac p/b Cannondale), Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) and Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d (LottoNL\u2013Jumbo).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nThe sprinters considered favourites for the points classification and wins on the flat or hilly bunch sprint finishes were Peter Sagan (Bora\u2013Hansgrohe), Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb), Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors), Marcel Kittel (Team Katusha\u2013Alpecin), Mark Cavendish (Team Dimension Data), Dylan Groenewegen (LottoNL\u2013Jumbo), Arnaud D\u00e9mare (Groupama\u2013FDJ) and Andr\u00e9 Greipel (Lotto\u2013Soudal). Others expected to contend for sprint finishes included Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing Team), Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates), Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain\u2013Merida), Nacer Bouhanni (Groupama\u2013FDJ) and John Degenkolb (Trek\u2013Segafredo).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nTriple reigning world road race champion Sagan had won the five previous points classifications of the Tour before his 2017 Tour disqualification after race officials judged that he caused Cavendish to crash. Sagan was again aiming to equal Erik Zabel's record of six points classifications. He was in good form during the season before the Tour, winning the one-day races Paris\u2013Roubaix and Gent\u2013Wevelgem, multiple top ten results one-day races and two points classifications in stage races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nMatthews, who won the 2017 Tour's points classification, suffered an early season injury and his sole win for the season was at the Tour de Romandie. Kittel had won fourteen Tour stages, five in 2017, gained two wins so far in 2018, both at the Tirreno\u2013Adriatico. Debutant Gaviria had been second to Kittel at Quick-Step Floors before the latter moved to Team Katusha\u2013Alpecin for the 2018 season. Gaviria amassed a total of seven wins so far in 2018, and additionally the points classification at the Tour of California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0008-0003", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nThe 2011 points classification winner Cavendish's win at the Dubai Tour in February was his only of 2018 so far. Winner of the 2017 Tour's final stage Groenewegen had a total of nine victories for the season going into the Tour, with one coming at Paris\u2013Nice. D\u00e9mare, who led the points classification in the 2017 Tour, had gained two wins at Paris\u2013Nice and the Tour de Suisse in 2018 before the Tour. Greipel, who turned 36 during the Tour, had taken six wins at stage races during 2018 before the Tour, as well as the points classification of the Tour of Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Route and stages\nOn 12 February 2017, at a rugby union match between France and Scotland at Paris's Stade de France, race director Christian Prudhomme announced the opening stages of the 2018 Tour (known as the Grand D\u00e9part) would take place in the Vend\u00e9e department, in the Pays de la Loire region. Since the inaugural Tour in 1903, the Vend\u00e9e has hosted the Grand D\u00e9part five times, with the last in 2011. Two weeks after the announcement, the ASO revealed that the Grand D\u00e9part would take place over three stages, with the third a team time trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Route and stages\nIn June 2017, the UCI's Professional Cycling Council (PCC) moved the start of the Tour a week later than usual and originally planned due to a clash with the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The full route was announced on 17 October 2017; it was almost completely within France, with short deviations into Spain in the Pyrenees the only exceptions. Two of the Tour's most historic climbs featured, Alpe d'Huez and the Col du Tourmalet, which last featured in 2015 and 2016 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Route and stages\nNotable was stage nine's 21.7\u00a0km (13.5\u00a0mi) of sett paving, split across fifteen sectors, a feature that was last seen in the 2015 Tour. It finished in Roubaix, home of the \"monument\" race Paris\u2013Roubaix. For the first time in 60 to 70 years, it included a section of unpaved roads on the Gli\u00e8res Plateau. Overall, the route was thought to offer something for all rider types.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Route and stages\nStage one began in the village of Noirmoutier-en-l'\u00cele on the island of Noirmoutier, before heading along the coast of the Vend\u00e9e department. The following two stages were loops, with the third taking the route north into the Maine-et-Loire department. The next three stages took place in the region of Brittany, ending with two laps of the short, but steep, climb in M\u00fbr-de-Bretagne. The seventh, eighth and ninth stages headed north-east with finishes in Chartres, Amiens and Roubaix, respectively. A long transfer then moved the race to the Alps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Route and stages\nFollowing three stages in the mountains, the Tour descended into the Dr\u00f4me department and stage thirteen's finish in the city of Valence. The Massif Central highland region hosted stage fourteen, with the finish in Mende. The next two transitional stages took the race south-west to the Pyrenees across a continuous journey between Millau, Carcassonne and Bagn\u00e8res-de-Luchon. After two Pyrenean stages, the eighteenth stage took place in the foothills between Trie-sur-Ba\u00efse to Pau. The next stage headed back into the mountains, before the penultimate stage, which took place close to the west coast in the French Basque Country. A long transfer took the Tour to its conclusion in Paris with the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Route and stages\nThere were 21 stages in the race, covering a total distance of 3,351\u00a0km (2,082\u00a0mi), the shortest of the 21st century up to that point. There were two time trial events, stage three's 35.5\u00a0km (22\u00a0mi) team time trial and stage twenty's 31\u00a0km (19\u00a0mi) individual time trial. Of the remaining nineteen stages, eight were officially classified as flat, five as hilly and six as mountainous. The longest mass-start stage was stage seven, at 231\u00a0km (144\u00a0mi), and the shortest was stage seventeen, at 65\u00a0km (40\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Route and stages\nThe aforementioned, a mountain stage, was the shortest since 1996 and began with a standing start grid formation, with positions based on riders general classification ranking. The grid formation was an innovation for the Tour, and with shorter distance, was beforehand universally welcomed, but it was thought to have made little effect on the race. There were summit finishes on stages stage eleven to La Rosi\u00e8re, stage twelve to Alpe d\u2019Huez, and stage seventeen to the Col de Portet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Route and stages\nThe highest point of elevation in the race was the 2,215\u00a0m (7,267\u00a0ft)-high Col de Portet Pyrenean pass, the first time it had been used in the Tour. It was among nine hors cat\u00e9gorie (English: \"beyond category\") rated climbs in the race. There were nine new stage start or finish locations. The rest days were after stage nine, in Annecy, and fifteen, in Carcassonne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, First week: Northern stages\nStage one's bunch sprint was won by Fernando Gaviria, with Peter Sagan coming in second place and Marcel Kittel in third. Gaviria took the yellow and green jerseys as the leader of the general and points classifications respectively. Breakaway rider K\u00e9vin Ledanois (Fortuneo\u2013Samsic) collected the most mountains classification points to take the first polka dot jersey as the leader of the classification. Sagan won stage two from a sprint to take the yellow and green jerseys, with Dion Smith of Wanty\u2013Groupe Gobert claiming the lead in the mountains classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, First week: Northern stages\nStage three's team time trial was won by BMC Racing Team whose riders Tejay van Garderen and Greg Van Avermaet became tied for the overall lead, with Van Avermaet moving into yellow for the second time in his career due to him crossing the finish line ahead of Van Garderen in the first two stages being as there was not yet an individual time trial to measure their times down to the 1000th of a second. Stage four was won by Gaviria from a bunch sprint. Sagan further extended his lead in the points competition by winning stage five's uphill sprint finish in Quimper. Also in stage five, Toms Skuji\u0146\u0161 of Trek\u2013Segafredo won the mountains points which gave him the polka dot jersey, becoming the first from Latvia to ever lead the mountains classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, First week: Northern stages\nIn stage six, which ended atop the M\u00fbr-de-Bretagne climb, Dan Martin attacked with a kilometre remaining and was able to stay away take the victory one second ahead of a large group that the contained the general classification contenders. In the closing kilometres of the stage, Geraint Thomas won a three-second time bonus sprint that brought him to three seconds behind Van Avermaet in the general classification. Overall favourites Romain Bardet and Tom Dumoulin lost time as their tyres punctured late in the stage. The seventh stage was won by Dylan Groenewegen from a bunch sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, First week: Northern stages\nThere were multiple crashes in the first week of the Tour with six riders abandoning the race for various reasons, including the 2017 Tour points classification winner Michael Matthews. Groenewegen won a further bunch sprint in the eighth stage. In the sprint, Andr\u00e9 Greipel and Gaviria were penalised for headbutting each other and lost their stage placing and green jersey points. Stage nine's sett-paving sections caused many issues for the riders, including leading sprinters and two of the classification contenders. Richie Porte abandoned for the second year in a row after crashing in the opening 10\u00a0km (6.2\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, First week: Northern stages\nRigoberto Ur\u00e1n initially tried to continue the race despite injuries sustained during a crash, but was forced to quit the race on the following stage. Chris Froome, his teammate Egan Bernal, Jakob Fuglsang, and Mikel Landa, crashed in the stage along with many other riders; numerous riders had tyre punctures as well, including three for Bardet. His teammate Alexis Vuillermoz was forced to abandon the stage after colliding with a spectator taking photographs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0013-0003", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, First week: Northern stages\nMeanwhile, Yves Lampaert (Quick-Step Floors), John Degenkolb, and Van Avermaet were able escape the remaining riders from the peloton (main group) and together they contested a sprint finish, which was won by Degenkolb. Van Avermaet gained time, as well winning the time bonus sprint, to extend his lead in the general classification. The following day was the Tour's first rest day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, Second week: Alps and transition west\nThe first stage in the high mountains and first in the Alps, the tenth, was won by Quick-Step Floors rider Julian Alaphilippe, who attacked on his own with 30\u00a0km (18.6\u00a0mi) to go from a large breakaway group that included race leader Van Avermaet. The aforementioned retained the yellow jersey and extended his lead to 2 min 22 s, when pundits predicted the first day in the Alps would be his last as overall race leader. Alaphilippe also took lead of the mountains classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, Second week: Alps and transition west\nThomas achieved back-to-back wins both from the group of overall contenders on stages eleven and twelve by pushing the breakaway riders until the very end. In the steep summit finish of the eleventh, Thomas attacked in the final 1 kilometre (0.6 miles), passing lone breakaway rider Mikel Nieve (Mitchelton\u2013Scott) and managed to distance himself from Froome and Dumoulin by twenty seconds to take the win. On the twelfth stage, which was the final day in the Alps, Thomas won the sprint on the flat finish after the climb to Alpe d'Huez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, Second week: Alps and transition west\nLottoNL\u2013Jumbo's Steven Kruijswijk was caught by the group of overall contenders in the final kilometres after he had launched a solo attack with 70\u00a0km (43.5\u00a0mi) remaining. Following the stage, the general classification top three was: Thomas in first position, Froome second, 1 min 39 s down, and Dumoulin third, a further 11 seconds behind. General classification contender Vincenzo Nibali, who was fourth overall, was forced to withdraw from the Tour following the stage after an incident near the summit of Alpe d'huez where he fell off his bike fracturing a vertebra taking Roglic down with him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0014-0003", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, Second week: Alps and transition west\nIt was initially suspected that the crash had been caused by a police motorcycle driving in front of him, but it later emerged that he became caught in a spectator's camera strap. Nibali's team management saw the lack of crowd control from the police and spectators lighting flares as contributing factors. Following the incident, Christian Prudhomme appealed to fans to show the riders more respect. Many riders left the Tour during the Alpine stages, either being forced to abandon due to fatigue and injury, or were disqualified for finishing outside the cut-off time; riders of note were the sprinters Mark Cavendish, Gaviria, Greipel, Groenewegen, and Kittel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, Second week: Alps and transition west\nSagan won stage thirteen with a surprise attack in the closing meters of the bunch sprint finish, while Alexander Kristoff and Arnaud D\u00e9mare were together sprinting for the finish line. In stage fourteen, Omar Fraile of Astana launched a late move from the large breakaway after the final climb to win at the Mende aerodrome; the breakaway finished eighteen minutes ahead of the peloton. Stage fifteen, the start of the final week, was once again a breakaway victory, with Magnus Cort taking Astana's second win in two days. The next day was the second rest day of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, Second week: Alps and transition west\nFollowing the stage, controversy arose around Team Sky rider Gianni Moscon, who had allegedly punched Fortune-Samsic rider \u00c9lie Gesbert during the opening part of the stage. After reviewing footage of the incident, the race jury disqualified him for 'particularly serious aggression'. A non-racing incident occurred during the sixteenth stage when hay bales were placed across the road by local farmers protesting about reductions to their subsidies. The police used tear gas to disperse them, and as the riders rode passed this area, there was still gas in the air.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0015-0002", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, Second week: Alps and transition west\nThe race was subsequently neutralized for about fifteen minutes because several riders had problems with their eyes and had to rinse them. After the restart, a large breakaway escaped, and Philippe Gilbert (Quick-Step Floors), while in the lead on a descent, lost control of his bicycle and crashed into and over a wall. Later, Adam Yates, having taken the lead, also fell. Gilbert finished the stage and collected the most combative rider award, but would not start the following day. Yates carried on, but was overtaken by Alaphilippe, who took his second stage victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, Third week: Pyrenees and finale in Paris\nThe first of three stages in the Pyrenees, the seventeenth, opened with an uneventful grid formation, which saw the customary early formation of a breakaway group. Froome's challenge faded on the approach to the summit of the Col de Portet and he dropped to third position in the general classification, 2 min 31 s behind Thomas. Dumoulin moved into second place, 1 min 59 s off the lead. Nairo Quintana won the stage after attacking at the bottom of the final climb, moving himself up to fifth overall, behind Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 76], "content_span": [77, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, Third week: Pyrenees and finale in Paris\nThe flat stage eighteen was won by D\u00e9mare from a bunch sprint. By this point of the Tour, most of the top sprinters had left, and D\u00e9mare had come close to missing the time cut in the previous stage along with Sagan, who had crashed heavily and was suffering with injuries. On the mountainous stage nineteen, Rogli\u010d attacked on the descent following the final climb, to a misty Col d'Aubisque, and soloed to the finish line nineteen seconds ahead of the chasing small group of overall favourites. Rogli\u010d took third place from Froome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 76], "content_span": [77, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0016-0002", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, Third week: Pyrenees and finale in Paris\nThomas was able to consolidate his overall position by picking up six bonus seconds by winning the sprint for second place, thereby extending his lead over Dumoulin to 2 min 5 s. The penultimate stage's 31\u00a0km (19.3\u00a0mi) individual time trial was won by Dumoulin, who finished one second ahead of Froome. Froome in turn managed to retake third place from Rogli\u010d. Thomas came third after surviving a scare when his back wheel locked, but completed the stage successfully, finishing fourteen seconds behind Dumoulin, taking a lead of 1 min 51 s into the final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 76], "content_span": [77, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Race overview, Third week: Pyrenees and finale in Paris\nThe final stage in Paris was won by Kristoff in a bunch sprint on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es. Thomas won the race with no changes in the final stage. Froome came third overall, 2 min 24 s down on Thomas. Sagan won the points classification with a total of 477, 231 ahead of Kristoff in second. Alaphilippe won the mountains classification with 169 points, with the 2017 winner and French compatriot Warren Barguil (Fortuneo\u2013Samsic) second with 80 points. The best young rider was thirteenth-placed overall Pierre Latour (AG2R La Mondiale), with fifteenth-placed overall Bernal second. Movistar Team finished as the winners of the team classification, 12 min 33 s ahead of second-placed Team Sky. Of the 176 starters, 145 reached the finish of the last stage in Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 76], "content_span": [77, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nFour main individual classifications were contested in the 2018 Tour de France, as well as a team competition. The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses (time subtracted) were awarded at the end of every stage apart from the time trial stages. The first three riders received 10, 6, and 4 seconds, respectively. Time bonuses of three, two and one seconds, were given to the first three riders to cross a \"bonus point\" in each of the first nine mass-start stages of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nIt would affect the general, but not the points classification. For crashes within the final 3\u00a0km (1.9\u00a0mi) of a stage, not including time trials and summit finishes, any rider involved received the same time as the group he was in when the crash occurred. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the general classification and was considered to be the overall winner of the Tour. The rider leading the classification wore a yellow jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe second classification was the points classification. Riders received points for finishing among the highest placed in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints during the stage. The points available for each stage finish were determined by the stage's type. The leader was identified by a green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe third classification was the mountains classification. Points were awarded to the riders that reached the summit of the most difficult climbs first. The climbs were categorised, in order of increasing difficulty, as fourth-, third-, second-, and first-category and hors cat\u00e9gorie. Double points were awarded at the top of the last mountains in the three mountain stages in the three Pyreneean stages (the Col du Portillon, the Col de Portet and the Col d'Aubisque). The leader wore a white jersey with red polka dots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe final individual classification was the young rider classification. This was calculated the same way as the general classification, but was restricted to riders born on or after 1 January 1993. The leader wore a white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe final classification was a team classification. This was calculated using the finishing times of the best three riders per team on each stage; the leading team was the team with the lowest cumulative time. The number of stage victories and placings per team determined the outcome of a tie. The riders on the team that lead this classification are identified with yellow number bibs on the back of their jerseys and yellow helmets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nIn addition, there was a combativity award given after each stage to the rider considered, by a jury, to have \"made the greatest effort and who demonstrated the best qualities of sportsmanship\". No combativity awards were given for the time trials and the final stage. The winner wore a red number bib the following stage. At the conclusion of the Tour, Dan Martin won the overall super-combativity award which was, again, awarded by a jury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nA total of \u20ac2,287,750 was awarded in cash prizes in the race. The overall winner of the general classification received \u20ac500,000, with the second and third placed riders getting \u20ac200,000 and \u20ac100,000 respectively. All finishers in the top 160 were awarded money. The holders of the classifications benefited on each stage they led; the final winners of the points and mountains were given \u20ac25,000, while the best young rider and most combative rider got \u20ac20,000. The team classification winners were given \u20ac50,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\n\u20ac11,000 was given to the winners of each stage of the race, with smaller amounts given to places 2\u201320. There were also two special awards each with a prize of \u20ac5000. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange, given to first rider to pass the summit of the highest climb in the Tour, the Col du Portet on stage seventeen, and the Souvenir Jacques Goddet, given to the first rider to pass Goddet's memorial at the summit of the Col du Tourmalet in stage nineteen. Nairo Quintana won the Henri Desgrange and Julian Alaphilippe won the Jacques Goddet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, UCI rankings\nRiders from the WorldTeams competed individually and for their teams for points that contributed towards the World Tour rankings. Riders from both the WorldTeams and Professional Continental teams also competed individually and for their nations for points that contributed towards the UCI World Ranking, which included all UCI road races. Both rankings used the same points scale, awarding points to the top sixty in the general classification, each yellow jersey given at the end of a stage, the top five finishers in each stage and for the top three in the final points and mountains classifications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283005-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, UCI rankings\nThe points accrued by Thomas moved him from 20th to second in the World Tour individual ranking and from 41st to fourth in the individual World Ranking. Sagan kept his position at the top of both rankings, with Quick-Step Floors and Belgium also holding the lead of the World Tour team ranking and World Ranking nation ranking respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11\nThe 2018 Tour de France was the 105th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Noirmoutier-en-l'\u00cele with a flat stage on 7 July, and Stage 11 occurred on 18 July with a mountainous stage to La Rosi\u00e8re. The race finished on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris on 29 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1\n7 July 2018 - Noirmoutier-en-l'\u00cele to Fontenay-le-Comte, 201\u00a0km (124.9\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1\nThe race departed from Noirmoutier-en-l'\u00cele heading south, following the coast to Les Sables-d'Olonne. The route then turned southeast with an intermediate sprint at La Tranche-sur-Mer. Continuing east, the race passed through Chaill\u00e9-les-Marais before the category 4 climb of the C\u00f4te de Vix and a bonification point at Maillezais. The race then turned north to the flat finish at Fontenay-le-Comte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1\nSeveral crashes in the final 20\u00a0km (12\u00a0mi) resulted in general classification contenders Chris Froome, Adam Yates and Richie Porte all losing 51 seconds. Meanwhile, Nairo Quintana suffered a puncture and lost over a minute on the general classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2\n8 July 2018 - Mouilleron-Saint-Germain to La Roche-sur-Yon, 183\u00a0km (113.7\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2\nThe stage departed from Mouilleron-Saint-Germain heading east. The riders turned northeast at La Ch\u00e2taigneraie, west at Saint-Pierre-du-Chemin and then north at R\u00e9aumur. The race then headed over the category 4 C\u00f4te de Pouzauges and continued northwest through Les Herbiers to Tiffauges. The race turned west to Montaigu and then southwest through Bouff\u00e9r\u00e9 and Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne to Palluau. The riders then continued south through Aizenay to an intermediate sprint at Beaulieu-sous-la-Roche and then southeast to Nieul-le-Dolent. The route then turned east to a bonification point at Saint-Florent-des-Bois, and northwest to the finish line at La Roche-sur-Yon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2\nSylvain Chavanel went ahead of the peloton from the start of the stage, gaining a temporary lead of four and a half minutes, eventually being caught 13\u00a0km (8.1\u00a0mi) from the finish. Tsgabu Grmay became the first retirement of the Tour, abandoning 90\u00a0km (56\u00a0mi) from the stage finish. Adam Yates recovered from a crash 30\u00a0km (19\u00a0mi) from the finish. Fernando Gaviria, the yellow jersey holder, crashed on a sharp right-hand bend in the last 2\u00a0km (1.2\u00a0mi) of the stage, allowing Sagan to take the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3\n9 July 2018 - Cholet to Cholet, 35\u00a0km (22\u00a0mi) (TTT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3\nFor the team time trial, the teams departed from Cholet heading north to Saint-L\u00e9ger-sous-Cholet. The riders then turned west to the first timecheck at the village of Saint-Andr\u00e9-de-la-Marche, in S\u00e8vremoine, and turned south. From La Romagne the route turned east, with the second timecheck at La S\u00e9guini\u00e8re. The teams then headed back to the finish line in Cholet. The route was expected to take each team about 39 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4\n10 July 2018 - La Baule to Sarzeau, 195\u00a0km (121\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4\nThe riders departed west and then northeast from La Baule, with racing beginning just before Gu\u00e9rande. The race continued northeast to La Chapelle-des-Marais and then east through Pontch\u00e2teau to Blain. After heading northeast to Nozay, the race turned north to an intermediate sprint at Derval. The route then turned west, heading through Gu\u00e9men\u00e9-Penfao and Redon to the category 4 climb of the C\u00f4te de Saint-Jean-la-Poterie. The riders then continued through Allaire, to a bonification point at Limerzel, and turned southwest to Muzillac. The race then headed west to the slight uphill finish at Sarzeau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4\nFrom the start of racing, Dimitri Claeys, Anthony Perez, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Cousin and Guillaume Van Keirsbulck broke away from the peloton, building a temporary lead of approximately eight minutes. At 5\u00a0km (3.1\u00a0mi) before the finish, a crash caused Rigoberto Ur\u00e1n and Ilnur Zakarin to lose contact with the peloton. Ur\u00e1n managed to chase back to the peloton before the finish, while Zakarin lost nearly a minute on the general classification. The participants in the original breakaway group were all eventually caught by the peloton, within the last 2\u00a0km (1.2\u00a0mi), allowing for a sprint finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5\n11 July 2018 - Lorient to Quimper, 203\u00a0km (126\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5\nThe riders departed west from Lorient, with racing beginning after passing through Ploemeur. The riders then headed northwest through Mo\u00eblan-sur-Mer, Pont-Aven and Tr\u00e9gunc. At Concarneau the route turned north to Saint-Yvi and then northeast to an intermediate sprint at Roudouallec. The route then meandered west over the category 4 climb of the C\u00f4te de Kaliforn and the category 4 C\u00f4te de Trimen. After continuing through Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Faou to the category 3 C\u00f4te de la Roche du Feu, the race headed through Ch\u00e2teaulin and over the category 3 C\u00f4te de Menez Quelerc'h. The riders then headed southwest to the category 3 C\u00f4te de la montagne de Locronan. Heading southeast, a bonification point occurred at the C\u00f4te de la chapelle de La Lorette, before the uphill finish in Quimper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6\n12 July 2018 - Brest to M\u00fbr-de-Bretagne Guerl\u00e9dan, 181\u00a0km (112\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6\nThe riders departed from Brest heading north to Bourg-Blanc and then northeast to Loc-Br\u00e9valaire. The route turned east at the D28 road, continuing southeast to the category 3 climb of the C\u00f4te de Ploudiry and then south to Sizun. Turning east, the race continued over the category 4 climb of the C\u00f4te de Roc'h Tr\u00e9v\u00e9zel, through Huelgoat, Poullaouen, Carhaix-Plouguer, Ma\u00ebl-Carhaix and Rostrenen to an intermediate sprint at Plouguern\u00e9vel. The route continued east through Gouarec to Saint-Aignan, where the route turned north.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6\nThe riders then climbed the 2\u00a0km (1.2\u00a0mi) category 3 M\u00fbr-de-Bretagne Guerl\u00e9dan, passing the finish line for the first time, before a bonification point at Saint-Mayeux. Turning southeast to Saint-Gilles-Vieux-March\u00e9 and then south, the riders then continued to the town of M\u00fbr-de-Bretagne, before turning north for the second climb of the category 3 route to the finish line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6\nA leading group of five, including Damien Gaudin, Fabien Grellier, Laurent Pichon, Dion Smith and Anthony Turgis, went in front of the peloton from the beginning of racing. The group established a seven-minute lead at the C\u00f4te de Roc'h Tr\u00e9v\u00e9zel. With 100\u00a0km (62\u00a0mi) remaining, the race was subjected to crosswinds, which reduced the leading group's advantage to less than three and a half minutes, and temporarily split the peloton. The leading group was caught before the first ascent of the M\u00fbr-de-Bretagne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6\nIn the few kilometres after the first ascent, Jack Bauer launched a temporary attack off the front of the peloton. Tom Dumoulin punctured with 5.5\u00a0km (3.4\u00a0mi) remaining, and eventually lost nearly a minute to the other general classification contenders. On the second ascent of the M\u00fbr-de-Bretagne, Richie Porte staged an initial attack. Dan Martin counter-attacked, and held the lead to the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7\n13 July 2018 - Foug\u00e8res to Chartres, 231\u00a0km (144\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7\nFor the longest stage of the Tour, the race departed east from Fougeres, passing through Mayenne and Alen\u00e7on to the category 4 climb of the C\u00f4te du Buisson de Perseigne, just before Neufch\u00e2tel-en-Saosnois. The riders then travelled through Mamers and Bell\u00eame before an intermediate sprint at Berd'huis. The route then passed through Nogent-le-Rotrou, to a bonification point at Nonvilliers-Grandhoux, and then continued east to the finish line in Chartres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8\n14 July 2018 - Dreux to Amiens, 181\u00a0km (112\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8\nThe stage departed north from Dreux, heading through Anet, to the category 4 climb of the C\u00f4te de Pacy-sur-Eure and northeast to Vernon. The race turned northwest and then north to Les Andelys, then northeast to the category 4 climb of the C\u00f4te de Feuquerolles. The riders then had an intermediate sprint at La Neuve-Grange, and continued through Gournay-en-Bray and Cr\u00e8vec\u0153ur-le-Grand. A bonification point occurred at Loeuilly, before the flat finish in Amiens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8\nAndr\u00e9 Greipel and Fernando Gaviria initially finished second and third, respectively, but were both relegated due to an irregular sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\n15 July 2018 - Arras to Roubaix, 154\u00a0km (96\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\nThe route to Roubaix included fifteen sectors of pav\u00e9 covering 21.7\u00a0km (13.5\u00a0mi). This stage was considered likely to include an early start, to ensure no conflicting schedule with the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\nThe stage departed east from Arras, with the rolling start occurring before reaching Athies. The riders continued east to Arleux, and then southeast to the outskirts of Cambrai. The route then turned north and traversed sectors 15 and 14 of pav\u00e9, before an intermediate sprint at Wasnes-au-Bac. Sector 13 of pav\u00e9 was crossed before Pecquencourt, and sectors 12, 11 and 10 as the riders headed northeast and then northwest to Orchies. Seven more sectors of pav\u00e9 followed, as the route meandered north to the bonification point at Wannehain. The race then crossed the last two pav\u00e9 sectors, before the finish in Roubaix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\nA five-man group broke away from the front of the peloton, from the opening of the stage. Minutes later, Richie Porte suffered a collarbone injury after crashing on asphalt, and was forced to abandon the race. Jos\u00e9 Joaqu\u00edn Rojas also abandoned around the same time. The leading group grew to ten riders, and established a lead approaching three and a half minutes, before sector 15 of the dry and dusty pav\u00e9. By sector 10 at Beauvry, the shrunken peloton was being led by Team Sky and had closed the gap, to the leading group, down to about two minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\nAt this point, Tejay van Garderen had fallen a minute behind the peloton. Van Garderen crashed and punctured a few minutes later, and ended losing five minutes at the finish. This was one of multiple crashes or punctures for van Garderen and was the third and final time he nearly caught back up to the race when he finally stopped pursuing and fell back to assist team leader Uran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0025-0002", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\nAt the start of sector 6 at Pont-Thibault, the leading group's advantage had been reduced to around thirty seconds, with Reinardt Janse van Rensburg and Damien Gaudin attacking, at the head of the race. The original lead group was caught by the peloton, after sector 3 ended at Wannehain. Another lead group, including John Degenkolb, Greg Van Avermaert and Yves Lampaert, established itself before the start of sector 2 at Camphin-en-P\u00e9v\u00e8le. The new front group's lead extended to around forty-five seconds, by sector 1 at Willems, and held a lead to the finish. Most of the general classification contenders finished around half a minute behind, while Romain Bardet's incident-strewn ride finished a further few seconds back. Mikel Landa finished alongside Bardet, after Landa recovered from a crash in the last 35\u00a0km (22\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 878]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Rest day 1\nOn the first rest day, Jens Keukeleire and Alexis Vuillermoz both announced their abandonment of the race. Both riders suffered fractures during the previous stage. Keukeleire's main injury was to a fibula, acquired during the same crash which forced Richie Porte to retire. Vuillermoz was injured to his right scapula, after colliding with a spectator during sector 3 of the pav\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\n17 July 2018 - Annecy to Le Grand-Bornand, 159\u00a0km (99\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\nThe stage departed from Annecy, heading south along the western side of Lake Annecy, with racing beginning after passing through Duingt. The riders turned north at Doussard and headed along the eastern side of the lake to Menthon-Saint-Bernard, turning northeast to the category 4 Col de Bluffy. An intermediate sprint then took place at Th\u00f4nes and the race climbed and wound east, through Manigod, for the category 1 Col de la Croix Fry, ascending to 1,477\u00a0m (4,846\u00a0ft) over an 11.3\u00a0km (7.0\u00a0mi) climb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0028-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\nThe riders then turned north, descending through La Clusaz to the valley floor at Entremont. The route began to ascend again and the race eventually turned west for the Hors cat\u00e9gorie climb of the Mont\u00e9e du plateau des Gli\u00e8res to 1,390\u00a0m (4,560\u00a0ft), with a 6\u00a0km (3.7\u00a0mi) climb at a gradient of 11.3%; which was immediately followed by a gravel section on the plateau, before the Col des Gli\u00e8res. The riders then descended, winding north with an uncategorised intermediate climb through the Col des Fleuries and continuing the descent through La Roche-sur-Foron, before turning east.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0028-0002", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\nAfter reaching the valley floor and passing through Bonneville and Scionzier, the riders then headed south over the category 1 Col de Romme to 1,297\u00a0m (4,255\u00a0ft) and partially descended southwest, before climbing the category 1 Col de la Colombi\u00e8re to 1,618\u00a0m (5,308\u00a0ft). The race then descended to the finish line at Le Grand-Bornand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\nThe race had a late start because the 2018 La Course by Le Tour de France, a women's race organised by the organisation of the Tour de France, was held in the morning. The finale was identical to the men's stage. After the top of the 16.3-kilometre-long (10.1\u00a0mi) Col de la Colombi\u00e8re, 15\u00a0km (9.3\u00a0mi) was left to the finish in Le Grand Bornand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11\n18 July 2018 - Albertville to La Rosi\u00e8re, 108\u00a0km (67\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11\nThe riders departed from Albertville heading northeast to an intermediate sprint at Villard-sur-Doron. The race then began the 12.4\u00a0km (7.7\u00a0mi) climb of the Hors cat\u00e9gorie Mont\u00e9e de Bisanne to 1,723\u00a0m (5,653\u00a0ft). After descending south to the valley floor at Beaufort, the riders immediately began the Hors cat\u00e9gorie 12.6\u00a0km (7.8\u00a0mi) climb through Ar\u00eaches and turned east into the Col du Pr\u00e9 at 1,748\u00a0m (5,735\u00a0ft). Following a short descent to cross the Roselend Dam, the climb continued into the category 2 Cormet de Roselend at 1,968\u00a0m (6,457\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11\nThe riders then faced an 18\u00a0km (11\u00a0mi) descent to the valley floor at Bourg-Saint-Maurice. After gently climbing through S\u00e9ez and Montvalezan, the race then turned north for the 17.6\u00a0km (10.9\u00a0mi) category 1 climb to the finish line at La Rosi\u00e8re ski station, at an elevation of 1,855\u00a0m (6,086\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283006-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11\nMark Cavendish finished an hour and five minutes behind Geraint Thomas, so was classified as outside the 31 minute and 27 second time limit for the stage. Mark Renshaw and Marcel Kittel also failed to finish within the time limit and were unable to continue the Tour. Meanwhile, Rick Zabel finished just outside the limit, but was allowed to continue by the race officials, having also been victim to a mechanical problem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21\nThe 2018 Tour de France was the 105th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Noirmoutier-en-l'\u00cele with flat stage on 7 July, and Stage 12 occurred on 19 July with a mountainous stage from Bourg-Saint-Maurice. The race finished on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris on 29 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\n19 July 2018 \u2013 Bourg-Saint-Maurice to Alpe d'Huez, 175\u00a0km (108.7\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\nThe riders departed southwest from Bourg-Saint-Maurice, with racing starting at Bellentre. After continuing to Mo\u00fbtiers, the riders turned northwest to Bonneval-Tarentaise and then headed southwest on the 25.3\u00a0km (15.7\u00a0mi) Hors cat\u00e9gorie climb of the Col de la Madeleine to 2,000\u00a0m (6,600\u00a0ft). After descending to the valley floor at La Chambre, the riders turned southeast and faced the 3.4\u00a0km (2.1\u00a0mi) climb of the category 2 Lacets de Montvernier and descended south to an intermediate sprint at Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\nThe riders then began the 29\u00a0km (18\u00a0mi) climb south and then west to the Hors cat\u00e9gorie Col de la Croix de Fer at 2,067\u00a0m (6,781\u00a0ft). The route then descended west, passing the Grand'Maison Dam, and then south through Allemont, to the Hors cat\u00e9gorie 13.8\u00a0km (8.6\u00a0mi) climb from Bourg d'Oisans to the stage finish at Alpe d'Huez at 1,850\u00a0m (6,070\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\nRigoberto Ur\u00e1n withdrew from the race before the start of the stage, having ridden with an injury from Stage 9. The stage was won by Geraint Thomas, becoming the first rider in the race's history to win on the legendary Alpe while wearing the yellow jersey. General classification contender Vincenzo Nibali, who was fourth overall, was forced to withdraw from the Tour following the stage after an incident near the summit of Alpe d'huez where he fell off his bike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\nAlthough he remounted his bike and finished the stage, he was soon transported to hospital in an ambulance and diagnosed with a fractured vertebrae. It was initially suspected that the crash had been caused by a police motorcycle driving in front of him, but it later emerged that he crashed after being caught in a spectator's camera strap. Nibali's team management saw the lack of crowd control from the gendarmerie (French Armed Forces police) and spectators lightening flares as contributing factors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\nWhile race director Christian Prudhomme appealed to fans to show the riders more respect, and personally apologised to the team and promised that the safety would be improved in the future. The team management believed the ASO could be held responsible for the incident, and the incident later became a legal matter when Nibali filed a complaint to the French police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13\n20 July 2018 \u2013 Le Bourg-d'Oisans to Valence, 169\u00a0km (105\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13\nThe stage departed heading north and then downhill west to Vizille. After passing over the category 3 C\u00f4te de Bri\u00e9, the riders turned northwest and descended into Grenoble. The route continued north and then west to an intermediate sprint at Saint-Quentin-sur-Is\u00e8re. Heading southwest through Rovon, the riders eventually turned southeast to Pont-en-Royans and then south over the category 4 C\u00f4te de Sainte-Eulalie-en-Royans. The route then meandered west to Hostun and continued on an uncategorised climb southwest, through Rochefort-Samson, and gradually descending to Peyrus. The race then turned west, heading around the outskirts of Chabeuil, to a flat finish in Valence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13\nVincenzo Nibali withdrew from the race before the start of the stage, suffering from a fracture of a vertebra as a consequence of a collision with a motorcycle on the climbing of the Alpe d'Huez. Until his withdrawal, he was fourth on the general classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14\n21 July 2018 \u2013 Saint-Paul-Trois-Ch\u00e2teaux to Mende, 187\u00a0km (116\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14\nThe riders departed west from Saint-Paul-Trois-Ch\u00e2teaux, though Bourg-Saint-And\u00e9ol and Vallon-Pont-d'Arc. After heading around the northern side of Sampzon, the route turned southwest to the category 4 C\u00f4te du Grand Ch\u00e2taignier and wound south to an intermediate sprint at Bess\u00e8ges. Continuing west, the race passed through G\u00e9nolhac, going over the category 2 climb of the Col de la Croix-de-Berthel to 1,088\u00a0m (3,570\u00a0ft), with a short descent to Le Pont-de-Montvert, and then climbing the category 3 Col du Pont sans Eau to 1,084\u00a0m (3,556\u00a0ft). After descending to Balsi\u00e8ges, the race turned north and then headed west through Mende, to the finish on the plateau beyond the 3\u00a0km (1.9\u00a0mi) 10.2% gradient climb of the category 2 C\u00f4te de la Croix Neuve to 1,055\u00a0m (3,461\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15\n22 July 2018 \u2013 Millau to Carcassonne, 181\u00a0km (112\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15\nThe race departed west from Millau, reaching the category 3 C\u00f4te de Luzen\u00e7on after 9\u00a0km (5.6\u00a0mi). After passing through Saint-Affrique and Belmont-sur-Rance, the riders faced the 10.2\u00a0km (6.3\u00a0mi) category 2 climb of the Col de Si\u00e9, then descending through Lacaune-les-Bains, Brassac and Boissezon. The riders then turned south and, after reaching an intermediate sprint at Mazamet, the race climbed the 12.3\u00a0km (7.6\u00a0mi) category 1 Pic de Nore to 1,205\u00a0m (3,953\u00a0ft). The route then descended through Cabrespine to Villalier, and continued to a slight uphill finish in Carcassonne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Rest day 2\nDamien Howson retired from the race, due to a wrist fracture sustained during a crash the previous day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\n24 July 2018 \u2013 Carcassonne to Bagn\u00e8res-de-Luchon, 218\u00a0km (135\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\nThe race departed west from Carcassonne, heading through Montr\u00e9al to the category 4 C\u00f4te de Fanjeaux. After passing through Belpech, the riders reached the category 4 C\u00f4te de Pamiers. The route traveled through Le Mas-d'Azil and Lescure, to an intermediate sprint at Saint-Girons. The race then began a gradual climb to the category 2 Col de Portet d'Aspet to 1,069\u00a0m (3,507\u00a0ft), followed by a short descent, and then climbed the category 1 Col de Ment\u00e9 to 1,349\u00a0m (4,426\u00a0ft). Meandering south into Spain, the race headed through Les and Boss\u00f2st, to begin the climb of the category 1 Col du Portillon to 1,292\u00a0m (4,239\u00a0ft) and descend back into France, to the finish line at Bagn\u00e8res-de-Luchon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\nAt 26\u00a0km (16\u00a0mi) into the stage, the police used tear gas to stop a protest by local farmers who had placed hay bales on the road. When the riders crossed that point, there was still tear gas in the air. The race was neutralized for about 15 minutes because several riders had problems with their eyes and had to rinse them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\nPhilippe Gilbert led the stage at the descent from the Col de Portet d'Aspet. On the descent, he crashed into a wall and fell down a ravine, but managed to recover himself to continue to the end of the stage. However, on medical inspection of his leg injury, after the stage, he was found unfit to continue the race. Adam Yates suffered a crash at 6.5\u00a0km (4\u00a0mi) from the finish, while leading the stage on the descent from the Col du Portillon, but was able to continue the race with minor injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17\n25 July 2018 \u2013 Bagn\u00e8res-de-Luchon to Saint-Lary-Soulan Col de Portet, 65\u00a0km (40\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17\nFor the shortest mass start route of the Tour, riders departed west from Bagn\u00e8res-de-Luchon, ascending the 14.9\u00a0km (9.3\u00a0mi) category 1 climb through the Col de Peyresourde to the Mont\u00e9e de Peyragudes at 1,645\u00a0m (5,397\u00a0ft). The race then descended to a sprint at Loudenvielle, before the 7.4\u00a0km (4.6\u00a0mi) category 1 climb to the Col de Val Louron-Azet at 1,580\u00a0m (5,180\u00a0ft). Following a descent to Saint-Lary-Soulan, the race began the Hors cat\u00e9gorie 16\u00a0km (9.9\u00a0mi) climb to the finish at the Col de Portet at an altitude of 2,215\u00a0m (7,267\u00a0ft), for the Souvenir Henri Desgrange.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18\n26 July 2018 \u2013 Trie-sur-Ba\u00efse to Pau, 172\u00a0km (107\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18\nThe race departed from Trie-sur-Ba\u00efse, heading north to Mi\u00e9lan. The riders then continued northwest to Marciac, and then southwest to Maubourguet. After heading northwest and climbing the category 4 C\u00f4te de Madiran, the race continued to an intermediate sprint at Aurensan and headed on to Aire-sur-l'Adour. The route then meandered west through Geaune to Samadet and turned southeast. The race then continued through Auriac to the category 4 climb of the C\u00f4te d\u2019Anos. The riders continued south to the western outskirts of Morla\u00e0s, before heading southwest to a flat finish in Pau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19\n27 July 2018 \u2013 Lourdes to Laruns, 200\u00a0km (120\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19\nThe race departed east from Lourdes with racing starting at Arcizac-ez-Angles. The riders then climbed the category 4 C\u00f4te de Loucrup, and headed south through Montgaillard to Bagn\u00e8res-de-Bigorre. The riders continued east through Mauvezin to the category 4 C\u00f4te de Capvern-les-Bains. Continuing south, the race eventually reached an intermediate sprint at Sarrancolin. On turning northwest at Arreau, the riders began the 12\u00a0km (7.5\u00a0mi) climb to the category 1 Col d'Aspin to 1,490\u00a0m (4,890\u00a0ft), followed by a descent to Sainte-Marie-de-Campan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19\nThe race then took the climb through La Mongie to the summit of the Hors cat\u00e9gorie Col du Tourmalet, for the Souvenir Jacques Goddet, at 2,115\u00a0m (6,939\u00a0ft). On descending through Luz-Saint-Sauveur, the race then took the road north, through Pierrefitte-Nestalas to the valley floor at Argel\u00e8s-Gazost. Turning southwest, the route passed over the 8.6\u00a0km (5.3\u00a0mi) category 2 climb to the Col des Bord\u00e8res at 1,156\u00a0m (3,793\u00a0ft). With a brief descent to Arrens, the riders then began the 16.6\u00a0km (10.3\u00a0mi) climb, through the uncategorised Col du Soulor, to the Hors cat\u00e9gorie Col d'Aubisque to 1,709\u00a0m (5,607\u00a0ft). The race then descended through Eaux-Bonnes to the finish line in Laruns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20\n28 July 2018 \u2013 Saint-P\u00e9e-sur-Nivelle to Espelette, 31\u00a0km (19\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20\nThe riders departed northeast, from Saint-P\u00e9e-sur-Nivelle, to the first timecheck on the outskirts of Ustaritz. The route then turned south to Soura\u00efde and headed northwest to the second timecheck, before returning through the village. The riders then turned south to climb the Col de Pinodieta, a route covering a distance of 900\u00a0m (980\u00a0yd) to an elevation of 172\u00a0m (564\u00a0ft) at a gradient of 10.2%, and then descended northeast to the finish at Espelette. The route was expected to take each rider around 44 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21\n29 July 2018 \u2013 Houilles to Paris (Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es), 115\u00a0km (71\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21\nThe race departed west from Houilles travelling to Maisons-Laffitte. The route then turned southwest to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, northwest to Poissy and then southwest to the western side of Feucherolles. The riders then headed southeast through Chavenay to Villepreux, and continued east through Rocquencourt to Saint-Cloud. The route then turned north to Suresnes and turned west to cross the River Seine at the Pont de Suresnes. The riders then crossed the Bois de Boulogne, to enter Paris at the Porte Maillot, and travelled along the Avenue de la Grande Arm\u00e9e.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283007-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21\nAfter travelling along the Rue de Presbourg, the riders turned onto the Avenue Marceau and then the Avenue Montaigne, before entering the usual circuit at the Marcel Dassault roundabout. The race then continued along the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es to the Quai des Tuileries, turned left into the tunnel beneath the Tuileries Garden and then left onto the Rue de Rivoli. The riders then passed through the Place de la Concorde and headed back onto the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, for the first pass of the finish line. The circuit continued around the Arc de Triomphe and back down the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es. An intermediate sprint took place near the top of the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, after passing the finish line for the third time. The race ended on the ninth crossing of the finish line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283008-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Hongrie\nThe 2018 Tour de Hongrie was a road cycling stage race that took place in Hungary between 14 and 19 August 2018. It was the fourth edition of the Tour de Hongrie since its revival in 2015, and was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283008-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Hongrie, Teams\nNineteen teams were invited to start the race. These included three UCI Professional Continentals, thirteen UCI Continental teams and three UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283009-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Langkawi\nThe 2018 Tour de Langkawi was the 23rd edition of an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Malaysia since 1996. The race was run at the highest category apart from those races which make up the UCI World Tour, and was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.HC (hors category) race as part of the 2018 UCI Asia Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283009-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Langkawi, Teams\n23 teams accepted invitations to participate in the 2017 Tour de Langkawi. Two UCI WorldTeam \u2013 Team Dimension Data and Astana was invited to the race, along with six UCI Professional Continental and thirteen UCI Continental teams. The field was completed by one national selection teams. Each team had a maximum of six riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283010-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Luxembourg\nThe 2018 Tour de Luxembourg was the 78th edition of the Tour de Luxembourg road cycling stage race. It was held between 30 May and 3 June, as a 2.HC event as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283010-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Luxembourg, Teams\nTen UCI Professional Continental teams and five UCI Continental teams made up the fifteen teams that participated the race. Each team entered seven riders, except for V\u00e9randas Willems\u2013Crelan and Wanty\u2013Groupe Gobert, which each entered six, for a starting peloton of 103 riders. Of these riders, only 84 finished the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283011-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Pologne\nThe 2018 Tour de Pologne was a road cycling stage race that took place between 4 and 10 August in Poland. It was the 75th edition of the Tour de Pologne and the twenty-eighth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour. The race was won by Micha\u0142 Kwiatkowski riding for Team Sky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283011-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Pologne, Schedule\nThe sixth stage was initially scheduled to run between Zakopane and Poprad in Slovakia and be 180\u00a0km (112\u00a0mi) long, but due to financial difficulties two months before the stage was run, the finish was changed to Bukowina Tatrza\u0144ska and the stage rescheduled to run over 130\u00a0km (81\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283011-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Pologne, Teams\nAs the 2018 Tour de Pologne was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team into the race. Along with a Polish national team, three other squads were given wildcard places into the race, and as such, formed the event's 22-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283011-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 2\nBecause of the peloton being misled onto an incorrect route, the stage was shortened by 12\u00a0km (7\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283011-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Pologne, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Tour de Pologne, four different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints (three seconds to first, two seconds to second and one second to third) and at the finish of all stages: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. The leader of the classification received a yellow jersey; it was considered the most important of the Tour de Pologne, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283011-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Pologne, Classification leadership table\nThere was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a purple jersey. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either first, second, third, or fourth-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. Double points were also awarded for the premier first-category climb on the final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283011-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Pologne, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a sprints classification, which awarded a white jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 20 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 20\u00a0points, with a point fewer per place down to 1 point for 20th place. The fourth and final jersey represented the active rider classification, marked by a blue jersey. This was decided at the race's intermediate sprints, awarding points on a 3\u20132\u20131 scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283011-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Pologne, Classification leadership table\nThere was also a classification for Polish riders, with the highest-placed rider appearing on the podium each day. As well as this, a teams classification was also calculated, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283012-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Romandie\nThe 2018 Tour de Romandie was a road cycling stage race that took place between 24 and 29 April 2018 in Romandie, Switzerland. It was the 72nd edition of the Tour de Romandie and the nineteenth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour. It was won by Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d of LottoNL\u2013Jumbo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283012-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Romandie, Teams\nAs the Tour de Romandie is a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and were obliged to enter a team in the race. The only non-WorldTeam in the race were Wanty\u2013Groupe Gobert. Each team had a maximum of seven riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283013-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Suisse\nThe 2018 Tour de Suisse was a road cycling stage race that took place between 9 and 17 June 2018 in Switzerland. It was the 82nd edition of the Tour de Suisse and the twenty-fourth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour. The race was won by Richie Porte of BMC Racing Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283013-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Suisse, Teams\nAs the Tour de Suisse is a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Three UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 21-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283013-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Suisse, Classification leadership table\nIn the Tour de Suisse, four different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints (three seconds to first, two seconds to second and one second to third) and at the finish of mass-start stages; these were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages except for the individual time trial: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. The leader of the classification received a yellow jersey; it was considered the most important of the 2017 Tour de Suisse, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283013-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Suisse, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a black jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 5 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 10\u00a0points, with 8 for second, 6 for third, 4 for fourth and 2 for 5th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued\u00a0\u2013 awarded on a 6\u20133\u20131 scale\u00a0\u2013 at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification as noted above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283013-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Suisse, Classification leadership table\nThere was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a blue jersey. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either hors, first, second, or third-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283013-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Suisse, Classification leadership table\nThe fourth and final jersey represented the classification for Swiss riders, marked by a red jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born in Switzerland were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time. In addition, there was a combativity award given after each stage to the rider considered, by a jury, to have been most active, or in the case of the individual time trials, the stage winner was automatically deemed the most active rider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283014-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Wallonie\nThe 2018 VOO-Tour de Wallonie was a five-stage men's professional road cycling race, held in Belgium as a 2.HC race on the 2018 UCI Europe Tour. It was the forty-fifth running of the Tour de Wallonie, starting on 28 July in La Louvi\u00e8re and finishing on 1 August in Waremme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283014-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Wallonie, Teams\nTwenty teams entered the race. Each team had a maximum of seven riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283014-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Wallonie, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Tour de Wallonie, five different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints (three seconds to first, two seconds to second and one second to third) and at the finish of all stages to the first three finishers: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. The leader of the classification received a yellow jersey; it was considered the most important of the 2018 Tour de Wallonie, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283014-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Wallonie, Classification leadership table\nThere was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a white jersey. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either first, or second-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283014-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Wallonie, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 25\u00a0points, with 20 for second, 15 for third, 10 for fourth and so on, down to 1 point for 10th place. There was also a separate classification for the intermediate sprints, rewarding a purple jersey. Points towards the classification were accrued\u00a0\u2013 awarded on a 5\u20133\u20131 scale\u00a0\u2013 at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification as noted above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283014-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Wallonie, Classification leadership table\nFinally, the leader in the classification for young riders, wore a red bib number. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 28 July 1995 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283015-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Yorkshire\nThe 2018 Tour de Yorkshire was a four day cycling stage race held in Yorkshire over 3\u20136 May 2018. It was the fourth edition of the Tour de Yorkshire, organised by Welcome to Yorkshire and the Amaury Sport Organisation. The 2018 TDY differed from its predecessor in that the event was extended to four days from three, with the women's event being extended to two days over the 3 and 4 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283015-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Yorkshire, Route\nThe Tour was extended in September 2017 to allow for greater creativity in the route planning. Additionally, the British Cycling chief executive Julie Harrington said: \"[This] will give even more people a chance to see our great sport at close quarters.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283015-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Yorkshire, Route\nIn December 2017, the start and finish locations were announced as Beverley and Doncaster, Barnsley and Ilkley, Richmond and Scarborough, and Halifax and Leeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283015-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Yorkshire, Teams\nTwenty teams were announced as partaking in the event. These were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283015-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Yorkshire, Classification leadership table\nIn the Tour de Yorkshire, four different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints; three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The leader of the general classification received a light blue and yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the Tour de Yorkshire, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283015-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Yorkshire, Classification leadership table\nThe second classification was the points classification. Riders were awarded points for finishing in the top ten in a stage. Unlike in the points classification in the Tour de France, the winners of all stages were awarded the same number of points. Points were also won in intermediate sprints; five points for crossing the sprint line first, three points for second place and one for third. The leader of the points classification was awarded a green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283015-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Yorkshire, Classification leadership table\nThere was also a mountains classification, for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. Each climb was categorised the same, with four points awarded to the first rider over the top of each climb. Two points were awarded for the second-placed rider, with one point for third place. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a pink jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283015-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour de Yorkshire, Classification leadership table\nAnother jersey was awarded at the end of each stage. This was a combativity prize and was awarded to the rider who \"made the greatest effort and [...] demonstrated the best qualities in terms of sportsmanship\". A jury selected a list of riders to be eligible for the prize; the winner of the prize was then decided by a vote on Twitter. The rider was awarded a grey jersey. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists in a team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest cumulative time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283016-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour des Fjords\nThe 2018 Tour des Fjords was the sixth edition of the Tour des Fjords road cycling stage race. The race was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 2.HC and was won by Swiss rider Michael Albasini of Mitchelton\u2013BikeExchange.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283016-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour des Fjords, Teams\nTwenty-one teams started the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283017-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour du Haut Var\nThe 2018 Tour du Haut Var was the 50th edition of the Tour du Haut Var cycle race and was held on 17\u201318 February 2018. The race started in Le Cannet-des-Maures and finished in Flayosc. The race was won by Jonathan Hivert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283018-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Antalya\nThe 2018 Tour of Antalya was the 1st edition of the Tour of Antalya road cycling stage race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 2.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283018-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Antalya, Teams\nTwenty-five teams were invited to take part in the race. These included two UCI Professional Continental team, twenty UCI Continental teams and three national teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283018-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Antalya, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Tour of Antalya, four different jerseys were awarded for the main classifications. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, the leader received a pink jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Tour of Antalya, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283018-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Antalya, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a yellow jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 5 in a mass-start stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 5 points, with 4 for second, 3 for third, 2 for fourth and 1 for fifth. Points towards the classification could also be accrued at intermediate sprint points during each stage. The winner of the intermediate sprint earned 5 points, with 4 for second, 3 for third. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by an orange jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283018-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour of Antalya, Classification leadership table\nIn the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1995 were eligible to be ranked in the classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283019-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Austria\nThe 2017 Tour of Austria (German: \u00d6sterreich-Rundfahrt 2018) was the 70th edition of the Tour of Austria cycling stage race. It began in Feldkirch and finished in Fels, covering a course of 1,163.7 kilometres (723.1\u00a0mi) over eight stages. The race was ranked 2.1 as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283019-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Austria\nBelgian cyclist Ben Hermans, of the Israel Cycling Academy team, won the race overall. He finished eighteen seconds ahead of second-place Hermann Pernsteiner, of Austria and Bahrain\u2013Merida, and forty-four seconds ahead of Italian Dario Cataldo, riding for Astana, in third. Pernsteiner's teammate, Giovanni Visconti, won the points classification, while Australian rider Aaron Gate, of the Aqua Blue Sport team, took home the mountains classification jersey. The teams classsification was won by Bahrain\u2013Merida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283019-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Austria, Teams\nTwenty teams competed in the 2018 Tour of Austria, among them four UCI WorldTeams, nine UCI Professional Continental teams, and seven UCI Continental teams. Most teams started with seven riders; however, V\u00e9randas Willems\u2013Crelan and Adria Mobil started with only six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283020-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Belgium\nThe 2018 Tour of Belgium, known as the 2018 Baloise Belgium Tour for sponsorship purposes, was the 8!th edition of the Tour of Belgium cycling stage race. It took place from 23 to 27 May 2018 in Belgium, as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour; it was categorised as a 2.HC race. Jens Keukeleire (Lotto\u2013Soudal) successfully defended his title, winning the race for a second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283020-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Belgium, Teams\n20 teams were selected to take part in Tour of Belgium. Three of these were UCI WorldTeams, with eleven UCI Professional Continental teams, five UCI Continental teams and a team representing the Belgium national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283020-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Belgium, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Tour of Belgium, three different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at sprints in the \"golden kilometre\", where three intermediate sprint positions were held within the space of a kilometre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283020-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour of Belgium, Classification leadership table\nThree seconds were awarded for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The leader of the general classification received a blue jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Tour of Belgium, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283020-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Belgium, Classification leadership table\nThe second classification was the points classification. Riders were awarded points for finishing in the top ten in a stage. Unlike in the points classification in the Tour de France, the winners of all stages were awarded the same number of points. The leader of the points classification was awarded a red jersey. There was also a combativity classification, where riders received points for finishing in the top five at intermediate sprint points during each stage, on a 10\u20138\u20136\u20134\u20132 scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283020-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour of Belgium, Classification leadership table\nBonus points were awarded if a breakaway had gained a sufficient advantage over the field, up to a maximum of 5 points. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists in a team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest cumulative time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283021-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Britain\nThe 2018 Tour of Britain was an eight-stage men's professional road cycling race. It was the fifteenth running of the modern version of the Tour of Britain and the 78th British tour in total. The race started on 2 September in Pembrey Country Park and finished on 9 September in London. It was part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour. The French rider Julian Alaphilippe of Quick-Step Floors won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283021-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Britain, Teams\nAqua Blue Sport were replaced by WIGGINS less than week before the start of the race. The starting teams were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283022-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of California\nThe 2018 Tour of California was a road cycling stage race that took place between May 13 and 19, 2018 in California, United States. It was the thirteenth edition of the Tour of California and the twenty-second event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283022-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of California, Teams\nAs a newer event to the UCI World Tour, all UCI WorldTeams were invited to the race, but not obligated to compete in the race. As such, thirteen of the eighteen WorldTeams competed in the race. Four UCI Professional Continental teams also competed making a 17-team peloton. Each team had a maximum of seven riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283022-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of California, Classification leadership table\nIn the Tour of California, five different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints and at the finish of mass-start stages, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2017 Tour of California, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283022-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of California, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a sprints classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the sprints classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 15\u00a0points, with 12 for second, 9 for third, 7 for fourth with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 10th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued\u00a0\u2013 awarded on a 3\u20132\u20131 scale\u00a0\u2013 at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a white jersey with red polka dots. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 899]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283022-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of California, Classification leadership table\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a predominantly \"white design\" jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after January 1, 1992 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time. In addition, there was a combativity award given after each stage to the rider considered, by a jury, to have \"who best exemplifies the character of those engaged in the fight against cancer / heart disease\", in line with the jersey's sponsors. This award was marked by a blue jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283023-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of California (women's race)\nThe fourth running of the Women's Tour of California (officially: Amgen Tour of California Women's Race empowered with SRAM) was held from 17 to 19 May 2018. American Katie Hall won the race. Tayler Wiles was second, Kasia Niewiadoma third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283023-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of California (women's race)\nIt was the 11th race of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour. Raced over three stages, it covered a total distance of 301.5\u00a0km. Due to an overlap on the World Tour calendar with the Euskal Bira in Spain, defending champion Anna van der Breggen was not be present in this year's event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283023-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of California (women's race), Teams\nDue to the overlap with the Euskal Bira, a number of World Tour Teams were absent in the race, including Boels\u2013Dolmans, Mitchelton\u2013BikeExchange, FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope, Al\u00e9\u2013Cipollini, Cerv\u00e9lo\u2013Bigla Pro Cycling, BTC City Ljubljana and WaowDeals Pro Cycling. Fifteen teams participated in the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283023-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of California (women's race), Classification leadership table\nIn the Tour of California, five different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints and at the finish of mass-start stages, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2017 Tour of California, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283023-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of California (women's race), Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a sprints classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the sprints classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 15\u00a0points, with 12 for second, 9 for third, 7 for fourth with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 10th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued\u00a0\u2013 awarded on a 3\u20132\u20131 scale\u00a0\u2013 at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a white jersey with red polka dots. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 914]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283023-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of California (women's race), Classification leadership table\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a predominantly \"white design\" jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1992 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time. In addition, there was a combativity award given after each stage to the rider considered, by a jury, to have \"who best exemplifies the character of those engaged in the fight against cancer / heart disease\", in line with the jersey's sponsors. This award was marked by a blue jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283024-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Chongming Island\nThe 2018 Tour of Chongming Island was the twelfth staging of the Tour of Chongming Island, a women's stage race held in Shanghai, China. It ran from 26 to 28 April 2018, as the 10th event of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour. German rider Charlotte Becker won the event ahead of Australian Shannon Malseed and Russian Anastasiia Iakovenko. Becker moved into the lead after she won stage 2 in a five-woman sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283024-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Chongming Island, Teams\nEighteen teams participated in the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283025-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Croatia\nThe 2018 Tour of Croatia was a road cycling stage race that took place in Croatia between 17 and 22 April 2018. It was the fourth edition of the Tour of Croatia since its revival in 2015, and was rated as a 2.HC event as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283025-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Croatia, Teams\nNineteen teams were invited to start the race. These included three UCI WorldTeams, 11 UCI Professional Continental teams and five UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283025-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Croatia, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Tour of Croatia, four different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints (three seconds to first, two seconds to second and one second to third) and at the finish of mass-start stages; these were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. The leader of the classification received a red jersey; it was considered the most important of the 2018 Tour of Croatia, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283025-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Croatia, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a blue jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 25\u00a0points, with 20 for second, 16 for third, 14 for fourth, 12 for fifth, 10 for sixth and a point fewer per place down to 1 point for 15th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued\u00a0\u2013 awarded on a 5\u20133\u20131 scale\u00a0\u2013 at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification as noted above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283025-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Croatia, Classification leadership table\nThere was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a green jersey. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either hors, first, second, or third-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The fourth and final jersey represented the classification for young riders, marked by a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1996 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 889]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283026-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Flanders\nThe 2018 Tour of Flanders (Dutch: Ronde van Vlaanderen 2018) was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 1 April 2018 in Belgium. It was the 102nd edition of the Tour of Flanders and the thirteenth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283026-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Flanders\nQuick-Step Floors rider Niki Terpstra became the first Dutch rider since Adri van der Poel in 1986 to win the Tour of Flanders, having gone clear on the Kruisberg climb. Terpstra remained clear over the remaining 25 kilometres (16 miles), finishing 12 seconds ahead of Trek\u2013Segafredo's Mads Pedersen, while the podium was completed by defending race-winner Philippe Gilbert, also for Quick-Step Floors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283026-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Flanders, Teams\nAs the Tour of Flanders was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Seven UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283027-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Flanders for Women\nThe 2018 Tour of Flanders for Women was the 15th running of the Tour of Flanders for Women, a women's bicycle race in Belgium. It was held on 1 April 2018, as the fifth race of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour. Anna van der Breggen won the race with an attack just after the Kruisberg, at 27\u00a0km from the finish. Amy Pieters won the sprint for second place, at more than a minute from van der Breggen. Annemiek van Vleuten rounded out the entirely Dutch podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283027-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Flanders for Women, Teams\nTwenty-four teams participated in the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283027-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Flanders for Women, Summary\nOn 1 April 2018, the 15th Tour of Flanders for Women was run. It started and finished in Oudenaarde, with an identical route to the men's race, covering 153.3 kilometres (95.3 miles). The race was won by Olympic champion Anna van der Breggen (Boels\u2013Dolmans) after a 27-kilometre (17\u00a0mi) solo attack on the top of the Kruisberg. A crash just before the Muur van Geraardsbergen split the peloton early in the race. A select group of riders made a further gap on the Kruisberg, after which van der Breggen made her decisive move. She increased her lead on the Oude Kwaremont and Paterberg and maintained her effort to claim her first Tour of Flanders victory. Amy Pieters and Annemiek van Vleuten completed the entirely Dutch podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283028-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Guangxi\nThe 2018 Tour of Guangxi was a road cycling stage race that took place between 16 and 21 October 2018 in China. It was the 2nd edition of the Tour of Guangxi and the thirty-seventh event of the 2018 UCI World Tour. It was won by Gianni Moscon of Team Sky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283028-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Guangxi, Teams\nEighteen teams of up to seven riders started the race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283029-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan)\nTour of Iran (Azerbaijan) 2018 was a UCI Asia Tour 2.1 event and the 33rd edition of Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan) which took place in six stages between September 29-October 4, 2018 in Iranian Azerbaijan. The race started in the city of Tabriz and traveled through Urmia, Jolfa, and Sarein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283029-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan), Teams\nThirteen teams participated in the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283030-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Mediterrennean\nThe 2018 Tour of Mediterrennean was the 1st edition of the Tour of Mediterrennean road cycling stage race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 2.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283030-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Mediterrennean, Teams\nEighteen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included seventeen UCI Continental teams and one national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283030-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Mediterrennean, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Tour of Mediterrennean, three different jerseys were awarded for the main classifications. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Tour of Mediterrennean, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283030-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Mediterrennean, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a mass-start stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 15 points, with 14 for second, 13 for third, with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 15th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued at intermediate sprint points during each stage. The winner of the intermediate sprint earned 6 points, with 4 for second and 2 for third. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by an orange jersey. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283031-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Norway\nThe 2018 Tour of Norway was a road cycling stage race that took place in Norway between 16 and 20 May 2018. It was the eighth edition of the Tour of Norway and was rated as a 2.HC event as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour. The race was won by Eduard Prades of Euskadi\u2013Murias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283031-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Norway, Teams\n20 teams participated in the race, including 3 UCI WorldTeams, 12 UCI Professional Continental teams, and 5 UCI Continental teams. Each team had a maximum of six riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283032-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Oman\nThe 2018 Tour of Oman was a road cycling stage race that took place between 13 and 18 February 2018 in Oman. It was the ninth edition of the Tour of Oman and was rated as a 2.HC race as part of the 2018 UCI Asia Tour. The previous year's winner, Ben Hermans, did not defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283032-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Oman\nThe race was won by Kazakh cyclist Alexey Lutsenko, as part of Astana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283032-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Oman, Teams\nEighteen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included nine UCI WorldTeams and nine UCI Professional Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283032-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Oman, Classification leadership table\nThere were five principal classifications in the 2018 Tour of Oman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283032-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Oman, Classification leadership table\nThe first and most important was the general classification; the winner of this was considered the overall winner of the race. It was calculated by adding together each rider's times on each stage, then applying bonuses. Bonuses were awarded for coming in the top three on a stage (10 seconds for the winner, 6 seconds for the second placed rider and 4 seconds for the rider in third) or at intermediate sprints (3 seconds, 2 seconds and 1 second for the top three riders). The rider in the lead of the general classification wore a red jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 50], "content_span": [51, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283032-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Oman, Classification leadership table\nThe second competition was the points classification, calculated by awarding points for the top 10 riders at the finish of each stage (15 points to the winner down to 1 point for the rider in tenth place) and to the top three at intermediate sprints (3 points, 2 points and 1 point). The rider with the highest points total was the leader of the classification and wore a green jersey. The young rider classification was open to those born on or after 1 January 1992. The young rider ranked highest in the general classification was the leader of the young rider classification and wore a white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 50], "content_span": [51, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283032-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Oman, Classification leadership table\nThe combativity classification was based on points won at intermediate sprints and classified climbs along the route. Points were awarded to the top three riders across each sprint or climb (3 points, 2 points and 1 point). The rider with the most accumulated points was the leader of the classification and wore a white jersey with red and green polka dots. The final competition was the team classification. On each stage, each team was awarded a time based on the cumulative time of its top three riders; the times for each stage were then added together and the team with the lowest total time was the leader of the team classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 50], "content_span": [51, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283033-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Slovenia\nThe 2018 Tour of Slovenia (Slovene: Dirka po Sloveniji) was the 25th edition of the Tour of Slovenia cycling stage race, held between 13 and 17 June. Race was organised as a 2.1 race on the UCI Europe Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283033-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Slovenia\nThe race was decided on its queen stage (Stage 4) in the Kamnik\u2013Savinja Alps with climbs to Seeberg Saddle (1218 m), Pavli\u010d Pass (1338 m) and Volovljek Pass (1029 m). The stage was won by Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d (Team LottoNL-Jumbo) with a 33-second lead over second-placed Matej Mohori\u010d (Team Bahrain Victorious), with Rafal Majka (Bora\u2013Hansgrohe) in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283033-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Slovenia, Participating teams\nTwenty-two teams were initially announced for the 2018 edition; nine UCI WorldTeam and thirteen UCI Professional Continental and Continental teams", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283033-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Slovenia, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Tour of Slovenia, four different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints (three seconds to first, two seconds to second and one second to third) and at the finish of mass-start stages; these were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. The leader of the classification received a green jersey and the winner of the general classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283033-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Slovenia, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a red jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 25\u00a0points, with 20 for second, 16 for third, 14 for fourth, 12 for fifth, 10 for sixth and a point fewer per place down to 1 point for 15th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued\u00a0\u2013 awarded on a 5\u20133\u20131 scale\u00a0\u2013 at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification as noted above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283033-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Slovenia, Classification leadership table\nMountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a blue jersey. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either first, second, third or fourth-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The fourth and final jersey represented the classification for young riders, marked by a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1996 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 873]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283033-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Slovenia, Classification leadership table\nBest young rider (under 23 years) by time was awarded with white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283033-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Slovenia, Classification leadership table\nBest team, three best times of cyclists of the same team are taken into account.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283034-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Utah\nThe 2018 Tour of Utah was a seven-stage road cycling race held from August 6 to August 12, 2018, and the 14th edition of the Tour of Utah. It was rated as a 2.HC on the 2018 UCI America Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283034-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of Utah, Teams\nSeventeen teams entered the race. Each team had a maximum of seven riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283035-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Alps\nThe 2018 Tour of the Alps was a road cycling stage race that took place in Austria and Italy between 16 and 20 April 2018. It was the 42nd edition of the renamed Giro del Trentino and was rated as a 2.HC event as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour. The race was won by Thibaut Pinot of Groupama\u2013FDJ.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283035-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Alps, Route\nThe race itinerary was announced in November 2017, including a final-day finish on the route of the men's road race for the 2018 UCI Road World Championships, to be held the following September in Innsbruck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283035-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Alps, Teams\nOn 25 January 2018, the race's twenty competing teams \u2013 up from eighteen in 2017 \u2013 were announced at the 2017\u201318 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup event in Seefeld in Tirol, Austria. These included nine UCI WorldTeams, eight UCI Professional Continental teams, two UCI Continental teams and an Italian national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283035-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Alps, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Tour of the Alps, four different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. The leader of the general classification received a fuchsia jersey; this classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Tour of the Alps, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283035-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Alps, Classification leadership table\nThe second classification was the sprints classification, the leader of which was awarded a red jersey. In the sprints classification, riders received points for finishing in the top three at intermediate sprint points during each stage. Points were awarded on a 6\u20134\u20132 scale for all stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283035-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Alps, Classification leadership table\nThere was also a mountains classification, for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. Each of the ten climbs were categorised as either first, second, or third-category, with more points available for the more difficult, higher-categorised climbs. For first-category climbs, the top five riders earned points; on the other climbs, only the top three riders earned points. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283035-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Alps, Classification leadership table\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. Only riders born after 1 January 1995 were eligible; the young rider best placed in the general classification was the leader of the young rider classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists in a team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest cumulative time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283036-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Basque Country\nThe 2018 Tour of the Basque Country was a road cycling stage race that took place between 2 and 7 April 2018 in Spain. It was the 58th edition of the Tour of the Basque Country and the fourteenth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283036-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Basque Country\nThe race was won by a Slovenian rider for the first time, as Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d (LottoNL\u2013Jumbo) was the most consistent rider over the course of the week. Aside from winning the individual time trial in Lodosa, Rogli\u010d finished second on three other stages, cementing the green jersey for the points classification alongside the txapela and yellow jersey for the general classification; Rogli\u010d won the race overall by over a minute from his next closest competitor, the Movistar Team's Mikel Landa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283036-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Basque Country\nLanda, and third-placed Ion Izagirre (Bahrain\u2013Merida), had moved onto the overall podium on the race's penultimate stage, having been a part of a six-rider breakaway in the closing stages. The race's other jerseys were won by Spaniards Carlos Verona (mountains for Mitchelton\u2013Scott), and Enric Mas (young rider for Quick-Step Floors after a final-stage breakaway win), while the Movistar Team won the teams classification as Nairo Quintana also finished in the top-five overall for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283036-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Basque Country, Route\nThe full route of the 2018 Tour of the Basque Country was announced on 2 March 2018. For the first time in over 40 years, the race finished with a road stage and not an individual time trial. On 28 March, it was announced that the second stage \u2013 initially due to be held over 152.7\u00a0km (95\u00a0mi) \u2013 was to be extended to 166.7\u00a0km (104\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283036-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Basque Country, Participating teams\nAs the Tour of the Basque Country was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and were obliged to enter a team in the race. Four UCI Professional Continental teams were awarded wildcard places, bringing the number of teams to twenty-two. As each team included seven riders (down from eight in 2017), a total of 154 riders were due to start the first stage. However, Team Sunweb's Martijn Tusveld did not start, therefore reducing the peloton to 153 riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283036-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Basque Country, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Tour of the Basque Country, four different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Introduced for the 2018 edition, time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages except for the time trials: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283036-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Basque Country, Classification leadership table\nBonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints; three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The leader of the general classification received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Tour of the Basque Country, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283036-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Basque Country, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a green jersey, a change from white in 2017. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 25\u00a0points, with 20 for second, 16 for third, 14 for fourth, 12 for fifth, 10 for sixth with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 15th place. Points were also won in intermediate sprints; three points for crossing the sprint line first, two points for second place, and one for third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283036-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Basque Country, Classification leadership table\nThere was also a mountains classification, for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. Each of the twenty-three climbs were categorised as either first, second, or third-category, with more points available for the more difficult, higher-categorised climbs. For first-category climbs, the top six riders earned points; on second-category climbs, four riders won points; on third-category climbs, only the top three riders earned points. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a red jersey with white polka-dots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283036-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tour of the Basque Country, Classification leadership table\nInstead of the sprints classification, as it was in 2017, the fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a light blue jersey. Only riders born after 1 January 1993 were eligible; the young rider best placed in the general classification was the leader of the young rider classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists in a team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest cumulative time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283037-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Touring Car Masters\nThe 2018 Touring Car Masters was an Australian motor racing series for Touring Cars manufactured between 1 January 1963 and 31 December 1978, IROC Porsche automobiles and Trans Am Class automobiles. It was the twelfth annual Touring Car Masters series. Each car competing in the series was allocated into one the following classes: Pro Masters, Pro Am, Pro Sport, IROC (Porsche), Trans Am.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283037-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Touring Car Masters\nThe series was won by Steve Johnson driving a Ford Mustang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283037-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Touring Car Masters, Series results\nThe series was won by Steve Johnson driving a Ford Mustang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283038-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournament of Champions\nThe Men's J. P. Morgan Tournament of Champions 2018 is the men's edition of the 2018 Tournament of Champions, which is a PSA World Series event (Prize money\u00a0: 165 000 $). The event took place at the Grand Central Terminal in New York City in the United States from 18 January to 25 January. Simon R\u00f6sner won his first Tournament of Champions trophy, beating Tarek Momen in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283038-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournament of Champions, Prize money and ranking points\nFor 2018, the prize purse was $165,000. The prize money and points breakdown is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283039-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournament of Nations\nThe 2018 Tournament of Nations was the second Tournament of Nations, an international women's football tournament, consisting of a series of friendly games. It was held in the United States, from July 26 to August 2, 2018, and featured the same four teams as the previous tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283039-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournament of Nations, Format\nThe tournament featured the national teams of Australia, Brazil, Japan, and the hosts, the United States, competing in a round-robin format, with each team playing every other once. Three points were awarded for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283039-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournament of Nations, Standings\nAll times are local (CDT in Kansas City and Bridgeview, EDT in East Hartford).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283039-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournament of Nations, Goalscorers\nThere were 22 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 3.67 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283039-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournament of Nations, Television coverage\nIn Australia, all three games featuring the national team were televised live on Fox Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283039-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournament of Nations, Television coverage\nIn Brazil, all three games featuring the national team were televised live on SporTV and online at the CBF website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283040-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournament of Nations squads\nThis article lists the squads for the 2018 Tournament of Nations, the 2nd edition of the Tournament of Nations. The cup consisted of a series of friendly games, and was held in the United States from 26 July to 2 August 2018. The four national teams involved in the tournament registered a squad of 23 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283040-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournament of Nations squads\nThe age listed for each player is on 26 July 2018, the first day of the tournament. The club listed is the club for which the player last played a competitive match prior to the tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated. A flag is included for coaches that are of a different nationality than their own national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283040-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournament of Nations squads, Squads, Australia\nThe final squad was announced on 17 July 2018. A day later, teenage bolter Mary Fowler was added to the squad. On 24 July 2018, Steph Catley withdrew from the squad due to family reasons and was replaced by Laura Alleway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283040-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournament of Nations squads, Squads, Japan\nThe final squad was announced on 13 July 2018. On 23 July 2018, Rumi Utsugi, Nana Ichise, and Hikaru Naomoto withdrew from the squad due to injuries and were replaced with Mayo Doko and Hina Sugita.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283041-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournoi des 4\nThe Tournoi des 4 (Four Nations Tournament) was a football tournament that took place in Fort-de-France, Martinique during June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283041-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tournoi des 4\nThe competition was announced in January 2018 and featured the Corsica national football team's first matches outside of Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283042-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election\nElections to Tower Hamlets London Borough Council were held on 3 May 2018, the same day as other borough council elections in London. The directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets was also up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283042-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election, Prior council composition\nSince the 2014 election the makeup of the Borough Council has changed considerably, with the second-placed Tower Hamlets First party removed from the Electoral Commission's register of political parties following election court findings that Tower Hamlets First did not operate any responsible financial scheme, nor in the manners as submitted in its registration as a political party, Lutfur Rahman's re-election to the post of Mayor was declared void, and the subsequent by-election was won by John Biggs of the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 77], "content_span": [78, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283042-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election, Prior council composition\nThe Labour Party controlled the council from the time of the by-election in June 2015 until one of its councillors defected to the Liberal Democrats in February 2017 over Brexit. Another of Labour's councillors, who served as the Speaker of the Council, was suspended by the party for 10 months in 2016, and again in March 2018, ending his term as an Independent; he went into the election as a candidate for People's Alliance of Tower Hamlets. Also represented was the Conservative Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 77], "content_span": [78, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283042-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election, Prior council composition\nThe 2018 result saw Labour hold the mayoralty and re-gain control of the council, winning all but one of the seats won by Tower Hamlets First in 2014, as well as seats from the Conservatives. Rabina Khan, formerly of Tower Hamlets First, but now leader of the rival PATH, came second in the Mayoral election and was the only former Tower Hamlets First councillor to win a seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 77], "content_span": [78, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283042-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election, Electoral wards\nThe election was held on the boundaries established by the Tower Hamlets (Electoral Changes) Order 2013, which reduced the size of the council and created new electoral wards. This was the second election on the new boundaries, after the 2014 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283042-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Blackwall and Cubitt Town\nIn October 2018, Pappu was suspended from the Labour group on the council on following a tirade of antisemitic posts on his social media. He subsequently apologised and was readmitted to the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 94], "content_span": [95, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283042-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Canary Wharf\nIn February 2020, Wood resigned as Leader of the Opposition and as a Conservative in opposition to Brexit and the Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick's decision to approve the building of the Westferry Printworks skyscrapers. He now sits as an Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 81], "content_span": [82, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283042-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Shadwell\nIn October 2018, Khan joined the Liberal Democrats after the People's Alliance of Tower Hamlets folded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 77], "content_span": [78, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283043-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Townsville 400\nThe 2018 Townsville 400 (formally known as 2018 Watpac Townsville 400) was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on the weekend of 6-8 July 2018. The event was held at Townsville Street Circuit near Townsville, Queensland and consisted of two races, both 200 kilometres in length. It was the eighth event of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 17 and 18 of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283044-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Townsville Blackhawks season\nThe 2018 Townsville Blackhawks season was the fourth in the club's history. Coached by Kristian Woolf and captained by Andrew Niemoeller, they competed in the Intrust Super Cup. The club finished the regular season in 3rd position and qualified for the finals but were eliminated in the first week by the Ipswich Jets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283045-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Towson Tigers football team\nThe 2018 Towson Tigers football team represented Towson University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by tenth-year head coach Rob Ambrose and played their home games at Johnny Unitas Stadium. They are a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 7\u20135, 5\u20133 in CAA play to finish in a three-way tie for third place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost in the first round to Duquesne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283045-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Towson Tigers football team, Previous season\nThe Tigers finished the 2017 season 5\u20136, 3\u20135 in CAA play to finish in a three-way tie for seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283045-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Towson Tigers football team, Preseason, CAA Poll\nIn the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Tigers were predicted to finish in tenth place. They did not have any players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283046-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota 86 Racing Series\nThe 2018 Toyota 86 Racing Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Toyota 86 cars. The series began on 20 April at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit and concluded on 25 November at Newcastle Street Circuit. It was the third running of the Toyota 86 Racing Series. Defending series winner, Jimmy Vernon elected not to defend his title, choosing to contest the 2018 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Australia instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283046-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota 86 Racing Series, Calendar\nThe calendar for the 2018 series was announced on the 3rd of November, 2017. The series began on 20 April at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit and concluded on 25 November at Newcastle Street Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283047-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach\nThe 2018 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the third round of the 2018 IndyCar Series and the 44th annual running of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. The race was contested over 85 laps on a temporary street circuit in Long Beach, California on April 15, 2018. Alexander Rossi won both the pole and the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283047-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, Report, Race\nRossi maintained the lead position on the start. Will Power, who had qualified alongside Rossi on the front row, also held his position in second. Behind the leaders, Graham Rahal made contact with Simon Pagenaud, forcing the latter into the wall and out of the race. Rossi's lead remained at about 3.5 seconds from lap seven to lap 25, when he made his first pit stop. He would regain the lead after the other drivers made their own stops, holding it for most of the rest of the race. Rossi's victory moved him to the lead in the Drivers' Championship points standings, 23 points ahead of Josef Newgarden, who finished seventh in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283047-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, Results, Race\nNotes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400\nThe 2018 Toyota Owners 400 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on April 21, 2018, at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. Contested over 402 laps -- extended from 400 laps due to an overtime finish, on the 0.75 mile (1.2\u00a0km) asphalt short track, it was the ninth race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Report, Background\nRichmond Raceway is a 3/4-mile (1.2\u00a0km), D-shaped, asphalt race track located just outside Richmond, Virginia in Henrico County. It hosts the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series. Known as \"America's premier short track\", it formerly hosted a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, an IndyCar Series race, and two USAC sprint car races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Practice, First practice\nChase Elliott was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 22.254 seconds and a speed of 121.327\u00a0mph (195.257\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Practice, Final practice\nKyle Larson was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 22.441 seconds and a speed of 120.315\u00a0mph (193.628\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Qualifying\nMartin Truex Jr. scored the pole for the race with a time of 21.799 and a speed of 123.859\u00a0mph (199.332\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Race, First stage\nMartin Truex Jr. led the field to the green flag at 6:44\u00a0p.m., Truex, the reigning series champion, and Elliott started on the front row. It was the third pole of the year for Truex and the best starting spot of the season for Elliott. Joey Logano took the lead from Truex and Logano won the opening stage after leading 62 of the first 100 laps. Almirola was second followed by Kurt Busch, William Byron, Bowyer, Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott, Austin Dillon, Truex and Harvick and the first caution flew for the conclusion of the first stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Second stage\nThe race resumed on lap 102, There were two lead changes at the start of the second stage, Joey Logano, who won this race one year ago before being hit with a major penalty that prevented him from using the victory to qualify for the 2017 playoffs, won the second stage after also taking the first. Both stages went caution free. Following Logano, were three Stewart-Haas Racing drivers: Clint Bowyer, Aric Almirola and Kurt Busch. William Byron was fifth, Kyle Busch sixth and Ryan Newman seventh. Brad Keselowski, Martin Truex Jr. and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top 10, and caution flew for the second time for conclusion of the second stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Final stage\nBack to green on lap 213, Other than cautions for the stage breaks, the yellow flagged remained out of sight through 350 of 400 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Final stage\nCaution flew for the third time when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. made contact with Ryan Blaney and collected Cole Whitt in turn 4. Brad Keselowski made a narrow escape, squeezing past and nearly grazing the inside wall that borders pit road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Final stage\nThe race resumed on lap 362, and caution #4 flew seven laps later for contact between Kurt Busch and Jamie McMurray in turn two caused Ryan Newman to run into the back of McMurray coming off of turn two, which ended up causing Newman\u2019s car to start smoking, McMurray was able to make repairs on pit road and remain in the race, one lap down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Final stage\nBack to green on lap 379 and the fifth caution of the race flew when avid Ragan spun in turn three, and Kyle Larson won the free pass under the caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Final stage\nThe race went back under green on lap 398 and the sixth caution of the race flew for debris in turn 3 after Ricky Stenhouse Jr. spun in the wall, sending the race into overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Overtime\nThe race resumed on lap 400 for a two-lap NASCAR Overtime, Kyle Busch, who started from the 32nd spot, worked his way to the front early on and went on to win his third consecutive race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Post-race\n\"All these guys on this M&Ms Camry team do a great job for me. I can't say enough about Adam Stevens and my guys on the pit crew tonight. They won this race for us,\" Busch said. \"They got us off pit road first those last two times that we came down for tires and got us to where we needed to be.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments\n\u201cIt's definitely cool we\u2019ve won three in a row. We did it a couple years ago and now I don't know if you can shoot for four in a row,\" he said. \"It's hard to go to Talladega with that much of a winning streak and think that you can go to victory lane, but we\u2019re going to go there anyway and give it a shot. . . . Our guys are amazing. They're awesome every week and I love racing with these guys and Joe Gibbs Racing.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Media, Television\nFox Sports covered their 18th race at the Richmond Raceway. Mike Joy, two-time Richmond winner Jeff Gordon and six-time Richmond winner Darrell Waltrip had the call in the booth for the race. Regan Smith, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the pit road duties for the television side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283048-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Owners 400, Media, Radio\nMRN had the radio call for the race which was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and six-time Richmond winner Rusty Wallace called the race in the booth when the field raced down the frontstretch. Mike Bagley called the race from a platform inside the backstretch when the field raced down the backstretch. Winston Kelley, Alex Hayden and Glenn Jarrett worked pit road for the radio side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283049-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Racing Series\nThe 2018 Castrol Toyota Racing Series was the fourteenth running of the Toyota Racing Series, the premier open-wheel motorsport category held in New Zealand. The series consisted of fifteen races at five meetings. It began on 13 January at Ruapuna Park in Christchurch, and concluded on 11 February with the 63rd running of the New Zealand Grand Prix, at Circuit Chris Amon in Feilding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283049-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Racing Series\nM2 Competition driver Robert Shwartzman won the title, being the only driver who finished in the top-five every race of the season. His teammates (and series returnees) Richard Verschoor and Marcus Armstrong had more podium finishes and race wins, but were not as consistent as Shwartzman. Another M2 driver Juan Manuel Correa raced his first season in the series, but was not considered as a rookie due to his GP3 Series experience, and he won races at Teretonga and Taupo; he finished fourth in the standings. Giles Motorsport driver Cl\u00e9ment Novalak was the highest placed rookie who conformed series regulations, winning races at Teretonga and Hampton Downs and completed the top-five in the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283049-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Racing Series, Race calendar and results\nThe calendar for the series was announced on 22 June 2017, and was held over five successive weekends in January and February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283049-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota Racing Series, Championship standings\nIn order for a driver to score championship points, they have to complete at least 75% of the race winner's distance, and be running at the race's completion. All races counted towards the final championship standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283050-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota/Save Mart 350\nThe 2018 Toyota/Save Mart 350 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on June 24, 2018 at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, California. Contested over 110 laps on the 1.99-mile (3.20\u00a0km) road course, it was the 16th race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283050-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Report, Background\nSonoma Raceway, formerly Sears Point Raceway and Infineon Raceway is a 2.52-mile (4.06\u00a0km) road course and drag strip located on the landform known as Sears Point in the southern Sonoma Mountains in Sonoma, California, USA. The road course features 12 turns on a hilly course with 160 feet (49\u00a0m) of total elevation change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283050-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Report, Background\nIt is host to one of only three Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races each year that are run on road courses (the others being Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York and the road course layout for the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway). It is also host to the Verizon IndyCar Series and several other auto races and motorcycle races such as the American Federation of Motorcyclists series. Sonoma Raceway continues to host amateur, or club racing events which may or may not be open to the general public. The largest such car club is the Sports Car Club of America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283050-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Practice, First practice\nClint Bowyer was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 76.547 seconds and a speed of 93.590\u00a0mph (150.619\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283050-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Practice, Final practice\nKurt Busch was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 76.163 seconds and a speed of 94.061\u00a0mph (151.377\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283050-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Qualifying\nKyle Larson scored the pole for the race with a time of 75.732 and a speed of 94.597\u00a0mph (152.239\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283050-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Media, Television\nFox NASCAR televised the race in the United States on FS1 for the fourth consecutive year. Mike Joy was the lap-by-lap announcer, while six-time Sonoma winner Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip were the color commentators. Jamie Little, Regan Smith and Matt Yocum reported from pit lane during the race. This is also Fox Sports' last Cup race for their portion of the season as NBC Sports takes over NASCAR broadcasts for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283050-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Media, Radio\nRadio coverage of the race was broadcast by Performance Racing Network. PRN's broadcast of the race was simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice and Mark Garrow announced the race in the booth while the field was racing on the pit straight. Pat Patterson called the race from a stand outside of turn 2 when the field was racing up turns 2, 3 and 3a. Brad Gillie called the race from a stand outside of turn 7a when the field was racing through turns 4a and 7a. The field came back into the view of the booth in turns 8 and 9. Rob Albright called the race from a billboard outside turn 11 when the field was racing through turns 10 and 11. Heather DeBeaux, Brett McMillan and Jim Noble reported from pit lane during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283051-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election to elect members of Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council in England took place on 3 May 2018. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283051-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election\nOne third of the council stood for election, with each successful candidate serving a four-year term of office, expiring in 2022. The Conservative Party held overall control of the council going into the election but lost 5 seats, with Labour holding the larger number of councillors, meaning the council entered a state of no overall control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283052-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships\nThe 33rd Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships were held in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from November 7\u201310, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283053-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trans-Am Series\nThe 2018 Trans-Am Series season was the fiftieth running of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am Series. It began on March 2 at Sebring International Raceway and ran for twelve rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283054-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Travelers Curling Club Championship\nThe 2018 Travelers Curling Club Championship was held from November 19 to 24 at the Miramichi Curling Club in Miramichi, New Brunswick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283055-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Travelers Northern Ontario Men's Curling Championship\nThe 2018 Travelers Men's NOCA Provincials, the provincial men's curling championship of Northern Ontario was held February 7\u201311 at the NEMI Rec Centre in Little Current, Ontario. The winning Brad Jacobs team represented Northern Ontario at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier in Regina, Saskatchewan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283056-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tre Valli Varesine\nThe 2018 Tre Valli Varesine was the 98th edition of the Tre Valli Varesine road cycling one day race. It was held on 9 October 2018 as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC, over a distance of 203\u00a0km, starting in Saronno and ending in Varese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283056-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tre Valli Varesine, Teams\nTwenty-five teams were invited to take part in the race. These included thirteen UCI WorldTeams, eight UCI Professional Continental teams and four UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283057-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trek\u2013Segafredo season\nThe 2018 cycling season began in Australia at the Tour Down Under for Trek-Segafredo in January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283057-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trek\u2013Segafredo season\nAs a UCI WorldTeam, they are automatically invited and obliged to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283058-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol provincial elections\nThe Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol provincial elections of 2018 took place on 21 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283058-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol provincial elections, Trentino\nIn Trentino, the president is elected directly by the people; the candidate who gains more vote is elected president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283058-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol provincial elections, Trentino, Analysis\nSimilar to the election in Molise and the election in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the M5S lost c. 15% of votes compared to the general election. On March 4, they reached almost 25%, but now just over 7%. By contrast, the centre-right coalition gained more than 10% compared to March 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 74], "content_span": [75, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283058-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol provincial elections, South Tyrol\nIn South Tyrol, all 35 members of the Provincial council (Landtag) are up for re-election. The council elects a government headed by a president (Landeshauptmann).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 67], "content_span": [68, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283058-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol provincial elections, South Tyrol\nIn the 2013 election, the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) lost its absolute majority for the first time since 1948.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 67], "content_span": [68, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283059-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Treviso Open\nThe Dynamic Billard Treviso Open 2018 (sometimes known as the 2018 Italy Open) was the sixth and final Euro Tour 9-Ball pool event in 2018. The event was won by Russia's Fedor Gorst who defeated Poland's Mateusz \u015aniegocki 9\u20137 in the final. This was Gorst's first Euro Tour victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283059-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Treviso Open\nWiktor Zieli\u0144ski was the defending champion, after having won the 2017 Treviso Open, but lost matches to Andreas Madsen and Tobias Bongers in the double elimination round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283059-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Treviso Open, Tournament format\nThe event saw a total of 193 players compete, in a double-elimination knockout tournament, until the last 32 stage; where the tournament was contested as single elimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283059-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Treviso Open, Tournament format, Prize fund\nThe tournament prize fund was similar to that of other Euro Tour events, with \u20ac4,500 for the winner of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283060-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago Charity Shield\nThe 2018 Trinidad and Tobago Charity Shield (known as the Digicel Charity Shield for sponsorship reasons) was the sixth edition of the Charity Shield, which is a football match that opened the 2018 Pro League season. The match will be played on 1 June 2018, between the winners of the previous season's TT Pro League and FA Trophy competitions. It officially kicks off the 2018 TT Pro League season. W Connection won their 4th title after beating North East Stars 7-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283060-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago Charity Shield, Pre-match, Entry\nW Connection qualified by winning the 2017 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy , defeating Police 3\u20131 in the final at Ato Boldon Stadium. W Connection claimed victories over Tamana United 12\u20130, Bethel United 3\u20130, Cunupia 3-2, Guaya United 1-0 and 1976 FC Phoenix 3-0 en route to the final. The 2017 FA Trophy was the Savonetta Boys' fifth title and consequently gained a berth in the 2018. Digicel Charity Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283060-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago Charity Shield, Pre-match, Entry\nNorth East Stars qualified for their first Charity Shield by clinching the TT Pro League title on 24 November 2018. It was their first Pro League title since 2004. North East Stars started Pro League by going 6 games unbeaten until they slipped up 1-0 against Point Fortin Civic F.C.. From there they were already top of the league. The club would go on to lose only one game to finish 7 points ahead of second place W Connection and secured their second title after a thirteen season drought.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283061-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup\nThe 2018 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2018 First Citizens Cup) was the nineteenth season of the First Citizens Cup, which is the league cup competition for Trinidad and Tobago teams competing in the TT Pro League and will run from the 8 June to 20 July. W Connection entered as the cup holders having defeated Defence Force by a score of 3\u20131 in the 2017 final. The cup underwent a format change where the clubs were divided into 2 groups of 5 teams. The teams would play each other once on a round-robin basis and the top 2 teams from each group would advance to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283061-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup, Group Stage\nIn the group stage, each teams played each other twice round-robin basis. The top 2 teams from each group advanced to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283062-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup group stage\nThe group stage for the First Citizens Cup began on 8 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283062-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup group stage, Groups\nThe teams were drawn into 2 groups of 5 teams, who will play each other once. The top two teams will advance to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283063-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago floods\nThe 2018 Trinidad and Tobago floods were a series of over-bank floods and flash-floods occurring in the twin-island Caribbean nation, Trinidad and Tobago. These events followed consistent rainfall on Friday 19 October 2018 and intermittent rainfall on Saturday 20 October 2018. Rivers in Caroni, Diego Martin and Maraval breached their banks. Several communities were evacuated as homes and vehicles were flooded; many areas were inaccessible. Flooding along the Caroni Plain caused the submersion of a major part of the Uriah Butler Highway. The south-bound lane of this highway was temporarily closed to vehicular traffic. The north-bound lane was temporarily used for two-way traffic, permitting only large SUVs and heavy-T vehicles. Flight services out of Piarco International Airport were temporarily disrupted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283063-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago floods, Rainfall and Met Office warnings\nConsistent rainfall persisted throughout the day on Friday 19 October 2018. Trinidad and Tobago is located on the band of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), making it prone to over-bank river flooding, flash flooding, and landslides following extreme and erratic rainfall. The Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service (TTMS) upgraded the Riverine Flood Alert level from orange to red. Citizens were advised then to secure themselves and their property and execute emergency evacuation procedures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283063-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago floods, Flooded areas/ communities\nThe following (incomplete) lists areas and communities were affected severely by flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283063-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago floods, Flooded roads and highways\nThe following table (incomplete) shows some of the roadways and highways that were affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283063-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago floods, Landslides and landslips\nThe following table shows a list (not yet complete) of landslides/landslips that have occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283064-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago presidential election\nIndirect presidential elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 19 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283064-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago presidential election\nOn 5 January 2018, the name of Paula-Mae Weekes, a judge of the Turks and Caicos Islands Court of Appeal, was put forward by the PNM government of Prime Minister Keith Rowley in hopes of reaching a consensus with the UNC-led parliamentary opposition of Kamla Persad-Bissessar, which later indeed endorsed her nomination as well. As Weekes was the only nominated candidate on election day, she was deemed elected without the need for a vote. Paula-Mae Weeks thus became the first woman to take office as president of Trinidad and Tobago on 19 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283064-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago presidential election, Electoral method\nThe President of Trinidad and Tobago is indirectly elected for a 5-year term by an electoral college comprising all 41 members of the House of Representatives and all 31 members of the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283064-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Trinidad and Tobago presidential election, Electoral method\nTo win the election a candidate must gain a plurality of votes cast, whereby a quorum comprising the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 10 Senators and 12 other member of the House of Representatives must be met for the election to be considered valid. If only one candidate should be nominated to run in the election, he or she shall be considered to have been elected president without the need for a vote to take place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election\nThe 2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election was held on 18 February for 59 of the state's 60 constituencies. The counting of votes took place on 3 March 2018. With 43% of the vote, the BJP secured a majority of seats (36) and subsequently formed the government with Biplab Kumar Deb as Chief Minister. The former governing Left Front alliance while receiving 42.7% of the vote secured only 16 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThe term of the Tripura Legislative Assembly ended on 6 March 2018. Having governed Tripura since the 1998 election, the ruling Left Front alliance, under Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, sought re-election. Meanwhile, the region in general had been under the political control of the Communist Party for 25 years prior to the election, leading to the region being dubbed a \"red holdout\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Background\nTheir primary challengers came in the form of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which under the leadership of Narendra Modi was the governing party of India on a national level. The BJP is a nationalist, rightist party, whose policies directly oppose those of the Communists. However, the party claimed no seats, and a mere 1.5% of the vote, in the region's previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Background\nDespite the relatively small size of Tripura, the election took on additional significance on a national level as it was an acid test to gauge the successes of the BJP ahead of next year's general election, and a chance to strip the communists, the party's \"primary ideological enemy\", of its stronghold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Background\nPrior to the election, a number of workers of the BJP were murdered. The BJP alleged that the murders were committed by CPI(M) members, which the party denies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Schedule\nThe Election Commission of India announced that the Legislative Assembly elections in Tripura will be held on 18 February 2018 and the results will be announced on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Schedule, Electoral process changes\nVVPAT-fitted EVMs was used in entire Tripura state in all polling stations in the 2018 elections, which was the first time that the entire state saw the implementation of VVPAT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Schedule, Electoral process changes\nThe election took place in a single phase on 18 February 2018 with 89.8% voter turnout. The results were announced on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Campaign\nThe other major force in the election was the Indian National Congress, who had taken 36.5% of the popular vote in the region in 2013. They are also, on a wider scale, the largest force in opposing Modi and the BJP in parliament. As such, Rahul Gandhi, in his capacity as the party's leader, campaigned in the region. They were determined to prevent the BJP from seizing control on the region, as such an outcome would represent the \"demise of the Left\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Results\nThe incumbent Left Front government was defeated after 25 years of office out of which Manik Sarkar served for about 20 years, with the Bharatiya Janata Party and Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura winning a large majority of seats. The Indian National Congress, which was the second largest party in the 2013 election, lost all its seats and most of its vote share.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Reactions\nThe BJP chose Biplab Kumar Deb to be the next Chief Minister. He said: \"I am ready to take the responsibility. I will not run away from taking the responsibility. I have already been given a bigger responsibility, the party's state presidentship, which I have been fulfilling to the best of my ability. People responded favourably to our call 'Chalo Paltai' (let's change).\" He claimed that having the same party in the central government and at the state level \"helps in faster development.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Reactions\nHe further called for restraint in post-electoral violence: \"We do not believe in the politics of vengeance and hatred, so we appeal to the people to maintain peace and calm.\" In addition he asserted that \"the word development does not exist in the dictionary of the CPI-M. Our government will provide good governance and time-bound implementation of all developmental works.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Reactions\nFormer Chief Minister of Kerala and senior CPI(M) leader V. S. Achuthanandan called for the party's leadership to ally with \"secular forces\" to defeat the Sangh Parivar: \"The country is facing serious challenges. The Congress, which had ruled for decades in the post-independence period, has become weaker now. He supported party General Secretary Sitaram Yechury's call for an \"understanding\" with the INC as \"a tactical move with secular forces was necessary.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Reactions\nThe party's provincial minister claimed that the BJP had \"misused\" money and power at the central government in winning the election and that the \"challenge to the democracy and the national integrity.\" Another CPM figure M. V. Jayarajan, private secretary to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, claimed that the INC voters and leaders were moving towards the BJP and that the result should \"not be viewed lightly and all the patriots in the country have the responsibility to check and isolate any effort of the communal forces gaining strength in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Reactions\nPolitburo member M. A. Baby said that while the result was \"unexpected\", he did \"respect the verdict of the people.\" He added: \"However, there is a decline of 6-7 per cent vote share of the Left front. It's a concern...how the erosion has taken place and why this happened will be dispassionately examined by the party in Tripura and the national leadership.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Reactions\nIt was suggested that in order to defeat the BJP, other opposition parties would have to unite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Charilam bypoll\nPolling for the seat of Charilam was postponed to 12 March 2018 after the death of Communist Party of India (Marxist) incumbent candidate Ramendra Narayan Debbarma. The CPI(M) withdrew their candidate for the bypoll claiming that there was an increase in violence. This claim was refuted by BJP National Secretary Ram Madhav, who termed it as \"bogus\", and an attempt by the CPI(M) to hide their defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283065-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Charilam bypoll\nDespite this, the CPI(M) candidate continued to be present on the ballot paper, and subsequently lost their deposit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283066-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tro-Bro L\u00e9on\nThe 2018 Tro-Bro L\u00e9on was a one-day road cycling race that took place on 15 April 2018. It was the 35th edition of the Tro-Bro L\u00e9on and was rated as a 1.1 event as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour. It was also the eighth event of the 2018 French Road Cycling Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283066-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tro-Bro L\u00e9on, Teams\nNineteen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included two UCI WorldTeams, eleven UCI Professional Continental teams and six UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283067-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofej Umag\nThe 2018 Trofej Umag was the 6th edition of the Trofej Umag road cycling one day race. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283067-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofej Umag, Teams\nThirty teams were invited to take part in the race. All of them were UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283068-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio\nThe 2018 Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio was the 20th running of the Trofeo Alfredo Binda, a women's cycling race in Italy. It was the third event of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour season and was held on 18 March 2017. The race started in Gavirate and finished in Cittiglio, on the outskirts of Lago Maggiore in Northwest Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283068-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio\nPolish rider Kasia Niewiadoma won the race after a solo attack. A group of 20 riders was formed during the final lap, on the Colle del Casale, from which Niewiadoma broke clear at 8\u00a0km from the finish. She held her lead to claim her third World Tour win. Chantal Blaak won the sprint for second place at 23 seconds ahead of Marianne Vos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283068-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio, Teams\nTwenty-four teams participated in the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283069-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofeo Faip\u2013Perrel\nThe 2018 Trofeo Faip\u2013Perrel was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the thirteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bergamo, Italy between 19 and 25 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283069-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofeo Faip\u2013Perrel, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283069-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofeo Faip\u2013Perrel, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283070-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofeo Faip\u2013Perrel \u2013 Doubles\nJulian Knowle and Adil Shamasdin were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283070-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofeo Faip\u2013Perrel \u2013 Doubles\nScott Clayton and Jonny O'Mara won the title after defeating Laurynas Grigelis and Alessandro Motti 5\u20137, 6\u20133, [15\u201313] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283071-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofeo Faip\u2013Perrel \u2013 Singles\nJerzy Janowicz was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283071-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofeo Faip\u2013Perrel \u2013 Singles\nMatteo Berrettini won the title after defeating Stefano Napolitano 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283072-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofeo Laigueglia\nThe 2018 Trofeo Laigueglia was a one-day road cycling race that took place on 11 February 2018 in and around Laigueglia, Italy. It was the 55th edition of the Trofeo Laigueglia and was rated as a 1.HC event as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283072-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofeo Laigueglia\nThe race was won by Moreno Moser, riding for an Italian national team select, accelerating 100 metres from the summit of the climb through the hilltop village of Colla Micheri to open a decisive gap. Second place went to Paolo Tot\u00f2 for the Sangemini\u2013MG.K Vis Vega team, ahead of Wilier Triestina\u2013Selle Italia's Matteo Busato.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283072-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Trofeo Laigueglia, Teams\nTwenty-two teams were invited to take part in the race. These included one UCI WorldTeam, thirteen UCI Professional Continental teams, seven UCI Continental teams and an Italian national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283073-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trof\u00e9u Joaquim Agostinho\nThe 2018 Trof\u00e9u Joaquim Agostinho\u2013GP Internacional Torres Vedras was four-stage men's road cycling stage race that took place in the Centro region of Portugal between 12 and 15 July 2018. It was the 41st edition of the Trof\u00e9u Joaquim Agostinho and was rated as a 2.2 event as part of the UCI Europe Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283074-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Troms\u00f8 IL season\nThe 2018 season was Troms\u00f8's fourth season back in the Tippeligaen following their relegation at the end of the 2013 and their 31st season in the top flight of Norwegian football. Troms\u00f8 finished the season in 11th position and reached the Fourth Round of the Norwegian Cup where they were knocked out by V\u00e5lerenga .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283074-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Troms\u00f8 IL season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283074-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Troms\u00f8 IL season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283074-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Troms\u00f8 IL season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283074-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Troms\u00f8 IL season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283074-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Troms\u00f8 IL season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283074-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Troms\u00f8 IL season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283075-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Troph\u00e9e des Champions\nThe 2018 Troph\u00e9e des Champions (transl. 2018 Champions Trophy) was the 23rd edition of the French super cup. The match was contested by the 2017\u201318 Ligue 1 and Coupe de France champions Paris Saint-Germain, and the runners-up of Ligue 1, Monaco. The match was played at the Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre in Shenzhen, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283075-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Troph\u00e9e des Champions\nThe match was a rematch of the previous edition, in which PSG defeated Monaco 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283075-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Troph\u00e9e des Champions\nParis Saint-Germain won the match 4\u20130 for their sixth consecutive and eighth overall Troph\u00e9e des Champions title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283076-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Troy Trojans football team\nThe 2018 Troy Trojans football team represented Troy University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Trojans played their home games at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Troy, Alabama, and competed in the East Division of the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by fourth-year head coach Neal Brown. They finished the season 10\u20133, 7\u20131 in Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for the East Division championship with Appalachian State. Due to their head-to-head loss to Appalachian State, they did not represent the East Division in the Sun Belt Championship Game. They were invited to the Dollar General Bowl where they defeated Buffalo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283076-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Troy Trojans football team, Previous season\nThe Trojans finished the 2017 season 11\u20132, 7\u20131 in Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for the Sun Belt championship. They received an invitation to the New Orleans Bowl where they defeated North Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283076-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Troy Trojans football team, Preseason, Sun Belt coaches poll\nOn July 19, 2018, the Sun Belt released their preseason coaches poll with the Trojans predicted to finish in second place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283076-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Troy Trojans football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Sun Belt Teams\nThe Trojans had ten players at eleven positions selected to the preseason all-Sun Belt teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election\nA by-election for the Trutnov Senate seat in the Czech Republic was held over two rounds in January 2018. The first round was held on 5 and 6 January 2018, with the second round on 12 and 13 January. The front-runners in the election were Jan Sobotka, supported by right-wing parties, and Ji\u0159\u00ed Hlavat\u00fd, the candidate of ANO 2011. Both of these candidates qualified for the second round held on 12 and 13 January 2018, which was won by Sobotka with 67% of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Background\nIncumbent Senator Ji\u0159\u00ed Hlavat\u00fd stood in the 2017 legislative election and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. As a result, his mandate as a Senator ceased to exist. Hlavat\u00fd expressed his surprise, as he believed he would be able to choose which seat to take, and called the rule undemocratic and totalitarian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Background\nOn 25 October 2017, Czech president Milo\u0161 Zeman announced that the first round of the by-election would be held on 5 and 6 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Campaign\nOn 30 October 2017, Jan Sobotka announced his candidacy as the nominee of Mayors and Independents. He also received endorsements from TOP 09, the Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party and the Civic Democratic Party. Hlavat\u00fd announced his candidacy on 2 November 2017. Jakub Dvorsk\u00fd announced his candidacy on 21 November 2017 as a candidate of the Czech Pirate Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Campaign\nCommunist Party candidate Iva \u0158ezn\u00ed\u010dkov\u00e1 was accused of defamation on 22 November 2017. Hlavat\u00fd held a public discussion with voters on 1 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Campaign\nSobotka had four billboards put up within the district. He stated that his campaign would conclude with leaflets he would send to voters. Sobotka said that he wanted to maintain the status quo in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Campaign\nTerezie Holovsk\u00e1 was rejected as a candidate by the Municipal Bureau of Trutnov. She appealed the decision in Court. The Regional Court decided that the rejection of her candidacy was illegal, and her nomination was reinstated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Campaign\nXTV held a debate between the candidates on 15 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Campaign\nThe campaign concluded on 4 January 2018. Sobotka announced that his campaign had cost 400,000 CZK. Hlavat\u00fd estimated that his campaign had cost 500,000 CZK, while Karel \u0160kl\u00edba estimated the cost of his campaign at 140,000 CZK. Political scientists predicted that the election would be won by Ji\u0159\u00ed Hlavat\u00fd or Jan Sobotka. Sobotka is popular in Vrchlab\u00ed and its surroundings while Hlavat\u00fd is popular in Dv\u016fr Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 nad Labem and its surroundings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Campaign\nThe first round was held on 5 and 6 January 2018. Jan Sobotka received the highest number of votes, with Hlavat\u00fd second. Those two candidates faced each other in a run-off on 12 and 13 January. The turnout was very low. Sobotka said that he had expected the result. He said that he would hold meetings with voters and use social media for his campaign for the second round. Hlavat\u00fd's share of the vote fell 9% from the 2014 election, which he attributed to the media misquoting some things he had said. He stated that he would not campaign for the second round. Kl\u00e1ra Sovov\u00e1 and Jaroslav Dvorsk\u00fd endorsed Jan Sobotka for the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Campaign\nEvaluating the first round results, political scientist Ji\u0159\u00ed \u0160tefek noted that Hlavat\u00fd's result in the first round was lower than expected, and stated that Hlavat\u00fd should work harder on his campaign before the second round if he wanted to win. Another disappointing result was that of the Social Democratic candidate \u0160kl\u00edba, who had been considered a strong candidate but received only 6%. \u0160tefek also commented on the result of Terezie Holovsk\u00e1, who had been a high-profile candidate due to her problems registering. \u0160tefek said that Holovsk\u00e1 had never had a chance since the beginning of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Campaign\nSobotka was endorsed by four candidates prior to the second round: Kl\u00e1ra Sovov\u00e1, Jaroslav Dvorsk\u00fd, Karel \u0160kl\u00edba and Blanka Hor\u00e1kov\u00e1. Hlavat\u00fd was endorse by Terezie Holovsk\u00e1. The second round will be held on 12 and 13 January 2018, alongside the first round of the presidential election. Sobotka defeated Hlavat\u00fd by a large margin in the second round held on 12 and 13 January 2018, receiving 67% of votes, with Hlavat\u00fd on 33% of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Betting odds\nBetting shops considered Ji\u0159\u00ed Hlavat\u00fd the front runner. His betting odds were 1:1.8, while his main rival Sobotka had 1:2.5 odds. Kl\u00e1ra Sovov\u00e1 was considered the third strongest candidate, with odds of 1:5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Aftermath\nSobotka was elected as Senator, to serve the rest of Hlavat\u00fd's term. Sobotka stated that he plans to focus on regional development. Hlavat\u00fd said he had congratulated Sobotka, and suggested that people had most likely decided that businessmen don't belong in politics. Hlavat\u00fd decided to leave politics after his defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283077-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Trutnov by-election, Aftermath\nPolitical scientist Ji\u0159\u00ed \u0160tefek stated that Hlavat\u00fd's defeat was caused by disappointment with Andrej Babi\u0161, and the other parties' support for Sobotka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283078-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tulane Green Wave football team\nThe 2018 Tulane Green Wave football team represented Tulane University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Green Wave played their home games at Yulman Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, and competed in the West Division of the American Athletic Conference. They were led by third-year head coach Willie Fritz. They finished the season 7\u20136, 5\u20133 in AAC play to finish in a three way tie for the West Division championship. After tiebreakers, they did not represent the West Division in the AAC Championship Game. They were invited to the Cure Bowl where they defeated Louisiana to win their first bowl game since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283078-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tulane Green Wave football team, Previous season\nThe Green Wave finished the 2017 season 5\u20137, 3\u20135 in AAC play to finish in fifth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283078-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tulane Green Wave football team, Preseason, AAC media poll\nThe AAC media poll was released on July 24, 2018, with the Green Wave predicted to finish in fifth place in the AAC West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283078-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tulane Green Wave football team, Game summaries, at Tulsa\nat Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium, Tulsa, OK", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283079-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team\nThe 2018 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Golden Hurricane played their home games at the Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and competed in the West Division of the American Athletic Conference. They were led by fourth-year head coach Philip Montgomery. They finished the season 3\u20139, 2\u20136 in American Athletic play to finish in a tie for fifth placein the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283079-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Previous season\nThe Golden Hurricane finished the 2017 season 2\u201310, 1\u20137 in AAC play to finish in last place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283079-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Preseason, AAC media poll\nThe AAC media poll was released on July 24, 2018, with the Golden Hurricane predicted to finish in last place in the AAC West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283080-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tulsa Roughnecks FC season\nThe 2018 Tulsa Roughnecks FC season was the 4th season for Tulsa Roughnecks FC, now known as FC Tulsa, in the United Soccer League (USL), the second-tier professional soccer league in the United States and Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283081-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunbridge Wells Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Tunbridge Wells Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Tunbridge Wells Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283082-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunis Open\nThe 2018 Tunis Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tunis, Tunisia between 16 and 22 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283082-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunis Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283082-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunis Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283083-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunis Open \u2013 Doubles\nPierre-Hugues Herbert and Adil Shamasdin were the defending champions but only Shamasdin chose to defend his title, partnering Sander Arends. Shamasdin lost in the quarterfinals to Dennis Novak and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283083-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunis Open \u2013 Doubles\nDenys Molchanov and Igor Zelenay won the title after defeating Jonathan Eysseric and Joe Salisbury 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283084-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunis Open \u2013 Singles\nSimone Bolelli was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283084-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunis Open \u2013 Singles\nGuido Andreozzi won the title after Daniel Gimeno Traver retired trailing 2\u20136, 0\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283085-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian local elections\nLocal elections were held in Tunisia on 6 May 2018 under the supervision of the Independent High Authority for Elections. These were Tunisia's first free and democratic local elections following the Tunisian Revolution and saw unaffiliated independent lists win the most votes but on a very low turnout especially in terms of youth turnout which was down sharply.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests\nThe 2018 Tunisian protests were a series of protests occurring throughout Tunisia. Beginning January 2018, protests erupted in multiple towns and cities across Tunisia over issues related to the cost of living and taxes. As of January 9, the demonstrations had claimed at least one life, and revived worries about the fragile political situation in Tunisia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests\nThe Popular Front, an alliance of leftist opposition parties, called for continued protests against the government's \"unjust\" austerity measures while Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed denounced the violence and appealed for calm, claiming that he and his government believe 2018 \"would be the last difficult year for Tunisians\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests, Background\nAfter the 2011 Revolution, Tunisia was widely seen as the only democratic success story in the Arab Spring, a model \"for democratic progress, with free elections and a modern constitution.\" However, the country has subsequently had nine governments, none of which were able to tackle the country's growing economic problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests, Protests\nThe protests began in response to a new law that took effect on January 1, and raised taxes on gasoline, phone cards, housing, internet usage, hotel rooms and foods such as fruits and vegetables. Import duties on cosmetics and some agricultural products were also raised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests, Protests\nOpposition leader Hamma Hammami stated that several opposition parties would meet in order to coordinate their efforts on Tuesday, January 9. The opposition then called for a mass protest to be held in the capital city of Tunis on 14 January to mark the seventh anniversary of the Arab Spring uprising which toppled President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests, Protests\nOn 8 January a Jewish school on the Tunisian island of Djerba was firebombed, while there were no protests on the island, locals reported the assailants had exploited the fact that there was lower security presence as police were elsewhere dealing with the protestors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests, Protests\nBy the evening of 10 January over 2100 troops had been deployed to \"protect sovereign institutions and vital facilities\u201d such as \"banks, post offices and other government buildings in the country's main cities\" according to Defense Ministry spokesman Belhassen al-Waslati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests, Protests\nOn January 11, witnesses said that Tunisian protesters \"burned down a regional national security headquarters near the Algerian border\" as the government deployed security forces and said it will \"not revise austerity measures in the 2018 budget.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests, Late-2018 protests\nMass protests erupted, mostly by public sector workers, against the regime and its failure to keep the economy thriving in November 2018. Anti -government protests swelled from workers into a broader movement. The movement became popular within the nation. Workers demanded an end to police brutality, poverty and unemployment. University students protested with the workers demanding free education and better wages. Police tried to disperse the stone-throwers by tear gas and rubber bullets but police officials stopped using force and soon joined the demonstrations, demanding an end to the regime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests, Casualties\nIt was confirmed in a statement by the Ministry of the Interior on 8 January that a man had been admitted to a Tebourba hospital with symptoms of dizziness and later died. His body had shown no signs of violence and a forensic doctor has been tasked with determining the man's cause of death. The government stated that the likely cause was due to inhalation of tear gas. Five others were injured in the demonstrations according to a report published by Tunis Afrique Presse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests, Casualties\nInterior ministry spokesman Khelifa Chibani said about 50 policemen were wounded and 237 people were arrested on 9 January. This was echoed by BBC which said on January 10 that \"more than 200 people have been arrested\" across the country, and at least 49 police officers injured \"during clashes with demonstrators.\" As of January 12, 778 people had been arrested by police in response to the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests, Casualties\nOn January 12, the Spokesperson for OHCHR, Rupert Colville, said the United Nations is closely \"watching the demonstrations across Tunisia and the authorities\u2019 response to them\" concerned about the \"high number of arrests\" and asserted that \"authorities must ensure that those exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly are not prevented from doing so.\" Mr. Colville added that \"peaceful demonstrators must not be held responsible or penalised for the violent acts of others\" and urged all \"sides to work together towards resolving, with full respect for human rights, the economic and social problems underpinning the unrest.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests, Responses\nThe governments of Britain, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Belgium have warned \"their citizens about potential rioting\" while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan spoke with Tunisian leaders about the protests, saying he believed that when the country \"stands united\" Tunisia would \"overcome its problems.\" The embassy of the United States in the country put out a statement as well, reminding U.S. citizens \"residing in and visiting Tunisia to exercise caution, avoid demonstrations and crowds, and monitor local media for breaking events.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests, Responses\nEnnahdha, a party in the governing coalition of Tunisia condemned the \"exploitation of citizens' legitimate demands by certain anarchist groups\" and stressed \"the legitimacy of demands for development and employment and citizens' full right to peaceful protest without violating the safety of others or attacking private and public property\" while the opposition alliance, Popular Front, called for \"all Tunisian people [to] go out to the streets for a peaceful protests country wide for one clear goal, which is to bring down these actions that destroyed the Tunisian country and its people.\" The Prime Minister of Tunisia also condemned the \"vandalism\" of protesters and claimed that while the country is \"having difficulties...we believe that 2018 will be the last difficult year for the Tunisians.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283086-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Tunisian protests, Responses\nThe Trotskyist WSWS, a website supportive of the protests, argued that in Tunisia, like Egypt, elements of the old regime \"managed to reconsolidate power in the interests of the native ruling elites and international capital,\" further saying that the reforms imposed by the government are pushed to \"meet the conditions demanded by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union.\" Other supportive websites said that these \"brave Tunisians...[are] courageous people rebelling long into the night [who] will continue on with or without our support.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283087-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkey rail accident\nThere were two major rail accidents in Turkey in 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283088-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Basketball Cup\nThe 2018 Turkish Basketball Cup (Turkish: Basketbol Erkekler T\u00fcrkiye Kupas\u0131 2018) was the 33rd edition of the national cup competition for men's basketball teams in Turkey. The tournament was held from 14\u201318 February 2018 at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey. Anadolu Efes won their 11th title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283088-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Basketball Cup, Qualified teams\nAfter the first half of the 2017\u201318 Basketbol S\u00fcper Ligi the top eight teams qualified for the tournament. The four highest placed teams played the lowest seeded teams in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283089-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Basketball Presidential Cup\nThe 2018 Turkish Basketball Presidential Cup (Turkish: 2018 Erkekler Basketbol Cumhurba\u015fkanl\u0131\u011f\u0131 Kupas\u0131) was the 34th edition of the Turkish Basketball Presidential Cup. The game was played between Fenerbah\u00e7e Do\u011fu\u015f, champions of the 2017\u201318 Basketbol S\u00fcper Ligi, and Anadolu Efes, the winners of the 2018 Turkish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283089-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Basketball Presidential Cup\nAnadolu Efes made their 22nd appearance and won their 11th championship, while this was Fenerbah\u00e7e's 15th President's Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283089-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Basketball Presidential Cup, Match details\nDo\u011fu\u015f Balbay, who had 13 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in the game, was named the Presidential Cup MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283090-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Parliament Speaker election\nThe Turkish Parliament Speaker election of 2018 took place on 12 July 2018 to elect the 28th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly, who will serve for the first three years of the 27th Parliament of Turkey. With 7 parties represented in the 27th Parliament, the speaker was expected to be elected in the third round, as no party or electoral bloc had the necessary two-thirds majority to elect their candidate outright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283090-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Parliament Speaker election\nThe Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m was elected in the third round with support from the Nationalist Movement Party, winning 335 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283090-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Parliament Speaker election, Procedure, Electoral conduct\nFollowing the official opening of Parliament, the oldest Member of Parliament presides over the swearing-in session and the speaker election as acting speaker. For the 27th Parliament, the oldest Member of Parliament was Deniz Baykal, of the electoral district of Antalya. However due to Baykal's ill health, the position passed onto the next oldest member, \u0130Y\u0130 Party MP Durmu\u015f Y\u0131lmaz (age 71).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283090-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Parliament Speaker election, Procedure, Electoral system\nThe Speaker of the Grand National Assembly is elected in a maximum of four rounds. In the first two rounds, a two-thirds majority is sought for outright election, requiring at least 400 out of the possible 600 votes. In the third round, a simple majority is necessary for election, requiring the votes of at least 301 MPs. If no candidate wins a simple majority, often the case when there is a hung parliament, a final round is held where all but the two candidates with the highest votes in the third round are eliminated. The remaining two candidates participate in a run-off, with the candidate winning the most votes being elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283090-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Parliament Speaker election, Procedure, Term length\nAt the start of the five-year parliament, the speaker is elected for a three-year term. A second election will be held in 2021 to determine the speaker for the remaining two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283090-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Parliament Speaker election, Candidates\nThe Justice and Development Party (AKP) announced former Prime Minister Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m as their candidate on 7 July. The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which is part of the People's Alliance with the AKP, announced that it would support the AKP's candidate. The MHP has 49 MPs in parliament, which would allow the AKP's candidate to be elected in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283090-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Parliament Speaker election, Candidates\nThe main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) announced Erdo\u011fan Toprak, of \u0130stanbul's third electoral district, as their candidate on 11 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283090-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Parliament Speaker election, Candidates\nThe Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) announced Meral Dan\u0131\u015f Be\u015fta\u015f, of the electoral district of Adana as their candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283090-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Parliament Speaker election, Candidates\nThe \u0130Y\u0130 Party candidate was initially speculated to be Durmu\u015f Y\u0131lmaz, the serving acting speaker, but was later announced officially as Hayrettin Nuho\u011flu of \u0130stanbul's third electoral district on 11 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283090-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Parliament Speaker election, Candidates\nOut of the two Felicity Party candidates that were elected through the CHP's lists, Cihangir \u0130slam also put forward his candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283091-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Super Cup\nThe 2018 Turkish Super Cup (Turkish: TFF S\u00fcper Kupa) was the 45th edition of the Turkish Super Cup since its establishment as Presidential Cup in 1966, the annual Turkish football season-opening match contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and cup competitions (or cup runner-up in case the league- and cup-winning club is the same). It was played on 5 August 2018 between the champions of the 2017\u201318 S\u00fcper Lig, Galatasaray, and the winners of the 2017\u201318 Turkish Cup, Akhisarspor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283092-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Women's Cup\nThe 2018 Turkish Women's Cup was the second edition of the Turkish Women's Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Turkey. It took place from 27 February to 7 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283092-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Women's Cup, Format\nThe twelve invited teams were split into three groups to play a round-robin tournament. Points awarded in the group stage follow the standard formula of three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss. In the case of two teams being tied on the same number of points in a group, their head-to-head result determine the higher place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283092-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish Women's Cup, Group stage\nThe groups and schedule were announced on 22 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283093-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish general election\nGeneral elections were held throughout Turkey on 24 June 2018. Originally due on 3 November 2019, President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan announced on 18 April 2018 that the vote was being brought forward. Presidential elections were held to elect the President of Turkey using a two-round system. Parliamentary elections took place to elect 600 Members of Parliament to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283093-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish general election, Background, 2017 constitutional referendum\nThe ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Erdo\u011fan had long supported a policy of turning Turkey into an executive presidency, replacing the existing parliamentary system of government. With the support of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the government was able to enact a referendum in Parliament, with the vote being set for 16 April 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283093-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish general election, Background, 2017 constitutional referendum\nThe proposed constitutional changes would see parliamentary and presidential elections taking place on the same day every five years, with the initial vote being set for 3 November 2019. The number of seats in the Grand National Assembly was to be increased from 550 to 600, although the legislative powers of Parliament would be greatly reduced. Crucially, the office of the President of Turkey would be given powers to rule by decree, becoming both the country's head of state and head of government. Supporters of the changes claimed that the new system would make the system of government more efficient, while critics claimed that it would place too much power in the hands of the president and effectively render parliament powerless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283093-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish general election, Background, 2017 constitutional referendum\nThe constitutional changes were approved by a 51-49% margin, according to official results. However, a last-minute change in the election rules by the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) during the vote allowed unverified ballots to be accommodated into the count, which the opposition alleges added 1.5 million extra ballot papers. The political opposition decried the move to be illegal and were backed by several overseas observer organisations, which claimed that the vote did not meet international standards. However, subsequent legal challenges were all unsuccessful. Thus, the government began enacting 'compliance laws' to prepare for the new executive presidential system of government, which would be fully implemented following the general election scheduled for 3 November 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 861]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283093-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish general election, Background, Early election\nDespite over two years to go before the next presidential and parliamentary elections, many observers alleged that the government was preparing for an early vote soon after the 2017 referendum. This was, observers claimed, to speed up the implementation of the executive presidential system and also to prevent the popularity of new opposition movements from reducing support for the government. In October 2017, opposition leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu called for early elections, although there was no official response to this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283093-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Turkish general election, Background, Early election\nMeral Ak\u015fener, the leader of the newly formed \u0130yi Party, alleged that the government were planning an early vote for Sunday 15 July 2018, the second anniversary of the failed 2016 coup d'\u00e9tat attempt. The party held its first ordinary congress on 10 December 2017 and first extraordinary congress on 1 April 2018 in order to be eligible to contest a possible snap election. Despite months of speculation, the government repeatedly claimed that it was in favour of holding elections when they were due, denying that an early vote would take place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283093-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish general election, Background, Early election\nOn 17 April 2018, Devlet Bah\u00e7eli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party, called for early elections for the 26th of August. Bah\u00e7eli had previously announced that they would support a re-election bid of the incumbent president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan. The Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by Erdo\u011fan, had recently announced an electoral alliance with the MHP called the People's Alliance. Following his call for early elections, Bah\u00e7eli met Erdo\u011fan a day later on 18 April. Erdo\u011fan subsequently announced that his party agreed with Bah\u00e7eli that an early election was needed to solve the ongoing 'political and economic uncertainty'. He therefore announced that early elections would take place on 24 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283093-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish general election, Controversies\nThe election process was overshadowed many multiple allegations of violations of its integrity. Prominent among them was the allegation of widespread ballot stuffing for the benefit of AKP and MHP parties in Turkey's east, in particular in \u015eanl\u0131urfa province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election\nThe 2018 Turkish parliamentary election took place on 24 June 2018 as part of the 2018 Turkish general election, with a presidential election taking place on the same day. Originally scheduled for 3 November 2019, President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan called a snap election on 18 April after months of speculation. With the passage of a series of constitutional amendments in the 2017 referendum, the number of MPs will be increased from the previous 550 to 600. These representatives will be elected by the constituents of the 87 electoral districts of Turkey by party-list proportional representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election\nThe referendum in 2017 triggered Turkey's transition from a parliamentary to an executive presidential system. As such, the Grand National Assembly will not be entitled to appoint the country's prime minister and cabinet after the 2018 elections. While the office of the Prime Minister of Turkey is set to be abolished altogether, cabinet ministers will primarily serve at the pleasure of the President of Turkey, who is to fill the role of both head of state and head of government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Background, Elections of 2015\nAfter the elections of June 2015 resulted in the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) losing its majority, the four parties in the Grand National Assembly were faced with the prospect of a coalition government. However, after government formation talks broke down, early elections were called for November 2015. The snap election saw the AKP regain its absolute parliamentary majority with 317 of 550 seats. The remainder went to the Republican People's Party (CHP) on 134 seats, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on 59, and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) on 40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Background, Elections of 2015\nThe results of the November 2015 elections allowed the AKP to form a single-party government under its leader Ahmet Davuto\u011flu, but not to change the constitution or call a referendum, which would have required two-thirds or three-fifths majorities, respectively. As such, President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan was left nominally unable to trigger a switch from a parliamentary to a presidential system, as his AKP had campaigned for ahead of the elections. Additionally, he faced opposition on the matter from Prime Minister Davuto\u011flu, who allegedly held reservations over a change in form of government. In May 2016, Davuto\u011flu resigned from both the AKP leadership and the premiership, citing disagreements with Erdo\u011fan as part of the reason. He was replaced in both capacities by Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Background, Coup attempt and state of emergency\nOn 15 July 2016, sections of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) launched a coup d'\u00e9tat against the Turkish government, including the ruling AKP government of Prime Minister Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m and President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan. Military jets were reportedly spotted flying over Ankara just before 23:00 EEST (UTC+3), while both the Fatih Sultan Mehmet and Bosphorus bridges in Istanbul were closed by the armed forces. In a televised address on the TRT station, the coup plotters, who referred to themselves as the Peace at Home Council (Turkish: Yurtta Sulh Konseyi), claimed that \"The government ... [ had] been dismissed from office\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 84], "content_span": [85, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Background, Coup attempt and state of emergency\nHowever, the coup attempt ultimately failed, after President Erdo\u011fan addressed the Turkish people through the FaceTime mobile application, urging them to resist the coup plotters. By the morning of 16 July 2016, the situation had reportedly been brought under control, while the Turkish government accused the G\u00fclen movement of having orchestrated the putsch, and vowed to purge state institutions of its members. On 15 July 2016, Erdo\u011fan announced the introduction of a three-month state of emergency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 84], "content_span": [85, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Background, Coup attempt and state of emergency\nUnder Turkish law, states of emergency may only be upheld for three months at a time, though they may be renewed an unlimited number of times by parliamentary vote. The post-coup state of emergency in Turkey has been extended seven times, and were officially lifted on the 19th of July, although observers criticized the administration as \"nothing much changed\", with one in particular noting \"Although the lifting of the state of emergency is symbolically positive, in that the clampdown we saw after the coup has come to an end... I\u2019m not sure this is going to make a very big difference\". The elections of June 2018 are likely to take place under the ongoing state of emergency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 84], "content_span": [85, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe 600 members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey will be elected by party-list proportional representation in 87 electoral districts, by the D'Hondt method. For the purpose of legislative elections, 77 of Turkey's 81 provinces serves as a single district. Due to their large populations, the provinces of Bursa and \u0130zmir are divided into two districts, while the provinces of Ankara and \u0130stanbul are each divided into three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Electoral system\nSince the introduction of Turkey's Constitution of 1982, political parties are required to pass an electoral threshold of 10% of the nationwide popular vote in order to obtain seats in parliament, with all those falling below the threshold disregarded for seat distribution purposes. Furthermore, parties must be officially organised in at least half of provinces (41 or more) and in at least a third of districts in those provinces, and must nominate two candidates in 41 or more provinces, in order to be entitled to seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Electoral system, Electoral alliances law\nIn early 2018, the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the far-right opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) brought forward joint proposals for an electoral alliance law. This was widely speculated to be a result of the MHP's low poll ratings, which made it seemingly impossible to surpass the 10% threshold and win seats in future elections. The MHP had previously announced that it would support the re-election of AKP leader Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan to the Presidency, and claimed it was open to contesting future parliamentary elections in an alliance with the AKP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Electoral system, Electoral alliances law\nThe new electoral alliances law allowed parties to form alliances and submit them to the YSK, meaning that they would be grouped together under their alliance name on the ballot paper. In addition, voters would be given the option to vote for the alliance as a whole if they did not prefer a specific party. Votes cast for alliances rather than parties would then be distributed to each member party of the alliance at electoral district-level depending on their vote shares.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Electoral system, Electoral alliances law\nFor example, if Party A and Party B were in an alliance and received 60 and 40 votes in an electoral district respectively, then 60% of votes cast for the alliance as a whole would be given to Party A while 40% would be given to Party B. Thus, if 10 votes were cast for the alliance, Party A would have a total of 66 (60+6) votes and Party B would have 44 (40+4) votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Electoral system, Electoral alliances law\nParties contesting the election within an alliance would not be subject to the 10% threshold. As long as the Alliance in total won above 10% of the national vote, any party within it would be eligible to win seats regardless of how low their vote share.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Electoral system, Electoral alliances law\nThe election alliance law also contained numerous controversial changes to election law, including the legalisation of unverified ballot papers to be incorporated in the count. The issue of counting unverified ballots caused a huge controversy during the 2017 constitutional referendum, causing the opposition to allege large-scale electoral fraud and reject the results. On 31 May, the Constitutional Court of Turkey rejected the opposition's bid to nullify the controversial changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Electoral system, Electoral districts, Changes since 2015\nFollowing the 2017 constitutional referendum, the number of parliamentary seats was increased from 550 to 600. As a result, most electoral districts saw an increase in their number of seats in comparison to distribution at the November 2015 general election. The following tables show the changes, as announced by the Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey (YSK).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 94], "content_span": [95, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Electoral system, Electoral districts, Changes since 2015\nThe seat distribution revisions meant that there was one single-member constituency, namely that of Bayburt. This essentially meant that the election in Bayburt, the only province-wide electoral district to lose seats following the re-distribution, will be conducted by first-past-the-post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 94], "content_span": [95, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Alliances\nFollowing the approval of an election alliance law in early 2018, parties were given the ability to contest the election under formal alliances as a means of jointly surpassing the election threshold. A total of 5 parties decided to form two alliances by the 6 May deadline, with a further two parties contesting the election under the lists of these parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Alliances, People's Alliance\nOn 20 February 2018, President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan formally announced the establishment of the People's Alliance (Turkish: Cumhur \u0130ttifak\u0131) between his Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). The MHP had previously announced that it would support Erdo\u011fan's re-election and was open to contest future elections under the AKP banner, which was largely seen as the main reason for the electoral alliances law to be passed in the first place. On 3 May, the Great Unity Party (BBP) joined the People's Alliance and announced that it would contest the elections under the AKP banner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Alliances, People's Alliance\nThe People's Alliance is both a parliamentary and a presidential alliance, although one of its supporters, namely the Free Cause Party (H\u00dcDA-PAR) only supports the Alliance in the presidential election while contesting the parliamentary election as a stand-alone party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Alliances, Nation Alliance\nThe Nation Alliance is an opposition alliance launched on 1 May 2018 in rival to the People's Alliance. The alliance is formed of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), the newly formed nationalist \u0130yi Party, the Islamist Felicity Party and the centre-right Democrat Party. The formation of the alliance was criticised by the People's Alliance for being an alliance of 'non-conformists', citing the secular ideology of the CHP in rival to the Islamist-orientated Felicity Party. However, the Alliance crucially removed the 10% threshold condition for the Felicity Party, which had at the previous election won 0.68% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Alliances, Nation Alliance\nThis meant that many Islamist leaning voters, which had previously voted for the AKP in order to not waste their vote, could now vote for the Felicity Party due to its presence in an alliance that is polling above 10% altogether. The four parties were unable to agree on a joint presidential candidate despite speculation over the joint nomination of former president Abdullah G\u00fcl. Thus, each party ended up nominating their own candidate for the presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Alliances, Nation Alliance\nThe inclusion of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was a widely discussed possibility, with the HDP openly calling for its inclusion. Since the HDP is polling very close to the 10% threshold, its ultimate exclusion was criticised by many. The main reason for the HDP's exclusion was seen to be their unclear association with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist organisation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Alliances, Other speculated alliances\nFollowing the HDP's exclusion from the Nation Alliance, it was speculated that the HDP and the Free Cause Party (H\u00dcDA-PAR), an Islamist orientated far-right Kurdish party, could form a broad 'Kurdish alliance'. The alliance was ultimately rejected by the HDP, citing that their left-leaning voter base was not ready for an alliance with a far-right party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Alliances, Other speculated alliances\nIt was speculated early on, before the formation of the Nation Alliance, that every party besides those within the People's Alliance could come together under a broad tactical alliance in order to effectively nullify the 10% threshold. The 'zero threshold alliance' would have consisted of as many parties as possible, despite their differences, purely for tactical reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Parties, Party leadership elections\nBefore the elections, a number of contesting parties held leadership elections to determine who would lead their party into the next elections. Although most of these leadership elections took place before the snap elections were called, they all determined the leaders that lead their respective parties through and beyond 3 November 2019, which was the original scheduled date of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Parties, Party leadership elections\nThe Republican People's Party (CHP) held its 36th Ordinary Convention on 3 and 4 February 2018. Incumbent leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu was re-elected leader with 64% of the delegates' vote. He was challenged by Muharrem \u0130nce, who received the remaining 36%. The convention became known for its poor organisation and irregularities during the candidate nomination process, with \u0130nce subsequently alleging foul play in the ensuring election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Parties, Party leadership elections\nThe \u0130yi Party held its extraordinary congress on 1 April 2018 as part of its preparations for the then-scheduled 2019 elections. The congress was held as a result of negotiations with the Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey (YSK) over whether the party would be eligible to contest future elections, which had resulted in the YSK claiming that the party had not yet completed all its provincial congresses. The party's leader and presidential candidate Meral Ak\u015fener was re-elected unanimously with 1,060 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Parties, Party leadership elections\nThe Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) held its 3rd ordinary congress on 11 February 2018 to elect both a chairman and a chairwoman. The party's previous chairman, Selahattin Demirta\u015f, was imprisoned at the time and announced that he would not run again for the chairmanship. The party's serving chairwoman Serpil Kemalbay, elected in the 3rd Extraordinary Congress in 2017 to replace imprisoned chairwoman Figen Y\u00fcksekda\u011f, decided to not run again. As a result, Sezai Temelli and Pervin Buldan were elected chairman and chairwoman respectively, with 823 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Parties, Party leadership elections\nThe Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) held its 12th ordinary congress on 18 March 2018. Incumbent leader Devlet Bah\u00e7eli, who had been leader since 1997, was re-elected unopposed with 1,167 votes. The MHP had undergone a turbulent congress dispute in 2016, with many dissidents unhappy with Bah\u00e7eli's leadership aiming to hold an extraordinary congress, resulting in a legal battle between the MHP executive and dissident leadership candidates. The dispute resulted in the MHP executive winning the legal battle, allegedly with the covert help of the Ministry of Justice, with most of the dissidents subsequently being expelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Parties, \u0130yi Party controversy\nThe \u0130yi Party, formed on 25 October 2017, was subject to wide speculation over whether it would be eligible to contest the elections. It was speculated that the AKP and MHP purposefully chose the date of 24 June to prevent \u0130yi from contesting the election, as it was previously announced by \u0130yi General Secretary Aytun \u00c7\u0131ray that the party would be eligible to contest any election as of 28 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Parties, \u0130yi Party controversy\nThe claim was later revealed to be a deliberate lie, with \u00c7\u0131ray later claiming that the correct date was 10 June (six months after their ordinary congress) and that he purposefully gave a misleading date to fool the AKP. Conflicting rumours were then reported that the AKP had proposed a change in the law that would guarantee that \u0130yi would stand in order to prevent a loss of support for perceived undemocratic practices, although the proposal was blocked by the MHP. Both parties denied the reports, and blamed the \u0130yi Party for incompetence in the event that it was found to be eligible to contest the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Parties, \u0130yi Party controversy\nThe Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) initially announced that it did not know whether \u0130yi could participate, as the Court of Cassation was responsible for analysing the eligible parties. On 21 April, the Court announced that \u0130yi was eligible. However, the YSK refused to ratify the announcement, causing accusations by the opposition that the government was trying to prevent \u0130yi from running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Parties, \u0130yi Party controversy\nOn 22 April, 15 Republican People's Party (CHP) MPs resigned and joined the \u0130yi Party at the request of CHP leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, thereby allowing \u0130yi to form a parliamentary group and guaranteeing them eligibility to run in the election. The YSK announced that \u0130yi would be able to run in the elections on 23 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Parties, Contesting parties\nThe table below shows the 8 of the 11 eligible parties that submitted candidate lists to the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) before the 21 May 17:00 deadline, thereby contesting the election. The table shows the parties and alliances in the order they will appear on the ballot paper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Parties, Eligible parties\nThe below table shows the remaining 3 of the 11 eligible parties that were eligible to contest the election but decided not to field candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Endorsements\nSeveral non-governmental organisations and parties not eligible to contest the election announced their support for specific parties or alliances throughout the election campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Campaign, \u0130yi Party\n\u0130yi is using \"T\u00fcrkiye iyi olacak\" (Turkish: Turkey will be good) slogan for the elections. They promise to re-open Wikipedia after a year-long ban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, MPs standing down\nAccording to recent constitutional changes, presidential candidates cannot be MPs. As a result, Muharrem \u0130nce and Selahattin Demirta\u015f stood down. In addition, MPs cannot be ministers in the new cabinet. Several current MPs from AKP are rumoured to be reserved for ministerial positions, thus not nominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Controversies\nThe election process was overshadowed by multiple allegations of violations of its integrity. Prominent among them was the allegation of widespread ballot stuffing for the benefit of AKP and MHP parties in Turkey's east, in particular in \u015eanl\u0131urfa province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Controversies\nDuring a leaked speech of a private meeting with AKP officials in early June, Erdogan ordered them to go in great number as official representatives in voting locations as to be the majority and seize control of the ballot boxes, ensuring that the \"work there would be finished before it even started\". He also ordered them to target HDP voters with the help of AKP local officials who he assured them would be in possession of voters lists to help with their \"special work\". All this in order to ensure HDP would fail below the 10% quorum, which would greatly help AKP and prevent a repeat of the \"7 june experience\". The video have been negatively commented by opposition candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283094-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish parliamentary election, Controversies\nOn 14 June, 4 to 5 people were killed in Suruc, a predominantly Turkish-Kurds town, following AKP touring of the local market.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election\nThe 2018 Turkish presidential election took place on 24 June 2018 as part of the 2018 general election, alongside parliamentary elections on the same day. Following the approval of constitutional changes in a referendum held in 2017, the elected President will be both the head of state and head of government of Turkey, taking over the latter role from the to-be-abolished office of the Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election\nThe election was originally scheduled for November 2019. Despite insistence from the government that they would not be brought forward, speculation over an early vote continued since the 2017 referendum. After calls from Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bah\u00e7eli for a snap election, President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan announced on 18 April 2018 that it would take place on 24 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election\nIncumbent president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan declared his candidacy for the People's Alliance (Turkish: Cumhur \u0130ttifak\u0131) on 27 April 2018. Erdo\u011fan\u2019s main opposition, the Republican People's Party, nominated Muharrem \u0130nce, a member of the parliament known for his combative opposition and spirited speeches against Erdo\u011fan. The Peoples' Democratic Party nominated the imprisoned ex-chairman Selahattin Demirta\u015f. Besides these candidates, Meral Ak\u015fener, the founder and leader of \u0130yi Party, Temel Karamollao\u011flu, the leader of the Felicity Party and Do\u011fu Perin\u00e7ek, the leader of the Patriotic Party, have announced their candidacies and collected the 100,000 signatures required for nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election\nCampaigning for the election centred mainly on the faltering Turkish economy and the currency and debt crisis, with both government and opposition commentators warning of a more serious economic crisis following the election. The 2018 Gaza border protests, following the United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel, along with the Turkish military operation in Afrin, were also featured in the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Electoral system\nThe President of Turkey is directly elected through the two-round system, under which a candidate must obtain at least 50%+1 of the popular vote in order to be elected. If no candidate secures an overall majority outright, then a runoff is held between the two most voted-for candidates from the first round, the winner of which is then declared elected. The first direct election to the Turkish presidency was held in 2014, after a referendum in 2007 abolished the previous system under which the head of state was elected by the legislature, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The President of Turkey is subject to term limits, and may serve at most two consecutive five-year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Electoral system\nProspective presidential candidates must be at least 40 years old and must have completed higher education. Any political party that has won 5% of the vote in the previous parliamentary election can put forward a candidate, although parties that have not met this threshold can form alliances and field joint candidates as long as their total vote share exceeds 5%. Independents can run if they collect 100,000 signatures from the electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Electoral system\nAn estimate released in July 2017 predicted that collecting 100,000 signatures to stand for election could exceed \u20ba15\u00a0million (US$4.2\u00a0million) in costs, if each individual signature would require certification by a notary. However, the Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey (YSK) announced that signature collection would occur between 4 and 9 May, with voters having to submit their nominations at their local electoral council branch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Electoral system\nBased on the results of the previous general election in November 2015, only the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Republican People's Party (CHP), Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) are eligible to field candidates for the presidential election. The remaining parties combined received under 3% of the vote and are thus unable to field either a joint candidate or a candidate in their own right. In addition to past election results, parties which have a parliamentary group can nominate a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Electoral system\nThus, the newly formed \u0130yi Party was also eligible to nominate their candidate, since 15 CHP members of parliament defected to them with the intention of allowing the party to form a parliamentary group. However, \u0130yi Party leader and presidential candidates Meral Ak\u015fener insisted on being nominated by collecting signatures rather than through parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Candidates, Official candidates\nThe Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) formally announced the candidates on 13 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Candidates, Selection process\nIn the run-up to the election, various parties underwent a candidate selection process to nominate presidential candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Candidates, Selection process, People's Alliance (AKP and MHP)\nServing president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan was widely seen as the undisputed candidate of the People's Alliance, an alliance set up by the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). This was confirmed by MHP leader Devlet Bah\u00e7eli on 21 April 2018. The AKP parliamentary group voted unanimously to nominate Erdo\u011fan on 3 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 98], "content_span": [99, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Candidates, Selection process, Republican People's Party (CHP)\nThe main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) began a wide search for a candidate, with several rumours that the party was content with supporting a cross-party candidate that was not necessarily in line with the party's values as part of an election alliance. CHP leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu subsequently conducted several meetings with the leaders of the Felicity Party and the \u0130yi Party. Former President Abdullah G\u00fcl was mentioned as a cross-party option, allegedly receiving the support of senior officials, but was disbanded following heavy opposition from the lower ranks and voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 98], "content_span": [99, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Candidates, Selection process, Republican People's Party (CHP)\nG\u00fcl eventually announced that he would not stand, citing the lack of cross-party consensus. Despite ruling it out several times, party leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu was frequently mentioned as a potential candidate, along with Y\u0131lmaz B\u00fcy\u00fcker\u015fen, \u0130lhan Kesici, Muharrem \u0130nce and Mehmet Haberal. Certain MPs, such as \u00d6zt\u00fcrk Y\u0131lmaz and Didem Engin also publicly declared their interest. On 26 April, CHP MP \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel, himself seen as a potential candidate, announced that their nominee would be one who would make the AKP 'crazy' the most. On 4 May, Yalova MP Muharrem \u0130nce was declared the party's candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 98], "content_span": [99, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Candidates, Selection process, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)\nThe HDP nominated Selahattin Demirta\u015f, their former leader who was also the HDP's candidate in 2014, on 4 May. It was reported that the party executive had broadly agreed on Demirta\u015f earlier, raising concern that his preventative detention since 2016 could potentially bar him from running. Originally due in court on 11 April, Demirta\u015f's trial for charges of 'spreading terrorist propaganda' was delayed to 30 April, and then again to 8 June. His candidacy was announced as a part of a 'broad coalition of Kurdish and left-wing parties'. His lawyers and HDP officials claimed that his detention wouldn't affect his candidacy. In his first message after announcing his candidacy, he called on his supporters to be his 'hands and arms' during the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 98], "content_span": [99, 854]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Candidates, Selection process, \u0130yi Party\nUpon announcing the \u0130yi Party's establishment on 25 October 2017, party leader Meral Ak\u015fener announced that she would be a candidate in the presidential election. She reaffirmed her candidacy on 18 April 2018, shortly after the election was called. The party subsequently received pressure from the CHP and the Felicity Party (SP) to enter a joint alliance and support a cross-party candidate, with the SP supporting Abdullah G\u00fcl. Ak\u015fener refused to withdraw her candidacy, with the party's General Administration Council voting unanimously to nominate her as their party candidate on 24 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Candidates, Selection process, Felicity Party (SP)\nIn the run-up to the election, SP leader Temel Karamollao\u011flu managed to carry his party to the mainstream media following a number of speeches where he heavily criticised the government. This led to the SP being regarded as a potential kingmaker in future alliances, causing several larger parties to approach Karamollao\u011flu in a bid to field a joint candidate. Although this led to the Nation Alliance being established between the SP, CHP and the \u0130yi Party, no consensus was reached on a joint presidential candidate and each party decided to nominate their own. The SP polled their members on four potential candidates, namely Karamollao\u011flu, Abdullah G\u00fcl, Ha\u015fim K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 and Abd\u00fcllatif \u015eener. Karamollao\u011flu was announced as the party's candidate on 1 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 86], "content_span": [87, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Candidates, Selection process, Others\nThe left-wing Patriotic Party declared their leader Do\u011fu Perin\u00e7ek as their candidate. As part of a triple alliance of small centre-right parties consisting of the Motherland Party (ANAP), the True Path Party (DYP) and the Justice Party (AP), the AP's leader Vecdet \u00d6z was nominated as a joint candidate. As independents, journalist Levent G\u00fcltekin and Tuna Beklevi\u00e7 declared their intentions to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Candidates, Nominations\nThe Constitution of Turkey, amended following the controversial 2017 constitutional referendum, allows any party with a parliamentary group (at least 20 MPs) to nominate a presidential candidate. This meant that the AKP, CHP, HDP, MHP and technically the \u0130yi Party were eligible to automatically nominate candidates through parliament. Meral Ak\u015fener, the \u0130yi Party's leader and presidential candidate, opted to be nominated through signatures instead. The MHP, as part of the People's Alliance, did not field a candidate and announced support for the AKP candidate Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan. The CHP formally nominated Muharrem \u0130nce and the HDP nominated Selahattin Demirta\u015f. The remaining candidates were required to collect at least 100,000 signatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Candidates, Nominations\nVoters were able to give signatures to their preferred presidential candidate between 4 May and 9 May at their local electoral council branch. They were only permitted to nominate one candidate. The number of signatures needed to formally become a candidate was 100,000. Seven candidates applied to the YSK to seek nomination by signatures, with three applications being rejected due to insufficient paperwork. As a result, the remaining four successful applicants were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Candidates, Nominations\nVoters abroad were not eligible to give signatures, prompting Perin\u00e7ek to appeal to the Constitutional Court, arguing that the YSK had violated the rights of Turkish citizens abroad. Overseas citizens were, however, allowed to send a signed declaration by post to their local electoral council in Turkey. Only 72 overseas citizens did so, with 17 signing for Ak\u015fener, 18 signing for Karamollao\u011flu, 35 signing for Perin\u00e7ek and no signatures for \u00d6z.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Campaign, Erdo\u011fan campaign\nRecep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, incumbent President of Turkey since 2014, was officially nominated as the presidential candidate of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) on 3 May 2018. Shortly thereafter, the nominally oppositional Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) reiterated that it would endorse Erdo\u011fan's candidacy, and would jointly apply to the electoral commission for its formal registration. In early May, it was confirmed by Erdo\u011fan that he would be visiting the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo in the early stages of the campaign, most likely on 20 May 2018, and hold campaign rallies with the Bosnian Turks to drum up support for his re-election bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Campaign, \u0130nce campaign\nMuharrem \u0130nce, a member of parliament for Yalova, was announced as the presidential candidate of the Republican People's Party (CHP) on 3 May 2018. On the following day, 4 May, party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu formally proclaimed the CHP's support for \u0130nce. Shortly thereafter, the CHP began preparations for the campaign season, launching the production of campaign material and merchandise. It was revealed in early May that \u0130nce's campaign would adopt the slogan \"T\u00fcrkiye'ye g\u00fcvence Muharrem \u0130nce\", roughly translating to \"Muharrem \u0130nce, an assurance to Turkey\", and that it would be kicked off with an election rally in his home city of Yalova on 5 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Campaign, Demirta\u015f campaign\nSelahattin Demirta\u015f was officially announced as the candidate of the People's Democratic Party (HDP) on 4 May 2018, after members of the party had hinted at his candidacy weeks in advance. Party leader Pervin Buldan declared that Demirta\u015f, a jailed former co-chair of the HDP, would be leading a five-party \"Kurdish alliance\" into the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Campaign, Ak\u015fener campaign\nMeral Ak\u015fener was nominated as the candidate of the \u0130yi Party on 4 May 2018, after she had successfully collected the 100,000 signatures required for minor party candidates to gain ballot access. Reportedly, she passed this threshold less than four hours after having launched her signature collection campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Campaign, Karamollao\u011flu campaign\nTemel Karamollao\u011flu was nominated as the candidate of the Felicity Party (SP) on 6 May 2018, after he had successfully collected the 100,000 signatures required for minor party candidates to gain ballot access. Karamollao\u011flu's campaign adopted the slogan \"T\u00fcrkiye'ye bilge ba\u015fkan\" (\"A wise leader for Turkey\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Campaign, Perin\u00e7ek campaign\nDo\u011fu Perin\u00e7ek was nominated as the candidate of the VATAN Party on 9 May 2018, after he had successfully collected the 100,000 signatures required for minor party candidates to gain ballot access.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Controversies, State of emergency\nOn 20 July 2016, five days after an attempted coup, the government declared a state of emergency (Turkish: Ola\u011fan\u00fcst\u00fc Hal, OHAL), allowing ministers to rule the country by decree, bypassing parliament and limiting certain civil freedoms. The government have frequently been criticised for violating the constitutional limits of a state of emergency, using it as an excuse for governing without any political opposition. Since 2016, the state of emergency has been extended for the sixth time, with parliament voting to extend it by a further three months on 18 January 2018. The extension led to speculation that the election would occur under state of emergency conditions, similar to the controversial 2017 constitutional referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Controversies, State of emergency\nHeather Nauert, the Spokesperson for the United States Department of State and acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, issued a statement on 20 April citing 'concern' for whether free and fair elections would be possible under a state of emergency. On 24 April, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) issued a statement calling for the elections to be delayed, declaring that they would not meet European standards or be held in a democratic manner. Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, also issued a statement calling for the state of emergency to end in order to guarantee credible elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Controversies, State of emergency\nThe calls to end the state of emergency were criticised by the Turkish government and loyal members of parliament, who called the PACE declaration 'politicised, unfair, unjust and beyond the limits'. Prime minister Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m criticised PACE for being 'non-credible' due to it having invited Democratic Union Party (PYD) chairman Salih Muslim, who is regarded as a terrorist leader by Turkey, to give a speech. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared Nauert's statements about a forthcoming election 'unacceptable'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Controversies, Media censorship\nFollowing his nomination as the CHP's presidential candidate on 4 May, Muharrem \u0130nce began his campaign with a rally in his hometown of Yalova. It was noted that only pro-opposition TV channels such as Halk TV were covering the event, with the state broadcaster TRT notably absent. In his next rally at Bal\u0131kesir, \u0130nce declared that if TRT were to continue not broadcasting opposition campaigns, he would march to the TRT headquarters with the CHP's 130 MPs and conduct his next rally in front of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Controversies, Media censorship\nA similar situation was observed during the \u0130yi Party's first extraordinary congress on 1 April, which was only covered by Halk TV. In response, party leader Meral Ak\u015fener claimed that she had not embarked on her campaign with any expectations from 'the government's media'. The party subsequently sent the TRT photos from the congress, an abacus and a calculator as a 'present', so that they could count how many people attended the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Controversies, Election violence\nOn 7 May, a group armed with knives and clubs consisting of allegedly 50 to 60 people approached an \u0130yi Party election stand in Ba\u011fc\u0131lar, \u0130stanbul, wounding 8 people with one in critical condition. The group allegedly consisted of rival Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) campaigners, many of which had reportedly been suspended from the party for past violent activity. A total of 8 people were arrested following the attack, with six being released and two being charged afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Controversies, Election violence\nOn 8 May, the house of \u0130yi Party founding member Mehmet Aslan in Beykoz, \u0130stanbul was shot at by unknown assailants. Aslan was not in the building at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Controversies, Election violence\nOn 26 May, a group of Felicity Party and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) activists engaged in a brawl in Ankara following a dispute over hanging up party flags. Clubs were used by MHP activists, injuring 7 Felicity Party activists with two in serious condition. Felicity Party MP candidate for Ankara, Mehmet Fethi \u00d6zt\u00fcrk, was among the two seriously injured. Gunshots were also reported, which were blamed on \u00d6zt\u00fcrk and led to his arrest while in hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Controversies, Nomination irregularities\nThe Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey (YSK) had devised a system to collect signatures for voters to nominate candidates, with the process taking place between 4 and 9 May. On 8 May, Patriotic Party leader Do\u011fu Perin\u00e7ek, who by that time was close to reaching the 100,000 signatures needed for nomination, criticised the system for irregularities. Perin\u00e7ek claimed that the system has crashed throughout 8 May, affecting people who wanted to give signatures, criticising the government for incompetence. The crashes in the system caused doubt about whether Perin\u00e7ek would reach the required 100,000 signatures by the 9 May deadline. Regardless, Perin\u00e7ek managed to surpass 100,000 signatures by noon on 9 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Controversies, Leaked speech\nDuring a leaked speech of a private meeting with AKP officials, Erdo\u011fan ordered them to go in a great number as official representatives in voting locations to seize control of the ballot boxes, ensuring that the \"work there would be finished before it even started\". He also ordered them to target HDP voters with the help of AKP local officials who he assured them would be in possession of voters lists to help with their \"special work\". This would be done in order to prevent HDP crossing the 10% electoral threshold, which would greatly help the AKP and prevent a repeat of the \"7 June experience\", when the AKP lost its parliamentary majority in an upset defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283095-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election, Opinion polls\nOpinion polls have been conducted to gauge voter intentions for the presidential election. Polls have generally shown a clear lead for Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, though with vote totals below his 2014 election victory where he was elected with 51.8% of the vote outright. Indicating that a second round will most likely take place, the polls indicate that there is competition between Muharrem \u0130nce and Meral Ak\u015fener over who will proceed to the run-off and face Erdo\u011fan. Emboldened vote shares indicate percentages above 50%, indicating outright first round victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations\nMultiple political parties in Turkey underwent candidate selection processes in the run-up to the 2018 presidential election. Parties represented in the Grand National Assembly were able to field candidates directly by collecting signatures from at least 20 of their Members of Parliament, as were parties who had no representation but won more than 5% in the previous general election. Candidates that did not meet either criterion were required to obtain over 100,000 signatures from Turkish citizens between 4 and 9 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations\nThe incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan was declared as the candidate for the People's Alliance, an electoral alliance between his Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) nominated Yalova MP Muharrem \u0130nce. The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) nominated their imprisoned former leader Selahattin Demirta\u015f. Three other candidates, namely \u0130yi Party leader Meral Ak\u015fener, Felicity Party leader Temel Karamollao\u011flu and Patriotic Party leader Do\u011fu Perin\u00e7ek received more than 100,000 signatures and were thus nominated to contest the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Official candidates\nThe formal list of presidential candidates will be announced on 13 May 2018 by the Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey (YSK).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Nomination process, People's Alliance (AKP and MHP)\nThe governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) entered the elections in an alliance with the smaller Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Having won public support from MHP leader Devlet Bah\u00e7eli, incumbent president and AKP leader Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan is widely expected to be the Alliance candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 109], "content_span": [110, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Nomination process, People's Alliance (AKP and MHP)\nIn the 2014 presidential election, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) opted to support the candidacy of Ekmeleddin \u0130hsano\u011flu, who was also backed by main opposition Republican People's Party and 12 minor parties. \u0130hsano\u011flu ultimately lost the election to Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, the Justice and Development Party. Following the 2015 parliamentary elections and the failed 15 July 2016 military coup, the MHP moved closer to President Erdo\u011fan and the AKP, supporting the latter's push for the ultimately successful 2017 referendum to switch Turkey from a parliamentary to a presidential system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 109], "content_span": [110, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Nomination process, People's Alliance (AKP and MHP)\nIn the aftermath of the referendum, there were speculations surrounding the MHP's choice of candidate for the next presidential election, scheduled for November 2019. While former MHP deputy Sinan O\u011fan declared his pre-candidacy for the presidency in 2017, party leader Devlet Bah\u00e7eli announced on 8 January 2018 that the MHP would support a potential re-election bid for Erdo\u011fan, and that they would seek to enter formal talks with the AKP on co-operation in both presidential and parliamentary elections. On 20 February 2018, the Nationalist Movement party formally entered into the People's Alliance coalition with the AKP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 109], "content_span": [110, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Nomination process, Republican People's Party (CHP)\nThe Republican People's Party (CHP) declared on 24 April 2018 that its parliamentary group would decide its presidential candidate. The party's leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu is regarded as the most likely candidate, despite ruling himself out on multiple occasions before the election was announced. Two days after the election was called, CHP Members of Parliament \u00d6zt\u00fcrk Y\u0131lmaz and Didem Engin declared interest in running as their party's candidate, while Muharrem \u0130nce and Haluk Pek\u015fen were also rumoured to have started gathering support for a potential run. On 23 April, it was reported that the CHP had narrowed down their potential candidates to two, namely \u00a0Muharrem \u0130nce and Eski\u015fehir Mayor Y\u0131lmaz B\u00fcy\u00fcker\u015fen, although \u0130stanbul MP \u0130lhan Kesici was still mentioned as a third option.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 109], "content_span": [110, 898]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Nomination process, Republican People's Party (CHP)\nAt the same time as attempting to determine a party candidate, the CHP conducted meetings with other parties to explore the prospect of a joint nominee. On 22 April, the CHP took the decision to allow 15 CHP MPs to cross over to the \u0130yi Party to guarantee them an election run, raising speculation over \u0130yi leader Meral Ak\u015fener as a potential joint candidate. On 23 April, K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu met with Felicity Party (SP) leader Temel Karamollao\u011flu, with Karamollao\u011flu calling for a triple alliance between the CHP, \u0130yi and his own party to nominate former President Abdullah G\u00fcl. The potential joint candidacy of G\u00fcl, a former member of the AKP, was not outrightly denied by the CHP, leading to criticism across CHP voters. With the \u0130yi Party insisting on nominating Ak\u015fener, the probability of a triple alliance has decreased.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 109], "content_span": [110, 931]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Nomination process, Republican People's Party (CHP)\nAfter forming the Nation alliance with the \u0130yi, Felicity, and Democratic parties in early May 2018, the leadership of the Republican People's Party reiterated its intention to field its own candidate for the presidential election. On 3 May 2018, the central CHP figure \u0130lhan Kesici announced that the party would nominate Muharrem \u0130nce, a CHP member of parliament for Yalova, as its presidential candidate. Party leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu is scheduled to formally proclaim \u0130nce's candidacy during a press conference on 4 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 109], "content_span": [110, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Nomination process, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)\nThe co-leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Pervin Buldan announced in March 2018 that they would field a candidate. Since then, the party's former co-leader and 2014 presidential candidate Selahattin Demirta\u015f has been widely regarded as the frontrunner to be the HDP's candidate. However, Demirta\u015f has remained imprisoned since November 2016 awaiting trial on a multitude of charges ranging from insulting the president to inciting terrorism. Following the announcement of the early election, Demirta\u015f announced that his party would work to find an effective and encompassing candidate, ruling himself out of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 109], "content_span": [110, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Nomination process, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)\nOn 24 April, HDP co-leader Sezai Temelli announced that they would field a candidate that was 'strong and will encompass all of Turkey.' On 24 April, it was reported that despite initial speculation to the contrary, Demirta\u015f would be the HDP's candidate for the second time. This was confirmed on 25 April, as the HDP executive voted to nominate him as their candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 109], "content_span": [110, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Nomination process, \u0130yi Party\nThe \u0130yi Party, formed on 25 October 2017, has campaigned on the promise of reverting Turkey back to a parliamentary system of government, as opposed to the executive presidency that will take effect following the elections. The party's leader Meral Ak\u015fener declared her candidacy for the presidency on the day of her party's establishment, becoming one of the earliest declared candidates. On 18 April 2018, shortly after the early election was announced, Ak\u015fener re-affirmed her candidacy and stated that her party would find 100,000 signatures nominated her as a candidate. Early in the evening of May 4, 2018, it was announced that Ak\u015fener received 127,850 signatures, becoming the first of the four candidates to cross the threshold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 87], "content_span": [88, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Nomination process, Felicity Party\nDespite winning less than 1% of the vote in the previous general election, the Felicity Party's (SP) candidate selection process was subject to much media speculation due to the prospect of them joining an anti-Erdo\u011fan alliance and fielding a joint candidate. The recent success of SP leader Temel Karamollao\u011flu in gaining media attention for his party meant that the leaders of both the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the \u0130yi Party met with Karamollao\u011flu to discuss a joint alliance. Karamollao\u011flu proposed Abdullah G\u00fcl as a joint candidate, but heavy opposition from the CHP and the insistence of Meral Ak\u015fener on being her own party's candidate led to this proposal being rejected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 92], "content_span": [93, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Nomination process, Felicity Party\nThe SP conducted an internal poll of four candidates, which emerged with Temel Karamollao\u011flu being announced as the party's candidate on 1 May. Early in the evening of May 4, 2018, it was announced that Karamollao\u011flu received 44,967 signatures, representing a deficit of 55,033. As of May 6, 2018, Karamollao\u011flu received 135,945 signatures, becoming the second out of the four candidates to cross the threshold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 92], "content_span": [93, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Nomination process, Others\nA number of candidates also announced their interest in contesting the presidency. These included nominees of smaller parties and independents. Ak\u015fener, Karamollao\u011flu, Perin\u00e7ek and \u00d6z were the only candidates that applied by the deadline required for the collection of 100,000 signatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 84], "content_span": [85, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Signature collection process\nVoters were able to give signatures to their preferred presidential candidate between 4 May and 9 May at their local electoral council branch. They were only permitted to nominate one candidate. The number of signatures needed to formally become a candidate was 100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 86], "content_span": [87, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283096-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations, Signature collection process\nVoters abroad were not eligible to give signatures, prompting Perin\u00e7ek to appeal to the Constitutional Court, arguing that the YSK had violated the rights of Turkish citizens abroad. Overseas citizens were, however, allowed to send a signed declaration by post to their local electoral council in Turkey. Only 72 overseas citizens did so, with 17 signing for Ak\u015fener, 18 signing for Karamollao\u011flu, 35 signing for Perin\u00e7ek and no signatures for \u00d6z.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 86], "content_span": [87, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283097-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkmen parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Turkmenistan on 25 March 2018, alongside local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283097-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkmen parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe 125 members of the Assembly were elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283097-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkmen parliamentary election, Campaign\nA total of 284 candidates contested the elections; 117 from the Democratic Party, 28 from the Agrarian Party, 23 from the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and 116 as independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283097-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkmen parliamentary election, Conduct\nThe 25 March elections lacked important prerequisites of a genuinely democratic electoral process. The political environment is only nominally pluralist and does not offer voters political alternatives. Exercise of fundamental freedoms is severely curtailed, inhibiting free expression of the voters\u2019 will. Despite measures to demonstrate transparency, the integrity of elections was not ensured, leaving veracity of results in doubt", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283098-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkmenistan Cup\nThe 2018 Turkmenistan Cup (Turkmen: T\u00fcrkmenistany\u0148 Kubogy 2018) is the 25th season of the Turkmenistan Cup knockout tournament. The cup winner qualifies for the 2019 AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283098-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Turkmenistan Cup\nThe draw of the tournament was held on 11 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 74]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283099-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tuvalu A-Division\nThe 2018 Tuvalu A-Division was the 18th season of top flight association football in Tuvalu. The season started and finish on 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283100-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Twenty20 East Asia Cup\nThe 2018 East Asia Cup was a Twenty20 (T20) cricket tournament, which was held in Hong Kong in September 2018. Matches were played at the Mission Road Ground in Mong Kok and the Hong Kong Cricket Club in Wong Nai, where a round-robin series was followed by a final. Kowloon Cricket Club was originally scheduled to host the final and a third-place play-off on 16 September, but the final was moved to the previous and played at the Mission Road Ground (and the third-place match cancelled) due to the expected arrival of Typhoon Mangkhut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283100-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Twenty20 East Asia Cup\nThe Twenty20 East Asia Cup is an annual competition featuring China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea that was first played in 2015 and alternates annually between a men's and women's event. The women's event was won by China in 2015 and by Hong Kong in 2017. South Korea won the inaugural men's edition in 2016. Hong Kong were represented by the Hong Kong Dragons side, a team representing Hong Kong's Chinese community in both the 2016 and 2018 men's events. Matches did not have Twenty20 International status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283100-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Twenty20 East Asia Cup\nJapan defeated the Hong Kong Dragons in the final on 15 September 2018 to win the East Asia Cup for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283101-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrolean state election\nThe 2018 Tyrolean state election was held on 25 February 2018 to elect the members of the Landtag of Tyrol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283101-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrolean state election\nThe conservative Austrian People's Party (\u00d6VP) placed first with 44.3% of votes, a 4.9 percentage point swing. The centre-left Social Democratic Party of Austria (SP\u00d6) recovered somewhat from its worst ever result in 2013, rising 3.5 points to 17.2%. The Freedom Party of Austria (FP\u00d6) also made gains. The Greens took small losses, while Citizens' Forum Tyrol (FRITZ) stayed level. NEOS \u2013 The New Austria (NEOS) contested its first state election in Tyrol, debuting at 5.2%. Forward Tyrol, which won 9.5% in 2013, did not contest the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283101-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrolean state election, Background\nIn the 2013 election, the \u00d6VP suffered its worst ever result in a Tyrolean state election, winning just 39.4%; prior to 2008, the party had always held a majority in the Landtag. The party subsequently formed a coalition with the Greens, who had achieved their best ever result in Tyrol at 12.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283101-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrolean state election, Electoral system\nThe 36 seats of the Landtag of Tyrol are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between nine multi-member constituencies, corresponding to the districts of Tyrol. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 5 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hare quota, with any remaining seats allocated using the D'Hondt method at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283101-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrolean state election, Contesting parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283101-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrolean state election, Contesting parties\nForward Tyrol, which contested the previous election and won 9.5% of votes and four seats, did not contest the 2018 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283101-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrolean state election, Contesting parties\nIn addition to the parties already represented in the Landtag, three parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283101-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrolean state election, Aftermath\nThe \u00d6VP held exploratory discussions with all other parties, narrowing their options to the SP\u00d6 and Greens after the first round of talks. On 8 March, Governor Platter announced formal negotiations with the Greens would take place. On 20 March, they announced they had come to a coalition agreement. The government subsequently took office for a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283102-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrone Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Tyrone Senior Football Championship is the 113th edition of Tyrone GAA's premier gaelic football tournament for clubs in Tyrone Senior Football League Division 1. 16 teams compete with the winners receiving the O'Neill Cup and representing Tyrone in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283102-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrone Senior Football Championship\nOmagh St. Enda's were the defending champions after they defeated Errigal Ciar\u00e1n in the 2017 final. However the defence of their title came undone at the Quarter-Final stage when losing to eventual finalists Killyclogher St. Mary's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283102-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrone Senior Football Championship\nMoy T\u00edr na n\u00d3g, Derrylaughan Kevin Barry's and Aghyaran St. Davog's returned to senior championship football in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283102-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrone Senior Football Championship\nGalbally Pearses made the drop back down to the Intermediate ranks when finishing bottom of the 2018 S.F.L. They were followed by Pomeroy Plunkett's who lost their S.F.L. Relegation Playoff after a replay to Aghyaran St. Davog's, who in turn then lost their SFL/IFL Promotion/Relegation Playoff also after a replay to Dungannon Thomas Clarke's. I.F.C. champions Tattyreagh St. Patrick's and I.F.L. champions Eglish St. Patrick's will also replace these relegated teams in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283102-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrone Senior Football Championship\nOn 21 October 2018, Coalisland Fianna claimed their 10th S.F.C. crown and their first triumph since 2010 when defeating Killyclogher St. Mary's by 2-11 to 1-7 at Healy Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283102-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrone Senior Football Championship\nThe draw for the 2018 S.F.C. was made on 7 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283102-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrone Senior Football Championship, Format\nThe championship has a straight knock out structure. The 16 teams that take part in the championship are the 16 teams in the Senior Football League (SFL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283102-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrone Senior Football Championship, Format\nEither two or three teams are relegated each year from the SFC and SFL. The 16th placed team in the SFL is automatically relegated to the IFL. The 15th and 14th placed teams then play a SFL relegation playoff with the loser being relegated. The winner plays the winner of the IFL promotion playoffs - if they win, they remain in the SFC and SFL - if they lose they are relegated to the IFC and IFL. (The winner of the SFC can't be relegated. If the championship winner finishes in the bottom 3 in the league, the 13th placed team enters the relegation scenario.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283102-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrone Senior Football Championship, Format\nEither two or three teams are promoted to the SFC each year. The IFC champions and the IFL champions are automatically promoted to the senior grade (If a team wins the IFC and IFL, the 2nd placed team in the IFL are automatically promoted). 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place in the IFL enter the IFL promotion semi-finals (If the IFC champions are placed in the top 5 the 6th placed team enter the IFL promotion semi-finals) with the eventual winner of the final earning the right to play the loser of the SFL relegation playoff in a relegation/promotion playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283102-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrone Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283102-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Tyrone Senior Football Championship, Round 1\nAll 16 teams enter Round 1 in a random open draw. The 8 losers are eliminated from the championship while the 8 winners proceed to the Quarter-Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283103-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports Men's Basketball Championship\nThe 2018 U Sports Men's Final 8 Basketball Tournament was held March 8\u201311, 2018 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was hosted by Acadia University, which also hosted in 1971 on campus in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The tournament was held at the Scotiabank Centre for the second consecutive year, and was the 31st time the tournament had been played in Halifax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283103-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports Men's Basketball Championship\nFor the first time in eight years\u2014and just the third time in the past 16\u2014a team other than the Carleton Ravens claimed the national title. The Calgary Dinos edged out the Ryerson Rams to take the championship. It was the first national title for Calgary, and the second consecutive appearance (and loss) in the final game for Ryerson. Carleton took the bronze medal over the McGill Redmen. While the Ravens took some consolation in that, Carleton basketball was buoyed later the same day (March 11), when its women's team claimed its first-ever national crown, in Regina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283104-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports University Cup\nThe 2018 U Sports Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament (56th Annual) was held March 15\u201318, 2018 in Fredericton, New Brunswick and played at the Aitken Centre on UNB's Fredericton campus. This event marked the second year of a successful two-year bid to host the 2017 and 2018 USports University Cup. This is the 3rd time UNB has hosted the University Cup - they first hosted a two-year bid in 2003 & 2004 and again in 2011 & 2012. UNB is the first program to host the event 3 times since the expanded format was introduced in 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283104-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports University Cup\nThe Alberta Golden Bears won their 16th title over the St. Francis Xavier X-Men. Alberta last won the University Cup in 2015. St. F.X. was last in the final in 2016 when they lost to UNB Varsity Reds in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283104-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports University Cup\nIt was announced a month prior to the tournament, that the next two tournaments would be 'singles', first hosted by Lethbridge Pronghorns (2019/UCup57 - ENMAX Centre) followed by Acadia Axemen (2020/UCup58 - Scotiabank Centre). The tournament format would remain unchanged for both years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283104-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports University Cup, Road to the Cup, OUA playoffs\nNote 1: UQTR forfeit their first 13 games due to an ineligible player, resulting in the loss of eight(8) wins. Their record of 15-6-1, at the time of the January announcement, was correct to 7-14-1. They finished with a record of 8-19-1 (17pts for 10th).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283104-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports University Cup, Road to the Cup, OUA playoffs\nNote 2: The Queen's Cup championship game must be held in Ontario (part of the arrangement when the RSEQ hockey league merged with the OUA). When a Quebec-based OUA-East representative is the higher seed and should 'host' the game - the game shall be hosted by the OUA-West team instead, but the OUA-East team shall be the 'home' team and have last change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283104-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports University Cup, University Cup tournament\nThe eight teams to advance to the tournament are listed below. The three(3) conference champions must be seeded 1-3 based on the pre-tournament Top 10 Rankings followed by the OUA Runner-up (seed #4). The remaining four seeds are for the AUS Finalist, Canada West Finalist, OUA Third-place and host. Their seedings are based on the pre-tournament rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283104-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports University Cup, University Cup tournament\nSince UNB advancing as the AUS Champion, Acadia - as the AUS 3rd-place finisher (AUS Bronze), would take the place of the 'host'. To avoid a first round all-conference matchup between UNB and Acadia, Acadia #8 and Concordia #7 swapped seeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283104-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports University Cup, University Cup tournament, Tournament format\nThe tournament is a traditional 8 team, single elimination ladder with Bronze Medal game between the two semi-final losers. Games that are tied after regulation play a 10-minute overtime period following the 3rd period. If there is no score after the first overtime, the ice is cleaned and they would play 20 minute periods (with ice cleaned between periods) until there is a winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 74], "content_span": [75, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283104-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports University Cup, University Cup tournament, Tournament format\nThe higher seed is the 'Home' team for each game (the home team must wear their 'white' jerseys and will get the last change during stoppages of play).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 74], "content_span": [75, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283104-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports University Cup, Tournament All-Stars\nStephan Legault, from the Alberta Golden Bears, was selected as the Major W.J. 'Danny' McLeod Award for U Sports University Cup MVP. Stephan had 2 goals and 5 assist for 7 points in 3 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283104-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports University Cup, Tournament All-Stars\nJoining Legault on the tournament all-star team were:Forward: Mark Simpson (UNB Varsity Reds)Forward: Michael Clarke (St. Francis Xavier X-Men)Defenseman: Jagger Dirk (St. Francis Xavier X-Men)Defenseman: Kendall McFaull (Saskatchewan Huskies)Goalie: Zach Sawchenko (Alberta Golden Bears)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283105-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports Women's Basketball Championship\nThe 2018 U Sports Women's Final 8 Basketball Tournament was held March 8\u201311, 2018, in Regina, Saskatchewan. It was hosted by the University of Regina which had previously hosted the tournament in 1979, 2009, and 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283105-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports Women's Basketball Championship\nThe top-seeded and undefeated Carleton Ravens won their first Bronze Baby championship in program history, defeating the sixth-seeded Saskatchewan Huskies. Besides the accomplishment in itself, the win buoyed Carleton's basketball program, whose men's team had failed to appear in the final game for the first time in eight years. The men won the bronze medal in Halifax earlier on the same day its women won the title in Regina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283106-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports Women's Ice Hockey Championship\nThe 2018 U Sports Women's Ice Hockey Championship was held from March 15\u201318, 2018, in London, Ontario. The entire tournament was played at Thompson Arena on the campus of the University of Western Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283107-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports Women's Volleyball Championship\nThe 2018 U Sports Women's Volleyball Championship was held March 16\u201318, 2018, in Quebec City, Quebec, to determine a national champion for the 2017\u201318 U Sports women's volleyball season. The tournament was played at PEPS gymnase at Universit\u00e9 Laval. It was the seventh time that Laval had hosted the tournament with the most recent occurring in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283107-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports Women's Volleyball Championship\nThe OUA Champion Ryerson Rams completed a perfect season, finishing with a 19\u20130 regular season record, 3\u20130 OUA playoff record, and 3\u20130 U Sports championship record to claim the first national championship in program history and in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283108-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports football season\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by WikiCleanerBot (talk | contribs) at 01:57, 15 June 2020 (v2.02b - Special:LintError/missing-end-tag - WP:WCW project (Missing end bold/italic)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283108-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports football season\nThe 2018 U Sports football season began on August 24, 2018 with the St. Francis Xavier X-Men visiting the Saint Mary's Huskies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Quebec Student Sport Federation teams played an hour later with the Laval Rouge et Or visiting the Sherbrooke Vert et Or and the McGill Redmen playing the Montreal Carabins. The Ontario University Athletics teams began play on August 25, 2018 and the Canada West teams opened their season one week later on August 31, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283108-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports football season\nThe conference championships were played on November 10 and the season will conclude on November 24 with the 54th Vanier Cup championship at PEPS Stadium in Quebec City, Quebec. 27 university teams in Canada are scheduled to play U Sports football, the highest level of amateur Canadian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283108-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 U Sports football season, Post-season\nThe Vanier Cup is played between the champions of the Mitchell Bowl and the Uteck Bowl, the national semi-final games. In 2018, according to the rotating schedule, the Canada West Hardy Trophy championship team will visit the Yates Cup Ontario championship team for the Mitchell Bowl. The winners of the Atlantic conference's Loney Bowl will visit the Qu\u00e9bec conference Dunsmore Cup championship team for the Uteck Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283109-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U-19 Asia Rugby Championship\nThe 2018 U-19 Asia Rugby Championship is an international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams in Asia. The winners in Asia Rugby U19 Championship secured a berth at the 2019 World Rugby Under 20 Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283109-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U-19 Asia Rugby Championship, Top division\nThe top division was held in Taipei, Taiwan from 12\u201318 December 2018 in a round-robin tournament format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283109-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U-19 Asia Rugby Championship, Division 1\nDivision 1 was hosted by the Thailand at the Bang-Bon Stadium in Bangkok from 11\u201314 December 2018. The winner will be promoted to the top division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283110-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores\nThe 2018 U-20 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores (Spanish: Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Sub-20 2018) was the 4th edition of the U-20 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores (also referred to as the U-20 Copa Libertadores), South America's premier under-20 club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. The tournament was held in Uruguay from 10 to 24 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283110-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores\nNacional defeated Independiente del Valle in the final to win their first title, while River Plate defeated defending champions S\u00e3o Paulo to finish third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283110-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores, Teams\nThe competition was contested by 12 teams: the title holders, the youth champions from each of the ten CONMEBOL member associations, and one additional team from the host association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283110-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores, Teams\nPlayers must be born on or after 1 January 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283110-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores, Venues\nThe tournament was played at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283110-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores, Draw\nThe draw was held on 25 January 2018, 16:00 UYT (UTC\u22123), at the headquarters of the Uruguayan Football Association. The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four. The defending champions S\u00e3o Paulo were automatically seeded into Pot 1 and allocated to position A1 in the group stage, while the other two teams which also participated in the 2016 U-20 Copa Libertadores, Independiente del Valle and Libertad, were also seeded into Pot 1 and drawn to position B1 or C1 in the group stage. The remaining teams were seeded into Pot 2, and drawn to positions 2, 3 or 4 of groups A, B or C in the group stage. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 33], "content_span": [34, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283110-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores, Group stage\nIn the group stage, the teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order (Regulations Article 20):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283110-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores, Group stage\nThe winners of each group and the best runner-up among all groups advanced to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283110-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores, Knockout stage\nThe semi-final winners and losers played in the final and third place match respectively. If tied after full time, extra time was not played, and the penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (Regulations Article 22).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283111-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U-23 Baseball World Cup\nThe 2018 U-23 Baseball World Cup, officially II U-23 Baseball World Cup, is the second edition of the U-23 Baseball World Cup tournament, third since the tournament's inception in 2014 as the 21U Baseball World Cup. The tournament was held in Barranquilla and Monter\u00eda, Colombia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283111-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U-23 Baseball World Cup\nOriginally the host to the tournament was awarded to Nicaragua and would be held in Managua, but due to 2018\u20132020 Nicaraguan protests, WBSC subsequently decided to move the tournament to Colombia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283111-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U-23 Baseball World Cup\nMexico defeated Japan with a score of 2:1 in the championship game to win the gold medal. Venezuela won the bronze medal by defeating Korea in the third-place game with a score of 4:5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283112-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Air National Guard C-130 crash\nOn May 2, 2018, a Lockheed WC-130H transport aircraft of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard crashed in the US state of Georgia, shortly after departing from Savannah Air National Guard Base (which is located at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport). The aircraft crashed on Georgia State Route 21 at 11:26 local time. All nine airmen (five crewmen and four passengers) were killed in the accident. All nine were members of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283112-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Air National Guard C-130 crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft was a Lockheed C-130H Hercules more than fifty years old, with tail number 65-0968 and serial number 4110, that had been converted to a WC-130H for weather reconnaissance operations. It was assigned to the United States Air National Guard and operated by the 156th Airlift Wing of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283112-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Air National Guard C-130 crash, Crash\nThe aircraft was being flown to retirement at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, the US military aircraft storage facility at Davis\u2013Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The aircraft was in its initial climb out of Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, when it went into a left bank before losing altitude and crashing. Eyewitnesses have reported that the aircraft appeared unstable after takeoff, and that one engine was shut down during the flight. The aircraft impacted on Augusta Road (part of Georgia State Route 21), then a fire ignited that destroyed the entire airframe, apart from the tail. All personnel on board the aircraft were killed, but nobody on the ground was killed or injured as a result of the accident. A video of the accident was recorded by a nearby surveillance camera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 864]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283112-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Air National Guard C-130 crash, Crash\nThe accident investigation was within the jurisdiction of the active duty United States Air Force (USAF), which assembled an investigation board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283112-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Air National Guard C-130 crash, Aftermath\nAs a precautionary measure, the governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossell\u00f3, ordered all WC-130 aircraft to remain grounded until the conclusion of the accident investigation. The governor also ordered an assessment of the WC-130 fleet in the Puerto Rico Air National Guard. Additionally, commanders of the active duty USAF were directed to observe a one-day pause in operations, to review and identify potential safety concerns that may lead to mishaps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283112-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Air National Guard C-130 crash, Aftermath\nA section of highway 21 at the impact site was closed immediately after the accident, and the Air National Guard provided funds to the United States Army Corps of Engineers for repairs and cleanup. Traffic was diverted around the crash site to adjacent road SR 307 through a temporary detour, until the completion of repairs. The closed section of highway 21 was reopened for public use on June 8, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283112-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Air National Guard C-130 crash, Aftermath\nThe aircraft\u2019s wreckage was recovered and moved to a storage facility in Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina by mid-May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283112-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Air National Guard C-130 crash, Investigation\nThe investigation carried out by the USAF found the root cause of the crash to be pilots error following an engine malfunction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283112-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Air National Guard C-130 crash, Investigation\nDuring the takeoff roll, engine number 1 (the left outboard engine) experienced performance fluctuations which went unnoticed until after takeoff. The engine power dropped from nearly 4000\u00a0horsepower to under 300, causing the aircraft to pull to the left, nearly departing the runway. The investigation found that the takeoff should have been aborted but was not. Furthermore, the investigation determined that the flight crew had failed to adequately prepare for emergency actions, and the maintenance technicians failed to properly diagnose and repair the malfunctioning engine before flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283112-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Air National Guard C-130 crash, Investigation\nAfter the flight crew retracted the landing gear, they identified that the engine No.1 was malfunctioning but did not perform the takeoff continued after engine failure procedure or follow the engine shutdown checklist, nor did they complete the after takeoff checklist. The flaps had been set to 50% for takeoff and were not retracted. The approved method of maneuvering a multi engine aircraft in such a situation is to bank the aircraft so that the malfunctioning engine is on the high-side wing. In this case, the pilot incorrectly applied both left bank and rudder, instead of banking to the right. At an air speed of 131 knots, these incorrect inputs ultimately led to a left wing stall resulting in a total loss of control. The maximum altitude was 900\u00a0ft, which was insufficient to regain control of the aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 877]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283113-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Classic\nThe 2018 U.S. Classic, known as the 2018 GK U.S. Classic for sponsorship reasons, is the 35th edition of the U.S. Classic gymnastics tournament. The competition was held on July 28, 2018, at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283114-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. F2000 National Championship\nThe 2018 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda was the ninth season\u00a0\u2013 since its revival in 2010\u00a0\u2013 of the U.S. F2000 National Championship, an open wheel auto racing series that is the first step in INDYCAR's Road to Indy ladder, operated by Andersen Promotions. A 14-race schedule was announced on October 17, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283114-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. F2000 National Championship\nAmerican Kyle Kirkwood driving for Cape Motorsports in a single-car effort dominated the championship, winning twelve of the fourteen races. The only other driver to win was two consecutive races won by former Indy Lights competitor Alexandre Baron for Swan-RJB Motorsports early in the season. Baron left the series after seven races. Swede Rasmus Lindh finished well back in second place driving for Pabst Racing who won the team championship in a close battle. Lindh didn't capture a second place finish until the final race of the season. Just behind Lindh were Brazilians Lucas Kohl and Igor Fraga. Fourteen drivers competed in all fourteen races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283115-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from December 29, 2017 \u2013 January 8, 2018 at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior, junior, novice, intermediate, and juvenile levels. The results were part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2018 Winter Olympics, 2018 Four Continents Championships, 2018 World Junior Championships, and the 2018 World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283115-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships\nSan Jose was announced as the host in August 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283115-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Qualifying\nCompetitors qualified at regional and sectional competitions held from October to November 2017 or earned a bye. Skaters must place in the top 4 in order to earn a spot at the National Figure Skating Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283115-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Qualifying\nIn late December 2017, U.S. Figure Skating published the list of skaters who had qualified or received a bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283115-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Schedule\nThe competition took place over ten days. All times are in PST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283115-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, Winter Olympics\nU.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 Winter Olympics on January 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 86], "content_span": [87, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283115-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, Winter Olympics\nThe selections for the team event at the Olympics were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 86], "content_span": [87, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283115-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, World Championships\nU.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 World Championships on January 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 90], "content_span": [91, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283115-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, Four Continents\nU.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 Four Continents Championships on January 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 86], "content_span": [87, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283115-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, World Junior Championships\nU.S. Figure Skating began announcing the team for the 2018 World Junior Championships on January 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 97], "content_span": [98, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283116-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships\nThe 2018 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships (also known as the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships for sponsorship purposes) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 117th edition of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, and an ATP World Tour 250 event on the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at River Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas, United States, from April 9 through April 15, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283116-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283117-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships \u2013 Doubles\nJulio Peralta and Horacio Zeballos were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Max Mirnyi and Philipp Oswald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283117-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships \u2013 Doubles\nMirnyi and Oswald went on to win the title, defeating Andre Begemann and Antonio \u0160an\u010di\u0107 in the final, 6\u20137(2\u20137), 6\u20134, [11\u20139].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283118-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships \u2013 Singles\nSteve Johnson was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Tennys Sandgren in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 2\u20136, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283118-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283119-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2018 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships is the 55th edition of the U.S. National Gymnastics Championships. The competition was held from August 16\u201319, 2018 at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283119-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships, Competition schedule\nThe competition featured Senior and Junior competitions for both women's and men's disciplines. The competition was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283119-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships, Sponsorship\nProcter & Gamble, a multinational consumer goods company and sponsor of the previous National Championships ended their sponsorship in late 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283119-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships, National team\nThe top 6 all-around females automatically made the national team. For seniors, this consisted of Simone Biles, Morgan Hurd, Riley McCusker, Grace McCallum, Shilese Jones, and Jade Carey. Additionally, 7th and 8th place finishers, Kara Eaker and Trinity Thomas, were also named to the team. For juniors, Leanne Wong, Kayla DiCello, Sunisa Lee, Skye Blakely, Konnor McClain, and Olivia Greaves were the top 6 finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283120-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 U.S. Open (officially known as the Yonex US Open 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Titan Gym in Fullerton, California, United States, from 12 to 17 June 2018 and had a total prize of $150,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283120-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 U.S. Open was the tenth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the U.S. Open championships, which had been held since 1954. This tournament was organized by USA Badminton and sanctioned by the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283120-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Titan Gym on the campus of California State University, Fullerton in Fullerton, California, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283120-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 300 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283120-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$150,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 2018 United States Open Championship was the 118th U.S. Open, held June 14\u201317 at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Shinnecock Hills, New York, about eighty miles (130\u00a0km) east of New York City on Long Island; it was the fifth time the U.S. Open was held at this course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf)\nDefending champion Brooks Koepka shot a final round 68 for 281 (+1) to win his second straight U.S. Open, one stroke ahead of runner-up Tommy Fleetwood, who closed with the sixth round of 63 in U.S. Open history. Koepka was only the third to successfully defend the title since World War II, following Ben Hogan (1951) and Curtis Strange (1989).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe USGA changed the playoff format in February, from a full round (18 holes) to a two-hole aggregate playoff. Previously, playoffs at the U.S. Open were 18 holes, followed by sudden-death, if needed. The last 18-hole playoff was in 2008, won by Tiger Woods on the first sudden-death hole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nAbout half the field consisted of players who were exempt from qualifying for the U.S. Open. Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, and other categories are shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nLucas Glover, Dustin Johnson (12,13,14), Martin Kaymer, Brooks Koepka (11,12,13,14), Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy (6,7,13,14), Justin Rose (12,13,14), Webb Simpson (8,12,13,14), Jordan Spieth (5,6,12,13,14), Tiger Woods", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nSergio Garc\u00eda (12,13,14), Patrick Reed (12,13,14), Bubba Watson (13,14), Danny Willett", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nJason Day (8,12,13,14), Jason Dufner (12,13,14), Justin Thomas (11,12,13,14), Jimmy Walker (13,14)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nTommy Fleetwood (13,14), Rickie Fowler (12,13,14), Bill Haas, Brian Harman (12,13,14), Charley Hoffman (12,13,14), Hideki Matsuyama (12,13,14), Trey Mullinax, Xander Schauffele (12,13,14), Brandt Snedeker", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nDaniel Berger (13,14), Patrick Cantlay (13,14), Paul Casey (13,14), Kevin Chappell (13,14), Tony Finau (13,14), Adam Hadwin (13,14), Russell Henley (13,14), Kevin Kisner (13,14), Matt Kuchar (13,14), Marc Leishman (13,14), Pat Perez (13,14), Jon Rahm (13,14), Kyle Stanley (13,14), Jhonattan Vegas, Gary Woodland (13,14)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nKiradech Aphibarnrat (14), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (14), Bryson DeChambeau (14), Ross Fisher (14), Matthew Fitzpatrick (14), Dylan Frittelli, Branden Grace (14), Chesson Hadley, Tyrrell Hatton (14), Charles Howell III (14), Satoshi Kodaira (14), Alexander L\u00e9vy (14), Li Haotong (14), Luke List (14), Alex Nor\u00e9n (14), Louis Oosthuizen (14), Ian Poulter (14), Chez Reavie (14), Charl Schwartzel (14), Cameron Smith (14), Brendan Steele (14), Peter Uihlein (14)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Field, Nationalities in the field\n^ Amateur Luis Gagne is a dual-citizen of Costa Rica and the United States. The U.S. Open lists him as representing Costa Rica (as in this table) while the World Amateur Golf Ranking lists him as representing the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, First round\nConditions were extremely difficult as gusty winds hung around all day with sunny skies, making the course firm and fast. Only four players broke par, including Dustin Johnson, one of the tournament favorites. The scoring average for the round was 76.47.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Second round\nDustin Johnson held the lead after shooting a 67, four shots ahead of Charley Hoffman and Scott Piercy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Second round\nAmateurs: Grimmer (+5), Gagne (+7), Parziale (+7), Thornberry (+9), Strafaci (+10), Ghim (+13), Rasmussen (+14), Hagestad (+15), Bergeron (+16), Humphrey (+16), Yu (+17), Huang (+18), Lumsden (+18), Rank (+18), Reitan (+18), Wiseman (+18), Ban (+19), Ellis (+19), Goodwin (+19), Barbaree (+21)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Third round\nSecond round leader Dustin Johnson shot a seven-over 77 to fall into a four-way tie with Daniel Berger, Tony Finau and defending champion Brooks Koepka. Johnson double bogeyed the par-3 2nd and went six-over on the front-nine. He made his only birdie of the round at the 11th to get back to the top of the leaderboard, but three-putted for bogey on 18 to settle for a share of the 54-hole lead. Berger and Finau began the round in 45th place and 11 shots behind, but each shot 66 (\u22124) for the low round of the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Third round\nScoring conditions got more difficult as the day went on. Koepka's two-over 72 was the lowest score among the final four groups. Only three rounds in the 60s were recorded, two of them by Berger and Finau. The scoring average for the round was 75.3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Third round\nPhil Mickelson incurred a two-shot penalty on the 13th when he walked after his ball which was running slowly away from the hole after his putt and deliberately hit the ball backwards towards the hole while it was still moving. He ended up shooting 81 (+11), equalling his highest score at the U.S. Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nBrooks Koepka shot a final round 68 (\u22122) to finish one ahead of Tommy Fleetwood and win the U.S. Open for the second straight year. He was the first to successfully defend the title in 29 years, since Curtis Strange in 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nKoepka began the round in a four-way tie for the lead with Dustin Johnson, Daniel Berger, and Tony Finau. He got off to a good start with birdies on three of his first five holes to get to even par and take the lead. At the par-3 11th, his tee shot went into the rough over the green. After chipping into a greenside bunker, he holed a 12-foot (3.7\u00a0m) putt to save bogey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nAt the following hole, he made a six-foot par putt, then at the 14th he got up-and-down to save par from short of the green with an eight-foot putt. Hitting his approach at the par-5 16th to within four feet, he made the birdie to open up a two-shot lead. Despite a bogey at the 18th, Koepka held on win by one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nFleetwood shot the sixth round of 63 in U.S. Open history to finish in second. He began the round six behind and began by sinking a putt from 56 feet (17\u00a0m) at the 2nd and three more birdies on the front-nine. He made four straight birdies on holes 12\u201315, with putts of 17 feet (5\u00a0m) at 12, 20 feet (6\u00a0m) at 14, and 29 feet (9\u00a0m) at 15. Fleetwood had an eight-foot putt at the 18th for the first 62 in U.S. Open history, but it slid past the hole that would have forced the first two-hole playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nJohnson made birdie at the 5th but three-putted for bogey at the 7th, 11th, 14th, and 17th. He birdied the last to shoot an even-par 70 and finish two shots behind Koepka. Finau bogeyed three of his first four holes but got back to even for the round with a 26-foot birdie at the 11th. He came to the 18th two back of Koepka but made double bogey and ended up in fifth place, four behind. Berger also started his round with two bogeys and finished with a three-over 73 to tie for sixth. Patrick Reed began three shots behind but birdied his first three holes and five of the first seven to tie for the lead. He made four bogeys the rest of the round, however, to fall back to fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nWith the win, Koepka becomes the seventh player to win consecutive U.S. Opens, and the first since Curtis Strange in 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283121-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open (golf), Media\nThis was the fourth U.S. Open televised by Fox and FS1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283122-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup\nThe 2018 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup was the 105th edition of the U.S. Open Cup, a knockout cup competition in American soccer. It is the oldest ongoing competition in the United States and was contested by 97 teams from leagues in the U.S. system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283122-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup\nThe 97 entrants included the 20 American clubs from Major League Soccer and 22 non-affiliated American clubs in the United Soccer League. The qualification tournament, held in 2017, determined the 13 teams from local amateur leagues. The 20 entrants from the Premier Development League and 19 of the 22 from the National Premier Soccer League were determined based on results achieved in those leagues in 2017. Cash prizes and travel reimbursement costs were also increased for the 2018 edition. Sporting Kansas City was the defending champion but were not able to successfully defend the title, losing in the quarterfinals to Houston Dynamo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283122-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup\nThe 2018 tournament initially excluded clubs from the North American Soccer League, which suspended operations for the year, but a decision by the Open Cup Committee in March 2018 allowed for the entry of NPSL teams Jacksonville Armada FC, Miami FC 2, and New York Cosmos B as part of an added play-in round, which brought the total number of NPSL teams participating in the tournament to 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283122-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup, Brackets\nHost team listed firstBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout score", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283122-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup, Brackets\nHost team listed first. Bold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout score", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283123-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup Final\nThe 2018 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was played on September 26, 2018, at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, Texas. The match determined the winner of the 2018 U.S. Open Cup, a tournament open to amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation. It was the 105th edition of the oldest competition in United States soccer. This edition of the final was contested between Houston Dynamo and the Philadelphia Union, both of Major League Soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283123-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup Final\nThe match was broadcast in English on ESPN2 and in Spanish on Univision Deportes, making it the fourth straight time the cup final was aired on one of the ESPN networks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283123-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup Final\nHouston Dynamo won the match 3\u20130 for their first U.S. Open Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283124-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup qualification\nThe 2018 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup tournament proper will feature teams from all five tiers of the men's American soccer pyramid. A record 108 open division amateur teams have entered qualifying this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283124-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup qualification\nUS Soccer oversaw the qualifying process that was formerly handled by each association. All teams within the Division I and II professional leagues qualified automatically as in past years. Any open division national league could use its previous year's league standings as its qualification method. Remaining open division teams participated in qualifying rounds to determine entrants into the tournament proper. Final slot allocation was determined when team registration concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283124-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup qualification, National league track, Premier Development League\nOn March 14, 2018, it was announced that 20 PDL teams would be participating in the 2018 U.S. Open Cup. The teams are", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283124-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup qualification, National league track, Premier Development League\nCharlotte Eagles,FC Golden State Force,FC Miami City,FC Tucson,Lakeland Tropics,Long Island Rough Riders,Michigan Bucks,Mississippi Brilla,Myrtle Beach Mutiny,New York Red Bulls U-23,Ocean City Nor'easters,OKC Energy U23,Portland Timbers U23,Reading United A.C.,San Francisco City FC,Seacoast United Phantoms,SIMA Aguilas,South Georgia Tormenta FC,The Villages SC,Western Mass Pioneers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283124-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup qualification, National league track, National Premier Soccer League\nOn March 14, 2018, it was announced that 19 NPSL teams would be participating in the 2018 U.S. Open Cup. The teams are", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 87], "content_span": [88, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283124-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup qualification, National league track, National Premier Soccer League\nAFC Ann Arbor,Brooklyn Italians,CD Aguiluchos USA,Dakota Fusion FC,Detroit City FC,Duluth FC,Elm City Express,Erie Commodores FC,FC Arizona,FC Motown,FC Wichita,Fort Worth Vaqueros FC,Inter Nashville FC,Kingston Stockade FC, Kitsap Pumas,Miami United FC,Midland-Odessa FC,New Orleans Jesters,Orange County FC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 87], "content_span": [88, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283124-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Local qualifying track, Third qualifying round, Pacific Region\nEl Farolito joined the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) as an expansion team on November 20, 2017. Clubs must remain playing members in good standing within their leagues from the date of the open division entry deadline through the date of the U.S. Open Cup Final in order to be eligible to compete in the U.S. Open Cup. Since El Farolito left the San Francisco Soccer Football League to join the NPSL, the club became ineligible for the 2018 U.S. Open Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283125-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Poker Open\nThe 2018 U.S. Poker Open was the inaugural season of the U.S. Poker Open. It took place from February 1-11 at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Poker Central sponsored the event, with every final table streamed live on PokerGo. There were eight events, including Pot Limit Omaha and Mixed Game tournaments, with buy-ins ranging between $10,000 and $50,000. It culminated in the $50,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283125-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Poker Open\nStephen Chidwick won the series championship, winning two events and making the final table of five out of eight events. Keith Tilston won the Main Event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open\nThe 2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open was the inaugural U.S. Senior Women's Open and was the 14th championship run by the United States Golf Association. It was open to women whose 50th birthday fell on or before the first day of competition and held a handicap index not exceeding 7.4. The championship was played at the Chicago Golf Club from July 12 to 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open\nThe championship was won by Laura Davies with a score of 276, 10 strokes ahead of runner-up Juli Inkster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Venue\nThe 2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open was the 12th USGA Championship contested at Chicago Golf Club. The last championship contested here was the 2005 Walker Cup, when the U.S. team defeated Great Britain and Ireland by a single point. The course is one of the five founding members of the USGA. It was built in 1892, making it the oldest 18-hole course in the western hemisphere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field\nThe championship was open to any professional or amateur golfer who was 50 years of age as of July 12 and had a handicap index not exceeding 7.4. The field included 120 players, who earned entry in the walking-only championship via sectional qualifying at sites nationwide in the spring of 2018 or through one of the exemption categories listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\nMany players were exempt in multiple categories. Players are listed only once, in the first category in which they became exempt, with additional categories in parentheses () next to their names.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n1. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open (ten year exemption).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\nAmy Alcott (5,6), Pat Bradley (5,6), Jerilyn Britz, Laura Davies (5,6,10,11,12), Jane Geddes (5,6), JoAnne Gunderson Carner (3,6), Juli Inkster (3,5,6,10,12,13), Betsy King (5,6,12), Murle Lindstrom, Lauri Merten, Liselotte Neumann (6,11,12,13), Alison Nicholas, Sandra Palmer (5), Hollis Stacy (5,6,12), Jan Stephenson (5,6)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n2. From the 2018 U.S. Women's Open, any player returning a 72-hole score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n3. Winners of the U.S. Women's Amateur who later turned professional (one year exemption).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n4. Winners of the U.S. Women's Amateur who did not turn professional (five year exemption) and the 2017 runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n5. Winners of the other LPGA majors (ten year exemption). This includes Canadian Women's Open champions prior to 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\nHelen Alfredsson (6,10,11,12), Donna Andrews (6,12), Nanci Bowen, Tammie Green (6), Christa Johnson (6), Cathy Johnston-Forbes (11), Jenny Lidback (12) , Sally Little, Alice Miller, Martha Nause (11,12), Nancy Scranton (6)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n6. The top 150 money leaders from the 2017 LPGA Tour all-time money list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\nKristi Albers, Danielle Ammaccapane, Judy Dickinson, Rosie Jones (12), Lorie Kane (11,12,13), Hiromi Kobayashi, Barb Mucha (11,12), Cindy Rarick, Michele Redman (11,12), Kris Tschetter", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n7. Winners of the LPGA Teaching & Club Professionals Championship (last five years) and the top five finishers from the most recent Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n8. Winners of official LPGA Tour events from the last five years and the current year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n9. Top five leaders of the 2017 Ladies European Tour and 2017 LPGA of Japan Tour career money lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n10. Playing members of the last five Solheim Cup teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n11. Low ten and ties from the 2017 Senior LPGA Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n12. Top 30 points leaders from the 2016 and 2017 Legends Tour Performance Points list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\nJane Crafter, Alicia Dibos, Cindy Figg-Currier, Becky Iverson, Marilyn Lovander, Barb Moxness", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n13. Winners of Legends Tour events from the last two years and the current year (36-hole minimum).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n14. Winners of U.S. Senior Women's Amateur from the last two years and the 2017 runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n15. Winners of the 2016 and 2017 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n16. Playing members of the two most current Curtis Cup and U.S. Espirito Santo Trophy teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Exempt from qualifying\n17. Winner of the 2017 Ladies' Senior British Open Amateur and Canadian Women's Senior Amateur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Qualifiers\nAdditional players qualified through sectional qualifying tournaments which took place June 4\u201320 at sites across the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Qualifiers\nJune 4 at Newport Beach Country Club, Newport Beach, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Qualifiers\nJune 6 at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club, Southern Pines, North Carolina", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Qualifiers\nJune 6 at Springfield Golf & Country Club, Springfield, Virginia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Qualifiers\nJune 12 at Olympic Club (Ocean Course), San Francisco, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Qualifiers\nJune 12 at Bent Creek Golf Club, Eden Prairie, Minnesota", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Qualifiers\nJune 14 at Fairwood Golf & Country Club, Renton, Washington", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Qualifiers\nJune 18 at LPGA International (Jones Course), Daytona Beach, Florida", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283126-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open, Field, Qualifiers\nJune 18 at Conway Farms Golf Club, Lake Forest, Illinois", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283127-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Soccer Spring Men's College Program\nThe 2018 U.S. Soccer Spring Men's College Program was the inaugural edition of the U.S. Soccer Spring Men's College Program, a spring season competition run by the United States Soccer Federation in which American college soccer teams use IFAB rules instead of NCAA rules. The season began on March 7, 2018 and ran until April 21, 2018. The last round of matches were hosted by Wake Forest University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283127-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Soccer Spring Men's College Program\nSix universities participated in the program: Clemson, Duke, Georgetown, North Carolina, Virginia, and Wake Forest. Of these six programs, five are from the Atlantic Coast Conference, and all are located in the Southeastern United States or Mid-Atlantic regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283127-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Soccer Spring Men's College Program, Rule differences\nThere were some notable rule difference between the two competitions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open\nThe 2018 U.S. Women's Open was the 73rd U.S. Women's Open, played May 31 \u2013 June 3 at Shoal Creek Club in Shoal Creek, Alabama, a suburb southeast of Birmingham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open\nThe U.S. Women's Open is the oldest of the five current major championships and the second of the 2018 season. It has the largest purse in women's golf at $5 million. The tournament was televised by Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open\nThe championship was moved up in the schedule this year; it had been played in July for decades, with a few exceptions. Also, the playoff format was modified as part of USGA changes for the four U.S. Open championships in golf (Open, Women's Open, Senior Open, Senior Women's) in 2018, reduced from three to two aggregate holes, followed by sudden death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open\nAriya Jutanugarn won the championship in a playoff over Kim Hyo-joo, which ended on the fourth extra hole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field\nThe championship was open to any female professional or amateur golfer with a USGA handicap index not exceeding 2.4. Players qualified by competing in one of 24 36-hole qualifying tournaments held at sites across the United States and at international sites in China, England, Japan, and South Korea. Additional players were exempt from qualifying because of past performances in professional or amateur tournaments around the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\nMany players were exempt in multiple categories. Players are listed only once, in the first category in which they became exempt, with additional categories in parentheses () next to their names. Golfers qualifying in Category 12 who qualified in other categories are denoted with the tour by which they qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n1. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open for the last ten years (2008\u20132017)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\nChun In-gee (7,9,14,15), Paula Creamer, Ji Eun-hee (9,10,11,14,15), Brittany Lang (9), Inbee Park (4,5,9,10,11,14,15), Park Sung-hyun (8,9,11,14,15), Ryu So-yeon (6,8,9,14,15), Michelle Wie (9,10,11,14,15)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n2. Winner and runner-up from the 2017 U.S. Women's Amateur; winner of the 2017 U.S. Girls' Junior and U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur (must be an amateur)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\nKelsey Chugg (a), Sophia Schubert (a), Erica Shepherd (a), Albane Valenzuela (a)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n3. Winner of the 2017 Mark H. McCormack Medal (Women's World Amateur Golf Ranking) (must be an amateur)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n4. Winners of the Women's PGA Championship for the last five years (2013\u20132017)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n5. Winners of the Ricoh Women's British Open for the last five years (2013\u20132017)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\nAriya Jutanugarn (9,10,11,14,15), In-Kyung Kim (9,11,14,15), Stacy Lewis (9,11,14,15), Mo Martin (9)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n6. Winners of the ANA Inspiration for the last five years (2014\u20132018)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\nLydia Ko (7,9,11,14,15), Brittany Lincicome (9,11,14,15), Pernilla Lindberg (9,10,11,14,15), Lexi Thompson (9,11,14,15)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n7. Winners of the Evian Championship for the last five years (2013\u20132017)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n8. Ten lowest scorers and anyone tying for 10th place from the 2017 U.S. Women's Open", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\nChoi Hye-jin (14,15), Carlota Ciganda (9,12-LET,14,15), Shanshan Feng (9,10,11,14,15), M. J. Hur (9,14,15), Kim Sei-young (9,14,15), Lee Jeong-eun (12-KLPGA,14,15), Mirim Lee (9,14,15), Amy Yang (9,14,15)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n9. Top 75 money leaders from the 2017 final official LPGA money list", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\nMarina Alex (14,15), Brittany Altomare (14,15), Nicole Broch Larsen, Ashleigh Buhai, Peiyun Chien, Chella Choi (14), Cydney Clanton, Jacqui Concolino, Austin Ernst, Jodi Ewart Shadoff (14,15), Sandra Gal, Hsu Wei-ling, Charley Hull (14,15), Karine Icher, Moriya Jutanugarn (10,11,14,15), Kim Kaufman, Cristie Kerr (11,14,15), Megan Khang, Katherine Kirk, Jessica Korda (10,11,14,15), Nelly Korda (14,15), Olafia Kristinsdottir, Candie Kung, Lee Jeong-eun, Lee Mi-hyang (11,14,15), Minjee Lee (11,14,15), Gaby L\u00f3pez, Caroline Masson (15), Ally McDonald, Azahara Mu\u00f1oz (12-LET,14), Haru Nomura, Su-Hyun Oh, Ryann O'Toole, Jane Park, Pornanong Phatlum, Madelene Sagstr\u00f6m, Lizette Salas (14,15), Alena Sharp, Jenny Shin (14,15), Sarah Jane Smith, Jennifer Song (14,15), Angela Stanford, Ayako Uehara, Jing Yan, Angel Yin (15), Yoo Sun-young", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 905]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n10. Top 10 money leaders from the 2018 official LPGA money list, through the close of entries on April 25", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n11. Winners of LPGA co-sponsored events, whose victories are considered official, from the conclusion of the 2017 U.S. Women's Open to the initiation of the 2018 U.S. Women's Open", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n12. Top five money leaders from the 2017 Japan LPGA Tour, Korea LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\nGeorgia Hall (14,15), Kim Ji-hyun, Lee Min-young (14,15), Teresa Lu (14,15), Kl\u00e1ra Spilkov\u00e1, Ai Suzuki (14,15), Anne van Dam", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n13. Top three money leaders from the 2017 China LPGA Tour", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n14. Top 50 point leaders from the current Rolex Rankings and anyone tying for 50th place as of April 25", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying\n15. Top 50 point leaders from the current Rolex Rankings and anyone tying for 50th place as of May 28", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers\nAdditional players qualified through sectional qualifying tournaments which took place May 2\u201317 at sites in the United States, China, South Korea, England, and Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers\nMay 2 at Canoe Brook Country Club, Summit, New Jersey", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers\nMay 3 at Industry Hills Golf Club, City of Industry, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers\nMay 4 at Sugar Mill Country Club, New Smyrna Beach, Florida", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers\nMay 14 at Contra Costa Country Club, Pleasant Hill, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers\nMay 14 at Dream Park Country Club, Incheon, South Korea", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers\nMay 14 at Rainier Golf & Country Club, Seattle, Washington", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers\nMay 15 at Bermuda Run Country Club, Advance, North Carolina", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers\nMay 16 at Shanghai Qizhong Garden Golf Club, Shanghai, China", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers\nMay 16 at Cape Cod National Golf Club, Brewster, Massachusetts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Alternates added to field\nThe following players were added to the field before the start of the tournament when spots reserved for exemptions in various categories were not used and to replace players who withdrew from the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 71], "content_span": [72, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Alternates added to field\nJennifer Chang (a), Hailee Cooper (a), Lindy Duncan, Andrea Lee (a), Lee Lopez, Wichanee Meechai, Olivia Mehaffey (a), Emilia Migliaccio (a), Song Gaeun (a), Luna Sobr\u00f3n Galm\u00e9s, Sophie Walker, Rumi Yoshiba", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 71], "content_span": [72, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Round summaries, Second round\nWeather delayed the conclusion of the second round until Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283128-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. Women's Open, Round summaries, Playoff\nIn the first year of the new USGA two-hole aggregate playoff format, the playoff was held on holes 14 and 18, both par fours. Jutanugarn parred both while Kim went birdie-bogey to stay tied and it moved to sudden-death, using the same holes only. Both parred the 14th hole, but Kim again made bogey at the 18th hole while Jutanugarn made another par and won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike\nThe 2018 U.S. prison strike was a series of work stoppages and hunger strikes in prisons across the United States that began on August 21 and ended on September 9. The strike was conducted at least in part in response to the April 2018 prison riot at Lee Correctional Institution, which killed seven inmates and was the deadliest prison riot in the U.S. in the past 25 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike\nThe start and end dates of the strike have symbolic meaning as they were planned to coincide with the 47th anniversary of the death of George Jackson, who was shot in an escape attempt on August 21, 1971, and the Attica Prison riot, which occurred on September 9, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike\nIt was claimed that suspected strike participants and leaders were punished with solitary confinement, removing communication privileges, and prison transfers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike, Organizers\nThe prison strike was called for and organized primarily by Jailhouse Lawyers Speak and Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, which is a prisoner-lead section of Industrial Workers of the World. Millions for Prisoners and The People's Consortium are some of the other groups involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike, Demands\nThe following were the demands of the prison strike according to the official page:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike, Timeline, Pre-Emptive censorship & repression (June - July 2018)\nRonald Brooks was transferred from Angola Prison to the David Wade Correctional Center in late June 2018 after he made a pro-strike video.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 89], "content_span": [90, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike, Timeline, Pre-Emptive censorship & repression (June - July 2018)\nIn late July, Siddique Hassan was reported for five violations of prison rules, including \u201cRioting, or encouraging others to riot\u201d. This was most likely a way to prevent him from speaking to the media during the strike as he had during the 2016 Prison Strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 89], "content_span": [90, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike, Timeline, Strike activity begins early (August 2018)\nOn August 9th, the first confirmed strike activity began at the GEO Group prison in response to administration cutting family visits, harassing families, strip searching elder family members, and STIU targeting, harassing, and abusing inmates. Three housing units joined in the work stoppage. In response, New Mexico prison officials put all state prisons on lockdown on August 20th as a preemptive measure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 77], "content_span": [78, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike, Timeline, Strike activity begins early (August 2018)\nOn August 19th, prisoners in the Burnside jail in Nova Scotia, Canada held a protest and released a statement in support of the strike and with their own list of demands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 77], "content_span": [78, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike, Timeline, Strike begins\nWhile most news on strike activity didn't reach the outside on the first day, the strike received widespread attention from numerous news outlets including USA Today, Newsweek and National Public Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike, Timeline, Strike begins\nAt least 200 detained immigrants at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington engaged in a hunger strike and/or work stoppage, releasing a statement stating that they are\"acting with solidarity for all those people who are being detained wrongfully, and stand together to help support all those women who have been separated from their children, and to stop all the family separations happening today for a lot of us are also being separated and we have U.S. citizen children.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike, Timeline, Strike begins\nHeriberto Sharky Garcia, incarcerated in Folsom, California, declared a hunger strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike, Timeline, Strike begins\nThere were also unconfirmed reports of 11 out of 143 prisons in Florida being affected, although the Florida Department of Corrections claimed that they had no stoppages, protests, or lockdowns related to the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283129-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 U.S. prison strike, Timeline, Alleged retaliation\nIt was claimed by strike participants and their families that suspected strike participants and leaders/organizers were punished with solitary confinement, removing communication privileges, and prison transfers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283130-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 U23 World Wrestling Championships\nThe 2018 U23 World Wrestling Championships were the second edition of U23 World Wrestling Championships of combined events, held from November 12 to 18 in Bucharest, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283131-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UA\n2018 UA is a small near-Earth Apollo asteroid that flew very close to the earth on 19 October 2018. It was discovered about 90 minutes before closest approach. After A106fgF, it was probably the second closest non-impacting approach of an asteroid in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283132-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UAB Blazers football team\nThe 2018 UAB Blazers football team represented the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the West Division of Conference USA (C-USA). They were led by third-year head coach Bill Clark and played their home games at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season 11\u20133, 7\u20131 in C-USA play to be champions of the West Division. They represented the West Division in the C-USA Championship Game where they defeated Middle Tennessee to win their first ever C-USA championship. They were invited to the Boca Raton Bowl where they defeated Northern Illinois to claim their first bowl win in program history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283132-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UAB Blazers football team\nOn November 11, 2018, the Blazers made their first appearance in the Coaches' Poll at No. 25, marking the first time since 2004 they had been ranked in any of the major three polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283132-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UAB Blazers football team, Previous season\nThe Blazers finished the 2017 season 8\u20135, 6\u20132 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for second place in the West Division. They received an invitation to the Bahamas Bowl, where they lost to Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283132-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UAB Blazers football team, Previous season\nThe 2017 season marked the return of UAB football after a two-year hiatus following the elimination of the program in December 2014 and its subsequent reinstatement in July 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283132-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UAB Blazers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CUSA team\nConference USA released their preseason all-CUSA team on July 16, 2018, with the Blazers having one player selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283132-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UAB Blazers football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nConference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Blazers predicted to finish in third place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283133-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UAE Super Cup\nThe 2018 UAE Super Cup was the 11th professional and 18th overall edition of the UAE Super Cup, held at the 30 June Stadium, Cairo on 25 August 2018, between Al Ain, winners of both the 2017\u201318 UAE Pro-League and 2017\u201318 UAE President's Cup, and Al Wahda, winners of the 2017\u201318 UAE League Cup. Al Wahda won the game 4\u20133 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283133-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UAE Super Cup, Details\nAssistant referees:Ahmed Saeed Al RashediHasan Ahmed Al HammadiFourth official:Ahmed Salem Al Aleeli", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283134-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UAE Team Emirates season\nThe 2018 season for UAE Team Emirates began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283135-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UC Davis Aggies football team\nThe 2018 UC Davis Aggies football team represented the University of California, Davis during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Aggies were led by second\u2013year head coach Dan Hawkins and played their home games at Aggie Stadium as members of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 10\u20133, 7\u20131 in Big Sky play to finish in a three-way tie for the Big Sky championship with Eastern Washington and Weber State. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where, after a first round bye, they defeated Northern Iowa in the second round before losing in the quarterfinals to Eastern Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283135-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UC Davis Aggies football team, Previous season\nThe Aggies finished the 2017 season 5\u20136, 3\u20135 in Big Sky play to finish in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283135-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UC Davis Aggies football team, Preseason, Polls\nOn July 16, 2018, during the Big Sky Kickoff in Spokane, Washington, the Aggies were predicted to finish in ninth place in both the coaches and media poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283135-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UC Davis Aggies football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nThe Aggies had two players selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283135-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UC Davis Aggies football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nKeelan Doss \u2013 Sr. WR. Also selected as the preseason offensive player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283136-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UC Davis Aggies softball team\nThe 2018 UC Davis Aggies softball team represented the University of California, Davis in the 2018 NCAA Division I softball season. The Aggies were coached by Erin Thorpe in her fourth season, playing their home games at La Rue Field. They finished 27\u201324 overall and tied for fourth place in the Big West Conference with a 9\u201312 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283136-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UC Davis Aggies softball team\nFreshman pitcher Brooke Yanez was named the Big West Freshman Pitcher of the Year after she posted a 15\u201311 record, a 1.75 ERA and 190 strikeouts in 187.2 innings. She was profiled in a ESPNW.com feature on freshman starting pitchers in February, and both Yanez and freshman utility player Alyse Rojas earned first-team all-conference honors at the conclusion of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283136-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UC Davis Aggies softball team\nThe Aggies set numerous single-season Division I program records during the season. As a team, they established new records in wins (27), winning percentage (.529), and fielding percentage (.969). Individually, Yanez set a new mark in ERA while Rojas set a new record in batting average (.372).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283136-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UC Davis Aggies softball team, Previous season\nThe Aggies finished the 2017 season 22\u201332 overall, 7\u201314 in Big West play to finish eighth in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283136-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UC Davis Aggies softball team, Preseason, Big West Conference coaches poll\nThe Big West Conference coaches poll was released on February 1, 2018. UC Davis was picked to finish eighth in the Big West Conference with 12 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283137-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights baseball team\nThe 2018 UCF Knights baseball team represents the University of Central Florida during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Knights play their home games at John Euliano Park as a member of the American Athletic Conference. They are led by head coach Greg Lovelady, in his second season at UCF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team\nThe 2018 UCF Knights football team represented the University of Central Florida (UCF) during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They played their home games at Spectrum Stadium in Orlando, Florida, and were led by first-year head coach Josh Heupel. The Knights competed as members of the East Division of the American Athletic Conference. The 2018 season marked the 40th season of football for the Knights program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team\nThe 2018 campaign began with the Knights attempting to defend their AAC championship, as well as extend the nation's longest active winning streak, which stood at 13 games. For the first time in program history, the Knights were ranked in both the preseason AP Poll (#21) and preseason Coaches Poll (#23). By week 12, the team had risen into the top ten of the AP, Coaches, and CFP rankings, the first time they had been ranked in the top ten in all three during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team\nAfter winning their first twelve games of the season, UCF extended their school record winning streak to 25 consecutive games, dating back to the start of the 2017 season. The Knights also secured their second-consecutive undefeated regular season, and second-consecutive American Athletic Conference title by defeating Memphis in the 2018 AAC Championship Game. It was the fourth AAC conference title in six years for the Knights. Under Heupel, UCF continued to employ an explosive no-huddle offense. The Knights ranked 5th in the nation in total yards/game (522.7), and 6th in points/game (43.2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team\nIn the last game of the regular season, starting quarterback McKenzie Milton suffered a serious leg injury, and was out for the season. Milton would never play another down for the Knights. Backup quarterback Darriel Mack Jr. took over for the remainder of that game, and subsequently led the team to victory in the AAC championship. They were invited to their third NY6/BCS bowl in school history, the Fiesta Bowl. Mack struggled in the Fiesta Bowl, and without star quarterback Milton under center, their winning streak came to end. They were defeated by LSU, 40\u201332.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Preseason, AAC media poll\nThe AAC media poll was released on July 24, 2018, with the Knights predicted to win AAC East Division. They were also predicted to win the overall AAC championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Preseason, Spring game\nThe 2018 UCF Spring exhibition game was held Saturday April 21 at Spectrum Stadium. The team was informally split into two squads for gameplay, team Black and team Gold. Team officials assigned points to the two squads at their discretion. Dylan Barnas kicked a 31-yard field goal as time expired for a final score of 17-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at UConn\nThe UCF Knights, ranked 21st in the preseason AP Poll, opened the season on the road on Thursday night against division rival UConn, a matchup once briefly known as the Civil Conflict. It was Josh Heupel's first game as head coach, and going into the game UCF held the longest active winning streak in the nation, at 13 games. The Knights routed the Huskies 56\u201317. Quarterback McKenzie Milton threw for 346 yards and tied a career best with five touchdown passes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at UConn\nThe start of the game was marred after Knights defensive back Aaron Robinson was injured on the opening kickoff and removed by ambulance. Robinson spent the night in the hospital diagnosed with a concussion. Milton was rested in the fourth quarter after building a 49\u201310 lead. Backup quarterback Darriel Mack Jr. came in the game and broke off a 70-yard touchdown run, the longest play of the night. UCF extended their nation's best winning streak to 14 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at UConn\nThe Knights defense forced three turnovers, including a key interception at their own 10-yard line to snuff out a potential scoring drive by the Huskies just before halftime. The Knights also forced a turnover on downs, but ultimately received criticism for poor tackling. The victory was the Knight's 6th consecutive away game victory, tying a school record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, South Carolina State\nThe UCF Knights shutout South Carolina State 38\u20130 to extend the nation's longest winning streak to 15 games. Quarterback McKenzie Milton got off to a shaky start, throwing three interceptions in the first half. Milton managed to throw for 243 yards and one touchdown pass in the victory. The UCF rushing attack were the stars of the game, with 316 combined yards and four touchdowns. The Knights defense held the Bulldogs to only 80 yards passing, made four sacks and three interceptions. The Bulldogs never entered the red zone. It was UCF's third straight home-opener victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Florida Atlantic\nUCF began the game by forcing an interception on the fourth play of the game, and quickly went up 14\u20130. The Owls then countered with 17 straight points, spurred on by a successful fake punt. The Knights offense went cold in the second quarter, with two three-and-outs, followed by a turnover on downs. A quick five-play, 78-yard drive in the final two minutes of the half, however, gave UCF a four point lead at halftime (21\u201317).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Florida Atlantic\nWhere UCF's offense may have been unremarkable in the second quarter, the Knights pulled away in the second half, opening with back-to-back touchdowns and led by multiple scores the rest of the night. McKenzie Milton led the Knights with 306 yards passing, 81 yards rushing, and 6 total touchdowns. The Owls were led by Devin Singletary who rushed for 131 yards and 3 scores. UCF won the turnover battle 3\u20130. It was the third consecutive game that UCF forced three turnovers, and extended the nation's longest winning streak to 16 games, as well as the nation's longest streak of scoring 30 or more points to sixteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nMcKenzie Milton threw four touchdown passes, and ran for two more touchdowns, as the Knights routed Pitt 45\u201314. UCF jumped out to a 14\u20130 lead in the first quarter after a Milton touchdown run and a touchdown reception by Gabriel Davis. But Pitt managed to put points on the board after Rafael Araujo-Lopes scored an 86-yard punt return touchdown. UCF took command in the second quarter scoring a touchdown on the following drive. Then the UCF defense thwarted a strong Pitt offensive drive when Richie Grant intercepted Kenny Pickett at the 8 yard line, snuffing out a potential Panthers score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nNine plays later, UCF was back in the endzone with a touchdown pass to Michael Colubiale. After a Pitt three-and-out, UCF drove for a field goal in the closing seconds of the second quarter. The Knights took a 31\u20137 lead into halftime. Pitt received the ball to start the third quarter, but went three-and-out and were forced to punt. Two plays later, Milton connected to Adrian Killins Jr. for a 71-yard touchdown pass, and a commanding 38\u20137 lead. Milton managed to lead one additional scoring drive before being rested for the remainder of the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nPitt's offense finally scored a touchdown with 4:46 remaining in regulation to make the final score 45\u201314. Following the game, UCF crept up one spot in both the AP and Coaches' poll to #12 and #13, respectively. The Knights extended their winning streak, and their streak of scoring 30+ points to 17 games. The win was also their 10th consecutive home victory, one short of the school record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, SMU\nThe UCF Knights won their 18th consecutive game, extending the nation's longest active winning streak, and tied a school record with their 11th consecutive home game victory. The Knights also extended their streak of scoring 30+ points to 18 games. Quarterback McKenzie Milton threw for 278 yards and two touchdowns, rushed for 17 yards, but suffered a scare late in the second quarter when he was hit with a hard tackle after a 9-yard scramble. SMU received the opening kickoff, and drove 62 yards for a field goal. The Knights then scored 21 unanswered points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, SMU\nAdrian Killins Jr. scored a 15-yard touchdown run for the Knights' first points. Then on the ensuing kickoff, Mustangs returner James Proche fumbled away the ball at the 18 yard line. Three plays later, Milton threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to Dredrick Snelson and a 14\u20133 lead. On their next drive, Otis Anderson's 4-yard touchdown run made the score 21\u20133 at the end of the first quarter. SMU punted on their next two drives, then turned the ball over on downs at the UCF 27 yard line. Milton threw an interception, which led to an SMU touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, SMU\nThe Knights managed to put together two long field goal drives, and despite Milton sitting out several plays late in the second quarter, the Knights took a 27\u201310 lead into halftime. Milton was back in at quarterback in the third quarter, and led the Knights on an 11-play, 88-yard drive, capped off by a dramatic 1-yard touchdown run by defensive lineman Trysten Hill. Facing a 4th & Goal at the 1 yard line, the Knights put Hill in as running back, and he blasted through the line for his first career touchdown. Leading 34\u201313 entering the fourth quarter, the Knights tacked on two more touchdowns for a final score of 48\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, SMU\nHead coach Josh Heupel set a school record by posting the best win/loss record by a coach in his first season after five games. At 5\u20130, Heupel's team bested Don Jonas's 1979 team which started 4\u20130 in Division III then lost its fifth ever game. In addition, the Knights found themselves ranked in the top ten for the first time during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at Memphis\nThe UCF Knights won their 19th consecutive game, extending the nation's longest winning streak, and broke a school record with their 7th straight away game victory. With their sixth win of the season, they guaranteed themselves a winning regular season, and became bowl-eligible. The Knights beat conference foe Memphis, rallying from a 16-point deficit, on a cool, rainy afternoon at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee. The Tigers offense, behind running back Darrell Henderson dominated the first half of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at Memphis\nHenderson would rush for 199 yards and one touchdown, and the Knights defense had little answer in the first half. Memphis jumped out to a 17\u20137 lead in the first quarter. Brady White had an 11-yard touchdown run, then later Henderson broke free for a 25-yard touchdown as time expired in the first quarter. UCF received a kickoff to begin the second quarter. Adrian Killins Jr. returned the kick 44 yards to near midfield. However, UCF later went for it on a 4th & 2 at the Memphis 43.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0012-0002", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at Memphis\nMcKenzie Milton's pass to Otis Anderson fell incomplete, turning the ball over on downs. Memphis subsequently drove seven plays for a field goal, building a 20\u20137 lead. UCF received the kickoff for a touchback. On their first play from scrimmage, McKenzie Milton threw deep to Gabriel Davis, who turned it into a 75-yard touchdown pass. After another Memphis field goal drive, the score was 23\u201314 in favor of the Tigers. After forcing UCF into a 3-and-out, the Tigers went on a 4-play, 66 yard touchdown drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0012-0003", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at Memphis\nDarrell Henderson blasted the defense for runs of 31 yards and 14 yards, setting up Tony Pollard's 19-yard touchdown run. Memphis now led 30\u201314, UCF's largest deficit during the winning streak. In the closing two minutes, the Knights drove to the Memphis 27 yard line, and Matthew Wright kicked a 44-yard field goal as time expired. Memphis led 30\u201317 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at Memphis\nThe second half turned into a slug fest, as heavy rains began to pelt the stadium. The UCF defense stepped up their efforts, and forced Memphis into three straight punts to start the second half. However, the UCF offense was unable to yet capitalize. Twice they got into Memphis territory, but both times they were forced to punt. Late in the third quarter, UCF started their drive at their own 20 yard line. Facing a 3rd & 9, Milton scrambled to the 29 yard line, tackled about one yard short of a first down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at Memphis\nStill trailing by two scores, UCF decided to go for it on 4th down. Taj McGowan blasted through the line for a first down, then broke free for a shocking 71-yard touchdown run. Memphis fumbled away the ball on the next drive, only to see UCF fumble it right back to them. The Tigers marched down the field to the UCF 21, aided by two UCF 15-yard penalties. At the 23 yard line, Kedarian Jones fumbled away the ball, and UCF recovered. Trailing 30\u201324, Milton drove the Knights 74 yards for a go-ahead touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at Memphis\nAt the 7 yard line with 12:14 remaining in regulation, Milton scrambled to the endzone, was hit by a defender, flipped into the air, but crossed the plane for the score. Leading now 31\u201330, the Knights defense stiffened. With one minute left in the game, UCF punted, and pinned the Tigers back at their own 15 yard line. Brady White quickly drove the Tigers to the UCF 40 yard line. With 18 seconds left in regulation, White under pressure, rolled out to his left, completing a pass to Tony Pollard to the UCF 31 yard line. Pollard was tackled in-bounds, and the clock ran out. UCF held on to win, by the score of 31\u201330, shutting out the Tigers in the second half, and improving their record against Memphis to 12\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at East Carolina\nThe UCF coaching staff created a stir with an unexpected game-time decision to bench quarterback McKenzie Milton for an undisclosed injury. Back-up Darriel Mack Jr. started at quarterback, and led the Knights to a 37\u201310 win, their 20th consecutive victory. The first quarter saw the Knights offense sputter, punting on their first three drives. East Carolina managed a field goal, and a 3\u20130 lead at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, UCF scored 20 unanswered points. Two field goals by Matthew Wright gave UCF a 6\u20133 lead with 9:44 to go in the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at East Carolina\nOn their next drive at the ECU 42 yard line, Mack lateraled the ball to Quadry Jones who threw a 42-yard touchdown pass to a wide open Adrian Killins Jr. ECU fumbled away the ball near midfield, and Mack led UCF on a 10-play drive capped off by a 7-yard touchdown on a quarterback run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at East Carolina\nIn the third quarter, East Carolina went on a 10-play, 86-yard drive resulting in a 29-yard touchdown pass from Holton Ahlers to Trevon Brown to trim the lead to 20\u201310. After another UCF field goal, the score was 23-10. As time expired in the third quarter, Knights punter Mac Loudermilk pinned the Pirates back inside their own 1 yard line. However, the Pirates drove 98 yards to the UCF 1 yard line. Facing a 3rd & Goal at the 1, Holton Ahlers' jump pass attempt resulted in a fumble. Nate Evans recovered the ball and ran 94 yards for a UCF touchdown. With just over six minutes left in regulation, Greg McCrae tacked on a 74-yard breakaway touchdown run to make the final score 37\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at East Carolina\nMack had only 12 completions for 69 yards, but led the team in rushing with 120 yards and one touchdown. It was the school record-extending 8th consecutive road game victory, and 20th consecutive game scoring 30 or more points - now the fifth longest streak in FBS history. The Knights remained 10th in the AP Poll for the third straight week, but slipped from 9th to 10th in the Coaches Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at East Carolina\nDuring their bye week on October 27, losses by a number of teams inside the top 25 helped the Knights elevate to 9th in both the AP Poll and Coaches poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Temple\nUCF extended their winning streak to 21 games, defeating division foe Temple by the score of 52\u201340 on the Thursday night space-themed game. Going into the game, the Knights were ranked 12th in the initial CFP ranking. The game turned into a high-scoring affair, with 1,300 total yards of offense. Temple was arguably the stronger team in the first half, as Owls quarterback Anthony Russo threw for 277 yards and three touchdown, and rushed for one touchdown before halftime. The Owls got on the board first with a 41-yard field goal by Will Mobley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Temple\nThe Owls then blocked a UCF field goal attempt. The Knights scored touchdowns on their next two drives, while the Owls scored on their next four drives (three touchdowns, one field goal). The Owls held a ten-point lead at one point during the second quarter, with the highlight being a 70-yard touchdown pass to Randle Jones. The Knights took a 28\u201327 lead with less than two minutes left in the half. However, Temple drove 64 yards in 1:25 for another touchdown, and a 34\u201328 halftime lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Temple\nAfter the explosive first half by the Owls, the Knights defense would stiffen in the second half. The Knights would allow only six points in the second half, forced two turnovers, and managed to take control of the game. To open the third quarter, McKenzie Milton drove the Knights 66 yards in only four plays. Greg McCrae ran for a 32-yard touchdown, and a 35\u201334 UCF lead. Anthony Russo was intercepted with an over-the-shoulder diving catch by Knights defender Nevelle Clarke, for the game's first turnover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Temple\nThough the Knights were held to a 3-and-out, they would score on their next drive, a 19-yard touchdown pass to Michael Colubiale. Trailing 42\u201334, Temple drove ten plays to the UCF 12 yard line. Facing 3rd down & 4, the Owls had back-to-back false start penalties, then their ensuing field attempt was missed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Temple\nWith just over 13 minutes left in regulation, Temple intercepted McKenzie Milton at the 33 yard line. Russo threw an 8-yard touchdown pass to Ventell Bryant, but Temple's game-tying two-point conversion attempt was stuffed a half yard short of the goal line. UCF maintained the lead 42\u201340 with 9:44 to go. A 10-yard touchdown run by Taj McGowan put the Knights up 49\u201340. The Owls drove down the UCF 20 yard line, but facing a 3rd & 10, Trysten Hill sacked Anthony Russo for a 10-yard loss, UCF's first sack of the night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Temple\nOn 4th & 20 at the 30 yard line, Russo's pass attempt the endzone was too high, and the Owls turned the ball over on downs. UCF tacked on a field goal for a 52\u201340 lead. Temple got the ball back with 1:36 left, but Russo was sacked again, and then intercepted, which clinched the game for the Knights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Temple\nThe victory, coupled with a loss by Houston two days later, gave UCF the lead in most intra-conference game wins in AAC history (since 2013). UCF has compiled a 32\u201313 record in AAC play, in addition to a 1\u20130 record in the AAC Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Navy\nQuarterback McKenzie Milton threw for 200 yards, two touchdown passes, rushed for 62 yards, and ran for one touchdown, as UCF defeated Navy. The Knights won their 22nd consecutive game, and 13th consecutive home game. The Knights jumped out to a 21\u20130 lead, with Greg McCrae's 11-yard touchdown run the first points of the day. Navy fumbled away the ball on their next two drives, both leading to Knights touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Navy\nIn the second quarter, the Midshipmen went on a ten-play drive, reaching the UCF 3, but a false start penalty followed by an incompletion resulted in Navy managing only a field goal. UCF looked to tack on another touchdown just before halftime, but with 14 seconds remaining, running back Taj McGowan fumbled away the ball at the Navy 13 yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Navy\nTrailing 21\u20133, Navy received the second half kickoff, and drove 75 yards in 11 plays for a touchdown. UCF answered on the next drive, with their own 75-yard drive, capped off by Milton's 1-yard touchdown run. At the start of the fourth quarter, Mike Martin's 14-yard touchdown run reduced the deficit to 28\u201317. UCF put the game mostly out of reach as Milton threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Dredrick Snelson with 11:28 left in regulation. The Knights forced a Navy punt, then proceeded to run the clock down to 6 minutes. Mac Loudermilk's punt was short, however, giving Navy the ball at the own 49 yard line. Trailing 35\u201317, Navy scored a touchdown with 3:34 to go, but failed to recover the ensuing onside kick attempt. UCF successfully ran out the clock, and secured the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Navy\nThe Knights defense held Navy quarterback Zach Abey to 0 passing yards on only 2 attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nUCF hosted Cincinnati in prime time on Saturday Night Football on ABC. The day started out with UCF hosting College Gameday at the UCF campus for the first time in program history. It was UCF's second appearance on Gameday (they were also the visiting team at South Carolina on September 1, 2005), and Cincinnati's first-ever appearance. The American Athletic Conference East Division title was at stake for both teams \u2014 UCF would clinch the division with a victory, and Cincinnati with a win would have a chance to clinch the division in the following week. The Knights routed the Bearcats, as quarterback McKenzie Milton threw for 268 yards, three touchdown passes, and ran for one touchdown. The Knights extended their winning streak to 23 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 808]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nCincinnati received the opening kickoff. The Bearcats suffered two false start penalties before running a single play, as crowd noise was already a factor. They were forced to punt, pinning the Knights back at their own 7 yard line. On their first play from scrimmage, Malik Clements sacked McKenzie Milton causing a fumble. Kimoni Fitz recovered the ball in the endzone for a Cincinnati touchdown. The extra point was missed, and the Bearcats led 6\u20130. The Knights went 3-and-out on their next possession, with Cincinnati's defense sacking Milton for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nThe Bearcats could not capitalize, however, as Cole Smith missed an ensuring 38-yard goal attempt. The Knights offense finally got revved up, as Milton completed two straight passes to Dredrick Snelson (15 and 28 yards), then to Greg McCrae (27 yards). That set up Milton's 3-yard quarterback keeper for a touchdown and a 7\u20136 lead. The Bearcats drove 50 yards in ten plays to the UCF 24 yard line. With seconds left in the first quarter, Cole Smith's 41-yard field goal attempt was blocked, and recovered by Brandon Moore. Moore ran back the ball 53 yard to the Cincinnati 22 yard line. Three plays later, facing 3rd & 5, Adrian Killins Jr. caught a diving 17-yard touchdown pass from Milton for a 14\u20136 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nUCF added another touchdown in the second quarter, stretching their lead to 21\u20136. In the final minutes of the half, the Bearcats went on a 15-play drive reaching as far as the UCF 12 yard line. Quarterback Desmond Ridder was sacked by Titus Davis for a loss of 2, then sacked again by Davis, this time fumbling. The Knights recovered, and took a knee to end the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nThe second half belonged to the Knights. Cincinnati committed two turnovers, and a turnover on downs, while the Knights added two more touchdowns, as well as a field goal. The Bearcats finally scored an offensive touchdown with just over 9 minutes remaining in regulation. The Knights won by the score of 38\u201313, and clinched the AAC east division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at South Florida\nUCF faced South Florida in the War on I-4 rivalry. The Knights defeated the Bulls 38\u201310, however, the game was marred by the devastating, season-ending injury to starting quarterback McKenzie Milton. It was the Knights second straight win in the rivalry, and their second win at Tampa. The Knights extended their active winning streak to 24 games, their away game winning streak to nine games, and tied an NCAA record with their 24th consecutive game scoring 30+ points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at South Florida\nThe first quarter opened with punts by both teams, followed by interceptions by both teams. Nick Roberts of the Bulls picked off McKenzie Milton at the UCF 30, and returned the ball to the 12. The Knights defense stiffened, and the Bulls went for it on a 4th & 1 at the 3 yard line. Jordan Cronkrite was stuffed for no gain, and the Bulls turned the ball over on downs. Milton led the Knights on a 97-yard drive, including a 38-yard pass to Gabriel Davis, following a 14-yard touchdown pass to Davis, and a 7\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at South Florida\nEarly in the second quarter, the Bulls drove to the UCF 35, and again went for it on a 4th down. For the second time, Jordan Cronkrite was tackled for no gain, and again the Bulls turned the ball over on downs. Six plays later, facing a 3rd & 7 at the USF 30, McKenzie Milton scrambled to the right and was upended after a diving tackle by Mazzi Wilkins. Milton suffered a \"traumatic\" knee injury, and was carted off the field and brought to Tampa General Hospital for surgery. After a lengthy delay, the game resumed with Matthew Wright kicking a 42-yard field goal for a 10\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, at South Florida\nDarriel Mack Jr. took over at quarterback, and despite the pall cast over the game, the Knights rallied behind him to soundly defeat the Bulls. Mack threw for 81 yards in substitute, but it was the running game and the defense that took over in the second half. Greg McCrae rushed 181 yards on 16 carries, and three touchdowns. The Knights ended with 391 yard rushing, with Taj McGowan adding a touchdown in the fourth quarter. The defense held the Bulls to negative 8 yards of offense in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, American Conference Championship\nUCF hosted Memphis in the AAC Championship Game. This was the second consecutive years the Knights hosted the Tigers in the conference championship game, and fourth meeting between the two schools in the past two seasons. With starting quarterback McKenzie Milton out for the season, the Knights rallied from a 17-point halftime deficit behind back-up quarterback Darriel Mack Jr. and won the conference championship for the second year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, American Conference Championship\nUCF won the coin toss and elected to defer to the second half. On the fourth play of the game, Tigers running back Darrell Henderson broke free for a 62-yard touchdown run, and a quick 7\u20130 lead for Memphis. Knights quarterback Darriel Mack Jr. then fumbled away the ball at the UCF 27, leading to Henderson's second touchdown. The Knights finally got on the board, going 65 yards in 7 plays, with a 14-yard touchdown run by Greg McCrae. The Memphis rushing attack struck again quickly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0034-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, American Conference Championship\nFacing 3rd & 4 at their own 30 yard line, Patrick Taylor Jr. broke free for a 70-yard touchdown, and 21\u20137 lead. The miscues for the Knights continued, as Mack was sacked and fumbled, leading to a Tigers field goal and a shocking 24\u20137 lead at the end of the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, American Conference Championship\nAs the second quarter began, the Knights were driving into Tigers territory. A 20-yard completion from Mack to Gabriel Davis sparked the drive, and UCF eventually reached the red zone. Facing 3rd & Goal at the 6, Mack ran up the middle for an apparent touchdown, but the ball was fumbled and bouncing live into the endzone, dangerously close to going out-of-bounds. Michael Colubiale fell on the ball and recovered it for the UCF touchdown. Darrell Henderson continued to punish the Knights defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, American Conference Championship\nOn the second play of the next drive, he blasted for an 82-yard touchdown run, and a 31\u201314 Tigers lead. With under 4 minutes left in the half, a Memphis punt set UCF deep at their own 6 yard line. Mack threw a 44-yard pass to Gabriel Davis, then Greg McCrae broke free for a 47-yard run all the way to the 3 yard line. Mack's 4 yard touchdown pass to Jake Hescock made the score 31\u201321. The Knights forced a 3-and-out and Memphis punted with 1:50 remaining. But Otis Anderson muffed the punt, and Memphis recovered. With 21 seconds left in the half, Darrell Henderson connected with Sean Dykes for a 4-yard touchdown pass, and the Tigers led 38\u201321 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, American Conference Championship\nUCF received the ball to start the third quarter, and proceeded to dominate the second half. The Knights would score five touchdowns on five consecutive drives, erasing a 17-point deficit, and held the Tigers to only three points in the second half. Darrell Henderson was held to only 3 yards in the second half, while Darriel Mack Jr. threw for a touchdown, and ran for four more. Mack sparked the rally with a 54-yard touchdown to a wide-open Otis Anderson, who ran untouched to the endzone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, American Conference Championship\nLater, Memphis managed to drive to the UCF 2 yard line, but Brady White's pass to the endzone fell incomplete off the fingertips of Damonte Coxie as he hit the ground. The Tigers settled for a field goal, and clung to a 41\u201335 lead. The Knights took their first lead of the game (42\u201341) with a touchdown in the opening seconds of the fourth quarter. With 9:26 remaining, Memphis kicker Riley Patterson missed a 36-yard field goal attempt, and the Knights held their lead. UCF iced the game with two more touchdown, and an interception in the endzone with 33 seconds to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, American Conference Championship\nQuarterback Darriel Mack Jr., in only his second start for the Knights, finished with 348 yard passing, 1 touchdown pass, 59 yards rushing, and 4 rushing touchdowns, to claim the game's MVP honors. The Knights extended their winning streak to 25 games, and set a new NCAA Division I FBS record with their 25th consecutive game scoring 30 or more points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, vs. LSU (Fiesta Bowl)\nUCF's 25-game win streak came to a halt with a 40\u201332 loss against LSU. The Tigers dominated time of possession (44:31) and racked up 555 yards of offense. The Knights offense was held to a season-low 250 total yards. Despite the loss, the Knights extended their NCAA Division I FBS record with their 26th consecutive game scoring 30 or more points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, vs. LSU (Fiesta Bowl)\nLSU won the coin toss and elected to receive. Clyde Edwards-Helaire took the opening kickoff back 77 yards all the way to the UCF 16 yard line. The Knights defense, however, stiffened, and kept the Tigers out of the endzone. Cole Tracy kicked a 24-yard field goal for the first points of the game. On their first drive, Darriel Mack Jr. led the Knights on a 6-play, 69-yard drive. A 25-yard touchdown run by Greg McCrae put the Knights up 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0039-0001", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, vs. LSU (Fiesta Bowl)\nLSU drove to the Knights 15 yard line, but quarterback Joe Burrow was intercepted by Brandon Moore at the 7 yard line. Moore ran the ball back 93 yards for the touchdown, and a 14\u20133 Knights lead. During the return, defensive lineman Joey Connors made a legal blindside block on Burrow, sending him to the ground, but he was able to recover. Nate Evans drew a penalty, however, for taunting Burrow after the play, and it was assessed on the kickoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, vs. LSU (Fiesta Bowl)\nOn the next drive, LSU faced a 3rd down & 12 at the UCF 47 yard line. Kyle Gibson sacked quarterback Joe Burrow for a 6-yard loss, but Knights defender Randy Charlton was subsequently flagged for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after spiking the ball. The penalty proved costly as it gave LSU new life, and was a turning point in the game. The Tigers were awarded 15 yards and a first down. Six plays later they were in the endzone for a touchdown. Driving across midfield in the closing seconds of the first quarter, quarterback Darriel Mack Jr. was tackled on a run, and fumbled the ball, and LSU recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, vs. LSU (Fiesta Bowl)\nLSU scored touchdowns on their first two possessions of the second quarter, erasing the deficit, and pulling out to a 24\u201314 lead. Meanwhile, the Knights went three-and-out twice, and also turned the ball over on downs in Tigers territory. With under two minutes left before halftime, LSU pinned UCF back at their own 5 yard line. Mack led the Knights on a 10-play, 95-yard drive, capped off by a much-needed score. Facing a 3rd down & 14 at the LSU 32 yard line, Mack threw a touchdown pass to Gabriel Davis at the back of the endzone with 4 seconds left. At halftime, LSU led 24\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, vs. LSU (Fiesta Bowl)\nUCF got the ball to start the second half, but went three-and-out on their first three drives. LSU scored a 32-yard touchdown from Joe Burrow to Ja'Marr Chase, and also kicked a field goal to go up 34\u201321. With 3:56 left in the third quarter, Mack Loudermilk's punt was muffed by Tigers return man Justin Jefferson, and UCF recovered at the 20 yard line. The Knights had to settle for a field goal, however, and kicker Matthew Wright trimmed the score to 34\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283138-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, vs. LSU (Fiesta Bowl)\nLSU tacked on two more field goals in the fourth quarter, and stretched their lead to 40\u201324. With just over four minutes remaining in regulation, the Knights went on a swift 75-yard scoring drive. A 2-yard touchdown run by Taj McGowan, followed by a two-point conversion, made the score 40\u201332 with 2:24 remaining. The Knights attempted an onside kick, but failed to recover. The Knights defense forced a three-and-out, and got one last possession with 35 seconds to go. With 20 seconds left, Mack's pass attempt deflected off of players, and was intercepted by JaCoby Stevens to seal the win for LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283139-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Africa Tour\nThe 2018 UCI Africa Tour is the 14th season of the UCI Africa Tour. The season began on 27 October 2017 with the Tour du Faso and ends on 14 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283139-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Africa Tour\nThe points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Africa Tour cycling jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283139-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Africa Tour\nThroughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers: the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded. The UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283140-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI America Tour\nThe 2018 UCI America Tour is the fourteenth season of the UCI America Tour. The season began on October 23, 2017 with the Vuelta a Guatemala and will end on September 30, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283140-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI America Tour\nThe points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI America Tour cycling jersey. Throughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283140-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI America Tour\nThe UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283141-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Asia Tour\nThe 2018 UCI Asia Tour is the 14th season of the UCI Asia Tour. The season began on 28 October 2017 with the Tour of Hainan and ended 21 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283141-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Asia Tour\nThe points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Asia Tour cycling jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283141-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Asia Tour\nThroughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283141-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Asia Tour\nThe UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283142-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI BMX World Championships\nThe 2018 UCI BMX World Championships was the 23rd edition of the UCI BMX World Championships and took place at the BMX VeloPark in Baku, Azerbaijan from 5 to 9 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283142-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI BMX World Championships\nJust as at the 2017 edition, four medal events were held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283143-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships\nThe 2018 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships were the World Championship for cyclo-cross for the season 2017\u201318. These were held in Valkenburg in the Netherlands on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 February 2018. The championships featured five events; men's races for elite, under-23 and junior riders, and women's races for elite and under-23 riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283144-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Europe Tour\nThe 2018 UCI Europe Tour is the fourteenth season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2018 season began on 25 January 2018 with the Trofeo Porreres, Felanitx, Ses Salines, Campos and will end on 16 October 2018 with the Nationale Sluitingsprijs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283144-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Europe Tour\nFrench rider Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis), who scored 1,124 points in the 2017 edition, is the defending champion from the 2017 UCI Europe Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283144-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Europe Tour\nThroughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283144-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Europe Tour\nThe UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 75]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283144-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Europe Tour, Final standings\nFor the 2018 season, the standings are calculated based upon the UCI World Ranking, with the ranking period being the previous 52 weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283145-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 2018 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships was the annual Junior World Championship for track cycling hold at the World Cycling Centre in Aigle, Switzerland from 15 to 19 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283146-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships\nThe 2018 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships was the 29th edition of the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. It was held from 5 to 9 September 2018 in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. The four-cross competitions were held in Val di Sole, Italy from 5 to 6 July 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283147-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup\nThe 2018 Mercedes-Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup was a series of races in Olympic Cross-Country (XCO), Cross-Country Eliminator (XCE), and Downhill (DHI). Each discipline had an Elite Men and an Elite Women category. There were also under-23 categories in the XCO and junior categories in the DHI. The cross-country series and the downhill series each had seven rounds, some of which were held concurrently.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283147-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup\nThe 2018 series returned to some classic venues, including Fort William, Nov\u00e9 M\u011bsto, and Mont-Sainte-Anne. There was also a race in Stellenbosch, which was the first time a World Cup race had been held in South Africa since 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283148-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Oceania Tour\nThe 2018 UCI Oceania Tour was the 14th season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 17 January 2018 with the New Zealand Cycle Classic and finished on 25 March 2018 with the Continental Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283148-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Oceania Tour\nThroughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded. The UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283149-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships\nThe 2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling with athletes with a physical disability. The Championships took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 22\u201325 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283149-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, The championships\nBrazil hosted the UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships for the first time, at the Rio Olympic Velodrome located at the Barra Olympic and Paralympic Park. The Championship was also the first one to mark points for the ranking that will select the Tokyo Paralympic Games athletes. The velodrome's 250m Siberian pine track is banked to an angleof 12 degrees at its shallowest point and 42 degrees at its steepest point. The capacity is approximately 5,600.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283149-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Track events\n31 events were held in all; 15 for men and women, and a mixed team sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283149-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Track events\nEvents were held in five discipline; match sprint, team sprint, time trial, individual pursuit and scratch race, and across 6 disability classifications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283150-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships\nThe 2018 UCI Road World Championships were held in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the 91st UCI Road World Championships and the third to be held in Austria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283150-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships\nThe World Championships consisted of a total of twelve competitions, one road race, one team time trial and one individual time trial for men and women, as well as one road race and one individual time trial for U23 riders and juniors. The Tour de Suisse organisers were responsible for the operational organisation of the races. The competitions were very demanding: the 265-kilometre men's road race had nine climbs with around 5000 metres of altitude difference. Because of the many climbs, some sprinters did not participate in the World Championships because they saw no prospect of success for themselves. It was the last edition to feature a team time trial for UCI trade teams. From 2019 onwards it will be replaced by a mixed team time trial for national teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 804]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283151-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race\nThe Men's road race of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 30 September 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the 85th edition of the championship, and Slovakia's Peter Sagan was the three times defending champion, a record in the event. 188 riders from 44 nations entered the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283151-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race\nAfter previously winning six medals in the race without taking the gold medal, Spain's Alejandro Valverde took his first world title after a four-rider sprint finish decided the medals. Valverde went clear with a small group of riders on the steep H\u00f6ttinger H\u00f6ll climb, making headway on the descent with France's Romain Bardet and Canadian rider Michael Woods. Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands) joined the trio on the run-in to the finish, but his efforts to do so resulted in him missing out on the medals, behind Bardet (silver) and Woods (bronze).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283151-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race\nValverde's victory was the first for Spain in the event since \u00d3scar Freire won the title in Verona, Italy in 2004. France and Canada also ended long streaks without a medal in the event as Bardet's silver was the first medal for France since Anthony Geslin won the bronze medal in Madrid, Spain in 2005, while Woods won only the second medal for a Canadian male rider in the road race, after Steve Bauer's bronze medal at the 1984 race, also in Spain in Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283151-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race, Course\nThe race started in Kufstein and headed south-west towards Innsbruck with a primarily rolling route, except for a climb of 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) between Fritzens and Gnadenwald \u2013 as had been in the time trial events earlier in the week \u2013 with an average 7.1% gradient and maximum of 14% in places. After 84.2 kilometres (52.3 miles), the riders crossed the finish line for the first time, before starting six laps of a circuit 23.8 kilometres (14.8 miles) in length. The circuit contained a climb of 7.9 kilometres (4.9 miles), at an average gradient of 5.9% but reaching 10% in places, from the outskirts of Innsbruck through Aldrans and Lans towards Igls. After a short period of flat roads, the race descended through Igls back towards Innsbruck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283151-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race, Course\nOn the seventh and final lap, the race continued onto a further loop of just over 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) at H\u00f6tting, with the 2.8-kilometre (1.7\u00a0mi)-long H\u00f6ttinger H\u00f6ll climb towards Gramartboden starting almost immediately. The climb featured an average gradient of 11.5%, with a portion of the climb reaching 28% around two-thirds up. Upon reaching the top, the race descended through Hungerburg back towards rejoining the original circuit with around 3.5 kilometres (2.2 miles) to go and heading towards the finish line in front of the Tyrolean State Theatre. In total, the race featured 4,681 metres (15,358 feet) of climbing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283151-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race, Qualification\nQualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 12 August 2018. The first ten nations in this classification qualified eight riders to start, the next ten nations qualified six riders to start, with the nations ranked 21st to 30th qualifying five riders to start. One rider from each of the next twenty nations was also qualified to start. In addition to this number, any rider within the top 200 of the UCI World Ranking by individuals that was not already qualified, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 66], "content_span": [67, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283151-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race, Qualification, Participating nations\n188 cyclists from 44 nations were entered in the men's road race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 89], "content_span": [90, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283151-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race, Results, Final classification\nOf the race's 188 entrants, 76 riders completed the full distance of 258 kilometres (160 miles).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283152-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's team time trial\nThe Men's team time trial of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 23 September 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the 34th edition of the championship, and the 7th since its reintroduction for trade teams in 2012. German team Team Sunweb were the defending champions, having won in 2017. 22 teams and 132 riders entered the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283152-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's team time trial\nThe race was won for the first time since 2016 by Quick-Step Floors, finishing 18.46 seconds clear of the defending champions, Team Sunweb, while the BMC Racing Team completed the podium, a further 1.09 seconds in arrears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283152-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's team time trial, Course\nThe race consisted of a route 62.4 kilometres (38.8 miles) in length, starting from \u00d6tztal and ending in Innsbruck. The route was primarily rolling, except for a climb of 4.5 kilometres (2.8 miles) between Kematen in Tirol and Axams, with an average 5.5% gradient and maximum of 13% in places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283153-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's time trial\nThe Men's time trial of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 26 September 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the 25th edition of the championship, for which Tom Dumoulin of the Netherlands was the defending champion, having won in 2017. 61 riders from 40 nations entered the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283153-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's time trial\nRohan Dennis became the second Australian male to win the world time trial title \u2013 after Michael Rogers, who won three consecutive titles between 2003 and 2005 \u2013 finishing almost a minute and a half clear of any other rider. The silver medal was more closely contested, with only 0.53 seconds covering the remaining medal-winners; it was settled in favour of defending champion Dumoulin, surpassing Belgium's Victor Campenaerts, the European champion, on the finish line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283153-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's time trial, Course\nThe race consisted of a route 52.1 kilometres (32.4 miles) in length, starting from Rattenberg and ending in Innsbruck. The route was primarily rolling, except for a climb of 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) between Fritzens and Gnadenwald, with an average 7.1% gradient and maximum of 14% in places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283153-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's time trial, Qualification\nAll National Federations were allowed to enter four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283153-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's time trial, Qualification, Participating nations\n61 cyclists from 40 nations were scheduled to take part in the men's time trial. However, five riders \u2013 Eritrea's Mekseb Debesay and Daniel Teklehaimanot, Pakistan's Arsalan Anjum Muhammad and Najeeb Ullah and Eugert Zhupa from Albania \u2013 did not start, therefore reducing the event to 56 competitors from 37 nations. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 90], "content_span": [91, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283153-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's time trial, Final classification\nAll 56 race starters completed the 52.1-kilometre (32.4\u00a0mi)-long course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 74], "content_span": [75, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283154-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's under-23 road race\nThe Men's under-23 road race of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 28 September 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the 23rd edition of the event, for which French rider Beno\u00eet Cosnefroy was the defending champion, having won in 2017. 178 riders from 52 nations entered the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283154-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's under-23 road race\nThe race was won by Switzerland's Marc Hirschi \u2013 becoming the first Swiss rider to win the gold medal \u2013 after he attacked from a small group on the final descent into Innsbruck, and soloed away to a fifteen-second margin of victory. The remaining members of that small group, Bjorg Lambrecht from Belgium and Finland's Jaakko H\u00e4nninen, did battle for the remaining medals, with silver going to Lambrecht and bronze to H\u00e4nninen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283154-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's under-23 road race, Course\nThe race started in Kufstein and headed south-west towards Innsbruck with a primarily rolling route, except for a climb of 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) between Fritzens and Gnadenwald \u2013 as had been in the time trial events earlier in the week \u2013 with an average 7.1% gradient and maximum of 14% in places. After 84.2 kilometres (52.3 miles), the riders crossed the finish line for the first time, before starting four laps of a circuit 23.8 kilometres (14.8 miles) in length.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 68], "content_span": [69, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283154-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's under-23 road race, Course\nThe circuit contained a climb of 7.9 kilometres (4.9 miles), at an average gradient of 5.9% but reaching 10% in places, from the outskirts of Innsbruck through Aldrans and Lans towards Igls. After a short period of flat roads, the race descended through Igls back towards Innsbruck and the finish line in front of the Tyrolean State Theatre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 68], "content_span": [69, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283154-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's under-23 road race, Qualification\nQualification was based mainly on the UCI Under-23 Continental Rankings by nations as of 12 August 2018, with varying number on qualifications depending on the continent. In addition to this number, any rider within the top placings of the continent's elite tour ranking that was not already qualified, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 75], "content_span": [76, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283154-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's under-23 road race, Qualification, Participating nations\n178 cyclists from 52 nations were entered in the men's road race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 98], "content_span": [99, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283154-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's under-23 road race, Final classification\nOf the race's 178 entrants, 90 riders completed the full distance of 179.5 kilometres (111.5 miles).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 82], "content_span": [83, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283155-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's under-23 time trial\nThe Men's under-23 time trial of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 24 September 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the 23rd edition of the event, for which Danish rider Mikkel Bjerg was the defending champion, having won in 2017. 71 riders from 42 nations entered the competition, held over a rolling route 27.7 kilometres (17.2 miles) in length, starting from Wattens and ending in Innsbruck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283155-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's under-23 time trial\nBjerg became the first rider to win a second under-23 world time trial title, finishing 33.47 seconds clear of his closest competitor, Belgium's Brent Van Moer. The podium placings were completed by Bjerg's Danish team-mate Mathias Norsgaard, a further 4.83 seconds behind Van Moer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283155-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's under-23 time trial, Qualification\nAll National Federations were allowed to enter four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 76], "content_span": [77, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283155-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's under-23 time trial, Qualification, Participating nations\n71 cyclists from 42 nations were scheduled to take part in the men's under-23 time trial. However, one rider \u2013 Syria's Tarek Al Moakee \u2013 did not start, therefore reducing the event to 70 competitors from 41 nations. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 99], "content_span": [100, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283155-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's under-23 time trial, Final classification\nAll 70 race starters completed the 27.7-kilometre (17.2\u00a0mi)-long course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 83], "content_span": [84, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283156-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's road race\nThe Women's road race of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 29 September 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the 58th edition of the event, for which Dutch rider Chantal Blaak was the defending champion, having won in 2017. 149 riders from 48 nations entered the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283156-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's road race\nBlaak surrendered the title to her teammate Anna van der Breggen, the reigning Olympic champion, after attacking on the penultimate ascent of the Aldrans\u2013Lans\u2013Igls climb. Having caught the erstwhile leaders a few kilometres later, van der Breggen soloed away from them not long after. Van der Breggen extended her advantage over the remaining 40 kilometres (25 miles) and continued on to her first world championship title with a winning margin of three minutes and forty-two seconds. Australia's Amanda Spratt managed to remain clear from the breakaway to take Australia's second consecutive silver medal, while Italy's Tatiana Guderzo \u2013 the 2009 world champion \u2013 completed the podium, attacking on the final lap from a small group; she finished almost five-and-a-half minutes in arrears of van der Breggen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283156-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's road race, Course\nThe race started in Kufstein and headed south-west towards Innsbruck with a primarily rolling route, except for a climb of 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) between Fritzens and Gnadenwald \u2013 as had been in the time trial events earlier in the week \u2013 with an average 7.1% gradient and maximum of 14% in places. After 84.2 kilometres (52.3 miles), the riders crossed the finish line for the first time, before starting three laps of a circuit 23.8 kilometres (14.8 miles) in length.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283156-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's road race, Course\nThe circuit contained a climb of 7.9 kilometres (4.9 miles), at an average gradient of 5.9% but reaching 10% in places, from the outskirts of Innsbruck through Aldrans and Lans towards Igls. After a short period of flat roads, the race descended through Igls back towards Innsbruck and the finish line in front of the Tyrolean State Theatre. At 155.6 kilometres (96.7 miles), the 2018 women's road race was the longest in the championships' history, surpassing the previous record of 152.8 kilometres (94.9 miles) in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283156-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's road race, Qualification\nQualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 12 August 2018. The first five nations in this classification qualified seven riders to start, the next ten nations qualified six riders to start and the next five nations qualified five riders to start. All other nations had the possibility to send three riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions (for both elite and under-23 riders) were also able to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 68], "content_span": [69, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283156-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's road race, Qualification, Participating nations\n149 cyclists from 48 nations were entered in the women's road race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 91], "content_span": [92, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283156-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's road race, Final classification\nOf the race's 149 entrants, 81 riders completed the full distance of 155.6 kilometres (96.7 miles).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 75], "content_span": [76, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283157-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's team time trial\nThe Women's team time trial of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 23 September 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the fifteenth edition of the championship, and the seventh since its reintroduction for trade teams in 2012. Dutch outfit Team Sunweb were the defending champions, having won in 2017. 12 teams and 72 riders entered the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283157-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's team time trial\nCanyon\u2013SRAM from Germany won the world title for the first time, completing the race at an average speed of 52.544 kilometres per hour (32.649\u00a0mph), 21.9 seconds faster than Dutch team Boels\u2013Dolmans. The bronze medal went to the defending world champions Team Sunweb, 28.67 seconds behind Canyon\u2013SRAM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283157-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's team time trial\nAmongst the winning riders for Canyon\u2013SRAM, Trixi Worrack won a record fifth team time trial world championships, having won four consecutive titles between 2012 and 2015 for Velocio\u2013SRAM and its two previous iterations. Four of the five remaining riders won their first world title \u2013 Alena Amialiusik won her second gold medal \u2013 in a result described as a \"surprise\" by the cycling media, as it was the squad's first team time trial win of 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283157-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's team time trial, Course\nThe race consisted of a route 52.1 kilometres (32.4 miles) in length, starting from \u00d6tztal and ending in Innsbruck. The route was primarily rolling, but also did not include the climb of 4.5 kilometres (2.8 miles) between Kematen in Tirol and Axams, that was part of the men's event later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 67], "content_span": [68, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283158-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's time trial\nThe Women's time trial of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 25 September 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the 25th edition of the event, for which Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten was the defending champion, having won in 2017. 52 riders from 34 nations entered the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283158-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's time trial\nVan Vleuten became the first rider since Judith Arndt in 2012 to defend the world time trial title, finishing almost half a minute clear of her nearest rival. Just as she did in 2017, Anna van der Breggen won the silver medal, while a Dutch clean sweep of the podium placings was completed by the European champion, Ellen van Dijk, a further 56.2 seconds behind van der Breggen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283158-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's time trial, Qualification\nAll National Federations were allowed to enter four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283158-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's time trial, Qualification, Participating nations\n52 cyclists from 34 nations took part in the women's time trial. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 92], "content_span": [93, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283158-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's time trial, Final classification\n51 out of the race's 52 starters completed the 27.7-kilometre (17.2\u00a0mi)-long course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 76], "content_span": [77, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283159-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling in 2018. They took place in the Netherlands at the Omnisport Apeldoorn from 28 February to 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283160-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's 1 km time trial\nThe Men's 1 km time trial competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283161-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's individual pursuit\nThe Men's individual pursuit competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 2 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283161-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's individual pursuit, Results, Qualifying\nThe first two racers will race for gold, the third and fourth fastest rider will race for the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 90], "content_span": [91, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283162-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's keirin\nThe Men's keirin competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 1 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283162-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's keirin, Results, First round\nThe first rider in each heat qualified to the second round, all other riders advanced to the first round repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 79], "content_span": [80, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283162-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's keirin, Results, First round repechage\nThe winner of each heat qualified to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 89], "content_span": [90, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283162-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's keirin, Results, Second round\nThe first three riders in each heat qualify to final 1\u20136, all other riders advance to final 7\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 80], "content_span": [81, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283163-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's madison\nThe Men's madison competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283164-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's omnium\nThe Men's omnium competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283165-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's points race\nThe Men's points race competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 2 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283166-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's scratch\nThe Men's scratch competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 1 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283167-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's sprint\nThe Men's sprint competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 2 and 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283167-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's sprint, Results, Qualifying\nThe top four riders advanced directly to the 1/8 finals; places 5 to 28 advanced to the 1/16 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 78], "content_span": [79, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283167-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's sprint, Results, Quarterfinals\nMatches were extended to a best-of-three format hereon; winners proceeded to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 81], "content_span": [82, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283167-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's sprint, Results, Semifinals\nMatches were extended to a best-of-three format hereon; winners proceeded to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 78], "content_span": [79, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283168-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's team pursuit\nThe Men's team pursuit competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 28 February and 1 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283168-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's team pursuit, Results, First round\nFirst round heats were held as follows:Heat 1: 6th v 7th fastestHeat 2: 5th v 8th fastestHeat 3: 2nd v 3rd fastestHeat 4: 1st v 4th fastest", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 85], "content_span": [86, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283168-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's team pursuit, Results, First round\nThe winners of heats 3 and 4 proceeded to the gold medal race. The remaining six teams were ranked on time, from which the top two proceeded to the bronze medal race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 85], "content_span": [86, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283169-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's team sprint\nThe Men's team sprint competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 28 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283169-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's team sprint, Results, First round\nFirst round heats were held as follows:Heat 1: 4th v 5th fastestHeat 2: 3rd v 6th fastestHeat 3: 2nd v 7th fastestHeat 4: 1st v 8th fastest", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 84], "content_span": [85, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283169-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's team sprint, Results, First round\nThe heat winners were ranked on time, from which the top 2 proceed to the gold medal final and the other 2 proceed to the bronze medal final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 84], "content_span": [85, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283170-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's 500 m time trial\nThe Women's 500 m time trial competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283171-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's individual pursuit\nThe Women's individual pursuit competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283171-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, Results, Qualifying\nThe first two racers race for gold, the third and fourth fastest rider race for the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 92], "content_span": [93, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283172-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's keirin\nThe Women's keirin competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283172-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's keirin, Results, First round\nThe first two riders in each heat qualified to the second round, all other riders advanced to the first round repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 81], "content_span": [82, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283172-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's keirin, Results, First round repechage\nThe first rider in each heat qualified to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 91], "content_span": [92, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283172-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's keirin, Results, Second round\nThe first three riders in each heat qualified to final 1\u20136, all other riders advanced to final 7\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 82], "content_span": [83, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283173-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's madison\nThe Women's madison competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283174-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's omnium\nThe Women's omnium competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 2 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283175-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's points race\nThe Women's points race competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283176-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's scratch\nThe Women's scratch competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 28 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283176-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's scratch, Results\nFirst rider across the line without a net lap loss wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 69], "content_span": [70, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283177-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's sprint\nThe Women's sprint competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 1 and 2 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283177-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's sprint, Results, Qualifying\nThe top four riders advanced directly to the 1/8 finals; places 5 to 28 advanced to the 1/16 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 80], "content_span": [81, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283177-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's sprint, Results, Quarterfinals\nMatches are extended to a best-of-three format hereon; winners proceed to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 83], "content_span": [84, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283177-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's sprint, Results, Semifinals\nMatches were extended to a best-of-three format hereon; winners proceeded to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 80], "content_span": [81, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283178-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's team pursuit\nThe Women's team pursuit competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 28 February and 1 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283178-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's team pursuit, Results, First round\nFirst round heats were held as follows:Heat 1: 6th v 7th fastestHeat 2: 5th v 8th fastestHeat 3: 2nd v 3rd fastestHeat 4: 1st v 4th fastest", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 87], "content_span": [88, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283178-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's team pursuit, Results, First round\nThe winners of heats three and four proceeded to the gold medal race. The remaining six teams were ranked on time, from which the top two proceeded to the bronze medal race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 87], "content_span": [88, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283179-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's team sprint\nThe Women's team sprint competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 28 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283179-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's team sprint, Results, First round\nFirst round heats were held as follows:Heat 1: 4th v 5th fastestHeat 2: 3rd v 6th fastestHeat 3: 2nd v 7th fastestHeat 4: 1st v 8th fastest", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 86], "content_span": [87, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283179-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's team sprint, Results, First round\nThe heat winners were ranked on time, from which the top 2 proceeded to the gold medal final and the other 2 proceeded to the bronze medal final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 86], "content_span": [87, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283180-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Women's World Tour\nThe 2018 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included twenty-four road cycling events throughout the 2018 women's cycling season. It was the third edition of the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2016. The competition began with Strade Bianche on 3 March and concluded with the Tour of Guangxi on 21 October. Anna van der Breggen of the Netherlands was the defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283180-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Women's World Tour\nVan der Breggen, riding for the Boels\u2013Dolmans team, was unable to defend her title, as she finished third in the standings behind compatriots Annemiek van Vleuten (Mitchelton\u2013Scott) and Marianne Vos, who was riding for the WaowDeals Pro Cycling squad. Having taken three podium finishes, van Vleuten took the top spot after a strong second half of the season commencing at the women's Grand Tour, the Giro Rosa. Van Vleuten won three of the last four stages, taking the overall victory by over four minutes from her closest competitor, as well as winning the race's points classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283180-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 UCI Women's World Tour\nTwo days later, at La Course by Le Tour de France, van Vleuten took victory on the finish line, surpassing van der Breggen, who had faded over the closing stages. Van Vleuten then took the World Tour jersey for the season, winning the overall at the Holland Ladies Tour, again with three stage victories, ultimately finishing on 1411.86 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283180-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Women's World Tour\nVos finished 16.98 points behind in second place, with a tally of 1394.88 points. After podium finishes at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda, and the Women's Tour, Vos took her first victory of the season with a stage win at the Giro Rosa, before a second-place finish in RideLondon's Classique race. In the August Scandinavian races, Vos won the Postnord UCI WWT V\u00e5rg\u00e5rda WestSweden road race, before taking a clean sweep of the Ladies Tour of Norway, winning all three stages and the general classification, taking the World Tour lead in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283180-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 UCI Women's World Tour\nVos ended her road season after another second-place finish at the GP de Plouay \u2013 Lorient Agglom\u00e9ration, shifting her focus to the cyclo-cross season starting in the following month, losing the lead to van Vleuten in the process. Van der Breggen, with 1323.33 points, led the classification for most of the season, taking four victories by the end of the April, including the season-opening Strade Bianche, and two of the three Ardennes classics, with only the Amstel Gold Race \u2013 won by team mate Chantal Blaak \u2013 not going to van der Breggen. Van der Breggen skipped the Giro Rosa, and failed to win another individual race on the World Tour, with her only remaining success of the season coming during the Postnord UCI WWT V\u00e5rg\u00e5rda WestSweden team time trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283180-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Women's World Tour\nIn the World Tour's other classifications, Astana rider Sofia Bertizzolo from Italy was the winner of the youth classification for riders under the age of 23. Bertizzolo took four victories in the classification, and finished with 42 points, 12 points ahead of the next closest rider, Liane Lippert of Team Sunweb, a three-time winner during 2018. Boels\u2013Dolmans were the winners of the teams classification, with 4329.99 points, taking eight wins during the season, just as they did in 2017. Mitchelton\u2013Scott finished in second place with 4119.02 points, primarily through the performances of van Vleuten and Amanda Spratt, who finished fourth overall in the individual classification, with five victories. Third place went to Team Sunweb on 3321.99 points, taking three victories during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283180-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Women's World Tour, Teams\nFor the 2018 season the following teams were not listed by the UCI at UCI Women's team level: Colavita/Bianchi, Giusfredi\u2013Bianchi, Lensworld\u2013Kuota, SAS\u2013Macogep, Visit Dallas DNA Pro Cycling and Weber Shimano Ladies Power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283180-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Women's World Tour, Events\nFor the 2018 season, the calendar consisted of 24 races, up from 20 in 2017. All 2017 races returned for the 2018 calendar, with the additions of the Three Days of Bruges\u2013De Panne, the Emakumeen Euskal Bira and the Tour of Guangxi to the calendar. The Ladies Tour of Norway also added a stand-alone team time trial that awarded full points to the rankings, held the day before the main stage race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283180-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Women's World Tour, Points standings\nFor the 2018 season, a new point-scoring system was introduced by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), rewarding the top 40 riders rather than the top 20 as in 2017. Further changes were made to the teams classification, where all point-scoring riders were counted in the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283180-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Women's World Tour, Points standings, Individual\nRiders tied with the same number of points were classified by number of victories, then number of second places, third places, and so on, in World Tour events and stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283180-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Women's World Tour, Points standings, Youth\nThe top three riders in the final results of each World Tour event's young rider classification received points towards the standings. Six points were awarded to first place, four points to second place and two points to third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283180-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI Women's World Tour, Points standings, Team\nTeam rankings were calculated by adding the ranking points of all the riders of a team in the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283181-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI World Championships\nThere are several 2018 UCI World Championships. The International Cycling Union (UCI) holds World Championships every year. For 2018, this includes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283182-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI World Tour\nThe 2018 UCI World Tour was a competition that included thirty-seven road cycling events throughout the 2018 men's cycling season. It was the tenth and final edition of the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2009. The competition began with the opening stage of the Tour Down Under on 16 January and concluded with the final stage of the Tour of Guangxi on 21 October. Belgium's Greg Van Avermaet was the defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283182-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI World Tour, Summary\nVan Avermaet was unable to defend his World Tour title, as he failed to take a single individual win \u2013 he was a part of three team time trial victories for the BMC Racing Team however \u2013 as he finished fifth in the points rankings. The rankings were topped for the first time by British rider Simon Yates, riding for the Mitchelton\u2013Scott team, who amassed 3,072 points over the course of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283182-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 UCI World Tour, Summary\nYates was the last of four riders to take the overall lead of standings during the season; he had ranked highly in the standings earlier in 2018, taking stage victories at Paris\u2013Nice, and the Volta a Catalunya, before a break-through performance at the Giro d'Italia with three stage wins and thirteen days in the race lead; ultimately, Yates cracked in the mountains during the third week and ceded overall victory to compatriot Chris Froome. After another stage win and a second-place overall finish at the Tour de Pologne, Yates won his first Grand Tour at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, taking the race lead definitively after a stage victory on stage fourteen, and the rankings lead when the race concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283182-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI World Tour, Summary\n80 points behind, in second place, was Slovakia's Peter Sagan, riding for Bora\u2013Hansgrohe. Sagan led the standings for most of the season, having recorded consistent top-six finishes during the spring Classic races, with victories at Gent\u2013Wevelgem, and for the first time, Paris\u2013Roubaix. Sagan won three stages at the Tour de France as he won a record-equalling sixth points classification victory, but was unable to win any stages at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, where Yates took the lead. In third place, with 2,609 points, was Alejandro Valverde of Spain, who rode for the Movistar Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283182-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 UCI World Tour, Summary\nValverde held the rankings lead in the spring, winning two general classifications at the Abu Dhabi Tour, and the Volta a Catalunya, in February and March \u2013 winning three stages over those races as well \u2013 before two stage victories and victory in the points classification at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283182-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI World Tour, Summary\nIn the concurrent teams' standings, Quick-Step Floors prevailed with 13,425.97 points, having held the classification lead for three-quarters of the season, and not been headed since late March. The team took 37 victories \u2013 out of a total of 73 wins during all UCI-classified races \u2013 at the World Tour level, including seven overall victories taken by Niki Terpstra (E3 Harelbeke and the Tour of Flanders), Yves Lampaert (Dwars door Vlaanderen), Julian Alaphilippe (La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne and Cl\u00e1sica de San Sebasti\u00e1n), Bob Jungels (Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge), and Elia Viviani (EuroEyes Cyclassics).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283182-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 UCI World Tour, Summary\nThe team also took 13 stage victories at the Grand Tours, with two classification jerseys won by Viviani (points at the Giro d'Italia), and Alaphilippe, who won the polka-dot jersey at the Tour de France. 2017 teams classification winners Team Sky finished second with 10,213 points, with the team winning two of the three Grand Tours; Froome became the seventh rider to win all three Grand Tours with his Giro d'Italia success, while Geraint Thomas won the Tour de France, after success at the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283182-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 UCI World Tour, Summary\nTeam Sky took four other general classification victories: Micha\u0142 Kwiatkowski won Tirreno\u2013Adriatico, and the Tour de Pologne, Egan Bernal won the Tour of California in his first season with the team, while Gianni Moscon won the season-ending Tour of Guangxi. With 9,201 points, Bora\u2013Hansgrohe finished in third place primarily down to Sagan's performances, with further wins to Jay McCarthy (Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race), and Pascal Ackermann at the RideLondon\u2013Surrey Classic. Ackermann and Sam Bennett also took eleven World Tour stage victories between them during the season, with Bennett taking three at a Grand Tour, in the Giro d'Italia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283182-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI World Tour, Final points standings, Individual\nFor riders that had the same number of points, ties in placings were resolved by number of victories, then number of second places, third places, and so on, in World Tour events and stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283182-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UCI World Tour, Final points standings, Team\nFor the team rankings, this was calculated by adding the ranking points of all the riders of a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283183-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins baseball team\nThe 2018 UCLA Bruins baseball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. The team was coached by John Savage and played their home games at Jackie Robinson Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283183-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins baseball team, Previous season\nThe Bruins finished 30\u201327 overall, and 19\u201311 in the conference. During the season, the Bruins were invited and participated in the Dodger Stadium Classic in Los Angeles, California. UCLA defeated Michigan to earn 3rd place. In the postseason, the Bruins were invited and participated in the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, where they lost to San Diego State and Texas in the Long Beach Regional in Long Beach, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283183-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins baseball team, Previous season, MLB Draft Selections\nThe Bruins had six individuals selected in the 2017 MLB draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team\nThe 2018 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bruins were led by first-year head coach Chip Kelly and played their home games at the Rose Bowl. UCLA was a member of the Pac-12 Conference in the South Division. They began the season 0\u20134 for the first time since 1971, and 0\u20135 for the first time since 1943, before finally winning their first game, in dominating fashion, against Cal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team\nHowever, despite failing to improve upon their previous season's output of six wins and seven losses and failing to qualify for a bowl game, the Bruins later defeated the USC Trojans to end a three-game losing streak in their crosstown rivalry. The Bruins finished 3\u20139 overall, their worst record since 1971. They went 3\u20136 in Pac-12 play, finishing fifth in the South Division, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined score of 409 to 295.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Previous season\nThe Bruins began the season at 2\u20130, where the first win was a historic 35-point comeback against Texas A&M in front of 64,635 spectators at home on FOX. At the conclusion of the second win, which was a 56\u201323 rout against Hawaii in front of 50,444 individuals at home on the Pac-12 Network, the Bruins were ranked No. 25 in the AP Poll. However, the Bruins would immediately be unranked after their loss at Memphis, and would have five more losses and four more wins at the conclusion of the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Previous season\nAs a result, Jim Mora was fired, a day after losing to rival USC for the third straight year, for \"not [meeting] expectations\" with the talent recruited. Nevertheless, the Bruins participated in the 2017 Cactus Bowl against Kansas State, but they lost 17\u201335. The Bruins finished with an overall record 6\u20137, and 4\u20135 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Previous season, NFL Draft Selections\nThe Bruins had five individuals selected in the 2018 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days\nThe 2018 Pac-12 media day was July 25, 2018 in Hollywood, California. The Pac-12 media poll was released with the Bruins predicted to finish in fourth place at Pac-12 South division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nAlthough favored by two touchdowns over the Bearcats, the Chip Kelly era at UCLA got off to a disappointing start with the loss vs. Cincinnati. Despite jumping out to an early 10-0 lead after one quarter of play, UCLA was slowed by the Bearcats for most of the remainder of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nThere was some brilliance rushing the ball by freshman running back Kazmeir Allen, who scored a 74-yard touchdown in the 3rd, but the pass game never seemed to click (with only 162 yards in the air and no touchdowns passing,) several receivers dropped critical passes, and the offense struggled for the majority of the game. Additionally, starting quarterback Wilton Speight suffered a back injury in the 2nd quarter and had to be replaced with true freshman Dorian Thompson-Robinson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nA fumble by Thompson-Robinson deep in UCLA's own territory in the 4th quarter led to a costly safety, which ultimately swung the game in favor of Cincy. The \"nail in the coffin\" was perhaps a penalty for 12 men on the field against the Bruin defense, which came on 4th down during a critical goal line stand; this allowed Cincinnati to eventually score a touchdown rather than kick a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nIn all, the UCLA team was too inconsistent on the day and made too many crucial blunders to get the win against a talented Bearcats team that, though initially projected at the beginning of the year to be rather weak, would actually go on to win 10 games. After the game, Coach Kelly said in an interview that he intended to remain positive despite the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, at Colorado\nYet another disappointing Bruins loss led to UCLA equaling their worst start (0-4) since 1971, despite signs of improvement in the 1st half. Another lackluster performance by starting quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson led to many calling for the true freshman to be benched by Coach Kelly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Washington\nUCLA came close to upsetting the #10-ranked Huskies, but ultimately fell short as they started a season winless through 5 games for the first time since 1943.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, at California\nGiving reason for optimism to both players and fans alike, the Bruins finally earned their first victory of the season by manhandling Cal on the road, 37\u20137. Digging in, UCLA's defense was stout, forcing 5 turnovers (on 2 interceptions of Cal quarterback Brandon McIlwain and 3 fumble recoveries, including one that was run back for a touchdown by Keisean Lucier-South) while not surrendering any turnovers on offense themselves. Bruin running back Joshua Kelley also had a tremendous game, continuing his hot streak by scoring 3 touchdowns while rushing for an impressive 157 yards on 30 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, at California\nA Bruin victory at California Memorial Stadium also marked UCLA's first true road win in over two years, dating back to their 17\u201314 triumph over Brigham Young in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, USC\nJoshua Kelley ran for 289 yards and 2 TDs, leading the Bruins to a 34-27 victory. His 289 yards comprised the 3rd-highest single-game tally in UCLA history, and the most rushing yards by a Bruin in a game against their crosstown rival USC. After a back-and-forth game, Kelley scored a 55-yard touchdown with 10:39 remaining in the 4th quarter to give UCLA the lead, which they were able to maintain. With the win, UCLA were able to finally reclaim the rights to the coveted Victory Bell for the first time in four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nThe Bruins had possession of the ball twice in the final 3+1\u20442 minutes of the game, but failed to go ahead or even the score on both drives in a 49\u201342 defeat to Stanford. Cardinal quarterback K. J. Costello threw a career-high five touchdowns, including three to receiver J. J. Arcega-Whiteside. UCLA had scored 15 unanswered points to briefly take the lead in the fourth quarter but ultimately suffered their 11th straight loss to the Cardinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283184-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nSpeight threw for a career-high 466 yards in his final collegiate game, and despite the loss, the Bruins accumulated a season-high 528 yards of total offense. Tight end Caleb Wilson added 184 yards receiving. The Rose Bowl attendance of 38,391 was the Bruins' smallest home crowd since 1997. UCLA finished the season with a 3\u20139 record, their worst since going 2\u20137\u20131 in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283185-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UConn Huskies football team\nThe 2018 UConn Huskies football team represented the University of Connecticut during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the East Division of the American Athletic Conference. They played their home games at Rentschler Field. They were led by head coach Randy Edsall in his second year of his second stint and 14th year overall. They finished the season 1\u201311, 0\u20138 in AAC play to finish in last in the East Division. They set the single-season FBS record for most yards and most points allowed in a single season. This included giving up 50.42 points per game (breaking Louisiana-Lafayette\u2019s record of 50.27 in 1997) and allowed 617.4 yards per game (breaking Kansas' record of 560.83 in 2015).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283185-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UConn Huskies football team, Previous season\nThe Huskies finished the 2017 season 3\u20139, 2\u20136 in AAC play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283185-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UConn Huskies football team, Preseason, AAC media poll\nThe AAC media poll was released on July 24, 2018, with the Huskies predicted to finish fifth in the AAC East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283185-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UConn Huskies football team, Game summaries, UCF\nat Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field \u2022 East Hartford, Connecticut", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283185-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UConn Huskies football team, Game summaries, Rhode Island\nat Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field \u2022 East Hartford, Connecticut", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283185-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UConn Huskies football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nat Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field \u2022 East Hartford, Connecticut", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283185-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UConn Huskies football team, Game summaries, UMass\nat Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field \u2022 East Hartford, Connecticut", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283185-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UConn Huskies football team, Game summaries, at Tulsa\nat Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium \u2022 Tulsa, Oklahoma", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283185-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UConn Huskies football team, Game summaries, SMU\nat Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field \u2022 East Hartford, Connecticut", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283185-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UConn Huskies football team, Game summaries, Temple\nat Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field \u2022 East Hartford, Connecticut", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283186-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships\nThe 2018 UEC European Track Championships was the ninth edition of the elite UEC European Track Championships in track cycling and took place at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow, Scotland, between 2 and 7 August 2018. The event was organised by the European Cycling Union. All European champions were awarded the UEC European Champion jersey which may be worn by the champion throughout the year when competing in the same event at other competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283186-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships\nThe Championships formed part of both the inaugural European Cycling Championships bringing together track, road, mountain bike and BMX events, and the inaugural multi-sport 2018 European Championships bringing together seven different sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283186-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships\nThe 12 Olympic events (sprint, team sprint, team pursuit, keirin, madison and omnium for men and women), as well as 10 other events are on the program for these European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283186-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships\nThe Netherlands led the medal table with five golds, while Germany won the most medals with 11. Hosts Great Britain came second in both golds and medals. Russian sprinter Daria Shmeleva was the most successful individual athlete with three gold medals, while Great Britain's Laura Kenny set a new record for career European Championship titles with her eleventh and twelfth gold medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283187-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships (under-23 & junior)\nThe 2018 UEC European Track Championships (under-23 & junior) is the 18th continental championships for European under-23 and junior track cyclists, and the 9th since the event was renamed following the reorganisation of European track cycling in 2010. The event took place at the World Cycling Centre in Aigle, Switzerland from 21 to 26 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283188-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's 1 km time trial\nThe men's 1 km time trial competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 4 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283189-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's elimination race\nThe men's elimination race competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 7 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283190-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's individual pursuit\nThe men's individual pursuit competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 5 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283190-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's individual pursuit, Results, Qualifying\nThe first two racers race for gold, the third and fourth fastest rider race for the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 85], "content_span": [86, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283191-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's keirin\nThe men's keirin competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 7 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283191-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's keirin, Results, First round\nThe first two riders in each heat qualified to the second round, all other riders advanced to the first round repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 74], "content_span": [75, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283191-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's keirin, Results, First round repechage\nThe first rider in each heat qualified to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 84], "content_span": [85, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283191-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's keirin, Results, Second round\nThe first three riders in each heat qualified to final 1\u20136, all other riders advanced to final 7\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283192-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's madison\nThe men's madison competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 6 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283192-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's madison, Results, Qualifying\nIn each heat, last two teams are not qualified for the final. 100 laps (25km) with 10 sprints were raced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283193-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's omnium\nThe men's omnium competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 4 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283193-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's omnium, Results, Final standings\nThe final ranking is given by the sum of the points obtained in the 4 specialties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 78], "content_span": [79, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283194-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's points race\nThe men's points race competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 5 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283195-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's scratch\nThe men's scratch competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 3 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283195-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's scratch, Results\nFirst rider across the line without a net lap loss wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283196-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's sprint\nThe men's sprint competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 5 and 6 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283196-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's sprint, Results, Qualifying\nThe top four riders advanced directly to the 1/8 finals; places 5 to 28 advanced to the 1/16 finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283196-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's sprint, Results, Quarterfinals\nMatches are extended to a best-of-three format hereon; winners proceed to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 76], "content_span": [77, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283196-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's sprint, Results, Semifinals\nWinners proceed to the gold medal final; losers proceed to the bronze medal final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283197-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's team pursuit\nThe men's team pursuit competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 2 and 3 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283197-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's team pursuit, Results, First round\nFirst round heats were held as follows:Heat 1: 6th v 7th fastestHeat 2: 5th v 8th fastestHeat 3: 2nd v 3rd fastestHeat 4: 1st v 4th fastest", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 80], "content_span": [81, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283197-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's team pursuit, Results, First round\nThe winners of heats 3 and 4 proceeded to the gold medal race. The remaining six teams were ranked on time, from which the top two proceeded to the bronze medal race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 80], "content_span": [81, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283198-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's team sprint\nThe men's team sprint competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 3 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283198-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's team sprint, Results, First round\nFirst round heats were held as follows:Heat 1: 4th v 5th fastestHeat 2: 3rd v 6th fastestHeat 3: 2nd v 7th fastestHeat 4: 1st v 8th fastest", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 79], "content_span": [80, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283198-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Men's team sprint, Results, First round\nThe heat winners were ranked on time, from which the top 2 proceeded to the gold medal final and the other 2 proceeded to the bronze medal final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 79], "content_span": [80, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283199-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's 500 m time trial\nThe women's 500 m time trial competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 6 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283200-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's elimination race\nThe women's elimination race competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 5 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283201-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's individual pursuit\nThe women's individual pursuit competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 4 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283201-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, Results, Qualifying\nThe first two racers race for gold, the third and fourth fastest rider race for the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 87], "content_span": [88, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283202-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's keirin\nThe women's keirin competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 7 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283202-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's keirin, Results, First round\nThe first two riders in each heat qualified to the second round, all other riders advanced to the first round repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 76], "content_span": [77, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283202-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's keirin, Results, First round repechage\nThe first rider in each heat qualified to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 86], "content_span": [87, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283202-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's keirin, Results, Second round\nThe first three riders in each heat qualified to final 1\u20136, all other riders advanced to final 7\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 77], "content_span": [78, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283203-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's madison\nThe women's madison competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 7 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283204-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's omnium\nThe women's omnium competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 6 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283204-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's omnium, Results, Final ranking\nThe final ranking is given by the sum of the points obtained in the 4 specialties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283205-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's points race\nThe women's points race competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 4 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283206-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's scratch\nThe women's scratch competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 3 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283206-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's scratch, Results\nFirst rider across the line without a net lap loss wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283207-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's sprint\nThe women's sprint competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 4 and 5 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283207-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's sprint, Results, Qualifying\nTop 10 riders qualify for 1/8 finals, 11th to 22nd places qualify for 1/16 finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283207-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's sprint, Results, Quarterfinals\nMatches are extended to a best-of-three format hereon; winners proceed to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283207-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's sprint, Results, Semifinals\nWinners proceed to the gold medal final; losers proceed to the bronze medal final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283208-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's team pursuit\nThe women's team pursuit competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 2 and 3 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283208-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's team pursuit, Results, First round\nFirst round heats were held as follows:Heat 1: 6th v 7th fastestHeat 2: 5th v 8th fastestHeat 3: 2nd v 3rd fastestHeat 4: 1st v 4th fastest", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 82], "content_span": [83, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283209-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's team sprint\nThe women's team sprint competition at the 2018 UEC European Track Championships was held on 3 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283209-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's team sprint, Results, First round\nFirst round heats were held as follows:Heat 1: 4th v 5th fastestHeat 2: 3rd v 6th fastestHeat 3: 2nd v 7th fastestHeat 4: 1st v 8th fastest", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 81], "content_span": [82, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283209-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's team sprint, Results, First round\nThe heat winners were ranked on time, from which the top 2 proceeded to the gold medal final and the other 2 proceeded to the bronze medal final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 81], "content_span": [82, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final\nThe 2018 UEFA Champions League Final was the final match of the 2017\u201318 UEFA Champions League, the 63rd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 26th season since it was renamed from the European Cup to the UEFA Champions League. It was played at the NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine on 26 May 2018, between Spanish side and defending champions Real Madrid, who had won the competition in each of the last two seasons, and English side Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final\nAfter Liverpool's Sadio Man\u00e9 cancelled out Karim Benzema's opener for Real Madrid, two goals from man of the match Gareth Bale proved the difference in a 3\u20131 win for Real Madrid, making them the first team to win three back-to-back titles in Champions League era and the first since Bayern Munich defeated Saint-\u00c9tienne in the 1976 European Cup Final; it was additionally their fourth title in five seasons and their 13th European Cup overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final\nThey also earned the right to play the winners of the 2017\u201318 UEFA Europa League, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, in the 2018 UEFA Super Cup and to enter the semi-finals of the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup, losing the former and winning the latter. They also qualified to enter the group stage of the 2018\u201319 UEFA Champions League, but since they already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved was given to the champions of the 2017\u201318 Czech First League, the 11th-ranked association according to next season's access list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Teams\nIn the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup era, since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Venue\nThe NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium was announced as the final venue on 15 September 2016, following the decision of the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Athens, Greece. This was the sixth European Cup/Champions League final hosted at an Eastern European venue following those in 1973 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, the 1983, 1994 and 2007 finals hosted by Athens, Greece, as well as the 2008 final in Moscow, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Venue\nThe Olimpiyskiy Stadium was built in 1923 and it has been renovated three times, most recently in 2011 in preparation for the UEFA Euro 2012 tournament. The stadium was used as a venue in the 1980 Summer Olympics for its football event and the aforementioned European Championship, including the final match, which saw Spain beat Italy by the record-breaking score of 4\u20130 on the way to their third title. Its current capacity is 70,050 and it is used by the Ukraine national football team, Dynamo Kyiv, and major domestic matches like the Ukrainian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Background\nDefending champions Real Madrid reached a record 16th final after a 4\u20133 aggregate win against German side Bayern Munich, knocking them out of the competition for the second consecutive season. This was Real Madrid's third consecutive final, and fourth final in five tournaments with an opportunity to win a record 13th title. Previously they won finals in 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1966, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2014, 2016 and 2017; and lost in 1962, 1964 and 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Background\nThis was also their 20th final in all seasonal UEFA competitions, having also played in two Cup Winners' Cup finals (losing in 1971 and 1983) and two UEFA Cup finals (winning in 1985 and 1986). Real Madrid are only the third team since the competition's rebranding as the Champions League to reach three consecutive finals after A.C. Milan in 1995 and Juventus in 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Background\nThey were the first team in the Champions League era, and the fourth overall, to win three straight finals, a feat only achieved by the Real Madrid side of the 1950s, as they went on to win a record five successive finals, as well as the Ajax and Bayern Munich squads of the 1970s in 1973 and 1976, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Background\nLiverpool reached their eighth final, their first since 2007, after a 7\u20136 aggregate win against Italian side Roma. They had won the final on five occasions (1977, 1978, 1981, 1984 and 2005), and lost twice (1985 and 2007). This was also their 13th final in UEFA seasonal competitions, having played in one Cup Winners' Cup final (losing in 1966) and four UEFA Cup/Europa League finals (winning in 1973, 1976 and 2001; and losing in 2016). Liverpool were the first team since Bayern Munich in 2011\u201312 to reach the final having qualified for the competition through the play-off round. This was also the most recent occasion the final featured an English team (Chelsea). Liverpool were the most recent team to defeat Real Madrid in a European Cup Final, winning 1\u20130 in Paris in 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Background\nBesides the 1981 final, the two teams had played each other four times in the Champions League era. Liverpool won both matches in the 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League round of 16 (1\u20130 away and 4\u20130 at home), while Real Madrid won both matches in the 2014\u201315 UEFA Champions League group stage (3\u20130 away and 1\u20130 at home).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Ambassador\nThe ambassador for the final was former Ukrainian international Andriy Shevchenko, who won the UEFA Champions League with Milan in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Ticketing\nWith a stadium capacity of 63,000 for the final, a total of 40,700 tickets were available to fans and the general public, with the two finalist teams receiving 17,000 tickets each and with 6,700 tickets being available for sale to fans worldwide via UEFA.com from 15 to 22 March 2018 in four price categories: \u20ac450, \u20ac320, \u20ac160, and \u20ac70. The remaining tickets were allocated to the local organising committee, UEFA and national associations, commercial partners and broadcasters, and to serve the corporate hospitality programme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Opening ceremony\nEnglish singer Dua Lipa performed at the opening ceremony preceding the final. Jamaican rapper Sean Paul joined her as a special guest to perform their collaborative song, \"No Lie\". The UEFA Champions League Anthem was performed by Croatian cello duo 2Cellos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Related events\nThe 2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final was held two days earlier, on 24 May 2018, at the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium between Wolfsburg and Lyon, Lyon emerging victorious 4\u20131. This was also the last time that the host city for the men's Champions League final was also automatically assigned the Women's Champions League final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Related events\nThe annual UEFA Champions Festival was held between 24\u201327 May 2018 in the Kyiv city centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Incidents\nIn late May, The New York Times reported that some fans with allocated tickets had returned them after having trouble finding flights to and accommodation in Kyiv. Locals in Kyiv began offering free accommodation for fans affected by cancelled hotel and apartment arrangements. Several charter flights arranged for Liverpool fans were cancelled, leaving fans with tickets stranded and leading to an unsuccessful search for alternative solutions by the club and city government. Other airlines offered flights to Kyiv from airports in Liverpool and Manchester, using assigned slots at Kyiv's airports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Incidents\nOn 24 May, a group of Liverpool fans were attacked in a restaurant by 20 masked hooligans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Officials\nOn 7 May 2018, UEFA announced that Serbian Milorad Ma\u017ei\u0107 would officiate the final. Ma\u017ei\u0107 has been a FIFA referee since 2009, and gained UEFA's elite referee status in 2013. He was joined by his fellow countrymen, with Milovan Risti\u0107 and Dalibor \u0110ur\u0111evi\u0107 as assistant referees, Nenad \u0110oki\u0107 and Danilo Gruji\u0107 as additional assistant referees, and Nemanja Petrovi\u0107 as reserve assistant referee. The fourth official for the final was Frenchman Cl\u00e9ment Turpin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary\nThe match began with Liverpool's kickoff and the team's successive attacks to counter Madrid's slower, possession-based buildup. In the 23rd minute, a low shot by Trent Alexander-Arnold went through a defender's legs and forced a late save by Keylor Navas. Two minutes later, Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah was injured competing for the ball with Sergio Ramos, who had locked Salah's arm resulting in a fall. Due to a dislocated shoulder, Salah was substituted four minutes later for Adam Lallana. Madrid's Dani Carvajal was substituted in the 37th minute with a hamstring injury after an unsuccessful backheel. Minutes later, Karim Benzema appeared to score by finishing a shot started by a Cristiano Ronaldo header. His goal was disallowed however because he was judged to have been in an offside position. The first half ended scoreless, with Madrid dominating possession but Liverpool having more chances to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 968]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary\nThe first chance of the second half fell to Isco, who hit the crossbar. In the 51st minute, Benzema scored the match's first goal by deflecting a throw by Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius back into the net. Liverpool equalised four minutes later with a tap-in by Sadio Man\u00e9, who finished a header by Dejan Lovren after a corner kick by James Milner from the right. Gareth Bale was substituted in for Isco in the 61st minute and scored Madrid's second goal two minutes later, using an acrobatic bicycle kick to finish a cross by Marcelo from the left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary\nLiverpool pressed for a second equalising goal, with a shot by Man\u00e9 that hit the goal post and calls for a penalty for an alleged handball, but were also losing possession to Madrid. Ronaldo had a chance to score his first goal of the match during a counterattack in the 73rd minute, but was tackled by Liverpool defender Andrew Robertson in the penalty box. Bale scored his second goal of the match in the 83rd minute on a 40-yard (37\u00a0m) shot that swerved in front of Karius and went through his hands and into the net. A second chance on goal for Ronaldo in the 93rd minute of play was interrupted by a pitch invader, who was captured by stadium stewards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Details\nThe \"home\" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw, which was held on 13 April 2018, 13:00 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Milovan Risti\u0107 (Serbia)Dalibor \u0110ur\u0111evi\u0107 (Serbia)Fourth official:Cl\u00e9ment Turpin (France)Additional assistant referees:Nenad \u0110oki\u0107 (Serbia)Danilo Gruji\u0107 (Serbia)Reserve assistant referee:Nemanja Petrovi\u0107 (Serbia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match\nReal Madrid became the first team since Bayern Munich in 1974\u201376 to win three consecutive UEFA Champions Leagues or European Cups. The title was Madrid's 13th, another Champions League record, and their fourth in five years. Real Madrid's victory was the fifth consecutive title for a Spanish side in the Champions League, becoming the longest run for the trophy to be held by teams from the same country since English sides won six consecutive titles between 1977 and 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match\nManager Zinedine Zidane became the first to win three consecutive Champions League titles and matched Carlo Ancelotti's record of Champions League era wins. Five days after the final, Zidane announced that he would step down as manager in favour of a \"different voice\". Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player to win the Champions League five times, surpassing the record set by Clarence Seedorf in 2007 and by Andr\u00e9s Iniesta in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match\nGareth Bale became the first substitute to score two goals in a Champions League final and was named man of the match. His first goal received acclaim as one of the best in Champions League history and was compared to Ronaldo's bicycle kick goal against Juventus in the quarter-final and manager Zinedine Zidane's goal in the 2002 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match\nSergio Ramos's tackle on Mohamed Salah received mixed reactions from the press and fans on whether the injury was the result of a deliberate blow or an accident. Egyptian fans responded with anger on social media, including insults that became trending topics on Twitter. A Change.org petition calling on UEFA and FIFA to punish Ramos for the challenge received 400,000 signatures within two days. A separate incident involving Ramos and Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius raised questions after a video showed him allegedly elbowing Karius in the face prior to his first goalkeeping error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match\nUEFA declined to take action against Ramos for the incident with Karius. After an examination, on 4 June 2018, physiatrist Ross Zafonte at the Massachusetts General Hospital said in a statement that Karius suffered a concussion during the match and that, according to him, it was possible the concussion could have affected the player's performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283210-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match\nLiverpool manager J\u00fcrgen Klopp lost his sixth of seven major finals, including Champions League and league cups. After the match, Loris Karius tearfully apologised to Liverpool supporters who remained in the stands and stated that his mistakes \"lost the team the final\". After the match, Karius received online death threats and hate messages directed at him and his family. He would move to Turkish club Be\u015fikta\u015f on loan the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final\nThe 2018 UEFA Europa League Final was the final match of the 2017\u201318 UEFA Europa League, the 47th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 9th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. It was played at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in D\u00e9cines-Charpieu, Lyon, France on 16 May 2018, between French side Marseille and Spanish side Atl\u00e9tico Madrid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final\nAtl\u00e9tico Madrid won the match 3\u20130 for their third Europa League title. As winners, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid earned the right to play against the winners of the 2017\u201318 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, in the 2018 UEFA Super Cup. They also qualified to enter the group stage of the 2018\u201319 UEFA Champions League, but since they already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved was given to the third-placed team of the 2017\u201318 Ligue 1, Lyon, as Ligue 1 was the 5th-ranked association according to next season's access list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Teams\nIn the following table, finals until 2009 were in the UEFA Cup era, since 2010 were in the UEFA Europa League era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Venue\nThe Parc Olympique Lyonnais was announced as the final venue on 9 December 2016, following the decision of the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Background\nMarseille reached their third final after a 3\u20132 aggregate win against Austrian side Red Bull Salzburg, clinched after extra time. They lost the final in both previous occasions (1999 and 2004). This was also their fifth final in all seasonal UEFA competitions, having also played in two European Cup/Champions League finals (winning in 1993; and losing in 1991).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Background\nAtl\u00e9tico Madrid also reached their third final after a 2\u20131 aggregate win against English side Arsenal. They won the final in both previous occasions (2010 and 2012). This was also their ninth final in UEFA seasonal competitions, having played in three European Cup/Champions League finals (losing in 1974, 2014 and 2016) and three Cup Winners' Cup final (winning in 1962; and losing in 1963 and 1986).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Background\nThe two teams had played each other twice in the Champions League. Atl\u00e9tico Madrid won the first match, while the second was drawn in the 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Pre-match, Ambassador\nThe ambassador for the final was former French international Eric Abidal, who played three seasons at Lyon and later won two UEFA Champions League titles with Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Pre-match, Ticketing\nWith a stadium capacity of 57,000 for the final, a total amount of 23,000 tickets were available to fans and the general public, with the two finalist teams receiving tickets (number to be confirmed) each and with the other tickets being available for sale to fans worldwide via UEFA.com from 15 to 22 March 2018 in four price categories: \u20ac150, \u20ac100, \u20ac70, and \u20ac45. The remaining tickets were allocated to the local organising committee, UEFA and national associations, commercial partners and broadcasters, and to serve the corporate hospitality programme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Pre-match, Opening ceremony\nFrench DJ duo Ofenbach performed at the opening ceremony preceding the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Match, Officials\nOn 7 May 2018, UEFA announced that Dutchman Bj\u00f6rn Kuipers would officiate the final. It was the second time he was appointed for a UEFA Europa League final, as he had already been the referee in the 2013 final. He was also the referee for the 2014 UEFA Champions League Final, which Atl\u00e9tico lost to Real Madrid in extra time. He was joined by his fellow countrymen, with Sander van Roekel and Erwin Zeinstra as assistant referees, Danny Makkelie and Pol van Boekel as additional assistant referees, and Mario Diks as reserve assistant referee. The fourth official for the final was Szymon Marciniak from Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Match, Summary\nIn the 21st minute, Andr\u00e9-Frank Zambo Anguissa miss-controlled a pass out from goalkeeper Steve Mandanda, the ball came to Gabi who passed into Antoine Griezmann who scored with a low shot into the bottom left corner. Marseille captain Dimitri Payet left the match due to injury in the 32nd minute. It was 2\u20130 in the 49th minute when Antoine Griezmann dinked the ball past the advancing Steve Mandanda and into the bottom left from inside the penalty area after a pass from Koke. Gabi got the third goal in the 89th minute with a low right foot finish from the right after another pass from Koke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Match, Details\nThe \"home\" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw, which was held on 13 April 2018, 12:00 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283211-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Sander van Roekel (Netherlands)Erwin Zeinstra (Netherlands)Fourth official:Szymon Marciniak (Poland)Additional assistant referees:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Pol van Boekel (Netherlands)Reserve assistant referee:Mario Diks (Netherlands)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship\nThe 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as 2018 UEFA Under-17 Euro) was the 17th edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (36th edition if the Under-16 era is also included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe. England, which were selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015, hosted the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship\nA total of 16 teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2001 eligible to participate. Each match had a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship\nThe Netherlands won their third title by beating Italy 4\u20131 on penalties in the final after a 2\u20132 draw. Spain were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Belgium in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Qualification\nAll 55 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Kosovo who entered for the first time), and with the hosts England qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams\nNote: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Final draw\nThe final draw was held on 5 April 2018, 17:30 BST (UTC+1), at the St George's Park in Burton, England. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Final draw\nHosts England were assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the other teams were seeded according to their results in the qualification elite round, with the seven best elite round group winners (counting all elite round results) placed in Pot 1 and drawn to positions 1 and 2 in the groups, and the remaining eight teams (the eighth-best elite round group winner and the seven elite round group runners-up) placed in Pot 2 and drawn to positions 3 and 4 in the groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Venues\nThe tournament took place at six venues across the Midlands and South Yorkshire. England's opening match took place at the Proact Stadium in Chesterfield with the final taking place at the New York Stadium in Rotherham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Match officials\nA total of 8 referees, 12 assistant referees and 4 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Squads\nEach national team submitted a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 40).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Group stage\nThe final tournament schedule was confirmed on 10 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Group stage\nIn the group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01 and 17.02):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Knockout stage\nIn the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time is played).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283212-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Team of the tournament\nThe UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament (previously a squad of 18 players were selected):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification\nThe 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-17 football competition that determined the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts England in the 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification\nApart from England, all remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition (including Kosovo who entered for the first time). Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to participate. Each match has a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Format\nThe schedule of each mini-tournament is as follows (Regulations Article 20.04):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers\nIn the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers\nTo determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round and the seven best runners-up from the elite round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01, 15.02 and 15.03):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw\nThe draw for the qualifying round was held on 13 December 2016, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw\nThe teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw\nEach group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine, Spain and Gibraltar, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups\nThe qualifying round must be played by 19 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 80], "content_span": [81, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups\nTimes up to 28 October 2017 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 80], "content_span": [81, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Ranking of third-placed teams\nTo determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 103], "content_span": [104, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw\nThe draw for the elite round was held on 6 December 2017, 11:45 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw\nThe teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Germany and Portugal, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups\nThe elite round must be played by the end of March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups\nTimes up to 24 March 2018 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups, Group 1\nThe Serbia v Ukraine match was completed with a score of 1\u20132 before a default victory was awarded to Serbia due to participation of disqualified Ukrainian players Mykola Yarosh and Roman Bodnia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 84], "content_span": [85, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283213-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Ranking of second-placed teams\nTo determine the seven best second-placed teams from the elite round which qualify for the final tournament, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 99], "content_span": [100, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283214-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squads\nThe following is a list of squads for each national team competing at the 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship in England. Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players born on or after 1 January 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283214-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squads, Group C, Republic of Ireland\nRepublic of Ireland named their squad on 4 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283214-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squads, Group C, Bosnia and Herzegovina\nBosnia and Herzegovina named their squad on 24 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship\nThe 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2018) was the 17th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (67th edition if the Under-18 and Junior eras are included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe. Finland hosted the final tournament, between 16 and 29 July, after being selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015. A total of eight teams competed in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1999 eligible to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship\nSame as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland as the UEFA representatives, besides Poland who qualified automatically as hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship\nIn the final, 2017 runners-up Portugal beat the 2016 losing finalists Italy 4\u20133, after extra-time, to win their first title in the under-19 era and their fourth overall. Having won the Under-17 title in 2016, this generation of players became the first to hold the European title in both youth categories. England were the defending champions, but were eliminated by France, finishing third in the group stage. They lost 0\u20133 to Norway in the play-off round and thus failed to qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, where they would also defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Qualification\nAll 55 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Kosovo who entered for the first time), and with the hosts Finland qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams\nNote: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Qualification, Final draw\nThe final draw was held on 30 May 2018, 12:00 EEST (UTC+3), at the Vaasa City Hall in Vaasa, Finland. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that hosts Finland were assigned to position A1 in the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Match officials\nA total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Squads\nEach national team submitted a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 39).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Group stage\nThe final tournament schedule was confirmed on 5 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Group stage\nThe group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup. The third-placed teams entered the FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Group stage\nIn the group stage, teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 16.01 and 16.02):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Knockout stage\nIn the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup\nThe following six teams from UEFA qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, including Poland which qualified as hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Goalscorers\nThere were 58 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 3.62 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283215-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Team of the Tournament\nThe UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament (and an additional nine substitutes):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification\nThe 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-19 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Finland in the 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification\nApart from Finland, all remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition (including Kosovo who entered for the first time). Players born on or after 1 January 1999 are eligible to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Format\nThe schedule of each mini-tournament is as follows (Regulations Article 19.04):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers\nIn the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw\nThe draw for the qualifying round was held on 13 December 2016, 10:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw\nThe teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw\nEach group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups\nThe qualifying round must be played by 19 November 2017, and on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 80], "content_span": [81, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups\nTimes up to 28 October 2017 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 80], "content_span": [81, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups, Group 11\nThe France v Andorra match was completed with a 7\u20130 scoreline before a default victory was awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 90], "content_span": [91, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw\nThe draw for the elite round was held on 6 December 2017, 11:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw\nThe teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Spain and Portugal, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Teams from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups\nThe elite round must be played on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283216-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups\nTimes up to 24 March 2018 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283217-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads\nEach national team submitted a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283217-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads\nPlayers in boldface have been capped at full international level since the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283217-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads\nAges are as of the start of the tournament, 16 July 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283218-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Super Cup\nThe 2018 UEFA Super Cup was the 43rd edition of the UEFA Super Cup, an annual football match organised by UEFA and contested by the reigning champions of the two main European club competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. The match featured two Spanish sides, Real Madrid, the winners of the 2017\u201318 UEFA Champions League and the defending champions having won the previous two editions, and Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, the winners of the 2017\u201318 UEFA Europa League. It was played at the Lillek\u00fcla Stadium in Tallinn, Estonia, on 15 August 2018, and was the first European club final held in Estonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283218-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Super Cup\nIn March 2018, UEFA announced that a fourth substitution would be allowed in extra time and that the number of substitutes had been increased from 7 to 12. The kick-off time was also changed from 20:45 CEST to 21:00 CEST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283218-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Super Cup\nAtl\u00e9tico Madrid won the match 4\u20132 after extra time for their third UEFA Super Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283218-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Super Cup, Teams\nThis was the fifth all-Spanish Super Cup, and the fourth in the last five years. This was also the first Super Cup to be played by two teams from the same city. A Spanish side has appeared in the Super Cup for nine of the previous ten years. Additionally, as both teams are from Spain, the Super Cup was guaranteed to be won by a Spanish team for the ninth time in ten seasons and for five consecutive years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283218-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Super Cup, Teams\nReal Madrid were aiming to win their fifth Super Cup, which would tie them with record-holders Barcelona and Milan, while having won the last two editions, have the chance to become the first team to win three consecutive Super Cups. On the other hand, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, having won the previous two Super Cups they played in, had the chance to become the first team to win their first three Super Cups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283218-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Super Cup, Teams\nThis was the tenth Madrid Derby match in European competitions, with all previous nine matches having been in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League. Real Madrid held the advantage with 5 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats, and have never been knocked out by Atl\u00e9tico Madrid either over two legs or in a one-match decider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283218-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Super Cup, Venue\nThe Lillek\u00fcla Stadium was announced as the final venue on 15 September 2016, following the decision of the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Athens, Greece. The stadium was known as the \"Lillek\u00fcla Arena\" due to UEFA's sponsorship regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283218-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Super Cup, Pre-match, Ticketing\nWith a stadium capacity of 13,000 for the match, around 70% of the tickets were available to fans and the general public, available for sale to fans worldwide via UEFA.com from 5 to 26 June 2018 in three price categories: \u20ac130, \u20ac90, and \u20ac50. The remaining tickets were allocated to the local organising committee, UEFA and national associations, commercial partners and broadcasters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283218-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Super Cup, Match, Officials\nOn 2 August 2018, UEFA announced that Szymon Marciniak of Poland would officiate the match. Marciniak has been a FIFA referee since 2011, and officiated at UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. He was joined by his fellow countrymen, with Pawe\u0142 Sokolnicki and Tomasz Listkiewicz as assistant referees, Pawe\u0142 Raczkowski and Tomasz Musia\u0142 as additional assistant referees, and Rados\u0142aw Siejka as reserve assistant referee. The fourth official for the match was Romanian Ovidiu Ha\u021began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283218-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Super Cup, Match, Details\nThe Champions League winners were designated as the \"home\" team for administrative purposes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283218-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Super Cup, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Sokolnicki (Poland)Tomasz Listkiewicz (Poland)Fourth official:Ovidiu Ha\u021began (Romania)Additional assistant referees:Pawe\u0142 Raczkowski (Poland)Tomasz Musia\u0142 (Poland)Reserve assistant referee:Rados\u0142aw Siejka (Poland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final\nThe 2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final was the final match of the 2017\u201318 UEFA Women's Champions League, the 17th season of Europe's premier women's club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the ninth season since it was renamed from the UEFA Women's Cup to the UEFA Women's Champions League. It was played at the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 24 May 2018, between German side Wolfsburg and French side Lyon. This was the last time that a host city for the Women's Champions League final is automatically assigned by which city won the bid to host the men's Champions League final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final\nLyon won the match 4\u20131 after extra time, following a scoreless opening 90 minutes; Wolfsburg's Pernille Harder opened the scoring in the 93rd minute, before goals from Amandine Henry, Eug\u00e9nie Le Sommer, Ada Hegerberg and Camille Abily sealed the win for Lyon, their third UEFA Women's Champions League title in a row (the first team to do so) and their record fifth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Teams\nIn the following table, finals until 2009 were in the UEFA Women's Cup era, since 2010 were in the UEFA Women's Champions League era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Teams\nThis was Lyon's seventh UEFA Women's Champions League Final, a new record. This was the third UEFA Women's Champions League Final between the two teams, after 2013 (won by Wolfsburg 1\u20130) and 2016 (won by Lyon 4\u20133 on penalties, 1\u20131 after extra time), and the third season in a row where the two teams met, as they also played each other in the previous season's quarter-finals, won by Lyon 2\u20131 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Venue\nThe Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium was announced as the final venue on 15 September 2016, following the decision of the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Athens, Greece to appoint NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium as the venue of the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Pre-match, Ambassador\nThe ambassador for the final was Ukrainian international player Iya Andrushchak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Pre-match, Opening ceremony\nUkrainian singer Tayanna performed at the opening ceremony preceding the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Officials\nOn 7 May 2018, UEFA announced that Jana Ad\u00e1mkov\u00e1 of the Czech Republic would officiate the final. She would be joined by Sian Massey-Ellis of England and Sanja Ro\u0111ak-Kar\u0161i\u0107 of Croatia as assistant referees. The fourth official for the final was Ukrainian Kateryna Monzul, joined by fellow countrywoman Maryna Striletska as reserve official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Summary\nThe match began with near-empty stands due to heavy security at the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, where attendance was primarily local Kyivans. Lyon had the majority of chances in the first half, with several shots near the goal that were saved or deflected out of bounds. While Wolfsburg failed to register a shot on target during the first half, the team had several attacks that were stopped prematurely by Lyon's defense. Wolfsburg substituted two of their midfielders, Caroline Graham Hansen and Sara Bj\u00f6rk Gunnarsd\u00f3ttir, to bring on winger Tessa Wullaert and relieve Gunnarsd\u00f3ttir after she showed signs of fatigue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Summary\nWolfsburg's defense forced several long-distance shots from Lyon early in the second half, while the team's attacking players failed to create chances on counterattacks. In the 69th minute, Lyon appeared to have scored the match's first goal on a shot by Amandine Henry, but it was disallowed by referee Jana Ad\u00e1mkov\u00e1. During the first 90 minutes of play, Wolfsburg only registered two shots, neither of which were on target.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Summary\nWolfsburg scored their first goal in the third minute of extra time on a deflected strike from Pernille Harder. Two minutes later, a tackle by Wolfsburg's Alexandra Popp on Delphine Cascarino earned her a second yellow card and she was sent off. Lyon's Henry scored the equalizing goal in the 95th minute on a long-range shot into the top corner of the goal. A minute later, Lyon's Eug\u00e9nie Le Sommer scored the team's second goal on an assist from Shanice van de Sanden. Van de Sanden would also assist Lyon's next two goals, scored by Ada Hegerberg in the 103rd minute and Camille Abily in the 116th minute, as the team clinched their fifth Champions League title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Details\nThe \"home\" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, which was held on 24 November 2017, 13:30 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283219-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Sian Massey-Ellis (England)Sanja Ro\u0111ak-Kar\u0161i\u0107 (Croatia)Fourth official:Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)Reserve official:Maryna Striletska (Ukraine)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship\nThe 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-17 Euro 2018) was the 11th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-17 national teams of Europe. Lithuania, which were selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015, hosted the tournament from 9 to 21 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship\nA total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2001 eligible to participate. Each match had a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship\nSame as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Uruguay as the UEFA representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship\nSpain won their fourth title by beating defending champions Germany 2\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualification\nA total of 46 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Lithuania qualifying automatically, the other 45 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Final draw\nThe final draw was held on 6 April 2018, 10:00 EEST (UTC+3), at the Kaunas State Musical Theatre in Kaunas, Lithuania. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that hosts Lithuania were assigned to position A1 in the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Venues\nIn January 2015 Lithuanian Football Federation announced plans to host championships in Kaunas, Alytus, Marijampol\u0117 and Jonava, although Central stadium of Jonava had to improve the conditions in stadium. In early 2018 it was announced that competition would be held in three cities: Alytus, Marijampol\u0117 and \u0160iauliai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Match officials\nA total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Squads\nEach national team submitted a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 41).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Group stage\nThe final tournament schedule was confirmed on 12 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Group stage\nIn the group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01 and 17.02):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Knockout stage\nIn the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time is played).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Knockout stage, Semi-finals\nWinners qualify for 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Losers enter the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup\nThe following three teams from UEFA qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 88], "content_span": [89, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Goalscorers\nNote: Goals scored in the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off are included in this list, but are not counted by UEFA for statistical purposes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283220-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Team of the tournament\nThe UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament (previously a squad of 18 players were selected):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification\nThe 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-17 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Lithuania in the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification\nApart from Lithuania, 45 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to participate. Each match has a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Format\nInitially the elite round would consist of 24 teams, drawn into six groups of four teams, with the six group winners and the runner-up with the best record against the first and third-placed teams in their group qualifying for the final tournament. After the qualifying round draw was held, UEFA decided to expand the elite round from 24 to 28 teams, allowing four more third-placed teams to advance to the elite round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Format\nThe schedule of each mini-tournament is as follows (Regulations Article 20.04):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers\nIn the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers\nTo determine the five best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.01):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw\nThe draw for the qualifying round was held on 11 November 2016, 09:10 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw\nThe teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw\nEach group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine would not be drawn in the same group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups\nThe qualifying round must be played between 1 August and 29 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups\nTimes up to 28 October 2017 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Ranking of third-placed teams\nTo determine the five best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 102], "content_span": [103, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw\nThe draw for the elite round was held on 24 November 2017, 11:45 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw\nThe teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Germany, which received a bye to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 72], "content_span": [73, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups\nThe elite round must be played between 1 February and 1 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283221-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups\nTimes up to 24 March 2018 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283222-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship squads\nThe following is a list of squads for each national team competing at the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship in Lithuania. Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players born on or after 1 January 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship\nThe 2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-19 Euro 2018) was the 17th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (21st edition if the Under-18 era is included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe. Switzerland, which were selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015, hosted the tournament, which took place between 18 and 30 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship\nA total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1999 eligible to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship\nSpain were the defending champions, and successfully defended the title after beating Germany in the final, and became the first nation to win the women's under-17 and under-19 titles in the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Qualification\nA total of 49 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Kosovo who entered a competitive women's national team tournament for the first time), and with the hosts Switzerland qualifying automatically, the other 48 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams\nNote: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Qualification, Final draw\nThe final draw was held on 23 April 2018, 18:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the Stufenbau in Ittigen, Switzerland. The eight teams (including the Elite round Group 1 winners whose identity was known at the time of the draw) were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that hosts Switzerland were assigned to position A1 in the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Venues\nThe eight teams were divided into two groups of four, a group West (Biel/Bienne, Yverdon-les-Bains) and a group East (Wohlen, Zug).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Match officials\nA total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Squads\nEach national team have to submit a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 41).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Group stage\nThe final tournament schedule was confirmed on 30 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Group stage\nIn the group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01 and 17.02):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Knockout stage\nIn the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Goalscorers\nThere were 33 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 2.2 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283223-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Team of the tournament\nThe UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament (and an additional nine substitutes):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification\nThe 2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-19 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Switzerland in the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification\nApart from Switzerland, 48 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition (including Kosovo who entered a competitive women's national team tournament for the first time). Players born on or after 1 January 1999 are eligible to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Format\nInitially the elite round would consist of 24 teams, drawn into six groups of four teams, with the six group winners and the runner-up with the best record against the first and third-placed teams in their group qualifying for the final tournament. After the qualifying round draw was held, UEFA decided to expand the elite round from 24 to 28 teams, allowing four more third-placed teams to advance to the elite round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Format\nThe schedule of each mini-tournament is as follows (Regulations Article 20.04):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers\nIn the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers\nTo determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.01):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw\nThe draw for the qualifying round was held on 11 November 2016, 10:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw\nThe teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw\nEach group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups\nThe qualifying round must be played by 29 October 2017, and on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups\nTimes up to 28 October 2017 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups, Group 5\nMatches of the first matchday were postponed from 17 to 18 October due to wildfires in Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 88], "content_span": [89, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Ranking of third-placed teams\nTo determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 102], "content_span": [103, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw\nThe draw for the elite round was held on 24 November 2017, 11:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw\nThe teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 72], "content_span": [73, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283224-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups\nThe elite round must be played on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283225-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship squads\nThe following is a list of squads for each national team competing at the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Switzerland. Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players born on or after 1 January 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283226-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Youth League Final\nThe 2018 UEFA Youth League Final was the final match of the 2017\u201318 UEFA Youth League, the fifth season of the tournament. It was played at the Colovray Stadium in Nyon, Switzerland on 23 April 2018, between English side Chelsea and Spanish side Barcelona. Barcelona won the match 3\u20130 to claim their second Youth League title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283226-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UEFA Youth League Final, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283227-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year\nThe 2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 93rd year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283227-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nThe year revolved around two major events, the first was the ongoing battle for broadcasting rights between Satellite Information Services (SIS) and the Arena Racing Company (ARC). The second was the devastating news that Towcester racecourse, headed by Lord Hesketh was put into administration. On 23 August KPMG were appointed as administrators and 134 out of 137 members of staff at the racecourse were made redundant, many having to claim statutory redundancy from the government. The last greyhound meeting was on 12 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283227-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nOn 13 November it was announced by the administrators that the racecourse's assets were being sold to a company called Fermor Land LLP. This company was formed on 18 October (26 days before the sale) and is headed by Lord Hesketh's brother-in-law Mark Westropp, a trustee of the Hesketh Family trusts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283227-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nDorotas Wildcat won the last Derby at Towcester and then following a rest came back to win the Eclipse in late November. The Kevin Hutton trained black dog was the first Derby champion to win a competition (post Derby) since Taylors Sky in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283227-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nOn 9 April bookmakers and betting exchanges informed the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport whether they were going to contribute to the British Greyhound Racing Fund. The fund which is pivotal for the welfare of greyhounds involved in Greyhound Board of Great Britain licensed racing is voluntary and based on the profits. Betfair and Sky Betting & Gaming were the high profile companies that refused to contribute which attracted criticism from the industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283227-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nOne month later on 17 May, it was announced by Culture secretary Matt Hancock that betting stakes on fixed-odds betting terminals (known as FOBTs) would be reduced to \u00a32 maximum. Consequently income generated by betting shops could reduce, which could affect the general health of both the horse racing and greyhound racing industries and lead to an uncertain period ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283227-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nEight ex-Towcester trainers joined Henlow, including Mark Wallis and Nick Savva while Kevin Hutton joined Monmore and Patrick Janssens joined Central Park Stadium. Wallis would go on to extend his record number of wins as Greyhound Trainer of the Year by securing a tenth success and a seventh in succession despite a late challenge from Kevin Hutton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283227-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nJohn Gilburn died after a heart attack aged 65, the Sheffield director was an extremely popular figure within the industry. Former BGRB Chief Executive Geoffrey Thomas also died, he was best known for the 'New Deal', a failed attempt in 2002 to gain a better deal for the tracks from the bookmakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283227-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nMildenhall Stadium closed to greyhound racing on 15 January following the ongoing problems experienced by the track, leaving 22 registered stadia with the Greyhound Board of Great Britain. The proposed Swindon Stadium development showed no further progress in relation to a new track layout, new housing now bordered the existing track and it had now passed the three year mark since Clarke Osborne (MD) had informed the greyhound connections that work was due to start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283227-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions\nMark Wallis won a third Trainers Championship stopping Kevin Hutton from winning a fourth consecutive title. The Other Reg secured the Scottish Greyhound Derby title. Hutton then made amends by winning his first Derby title with Dorotas Wildcat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283227-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions\nAs a result of the Towcester administration three major events, the ECC Timber Puppy Derby, the Oaks and the TV Trophy were left uncontested in the racing schedule. The rights for the TV Trophy held by Greyhound Board of Great Britain was rescheduled for Crayford in December. Both the Oaks and Puppy Derby received new homes in Swindon and Henlow respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship\nThe 2018 UK Championship (also known as the 2018 Betway UK Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 27\u00a0November to 9\u00a0December 2018. It was the ninth ranking tournament and the first Triple Crown event of the 2018/2019 season. The event was broadcast on BBC Sport and Eurosport in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship\nRonnie O'Sullivan, the defending champion, defeated Mark Allen 10\u20136 in the final, winning his 7th UK Championship and his 34th ranking event overall. In doing so, he became the first player since Stephen Hendry in 1996 to successfully defend the UK title. O'Sullivan broke Hendry's record for the most Triple Crown titles (18), Steve Davis's record of UK Championship titles (6) and became the second player to defend all Triple Crown tournaments at least once, after Hendry. The win was 25 years after his first UK Championship title as a 17 year old in 1993", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship\nStuart Bingham made the event's highest break of 145 in the first frame of his third round match against David Gilbert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Prize fund\nThe total prize money for the event was identical to that of the previous year's event, with the winner earning \u00a3170,000 and an overall prize fund of \u00a3850,000. The breakdown of prize money and ranking points for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Prize fund\nThe \"rolling 147 prize\" for a maximum break stood at \u00a315,000 but was not claimed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary\nThe 2018 UK Championship began on 27 November 2018. The tournament featured 128 players with no qualification round. All of the matches, up to and including the semi-finals, were played over a single session that was held as best of 11 frame matches, with the final played on 9 December over two sessions in a best of 19 frame match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Early rounds (1\u20134)\nThe tournament opened on 27 November 2018 with the first round of 128 players, which saw a number of upsets: most notably twice champion and World number one, Mark Selby, fell to unseeded amateur James Cahill, 3\u20136; and former champion and ninth seed Shaun Murphy lost by the same scoreline to 120th seed Chen Feilong. Also, 12th seed Ryan Day lost 2\u20136 to 117th seed Joe O'Connor; 20th seed Anthony McGill lost 5\u20136 to 109th seed Lu Ning; and 102nd seed Sam Baird came from 1\u20135 down to beat 27th seed Liang Wenbo 6\u20135. Thrice champion and fourth seed John Higgins scraped past unseeded amateur Dechawat Poomjaeng 6\u20135, however, Higgins then lost in the second round 5\u20136 to Alan McManus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Early rounds (1\u20134)\nThe televised portion of the event began on 1\u00a0December as the second round got underway. This round saw defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan defeat Ken Doherty 6\u20135 despite being behind 1\u20134. Eighth seed Ding Junhui defeated Matthew Selt 6\u20135. 2018 Northern Ireland Open winner Judd Trump missed a black ball at the end of the tenth frame, which would have clinched a 6\u20134 win against Dominic Dale, but Trump then triumphed in the deciding frame, 6\u20135. James Cahill, who defeated world number one Mark Selby in the first round, lost to 64th seed Sunny Akani on another 5\u20136. Elsewhere in round two, Mark Williams and Barry Hawkins both recorded 6\u20130 whitewashes of their second round opponents, Daniel Wells and Ian Burns respectively. Hawkins' win was his second consecutive 6\u20130 win, having defeated his first round opponent Jamie Clarke by the same margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 912]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Early rounds (1\u20134)\nThe third round, played from 3 December 2018, saw the competition's last 32 players compete. The lowest ranked player remaining in the competition, Joe O'Connor (ranked 117th), was defeated by England's Joe Perry 2\u20136. However, 109th seed Lu Ning defeated 13th seed Luca Brecel 6\u20134. Ronnie O'Sullivan defeated Zhou Yuelong in a whitewash 6\u20130 to progress to the last 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Early rounds (1\u20134)\nThe fourth round began on 5 December 2018. Defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan progressed to the quarter-finals, defeating Jack Lisowski by a 6\u20131 scoreline. However, world champion Mark Williams lost to 15th seed Stephen Maguire in a deciding frame, having led 4\u20130 earlier in the match. Martin O'Donnell (ranked 56th) upset China's eighth seed Ding Junhui by 6\u20134, and then defeated Judd Trump by the same scoreline to eliminate him from the competition. Tom Ford survived a decider with Lu Ning, the lowest ranked player left in the tournament. Meanwhile, Mark Allen also survived a deciding frame against Neil Robertson to go through to the quarter-finals, after making two consecutive centuries from 4\u20135 down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Finals (quarter-finals to final)\nThe event's quarter-finals began on 7 December 2018. The afternoon session saw defending champion O'Sullivan defeat Martin O'Donnell 6\u20131. This was O'Donnell's first Triple Crown quarter-final. Prior to the 2018/19 season, he had only reached the semi-finals of the 2018 Snooker Shoot Out. World number 21 Joe Perry was defeated by Tom Ford 2\u20136. This was Ford's first Triple Crown semi-final, and his third semi-final appearance since the 2013 Players Championship. He was runner-up in the 2016 Paul Hunter Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 74], "content_span": [75, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Finals (quarter-finals to final)\nThe second set of quarter-finals took place in the evening and saw Mark Allen defeat Stephen Maguire 6\u20131. Maguire blamed his loss on the playing conditions, stating that \"you can't play good snooker\" on the table used. Despite the scoreline, Allen said he felt as though \"he didn't play well\". In the last quarter-final, 2015 world champion Stuart Bingham defeated Kyren Wilson 6\u20132. During the match, Bingham attempted a maximum break; he potted fifteen reds and blacks, before missing the yellow ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 74], "content_span": [75, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Finals (quarter-finals to final)\nThe semi-finals were played once again as best of eleven frame matches on 8\u00a0December 2018. The first semi-final match saw Tom Ford play Ronnie O'Sullivan. Ford won the opening frame of the match, with a break of 68, but lost the remaining six frames of the match, finishing 1\u20136. O'Sullivan reached the final, his fourth in five years, having declined to enter the UK Championship in 2015. The second semi-final was between Stuart Bingham and Mark Allen. The match finished in favour of Allen, who won 6\u20135, despite Bingham being ahead 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 74], "content_span": [75, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Finals (quarter-finals to final)\nThe final was played on 9 December 2018 as a best of 19 frames match, spread over two sessions. It was contested between 2011 UK Championship runner-up Mark Allen and 2017 champion Ronnie O'Sullivan. The first four frames of the final were shared, however, the remaining four frames of the first session were won by O'Sullivan, leaving him 6\u20132 ahead after the initial session. In the evening session, O'Sullivan won the first frame, before Allen scored the highest break of the final (105), and entered the interval at 4\u20138 behind. O'Sullivan won the next frame, leaving him one frame from winning the tournament. Allen responded to clinch the next two frames including an attempt at a maximum break, which failed. O'Sullivan compiled a break of 78 in the 16th frame to win the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 74], "content_span": [75, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Finals (quarter-finals to final)\nOn winning the event, O'Sullivan overtook the record for both the number of UK Championship wins held by Steve Davis (6), and the total number of Triple Crown events held by Stephen Hendry (18). O'Sullivan's 2018 win was his seventh UK Championship, and nineteenth Triple Crown championship win overall. Of his achievement, O'Sullivan commented, \"It's amazing to beat my hero Stephen Hendry's record. He was the ultimate player. I've still got eight world titles to get, so I'm chasing that one,\" referring to Hendry's greater number of World Snooker Championship victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 74], "content_span": [75, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Century breaks\nA total of 137 century breaks were made by 61 players during the 2018 UK Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Sponsorship and broadcasting\nThe event was sponsored by betting company Betway, sponsors of the UK Championship since 2015. The tournament's broadcasters were dependent on country, with the BBC and Eurosport broadcasting across the United Kingdom and Europe respectively. The event was broadcast in China by Superstars Online, and China Central Television. In Hong Kong, NowTV simulcasted the event with additional commentary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Controversy\nDuring the event, two players Yu Delu and Cao Yupeng, were found guilty of match fixing. World number 52, Yu, was banned for ten years and nine months for fixing five matches over a three-year period. Cao was banned from snooker for six years (with three-and-a-half years suspended) for fixing three matches. The chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, Jason Ferguson, expressed his disappointment, stating that the players involved \"risk their careers and they will be caught\". World champion Mark Williams has suggested that players found cheating \"should get banned for life\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Controversy\nRonnie O'Sullivan, who is critical of the number of events on the calendar and the punishing tour schedule, said he was ready to start a \"breakaway tour\" which would be separate from the World Snooker Tour. He stated that he would ask \"four or five unhappy players\", including Stephen Hendry and John Higgins, to start a new \"Champions League-style\" tour. He also indicated that he would invite players that were banned from World Snooker, including Yu and Cao. O'Sullivan insisted that the breakaway tour would benefit everybody, including the bottom-ranked players, but that his plan was a \"last resort\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Controversy\nIn response, World Snooker chairman, Barry Hearn called the plan \"nonsensical\", and \"damaging\" to the sport. Hearn also fielded criticism of the current tour schedule from players of all levels, including world champion Mark Williams, Stephen Maguire and Neil Robertson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Aftermath\nDuring the final, a draw was made for the 2019 Masters in January. The event would see first round matches between Mark Allen and Luca Brecel, and between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stuart Bingham. Six weeks later, the 2019 Masters was won by Judd Trump, who defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final on 20\u00a0January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Aftermath\nThe next event of the season, the 2018 Scottish Open, began on 10\u00a0December, the day after the final of the UK Championship. O'Sullivan pulled out of the event hours after winning the UK Championship before his first round match with Daniel Wells. Having been given a bye through the first round, Wells reached his first ranking event semi-final, building a 4\u20130 lead against Mark Allen, before eventually losing 5\u20136. Although O'Sullivan was not a competitor, he attended the Scottish Open to work on Eurosport's coverage of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283228-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Championship, Aftermath\nAllen, after being runner-up at the UK Championship, won the Scottish Open despite stating that he had \"disrespected\" the tournament. He had consumed alcohol throughout the week, calling his appearance at the final \"undeserved\"; his highest break in the first four frames of his semi-final was just 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283229-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Independence Party leadership election\nThe 2018 UK Independence Party leadership election was triggered after members voted to remove Henry Bolton as leader of the UK Independence Party at an extraordinary general meeting held in Birmingham on 17 February 2018. It was the fourth UKIP leadership election in eighteen months. Interim leader Gerard Batten was ultimately elected unopposed as the party's new leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283229-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Independence Party leadership election, Background\nAfter the UK's referendum on EU membership in June 2016 resulted in a vote to leave the European Union, then-leader of UKIP Nigel Farage announced his resignation. In September 2016, Diane James was elected to succeed him, but resigned after 18 days, triggering another leadership election. Held in November 2016, it was won by Paul Nuttall. Nuttall led the party into the 2017 UK general election, but resigned after UKIP's vote share fell from 12.6% to 1.8% and the party failed to win any parliamentary seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283229-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Independence Party leadership election, Background\nHenry Bolton was elected to succeed Nuttall in September 2017. In January 2018, UKIP's NEC passed a motion of no confidence in Bolton, following controversy about his personal life. Bolton refused to step down, which triggered an emergency general meeting. This meeting was held on 17 February 2018, and those attending voted by 867 votes to 500 to remove him as leader. Gerard Batten took over as interim leader and the leadership election had to be held within 90 days, before 18 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283229-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Independence Party leadership election, Background\nBill Etheridge, an MEP who had twice stood for the leadership previously, initially announced his intention to stand again, but then withdrew to support Batten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283229-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Independence Party leadership election, Background\nBatten proposed, in order to avoid the expense of a leadership election, that he be elected uncontested to serve a 12-month term. The Guardian understood that the party was trying to ensure an uncontested leadership election by raising financial and membership requirements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283229-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Independence Party leadership election, Result\nBatten was elected unopposed, and announced he would resign in 12 months' time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283230-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Music Video Awards\nThe 2018 UK Music Video Awards were held on 25 October 2018 to recognise the best in music videos from United Kingdom and worldwide. The nominations were announced on 27 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283230-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Music Video Awards, Video genre categories\nFlorence + The Machine - \"Big God\" (Director: Autumn de Wilde)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283230-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Music Video Awards, Video genre categories\nBadbadnotgood ft. Samuel T. Herring - \"I Don't Know\" (Director: Will Mayer)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283230-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and technical categories\nKing Krule - \"Biscuit Town\" (Production Designer: Francesca Di Mottola)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283230-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and technical categories\nYears & Years - \"If You're Over Me\" (Stylist (wardrobe): Nick Royal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283230-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and technical categories\nFlorence + the Machine - \"Big God\" (Choreographers: Akram Khan, Florence Welch)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283230-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and technical categories\nChaka Khan - \"Like Sugar\" (Colourist: Simon Bourne at Framestore)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283230-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and technical categories\nChaka Khan - \"Like Sugar\" (Editor: Fouad Gaber at Trim)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283230-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and technical categories\nFather John Misty - \"Please Don't Die\" (Animators: Cadi Catlow & Henry Nicholson)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283230-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Music Video Awards, Live and interactive categories\nJustin Timberlake ft. Chris Stapleton - \"Say Something\" (Director: Arturo Perez jr.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283230-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Music Video Awards, Live and interactive categories\nBiffy Clyro - MTV Unplugged (Live at Roundhouse, London) (Director: Sam Wrench)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open\nThe 2018 Coral UK Open was a darts tournament staged by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was the sixteenth year of the tournament where, following numerous regional qualifying heats throughout Britain, players competed in a single elimination tournament to be crowned champion. The tournament was held for the fifth time at the Butlin's Resort in Minehead, England, between 2\u20134 March 2018, and has the nickname, \"the FA Cup of darts\" as a random draw was staged after each round until the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open\nPeter Wright was the defending champion after defeating Gerwyn Price 11\u20136 in the 2017 final, but lost in the third round to Nathan Rafferty. Gary Anderson became the UK Open champion for the first time, defeating Corey Cadby (who was making his debut in the event) 11\u20137 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open\nMichael van Gerwen's defeat to Jeffrey de Zwaan in the third round was the first time van Gerwen had lost a live match on ITV since the 2014 Players Championship Finals. Van Gerwen was unbeaten for 77 live matches (including the two live World Series events) on the channel during that period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open\nThe tournament was severely affected by the extreme weather conditions caused by Storm Emma which had forced the complete cancellation of round five of the 2018 Premier League Darts that had been due to be held in Exeter the evening before the tournament started. Eleven players who were due to play in the first, second and third rounds withdrew from the competition, and on 2 March, the unprecedented decision was taken by Butlin's to not allow any fans apart from the players relatives, guests and friends into the venue, resulting in the whole tournament being played behind closed doors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open\nThe tournament was still televised live on ITV4, but the Butlin's Skyline Pavilion Arena was unable to be used for the allocated Main Stage TV matches due to heavy snow and ice, so these matches were reallocated to the secondary Red's Bar stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open, Format and qualifiers, UK Open Qualifiers\nThere were six qualifying events staged in February 2018 to determine the UK Open Order of Merit Table. The tournament winners were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 55], "content_span": [56, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open, Format and qualifiers, UK Open Qualifiers\nThe tournament is featuring 128 players. The results of the six qualifiers shown above will be collated into the UK Open Order Of Merit. The top 32 players in the Order of Merit receive a place at the final tournament. In addition, the next 64 players (without ties in this year's edition) in the Order of Merit list qualify for the tournament, but start in the earlier rounds played on the Friday. A further 32 players qualify via regional qualifying tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 55], "content_span": [56, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open, Format and qualifiers, Number 65-96 of the Order of Merit qualifiers (starting in First Round)\n** Ren\u00e9 Berndt dropped out of the tournament because of health reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 108], "content_span": [109, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open, Format and qualifiers, Rileys qualifiers (starting in First Round)\n32 amateur players qualified from 28 Rileys Sports Bar qualifiers held across the UK between 20 January and 18 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 80], "content_span": [81, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open, Format and qualifiers, Rileys qualifiers (starting in First Round)\n* Due to extreme weather, multiple players pulled out of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 80], "content_span": [81, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open, Prize money\nThe prize fund stayed the same as last year, \u00a3350,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open, Draw\n(Note: Due to extreme weather all matches in the tournament were played behind closed doors)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open, Draw, Friday 2 March, First round (best of eleven legs)\n** Ren\u00e9 Berndt withdrew from the tournament because of health reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 69], "content_span": [70, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open, Draw, Friday 2 March, Second round (best of eleven legs)\n* Due to Storm Emma and severe wintry conditions across the country, multiple players pulled out of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 70], "content_span": [71, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283231-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open, Draw, Friday 2 March, Third round (best of nineteen legs)\n* Lerchbacher was the only Third Round qualifier to withdraw from the tournament due to the weather conditions, so Hughes received a bye to the Fourth Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 71], "content_span": [72, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283232-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open Qualifier 1\nThe 2018 UK Open Qualifier 1 was the first of six UK Open Qualifier events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 2 February. It featured a field of 248 players and \u00a360,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. It was won by Michael van Gerwen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283232-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open Qualifier 1\nAdrian Lewis was later suspended by the PDC, due to an incident which took place during his 6\u20135 win over Jose Justicia in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283233-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open Qualifier 2\nThe 2018 UK Open Qualifier 2 was the second of six UK Open Qualifier events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour darts competition. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 3 February. It featured a field of 252 players and \u00a360,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. It was won by Michael van Gerwen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283234-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open Qualifier 3\nThe 2018 UK Open Qualifier 3 was the third of six UK Open Qualifier events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 4 February 2018. It featured a field of 252 players and \u00a360,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. The winner was Michael Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283235-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open Qualifier 4\nThe 2018 UK Open Qualifier 4 was the fourth of six UK Open Qualifier events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 9 February 2018. It featured a field of 256 players and \u00a360,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. The winner was Gary Anderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283236-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open Qualifier 5\nThe 2018 UK Open Qualifier 5 was the fifth of six UK Open Qualifier events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 10 February 2018. It featured a field of 256 players and \u00a360,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. It was won by Corey Cadby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283237-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Open Qualifier 6\nThe 2018 UK Open Qualifier 6 was the sixth of six UK Open Qualifier events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 11 February 2018. It featured a field of 247 players and \u00a360,000 in prize money, with \u00a310,000 going to the winner. It was won by Krzysztof Ratajski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283238-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Seniors Championship\nThe 2018 UK Seniors Championship (sponsored by Credit Risk Solutions) was a senior snooker tournament, that took place at the Bonus Arena in Hull, England, from 24 to 25 October 2018. It was the first event of the 2018/2019 World Seniors Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283238-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Seniors Championship\nJimmy White was the defending champion, but he lost 0\u20133 to Suchakree Poomjang in the quarterfinals. Ken Doherty won the event, defeating Brazil's Igor Figueiredo in the final 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283238-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UK Seniors Championship\nIn addition to the winner's cheque the champion secured a place in the qualifying tournament for the 2019 World Professional Snooker Championship in Sheffield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283239-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UKIP Wales leadership election\nThe 2018 UKIP Wales leadership election was a leadership election to determine the UK Independence Party's next leader in the National Assembly for Wales. The election was held from 18 June to 10 August 2018. The approximately 900 members of the party in Wales were eligible to vote in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283239-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UKIP Wales leadership election\nAfter the 2016 Welsh Assembly election, Neil Hamilton was elected leader of the UK Independence Party group in the Assembly, replacing Nathan Gill. Hamilton had been supported by four AMs, whilst Gill had been supported by three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283239-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UKIP Wales leadership election\nIn May 2018, Caroline Jones replaced Hamilton after a majority vote in the then five-strong Assembly group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283239-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UKIP Wales leadership election\nIn June 2018, national deputy party leader Mike Hookem informed the group that an election would be held for the leadership of the Assembly group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283239-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UKIP Wales leadership election\nGareth Bennett won the UKIP Welsh Assembly leadership election on 10 August 2018. Hamilton remained as Leader of the UK Independence Party in Wales, with Bennett serving as Leader of UKIP in the Welsh Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283239-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UKIP Wales leadership election, Campaign\nThe party increased the franchise for the election, changing to a twenty-eight-day cutoff instead of the originally planned for a six-month cut-off. This increased the number of eligible voters by about 300 to \"just short of 900\". The vote had been scheduled to conclude by the end of July, but the count was moved to 10 August following issues printing ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283239-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UKIP Wales leadership election, Campaign\nBennett's two main policy planks were his campaign to abolish the Welsh Assembly itself (he called for a referendum on the issue); and his opposition to the Welsh Government's Welsh language policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283239-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UKIP Wales leadership election, Results\n514 of the party's 876 members voted. Caroline Jones was eliminated in the first round with 130 votes. Gareth Bennett went on to win the second round, with 269 votes to Neil Hamilton's 193.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game\nOn March 16, 2018, during the first round of the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, the University of Virginia (Virginia; also UVA) Cavaliers played a college basketball game against the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Retrievers at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Cavaliers, who were seeded first in the South regional bracket and first overall in the NCAA Tournament, faced the Retrievers, who were seeded 16th in the South regional bracket. Virginia and UMBC competed for the right to face ninth-seeded Kansas State, which had already won their first-round game against Creighton earlier in the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game\nThe Retrievers defeated the Cavaliers 74\u201354, becoming the first No. 16 seed to defeat a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. It was only the second time in college basketball overall, after No. 16 seeded Harvard defeated overall No. 1 Stanford in the women's tournament twenty years earlier. UMBC also earned its first NCAA Tournament win in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game\nWith Virginia set as a 20.5 point favorite heading into the game, UMBC's victory was the second-biggest upset in terms of point spread in NCAA Tournament history behind Norfolk State's defeat of Missouri in 2012 when Missouri was a 21.5 point favorite. Virginia finished their season at 31\u20133 while UMBC improved to 25\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game\nUMBC coach Ryan Odom grew up as a Virginia fan, the son of former UVA assistant coach Dave Odom, and recalls the experience of being in attendance to cheer on the Cavaliers as they advanced to the Final Four in 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Background\nAt the start of this game, NCAA Tournament No. 16 seeds were 0\u2013135 all-time against No. 1 seeds since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Background, UMBC\nUMBC entered its 2017\u201318 season under second-year head coach Ryan Odom. A preseason America East Conference coaches' poll picked the Retrievers to finish third in their league, and incoming senior Jairus Lyles earned Preseason All-Conference honors. The team completed the regular season with a 24\u201310 record and a second-place finish in the America East. Senior guards Jairus Lyles, who averaged a team-high 20.3 points per game, and K. J. Maura were named First-Team and Third-Team All-Conference respectively, with the latter earning America East Defensive Player of the Year accolades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Background, UMBC\nOn March 10, 2018, UMBC won the 2018 America East Tournament after Lyles made a three-pointer with 0.6 seconds left to defeat top-seeded Vermont in the championship game. The win handed the Retrievers an automatic NCAA Tournament berth, their second appearance ever and their first since 2008, when they suffered a 66\u201347 loss to Georgetown in their opening game. It also gave UMBC its 24th win of the season, tied for most in program history. Before the team's NCAA Tournament opener against Virginia, guard-forward Joe Sherburne said, \"We know we can go out there and have fun and play hard, and we really don't have anything to lose, so it'll be we go out there and play loose.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Background, Virginia\nIn a rebuilding year under head coach Tony Bennett, Virginia had entered the season unranked but proceeded to win the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) regular season championship outright by four games over pre-season AP No. 1 Duke, finishing 17\u20131 in conference play including Bennett's first win at Cameron Indoor Stadium. They then capped an improbable ascendancy by defeating North Carolina in the ACC Tournament championship, finishing the regular season 31\u20132. Virginia entered the tournament seeded first overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Background, Virginia\nTwo days before the UMBC game, the Cavaliers lost their future NBA lottery pick, forward De'Andre Hunter, to a season-ending left wrist fracture. The injury led the New York Daily News to change their pick from Virginia winning the national championship to not advancing out of the Sweet Sixteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Venue\nThe game was played at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The attendance for the game was 17,943. Spectrum Center had previously hosted the tournament in 2008, 2011, and 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Broadcast\nThe game was televised nationally on TNT and announced by Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery, and Grant Hill, with Tracy Wolfson as their sideline reporter. The game was played after the conclusion of the Kansas State\u2013Creighton game, which took place in the same venue. The game had 3.53 million viewers, with a 94% and 54% increase in viewership compared to the 2016 and 2017 games in the same slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Game summary\nThe game started defensively with the first half having four separate ties. UMBC did not lead until just before the midpoint of the half, before a Virginia steal tied the game up for the second time. Virginia went on a 7\u20131 run over a four-minute period to hold a six-point lead late in the first half before UMBC managed to tie the game at 16\u201316 before the final TV timeout of the half. UMBC took the lead twice before halftime, but Virginia was able to tie the game up at both points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Game summary\nComing out of halftime, the Retrievers went on an early 7\u20132 run before Virginia used their first of three remaining timeouts of the game. Despite the timeout, a 6\u20132 run before the first TV timeout of the half gave the Retrievers an 11-point lead. Another UMBC run of 10\u20134 would force the Cavaliers to use a second timeout. An 11\u20137 run by Virginia allowed them to get within 12 points before UMBC was forced to use their timeout. Both teams would stall as only eight combined points were scored by both teams before the Retrievers' second timeout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Game summary\nA 5\u20130 run by UMBC within a minute forced Virginia to use their final timeout. Despite the break, fouls by Virginia contributed to UMBC making four free throws and scoring a layup on a missed free throw, which allowed the lead to be extended to 19 points. The final two minutes would see the Retrievers extend their lead by another point to finish the game 74\u201354.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Game summary\nThe Cavaliers, who led the NCAA during the season in scoring defense at 53.4 points per game, were outscored by the Retrievers 53\u201333 in the final twenty minutes. The twenty point loss was the largest deficit the Cavaliers suffered their entire season. It was also the only time they allowed at least 70 points that season. UMBC's Jairus Lyles, who scored 28 points while battling through cramps late in the second half, was named the game's Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption\nImmediately after the game in an interview, Virginia coach Tony Bennett remarked,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption\n\"That was not even close. That\u2019s first a credit to the job Ryan did, coach Odom. Their offense was very hard to guard. They shot it well. We kept getting broken down and did a poor job. ... We had a hard time with their mobile fours and their four guards. I don\u2019t know what to say but that. That was a thorough butt whipping.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption\n\"This is life. It can't define you. You enjoyed the good times and you gotta be able to take the bad times. When you step into the arena... the consequences can be historic losses, tough losses, great wins, and you have to deal with it. And that's the job.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption\nThis reaction by Bennett after the game was featured in Inc. magazine as a lesson in emotional intelligence and leadership. After the win, Odom said, \"Unbelievable \u2014 it\u2019s really all you can say.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption\nUMBC advanced to the Round of 32, in which they faced 9-seed Kansas State Wildcats on March 18, 2018. The game was competitive, with neither team having a lead greater than nine points throughout the game, and UMBC trailing by only three points with two minutes remaining in the game. The Wildcats won the game 50\u201343, thus ending UMBC's one-game Cinderella run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption\nThe first round losses by No. 1 seed Virginia and No. 4 seed Arizona, and second round losses by No. 2 seed Cincinnati and No. 3 seed Tennessee, led to the South Region becoming the first ever to not advance any of its top four seeds to the Sweet Sixteen. Another Cinderella, No. 11 seed Loyola-Chicago, won the region by beating Kansas State 78\u201362, becoming the fourth 11-seed ever to advance to the Final Four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption\nFollowing the season, two members of the Retrievers staff became head coaches. Assistant coach Eric Skeeters took over the Delaware State program, while director of recruiting Griff Aldrich took over Longwood. Delaware State and Longwood met in the 2018\u201319 season, with the host team Longwood winning 89\u201373. Aldrich then led Longwood to their first ever Division I postseason appearance in the 2019 College Basketball Invitational, and was named a finalist for the Joe B. Hall Award (given for most outstanding first-year head coach), which had been won by Odom in 2017. A member of the Virginia coaching staff, Ron Sanchez, also left to become a new head coach as he took over the Charlotte 49ers in the same city the UMBC game was played in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption\nIn 2018\u201319, Virginia again led the Atlantic Coast Conference standings and attained another No. 1 seed. Virginia trailed by as many as 14 points to No. 16 seed Gardner-Webb in the first half and still trailed by 6 (36\u201330) at halftime, before the Cavaliers poured it on and outscored the Runnin' Bulldogs 41\u201314 in the first nineteen minutes of the second half. Virginia went on to win the 2019 NCAA Tournament Championship in dramatic fashion, becoming the first first-time winner of the national championship since Florida thirteen years prior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption\nUMBC, meanwhile, lost to Vermont in the championship game of the America East conference tournament, ending their hopes for an immediate return to the tourney. In a show of sportsmanship, the official UMBC athletics Twitter account celebrated Virginia's dramatic victory over Purdue in the Elite Eight. ESPN called Virginia's 2018\u201319 championship run \"the most redemptive season in the history of college basketball.\" NBC Sports called Virginia's 2018\u201319 NCAA title the \"greatest redemption story in the history of sports.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283240-0020-0002", "contents": "2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption\nFollowing the championship game, veteran CBS Sports announcer Jim Nantz (who also called Virginia's upset loss to UMBC in last year's first round tournament game), called Virginia's win the \"all-time turnaround title.\" De'Andre Hunter (who missed the UMBC game with the broken wrist) was drafted #4 as a lottery pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, as Ty Jerome and Kyle Guy also left early and were drafted as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283241-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UMass Minutemen football team\nThe 2018 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. This was the fifth year of head coach Mark Whipple's second stint at UMass and 11th year overall. The Minutemen divided their home schedule between two stadiums. Five home games were played at the UMass campus at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium with one home game at Gillette Stadium. This was UMass's third year as an independent. They finished the season 4\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283241-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UMass Minutemen football team\nOn November 21, head coach Mark Whipple resigned. He finished with a record of 16\u201344 in the five years of his second stint as head coach and 65\u201370 in his eleven overall seasons. On December 3, the school hired Florida State offensive coordinator Walt Bell for the head coaching job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283241-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UMass Minutemen football team, Schedule\n\u2606All Eleven Sports broadcasts will be simulcast on NESN or NESN+.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283241-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UMass Minutemen football team, Game summaries, Duquesne\nThe Minutemen's game against Duquesne was the first of the 2018 college football season, kicking off 90 minutes before Prairie View A&M\u2013Rice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283242-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UNAF U-15 Tournament\nThe 2018 UNAF U-15 Tournament is the second edition of the UNAF U-15 Tournament. The tournament took place in Algeria from 11 to 15 April 2018. The start of the tournament was scheduled for 11 April but was postponed to 12 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283243-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UNAF U-15 Tournament (Tunisia)\nThe 2018 UNAF U-15 Tournament (Tunisia) was the third edition of the UNAF U-15 Tournament. The tournament took place in Tunisia from 3 to 7 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283244-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament\nThe 2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament is the 15th edition of the UNAF U-17 Tournament. The tournament took place in Tunisia from 20 to 28 August 2018. This edition serve as a qualification for the Africa U-17 Cup of Nations, the winner will qualify for the 2019 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations held in Tanzania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283244-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament, Match officials\nThe following referees were chosen for the 2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283245-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament (Morocco)\nThe 2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament was the 16th edition of the UNAF U-17 Tournament. The tournament took place in Marrakesh, Morocco, from 20 to 27 December, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283246-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament squads\nThe 2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament is an international football tournament hosted by Tunisia from 20 to 28 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283247-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UNAM protests\nThe 2018 UNAM student movement began on August 27, 2018 with the protests of the Azcapotzalco College of Sciences and Humanities in Mexico (CCH Azcapotzalco), where they demanded solutions to the problems of both their campus and the CCH in general. The On August 31, the principal of the campus resigned from her position due to the repression of the demands, but when not all were met, the students took over the facilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283247-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UNAM protests\nOn September 3, the CCH Azcapotzalco, the CCH Oriente and the CCH Naucalpan carried out a mobilisation in Ciudad Universitaria to deliver a petition to the authorities, where they were later attacked and dispersed by a group of 40 people with knives, which resulted in at least 14 injuries. After the acts, at least 40 UNAM campuses in Mexico went on strike for 48 to 72 hours in protest. Protesters rallied in support of the students in the campus in other areas nationwide, mainly Mexico City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283247-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UNAM protests\nOn September 5, a rally was organized in the rectory of UNAM for the events that occurred on September 3, where both institutions and organizations of the UNAM and others attended in the form of support. On 7 September Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador, president-elect of Mexico, met with the rector of UNAM Enrique Graue, to discuss the problems of the institutions and possible solutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283247-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UNAM protests\nOn September 13, a march was called to commemorate the March of Silence that took place in 1968. On October 2, a march commemorating the Tlatelolco Massacre was held, which culminated in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283248-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UNCAF U-16 Tournament\nThe 2018 UNCAF U-16 Tournament was the 8th UNCAF U-16 Tournament, a biennial international football tournament contested by men's under-16 national teams. Organized by UNCAF, the tournament took place in Guatemala between 20 and 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283248-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UNCAF U-16 Tournament\nThe matches were played at Estadio Municipal Pinula Contreras. All seven Central American teams took part of the tournament, playing each other in a round-robin format. Panama won their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283249-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UNCAF U-17 Interclub Cup\nThe 2018 UNCAF U-17 Interclub Cup was the 1st edition of the UNCAF U-17 Interclub Cup, Central America's under-17 club football tournament organized by UNCAF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283249-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UNCAF U-17 Interclub Cup, Teams\nSeven teams participated in the tournament. Honduras sent a national representative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283250-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UNCAF U-19 Tournament\nThe 2018 UNCAF U-19 Tournament is a football competition scheduled to take place in August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283250-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UNCAF U-19 Tournament\nIt is to prepare teams for the 2018 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283251-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UNCAF Women's Interclub Championship\nThe 2018 UNCAF Women's Interclub Championship (Spanish: 2018 Copa Interclubes Femenina de UNCAF) was the third edition of the UNCAF Women's Club Championship, Central America's premier women's club football organized by UNCAF. The tournament was played in Panama City, Panama between 24 and 29 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283251-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UNCAF Women's Interclub Championship\nMoravia from Costa Rica are the two-time defending champions. All games were 70 minutes in duration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283251-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UNCAF Women's Interclub Championship, Teams\nFor the first time, all seven UNCAF associations entered the tournament, with each association entering one team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283251-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UNCAF Women's Interclub Championship, Venues\nAll matches were played at the Estadio Maracan\u00e1 in Panama City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283251-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UNCAF Women's Interclub Championship, Group stage\nThe seven teams were divided into two groups: one group of four teams and one group of three teams. The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283252-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UNLV Rebels football team\nThe 2018 UNLV Rebels football team represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Rebels were led by fourth-year head coach Tony Sanchez and played their home games at Sam Boyd Stadium. They were members of the West Division of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 4\u20138 and 2\u20136 in Mountain West play to finish in fifth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283252-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UNLV Rebels football team, Previous season\nThe Rebels finished the 2017 season 5\u20137 and 4\u20134 in Mountain West play to finish in third place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283252-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UNLV Rebels football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days\nDuring the Mountain West media days held July 24\u201325 at the Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip, the Rebels were predicted to finish in third place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283252-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UNLV Rebels football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days, Preseason All-Mountain West Team\nThe Rebels had one player selected to the preseason all-Mountain West team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 101], "content_span": [102, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283253-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Darts Masters\nThe 2018 William Hill US Darts Masters was the second staging of the tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was the second event in the 2018 World Series of Darts. The tournament featured 16 players (8 PDC representatives and 8 North American representatives) and was held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on 6\u20137 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283253-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Darts Masters\nMichael van Gerwen was the defending champion after defeating Daryl Gurney 8\u20136 in the 2017 final. However, he lost 8\u20133 in the quarter-finals to James Wade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283253-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 US Darts Masters\nGary Anderson won his sixth World Series title after beating Rob Cross 8\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283253-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 US Darts Masters, Qualifiers\nThe top 4 North American Order of Merit qualifiers were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis)\nThe 2018 US Open was the 138th edition of tennis' US Open and the fourth and final Grand Slam event of the year. It was held on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis)\nRafael Nadal and Sloane Stephens were the defending champions in the men's and women's singles events, however both failed to defend their titles. Nadal retired during his semifinal match against Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro. Stephens was defeated in the quarterfinals by Anastasija Sevastova, whom Stephens had beaten at the same stage the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis)\nNovak Djokovic won the men's singles title, defeating del Potro in the final, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20133. It was his third US Open title and 14th Grand Slam, tying Pete Sampras' record to become equal third among all-time Grand Slam champions. In women's singles, Naomi Osaka defeated Serena Williams in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134, becoming Japan's first ever able-bodied Grand Slam singles champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Tournament\nThe 2018 US Open was the 138th edition of the tournament and took place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows\u2013Corona Park of Queens in New York City, New York, United States. The tournament was held on 17 DecoTurf hard courts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Tournament\nThe tournament was an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2018 ATP World Tour and the 2018 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as a mixed doubles event. There are also singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which are part of the Grade A category of tournaments. Additionally, there are singles and doubles wheelchair tennis events for men, women and quads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Tournament\nThe tournament was played on hard courts and takes place on a series of 17 courts with DecoTurf surface, including the three existing main showcourts \u2013 Arthur Ashe Stadium, the newly renovated Louis Armstrong Stadium, and the new Grandstand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Broadcast\nIn the United States, the 2018 US Open will be the fourth year in a row under an 11-year, $825 million contract with ESPN, in which the broadcaster holds exclusive rights to the entire tournament and the US Open Series. This means that the tournament is not available on broadcast television. This also makes ESPN the exclusive U.S. broadcaster for three of the four tennis majors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Point and prize money distribution, Point distribution\nBelow is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 77], "content_span": [78, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Point and prize money distribution, Prize money\nThe total prize-money compensation for the 2018 US Open is $53 million, a more than 5% increase on the same total last year. Of that total, a record $3.8 million goes to both the men's and women's singles champions, which is increased by 2.7% from last year. This makes the US Open the most lucrative and highest paying tennis grand slam in the world, leapfrogging the French Open in total prize money fund. Prize money for the US Open qualifying tournament is also up 10.3%, to $3.2 million. The prize money for the wheelchair draw amounts to a total of US$350,000. The singles winners of the men and women draws receive US$31,200 and the winner of the quad singles receives US$23,400.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 70], "content_span": [71, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Notable stories, Women's Singles final\nNaomi Osaka defeated Serena Williams in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134. During the final, Williams received three code violations, the second coming with a point penalty and the third with a game penalty. The issue started during the second set when chair umpire Carlos Ramos cited Serena for a signal that was sent from her coach. Serena said she was unaware of the signal and verbally sparred with Ramos, saying \"I don't cheat to win. I'd rather lose.\" and \"You owe me an apology. I have never cheated in my life.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Notable stories, Women's Singles final\nAfter a mistake later in the second set, Serena smashed her racket into the court. This led to her second code violation, which Serena found out about upon attempting to serve and which increased the dispute between Serena and Ramos. During the change at the 3\u20134 mark, a discussion between Serena and Ramos broke down leading Serena to call Ramos both \"a liar\" and \"a thief.\" As both players were concluding the changeover and getting set, Ramos issued Serena her third code violation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Notable stories, Women's Singles final\nThis led to confusion from both players who did not appear to hear the announcement, which Ramos explained to both after summoning them over to his seat. At this point, US Open referee, Brian Earley, and WTA supervisor, Donna Kelso, were summoned to the court due to the dispute. A four-minute delay occurred due to a discussion between Serena, Earley, and Kelso regarding the issues. After the delay, Serena won the next game before Osaka won the set and match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Singles seeds\nThe following are the seeded players and notable players who have withdrawn from the event. Seedings are based on ATP and WTA rankings as of August 20, 2018. Rank and points before are as of August 27, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Singles seeds, Men's Singles\n\u2020The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017, but is defending points from one or more 2017 ATP Challenger Tour tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Singles seeds, Women's Singles\n\u2020 Serena Williams was ranked 26 on the day when seeds were announced. Nevertheless, she was deemed a special case and seeded 17th by the organizers because she missed a significant portion of the last 12-month period due to pregnancy and maternity. \u2021 The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for her 16th best result are deducted instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Wild card entries\nThe following players were given wildcards to the main draw based on internal selection and recent performances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Qualifier entries\nThe qualifying competitions took place at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on 21\u201324 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Protected ranking\nThe following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283254-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open (tennis), Withdrawals\nThe following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries, suspensions or for personal reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series\nIn tennis, the 2018 US Open Series was the fifteenth edition of the US Open Series, which comprises]d a group of hard court tournaments that started on July 23, 2018 in Atlanta and concluded in Connecticut for the women and in Winston-Salem for the men on August 26, 2018. This edition consisted of three separate men's tournaments and three women's tournaments, with the Western & Southern Open hosting both a men's and women's event. The series was headlined by two ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and two WTA Premier 5 events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 1, ATP \u2013 BB&T Atlanta Open\nJohn Isner was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Ryan Harrison in a rematch of the 2017 final, 5\u20137, 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 2, WTA \u2013 Silicon Valley Classic (San Jose)\nMadison Keys was the defending champion, but withdrew due to a wrist injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 68], "content_span": [69, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 2, WTA \u2013 Silicon Valley Classic (San Jose)\nMihaela Buz\u0103rnescu won her first WTA Tour singles title, defeating Maria Sakkari in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 68], "content_span": [69, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 3, ATP \u2013 Rogers Cup (Toronto)\nAlexander Zverev was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Stefanos Tsitsipas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 3, ATP \u2013 Rogers Cup (Toronto)\nRafael Nadal won his fourth Rogers Cup title, defeating Tsitsipas in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20134).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 3, WTA \u2013 Rogers Cup (Montreal)\nElina Svitolina was the defending champion, but she lost to Sloane Stephens in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 3, WTA \u2013 Rogers Cup (Montreal)\nWorld No. 1 Simona Halep won the title, defeating Stephens in the final, 7\u20136(8\u20136), 3\u20136, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 4, ATP \u2013 Western & Southern Open (Cincinnati)\nGrigor Dimitrov was the defending champion, but lost to Novak Djokovic in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 4, ATP \u2013 Western & Southern Open (Cincinnati)\nDjokovic won the title, defeating Roger Federer in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, becoming the first player to win all nine ATP Masters 1000 events since its inception in 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 4, WTA \u2013 Western & Southern Open (Cincinnati)\nGarbi\u00f1e Muguruza was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Lesia Tsurenko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 4, WTA \u2013 Western & Southern Open (Cincinnati)\nKiki Bertens won her first hard court & Premier 5 level title by beating Simona Halep in the final, 2\u20136, 7\u20136(8\u20136), 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 5, ATP \u2013 Winston-Salem Open\nRoberto Bautista Agut was the defending champion but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 5, ATP \u2013 Winston-Salem Open\nDaniil Medvedev won the title, defeating Steve Johnson in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 5, WTA \u2013 Connecticut Open (New Haven)\nDaria Gavrilova was the defending champion, but lost to Aryna Sabalenka in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Week 5, WTA \u2013 Connecticut Open (New Haven)\nSabalenka went on to win her first WTA Tour title, defeating Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Weeks 6\u20137, ATP \u2013 US Open (New York)\nRafael Nadal was the defending champion, but retired in his semifinal match against Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Weeks 6\u20137, ATP \u2013 US Open (New York)\nNovak Djokovic won the title, his third at the US Open and 14th Grand Slam title overall, tying Pete Sampras, defeating del Potro in the final, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Weeks 6\u20137, WTA \u2013 US Open (New York)\nSloane Stephens was the defending champion, but lost to Anastasija Sevastova in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283255-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open Series, Weeks 6\u20137, WTA \u2013 US Open (New York)\nNaomi Osaka won the title by defeating Serena Williams in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283256-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open of Curling\nThe 2018 US Open of Curling was held from December 31, 2017 to January 2, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283257-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Boys' Doubles\nHsu Yu-hsiou and Wu Yibing were the defending champions, but both players were no longer eligible to participate in junior tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283257-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Boys' Doubles\nAdrian Andreev and Anton Matusevich won the title, defeating Emilio Nava and Axel Nefve in the final, 6\u20134, 2\u20136, [10\u20138].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283258-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Boys' Singles\nWu Yibing was the defending champion, but was no longer eligible to participate in junior tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283258-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Boys' Singles\nThiago Seyboth Wild won the title, defeating Lorenzo Musetti in the final, 6\u20131, 2\u20136, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283259-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Day-by-day summaries\nThis is a list of day-by-day summaries of the 2018 US Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283259-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (September 8)\nSerena Williams was attempting to equal Margaret Court's record of 24 Grand Slam titles and was also attempting to set new Open Era records to have a seventh US Open title, to surpass Chris Evert's record of six titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283260-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Girls' Doubles\nOlga Danilovi\u0107 and Marta Kostyuk were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283260-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Girls' Doubles\nTop seeds Cori Gauff and Caty McNally won the title, defeating Hailey Baptiste and Dalayna Hewitt in an all-American final, 6\u20133, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283261-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Girls' Singles\nAmanda Anisimova was the defending champion, but was chosen to compete in the women's singles instead as a wild card losing to Taylor Townsend in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283261-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Girls' Singles\nWang Xiyu won the title, defeating Clara Burel in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283262-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMike Bryan and Jack Sock won their second consecutive Grand Slam as a pair, defeating \u0141ukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20131. Mike Bryan won an all-time record 18th grand slam men's doubles title, and with a 6th US Open men's doubles title, he equals Richard Sears and Holcombe Ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283262-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBryan retained the ATP number 1 doubles ranking at the conclusion of this tournament, after fellow contenders Oliver Marach and John Peers both lost in the early rounds. Sock reached a career-high ranking of no. 2 after this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283262-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tec\u0103u were the defending champions, but lost in the second round to Radu Albot and Malek Jaziri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283262-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283263-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nNovak Djokovic defeated Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro in the final, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20133 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 2018 US Open. It was his third US Open title and 14th major title overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283263-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nRafael Nadal was the defending champion, but he retired in his semifinal match against del Potro. Nadal and Roger Federer were in contention for the ATP no. 1 singles ranking; Nadal retained the top ranking after Federer lost in the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283263-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nThis tournament was the last major for former world No. 3 David Ferrer; he retired from his first round match against Nadal due to injury. This was also the last US Open appearance for former world No. 8 Marcos Baghdatis and the last major tournament for Julien Benneteau, Gilles M\u00fcller, Florian Mayer, Carlos Berlocq and former world No. 8 and two-time US Open semifinalist Mikhail Youzhny. This was also the first Grand Slam tournament since Wimbledon 2017 in which former world No. 1 Andy Murray participated, where he was granted a protected ranking. He lost in the second round to Fernando Verdasco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283263-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nPeter Polansky became the first player in history to qualify as a lucky loser for the main draw of all four Grand Slams in the same calendar year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283263-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nThere were seven active major champions and seven active US Open champions; all participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283263-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283264-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nMartina Hingis and Jamie Murray were the defending champions, but Hingis retired from professional tennis at the end of 2017. Murray successfully defended his title alongside Bethanie Mattek-Sands, defeating Alicja Rosolska and Nikola Mekti\u0107, 2\u20136, 6\u20133, [11\u20139] to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 2018 US Open", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283265-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Doubles\nAlfie Hewett and Gordon Reid were the defending champions, and successfully defended their title, defeating St\u00e9phane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer in the final, 5\u20137, 6\u20133, [11\u20139]. Due to rain, the match was moved to Arthur Ashe Stadium, but it took place virtually under closed doors, as all the spectators and TV crews had left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283266-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Singles\nSt\u00e9phane Houdet was the defending champion, but lost to Nicolas Peifer in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283266-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Singles\nAlfie Hewett won his first title, defeating Shingo Kunieda in the final, 6\u20133, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283267-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Quad Doubles\nAndrew Lapthorne and David Wagner were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Dylan Alcott and Bryan Barten in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20130, [10\u20134].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283268-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Quad Singles\nDavid Wagner was the defending champion, but lost to Dylan Alcott in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283268-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Quad Singles, Draw, Round Robin\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283269-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Doubles\nMarjolein Buis and Diede de Groot were the defending champions, but chose to compete with different partners. De Groot successfully defended her title alongside Yui Kamiji, defeating Buis and Aniek van Koot in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283270-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Singles\nYui Kamiji was the defending champion, but lost to Diede de Groot in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283270-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Singles\nDiede de Groot won her first title, defeating Yui Kamiji in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283271-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAshleigh Barty and CoCo Vandeweghe defeated T\u00edmea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic in the final, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 7\u20136(8\u20136), to win the Women's Doubles tennis title at the 2018 US Open", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283271-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nBabos retained the WTA no. 1 doubles ranking after the tournament as Ekaterina Makarova failed to reach the final and Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 failed to claim the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283271-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nLatisha Chan and Martina Hingis were the defending champions, but Hingis retired from professional tennis at the end of 2017. Chan played alongside Victoria Azarenka, but they retired in the second round against Raquel Atawo and Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283271-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283272-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nNaomi Osaka defeated Serena Williams in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134 to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 2018 US Open. She became the first Japanese to win a major singles title. With the win, Osaka also made her top 10 rankings debut, becoming the world No. 7 . She lost only one set during the tournament, to Aryna Sabalenka in the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283272-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nSloane Stephens was the defending champion, but lost to Anastasija Sevastova in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283272-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nSimona Halep's first-round loss to Kaia Kanepi marked the first time in the Open Era that the top seed lost in the first round of the women's singles of the US Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283272-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThe losses of Halep in the first round and second-seed Caroline Wozniacki in the second round marked the first time that neither of the top two seeds advanced past the second round of the tournament, and the second time this happened at any major in the Open Era (following the 2014 French Open).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283272-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nSerena Williams was attempting to equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles. Williams was also attempting to set a new Open Era record by winning a seventh US Open singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283272-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThis was the final major appearance for former world No. 2, 2012 Wimbledon finalist and 2015 WTA Finals champion Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska, who was unseeded for the first time since 2007 Wimbledon Championships; she lost in the first round to Tatjana Maria. This was also the final major singles appearance for former world No. 5 and 2015 French Open finalist Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1; she lost in the second round to Ashleigh Barty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283272-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final\nThe 2018 US Open Women's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Women's Singles tournament at the 2018 US Open. It was contested between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka, seeded 17th and 20th respectively. Osaka defeated Williams in straight sets, 6\u20132, 6\u20134, in one hour and 19 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final\nThe match was historically significant for both players. It was Williams' first US Open after a 12-month hiatus to give birth to her first child in September 2017, and second attempt since her pregnancy (after that year's Wimbledon) to equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam titles. Osaka was the first Japanese player to contest a Grand Slam women's singles final, and was attempting to become the first able-bodied Japanese player, male or female, to win a Grand Slam singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final\nThe match generated significant controversy due to a series of altercations between Williams and chair umpire Carlos Ramos during the second set. Williams' on-court behavior and Ramos' disciplinary actions, and Williams' responses, particularly her invocation of perceived sexism during her arguments with Ramos and officials, and following the match, polarised the tennis community and media worldwide. The International Tennis Federation issued a statement supporting Carlos Ramos' umpiring during the match, stating that his \"decisions were in accordance with the relevant rules and were re-affirmed by the US Open\u2019s decision to fine Serena Williams for the three offences\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Background\nThe pair met only once previously, with Osaka winning in straight sets in the first round of the 2018 Miami Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Background, Williams\nAt the start of the tournament, Williams had won 23 Grand Slam championships, the most in the Open Era, and second-most of all time, and was attempting to equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam championships, which required her to best her own record of being the oldest female Grand Slam women's singles champion at the time set at the 2017 Australian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Background, Williams\n2018 marked a highly anticipated comeback for Williams since giving birth in September 2017. Her prior successes, and consequent status as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, attracted significant media interest in her pregnancy and motherhood, where she openly revealed almost suffering near-fatal childbirth-related complications as a result of an emergency Caesarian section, requiring five surgeries and leaving her bedridden for six weeks. She used her struggle to cast light on the issue, consequently being hailed as an inspiration for mothers overall, further adding to public anticipation towards her return to tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Background, Williams\nWilliams' return was, however, difficult. Originally intending to return for the 2018 Australian Open, complications from her pregnancy caused her to miss the tournament, leaving her unable to defend her title from the previous year, and delay her return until the Indian Wells Masters that February, where she lost to older sister Venus in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Background, Williams\nIn the Miami Open two weeks later, Williams would face Osaka for the first time, and only time until their US Open match, in the first round, where Osaka upset Williams in straight sets - Williams' earliest ever exit from the Miami Open in her career. Williams' first Grand Slam campaign since her return at the French Open ended disappointingly, as she withdrew before her fourth round match against Maria Sharapova. However, her Wimbledon campaign the following month was more successful, reaching the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Background, Williams\nDespite losing to Angelique Kerber in straight sets, her feat of reaching the final in the first place was seen as both a return to form\u2014Sonia Oxley of BBC Sport quipping that \"she still has the stamina, spirit and shots to carry on collecting Grand Slam titles\", and 2016 men's singles champion Andy Murray noting that \"It is tough to bet against her now she's got this far\"\u2014and a reinforcement of her status as an icon of motherhood and women's empowerment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Background, Osaka\nOsaka was relatively unknown, beginning the year ranked No. 68, having only entered the top 50 briefly in 2016, and having neither been seeded in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament nor advanced beyond the third round. She had, however, made a break at the 2017 US Open, upsetting defending champion Angelique Kerber in the first round, 6\u20133, 6\u20131. She improved upon her Grand Slam record at the 2018 Australian Open, advancing to the fourth round where she lost to world No. 1 and eventual runner-up Simona Halep in straight sets, 6\u20133, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Background, Osaka\nFollowing her 2018 Australian Open campaign, Osaka earned the biggest win of her career at Indian Wells, during which she defeated former World No. 1s Maria Sharapova and Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1, and avenged her Australian Open loss to Halep in the semi-final, before defeating Daria Kasatkina in the final to claim her biggest championship yet. Subsequently, she entered the 2018 French Open seeded 21st, the first Grand Slam tournament in which she was seeded in the main draw. By mid-August 2018, Osaka attained the highest ranking yet of her career at World No. 17, and was the youngest player in the WTA's top 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Background, Osaka\nOsaka entered the main draw of the US Open seeded 20th; however, early round losses on her side of the draw, including those of Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki and former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitov\u00e1, meant that Osaka did not face any player seeded above her until her semi-final with Madison Keys. Osaka qualified for the final having only dropped one set during the entire tournament (in the fourth round against Aryna Sabalenka), and by beating Keys in the semi-final 6\u20132, 6\u20134, a match during which she saved all 13 break points she faced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Background, Osaka\nOsaka was the first player from Japan to contest a Grand Slam women's singles final (the second Japanese able-bodied player overall after Kei Nishikori at the 2014 US Open, and fourth player overall after Nishikori, Yui Kamiji and Shingo Kunieda), and was attempting to become the first able-bodied Japanese player, male or female, to win a Grand Slam singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Background, Osaka\nOsaka's personal admiration for Williams as a primary inspiration for her tennis career was a focal point of the media's interest in her rise. Upon defeating Maria Sharapova in her successful 2018 Indian Wells campaign, Osaka quipped, \"There are three people I wanted to play, Venus, [Sharapova] and Serena. Now I'm just waiting to play Serena.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Background, Osaka\nWilliams has been described as Osaka's \"hero\" and \"idol\", and the US Open final matchup as Osaka's childhood dream; Osaka's focus has been described as \"solely on becoming the next Serena\", Osaka herself remarking that, during challenging scenarios on court, she thinks \"What would Serena do?\" Interviewed following her semi-final victory over Keys, Osaka commented on her thoughts during the match, \"I was just thinking that I really wanted to play Serena, because she is Serena,\" and when asked what her message to Serena would be, simply said, \"I love you.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Match\nThe match began at 4:20\u00a0pm local time. Carlos Ramos of Portugal was the chair umpire for the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Match, First set\nThe first set passed by without any major incident, with Osaka breaking twice en route to winning it 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Match, Second set\nWith Williams leading the second set, 1\u20130, 15-40, chair umpire Ramos gave Williams an official warning for alleged coaching, a code violation under International Tennis Federation rules. Television replays showed her coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, gesturing to Serena with his hands and nodding, apparently signalling her to move forward towards the net. Mouratoglou admitted after the match that he did signal some form of coaching from the players' box, but of which he believed Williams was unaware. In response, Williams approached Ramos and told him, \"If he's giving me a thumbs up, he's telling me to come on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Match, Second set\nWe don't have any code, and I know you don't know that, and I understand why you thought that was coaching but I'm telling you it's not. I don't cheat to win. I'd rather lose. I'm just letting you know.\" Osaka won the next point to level the second set, 1\u20131. During the following court change, leading 2-1, Williams brought up the matter again with Ramos, saying \"it's not something I would do but I could understand why you may have thought that but just know I've never cheated.\" Ramos assured Williams that he understood her, the on-court microphone picking him up telling Williams \"I understood your reaction as well\", which Williams thanked him for; however, the ruling was upheld and the penalty was not retracted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Match, Second set\nAfter breaking Osaka's serve for the first time in the match, Williams was serving at 3\u20131, at 30-15, however double faulted two points in a row to bring up break point, 30-40. Osaka broke back Williams' serve on the next point to bring the set back on serve, 3\u20132, as Williams hit the ball into the net on a backhand unforced error, turned to her box in frustration saying (according to on-court commentator Luke Jensen) \"I can't get over the top of the ball\", and smashed her racket on the court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Match, Second set\nRamos issued her a second code violation, this time for racket abuse. As her second violation, she was penalised a point, and thus the next game started 15-0 to Osaka's advantage. Upon hearing of this, Williams raised the issue of her first code violation again with Ramos, insisting \"this is unbelievable. Every time I play here I have problems.\" Williams insisted that Ramos \"make an announcement that I didn't get coaching ... you owe me an apology, I have never cheated in my life!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Match, Second set\nInvoking her recent pregnancy, she further remonstrated that \"I have a daughter and I stand for what is right for her\" and that \"you will never do another one of my matches.\" Despite the disruption, Osaka kept her concentration and held serve the following game to level the set at 3\u20133, before breaking Williams' serve a second time in the set with a forehand winner to lead 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Match, Second set\nAt the following change of ends, Williams continued to furiously berate Ramos, accusing him of attacking her character by insinuating that she cheated via being coached. She continued to demand an apology from Ramos, asserting to him that \"you will never, ever, ever, be on another court of mine as long as you live.\" The exchange culminated in Williams calling the umpire a \"liar\" and a \"thief\" for, as she perceived, unjustly \"stealing\" a point following the racket abuse incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Match, Second set\nRamos judged this to be a further code violation for verbal abuse; as the third code violation of the match against Williams, Osaka was awarded the next game by default, bringing the score to 5\u20133 and Osaka one game away from victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0015-0002", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Match, Second set\nWilliams then demanded to speak to tournament referee Brian Earley and WTA supervisor Donna Kelso, to whom Williams indignantly claimed that such incidents have \"happened to me too many times\", she was being unfairly penalized because she was a woman, and that male players \"do a lot worse\" without penalty, and that \"it happened to me at this tournament every single year\" (Williams had previously been subject to code violations only three times in over twenty tournaments here, all of which were upheld. Following this exchange, Williams held her serve to love (at 5\u20134), and continued to remonstrate with Kelso after the game. Osaka, however, held serve in the following game to win the set 6\u20134 and the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Aftermath\nUpon defeat, Williams embraced Osaka, but refused to shake Ramos' hand as per game etiquette, instead pointing at him and reasserting, \"You owe me an apology.\" As Ramos left the court, the US crowd booed; Osaka, after greeting her team, did not acknowledge the crowd but immediately returned to her bench and hid her face with her towel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Aftermath\nThe clearly partisan crowd continued booing as the trophy presentation commenced, interrupting both MC Tom Rinaldi of ESPN and USTA president Katrina Adams several times. Ramos was not present to receive his token of appreciation as is normally the case in Grand Slam finals, and Osaka hid her face under her visor and wept as Williams consoled her. Upon accepting her runner-up plate, Williams, also in tears, attempted to stay positive and encourage the crowd by congratulating Osaka and pleading the crowd not to boo anymore, after which the crowd began to cheer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Aftermath\nUpon receiving the trophy, Rinaldi asked Osaka for her thoughts on playing and defeating her idol. Osaka, still in tears, deferred from his question to address the crowd, saying graciously, \"I know everyone was cheering for her and I'm sorry it had to end like this,\" before acknowledging her family, team, and Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Aftermath\nWilliams, in her post-match press conference, raised the gender issue again, saying that the violations made her \"feel like it was a sexist remark\", reasserting that men have said worse things on court without violation, and drawing upon an earlier controversy in the tournament where Aliz\u00e9 Cornet was given a code violation for taking off her shirt on-court (an action male players frequently do), as an example of double standards between men and women in tennis. She alluded to her actions being part of her role to stand up for women's rights and equality, and vowed to continue, a statement which drew both isolated applause and murmurs from the attendees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Reaction\nthe WTA believes there should be no difference in the standards of tolerance provided to the emotions expressed by men vs women. We are committed to working with the sport to ensure all players are treated the same. We do not believe this was done.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Reaction\nThe on-court incidents of the second set polarised opinions among current and retired tennis players worldwide. Chris Evert (whose Open Era record of 6 US Open women's singles titles Williams would have broken had Williams won), while commentating the match for ESPN, claimed that while first and second code violations were common for similar incidents, it was unprecedented to issue a third code violation (and therefore game penalty) for verbal abuse. Immediately following the match, interviewed while still in the player's box, Mouratoglou admitted to coaching Williams, but doubted whether Williams saw his gestures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Reaction\nMouratoglou added that \"100% of coaches on 100% of matches\" still commit such actions, calling the response a \"hypocrite thing\" and the act of Williams breaking her racket a normal human emotional reaction to the situation. Evert later agreed with Mouratoglou that \"every coach coaches\" despite it being a violation of rules, and with Williams' point that men have said worse things, including profanities (which Williams did not say), without penalty, but added that Williams' adamant insistence upon an apology aggravated the situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Reaction\nBillie Jean King, former US Open Champion and founder of the Women's Tennis Association, was initially supportive of Williams, tweeting following the match: \"When a woman is emotional, she's 'hysterical' and she's penalised for it. When a man does the same, he's 'outspoken' and there are no repercussions. Thank you, Serena Williams, for calling out this double standard. More voices are needed to do the same.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Reaction\nHowever, being interviewed by Christiane Amanpour three days later, King softened her criticism of the perceived double standard, admitting that Ramos did the right thing and could not apologise as Williams demanded in the situation, and placing some responsibility on Williams, saying that \"No one was saying she was a good sport, if they are they're crazy. She was totally out of line.\" King, however, agreed with Evert, that Ramos could have been less strict and given Williams a softer warning prior to any disciplinary actions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0021-0002", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Reaction\nIn an op-ed for The New York Times, 4-time US Open champion Martina Navratilova claimed Williams' behaviour was not excused by the question of whether a male player would have avoided penalty, and added that while Mouratoglou was partly right in saying that coaching was widespread, so is the issuing of penalties for doing so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Reaction\nWorldwide opinion was divided following the match, with many branding Williams' behaviour \"embarrassing\" and \"ridiculous\", while others claimed she was a victim of blatant sexism. The decision to penalise Williams was also criticized by many, including 2003 men's champion Andy Roddick and two-time US Open finalist Victoria Azarenka, among others. Former world number one Ana Ivanovic, though, stayed away from the controversy, commending Osaka for her composed performance throughout the match while also praising Williams for being the champion she is.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Reaction\nHowever, Williams also received support from WTA chief executive Steve Simon, as well as United States Tennis Association president Katrina Adams, who had been ridiculed for hailing Williams' \"class and sportsmanship\" during the post-match presentation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283273-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 US Open \u2013 Women's singles final, Reaction\nThe International Tennis Federation later issued a statement supporting Carlos Ramos' umpiring during the match, stating that his \"decisions were in accordance with the relevant rules and were re-affirmed by the US Open\u2019s decision to fine Serena Williams for the three offences.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283274-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 US egg recall\nThe 2018 US egg recall was a product recall for fresh chicken eggs in the United States beginning on April 13, 2018. The United States Department of Agriculture recalled more than 200 million eggs after a salmonella outbreak connected to Iowa egg farms, including Rose Acre Farms. It is the largest egg recall since 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283275-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 2018 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships were held at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Organized by USA Track and Field (USATF), the three-day competition took place from February 16 to February 18 and served as the national championships in indoor track and field for the United States. All marks in the competition are considered at altitude. The meet serves for the selection of American representatives at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships held in Birmingham March 1 to March 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283275-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification\nThe 2018 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships serve as the qualification meet for United States representatives in international competitions, including the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In order to be entered, athletes need to achieve a qualifying standard mark and place in the top 2 in their event and top 12 in the world. The United States team, as managed by USATF, can also bring a qualified back up athlete in case one of the team members is unable to perform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283275-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification\nAdditionally, defending World Champions received byes into the World Championships. The athletes eligible for a bye are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283276-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 2018 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships were held at Drake Stadium on the campus of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Organized by USA Track & Field, the four-day competition took place June 21\u201324 and serves as the national championships in track and field for the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283276-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 50 kilometers race walk was held January 20 at Santee, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283276-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Men's results\nKey:\u2260\u00a0Not yet selected in respective event because the athlete has not achieved the required qualifying standard. However, athletes can still pursue standards following this meet and still make the team provided they attain it before the July 23 cutoff date..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283276-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification\nThe 2018 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships serve as the qualification meet for United States representatives in international competitions, including the 2018 NACAC Championships. In order to be entered, athletes need to achieve a qualifying standard mark and place in the top 3 in their event. The United States team, as managed by USATF, can also bring a qualified back up athlete in case one of the team members is unable to perform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283276-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification\nAdditionally, defending World Champions and 2017 Diamond League Champions received byes into the World Championships. The athletes eligible for a bye are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283276-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification, Diamond League Champions\nBoth qualified by winning their respective events in the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 87], "content_span": [88, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283277-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Sevens\nThe 2018 USA Sevens (also sometimes referred to as the 2018 Las Vegas Sevens) was the fifteenth edition of the USA Sevens tournament, and the sixth tournament of the 2017\u201318 World Rugby Sevens Series. The tournament was played between 2 and 4 March 2018 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283277-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Sevens\nThe tournament was won by the United States who beat Argentina 28\u20130 in the final. This was the first time that the United States won its home tournament. USA's Perry Baker led the tournament with 8 tries and 11 breaks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283277-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Sevens, Format\nThe teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each, with each team playing every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/5th place brackets. The bottom two teams from each group went to the Challenge trophy/13th place brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283277-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Sevens, Teams\nFifteen core teams participated in the tournament along with one invited team, the highest-placing non-core team of the 2018 Sudam\u00e9rica Rugby Sevens, Uruguay:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283277-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Sevens, Pool stage\nAll times in Pacific Standard Time (UTC\u221208:00). The pools were scheduled as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283277-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Sevens, Players, Dream Team\nThe following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283278-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Swimming Championships\nThe 2018 Phillips 66 National Swimming Championships were held from July 25 to 29, 2018, at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center in Irvine, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283279-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Team Handball College Nationals\nThe 2018 College Nationals was the 23rd Men's and Women's College Nationals. The College Nationals was a team handball tournament to determined the College National Champion from 2018 from the US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283280-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Team Handball College Nationals - Men's Division\nThe 2018 College Nationals was the 23rd Men's College Nationals. The College Nationals was a team handball tournament to determine the College National Champion from 2018 from the US. The University of Virginia played extremely well, wildly outperforming expectations behind strong performances from the outgoing fourth-year class, but ultimately fell short in the final to the machine-like cadets from West Point. UVA has improved vastly over the last three years, and has risen to the elite ranks of collegiate team handball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283280-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Team Handball College Nationals - Men's Division, Venues\nThe championship was played at two venues at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283280-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Team Handball College Nationals - Men's Division, Draw\nThe seeding was based on the USA Men's Top 5 College Rankings from April. This season was the first season such a ranking exist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 63], "content_span": [64, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283280-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Team Handball College Nationals - Men's Division, Draw\nThe 5th ranked team Illinois State University was not able to play at the college nationals. Because of missing money to travel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 63], "content_span": [64, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283280-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Team Handball College Nationals - Men's Division, Modus\nThe nine teams were split in 3 groups A-C. And they play a round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 64], "content_span": [65, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283280-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Team Handball College Nationals - Men's Division, Modus\nThe winner of each group forms a new group D the runner-up's group D and the third group F.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 64], "content_span": [65, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283280-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Team Handball College Nationals - Men's Division, Modus\nThe winner of group D played against the winner of group E the semifinal one and the second of group D played against the third of group D the semifinal two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 64], "content_span": [65, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283280-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Team Handball College Nationals - Men's Division, Modus\nThe second and third of group F played an 8/9 classification. The loser becomes ninth. 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The small final and the final had a game duration of 2\u00d730 minutes and 10 break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 64], "content_span": [65, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283281-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Team Handball College Nationals - Women's Division\nThe 2018 College Nationals was the 23rd Women's College Nationals. The College Nationals was a team handball tournament to determine the College National Champion from 2018 from the US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283281-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Team Handball College Nationals - Women's Division\nThe Pennsylvania State University won their first title in their first season of handball competition. 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It was played on 20\u201321 October 2018 at Infinity Park in Glendale, Colorado, the first time the USA Women's Sevens was held at the venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283286-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Women's Sevens, Format\nThe teams were drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team played every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/Plate brackets while the top 2 third place teams also competed in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group played-off for the Challenge Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283286-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 USA Women's Sevens, Teams\nEleven core teams participated in the tournament along with one invited team, Mexico:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283287-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Championship\nThe 2018 USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Championship is the 63rd season of sprint car racing sanctioned by USAC. The 2018 season will feature 45 races on dirt tracks across the United States. The season will begin with Winter Dirt Games at Bubba Raceway Park on February 15, and will end with the Oval Nationals at Perris Auto Speedway on November 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283287-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Championship, Team & Driver Chart\nThis chart reflects confirmed and cited team & driver combinations only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 70], "content_span": [71, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283287-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Championship, Schedule\nThe 2018 schedule for the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Championship features 45 races (solely on dirt ovals) across 13 states. The entire season will have on-demand video coverage by . MavTV (in association with Speed Sport) will broadcast the Weedsport race on delay. Select races will be broadcast live online by . will broadcast the races at Knoxville & BAPS. DIRTvision.com will broadcast the #LetsRaceTwo weekend at Eldora. Eldora Speedway will broadcast the 4 Crown Nationals live on their streaming website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283288-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USAC P1 Insurance National Midget Championship\nThe 2018 USAC P1 Insurance National Midget Championship is the 63rd season of the Midget series sanctioned by USAC. P1 Insurance becomes the new title sponsor of the series for 2018. The season will begin with the Shamrock Classic at Southern Illinois Center on March 10, and will end with the Turkey Night Grand Prix at Ventura Raceway on November 22. The series will also have a non points race with the Junior Knepper 55 at Southern Illinois Center on December 15. Spencer Bayston enters the season as the defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283288-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 USAC P1 Insurance National Midget Championship, Schedule\nThe entire season will have on-demand video coverage by Loudpedal.TV. Select races will be broadcast live online by . will broadcast the race at BAPS. Eldora Speedway will broadcast the Four Crown Nationals on their website. NBCSN will broadcast a recap show of the BC39 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on a single-day delay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283289-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USAC Silver Crown Series\nThe 2018 USAC Silver Crown Champ Car Series is the 47th season of Silver Crown racing under the USAC banner. The series will begin with the Phoenix Copper Cup at ISM Raceway on April 7, and will end with the 4 Crown Nationals at Eldora Speedway on September 22. Kody Swanson entered the 2018 season as the defending champion. Swanson won the 2018 season title, becoming a 4-time series champion. Swanson also joined Al Unser, Sr. as one of the only two drivers in history to win four consecutive Hoosier Hundred races in a row in 2018. Swanson also became the all-time wins leader in Silver Crown at Salem with 24 wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283289-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 USAC Silver Crown Series, Schedule\nThe 2018 schedule features 6 pavement races and 5 dirt races. The entire season will have on-demand video coverage by . Select races will be broadcast live online by . Eldora Speedway will broadcast the 4 Crown Nationals live on their streaming website. Live radio coverage for most USAC National races is available on the USAC Racing App. BCSN will broadcast the Toledo race on delay. MavTV (in association with Speed51) will broadcast the Rich Vogler Classic at Lucas Oil Raceway on delay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283290-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USAFL National Championships\nThe 2018 USAFL National Championships were the 22nd installment of the premier United States annual Australian rules football club tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283291-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USARL season\nThe 2018 USA Rugby League season is the 21st season overall of semi-professional rugby league competition in the United States and the 8th season under the governance of the USARL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283292-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USC Trojans football team\nThe 2018 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and competed as members of the South Division of the Pac-12 Conference. They were led by third-year head coach Clay Helton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283292-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 USC Trojans football team\nDespite being ranked No. 15 in the AP Poll's preseason rankings, the Trojans finished the season 5\u20137, the program's first losing record since 2000. USC lost to both of its major rivals, UCLA and Notre Dame, in the same season for the first time since 2013, and it also lost to all other California Pac-12 schools (UCLA, California, and Stanford) in the same season for the first time since 1996. The team went 4\u20135 in Pac-12 play, tying Arizona for third place in the Pac-12 South Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283292-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 USC Trojans football team\nOn November 25, USC athletic director Lynn Swann announced that head coach Clay Helton would return in 2019 despite the disappointing season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283292-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 USC Trojans football team, Previous season\nThe Trojans finished the 2017 season 11\u20133, 8\u20131 in Pac-12 play to be champions of the South Division. They represented the South Division in the Pac-12 Championship Game where they defeated Stanford to become Pac-12 Champions. They were invited to play in the Cotton Bowl where they lost 7\u201324 to Ohio State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283292-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 USC Trojans football team, Personnel, Returning starters\nUSC returns 31 starters in 2018, including 11 on offense, 13 on defense, and 5 on special teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283292-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 USC Trojans football team, Personnel, Returning starters\nKey departures include Sam Darnold (QB \u2013 14 games), Ronald Jones II (TB \u2013 13 games), Deontay Burnett (WR \u2013 12 games), Steven Mitchell (WR \u2013 7 games), Jalen Greene (WR \u2013 5 games), Viane Talamaivao (OG \u2013 5 games), Nico Falah (C \u2013 14 games), Rasheem Green(DE/DT \u2013 14 games), Josh Fatu (DT \u2013 12 games), Uchenna Nwosu (OLB \u2013 14 games), Jack Jones (CB \u2013 13 games), Chris Hawkins (S \u2013 14 games), Ykili Ross (S \u2013 2 games).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283292-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 USC Trojans football team, Personnel, Returning starters\nOther departures include James Toland IV (TB), Matt Lopes (S).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283292-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 USC Trojans football team, Personnel, Scholarship distribution chart\nredshirt year used / redshirt year eligible / * Former walk-on", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283292-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 USC Trojans football team, Personnel, Scholarship distribution chart\n\u2013 OT Jalen McKenzie took an advanced scholarship or \"blueshirt\" limiting USC's class of 2018 to 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283292-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 USC Trojans football team, 2018 NFL Draft, NFL Combine\nThe official list of participants for the 2018 NFL Combine included USC football players WR Deontay Burnett, QB Sam Darnold, DE Rasheem Green, TB Ronald Jones II, WR Steven Mitchell Jr. & OLB Uchenna Nwosu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283292-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 USC Trojans football team, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days\nPac-12 media days are set for July 25, 2018 in Hollywood, California. Clay Helton (Head coach), Porter Gustin (OLB) & Cameron Smith (ILB) at Pac-12 media days. The Pac-12 media poll was released with the Trojans predicted to win the Pac-12 South division title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283293-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USL Playoffs\nThe 2018 USL Cup Playoffs was the postseason tournament following the 2018 United Soccer League regular season, the fourth since the league rebranded for the 2015 season, and second as a USSF Division II league. Including USL Pro history, it is the seventh postseason tournament. The tournament will begin on the weekend of October 20 and end on November 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283293-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 USL Playoffs\nSixteen teams (top 8 per conference) will compete in the single elimination tournament. Teams will be seeded one through eight in each conference. The conference semifinal winners will play against each other in the Conference Championship, which will serve as the overall semifinals for the playoff. The winners of the Eastern and Western Conference Championship will play for the USL Cup. The winner of the playoffs will be crowned league champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283293-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 USL Playoffs\nFC Cincinnati clinched the USL regular-season title on September 26th and will be the number one seed in the Eastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283293-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 USL Playoffs, Conference standings\nThe top 8 teams from each conference advance to the USL playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283294-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 USL season\nThe 2018 USL season was the eighth season of the United Soccer League and second under Division II sanctioning. The previous season, the USL had provisional Div. II sanctioning from the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) along with the North American Soccer League, but was given full sanctioning for the 2018 season with a two-year deadline to meet the full requirements set by U.S. Soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283294-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 USL season\nLouisville City FC were the defending USL Cup champions, while Real Monarchs were the defending Supporters\u2019 Shield champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283294-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 USL season\nThis season was the last for four teams in the USL, with all changing leagues for 2019 and beyond. FC Cincinnati will join Major League Soccer. MLS side Toronto FC announced that its reserve side, Toronto FC II, would drop to USL League One, a third-level league slated to launch in 2019, and the Richmond Kickers also chose to drop to League One for 2019 and beyond. Near the end of the season, Penn FC announced that it would suspend professional operations for 2019 and resume play in League One in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283294-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 USL season\nIt was also the final season for the league under the \"United Soccer League\" name. Effective with the 2019 season, the league has been rebranded as the USL Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283294-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 USL season, Rule changes\nRegular season games will now be considered official after the 70th minute. Teams are allowed a fourth substitution in extra time for the USL Playoffs. Teams will submit a 23-player squad at least 48 hours before kickoff. A team's 18-player gameday roster may now contain a maximum of five players signed to USL Academy contracts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283294-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 USL season, Competition format\nThe season began on March 16 and ends on October 14. The top eight finishers in each conference qualify for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283294-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 USL season, Competition format, Managerial changes\n\u2021 Luke Spencer, Paolo DelPiccolo, & George Davis IV appointed joint interim head coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283294-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 USL season, Attendance, Average home attendances\n\u2020 Two Toronto FC II home matches were moved to Highmark Stadium and Sportsplex at Matthews due to unplayable field conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 53], "content_span": [54, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283294-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 USL season, League awards, All-League teams\nF: Thomas Enevoldsen (OCO), Cameron Lancaster (LOU), Daniel Rios (NCA)M: Tah Anunga (CHS), Solomon Asante (PHX), Emmanuel Ledesma (CIN), Aodhan Quinn (OCO)D: Paco Craig (LOU), Joe Greenspan (PIT), Forrest Lasso (CIN)G: Maxime Cr\u00e9peau (OTT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283294-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 USL season, League awards, All-League teams\nF: Hadji Barry (SPR), Ataulla Guerra (CHS), Cameron Iwasa (SAC)M: Kyle Bekker (NCA), Corben Bone (CIN), Kenardo Forbes (PIT), Lebo Moloto (NSH)D: Ayoze (IND), Darnell King (SAN), Denso Ulysse (SEA)G: Josh Cohen (SAC)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nThe 2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team represented University of Santo Tomas in the 81st season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. The men's basketball tournament for the school year 2018-19 began on September 8, 2018 and the host school for the season was National University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nThe Tigers finished sixth at the end of the double-round eliminations, winning five games against nine losses. UST at one point during the second round placed fourth in the standings, but they went on to lose all four of their remaining games and crashed out of the final four matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nThey had an average losing margin of 21.0 points and an average winning margin of 9.8 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nThey had four blowout losses to only two teams: against the Ateneo Blue Eagles by 32 points in the first round and by 40 points in the second round; and against the De La Salle Green Archers by 27 points in the first round and by 41 points in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nThe 41-point loss to La Salle is the worst in the career of Aldin Ayo, the one-time NCAA and one-time UAAP champion coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nReturning fourth year point guard Renzo Subido was chosen Player of the Week by the UAAP Press Corps in the first round of eliminations for the duration of September 12-16, while rookie CJ Cansino received the citation twice on the week of October 10-14 and October 24-28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nCansino, the Season 80 Juniors MVP also made history when he became the first rookie to score a triple-double since 2003, when UAAP stats were first officially recorded. Against the UE Red Warriors in the second round, Cansino tallied 20 points, 14 rebounds, and 10 assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nThe Growling Tigers also recorded a single-game league best 59 rebounds in their opening game on September 8, 2018 against the NU Bulldogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Roster changes\nOnly big man Jeepy Faundo has graduated, but the team experienced an exodus of players before the season began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Roster changes\nRegie Boy Basibas, who had suited up for the Tigers in their preseason games, and Joco Macasaet, their veteran center, were both faced with uncertainties regarding the league's age eligibility rules as both players were turning 25 within the school year. Both of them decided to move on from the team to play in the commercial leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Roster changes\nJordan Sta. Ana also played in the preseason, but decided to go on leave before the start of the UAAP tournament. He later announced his transfer to Letran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Roster changes\nThe official lineup for UST's Season 81 campaign consisted of nine new players (eight rookies, one transferee), four holdovers and two returnees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Roster changes\nWith a champion coach tapped to handle the team, analysts have stressed how the team is still in a rebuilding phase and have once again predicted UST to miss out on a final four finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Coaching changes\nAldin Ayo replaced Boy Sablan as head coach on January 11, 2018. The coaching change was announced by Institute of Physical Education and Athletics (IPEA) director Fr. Jannel Abogado following Sablan's resignation on November 20, 2017 together with his entire coaching staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Coaching changes\nAyo, a former player of the 1998 and 1999 NCAA champion Letran Knights, came into coaching prominence after leading the Knights to the 2015 NCAA championship on his first year and duplicating the feat when he jumped over to the UAAP to lead La Salle to the 2016 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Coaching changes\nAt the end of the Season 80, he made a decision to sign with UST where he will coach the men's basketball team for the next six years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Coaching changes, Coaching Staff\nDeputies appointed to the new coaching staff were McJour Luib, Kristoffer Co, Bonnie Garcia, Randy Alcantara, Jason Misolas, Nap Garcia, Ruden de Vera, Philip Go, Marvin Pangilinan, and Noel Zorilla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 80], "content_span": [81, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, UAAP Season 81 games results\nElimination games were played in a double round-robin format. All games were aired on ABS-CBN Sports and Action & Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283295-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, UAAP Season 81 games results\nTimes listed above are in UTC+08:00Source: Pong Ducanes, Imperium Technology", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283296-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UT Martin Skyhawks football team\nThe 2018 UT Martin Skyhawks football team represented the University of Tennessee at Martin during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 13th-year head coach Jason Simpson and played their home games at Graham Stadium. They were a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 2\u20139, 2\u20136 in OVC play to finish in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283296-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UT Martin Skyhawks football team, Previous season\nThe Skyhawks finished the 2017 season 6\u20135, 4\u20134 in OVC play to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283296-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UT Martin Skyhawks football team, Preseason, OVC media poll\nOn July 20, 2018, the media covering the OVC released their preseason poll with the Skyhawks predicted to finish in third place. On July 23, the OVC released their coches poll with the Skyhawks also predicted to finish in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283296-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UT Martin Skyhawks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-OVC team\nThe Skyahwks had three players selected to the preseason all-OVC team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283297-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UTEP Miners football team\nThe 2018 UTEP Miners football team represented University of Texas at El Paso in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Miners played their home games at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas and competed in the West Division of Conference USA (C\u2013USA). They were led by first-year head coach Dana Dimel. They finished the season 1\u201311, 1\u20137 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for sixth place in the West Division. UTEP averaged 14,155 fans per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283297-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UTEP Miners football team, Previous season\nThe Miners in 2017 were led by fifth-year head coach Sean Kugler until his resignation on October 2 and then by interim head coach Mike Price, who had previously served at UTEP's head coach from 2004 to 2012. The Miners finished the season with a record 0\u201312, 0\u20138 in C-USA play to finish in last place in the West Division. They were winless for the first time since the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283297-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UTEP Miners football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nConference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Miners predicted to finish in a tie for sixth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283297-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UTEP Miners football team, Spring Game\nThe 2018 Spring Game took place in El Paso, on April 13, at 7 p.m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283298-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UTSA Roadrunners football team\nThe 2018 UTSA Roadrunners football team represented the University of Texas at San Antonio in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Roadrunners played their home games at the Alamodome in San Antonio, TX, and competed in the West Division of Conference USA (C\u2013USA). They were led by third-year head coach Frank Wilson. They finished the season 3\u20139, 2\u20136 in C-USA play to finish in fifth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283298-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UTSA Roadrunners football team, Previous season\nThe Roadrunners finished the 2017 season 6\u20135, 3\u20135 in C-USA play to finish in fifth place in the West Division. Despite being bowl eligible for the second consecutive season, the Roadrunners did not receive a bowl bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283298-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UTSA Roadrunners football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CUSA team\nConference USA released their preseason all-CUSA team on July 16, 2018, with the Roadrunners having two players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283298-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UTSA Roadrunners football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nConference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Roadrunners predicted to finish in fifth place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283298-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UTSA Roadrunners football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State\nUTSA's defense gave up over 400 yards to Kansas State and dropped their record to 0-3, where Kansas State advanced to 2-1 for the season. UTSA head coach Frank Wilson said, \"Unfortunately we did not always execute to the fullest, but I think take away a couple of big-play opportunities, they weren't going methodically down the field and just shoving us around. We held them to some third-down opportunities, but we just couldn't get them off the field.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283299-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 UY Aviation King Air C90 crash\nOn 28 June 2018, at about 1:15 pm, a Beechcraft C90 King Air aircraft chartered from UY Aviation Pvt Ltd with the registration VT-UPZ crashed at Jagruti Nagar in the suburb of Ghatkopar in Mumbai. The 12-seater aircraft carried 4 people, including the pilot. All people on board plus one person on the ground were killed. A further three people on the ground were seriously injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283299-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 UY Aviation King Air C90 crash\nAs a result of the crash, a fire broke out in the built-up area. Local firefighters and police responded to the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283299-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 UY Aviation King Air C90 crash\nThe aircraft had departed from Juhu Aerodrome for a test flight. Five people lost their lives in this accident; 2 pilots, 1 Technician, 1 Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, and 1 civilian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283299-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 UY Aviation King Air C90 crash, Investigation\nThe Aircraft Accident Investigation Board released the report in Dec 2018. The probable cause of the accident as per the report was a stall caused by lack of situational awareness due to spatial disorientation triggered by deteriorating weather, a transition from ILS (IMC) to visual flying (Partial VMC) and unexpected bank owing to differential engine power. The report indicts the Indian DGCA for violation of regulations in granting the Air Operator Permit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283299-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 UY Aviation King Air C90 crash, Investigation\nThe aircraft VT-UPZ was previously owned by the Uttar Pradesh government. In 2014, the aircraft had an accident in Allahabad in which there was substantial damage, but the DGCA investigation determined it to be a minor incident. As a result of this report, the certificate of airworthiness was not cancelled. Over the next decade, the aircraft changed ownership and was transported to Mumbai where the repair work was carried out under the supervision of the DGCA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283299-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 UY Aviation King Air C90 crash, Investigation\nCapt. Amit Singh FRAeS, an aviation , carried out a detailed independent of the accident and submitted the report to the , Ministry of Civil Aviation, India. Capt. Amit Singh has stated that the AAIB investigation was manipulated and did not correctly identify the cause of the accident, and therefore needs an independent investigation by a court of inquiry. The investigation had completely shielded the operator who was granted an Air Operator Permit by the Indian DGCA without having filled the mandatory post of the Chief of Safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283299-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 UY Aviation King Air C90 crash, Investigation\nAs per the technical report, the loss of function in both engines during the flight was the most likely cause of the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283300-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uber Cup group stage\nThis article lists the fixtures of the group stage for the 2018 Uber Cup in Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283301-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uber Cup knockout stage\nThis article lists the fixtures of the knockout stage for the 2018 Uber Cup in Bangkok, Thailand. It began on 24 May with the quarter-finals and ended on 26 May with the final match of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283301-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Uber Cup knockout stage, Qualified teams\nThe top two placed teams from each of the eight groups will qualify for the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283302-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uber Cup qualification\nThe 2018 Uber Cup qualification process is a series of tournaments organised by the five BWF confederations to decide 14 of the 16 teams which will play in the 2018 Uber Cup, with Thailand qualifying automatically as hosts, and China qualifying automatically as trophy holder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283302-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Uber Cup qualification, Qualification process\nThe number of teams participating in the final tournament are 16. Even though the qualification process began in February 2018, the allocation of slots for each confederation was similar to the allocation in 2016 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283302-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Uber Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, Badminton Confederation of Africa\nThe qualification for the African teams was held from 12 to 15 February 2018, at the Hac\u00e8ne Harcha Arena in Algiers, Algeria. The winners of the African qualification will qualified for the Uber Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 91], "content_span": [92, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283302-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Uber Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, Badminton Asia\nThe qualification for the Asian teams was held from 6 to 11 February 2018, at the Stadium Sultan Abdul Halim in Alor Setar, Malaysia. The semi-finalist of the Asian qualification will qualified for the Uber Cup. Thailand qualifying automatically as hosts, and China qualifying automatically as trophy holder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283302-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Uber Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, Badminton Europe\nThe qualification for the European teams was held from 13 to 18 February 2018, at the Kazan Gymnastics Centre in Kazan, Russia. The semi-finalist of the European qualification will qualified for the Uber Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 74], "content_span": [75, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283302-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Uber Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, Badminton Pan Am\nThe qualification for the Pan American teams will held from 15 to 18 February 2018, at the National Racket Centre in Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago. The winner of the Pan American qualification will qualified for the Uber Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 74], "content_span": [75, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283302-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Uber Cup qualification, Confederation qualification, Badminton Oceania\nThe qualification for the Oceanian teams was held from 6 to 7 February 2018, at the Eastlink Badminton Stadium in Hamilton, New Zealand. The winner of the Oceania qualification will qualified for the Uber Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 75], "content_span": [76, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283302-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Uber Cup qualification, World team rankings\nBelow is the chart of the BWF World Team Ranking calculated by adding World Ranking of top three Women's Singles players and top two Women's Doubles pairs on 22 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283303-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uganda Cup\nUganda Cup 2018 was the 44th season of the main Ugandan football Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283303-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Uganda Cup\nThe competition was won by KCCA FC who defeated Vipers SC 1-0 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final\nThe 2018 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that has been scheduled to be played on May 9, 2018 in Dnipro. This was the second time the cup final has been held in Dnipro. The match was the 27th Ukrainian Cup Final since fall of the Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, Road to Dnipro\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, Previous encounters\nThe game between Shakhtar and Dynamo has become the main fixture of every season and received a nickname of Klasychne which means Classic. Before this game both teams met in a final of Ukrainian Cup nine times, the first being back in 2002. Games between the two clubs are known to be very intense and out of the nine previous meetings in the final, only two in 2003 and 2017 did not have red cards shown to players. There were total of 14 red cards shown with 13 in finals only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, Previous encounters\nBefore this final out of the previous nine Shakhtar won 4 games and Dynamo won 4, one more game Dynamo won on penalty kicks. In total both teams met in this competition 13 times, once in semifinals, once in quarterfinals, once in round of 16 and once in round of 32. The total record is +4=1-8 in favor of Shakhtar. There were only two games when Shakhtar did not score against Dynamo, in 2005 and in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, Previous encounters\nIt is going to be 150th game of Shakhtar in Ukrainian Cup competition. This will be the 18th time and the competition's record for Miners reaching the final stage. This will be the 16th time for Dynamo reaching the final stage. Both teams won the cup trophy an even number of times, 11 a piece. It will be the eighth consecutive final for Miners since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, Previous encounters\nAliaksandr Khatskevich as a Dynamo player two times scored against Shakhtar back in 2000 and 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, Previous encounters\nBefore the final, in 2017-18 season Shakhtar and Dynamo has met three times within the league competition where Dynamo has won two and one game was tied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, Previous encounters\nFor Yuriy Mozharovskyi this is the third cup final. With him, Dynamo has already beat Shakhtar twice; however considering results of the Ukrainian Super Cup in 2014, total tally between those teams with this referee at such level is 2 to 1 respectfully.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, Before the game\nThe game was scheduled on the day of the former Soviet holiday Victory Day that is continued to be celebrated in the Russian Federation as a national holiday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, Before the game\nBefore the final in interview to the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) website Dynamo manager Aliaksandr Khatskevich stated that his team intends to continue to compete for the championship despite trailing five points behind the Miners with just two more rounds before finishline. However with the victory in the Cup, Dynamo also will be happy. Identifying the key players in Shakhtar, the head coach of Dynamo pointed to Pyatov, Rakitskyi, and Taison. Khatskevich stated that he considers them leaders in each of the team's positions. At the end the Dynamo's manager drew attention that today's game will differ from previous ones in which Kievans had not yielded to Miners. In the championship the White-Blues defeated Donchans twice and one time a game ended in draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 816]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, Before the game\nAt the same time Shakhtar manager Paulo Fonseca also giving an interview to the FFU website stated that he anticipates a very difficult and emotional match against Dynamo in the final of Ukrainian Cup. According to the Portuguese specialist both teams have changed significantly compared with the past year final, in which Shakhtar beat Kievans (1:0). He also explained why games with Dynamo are for him special and at the end highlighted the principles on which the game of his team is built.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, Before the game\nAccording to the Ukraine international and Shakhtar player Marlos Kievans became stronger in comparison with the past year final. Another Ukraine international and Dynamo player Ruslan Rotan stated that for Dynamo play two ex-Dniprians: Denys Boiko and him. Nonetheless, Dniprian fans will be cheering for Dynamo as there are traditionally more supporters of the Kievan club. Active fans of Dniprian and Kievan clubs befriend with one another therefore the support will be on the Dynamo's side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, Before the game\nBefore the game a street brawl occurred between football fans, which led to have some 20 individuals to be detained, according to a representative of local police. One police officer received burn injury due to a pyrotechnic device and a police patrol vehicle has been vandalized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, Before the game\nSome minor technical issue occurred when for about 15 minutes at the stadium disappeared light with only scoreboard and commercial ads boards staying lit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, After the game\nRight before the end of the game, the Shakhtar right back Bohdan Butko suffered an injury at the 90th minute and was brought out of the field on stretchers. He was substituted by David Khocholava. It was seen as Butko was leaving the pitch that he was applying an ice to his left thigh. During the game Butko assisted on the first goal by Ferreyra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, After the game\nAt the post game press conference Khatskevich stated that no one showed oneself expressively and he won't point to nobody. The team lost all together. He stated that Dynamo was punished for its mistakes, while Shakhtar that also was making mistakes, Dynamo failed to punish. This says about the class of footballers. Khatskevich pointed that Dynamo has good young lads, but yet there is work and work as in terms of mentality so is technique and tactics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283304-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Cup Final, After the game\nDuring \"Futbol 1\" broadcast, Fonseca stated that today there won the team that dominated in the game, and that Shakhtar throughout the game was closer to goals than Dynamo. In defense Shakhtar played totally safe and controlled the game. He noted that to score on Dynamo is not easy as they defend well, but today Shakhtar had ideal strategy. Shakhtar showed patience and was scoring at right moments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283305-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Super Cup\nThe 2018 Ukrainian Super Cup became the 15th edition of Ukrainian Super Cup, an annual season opener football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Ukrainian Top League and Ukrainian Cup competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283305-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Super Cup\nThe match was played at the Chornomorets Stadium, Odessa, on 21 July 2018, and contested by league winner Shakhtar Donetsk and league runner-up Dynamo Kyiv.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283305-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ukrainian Super Cup, Previous encounters\nBefore this game both teams met in the Ukrainian Super Cup ten (10) times, the first being back in 2004. Before this game out of the previous ten Shakhtar won 3 games and Dynamo won 2, five more games were tied and led to penalty shootout three of which were won by Dynamo and two were won by Shakhtar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283306-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ulster Senior Club Football Championship\nThe 2018 Ulster Senior Club Football Championship was the 51st instalment of the annual competition organised by Ulster GAA. It was one of the four provincial competitions of the 2018\u201319 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283306-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ulster Senior Club Football Championship\nSlaughtneil (Derry) were the reigning champions following their victory in the 2017 final over Cavan Gaels (Cavan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283306-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ulster Senior Club Football Championship, Teams\nThe Ulster championship is contested by the winners of the nine county championships in the Irish province of Ulster. Ulster comprises the six counties of Northern Ireland, as well as Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283307-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ulster Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Ulster Senior Football Championship was the 130th instalment of the annual Ulster Senior Football Championship organised by Ulster GAA. It is one of the four provincial competitions of the 2018 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. The winners receive The Anglo-Celt Cup. The draw for the championship was made on 19 October 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283307-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ulster Senior Football Championship\nTyrone were the defending champions, though were eliminated in the quarter-finals. The championship was won by Donegal who defeated Fermanagh in the final. Donegal full-forward Patrick McBrearty suffered a season-ending cruciate ligament injury in the final. DUP leader Arlene Foster notably attended the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283307-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ulster Senior Football Championship, Teams\nThe Ulster championship is contested by the nine counties in the Irish province of Ulster. Ulster comprises the six counties of Northern Ireland as well as Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283308-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship was to be the 70th staging of the Ulster hurling championship since its establishment by the Ulster Council in 1901. In January 2018 it was announced that the Ulster championship was to be cancelled for three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283308-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship\nThe tournament was to be played in April, instead of the usual June/July dates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283308-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nIn the first tier, the Ulster Senior Hurling Championship, Antrim, Armagh, Derry and Down compete in a knock-out format. The winners receive the Liam Harvey Cup. The two teams beaten in the first round of the Championship play off, with the losing team relegated to the Shield for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283308-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nIn the second tier, the Ulster Senior Hurling Shield, Donegal, Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone compete in a knock-out format, with the winner gaining promotion to the first tier for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283309-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Under 18 Women's Australian Championships\nThe 2018 Women's Under 18 Australian Championships was a field hockey tournament held in the Tasmanian city of Launceston from 13\u201321 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283309-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Under 18 Women's Australian Championships\nNSW State won the gold medal, defeating WA 3\u20132 in the final. QLD Maroon won the bronze medal by defeating VIC 6\u20131 in the third place playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283310-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Under 21 Men's Australian Championships\nThe 2018 Men's Under 21 Australian Championships is a Field Hockey tournament being held in the New South Wales city of Sydney between 4\u201311 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283310-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Under 21 Men's Australian Championships, Competition format\nThe tournament is divided into two pools, Pool A and Pool B, consisting of four teams in a round robin format. At the conclusion of the pool stage, teams progress to the quarterfinals, where the winners progress to contest the medals, while the losing teams playoff for fifth to eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283310-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Under 21 Men's Australian Championships, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 107 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 4.46 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283311-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Under 21 Women's Australian Championships\nThe 2018 Women's Under 21 Australian Championships was a field hockey tournament held in the New South Wales city of Sydney between 4\u201311 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283311-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Under 21 Women's Australian Championships\nNew South Wales won the tournament after defeating Queensland 2\u20131 in the final. Victoria finished in third place after defeating South Australia 4\u20132 in the bronze medal match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283311-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Under 21 Women's Australian Championships, Competition format\nThe tournament is divided into two pools, Pool A and Pool B, consisting of four teams in a round robin format. At the conclusion of the pool stage, teams progress to the quarterfinals, where the winners progress to contest the medals, while the losing teams playoff for fifth to eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283311-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Under 21 Women's Australian Championships, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 100 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 4.17 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283312-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup\nThe 2018 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was an international limited-overs cricket tournament that was held in New Zealand from 13 January to 3 February 2018. It was the twelfth edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and the third to be held in New Zealand (after the 2002 and 2010 events). New Zealand was the first country to host the event three times. The opening ceremony took place on 7 January 2018. The West Indies were the defending champions. However, they failed to defend their title, after losing their first two group fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283312-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup\nFollowing the group stage fixtures, Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa had all qualified for the Super League quarter-final stage of the tournament. The other eight teams moved to the Plate League to determine their final placements in the competition. Sri Lanka went on to win the Plate League, giving them a final position of ninth overall in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283312-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup\nIn the first Super League semi-final, Australia beat Afghanistan by 6 wickets to progress to the final. In the second semi-final, India beat Pakistan by 203 runs to advance into the final. In the third-place playoff, no play was possible due to rain and a wet outfield. Pakistan therefore finished in third place, as they finished their group ahead of Afghanistan on net run rate. In the final, India beat Australia by 8 wickets to win their fourth Under-19 World Cup, the most by any side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283312-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, Qualification\nThe ten full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), as of 2016, qualified automatically for the tournament. Namibia, which placed seventh at the 2016 World Cup, also qualified automatically as the highest ranked associate member. The other five places in the tournament were awarded to the winners of the five regional under-19 tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283312-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, Umpires\nOn 3 January 2018, the ICC appointed the officials for the tournament. Along with the seventeen umpires, Jeff Crowe, Dev Govindjee, David Jukes and Graeme Labrooy were also named as the match referees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283312-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, Squads\nEach team selected a 15-man squad for the tournament. Any players born on or after 1 September 1998 were eligible to be selected for the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283312-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, Group stage\nThe fixtures for the tournament were confirmed by the ICC on 17 August 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283313-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification\nThe 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in New Zealand was contested by sixteen teams, eleven of which qualified automatically. The other five places in the tournament were determined by a series of regional qualifiers, with one place being granted to each International Cricket Council (ICC) development region (Africa, the Americas, Asia, East Asia-Pacific, and Europe).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283313-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification, Automatic qualification\nThe ten full members of the ICC as at 2016 qualified automatically for the Under-19 World Cup. In early 2016, it was determined that the top-placed ICC associate member at the 2016 Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh would also qualify automatically for the 2018 event. That team was Namibia, which defeated another associate member, Nepal, in the seventh-place play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283313-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification, Regional qualification, Africa, Division Two\nThe Africa Division Two tournament was played in Benoni, South Africa, from 10 to 18 September 2016. Ghana (the winner) and Botswana (the runner-up) both qualified for Division One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283313-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification, Regional qualification, Africa, Division One\nThe Africa Division One tournament was played in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1\u201310 July 2017. Kenya won the tournament on net run rate from Uganda to qualify for their first World Cup since 2002; four African teams were played in the World Cup for the first time since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283313-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification, Regional qualification, Americas\nICC U19 World Cup Qualifier Americas Region was played in Toronto, Canada from July 17 to July 23, 2017. Teams were Bermuda, Canada, and USA, and format was a double round robin. Canada qualified for the 2019 ICC U19 World Cup in New Zealand on Net Run Rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283313-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification, Regional qualification, Asia, Division Two\nThe Asia Division Two tournament was played in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 26 September to 6 October 2016, and featured ten teams. Malaysia defeated Singapore in the final, with both teams qualifying for Division One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283313-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification, Regional qualification, Asia, Division One\nThe Asia Division One tournament was played in Singapore from July 2017 to july2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283313-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification, Regional qualification, Asia, Division One\nAfghanistan and Nepal, teams who played on last Under 19 World Cup were joined by two finalist of 2016 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup Asia Qualifier Division Two, Singapore and Malaysia. Afghanistan win this tournament by win of 6 out of 6game while Nepal win 4 matches out of 6 matches and Afghanistan was qualified for 2018 u-19 cricket world cup held in New Zealand .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283313-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification, Regional qualification, East Asia-Pacific\nThe East Asia-Pacific regional qualifier was held in Apia, Samoa, from 8\u201316 August 2017. Four teams took part in a double round-robin: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and Vanuatu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283313-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification, Regional qualification, Europe, Division Two\nThe Europe Division Two tournament was played in the Netherlands from 23 to 30 July 2016. It was won by Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283313-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification, Regional qualification, Europe, Division One\nThe Europe Division One tournament was played in Jersey from 23 July to 1 August 2017. The four participating teams were Denmark, Ireland, Jersey, and Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283314-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup squads\nThe following squads were selected for the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. Any players born on or after 1 September 1998 were eligible to be selected for the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283314-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup squads, Group A, West Indies\nDuring the group stage fixtures, Raymond Perez was injured, ruled out of the tournament and replaced by Brad Barnes. Joshua Persaud left the squad midway through the tournament, following the death of his mother.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283314-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup squads, Group B, Australia\nDuring the tournament, Aaron Hardie replaced Jason Ralston in Australia's squad, who was injured. However, ahead of the final, Hardie suffered an injury and was replaced by Patrick Rowe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283314-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup squads, Group B, India\nAfter the tournament started, Aditya Thakare was added to the squad as cover for Ishan Porel, who suffered an injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283314-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup squads, Group B, Papua New Guinea\nPapua New Guinea's squad was announced on 28 December 2017:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283314-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup squads, Group C, England\nPrior to the tournament, Tom Lammonby was ruled out of England's squad and was replaced by Euan Woods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283314-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup squads, Group D, Sri Lanka\nDuring the group stage fixtures, Kalana Perera was injured, ruled out of the tournament and replaced by Thilan Prasan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283315-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship\nThe 2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship was the 2018 edition of the Under-19 Provincial Championship, an annual national Under-19 rugby union competition held in South Africa, and was contested from 6 July to 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283315-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship\nThe competition was won by Sharks U19, who beat Blue Bulls U19 40\u201327 in the final played on 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283315-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship, Competition rules and information\nThere was seven participating teams in the 2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship. They played each other twice during the pool stage, once at home and once away. Teams receive four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by seven points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283315-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship, Competition rules and information\nThe top four teams in the pool stage qualified for the semifinals, which were followed by a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283315-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship, Teams\nThe teams that played in the 2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283315-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship, Pool stage, Standings\nThe top four teams qualified for the semifinals. Points breakdown:* 4 points for a win* 2 points for a draw* 1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less* 1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283315-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship, Honours\nThe honour roll for the 2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283315-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship, Players\nThe following squads were named for the 2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283315-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship, Referees\nThe following referees officiated matches in the 2018 Under-19 Provincial Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283316-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship\nThe 2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship was the 2018 edition of the Under-20 Provincial Championship, an annual national Under-20 rugby union competition held in South Africa, and was contested from 11 August to 19 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283316-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship\nThe competition was won by Griffons U20, who beat Pumas U20 53\u20136 in the final played on 19 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283316-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship, Competition rules and information\nThere were seven participating teams in the 2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship. They played each other once during the pool stage, either at home or away. Teams receive four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by seven points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283316-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship, Competition rules and information\nThe top four teams in the pool stage qualified for the semifinals, which were followed by a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283316-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship, Competition rules and information\nThere were initially eight teams scheduled to play in the competition, but Border U20 withdrew from the championship towards the end of August 2018. A few days later, it was also confirmed that Boland U20 \u2014 who already played in two matches \u2014 also withdrew from the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283316-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship, Teams\nThe teams that played in the 2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283316-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship, Pool stage, Standings\nThe top four teams qualified for the semifinals. Points breakdown:* 4 points for a win* 2 points for a draw* 1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less* 1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283316-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship, Honours\nThe honour roll for the 2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283316-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship, Players\nThe following squads were named for the 2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283316-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship, Referees\nThe following referees officiated matches in the 2018 Under-20 Provincial Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283317-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship\nThe 2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship was the 2018 edition of the Under-21 Provincial Championship, an annual national Under-21 rugby union competition held in South Africa, and was contested from 25 August to 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283317-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship\nThe competition was won by Golden Lions U21, who beat Blue Bulls U21 58\u201324 in the final played on 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283317-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship, Competition rules and information\nThere was seven participating teams in the 2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship. They played each other once during the pool stage, either at home or away. Teams receive four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by seven points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283317-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship, Competition rules and information\nThe top four teams in the pool stage qualified for the semifinals, which were followed by a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283317-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship, Teams\nThe teams that played in the 2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283317-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship, Pool stage, Standings\nThe top four teams qualified for the semifinals. Points breakdown:* 4 points for a win* 2 points for a draw* 1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less* 1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283317-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship, Honours\nThe honour roll for the 2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283317-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship, Players\nThe following squads were named for the 2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283317-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship, Referees\nThe following referees officiated matches in the 2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283318-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Union budget of India\nThe 2018 Union budget of India (ISO: 2018 k\u0113 li\u0113 Bh\u0101rat k\u0101 K\u0113ndr\u012bya Baja\u1e6d) was the annual financial statement (AFS), demand for grants, appropriation bill and finance bill of India for the financial year 2018\u201319.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283318-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Union budget of India\nIt was presented to Parliament on 1 February 2018 by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283318-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Union budget of India, Premise\nThe 2018 budget was considered to be a crucial one, as it would be the first since the rollout of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) regime in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283318-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Union budget of India, Premise\nIt was widely expected that the budget would either increase the exemption limit, or introduce a standard deduction for salaried people to reduce the tax burden, in addition to a reduction of the tax rate for the \u20b95 lakh (equivalent to \u20b95.4 lakh or US$7,500 in 2019)\u2013\u20b910 lakh (equivalent to \u20b911\u00a0lakh or US$15,000 in 2019) slab from 20% to 10%, and an increase in the 30% band above \u20b910 lakh (equivalent to \u20b911\u00a0lakh or US$15,000 in 2019). The budget also came on the heels of a cut in the corporate tax rate in the United States. Printing of the budget began on 20 January 2018 with the traditional Halwa ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283318-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Union budget of India, Significant announcements\nThe budget contained a number of significant announcements. It included a healthcare programme called the National Health Protection Scheme (Ayushman Bharat) to cover 10 crore (100 million) poor families. The Government proposed to contribute 12% to the Employees' Provident Fund for new employees for three years. It was proposed that the medical allowance and transportation allowance be replaced by a standard deduction of \u20b940,000 (US$560) for salaried employees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283318-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Union budget of India, Significant announcements\nThe allocation to the Ministry of Defence was \u20b9404,365 crore (equivalent to \u20b94.4\u00a0trillion or US$61\u00a0billion in 2019), with \u20b9195,947.55 crore (equivalent to \u20b92.1\u00a0trillion or US$30\u00a0billion in 2019) to be spent on the day-to-day running of the armed forces, and \u20b999,563.86 crore (equivalent to \u20b91.1\u00a0trillion or US$15\u00a0billion in 2019) on modernisation, with the rest being allocated for pensions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283318-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Union budget of India, Significant announcements\nThere was no reduction in personal income tax rates,and the Cess on income tax was to be increased from 3% to 4%. A 10% tax on long-term capital gains (LTCG) was reintroduced after a 14-year absence. The Corporate tax was reduced from 30% to 25% for companies with turnover up to \u20b9250 crore (equivalent to \u20b9269\u00a0crore or US$38\u00a0million in 2019). Customs duties were increased for various products. A special scheme to tackle air pollution in Delhi was also introduced. The salaries of Members of Parliament were doubled and their total emoluments are likely to go up from Rs 1.4 lakh to Rs 2.3 lakh per month. Further, the salaries will be increased every five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283318-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Union budget of India, Reactions, Political\nPolitical reaction to the budget was mixed. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Prime Minister, Narendra Modi said that the budget is \"development-friendly,\" focused on the needs of the rural areas and will strengthen the vision of a \"new-India\". The Congress leader, former prime minister and noted economist Manmohan Singh suggested that the arithmetic behind the budget was \"faulty\". The general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)), Sitaram Yechury said the budget was \"unconnected to ground realities\". Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Sri.N.Chandra Babu Naidu is not satisfied with the budget planning as it completely ignored the special status and special package for the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283318-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Union budget of India, Reactions, Political\nAam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and chief minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal said on Twitter that the budget contained nothing for the middle class and traders. Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, Janta Dal (United) (JDU) leader, praised the budget for the proposals on minimum support price for farmers and the healthcare scheme. Congress leader and former finance minister P. Chidambaram said that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had failed the fiscal consolidation test, and that there was no relief for the average taxpayer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283318-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Union budget of India, Reactions, Stock market\nBoth of India's national indices, the BSE SENSEX and NIFTY 50, fell sharply in the aftermath of the budget. The government, however, said that the fall in the stock market was not solely due to the budget. Finance and Revenue Secretary, Dr. Hasmukh Adhia said that fall in stock indices was due to global market meltdown, and not because of the reintroduction of LTCG tax, he added the government will look into the slump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283318-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Union budget of India, Reactions, Others\nCredit rating agency, Fitch, said that the budget, whilst supporting growth, does not address the problem of fiscal consolidation, and leaves the problem of India's relatively weak finances, to the next government. Economic Affairs Secretary, Subhash Chandra Garg, said, that the government would try to convince credit rating agencies, like Standard and Poor's and Fitch, on its commitments to fiscal consolidation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283319-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United Bowl\nThe 2018 United Bowl was the championship game of the 2018 Indoor Football League season. It was played between the Sioux Falls Storm and the Iowa Barnstormers. The game was played at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283319-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United Bowl\nThis was the Sioux Falls Storm's ninth consecutive United Bowl appearance; prior to the game, they held a United Bowl record of 6\u20132. This was the Iowa Barnstormers' first United Bowl appearance after joining the IFL in 2015 from the Arena Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283319-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United Bowl, Venue\nThe game was played at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, as the Iowa Barnstormers had the home field advantage by cause of being the higher seeded team in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283319-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United Bowl, Background, Sioux Falls Storm\nThe Storm began the season with a 39\u201333 loss to the Arizona Rattlers before embarking on a four-game win streak, including a 52\u201340 victory over the Barnstormers on March 18. After another loss to the Rattlers on April 16, the Storm won seven of their final eight games, finishing the season with a record of 11\u20133, earning third place. On June 23, the Storm defeated the Rattlers in the first round of the playoffs in overtime by a score of 69\u201368, earning their place in the United Bowl for the ninth consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283319-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United Bowl, Background, Iowa Barnstormers\nThe Barnstormers opened the 2018 season on February 25 with a 41\u201320 victory over the Green Bay Blizzard. After losing two of their next four games, including a 52\u201340 loss to the Storm on March 18, the Barnstormers won eight of their final nine, with their only loss being against the Storm by a score of 51\u201349. The Barnstormers finished the season with a record of 11\u20133, earning first place and home field advantage in the playoffs. In the first round, the Barnstormers defeated the Nebraska Danger 42\u201317 to reach the 2018 United Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283320-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom budget\nThe 2018 United Kingdom budget was delivered by Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the House of Commons on Monday, 29 October 2018. It was Hammond's third as Chancellor of the Exchequer since being appointed to the role in July 2016, and his last before being replaced by Sajid Javid by means of Boris Johnson's cabinet reshuffle upon becoming Prime Minister in July 2019. Following the budget in March 2017 the government moved the annual budget to the Autumn, with the following budget held on 22 November of the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283320-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom budget\nOn 26 September 2018, Hammond announced that the 2018 budget would be held earlier, in October, so as to avoid clashing with the final stage of Brexit negotiations. On 28 October he suggested that a second budget would be needed in the event of a failure to negotiate a Brexit deal, since the scenario would require a \"different response\", with a need for \"fiscal buffers\" to provide support for the economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283320-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom budget\nDelivering the budget, Hammond said that the era of austerity was \"finally coming to an end\". In response to pressure from Conservative MPs, the Chancellor announced an increase in Universal Credit for households with children, and people with disabilities, partially reversing reductions announced in 2015. The post-tax work allowances will increase by \u00a31,000 per year, representing an extra \u00a3630 of income for about 2.4 million households in employment, ultimately at a cost of about \u00a31.7 billion per year. Extra transitional support for claimants being moved to Universal Credit was also announced. Hammond announced that a fifty pence piece would be created to mark the UK's exit from the European Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283320-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom budget\nPaul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies said that the budget did not end austerity. \u201cMany public services are going to feel squeezed for some time to come. Cuts are not about to be reversed,\u201d Johnson also said, \u201cIf I were a prison governor, a local authority chief executive or a headteacher, I would struggle to find much to celebrate in the budget. I would be preparing for more difficult years ahead.\u201d The IFS maintains that \"Total spending outside protected government departments is essentially flat, while it will fall on a per capita basis.\" The Resolution Foundation maintains cuts to income tax will \u201coverwhelmingly benefit richer households\u201d, and nearly half will go to the top 10% of households. Poorer households would continue to be affected by welfare cuts, despite Hammond claiming austerity was coming to an end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 866]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283320-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom budget, Spending impact\nTaking advantage of Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts of increasing tax revenues from economic growth, the budget was largely a spending budget with a cost of \u00a3103 billion over the next six years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283320-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom budget, Spending impact\nThe major tax and spend policy decisions in the budget, by their financial cost over 6 years, were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections\nCouncil elections in England were held on Thursday 3 May 2018. Elections were held in all 32 London boroughs, 34 metropolitan boroughs, 67 district and borough councils and 17 unitary authorities. There were also direct elections for the mayoralties of Hackney, Lewisham, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Watford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections\nWith the exception of those areas that have had boundary changes, the seats up for election were last contested in the 2014 local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections\nA parliamentary by-election in West Tyrone took place the same day. Various other local by-elections also took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Seats held prior to the election\nAccording to a BBC News estimate, taking into account boundary changes, the major political parties are effectively defending the following 'notional' numbers of council seats on election day:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Seats held prior to the election\nThese numbers are how many seats each party won at the previous comparable election, generally in 2014, rather than which party held the seat on the eve of the election. Some other news agencies, such as the Press Association, compare against the party holding a seat on the eve of the election, leading to a different analysis of gains and losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Seats held prior to the election\nThere are also 48 Residents Associations' councillors, and 100 'other' / independent councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Eligibility to vote\nAll registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) aged 18 or over on polling day were entitled to vote in the local elections. A person with two homes (such as a university student having a term-time address and living at home during holidays) was able to register to vote at both addresses as long as the addresses were not in the same electoral area, and was able to vote in the local elections for the two different local councils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Eligibility to vote\nIn certain councils, there was a trial system in place where photo ID was required to vote. These councils were: Swindon, Gosport, Woking, Bromley, and Watford. An estimated 4,000 electors were turned away from polling stations across these trial areas as a result of not having the appropriate form of ID.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Results\nThe number of councils controlled by each party following the election are shown in the table below. Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats made modest gains in terms of their respective number of councillors, whereas the Conservatives made a net loss of 35 seats. UKIP lost nearly all of the 126 seats they were defending, with only 3 councillors elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Results, Overall results, Results in London\nThe following table shows the aggregate results for the 32 councils that were up for election in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Results, Overall results, Results in London\n\u2020Due to boundary changes, the figures for seat losses/gains are notional changes calculated by the BBC, and do not match up precisely to the London-wide results in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Results, Overall results, Results outside of London\nThe following table shows the aggregate results for the 118 councils that were up for election outside of London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Results, Overall results, Results outside of London\nOnly four councils switched from a majority for one party to another. The Conservatives gained Redditch from Labour, and lost control of three councils to the Liberal Democrats: Kingston upon Thames, Richmond upon Thames and South Cambridgeshire. The Liberal Democrats also gained Three Rivers District Council from no overall control. Labour gained a majority on three councils that had been under no overall control (Kirklees, Plymouth and Tower Hamlets) while losing their majority on two (Derby and Nuneaton and Bedworth). The Conservatives gained a majority on one council that had been under no overall control (Basildon) while losing their majority on two (Mole Valley and Trafford).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Results, Overall results, Results outside of London\nLabour won the inaugural mayoral election for the Sheffield City Region. Five other mayoral elections saw no change in the winning party: Labour held four and the Liberal Democrats held one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Results, Analysis\nThis was the first set of local elections since the 2017 general election. Most of the seats up for election had last been contested in the 2014 local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Results, Analysis\nBecause the group of local councils varies with each cycle of local elections, the BBC and other analysts calculated a projected national vote share, which aims to assess what the council results indicate the UK-wide vote would be if the results were repeated at a general election. The BBC's estimate put Labour on 35% of the vote (up 8% since 2017), the Conservatives on 35% (down 3%), the Liberal Democrats on 16% (down 2%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Results, Analysis\nIn the May 2017 local elections, the projected national voteshare was 38% for the Conservatives, 27% for Labour, 18% for the Liberal Democrats and 5% for UKIP. When votes were still being counted, media reports widely described the result as \"mixed\" for both Labour and the Conservatives. The results suggested that support for the parties had not moved much since the general election 11 months earlier. Some reports considered the results a relief for Theresa May and the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Results, Analysis\nBen Margulies, a research fellow at the University of Warwick, noted how the United Kingdom Independence Party's collapse in vote share directly benefited the Conservatives as they committed to exiting the European Union. Margulies stated that the Conservatives' position with the electorate will \"remain perched on a precipice\". Matthew Mokhefi-Ashton, a politics lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, argued that Labour had set their expectations too high and thus made the actual result look disappointing by comparison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Results, Analysis\nDavid Cutts, a professor of political science at the University of Birmingham, described the Liberal Democrats' performance in the election as \"underwhelming\" in contrast to the media response, arguing that the party only made moderate gains in their strongholds from before the Liberal-Conservative coalition and council areas that were seen as \"Strong Remain\" and \"Strong Leave\". Cutts argued that the next local elections in England are a greater test of their stability as they feature substantially more strongholds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, London boroughs\nAll seats in the 32 London borough councils were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Metropolitan boroughs, Whole council\n4 metropolitan boroughs had all of their seats up for election following boundary changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Metropolitan boroughs, One-third of council\nOne third of the seats in 30 metropolitan boroughs were up for election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Unitary authorities, Whole council\nOne unitary authority had all of its seats up for election following boundary changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Unitary authorities, Third of council\nOne third of the council seats were up for election in 16 unitary authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Non-metropolitan districts, Whole council\nSeven non-metropolitan districts have all of their seats up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Non-metropolitan districts, Half of council\nSix non-metropolitan districts have half of their seats up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Non-metropolitan districts, Third of council\n54 district councils had one third of their seats up for election. Weymouth and Portland originally had elections scheduled for 2018, but the elections were postponed indefinitely following a decision to merge the council into a unitary Dorset Council from 2019 onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Non-metropolitan districts, Third of council\nThese were the last elections to Daventry District Council, following the decision to abolish it along with Northamptonshire County Council and its 7 district councils into two unitary authorities in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283321-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom local elections, Mayoral elections\nThere were five local authority mayoral elections and one metropolitan mayoral election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires\nStarting on 24 June 2018 and continuing throughout the summer, a record-breaking series of wildfires burned across the United Kingdom. The two largest fires, which were declared major incidents, burned over 7 square miles (4,480 acres; 18\u00a0km2) each and broke out on Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester and Winter Hill in Lancashire. Other large fires broke out in Glenshane Pass in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland (640 acres) and in the Vale of Rheidol in Ceredigion, Wales. The Saddleworth Moor fire has been described as the largest English wildfire in living memory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires\nMost of the wildfires occurred during the first official heatwave in the United Kingdom since June 2017, with temperatures reaching above 30\u00a0\u00b0C (86\u00a0\u00b0F) for several days, making the hottest June in the country since 1995, and the driest June for over ten years in large parts of the United Kingdom, exacerbating the crisis. A wildfire started on the Staffordshire Moorlands on 9 August and, despite rain, had spread to cover 219 acres by 11 August. Some hot spots were still burning as at 22 August. In total, there were 79 fires over the course of the year, a new record. However, the record was beaten in 2019 with 96 fires as of April 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Background\nJune 2018 was the driest on record for some parts of the UK, as a result of a persistent strong Azores High that blocked Atlantic low-pressure weather systems from reaching the British Isles and bringing rainfall. For much of the time, a strong anticlockwise wind circulation around Britain and Ireland caused a strong warm anticyclone there. As a result, in the lead-up to the outbreak of wildfires across the country, many areas were unusually dry. Drought conditions were reported in parts of the country by the end of the month, with NI Water introducing a hosepipe ban in Northern Ireland from 6\u00a0pm on 29 June, the first hosepipe ban in the area since 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Background\nTowards the end of the month, prolonged high pressure moving in from southern Europe brought with it a prolonged period of high temperatures, marking the first official heat wave in the United Kingdom since June 2017. Temperatures of over 30\u00a0\u00b0C (86\u00a0\u00b0F) were reported widely in all four nations of the United Kingdom for the first time since July 2013, with June 2018 becoming the warmest June month since 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Background\nOn 26 June, a high of 30.6\u00a0\u00b0C (87.1\u00a0\u00b0F) was recorded at Porthmadog in Gwynedd, Wales, making it the hottest day of the year so far for the United Kingdom. Porthmadog continued to break temperature records on subsequent days, reaching 31.9\u00a0\u00b0C (89.4\u00a0\u00b0F) on 27 June and then 32.6\u00a0\u00b0C (90.7\u00a0\u00b0F) on 28 June. By 6 July, the heatwave, which had lasted just over two weeks, was the longest in the United Kingdom since July 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Background\nThe drought conditions were exacerbated by May 2018 being the warmest since 2008 and the driest since 2011. It was especially dry in parts of Northern England, where rainfall was the lowest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires\nMember of Parliament Jonathan Reynolds, Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury, said ministers would \u201cneed to look seriously at our capacity to deal with these kinds of fires in future, including military capacity we might have lost in recent years\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Saddleworth Moor\nFire first broke out on Saddleworth Moor, between Sheffield and Manchester, on 24 June 2018, but that fire was extinguished later that same day. But the next day, pockets of the fire re-ignited, perhaps from burning of peat which had dried out deep; this began to burn out of control from 26 June, and a major incident was declared that day. By 27 June, the moorland fire had grown to cover over 2,000 acres (810\u00a0ha) and remained uncontained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Saddleworth Moor\nRapidly changing wind speed and direction helped the fire to spread quickly across the dry moorland and complicated efforts to fight the fire, which split into several fronts moving in different directions. Dry peat is also making fighting the fire difficult, as the fire can continue to smoulder underground after being extinguished at the surface, re-igniting the surface later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Saddleworth Moor\nAfter a major incident was declared on 26 June and with the fire rapidly approaching populated areas, around 150 people were evacuated from 50 homes close to the advancing fire, including 34 homes on Calico Crescent in Carrbrook, Stalybridge; it is thought to be the first time a wildfire has forced such an evacuation to take place in the United Kingdom. In the House of Commons on 26 June, Prime Minister Theresa May told MPs that the government was keeping the situation on Saddleworth Moor under \"constant review\" following the declaration of a major incident in response to the wildfires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Saddleworth Moor\nSpeaking at the scene of the fire on 27 June, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said that a summertime fire on Saddleworth Moor \"isn't unusual\", but that the size and scale of this fire \"is unlike anything we've seen before\". Later that afternoon, assistant chief fire officer of the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service Dave Keelan formally requested military assistance in tackling the fire, including the provision of high-pressure water lines and transportation of firefighters towards front lines, plus Chinook helicopters to transport water pumps up the mountain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Saddleworth Moor\nThe fire was near to a densely populated area of northern England. Satellite imagery showed smoke drifting towards Sheffield and Leeds on 25 June, before the wind direction changed and the smoke cloud was redirected over Manchester and towards Liverpool on 26\u201327 June. As a result, air quality levels across Greater Manchester dropped due to smoke and ash drifting across the city from the fire, forming a widespread haze at ground level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Saddleworth Moor\nEmergency services supplied dust masks to residents living closest to the fire, in Stalybridge and surrounding areas, on 27 June; four local schools \u2013 three primary schools and a secondary school \u2013 were closed, and residents were advised to keep their doors and windows closed. One GP at a Manchester surgery told BBC News that he had treated numerous people suffering from respiratory illnesses relating to the fire, including nosebleeds, coughs and eye problems. On 27 June, the burning caused particle pollution to reach as far away as Wigan, Warrington and St Helens - 37 miles away. This pollution reached an eight out of ten on the air quality index.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Saddleworth Moor\nAs night fell on 27 June 29 fire engines and more than 100 firefighters were at the scene of the fire, including crews from Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Derbyshire; two helicopters were in use, and had so far dropped more than 65,000 gallons of water on the fire from above. The Salvation Army arrived at the scene, handing out 1000 bottles of water, 600 Mars bars and sandwiches made from 40 loaves of bread to firefighters. Other charities and individuals brought much food and drinking water to the fire sites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Saddleworth Moor\nAfter three weeks, on 18 July, it was declared the fire was extinguished. In total 7 square miles (18\u00a0km2) of moorland were burned and the Manchester fire service declared it one of the busiest periods it has ever faced. Aside from the extensive firefighting effort also recent rainfall had led to the final declaration of the fire being extinguished. One wildlife expert said the effects of the fire could last for up to fifteen years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Winter Hill\nA large wildfire broke out on Winter Hill, north of Bolton in Lancashire, at around 3:20\u00a0pm on Thursday 28 June 2018; near the Winter Hill transmitting station. Initially, five fire engines from Greater Manchester and seven from the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service were sent to tackle the blaze with specialist fire-fighting equipment. They were supported by firefighting teams from United Utilities and volunteers and vehicles from Bolton Mountain Rescue Team, and later other local volunteer teams including Lancaster Area Search and Rescue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Winter Hill\nBy nightfall, that fire had reached more 250 acres (100\u00a0ha) in size with a total of fifteen fire crews from Lancashire trying to stop the fire from spreading. The next day, fire services were also assisted by a United Utilities helicopter which was dropping tons of water from the nearby Rivington Reservoirs onto the fire. At the time huge plumes of smoke from the moors could be seen from as far away as Wigan, and was measured on pollution instruments as far away as Blackpool. People who were affected by the smoke were advised to keep windows closed and doors shut. The fire also caused a number of roads and footpaths in the area to be closed due to public safety, with firefighters later setting up a 'four-mile no-go zone' around the affected area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Winter Hill\nElsewhere, on 29 June at 2\u00a0am other wildfires started near Horrocks Moor Farm, on Scout Road in Bolton. Separately, fifty firefighters were sent there - where the fire was reportedly 1+1\u20444 miles (2\u00a0km) long. On 30 June it was reported this fire had merged with the fire on Winter Hill, and as result the two official fire incidents became one and a major incident was declared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Winter Hill\nThe proximity of the fire to the broadcasting equipment at Winter Hill transmitting station, which has the second greatest coverage of any UK transmitter at around 7\u00a0million people, led to fears that it may disrupt television and radio services. The transmitter's owners, Arqiva, issued a statement for radio stations in the area to be on standby and prepare for any interruptions in broadcast. By 2 July 2018, the fire covered over six square miles with up to one hundred firefighters and more than 20 fire engines tackling the blaze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0012-0002", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Winter Hill\nThe continuing response was also being supported by volunteers from Bolton Mountain Rescue Team, Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team and Rossendale & Pendle Mountain Rescue Team. That day Andy Burnham visited the site of the fire and said that he would be speaking to the Home Secretary Sajid Javid about the incident and that he wanted to ensure \"all necessary resources are available\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Winter Hill\nThe fire was brought under control on 16 July, in total it had spread over 7 square miles (18\u00a0km2). The fire service through said there was \"still significant work to do\" as peat was still burning underground and recent rainfall even by 23 July the fire was not fully out. The fire service were digging into the ground to make sure the water reaches the burning peat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Winter Hill\nOn 29 June 2018 a 22-year-old man was arrested for arson with intent to endanger life, on suspicion of starting the initial Winter Hill fire. On 1 July a police helicopter, which was patrolling the area, spotted several people setting grass fires alight in the Healey Nab area close to Winter Hill. Tony Crook, from the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, has stated that \u201cPolice are now attending that scene, to try to apprehend those arsonists\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Glenshane Pass\nA large gorse fire broke out in the Glenshane Pass area of the Sperrins in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in the early hours of 27 June 2018; the first call to emergency services came at 04:57\u00a0am. By the end of the day, five separate fires in the pass had rapidly grown to cover an area of over 1 square mile (640 acres) in total, with firefighters struggling to reach the fire due to extremely high temperatures; elsewhere in Northern Ireland, temperatures reached 29.6\u00a0\u00b0C on 27 June, marking the hottest June day in the province since 1995. After attempting unsuccessfully to reach the isolated fire on foot for more than an hour during the daytime, firefighters eventually had to be airlifted into the area by helicopter later in the day as temperatures dropped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Glenshane Pass\nHer Majesty's Coastguard and Forest Service Northern Ireland were deployed to assist crews from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service with tackling the Glenshane Pass fire, with the Coastguard providing helicopters to transport firefighters to and from the scene and drop water on the fire from above. Multiple fire crews from Ballymena, Cookstown, Dungiven, Kilrea, Maghera and Magherafelt fire stations were sent to the scene of the fire, alongside a specialist Command Support Unit from Belfast. Roads through the Glenshane Pass remained open during the fire, although smoke hindered visibility, with the Northern Ireland Weather and Flood Advisory Service warning motorists to take care and prepare for possible short-notice travel disruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Vale of Rheidol\nOn 26 June 2018, two crews from the Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service responded to a large grass and, later, forest fire alongside the A4120 in the Vale of Rheidol close to Aberystwyth in Ceredigion. The road remained open during the fire. The first calls to emergency services regarding the fire were logged at around 11:30\u00a0am, with temperatures in the area reaching 30\u00a0\u00b0C on what was the hottest day of the year to date for that area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Vale of Rheidol\nThe wildfire caused the suspension of heritage rail services on the preserved Vale of Rheidol Railway, with 150 passengers stuck on a train close to Devil's Bridge railway station having to be rescued and returned to Aberystwyth by bus. Rail services remained suspended the following day as fire crews continued to fight the fire in a valley close to the railway line. Owing to the fire's inaccessibility by road, a specialised Permaquip road-railer was sent to tackle the conflagration from the railway line, although it is now largely being left to burn itself out. The cause of the wildfire has not yet been determined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Mynydd Cilgwyn\nOn 2 July about 15 homes were evacuated as more than 40 firefighters fought a mile-long mountain fire in Gwynedd. The North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the gorse blaze, at Mynydd Cilgwyn in Carmel, was one of several fires the service was attending. It also had crews at fires in Talsarnau, Rhiw, Llanycil and Bangor Mountain in Gwynedd and Newborough Forest, Anglesey. It said a village hall would be used as a rest centre for residents affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Somerset\nA number of wildfires were reported in Somerset. In the early hours of 26 June, three crews from the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service attended two unrelated garden fires in Peasedown St John; later that day, a grass fire was reported on nearby Keel's Hill, forcing the closure of the nearby Bath Road. Several bus routes were cancelled or diverted as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Somerset\nAt around 10:35\u00a0am on 27 June, a 300 square metres (3,200\u00a0sq\u00a0ft) grass fire broke out on an embankment alongside the A4174 Ring Road, Longwell Green which was closed for several hours as a result as crews from the Avon Fire and Rescue Service brought the fire under control. Footage of the fire filmed from a passing lorry later went viral on Facebook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Staffordshire\nFrom late afternoon on 30 June, up to 45 firefighters from Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service batted a blaze between Thorncliffe, Shawfield and Royal Cottage in the Staffordshire Moorlands. A further fire broke out in woodland near Alton Towers on 2 July. A separate wildfire broke out over a month later, on the afternoon of 9 August at Upper Hulme. This continued to burn the rest of the month and, at its height, covered a significantly larger area than the two earlier fires in the county. Despite a period of rain, which initially helped, windy conditions meant the fire spread to cover 219 acres by 11 August. Smoke from the fire had reached Sheffield and parts of North Derbyshire, 28 miles away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Devon\nLater on the morning of 27 June, a large fire broke out at a landfill site in Burlescombe, Devon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Powys\nOn 27 June, a small grass fire broke out on Breidden Hill close to Admiral Rodney's Pillar, between Welshpool and Llanymynech in Powys. A crew from the Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service attended the wildfire, arriving at 11:52\u00a0am, and it was contained within two hours; the cause of the fire is not currently known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Ben Bhraggie\nFirefighters were called in the early hours of 7 July to a fire near the Duke of Sutherland monument. The fire was at a tree plantation near Golspie, Sutherland and smoke from it covered a wide area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Worcestershire\nFirst broke out on 2 July 2018 on Beacon Hill and at Earnslaw Quarry. Thirty firefighters attended and Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service said the fire was in a \"difficult location\". Six fire engines and crews, from Malvern, Worcestershire, Worcester, Upton-upon-Severn, Droitwich, Whitchurch, Ledbury and Ross-on-Wye, attended, plus two restricted access vehicles and a water carrier. It said officers had been called to 17 grass fires in the past fortnight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Yorkshire\nSouth Yorkshire Fire and Rescue attended two large grass fires on 27 June. The first, off Crookes Lane in Carlton, Barnsley, was reported at around 3\u00a0pm and was contained by 7:30\u00a0pm, and is believed to have been started deliberately. The second, in Middlewood, Sheffield, was first reported at around 8\u00a0pm, sending smoke billowing across the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Yorkshire\nBetween 28 June and 1 July, the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (WYFRS) responded to 678 incidents, of which 438 incidents (65% of all callouts) were in relation to wildfires. This included 99 separate wildfire incidents in West Yorkshire on 28 June alone. One particularly severe wildfire broke out on a hillside above Old Lane in Boothtown, Halifax on 1 July, burning within 20 metres (66\u00a0ft) of three residential blocks of flats on Canterbury Crescent before being brought under control. In a press release on 2 July, the WYFRS described the ongoing series of wildfires across the county as \"unprecedented\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Yorkshire\nOn 2 September, a bushfire broke out in the Parkwood Springs area in the north of Sheffield. The wildfire, which was later determined to have been caused by arson, burned for around five hours before being contained. The fire destroyed around 700\u00a0m2 (7,500\u00a0sq\u00a0ft) of steep hillside shrubland habitat on the hills above the city, as well as numerous buildings and structures at the abandoned Sheffield Ski Village site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Wiltshire\nOn 2 July 2018, fire crews were called to a fire in Dinton, Wiltshire. The fire broke out in a field off Hinton Road with the blaze encompassing around 150 square metres (1,600\u00a0sq\u00a0ft) of land. The farmer helped firefighters by using a plough to create a fire break to stop the flames from spreading. Firefighters also dampened the hedges around to also prevent spreading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Fires, Highlands\nA wildfire occurred in the Highlands on 2 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283322-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 United Kingdom wildfires, Other impacts\nThe Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service, Ruth George (Member of Parliament for High Peak), and others called for the cancellation of The Lights Fest, a mass release of sky lanterns scheduled to be held on 28 July at Buxton Raceway, near the Derbyshire moors. Event organisers responded by stating that the type of lanterns used did not pose a fire risk, but the event was eventually cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283323-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United Malays National Organisation leadership election\nA leadership election was held by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) party on 30 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283323-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United Malays National Organisation leadership election, Background\nThe election was initially scheduled to be held in 2019. However, Barisan Nasional lost the election in 2018 Malaysian general election for the first time since independence. Then-President Najib Razak stood down and was replaced by acting President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283323-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United Malays National Organisation leadership election, Background\nThe nomination process started on 1 June 2018. The registration will close on 17 June 2018 at 5 pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283323-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United Malays National Organisation leadership election, Debate\nThe Presidential election was held on 29 June 2018. It was telecast on Astro Awani at 9.30 pm. It featured the three prominent candidates, which are Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and Khairy Jamaluddin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 68], "content_span": [69, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283323-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United Malays National Organisation leadership election, Supreme Council election results\nThe result will mostly out on 1.00 am on 1 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 94], "content_span": [95, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference\nThe 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference was the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24), also known as the Katowice Climate Change Conference. It was held between 2 and 15 December 2018 in Katowice, Poland. The conference was held in the International Congress Centre. The president of COP24 was Micha\u0142 Kurtyka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference\nThe conference also incorporated the fourteenth meeting of the parties for the Kyoto Protocol (CMP14), and the third session of the first meeting of the parties for the Paris Agreement (CMA1-3 or CMA1.3) which agreed on rules to implement the Agreement. The conference's objective was to have a full implementation of the Paris agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Context\nAfter the United States left the Paris Agreement, China took a leading role by hosting many of the preparatory meetings in the weeks beforehand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Context\nIn November 2018, the World Meteorological Organization released a report stating that 2017 atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reached 405 parts per million (ppm), a level not seen in three to five million years. In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 \u00b0C (SR15).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Speeches\nOn 3 December 2018, the noted British naturalist Sir David Attenborough told delegates at the conference that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Speeches\nRight now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change. If we don\u2019t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Speeches\nOn 4 December 2018, 15 year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg addressed the summit and explained the severity of the problem this way:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Speeches\nWhat I hope we achieve at this conference is that we realise that we are facing an existential threat. This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. First we have to realise this and then as fast as possible do something to stop the emissions and try to save what we can save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Speeches\nThe same day, the 14th Dalai Lama wrote to the participants of the conference: \"Climate change is not a concern of just one or two nations. It is an issue that affects all humanity, and every living being on this earth. This beautiful place is our only home. We have to take serious action now to protect our environment and find constructive solutions to global warming.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Speeches\nAl Gore told delegates they faced \u201cthe single most important moral choice in history of humanity\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Speeches\nAnt\u00f3nio Guterres the Secretary-General of the United Nations told \u201cWe\u2019re running out of time. To waste this opportunity would compromise our last best chance to stop runaway climate change. It would not only be immoral, it would be suicidal.\u201d The IPCC special report is a stark acknowledgment of what the consequences of global warming beyond 1.5 degrees will mean for billions of people around the world, especially those who call small island states home. This is not good news, but we cannot afford to ignore it.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Speeches\nA US energy official, Preston Wells Griffith, senior director for energy and environment, said on 10 December 2018: \"We strongly believe that no country should have to sacrifice economic prosperity or energy security in pursuit of environmental sustainability.\" He added also: \"We can achieve all of these goals and they are complementary.\" During his speech, he reinforced that impression: \"Alarmism should not silence realism.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Speeches\nA youth conference with children representing over 30 countries was also held during the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Events\nSide events at the conference allow for admitted observers which have limited speaking opportunities, to host side events that are categorized under three categories as part of the Paris Agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Events\nThe categories include: Enhancing Ambition, Promoting Implementation, and Providing Support to Developing Countries. There are also outside events that are hosted by the UNFCCC secretariat, Parties and observer organizations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Events\nThe UNFCCC has created a YouTube account called the \"Climate Action Studio\" recording side events at the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Events\nJastrz\u0119bska Sp\u00f3\u0142ka W\u0119glowa (JSW), which co-sponsored the COP24, showcased pro-ecological changes in the mining sector.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Events\nAll side events of COP24 are all archived by the UNFCCC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Result\nThe conference agreed on rules to implement the Paris Agreement, which came into force in 2020, that is to say the rulebook on how governments will measure, and report on their emissions-cutting efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Result\nDue to difficulty to reach agreement between parties, some difficult questions such as ways to scale up existing commitments on cutting emissions, ways to provide financial help for poor countries, wording that does not allow double counting and whether countries are doing enough to cut their emissions (in the light of the IPCC report) were postponed to the next conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Result\nDavid Waskow, of the World Resources Institute, said the deal was \"a good foundation for countries to go about implementing the Paris agreement\" and added that \"It sets the direction of travel and will spur countries to take action. Now countries need to go home and do their homework, by increasing their commitments [on emissions]\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283324-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Result\nMany say, that there is a \u201clack of urgency\u201d in the COP decisions, but some good decisions have been made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283325-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Security Council election\nThe 2018 United Nations Security Council election was held on 8 June during the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The elections were for five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283325-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Security Council election\nIn accordance with the Security Council's rotation rules, whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283325-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Security Council election\nThe five members will serve on the Security Council for the 2019\u201320 period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283325-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Security Council election\nIn order of votes received, Germany and Belgium were elected in the Western European and Others Group, the Dominican Republic in the Latin American and Caribbean Group, and South Africa and Indonesia in the African and Asia-Pacific Groups. In addition, the Dominican Republic was elected to the Security Council for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283325-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United Nations Security Council election, Candidates, Western European and Others Group\nThe only contested seat was the Asia-Pacific one, between Indonesia and Maldives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283326-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Grand Prix\nThe 2018 United States Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Pirelli 2018 United States Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on October 21, 2018 at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283326-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Grand Prix\nThe race was the 18th round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 48th running of the United States Grand Prix, the 40th time that the race run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950, and the 7th time that a World Championship round was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283326-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Grand Prix\nMercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 67-point lead over Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the World Drivers' Championship. Hamilton's team-mate, Valtteri Bottas, sat third, a further 57 points behind. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of 78 points over Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing a further 141 points behind in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283326-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Grand Prix\nThe race was won by Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, who made a one-stop strategy work, achieving his first Grand Prix win since the 2013 Australian Grand Prix, breaking a record-setting 113-race winless streak. It was also his first for Ferrari since 2009 and the first time that Ferrari had won at the Circuit of the Americas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283326-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Grand Prix, Race\nKimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen won the race from second with Mercedes struggling with pace as Lewis Hamilton could only managed 3rd, beaten to 2nd by Max Verstappen. Sebastian Vettel made an error at the start, spinning while battling with Daniel Ricciardo, eventually fighting back to finish 4th. Hamilton lost time when Mercedes waited too long before bringing him in for his 2nd pit stop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283327-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives Democratic Caucus leadership election\nA leadership election was held by the United States House of Representatives Democratic Caucus before the beginning of the 116th United States Congress on January 3, 2019. The election determined who will be nominated by the caucus for the speakership election as well as who would occupy other leadership positions within the House Democratic Caucus. The following positions were nominated or elected on November 29: Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, House Majority Leader, House Majority Whip, House Assistant Majority Leader, Democratic Caucus Chair, and Democratic Caucus Vice Chair. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair, the Policy and Communications Committee's Chair and its three Co-Chairs, Junior Caucus Representative and Freshman Class Representative were elected the next day, and a third co-chair was added to the Steering and Policy Committee by the Leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 81], "section_span": [81, 81], "content_span": [82, 982]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283327-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives Democratic Caucus leadership election, DPCC Chair\nThis is a newly created position of the United States House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee which will rank above the three current co-chairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 81], "section_span": [83, 93], "content_span": [94, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283328-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the U.S. Representative from Alaska's at-large congressional district, who will represent the state of Alaska in the 116th United States Congress. The election coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, as well as elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283328-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, Democratic\u2013Libertarian\u2013Independence primary\nCandidates from the Alaska Democratic Party, Alaska Libertarian Party and Alaskan Independence Party appear on the same ballot, with the highest-placed candidate from each party receiving that party's nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 107], "content_span": [108, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283329-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in American Samoa\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives election in American Samoa was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from American Samoa's at-large congressional district. The election coincided with the midterm elections for other federal and territorial offices, including the larger American Samoa general election, as well as the nationwide 2018 United States House of Representatives elections and the 2018 United States general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283329-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in American Samoa\nIncumbent delegate Amata Coleman Radewagen, a Republican who had held the seat since 2015, won re-election to the United States House of Representatives for a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283329-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in American Samoa, Background\nIn November 2014, Amata Coleman Radewagen defeated 10-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Eni Faleomavaega in a crowded race for the seat. She won re-election to a second term in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283329-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in American Samoa, Candidates\nThe deadline for candidates to file with the Election Office was September 1, 2018. Three candidates filed to run for election to American Samoa's lone seat in the United States House of Representatives by the deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283330-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the U.S. Representative from Delaware's at-large congressional district, who will represent the state of Delaware in the 116th United States Congress. The election coincided with the election of a U.S. Senator from Delaware and other federal and state offices. Democratic Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, the incumbent, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283330-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware, Democratic primary\nLisa Blunt Rochester ran unopposed in the primary and automatically became the Democratic nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 84], "content_span": [85, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283330-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware, Republican Party, Controversy\nShortly after the final results for the Republican primary, controversy almost immediately emerged about Scott Walker\u2019s victory, as Lee Murphy had been seen as many as the favorite to win. Murphy refused to concede and took to Facebook in saying, \u201cFriends, thanks for all your support- something stinks here and I will not be conceding anytime soon. Need to investigate big time. A Dem wins a Republican primary?\u201d Murphy also called for an investigation into the results. Walker responded in saying that God led his campaign to victory. Student and community activist Andrew Webb declared his Republican write-in candidacy on September 17, 2018, hoping to gain support from dissatisfied Republicans. He announced a platform of more moderate/traditional conservative ideas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 95], "content_span": [96, 868]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283331-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives election in the District of Columbia was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the District of Columbia. The election coincided with the 2018 elections of other federal, state, and local offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283331-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia\nThe non-voting delegate is elected for a two-year term. Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton, the incumbent delegate first elected in 1990, is was re-elected for a 15th consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283331-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia, Primary election\nThe primary election for party nominee was held on June 19, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 94], "content_span": [95, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283331-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia, Primary election, Democratic primary\nIncumbent Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton faced her first primary challenge since 2010. Her opponent in the primary was Kim Ford, a former Obama administration official. Holmes Norton defeated Ford with 76.5% to Ford's 22.9% in the Democratic primary on June 19, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 114], "content_span": [115, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283331-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia, General election\nThe election for Delegate for House of Representatives was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 94], "content_span": [95, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283332-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Guam\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives election in Guam was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Guam's at-large congressional district. The election coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices, including the larger Guamanian general election, 2018, the 2018 Guam gubernatorial election, and the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283332-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Guam\nThe non-voting delegate is elected for a two-year term. Incumbent Democratic Delegate Madeleine Bordallo, who has represented the district since 2003, lost her primary election to Michael San Nicolas, a senator of the Guam Legislature since 2013. San Nicolas was challenged Republican former public auditor Doris Flores-Brooks for Guam's lone-seat in the United States House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283332-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Guam\nDemocratic candidate Michael San Nicolas attained the higher number of votes and took office in January 2019 as Guam's congressional delegate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283333-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Montana\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives election in Montana was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the U.S. Representative from Montana's at-large congressional district. The election coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283334-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the U.S. Representative for North Dakota's at-large congressional district. The election coincided with the U.S. Senate election, as well as other statewide, legislative, and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283334-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota\nThough incumbent Republican U.S. Representative Kevin Cramer announced on January 11, 2018, he will run for re-election to a fourth term, he later indicated an intention to run for the United States Senate instead. On February 16, 2018, Cramer announced his Senate campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283334-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota, Republican primary\nState Senator Tom Campbell has stated he intends to run for the U.S. Senate if Cramer runs for re-election and to run for the U.S. House if Cramer does not run for re-election. Campbell declared for the seat following Cramer's run for Senate. However, on April 11, Campbell dropped out of the race to endorse Armstrong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 88], "content_span": [89, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283334-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota, Democratic-NPL primary\nThe Democratic-NPL Party held their state convention March 16 and 17, during which delegates voted to endorse Mac Schneider. Although general election ballot access is actually controlled by a Primary Election to be held June 12, both other candidates decided to withdraw from the race, rather than challenge Schneider in the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 92], "content_span": [93, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283335-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Northern Mariana Islands\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives election in the Northern Mariana Islands was held on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, to elect the territory's Delegate to the United States House of Representatives in the 116th United States Congress. Delegate Gregorio Sablan was re-elected to his sixth term as Delegate to the U.S. House of Representativesfrom the Northern Mariana Islands' at-large district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [80, 80], "content_span": [81, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283335-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Northern Mariana Islands\nThe election was originally scheduled for Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to coincide with the 2018 House of Representatives election and the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) territorial elections. However, all 2018 elections in the CNMI were postponed until November 13, 2018, due to the impact of Typhoon Yutu, which devastated the Northern Mariana Islands as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon on October 24, just weeks before the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [80, 80], "content_span": [81, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283335-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Northern Mariana Islands\nThe Northern Mariana Islands' non-voting delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives is elected for a two-year term. Incumbent Delegate Gregorio Sablan, an independent who caucuses with the Democratic Party, successfully sought re-election to a sixth consecutive term. Sablan, who ran unopposed in 2016, defeated Republican Rep. Angel Demapan, a member of the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [80, 80], "content_span": [81, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283335-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Northern Mariana Islands\nThe election coincided with the elections of other federal midterm and Commonwealth offices, including the local Northern Mariana Islands general election and territorial general election, as well as the nationwide 2018 United States House of Representatives elections and the 2016 United States general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [80, 80], "content_span": [81, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283335-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Northern Mariana Islands, Results\nIncumbent Gregorio Sablan won re-election to his sixth term as Delegate, defeating Republican Angel Demapan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [82, 89], "content_span": [90, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283336-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota was held on November 6, to elect the U.S. Representative for South Dakota's at-large congressional district. The election coincided with other statewide, legislative, and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283336-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota\nIncumbent Republican U.S. Representative Kristi Noem did not run for a fifth term and instead ran successfully for Governor of South Dakota. This is the first open seat election since 2004 and the first time a male candidate was elected since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283337-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in United States Virgin Islands\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives election in the United States Virgin Islands was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands' at-large congressional district. The election will coincide with the larger United States House election and other elections in the United States Virgin Islands, such as the 2018 gubernatorial general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [84, 84], "content_span": [85, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283337-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in United States Virgin Islands\nThe non-voting delegate is elected for a two-year term. Incumbent delegate Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat, who sought re-election for a third term, was the only declared candidate. She was unopposed in the primary and general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [84, 84], "content_span": [85, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283338-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the U.S. Representative from the state of Vermont from Vermont's at-large congressional district. The election coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primary elections were held on August 14. Peter Welch, a Democrat won reelection to a seventh term, defeating Republican Anya Tynio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283338-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont, Republican primary, Post-primary\nH. Brooke Paige, who also won the Republican nominations for U.S. Senate, state Attorney General, state Secretary of State, state Treasurer and state Auditor, withdrew from all but the Secretary of State race on August 24 in order to allow the Vermont Republican State Committee to name replacement candidates. Anya Tynio, who came in 2nd place in the primary, was nominated to be the Republican nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 97], "content_span": [98, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283338-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont, Liberty Union/Socialist nomination\nThe Liberty Union Party serves as the Vermont affiliate of the Socialist Party for federal-level elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 99], "content_span": [100, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283339-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming was held on November 6, 2018 to elect the U.S. Representative from Wyoming's at-large congressional district, who would represent the state of Wyoming in the 116th United States Congress. The election coincided with the 2018 U.S. mid-term elections, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283339-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming\nKey 2018 races in Wyoming included elections for Governor, Secretary of State of Wyoming, U.S. Senate, 15 of the 30 seats in the Wyoming State Senate, and all 60 seats in the Wyoming House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283339-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming\nIncumbent Republican Liz Cheney won reelection to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283339-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming\nPrimary elections to determine each party's nominee for the general election were held on August 21, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283340-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election ratings\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 6, 2018, with early voting taking place in some states in the weeks preceding that date. Voters chose representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states. Non -voting delegates from the District of Columbia and four of the five inhabited U.S. territories were also elected. These midterm elections took place nearly halfway through the first term of Republican President Donald Trump. The winners will serve in the 116th United States Congress, with seats apportioned among the states based on the 2010 United States census. On Election Day, Republicans had held a House majority since January 2011 as a result of the 2010 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283340-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election ratings\nIn the 2018 midterm elections, the Democrats won control of the House and had a net gain of more than 40 seats from their total after the 2016 elections (including one seat gained previously with Conor Lamb's March 2018 special election victory). This was their largest gain of seats since the 1974 elections, when they picked up 49 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283340-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election ratings, Election ratings, Latest published ratings for competitive seats\nSeveral sites and individuals publish ratings of competitive seats. The seats listed below were considered competitive (not \"safe\" or \"solid\") by at least one of the rating groups. These ratings are based upon factors such as the strength of the incumbent (if the incumbent is running for re-election), the strength of the candidates, and the partisan history of the district (the Cook Partisan Voting Index is one example of this metric). Each rating describes the likelihood of a given outcome in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 126], "content_span": [127, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283340-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives election ratings, Election ratings, Generic ballot polls\nThe following is a list of generic party ballot polls conducted in advance of the 2018 House of Representatives elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 100], "content_span": [101, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 6, 2018, with early voting taking place in some states in the weeks preceding that date. Voters chose representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states. Non -voting delegates from the District of Columbia and four of the five inhabited U.S. territories were also elected. These midterm elections took place halfway through the term of Republican President Donald Trump. On Election Day, Republicans had held a House majority since January 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections\nIn the 2018 elections, the Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, won control of the House. The Democrats gained a net total of 41 seats from the total number of seats they had won in the 2016 elections. The 41-seat gain was the Democrats' largest gain of House seats since the post-Watergate 1974 elections, when they picked up 49 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections\nUpon the opening of the 116th United States Congress, Pelosi was elected as Speaker of the House. Incumbent Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan chose not to run for another term. In November 2018, House Republicans elected Kevin McCarthy as House Minority Leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Results summary and analysis\nThe Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections. The Democrats gained a net total of 41 seats from the total number of seats they had won in the 2016 elections. This was their largest gain of House seats in an election since the 1974 elections, when the Democrats gained 49 House seats. Democrats won the popular vote by more than 9.7\u00a0million votes or 8.6%, the largest midterm margin for any party and the largest margin on record for a minority party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Results summary and analysis\nAccording to the Associated Press' statistical analysis, gerrymandering cost the Democrats an additional sixteen House seats from Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Results summary and analysis\nVoter turnout in this election was 50.3%, the highest turnout in a U.S. midterm election since 1914.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Results summary and analysis\nNote that the results summary does not include blank and over/under votes which were included in the official results or votes cast in the voided election in North Carolina's 9th congressional district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Retirements\nIn the November general elections, fifty-four incumbents did not seek re-election, either to retire or to seek other positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 66], "content_span": [67, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Resignations and death\nFour seats opened early due to resignations or death and were not filled until the November elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Resignations\nThree other members announced their retirements but then resigned early before their terms ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Closest races\nIn eighty-nine races the margin of victory was under 10%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 68], "content_span": [69, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Voter demographics\nSource: Edison Research exit poll for the National Election Pool", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 73], "content_span": [74, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Alabama\nThe state congressional delegation remained the same at 6\u20131 for Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Alaska\nRepublicans maintained control of the sole seat in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Arizona\nThe state congressional delegation flipped from a 5\u20134 Republican majority to a 5\u20134 Democratic majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Arkansas\nThe state congressional delegation remained the same with a 4\u20130 Republican majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Colorado\nThe state congressional delegation flipped from a 4\u20133 Republican majority to a 4\u20133 Democratic majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Delaware\nDemocrats retained control of the sole seat in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Iowa\nIowa's delegation flipped from a 3\u20131 Republican majority to a 3\u20131 Democratic majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 59], "content_span": [60, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Louisiana\nAll incumbents were re-elected and Republicans maintained their 5\u20131 majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Maine\nThe 1\u20131 tie became a 2\u20130 Democratic hold. This was the first use of ranked choice voting to decide a House race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 60], "content_span": [61, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Michigan\nThe delegation flipped from a 9\u20135 Republican majority to a 7\u20137 split.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Minnesota\nAlthough half of the seats switched parties, Democrats maintained the same 5\u20133 majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, New Jersey\nThe state congressional delegation changed from 7\u20135 for Democrats to 11\u20131 for Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, New Mexico\nThe state congressional delegation changed from 2\u20131 for Democrats to all 3 seats being controlled by Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, New York\nDemocrats increased their seat majority in New York's congressional delegation from 18\u20139 to 21\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, North Carolina\nDue to allegations of electoral fraud, the 116th Congress was sworn in with one seat vacant. On February 21, 2019, a new election was ordered by the state election board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Ohio\nThe state congressional delegation remained the same at 12\u20134 for Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Oklahoma\nThe state congressional delegation changed from 5\u20130 for Republicans to a 4\u20131 Republican majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Oregon\nThe state congressional delegation remained the same with a 4\u20131 Democratic majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Pennsylvania\nAs a result of changes in the congressional map, the state congressional delegation changed from a 13\u20135 Republican majority to a 9\u20139 split.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Rhode Island\nThe state congressional delegation remained unchanged at 2\u20130 for Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, South Carolina\nThe state congressional delegation changed from 6\u20131 for Republicans to 5\u20132 for Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, South Dakota\nRepublicans retained control of the sole seat in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Texas\nThe state congressional delegation changed from a 25\u201311 Republican majority to a 23\u201313 Republican majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 60], "content_span": [61, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Utah\nThe state congressional delegation changed from 4\u20130 for Republicans to a 3\u20131 Republican majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 59], "content_span": [60, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Vermont\nThe Democrats maintained control of the sole seat in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Virginia\nThe state congressional delegation flipped from a 7\u20134 Republican majority to a 7\u20134 Democratic majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, West Virginia\nThe state congressional delegation remained the same at 3\u20130 for Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 68], "content_span": [69, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Wyoming\nRepublicans maintained control of the sole seat in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Non-voting delegates, Northern Mariana Islands\nThe election for a non-voting delegate from the Northern Mariana Islands was postponed until Tuesday, November 13, 2018 due to the impact of Typhoon Yutu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 101], "content_span": [102, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283341-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections, Non-voting delegates, Puerto Rico\nThe Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico is not up for re-election until 2020. Currently held by Republican Jenniffer Gonz\u00e1lez, who was first elected in 2016, the Resident Commissioner is the only member of the United States House of Representatives to serve a four-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 88], "content_span": [89, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283342-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the seven U.S. Representatives from the state of Alabama, one from each of the state's seven congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, as well as elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on June 5, with all choosing a nominee except the Republican primary in the 2nd district, which went to a July 17 runoff. The 2018 general election saw no change in Alabama's representation, remaining at a 6\u20131 GOP advantage, even though Democrats won over 40% of the statewide vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283342-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama, Overview, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 84], "content_span": [85, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283342-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama, District 1\nThe incumbent was Republican Bradley Byrne, who has represented the district since 2013. Byrne was re-elected with 96% of the vote in 2016, against nominal write-in opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283342-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama, District 2\nThe incumbent was Republican Martha Roby, who has represented the district since 2011. Roby was re-elected with 49% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283342-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama, District 2\nThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee included Alabama's 2nd congressional district on its initial list of Republican-held seats considered targets in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283342-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama, District 3\nThe incumbent was Republican Mike Rogers, who has represented the district since 2003. Rogers was re-elected with 67% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283342-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama, District 4\nThe incumbent was Republican Robert Aderholt, who has represented the district since 1997. Aderholt was re-elected with 99% of the vote in 2016 against nominal write-in opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283342-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama, District 5\nThe incumbent was Republican Mo Brooks, who has represented the district since 2011. Brooks was re-elected with 67% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283342-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama, District 6\nThe incumbent was Republican Gary Palmer, who has represented the district since 2015. Palmer was re-elected with 74% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283342-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama, District 7\nThe incumbent was Democrat Terri Sewell, who has represented the district since 2011. Sewell was re-elected with 98% of the vote in 2016 against nominal write-in opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283343-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the nine U.S. Representatives from the State of Arizona, one from each of the state's nine congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2018 Arizona gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the U.S. House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The 2018 general elections saw the Democratic party gain the 2nd Congressional district, thus flipping the state from a 5\u20134 Republican advantage to a 5\u20134 Democratic advantage, the first time since the 2012 election in which Democrats held more House seats in Arizona than the Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283343-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 74], "content_span": [75, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283343-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, District 1\nThe 1st district is home to the Grand Canyon and stretches along the eastern and northeastern portions of the state and includes Casa Grande, Flagstaff, and Marana. This district has a significant Native-American population, making up 25% of the population in the district. This district is home to a number of Indian reservations, including the Gila River Indian Community, Hopi Reservation, and the Navajo Nation. Incumbent Democratic Congressman Tom O'Halleran won election to his first term in 2016 with 50.90 percent of the vote over Republican nominee Paul Babeu. This district is one of the most competitive in the state with a PVI of R+2. In 2018, the district was one of 36 Democratic-held House districts targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283343-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, District 2\nThe 2nd district is based in the southeastern corner of Arizona and includes Cochise County and parts of suburban Tucson. Republican Martha McSally was reelected to a second term in 2016, defeating Democratic opponent Matt Heinz by a margin of 57 to 43 percent in the general election. In 2018, this district was one of 80 Republican-held House districts targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283343-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, District 3\nThe third district is based in Tucson and stretches along the southern border of Arizona including Yuma, rural portions of Maricopa County such as Gila Bend, and the western suburbs of Phoenix including Avondale, Buckeye, Goodyear, and parts of Litchfield Park. Ra\u00fal Grijalva has represented this district since 2002, and ran unopposed in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283343-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, District 4\nThe fourth district takes up most of rural northwestern and western Arizona and includes Kingman, Lake Havasu City, Prescott, and San Tan Valley. This is the most Republican district in Arizona with a PVI of R+21. Republican Paul Gosar was reelected to a fourth term in 2016 with 71% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283343-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, District 4\nThis congressional race received national media coverage during the general election after Democratic nominee David Brill aired television advertisements in which six of Republican incumbent Paul Gosar's nine siblings each condemned their brother and endorsed Brill, imploring residents of the fourth district to vote their brother out of office. Gosar responded to this advert with a tweet in which he dismissed his siblings' criticisms and characterized the six siblings as, \"disgruntled Hillary supporters\" who \"put political ideology before family\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283343-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, District 5\nThe 5th district is based in the East Valley region of suburban Phoenix and includes Gilbert and Queen Creek, as well as portions of Chandler and Mesa. Republican Andy Biggs was elected to his first term in 2016 with 64% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283343-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, District 6\nThe sixth district is based in northeastern suburban Phoenix and is centered around Scottsdale, and also includes many affluent communities such as Fountain Hills and Paradise Valley. Republican David Schweikert was re-elected to a third term in 2016 with 62.23% of the vote. In 2018, this district was one of 80 Republican-held House districts targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283343-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, District 7\nThe seventh district is based in the city of Phoenix and also includes parts of Glendale and Tolleson. This is the most Democratic district in Arizona with a PVI of D+23. Democrat Ruben Gallego was elected to a second term in 2016 with 75.12% of the vote. No Republican candidate filed to run in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283343-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, District 8\nThe eighth district is based in the West Valley region of suburban Phoenix and includes the cities of El Mirage, Peoria, and Surprise, and also many retirement communities such as Sun City. Republican Congressman Trent Franks represented the district from 2003 to 2017, winning reelection in 2016 with 68.66% of the vote. Franks resigned from Congress on December 8, 2017, after a controversy regarding surrogate mothers. Republican Debbie Lesko won the special election that took place on April 24, 2018, defeating Democratic nominee Hiral Tipirneni with 52.6% of the vote. In the November 2018 general election, Lesko won a full term, again defeating Tipirneni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283343-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, District 9\nThe ninth district is based in suburban Phoenix and is centered around Tempe, and also includes portions of Chandler, Mesa, and Scottsdale. This district is moderately competitive with a PVI of D+4. Democrat Kyrsten Sinema was re-elected to a third term in 2016 with 60.89% of the vote. In 2018, Sinema did not seek reelection to the U.S. House, instead running for U.S. Senate in order to replace Jeff Flake. In 2018, this district was one of 36 Democratic-held House districts targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283344-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the four U.S. Representatives from the U.S. state of Arkansas; one from each of the state's four congressional districts. Primaries were held on May 22, 2018. The elections and primaries coincided with the elections and primaries of other federal and state offices. Polls were open from 7:30 AM to 7:30 PM CST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283344-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas, Overview, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 85], "content_span": [86, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283344-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas, District 1\nThe incumbent is Republican Rick Crawford, who has represented the district since 2011. Crawford was re-elected with 76% of the vote in 2016. The Democratic nominee is Chintan Desai, a project manager for KIPP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283344-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas, District 2\nThe incumbent is Republican French Hill, who has represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected with 58% of the vote in 2016. The Democratic nominee is Clarke Tucker, a state representative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283344-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas, District 2\nArkansas's 2nd district has been included on the initial list of Republican held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283344-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas, District 3\nThe incumbent is Republican Steve Womack, who has represented the district since 2011. He was re-elected with 77% of the vote in 2016. The Democratic nominee is Joshua Mahony from Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Libertarian candidate is Michael Kalagias, a retired teacher and volunteer firefighter from Rogers, Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283344-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas, District 4\nThe incumbent is Republican Bruce Westerman, who has represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected with 75% of the vote in 2016. The Democratic nominee is Hayden Shamel, a teacher from Hot Springs, Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California were held on November 6, 2018, with the primary elections being held on June 5, 2018. Voters elected the 53 U.S. Representatives from the state of California, one from each of the state's 53 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices, including a gubernatorial election, other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California\nDemocrats won in seven congressional districts previously represented by Republicans, all of which voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. This reduced the California House Republican delegation by half and left the Republican Party with the fewest seats in California since 1946.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California\nIncumbents Jeff Denham, David Valadao, Steve Knight (politician), Mimi Walters, and fifteen-term incumbent Dana Rohrabacher were all defeated. Democrats also picked up two open seats held by thirteen-term incumbent Edward Royce and nine-term incumbent Darrell Issa. The seven Democratic House pickups in California were the most made by the party in the 2018 election cycle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Overview, By district\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 90], "content_span": [91, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 1\nThe 1st district is based in inland Northern California and includes Chico and Redding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 88], "content_span": [89, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 1\nAfter advancing to the general election, Democratic candidate Audrey Denney was forced to pause her campaign for emergency tumor-removal surgery in August, but returned in time to debate LaMalfa in September. She lost having received 45.1% of the vote, but won the Democratic party nomination for the 2020 election. Republican Doug LaMalfa, who had represented the 1st district since 2013, won re-election with 54.9% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 88], "content_span": [89, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 2\nThe 2nd district is based in California's North Coast and includes Marin County and Eureka. Democrat Jared Huffman, who had represented the 2nd district since 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 88], "content_span": [89, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 3\nThe 3rd district is based in north central California and includes Davis, Fairfield, and Yuba City. Democrat John Garamendi, who had represented the 3rd district since 2013 and previously represented the 10th district from 2009 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 88], "content_span": [89, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 4\nThe 4th district is based in east central California and includes Lake Tahoe, Roseville, and Yosemite National Park. Republican Tom McClintock, who had represented the 4th district since 2009, won re-election against Democrat Jessica Morse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 88], "content_span": [89, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 5\nThe 5th district is based in the North Bay and includes Napa, Santa Rosa, and Vallejo. Democrat Mike Thompson, who had represented the 5th district since 2013 and previously represented the 1st district from 1999 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 88], "content_span": [89, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 6\nThe 6th district is based in north central California and includes Sacramento. Democrat Doris Matsui, who had represented the 6th district since 2013 and previously represented the 5th district from 2005 to 2013, won re-election against fellow Democrat, Jrmar Jefferson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 88], "content_span": [89, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 7\nThe 7th district is based in north central California and includes southern and eastern Sacramento County. Democrat Ami Bera, who had represented the 7th district since 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 88], "content_span": [89, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 8\nThe 8th district is based in the eastern High Desert and includes Victorville and Yucaipa. Republican Paul Cook, who had represented the 8th district since 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 88], "content_span": [89, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 9\nThe 9th district is based in the Central Valley and includes the San Joaquin Delta and Stockton. Democrat Jerry McNerney, who had represented the 9th district since 2013 and previously represented the 11th district from 2007 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 88], "content_span": [89, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 10\nThe 10th district is based in the Central Valley and includes Modesto (and the remainder of Stanislaus County), Manteca, and Tracy (with other portions of southern San Joaquin County). Republican Jeff Denham, who had represented the 10th district since 2013 and previously represented the 19th district from 2011 to 2013, lost re-election to Democrat Josh Harder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 10\nHarder won both counties. Blue represents counties won by Harder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 11\nThe 11th district is based in the East Bay and includes Concord and Richmond. Democrat Mark DeSaulnier, who had represented the 11th district since 2015, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 12\nThe 12th district is based in the Bay Area and includes most of San Francisco. House Democratic Leader and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had represented the 12th district since 2013 and previously represented the 8th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 5th district from 1987 until 1993, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 13\nThe 13th district is based in the East Bay and includes Berkeley and Oakland. Democrat Barbara Lee, who had represented the 13th district since 2013 and previously represented the 9th district from 1998 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 14\nThe 14th district is based in the Bay Area and includes most of San Mateo County. Democrat Jackie Speier, who had represented the 14th district since 2013 and previously represented the 12th district from 2008 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 15\nThe 15th district is based in the East Bay and includes Hayward and Livermore. Democrat Eric Swalwell, who had represented the 15th district since 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 16\nThe 16th district is based in the Central Valley and includes Fresno, Madera, and Merced. Democrat Jim Costa, who had represented the 16th district since 2013 and previously represented the 20th district from 2005 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 17\nThe 17th district is based in the Bay Area and includes Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Fremont, and Milpitas. Democrat Ro Khanna, who had represented the 17th district since 2017, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 18\nThe 18th district is based in the Bay Area and includes Palo Alto, Redwood City, and Saratoga. Democrat Anna Eshoo, who had represented the 18th district since 2013 and previously represented the 14th district from 1993 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 19\nThe 19th district is based in the South Bay and includes most of San Jose. Democrat Zoe Lofgren, who had represented the 19th district since 2013 and previously represented the 16th district from 1995 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 20\nThe 20th district is based in the Central Coast and includes Monterey and Santa Cruz. Democrat Jimmy Panetta, who had represented the 20th district since 2017, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 21\nThe 21st district is based in the Central Valley and includes Hanford and parts of Bakersfield. Republican David Valadao, who had represented the 21st district since 2013, narrowly lost re-election to Democrat TJ Cox. Cox was running in the 10th district race before switching to run in the 21st district in March 2017. Democrat Emilio Huerta, who ran for the seat in 2016 and was planning to run again, dropped out shortly before Cox entered the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 21\nBlue represents counties won by Cox. Red represents counties won by Valadao.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 22\nThe 22nd district is based in the Central Valley and includes Clovis, Tulare, and Visalia. Republican Devin Nunes, who had represented the 22nd district since 2013 and previously represented the 21st district from 2003 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 23\nThe 23rd district is based in the southern Central Valley and includes parts of Bakersfield. Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who had represented the 23rd district since 2013 and previously represented the 22nd district from 2007 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 24\nThe 24th district is based in the Central Coast and includes San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. Democrat Salud Carbajal, who had represented the 24th district since 2017, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 25\nThe 25th district is based in northern Los Angeles County and includes Palmdale and Santa Clarita as well as Simi Valley in Ventura County. Republican Steve Knight, who had represented the 25th district since 2015, lost re-election to Democrat Katie Hill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 25\nBlue represents counties won by Hill. Red represents counties won by Knight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 26\nThe 26th district is based in the southern Central Coast and includes Oxnard and Thousand Oaks. Democrat Julia Brownley, who had represented the 26th district since 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 27\nThe 27th district is based in the San Gabriel Foothills and includes Alhambra, Glendora and Pasadena. Democrat Judy Chu, who had represented the 27th district since 2013 and previously represented the 32nd district from 2009 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 28\nThe 28th district is based in the northern Los Angeles suburbs and includes Burbank, Glendale, La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge as well as parts of central Los Angeles. Democrat Adam Schiff, who had represented the 28th district since 2013 and previously represented the 29th district from 2003 to 2013 and the 27th district from 2001 to 2003, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 29\nThe 29th district is based in the northeastern San Fernando Valley. Democrat Tony C\u00e1rdenas, who had represented the 29th district since 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 30\nThe 30th district is based in the western San Fernando Valley and includes Sherman Oaks. Democrat Brad Sherman, who had represented the 30th district since 2013 and previously represented the 27th district from 2003 to 2013 and the 24th district from 1997 to 2003, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 31\nThe 31st district is based in the Inland Empire and includes San Bernardino, Redlands and Rancho Cucamonga. Democrat Pete Aguilar, who had represented the 31st district since 2015, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 32\nThe 32nd district is based in the San Gabriel Valley and includes El Monte and West Covina. Democrat Grace Napolitano, who had represented the 32nd district since 2013 and previously represented the 38th district from 2003 to 2013 and the 34th district from 1999 to 2003, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 33\nThe 33rd district is based in coastal Los Angeles County and includes Beverly Hills and Santa Monica. Democrat Ted Lieu, who had represented the 33rd district since 2015, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 34\nThe 34th district is based in central Los Angeles and includes Boyle Heights, Chinatown and Downtown Los Angeles. Democrat Jimmy Gomez, who had represented the 34th district since 2017, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 35\nThe 35th district is based in the Inland Empire and includes Fontana, Ontario, and Pomona. Democrat Norma Torres, who had represented the 35th district since 2015, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 36\nThe 36th district is based in eastern Riverside County and includes Palm Springs. Democrat Raul Ruiz, who had represented the 36th district since 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 37\nThe 37th district is based in South Los Angeles and includes Crenshaw, Exposition Park and Culver City. Democrat Karen Bass, who had represented the 37th district since 2013 and previously represented the 33rd district from 2011 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 38\nThe 38th district is based in the eastern Los Angeles suburbs and includes Norwalk and Whittier. Democrat Linda S\u00e1nchez, who had represented the 38th district since 2013 and previously represented the 39th district from 2003 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 39\nThe 39th district straddles the Los Angeles\u2013Orange\u2013San Bernardino tri-county border and includes Chino Hills, Diamond Bar, and Fullerton. Republican Ed Royce, who had represented the 39th district since 2013 and had represented the 40th district from 2003 to 2013 and the 39th district from 1993 to 2003, retired and was succeeded by Democrat Gil Cisneros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 39\nBlue represents counties won by Cisneros. Red represents counties won by Kim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 40\nThe 40th district is based in central Los Angeles County and includes Downey and East Los Angeles. Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard, who had represented the 40th district since 2013 and previously represented the 34th district from 2003 to 2013 and the 33rd district from 1993 to 2003, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 41\nThe 41st district is based in the Inland Empire and includes Moreno Valley, Perris, and Riverside. Democrat Mark Takano, who had represented the 41st district since 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 42\nThe 42nd district is based in the Inland Empire and includes Corona and Murrieta. Republican Ken Calvert, who had represented the 42nd district since 2013 and previously represented the 44th district from 2003 to 2013 and the 43rd district from 1993 to 2003, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 43\nThe 43rd district is based in South Los Angeles and includes Hawthorne and Inglewood. Democrat Maxine Waters, who had represented the 43rd district since 2013 and previously represented the 35th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 29th district from 1991 to 1993, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 44\nThe 44th district is based in south Los Angeles County and includes Carson, Compton, and San Pedro. Democrat Nanette Barrag\u00e1n, who had represented the 44th district since 2017, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 45\nThe 45th district is based in inland Orange County and includes the cities of East Anaheim, Irvine and Mission Viejo. Republican Mimi Walters, who had represented the 45th district since 2015, lost re-election to Democrat Katie Porter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 45\nBlue represents county supervisorial districts won by Porter. Red represents county supervisorial districts won by Walters. Gray represents county supervisorial districts with no data.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 46\nThe 46th district is based in central Orange County and includes Anaheim and Santa Ana. Democrat Lou Correa, who had represented the 46th district since 2017, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 47\nThe 47th district encompasses Long Beach, Catalina Island, and parts of western Orange County, including Garden Grove and Westminster. Democrat Alan Lowenthal, who had represented the 47th district since 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 48\nThe 48th district is based in coastal Orange County and includes Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach and Newport Beach. Republican Dana Rohrabacher, who had represented the 48th district since 2013 and previously represented the 46th district from 2003 to 2013, the 45th district from 1993 to 2003, and the 42nd district from 1989 to 1993, lost re-election to Democrat Harley Rouda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 48\nRouda won all 3 county supervisorial districts. Blue represents county supervisorial districts won by Rouda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 49\nThe 49th district is based in northern San Diego County and parts of southern Orange County. It includes the cities of Carlsbad, Oceanside, San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente. Republican Darrell Issa, who had represented the 49th district since 2003 and the 48th district from 2001 to 2003, retired and was succeeded by Democrat Mike Levin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 49\nBlue represents counties won by Levin. Red represents counties won by Harkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 50\nThe 50th district is based in inland San Diego County and includes Escondido and Santee. Republican Duncan D. Hunter, who had represented the 50th district since 2013 and previously represented the 52nd district from 2009 to 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 51\nThe new 51st district runs along the border with Mexico and includes Imperial County and San Diego. Democrat Juan Vargas, who had represented the 51st district since 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 52\nThe 52nd district is based in coastal San Diego and includes La Jolla and Poway. Democrat Scott Peters, who had represented the 52nd district since 2013, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283345-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results, District 53\nThe 53rd district is based in Central San Diego and includes La Mesa and Lemon Grove. Democrat Susan Davis, who had represented the 53rd district since 2003 and previously represented the 49th district from 2001 to 2003, won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 89], "content_span": [90, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283346-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the seven U.S. Representatives from the state of Colorado, one from each of the state's seven congressional districts. The Republican and Democratic Party primaries in Colorado were held on June 26, 2018. The elections coincided with the gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283346-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 75], "content_span": [76, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283346-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, District 1\nThe 1st district is located in Central Colorado and includes most of the city of Denver. The incumbent is Democrat Diana DeGette, who has represented the district since 1997. She was re-elected to an eleventh term with 68% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283346-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, District 2\nThe 2nd district is located in Northern Colorado and encompasses seven counties. The incumbent is Democrat Jared Polis, who has represented the district since 2009. He was re-elected to a fifth term with 57% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283346-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, District 2\nPolis is running for Governor of Colorado. He won the Democratic nomination for the general election in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283346-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, District 3\nThe 3rd district is located in Western and Southern Colorado and includes a large number of sparsely populated counties and the city of Grand Junction. The incumbent is Republican Scott Tipton, who has represented the district since 2011. He was re-elected to a fourth term with 55% of the vote in 2016. This is one of 80 Republican-held House districts targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283346-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, District 4\nThe 4th district is located in Eastern Colorado and includes numerous sparsely populated counties. The incumbent is Republican Ken Buck, who has represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected to a second term with 64% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283346-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, District 5\nThe 5th district is located in Central Colorado and includes Fremont, El Paso, Teller and Chaffee counties and the city of Colorado Springs. The incumbent is Republican Doug Lamborn, who has represented the district since 2007. He was re-elected to a sixth term with 62% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283346-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, District 6\nThe 6th district is located in Central Colorado and surrounds the city of Denver from the east, including the city of Aurora. The incumbent is Republican Mike Coffman, who has represented the district since 2009. He was re-elected to a fifth term with 51% of the vote in 2016. This is one of 80 Republican-held House districts targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283346-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, District 7\nThe 7th district is located in Central Colorado, to the north and west of Denver and includes the cities of Thornton and Westminster and most of Lakewood. The incumbent is Democrat Ed Perlmutter, who has represented the district since 2007. He was re-elected to a sixth term with 55% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283346-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, District 7\nPerlmutter announced a run for governor, but later withdrew from that race. He later announced that he would not run for re-election. However, on August 21, 2017, he announced that he had changed his mind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283346-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, District 7\nColorado's 7th district was included on the initial list of Democratic-held seats being targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2018. Former chair of the Jefferson County Republican Party and former vice chair of the Colorado Republican Party Don Ytterberg, who was the nominee for this seat in 2014, was rumored to be considering running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283347-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Connecticut\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Connecticut were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the five U.S. Representatives from the state of Connecticut, one from each of the state's five congressional districts. The elections coincided with the gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283347-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Connecticut, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Connecticut by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 78], "content_span": [79, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283347-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Connecticut, District 1\nThe 1st district is located in the north-central part of the state, and is anchored by the state capital of Hartford. It includes parts of Hartford, Litchfield, and Middlesex counties. The incumbent is Democrat John Larson, who has represented the district since 1999. He was re-elected to a tenth term with 64% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 80], "content_span": [81, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283347-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Connecticut, District 2\nThe 2nd district is located in the eastern part of the state, and includes all of New London, Tolland, and Windham counties and parts of Hartford, Middlesex, and New Haven counties. The incumbent is Democrat Joe Courtney, who has represented the district since 2007. He was re-elected to a sixth term with 63% of the vote in 2016. The National Republican Congressional Committee has outlined this district as one of the 36 Democratic-held districts it is targeting in 2018. Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob Stefanowski won the district in the concurrent gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 80], "content_span": [81, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283347-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Connecticut, District 3\nThe 3rd district is located in the central part of the state and contains the city of New Haven and its surrounding suburbs. It includes parts of Fairfield, Middlesex, and New Haven counties. The incumbent is Democrat Rosa DeLauro, who has represented the district since 1991. She was re-elected to a fourteenth term with 69% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 80], "content_span": [81, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283347-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Connecticut, District 4\nThe 4th district is located in the southwestern part of the state, extending from Bridgeport, the largest city in the state, to Greenwich. It includes parts of Fairfield and New Haven counties. The incumbent is Democrat Jim Himes, who has represented the district since 2009. He was re-elected to a fifth term with 60% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 80], "content_span": [81, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283347-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Connecticut, District 5\nThe 5th district is located in the northwestern part of the state and includes parts of Fairfield, Hartford, Litchfield, and New Haven counties. The incumbent was Democrat Elizabeth Esty, who represented the district since 2013. She was re-elected to a third term with 58% of the vote in 2016. Esty did not run for reelection in 2018. Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob Stefanowski won the district in the concurrent gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 80], "content_span": [81, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the 27 U.S. Representatives from the state of Florida, one from each of the state's 27 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices, including a gubernatorial election, other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections. The party primaries were held on August 28, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida\nThe state congressional delegation changed from a 16\u201311 Republican majority to a slim 14\u201313 Republican majority, one short from a Democratic flip. These were seen as the most seats Democrats had attained in Florida since 1982. As noted in the vote table below, Florida does not count votes in uncontested races, so the votes in the four uncontested seats held by Democratic members of the House are not counted in the totals or percentages on this page, and each under counts the votes for Democrats in Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, Results summary, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 91], "content_span": [92, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 1\nThe 1st district stretches along the Emerald Coast and is located in the western Panhandle anchored by Pensacola, it also includes Fort Walton Beach, Navarre, and Wright. Republican Matt Gaetz, who has represented the district since 2017, was elected with 69% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 2\nThe 2nd district is located in the Big Bend region and is anchored by Panama City, and includes the suburbs of Tallahassee. Republican Neal Dunn, who has represented the district since 2017, was elected with 67% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 3\nThe 3rd district is located in North Central Florida and includes the cities of Gainesville, Palatka, and Ocala. Republican Ted Yoho, who has represented the district since 2013, was re-elected to a third term with 57% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 4\nThe 4th district is located in the First Coast region and is made up of the Jacksonville metropolitan area including Jacksonville Beach and St. Augustine. Republican John Rutherford, who has represented the district since 2017, was elected with 70% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 5\nThe 5th district stretches along the northern border of Florida from the state capital, Tallahassee, to Jacksonville. Democrat Al Lawson, who has represented the district since 2017, was elected with 64% of the vote in 2016. Lawson ran for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 6\nThe 6th district is located in the Surf Coast region and includes the cities of Daytona Beach, Deltona, and Palm Coast. Republican Ron DeSantis, who has represented the district since 2013, was re-elected to a third term with 59% of the vote in 2016. He did not run for re-election in 2018, rather opting to run for Governor of Florida. Florida's 6th district is one of the 20 Republican held seats included in the second round of seats targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 7\nThe 7th district is centered around downtown Orlando and the northern Orlando suburbs such as Sanford and Winter Park. Democrat Stephanie Murphy, who has represented the district since 2017, was elected with 51% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 8\nThe 8th district includes the Space Coast region and the cities of Melbourne, Palm Bay, and Vero Beach. Republican Bill Posey, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 15th district from 2009 to 2013, was re-elected to a fifth term with 63% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 9\nThe 9th district is located in inland Central Florida including Kissimmee, St. Cloud, and Winter Haven. Democrat Darren Soto, who has represented the district since 2017, was elected with 57% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 10\nThe 10th district is centered around Orlando and the surrounding suburbs such as Lockhart, Oak Ridge, and Zellwood. Democrat Val Demings, who has represented the district since 2017, was elected with 65% of the vote in 2016. Because no write-in candidates or candidates of other parties filed to run in this district, the Democratic primary was open to all voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 11\nThe 11th district is located in Central Florida and includes the southern suburbs of Ocala and Spring Hill, this district also includes the retirement community known as The Villages. Republican Daniel Webster, who has represented the district since 2017 and previously represented the 8th district from 2011 to 2013 and the 10th district from 2013 to 2017, was re-elected to a fourth term with 65% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 12\nThe 12th district is located in the Tampa Bay Area and includes Dade City, New Port Richey, and Palm Harbor. Republican Gus Bilirakis, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 9th district from 2007 to 2013, was re-elected to a sixth term with 69% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 13\nThe 13th district is located in the Tampa Bay Area and includes Clearwater, Largo and Saint Petersburg. Democrat Charlie Crist, who has represented the district since 2017, was elected with 52% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 14\nThe 14th district is centered around the city of Tampa and the immediate surrounding suburbs such as Lutz and Temple Terrace. Democrat Kathy Castor, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 11th district from 2007 to 2013, was re-elected to a sixth term with 62% of the vote in 2016. Castor was the only candidate in 2018, and so was unopposed in the Democratic primary and general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 15\nThe 15th district is located in inland Central Florida and is anchored by Lakeland. The district also includes the eastern suburbs of Tampa such as Brandon and Riverview. Republican Dennis Ross, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 12th district from 2011 to 2013, was retiring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 16\nThe 16th district is located in the Suncoast region and includes Bradenton, Sarasota, and some Tampa suburbs such as FishHawk. Republican Vern Buchanan, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 13th district from 2007 to 2013, was re-elected to a sixth term with 60% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 16, Democratic primary\nFlorida's 16th district is one of the 20 Republican held seats included in the second round of seats targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 97], "content_span": [98, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 17\nThe 17th district comprises most of the Florida Heartland, including the cities of Sebring and Okeechobee, as well as parts of the Suncoast, such as North Port and Port Charlotte. Republican Tom Rooney, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 16th district from 2009 to 2013, was re-elected to a fifth term with 62% of the vote in 2016. Rooney announced on February 19, 2018, that he will retire from Congress and not seek re-election in 2018. The Democratic Party candidate April Freeman died on September 24, 2018, six weeks before the election. Allen Ellison was chosen to be the Democratic nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 18\nThe 18th district is located in the Treasure Coast region and includes Stuart, Port St. Lucie, and the northern Palm Beach suburbs such as Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens. Republican Brian Mast, who has represented the district since 2017, was elected with 54% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 18, Democratic primary\nFlorida's 18th district was included on the initial list of Republican held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 97], "content_span": [98, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 19\nThe 19th district is located in Southwestern Florida and includes Bonita Springs, Cape Coral, and Naples. Republican Francis Rooney, who has represented the district since 2017, was elected with 66% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 20\nThe 20th district stretches from inland South Florida with many protected areas of the Everglades and Belle Glade to the Miami metro area and includes parts of West Palm Beach & Fort Lauderdale, and Miramar. Democrat Alcee Hastings, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 23rd district from 1993 to 2013, was re-elected to a thirteenth term with 80% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 21\nThe 21st district is located in the Miami metro area and includes the West Palm Beach suburbs, such as Greenacres and Wellington, as well as Boynton Beach and Delray Beach. Democrat Lois Frankel, who has represented the district since 2017 and previously represented the 22nd district from 2013 to 2017, was re-elected to a third term with 63% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 22\nThe 22nd district is located in the Miami metro area and includes Boca Raton and Parkland, the site of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Also, this district includes significant portions of Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach. Democrat Ted Deutch, who has represented the district since 2017 and previously represented the 19th district from 2010 to 2013 and the 21st district from 2013 to 2017, was re-elected to a fourth term with 59% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 23\nThe 23rd district is located in the Miami metro area, including Plantation, Sunrise, and Weston. Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 20th district from 2005 to 2013, was re-elected to a seventh term with 57% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 23, Independents\nTim Canova, who lost in the 2016 primary to Wasserman Schultz by a 57% to 43% margin, ran as an independent in the 2018 general election. Don Endriss also ran as an independent candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 91], "content_span": [92, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 24\nThe 24th district includes parts of Miami and its northern suburbs such as North Miami Beach and Miami Gardens. Democrat Frederica Wilson, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 17th district from 2011 to 2013, was re-elected to a fourth term unopposed in 2016. Because no write-in candidates or candidates of other parties filed to run in this district, the Democratic primary was open to all voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 24, General election\nBoth candidates were removed from the ballot which was cited for the recount in the Florida gubernatorial and United States Senate elections. Incumbent Frederica Wilson won unopposed in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 95], "content_span": [96, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 25\nThe 25th district includes the western Miami suburbs, such as Hialeah and Miami Lakes, and goes across the northern border of the Everglades to eastern Naples suburbs of Golden Gate and Immokalee. The district also extends upward into the Florida Heartland including Clewiston and LaBelle. Republican Mario D\u00edaz-Balart, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 21st district from 2011 to 2013 as well as a different version of the 25th from 2003 to 2011, was re-elected to an eighth term with 62% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 25, Democratic primary\nFlorida's 25th district has been included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 97], "content_span": [98, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 26\nThe 26th district is centered on the Miami suburb of Homestead, includes most of the Everglades National Park, and extends downward into the Florida Keys, including Key West and Marathon. Republican Carlos Curbelo, who has represented the district since 2015, was re-elected to a second term with 53% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 26, Democratic primary\nFlorida's 26th district was included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 97], "content_span": [98, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 27\nThe 27th district is located in the Miami metro area, including Coral Gables, Kendall, Miami Beach, and portions of Miami. Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 18th district from 1989 to 2013, retired from office in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283348-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, District 27, Democratic primary\nFlorida's 27th district has been included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 97], "content_span": [98, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the fourteen U.S. Representatives from the state of Georgia, one from each of the state's fourteen congressional districts. The elections coincided with a gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections. The primary elections took place on May 22, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia\nOne seat flipped to the Democrats, changing the state congressional delegation from a 10\u20134 Republican majority to a 9\u20135 Republican majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, Results summary, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 91], "content_span": [92, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 1\nThe incumbent was Republican Buddy Carter, who has represented the district since 2015. Carter was re-elected unopposed in 2016. Carter ran for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 2\nThe incumbent was Democrat Sanford Bishop, who has represented the district since 1993. Bishop was re-elected with 61% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 3\nThe incumbent was Republican Drew Ferguson, who has represented the district since 2017. Ferguson was elected with 68% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 4\nThe incumbent was Democratic Hank Johnson, who has represented the district since 2007. Johnson was re-elected with 76% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 5\nThe incumbent was Democratic John Lewis, who had represented the district from 1987 until his death in 2020. Lewis was re-elected with 84% of the vote in 2016. With no primary challenger and no Republican opposition, Rep. Lewis won his 2018 midterm election for the 116th Congress of the United States by default.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 6\nThe incumbent was Republican Karen Handel, who won a hotly contested special election for the seat in 2017 with almost 52% of the vote. This was one of 80 Republican-held House districts targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 7\nThe incumbent was Republican Rob Woodall, who has represented the district since 2011. Woodall was re-elected with 60% of the vote in 2016. This was one of 80 Republican-held House districts targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 8\nThe incumbent was Republican Austin Scott, who has represented the district since 2011. Scott was re-elected with 68% of the vote in 2016. With no primary challenger and no Democratic opposition, Rep. Scott won his 2018 midterm election for the 116th Congress of the United States barring any further opposition by default.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 9\nThe incumbent was Republican Doug Collins, who has represented northeastern Georgia since 2013. Collins was re-elected unopposed in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 10\nThe incumbent was Republican Jody Hice, who has represented the district since 2015. Hice was re-elected unopposed in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 11\nThe incumbent was Republican Barry Loudermilk, who has represented the district since 2015. Loudermilk was re-elected with 67% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 12\nThe incumbent was Republican Rick Allen, who has represented the district since 2015. Allen was re-elected with 62% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 13\nThe incumbent was Democrat David Scott, who has represented the district since 2003. Scott was re-elected unopposed in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283349-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, District 14\nThe incumbent was Republican Tom Graves, who has represented northwestern Georgia since 2010. Graves was re-elected unopposed in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 77], "content_span": [78, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283350-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the two U.S. Representatives from the U.S. state of Hawaii; one from each of the state's two congressional districts. Primaries were held on August 11, 2018. The elections and primaries coincided with the elections and primaries of other federal and state offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283350-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii\nWith the 2018 election results, the Democratic Party easily retained both House seats and retained unitary control over the entirety of Hawaii's Congressional (both House and Senate) delegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283350-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 73], "content_span": [74, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283350-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii, District 1\nThe incumbent is Democrat Colleen Hanabusa, who has represented the district since 2017 and from 2011 to 2015. Hanabusa was elected with 68% of the vote in 2016. She ran for the 2018 Democratic nomination for Governor of Hawaii, and is retiring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283350-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii, District 2\nThe incumbent is Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, who has represented the district since 2013. She was re-elected with 76% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283351-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Idaho\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Idaho were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the two U.S. Representatives from the U.S. state of Idaho; one from each of the state's two congressional districts. Primaries were held on May 15, 2018. The elections and primaries coincided with the elections and primaries of other federal and state offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283351-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Idaho, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Idaho by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 72], "content_span": [73, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283351-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Idaho, District 1\nThe incumbent was Republican Ra\u00fal Labrador, who had represented the district since 2011 and was reelected with 68% of the vote in 2016. He retired to unsuccessfully run in the 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283351-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Idaho, District 2\nThe incumbent is Republican Mike Simpson, who has represented the district since 1999. He was reelected with 63% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois were held on November 6, 2018, to elect U.S. Representatives, one from each of the state's eighteen congressional districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois\nThe primaries for all parties were held on March 20, 2018. The state congressional delegation changed from an 11\u20137 Democratic majority to a 13\u20135 Democratic majority, the most seats the Democrats have held since the 1990 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, Statewide, By district\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 89], "content_span": [90, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 1\nDemocratic incumbent Bobby Rush has represented the district since 1993. In 2016, he was reelected with 74.10% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 2\nDemocratic incumbent Robin Kelly has represented the district since 2013. In 2016, she was reelected with 79.81% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 3\nDemocratic incumbent Dan Lipinski has represented the district since 2005. In 2016, he was reelected against nominal write-in opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 3, Republican primary\nJewish Republicans called for Cook County Republican Chairman Sean Morrison to resign for failing to recruit any candidate to oppose Art Jones, a self-professed Nazi, Holocaust denier, white nationalist, and white supremacist and who became the Republican nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 4\nDemocratic incumbent Luis Guti\u00e9rrez has represented the district since 1993. He was reelected with 79.81% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 4\nA day after filing petitions to run for reelection, Gutierrez announced he would not seek re-election in 2018 and retire at the end of his current term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 4, Democratic primary\nGutierrez's announcement has led multiple Democrats to begin circulating petitions. Jes\u00fas \"Chuy\" Garc\u00eda, a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Proco Joe Moreno, both members of the Chicago City Council, circulated petitions for the nomination. Ramirez-Rosa and Moreno withdrew. Guti\u00e9rrez endorsed Garc\u00eda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 4, Democratic primary\nOn November 28, 2017, Richard Gonzalez filed to run for the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 5\nDemocratic incumbent Mike Quigley has represented the district since 2009. He was reelected with 67.84% of the vote in 2016. Per the Illinois Board of Elections, four Democrats and one Republican filed to run in the 5th congressional district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 6\nRepublican incumbent Peter Roskam represented the district since 2007. He was reelected with 59.22% of the vote in 2016 while Democrat Hillary Clinton defeated Republican Donald Trump in the presidential election by a seven-point margin in that district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 6, Democratic primary\nClinton's victory in the historically Republican district led to a large amount of Democratic interest. On January 30, 2017, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced the 6th as one of three Illinois targets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 7\nDemocratic incumbent Danny K. Davis has represented the district since 1997. He was reelected with 84.24% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 8\nDemocratic incumbent Raja Krishnamoorthi has represented the district since 2017. In 2016, he was elected with 58.3% of the vote. Krishnamoorthi won the Democratic primary, uncontested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 9\nDemocratic incumbent Jan Schakowsky has represented the district since 1999. In 2016, she was reelected with 66.47% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 10\nDemocratic incumbent Brad Schneider has represented the district since 2017; he previously served one term from 2013 to 2015. In 2016, he was elected with 53.73% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 11\nDemocratic incumbent Bill Foster has represented the district since 2013. He previously served from 2008 to 2011 representing Illinois's 14th congressional district. In 2016, he was reelected with 60.40% of the vote. Foster filed to run for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 12\nRepublican incumbent Mike Bost has represented the district since 2015. In 2016, he was reelected with 54.31% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 12, Democratic primary\nOn May 22, 2017, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced the 12th as a target on the list of expanded targets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 13\nRepublican incumbent Rodney Davis has represented the district since 2013. In 2016, he was reelected with 59.70% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 13, Democratic primary\nOn January 30, 2017, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced the 13th as one of three Illinois targets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 14\nRepublican incumbent Randy Hultgren has represented the district since 2011. In 2016, he was reelected with 59.30% of the vote. Hultgren won the Republican primary, uncontested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 14, Democratic primary\nOn January 30, 2017, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced the 14th as one of three Illinois targets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 15\nRepublican incumbent John Shimkus has served in Congress since 1997. In 2016, he ran unopposed. He ran unopposed for Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 16\nRepublican incumbent Adam Kinzinger has served in Congress since 2011. In 2016, he was reelected with nominal write-in opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 17\nDemocratic incumbent Cheri Bustos has represented the district since 2013. After exploring a run for Governor of Illinois, Bustos opted to run for reelection in 2018. She was reelected with 60.31% of the vote in 2016 while Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election by less than a one-point margin in the district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 17, Republican primary\nOn February 8, 2017, the National Republican Congressional Committee announced the 17th as one of its initial targets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283352-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, District 18\nRepublican incumbent Darin LaHood has represented the district since 2015. In 2016, he was reelected with 72.13% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283353-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the nine U.S. Representatives from the state of Indiana, one from each of the state's nine congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, as well as elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The filing deadline for candidates was February 9, 2018. The primaries were held on May 8, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283353-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, Overview, By district\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 87], "content_span": [88, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283353-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, District 1\nThe incumbent is Democrat Pete Visclosky, who has represented the district since 1985. Visclosky was re-elected with 82% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283353-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, District 2\nThe incumbent is Republican Jackie Walorski, who has represented the district since 2013. Walorski was re-elected with 59% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283353-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, District 2\nThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee included Indiana's 2nd congressional district on its initial list of Republican-held seats considered targets in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283353-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, District 3\nThe incumbent is Republican Jim Banks, who has represented the district since 2017. Banks was elected with 70% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283353-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, District 4\nThe incumbent is Republican Todd Rokita, who has represented the district since 2011. Rokita was re-elected with 65% of the vote in 2016. Rokita did not run for reelection, as he entered the Republican primary for the Indiana senate race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283353-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, District 5\nThe incumbent is Republican Susan Brooks, who has represented the district since 2013. Brooks was re-elected with 61% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283353-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, District 6\nThe incumbent is Republican Luke Messer, who has represented the district since 2013. Messer did not run for reelection as he entered into the Republican primary for the Indiana senate race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283353-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, District 7\nThe incumbent is Democrat Andr\u00e9 Carson, who has represented the district since 2008. Carson was re-elected with 60% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283353-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, District 8\nThe incumbent is Republican Larry Bucshon, who has represented the district since 2011. Brooks was re-elected with 64% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283353-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, District 9\nThe incumbent is Republican Trey Hollingsworth, who has represented the district since 2017. Hollingsworth was elected with 54% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283353-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, District 9\nThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee included Indiana'a 9th congressional district on its initial list of Republican-held seats considered targets in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the four U.S. Representatives from the State of Iowa, one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with the gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections. The state congressional delegation flipped from a 3\u20131 Republican majority to a 3\u20131 Democratic majority. The Democrats last won the majority of seats in the 2010 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, Overview, By district\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 84], "content_span": [85, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, District 1\nRepublican Rod Blum, who has represented the district since 2015, was reelected to a second term with 54% of the vote in 2016. However, in 2018, Democratic Iowa State Representative Abby Finkenauer went on to flip the district, being one of many swing districts that gave way in surprising margins for Democrats in a wave election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, District 1\nThe 1st district went for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election with a 49% to 45% margin, after voting for Barack Obama with a 56% to 43% margin in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, District 1, Republican primary\nIncumbent Rod Blum ran for re-election to a third term and was unopposed in the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 93], "content_span": [94, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, District 2\nDemocratic Representative Dave Loebsack, who has represented the district since 2007, was reelected to a sixth term with 54% of the vote in 2016. Loebsack ran for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, District 2\nThe 2nd district went for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election with a 49% to 45% margin, after voting for Barack Obama with a 56% to 43% margin in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, District 2, Democratic primary\nIncumbent Dave Loebsack ran for re-election to a seventh term in office and was unopposed in the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 93], "content_span": [94, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, District 3\nRepublican David Young, who had represented the district since 2015, was reelected to a second term with 53% of the vote in 2016. He ran for a third term in 2018, but lost to Democratic candidate Cindy Axne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, District 3\nThe 3rd district went for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election with a 49% to 45% margin, after voting for Barack Obama with a 51% to 47% margin in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, District 3, Republican primary\nDavid Young ran for reelection to a third term in office. No other Republican filed to challenge him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 93], "content_span": [94, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, District 4\nRepublican Representative Steve King, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 5th district from 2003 to 2013, was reelected to a ninth term in congress in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, District 4\nThe 4th district went for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election with a 61% to 34% margin, after voting for Mitt Romney with a 53% to 45% margin in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283354-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, District 4, General election\nThe election on November 6, 2018, was between Republican Steve King and Democrat J. D. Scholten. King declined to debate Scholten. King won by the slimmest margin of victory in his congressional electoral career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 91], "content_span": [92, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the four U.S. Representatives from the state of Kansas, one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The state congressional delegation changed from a 4\u20130 Republican majority to a 3\u20131 Republican majority, the first time the Democrats held a house seat in the state since 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 73], "content_span": [74, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 1\nThe first district is one of the largest geographically in the nation, encompassing more than half of the area of the state. It is located in western and northern Kansas, and includes the cities of Manhattan and Salina. Republican Roger Marshall won this district in 2016 by defeating the incumbent Congressman, Tim Huelskamp, in the Republican primary 57% to 43% and winning the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 1, Democratic primary\nFormer school administrator Alan LaPolice, who previously ran as a Republican in 2014 and an independent in 2016, filed to run as a Democrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 95], "content_span": [96, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 1, Republican primary\nTim Huelskamp filed a statement of candidacy with the FEC on October 17, 2016, to run for this seat in 2018. Huelskamp made no announcement about whether he is considering a potential rematch with Marshall, but sent a fundraising email attacking Marshall and soliciting donations. On June 29, 2017, it was announced that Huelskamp had accepted a position with The Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank in Arlington Heights, Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 95], "content_span": [96, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 2\nThis district is located in eastern Kansas and is anchored by the state capital, Topeka. It also includes the city of Lawrence. Incumbent Republican Lynn Jenkins has represented the district since 2009. Jenkins was re-elected with 61% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 2\nJenkins had considered running for governor instead of re-election, but decided to retire and not run for any office in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 2, Democratic primary\nFormer Kansas State House Minority Leader, Blue dog Democrat and 2014 gubernatorial nominee Paul Davis ran unopposed, for the seat which retiring Republican Lynn Jenkins held since 2009. She had beaten former six-term District congressman Jim Ryun in the primary, and incumbent Democrat, Nancy Boyda, in the general election. When Davis ran against incumbent governor Sam Brownback in 2014, he carried the district. Before Ryun won the seat, it had been held by retiring Democratic Representative Jim Slattery. He left Congress and ran unsuccessfully in the 1994 election for the Kansas Governorship, against Republican Bill Graves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 95], "content_span": [96, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 2, Republican primary, Primary results\nAlthough Watkins had his residency challenged by other Kansas Republicans, he remained on the ballot. On October 2, 2018, the Associated Press released a story that questioned not only his residency, but numerous inconsistencies in the background he claimed. He alleged that he had provided substantial assistance to those who had suffered from the results of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, but there was no evidence of that. He claimed he had lived in Alaska, but returned to Kansas to run, but he owned two homes in Alaska, yet did not apparently live in either. He collected a Permanent Fund Dividend, which is only given to eligible state residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 112], "content_span": [113, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 2, Libertarian primary\nLongtime resident and business developer Kelly Standley filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission as a Libertarian candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 96], "content_span": [97, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 3\nThe district is based in the Kansas City metropolitan area and surrounding suburbs in eastern Kansas. Cities include Kansas City and Overland Park. Incumbent Republican Kevin Yoder had represented the district since 2011. Yoder was re-elected with 51% of the vote in 2016. Yoder lost to his Democratic challenger, attorney Sharice Davids, who became one of the first Native American women ever elected to Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 4\nThe fourth district is based in southern Kansas, including Wichita and the surrounding suburbs. Incumbent Republican Ron Estes has represented the district since 2017. Estes was elected with 52.5% of the vote in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 4\nPrior to Estes, Mike Pompeo represented the district. Pompeo had been nominated as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Donald Trump administration. After Pompeo was confirmed, a special election was be held for the remainder of Pompeo's term. Ron Estes won the special election on April 11, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 4, Republican primary\nThe Republican Party selected a nominee during a Republican Party primary election which took place on August 7, 2018. The Republican primary was open to registered voters who were either unaffiliated or registered as Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 95], "content_span": [96, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 4, Republican primary\nKansas Senate President Susan Wagle considered making a primary challenge of Estes, but declined to do so. Because there were two Republican candidates named Ron Estes, the names will appear on the ballot as \"Rep. Ron Estes\" and \"Ron M. Estes\", which some criticized as breaking state law that prohibits identifying an incumbent on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 95], "content_span": [96, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 4, Democratic primary\nThe Democratic Party selected a nominee during a Democratic Party primary election that took place on August 7, 2018. The primary was open to registered voters who were either unaffiliated or registered as Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 95], "content_span": [96, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283355-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, District 4, Democratic primary\nSenator Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigned for Democrat James Thompson on July 20, 2018, after the national Democratic party would not support him. Laura Lombard criticized the state's decision to list incumbent Ron Estes as \"Rep. Ron Estes\" on the ballot, because she believes it breaks state laws which prohibit a candidate from being identified as an incumbent on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 95], "content_span": [96, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283356-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the six U.S. Representatives from the state of Kentucky, one from each of the state's six congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283356-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, Overview, By district\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 88], "content_span": [89, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283356-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, District 1\nThe incumbent is Republican James Comer, who has represented the district since 2016. Comer elected with 73% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283356-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, District 2\nThe incumbent is Republican Brett Guthrie, who has represented the district since 2009. Guthrie was re-elected unopposed in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283356-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, District 3\nThe incumbent is Democrat John Yarmuth, who has represented the district since 2007. Yarmuth was re-elected with 63% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283356-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, District 4\nThe incumbent is Republican Thomas Massie, who has represented the district since 2012. Massie was re-elected with 71% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283356-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, District 5\nThe incumbent is Republican Hal Rogers, who has represented the district since 1981. Rogers was re-elected unopposed in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283356-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, District 6\nRepublican Andy Barr, who has represented the district since 2013, was re-elected to a third term with 61% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283356-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, District 6\nThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee included Kentucky's 6th congressional district on its initial list of Republican-held seats considered targets in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283357-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the six U.S. Representatives from the state of Louisiana, one from each of the state's six congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283357-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana\nLike most Louisiana elections, these were conducted using a jungle primary that occurred on November 6, where all candidates ran on the same ballot in the primary, regardless of party. Any candidate who earned an absolute majority of the vote in the primary would be automatically declared the winner of the election. However, if in any given congressional district no candidate gained an absolute majority of the votes, a runoff election between the top two candidates within said congressional district would have been held on December 8. Nevertheless, the incumbent Representatives in all six districts each earned over 50% of the vote in the jungle primaries, so no runoffs occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283357-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, Overview, By district\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 89], "content_span": [90, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283357-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, District 1\nThe 1st district is located in the Greater New Orleans area, covering much of the southeastern area of Louisiana along the Mississippi River Delta, taking in Dulac, Hammond, and Slidell. This is a heavily Republican district with a PVI of R+24. Incumbent Steve Scalise has represented this district since 2008 and was reelected in 2016 with 75%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283357-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, District 2\nThe 2nd district stretches from New Orleans westward towards Baton Rouge and the surrounding areas. This is a heavily Democratic district with a PVI of D+25. Incumbent Democrat Cedric Richmond has represented this district since 2011 and won reelection in 2016 with 70%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283357-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, District 3\nThe 3rd district is located within the Acadiana region and includes Lafayette, Lake Charles, and New Iberia. Incumbent Republican Clay Higgins was initially elected in 2016 with 56% of the vote. This is a reliably Republican district with a PVI of R+20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283357-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, District 4\nThe 4th district is located in Northwest Louisiana, taking in the Ark-La-Tex region, including Minden and Shreveport. This is a heavily Republican district with a PVI of R+13. Incumbent Republican Mike Johnson was initially elected in 2016 with 65% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283357-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, District 5\nThe 5th district is located in the northern Louisiana region, including the Monroe metro area. The district continues to stretch down into Central Louisiana taking in Alexandria and then expanding eastward into the Florida Parishes. This is a moderate to solid Republican district with a PVI of R+15. Incumbent Republican Ralph Abraham was initially elected in 2014, and was reelected in 2016 with 81% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283357-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, District 6\nThe 6th district is located within the Baton Rouge metropolitan area, including Central City, Denham Springs, and parts of the state capital, Baton Rouge. The district also stretches down into Acadiana taking in Thibodaux and parts of Houma. This is a strong Republican district with a PVI of R+19. Republican Garret Graves has represented this district since 2015 and was reelected in 2016 with 63% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the two U.S. Representatives from the state of Maine, one from each of the state's two congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices, including a gubernatorial election, other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine\nThese U.S. House elections were conducted with ranked-choice voting, as opposed to a simple plurality, after Maine voters passed a citizen referendum approving the change in 2016 and a June 2018 referendum sustaining the change. Ranked-choice voting was used in the primary elections as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine\nWhile Rep. Chellie Pingree in District 1 was reelected with a majority, no candidate received a majority in District 2, which meant that the ranked-choice tabulation needed to occur. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, who received a plurality of first-round votes, filed a federal lawsuit to halt that tabulation, arguing that ranked-choice voting was unconstitutional. The court ruled against Poliquin in his request for a motion on November 15 and against the lawsuit itself on December 13. On November 15, Jared Golden was declared the winner after the ranked-choice redistribution, becoming the first member of Congress to be elected via ranked-choice voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 72], "content_span": [73, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 1\nChellie Pingree, the incumbent representative, was first elected in 2008, and in 2016 defeated Republican nominee Mark Holbrook with just under 58 percent of the vote. Holbrook ran again for the Republican nomination, and was unopposed. Independent State Representative Marty Grohman, elected as a Democrat in the 2016 State House election, defected from the party in 2017. He launched his campaign for the first district in spring 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 1\nDue to the use of ranked-choice voting in the election, Pingree was considered to be vulnerable if she did not win outright in the first round, as Grohman could have been a second choice for Republican and Democratic voters. Grohman was receiving substantial support from Republican elected officials and activists, including Republican Governor Paul LePage and the State Director of President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign Christie-Lee McNally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2\nBruce Poliquin, the incumbent representative for the second district, defeated Democrat Emily Cain in the 2016 election in a rematch of the 2014 election where Poliquin was first elected. Poliquin ran for the Republican nomination unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2\nCain did not challenge Poliquin again, instead taking a job with the progressive group Emily's List. Initially, six candidates filed for the Democratic nomination \u2014 United States Postal Service employee and activist Phil Cleaves, carpenter and former Maine State Senate candidate Jonathan Fulford, Assistant Majority Leader of the State House of Representatives Jared Golden, shopkeeper and former chair of the Isleboro Board of Selectmen Craig Olson, businessman and former State Senate candidate Tim Rich, and conservationist Lucas St. Clair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2\nCleaves, Rich and Fulford dropped out at various points in the campaign, though Fulford's withdrawal happened too late for his name to be removed from the primary ballot. Several candidates received prominent endorsements; St. Clair was endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters and California Congressman Jared Huffman, Fulford by the left-wing group Our Revolution prior to his withdrawal from the race, and Golden by VoteVets, Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton and over two dozen members of the Maine Legislature. Golden defeated St. Clair and Olson in the second round of the ranked-choice vote tabulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2\nIn addition, two third-party candidates announced their candidacies for the seat: Houlton Band of Maliseets State Representative Henry John Bear of the Maine Green Independent Party and Brian Kresge of the Libertarian Party. Bear, a former Democrat, left the party due to its stance on water rights for Maine's native people. He failed to qualify for the ballot. Kresge, a veteran and writer, withdrew from the race to run for a seat in the State House of Representatives. Neither the Libertarians nor Green Independents had a candidate on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2\nTwo independent candidates qualified for the ballot: Tiffany Bond, an attorney from Portland (a city outside of the second district), and Will Hoar, a schoolteacher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2, Democratic primary, Results\n% (gross) = percent of all valid votes cast (without eliminating the exhausted votes)% (net) = percent of votes cast after eliminating the exhausted votes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 103], "content_span": [104, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2, General election\nAll candidates except for Poliquin said they would abide by the results of ranked-choice voting and make second and third choices when they vote. Poliquin said he would only cast a first-round vote for himself, stating that he felt no one but him is qualified for the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 92], "content_span": [93, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2, General election\nThough Poliquin led in the first round of vote tabulation by 2,171 votes, he did not have a majority of the votes, initiating the ranked-choice tabulation process. Poliquin filed a lawsuit in federal court on November 13, seeking an order to halt the second-round tabulation of ballots and declare ranked-choice voting unconstitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 92], "content_span": [93, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2, General election\nPoliquin's request for an injunction to halt the ranked-choice voting process was rejected, shortly before Matthew Dunlap, the Maine Secretary of State, announced Golden as the winner by 3,509 votes after votes for independent candidates Tiffany Bond and Will Hoar were eliminated and ballots with these votes had their second- or third-choice votes counted. Poliquin requested a recount of the ballots just before the deadline of November 26. After several days of counting with the result not being significantly changed, Poliquin ended the recount after incurring $15,000 in fees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 92], "content_span": [93, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2, General election\nPoliquin also stated that his lawsuit would continue and asked Judge Lance Walker, the federal judge hearing his lawsuit, to order a new election be held should he decline to hold ranked-choice voting unconstitutional. Judge Walker ruled against Poliquin on the merits on December 13, rejecting all of his arguments. Poliquin appealed to the Court of Appeals in Boston and requested an order to prevent Golden from being certified as the winner, but that request was rejected. On December 24, Poliquin dropped his lawsuit, allowing Golden to take the seat. As a result, Poliquin became the first incumbent to lose the 2nd Congressional District since 1916, whereas Golden became the first member of Congress to be elected via ranked-choice voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 92], "content_span": [93, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2, General election\nGov. Paul LePage, as one of his last acts in office, reluctantly initialed the certificate of election for Golden, adding the words \"stolen election\" to it to express his personal dislike of ranked-choice voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 92], "content_span": [93, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2, General election, Results\n% (gross) = percent of all valid votes cast (without eliminating the exhausted votes)% (net) = percent of votes cast after eliminating the exhausted votes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 101], "content_span": [102, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2, General election, Results\nPoliquin led on first preferences with 46.4% to Golden's 45.6% and 8.1% for the two independents. However, as no candidate had a majority of the votes, the votes cast for the two independents were redistributed between Poliquin and Golden (those that didn't give a preference for either of the candidates were exhausted) and Golden won the election. The reason both independents were eliminated in a single round, as opposed to only the 4th place candidate, was because of the mathematical impossibility of the 3rd place candidate moving into 2nd place even if they had received all of the 4th place candidate's redistributed votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 101], "content_span": [102, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2, General election, Results\nOf the votes left in the count, Golden won with 50.62% of the vote to Poliquin's 49.38%. Including exhausted votes, the final count was Golden 49.2%, Poliquin 48.0%, and 2.8% exhausted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 101], "content_span": [102, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283358-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, District 2, General election, Results\nThe votes for the two independents were redistributed as follows: 44.5% went to Golden, 20.3% went to Poliquin, and 35.2% were exhausted votes (i.e., they didn't give a preference to either of the remaining candidates).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 101], "content_span": [102, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283359-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland were held on November 6, 2018, electing the eight U.S. Representatives from the State of Maryland, one from each of the state's eight congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices, including a gubernatorial election, other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283359-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, Overview, By district\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 88], "content_span": [89, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283359-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, District 1\nThe incumbent is Republican Andy Harris, who has represented the district since 2011. Harris was re-elected with 67% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283359-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, District 1\nThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee included Maryland's 1st congressional district on its initial list of Republican-held seats considered targets in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283359-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, District 2\nThe incumbent is Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger, who has represented the district since 2003. Ruppersberger was re-elected with 62% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283359-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, District 3\nThe incumbent is Democrat John Sarbanes, who has represented the district since 2007. Sarbanes was re-elected with 63% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283359-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, District 4\nThe incumbent is Democrat Anthony G. Brown, who has represented the district since 2017. Brown was elected with 74% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283359-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, District 5\nThe incumbent is Democrat Steny Hoyer, who has represented the district since 1981. Hoyer was re-elected with 67% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283359-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, District 6\nThe incumbent is Democrat John Delaney, who has represented the district since 2013. Delaney was re-elected with 56% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283359-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, District 6\nDelaney later retired to seek the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283359-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, District 7\nThe incumbent was Elijah Cummings. He had represented the district since 1996. Cummings was re-elected with 76.4% of the vote in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283359-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, District 8\nThe incumbent is Democrat Jamie Raskin, who has represented the district since 2017. Raskin was elected with 61% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts were held on November 6, 2018, electing the nine U.S. Representatives from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one from each of the state's nine congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices, including a gubernatorial election, other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections. The primary election for contested nominations was held on September 4, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts\nOn the night of the election, all nine races were declared in favor of the Democratic Party candidates. Seven seats went to incumbents seeking re-election: Richard Neal (1st District), Jim McGovern (2nd), Joseph Kennedy III (4th), Katherine Clark (5th), Seth Moulton (6th), Stephen F. Lynch (8th), and Bill Keating (9th). In the 7th District, Ayanna Pressley ran unopposed after defeating the incumbent in the primary election. In the 3rd District, where the incumbent did not seek re-election, Lori Trahan was declared the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, Statewide, By district\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 94], "content_span": [95, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 1\nThe 1st congressional district is located in western and Central Massachusetts. The largest Massachusetts district in area, it covers about 1/3 of the state and is more rural than the rest. It has the state's highest point, Mount Greylock. The district includes the cities of Springfield, West Springfield, Pittsfield, Holyoke, and Westfield. The district has a PVI of D+12. The incumbent is Democrat Richard Neal, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 2nd district from 1989 to 2013. He was re-elected with 73% of the vote in 2016. For the 4th election cycle in a row, no Republicans filed to run in this district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 2\nThe 2nd congressional district is located in central Massachusetts. It contains the cities of Worcester, which is the second-largest city in New England after Boston, and Northampton in the Pioneer Valley. The district has a PVI of D+9. The incumbent is Democrat Jim McGovern, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 3rd district from 1997 to 2013. He was re-elected unopposed with 98% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 3\nThe 3rd congressional district is located in northeastern and central Massachusetts. It contains the Merrimack valley including Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill. The district has a PVI of D+9. The incumbent is Democrat Niki Tsongas, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 5th district from 2007 to 2013. She was re-elected with 69% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 3\nTsongas is retiring, and did not seek re-election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 3, Democratic primary, Primary results\nLori Trahan and Daniel Koh were separated by less than one half of one percent of the votes cast. Koh subsequently requested a recount, which confirmed Trahan's victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 119], "content_span": [120, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 4\nThe 4th congressional district is located mostly in southern Massachusetts. It contains Bristol, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and Worcester counties. The district has a PVI of D+9. The incumbent is Democrat Joe Kennedy III, who has represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected with 70% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 4\nKennedy is running for re-election. No Republicans filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 5\nThe 5th congressional district is located in eastern Massachusetts. It contains Middlesex, Suffolk and Worcester counties. The district has a PVI of D+18. The incumbent is Democrat Katherine Clark, who has represented the district since winning a special election in 2013. She was re-elected unopposed with 99% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 5, Republican primary\nJohn Hugo is a Republican candidate for the Massachusetts' 5th congressional district in Massachusetts who is running against Katherine Clark in the United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, 2018. John Hugo was certified to appear on the ballot for the 2018 elections on May 17, 2018, to run against Katherine Clark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 102], "content_span": [103, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 6\nThe 6th congressional district is located in northeastern Massachusetts. It contains most of Essex County, including the North Shore and Cape Ann. The district has a PVI of D+6. The incumbent is Democrat Seth Moulton, who has represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected unopposed with 98% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 7\nThe 7th congressional district is located in eastern Massachusetts. It contains the northern three-quarters of the city of Boston, the city of Somerville and parts of the city of Cambridge. The district has a PVI of D+34. The incumbent was Democrat Mike Capuano, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 8th district from 1999 to 2013. He was re-elected unopposed with 99% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 7\nIn his bid for re-nomination by the Democratic Party, Capuano was defeated by Boston city councillor Ayanna Pressley. The primary victory was a surprise, as the last poll before the election showed Capuano with a significant lead, 48% to 35%. Part of the reason the polls may have been inaccurate is a surge in the number of primary voters. 24% of District 7 voters in the 2018 primary had not voted in the five previous primaries, and that percentage was disproportionately of Hispanic and Asian ethnicities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 8\nThe 8th congressional district is located in eastern Massachusetts. It contains the southern quarter of the city of Boston and many of its southern suburbs. The incumbent is Democrat Stephen Lynch, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 9th district from 2001 to 2013. The district has a PVI of D+10. He was re-elected with 72% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 8\nLynch is running for re-election. No Republicans filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 8, Democratic primary\nTwo political newcomers ran against Lynch in the primary, video game developer Brianna Wu and pilot Christopher Voehl. No debates have been held in this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 102], "content_span": [103, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 9\nThe 9th congressional district is located in eastern Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the South Coast. It contains all of Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties and parts of Bristol and Plymouth counties. The district has a PVI of D+4. The incumbent is Democrat Bill Keating, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 10th district from 2011 to 2013. He was re-elected with 56% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 9, Democratic primary\nBill Cimbrelo, a businessman and former environmental chemist from Osterville, has announced that he plans to challenge Keating in the September primary. Cimbrelo previously ran for U.S. Senate against former senator Scott Brown in 2012 as an independent candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 102], "content_span": [103, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283360-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, District 9, Republican primary\nPeter Tedeschi sought the Republican nomination; he is the former CEO of Tedeschi Food Shops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 102], "content_span": [103, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the 14 U.S. Representatives from the state of Michigan, one from each of the state's 14 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices, including a gubernatorial election, other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections. The filing deadline for candidates filing for the August 7 primary was April 24, 2018. Unless otherwise indicated, the Cook Political Report has rated the congressional races as safe for the party of the incumbent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan\nTwo seats shifted from Republican to Democratic control. In the 8th Congressional District, Elissa Slotkin defeated incumbent Mike Bishop and in an open seat for the 11th Congressional District, Haley Stevens defeated Lena Epstein. This left Michigan's U.S. House delegation in the 116th United States Congress with seven Democrats and seven Republicans until July 4, 2019, when Justin Amash of the 3rd Congressional District left the Republican Party to become an independent, shifting the balance of power in Michigan's House delegation to a Democratic plurality for the first time since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, Results summary, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 92], "content_span": [93, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 1\nThe 1st district consists of the entire Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the northern part of the Lower Peninsula including Alpena, Marquette, and Traverse City. This district has a PVI of R+9. The district, which makes up about 44% of the land area of the state of Michigan, is the second-largest congressional district east of the Mississippi River by land area. The incumbent is Republican Jack Bergman, who has represented the district since 2017. He was elected to replace retiring Representative Dan Benishek with 55% of the vote in 2016. The Cook Political Report has rated this race 'likely Republican.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 1, Democratic primary, Candidates\nMatt Morgan was the only Democrat to file to run. However, Morgan was removed from the ballot because he used a PO box address on his nomination petitions instead of his residential address. Instead, Morgan ran a write-in campaign, hoping to qualify for the ballot by winning at least five percent of the total votes cast in the district for the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Over 4,800 votes were cast in Marquette County, which would have been enough by itself to qualify Morgan for the ballot. According to official results, Democrats cast 29,293 write-in votes in the primary for Morgan, more than seven times the 3,781-vote threshold. On August 24, the Board of State Canvassers placed Morgan on the November ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 109], "content_span": [110, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 2\nThe 2nd district is located in West Michigan and is anchored by the suburbs of Grand Rapids such as Kentwood and Wyoming, other cities include Holland and Muskegon. This district has a PVI of R+9. The incumbent is Republican Bill Huizenga, who has represented the district since 2011. He was re-elected to a fourth term with 63% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 3\nThe 3rd district is located in inland West Michigan, centered on the city of Grand Rapids, and extends down to Battle Creek and Marshall. This district has a PVI of R+6. The incumbent is Republican Justin Amash, who has represented the district since 2011. He was re-elected to a fourth term with 59% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 4\nThe 4th district is located in Northern and Central Michigan including portions of the Tri-Cities region, specifically Midland, other cites include Mount Pleasant and the northern suburbs of Lansing. This district has a PVI of R+10. The incumbent is Republican John Moolenaar, who has represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected to a second term with 62% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 5\nThe 5th district is located along the eastern coast of Michigan, centered on the Tri-Cities region of Mid Michigan, such as Bay City and Saginaw, and stretches down into Flint. This district has a PVI of D+5. The incumbent is Democrat Dan Kildee, who has represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected to a third term with 61% of the vote in 2016. Kildee considered running for governor in 2018, but decided to run for re-election instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 5, Republican primary\nMichigan's 5th district has been included on the initial list of Democratic held seats being targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2018. There is one Republican candidate, Durand resident Travis Wines who lives outside the district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 6\nThe 6th district is located in Southwestern corner of Michigan, specifically the Michiana region. The district is anchored by Kalamazoo and the surrounding areas including Benton Harbor and Niles. This district has a PVI of R+4. The incumbent is Republican Fred Upton, who has represented the district since 1993 and previously represented the 4th district from 1987 to 1993. He was re-elected to a sixteenth term with 59% of the vote in 2016. The Cook Political Report has rated this race as 'likely Republican.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 7\nThe 7th district is located in Southern Michigan including downtown Lansing and the western suburbs of Ann Arbor including Lodi and Milan, other cities include Adrian, Coldwater, and Jackson. This district has a PVI of R+7. The incumbent is Republican Tim Walberg, who has represented the district since 2011 and previously represented the district from 2007 to 2009. He was re-elected to a fourth consecutive and fifth total term with 55% of the vote in 2016. The Cook Political Report has rated this race as 'likely Republican.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 7, Democratic primary\nMichigan's 7th district has been included on the initial list of Republican held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 8\nThe 8th district is centered on the state capital, Lansing, and stretches into the northern outskirts of Metro Detroit including Rochester Hills. This district has a PVI of R+4. The incumbent is Republican Mike Bishop, who has represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected to a second term with 56% of the vote in 2016. This race is considered to be competitive. The Cook Political Report rated this contest as 'Tossup'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 8, Democratic primary\nMichigan's 8th district has been included on the initial list of Republican held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 9\nThe 9th district is located in Metro Detroit including Roseville, Royal Oak, and Warren. This district has a PVI of D+4. The incumbent is Democrat Sander Levin, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 12th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 17th district from 1983 to 1993. He was re-elected to an eighteenth term with 58% of the vote in 2016. In December 2017, Levin announced his retirement, and that he would not seek re-election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 9, Republican primary\nMichigan's 9th district has been included on the initial list of Democratic held seats being targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 10\nThe 10th district is located in an area of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan known as The Thumb and parts of the Metro Detroit area including Chesterfield, Macomb, and Port Huron. This is the most Republican friendly district with a PVI of R+13. The incumbent is Republican Paul Mitchell, who has represented the district since 2017. He was elected to replace retiring Representative Candice Miller with 63% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 11\nThe 11th district is located in Metro Detroit including Livonia, Novi, and Troy. This district had a PVI of R+4. The incumbent was Republican Dave Trott, who had represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected to a second term with 53% of the vote in 2016. Trott was not running for re-election in 2018. This race is considered to be competitive; the Cook Political Report has rated this contest as a 'toss up.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 11, Democratic primary\nMichigan's 11th district has been included on the initial list of Republican held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 12\nThe 12th district is based in Ann Arbor and the surrounding cities including Ypsilanti, and the western suburbs of Detroit including Dearborn and Lincoln Park. This district has a PVI of D+14. The incumbent is Democrat Debbie Dingell, who has represented the district since 2015. She was re-elected with 64% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 13\nThe 13th district is centered on the city of the Detroit and the immediate surrounding suburbs including Dearborn Heights, Garden City, and Westland. This is the most Democratic-friendly district with a PVI of D+32. The seat was vacant for most of 2018, following the resignation of John Conyers in December 2017. A special primary and special general election were held in August and November 2018, on dates coinciding with the already scheduled primary and general elections in a money-saving move by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 13\nConyers represented the district from 2013 to 2017. He previously represented the 14th district from 1993 to 2013, and the 1st district from 1965 to 1993. He was Dean of the United States House of Representatives, and was re-elected to a twenty-seventh term with 77% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 13\nFormer state representative Rashida Tlaib won the Democratic primary. Tlaib, however, lost the special primary to Brenda Jones, president of the Detroit City Council. Jones served for just over eight weeks before Tlaib was sworn in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 13, Republican primary\nDavid Dudenhoefer was the only Republican candidate to announce his run for the Republican nomination, but he failed to qualify. He did, however, run as a write-in candidate. As a result, Tlaib was opposed in the general election only by minor party candidates and write-in candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283361-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, District 14\nThe 14th district stretches from the northern Detroit suburbs including Farmington Hills, Southfield, and West Bloomfield, to eastern part of Detroit. This district has a PVI of D+30. The incumbent is Democrat Brenda Lawrence, who has represented the district since 2015. She was re-elected to a second term with 79% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283362-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the eight U.S. Representatives from the state of Minnesota, one from each of the state's eight congressional districts. The elections coincided with an open gubernatorial election, a U.S. Senate election, a special U.S. Senate election, State House elections, and other elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283362-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota\nIn the 2018 elections, Democrats gained the 2nd and 3rd districts from Republican incumbents, and the Republicans gained the 1st and 8th districts from Democrats running for higher office, leaving party representation in Minnesota's House delegation unchanged at five members from the DFL and three members from the GOP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283362-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 76], "content_span": [77, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283362-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, District 1\nMinnesota's 1st Congressional District extends across southern Minnesota from the border with South Dakota to the border with Wisconsin. Democrat Tim Walz, who has represented the district since 2007, was re-elected with 50% of the vote in 2016. He did not run for re-election to the U.S. House in 2018, instead opting to run for Governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283362-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, District 1\nRepublican Jim Hagedorn faced DFL candidate Dan Feehan in the general election. Minnesota's 1st congressional district was listed as one of the NRCC's initial targets in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283362-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, District 2\nDemocrat Angie Craig defeated incumbent Republican Jason Lewis in a rematch of their 2016 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283362-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, District 4\nDemocrat Betty McCollum, who has represented the district since 2001, was re-elected with 66% of the vote. She faced businessman Greg Ryan, the Republican nominee, and Third Party candidate Susan Pendergast Sindt of the Legal Marijuana Now Party in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283362-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, District 5\nDemocrat Keith Ellison, who has represented the district since 2007, was re-elected with 69% of the vote in 2016. Ellison decided to not run for reelection, instead seeking the Democratic nomination for the open Attorney General race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283362-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, District 6\nRepublican Tom Emmer, who has represented the district since 2015, was re-elected with 66% of the vote in 2016. Air Force veteran Ian Todd was the Democratic nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283362-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, District 7\nDemocrat Collin Peterson, who has represented the district since 1991, was re-elected with 52% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283362-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, District 8\nDemocrat Rick Nolan, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented Minnesota's 6th district from 1975 to 1981, was re-elected with 50% of the vote in 2016. Instead of running for re-election, Nolan decided to retire. Republican St. Louis County Commissioner Pete Stauber defeated DFL nominee Joe Radinovich in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283363-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the four U.S. Representatives from the U.S. state of Mississippi; one from each of the state's four congressional districts. Primaries were held on June 5, 2018. The elections and primaries coincided with the elections and primaries of other federal and state offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283363-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi, Overview, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 88], "content_span": [89, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283363-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi, District 1\nThe incumbent is Republican Trent Kelly, who has represented the district since 2015. Kelly was re-elected with 69% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 80], "content_span": [81, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283363-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi, District 2\nThe incumbent is Democrat Bennie Thompson, who has represented the district since 1993. He was re-elected with 67% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 80], "content_span": [81, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283363-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi, District 3\nThe incumbent is Republican Gregg Harper, who has represented the district since 2009. He was re-elected with 66% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 80], "content_span": [81, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283363-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi, District 3\nIn January 2018, Harper announced that he will retire from Congress and not run for re-election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 80], "content_span": [81, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283363-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi, District 4\nThe incumbent is Republican Steven Palazzo, who has represented the district since 2011. He was re-elected with 65% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 80], "content_span": [81, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the eight U.S. Representatives from the state of Missouri, one from each of the state's eight congressional districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, Results Summary, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 92], "content_span": [93, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, District 1\nThe 1st district includes all of St. Louis City and much of Northern St. Louis County, and it has a PVI of D+29. The incumbent is Democrat Lacy Clay, who has represented the district since 2001. He was re-elected with 75% of the vote in 2016. Cori Bush, a Justice Democrat, ran in the Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, District 2\nThe 2nd district includes the suburbs south and west of St. Louis City, and the district has a PVI of R+8. The incumbent is Republican Ann Wagner, who has represented the district since 2013. She was re-elected with 59% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, District 2\nWagner was considered likely to run for the U.S. Senate in 2018 instead of running for re-election, but opted to seek re-election to the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, District 2, Republican primary\nAt the filing deadline - one candidate, Noga Sachs, had filed with the Federal Election Commission to run in the Republican primary for a chance to challenge the Republican incumbent, Ann Wagner, August 7, 2018. Despite an attempt by MO GOP to remove Ms. Sachs from the ballot in April 2018, she remains in candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, District 3\nThe third district stretches from exurbs of St. Louis to the state capital Jefferson City and has a PVI of R+18. The incumbent is Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer, who has represented the district since 2009. He was re-elected with 68% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, District 4\nThe fourth district takes in Columbia and much of rural west-central Missouri. It has a PVI of R+17. The incumbent is Republican Vicky Hartzler, who has represented the district since the election of 2010, when she defeated long-time incumbent Democrat Ike Skelton. She was re-elected with 68% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, District 4\nHartzler has been considered a potential candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, District 5\nThe fifth district encompasses most of Jackson County, the southern part of Clay County, and three other rural counties to the east. It has a PVI of D+7. The incumbent is Democrat Emanuel Cleaver, who has been represented the district since 2005. He was re-elected with 58% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, District 6\nThe sixth district encompasses rural northern Missouri, St. Joseph and much of Kansas City north of the Missouri River, and has a PVI of R+16. The incumbent is Republican Sam Graves, who has been represented the district since 2001. He was re-elected with 68% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, District 7\nThe seventh district takes in Springfield, Joplin, and much of the rest of rural southwestern Missouri. It has a PVI of R+23. The incumbent is Republican Billy Long, who has been represented the district since 2011. He was re-elected with 68% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, District 7\nLong has been considered a potential candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283364-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, District 8\nThe eighth district is the most rural district of Missouri, taking in all of the rural southeastern and south-central part of the state. It has a PVI of R+24, the most strongly Republican district of Missouri. The incumbent is Republican Jason Smith, who has represented the district since 2013 by special election. He was re-elected with 74% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283365-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the three U.S. Representatives from the U.S. state of Nebraska; one from each of the state's three congressional districts. Primaries were held on May 15, 2018. The elections and primaries coincided with the elections and primaries of other federal and state offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283365-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska\nThe 2018 elections saw all three incumbents elected (all from the Republican Party), thus the GOP retained control of all three House seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283365-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska, Overview, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 85], "content_span": [86, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283365-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska, District 1\nThe incumbent is Republican Jeff Fortenberry, who has represented the district since 2005. He was re-elected with 69% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283365-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska, District 2\nThe incumbent is Republican Don Bacon, who has represented the district since 2017. He flipped the district and was elected with 49% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283365-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska, District 3\nThe incumbent is Republican Adrian Smith, who has represented the district since 2007. He was re-elected unopposed in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283366-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the four U.S. Representatives from the State of Nevada, one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with the Nevada gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the United States House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Primary elections were held on June 12, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283366-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 73], "content_span": [74, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283366-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada, District 1\nNevada's 1st congressional district occupies the southeastern half of Nevada's largest city, Las Vegas, as well as parts of North Las Vegas and parts of unincorporated Clark County. The incumbent is Democrat Dina Titus, who has represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 3rd district from 2009 to 2011. She was reelected to a third term with 62% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283366-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada, District 2\nNevada's 2nd congressional district includes the northern third of the state. It includes most of Douglas County and Lyon County, all of Churchill County, Elko County, Eureka County, Humboldt County, Pershing County and Washoe County, as well as the state capital, Carson City. The largest city in the district is Reno, the state's second largest city. Although the district appears rural, its politics are dominated by Reno and Carson City, which combined cast over 85 percent of the district's vote. The incumbent was Republican Mark Amodei, who had represented the district since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283366-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada, District 2\nHe was reelected to a third full term with 58% of the vote in 2016. Amodei ran for reelection and faced a primary challenge from Sharron Angle. Clint Koble, former Nevada State Executive Director of the Farm Service Agency of the USDA, announced he was running for the Democratic nomination in November 2017, winning the nomination and losing to Amodei in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283366-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada, District 3\nThe 3rd congressional district occupies the area south of Las Vegas, including Henderson, and most of unincorporated Clark County and was created after the 2000 United States Census. The incumbent was Democrat Jacky Rosen, who has represented the district since 2017. She was elected with 47% of the vote in 2016 to replace Republican U.S. Representative Joe Heck, who ran for the U.S. Senate and lost. She did not run for reelection; instead she ran against and defeated incumbent Dean Heller in the U.S. Senate election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283366-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada, District 4\nThe 4th congressional district was created as a result of the 2010 United States Census. Located in the central portion of the state, it includes most of northern Clark County, parts of Lyon County, and all of Esmeralda County, Lincoln County, Mineral County, Nye County and White Pine County. More than four-fifths of the district's population lives in Clark County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283366-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada, District 4\nThe incumbent is Democrat Ruben Kihuen, who has represented the district since January 2017. He was elected by defeating incumbent Republican U.S. Representative Cresent Hardy with 49% of the vote in 2016. In December 2017, Kihuen announced that he would not seek reelection in 2018 following allegations of sexual harassment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283366-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada, District 4, Democratic primary\nAfter incumbent Representative Kihuen announced he would not seek reelection in 2018, the only candidate filed to run against him in the primaries was Amy Vilela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 95], "content_span": [96, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283366-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada, District 4, Democratic primary\nFormer U.S. Representative from this district Steven Horsford, who was defeated in the 2014 election, as well as Nevada Legislator Pat Spearman, later announced their plans to run for the Democratic nomination for the seat several months later, due to Kihuen's retirement announcement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 95], "content_span": [96, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283366-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada, District 4, Republican primary\nThe Republican primary featured six candidates. The early frontrunner was Cresent Hardy who faced questions about his hiring of Benjamin Sparks, a Las Vegas political adviser who allegedly sexually enslaved and battered his ex-fianc\u00e9e.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 95], "content_span": [96, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283367-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the two U.S. Representatives from the state of New Hampshire, one from each of the state's two congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283367-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire\nFollowing the 2018 elections, the Democratic Party retained both of New Hampshire's House seats in Congress, and thus maintained control of all of New Hampshire's Congressional (House and Senate) delegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283367-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 80], "content_span": [81, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283367-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, District 1\nThe 1st district covers the southeastern part of the state and consists of three general areas: Greater Manchester, the Seacoast and the Lakes Region. The incumbent going into the election was Democrat Carol Shea-Porter, who had represented the district since 2017 and previously from 2007 to 2011 and 2013 to 2015. She was elected with 44% of the vote in 2016, defeating Republican incumbent Frank Guinta. She did not run for reelection in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283367-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, District 2\nThe 2nd district covers the western and northern parts of the state and includes the cities of Nashua and Concord. The incumbent is Democrat Ann McLane Kuster, who has represented the district since 2013. She was re-elected with 49.7% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the 12 U.S. Representatives from the state of New Jersey, one from each of the state's 12 congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Democrats won 4 seats from Republicans and changed control from 7\u20135 for Democrats to 11\u20131 for Democrats, the lowest number of seats Republicans have won in the state since 1912. However, Representative Jeff Van Drew of the 2nd District would later change his party affiliation from Democratic to Republican in December 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 77], "content_span": [78, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 1\nThe 1st district is based in South Jersey and includes most of Camden County along with parts of Burlington County and Gloucester County. The incumbent is Democrat Donald Norcross, who has represented the district since 2014. He was re-elected to a second term with 60% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 2\nThe 2nd district is based in South Jersey and is the biggest Congressional District in the state. It includes all of Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Salem Counties and parts of Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Ocean counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 2\nThe 2nd district was an open seat in 2018. Frank LoBiondo, a Republican who had represented the district since 1995, announced in November 2017 that he would not run for re-election in 2018. LoBiondo won in 2016 with 59% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 2, Democratic primary\nThis was one of 80 Republican-held House districts targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 99], "content_span": [100, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 2, Republican primary, Endorsements\nGiancarlo Ghione, Chairman of the New Jersey Young Republican Federation", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 113], "content_span": [114, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 3\nThe 3rd district is based in South Jersey and includes parts of Burlington and Ocean counties. The incumbent is Republican Tom MacArthur, who has represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected to a second term with 59% of the vote in 2016. Close votes required a re-count, with Andy Kim, the Democrat, in the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 3, Democratic primary\nThis is one of 80 Republican-held House districts targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 99], "content_span": [100, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 4\nThe 4th district is based in Central Jersey and includes parts of Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean counties. The incumbent is Republican Chris Smith, who has represented the district since 1981. He was re-elected to a nineteenth term with 64% of the vote in 2016. Smith's 55% showing in 2018 was his lowest since 1982 when he earned 53%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 5\nThe 5th district is based in North Jersey and includes parts of Bergen, Passaic, Sussex and Warren counties. The incumbent is Democrat Josh Gottheimer, who has represented the district since 2017. He defeated Republican Representative Scott Garrett with 51% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 6\nThe 6th district is based in Central Jersey and includes parts of Middlesex and Monmouth counties. The incumbent is Democrat Frank Pallone, who has represented the district since 1988. He was re-elected to a fifteenth term with 64% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 7\nThe 7th district includes all of Hunterdon County, and parts of Essex, Morris, Somerset, Union, and Warren Counties. The incumbent is Republican Leonard Lance, who has represented the district since 2009. He was re-elected to a fifth term with 54% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 7\nThree Democrats were on the Democratic primary ballot. They included former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Tom Malinowski; lawyer Goutam Jois; and social worker Peter Jacob. Green Party of New Jersey member Diane Moxley also announced her intent to run for the seat. Westfield teacher and attorney Lisa Mandelblatt withdrew in February 2017, as did Scotch Plains lawyer Scott Salmon. The Democratic County Parties in New Jersey's 7th District unanimously threw their support to Malinowski, and he received the county line for the June 5 primary in all counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 7, Democratic primary\nThis is one of 80 Republican-held House districts targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 99], "content_span": [100, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 8\nThe 8th district is based in North Jersey and includes parts of Bergen, Essex, Hudson and Union counties. The incumbent is Democrat Albio Sires, who has represented the district since 2006. He was re-elected to a sixth term with 77% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 9\nThe 9th district is based in North Jersey and includes parts of Bergen, Hudson and Passaic counties. The incumbent is Democrat Bill Pascrell, who has represented the district since 2013 after he was redistricted from the 8th district, which he had represented since 1997. He was re-elected to an eleventh term with 70% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 10\nThe 10th district is based in North Jersey and includes parts of Essex, Hudson and Union counties. The incumbent is Democrat Donald Payne Jr., who has represented the district since 2012. He was re-elected to a third term with 86% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 80], "content_span": [81, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 11\nThe 11th district is based in North Jersey and includes parts of Essex, Morris, Passaic and Sussex counties. The incumbent is Republican Rodney Frelinghuysen, who has represented the district since 1995. He was re-elected to a twelfth term with 58% of the vote in 2016. Frelinghuysen announced in January 2018 that he will not seek re-election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 80], "content_span": [81, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 11, Democratic primary\nThis is one of 80 Republican-held House districts targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 100], "content_span": [101, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283368-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, District 12\nThe 12th district is based in Central Jersey and includes parts of Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties. The district is known for its research centers and educational institutions such as Princeton University, Institute for Advanced Study, Johnson & Johnson and Bristol-Myers Squibb. The incumbent is Democrat Bonnie Watson Coleman, who has represented the district since 2015. She was re-elected to a second term with 63% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 80], "content_span": [81, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283369-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the three U.S. Representatives from the state of New Mexico, one from each of the state's three congressional districts. The elections coincided with the gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283369-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico\nThe Democratic party gained the 2nd Congressional seat, gaining unitary control of New Mexico's Congressional (House and Senate) delegation for the first time since 2008 and improving the advantage in the House delegation for New Mexico from 2\u20131 in favor of Democrats to 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283369-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 77], "content_span": [78, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283369-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico, District 1\nThe 1st district is centered around the Albuquerque metropolitan area. Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham, who had represented the district since 2013, was reelected to a third term with 65% of the vote in 2016. Lujan Grisham did not run for reelection and instead successfully ran for Governor of New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283369-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico, District 1\nNew Mexico's 1st district was one of 36 Democrat-held House districts targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283369-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico, District 1, Democratic primary, Pre-primary convention results\nCandidates for the Democratic nomination needed to either receive the votes of 20% of the delegates at the convention on March 10, or collect and submit signatures to the secretary of state to have made it to the June 5 primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 131], "content_span": [132, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283369-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico, District 2\nThe 2nd district is very expansive, covering rural Southern New Mexico, including Alamogordo, Las Cruces, and Roswell. Republican Steve Pearce, who had represented the district since 2011 and previously represented the district from 2003 to 2009, was reelected to a fourth consecutive and seventh total term with 63% of the vote in 2016. Pearce did not run for reelection and instead ran unsuccessfully for Governor of New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283369-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico, District 2\nNew Mexico's 2nd district was one of the 80 Republican-held seats that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was targeting in 2018. It was successfully picked up by the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283369-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico, District 2, Democratic primary, Pre-primary convention results\nCandidates for the Democratic nomination needed to either receive the votes of 20% of the delegates at the convention on March 10, or collect and submit signatures to the secretary of state to have made it to the June 5 primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 131], "content_span": [132, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283369-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico, District 3\nThe 3rd district covers Northern New Mexico, including the capital Santa Fe, as well as Farmington, Las Vegas, and Taos. The district also expands into parts of rural Eastern New Mexico, taking in Clovis and Portales. Democrat Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n, who had represented the district since 2009, was reelected to a fifth term with 62% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283369-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico, District 3\nNew Mexico's 3rd district was one of 36 Democrat-held House districts targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York were held November 6, 2018 to elect a U.S. Representative from each of New York's 27 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the gubernatorial election, as well as an election to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Contested primaries were held June 26, 2018. On Election Day, Democrats gained three New York House seats, and the Democratic Party retook control of the House of Representatives. Democrats won a total of 21 New York House seats, while Republicans won six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, Overview\nElections were held in all 27 of New York's congressional districts in 2018. Prior to the 2018 elections, one New York House seat was vacant due to the death of Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-25th District) on March 16, 2018. In the June 26, 2018 Democratic primary in District 14, insurgent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upset longtime incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley. On November 6, 2018, the Democratic Party held the open seat in District 25 and defeated three Republican incumbents; with the exception of Crowley, all Democratic incumbent members of Congress in New York were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 75], "content_span": [76, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, Overview\nThe defeated Republican incumbents were Rep. Dan Donovan (R-11th District) (defeated by Democrat Max Rose), Rep. John Faso (R-19th District) (defeated by Democrat Antonio Delgado), and Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-22nd District) (defeated by Democrat Anthony Brindisi. Incumbent Rep. Chris Collins (R-27th District) was narrowly re-elected despite having been arrested on insider trading charges in August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 75], "content_span": [76, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, Overview\nDemocrats won a total of 21 New York House seats, while Republicans won six. Nationally, the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives on Election Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 75], "content_span": [76, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, Overview\nNew York is near unique among the states in that it allows electoral fusion (cross-endorsement). As a result, New York ballots tend to list many political parties. Most news outlets report election results using only the primary affiliation of party registration of candidates rather than by the party nominees that get elected, and most pollsters group candidates the same way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 75], "content_span": [76, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, Overview, By district\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 88], "content_span": [89, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 1\nThe 1st district is located in eastern Long Island and includes most of central and eastern Suffolk County. The incumbent was Republican Lee Zeldin, who had represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected to a second term with 58% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 1, Democratic primary\nNew York's 1st district was included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 1, General election\nIn mid-September, Gershon said his campaign had raised more than $1.25 million since July 1, with contributions averaging $85. At the end of September, the nonpartisan Washington, D.C.-based Cook Political Report rated the race as \"Likely Republican;\" the \"Likely\" designation is for seats \"not considered competitive at this point, but hav[ing] the potential to become engaged.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 95], "content_span": [96, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 2\nThe 2nd district is based along the South Shore of Long Island and includes southwestern Suffolk County and a small portion of southeastern Nassau County. The incumbent was Republican Peter T. King, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 3rd district from 1993 to 2013. He was re-elected to a thirteenth term with 62% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 3\nThe 3rd district includes most of the North Shore of Long Island. It covers northwestern Suffolk County, northern Nassau County, and northeastern Queens. The incumbent was Democrat Tom Suozzi, who had represented the district since 2017. He was elected to replace retiring Representative Steve Israel with 53% of the vote in 2016. New York's 3rd district was included on the initial list of Democrat-held seats being targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 4\nThe 4th district is located in central and southern Nassau County. The incumbent was Democrat Kathleen Rice, who had represented the district since 2015. She was re-elected to a second term with 59.5% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 5\nThe 5th district is mostly located within Queens in New York City, but also includes a small portion of Nassau County. The incumbent was Democrat Gregory Meeks, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 6th district from 1998 to 2013. He was re-elected to a tenth term with 85% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 6\nThe 6th district is located entirely within Queens in New York City. The incumbent was Democrat Grace Meng, who had represented the district since 2013. She was re-elected to a third term with 72% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 7\nThe 7th district is located entirely in New York City and includes parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. The incumbent was Democrat Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 12th district from 1993 to 2013. She was re-elected to a thirteenth term with 91% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 8\nThe 8th district is located entirely in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The incumbent was Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, who had represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected to a third term with 93% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 9\nThe 9th district is located entirely within the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The incumbent was Democrat Yvette Clarke, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 11th district from 2007 to 2013. She was re-elected to a sixth term with 92% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 10\nThe 10th district is located in New York City and includes the Upper West Side of Manhattan; the west side of Lower Manhattan, including Greenwich Village and the Financial District; and parts of Brooklyn, including Borough Park. The incumbent was Democrat Jerrold Nadler, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 8th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 17th district from 1992 to 1993. He was re-elected to a thirteenth full term with 78% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 11\nThe 11th district is located entirely in New York City and includes all of Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn. The incumbent was Republican Dan Donovan, who had represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected to a second term with 62% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 11, Democratic primary\nNew York's 11th district was included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 11, Republican primary\nFormer Congressman Michael Grimm, who resigned in 2014 after pleading guilty to federal tax fraud charges for which he served eight months in prison, challenged Donovan in the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 11, Conservative primary\nDan Donovan, the incumbent Congressman, also ran in the primary for the Conservative Party of New York State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 100], "content_span": [101, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 12\nThe 12th district is located entirely in New York City and includes several neighborhoods in the East Side of Manhattan, Greenpoint and western Queens. The incumbent was Democrat Carolyn Maloney, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 14th district from 1993 to 2013. She was re-elected to a thirteenth term with 83% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 13\nThe 13th district is located entirely in New York City and includes Upper Manhattan and a small portion of the western Bronx. The incumbent was Democrat Adriano Espaillat, who had represented the district since 2017. He was elected to replace retiring Representative Charles Rangel with 89% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 14\nThe 14th district is located in New York City and includes the eastern Bronx and part of north-central Queens. The incumbent was Democrat Joseph Crowley, a leader of the New Democrat Coalition, who had represented the district since 2013. Crowley previously represented the 7th district from 1999 to 2013. He was re-elected to a tenth term with 83% of the vote in 2016. Crowley, who had been named as a potential successor to Nancy Pelosi as House Leader or Speaker, sought re-election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 14, Democratic primary\nBacked by the organization Brand New Congress, bartender and activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez challenged Crowley in the primary, announcing her campaign in June of 2017. Ocasio-Cortez, who had been an organizer in Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, was the first primary challenger Crowley had faced since 2004. On May 10, 2018, it was announced that she had gathered enough signatures to appear on the primary ballot. Despite this, most observers concluded that Crowley would win the primary, citing his strong support from elected officials and his large fundraising advantage. In her campaign, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Crowley was not progressive enough for the district, and also accused him of corruption, accusing of using his position as chair of the Queens Democratic Party improperly. She defeated Crowley in the Democratic primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 961]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 14, General election\nFollowing his defeat in the Democratic primary, Crowley remained on the ballot on the Working Families Party line, but did not actively campaign. Following Ocasio-Cortez's primary win, Joann Ariola, chairwoman of the Queens Republican Party, claimed that the Republican Party had a chance of winning the seat due to Ocasio-Cortez being a democratic socialist. Michael Rendino, chairman of the Bronx Republican Party, was more skeptical, declaring that \"even if Crowley and Ocasio-Cortez split the vote, we'd still lose 2-to-one\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 96], "content_span": [97, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 14, General election\nProfessor Anthony Pappas was the Republican nominee, but was disavowed by the Queens and Bronx Republican Parties after he was accused of committing domestic violence. Several Republicans approached both the Queens and Bronx Republican parties with the intent of replacing Pappas on the ballot, but Pappas refused to withdraw from the race. Pappas's campaign was based around the abolition of judicial immunity, which he argued had led to judges becoming unaccountable for their actions. Pappas's campaign manager attempted to convince him to run an aggressive campaign against Ocasio-Cortez, but he refused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 96], "content_span": [97, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 15\nThe 15th district is located entirely within The Bronx in New York City and is one of the smallest districts by area in the entire country. The incumbent was Democrat Jos\u00e9 E. Serrano, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 16th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 18th district from 1990 to 1993. He was re-elected to a fourteenth full term with 95% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 16\nThe 16th district is located in the northern part of The Bronx and the southern half of Westchester County, including the cities of Mount Vernon, Yonkers, New Rochelle, and Rye. The incumbent was Democrat Eliot Engel, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 17th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 19th district from 1989 to 1993. He was re-elected to a fifteenth term with 95% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 17\nThe 17th district contains all of Rockland County and the northern and central portions of Westchester County, including the cities of Peekskill and White Plains. The incumbent was Democrat Nita Lowey, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 18th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 20th district from 1989 to 1993. She was re-elected to a fifteenth term unopposed in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 18\nThe 18th district is located entirely within the Hudson Valley, covering all of Orange County and Putnam County, as well as parts of southern Dutchess County and northeastern Westchester County. The incumbent was Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney, who had represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected to a third term with 56% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 18\nNew York's 18th district has been included on the initial list of Democratic held seats being targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 19\nThe 19th district is located in New York's Hudson Valley and Catskills regions and includes all of Columbia, Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster counties, and parts of Broome, Dutchess, Montgomery and Rensselaer counties. The incumbent was Republican John Faso, who had represented the district since 2017. He was elected to replace retiring Representative Chris Gibson with 54% of the vote in 2016. The Democratic nominee was Antonio Delgado. Actress Diane Neal ran under the newly created Friends of Diane Neal ballot line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 19, Democratic primary\nNew York's 19th district was included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 20\nThe 20th district is located in the Capital District and includes all of Albany and Schenectady Counties, and portions of Montgomery, Rensselaer and Saratoga Counties. The incumbent was Democrat Paul Tonko, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 21st district from 2009 to 2013. He was re-elected to a fifth term with 68% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 21\nThe 21st district, the state's largest and most rural congressional district, includes most of the North Country and the northern suburbs of Syracuse. The district borders Vermont to the east. The incumbent was Republican Elise Stefanik, who had represented the district since 2015. She was re-elected to a second term with 65% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 21, Republican primary\nFarmer and real estate broker Russ Finley planned on making a primary challenge of Stefanik, but later withdrew from the race, leaving Stefanik unopposed in the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 21, Green primary\nPast Green Party nominee Matt Funiciello announced that he would not run in 2018. Lynn Kahn was the Green Party candidate in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 93], "content_span": [94, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 22\nThe 22nd district is located in Central New York and includes all of Chenango, Cortland, Madison and Oneida counties, and parts of Broome, Herkimer, Oswego and Tioga counties. The incumbent was Republican Claudia Tenney, who had represented the district since 2017. She was elected to replace retiring Representative Richard Hanna with 47% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 22\nNew York's 22nd district was included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 23\nThe 23rd district includes all of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins and Yates counties, along with parts of Ontario and Tioga counties. The incumbent was Republican Tom Reed, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 29th district from 2009 to 2013. He was re-elected to a fifth term with 58% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 23, Democratic primary, Results\nAlthough Della Pia finished slightly ahead of the other candidates on primary election night, he conceded to Mitrano after absentee ballots were counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 107], "content_span": [108, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 23, Women's Equality primary\nTracy Mitrano, who also ran in the Democratic primary, ran unopposed for the Women's Equality Party nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 104], "content_span": [105, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 24\nThe 24th district includes all of Cayuga, Onondaga and Wayne counties, and the western part of Oswego County. The incumbent was Republican John Katko, who had represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected to a second term with 61% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 24, Democratic primary\nNew York's 24th district was included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 25\nThe 25th district is located entirely within Monroe County, centered on the city of Rochester. The seat was vacant due to the March 2018 death of incumbent Democratic Representative Louise Slaughter, who represented the district from 2013 to 2018 and previously represented the 28th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 30th district from 1987 to 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 25\nFollowing precedent set in 2010, two concurrent elections were held in November 2018. One election was held to fill the seat for the 2018 lame-duck session, and another was held to fill the seat for the 2019\u20132020 term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 26\nThe 26th district is located in Erie and Niagara counties and includes the cities of Buffalo and Niagara Falls. The incumbent was Democrat Brian Higgins, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 27th district from 2005 to 2013. He was re-elected to a seventh term with 75% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 27\nThe 27th district is located in Western New York and includes all of Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming and Livingston counties, and parts of Erie, Monroe, Niagara and Ontario counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 27\nOn August 11, 2018, incumbent Republican Chris Collins, who had represented the district since 2013 and was re-elected to a third term with 67% of the vote in 2016, announced that he would withdraw from his re-election campaign after being arrested for insider trading. Removing himself from the ballot would have required Collins to be nominated as a dummy candidate in another election or to move his legal place of residence out of state (he has additional homes in Florida and the District of Columbia). On September 17, 2018, Collins announced that he had changed course and would campaign for re-election in November after all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 27, Democratic primary\nNew York's 27th district was included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 98], "content_span": [99, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283370-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York, District 27, Republican post-primary\nFollowing Collins's August 11 announcement that he would withdraw from the race, as many as 20 candidates expressed interest in the Republican nomination. (Collins later changed course and opted to seek re-election.) Among them were the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 103], "content_span": [104, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina were held on November 6, 2018, electing the thirteen U.S. Representatives from the State of North Carolina, one from each of the state's congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, as well as elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, Results summary, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 98], "content_span": [99, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 1\nThe incumbent is Democrat G. K. Butterfield, who has represented the district since 2004. Butterfield was re-elected with 69% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 2\nThe incumbent is Republican George Holding, who has represented the district since 2017. Holding was elected with 57% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 2\nThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee included North Carolina's 2nd congressional district on its initial list of Republican-held seats considered targets in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 3\nThe incumbent is Republican Walter B. Jones Jr., who has represented the district since 1995. Jones was re-elected with 67% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 4\nThe incumbent is Democrat David Price, who has represented the district since 1997. Price was re-elected with 68% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 5\nThe incumbent is Republican Virginia Foxx, who has represented the district since 2005. Foxx was re-elected with 58% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 6\nThe incumbent is Republican Mark Walker, who has represented the district since 2015. Walker was re-elected with 59% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 7\nThe incumbent is Republican David Rouzer, who has represented the district since 2015. Rouzer was re-elected with 61% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 8\nThe incumbent is Republican Richard Hudson, who has represented the district since 2013. Hudson was re-elected with 59% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 8\nThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee included North Carolina's 8th congressional district on its initial list of Republican-held seats considered targets in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 9\nThe incumbent, Republican Robert Pittenger, lost his party's nomination to Mark Harris. Pittenger had represented the district since 2013 and had been re-elected with 58% of the vote in the general election of 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 9\nThe results of the election were voided and the seat remained vacant until a special election was held in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 9, General election, Results\nOn November 27, 2018, the State Board of Elections declined to certify the election result in this congressional district, while certifying all the others, pending investigation of unspecified \"potential wrongdoing\". An investigation was opened focusing on McCrae Dowless, a political operative who was hired by the Harris campaign for get-out-the-vote work, and allegations of irregularities involving the collection of absentee ballots. On December 28, 2018, incoming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer stated House Democrats' official position of declining to seat Harris on January 3. A new election was called.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 110], "content_span": [111, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 10\nThe incumbent is Republican Patrick McHenry, who has represented the district since 2005. McHenry was re-elected with 63% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 84], "content_span": [85, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 11\nThe incumbent is Republican Mark Meadows, who has represented the district since 2013. Meadows was re-elected with 64% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 84], "content_span": [85, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 12\nThe incumbent is Democrat Alma Adams, who has represented the district since 2014. Adams was re-elected with 67% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 84], "content_span": [85, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283371-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, District 13\nThe incumbent is Republican Ted Budd, who has represented the district since 2017. Budd was elected with 56% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 84], "content_span": [85, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the 16 U.S. Representatives from the U.S. state of Ohio, one from each of the state's 16 congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, Results summary, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 88], "content_span": [89, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 1\nThe incumbent is Republican Steve Chabot, who has represented the district since 2011. Chabot was re-elected with 59% of the vote in 2016. However, the district is considered more competitive for this election than in previous iterations. The Democratic challenger, Aftab Pureval, has outpaced his predecessors in fundraising, and political ratings publishers Sabato's Crystal Ball and The Cook Political Report have changed their ratings for the district to \"Toss-Up\" and \"Leans Republican\", respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 2\nThe incumbent is Republican Brad Wenstrup, who has represented the district since 2013. Wenstrup was re-elected with 65% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 3\nThe incumbent is Democrat Joyce Beatty, who has held the district since 2013. Beatty was re-elected with 69% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 4\nThe incumbent is Republican Jim Jordan, who has represented the district since 2007. Jordan was re-elected with 68% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 5\nThe incumbent is Republican Bob Latta, who has represented the district since 2007. Latta was re-elected with 71% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 6\nThe incumbent is Republican Bill Johnson, who has represented the district since 2011. Johnson was re-elected with 71% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 7\nThe incumbent is Republican Bob Gibbs, who has represented the district since 2013. Gibbs was re-elected with 64% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 8\nThe incumbent is Republican Warren Davidson, who has represented the district since 2016. Davidson was re-elected with 69% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 9\nThe incumbent is Democrat Marcy Kaptur, who has represented the district since 1983. Kaptur was re-elected with 69% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 10\nThe incumbent is Republican Mike Turner, who has represented the district since 2013. Turner was re-elected with 64% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 74], "content_span": [75, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 11\nThe incumbent is Democrat Marcia Fudge, who has represented the district since 2008. Fudge was re-elected with 80% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 74], "content_span": [75, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 12\nRepublican Pat Tiberi was the representative of the district until his resignation on January 15, 2018. A special election was held on August 7, 2018, to fill the vacancy until January 3, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 74], "content_span": [75, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 13\nThe incumbent is Democrat Tim Ryan, who has represented the district since 2013. Ryan was re-elected with 68% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 74], "content_span": [75, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 14\nThe incumbent is Republican David Joyce, who has represented the district since 2013. Joyce was re-elected with 63% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 74], "content_span": [75, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 15\nThe incumbent is Republican Steve Stivers, who has represented the district since 2011. Stivers was re-elected with 66% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 74], "content_span": [75, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 16\nThe incumbent is Republican Jim Renacci, who has represented the district since 2011. Renacci was re-elected with 65% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 74], "content_span": [75, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283372-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, District 16\nRenacci is running for U.S. Senate instead of re-election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 74], "content_span": [75, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283373-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma were held on November\u00a06, 2018, to elect the five U.S. Representatives from the state of Oklahoma, one from each of the state's five congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Primary elections were held on June\u00a026 and runoff elections were held two months later on August\u00a028. The state congressional delegation changed from 5-0 majority for Republicans to a 4-1 Republican majority. This is the first time since the 2012 election that Democrats held a seat in the state, and as of 2020, the last election in which Democrats won any house race in Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283373-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma, Results Summary, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 92], "content_span": [93, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283373-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma, District 1\nThe 1st district is located in the Tulsa metropolitan area and includes Creek, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner and Washington counties. The incumbent was Republican Jim Bridenstine, who had represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected unopposed in the general election and with 81% of the vote in the Republican primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283373-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma, District 1\nDuring his initial election in 2012, Bridenstine self-imposed a three term limit. Bridenstine has confirmed he will honor his term-limit pledge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283373-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma, District 1\nBridenstine has become Administrator of NASA in the Donald Trump administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283373-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma, District 2\nThe 2nd district is located in the regions of Green Country and Kiamichi Country and includes the city of Muskogee and numerous sparsely populated counties. The incumbent is Republican Markwayne Mullin, who has represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected with 71% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283373-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma, District 2\nMullin had pledged to serve only three terms when he was first elected in 2012. During the 2016 campaign, Mullin stated he was reassessing his pledge, and refused to rule out running again in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283373-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma, District 3\nThe 3rd district is located in Western Oklahoma. The largest district in Oklahoma and one of the largest in the country, it includes the Oklahoma Panhandle, Ponca City and the city of Stillwater as well as the Osage Nation. The incumbent is Republican Frank Lucas, who has represented the district since 2003 and previously represented the 6th district from 1994 to 2003. He was re-elected with 78% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283373-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma, District 4\nThe 4th district is located in South Central Oklahoma and includes the suburbs of Oklahoma City, such as the counties of Canadian, Comanche and Cleveland and numerous other sparsely populated counties. The incumbent is Republican Tom Cole, who has represented the district since 2003. He was re-elected with 70% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283373-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma, District 5\nThe 5th district is located in Central Oklahoma and centered around the state capital, Oklahoma City, and the surrounding areas such as Edmond and Shawnee. The incumbent was Republican Steve Russell, who had represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected with 57% of the vote in 2016. He was defeated by Democratic challenger Kendra Horn in the 2018 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283374-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the five U.S. Representatives from the U.S. state of Oregon; one from each of the state's five congressional districts. Primaries were held on May 15, 2018. The elections and primaries coincided with the elections and primaries of other federal and state offices. All five incumbents were re-elected, leaving Oregon at a 4\u20131 split in favor of the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283374-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 73], "content_span": [74, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283374-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon, District 1\nThe 1st district is located in northwestern Oregon and stretches from coastal cities of the Astoria and Seaside, to the parts of Portland and the surrounding suburbs such as Beaverton, Hillsboro, and Newberg. This district has a PVI of D+9. The incumbent is Democrat Suzanne Bonamici, who has represented the district since 2012. She was re-elected with 60% of the vote in 2016. She will face Republican nominee John Verbeek in the November 2018 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283374-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon, District 2\nOregon's second district is made up of rural eastern Oregon and stretches into southern Oregon, including Bend, Klamath Falls, and Medford. This district is the most Republican district in Oregon with a PVI of R+11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283374-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon, District 2\nThe incumbent, Republican Greg Walden of Hood River, was re-nominated in the May 2018 primary election. He has represented the district since 1999, and was re-elected with 72% of the vote in 2016. He has faced little serious opposition in recent years, but in 2018 has been heavily criticized by constituents for helping to write a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283374-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon, District 2\nDemocrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner of Terrebonne won her party's nomination in May 2018. She has criticized Walden for skipping public events and declining to take strong stands on behalf of his constituents. Incumbent Walden agreed in July to debate McLeod-Skinner, but as of early September, no debate has been scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283374-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon, District 2\nAs of November 2018, national handicappers consider the district \"safe Republican.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283374-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon, District 2, General election, Results\nThis race was the closest race ever in Greg Walden's political history, the first time he had received less than 60% of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 102], "content_span": [103, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283374-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon, District 3\nThe 3rd district is centered around the city of Portland, and includes the surrounding suburbs such as Estacada, Fairview, and Gresham. This is the most Democratic-friendly district in the state with a PVI of D+24. The incumbent is Democrat Earl Blumenauer, who has represented the district since 1996. He was re-elected with 72% of the vote in 2016. He will face Independent Party nominee Marc Koller in the November 2018 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283374-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon, District 4\nThe 4th district is located in the South Coast region of Oregon. Cities in this district include Coos Bay, Eugene, and Roseburg. This is a highly competitive district with an EVEN PVI. The incumbent is Democrat Peter DeFazio, who has represented the district since 1987. He was re-elected with 55% of the vote in 2016. He will face Art Robinson for the fifth time; Robinson had been the Republican nominee in the district in every election since 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283374-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon, District 5\nThe 5th district is centered around the state capital, Salem. This district stretches from the Central Coast region to the southern Portland suburbs, including Lake Oswego, Wilsonville, and Oregon City. This is a highly competitive district with an EVEN PVI. The incumbent is Democrat Kurt Schrader, who has represented the district since 2009. He was re-elected with 53% of the vote in 2016. He will face Republican nominee Mark Callahan in the November 2018 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 75], "content_span": [76, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the 18 U.S. Representatives from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, one from each of the state's 18 congressional districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania\nThe elections coincided with the 2018 gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania\nIn January 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state's congressional map, ruling it had been unfairly gerrymandered to favor Republicans. New maps were subsequently adopted in February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania\nThe 2018 general election saw the Democrats gain four seats and the Republicans gain one seat, for a Democratic net gain of three seats, changing the state's representation from 12 to 6 Republican to a 9\u20139 tie. In addition, Pennsylvanians in several districts elected female candidates to the U.S. House, thus ending four years of all-male Congressional representation in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, Redistricting\nIn January 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state's congressional map, ruling it had been unfairly gerrymandered to favor Republicans. New maps were subsequently adopted in February 2018, for use in 2018's elections and taking effect with representation in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 84], "content_span": [85, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, Results summary, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 96], "content_span": [97, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 1\nThe 1st district previously consisted of central and South Philadelphia, the City of Chester, the Philadelphia International Airport and other small sections of Delaware County. Under the new congressional map that was in place in 2019 (represented per 2018's elections), the first district overlaps with much of the former 8th district, which is represented by Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick took office in 2017, succeeding his brother, former Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick. The new 1st district consists of Bucks County and a small portion of Montgomery County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 1\nFitzpatrick held out to win re-election, despite many similar suburban districts held by Republicans falling to Democrats in the 2018 cycle. Fitzpatrick did this by establishing a reputation for himself as an independent centrist who attained endorsements from several usually-left-leaning and nonpartisan groups without enraging the more fervently pro-Trump wing of the Republican party. Analysts considered the Democratic nominee Scott Wallace an unusually weak candidate: he was a wealthy heir who moved to the district, opening up accusations of carpetbagging, and made several gaffes and missteps. Editor Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report wrote that Wallace was perhaps the weakest candidate of the 2018 cycle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 2\nThe 2nd district consists of the northern half of Philadelphia. It mostly overlaps with the old 1st District. That district's incumbent, Democrat Bob Brady, had served since 1998, but did not run for reelection. The incumbent of the old 2nd district is Dwight Evans, but Evans opted to follow most of his constituents into the 3rd District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 2\nThe new map drew the home of fellow Democrat Brendan Boyle, who has represented the neighboring 13th District since 2015, into the 2nd, leading to speculation that he would run for reelection there. Soon after the new map was released, Boyle confirmed that he would indeed run in the 2nd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 3\nThe 3rd district was previously located in Northwestern Pennsylvania, but now covers downtown and northern Philadelphia, and overlaps with much of the previous 2nd district. The incumbent from the 2nd district is Democrat Dwight Evans, who has held office since 2016. Evans defeated incumbent Democratic representative Chaka Fattah in the 2016 Democratic primary, and then went on to be elected with 90% in both the general election and a simultaneous special election for the remainder of the term after Fattah resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 4\nThe old 4th district was in South Central Pennsylvania, but the new 4th district is centered in Montgomery County. The district overlaps with the former 13th district. The incumbent from this district, Democrat Brendan Boyle, could have sought re-election in either this district or the new 2nd district, which absorbed his home and most of old 13th's share of Philadelphia. Boyle opted to run in the 2nd, making the 4th an open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 4\nState Senator Daylin Leach had announced that he would run for Congress in the old 7th District, but was expected to switch races after his home was drawn into the new 4th. However, on February 24, 2018, Leach succumbed to pressures from fellow Democrats, including Governor Tom Wolf, to abandon his congressional campaign in the face of accusations of sexual harassment. However, he remained in his Pennsylvania Senate seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 5\nThe old 5th district was in North Central Pennsylvania, but the new 5th district consists of Delaware County, portions of southern Philadelphia, and a sliver of Montgomery County. The district overlaps with much of the old 7th district, whose incumbent Republican Congressman Pat Meehan chose not to seek re-election, due to allegations regarding a sexual harassment complaint that was settled with the use of taxpayer funds, and subsequently resigned from office in April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 6\nThe 6th district consists of Chester County and Reading. The incumbent is Republican Ryan Costello, who has represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected to a second term with 57% of the vote in 2016. On March 24, 2018, Costello announced that he would no longer seek re-election due to the growing Democratic voter demographic in the 6th district. Costello formally withdrew his name on March 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 7\nThe 7th district was formerly centered on Delaware County, but the new district consists of much of the Lehigh Valley. The new 7th district overlaps with much of the former 15th district, which was represented by retired Republican Congressman Charlie Dent who resigned early.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 8\nThe 8th district was previously centered on Bucks County, but now consists of portions of Northeast Pennsylvania, including the city of Scranton. The new district overlaps with much of the former 17th district, which is represented by Democratic Congressman Matt Cartwright. Cartwright has held office since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 9\nThe old 9th district was in South Central Pennsylvania, but the new 9th district is in east central Pennsylvania. The new district overlaps with the old 11th district, which was represented by retiring Republican Congressman Lou Barletta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 10\nThe 10th district was previously in Northeastern Pennsylvania, but it now overlaps with much of the former 4th district in South Central Pennsylvania. Under the map released in 2018, the 10th district includes Harrisburg and a portion of York County. The incumbent from the 4th district is Republican Scott Perry, who has represented his district since 2013. He was re-elected to a third term with 66% of the vote in 2016. Several Democrats sought to challenge Perry in 2018, with George Scott, a 20-year Army veteran and Lutheran pastor, receiving the party's nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 82], "content_span": [83, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 11\nThe old 11th district was in Northeastern Pennsylvania, but the district now overlaps with much of the former 16th district in South Central Pennsylvania. The new district consists of Lancaster County and portions of York County. The incumbent from the former 16th district is Republican Lloyd Smucker, who has held office since 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 82], "content_span": [83, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 11\nMeteorologist Drew Anderson planned to run without party affiliation and expected to be listed that way on the November ballot. However, he failed to file papers in time, and was not in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 82], "content_span": [83, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 12\nThe old 12th district was in Southwestern Pennsylvania, but the new district is in North Central Pennsylvania. It overlaps with the former 10th district, which was represented by Republican Tom Marino. Marino had held office since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 82], "content_span": [83, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 13\nThe old 13th district was in Southeastern Pennsylvania, but the new district is in Western Pennsylvania. The new district overlaps with much of the old 9th district, which was represented by retiring Republican Congressman Bill Shuster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 82], "content_span": [83, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 14\nThe old 14th district consisted of the city of Pittsburgh and parts of surrounding suburbs, but the new district consists of suburbs to the south and west of Pittsburgh. The district overlaps with much of the former 18th district. The winner of the 2018 special election, Democrat Conor Lamb, ran in the more competitive 17th district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 82], "content_span": [83, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 15\nThe old 15th district was in Eastern Pennsylvania, but the new district is in Western Pennsylvania. The new district overlaps with much of the former 5th district, which is represented by Republican G.T. Thompson. Thompson has held office since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 82], "content_span": [83, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 16\nThe former 16th district was in Southeastern Pennsylvania, but the redrawn 16th district is in Northwestern Pennsylvania, overlapping with the former 3rd district. The incumbent from the 3rd district was Republican Mike Kelly, who has represented the district since 2011. He was re-elected to a fourth term unopposed in 2016. Kelly had considered running for the U.S. Senate, but announced he would run for re-election instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 82], "content_span": [83, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 17\nThe former 17th district was in Northeastern Pennsylvania, but the new 17th district consists of suburbs west of Pittsburgh. The district overlaps with parts of the former 12th district, which is represented by Republican Keith Rothfus. Rothfus has held office since 2013, and ran for reelection in the new 17th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 82], "content_span": [83, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 17\nThe new map drew the home of Democrat Conor Lamb, who won a special election for the old 18th District, into the new 17th. The 17th is far less Republican than its predecessor, and voted for Democrats downballot, leading to speculation that Lamb would run for a full term in the 17th regardless of the special election result. On March 14, Democratic officials in Beaver County, which is entirely within the 17th, received a written request from Lamb for their endorsement in the 2018 general election. On March 20, Lamb formally filed to run for a full term in the 17th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 82], "content_span": [83, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283375-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, District 18\nThe 18th district formerly consisted of the southern suburbs of Pittsburgh, but the new district is now centered on Pittsburgh itself. The district overlaps with the former 14th district, which is represented by Democrat Michael F. Doyle. Doyle has held office since 1995. He ran unopposed in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 82], "content_span": [83, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283376-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the 2 U.S. Representatives from the state of Rhode Island, one from each of the state's 2 congressional districts. The election coincided with the 2018 U.S. mid-term elections, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primaries took place on September 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283376-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island\nFollowing the 2018 elections, the Democratic Party retained control of both House seats, and also retained control of the entirety of Rhode Island's Congressional (House and Senate) delegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283376-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 79], "content_span": [80, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283376-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island, District 1\nThe 1st district includes the capital, Providence and the surrounding Narragansett Bay area. This district has a PVI of D+14. Democrat David Cicilline has represented the district since 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283376-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island, District 2\nThe 2nd district is located in western and southern Rhode Island, including Coventry, Cranston, and Warwick. The district has a PVI of D+6. Democrat James Langevin has represented this district since 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 81], "content_span": [82, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283377-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the seven U.S. Representatives from the state of South Carolina, one from each of the state's seven congressional districts. The elections coincided with a gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. This was the first time that the Democrats picked up a seat in South Carolina since 1986. The state congressional delegation changed from 6-1 for Republicans to 5-2 for Republicans. The last time Democrats held 2 seats in the state was in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283377-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, Results summary, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 98], "content_span": [99, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283377-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, District 1\nThe 1st district is located in the Low Country, on the Atlantic coastal plain from Hilton Head to the border of Georgetown County, it includes most of the Charleston area. The incumbent was Republican Mark Sanford, who had represented the district since 2013. Sanford was defeated by Republican Katie Arrington in the primary. Arrington went on to lose the general election to Democrat Joe Cunningham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283377-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, District 1, Republican primary\nSanford defeated State Representative Jenny Horne in the 2016 primary by only a 56-44 percent margin. The closer than expected result led to speculation that Sanford could be vulnerable to another primary challenge in 2018. Former Director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Catherine Templeton was reportedly being recruited to challenge Sanford, but decided instead to run for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 103], "content_span": [104, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283377-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, District 2\nThe 2nd district is located in central South Carolina and spans from Columbia to the South Carolina side of the Augusta, Georgia metropolitan area. The incumbent was Republican Joe Wilson, who had represented the district since 2001. Wilson was re-elected with 60% of the vote in 2016 and ran unopposed in the Republican Primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283377-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, District 3\nThe 3rd district is located in northwestern South Carolina. The incumbent was Republican Jeff Duncan, who had represented the district since 2011. Duncan was re-elected with 73% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283377-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, District 4\nThe 4th district is located in Upstate South Carolina. The incumbent was Republican Trey Gowdy, who had represented the district since 2011. Gowdy was re-elected with 67% of the vote in 2016. Gowdy announced in January 2018 that he would not run for re-election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283377-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, District 5\nThe 5th district is located in northern South Carolina. The incumbent was Republican Ralph Norman, who had represented the district since 2017. Norman was elected with 51% of the vote in a 2017 special election to replace Mick Mulvaney. Norman's challenger in the special election, Archie Parnell, announced on the 9th of October that he would seek the Democratic nomination for the 2018 election for District 5. The primaries were held on June 12th, 2018. Incumbent Ralph Norman was unopposed for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283377-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, District 5, Democratic primary\nSpecial election candidate and former Goldman Sachs employee Parnell had the most fundraising of the four Democratic candidates as of June 9th. He was opposed by former York County Councilwoman Sidney Moore, professional clown Steven Lough, and Mark Ali, a former undocumented immigrant. Parnell's campaign was overshadowed by the resignation of many of his campaign staff after the discovery of allegations of domestic violence committed by him in 1973. However, he refused to drop out of the race, and won the primary with 60% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 103], "content_span": [104, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283377-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, District 6\nThe 6th district is located in central and southern South Carolina. The incumbent was Democrat Jim Clyburn, who had represented the district since 1993. Clyburn was re-elected with 70% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283377-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, District 7\nThe 7th district is located in northeastern South Carolina. The incumbent was Republican Tom Rice, who had represented the district since 2013. Rice was re-elected with 61% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the nine U.S. Representatives from the state of Tennessee, one from each of the state's nine congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices, including the gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee\nFollowing the 2018 elections, no seats changed hands, leaving the Tennessee delegation at a 7-2 Republican majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, Overview, By district\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 89], "content_span": [90, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, District 1\nThe 1st district covers the northeastern corner of the states and is anchored by the Tri-Cities area including the cities of Greeneville, Johnson City, and Kingsport. This is a heavily Republican district with a PVI of R+28. The incumbent is Republican Phil Roe, who has represented the district since 2009. Roe was re-elected with 78% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, District 1\nRoe had initially promised to serve only five terms when first elected in 2008, but announced in February 2018 that he would run again that November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, District 2\nThe 2nd district is located in northeastern Tennessee and is centered around Knoxville and its surrounding suburbs; other cities include Jefferson City and Tazewell. This district has a PVI of R+20. The incumbent is Republican John Duncan, who has represented the district since 1988. Duncan was re-elected with 76% of the vote in 2016. On July 31, 2017, Duncan announced that he would not run for reelection in 2018. He wishes to spend more time with his family. His successor will be only the seventh person (not including caretakers) to represent this district since 1909.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, District 3\nThe 3rd district is located in eastern Tennessee and is anchored by Chattanooga; other cities include LaFollette and Oak Ridge. This district has a PVI of R+18. The incumbent is Republican Chuck Fleischmann, who has represented the district since 2011. Fleischmann was re-elected with 66% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, District 4\nThe 4th district is anchored by Murfreesboro in southern Tennessee; other cities include Cleveland and Mount Pleasant. This district has a PVI of R+20. The incumbent is Republican Scott DesJarlais, who has represented the district since 2011. DesJarlais was re-elected with 65% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, District 5\nThe 5th district is centered around the state capital, Nashville, and the surrounding suburbs including the cities of Ashland City and Dickson. This district has a PVI of D+7. The incumbent is Democrat Jim Cooper, who has represented the district since 2003 and previously represented the 4th district from 1983 until 1995. Cooper was re-elected with 63% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, District 6\nThe 6th district is located in middle Tennessee including Cookeville, Gallatin, Hendersonville, and Lebanon. This district has a PVI of R+24. The incumbent is Republican Diane Black, who had represented the district since 2011. Black was re-elected with 71% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, District 7\nThe 7th district is centered around the Nashville metropolitan area including the Nashville suburbs such as Brentwood and Franklin; other cities include Clarksville and Lawrenceburg. This district has a PVI of R+20. The incumbent is Republican Marsha Blackburn, who has represented the district since 2003. Blackburn was re-elected with 72% of the vote in 2016. Blackburn was expected to run for re-election until Senator Bob Corker announced he would retire. After Corker's announcement, Blackburn announced on October 5th, 2017 she would run for Corker's seat in the U.S. Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, District 8\nThe 8th district is located in western Tennessee, including the cities of Jackson and Union City, and the Memphis suburbs, such as Bartlett and Germantown. This district has a PVI of R+19. The incumbent is Republican David Kustoff, who has represented the district since 2017. Kustoff was elected with 69% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, District 9\nThe 9th district is based around Memphis and its surrounding suburbs including Millington. This is a heavily Democratic district with a PVI of D+28. The incumbent is Democrat Steve Cohen, who has represented the district since 2007. Cohen was re-elected with 79% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283378-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, District 9\nCohen has announced he is running for re-election in 2018 and intends to run in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Voters elected the 36 U.S. Representatives from the state of Texas, one from each of the state's 36 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices, including the gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on March 6 and the run-offs were held on May 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas\nIn 2018, for the first time in at least 25 years, the Texas Democratic Party fielded at least one candidate in each of the state's 36 congressional districts. The state congressional delegation changed from a 25\u201311 Republican majority to a 23\u201313 Republican majority, the most seats that Democrats have won in the state since 2006. Democrats won almost 47% of the vote, likely as part of a down-ballot effect of Representative Beto O'Rourke's Senate candidacy, in which he won 48.3% of the vote. Turnout was also doubled from the last midterm election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, Results summary, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 89], "content_span": [90, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 1\nThe first district is located in East Texas, including Deep East Texas, and takes in Longview, Lufkin, and Tyler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 1\nThe incumbent is Republican Louie Gohmert, who has held the seat since 2005. He was reelected with 73.9% of the vote in 2016. Roshin Rowjee, a physician, is running for the Republican nomination. Brent Beal, a college professor, is running for the Democratic nomination. Its Partisan Voter Index is R+25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 2\nThis district is located in Greater Houston, including parts of northern and western Houston, as well as Humble, Kingwood, and Spring. The PVI is R+11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 3\nThe 3rd district is located in the Dallas\u2013Fort Worth metroplex, including the Dallas suburbs of Frisco, McKinney, and Plano. The incumbent representative was Sam Johnson, a Republican who has held the seat since 1991. Johnson was reelected with 61.2% of the vote in 2016. Johnson is not standing for reelection, and several candidates have announced their candidacies to replace him. The PVI of the third district is R+13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 3, Libertarian District Convention, Results\nChristopher Claytor was declared the nominee by defeating Scott Jameson at the Collin County Libertarian Party Convention on Saturday, March 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 116], "content_span": [117, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 4\nThe 4th district is located in Northern and Northeastern Texas, including Paris, Sherman, and Texarkana. The incumbent was Republican John Ratcliffe, who has served since 2015. He was reelected in 2016 with 88.0%, facing no Democratic opponent. The PVI of the district is R+28, making it one of the most conservative districts in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 5\nThe 5th district stretches from the eastern Dallas suburbs, including Mesquite, down into East Texas including Athens and Palestine. At the 2000 census, the 5th district represented 651,620 people. The Representative from District 5 was Jeb Hensarling, who has served since 2003. He was reelected in 2016 with 80.6% of the vote, facing no Democratic opponent. The PVI of this district is R+16. Hensarling announced in October 2017 that he is going to retire from Congress, and not seek re-election to another term in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 6\nThe 6th district is located in the Dallas\u2013Fort Worth metroplex, including parts of Arlington, as well as Dalworthington Gardens and Mansfield. The district also stretches southward taking in Corsicana and Ennis. Representative from District 6 was Republican Joe Barton, who has served since 1985. Barton was reelected with 58.3% of the vote in 2016. The PVI of the sixth district is R+9. In November 2017, Barton announced that he would not run for re-election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 7\nThe 7th district includes parts of western Houston and Bellaire. The incumbent representative was John Culberson, who had served the district since 2001. He was reelected in 2016 with 56.2% of the vote. The PVI for the district is R+7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 8\nThe 8th district includes much of the northern suburbs of Houston, such as Conroe, Huntsville, and The Woodlands. The incumbent Representative from District 8 was Republican Kevin Brady and has been since 1997. Brady was reelected in 2016 unopposed. The PVI for this district is R+28. A Democrat and an independent are running for this seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 9\nThe 9th district serves the southwestern portion of the Greater Houston area including parts of Missouri City and Sugar Land. The current Representative for the district, since 2005, is Democrat Al Green. Green was reelected with 80.6% of the vote in 2016. The PVI for this district is D+28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 10\nThe 10th district includes portions of northern Austin and its suburbs, such as Manor and Pflugerville. The district stretches eastward into rural areas of Central Texas and the outer suburbs of Houston, including Cypress, Katy, and Tomball. The current representative is Michael McCaul, who has served since 2005. McCaul was reelected with 57.3% of the vote in 2016. The district's PVI is R+9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 10, Democratic primary\nIn the Democratic primary, Mike Siegel and Tawana Cadien advanced to the runoff, where Siegel ultimately prevailed. Siegel refused all corporate PAC donations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 95], "content_span": [96, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 10, General election\nIn the general election, McCaul won against Siegel by 4.3 percent of the vote, the closest contest McCaul has faced. The outcome was notable in a district political experts rate as \u201cHeavily Republican.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 93], "content_span": [94, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 11\nThe 11th district is located in the Concho Valley including Midland, Odessa, and San Angelo. The incumbent representative was Mike Conaway, who had served since 2005. Conaway was reelected with 89.5% of the vote in 2016, without a Democratic opponent. The PVI is R+32, making this one of the most Republican districts in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 12\nThe 12th district is centered around Fort Worth and the surrounding suburbs including North Richland Hills, Weatherford, and White Settlement. The current Representative from District 12 is Republican Kay Granger, who has served since 1997. Granger was reelected with 69.4% of the vote in 2016. The district's PVI is R+18. One Democrat is running for the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 13\nThe 13th district includes most of the Texas Panhandle, parts of Texoma and northeastern parts of North Texas. It winds across the Panhandle into the South Plains, then runs east across the Red River Valley. Covering over 40,000 square miles (100,000\u00a0km2), it is the second-largest district geographically in Texas and larger in area than thirteen entire states. The principal cities in the district are Amarillo and Wichita Falls. The incumbent representative was Mac Thornberry, serving since 1995. He was reelected with 90.0% of the vote, without facing a Democratic candidate. The thirteenth's district PVI is R+33, making it the most Republican district in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 14\nThe 14th district covers the Gulf Coast area of Texas, including Beaumont, Galveston, and League City. Republican Randy Weber is the incumbent, serving since 2013. He was reelected with 61.9% of the vote in 2016. The district's PVI is R+12. The sole Democratic candidate to declare candidacy, Adrienne Bell, was endorsed by Brand New Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 15\nThe 15th district stretches from parts of South Texas including Edinburg, Hebbronville, and McAllen, to the northeastern suburbs of San Antonio such as Schertz and Seguin. The district's current Representative is Democrat Vicente Gonz\u00e1lez, elected in 2016. Gonz\u00e1lez was elected with 57.3% of the vote. The district's PVI is D+7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 16\nThe 16th district is centered around El Paso and the surrounding areas. The Representative from District 16 was Democrat Beto O'Rourke, serving since 2013. O'Rourke was reelected with 85.7% of the vote in 2016, without facing a Republican candidate. O'Rourke retired from his seat to challenge Senator Ted Cruz in the state's 2018 Senate election, in which O\u2019Rourke was narrowly defeated by Cruz. The district's PVI is D+17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 17\nThe 17th district is located in Central Texas including the Bryan-College station metro, Waco, and stretches to parts of North Austin. The district was represented by Republican Bill Flores, who had served since 2011. Flores was reelected with 60.8% of the vote in 2016. The district's PVI is R+12. Three Democrats are currently running for the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 18\nThe 18th district is centered on inner Houston and the surrounding area. It has been the Downtown Houston district since 1973. The current Representative from District 18 is Democratic Sheila Jackson Lee, serving since 1995. Jackson Lee won re-election in 2016 with 73.5%. The district's PVI D+27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 19\nThe 19th district is located in upper rural West Texas, including Abilene, Lubbock, and Plainview. The current Representative from the 19th District is Republican Jodey Arrington, serving since 2017. Arrington was elected 86.7% of the vote in 2016, without a Democratic opponent. The district's PVI is R+27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 20\nThe 20th district is centered on the western half of San Antonio and the surrounding inner suburbs including Balcones Heights and Helotes. The incumbent representative is a Democrat Joaqu\u00edn Castro, serving since 2013. He was reelected in 2016 with 79.7% of the vote without a Republican opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 21\nThe 21st district starts in the San Antonio metro, including parts of north San Antonio and New Braunfels, extending into the Austin metro, taking in parts of San Marcos and south Austin. The current Representative is Republican Lamar Smith, serving since 1987. Smith was reelected with 57.0% of the vote in 2016. The district's PVI is R+10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 21\nIn November 2017, Smith announced that he would retire at the end of his current term, and not seek re-election in 2018. Run-off debates were held on April 12 after the primary, one hour each for the two Democratic candidates () and the two Republican candidates ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 21, Democratic primary\nMary Street Wilson and Joseph Kopser advanced to the runoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 95], "content_span": [96, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 22\nThe 22nd district is located Greater Houston taking in suburban areas of Friendswood, Pearland, and Sugar Land. The district is currently represented by Republican Pete Olson, serving since 2009. Olson was reelected with 59.5% of the vote in 2016. The district's PVI is R+10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 23\nThe 23rd district stretches from rural Southwestern Texas, including Alpine, Del Rio, and Socorro, into the Greater San Antonio area, taking in Hondo and the outer areas of San Antonio. It is a prominently Hispanic-majority district and its representative was Republican Will Hurd, serving since 2015. His opponent in November 2018 was Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones of San Antonio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 23\nGina Ortiz Jones conceded the race on November 19, 2018, after losing by around 1,150 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 23\nHurd was narrowly reelected in 2016, with 48.7% of the vote. The district's PVI is R+1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 24\nThe 24th district is centered around Mid-Cities suburbs of the Dallas\u2013Fort Worth metroplex including Bedford, Carrollton, and Euless. The incumbent representative was Republican Kenny Marchant, serving since 2005. Marchant won reelection in 2016 with 56.2% of the vote. The PVI is R+9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 25\nThe 25th district stretches from the outer suburbs of Fort Worth, including Burleson and Cleburne down into rural Central Texas, and takes in the Austin exurbs of Dripping Springs, Lakeway, West Lake Hills, as well as parts of downtown Austin. The current Representative from District 25 is Republican Roger Williams, serving since 2013. Williams was reelected with 58.4% of the vote in 2016. The district has a PVI of R+11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 26\nThe 26th district is centered on the northern Dallas\u2013Fort Worth suburbs, including Denton, Keller, and Lewisville. The current Representative is Republican Michael C. Burgess, serving since 2003. Burgess was reelected in 2016 with 66.4% of the vote. The district's PVI is R+18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 26\nBurgess is running for reelection. He is being challenged in the Republican primary by Veronica Birkenstock. Four Democrats and a Libertarian are also running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 26, Libertarian District Convention\nMark Boler, Libertarian nominee in TX-26 in 2012, 2014 and 2016", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 108], "content_span": [109, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 27\nThe 27th district is located in the Coastal Bend, anchored by Corpus Christi, and the surrounding areas including Port Aransas and Victoria. The most recent representative was Republican Blake Farenthold, who served from 2011 until April 2018. Farenthold was reelected with 61.7% of the vote in 2016, and the district's PVI is R+13. Farenthold retired from Congress and did not run for re-election in 2018. Farenthold resigned on April 6, 2018. Michael Cloud, the Republican nominee for the general election, won a June 30 special election to fill the remainder of the term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 28\nThe 28th district starts in parts of the Rio Grande Valley, including Laredo, Mission and Rio Grande City and stretches north into the San Antonio suburbs including Converse and Live Oak. The current Representative from District 28 is Democrat Henry Cuellar, who has served since 2005. Cuellar was reelected in 2016 with 66.2% of the vote. The district's PVI is D+9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 29\nThe 29th district is anchored by parts of Houston and the surrounding suburbs including Pasadena and South Houston. The current Representative from District 29 was Democrat Gene Green, who had served since 1993. Green was reelected with 72.5% of the vote in 2016. The district's PVI is D+19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 29\nIn November 2017, Green announced that would not run for re-election in 2018. After Green's announcement, Democrats Sylvia Garcia, member of the Texas Senate for the 6th district, Armando Walle, member of the Texas House of Representatives for the 140th district, teacher Hector Morales and Republicans Adrian Garcia, the former Sheriff of Harris County, and businessman Robert Schafranek all announced their candidacy for the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 30\nThe 30th district is centered around Dallas and its surrounding suburbs, including Cedar Hill and Lancaster. The current Representative from District 30 is Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson, who has represented the district since its creation in 1993. She was reelected in 2016 with 77.9% of the vote. The district's PVI is D+29. Johnson ran for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 31\nThe 31st district is located in north Austin and the surrounding suburbs including Georgetown and Round Rock. The district also stretches north into Killeen and Temple. Republican John Carter has served since 2003, this district's creation. He was reelected with 58.4% of the vote in 2016. The district's PVI is R+10. Carter is running for reelection. He is being challenged in the Republican primary by Mike Sweeney. Three Democrats ran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 32\nThe 32nd district is centered around the northeastern inner Dallas suburbs, including Garland, Richardson, and the Park Cities. It is represented by Republican Pete Sessions, serving since 1997. He was reelected with 71.1% of the vote in 2016 without a Democratic opponent. The district's PVI is R+5, due to 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's performance in the district. In 2016, Sessions ran for reelection. Six Democrats also ran, including civil rights attorney and former NFL player Colin Allred, longtime Democratic operative Ed Meier, and former Department of Agriculture official Lilian Salerno. Allred won the Democratic nomination and the general eection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 33\nThe 33rd district is located in the Dallas\u2013Fort Worth metroplex, taking in parts of Arlington, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Irving, as well as the surrounding areas, including Forest Hill and Grand Prairie. It is currently represented by Democrat Marc Veasey, and has been since the district's creation in 2013. Veasey was reelected with 73.7% of the vote in 2016. The district's PVI is D+23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 34\nThe 34th district is centered around the Rio Grande Valley, including Brownsville, Harlingen, and Weslaco. It is currently represented by Democrat Filemon Vela Jr. and has been since the district's creation in 2013. Vela was reelected with 62.7% of the vote in 2016. The district's PVI is D+10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 35\nThe 35th district stretches from Downtown San Antonio up into Austin metro, including Lockhart, San Marcos, and parts of east Austin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 35\nIn March 2017, a panel of federal judges ruled that the 35th district was illegally drawn with discriminatory intent. In August, 2017 there was another ruling that the district is unconstitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 35\nThe district is currently represented by Democrat Lloyd Doggett, and has been since its creation in 2013. Doggett previously represented Texas's 25th congressional district before redistricting. Doggett won reelection in 2016 with 63.1% of the vote. The district's PVI is D+15 Doggett is running for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283379-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, District 36\nThe 36th district takes in the Bay Area outer suburbs of Houston, including Baytown, Deer Park, and La Porte. The district also includes rural Southeastern Texas, such as Lumberton and Orange. It is currently represented by Republican Brian Babin, who has served since 2015. Babin was reelected in 2016 with 88.6% of the vote, without a Democratic opponent. Two Democrats have announced their candidacy, scientist/environmental consultant Jon Powell and radio and television personality Dayna Steele.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283380-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the four U.S. Representatives from the state of Utah, one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with other states' elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Registered political parties in Utah must have at least one of their candidates for House of Representatives get 2% of the vote in their respective election in order to maintain their ballot access in future elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283380-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah\nThe Democratic Party gained the 4th Congressional district, thus breaking unitary control of all of Utah's Congressional (House and Senate) seats held by the Republicans, changing the House delegation from Utah from 4\u20130 Republican to 3\u20131 Republican. As of 2020, this is the last time a Democrat won any house race in Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283380-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 71], "content_span": [72, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283380-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah, District 1\nThe 1st District covers northern Utah, including the cities of Ogden and Logan. Republican Rob Bishop, who has represented the district since 2003, was re-elected to an eighth term with 66% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283380-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah, District 1\nThe 1st District went for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, with 49.7%, with Hillary Clinton and Evan McMullin receiving 22.4% and 22.3% respectively. In 2012 the district went for Mitt Romney over Barack Obama 77.4% to 20.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283380-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah, District 2\nThe 2nd District stretches from the Summit County, Utah line and goes west to the Nevada border and down through St. George. It includes parts of Davis, Salt Lake, Sanpete, and Juab Counties. Republican Chris Stewart, who has represented the district since 2013, was re-elected to a third term with 62% of the vote in 2016", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283380-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah, District 2\nThe 2nd District went for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, with 46%, with Hillary Clinton and Evan McMullin receiving 32% and 16.9% respectively. In 2012 the district went for Mitt Romney over Barack Obama 68% to 29.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283380-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah, District 3\nThe 3rd district is located in southern and eastern Utah and includes the cities of Orem and Provo. Republican John Curtis, who has represented the district since 2017, was elected to his first term in a 2017 special election with 57.6% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283380-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah, District 3\nThe 3rd District went for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, with 47.2%, with Evan McMullin and Hillary Clinton receiving 24.5% and 23.3% respectively. In 2012 the district went for Mitt Romney over Barack Obama 78.3% to 19.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283380-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah, District 4\nThe 4th district is located in northern-central Utah and includes parts of Salt Lake, Utah, Juab, and Sanpete Counties. Republican Mia Love, who has represented the district since 2015, was re-elected to a second term with 54% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283380-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah, District 4\nSalt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams was selected in the Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283380-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah, District 4\nThe 4th District voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, with 39.1%, with Hillary Clinton and Evan McMullin receiving 32.4% and 22.5% respectively. In 2012, the district voted for Mitt Romney over Barack Obama 67.2% to 30.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 73], "content_span": [74, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the 11 U.S. Representatives from the state of Virginia, one from each of the state's 11 congressional districts. The elections coincided with other states' elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Primary elections took place on June 12. The state congressional delegation flipped from a 7\u20134 Republican majority to a 7\u20134 Democratic majority. Democrats last held a majority of seats in the state in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, Overview, By district\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 88], "content_span": [89, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 1\nRepublican Rob Wittman had represented Virginia's 1st congressional district since 2007. He was re-elected in 2016 with 60% of the vote. Wittman was unopposed for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 1, Democratic primary\nVangie Williams defeated both Edwin Santana and John Suddarth in the Democratic primary with 39.97% of the vote. With her win, she became the first woman of color to ever win a primary for Congressional office throughout Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 2\nRepublican incumbent Scott Taylor was in a race targeted by the DCCC. This was one of only two GOP held seats that voted for Democrat Ralph Northam in 2017. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee supported Elaine Luria, a United States Naval Commander for the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 2\nRoanoke Commonwealth's Attorney Donald Caldwell had been appointed as a special prosecutor to investigate claims that Taylor's aides forged signatures, including those of Delegate Glenn Davis and his wife, on Shaun Brown's petitions to make the ballot as an independent candidate. Taylor had already cut ties with his campaign manager when these irregularities came to light and promised to cooperate with the investigation, and said that the irregularities in the petitions should have no bearing on Brown's right to be on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 2\nShaun Brown submitted 2,163 petition signatures which actually went through the verification process. 1,030 of those were considered valid. Democrats asked the Virginia State Board of Elections to remove Brown from the ballot for falling short of the 1,000 signatures required, and filed suit. They also asked Attorney General of Virginia Mark Herring to investigate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 2\nA review of the signatures also revealed that more than 50 Virginia Beach sheriff's employees had signed petition forms at work to get Brown on the ballot during the closing days of the petition drive, when petitioners were scrambling to meet the deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 2\nBrown was accused by federal prosecutors of lying to the Federal Election Commission about donating $700,000 to her campaign and bilking the government by falsifying the number of meals her nonprofit fed to needy children, but her trial\u2014in which Brown testified in her own defense and was subjected to a lengthy cross-examination\u2014ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked 11\u20131. In a new trial the following October, Brown was convicted of fraud conspiracy, two counts of wire fraud and theft of government property. In March, 2019 Brown was sentenced to 3 years in prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 2\nIn September, circuit judge Gregory Rupe ordered Brown off the ballot. Brown subsequently appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court but justices declined to hear her case. The Virginia Attorney General's office argued that it was too late for her to appear on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 2, Republican primary\nTaylor was challenged in the Republican primary by former James City County Supervisor Mary Jones, who attacked Rep. Taylor for his moderate stances and because she believed he hadn't backed President Donald Trump's proposals strongly enough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 97], "content_span": [98, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 3\nDemocratic incumbent Bobby Scott ran unopposed, as no Republican candidates filed for the district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 4\nAfter the 4th district was redrawn by the courts for the 2016 elections, Democratic incumbent Donald McEachin was elected and ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 5\nIncumbent Tom Garrett Jr., first elected in 2016, announced on May 28 2018 that he would not run for reelection due to his struggle with alcoholism. Instead of a traditional primary to elect the Democratic and Republican nominees, party delegates voted to hold district conventions instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 5, Democratic convention\nThe Democratic convention was held on May 5, 2018. The party delegates chose Leslie Cockburn as the Democratic nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 100], "content_span": [101, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 5, Republican convention\nThe Republican convention was held on June 2, 2018, less than one week after incumbent Tom Garrett Jr. announced he would not seek reelection. Denver Riggleman edged out Cynthia Dunbar, who had just lost the Republican nomination in the 6th district just weeks before, in the final round of voting to get the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 100], "content_span": [101, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 6\nThe 6th district was an open seat in 2018, after the Republican incumbent, Bob Goodlatte, representative from the 6th district since 1993, announced his retirement in November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 6, Republican convention\nRepublican delegates decided to hold a party convention instead of the primary to choose their nominee. Eight Republicans ran in the convention in this district, where State Delegate Ben Cline was chosen as the GOP nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 100], "content_span": [101, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 7\nAfter Dave Brat upset the former House Majority leader, Eric Cantor, in 2014, Brat won reelection in 2016 with 57% of the vote. Helen Alli originally was going to run as a Democrat but failed to turn in enough signatures; she then was nominated by the Whigs but again failed to turn in enough signatures; finally running as a write-in candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 8\nIn the 8th district, Democrat Don Beyer had served since the 2014 election. Beyer won reelection in 2016 with 68% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 9\nIn the 9th district, Republican Morgan Griffith had two Democratic opponents, Anthony Flaccavento and Justin Santopietro, and a Whig opponent, Scott Blankenship, in this strongly Republican district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 77], "content_span": [78, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 10\nIn the 10th district, six Democratic candidates, encouraged by the fact that Republican incumbent Barbara Comstock's district voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S Presidential Election, submitted the required number of signatures to run for that seat. Republicans believed, however, that given that Comstock was an excellent fundraiser and fierce campaigner, she would be able to keep the seat. April polling was favorable to a generic Democrat against Comstock, although Comstock performed much better in polling when her name was on the ballot against a named Democratic opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 10\nPatriarchist libertarian Nathan Larson filed to run as an independent, but then withdrew his candidacy on August 13 and endorsed Wexton, calling her \"the accelerationist choice\"; Wexton, through a spokesman, declined the endorsement. Comstock tweeted, \"It is good news for all voters in the 10th District that Nathan Larson, a convicted felon who served time in prison for threatening to kill the President and is an admitted pedophile, an admitted rapist, white supremacist, and misogynist, is now off the ballot in the 10th Congressional District.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283381-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, District 11\nIn the 11th district, Democratic incumbent Gerry Connolly, who ran unopposed in 2016, faced no primary challengers. However, he faced Republican U.S. Army veteran Jeff Dove in the general election. Also running was Libertarian Stevan Porter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 78], "content_span": [79, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the 10 U.S. Representatives from the state of Washington, one from each of the state's 10 congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. All nine incumbents seeking re-election were re-elected, however the Democratic Party won the open-seat in the 8th District previously held by a Republican, improving from a 6-4 margin to a 7-3 margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, Overview\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 77], "content_span": [78, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 1\nThe 1st congressional district is located along the Puget Sound from the Canada\u2013US border to King County. The district has a PVI of D+6. The incumbent is Democrat Suzan DelBene, who has represented the district since 2012. She was re-elected with 55% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 2\nThe 2nd congressional district includes all of Island and San Juan counties and neighboring areas on the mainland from Bellingham in the north to Lynnwood in the south. The district has a PVI of D+10. The incumbent is Democrat Rick Larsen, who has represented the district since 2001. He was re-elected with 64% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 3\nThe 3rd congressional district encompasses the southernmost portion of western and central Washington. It includes the counties of Lewis, Pacific, Wahkiakum, Cowlitz, Clark, Skamania, and Klickitat, and a small sliver of southern Thurston county. The district has a PVI of R+4. The incumbent is Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler, who has represented the district since 2011. She was re-elected with 62% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 4\nThe 4th congressional district is located in central Washington, covering the counties of, Douglas, Okanogan, Grant, Yakima, Franklin, Benton, and Adams. The district is dominated by the Yakima and Tri-Cities areas. The district has a PVI of R+13. The incumbent is Republican Dan Newhouse, who has represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected with 58% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 5\nThe 5th congressional district is located in Eastern Washington and includes the counties of Ferry, Stevens, Pend Oreille, Lincoln, Spokane, Whitman, Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield, and Asotin. It is centered on Spokane, the state's second largest city. The district has a PVI of R+8. The incumbent is Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who has represented the district since 2005. She was re-elected with 60% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 6\nThe 6th congressional district includes the Olympic Peninsula, most of the Kitsap Peninsula, and most of the city of Tacoma. The district has a PVI of D+6. The incumbent is Democrat Derek Kilmer, who has represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected with 62% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 7\nThe 7th congressional district includes most of Seattle, all of Vashon Island, Edmonds, Shoreline, Kenmore, and parts of Burien and Normandy Park. The district has a PVI of D+33. The incumbent is Democrat Pramila Jayapal, who has represented the district since 2017. She was elected with 56% of the vote in 2016 to replace retiring Democratic Representative Jim McDermott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 8\nThe 8th congressional district includes the eastern portions of King and Pierce counties and crosses the Cascade mountains to include Chelan and Kittitas counties. The population centers on the west side of the mountains include the exurban communities of Sammamish, Issaquah, and Auburn. On the east side, the 8th's population centers are rural communities Wenatchee, Leavenworth, and Ellensburg. The district has a PVI of EVEN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 8\nDave Reichert's retirement made this the only open seat in Washington in 2018, as well as the only seat to change party hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 9\nThe 9th congressional district encompasses a long, somewhat narrow area in western Washington through the densely populated central Puget Sound region, from Tacoma in the south to Bellevue in the north. The district has a PVI of D+21. The incumbent is Democrat Adam Smith, who has represented the district since 1997. He was re-elected with 73% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 9\nThe 9th was the only district in Washington to have Democrats win both spots in the blanket primary, with 48% of the vote going to the Adam Smith, the incumbent, 27% going to Sarah Smith, a progressive challenger, and 25% going to Doug Blaser, the sole Republican candidate. Incumbent Adam Smith won the general election soundly, receiving 68% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 79], "content_span": [80, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283382-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 10\nThe 10th congressional district encompasses the state capital of Olympia and surrounding areas. The district has a PVI of D+5. The incumbent is Democrat Denny Heck, who has represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected with 59% of the vote in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 80], "content_span": [81, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283383-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the three U.S. Representatives from the West Virginia, one from each of the state's three congressional districts. The filing deadline was January 27, 2018. The primary elections were held on May 8, 2018. The elections coincided with the other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283383-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia\nThe 2018 elections resulted in no change in partisan representation, with the Republican incumbents in Districts 1 and 2 winning re-election, and the Republicans holding the open-seat election in District 3, leaving the House delegation at 3-0 Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283383-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, Overview, By district\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 93], "content_span": [94, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283383-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, District 1\nRepublican incumbent David McKinley has represented the district since 2011. In 2016, he was reelected with 68.97% of the vote. McKinley is running for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283383-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, District 2\nRepublican incumbent Alex Mooney has represented the district since 2015. In 2016, he was reelected with 58.18% of the vote. Mooney has not announced whether he is running for reelection. West Virginia's 2nd district has been included on the initial list of Republican held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283383-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, District 3\nRepublican incumbent Evan Jenkins has represented the district since 2015. In 2016, he was reelected with 67.88% of the vote. Jenkins is vacating the seat to run for Senate against Democratic incumbent Joe Manchin. Resigned September 30, 2018, to become justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 82], "content_span": [83, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283384-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin\nThe 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the eight U.S. Representatives from the state of Wisconsin, one from each of the state's eight congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The Wisconsin Partisan Primary was held on August 14, 2018, with the governor, U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative, odd-numbered Wisconsin State Senate seats, and all Wisconsin Assembly seats on the ballot. Wisconsin was notable in 2018 for being the only state in which the party receiving the majority of votes held a minority of congressional seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 803]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283384-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, Results summary, District\nResults of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 93], "content_span": [94, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283384-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 1\nThe 1st congressional district is located in southeastern Wisconsin, covering Kenosha County, Racine County and most of Walworth County, as well as portions of Rock County, Waukesha County and Milwaukee County. The district's Representative was Republican, Paul Ryan, then Speaker of the House of Representatives and Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. The district's Partisan Voter Index is R+5, indicating a slight Republican lean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283384-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 1\nRyan could potentially have seen a close race; in hypothetical polling, his main Democratic challenger, Randy Bryce, was behind Ryan by only seven points. Ryan was also facing challenges in the Republican primary from Paul Nehlen, who also challenged Ryan in 2016, and from Nick Polce. Ryan announced on April 11, 2018, that he is not seeking re-election. On April 22, Bryan Steil, member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and former personal driver to Ryan, announced his bid for the seat, with news outlets reporting Steil as the Republican Party nominee front-runner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283384-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 1\nTwo Democrats announced; ironworker Randy Bryce and Janesville school board member Cathy Myers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283384-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 2\nThe 2nd congressional district covers Dane County, Iowa County, Lafayette County, Sauk County and Green County, as well as portions of Richland County and Rock County. The district includes Madison, the state's capital, its suburbs and some of the surrounding areas. The district is currently represented by Democrat Mark Pocan, who succeeded current Senator Tammy Baldwin in 2013. The PVI is D+18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283384-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 3\nThe 3rd congressional district covers much of the Driftless Area in southwestern and western Wisconsin; The district includes the cities of La Crosse and Eau Claire. It borders the states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. Democrat Ron Kind has represented the district since 1997. The PVI of the third district is EVEN, indicating an almost equal support of Democrats and Republicans. Kind is running for reelection. Steve Toft, a retired Army Colonel, is running for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283384-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 4\nThe 4th congressional district encompasses a part of Milwaukee County and including all of the city of Milwaukee and its working-class suburbs of Cudahy, St. Francis, South Milwaukee, and West Milwaukee. Recent redistricting has added the Milwaukee County North Shore communities of Glendale, Shorewood, Whitefish Bay, Fox Point, Bayside, and Brown Deer to the district. It is currently represented by Gwen Moore, a Democrat. The PVI of the district is D+25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283384-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 5\nThe 5th congressional district covers all of Washington and Jefferson counties, some of Waukesha and Dodge counties, and portions of Milwaukee and Walworth counties. It is currently represented by Republican Jim Sensenbrenner, who has held the seat since 1978. The PVI is R+13. Sensenbrenner is running for reelection. Tom Palzewicz, a small business owner, is running for the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283384-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 6\nThe 6th congressional district is located in eastern Wisconsin, including the outer suburbs of Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay, it includes all or portions of the following counties: Adams, Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Jefferson, Manitowoc, Marquette, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Waushara, and Winnebago. It also includes a small portion of far northern Milwaukee County around River Hills. The district is represented by Glenn Grothman (R-Campbellsport) who came to office in January 2015. The PVI is R+8. Grothman ran for reelection. Dan Kohl, an attorney and former executive for the Milwaukee Bucks, won the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283384-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 7\nThe 7th congressional district is located in northern and western Wisconsin, and is the largest congressional district in the state geographically, covering 20 counties (in whole or part), for a total of 18,787\u00a0sq mi. The district contains the following counties: Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Chippewa, Clark (partial), Douglas, Iron, Langlade (partial), Lincoln, Marathon, Oneida, Polk, Portage, Price, Rusk, St. Croix, Sawyer, Taylor, Washburn and Wood. The district is currently represented by Sean Duffy, a Republican. The PVI of the district is R+8. Duffy is running for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283384-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 8\nThe 8th congressional district includes Green Bay and Appleton. It is currently represented by Mike Gallagher, a Republican. Gallagher won the open seat vacated by Reid Ribble. It is also one of two Congressional Districts to ever elect a Catholic Priest, Robert John Cornell. The PVI is R+7, and Gallagher won election to his first term with 62.65% of the vote. Gallagher is running for reelection. Beau Liegeois, a Brown County assistant district attorney, is running for the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283385-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Men's Curling Championship\nThe 2018 United States Men's Curling Championship was held from March 3 to 10 at the Scheels Arena in Fargo, North Dakota. It was held in conjunction with the 2018 United States Women's Curling Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283385-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nTen teams qualified to participate in the 2018 national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283386-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\nThe 2018 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from January 17-21 at the Eau Claire Curling Club in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Sarah Anderson and Korey Dropkin won the tournament, earning the right to represent the United States at the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in \u00d6stersund, Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283387-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Arizona\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Arizona took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Arizona and replace incumbent Republican Senator Jeff Flake, who did not run for reelection to a second term. It was held concurrently with a gubernatorial election, other elections to the U.S. Senate, elections to the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as various other state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283387-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Arizona\nThe candidate filing deadline was May 30, 2018; primaries were held on August 28, 2018, three days after the death of Senator John McCain. Martha McSally won the Republican nomination, while Kyrsten Sinema won the Democratic nomination. Green Party candidate Angela Green was also on the ballot but had withdrawn and endorsed Sinema. The election thus featured an all-female ballot. Write-in candidates included Democrat Sheila Bilyeu, Libertarian Party candidate Barry Hess, Republican Robert Kay, Jonathan Ringham of The Old Republic, as well as others. On the night of the election, McSally held a narrow lead of about one percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283387-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Arizona\nApproximately a million mail-in and early ballots however remained to be counted; Sinema took the lead the next day, in a blue shift. The Associated Press called the race for Sinema on November 12, 2018 and McSally conceded that day. With a margin of 2.34%, this election was the second-closest race of the 2018 U.S. Senate election cycle, behind only the Senate election in Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283387-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Arizona\nSinema became the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona since 1988 when former Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini last ran for and won reelection to his third and final term in this seat. McSally was subsequently appointed by Governor Doug Ducey to the other vacant Senate seat in Arizona, left open after McCain's death and then held on an interim basis by Jon Kyl. Two years later, McSally attempted to defend her seat in the 2020 special election and serve the remainder of the term, but lost to Democrat Mark Kelly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283387-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Arizona, Background\nArizona, located along the United States border with Mexico, has a unique political history. Upon its admission to the Union in 1912, the state was dominated by Democrats who had migrated there from the South, and aside from the landslide victories of Republicans Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, the state voted for Democrats until 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower carried it, and began a lengthy streak of Republican victories interrupted only by Bill Clinton's narrow victory in 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283387-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Arizona, Background\nSince then, the state had remained in the Republican camp, and was won by Donald Trump with a 3.5% margin in 2016, although Trump's margin of victory was much smaller than that of past Republican presidential nominees. The last Democrat to win a Senate election in Arizona was Dennis DeConcini in 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283387-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Arizona, Background\nIncumbent Republican Senator Jeff Flake announced in October 2017 that he would retire at the end of his current term instead of seeking reelection for another term in 2018. Flake had previously indicated his intent to run for reelection in March 2017. However, he was considered vulnerable due to persistently low approval ratings, a poor relationship with President Trump, and the threat of a primary challenge from former State Senator Kelli Ward, who promised to run on a more pro-Trump platform. Additionally, he had won his first term in 2012 by only 3 percentage points, even though Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney won Arizona by 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283387-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Arizona, Results\nDue to the closeness of the vote count, the Associated Press and other major news outlets did not call the race until November 12, 2018, six days after the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283387-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Arizona, Results\nSinema defeated McSally largely by winning in heavily populated Maricopa County, home of Phoenix, which used to be a Republican stronghold but has since trended more Democratic in recent years. Sinema also won in heavily populated Pima County, home to Tucson, where she beat McSally with over 56% of the vote. Sinema also performed well in Coconino County, home of Flagstaff. McSally did well in many rural areas of the state. This was the first Senate election won by a Democrat in Arizona since 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283387-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Arizona, Aftermath\nOn December 18, 2018, Governor Doug Ducey appointed McSally to fill Arizona's other Senate seat, left vacant after the resignation of Jon Kyl, who himself was appointed after the August 25, 2018 death of John McCain. Initially, Kyl said that he would serve only until the new Congress was sworn in January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283387-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Arizona, Aftermath\nBoth Sinema and McSally were sworn in with the 116th United States Congress on January 3, 2019, marking the first time in history that Arizona was represented by two women in the United States Senate and making it the second state to be represented by two women from different parties. Sinema and McSally are only the second pair of senators from the same state in history to serve together after running against each other the prior year; a first such instance occurred in Oregon in 1996\u20131997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283387-0007-0002", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Arizona, Aftermath\nDucey stipulated that Sinema would be sworn in first, making her the senior senator; this way, he said, the decision of Arizona's voters would be respected. Under Arizona law, McSally's appointment was only valid for the duration of the 116th Congress and a special election for her seat was held in November 2020 to determine who would finish what remains of McCain's term (which expires in 2023), in which McSally was defeated by Democrat Mark Kelly. McSally left office on December 2, 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283388-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in California\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in California took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent California, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283388-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in California\nUnder California's non-partisan blanket primary law, all candidates appear on the same ballot, regardless of party. In the primary, voters may vote for any candidate, regardless of their party affiliation. In the California system, the top two finishers\u2014regardless of party\u2014advance to the general election in November, even if a candidate receives a majority of the votes cast in the primary election. Washington and Louisiana have similar \"jungle primary\" style processes for U.S. Senate elections, as does Mississippi for U.S. Senate special elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283388-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in California\nThe candidate filing deadline was March 8, 2018 and the primary election was held on June 5, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283388-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in California\nFour-term Democratic incumbent Dianne Feinstein won reelection in 2012 with 63% of the vote, taking the record for the most popular votes in any U.S. Senate election in history with 7.86 million votes. Feinstein at the time was the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She turned 85 years old in 2018, leading some to speculate that she would retire in January 2019, as her long-time colleague Barbara Boxer did in January 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283388-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in California\nHowever, Feinstein stood for reelection for her fifth consecutive term, winning 44.2% of the vote in the top-two primary; she faced Democratic challenger Kevin De Le\u00f3n in the general election, who won 12.1% of the primary vote. For the second time since direct elections to the Senate began after the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, no Republican appeared on the general election ballot for U.S. Senate in California. The highest Republican finisher in the primary won only 8.3 percent of the vote, and the 10 Republicans only won 31.2 percent of the vote among them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283388-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in California\nIn the general election, Feinstein defeated De Le\u00f3n by an eight-point margin, 54% to 46%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283388-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in California, Primary election, Results\nDemocratic candidates won a combined total of 4,231,444, Republican candidates 2,216,223 votes, and other candidates 223,053 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283388-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in California, General election, Predictions\nBecause of California's top-two runoff system, the seat was guaranteed to be won/held by a Democrat since the initial primary produced two Democratic candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283388-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in California, General election, Results\nThe race had an undervote of around 1.3 million votes compared to the gubernatorial election, likely by Republican voters choosing neither candidate. De Le\u00f3n won many of the same counties and congressional districts won by Republican gubernatorial nominee John Cox, as many voters may have expressed opposition to the incumbent senator. No county voted for both Feinstein and Cox. Congressional districts 39, 45, and 48 were the only congressional districts that voted for both Feinstein and Cox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283388-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in California, General election, Results by county\nResults by county. Blue represents counties won by Feinstein. Yellow represents counties won by de Le\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 85], "content_span": [86, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283389-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Connecticut\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Connecticut took place on November 6, 2018, in order to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Connecticut. Incumbent Democrat Chris Murphy sought and won reelection to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283389-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Connecticut\nThe primary election was held on August 14, 2018, following a June 12 candidate filing deadline. In the November 6, 2018 general election, incumbent Chris Murphy defeated Republican nominee Matthew Corey with over 59% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283390-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Delaware\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Delaware took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Delaware, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283390-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Delaware\nThe primary for this U.S. Senate election was held on Thursday, September 6, 2018. The Democratic Party nominated incumbent U.S. Senator Tom Carper and the Republican Party nominated Sussex County Councilman Rob Arlett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283390-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Delaware\nIncumbent Democratic Senator Tom Carper was re-elected to a fourth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283390-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Delaware, Background\nThree-term Democratic Senator Tom Carper was reelected with 66% of the vote in 2012 against Republican Kevin Wade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283390-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Delaware, Background\nCarper, incumbent U.S. Senator, was challenged in the Democratic primary by Dover activist Kerri Evelyn Harris. Carper previously faced a primary challenge in the 2012 election from businessman \tKeith Spanarelli. However, Carper defeated Spanarelli by around 70 points. Carper went on to defeat Harris by around 30 points. It was the most competitive Democratic U.S. Senate primary in Delaware in two decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283390-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Delaware, Background\nThe main declared candidates in the Republican primary were Sussex County councilman Rob Arlett and businessman Gene Truono, with a perennial candidacy from businessman Rocky De La Fuente, who also ran for Senate in seven other states. Another candidate withdrew before the primary. Rob Arlett defeated Gene Truono in a landslide to win the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283390-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Delaware, Democratic primary, Debates\nDelaware newspaper The News Journal hosted a 90-minute debate on August 27, 2018 for the Democratic primary between Tom Carper and Kerri Evelyn Harris at Cab Calloway School of the Arts. Republican candidate businessman Gene Truono answered questions from panelists before Carper and Harris debated. Sussex County Councilman Rob Arlett was also invited, but declined and claimed he had a scheduling conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283390-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Delaware, Republican primary, Debates\nCouncilman Rob Arlett and businessman Gene Truono had four debates in total. They were normally live streamed on Facebook and uploaded to YouTube. A fifth debate was planned, but Truono withdrew from the debate because he the organizers refused to give him control over what questions could not be asked. Instead organizers held a forum with all the other candidates for the U.S. Senate and other state offices. Five candidates attended that forum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283390-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Delaware, Independents\nNot to be confused with the Independent Party of Delaware, which currently has no candidate for the 2018 United States Senate election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283390-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Debates\nOn August 20, 2018, the Greater Hockessin Area Development Association (GHADA) hosted a 2-hour debate at the Hockessin Memorial Hall between Democratic candidate Kerri Evelyn Harris and Republican candidate Gene Truono. Tom Carper and Rob Arlett were also invited to the debate, but did not attend. Carper was not present because of the U.S. Senate's extended session due to session ceasing early the Thursday prior because of the death of former Governor and U.S. Senator of Nevada, Paul Laxalt. Arlett declined and claimed he had a scheduling conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283390-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Debates\nThe debate gained national attention after Republican candidate Rob Arlett brought up Democratic Senator Tom Carper\u2019s past controversy of domestic abuse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Florida was held on November 6, 2018, alongside a gubernatorial election, elections to the U.S. House of Representatives and other state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic Senator Bill Nelson ran for re-election to a fourth term, but was narrowly defeated by Republican Governor Rick Scott. This was the closest Senate race in the state's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida\nThe results of the race were in dispute for 12 days following the election. The results showed that Nelson was narrowly trailing Scott, but the margin remained below 0.5%, triggering an automatic recount under Florida law. A controversial recount ensued, with both campaigns claiming irregularities. Following the recount, Florida elections officials confirmed Scott's victory on November 18, 2018. Scott received 50.05% of the vote, while Nelson received 49.93%; the margin of victory was 10,033 votes out of 8.19 million votes cast, or 0.12%. Both in terms of raw vote margin and by percentage of difference, this was the closest Senate election in the 2018 cycle. Scott's victory marks the first time since the Reconstruction era that Republicans have held both Senate seats in Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, Background\nAs of the second quarter of 2018, incumbent Democratic Senator Bill Nelson had a 44%-34% approval rating among his constituents. Republican former President Donald Trump also held a positive approval rating of 49%-47% in Florida as of August 2018. Trump won the state in 2016 by 1.2% over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Nelson was challenged by term-limited Governor Rick Scott, who put more than $86 million of his own money into his successful 2010 and 2014 gubernatorial bids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, Background\nDespite having won re-election in 2012 by a 13% margin, Nelson was considered potentially vulnerable; he had been the only statewide elected Democrat in Florida since 2011, and his previous opponents, Connie Mack IV and Katherine Harris, were seen as much weaker challengers than Scott. Additionally, he was one of 10 incumbent Democratic Senators running in a state that had been carried by President Trump in 2016. Nelson was described as a \u2014\"low-key centrist\" that might not be able to energize progressive voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, Background\nAfter being encouraged by President Trump to enter the Senate race, Scott announced his candidacy on April 9, 2018, weeks after the end of his final regular legislative session as governor. During the campaign, Scott sought to avoid mentioning President Trump and at times criticized or distanced himself from actions of the Trump administration, whereas in the past he used his friendship with Trump to boost his profile and had been an early and vocal supporter of Trump in 2016 and was reported to speak to President Trump every one or two weeks by The Tampa Bay Times. Nevertheless, Trump endorsed Scott in his Senate bid. As of the first quarter of 2018, Scott held a 54%-35% approval rating among his constituents, with a majority of Florida voters believing the state was moving in the right direction under Scott's administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 897]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, Background\nBoth\u2013Nelson's and Scott's\u2013responses to Hurricanes Irma and Michael, which made landfall in September 2017 and October 2018 respectively, were closely watched during the campaign season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, Republican primary\nThe Republican primary was considered merely a formality, as Governor Scott's lone challenger was a perennial candidate who was running for Senate seats in eight other Republican primaries across the country. No other notable Republicans entered the race before or after Scott announced his candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, Democratic primary\nAs both of Senator Nelson's primary opponents failed to qualify for the ballot, no Democratic primary was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, General election\nThe election was expected to be a key race in determining which party would control the U.S. Senate in 2019. According to The Cook Political Report, the race was one of the 10 most competitive U.S. Senate races in the nation. It was also described as the most expensive U.S. Senate race in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, General election\nScott's involvement in a large Medicare fraud case stirred controversy during the general election campaign. Scott responded with ads accusing Nelson of having cut Medicare benefits and stolen from Medicare; fact-checkers found that both of Scott's assertions were \"mostly false.\" During the campaign, Scott characterize[s] Nelson as a \"socialist\"; PolitiFact described the assertion as \"pants-on-fire\" false.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, General election\nGun control was a key issue in this race. The election comes less than nine months after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, the deadliest school shooting in American history. Nelson also mentioned the Orlando nightclub shooting that occurred in June 2016 and killed 49 people, stating that \u2014\"nothing was done\" by Scott's administration. In the wake of Stoneman Douglas, Scott raised the age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21, set a three-day waiting period to purchase assault-style weapons, and banned bump stocks, moves that Nelson[he] described as [him] \"doing the bare ...minimum[s].\" The National Rifle Association opposed Scott's legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, General election\nEnvironmental issues also took on a prominent role in the race. Scott and his administration had been heavily criticized for weakening regulations designed to protect the environment, even going as far as to instruct the FDEP not to use the words \"climate change\" or \"global warming\" in official reports. Because of this, Scott was blamed for the state's worsening algae blooms, even being dubbed \"Red Tide Rick\" on social media. Scott blamed the toxic blooms on Nelson and on Congress' general inefficiency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, General election, Initial results and recount\nThe results of the race were in dispute for 12 days following the election. Because Scott's lead over Nelson was less than 0.5% of the vote, an automatic recount was triggered under Florida law. A controversial recount ensued, with both campaigns claiming irregularities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, General election, Initial results and recount\nBoth candidates traded accusations of voter suppression and voter fraud. Two lawsuits were filed by the Scott campaign after the election against the Supervisor of Elections in both Palm Beach and Broward Counties while the Nelson campaign filed one against the Secretary of State in Florida. On November 9, the Scott campaign won both of their lawsuits while the Secretary of State lawsuit has yet to be decided. Notably, election officials in Broward County had to receive police protection after accusations of voter fraud were made by a few members of Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, General election, Initial results and recount\nAdditionally, a number of mail-in ballots were found in a mail distribution center in the city of Opa-locka three days after the election. The Miami-Dade Elections Department considered the votes to be uncountable due to not making it to the department by the close of polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, General election, Initial results and recount\nThe deadline for all ballots to be machine counted was 3pm EST on Thursday, November 15, 2018, and the revised totals triggered a statewide hand-recount of rejected ballots (also for Florida Agriculture Commissioner). At least three counties (Broward, Hillsborough, and Palm Beach County) missed the deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, General election, Initial results and recount\nIn addition, Lee County determined that they had not properly sorted out the number of undervotes on ballots for manual recount. The initial number was approximately 4,000 votes before the machine recount brought the number to around 15,000 votes. This delayed the counting process until the votes were properly separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283391-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Florida, General election, Results\nFlorida elections officials announced on November 18, 2018 that Scott had prevailed. Scott received 50.05% of the vote, while Nelson received 49.93%; the margin of victory was 10,033 votes out of 8.19 million votes cast. Nelson then conceded the race to Scott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283392-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Hawaii\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Hawaii took place on November 6, 2018. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono ran for reelection to a second term. Hirono ran unopposed in her party's primary and was easily reelected, defeating Republican challenger Ron Curtis. She won the highest vote percentage of any U.S. Senate candidate in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283392-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Hawaii, General election, Predictions\nThere were no polls taken, and the race was rated safely Democratic by all forecasters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283393-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Indiana\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 6, 2018, along with other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly sought reelection to a second term, facing Republican businessman and former state representative Mike Braun and Libertarian Party nominee Lucy Brenton. In 2017, Politico described the race as \"possibly the GOP's best opportunity to seize a Senate seat from Democrats\" in the 2018 elections. The primary election was held on May 8, 2018. In October 2018, RealClearPolitics rated the race a toss-up between the Democratic and Republican nominees, with the Libertarian receiving a poll average of 6%. Braun defeated Donnelly in the general election by a margin of 5.96 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 873]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283393-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Indiana, Background\nIn 2012, Joe Donnelly was elected to the Senate with 50% of the vote to Republican nominee Richard Mourdock's 44%. In the 2016 presidential election, Republican nominee Donald Trump won Indiana with about 56.5% of the vote to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's 37.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283393-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Indiana, General election, Results\nOn November 6, 2018, Braun won the general election. He swept southern Indiana, the exurbs of Indianapolis, and most other rural areas in the state. Donnelly ran well behind his 2012 vote totals, winning only in Indianapolis, the college towns (Bloomington, Terre Haute, West Lafayette, South Bend), and the suburbs of Chicago in Northwest Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283394-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maine\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Maine was held on November 6, 2018, alongside a gubernatorial election, U.S. House elections, and other state and local elections. Incumbent Independent Senator Angus King won reelection to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283394-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maine\nThe U.S. Senate elections were conducted with ranked-choice voting, as opposed to a simple plurality, after Maine voters passed a citizen referendum approving the change in 2016 and a June 2018 referendum sustaining the change. Ranked choice voting was used in the primary elections as well. The first round of each election saw a majority and the instant runoff did not need to be carried out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283394-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maine, Background\nA part of New England, Maine was once a bastion of the Republican Party, and was one of two states to vote against Franklin Roosevelt all four times he ran for president. Lyndon Johnson won the state in 1964, and Hubert Humphrey carried it in 1968 before the state reverted to form and reestablished a GOP voting streak that lasted until the 1990s. With the GOP progressively becoming more culturally conservative, the state began moving toward the Democrats, and Bill Clinton carried it in 1992. Clinton's win established a Democratic winning streak that lasted until Donald Trump won an electoral vote from the state's second congressional district in 2016 despite losing the rest of the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283394-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maine, Background\nThe state has a tradition of electing various independent candidates to high office, such as Angus King, who served as governor of the state from 1995 to 2003. In 2012, King's decision to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Olympia Snowe dramatized the battle for the Senate, as he left open whether he would caucus with the Republicans or the Democrats. He eventually decided to caucus with the Democrats and has established a center-left voting record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283394-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maine, Independents\nKing said his reelection plans would not be affected by treatment for prostate cancer, which he announced he had on June 22, 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283394-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maine, Republican primary\nOn January 12, 2015, Maine Governor Paul LePage made a statement on Howie Carr's radio program that he might run for U.S. Senate against King, citing King's switching his endorsement in the 2014 gubernatorial election from independent candidate Eliot Cutler to Democratic candidate Mike Michaud as a \"horrible thing to do\". The next day, LePage said his comment was a joke, though on an August 25, 2015 appearance on Carr's program, he said he was \"very strongly\" considering running, citing King's caucusing with Senate Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283394-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maine, Republican primary\nLePage also criticized King for his involvement in the Maine wind energy industry, saying King \"ripped us off by $104 million during his eight years as governor \u2013 he ripped us off, royally, and I can\u2019t wait until 2018 because I\u2019m thinking that\u2019s the guy I'm going after.\" A spokesman for King dismissed LePage's criticism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283394-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maine, Republican primary\nOn May 10, 2016, LePage announced at a town hall meeting in Oakland that he would run against King unless he was hired by the Donald Trump administration. On May 10, 2017, LePage decided not to run; his spokesman said he preferred to focus on being governor. On July 20, 2017, LePage again said he \"might\" challenge King. Trump personally encouraged LePage to run and offered his endorsement. LePage did not file to run by the March 15, 2018 deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283394-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maine, Republican primary\nEric Brakey's campaign successfully contested 258 signatures to Max Linn's petitions to appear on the primary ballot, which meant that Linn had 10 fewer signatures than the 2,000 needed to be on the ballot. Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap then declared Linn ineligible to be a candidate, although it was too late to remove Linn's name from the ballot. Voters were informed of Linn's status when they voted, and any votes cast for him were counted as blanks. Nevertheless, Linn's campaign was active on Twitter and placed campaign signs along roads in Maine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283394-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maine, Republican primary\nLinn signs were also seen in New Hampshire, including in Dover. Dover city officials said they would remove the signs upon request if Linn's campaign did not remove them, because Linn is not a candidate in a New Hampshire election and because the signs were placed improperly. Linn appealed the decision to disqualify him to U.S. District Court in Portland, but Judge Nancy Torresen rejected Linn's request for an injunction to bar Dunlap from informing voters he is ineligible. Linn subsequently announced he would run against U.S. Senator Susan Collins in the 2020 Republican primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283394-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maine, Democratic primary\nThe Democratic primary race initially included both teacher Zak Ringelstein and homebuilder Benjamin Pollard, but Pollard withdrew to run as an Independent two days after Ringelstein announced a list of 16 endorsements from Democratic state legislators. Ringelstein was the only major-party candidate for Senate to be a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283395-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maryland\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Maryland took place on November 6, 2018, in order to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Maryland. It was held concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Ben Cardin was re-elected to a third term by a landslide margin of around 35 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283395-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maryland\nThe primary election for the Senate race was held on June 26, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283395-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maryland\nThe incumbent, Ben Cardin, won the Democratic Party primary. In the general election, Cardin was reelected to a third term. Tony Campbell, a professor of political science at Towson University and former Army Chaplain, won the Republican Party primary. If elected, Campbell would have become Maryland's first African-American U.S. Senator. Businessman Neal Simon ran as an independent and Arvin Vohra was the Libertarian Party nominee in the general election. There were also several official write-in candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283395-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Maryland, General election, Debates\nOn October 7, 2018 Cardin, independent candidate Neal Simon, and Republican candidate Tony Campbell participated in the sole televised debate of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283396-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Massachusetts\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Massachusetts took place on November 6, 2018. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren ran for reelection to a second term. The candidate filing deadline was June 5, 2018, and the primary election was held on September 4, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283396-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Massachusetts\nWarren won reelection in a landslide, defeating her Republican opponent, Geoff Diehl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283396-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Republican primary, Results, By county\nResults by county. Red represents counties won by Diehl. Teal represents counties won by Kingston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 91], "content_span": [92, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283397-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Michigan\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Michigan took place on November 6, 2018, in order to elect the Class 1 U.S. Senator from the State of Michigan, concurrently with a gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the U.S. House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283397-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Michigan\nIncumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow won reelection to a fourth term. On August 7, 2018, John James won the Republican nomination, defeating businessman Sandy Pensler. On May 5, 2018, Marcia Squier received the endorsement and nomination of the Green Party of Michigan at the state convention in Flint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283397-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Michigan\nStabenow was re-elected by a 6.5% margin and a difference of 275,660 votes, making this the second-closest U.S. Senate election in Michigan since Stabenow was first elected in 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283397-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Michigan, Republican primary, Debates\nA debate was held between John James and Sandy Pensler on July 6 and televised by WKAR-TV. It was the only televised debate scheduled between the two candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283397-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Michigan, Green Party Convention\nThe Green Party of Michigan picked their candidates at a state convention on May 5, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283397-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Michigan, General election, Results\nAlthough Stabenow ended up winning the election by 6.5 percent, the margin was smaller than expected, considering the polling and past results of Senate elections in Michigan. Part of the relative closeness of the race has been attributed to the Stabenow campaign having run no negative ads against James during the election. Although James won most of Michigan's smaller counties, Stabenow won large margins in urban areas and modest margins in suburban areas. Stabenow trounced James in Wayne County, home of Detroit, and also performed well in Detroit's suburbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283397-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Michigan, General election, Results\nShe also easily won in Washtenaw County, home of Ann Arbor and Ingham County, home of Lansing. Kent County, home of Grand Rapids, also narrowly flipped to Stabenow, making this the first Senate election of her career in which she carried the county, and also the only county to flip her direction in 2018, and only the second time (after Carl Levin in 2008) a Democrat had carried the county since Donald Riegle in 1982. In addition to Stabenow's win, Democrats won the previously Republican-held offices of Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General, ensuring that as of January 1, 2019, all elected statewide officials would be Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283398-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Minnesota\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Minnesota took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a United States Senator from Minnesota. Incumbent Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar was reelected in a landslide. This election was held alongside a special election for Minnesota's other Senate seat, which was held by Al Franken until he resigned in January 2018. U.S. House elections, a gubernatorial election, State House elections, and other elections were also held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283398-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Minnesota\nThe candidate filing deadline was June 5, 2018, and the primary election was held on August 14, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283398-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Minnesota, General election, Debates\nOn August 24, MPR News hosted a debate between Amy Klobuchar and Jim Newberger at the Minnesota State Fair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 74], "content_span": [75, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283398-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Minnesota, General election, Results\nKlobuchar won the election by a margin of 24.10%. She carried a clear majority of the state's 87 counties, won every congressional district, and had the biggest statewide margin of any statewide candidate in Minnesota in 2018. Klobuchar ran up huge margins in the state's population centers and trounced Newberger in the counties encompassing the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. As in her 2012 victory, she also won many rural counties. Klobuchar was sworn in for a third term on January 3, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 74], "content_span": [75, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283399-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Mississippi\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Mississippi took place on November 6, 2018, in order to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Mississippi. Incumbent Republican Roger Wicker was reelected to a second full term, defeating his Democratic challenger, David Baria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283399-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Mississippi\nThe candidate filing deadline was March 1, 2018, and the primary election was held on June 5, 2018, with a runoff on June 26 if a party's primary fails to produce a majority winner. The race took place on the same day as the nonpartisan jungle primary for the other U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi, which was vacated by Thad Cochran in the spring of 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283400-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Missouri\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Missouri took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Missouri, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections, including Missouri's quadrennial State Auditor election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283400-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Missouri\nIncumbent senator Claire McCaskill ran for re-election in a primary field of eight Democrats. Eleven Republicans vied for their party's nomination which went to State Attorney General Josh Hawley, who filed notification in August 2017 that he had formed an exploratory campaign committee for the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283400-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Missouri\nThe candidate filing deadline was March 27, 2018, and the primary election was held on August 7, 2018. Pollsters predicted a tight race. On November 6, 2018, Hawley was elected with 51.5% of the vote, to McCaskill's 45.4%, resulting in Republicans holding both Senate seats in Missouri for the first time since McCaskill took office in 2007. Hawley was also the youngest incumbent senator at that time and was until the election of Jon Ossoff in 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283400-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Missouri, General election, Results\nSen. McCaskill conceded a few hours after the polls closed on Election day. Despite performing strongly in the St. Louis suburbs, she ran well behind her 2012 vote in Southeast Missouri, especially in the Lead Belt and the Missouri Bootheel. She also ran poorly in the northern part of the state. Despite McCaskill's loss, Missouri Democrats held the other statewide office that went up for election in this cycle, the office of Missouri State Auditor. Democratic incumbent state auditor Nicole Galloway, who had been appointed to the post in 2015 by then-Gov. Jay Nixon following a vacancy, won a full term in the 2018 State Auditor election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283401-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Montana\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Montana was held on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Montana, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283401-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Montana\nAlthough Montana went for Donald Trump by a margin of about 20 percent in 2016, incumbent Democratic Senator Jon Tester was reelected to a third term, defeating Republican State Auditor Matt Rosendale. Rosendale conceded on November 7, 2018. This was the first Senate election in which Tester received a majority of votes cast rather than a simple plurality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283401-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Montana, Libertarian primary, Candidates, Nominated\nIn October 2018, Breckenridge told a reporter from the Associated Press that he opposed the use of dark money in politics. Breckenridge said that he realistically anticipated only receiving three or four percent of the vote in the general election, and that he endorsed Rosendale's efforts to stop the use of dark money in politics. The Associated Press interpreted Breckenridge's comments as a statement that Breckenridge was dropping out of the race and endorsing Rosendale. Breckenridge later stated that his use of the word \"endorse\" referred only to stopping the use of dark money in politics, and said he was still running for the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283401-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Montana, Green Party\nKelly won the Green Party nomination, but a Montana district court judge ruled that he had insufficient signatures to get on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283402-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Nebraska\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Nebraska took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Nebraska. Incumbent Republican Deb Fischer was re-elected to a second term against Lincoln city councilwoman Jane Raybould and Libertarian candidate Jim Schultz. The election comprises part of the 2018 U.S. Senate elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283402-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Nebraska\nThe candidate filing deadline was March 1, 2018, and the primary election was held on May 15, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283403-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Nevada\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Nevada took place November 6, 2018, to elect one of two U.S. senators from Nevada. Democratic nominee Jacky Rosen defeated Republican incumbent Dean Heller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283403-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Nevada\nHeller had considered a bid for Nevada governor but instead announced he would run for reelection to a second full term. He was the only incumbent Republican senator running in a state that Hillary Clinton won in 2016. Rosen's victory marked the first time that Nevada has been represented by two women in the United States Senate, and the first time a Democrat had won the Class 1 Senate seat in Nevada since 1994 (as well as the first time both Senate seats were held by Democrats since 2001). Heller was the only Republican incumbent to lose a Senate seat in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283403-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Nevada\nThe candidate filing deadline was March 16, 2018, and the primary election was held on June 12, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283403-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Nevada, Background\nNevada is a swing state that once leaned slightly rightward, having voted for George W. Bush twice. But since 2008 it has seen the opposite trend, giving Barack Obama a seven-point victory in 2012 while simultaneously electing Heller to the Senate by one point. Obama also carried Nevada in 2008 by a 12.5% margin. In 2016, the state shifted rightward again, still voting for Hillary Clinton, but only by two points, although Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto managed to win the seat of retiring Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283403-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Nevada, Background\nBecause of the consistent swing nature of the state, many cited Heller as the most vulnerable incumbent Republican in the U.S. Senate up for reelection in 2018, a year with few Republicans in that position; President Donald Trump even warned that if Heller failed to vote to pass the GOP Health care bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, he could well lose his seat in the next election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283403-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Nevada, Background\nAt the end of September 2018, the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination became a major element of the campaign. Heller made noncommittal remarks and a significant campaign was deployed to criticize his support for Kavanaugh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283403-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Nevada, Background\nRosen is only the 37th sitting House freshman to win a Senate election, and the first female Representative to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283403-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Nevada, General election, Results\nHeller carried 15 of Nevada's 17 county-level jurisdictions, but Rosen carried the two largest, Clark (home to Las Vegas) and Washoe (home to Reno). She won Clark County by over 92,000 votes, almost double her statewide margin of over 48,900 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283404-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in New Jersey\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in New Jersey took place on November 6, 2018, in order to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of New Jersey. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Menendez won reelection to a third term over Republican businessman Bob Hugin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283404-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in New Jersey\nThe candidate filing deadline was April 2, 2018, for Democratic and Republican candidates, and the primary election was held on June 5, 2018. The deadline for independent candidates was June 5, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283404-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in New Jersey\nDespite the race being rated as a tossup by some political pundits, including The Cook Political Report, Menendez was reelected by an 11.2% margin. However, Hugin was the first Republican Senate candidate to carry Atlantic and Gloucester counties since Clifford Case's landslide victory in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283404-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary\nWhile he never lost support from any major New Jersey officials, after a mistrial was declared in Senator Menendez's corruption trial, party figures across New Jersey lined up with public endorsements of his reelection bid, including the \"full support\" of Governor Phil Murphy. He formally declared his intention to run for reelection on March 28, 2018, alongside Governor Murphy and Senator Cory Booker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283404-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Republican primary\nBob Hugin launched his primary campaign on February 13 in Springfield. He began advertising on television two weeks later, attacking Menendez on the airwaves, and was soon considered the presumptive nominee. His opponent, Brian Goldberg, attempted to connect himself to President Donald Trump and his supporters by inserting the President's abbreviated slogan, \"MAGA\", into his ballot slogans and aligning himself with other pro-Trump, anti-establishment candidates. Goldberg also attacked Hugin's running mates, urging Republicans to write in the deceased Charlton Heston in primary races where a Republican congressional candidate was running unopposed. Ultimately, Hugin won overwhelmingly with a majority of votes in each of the state's 21 counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283405-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in New Mexico\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in New Mexico took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of New Mexico, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283405-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in New Mexico\nIncumbent Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich won reelection to a second term. His opponents were Republican nominee and businessman Mick Rich and Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, a two-term Republican Governor of New Mexico and two-time candidate for President of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283405-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in New Mexico\nThe candidate filing deadline was March 13, 2018. The Republican and Democratic primary elections were held June 5, 2018. Johnson's results were the highest results for a Libertarian candidate in New Mexico history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283405-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in New Mexico, Libertarian primary\nOn July 30, 2018, nominee Aubrey Dunn withdrew from the race. On August 4, former governor Gary Johnson was formally nominated by the Libertarian Party of New Mexico as Dunn's replacement. Johnson accepted his party's nomination on August 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283406-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in New York\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in New York took place on November 6, 2018. Incumbent U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was re-elected to a second full term, defeating Republican Chele Chiavacci Farley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283406-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in New York\nAs of 2021, this is the last statewide election where Greene County voted Democratic. As of 2021, this, along with the concurrent comptroller election is the last time Ontario, Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Warren, Washington, Otesgo, Saint Lawrence and Sullivan counties have voted Democratic in a statewide election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283406-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in New York, Democratic primary\nKirsten Gillibrand ran unopposed in the primary and automatically became the Democratic nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283406-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in New York, Republican primary\nThe Republican Party had nominated private equity executive Chele Chiavacci Farley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283407-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in North Dakota\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in North Dakota took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of North Dakota, concurrently with other elections to the U.S. Senate, as well as other federal, state and local elections in North Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283407-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in North Dakota\nIncumbent Democratic-NPL Senator Heidi Heitkamp ran for reelection to a second term. The candidate filing deadline was April 9, 2018, and the primary election was held on June 12, 2018. U.S. Representative Kevin Cramer won the Republican primary to challenge Heitkamp, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283407-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in North Dakota\nOn November 6, 2018, Cramer defeated Heitkamp in the general election, becoming the first Republican to win this seat since 1960.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283407-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in North Dakota, Background\nMany observers cited Heitkamp as a vulnerable incumbent Democrat in 2018, as she balanced cooperation with her Democratic colleagues in the U.S. Senate with pleasing her constituents in deeply Republican North Dakota; Donald Trump won in North Dakota by about 36 points. The race was expected to be extremely competitive and some projected it would be the most expensive race in North Dakota history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283407-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in North Dakota, Background, Voter ID law and Native Americans disenfranchisement\nOn October 9, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld North Dakota's voter ID law, called HB 1369. This law requires voters to use an ID which lists a street address, and doesn't allow PO boxes as valid addresses. However, many Native American reservations don't use a conventional address system and their inhabitants tend to use PO boxes instead, making a large share of the IDs used by Native Americans invalid. Although both Natives and non-Natives are affected, Native Americans are disproportionately more likely to be affected by HB 1369, and the law has been criticized for disenfranchising Native Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 116], "content_span": [117, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283407-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in North Dakota, Background, Voter ID law and Native Americans disenfranchisement\nThe Republican-held state government of North Dakota argued that the law was created to prevent voter fraud, but has been accused of passing the law because Native Americans are likely to vote Democratic. HB 1369 had previously been found to be invalid by the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, for which reason it didn't affect the primary elections earlier in 2018, but the Supreme Court decision meant that many people didn't have the right ID and were ineligible to vote in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 116], "content_span": [117, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283407-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in North Dakota, Democratic-NPL primary\nThe Democratic-NPL Party held their state convention March 16 and 17, during which delegates voted to endorse Heitkamp for re-election. Although general election ballot access is actually controlled by a primary election, challenger Dustin Peyer did not challenge Heitkamp in the June 2018 primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 74], "content_span": [75, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283408-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Ohio\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Ohio took place November 6, 2018. The candidate filing deadline was February 7, 2018; the primary election was held May 8, 2018. Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown\u2014the only remaining elected Democratic statewide officeholder in Ohio at the time of the election\u2014won his reelection bid for a third term, defeating Republican U.S. Representative Jim Renacci in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283408-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Ohio, General election, Results\nThe election was not particularly close, with Brown winning by 6.84%. Brown was the only Democrat who won statewide in Ohio in this election cycle. Brown was able to win re-election by winning back most of the Rust Belt, which swung Republican in 2016. Brown did well in Portage County, Summit County, and Trumbull County, which are all very heavily pro union counties. Brown also did well in the rust belt from Lucas County, home of Toledo, all the way to Cuyahoga County, home of Cleveland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283408-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Ohio, General election, Results\nBrown also trounced Renacci in Franklin County and Hamilton County home of Columbus and Cincinnati respectively; the latter, Hamilton County was once considered a Republican stronghold. Renacci, while performing well in most rural areas of the state, underperformed Mike DeWine, the Republican Party's nominee and eventual winner for governor. Regardless, Renacci somewhat overperformed in comparison to most polling before the election, while Brown lost in several counties he had won in his previous Senate races. Exit polls also show Brown had a very strong showing amongst minority and women voters, which was key to his victory. Brown was sworn in for a third term as the senior senator from Ohio on January 3, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283408-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Ohio, General election, By congressional district\nBrown won 9 of 16 congressional districts, including the 1st, 10th, 12th, 14th and 15th districts, which elected Republicans to the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 87], "content_span": [88, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283409-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Pennsylvania, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections. The primary elections were held on May 15. Incumbent Democratic Senator Bob Casey Jr. ran for re-election to a third term. Casey, who faced no primary opposition, defeated the Republican nominee, Lou Barletta, Green Party nominee Neal Gale, and Libertarian Party nominee Dale Kerns. Casey was the first senator who was elected to a third term from Pennsylvania since Arlen Specter in 1992, and the first Pennsylvania Democrat to be popularly elected to three terms in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283409-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, Libertarian Party\nDale Kerns ran unopposed for the Libertarian nomination and received the official nomination from the Pennsylvania Libertarian Party at the state convention on March 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 69], "content_span": [70, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283409-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, General election, By congressional district\nBob Casey Jr won 11 of 18 congressional districts, including the 1st and 10th districts, which elected Republicans to the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 95], "content_span": [96, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283410-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Rhode Island\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Rhode Island took place on November 6, 2018, in order to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Rhode Island. Incumbent Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse was reelected to a third term, defeating Republican Robert Flanders by a margin of twenty-three percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283411-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Tennessee\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Tennessee took place on November 6, 2018, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Senator Bob Corker opted to retire instead of running for a third term. Republican U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn won the open seat, defeating former Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283411-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Tennessee, Republican primary, Speculation surrounding Senator Corker\nOn September 26, 2017, Republican Senator Bob Corker announced that he would not seek reelection in 2018. Without Corker running, it was widely believed that the Republican Party would have a much harder time keeping the seat. Many called on Corker to reverse his decision to retire. Former U.S. Representative Fincher dropped out of the race, calling on Corker to jump back in and challenge U.S. Representative Blackburn for the GOP nomination. Fincher said in a statement that the GOP should unite \"behind a candidate who can win\" the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 107], "content_span": [108, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283411-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Tennessee, Republican primary, Speculation surrounding Senator Corker\nBlackburn said she would remain in the race even if Corker reversed his decision. Amid the speculation about Corker's decision, many of Tennessee's Republican politicians, including many in the Tennessee General Assembly, reiterated their support for Blackburn. Corker's chief of staff announced on February 27, 2018, that Corker would stick with his plan to retire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 107], "content_span": [108, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283411-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Tennessee, General election\nThe election was expected to be among the most competitive Senate races in 2018. Corker's retirement and Bredesen's entry into the race made it one of the few potential offensive opportunities for Democrats. On November 1, 2018, incumbent Bob Corker announced that he would not endorse either Blackburn or Bredesen; he added that either candidate would be a good senator for Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283411-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Tennessee, General election\nPolls showed the race to be close until the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in September and October, which many Tennesseans believed the Democratic Party handled poorly. This is believed to have mobilized Republican voters and cost Bredesen any chance of winning. Bredesen also announced his support for Kavanaugh, which some believe may have cost him supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283411-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Tennessee, General election, Results\nOn November 6, 2018, Blackburn defeated Bredesen in the general election, carrying all but three counties, the largest number of counties ever won in an open senate election in Tennessee. Although polls began to show the race in Blackburn's favor following the Kavanaugh hearings, Blackburn won by a larger margin than all but one poll showed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 74], "content_span": [75, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283412-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Texas\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 6, 2018, along with other elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives in additional states. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz ran successfully for re-election to a second term against Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke. The primary for all parties was held on March 6, 2018, making it the first primary of the 2018 season. As Cruz and O'Rourke both won majorities in their primaries, they did not participate in the May 22 runoff primary that was held for some nominations in Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283412-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Texas\nNo Democrat has won a general election for statewide office in Texas since Bob Bullock was reelected as lieutenant governor in 1994, with election forecasters declaring it a safe Republican seat at the beginning of the 2018 cycle. However, O'Rourke gradually closed the gap, and leading up to the election, the race was considered unexpectedly competitive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283412-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Texas\nOn Election Day, Cruz defeated O'Rourke by a margin of 50.9 to 48.3 percent; the race was the closest U.S. Senate race in Texas since 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283412-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Texas, Background\nIn 2012, after a stunning upset victory in the Republican primary, then-Solicitor General of Texas Ted Cruz defeated former member of the Texas House of Representatives Paul Sadler by a 16-point margin (56%\u201340%). Texas has not elected a Democratic senator since 1988. As conservatives began turning to the Republican Party in once strongly Democratic areas, Democratic voters became concentrated in Southern Texas (which hold majority minority counties) and large metropolitan cities, such as Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas, as well as the far western majority-minority city of El Paso, which O'Rourke represented in the U.S. House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283412-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Texas, Background\nSince 1990, Texas has voted for Republican statewide candidates in all elections, whether it be presidential, gubernatorial, or senatorial, often by large margins. In 1998, Governor George W. Bush won re-election by 37 points over his Democratic challenger, Garry Mauro. In 2000, Governor Bush won Texas by 21 points over Vice President Al Gore. In 2004, President Bush won Texas over Senator John Kerry by 23 points, winning rural areas by landslide margins, capturing urban zones, and coming very close to winning the Latino vote (49% to Kerry's 50%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283412-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Texas, Background\nDemocrat Barack Obama was defeated by margins of 12 points in 2008, against John McCain, and 16 points in 2012, against Mitt Romney, respectively. However, in 2016, Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton by only a 9-point margin, demonstrating a possible shift away from the Safe Republican status it had held for over a decade. This has led Democrats to begin targeting Texas as a potential future swing state. It should also be noted that Ted Cruz defeated Donald Trump in the Texas Republican primary for U.S. President in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283412-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Texas, Background\nAs of June 2018, Senator Cruz held a 49%\u201344% approval rating among Texans in a state Donald Trump won by 9 points against Hillary Clinton in 2016. Among groups that tend to affiliate themselves more with the Democratic Party, Senator Cruz held a 29% approval rating among Hispanics, 37% among females, and 42% among college-educated voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283412-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Texas, General election, Fundraising\nIn the third quarter of 2018, O'Rourke raised $38.1 million. This amount was the largest quarterly total raised by a U.S. Senate candidate until Jaime Harrison raised $57 million in the third quarter of 2020 in the South Carolina election. Cruz and O'Rourke combined to raise a record-setting total of $126 million during the 2018 campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283412-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Texas, Results\nOn November 6, 2018, Ted Cruz defeated Beto O'Rourke. However, O'Rourke gave Democrats their best performance in a Texas statewide election since Ann Richards was elected governor in 1990. In addition, O'Rourke flipped several counties in Texas that Donald Trump carried in 2016, including Williamson (includes Round Rock and Georgetown), historically conservative Tarrant (includes Fort Worth and suburbs within the DFW metroplex), Jefferson (includes Beaumont and Port Arthur), Nueces (includes Corpus Christi), sparsely populated Brewster (includes Big Bend National Park), and Hays (includes San Marcos). Cruz only flipped one county that voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, sparsely populated Kenedy (coastal region south of Corpus Christi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283413-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Utah\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Utah took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Utah, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections. The primaries took place on June 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283413-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Utah\nIncumbent Republican senator Orrin Hatch announced in January 2018 that he would retire and not seek reelection to an eighth term. The general election was won by Mitt Romney, who had been the Republican nominee for president in 2012 and previously was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. Romney became only the third person in American history to be elected governor and U.S. senator in different states, and the first former major party presidential nominee to run for a new office since Walter Mondale in 2002. At 71, he additionally became the oldest person ever elected to a first term as a U.S. senator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283413-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Utah, Background, Process\nUtah's 2018 U.S. Senate candidates had dual routes toward placement on the primary election ballot: (1) eligibility via win or second-place showings at a convention of delegates selected from party local caucuses; and/or (2) eligibility via obtaining sufficient petition signatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283413-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Utah, Background, Process\nTaking the traditional route, the top two candidates for the U.S. Senate at any of the party state conventions (to be held this year the latter part of April) will be placed on the June 26 primary election ballot. Also, any candidate who collects 28,000 ballot-access petition signatures will be placed on the primary ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283413-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Utah, Background, Process\nIf no competitor will have achieved the above-mentioned alternate access to the primary ballot through collected signatures and a convention winner had achieved sixty-percent of delegate votes, this candidate straightaway receives his or her party's nomination solely via the older-style caucuses-convention system. Otherwise, a candidate will be nominated through receiving a plurality of votes in the primary election and thereby advance to the November general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283413-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Utah, Background, Hatch to retire\nIncumbent Republican U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch was reelected to a seventh term in 2012. During his 2012 reelection campaign, Hatch had pledged that if he were elected that it would be his last term. Hatch won his first election in 1976 in part by criticizing the incumbent's 18-year tenure. Hatch initially announced a re-election campaign on March 9, 2017, though he also said at that time that he might withdraw from the race if Mitt Romney decided to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 71], "content_span": [72, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283413-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Utah, Background, Hatch to retire\nAn August 19\u201321, 2016, poll conducted by Public Policy Polling found only 19% of voters wanted Hatch to run in 2018, while 71% wanted him to retire. On October 27, 2017, Hatch reportedly told friends privately that he was going to retire in 2019 and on January 2, 2018, made a public announcement of his plans to retire at the end of his current term in January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 71], "content_span": [72, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283414-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Vermont\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Vermont was held November 6, 2018, alongside a gubernatorial election, U.S. House election, and other state and local elections. Incumbent independent Senator Bernie Sanders was re-elected to a third term. The primaries were held on August 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283414-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Vermont, Background\nTwo-term independent Senator Bernie Sanders was re-elected with 71% of the vote in 2012. Sanders, a candidate for president in the 2016 primary election and one of only three independent members of Congress, is a self-described democratic socialist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283414-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Vermont, Background\nSanders has caucused with the Democratic Party since taking office in 2007, and he is the Chairman of the Budget Committee. He was 77 years old in 2018. Sanders ran for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. After being the runner-up, and not winning the nomination, he announced that he would return to the Senate as an independent, and later stated that he would run for re-election as an independent in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283414-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Vermont, Republican primary, Post-primary\nH. Brooke Paige, who also won the Republican nominations for U.S. House, state Attorney General, state Secretary of State, state Treasurer, and state Auditor, withdrew from all but the Secretary of State race on August 24, in order to allow the Vermont Republican Party to name replacement candidates. The Vermont Republican Party picked Lawrence Zupan, who came in 2nd place in the primary, to be the Republican nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283414-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Vermont, General election, Results\nSanders won re-election with 67.4% of the vote against eight other candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283415-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Virginia\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Virginia took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia, concurrently with other elections to the U.S. Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, who had been his party's nominee for Vice President two years earlier, was re-elected to a second term in office, winning this seat by the largest margin since 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283415-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Virginia\nThe Republican Party of Virginia central committee voted to select the Republican nominee for Senate by a primary rather than a convention. Corey Stewart, chair of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, won the Republican nomination on June 12, 2018, after defeating Delegate Nick Freitas and Christian minister E. W. Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283415-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Virginia, General election\nThe election featured a match-up of two Minnesota-born Virginians: Republican Corey Stewart was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and Democrat Tim Kaine was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. All polls leading up to the election showed Kaine defeating Stewart by a wide margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283416-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Washington\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Washington took place on November 6, 2018, in order to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Washington. Incumbent Democrat Maria Cantwell successfully ran for reelection to a fourth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283416-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Washington, Nonpartisan blanket primary, Candidates\nThe primary election featured 30 candidates, a near record amount for a U.S. Senate election in Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 89], "content_span": [90, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283416-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Washington, Nonpartisan blanket primary, Candidates, Minor parties\nIn Washington, primary candidates may declare a preference for any party, and their party preference does not imply that the candidate is nominated or endorsed by the party. Candidates may also declare a preference for new or single-candidate parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 104], "content_span": [105, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283417-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in West Virginia\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in West Virginia took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of West Virginia, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283417-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in West Virginia\nOn May 8, 2018, the Republican primary voters of the state nominated West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey as the Republican candidate. In the general election, incumbent Democratic Senator Joe Manchin defeated Morrisey and was elected to a second full term, albeit by a margin much narrower than his previous election in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283417-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in West Virginia, Background\nWest Virginia was once a Democratic stronghold at the state and federal level, but has been rapidly shifting towards the Republican Party since 2000. In 2008, John McCain defeated Barack Obama by a margin of 55\u201342%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283417-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in West Virginia, Background\nIn the 2012 presidential election, Mitt Romney defeated Obama 62\u201335% and swept every single county in the state. Despite this, Manchin was reelected in his own landslide over perennial candidate John Raese, receiving more than 60% of the vote and carrying all but three counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283417-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in West Virginia, Background\nIn 2016, Donald Trump won the state by a greater than 40-point margin over Hillary Clinton (68\u201326%), with Clinton's performance being the worst for either party in the state's history. Trump also won every county in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283417-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in West Virginia, Background\nConcurrent with Trump's landslide victory in the West Virginia, Democratic businessman Jim Justice won the gubernatorial election with 49% of the vote but changed his party affiliation back to Republican within a year (Justice had previously been a Republican prior to running as a Democrat for governor). Democrats lost almost every statewide office in the state in 2016, with State Treasurer John Perdue being the only statewide Democrat reelected. Perdue lost reelection in 2020, making Manchin the only Democratic statewide officeholder in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283417-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in West Virginia, Background\nBecause of the heavy Republican lean of his state, Manchin was ranked by many outlets as one of the most vulnerable incumbents up for reelection. President Trump headlined three rallies in the state on behalf of Manchin's opponent, Patrick Morrisey. Manchin's vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh in his highly contentious confirmation hearing, making him the only Democrat to do so, garnered national attention and backlash from members of his own party just weeks before the midterm elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283417-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in West Virginia, General election, Results, Results by county\nAll results are from the office of the Secretary of State of West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 97], "content_span": [98, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283418-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Wisconsin\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Wisconsin took place on November 6, 2018, concurrently with a gubernatorial election and U.S. House elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin won a second term, defeating Republican challenger Leah Vukmir by more than 10 percentage points. The primary elections were held on August 14, with a filing deadline on June 1. Baldwin was unopposed for the Democratic nomination, while Vukmir defeated Charles Barman, Griffin Jones, George Lucia and Kevin Nicholson in the Republican primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283418-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Wisconsin, General election, Results\nDespite initial expectations of a potentially close race, Baldwin ended up winning by over 10 percentage points, which was the highest margin of victory for a Wisconsin Democratic statewide candidate in 2018. She ran up the margins in the traditional Democratic strongholds of Milwaukee and Madison, but also won in western Wisconsin, Green Bay and most of the counties bordering Illinois, including Racine, Rock, and Kenosha counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 74], "content_span": [75, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283419-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Wyoming\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in Wyoming took place on November 6, 2018 to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Wyoming. The primary election took place August 21, 2018. Republican John Barrasso won reelection with 67% percent of the vote, the lowest percentage of his three U.S. Senate campaigns and the closest a Democrat got to winning a seat since the 1996 election, while Barrasso lost only 2 counties, Teton and Albany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283419-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate election in Wyoming, Background\nIn 2012, incumbent John Barrasso (R) was re-elected with 76% of the vote. A state with low population and rural setting, Wyoming is considered the most Republican state in the nation. It has not elected a Democratic senate candidate since 1970. In 2008, Republican John McCain won the state's presidential vote with 64%. Republican Mitt Romney won it in 2012 with 68% of the vote, and Republican Donald Trump won it in 2016 with 67% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections\nThe 2018 United States Senate elections were held on November 6, 2018. 33 of the 100 seats were contested in regular elections while two others were contested in special elections due to Senate vacancies in Minnesota and Mississippi. The winners were elected to six-year terms running from January 3, 2019, to January 3, 2025. Senate Democrats had 26 seats up for election (including the seats of two independents who caucus with them) while Senate Republicans had nine seats up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections\nTo maintain their working majority of 50 Senators and their party's Vice President's tie-breaking vote, Republicans could only afford a net loss of one seat in these elections. The Republicans had a 52-48 majority after the 2016 elections, but they lost a seat in Alabama in December 2017 after Jeff Sessions resigned to become Attorney General and a Democrat won in the subsequent special election. Three Republican-held seats were open as a result of retirements in Tennessee, Utah and Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections\nAlthough every Democratic incumbent ran for re-election, Democrats faced an extremely unfavorable map, defending 26 seats, of which 10 were in states won by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, and five of those where Trump had won by more than ten percent. Republicans, however, only had to defend nine seats, of which only one was in a state won by Hillary Clinton in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections\nThe Republicans increased their majority defeating Democratic incumbents in Florida, Indiana, Missouri, and North Dakota; and holding the open seats in Tennessee and Utah. In contrast, Democrats won two Republican-held seats, defeating an incumbent in Nevada and winning the open seat in Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections\nThe results for this election cycle were the only significant gains made by the Republicans in what was otherwise characterized as a \"blue wave\" election for the entire 2018 midterm cycle; the Democrats had simultaneously seized control of the United States House of Representatives from the Republicans, gained a number of key seats in the state governorships, and gained ground in the state legislatures and the attorney general offices. The Republican gains in the Senate and the Democratic gains in the House marked the first midterm election cycle since 1970 in which a sitting president's party made net gains in one chamber of Congress while suffering net losses in the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Focus on competitive races\nDemocrats targeted Republican-held Senate seats in Arizona (open seat) and Nevada. Seats in Texas, Mississippi (at least one of the two seats) and Tennessee (open seat) were also competitive for the Democrats. Republicans targeted Democratic-held seats in Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia, all of which had voted Republican in both the 2012 presidential election and the 2016 presidential election. Seats in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, all of which voted for Trump in 2016, were also targeted by Republicans. The Democratic-held seat in New Jersey was also considered unexpectedly competitive due to corruption allegations surrounding the Democratic incumbent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Partisan composition\nAmong the 33 Class 1 Senate seats up for regular election in 2018, twenty-three were held by Democrats, two by independents who caucused with the Senate Democrats and eight by Republicans. Class Two seats in Minnesota and Mississippi held by interim appointees were also up for election; both incumbent appointees sought election to finish their unexpired terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Partisan composition\nThe map was widely characterized as extremely unfavorable to Democrats, as Democrats were defending 26 states while Republicans were defending nine. Of these seats, Democrats were defending ten in states won by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, while Republicans were only defending one seat in a state won by Hillary Clinton in 2016. According to FiveThirtyEight, Democrats faced the most unfavorable Senate map in 2018 that any party has ever faced in any election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Partisan composition\nThe 2018 election cycle was the first midterm election cycle since 2002 in which any incumbents of the non-presidential party lost re-election. The number of defeated non-presidential party incumbents (4) was the most since the 1934 midterms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Change in composition\nEach block represents one of the one hundred seats in the Senate. \"D#\" is a Democratic senator, \"I#\" is an Independent senator and \"R#\" is a Republican senator. Arranged so parties are separated and a majority is clear by crossing the middle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Change in composition, Before the elections\nEach block indicates an incumbent senator's actions going into the election. Some \"Ran\" for re-election, some \"Retired,\" and those without a note were not up for election this cycle. Before the elections, Republicans held 51 seats, Democrats held 47, and Independents held 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Change in composition, After the elections\nSome senators were \"Re-elected,\" some were a \"Gain\" in the seat from the other party (either by beating an incumbent or by winning an open seat), some were a \"Hold\" by the same party but with a different senator, and those without a note were not up for election this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Change in composition, After the elections\nAfter these elections, Democrats had 45 seats, independents had 2, and Republicans had 53.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Final pre-election predictions\nSeveral sites and individuals publish predictions of competitive seats. These predictions look at factors such as the strength of the incumbent (if the incumbent is running for reelection) and the other candidates, and the state's partisan lean (reflected in part by the state's Cook Partisan Voting Index rating). The predictions assign ratings to each seat, indicating the predicted advantage that a party has in winning that seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Election dates\nThese are the election dates for the regularly scheduled general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Race summary, Special elections during the preceding Congress\nIn these special elections, the winners will be seated before January 3, 2019, when elected and qualified. They are ordered by election date, then by state and by class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 98], "content_span": [99, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Race summary, Elections leading to the next Congress\nIn these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning January 3, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 89], "content_span": [90, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Race summary, Elections leading to the next Congress\nAll of the elections involve the Class 1 seats and they are ordered by state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 89], "content_span": [90, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Closest races\nIn twelve races the margin of victory was under 10%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Arizona\nOne-term Republican Jeff Flake was elected with 49% of the vote in 2012. He chose not to run for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Arizona\nU.S. Representative Martha McSally won the Republican nomination in a three-way primary on August 28, 2018, against Joe Arpaio and Kelli Ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Arizona\nSinema defeated McSally by a slim margin; her victory became official only after six days of counting ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, California\nFour-term Democrat Dianne Feinstein won a special election in 1992 and was elected to full terms in 1994, 2000, 2006, and 2012. She ran for re-election and advanced to the general election after securing the top spot in the June 5 jungle primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, California\nThe June 5 primary ballot listed 32 candidates (Feinstein plus 31 challengers) in addition to 3 write-in candidates. There were 10 Democratic candidates, 11 Republican candidates, one Libertarian, one Peace and Freedom candidate, and 9 independent candidates. There was also a Green Party candidate who ran as a write-in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, California\nPresident pro tempore of the California State Senate Kevin de Le\u00f3n advanced to the general election for the right to challenge Feinstein after securing the second spot in the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, California\nThe 11 Republican candidates who ran in the primary combined for 33.2% of the vote. The top Republican candidate, James P. Bradley, received 8.3% of the vote, which put him in 3rd place at 3.8% behind the second-place finisher, Kevin DeLeon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, California\nOn November 6, Dianne Feinstein was elected to a fifth term, defeating Kevin de Le\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Connecticut\nOne-term Democrat Chris Murphy was elected with 55% of the vote in 2012. He ran for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Connecticut\nChris Murphy was elected to a second term, winning nearly 60% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Delaware\nThree-term Democrat Tom Carper won re-election with 66% of the vote in 2012. He announced he was running for re-election during an interview on MSNBC on July 24, 2017. He defeated Dover community activist Kerri Evelyn Harris for the Democratic nomination. Sussex County Councilman Robert Arlett won the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Florida\nThree-term Democrat Bill Nelson was re-elected with 55% of the vote in 2012. He sought re-election to a fourth term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Florida\nFlorida Governor Rick Scott won the Republican nomination. First elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014, Scott's term as Governor of Florida was set to end by January 2019, due to term limits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Florida\nEdward Janowski was running as an independent, but did not qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Florida\nScott led among ballots tallied on election night, but given the close margins of the race recounts were ordered. Final recount numbers were released following a machine and hand recount with Rick Scott maintaining a lead. On November 18, Nelson conceded to Scott. Two days later, election results were certified by the state, cementing Scott's win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Hawaii\nOne-term Democrat Mazie Hirono was elected with 63% of the vote in 2012. She ran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Hawaii\nHirono was elected to a second term by a landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Indiana\nOne-term Democrat Joe Donnelly was elected with 50.04% of the vote in 2012. He ran. He won the Democratic primary unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Indiana\nState Representative Mike Braun won the May 8 Republican primary. U.S. Representatives Luke Messer and Todd Rokita also ran for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Indiana\nBraun won election with 51% of the vote, defeating Joe Donnelly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Maine\nOne-term Independent Senator Angus King was elected in a three-way race with 53% of the vote in 2012. King has caucused with the Democratic Party since taking office in 2013, but he has left open the possibility of caucusing with the Republican Party in the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Maine\nState Senator Eric Brakey ran unopposed for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Maine\nPublic school teacher and founder of UClass Zak Ringelstein ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Maine\nThe election was conducted with ranked choice voting, as opposed to \"First-past-the-post voting\", after Maine voters passed a citizen referendum approving the change in 2016 and a June 2018 referendum sustaining the change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Maine\nKing was easily re-elected with over 50% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Maryland\nTwo-term Democrat Ben Cardin was re-elected with 56% of the vote in 2012. He won the Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Maryland\nTony Campbell, Evan Cronhardt, Nnabu Eze, Gerald Smith, and Blaine Taylor were seeking the Republican nomination, with Campbell winning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Maryland\nArvin Vohra, vice chairman of the Libertarian National Committee, sought the Libertarian Party nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Maryland\nIndependents Neal Simon and Edward Shlikas, and Michael B Puskar ran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Massachusetts\nOne-term Democrat Elizabeth Warren was elected with 54% of the vote in 2012. She ran for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Massachusetts\nState Representative Geoff Diehl, attorney and founder of Better for America, John Kingston and former Romney aide Beth Lindstrom, ran for the Republican nomination. Diehl won the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Massachusetts\nShiva Ayyadurai ran as an independent. Shiva started as in early 2017 as the first Republican in the race, but went independent in November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Michigan\nThree-term Democrat Debbie Stabenow was re-elected with 59% of the vote in 2012. She was renominated without Democratic opposition. On the Republican side, businessman John James won the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Michigan\nIn the final months of the election, polls showed the race was beginning to narrow. Ultimately, Stabenow was re-elected, defeating James, with a majority of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Minnesota, Minnesota (Regular)\nTwo-term Democrat Amy Klobuchar was re-elected with 65% of the vote in 2012. She ran for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Minnesota, Minnesota (Special)\nTwo-term Democrat Al Franken announced that he would resign in December 2017, following allegations of sexual harassment. Mark Dayton, Governor of Minnesota, appointed Lt. Gov. Tina Smith on January 2, 2018, as an interim Senator until the November 2018 election. She defeated primary challenger Richard Painter in the Democratic primary held on August 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Minnesota, Minnesota (Special)\nIncumbent Tina Smith defeated Republican Karin Housley in the general election to finish the term ending January 3, 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Mississippi, Mississippi (Regular)\nOne-term Republican Roger Wicker won re-election with 57% of the vote in 2012. He was appointed in 2007 and won a special election in 2008 to serve the remainder of Trent Lott's term. He ran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Mississippi, Mississippi (Regular)\nDavid Baria won the Democratic nomination in a run-off on June 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Mississippi, Mississippi (Special)\nSeven-term Republican Thad Cochran, who won re-election with 59.9% of the vote in 2014, announced that he would resign since April 1, 2018 due to health reasons. Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi, announced on March 21, 2018, that he would appoint Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith to fill the vacancy. She ran in the special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Mississippi, Mississippi (Special)\nOn November 6, a nonpartisan jungle primary took place on the same day as the regularly scheduled U.S. Senate election for the seat currently held by Roger Wicker. Party affiliations were not printed on the ballot. As no candidate gained 50% of the votes, a runoff special election between the top two candidates - Hyde-Smith and former United States Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy - was held on November 27, 2018. Hyde-Smith won the runoff election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Mississippi, Mississippi (Special)\nDemocrat Tobey Bartee and Republican Chris McDaniel also contested the first round of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Missouri\nTwo-term Democrat Claire McCaskill was re-elected with 55% of the vote in 2012. She was renominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Missouri\nAttorney General Josh Hawley won the Republican nomination. Japheth Campbell declared his candidacy for the Libertarian nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Missouri\nPolls showed a close race for months leading up to the election. Hawley defeated McCaskill in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Montana\nTwo-term Democrat Jon Tester was re-elected with 49% of the vote in 2012. He won the Democratic nomination in the June 5 primary with no opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Montana\nState Auditor Matthew Rosendale won the Republican nomination in the June 5 primary. State Senator Albert Olszewski, former judge Russell Fagg, and Troy Downing also ran for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Nebraska\nOne-term Republican Deb Fischer was elected with 58% of the vote in 2012. She ran for and won the Republican nomination in the May 15 primary. Other Republicans who ran include retired professor Jack Heidel, Todd Watson, and Dennis Frank Macek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Nebraska\nLincoln Councilwoman Jane Raybould ran for and won the Democratic nomination in the May 15 primary. Other Democrats who ran include Frank Svoboda, Chris Janicek, and Larry Marvin, who was a candidate in 2008, 2012, and 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Nevada\nIncumbent Republican Dean Heller was the Republican nominee. He was appointed to the seat in 2011 and then elected with 46% of the vote in 2012. Heller considered running for governor, but chose to seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Nevada\nNevada was the only state in the midterm elections that had an incumbent Republican Senator in a state that Hillary Clinton had won in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Nevada\nRosen defeated Heller in the general election, making Heller the only Republican incumbent to lose re-election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, New Jersey\nRepublican Bob Hugin was nominated to face two-term Democrat Bob Menendez, who was re-elected with 59% of the vote in 2012. Menendez was originally appointed to the seat in January 2006. He ran for re-election, despite recent scandals that plagued his campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, New Jersey\nHugin self-funded most of his campaign. Ultimately, Menendez was re-elected with nearly 54% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, New Mexico\nOne-term Democrat Martin Heinrich was elected with 51% of the vote in 2012. He ran. Mick Rich won the Republican nomination unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, New Mexico\nAubrey Dunn Jr., New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands and otherwise the first Libertarian to ever hold statewide elected office in history, announced his run for the seat, but stepped aside in August to allow former Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson's candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, New York\nOne-term Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand was elected with 72% of the vote in 2012. She had previously been appointed to the seat in 2009 and won a special election to remain in office in 2010. She ran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, New York\nPrivate equity executive Chele Chiavacci Farley has been nominated for U.S. Senate by the Republican and Conservative Parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, North Dakota\nOne-term Democrat Heidi Heitkamp was elected with 50% of the vote in 2012. She won the Democratic nomination unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, North Dakota\nRepresentative Kevin Cramer won the Republican nomination in the June 12 primary. Former Niagara, North Dakota Mayor Thomas O'Neill also ran for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, North Dakota\nHeitkamp was continuously behind in the polls leading up to the election, and Heitkamp ended up losing to Cramer by 11%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Ohio\nTwo-term Democrat Sherrod Brown was re-elected with 51% of the vote in 2012. He ran and was unopposed in Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Ohio\nU.S. Representative Jim Renacci ran for and won the Republican nomination in the May 8 primary. Other Republicans who ran include investment banker Michael Gibbons, businesswoman Melissa Ackison, Dan Kiley, and Don Elijah Eckhart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Ohio\nBrown won re-election, defeating Renacci. Brown was the only non-judicial statewide Democrat in Ohio to win in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania\nTwo-term Democrat Bob Casey Jr. was re-elected with 54% of the vote in 2012. He ran and won the Democratic primary unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania\nU.S. Representative Lou Barletta ran for and won the Republican nomination in the May 15 primary. Jim Christiana also ran for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Rhode Island\nTwo-term Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse was re-elected with 64% of the vote in 2012. He ran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Rhode Island\nFormer Rhode Island Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Flanders was the Republican nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Rhode Island\nWhitehouse was elected to a third term by a wide margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Tennessee\nTwo-term Republican Bob Corker was re-elected with 65% of the vote in 2012. Senator Corker filed his Statement of Candidacy with the Secretary of the U.S. Senate to run for re-election, but on September 26, 2017, Senator Corker announced his intent to retire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Tennessee\nAaron Pettigrew and Republican U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn ran for the Republican nomination. Marsha Blackburn became the Republican nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Tennessee\nDespite predictions that the race would be close, Blackburn was easily elected to the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Texas\nOne-term Republican Ted Cruz was elected with 57% of the vote in 2012. He overwhelmingly won the Republican primary on March 6, 2018. Television producer Bruce Jacobson, Houston energy attorney Stefano de Stefano, former mayor of La Marque Geraldine Sam, Mary Miller, and Thomas Dillingham were Cruz's opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Texas\nU.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke won the Democratic nomination on March 6, 2018. Other Democrats who ran include Irasema Ramirez Hernandez and Edward Kimbrough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Texas\nNurse Carl Bible ran as an independent. Bob McNeil ran as the candidate of the American Citizen Party. Neal Dikeman was the Libertarian nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Texas\nO'Rourke ran a strong campaign, creating a close race in a traditionally Republican stronghold. Nevertheless, Cruz was narrowly re-elected to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Utah\nSeven-term Republican Orrin Hatch was re-elected with 65% of the vote in 2012. Hatch is the President pro tempore of the United States Senate, as well as the second most-senior Senator. Before the 2012 election, Hatch said that he would retire at the end of his seventh term if he was re-elected. Hatch initially announced his re-election campaign on March 9, 2017, but later announced his plans to retire on January 2, 2018. Former 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was running for the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Utah\nProfessor James Singer was running for the Democratic nomination, but he dropped out and endorsed Salt Lake County Councilwoman Jenny Wilson, who made her Senate bid official on July 17, 2017. Danny Drew also was running, but dropped out and endorsed Jenny Wilson. Mitchell Kent Vice was defeated for the Democratic nomination by Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Vermont\nTwo-term Independent Senator Bernie Sanders was re-elected with 71% of the vote in 2012. Sanders, one of two independent members of Congress, has caucused with the Democratic Party since taking office in 2007. In November 2015, Sanders announced his plans to run as a Democrat, rather than an Independent, in all future elections. He won the nomination easily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Virginia\nOne-term Democrat Tim Kaine was elected with 53% of the vote in 2012. He was re-nominated unopposed. Prince William County Supervisor Corey Stewart was the Republican nominee. Matt Waters was the Libertarian nominee. Kaine defeated Stewart with 57% of the vote. Stewart received about 41% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Washington\nThree-term Democrat Maria Cantwell was re-elected with 61% of the vote in 2012. She ran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Washington\nWashington holds non-partisan blanket primaries, in which the top two finishers advance to the general election regardless of party. Cantwell and former state Republican Party chair Susan Hutchison faced each other in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, West Virginia\nOne-term Democrat Joe Manchin was elected with 61% of the vote in 2012. He originally won the seat in a 2010 special election. Manchin ran for re-election and won the May 8 Democratic primary. Environmental activist Paula Jean Swearengin, also ran for the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, West Virginia\nWest Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey received the Republican nomination in the May 8 primary. Representative Evan Jenkins, coal miner Bo Copley, Jack Newbrough, Don Blankenship, and Tom Willis ran for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0102-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, West Virginia\nDespite recent Republican successes in West Virginia, Manchin was able to win re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0103-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Wisconsin\nOne-term Democrat Tammy Baldwin was elected with 51% of the vote in 2012. She ran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0104-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Wisconsin\nState Senator Leah Vukmir and businessman and member of Wisconsin Board of Veterans Affairs Kevin Nicholson ran for the Republican nomination, with Vukmir proceeding to the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0105-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Wyoming\nOne-term Republican John Barrasso was elected with 76% of the vote in 2012. Barrasso was appointed to the seat in 2007 and won a special election in 2008. He ran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0106-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Wyoming\nGary Trauner, a Jackson Hole businessman and U.S. House candidate in 2006 and 2008, was the Democratic nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283420-0107-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate elections, Wyoming\nBarrasso was easily elected to a second term, defeating Trauner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283421-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate special election in Minnesota\nThe 2018 United States Senate special election in Minnesota took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a United States Senator from Minnesota to replace incumbent Democratic Senator Al Franken until the regular expiration of the term on January 3, 2021. Facing multiple accusations of sexual misconduct, Franken announced on December 7, 2017, that he would resign effective January 2, 2018. Governor Mark Dayton appointed Franken's successor, Tina Smith, on December 13, 2017, and she ran in the special election. This election coincided with a regularly scheduled U.S. Senate election for the Class 1 Senate seat, U.S. House elections, a gubernatorial election, State House elections, and other elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283421-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate special election in Minnesota\nThe candidate filing deadline was June 5, 2018, and the primary election was held on August 14, 2018. Smith won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican nominee Karin Housley in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283421-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate special election in Minnesota, General election, Results\nSmith won the election by 10.62 percentage points. Her margin was similar to that of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tim Walz, who defeated his Republican opponent by 11.41%. Both of those margins of victory were much smaller than that of senior Senator Amy Klobuchar, who on the same day defeated her Republican opponent by 24.1 points. Smith won by huge margins in the Democratic strongholds of Hennepin County and Ramsey County, home of Minneapolis and St. Paul respectively. She also managed a 10% margin of victory in suburban Dakota County, just outside Minneapolis, and won St. Louis County, home of Duluth. Housley won most of the state's rural areas. Turnout was high for a midterm election, with over 63% of registered voters in Minnesota casting ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 82], "content_span": [83, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283422-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate special election in Mississippi\nThe 2018 United States Senate special election in Mississippi took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a United States Senator from Mississippi. The election was held to fill the seat vacated by Senator Thad Cochran when he resigned from the Senate, effective April 1, 2018, due to health concerns. Republican governor Phil Bryant appointed Cindy Hyde-Smith to fill the vacancy created by Cochran's resignation. Hyde-Smith sought election to serve the balance of Cochran's term, which expired in January 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283422-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate special election in Mississippi\nOn November 6, per Mississippi law, a nonpartisan top-two special general election took place on the same day as the regularly scheduled U.S. Senate election for the seat currently held by Roger Wicker. Party affiliations were not printed on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283422-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate special election in Mississippi\nBecause no candidate gained a simple majority of the vote, a runoff between the top two candidates, Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy, was held on November 27, 2018, in which Hyde-Smith defeated Espy. Despite her reasonable margin of victory, Hyde-Smith significantly under-performed the states's partisan lean, as well as the 20-point margin of victory of Roger Wicker in his senatorial election, held concurrently with the first round of the special election in which the combined GOP candidates won 58% to the combined Dem total of 42%. Espy's 46.4% vote share is the best Democratic performance in a Mississippi Senate election since 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283422-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate special election in Mississippi\nThe victory made Hyde-Smith the first woman ever elected to the United States Congress from Mississippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283422-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate special election in Mississippi, Runoff\nDuring the run-off campaign, while appearing with cattle rancher Colin Hutchinson in Tupelo, Mississippi, Hyde-Smith said, \"If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be in the front row.\" Hyde-Smith's comment immediately drew harsh criticism, given Mississippi's notorious history of lynchings of African-Americans. In response to the criticism, Hyde-Smith downplayed her comment as \"an exaggerated expression of regard\" and characterized the backlash as \"ridiculous.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283422-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate special election in Mississippi, Runoff\nHyde-Smith joined Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant at a news conference in Jackson, Mississippi on November 12, 2018, where she was asked repeatedly about her comment by reporters. In the footage, Hyde-Smith adamantly refused to provide any substantive answer to reporters' questions, responding on five occasions with variations of, \"I put out a statement yesterday, and that's all I'm gonna say about it.\" When reporters redirected questions to Bryant, he defended Hyde-Smith's comment, and changed the subject to abortion, saying he was \"confused about where the outrage is at about 20 million African American children that have been aborted.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283422-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Senate special election in Mississippi, Runoff\nOn November 15, 2018, Hyde-Smith appeared in a video clip saying that it would be \"a great idea\" to make it more difficult for liberals to vote. Her campaign stated that Hyde-Smith was making an obvious joke, and the video was selectively edited. Both this and the \"public hanging\" video were released by Lamar White Jr., a Louisiana blogger and journalist. Attention was also drawn to photographs, posted on Facebook four years earlier, of Hyde-Smith and her husband visiting former Confederate President Jefferson Davis' home, now an historical site. The photos show her wearing a Confederate hat and posing with a rifle commonly used by Confederate soldiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283423-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Shadow Representative election in the District of Columbia\nThe 2018 Shadow Representative election in the District of Columbia took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a shadow member to the United States House of Representatives to represent the District of Columbia. Unlike non-voting delegates, the Shadow Representative is only recognized by the District of Columbia and is not officially sworn or seated. Incumbent Shadow Representative Franklin Garcia won reelection unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283423-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Shadow Representative election in the District of Columbia, Primary elections, Other primaries\nThe Republican, Libertarian, and Statehood Green parties all held primaries, but no candidates declared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 113], "content_span": [114, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283423-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Shadow Representative election in the District of Columbia, Other candidates\nIndependent write-in candidate Erik Metzroth was the only opposition to Franklin Garcia. Metzroth campaigned alleging that Garcia had done too little to advance the cause of DC statehood. Metzroth also criticized local media for not reporting on his campaign. The final number of write-in votes cast for Metzroth was unreported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 95], "content_span": [96, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283423-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Shadow Representative election in the District of Columbia, General election\nThe general election took place on November 6, 2018. Garcia was the only candidate on the ballot and won reelection to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 95], "content_span": [96, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283424-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Shadow Senator election in the District of Columbia\nThe 2018 United States Senate election in the District of Columbia took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a shadow member to the United States Senate to represent the District of Columbia. The member is only recognized by the District of Columbia and is not officially sworn or seated by the United States Senate. Incumbent Mike Brown was re-elected to a third term as the Democratic nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283424-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Shadow Senator election in the District of Columbia, Democratic primary\nThe Democratic primary took place on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. About 76% of registered voters in the District of Columbia are registered with the Democratic Party, compared with only 6% of registered Republicans. The winner of the Democratic primary almost always wins the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 90], "content_span": [91, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283424-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Shadow Senator election in the District of Columbia, Democratic primary, Campaign\nThomas' campaign raised $44,000 and spent $34,800. Brown's campaign raised and spent only $12,000 and $1,200, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 100], "content_span": [101, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283424-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Shadow Senator election in the District of Columbia, Democratic primary, Campaign\nThomas' campaign accused Brown of coasting on the name recognition of another D.C. politician, Michael A. Brown, a black former-councilman who remained popular in spite of a federal bribery conviction. Michael D. Brown dismissed the claim in an article for The Washington Post saying, \"The implication that I win because African Americans are too uninformed to realize there are two people with a common name is insulting to the hundreds of thousands of D.C. voters who have supported my campaigns.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 100], "content_span": [101, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283425-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Soccer Federation presidential election\nThe 2018 United States Soccer Federation presidential election was held in February 2018 to determine the next President of the United States Soccer Federation. Having served as President since 2006, incumbent Sunil Gulati decided not to run for re-election, after the United States men's national soccer team failed to qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283425-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Soccer Federation presidential election, Background\nSunil Gulati, the incumbent president of U.S. Soccer, has held the position since he was first elected in 2006. Gulati ran unopposed for election in 2006, and for re-election in 2010 and 2014. On December 4, 2017, Gulati announced that he would not seek another term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 70], "content_span": [71, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283425-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Soccer Federation presidential election, Background\nIn the months leading up to the election, the U.S. Soccer Federation submitted a joint bid with Canada and Mexico to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup. In October 2017, the United States men's national soccer team failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, missing the World Cup for the first time since 1986, sparking a major push for reform by supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 70], "content_span": [71, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283425-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Soccer Federation presidential election, Format\nThe election took place on February 10, 2018, at the National Council Meeting during the U.S. Soccer Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Candidates are required to pass a background check conducted by the federation and receive three letters of nomination from organization members or an athlete representative on the federation's Board of Directors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 66], "content_span": [67, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283425-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Soccer Federation presidential election, Format\nVotes are divided between the Athletes Council, Youth Council, Adult Council, Professional Council, and other groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 66], "content_span": [67, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283425-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Soccer Federation presidential election, General election campaign\nOn December 22, 2017, Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated reported that outgoing U.S. Soccer President, Sunil Gulati and Major League Soccer commissioner, Don Garber were campaigning for, and hosted a campaign dinner for Kathy Carter. This sparked a potential conflict of interest given Carter's current role with Soccer United Marketing, and SUM's relationship with U.S. Soccer and MLS. Carter denied any collusion between her, Gulati and Garber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 85], "content_span": [86, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283425-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Soccer Federation presidential election, General election campaign\nShortly after, Carter received the endorsement from the Eastern New York State Soccer Association (ENYSSA) and the New Jersey Soccer Association (NJSA). When asked on Twitter about the decision-making process to endorse Carter, the ENYSSA blocked several accounts on Twitter, only to revert the blocks and claiming their account was \"hacked\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 85], "content_span": [86, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283425-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Soccer Federation presidential election, Candidates\nOn December 20, 2017, USSF announced that eight candidates were eligible to stand for election, having met the federation's requirements, 8 of 9 opposed Sunil Gulati. Of the nine declared candidates, only Paul Lapointe failed to qualify for the ballot since he supported Sunil Gulati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 70], "content_span": [71, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283426-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Virgin Islands gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 U.S. Virgin Islands gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018 to select the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands who are chosen on the same ticket. The election was held concurrently with the 2018 United States midterm elections. As no candidate ticket received a majority of the General Election vote, the top two vote-getters proceeded to a runoff 14 days later on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. Democrat Albert Bryan Jr. and his running mate, Sen. Tregenza Roach, won the runoff election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283426-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Virgin Islands gubernatorial election\nThe incumbent Governor Kenneth Mapp ran for reelection to a second term as an Independent politician with incumbent Lt. Gov. Osbert Potter. Mapp faced off against former Virgin Islands Labor Commissioner Albert Bryan Jr., who won the August 4 Democratic primary; Bryan earned 39.23% of the vote in the primary, defeating Allison \"Allie\" Petrus (33.67%) and Angel E. Dawson Jr. (26.68%). Also on the November ballot were Adlah \"Foncie\" Donastorg, Warren Mosler, Soraya Diase Coffelt, Moleto A. Smith, and Janette Millin Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283426-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Virgin Islands gubernatorial election\nOn Election Day, November 6, Bryan earned 38.08% of the vote, with Mapp coming in second with 33.45%. In the November 20 runoff, Bryan was elected governor with 54.54% of the vote to Mapp's 45.15%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283427-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States Women's Curling Championship\nThe 2018 United States Women's Curling Championship was held from March 3 to 10 in Fargo, North Dakota. It was held in conjunction with the 2018 United States Men's Curling Championship. The winning team earned the right to represent the United States at the 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship provided that they are also in the top 75 WCT Order of Merit (2 tear period) or have at least 40 points WCT Order of Merit year-to-date ranking as of January 31, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak\nThe 2018 United States adenovirus outbreak was an occurrence in which an unusual number of adenovirus cases were reported at two locations, one in Maryland and one in New Jersey, from September to December of 2018, resulting in deaths in both states. At least 35 people contracted the disease in each location of the outbreak. In New Jersey, the ill ranged in age from toddlers to adults, and eleven children died. It was \"one of the nation's deadliest long-term-care outbreaks\" and \"one of the nation's worst recorded outbreaks of the [adeno]virus.\" The adenovirus outbreak led to the passage of new legislation in 2019 concerning the containment of outbreaks in long-term care centers in New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, Sept. 2018: New Jersey outbreak\nIn September 2018, an adenovirus outbreak began at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, a care facility for those with short-term rehab or long-term needs in Wanaque, New Jersey. on September 26, 2018, when a child developed symptoms of a respiratory ailment in the pediatric ventilator unit, followed by a second child misdiagnosed as having respiratory ailments. At the time, Wanaque did not have enough space to isolate the ill children from others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, Sept. 2018: New Jersey outbreak\nThe parents of ill patients were notified on October 19, 2018, and that day as well the NJ health department was notified of a \"cluster of respiratory illnesses.\" Two children had died at that point while twenty overall had showed symptoms. On October 10, 2018, the state Health Department sent a communicable disease specialist to the center. The outbreak proved to be the type 7 adenovirus. Not typically dangerous, it can be deadly to vulnerable patients.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, Sept. 2018: New Jersey outbreak\nThe commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health was notified about the outbreak on October 19, when five children had died. The state sent inspectors on October 21 in a surprise inspection, concluding that the center had yet to \"establish and maintain an infection prevention and control program.\" Six employees were observed inadequately washing their hands, continued in inspections on November 9, 11, and 13. Medicare inspections of the facility in 2016 and 2017 had also found \"infection control issues.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, Sept. 2018: New Jersey outbreak\nOn October 24, 2018, a government inspection report cited Wanaque for several deficiencies from 2015 to 2018. Elnahal, head of the state health department, asserted the issues had been corrected and that the state would permanently surveil the facility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, Sept. 2018: New Jersey outbreak\nReported on November 9, 2018, two anonymous employees spoke to NJ Advance Media and claimed that \"senior administrators delayed sending kids to the hospital\" to keep the pediatric unit as full as possible, maximizing funds amounting to $519.46 from Medicaid per patient per day. After the report, the state health commissioner sent inspectors to the facility. After November 12, 2018, the outbreak was reported under control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, Nov-Dec 2018: Wanaque aftermath\nOn November 14, the center was ordered by the state to isolate sick patients by November 21 and curtail all new admissions. By November 16, there were 43 children on the first-floor ventilator unit where the virus was spreading. 19 children were in a second-floor unaffected pediatric unit, with 125 adult patients in the facility. On November 19, 2018, it was reported that The Wanaque Center had separated its medically fragile patients from those with adenovirus symptoms. The dropping number of patients had allowed enough space to separate beds, whereas previously patients were being cared for in close proximity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, Nov-Dec 2018: Wanaque aftermath\nFrom October to November 2018, the virus infected 35 people at the Wanaque Center, including 23 children. Ultimately, 36 residents and one staff member were diagnosed with the adenovirus. The ill ranged in age from toddlers to teens, and eleven children died. It was \"one of the nation's deadliest long-term-care outbreaks\" and \"one of the nation's worst recorded outbreaks of the [adeno]virus.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, Nov-Dec 2018: Wanaque aftermath\nOver three visits in early November, state inspectors gave the Wanaque Center the worst rating possible, \"immediate jeopardy.\" Federal inspectors also visited the center, from November 13 through 17, giving the center six \"immediate jeopardy violations\" for systemic deficiencies in care. Inspectors initially blamed poor hygiene for the outbreak. However, later, federal inspectors also implicated poor planning by management.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, Nov-Dec 2018: Wanaque aftermath\nA November 17 report by the New York office of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) blamed the outbreak on the center's response, particularly management for lack of planning and slow responses, leading to delays \"in identifying, reporting and controlling the outbreak.\" The pediatric medical director, for example, was not informed what exactly his job was, and was not informed of the number of infected patients until after the fourth death. Wanaque Center strongly contested the findings, calling the report flawed and appealing the report to dispute \"unfounded allegations.\" Several lawsuits concerning the outbreak were filed against the center in late 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, Nov-Dec 2018: University of Maryland outbreak\nAt the height of the outbreak in New Jersey, an outbreak of the same strain of the virus occurred among students at the University of Maryland, College Park. The college learned about the first case of adenovirus on November 1, and by mid-December, 35 cases involving the same strain of the virus had been reported at the university. Among those cases, 18-year old freshman Olivia Paregol, who was \"immunosuppressed because of medication for Crohn's disease\", died on November 18, 2018. In its coverage, the press noted that an adenovirus vaccine exists but not generally available to the public. It has been proposed that the Maryland outbreak was connected to a mold outbreak on the campus during the same period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 94], "content_span": [95, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, Nov-Dec 2018: University of Maryland outbreak\nIn January 2019, the University of Maryland began a weeks-long effort to have a contracted cleaning company disinfect all surfaces in the dorms where the outbreak occurred. The death of Paregol prompted Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to address the matter as \"very concerning\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 94], "content_span": [95, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, 2018-2019: New Jersey responses\nOn November 20, 2018, members of the New Jersey Legislature representing the affected district sent a letter to New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal requesting an investigation of claims that \"the facility delayed sending children for treatment for non-medical reasons\" relating to the collection of Medicaid payments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, 2018-2019: New Jersey responses\nA hearing on the outbreak was held by the NJ Senate Health Committee on December 3, 2018. At the hearing, the NJ health department head announced that state health policy had been changed as a result of the outbreak, requiring the health commissioner to be notified immediately when outbreaks result in the deaths of children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, 2018-2019: New Jersey responses\nIn direct response to the Wanaque outbreak, a June 2019 report from the New Jersey Health Department called for new legislation that would require New Jersey's long-term care centers to submit outbreak response plans to the state. Other recommendations included quickly separating sick residents and designated staff, as well as quickly notifying guardians when outbreaks occur. The issue was included through $2.5 million in competitive grant funding by the proposed budget of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283428-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 United States adenovirus outbreak, History, 2018-2019: New Jersey responses\nThe resultant state bill, A5527, was based on the report and faced no opposition when passing both houses of the state legislature in late June 2019. On August 15, 2019, Murphy cited the 11 dead children of the Wanaque Center outbreak when signing the bill into law. Among other regulations, A5527 requires certain long-term facilities to provide outbreak response plans to the state within 180 days of signing. Other new requirements involve promptly notifying residents, families, staff, and visitors of an outbreak. At the time the bill was signed, Wanaque remained under state and federal investigation for how it handled the outbreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections\nThe 2018 United States Attorney General elections were held on November 6, 2018, in 30 states, 2 territories, and the District of Columbia. The previous attorney general elections for this group of states took place in 2014, except in Vermont where attorneys general serve only two-year terms and elected their current attorney general in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections\nThe elections took place concurrently with elections to the House of Representatives and Senate, and numerous state and local elections including governorships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections\nDemocrats gained 4 elected attorney general offices, Republicans gained zero offices. This caused Democratic attorneys general to constitute a majority of elected attorneys general in U.S. states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Statistics, Closest races\nStates where the margin of victory was between 1% and 5%:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Statistics, Closest races\nStates where the margin of victory was between 5% and 10%:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Statistics, Closest races\nBlue denotes offices won by Democrats; red denotes those won by Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Alabama\nThe 2018 Alabama Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the Attorney General of Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Alabama\nFormer Alabama Attorney General Troy King unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Steve Marshall, who was appointed by Governor Bentley in February 2017 after appointing Attorney General Luther Strange to the U.S. Senate, ran for a first full term. Former chief deputy attorney general Alice Martin sought the Republican nomination. Attorney Joseph Siegelman, son of former governor Don Siegelman, is the nominee of the Democratic Party. Chris Christie ran for attorney general on the Democratic ballot. Christie has been a trial lawyer at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings for 30 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Arizona\nThe 2018 Arizona Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Arkansas\nThe 2018 Arkansas Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Arkansas\nRepublican Attorney General Leslie Rutledge was elected to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, California\nThe 2018 California Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, California\n2014 election winner Kamala Harris was elected to the United States Senate during the 2016 Senate elections; incumbent Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra won election to a full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Colorado\nThe 2018 Colorado Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Colorado\nIncumbent Republican attorney general Cynthia Coffman ran for governor, but was eliminated at the state Republican party convention in April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Connecticut\nThe 2018 Connecticut Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Connecticut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Connecticut\nIncumbent Attorney General George Jepsen did not seek re-election. Democratic nominee William Tong defeated Republican nominee Susan Hatfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Delaware\nThe 2018 Delaware Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018. The Delaware primary election for federal and state candidates took place on September 6, 2018. Incumbent Attorney General Matthew Denn announced on August 28, 2017, that he would not seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Florida\nThe 2018 Florida Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Florida. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Florida\nRepublican candidate Ashley Moody defeated Democrat Sean Shaw, with the election being called after 93% of the precincts reporting. Moody won by about 6 percentage points, which was the widest margin of any Florida statewide race in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Georgia\nThe 2018 Georgia Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Georgia\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Sam Olens resigned to become president of Kennesaw State University effective November 1, 2016, with Georgia Department of Economic Development Commissioner Christopher M. \"Chris\" Carr being appointed to serve the remainder of the term. Carr will be eligible to run for election to a full term in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Georgia\nPotential Republican candidates include State Senator Josh McKoon and former state representative B.J. Pak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Georgia\nPotential Democratic candidates included State Representative Stacey Evans and former Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission Chair Lester Tate. 2010 nominee and former Dougherty County District Attorney Ken Hodges was considered a potential candidate, but has decided to run for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals instead. Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson had ruled out running for attorney general. As of July 2018, Charlie Bailey, former Senior Assistant District Attorney in the Fulton County District Attorney's office, was running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Idaho\nThe 2018 Idaho Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Idaho\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Lawrence Wasden announced on September 7, 2017, that he will run for re-election to a fifth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Illinois\nThe 2018 Illinois Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Illinois\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who had served since 2003, did not seek re-election to a fifth term. Democrat Kwame Raoul won the election with 55 percent of the vote, while Republican Erika Harold took 43 percent of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Iowa\nThe 2018 Iowa Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 51], "content_span": [52, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Iowa\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller won re-election with 76.5% of the vote. The Republican Party did not nominate anyone, but the Libertarian Party nominated Marco Battaglia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 51], "content_span": [52, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Kansas\nThe 2018 Kansas Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Kansas\nIncumbent Attorney General Derek Schmidt won re-election with 59 percent of the vote, defeating Democratic challenger Sarah Swain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Maryland\nThe Maryland Attorney General election of 2018 was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Maryland\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Brian Frosh was eligible to seek a second term in office, filed for re-election on February 15, 2018, and was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Republican former prosecutor and trade group CEO Craig Wolf was unopposed for the Republican nomination. Brian Frosh won with 64.8% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Massachusetts\nThe Massachusetts Attorney General election of 2018 was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Massachusetts\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey won re-election to a second consecutive term. Healey was a speculative candidate for Governor but declined to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Michigan\nThe Michigan Attorney General election of 2018 took place on November 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Michigan\nThis race occurred alongside elections to elect Michigan's governor, Class I United States Senator, secretary of state, as well as elections for Michigan's 14 seats in the United States House of Representatives, all 38 seats in the Michigan Senate and all 110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette was prohibited from seeking a third term due to term limits and unsuccessfully ran for governor of Michigan instead. The Michigan GOP was unsuccessful in looking to win its 5th straight attorney general election. Along with the offices of lieutenant governor and secretary of state, the nominees for attorney general were chosen by party delegates at their respective party conventions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Michigan\nNessel defeated Leonard by 115,000 votes, becoming the first Democratic attorney general of Michigan since 2003, when Jennifer Granholm left office to become governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Minnesota\nThe 2018 Minnesota Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of the U.S. state of Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Minnesota\nA primary election was held on August 14, 2018, in which Doug Wardlow was nominated as the Republican candidate and Keith Ellison was nominated as the Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor (DFL) candidate. Ellison won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Nebraska\nThe 2018 Nebraska Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of the U.S. state of Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Nebraska\nIncumbent Republican attorney general Doug Peterson ran for re-election to a second term. Omaha attorney Evangelos Argyrakis, ran in the Democratic primary. However, after being charged with felony strangulation following an altercation with his 82-year-old father on April 8, 2018, Nebraska Democratic Party called on him to step aside, which he did on June 25, 2018. This left Peterson running unopposed in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Nevada\nThe 2018 Nevada Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of the U.S. state of Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Nevada\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Adam Laxalt did not run for re-election to a second term and instead ran unsuccessfully for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, New Mexico\nThe 2018 New Mexico Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of the U.S. state of New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, New Mexico\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Hector Balderas ran for re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, New York\nThe 2018 New York Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, New York\nNew York City Public Advocate Letitia James, a Democrat, was elected. James is the first woman and the first African-American to be elected New York attorney general.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, New York\nFormer Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned on May 8, 2018, after allegations of domestic abuse and withdrew from his then-ongoing reelection campaign. Incumbent Solicitor General Barbara Underwood was chosen by the Legislature to complete her unexpired term, but opted not to seek election to a full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, New York\nOn September 13, 2018, James won the Democratic nomination for attorney general, defeating Leecia Eve, former senior policy advisor to U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton; Sean Patrick Maloney, U.S. Representative for New York's 18th congressional district; and Zephyr Teachout, professor at Fordham University School of Law. In the general election, James defeated Republican Party candidate Keith Wofford with over 60% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, New York\nIn the general election, James carried every county won by Andrew Cuomo in the concurrent gubernatorial election as well as Franklin, Clinton, Essex, Orange, Duchess, Columbia, Broome, Cortland and Schenectady counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, North Dakota\nThe 2018 North Dakota Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Attorney General of North Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, North Dakota\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem won re-election against his Democratic-NPL challenger, trial attorney David Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Ohio\nThe 2018 Ohio Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Attorney General of Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 51], "content_span": [52, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Ohio\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine was term-limited and cannot run for a third term as attorney general. DeWine instead ran for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 51], "content_span": [52, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Oklahoma\nThe 2018 Oklahoma Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Oklahoma\nIncumbent Republican attorney general Scott Pruitt was term-limited and could not run for a third term. Pruitt resigned on February 17, 2017, upon being confirmed as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Rhode Island\nThe 2018 Rhode Island Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Rhode Island\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General Peter Kilmartin was term-limited and could not run for re-election to a third term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, South Carolina\nThe 2018 South Carolina Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, South Carolina\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Alan Wilson won re-election to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, South Carolina\nOther Republican candidates included State Representative Todd Atwater, like Wilson, from Lexington and Greenville attorney William Herlong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, South Dakota\nThe 2018 South Dakota attorney general election was held on November 6, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, South Dakota\nIncumbent Attorney General Marty Jackley was term-limited and ran for governor of South Dakota. In June 2018, the South Dakota Republican party nominated Jason Ravnsborg for attorney general and the Democratic party nominated Randy Seiler. Ravnsborg won the election to become the 31st attorney general of South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Texas\nThe 2018 Texas Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Texas\nIncumbent Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton won re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Vermont\nThe 2018 Vermont Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Vermont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Vermont\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General T. J. Donovan (since 2017) was elected to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Wisconsin\nThe 2018 Wisconsin Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Wisconsin\nRepublican incumbent Brad Schimel, first elected in 2014, ran for re-election to a second term. Voting rights attorney and former federal prosecutor Josh Kaul, the Democratic nominee, defeated Schimel in the general election. Terry Larson, the Constitution Party nominee, also garnered around 2% of the vote, greater than the vote difference between Schimel and Kaul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Territories and federal district, District of Columbia\nThe 2018 District of Columbia Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Washington, D.C.. This was the second ever attorney general election in D.C. history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 101], "content_span": [102, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Territories and federal district, Guam\nThe 2018 Guam Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Guam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 85], "content_span": [86, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Territories and federal district, Guam\nIn a primary election on August 25, 2018, Leevin Camacho garnered the most votes (nearly 50%) despite accusations of inexperience from his opponents. He went on to win the general election against Douglas Moylan in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 85], "content_span": [86, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Territories and federal district, Northern Mariana Islands\nThe 2018 Northern Mariana Islands Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of the Northern Mariana Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 105], "content_span": [106, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283429-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 United States attorney general elections, Territories and federal district, Northern Mariana Islands\nDemocratic incumbent Edward Manibusan won re-election with one-hundred percent of the vote as a nonpartisan candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 105], "content_span": [106, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections\nThe 2018 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. These midterm elections occurred during the presidency of Republican Donald Trump. Thirty-five of the 100 seats in the United States Senate and all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives were contested. Thirty-nine state and territorial governorships as well as numerous state and local elections were also contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections\nDemocrats made a net gain of 41 seats in the United States House of Representatives, gaining a majority in the chamber and thereby ending the federal trifecta that the Republican Party had established in the 2016 elections. The Republican Party retained control of the United States Senate, making a net gain of two seats and defeating four Democratic incumbents in states that had voted for Trump in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections\nAs a result of the 2018 elections, the 116th United States Congress became the first Congress since the 99th United States Congress (elected in 1984) in which the Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives and the Republicans controlled the U.S. Senate. It was also the first midterm election cycle since 1970 in which a sitting president's party made net gains in one chamber of Congress while suffering net losses in the other. In the state elections, Democrats gained seven state governorships, control of approximately 350 state legislative seats, and control of six state legislative chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections\nThe elections marked the highest voter turnout seen in midterm elections since 1914, at 49.4%. The elections saw several electoral firsts for women, racial minorities and LGBT candidates, including the election of the first openly gay governor and the first openly bisexual U.S. senator. In various referenda, numerous states voted to expand Medicaid coverage, require voter identification, establish independent redistricting commissions, legalize marijuana, repeal felony disenfranchisement laws and enact other proposals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections\nDuring the campaign, Democrats focused on health care, frequently attacking Republicans for supporting repeal of provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), including protections for individuals with preexisting conditions. They also focused on tying many Republican incumbents and candidates to President Trump, who had low approval ratings at the time of the election. Republican messaging focused on immigration and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. There were allegations of attempted Russian interference in these elections as well as controversies regarding potential voter suppression and other alleged election irregularities. The election was widely characterized as a \"blue wave\" election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Issues, advertisements, and campaigning\nIn May 2018, President Trump began to emphasize his effort to overcome the traditional strength of the non-presidential party in midterm elections, with the \"top priority for the White House [being to hold] the Republican majority in the Senate\". He was already well into his own 2020 reelection campaign, having launched it on his inauguration day in January 2017. By early August, the president's midterm efforts had included rallies in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Montana and elsewhere \"reprising the style and rhetoric of his 2016 campaign\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Issues, advertisements, and campaigning\nHe focused his message on the economy, his proposed border wall, the \"trade war\" with China, criticism of the media, and his proposal to create the space force, a new branch of the military devoted to operations in space. In late August 2018, the Huffington Post reported that Trump and his administration had been engaging in campaign activity on taxpayer-funded trips. According to the report, a top White House staffer identified 35 events by Cabinet and senior staff members \"with or affecting House districts in August already\". White House Deputy Press Secretary Lindsay Walters called the report \"misleading\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Issues, advertisements, and campaigning\nThe 2018 elections featured a wider range and larger number of campaign advertisements than past midterm elections. Almost a third of Republican ads focused on taxes, especially on the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. By mid-October 2018, at a cost of some $124 million, more than 280,000 television advertisements related to immigration had been aired in House, Senate and gubernatorial races, representing a five-fold increase compared to the 2014 cycle. In October 2018, The New York Times and The Washington Post characterized Republicans' 2018 campaign messaging as being chiefly focused on fear-mongering about immigration and race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Issues, advertisements, and campaigning\nAccording to The Washington Post, President Trump \"settled on a strategy of fear\u2014laced with falsehoods and racially tinged rhetoric\u2014to help lift his party to victory in the coming midterms, part of a broader effort to energize Republican voters\". In November 2018, Facebook, NBC, and Fox News withdrew a controversial pro-Trump advertisement that focused on a migrant caravan; Facebook noted that the ad violated Facebook's rules concerning \"sensational content\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Issues, advertisements, and campaigning\nNearly half of all advertisements by Democrats focused on health care, in particular on defending the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act) and keeping in place protections for individuals with preexisting conditions. A number of Republican candidates claimed to support provisions of the Affordable Care Act, such as protections for preexisting conditions, even though they supported efforts that either weakened or eliminated those provisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Issues, advertisements, and campaigning\nIn the final weeks of the campaign, Democrats indicated their desire to keep the focus of the campaign on Republican efforts to repeal provisions of Obamacare through the proposed American Health Care Act of 2017. A Gallup poll conducted days before the election found that voters considered healthcare and the economy to be the top issues among registered voters, though many voters also considered immigration to be a top priority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, Senate\nIn the 2018 elections, Republicans sought to defend the Senate majority they had maintained since the 2014 elections. Thirty-five of the 100 seats were up for election, including all 33 Class\u00a01 Senate seats. Class\u00a02 Senate seats in Minnesota and Mississippi each held special elections to fill vacancies. The Class\u00a01 Senate elections were for terms lasting from January 2019 to January 2025 while the Class\u00a02 special elections were for terms ending in January 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, Senate\n24 of the seats up for election were held by Democrats, two of the seats up for election were held by independents caucusing with the Democrats and nine of the seats up for election were held by Republicans. Three Republican incumbents did not seek election in 2018 while all Democratic and independent incumbents sought another term. 42 Republican senators and 23 Democratic senators were not up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, Senate\nAssuming the two independents won re-election and continued to caucus with them, Senate Democrats needed to win a net gain of two Senate seats to win a majority. Including the two independents, Democrats held approximately 74 percent of the seats up for election, the highest proportion held by one party in a midterm election since at least 1914. Prior to the 2018 elections, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight wrote that Democrats faced one of the most unfavorable Senate maps any party had ever faced in any Senate election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, Senate\nSilver noted that ten of the seats Democrats defended were in states won by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Meanwhile, the Class I Senate seat in Nevada was the lone Republican-held seat up for election in a state that had been won by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Silver predicted that even a nine-point victory in the nationwide popular vote for Congress would not be enough to give Democrats a majority in the Senate. Some observers speculated that Republicans might be able to pick up a net of nine seats, which would give them the 60-seat super-majority necessary to break filibusters on legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, Senate\nRepublicans won a net gain of two seats in the Senate. The 2018 elections were the first midterm elections since 2002 in which the party holding the presidency gained Senate seats. Republicans defeated Democratic incumbents in Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota and Florida. Democrats defeated the Republican incumbent in Nevada and picked up an open seat in Arizona. All four defeated Democratic incumbents represented states won by Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Democratic incumbents tallied victories in the competitive Midwestern states of Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin as well as the key Northeastern swing state of Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, Senate\nMontana and West Virginia, each of which voted for Trump by a margin of at least 20 points, also re-elected Democratic incumbents. After the election, Chris Cillizza of CNN noted that by limiting their Senate losses in 2018, Democrats put themselves in a position to potentially take control of the Senate in the 2020 or 2022 Senate elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, House of Representatives\nIn the 2018 elections, Democrats sought to take control of the United States House of Representatives for the first time since the 2010 elections. All 435 voting seats in the House of Representatives were up for election to serve two-year terms. Additionally, elections were held to select five of the six non-voting delegates for the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, House of Representatives\nThe 2018 House elections saw the largest number of retirements by incumbents of any election cycle since at least 1992. By June 2018, 20 House Democrats and 44 House Republicans, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, had announced their retirement. The disproportionate number of Republican retirements may have harmed Republican prospects in the 2018 mid-term elections due to the loss of incumbency advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, House of Representatives\nDemocrats had 193 seats immediately prior to the November elections, and needed to net at least 25 seats to win a majority in the House of Representatives. In the November elections, Democrats won a net gain of 40 seats. As the elections also saw Democrats fill a couple vacant seats that had previously been controlled by the party, the Democrats won control of a total of 235 seats, while Republicans won control of at least 199 seats. The net gain of 40 seats represented the Democratic Party's largest gain in the House since the 1974 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, House of Representatives\nDemocrats won the nationwide popular vote for the House of Representatives by 8.6 percentage points, one of the highest margins won by either party since 1992. Due in part to the surge in turnout, the total number of votes won by Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives nearly equaled the number of votes Trump won in the 2016 presidential election. The 2018 elections were the third midterm elections since 2006 in which the President's party lost control of the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, House of Representatives\nDemocrats defeated 29 Republican incumbents and picked up 14 open seats. Republicans did not defeat a single Democratic incumbent, though the party did pick up two open seats in Minnesota and one in Pennsylvania. Republicans defended the vast majority of their rural seats, but several urban and suburban seats flipped to the Democrats. Many of the districts picked up by Democrats had given a majority or a plurality of their vote to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Of the 447 individuals who served in the House during the 115th Congress, at least 104 did not win re-election in 2018\u2014this represents the third-highest turnover rate of any election cycle since 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, House of Representatives, Special elections\nThere were a total of eight special elections to the United States House of Representatives in 2018. These elections were held to fill vacancies for the remainder of the 115th Congress. As a result of the special elections held prior to November 6, Democrats won a net gain of one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, House of Representatives, Special elections\nFour special elections were held prior to November 6, 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Federal elections, House of Representatives, Special elections\nFour special elections were held on November 6, 2018, coinciding with the regularly-scheduled elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections\nThe vast majority of states held gubernatorial or state legislative elections in 2018. The 2018 state elections will impact the redistricting that will follow the 2020 United States Census as many states task governors and state legislators with drawing new boundaries for state legislative and Congressional districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Gubernatorial elections\nElections were held for the governorships of 36 U.S. states and three U.S. territories as well as for the Mayor of the District of Columbia. Democrats defended every seat they had controlled prior to the election and picked up seven governorships. They won open seats in Michigan, Nevada, Kansas, New Mexico and Maine and defeated Republican incumbents in Illinois and Wisconsin. They also picked up the independent-held seat in the U.S. Virgin Islands in a runoff election held November 20, 2018. Most of the Democratic victories were in Democratic-leaning states or swing states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Gubernatorial elections\nDemocratic candidates ran well ahead of Hillary Clinton in South Dakota, Oklahoma, Idaho, South Carolina and other \"red states\" that had given large margins to Trump in the 2016 presidential. All of those candidates fell short, however, and Kansas was the lone red state to elect a Democratic governor in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Gubernatorial elections\nRepublicans picked up the independent-held seat in Alaska, and Republican incumbents won election in competitive and Democratic-leaning states such as Arizona, Iowa, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maryland. The party also won competitive open seat elections held in Florida, Georgia and Ohio. Democrats picked up the governorship of Guam, but the incumbent Republican governor of the Northern Marianas Islands won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Legislative elections\nEighty-seven of the 99 state legislative chambers, in 46 states\u20146,069 seats out of the nation's 7,383 legislative seats (82%)\u2014held regularly-scheduled elections. Every territorial legislature except for the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico held elections for at least one chamber. In some legislative chambers, all seats were up for election, but some chambers with staggered terms held elections only for a portion of the seats in the chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Legislative elections\nDemocrats flipped at least 350 state legislative seats, picking up most of those seats in states where President Trump's approval rating was relatively low. Six chambers\u2014the Colorado Senate, New Hampshire House, New Hampshire Senate, Minnesota House, Maine Senate and New York State Senate\u2014flipped from Republican to Democratic control. Additionally the Connecticut Senate went from being evenly divided to a Democratic majority. Democrats also broke Republican legislative supermajorities in North Carolina, Michigan and Pennsylvania and gained a legislative supermajority in both houses of the California, Illinois and Oregon legislatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Legislative elections\nDemocrats gained a trifecta (control of the governor's office and both legislative chambers) in Colorado, Illinois, Connecticut, Maine, New Mexico, New York and Nevada as well as in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Republicans lost trifectas in Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin and New Hampshire. After the election, Democrats have 14 trifectas, Republicans have 21 trifectas, and 14 states have a divided government. Minnesota became the lone state in which each party controlled one house of the state legislature. In Alaska, Republicans won the gubernatorial election and held a majority of the seats in both chambers of the state legislature, but a coalition of independents, Democrats, and Republicans elected independent Bryce Edgmon as Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 855]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Legislative elections\nAll parties presented candidates in more races than usual. The number of Democratic candidates increased to almost 88% of the races in 2018 from 77% in 2014. Parties often do not run in races where the incumbent or other favorite candidate has a very high margin in polls, in order to focus resources on more competitive races with greater chances of success; however, increasing the number of candidates is seen as a way to drive local voter engagement and increase the number of votes for other, more competitive races at an upper level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Legislative elections\nDespite these Democratic gains, the party controlled a total of just 37 state legislative chambers after the election, far fewer chambers than it had controlled prior to the 2010 elections. Tim Storey of the National Conference of State Legislatures attributed the continuing Republican dominance of state legislatures in part to Republican control of redistricting in many states following 2010. In at least three states (Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Michigan), Republicans retained control of the lower house even though a majority of voters voted for a Democratic candidate for the lower house. In many states, Democrats indicated their hope that 2018 would be part of a \"two-cycle process\", with gains in 2018 putting the party within distance of taking control of more state legislative chambers in the 2020 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 897]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Other state elections\nMany states have statewide elected officials other than the governor. Such positions include secretary of state, attorney general, treasurer and auditor. These officials can play important roles in setting policy and overseeing state functions. In 2018, Democrats won attorneys general races in Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado; each position had previously been held by a Republican. After the elections, Democrats held 27 of the 50 attorneys general positions in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Other state elections\nDemocrats also won control of the office of secretary of state in Michigan, Arizona, and Colorado, although Republicans still held a majority of the elected secretary of state positions nationwide. Other offices that Democrats won control of in 2018 include the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Maine State Treasurer, the Iowa State Auditor and the Florida Commissioner of Agriculture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Attorney General\nAttorneys General were elected in 30 states, 2 territories, and the District of Columbia. 43 states elect their Attorney General, and 7 are appointed through other processes. The previous Attorney General elections for this group of states took place in 2014, except in Vermont where Attorneys General only serve two-year terms and elected their current Attorney General in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Attorney General\nDemocrats gained 4 elected Attorney General offices, Republicans gained zero offices. This caused Democratic Attorney Generals to constitute a majority of elected Attorneys General in U.S. states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Ballot measures\nA total of 157 ballot measures were voted on in 34 states. These include initiatives on redistricting reform, voting rights, marijuana, infrastructure, health care and taxes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Ballot measures\nAs a result of successful ballot measures, Colorado, Michigan and Utah established independent redistricting commissions while Nebraska, Utah and Idaho expanded access to Medicaid. Florida voters approved Florida Amendment\u00a04, which restored voting rights to some felons who have served out their sentence and banned off shore drilling, vaping in indoor work spaces, and gambling institutions related to dog racing. Nevada and Michigan approved automatic voter registration, and Michigan expanded absentee voting. Also, Maryland approved same-day voter registration, allowing voters to register as late as on Election Day. In Arkansas and North Carolina, voter ID ballot measures were approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, State elections, Ballot measures\nMichigan, Missouri and Utah voters approved marijuana proposals, with Michigan approving recreational marijuana and Missouri approving medical marijuana. Utah voters also approved medical marijuana, although Utah lawmakers later rolled back some of the provisions of the measure. North Dakota voters voted down a proposal to legalize recreational marijuana. In California, voters declined to repeal the 2017 Road Repair and Accountability Act, which increased fuel taxes and vehicle license fees to fund infrastructure improvements. Nationwide, 96 transportation ballot measures worth about $30.68 billion passed at the state and local levels on Election Day\u201441 transportation-related ballot measures failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Local elections, Mayoral elections\nIncumbent candidates won in mayoral elections held in major cities, including Anchorage, Alaska (Ethan Berkowitz); Austin, Texas (Steve Adler); Oakland, California (Libby Schaaf); Providence, Rhode Island (Jorge Elorza); and Washington, D.C. (Muriel Bowser). The District of Columbia and Oakland each re-elected mayors for the first time since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Local elections, Mayoral elections\nIncumbent mayors were also re-elected in Chesapeake, Virginia (Richard West); Chula Vista, California (Mary Salas); Irvine, California (Donald P. Wagner); Long Beach, California (Robert Garcia); Louisville, Kentucky (Greg Fischer); Lubbock, Texas (Dan Pope); Newark, New Jersey (Ras J. Baraka); Reno, Nevada (Hillary Schieve); San Jose, California (Sam Liccardo); and Santa Ana, California (Miguel Pulido). In San Bernardino, California, John Valdivia defeated incumbent Mayor R. Carey Davis. Open seats were won in Anaheim, California (Harry Sidhu); Chandler, Arizona (Kevin Hartke); Garland, Texas (Lori Barnett-Dodson); and Trenton, New Jersey (Reed Gusciora). In Oklahoma City, David Holt, a member of the Osage Nation, was the first Native American to be elected mayor. In Fort Smith, Arkansas, George McGill won an open seat and became the city's first black mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 936]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Local elections, Mayoral elections\nMayoral elections in November 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona, and Corpus Christi and Laredo, Texas, as well as Little Rock, Arkansas, resulted in no single candidate carrying a majority of the vote. Frank Scott Jr. won the December 2018 runoff to become Little Rock's first elected African-American mayor. In Texas, incumbents won their runoff races in Laredo (Pete Saenz) and Corpus Christi (Joe McComb). The Phoenix mayoral runoff was held in March 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Local elections, Mayoral elections\nAlthough most local offices are nonpartisan, when looking at party identification of the officeholders, registered Republicans gained two mayorships during 2018. Linda Gorton won a seat previously held by a Democrat in Lexington, Kentucky and Bob Dyer won a seat previously held by an independent in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Following the November elections, registered Democrats hold 60 mayorships (\u22121) in the 100 largest cities in the United States, registered Republicans hold 28 (+2) and independents hold\u00a07 (\u22121).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Tribal elections\nSeveral notable Native American tribes held elections for top tribal leadership positions during 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Tribal elections\nOsage Nation Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, San Carlos Apache Nation Tribal Chairman Terry Rambler, and Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina Tribal Chairman Harvey Godwin Jr. were all re-elected to second terms. Penobscot Nation Tribal Chief Kirk Francis was re-elected to a fifth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Tribal elections\nNavajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, Oglala Sioux Tribe President Julian Bear Runner, Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Rodney Bordeaux, Tunica-BiloxiTribe Chairman Marshall Pierite, Yurok Tribal Chief Joe James, and United Houma Nation Principal Chief August \"Cocoa\" Creppel all won open seats. White Mountain Apache Tribal Chairwoman Gwendena Lee-Gatewood won an open seat to become the first woman elected to lead the tribe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Tribal elections\nOusted Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council President L. Jace Killsback was re-elected by two votes in a special election on January\u00a02 after being removed from office in October 2017. He resigned from the position in October 2018 due to conflicts with the Tribal Council, triggering a new special election for January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Turnout\nA total of 49.4 percent of eligible voters voted in 2018, compared to a turnout of just 36.0 percent of eligible voters in 2014. The 2018 elections had highest turnout of any mid-term election held since the 1914 elections. Twenty-three states had double-digit percentage-point increases compared to average turnout in midterm elections held between 1982 and 2014. Georgia had the greatest increase over its 1982-2014 midterm average. Its 55% turnout was 21 points higher. Texas had a turnout of 46% which was 14 points higher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Turnout\nThe United States Election Project estimated that 40 million early voters cast ballots before election day, breaking the record for the number of early votes. Some states, such as Texas and Nevada, reported that officials had received more early ballots than the total number of ballots processed in the 2014 midterm election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Records and firsts\nA total of $5.7 billion was spent in the 2018 elections for House and Senate races, the most expensive midterm race ever. The single most expensive race was the Florida U.S. Senate campaign, in which candidates and outside groups spent $209 million to support or oppose Democratic nominee Bill Nelson and Republican nominee Rick Scott, the latter of whom spent over $63 million of his personal fortune on his candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Records and firsts\nThe 2018 elections saw a number of significant successes for women candidates. Following the 2018 election, there was a record number of women (127) in the 116th Congress, up from 110 in the previous 115th Congress. The share of women members in the 116th is 23.7 percent, up from 20.6 percent. The number of Democratic women in the House increased by 25, while Republican women in the House declined by 10. The number of women in the Senate increased by three, with 2 Democrats and 1 Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Records and firsts\nThe 2018 elections also saw a number of significant successes for LGBT candidates and religious and ethnic minorities. Jared Polis, who was elected governor of Colorado, became the first openly gay man to be elected governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Records and firsts\nIlhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan became the first Muslim women elected to the House of Representatives; Ayanna Pressley became the first female African-American Representative from Massachusetts; Sharice Davids of Kansas and Deb Haaland of New Mexico became the first Native American women elected to Congress, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York became the youngest-ever female member of the House at age 29. Other candidates failed to achieve historic firsts, including gubernatorial candidates Christine Hallquist (D-VT) and Paulette Jordan (D-ID).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0042-0002", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Records and firsts\nHallquist was the first transgender person to be a major party's nominee for governor and would have been the first transgender governor, but lost to incumbent Republican Phil Scott in the general election, and Jordan, who would have been the first Native American female governor, lost to Republican Brad Little in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Records and firsts\nFollowing the 2018 election, Minnesota became the only state in which each party controlled one chamber of the state legislature, though in Alaska, Republicans controlled one chamber and a cross-party coalition controlled the other. This represented the fewest divided legislatures since the 1914 elections, when there only one state with a divided legislature. Nevada became the first state in U.S. history to have an overall female majority in the state legislature, with women holding 23 of 42 seats in the state Assembly and nine of 21 seats in the state Senate. Women made up the majority of a single state legislative chamber, rather than the entire state legislature, on one previous occasion, in the 2009-2010 New Hampshire State Senate. The 2018 elections also saw Guam elect a female majority to their territorial legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 885]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Ballot controversies and recounts, Arizona\nIn Arizona, a court settlement was reached on November 9 between Democrats and Republicans after Republicans filed a lawsuit on November\u00a07 to attempt to prevent Maricopa and Pima counties from using procedures that permit mail-in ballot fixes to occur beyond election day. The settlement gave all counties until November 14 to address problems with the ballots for the state's Senate race. Ultimately, Republican candidate Martha McSally conceded the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Ballot controversies and recounts, Florida\nRecounts of ballots were ordered for Florida's Senate, governor, and agriculture commissioner races on November 10 after the tallies from 67 counties were deemed too close to call. Due to the recount ordered, Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum withdrew his earlier concession to Republican candidate Ron DeSantis. In total eight lawsuits were filed in the days after November 7. After recounts were held for each race, the Democratic candidates for Senate and governor and the Republican candidate for agriculture commissioner all conceded between November 17 and November 19. On November 19, the Supervisor of Elections for Broward County, Florida, Brenda Snipes, announced her resignation from her post, effective January 4, 2019, after national scrutiny led to widespread condemnation by Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Ballot controversies and recounts, Georgia\nIn Georgia, a judge placed a temporary restraining order on Doughterty County results on November\u00a09 as, among other things, some of the 14,000 absentee ballots were allegedly re-routed through Tallahassee due to Hurricane Michael, resulting in a delay to the county election office certifying its results. On November 17, Georgia Secretary of State Robyn Crittenden certified the election result, a day after the restraining order expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Ballot controversies and recounts, Georgia\nBefore the election there were allegations of voter suppression raised in Georgia, as well as outcry that candidate Brian Kemp did not resign from his position as Secretary of State, which oversaw the election. On November 12, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams filed a lawsuit to prevent two counties from rejecting absentee ballots with minor mistakes, such as if a voter moved and had not changed their address. During her concession speech on November 16, Abrams announced her plans to file a federal lawsuit challenging the way the state elections were run. She alleged that Kemp used his position of Secretary of State and its office to aggressively purge the rolls of inactive voters, enforce an \"exact match\" policy for checking voters' identities that left many voters in limbo and other measures to tip the election in his favor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 926]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Ballot controversies and recounts, North Carolina\nThe North Carolina Board of Elections voted unanimously on December\u00a04 to not certify the congressional race in North Carolina's 9th district after allegations of potential widespread election fraud in the district. The board then declared a public hearing for December 21 to ensure the election was without corruption. The Washington Post reported on December\u00a05 that the board had collected as evidence of election fraud six sworn statements from voters in Bladen County alleging that individuals called on them to pick up their absentee ballots. Incoming Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced that the House of Representatives would not seat the apparent winner, Republican Mark Harris, until the fraud investigation had been completed, leaving it vacant at the start of the 116th United States Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 79], "content_span": [80, 896]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Ballot controversies and recounts, North Carolina\nAfter a delay caused by a restructuring of the board, hearings resumed on February 18, 2019. On that day the regulator reported that it had found evidence of \"a coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme\" that may have involved more than a thousand ballots or ballot request forms. The board then unanimously voted on February 21, 2019, to call a new election, which was held on September 10, 2019. Harris declined to run in the special election, and the GOP instead nominated Dan Bishop, a Republican state senator. Democratic candidate Dan McCready again sought and received the Democratic nomination. The race was regarded as being a toss-up and a potential bellwether for the 2020 presidential election; Bishop ultimately won by about two percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 79], "content_span": [80, 871]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Foreign interference\nIn early 2018, six U.S. intelligence agencies unanimously reported their conclusion that Russian personnel were monitoring American electoral systems and promoting partisan causes on social media. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats stated during congressional testimony that \"the United States [was] under attack\" from Russian efforts to impact the results of the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0050-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Foreign interference\nUnited States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned in a committee hearing that the federal government was not adequately protected from Russian interference in the 2018 midterm elections, saying: \"No responsible government official would ever state that they have done enough to forestall any attack on the United States of America\". At the July 2018 Russia\u2013United States summit, President Trump downplayed the conclusions of the United States Intelligence Community, stating that he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin's repeated denials of interference in American elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0050-0002", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Foreign interference\nTrump would later accuse China of meddling in the U.S. midterm elections, asserting that \"they don't want me or us to win\" because of his imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods. In August 2018, Coats and FBI director Christopher Wray announced at a White House press conference that Russia was actively interfering in the 2018 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Foreign interference\nIn July 2018, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill alleged that Russian hackers unsuccessfully attempted to break into her Senate email account. The following month, NPR reported that Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen from New Hampshire reported to the FBI several attempts to compromise her campaign including both spearphishing attempts on her staff and a disturbing incident where someone called her offices \"impersonating a Latvian official, trying to set up a meeting to talk [about] Russian sanctions and about Ukraine\". Her opposition to Russian aggression and support of sanctions had placed her on an official Russian blacklist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0051-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Foreign interference\nOn August 8, 2018, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson from Florida told the Tampa Bay Times that Russian operatives had penetrated some of Florida's election systems, though he was criticized by The Washington Post's Fact Checker for providing no evidence of Russian hacking. In 2019, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation on Russian interference in the 2016 election concluded \"at least one Florida county\" was successfully penetrated, and Governor Ron DeSantis said voter databases in two counties had been successfully penetrated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Foreign interference\nOn December 22, 2018, Coats reported that there was no evidence of vote tampering, but that \"influence operations\" had persisted. \"The activity we did see was consistent with what we shared in the weeks leading up to the election. Russia, and other foreign countries, including China and Iran, conducted influence activities and messaging campaigns targeted at the United States to promote their strategic interests\". That same month, Politico reported that the National Republican Congressional Committee had been hacked, though it was unclear which group was responsible for the data breach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Foreign interference\nThe Voice of America reported in April 2020 that \"U.S. intelligence agencies concluded the Chinese hackers meddled in both the 2016 and 2018 elections\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Aftermath and reactions\nThe Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives gave the Democratic Party the ability to block Republican legislation in the 116th United States Congress, which met from January 2019 to January 2021. The takeover also gave the Democrats control of congressional committees, along with the accompanying power to issue subpoenas and conduct investigations. Continued Republican control of the Senate gave the Republican Party the opportunity to confirm President Trump's nominees without Democratic support. During the 116th Congress, the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed numerous Trump-appointed judges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Aftermath and reactions\nAfter the election, despite the Democratic takeover of the House, President Trump claimed he had won a \"big victory\". He indicated that he looked forward to \"a beautiful bipartisan-type situation\" but promised to assume a \"warlike posture\" if House Democrats launched investigations as attacks on his administration. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi asserted that her party won gains because of voter desire to \"[restore] the Constitution's checks and balances to the Trump administration\". Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Senate Democrats performed \"much better than expected\" in a difficult election cycle. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said election day was \"a very good day\" for his party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Aftermath and reactions\nThe election was widely characterized as a \"blue wave\" election. At the end of election night, Democratic gains in the House appeared modest and the Democratic candidates trailed in Senate races in Arizona and Montana and looked set to make a net loss of as many as four Senate seats, leading some news outlets to characterize the election as a \"split decision\" whereas other outlets described it as a \"blue wave\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0056-0001", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Aftermath and reactions\nHowever, over the next days and weeks, Democrats won several seats in the House and won the Arizona and Montana Senate elections, leading to a re-evaluation of the initial election night analyses. One week after the election, Nathaniel Rakich of FiveThirtyEight said the election was \"by any historical standard, a blue wave\". Two weeks after the election, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight wrote: \"There shouldn't be much question about whether 2018 was a wave election. Of course it was a wave\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0056-0002", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Aftermath and reactions\nIt was third-largest midterm change of seats for either party in the House in the post-Watergate era, and the largest Democratic House gain since 1974. In Ohio and North Carolina, Democrats failed to pick up a single seat despite winning close to half the vote. While Democrats won almost half the vote in Ohio, they only won a quarter of its House elections. The New York Times asserted that gerrymandering affected the outcomes of races in those states. Democrats also made among the largest gains in House seats in Pennsylvania, where the state Supreme Court had struck down a heavily gerrymandered map that favored Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Aftermath and reactions\nResearch has found that Republicans who voted for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act got lower vote shares in the 2018 election. Studies also show that Trump's implementation of tariffs that adversely affected the U.S. economy adversely affected Republican outcomes in the 2018 election. Racism and sexism was a stronger predictor of the vote in the House than it had been in the 2016 election, as less sexist and less racist voters switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283430-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 United States elections, Table of state, territorial and federal results\nThis table shows the partisan results of Congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative races held in each state and territories in 2018. Note that not all states and territories held gubernatorial, state legislative, and United States Senate elections in 2018\u2014the territories and Washington, D.C. do not elect members of the United States Senate. Washington, D.C. and the five inhabited territories each elect one non-voting member of the United States House of Representatives. Nebraska's unicameral legislature and the governorship and legislature of American Samoa are officially non-partisan. Several seats in the House of Representatives were vacant at the time of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 77], "content_span": [78, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283431-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States embassy attack in Podgorica\nOn 22 February 2018, a Serbian-born man threw an explosive grenade inside the embassy of the United States in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. He then blew himself up outside the compound with another explosive. The attack occurred around midnight when the embassy was closed, and nobody was wounded. Russian authorities denied any involvement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283431-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States embassy attack in Podgorica, Perpetrator\nDalibor Jaukovi\u0107 was born in 1976 in Kraljevo, Serbia, and formerly served in the Yugoslav Army. He was a veteran of the Kosovo War. The U.S. State Department noted that Jaukovi\u0107 was opposed to Montenegro's membership of NATO (Montenegro joined in 2017).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 59], "content_span": [60, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283432-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States farm bill\nThe 2018 farm bill or Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 is United States legislation that reauthorized many expenditures in the prior United States farm bill: the Agricultural Act of 2014. The $867 billion reconciled farm bill was passed by the Senate on December 11, 2018, and by the House on December 12. On December 20, 2018, it received President Donald Trump's signature and became law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283432-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States farm bill, History\nOn May 18, 2018, the $867 billion farm bill failed in the House of Representatives with a vote of 198 yea to 213 nay. All Democrats and 30 Republicans voted against the measure. Republican opposition came largely from the Freedom Caucus who disagreed with its provisions that would liberalize immigration policy. Jim Jordan, a Freedom Caucus member said \"My main focus was making sure we do immigration policy right.\" Democratic opposition was largely due to the proposed changes to the attached Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that would impose work requirements. In the runup to introduction in Congress, the American Soybean Association had opposed any cuts versus the 2014 version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283432-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States farm bill, History\nOn September 30, some provisions of the 2014 farm bill expired without a replacement while others were funded through end of calendar year 2018. Sticking points were said to be SNAP work requirements, commodity and energy policy, funding, and cotton and other crop subsidies. In late November, a compromise had been reached, removing SNAP work requirements, and the legislation was voted on and passed by the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283432-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States farm bill, Provisions\nThe bill \"largely continues current farm and nutrition policy\", and does not include new requirements for SNAP (food stamps) recipients, but did increase funding for the SNAP Employment and Training Program. The bill also reauthorized Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations, The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), Commodity Supplemental Food Program, and other nutrition programs. The 2018 Farm Bill also increased funding for TEFAP and the Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive grant program. Some previously temporary programs were made permanent in the 2018 farm bill including promotional funds for farmers markets, organic farming research funds, funding of organizing and education of future farmers, and funding for veteran and minority farmers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283432-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States farm bill, Provisions\nIncorporating some of the text of the Hemp Farming Act of 2018, the farm bill descheduled some cannabis products from the Controlled Substances Act for the first time. One estimate put the U.S. CBD market at $2.3 billion to $23 billion by the 2020s, enabled by the 2018 farm bill. U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell was such a proponent of the hemp provision that American Military News reported that McConnell coined the hashtag #HempFarmBill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283432-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States farm bill, Provisions\nThe 2018 Farm Bill establishes a new federal hemp regulatory system under the US Department of Agriculture which aims to facilitate the commercial cultivation, processing, and marketing of hemp. The 2018 Farm Bill removes hemp and hemp seeds from the statutory definition of marijuana and the DEA schedule of Controlled Substances. It even makes hemp an eligible crop under the federal crop insurance program. The 2018 Farm Bill also allows the transfer of hemp and hemp-derived products across state lines provided the hemp was lawfully produced under a State or Indian Tribal plan or under a license issued under the USDA plan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283432-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States farm bill, Provisions\nAdditional revenue to farmers and processors is expected from textiles and other hemp products. The Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act of 2018 was passed as part of the bill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283432-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States farm bill, Provisions\nA new report from the Brightfield Group with the passage of the 2018 Agriculture Act predicts the market for hemp-derived CBD to reach $ 22 billion by 2022.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget\nThe United States federal budget for fiscal year 2018, which ran from October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2018, was named America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again. It was the first budget proposed by newly elected president Donald Trump, submitted to the 115th Congress on March 16, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget\nThe government was initially funded through a series of five temporary continuing resolutions. The final funding package was passed as an omnibus spending bill, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, enacted on March 23, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Background\nDonald Trump was elected as President of the United States in the November 8, 2016 election, campaigning for the Republican Party on a platform of tax cuts and projects like the Mexican border wall. During his campaign, Trump promised to cut federal spending and taxes for individuals and corporations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Trump administration budget proposal\nThe Trump administration proposed its 2018 budget on February 27, 2017, ahead of his address to Congress, outlining $54 billion in cuts to federal agencies and an increase in defense spending. On March 16, 2017, President Trump sent his budget proposal to Congress, remaining largely unchanged from the initial proposal. The OMB estimated FY2018 would involve outlays of $4.094 trillion and revenues of $3.654 trillion, a $440 billion deficit. The 2018\u20132027 period planned $48.901T in outlays and $45.751T in revenues, a $3.15T deficit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Trump administration budget proposal, CBO scoring of the budget\nThe Congressional Budget Office reported its evaluation of the budget on July 13, 2017, including its effects over the 2018\u20132027 period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 98], "content_span": [99, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Trump administration budget proposal, Department and program changes\nThe proposed 2018 budget includes $54 billion in cuts to federal departments, and a corresponding increase in defense and military spending.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 103], "content_span": [104, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Trump administration budget proposal, Department and program changes\nThe $971 million budget for arts and cultural agencies, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities, would be eliminated entirely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 103], "content_span": [104, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Trump administration budget proposal, Criticism\nA recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, economist Joseph Stiglitz said about the 2018 budget proposal: \"Trump's budget takes a sledgehammer to what remains of the American Dream\". Senator Bernie Sanders also criticized the proposal: \"This is a budget which says that if you are a member of the Trump family, you may receive a tax break of up to $4 billion, but if you are a child of a working-class family, you could well lose the health insurance you currently have through the Children's Health Insurance Program and massive cuts to Medicaid\". The actual text of the budget blueprint did not seem to include any cuts to CHIP or Medicaid at the time; however, the ultimate Senate bill stipulates that extension of CHIP funding will not increase the deficit, while not mentioning Medicaid, which did not require extension for FY2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 938]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Congressional budget resolution\nOn October 17, 2017, the Senate started to debate the 2018 proposed budget. On October 19, 2017, Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) proposed an amendment to prevent tax increases on people making less than $250,000 a year. It would have also required the Senate to approve a tax-reform bill with 60 votes rather than a simple majority. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) called this language a \u201cpoison pill,\u201d and the amendment was defeated 51-47. Several Republican amendments were adopted with broad support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Congressional budget resolution\nSenator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) proposed language to make the \u201cAmerican tax system simpler and fairer for all Americans,\u201d which passed 98-0. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) proposed an amendment in support of increasing the child tax credit, which passed by voice vote, meaning it was approved without any Senator raising an issue. Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, offered an amendment to ensure increases in federal defense spending are prioritized over increases in spending in other areas. \u201cDefense and nondefense are not of the same urgency,\u201d he told reporters Thursday. \u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Related fiscal legislation, Appropriations\nOn September 8, 2017, Trump signed the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 and Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Requirements Act, 2017. The bill contained a continuing resolution and a suspension of the debt ceiling lasting until December 8, as well as additional disaster funding for FY2017. Two additional continuing resolutions were passed: the Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 () funding the government through December 22, 2017, and the Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 () funding it through January 19, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Related fiscal legislation, Appropriations\nAs of January 19, 2018, the Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 was under consideration to extend funding through February 16, 2018. The failure of the bill to pass the Senate led to the first federal government shutdown of 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Related fiscal legislation, Appropriations\nOn Friday, February 9, funding lapsed again at midnight after Senator Rand Paul delayed the vote on the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, which included another continuing resolution, by objecting to measures requiring unanimous consent to expedite the parliamentary process. In addition, its passage was uncertain in the House due to opposition by both fiscal conservatives who objected to the increased deficit spending, and by liberals who opposed the omission of a DACA provision. However, it passed the Senate 71\u201328 and the House 240\u2013186 after midnight, and President Trump signed the bill early that morning, prior to when furloughs were to begin. In all, the funding gap lasted nine hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Related fiscal legislation, Appropriations\nOn the evening of March 21, 2018, the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 was released, with Congress expecting to approve it within two days. In March 2018, the House passed the legislation in a 256\u2013167 vote and the Senate with 65\u201332. President Trump signed it into law on 23 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Related fiscal legislation, Revenue\nOn December 20, 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, two days after which President Trump signed it into law. It made changes to personal and commercial income taxes, among other changes, taking effect in January 2018. After accounting for macroeconomic feedback effects, the Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that it will add a net of approximately $1 trillion to the federal debt over the period 2018\u20132027.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283433-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States federal budget, Deficit\nThere was a deficit of $779 billion in the 2018 fiscal year, the highest in six years, despite the fact that the Administration requested a $100 billion decrease in the deficit instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections\nThe 2018 United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 6, 2018, in 36 states and three territories. These elections formed part of the 2018 United States elections. Other coinciding elections were the 2018 United States Senate elections and the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections. The last regular gubernatorial elections for all but three of the states took place in 2014. Governors in New Hampshire and Vermont serve two-year terms, meaning that their most recent gubernatorial elections took place in 2016. Meanwhile, Oregon held a special election in 2016 to fill an unexpired term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections\nMany of the states holding gubernatorial elections have term limits which made some multi-term governors ineligible for re-election. Two Democratic governors were term-limited while six incumbent Democratic governors were eligible for re-election. Among Republican governors, twelve were term-limited while eleven could seek re-election. One independent governor was eligible for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections\nElections were held in 26 of the 33 states with Republican governors, nine of the 16 states with Democratic governors, one state (Alaska) with an independent governor, two territories (Guam and Northern Mariana Islands) with Republican governors, one territory (U.S. Virgin Islands) with an independent governor, and the District of Columbia with a Democratic mayor. Incumbent state governors running to be reelected included 14 Republicans, five Democrats, and one independent. Territorial incumbents running included one Republican and one independent. The incumbent Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C. also ran for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections\nDemocrats gained control of nine state and territorial governorships that had previously been held by Republicans and an independent. They picked up Republican-held open seats in the states of Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, and New Mexico, in addition to defeating Republican incumbents in Illinois and Wisconsin and not losing any seats of their own. Additionally, they won the Republican controlled territory of Guam and the independent controlled territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Republicans won the governorship of Alaska previously held by an independent. Democrats also won the total popular vote for the year's gubernatorial elections for the second year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Election predictions\nSeveral sites and individuals publish predictions of competitive seats. These predictions look at factors such as the strength of the incumbent (if the incumbent is running for re-election), the strength of the candidates, and the partisan leanings of the state (reflected in part by the state's Cook Partisan Voting Index rating). The predictions assign ratings to each seat, with the rating indicating the predicted advantage that a party has in winning that seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Election predictions\nMost election predictors use \"tossup\" to indicate that neither party has an advantage, \"lean\" to indicate that one party has a slight advantage, \"likely\" or \"favored\" to indicate that one party has a significant but not insurmountable advantage and \"safe\" or \"solid\" to indicate that one party has a near-certain chance of victory. Some predictions also include a \"tilt\" rating that indicates that one party has an advantage that is not quite as strong as the \"lean\" rating would indicate (except Fox News, where \"likely\" is the highest rating given). Governors whose names are in parentheses are not contesting the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Closest races\nRed denotes states won by Republicans. Blue denotes states won by Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Race summary, Federal district\nWashington, D.C. currently does not have a governor due to its current status as a federal district, but it does have a mayor with mayoral elections every four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 74], "content_span": [75, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Alabama\nIncumbent Kay Ivey took office upon Robert Bentley's resignation in April 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Alaska\nOne-term incumbent Bill Walker ran for re-election as an independent but dropped out of the race on October 19 to endorse Mark Begich (several days after Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallott resigned and several weeks before election day).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Alaska\nFormer Alaska Senate member Mike Dunleavy won the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Alaska\nFormer U.S. Senator Mark Begich ran uncontested for the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Alaska\nBilly Tolein ran for governor on the Libertarian party ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Arizona\nLibertarian candidate for president in 2016 Kevin McCormick declared his candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Arkansas\nJared Henderson, a former state executive director for Teach For America, won the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, California\nTwo-term consecutive, four-term non-consecutive Governor Jerry Brown was term-limited, as California governors are limited to lifetime service of two terms in office. Brown previously served as governor from 1975 to 1983; California law affects only terms served after 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, California\nNewsom won election in a landslide, breaking the record for the largest number of votes received in a gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Colorado\nTwo-term Governor John Hickenlooper was term-limited, as Colorado does not allow governors to serve three consecutive terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Connecticut\nTwo-term Governor Dan Malloy was eligible to seek re-election, but declined do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Connecticut\nThe Democratic nominee was former selectman from Greenwich Ned Lamont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Connecticut\nRepublicans endorsed Mark Boughton, mayor of Danbury, at the statewide nominating convention held on May 11 and 12, 2018, at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard. Candidates qualifying to primary at the convention were former First Selectman of Trumbull Tim Herbst and former candidate for Congress Steve Obsitnik. Failing to qualify at the convention to primary were Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti, former secretary of state candidate Peter Lumaj, state representative Prasad Srinivasan, former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker and Stamford Director of Administration, Mike Handler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Connecticut\nBusinessman Bob Stefanowski became the second candidate in the history of Connecticut to petition to be on the primary ballot on June 18, 2018, and the first for a gubernatorial race. Businessman David Stemerman became the third to do so on June 19, 2018. Neither Stefanowski nor Stemerman participated in the statewide convention. Both Lauretti and Handler pledged to conduct a petition drive to get on the August 14, 2018, primary election ballot, but dropped out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Connecticut\nMicah Welintukonis, former vice chair of the Coventry Town Council ran as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Florida\nTwo-term Governor Rick Scott was term-limited, as Florida does not allow governors to serve three consecutive terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Georgia\nTwo-term Governor Nathan Deal was term-limited, as Georgia does not allow governors to serve three consecutive terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Georgia\nLieutenant Governor Casey Cagle and Secretary of State Brian Kemp won first and second place in the May 22 Republican primary; Cagle lost the runoff to Kemp on July 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Georgia\nTed Metz, chair of the Libertarian Party of Georgia, ran unopposed in the Libertarian primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Hawaii\nOne-term Governor David Ige ran for re-election. Ige took office after defeating previous Governor Neil Abercrombie in the Democratic primary and then winning the general election. Ige was nominated again, after defeating a primary challenge by Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Hawaii\nThe Republican nominee was state house minority leader Andria Tupola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Idaho\nThree-term Governor Butch Otter was eligible to seek re-election, but did not do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Idaho\nPaulette Jordan, a former state representative, was nominated in the Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Illinois\nOne-term incumbent Republican Bruce Rauner ran for re-election. State Representative Jeanne Ives also ran for the Republican nomination, but lost narrowly to Rauner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Illinois\nOn the Democratic side, Madison County Regional Superintendent of Schools Bob Daiber, former chairman of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and member of the Kennedy family Chris Kennedy, State Representative Scott Drury, State Senator Daniel Biss, and venture capitalist J. B. Pritzker all ran for the Democratic nomination. Pritzker, who is related to former United States Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, won the primary, and became one of the wealthiest governors in United States history upon election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Illinois\nLibertarian candidate Kash Jackson was nominated at the state party convention on March 3. He defeated Matt Scaro and Jon Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Iowa\nIncumbent Governor Kim Reynolds took office in 2017, upon the resignation of Terry Branstad, following his confirmation as ambassador to China. Reynolds is seeking election to a full term in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Iowa\nFormer gubernatorial aide John Norris, state Senator Nate Boulton, former state party chairwoman Andy McGuire, SEIU leader Cathy Glasson, attorney Jon Neiderbach, former Iowa City Mayor Ross Wilburn, and businessman Fred Hubbell sought the Democratic nomination, which Hubbell won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Iowa\nJake Porter, who was the Libertarian nominee for secretary of state in 2010 and 2014, is running for the Libertarian nomination for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Kansas\nJeff Colyer succeeded Sam Brownback in January 2018 after he was confirmed as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Kansas\nSecretary of State Kris Kobach defeated Governor Colyer, Kansas Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer, former state Senator Jim Barnett, and former state Representative Mark Hutton for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Kansas\nBusinessman Greg Orman, who finished second in the 2014 U.S. Senate election in Kansas, ran as an Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Maine\nTwo-term governor Paul LePage was term-limited, as Maine does not allow governors to serve three consecutive terms. LePage won re-election in a three-way race over Democrat Mike Michaud and independent Eliot Cutler, in 2014. The primary election was June 12, and conducted with ranked choice voting, a system recently implemented and being used for the first time in the 2018 elections in Maine. It was not used in the general election due to an advisory opinion by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court calling its use in general elections for state offices unconstitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Maine\nBusinessman and 2010 independent candidate for governor Shawn Moody won the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Maine\nTwo independent candidates qualified for the ballot; State Treasurer Terry Hayes and businessman and newspaper columnist Alan Caron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Maryland\nFormer president of the NAACP Benjamin Jealous was the Democratic nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Maryland\nGreen Party candidate and entrepreneur Ian Schlakman sought his party's nomination. Libertarian Shawn Quinn was nominated the LP's candidate by convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Massachusetts\nFormer State Secretary of Administration and Finance Jay Gonzalez, environmentalist Bob Massie, and former Newton Mayor Setti Warren have announced their candidacies for the Democratic nomination. Warren withdrew from the race, leaving only Gonzalez and Massie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Michigan\nTwo-term Governor Rick Snyder was term-limited, as Michigan does not allow governors to serve more than two terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Michigan\nAttorney General Bill Schuette, Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley, state Senator Patrick Colbeck, and physician Jim Hines were seeking the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Michigan\nFormer state Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer, former executive director of the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion Abdul El-Sayed, and businessman Shri Thanedar were seeking the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Michigan\nBill Gelineau and John Tatar were seeking the Libertarian nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Minnesota\nTwo-term Governor Mark Dayton was eligible to seek re-election, but did not do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Minnesota\nThe Democratic-Farmer-Labor nominee was U.S. Representative Tim Walz. The Republican nominee was Hennepin County Commissioner and 2014 gubernatorial nominee Jeff Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Minnesota\nFormer Independence Party Governor Jesse Ventura expressed interest in running again, but ultimately declined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Nebraska\nOne-term incumbent Pete Ricketts ran for re-election. Former Governor Dave Heineman considered a primary challenge to Ricketts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Nebraska\nState Senator Bob Krist won the Democratic nomination. He intended to create a third party to run, but abandoned this plan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Nevada\nTwo-term Governor Brian Sandoval was term-limited, as Nevada does not allow governors to serve more than two terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Nevada\nAttorney General Adam Laxalt and State Treasurer Dan Schwartz ran for the Republican nomination, which Laxalt won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Nevada\nClark County Commissioners Steve Sisolak and Chris Giunchigliani sought the Democratic nomination, which Sisolak won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, New Hampshire\nChris Sununu, who was elected in 2016 by a margin of two percent, sought re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, New Hampshire\nFormer Portsmouth mayor and 2016 candidate Steve Marchand and former State Senator Molly Kelly ran for the Democratic nomination. Kelly won the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, New Mexico\nTwo-term Governor Susana Martinez was term-limited, as New Mexico does not allow governors to serve three consecutive terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, New Mexico\nU.S. Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham faced U.S. Representative Steve Pearce in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, New York\nTwo-term Governor Andrew Cuomo ran for re-election, as New York does not have gubernatorial term limits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, New York\nActress and activist Cynthia Nixon challenged Cuomo for the Democratic Party nomination, but did not win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, New York\nLibertarian Larry Sharpe was the first opponent to declare his candidacy in the race, declaring his candidacy on July 12, 2017 \u2013 and won the Libertarian nomination for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Ohio\nTwo-term Governor John Kasich was term-limited, as Ohio does not allow governors to serve three consecutive terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Ohio\nAttorney General Mike DeWine and Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor ran for the Republican nomination, which DeWine won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Ohio\nFormer U.S. Representative and two-time presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, Ohio Attorney General and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray, and state Senator Joe Schiavoni ran for the Democratic nomination, which was won by Cordray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Ohio\nGreen Party nominee for State House in 2016 Constance Gadell-Newton declared her candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Ohio\nFilmmaker and comedian Travis Irvine was the Libertarian Party's candidate for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Oklahoma\nTwo-term Governor Mary Fallin was term-limited as Oklahoma does not allow governors to serve more than two terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Oklahoma\nBusinessman Kevin Stitt advanced to a runoff in the Republican primary, eventually winning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Oklahoma\nWith only one opponent in the primary, former Attorney General Drew Edmondson won the Democratic nomination outright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Oregon\nKate Brown became governor of Oregon in February 2015 following the resignation of John Kitzhaber. In accordance with Oregon law, a special election was held in 2016, which Brown won. She ran for a full term and won the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Pennsylvania\nOne-term Governor Tom Wolf was eligible for re-election and was unopposed in the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, South Carolina\nHenry McMaster succeeded Nikki Haley in January 2017 after she was confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. McMaster is seeking election to a full term in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, South Carolina\nNo candidate won a majority in the June 12 Republican primary. Hence, the top two finishers, McMaster and John Warren, competed in a runoff, which McMaster won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, South Carolina\nState Representative James E. Smith Jr. won the Democratic primary outright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, South Dakota\nTwo-term Governor Dennis Daugaard was term-limited, as South Dakota does not allow governors to serve three consecutive terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, South Dakota\nU.S. Representative Kristi Noem and Billie Sutton, the minority leader of the South Dakota Senate, won the Republican and Democratic nominations, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Tennessee\nTwo-term Governor Bill Haslam was term-limited, as Tennessee does not allow governors to serve three consecutive terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Tennessee\nBusinessman Bill Lee defeated former Haslam administration official Randy Boyd, U.S. Representative Diane Black, and speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives Beth Harwell for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Tennessee\nFormer Nashville Mayor Karl Dean defeated House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh for the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Texas\nLupe Valdez, Dallas County sheriff, announced her bid on December 6, 2017, and, after a runoff primary with Andrew White, entrepreneur and son of Governor Mark White, won the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Texas\nBoth Kathie Glass and Kory Watkins sought the Libertarian nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Vermont\nAs the governor of Vermont can serve a two-year term, Phil Scott, who was elected in 2016, ran for re-election. He was nominated in the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Vermont\nFormer Vermont Electric Cooperative CEO Christine Hallquist was the Democratic nominee. She was the first transgender woman to be nominated for governor by a major party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Vermont\nIncumbent Lieutenant Governor David Zuckerman declined to run as a Progressive in the election and instead ran for re-election to that position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Wisconsin\nTwo-term incumbent Scott Walker was eligible for re-election, as Wisconsin does not have gubernatorial term limits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Wisconsin\n2016 Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate Phil Anderson ran as a Libertarian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Wyoming\nTwo-term Governor Matt Mead was term-limited as Wyoming limits governors to serving for eight years in a sixteen-year period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Wyoming\nFormer state House Minority leader Mary Throne won the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Territories and federal district, District of Columbia\nOne term incumbent Muriel Bowser ran for re-election with little competition in the primary. She was the Democratic nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 98], "content_span": [99, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Territories and federal district, District of Columbia\nAnn Wilcox, a former Board of Education member, won the nomination of the D.C. Statehood Green Party, the district affiliate of the Green Party. Dustin Canter, an entrepreneur and fitness businessman, ran as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 98], "content_span": [99, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Territories and federal district, Guam\nThe incumbent two-term governor Eddie Baza Calvo was term-limited, after his recent re-election win in 2014, as Guam does not allow governors to serve more than two consecutive terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 82], "content_span": [83, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Territories and federal district, Guam\nRepublican Lt. Governor Ray Tenorio officially declared his bid to succeed Eddie Calvo as the next governor of Guam. Tenorio won the Republican nomination without opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 82], "content_span": [83, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Territories and federal district, Guam\nThe Democratic nominee was former Territorial Senator Lou Leon Guerrero, who defeated three other politicians in the August 24 primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 82], "content_span": [83, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Territories and federal district, Northern Mariana Islands\nIncumbent Governor Ralph Torres, who took office upon Eloy Inos's death in December 2015, sought election to a full term. Former Governor Juan Babauta also sought the governorship, running as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 102], "content_span": [103, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283434-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gubernatorial elections, Territories and federal district, U.S. Virgin Islands\nAlbert Bryan (the Democratic nominee) won the runoff election on November 20, 2018, defeating Independent incumbent Kenneth Mapp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 97], "content_span": [98, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283435-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gun violence protests\nIn 2018, protests against gun violence in the United States increased after a series of mass shootings, most notably at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14 that year. An organized protest in the form of a national school walkout occurred on March 14. March for Our Lives was held on March 24. Another major demonstration occurred April 20, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283435-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gun violence protests, Demonstrations, Rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida\nThe anti-gun violence group Never Again MSD, formed and led by survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, held a rally on February 17 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which was attended by hundreds of students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283435-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gun violence protests, Demonstrations, Rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida\nThe Fort Lauderdale rally was followed by other protests across the country. On February 19, a group of teenagers staged a \"lie-in\" outside the White House. Hundreds of students marched to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 20. Students also demonstrated at Florida's Capitol. In Kansas, several hundred high school students protested on February 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283435-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gun violence protests, Demonstrations, March 1 NRA-sponsor boycotts\nThe students from Parkland, Florida began encouraging companies who partner with the NRA \u2014 offering perks or discounts to members \u2014 to sever ties with the organization. Over a dozen companies dropped their NRA partnership in the days following.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 86], "content_span": [87, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283435-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gun violence protests, Demonstrations, Enough! National School Walkout\nThe Enough! National School Walkout was a walkout planned by organizers of the Students' March, that occurred on March 14, in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. The protest had students, parents, and gun control students leaving schools for seventeen minutes (one minute for each person who died during the shooting) starting at 10:00\u00a0a.m. in their respective time zone. The protest was held exactly one month after the Stoneman Douglas shooting. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) supported the student's activism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283435-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gun violence protests, Demonstrations, Enough! National School Walkout\nAn estimated 3,000 schools and nearly 1 million students participated in the protest. Thousands of students gathered in Washington, D.C. and observed 17 minutes of silence with their backs turned to the White House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283435-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gun violence protests, Demonstrations, Enough! National School Walkout\nAt Greenbrier High School in Greenbrier, Arkansas three students elected to receive corporal punishment in the form of two paddlings on the thighs for their participation in the walkout. This required parental consent, and was administered the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283435-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gun violence protests, Demonstrations, Enough! National School Walkout\nNearly 200 U.S. colleges added their names to #NeverAgain Colleges, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, and the University of Florida. The colleges would not penalize high school students who face disciplinary action as a result of participating in a peaceful Never Again MSD protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283435-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gun violence protests, Demonstrations, Enough! National School Walkout\nU.S. broadcaster Viacom expressed support for the protests, including executive Shari Redstone making a $500,000 donation to March For Our Lives, and all Viacom U.S. cable networks (including MTV and Nickelodeon) suspending programming for seventeen minutes at a time at 10:00\u00a0a.m. in each time zone, in solidarity for the walkouts. The company also planned discussion and acknowledgement of the movement in programming and other output by its channels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283435-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gun violence protests, Demonstrations, March for Our Lives\nMarch for Our Lives was a student-led demonstration in support of tighter gun control that took place on March 24, 2018, in Washington, D.C., with over 800 sibling events throughout the United States and around the world. Student organizers from Never Again MSD planned the march in collaboration with the nonprofit organization Everytown for Gun Safety. The event followed the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which was described by many media outlets as a possible tipping point for gun control legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283435-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gun violence protests, Demonstrations, March for Our Lives\nProtesters urged for universal background checks on all gun sales, raising the federal age of gun ownership and possession to the age of 21, closing of the gun show loophole, a restoration of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and a ban on the sale of high-capacity magazines in the United States. Turnout was estimated to be between 1.2 and 2 million people in the United States, making it one of the largest protests in American history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283435-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gun violence protests, Demonstrations, Northwestern Senior High School\nOn Tuesday, April 10, 2018, hundreds of students walked out of their Miami high school to protest gun violence after four current or former classmates were shot off campus. The students chanted \"no justice, no peace\" Tuesday and carried \"enough is enough\" signs outside Northwestern Senior High School. They staged the protest after the weekend shooting deaths of 17-year-old Kimson Green, a 10th-grader who was about to become a member of the National Honor Society, and 18-year-old Rickey Dixon, a former Northwestern student. Two other current or former classmates were wounded. The shooting happened Sunday at an apartment complex in the Liberty City neighborhood, which is plagued by gun violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283435-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States gun violence protests, Demonstrations, April 20 The National School Walkout\nThe National School Walkout occurred nationally on April 20, 2018 which was the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. The movement was founded and organized by Lane Murdock of Ridgefield High School. On the day of the walkout, student demonstrators wore safety orange and departed from over 2600 schools to push for legislative action against gun violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 94], "content_span": [95, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections\nThe 2018 United States state legislative elections were held on November 6, 2018 for 87 state legislative chambers in 46 states. Across the fifty states, approximately 56 percent of all upper house seats and 92 percent of all lower house seats were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, Summary table\nRegularly-scheduled elections were held in 87 of the 99 state legislative chambers in the United States; nationwide, regularly-scheduled elections were held for 6,064 of the 7,383 legislative seats. Most legislative chambers held elections for all seats, but some legislative chambers that use staggered elections held elections for only a portion of the total seats in the chamber. The chambers that were not up for election either hold regularly-scheduled elections in odd-numbered years, or have four-year terms and hold all regularly-scheduled elections in presidential election years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, Summary table\nNote that this table only covers regularly-scheduled elections; additional special elections took place concurrently with these regularly-scheduled elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Alabama\nAll members of the Alabama Senate and the Alabama House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Alaska\nHalf of the seats of the Alaska Senate and all of the seats of the Alaska House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of the senate, while a cross-partisan coalition of Democrats, Republicans, and independents retained control of the house of representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Arizona\nAll of the seats of the Arizona Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers, but lost four seats in the House and lost the popular vote in the Senate by 1.4 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Arkansas\nHalf of the seats of the Arkansas Senate and all of the seats of the Arkansas House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, California\nHalf of the seats of the California State Senate and all of the seats of the California State Assembly were up for election in 2018. Democrats retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Colorado\nHalf of the seats of the Colorado Senate and all of the seats of the Colorado House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats won control of the senate and retained control of the house of representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Connecticut\nAll of the seats of the Connecticut State Senate and the Connecticut House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats won control of the senate and retained control of the house of representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Delaware\nHalf of the seats of the Delaware Senate and all of the seats of the Delaware House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Florida\nHalf of the seats of the Florida Senate and all of the seats of the Florida House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Georgia\nAll of the seats of the Georgia State Senate and the Georgia House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Hawaii\nHalf of the seats of the Hawaii Senate and all of the seats of the Hawaii House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Idaho\nAll of the seats of the Idaho Senate and the Idaho House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Illinois\nTwo thirds of the seats of the Illinois Senate and all of the seats of the Illinois House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Indiana\nHalf of the seats of the Indiana Senate and all of the seats of the Indiana House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Iowa\nHalf of the seats of the Iowa Senate and all of the seats of the Iowa House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Kansas\nAll of the seats of the Kansas House of Representatives were up for election in 2018; the Republican-controlled Kansas Senate did not hold regularly-scheduled elections in 2018. Republicans retained control of the house of representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Kentucky\nHalf of the seats of the Kentucky Senate and all of the seats of the Kentucky House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Maine\nAll of the seats of the Maine Senate and the Maine House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats gained control of the state senate and retained control of the house of representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Maryland\nAll of the seats of the Maryland Senate and the Maryland House of Delegates were up for election in 2018. Democrats retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Massachusetts\nAll of the seats of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats control both chambers, and the governor is a member of the Republican Party. Democrats hold a veto-proof supermajority in the state legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Michigan\nAll of the seats of the Michigan Senate and the Michigan House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers, but Democrats picked up enough seats to break the Republican legislative supermajority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Minnesota\nAll of the seats of the Minnesota House of Representatives were up for election in 2018; the Republican-controlled Minnesota Senate did not hold regularly-scheduled elections in 2018. Democrats won control of the house of representatives, making Minnesota is the only state in the country where each major party controlled one state legislative chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Missouri\nHalf of the seats of the Missouri Senate and all of the seats of the Missouri House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Montana\nHalf of the seats of the Montana Senate and all of the seats of the Montana House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Nebraska\nNebraska is the only U.S. state with a unicameral legislature; half of the seats of the Nebraska Legislature were up for election in 2018. Nebraska is also unique in that its legislature is officially non-partisan and holds non-partisan elections, although the Democratic and Republican parties each endorse legislative candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Nevada\nHalf of the seats of the Nevada Senate and all of the seats of the Nevada Assembly were up for election in 2018. Democrats retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, New Hampshire\nAll of the seats of the New Hampshire Senate and the New Hampshire House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats won control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, New Mexico\nAll of the seats of the New Mexico House of Representatives were up for election in 2018; the Democratic-controlled New Mexico Senate did not hold regularly-scheduled elections in 2018. Democrats retained control of the house of representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, New York\nAll of the seats of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly were up for election in 2018. Democrats won control of the state senate and retained control of the state assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, North Carolina\nAll of the seats of the North Carolina Senate and the North Carolina House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers, but Democrats won enough seats to break the Republican legislative super-majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, North Dakota\nHalf of the seats of the North Dakota Senate and the North Dakota House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Ohio\nHalf of the seats of the Ohio Senate and all of the seats of the Ohio House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Oklahoma\nHalf of the seats of the Oklahoma Senate and all of the seats of the Oklahoma House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Oregon\nHalf of the seats of the Oregon State Senate and all of the seats of the Oregon House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Pennsylvania\nHalf of the seats of the Pennsylvania State Senate and all of the seats of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers, but Democrats picked up enough seats to break the Republican legislative supermajority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Rhode Island\nAll of the seats of the Rhode Island Senate and the Rhode Island House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, South Carolina\nAll of the seats of the South Carolina House of Representatives were up for election in 2018; the Republican-controlled South Carolina Senate did not hold regularly-scheduled elections in 2018. Republicans retained control of the house of representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, South Dakota\nAll of the seats of the South Dakota Senate and the South Dakota House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Tennessee\nHalf of the seats of the Tennessee Senate and all of the seats of the Tennessee House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Texas\nHalf of the seats of the Texas Senate and all of the seats of the Texas House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Utah\nHalf of the seats of the Utah State Senate and all of the seats of the Utah House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Vermont\nAll of the seats of the Vermont Senate and the Vermont House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Washington\nHalf of the seats of the Washington State Senate and all of the seats of the Washington House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, West Virginia\nHalf of the seats of the West Virginia Senate and all of the seats of the West Virginia House of Delegates were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Wisconsin\nHalf of the seats of the Wisconsin State Senate and all of the seats of the Wisconsin State Assembly were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283436-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 United States state legislative elections, State summaries, Wyoming\nHalf of the seats of the Wyoming Senate and all of the seats of the Wyoming House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Republicans retained control of both chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak\nA destructive, two-day tornado outbreak affected the Great Lakes region of the United States and the National Capital Region of Canada in late-September. A total of 37\u00a0tornadoes were confirmed, including a long-tracked EF3 tornado that moved along a 80\u00a0km (50\u00a0mi) path from near Dunrobin, Ontario to Gatineau, Quebec, and an EF2\u00a0tornado in the Nepean sector of Ottawa. The tornadoes in Ottawa-Gatineau were declared one of the ten most significant weather events of 2018 in Canada by the Meteorological Service of Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak\nNumerous tornadoes touched down in Minnesota on the initial day of the outbreak, including a high-end EF2\u00a0tornado that caused major damage in Morristown, Minnesota. Other damage occurred in Eastern Ontario due to downburst winds from the severe thunderstorms. One death was reported as a result of straight-line winds that occurred during the outbreak, and 31\u00a0people were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Meteorological synopsis\nIn the Great Lakes region of the United States, a warm front surged in a hot, unstable air mass ahead of a strong cold front on September 20. An enhanced risk of severe weather was issued by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), including a 10% hatched risk area for tornadoes stretching from southern Minnesota into Wisconsin. Later that evening, a quasi-linear convective system with numerous embedded circulations and bowing line segments produced many tornadoes across southern Minnesota. This included a high-end EF2\u00a0tornado that heavily damaged or destroyed many homes in the town of Morristown, Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Meteorological synopsis\nAnother EF2\u00a0tornado damaged the local airport in Faribault. A few tornadoes were also confirmed in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Ohio, and damaging winds from the line of storms also caused significant damage. Embedded downbursts produced destructive straight-line winds of up to 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h) during the event. With 25 tornadoes in a matter of hours, this event was Minnesota's third most prolific tornado day on record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Meteorological synopsis\nThe severe weather threat was expected to move eastward to affect southern Ontario and a part of southwestern Quebec the next day. On September 21, a significant severe weather threat was confirmed across southern Ontario and the Outaouais region of Quebec, with the potential for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes noted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Meteorological synopsis\nSevere thunderstorm watches and warnings along with wind warnings and special weather statements were issued across parts of Ontario as early as the pre-dawn hours of September 21, which remained in effect until that evening. The warm humid air mass reached Ontario that morning of September 21, along with localized thunderstorms with heavy torrential downpours in most of the areas across southern Ontario and again later that day during the tornado outbreak. Record breaking temperatures across southern Ontario ranged from the high 20s into the low 30s. Tornado watches and warnings were issued by that afternoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Meteorological synopsis\nOn the afternoon of September 21, 2018, a localized outbreak of tornadoes impacted eastern Ontario and southern Quebec. During the event, Environment Canada issued numerous tornado warnings as multiple discrete tornadic supercells moved through the area. Between 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. EDT, seven tornadoes, six of which were strong, caused severe damage in and around the National Capital Region of Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Meteorological synopsis\nThe most significant tornado of the event made a direct strike on the small community of Dunrobin in the west end of Ottawa, then crossed the Ottawa River and struck the Mont-Bleu residential area in the Hull sector of Gatineau, Quebec. The Dunrobin-Gatineau tornado was classified as a high-end, long-tracked EF3 tornado, with peak winds reaching 265\u00a0km/h (165\u00a0mph). Approximately 25\u00a0people were injured by the EF3\u00a0tornado, six of those taken to the hospital and five people had life-threatening injuries. At least 200 buildings were damaged and an unknown number were destroyed along the path. During the event, the long-tracked EF3\u00a0tornado that struck Dunrobin and Gatineau was visible on the horizon behind the Parliament Hill buildings in Ottawa. A still image of the funnel was also captured from a live webcam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 885]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Meteorological synopsis\nA second damaging tornado, rated\u00a0EF2, caused significant damage in the Arlington Woods, Craig Henry, and Merivale Road residential areas of Nepean, with peak winds of 220\u00a0km/h (140\u00a0mph) The tornadoes were preceded by severe thunderstorms throughout Ontario and Quebec. Five other tornadoes also caused minor to moderate damage in the region, though they remained over remote forested areas and mostly damaged trees and power lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Meteorological synopsis\nThe severe weather threat then diminished by late Friday evening, with cool windy conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Aftermath\nDamage from the tornadoes caused more than 272,000 customers of the National Capital Region to lose power, with some of the outages lasting for days. In addition to the tornadoes, microbursts and hail from the severe thunderstorms also caused considerable damage across Ontario and Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Aftermath\nMost of the severely damaged buildings that remained intact after the tornado were under repair. The Dunrobin Plaza shopping center, which was severely damaged by the tornado, was demolished in December 2018, more than two months after the tornado. In October 2018, a month after the storm, it was announced that the September 21 tornadoes caused a massive $295 million in insurance costs, making it one of 2018's costliest storms in Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Aftermath\nThe Dunrobin-Gatineau EF3\u00a0tornado was the strongest to hit eastern Ontario since 1902. The last time an EF3\u00a0tornado occurred in Ontario prior to this event was the Goderich tornado in August 2011. One non-tornadic death occurred as a result of this severe weather outbreak. The fatality was reported in the township of Rideau Lakes, Ontario, after a man was struck by a falling tree after being caught in straight-line winds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Aftermath, The National Capital Region power outages\nOne of the sites that was affected by the Arlington Woods EF2\u00a0tornado was the Merivale electrical substation, one of the two major stations in the city, located near the intersection of Merivale and Hunt Club Road in western Ottawa. While there is no proof confirming whether or not the tornado directly struck the station, it did rip off the roof of two nearby buildings, slamming into the infrastructure, insulators, and wires. Furthermore, the effects of the storm snapped approximately 80 to 90 Hydro poles in the area, downing many others, and leaving pole and wires dangling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 96], "content_span": [97, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Aftermath, The National Capital Region power outages\nThis was the main reason for the longest power outages in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, affecting more than 300,000 customers of the 331,777 total customers who use Hydro Ottawa, plus those served on the Quebec side by Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec. Rebuilding the power plant was especially difficult, which took Hydro One and Hydro Ottawa two days working to repair enough of the damage to restore power. Finally, on the evening of September 22, power was restored in some neighbourhoods in southwestern Ottawa. Repair of the downed poles was done as fast as possible, as to restore heat and power as well in several residences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 96], "content_span": [97, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Aftermath, The National Capital Region power outages\nAlthough electricity had been restored, the power plant had still required additional repairs, and Hydro One continued working on critical repairs to the station in order to return it to its full potential state. Planned power outages around the city affected more than 50,000 Hydro One and Hydro Ottawa customers to replace important elements. Work at the Merivale station was expected to last for several months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 96], "content_span": [97, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283437-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 United States\u2013Canada tornado outbreak, Aftermath, The National Capital Region power outages\nThe Ottawa Macdonald\u2013Cartier International Airport was forced to use backup power during the storms. No damage was reported at the airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 96], "content_span": [97, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283438-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 United Women's Soccer season\nThe 2018 United Women's Soccer season is the 24th season of pro-am women's soccer in the United States, and the third season of the UWS league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283438-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 United Women's Soccer season, Playoffs, East Conference Playoffs\nBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout score", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283438-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 United Women's Soccer season, Playoffs, Midwest Conference Playoffs\nBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout score", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283438-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 United Women's Soccer season, Playoffs, National Playoffs\nHosted by Grand Rapids FC at Grandville High School in Grandville, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283438-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 United Women's Soccer season, Playoffs, National Playoffs\nBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout score", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283438-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 United Women's Soccer season, League Awards, All-League First Team\nF: Gisela Arrieta (HOU), Haley Crawford (INF), Carissima Cutrona (WNY)M: Brooke Barbuto (ROC), Dani Evans (DET), Jessica Jones (CAL), Tesa McKibben (INF)D: Natalie Jacobs (LAG), Kylee McIntosh (CON), Olivia Trombley (LAN)G: Kelly O\u2019Brien (INF)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283438-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 United Women's Soccer season, League Awards, All-League Second Team\nF: Julie Gavorski (HOU), Kate Howarth (NEM), Tori Sousa (CON)M: Sabrina Flores (LAG), Grace Labadie (GRA), Teresa Rook (INF), Riko Sagara (LAN)D: Athena Biondi (LAN), Grace Stordy (CAL), Aubrey Suydam (INF)G: Stephanie Labb\u00e9 (CAL)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283439-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Upper Austria Ladies Linz\nThe 2018 Upper Austria Ladies Linz was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 32nd edition of the Linz Open, and part of the WTA International tournaments-category of the 2018 WTA Tour. It was held at the TipsArena Linz in Linz, Austria, from 8 to 14 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283439-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Upper Austria Ladies Linz, Points and prize money, Prize money\n1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283439-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Upper Austria Ladies Linz, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283439-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Upper Austria Ladies Linz, Doubles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283440-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Upper Austria Ladies Linz \u2013 Doubles\nKiki Bertens and Johanna Larsson were the defending champions, but Bertens chose not to participate. Larsson played alongside Kirsten Flipkens and successfully defended the title, defeating Raquel Atawo and Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld in the final, 4\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20135].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283441-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Upper Austria Ladies Linz \u2013 Singles\nBarbora Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Alison Van Uytvanck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283441-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Upper Austria Ladies Linz \u2013 Singles\nCamila Giorgi won the title, defeating Ekaterina Alexandrova in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283442-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uppsala regional election\nUppsala County or Region Uppsala held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283442-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Uppsala regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 71 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 20, a drop of four from 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283443-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Urawa Red Diamonds season, Squad\nAs of 17 January 2018. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283443-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Urawa Red Diamonds season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283444-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguay Open\nThe 2018 Uruguay Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place at the Carrasco Lawn Tennis Club in Montevideo, Uruguay between November 5 and 11, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283444-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguay Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283444-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguay Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283445-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguay Open \u2013 Doubles\nRomain Arneodo and Fernando Romboli were the defending champions but only Romboli chose to defend his title, partnering Fabr\u00edcio Neis. Romboli lost in the first round to Sergio Gald\u00f3s and Federico Zeballos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283445-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguay Open \u2013 Doubles\nGuido Andreozzi and Guillermo Dur\u00e1n won the title after defeating Facundo Bagnis and Andr\u00e9s Molteni 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283446-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguay Open \u2013 Singles\nPablo Cuevas was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Mario Vilella Mart\u00ednez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283446-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguay Open \u2013 Singles\nGuido Pella won the title after defeating Carlos Berlocq 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283447-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 2018 Liga Profesional de Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, also known as the Campeonato Uruguayo 2018, was the 115th season of Uruguay's top-flight football league, and the 88th in which it is professional. The season was named as \"Ing. Julio C\u00e9sar Franzini\" and began on 3 February, ending on 11 November. Pe\u00f1arol were the defending champions, and successfully defended the title with a 2\u20131 win over Nacional in the championship playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283447-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Format\nThe format in this season was the same as the most recent season, with the Torneo Apertura in the first half of the year and the Torneo Clausura in the second half, and a Torneo Intermedio played between both tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283447-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Teams\nThe two bottom-placed teams in the relegation table of the 2017 season, Juventud and Plaza Colonia, as well as Sud Am\u00e9rica, who lost a tiebreaker to El Tanque Sisley, were relegated to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n for the 2018 season. They were replaced by Torque, Atenas, and Progreso, who were promoted from the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283447-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Teams\nOn 2 February 2018, the Uruguayan Football Association confirmed that El Tanque Sisley would not take part in the league due to an outstanding debt. As a result, El Tanque Sisley were administratively relegated to the second tier for the 2019 season and the season was played by 15 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283447-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Teams\na: Boston River is based in Montevideo but plays its home games at Estadio Parque Artigas in Las Piedras. b: El Tanque Sisley is based in Montevideo but plays its home games at Estadio Campeones Ol\u00edmpicos in Florida. c: Torque is based in Montevideo but plays its home games at Estadio Municipal Casto Mart\u00ednez Laguarda in San Jos\u00e9 de Mayo. They played their first five home games at Estadio Jos\u00e9 Nasazzi in Montevideo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283447-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Torneo Apertura\nThe Torneo Apertura, named \"Sr. Abd\u00f3n Porte\", was the first tournament of the 2018 season. It began on 3 February and ended on 6 May. With El Tanque Sisley being unable to take part in the season, all teams were awarded three points in their matches against El Tanque Sisley, with no goals for being counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283447-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Torneo Intermedio\nThe Torneo Intermedio, named \"Sr. Juan Carlos Bugallo\" was the second tournament of the 2018 season, played between the Apertura and Clausura tournaments. It consisted of two groups whose composition depended on the final standings of the Torneo Apertura: teams in odd-numbered positions played in Serie A, and teams in even-numbered positions played in Serie B. Given the absence of El Tanque Sisley for this season, Serie A had the usual eight teams while Serie B was contested by seven teams. It started on 9 May and ended on 10 June, with the winners being granted a berth into the 2019 Copa Sudamericana and the 2019 Supercopa Uruguaya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283447-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Torneo Clausura\nThe Torneo Clausura, named \"Cr. Hugo Sebastiani\", was the third tournament of the 2018 season. It began on 21 July and ended on 4 November. As happened in the Torneo Apertura, all teams were awarded three points in their matches against El Tanque Sisley, with no goals for being counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283447-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Aggregate table\nThe aggregate table includes the results of the three stages played throughout the season (Torneo Apertura, Torneo Intermedio, and Torneo Clausura).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283447-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Aggregate table\nSince El Tanque Sisley did not compete (which caused the Torneo Intermedio to have groups of different size), the points earned by the teams in the smaller group of the Torneo Intermedio were weighted for the purposes of elaborating the aggregate table: teams in Serie B had their points divided between the number of games they played (6) and then multiplied by the number of games played by teams in Serie A (7), in order to get the points earned in the Torneo Intermedio to the effects of the aggregate table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283447-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Championship playoff, Final\nSince Pe\u00f1arol, who had the best record in the aggregate table, won the semifinal, they became champions automatically and the final was not played. Nacional became runners-up as the second-placed team in the aggregate table. Both teams qualified for the 2019 Copa Libertadores group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283447-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Relegation\nRelegation was determined at the end of the season by computing an average of the number of points earned per game over the two most recent seasons: 2017 and 2018. El Tanque Sisley was one of the teams relegated to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n for the following season, as well as the two teams with the lowest average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283448-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 Utah House of Representatives election was held in the U.S. state of Utah on November 6, 2018, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the 63rd Utah State Legislature. A primary election was held in several districts on June 26, 2018. The election coincided with the election for U.S. Senate and other elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283448-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah House of Representatives election\nThe Utah Republican Party won a majority of seats, keeping the Republican majority that they have held since 1977. The new legislature convened on January 28, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283448-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah House of Representatives election, Background\nRepublicans have held the Utah State House of Representative since 1977, and the chamber was not considered competitive in 2018 However, as was the case in many states, Democrats were encouraged to see the purported \"Blue Wave\" come to the Utah State House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283448-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah House of Representatives election, Electoral System\nThe 75 members of the House of Representatives were elected from single-member districts by first-past-the-post voting to two-year terms. Contested nominations of the Democratic and Republican parties for each district were determined by an open primary election. Minor-party and independent candidates were nominated by petition. Write-in candidates had to file a request with the secretary of state's office for votes for them to be counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283449-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Proposition 4\nUtah Proposition 4 was a ballot measure narrowly approved as part of the 2018 Utah elections. The proposition created an independent redistricting commission in the state, a measure to avoid gerrymandering.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283449-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Proposition 4\nIn 2020, the Utah legislature passed Senate Bill 200 which compromised positions between Better Boundaries Utah (the sponsor of the proposition) and the Utah legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283449-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Proposition 4, Results\nThe proposal was approved narrowly, with 50.34% of the vote. The closeness of the result was hypothesized to be due to Republicans, the dominant party in Utah, voting against the proposition to maintain their total control over redistricting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283450-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Royals FC season\nThe 2018 Utah Royals FC season marks the team's first year of existence and its inaugural season in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the top division of the American soccer pyramid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283450-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Royals FC season, Competitions, NWSL regular season, Results summary\nLast updated: September 8, 2018Source: NWSL ResultsPld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won; T = Matches tied; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283451-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Senate election\nThe 2018 Utah Senate election was held on November 6, 2018. Fourteen Senate seats were up for election. Prior to the election, the Republicans held a majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283451-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Senate election, Results\nThe election took place on November 6, 2018. Candidate list and results from the Lieutenant Governor of Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283452-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah State Aggies football team\nThe 2018 Utah State Aggies football team represented Utah State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Aggies were led by sixth-year head coach Matt Wells during the regular season and played their home games at Merlin Olsen Field at Maverik Stadium. They competed as members of the Mountain Division of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 11\u20132, 7\u20131 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for first place in the division with Boise State. Despite the tie, the conference does not credit them as divisional co-champions as a result of the head-to-head loss. They were invited to the New Mexico Bowl where they defeated North Texas. The 11 wins tied a school record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283452-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah State Aggies football team\nHead coach Matt Wells was hired by Texas Tech on November 29; the team was led in the New Mexico Bowl by interim head coach and co-defensivecoordinator Frank Maile. Wells finished with a 44\u201334 record in his six seasons at Utah State. On December 9, the school rehired Gary Andersen, six years after he left for Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283452-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah State Aggies football team, Previous season\nThe Aggies finished the 2017 season 6\u20137, 4\u20134 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for fourth place in the Mountain Division. They were invited to the Arizona Bowl where they lost to New Mexico State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283452-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah State Aggies football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days\nDuring the Mountain West media days held July 24\u201325 at the Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip, the Aggies were predicted to finish in fourth place in the Mountain Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283452-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah State Aggies football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days, Preseason All-Mountain West Team\nThe Aggies had two players selected to the preseason all-Mountain West team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 107], "content_span": [108, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283453-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Utes football team\nThe 2018 Utah Utes football team represented the University of Utah during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Utes were led by 14th-year head coach Kyle Whittingham and played their home games in Rice\u2013Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, UT. They were members of the South Division of the Pac-12 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283453-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Utes football team\nThe Utes completed the regular season with a 6\u20133 record in conference play, winning the South Division for the first time since joining the Pac-12 Conference in 2011. In the Pac-12 Championship Game, the team lost to North Division champion Washington by a score of 10\u20133. They were invited to the Holiday Bowl to play Big Ten Conference runner-up Northwestern, where the Utes lost by a score of 31\u201320 to end the year at 9\u20135 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283453-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Utes football team\nUtah was led on offense by quarterback Tyler Huntley until he suffered a season-ending collarbone fracture in the game against Arizona State on November 3. Redshirt freshman Jason Shelley started for the rest of the season. Running back Zack Moss compiled 1,096 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns. Two members of the Utah offensive line earned first-team all-conference honors, Jordan Agasiva and Jackson Barton. Utah's defense featured four members of the first-team All-Pac-12: defensive linemen Bradlee Anae and Leki Fotu, linebacker Chase Hansen, and cornerback Jaylon Johnson. Hansen led the conference in tackles for loss with 22, and Anae tied for the conference lead in sacks with 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283453-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Utes football team, Previous season\nThe Utes finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 3\u20136 in Pac-12 play to finish in fifth place in the South Division. They were invited to the Heart of Dallas Bowl where they defeated West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283453-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Utes football team, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days\nThe 2018 Pac-12 media days are set for July 25, 2018 in Hollywood, California. Kyle Whittingham (HC), Chase Hanson (LB) & Lo Falemaka (OL) at Pac-12 Media Days. The Pac-12 media poll was released with the Utes predicted to finish in second place at Pac-12 South division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283453-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Utes football team, Schedule\nUtah announced their 2018 football schedule on November 16, 2017. The Utes will play FCS Weber State and Northern Illinois and returning to the traditional last game of the year spot, Utah will play in-state rival BYU Cougars football in out-of-conference play. In Pac-12 conference play, the Utes will not play cross-divisional foes California and Oregon State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283453-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, BYU\nThe Utes scored 28 unanswered points and overcame a 27\u20137 deficit in the third quarter to defeat their in-state rival, the BYU Cougars, for the eighth consecutive time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283454-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah elections\nThe Utah general elections, 2018 were held in the U.S. state of Utah on November 6, 2018. One of Utah's U.S. Senate seats was up for election, as well as all four seats in the United States House of Representatives, fourteen Utah Senate seats and all of the Utah House of Representatives seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283454-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah elections, United States Senate\nIncumbent Senator Orrin Hatch was eligible for re-election, but did not run in 2018. Republican Mitt Romney was elected to the U. S. Senate, defeating Democratic nominee and Salt Lake County Council member Jenny Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283454-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah elections, United States House of Representatives\nAll of Utah's four seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in November. In districts 1, 2, and 3, Republican incumbents were re-elected. In district 4, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams defeated two-term incumbent Republican Mia Love.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283454-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah elections, Utah Senate\nFifteen Utah Senate seats were up for election in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283454-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah elections, Utah House of Representatives\nAll 75 seats in the Utah House of Representatives were up for election in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283455-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah wildfires\nThe 2018 wildfire season in Utah began around June, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 77]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283455-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Utah wildfires\nThis wildfire-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283456-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uttarakhand local elections\nThe 2018 Uttarakhand Municipal general elections were held in the Indian state of Uttarakhand on 18 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283456-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Uttarakhand local elections\nThe Uttarakhand State Election Commission announced the poll dates on 15 October 2018. The results were declared on 20 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283456-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Uttarakhand local elections\nThe elections for the Roorkee Municipal Corporation, municipal councils of Bajpur and Srinagar and the nagar panchayats of Bhatrojkhan and Selakui were postponed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283456-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Uttarakhand local elections\nElections are not held in the nagar panchayats of Badrinath, Kedarnath and Gangotri due to their status of temporary settlements. Local interim administration councils administer these three pilgrimage sites for a period of six months during the summers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283457-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Cup\nThe 2018 Uzbekistan Cup was the 26th season of the annual Uzbekistan Cup, the knockout football cup competition of Uzbekistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283457-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Cup\nA total of 26 teams participate in the tournament. The cup winner is guaranteed a place in the 2019 AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283457-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Cup, Preliminary round\nSherdor 1 - 1 (aet; 7 - 6 p) Labsa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283457-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Cup, Round of 32\nThe draw for the round of 32 was held on 28 February 2018. Lokomotiv, Nasaf, Pakhtakor and Bunyodkor received byes before the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283457-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Cup, Round of 16\nThe draw for the round of 16 was held on 18 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283457-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals was held on 10 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283457-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Cup, Final\nThe final was played on 28 October 2018 at the Istiqlol Stadium, Fergana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283458-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Pro League\nThe 2018 Uzbekistan Pro League is the 27th since its establishment. The competition started on 6 April 2018 with the match between Norin and Dinamo Samarqand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283458-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Pro League, Promotion play-offs\nMash'al and Istiqlol qualified for 2018 Uzbekistan Super League relegation play-off", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283459-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Pro-B League\nThe 2018 Uzbekistan Pro-B League is the 1st since its establishment. The competition started on 12 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283459-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Pro-B League, Promotion play-offs\nMash'al and Istiqlol qualified for 2018 Uzbekistan Super League relegation play-off", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283460-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Super League\nThe 2018 Uzbekistan Super League (known as the Pepsi Uzbekistan Super League for sponsorship reasons) was the 27th season of top level football in Uzbekistan since 1992. Lokomotiv Tashkent were the defending champions from the 2017 campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283460-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Teams\nOn 21 November 2017 according to UzPFL management decision the Uzbek League was officially renamed to Uzbekistan Super League starting from 2018 season. The number of teams playing in top division of Uzbek football is reduced from 16 to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283460-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Teams\nThe draw for the 2018 Super League season was held on 3 February 2018. The first matchday is scheduled for 1 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283460-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Teams\nSementchi, the winner of 2017 Uzbekistan First League did not participate in new Super League season. The club failed to pass licensing procedures like Mash'al Mubarek. These both clubs have been replaced by Neftchi Fergana and Sogdiana Jizzakh which according to 2017 season have been relegated to First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283460-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Foreign players\nThe number of foreign players is restricted to five per USL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283460-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Foreign players\nIn bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283460-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Championship round\nTeams keep records from regular stage (10 matches) against championship round opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283460-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Relegation round\nTeams keep records from regular stage (10 matches) against relegation round opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283460-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Relegation play-off\nSogdiana and AGMK will play in 2019 Uzbekistan Super League next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283461-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 V de V Challenge Monoplace\nThe 2018 V de V Challenge Monoplace was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship features drivers competing mainly in 2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The season began at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on 23 March and will finish at Estoril on 4 November after seven double-header rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283461-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 V de V Challenge Monoplace\nDrivers compete in three classes depending on the type of car they drive. Those competing in the current Tatuus FR 2.0 2013 car, as well as the previous Barazi-Epsilon FR2.0\u201310 car, which are in use since 2010, are included in Class A. Older Formula Renault 2.0 machinery along with other cars such as Formula BMW and Formula Abarth encompass Class B. From 2018 on, Formula 4 cars built to FIA regulations are allowed to race in V de V Challenge Monoplace, being included in Class C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283461-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 V de V Challenge Monoplace, Race calendar and results\nThe calendar was published on 13 October 2017. In 2018, due to the race duration increasing from 20 to 30 minutes per race, each circuit will host two races instead of three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283461-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 V de V Challenge Monoplace, Standings, Points system\nPoints are awarded following a complex system. Drivers receive a set of points according to their overall position in each race, as well as an additional set of points according to their position within the class their car belongs to. No separated standings for classes A, B and C are issued. The points distribution is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283461-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 V de V Challenge Monoplace, Standings, Points system\nThe total number of points scored in each round is multiplied by a coefficient, depending on the round. Only the best 12 results are counted towards the overall standings, whereas all results are valid towards the Gentlemen Drivers standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283462-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 V-Varen Nagasaki season\nThe 2018 season will be V-Varen Nagasaki's first season in the J1 League after earning promotion from the J2 League in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283462-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 V-Varen Nagasaki season, Background\nV-Varen Nagasaki had finished the previous season in second place and thus earned promotion to the pinnacle of Japanese football, the J1 League. This will be their first ever season competing in the J1 League. The club's first move in preparation for the upcoming season was the signing of experienced FC Tokyo right wingback Y\u016bhei Tokunaga. A couple days later would see the departures of goalkeeper Yuya Miura and midfielder Kenta Furube, while right back Yusuke Murakami retired. On 11 December 2017 it was announced that midfielder Mitsuru Maruoka would return to Cerezo Osaka once his loan concludes in January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283462-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 V-Varen Nagasaki season, Background\nOn 22 December, Nagasaki bolstered their attack with the signing of forward Musashi Suzuki from Albirex Niigata. Three days later it was announced that Masato Kurogi, a midfielder from Ventforet Kofu who had already played for Nagasaki in 2014 and 2015, would return to the club. The next day the club announced three signings, including the signing of two goalkeepers: Kenta Tokushige from Vissel Kobe and Takuya Masuda, Nagasaki's starting goalkeeper from 2017 returning to the club on an extended loan from Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Forward Shu Hiramatsu also returned to the club on loan from Albirex Niigata. Again, the next day, the club announced that Spanish midfielder Miguel Pallard\u00f3 would leave the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283462-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 V-Varen Nagasaki season, Player statistics\nNumbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute. Players with name struck through and marked left the club during the playing season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283463-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 1\nThe 2018 V.League 1 season (for sponsorship reasons also known as Nuti Caf\u00e9 V.League 1) was the 62nd season of the V.League 1, the highest division of Football in Vietnam. The season started on 10 March 2018 and ran until 8 October 2018. It was expected to be known as the Toyota V.League 1, however, in December 2017 Toyota ended their sponsorship deal with the Vietnam Football Federation one year early.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283463-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 1, Changes from last season, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283463-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 1, Changes from last season, Rule changes\nDue to the increased number of teams in 2018 V.League 2 (10), there will be 1.5 relegation places in the 2018 V.League 1 season - the team finishing 14th will be relegated automatically, whilst the team finishing 13th will play a two-legged play-off against the team that finishes second in the 2018 V.League 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283463-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 1, Changes from last season, Rule changes\nThe league will continue to operate the \"2+1\" foreigner rule, meaning each squad shall be allowed 2 non-Vietnamese players and 1 naturalised Vietnamese. FLC Thanh H\u00f3a and S\u00f4ng Lam Ngh\u1ec7 An shall be allowed 3 non-Vietnamese players, 1 naturalised Vietnamese and 1 player from Asia because they will participate in AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283463-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 1, Teams, Personnel and kits\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283463-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 1, Results, Play-off match\nThe team finishing 13th faced the runner-up of 2018 V.League 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283463-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 1, Results, Play-off match\nNam \u0110\u1ecbnh won the match and would remain in the 2019 V.League 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283463-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 1, Positions by round\nThis table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve the chronological evolution, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283463-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 1, Attendances, By club\nUpdated to games played on 8 October 2018Source: Notes:\u2020 Teams played previous season in V.League 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283463-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 1, Season statistics, Hat-tricks\n4: scored 4 goals; (H) \u2013 Home\u00a0; (A) \u2013 Away", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 46], "content_span": [47, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283464-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 2\nThe 2018 V.League 2 (referred to as An C\u01b0\u1eddng V.League 2 for sponsorship reasons) is the 24th season of V.League 2, Vietnam's second tier professional football league. The season began on 14 April 2018 and will finish on 29 September 2018. The season started with 10 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283464-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 2, Changes from last season, Team changes\nThe following teams had changed division since the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283464-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 2, Changes from last season, Rule changes\nThere is one direct promotion spot for the champion. The team finishing second will play a play-off match against the 13th-placed club of 2018 V.League 1. The club finishing last will be relegated to the 2019 Second League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283464-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 2, Changes from last season, Name changes\nIn 16 May 2018, B\u00ecnh \u0110\u1ecbnh had changed its name to B\u00ecnh \u0110\u1ecbnh TMS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283464-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 V.League 2, Attendances, By club\nUpdated to games played on finishedSource: Notes:\u2020Teams played previous season in Second League \u2020\u2020Teams played previous season in V.League 1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283465-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VBA season\nThe 2018 VBA season was the third season of the Vietnam Basketball Association. The regular season began on June 16, 2018 and ended on August 16, 2018. The playoffs began on August 21, 2018 and ended on August 26, 2018. The finals began on September 4, 2018 and ended on September 9, 2018 with Cantho Catfish beating Hanoi Buffaloes in 3 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283465-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 VBA season, Teams, Import players\nEach team is allowed 2 heritage players and 1 foreign player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283466-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VCU Rams baseball team\nThe 2018 VCU Rams baseball team was the program's 48th baseball season. It was their 6th season the Atlantic 10 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283466-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 VCU Rams baseball team, Regular season, Results\nUpdated with the results of all games through February 18, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283467-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team\nThe 2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team represents Virginia Commonwealth University during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 39th season of the university fielding a program. The Rams were be led by ninth-year head coach, Dave Giffard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283467-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team\nThe 2018 season saw the Rams win the Atlantic 10 Conference regular season for the first time in program history, amassing a 6-1-1 conference record. It was the Rams' first conference regular season championship since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283467-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team, Background\nThe 2017 VCU men's soccer team finished the season with a 12\u20137\u20130 overall record and a 5\u20132\u20130 A10 record. The Rams were seeded second\u2013overall in the 2018 Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Tournament, where they lost in the championship to UMass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283467-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team, Background\nThe Rams earned an at-large bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, where they were seeded 16th overall in the field. It was the Rams' first berth into the NCAA Tournament since 2013. The Rams lost to Butler in the second round. The Rams had one player selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft: Rafael Andrade Santos, by D.C. United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283467-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team, MLS Draft\nThe following members of the 2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team were selected in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283468-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VFF National Super League\nThe 2018 VFF National Super League is the 8th edition of the VFF National Super League, the highest tier football league in Vanuatu apart from Port Vila. The matches were played between 22 and 31 March 2018 at Luganville Soccer City Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283468-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 VFF National Super League, Grand final\nThe 2018 VFF National Super League Grand Final was played between two teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283468-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 VFF National Super League, Grand final\nBoth teams had already qualified for the 2019 OFC Champions League by winning their respective competitions. The Grand Final decided the seeding of the two teams in the 2019 OFC Champions League, with the winner seeded as Vanuatu 1 and the runner-up seeded as Vanuatu 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283469-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VFL Women's season\nThe 2018 VFL Women's season was the third season of the VFL Women's (VFLW). The season commenced on 5 May and concluded with the Grand Final on 23 September 2018. The competition was contested by thirteen clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283469-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 VFL Women's season, Clubs\nSignificant overhaul and changes were made to composition of the competition ahead of the 2018 season. With the establishment of the national AFL Women's competition in 2017, the league sought to affiliate clubs more closely to existing AFL/AFLW clubs. Consequently five foundation clubs departed; leaving Darebin, Melbourne University and VU Western Spurs (who were taken over by and renamed the Western Bulldogs to align with the AFL club) as the remaining clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283469-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 VFL Women's season, Clubs\nThe departing clubs were replaced by the AFL-aligned Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Richmond and Southern Saints, the VFL-aligned Casey and Williamstown, and the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL)-aligned Northern Territory; Northern Territory aligned with Adelaide's AFLW team, giving Crows players an opportunity to play in the Victorian competition. The thirteen clubs were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283470-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VFL season\nThe 2018 Victorian Football League season was the 137th season of the Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League Australian rules football competition. The competition ran between April 2018 and September 2018. The premiership was won by the Box Hill Football Club, after it defeated Casey in the Grand Final on 23 September 2018 by 10 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283470-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 VFL season, League membership\nThere were several changes to the league's membership and alignments between the 2017 and 2018 seasons, with North Melbourne reserves joining the competition, Frankston rejoining, and North Ballarat departing, resulting in a total membership of 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283470-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 VFL season, League membership\nThe Frankston Football Club returned to the competition after a one-year hiatus. AFL Victoria had terminated the club's licence at the end of the 2016 season due to its unviable financial position, which saw it in administration owing more than $1,500,000. The club embarked on a campaign during 2017 to assure its long-term viability, which included signing up 1200 members and working to improve its relationship with the local leagues as a pathway for Mornington Peninsula footballers into state football. The club then applied for and was re-granted its VFL licence for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283470-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 VFL season, League membership\nAt the end of 2017, the ten-year reserves affiliation between the AFL's North Melbourne Football Club and the VFL's Werribee Football Club came to an end. North Melbourne entered its reserves team in the VFL seniors, the first time that team had competed in the competition. Werribee continued to field a stand-alone senior team in the VFL. The teams continued to share a home ground, with all Werribee home games and most North Melbourne home games played at the newly upgraded Avalon Airport Oval in Werribee until North Melbourne's traditional home at Arden Street Oval was brought to VFL standard in mid-2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283470-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 VFL season, League membership\nAfter the 2017 home-and-away season had concluded, AFL Victoria suspended North Ballarat's playing licence. The club had endured two years of off-field instability since the termination of its partial reserves affiliation with AFL club North Melbourne. This had included: multiple changes of personnel at executive and board level; the compulsory acquisition of its home ground Eureka Stadium in early 2017; and difficulties in governance associated with the club's attentions being divided between its VFL team and the North Ballarat City team it operated in the Ballarat Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283470-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 VFL season, League membership\nAFL Victoria determined that the club's governance had deteriorated to the point that it no longer met the minimum requirements for a VFL licence. The club's poor on-field performances \u2013 a combined win-loss record in 2016 and 2017 of 4\u201332 \u2013 was also a factor. The suspension brought to an end North Ballarat's 22-year association with the VFL, which included three premierships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283470-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 VFL season, League membership\nAFL Victoria maintains an interest in maintaining an ongoing VFL presence in Ballarat, and as of February 2019 there were ongoing discussions between AFL Victoria and club's board on a model for re-entry of the club as a new or rebranded Ballarat team in the competition, but no agreement has been reached.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283470-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 VFL season, League membership\nAnother significant change to the VFL's structure prior to 2018 was the abolition of the Development League competition, ending 90 years of VFA/VFL seconds/reserve grade football dating back to the 1920s. Under the new arrangement, VFL-listed players from all clubs will play for local affiliated suburban competitions when not playing senior football for their club \u2013 the structure which was already in place for the clubs with no Development League team. The decision was made for a number of reasons, including rising costs, difficulties with scheduling, shortages of manpower within the clubs, and to improve relationships with suburban football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283470-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 VFL season, League membership\nThe clubs fielding Development League teams generally opposed the change, concerned that the pathway between suburban or under-18s football and the VFL would be affected. In particular, the clubs involved in affiliations with AFL clubs, where most of the senior players on any given week are AFL-listed reserves players, were concerned that they would be reduced to having almost no players of their own, reducing their identity or utility as football clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283470-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 VFL season, VFL Women's, League membership\nThe VFL Women's competition, now in this third season since coming under the VFL brand, also underwent a significant change for the 2018 season, with a view towards aligning the competition more directly with the AFL Women's national competition, and with Victoria-based AFL clubs taking more direct roles in state level women's football development, either through fielding their own teams or by affiliating with existing clubs. This in turn meant a step away from the traditional Victorian Women's Football League clubs which had formed the core of the VFLW in its first two seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283470-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 VFL season, VFL Women's, League membership\nNew licenses were granted to four AFL clubs \u2013 Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Richmond \u2013 who all fielded club-branded women's teams in the competition. A fifth AFL club, St Kilda, obtained a licence transferred to it from the Seaford Tigers, and the club formed a partnership with the VFL's Frankston to form a women's team called the Southern Saints. A sixth club, Hawthorn, obtained a licence from the Knox Falcons, transferred it to its senior VFL-affiliate Box Hill, then rebranded it to Hawthorn's brand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283470-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 VFL season, VFL Women's, League membership\nThe VU Western Spurs, who were already affiliated with the AFL's Western Bulldogs, remained a separate entity but began co-branding with their AFL affiliate, becoming known as the Western Bulldogs and wearing the same colours from 2018. Two VFL clubs newly obtained licences for VFLW teams: Williamstown, which was granted a new licence, and the Casey Demons, to whom the Cranbourne Eagles licence was transferred. A licence was granted to the Northern Territory Football Club, which plays senior men's football in the North East Australian Football League, creating an interstate presence in the competition. Foundation clubs Diamond Creek, Eastern Devils and St Kilda Sharks all departed the revamped competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283470-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 VFL season, VFL Women's, League membership\nUnder the revamp, the thirteen clubs in the VFL Women's competition \u2013 and their affiliates \u2013 are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18\n2018 VG18 is a distant trans-Neptunian object that was discovered well beyond 100\u00a0AU (15\u00a0billion\u00a0km) from the Sun. It was first observed on 10 November 2018 by astronomers Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chad Trujillo during a search for distant trans-Neptunian objects whose orbits might be gravitationally influenced by the hypothetical Planet Nine. They announced their discovery on 17 December 2018 and nicknamed the object \"Farout\" to emphasize its distance from the Sun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18\n2018 VG18 is the second-most distant natural object ever observed in the Solar System, after the trans-Neptunian object 2018 AG37 (132\u00a0AU) discovered by the same team in January 2018. As of 2021 the object is at an observed distance of 123.5\u00a0AU (18\u00a0billion\u00a0km) from the Sun, more than three times the observed distance of the dwarf planet Pluto. 2018 VG18 is not close to being the object with the most distant orbit on average, as its orbital semi-major axis is estimated to be only about 81\u00a0AU. For comparison, the semi-major axis of the planetoid and possible dwarf planet 90377 Sedna is about 500\u00a0AU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18\n2018 VG18 is considered to be a dwarf planet candidate, as its absolute magnitude implies that it is around 500\u00a0km (310\u00a0mi) in diameter. Assuming that the object is predominantly icy in composition, it is expected to be large enough to attain a gravitationally rounded shape, and thus be a dwarf planet. Observations of 2018 VG18 show that it appears pinkish in color, indicative of an ice-rich surface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18, Discovery\n2018 VG18 was discovered by astronomers Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chad Trujillo at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii on 10 November 2018. The discovery formed part of their search for distant trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with orbits that may be gravitationally perturbed by the hypothesized Planet Nine. The search team had been involved in the discoveries of several other distant TNOs, including the sednoids 2012 VP113 and 541132 Lele\u0101k\u016bhonua. 2018 VG18 was first identified as a faint object slowly moving in two images taken with the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope on the night of 10 November 2018. At the time of discovery, 2018 VG18 was located in the constellation Taurus, at a very faint apparent magnitude of 24.6, approaching the lowest detectable magnitude limit for most telescopes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 20], "content_span": [21, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18, Discovery\n2018 VG18's low on-sky motion and brightness indicated that it is very distant, which prompted additional follow-up observations to constrain its orbit and distance. The object was reobserved in December 2018 by Sheppard at the Las Campanas Observatory, with observation times spanning ten days. However, its orbit remained with a significant uncertainty due to its short observation arc. Nonetheless, the discovery of 2018 VG18 along with a preliminary orbit solution was formally announced in a Minor Planet Electronic Circular issued by the Minor Planet Center on 17 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 20], "content_span": [21, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18, Discovery\nSince the discovery announcement, 2018 VG18 has been periodically observed by Sheppard at the Las Campanas and Mauna Kea observatories. Additional observations were also made at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in November 2019 and January 2020. As of 2020, 2018 VG18 has been observed for over three oppositions, with an observation arc of 3\u00a0years (1,095\u00a0days). Two precovery observations of 2018 VG18 have been identified in images taken by the Cerro Tololo Observatory's Dark Energy Camera on 16 January 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 20], "content_span": [21, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18, Nomenclature\nUpon the announcement of 2018 VG18's discovery, the discoverers nicknamed the object \"Farout\" for its distant location from the Sun, and particularly because it was the farthest known TNO observed at the time. On the same day, the object was formally given the provisional designation 2018 VG18 by the Minor Planet Center. The provisional designation indicates the object's discovery date, with the first letter representing the first half of November and the succeeding letter and numbers indicating that it is the 457th object discovered during that half-month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 23], "content_span": [24, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 VG18, Nomenclature\nThe object has not yet been assigned an official minor planet number by the Minor Planet Center due to its short observation arc and orbital uncertainty. 2018 VG18 is expected to receive a minor planet number once it has been observed for over at least four oppositions, which would take several years. Once it receives a minor planet number, the object will be eligible for naming by its discoverers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 23], "content_span": [24, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18, Orbit and classification\n2018 VG18 is the second-most distant observed Solar System object from the Sun and is the first object discovered while beyond 100 astronomical units (AU), overtaking the dwarf planet Eris (96\u00a0AU) in observed distance. As of 2021 2018 VG18's distance from the Sun is 123.5\u00a0AU (18.5\u00a0billion\u00a0km; 11.5\u00a0billion\u00a0mi), more than three times the observed distance of Pluto from the Sun (34\u00a0AU during 2018). For comparison, the distances of the Pioneer 10 and Voyager 2 space probes were approximately 128\u00a0AU and 126\u00a0AU in 2021, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 VG18, Orbit and classification\nAt its nominal distance, 2018 VG18 is thought to be close to the heliopause, the boundary where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium at around 120\u00a0AU. The new orbit determination indicates that this object is currently very close to aphelion which it should reach in mid-2062, and that it is a member of the scattered disc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18, Orbit and classification\nAt the time of discovery on 10 November 2018, 2018 VG18's distance from the Sun was 123.4\u00a0AU, and has since moved 0.2\u00a0AU from the Sun as of 2021. As it is approaching aphelion, 2018 VG18 is receding from the Sun at a rate of 0.06\u00a0AU per year, or 0.3\u00a0km/s (670\u00a0mph). 2018 VG18 was the farthest TNO known until February 2019 when 2018 AG37 (nicknamed \"FarFarOut\") was discovered at about 132\u00a0AU by the same team led by Sheppard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 VG18, Orbit and classification\nWhile 2018 VG18 and 2018 AG37 are among the farthest Solar System objects observable, some near-parabolic comets are much further from the Sun. For example, Caesar's Comet (C/-43 K1) is over 800\u00a0AU from the Sun while Comet Donati (C/1858 L1) is over 145\u00a0AU from the Sun as of 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18, Orbit and classification\n2018 VG18's average orbital distance from the Sun is approximately 81\u00a0AU, taking approximately 730 years to complete one full orbit. With an orbital eccentricity of about 0.54, it follows a highly elongated orbit, varying in distance from 38\u00a0AU at perihelion to 125\u00a0AU at aphelion. Its orbit is inclined to the ecliptic plane by about 24 degrees, with its aphelion oriented below the ecliptic. At perihelion, 2018 VG18 approaches close to Neptune's orbit without crossing it, having a minimum orbit intersection distance of approximately 8\u00a0AU. Because 2018 VG18 approaches Neptune at close proximity, its orbit has likely been perturbed and scattered by Neptune; thus, it falls into the category of scattered-disc objects. 2018 VG18 last passed perihelion in the late 17th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18, Orbit and classification\nWhile 2018 VG18 is one of the most distant objects observed, it does not have the largest orbital semi-major axis. For comparison, the semi-major axis of the planetoid 90377 Sedna is about 480\u00a0AU. In an extreme case, the scattered-disc object 2014 FE72 has a semi-major axis around 1,400\u00a0AU, though its distance from the Sun as of 2021 is about 64\u00a0AU, approximately half 2018 VG18's distance from the Sun in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18, Orbit and classification\n2018 VG18 was discovered in a particular region of the sky where other extreme TNOs have been found, suggesting that its orbit may be similar to those of extreme TNOs, which characteristically have distant and highly elongated orbits that may have resulted from the gravitational influence of the hypothetical Planet Nine. 2018 VG18's nominal orbit appears to be anti-aligned with Sedna; the longitude of pericenter of 2018 VG18's orbit is oriented about 193 degrees from Sedna's orbit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18, Physical characteristics\nThe size of 2018 VG18 is uncertain, though it is likely large enough to be a possible dwarf planet, based on its intrinsic brightness or absolute magnitude. Based on its apparent brightness and large distance, the JPL Small-Body Database calculates 2018 VG18's absolute magnitude to be about 3.7, though this estimate has a large uncertainty. The Minor Planet Center calculates 2018 VG18's absolute magnitude to be 3.5, in close agreement with the former estimate. Based on the Minor Planet Center's estimate of 2018 VG18's absolute magnitude, it is listed among the top six intrinsically brightest scattered-disc objects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18, Physical characteristics\nThe albedo (reflectivity) of 2018 VG18 has not been measured nor constrained, thus its diameter could not be calculated with certainty. Assuming that the albedo of 2018 VG18 is within the range of 0.10\u20130.25, its diameter should be around 500\u2013850\u00a0km (310\u2013530\u00a0mi). This size range is considered to be large enough such that the body can collapse into a spheroidal shape, and thus be a dwarf planet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 VG18, Physical characteristics\nAstronomer Michael Brown considers 2018 VG18 to be highly likely a dwarf planet, based on his size estimate of 656\u00a0km (408\u00a0mi) calculated from an albedo of 0.12 and an absolute magnitude of 3.9. Unless the composition of 2018 VG18 is predominantly rocky, Brown considers it very likely that 2018 VG18 has attained a spheroidal shape through self-gravity. Astronomer Gonzalo Tancredi estimates that the minimum diameters for a body to undergo hydrostatic equilibrium are around 450\u00a0km (280\u00a0mi) and 800\u00a0km (500\u00a0mi), for predominantly icy and rocky compositions, respectively. If the composition of 2018 VG18 is similar to the former case, the object would be considered a dwarf planet under Tancredi's criterion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283471-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 VG18, Physical characteristics\nObservations of 2018 VG18 with the Magellan-Baade telescope show that the object is pinkish in color. The pinkish color of 2018 VG18 is generally attributed to the presence of ice on its surface, since other ice-rich TNOs display a similar color. Apart from its color, the spectrum and surface composition of 2018 VG18 have not yet been measured in detail and will require further observations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283472-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VM35\n2018 VM35 is an extreme trans-Neptunian object from the outermost region of the Solar System, approximately 130 kilometers (80 miles) in diameter. With a perihelion distance greater than 40\u00a0AU, it is considered a detached object. It is currently 55\u00a0AU (8.2\u00a0billion\u00a0km) from the Sun and thus moves slowly across the sky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283472-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 VM35, Orbit and classification\n2018 VM35 orbits the Sun at an average distance of about 266\u00a0AU once every 4,347 years. Its orbit has a high eccentricity of 0.83 and an inclination of 8.48\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic. As with any slow moving object beyond the orbit of Neptune, an observation arc of several years is required to constrain the orbital parameters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283472-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 VM35, Orbit and classification\nIt is predicted to reach perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) around 2058 coming to opposition in February 2058, while only reaching magnitude 24.3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283472-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 VM35, Physical characteristics\nBased on a generic magnitude-to-diameter conversion, 2018 VM35 measures approximately 130 kilometers (81 miles) for an absolute magnitude of 7.6 and an assumed albedo of 0.09.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283473-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VMI Keydets baseball team\nThe 2018 VMI Keydets baseball team represents]ed the Virginia Military Institute during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Keydets competed as a member of the Southern Conference, and were led by fourth-year head coach Jonathan Hadra. They played their home games out of Gray\u2013Minor Stadium, as they have since 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283473-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 VMI Keydets baseball team, Personnel\nVMI lost only one offensive starter from the 2017 season, that being right fielder Tyler Tharp, who hit .348 in 58 games and led the team with 143 total bases. Relief pitchers Blaine Lafin, Jack Gomersall, and Ryan Bennett were the only other seniors lost from the previous season. However, backup infielder Mason Adamson, backup catcher Garrett St. Laurent, and relievers John Fuqua and Liam Roden did not return to the team in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283474-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 2018 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. It was VMI's 128th football season. The Keydets were led by fourth-year head coach Scott Wachenheim. They played their home games at 10,000\u2013seat Alumni Memorial Field at Foster Stadium. They were a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). They finished the season 1\u201310, 0\u20138 in SoCon play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283474-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 VMI Keydets football team, Previous season\nThe Keydets finished the 2017 season 0\u201311, 0\u20138 in SoCon play to finish in last place. This was VMI's fourth winless season and the first time they had gone winless since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283474-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 VMI Keydets football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe SoCon released their preseason media poll on July 25, 2018, with the Keydets predicted to finish in last place. The same day the coaches released their preseason poll with the Keydets also predicted to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283474-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 VMI Keydets football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll, Preseason All-SoCon teams\nThe Keydets placed one player on the preseason all-SoCon teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 90], "content_span": [91, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283475-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VP1\n2018 VP1 is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid roughly 2 meters (7 feet) in diameter. The asteroid had a 0.41% chance (1 in 240) of impacting Earth on 2 November 2020 01:12 UT. It was discovered on 3 November 2018 when it was about 0.003\u00a0AU (450,000\u00a0km; 280,000\u00a0mi) from Earth and had a solar elongation of 165 degrees. The asteroid has a short 12.9 day observation arc. It was last observed on 16 November 2018 by the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope at apparent magnitude 26 pushing the telescope close to the limiting magnitude.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283475-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 VP1\nThe JPL Horizons 2 November 2020 nominal Earth approach was estimated as roughly 0.0028\u00a0AU (420,000\u00a0km; 260,000\u00a0mi). The line of variations (LOV, uncertainty region) allowed the asteroid to impact Earth or pass as far away as 0.025\u00a0AU (3,700,000\u00a0km; 2,300,000\u00a0mi). Its diameter of 2\u20134 meters makes it approximately 100\u20131000 times less massive than the 20-meter Chelyabinsk meteor. An Earth-impact by this asteroid, assuming it is a common primitive chondrite, might rattle some windows after an airburst and/or drop pebble-sized meteorites on roof tops after dark flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283475-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 VP1\nPreliminarily results are that nothing was detected via infrasound or atmospheric flash monitors. The asteroid was not visually recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283475-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 VP1, Return\n2018 VP1 has a low 3.2\u00b0 orbital inclination with respect to the ecliptic plane and an Earth-MOID of only 9700\u00a0km. Since the asteroid approached Earth in November 2018 and has a 2.00 year orbital period, the asteroid approached Earth again around 2 November 2020 (\u00b13 days). Where Earth will be on a given date is known. However, given the short observation arc and the two years since it was seen at all, the location of the asteroid along its orbit was imprecisely known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 16], "content_span": [17, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283475-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 VP1, Return\nThe asteroid intersected Earth's orbit. A slight variation in the known orbit of the asteroid can cause it to be early (NEODyS solution), right on time (Sentry solution), or late (JPL solution). The nominal NEODyS 1 November 2020 23:54 UT Earth approach is 0.0004\u00a0AU (60,000\u00a0km; 37,000\u00a0mi). The Sentry Risk Table showed an estimated 1 in 240 chance of Earth impact on 2 November 2020 1:12 UT. The nominal JPL Horizons 2 November 2020 11:33 UT Earth approach was 0.0028\u00a0AU (420,000\u00a0km; 260,000\u00a0mi) with a 3-sigma uncertainty of \u00b1 4 million km.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 16], "content_span": [17, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283475-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 VP1, Return, Impact line\nThe line of variation (LOV) passed across the Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 29], "content_span": [30, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283475-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 VP1, Return, Impact line\nThe asteroid came to opposition (opposite the Sun in the sky) at the end of May 2020 at an estimated apparent magnitude of ~31, and as a moving object was much too faint for any telescope to detect. Large ground-based observatories take 10 hours to image a magnitude ~28 object. The Hubble Space Telescope needs 3 weeks of exposure time to image magnitude 31 objects. The November 2020 Earth approach was expected be hidden by the glare of the Sun due to the asteroid's low solar elongation in that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 29], "content_span": [30, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283475-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 VP1, Return, Impact line\nSince the asteroid is only about 2 meters (7 feet) in diameter it is too small to do more than create a bolide and common strewn field similar to the Sutter's Mill meteorite or 2014 AA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 29], "content_span": [30, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283475-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 VP1, Return, Impact line\nIt is not categorized as a potentially hazardous object given the estimated size is smaller than the threshold for potentially hazardous objects which are estimated at more than 140 meters in diameter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 29], "content_span": [30, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283476-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VTB United League Final Four\nThe 2018 VTB United League Final Four was the 4th final four tournament of the VTB United League, a regional European club basketball competition. The tournament is held in the VTB Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia. The four winners of the play-offs during the 2017\u201318 VTB United League qualified for the Final Four. The tournament will be hosted between 8 June and 10 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283476-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 VTB United League Final Four\nThe last final four was held in 2012, as the league was decided through playoff series in the previous years. Khimki, the runners-up of the Final Four, qualified for the 2018\u201319 EuroLeague (as CSKA Moscow was already qualified).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283477-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VTV Awards\nThe 2018 VTV Awards (Vietnamese: \u1ea4n t\u01b0\u1ee3ng VTV - S\u1eafc m\u00e0u 2018) is a ceremony honouring the outstanding achievement in television on the Vietnam Television (VTV) network from August 2017 to July 2018. It took place on September 7, 2018 in Hanoi and hosted by Minh H\u00e0 & Th\u00e0nh Trung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283478-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VTV International Women's Volleyball Cup\nThe 2018 VTV Cup is the 15th staging of the international tournament. The tournament will held in H\u00e0 T\u0129nh, Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283479-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 VTV9 \u2013 Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Cup\nThe 2018 VTV9 - Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Cup was the 12th staging. The tournament was held in Tam K\u1ef3, Qu\u1ea3ng Nam Province, Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283479-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 VTV9 \u2013 Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Cup, Pools composition\nVTV B\u00ecnh \u0110i\u1ec1n Long An (Host) Th\u00f4ng tin LVPB Fujian Est Cola Team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283479-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 VTV9 \u2013 Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Cup, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283480-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vaahteraliiga season\nThe 2018 Vaahteraliiga season was the 39th season of the highest level of American football in Finland. The regular season took place between May 10 and September 9, 2018. The Finnish champion was determined in the playoffs, and at the championship game Vaahteramalja XXXIX the Helsinki Roosters won a league record seventh consecutive championship, this time against the Kuopio Steelers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283481-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election\nThe first round of a by-election was held in Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency on 28 January 2018, with a second round on 4 February because no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was called due to the invalidation of the election of Isabelle Muller-Quoy, candidate of La R\u00e9publique En Marche! (REM), in the June 2017 legislative elections by the Constitutional Council on 16 November 2017. It was the first legislative by-election held during the 15th National Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283481-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election\nIn the first round on 28 January, Isabelle Muller-Quoy of La R\u00e9publique En Marche! and Antoine Savignat of The Republicans (LR) advanced to the second round, as they did in June 2017, with Muller-Quoy securing a considerably lower share of the vote amid low turnout. Savignat was elected in the second round with 51.45% of the vote, defeating Muller-Quoy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283481-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nOn 14 November 2017, the Constitutional Council heard an appeal regarding the 2017 legislative elections within Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by the three main defeated candidates, Antoine Savignat of The Republicans (LR), Denise Cornet of the National Front (FN), and Le\u00efla Sa\u00efb of La France Insoumise (FI), who argued that the election should be invalidated because Michel Alexeef, selected as a substitute to elected deputy Isabelle Muller-Quoy of La R\u00e9publique En Marche! (REM), previously served as a president of an employment tribunal within the constituency from January 2016 to January 2017, rendering him ineligible to run in a legislative election under the electoral code.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283481-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nThe Constitutional Council annulled the election of Muller-Quoy on 16 November 2017 under article L.O. 132 of the electoral code, and a by-election was held in the constituency in 2018 to fill the vacant seat. The legislative by-election was the first to be held since the election of Emmanuel Macron, and the first to be contested by a REM candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283481-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nSince the 2017 legislative elections, the Constitutional Council received 298 appeals within 122 constituencies; since 21 July, 242 of these were rejected, with another forty cases outstanding when the result in Val-d'Oise was annulled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283481-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nThough the poll opening and closing times were initially set as 8:00 and 18:00 CET, these hours were later extended to 20:00 CET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283481-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates\nOn 14 December 2017, the by-election was scheduled for 28 January 2018, with a second round on 4 February should no candidate secure a majority of votes in the first round; candidates are required to file between 2 and 5 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283481-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates\nAs of 17 December 2017, Isabelle Muller-Quoy declared her candidacy for La R\u00e9publique En Marche!, Antoine Savignat for The Republicans, St\u00e9phane Capdet for the National Front, Le\u00efla Sa\u00efb for La France Insoumise, Sandra Nguyen-Derosier for the Socialist Party (PS), B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Ari\u00e8s for Europe Ecology \u2013 The Greens (EELV), H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Halbin for Lutte Ouvri\u00e8re (LO), and Denise Cornet for The Patriots (LP), having stood under the FN label in June. In addition, Huguette Fran\u00e7ois of the Party of France (PDF), previously invested in June as part of a far-right electoral alliance, Debout la France (DLF) candidate Jean-Paul Nowak, Christophe Hayes of the Popular Republican Union (UPR), and Brigitte Poli of the French Communist Party (PCF) also filed to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283481-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nOn 9 January 2018, the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) announced its support for Savignat, whose substitute, Nathalie Groux, is an elected member of the UDI. Xavier Renou, substitute to Le\u00efla Sa\u00efb, candidate of La France Insoumise, alleged that mayor of Beaumont-sur-Oise Nathalie Groux, substitute to Antoine Savignat of The Republicans, made it deliberately difficult to register as a candidate, a claim that Groux denied. On 13 January, Florian Philippot visited in support of Denise Cornet, followed by Christophe Castaner in support of Muller-Quoy on 14 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283481-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nNicolas Bay visited on 19 January in support of St\u00e9phane Capdet, and La France Insoumise deputies Alexis Corbi\u00e8re and Adrien Quatennens visited on 20 January to support the candidacy of Le\u00efla Sa\u00efb, the same day that Valerie P\u00e9cresse came to support Antoine Savignat. Minister Agn\u00e8s Buzyn visited to campaign with Muller-Quoy on 22 January, followed by Prime Minister \u00c9douard Philippe on 25 January, the latter's visit considered an appeal to the traditionally right-wing tendencies of the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283481-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nIn the first round on 28 January, Muller-Quoy received 29.28% of the vote, compared to Savignat with 23.67% of the vote, a significantly smaller margin than that in June. Sa\u00efb arrived in third with 11.47% of the vote, followed by Capdet with 10.11%, Nguyen-D\u00e9rosier with 6.88%, and Ari\u00e8s with 6.20%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283481-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign\nOn 30 January, Castaner came to Beaumont-sur-Oise to support Muller-Quoy, followed by P\u00e9cresse and Laurent Wauquiez on 31 January to back Savignat, not long after a tense meeting of the two at the national council of the party on 27 January, and were accompanied by deputy and LR vice president Damien Abad. On 1 February, Philippe and Castaner visited the constituency together at a public meeting in support of Muller-Quoy, who was introduced by deputy Aur\u00e9lien Tach\u00e9. In the second round on 4 February, Savignat was elected deputy with 51.45% of the vote, defeating Muller-Quoy, who received 48.55%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283482-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team\nThe 2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team represented Valdosta State University as a member of the Gulf South Conference (GSC) during the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by third-year head coach Kerwin Bell, who also served as offensive coordinator. The Blazers played their home games at Bazemore\u2013Hyder Stadium in Valdosta, Georgia. Valdosta State compiled an overall record of 14\u20130 with a conference mark of 8\u20130, winning the GSC title. The beat Ferris State in the NCAA Division II Championship Game to win the program's fourth national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283482-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team, Preseason, Gulf South Conference coaches poll\nOn August 2, 2018, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Blazers predicted to finish in fifth place in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 88], "content_span": [89, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283482-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team\nThe Blazers had five players at five positions selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 94], "content_span": [95, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283482-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team, Schedule\nValdosta State's 2018 regular season football schedule consisted of five home games, four away games, and one neutral site game. The Blazers hosted GSC foes Delta State, North Greenville, Shorter, and West Georgia, and traveled to Florida Tech, Mississippi College, West Alabama, and West Florida. Three games were broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283482-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team, Schedule\nThe Blazers hosted non-conference foe Albany State from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) and competed in the Okefenokee Classic against Fort Valley State, also from the (SIAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283482-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team, Schedule\nAfter an undefeated regular season, the Blazers were the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division II playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283483-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Valdostan regional election\nThe 2018 Valdostan regional election took place on 20 May 2018 in Aosta Valley, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283483-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Valdostan regional election, Background\nThe 2013 regional election confirmed the incumbent autonomist coalition government, led by the Valdostan Union (UV), which retained its absolute majority in the Regional Council of Aosta Valley. The coalition lost 14pp from 2008, however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283483-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Valdostan regional election, Background\nIn July 2015 the regional government, which had been led by UV's Augusto Rollandin since 2008 (he had been President also in 1984\u20131990 and senator for Aosta Valley in 2001\u20132006), was enlarged to the centre-left Democratic Party (PD). In June 2016, after months of negotiations, the government was joined also by the Progressive Valdostan Union (UVP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283483-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Valdostan regional election, Background\nIn March 2017 the UVP left the government and, along with Edelweiss (SA), Autonomy Liberty Participation Ecology (ALPE) and For Our Valley (PNV), formed a new government without the UV, under President Pierluigi Marquis (SA). Finally, in October, Marquis resigned and was replaced by UVP's Laurent Vi\u00e9rin at the head of a coalition composed of the UV, the UVP, the Valdostan Autonomist Popular Edelweiss (EPAV) and the PD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283483-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Valdostan regional election, Parties and candidate\nThis is the list of parties that participated in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283484-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire\nOn March 28, 2018, a fire broke out during a prison riot in the cells at the Carabobo state police headquarters in Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela. The fire killed at least 68 people and injured scores of others. The fire is one of the deadliest incidents ever in a Venezuelan prison since the 1994 Sabaneta prison fire, in which more than 100 inmates died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283484-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire\nFour prosecutors have been named to investigate the circumstances preceding the victims' deaths. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights requested an investigation and reparations for the families of the fire victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283484-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Background\nViolence and overcrowding are problems in Venezuela's prison system. The Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones (English: Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons) estimates that 6,663 prisoners have died between 1999 and 2015, with average overcrowding at over 200%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283484-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Background\nMore than 60 prisoners died in the 2013 Uribana prison riot. The organization Human Rights Watch states that because of poor training and insufficient numbers of guards, corruption and deterioration of infrastructure, armed gangs have seized control of inmate populations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283484-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Fire\nThe fire began in the jail attached to the police station in Valencia, a city located about 160\u00a0km (100\u00a0mi) west of Venezuela's capital city, Caracas. The jail was built to contain only 60 prisoners, but when the fire broke out, it housed about 200.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283484-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Fire\nThe fire reportedly began when, during a riot, prisoners in the jail inside the police station lit their mattresses on fire in an attempt to escape. Later reports stated that the fire began during a party thrown by the inmates. Gunfire was also reportedly heard during the riot that preceded the fire. However, the circumstances surrounding the fire have yet to be officially confirmed, and local officials initially only confirmed that some people had died in the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283484-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Fire\nLater on the day of the fire, Tarek William Saab, Venezuela's lead prosecutor, stated that the death toll was 68, which included two women, most likely visitors; and Saab stated that an investigation would be started to \u201cclarify\u201d the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283484-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Aftermath\nOn the same day of the fire, relatives of the dead prisoners gathered at the police station where the fire occurred, but were dispersed by police using tear gas. The gas was used after the protesters attempted to push their way into the station and detention center in question, the Carabobo state police headquarters, with one officer being injured by a stone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283484-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Aftermath\nThe governor of Carabobo, Rafael Lacava, stated his \"consternation\" over the events, and the human rights body of the United Nations called for an investigation. In a released statement, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights also requested reparations for the victims' families.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283484-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Aftermath\nPolitical opponents of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro have seized on the fire as evidence that Venezuelan society has declined under Maduro's leadership. Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles tweeted \"How many more times are we going to see the same Dantesque scenes with the prisoners of the country?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283484-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Aftermath\nMany of the dead prisoners were buried side by side, and three deep, in a mass grave separated by cinder blocks and marked by crosses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283485-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the nineteenth and final round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on 18 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283485-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix\nIn the Moto3 race, Red Bull KTM Ajo wildcard Can \u00d6nc\u00fc made history by winning on his debut, becoming the youngest ever Grand Prix winner at the age of 15 years, 115 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283485-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix\nIn the MotoGP class, no Yamaha or Honda rider finished on the podium for the first time since the 2007 San Marino Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283485-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix\nIn the Moto2 class, this was the final race for the Honda CBR600RR inline-4 engine package and also the final race for the Tech 3 Mistral 610 and Suter MMX2 chassis packages that d\u00e9buted at the 2010 Qatar Grand Prix, since a new 765cc (46.7 cu in) inline-3 engine supplied by Triumph Motorcycles was introduced and Tech 3 and Forward Racing switched manufacturers to KTM and MV Agusta respectively in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283485-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix, Classification, MotoGP\nThe race, scheduled to be run for 27 laps, was red-flagged after 13 full laps, as heavy rain had caused multiple riders to crash and racing conditions were deemed too dangerous. For the restart, the race distance was 14 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283486-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Valenzuela Classic season\nThe 2018 Valenzuela Classic season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283487-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Valparaiso Crusaders football team\nThe 2018 Valparaiso Crusaders football team represented Valparaiso University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Dave Cecchini and played their home games at Brown Field. They competed in the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 2\u20139, 2\u20136 in PFL play to finish in a three-way tie for seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283487-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Valparaiso Crusaders football team, Previous season\nThe Crusaders finished the 2017 season 6\u20135, 5\u20133 in PFL play to finish in a three-way tie for third place. The Crusaders had a winning season for the first time since 2003 and had five league wins for the first time since 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283487-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Valparaiso Crusaders football team, Preseason, Preseason All-PFL team\nThe PFL released their preseason all-PFL team on July 30, 2018, with the Crusaders having three players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283487-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Valparaiso Crusaders football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll\nThe PFL released their preseason coaches poll on July 31, 2018, with the Crusaders predicted to finish in a tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283488-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver International Film Festival\nThe 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) took place from September 27 to October 12, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283489-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver Stealth season\nThe Vancouver Stealth are a lacrosse team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The team plays in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2018 season is the 19th in franchise history and the 5th season in Vancouver. The franchise previously played in Everett, Washington, San Jose, and Albany, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283489-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver Stealth season, Regular season, Final standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283489-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver Stealth season, Roster, Entry Draft\nThe 2017 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 18, 2017. The Stealth made the following selections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283490-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season\nThe 2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season is the club's eighth season in Major League Soccer, the top division of soccer in the United States and Canada. Including previous iterations of the franchise, this is 41st season of professional soccer being played in Vancouver under a variation of the \"Whitecaps\" name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283490-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season\nOutside of MLS, the Whitecaps played in the 2018 Canadian Championship. They defeated the Montreal Impact 2\u20131 on aggregate in the semifinals before falling 7\u20134 on aggregate to Toronto FC in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283490-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season\nOn September 25, with five games remaining in the season the Whitecaps released manager Carl Robinson along with assistant coaches Martyn Pert, Gordon Forrest and goalkeeper coach Stewart Kerr. Whitecaps Academy technical director Craig Dalrymple was named acting manager for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283490-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Major League Soccer, Regular season, Results\nLast updated: October 28, 2018Source:Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won; T = Matches tied; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 80], "content_span": [81, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283490-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Playing statistics\nAppearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only including sub appearancesRed card numbers denote: Numbers in parentheses represent red cards overturned for wrongful dismissal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283490-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Playing statistics\nSource: (for players and positions) 00(for squad numbers) 00(for actual stats.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283491-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver municipal election\nThe 2018 Vancouver municipal election was held on October 20, 2018, the same day as other municipalities and regional districts in British Columbia selected their new municipal governments. Voters elected a mayor, 10 city councillors, 7 park board commissioners, and 9 school board trustees through plurality-at-large voting. Official registration for all candidates opened on September 4, 2018, and closed on September 14, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283491-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver municipal election\nFor the first time, candidates were listed in random order instead of alphabetical order. This was done in an effort to create a more even playing field for candidates, as research has shown many voters are more likely to vote for those listed first on a ballot, giving those candidates a perceived advantage over those lower down on the list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283491-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver municipal election, Candidates and results, Mayor\nIncumbent Gregor Robertson, who had been mayor of Vancouver since being elected in 2008, announced on January 10, 2018, that he would not be running for reelection in the 2018 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283491-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vancouver municipal election, Candidates and results, Mayor\nAt the close of nominations, 21 candidates had formally registered to run for mayor in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283492-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 2018 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Commodores played their home games at Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee and competed in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by fifth-year head coach Derek Mason. Vanderbilt finished the season 6\u20137, 3\u20135 in SEC play to finish in 6th place in the East Division. They were invited to play in the Texas Bowl where they were defeated by Baylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283492-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Previous season\nThe Commodores finished the 2017 season 5\u20137, 1\u20137 in SEC play to finish in sixth place in the Eastern Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283492-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Preseason, SEC media poll\nThe SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018 with the Commodores predicted to finish last in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283493-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Cup\nThe 2018 Varsity Cup was contested from 29 January to 16 April 2018. The tournament (known as the FNB Varsity Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh season of the Varsity Cup, an annual inter-university rugby union competition featuring South African universities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283493-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Cup, Competition rules and information\nThere were nine participating universities in the 2018 Varsity Cup. During the round-robin stage of the competition, these teams played each other once over the course of the season, either home or away. Teams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by seven points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 51], "content_span": [52, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283493-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Cup, Competition rules and information\nThe top four teams qualified for the title play-offs. In the semi-finals, the team that finished first had home advantage against the team that received fourth, while the team that finished second had home advantage against the team that finished third. The winners of these semi-finals played each other in the final, at the home venue of the higher-placed team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 51], "content_span": [52, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283493-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Cup, Competition rules and information\nTries were worth five or seven points, depending on the point where the try-scoring move originated. If the try-scoring move originated in the opponents' half, it would count five points. If the move originated in the try-scoring team's own half, two bonus points were awarded and the try would be worth seven points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 51], "content_span": [52, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283493-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Cup, Competition rules and information\nFor the 2018 season, the Varsity Cup introduced a Power Play rule; when a team calls for the Power Play, they can nominate two opposition backline players to be removed from the field of play for a period of three minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 51], "content_span": [52, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283493-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Cup, Teams\nThe following teams took part in the 2018 Varsity Cup competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283493-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Cup, Matches\nThe following matches were played in the 2018 Varsity Cup:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby\n2018 Varsity Rugby was the 2018 edition of four rugby union competitions annually played between several university teams in South Africa. It was contested from 29 January to 16 April 2018 and was the eleventh edition of these competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Varsity Cup\nThe following teams competed in the 2018 Varsity Cup: CUT Ixias, Maties, NMMU Madibaz, NWU Pukke, UCT Ikey Tigers, UFS Shimlas, UJ, UP Tuks and Wits. All these teams also played in the competition in 2017. The competition was won by Maties, who beat NWU Pukke 40\u20137 in the final. NMU Madibaz finished bottom of the log and were relegated to the 2019 Varsity Shield. CUT Ixias remained in the Varsity Cup for 2019 after beating the WSU All Blacks in a relegation play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Varsity Shield\nThe following teams competed in the 2018 Varsity Shield: CPUT, Rhodes, TUT Vikings, UFH Blues, UKZN Impi, UWC and WSU All Blacks. All these teams also played in the competition in 2017. The competition was won by UWC, who beat WSU All Blacks 55\u201310 in the final. UWC were promoted to the 2019 Varsity Cup for the first time, while the WSU All Blacks remained in the Varsity Shield for 2019 after losing to CUT Ixias in a promotion play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Promotion/relegation play-offs, 2019 Varsity Cup play-off\nThere was a promotion/relegation match between CUT Ixias, who finished eighth in the 2018 Varsity Cup and the WSU All Blacks, who finished runners-up in the 2018 Varsity Shield. CUT Ixias won 37\u201331 to retain their place in the Varsity Cup for 2019, while the WSU All Blacks remained in the Varsity Shield competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 77], "content_span": [78, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Promotion/relegation play-offs, 2019 Varsity Shield play-off\nThere was a promotion/relegation match between Rhodes, who finished seventh in the 2018 Varsity Shield and the University of Zululand, as the best-performing non-Varsity Rugby team at the USSA tournament. Rhodes won 44\u20135 to retain their place in the Varsity Shield for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 80], "content_span": [81, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Competition rules\nThere were nine participating universities in the 2018 Young Guns competition, the Under-20 sides of each of the nine Varsity Cup teams. These teams were divided into three regionalised sections and each team played every team in their section twice over the course of the season, once at home and once away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Competition rules\nTeams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by eight points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Competition rules\nThe three section winners qualified for the semi-finals, along with the runner-up with the best record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Young Guns North, Log\nThe final standings for the 2018 Varsity Cup Young Guns North were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Young Guns North, Matches\nThe following matches were played in the 2018 Varsity Cup Young Guns North:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 57], "content_span": [58, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Young Guns Central, Log\nThe final standings for the 2018 Varsity Cup Young Guns Central were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 55], "content_span": [56, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Young Guns Central, Matches\nThe following matches were played in the 2018 Varsity Cup Young Guns Central:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Young Guns South, Log\nThe final standings for the 2018 Varsity Cup Young Guns South were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Young Guns South, Matches\nThe following matches were played in the 2018 Varsity Cup Young Guns South:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 57], "content_span": [58, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Competition rules\nThere were nine participating teams in the 2018 Res Rugby competition \u2014 the new name for the competition formerly known as the Koshuis Rugby Championship \u2014 the winners of the internal leagues of each of the nine Varsity Cup teams. These teams were divided into two divisions (a Championship division with five teams and a Premiership division with four teams) and each team played every team in their division once over the course of the season, either at home or away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Competition rules\nTeams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by eight points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Competition rules\nThe top two teams in the Championship qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Championship, Log\nThe final standings for the 2018 Res Rugby Championship were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Championship, Matches\nThe following matches were played in the 2018 Res Rugby Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Premiership, Log\nThe final standings for the 2018 Res Rugby Premiership were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283494-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Premiership, Matches\nThe following matches were played in the 2018 Res Rugby Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283495-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Shield\nThe 2018 Varsity Shield was the 8th season of the Varsity Shield, the second-tier competition in the annual Varsity Rugby series. It was played between 19 February and 9 April 2018 and featured seven university teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283495-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Shield\nThe competition was won by UWC, who beat the WSU All Blacks 55\u201310 in the final played on 9 April 2018, also winning promotion to the 2019 Varsity Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283495-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Shield, Competition rules and information\nThere were seven participating university teams in the 2019 Varsity Shield. They played each other once during the pool stage, either at home or away. Teams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by seven points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283495-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Shield, Competition rules and information\nThe top four teams after the pool stage qualified for the semifinals, which were followed by a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283495-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Shield, Teams\nThe teams that played in the 2018 Varsity Shield were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283495-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Shield, Pool stage, Standings\nThe top four teams qualified for the semifinals. Points breakdown:* 4 points for a win* 2 points for a draw* 1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less* 1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283495-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Shield, Pool stage, Round-by-round\nThe table below shows a team's progression throughout the season. For each round, each team's cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283495-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Varsity Shield, Pool stage, Matches\nThe following matches were played in the 2018 Varsity Shield:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283496-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vegalta Sendai season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283497-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament\nThe 36th Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament 2018, was a wrestling event held in Istanbul, Turkey between 20 and 22 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283497-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament\nThis international tournament includes competition men's Greco-Roman wrestling. This ranking tournament was held in honor of the Olympic Champion, Hamit Kaplan and Turkish Wrestler and manager Vehbi Emre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283498-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Veikkausliiga\nThe 2018 Veikkausliiga was the eighty-eighth season of top-tier football in Finland. HJK were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283498-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Veikkausliiga\nFixtures for the 2018 season were announced on 17 January 2017. The season started on 7 April 2018 and ended on 27 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283498-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Veikkausliiga, Teams\nJJK were relegated to Ykk\u00f6nen after finishing at the bottom of the 2017 season. Their place was taken by Ykk\u00f6nen champions TPS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283498-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Veikkausliiga, Teams\nHIFK as 11th-placed team lost their Veikkausliiga spot after losing to second-placed Ykk\u00f6nen team FC Honka in a relegation/promotion playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283498-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Veikkausliiga, Results\nEach team plays three times against every other team, either twice at home and once away or once at home and twice away, for a total of 33 matches played each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283499-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Veldhoven Open\nThe Dynamic Billard Veldhoven Open 2018 (sometimes known as the 2018 Netherlands Open) was the third Euro Tour 9-Ball pool event in 2018. The event was won by Austria's Mario He who defeated Albania's Eklent Ka\u00e7i 9\u20138 in the final. By making the final, Eklent had made the semifinal or better of four straight events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283499-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Veldhoven Open\nThe previous years champion Ruslan Tschinachow did not reach the last 32 stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283499-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Veldhoven Open, Tournament format\nThe event saw a total of 228 players compete, in a double-elimination knockout tournament, until the last 32 stage; where the tournament was contested as single elimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283499-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Veldhoven Open, Tournament format, Prize fund\nThe tournament prize fund was similar to that of other Euro Tour events, with \u20ac4,500 for the winner of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283500-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 2018 Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, officially Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Venezolano or Liga FUTVE, was the 37th professional season of Venezuela's top-flight football league. Monagas were the defending champions, but did not qualify to the Serie Final, after being eliminated in the regular season of the Torneo Apertura and by Caracas in the quarter-finals of the Torneo Clausura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283500-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nZamora were the champions, defeating Deportivo Lara on the Serie Final, 5\u20131 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283500-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Teams, Stadia and locations\nGran Valencia reached the final of the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n and earned promotion to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n, but the team was suspended \"temporarily\" by the Honorary Council of the FVF after forfeiting the second leg of the final. On 15 January, Academia Puerto Cabello was announced as the replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283500-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Teams, Stadia and locations\na: Caracas and Deportivo La Guaira played outside of the Estadio Ol\u00edmpico in Caracas until September due to mainteinance works at the stadium. Caracas played its matches at Cocodrilos Sports Park and La Guaira at the Estadio Jos\u00e9 Antonio Anzo\u00e1tegui in Puerto La Cruz (Torneo Apertura) and the Universidad Santa Mar\u00eda campus in Caracas (Torneo Clausura). b: In the Torneo Apertura, Estudiantes de M\u00e9rida played Matchday 3 (against Aragua) at the Estadio General Jos\u00e9 Antonio P\u00e1ez in Acarigua and Matchday 5 (against Mineros) at the Estadio Rafael Calles Pinto in Guanare, as the Estadio Metropolitano in M\u00e9rida was suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283500-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Teams, Stadia and locations\nc: Atl\u00e9tico Venezuela, Estudiantes de Caracas and Metropolitanos played at Br\u00edgido Iriarte Stadium in Caracas until 11 March as the stadium was suspended. Atl\u00e9tico Venezuela is playing at the Estadio Giuseppe Antonelli in Maracay and Estudiantes de Caracas and Metropolitanos are playing at the Universidad Santa Mar\u00eda campus in Caracas. Metropolitanos will play at the Estadio Ol\u00edmpico in Caracas once the works are finished. d: In the Torneo Clausura, Carabobo will play outside of the Estadio Misael Delgado in Valencia due to mainteinance works at the stadium. Carabobo will play at the Estadio Metropolitano in Cabudare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283500-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Torneo Apertura\nThe Torneo Apertura is the first tournament of the season. The regular season started on 28 January and ended on 19 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283500-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Torneo Clausura\nThe Torneo Clausura is the second tournament of the season. The regular season started on 21 July and ended on 28 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283500-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Serie Final\nThe Serie Final is held between the champions of the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura to determine the champions of the season. The best team of the finalists in the aggregate table chose the order of the legs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283501-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan municipal elections\nMunicipal elections\u00a0were held in Venezuela on 9 December 2018, aimed at choosing only the 2459 municipality councillors of Venezuela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283501-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan municipal elections, Background\nFollowing the 2018 Venezuelan presidential election, municipal elections were quickly organized throughout Venezuela. The National Electoral Council proposed the election date of 9 December 2018, which in turn was approved by the Constituent National Assembly on\u00a013 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283501-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan municipal elections, Conduct\nMany voting centers were seen empty due to low participation. Members of the state-run CLAP were ordered to participate in the elections with the government offering food products to those who were involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283501-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan municipal elections, Results\nOfficial results showed that only 27.4% of eligible voters participated in the election compared to 47.3% in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Venezuela on 20 May 2018, with incumbent Nicol\u00e1s Maduro being declared re-elected for a second six-year term. The original electoral date was scheduled for December 2018 but was subsequently pulled ahead to 22 April before being pushed back to 20 May. Some analysts described the poll as a show election, with the elections having the lowest voter turnout in the country's democratic era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election\nSeveral Venezuelan NGOs, such as Foro Penal, S\u00famate, Voto Joven, the Venezuelan Electoral Observatory and the Citizen Electoral Network expressed their concern over the irregularities of the electoral schedule, including the lack of the Constituent Assembly's competencies to summon the elections, impeding participation of opposition political parties, and the lack of time for standard electoral functions. Because of this, the European Union, the Organization of American States, the Lima Group and countries including Australia and the United States rejected the electoral process. However, countries including China, Cuba, Iran, Russia, Syria, Turkey and others recognized the election result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election\nThe two leading candidates opposing Maduro, Henri Falc\u00f3n and Javier Bertucci, rejected the results, saying that the election was critically flawed by irregularities. Bertucci asked that the elections be repeated with Maduro being disqualified. Maduro was inaugurated on 10 January 2019, leading to the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background\nFollowing the death of President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez in 2013, Venezuela faced a severe socioeconomic crisis during the presidency of his successor, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Due to the country's high levels of urban violence, inflation, and chronic shortages of basic goods attributed primarily to the devaluation of the Venezuelan bol\u00edvar and to some extent due to economic policies such as strict price controls, civil insurrection in Venezuela culminated into the 2014\u201318 protests. Protests occurred periodically over the years, with demonstrations occurring in various sizes depending on the events Venezuelans were facing during the crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background\nAfter facing years of crisis, the Venezuelan opposition pursued a recall referendum against President Maduro, presenting a petition to the National Electoral Council (CNE) on 2 May 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background\nBy August 2016, the momentum to recall President Maduro appeared to be progressing, with the CNE setting a date for the second phase of collecting signatures, though it made the schedule strenuous, stretching the process into 2017 which made it impossible for the opposition to activate new presidential elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background\nOn 21 October 2016, the CNE suspended the referendum days before preliminary signature-gatherings were to be held. The CNE blamed several irregularities and alleged voter fraud as the reason for the cancellation of the referendum. International observers criticized the move, stating that CNE's decision made Maduro look as if he were seeking to rule as a dictator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background\nDays after the recall movement was cancelled, 1.2 million Venezuelans protested throughout the country against the move, demanding that President Maduro leave office, with Caracas protests remaining calm while protests in other states resulted in clashes between demonstrators and authorities, leaving one policeman dead, 120 injured, and 147 arrested. That day the opposition gave President Maduro a deadline of 3 November 2016 to hold elections, with opposition leader Henrique Capriles stating, \"Today we are giving a deadline to the government. I tell the coward who is in Miraflores ... that on 3 November the Venezuelan people are coming to Caracas because we are going to Miraflores\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background\nOn 1 November 2016, then National Assembly President and opposition leader Henry Ramos Allup announced the cancellation of 3 November march to the Miraflores presidential palace, with Vatican-led dialogue between the opposition and the government beginning. By 7 December 2016, dialogue halted between the two. Two months later, on 13 January 2017 after talks stalled, the Vatican officially pulled out of the dialogue. On 23 January 2017, Henrique Capriles, a two-time presidential candidate declared: \"This will be the last conventional protest; the next one will be a surprise one\". The opposition then began to focus on its electoral efforts, with only sporadic protests occurring for the next few months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background\nFollowing the 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis, protests in Venezuela intensified in mid-2017, though the movement died down after President Maduro called for a controversial special election, which resulted with the installation of the pro-government superbody, the Constituent National Assembly. Regional elections that occurred months later further cemented the government's power after they won 18 of the 23 governorships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background, Election preparations\nAfter the government overcame mass protests and won two major disputed elections, one of which installed a constitutional superbody, the government rallied behind President Maduro, with government sources stating that elections were to be moved ahead to February or March 2018 instead of the planned late-2018 date to take advantage of their electoral momentum. On 11 December 2017, President Maduro announced that many of the main opposition parties, including Justice First and Popular Will, would be banned from participating in the 2018 presidential election for abstaining to participate in the 2017 municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background, Election preparations\nIn February 2018, the government announced that elections would be held on 22 April 2018, less than three months before the date. Popular Will announced on 16 February that it would boycott the elections. Following weeks of controversy involving international condemnation and rejection of potential election results, the CNE delayed the election for a few additional weeks pushing for a 20 May 2018 election date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Electoral system\nThe President of Venezuela is elected by plurality in a single round of voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Electoral system\nThe elections were overseen by the National Electoral Council, with poll workers drafted via a lottery of registered voters. Polling places were equipped with multiple high-tech touch-screen DRE voting machines. After the vote is cast, each machine prints out a paper ballot, or VVPAT, which is inspected by the voter and deposited in a ballot box belonging to the machine's table. The voting machines perform in a stand-alone fashion, disconnected from any network until the polls close. Voting session closure at each of the voting stations in a given polling center is determined either by the lack of further voters after the lines have emptied, or by the hour, at the discretion of the president of the voting table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Electoral system\nAfter the Agreement of Electoral Guarantees was signed on 1 March by the political parties Great Patriotic Pole, Movimiento al Socialismo, Avanzada Progresista, and COPEI, the United Nations was asked, with a formal invitation and visit by the main candidates or their representatives, to send a delegation to monitor the election. The Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) opposed UN electoral observation in Venezuela. In the end, the UN refused to send a mission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Electoral system\nThe Carter Center turned down Maduro's invitation to send an observation team on election day, as did other election observing institutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Electoral system\nSmartmatic, the electoral product company which had participated in the majority of elections under the Bolivarian government, ceased operations in its native country in March 2018, stating that they could not guarantee the validity of election results through its machines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Electoral system\nThe election was mainly observed by allies of the Venezuelan government after many international bodies decided that there were no democratic guarantees in the country; the United Nations declined the invitation to monitor the election, after members of the opposition asked the UN not to send observers. On 23 March 2018 a United Nations official informed that the organization would not offer electoral assistance in the elections, without explaining the motives. Spokesperson Farhan Haq stated that a letter was sent to Venezuelan authorities regarding the request of electoral experts, but did not explain the content. These observers included the Latin American Council on Electoral Experts, Common Frontiers, Unifor, former Prime Minister of Spain Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero, and former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 886]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Primary process, Opposition\nIn March 2017, parties of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), the opposition's main electoral alliance, began discussion on who would be their candidate for the 2018 presidential elections. On 14 March 2017, Popular Will announced that Leopoldo L\u00f3pez, the party's National Coordinator who is currently imprisoned for his role in the 2014 protests against the Bolivarian government, was chosen to be their candidate for the MUD primaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Primary process, Opposition\nDays later, on 20 March 2017, Justice First chose Henrique Capriles Radonski to be their candidate for the primaries, his third run for the presidency, with his previous attempts occurring in the 2012 and 2013 presidential elections. On 21 March 2017, veteran politician Henry Ramos Allup was chosen to be the candidate for the Democratic Action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Primary process, Opposition\nIn February 2018, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) announced that it would boycott the presidential election, saying the electoral system was rigged in favor of incumbent President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Primary process, Opposition\nOn 5 May 2018, a poll by DolarToday showed that if the elections were held on that date, 45% of the participants would give their opposition vote for Lorenzo Mendoza, CEO of Empresas Polar, 24% for Leopoldo L\u00f3pez, 12% for Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, 9% for Henry Ramos Allup, 7% for Henrique Capriles, and 3% for Henri Falc\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Primary process, Opposition, Disqualifications\nThe majority of popular leaders of the MUD and other members of the opposition could not apply for the elections because of administrative and legal procedures and were disqualified from participating in the presidential elections by the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Primary process, Opposition, Disqualifications\nThis included Henrique Capriles (candidate in the 2012 and 2013 elections), Leopoldo L\u00f3pez (sentenced to almost 14 years of prison during the 2014 protests), Antonio Ledezma (arrested in 2015 and later placed under house arrest), Freddy Guevara (whose parliamentary immunity was removed and fled to the residence of the Chilean ambassador), and David Smolansky (currently in exile), as well as Mar\u00eda Corina Machado and Miguel Rodr\u00edguez Torres, former defense minister and dissident chavista, also incarcerated. On 5 April 2017, the Comptroller General of Venezuela notified Capriles that for 15 years, he would be prevented from participating in public office, due to his alleged misuse of public funds, a charge that Capriles denied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Primary process, Opposition, Disqualifications\nRamos Allup has in his head that he could be a presidential candidate. That is Maduro's candidate...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Primary process, Opposition, Disqualifications\nThe main opposition political parties were disqualified after they were forced to reregister themselves for a second time in less than a year by the National Electoral Council (CNE) after not participating in the 2017 municipal elections. The parties Popular Will and Puente refused to do so, while the CNE prevented Justice First; only the party Acci\u00f3n Democr\u00e1tica was revalidated. In late January 2018, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice blocked the revalidation of the Democratic Unity Roundtable card, the most voted in the electoral history of the country, and was also banned. Finally, Justice First was disqualified weeks later from the presidential race in early February 2018, leaving only Democratic Action and other minor opposition parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Primary process, Opposition, Disqualifications\nThe actions by the government cleared the path for Henry Ramos Allup and his Democratic Action to gain popularity in the presidential elections. Ramos Allup was accused of \"cozying up\" to the ruling PSUV party during the recent regional elections. He has been criticized for his negotiations with the government. After many other opposition parties were disqualified, President Maduro singled out Ramos Allup and stated that he would run against him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Primary process, PSUV\nDue to the perceived unpopularity of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro within the PSUV, it was speculated that potential candidates would include former National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, Vice President Tareck El Aissami, and National Constituent Assembly President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez. However, Maduro was eventually chosen to run as the party's presidential candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Candidates, Maduro\nNicol\u00e1s Maduro, the successor of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez who assumed and was elected to the presidency in 2013, ran for re-election. Maduro has denied that there is a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and says that Venezuelans dying from poor health is \"exaggerated\", blaming many shortcomings on the United States. Maduro made the campaign promise of creating a \"new economy\" in Venezuela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Candidates, Maduro\nThe Bolivarian government also increased spending on populist policies during the campaign to help sway voters to support Maduro. Analysts suggested that those policies would further exacerbate the negative effects of the crisis in Venezuela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Candidates, Falc\u00f3n\nHenri Falc\u00f3n is a former governor of Lara who left PSUV in 2010 and founded the party Progressive Advance in 2012, which was affiliated to the Democratic Unity Roundtable until 2018. His political positioning was seen by some as a good way to govern from a position between the government and the opposition, though some Chavistas believe he is a \"traitor\" while some in the opposition think he is an infiltrator. Falc\u00f3n was officially nominated as a presidential candidate by the Movement for Socialism on 26 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Candidates, Bertucci\nJavier Bertucci, an evangelical pastor, announced his candidacy on 18 February 2018. He emphasized bringing back the \"values\" of Venezuelans, stating that his church has cared for the poor in Venezuela. Bertucci is against abortion and believes same-sex partners should not adopt children, stating, \"I respect and love any person who has a different sexual orientation, but in a legal sense, I would have to tell them categorically that I would never support this\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Candidates, Bertucci\nHowever, Bertucci has said that despite his \"absolutely conservative\" values, he would hold a referendum on whether to legalize abortion and same-sex marriage, claiming that he would support the decisions of the people, \"even those contrary to Christianity\". Bertucci was one of the Venezuelan businessmen involved in the Panama Papers leak. On 18 February actress Diosa Canales expressed she was against the elections, but supported Bertucci's candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Candidates, Quijada\nReinaldo Quijada an electrical engineer who follows the chavista movement, stated he would take up the \"revolutionary process\" in his campaign and that \"we are certainly opposed to the government of President Maduro, we are certainly opposed to the PSUV, but we are not opposed to the revolutionary process\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Candidates, Ratti\nLuis Alejandro Ratti is a chavista businessman and evangelical pastor. He was formerly part of the Hugo Ch\u00e1vez Bolivarian Front until he broke ranks with the Maduro government. During his campaign, Ratti stated he would \"represent the people with chivalry, bravery, and without fear, guaranteeing that they are going to have a different path than the last twenty years\". After withdrawing from the Agreement of Electoral Guarantees on 30 April, he announced his exit from the presidential race on 8 May and threw his support behind Henri Falc\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Campaign\nOn 2 April 2018, Falc\u00f3n's security adviser Colonel Teodoro Campos was attacked by pro-government colectivos, with a head wound that left the deputy severely injured and later had him placed in an intensive care unit where he was intubated and placed on a ventilator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Campaign\nCNE president Tibisay Lucena announced on 12 April that the political parties and individuals that promote abstention will be sanctioned. The campaign for the presidential elections and the legislative councils started on 22 April and ended on 17 May midnight. In late April, Maduro visited the state of Bolivar and stated that this \"is a new beginning to get 10 million votes\" and that \"love will overcome May 20 over the lies, of manipulation and economic warfare\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Campaign\nOn 24 April, during a campaign event in Carabobo state, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro declared that during the electoral campaign, the government would call on all Venezuelans with the Carnet de la Patria to look after votes, assured that the closer they get to 10 million votes, \"the more guarantee of peace, of stability\" and of \"economic recovery\" there would be. Maduro called Henri Falc\u00f3n \"Faltrump\" due to his dollarization proposal and labeled Javier Bertucci as \"Little Soup Bertucci\", referring to his charity activities of delivering soup to impoverished Venezuelans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Campaign\nBertucci denounced that his campaign manager in Sucre state, \u00c1ngel Arias, was shot in the stomach on 27 April while making preparations for a midday speech scheduled in Cuman\u00e1. According to a press release of Bertucci's party, a 25-year-old man shot Arias after trying to steal his cellphone; the robber did not achieve his mission and fled by motorcycle, leaving the manager at the scene. Aria was moved to a health center to be attended to his wounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Campaign\nI would take a rifle to start the armed revolution. This people will never stand a sellout and capitalist government, that is why we have to prepare ourselves to defend in peace the sovereignty and democracy of Venezuela", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Campaign\nOn 1 May, in Cojedes state, Maduro threatened taking action against supermarkets and food centers nationwide if they increased the prices of products in the following days, declaring that after the 20 May election \"I'll be president anyway...by hook or by crook\"\". On 2 May, Maduro warned in a campaign rally in Vargas state that if a \"capitalist government\" that handed over the country's resources were to be installed, he would take up arms himself to defend the revolution, stating \"I would take a rifle to start the armed revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0038-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Campaign\nThese people will never stand for a sellout and capitalist government, that is why we have to prepare ourselves to defend in peace the sovereignty and democracy of Venezuela\", On 18 May, Maduro stated \"Venezuela has become the focus and the elections in a world election\u00a0... I will accept the results, whatever they are\". He said that his opponent Henri Falc\u00f3n was the International Monetary Fund's candidate. Maduro affirmed not to care about the position of the countries that declared that they will dismiss the presidential elections, saying \"What fuck do I give that Europe does not recognize me, that Washington does not recognize me. I care about what the Venezuelan people say\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Campaign\nOn 11 May President Maduro said, during a campaign rally in Trujillo state, \"Imperialism, go fuck yourself with your orders because here in Venezuela the sovereign people rules\". Before a campaign rally in Charallave on 15 May 2018, President Maduro's group handed out free mangoes to supporters suffering from hunger who had arrived at the event. On 16 May President Maduro said that he foresaw a \"great victory\" and accused the US and France of trying to \"put pressure on the country\" to overthrow his government, saying \"The Ku Klux Klan of Washington is pursuing us\". Maduro also blamed Venezuela's economic difficulties on \"the economic forces of the United States\" and the \"oligarchy that did not conform when it lost political power\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Campaign\nOn 17 May the campaign closure rally of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro took place on Bol\u00edvar Avenue in Caracas. During his speech of the campaign closure, Maduro expressed that Bol\u00edvar Avenue was \"overwhelmed\", but Winston Vallenilla once asked the assistants to come closer to fill the empty spaces and publications on social networks of deputy Luis Florido and other persons refuted the claim. Argentine former football player Diego Maradona participated and danced in the rally. The same day Bertucci condemned the international sanctions against Venezuela saying, \"How can they ask for sanctions against the country. Oh, it is easy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Campaign\nThey are abroad eating well, sleeping well, living in luxurious homes. Asking for the United States government to tighten sanctions, and to tighten the noose on the Venezuelan people. I think that is irresponsible. That's not what we need.\" A Venezuelan in Rome published a video explaining that he found a large painting on a wall promoting the vote for Maduro and complaining that the country's money is wasted on placing said messages abroad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Demonstrations\nOn 16 May the opposition and dissident chavismo called for a protest to reject the elections. The demonstrators marched to the seat of the Organization of American States in Caracas. In the morning officials of the Bolivarian National Police with anti-riot equipment forced the protesters in the Bri\u00f3n Square in Chacao to leave, arguing they did not have permission to meet in the public space. The Caracas Metro staff closed the Chaca\u00edto station before the demonstration started as a security measure, as they informed in the loudspeakers to the users. Politicians such as Delsa Sol\u00f3rzano, Juan Requesens, Ivlev Silva and Andr\u00e9s Vel\u00e1squez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Opinion polls\nIn a January 2018 poll surrounding the presidential election, Meganalisis stated that only 29% of respondents desired to vote in the elections and 72.5% stated that they did not trust the CNE electoral body. Those who chose not to vote had various reasons; 45% believed that even if they voted, hunger would continue, 20% believed it was a \"waste of time\", and 13% believed that the opposition had betrayed the country. As for the support of political parties, 81% stated that they were not part of any party, 12% were part of the government PSUV party, and 6% supported the opposition-led MUD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Opinion polls\nAccording to Megan\u00e1lisis, an April 2018 poll found that 65.4% of respondents believed that Falc\u00f3n was working in collaboration with President Maduro to create the fraudulent appearance of a legitimate democratic election. Falc\u00f3n disputes this, however, stating that \"electoral boycotts almost never work. In country after country, opposition forces that abandoned the field of electoral competition have lost ground and allowed rulers to consolidate power.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, National Electoral Council bias\nWhile nothing in the Venezuelan constitution prevents elections from being called early, the Venezuelan Electoral Observatory noted that the call for elections was disrespecting the tradition of organizing them in December to avoid an extended transition, with exceptions in the year 2000 during the re-legitimization of all public powers by the approval of a new constitution; in October 2012 for the illness of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, and in April 2013 for being an election due to the death of the president, maintaining that \"the decision announced again showed the political bias of the electoral referee, since it included elements that made it difficult to have an election under equal conditions\" and that the CNE\" struck a blow to democratic plurality\" by preventing opposition parties from participating in the presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 96], "content_span": [97, 929]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0044-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, National Electoral Council bias\nIt also stated that since 2016 the electoral justice system administered in the country was \"not impartial\", citing the cases of the indigenous deputies of the Amazonas state who were dismissed from their positions for alleged irregularities in their election, which after two years have not been proven, while the fraud allegations made by the candidate to the governorship of Bol\u00edvar, Andr\u00e9s Vel\u00e1squez in October 2017 had yet not been investigated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 96], "content_span": [97, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Electoral Registry\nThe Venezuelan Electoral Registry determines the number of people that will vote and in it the voters that must comply with mandatory electoral service in electoral boards are chosen, as well as the regional, municipal and parochial boards for the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0045-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Electoral Registry\nWhile in the 2012 presidential elections the CNE took two months to carry out the data update, migration and inscription of new voters in the Electoral Registry, in the 2018 elections the voters only had ten days between 10 and 20 February according to the both the first 22 April and the definitive 20 May electoral schedules, both inside and outside the country, and the audits to the data were shortened from months to a few days. The Electoral Registry has not been audited since 2005, with no independent observation for over a decade by the date of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Electoral Registry\nIt is clear that the CNE has done little to encourage the inscription of these new voters in the registry with institutional campaigns, breaking the current electoral law that which obligates it to deploy inscription and update centers in 'sectors of difficult access and/or of highest population concentration' in all the national territory and in any moment of the year", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Electoral Registry\nIn 2012 more than 1,300 updates of the Electoral Registry points were deployed on a national scale, but in 2018 less than half were opened, 531. The Global Observatory of Communication and Democracy estimated in the report The Citizen Observation of the Electoral Registry 2017 that at least 1,769,035 young voters were not inscribed in the Electoral Registry by December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0047-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Electoral Registry\nFor the Venezuelan Electoral Observatory, the \"CNE has done little to encourage the inscription of these new voters in the registry with institutional campaigns, breaking the current electoral law that which obligates it to deploy inscription and update centers in 'sectors of difficult access and/or of highest population concentration' in all the national territory and in any moment of the year\" according to Article 33 of the Organic Law of Electoral Processes, and that \"what is needed for the citizen to exercise their right to vote is not being done\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Electoral Registry\nOn 15 February, President Maduro, without being an electoral authority, announced the extension for five days for the inscription in the electoral registry abroad and informed the opening of the Venezuelan consulate in Miami so that Venezuelans living in the city could make changes and participate. The second opening of the registry happened with the elections date change to 20 May and it was opened from 2 to 10 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0048-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Electoral Registry\nIn theory, the registry allowed to update information or inscribe new voters for 24 days abroad the country and 19 in Venezuela, but electoral experts denounced obstacles for the inscription of Venezuelans abroad, because besides being insufficient it led to other obstacles that did not allow for more assistance to embassies or consultares. The electoral registry abroad only increased by 7,028 voters, which does not represent even the 0.5% of the Venezuelans estimated abroad. Nationally by 910,272 new voters were registered, adding to the 20,759,809 existing voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0048-0002", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Electoral Registry\nVoto Joven complained because the consultes did not work on holidays, only worked on office hours without enough time or information, as well as the requirement to ask for a permanent visa to those who live in the countries where the opening was formalized, even though to vote only a laminated identity card is needed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Electoral Registry\nThe Observatory also denounced that \"The ER of Venezuelans abroad has been in a sort of illegal suspension since 2012, a measure violatory of the current electoral law\" and that according to the last report of the CNE on 30 April 2017, the Venezuelans with the right to vote abroad are only 101,595 voters, \"a number much lower than the migrants with the right to vote\" in comparison to the estimates of between 2 and 4 million Venezuelans living abroad. Even though to vote only a laminated identity card is needed, active passports, original birth certificates, visas, residence letters, and other administrative requirements not covered by law were requested by consulates and embassies, preventing their participation in the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Agreement of Electoral Guarantees\nThe Agreement of Electoral Guarantees is a scam for the citizen since it covers points already established in the Law and that the CNE has not met", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Agreement of Electoral Guarantees\nThe signing of the Agreement of Electoral Guarantees by three of the original five presidential candidates \u2013 Maduro, Falc\u00f3n, and Bertucci \u2013 was presented by the candidates as an extension of the electoral norms. The agreement included, among other aspects, the move to eliminate pro-government \"red points\" controlled by chavistas \u2013 which after the agreement had to be moved farther away from voting centers \u2013 the call for international observers and the return to voting center locations changed during the Constituent Assembly elections and the 2017 regional elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0051-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Agreement of Electoral Guarantees\nThe agreement has been questioned and rejected by the NGOs Voto Joven, CEPAZ, and the Global Observatory of Communication and Democracy. On 27 March, the CEPAZ director Beatriz Borges declared that \"the Agreement of Electoral Guarantees is a scam for the citizen since it covers initiatives that were already established in the Law and that the CNE has not met\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Agreement of Electoral Guarantees\nDespite that the presidential candidates Henri Falc\u00f3n, Javier Bertucci, and Luis Alejandro Ratti denounced the violation of guarantees provided in the agreement, on 2 May the president of the CNE, Tibisay Lucena, contradicted the complaints and assured that the Agreement of Electoral Guarantees was \"fulfilled in its entirety\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Vote buying\nReports of vote buying were also prevalent during the presidential campaigning. Venezuelans suffering from hunger were pressured to vote for Maduro, with the government bribing potential supporters with food. Maduro promised rewards for citizens who scanned their Carnet de la Patria at the voting booth, which would allow the government to monitor the political party of their citizens and whether or not they had voted. These prizes were reportedly never delivered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Vote buying\nEveryone who has a Carnet de la Patria has to go to vote on 20 May. ... I am thinking of giving a prize to the people of Venezuela who go out to vote that day with the Carnet de la Patria", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Vote buying\nIn a visit to Delta Amacuro, president and reelection candidate Nicol\u00e1s Maduro gave away eight motor boats, nine ambulances, and reopened the \"Antonio D\u00edaz\" Tucupita Airport, among other announcements, violating Article 223 of the Organic Law of Electoral Processes which forbids the use of state resources during election campaigns, as well as one of the prerogatives in the Agreement of Electoral Guarantees signed by the presidential candidates to the CNE. On 8 May Maduro again violated the electoral law during an electoral act in the Amazonas state by promising to give fuel to the entity in exchange for votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Medical care and voter fraud\nMission Barrio Adentro was a program established by Ch\u00e1vez to bring medical care to poor neighborhoods; it was staffed by Cubans that were sent to Venezuela in exchange for petroleum. The New York Times interviewed Cuban medical professionals in 2019 who had worked for Barrio Adentro prior to the election; sixteen revealed that they were required to participate in voting fraud. In the earlier 2013 election, four of the Cubans said that \"command centers\" for elections were placed near clinics to facilitate \"dispatching doctors to pressure residents\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 93], "content_span": [94, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Medical care and voter fraud\nBut they also \"described a system of deliberate political manipulation\"; their services as medical professionals \"were wielded to secure votes for the governing Socialist Party, often through coercion\", they told The New York Times. Facing a shortage of supplies and medicine, they were instructed to withhold treatment\u2013even for emergencies\u2013so supplies and treatment could be \"doled out closer to the election, part of a national strategy to compel patients to vote for the government\". They reported that life-saving treatment was denied to patients who supported the opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 93], "content_span": [94, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0057-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Controversies and issues, Medical care and voter fraud\nAs the election neared, they were sent door-to-door, on house visits with a political purpose: \"to hand out medicine and enlist voters for Venezuela's Socialist Party\". Patients were warned that they could lose their medical care if they did not vote for the socialist party, and that, if Maduro lost, ties would be broken with Cuba, and Venezuelans would lose all medical care. Patients with chronic conditions, at risk of death if they couldn't get medicine, were a particular focus of these tactics. One said that government officials were posing as doctors to make these house calls before elections; 'We, the doctors, were asked to give our extra robes to people. The fake doctors were even giving out medicines, without knowing what they were or how to use them,\" he said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 93], "content_span": [94, 872]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct\nThe electoral conduct has been described as being fraudulent, with the call for an election by the pro-government Constituent National Assembly being declared unconstitutional in the first place, especially when the body moved the election date ahead from December to April. The National Electoral Council (CNE), which is charged with overseeing elections in Venezuela, is also controlled by Maduro sympathizers. The Venezuelan government has also been accused of excluding opposition candidates, handpicking candidates, voter intimidation, vote buying, and offering food to those who vote for President Maduro. No recognized electoral observers were reported to be present for the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Announcement\nThe 1999 Venezuelan constitution establishes that the Electoral Branch, conformed by the National Electoral Council and its subordinate organisms, is responsible for \"the organization, administration, direction and surveillance of all the acts related to the election of positions of representation of the branches of government, as well as referendums\". Despite this, the Constituent Assembly issued a decree in January 2018 ordering the CNE to organize the presidential elections to be held in April. The Venezuelan Electoral Observatory declared that \"the decision announced by the CNE evidences once more the political bias of the electoral arbitrator\" and warned that 74 days are insufficient to guarantee the equality and transparency of the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Announcement\nWe deeply regret that elections were summoned without a broad agreement of its schedule nor of the conditions for an inclusive and credible electoral process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Announcement\nThe Observatory pointed out that phases of the process such as the selection of new board members, the choosing of subordinate electoral organisms in public raffles, the deployment of extraordinary journeys of inscription, the update of the Electoral Registry in a broad span that allows the incorporation of the largest amount of Venezuelans, the maintenance of the voting machines, the appropriate implementation of technical audits that guarantee the proper functioning of the automated voting system, and the organization of quality international missions would all be affected due to the lack of time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Announcement\nThe Electoral Citizen Network described as \"irregular\" the order of the Constituent Assembly to summon presidential elections before 30 April 2018, defining that it was a violation of the constitution and civil rights. Like the 2017 municipal elections, the announcement was made less than six months in advance, the time necessary to facilitate the lapses established in the normal electoral process. S\u00famate and Voto Joven indicated that this would shorten the terms of the Electoral Registry, generating a \"hasty and little transparent process\". The Electoral Citizen Network demanded the Electoral Branch the performance of special operatives for the inscription and update of voters in Venezuela and abroad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Announcement\nRam\u00f3n Guillermo Aveledo,\u00a0former executive secretary of the Democratic Unity Roundtable, compared the elections to the 1957 referendum of dictator Marcos P\u00e9rez Jim\u00e9nez, noting that Article 82 and the Organic Law for the Public Municipal Branch specifies the prohibition that the elections for municipal positions are carried out along with the national elections, and that the mandate of the National Assembly ends in 2021, meaning that shortening its period, something not provided in the constitution, or the Venezuelan electoral laws, is \"dissolving it\", which would be considered \"a coup d'\u00e9tat\" against the Legislative Branch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Electoral schedule\nTwo weeks after the Constituent Assembly ordered the elections and following the failure of the dialogue between the Bolivarian government and the opposition in the Dominican Republic, the CNE fixed 22 April 2018 as the day of the elections in a press conference, also announcing 15 audits and giving some dates, but without formally disclosing the electoral schedule. After changing the date of the elections to 20 May 2018 on 1 March, the CNE took 13 days to disclose the schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0064-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Electoral schedule\nThe Venezuelan Electoral Observatory and the Global Observatory of Communication and Democracy declared that the CNE has reduced the terms in each of the phases of the electoral schedule for the presidential elections since 2013, and in comparison to the 2006 and 2012 schedules with the 2018 one, the spans of the phases went from having up to three months to only two or three days in fundamental aspects, according to the last announcement of the elections. Both the time allotted for applications toward the Electoral Registry and the electoral campaigns were significantly reduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0064-0002", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Electoral schedule\nTo determine the electoral districts, the CNE must comply with the population estimates provided by the state-run National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, which in turn requires the approval of the National Assembly first. This step was omitted and the CNE published the districts for the legislative councils at its own discretion, without disclosing its process and without answering any complaints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Electoral schedule\nOn 26 March, the Peace and Justice Center (CEPAZ) denounced how the CNE changed the schedule of the 20 May elections \"clandestinely and surreptitiously\", what it constituted as \"a new irregularity that prevents the adequate information about the electoral offers from being guaranteed and facilitated to the voters\", referring to the modification made for the ballot choices by the political parties, electoral groups, indigenous organizations, initiatives carried out on 24 March and for the regional candidates, they were scheduled for 26 March in the 23 regional offices of the CNE.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0065-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Electoral schedule\nAccording to the Electoral Branch schedule published on 13 March, the choice on ballot for national organizations would be carried out on 21 March and in the case of the regional ones on 22 March, but each one was postponed between three and four days, prompting CEPAZ to warn that due to the \"opaque and quiet modification of the electoral schedule\", five days were removed from the production and distribution process of the invalid electoral ballots, \"further diminishing the possibility of having voters informed\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Electoral schedule\nThe Venezuelan Electoral Observatory stressed in its report about the elections that the process for nominating presidential candidates was only allowed for only three days in 2018, from 26 to 28 February, while the modification and substitution of nominations, \"the CNE enabled 118 days on 2012 and only 2 March in 2018 for this occasion\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0066-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Electoral schedule\nThe Observatory also stressed that although the terms were changed to add the legislative councils, this did not mean a further extension of the days because \"16 activities were compressed to be carried out in only 17 days, a schedule in which no task lasted more than eight days\". The electoral schedule did not include national observers nor international accompaniment, which the CNE accepted until 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0066-0002", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Electoral schedule\nAfter the signature of the Agreement of Electoral Guarantees on 1 March by the political parties Great Patriotic Pole, Movimiento al Socialismo, Avanzada Progresista, and COPEI, the United Nations was requested to head an electoral mission, but the organization refused to accept the offer, even after receiving a formal invitation and accepting visits from principal candidates or their representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Campaigning\nIt should be prevented that an official, such as the president, use the communication platform to take advantage of the other candidates. In this election there are several who have propaganda on television, but there is no CNE that limits the number of times that is transmitted daily neither the minutes nor the content", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Campaigning\nThe presidential and legislative councils campaign started on 22 April and ended on 17 May at midnight, according to the schedule approved by the CNE. However, candidates postulated for the presidency or the reelection carried out activities with the electorate and exposed proposals that will be executed in case of being elected, violating Article 75 of the Organic Law of Electoral Processes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0068-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Campaigning\nFrancisco Castro, national coordinator of S\u00famate, pointed out that the CNE provided only 26 days for the national campaigning, explaining that the term \"does not allow candidates to have enough time to promote their ideas and call for participation, so they are forced to anticipate their campaign. By tradition, the process lasts more than 60 days\", noting that the CNE began the process only 80 days prior to the election of more than 500 positions, reducing the time of the activities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0068-0002", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Campaigning\nEqually, he indicated that the CNE does not regulate pre-campaign activities and stated that as long as there is not an explicit call to vote, then the candidate cannot be sanctioned. Castro explained that the pattern carried out since the government of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez is repeated in which electoral campaigns are used to inaugurate works and make promises.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0068-0003", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Campaigning\nHe continued by stating that the practice should be prevented, that \"an official, such as the president, uses the communication platform to take advantage of the other candidates\", saying that during the elections there were several candidates who used propaganda on television, but that the CNE does not limit the number of minutes, the content or the number of times that it is transmitted daily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Campaigning\nIgnacio \u00c1valos, director of the Venezuelan Electoral Observatory, and political scientist Luis Salamanca agreed that until now, an electoral environment or government project does not exist, but rather \"a struggle to achieve power\", stressing that electoral competition was suppressed and that an electoral campaign was designed for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela's own convenience. Salamanca asserted that \"Maduro distributes benefits to obtain votes and Falc\u00f3n offers benefits in the future in exchange for votes. Neither has enough weight to mobilize the country electorally\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Campaigning\nThe Tal Cual newspaper published an article describing Maduro's final campaign rally on 17 May as \"the greatest demonstration of corruption\", criticizing the \"shameless\" use of state resources, including the use of ministerial staff and publishing audio which revealed that promotion of the final rally was created using the payroll of government offices. Tal Cual also published the PSUV's operative plan of the rally, which did not include tasks directed towards PSUV party members but instead assigns responsibilities to the state ministries and other public institutions, including the mobilization of people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0070-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Conduct, Campaigning\nThe operative plan details that the state-run oil company PDVSA installed the main stage, generators, the backing, and the sound systems, that the Defense Ministry was in charge of the fireworks detonations, that the Ministry for Mining Development was responsible for decoration and that other institutions were responsible for the installation of portable bathrooms, visual displays, barriers, awnings, and refreshments. In page six of the PSUV plan it is also written that the people that surrounded the stage from which Maduro was speaking were militias dressed as civilians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Results\nBy the time polls were to officially close at 6:00pm VST, it was reported by a CNE source that voter turnout was only 32.3%, the lowest turnout in Venezuela's modern democratic history since the 1958 coup d'\u00e9tat. CNE data would later show that turnout was 46.1%, a record low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Results\nBoth Falc\u00f3n and Bertucci rejected the results, stating that there were too many irregularities. As the results were read by the CNE, many Venezuelans throughout Caracas began a cacerolazo protest against Maduro, with some beginning to barricade streets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Aftermath\nTibisay Lucena stated that the CNE forbade the payment to voters offered by Maduro. On 22 May when the CNE proclaimed Maduro as president, Maduro announced the creation of a presidential commission for economic advice. The same day, Maduro declared as personae non-gratae American diplomats Todd D. Robinson and Brian Naranjo, who had to leave the country within 48 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Aftermath\nIn the week prior to the presidential elections around 40 military personnel from different parts of the country were arrested. On 16 May, officials of the Direcci\u00f3n General Contrainteligencia Militar (DGCIM) arrested 12 members of the National Armed Forces with the frigate lieutenant rank. Three days later, 20 military people were detained and on 21 May six more were arrested. Among the detainees are six lieutenant colonels, a first lieutenant and two sergeants, arrested on the charges of crimes against military decorum, treason and instigation of rebellion. Foro Penal lawyer Mariana Ortega informed receiving reports of arbitrary detentions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Aftermath\nOn 24 May, Maduro took oath among the Constituent Assembly, a ceremony that should have taken place in January 2018 with the opposition-led National Assembly in accordance with Article 231 of the Venezuelan constitution. The National Assembly rejected the election's results, calling them an \"electoral farce\" and declared that Maduro must be considered \"a usurper\". However, Maduro's new six-year term did not begin until 10 January 2019, when he took his official oath at a public ceremony in Caracas in front of the Venezuelan Supreme Court. The ceremony was attended by spectators such as Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and president of Bolivia Evo Morales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Aftermath\nBetween the May 2018 presidential election and Maduro's inauguration, there were calls to establish a transitional government. CEO of Venezuela Al D\u00eda, Manuel Corao, argued that Maduro was no longer the president and that \"the tendencies in Venezuela represented in the National Assembly [wish to] designate a transitional government that fills the vacuum of power and liberates Venezuelans from Communist evil\". Former Venezuelan legislator Alexis Ortiz stated that \"Castrochavism [...]\u00a0rots in incompetence, corruption, and surrender of national sovereignty\", calling on a transitional government to work on reconciliation, establish general elections, receive humanitarian assistance and protect civil liberties, among other requests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Aftermath\nA November 2018 report by the International Crisis Group said that \"[n]eighboring countries and other foreign powers have taken steps\u2013including sanction\u2013to achieve some kind of negotiated transition, which is still the best way out of the crisis\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Aftermath\nIn January 2019, the National Assembly declared the results of the election invalid, and invoked clauses of the 1999 Venezuelan Constitution to appoint National Assembly Speaker Juan Guaid\u00f3 as acting president, precipitating the Venezuelan presidential crisis. Maduro's supporters refused to acknowledge the move, and Guaid\u00f3 was placed under arrest for a short time. Several international organizations and independent countries have lined up to support either side of the conflict, and the former Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela, in exile in Panama since 2017, has given its support to the legitimacy of the National Assembly's moves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Reactions, Domestic\nThe Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) opposition coalition confirmed on 21 February 2018 that it would not participate in the elections since they \"do not comply with democratic conditions or guarantees\". Henri Falcon, former Lara State Governor and opposition presidential candidate, lambasted the Democratic Unity Roundtable for their boycott of the elections and stated: \"You will disappear as politicians and as parties for not understanding the dynamics of a country that demands solutions and not conflict\", and also stated, \"four parties (those participating in the elections) believe in national unity\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Reactions, Domestic\nMovimiento Estudiantil rejected the elections, saying they were called \"outside of the lapses established by our Carta Magna\" and stated that it they were \"requested by an unconstitutional, incompetent body erected on the blood of hundreds of Venezuelans\", considering that the elections are not designed for the Venezuelan public, but were created to \"perpetuate the hell and the misery lived today\". The movement stated that it would not participate in the process and demanded political leaders not to endorse the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Reactions, Domestic\nThe NGO Foro Penal decided not to endorse the announcement of the presidential elections based on the fact that the Constituent Assembly does not have constitutional faculties to summon an election because it is only empowered to draft a new constitution, assuring that it would be seizing functions from other political bodies when calling for elections and that the announcement is violating the right of Venezuelans to choose in valid and fair conditions attached to the constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0081-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Reactions, Domestic\nBoth the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela and the Venezuelan Federation of Chambers of Commerce (Fedec\u00e1maras) rejected and asked to postpone the elections in statements published on the week of the elections. The head of the Caracas-based Global Observatory of Communication and Democracy Griselda Colina and former Director of the Carter Center's Americas Program Dr. Jennifer McCoy concluded that Maduro's victory could not be considered democratic due to a wide range of failings in prevailing electoral conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Reactions, International, Supranational bodies\nUnited Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein noted that his office had concerns that reports of extrajudicial killings cast doubts on fairness, stating \"this context does not in any way fulfill minimal conditions for free and credible elections\". On 23 March 2018 a United Nations official informed that the organization would not offer electoral assistance in the elections, without explaining the motives. Spokesperson Farhan Haq stated that a letter was sent to Venezuelan authorities regarding the request of electoral experts, but did not explain the content.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Reactions, International, Supranational bodies\nPrior to the elections, the Lima Group, with its participating nations of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Saint Lucia, stated that they would not recognize the results of the presidential elections due to the perceived lack of transparency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0083-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Reactions, International, Supranational bodies\nWith the support of the Lima Group, the Peruvian foreign minister Cayetana Aljov\u00edn informed that the presence of President Maduro in the 8th Summit of the Americas \"would not be welcome in said encounter\", quoting the 2001 Quebec Declaration, which states that \"the rupture of democracy constitutes an insuperable obstacle for the participation of a State in the Summit of the Americas\". After the vote, Canada joined the group in condemning the election as fraudulent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Reactions, International, Supranational bodies\nOn 23 February 2018, at a special session supported by its Secretary General Luis Almagro, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) adopted a resolution that asks the Venezuelan government to reconsider the announcement of the presidential elections and to present a new electoral schedule to make possible the performance of elections with all the guarantees needed. The 19 countries that supported the resolution were Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Lucia, the United States, and Uruguay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0084-0001", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Reactions, International, Supranational bodies\nFollowing a meeting held on 10 May, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published a document stating that the process did not meet international standards, that the CNE electoral body was biased and that the \"hurried announcement\u00a0... has seriously affected the warranty of the universal vote for the new voters and Venezuelans abroad\", concluding that the election would not meet \"the minimal conditions needed for the realization of free, fair and reliable elections in Venezuela\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Reactions, International, Supranational bodies\nOn 8 February, the European Parliament, with 480 votes in favor, 51 against, and 70 abstentions, adopted a resolution demanding sanctions against President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, Vice President Tareck el Aissami, and other officials, considering them \"responsible for the aggravation of the crisis. The European Union, through the European Parliament, also ruled that it would not recognize the 20 May elections and called the electoral process \"fraudulent\". On 3 May 2018, the European Parliament again called for the immediate suspension of the 20 May election until \"free and fair elections were held on a schedule agreed upon with the participation of all relevant actors and political parties\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Reactions, International, Governments\nThe governments of Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, France, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Spain, the United States and Uruguay directly criticized the electoral process in various ways, condemning the disqualification and imprisonment of MUD individuals, the lack of advanced notice for the election date and the bias of electoral bodies, describing such actions by the Venezuelan government antidemocratic. Remaining member governments representing countries from the Lima Group, including Brazil, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, and Saint Lucia, denounced the elections in a joint statement through declarations made by the organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Reactions, International, Governments\nMeanwhile, the governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea and Russia reacted to the call for elections positively, showing support for the process and demanded that there be no intervention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Recognition, Domestic\nThe opposition-led National Assembly of Venezuela rejected the results, calling them an \"electoral farce\". The Democratic Unity Roundtable opposition coalition formalized their dismissal of the electoral results on a legislative level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Recognition, Domestic\nCandidate Henri Falc\u00f3n denounced the election before the announcement of the results. CNE rector and president of the Political Participation and Finance Commission Luis Emilio Rond\u00f3n announced his rejection of the electoral results, stating that \"clearly they were flawed\". Rond\u00f3n offered the office of the commission to the candidates to file their irregularities reports that they exposed to \"organize the claims that correspond to the clarification of all these aspects that disrupt the electoral process\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Recognition, International, Unrecognized\nThe European Union, after calling for the suspension of the elections, stated that they would not recognize the results. On 28 May 2018, the Council of the European Union, with its members representing the executive governments of members states including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, refused to recognize the election results and called for new, democratic elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Recognition, International, Unrecognized\nThe Lima Group\u2014comprising Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Saint Lucia\u2014announced that it would not recognize the results. In written statements, the Group's members said they would reduce their diplomatic relations, consult with their ambassadors and summon the Venezuelan ambassadors in their countries to protest against the election for \"not complying with international standards for a free, fair and transparent process\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Recognition, International, Unrecognized\nThe leaders of the G7 group, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, joined the European Union in rejecting the elections and denounced that their development did not \"comply with international standards\" and did not grant \"basic guarantees\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Recognition, International, Unrecognized\nIndividually, Australia, Chile, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Georgia also refused to recognize the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283502-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Recognition, International, Recognized\nAntigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Dominica, Egypt, El Salvador, Iran, North Korea, South Africa, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Syria, Turkey (the only NATO member), Vietnam and the disputed state of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara) recognized the election result. Many of the Caribbean nations that recognized the election rely on Venezuela for oil as part of the Petrocaribe programme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 77], "content_span": [78, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283503-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan protest movement\nThe 2018 Venezuelan protest movement is mass protests and a wave of demonstrations and unprecedented marches against low MDs salary and unions protests against hyperinflation in Venezuela, starting in May 2018, and ending in August 2018, with none of their main focal points made with the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283503-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan protest movement\nLawyers, jobless workers and teachers also held strikes throughout the strike movement period. Large confrontations occur during the protests, but the nonviolent movement continues, calling for salaries and better wage increases. President Nicolas Maduro condemned the protest actions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283503-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Venezuelan protest movement\nProtesters formed cacerolazo, human chains, barricades, roadblocks and pickets nationwide. After the protests, the large demonstrations turned smaller and dwindled after police violence in July, in which tens were injured and hundreds were arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283504-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 Vermont House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Vermont voters will elect state representatives in all 150 seats. State representatives serve two-year terms in the Vermont House of Representatives. A primary election on August 14, 2018 determined which candidates appeared on the November 6 general election ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283504-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont House of Representatives election\nFollowing the 2016 State House elections, Democrats maintained effective control of the House with a 97 member caucus (83 Democrats, 7 Independents, and 7 Progressives). Before the election, to take control of the chamber from Democrats, the Republicans would have needed to net 23 State House seats. However, instead the Democrats instead gained 12 seats, increasing their majorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283504-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont House of Representatives election, Summary of Results by State House District\nPrimary election results can be obtained from the Vermont Secretary of State's website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283504-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont House of Representatives election, Incumbents not seeking re-election, Retiring incumbents\n28 incumbent Representatives (17 Democrats and 11 Republicans) are not seeking re-election in 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 103], "content_span": [104, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283505-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont Senate election\nThe 2018 Vermont State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Vermont voters elected State Senators in all 30 seats. State senators serve two-year terms in the Vermont Senate. A primary election on August 14, 2018 determined which candidates appeared on the November 6 general election ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283505-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont Senate election\nFollowing the 2016 State Senate elections, Democrats maintained effective control of the Senate with 23 members in the majority caucus (21 Democrats and 2 Progressives). To claim control of the chamber from Democrats, the Republicans would have needed to net gain 8 or 9 seats depending on the winner of the 2018 Vermont Lieutenant Governor election, which was Progressive Dave Zuckerman. However, in the elections, the Democrats instead gained one seat. from the Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283505-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont Senate election, Summary of results\nPrimary election results can be obtained from the Vermont Secretary of State's website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Vermont on November 6, 2018. All of Vermont's executive officers were up for election as well as Vermont's Class I Senate seat and at-large seat in the United States House of Representatives. Primary elections were held on August 14, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, United States Senate\nIndependent incumbent Bernie Sanders was elected to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, United States House of Representatives\nDemocratic incumbent Peter Welch was elected to a seventh term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 62], "content_span": [63, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Governor\nIncumbent Republican Phil Scott was elected to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Lieutenant Governor\nIncumbent Progressive/Democratic Lieutenant Governor Dave Zuckerman (since 2017) was elected to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Lieutenant Governor, Republican primary\nHouse Republican Minority Leader Don H. Turner Jr. ran uncontested in the Republican primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 63], "content_span": [64, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Lieutenant Governor, Progressive primary\nZuckerman also again ran as a write-in candidate in the Progressive primary and was unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 64], "content_span": [65, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Lieutenant Governor, Liberty Union nomination\nMurray Ngoima, candidate for Treasurer in 2010, 2014, and 2016, ran unopposed for the Liberty Union State Committee's nomination for Lieutenant Governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 69], "content_span": [70, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Democratic Secretary of State Jim Condos (since 2011) was elected to a fifth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Secretary of State, Republican primary\nH. Brooke Paige, a perennial candidate, was unopposed in the Republican primary. Paige also ran in and won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Attorney General, Treasurer and Auditor of Accounts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 62], "content_span": [63, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Secretary of State, Liberty Union nomination\nMary Alice Herbert, candidate for Secretary of State in 2016, ran unopposed for the Liberty Union State Committee's nomination for Secretary of State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Democratic Treasurer Beth Pearce (since 2011) was elected to a fifth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Treasurer, Republican primary\nH. Brooke Paige, a perennial candidate, was unopposed in the Republican primary. Paige also ran in and won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Attorney General, Secretary of State and State Auditor of Accounts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Treasurer, Republican primary, Post-primary\nPaige withdrew August 24, allowing the state Republican party to name a replacement. On August 29, the Vermont Republican Party selected Rick Morton, the current state party treasurer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Democratic Attorney General T. J. Donovan (since 2017) was elected to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Attorney General, Republican primary\nH. Brooke Paige, a perennial candidate, was unopposed in the Republican primary. Paige also ran in and won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and State Auditor of Accounts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 60], "content_span": [61, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Attorney General, Republican primary, Post primary\nPaige withdrew August 24, allowing the state Republican party to name a replacement. On August 29, the Vermont Republican Party selected State Representative Janssen Willhoit (Caledonia-3) as their Attorney General nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 74], "content_span": [75, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Attorney General, Liberty Union nomination\nRosemarie Jackowski, candidate for Attorney General in 2016, ran unopposed for the Liberty Union State Committee's nomination for Attorney General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Auditor of Accounts\nIncumbent Democratic/Progressive Auditor Doug Hoffer (since 2013) was elected to a fourth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Auditor of Accounts, Republican primary\nH. Brooke Paige, a perennial candidate, was unopposed in the Republican primary. Paige also ran in and won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Attorney General, Secretary of State and State Treasurer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 63], "content_span": [64, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Auditor of Accounts, Republican primary, Post-primary\nPaige withdrew August 24, allowing the state Republican party to name a replacement. On August 29, the Vermont Republican Party selected Rick Kenyon, a tax preparer from Brattleboro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 77], "content_span": [78, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Auditor of Accounts, Progressive primary\nHoffer also again ran as a write-in candidate in the Progressive primary and was unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 64], "content_span": [65, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, Auditor of Accounts, Liberty Union nomination\nMarina Brown, candidate for Auditor in 2016, ran unopposed for the Liberty Union State Committee's nomination for Auditor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 69], "content_span": [70, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, State Legislature\nAll 30 seats in the Vermont Senate and all 150 seats of the Vermont House of Representatives were up for election. The balance of political power before the elections for each chamber was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, State Legislature, House of Representatives\nAnd the results of the elections for both chambers was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283506-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont elections, County offices\nAll county level offices were up for election. The balance of political power before and after the elections for each office was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283507-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Vermont, concurrently with the election of Vermont's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Governor Phil Scott, who was first elected in 2016, was re-elected to a second term in office. Hallquist's 40.4% was also the worst performance for a Democratic Party candidate since 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283507-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont gubernatorial election, Background\nAlong with New Hampshire, Vermont is one of only two states where governors are elected to two-year terms. Republican Phil Scott was elected in the 2016 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283507-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Results\nWith this result, Christine Hallquist became the first openly transgender candidate for governor nominated by a major political party in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283507-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vermont gubernatorial election, General election, Results\nDespite initial expectations of a potentially close race due to national blue wave, Scott easily won reelection in what became a difficult year for Republicans, winning by 15 percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283508-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian Amateur Football Association season\nThe 2018 VAFA season was the 118th season of the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), and the 81st under its current name since 1933. Seventy teams participated across seven divisions under a promotion and relegation system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283508-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian Amateur Football Association season, Ladders, Division 2\nEltham Collegians transferred to the Northern Football League after the conclusion of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283508-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian Amateur Football Association season, Ladders, Division 4\nMt. Lilydale Old Collegians merged with veteran side Croydon North to form Croydon North-MLOC Football Club after the conclusion of the season. The new team then transferred to the Eastern Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election\nThe 2018 Victorian state election was held on Saturday, 24 November 2018 to elect the 59th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly (lower house) and all 40 seats in the Legislative Council (upper house) were up for election. The first-term incumbent Labor government, led by Premier Daniel Andrews, won a second four-year term, defeating the Liberal/National Coalition opposition, led by Opposition Leader Matthew Guy. Minor party the Greens led by Samantha Ratnam also contested the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election\nLabor won 55 seats in the 88-seat Legislative Assembly, an increase of eight seats from the previous election in 2014, a majority of 15. This was the fifth time that a Labor government was re-elected in Victoria, and it tied Victorian Labor's second-best showing at the state level. The Coalition suffered an 11-seat swing against it, and won 27 seats. The Greens won 3 seats, a net increase of 1 seat since the last election though equal to the share of seats they held when the election was called. The remaining three seats on the crossbench were won by independents. In the Legislative Council, Labor won 18 seats, three short of a majority. The Coalition won 11 seats and the remaining 11 seats were won by a range of minor parties from across the political spectrum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election\nSeveral days after Labor's victory, the Second Andrews Ministry was sworn in by the Governor and was notable for featuring an equal number of men and women. The following week the Liberal Party elected Michael O'Brien leader of the party, who became Opposition Leader in the new parliament, after Guy had announced earlier he would stand down from the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election\nFor the election, Victoria had compulsory voting and used preferential voting in single-member seats for the Legislative Assembly, and single transferable vote in multi-member seats for the proportionally represented Legislative Council. The Legislative Council had 40 members serving four-year terms, elected from eight electoral regions each with five members. With each region electing 5 members, the quota in each region for election, after distribution of preferences, was 16.7% (one-sixth). The election was conducted by the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC), an independent body answerable to parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly\n* Compared with results at 2014 election. The Greens went into the 2018 election with 3 seats following the Northcote by-election, 2017** Compared with results at 2014 election. There were 3 independent members at the dissolution of parliament following resignations by Russell Northe and Don Nardella. * ** Based on the 87 districts for which the Liberal/National Coalition fielded a candidate. The Liberal Party did not field a candidate in Richmond. Labor received 73.07% of the two-party-preferred vote in that district at the 2014 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly\nLabor's victory came primarily on the strength of a larger-than-expected and larger than statewide swing in eastern Melbourne, which has traditionally decided elections in Victoria. According to the ABC's election analyst Antony Green, the eastern suburbs were swept up in a \"band of red\". They also took a number of seats in areas considered Liberal heartland. Hawthorn, for instance, fell to Labor for only the second time ever and for the first time in 63 years. Bass elected a Labor member for the first time ever; the seat and its predecessors, Gippsland West and Westernport, had been in conservative hands for all but two terms since 1909.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Council\n* - Compared with results at 2014 election. The DLP went into the 2018 election with no Legislative Council seats after Rachel Carling-Jenkins initially defected to the Conservatives and eventually sat as an independent. ** - Compared with results at 2014 election. There was one independent at the dissolution of parliament after Rachel Carling-Jenkin's defections from the DLP and then the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Council, Legislative Council seats table\nLabor benefited from an enormous swing toward it and consequently picked up at least one seat in most regions, winning 18 seats. The swing against the Coalition in the lower house was replicated in the Council and they lost five seats to finish with only 11. Most of the minor parties were the beneficiaries of above-the-line voting, though Reason Party MP Fiona Patten was re-elected on the back of a strong below-the-line vote in Northern Metropolitan. The Greens were the biggest losers of the system, losing four of their five upper house members and only re-electing party leader Samantha Ratnam. Derryn Hinch's Justice Party was the biggest winner on the crossbench, picking up three seats, however the party's member for Western Metropolitan (Catherine Cumming) defected to sit as an independent prior to being sworn in. The Liberal Democrats won two seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 957]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Council, Legislative Council seats table\nRichard Willingham, the ABC News state political correspondent, described the result as proof of Labor's continued \"dominance\" of state politics, noting that \"enough progressive parties [won] spots on the crossbench to potentially provide an avenue for any controversial legislation.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Key dates\nPursuant to the Electoral Act 2002, Victoria has had fixed terms, with all elections since the 2006 election held every four years on the last Saturday of November. The incumbent government entered into caretaker mode at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, 30 October 2018, when writs were officially issued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Previous parliament, Legislative Assembly\nFollowing the 2014 election, Labor formed majority government with 47 seats. The Coalition held 38 seats, with the Liberal Party holding 30 and the National Party holding 8. On the crossbench, the Greens held 2 seats and Independent Suzanna Sheed held the seat of Shepparton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Previous parliament, Legislative Council\nFollowing the 2014 election, Labor held 14 seats; the Coalition held 16 seats (14 Liberal, 2 National); the Greens held 5 seats; the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party held 2 seats; and the Sex Party (now the Reason Party), Democratic Labour Party, and Vote 1 Local Jobs party held 1 seat each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Previous parliament, By-elections\nFormer Nationals leader Peter Ryan announced his resignation from parliament on 2 February 2015, triggering a by-election in the seat of Gippsland South for 14 March. The election was won by Danny O'Brien of the National Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Previous parliament, By-elections\nDenis Napthine and Terry Mulder resigned from parliament on 3 September 2015. Their seats were retained by the Liberal Party in by-elections held in South-West Coast and Polwarth on 31 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Previous parliament, By-elections\nMinister for Women and Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence Fiona Richardson died on 23 August 2017. A by-election was held in the seat of Northcote on 18 November, in which the Victorian Greens won the seat from the Labor Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Previous parliament, Changes in parliament\nDon Nardella, the former Deputy Speaker of the Assembly and member for the seat of Melton, resigned from the Labor Party on 7 March 2017 to sit as an independent. Nardella's resignation was demanded by Premier Andrews after Nardella refused to pay back approximately $100,000 of taxpayer funded entitlements in the midst an expenses scandal. The resignation reduced the number of Labor members in the Assembly from 47 to 46, still above the 45 seats needed for majority government to be formed. Nardella had previously announced his intention to quit politics at the 2018 election and following his resignation from the Labor Party stated he intended to serve out his full term as the member for Melton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Previous parliament, Changes in parliament\nRussell Northe, the member for Morwell resigned from the National Party on 28 August 2017, due to mental health and financial issues, continuing in his position as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Previous parliament, Changes in parliament\nGreg Barber resigned as Leader of the Greens and from his Northern Metropolitan Region seat on 28 September 2017, and was replaced in both by Moreland councillor Samantha Ratnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Previous parliament, Changes in parliament\nColleen Hartland, a Greens member of the Western Metropolitan Region, resigned on 8 February 2018, and was replaced by Huong Truong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, State of electorates\nThe following Mackerras Pendulum lists seats in the Legislative Assembly according to the percentage point margin on a two candidate preferred basis based on the 2014 election results. The Australian Electoral Commission considers a seat \"safe\" if it requires a swing of over 10% to change, \"fairly safe\" seats require a swing of between 6 and 10%, while \"marginal\" seats require a swing of less than 6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Registered parties\nAt the close of nominations, there were 23 parties registered with the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC), of which 21 contested the election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Candidates and retiring MPs\nNominations of candidates opened on 31 October 2018. Nominations for party candidates closed on 8 November, and for independent candidates on 9 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Candidates and retiring MPs\nA total of 887 candidates nominated for the election, down from 896 at the 2014 election. There were 507 candidates for the Legislative Assembly, the second-highest number on record, down from 545 in 2014. The 380 candidates for the Legislative Council was the highest number of upper house candidates in a Victorian election, up from 351 in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Candidates and retiring MPs, Disendorsed candidates\nOn 13 November, Neelam Rai, a Liberal candidate for Northern Metropolitan Region, withdrew her candidacy after the Herald Sun revealed that she was the director of an unregistered charity, No Hunger Australia. The Liberal Party also released a statement saying that Rai's nomination form for preselection had \"failed to disclose a number of issues of relevance\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Candidates and retiring MPs, Disendorsed candidates\nOn 15 November, the Liberal Party withdrew its endorsement of Meralyn Klein, their candidate for the marginal seat of Yan Yean, after footage emerged of her speaking in an anti-Muslim video produced by the Australian Liberty Alliance. Klein denied any association with the ALA, saying she had been interviewed about an incident where she had been assaulted several years earlier, and the footage had been provided to the ALA and edited into an anti-Muslim video.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Candidates and retiring MPs, Disendorsed candidates\nAs ballot papers had already been printed, both Rai and Klein appeared as Liberal candidates. The Labor Party petitioned the Supreme Court to order the VEC to reprint the ballot papers with Klein's affiliation removed, but the case was dismissed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Candidates and retiring MPs, Disendorsed candidates\nOn 22 November, two days before Election Day, the Greens ordered a then-unnamed candidate to withdraw from the campaign after an allegation of \"serious sexual misconduct\" was made. The following day the party revealed the candidate in question was Dominic Phillips, candidate for the seat of Sandringham; he was stood down by the party. As the ballot papers had already been printed, Phillips stood as the Greens candidate and won over 8% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Issues\nOn 28 October both Labor and the Coalition launched their campaigns, with Labor making health, paramedics and improved ambulance response times a priority, while the Coalition focused on cutting taxes, better managing population growth and cracking down on crime. Labor and the Coalition pledged $23.3 billion and $24.8 billion respectively, more than double pledged during the 2010 and 2014 elections, excluding the proposed Suburban Rail Loop and high speed rail for regional services which would require future governments to fund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Issues\nLabor pledged to invest substantially more money than the Coalition in health, with $1.3bn in promises to boost nursing numbers and $395.8m to provide every state school student with free dental check-ups and procedures and $232m to build seven new early parenting centres; in contrast to the Coalition whose signature health policy was constructing a new hospital in Warragul, the biggest city in the rapidly expanding West Gippsland region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Issues\nThe Coalition's leading message of the campaign was to \"get back in control\" of the state's allegedly burgeoning crime problem. The party promised tougher bail conditions than Labor, saying that anyone who breaches bail will be jailed. In addition mandatory sentencing would become more commonplace, with minimum sentences for repeat violent offenders and people deemed possible terror threats could be forced to wear electronic monitoring devices, a proposal made after the stabbing attack in the city which occurred during the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0028-0001", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Issues\nThe divisions between the parties over social issues were pronounced, as the Coalition promised to axe the safe injecting room in Richmond, the Safe Schools program for LGBTI children in state secondary schools and the process for a formalised treaty for Indigenous Victorians; programs all initiated by the Labor Government. The Coalition also promised to reinstate religious instruction classes in state schools, something removed from classes and made an opt-in process by Labor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Issues\nArguably the most pressing issue of the campaign was public transport and infrastructure. Melbourne's record population growth of more than 125,000 people a year made both party leaders focus on big transport initiatives. Labor unveiled a $50 billion underground rail loop of the suburbs surrounding the city, though admitted the project would not be completed before 2050 and actually pledged $300 million for a business study. The Coalition instead proposed a $19 billion \"European-style\" regional rail network that would rebuild the entire network and include high-speed rail on four lines, travelling up to 200\u00a0km an hour. Both parties agreed on the West Gate Tunnel, North East Link and Metro Rail projects, though the Coalition pledged to bring back the defunct East West Link project which was scrapped at a cost of $1 billion by the Labor Government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 896]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Issues\nMinor party the Greens sought to expand their numbers in parliament and make further gains in inner-city/suburban seats held by Labor such as Albert Park, Brunswick and Richmond. The party proposed a dedicated bike \"superlane\" stretching 17 kilometres from Elsternwick railway station to Coburg, as well as further cycling routes connecting Box Hill and Richmond, Ringwood and Croydon and a connection from the Burwood Highway through to Knox and Deakin University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Issues\nOverall, most Greens policies were more closely aligned with Labor policies than the Coalition, a fact acknowledged by Greens leader Samantha Ratnam who said she would seek to negotiate with Labor to form government in the event of a hung parliament. Labor leader Daniel Andrews reacted negatively to this possibility saying \"no deal will be offered\" and criticising the Greens for allegedly \"refusing to call out denigration of women\", in reference to past sexist comments made by the Greens candidate for the seat of Footscray, Angus McAlpine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Issues\nThe total number of people who voted early in the last two weeks of the campaign was 1,639,202, which made up 40% of the eligible voting population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Polling, Voting intention\nPolling that is conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian is conducted via random telephone number selection in city and country areas. Sampling sizes usually consist of over 1200 electors. The declared margin of error is \u00b12.8 percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Polling, Voting intention\nIn the lead-up to the election, Poll aggregation site Poll Bludger placed the two-party-preferred vote for Labor at 53.5%, coupled with primary vote shares at 41.0% for Labor, 39.8% for the Liberal/National Coalition, and 11.1% for the Greens. Election Analyst Antony Green stated on the ABC's election coverage that the result was \"four to five percent better than all the opinion polls, which is the most out I've seen opinion polls in this country\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283509-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Victorian state election, Polling, Voting intention\nThe Liberal Party wrote in their campaign review that their data gathered in their internal research in marginal seats was \"fundamentally wrong\", which lead to resources and campaigners being diverted from marginal Liberal-held seats to \"target \"Labor\" seats on the false assumption that \"[the Liberal Party] had already won [Liberal held] seats\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283510-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vienna stabbings\nOn 7 March 2018, two stabbings occurred in Vienna, Austria during the evening. A man has been arrested for both attacks. On 11 March 2018, there was a separate stabbing attack at the Embassy of Iran in the city. The Austrian government hardened its asylum policy after the attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283510-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vienna stabbings, Events, Attack in Leopoldstadt\nAt 7:45pm, a family was attacked by a man outside a Japanese restaurant in Leopoldstadt, central Vienna, using a knife, three individuals in a family group were injured. At 8:15pm, suspect stabbed a Chechen immigrant drug at the Praterstern train station. An Afghan man, carrying two knives, was arrested. A blood trail lead the police to his hideout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283510-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vienna stabbings, Events, Attack in Leopoldstadt, Suspect and motive\nAlthough initially unclear if the two incidents were connected, the arrested 23-year-old man admitted attacking the family earlier in the night, though claimed that the attacks were not politically motivated. The suspect allegedly attacked the family because of his \"bad, aggressive mood\" and frustration about his whole life situation. A 67-year-old father received life-threatening injuries, the 56-year-old wife and the 17-year-old daughter were seriously injured. The suspect said that he committed the attack on the second man, a 20-year-old, because he made him responsible for his drug addiction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 73], "content_span": [74, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283510-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vienna stabbings, Events, Attack in Leopoldstadt, Suspect and motive\nThe assailant arrived in Austria in 2015 European migrant crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 73], "content_span": [74, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283510-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vienna stabbings, Events, Attack in Leopoldstadt, Suspect and motive\nOn 10 March, media reported that the suspect had already been convicted of drug trafficking in 2016 and obtained three months of conditional detention. That was confirmed by the police. The day before, the authorities had confirmed that the man had been in prison from August to December 2017 - also for drug trafficking - in Klagenfurt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 73], "content_span": [74, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283510-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Vienna stabbings, Events, Attack in Leopoldstadt, Suspect and motive\nOn 12 March 2018 ORF reported, that the suspect had tried to commit suicide while in detention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 73], "content_span": [74, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283510-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Vienna stabbings, Events, Attack in Leopoldstadt, Investigation\nThe Austrian Interior Ministry launched an investigation to determine possible mistakes made by the authorities regarding a possible earlier deportation of the suspect. On 15 March the Austrian Interior Minister Herbert Kickl spoke of a communication problem between the involved bodies, which led to the release of the convicted perpetrator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 68], "content_span": [69, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283510-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Vienna stabbings, Events, Attack on Embassy of Iran\nOn 11:30 pm on 11 March 2018, an Austrian soldier was attacked with a knife in front of the Iranian embassy in Vienna which he guarded. The soldier was stabbed repeatedly, and injured, but his life was saved by the stab-proof vest he was wearing. The attacker was shot dead. Security was stepped up at diplomatic missions across the city, because the police feared that other people may have been involved in the attack. A police spokesman said, that the soldier was only saved by a stab-proof vest: \"They started a fight because the aggressor was too close and the soldier shot him at least four times with his handgun.\" The attacker\u2019s home was searched and his internet activities were reviewed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283510-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Vienna stabbings, Events, Attack on Embassy of Iran\nThe perpetrator was a 26-year-old Austrian of Egyptian origin. Authorities said, he sympathized with radical Islamist ideology, but the exact motive was subject to further investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283510-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Vienna stabbings, Reactions\nThe Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz commented at the Leopoldstadt case: \"It is clear that many mistakes have been made in recent years in the migration and asylum policy. Unlimited migration is the cause of many problems we are currently facing. Therefore, the new Federal Government wants to fix these mistakes of the past years.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283510-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Vienna stabbings, Reactions\nIn the Profil magazine, the Afghanistan expert Sarajuddin Rasuly stated on the Leopoldstadt case: \"Some refugees from Afghanistan came as criminals or became it during their journey. Between Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey they went stealing or trafficking for the smugglers. Some young men were even raped by them. When they arrive in Austria, they are dehumanized and no longer conform to the norms of a functioning society. They have lost the threshold for violence.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283510-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Vienna stabbings, Impact\nOn 13 March the Austrian Interior Minister Herbert Kickl announced that Austria will change its asylum policy because of the incidents in the recent days, saying: \"We need courageous approaches... The current asylum law will no longer meet the demands of a globalized world.\" The Austrian government intends to use the EU Presidency in the second half of the year to win alliances in Europe on this issue. In addition, he announced that he wants to improve the system of R\u00fcckkehrberatung (return counseling) for asylum seekers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283511-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam National Futsal League\nIt was the ninth season of the Vietnam Futsal League, the Vietnam professional futsal league for association football clubs. This season is hold by VFF and VOV Channel. The main sponsorship of this season are HD Bank and Cityland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283511-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam National Futsal League, Rule changes\nIn this season, there are 2 stages. At the end of the First stage, 4 of 6 teams will be qualified to the Second stage, where we have 10 teams (6 automatic qualifications and 4 qualifications). The champion will be qualified to AFC Futsal Club Championship, while the runner-up will be qualified to AFF Futsal Club Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283511-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam National Futsal League, First stage\nAll matches are held in Ti\u00ean S\u01a1n Arena, \u0110\u00e0 N\u1eb5ng from 1 May 2018 to 9 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283511-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam National Futsal League, Second Stage\nMatches of the first leg are held in Ti\u00ean S\u01a1n Arena, \u0110\u00e0 N\u1eb5ng from 13 May to 3 June 2018. Matches of the second leg are held in L\u00e3nh B\u00ecnh Th\u0103ng Gymnasium, H\u1ed3 Ch\u00ed Minh City from 7 September to 29 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283512-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam Open (badminton)\nThe 2018 Vietnam Open (officially known as the Yonex-Sunrise Vietnam Open 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Nguyen Du Cultural Sports Club in Vietnam from 7 to 12 August 2018 and had a total purse of $75,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283512-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam Open (badminton), Tournament\nThe 2018 Vietnam Open was the sixth Super 100 tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the Vietnam Open championships which had been held since 1996. This tournament was organized by the Ho Chi Minh City Badminton Association with the sanction from the BWF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283512-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue\nThis international tournament was held at Nguyen Du Cultural Sports Club in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283512-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution\nBelow is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF Tour Super 100 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283512-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money\nThe total prize money for this tournament was US$75,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283513-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam floods\nIn 2018, Vietnam was struck by several different deadly floods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283513-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam floods, June northern Vietnam floods\nOn 23 June, floods started across the country. The flood waters have receded from the northern mountainous provinces of Lai Chau, Ha Giang and Lao Cai while several towns and villages were inaccessible. 23 people were confirmed dead in the floods: in Lai Chau 16 were killed, 5 in Ha Giang Province while two others in other provinces. An estimated VND530 billion ($23.2 million) of damage was recorded in Lao Cai, Ha Giang and Lai Chau and over 80 houses had been destroyed and over 700 hectares of rice fields damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283513-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam floods, Tropical storm Son-Tinh\nOn 21 July, floods triggered by heavy rains hit the northern part of the country after tropical storm Son-Tinh made landfall in northern coastal areas, killing 27 people and wounding 14, while 7 others were declared missing. Also, 17,000 animals were killed, 82,000 hectares of crops were damaged and 5,000 houses were destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283513-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam floods, August northern Vietnam floods\nOn 1 August, two children and a man drowned as new floods has overflowed one bank of the Bui River, engulfed several villages and threaten to submerge parts of Hanoi. On 3 August, floods triggered landslides in Phong Tho, Lai Chau that killed six people, injuring two and leaving five others missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283513-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam floods, September northern Vietnam floods\nOn 2 September, floods started again across northern provinces of the country. As of 4 September, at least 14 people were confirmed dead, mostly in Thanh Hoa, while four others are declared missing. Also, 375 houses were damaged and 661 cattle killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283513-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam floods, Tropical Storm Toraji\nOn November 16, a tropical disturbance formed east of Vietnam and strengthened into a tropical-depression. Toraji made landfall on November 18 . Toraji caused flooding in Nha Trang, resulting in 19 dead and a damage of \u20ab396 billion (US$17.2 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283513-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam floods, Typhoon Usagi\nOn November 25, Usagi made landfall in Mekong Delta as a severe tropical storm. The typhoon caused flooding in Ho Chi Minh City, Nha Trang and Binh Thuan, killing three people. Losses in Vietnam were at \u20ab347 billion (US$15 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283513-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam floods, December central Vietnam floods\nTorrential rains triggered heavy flooding and landslides in central provinces of Quang Tri, Da Nang, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai causing deaths of at least 7 people. In 24 hours, Da Nang received a record rain level of 635 mm, the highest since 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests\nThe 2018 Vietnam protests, or Protests against the Special Zone Act and the Cybersecurity Law (Vietnamese: Bi\u1ec3u t\u00ecnh ph\u1ea3n \u0111\u1ed1i Lu\u1eadt \u0111\u1eb7c khu kinh t\u1ebf v\u00e0 Lu\u1eadt An ninh m\u1ea1ng), are a series of both violent and nonviolent protests that erupted across Vietnam in June 2018, chiefly in response to two drafted pieces of legislation: the Special Zone Act and the Cybersecurity Law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests\nThe Special Zone Act (also known as the Special Zones Law or the Special Economic Zones Law) proposes the opening of three special economic zones (SEZs) across Vietnam, where foreign investors would be allowed to lease land for up to 99 years. Despite no specific mention of China within the lines of the bill, many Vietnamese feared that the SEZs would be dominated by Chinese investors, fueling anti-Chinese sentiments. On 9 June 2018, the Vietnamese authorities eventually yielded under enormous public pressure and postponed voting on the law indefinitely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests\nThe Cybersecurity Law seeks to give the government full authority to strictly police the Internet, scrutinize personal information, censor online discussion, and punish or even jail online dissidents. It has been described as \u201clargely a copy-and-paste version\u201d of the Chinese Cybersecurity Law that commenced a year prior. The National Assembly of Vietnam passed the law on 12 June 2018 despite local and international opposition and it has been in effect since 1 January 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Protest culture in Vietnam\nTo mainstream media and many nongovernmental organizations, Vietnam is often perceived as harsh and uncomprimising regarding the right to freedom of assembly. Reports from Human Rights Watch and the US State Department depict the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) as extremely illiberal and unforgiving of political dissent of any kind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Protest culture in Vietnam\nFreedom House\u2019s report on Vietnam in 2020 scores the country at 1 out of 4 for freedom of assembly, specifically citing the arrests and convictions as a result of the 2018 protests as the reason for its score, and 0 out of 4 for freedom for nongovernmental organizations and trade unions or similar professional organizations. Amnesty International also reports harassment, assault, prosecution, torture, and executions towards pro-democracy activists, independent journalists, authors, and publishers in its Vietnam 2020 review. According to Human Rights Watch, in April 2018 the chief judge in Hanoi sentenced political activists to 7 to 12 years of imprisonment each under Article 79 of the Criminal Code for political activism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Protest culture in Vietnam\nScholars and observers of Vietnam, however, have a different outlook. Many agree that the country has actually been exercising a responsive-repressive strategy since the 1990s, taking certain measures to show its responsiveness and tolerance to criticism from its citizens and exercising repression only as a last resort. Political scientist and Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University Ben Kerkvliet found that Vietnamese citizens \u201cfrequently and publicly\u201d spoke out in criticism of their living and working conditions, most often through thousands of strikes, occasionally with thousands of participants each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Protest culture in Vietnam\nHis 2019 book Speaking Out in Vietnam: public political criticism in a communist party-ruled nation showed how government officials were in reality often sympathetic to workers\u2019 demands, accommodating to concerns with land confiscation, and even to some extent tolerating calls for democratization that threatened the ideology of the regime. Some regime critics were not detained at all; many were confined for brief periods but never imprisoned; those who were convicted faced shorter lengths of imprisonment compared to past decisive crackdowns and repressions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam\nAlthough public demonstrations are not common in Vietnam, anti-China protests has occurred on numerous occasions and are met with a balance of responsiveness and repression by the state, albeit with extra caution given the addition of an external party \u2013 China, no less \u2013 into the state-society relationship in Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 67], "content_span": [68, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam\nAmong the Vietnamese populace, anti-China sentiments act as a converging space for their dissatisfaction with a variety of social issues in the country such as unfavorable labour conditions, environmental pollution, socio-economic development, and foreign policy. Placing China as a \u2018common enemy\u2019 thereby acts as a linkage between these social groups with mutual encouragement and reinforcement of these sentiments. Post-Cold War, and especially since 2010, the sharpest crises and ensuing anti-China protests in Vietnam have involved public outrage over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 67], "content_span": [68, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam\nIn May 2011, for instance, a Chinese maritime vessel cut the cables of a Vietnamese ship conducting research operating in Vietnamese waters in the South China Sea, and hundreds in Vietnam took to the streets for over three months in sustained protest. Demonstrators in Hanoi sang patriotic songs, chanted slogans, and carried banners and flags, including a Chinese flag digitally altered to include a pirate\u2019s skull and crossbones. Public anger flared up even more intensely in 2014, when China deployed Haiyang Shiyou 981, a giant oil rig in an area of the South China Sea claimed by Vietnam. This incident triggered large-scale anti-China demonstrations with thousands of participants that quickly turned violent. Protesters set fire to industrial parks and factories, hunted down and sparred with Chinese workers, and attacked police during the confrontations, leaving at least 21 people dead and nearly 100 injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 67], "content_span": [68, 987]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam\nSuch territorial disputes are particularly affective because they are viewed as challenges and violations of Vietnam\u2019s sovereignty, an especially sore subject when it comes to China given the history of border clashes between the two countries until 1991, such as the two-month bloody Sino-Vietnamese border war not four decades prior in 1979. An op-ed in the Vietnam News sums up the ground sentiments for anti-China protests in a message of solidarity: \"The Vietnamese people are angry. The nation is angry. We are telling the world that we are angry. We have every right to be angry. [ \u2026 ] The message from all these demonstrations is simple and straightforward: China should stop violating international law and respect Viet Nam's sovereignty. [ \u2026 ] We are a small country, but we are not weak. We will stand as one, united in the cause of protecting our motherland's integrity.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 67], "content_span": [68, 951]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam, Vietnamese state response\nWhen it comes to the Vietnam government\u2019s response, observers note that authorities have generally allowed such anti-China protests, only clamping down on protesters in the presence of violence. Appearing compliant to China could harm the political careers of the Vietnamese politicians as being seen as anti-nationalistic and weaken legitimacy. Additionally, scholars have noted that the international coverage and sympathy due to such protests may be used to communicate the extent of outrage in Vietnam and legitimize the country\u2019s pleas for international support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 94], "content_span": [95, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam, Vietnamese state response\nIn both the 2011 and 2014 instances, authorities clearly tolerated the demonstrations in the beginning, allowing protesters to march the streets and stopping or redirecting traffic several times to let them cross streets throughout the march. The government further took steps to mollify public anger and show support for the protesters by echoing their sentiments in harsh rhetoric and strongly-worded official statements against China using words such as \u2018brazen\u2019 and \u2018illegal\u2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 94], "content_span": [95, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam, Vietnamese state response\nHowever, Hanoi walks a very thin line to maintain their careful hedging strategy in relations with China. Given the clear differences in size, capacity, and military power and force, antagonizing China and pushing the issue too far could seriously impact bilateral relations and threaten the existing asymmetrical relationship that has been carefully negotiated throughout the centuries of history. Vietnam\u2019s population size is 7% of China\u2019s; its Gross National Product 3% of China\u2019s; its military budget less than 1% of China\u2019s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 94], "content_span": [95, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam, Vietnamese state response\nVietnam\u2019s total trade with China was 20% of its total trade in 2015, and a quarter of tourists to Vietnam in 2013 were from China. Vietnam is also partially dependent on China for ideological and economic support, with China being Vietnam\u2019s biggest guide and protector in Marxism-Leninism and market socialism. With all of this in mind, both the 2011 and 2014 protests were eventually met with curtailment and suppression, as the authorities ordered a crackdown after deeming the invisible line to be crossed. In 2011, the Hanoi city government issued an order to end the protests that were \u201cundermining national unity\u201d and \u201ccomplicating diplomatic efforts\u201d, warning demonstrators that authorities would \u201ctake necessary measures\u201d against those who disobeyed, and following up on the threat when marches continued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 94], "content_span": [95, 908]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam, Vietnamese state response\nIt is important to note that the relationship between the two countries is not totally skewed, however \u2013 both sides are bound by the 16 Word Guideline, a statement announced by the General Secretary of the CPV and the President of the People\u2019s Republic of China in 1999 as a guide for Sino-Vietnamese relations in the future. Specifically, it stipulated that both countries commit to \u201clong-term, stable, future-oriented, good neighborly and all-round cooperative relations\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 94], "content_span": [95, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam, Vietnamese state response\nA study analyzing major diplomatic events from the 1990s to 2018 between the two countries showcase how this official term has been brought up at every single summit meeting since its conception, reminding both sides of their commitment to maintaining bilateral relations. The author thus provides an alternate view to the traditional approach of power politics that emphasize asymmetry between China and Vietnam, instead arguing that the 16 Word Guideline has led to a powerful coercive rhetoric that exerts strong influences on both sides to avoid domestic instability and military conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 94], "content_span": [95, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam, Vietnamese state response\nRegarding the South China Sea in particular, Vietnam pursues a strategy of \u2018cooperation and struggle\u2019 with China \u2013 for instance, engaging in a defence self-help programme at home with deliveries of kilo-class submarines while engaging major powers including the United States, Russia, India, and Japan to maintain the power balance in the Sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 94], "content_span": [95, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam, Vietnamese state response\nWhile the anti-China protests did not change Vietnam\u2019s foreign policy towards China both during the disputes or in the long-term, the pressure was successfully manipulated for Vietnam\u2019s benefit, with the United States acceding the sale of equipment and weapons for maritime defense purposes, India extending a $100 million credit line for defense procurement, and Japan providing six maritime vessels and training to Vietnam\u2019s coast guard (and with improved relations) during the crises.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 94], "content_span": [95, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam, Vietnamese state response\nAll in all, within this trio \u2013 the Vietnamese people, the Vietnamese government, and the Chinese government \u2013 it is all about preserving a delicate balance between appeasing protests and approving of nationalism while maintaining the negotiated asymmetry and avoiding harm to bilateral relations. A study based based on an analysis of 570 Vietnamese newspaper articles shows how the Vietnamese government was truly balanced in its response to anti-China protests, extensively publicizing the conflict to show opposition to Chinese aggression but also channeling the anger towards China into a \u201cmore positive and constructive form of pro-government nationalism\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 94], "content_span": [95, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Context, Past anti-China protests in Vietnam, Vietnamese state response\nScholars ultimately agree on the general approach taken by Vietnam to such anti-China criticism and rallies: that demonstrators were allowed and sometimes even encouraged to protest, with broad media coverage of the demonstrations and issuances of official statements in a sympathetic nature towards protesters that condemned Chinese actions. This permissive stance would continue until events escalated and turned violent, where there would then be a heavy-handed, definitive crackdown often involving arrests and brute force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 94], "content_span": [95, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background\nMajor causes of popular agitation in 2018 included issues of land grabs, excessive taxes, and unfair tolls and pollution. However, the year\u2019s largest protests was triggered by the Special Zone Act and the Cybersecurity Law. Across two weekends from 9 to 17 June 2018, members of the public gathered to protest against the passing of both laws. Protests began in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi but soon spread to towns in six provinces including Danang, Nha Trang, Binh Thuan, and Tai Ninh. Mainstream and mass media, which are all state institutions by law, provided minimal information or coverage of the 2018 protests, intentionally using vague terms such as \u201cgathering\u201d or \u201ctraffic congestion\u201d to downplay any significant social instability.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background\nWhile the demonstrations were generally peaceful in most cities, there were incidents of violence and destruction in the Binh Thuan province, where protesters stormed government buildings, set vehicles on fire, and grappled with police forces. According to a source from Reuters, the reaction was particularly bitter in Binh Thuan as anger had already been festering for years in the province \u2013 its residents blame China for assaulting local fishermen, polluting the area with a Chinese-built power plant, and deforesting the land to mine minerals primarily exported to China. Binh Thuan residents were not only venting fury towards China but also towards the local government, whom they perceived as corrupt and enslaved by destructive Chinese commercial interests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background\nAs a facet of the protests targeted Chinese workers and Chinese-owned factories in particular, China\u2019s diplomatic missions in Vietnam held meetings with Chinese business groups, local government and local media. The website of the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam posted that charge d\u2019affaires Yin Haihong \u201cdemanded\u201d that Vietnamese authorities protect Chinese businesses and citizens. Yin said the embassy had been informed by the Vietnamese authorities that people with \u201culterior motives\u201d had \u201cdeliberately misrepresented the situation and linked it to China.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Special Zone Act\nThe Special Zone Act was a draft legislation created to spark investment and economic benefits by boosting development in the areas of Van Don, North Van Phong and Phu Quoc and providing \u201croom for institutional experiments\u201d. Infrastructure plans included an international airport in Van Don to establish it as a tourist hub, industrial centers for the logistics and marine industries in Van Phong, and protecting the beautiful beaches and nature in Phu Qoc to attract tourists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Special Zone Act\nAccording to scholar and Professor Alexander Vuving, the act was spearheaded by Pham Minh Chinh (who was a member of the Politburo of the CPV at the time before being appointed Prime Minister of Vietnam in 2021) and Nguyen Tan Dung (who was Prime Minister of Vietnam from 2006 to 2016), with main support coming from then-National Assembly chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan and then-Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue. General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, then-CPV executive secretary Tr\u1ea7n Qu\u1ed1c V\u01b0\u1ee3ng and then-Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc were reportedly more hesitant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Special Zone Act\nThe specific provision that triggered the anti-China protests was a clause in the bill that would allow 99-year leases of land to foreign investors. Although the draft law did not specify any particular country, it was widely presumed that Chinese investors would be the most likely beneficiaries given their deep pockets and close proximity, potentially turning the areas into de facto Chinese territories. Vietnam has also been a preferred treasure hunting ground for Chinese buyers in recent years. Existing anti-Chinese sentiments only served to embolden this connection between the act and China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Special Zone Act\nNguyen Chi Tuyen, a Hanoi-based blogger with 42,500 Facebook followers, was quoted as saying, \u201cWe have a long history with the Chinese people, they always want to invade our country, so it is dangerous to allow them to use these SEZs to control our country\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0018-0002", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Special Zone Act\nNguyen Quang Dy, an analyst who was a former foreign ministry official, published an article criticizing the proposed SEZs, writing: \u201cWhile Vietnam\u2019s economic interests and sovereignty in the South China Sea are seriously threatened by China, the decision to set up new SEZs at these critical positions would be inexcusable for either economic or national security reasons.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Special Zone Act\nAs the rumor of China\u2019s imminent exploitation of the act continued to spread and public dissatisfaction demonstrated, party officials hastened to rebuke such fears. Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan attempted to calm the outrage by appealing to the protesters, saying that the people should \u201cbelieve in the decisions of the party and the state, especially in the fact that the National Assembly is always listening to the people\u2019s opinions when discussing the bills\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Special Zone Act\nNguyen Phu Trong emphasized that the proposed benefits of the act would only be towards the people, proclaiming that \u201cthe party of President Ho Chi Minh (referring to the CPV) is for the country, for people and no other purposes\u201d and specifically addressing the allegations that the country would be lost to China by reportedly saying, \u201cNo one is that foolish to hand over land to foreigners for them to mess us up. No one would be that naive.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Special Zone Act\nThe act eventually succumbed to pressure and was postponed indefinitely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Cybersecurity Law\nThe Cybersecurity Law, on the other hand, was overwhelmingly passed on 12 June 2018 despite huge local and international opposition, with approving votes from 91% of attending legislators. The law grants the government sweeping powers to control online information and police online activity including potentially forcing technology company to hand over vast amounts of data including personal information and censoring users\u2019 posts, and banning Internet users from organizing for anti-state purposes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Cybersecurity Law\nMany articles are ambiguously worded and allow for broad manipulation and interpretation by authorities \u2013 Article 8 and 15 of the law, for example, could lead people to being charged for extremely vague offenses such as \u201cnegating the revolution achievement\u201d or giving \u201cmisleading information causing confusion among the people\u201d. Before the law was passed, the United States and Canada had urged Vietnam to delay the vote for further review to ensure that it met global standards, voicing concerns that it may hurt digital innovation in Vietnam. Critics warned that it could undermine local firms that rely heavily on the provision of cross-border services online such as cloud-computing services, which may impact the economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Cybersecurity Law\nThe justification provided by the CPV paints the law as a necessity for the protection of the party and the regime; as General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong proclaimed, \u201cDuring this time period of 4.0 industrial revolution, there are many benefits but, on the other hand, management is very difficult. From this come instigations, protests, disruptions, regime overthrows. Therefore, there needs to be law to protect this regime.\u201d The Cybersecurity Law too sparked similar anti-China sentiments as it is commonly criticized as a duplicate of its Chinese counterpart passed in 2017, with Vietnam mimicking China\u2019s approach to internet governance out of a desire to better control online spaces and information flows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Cybersecurity Law\nThe law has been strongly criticized by nongovernmental organizations globally. Amnesty International said the law was a \u201cdevastating blow\u201d for freedom of expression: \u201cwith the sweeping powers it grants the government to monitor online activity, this vote means there is now no safe place left in Vietnam for people to speak freely,\u201d said Clare Algar, Amnesty\u2019s director of global operations. Reporters without Borders urged for the quick repeal of this \u201cdraconian new law\u201d in the online pocket of resistance that \u201cthe Party\u2019s current leadership wants to crush\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Cybersecurity Law\nThe Asia Internet Coalition, an industry group that was leading efforts to soften the proposed legislation, said the law would increase costs of doing business in Vietnam for foreign and local enterprises, and that small and medium businesses in particular would be more negatively impacted, with lesser resources to deal with the new rigorous licensing, audit, and compliance requirements. The Vietnam Digital Communication Association said the requirements could reduce Vietnam\u2019s gross domestic product by 1.7 percent and wipe off 3.1 percent of foreign investment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Cybersecurity Law\nThe passing of the law can be seen as a culmination of the CPV\u2019s existing escalating campaign against social media. Smaller individual incidents in the previous year, 2017, had been perceived as a build-up to slowly prepare for the passing of the overarching law. In early 2017, the government banned Vietnamese firms from advertising on YouTube in an effort to pressure Google to remove \u201ctoxic content\u201d from its global video-sharing platform. The Ministry of Information and Communication later claimed success, saying that Google had removed 6,423 videos and Facebook had terminated 159 accounts for \u201cdefaming Vietnamese leaders\u201d. In December 2017, the Ministry of Defence declared its \u201ccyberwarfare\u201d against the negative impact of the Internet, introducing a unit of 10,000 members entitled \u201cForce 47\u201d that works \u201cevery hour, every minute, every second\u201d to fight against \u201cerroneous views\u201d online.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 952]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Role of social media\nSocial media cannot be overlooked for its two key roles in the 2018 protests: as the platform for informing and organizing, and as the very target of the Cybersecurity Law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Role of social media\nSocial media is widely used among the Vietnamese public. In 2019, the Internet penetration rate is relatively high at about 69%. 2018 Global Digital reports show that about 60% of the population are users of social media and a survey found that Facebook was the most-used platform, with 90% of respondents between 16 and 64 years old stating that they used the platform. Studies in 2021 found that Vietnamese spend an average of 6 hours and 47 minutes each day on the Internet, with an average of 2 hours and 21 minutes on social media in specifically, higher than other Asians such as Singaporeans, Chinese, South Koreans, and Japanese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Role of social media\nAs previously mentioned, traditional media in Vietnam is state-owned and controlled \u2013 therefore, social media is virtually the only or most practical way to reach mostly uncensored critical information and knowledge. Not only has its increased use led to better political awareness among the public about key political and economic issues, it has also has enabled a mobilizational effect on policy formulation, public opinion, and overall participation in governance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Role of social media\nExamples include campaigns from organizations such as the Institute for Studies of Society, Economy and Environment and the Centre for Community Empowerment, which has relied heavily on the social media to reach out to supporters for LGBT rights in Vietnam. Other nongovernmental organizations connect and act through networks such as the Working Group for Public Administration Reform, the People\u2019s Participation Working Group (PPWG), and the Gender and Community Development Network, with the Internet being the main platform for communication and discussion on social issues and collective action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Role of social media\nVietnam is not the only country that uses social media as a platform for organizing \u2013 this phenomenon is well-documented in literature, studies have shown that activism and political movements have often been mobilized through social media in a great number of other countries such as Egypt, Spain, Tunisia, and China. Social media as a platform allows transnational communication for spread of messages across large territories, which is crucial for large-scale mobilization \u2013 in the 2014 anti-China protests, this communication was instrumental for the organization of the factory takeovers in different places at the same time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0028-0001", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Role of social media\nIn the 2018 Vietnam protests, the call urging people to rally circulated on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and many posters and activists constantly reported real-time and genuine on-the-ground events. Censorship cannot take posts down as fast as protests are covered on social media through constant updating of statuses, photos, and live videos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Role of social media\nWith the restrictions on mainstream media, and relative freedom of social media, it is no wonder that the platform for political participation and organization is shifting. The government, of course, is more than aware that with the rise of social media comes an increase in public scrutiny \u2013 for this reason, there have been noticeable changes in how they interact with the public. A majority of the 18,000 journalists licensed by the state have active personal Facebook accounts and then-Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and the Office of the Government of Vietnam were among the pioneers of the use of Facebook accounts to promote their activity to the public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Role of social media\nThe 2018 protests too have left their own footprints on government activity on social media. A study that reviewed the social media activity of the Vietnamese government and society, as well as subsequent government responses towards anti-China protests in 2018, found that the 2018 protests left significant imprints on government design and use of social media as a tool to deal with anti-China sentiments \u2013 since then, the authorities have become acutely sensitive and even responsive to anti-China sentiments online.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Background, Role of social media\nOverall, the adoption of the Cybersecurity Law indicates how social media and the online space in general have become urgent concerns for the CPV. The very fact that the Special Zone Act was postponed under public pressure while the Cybersecurity Law was still adopted despite significant dissent suggests that the CPV regards the medium as a major battleground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\n9-10 June (Saturday and Sunday): The demonstrations began with around 50,000 Vietnamese from a footwear factory taking to the streets of Ho Chi Minh City to protest against the two draft bills. This soon spread across provinces in Vietnam. State media reported that protesters in the central province of Binh Thuan threw petrol bombs and bricks at police and damaged local government offices (reportedly the provincial People\u2019s Committee headquarters) and vehicles. Dozens of policemen were injured in the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\nPosts by activists on social media reported police beatings and detentions by plainclothes officers. Riot police used tear gas, smoke bombs, and water cannons to disperse protesters in Binh Thuan province, and arrested over a hundred people. In the capital Hanoi, police detained more than a dozen protesters who marched down a busy street, some carrying anti-Chinese banners including one that said \u201cNo leasing land to China even for one day\u201d. Dozens of protesters were also detained in the country\u2019s economic hub, Ho Chi Minh City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\nAn American citizen who took part in the protests in Ho Chi Minh City, Will Nguyen, was among the arrested. He had posted a series of tweets documenting the protests on Sunday. According to a statement from his family and friends, he was \u201cbeaten over the head and dragged into the back of a police truck\u201d as the police cracked down on the protests. A spokesman for the United States Embassy in Hanoi said that the embassy were aware of the arrest and would work to provide the appropriate consular assistance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\n11 June (Monday): Protests in the cities were quickly suppressed, but those in Binh Thuan continued. Police formed barricades with their shields across town roads and tear gas was fired into the crowd. Police arrested another 100 people on the night of 11 June, and it was unclear how many protesters from the weekend were released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\n12 June (Tuesday): State media reported on Tuesday that tensions in Binh Thuan province had subsided. The government regained control of government buildings occupied over the previous weekend. The police-run Ministry of Public Security continued investigations and released a statement that those who had incited people to vandalize and cause disorder would be dealt with strictly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\n15 June (Friday): On Friday, then-house speaker Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan responded vaguely to statements about the protests, saying that the legislature \u201cappreciates the people\u2019s patriotism and their profound concerns about important issues.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\n17 June (Sunday): In central Vietnam, there were reports of peaceful demonstrations without police clashes; in southern Vietnam, reports were of violent crackdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\nReuters reported that in central Ha Tinh province, thousands of people demonstrated peacefully against both laws. Protesters held signs that said \u201cNo leasing land to Chinese communists for even one day\u201d or \u201cCybersecurity law kills freedom\u201d. This was confirmed by three witnesses and livestream footages on Facebook. The demonstration lasted for two hours on Sunday morning without any clashes with the police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\nIn Southern Vietnam however, on the same day, posts on social media and from multiple activists reported that authorities took some 180 people, including active protesters and passive observers, to Tao Dao stadium in Ho Chi Minh City. Some activists said that they were not protesting but were taken by authorities from their homes or cafes to the stadium anyway. Authorities searched and beat the detained. Many of those involved said they sustained injuries to the head, and some lost consciousness. One individual required long-term hospitalization for his injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\n18 June (Monday): Vietnamese police arrested eight more people from Binh Thuan, accusing them of disturbing public order, opposing officials and damaging state property.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\n12 July: A court in Binh Thuan province jailed six Vietnamese over \u201cdisturbing public order\u201d through their participation in the protests, with sentences between two to two and a half years each. All six had admitted guilt during the one-day trial. In the same week, then-US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo encouraged a speedy resolution regarding the issue of Will Nguyen during meetings with Vietnamese officials in Hanoi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\n20 July: A Vietnamese court ordered the release and deportation of Will Nguyen immediately after his one-day trial on the same day. State-run newspaper Ho Chi Minh City Law reported that he was not given a prison sentence due to his admittance to his charged offences and sincerity. A spokesperson at the United States Embassy in Hanoi said in a statement that they were \u201cpleased that the case of U.S. citizen William Nguyen has been resolved\u201d. Mike Pompeo later tweeted that he was \u201ctremendously pleased\u201d that Nguyen would be returning home to his family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\n23 July: A court in Binh Thuan province jailed another ten Vietnamese protesters, aged between 18 and 43, over \u201ccausing public disorder\u201d, with sentences between two to three and a half years each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283514-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnam protests, Timeline of events\n2 August: Reports stated that a protester, Hua Hoang Anh, died on 2 August after local police officers in Kien Giang Province interrogated him concerning his participation in the protests. Social media and nongovernmental organizations reported that there were many injuries to his body, including to his head, neck, and belly, possibly indicating torture. State-run media only stated that he had died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283515-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnamese Cup\nThe 2018 National Cup (Vietnamese: Gi\u1ea3i b\u00f3ng \u0111\u00e1 C\u00fap Qu\u1ed1c gia) is the 26th edition of the Vietnamese Cup, the football knockout competition of Vietnam organized by the Vietnam Football Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283515-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnamese Cup\nThe schedule of the tournament was announced on 28 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283515-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnamese Cup, Semi-finals, Second leg\n3-3 on aggregate. Becamex B\u00ecnh D\u01b0\u01a1ng won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283516-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnamese National Football Second League\nThe 2018 Vietnamese National Football Second League was the 20th season of the Vietnamese National Football Second League. The season began on 25 April 2018 and finished on 15 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283516-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnamese National Football Second League, Rule changes\nIn this season, there are 13 teams divided in two groups in qualifying stage according to geographic region. The top 2 teams of each group will be qualified to final round. In final round, 4 teams will play 3 matches:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283516-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnamese National Football Second League, Rule changes\nThe winners of each match will promote to 2019 V.League 2. There are no teams relegated to 2019 Vietnamese Third League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283516-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnamese National Football Second League, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283517-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnamese National Football Third League\nThe 2018 Vietnamese National Football Third League was the 14th season of the Vietnamese National Football Third League. The season began on 22 October 2018 and finished on 31 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283517-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnamese National Football Third League, Rule\nIn this season, there are 8 teams divided geographically to 2 groups with 4 teams per group. The winner of each group and the best runner-up of both group promoted to Second League. The teams play each other once in a centralised venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 52], "content_span": [53, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283517-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vietnamese National Football Third League, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283518-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Viking FK season\nThe 2018 season was Viking's 1st year back in 1. divisjon, after 29 consecutive seasons in the top flight of Norwegian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283518-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Viking FK season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283518-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Viking FK season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283518-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Viking FK season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283518-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Viking FK season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283518-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Viking FK season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283519-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 2018 Villanova Wildcats football team represented Villanova University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Mark Ferrante and played their home games at Villanova Stadium. They were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 5\u20136, 2\u20136 in CAA play to finish in a tie for tenth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283519-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Villanova Wildcats football team, Previous season\nThe Wildcats finished the 2017 season 5\u20136, 3\u20135 in CAA play to finish in a three-way tie for seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283519-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Villanova Wildcats football team, Preseason, CAA Poll\nIn the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Wildcats were predicted to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283519-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Villanova Wildcats football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CAA Team\nThe Wildcats had two players selected to the preseason all-CAA team including quarterback Trevor Knight being selected as offensive player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283520-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vinaphone Cup\nThe 2018 Vinaphone Cup (also known as the tenth edition of VFF Cup) is an international Olympic association football friendly tournament, sponsored by Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) with the competition is named after Vinaphone, a subsidiary-mobile network which is part of VNPT. Vietnam as the hosts use the tournament as their preparation for the Asian Games held in Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283520-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vinaphone Cup\nVietnam emerged as the tournament champions with 7 points ahead the rest teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283520-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vinaphone Cup, Participating teams\nThe following are the list of teams participating the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283520-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vinaphone Cup, Match officials\nThe following referees and their assistants were chosen for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283520-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vinaphone Cup, Regulation\nThe tournament is decided through a round-robin format with team with the highest point will become the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283520-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Vinaphone Cup, Venue\nAll matches were to be played in National Stadium, Hanoi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games\nThe 2018 Vintage Yachting Games was the third post-Olympic multi-class sailing event for discontinued Olympic and Paralympic Classes. The event was held from 16\u201322 September 2018 on \u00d8resund, Copenhagen in Denmark. The organization of this event was executed by a joint venture of the Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub and the Hellerup Sejlklub. The Vintage Yachting Games Organization (VYGO) was the governing organization. The competition took place in 3 Vintage Yachting Classes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, Prologue, First bidding process\nThe first bidding process was officially launched on 14 December 2010. The bidding process intended to run till 31 December 2011. This period was extended on request of several candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, Prologue, First bidding process\nBefore the bidding process started there was an interest for hosting the event from:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, Prologue, First bidding process\nThe Vintage Yachting Games supervisory board finally voted unanimous to accept the bid of the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy and not for reopening or extending the bidding process. The venue of the 2016 Vintage Yachting Games was formally announced during the closing ceremony of the 2012 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, Prologue, Second bidding process\nAs soon as the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy withdraw from the event a second bidding process was started for a postponed event in 2018. Bids arrived from four countries:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, Prologue, Second bidding process\nThe classes than had the possibility to vote. As result the Danish bid was chosen unanimously for the third edition (2018) and the Austria for the fourth edition (year t.b.d. 2020\u20132022). The dates of the 2018 Vintage were announced in 2016 to the Vintage classes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, Prologue, Second bidding process, Voting result\nThe bonus point system was used over the eight voting classes (no discard)1 \u00a0Denmark 10 points2 \u00a0Austria 47.7 points3 \u00a0Germany 53.4 points4 \u00a0Italy 64.4 points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 76], "content_span": [77, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, 2018 Vintage, Venue\nAs Venue for the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games the \u00d8resund for Hellerup chosen. The hostclubs were the Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub and the Hellerup Sejlklub. The clubhouse and harbor of the Hellerup Sejlklub was used to facilitate the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, 2018 Vintage, Calendar\nThe program of the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, 2018 Vintage, Competition\nIn 12' Dinghy: Nicky Arnoldus (CAN), former Dutch Champion, during a race of the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, 2018 Vintage, Competition\nIn O-Jolle:Onno Klazinga (NED), competed against Paul Elvstr\u00f8m in 1963, during a race of the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, 2018 Vintage, Competition\nIn Soling:Peter W. Hall (CAN), Committee member World Sailing and three times Soling World Champion (in three continents), during a race of the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, 2018 Vintage, Current Vintage Yachting Classes\nDue to circumstances that varied by class only three out of 12 of the Vintage Yachting Classes participated in the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games at Hellerup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 75], "content_span": [76, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, 2018 Vintage, Wind conditions\nThe \u00d8resund in front of the Hellerup Sejlklub was during the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games one of the targets of the remains of the Hurricane Florence. This resulted in South-Westerly winds that varied between 12-38 knots over the period of the Vintage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, 2018 Vintage, Measurement\nSince all three classes just had major championships that include measurement, no measurement took place in this Vintage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, 2018 Vintage, Opening ceremony\nThe opening ceremony took place in the main hall of the club house of the Hellerup Sejlklub. The formal opening was done by Rasmus Knude of Hellerup Sejlklub.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, 2018 Vintage, Closing ceremony\nDue to the weather conditions the VIP race could not be started. So the closing ceremony started with the prize giving by Lars Ive and Peter L\u00fcbeck Stephenson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, 2018 Vintage, Closing ceremony\nDuring the closing of the event Rudy den Outer handed over stainless remembrance plate with the Vintage logo to Peter L\u00fcbeck Stephenson. He also announced that the Union-Yacht-Club Attersee will be the host of the next Vintage Yachting Games. However before the date will be set an evaluation with the classes and organizers will take place. After that the Vintage flag was received from Lars Ive, representing the Copenhagen organization. The flag was subsequently handed over to Stephan Beurle representing Austria as the next host country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, 2018 Vintage, Media Coverage\nPictures and video footage was received for Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International distribution from:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, Sailing\nRaces in all events were sailed in a fleet racing format of eight scheduled races. The contestants raced around a course in one group, and each boat earned a score equal conform the bonus point system. Due to wind conditions not all scheduled races could be sailed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, Sailing, Reports per event\nPer class separate pages reporting the facts are available (see the details section per class in the medals table).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, Sailing, Report Vintage InterPares race\nDue to the weather conditions the VIP race could not be sailed. Since all winners came from the Netherlands the decision was made to sail the VIP race on a later date in 2018/2019 somewhere in the Netherlands. This is in line with the history of the 12' Dinghy at the 1920 Summer Olympics were the last race was not sailed in Belgium but in The Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283521-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games, Medal summary, Country Trophy\nThe best ranked competitor per class per country scores point for his country based on his overall ranking and the 1964 Olympic scoring system. The highest scored country wins the Country trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283522-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 12' Dinghy International Rule\nThe 12' Dinghy International Rule was an event on the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games program at Copenhagen, Denmark. Six out of the eight scheduled races were completed. 22 sailors, on 19 boats, from nine nations entered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283522-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 12' Dinghy International Rule, Venue overview, Race area and course\nBoth of the course areas on the \u00d8resund in front of Hellerup were available for the 12' Dinghy event. On the first two days, course Alpha was used. The next day the class moved to course Bravo for less wind and waves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 97], "content_span": [98, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283522-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 12' Dinghy International Rule, Venue overview, Wind conditions\nThe \u00d8resund in front of the Hellerup Sejlklub was during the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games one of the targets of the remains of the Hurricane Florence. This resulted in South-Westerly winds that varied between 12\u201338 knots over the period of the Vintage. Course area Alpha was more in the open sea. With the South-Westerly winds this meant more wind and more waves. Also the wind was more stable and predictable then closer to shore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 92], "content_span": [93, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283522-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 12' Dinghy International Rule, Races, Summary\nIn the 12' Dinghy six out of the planned eight races were completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 75], "content_span": [76, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283522-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 12' Dinghy International Rule, Races, Summary\nThe 12' Dinghy class (Olympic in 1920, 1928 and candidate for the 1940 Tokyo Olympics) brought large fleet from nine countries to the Vintage. This was due to the driving force of the class admiral Bert Hamminga. The races were dominated by Wim Bleeker. The big fight was for the other podium places. When there is a lot of wind it is customary that sailors that are not able to handle the conditions start crewing for sailors that are higher ranked. Due to this elegant principle no sailors need to stay ashore on windy days. This shows on the many DNC results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 75], "content_span": [76, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283522-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 12' Dinghy International Rule, Races, Victors\nElena Romana GASENZER (l), Jurri ROOYACKERS, Wim BLEEKER, Hans REYERS (r). Missing on the picture are An\u00efl Cetin (also Silver) and Anneke REYERS (also Bronze).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 75], "content_span": [76, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283522-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 12' Dinghy International Rule, Notes\nInformation about the Vintage Yachting Classes (former Olympic classes) can be verified by:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 66], "content_span": [67, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283522-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 12' Dinghy International Rule, Notes\nInformation about the organization, conditions, sailors and results can be verified by:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 66], "content_span": [67, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283523-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 O-Jolle\nThe O-Jolle was an event on the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games program at Copenhagen, Denmark. Six out of the eight scheduled races were completed. Seven sailors, on seven boats, from two nations entered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283523-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 O-Jolle, Venue overview, Race area and Course\nBoth of the course areas on the \u00d8resund in front of Hellerup were available for the O-Jolle event. In all cases the Alpha course area was used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283523-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 O-Jolle, Venue overview, Wind conditions\nThe \u00d8resund in front of the Hellerup Sejlklub was during the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games one of the targets of the remains of the Hurricane Florence. This resulted in South-Westerly winds that varied between 12\u201338 knots over the period of the Vintage. Course area Alpha was more in the open sea. With the South-Westerly winds this meant more wind and more waves. Also the wind was more stable and predictable then closer to shore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283523-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 O-Jolle, Races, Summary\nIn the O-Jolle six out of the planned eight races were completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283523-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 O-Jolle, Races, Summary\nThe O-Jolle class (Olympic in 1936) brought several Dutch and European Champions to the Vintage. The first three races were dominated by Thies Bosch. When Thies encountered some material breakage the races were open again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283523-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 O-Jolle, Notes\nInformation about the Vintage Yachting Classes (former Olympic classes) can be verified by:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283523-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Vintage Yachting Games \u2013 O-Jolle, Notes\nInformation about the organization, conditions, sailors and results can be verified by:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283524-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 2018 Virginia Cavaliers football team represents the University of Virginia during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cavaliers are led by third-year head coach Bronco Mendenhall and play their home games at Scott Stadium. They compete as a member of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283524-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Previous season\nVirginia ended the 2017 season with a 6\u20137 overall record, 3\u20135 in the ACC, to finish in a tie for fourth place in the ACC Coastal Division. They were invited to the Military Bowl, where they were defeated by Navy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283524-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Preseason, ACC media poll\nThe ACC media poll was released on July 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283525-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team represented University of Virginia during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Cavaliers were led by head coach George Gelnovatch, in his twenty-third season. They played home games at Kl\u00f6ckner Stadium. This was the team's 78th season playing organized men's college soccer and their 66th playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283525-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team\nIn addition, the Cavaliers were one of the six college soccer programs that participated in U.S. Soccer's 2018 Spring Men's College Soccer Program, which was held from March 4\u2013April 21. This will be a series of competitive fixtures that use IFAB rules instead of NCAA rules for matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283525-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team, Previous season\nThe 2017 Virginia Cavaliers team finished the season with a final overall record of 13\u20134\u20135, and final ACC record of 3\u20132\u20133. The Cavaliers were seeded sixth-overall in the 2017 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament, where they reached the final. In the ACC Championship Game, they lost on penalty kicks to Wake Forest. The Cavaliers earned an at-large bid into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, continuing their record streak of consecutive NCAA appearances going at 37 appearances. In the NCAA Tournament, Virginia was seeded 11th overall in the tournament, where they reached third round before losing to Fordham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283525-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team, Previous season\nAt the end of the season, four Cavaliers men's soccer players were selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft: Jeff Caldwell, Edward Opoku, Pablo Aguilar and Sheldon Sullivan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283525-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283525-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team, 2019 MLS Super Draft\nVirginia did not have any players selected in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283526-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Tech Hokies football team\nThe 2018 Virginia Tech Hokies football team represents Virginia Tech during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hokies are led by third-year head coach Justin Fuente and play their home games at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia as members of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Virginia Tech finished the season with a losing record, the first season since the 1991 and 1992 football seasons when Virginia Tech experienced two such seasons back to back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283526-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Tech Hokies football team, Previous season\nThe Hokies finished the 2017 season 9\u20134, 5\u20133 in ACC play to finish in second place in the Coastal Division. The Hokies received an invitation to the Camping World Bowl, marking the school's 25th consecutive bowl bid, the longest active bowl streak that is recognized by the NCAA. There they lost to Oklahoma State 30\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283526-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Tech Hokies football team, Preseason, ACC media poll\nThe ACC media poll was released on July 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283526-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Tech Hokies football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech\nGeorgia Tech scored 7 touchdowns on the night, which is the most in Lane Stadium since the 1970s. They accomplished this feat 100% on the ground, racking up over 460 yards without completing a single pass. This game also marked the second straight time the backup QB for GT got the start on the road in the GT-VT series. GT is now 4-1 against the Hokies over the last 5 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283526-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Tech Hokies football team, Honorary #25 Beamer Jersey\nSince the start of the 2016 season, during the week before each game, Head Coach Justin Fuente selects an outstanding player to wear the #25 jersey in honor of former head coach, Frank Beamer, who wore #25 as a player for Virginia Tech. The jersey represents hard work, toughness, good sportsmanship and being a exemplary teammate. At first, the distinction was intended strictly for special teams players, but has since been expanded to include all team members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283527-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Tech Hokies men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Virginia Tech Hokies men's soccer team represented Virginia Tech during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 47th season of the university fielding a program. The Hokies played their home games at Sandra D. Thompson Field in Blacksburg, Virginia. The Hokies were led by tenth year head coach Mike Brizendine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283527-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Tech Hokies men's soccer team, Background\nThe 2017 Virginia Tech men's soccer team finished the season with a 10\u201310\u20130 overall record and a 3\u20135\u20130 ACC record. The Hokies were seeded ninth\u2013overall in the 2017 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament. The Hokies won their first round match up against NC State, but fell to eventual champions Wake Forest in the second round. The Hokies earned an at-large bid into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. Virginia Tech defeated Air Force in the first round, before losing to Michigan State in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283527-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Tech Hokies men's soccer team, Background\nAt the end of the season, one Hokie men's soccer player was selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft: Ben Lungaard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283527-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Tech Hokies men's soccer team, Player movement, Players arriving\nThe Hokies announced the signing of nine players on February 8, 2018. The Hokies announced two more signings on March 17, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283527-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Tech Hokies men's soccer team, Squad, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283527-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia Tech Hokies men's soccer team, 2019 MLS Super Draft\nVirginia Tech did not have any players selected in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283528-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia ballot measures\nThe 2018 Virginia State Elections took place on Election Day, November 6, 2018, the same day as the U.S. Senate and U.S. House elections in the state. The only statewide election on the ballot were two constitutional referendums to amend the Virginia State Constitution. Because Virginia state elections are held on off-years, no statewide officers or state legislative elections were held. The referendum was referred to the voters by the Virginia General Assembly. The amendment easily passed, although final vote totals await the final certification of results by the state board of elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283528-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia ballot measures, Question 1\nThe amendment reads: \"Should a county, city, or town be authorized to provide a partial tax exemption for real property that is subject to recurrent flooding, if flooding resiliency improvements have been made on the property?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283528-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia ballot measures, Question 2\nThe amendment reads: \"Shall the real property tax exemption for a primary residence that is currently provided to the surviving spouses of veterans who had a one hundred percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability be amended to allow the surviving spouse to move to a different primary residence and still claim the exemption?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283529-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia elections\nDuring the 2018 election year in Virginia several local, state, and federal elections were held. On May 1, several of Virginia's cities and towns held mayoral, city council, and school board elections. Primary elections for Congress were held on June 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283529-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia elections\nThe general election was on November 6, 2018 for all 11 of Virginia's House of Representative seats, as well as the Class 1 Senate seat. 2018 Virginia's 8th House of Delegates district special election will also be held that day. The seat, being vacated by Greg Habeeb, is being sought by Republican Roanoke County Supervisor Joe McNamara and Radford University associate director Democrat Carter Turner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283529-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia elections\nSpecial elections were held January 16 for Chilhowie town council, on February 6 for Leesburg town council, and on July 24 for Isle of Wight County sheriff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283529-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia elections, Federal elections, United States Senate\nOn November 6, Virginians re-elected their Class 1 senator Tim Kaine, who will serve from 2019 until 2025. He was challenged by Republican Corey Stewart and Libertarian Matt Waters. The Commonwealth's Green and Constitution parties did not run candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283529-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia elections, Federal elections, House of Representatives\nVirginians will elect their representatives who will serve from 2019 until 2021. Nine of the 11 incumbent Representatives are running for re-election. The Republican Party is defending seven seats, five of which are incumbents, and the Democratic Party is defending four seats, all of whom are incumbents. Ten of the 11 districts feature at least two candidates running, while three districts have third party candidates running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283529-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia elections, Ballot measures\nThere are two state constitutional amendments on the ballot. Both proposed ballot amendments received nearly universal, bipartisan support in the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283529-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia elections, Municipal elections, City mayoral elections\nThe following towns in Virginia held mayoral elections. Most mayoral elections were held on May 1, 2018. City elections in Virginia are officially nonpartisan, parties are only shown if their affiliated party is known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283529-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia elections, Municipal elections, Town mayoral elections\nThe following towns in Virginia held mayoral elections. Most mayoral elections were held on May 1, 2018. Town elections in Virginia are officially nonpartisan, parties are only shown if their affiliated party is known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election\nVirginia's 10th congressional district election was one of the highest-profile United States House of Representatives elections of 2018, and the most competitive and costly in Virginia, as the Republican incumbent congresswoman Barbara Comstock lost to Democrat Jennifer Wexton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election\nOn June 12, 2018 Republican primary election, Comstock defeated her rival, Air Force veteran Shak Hill. In the Democratic primary, Wexton, a state senator, defeated scientist Julia Biggins, former State Department official Alison Friedman, Army veteran Dan Helmer, former Department of Veterans Affairs official Lindsey Davis Stover, and former federal prosecutor Paul Pelletier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election\nAs of April, Comstock had posted one of the largest fundraising hauls of the first quarter of 2018, and four separate Democrats in the district had posted fundraising hauls of more than $200,000. The fact that the field of six Democrats raised more than $4.4 million combined for the Democratic primary was seen as a sign of Democratic enthusiasm. The 10th district race also drew in the most money in the state in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election\nThe general election, along with the other 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, was held on November 6, 2018. As of May, Roll Call listed Comstock as one of only three incumbents running in districts rated as tossups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election\nAfter the primary election, the Cook Political Report moved the district (along with four other districts) from \"Toss Up\" to \"Lean Democratic,\" noting Comstock's underwhelming performance against Hill, including in the Shenandoah Valley, and the possibility that Republican senatorial candidate Corey Stewart's nomination could \"alienate independents, depress Republican interest in the Senate race and allow Kaine to run up the score in the 10th CD, compounding Comstock's challenge.\" In particular, Stewart's stances on Confederate monuments and immigration may have lowered turnout among educated suburban Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election\nThe University of Virginia Center for Politics made a similar assessment. According to Mark J. Rozell, it seems likely that Comstock's appeals to mainstream and independent voters will be overshadowed by Trump's and Stewart's louder rhetoric directed to the hard-core right wing. A study by the Christopher Newport University Wason Center's Rachel Bitecofer predicted Comstock would lose and that the deciding factor for Democrats was getting their own partisans to the polls rather than swaying independent voters. Comstock herself had said, \"We're up in our internal polls, and I have never underperformed my internal polls.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Background\nVirginia's 10th congressional district has a higher median income than any other congressional district outside of Silicon Valley. The district is home to the Central Intelligence Agency and many of the country's biggest defense companies, IT firms and government contractors. The 10th covers McLean and Manassas, and then stretches west from Loudoun to the West Virginia line. The 10th district is the most college-educated GOP-held district in the country, and 37 percent of its residents are non-white. Only five congressional districts have more federal workers than the 10th, and all are within Virginia, Maryland or the District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Background\nEver since 17-term Republican Rep. Frank Wolf's retirement, Democrats have seen the 10th district as ripe for a challenge, but Comstock has won by solid margins since her first run in 2014, when she rode a solid advantage in fundraising to the victory over Fairfax County supervisor John Foust. In 2016, Comstock's challenger, Democrat LuAnn Bennett, became the first 10th District Democrat to win in Loudoun since 1978, but Comstock still won with 210,791 (52.7 percent) to Bennett's 187,712 votes (46.9 percent) of the ballots cast. The 10th district is one of 23 districts across the country that split their ticket in 2016 by voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton for president and a Republican for Representative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Background\nVirginia was one of at least 13 Congressional races in 2018 in which the Democratic challenger raised over $1 million in the second quarter. VCU politics professor Ravi Perry points out that Comstock's fundraising edge is in contrast to the situation in Virginia's 2nd, 5th, and 7th districts, where Democrats out-fundraised their opponents in the second quarter: \"They're aware of the swing district nature of it, and are clearly investing in it accordingly.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Background\nAfter 2018 Ohio's 12th congressional district special election, Fox commentator Chad Pergram noted that like Virginia's 10th district, Ohio's 12th congressional district had suburban areas (Franklin County, Ohio) where Democrats dominated and rural areas (Delaware County, Ohio) where they did not: \"Democrats need to extend their reach to the distant suburbs in order to get somewhere this fall.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Background\nIn the rural parts of the 10th district, there is some concern that the 2018 China\u2013United States trade war and the Trump tariffs on steel and aluminum, along with anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies that make it harder to find migrant workers, could reduce the profitability of agricultural businesses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0008-0002", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Background\nAccording to Mark Rozell, dean of George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government, \"They may think Comstock has done a good job, she has represented the district well, she does great constituent services, she shows up everywhere to every local event, and for some of these voters none of that matters. The bigger issue is sending that message about the current direction of the Trump administration.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, National significance\nDemocrats had to pick up at least an additional 24 seats in the 2018 House elections to win back the majority they lost in the 2010 election. This effort was focused on defending Democratic seats while picking up Republican seats, especially in races that were tossups or where the districts leaned Democratic. In a \"blue wave\" election, which saw Democrats win back the House majority and make significant gains in other offices across the country, many Republican incumbents were voted out, Republican politicians retired in record numbers, but Comstock had opted to fight for her seat. Democratic Rep. Don Beyer said that in Virginia, Comstock would be \"the No. 1 target \u2013 we're going to put everyone behind it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, National significance\nComstock had been described as, by the numbers, arguably the most vulnerable Republican House member. Part of the reason is that northern Virginia has become increasingly Democratic. In the 2017 Virginia House of Delegates election, seven of the eight Republican incumbents in the state legislature with districts touching Comstock's were defeated by Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, National significance\nAmong other reasons for Democrats' optimism about winning the election were that Democrat Hillary Clinton defeated Republican Donald Trump by 10 points in the 10th district in the 2016 United States presidential election and Democrat Ralph Northam won in the 10th district by a 13 percent margin in the 2017 Virginia gubernatorial election. Democrats believed Comstock would be defeated by Democratic voters bent on defeating anyone who shares a party affiliation with Trump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, National significance\nComstock, however, won by 6 points in 2016 despite the Republican presidential ticket's loss in her district, and she had said that the 2017 election results did not change her plans for the 2018 election because in her view, listening to the voters of the district and focusing on the district's priorities are what were important.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, National significance\nIn addition to the fact that Comstock was at first a proven winner in districts bluer than the national average, another challenge Democrats faced in unseating her was that the D.C. media market was one of the most expensive in the country, and reached many people who did not live in the district. This made it necessary to raise large amounts of money, including from outside groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, National significance\nWasserman noted that \"several Republicans privately express doubts about spending millions on expensive DC television trying to save this seat when there are far cheaper routes to holding the majority.\" According to Washington Post reporter Jenna Portnoy, \"Experts say Comstock will be tough to beat given her strong name recognition, relentless campaign style and embrace of some moderate positions that polls show resonate with voters in the closest thing Virginia has to a swing district.\" Comstock is also renowned for her political smarts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, National significance\nAccording to Comstock's political director Ken Nunnenkamp, \"Democrats have spent over $20 million trying to defeat her and they have a 0-5 record to show for it because these failed campaigns are dictated by partisan operatives from outside the district who continuously underestimate Congresswoman Comstock's record of legislative accomplishment, her hard work ethic, and her constant presence and connection with her constituents.\" In particular, he cited, \"Those failed campaigns have also had one thing in common \u2013 the bitter partisan advice of Kathleen Murphy,\" who lost a 2013 House of Delegates race to Comstock and then won a 2015 special election after Comstock resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, National significance\nFor the second election cycle in a row, Comstock was on the National Republican Congressional Committee Patriot Program list of vulnerable House members who would receive additional financial and strategic support for their races. The NRCC made its largest reservation for television advertising time, $6.4\u2009million, for Comstock in the expensive Washington media market. The race was expected to be one of the most competitive, and costly, congressional races nationwide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, National significance\nThe Wall Street Journal noted that Trump, by threatening a government shutdown, could be purposefully putting Republican House members like Comstock at risk of defeat, so that in the 2020 United States presidential election, he can use Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a foil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, National significance\nAccording to Jake Kastan, although the party that controls the White House loses, on average, 32 seats in the first midterm election, Republican incumbents like Comstock had many advantages, including more money and resilient local brands. He drew several distinctions between the 2018 election and the 2010 Republican wave election, noting that 57 percent of Americans said things are going well in the U.S. today, the largest proportion to share these sentiments since January 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, National significance\nHe also noted that House Republicans had unveiled a \"Better Off Now\" message that makes the connection between GOP policies and record low unemployment, a surging economy, higher take-home pay, and a strengthened military. And he pointed out that even if Republican incumbents like Comstock did lose, it may not win Democrats the House, since Republicans were said to be favored in many districts with open seats, and there were only nine Republicans in the House representing districts that tilt Democratic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Candidates\nJulia Biggins is a graduate of Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign and an assistant director of antiviral research at Integrated BioTherapeutics Inc. Issues she has focused on include renewable energy, climate change, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals expansion, LGBTQ rights, and HIV research funding. She has described Comstock as an \"anti-science Congresswoman\" and she said, \"One of the first things we saw the Trump administration do was to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Agriculture from sharing data with the public, which any scientist will tell you is a big red flag.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 87], "content_span": [88, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Candidates\nBiggins also commented that in all her years of dealing with infectious and dangerous diseases, she has \"never seen a disease like what is running through our Congress right now.\" Specifically, she views the \"professional political class\" and the influence of money in politics as the biggest single issue facing Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 87], "content_span": [88, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Candidates\nAlison Friedman interned at Feminist Majority during college, then became a legislative and program coordinator for People for the American Way, and subsequently worked for Congresswoman Jane Harman and co-founded a nonprofit, the Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking (ASSET), to fight human trafficking. She helped to write the California Consumer Transparency Act and served as a senior State Department official in the Obama Administration, continuing her work against human trafficking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 87], "content_span": [88, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Candidates\nSpecifically, she was deputy director for the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and later helped establish a public-private partnership known as the Global Fund to End Slavery. Friedman argues, \"We need to re-staff the State Department, support and lift up our dedicated federal workers\" especially in the intelligence and diplomatic agencies. Friedman had the first television ad of the campaign season, \"Lockdown,\" which portrays parents receiving emails from their children's schools alerting them of lockdowns and outlines Friedman's support for expanding background checks, banning assault weapons and closing the gun show loophole. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce aired an ad touting Comstock's support for transportation projects and the military, while pointing out that she's \"not with the partisan bomb-throwers.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 87], "content_span": [88, 926]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Candidates\nDan Helmer is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, a U.S. Army veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a Rhodes Scholar. Helmer was employed as a business strategist at the Boston Consulting Group and has continued his military service in the Army Reserves, where he was selected in 2017 for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 87], "content_span": [88, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Candidates\nOf the candidates, Helmer had spent the most time in the national spotlight for his sometimes-provocative TV spots, which led to his sparring with hosts on the conservative talk show Fox & Friends. An online-only campaign video entitled \"Helmer Zone\" unexpectedly went viral in September 2017, climbing to number four on the YouTube trending list within 24 hours. Reactions to the video, in which Helmer spoofed the film \u201cTop Gun,\u201d complete with offkey singing, were mixed. As the Daily Beast noted, \u201cThe internet quickly dubbed it one of the worst campaign ads of all time. But Helmer\u2019s eyeball-gouging chorus never leaves your head\u2026. which seems to be the point.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 87], "content_span": [88, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Candidates\nPaul Pelletier served as a police officer, attended law school, had two judicial clerkships, and became a federal prosecutor, serving in the United States Department of Justice Tax Division and then becoming an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Miami office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. In 1997, he transitioned to tackling white-collar crime and healthcare fraud when he became chief of Miami's economic crimes section. When the Enron scandal broke, the Justice Department brought him to Washington, D.C., to help its criminal division fight accounting fraud. He served on the federal task force that led the corruption case against lobbyist Jack Abramoff as well as officials in Congress and the White House, including U.S. Reps. Robert Ney and William J. Jefferson. Pelletier moved to the 10th district in 2017 specifically to run against Comstock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 87], "content_span": [88, 975]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Candidates\nLindsey Stover is a graduate of Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and owner of Edwards, Davis Stover and Associates, a small communications firm that works with veteran-owned small businesses and companies. She is a communications strategist, former Obama administration official, and first-time candidate who announced her candidacy in April 2017. Stover argues she is the only primary candidate with extensive, senior-level federal legislative experience, having brokered compromises in Congress to pass bills and briefed President Obama in the Situation Room. She also has talked about being raised by a single mother and working her way through college.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 87], "content_span": [88, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Candidates\nJennifer Wexton was educated at the University of Maryland and the William & Mary Law School. She is currently a state senator. She was encouraged to run for the U.S. House seat by national Democratic leaders. Richard L. Saslaw has said that \"Wexton, from an ideological standpoint, is a perfect fit for that district\" because \"She's a liberal but not to the point where it's going to scare off the slightly moderate to conservative voters.\" Her state senate district included much of the northeastern portion of the congressional district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 87], "content_span": [88, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Campaign\nThe 10th Congressional District Democratic Committee unanimously opted to hold a state-run open primary. The six Democratic candidates who turned in enough signatures to be placed on the primary ballot are scientist Julia Biggins, former State Department official Alison Friedman, state senator Jennifer Wexton, Army veteran Dan Helmer, former Department of Veterans Affairs official Lindsey Davis Stover, and former federal prosecutor Paul Pelletier. As of April 2018, Friedman led the group in campaign fundraising. Wexton came in second in fundraising and was endorsed by Governor Ralph Northam and Representatives Gerald E. Connolly and A. Donald McEachin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 85], "content_span": [86, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Campaign\nWexton, the only elected official in the field, has the highest name recognition. Political scientist Stephen Farnsworth remarked, \"If you\u2019re not Senator Wexton, your big challenge is to be heard at all,\" which he says makes it worthwhile for her rivals to attack her so they can stand out from the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 85], "content_span": [86, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Campaign\nThe Democratic primary in the 10th district was seen as exemplifying the internecine fights in 2018's crowded Democratic primaries. Some observers note that because Comstock's vulnerability attracted a number of Democrats to run against her, there is a possibility that Democratic infighting could leave the eventual nominee too bruised and battered to win against Comstock. The Democratic veterans group VoteVets is backing Helmer, while state legislators are supporting state Wexton, and Stover and Friedman, both former Barack Obama administration officials, have tapped those networks for help.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 85], "content_span": [86, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Campaign\nWexton had been viewed as the frontrunner to win the Democratic primary because she represents about half of the largest county, Loudoun, in the 10th district, and because she had gained the endorsements of many of Virginia's Democratic politicians. On the other hand, in fundraising, she fell short of Friedman's totals and barely edged out Helmer and Stover. Also, the results of recent elections, such as the 2017 Democratic gubernatorial primary, suggested that Virginia voters, especially those from Loudoun, might prefer candidates from outside the Establishment. Biggins and Helmer in particular positioned themselves as political outsiders with drastically different experience and backgrounds from Comstock. The proximity of Virginia's 10th District to D.C. limited the reach of outsider candidacies, although the concentration of government workers and contractors is not as high as it is in, say, Fairfax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 85], "content_span": [86, 1002]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Campaign\nIn late May, Wexton narrated an ad in which she rides in a truck, featuring a \"Change is coming\" banner, from the 10th district to the White House. VoteVets will air an ad, \"Life or Death,\" on Helmer's behalf from May 30 through June 5. Helmer also ran an ad comparing Trump to Osama bin Laden, which White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah called \"nothing short of reprehensible\" and Comstock called an \"outrageous and offensive thing to say, and beyond the pale.\" Garren Shipley, a Virginia spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said, \"His ad is a clear reminder to voters in Virginia that the Democrat base is consumed by anger and hatred.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 85], "content_span": [86, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Campaign\nWexton was targeted by fellow Democrats over her willingness to compromise on gun control and for her refusal to forgo corporate donations. Helmer and Friedman said her past acceptance of Dominion Energy and other corporate PAC money, and her unwillingness to pledge not to take corporate PAC money in the future, prevent her from creating enough of a contrast with Comstock. Friedman and Stover fought for the same pool of undecided voters, and Cook Political Report remarked, if Wexton is \"able to run up the score in her own Loudoun County-based state senate district, it'll probably be enough to win a low turnout race.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 85], "content_span": [86, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Democratic, Campaign\nStover was the only primary candidate to open an office in Winchester, and she performed well in Winchester and Frederick and Clarke counties, taking 49.91 percent (798 ballots) of the vote in the city, 41.91 percent (1,441) of the vote in Frederick County, and 48.93 percent (525) of the vote in Clarke County. Frank Bruni described Wexton's primary victory as \"precisely what Republican strategists didn't want, and at the beginning of the year, they chattered hopefully about Wexton's being thwarted by more strident Democratic rivals to her left. But she beat the second-place finisher by almost 20 points.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 85], "content_span": [86, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Republican, Candidates\nComstock is a Georgetown University-educated lawyer who interned for her home state Senator Edward Kennedy during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, when she became a Republican. She then went on to work on Frank Wolf's staff, before making her reputation as an opposition researcher on Clinton administration scandals such as the Whitewater controversy, Filegate, Travelgate, and the Clinton\u2013Lewinsky scandal and then working for the U.S. Department of Justice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 87], "content_span": [88, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Republican, Candidates\nShak Hill is a decorated Air Force combat veteran who graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy, obtained an M.B.A. from Western New England University, and served in the U.S. Air Force in the Presidential Wing, based at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. A former elected official, he sought to unseat Senator Mark Warner in 2014 but did not win the Republican nomination. Hill believes that religion is essential to the country's well-being, arguing that the founders were Christians who \"believed generally in a moral society, and that moral society has allowed us to flourish, unquestionably.\" He has criticized welfare programs that he says tell men that their fatherhood role is irrelevant, and attributed the rise in school shootings to the decline of two-parent households. He also blamed the school shootings on a \"culture of death\" brought about by abortion-on-demand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 87], "content_span": [88, 967]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Republican, Candidates\nHill said that what triggered his decision to run for the seat was Comstock's vote against an amendment that would have barred the Pentagon from paying for gender transition surgeries or hormone therapy for transgender service members. He described Comstock as a rabid Never Trumper\" and member of \"the swamp\" looking to buy today's votes with our grandchildren's money.\" Comstock described Hill as a \"perennial failed candidate\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 87], "content_span": [88, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Republican, Campaign\nComstock faced a long-shot challenge in the primary from former combat pilot Shak Hill, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in the 2014 United States Senate election in Virginia. Hill has hired Stewart's campaign manager, and some experts say that Hill embodies the possibility that Comstock's efforts to appeal to centrists in the most populated areas of her district could cost her conservative votes. In April 2018, Comstock's campaign created a site, \"ShadyShak.com,\" attacking Hill's personal and professional life. Comstock sent out mailers boasting of being \"pro-border wall to stop illegal immigration,\" \"pro-life\" and \"pro-2nd Amendment.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 85], "content_span": [86, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0033-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Republican, Campaign\nHill complained that he was unfairly attacked by a conservative media outlet friendly to Comstock after a website he runs uploaded articles about penis enlargement without his knowledge. Sebastian Gorka appeared at a May 31 rally for Hill. Comstock was criticized for declining to participate in, or send a surrogate in her place to, candidate forums attended by all the other candidates. While Comstock was heavily favored in the primary, she did hit back against Hill in ads to minimize the risk of an upset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 85], "content_span": [86, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Republican, Campaign\nLarry Sabato described Comstock's margin of victory against Hill, whom he called \"a right-wing fringe candidate\" as \"a very poor showing.\" Jennifer Rubin noted, \"The total Democratic primary vote (about 53,800) comfortably exceeded the GOP total vote (about 46,000); Comstock in her two-person contest got not even 6,000 votes more than Wexton in her six-person race.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 85], "content_span": [86, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Primaries, Republican, Campaign\nA Vox article noted that Comstock, like Martha Roby and Mark Sanford, was punished in the Republican primary for her criticism of Trump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 85], "content_span": [86, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Other candidates, Nathan Larson (Independent)\nIndependent Nathan Larson filed paperwork on May 2 to enter the race, and ran on a \"patriarchist libertarian\" platform. Early drafts of a campaign manifesto by Larson suggested that his major campaign issues would include stopping the federal war on drugs, protecting gun ownership rights, and curtailing foreign interventions by the United States. Larson withdrew from the race on August 13, 2018 and endorsed Wexton, calling her \"the accelerationist choice\"; Wexton, through a spokesman, declined the endorsement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 99], "content_span": [100, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Other candidates, Nathan Larson (Independent)\nComstock tweeted, \"It is good news for all voters in the 10th District that Nathan Larson, a convicted felon who served time in prison for threatening to kill the President and is an admitted pedophile, an admitted rapist, white supremacist, and misogynist, is now off the ballot in the 10th Congressional District.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 99], "content_span": [100, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Other candidates, Others\nFairfax teachers union president Kimberly Adams, Loudoun School for the Gifted founder Deep Sran, financial consultant Michael Pomerleano, wounded veterans advocate Julien Modica, general practitioner Shadi Ayyas, and retired Naval intelligence officer David Hanson filed paperwork to compete in the Democratic primary. However, all of them did not submit enough signatures to get on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 78], "content_span": [79, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nSean Schofield, a 44-year-old computer programmer from Silver Spring, and Abbey Ruby, a 34-year-old lawyer from McLean, founded Dump Comstock, a group that was devoted to embarrassing and attacking Comstock through electronic ambushes caught on video, mobile electronic billboards, social media, and their website. Dump Comstock worked with other groups seeking to unseat Comstock, including Planned Parenthood, the Service Employees International Union, and Indivisible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nTom Steyer had plans to spend at least $2 million to try to unseat Barbara Comstock and Scott Taylor through his organization, NextGen America. Wexton also received phone and text bank and postcard and door-knocking support from the Arlington County Democratic Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nAt a meeting of the Winchester-Frederick County Democratic Committee, Wexton said she was paying attention to Winchester, Frederick and Clarke counties, even though they are less affluent and less populous than Loudoun, explaining, \"For too long Democrats have let the western part of the district go\". She said her campaign approach is deliberately moderate to fit the district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nComstock had received high ratings from the NRA and ranked 10th among House members who had received the most in donations from the group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nComstock's support for the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act and break with the Donald Trump administration over the federal hiring freeze had helped her reputation as an ally of federal workers, many of whom lived in her district. She had also focused on pay raises for public servants and expanding job opportunities for veterans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nShe had also praised the military budget increases in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 as a win for defense contractors and Pentagon employees in her district, and authored legislation to combat the opioid epidemic and MS-13 gang problem that had sprouted in some Northern Virginia neighborhoods. She had spoken out against illegal drugs crossing the border and in May participated in an event with the two DEA agents who caught drug lord Pablo Escobar and were featured in Narcos. She portrayed some of her well-funded Democratic opponents as carpetbaggers who were out of touch with the district and too leftist to represent it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nWexton has accused Comstock of fearmongering and race-baiting for pushing legislation that would allow the federal government to deport immigrants on the suspicion of gang activity and fund anti-gang task forces. She said, \"For Barbara Comstock, the Latino community is nothing more than MS-13.\" A Comstock campaign spokeswoman said, \"Wexton\u2019s outrageous statements show how out-of-touch she is with the violent MS-13 gang threat and the victims they brutally target.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nComstock's voting record, including on the 2017 tax reform bill, has usually been aligned with Trump, but she has distanced herself from him by calling his behavior in the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape so \"disgusting\" and \"vile\" as to warrant dropping out of the presidential election; and opposing the United States federal government shutdowns of 2018. Comstock also said that she could not defend Trump's reported comments calling Haiti, El Salvador and African nations \"shithole countries.\" Comstock also praised the appointment of former FBI director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nIn addition, Comstock was one of the few Republicans given a pass from the Republican leadership to vote against the American Health Care Act of 2017, also known as TrumpCare. Comstock stated her opposition was due to her concern over some of its provisions, in particular one that would allow states to let insurers again charge more to customers with preexisting medical problems, while conservative blogger Jim Hoeft suggested that her decision was an attempt to walk a fine line in a district where elections are becoming more favorable to Democrats. Wexton is not yet in favor of moving forward with impeachment, saying she wants to collect facts and evidence first, although she has said, \"The biggest problem facing those in VA-10 is President Trump, and Barbara Comstock\u2019s refusal to stand up to him.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nIn a May telephone interview, Comstock noted Trump's achievements, including the 2018 North Korea\u2013United States summit, the release of three Korean American detainees held by the North, his stepback from the Iranian nuclear deal, the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, and his economic initiatives that have put the economy on a forward pace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nComstock has been criticized by Democrats for declining to hold town halls where constituents could dialog with her in an unscripted public forum. Stover said that it shows a lack of courage. Republican former Rep. Tom Davis has suggested Comstock change the practice, arguing, \"You\u2019ve got to let people scream at you a little bit, let them get it off their chest.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0047-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nIn response to the complaints about her lack of town halls, Comstock's office has said that she has met with hundreds of constituents in her offices and connected with 9000 during telephone town halls and that \"she is ever present in and around her district.\" According to David Ramadan, Comstock is \"going to be one of the very few Republicans that will make it out of November despite the anti-G.O.P. national wave\" and \"will survive because of the relationships she built with minority constituencies in the district, Indians, Muslims, Koreans\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nWexton thinks that the country should be evolving toward a single-payer health care system. She has cited the Dulles Greenway's high tolls as an example of what happens with privatized infrastructure. Comstock spent most of 2017 working on legislation to reform the Metro train and bus system that serves the Washington region, but Democrats have criticized her 2013 vote against Metro funding when she represented Virginia's 34th House of Delegates district. Comstock has promised to push for more transportation funding to flow to the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nAlthough Comstock mentioned the benefits of the tax cuts 36 times in January in social media, she did so only 13 times in March and then 22 times in April, and said in an interview that she is reacting to constituents, whose interests have moved on to other issues. Her support for the tax bill could be a vulnerability in an affluent district where many voters claim state and local tax deductions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nWexton supports decriminalizing cannabis, while Comstock has voted against cannabis law reform legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nWith regard to the Trump administration family separation policy, Comstock said she wants to find a bipartisan solution to separating families while still making sure the border is secure. Wexton criticized Comstock's statement in a tweet, saying, \"POTUS can end this awful policy today, but by lacking the courage to demand that, she supports these innocent children being used as political pawns.\" Democrats plan to make family separation a big issue in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nWexton referred to the joint press conference between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 2018 Russia\u2013United States summit as the \"surrender summit.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nIn August, Trump scrapped pay raises for federal civilian employees, a decision opposed by Comstock, whose reelection some commentators believe could be imperiled by the move, given the heavy concentration of federal employees in her district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, General election\nIn September, Gabrielle Giffords launched a $1 million cable television advertising campaign targeting Comstock. Comstock responded by emphasizing her support for improving background checks as well as the STOP School Violence Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Fundraising, Primary election\nIn April, Democrat Friedman reported cash on hand of $817,631; Wexton reported $630,707; Helmer reported $516,146; Stover reported $471,956; and Pelletier reported $191,294. Republican primary challenger Shak Hill reported $63,401. In May, Friedman gave her campaign $1 million of her own money to help pay for television ads, saying this would help her compete with candidates like Wexton \"who benefited from corporate money from big tobacco and oil companies without being beholden to their special interests.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 83], "content_span": [84, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Fundraising, Primary election\nFriedman's donors included actress Jennifer Garner; singer Barbra Streisand; Alexander Soros, son of the liberal billionaire donor George Soros; Peter Getty; Donna Brazile, former head of the Democratic National Committee; singer Graham Nash; singer Bonnie Raitt; and Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation. A controversial donation of more than $160,000 to Friedman came from Defeat Slavery, whose donors were not disclosed prior to the primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 83], "content_span": [84, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Fundraising, General election\nAs of April 2018, Comstock had raised nearly $2.8 million for the race, topping fellow Virginia Republicans incumbents Dave Brat and Tom Garrett Jr. and her Democratic opponents. Comstock's donors include Michael Chertoff, head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush; Todd Stottlemyer, chief executive of the Inova Center for Personalized Health, and his wife; former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour; Ed Gillespie's campaign committee; and Carly Fiorina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 83], "content_span": [84, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0057-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Fundraising, General election\nThe Congressional Leadership Fund is also planning to make a seven-figure commitment to her campaign, but as of early August had not actually committed those funds, despite having reserved $60 million in advertising time on behalf of Republican candidates in dozens of races throughout the country. As of late August, the CLF was not planning to air any TV ads in support of Comstock. Wexton is one of 19 candidates to whom Hillary Clinton made the maximum donation of $5,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 83], "content_span": [84, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Fundraising, General election\nWexton says that she has not taken any political action committee money in the election and will not take any Dominion Energy money. She has responded to criticism of her taking money from Dominion during her state senate races by saying that the donations did not influence her voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 83], "content_span": [84, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Fundraising, General election\nAs of the end of June 2018, Comstock had $1.7 million cash on hand, while Wexton had $765,705. Comstock had raised $3.86 million total in her quest for a third term, while Wexton had raised $1.9 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 83], "content_span": [84, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Fundraising, General election\nComstock's donors included Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone and his wife, Elaine; the Susan B. Anthony List; the National Shooting Sports Foundation; Dominion Energy; and American and United Airlines. Wexton's donors included the United Food and Commercial Workers and the United Transportation Union; the Common Ground PAC; J Street PAC; the League of Conservation Voters; the New Democrat Coalition; and Progressive Choices PAC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 83], "content_span": [84, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Endorsements\nFriedman has been endorsed by Dolores Huerta, Gloria Steinem, and Khizr Khan. Helmer has been endorsed by former Obama administration official Michele Flournoy and the progressive veterans organization VoteVets. Wexton has been endorsed by former U.S. President Barack Obama, Gerry Connolly and Donald McEachin. Stover has been endorsed by the Pride Fund to End Gun Violence, Wendy Davis, Bill Richardson, Winchester Mayor David Smith, and Obama administration Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. Biggins has been endorsed by One Revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 66], "content_span": [67, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Endorsements\nOn May 30, Wexton received the Washington Post's much-coveted endorsement, which argued, \"She is the best qualified and also the one most likely to chip away at partisan gridlock in Washington.\" The piece closed by saying that \"if voters want a candidate who has proved she can win a tough election and then rack up genuine accomplishments while remaining true to progressive values, they have only one choice.\" According to Cook, \"Northern Virginia Democratic primaries are one of the few remaining venues where the Post's editorial opinion still counts for something.\" On November 7, former FBI director James Comey offered to knock on doors to canvass for Wexton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 66], "content_span": [67, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Endorsements\nThe Sun Gazette endorsed Wexton and Comstock in the primary. In the final days of the campaign, Vice President Mike Pence recorded a phone message urging voters to cast ballots for Comstock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 66], "content_span": [67, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Issues\nComstock's Democratic challengers focused on the issue of gun control, prompted by the district's increasing population of college-educated white-collar workers and suburbanites' changing attitudes about National Rifle Association (NRA) in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. At an April 10 candidate forum, Democratic candidates described gun control methods they would support, agreeing to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and implement universal background checks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0064-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Issues\nHelmer and Stover criticized Wexton's support of a legislative compromise supporting concealed carry reciprocity with other states in exchange for stiffening penalties for domestic abusers caught with guns and mandating that state police perform background checks for private transactions at gun shows. Wexton defended the compromise as having improved public safety by resulting in felony charges for 60 people under the domestic violence gun ban. Biggins proposed an Australian-style gun buyback program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Issues\nIn May, Helmer went to a gun show in Chantilly and demonstrated how it was possible to buy what he described as \"the same gun, same magazine I had in Afghanistan\" in under 10 minutes, without any background check. Pelletier pivoted off of his Justice Department credentials by demanding a criminal investigation into links between the National Rifle Association, US-sanctioned Russians and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. According to Roll Call's Patricia Murphy, Comstock's challengers were digging into the gun control issue because they know it has become a voting issue for gun control advocates, especially women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Issues\nStover pointed out that Comstock stated her opposition to TrumpCare when it looked as if it would fail: \"Her decision was made when the fate of the bill was already sealed. I don't believe that's courage \u2014 that's politics, and that's exactly what people are sick of.\" More generally, Comstock's Democratic opponents claim that she often speaks like them but almost always votes like a Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Issues\nAll five Democrats who participated in a May 14 debate (that is, all the Democratic candidates except Wexton, who was attending a state senate special session) said they think Trump is unfit for office, with Helmer saying, \"After 9/11, the worst threat to our democracy lived in a cave. Now he lives in the White House. I'm ready to vote to impeach him to defend democracy.\" Stover likewise was in favor of moving forward with impeachment proceedings, although she says she wants to make sure the case is \"airtight\" before charges are brought in Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0067-0001", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Issues\nFriedman also said she was not yet ready to move forward with impeachment, although she wants Trump out of office. Biggins too wanted the investigation to run its course before she supported impeachment. Pelletier says he is in favor of moving forward with impeachment proceedings and that he wants Trump to be accountable for his actions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Issues\nFriedman had previously called Trump \"the embodiment of abuses of power\" and said, regarding sexual harassment, \"I'm glad Barbara Comstock has been talking about this issue. But I think her commitment would be more meaningful if she was working as hard to hold the president accountable for his sexual assault.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Issues\nThe Democrats differed on how to improve Obamacare, with Helmer advocating replacing it with Medicare for all, and Biggins favoring single-payer healthcare. Stover favors a single-payer system as well, and says that she'd also like to look at a Medicare-for-all system as well as other proposals for a system that could not be undermined by a future administration. Friedman favors improving the Affordable Care Act. Hill attacked Comstock's vote against an Obamacare repeal bill, saying it was a \"fantastically disappointing violation of her campaign promise to us\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Issues\nOn transportation, Biggins cited a permanent funding mechanism for Metro, Virginia Railway Express to places like Winchester and Berryville, and light rail and buses as ways to help deal with infrastructure problems. Pelletier blamed the Republican tax reform law for leaving no money to fix 10th district transportation problems and Helmer blamed special interests for impeding transportation solutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Issues\nFriedman criticized the Tax Reform Act for benefiting corporations and the wealthy above working families, singles, and those in most need, and Helmer has called for a complete rewrite of the legislation. Biggins proposed countering the Tax Reform Act by tightening up some military spending, saying, \"We have many redundancies there that could be streamlined a bit.\" As a result of Comstock's support of the tax bill, the National Association of Manufacturers put on an event with Comstock in April in a rural part of her district featuring George Allen praising Comstock's efforts in Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Issues\nHill claimed that Trump's tax plan supports working families, and that companies are repatriating to the United States and reinvesting in their businesses, creating more employment opportunities. He also points to deregulation under Trump as creating wealth, boosting the stock market. Pelletier criticized Trump's elimination of revenue that could have gone to working on eroding infrastructure. Both Biggins and Stover want to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Issues\nStover called Republicans' immigration bans and reforms and the proposed Border Wall \"heartless and bad economic decisions\" and described the wall as \"a symbol of hate.\" Helmer said Comstock's comments likening the tracking of immigrants entering the country to tracking FedEx packages were reasons to run against her, and said, \"All my time in Iraq and Afghanistan, I never thought we were fighting to deport children.\" Friedman also criticized Comstock's FedEx package comparison, saying it did not respect human dignity. Hill has argued that Comstock has not been vocal enough in her support of Trump's immigration policies. Hill supports building a border wall and ending the concept of anchor babies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283530-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 Virginia's 10th congressional district election, Issues\nHill supported leaving intrastate cannabis policy to individual states to decide, while all six Democratic candidates favor decriminalizing cannabis, and Helmer advocated legalizing it entirely. Hill said that keeping families together would reduce crime rates, while Friedman said, \"I have to say, as a single mom, I think there are more important things we can do related to criminal justice reform.\" She called for implicit bias training for law enforcement and community policing, and echoed other candidates\u2019 calls for bail and sentencing overhauls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283531-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Virsligas Cup\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Monkbot (talk | contribs) at 00:06, 8 January 2020 (Task 15: language icon template(s) replaced (13\u00d7);). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283531-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Virsligas Cup\nThe 2018 Virsligas Winter Cup is the league cup's sixth season. It began on 9 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283532-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Visit Panam\u00e1 Cup\nThe 2018 Visit Panam\u00e1 Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Panama City, Panama between 2 and 7 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283532-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Visit Panam\u00e1 Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283532-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Visit Panam\u00e1 Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283532-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Visit Panam\u00e1 Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283533-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Visit Panam\u00e1 Cup \u2013 Doubles\nSergio Gald\u00f3s and Caio Zampieri were the defending champions but only Gald\u00f3s chose to defend his title, partnering Franco Agamenone. Gald\u00f3s lost in the quarterfinals to Cristian Rodr\u00edguez and Rubin Statham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283533-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Visit Panam\u00e1 Cup \u2013 Doubles\nYannick Hanfmann and Kevin Krawietz won the title after defeating Nathan Pasha and Roberto Quiroz 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283534-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Visit Panam\u00e1 Cup \u2013 Singles\nRog\u00e9rio Dutra Silva was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Evan Song.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283534-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Visit Panam\u00e1 Cup \u2013 Singles\nCarlos Berlocq won the title after defeating Bla\u017e Rola 6\u20132, 6\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283535-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vissel Kobe season\nThe 2018 Vissel Kobe season was Vissel Kobe's fifth season back in the J1 League following their promotion in 2013 and their 20th J1 League season. They also competed in the 2018 Emperor's Cup and the 2018 J.League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283535-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vissel Kobe season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283535-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vissel Kobe season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283535-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vissel Kobe season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283535-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vissel Kobe season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283535-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Vissel Kobe season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283535-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Vissel Kobe season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283536-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Viterra Championship\nThe 2018 Viterra Championship, Manitoba's provincial men's curling championship, was held from January 31 to February 4 at the Winkler Centennial Arena in Winkler. The winning Reid Carruthers team represented Manitoba at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier in Regina, Saskatchewan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283536-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Viterra Championship\nThe semifinal and final games were broadcast on Sportsnet One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283536-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Viterra Championship, Teams\n*McEwen was hospitalized from the second draw until the semifinals due to having chicken pox. Except for the first draw and the final, the team played with just three players, with B. J. Neufeld assuming skipping duties. McEwen skipped and threw third stones in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283536-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Viterra Championship, Draw\n32 team double knockout with playoff roundFour teams qualify each from A Event and B Event", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283537-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vladimir Oblast gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Vladimir Oblast gubernatorial election was held in September 2018, on common election day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283537-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vladimir Oblast gubernatorial election\nIn the first round, held on 9 September, none of the candidates received an absolute majority. The second round, which was take place on 22 September, came the incumbent Governor Svetlana Orlova, nominated by the United Russia, and Vladimir Sipyagin, nominated by the Liberal Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283537-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vladimir Oblast gubernatorial election\nIn the second round Vladimir Sipyagin defeating incumbent Governor Svetlana Orlova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption\nThe 2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption was a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows from the Volc\u00e1n de Fuego (Spanish for Volcano of Fire) in Guatemala on Sunday 3 June 2018. The eruption included lahars, pyroclastic flows, and clouds of volcanic ash, which left almost no evacuation time at all and caused the death of officially of nearly two hundred people. It was the deadliest eruption in Guatemala since 1929.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Background\nVolc\u00e1n de Fuego (Spanish for \"Volcano of Fire\") is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and is located 44 kilometres (27\u00a0mi) from Guatemala City. It is a stratovolcano that has had more than 60 eruptions since 1524, including a major eruption in 1974 which produced pyroclastic flows that destroyed the region's winter harvest and ashfall that covered nearby cities. The 3 June eruption is one of the deadliest in the country, including the Santa Mar\u00eda eruption of 1902 and the Santiaguito dome collapse of 1929, which killed hundreds. The most eruptive phase began in 2002 and produced an explosive eruption in 2012 that forced 33,000 people to evacuate, but had no reported deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Background\nThe population around the volcano is estimated to be 54,000 within 10 kilometres (6.2\u00a0mi) and more than 1 million within 30 kilometres (19\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Eruption\nOn Sunday 3 June 2018, at around noon local time, Volc\u00e1n de Fuego in southern Guatemala began a volcanic eruption which left almost no evacuation time. The heat and explosive impact of the volcano brought about rocks the size of baseballs and larger strewn about, and car tires melted into the ground. Most of the injuries and fatalities were south of the volcano in the towns and villages of El Rodeo, Las Lajas, and San Miguel Los Lotes, in Escuintla, located 44 kilometres (27\u00a0mi) from Guatemala City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Eruption\nSan Miguel Los Lotes, a community 2 kilometres (1.2\u00a0mi) north of El Rodeo was covered with deep hot ash. The eruption prompted the evacuation of about 3,100 people from nearby areas. Ashfall forced the shutdown of La Aurora International Airport, the country's primary airport, where members of the Guatemalan military were deployed to remove ash off the runway; some flights were canceled, but the airport was able to reopen on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Eruption\nThe eruption produced an ash column approximately 15 kilometres (9.3\u00a0mi) in height. Pyroclastic flows\u2014fast-moving clouds of hot gas and volcanic matter\u2014caused many of the casualties and crop damage. INSIVUMEH, Guatemala's national institute of volcanology, warned on 4 June that further pyroclastic flows and lahars (volcanic mudflows) were possible. Heavy rainfall during the eruption led to the formation of dangerous lahars. Volcanic material buried several of the affected villages and cut off roadways. The poor weather and unpredictable lahars complicated the recovery operation, and all rescue efforts had to be suspended overnight on 3 June. The volcanic material also destroyed an estimated 21,000 acres (8,500 hectares) of corn, bean, and coffee crops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Eruption, Continued June eruptions\nOn 5 June, a second eruption occurred and prompted additional evacuations. On 8 June, new volcanic flows prompted more evacuations of rescue workers and residents of the town of El Rodeo, who had recently returned to their homes and were told to leave once again. On 9 June, additional lahars prompted preventive evacuations in Santa Luc\u00eda Cotzumalguapa. Around 69 people died from the eruption, and air travel was postponed because of the ash cloud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Eruption, November eruption\nOn 18 November 2018, Volc\u00e1n de Fuego entered a new eruptive and violent phase that prompted preventive evacuations of approximately 4,000 people from communities near the volcano. CONRED issued a red alert in the area that closed main roads and suspended flights at the La Aurora International Airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Victims\nAt least 190 people were killed, 57 injured, and 256 remained missing as of 30 July 2018\u2014including a number of children, a CONRED officer, firefighters, and a policeman\u2014although local residents estimate that approximately 2,000 people are buried and a local organization said that up to 2,900 may have died. Due to the intense heat and burn injuries, many bodies were planned to be identified with anthropological methods and DNA. As of 18 June 2018, up to 159 cases entered the morgues, with 85 of the victims having been identified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Victims, Animals\nAnimals such as dogs, cats, chickens, monkeys, donkeys and other species were found by rescuers with burns or blinded by the eruption. In many cases urgent veterinary care was required to treat eye infections, respiratory problems, and burns caused by dust, hot ash and gas from the eruption. In one heartbreaking instance, a dog led rescuers towards its destroyed owners' home, where his owner, and the rest of people in the house, had been killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Response\nFormer President Jimmy Morales ordered three days of national mourning in response to the disaster and visited some of the affected towns and villages in person on 4 June. Messages of support, solidarity, and offers of assistance were given by various world leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Response\nThe Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducci\u00f3n de Desastres (CONRED), Guatemala's disaster relief agency, reported that more than 1.7\u00a0million people have been affected by the eruption and its ashfall. A state of emergency was declared in the departments of Escuintla, Chimaltenango, and Sacatep\u00e9quez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Response\nOrganizations such as GoFundMe, Cruz Roja Guatemalteca, and The National Federation of Cooperatives are being used to raise physical and monetary donations to be dispersed to those affected by the eruption. GoFundMe created a centralized hub for all verified campaigns that are providing aid to those affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Response\nSeverely wounded individuals are scheduled to receive medical attention in the United States and Mexico, and an emergency medical team from Shriners Hospitals for Children would travel from the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Response, Recovery\nThe Guatemalan Mountain Rescue Brigade were already searching for a missing person when they suddenly realized that the volcano's activity had increased. Firefighters have been deployed in order to help evacuate residents and recover bodies. Family members who grew tired of waiting for organized efforts by the government organized their own groups of recovery operations and defied police roadblocks to dig at the debris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Response, Recovery\nA member of a firefighter support organization stated, \"Basically there's no houses left, and to my assumption there's nobody left there... except the people doing the search and rescue.\" A volunteer firefighter added that the ground was very unstable and that breathing was difficult and firefighters' boot soles had been torn off because of the heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Response, Recovery\nFirefighters have stated that after 72 hours the chance of finding anyone alive would be nonexistent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283538-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Volc\u00e1n de Fuego eruption, Controversy\nOn 7 June, opposition politician Mario Taracena, in an address to Congress, accused the executive secretary of the National Coordination for Disaster Reduction (CONRED) of mismanaging the disaster warnings. The director of the National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology also came under criticism for mismanagement and lack of warnings, a claim they refuted. Taracena also called for a government investigation into potential criminal negligence. A lawmaker told reporters that seismologists warned of the eruption eight hours before the main eruption, however, three hours later the national disaster agency CONRED called for voluntary evacuations only. Mandatory evacuations were ordered at 3pm local time, after some communities were already covered by volcanic flow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 844]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283539-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta Limburg Classic\nThe 2018 Volta Limburg Classic was the 45th edition of the Volta Limburg Classic cycle race and was held on 31 March 2018. The race started and finished in Eijsden. The race was won by Jan Tratnik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283539-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta Limburg Classic, Teams\nTwenty-four teams were invited to take part in the race. These included one UCI WorldTour team, nine UCI Professional Continental teams and fourteen UCI Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283540-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Catalunya\nThe 2018 Volta a Catalunya was a road cycling stage race that took place between 19 and 25 March 2018 in Spain. It was the 98th edition of the Volta a Catalunya and the ninth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283540-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Catalunya\nFor the second year in a row, and for the third time in his career, the race was won by Movistar Team rider Alejandro Valverde. Valverde won the second and fourth stages during the race, taking the race lead \u2013 and the mountains jersey as well \u2013 for good after his second stage victory. He finished 29 seconds clear of his nearest rival, team-mate Nairo Quintana, after Quintana's Colombian compatriot Egan Bernal (Team Sky) crashed out of the race on the final day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283540-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Volta a Catalunya\nThe podium was completed by AG2R La Mondiale's Pierre Latour, a further 18 seconds in arrears of Quintana; Bernal's withdrawal also allowed Latour to claim the young rider classification. The other jersey on offer for the sprints classification was claimed by Llu\u00eds Mas (Caja Rural\u2013Seguros RGA), while the Movistar Team won the teams classification, after placing a third rider \u2013 Marc Soler \u2013 in the top-five overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283540-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Catalunya\nBefore the start of the last stage, the women's reVolta was organised for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283540-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Catalunya, Teams\nAs the Volta a Catalunya was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Seven UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton. Two of the Professional Continental teams, Burgos BH and Euskadi\u2013Murias, made their d\u00e9but at UCI World Tour level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283540-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Catalunya, Route\nThe full route of the 2018 Volta a Catalunya was announced on 12 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283540-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Catalunya, Route\nThe third stage, initially due to be held over 199.2\u00a0km (124\u00a0mi) between Sant Cugat del Vall\u00e8s and Vallter 2000\u2013Setcases, was shortened due to the threat of poor weather conditions. As a result, the stage was shortened to 153.2\u00a0km (95\u00a0mi), and the stage finish was moved to Camprodon. The sixth stage, initially due to be held over 194.2\u00a0km (121\u00a0mi) between Vielha\u2013Val d'Aran and Torrefarrera, was shortened due to heavy snow in the start location. As a result, the stage was shortened to 117\u00a0km (73\u00a0mi), and the stage start was moved to La Pobla de Segur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283540-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Catalunya, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Volta a Catalunya, four different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints; three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The leader of the general classification received a white and green jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Volta a Catalunya, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283540-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Catalunya, Classification leadership table\nThe second classification was the sprints classification, the leader of which was awarded a white and orange jersey. In the sprints classification, riders received points for finishing in the top three at intermediate sprint points during each stage. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a white and red jersey. Points for this classification were won by the first riders to the top of each categorised climb, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. Double points were also scheduled to be awarded at the summit finishes at Vallter 2000\u2013Setcases (special-category) and La Molina (first-category), however the Vallter 2000\u2013Setcases finish was removed due to the threat of poor weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283540-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Catalunya, Classification leadership table\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white and blue jersey. Only riders born after 1 January 1993 were eligible; the young rider best placed in the general classification was the leader of the young rider classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283541-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Portugal\nThe 2018 Volta a Portugal was the 80th edition of the Volta a Portugal cycle race and was held on 1 August to 12 August 2018. The race started in Set\u00fabal and finished in Fafe. Ra\u00fal Alarc\u00f3n end the race in first place. However, in March 2021, due to doping all his results obtained between 28 July 2015 and 21 October 2019 were cancelled, including 2018 Volta a Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283541-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Portugal, Stages\nStage 4 and queen stage, originally 171,4\u00a0km, was shortened 27\u00a0km due to extreme weather conditions. The passage through Torre was replaced by Penhas Douradas climb, also the Seia intermediate sprint was eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283541-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Portugal, Classification leadership\nThere were four main individual classifications being contested in the 2018 Volta a Portugal, as well a team, combination and national rider competition. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the general classification and was considered to be the overall winner of the Tour. The rider leading the classification wore a yellow jersey sponsored by Santander.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283541-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Portugal, Classification leadership\nSecond, there is a points classification, which awards a green jersey sponsored by Rubis G\u00e1s. In the points classification, cyclists receive points for finishing inside the top 10 in a stage apart from the prologue, and unlike in the points classification in the Tour de France, the winners of all stages (with the exception of the prologue) are awarded the same number of points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283541-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Volta a Portugal, Classification leadership\nFor winning a stage, a rider earns 25 points, with 20 for second, 16 for third, 13 for fourth, 10 for fifth, 8 for sixth, 6 for seventh, 4 for eight, 2 for ninth and a single point for 10th place. In addition, riders receive points for finishing in the top three at intermediate sprints during each stage \u2013 awarded on a 3\u20132\u20131 scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283541-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Portugal, Classification leadership\nThere is also a mountains classification, the leadership of which is marked by a blue jersey sponsored by Liberty Seguros. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification are won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb is categorised as either category S, 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283541-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Portugal, Classification leadership\nThe fourth jersey represents the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey sponsored by RTP. This is decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born on or after 1 January 1995 are eligible to be ranked in the classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283541-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Portugal, Classification leadership\nThere were also awards for the team classification, sponsored by EDP, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage are added together; the leading team at the end of the race is the team with the lowest total time. The number of stage victories and placings per team determined the outcome of a tie. The riders in the team that led this classification were identified with yellow number bibs on the back of their jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283541-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Portugal, Classification leadership\nThe next individual award was the combination (Kombinado) classification. A rider's ranking in the combination classification was determined by tallying up his positions in the general, points and mountains classifications. If no rider was classified in all three classifications, riders classified in two would have been considered, and if that was tied the general classification will decide the winner. This classification was sponsored by Kia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283541-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Portugal, Classification leadership\nThe seven and final award represents the classification for Portuguese riders and was sponsored by Jogos Santa Casa. This is decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born in Portugal are eligible to be ranked in the classification. Like the combination award this is only presented on the podium and is not worn in race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283541-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a Portugal, Classification leadership\nA total of \u20ac128,790 was awarded in cash prizes in the race. The overall winner of the general classification received \u20ac16,045, with the second and third placed riders getting \u20ac8,115 and \u20ac3,985 respectively. All finishers in the top 20 were awarded with money. The final winners of the points, mountains, young rider, combination and best Portuguese rider classifications were given \u20ac1,500. The team classification winners were awarded a trophy. \u20ac3,060 was given to the winners of each stage of the race, apart from the prologue where the winner was given \u20ac1,490, with smaller amounts given to places 2\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283542-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana\nThe 69th edition of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (English: Tour of the Valencian Community) was held from 31 January to 4 February 2018. It was run over five stages, of which one team time trial, covering a total distance of 691.8 km. It was a 2.1 event of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour. The race was run entirely in the autonomous community of Valencia, starting in Orpesa and finishing in Valencia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283542-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana\nThe race was won by Spaniard Alejandro Valverde of Movistar Team, who also won two stages. Luis Le\u00f3n S\u00e1nchez was second, Jakob Fuglsang third. Valverde's overall win was his third in the race after 2004 and 2007, which made him the recordholder of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283542-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, Teams\nTwenty-five teams started the race. Each team had a maximum of seven riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283543-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta ao Alentejo\nThe 2018 Volta ao Alentejo\u2013Cr\u00e9dito Arg\u00edcola was 36th edition of the Volta ao Alentejo cycle race and was held on 14 March to 18 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283544-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta ao Algarve\nThe 2018 Volta ao Algarve was a road cycling stage race that took place in the Algarve region of Portugal between 14 and 18 February 2018. It was the 44th edition of the Volta ao Algarve and was rated as a 2.HC event as part of the UCI Europe Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283544-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta ao Algarve, Teams\nTwenty-five teams participated in the race: 13 UCI WorldTeams, 3 UCI Professional Continental teams and 9 UCI Continental teams, forming a field of 173 riders. Each team had a maximum of seven riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283544-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta ao Algarve, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Volta ao Algarve, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints and at the finish of mass-start stages, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Volta ao Algarve, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283544-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta ao Algarve, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a red jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a mass-start stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 25\u00a0points, with 20 for second, 16 for third, 13 for fourth, 10 for fifth, 8 for sixth, 6 for seventh, 4 for eighth, 2 for ninth and 1 for tenth place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a blue jersey. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283544-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Volta ao Algarve, Classification leadership table\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1995 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283545-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Volvo Car Open\nThe 2018 Volvo Car Open was a women's tennis event on the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place between April 2 \u2013 8, 2018 and was the 46th edition of the Charleston Open tournament and a Premier level tournament. The event took place at the Family Circle Tennis Center, on Daniel Island, Charleston, United States. It was the only event of the clay court season played on green clay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283545-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Volvo Car Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283546-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Volvo Car Open \u2013 Doubles\nBethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 were the defending champions, but \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 did not participate due to illness. Mattek-Sands played alongside Andrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1, but lost in the quarterfinals to Alla Kudryavtseva and Katarina Srebotnik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283546-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Volvo Car Open \u2013 Doubles\nKudryavtseva and Srebotnik went on to win the title, defeating Andreja Klepa\u010d and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283547-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Volvo Car Open \u2013 Singles\nDaria Kasatkina was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Julia G\u00f6rges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283547-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Volvo Car Open \u2013 Singles\nKiki Bertens won the title, despite being a match point down in the third set of her semifinal clash with Madison Keys. Bertens beat G\u00f6rges in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283547-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Volvo Car Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283547-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Volvo Car Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283548-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Voronin Cup\nThe 2018 Mikhail Voronin Cup took place on December 12\u201313 in Moscow, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283549-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Voyager Media Awards\nThe 2018 Voyager Media Awards (previously the Canon Media Awards) were presented on 11 May 2018 at Cordis, Auckland, New Zealand. Awards were made in the categories of digital, feature writing, general, magazines, newspapers, opinion writing, photography, reporting and videography.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283550-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda\nThe 2018 Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda was the 64th edition of the Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda cycle race and was held on 14 February to 18 February 2018. The race started in Mijas and finished in Barbate. The race was won by Tim Wellens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283550-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda, Teams\nTwenty two teams entered the race. Each team had a maximum of seven riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283551-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Asturias\nThe 2018 Vuelta a Asturias was the 61st edition of the Vuelta a Asturias cycling stage race, that took place over three stages from 27 to 29 2018. The defending champion was Ra\u00fal Alarc\u00f3n (W52\u2013FC Porto\u2013Mestre da Cor). Richard Carapaz (Movistar Team) won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283551-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Asturias, Teams\nA total of 15 teams will race in the 2018 Vuelta a Asturias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283551-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Asturias, Classification leadership table\nThe race included four principal classifications, the leaders of which were awarded jerseys. The leader in the general classification wore a blue jersey; the leader in the points classification wore a green jersey; the leader in the mountains classification wore a white jersey, while the leader of the intermediate sprints classification wore a black and white newspaper-style jersey sponsored by La Nueva Espa\u00f1a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283552-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Burgos\nThe 2018 Vuelta a Burgos was a men's road bicycle race which was held from 7 August to 11 August 2018. It is the 40th edition of the Vuelta a Burgos stage race, which was established in 1946. The race was rated as a 2.HC event and forms part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour. The race was made up of five stages. Iv\u00e1n Sosa of Androni Giocattoli\u2013Sidermec won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283552-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Burgos, Teams\nFifteen teams entered the race. Each team had a maximum of seven riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283553-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n\nThe 2018 Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n was the 33rd edition of the Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n cycle race and was held on 20 April to 22 April 2018. The race started in Alba de Tormes and finished in \u00c1vila. The race was won by Rub\u00e9n Plaza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283554-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe 2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a was a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race that took place in Spain between 25 August and 16 September 2018. The race was the 73rd edition of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and was the final Grand Tour of the 2018 cycling season. The race started in M\u00e1laga and finished in Madrid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283554-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe race was won by British rider Simon Yates from the team Mitchelton\u2013Scott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283554-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Pre-race favourites\nFour former winners started the race; Nairo Quintana, Alejandro Valverde (both from Movistar Team), Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain\u2013Merida) and Fabio Aru (UAE Team Emirates). The other riders considered contenders for the general classification were Richie Porte (BMC Racing Team), Simon Yates (Mitchelton\u2013Scott), Miguel \u00c1ngel L\u00f3pez (Astana), Micha\u0142 Kwiatkowski (Team Sky), Wilco Kelderman (Team Sunweb), Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL\u2013Jumbo), Thibaut Pinot (Groupama\u2013FDJ) and Rigoberto Ur\u00e1n (EF Education First\u2013Drapac p/b Cannondale).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283554-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nThe Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a had four individual classifications, for which jerseys were awarded daily to the leading rider, as well as a team competition. The primary classification was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded at the end of every stage apart from the two individual time trials. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the leader of the general classification, and wears the red jersey. The leader of the general classification at the end of the race was considered the overall winner of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283554-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nThe second classification was the points classification. Riders received points for finishing among the highest placed in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints during the stage. The points available for each stage finish were determined by the stage's type. The leader was identified by a green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283554-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nThe next classification was the mountains classification. Points were awarded to the riders that reached the summit of the most difficult climbs first. The climbs were categorized, in order of increasing difficulty, third-, second-, and first- and special-category. The leader wore a white jersey with blue polka dots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283554-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nThe final of the individual classifications was the combination classification. A rider's ranking in the combination classification was determined by tallying up his positions in the general, points, and mountains classifications. The leader wore a white jersey. If no rider was classified in all three classifications, riders classified in two would have been considered, and if that was tied the general classification will decide the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283554-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nThere was also the team classification. After each stage, the times of the three highest finishers of each team are added together. The victory was awarded to the team with the lowest cumulative time at the end of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283554-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nIn addition, there were two individual awards: the combativity award and the young rider award. The combativity award was given after each stage to the rider \"who displayed the most generouseffort and best sporting spirit.\" The daily winner wore a green number bib the following stage. At the end of the Vuelta, a jury decides the top three riders for the \u201cMost Combative Rider ofLa Vuelta\u201d, with a public vote deciding the victor. The young rider award is calculated the same way as the general classification, but the classification was restricted to riders who were born on or after 1 January 1993. The leader wore a red number bib.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283554-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nA total of \u20ac1,120,000 will be awarded in cash prizes in the race. The overall winner of the general classification will receive \u20ac150,335, with the second and third placed riders getting \u20ac57,000 and \u20ac30,000 respectively. All finishers in the top 20 were awarded with money. The holders of the four individual classifications benefited on each stage they led. The final winners of the points and combined were given \u20ac11,000, while the mountains classification got \u20ac23,100 and the most combative rider got \u20ac3,000. The team classification winners were given \u20ac12,500. \u20ac11,000 was given to the winners of each stage of the race, with smaller amounts given to places 2\u201320. There was also a special award with a prize of \u20ac1,000, the Cima Alberto Fern\u00e1ndez, given to first rider to reach the summit of the highest mountain of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 874]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11\nThe 2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a was the 73rd edition of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Vuelta began in M\u00e1laga, with an individual time trial on 25 August, and Stage 11 occurred on 5 September with a stage to Ribeira Sacra/Lu\u00edntra. The race finished in Madrid on 16 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1\n25 August 2018 \u2014 M\u00e1laga to M\u00e1laga, 8\u00a0km (5.0\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2\n26 August 2018 \u2014 Marbella to Caminito del Rey, 163.9\u00a0km (101.8\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2\nThe stage departed west and then north from Marbella, passing over the category 2 Puerto de Oj\u00e9n at 555\u00a0m (1,821\u00a0ft) and descending through Co\u00edn. The route turned west and then north to Alozaina, then east through Zalea to Pizarra. The race then turned north to El Chorro, then west to the first climb of the category 3 Alto de Guadalhorce, and then passed through the finish line for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2\nThe route then wound north before turning back south and passing over the category 3 Alto de Ardales, and descended south to start the second pass of the route east from Zalea. The race had an intermediate sprint at Pizarra, before continuing north to El Chorro and turning west for the final climb of the category 3 Alto de Guadalhorce. The finish, about 2\u00a0km (1.2\u00a0mi) west of the actual Caminito del Rey, then followed within a few hundred metres of the final climb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3\n27 August 2018 \u2014 Mijas to Alhaur\u00edn de la Torre, 182.5\u00a0km (113.4\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4\n28 August 2018 \u2014 V\u00e9lez-M\u00e1laga to Alfacar, 162\u00a0km (101\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5\n29 August 2018 \u2014 Granada to Roquetas de Mar, 188\u00a0km (117\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6\n30 August 2018 \u2014 Hu\u00e9rcal-Overa to San Javier, 153\u00a0km (95\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7\n31 August 2018 \u2014 Puerto Lumbreras to Pozo Alc\u00f3n, 182\u00a0km (113\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8\n1 September 2018 \u2014 Linares to Almad\u00e9n, 195.5\u00a0km (121.5\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\n2 September 2018 \u2014 Talavera de la Reina to La Covatilla, 195\u00a0km (121\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Rest day 1\nDan Martin retired from the race on the first rest day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\n4 September 2018 \u2014 Salamanca to Fermoselle, 172.5\u00a0km (107.2\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283555-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11\n5 September 2018 \u2014 Mombuey to Ribeira Sacra/Lu\u00edntra, 207.8\u00a0km (129.1\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283556-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21\nThe 2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a is the 73rd edition of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Vuelta began in M\u00e1laga, with an individual time trial on 25 August, and Stage 12 occurred on 6 September with a stage from Mondo\u00f1edo. The race finishes in Madrid on 16 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283556-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\n6 September 2018 \u2014 Mondo\u00f1edo to Punta de Estaca de Bares, 177.5\u00a0km (110.3\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283556-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13\n7 September 2018 \u2014 Cand\u00e1s to La Camperona, 175.5\u00a0km (109.1\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283556-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14\n8 September 2018 \u2014 Cistierna to Les Praeres de Nava, 167\u00a0km (104\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283556-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15\n9 September 2018 \u2014 Ribera de Arriba to Lagos de Covadonga, 185.5\u00a0km (115.3\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283556-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\n11 September 2018 \u2014 Santillana del Mar to Torrelavega, 32.7\u00a0km (20.3\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283556-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\nRohan Dennis retired from the race after his win on Stage 16 to focus on the 2018 World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283556-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17\n12 September 2018 \u2014 Getxo to Oiz, 166.4\u00a0km (103.4\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283556-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18\n13 September 2018 \u2014 Ejea de los Caballeros to Lleida, 180.5\u00a0km (112.2\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283556-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19\n14 September 2018 \u2014 Lleida to Naturlandia, 157\u00a0km (98\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283556-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20\n15 September 2018 \u2014 Escaldes-Engordany to Coll de la Gallina, 105.8\u00a0km (65.7\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283556-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21\n16 September 2018 \u2014 Alcorc\u00f3n to Madrid, 112.3\u00a0km (69.8\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283557-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a Murcia\nThe 2018 Vuelta a Murcia was the 38th edition of the Vuelta a Murcia cycle race and was held on 10 February 2018. The race started in Beniel and finished in Murcia. The race was won by Luis Le\u00f3n S\u00e1nchez of the Astana Pro Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283558-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a San Juan\nThe 2018 Vuelta a San Juan was a road cycling stage race that took place in the San Juan Province of Argentina between 21 and 28 January 2018. The race was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2018 UCI America Tour, and was the 36th edition of the Vuelta a San Juan. Initially, the race was won by Gonzalo Najar, who was later disqualified for a failed doping test. The result was then given to the rider originally in second place, \u00d3scar Sevilla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283558-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Vuelta a San Juan, Teams\nTwenty-seven teams started the race. Each team had a maximum of seven riders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283559-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 V\u00e4rmland regional election\nV\u00e4rmland County or Region V\u00e4rmland held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283559-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 V\u00e4rmland regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 81 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 28, a drop of three from 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283560-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 V\u00e4sterbotten regional election\nV\u00e4sterbotten County or Region V\u00e4sterbotten held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283560-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 V\u00e4sterbotten regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 71 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 26, a drop of four from 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283561-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 V\u00e4sternorrland regional election\nV\u00e4sternorrland County or Region V\u00e4sternorrland held regional council elections on 9 September 2018 on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283561-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 V\u00e4sternorrland regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 77 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 28, a drop of ten from in 2014. The party especially lost a lot of ground in Sollefte\u00e5 following the closure of the childbirth unit of the local hospital, going from 47.6\u00a0% to 14\u00a0%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283562-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 V\u00e4stmanland regional election\nV\u00e4stmanland County or Region V\u00e4stmanland held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283562-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 V\u00e4stmanland regional election, Results\nThe number of seats remained at 77 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 27, a drop of three from 2014. Among the traditional national blocs, the leftist parties received 44.0% and the centre-right parties 40.2%. Since the Green Party did not receive enough votes to gain seats, the seat share was the much closer 33\u201332.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283563-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 V\u00e5lerenga Fotball season\nThe 2018 season was V\u00e5lerenga's 17th consecutive year in the top flight now known as Eliteserien. They finished sixth in the Eliteserien and reached the Quarterfinal's of the Cup where they were knocked out by Rosenborg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283563-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 V\u00e5lerenga Fotball season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283563-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 V\u00e5lerenga Fotball season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283564-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 W-League Grand Final\nThe 2018 W-League Grand Final was the final match of the 2017\u201318 W-League season and deciding the champions of women's football in Australia for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283564-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 W-League Grand Final\nThe match took place at Allianz Stadium in Sydney, Australia on 18 February 2018 and was played by Sydney FC and reigning league champions Melbourne City. The match was won by Melbourne City 0\u20132, who recorded their third consecutive league championship. At the time, the attendance of 6,025 was a record for W-League grand finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283565-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Western Athletic Conference for the 2017\u201318 season. All tournament games will be played at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada, from March 8\u201310, 2018. The winner of the tournament will receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Regular-season champion New Mexico State also won the WAC Tournament championship and received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283565-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll eight teams in the WAC were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283566-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WAC Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 WAC Men's Soccer Tournament was the 11th edition of the tournament. It determined the Western Athletic Conference's automatic berth into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283566-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WAC Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe defending champions were Seattle U. However, they were unable to defend their title, falling 5\u20136 in a penalty shootout against San Jose State in the semifinals. The eventual champions were the Grand Canyon Antelopes, who won the tournament after a 1\u20130 victory over San Jose State in the final. This was the first WAC men's soccer title for Grand Canyon, and the first for coach Schellas Hyndman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283566-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WAC Men's Soccer Tournament, Background\nSeattle U won their third WAC title, defeating San Jose State, 2\u20131 in the championship game. With the win, Seattle U surpassed UNLV and Fresno State with the most WAC Tournament titles. With the berth, Seattle U earned an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. There, they upset city-rivals, Washington, in the first round, before falling to Akron in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283567-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WAC Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 WAC Women's Basketball Tournament was a tournament which was on held on March 7\u201310, 2018 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. Seattle the winner of the WAC Tournament earns an automatic trip to the 2018 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283568-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WAC Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2018 Western Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Western Athletic Conference held from October 31 to November 4, 2018. The five match tournament took place at Clyde Field in Orem, Utah on the campus of Utah Valley University. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the Utah Valley Wolverines , but they failed to defend their title after losing 3\u20130 to the UMKC Kangaroos in the semifinals. The tournament champions were the Seattle Redhawks, who defeated UMKC 1\u20130 in the final. This was the fourth WAC women's soccer tournament championship for the Seattle women's soccer program, all of which have come under head coach Julie Woodward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 851]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283569-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFF U-16 Championship\nThe 2018 WAFF U-16 Championship is the fifth edition of the WAFF Youth Competition. The previous edition was an Under-16 age group competition held in Jordan in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283570-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFF U-18 Women's Championship\nThe 2018 WAFF U-18 Women's Championship was the 1st edition of the WAFF U-18 Women's Championship, the international women's football youth championship of Western Asia organised by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF). It was held in Bhamdoun, Lebanon from 28 August to 1 September 2018. The tournament was won by Jordan, with Lebanon coming in second place and Palestine in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283570-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFF U-18 Women's Championship, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 11 goals scored in 3 matches, for an average of 3.67 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283571-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFL season\nThe 2018 WAFL season (officially the 2018 McDonald\u2019s WAFL Premiership Season) is the 134th season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The season commenced on 30 March 2018 and concluded with the 2018 WAFL Grand Final on 22 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283572-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU Zone B U-20 Tournament\nThe 2018 WAFU Zone B U-20 Tournament is the first edition of the international Zone B U-20 men's football event for teams under the West African Football Union. The competition was hosted by Togo in December 2018 in One match venues. The organizers of the tournament, said it will run from 6-16 December 2018 which will feature eight teams were drawn in two groups of four. WAFU Zone B member teams were Ivory Coast, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria and Benin. Mali (from Zone A) replaced C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, who had withdrawn before the tournament. Mali (from Zone A) replaced C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, who had withdrawn before the tournament, and Senegal (from Zone A) were invited to make the numbers up to eight. The tournament was won by Senegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283572-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU Zone B U-20 Tournament, Draw\nThe WAFU B U-20 Tournament draw ceremony was held in Lom\u00e9 ON 12 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 38], "content_span": [39, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283572-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU Zone B U-20 Tournament, Draw, Player eligibility\nPlayers born 1 January 1998 or later are eligible to participate in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283572-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU Zone B U-20 Tournament, Group stage\nThe top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283572-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU Zone B U-20 Tournament, Group stage\nTeams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283572-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU Zone B U-20 Tournament, Awards\nThe Golden Ball is awarded to the best player of the tournament. The Best Goalkeeper is awarded to the best goalkeeper of the tournament. The Golden Shoe is awarded to the top scorer of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283573-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU Zone B Women's Cup\nThe 2018 WAFU Zone B Women's Cup was the maiden edition of the international women's football event for teams from Zone B of the West African Football Union (WAFU). The competition was hosted by Ivory Coast at three match venues. Ghana defeated Ivory Coast in the final, making them simultaneously champions of both the men's and women's regional tournaments. Portia Boakye was the top scorer with four goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283573-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU Zone B Women's Cup, Draw\nThe draw was held on 9 January in Abidjan. Six of WAFU's Zone B members entered a team (Benin did not enter), with Mali and Senegal (from Zone A) being invited to make up the numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 34], "content_span": [35, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283574-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU/FOX U-20 Tournament\nThe 2018 WAFU/FOX U-20 Tournament was the first edition of the international U-20 men's football event for teams under the West African Football Union. The competition will be hosted by Liberia in April to May 2018 in two match venues. The organizers of the tournament, which is sponsored by FOX Sports, said it will run from April 24, to May 6, 2018 in Monrovia and will feature eight of the nine countries in WAFU Zone A who have confirmed their participation in the zonal youth championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283574-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU/FOX U-20 Tournament\nHost Liberia, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone make up Group A whilst Senegal, Mali, Gambia and Guinea complete Group B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283574-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU/FOX U-20 Tournament\nMatches will be held at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Stadium and the Antoinette Tubman Stadium, both in Monrovia, Liberia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283574-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU/FOX U-20 Tournament, Draw, Player eligibility\nPlayers born 1 January 1998 or later are eligible to participate in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283574-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU/FOX U-20 Tournament, Group stage\nThe top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283574-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WAFU/FOX U-20 Tournament, Group stage\nTeams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283575-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WCBA Playoffs\nThe 2018 WCBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the 2017\u201318 season. It began on January 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283575-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WCBA Playoffs\nTeams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding, and the numbers to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round. Teams with home court advantage are shown in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283576-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2018 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 2 and March 17, 2018, on campus locations. By winning the tournament, Michigan Tech was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283576-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe first two rounds of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. The top eight conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standings, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The higher seeded teams each earned home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283576-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe final was a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283576-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283577-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WCT Arctic Cup\nThe 2018 WCT Arctic Cup, a mixed doubles curling event on the World Curling Tour, was held May 24 to 27 at the Taimyr Ice Arena in Dudinka, Russia. It was the final event of the 2017\u201318 curling season. The total purse for the event was $US 20,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283577-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WCT Arctic Cup\nIn the final, the duo of Rachel Homan from Canada and Niklas Edin from Sweden defeated the Scottish pair of Gina Aitken and Duncan Menzies 7\u20136 to claim the championship title. Maria Komarova and Daniil Goriachev from Russia secured third place in the tournament with an 8\u20133 victory over Zuzana H\u00e1jkov\u00e1 and Tom\u00e1\u0161 Paul from Czech Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283577-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WCT Arctic Cup, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Krasnoyarsk Standard Time (UTC+07:00).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283578-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WFG Tankard\nThe 2018 WFG Tankard, the Quebec men's provincial curling championship was held from February 4 to 11 at the Glenmore Curling Club in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec. The winning Mike Fournier team represented Quebec at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier in Regina, Saskatchewan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283579-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational\nThe 2018 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational was a professional golf tournament held August 2\u20135 on the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. It was the 20th WGC-Bridgestone Invitational tournament, and the third of the World Golf Championships events in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283579-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Venue, Course layout\nThe South Course was designed by Bert Way and redesigned by Robert Trent Jones in 1960.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283579-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field\nThe field consisted of players drawn primarily from the Official World Golf Ranking and the winners of the worldwide tournaments with the strongest fields.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283579-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field\nDaniel Berger (2,3), Kevin Chappell (2,3), Jason Day (2,3,4), Rickie Fowler (2,3), Branden Grace (2,3,4), Emiliano Grillo, Charley Hoffman (2,3), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Kim Si-woo, Kevin Kisner (2,3), Brooks Koepka (2,3,4), Matt Kuchar (2,3), Anirban Lahiri, Marc Leishman (2,3,4), Hideki Matsuyama (2,3,4), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4), Louis Oosthuizen (2,3), Patrick Reed (2,3,4), Charl Schwartzel (2,3), Adam Scott, Jordan Spieth (2,3), Justin Thomas (2,3,4), Jhonattan Vegas", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283579-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field\nKiradech Aphibarnrat (3), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (3), Patrick Cantlay (3,4), Paul Casey (3,4), Bryson DeChambeau (3,4), Tony Finau (3), Ross Fisher (3), Matthew Fitzpatrick (3,4), Tommy Fleetwood (3,4), Sergio Garc\u00eda (3,4), Brian Harman (3), Tyrrell Hatton (3,4), Zach Johnson, Satoshi Kodaira (3,4), Li Haotong (3,4), Luke List (3), Rory McIlroy (3,4), Francesco Molinari (3,4), Kevin Na (3,4), Alex Nor\u00e9n (3,4), Pat Perez (3,4), Ian Poulter (3,4), Jon Rahm (3,4), Xander Schauffele (3,4), Webb Simpson (3,4), Cameron Smith (3,5), Kyle Stanley (3), Henrik Stenson (3,4), Bubba Watson (3,4), Gary Woodland (3,4), Tiger Woods (3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283579-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field\nAlexander Bj\u00f6rk, Austin Cook, Paul Dunne, Patton Kizzire, Russell Knox, Andrew Landry, Thorbj\u00f8rn Olesen, Wade Ormsby, Ted Potter Jr., Shubhankar Sharma, Brendan Steele, Brandon Stone, Aaron Wise", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283579-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Round summaries, First round\nIan Poulter shot an 8-under-par 62 to lead by one stroke over Rickie Fowler and Kyle Stanley. Defending champion Hideki Matsuyama was 5 strokes back at \u22123. Tiger Woods, eight-time winner of the event, was 4 strokes back at \u22124. His last PGA Tour win was at the 2013 event. The scoring average of 68.37 was the lowest opening round of a PGA Tour event this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283580-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play\nThe 2018 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play was the 20th WGC Match Play, played March 21\u201325 at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. It was the second of four World Golf Championships in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283580-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Field\nThe field consisted of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Ranking on March 11. However, the seedings were based on the World Rankings on March 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283580-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Field\nJustin Rose (ranked 5th on March 12, personal reasons), Rickie Fowler (7th, personal reasons), Brooks Koepka (8th, wrist injury), Henrik Stenson (15th, personal reasons), Adam Scott (56th, personal reasons), and Joost Luiten (67th, wrist injury) did not compete, allowing entry for Kevin Na (ranked 65th), Charles Howell III (66th), Keegan Bradley (68th), Luke List (69th), and Julian Suri (70th).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283580-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Format\nIn 2014 and earlier editions, the championship was a single elimination match play event. A new format was introduced in 2015, and the championship now starts with pool play, with 16 groups of four players playing round-robin matches, on Wednesday through Friday. The top 16 seeded players are allocated to the 16 groups, one in each group. The remaining 48 players are placed into three pools (seeds 17\u201332, seeds 33\u201348, seeds 49\u201364). Each group has one player randomly selected from each pool to complete the group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283580-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Format\nAll group play matches are limited to 18 holes with one point awarded for a win and one-half point for a halved match. Only one player advances to the weekend from each of the 16 groupings. After all 3 rounds are played, if 2 or more players are tied for first place in their group, then they play a sudden-death stroke play playoff, beginning on hole 1 and moving beyond if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283580-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Format\nThe winners of each group advance to a single-elimination bracket on the weekend, with the round of 16 and quarterfinals on Saturday, and the semi-finals, finals, and consolation match on Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283580-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Format\nRank \u2013 Official World Golf Ranking on March 19, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283580-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Results, Pool play\nPlayers were divided into 16 groups of four players and played round-robin matches Wednesday to Friday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283581-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-HSBC Champions\nThe 2018 WGC-HSBC Champions was a golf tournament played from 25\u201328 October 2018 at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, China. It was the tenth WGC-HSBC Champions tournament, and the fourth of four World Golf Championships events held in the 2018 calendar year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283581-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-HSBC Champions\nXander Schauffele beat Tony Finau at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff after making a birdie 4 to Finau's par 5. Defending champion Justin Rose finished third, four strokes behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283581-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nThe following is a list of players who qualified for the 2018 WGC-HSBC Champions. The criteria is towards the leaders in points lists rather than tournament winners. Players who qualified from multiple categories will be listed in the first category in which they are eligible with the other qualifying categories in parentheses next to the player's name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283581-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nAn Byeong-hun, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (5), Keegan Bradley (4), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (5), Patrick Cantlay (4), Paul Casey (4), Jason Day (4), Tony Finau (4), Matthew Fitzpatrick (5), Tommy Fleetwood (4,5), Branden Grace, Brian Harman, Tyrrell Hatton (5), Charley Hoffman, Billy Horschel (4), Dustin Johnson (4), Satoshi Kodaira, Hideki Matsuyama (4), Rory McIlroy (4,5), Kevin Na (4), Alex Nor\u00e9n (5), Thorbj\u00f8rn Olesen (5), Ian Poulter (5), Jon Rahm (4,5), Xander Schauffele (4,5), Adam Scott, Cameron Smith (4), Brandt Snedeker, Kyle Stanley (4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283581-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nEmiliano Grillo, Patton Kizzire, Pan Cheng-tsung, Andrew Putnam, Chez Reavie", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283581-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nLucas Bjerregaard, Alexander Bj\u00f6rk, Jorge Campillo, Ryan Fox, Russell Knox, Alexander L\u00e9vy, Li Haotong, Adri\u00e1n Otaegui, Thomas Pieters, Shubhankar Sharma, Brandon Stone, Andy Sullivan, Julian Suri, Matt Wallace", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283581-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nLiang Wenchong, Liu Yanwei, Wu Ashun, Xiao Bowen, Yuan Yechun, Zhang Xinjun", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283582-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Mexico Championship\nThe 2018 WGC-Mexico Championship was a golf tournament played March 1\u20134 at Club de Golf Chapultepec in Naucalpan, Mexico, just west of Mexico City. It was the 19th time the WGC Championship was played, and the first of the World Golf Championships events to be staged in 2018. The approximate elevation of the course's clubhouse is 2,400 meters (7,870\u00a0ft) above sea level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283582-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Mexico Championship\nPhil Mickelson won the tournament on the first playoff hole; it was his first tour victory in over 4\u00bd years, since The Open Championship in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283582-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Mexico Championship, Field\nThe field consisted of players from the top of the Official World Golf Ranking and the money lists/Orders of Merit from the six main professional golf tours. Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283582-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Mexico Championship, Field\nKiradech Aphibarnrat (2,5), Daniel Berger (2,3), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (2,5), Patrick Cantlay (2,3), Paul Casey (2,3), Kevin Chappell (2,3), Jason Dufner (2,3), Tony Finau (2,3,4), Ross Fisher (2,5,6), Matthew Fitzpatrick (2,5), Tommy Fleetwood (2,5,6), Rickie Fowler (2,3), Dylan Frittelli (2,5,6), Sergio Garc\u00eda (2,3,5), Branden Grace (2,5), Adam Hadwin (2,3), Brian Harman (2,3), Tyrrell Hatton (2,5), Charley Hoffman (2,3), Yuta Ikeda (2), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Kevin Kisner (2,3), Satoshi Kodaira (2,7), Matt Kuchar (2,3), Li Haotong (2,5,6), Marc Leishman (2,3), Phil Mickelson (2), Francesco Molinari (2,5), Alex Nor\u00e9n (2,5), Louis Oosthuizen (2), Pat Perez (2,3,4), Thomas Pieters (2,5), Jon Rahm (2,3,4,5), Chez Reavie (2,4), Patrick Reed (2,3), Justin Rose (2,3,5), Xander Schauffele (2,3), Charl Schwartzel (2), Webb Simpson (2,3), Jordan Spieth (2,3), Brendan Steele (2,4), Justin Thomas (2,3,4), Jhonattan Vegas (2,3), Bubba Watson (2), Gary Woodland (2,3,4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 1006]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283582-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Mexico Championship, Field\nJorge Campillo, Joost Luiten, Wade Ormsby, Chris Paisley, Shubhankar Sharma", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283582-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WGC-Mexico Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Playoff\nThe playoff started on the par-3 17th hole. From the tee, Thomas went past the green and Mickelson found the putting surface. Thomas left his difficult chip well short, Mickelson just missed his birdie putt and tapped in for par; Thomas missed the par putt he needed to extend the playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283583-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WK League\nThe 2018 WK League was the tenth season of the WK League, the top division of women's football in South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283583-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WK League\nIn the off-season, Icheon Daekyo ceased operations, while Changnyeong joined the league. Suwon FMC (Suwon Facilities Management Corporation) changed its name to Suwon UDC (Suwon Urban Development Corporation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283583-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WK League\nThe regular season began on 23 April 2018 and ended on 22 October 2018. Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels were the Champions, defending their 2017 title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283583-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WK League, Draft\nThe 2018 WK League Draft was held on 27 December 2017 at the Koreana Hotel in Seoul. The following players were picked:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283583-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WK League, Foreign players\nThe total number of foreign players was restricted to three per club, including a slot for a player from the Asian Football Confederation countries. Boeun Sangmu were not allowed to sign any foreign players because of their military status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283583-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WK League, Playoff and championship\nThe semi-final was contested between the 2nd and 3rd placed teams (Gyeongju KHNP and Suwon UDC) in the regular season. After defeating Suwon UDC 2\u20130, Gyeongju KHNP advanced to the two-legged final to face the 1st placed team (Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels) in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283583-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 WK League, Playoff and championship\nThe playoff is played one leg and championship final is played over two legs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283584-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA All-Star Game\nThe 2018 WNBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game played on July 28, 2018. The Minnesota Lynx hosted the WNBA All-Star Game for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283584-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA All-Star Game, Rosters, Selection\nOn June 5, the WNBA announced that 2018 would have a new roster selection format for the All-Star Game. Fans, WNBA players, head coaches, sports writers and broadcasters would all be able to vote for All Stars. Fans could vote for 10 players, while the groups vote for 22 players (9 guards and 13 front court players). Players and coaches cannot vote for members of their own team. Voting began on June 19, 2018 at 2 PM EDT, and ended on July 12, 2018 at 11:59 PM EDT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283584-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA All-Star Game, Rosters, Selection\nPlayers were not allowed to vote for their teammates. Head coaches could not vote for players on their own team. The top 22 players receiving votes based on this weighting would be selected to the All-Star Game. There would not be a restriction on number of players from one conference. The top two vote-getters would be captains of the two All-Star teams and select their teams from the pool of remaining 20 players. The 22 All-Stars were revealed on July 17, 2018. Rosters were revealed on July 19, 2018, during ESPN2's coverage of the Washington Mystics at the Dallas Wings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283584-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA All-Star Game, Rosters, Head coaches\nThe head coaches of the two teams will be the head coaches from the two WNBA teams with the best records following games on July 13. On July 12, 2018 the two teams with the best records were determined when the Dallas Wings defeated the Los Angeles Sparks. The Seattle Storm had the best record in the league and the Phoenix Mercury had the second best. Therefore, Dan Hughes was to coach the team captained by the highest All-Star vote getter (Team Delle Donne), and Sandy Brondello would be the coach of the team captained by the second highest All-Star vote getter (Team Parker).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283584-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA All-Star Game, Rosters, All-Star pool\nThe players for the All-Star Game were selected by the voting process described above. The 22 players that would participate in the All-Star Game were announced on July 17, 2018, on Sportscenter. Maya Moore and Elena Delle Donne were the two leading vote-getters and would be the captains of the two All-Star teams. Moore decline the role of captain, and president Lisa Borders named Candace Parker as the replacement captain, due to Parker being the next-leading vote-getter. The selections were led by the Western Conference, with 16 selections, while the Eastern Conference had six players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283584-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA All-Star Game, Rosters, Final rosters\nRosters as of July 25, 2018. Team rosters were announced on July 19, whereas the starters for each team were announced on July 27. Nneka Ogwumike was unable to play due to illness. Rebekkah Brunson was selected as Nneka Ogwumike's replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283584-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA All-Star Game, Three-Point Contest\nOn July 24, 2018, it was announced that the Three-Point Contest would return during halftime of the All-Star Game. For the second year in a row, the WNBA will donate $10,000 to a charity of the winner's choice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283584-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA All-Star Game, Three-Point Contest, Rules\nThe Three-Point Shootout is a two-round, timed competition in which five shooting locations are positioned around the three-point arc. Four racks contain four WNBA balls (each worth one point) and one \u201cmoney\u201d ball (worth two points). The fifth station is a special \u201call money ball\u201d rack, which each participant can place at any of the five locations. Every ball on this rack is worth two points. The players have one minute to shoot as many of the 25 balls as they can. The two competitors with the highest scores in the first round advance to the championship round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283584-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA All-Star Game, Three-Point Contest, Results\nAllie Quigly beat Kayla McBride in a tie breaker round, winning the 2018 WNBA three point contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283585-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Finals\nThe 2018 WNBA Finals was the best-of-five championship series for the 2018 season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). It featured the top-seeded Seattle Storm and the three-seeded Washington Mystics. The series began on September 7, 2018 and ended on September 12, 2018. After winning the first two games at home, the Storm went on the road and completed the 3\u20130 series sweep. It was the franchise's first title in eight years and third overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283585-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Finals, Summary\nThe Mystics' regular home of Capital One Arena was not available during the 2018 postseason due to renovations. The team had played its previous home playoff games at Charles Smith Center on the campus of George Washington University in Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood, but that venue would also be unavailable for the Finals due to scheduling issues. The team then moved its home Finals games to EagleBank Arena at George Mason University near Fairfax, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283585-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Finals, Summary, Game 1\nIn Game 1 of the WNBA Finals, Jewell Loyd came up big, leading the Storm in points and rebounds. Loyd scored 23 points on 9-of-12 shooting and regular season MVP Breanna Stewart added 20 points in a 13 point Storm win. The Storm went on a 16\u20134 run during the second quarter and never looked back. Seattle lead by as many as 27 in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283585-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Finals, Summary, Game 2\nGame 2 of the finals was a back and forth affair. In the first quarter, the Storm started quickly and held a 9 point lead. However, the Mystics came on strong in the second quarter and took a 4 point lead into halftime. The Storm cut the lead to 3 at the end of the third quarter and eventually prevailed in the final period. Seattle was now one win short of its third WNBA title. Since the WNBA Finals went to a best-of-five format in 2005, no team has gone down 0\u20132 and forced a game five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283585-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Finals, Summary, Game 3\nIn Game 3, Seattle dominated the first half, particularly in the second quarter. By halftime, the Storm held a 17 point lead. Washington showed life in the third quarter, pulling to within five points, but Seattle quickly responded with an 8\u20130 run to reclaim control. From there, the Storm put the finishing touches on their third title as Finals MVP Breanna Stewart finished with a series-high 30 points while Sue Bird managed 10 assists. Bird became the only player to have been a member of all three of the Storm's championship teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs\nThe 2018 WNBA Playoffs were the postseason tournament of the WNBA's 2018 season. The Seattle Storm won the team's third WNBA title, sweeping the Washington Mystics 3\u20130 in the best-of-five WNBA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Format\nFollowing the WNBA regular season, the top eight teams in the overall league standings, without regard to conference alignment, qualified for the playoffs and were seeded 1 to 8. Seedings were based strictly on regular-season record. The team with the best record received the #1 seed, the team with the next best record received the #2 seed, and so on. The top two seeds earned double byes (i.e., advanced directly to the semifinals), while the next two seeds received first-round byes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Format\nThese seedings were used to create a bracket that determines the matchups throughout the playoffs. The first round of the playoffs consisted of two matchups based on the seedings (5-8 and 6-7). The two winners advanced to the second round with a matchup between the number 3 seed and the lower of the advancing seeds and another matchup between the number 4 seed and the other first round winner. The winners of the first two rounds advanced to the semifinals, where the lower-ranked seed of the winners faces the number 1 seed, with the other remaining team facing the number 2 seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Format\nThe first two rounds were single-elimination games played on the higher ranking seed's home court. The semifinals and WNBA Finals are best-of-five series played in a 2-2-1 format, meaning the team with home-court advantage (better record) hosts games 1, 2, and 5 while their opponent hosts games 3 and 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, First Round, Mercury vs. Wings\nThe first matchup of the first round saw #5 seed Phoenix Mercury host the #8 seed Dallas Wings. The Mercury won their last 4 regular season games, all at home, to finish the season with a 20\u201314 record. The Wings won their last 2 regular season games to make the playoffs and finish with a 15\u201319 record. These two games snapped a 9-game losing streak. The Wings made the playoffs by 1 game over the Las Vegas Aces and are the only team in the playoffs with a below .500 regular season record. Phoenix won the regular season series 2\u20131, with the home team winning 2 out of the 3 matchups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 71], "content_span": [72, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, First Round, Mercury vs. Wings\nThe game was evenly poised headed into halftime, with the Mercury making a three-pointer at the buzzer to make the score 53\u201349 in their favor. However, the Mercury opened up a double-digit lead in the third quarter, when they made six three point field goals. Diana Taurasi of the Mercury improved to 12\u20130 in single elimination games in her career with the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 71], "content_span": [72, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, First Round, Sparks vs. Lynx\nThe second matchup of the first round saw #6 seed Los Angeles Sparks host the #7 seed Minnesota Lynx. The Sparks lost 4 of their last 5 regular season games, to finish the season with a 19\u201315 record. The Lynx lost three of their last four regular-season games to finish the season with an 18\u201316 record. This was a rematch of the 2016 WNBA Finals, which the Lynx won 3\u20132. The Sparks won the regular season series between the teams 3\u20131, with the home team winning 3 of the 4 matchups. This will mark the 4th straight year these teams have met in the playoffs, with the last two being in the WNBA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 69], "content_span": [70, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, First Round, Sparks vs. Lynx\nIn Lindsay Whalen's final WNBA game, the Lynx game up short, losing 68\u201375. The Sparks held a three-point lead at halftime and never looked back. With 1:56 remaining Maya Moore missed consecutive free throws, and Chelsea Gray sank a jumper at the other end to make the lead 5 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 69], "content_span": [70, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Second Round, Mystics vs. Sparks\nThe first matchup of the second round saw the #3 seed Washington Mystics host the #6 seed Los Angeles Sparks. The Mystics finished the regular season on an 8\u20131 run to end with an overall 22\u201312 record. With the Mystics earning a first-round bye, they entered the game on three days of rest, having finished the regular season on August 19. By contrast, the Sparks had to fly to the East Coast for their season finale at Connecticut, return home for their first-round game against Minnesota, and make another cross-country flight for this game. The Mystics won the regular season series 2\u20131, with the home team winning 1 out of the 3 matchups. This game also featured the two winningest coaches in WNBA history: Mike Thibault (Mystics) and Brian Agler (Sparks).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 73], "content_span": [74, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Second Round, Mystics vs. Sparks\nThe Mystics eased to a 96\u201364 win behind six double-figure scorers, led by a double-double from Elena Delle Donne. Due to renovations to Capital One Arena, the team announced that it would move all of its potential home playoff games to the Charles Smith Center on the campus of George Washington University in Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 73], "content_span": [74, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Second Round, Sun vs. Mercury\nThe first matchup of the second round saw #4 seed Connecticut Sun host the #5 seed Phoenix Mercury. The Sun won 9 of their last 10 regular season games, to finish the season with a 21\u201313 record. The Sun have been resting since August 19, by earning a first round bye. The Sun finished the season tied for the league's best home record at 13\u20134. The Mercury won their match-up in the first round to make it to this game. Mercury won the regular season series 2\u20131, with the home team winning all 3 games. This is the second consecutive year the Sun and Mercury will meet in the playoffs. In 2017, the Mercury won 88\u201383.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Second Round, Sun vs. Mercury\nDiana Taurasi improved to 13\u20130 in playoff-deciding games when the Mercury won 96\u201386 in Connecticut. The Mercury turned around a 4-point half-time deficit to win by double digits. The game ended on a 15\u20135 run, in favor of the Mercury. The Mercury got big contributions from their starts Brittney Griner and Taurasi. Both scored 27 points. DeWanna Bonner also contributed with 23 points and 18 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Storm vs. Mercury\nThe first semifinal saw the #1 seed Seattle Storm matchup against the #5 seed Phoenix Mercury. The Storm finished their season strong, winning 6 of their last 7 regular season games, to finish the season with a 26\u20138 record. The Storm enjoyed a week's rest after posting the best record in the WNBA. The Mercury won their two single-elimination playoff games to make it to the semifinals. Phoenix entered the series on three days' rest after playing in Connecticut. Seattle won the regular season series 4\u20131, with the visiting team winning 4 out of the 5 matchups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Storm vs. Mercury\nBefore the game, Breanna Stewart was named the season's MVP and played a key role in a Game 1 victory for the Storm. The Storm used a big third quarter to expand on a 2-point halftime lead to pull out the win. The Mercury went on a 13\u20135 run in the fourth quarter, to cut a 16-point Storm lead to just 2. However, Jewell Loyd made two baskets with under a minute left to seal the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Storm vs. Mercury\nGame 2 in the series appeared to be a blowout in favor of the Storm. The Storm led by 12 points at halftime and even extended that lead to 16 at the end of the third quarter. Into the fourth, they led by as many as 17 with six minutes left in the game. However, the Mercury came surging back to tie the game and send it into overtime. However, the Storm were able to secure the win in overtime. Sue Bird scored with 1:03 left in overtime, and made 2 free throws with 2 seconds left to secure the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Storm vs. Mercury\nPrior to the game Stephanie Talbot was ruled out due to a concussion. However, the Mercury's other stars played well to pull out a 20-point home win over the Storm. DeWanna Bonner scored 27 points and added 11 rebounds to lead the team in both categories. Phoenix again went on a big run in the 4th quarter, similar to the first two games of the series. However, in this game the run solidified a lead instead of making a comeback. The Storm now have an 8-game road playoff losing streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Storm vs. Mercury\nThe Storm carried an 11-point lead into halftime against the Mercury, but another Mercury second half comeback saw them even the series at 2 games apiece. The Mercury were down by as many as 17 in the first quarter. This is the fourth time that the Mercury have won an elimination game this post season. Brittney Griner and DeWanna Bonner lead the Mercury with 29 and 27 points, respectively. Sue Bird suffered a broken nose in the second quarter, but is expected to play in Game 5 on Tuesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Storm vs. Mercury\nIn Game 5 it was Phoenix that started out hot, carrying a 5-point lead into halftime and leading by as many as 11 in the first half. Seattle was then the one to make a comeback, cutting the lead to 4 at the end of the third quarter and a big fourth-quarter lead by Sue Bird took Seattle to a 10-point win. Bird scored 14 of her 22 points in the fourth, including making 5 of 6 shots in the final 6 minutes. Seattle used an 18\u20136 run in the fourth to secure the victory. Seattle advanced to the WNBA Finals to face Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Storm vs. Mercury\nThis game marked the first time that Diana Taurasi had been on the losing side in an elimination game in her WNBA career. She had entered Game 5 with a 13\u20130 record in this situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Dream vs. Mystics\nThe second semifinal saw the #2 seed Atlanta Dream matchup against the #3 seed Washington Mystics. The Dream finished their season strong, winning 6 of their last 7 regular season games, to finish the season with a 23\u201311 record. The Dream come into the series enjoying a week's rest after posting the second best record in the WNBA. The Mystics won one single elimination playoff game to make it to the semifinals. Washington will be coming into the series on three days rest after playing at home on Thursday. Atlanta won the regular season series 2\u20131, with the visiting team winning 2 out of the 3 matchups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Dream vs. Mystics\nThe game started evenly as the teams were tied at 26 after the first period. In the second quarter, Washington pulled out to a 9-point lead. Atlanta won both quarters after the half, but it wasn't enough to win the opening game of the series. Elena Delle Donne put on an all-star performance in her 36 minutes played; scoring 32 points and adding 13 rebounds in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Dream vs. Mystics\nGame 2 of the series was poised to be another tight game in Atlanta. The Mystics led by 2 at halftime and the game was tied at the end of the third quarter. With two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, the Mystics held a 70\u201368 lead. It was at this point Mystics star Elena Delle Donne suffered an knee injury and was removed from the game. The Dream finished the game on an 8\u20135 run and pulled out the victory to tie the series at 1 game apiece. Despite her shortened game, Delle Donne lead the Mystics in scoring and rebounding, and was tied for the team high in assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Dream vs. Mystics\nIn a tight game which had 14 lead changes, the Dream used a strong fourth quarter to win Game 3. The Mystics were without star Elena Delle Donne, who suffered a bone bruise in Game 2. The Mystics tried to adjust their offensive strategy on the fly, but came up just short. Tiffany Hayes lead the Dream with 23 points and 11 rebounds to help the Dream take a 2\u20131 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Dream vs. Mystics\nThe Mystics were bolstered by the return of Elena Delle Donne and won comfortably to tie the series 2\u20132. All five Mystics starters scored in double figures to contribute to the win. Four Dream starters scored 12 points each, but that wasn't enough to keep up with the Mystics. The series shifts back to Atlanta for the decisive Game 5. Atlanta hasn't lost back to back games since June 27\u201329.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283586-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Dream vs. Mystics\nGame five was a tight affair for the first half, with Atlanta holding a one-point lead going into halftime. With just under seven minutes remaining, the Dream led by 2, but then went cold. Washington went on a 9\u20130 run and never looked back. Washington had four players score in double digits and Atlanta had five players in double digits. Washington advanced to their first ever WNBA Finals to face Seattle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283587-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA draft\nThe 2018 WNBA draft was the league's draft for the 2018 WNBA season. On March 12, the league announced the draft would be held on April 12 at Nike New York Headquarters, a recently opened secondary headquarters for the athletic apparel giant located in Midtown Manhattan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283587-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA draft, Draft Lottery\nThe lottery selection to determine the order of the top four picks in the 2018 Draft was set to take place on September 14, 2017, but was delayed by the league to November 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283587-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA draft, Draft Lottery, Lottery Chances\nAll odds out of 1,000 based on percentages. (The 11-12-13-14 combination is ignored.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283587-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA draft, Draft Lottery, Lottery Chances\nThe lottery odds were based on combined records from the 2016 and 2017 WNBA seasons. The San Antonio Stars, with the worst two-year record, were guaranteed no worse than the third pick. With the Stars relocating to Las Vegas, Las Vegas retains the best odds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283587-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA draft, Draft Lottery, Lottery Chances\nThis is the fifth time that the lottery was won by the team that had the highest odds and second consecutive #1 Pick for Vegas - with the other being used on Kelsey Plum last year when the team was still in San Antonio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283587-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA draft, Draft Invitees\nOn April 6, 2018, the WNBA released the names of the players who would be invited to be in attendance at the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283587-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA draft, Draft Trades\nThe Las Vegas Aces traded the rights to Jill Barta and their 2019 2nd round pick to the Minnesota Lynx in exchange for the rights to Park Ji-su and the rights to Kahlia Lawrence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283587-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA draft, Notable Prospects\nOn November 7, 2017, WNBA.com posted notable prospects for the draft. The list included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283587-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA draft, Viewership\nThe draft was telecast on ESPN2 (1st round) and ESPNU (2nd and 3rd rounds). The draft had an average audience of 212,000, which is an increase of 25% compared to the 2017 WNBA Draft. The first round experienced an increase of 13% compared to 2017, with an average audience of 308,000. The 2nd and 3rd rounds saw a 49% increase in average viewers compared to 2017 (110,000 vs. 74,000). The 2018 draft was the most watched draft since 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283588-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA season\nThe 2018 WNBA season was the 22nd season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The Minnesota Lynx are the defending champions. The regular season began on May 18, with the Phoenix Mercury hosting the Dallas Wings. The season ended with the Seattle Storm defeating the Washington Mystics 3-0 in the WNBA Finals. This was the third championship for the Storm. Seattle's Breanna Stewart was named regular season and finals MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283588-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA season, 2018 WNBA Draft\nThe Las Vegas Aces selected A'ja Wilson first in the 2018 WNBA Draft. The draft was televised nationally on the ESPN networks (Round 1 on ESPN2, Rounds 2 and 3 on ESPNU).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283588-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA season, Arena changes\nIn addition to the relocated Las Vegas Aces, two other teams announced permanent moves to new arenas for the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283588-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA season, Regular season, All-Star Game\nThe 2018 WNBA All-Star Game was hosted by the Minnesota Lynx on July 28 at the Target Center. Coverage of the game began at 3:30pm. This is the first time the Lynx have hosted the annual event. This season a new selection format was used. Fans, coaches, media and players would all vote for players to be selected to the All-Star Game. The top 22 players receiving votes based on this weighting will be selected to the All-Star Game. There was not a restriction on number of players from one conference. The top 2 vote getters were captains of the two All-Star teams and selected their teams from the pool of remaining 20 players. The 22 All-Stars were be revealed on July 17, 2018. Rosters will be revealed on July 19, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283588-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBA season, Regular season, Statistic leaders\nThe following shows the leaders for each statistic during the 2018 regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 51], "content_span": [52, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283589-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WNBL Finals\nThe 2018 WNBL Finals was the postseason tournament of the WNBL's 2017\u201318 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283590-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WPA World Nine-ball Championship\nThe 2018 WPA 9-Ball-World Championship was a 9-Ball pool world Championships. The event took place between December 10 to 20, 2018 in the al-Attiya Sports Arena of the Al-Arabi Sports Club in Doha, Qatar. The Qatari capital held the event for the eighth time in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283590-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WPA World Nine-ball Championship\nThe reigning champion was Filipino Carlo Biado, who defeated his compatriot Roland Garcia 13\u20135 in the 2017 final. Biado would reach the final of the event, defeating Shane Van Boening in the semi-final. Germany's Joshua Filler won the event, defeating Biado in the final 13\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283590-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, Tournament summary\nThe event was entered by 128 participants who were initially divided into 16 groups of 8 players, in which they competed against each other from December 14 to 16 in a double elimination tournament. Four players in each group qualified for the final round, which will be played from December 17 to 20. The event was played under \"alternating break\" format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283590-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, Tournament summary\nIn the initial double-elimination round, 2003 and 2013 champion Thorsten Hohmann was eliminated, having first lost 6\u20139 to Jason Theron, and then to 2005 champion Wu Jiaqing also 6\u20139, despite being ahead 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283590-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, Tournament summary\nLater in the event, 9-ball world number one Klenti Kaci was defeated in the round of 32 \u2013 10\u201311 to 17 year old Robbie Capito. Capito was at one stage 7\u20131, and 10\u20138 down in the match, but won the final three racks to win the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283590-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, Tournament summary\nThe semi-finals and final were played on the December 20, 2018. The reigning champion Carlo Biado defeated Shane Van Boening in the first semi-final, whilst Joshua Filler defeated Alexander Kazakis in a final rack decider. Filler would win the event; climbing to an 11\u20137 lead, and eventually winning 13\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283591-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WPA World Nine-ball Junior Championship\nThe 2018 WPA World Junior Nine-ball Championships was the 27th hosting of the Junior World Championship in the pool discipline 9-Ball. The event ran from 31 October to 3 November 2018 Moscow, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283591-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WPA World Nine-ball Junior Championship\nUnder 19 world champion was Yip Kin Ling from Hong Kong. In the final against his countryman Robbie Capito he won 11\u201310 against last year's finalist. In the Under 17 age group was won by Mahkeal Parris who won the final against the Norwegian Emil Andre Gangfl\u00f8t 9\u20136. In the junior women, Chen Chia-hua won the event, winning 9\u20135 victory against the South Korean Seo Seoa in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283591-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WPA World Nine-ball Junior Championship\nDefending champion were Sanjin Pehlivanovi\u0107 (U17), Fedor Gorst (U19) and Kristina Tkatsch (Junior). Gorst was the only champion to attempt to defend their title. While Pehlivanovi\u0107 now played in the Under 19 category, Tkatsch was due to age no longer eligible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283591-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WPA World Nine-ball Junior Championship, Tournament format\nAll three competitions were first held in the Double-elimination tournament with a Single-elimination tournament from the quarter finals onwards. The events were all played as winner breaks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 63], "content_span": [64, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283592-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WPI Engineers football team\nThe 2018 WPI Engineers football team represented Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the 2018 NCAA Division III football season. It marked the Engineers' 129th overall season. The team played its home games at Alumni Stadium in Worcester, Massachusetts. They were led by ninth-year head coach Chris Robertson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283592-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WPI Engineers football team\nThe Engineers finished the regular season with its fourth consecutive winning season post a six victory and 4 loss record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283592-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WPI Engineers football team, Schedule\nThe 2018 schedule was officially released on July 3, 2018. WPI faced all seven NEWMAC opponents: Catholic, Coast Guard, Maine Maritime, MIT, Merchant Marine, Norwich, and Springfield. They also played three non-conference games: Anna Maria of the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC), Becker of the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC), and RPI of the Liberty League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283593-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WPLL season\nThe 2018 Women's Professional Lacrosse League season was the 1st season of the Women's Professional Lacrosse League. The New England Command beat the Baltimore Brave to win the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283594-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WPSL season\nThe 2018 WPSL season is the 22nd season of the Women's Premier Soccer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283595-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WSBL season\nThe 2018 WSBL season was the 30th season of the Women's State Basketball League (SBL). The regular season began on Friday 16 March, with round 1 seeing a 2017 grand final rematch between the Perry Lakes Hawks and Mandurah Magic. The 2018 WSBL All-Star Game was played on 4 June at Bendat Basketball Centre \u2013 the home of basketball in Western Australia. The regular season ended on Saturday 28 July. The finals began on Friday 3 August and ended on Friday 31 August, when the Lakeside Lightning defeated the Magic in the WSBL Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283595-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WSBL season, Regular season\nThe regular season began on Friday 16 March and ended on Saturday 28 July after 20 rounds of competition. Again in 2018, all games over the Easter Weekend were played on a blockbuster Thursday night with six venues all hosting games before the league took a break for the Easter long weekend. Anzac Round took place in round 6 of the competition with the Kalamunda Eastern Suns and Willetton Tigers continuing their Anzac Day game tradition. In round 9, Women's Round took place in alignment with Mother's Day on Sunday 13 May. During this round, WSBL games were played at the later timeslot at each venue following the MSBL games. There was also Rivalry Round in round 12 and Heritage Round in round 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283595-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WSBL season, Finals\nThe finals began on Friday 3 August and ended on Friday 31 August with the WSBL Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283595-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WSBL season, All-Star Game\nThe 2018 WSBL All-Star Game took place at Bendat Basketball Centre on Monday 4 June, with all proceeds going to Red Frogs Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283596-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WSF Championship\nThe 2018 WSF Championship was an amateur snooker tournament that took place from 18 March to 24 March 2018 in Qawra, Malta. It was the first edition of the WSF Championships and also doubled as a qualification event for the World Snooker Tour. The best four players (all semi-finalists) received an invitation to compete in the 2018 World Snooker Championship. Two best players (both finalists) received a Main Tour Card for the 2018/2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283597-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA 125K series\nThe WTA 125K series is the secondary professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association. The 2018 WTA 125K series calendar consisted of ten tournaments, each with a total prize fund of $125,000 each except the Oracle Challenger Series that offer $150,000 in prize money. After 2017, Dalian Women's Tennis Open and Hawaii Tennis Open were scrapped while Hua Hin Championships was replaced by Thailand Open, an international WTA event to take place at the same venue, beginning February 2019. 5 new tournaments were introduced in Newport Beach, Indian Wells, Chicago, Houston and Anning which was earlier an ITF event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283597-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA 125K series, Statistical information\nThese tables present the number of singles (S) and doubles (D) titles won by each player and each nation during the season. The players/nations are sorted by: 1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation); 2) a singles > doubles hierarchy; 3) alphabetical order (by family names for players).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283597-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA 125K series, Statistical information\nTo avoid confusion and double counting, these tables should be updated only after an event is completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283598-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Awards\nThe 2018 WTA Awards are a series of awards given by the Women's Tennis Association to players who have achieved something remarkable during the 2018 WTA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283598-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Awards, The awards\nThese awards are decided by either the media, the players, the association, or the fans. Nominees were announced by the WTA's Twitter account and on the WTA official website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy\nThe 2018 WTA Elite Trophy was a women's tennis tournament played at the Hengqin International Tennis Center in Zhuhai, China. It was the 4th edition of the singles event and doubles competition. The tournament was contested by twelve singles players and six doubles teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Tournament, Qualifying, Singles qualifying\nThe field consists of the top eleven players not already qualified for the 2018 WTA Finals, plus either (a) the 12th-player not qualified for 2018 WTA Finals, or (b) a wild card. The final two alternates for the 2018 WTA Finals will be eligible to play in WTA Elite Trophy even if they participate in the WTA Finals. Point totals are calculated by combining points obtained from sixteen tournaments. Of these sixteen tournaments, a player's results from the four Grand Slam events, the four Premier Mandatory tournaments, and (for Top 20 players at the end of 2018) the best results from two Premier 5 tournaments must be included.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Tournament, Qualifying, Doubles qualifying\nTwo teams composed of players that did not compete in the WTA Finals singles (except Finals Alternates) or doubles competitions, using the players\u2019 combined doubles rankings as of the Monday after the final regular-season Tournament of the current Tour Year to determine the order of acceptance; and up to two teams composed of players that did not compete in the WTA Finals singles (except Finals Alternates) or doubles competitions and that include at least one Elite Trophy Singles Qualified Player or Elite Trophy Alternate, using the higher of the players\u2019 combined singles or doubles rankings as of the Monday after the final regular-season Tournament of the current Tour Year to determine the order of acceptance. Plus two wild cards. For each wild card not given out, the next highest pair of players shall become a participant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 902]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Tournament, Format\nThe singles event features twelve players in a round robin event, split into four groups of three. Over the first four days of competition, each player meets the other two players in her group, with the winner in each group advancing to the semifinal. The winners of each semifinal meet in the championship match. The six doubles teams will be split into two round robin groups, with the winner of each advancing to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Tournament, Format, Round robin tie-breaking methods\nThe final standings of each group were determined by the first of the following methods that applied:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 75], "content_span": [76, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Tournament, Global Ambassador\n22 times majors winner, Steffi Graf will continue to be the event's global ambassador for the third consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Prize money and points\nThe total prize money for the 2018 WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai is US$2,349,363 .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nDaria Kasatkina had a breakthrough year making it to the top 10 for the first time. Kasatkina did not begin the year well, picking up her first win of the year at the Australian Open but fell in second round to Magda Linette. She bounced back by reaching the semifinals of the St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy losing to Kristina Mladenovic. She reached her first final of the year at the Dubai Tennis Championships but lost to Elina Svitolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nShe then followed it up by reaching the biggest final of her career at the BNP Paribas Open a Premier Mandatory event but fell to Naomi Osaka. Her clay court season was average, reaching the quarterfinals of the Mutua Madrid Open losing to eventual champion Petra Kvitov\u00e1 and reaching her first slam quarterfinal at the French Open but fell to Sloane Stephens. She backed up that slam performance, with a quarterfinal showing at the Wimbledon losing to Angelique Kerber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0007-0002", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nFollowing that performance, Kasatkina wasn't able to maintain her form failing to win back-to-back matches until the Asian swing including a second round loss at the US Open to Aliaksandra Sasnovich. However, she ended the year by winning her first title of the year at the Kremlin Cup defeating qualifier Ons Jabeur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nAnastasija Sevastova began the year well by reaching the semifinals of the Brisbane International losing to Aliaksandra Sasnovich. Sevastova failed to make any impact in the rest of the hard court season including a second round to Maria Sharapova at the Australian Open. She did not reach her next semifinal until the Volvo Car Open losing to Julia G\u00f6rges. She then had disappointing results once again including a first round loss at the French Open to Mariana Duque-Mari\u00f1o. Being the defending champion at the Mallorca Open and reached the final but lost to German Tatjana Maria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nDespite this, she lost in the first round of Wimbledon to Camila Giorgi. She bounced back by winning her first title of the year at the Bucharest Open defeating Petra Marti\u0107 in straight sets in the final. She had relative success in his event preparing for the US Open. At the US Open, she reached her first slam semifinal after wins over Elina Svitolina and defending champion Sloane Stephens, but fell in the semifinals to Serena Williams. At the Asian swing, she reached her biggest final to date at the Premier Mandatory event of the China Open but lost to Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nAryna Sabalenka had a breakthrough year, she started well by reaching the quarterfinals of the Shenzhen Open and Hobart International losing to Simona Halep and Lesia Tsurenko, respectively. However, at the Australian Open, she lost in the first round to Ashleigh Barty. She did not make any considerable result until the Ladies Open Lugano , where she reached the final but ended up losing to Belgian Elise Mertens. However, she did not pick up any main draw win in the rest of the clay season including losing in the first round of the French Open to Kiki Bertens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nShe then reached her first Premier final at the grass courts of the Eastbourne International losing to top seed Caroline Wozniacki. Her slam woes continued though, losing in the first round for the third time, this time at Wimbledon and to Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu. At the Western & Southern Open, she made an impressive run, reaching the semifinal before losing to world no. 1 Halep. She followed it up by claiming her first career title at the Connecticut Open defeating Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro in the final, breaking into the top 20 with the win. She ended her slam failures, when she reached her first slam fourth round at the US Open losing to Naomi Osaka. She then won the biggest title of her career so far at the Wuhan Open defeating Estonion Anett Kontaveit in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nElise Mertens began the year perfectly by defending her title at the Hobart International defeating Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu in the final. She carried this good form at the Australian Open, when she defeated 4th seed Elina Svitolina in the quarterfinals to reach her first slam semifinals. In the semifinals, she lost in two close sets to Caroline Wozniacki. However, she failed to win back-to-back matches up until the clay season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nShe began the clay season excellently by winning 13 matches in a row, including the Ladies Open Lugano defeating Belorussian Aryna Sabalenka in the final, winning her two Fed Cup matches and winning the title at the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem defeating Ajla Tomljanovi\u0107. Her streak was ended by Simona Halep in the second round of the Mutua Madrid Open. At the French Open, she reached the fourth round but once again lost to Halep. At Wimbledon, she made the third round where she fell to Dominika Cibulkov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nAt the US Open Series events, she reached the quarterfinals of both the Rogers Cup and Western & Southern Open losing to Elina Svitolina and Petra Kvitov\u00e1, respectively. At the US Open, she yet again improved from her performance from the previous year by reaching the fourth round losing to Sloane Stephens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nJulia G\u00f6rges continued her winning streak from the end of the season by winning the ASB Classic defeating Caroline Wozniacki in the final. However, her 15 match winning streak was snapped when she was upset by Aliz\u00e9 Cornet in the second round of the Australian Open. However, she bounced back by reaching the semifinals of the St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy losing to Petra Kvitov\u00e1. She reached her second final of the year at the Volvo Car Open but lost to Dutch player Kiki Bertens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nThe rest of her clay season was uneventful failing to get past the third round of any event including a third round loss to Serena Williams at the French Open. At Wimbledon, she reached her first ever slam semifinals after defeating Kiki Bertens, but lost to Serena once again. She did not do anything special following this milestone until a semifinal showing at the Connecticut Open losing to Aryna Sabalenka. At the US Open she suffered a second round exit to Ekaterina Makarova. In the last regular event of the year, G\u00f6rges claimed her second title of the year at the BGL Luxembourg Open defeating Belinda Bencic in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nMadison Keys season was injury plagued as she did not do well outside of the slams and she also did not reach a single final in the year. At the Australian Open, she reached the quarterfinals without dropping a set but fell convincingly to Angelique Kerber. She then went into the French Open with only one semifinal in between the two slams when she reached the semifinals of the Volvo Car Open losing to Kiki Bertens. However, despite this she reached her first French Open semifinals again without dropping a set but fell to Sloane Stephens in straight sets. At Wimbledon she had an upsetting loss to Evgeniya Rodina in third round in three tight sets. Being a defending finalist at the US Open, Keys did quite well by reaching the semifinals but lost to Naomi Osaka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nGarbi\u00f1e Muguruza entered 2018 as the 2nd ranked player but had a disappointing start of the season including a second round loss at the Australian Open to Hsieh Su-wei. Muguruza did well at the Middle East, when she reached her first final of the year at the Qatar Total Open but lost to Petra Kvitov\u00e1 and the semifinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships losing to Daria Kasatkina. She then claimed her first title of the year at the Monterrey Open defeating T\u00edmea Babos in three sets in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nShe didn't perform too well in her next events up until the French Open losing to Simona Halep in the semifinals. She entered Wimbledon as the defending champion but suffered an upset loss in the second round to Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck. The rest of her event delivered disappointing results including a second round exit at the US Open to Czech qualifier Karolina Muchova. However, she was able to reach the semifinals of the Hong Kong Tennis Open losing to Wang Qiang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nCaroline Garcia reached a career high of no. 4 in the world following the US Open. Garcia reached her first fourth round at the Australian Open in the beginning of the year losing to Madison Keys. She didn't perform well until the clay season reaching back-to-back semifinals at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix and the Mutua Madrid Open losing to CoCo Vandeweghe and Kiki Bertens, respectively. She then reached the fourth round of the French Open losing to Angelique Kerber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nAt Wimbledon, she was upset by Belinda Bencic in the first round, her first first round loss in a slam since 2016 Australian Open. She then reached the quarterfinals of the Rogers Cup losing to Simona Halep. At the US Open, she lost in the third round to Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro in a third set tiebreak. She suffered a massive ranking drop after failing to defend her titles at the China Open and Wuhan Open. However, she claimed her first title of the year at the Tianjin Open defeating Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nAshleigh Barty reached her first final of the year at the Sydney International, where she lost in straight sets to Angelique Kerber. At her home slam of the Australian Open, she was able to reach the third round losing to Japan's Naomi Osaka. Barty did not reach a semifinal until the week prior to the French Open, the Internationaux de Strasbourg, where she retired down a set due to a back injury. At the French Open, she unfortunate to draw a returning Serena Williams in the second round and lost in three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nHowever, she bounced back by winning her second career title at the Nottingham Open defeating Johanna Konta in the final. Despite this she lost in the third round of Wimbledon to Daria Kasatkina. Her next event was at the Premier 5 event of the Rogers Cup, reaching the semifinals, she lost to world no. 1 Simona Halep. At the US Open, she reached the fourth round of a slam for the first time but lost to Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 in straight sets. As the defending finalist at the Wuhan Open, she was able to reach the semifinals losing to eventual champion Aryna Sabalenka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nAnett Kontaveit brokethrough the top 20 in 2018. Kontaveit was able to reach the fourth round of the Australian Open losing to Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro. She wasn't able to win back-to-back matches until Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, reaching the semifinals before losing to Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1. At the Italian Open, she was able to reach her first Premier 5 semifinal, before losing to Elina Svitolina. She followed it up with another fourth round showing at a slam at the French Open losing to Sloane Stephens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nAt the grass season, she didn't win a match until Wimbledon, where she reached the third round losing to Alison Van Uytvanck. At the US Open, she was upset by Katerina Siniakova in the first round in three tight sets, despite serving for the match in the third set. At the Wuhan Open, she was able to reach her first Premier 5 final but lost convincingly to Aryna Sabalenka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nWang Qiang first half of the season was poor including a first round exit at the Australian Open to Madison Keys. She didn't win back-to-back matches until she reached the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open losing to world no. 1 Simona Halep. She the suffered many early loses following the Indian Wells result, but reached the third round of a slam for the first time at the French Open losing to Yulia Putintseva. At Wimbledon, she lost in the first round to compatriot Zheng Saisai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nHowever, at the Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open, she won her first career title revenging her Wimbledon loss when she defeated Zheng in the final. However, she wasn't able to sustain this form failing to win a main draw match until the US Open, where she lost in the third round to Elina Svitolina. Her Asian swing results were impressive, which began with her second career title at the Guangzhou International Women's Open defeating Yulia Putintseva in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0017-0002", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nShe then reached the semifinals of the Wuhan Open and China Open, losing to eventual champions Aryna Sabalenka and Caroline Wozniacki, respectively. This is her first Premier 5 and Mandatory semifinals. She then reached her third final of the year at the Hong Kong Tennis Open but suffered her first final loss to Dayana Yastremska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Qualified Players, Singles\nZhang Shuai was the wildcard recipient for the event. Her best result of the year is reaching the semifinals of three international events, at the J&T Banka Prague Open losing to Petra Kvitov\u00e1, Japan Women's Open losing to Amanda Anisimova and the Hong Kong Tennis Open losing to Dayana Yastremska. She was also able to reach the quarterfinals of the China Open losing to Naomi Osaka. At the slams she lost in the second rounds of the Australian Open and French Open to Denisa Allertov\u00e1 and Irina-Camelia Begu, respectively. Also, in the first rounds of Wimbledon to Andrea Petkovic and US Open to Garbi\u00f1e Muguruza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Points Breakdown, Singles\n\u2020 The player's ranking at the time did not qualify her to play this event. Accordingly, the player's next best result is counted in its place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Points Breakdown, Singles\n\u2021 The player was not a Top 20 player at the end of 2017 and therefore not required to count her two best Premier 5 results. Accordingly, the player's next best result is counted in its place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283599-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy, Points Breakdown, Singles\n\u00b1 Muguruza incurred a zero-point penalty for her late withdrawal from Montreal since she was a top 10 player at the end of 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283600-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nDuan Yingying and Han Xinyun were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283600-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nLyudmyla and Nadiia Kichenok won the title, defeating Shuko Aoyama and Lidziya Marozava in the final, 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20137].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283601-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy \u2013 Singles\nJulia G\u00f6rges was the defending champion, but she lost in the semifinals to Ashleigh Barty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283601-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Elite Trophy \u2013 Singles\nBarty went on to win the title, defeating Wang Qiang in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals\nThe 2018 WTA Finals, also known by its sponsored name BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore, was a women's tennis tournament held in Kallang, Singapore. It was the 48th edition of the singles event and the 43rd edition of the doubles competition. The tournament was contested by eight singles players and eight doubles teams. This was the final year for Singapore to hold this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Tournament\nThe 2018 WTA Finals took place at the Singapore Indoor Stadium the week of October 21, 2018, and was the 48th edition of the event. This was the final year in which Singapore hosted the event. The tournament was run by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as part of the 2018 WTA Tour. Singapore was the ninth city to host the WTA Finals since its inauguration in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Tournament, Qualifying\nIn singles, point totals are calculated by combining point totals from sixteen tournaments. Of these sixteen tournaments, a player's results from the four Grand Slam events, the four Premier Mandatory tournaments, and (for Top 20 players at the end of 2017) the best results from two Premier 5 tournaments must be included. In doubles, point totals are calculated by any combination of eleven tournaments throughout the year. Unlike in singles, this combination does not need to include results from the Grand Slams or Premier-level tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Tournament, Format\nThe singles event features eight players in a round robin event, split into two groups of four. Over the first four days of competition, each player meets the other three players in her group, with the top two in each group advancing to the semifinals. The first-placed player in one group meets the second-placed player in the other group, and vice versa. The winners of each semifinal meet in the championship match. The doubles event returns to a single elimination event. The winners of each quarterfinal match will advance to the semifinals and the winners of each semifinal match will advance to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Prize money and points\nThe total prize money for the BNP Paribas 2018 WTA Finals was US$7,000,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nSimona Halep began the year by winning the Shenzhen Open, defeating Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 in the final in three sets. She then competed at the Australian Open and reached the finals after saving match points in her third round match against Lauren Davis and semifinal match against Angelique Kerber. However, she lost in the final to Caroline Wozniacki in three tight sets, also losing the number 1 ranking to Wozniacki. She then lost in the semifinals of her next two events, the Qatar Open and BNP Paribas Open to Garbi\u00f1e Muguruza and Naomi Osaka, respectively. At the Miami Open, she fell in the third round to Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nAt the start of the clay season, Halep did not have good results, only reaching the quarterfinals at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix and the Mutua Madrid Open, with both losses coming in straight sets to CoCo Vandeweghe and Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1, respectively. Halep was able to bounce back at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia reaching the final but losing to Elina Svitolina, winning only four games in the match. At the French Open, Halep won the biggest title of her career and her first Grand Slam title, defeating reigning US Open champion Sloane Stephens after coming back from a set down. However, Halep did not have much luck at the grass courts of Wimbledon, losing in the third round to Hsieh Su-wei after failing to take advantage of a set lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nAt the American hard court season, Halep started out by reaching back-to-back finals. She won the Rogers Cup by defeating Stephens again in a rematch of the French Open final. However, she lost the final of the Western & Southern Open to Kiki Bertens despite having a match point. This loss was a start of a bad stretch for the Romanian as she became the first top seed to lose in the first round of the US Open when she fell to Kaia Kanepi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nShe then lost her opening round matches at the Wuhan Open and China Open, giving her a four match losing streak coming into the WTA Finals. However, she announced that she would withdraw from the event because of an ongoing back injury. Even though, Halep secured the year-end No. 1 for a second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nAngelique Kerber began her season at the Hopman Cup to represent Germany with Alexander Zverev but lost in the final to Switzerland. At the Sydney International, Kerber claimed her first title since winning the 2016 US Open defeating local favorite Ashleigh Barty in straight sets. At the Australian Open, Kerber was able to reach the semifinals of a slam for the first time since her US Open triumph but lost to Simona Halep in three sets after failing to convert two match points she had in the final set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nShe then played in the middle east, where lost in the quarterfinals of the Qatar Total Open losing to then World no. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in three sets and to Elina Svitolina at the Dubai Tennis Championships in the semifinals. She then reached back-to-back quarterfinals at the BNP Paribas Open and Miami Open falling to Daria Kasatkina and Sloane Stephens, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nDuring the clay court season, Kerber had good results reaching the quarterfinals of Internazionali BNL d'Italia and French Open losing to eventual champions Svitolina and Halep, Respectively. At the grass season, Kerber suffered an upset in the hands of Alison Riske in the first round of the Mallorca Open, but she bounced back by reaching the semifinals of Eastbourne International losing to top seed Caroline Wozniacki. At Wimbledon, Kerber won her third grand slam title and her first at the event defeating Serena Williams in the final in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nThis means Kerber has won 3 of the 4 slams, only missing the French Open. After her slam triumph, Kerber had poor results winning only 6 of her next 11 matches, losing early in Rogers Cup, Western & Southern Open, US Open, Wuhan Open and China Open, failing to reach a single quarterfinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nOn 2 October, Naomi Osaka was announced to be making her debut at the event as the third qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nNaomi Osaka began the year at the Hobart International with a first round loss to Yulia Putintseva. At the Australian Open, she made it to the fourth round with wins over 2 top 20 players but fell to Simona Halep. She suffered early loses at the Qatar Total Open and Dubai Tennis Championships. Osaka made her breakthrough at the BNP Paribas Open, winning her first title in the event defeating Daria Kasatkina in the final and defeating top 5 players Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 and Halep along the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nHowever, she fell to Elina Svitolina at the second round of the Miami Open after defeating her childhood idol Serena Williams. Osaka did not have much success during the clay season only winning back-to-back matches at the Volvo Car Open and French Open, reaching the third round losing to Julia G\u00f6rges and Madison Keys, respectively. During the grass season, Osaka was able to reach the semifinals of Nottingham Open to eventual champion Ashleigh Barty and the third round of Wimbledon losing to eventual champion Angelique Kerber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nAt the US Open Series, prior to the US Open she suffered a three match losing streak, with her only win coming in the Citi Open. However at the US Open, Osaka claimed her first grand slam title despite her poor preparation to the tournament. In the final she defeated Serena Williams in straight sets. Osaka followed this triumph with a final showing at her home event of the Toray Pan Pacific Open losing to Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 in the final. She then reached the semifinals of the China Open losing to Anastasija Sevastova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nOn October 4, Petra Kvitov\u00e1 and Caroline Wozniacki booked their spots to the WTA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nPetra Kvitov\u00e1 opened her season in Sydney, losing to qualifier Camila Giorgi in the second round. She followed this up with a first-round loss at the Australian Open to Andrea Petkovic. She found form in St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy defeating Kristina Mladenovic in the final, before winning a second title two weeks later at the Qatar Total Open with a three-set victory over Garbi\u00f1e Muguruza. She was unable to continue this form in BNP Paribas Open and Miami Open, losing in the second round and fourth round to Amanda Anisimova and Je\u013cena Ostapenko respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nKvitov\u00e1's clay court season also began slowly, falling in the first round of Volvo Car Open and Porsche Tennis Grand Prix to Krist\u00fdna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 and Angelique Kerber, respectively. However, she quickly turned her form around, winning her third and fourth titles of the year at J&T Banka Prague Open and Mutua Madrid Open, defeating Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu and Kiki Bertens in the respective finals. She then lost in the third round of the French Open to Anett Kontaveit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nKvitov\u00e1 claimed her fifth title of the season on the grass courts of Birmingham, defeating Magdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 in the final. At Wimbledon, she lost her first-round match against Aliaksandra Sasnovich. Her next two tournaments in Rogers Cup and Western & Southern Open ended in the third round and semi-finals respectively, both at the hands of Kiki Bertens. She made the quarterfinals of the Connecticut Open, where she retired against Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro. At the US Open, her slam results continue to disappoint as she lost in the third round to Aryna Sabalenka. She also lost in the third round of the Wuhan Open to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and the first round of the China Open to Daria Gavrilova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nCaroline Wozniacki began her season at the ASB Classic losing the final to Julia G\u00f6rges. She then went on to win her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open. She saved two match points in the second round against Jana Fett, before going on to defeat Simona Halep in the final. This win returned Wozniacki to World No. 1 for the first time since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nAfter reaching the quarterfinals of St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy losing to Daria Kasatkina and the semi-finals in Qatar Total Open losing to Petra Kvitov\u00e1, Wozniacki was unable to progress far in BNP Paribas Open and Miami Open, losing in the fourth round and second round to Daria Kasatkina and Monica Puig respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nWozniacki had a relatively quiet clay-court swing, suffering quarterfinal losses at the \u0130stanbul Cup to Pauline Parmentier and Italian Open to Kiki Bertens as well as a third round loss in Mutua Madrid Open to Anett Kontaveit. At the French Open, she fell in the fourth round, losing to Daria Kasatkina for the third time on the season. Wozniacki won her second title of the year in Eastbourne International, defeating Aryna Sabalenka in the final. She was unable to find the same success at Wimbledon, suffering a second-round loss to Ekaterina Makarova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nOpening round losses in Rogers Cup to Sabalenka and Western & Southern Open to Bertens were followed by an early exit at the US Open, falling to Lesia Tsurenko in the second round in straight sets. The poor results continued for Wozniacki in Toray Pan Pacific Open and Wuhan Open, where she lost in the second round at both tournaments to Camila Giorgi and Puig. However, she turned her form around in Beijing, where she defeated Anastasija Sevastova in the final, claiming her first Premier Mandatory title in over seven years, doing so without dropping a set all tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nOn 14 October, Sloane Stephens was announced to be making her debut at the event as the sixth qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nSloane Stephens was unable to find her form in the opening season, losing both first rounds of Sydney International and Australian Open to Camila Giorgi and Zhang Shuai. After reaching the quarterfinals of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel losing to Stefanie V\u00f6gele and third round of the BNP Paribas Open losing to Daria Kasatkina. She bounced back by winning her first Mandatory title at Miami Open by defeating Je\u013cena Ostapenko in straight sets. With her performance, she also made her top ten debut. It turned out that Stephens' clay court was inconsistent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0020-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nShe won both her Fed Cup matches against France, defeating Kristina Mladenovic and Pauline Parmentier. However she compiled a 4-4 record prior to the French Open, suffering an opening round losses at Porsche Tennis Grand Prix and N\u00fcrnberg to CoCo Vandeweghe and Yulia Putintseva and third round losses at Mutua Madrid Open and Italian Open to Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 and Caroline Garcia. However, she made it to the final at the French Open, where she lost to the World No. 1 Simona Halep in three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nStephens did not carry any momentum into the grass-court season, losing at Wimbledon to Donna Veki\u0107 in the first round in her only event. Nonetheless, she moved up to career-high No. 3 after the tournament. During the US Open Series, she started with a second round loss to Andrea Petkovic at the Citi Open. She bounced back by reaching the final of the Rogers Cup in a rematch of the French Open but lost to Halep ounce again. At the third round of the Western & Southern Open she lost to Elise Mertens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nAt the rematch of last years quarterfinal of the US Open against Anastasija Sevastova, Stephens failed to defend her title and lost in the quarterfinals. After losing in the first round in both the Toray Pan Pacific Open and Wuhan Open, Stephens presented a third round performance at the China Open losing to Dominika Cibulkov\u00e1. She then received a wildcard at the Kremlin Cup but fell in the second round to Ons Jabeur after receiving a bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nOn 17 October, Elina Svitolina and Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 became the last qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nElina Svitolina had an excellent start to the year, claiming the Brisbane International title, defeating Belarussian Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the final for the loss of just three games. Her good form continued until the Australian Open quarterfinals, where she was upset by Elise Mertens. A third round loss to eventual champion Petra Kvitov\u00e1 in Doha was quickly followed by a successful defence of her title in Dubai. Her momentum stuttered at the first Premier Mandatory events of the season, losing to Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro in the third round of Indian Wells and Je\u013cena Ostapenko in the quarterfinals of Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nHer clay court season began with a defeat to Caroline Garcia in the quarterfinals of Stuttgart, and a second defeat of the year to Su\u00e1rez Navarro in the second round of Madrid. This was followed by her third title of the year, and second consecutive in Rome, brushing aside World Number 1 Simona Halep in the final. At the French Open, however, despite her momentum she suffered a surprise defeat at the hands of Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nSvitolina's transition onto grass courts proved to be a stumbling block for her campaign, once again losing to Buz\u0103rnescu in the quarterfinals of Birmingham, followed by a loss to Tatjana Maria in the first round of Wimbledon. She did, however, regain some momentum entering the US Open Series, reaching the semifinals of the Rogers Cup, where she was the defending champion, losing to Sloane Stephens, and subsequently the quarterfinals in Cincinnati, losing there to eventual champion Kiki Bertens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nShe rounded out her 2018 Grand Slam campaign with a second successive round of 16 appearance at the US Open, losing to Anastasija Sevastova in three sets. A disappointing Asian swing ensued for Svitolina, as she lost back-to-back opening round matches in Wuhan, to eventual champion Aryna Sabalenka, and Beijing to Aleksandra Kruni\u0107. A quarterfinal defeat to Wang Qiang in Hong Kong meant that qualification for Singapore depended on the performances of her competitors in Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nKarol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 began her year at the Brisbane International reaching the semifinals, losing to Elina Svitolina. At the first slam of the year, Pliskova was able to replicate her performance the previous year by reaching the quarterfinals before losing to Simona Halep. At the Middle East, Pliskova received an upset loss to Catherine Bellis in the third round of the Qatar Total Open and fell to Angelique Kerber in the quarterfinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nAt the back-to-back Mandatory events of BNP Paribas Open and Miami Open, she was able to reached the quarterfinals losing to Naomi Osaka and Victoria Azarenka, respectively. Pliskova was able to win her first title of the year at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix defeating Coco Vandeweghe in the final. At the Mutua Madrid Open, she was able to continue her good run, but eventually fell to Petra Kvitova in the semifinals. At the Italian Open, Pliskova suffered a controversial loss to Maria Sakkari in her opening round match. At the clay slam of the French Open, Pliskova failed to replicate her success the previous year, falling in two quick sets to Maria Sharapova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nDuring the grass season, Pliskova once again lost to Magdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 in the opening round of Birmingham Classic. Pliskova was more fortunate at the Eastbourne International reaching the quarterfinals losing to Aryna Sabalenka. At Wimbledon, Pliskova was able to reach the fourth round, thus breaking her streak of 5-consecutive second round exits, but fell to Kiki Bertens. Her results at the US Open Series were disappointing, losing in the second rounds of Rogers Cup and Western & Southern Open to Bertens and Sabalenka, respectively. She then fell to Ekaterina Makarova in her opening round at the Connecticut Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nHowever, despite this results, she was able to reach the quarterfinals of the US Open without dropping a set but lost to Serena Williams. She claimed her second title of the year at the Toray Pan Pacific Open defeating US Open champion and local hero Naomi Osaka in the final. However, she suffered back-to-back loses to Wang Qiang in the second round of Wuhan Open and third round of China Open. At the Tianjin Open, she was able to reach the final but lost to Caroline Garcia. In her last regular event of the year, the 2018 Kremlin Cup, she lost to Vera Zvonareva in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nOn 18 October, Kiki Bertens secured the final spot after Simona Halep withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nKiki Bertens opened the year with a first round loss at the Brisbane International to Ana Konjuh. She followed this up by reaching the second round of the Sydney International, where she lost to the top seed Garbi\u00f1e Muguruza. At the Australian Open, Bertens fell to world No. 2 and eventual winner, Caroline Wozniacki in the third round. She then had a poor run, losing in her opening matches at St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy, Dubai Tennis Championships and BNP Paribas Open, losing to Vera Zvonareva, Wang Qiang and Serena Williams, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0028-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nShe eventually won a match and broke her 4 match losing streak at the Miami Open but fell in the third round to Venus Williams. She bounced back by winning her first Premier title defeating Julia G\u00f6rges in straight sets in the final of the Volvo Car Open. At the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, she fell in the first round to eventual champion Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1. However, at the Madrid Open she reached her first Premier Mandatory final but fell to Petra Kvitova. Despite this, she was upset by Maria Sakkari in the first round of the Italian Open. She tried to pick up form at the N\u00fcrnberger Versicherungscup but lost to Kirsten Flipkens in the quarterfinals. At the French Open, Bertens fell to Angelique Kerber in two tight tie-break sets in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nDuring the grass season, Bertens' preparation for Wimbledon was not ideal with back-to-back loses in the second round of the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships and opening match at the Eastbourne International, losing to Flipkens and Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu, respectively. Despite this, Bertens impressed at Wimbledon reaching the quarterfinals, where she lost to Julia G\u00f6rges, but achieved a career best at Wimbledon so far by reaching the last eight. During the US Open Series, Bertens reached the quarterfinals of the Rogers Cup before losing to 15th seed Ashleigh Barty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Singles\nThe following week, she won the biggest title of her career at the Western & Southern Open defeating Simona Halep in the final after saving match points in the second set. However, her US Open ended in disappointment when she lost in the third round to Mark\u00e9ta Vondrou\u0161ov\u00e1 in a third set tie-break. She then claimed her third title of the year at the Korea Open defeating Ajla Tomljanovi\u0107 in the final. However, she suffered early loses at the second round of the Wuhan Open and third round of the China Open to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 respectively. Her poor results continued with back-to-back losses at the Upper Austria Ladies Linz second round and Kremlin Cup first round to Margarita Gasparyan and Aliaksandra Sasnovich, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nOn August 9, the team of Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 and Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 qualified for the first time to the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nBarbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 & Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 began the year with a final showing at the Shenzhen Open losing to the Romanian team of Begu/Halep in a match tiebreak. Their next final came at the Miami Open but once again fell but this time to the team of Barty/Vandeweghe in two quick sets. At the French Open, despite only winning one clay match during the lead up events, they were able to claim their first grand slam title defeating the Japanese duo of Hozumi/Ninomiya in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nThey followed up this victory by winning their second slam at Wimbledon defeating the team of Melichar/Peschke in three sets winning the final set in a bagel. This win comes five years after their girls doubles win at the same event. After having a poor lead up to the US Open winning only a match, they were able to reach the semifinals, however their grand slam streak was ended by Barty & Vandeweghe in two tight sets. The team is making their debut into the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nOn August 20, the pairing of T\u00edmea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic was announced as the second qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nT\u00edmea Babos & Kristina Mladenovic began their 2018 campaign by winning the Australian Open defeating the Russian pairing of Makarova/Vesnina in straight sets. They did not reach another final until the clay season at the Mutua Madrid Open facing once again Makarova/Vesnina but this time they end up losing in a match tiebreak. At the French Open they lost to the unseeded Japanese team of Hozumi/Ninomiya in the quarterfinals. However, they bounced back by claiming their second title at the Birmingham Classic defeating Mertens/Schuurs in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0033-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nAt Wimbledon, they suffered another upset at the quarterfinals falling to the unseeded pair Rosolska/Spears. During their US Open lead up events, they racked a record of two wins and two losses. However, they bounced back at the US Open by reaching the final but lost to Barty/Vandeweghe in three sets including two tiebreaks in the final two sets. Babos also reached the final of the Mixed Doubles at the Australian Open pairing with Rohan Bopanna, but lost to Dabrowski/Pavi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nOn the September 29, the teams of Andrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1/Barbora Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 and Elise Mertens/Demi Schuurs occupied the next two slots into the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nAndrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 & Barbora Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 did not start playing together until the Miami Open, where they lost their first match. However, they were able to make an impact as a team at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, when they reached the final but lost to the team of Barty/Schuurs. They followed that up with semifinal showing at the French Open falling to eventual champions Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1/Siniakov\u00e1. Their grass season was uneventful failing to win a match on the lead up tournaments to Wimbledon and falling in the third round of Wimbledon to Mattek-Sands/\u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nThey struggled in the Premier 5 events of the US Open Series but bounced back with their first title of the year at the Connecticut Open defeating Hsieh/Siegemund in the final. At the US Open, they suffered a third round upset to Barty/Vandeweghe. However they were able to bounce back by reaching three back-to-back finals losing the first two at the Toray Pan Pacific Open to Hozumi/Ninomiya and at the Wuhan Open to Mertens/Schuurs. However, they claimed their second title of the year at the China Open defeating Dabrowski/Xu in a match tiebreak. Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 also won the title at the Miami Open pairing with Hsieh Su-wei defeating Makarova/Vesnina and Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 reached the final of Sydney International with Latisha Chan losing to Dabrowski/Xu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nElise Mertens and Demi Schuurs began the year by winning the Hobart International defeating Kichenok/Ninomiya in straight sets. They failed to win back-to-back matches until the Miami Open when they reached the semifinals losing to Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1/ Siniakov\u00e1. After failing to win a match during the clay season, they followed it up by winning the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships defeating Bertens/Flipkens and the final of the Birmingham Classic losing to Babos/Mladenovic. Their next final came at the hard courts of the Western & Southern Open but lost to the team of Hradeck\u00e1/Makarova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nThey won their third and biggest title of the year at the Wuhan Open defeating the Czech team of Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1/Str\u00fdcov\u00e1. Mertens also won the Ladies Open Lugano teaming up with compatriot Kirsten Flipkens defeating Belorussian team of Lapko/Sabalenka. While Schuurs on the other hand had a perfect record playing with Australian Ashleigh Barty winning the Premier 5 events of Internazionali BNL d'Italia defeating Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1/Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 and the Rogers Cup defeating Makarova/Chan. Schuurs also won the Brisbane International with Kiki Bertens and the N\u00fcrnberger Versicherungscup with Katarina Srebotnik defeating Klepa\u010d/Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez and Flipkens/Larsson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nOn October 4, following the withdrawal of Ekaterina Makarova & Elena Vesnina from the event, the final four slots were occupied by the teams of Gabriela Dabrowski/Xu Yifan, Nicole Melichar/Kv\u011bta Peschke, Andreja Klepa\u010d/Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez and Ashleigh Barty/CoCo Vandeweghe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nGabriela Dabrowski & Xu Yifan won their first title of the year at the Sydney International defeating Chan/Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 in straight sets. They followed that up with semifinal showing at the Australian Open but lost to Makarova/Vesnina. They did not reach another semifinal until BNP Paribas Open when they lost to Hsieh/Str\u00fdcov\u00e1. Their clay court season was not so good having a 3-4 result in it. However, they were able to bounce back at the Eastbourne International winning the title over the Romanian pairing of Begu/Buz\u0103rnescu and reaching the semifinal of Wimbledon losing to runner-ups Melichar/Peschke in three tight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0038-0001", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nTheir next final came at the China Open when they lost to Czech duo of Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1/Str\u00fdcov\u00e1. Dabrowski also won the title at the Qatar Total Open with Je\u013cena Ostapenko defeating Klepa\u010d/Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez. She also had success in the Mixed Doubles reaching the finals twice teaming up with Mate Pavi\u0107 defeating Babos/Bopanna at the Australian Open and losing to Chan/Dodig at the French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nNicole Melichar & Kv\u011bta Peschke did not start to have an impact this year until they reached back-to-back finals at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix losing to Atawo/Gr\u00f6nefeld and of the J&T Banka Prague Open defeating Buz\u0103rnescu/Marozava. Their next real breakthrough came at Wimbledon reaching the finals but came short against Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1/Siniakov\u00e1 losing the third and final set in a bagel. They then reach the semifinal of the Rogers Cup but lost to Barty/Schuurs. They then reached back to back quarterfinals of the Wuhan Open and China Open. Peschke also won the title at the Silicon Valley Classic teaming up with Latisha Chan defeating Kichenok/Kichenok. Melichar also won the Mixed doubles of Wimbledon with Alexander Peya defeating Murray/Azarenka in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nAndreja Klepa\u010d & Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez did not have a great start of the year with early round exits. It wasn't until the Qatar Total Open when they reached their first final but lost to Dabrowski/Ostapenko in straight sets. Even with that result they struggled before they reached the final of the Volvo Car Open but again end up losing this time to Kudryavtseva/Srebotnik. They then reached the semifinal of the Mutua Madrid Open losing to Makarova/Vesnina. They captured their first title of the year at the Mallorca Open defeating Czechs \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1/\u0160tefkov\u00e1. Their next best result came at the Rogers cup with a semifinal loss to Chan/Makarova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nAshleigh Barty & CoCo Vandeweghe did not play a lot of tournaments throughout the year only playing seven tournaments together but they ended up winning two big titles the Miami Open defeating Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1/ Siniakov\u00e1 in the final and their first grand slam title as a pair and as individual when they captured the US Open defeating Babos/Mladenovic in the final. Barty also paired with Demi Schuurs and had a perfect record playing together winning the Premier 5 events of Internazionali BNL d'Italia defeating Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1/Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 and the Rogers Cup defeating Makarova/Chan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Qualified players, Doubles\nEkaterina Makarova & Elena Vesnina would have qualified for the event but had to withdraw due to Vesnina's pregnancy. The team only played together up to the Mutua Madrid Open where they won the title defeating Babos/Mladenovic in the final. They also reached two other finals but ended up losing, at the Australian Open to Babos/Mladenovic and at the BNP Paribas Open to Hsieh/Str\u00fdcov\u00e1. Makarova also reached back-to-back week finals at the Rogers Cup teaming up with Latisha Chan but lost to Barty/Schuurs and the Western & Southern Open won the title with Lucie Hradeck\u00e1, defeating Mertens/Schuurs in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Groupings, Singles\nThe 2018 finals featured five major champions and one finalist. The competitors were divided into two groups, representing the colors of the flag of Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Player head-to-head, Singles\nBelow are the head-to-head records as they approached the tournament. 2018 WTA Finals \u2013 Singles", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283602-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals, Player head-to-head, Doubles\nBelow are the head-to-head records as they approached the tournament. 2018 WTA Finals \u2013 Doubles", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283603-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals \u2013 Doubles\nT\u00edmea Babos and Andrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 were the defending champions, but did not qualify together this year. Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 teamed up with Barbora Str\u00fdcov\u00e1, but lost in the semifinals to Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 and Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283603-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals \u2013 Doubles\nBabos successfully defended her title alongside Kristina Mladenovic, defeating Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 and Siniakov\u00e1 in the final, 6\u20134, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283603-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals \u2013 Doubles\nKrej\u010dikov\u00e1 and Siniakov\u00e1 jointly secured the year-end WTA no. 1 doubles ranking by reaching the final. Babos and Mladenovic alongside Barbora Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 were also in contention for the top ranking at the beginning of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283604-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals \u2013 Singles\nCaroline Wozniacki was the defending champion, but she was eliminated in the round-robin stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283604-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals \u2013 Singles\nElina Svitolina won the title, defeating Sloane Stephens in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20132. Svitolina became the first Ukrainian in history to triumph at this tournament, and the first player to win the tournament while going undefeated since Serena Williams in 2013. This was also the first time since 2013 that both finalists went undefeated in the round robin stage of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283604-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals \u2013 Singles\nNaomi Osaka, Stephens and Kiki Bertens made their debuts in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283604-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals \u2013 Singles\nFor the first time since the current round robin format was reintroduced in 2003, the first two matches played in each group were all won by the lower-ranked player. It also the first time that the top four seeds were eliminated in the round robin stage, leaving the fifth to eighth seeds to qualify for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283604-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals \u2013 Singles, Draw, Red Group\n\u2020 Following WTA rules, Osaka's retirement against Bertens was counted as a straight-set loss in determining round robin standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283604-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Finals \u2013 Singles, Draw, White Group\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-player ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-player ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two players remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two players remain tied), then (c) WTA rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283605-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Premier tournaments\nThe 2018 WTA Premier tournaments are 21 of the tennis tournaments on the 2018 WTA Tour. The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis. The WTA Premier tournaments are divided into three levels, which all rank below the Grand Slam events and above the WTA International tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283606-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Shenzhen Open\nThe 2018 Shenzhen Open (known as 2018 Shenzhen Gemdale Open for sponsorship reason) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the Shenzhen Open, and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Shenzhen Longgang Sports Center in Shenzhen, China, from 1 to 7 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283606-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Shenzhen Open, Points and prize money, Prize money\n1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283606-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Shenzhen Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283606-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Shenzhen Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283607-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Shenzhen Open \u2013 Doubles\nAndrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 and Peng Shuai were the defending champions, but Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 chose to compete in Brisbane instead and Peng chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283607-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Shenzhen Open \u2013 Doubles\nIrina-Camelia Begu and Simona Halep won the title, defeating Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 and Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 in the final, 1\u20136, 6\u20131, [10\u20138].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283608-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Shenzhen Open \u2013 Singles\nSimona Halep won the title, defeating defending champion Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 in the final, 6\u20131, 2\u20136, 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283609-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Tour\nThe 2018 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2018 tennis season. The 2018 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF); the WTA Premier tournaments (Premier Mandatory, Premier 5, and regular Premier); the WTA International tournaments; the Fed Cup (organized by the ITF) and the year-end championships (the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Elite Trophy). Also included in the 2018 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which is organized by the ITF and does not distribute ranking points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283609-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Tour, Schedule\nThis is the complete schedule of events on the 2018 calendar, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 23], "content_span": [24, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283609-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Tour, Statistical information\nThese tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 2018 WTA Tour: the Grand Slam tournaments, the year-end championships (the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Elite Trophy), the WTA Premier tournaments (Premier Mandatory, Premier 5, and regular Premier), and the WTA International tournaments. The players/nations are sorted by:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283609-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Tour, Statistical information\n1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation);", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283609-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Tour, Statistical information\n2) cumulated importance of those titles (one Grand Slam win equalling two Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 wins, one year-end championships win equalling one-and-a-half Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 win, one Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 win equalling two Premier wins, one Premier win equalling two International wins);", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283609-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Tour, Statistical information, Titles information\nThe following players won their first main circuit title in singles, doubles, or mixed doubles:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 58], "content_span": [59, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283609-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Tour, Statistical information, Titles information\nThe following players defended a main circuit title in singles, doubles, or mixed doubles:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 58], "content_span": [59, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283609-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Tour, Statistical information, Best ranking\nThe following players achieved their career high ranking in this season inside top 50 (in bold the players who entered the top 10 for the first time):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 52], "content_span": [53, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283609-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Tour, WTA Rankings\nThese are the WTA rankings of the top 20 singles players, doubles players, and the top 10 doubles teams on the WTA Tour, at the current date of the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283609-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Tour, Points distribution\nS = singles players, D = doubles teams, Q = qualification players. * Assumes undefeated Round Robin match record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 34], "content_span": [35, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283609-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Tour, Retirements\nFollowing is a list of notable players (winners of a main tour title, and/or part of the WTA Rankings top 100 [singles] or top 100 [doubles] for at least one week) who announced their retirement from professional tennis, became inactive (after not playing for more than 52 weeks), or were permanently banned from playing, during the 2018 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 26], "content_span": [27, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283609-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 WTA Tour, Comebacks\nFollowing are notable players who will come back after retirements during the 2018 WTA Tour season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 24], "content_span": [25, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283610-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WV1\n2018 WV1 is a very small asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group that passed within 27,000 kilometers (17,000 miles) of the Earth's surface on 2 December 2018. It was first observed on 29 November 2018 by Hannes Gr\u00f6ller with the Catalina Sky Survey at Catalina Station on Mount Bigelow, Arizona, in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283610-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WV1, Orbit\n2018 WV1 orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.98\u20131.10\u00a0AU once every 387 days (semi-major axis of 1.04\u00a0AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.06 and an inclination of 2\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 15], "content_span": [16, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283610-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WV1, Orbit\nAs an Apollo asteroid with an orbital period slightly larger than that of the Earth, its orbit is very similar to that of the Earth, indicating that the object is a piece of lunar ejecta, a fragment of the Moon that was ejected into space when a larger asteroid hit the Moon a long time ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 15], "content_span": [16, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283610-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WV1, 2018 flyby\nOn 2 December 2018, the asteroid passed about 33,000\u00a0km (21,000\u00a0mi) from Earth, traveling 5.2 kilometres per second (3.2\u00a0mi/s) relative to Earth and briefly reaching apparent magnitude 17. This was the third-closest approach by an asteroid in 2018, and the 70th asteroid of the year that passed within 1 lunar distance of Earth. Its absolute magnitude of 30.1 indicates a diameter between 2.5 and 5.6 metres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 20], "content_span": [21, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283610-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WV1, 2018 flyby\n2018 WV1 remains inside the Earth's sphere of influence from 27 November till 7 December 2018. During the flyby, its orbital period changes from 1.13 to 1.06 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 20], "content_span": [21, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283610-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WV1, 2018 flyby\nAt the time of its discovery, 2018 WV1 had a 2% chance to hit Earth in early December 2018. The possibility of impact was ruled out soon after, as more data became available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 20], "content_span": [21, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283610-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 WV1, Other flybys\n2018 WV1 will pass within 0.38\u00a0AU (57,000,000\u00a0km) of Earth in December 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 22], "content_span": [23, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283610-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 WV1, Other flybys\nWith a short observation arc of 1.69 days, the asteroid is on the Sentry risk list, with a probability of 1 in 11,000 for an impact between 2085 and 2118.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 22], "content_span": [23, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283610-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 WV1, Other flybys, Flyby gallery\nIts closest approach will be between the earth and sun, so can't be observed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 37], "content_span": [38, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283610-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 WV1, Other flybys, Flyby gallery\nAnimation of 2018 WV1 orbit around Earth\u00a0\u00a0 Moon\u00a0\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0 Earth\u00a0\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0 2018 WV1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 37], "content_span": [38, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283610-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 WV1, Other flybys, Flyby gallery\nAnimation of 2018 WV1 orbit around Sun from 2017 to 2021\u00a0\u00a0 Sun\u00a0\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0 Earth\u00a0\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0 2018 WV1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 37], "content_span": [38, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283611-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up\nThe 2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up was the twelfth WWE draft, produced by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE between the Raw and SmackDown brands. Instead of a traditional draft, changes between the brands were made behind the scenes, with moving wrestlers simply appearing on a brand's show or announced via WWE's website or social medias. The two-day event took place on the April 16 and April 17 episodes of Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live, respectively, on the USA Network in the United States. Raw was broadcast from Hartford, Connecticut at the XL Center, and SmackDown was broadcast from the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283611-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up, Background\nThe WWE Draft is an annual process used by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE while a brand extension, or brand split, is in effect. The original brand extension occurred from 2002 to 2011, while the second and current brand split began in 2016. During a brand extension, the company divides its roster into brands where the wrestlers exclusively perform for each brand's respective television show, and the draft is used to refresh the rosters of the brand divisions, typically between the Raw and SmackDown brands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283611-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up, Background\nIn 2017, WWE rebranded the draft as the Superstar Shake-up to replace the traditional draft the company had done in 2016. On the April 9, 2018 episode of Monday Night Raw, WWE announced another Superstar Shake-up for the April 16 and 17 episodes of Raw and SmackDown, respectively. Instead of a traditional draft, the commissioners and general managers of Raw and SmackDown made trades and other deals behind the scenes between their respective talent, which also included the promotion and drafting of wrestlers from the NXT brand. On April 10, Paige, who had retired from in-ring competition the previous night, was introduced as SmackDown's new general manager. She replaced Daniel Bryan, who returned to being a full-time wrestler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283611-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up, Selection, Raw\nThe following wrestlers and other personnel changed brands on the April 16 episode of Raw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283611-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up, Selection, SmackDown\nThe following wrestlers and other personnel changed brands on the April 17 episode of SmackDown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283611-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up, Aftermath\nOn Raw, after being drafted with the United States Championship, Jinder Mahal immediately lost the title to Jeff Hardy and failed to win it back at the Greatest Royal Rumble. He then had a short feud with Roman Reigns as well as a storyline with Kevin Owens and Braun Strowman. The Riott Squad (Ruby Riott, Liv Morgan, and Sarah Logan) made their debut by attacking Bayley and Sasha Banks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283611-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up, Aftermath\nOver the following year, they feuded with the likes of The Bella Twins (Brie Bella and Nikki Bella) and Ronda Rousey, with each member unsuccessfully facing Rousey for the Raw Women's Championship, and Morgan and Logan also challenged for the inaugural WWE Women's Tag Team Championship. Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn lost their initial match on Raw and had a short feud with Braun Strowman and the returning Bobby Lashley. Later in the year, both suffered injuries, requiring them to take time off, subsequently disbanding their team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283611-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up, Aftermath\nBoth returned in early 2019, but with Owens on SmackDown while Zayn remained on Raw. Shortly after the Superstar Shake-up, Zack Ryder injured his knee, taking him out of action for several weeks. After his return, he reignited his feud with Mojo Rawley. After moving to Raw, Natalya became a fan favorite and had a storyline with Ronda Rousey and a short feud with Ruby Riott. Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre formed a tag team and feuded with Seth Rollins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283611-0005-0003", "contents": "2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up, Aftermath\nZiggler went on to win the Intercontinental Championship, and the two also won the Raw Tag Team Championship before McIntyre turned on Ziggler. In mid-2018, Baron Corbin was made the Constable of Raw by the brand's commissioner Stephanie McMahon and eventually became the Acting Raw General Manager after Kurt Angle was forced to go on vacation by Stephanie. He also feuded with Braun Strowman in the later half of the year. Although he was moved to Raw, Mike Kanellis primarily appeared on Main Event and was eventually moved to the 205 Live brand along with his wife Maria Kanellis. Bobby Roode and Chad Gable eventually formed a tag team and later won the Raw Tag Team Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283611-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up, Aftermath\nAfter moving to SmackDown, bringing the United States Championship back to the brand, Jeff Hardy feuded with Randy Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura, dropping the title to the latter. Before moving to SmackDown, The Miz lost the Intercontinental Championship to Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 34. He had two rematches to regain the title, at Greatest Royal Rumble and Backlash, but failed in both attempts, and later in the year, reignited his feud with Daniel Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283611-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up, Aftermath\nAfter former Absolution leader and new SmackDown General Manager Paige made it clear that she would not show them special treatment, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville dropped the name Absolution but remained a tag team. Although tensions rose between the two, they challenged for the inaugural WWE Women's Tag Team Championship. Despite moving to SmackDown, Samoa Joe had an opportunity at the Intercontinental Championship at the Greatest Royal Rumble, but lost. He also faced Raw's Roman Reigns at Backlash, but also lost that match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283611-0006-0002", "contents": "2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up, Aftermath\nHe then entered into a feud with AJ Styles over the WWE Championship, and although unsuccessful at gaining that title, he won the United States Championship before the year's end. Big Cass immediately began a feud with Daniel Bryan that he ultimately lost before being released from his WWE contract in June. Asuka began a feud with Carmella over the SmackDown Women's Championship that she ultimately lost, however, she eventually won the title before the year's end. Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson earned an opportunity for the SmackDown Tag Team Championship at Money in the Bank, but failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283611-0006-0003", "contents": "2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up, Aftermath\nBefore moving to SmackDown, Cesaro and Sheamus were granted an opportunity at the Raw Tag Team Championship at the Greatest Royal Rumble, but failed to win the titles. They then officially changed their team name to The Bar, previously a nickname, and began a pursuit for the SmackDown Tag Team Championship, which they eventually won. R-Truth eventually formed a partnership with Carmella and the two would go on to win Mixed Match Challenge Season 2. After moving to SmackDown, Andrade began a feud with Sin Cara. The Hardy Boyz eventually reunited; in mid-2018, Matt Hardy went on hiatus, but when he returned in February 2019, he returned on the SmackDown brand and reunited with Jeff. Nikki Cross was eventually called up in December 2018, but did not rejoin Sanity and appeared on both Raw and SmackDown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283612-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wagga Wagga state by-election\nA by-election was held in the New South Wales state electoral district of Wagga Wagga on 8 September 2018. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Daryl Maguire, a Liberal-turned-independent. Maguire resigned from Parliament the previous month after admitting to a corruption inquiry that he sought payment over a property deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283612-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wagga Wagga state by-election\nThe day after the vote ABC election expert Antony Green predicted the by-election would be won by independent candidate Joe McGirr. McGirr was later confirmed as the victorious candidate by the New South Wales Electoral Commission, winning 59.6% of the two-candidate preferred vote over Liberal candidate Julia Ham. The Liberal primary vote plunged more than 28%\u2013a loss of almost half of their primary vote from 2015\u2013resulting in the seat falling out of Liberal hands for the first time since 1957. McGirr only trailed the Liberals by 28 votes on the first count, and was elected on Labor preferences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283612-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wagga Wagga state by-election\nThe by-election came two weeks after two federal Liberal leadership spills on 21 and 24 August, which resulted in the removal of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The massive primary vote swing against the Liberals was put down to fallout from the spills. The swing against the Liberals was actually large enough to make this long-standing conservative bastion a notional Labor seat in a \"traditional\" two-party-preferred contest between the Liberals and Labor for the first time in over 60 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283612-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wagga Wagga state by-election, Candidates\nThe Nationals elected not to field a candidate, following considerable debate between the two Coalition partners. Although Wagga Wagga had been held by the Liberals without interruption since 1957, a number of Nationals believed Wagga Wagga was naturally a National seat. It is located within an area that has long been considered National heartland, and is mostly served by the safe federal National seat of Riverina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283613-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wagner Seahawks football team\nThe 2018 Wagner Seahawks football team represented Wagner College in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC). They were led by fourth-year head coach Jason Houghtaling and played their home games at Wagner College Stadium. Wagner finished the season 4\u20137 overall and 3\u20133 in NEC play to place fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283613-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wagner Seahawks football team, Previous season\nThe Seahawks finished the 2017 season 4\u20137, 2\u20134 in NEC play to finish in a tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283613-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wagner Seahawks football team, Preseason, NEC coaches poll\nThe NEC released their preseason coaches poll on July 24, 2018, with the Seahawks predicted to finish in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283613-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wagner Seahawks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-NEC team\nThe Seahawks placed two players on the preseason all-NEC team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283614-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wakayama gubernatorial election\nWakayama Prefecture held a gubernatorial election in November 2018. Incumbent Yoshinobu Nisaka was reelected for a fourth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283615-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team\nThe 2018 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team represented Wake Forest University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by fifth-year head coach Dave Clawson, and played their home games at BB&T Field. Wake Forest competed in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference as they have since the league's inception in 1953. They finished the season 7\u20136, 3\u20135 in ACC play to finish in a tie for fifth place in the Atlantic Division. They were invited to the Birmingham Bowl where they defeated Memphis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283615-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Previous season\nThe Demon Deacons finished the 2017 season 8\u20135, 4\u20134 in ACC play to finish in a three-way tie for third place in the Atlantic Division. They were invited to the Belk Bowl where they defeated Texas A&M.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283615-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Preseason, ACC media poll\nThe ACC media poll was released on July 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283615-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Schedule\nWake Forest announced their schedule for the 2018 season on January 17, 2018. The Demon Deacons' schedule consist of 7 home games and 5 away games. Wake Forest host conference opponents Boston College, Clemson, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse, and travel to Duke, Florida State, Louisville, and NC State. The Demon Deacons play out of conference games against Tulane of the AAC, Towson of the Division I FCS CAA, Notre Dame who competes as an Independent, and Rice of C-USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283616-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's soccer team\nThe 2018 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's soccer team represented Wake Forest University during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 72nd season of the university fielding a program. It was the program's fourth season with Bobby Muuss as head coach. The Demon Deacons played their home matches at Spry Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283616-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's soccer team, Background\nThe 2017 Wake Forest men's soccer team finished the season with a 19\u20132\u20132 overall record and a 7\u20130\u20131 ACC record. The Demon Deacons were seeded first\u2013overall in the 2017 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament, and they went on to win the tournament. The Demon Deacons earned an automatic bid into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament for winning the ACC Tournament. As the first\u2013overall seed in the tournament, Wake Forest defeated Columbia and Butler, before losing to eventual champions Stanford in the Quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283616-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's soccer team, Background\nAt the end of the season, three Demon Deacons men's soccer players were selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft: Jon Bakero, Ema Twumasi and Luis Argudo. Bakero and Twumasi were both taken in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283616-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's soccer team, Squad, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283617-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election\nThe 2018 Wakefield Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council in England. The election was held on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party and the Conservative Party fielded a full slate of 21 candidates, as well as 12 Liberal Democrats, 6 Yorkshire Party candidates, 4 Green Party candidates, 3 UK Independence Party candidates, 1 Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate and 1 Democrats and Veteran's Party candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283617-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election, Council make-up\nThe make up of the Council following the election was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 70], "content_span": [71, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283617-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election, Ward results, Ossett ward\n*Nick Farmer, previously won the seat of Ossett in the local elections of 2014. He resigned from the UK Independence Party in 2017 and took up his seat as an Independent. He later joined the Conservative Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB\nThe 2018 Wales Rally GB (formally known as the 74. Dayinsure Wales Rally GB) was a motor racing event for rally cars that took place over four days between 4 and 7 October 2018. The event was open to entries competing in World Rally Cars and cars complying with Group R regulations. It marked the seventy-fourth running of Rally Great Britain and was the eleventh round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship, the highest class of competition in international rallying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB\nSixty crews, including manufacturer teams and privateers, were entered to compete in the World Rally Championship, the FIA World Rally Championship-2 and FIA World Rally Championship-3 support series and the MSA British Rally Championship. The 2018 event was based in Deeside in Flintshire and consisted of twenty-three special stages throughout North and Mid-Wales. The rally covered a total competitive distance of a 318.34\u00a0km (197.81 miles) and an additional 1,083.01\u00a0km (672.95 miles) in transport stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB\nThe M-Sport Ford World Rally Team crew of Elfyn Evans and Daniel Barritt were the defending rally winners. Pontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson of \u0160koda Motorsport were the defending winners of the World Rally Championship-2, and French privateers Rapha\u00ebl Astier and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Vauclare were the reigning winners in the World Rally Championship-3 category; however, Astier and Vauclare did not defend their title as they did not enter the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB\nThe rally was won by S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia. The result marked their fifth win in Wales and saw them become the most successful crew in the history of the event. Ogier and Ingrassia moved to within seven points of championship leaders Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul. Toyota's Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila finished second, with their teammates Esapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm completing the podium. M-Sport Ford World Rally Team were the manufacturers' winners, whilst Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT extended their lead in the manufacturers' championship. The \u0160koda Motorsport II crew of Kalle Rovanper\u00e4 and Jonne Halttunen won in the World Rally Championship-2 in a \u0160koda Fabia R5, while the local crew of Tom Williams and Phil Hall won in the World Rally Championship-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nThierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul entered the round as the leaders of the World Rally Championship for Drivers and the World Rally Championship for Co-Drivers respectively. They held a thirteen-point lead over Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja. Defending World Champions S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were third, a further ten points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT held a five-point lead over Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nIn the World Rally Championship-2 standings, Jan Kopeck\u00fd and Pavel Dresler led the drivers' and co-drivers' standings by thirty-two points, but did not contest the rally. Pontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson were in second place, thirty-eight points ahead of privateers Gus Greensmith and Craig Parry. \u0160koda Motorsport II held a seventeen-point lead over sister team \u0160koda Motorsport in the teams' championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Championship standings prior to the event\nNewly crowned Junior World Rally Champion Emil Bergkvist led the World Rally Championship-3 drivers' standings. Denis R\u00e5dstr\u00f6m was second, six points behind Bergkvist and Jean-Baptiste Franceschi third; Franceschi entered the rally, but did not nominate it as a round to score points. Johan Johansson held a one-point lead over Romain Courbon in the co-drivers' standings, while Tatu H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen was another eleven points behind. In the teams' championship, ACI Team Italia led Castrol Ford Team Turkiye by sixteen points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Entry list\nThe following crews were entered into the rally. The entry list consisted of sixty crews, including eleven World Rally Car entries, fourteen entries in the World Rally Championship-2, four in the World Rally Championship-3 and nineteen in the British national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Calendar changes\nThe event swapped places on the calendar with the Rally Catalunya de Espa\u00f1a. Where the 2017 rally was run as the penultimate round of the championship, the 2018 event was brought forward from the last week of October to the first week in the expectation of better weather conditions for the event. Toyota driver Jari-Matti Latvala anticipated that the change would see the rally run with stable, more-predictable temperatures than in previous years, making it easier to set the car up for the prevailing conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Calendar changes\nFurther changes to the calendar saw the revival of Rally Turkey as a replacement for Rally Poland. The Turkish event was named as the tenth round of the championship and in light of the distance crews needed to travel from Turkey to Wales, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)\u2014the governing body of international motorsport\u2014gave entrants an additional week to prepare for Rally GB compared to previous years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Route\nThe 2018 event featured a heavily revised route from the 2017 rally. The route for the 2018 event was designed to be more challenging than the routes used in previous years. The changes were introduced in response to criticism from crews and teams over the lengthy transport route, or the route taken on public roads to travel between special stages. The final route featured an additional 14.98\u00a0km (9.31 miles) in competitive kilometres compared to the 2017 route and the transport distance was shortened. The changes to the route allowed the crews to return to the service park in Deeside at the end of the first day of competition as the omission of the return to the service park had been one of the teams' criticisms of the 2017 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Route, Details\nThe rally was made up of gravel roads through forests and moors. Many of these roads received little commercial traffic through the year aside from forestry maintenance and logging projects. Unlike events such as Rally Italia Sardegna and Rally Australia where loose gravel on the road surface creates dust, the road surface in Wales is made up of heavier gravel on a hard-packed road base. This creates more grip for crews in the dry, but the roads can become muddy and rutted in wet weather, particularly when a stage is used multiple times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Route, Details\nThe event featured two days in northern Wales and one day in the middle of the country. The first leg was 111.20\u00a0km (69.10 miles) long and started with a spectator stage at Tir Prince Raceway on the evening of 4 October. It then moved into the forests of Conwy and Gwynedd on 5 October and was made up of two passes over Clocaenog Forest, Penmachno Forest and a new stage formed by merging the Brenig reservoir stage\u2014which was run as the Power Stage between 2014 and 2017\u2014with the Alwen stage using parts of the B4501 to connect them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Route, Details\nNow known as Brenig, it was the longest stage of the rally at 29.19\u00a0km (18.14 miles). Penmachno Forest was run in its full length by using public roads. The Cholmondeley Castle spectator stage in England was removed and replaced by a new spectator stage called Slate Mountain. The rally moved to Powys and Ceredigion on 6 October for the longest day of the rally, totalling 146.45\u00a0km (91.00 miles) competitive kilometres. It consisted of two passes over the Myherin, Hafren, Dyfi and Gartheiniog stages and a single running of Dyfnant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Route, Details\nThe Hafren stage was extended to include the Sweet Lamb spectator arena. The 2018 event marked the first time since 1997 that these five stages were run on the same day. The rally returned to northern Wales on 7 October and the forests of Conwy and Snowdonia. The third leg was the shortest of the rally at 60.20\u00a0km (37.41 miles) long and featured Elsi, a brand new stage, and two passes of Gwydir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0010-0003", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Route, Details\nThe Gwydir stage was doubled in length from previous years before the rally concludes with two passes over a spectator stage around the Great Orme headland and the streets of Llandudno. A shortened version of the Great Orme stage had previously been used in 2011 when it was run in the opposite direction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Route, Details\nOrganisers of the event had a dispute with the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) over the planned route. The original proposal featured the Great Orme stage\u2014which had previously featured in the route of the 2013 event\u2014as the event's Power Stage. However, the FIA rejected the route as the proposed stage was not representative of the rally; the route primarily consisted of gravel stages, but the proposed stage was tarmac. The dispute was resolved when the organisers agreed to run the first pass over Gwydir as the Power Stage, allowing the event to finish in Llandudno as originally planned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Route, Details\nThe inclusion of public roads in the route was made possible with the passage of the Deregulation Act 2015 by the British government, which amended parts of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to make it possible for events to close public roads to be used for motor racing events in the United Kingdom. In February 2018, the National Assembly for Wales passed the Road Traffic Act 1988 (Motor Racing) (Wales) Regulations 2018, a piece of secondary legislation that enabled motor racing events to take place on public roads in Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Route, Reception\nThe new route was received positively by drivers\u2014particularly former Citro\u00ebn driver Kris Meeke\u2014who appreciated the inclusion of challenging stages. Thierry Neuville and Craig Breen also applauded the route as the best route used by the rally since it moved from Cardiff to Deeside. Defending rally winner Elfyn Evans had a more muted response, expressing disappointment that organisers had not taken full advantage of road closures to create a more demanding route, such as merging the Dyfi and Gartheiniog stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Background, Route, Reception\nRally organisers revealed that they had considered many of the suggestions Evans had raised, but chose a more conservative approach to road closures as the legislation that allowed them to close roads had only been passed in February 2018 and they wanted to ensure that the protocol had been followed properly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Leg 1\nEsapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm completed the opening super special stage three tenths of a second ahead of fellow Toyota crew Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila and championship leaders Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul, who tied for second. As the event moved into the forest stages, Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja\u2014who entered the rally having taken three consecutive victories\u2014dominanted the early running. He won five of the eight stages and established a comfortable lead to end the day twenty-eight seconds ahead of Neuville and Gilsoul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Leg 1\nT\u00e4nak had been closely matched by defending rally winners Elfyn Evans and Daniel Barritt until their Fiesta WRC developed a misfire and was forced to retire from the leg. Latvala and Anttila dropped down to third overall after losing their rhythm in the afternoon loop. Lappi and Ferm recovered from an early spin to finish fourth, while S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia completed the leg in fifth. Ogier and Ingrassia had fallen to eighth during the first pass over the stages when they suffered a series of spins and the loss of first and second gear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Leg 1\nTheir M-Sport Ford teammates Teemu Suninen and Mikko Markkula completed the team's woes when they slid off the road and into a ditch; Suninen and Markkula were unable to re-enter the rally. Craig Breen and Scott Martin were the lead Citro\u00ebn crew in sixth after enjoying a trouble-free day, ahead of Hyundai crews led Hayden Paddon and Sebastian Marshall in seventh and Andreas Mikkelsen and Anders J\u00e6ger-Synnevaag in eighth. Both Paddon and Mikkelsen complained of unpredictable handling in their cars, particularly during the afternoon loop of stages when rain affected the profile of the roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0014-0003", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Leg 1\nNeuville, by comparison, reported that his car's handling improved in the afternoon, benefiting from a new specification of tyre provided by Michelin that offered improved grip whilst being more durable than previous tyres. Citro\u00ebn's Mads \u00d8stberg and Torstein Eriksen were the last of the drivers in a World Rally Car-specification entry, finishing the leg in ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Leg 2\nOtt T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja continued their form through the opening stages of the second leg until they were forced to retire. T\u00e4nak damaged his radiator after a heavy landing off a jump during the second pass through Sweet Lamb Hafren. T\u00e4nak and J\u00e4rveoja had experienced similar retirements in the Rallies of Portugal and Sardinia. Ogier and Ingrassia experienced a resurgence, climbing from fifth place to take the lead; however, Ogier chose the more-durable medium compound tyres as the dry gravel would damage the faster soft compound, and was unable to build a lead of his own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Leg 2\nHe finished the leg with a slender four-second advantage over the surviving Toyotas of Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila in second place and Esapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm in third. Craig Breen and Scott Martin ended the leg in fourth, some fifteen seconds off the lead. The reversal of the running order for the second leg meant that Mads \u00d8stberg and Torstein Eriksen ran with favourable road conditions, which allowed them to find some pace in the morning loop and climb the leaderboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0015-0002", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Leg 2\nAndreas Mikkelsen and Anders J\u00e6ger-Synnevaag similarly benefited from their road position, winning three of the day's stages and finishing the leg two and a half seconds behind \u00d8stberg and Eriksen. Hayden Paddon and Sebastian Marshall completed the day in seventh overall ahead of Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul; Neuville and Gilsoul had been running second at the time, but lost fifty-one seconds when they ran off the road in the early morning stages and he conceded a further fifteen seconds to Ogier and Ingrassia when they was unable to match the leaders' pace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Leg 3\nThe final leg of the rally saw Ogier and Ingrassia trade places with Latvala and Anttila several times. Ogier and Ingrassia initially held the advantage, but a fast time by Latvala and Anttila through the Gwydir Power Stage\u2014that saw them take the five bonus points\u2014was enough to seize the lead. Latvala and Anttila held the lead through the first pass over Great Orme Llandudno, only for Ogier and Ingrassia to reclaim it on the return to Gwydir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Leg 3\nThe final stage was delayed following an incident that required the attention of emergency services and not all of the competitors were able to start the stage. Latvala and Anttila was unable to set a competitive time, meaning Ogier and Ingrassia only needed to finish to claim victory. They ultimately set a time fast enough to win the stage and the rally, taking twenty-five World Championship points for the win and an additional three points for third place on the Power Stage. Esapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm completed the podium and scored an extra Power Stage point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0016-0002", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Leg 3\nCraig Breen and Scott Martin were fourth, ahead of Neuville and Gilsoul. Neuville and Gilsoul led the three Hyundais, with Mikkelsen and J\u00e6ger-Synnevaag in sixth and Paddon and Marshall seventh. Mads \u00d8stberg and Torstein Eriksen were eighth, with the final points-scoring places going to World Rally Championship-2 entrants Kalle Rovanper\u00e4 and Jonne Halttunen and their \u0160koda Motorsport teammates Pontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson. Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja re-entered under Rally2 regulations and finished nineteenth overall, scoring four points on the Power Stage in the process. Elfyn Evans and Daniel Barritt also re-entered and finished twentieth in the final classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Support categories\nIn the World Rally Championship-2 standings, eighteen year-old Kalle Rovanper\u00e4 and co-driver Jonne Halttunen finished the first leg as the category leader and tenth in the overall standings. Rovanper\u00e4 and Halttunen won every stage but one to establish a lead of fifty-five seconds over teammates Pontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson, while British privateers Gus Greensmith and Alessandro Gelsomino finished the leg in third. Rovanper\u00e4 and Halttunen maintained their lead over Tidemand and Andersson throughout the second leg and the two crews climbed to ninth and tenth in the overall classification following the retirement of T\u00e4nak and J\u00e4rveoja.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Support categories\nRovanper\u00e4 and Halttunen went on to win the category by ninety-four seconds, aided by an off-road excursion by Tidemand and Andersson in the Power Stage. Tidemand and Andersson damaged their rear suspension, but were able to continue after repairing the damage during a transport stage. The result was Rovanper\u00e4 and Haltunnen's second win in the category. Tidemand and Andersson recovered to finish second, with Greensmith and Gelsomino finishing third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Support categories\nTom Williams and Phil Hall led the first leg in the World Rally Championship-3 category after trading stage wins with Taisko Lario and Tatu H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen throughout the day. Williams and Hall's lead was consolidated during the second leg when Lario and H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen were late checking into a stage and had thirty seconds added to his time as a penalty. Williams and Hall went on to win the event, marking their first victory in the category. Italian privateers Enrico Brazzoli and Luca Beltrame caught and passed Lario and H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen during the second leg and held the position until the end of the rally. Lario and H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen ultimately finished third overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Report, Support categories\nThe first two legs of the rally also served as the final two rounds of the MSA British Rally Championship. M-Sport driver Matt Edwards and co-driver Darren Garrod secured the 2018 championship title with fourth place on the first leg of the rally. Edwards and Garrod won the second leg and were the highest-place national entrant at the end of the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Classification, Power stage\nThe Power stage was a 14.70\u00a0km stage run on the final day of the rally. Additional World Drivers' and Co-drivers' Championship points were awarded to the five fastest crews. As the Power Stage was not the final stage of the rally, crews had to complete the event to be eligible to receive the points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Classification, Penalties\nThe following crews were given time penalties during the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283618-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales Rally GB, Classification, Retirements\nThe following crews retired from the event. Under Rally2 regulations, they were eligible to re-enter the event starting from the next leg. Crews that re-entered were given an additional time penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283619-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales rugby union tour to Argentina and the United States\nIn June 2018, Wales played a two-test series against Argentina as part of the 2018 June rugby union tests. It was Wales's first test series against Argentina since their 2006 tour. Ahead of the test series, Wales played South Africa in a one-off test match in Washington, D.C..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283619-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales rugby union tour to Argentina and the United States, Squads\nNote: Ages, caps and clubs are as per 9 June, the first test match of the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 70], "content_span": [71, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283619-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales rugby union tour to Argentina and the United States, Squads, Wales\nOn 8 May, head coach Warren Gatland named a 31-man squad for the 2018 Summer Internationals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283619-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales rugby union tour to Argentina and the United States, Squads, Wales\nOn 16 May, Luke Charteris, Tomas Francis and Josh Adams were forced to pull out of the squad due to selection protocols, while Josh Navidi withdrew due to injury. Ashton Hewitt, Rhodri Jones and Aaron Wainwright were called up in their places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283619-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales rugby union tour to Argentina and the United States, Squads, Wales\nOn 27 May, Aaron Shingler and Ashton Hewitt withdrew from the squad due to injury. Josh Turnbull was called up as a replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283619-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales rugby union tour to Argentina and the United States, Squads, Wales\nOn 3 June, Steff Evans withdrew from the squad due to injury. Josh Adams and Tomas Francis were recalled to the squad in his place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283619-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales rugby union tour to Argentina and the United States, Squads, Argentina\nArgentina 30-man squad for their 2018 June rugby union tests against Wales and Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 81], "content_span": [82, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283619-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales rugby union tour to Argentina and the United States, Squads, Argentina\nNote: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 81], "content_span": [82, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283619-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales rugby union tour to Argentina and the United States, Matches, Warm-up match\nTouch judges:Alexandre Ruiz (France)Frank Murphy (Ireland)Television match official:David Grashoff (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 86], "content_span": [87, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283619-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales rugby union tour to Argentina and the United States, Matches, First test\nTouch judges:Jaco Peyper (South Africa)Mathieu Raynal (France)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 83], "content_span": [84, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283619-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Wales rugby union tour to Argentina and the United States, Matches, Second test\nTouch judges:Mathieu Raynal (France)Andrew Brace (Ireland)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 84], "content_span": [85, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283620-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wallis and Futuna's 1st constituency by-election\nA by-election was held in Wallis and Futuna's 1st constituency on 15 April 2018. The by-election was called after the Constitutional Council invalidated the election of Napole Polutele, miscellaneous left candidate in the June 2017 legislative elections and member of the UDI, Agir and Independents group in the National Assembly, on 2 February 2018. Sylvain Brial defeated outgoing deputy Polutele in the first round of the by-election on 15 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283620-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wallis and Futuna's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nIn the 2017 legislative elections, miscellaneous left candidate Napole Polutele was elected in the first round with 50.24% of the vote against another miscellaneous left candidate, Sylvain Brial, who obtained 46.19% of votes, and Herv\u00e9 Michel of The Republicans (LR), who secured 3.57% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283620-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Wallis and Futuna's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nPolutele, one of four deputies elected in the first round of the legislative elections, sponsored the candidacy of Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election and announced that he would sit with the presidential majority in the National Assembly; he ultimately joined the Constructives group as a related member, having sat as a member of the Socialist group in the previous legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283620-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wallis and Futuna's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nAfter the election, Sylvain Brial decided to appeal the result to the Constitutional Council, claiming to have discovered irregularities in electoral lists and proxy votes. On 2 February 2018, the constitutional council ruled to void the election of Polutele. Under article L. 64 of the electoral code, should a voter be unable to sign the electoral roll at a polling station, the signature affixed, as required the third paragraph of article L. 62-1, should read \"l'\u00e9lecteur ne peut signer lui-m\u00eame\" (\"the voter cannot sign themselves\") and be provided by a voter of their choice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283620-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Wallis and Futuna's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nHowever, 36 voters merely inscribed a \"single cross\" that could not be considered a signature, in addition to one voter unable to sign themselves whose vote was accompanied by the signature of another voter. Furthermore, 21 proxy votes were discarded under article R. 75 of the electoral code, either because no signature was given, or because a cross was provided rather than a signature. Because 57 votes were deducted and Polutele avoided a second round by only 16 votes, the constitutional council invalidated the election, triggering a by-election within three months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283620-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wallis and Futuna's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nOn 2 March 2018, the first round of the by-election was scheduled for 15 April 2018, with a second round on 22 April if no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283620-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wallis and Futuna's 1st constituency by-election, Background\nAfter his defeat, Polutele filed an appeal with the constitutional council on 26 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283621-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Walsall Council election took place on 3 May 2018, to elect members of Walsall Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283622-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Walsh Cup\nThe 2018 Walsh Cup was an inter-county hurling competition based mainly in the Irish province of Leinster. It took place in December 2017 and January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283622-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Walsh Cup\nFor the first time, no third-level college teams took part. 10 Leinster counties, plus Antrim, competed. Longford and Louth entered the second-ranked Kehoe Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283622-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Walsh Cup\nWexford were the 2018 champions, beating Kilkenny 3-2 in a free-taking competition after the final ended level on 1-24 each after extra time. This was the first inter-county hurling game to be decided by the taking of frees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283622-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Walsh Cup, Format\nThere are 11 teams, in three groups of 3 teams and one group of 2 teams. In the three-team groups, each team plays the other teams once. In the two-team group, the teams play each other twice. Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283623-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Waltham Forest London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Waltham Forest Council election was held on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Waltham Forest London Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283624-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wandsworth London Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Wandsworth Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Wandsworth Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283624-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wandsworth London Borough Council election\nThe Conservative Party retained control of the council with a reduced majority, although the Labour Party made 7 gains and won the popular vote across the borough by a narrow margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283624-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wandsworth London Borough Council election, Overall results\nThe Conservatives retained control of the council, winning 33 seats (down 8). Labour won 26 (up 7), while 1 seat was won by an independent, Malcolm Grimston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283624-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wandsworth London Borough Council election, Ward results\nMalcolm Grimston was elected in 2014 as a Conservative, before becoming an Independent. Changes are shown from the 2014 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283625-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Waratah Cup\nThe 2018 Waratah Cup was the 16th season of Football NSW's knockout competition. The Preliminary Rounds are now a part of the FFA Cup competition. The 5 winners from the FFA Cup preliminary Seventh Round qualified for the Waratah Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283625-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Waratah Cup\nThe Cup was won by APIA Leichhardt Tigers, their 5th title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283625-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Waratah Cup, Preliminary rounds\nNew South Wales clubs, other than Northern NSW and A-League clubs, participate in the FFA Cup via the preliminary rounds. The competition is for all Senior Men's teams of the National Premier Leagues NSW, NPL 2, NPL 3, NSW State League, as well as Association teams which applied to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283625-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Waratah Cup, Preliminary rounds\nA total of 169 clubs entered into the competition, and the five qualifiers were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283625-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Waratah Cup, Elimination Playoff\nTwo of the qualifiers played-off to reduce the remaining teams to 4 teams, with the match played on 13 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283625-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Waratah Cup, Semi finals\nA total of 4 teams took part in this stage of the competition, with the matches played on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283626-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Warrington Wolves season\nThis article details the Warrington Wolves Rugby League Football Club's 2018 season. This is the Wolves' 23rd consecutive season in the Super League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283627-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Warriors FC season\nThe 2018 season is Warriors' 23rd consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the S.League. Along with the S.League, the club will also compete in the Prime League, the Singapore Cup and the Singapore League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283627-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Warriors FC season, Transfers, Pre-Season transfers, Out\nNote 1: Gabriel Quak was initially signed to a deal but released after Navy FC wanted to sign him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283627-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Warriors FC season, Transfers, Pre-Season transfers, Out\nNote 2: Ridhuan Muhammad was released by Borneo FC after the Cup Competition, thus making him a free agent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283627-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Warriors FC season, Transfers, Pre-Season transfers, Out\nNote 3: Baihakki Khaizan moved to Muangthong United but was loaned to Udon Thani before the new season start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283628-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington House of Representatives election\nThe 2018 Washington House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Washington state voters elected state representatives in all 98 seats of the House, electing 2 state representatives in each of the 49 Washington state legislative districts. State representatives serve two-year terms in the Washington House of Representatives. A statewide map of Washington's state legislative districts is provided by the Washington State Legislature .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283628-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington House of Representatives election\nA top two primary election on August 7, 2018 determined which candidates appeared on the November 6 general election ballot. Each candidate is allowed to write in her or his party preference so that it appears as she or he desires on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283628-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington House of Representatives election\nDemocrats increased their 50\u201348 majority in the 2016 elections by flipping seven seats to hold 57 seats to Republicans' 41.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283628-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington House of Representatives election\nOnly three districts, the 10th, 19th, and 42nd, elected their two representatives from different parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283629-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Huskies baseball team\nThe 2018 Washington Huskies baseball team were representing the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. Head Coach Lindsay Meggs was in his 9th year coaching the Huskies. They play their home games at Husky Ballpark and were members of the Pac-12 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283629-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Huskies baseball team\nThe Huskies finished third in the Pac-12. They won the Conway Regional and Fullerton Super Regional to reach the 2018 College World Series, their first time advancing to Omaha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283629-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Huskies baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283630-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Huskies football team\nThe 2018 Washington Huskies football team represented the University of Washington during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Chris Petersen led the team in his fifth season as head coach. Washington competed as a member of the North Division of the Pac-12 Conference and played their home games on campus at Husky Stadium in Seattle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283630-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Huskies football team\nThe Huskies began the year ranked sixth in the preseason AP Poll and were the preseason favorites to win the Pac-12. In their first game of the year, Washington lost to then-No. 9 Auburn in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game played in Atlanta. The team rebounded and won the following five games before losing on the road to rival Oregon in overtime, and again two weeks later against California. With the Pac-12 North Division title on the line, Washington defeated in-state rival and seventh-ranked Washington State on the road in the 111th Apple Cup. The Huskies won their second Pac-12 title in three years by defeating Utah in the 2018 Pac-12 Football Championship Game. The team was invited to the Rose Bowl, where they were defeated by Ohio State to end the year at 10\u20134, 7\u20132 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283630-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Huskies football team\nWashington was led offensively by senior quarterback Jake Browning, who threw for 3,192 yards and 16 touchdowns, and senior running back Myles Gaskin, who rushed for 1,268 yards and 12 touchdowns. Browning became the school's all-time passing leader on September 29 in the team's game against BYU, while Gaskin added to his all-time career rushing records that he set in 2017. The Husky defense was led by senior linebacker Ben Burr-Kirven, who led the Pac-12 in tackles and was named the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year. Burr-Kirven was named a first-team All-American by several selectors including the Associated Press.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283630-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Huskies football team, Previous season\nThe Huskies finished the 2017 season 10\u20133, 7\u20132 in Pac-12 play to win a share of the North Division title with Stanford. Due to their head-to-head loss to Stanford, they did not represent the North Division in the Pac-12 Championship Game. They were invited to the Fiesta Bowl where they lost to Penn State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283630-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Huskies football team, Preseason, Transfers\nThe Huskies added 1 player and lost 7 players due to transfers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283630-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Huskies football team, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Day\nThe 2018 Pac-12 media day took place on July 25, 2018 in Hollywood, California. Chris Petersen (HC), Jake Browning (QB) & Jojo McIntosh (DB) at Pac-12 Media Day. The Pac-12 media poll was released with the Huskies predicted to win the Pac-12 North division title and Pac-12 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283630-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Huskies football team, Awards and honors, Dodd Trophy Coach of the Week\nPac-12 Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year: Ben Burr-Kirven", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 87], "content_span": [88, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283630-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Huskies football team, Postseason, NFL Scouting Combine\nNine members of the 2018 team were invited to participate in drills at the 2019 NFL Scouting Combine held between February 26 and March 4, 2019 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283630-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Huskies football team, Postseason, NFL Draft\nThe following Washington players were either selected or signed as undrafted free agents following the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283631-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1631\nThe Washington Carbon Emissions Fee and Revenue Allocation Initiative, also known as Initiative 1631 or the Protect Washington Act was a ballot initiative that appeared on ballots in the State of Washington in the November 2018 election. The initiative proposed to reduce pollution by levying a fee on greenhouse gas emissions generated within the state of Washington, and using that revenue to support air quality and energy projects, as well as water quality and forest health initiatives. The measure failed with 56.3% of voters rejecting it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283631-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1631, Ballot title\nInitiative Measure No. 1631 concerns pollution. This measure would charge pollution fees on sources of greenhouse gas pollutants and use the revenue to reduce pollution, promote clean energy, and address climate impacts, under oversight of a public board. Should this measure be enacted into law?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283631-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1631, Measure design\nThe measure stated that, beginning on January 1, 2020, a fee of $15 would be enacted on each metric ton of carbon emitted in the state of Washington. The fee would increase by $2 every year until the state's greenhouse gas emissions target for 2035 is met, and the state's emissions target for 2050 is on track to be met.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283631-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1631, Measure design\nThese goals had previously been set by the Washington State Legislature, which passed a law in 2008 that required the state to reduce its emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, 25% below 1990 levels by 2035, and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. As of 2018, the state is not on track to achieve those goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283631-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1631, Background\nEnvironmental advocates in Washington had previously attempted to pass carbon pricing measures. Washington Initiative 732, a \"tax swap\" proposal to levy a tax on carbon emissions and simultaneously reduce the state's sales tax, had appeared on the ballot in the 2016 election, but failed to pass. Initiative 1631 differed in that it proposed to use revenue from carbon fees to invest in projects to reduce pollution. These include projects related to transportation, energy efficiency, carbon sequestrations in farms and forests, and clean energy. The initiative also proposed to invest over $250 million in climate adaptation in the areas of forestry and water conservation. The particular projects funded would be determined by a board appointed by the Governor of Washington that would be directed to invest 70% of the revenue in clean energy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 890]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283631-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1631, Support\nThe initiative was drafted by a broad coalition of labor, faith, social justice, health, tribal, and environmental justice groups, such as Front and Centered, a coalition of people of color and low-income people advocating for a just transition. It was also supported by Carbon Washington, the organization that had put Initiative 732 on the ballot. Other organizations that supported the initiative included Stand.earth, The Nature Conservancy, and local chapters of 350.org and the Sierra Club. Elected officials who supported this initiative included United States Representative Pramila Jayapal and Washington Governor Jay Inslee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283631-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1631, Opposition\nThe \"No on 1631\" campaign was sponsored by the Western States Petroleum Association. The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers and its members spent over $30 million to defeat the measure. Companies that funded the campaign against the initiative included Cascade Natural Gas, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, and Phillips 66. Atmospheric sciences professor Cliff Mass opposed the initiative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283631-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1631, Opposition\nOthers opposed the measure because section 9(c) specifically exempted \"Fossil fuels directly or eventually supplied to a light and power business for purposes of generating electricity\" from the carbon tax. This meant that coal, gas, and diesel power plants would not directly be responsible for paying the carbon tax. However the majority of electricity generation in Washington state is derived from renewable sources. A 2017 report by The Washington Post indicated that 68% of electricity generated in Washington state comes from hydropower and 7% is from wind turbines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283631-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1631, Opposition\nThe same analysis further indicated that only 4% of Washington's energy comes from burning coal, all of which is generated by the Centralia Power Plant. This plant will begin phasing out its two coal boilers beginning in the year 2020 and transition completely to natural gas by the year 2025. Natural gas currently accounts for only 10% of Washington's energy generation, according to the Washington Post analysis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283631-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1631, Opposition\nUltimately, the initiative did not pass during the 2018 November election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639\nInitiative 1639 was a Washington state ballot initiative concerning firearms regulation that was passed into law on November 6, 2018. The initiative altered the gun laws in Washington by defining the term \"semiautomatic assault rifle\" to include all semiautomatic rifles, raising the minimum age for purchasing semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21. It also imposes a 10-day waiting period before being allowed to claim a rifle from a firearms dealer, and expanded background checks to include medical records requiring a waiver of HIPAA rights. ()", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Scope and impact\nInitiative 1639 was passed into law by a vote of 59 percent to 41 percent in a public referendum that took place on November 6, 2018. The initiative concerned the regulation of firearms and made several amendments to state law: the minimum age of purchase of semiautomatic rifles was raised from 18 to 21, the extent of mandatory background checks for semiautomatic weapons purchasers was expanded, and requirements for home storage of firearms were established. The restrictions created by the legislation did not extend to single shot or bolt action rifles and the new regulations generally mirrored those already in place for handguns. According to The Seattle Times it was the most \"ambitious\" gun control legislation in the history of the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Scope and impact\nThe increased age limit for \"semiautomatic assault firearm\" purchases went into effect on January 1, 2019, but the provision defining such firearms did not go into effect until July 1, 2019, along with other provisions of the law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Campaign\nThe petition drive to place the initiative on the 2018 general election ballot raised $5.3 million, with funding coming from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and others. The proposed initiative was also supported by state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who had previously proposed a statewide ban on semi-automatic rifles in response to the 2016 Mukilteo shooting. The National Rifle Association and other groups opposed to the measure raised approximately $600,000 to campaign against it. Questions about whether the form of the petitions submitted by initiative backers complied with state law resulted in the measure being temporarily blocked from the ballot by order of the Thurston County Superior Court, though a subsequent ruling by the Washington State Supreme Court quashed the lower court injunction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 888]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Results\nInitiative Measure 1639 passed with 59.35% voting Yes and 40.65%, with 1,839,475 Yes votes and 1,259,681 No votes, out of a total of 3,099,156 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Legal challenges, Lawsuit\nA lawsuit seeking to have the law overturned has been filed in federal court by the National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment Foundation. In August 2020, this challenge was dismissed in Federal court. As of August 31, 2020, this challenge has been handed over to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Legal challenges, Enforcement refusals, Background\nThe Revised Code of Washington establishes the state's 39 sheriffs as the \"chief executive officer and conservator of the peace\" of their respective counties and charges each to \"keep and preserve the peace in their respective counties, and quiet and suppress all affrays, riots, unlawful assemblies and insurrections\" and to \"defend the county against those who ... endanger the public peace or safety\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Legal challenges, Enforcement refusals, Background\nIn what has been described as an \"atypical\" situation, a number of county sheriffs have gone on record stating they do not intend to apply the provisions of Initiative 1639 in their counties. Some sheriffs have said they believe Initiative 1639 violates Article I, Section 24 of the Constitution of Washington, which says:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Legal challenges, Enforcement refusals, Background\nThe right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Legal challenges, Enforcement refusals, Background\nOthers have said the law is incongruous in that it would prohibit private ownership of semiautomatic firearms by 18-, 19-, and 20-year-old military veterans who were otherwise determined qualified to bear them by the United States Armed Forces as indicated by their military service. Still other sheriffs have said provisions of the legislation requiring certain measures of home security for privately owned firearms are either impossible to enforce in practice, or are a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits \"unreasonable search\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Legal challenges, Enforcement refusals, Background\nOn February 12, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued an open letter to law enforcement refusing to enforce the initiative. Ferguson wrote that Initiative 1639 should be presumed constitutional as \"no court has ruled that this initiative is unconstitutional.\" Ferguson said if law enforcement refused to perform enhanced background checks on semiautomatic rifle purchases as required by the initiative, they could be held liable if a prohibited individual gets a gun and uses it in a crime. The sheriffs of Franklin and Lincoln counties said that the required background checks would be performed, despite their belief that the initiative is unconstitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Legal challenges, Enforcement refusals, Disposition of sheriffs\nAs of February 2019, the sheriffs of 12 of Washington's 39 counties \u2014 specifically Adams, Benton, Ferry, Grant, Grays Harbor, Kittitas, Klickitat, Mason, Okanogan, Pacific, Stevens, and Yakima counties, representing 1.4 million people, or 19% of the state's 7.5 million population \u2014 said they will not enforce the law, though some have indicated they will only refuse to do so until the final adjudication of pending lawsuits against the legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Legal challenges, Enforcement refusals, Disposition of sheriffs\nThe sheriff of Spokane County said he will not enforce the law, but accused other sheriffs who similarly stated they would not enforce it of \"grandstanding\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Legal challenges, Enforcement refusals, Disposition of sheriffs\nThe sheriffs of Lewis and Wahkiakum counties said they will apply the law in cases where they are aware it was transgressed, but would not take any steps to actively seek out or investigate violators. After warnings from the State Attorney General, two sheriffs who had initially said they would not enforce it, of Franklin, and Lincoln counties, said they would perform the background checks required by the law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Legal challenges, Enforcement refusals, Disposition of sheriffs\nThe sheriff of Cowlitz County has said he is undecided about whether or not to apply the law in his county.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Legal challenges, Enforcement refusals, Disposition of sheriffs\nThe sheriffs of 13 counties, with a total population of 4.8 million, or 64% of the state, specifically Asotin, Chelan, Clallam, Clark, Douglas, Island, Jefferson, King, Pierce, Thurston, Walla Walla, Whatcom, and Whitman counties, said they will enforce the law, though several said they personally opposed it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 96], "content_span": [97, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Legal challenges, Enforcement refusals, Public reaction\nIn an editorial, The News Tribune denounced sheriffs who refused to apply the law as \"agitators\" and accused them of rebellion, writing that the sheriffs who said they would refuse to enforce the law were usurping the legislative and judicial role. In an editorial, the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin described Initiative 1639 as a \"lousy\" law but said the sheriffs of the state's counties should enforce it, a position also taken by the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283632-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Initiative 1639, Legal challenges, Enforcement refusals, Public reaction\nIn early February 2019, several pseudonymous Facebook posts threatened to assassinate sheriffs who refused to enforce the law, specifically naming Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich. A representative of the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, which campaigned for the legislation, condemned the threats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283633-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Mystics season\nThe 2018 WNBA season is the 21st for the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association which began on May 20, 2018. The Mystics qualified for the WNBA Playoffs and reached the WNBA Finals for the first time in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283633-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Mystics season\nThe Mystics started the season strong with a 5\u20131 record in May. Their only loss came to eventual league champions Seattle. However, the team couldn't carry this momentum into June, where they went 5\u20135. The Mystics lost 4 of their first 5 games in June, but turned it around in the second half of the month, winning 4 of their last 5. The up and down season continued into July, where they again went 5\u20135. The Mystics finished the season just like the started it, strongly. With a 7\u20131 August record, the team secured a first round playoff bye, and the third overall seed. The Mystics won seven straight games before dropping their season finale against Minnesota. Their final record of 22\u201312 tied a franchise best, previously set in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283633-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Mystics season\nThe Mystics hosted a second round playoff game against the Los Angeles Sparks and won 96\u201364. This win saw them advance to the semifinals where they met the Atlanta Dream. In the best of five series, the Mystics won the final two games to advance to the 2018 WNBA Finals against the Storm. An injury to star Elena Delle Donne in the semifinals hampered her in the finals, and the Mystics were swept 0\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season\nThe 2018 Washington Nationals season was the Nationals' 14th season as the baseball franchise of Major League Baseball in the District of Columbia, the 11th season at Nationals Park, and the 50th since the original team was started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The regular season began on March 29, 2018, and ended on September 30, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season\nNationals Park hosted the 2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game on July 17, 2018, the first time it hosted a Major League Baseball All-Star Game. It was the fifth MLB All-Star Game held in Washington, D.C., and the first since 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Team news\nThe Washington Nationals announced on October 20, 2017, that manager Dusty Baker and his coaching staff would not return for the 2018 season. Baker had originally been hired after the 2015 season to a two-year deal as manager, which the Nationals opted not to extend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Team news\nAmong the candidates interviewed for the managerial opening were Chicago Cubs bench coach Dave Martinez, former Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell, and New York Mets hitting coach Kevin Long. The Washington Post reported October 29 that Martinez and the Nationals had agreed on a three-year contract with an option for the 2021 season. The hiring was officially announced October 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Team news\nGeneral manager Mike Rizzo said the Nationals chose to zero in on \"someone who is progressive, someone who can connect with and communicate well with our players, and someone who embraces the analytical side of the game\" and concluded Martinez \u2014 who had played for the Montreal Expos years before the team moved to Washington, D.C., and had won the 2016 World Series with the Cubs as manager Joe Maddon's longtime bench coach \u2014 was best suited for the job. Long was announced as the Nationals' hitting coach on November 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0003-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Team news\nThe Nationals rehired Bob Henley as third base coach, also announcing November 9 that former Arizona Diamondbacks manager Chip Hale had been hired as bench coach, former St. Louis Cardinals pitching coach Derek Lilliquist had been hired as pitching coach, and former Seattle Mariners bench coach Tim Bogar had been hired as first base coach. Former major league utilityman Joe Dillon was also hired to support Long as assistant hitting coach. The Nationals rounded out Martinez's staff on November 15, announcing that Cubs quality assurance coach Henry Blanco had been hired as bullpen coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Team news\nThe Nationals had the largest free agent class in Major League Baseball, losing right-handed relievers Matt Albers, Joe Blanton, and Brandon Kintzler; left-handed reliever \u00d3liver P\u00e9rez; starting pitcher Edwin Jackson; backup catcher Jos\u00e9 Lobat\u00f3n; utility players Stephen Drew and Howie Kendrick; and outfielders Alejandro De Aza, Ryan Raburn, and Jayson Werth to free agency as their contracts expired. First baseman and left fielder Adam Lind also became a free agent as the Nationals declined his option. Catcher Matt Wieters decided to exercise his $10.5 million player option, remaining a National for another season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Team news\nThe Nationals signed nearly half of their departing free agents to new contracts: Kintzler agreed to a new deal including club and player options for the 2019 season to stay in Washington, and Kendrick agreed to a two-year deal to return, while Jackson, Raburn, and De Aza re-signed with the Nationals on minor league deals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0004-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Team news\nThe team elected to tender one-year contracts to all three of its arbitration-eligible players \u2014 third baseman Anthony Rendon, right-handed pitcher Tanner Roark, and outfielder Michael A. Taylor \u2014 after having previously reached a one-year extension agreement for right fielder Bryce Harper, who had also been eligible for arbitration in his final year before free agency, for the 2018 season back in May. The team avoided arbitration with all three players, with salary agreements for each being announced January 12, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Team news\nRizzo stated the Nationals were primarily interested in adding right-handed relief pitching, along with \"depth\" for their starting rotation and bench, during the off-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Team news\nAmong the free agents Washington was linked to, with varying reports on their level of interest: catchers Alex Avila (ultimately signed by the Arizona Diamondbacks) and Jonathan Lucroy (ultimately signed by the Oakland Athletics); right-handed relievers Wade Davis (ultimately signed by the Colorado Rockies), Greg Holland, Addison Reed (ultimately signed by the Minnesota Twins), and Hector Rondon (ultimately signed by the Houston Astros); right-handed starting pitchers Jake Arrieta (ultimately signed by the Philadelphia Phillies); Alex Cobb (ultimately signed by the Baltimore Orioles), and Lance Lynn (ultimately signed by the Minnesota Twins); and Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher and outfielder Shohei Ohtani (ultimately signed by the Los Angeles Angels).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0005-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Team news\nThey were also connected to Lind, who had contributed to the team's 2017 season, prior to signing free agent Matt Adams to serve as a backup first baseman and outfielder, as well as to Albers, another 2017 National, before re-signing Kintzler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0005-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Team news\nMedia reports also connected the Nationals to potential trade candidates like catcher J. T. Realmuto and outfielders Marcell Ozuna (ultimately traded to the St. Louis Cardinals) and Christian Yelich (ultimately traded to the Milwaukee Brewers), all of the Miami Marlins; right-handed starting pitcher Gerrit Cole of the Pittsburgh Pirates (ultimately traded to the Houston Astros); and right-handed starting pitchers Chris Archer and Jake Odorizzi (ultimately traded to the Minnesota Twins), both of the Tampa Bay Rays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Team news\nAmid a fairly quiet off-season on the trade front, the Nationals made a deal with the division-rival New York Mets shortly before opening their spring training camp to acquire utility infielder Matt Reynolds for cash considerations. A rumored trade of Wieters to the Athletics during spring training did not materialize, with Oakland instead signing the free agent Lucroy to a major league contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Team news\nThe Nationals' streak of seasons, dating back to their inaugural 2005 season, of not having a player on their active roster test positive for performance-enhancing drugs came to an end February 7, 2018, when Major League Baseball handed catcher Raudy Read an 80-game suspension over a positive test for the banned steroid Boldenone. Read was placed on the restricted list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nThe Nationals held spring training at their facility at The Ballpark of The Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach, Florida, which they shared with the 2017 World Series champion Houston Astros. It was their second year at the facility. On February 16, the Nationals and Astros signed a 12-year deal for the naming rights to the stadium with FITTEAM, an event brand partnership and organic products firm in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, resulting in the facility being renamed FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches effective that day. Astros, Nationals, and FITTEAM executives held a ceremony behind home plate on February 21, 2018, to officially unveil the new name and a new logo for the facility reflecting the name change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nThe Nationals announced 21 non-roster invitees to major league spring training on February 13, 2018: pitchers Tim Collins, Jimmy Cordero, Brady Dragmire, David Goforth, Ismael Guill\u00f3n, Bryan Harper, Edwin Jackson, Jaron Long, Rom\u00e1n M\u00e9ndez, Tommy Milone, Chris Smith, and C\u00e9sar Vargas; catchers Taylor Gushue, Spencer Kieboom, Miguel Montero, and Jhonatan Solano; infielders Osvaldo Abreu, Reid Brignac, and Chris Dominguez; and outfielders Ryan Raburn and Moises Sierra. Pitchers and catchers reported to camp the following day, and position players followed on February 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nThe Nationals announced reliever Koda Glover was dealing with a recurrence of the right shoulder inflammation that had prematurely ended his season in 2017, leading the team to shut him down by February 18. Following the Nationals' signing of Joaquin Benoit to contend for a spot in the major league bullpen, starting pitcher Joe Ross, still rehabbing from Tommy John surgery in July 2017, was placed on the 60-day disabled list effective February 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nWashington sent Milone to the mound to start the opener of Grapefruit League action on February 23, an \"away\" game for the Nationals at FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches against the Astros. Both teams elected to wear the caps of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School baseball team to honor students and staff slain on February 14 in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in nearby Parkland, Florida. Houston took the lead in the third inning with a two-run home run by catcher Max Stassi off Long, who came on in relief of Milone after two scoreless innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nThe Nationals struck back in the fifth inning, with the third baseman Dominguez driving home left fielder Andrew Stevenson after he doubled and then being brought home on an RBI single by first baseman Jose Marmolejos. But the tie game was short-lived, as Dragmire took the mound in the bottom of the fifth and immediately surrendered a solo home run to Astros third baseman J. D. Davis. Both teams were effectively kept off the board for the rest of the game, and the Astros won 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nNationals outfielder Bryce Harper, entering his final season before expected free agency in the winter, suffered an ingrown toenail that required minor surgery on February 28. He was one of several Nationals reported to be dealing with minor injuries, with outfielders Raburn and Michael A. Taylor both scratched from early spring contests with side tightness and first basemen Ryan Zimmerman and Matt Adams also missing several games early in the spring with fleeting health concerns: \"stiffness\" for Zimmerman and a foot blister for Adams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nAdditionally, the Nationals were cautious in their handling of second baseman Daniel Murphy and outfielder Adam Eaton, both recovering from knee surgeries in 2017. Reliever Wander Suero injured his side during an appearance out of the bullpen on March 8, prompting the Nationals to shut him down and option him to minor league camp; fellow right-hander Benoit was shut down in mid-March with a forearm strain. A. J. Cole, attempting to win a spot in the starting rotation, missed a mid-March start due to illness. Shortstop Trea Turner also underwent a procedure on March 19 to remove an ingrown toenail, prompting manager Dave Martinez to quip, \"That's been the trend of spring.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nMinor-league spring training began in the first week of March, and on March 5, the Nationals sent left-handed pitcher Seth Romero home to Houston indefinitely from minor-league camp for repeated curfew violations. Romero \u2013 the Nationals' first-round pick in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft and ranked by MLB Pipeline as the No. 5 prospect in the Nationals organization \u2013 had been suspended twice and finally dismissed permanently for rules violations during his college career with the University of Houston Cougars baseball team, raising concerns about his character, but the Nationals did not cut ties with him. Instead, they gave him a list of things he had to do to earn his way back into the organization, with the expectation that he would meet those requirements and play in the Nationals' farm system again sometime during the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 913]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nThe Nationals made a late addition to their slate of non-roster invitees on March 17, 2018, signing starting pitcher Jeremy Hellickson to a minor league contract with an invitation to major league camp. Hellickson was reportedly brought into the organization to compete for the last spot in the major league rotation, along with Erick Fedde, Cole, Jackson, and Milone. The team announced March 23 that Cole would start the season in the major league rotation, with Hellickson working to build up his stamina as a starter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nThe Nationals informed Montero the following day that he would open the year as the major league backup catcher behind Matt Wieters. The day after that, the Nationals optioned utilitymen Matt Reynolds and Adri\u00e1n S\u00e1nchez to the minor leagues, leaving the team with an extra reliever in the bullpen and a four-man bench at the end of the preseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nVeteran first baseman Ryan Zimmerman's 2018 spring training regimen was extremely unusual and perhaps unprecedented, sparking much discussion and debate among fans and the press. During the spring he appeared in only one major-league game, against the New York Mets at First Data Field at Port St. Lucie, Florida, on March 2, going 1-for-2 with a line out to right fielder Jay Bruce in the first inning and a soft liner into center field for a double off pitcher Hansel Robles in the fourth inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nOtherwise, he stayed out of the public eye, playing strictly in simulated and minor-league games on the back fields of the FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches complex, virtually unobserved by fans and the press. A reported bout Zimmerman had with back stiffness early in spring training led to speculation among fans and the press that Zimmerman and the Nationals were trying to hide an injury from public scrutiny, but the Nationals' staff denied it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0015-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nThey explained that Zimmerman disliked the conventional spring training regimen, seeing himself a needing only 50 at-bats to prepare himself for the regular season, and that he had proposed to manager Dave Martinez early in the 2018 edition of spring training that he restrict himself to the back fields and prepare for the regular season at his own pace to ensure that he would be in the best possible health when the season began, and Martinez had approved of the plan under the assumption that, as a veteran, Zimmerman could be trusted to prepare in a way that was best for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0015-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nBy playing in the more controlled environment of simulated and minor league games, he enjoyed far more flexibility than in Grapefruit League games; he could prepare at his own pace, batting \u2013 even leading off \u2013 in every inning or skipping at-bats, all while having a choice as to whether to play in the field or not from inning to inning. The Nationals' staff assured reporters that Zimmerman was getting plenty of at-bats, looked good on the back fields, and would be fully ready for Opening Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0015-0004", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nIn discussions with the press about his unusual spring training plan, Zimmerman dismissed concerns about his health and preparedness for the regular season, good-naturedly arguing that his success or failure during the regular season would be the best way to judge his spring regimen, and that by early in the regular season fans and reporters would forget all about spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0015-0005", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nBy Opening Day, Zimmerman revealed that he had avoided baserunning and fielding entirely so as to better manage his chronic problems with an arthritic shoulder and plantar fasciitis, and that in simulated and minor-league games he had often had eight at-bats a day rather than the two or three he would have had in Grapefruit League games, and he entered the regular season fully healthy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Offseason, Spring training\nThe Nationals won their penultimate spring training game, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 4\u20132 on March 25 at FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches with starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg striking out 10 Cardinals, most of them regulars, in 52\u20443 innings. They broke camp that day and headed north to Washington, where they completed spring training with an exhibition game at Nationals Park against the Minnesota Twins on March 27. With 23,877 fans looking on \u2013 and Zimmerman choosing not to play \u2013 the Twins beat the Nationals 3-1, and Washington finished spring training with a Grapefruit League record of 13\u201317\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Opening Day, Game recap\nThe Nationals' 2018 regular season began a day later than planned when the Cincinnati Reds made the unusual decision to postpone a game more than 24 hours before the scheduled first pitch, announcing on March 28 that because of a rainy forecast the March 29 Opening Day game at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati \u2013 the earliest opening day in MLB history excluding international openers \u2013 would be postponed until March 30, a date previously scheduled as an off day specifically for the purpose of rescheduling the opener in the event it was postponed. The decision came too late for the Nationals to delay their departure from Washington, and they arrived in Cincinnati on the afternoon of March 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Opening Day, Game recap\nMax Scherzer got the Opening Day start for Washington, striking out eight of the first 11 Reds he faced, including seven in a row. He pitched six shutout innings in which he threw 100 pitches and struck out ten Reds, the 65th 10-strikeout game of his career. The trio of Brandon Kintzler, Ryan Madson, and closer Sean Doolittle pitched the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings and preserved the shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Opening Day, Game recap\nOn offense, the Nationals got on the board early. In the top of the first inning left fielder Adam Eaton led off with a single and right fielder Bryce Harper singled with one out, advancing Eaton to third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Opening Day, Game recap\nFirst baseman Ryan Zimmerman, making his first appearance against major-league pitching since an early Grapefruit League game on March 2, then hit a ground ball to Cincinnati third baseman Eugenio Su\u00e1rez that looked like it would result in an inning-ending double-play, but after Su\u00e1rez threw to second baseman Scooter Gennett to force out Harper, Harper's slide into the base prompted Gennett to bounce his throw to first baseman Joey Votto; Votto could not handle the bounce, and Zimmerman was safe at first on a fielder's choice, allowing Eaton to score what proved to be the decisive run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0019-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Opening Day, Game recap\nIt was the only run Reds starting pitcher Homer Bailey gave up in his own six innings of work, but Bailey took the loss. The Nationals tacked on one more run in the top of the ninth when center fielder Michael A. Taylor \"manufactured\" a run by leading off with a single, stealing second base, advancing to third on a groundout by catcher Matt Wieters, and scoring on a sacrifice fly by pinch-hitter Brian Goodwin. Doolittle then hammered down the save in the bottom of the ninth, striking out two of the four batters he faced in the inning, and the Nationals won 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Opening Day, Game recap\nThe game took place before 43,878 fans, the largest regular-season crowd in the history of Great American Ball Park. It was Nationals manager Dave Martinez's first career win as a manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Record vs. opponents\nThe October 1 tiebreaker games were regular-season games that are included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThe Washington Nationals opened their season with a three-game sweep of the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park, led by left fielder Adam Eaton, who returned from missing eleven months due to a knee injury in April 2017 to go 8-for-13 (.615), including two doubles, two home runs, and a game-opening hit in all three contests, with seven runs scored, five RBIs, and only one strikeout. He went 5-for-5 in the second game of the series on March 31. Eaton and his teammates combined for eight home runs in the series, eclipsing the team record of six over the first three games of a season. On April 2, Eaton was named National League Player of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThe Nationals began their next series on April 2 by beating the Atlanta Braves 8\u20131, winning the first four games of the regular season for the first time since arriving in Washington, It was the first 4\u20130 start for the franchise since the Montreal Expos won their first four games in 1983.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThey dropped their first game of the year to the Braves on April 3, as starting pitcher A. J. Cole hit his first major league home run in the second inning but surrendered 10 earned runs, tying a franchise record for earned runs allowed in a start and taking the loss. Right fielder Bryce Harper homered in his third consecutive game in the 13\u20136 loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThe Nationals returned to Washington with a record of 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nImmediately upon their return, general manager Mike Rizzo signed a two-year contract extension with the Nationals reportedly worth $4 million a year that would keep him in Washington through the end of the 2020 season, and the Nationals announced the deal on the morning of their home opener on April 7. Facing the New York Mets in the Nationals' season opener on April 5, Stephen Strasburg struggled after a strong first inning, ultimately surrendering four earned runs over six innings and being saddled with the loss; the Mets hit three home runs in the contest, including a Jay Bruce grand slam off reliever Brandon Kintzler in the seventh inning that iced the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0024-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nEaton left the game in the top of the sixth inning with a minor ankle injury, a worrying development for the Nationals after his season-ending injury in April 2017. The Nationals challenged Mets starter Jacob deGrom in the sixth, loading the bases with no outs, but failed to score, and Washington shortstop Trea Turner argued with umpire Doug Eddings over an inning-ending called strike and was ejected from the game for the first time in his career. The loss dropped the Nationals' record in home openers to 5\u20139 overall and 4\u20137 at Nationals Park, with first baseman Ryan Zimmerman's limited spring training regimen coming under renewed scrutiny as he struggled at the plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nWith Eaton day-to-day following his removal from the home opener, the Nationals opted to expand their bench by adding utilityman Matt Reynolds, recalling him from the Class-AAA Syracuse Chiefs on April 7. Catcher Miguel Montero was placed on the paternity list and the Nationals purchased the contract of veteran catcher Jhonatan Solano, who had last appeared in the major leagues in the 2015 season, from Syracuse to replace him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nLeft-handed reliever Enny Romero, who had struggled in spring training and over the first seven games of the season, was designated for assignment to clear space on the 40-man roster for Solano. Manager Dave Martinez also confirmed that Cole would remain in the rotation following his 10-run outing against the Braves, but that his next start would be skipped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0025-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nDespite the changes, the Mets followed up their victory in the Nationals' home opener by completing a three-game sweep of the Nationals even though the Nationals had scored first in each game and despite a stand-out offensive performance by Harper, who, playing in only the ninth game of the season on April 8, had already become the first player in MLB history with at least six home runs (leading the National League) and 13 walks in his team's first 10 or fewer games. Kintzler took both losses in relief, following up his disastrous relief appearance in the home opener.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0025-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nMartinez was ejected from the latter game on April 8 after protesting home plate umpire Marty Foster's decision to eject third baseman Anthony Rendon for tossing his bat after a called third strike; it was the first ejection of Martinez's managerial career, and he got his money's worth, throwing his ballcap down and kicking at the dirt around home plate before leaving the field of play. The Nationals completed the Mets series with a record of 4\u20135, their first sub-.500 regular-season record since August 2015, ending an MLB-best 961 straight days at .500 or better. The Nationals' losing streak stretched to five games with the sweep at the hands of the division-rival Mets, their longest since a stretch of seven straight losses in June 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThe Nationals snapped their losing streak behind a 102-pitch, complete-game shutout from Scherzer against the Braves at Nationals Park on April 9, his ninth complete game and fifth shutout in his career, in which he allowed two hits and struck out 10 Braves, issuing no walks and not allowing any Brave to reach second base. Second baseman Howie Kendrick provided all the offense the Nationals needed or would receive in the 2\u20130 contest with a two-run double in the bottom of the first inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nScherzer also notched his first career stolen base on his first career stolen base attempt, singling and then swiping second in the seventh inning off the battery of Atlanta reliever Peter Moylan and catcher Kurt Suzuki; it was the first time in history a Nationals pitcher stole a base. Scherzer's start was nearly matched the following day by Strasburg, who pitched eight shutout innings en route to a 4\u20131 win over Atlanta. The Nationals activated Montero before the game, although he did not play in it, and placed Solano on the 10-day disabled list with bone chips in his elbow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0026-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nEaton was assigned to the 10-day disabled list as well on April 11 with a bone bruise in his ankle. To fill his spot on the roster, the Nationals selected the contract of outfielder Mois\u00e9s Sierra from Class-AAA Syracuse. Montero was designated for assignment to clear a roster spot for Sierra. The Nationals also activated Wieters from the disabled list after he had played in one rehab game at Class-A Advanced Potomac.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0026-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nWashington was unable to complete a three-game sweep of the Braves later that day, as while Cole was much more effective in his second start of the year, giving up two runs and pitching one out into the sixth inning, and the Nationals were able to force extra innings, veteran setup man Ryan Madson surrendered two runs in the twelfth inning to allow the Braves to win 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nWith their offense slumping, the Nationals followed the loss to Atlanta with two more losses at Nationals Park to the Colorado Rockies. The three-game skid dropped the Nationals' record to 6\u20138, the first time they had been two games under .500 since May 15, 2015. The second loss to the Rockies dropped them to 2\u20138 in their past ten games; their last two such stretches had come in 2013 and 2015, the last two seasons in which they had not made the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThe Nationals won on April 14 behind another gem by Scherzer\u2014in which he gave up a two-run homer in the first inning but then retired the next 20 batters in a row before leaving the game after seven innings\u2014but dropped the rubber game against Colorado the next day, with Doolittle serving up a go-ahead home run to Rockies outfielder and former Nationals shortstop Ian Desmond in the ninth inning to lose it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0027-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThe Nationals went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position in the game, falling 6\u20135 despite ten walks, a hit batter, three wild pitches, and a passed ball by Colorado, and the Nationals completed a disappointing 10-game home stand having gone 3\u20137. Scherzer was named National League Player of the Week for the period April 9\u201315, the fourth Player of the Week award of his career, and his second as a National, the previous one having come for the final week of the 2015 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThe Nationals made several roster moves on April 16, optioning reliever Trevor Gott to the Class-AAA Syracuse Chiefs, placing catcher Jhonatan Solano on the 60-day disabled list, moving Cole to the bullpen, and activating pitcher Jeremy Hellickson to make his first start as a National in the game that evening against the Mets at Citi Field. Hellickson left the game in the fifth inning with his team trailing the Mets 2\u20131, and relievers Matt Grace and Cole proceeded to give up four runs between them, creating a five-run deficit by the eighth inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0028-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nHowever, the Nationals finally cracked deGrom after another dominant outing from the Mets ace and mounted a furious sustained rally, reeling off six runs against deGrom and the New York bullpen in the eight inning and adding a seventh unanswered run on a solo home run by the second baseman Kendrick in the ninth to stun the Mets 8\u20136 while delivering Cole his first win of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0028-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nOn April 17, the Nationals placed outfielder Brian Goodwin on the 10-day disabled list retroactive to April 16 due to a wrist injury he had suffered while fielding a ball the previous week and called up outfielder Andrew Stevenson from Syracuse. That evening, they clinched a series win over the Mets, winning 5\u20132, with Turner posting a standout defensive game at shortstop, evening their record at 9\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0028-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nOn April 18, Zimmerman broke out of his early-season slump with two homers, a triple, and four RBIs, Roark gave up only two hits and two runs in seven innings of work, and the Nationals led 4\u20132 after 71\u20442 innings, but they missed a series sweep of the Mets thanks to a disastrous eighth inning in which the bullpen faced 12 batters and gave up nine runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0028-0004", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nDuring the inning, Madson surrendered six runs on five hits and got only two outs; Sammy Sol\u00eds relieved him and walked the only two batters he faced, walking in a run; and Cole took over and immediately gave up a grand slam to New York center fielder Yoenis C\u00e9spedes before getting the final out. The Mets went on to win 11-5, and the Nationals again fell below .500 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nCole, who had pitched to a 13.06 ERA in 101\u20443 innings of work for Washington, was designated for assignment on April 20. The Nationals selected the contract of veteran right-hander Carlos Torres from Class-AAA Syracuse the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThat evening, the Nationals opened a series in Los Angeles against the Los Angeles Dodgers with a game that was promoted as probably the best pitching match-up of the 2018 regular season: It pitted two three-time Cy Young Award winners against each other as starting pitchers for only the tenth time in MLB history, in the form of Scherzer and Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw. Struggling uncharacteristically, Kershaw quickly fell behind and ultimately allowed four runs to take the loss, with Scherzer outdueling the left-hander.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nOn April 21, the Nationals placed Grace on the 10-day disabled list with a groin injury and recalled Gott from Syracuse to replace him in the bullpen, and on April 22, they placed Rendon\u2014who had not played since fouling a ball off his big toe on April 13, but had remained off the disabled list in the belief that it would heal quickly\u2014on the 10-day disabled list and called up reliever Austin L. Adams from Syracuse. Meanwhile, they dropped the last two games of their series in Los Angeles against the Dodgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nStrasburg gave up two solo home runs on April 21 but lost what was otherwise a pitcher's duel to Los Angeles starter Hyun-Jin Ryu, who led the Dodgers in Washington's first shutout of the young season; the following evening, on ESPN's nationally televised Sunday night game, the Nationals held a 3\u20130 lead into the sixth inning behind a strong start by Hellickson before the Dodgers rallied to tie the game and then take the lead, winning 4\u20133 to drop the Nationals to 3\u20133 on their road trip and 10\u201312 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThe Nationals' losing streak continued in San Francisco against the Giants, stretching to four before the visitors salvaged the last game of the three-game set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThe turnover on the struggling team's roster continued, with Washington on April 24 placing reliever Shawn Kelley, who had given up a decisive home run to the Giants the previous evening, on the 10-day disabled list, making him the fourth National to go on the disabled list since the start of the road trip; on the same day, they optioned Matt Reynolds to Syracuse and called up outfielder Rafael Bautista and infielder Adri\u00e1n S\u00e1nchez from their Class-AAA affiliate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0031-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThe Nationals' offense exploded on April 25 with a season-high 18 hits, five of them authored by Turner in just the second five-hit game of his career, plus four by Stevenson, starting in left field and adding to his tally of just 10 major league hits coming into the game. The game ended with a 15\u20132 Washington victory that snapped the team's skid and marked a season high in runs scored for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThe Nationals returned to Nationals Park on April 27 to open a 10-day, 10-game homestand with a three-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. They lost the first two games of the series, using every reliever in their bullpen on April 28. On April 29, they optioned Adams, who had walked in the winning run on April 28, to Syracuse and called up pitcher Austin Voth from Syracuse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nThey won the final game of the Arizona series on April 29, and on April 30, they optioned Voth (who did not appear in a major league contest) back to Syracuse and called up right-handed reliever Wander Suero from the Chiefs. That evening, they closed out the month by opening a four-game series at Nationals Park against the Pittsburgh Pirates with a win, giving them back-to-back victories for the first time since April 16\u201317 and for only the third time since opening the season 4\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nAll told, the Nationals began April by completing a three-game sweep of the Reds, but with subsequent skids including a two-out-of-three series loss to the Braves on the road, a sweep by the Mets in their first home series of the season, a two-of-three loss to the Rockies at home, a West Coast swing in which they won just one game in three against both the Dodgers and the Giants, and a two-of-three loss to the visiting Diamondbacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0033-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nAside from their sweep of the Reds, the Nationals' only series wins of the month were when they hosted the Braves in their second home series of the year and when they visited the Mets to begin their second roadtrip of the season. The Nationals finished April in fourth place in the National League East Division with a 13-16 record. Their 11-16 record in April made it their first losing month since a 12\u201317 performance in August 2015 and gave them their worst monthly winning percentage (.407) since they went 11-16 in July 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0033-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, March\u2013April\nAfter a hot start, Bryce Harper found himself in a 5-for-35 slump at the end of April, but he finished the month with 38 walks on the season, the second-most walks in a season by April 30 in MLB history. Scherzer was named the National League Pitcher of the Month for April after running up a 1.62 ERA over 39 innings of work in the month and commanding the MLB lead in strikeouts with 57 and wins with five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nOn May 1, for the second game of the Pittsburgh series, manager Dave Martinez decided to shake up the lineup by having right fielder Bryce Harper bat leadoff for the first time since 2013, hoping that it would give more at-bats and force opposing pitchers to pitch to him instead of routine walking him. The move paid off, as Harper broke out with his first home run in two weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0034-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nWith additional offense from left fielder Matt Adams and shortstop Trea Turner drove in three runs, the Nationals jumped out to a 12\u20132 lead behind another strong outing by starter Max Scherzer and hung on for a 12\u20134 win. Wander Suero, after 212 minor league games over eight seasons, made his major-league debut when he relieved Scherzer and pitched a scoreless two-thirds of an inning. The win gave the Nationals their first three-game winning streak since they opened the season 4\u20130 and improved their record to 14\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0034-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nThe streak stretched to four, marking the first time they had had four consecutive victories since the first four games of the season, as starter Stephen Strasburg led the Nationals to a third win over the Pirates on May 2 with an 11-strikeout performance backed by Harper, Adams, and second baseman Howie Kendrick. The Nationals completed a four-game sweep of the Pirates on May 3, evening their record at 16\u201316 as closer Sean Doolittle converted his first five-out save in nearly three years. It was Washington's first five-game winning streak since early September 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nThe Nationals welcomed the division-rival Philadelphia Phillies to Nationals Park on May 4 to begin a three-game series, winning the opener to edge above .500 for the first time since April 10 and activating third baseman Anthony Rendon from the 10-day disabled list, as he had recovered from a hairline fracture in his toe, on May 5. Infielder Adri\u00e1n S\u00e1nchez was optioned to the Class-AAA Syracuse Chiefs in a corresponding move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0035-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nHowever, the Nationals dropped the second game of the series to the Phillies, and the winning streak came to an end in a 3\u20131 loss that dropped the Nationals back to .500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0035-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nThe following afternoon saw a contest between the previous two Cy Young Award winners, Scherzer and Phillies starter Jake Arrieta; while Arrieta pitched well, allowing just one run on Adams' fifth homer of the month in his six innings of work, Scherzer had an historic game: By the fourth inning, he had already struck out 10 Phillies for the 69th game of his career with 10 or more strikeouts, at one point he struck out seven in a row, and he left the game after 61\u20443 innings with 15 strikeouts on 111 pitches, 71 of them strikes, his highest strikeout total in a game since his 20-strikeout complete game in May 2016, and he became the first MLB pitcher in history to strike out at least 15 batters in no more than 61\u20443 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0035-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nDespite a Phillies rally, the Nationals struck back for their first walk-off win of the season, with second baseman Wilmer Difo singling home the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning as Phillies closer H\u00e9ctor Neris failed to record an out. The final score was 5\u20134, with Washington getting back over .500 with the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nThe Nationals optioned outfielder Rafael Bautista to Syracuse on May 7 and activated right-handed reliever Shawn Kelley from the 10-day disabled list. They began a seven-game road trip that evening and took two out of three games from the San Diego Padres, climbing ahead of the fading New York Mets into third place in the National League East on May 8. They moved on to a four-game series at Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nAfter beating the Diamondbacks in their first extra-inning win of the season on May 10, they made a number of roster moves on May 11, moving outfielder Adam Eaton\u2014who had undergone arthroscopic surgery on his nagging ankle injury\u2014from the 10-day disabled list to the 60-day disabled list retroactive to April 9, placed catcher Matt Wieters on the 10-day disabled list after he suffered a hamstring injury in the May 10 game, and called up catcher Spencer Kieboom from Syracuse for his first taste of major league action since a solitary pinch-hit appearance in October 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0036-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nScherzer started on May 11 and struck out 11 Diamondbacks on 99 pitches over seven innings while driving in the deciding run on a ground-rule double in the fourth inning, as the Nationals won, 3\u20131, for the 11th time in 13 games and moved to 11\u20442 games out of first place in the National League East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0036-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nAfter suffering a back injury in a game during the previous homestand, first baseman Ryan Zimmerman landed on the 10-day disabled list on May 12 with what the Nationals described as a right oblique strain, retroactive to May 10, as he was held out of several games on the roadtrip. The same day, they called up first baseman Mark Reynolds from Class-AAA Syracuse and moved right-handed pitcher Joaqu\u00edn Benoit from the 10-day to the 60-day disabled list to make room on the 40-man roster for Reynolds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0036-0004", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nReynolds did not play as the Nationals topped Arizona again on May 12 behind starter Jeremy Hellickson's bid for a perfect game, which he carried into the seventh inning while extending a scoreless streak to 121\u20443 innings. The right-handed slugger made his season debut in the final game of the four-game set, leading Washington to the rare four-game sweep on the road as he homered twice against his former team, including a go-ahead two-run shot in the eighth inning that gave the Nationals their winning margin in the 6\u20134 contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nThe Nationals experienced an unusually long layoff as a two-game homestand against the New York Yankees scheduled to start May 15 was rained out; the teams were able to begin the first game, which was suspended at a 3\u20133 tie midway through the fifth inning, but it was ultimately continued to June 18 as inclement weather prevented any further action. The first game of a three-game set at Nationals Park against the Los Angeles Dodgers was also rescheduled as part of a May 19 doubleheader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0037-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nThe time off did not appear to serve Washington well, as although rookie catcher Kieboom made his first career start and recorded his first major league hit in the first game of the day, the Nationals lost both ends of the doubleheader, as well as the services of stalwart utilityman Kendrick for the remainder of the season when he ruptured his Achilles tendon on a play in left field in the first game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0037-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nAfter placing Kendrick on the disabled list in between games, the Nationals recalled infielder Adri\u00e1n S\u00e1nchez from Class-AAA Syracuse as the 26th man, as well as right-handed pitcher Jefry Rodr\u00edguez from the Class-AA Harrisburg Senators in his first major league posting. The following day, Rodr\u00edguez was optioned back to Harrisburg without having appeared in a game, and the Nationals elected to promote outfielder Juan Soto from their Class-AA affiliate, designating outfielder Mois\u00e9s Sierra\u2014who had not notched a hit in nearly one month\u2014for assignment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0037-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nIn earning the promotion, Soto completed a meteoric ascent to the major leagues, as the Nationals' 19-year-old second-ranked prospect had started the season with the Class-A Hagerstown Suns before making brief stopovers with the High-A Potomac Nationals and Class-AA Senators en route to Washington, amassing a .362 batting average with 14 home runs. Soto made his major league debut that evening, appearing as a pinch-hitter and striking out swinging as the Nationals were swept by the Dodgers, 7\u20132, following a poor outing by Washington's starter Strasburg. The three-game skid marked the Nationals' worst of the month, a disappointment exacerbated as the team lost another key player, setup man Ryan Madson, to the disabled list with a pectoral strain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nSoto and the Nationals fared better on May 21, as the teenage left fielder made his first career start and hit the first pitch he saw from San Diego Padres starter Robbie Erlin into the left field seats at Nationals Park for an opposite-field, three-run home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0038-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nLeft-handed relief pitcher Tim Collins, whose contract was purchased from Class-AAA Syracuse to replace Madson in the bullpen\u2014Kendrick was transferred to the 60-day disabled list to make room on the 40-man roster\u2014also made his season debut in the May 21 game, appearing for the first time in a major league game since the 2014 World Series and pitching a scoreless inning with two strikeouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0038-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nThe Nationals went on to thrash the Padres 10\u20132, then walked off over the visitors in the ninth inning 2\u20131 the following day as center fielder Michael A. Taylor doubled home Soto, who reached base in all four of his plate appearances, for the winning run. However, they dropped the final game of the three-game series on May 23 as spot starter Erick Fedde, recalled for the day from Class-AAA Syracuse for his season debut and fourth career start, was outdueled by San Diego ace Tyson Ross. To make room for Fedde on the roster, the Nationals designated Carlos Torres for assignment after a string of mixed results for the veteran right-hander out of the bullpen. That bullpen spot was filled on May 25 as the Nationals selected the contract of 30-year-old right-hander Justin Miller from Syracuse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nScherzer led the Nationals to a series-opening 9\u20135 win against the division-rival Miami Marlins at Marlins Park on May 25, despite giving up a season-high four runs and only striking out four Marlins in the game, with Adams and Taylor each providing a two-run home run to back the staff ace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0039-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nThe Nationals again rallied to win 4\u20131 on May 26, with the second baseman Difo homering off the left-field foul pole to tie the game in the eighth inning and the first baseman Reynolds putting the visitors on top for good in the ninth inning with a home run of his own. Miller, making his season debut and his first major league appearance since the 2016 season, earned the win in relief with a scoreless outing. The Nationals completed the sweep behind a five-inning start by Strasburg on May 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0039-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nWashington kept on rolling as it swept the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in a three-game interleague set that included two shutouts. Gio Gonz\u00e1lez pitched the Nationals to a 6\u20130 finish on May 28. The second game of the series on May 29 was a closer affair, finishing 3\u20132, but Hellickson was able to claim his first win of the year over his former team while Soto contributed with his first career three-hit game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0039-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nScherzer shut the Orioles down on May 30 in a 2\u20130 win to finish the sweep, scattering two hits and a walk over eight innings while striking out twelve. The six-game winning streak put them a half-game ahead of the Atlanta Braves for first place in the National League East Division for the first time since April 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nDespite getting Madson back from his brief disabled-list stint on May 31, optioning fellow right-handed reliever Trevor Gott to Syracuse to make room on the active roster, the Nationals finished the month on a sour note as they were denied their twentieth victory of May by Sean Newcomb and the Atlanta Braves, who defeated Washington starter Tanner Roark in a 4\u20132 game at SunTrust Park to retake first place in the National League East. The Nationals thus finished May in second, a half-game behind Atlanta, with a 19\u20137 record for the month and a 32\u201323 record overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0040-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, May\nAll told, they recorded seven series wins in the month, four of them sweeps: a four-game sweep of the Pirates that began in April, another four-game sweep of the Diamondbacks, and back-to-back sweeps of three-game series against the Marlins and Orioles. They lost only one series in May, itself a three-game sweep at the hands of the visiting Dodgers. Scherzer was honored as National League Pitcher of the Month for the second month in a row, recording a 2.21 ERA for the month and leading the major leagues in May strikeouts with 63.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nThe month of June got off to a poor start for the Nationals as they were shut out for only the second time of the season by Atlanta Braves starter Mike Foltynewicz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0041-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nA lethargic offense in the third game of the series on June 2 received a shot in the arm from 19-year-old left fielder Juan Soto, who homered to tie the game in the seventh inning, and then Max Scherzer, as the Nationals ace pinch-hit and singled in the fourteenth inning, then scored from first base on a triple by second baseman Wilmer Difo to give the Nationals a late lead. Catcher Spencer Kieboom also delivered with his first career RBI, driving in Difo to round out the 5\u20133 finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0041-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nThe Nationals bullpen also contributed seven innings without allowing a baserunner, with reliever Justin Miller throwing a career-high three innings to earn the win. On the heels of the dramatic extra-innings victory, the Nationals placed reliever Tim Collins on paternity leave June 3 and recalled Jefry Rodr\u00edguez from the Class-AA Harrisburg Senators for the second time of the season to serve as a long reliever if necessary. As it turned out, the Nationals needed Rodr\u00edguez after starter Jeremy Hellickson exited in the first inning due to a hamstring injury on a play at first base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0041-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nIn his major league debut, Rodr\u00edguez contributed 42\u20443 innings while allowing just one run inherited from Hellickson. However, when manager Dave Martinez turned to starter Tanner Roark in the ninth inning with his bullpen severely depleted, Roark surrendered a two-run walk-off home run to Charlie Culberson, with the Braves winning 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nThe Nationals reinstated Collins from paternity leave and fellow left-handed reliever Matt Grace from the disabled list on June 5, optioning Rodr\u00edguez back to Class-AA Harrisburg and placing Hellickson on the 10-day disabled list with a right hamstring strain. That evening, Scherzer took the mound and earned his league-leading tenth win of the season against the Tampa Bay Rays in interleague play at Nationals Park, striking out thirteen Rays over eight innings\u2014including three batters in a nine-pitch inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nWith Rays reliever Jonny Venters making his first career start on June 6, the Nationals hammered him for five runs in 1\u20443 innings en route to an 11\u20132 win and a sweep of the two-game set, with third baseman Anthony Rendon celebrating his 28th birthday with a four-hit performance. Washington suffered its second blow to the rotation in less than a week's time on June 8, as starter Stephen Strasburg struggled to a loss and exited after two innings with right shoulder discomfort in a home game against the San Francisco Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0042-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nWith Strasburg headed to the 10-day disabled list with shoulder inflammation, the Nationals also released injured outfielder Rafael Bautista from and optioned reliever Wander Suero to the Class-AAA Syracuse Chiefs on June 9, clearing roster space to activate outfielder Adam Eaton from the 60-day disabled list. The June 9 game was a Nationals victory also marked by the appearance of Lord Stanley's Cup before (and during) the game, presented by the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League, who had won the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals days earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0042-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nHowever, it also saw starter Gio Gonz\u00e1lez struggle to his shortest outing of the season and setup man Brandon Kintzler suffer an arm injury that caused him to leave the game. Kintzler was placed on the disabled list with a right forearm flexor strain on June 10 along with Strasburg, and Suero and right-handed reliever Trevor Gott were recalled from Class-AAA Syracuse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0042-0004", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nDespite another strong start from Scherzer on June 10, the Nationals could not muster any offense against Derek Holland and the San Francisco bullpen, suffering their second shutout of June, as Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford supplied all the offense the visitors needed with a two-run homer off Scherzer in the 2\u20130 contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nThe Nationals activated infielder Daniel Murphy from the 10-day disabled list, optioning infielder Adri\u00e1n S\u00e1nchez to Class-AAA Syracuse, to make his season debut as the designated hitter as they visited Yankee Stadium for a two-game interleague series with the New York Yankees on June 12. But even with Murphy and Eaton both in the lineup for the first time since April 2017, the Nationals' offensive woes continued as Yankees starter CC Sabathia led his team in a 3\u20130 blanking of the visitors despite a quality start turned in by Roark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0043-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nWashington bounced back from the back-to-back shutouts the next game, however. With top pitching prospect Erick Fedde recalled from Class-AAA Syracuse to replace Strasburg in the rotation, Gott optioned back to Syracuse to make room, the Nationals rallied for a 5\u20134 victory behind their rookie left fielder Soto, who batted in four runs on two home runs in his first career multi-homer game. Miller, celebrating his 31st birthday, notched his fourth win of the season with a scoreless relief outing, striking out four Yankees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0043-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nThe Nationals continued their tour of the American League East with a three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays on the road, with Murphy again DHing and notching his first hit and RBI of the season in the series opener on June 15, although Miller also allowed his first run of the season on a homer by Blue Jays third baseman Yangervis Solarte that led Toronto to a 6\u20135 win over Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0043-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nFor the second straight Scherzer start, and the third time in five games, the Nationals were shut out on June 16 by former National Marco Estrada and the Blue Jays' bullpen. In a near-clone of the game the Nationals lost to the Giants on June 10, Scherzer surrendered a two-run home run to Blue Jays second baseman Devon Travis and received no run support as Toronto cruised from there to a 2\u20130 finish. It was the first time since August 2015 that Scherzer received losing decisions in back-to-back starts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0043-0004", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nThe Blue Jays went on to sweep the series on June 17, 8\u20136, scoring the go-ahead run in the eighth inning on the first home run reliever Ryan Madson had allowed since June 2017, off the bat of Toronto left fielder Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez, which was immediately followed by another solo shot by the third baseman Solarte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nResuming the suspended game against the Yankees at Nationals Park from May 15, the Nationals scored the eventual winning run on a statistical oddity, as Soto\u2014pinch-hitting for left fielder Matt Adams\u2014hit a two-run home run in a game that technically started five days before he made his major league debut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0044-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nWashington and New York went on to split the June 18 twin-bill, with the Nationals winning the continuation of the May 15 game 5\u20133, as Suero earned his first career win in relief, and the Yankees pinning a loss on Fedde and the Nationals in the second game, which finished at a 4\u20132 loss for the home team despite a last-ditch rally in the ninth inning against closer Aroldis Chapman. In another unusual statistic, the Nationals went 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position in the second game, scoring both their runs on sacrifice flies by first baseman Mark Reynolds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0044-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nDuring the latter game, the Nationals announced that they had swung an early midseason trade for Kansas City Royals closer Kelvin Herrera, trading infielder Kelvin Guti\u00e9rrez off their 40-man roster along with minor league outfielder Blake Perkins and minor league pitcher Yohanse Morel. Martinez confirmed after the game that incumbent closer Sean Doolittle, who finished out the first game of the day to notch his eighteenth save of the season, would retain his ninth-inning duties, with Herrera shifting into a new role with the Nationals. Herrera was activated the following day, with Suero optioned to Class-AAA Syracuse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0044-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nTheir injury woes continuing, the Nationals also listed Adams on the 10-day disabled list with a broken finger sustained on a bunt attempt in Toronto, recalling Rodr\u00edguez to make his first career start in place of the injured Hellickson, against the Orioles at Nationals Park. Rodr\u00edguez struggled, giving up five runs over five innings, but the Nationals rallied from a four-run deficit behind a four-hit day from shortstop Trea Turner, who came a triple from the cycle in the eventual 9\u20137 victory. Herrera also made his Nationals debut in the June 19 win, pitching a perfect eighth inning in relief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0044-0004", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nThe Nationals were shut out by Andrew Cashner and the Orioles in the second game of the series, which finished early in the morning of June 21 after being interrupted by a rain delay of more than two hours, as the home team fell 3\u20130 in their fifth game of the month without pushing across a score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0044-0005", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nHowever, they rebounded behind another strong outing from Scherzer in the rubber match that evening, with Herrera picking up his first win as a National after his scoreless relief outing in the eighth inning of a tie game was followed by a two-run double by Soto, batting cleanup for the first time in his major league career, that gave the Nationals their final 4\u20132 margin of victory. The win was Washington's 40th of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nThe Nationals' offense was moribund for two and a half games against the division-rival Philadelphia Phillies, who were on the verge of a three-game sweep in Washington until the Nationals mounted a furious rally June 24 and into the early morning of June 25, in a game that was nationally televised by ESPN on Sunday Night Baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0045-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nThe home team stormed back from a four-run deficit with six unanswered runs in a hitting outburst keyed by Harper and Murphy, both of whom had been struggling at the plate throughout the month of June, along with Turner, Rendon, Soto, and center fielder Michael A. Taylor. The Nationals won 8\u20136 to salvage the series. However, the offensive resurgence did not last as the Nationals traveled to St. Petersburg, Florida, for a two-game interleague series against the Rays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0045-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nThe visitors were shut out in both games, with Scherzer suffering his third loss of the month without any run support to back a quality start on June 26 as the Nationals lost 1\u20130. The team did welcome back Kintzler, who was activated at the start of the Tampa Bay series as Rodr\u00edguez was optioned to Class-AAA Syracuse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nFollowing a series-opening loss to the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on June 28, the Nationals rebounded in the second game on June 29, hitting a season-high seven home runs and scoring 17 runs to back Fedde in the rookie right-hander's first career win, topping their division rival Philadelphia by a 10-run margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0046-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nThe Phillies were able to hold the Nationals in check in the third game of the four-game set, overcoming an early exit by starter Vince Velasquez after an Eaton line drive ricocheted off his pitching arm to win 4\u20133 and deal the first loss of the season to Hellickson, who was activated off the disabled list before the game\u2014with reliever Sammy Sol\u00eds being optioned to Class-AAA Syracuse, as the Nats also activated suspended catcher Raudy Read and optioned him to Syracuse, transferring injured first baseman Ryan Zimmerman from the 10-day disabled list to the 60-day disabled list in a corresponding move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nThe end of June marked the mathematical halfway point at which the Nationals had played 81 of their 162 scheduled regular-season games in 2018. Washington finished June with a 9\u201316 win-loss record (not counting the continuation of the May 15 game versus the Yankees), their worst record in a full calendar month since June 2010, and three games above .500 at 42\u201339. They sat in third place in the National League East Division, five games behind the first-place Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0047-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, June\nAll told, they completed a one-win-in-four losing set visiting the Braves to start June, swept a two-game series against the Rays at home, dropped two of three to the visiting Giants, split a two-game series with the Yankees on the road, got swept by the Blue Jays in three games in Toronto, won the continuation of the game from May against the Yankees at home before losing the second game, took two of three from the visiting Orioles, lost two of three to the visiting Phillies, suffered a two-game shutout sweep by the Rays in St. Petersburg, then lost two of three to start their four-game series with the Phillies on the road to end the month. Soto was honored with the National League Rookie of the Month Award for his performance in June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nThe Nationals opened the month of July with another loss to the Philadelphia Phillies to drop three out of four in the series that began the previous month. The game dragged into the thirteenth inning before pinch-hitter Andrew Knapp homered off reliever Justin Miller, giving Miller just his first losing decision of the 2018 season. The loss put them six games out of first in the National League East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0048-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nWashington dropped the first of a three-game series with the visiting Boston Red Sox on July 2, as ace Max Scherzer gave up a bases-clearing double to Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello and, despite solo home runs from third baseman Anthony Rendon, first baseman Daniel Murphy (his first of the season), and center fielder Bryce Harper and four appearances on base for left fielder Juan Soto, the Nationals could not recapture the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0048-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nAlthough Scherzer recovered to record a quality start, the Red Sox handed him the loss in the 4\u20133 contest, extending to five a string of quality starts for the Nationals pitcher in which he did not receive enough run support to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0048-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nThe Nationals were ultimately swept by the Red Sox, as July 3 starter Tanner Roark gave up nine runs in a blowout loss and July 4 starter Erick Fedde, who took the ball for the Nationals' traditional morning game at home on Independence Day, exited in the second inning after experiencing a 15-mph drop in velocity on his sinker in the start after he threw 115 pitches on June 30 to earn his first career win; the home team went on to a 3\u20130 shutout at the hands of the Red Sox, with hitters providing long reliever Matt Grace and the rest of the Nationals bullpen no run support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0048-0004", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nThe Independence Day game ended with Matt Adams, who had been activated from the disabled list that morning (reliever Tim Collins was designated for assignment in a corresponding move), standing in the on-base circle to pinch-hit as the potential go-ahead run as Boston closer Craig Kimbrel induced a popout from second baseman Wilmer Difo. After the game, Scherzer called a players-only meeting in an attempt to rally a team that fell below .500 for the first time since early May with the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nFedde was placed on the 10-day disabled list with what the team called right shoulder inflammation on July 5, and right-handed pitcher Jefry Rodr\u00edguez was recalled from the Class-AAA Syracuse Chiefs to replace him on the roster. The Nationals reportedly considered having Rodr\u00edguez start in place of Jeremy Hellickson, who was sick, in the July 5 game to open a series with the visiting division-rival Miami Marlins, but manager Dave Martinez opted to have Hellickson make the start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0049-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nAlthough Hellickson gave up seven runs in the first two innings, Martinez did not replace him in the game with Rodr\u00edguez until the fifth inning, by which time Hellickson had surrendered two more. The Nationals began chipping away at the lead in the fourth inning as shortstop Trea Turner homered to right, then added four more in the fifth in a rally that saw Rodr\u00edguez replaced with a pinch-hitter after just an inning of work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0049-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nFollowing a Murphy sacrifice fly in the sixth that narrowed the Nationals' deficit to three runs, Turner hit his second home run of the game and his first career grand slam off Miami reliever Adam Conley to give the home team an improbable lead. The Nationals tacked on four more runs in the seventh inning and held on to survive a late Marlins rally against relievers Miller and Kelvin Herrera, winning 14\u201312 as closer Sean Doolittle struck out Marlins left fielder Derek Dietrich for the save. The comeback in the game was the largest in team history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0049-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nOffense in the July 6 game was relatively quieter, with the teams battling through eight and a half innings while scoring just two runs apiece before pinch-hitter Mark Reynolds led off the bottom of the ninth with a home run against Marlins closer Kyle Barraclough, giving the Nationals a walk-off 3\u20132 win. It was the Nationals' first walk-off home run of the season, lifting them back above the .500 mark on the season, and it provided the team with its second win in a row, for the first time in more than a month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0049-0004", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nStarting at first base on July 7, Reynolds went 5-for-5 with two home runs and 10 runs batted in to tie the franchise record for RBIs in a game. The Nationals won the game, 18\u20134, delivering Scherzer his first win in more than a month. The Nationals' MLB-leading streak of 14 consecutive wins against the Marlins dating back to the 2017 season was snapped July 8 as Miami got to the struggling Roark and Washington's weary relief corps while holding the Nationals to just two runs on five hits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0049-0005", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nThe Marlins won 10\u20132, with Martinez finally inserting a position player in to pitch in the ninth inning: Reynolds, who made his major league debut as a pitcher after starting at third base (to which catcher Spencer Kieboom switched for the first time in his professional career) and retired the only batter he faced on a groundout to the first baseman Adams. Reynolds was named the National League's Player of the Week for his heroics during the Marlins series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nWashington returned catcher Matt Wieters from the disabled list on July 9, optioning catcher Pedro Severino, who had struggled both offensively and in working with the Nationals pitching staff while filling in for Wieters, to Class-AAA Syracuse. Despite the return of Wieters, the Nationals dropped their series opener at PNC Park against the Pittsburgh Pirates that day, as Rodr\u00edguez turned in yet another rocky start, giving up six runs in his first two innings of work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0050-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nThat was all the Pirates needed, as they cruised to a 6\u20133 finish to drop the Nationals back down to a .500 record at 45 wins and 45 losses for the season. With their bullpen virtually exhausted, the Nationals optioned Rodr\u00edguez the next morning while also assigning Doolittle\u2014named days earlier alongside Harper and Scherzer as the Nationals' representatives at the 2018 All-Star Game\u2014to the 10-day disabled list with what was described as right toe inflammation; they called up right-handed pitchers Wander Suero and Austin Voth from Class-AAA Syracuse to replace them on the roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0050-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nMartinez indicated Herrera would take over closing duties while Doolittle was out, and Doolittle confirmed he would not participate in the All-Star Game due to the injury. Neither Suero nor Voth saw game action in Pittsburgh, as the Nationals proceeded to win 5\u20131 behind five scoreless innings from a healthy Hellickson on July 10 and lose 2\u20130 on July 11, their ninth time being shut out since the start of June, despite a quality start from Gio Gonz\u00e1lez and strong relief work by Miller and resurgent right-hander Shawn Kelley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0050-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nWith the failure to take at least two of three against the Pirates, the Nationals again fell back to .500 on the season with just one more series, a four-game set with the division-rival New York Mets, before the All-Star Game. The Nationals won the first game of that series of July 12 behind Scherzer and home runs from Rendon and Harper, with usual setup man Ryan Madson locking down the save, but dropped the second as Roark gave up four runs in his first two innings of work and the Nationals' woes hitting with runners in scoring position continued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0050-0004", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nRoark himself scored one of the Nationals' two runs in the 4\u20132 loss after hitting the first triple by a Washington pitcher in more than a decade. Voth was tabbed to make his major league debut as the starter in the July 14 game, and while he earned his first major league strikeout against the first batter he faced in Mets center fielder Brandon Nimmo, he gave up three runs in the second inning and four more in the fifth to take the loss in the 7\u20134 contest. The Nationals salvaged a split to head into the All-Star Break with a .500 record, at 48 wins to 48 losses, as Hellickson turned in a quality start and was backed up by the Nationals' bats as he earned the win on July 15, 6\u20131 over the Mets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nDespite a successful All-Star Break in which Harper won the Home Run Derby and Scherzer started the All-Star Game (for the second consecutive year) in front of thousands of Washington fans at Nationals Park, the Nationals stumbled out of the blocks in the second half. Starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg and first baseman Ryan Zimmerman were activated from the disabled list for the start of a series in Washington against the division-rival Atlanta Braves, with Suero and Gott being optioned to Class-AAA Syracuse to make room on the roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0051-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nBut in the July 20 game, Strasburg was flat, exiting in the fifth inning after allowing six runs and appearing to argue with Scherzer in the dugout afterward, and Zimmerman grounded out in his sole plate appearance of the game as a pinch-hitter. The Braves won 8\u20135 despite a late two-run home run by Soto. The Nationals and Braves did not play on July 21 due to rain, with the game rescheduled as part of a split doubleheader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0051-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nOn July 22, the team made two significant announcements: Doolittle suffered a setback while ramping up to return from his toe injury, and the \"stress reaction\" in his foot would sideline him for several more weeks, and backup outfielder Brian Goodwin was traded to the Kansas City Royals for minor league reliever Jacob Condra-Bogan, with left-hander Sammy Sol\u00eds recalled to take Goodwin's roster spot and fill out a seven-man bullpen for the Nationals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0051-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nGoodwin's spot on the 40-man roster was filled by former Nationals closer Koda Glover, who was activated from the 60-day disabled list and optioned to Syracuse after rehabbing from shoulder inflammation. The Nationals defeated the Braves that day 6\u20132, with Scherzer turning in another quality start and Herrera notching a five-out save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nThe Nationals dropped another series opener on the road to the Milwaukee Brewers on July 23 as Gonz\u00e1lez struggled. Mired in an offensive slump, in one of his plate appearances, Turner bunted back to pitcher Jhoulys Chacin, then threw his bat, helmet, and batting gloves to the ground in apparent disgust before walking back toward the dugout without ever moving toward first base, for which he was called out by home plate umpire Nic Lentz. Martinez benched Turner for the following game due to his failure to run out the ball, although he did appear late as a pinch-runner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0052-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nThe Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association announced July 24 that Turner had been awarded the annual \"Heart and Hustle\" award for the Nationals, a bit of irony that did not pass without comment from the Washington sports media. Despite an early four-run cushion, which included a three-run home run by right fielder Adam Eaton, and four strong innings from Hellickson, the Nationals dropped the July 24 game as Hellickson labored through the fifth inning, giving up three runs, and reliever Brandon Kintzler blew the slimmed-down lead altogether in the seventh inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0052-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nThe Brewers ultimately walked off 5\u20134 in the tenth inning, as shortstop Tyler Saladino plated the winning run on a sacrifice fly off Grace. The Nationals salvaged a win in the three-game series by taking the final game on July 25, benefiting from Roark's best start of the year as he pitched eight scoreless innings while striking out 11 Brewers, earning his first win in eight starts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nOn July 26, the Nationals announced that Strasburg was returning to the 10-day disabled list after just one start, citing a pinched nerve in his neck. Rendon also temporarily departed the team on three-day paternity leave. The Nationals selected the contract of left-handed pitcher Tommy Milone, who had made his major league debut with the Nationals in the 2011 season and re-signed with the organization on a minor league deal over the winter, and recalled utilityman Matt Reynolds to take the place of Strasburg and Rendon on the roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0053-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nFirst baseman and outfielder Jos\u00e9 Marmolejos, who had spent the entire season to date with Class-AAA Syracuse, was designated from assignment to clear a spot on the 40-man roster for Milone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0053-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nStarting in Strasburg's place to begin another four-game series in Miami, Milone gave up three runs in the first inning but settled in to pitch four more scoreless innings, getting a no-decision in what ended up as a 10\u20133 Nationals win, as the visitors' offense stirred to life late, keyed by Turner batting in three runs and coming a double shy of hitting for the cycle and Soto reaching base four times while hitting his 12th home run of the season. Washington climbed above the .500 mark for the first time in nearly two weeks on July 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0053-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nScherzer pitched eight innings while giving up just one unearned run and striking out 11 Marlins, the last of whom was Justin Bour for the Nationals ace's 200th strikeout of the season. It was Soto's turn in the July 27 game to come a double shy of the cycle, as he homered, singled, and hit his first career triple in the contest. However, the Nationals' winning ways did not continue over the final two games of the series. Washington wasted a quality start by Gonz\u00e1lez on July 28, scoring just one run in the ninth inning in an extra-innings loss, and then were shut out in a two-hit effort by Jos\u00e9 Ure\u00f1a and the Marlins relief corps on July 29, dropping the visitors back below .500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nWith a losing record heading into the July 31 trade deadline and a disappointing split against the fourth-place Marlins, the Nationals faced widespread speculation in the media that they could become sellers. Although general manager Mike Rizzo acknowledged that he fielded trade proposals from different teams for a number of players\u2014including Harper, the Nationals' All-Star center fielder and highest-paid position player\u2014the team ultimately remained largely inactive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0054-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nOn July 31, the team announced it traded Kintzler to the Chicago Cubs for minor league reliever Jhon Romero\u2014a move team officials characterized as largely a roster-clearing move similar to the trade of Goodwin to Kansas City days earlier, although The Washington Post suggested it may have been motivated by Kintzler's outspokenness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0054-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nWith Suero recalled to replace Kintzler in the bullpen and Rendon activated from the family medical leave list to replace Matt Reynolds, who was optioned back to Syracuse, the Nationals proceeded to rack up a franchise-record 25 runs on 26 hits in a drubbing of the division-rival New York Mets at Nationals Park. Winning by 21 runs in the 25\u20134 contest, the Nationals dealt the Mets their largest ever loss by run differential and scored their largest in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0054-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nSix of the Nationals' runs came against Jos\u00e9 Reyes, normally a utility infielder for the Mets, in his major league pitching debut in the eighth inning. Reyes needed 48 pitches to complete the inning, allowing two home runs, a triple, a double, a single, two walks, and a hit-by-pitch before retiring the side. The game was also marked by a new Nationals\u2013Expos franchise record for hits, as Zimmerman surpassed former Montreal Expos star Tim Wallach by tallying his 1,695th hit in the organization as he singled in a run in the first inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0054-0004", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nDespite the historic win, the night was soured somewhat for the Nationals as Kelley, who gave up three runs after called upon to finish off the game in the ninth inning, reacted after an Austin Jackson home run by spiking his glove on the grass next to the mound and appearing to glare toward the Nationals' dugout. Kelley apologized after the game and said he was frustrated by what he saw as conflicting orders from the umpiring crew as he was trying to pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, July\nAfter taking the first of two games against the Mets at home, the Nationals finished July with a 53\u201353 record of wins and losses for the season, with a losing record of 11\u201314 for the month, having won just one series (against the Marlins) in July. They stood in third place in the National League East Division, in 51\u20442 games behind the first-place Phillies and five games back of the second-place Braves. Soto earned his second straight Rookie of the Month Award for July after hitting .299, batting in 15 runs, and swatting five home runs in the month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nThe Nationals opened the month of August by summarily designating reliever Shawn Kelley for assignment, which manager Dave Martinez and general manager Mike Rizzo directly attributed to his outburst during the previous game on July 31, in which he appeared to glare toward the team dugout after throwing his glove. Speaking both of the decision to designate Kelley, whose behavior he called \"selfish\" and \"disrespectful\" toward Martinez, and trade former Nationals reliever Brandon Kintzler to the Chicago Cubs the day before, Rizzo declared, \"If you're not in, you're in the way.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0056-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nThe Nationals selected the contract of right-handed relief prospect Jimmy Cordero to fill the roster spot vacated by Kelley, who was traded days later to the Oakland Athletics for international bonus slot money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0056-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nThe Nationals went on to beat the New York Mets on August 1 to complete a two-game series sweep in a midday game at Nationals Park, opening August with a win as left-handed starter Tommy Milone struck out nine Mets, outdueled Mets right-hander Noah Syndergaard, and earned his first major league decision and win since April 2017, while making only his second start of the season with the Nationals. The Nationals won the August 1 game 5\u20133 to climb back above the .500 mark for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nCarrying some momentum into a four-game series with the Cincinnati Reds at home, the Nationals batted around in the second inning and rode another quality start from ace Max Scherzer to a 10\u20134 win on August 2. Cordero made his major league debut in the contest, allowing two runs in the ninth inning before finishing out the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0057-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nRain postponed the second game of the series to August 4, on which it was played as a doubleheader, in which the Reds hammered struggling Nationals starter Gio Gonz\u00e1lez and held the Nationals to a single run to win the first game, but the Nationals struck back behind a strong effort from starter Jeremy Hellickson and a much more productive offense to win the second game. Washington completed a second straight series win by topping Cincinnati 2\u20131 on August 5, with Tanner Roark turning in a third straight quality start and catcher Matt Wieters homering for the first time since his return from the disabled list in early July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nFacing the division-rival Atlanta Braves in a potentially pivotal four-game series starting July 7, the Nationals split the opening doubleheader with the visitors. In the day game, spot starter Jefry Rodr\u00edguez pitched five solid innings, notched his first major league hit (a double), and earned his first major league win, with rookie left fielder Juan Soto walking three times for the fourth time all season to set a new major league record for three-walk games by a teenager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0058-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nReliever Greg Holland, signed out of free agency after his release by the St. Louis Cardinals days earlier, made his Nationals debut in the first game of the day, striking out three Braves; Cordero was optioned back to the Class-AAA Syracuse Chiefs in a corresponding move for Holland. However, the Nationals also lost a reliever, as closer Kelvin Herrera exited the second game with a shoulder injury and was placed on the 10-day disabled list the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0058-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nThe team recalled right-handed reliever Koda Glover from Syracuse to replace Herrera on the roster, announcing erstwhile setup man Ryan Madson would take over closing duties temporarily. The Nationals proceeded to lose the third game of the series that evening to the Braves. Soto was ejected by the home plate umpire, Greg Gibson, before his third at-bat of the day, with Gibson claiming Soto had continued to argue a called third strike from the previous at-bat as his justification for ordering him to leave the game. It was Soto's first career ejection. Martinez and hitting coach Kevin Long argued the decision, but of the two, only Long was ejected as well. Washington rallied for a series split on August 9 behind a resurgent outing from Gonz\u00e1lez, who earned his first winning decision in 12 starts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nThe Nationals endured their first series loss since the non-waiver trade deadline as they locked horns with the Chicago Cubs in a three-game set at Wrigley Field, the teams' first meeting since the 2017 National League Division Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0059-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nContinuing a running theme for him throughout the season, Hellickson cruised through the Cubs' lineup for the first two times through the order in the August 10 series opener, only to immediately struggle when asked to pitch to opposing batters for the third time; carrying a no-hitter into the sixth inning, he lost a 13-pitch battle against Chicago leadoff hitter Anthony Rizzo, walking him, then walked the next two batters on eight straight balls before being relieved by Sammy Sol\u00eds, who immediately gave up a game-tying RBI single.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0059-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nIn the seventh inning, Sol\u00eds combined with Holland to load the bases, and then Rizzo walked again to force home the go-ahead run. The Cubs held on to win 3\u20132. The visitors rebounded to win on August 11 behind another outstanding start by Roark, although the Cubs tacked on three runs in the eighth and ninth inning against Roark and reliever Wander Suero for a 9\u20134 finish. However, the series was capped with what The Washington Post described as one of the Nationals' \"worst ever\" losses in team history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0059-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nOn ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball broadcast, Scherzer outdueled a strong Cole Hamels, as the Nationals enjoyed seven scoreless innings from their ace plus a scoreless eighth by Glover. With the team up by three runs entering the ninth inning, Madson was called upon to record the save. Instead, after loading the bases via an infield single bobbled by defensive substitute Wilmer Difo and two hits-by-pitch, Madson surrendered a two-out, two-strike walk-off grand slam to rookie pinch-hitter David Bote. After the game, Madson said he had been experiencing shooting pain in his back and right leg and had been unable to grip the ball well enough to throw his signature curveball, but he had not disclosed his condition to the coaching staff previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nThe trying tour of the National League Central Division continued as the Nationals dropped the first three out of four games to the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. On August 13, in the first game of the series the Nationals were again unable to hold a late lead. With the Nationals up by two runs, reliever Justin Miller gave up a home run to start the eighth inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0060-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nOne out later, Sol\u00eds was summoned with a runner on base to face a pinch-hitter, but he promptly gave up a single and wild pitch, then surrendered a go-ahead home run to Cardinals slugger Matt Carpenter, the league leader in home runs, with first base open. Although the Nationals mounted a ninth-inning rally to tie the game, they were unable to take the lead, stranding two runners in scoring position, before Paul DeJong led off the bottom of the ninth with a home run off Glover, handing Washington its second walk-off loss in as many games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0060-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\n\"I don't know what else to do,\" Martinez admitted after the game. Before the second game of the series on August 14, the Nationals removed both Madson and Sol\u00eds from their active roster, placing the former on the 10-day disabled list with what the team called \"lumbar nerve root irritation\" and optioning the latter to Class-AAA Syracuse. For the second time of the season, Washington selected the contract of veteran left-handed reliever Tim Collins from Syracuse, also calling up right-handed reliever Trevor Gott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0060-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nInjured starting pitcher Erick Fedde was transferred to the 60-day disabled list to complete the series of roster moves. Martinez announced that, despite giving up the walk-off home run the previous night, Glover would assume closing duties for the time being, with Miller expected to fill in when Glover, still readjusting to the major leagues after a series of shoulder and back injuries, was unavailable for a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0060-0004", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nBoth Collins and Gott appeared in the August 14 game after Gonz\u00e1lez was unable to work into the fifth inning, the Nationals' starter notably giving up a two-run home run to opposing pitcher John Gant for the Cardinals' right-hander's first career hit; Gott gave up one run on a Kolten Wong home run in long relief and Collins threw a scoreless inning. The Cardinals stymied a late Nationals rally to win 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0060-0005", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nThe Nationals had injury added to insult as Hellickson was forced to exit early in his August 15 start after falling awkwardly on his wrist during a play at the plate; the Cardinals won the game 4\u20132, and Hellickson headed to the disabled list for the second time in the season. The Nationals salvaged one win for the series on August 16, topping the Cardinals 5\u20134 behind a six-inning start from Roark, a three-RBI game by Harper, and the first save of the year for Glover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nReturning home for a three-game series against the division-rival Miami Marlins, the Nationals rode a strong start by Scherzer to an easy 8\u20132 victory on August 17, only to end up stumbling to their first series loss at home against Miami since the 2014 season as they dropped the second two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0061-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nWashington lost on August 18 as, despite a ninth-inning Adam Eaton home run to tie the game, the Nationals were unable to plate the winning run and Glover promptly surrendered two runs to take the loss in the tenth inning; The next day, Marlins starter Jos\u00e9 Ure\u00f1a hurled a complete game, giving up just one run on two hits, as Miami's offense buried Nationals starter Gonz\u00e1lez and long reliever Milone in the 12\u20131 blowout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0061-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nMilone's reassignment to the bullpen was among several roster moves involving pitchers that the Nationals made during the opening series of their homestand, formally assigning Hellickson to the 10-day disabled list with a right wrist sprain on August 18, calling up Rodr\u00edguez from Syracuse to join the rotation, and swapping Gott for Cordero via optional assignment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nThe Nationals made more moves on August 21. In what both local and national media widely characterized as \"throwing in the towel\" or \"waving the white flag\" after a disappointing season, Washington traded starting second baseman Daniel Murphy and backup first baseman Matt Adams to the Cubs and Cardinals respectively, teams whose recent wins over the Nationals had rendered their odds of reaching the postseason bleak, according to analysts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0062-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nDespite losing the veteran infielders, who were claimed off waivers, the Nationals rode key hits by outfielder Andrew Stevenson, recalled from Class-AAA Syracuse in a related move, and second baseman Wilmer Difo, assuming everyday duties from Murphy, to win on August 21 in the opening game of a series against the division-rival Philadelphia Phillies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0062-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nStevenson hit his first career home run, a two-run pinch-hit blast that tied the game, and Cordero earned his first career win in relief, with Herrera wrapping up the 10\u20134 win hours after being activated from the disabled list as Milone was listed with left shoulder soreness. Long reliever Matt Grace also singled for his first career hit in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0062-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nThe following night, the Nationals overcame the struggles of just-reactivated starter Stephen Strasburg and bounced back from a one-run deficit to stun the Phillies on first baseman Ryan Zimmerman's eleventh career walk-off home run, a bomb to right field that scored Soto from second base. Philadelphia closer Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez, who surrendered the blast, took the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0062-0004", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nZimmerman's walk-off home run turned out to be the last time the Nationals scored for 32 innings, as they were shut out three games in a row (by the Phillies behind Aaron Nola, by the Mets behind Jason Vargas, and by the Mets behind Zack Wheeler) for the first time in Nationals team history, wasting strong starts by Scherzer, Gonz\u00e1lez, and Roark along the way. Washington salvaged the series in Queens with a 15\u20130 win on August 26, with an offensive outburst coming in the eighth and ninth innings as Rodr\u00edguez led a superb effort by the visitors' pitching staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0062-0005", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nHowever, the Nationals lost Herrera to another injury, as the reliever came up lame taking a groundout to first base for the 26th out of the game. Herrera was placed on the disabled list the next day with a torn Lisfranc ligament in his left foot, an injury expected to end his season, and Madson was activated from the disabled list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0062-0006", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nMartinez said the team would rely on matchups rather than designating a set closer; that night, with Madson playing the role of setup man, Miller recorded his first save since the 2015 season, and on August 28, Holland earned his first save of the season as well, as Washington took the first two of three against the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nTwo days after the Phillies stunned the Nationals in the series finale by coming back from a three-run deficit using a Carlos Santana grand slam home run off Gonz\u00e1lez, the Nationals agreed to trade Gonz\u00e1lez to the Milwaukee Brewers for prospects KJ Harrison and Gilbert Lara, with the news breaking in the first inning as the Brewers visited Nationals Park on August 31. The Nationals also traded Madson to the Los Angeles Dodgers the same day for minor league pitcher Andrew Istler. The Brewers topped the Nationals 4\u20131, repeatedly stifling the home team's scoring opportunities throughout the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nThe Nationals finished August with a 67\u201368 record on the season, posting a losing record for the third month in a row as they went 14\u201315.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0064-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, August\nAfter finishing out a two-game sweep of the Mets, then winning three of four from the Reds, the Nationals split four games with the Braves, lost two of three to the Cubs and three of four to the Cardinals on the road, returned home and lost two of three to the Marlins before winning two of three against the Phillies, then dropped two of three visiting the Mets and won two of three visiting the Phillies, prior to losing their final game of August against the Brewers. They sat 71\u20442 games back of the division-leading Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nWith rosters expanding for the final month of the season, the Nationals made their first set of moves on September 1, recalling catcher Pedro Severino from the Class-AAA Syracuse Chiefs and selecting the contract of Chiefs reliever Austen Williams. Neither of the new call-ups played in the Nationals' first game of the month, the second in a three-game series at Nationals Park against the Milwaukee Brewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0065-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nThat game began in the evening of September 1, but a lengthy mid-game rain delay meant it did not finish until the early morning on September 2. Trailing by two runs when the rain delay started in the eighth inning, the Nationals rallied behind two-out RBI singles from shortstop Trea Turner and rookie left fielder Juan Soto to take the lead, with reliever Justin Miller locking down the save to complete the come-from-behind victory. In the rubber game, played the afternoon of September 2, the Nationals jumped out to an early two-run lead but couldn't hold it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0065-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nAfter battling command issues all game, starter Jefry Rodr\u00edguez put two runners on base in the fifth inning before giving up a three-run home run to Keon Broxton that turned the tide of the contest and gave Milwaukee the lead; two batters later, manager Dave Martinez summoned reliever Tim Collins, who loaded the bases with a four-pitch walk before Christian Yelich hit a grand slam out to center field to ice the game. All seven runs in the fifth inning came with two outs. The Nationals went on to lose 9\u20134, dropping back below .500. Williams made his major league debut in relief, pitching scoreless sixth and seventh innings for the home team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nSeptember 3 was a memorable day for the Nationals. Trailing into the ninth inning, center fielder Bryce Harper led the team to a dramatic comeback with a two-run home run off St. Louis Cardinals closer Bud Norris to tie the game followed by a tenth-inning sacrifice fly off his former College of Southern Nevada teammate Chasen Shreve. The Nationals walked off the visiting St. Louis ballclub 4\u20133, with reliever Greg Holland, whom the Nationals signed the month prior after the Cardinals released him, picking up the win with two scoreless innings of work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0066-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nDuring the game, starter Max Scherzer passed the 250-strikeout mark for the season, moving into second place alone behind Randy Johnson for the most consecutive seasons with at least 250 strikeouts. Meanwhile, the Nationals concluded a ten-season affiliation with the Syracuse Chiefs, who shut out the visiting Buffalo Bisons behind starter Kyle McGowin in the final game of their player development contract with Washington before converting to a Class-AAA affiliate for the New York Mets in 2019. McGowin was called up for the first time on September 4, as the Nationals selected his contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0066-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nRight-handed pitchers Erick Fedde and Joe Ross were also activated from the 60-day disabled list. The Nationals summoned minor league pitcher Austin Voth, infielder Adri\u00e1n S\u00e1nchez, and top outfield prospect V\u00edctor Robles from Syracuse as well. Soto walked for the 67th time in the September 4 game to set a new record for walks by a teenager in the modern era; however, in the same game, Williams was tagged for his first earned runs, taking the loss against the Cardinals in an offense-heavy 11\u20138 contest as he gave up three home runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0066-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nMaking his major league debut in relief the next day, McGowin also gave up a solo home run that, while McGowin did not factor in the decision, ultimately represented the Cardinals' final margin of victory in the 7\u20136 contest. The big blows in the September 5 game were supplied by Cardinals first baseman Matt Adams, whom the Nationals had traded to St. Louis less than a month prior. Adams hit two home runs in the game against his former teammate, starter Tanner Roark, who took the loss. The Nationals' homestand continued with a loss to the visiting Chicago Cubs on September 6. The Nationals led into the eighth inning, but Miller gave up the tying run before rookie reliever Jimmy Cordero allowed the go-ahead runs in the tenth inning to take the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nFollowing a September 7 rainout, the Nationals' fortune turned. They swept the Cubs in a double-header that started September 8 and ended in the early morning on September 9, with Scherzer throwing a complete game for the win in the first game and the Nationals rallying late on a go-ahead home run by Harper to eventually win the second, with reliever Sean Doolittle, just activated from the disabled list, appearing for the first time since July and earning a hold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0067-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nThe September 9 game was postponed due to rain, as was the Nationals' September 10 series opener at Philadelphia, as the Philadelphia Phillies grounds crew had neglected to put a tarp over the infield at Citizens Bank Park before the start of a days-long rainstorm that left the infield dirt unplayable. The Phillies rented blowtorches and propane tanks in a futile effort to dry the infield and avoid the postponement, but union representatives from both teams ultimately prompted a single-admission double-header to be scheduled for September 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0067-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nThe Nationals swept the double-header against the Phillies, too, with rookie catcher Spencer Kieboom hitting a memorable first career home run in the first game hours after losing a \"temporary tooth\" to help power his team to the win and fellow rookie Soto lashing two home runs in the second game, including the go-ahead home run off Yacksel R\u00edos in the tenth inning, after the Nationals rallied against Phillies relievers Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez and Luis Garc\u00eda for three runs to tie the game in the ninth inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0067-0003", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nWashington completed its sweep of the division-rival Phillies the next day, with Stephen Strasburg providing seven one-run innings and Harper, Soto, and Ryan Zimmerman providing over-the-fence offense in the 5\u20131 game. The Cubs ended the Nationals' winning streak at five, taking the makeup game at Nationals Park on September 13 in extra innings as star infielder Javier B\u00e1ez knocked in three of their four runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nThe Nationals rebounded from the impromptu one-game homestand by taking two out of three from the Atlanta Braves. The Braves held Scherzer to four innings and pinned a loss on the Nationals ace in his worst start of the season, in terms of both innings pitched and runs allowed, on September 14. However, the Nationals took the next two games. Soto set a new record for stolen bases in a game by a teenager with three on September 15 in a game that also saw the Nationals set a new team record with 14 walks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0068-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nHowever, the Nationals lost Jeremy Hellickson in his first appearance since coming off the disabled list days earlier as he re-injured his wrist on a swing. The Nationals took the rubber game on September 16, as Doolittle notched his first save since coming off the disabled list. Their roadtrip continuing, the Nationals dropped the first of two games against the Miami Marlins on September 17 despite an early four-run lead, although Robles hit a 427-foot blast to left field for his first career home run off Miami starter Trevor Richards. Soto's on-base streak ended at 21 games, one shy of tying the major league record for a teenager. The Nationals finished with a series split with a win on September 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nIn a difficult twelfth-inning loss to start a four-game series with the Mets, the Nationals were beaten on a sacrifice fly by their former catcher Jos\u00e9 Lobat\u00f3n on September 20. Nationals third baseman Anthony Rendon hit his 100th career home run in the 5\u20134 loss. Harper was ejected for the first time in the season by home plate umpire D. J. Reyburn for arguing balls and strikes in the bottom of the twelfth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0069-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nAfter losing on September 21 to the Mets behind their ace, Jacob deGrom, the Nationals were officially eliminated from contention in the National League East Division as the Braves won later that night. Despite winning on September 22, the Nationals were eliminated from playoff contention altogether as the St. Louis Cardinals in the wildcard hunt won that day. Voth was tasked with the start on September 22, as Roark was home for the birth of his third child; he earned his first career win as he led a one-hit shutout of the Mets, pitching five strong innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0069-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nIn the final game of the Mets series, a loss on September 23, Turner stole a base to set a new team record for career steals. Rookie reliever Wander Suero took the loss, the first in his major league career, after surrendering a go-ahead RBI triple to New York slugger Michael Conforto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nIn their first full series since elimination, and their final series of the year at home, the Nationals swept the division-rival Marlins over three games from September 24 to September 26. In the first game of the series, Harper hit a sacrifice fly to put him at 100 RBIs for the season, the first time in a professional campaign he had reached the century mark, and earned a standing ovation from his home supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0070-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nThe September 25 game marked Scherzer's final start of the season, and a momentous one, as he struck out ten Marlins to reach the 300-strikeout mark for the first time in his career. Scherzer also earned his 18th win of the season in the contest. With Roark still at home in Georgia with his family, the Nationals tasked McGowin with his first career start to finish out the series. He pitched into the fifth inning, allowing just one hit and zero runs after retiring the first eleven batters he faced, before exiting with a blister on his pitching hand. The Washington bullpen finished off the 9\u20133 win to complete the sweep. The game was called in the seventh inning due to rain, with Harper left on deck instead of getting one last at-bat at home in the season before his anticipated free agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nThe Nationals finished off the season by flying to Denver and taking on the Colorado Rockies for a three-game series. The Rockies clinched a playoff berth as they beat Ross and the Nationals on September 28, in the series opener. The visitors rebounded in Strasburg's final start of the year the next day, winning 12\u20132. Soto deposited the 22nd home run of his rookie season into the right field seats to move into a tie for second place for homers by a teenager in major league history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0071-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nHowever, the Nationals had scored their final runs of the season in the blowout victory, as Tyler Anderson pitched masterfully to lead the Rockies in a 12\u20130 shutout at the expense of Washington rookies Fedde, Voth, and McGowin, as well as the veteran Collins, all of whom gave up home runs en route to the loss as the motivated Colorado team earned a divisional tiebreaker with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The loss was the Nationals' most lopsided of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, September\nWashington ended the season with an 82\u201380 record of wins and losses, their lowest win total since the 2011 season but good for second place in the National League East Division, eight games back of the playoffs-bound Braves and two in front of the Phillies. In total, they went 15\u201312 in September, their first winning month since May and only their second full month with a winning record all season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Broadcasters\nIn 2018, the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) hired Michael Morse, an outfielder and first baseman who had played for the Nationals from 2009 to 2012 season, as a broadcaster. From May 25 to 27, he made his broadcasting debut by filling in for Ray Knight as the studio analyst on the Nats Xtra pregame and postgame shows on MASN, working with host Johnny Holliday during a weekend three-game Washington Nationals series at the Miami Marlins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0073-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Broadcasters\nIn his second stint with MASN, from June 15 to 17, 2018, he made his debut as an in-game color commentator when he substituted for F. P. Santangelo for the MASN broadcast of a three-game weekend Nationals series against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto, working alongside play-by-play man Bob Carpenter. He substituted again for Santangelo from August 13 to 15, 2018, during the three-game Nationals series against the St. Louis Cardinals in St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Broadcasters\nNationals radio play-by-play announcer Dave Jageler, who had called every Nationals regular-season game since he joined the Nationals\u2032 broadcasting team on Opening Day in 2006, finally missed a game on May 31, 2018, when he took leave to attend his son's high school graduation. His Nationals broadcasting streak ended at 2,016 straight games. Longtime Harrisburg Senators broadcaster Terry Byrom took his place for a four-game series the Nationals played against the Atlanta Braves at Suntrust Park in Atlanta from May 31 through June 3. Jageler returned to the booth on June 5 as the Nationals hosted the Tampa Bay Rays at Nationals Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Broadcasters\nIn mid-September 2018, MASN pulled Ray Knight, who had served as the studio analyst on Nats Xtra since the show's beginning in 2007 season, from broadcasts after he had a verbal altercation with a staff member at MASN. He did not return to the air, and after the season concluded, MASN cut ties with him, announcing that it had not picked up his 2019 contract option. The 2018 season also was Johnny Holliday's last with MASN; the host of Nats Xtra from 2007 to 2018, he announced that he would not return to MASN in 2019 so that he could spend more time with his family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Culture and entertainment, Bullpen cart\nThe bullpen cart, absent from Major League Baseball since 1995, enjoyed a revival in Major League Baseball in 2018, with the Arizona Diamondbacks introducing one on March 29 and the Detroit Tigers placing one in service on April 13. During the season, the Nationals began to look into a bullpen cart of their own and secured a sponsorship for one in July; a Florida company completed it four weeks later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0076-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Culture and entertainment, Bullpen cart\nNationals owner Mark Lerner assisted in designing the cart \u2013 a golf cart with a body that looks like a large baseball, a roof that looks like a large blue Nationals hat, a red Nationals \"curly W\" logo on every hubcap, front roof supports that look like baseball bats, baseball gloves behind each headlight to make the headlights look like baseballs when they are turned on, and a red light on the roof that flashes whenever the cart is in motion. The cart made its debut at Nationals Park on August 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0076-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Culture and entertainment, Bullpen cart\nIt drives all the way around the field along the warning track each time a relief pitcher enters the game for either team \u2013 clockwise, passing the Nationals' bullpen in right field first, whenever a Nationals reliever enters the game and counterclockwise, passing the visitors' bullpen first, whenever a visiting team's reliever enters \u2013 whether the reliever opts to use it or not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Culture and entertainment, Bullpen cart\nLate on the evening of September 8, in the top of the eighth inning during the second game of a doubleheader against the Chicago Cubs, Nationals reliever Sean Doolittle, a proponent of bullpen cart use, became the first player to use the Nationals Park bullpen cart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0077-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Culture and entertainment, Bullpen cart\nDoolittle had made history as the first visiting player to use the Diamondbacks' bullpen cart during a game at Arizona on May 10, and Nationals players had decided that they would not use the Nationals Park cart until Doolittle returned from a lengthy stint on the disabled list and had the chance to become the first player to use it. The first visiting player to use it was New York Mets reliever Robert Gsellman in the eighth inning of a game on the evening of September 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Attendance\nThe Nationals drew 2,529,604 fans at Nationals Park during 2018, their fourth-highest attendance since arriving in Washington in 2005. It placed them eighth in attendance for the season among the 15 National League teams, down from seventh in 2017 despite being an increase over their 2017 attendance total. Their highest attendance at a home game occurred on April 5, when they drew an Opening Day crowd of 42,477 for a game against the New York Mets, while the low mark was 19,357 for a game against the Atlanta Braves on April 10. Their average home attendance was 31,230 per game, fourth-highest since their arrival in Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Statistics, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Statistics, Pitching\nNote: Pos = Position; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Awards and honors, All-Stars\nOn July 8, outfielder Bryce Harper, starting pitcher Max Scherzer, and closer Sean Doolittle were named to the National League team for the 2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Harper was the only Nationals player voted into the game by fans, and it was his sixth all-star selection and will be his fifth start, a Montreal-Washington franchise record. Scherzer was named as an all-star for the sixth straight season, four of them as a National. Doolittle made the All-Star team for the second time, and the first time since he represented Oakland in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Awards and honors, All-Stars\nHarper agreed to participate in the 2018 Home Run Derby at Nationals Park the day before the All-Star Game. It was the second Home Run Derby appearance of his career, and he won it for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Farm system, Class AAA\nIn October 2017, the New York Mets announced that they would purchase the Syracuse Chiefs from the Community Baseball Club of Central New York. Under the deal, the Community Baseball Club of Central New York's ownership of the Chiefs and the Chiefs' affiliation with the Washington Nationals \u2013 which had begun in 2009 \u2013 continued through the end of the 2018 season. After the conclusion of the season, the Mets would take ownership of and operate the Chiefs, with Syracuse \u2013 renamed the Syracuse Mets in October 2018 \u2013 becoming the Mets' Class AAA affiliate beginning with the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Farm system, Class AAA\nOn September 18, 2018, the Nationals and the Fresno Grizzlies of the Pacific Coast League announced that they had struck a two-year player-development deal that would make Fresno the Nationals' Class AAA affiliate beginning in the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283634-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Nationals season, Farm system, Class A-Advanced\nIn June 2018, Potomac Nationals owner Art Silber announced that he had signed a letter of intent to build a new stadium in Fredericksburg, Virginia, that would open in April 2020. During the 2018\u20132019 offseason, the Fredericksburg city council gave unanimous final approval on November 13, 2018, for the Silber family to finance, build, and maintain the new stadium. Plans thus called for the 2019 season to be the 36th and last for the Potomac Nationals at Pfitzner Stadium in Woodbridge, Virginia, where they had played since 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283635-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Redskins season\nThe 2018 season was the Washington Redskins' 87th in the National Football League and their fifth under head coach Jay Gruden. This was the first season since 2011 that quarterback Kirk Cousins was not on the roster, as he joined the Minnesota Vikings in the offseason as a free agent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283635-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Redskins season\nThe team tied their record from the previous season, and missed the playoffs for the third straight season. Despite a 6\u20133 start which was their best since 2008 plus leading the NFC East, the team suffered 4 straight losses after the team lost their starting quarterback Alex Smith to a catastrophic leg injury in their Week 11 loss to the Houston Texans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283635-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Washington Redskins season\nThis would cause Smith to miss both the remainder of the 2018 season and the entire 2019 season as Smith stated that he had taken a total of 17 surgeries to repair his leg and nearly had it amputated. Smith's injury also resulted in a quarterback hangover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283635-0001-0002", "contents": "2018 Washington Redskins season\nFirst, it forced Colt McCoy into the starting role in Weeks 12 and 13 before also suffering a leg injury in a 28\u201313 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 13, thus forcing the Redskins to start journeyman quarterback Mark Sanchez in Week 14 before starting another journeyman quarterback Josh Johnson against the Jacksonville Jaguars after benching Sanchez at halftime against the New York Giants. After the Alex Smith injury, the Redskins finished the last 7 games of the season with a record of 1\u20136. They were eliminated from playoff contention with a loss to the Titans, including wins by the Seahawks and Vikings. The team's season ended with 25 players on injured reserve, which were a league high.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283635-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Redskins hoped to get revenge for their loss in this game a year ago, where they blew a 31-16 lead with three minutes remaining and lost in overtime. Instead, the Redskins got blown out. This game was the point where Drew Brees passed Brett Favre and Peyton Manning on most passing yards. They fell to 2-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283635-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThis marked the first time since 2006 that the Redskins had defeated the Panthers. Then the Redskins started a 3 game winning streak and improved to 3-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283635-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nThe Redskins got their first win over the Cowboys at home since 2012. Also, Preston Smith forced a fumble returned for a touchdown off Dak Prescott. As time expired, Brett Maher missed the potential game-tying 52-yard field goal to give the Redskins the win. With this win, they improved to 4-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283635-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at New York Giants\nThe Redskins improved to 5-2. This was the last time the Redskins beat the Giants until 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283635-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nThen the Redskins improved to 6-3 but then Alex Smith got injured and they would only win 1 more time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 97], "content_span": [98, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283635-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Houston Texans\nDuring the game, starter Alex Smith suffered a compound fracture injury to his right leg after being sacked by J. J. Watt and Kareem Jackson and was replaced by his backup, Colt McCoy. Coincidentally, this was exactly 33 years to the day of Joe Theismann's career-ending leg injury. Joe Theismann was also present during the game and witnessed the injury. The Redskins fell to 6-4 by losing 23-21, which ironically was the same score in the game where Theismann was injured. Alex Smith would not play again until Week 5 in 2020 against the Rams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283635-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nThe Redskins improved to 7-7. The Redskins would then eclipse 600 regular season wins in franchise, the fifth team to do so (with Bears, Packers, Giants, & Steelers) with a regular season record of 600-588-28 at that point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 97], "content_span": [98, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283635-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Tennessee Titans\nThis loss dropped the Redskins to 7-8. Also with this loss, including wins by the Vikings and Seahawks eliminated the Redskins from playoff contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 93], "content_span": [94, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283635-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nThe Redskins finished 7-9 despite starting with a 6-3 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 97], "content_span": [98, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283636-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Spirit season\nThe 2018 season is Washington Spirit's sixth season, competing in the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States. On August 21, the Spirit parted ways with Head Coach and General Manager Jim Gabarra, assistant coach Tom Torres took over as interim Head Coach for the remaining 3 games of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283636-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Spirit season, Review\nAfter a difficult 2017 season, the Spirit began rebuilding their team, continuing with a youth centered approach. Considered a successful 2018 draft, Washington recruited U.S. international Andi Sullivan (no. 1 overall pick) and Canadian international Rebecca Quinn (no. 3 overall pick). In addition to the draft, the Spirit traded Crystal Dunn's player rights for 2017 Rookie of the Year Ashley Hatch and rookie outside back Taylor Smith. The unfortunate folding of Boston Breakers allowed the Spirit to bring in U.S. international playmaker, Rose Lavelle via the subsequent dispersal draft. What seemed to be only key loss for the Spirit was captain and anchor centerback, Shelina Zadorsky, traded to Orlando Pride for promising goalkeeper, Aubrey Bledsoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283636-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Spirit season, Review\nThe season opened with a loss to Seattle, but saw the return of Joanna Lohman, held back in 2017 through injury, and scored in her substitute appearance. After several mediocre performances in March and April, the Spirit would struggle for the remainder of the season, winning only one more match (of two all season) against struggling Sky Blue FC. A combination of injuries to forwards Mallory Pugh, Havana Solaun, and Arielle Ship hamstrung the Spirit attack who were shutout 15 matches (including a 7-match streak).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283636-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Spirit season, Review\nOn August 21, after eight straight losses and being eliminated from playoff contention, the Spirit fired head coach, Jim Gabarra, and appointed assistant coach, Tom Torres as interim head coach. Torres lead the Spirit through the final three matches of the season at home, including the Spirit's debut at newly opened Audi Field against Portland Thorns on August 25. The match set a new club record for home attendance with 7,976 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283636-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Spirit season, Review\nThe last match of the season against Sky Blue FC, the Spirit ended a league-record setting goal drought at 765-minutes after Arielle Ship scored the opener of a 1-1 draw in the 71st minute. The match also earned Aubrey Bledsoe the league-wide record for saves in a single season at 108.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283636-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Spirit season, Club, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283636-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Spirit season, Competitions, NWSL Playoffs\nThe Spirit were eliminated from playoff contention on July 22 after a 1-0 home loss to Houston Dash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283636-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Spirit season, Transfers, Draft picks\nDraft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only those who are signed to a contract will be listed as transfers in. Only trades involving draft picks and executed during the 2018 NWSL College Draft will be listed in the notes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283637-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington State Cougars football team\nThe 2018 Washington State Cougars football team represented Washington State University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team played their home games in Martin Stadium in Pullman, Washington. They were led by 7th-year head coach Mike Leach and were members of the North Division of the Pac-12 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283637-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington State Cougars football team\nThe 2018 season was one of the greatest in Washington State history. The Cougars won a school record-tying ten games, the first time they had won that many in the regular season since the Rose Bowl year of 2002. They also surged as high as seventh in major polling and went into the Apple Cup with a chance to clinch the Pac-12 North title and a shot at the Rose Bowl, but lost 28\u201315 to rival Washington in the snow in Pullman, a sixth consecutive loss to the Huskies. The 10\u20132 Cougars were invited to the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio to play the Iowa State Cyclones. They won 28\u201326 for a school record 11th win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283637-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington State Cougars football team\nMike Leach's air raid offense was led by grad transfer quarterback Gardner Minshew, who led FBS in passing completions and attempts, and finished second in passing yards. Minshew was named Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year and was the recipient of the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award. He and offensive tackle Andre Dillard were named first-team all-conference. Redshirt freshman offensive tackle Abraham Lucas was named to several national all-freshman teams, and was joined on the all-conference second-team by defensive end Logan Tago. Mike Leach was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year for the second time of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283637-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington State Cougars football team, Previous season\nThe Cougars finished the 2017 season 9\u20134, 6\u20133 in Pac-12 play to finish in third place in the North Division. They were invited to the Holiday Bowl where they lost to Michigan State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283637-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington State Cougars football team, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days\nThe 2018 Pac-12 media days were held July 25, 2018 in Hollywood, California. Mike Leach (HC), Kyle Sweet (WR/P) & Jalen Thompson (S) represented Washington State at this event. The Pac-12 media poll was released with the Cougars predicted to finish in fifth place at Pac-12 North division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283637-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington State Cougars football team, Awards\nPac-12 Offensive Player of the Year: Gardner Minshew IIPac-12 Coach of the Year: Mike Leach", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283638-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington State Senate election\nThe 2018 Washington State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Washington state voters elected state senators in 25 of the state's 49 Senate districts. The other 24 state senators are not up for re-election until the next biennial election in 2020. State senators serve four-year terms in the Washington State Senate. A statewide map of Washington's state legislative districts is provided by the Washington State Legislature .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283638-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington State Senate election\nA top two primary election on August 7, 2018 determined which candidates appear on the November 6 general election ballot. Each candidate is allowed to write in her or his party preference so that it appears as she or he desires on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283638-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington State Senate election\nFollowing the 2016 state senate elections, Republicans maintained effective control of the Senate, 25\u201324 because self-identified Democrat Tim Sheldon caucuses with the Republicans. However, in 2017 Democrats regained control of the Washington State Senate after Democrat Manka Dhingra won a special election in Washington's 45th legislative district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283638-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington State Senate election\nDemocrats expanded their caucus's majority to 28\u201321 by further flipping the 26th, 30th, and 47th districts. Tim Sheldon was reelected as a Democrat but continued to caucus with the Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283639-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Valor season\nThe 2018 Washington Valor season was the second season for the franchise in the Arena Football League. The Valor play at the Capital One Arena. The team finished fourth at the end of the regular season. After losing the first game of their semifinal series against the Albany Empire, the Valor won the second game and advanced to ArenaBowl XXXI by virtue of aggregate score. The Valor would go on to win the Arena Bowl by defeating the Baltimore Brigade 69\u201355.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283639-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Valor season, Staff, Roster\nRookies in italics updated July 19, 201825 Active, 15 Inactive", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283639-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington Valor season, Schedule, Regular season\nThe 2018 regular season schedule was released on February 13, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires\nThe 2018 Washington wildfire season officially began June 1, 2018. A statewide state of emergency was declared by the Washington State Governor on July 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Training and preparedness\nState level planning for the fire season began at least as early as January, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Training and preparedness\nA regional annual meeting was held at Yakima in March to prepare for fighting wildfires. Summer fire rules went into effect on state-owned lands on April 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Training and preparedness\nFour hundred firefighters from 36 fire districts and 18 agencies trained to fight forest fires in the Cascade Mountains above Yakima in May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Training and preparedness\nA 20-year Washington Wildland Fire Protection Strategic Plan under development during the first half of the year was to be released by the Department of Natural Resources to the public in July, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Training and preparedness\nIn June, three firefighting helicopters were staged in Western Washington by the Department of Natural Resources for the first time, prompted by a low 2017 fire season west of the Cascades followed by a dry month of May 2018 causing an abundance of dry fuel, and other weather considerations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Season prediction\nThe season predictions issued in May cited drier than average weather conditions and low snow pack in Oregon, but in Washington conditions appeared to be near normal. The water year began October 1, 2017, and by May 1, indicated normal precipitation in the state, but according to National Interagency Fire Center, models that also include Pacific-scale El Ni\u00f1o\u2013Southern Oscillation effects showed high chance of below-normal precipitation and higher-than-normal temperatures through July; these factors led to a prediction of above-normal wildfire risk for the entirety of Eastern Washington through August 2018. Climate scientists said in July that the Palmer Drought Severity Index showed Western Washington to be significantly drier than normal, adding to fire risk there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nWhat may have been the first significant fire of the year occurred on April 24, when 20 acres burned at Woodland, Washington in Clark County, extinguished via aerial attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nOn May 22, a controlled burn initiated by a local resident went wild and burned 300 acres near the Yakima Training Center. An Army helicopter crew was credited with saving homes near Selah by dumping water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nThe Soap Lake Fire in early June grew to 2,000 acres (810\u00a0ha) and triggered level 3 evacuations in Grant County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nThe Ryegrass Coulee Fire on July 9\u201310 burned 1,600 acres, closed 20 miles of Interstate 90 in both directions for most of a day, and forced the complete evacuation of Vantage, Washington. It was the first of the state's fire season to trigger a level three evacuation or a road closure. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released funds, saying that \"the fire threatened such destruction as would constitute a major disaster\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nThe Little Camas Fire at , in the Cascades south of Leavenworth, Washington, started on July 5 and reached over 300 acres. It caused the evacuation of a bible camp. Over 440 firefighters and three helicopters were sent to contain it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nThe Vulcan Mountain Fire at Vulcan Mountain in Ferry County grew to over 20 acres around July 13, before being contained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nSmoke conditions in mid July were judged as good, in contrast to the 2017 season which had Seattle blanketed in smoke and ash around the same time due to fires in British Columbia, Eastern Washington and Oregon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nThe Rocky Reach Fire at , near Wenatchee, started on Friday, July 13 and reached over 3,386 acres (1,370\u00a0ha) before being contained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nThe Boylston Fire started on July 19 again shut down I-90 east of Ellensburg for 24 hours. It burned 80,000 acres, mostly on the Yakima Training Center, caused level three \"leave now\" evacuations, and destroyed five buildings while being fought by three fixed-wing aircraft and two helicopters. Military personnel and equipment to fight the fire were sent from Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane and Joint Base Lewis-McChord in the Puget Sound Area. The smoke caused \"unhealthy\" air conditions in Spokane on July 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nThe Upriver Beacon Fire in Spokane County, on the Spokane city/county border at , caused the evacuation of 800 homes and evacuation warnings for thousands more on July 18. It burned 120 acres (49\u00a0ha) before being contained. Nearly all local fire agencies including cities of Spokane, Spokane Valley and Spokane County, and out-of-area fire aircraft, responded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nThe Cougar Creek Fire at near Entiat started on July 28 as the result of lightning. Forest recreation users were told to leave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nSmoke from fires in Siberia was visible over southern British Columbia in late July and was assessed to be a possible health impact to Washington residents. On July 29, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency stated the Puget Sound region would experience \"moderate air quality at times with some upper level smoke making for pretty sunsets. This smoke comes from distant fires, mostly originating from Siberia.\" On July 30, University of Washington meteorology professor Cliff Mass noted the progressively more smoky situation in Seattle from Siberian wildfires, and said a \"smoke front\" from California's Carr Fire would arrive before sunset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nParts of Goat Rocks Wilderness were closed for the month of September in response to the Miriam Fire at , reported July 30 as the result of lightning. 400 campers were evacuated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nThe Milepost 90 Fire in the Columbia Gorge near Wishram, Washington started on July 31 and reached over 11,000 acres (4,500\u00a0ha) by August 1. Level 2 and level 3 evacuation orders were issued near Wishram. Almost 20 miles of State Route 14 were closed in both directions. On August 3, it burned 14,500 acres (5,900\u00a0ha) and 85% contained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nCrescent Mountain and Gilbert Fires at near Twisp began with lightning on July 29 and grew quickly to over 100 acres (40\u00a0ha) by August 1, driven by evening downslope wind. Four helicopters and other equipment were assigned and smokejumpers sent in to the rough terrain. Hikers and campers were told to leave. Crescent Mountain Fire increased to 7,671 acres (3,104\u00a0ha) by August 5. It was controlled as of October 22, 2018 and burned a total 52,000 acres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke\nThe Maple Fire at near the Hamma Hamma River on the Olympic Peninsula sent smoke towards Seattle on August 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Resources\nAn infrared thermography-capable RC-26 surveillance aircraft and support crew from Washington Air National Guard were deployed in support of the National Interagency Fire Center for the third year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283640-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington wildfires, Resources\nThe Governor's July 31 state of emergency declaration allowed the Washington National Guard to be deployed; two Blackhawk helicopters at Fairchild Air Force Base were quickly allocated to firefighting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283641-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington, D.C. mayoral election\nThe 2018 Washington, D.C., mayoral election took place on November 6, 2018 to elect the Mayor of the District of Columbia. Incumbent Democrat Muriel Bowser won re-election, becoming the first Mayor to do so for Washington, D.C. since Anthony A. Williams won a second term in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283641-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Washington, D.C. mayoral election\nIn the first 80 days of her re-election campaign, Bowser raised about $1.4 million for her campaign fund. She had no serious challengers in the primary, with only some little-known candidates filing to run against her. Bowser won the June 19 primary with 80% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship is the 131st edition of the Waterford GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded clubs in County Waterford, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Waterford in the Munster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship\nStradbally were the defending champions after they defeated The Nire in the previous years final. However the defence of their title came undone at the Quarter-Final stage when losing to neighbours Kilrossanty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship\nThis was Dungarvan's return to the senior grade after claiming the 2017 Waterford I.F.C. title. This was their first year back in the top-flight of Waterford club football in 5 years since relegation at the end of the 2012 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship\nOn 28 October 2018, The Nire claimed their 9th Waterford S.F.C. crown when defeating Kilrossanty by 0-9 to 0-7 in the final at Fraher Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship\nDungarvan were relegated to the 2019 I.F.C. after losing their Relegation Final to Ardmore St. Declan's. This ended their one year stay in the senior ranks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nAll 12 teams enter the competition at this stage. Groups are organised into three groups of four teams. The previous year's champions must enter Group 1, the previous year's runners-up must enter Group 2 while the two beaten semi-finalists will both enter Group 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nThe top placed team in each group will qualify directly for the Quarter-Finals joined by the 2nd placed team with the best group record. The best 2nd placed team shall be decided on following criteria: 1. Total points won in the group; 2. Best scoring difference;3. Total scores for;4. Total goals scored;5. Where teams still cannot be separated, a draw shall take place. No play-offs shall be used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nThe remaining eight teams shall then be divided into two pots. Pot A is to consist of the remaining 2nd placed teams plus the two 3rd placed teams with the best group record. The best 3rd placed teams shall be decided on the same criteria as outlined above. Pot B shall consist of the remaining 4 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nA draw will take place to give four matches with no repeat of group matches allowed. The four winners will advance to Quarter-Finals to oppose the four teams already qualified in a seeded draw. The four losers are to contest the Relegation Play-Offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Finals, Preliminary Quarter-Finals\nAll eight teams who failed to finish top of their group (except for the 2nd placed team with the best group record) shall enter the Preliminary Quarter-Finals. Teams are divided into two pots. Pot A is to consist of the remaining 2nd placed teams plus the two 3rd placed teams with the best group record. The best 3rd placed teams shall be decided on the same criteria as outlined above. Pot B shall consist of the remaining 4 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Finals, Preliminary Quarter-Finals\nA draw will took place to give four matches with no repeat of group matches allowed. The four winners will advance to Quarter-Finals to oppose the four teams already qualified in a seeded draw. The four losers are to contest the Relegation Play-Offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Finals, Quarter-Finals\nThe three teams who topped their groups along with the best ranked 2nd placed team will face the four Preliminary Quarter-Final winners in the Quarter-Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283642-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Relegation Play-Offs\nThe four losers from the Preliminary Quarter-Finals enter the Relegation Semi-Finals. The two winners of these Semi-Finals will secure their senior status for 2019 while the two losers will face each other in the Relegation Final. The winner of this match will secure their senior status for 2019 while the loser will be relegated to next year's I.F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283643-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship was the 118th staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283643-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 7 October 2018, Ballygunner won the championship after a 2-19 t 0-13 defeat of Abbeyside in the final. It was their 17th championship title overall and their fifth title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283643-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship\nBallygunner's Pauric Mahony was the championship's top scorer with 2-66.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283644-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterloo Region municipal elections\nThe 2018 Waterloo Region municipal elections were held on October 22, 2018 in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, to elect Waterloo Regional Council, the mayors and city councils of Cambridge, Kitchener, North Dumfries, Waterloo, Wellesley, Wilmot, and Woolwich, the Waterloo Region District School Board (Public), the Waterloo Catholic District School Board, and the regional members of Conseil Scolaire de District Catholiques Centre-Sud and Conseil Scolaire Viamonde (Public). The election was held in conjunction with the province wide 2018 municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283644-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterloo Region municipal elections, Waterloo Regional Council, Council\nWaterloo Regional Council includes the chair, the mayors of the seven constituent municipalities (see below) plus the following council races:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283644-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterloo Region municipal elections, Cambridge, Referendum\nReferendum on ranked ballots: \"Are you in favour of the City of Cambridge using a ranked ballot system for the 2022 municipal election?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283644-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterloo Region municipal elections, Cambridge, Referendum\nAs the only 27.27% of eligible voters voted in the referendum, the results are non binding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283644-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Waterloo Region municipal elections, Cambridge, Cambridge City Council, By-election\nFollowing the death of Frank Monteiro, a by-election was held in Ward 7 on October 5, 2020:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 88], "content_span": [89, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283645-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Watford Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Watford Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Watford Borough Council in England. This was the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283645-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Watford Borough Council election\nWatford was one of the boroughs subject to a trial of voter ID restrictions requiring the production of polling cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283645-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Watford Borough Council election\nSince the election of the full council in 2016, there had been three bye-elections, but the balance of the council remained the same, as they were won by the defending party, in the case of Leggatts Ward by Labour and in the cases of Oxhey and Park by the Lib Dems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283645-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Watford Borough Council election, Mayoral Election Candidates\nPeter Taylor of the Liberal Democrats retained the Watford mayorlty for the Liberal Democrats on the second count. Prior to the election, the mayor had been Dorothy Thornhill, representing the Liberal Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283646-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Web.com Tour\nThe 2018 Web.com Tour is the 29th season of the top developmental tour for the PGA Tour in men's golf, and the seventh under the current sponsored name of Web.com Tour. It runs from January 13 to September 23. The season consists of 27 official money tournaments, five of them played outside of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283646-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Web.com Tour, Schedule\nThe table below shows the Web.com Tour's 2018 schedule, which includes two new tournaments. The numbers in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of wins on the Web.com Tour including that event. No one accumulates many wins on the Web.com Tour because success at this level soon leads to promotion to the PGA Tour. Any player who wins three Web.com Tour events in a season will automatically earn their PGA Tour card immediately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283646-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Web.com Tour, Money leaders\nThe table shows the final top 10 money winners for the 2018 Web.com Tour season. For the list of the 50 golfers given PGA Tour memberships for the 2018\u201319 season, see 2018 Web.com Tour Finals graduates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283647-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Web.com Tour Finals graduates\nThis is a list of golfers who graduated from the Web.com Tour and Web.com Tour Finals in 2018. The top 25 players on the Web.com Tour's regular-season money list in 2018 earned PGA Tour cards for 2019. The Finals, which concluded on September 23, determined the other 25 players to earn PGA Tour cards and the priority order of all 50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283647-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Web.com Tour Finals graduates\nAs in previous seasons, the Finals featured the top 75 players on the Web.com Tour regular season money list, players ranked 126\u2013200 on the PGA Tour's regular-season FedEx Cup points list (except players exempt through other means), non-members of the PGA Tour with enough regular-season FedExCup points to place in the top 200, and special medical exemptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283647-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Web.com Tour Finals graduates\nTo determine the initial 2019 PGA Tour priority rank, the 25 Web.com Tour regular-season graduates will be alternated with the 25 Finals graduates. This priority order will then be reshuffled several times during the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283647-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Web.com Tour Finals graduates\nIm Sung-jae and Denny McCarthy are fully exempt for the 2019 PGA Tour season after leading the full-season and Finals money lists, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283647-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Web.com Tour Finals graduates, 2018 Web.com Tour Finals\n*PGA Tour rookie in 2019\u2020First-time PGA Tour member in 2019, but ineligible for rookie status due to having played eight or more PGA Tour events in a previous season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283647-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Web.com Tour Finals graduates, Results on 2019 PGA Tour\n*PGA Tour rookie in 2019\u2020First-time PGA Tour member in 2019, but ineligible for rookie status due to having played eight or more PGA Tour events in a previous season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283647-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Web.com Tour Finals graduates, Results on 2019 PGA Tour\nKramer Hickok, Robert Streb, Cameron Davis, Fabi\u00e1n G\u00f3mez, and Hank Lebioda regained their cards through the 2019 Korn Ferry Tour Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283648-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Webby Awards\nThe 23rd annual Webby Awards were held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on May 14, 2018, which was hosted by comedian and writer Amber Ruffin. The Webby Awards have been dubbed the \"internet's highest honor\" and, in 2018, received over 13,000 entries from 70 countries, with 10% receiving nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283649-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Weber State Wildcats football team\nThe 2018 Weber State Wildcats football team represented Weber State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Wildcats were led by fourth-year head coach Jay Hill and played their games at Stewart Stadium as members of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 10\u20133, 7\u20131 in Big Sky play to finish in a three-way tie for the Big Sky championship with Eastern Washington and UC Davis. They received the Big Sky's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where, after a first round bye, they defeated Southeast Missouri State in the second round before losing in the quarterfinals to Maine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283649-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Weber State Wildcats football team, Previous season\nThe Wildcats finished the 2017 season 11\u20133, 7\u20131 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for the Big Sky championship with Southern Utah. Due to their head-to-head loss to Southern Utah in the regular season, they did not receive the Big Sky's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs, but did receive an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs, their second straight trip to the playoffs. In the first round, they defeated Western Illinois. In the second round, they avenged their regular season loss to Southern Utah. In the quarterfinals, they lost to eventual national runner-up, James Madison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283649-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Weber State Wildcats football team, Preseason, Polls\nOn July 16, 2018, during the Big Sky Kickoff in Spokane, Washington, the Wildcats were predicted to finish in second place by both the coaches and media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283649-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Weber State Wildcats football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Team\nThe Wildcats had a conference leading six players selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283649-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Weber State Wildcats football team, Schedule\nDespite also being a member of the Big Sky, the game against Cal Poly was considered a non-conference matchup having no effect on conference standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283650-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wellington County municipal elections\nElections were held in Wellington County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283650-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wellington County municipal elections, Wellington County Council\nThe council consists of the seven mayors of the constituent municipalities plus nine councillors elected from county wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283651-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Conservatives leadership election\nThe 2018 Welsh Conservatives leadership election was triggered on 27 June by the resignation of Andrew RT Davies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283651-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Conservatives leadership election\nDavies had led the Welsh Conservatives since 14 July 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283651-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Conservatives leadership election\nPaul Davies won the contest and became the new leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283651-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Conservatives leadership election, Procedure\nCandidates require a total of four nominations from Conservative AMs, including themselves, to stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283651-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Conservatives leadership election, Procedure\nIf there are three or more candidates, Conservative AMs vote until there are two candidates, who are then voted on by the party's membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283651-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Conservatives leadership election, Campaign\nLeader Andrew RT Davies stood down in June 2018. WalesOnline reported that this was because he felt he did not have the full support of the Conservative group. He told the BBC that he had been aware of plans to remove him for more than a year. His departure was credited to what The Guardian described as his \"uncompromising\" support for Brexit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283651-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Conservatives leadership election, Campaign\nDeputy Leader Paul Davies was appointed as an Interim Leader, and announced that he would stand for the permanent leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283651-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Conservatives leadership election, Campaign\nIn July, Suzy Davies announced she would stand, saying that she thought it was important for the Welsh Conservatives to have a contested election. She said she would be willing to work with Plaid Cymru to get rid of the Labour government in Wales. She supported reducing taxes, as well as giving some business rates proceeds to councils to use them for private sector-led local development strategies. Suzy Davies also argued for giving the private sector a \"real stake in the communities in which they develop\" and giving workers an \"emotional stake\" in their employers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283651-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Conservatives leadership election, Campaign\nPaul Davies launched his campaign in Gwent, pledging to give Welsh Conservative Party members a vote on any potential coalition in the Welsh Assembly. He said he would consider cutting taxes in Wales, as well as supporting high street businesses and redesign the business rates system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283651-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Conservatives leadership election, Campaign\nThe South Wales Argus described Paul Davies as having the support of \"most of the big hitters in the party\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283651-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Conservatives leadership election, Candidates\nShadow Minister for Tourism, Culture and the Welsh Language from 2011 to 2016", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283652-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour Party deputy leadership election\nThe 2018 Welsh Labour Party deputy leadership election took place from 16 February to 21 April 2018. It followed a review in the Welsh Labour Party which for the first time formalised the role of Deputy Leader. As the then leader Carwyn Jones was male, only women were eligible to stand for the role of deputy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283652-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour Party deputy leadership election\nOn 21 April 2018, Swansea MP Carolyn Harris was elected as Deputy Leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283652-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour Party deputy leadership election, Voting system\nThe election was conducted under an Electoral College system in which Labour Party members, affiliated trade union members and Welsh Labour elected officials all held an equal share of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283652-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour Party deputy leadership election, Voting system\nBased on the turnout figures, Welsh Labour has approximately 25,000 individual members and 76,400 affiliated union members, as well as 58 elected officials (29 AMs, 28 MPs and 1 MEP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283652-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour Party deputy leadership election, Candidates and Endorsements\nTo stand, candidates needed the support of a minimum of 12 parliamentarians with a minimum of three AMs and three MPs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 79], "content_span": [80, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283652-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour Party deputy leadership election, Candidates and Endorsements\nNominations closed at Midday on 16 February and two candidates \u2013 Swansea East MP Carolyn Harris, and Cardiff North AM Julie Morgan were successfully nominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 79], "content_span": [80, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283652-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour Party deputy leadership election, Candidates and Endorsements\nNewport Council Leader Debbie Wilcox announced her candidacy but withdrew in favor of Julie Morgan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 79], "content_span": [80, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283652-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour Party deputy leadership election, Candidates and Endorsements\nThe following were reported as endorsements at the close on nominations on 16 February 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 79], "content_span": [80, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283652-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour Party deputy leadership election, Results and turnout\nThe results were announced at the Welsh Labour Conference in Llandudno on 21 April 2018. Carolyn Harris was elected as Deputy Leader. Harris won decisively amongst affiliated members and elected members, whilst Morgan won even more decisively amongst the votes of full party members by a 2:1 margin. Moreover Morgan won 1,401 more votes than Harris if all three sets of results are aggregated. The overall result saw Harris win by 52%\u201348% in the electoral college. Morgan won the popular vote 54%\u201346%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283652-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour Party deputy leadership election, Results and turnout\nThe turnout among Parliamentarians was 93.1% (with 4 non voters), among full party members it was 38.3% and among affiliate members it was 4.7%, giving an overall turnout of 9.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election\nThe 2018 Welsh Labour Party leadership election took place between 9 November and 6 December 2018 to elect a successor to Carwyn Jones as leader of the Welsh Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election\nCarwyn Jones, who had led Welsh Labour since 2009, announced his intention to resign at the Welsh Labour conference in Llandudno in April 2018. He stated that he would stand down in autumn 2018, and that he would continue to lead the party until then.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Procedure\nAhead of the election, Drakeford and Morgan argued in favour of changing the voting system to one member one vote. Four trade unions\u2014GMB, Unison, Usdaw and the CWU\u2014supported the continuation of an electoral college, whilst Unite supported changing to one member one vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Procedure\nA special conference held on 15 September decided that the system that will be used for the election will be by one member one vote+. This means that the votes of party members and members of affiliated organisations who vote carried the same weight. The decision by the special conference followed a consultation that was carried out by Lord Murphy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Procedure\nBallot papers were sent out to members on 9 November by email, or by post for those who did not have an email address. They had until 3 December to return their vote. A preferential voting system was used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Procedure\nThe result of the election was announced on 6 December, with Carwyn Jones scheduled to formally resign as First Minister of Wales the following week. His resignation will trigger a vote of all Assembly Members to elect his successor as First Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Procedure\nWelsh Liberal Democrat AM Kirsty Williams had joined Welsh Labour in government following the 2016 assembly election as Cabinet Secretary for Education. She said that she would stay on in post if the same terms were available as those agreed with Carwyn Jones when she joined the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Procedure\nFormer Plaid Cymru AM Dafydd Elis-Thomas left his party in October 2016 to support the Labour-led government, and joined the government as Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport in November 2017. This gave the government side a majority of 31 out of the 60 Assembly Members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Procedure\nAll three candidates in the election indicated they would wish for Williams and Elis-Thomas to remain in the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Nominations\nIn order to become a candidate, individuals required 20% of current Labour AMs to nominate them. This equated to six AMs, including themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Nominations\nFinance Secretary Mark Drakeford was the first candidate to declare he was standing, shortly after Jones announced he would be stepping down. He immediately securing the support of seven other AMs, ensuring he would be on the ballot. A further nine AMs later announced they were nominating Drakeford, giving him the support of a majority of the Labour Group. He has the backing of Momentum, a group supportive of national leader Jeremy Corbyn, and has been described as both a \"Corbynist\" and as a pragmatist. Drakeford started the election as the favourite, though academic Roger Awan-Scully suggested that he may not necessarily remain the frontrunner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Nominations\nHealth Secretary Vaughan Gething announced his candidacy on 25 May, with the support of four members of the Assembly, putting himself one nomination short of becoming a candidate. He later achieved the required number of endorsements when Ann Jones announced she would nominate him on 10 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Nominations\nMinister for Welsh Language & Lifelong Learning Eluned Morgan announced her intention to run on 11 June 2018, declaring herself to be a 'centre-left candidate'. She didn't receive any further nominations until Huw Irranca-Davies and Alun Davies, who had wanted to stand for the leadership but received no public support from other AMs, withdrew and nominated her. Two other AMs also nominated her, putting her one nomination short of the six required. After Gething received sufficient nominations, he asked that no further AMs nominate him, but instead nominate a female candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Nominations\nHe suggested that Drakeford himself could nominate Morgan to ensure diversity in the election. National party leader Jeremy Corbyn called for diversity in the choices offered to Welsh Labour members. On 24 September, at the Labour Conference in Liverpool, Carwyn Jones said that if necessary he would nominate Morgan to ensure that there was a woman on the ballot paper, making it clear that he would remain neutral regarding the merit of the candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Nominations\nIn addition to nominations from AMs, candidates could receive supporting nominations from Welsh MPs, affiliated trade unions and Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs), to be listed alongside the candidates' names on the ballot paper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Campaign\nDrakeford started the election as the favourite, though academic Roger Awan-Scully cautioned against the assumption that he would go on to win. Drakeford said he would act as a \"bridge\" to a new generation, and that he would stand aside midway through the next term of the Assembly. His early policy proposals included a pilot of universal baby boxes like those used in Finland and Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Campaign\nIn addition to a formal campaign launch in the Ely area of Cardiff at the community centre where he once worked, Drakeford held a second launch at Northop College to announce his plans for North Wales. He also launched a set of economic policy proposals at the North Wales launch, and later held further policy launch events: a social policy launch in Blackwood and an environmental policy launch in Carmarthen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Campaign\nIn a speech delivered in his former department at Cardiff University, Drakeford set out the political philosophy he called '21st Century Socialism', in which he suggested the Labour Party in Wales should use its traditional socialist principles to find solutions for the challenges facing modern Wales, such as the housing crisis, climate change and Brexit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Campaign\nGething put focus on inter-generational poverty, and committed to improving productivity. He also pledged to create a National Care Service to deliver elderly care free at point of use, funded by tax increases or a new care levy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Campaign\nGething faced controversy for creating a group separate to his leadership campaign called Together for Labour, which was accused of being a vehicle to keep data after the end of the leadership campaign. He was also criticised for accepting large campaign donations from a company which had been convicted for environmental infringements, another which is a major property developer in his constituency, and another which is owned by a controversial former local Councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Campaign\nMorgan said she would appoint a minister for north Wales, as well as increasing support for the self-employed. She also proposed a universal basic income for Wales, starting by pitching for a pilot to be held in a Welsh community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Campaign\nMorgan also faced questions about her election expenses, as she did not publicly register any donations to her campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Campaign\nBoth Gething and Morgan said they would support a public vote on the final Brexit deal if elected leader, while Drakeford supported the national Labour Party position of only calling for another referendum as a last resort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Candidate endorsements, Withdrawn\nHuw Irranca-Davies and Alun Davies withdrew on 18 September 2018 to endorse Eluned Morgan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Results and turnout\nThe results were announced at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on 6 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283653-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Results and turnout\nTurnout among members was 53.1% (~13,275 votes cast) and among affiliates it was 5.6% (~8,400 votes cast).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283654-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Open (snooker)\nThe 2018 ManBetX Welsh Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 26 February to 4 March 2018 at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales. It was the sixteenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season and a part of the Home Nations Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283654-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Open (snooker)\nThe defending champion Stuart Bingham lost 1\u20134 to Matthew Stevens in the last 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283654-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Open (snooker)\nJohn Higgins won a record fifth Welsh Open title and 30th ranking title overall, beating Barry Hawkins 9\u20137 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283654-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Open (snooker), Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283654-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Welsh Open (snooker), Prize fund\nThe \"rolling 147 prize\" for a maximum break stood at \u00a320,000", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283655-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council election\nElections to Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council took place on 3 May 2018. This was on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283655-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council election, Composition of the Council\nPrior to the election the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283655-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council election, By-Elections, Welwyn West\nA by-election was held on 29 November following the death of Mandy Perkins, the leader of the Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election\nA by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Wentworth took place on 20 October 2018 after the parliamentary resignation of the former Prime Minister of Australia and incumbent Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election\nThe seat was won by independent candidate Kerryn Phelps, with a swing of almost twenty percent away from the Liberal Party. In early counting, just over an hour after the close of polls, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's election analyst Antony Green predicted Phelps would win the by-election. It is the first time since the inaugural 1901 election that the seat has not been represented by the Liberals, its predecessors, or party defectors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Background, Wentworth\nThe Liberal Party of Australia and its predecessors have continuously held Wentworth since the inaugural 1901 election, except for the brief party defections of Walter Marks in 1929 and Peter King in 2004. Wentworth was a stronghold for over 80 years, until the 1984 expansion of parliament and its redistribution saw Wentworth's Liberal margin notionally reduced by 7%, changing Wentworth from a safe Liberal seat with margins usually well in excess of 10%, to a more marginal seat which produced single-digit Liberal margins for the next 25 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Background, Wentworth\nDefeating former Liberal and independent incumbent Peter King, Liberal candidate Malcolm Turnbull first won Wentworth at the 2004 election on a reduced 5.5% Liberal margin, following a 2.4% swing against the national and state trend. At the change-of-government 2007 election a redistribution reduced the Liberal margin to a notional 2.5%, but was retained with an increased Liberal margin of 3.9%, also against the national and state trend. Turnbull replaced Brendan Nelson as Liberal leader at the September 2008 Liberal leadership ballot, however Tony Abbott replaced Turnbull as Liberal leader at the December 2009 Liberal leadership ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0002-0002", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Background, Wentworth\nAt the 2010 election, the seat went from being marginal to safe in one stroke with a 14.9% margin from an 11% swing which saw the seat become the ninth-safest Liberal seat in the nation. At the change-of-government 2013 election there was a further increase which saw the seat become the sixth-safest Liberal seat in the nation with a 17.72% Liberal margin. Turnbull replaced Abbott as Liberal leader and prime minister at the September 2015 Liberal leadership ballot. A redistribution in Wentworth increased the Liberal margin to a notional 18.9%, however at the 2016 election, a swing away saw the Liberal margin slightly reduced to 17.75% but became the fifth-safest Liberal seat in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Background, Liberal Party leadership spills\nThe by-election came after Scott Morrison replaced Turnbull as Liberal leader and prime minister on 24 August 2018, following the second of two Liberal leadership ballots held that month, which saw Morrison win the ballot against Peter Dutton with 45 votes to 40 after third-placed Julie Bishop was eliminated and the 11 votes she achieved were re-cast in the final two-candidate run-off. Turnbull won the first Liberal leadership ballot against Dutton, which was held three days before the second ballot, by 48 votes to 35.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Background, Liberal Party leadership spills\nIn the secondary spill, Turnbull did not contest the ballot for leader after losing a motion to spill the leadership by 45 votes to 40. Turnbull had previously indicated that he would leave parliament immediately if his party removed him as Liberal leader and prime minister. On 31 August 2018, one week after the second leadership spill, Turnbull submitted his resignation to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Background, Minority Coalition government\nTurnbull's departure dropped the Liberal-National Coalition in to minority government, with Nationals MP Kevin Hogan having declared he would move to the crossbench in protest immediately following the second spill. Hogan indicated he would remain a Nationals MP and provide confidence and supply support to the Coalition. Independent Cathy McGowan has indicated that she will not support a motion of no confidence in the Morrison Government before the Wentworth by-election has been decided. Rebekha Sharkie stated that she would review her position after the Wentworth by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Background, Liberal Party pre-selection\nThe Liberal Party preselected their candidate, Dave Sharma, on 14 September. Other candidates for preselection included: Peter King, barrister and Turnbull's predecessor in Wentworth; Mary-Lou Jarvis, Woollahra councillor; Richard Shields, Woollahra councillor; Katherine O'Regan, Sydney East Business Chamber chair; Michael Feneley, cardiologist; Carrington Brigham, digital campaign business director; and Maxine Szramka, rheumatologist. Christine Forster, City of Sydney councillor and the sister of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, announced her intention to seek preselection but then withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Background, Liberal Party pre-selection\nPreselection front-runner Andrew Bragg, former Acting Federal Director of the Liberal Party and current executive at the Business Council of Australia, withdrew from the preselection contest on 10 September, citing his preference for a female Liberal candidate. Prime Minister Scott Morrison reportedly endorsed O'Regan for preselection, while former prime ministers Turnbull and John Howard endorsed Sharma. Following this, Katherine O'Regan called for the Liberal Party's fighting fund for women to be accessible to women seeking pre-selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign\nTurnbull quit Australia for New York where he remained for the duration of the by-election, refusing requests to assist the Party in retaining its one-seat Parliamentary majority by campaigning for Sharma. While in New York, Turnbull told an audience: \"When you stop being prime minister, that's it. There is no way I'd be hanging around like embittered Kevin Rudd or Tony Abbott. Seriously, these people are like, sort of miserable, miserable ghosts.\" At the outset of Liberal preselection, he tweeted support for preselection of candidate Dave Sharma after Morrison had called for a female candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign\nOn October 18, he liked a tweet favouring Phelps. From New York, Turnbull lobbied his former colleagues to refer his leadership rival Peter Dutton to the High Court over his eligibility to sit in Parliament and tweeting \"The point I have made to @ScottMorrisonMP and other colleagues is that given the uncertainty around Peter Dutton's eligibility, acknowledged by the Solicitor General, he should be referred to the High Court, as Barnaby was, to clarify the matter.\" In September 2018, it was reported that his son Alex Turnbull was supporting the Labor Party at the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign\nWhen announcing her campaign, Kerryn Phelps urged voters to \"put the Liberals last\". She later published how-to-vote cards giving the Liberals a preference above Labor. Phelps became a prominent candidate in the by-election, with it being suggested that her preferences would be able to get Sharma over the line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign\nIn response to Phelps directing her preferences to Liberal candidate Sharma, the ALP employed the strategy of \"running dead\" with the intent of seeing their candidate Tim Murray coming in third place which would result in ALP preferences being distributed to Phelps and helping her to win the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign\nThe Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, backed independent candidate Licia Heath, despite having worked with Phelps on the City of Sydney council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign\nOn 26 September 2018 Sharma's campaign team was accused by other candidates of removing their campaign posters and replacing them with Sharma's posters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign\nOn 7 October, The Sunday Telegraph reported allegations that Katter's Australian Party candidate Robert Callanan was a former director of a company associated with a brothel, leading Callanan to be disendorsed by the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign\nOn 10 October, part of the Ruddock review into religious freedoms in Australia was leaked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign\nFormer Liberal Party leader and former MP for Wentworth John Hewson publicly said the seat is \"ripe for protest vote\", and urged constituents to vote against the Liberal Party, especially due to its lack of climate change policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign\nOn 15 October, Scott Morrison announced a review of whether Australia's embassy in Israel should be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Morrison also announced funding of $2 million for a surf lifesaving club in the electorate, and $2.2 million for security at Jewish community venues and events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign\nIn the last week of the campaign, an email was sent to hundreds of Wentworth constituents which falsely reported that Phelps was withdrawing from the by-election due to being diagnosed with HIV. The email then encouraged the recipient to give their first preference vote to the Liberal candidate Sharma and to remove Phelps' campaign posters. An investigation into the email revealed that it was likely sent from one of 500,000 Dodo and iPrimus email addresses. Sharma and the Liberal Party condemned the email and denied any involvement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Polling\nThe first public opinion poll of the by-election, conducted by ReachTEL during the evening of Monday 27 August 2018, produced a tied 50-50 two-party-preferred result between Liberal and Labor, which represented a massive 17.7% swing from Liberal to Labor since the previous election. Election analyst Antony Green partially attributed the size of the swing to the loss of Turnbull's significant personal vote. On 16 October, it was reported that the Liberal party's internal polling showed data that represented a 55% Phelps to 45% Sharma two-candidate-preferred vote result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Results\nAt 7:18pm AEDT, just over an hour after the close of polls, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's psephologist Antony Green predicted independent candidate Kerryn Phelps to win the by-election, although the margin of victory for Phelps tightened as pre-poll and postal votes were counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Aftermath\nIt is the first time since the inaugural 1901 election that the seat has not been represented by the Liberals, its predecessors, or party defectors. The outcome saw the Liberal-National Coalition slip further into minority government, holding only 74 seats out of 150 in the House of Representatives, having lost majority government two months earlier when Nationals MP Kevin Hogan moved to the crossbench while continuing his confidence and supply support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283656-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Wentworth by-election, Aftermath\nThe by-election is credited with highlighting the health concerns for refugee children detained in Nauru to the Morrison Government's attention, and subsequently transporting some of them to Australia for medical treatment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283657-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Alabama Tigers football team\nThe 2018 West Alabama Tigers football team represented University of West Alabama during the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Brett Gilliland. The Tigers played their home games at Tiger Stadium and are members of the Gulf South Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283657-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Alabama Tigers football team, Preseason, Gulf South Conference coaches poll\nOn August 2, 2018, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Tigers predicted to finish in 1st place in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283657-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Alabama Tigers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team\nThe Tigers had seven players at seven positions selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 91], "content_span": [92, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283657-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 West Alabama Tigers football team, Schedule\nWest Alabama 2018 football schedule consists of six home and five away games in the regular season. The Tigers will host GSC foes Delta State, Florida Tech, Valdosta State, and West Florida, and will travel to Mississippi College, North Greenville, Shorter, and West Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283657-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 West Alabama Tigers football team, Schedule\nThe Tigers will host two of the three non-conference games against Lenoir\u2013Rhyne from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) and Miles College from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) and will travel to Limestone, which is an independent team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283657-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 West Alabama Tigers football team, Schedule\nThree of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283658-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Bengal by-elections\nTwo by-elections were held in West Bengal on 29 January 2018 following the death of the incumbents Member of Noapara (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Madhusudan Ghose of the Indian National Congress and Uluberia (Lok Sabha constituency) M.P Sultan Ahmed (politician) of All India Trinamool Congress).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283658-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Bengal by-elections, Winners\nBoth seats were won by the All India Trinamool Congress Candidates, Noapara (Vidhan Sabha constituency) seat won by Sunil Singh who is the brother-in-law of Arjun singh, and Uluberia (Lok Sabha constituency) seat won by Sajda Ahmed, the widow of Sultan Ahmed (politician).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283659-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Bengal local elections\nPanchayat elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in May 2018. The polls were hit with widespread violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283660-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament will be held from May 24 through May 26, 2018 at Banner Island Ballpark in Stockton, California. The four team, double-elimination tournament winner will earn the league's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283660-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding\nThe top four finishers from the regular season will be seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage. The teams will then play a double elimination tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283661-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2018 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference for the 2017\u201318 season. All tournament games were played at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada, from March 2\u20136, 2018. Regular-season champion Gonzaga won the tournament and with it the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283661-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll ten teams in the West Coast Conference were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. The top six teams received a first-round bye. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 61], "content_span": [62, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283662-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2017 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference for the 2017\u201318 season. All tournament games were played at the Orleans Arena in the Las Vegas-area community of Paradise, Nevada from March 2\u20136, 2018. Regular-season champion Gonzaga won the tournament and with it the WCC's automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283663-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Eagles season\nThe West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football team based in Perth, Western Australia. Their 2018 season was their 32nd season in the Australian Football League (AFL), their fifth season under coach Adam Simpson, and their fourth season with Shannon Hurn as captain. The West Coast Eagles finished the season with 16 wins and 6 losses, placing them second on the ladder, qualifying for the 2018 AFL finals series. They would go on to win the Grand Final by 5 points against Collingwood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283663-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Eagles season, Background\nThe West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football team based in Perth, Western Australia, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). They finished the 2017 home-and-away season eighth on the ladder. The were eliminated in the semi finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283663-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Eagles season, Background\nShannon Hurn was the team's captain in 2018 for a fourth consecutive year. Adam Simpson was the team's senior coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283663-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Eagles season, Background\nWest Coast had 80,290 members in 2018, a 23.40% increase on 2017 numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283663-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary\nWest Coast started the 2018 season by facing Sydney in the first AFL match at the newly opened Perth Stadium (known under sponsorship as Optus Stadium). The Eagles lost that match by 29 points. West Coast would then go on to win their next 10 matches, the most notable of which was against Richmond at Optus Stadium in round 9. Richmond were the reigning premiers, and ladder leaders at the time, having lost just one game, and were ahead of West Coast on the ladder by percentage only. The Eagles managed to win that game by 47 points, putting West Coast first on the ladder and in serious contention for the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283663-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary\nAfter their round 12 bye, West Coast lost the next three matches against Sydney, Essendon and Adelaide. West Coast broke their streak of bad games by beating Greater Western Sydney in round 16. This was followed by wins against Collingwood, Western Bulldogs, a loss against North Melbourne in Hobart, and a win against Fremantle in the season's second Western Derby. During the Derby, Eagles midfielder Andrew Gaff made an unprovoked and off-the-ball punch on Fremantle's Andrew Brayshaw, breaking his jaw. Gaff was criticised for this on social media and figures in the AFL world. Gaff received an eight match suspension for this punch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283663-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary\nThe following week after the Western Derby, West Coast beat Port Adelaide after Jeremy McGovern kicked a goal after the siren. West Coast did not have the lead at any point during the match, and came from four goals down to win the game. This was the second time in a year within a year that West Coast beat Port Adelaide with a goal after the siren, the first being an elimination final in 2017. West Coast would then lose the second last match of the season to Melbourne, and win the last match against Brisbane Lions. At the end of the season, West Coast were second on the ladder, only behind Richmond. This qualified West Coast to have two home finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283663-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary\nTheir first final was a qualifying final against Collingwood. The Eagles came from 10 points down at three quarter time to win by 16 points. This sent West Coast into a preliminary final two weeks later against Melbourne. In the match, West Coast thrashed Melbourne by 66 points. In the first half, Melbourne scored no goals, the first time this happened in a final since 1927. This win sent West Coast into the 2018 AFL Grand Final against Collingwood at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283663-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary\nIn the first quarter of the grand final, West Coast trailed by as much as 29 points, as Collingwood kicked the opening five goals. From there, the Eagles clawed back the margin back to zero by three quarter time. In the final quarter, the Magpies kicked two early goals, leaving much of the rest of the quarter for the Eagles to be trailing. With two minutes remaining, and West Coast four points down, Dom Sheed kicked the winning goal from the boundary. The Grand Final finished with West Coast winning their fourth AFL premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283663-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 West Coast Eagles season, Awards\nWest Coast had four players in the 2018 All-Australian team. They were Andrew Gaff, Shannon Hurn, Jeremy McGovern and Elliot Yeo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283664-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Florida Argonauts football team\nThe 2018 West Florida Argonauts football team will represent the University of West Florida in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They will be led by third-year head coach Pete Shinnick. The Argonauts will play their home games at Blue Wahoos Stadium and are members of the Gulf South Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283664-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Florida Argonauts football team, Schedule\nWest Florida 2018 football schedule consists of five home and six away games in the regular season. The Argonauts will host GSC foes Florida Tech, Shorter, Valdosta State, and West Georgia, and will travel to Delta State, Mississippi College, North Greenville, and West Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283664-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Florida Argonauts football team, Schedule\nThe Argonauts will host one of the three non-conference games against Carson\u2013Newman from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) and will travel to Midwestern State from the Lone Star Conference and North Alabama, which is a FCS Independent team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283664-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 West Florida Argonauts football team, Schedule\nTwo of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283665-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Footscray warehouse fire\nThe 2018 West Footscray warehouse fire was a major industrial fire that occurred in West Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, beginning on 30 August 2018. The fire took the Metropolitan Fire Brigade several days to fully control and emitted a large plume of toxic black smoke, visible across Melbourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283665-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Background\nThe warehouse where the fire occurred is owned by Danbol Pty Ltd; the sole director and shareholder of which is Christopher James Baldwin, an accountant based in Shepparton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283665-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Fire\nEmergency services were first called to the factory at 420 Somerville Road, West Footscray around 5am on 30 August 2018, arriving six minutes after the first call. The 100m x 200m warehouse was fully alight. 80 firefighters and 20 fire-fighting appliances initially responded, with the number of firefighters eventually rising to more than 140. Firefighters' ability to reach the centre of the fire was hampered by walls of shipping containers and 44 gallon drums stacked up within the warehouse. A week after the fire started, hotspots remained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283665-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Investigations\nInitial investigations in the aftermath of the fire indicated the cause was suspicious. Detectives from the Victoria Police Arson and Explosive Squad assumed responsibility for the investigation into the exact cause of the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283665-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Investigations\nWorkSafe Victoria announced after the fire that the warehouse was not registered to store dangerous chemicals. As a result of community concern, Worksafe inspected other industrial properties within the area, and \"found dozens ... that also failed to comply with the [Dangerous Goods] act\". The Environment Protection Authority also investigated links between the owner of the site, the lessee, and other properties in the north of Melbourne, where industrial chemicals were found to be stored illegally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283665-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Investigations\nAt the request of the firefighters' union and Metropolitan Fire Brigade, a coronial investigation was opened into the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283665-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Health effects\nIn the hours after the fire began, authorities issued a \"community advice warning\" for Brooklyn, Kingsville, Tottenham, West Footscray, Altona North, Braybrook, Footscray, South Kingsville, Spotswood, Sunshine, and Yarraville, with residents being warned to close windows and doors. Residents were still reporting health issues three weeks after the fire. Firefighters were also concerned about the longterm effects of exposure to toxic chemicals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283665-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Environmental effects\nWithin hours of the fire, dead fish, eels, birds and other wildlife were washing up dead on the banks of Stony Creek. The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) warned people not to eat fish from Stony Creek or the lower Yarra River, and not to enter, put their hands into or allow dogs into the creek. As of March 2019, the EPA continues to monitor the water and sediment of Stony Creek for pollutants including phenol, BTEX, PFAS, acetone and butanone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283666-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Georgia Wolves football team\nThe 2018 West Georgia Wolves football team will represent the University of West Georgia in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They will be led by second-year head coach David Dean. The Wolves will play their home games at University Stadium and were members of the Gulf South Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283666-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Georgia Wolves football team, Schedule\nWest Georgia 2018 football schedule consists of six home and five away games in the regular season. The Wolves will host GSC foes Florida Tech, West Alabama, Delta State, and North Greenville, and will travel to Mississippi College, and Shorter, Valdosta State, and West Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283666-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Georgia Wolves football team, Schedule\nThe Wolves will host two of the three non-conference games against Catawba from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) and Limestone also from SAC and will travel to Albany State from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283666-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 West Georgia Wolves football team, Schedule\nTwo of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283667-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Java earthquake\nOn 23 January 2018, at 13:34:50 Western Indonesian Time (06:34:54 UTC), an earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Java near the regency of Lebak. The earthquake, measured 5.9 on the Mww, occurred approximately 40 kilometres south of the village of Binuangeun at a depth of 43.9 kilometres. The earthquake was categorized as a strong and shallow earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283667-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Java earthquake\nStrong shaking were widely reported across Banten, Lampung, West Java, Central Java and Jakarta. The tremor in Jakarta was much harder than in other recent quakes. By the virtue of its distance from the Indo-Australian plate, the capital normally does not experience strong tremors. Two people were indirectly killed by the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283667-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Java earthquake, Damage and casualties\nProperty damage was reported in West Java and Banten. In the Lebak and Sukabumi regencies, 2,760 and 3,669 buildings were damaged respectively. Two people died from heart attacks in Lebak and Sukabumi and 35 others were injured. The Depok city hall was damaged by the earthquake as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283668-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Java gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 West Java gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of West Java along with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283668-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Java gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Ahmad Heryawan was barred from participating in the re-elections after having served two full terms. Candidates included the sitting vice governor Deddy Mizwar, mayor of Bandung Ridwan Kamil, People's Representative Council member Tubagus Hasanuddin and retired major general Sudrajat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283668-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Java gubernatorial election, Timeline\nOn 10 September 2017, the KPU declared that there will be 32,809,057 eligible voters in the province, down about 200 thousand from in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283668-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 West Java gubernatorial election, Timeline\nRegistration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The numerical order of the candidates were determined on 13 February through a lottery. The campaigning period would commence between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283668-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 West Java gubernatorial election, Candidates\nUnder regulations, candidates are required to secure the support of a political party or a coalition thereof comprising at least 20 seats in the regional house. Alternatively, independent candidates may run provided they are capable of securing support from 6.5 percent of the total voter population (2,132,470) in form of photocopied ID cards subject to verification by the local committee although no candidates expressing interest managed to do this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283669-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Kalimantan gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 West Kalimantan gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of West Kalimantan alongside with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283669-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Kalimantan gubernatorial election\nWith incumbent Cornelis M.H. barred after serving two full terms, the election was contested by three pairs of candidates: Pontianak mayor Sutarmidji, Landak regent Karolin Margret Natasa and former regent of Sintang Milton Crosby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283669-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Kalimantan gubernatorial election\nThe election resulted in victory for Sutarmidji, who secured 51.5 percent of the votes. Karolin came in second with 41.8 percent while Milton won less than 7 percent of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283669-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 West Kalimantan gubernatorial election, Timeline\nRegistration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The numerical order of the candidates were determined on 13 February through a lottery. In April 2018, the provincial KPU set the number of voters at 3,436,127. The campaigning period would commence between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283669-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 West Kalimantan gubernatorial election, Candidates\nIn addition, an independent ticket also registered, but failed to submit a sufficient number of supporting ID cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283670-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 West Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of West Nusa Tenggara alongside with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283670-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election\nWith incumbent Muhammad Zainul Majdi meeting his term limits, People's Representative Council member Zulkieflimansyah came ahead in the four-candidate race, defeating regents of Central Lombok and East Lombok Mohammad Suhaili Fadhil Thahir and Ali Bin Dahlan, alongside Mataram mayor Ahyar Abduh, winning 31.8 percent of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283670-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election, Timeline\nRegistration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The numerical order of the candidates were determined on 13 February through a lottery. The campaigning period commenced between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283671-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Oxfordshire District Council election\nThe 2018 West Oxfordshire District Council election was held on 3 May 2018 to elect members of West Oxfordshire District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283671-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Oxfordshire District Council election\nElections were held for 17 of the 49 seats on the council. Five seats changed hands. The Conservative Party lost five seats, the Liberal Democrats gained three and the Labour Party gained two. The Conservatives remained in overall control of the council with a reduced total of 34 seats. The Liberal Democrats remained the largest opposition group with eight seats. The Labour Party remained the third largest party with six seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election\nA by-election was held in the UK Parliament constituency of West Tyrone on 3 May 2018, following the resignation of Barry McElduff, who had been the Member of Parliament (MP) since 2017. McElduff had become embroiled in a social media controversy which had resulted in his suspension from Sinn F\u00e9in on 8 January. He announced his resignation on 15 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election\nThis was the first by-election held during the 57th UK Parliament, which was elected in the 2017 general election. It was the first Parliamentary by-election held in Northern Ireland since the Mid Ulster by-election in 2013. Sinn F\u00e9in candidate \u00d3rfhlaith Begley held the seat with a slightly reduced majority, compared to the June 2017 snap election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background\nOn 5 January 2018, sitting MP Barry McElduff tweeted a video of himself in a shop with a loaf of Kingsmill bread on his head, asking where the shop kept its bread. As it coincided with the 42nd anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre\u2014where republicans murdered ten Protestant civilians\u2014unionists accused him of mocking the massacre and the video was widely criticised, including by nationalists. Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said \"mocking is depraved\" and called the video \"inhuman\". McElduff deleted it and apologised, saying he was not alluding to the massacre and offering to meet the victims' families.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background\nOn 8 January, Sinn F\u00e9in apologised for McElduff's actions, condemned the video, and suspended him from Sinn F\u00e9in for three months. McElduff announced on 15 January that he was resigning his seat. He was appointed the Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern on 16 January 2018, a mechanism by which an MP's resignation is formalised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background\nThe constituency of West Tyrone was created for the 1997 election and has been held by Sinn F\u00e9in since 2001. The seat is overwhelmingly nationalist, with nationalist parties consistently winning over 50% of the vote since the seat was created. Despite this, the nationalist vote has traditionally been split between the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and Sinn F\u00e9in, whilst the unionist parties have been more willing to make pacts to increase their chances of victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background\nOrdinarily, the writ of election for a vacant seat is moved by the party of the outgoing MP, but as Sinn F\u00e9in do not take their seats in the House of Commons they were unable to do so. In their absence, the writ was instead moved by the Government Chief Whip, Julian Smith. On 28 March, the writ of election was passed by the House of Commons. The election was scheduled for 3 May, coinciding with the scheduled local elections in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background, Unity candidate\nAfter the election was called, these was discussion about the possibility of a non-partisan victims' candidate standing against Sinn F\u00e9in. As Sinn F\u00e9in won a majority of the vote at the last election, a unity candidate would be unlikely to win without support across both the nationalist and unionist communities. Potential candidates included Kevin Skelton and Sharon Gault, both of whom lost relatives in terrorist attacks during the Troubles. Ulster Unionist Party leader Robin Swann endorsed the proposal, calling for a \"non-partisan candidate who will be a voice for victims to contest this seat against Sinn F\u00e9in\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background, Unity candidate\nLocal Democratic Unionist Party MLA Tom Buchanan suggested that a cross-community candidate was unlikely, given that his party had not been approached about standing down. Further criticism of the idea was levelled by Alan McBride \u2013 a relative of two Shankill Road bombing victims \u2013 describing the idea of an agreed victims' candidate as \"potentially toxic\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background, Unity candidate\nBy late March the chances of a unity candidate being nominated were described as 'remote'. Kevin Skelton \u2013 who had earlier expressed his willingness to stand as a unity candidate \u2013 noted that he had not been approached by any party to stand. The Ulster Unionists, who had originally called for a non-partisan candidate, were understood to have unsuccessfully approached a different person to ask them to be a 'victims candidate'. Omagh bomb campaigner Michael Gallagher also voiced his disappointment, and acknowledged that there had not been a positive response to the idea. Ultimately, no unity candidate was nominated and each of Northern Ireland's major parties fielded a candidate instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result\nNominations to stand in the by-election closed on 10 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result\n26-year-old local solicitor \u00d3rfhlaith Begley was selected as the Sinn F\u00e9in candidate at a party convention on 25 February. She is the daughter of Se\u00e1n Begley, a long-serving Sinn F\u00e9in councillor on Omagh District Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result\nThe DUP announced local MLA Thomas Buchanan was announced as the party's candidate on 9 April. He had previously contested the seat in the 2017 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result\nThe SDLP were understood to be preparing to contest the by-election. Former candidate and local MLA Daniel McCrossan released a statement in March condemning the fact that two months had passed from McElduff's resignation without a by-election date being fixed. McCrossan stated in early April that the selection process for the by-election was underway. He was announced as the SDLP candidate on 9 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result\nUlster Unionist Party leader Robin Swann repeatedly expressed a preference for a unity candidate instead of a candidate from his own party. Despite this, it was acknowledged that the party would have to explore \"other options\" in the event that such a candidate was not agreed upon. They nominated Omagh councillor Chris Smyth as their candidate. He accepted the nomination with \"mixed emotions\", expressing disappointment at the lack of a non-partisan and cross-community candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result\nThe Alliance Party declined to support a 'victims candidate', with party leader Naomi Long giving her reasons to victims campaigner Kevin Skelton in a letter. Stephen Donnelly was subsequently announced as the Alliance candidate at the party conference on 24 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result\nCannabis legalisation campaigner Barry Brown had initially announced his intention to contest the by-election as the Citizens Independent Social Thought Alliance (CISTA) candidate, having previously stood in the 2015 and 2017 elections. He later decided not to stand, citing commitments by the SDLP and Alliance Party towards legalising medicinal cannabis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Campaign\nEarly in the campaign Sinn F\u00e9in candidate \u00d3rfhlaith Begley raised concerns at the proposed changes to the Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies that formed part of the sixth periodic boundary review. In particular, she expressed her opposition to the proposed division of the town of Dungiven, which was to be split between the constituencies of West Tyrone, Mid Ulster and a newly created Causeway constituency. She argued that the new boundaries \"blatantly advantages the DUP at the expense of the nationalist electorate.\" Sinn F\u00e9in furthermore claimed that a campaign of voter suppression had been taking place, and urged local residents to confirm their eligibility to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Campaign\nIn mid-April an SDLP party worker claimed to have been verbally abused and attacked whilst putting up election posters in the constituency. According to the police report, the three men who assaulted the SDLP worker yelled sectarian abuse and threw his poster and ladder into the River Strule. Sinn F\u00e9in also claimed to have had posters stolen and destroyed in Omagh town centre. SDLP candidate Daniel McCrossan described the incidents as \"an attack on democracy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283672-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 West Tyrone by-election, Previous result\nOutgoing MP Barry McElduff was elected at the General Election in 2017, following the retirement of fellow Sinn F\u00e9in politician Pat Doherty. Sinn F\u00e9in won an absolute majority of the vote, their best ever result in the constituency. McElduff had previously served as an MLA for the equivalent constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly since 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283673-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Mountaineers played their home games at the Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium, in Morgantown, West Virginia, and compete in the Big 12 Conference. They were led by eighth-year head coach Dana Holgorsen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283673-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Previous season\nThe Mountaineers finished the 2017 season 7\u20136, 5\u20134 in Big 12 play to finish in a four-way tie for fourth place. They were invited to the Heart of Dallas Bowl where they lost to Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283673-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Preseason, First team All-Americans\nQuarterback Will Grier and wide receiver David Sills were named to numerous preseason All-America teams by various media outlets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283673-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll\nThe Big 12 media poll was released on July 12, 2018 with the Mountaineers predicted to finish in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283673-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nWest Virginia had originally planned to have a game the previous week against North Carolina State, but it was canceled due to Hurricane Florence. The team and coaches began preparations against Kansas State early. Mountaineer Coach Dana Holgorsen said, \"Kansas State's a tough outfit that we've got to prepare for.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283673-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nBoth teams started conference play with this game. Kansas State entered the game with a record of 2\u20131 where West Virginia had already secured victories against Tennessee (40\u201314) and Youngstown State (523\u2013-17).\" This game is the ninth meeting between the two teams with the Wildcats holding a 5-3 overall lead. The teams have split the four games played at West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283673-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nWest Virginia managed to take control of the game mid-way through the second quarter after Kansas State failed to convert on fourth down. West Virginia ended ahead at the half 21\u20130. Kansas State managed control the ball more on offense but it wasn't enough, as West Virginia achieved 464 total yards compared to Kansas State's 318. Although West Virginia had four turnovers to Kansas State's one, the Wildcats lost 69 yards on 8 penalties compared to the Mountaineer's 35 yards on 3 penalties. West Virginia was 8\u201312 on third down conversions compared to Kansas State's 3\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283673-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nIn the second half of play, Kansas State was successful with two field goals and additional scores by the Mountaineers put the game to a conclusion of West Virginia's victory 35\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283674-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Senate election\nThe 2018 West Virginia Senate elections were held on November 6, 2018, as part of the biennial United States elections. Seventeen of West Virginia's 34 state senators were up for election. West Virginia Senate districts each have two elected representatives. State senators serve staggered four-year terms in West Virginia, with one senator from each district up in even-numbered years corresponding to presidential election years (most recently held in 2016), and the other up in even-numbered years corresponding to presidential midterm years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283674-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Senate election\nPrimary elections in the state were held on May 8. After the previous 2016 state elections, Republicans held a majority in the Senate, holding 22 seats to the Democrats' 12. The Republican Party had long been the minority party in the Mountain State, but the decline of the strength of coal worker unions, the Democratic Party's increasing focus on environmentalism, the unpopularity of President Barack Obama, and the increasing social conservatism of the Republican Party have helped the GOP solidify power in the state rapidly since 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283674-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Senate election\nDespite the high popularity of President Donald Trump within the state and his 42-point margin of victory there in 2016, the Democrats gained two seats in the West Virginia Senate in 2018. This can be attributed to the competitive U.S. Senate race at the top of the ticket (which was won by incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin), the increasing insulation of the West Virginia Democratic Party from the national Democratic Party (particularly on social issues, such as abortion), and a strong year for the Democratic Party nationally, in which they gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283674-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Senate election\nFollowing the state's 2018 Senate elections, Republicans maintained control of the Senate with 20 seats to the Democrats' 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283674-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Senate election, Retirements\nNo incumbents retired in 2018. All 17 incumbent Senators ran for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283674-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Senate election, Incumbents defeated, In primary elections\nThree incumbents were defeated in the May primaries, one more than were defeated in the 2016 primaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283674-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Senate election, Results summary\nAll results are certified by the Secretary of State of West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283674-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia Senate election, Detailed results by State Senate District\nAll results are certified by the Secretary of State of West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283675-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia elections\nWest Virginia held elections on November 6, 2018. Elections for the United States House and Senate were held as well as two high-profile ballot measures. These elections were held concurrently with other elections nationwide. Primary elections were held on May 8, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283675-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia elections, Federal offices, House of Representatives\nIn District 1, Republican incumbent David McKinley won reelection with 64.6% of the vote, defeating Democratic challenger Kendra Fershee, a West Virginia University law professor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283675-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia elections, Federal offices, House of Representatives\nIn District 2, Republican incumbent Alex Mooney won reelection with 53.9% of the vote, defeating Talley Sergent, a former U.S. State Department official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283675-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia elections, Federal offices, House of Representatives\nIn District 3, Republican incumbent Evan Jenkins resigned in September 2018. Democratic state Senator Richard Ojeda challenged Republican Majority Whip of the West Virginia House of Delegates Carol Miller. Miller won with 56.4% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283675-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia elections, Federal offices, Senate\nIncumbent Democrat Joe Manchin was ranked by many outlets to be one of the most vulnerable incumbents up for election. His challenger was Attorney General of West Virginia Patrick Morrisey who won a contentious Republican primary. Manchin won the election with 49.6% of the vote against Morrisey's 46.3% vote share. This was much lower than Manchin's previous performance of a vote share 60.6% in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283675-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia elections, State Legislature, State Senate\n17 of the 34 State Senate seats were up for election in 2018. Democrats won a net gain of 2 seats, but Republicans maintained their majority with 20 seats to Democrat's 14. A total of 5 Republican incumbents lost their election, 3 in their primaries and 2 in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283675-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia elections, State Legislature, House of Delegates\nAll 100 seats in the West Virginia House of Delegates were up for election. The Republican majority sustained a net loss of 4 seats, decreasing the majority from 63 to 59. A total of 5 Democrats, 7 Republicans, and 1 Independent incumbents lost reelection in either their primaries or in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283675-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia elections, Ballot Measures, Amendment 1\nTo amend the West Virginia Constitution to clarify that nothing in the Constitution of West Virginia secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of abortion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283675-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia elections, Ballot Measures, Amendment 2\nAmended the state constitution to authorize the legislature to reduce the budget of the state judiciary by up to 15 percent, among other things relating to the judiciary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283675-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia elections, Supreme Court of Appeals\nTwo special elections were held after the resignation of Justices Menis Ketchum and Robin Davis in July and August respectively. The resignations came after revelations and legislative investigations into a misuse of state funds and corruption of the state judiciary. Tim Armstead was appointed to Ketchum's seat and Evan Jenkins was appointed to Davis's seat by Governor Jim Justice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike\nThe West Virginia teachers' and school personnel strike began on February 22, 2018 with a call from the West Virginia branches of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, and the West Virginia School Service Personnel for school employees across West Virginia to strike. The strike, called in response to anger among teachers and other school employees over low pay and high health care costs, involved roughly 20,000 teachers and public school employees and shut down schools in all 55 West Virginia counties, affecting some 250,000 students. It lasted until March 7, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike\nThe strike inspired teachers in other states, including Oklahoma, Colorado, and Arizona, to take similar action. Teachers in other states, including North Carolina and Kentucky have also coordinated protests and walkouts on a smaller scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Salary demands\nThe strike was called in response to the low pay of West Virginia teachers, whose compensation ranks 48th in the United States. The strike also responded to a pay raise passed by the legislature and signed by Governor Jim Justice that provided only a 2% raise for 2019, and 1% raise for 2020 and a 1% raise for 2021 and a freeze on premiums for 16 months to benefits. The teachers' unions did not release vote totals for the strike. Every public school district in the state closed to avoid confrontations. It was the first such strike since 1990. According to some analysts, West Virginia teachers had a stronger negotiating position in the strike because many teaching positions remain unfilled. Teachers say that because of low pay in West Virginia, the state has difficulty attracting and retaining teachers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 864]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Health insurance costs\nOne of the major issues involved funding for the Public Employees Insurance Agency, the state health insurance plan. The West Virginia Legislature had voted to boost state contributions to the plan by using a percentage of the annual state surplus, but the teachers' unions were demanding a more reliable financing plan. Health care costs have increased quickly enough that proposed teacher pay increases cannot match teacher payments for health care.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Strike and negotiations\nThe work stoppage took place in defiance of both state law forbidding public employee strikes and union leadership. On February 21, the day before the walkout, state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey warned that a strike \"of any length on any ground is illegal\u201d and said his office would support local districts attempting to enforce the state ban on public employee strikes. Nonetheless, on the same day, Governor Justice signed into law a bill offering teachers a 2% pay increase. \"We need to keep our kids and teachers in the classroom,\" Gov. Justice said in signing the law. \"We certainly recognize our teachers are underpaid and this is a step in the right direction to addressing their pay issue.\" Teachers said that the 2% pay raise, and subsequent raises of 1% slated for 2020 and 2021, would not keep up with inflation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 889]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Strike and negotiations\nTeachers rejected the pay raise, walking out across the state on February 22. The same day, a crowd estimated at 5,000 demonstrated at the West Virginia State Capitol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Strike and negotiations\nThe strike continued on February 23, as all schools in the state were closed once again. Teachers and other workers rallied in front of the West Virginia State Capitol as well as picketed in front of individual schools. West Virginia teachers have a stronger negotiating position in the strike because many teaching positions remain unfilled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Strike and negotiations\nA deal reached by union leaders and Governor Jim Justice was announced on February 27, and union leaders called on teachers and other education-related personnel to return to classrooms on Thursday March 1, after a \"cooling off\" period. However, during the late evening on February 28, every county announced school closures due to continuing work stoppages, and by this point the stoppage had become a wildcat strike. On March 3, the West Virginia Senate rejected a bill passed by the West Virginia House of Delegates approving the agreed upon 5% pay rise, instead proposing a 4% pay rise, extending the strike into an eighth work day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Strike and negotiations\nA similar strike was proposed by teachers in Oklahoma, where teacher compensation is worse than in West Virginia, at 49th in the United States. On Sunday March 4, 1,400 West Virginia Frontier Communications workers went on strike in response to company restructuring, also citing rising health care costs, and the example of the Teacher's Strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Strike and negotiations\nWest Virginia school personnel returned to classrooms on Wednesday March 7 after the State Senate agreed to the House's position following conference committee negotiations. The strike, while achieving a 5% pay raise, did not provide guarantees to control rising health care costs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Reactions\nJustice and other Republican lawmakers opposed the strike and asserted that the teachers' absence from the classroom were hurting school children. He also said there was not enough money to fund teachers' demands. \u201cI\u2019m telling you when we should do more is when we know we can do more,\" Justice said on February 23. \"Today we think we can do more, but we don\u2019t know. Our teachers need to be in the classroom. The Legislature has spoken and I\u2019ve signed it into law.\u201d Justice, a billionaire coal magnate, won election in 2016 as a Democrat with the endorsements of the AFT-WV and the WVEA, along with other unions in the state. He subsequently switched to the Republican Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Reactions\nUnion officials sought backing from prominent state Democratic Party leaders, inviting them to speak at teachers' demonstrations during the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Reactions\nThe strike was noteworthy because it emerged from rank-and-file teachers, who began to demand statewide strike action. Pressure to strike was \"coming from everywhere,\" Christine Campbell, AFT-WV president, said in early February. These demands coalesced into a series of rallies and demonstrations held throughout the state. Ultimately the strike became a wildcat when teachers refused back-to-work orders from the unions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Reactions\nThe World Socialist Web Site, daily publication of the Socialist Equality Party, which published many interviews with teachers, argued that the AFT-WV and WVEA would settle the strike on unfavorable terms to school employees. It called on teachers to form rank-and-file committees independent of the trade unions and to broaden the strike to include teachers in other states and other groups of workers in West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283676-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Reactions\nThe Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) issued a press release, demanding that the strike continue unless a series of demands were met, including a tax on natural gas production to fund state education. A number of IWW members (Wobblies) were key contributors to the effort, including as building representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283677-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open\nThe 2018 Western & Southern Open was a men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts from August 13\u201319, 2018. It took place at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio, a northern suburb of Cincinnati, in the United States. It was a Masters 1000 tournament on the 2018 ATP World Tour and a WTA Premier 5 tournament on the 2018 WTA Tour. The tournament was one of two headline events in the 2018 US Open Series. The 2018 tournament was the 117th men's edition and the 90th women's edition of the Cincinnati Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283677-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds\nThe following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP rankings as of August 6, 2018. Rankings and points before are as of August 13, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283677-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Withdrawals\nThe following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283677-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Withdrawals\n\u2020 Fognini is entitled to use an exemption to skip the tournament and substitute his 18th best result (90 points) in its stead. Accordingly, his points after the tournament will remain unchanged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283677-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283677-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283677-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283677-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283677-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283677-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283678-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nPierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut were the defending champions, but Herbert chose not to participate this year. Mahut played alongside \u00c9douard Roger-Vasselin, but they lost in the second round to Philipp Kohlschreiber and Fernando Verdasco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283678-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJamie Murray and Bruno Soares won the title, defeating Juan Sebasti\u00e1n Cabal and Robert Farah in the final, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20136].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283679-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nNovak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, to win the Men's Singles title at the 2018 Cincinnati Masters. With the win, he became the first player to complete the career Golden Masters (winning all nine ATP Masters 1000 events over a career) in singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283679-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nGrigor Dimitrov was the defending champion, but lost to Djokovic in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283679-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283679-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283680-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nLatisha Chan and Martina Hingis were the defending champions, but Hingis retired from professional tennis at the end of 2017 and Chan chose to prepare for the Asian Games instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283680-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nLucie Hradeck\u00e1 and Ekaterina Makarova won the title, defeating Elise Mertens and Demi Schuurs in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283680-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nT\u00edmea Babos will regain the WTA no. 1 doubles ranking at the end of the tournament as Chan did not defend her title. Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 was also in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283680-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283681-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nGarbi\u00f1e Muguruza was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Lesia Tsurenko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283681-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nKiki Bertens, en route to her first hard court & Premier 5 level title, defeated the world no. 2 & no. 1 players, in the second round and final respectively. She became the first Dutch woman to win a title in Cincinnati by defeating Simona Halep in the final, 2\u20136, 7\u20136(8\u20136), 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283681-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283681-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Western & Southern Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283682-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2018 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament will take place beginning on May 23 and ending on May 26 or 27. The top six regular season finishers of the league's ten teams will meet in the double-elimination tournament to be held at Hohokam Stadium, spring training home of the Oakland Athletics in Mesa, Arizona. The winner will earn the Western Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283682-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format\nThe top six finishers from the regular season will be seeded based on conference winning percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283683-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Athletic Conference Softball Tournament\nThe 2018 Western Athletic Conference Softball tournament will be held at New Mexico State Softball Complex on the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico from May 9 through May 12, 2018. The winner will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament. All games will be streamed online on the with Adam Young and Mary Kay Mauro on the call.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283684-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season\nThe 2018 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season is the 23rd consecutive competition of men's college soccer in the Western Athletic Conference under the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The season will feature twelve teams, where five are affiliate members of the conference. Air Force, San Jose State, and UNLV will compete from the Mountain West Conference, while Houston Baptist and Incarnate Word come from the Southland Conference. Colleges in the WAC will begin competition on August 24, 2018, and conclude on November 9, 2018 after the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283684-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season\nPrior to the NCAA Division I Tournament Championship, there will be a postseason conference tournament held in Seattle, Washington at the Championship Field, where the winner is guaranteed to represent the WAC in the NCAA Division I Tournament. The California Baptist Lancers are ineligible for postseason as they are in transition to the NCAA Division I level. Chicago State and New Mexico State have defunct programs in this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283685-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Balkans Summit, London\nThe 2018 Western Balkans Summit in London, United Kingdom, was the fifth annual summit within the Berlin Process initiative for European integration of Western Balkans states. The summit took place on July 9-10. Previous summits took place in Berlin in 2014, Vienna in 2015, Paris in 2016 and Trieste in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283685-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Western Balkans Summit, London\nHeads of government, foreign ministers and the ministers of economy of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, as well as EU member states from the region Croatia, Slovenia and EU member states such as the United Kingdom, Austria, France, Germany, Italy as well as representatives of the European Union and the International Financial Institutions attended the summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283685-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Balkans Summit, London\nBy hosting the summit in London, the United Kingdom demonstrated its continued interest and involvement in the stability of the region beyond its imminent exit from the EU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283685-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Balkans Summit, London, Proposed agenda\nAndrew Page, the Summit's coordinator, stated that the priorities of the summit are to be economic stability, interconnectivity, infrastructure, employment opportunities, and digital transformation. The UK's government stated the three main objectives were increasing economic stability, strengthening regional security co-operation, and facilitating political cooperation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283685-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Balkans Summit, London, Issues addressed\nAccording to a press release from the government of the United Kingdom, the summit focused on three areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283685-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Balkans Summit, London, Issues addressed\nThe issues primarily discussed included increasing economic stability within the scope of improving the business environment, promoting entrepreneurship, curbing youth unemployment, and promoting regional inter-connectivity. Also on the table was strengthening regional security co-operation to help tackle common threats, including corruption, serious and organised crime, trafficking of people, drugs and firearms, and terrorism and violent extremism. The final topic was facilitating political cooperation to consolidate democracy in the region and resolve disputes from the breakup of Yugoslavia and Kosovo declaration of independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283685-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Balkans Summit, London, 2019 Western Balkans Summit\nParticipants agreed on the Western Balkan's eventual path into the EU and agreed the next Berlin Process Summit would take place in Poland in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283686-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Carolina Catamounts football team\nThe 2018 Western Carolina Catamounts football team represented Western Carolina University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). They were led by seventh-year head coach Mark Speir and played their home games at Bob Waters Field at E. J. Whitmire Stadium. They finished the season 3\u20138, 1\u20137 in SoCon play to finish in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283686-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Carolina Catamounts football team, Previous season\nThe Catamounts finished the 2017 season 7\u20135, 5\u20133 in SoCon play to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283686-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Carolina Catamounts football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe SoCon released their preseason media poll on July 25, 2018, with the Catamounts predicted to finish in fifth place. The same day the coaches released their preseason poll with the Catamounts predicted to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283686-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Carolina Catamounts football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll, Preseason All-SoCon Teams\nThe Catamounts placed six players on the preseason all-SoCon teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 106], "content_span": [107, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283687-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team\nThe 2018 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team represented Western Illinois University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Jared Elliott and played their home games at Hanson Field. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC). They finished the season 5\u20136, 4\u20134 in MVFC play to finish in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283687-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team, Previous season\nThe Leathernecks finished the 2017 season 8\u20134, 5\u20133 in MVFC play to finish in fourth place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost to Weber State in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283687-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team, Previous season\nOn December 22, head coach Charlie Fisher resigned to become the wide receivers coach at Arizona State. He finished at Western Illinois with a two-year record of 14\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283687-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team, Preseason, Preseason MVFC poll\nThe MVFC released their preseason poll on July 29, 2018, with the Leathernecks predicted to finish in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283687-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MVFC Teams\nThe Leathernecks placed five at six positions players on the preseason all-MVFC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 85], "content_span": [86, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283688-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team\nThe 2018 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team (WKU) represented Western Kentucky University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hilltoppers played their home games at the Houchens Industries\u2013L. T. Smith Stadium in Bowling Green, Kentucky as members of the East Division of Conference USA (C\u2013USA). They were led by second-year head coach Mike Sanford Jr. They finished the season 3\u20139, 2\u20136 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for sixth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283688-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team\nOn November 25, head coach Mike Sanford Jr. was fired after only two seasons. He finished at WKU with a record of 9\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283688-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team, Previous season\nThe Hilltoppers finished the 2017 season 6\u20137, 4\u20134 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for third place in the East Division. They received an invite to the Cure Bowl where they lost to Georgia State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283688-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nConference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Hilltoppers predicted to finish in fourth place in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283689-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Michigan Broncos football team\nThe 2018 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University (WMU) in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Tim Lester and played their home games at Waldo Stadium as a member of the West Division of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 7\u20136, 5\u20133 in MAC play to finish in a three-way tie for second place in the West Division. They were invited to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl where they lost to BYU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283689-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Michigan Broncos football team, Previous season\nThe Broncos finished the 2017 season 6\u20136, 4\u20134 to finish in fourth place in the West Division. Despite being bowl eligible, the Broncos did not receive an invite to a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283689-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Michigan Broncos football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe MAC released their preseason media poll on July 24, 2018, with the Broncos predicted to finish in third place in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283690-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Storm season\nThe 2018 season was Western Storm's third season, in which they competed in the Women's Cricket Super League, a Twenty20 competition. The side finished second in the initial group stage, therefore progressing to the semi-final. However, they lost in the semi-final to the eventual winners Surrey Stars by 9 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283690-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Storm season\nThe side was captained by Heather Knight and coached by Trevor Griffin. They played three home matches at the County Ground, Taunton and one apiece at the County Ground, Bristol and College Ground, Cheltenham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283690-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Western Storm season, Squad\nWestern Storm announced their full 15-player squad for the season on 17 July 2018. Age given is at the start of Western Storm's first match of the season (22 July 2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283691-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship is the 114th edition of the Westmeath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Westmeath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Westmeath in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a seeded group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283691-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship\nSt. Loman's Mullingar were the defending champions for the third season running after defeating Tyrrellspass in the previous years final to complete a \"3-in-a-row\" of titles. However their reign as champions ended in this year's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283691-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship\nThis was St. Mary's Rochfortbridge's return to the senior grade after an 11 year exodus since relegation in 2006 when claiming the 2017 Westmeath Intermediate Football Championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283691-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship\nOn 21 October 2018, Mullingar Shamrocks claimed their 12th S.F.C. title and dethroned their town rivals St. Loman's when defeating them by 2-12 to 1-11 in the final at Cusack Park. This was their first triumph since 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283691-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship\nMaryland were relegated to the I.F.C. for 2019 when finishing pointless at the bottom of Group B. This ended their 10 year stay in the top-flight of Westmeath club football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283691-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283691-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nThe competition was split into two groups, based on their performance in the 2017 Group stages. Group A consists of teams who reached the Quarter-Finals last year or better. Group B consists of two bottom placed finishers in Group 1 last year as well as 3rd and 4th placed in Group 2 last year, the 2017 Relegation Playoff winners and the 2017 Intermediate champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283691-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nThe top 2 teams in Group A go into the Semi-Finals, where they await the winners of the Quarter-Finals, which are composed of the 3rd and 4th placed teams in Group A along with the top 2 finishers in Group B. The bottom side in Group B will be relegated to the I.F.C. for 2019, however should 2 teams finish on level points at the bottom of Group 2, then a Relegation Playoff will be conducted involving those two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283691-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Relegation final\nShould two teams finish bottom Group B and on level points then a Relegation Final will be conducted between the implicated clubs. Since this was not the case with St. Mary's Rochfortbridge and Maryland garnering 3 and 0 points throughout their group campaigns, Maryland were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283692-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster City Council election\nThe 2018 Westminster City Council elections were held on 3 May 2018, the same day as other London Boroughs. All 60 seats were up for election along with the 12 seats of Queen's Park Community Council, the parish council in the north west of the city. Despite initial expectations of Labour gains across the borough, the Conservative party were able to hold the council and only lost 3 seats. The Conservatives won the popular vote across the borough by a small margin of 923 votes (1.7%), but nonetheless won a decisive victory in terms of seats, winning 41 councillors to Labour's 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283692-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster City Council election\nThe Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats all ran full slates of 60 candidates. There were also candidates from the Greens as well as three from the Campaign Against Pedestrianisation of Oxford Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283692-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster City Council election\nThe count took place in Lindley Hall and ran overnight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283692-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results\nThe percentage of vote share and majority are based on the average for each party's votes in each ward. The raw majority number is the margin of votes between the lowest-placed winning party candidate and the opposition party's highest-placed losing candidate. Starred candidates are the incumbents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283692-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results, Bryanston and Dorset Square\nResults are compared with the 2014 council election, not the 2015 by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283692-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results, Church Street\nResults are compared with the 2014 council election, not the 2016 by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283692-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results, Churchill\nMurad Gassanly was elected in 2014 as a Labour Party candidate, before becoming an Independent and then joining the Conservative Party. The change in his share of the vote is shown from his result as a Labour candidate in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283692-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results, Harrow Road\nResults are compared with the 2014 council election, not the 2015 by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283692-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results, Warwick\nResults are compared with the 2014 council election, not the 2015 by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283692-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results, Queen's Park (Community Council)\nElections to Queen's Park Community Council were held alongside the City Council elections. Nine candidates were returned unopposed in three wards, with the fourth ward returning the votes shown below. The Community Council was counted at the same time as the other council seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 86], "content_span": [87, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283692-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster City Council election, 2018-2022 by-elections\nThe by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Robert J. Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283692-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster City Council election, 2018-2022 by-elections\nThe by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Andrea Mann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283693-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster car attack\nOn 14 August 2018, three people were injured when a silver Ford Fiesta hit them near the Palace of Westminster. The car then went on to crash into the separation barrier of the pavement situated between St Margaret Street / Abingdon Street and Old Palace Yard. The London Metropolitan Police responded within seconds and arrested the driver, Salih Khater, without further incident. An ambulance immediately behind the Ford stopped and gave assistance to the injured. Khater was subsequently found guilty of two counts of attempted murder and sentenced to life in prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283693-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster car attack, Events\nThe incident occurred at 07:37 BST on 14 August 2018. A silver Ford Fiesta was captured on CCTV negotiating Parliament Square, before making a sharp left turn and going the wrong way along the empty northbound lane of St. Margaret Street and then crossing a pedestrian island onto the southbound lane, hitting cyclists and pedestrians in the process. The car then progressed into Abingdon Street and branched left into an access road for Old Palace Yard where it crashed into a closed barrier and came to a stop near the House of Lords. The incident lasted 15 seconds. Three people sustained injuries, with one having serious, but not life-threatening injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283693-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster car attack, Events\nThe Metropolitan Police stated that the incident appeared to be a deliberate act. The Counterterrorism Chief of the Metropolitan Police reported that police did not believe the individual to be known to the Security Service (MI5) or to the counterterrorism policing unit. A witness told reporters that the car had accelerated after hitting the cyclists rather than slowing down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283693-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster car attack, Events\nA UK Government official described a 47-second video of road users including a white van apparently tailing the suspect prior to the incident as \"classic security behaviour\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283693-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster car attack, Events\nThe Independent reported friends of the arrested man saying that the crash may have been accidental.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283693-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster car attack, Investigation\nSalih Khater, a 29-year-old male British citizen from Birmingham who entered the UK in 2010 as a refugee from Sudan, was detained by police at the scene on suspicion of terror offences. He is known to police in his local area but not as a national security threat. The Assistant Commissioner leading the investigation said that Khater initially refused to cooperate with the police. The police searched three addresses in the Midlands on the evening of the incident, two in Birmingham and a residence in Nottingham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283693-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Westminster car attack, Investigation\nOn 15 August 2018, police announced that Khater was being held on suspicion of attempted murder as well as an 'act of terrorism'. On 18 August, Khater was charged with one count of attempted murder of members of the public and one count of attempted murder of police officers. On 20 August, at Westminster Magistrates' Court, he was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 31 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283693-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster car attack, Investigation\nKhater was due to stand trial on 4 February 2019, but in January 2019, Mr Justice Sweeney pushed the date back to 24 June 2019. The defendant entered not guilty pleas to all charges, but did not provide any further comments. He was remanded in custody.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283693-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster car attack, Investigation\nOn 17 July 2019, Khater was found guilty at the Old Bailey of two counts of attempted murder. He was remanded in custody to be sentenced on 7 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283693-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster car attack, Investigation\nOn 14 October 2019, Khater was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 15 years. Sentencing, Mrs Justice McGowan said Khater had acted with \"terrorist motives\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283693-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster car attack, Reactions\nPrime Minister Theresa May tweeted, \"My thoughts are with those injured in the incident in Westminster and my thanks to the emergency services for their immediate and courageous response.\" London Mayor Sadiq Khan expressed similar sentiments, adding that \"all Londoners, like me, utterly condemn all acts of terrorism on our city. The response of Londoners today shows that we will never be cowed, intimidated or divided by any terrorist attack.\" Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted, \"My thoughts are with those hurt and injured outside Parliament this morning in what is being treated as a terrorist incident. Our thanks go to our emergency services who responded immediately. Their bravery keeps us safe day in, day out.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283693-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster car attack, Reactions\nSadiq Khan and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said that Parliament Square could be pedestrianised, stating that vehicle attacks had become the terrorist's \"weapon of choice\" in Europe and the western world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283693-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Westminster car attack, Reactions\nUnited States President Donald Trump tweeted that \"these animals are crazy and must be dealt with through toughness and strength\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283694-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wests Tigers season\nThe 2018 Wests Tigers season was the 19th in the Wests Tigers's history. They completed the NRL's 2018 Telstra Premiership season in ninth place and did not qualify for the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283695-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship is the 120th edition of the Wexford GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Wexford, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Wexford in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283695-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship\nStarlights were the defending champions after they defeated St. Martin's in the previous years final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283695-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship\nThis was Kilanerin\u2013Ballyfad's return to the senior grade after claiming the 2017 Wexford I.F.C. title. This was their first year back in the top-flight of Wexford club football in 3 years since relegation at the end of the 2014 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283695-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship\nOn 20 October 2018, Shelmaliers claimed their first ever Wexford S.F.C. crown when defeating newly promoted Kilanerin-Ballyfad by 4-14 to 1-7 in the final after a replay at Wexford Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283695-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship\nTaghmon-Camross were relegated to the 2019 I.F.C. after losing their Relegation Final to Sarsfields. This ended their two year stay in the senior ranks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283695-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship\nThe draws for the 2018 Wexford S.F.C. were made on 3 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283695-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283695-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nThere are 2 groups called Group A and B. The top 4 in each group qualify for the Quarter Finals. The bottom finisher in each group will qualify for the Relegation Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283695-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Relegation Final\nThe bottom finisher from both groups qualify for the Relegation final. The loser will be relegated to the 2019 Intermediate Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283695-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Finals\nThe top 4 teams from each group qualify for the Quarter-Finals with 1st -vs- 4th and 2nd -vs- 3rd in each case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283696-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2018 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship was the 116th staging of the Wexford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Wexford County Board in 1889. The championship began on 20 April 2018 and ended on 21 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283696-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 21 October 2018, Naomh \u00c9anna won the title following a 2-11 to 0-13 defeat of St. Martin's in the final at Innovate Wexford Park. It was their first ever championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283697-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship\nThe 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was held at the Edel-optics.de Arena in Hamburg, Germany, from 16 to 26 August 2018. Both men's and women's tournaments were held, with 12 women's and 16 men's teams competing, representing 19 different nations. Each team selected 12 players for the tournament. The men's competition was won by Great Britain, with the United States winning silver and Australia winning bronze. The women's competition was won by the Netherlands, with Great Britain winning silver and the host nation winning bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283697-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Medallists\nThis was the best ever performance at a wheelchair basketball world championship by both the British men's and women's teams. The former had never won an official championship before (they had claimed the 1973 unofficial title), and the latter had never made the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283697-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Squads\nEach of the 16 men's and 12 women's teams (from 19 different nations) selected a squad of 12 players for the tournament. Athletes are given an eight-level-score specific to wheelchair basketball, ranging from 0.5 to 4.5. Lower scores represent a higher degree of disability. The sum score of all players on the court cannot exceed 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283697-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Controversy\nDuring the women's game between China and Algeria, a Chinese coach struck one of his players. When the incident was reported to the Tournament Technical Committee (TTC), it immediately issued a one-match suspension. This was the maximum penalty that it could impose. However, the TTC felt that this penalty was inadequate, and referred the matter to the Secretary General of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation, Maureen Orchard, who suspended the coach from the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283698-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads\nThe following is the list of squads for the teams competing in the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Rollstuhlbasketball Weltmeisterschaft 2018), held in Hamburg, Germany, between 16 and 26 August 2018. Each team selected a squad of 12 players for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283698-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads\nAthletes are given an eight-level-score specific to wheelchair basketball, ranging from 0.5 to 4.5. Lower scores represent a higher degree of disability. The sum score of all players on the court cannot exceed 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283698-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Women, Pool A, Australia\nHead coach: David GouldAssistant coaches: Stephen Charlton and Craig Campbell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 78], "content_span": [79, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283698-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Women, Pool A, Canada\nHead coach: Marc-Anotine DucharmeAssistant coaches: Jason Eng and Simon Cass", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283698-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Women, Pool B, United States\nHead coach: Trooper JohnsonAssistant coaches: Adam Kramer and Amy Spangler", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283698-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Men, Pool B, United States\nHead coach: Trooper JohnsonAssistant coaches: Adam Kramer and Amy Spangler", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283698-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Men, Pool C, Brazil\nHead coach: Tago Joel FrankCoaches: Tiago Costa Baptista and Sileno Santos", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283698-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Men, Pool C, Italy\nHead coach: Carlo di GiustoAssistant Coaches: Roberto Ceriscioli and Fabio Castellucci", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283698-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Men, Pool D, Argentina\nHead coach: Mauro VarelaAssistant coaches: Juna Dominguez, Lucas Barolin and Eduardo Gomez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 76], "content_span": [77, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283698-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Men, Pool D, Spain\nHead coach: Oscar Trigo DiezAssistant coaches: Javier Opez Martinez, Miguel Aquero Maestre and Javier Alvajal Pichel", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283699-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters\nThe 2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters (also known as the 2018 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a wheelchair tennis tournament played at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Orlando, Florida, United States, from 28 November to 2 December 2018. It is the season-ending event for the highest-ranked wheelchair tennis singles players on the 2018 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283699-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters, Tournament\nThe 2018 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters took place from 28 November to 2 December at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Orlando, Florida, United States. It was the 25th edition of the tournament (15th for quad players). The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2018 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour. The event took place on indoor hard courts. It served as the season-ending championship for singles players on the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283699-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters, Tournament\nThe eight players who qualified for the men's and women's events, and six players who qualified for the quad event, were split into two groups of three or four. During this stage, players competed in a round-robin format (meaning players played against all the other players in their group). The two players with the best results in each group progressed to the semifinals, where the winners of a group faced the runners-up of the other group. This stage, however, was a knock-out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283699-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters, Tournament, Format\nThe Wheelchair Tennis Masters has a round-robin format, with six/eight players divided into two groups of three/four. The six/eight seeds are determined by the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Rankings as they stood on 15 October 2018. All matches are the best of three tie-break sets, including the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283699-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters, Qualified players\nThe following players qualified for the 2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters, based upon rankings as at 16 October 2017. Players whose names are struck out qualified but did not participate and were replaced by the next highest ranking player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283700-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship\nThe 2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship was the 118th edition of the Wicklow GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Wicklow, Ireland. The tournament consisted of 12 teams with the winner going on to represent Wicklow in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship consisted of a group stage before progressing onto a knock-out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283700-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship\nRathnew were the defending champions after they defeated Blessington in the previous years final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283700-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship\nHollywood made the straight bounce back to the top flight after claiming the previous season's I.F.C. title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283700-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship\nTomacork (an amalgamation of Intermediate club Carnew Emmets and Junior 'A' side Coolboy) were originally included in the S.F.C. draw on 19 January, however later made the decision to withdraw themselves from the competition before its commencement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283700-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship\nSt. Patrick's claimed their 13th S.F.C. title and first in 6 seasons when defeating Rathnew in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283700-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283700-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship, Group Stage\nThere are two groups of six teams called Group A and B. The top finishers enter the Semi-Finals while the 2nd and 3rd placed teams in both groups enter a Quarter-Final. The bottom finishers of each group will qualify for the Relegation Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283700-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship, Keating Trophy\nThe bottom two teams in each group enter the relegation process known as the Keating Trophy. 5th place from both groups play 6th place in the semi-finals. The winners proceed to the Keating Trophy final while the losers will face-off in the Relegation Final, with the ultimate loser being relegated to the I.F.C. for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283701-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283702-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wigan Warriors season\nThe Wigan Warriors play Rugby League in Wigan, England. Their 2018 season results in the Super League XXIII and 2018 Challenge Cup are shown below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283702-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wigan Warriors season, Super League\nWigan generally kept to consistent good form throughout the 2018 league season. They won all seven Super 8s games and sixteen out of twenty-three in regular season. The Warriors went on to finish the season second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283702-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wigan Warriors season, Super League, Grand Final Playoffs\nWigan finished second in the league, qualifying them for the Grand Final Play offs. Wigan beat Castleford Tigers in the semi-finals before beating Warrington Wolves, who had knocked them out of the Challenge Cup in the summer, to claim their fifth Grand Final championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283702-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wigan Warriors season, Challenge Cup\nAs a 2017 Super League Super 8s team, Wigan Warriors entered the 2018 Challenge Cup in the sixth round and were drawn against Hull KR. Wigan beat Hull KR and progress to the quarter finals where they were knocked out by Warrington Wolves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283703-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships\nThe 2018 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships was the 35th edition of the global wildwater canoeing competition, Wildwater Canoeing World Championships, organised by the International Canoe Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283704-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 William & Mary Tribe football team\nThe 2018 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tribe, led by 39th-year head coach Jimmye Laycock, played their home games at Zable Stadium. They finished the season 4\u20136 overall and 3\u20134 in CAA play to place eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283704-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 William & Mary Tribe football team\nOn August 5, 2018, Laycock announced that he would be retiring after the conclusion of the 2018 season. He finished at William & Mary with a 39-year record of 249\u2013194\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283704-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 William & Mary Tribe football team, Previous season\nThe Tribe finished the 2017 season 2\u20139, 0\u20138 in CAA play to finish in last place. It was the first time since the 1956 season that the Tribe failed to win a single conference game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283704-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 William & Mary Tribe football team, Preseason, CAA Poll\nIn the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Tribe were predicted to finish in eleventh place. They did not have any players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283705-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 William Jones Cup\nThe 2018 William Jones Cup was the 40th staging of William Jones Cup, an international basketball tournament held in New Taipei City, Taiwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283705-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 William Jones Cup\nThe men's tournament was held from 14\u201322 July 2018 with 11 teams participating. The women's tournament was held from 25\u201329 July 2018 and was contested by six teams. Both tournaments were held at the Xinzhuang Gymnasium in New Taipei City and followed a single round robin format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 2018 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament which took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main tournament began on Monday, 2 July 2018 and finished on Sunday, 15 July 2018. Novak Djokovic won the Gentlemen's Singles title and Angelique Kerber won the Ladies' Singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 2018 tournament was the 132nd edition of The Championships, the 125th staging of the Ladies' Singles Championship event, the 51st in the Open Era and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. It was played on grass courts and was part of the ATP World Tour, the WTA Tour, the ITF Junior tour and the NEC Tour. The tournament was organised by All England Lawn Tennis Club and International Tennis Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships\nRoger Federer and Garbi\u00f1e Muguruza were both unsuccessful in defending their 2017 titles. Federer lost in the quarterfinals to eventual finalist Kevin Anderson, while Muguruza lost in the second round to Alison Van Uytvanck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Tournament\nThe 2018 Wimbledon Championships was the 132nd edition of the tournament and was held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Tournament\nThe tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and included in the 2018 ATP World Tour and the 2018 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of men's (singles and doubles), women's (singles and doubles), mixed doubles, boys' (under 18 \u2013 singles and doubles) and girls' (under 18 \u2013 singles and doubles), which was also a part of the Grade A category of tournaments for under 18, and singles and doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the UNIQLO Tour under the Grand Slam category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Tournament\nThe tournament was played only on grass courts; the main draw matches were played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon. Qualifying matches were played, from Monday 25 June to Thursday 28 June 2018, at the Bank of England Sports Ground, Roehampton. The Tennis sub-committee met to decide wild card entries on 19 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Point and prize money distribution, Point distribution\nBelow is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Point and prize money distribution, Prize money\nThe Wimbledon total prize money for 2018 had increased to \u00a334,000,000, up by 7.6% on 2017. The winners of the men's and women's singles titles will earn \u00a32.25m. Prize money for the men's and women's doubles and wheelchair players were also increased for the 2018 competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 77], "content_span": [78, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Point and prize money distribution, Prize money\nA new rule in 2018 was that any first round singles player who is unfit to play and withdraws on-site after 12pm on Thursday before the start of the Main Draw will now receive half of the First Round prize money, the other half to be awarded to the replacement Lucky Loser. Any player who competes in the First Round Main Draw singles and retires or performs below professional standards, may now be subject to a fine of up to First Round prize money, to deter players from appearing only to claim prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 77], "content_span": [78, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Gentlemen's Singles\nThe seeds for men's singles are adjusted on a surface-based system to reflect more accurately the individual player's grass court achievement as per the following formula, which applies to the top 32 players according to the ATP Rankings on 25 June 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Gentlemen's Singles\nRank and points before are as of 2 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Gentlemen's Singles\n\u2020 The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017 but is defending points from the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Ladies' Singles\nThe seeds for ladies' singles are based on the WTA rankings as of 25 June 2018, with an exception for Serena Williams (details are given below). Rank and points before are as of 2 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Ladies' Singles\n\u2020 The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for her 16th-best result are deducted instead. \u2021 Serena Williams was ranked outside the top 150 on the day when seeds were announced, because she missed most of the last 12-month period due to her pregnancy. Nevertheless, she was deemed a special case and seeded 25th by the organisers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Main draw wild card entries\nThe following players received wild cards into the main draw senior events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Protected ranking\nThe following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283706-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships, Withdrawals\nThe following players were accepted directly into the main tournament but withdrew with injuries, suspensions, or personal reasons:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283707-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Doubles\nAxel Geller and Hsu Yu-hsiou were the defending champions, but both players were ineligible to participate in junior events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283707-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Doubles\nYank\u0131 Erel and Otto Virtanen won the title, defeating Nicol\u00e1s Mej\u00eda and Ond\u0159ej \u0160tyler in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283708-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Singles\nAlejandro Davidovich Fokina was the defending champion, but is no longer eligible to participate in junior events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283708-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Singles\nTseng Chun-hsin won the title, defeating Jack Draper in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20137(2\u20137), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283708-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283709-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Day-by-day summaries\nThe 2018 Wimbledon Championships are described below in detail, in the form of day-by-day summaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283709-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Day-by-day summaries, Middle Sunday (8 July)\nFollowing tradition, Middle Sunday is a day of rest and no matches are played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 75], "content_span": [76, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283710-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles\nLleyton Hewitt and Mark Philippoussis were the defending champions, but Hewitt accepted a wildcard to compete in the men's doubles main draw instead. Philippoussis played alongside Tommy Haas, and successfully defended his title, defeating Colin Fleming and Xavier Malisse in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283711-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Doubles\nOlga Danilovi\u0107 and Kaja Juvan were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283711-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Doubles\nWang Xinyu and Wang Xiyu won the title, defeating Caty McNally and Whitney Osuigwe in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283712-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Singles\nClaire Liu was the defending champion, but chose to compete in the ladies' singles as a qualifier, she lost to eventual champion Angelique Kerber in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283712-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Singles\nIga \u015awi\u0105tek won the title, defeating Leonie K\u00fcng in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283712-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Singles\nThis tournament featured a second round match between Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez; the pair would later face off in the women's final of the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won this encounter before losing to eventual champion \u015awi\u0105tek in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283712-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283713-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Ladies' Invitation Doubles\nKim Clijsters and Rennae Stubbs won the title, defeating defending champions Cara Black and Martina Navratilova in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283714-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions, but they were defeated in the second round by Jonathan Erlich and Marcin Matkowski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283714-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMike Bryan and Jack Sock won the title, defeating Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20137(7\u20139), 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 7\u20135. It was Bryan's 17th Grand Slam men's doubles title (a new Open Era record), and his first with a partner other than his brother Bob.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283714-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBryan regained the ATP No. 1 doubles ranking at the end of the tournament, becoming the oldest no. 1 player in the history of the ATP rankings. Mate Pavi\u0107, John Peers and Nicolas Mahut were also in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283714-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles, Seeds\n}}Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283715-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles Qualifying\nPlayers and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283716-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nNovak Djokovic defeated Kevin Anderson in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20133) to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships. It was his fourth Wimbledon title and 13th major title overall, passing Roy Emerson to outright fourth place on the all time men's singles major wins list. The win was also Djokovic's first title in over 12 months, his previous win having been at Eastbourne on July 1, 2017, and returned him to the top 10 in rankings. The Men's Singles competition was contested by all but one of the top 20 male players in the ATP as of 25 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283716-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nRoger Federer was the defending champion and top seed, but lost in the quarterfinals to Anderson despite leading by two sets to love and having a match point in the third set. Rafael Nadal and Federer were in contention for the world No. 1 ranking; Nadal retained the top ranking by reaching the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283716-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles, Progress of the competition\nRoger Federer was the defending champion and top seed. Federer and Rafael Nadal were in contention for the ATP No. 1 ranking at the start of the tournament. Former champion and local favourite Andy Murray announced on the day before the tournament began that he was pulling out because he was not fully recovered from hip surgery. His place was taken by \"lucky loser\" Jason Jung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283716-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles, Progress of the competition\n2017 finalist and no. 3 seed Marin \u010cili\u0107 went out in the second round of the tournament, defeated by Guido Pella of Argentina. \u010cili\u0107 had been two sets up when rain stopped play, but had difficulty coping with the conditions after play was resumed, and complained to the umpire about the state of the grass. The following morning, when they returned to continue the match, Pella won in five sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283716-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles, Progress of the competition\nFeliciano L\u00f3pez made his 66th consecutive Grand Slam main draw appearance, surpassing the previous record of 65 consecutive appearances he jointly held with Federer. L\u00f3pez was defeated in the second round by no 5 seed Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283716-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles, Progress of the competition\nNadal retained his top ranking by reaching the semifinal. Federer lost in the quarterfinals to Kevin Anderson despite leading by two sets to love and having a match point in the third set. The semifinal match between Anderson and John Isner, lasting 6 hours 36 minutes, was the second longest men's singles match at Wimbledon and the third longest men's singles match in tennis history. Isner has thus played in the two longest matches in Wimbledon history (the other one being the record-holding 2010 match against Nicolas Mahut). The 2018 semifinals were the longest two semifinals in Wimbledon history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283716-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles, Progress of the competition\nAnderson became the first man representing South Africa to reach the Wimbledon men's singles final since Brian Norton in 1921 (South African-born Kevin Curren represented the United States when he was a finalist in 1985). Anderson held a total of five set points in the third set of the championship match, but was unable to force a fourth set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283716-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283717-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283718-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nJamie Murray and Martina Hingis were the defending champions, but Hingis retired from professional tennis at the end of 2017. Alexander Peya and Nicole Melichar won the title, defeating Murray and Victoria Azarenka in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20131), 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283718-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283719-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Senior Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles\nJacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the round robin competition when they withdrew from their third match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283719-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Senior Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles\nJonas Bj\u00f6rkman and Todd Woodbridge won the title, defeating Richard Krajicek and Mark Petchey in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283720-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Doubles\nAlfie Hewett and Gordon Reid were the two-time defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Joachim G\u00e9rard and Stefan Olsson in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283721-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Singles\nStefan Olsson was the defending champion, and successfully defended his title, defeating Gustavo Fern\u00e1ndez in the final, 6\u20132, 0\u20136, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283722-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Wheelchair Quad Doubles\nThe 2018 Wimbledon wheelchair tennis Quad Doubles final was an exhibition match that took place on July 14, 2018. Andrew Lapthorne and David Wagner defeated Dylan Alcott and Lucas Sithole, 6\u20132, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283722-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Wheelchair Quad Doubles\nOn November 27, 2017, the All England Club announced that they would hold a Quad Doubles exhibition match, for the first time, in 2018. Up to that moment, the Quad division had not played in either Wimbledon or Roland Garros. Andy Lapthorne and David Wagner had long campaigned for the inclusion of the division in the Championships. In December 2018, the All England Lawn Tennis Club announced that there will be a Quad Singles draw and a Quad Doubles draw in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283723-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Doubles\nYui Kamiji and Jordanne Whiley were the four-time defending champions, but Whiley did not participate this year, after giving birth to her son in January. Kamiji played alongside Diede de Groot and successfully defended the title, defeating Sabine Ellerbrock and Lucy Shuker in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283724-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Singles\nDiede de Groot was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, defeating Aniek van Koot in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283725-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nEkaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina were the defending champions, but Vesnina was unable to compete due to an injury. Makarova played alongside Vera Zvonareva, but lost in the second round to Elise Mertens and Demi Schuurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283725-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nBarbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 and Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 won the title, defeating Nicole Melichar and Kv\u011bta Peschke in the final, 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20130. Krej\u010dikov\u00e1 and Siniakov\u00e1 were the first team to win both the French Open and Wimbledon women's doubles titles in the same year since Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama in 2003, and also the first team to have won both the Wimbledon junior and senior doubles titles together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283725-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nT\u00edmea Babos will attain the WTA no. 1 doubles ranking at the end of the tournament. Makarova, Andrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 and Latisha Chan were also in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283725-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nBethanie Mattek-Sands and Samantha Stosur was bidding to complete the Career Grand Slam in doubles, but lost in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283725-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283726-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles Qualifying\nPlayers and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283727-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nAngelique Kerber won her third Grand Slam singles title, defeating Serena Williams, 6\u20133, 6\u20133 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships. She became the first German since Steffi Graf in 1996 to lift the trophy. She dropped just one set the entire tournament, to Claire Liu in the second round. Williams had been attempting to equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles, and to become the first mother to win a Grand Slam singles title since Kim Clijsters won the 2011 Australian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283727-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nGarbi\u00f1e Muguruza was the defending champion, but was defeated in the second round by Alison Van Uytvanck. Muguruza's defeat marked the earliest exit of the defending champion at Wimbledon since Steffi Graf's first round defeat in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283727-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nSimona Halep, Caroline Wozniacki and Sloane Stephens were in contention for the WTA No. 1 singles ranking at the start of the tournament. Despite losing in the third round, Halep retained the No. 1 ranking after Wozniacki and Stephens lost in the second and first rounds, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283727-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nWith all top ten seeds losing before the quarterfinals, it was the worst overall Wimbledon performance of the top ten women's seeds in the Open Era. This was also the first time in the Open Era that none of the top four women's singles seeds reached the fourth round at Wimbledon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283727-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283728-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283728-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying\nThis was the final Grand Slam to have 12 qualifiers to make it in the main draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283729-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winchester City Council election\nElections to Winchester City Council took place on 3 May 2018. This was on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283729-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winchester City Council election, Result Summary\nAn election was not held this year in St Luke as it is a two-member ward, with both seats previously having been up for election with the 2016 Election, and one of the seats next up for the election in 2019. Colden Common and Twyford is similarly a two-member ward, but did hold an election this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283729-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winchester City Council election, By-Elections, Upper Meon Valley\nA by-election was held in Upper Meon Valley ward on 20 September 2018 after the resignation of Councillor Amber Tresahar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283730-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Windsor municipal election\nThe 2018 Windsor municipal election occurred on October 22, 2018 to elect the Mayor of Windsor, Windsor City Council and the Greater Essex County District School Board, Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire catholique Providence and Conseil scolaire Viamonde. The election was be held on the same day as elections in every other municipality in Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283730-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Windsor municipal election\nAs per the Ontario Municipal Elections Act, 1996, nomination papers for candidates for municipal and school board elections would be filed from May 1, 2018, at which time the campaign period began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283731-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season\nThe 2018 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season was the 61st season for the team in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and their 86th season overall. This was the fifth season under head coach Mike O'Shea and the fifth full season under general manager Kyle Walters. Following a week 20 win over the Calgary Stampeders, the Blue Bombers qualified for the playoffs for the third consecutive season, rebounding from a 5\u20137 record to start the season. The Blue Bombers defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the West Division Semi-Final to start the postseason and appeared in their first Division Final since 2011, playing against the Stampeders in the 2018 edition. The team lost against the Stampeders 22\u201314, extending the franchise's Grey Cup drought for a 28th year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283731-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Offseason, CFL Draft\nThe 2018 CFL Draft took place on May 3, 2018. The Blue Bombers had seven selections in the eight-round draft after trading their first and second round selections to the BC Lions for their second round pick in the 2018 draft and their first round pick in the 2019 CFL Draft. The Bombers also lost a third-round pick after taking Drew Wolitarsky in the 2017 Supplemental Draft but gained Toronto's after dealing Drew Willy to the Argonauts in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283731-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Post-season, Schedule\nThe Winnipeg Blue Bombers win against Saskatchewan in the 2018 West Division Final was the first playoff win for the Blue Bombers franchise since their 19-3 victory against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the 2011 East Division Final. Their West Final game against the Calgary Stampeders team marked the first time since the 2001 Grey Cup Game that both the Blue Bombers and Stampeders met in playoff contention (the Winnipeg Blue Bombers were then representing the CFL's East Division when there were only eight teams in the Canadian Football League).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283731-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Team, Roster\nItalics indicate International players updated 2018-11-17 \u2022 46 Roster, 6 one-game injured,5 six-game injured, 8 practice", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283732-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger\nThe 2018 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 3rd edition, for men, and 6th edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada between July 10 and July 15, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283732-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 88], "content_span": [89, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283732-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 90], "content_span": [91, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283733-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger \u2013 Men's Doubles\nLuke Bambridge and David O'Hare were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283733-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMarc-Andrea H\u00fcsler and Sem Verbeek won the title after defeating Gerard and Marcel Granollers 6\u20137(5\u20137), 6\u20133, [14\u201312] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283734-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger \u2013 Men's Singles\nBla\u017e Kav\u010di\u010d was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283734-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger \u2013 Men's Singles\nJason Kubler won the title after defeating Lucas Miedler 6\u20131, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283735-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winston-Salem Open\nThe 2018 Winston\u2013Salem Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 50th edition of the Winston-Salem Open (as successor to previous tournaments in New Haven and Long Island), and part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, from August 19 through August 25, 2018. It was the last event on the 2018 US Open Series before the 2018 US Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283735-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winston-Salem Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283735-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winston-Salem Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283736-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winston-Salem Open \u2013 Doubles\nJean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tec\u0103u were the defending champions, and successfully defended their title, defeating James Cerretani and Leander Paes in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283737-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winston-Salem Open \u2013 Singles\nRoberto Bautista Agut was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283737-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winston-Salem Open \u2013 Singles\nDaniil Medvedev won the title, defeating Steve Johnson in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283737-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winston-Salem Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283738-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Cup\nThe 2018 Winter Cup was an artistic gymnastics competition held at the Westgate Las Vegas in Las Vegas from February 15 to February 17, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283738-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Cup, Competition\nThe competition was the first to feature separate junior and senior competitive divisions. The finals session featured the top 28 senior athletes and the top 14 junior athletes. Junior athletes advanced to the finals according to the all-around ranking from the first day of competition. All-around ranking and individual event champions were determined via a combined two-day score. Performances at the Winter Cup helped determine the 12 men who comprised the United States men's national gymnastics team at the 2018 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics\nThe 2018 Winter Olympics, officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (French: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; Korean: \uc81c23\ud68c \ub3d9\uacc4 \uc62c\ub9bc\ud53d, romanized:\u00a0Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpik) and also known as PyeongChang 2018 (Korean: \ud3c9\ucc3d 2018), were an international winter multi-sport event held between 9\u00a0and 25\u00a0February 2018 in Pyeongchang County in the Gangwon Province of South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8\u00a0February, a day before the opening ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics\nPyeongchang was elected as the host city for the 2018 Winter Games at the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa in July 2011. This marked the second time that South Korea had hosted the Olympic Games (having previously hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul), as well as the first time it hosted the Winter Olympics. The 2018 Games marked the third time that an Asian country had hosted the Winter Olympics, after Sapporo 1972 and Nagano 1998, both in Japan. It was also the first Winter Olympics to be held in mainland Asia, and the first of three consecutive Olympic Games to be held in East Asia, preceding Tokyo 2020 in Japan and the Beijing 2022 in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics\nThe 2018 Games featured 102 events over 15 disciplines, a record number of events for the Winter Games. This is the first Winter Olympics record in Olympic history to award more than 100 medals. Four events made their Olympic debut in 2018: \"big air\" snowboarding, mass start speed skating, mixed doubles curling, and mixed team alpine skiing. A total of 2,914 athletes from 92 NOCs competed, with the national debuts of Ecuador, Eritrea, Kosovo, Malaysia, Nigeria and Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics\nAfter a state-sponsored doping program was exposed following the 2014 Winter Olympics, the Russian Olympic Committee was suspended, but selected athletes were allowed to compete neutrally under the special IOC designation of \"Olympic Athletes from Russia\" (OAR), provided they could meet certain anti-doping requirements. North Korea agreed to participate in the Games in spite of tense relations with South Korea. The two nations paraded together at the opening ceremony as a unified Korea, and fielded a unified team (COR) in the women's ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics\nSouth Korea ranked seventh overall at the 2018 Winter Games, with five gold medals and 17 overall medals. South Korea has traditionally been a country that won many medals in short track speed skating, but in this competition, it also won medals in skeleton racer, curling and ski. South Korea's Yun Sung-Bin won a gold medal in men's skeleton racer, the first Olympic gold ever won by Asia in the sledding event. Norway led the total medal tally with 39, followed by Germany at 31 and Canada at 29. Germany and Norway were tied for the highest number of gold medals, both winning 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Bidding and election\nPyeongchang was elected as the host city at the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa, on 6\u00a0July 2011, earning the necessary majority of at least 48 votes in just one round of voting. Winning 63 of the 95 votes cast in the first secret ballot, Pyeongchang received more votes than its competitors combined, overwhelmingly beating Munich in Germany, which received 25 votes, and Annecy in France, which received seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Bidding and election\nThis was South Korea's third consecutive bid for the Winter Olympics, having been defeated by Vancouver and Sochi respectively in the final rounds of voting for the 2010 and 2014 Games. Earlier, PyeongChang lost to Vancouver with a difference of 3 votes in bidding the 2010 Olympics, and lost to Sochi with a difference of 4 votes in bidding the 2014 Olympics. Since then, South Korea made great progress in preparing to host the Winter Olympics and succeeded in hosting the 2018 Olympics after three challenges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Bidding and election\nAfter winning the election, Pyeongchang became the third Asian city to host the Winter Olympics. Also, South Korea became the second country in Asia to host both the Summer (1988 Seoul Olympics) and Winter Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation\nOn 5 August 2011, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the formation of the Pyeongchang 2018 Coordination Commission. On 4 October 2011, it was announced that the Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics would be headed by Kim Jin-sun. The Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games (POCOG) was launched at its inaugural assembly on 19 October 2011. The first tasks of the organizing committee were putting together a master plan for the Games as well as forming a design for the venues. The IOC Coordination Commission for the 2018 Winter Olympics made their first visit to Pyeongchang in March 2012. By then, construction was already underway on the Olympic Village. In June 2012, construction began on a high-speed rail line that would connect Pyeongchang to Seoul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 879]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation\nThe International Paralympic Committee met for an orientation with the Pyeongchang 2018 organizing committee in July 2012. Then-IOC President Jacques Rogge visited Pyeongchang for the first time in February 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation\nThe Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games created Pyeongchang WINNERS in 2014 by recruiting university students living in South Korea to spread awareness of the Olympic Games through social networking services and news articles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation, Medals\nThe design for the Games' medals was unveiled on 21 September 2017. Created by Lee Suk-woo, the design features a pattern of diagonal ridges on both sides, with the Olympic rings on the front, and the obverse showing the 2018 Olympics' emblem, the event name and the discipline. The edge of each medal is marked with extrusions of hangul alphabets, while the ribbons are made from a traditional South Korean textile. Gold medals contained 99 percent of silver and 1 percent of gold, which is a traditional composition for Olympic gold medals. At 586 grams (20.7\u00a0oz) they were the heaviest medals in the Olympic history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation, Torch relay\nThe torch relay started on 24\u00a0October 2017 in Greece and lasted for 101 days, ending at the start of the Olympics on 9\u00a0February 2018. The Olympic torch entered South Korea on 1\u00a0November 2017. There were 7,500 torch bearers to represent the combined Korean population of approximately 75\u00a0million people. There were also 2,018 support runners to guard the torch and act as messengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation, Torch relay\nThe torch and its bearers traveled by a diverse means of transportation, including by turtle ship in Hansando Island, sailboat on the Baengmagang River in Buyeo, marine cable car in Yeosu, zip-wire over Bamseom Island, steam train in the Gokseong Train Village, marine rail bike along the east coast in Samcheok, and by yacht in Busan Metropolitan City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation, Torch relay\nThere were also robot torch relays in Jeju and Daejeon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues\nMost of the outdoor snow events were held in the county of Pyeongchang, while some of the alpine skiing events took place in the neighboring county of Jeongseon. The indoor ice events were held in the nearby city of Gangneung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues, Pyeongchang (mountain cluster)\nThe Alpensia Sports Park in Daegwallyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang, was the focus of the 2018 Winter Olympics. It was home to the Olympic Stadium, the Olympic Village and most of the outdoor sports venues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 89], "content_span": [90, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues, Pyeongchang (mountain cluster)\nAdditionally, a stand-alone outdoor sports venue was located in Bongpyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 89], "content_span": [90, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues, Pyeongchang (mountain cluster)\nAnother stand-alone outdoor sports venue was located in neighboring Jeongseon county:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 89], "content_span": [90, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues, Gangneung (coastal cluster)\nThe Gangneung Olympic Park, in the neighborhood of Gyo-dong in Gangneung city, includes four indoor sports venues, all in close proximity to one another.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 86], "content_span": [87, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation, Venues, Gangneung (coastal cluster)\nIn addition, a stand-alone indoor sports venue was located in the grounds of Catholic Kwandong University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 86], "content_span": [87, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation, Ticketing\nTicket prices for the 2018 Winter Olympics were announced in April 2016 and tickets went on sale in October 2016. Event tickets ranged in price from \u20a920,000 South Korean won (approx. US$17) to \u20a9900,000 (~US$772) while tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies ranged from \u20a9220,000 (~US$189) to \u20a91.5\u00a0million (~US$1287). The exact prices were determined through market research; around 50% of the tickets were expected to cost about \u20a980,000 (~US$69) or less, and tickets in sports that are relatively unknown in the region, such as biathlon and luge, were made cheaper in order to encourage attendance. By contrast, figure skating and the men's ice hockey gold-medal game carried the most expensive tickets of the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Development and preparation, Ticketing\nAs of 11 October 2017, domestic ticket sales for the Games were reported to be slow. Of the 750,000 seats allocated to South Koreans, only 20.7% had been sold. International sales were more favorable, with 59.7% of the 320,000 allocated tickets sold. However, as of 31 January 2018, 77% of all tickets had been sold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, The Games, Opening ceremony\nThe opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium on 9 February 2018. The US$100\u00a0million facility was only intended to be used for the opening and closing ceremonies of these Olympics and the subsequent Paralympics; it was demolished following their conclusion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, The Games, Sports\nThe 2018 Winter Olympics featured 102 events over 15 disciplines in 7 sports, making it the first Winter Olympics to surpass 100 medal events. Six new events in existing sports were introduced to the Winter Olympic program in Pyeongchang: men's and ladies' big air snowboarding, mixed doubles curling, men's and ladies' mass start speed skating, and mixed team alpine skiing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, The Games, Sports\nNumbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each separate discipline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, The Games, Participating National Olympic Committees\nA record total of 92 teams qualified at least one athlete to compete in the Games. The number of athletes who qualified per country is listed in the table below (number of athletes shown in parentheses). Six nations made their Winter Olympics debut: Ecuador, Eritrea, Kosovo, Malaysia, Nigeria and Singapore. Athletes from three further countries \u2013 the Cayman Islands, Dominica and Peru \u2013 qualified to compete, but all three National Olympic Committees returned the quota spots back to the International Ski Federation (FIS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 74], "content_span": [75, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, The Games, Participating National Olympic Committees\nUnder an historic agreement facilitated by the IOC, qualified athletes from North Korea were allowed to cross the Korean Demilitarized Zone into South Korea to compete in the Games. The two nations marched together under the Korean Unification Flag during the opening ceremony. A unified Korean team, consisting of 12 players from North Korea and 23 from South Korea, competed in the women's ice hockey tournament under a special IOC country code designation (COR) following talks in Panmunjom on 17 January 2018. The two nations also participated separately: the South Korea team competed in every sport and the North Korea team competed in alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, figure skating and short track speed skating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 74], "content_span": [75, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, The Games, Participating National Olympic Committees\nOn 5 December 2017, the IOC announced that the Russian Olympic Committee had been suspended due to the Russian doping scandal and the investigation into the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Individual Russian athletes, who qualified and could demonstrate they had complied with the IOC's doping regulations, were given the option to compete at the 2018 Games as \"Olympic Athletes from Russia\" (OAR) under the Olympic flag and with the Olympic anthem played at any ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 74], "content_span": [75, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, The Games, Participating National Olympic Committees, Number of athletes by National Olympic Committee\nApart from the respective delegations, North Korea and South Korea formed a unified Korean women's ice hockey team. Russian athletes were entitled to participate as Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) if individually cleared by the IOC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 124], "content_span": [125, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, The Games, Event scheduling\nThe IOC has allowed NBC to influence the Olympic event scheduling to maximize U.S. television ratings when possible, due to the substantial fees paid by NBC for rights to the Olympics (which have been extended through 2032 with a nearly $8 billion agreement), the company being one of IOC's major sources of revenue. As figure skating is one of the most popular Winter Olympic sports among U.S. viewers, the figure skating events were scheduled with morning start times to accommodate primetime broadcasts in the Americas. This scheduling practice affected the events themselves, including skaters having to adjust to the modified schedule, as well as lower attendance levels at the sessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, The Games, Event scheduling\nConversely, and somewhat controversially, eight of the eleven biathlon events were scheduled at night, making it necessary for competitors to ski and shoot under floodlights, with colder temperatures and blustery winds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, The Games, Closing ceremony\nThe closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium on 25 February 2018. IOC president Thomas Bach declared the Games closed, and the cauldron was extinguished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Broadcasting\nBroadcast rights to the 2018 Winter Olympics were already sold in some countries as part of long-term broadcast rights deals, including the Games' local rightsholder SBS, which in July 2011 had extended its rights to the Olympics through 2024. SBS sub-licensed its rights to MBC and KBS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Broadcasting\nOn 29 June 2015, the IOC announced that Discovery Communications (now Discovery Inc.) had acquired exclusive rights to the Olympics across all of Europe (excluding Russia) from 2018 through 2024. Discovery's pan-European Eurosport channels were promoted as the main broadcaster of the Games, but Discovery's free-to-air channels such as DMAX in Spain, Kanal 5 in Sweden, and TVNorge in Norway, were also involved in the overall broadcasting arrangements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0034-0001", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Broadcasting\nDiscovery was required to sub-license at least 100 hours of coverage to free-to-air broadcasters in each market; some of these agreements required certain sports to be exclusive to Eurosport and its affiliated networks. The deal did not initially cover France due to the broadcast rights of France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions, which run through to the 2020 Games. In the United Kingdom, Discovery held exclusive pay television rights under licence from the BBC, in return for the BBC sub-licensing the free-to-air rights to the 2022 and 2024 Olympics from Discovery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Broadcasting\nRussian state broadcaster Channel One, and sports channel Match TV, committed to covering the Games with a focus on Russian athletes. Russia was not affected by the Eurosport deal, due to a pre-existing contract held by a marketing agency which extends to 2024.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Broadcasting\nIn the United States, the Games were once again broadcast by NBCUniversal properties under a long-term contract. On 28 March 2017, NBC announced that it would adopt a new format for its primetime coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics, with a focus on live coverage in all time zones to take advantage of Pyeongchang's 14-hour difference with U.S. Eastern Time (and 17-hour difference with U.S. Pacific Time), and to address criticism of its previous tape delay practices. As before, the primetime block began at 8:00\u00a0p.m. ET (5:00\u00a0p.m. PT), and unlike previous Olympics, was available for streaming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Broadcasting\nFigure skating events were deliberately scheduled with morning sessions so they could be aired during primetime in the Americas (and in turn, NBC's coverage; due to the substantial fees NBC has paid for rights to the Olympics, the IOC has allowed NBC to have influence on event scheduling to maximize U.S. television ratings when possible; NBC agreed to a $7.75 billion contract extension on 7 May 2014, to air the Olympics through the 2032 games, is also one of the major sources of revenue for the IOC). Coverage took a break in the East for late local news, after which coverage continued into \"Primetime Plus\", featuring additional live coverage into the Eastern late night and Western primetime hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Broadcasting\nNHK and Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) once again filmed portions of the Games in high-dynamic-range 8K resolution video, including 90 hours of footage of selected events and the opening ceremonies. ATSC 3.0 digital terrestrial television, using 4K resolution, was introduced in South Korea in 2017 in time for the Olympics. This footage was delivered in 4K in the U.S. by NBCUniversal parent Comcast to participating television providers, including its own Xfinity, as well as DirecTV and Dish Network. NBC's Raleigh-based affiliate WRAL-TV also held demonstration viewings as part of its ATSC 3.0 test broadcasts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Broadcasting\nThe 2018 Winter Olympics were used to showcase 5G wireless technologies, as part of a collaboration between domestic wireless sponsor KT, and worldwide sponsor Intel. Several venues were outfitted with 5G networks to facilitate features such as live camera feeds from bobsleds, and multi-camera views from cross-country and figure skating events. These were offered as part of public demonstrations coordinated by the two sponsors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Broadcasting\nThe winners of the Olympic Golden Rings Awards were announced in June 2019. There were 75 pieces of broadcast content from the 2018 Olympics submitted over ten categories (plus one category for the 2018 Youth Olympics). NBC won a total of eight awards, winning four of the main categories: Best Olympic Feature, Best Olympic Digital Service, Best Olympic program and Best Documentary Film; they came second in the Best On-Air Promotion and Best Social Media Content/Production categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0039-0001", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Broadcasting\nDiscovery/Eurosport won four categories: Best On-Air Promotion, Best Production Design, Best Innovation and Best Social Media Content/Production; they also came second in the Best Olympic Digital Service category. The BBC and NHK took the other two main awards: Most Sustainable Operation and Best Athlete Profile respectively. The title of Best Feature at the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018 was also awarded to the BBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Marketing\nThe official emblem, reflecting ice crystals and derived from the hangul letters \u314d and \u314a\u2014the initial sounds of \"Pyeong\" and \"Chang\"\u2014was unveiled on 3 May 2013. In all official materials, the name of the host city was stylized in CamelCase as \"PyeongChang\", in order to alleviate potential confusion with Pyongyang, the similarly-named capital of neighboring North Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Marketing\nNew international sponsorship deals also debuted in Pyeongchang: Toyota was introduced as the new \"Mobility\" sponsor of the Olympics, although the company waived its domestic sponsorship to the local competitors Hyundai and Kia due to their support of the Pyeongchang bid. Alibaba Group and Intel also debuted as e-commerce/cloud services and technology sponsors respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Concerns and controversies, North\u2013South Korean relations\nDue to the state of relations between North and South Korea, concerns were raised over the security of the 2018 Winter Olympics, especially in the wake of tensions over North Korean missile and nuclear tests. On 20 September 2017, South Korean president Moon Jae-in stated that the country would ensure the security of the Games. The next day, Laura Flessel-Colovic, the French Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, stated that France would pull out of the Games if the safety of its delegation could not be guaranteed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 78], "content_span": [79, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Concerns and controversies, North\u2013South Korean relations\nThe next day, Austria and Germany raised similar concerns and also threatened to skip the Games. France later reaffirmed its participation. In early December 2017, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, told Fox News that it was an \"open question\" whether the United States was going to participate in the Games, citing security concerns in the region. However, days later the White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, stated that the United States would participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 78], "content_span": [79, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Concerns and controversies, North\u2013South Korean relations\nIn his New Year's address on 1 January 2018, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un proposed talks in Seoul over the country's participation in the Games, which would be the first high-level talks between the North and South in over two years. Because of the talks, held on 9 January, North Korea agreed to field athletes in Pyeongchang. On 17 January 2018, it was announced that North and South Korea had agreed to field a unified Korean women's ice hockey team at the Games, and to enter together under a Korean Unification Flag during the opening ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 78], "content_span": [79, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Concerns and controversies, North\u2013South Korean relations\nThese moves were met with opposition in South Korea, including protests and online petitions; critics argued that the government was attempting to use the Olympics to spread pro-North Korean sentiment, and that the unified hockey team would fail. A rap video entitled \"The Regret for Pyeongchang\" (\ud3c9\ucc3d\uc720\uac10), which echoed this criticism and called the event the \"Pyongyang Olympics\", went viral in the country. Japan's foreign affairs minister Tar\u014d K\u014dno warned South Korea to be wary of North Korea's \"charm offensive\", and not to ease its pressure on the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 78], "content_span": [79, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Concerns and controversies, North\u2013South Korean relations\nThe South Korean President, Moon Jae-in, at the start of the Olympics shook hands with Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and a prominent figure of the regime. This marked the first time since the Korean War that a member of the ruling Kim dynasty had visited South Korea. In contrast, U.S. vice president Mike Pence met with Fred Warmbier (father of Otto Warmbier, who had died after being released from captivity in North Korea) and a group of North Korean defectors in Pyeongchang. American officials said that North Korea cancelled a meeting with Pence at the last minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 78], "content_span": [79, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Concerns and controversies, North\u2013South Korean relations\nAt the closing ceremony, North Korea sent general Kim Yong-chol as its delegate. His presence was met with hostility from South Korean conservatives, as there were allegations that he had a role in the ROKS Cheonan sinking and other past attacks. The Ministry of Unification stated that \"there is a limitation in pinpointing who was responsible for the incident.\" Although he is subject to sanctions, they did not affect his ability to visit the country for the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 78], "content_span": [79, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Concerns and controversies, Russian doping\nRussia's participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics was affected by the aftermath of its state-sponsored doping program. As a result, the IOC suspended the Russian Olympic Committee in December 2017, although Russian athletes whitelisted by the IOC were allowed to compete neutrally under the OAR (Olympic Athletes from Russia) designation. The official sanctions imposed by the IOC included: the exclusion of Russian government officials from the Games; the use of the Olympic flag and Olympic Anthem in place of the Russian flag and anthem; and the submission of a replacement logo for the OAR uniforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Concerns and controversies, Russian doping\nBy early January 2018, the IOC had banned 43 Russian athletes from competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics and all future Olympic Games (as part of the Oswald Commission). Of those athletes, 42 appealed against their bans to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and 28 of the appeals were successful, but eleven of the athletes had their sanctions upheld due to the weight of evidence against them. The IOC found it important to note that CAS Secretary General \"insisted that the CAS decision does not mean that these 28 athletes are innocent\" and that they would consider an appeal against the court's decision. Hearings for the remaining three athletes were postponed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Concerns and controversies, Russian doping\nThe eventual number of neutral Russian athletes that participated at the 2018 Games was 168. These were selected from an original pool of 500 athletes that was put forward for consideration and, in order to receive an invitation to the Games, they were obliged to meet a number of pre-games conditions. Two athletes, who met the conditions and were cleared by the IOC, subsequently failed drug tests during the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Concerns and controversies, Russian doping\nRussian president Vladimir Putin and other officials had signalled in the past that it would be a humiliation if Russian athletes were not allowed to compete under the Russian flag. However, there were never actually any official plans to boycott the 2018 Games and in late 2017 the Russian government agreed to allow their athletes to compete at the Games as individuals under a neutral designation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0051-0001", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Concerns and controversies, Russian doping\nDespite this public show of co-operation, there were numerous misgivings voiced by leading Russian politicians, including a statement from Putin himself saying that he believed the United States had used its influence within the IOC to \"orchestrate the doping scandal\". 86% of the Russian population opposed participation at the Olympics under a neutral flag, and many Russian fans attended the Games wearing the Russian colors and chanting \"Russia!\" in unison, in an act of defiance against the ban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283739-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics, Concerns and controversies, Russian doping\nThe IOC's decision was heavily criticized by Jack Robertson, primary investigator of the Russian doping program on behalf of the World Anti- Doping Agency (WADA), in whose opinion the judgement was commercially and politically motivated. He argued that not only was doping rife among Russian athletes but that there was no sign of it being eradicated. The CAS decision to overturn the life bans of 28 Russian athletes and restore their medals was also fiercely criticized, by Olympic officials, IOC president Thomas Bach and whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov's lawyer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 64], "content_span": [65, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283740-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations\nDuring the 2018 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations at the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, beginning at 20:00 KST (UTC+9) on 9 February 2018, athletes bearing the flags of their respective nations led their national delegations as they paraded into the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in the host city of Pyeongchang, South Korea. 92 teams qualified to compete (91 nations and Olympic Athletes from Russia).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283740-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations, Background\nAthletes entered the stadium in an order dictated by Olympic tradition. As the originator of the Olympics, the Greek team entered first. Other teams entered in alphabetical order based on the names of countries in the Korean language. Following tradition, the delegation from the host nation, South Korea, was scheduled to enter last. However, following solidarity negotiations with North Korea, the host nation was instead represented by the unified Korean delegation, consisting of the South Korean and North Korean teams, marching under the Korean Unification Flag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283740-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations, Background\nThe names of the nations were announced in French, followed by English and Korean, the official languages of the Olympic movement and the host nation, in accordance with traditional and International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines. Background music included such Korean songs from throughout the ages from as old as the folk song Arirang, to \"Short Hair\" by Cho Yong-pil and \"The Beauty\" by Shin Jung Hyun & Yup Juns of the 1970s, and modern K-pop hits such as \"Gangnam Style\" by Psy, \"Likey\" by Twice, \"Fantastic Baby\" by Big Bang, \"DNA\" by BTS, and \"Red Flavor\" by Red Velvet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283740-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations, List\nBelow is a list of parading countries and their announced flag bearer, in the same order as the parade. This is sortable by country name, flag bearer's name and flag bearer's sport. Names are given in the form officially designated by the IOC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 44], "content_span": [45, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283740-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations, List\nFor unconfirmed reasons, Italy and Israel switched positions in the parade so that the surrounding order was Iran \u2192 Italy \u2192 Israel (Hangul alphabetical order would have dictated Iran \u2192 Israel \u2192 Italy).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 44], "content_span": [45, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283740-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations, List\nMacedonia entered as its official name \"the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia\" in all languages, but paraded as if its name were \"FYROM\" (\ud53c\ub86c Pirom), between France and Finland. If it were ordered with the word \"former\" (\uad6c gu), it would have marched third after Ghana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 44], "content_span": [45, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283741-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony\nThe closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 25 February 2018 from 20:00 to 22:05 KST (UTC+9). The ceremony took place at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in Pyeongchang County, South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283741-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony\nThe director of the organizing committee, Oh Jang-hwan, stated the event will have a \"festival atmosphere to recognize and celebrate the athletes' hard work and achievements at the games.\" Combining music, dance and art, the ceremony tells the story of \"The Next Wave,\" while emphasizing the \"human spirit of perseverance.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283741-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony, Ceremony, Parade of Nations\nThe flag bearers of 92 National Olympic Committees arrived into the stadium. The flag bearers from each participating country entered the stadium informally in single file, ordered by ganada order of the Korean alphabet, and behind them marched all the athletes. Marching alongside the athletes were Soohorang, the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic mascot, and Hodori, mascot of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283741-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony, Handover of the Olympic flag\nFirst, the Greek flag was raised while its anthem played. The Olympic flag was then lowered and passed by the mayor of Pyeongchang County, Shim Jae-kook, to IOC President Thomas Bach, who then handed it over to the mayor of Beijing, Chen Jining. This was then followed by the raising of the flag of China, and the playing of its anthem. The flag was raised again in Tokyo, Japan for the 2020 Summer Olympics on 23 July 2021 for the opening ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283741-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony, Beijing 2022 performance\nBeijing, the host city of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, presented a special performance See You in Beijing in 2022 directed by Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, who also presented the 2008 Summer Olympics opening and closing ceremonies. The presentation featured two pandas skating and people forming red lines that became a dragon, as pandas and dragons are national icons for China. The skaters also trail lines to form the emblem of the Games. China's Paramount leader Xi Jinping made a cameo appearance by video expressing the welcome message on behalf of the Chinese people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283741-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony, Games declared closed\nIOC President Thomas Bach formally closed the games, calling them 'The Games of New Horizons'. Soon after, the cauldron was extinguished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283742-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony flag bearers\nDuring the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the flag bearers of 92 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) arrived into Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium. The flag bearers from each participating country entered the stadium informally in single file, and behind them marched all the athletes. The flags of each country were not necessarily carried by the same flag bearer as in the opening ceremony. The flag-bearers entered in ganada order of the Korean alphabet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283742-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony flag bearers\nUnlike the opening ceremony, North and South Korea used their own flags in addition to the Korean Unification Flag. Thus there were a total of 93 flag bearers representing 92 NOCs, with the North Korean flag and Korean Unification Flag appearing earlier in the parade order, and the South Korean flag appearing last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283742-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony flag bearers, Countries and flagbearers\nThe following is a list of each country's flag bearer. The list is sorted by the order in which each nation appears in the parade of nations. Names are given as were officially designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 77], "content_span": [78, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283743-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics marketing\n2018 Winter Olympics marketing was a long running campaign that began when Pyeongchang won its bid to host the games in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283743-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics marketing, Symbols, Emblem\nThe emblem for the Games was unveiled on 3 May 2013. It is a stylised representation of the hangul letters \u314d p and \u314a ch, these being the initial sounds of \ud3c9\ucc3d Pyeongchang. The left-hand symbol is said to represent the Korean philosophical triad of heaven, earth and humanity (Korean: \ucc9c\uc9c0\uc778 cheon-ji-in), and the right-hand symbol represents a crystal of ice. In the emblem and all official materials, Pyeongchang was stylised in CamelCase as \"PyeongChang\", in order to alleviate potential confusion with Pyongyang, the similarly-named capital of neighbouring North Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283743-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics marketing, Symbols, Look of the Games\n5 primary colours were used, with venues using one of these colour families for branding. Different venues had different colours depending on the sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283743-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics marketing, Symbols, Mascots\nThe official mascots of the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on 2 June 2016. The Olympic mascot, Soohorang (Korean: \uc218\ud638\ub791), is a white tiger. The mascot's name is a portmanteau of \"Sooho\", a Korean word for \"protection\", and \"Rang\" which is derived both from the Korean word for \"tiger\" and from the name of a traditional Korean folk song originating from Gangwon Province. Tigers have a strong association with Korean culture and folklore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283743-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics marketing, Video games\nIn June 2017, Ubisoft announced that it would release an expansion pack for its winter sports video game Steep entitled Road to the Olympics, which features new game modes and content inspired by the 2018 Winter Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283743-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics marketing, Video games\nIn November 2017, the IOC announced it would support and sponsor an Intel Extreme Masters StarCraft II tournament in Pyeongchang preceding the Games. Its support of the tournament as a de facto demonstration event came on the heels of a report by the IOC which recognised that eSports \"could be considered as a sporting activity\". The tournament was won by Sasha \"Scarlett\" Hostyn of Canada; she became the second North American pro to place first at a major StarCraft II tournament in South Korea, and the first woman to win a major tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283743-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics marketing, Corporate sponsorship and advertising\nThe 2018 Winter Olympics saw increasing granularity in official sponsorships for technology vendors; Intel signed with the IOC to become part of its Worldwide Olympic Partner program, to promote 5G wireless technology, as well as broadcasting technology such as 360-degree video and virtual reality. Alibaba Group was also named the official e-commerce and cloud services provider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283743-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics marketing, Corporate sponsorship and advertising\nThese categories affected how the vendors were allowed to promote themselves within the context of the Olympics: Samsung could showcase VR experiences but only within the context of its own smartphones due to Intel's sponsorship rights in relation to VR; Alibaba could not promote Alipay due to Visa Inc. sponsorship rights; and Intel could not promote end-user applications of 5G due to national sponsorship rights held by KT Corporation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283743-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics marketing, Corporate sponsorship and advertising\nIn 2015, Japanese automaker Toyota became the first-ever Worldwide Olympic Partner in the \"Mobility\" category, beginning 2017. However, Toyota elected to waive its domestic sponsorship rights for these Games to Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors, citing their near-dominance of the South Korean automobile industry, as well as their support of the Pyeongchang bid. As a result, Toyota did not perform any Olympic-related marketing in South Korea, the fleet of official IOC vehicles were provided by Hyundai and Kia, while Hyundai used the Games to showcase its Nexo hydrogen fuel cell SUV and self-driving vehicle technology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283744-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics medal table\nThe 2018 Winter Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees ranked by the number of medals won during the 2018 Winter Olympics, held in Pyeongchang County (stylized as PyeongChang for the games), South Korea, from 9\u201325 February 2018. The games featured 102 events in 15 sports, making it the first Winter Olympics to surpass 100 medal events. Four new disciplines in existing sports were introduced to the Winter Olympic program in Pyeongchang, including big air snowboarding, mixed doubles curling, mass start speed skating, and mixed team alpine skiing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283744-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics medal table\nThe Netherlands achieved a podium sweep in speed skating, in the women's 3,000 metres. Norway achieved a podium sweep in cross-country skiing, in the men's 30 km skiathlon. Germany achieved a podium sweep in nordic combined, in the individual large hill/10 km. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, athletes were tied in three events. In the women's 10 km cross-country skiing, two bronze medals were awarded due to a tie. In the two-man bobsleigh, two gold medals and no silver medal were awarded due to a tie. In the four-man bobsleigh, two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded due to a tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283744-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics medal table\nGoing in, Canada held the record for most gold medals won at a single Winter Olympics with 14, which it won in Vancouver in 2010. This mark was equalled by both Norway and Germany at these Olympics. Norway set the record for most total medals at a single Winter Olympics with 39, surpassing the 37 medals of the United States won at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The mark of 30 NOCs winning medals is the highest for any Winter Olympic Games. Hungary won its first Winter Olympic gold medal ever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283744-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics medal table\nNorwegian cross-country skier Marit Bj\u00f8rgen (two gold, one silver, and two bronze) achieved five medals, more than any other athlete. With 15 medals, she became the most decorated athlete in Winter Olympics history. Swedish cross-country skier Charlotte Kalla finished with four medals (one gold, three silver), as did her compatriot and fellow cross-country skier Stina Nilsson (one gold, two silvers, one bronze) and Russian cross-country skier Alexander Bolshunov (three silver, one bronze) who was competing for the Olympic Athletes from Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283744-0002-0002", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics medal table\nNorwegian cross-country skier Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo and French biathlete Martin Fourcade tied for the most gold medals, with three each. Ester Ledeck\u00e1 of the Czech Republic became the first female Winter Olympian to achieve a gold medal in two separate sports at a single Games, winning in both alpine skiing and snowboarding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283744-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics medal table, Medal table\nThe medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where nation is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If there is still a tie after that, then the nations shared the tied rank and are listed alphabetically according to their NOC code.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony\nThe opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea on 9 February 2018. It began at 20:00 KST and finished at approximately 22:20 KST. The Games were officially opened by President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Preparations\nThe site of the opening ceremony, Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, was built specifically for the Games. The pentagonal stadium seated 35,000. The organizers for the event said the shape was chosen because it is a combination of different shapes, a circle, a square, and a triangle, which represent heaven, earth, and mankind. No Olympic or Paralympic events were be held at the stadium, which was only used for the opening and closing ceremonies. The venue was torn down afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Preparations\nThe broadcast of the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games was available in more than 200 countries around the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Ceremony\nThe ceremony's message centered on peace, passion, harmony, and convergence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Ceremony\nFive children from rural Gangwon province led the ceremony, which included one Inmyeonjo (a mythical creature with a body of a bird and a head of a human, a creature that only appears when the world is at peace), four mythical creatures, including a white tiger \u2013 spirit animal protector of Korea and the mascot of these Games, natural floral and fauna, and a cast of 2,000. Five children were used to symbolize the five Olympic rings, and the five names were chosen to represent fire, water, wood, metal, and earth, the five elements that are believed to make up the Earth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Ceremony\nAugmented reality and 5G technology were also incorporated in the event. The largest drone show in history, featuring 1,218 Shooting Star drones, was planned for the ceremony but cancelled at the last minute; television audiences were shown a version that had been recorded the previous December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Ceremony\nDuring the opening ceremony the organizing committee was a victim of a cyber attack, but without major consequences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Programme, Parade of Nations\nThe Parade of Nations was led, according to custom due to hosting the original ancient Olympics, by the Greek team, followed by other competing countries in alphabetical order based on their names in the Korean language, with the host country, South Korea, concluding the march.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Programme, Parade of Nations\nThe delegations from both the host nation South Korea and North Korea (Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics) marched under the Korean unification flag. South Korean Won Yun-jong and North Korean Hwang Chung-gum both held the flagpole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Programme, Parade of Nations\nEven though the temperature in the stadium during the ceremony was very cold, Bermuda's delegation wore shorts and Tongan Pita Taufatofua repeated his shirtless and oiled up Summer Olympic appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Programme, Parade of Nations\nBackground music for the parade began with an instrumental version of \"Hand in Hand\" by Koreana and included modern remixes of Korean songs from throughout the ages from \"Short Hair\" by Cho Yong-pil and \"The Beauty\" by Shin Jung Hyun & Yup Juns of the 1970s, as well as the following modern K-pop hits: \"Gangnam Style\" by Psy, \"Likey\" by Twice, \"Fantastic Baby\" by Big Bang, \"DNA\" by BTS, and \"Red Flavor\" by Red Velvet. \"Red Flavor\" was cut off just as the unified Korean team was introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Programme, Torch lighting\nThe Olympic flame was on a 101-day relay across South Korea. The start of the ceremony takes place in Olympia of Greece. Apostles Angelis, 24 years old cross-country skier, was selected to be the first torchbearer. He said \"It is a great honour for me to be chosen as the first torchbearer for the Olympic Winter Games of 2018. It is truly a unique moment that I am looking forward to. I feel very proud and with a unique sense of happiness.\" Inbee Park, the golfer from Republic of Korea, was the second person to hold the torch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Programme, Torch lighting\nAfter the flame touring around Greece for a week, it reached the Acropolis on 30 October. There were 36 ceremonies held in different cities over a week, then the flame arrived to the PyeongChang Panathenaic Stadium. More than 500 torchbearers participated to follow the rituals of Olympic cycle, and carried the message of peace. In the stadium, Opera soloist Sumi Hwang sang the Olympic anthem during the torch lighting ceremony. The final person to hold the torch was Ahn Jung-hwan, football player in Republic of Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Programme, Torch lighting\nJong Su-hyon from North Korea and Park Jong-ah from South Korea carried the torch and headed up stairs toward the cauldron. As the torch neared the cauldron, an ice skating rink with South Korean figure skater Yuna Kim was revealed. Yuna Kim is the well-known figure skater who won gold medal in 2010 and silver medal in 2014. The cauldron was designed to represent a full moon when it is not lit. Kim received the torch and lit the cauldron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Programme, Wish Fire\nThe final segment entitled \"Wish Fire\" featured Korean dance group Just Jerk (who became known internationally for their participation in the twelfth season of America's Got Talent) entered the stage dressed as Dokkaebi, and performers with sparklers on roller blades. This segment in total featured 2,000 fireworks within and out of the stadium, some reaching as high as 1,300 metres (4,300\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Programme, Intel Drone Light Show\nMore than 1,200 Intel Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones flying above PyeongChang to celebrate the opening of 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Intel drone team now holds the Guinness World Record of flying largest number of drones. The drones flew together to form custom animations illustrating snow boarding, skiing, other different sports, as well as the iconic Olympic rings. The Shooting Star drones carried on the symbol of unity and progress from lighting of the torch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Hacking of computer systems\nOn 24 February, The Washington Post reported that U.S. intelligence uncovered Russian spies hacked computers during the Opening Ceremony. Analysts believed the Russians instigated the 9 February attack as a way to retaliate for the International Olympic Committee's decision to restrict the participation of Russian athletes in the 2018 Winter Olympics as punishment for doping violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Hacking of computer systems\nSandworm, a Russian cybermilitary unit of the GRU, is believed to be responsible for the attack. The worm used is known as \"Olympic Destroyer\". It targeted all Olympic IT infrastructure, and succeeded in taking down WiFi, feeds to jumbotrons, ticketing systems, and other Olympic systems. It was timed to go off at the start of the opening ceremonies. It was unique in that the hackers attempted to use many false signatures to blame other countries such as North Korea and China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Dignitaries in attendance\nAbout 25 heads of state attended the ceremony, in addition to the UN Secretary General. President of Russia Vladimir Putin was invited to attend, but declined due to the symbolic ban on Russia by the IOC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283745-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Dignitaries in attendance\nOn 9 February 2018, Kim Yo-jong\u2014sister of Kim Jong-un\u2014attended the ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea. This was a first time that a member of the ruling Kim dynasty had visited South Korea since the Korean War. Kim Yo-jong shook hands with South Korean president Moon Jae-in before sitting down to watch the ceremony together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283746-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Olympics torch relay\nThe 2018 Winter Olympics torch relay was run from October 24, 2017 until February 9, 2018, in advance of the 2018 Winter Olympics. After being lit in Olympia, Greece, the torch traveled to Athens on 31 October. The torch began its Korean journey on 1 November, visiting all regions of Korea. The Korean leg began in Incheon: the torch travelled across the country for 101 days. 7,500 relay runners participated in the torch relay over a distance of 2,018 km. The torchbearers each carried the flame for 200 metres. The relay ended in Pyeongchang's Olympic Stadium, the main venue of the 2018 Olympics. The final torch was lit by figure skater Yuna Kim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics\nThe 2018 Winter Paralympics (Korean:\u00a02018\ub144 \ub3d9\uacc4 \ud328\ub7f4\ub9bc\ud53d; RR:\u00a02018nyeon Donggye Paereollimpik), the 12th Paralympic Winter Games, and also more generally known as the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, were an international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), that was held in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, South Korea, from 9 to 18 March 2018. They were the second Paralympics to be held in South Korea, following the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics\n569 athletes representing 49 National Paralympic Committees participated in these Games, including newcomers Georgia, North Korea and Tajikistan. Following its debut as disciplines under the Alpine programme in Sochi, snowboarding was expanded into a separate sport with additional competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics\nFor the second time, the United States topped the medal table with 36 total medals and 13 gold medals. Host nation South Korea placed 16th with 3 total medals and won its first gold and first bronze in the Winter Paralympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Host selection\nAs part of a formal agreement between the International Paralympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee first established in 2001, the winner of the bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics was also to host the 2018 Winter Paralympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Host selection\nPyeongchang was elected as host during the 123rd IOC Session in Durban in 2011, earning the required majority of at least 48 votes in the first round of voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Opening ceremony\nThe opening ceremony was held on 9 March 2018 at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, which was built specifically for the Winter Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Sports\nCompetitions in the 2018 Winter Paralympics are being held in six Winter Paralympic sports, with 80 medal events in total. Snowboarding has been expanded into a separate discipline for 2018, with 10 medal events (in 2014, two medal events in snowboarding were held within the alpine skiing programme).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Calendar\nIn the following calendar for the 2018 Winter Paralympics, each blue box represents an event competition. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport are held. The number in each yellow box represents the number of finals that are contested on that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Venues, Pyeongchang Mountain cluster, Alpensia\nAlpensia Resort in Daegwallyeong-myeon will be the focus of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Broadcasting\nTelevision rights were sold in various countries and territories; the IPC partnered with the IOC's streaming service Olympic Channel for online streaming coverage of these Paralympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Broadcasting\nIn 2017, the European Broadcasting Union renewed its rights to the Paralympics in 25 European countries through 2020 In the United States, NBC Sports announced plans to air nearly twice as much coverage on linear television as it did in Sochi, with 94 hours airing primarily on NBCSN and the U.S. version of Olympic Channel, along with online streaming content. In Canada, the CBC announced that it would broadcast over 600 hours of coverage in English and French across its platforms, including CBC Television, Ici Radio-Canada T\u00e9l\u00e9, and sublicence partners Sportsnet One and AMI-tv. Channel 4 returned as the Games' rightsholder in the United Kingdom, planning over 100 hours of television coverage on Channel 4 and 4seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Tickets\nTicket prices for the 2018 Winter Paralympics were announced on 8 June 2017 and tickets went on sale on 21 August 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Tickets\nPrices for sporting event tickets range from \u20a910,000 to 50,000 (approx. $8\u201345 USD). Opening and closing ceremony tickets range from \u20a910,000 to \u20a9140,000 (approx. $8\u2013125 USD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Tickets\nAs of 19 January, tickets to the Paralympic Games were 70% sold. (155,000 tickets out of a total of 223,353 allocated).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Marketing, Emblem\nThe emblem for the 2018 Winter Paralympics was unveiled on 29 October 2013 at the National Museum of Korea. It incorporates stylized renditions of the hangul letter \u314a ch (as also used in the Olympic emblem), which symbolizes part of the name Pyeongchang and resembles ice crystals. The Paralympic emblem features two of these letters joined together, symbolizing equality and a \"grand\" festival welcoming international athletes and spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Marketing, Mascot\nThe official mascots of the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on 2 June 2016. The Paralympic mascot, Bandabi, is an Asian black bear that symbolizes \"strong will and courage\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Marketing, Cultural events\nTo attract interest from residents and foreign tourists, the Korea Tourism Organization organized Snow Festival, a \"Hallyu festival\", to serve as cultural programming for the Paralympics. Actors Jang Keun-suk and Lee Dong-wook purchased 2,018 and 1,000 tickets for themselves and fans to attend meetups at para ice hockey games, while a K-pop concert featuring B1A4 and BtoB was also organized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Concerns and controversies, North Korean relations\nPrior to the 2018 Winter Olympics, North Korea agreed to have its athletes march together with those of the South Korean team during the opening ceremonies, and field a unified women's hockey team. However, during a meeting in Pyeongchang between the leaders of their National Paralympic Committees, the two countries were unable to organize a similar arrangement for the Paralympics. The South Korean Paralympic Committee stated that North Korean officials had requested that the Liancourt Rocks (which are the subject of an ongoing sovereignty dispute between South Korea and Japan) be included on the Korean Unification Flag during the Paralympics. South Korea declined this request, as they considered it contradictory to IPC recommendations against political gestures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 75], "content_span": [76, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283747-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics, Concerns and controversies, North Korean relations\nIPC president Andrew Parsons expressed disappointment over the decision, but noted that the country \"respects and values the IPC's vision and mission\" and had \"committed to working further with the IPC to improve the lives of people with an impairment in North Korea\", while also acknowledging that the IOC had \"made great progress in opening up dialogue between the two nations\" prior to the Olympics, and that their meeting \"underlines the tremendous ability of sport to bring countries together in positive dialogue.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 75], "content_span": [76, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283748-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics Parade of Nations\nDuring the 2018 Winter Paralympics Parade of Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony, beginning at 20:00 KST (UTC+9) on 9 March 2018, athletes bearing the flags of their respective nations led their national delegations as they paraded into the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in the host city of Pyeongchang, South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283748-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics Parade of Nations, Background\nAthletes entered the stadium in an order dictated by Paralympic tradition. Greece entered first, while the host nation, South Korea, marched last. Other teams entered in alphabetical order based on the names of countries in the Korean language. The collation method used is based on the names as written in Hangul, the Korean alphabet. The names of the nations were announced English and Korean, the official languages of the Paralympic movement and the host nation, in accordance with traditional and International Paralympic Committee (IOC) guidelines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283748-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics Parade of Nations, Background\nWhilst most countries entered under their short names, a few entered under more formal or alternative names, sometimes due to political or naming disputes. North Korean and South Korean teams marched on their own, after the leaders of both Koreas failed to arrange for both teams to march together in the opening ceremony. After a Russian state-sponsored doping program was exposed following the 2014 Winter Paralympics, the Russian Paralympic Committee was suspended, and selected athletes were allowed to compete neutrally under the IOC designation of \"Neutral Paralympic Athletes\" (\ud328\ub7f4\ub9bc\ud53d \uc911\ub9bd \uc120\uc218), under \uc911. In addition, the United States, Iran, North Korea, China and South Korea all entered under their formal names, respectively the \"United States of America\", \"Islamic Republic of Iran\", \"Democratic People's Republic of Korea\", \"People's Republic of China\" and \"Republic of Korea\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 939]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283748-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics Parade of Nations, Background\nA record of 49 nations entered the stadium with a combined total of 569 athletes. Three nations made their Winter Paralympic debut, namely Georgia, North Korea and Tajikistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283748-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics Parade of Nations, List\nBelow is a list of parading countries and their announced flag bearer, in the same order as the parade. This is sortable by country name, flag bearer's name and flag bearer's sport. Names are given in the form officially designated by the IPC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 47], "content_span": [48, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283749-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony\nThe 2018 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony was held at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on March 18, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283749-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony, Ceremony, Parade of Nations\nThe flag bearers from each participating country entered the stadium informally in single file, ordered by ganada order of the Korean alphabet, and behind them marched all the athletes, without any distinction or grouping by nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283749-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony, Stephen Hawking tribute\nThe IPC President Andrew Parsons paid tribute to the late Stephen Hawking in his closing speech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283749-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony, Handover of the Paralympic flag\nThe flag was passed by the mayor of Pyeongchang, Shim Jae-kook, to IPC President, Andrew Parsons, who then handed over to the mayor of Beijing, Chen Jining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283750-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics medal table\nThe 2018 Winter Paralympics medal table is a list of National Paralympic Committees ranked by the number of medals won during the 2018 Winter Paralympics, which were held in PyeongChang, South Korea, in March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283750-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics medal table\nIn the standing men's 1.5 kilometre cross-country sprint, two bronze medals were awarded due to a tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283750-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics medal table\nHost nation South Korea, Croatia and Kazakhstan won their first gold medals at a Winter Paralympics. This also happened with the next Winter Paralympics host nation China also won its first medal, a gold medal, at a Winter Paralympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283750-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics medal table, Medal table\nThe ranking in the table is based on information provided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and will be consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table will be ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a \"nation\" is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee [NPC]). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IPC country code.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283751-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony\nThe opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Paralympics took place at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea on March 9, 2018. at 20:00 KST", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283751-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony, Preparations\nThe site of the opening ceremony, Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, was built specifically for the games. It seated 35,000. No Olympic or Paralympic events were held there. It was only used for the opening and closing ceremonies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283752-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winter Paralympics torch relay\nThe 2018 Winter Paralympics Torch Relay was a 8-day event leading up to the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang. It began on March 2, 2018, in Seoul and concluded at the Games' opening ceremony on March 9. It is held entirely within South Korea, the host country", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283753-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Winton SuperSprint\nThe 2018 Winton SuperSprint was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on 18-20 May 2018. The event was held at the Winton Motor Raceway near Benalla, Victoria and consisted of two races, 120 and 200 kilometres in length. It was the sixth round of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 13 and 14 of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This election was held on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results, Results by constituency, Birkenhead constituency\nBirkenhead consists of the wards of Bidston and St James, Birkenhead and Tranmere, Claughton, Oxton, Prenton and Rock Ferry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 117], "content_span": [118, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results, Results by constituency, Wallasey constituency\nWallasey consists of the wards of Leasowe and Moreton East, Liscard, Moreton West and Saughall Massie, New Brighton, Seacombe and Wallasey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 115], "content_span": [116, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results, Results by constituency, Wirral South constituency\nWirral South consists of the wards of Bebington, Bromborough, Clatterbridge, Eastham, and Heswall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 119], "content_span": [120, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results, Results by constituency, Wirral West constituency\nWirral West consists of the wards of Greasby, Frankby and Irby, Hoylake and Meols, Pensby and Thingwall, Upton, and West Kirby and Thurstaston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 118], "content_span": [119, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results, Changes in council composition\nPrior to the election the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 99], "content_span": [100, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results, Proportionality\nThe disproportionality of the 2018 election was 7.49 using the Gallagher Index.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 84], "content_span": [85, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Contesting political parties\nThere were in total 96 candidates (down 7 from 2016). As per 2016, both Labour and The Conservative Party contested all 23 seats up for election. The Green Party also stood 23 (up 2), the Liberal Democrats, 22 (up 3) and TUSC, 3 (down 4). UKIP stood 1 candidate (down 8) with 1 Independent also standing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 103], "content_span": [104, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Policies\nWirral Labour's local election campaign was launched on 10 April 2018 at The Engineering College in Monk's Ferry with the help of the Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor, Steve Rotheram.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Policies\nWirral Labour's key priorities were to protect services; work with the police and social services to clamp down on anti-social behaviour and to work with the Metro Mayor to access funds to improve roads and highways.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Policies\nWirral Labour received criticism by its own LCF (Local Campaign Forum) for only having one target seat, the Green held ward of Birkenhead and Tranmere. Their campaign in Birkenhead included \"Super Saturdays\", personal attacks against the Green candidate Pat Cleary and suspected Green voting Labour members put on a list and threatened with suspension. The Greens held the seat with an increased vote share. Other targets were later added.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Policies\nThe Wirral Conservative's key priorities were to cut spending on consultants and senior directors; abolish country park and coastal area parking charges; scrap the Wirral View newspaper and use the money to reinstate school crossing patrols; scrap plans for food waste bins and instead do more to reduce packaging and plastic waste; ban lending to other councils and scrap plans to build on the Green belt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Policies\nThe Wirral Liberal Democrat's key priorities were to focus on getting basic services right; secure grants from the government that will recognise Wirral's needs; give local people a greater say, particularly over the Wirral Growth Company; \"leave nobody out\", particularly in the example of health and social services; make sure money from the sale of council assets is put back into the community; better maintain the road network with more 20\u00a0mph zones to improve safety and to scrap the Wirral View.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Policies\nThe Wirral Green Party's key priorities were to clamp down on waste and invest more in \"key public services\"; scrap the Wirral View newspaper and invest savings made in improving the environment; freeze executive pay and introduce measures to address the \"obscene pay gap\" between the lowest and highest paid council staff; prioritise key brownfield sites for regeneration and housing to end the threat to Wirral's Green belt; transform democratic structures to secure \"a more inclusive and transparent council in contrast to the rigid closed shop operated by the Labour Party\" and to prioritise investment in active travel with pedestrians, cyclists and cleaner air.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Parties and candidates, Policies\nThe sole UKIP candidate, Paula Walters, was urged to withdraw her nomination by The Labour Party due to a series of \"hate-filled\" tweets from an account under her name that compared migrants to terrorists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results\nResults compared directly with the last local election in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 63], "content_span": [64, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Changes between 2018 and 2019, Bromborough by-election 2018\nCllr Warren Ward, elected in 2016, announced his resignation on 9 July 2018. A casual vacancy was announced the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 110], "content_span": [111, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Changes between 2018 and 2019, Campaign\nOn 20 July, Conservative candidate Des Drury sent a printed letter to nearly 1,200 residents about a planning application being approved for the ex-Bromborough Secondary School site that borders the south of the ward. The letter mentions a \"More than 1,000\" signature strong petition opposing the application. The lead petitioner, who spoke in front of the planning committee when the application was considered on 19 July, was future Labour candidate Jo Bird. This was despite the fact that all 7 Labour councillors on the committee (a majority on the committee as a whole) voted to approve the application.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 90], "content_span": [91, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Changes between 2018 and 2019, Upton by-election 2018\nCllr Matthew Patrick, first elected in 2013, announced his resignation on 21 September 2018. He formally resigned on 7 October 2018 with a casual vacancy announced the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 104], "content_span": [105, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Changes between 2018 and 2019, Other changes\nOn 22 February 2019, Moira McLaughlin was announced as leader of an Independent group composed of the three Labour defections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 95], "content_span": [96, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283754-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Notes\n\u2022 italics denote the sitting councillor \u2022 bold denotes the winning candidate", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283755-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin Attorney General election\nThe 2018 Wisconsin Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283755-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin Attorney General election\nRepublican incumbent Brad Schimel, first elected in 2014, ran for re-election to a second term. Voting rights attorney and former federal prosecutor Josh Kaul, the Democratic nominee, defeated Schimel in the general election. Terry Larson, the Constitution Party nominee, also garnered around 2% of the vote, greater than the vote difference between Schimel and Kaul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283755-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin Attorney General election, Republican primary\nIncumbent Attorney General Brad Schimel ran unopposed in the Republican primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283756-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 2018 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Badgers were led by fourth year head coach Paul Chryst and competed as members of the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They played their home games at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283756-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nReturning many key players from their Orange Bowl-winning 2017 team, the 2018 team was expected to compete for a Big Ten title and a spot in the College Football Playoff. They were ranked fourth in the pre-season AP Poll, tied for the highest start in school history. In the third game of the year, the Badgers were upset by unranked BYU. Wisconsin ultimately lost four more games during the season, including a loss to rival Minnesota that snapped a Wisconsin 14-game winning streak in the series dating back to 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283756-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe Badgers were 5\u20134 in Big Ten play to finish in a three-way tie for second place in the West Division. They were invited to the Pinstripe Bowl to play Miami (FL) in a rematch of the 2017 Orange Bowl, where they defeated the Hurricanes once again to finish the season at 8\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283756-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe Badgers were led offensively by sophomore running back Jonathan Taylor, who led FBS in both rushing yards (2,194) and rushing attempts (307), and was awarded the Doak Walker Award as the nation's top running back. He became the third Badger player to eclipse the 2,000 yard mark in a single season after Ron Dayne and Melvin Gordon. Taylor was named a consensus first-team All-American, as was offensive lineman Beau Benzschawel. Four members of the offensive line received first-team all-conference honors: Benzschawel, Tyler Biadasz, Michael Deiter, and David Edwards. Quarterback Alex Hornibrook led the team in passing with 1,532 yards and 13 touchdown passes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283756-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Previous season\nThe Badgers finished the 2017 season 13\u20131, 9\u20130 in Big Ten play to win the Big Ten West division. They lost to Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship Game 27\u201321. They received an invitation to the Orange Bowl where they defeated Miami (FL) 34\u201324. The 13 wins marked the most wins in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283756-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Schedule\nWisconsin's 2018 schedule consisted of 7 home and 5 away games in the regular season. The Badgers hosted Big Ten opponents Nebraska, Illinois, Rutgers, and Minnesota and traveled to Iowa, Michigan, Northwestern, and Penn State, and Purdue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283756-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Schedule\nThe team's three non\u2013conference games were against the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers from Conference USA (C-USA), New Mexico Lobos from the Mountain West Conference (MWC), and the BYU Cougars, who compete independently in football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283757-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin State Assembly election\nThe Wisconsin State Assembly elections of 2018 were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. All 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly were up for election. The Republican Party maintained a majority it has held since 2011, winning 63 seats, a loss of one seat, and 44.75% of the voting share. Despite winning a majority of ballots cast, the Democratic Party won only 36 seats, thus remaining a minority and gaining just one seat from the Republicans, district 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283757-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin State Assembly election\nDemocratic votes were concentrated in urban areas such as Milwaukee and Madison, while Republicans garnered votes in more rural areas, which has been widely attributed to the impact of gerrymandering in the post-2010 state redistricting. Based on the 2018 results, the tipping point district was District 29, which the Republicans won by a margin of 12.12%, therefore Democrats would have needed to win the statewide popular vote by a margin of 20.36% to win a majority of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283758-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin State Senate election\nAn election was held on November 6, 2018 to elect 17 of the 33 members of Wisconsin's State Senate. The election coincided with elections for other offices, including U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Governor and State Assembly. The primary election was held on August 14, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283758-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin State Senate election\nRepublicans maintained control of the Senate, winning 11 seats compared to 6 seats for the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283758-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin State Senate election, Results, District\nResults of the 2018 Wisconsin State Senate election by district:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections\nThe 2018 Wisconsin Fall General Election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on November 6, 2018. All of Wisconsin's partisan executive and administrative offices were up for election as well as one of Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seats, Wisconsin's eight seats in the United States House of Representatives, seventeen seats in the Wisconsin State Senate, and all 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly. The 2018 Wisconsin Fall Partisan Primary was held August 14, 2018. There were also special elections held during 2018 for three State Assembly seats and two State Senate seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections\nThe Democrats swept in all of the fall elections for statewide officials, unseating three incumbent Republicans, including two-term Governor Scott Walker, and winning the open race for State Treasurer. Republicans maintained control of both chambers in the Wisconsin Legislature however, as well as a majority of the state's U.S. House seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections\nThe 2018 Wisconsin Spring Election was held April 3, 2018. This election featured a contested election for Wisconsin Supreme Court, as well as a referendum on an amendment to the Constitution of Wisconsin, and various other nonpartisan local and judicial races. The 2018 Wisconsin Spring Primary was held on February 20, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections\nIn the nonpartisan Supreme Court election, the Wisconsin Democrats also claimed victory, as their preferred candidate defeated the Republicans' preferred candidate, reducing the Republican majority on the court to 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, Federal, Senate\nIncumbent Democrat Tammy Baldwin, first elected in 2012, won re-election to a second term by a 11 percentage point margin against Republican challenger Leah Vukmir. This was the widest margin of victory won by a statewide candidate in Wisconsin's 2018 elections, and marked the widest margin won by a U.S. Senate candidate in Wisconsin since Herb Kohl's landslide victory in the 2006 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, Federal, House of Representatives\nAll 8 of Wisconsin's congressional districts were up for election in November. Seven incumbents ran for re-election, while the 1st district saw an open race after incumbent and then-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced his retirement. No seats flipped in the election, with Republicans continuing to hold 5 of the state's House seats to the Democrats' 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Executive\nAll of Wisconsin's executive offices saw close election results, with the largest vote difference in any race being eight-term incumbent Secretary of State Doug La Follette\u2018s 5.5 percent margin of victory. Every executive office was won by the Democratic candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Executive, Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor Scott Walker, first elected in 2010, sought re-election to a third term. Despite having won two prior elections and a recall by fairly comfortable margins, Walker faced rising unpopularity due to his policies regarding infrastructure and education, among other issues, resulting in a close race. Low approval in Wisconsin of incumbent Republican U.S. President Donald Trump also harmed Walker in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Executive, Governor\nIn the end, Walker was ultimately defeated by Democrat Tony Evers by a narrow one percent margin, ending 8 years of unified Republican control of the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Executive, Governor\nOther candidates included Libertarian Phil Anderson and Independent Maggie Turnbull.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Executive, Lieutenant Governor\nFormer State Representative Mandela Barnes defeated incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, who had served since 2010, and Libertarian Patrick Baird. Barnes became Wisconsin's first African-American Lieutenant Governor, and the second African-American ever elected to state office in Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Administrative, Attorney General\nRepublican incumbent Brad Schimel, first elected in 2014, ran for re-election to a second term. Voting rights attorney and former federal prosecutor Josh Kaul, the Democratic nominee, defeated Schimel in the general election. Terry Larson, the Constitution Party nominee, also garnered around 2% of the vote, greater than the vote difference between Schimel and Kaul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Administrative, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Democrat Doug La Follette, first elected in 1982 (and also serving from 1975 to 1979), won re-election to a tenth non-consecutive term. Madison Alderwoman Arvina Martin challenged La Follette in the Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 67], "content_span": [68, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Administrative, Secretary of State\nJay Schroeder was nominated in the Republican primary to run against La Follette, pledging to abolish the position if elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 67], "content_span": [68, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Administrative, Secretary of State\nLibertarian sports announcer Rich Reynolds declared his candidacy for the position as well, joining the \"TeamGuv\" bill with Phil Anderson and Patrick Baird.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 67], "content_span": [68, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Administrative, Treasurer\nEarlier in the year, a referendum had been held on whether or not to abolish the State Treasurer office, a move that Wisconsin voters rejected by a margin of more than 20 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Administrative, Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican Matt Adamczyk, first elected in 2014, chose not to run for reelection. Sarah Godlewski, the Democratic nominee, defeated Republican Travis Hartwig in the general.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Legislature, State Senate\nTwo special elections had been held earlier in the year for the 1st and 10th districts. Both races were won by Democrats, despite the respective districts\u2019 usual Republican leanings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Legislature, State Senate\nThe 17 odd-numbered districts out of the 33 seats in the Wisconsin Senate were up for election in 2018, including the 1st district. In total, Republicans had 10 seats up for election, while Democrats had 7. Andr\u00e9 Jacque was able to win back the 1st district seat for Republicans from Democrat Caleb Frostman, who had defeated him in the June special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Legislature, State Senate\nAt the start of 2018, the senate had a composition of 18 Republicans and 13 Democrats with 2 vacancies. The net result of all 2018 state senate elections was a gain of 1 seat for both parties. When compared to the 2016 general election, however, the Republican majority was reduced from 20 to 13 (60.6%) to 19-14 (57.6%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Legislature, State Assembly\nAll 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly were up for election in 2018. There were also two special elections for three Assembly vacancies during the course of 2018. Republicans lost one seat to the Democrats in the 2018 general election, resulting a 63-36 seat Republican majority going into the 2019-2020 session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Judiciary, State Supreme Court\nThere was an election for Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2018 to replace the retiring Justice Michael Gableman. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Rebecca Dallet defeated Sauk County Circuit Judge Michael Screnock. Madison attorney Tim Burns did not advance from the February primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Judiciary, State Court of Appeals\nTwo seats on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals were up for election in 2018, but both seats were uncontested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 66], "content_span": [67, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Judiciary, State Circuit Courts\nFifty three of the state's 249 circuit court seats were up for election in 2018. Eleven of those seats were contested. Only one incumbent was defeated seeking re-election, Shaughnessy Murphy\u2014an appointee of Governor Scott Walker in the Eau Claire Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, State, Constitutional Amendment\nIn the Spring election, Wisconsin voters strongly rejected an amendment to the Constitution of Wisconsin which would have abolished the office of State Treasurer of Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, Post-Election, Accusations of Gerrymandering\nIn the weeks following the election, Wisconsin's legislative districts came under wide scrutiny as an example of gerrymandering due to the fact that while Republicans won a fairly wide majority in the Wisconsin State Assembly, the Democrats garnered nearly 9 percent more of the overall statewide vote. In addition, Wisconsin was notable for being the only state in the 2018 elections where Republicans won a majority of the state's seats in the U.S. House while Democrats won a majority of the overall votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 70], "content_span": [71, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, Post-Election, Lame Duck Legislative Session\nEarly in December 2018, a special legislative session was called by outgoing Governor Scott Walker to pass a series of bills to limit the powers of Governor-elect Tony Evers, whom Walker had lost to in the election, as well as incoming State attorney general Josh Kaul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 70], "content_span": [71, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, Post-Election, Lame Duck Legislative Session\nOther bills being considered included restrictions on early voting and the passage of Medicaid work requirements, which Walker had previously held off on due to the election. A similar law restricting early voting that was passed several years prior had been ruled as unconstitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 70], "content_span": [71, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283759-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin elections, Post-Election, Lame Duck Legislative Session\nThe bills were widely denounced by Democrats and others as a \u201cpower grab.\u201d Congresswoman Gwen Moore of Wisconsin's 4th district described the move as a \u201ccoup\u201d that \u201chijacked the voters\u2019 will.\u201d Lawsuits were filed by Evers and various labor unions almost immediately after Walker signed the bills into law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 70], "content_span": [71, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018. It occurred concurrently with a Senate election in the state, elections to the state's U.S. House seats, and various other elections. Incumbent Republican Governor Scott Walker sought re-election to a third term, and was challenged by Democratic candidate and then-Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers, as well as Libertarian Phil Anderson and independent Maggie Turnbull. Evers, along with his running mate Mandela Barnes, managed to defeat Walker and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch in a closely fought and widely watched race, ending unified Republican control of the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nThe result was considered \"too close to call\" on election night, with Walker and Evers being separated by a mere few hundred votes for much of the night as counties reported their results. Shortly after midnight on November 7, Milwaukee County reported around 46,000 late absentee ballots. From those late ballots, Evers received 38,674 votes, or 84% of the total, and Walker 7,181, giving Evers a decisive lead. The race was called for him shortly after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nWisconsin was the only state in the 2018 gubernatorial election cycle to elect a Democratic governor while voting more Republican than the national average. With a margin of 1.1%, this election was also the second-closest race of the 2018 gubernatorial election cycle, behind only the election in Florida. Walker was one of two Republican incumbent governors to be defeated for re-election in 2018, the other being Bruce Rauner in neighboring Illinois, who had lost decisively to J.B. Pritzker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Governor\nThe primary election for the Democratic nomination featured a crowded field of candidates. The race was ultimately won by Tony Evers with around 40% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Governor, Polling\nAn asterisk (*) denotes that a candidate withdrew before the primary but remains on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Lieutenant Governor\nMandela Barnes, a former state representative from Milwaukee, defeated opponent Kurt Kober by a 2 to 1 margin for the nomination, becoming the first African American to be nominated by a major party for a Wisconsin gubernatorial ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, General election\nDespite the fact that Scott Walker had won three prior races for Governor in 2010, 2012, and 2014 by fairly comfortable margins, his bid for a third term was complicated by rising unpopularity due to his policies concerning public education and infrastructure. Walker also faced backlash for a deal his administration made with Taiwanese company Foxconn in 2017 to create jobs in the state in exchange for around $4.5 billion in taxpayer subsidies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, General election\nIn 2018, the deal resulted in around $90 million of funding for roads being diverted to a stretch of I-94 that was set to be near a future Foxconn plant from the rest of state. The poor condition of many roads around the state as well as the lack of work being done to redo them prompted a campaign where potholes were being labeled as \u201cScott\u201d-holes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, General election\nWalker's approval ratings were hobbled further by the unpopularity of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump in Wisconsin. Walker himself sounded the alarm on this several times in early 2018 after Democrats won two special elections to the Wisconsin State Senate in typically Republican districts and an election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. In April 2018, Walker warned that Wisconsin was \u201cat risk of a blue wave\u201c in November. The Walker campaign generally focused on promoting the popular parts of his record, such as a freeze on tuition at public universities and record low unemployment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, General election\nThe result was expected to be close, with a record $93 million spent on the race by the two major campaigns and special interest groups from in and out of the state. In the end, Walker was ultimately defeated by Democrat Tony Evers, who garnered a slightly more than 1% margin of victory, as Democrats swept every statewide race up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Aftermath\nDespite the close result, Scott Walker was unable to request a recount due to a law he had signed himself two years prior, which requires the margin of difference to be within 1%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Aftermath, Lame duck legislative session\nEarly in December 2018, a special legislative session was called by Walker to pass a series of bills to limit the powers of Governor-elect Evers, as well as incoming Democratic State attorney general Josh Kaul who had defeated incumbent Brad Schimel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Aftermath, Lame duck legislative session\nOther bills being considered included restrictions on early voting and the passage of Medicaid work requirements, which Walker had previously held off on due to the election. A similar law restricting early voting that was passed several years prior had been ruled as unconstitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283760-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Aftermath, Lame duck legislative session\nThe bills were widely denounced by Democrats and others as a \u201cpower grab.\u201d Congresswoman Gwen Moore described the move as a \u201ccoup\u201d that \u201chijacked the voters\u2019 will.\u201d Walker and other Republicans meanwhile argued that the bills were necessary \u201dchecks on power\u201d and that they did not actually strip any real powers from the executive. Lawsuits were filed by Evers and various labor unions almost immediately after Walker signed the bills into law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283761-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wofford Terriers football team\nThe 2018 Wofford Terriers football team represented Wofford College in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Josh Conklin and played their home games at Gibbs Stadium. They were a member of the Southern Conference. They finished the season 9\u20134, 6\u20132 in SoCon play to finish in a tie for the SoCon championship alongside East Tennessee State and Furman. They received the automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they defeated Elon in the first round before losing in the second round to Kennesaw State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283761-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wofford Terriers football team, Previous season\nThe Terriers finished the 2017 season 10\u20133, 7\u20131 in SoCon play to win the SoCon championship. They received the SoCon's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Furman in the second round before losing in the quarterfinals to North Dakota State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283761-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wofford Terriers football team, Previous season\nOn December 13, 2017, head coach Mike Ayers announced his retirement. He finished at Wofford with a 30-year record of 207\u2013139\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283761-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wofford Terriers football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll\nThe SoCon released their preseason media poll on July 25, 2018, with the Terriers predicted to finish in third place. The same day the coaches released their preseason poll with the Terriers predicted to finish in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283761-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wofford Terriers football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll, Preseason All-SoCon Teams\nThe Terriers placed nine players at ten positions on the preseason all-SoCon teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283762-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Woking Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Woking Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect one third of members to Woking Borough Council in England coinciding with other local elections held across much of England. Elections in each ward are held in three years out of four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283762-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Woking Borough Council election\nWoking was one of the boroughs subject to a trial of voter ID restrictions requiring the production of photographic ID or 2 other forms of ID.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283762-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Woking Borough Council election, Results\nThe Conservatives lost one seat to the Liberal Democrats, with Mount Hermon councillor Mark Pengelly losing by a margin of just 17 votes to Liam Lyons, who had been defeated by Pengelly two years earlier. The Conservatives also failed to win their target seats of Byfleet and St John's by narrow margins, and came within 10 votes of losing in Goldsworth Park, although they held their seats in Horsell, Knaphill, Heathlands and Pyrford with very large majorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283762-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Woking Borough Council election, Results\nThe result meant that the Tory majority over all other parties on the council reduced from four to two, so the Conservatives still maintained overall control as they have done since 2007, counting a short period of minority administration. Despite polling 3.2% in the all-out council elections in 2016, the Green Party did not field candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283762-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Woking Borough Council election, Results, Ward by ward\nSuccessful incumbents are marked with a green tick: Y, defeated incumbents with a red cross: N", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283763-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wokingham Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Wokingham Borough Council election took place on Thursday 3 May 2018. That was the same day as other United Kingdom local elections in order to elect members of Wokingham Unitary Council in Berkshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed comfortably in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283763-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wokingham Borough Council election, Background\nA total of 60 candidates contested the 18 seats which were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283763-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wokingham Borough Council election, Background\nSince the last round of elections, there had been 1 by-election in Emmbrook in 2017, which was won by the Liberal Democrats. Also, 2 Councillors had left the Conservatives, with one joining the Liberal Democrats and one standing as an Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283763-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wokingham Borough Council election, Election result\nThe Conservatives retained control of the council. The Liberal Democrats held two out of the three seats they defended, retaining their seats in Emmbrook and Winnersh, but lost a seat in South Lake to the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats gained 2 seats in both Hawkedon and Evendons. Labour gained 2 seats in Bulmershe and Whitegates & Norreys. The Conservatives gained 1 seat in South Lake, but lost 4 seats in Evendons, Norreys, Bulmershe & Whitegates and Hawkedon. 1 seat was held by an Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283763-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wokingham Borough Council election, Election result\nThere were a total of 40,551 votes cast, including 120 spoiled ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283764-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wolffkran Open\nThe 2018 Wolffkran Open was a professional tennis tournament played on carpet courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ismaning, Germany between 15 and 21 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283764-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wolffkran Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283764-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wolffkran Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283765-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wolffkran Open \u2013 Doubles\nMarin and Tomislav Draganja were the defending champions but only Tomislav chose to defend his title, partnering Nikola \u010ca\u010di\u0107. Tomislav Draganja lost in the quarterfinals to Rameez Junaid and David Pel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283765-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wolffkran Open \u2013 Doubles\nPurav Raja and Antonio \u0160an\u010di\u0107 won the title after defeating Junaid and Pel 5\u20137, 6\u20134, [10\u20135] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283766-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wolffkran Open \u2013 Singles\nYannick Hanfmann was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283766-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wolffkran Open \u2013 Singles\nFilippo Baldi won the title after defeating Gleb Sakharov 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283767-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's African Volleyball Clubs Championship\nThe 2018 Women's African Volleyball Clubs Championship was the 29th edition of the tournament organized by the African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB). It took place between 4 and 15 of March and was held in Cairo, Egypt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283767-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's African Volleyball Clubs Championship\nCF de Carthage started the competition as defending champions and reached the finals, where they were defeated 3\u20130 by Al Ahly SC. It was the ninth time Al Ahly won the Women's African Volleyball Clubs Championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283767-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's African Volleyball Clubs Championship, Group stage\nGroup winners and runners-up advance to the quarterfinals, groups thirds and fourths advance to the 8th\u201316th quarterfinals and groups fifth placed teams advance to the 17th\u201319th play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 63], "content_span": [64, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283768-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Asian Champions Trophy\nThe 2018 Women's Asian Champions Trophy was the fifth edition of the Women's Asian Champions Trophy, a field hockey tournament for the five best Asian women's national field hockey teams organized by the Asian Hockey Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283768-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Asian Champions Trophy\nThe tournament was held in Donghae, South Korea. The top five Asian teams (China, India, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia) participated in the tournament which involved a round-robin tournament among all teams followed by play-offs for the final positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283769-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Australian Hockey League\nThe 2018 Women's Australian Hockey League was the 26th edition of the women's field hockey tournament. The 2018 edition of the tournament was held between 6 \u2013 28 October, and featured a new format from previous editions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283769-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Australian Hockey League\nThe finals phase of the 2018 tournament was held in the Queensland city of the Gold Coast, from the 25 \u2013 28 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283769-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Australian Hockey League\nNSW Arrows won the tournament for the tenth time, after defeating the QLD Scorchers 7\u20136 in the gold medal match. Canberra Strikers won the bronze medal after defeating VIC Vipers 2\u20130 in a penalty shoot-out following a 4\u20134 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283769-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Competition Format\nUnlike previous editions of the Women's Australian Hockey League, the 2018 edition will include a very different format. Instead of the tournament being held at a single venue, the teams will play at least one home and away match during the pool stage, before converging on a singular venue for the Classification Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283769-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Competition Format\nThe teams will be divided into two Pool A and Pool B, both consisting of four teams, with each team playing each other once. The teams will then progress to the Classification round, with each team playing a qualifying match, before progressing to either the fifth to eighth place playoffs, or the first to fourth place playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283769-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations\nAs well as a new format, the 2018 AHL brought in new rule innovations from standard international hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283769-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations, Field Goal Conversions\nWhen a field goal is scored the same athlete will have an automatic one-on-one shootout with the goalkeeper for an extra goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283769-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations, Power Plays\nEach team possesses a five-minute Power Play to use at the end of either the second or fourth quarters, when teams are reduced to nine players each and where that team\u2019s goals are worth double.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283769-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations, Power Plays\nThe allocation of Power Plays will be decided by the team which wins a pre-game coin toss. For example, if the coin toss winner elects to take their Power Play at end of the fourth quarter, the opposition must use at theirs at the end of the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283769-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations, Power Plays\nIn the second and fourth quarters, the clock is initially set for 10 minutes, then re-set for a further five minutes for the Power Play. Play will re-commence with a centre pass taken by the team in possession of the Power Play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283769-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations, Point Allocation\nAll matches must have an outright result so drawn matches will be decided in a penalty shoot-out. Match points will be as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283769-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations, Point Allocation\n\u00b7 5 points for a win\u00b7 2 points to each team in the event of a draw\u00b7 1 point will be awarded to the winner of the shoot-out\u00b7 0 points to the loser of the match", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283769-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 155 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 6.46 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283770-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Bandy World Championship\nThe 2018 Women's Bandy World Championship was held in China, in the city of Chengde on 9\u201313 January 2018. This was the IXth Women's Bandy World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283770-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Bandy World Championship\nWhile the record number of participants in previous tournaments is 7, the organisers had thought out measures with the goal to attract 12 participating countries. However, in the end the number of teams were 8, including the debutants Estonia and Switzerland, while Canada declined this year. The matches were be played on naturally frozen ice on the lake at Chengde Mountain Resort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283770-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Bandy World Championship\nSweden and Russia met for the ninth time of nine possible in the final. For the eighth time Sweden won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283771-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Bandy World Championship squads\nBelow are the squads for the 2018 Women's Bandy World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283772-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Baseball World Cup\nThe 2018 Women's Baseball World Cup was the 8th edition of the WBSC Women's Baseball World Cup, the biennial international women's baseball world championship tournament. The competition was held in Viera, Florida in the United States from August 22 to August 31, 2018. The 2018 tournament was the first time that the United States hosted the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283772-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Baseball World Cup, Qualification\nIn September 2017, the Baseball Federation of Asia held the first Women\u2019s Baseball Asian Cup, a biennial tournament to be held in odd years and serve as a qualifying tournament for the Women\u2019s Baseball World Cup. Six teams competed in the 2017 tournament, from Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Pakistan, and South Korea. Japan won all five of their games to win the tournament and qualify for the World Cup. Chinese Taipei (2nd place), South Korea (3rd place), and Hong Kong (4th place) also qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283772-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Baseball World Cup, Teams\nFor 2016, the number of qualifying teams grew from eight for its 6th edition in 2014 to twelve teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283773-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Basketball Invitational\nThe 2018 Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) was a single-elimination tournament consisting of 16 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament or 2018 Women's National Invitation Tournament. The 2018 field was announced on March 13. First round WBI games occurred on March 14 and 15; second-round games were played on March 19 and 20. The tournament semifinals were held March 23 and 24, and the 2018 WBI Championship game was held on March 29. Yale defeated Central Arkansas, 54-50, to become WBI champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283774-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Beach Handball World Championships\nThe 2018 Women's Beach Handball World Championships were the eighth edition of the tournament, held at Kazan, Russia from 24 to 29 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283774-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Beach Handball World Championships\nGreece won the title on their first ever participation, defeating Norway in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283774-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Beach Handball World Championships, Draw\nThe draw was held on 15 May 2018 at Kazan, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 53], "content_span": [54, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283774-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Beach Handball World Championships, Main round, Group I\nPoints obtained against teams from the same group were carried over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283774-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Beach Handball World Championships, Main round, Group II\nPoints obtained against teams from the same group were carried over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open\nThe 2018 Ricoh Women's British Open was played from 2\u20135 August in England at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club Golf Links in Lancashire. It was the 43rd Women's British Open, the 18th as a major championship on the LPGA Tour, and the fifth at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open\nGeorgia Hall of England shot a final round 67 (\u22125) to win by two strokes over runner-up Pornanong Phatlum, the 54-hole leader. It was her first major title and she was the first British winner since Catriona Matthew in 2009. It was also the first win on tour (LPGA Tour or Ladies European Tour) for the 22-year-old Hall, the first English winner of the championship in 14 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open\nThe event was televised by Golf Channel and NBC Sports in the United States and Sky Sports in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Course layout\nPrevious lengths of the course for the Women's British Open (since 2001):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\nThe field was 144 players, and most earned exemptions based on past performance on the Ladies European Tour, the LPGA Tour, previous major championships, or with a high ranking in the Women's World Golf Rankings. The rest of the field earned entry by successfully competing in qualifying tournaments open to any female golfer, professional or amateur, with a low handicap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\nThere were 18 exemption categories for the 2018 Women's British Open:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n1. The top 15 finishers (and ties) from the 2017 Women's British Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\nJodi Ewart Shadoff, Shanshan Feng (10), Georgia Hall (9), In-Kyung Kim (10,11), Kim Hyo-joo (10,12), Caroline Masson, Anna Nordqvist (10,12), Inbee Park (2,10,11,12), Lizette Salas (10), Jenny Shin, Michelle Wie (2,10,12), Angel Yin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n2. The top 10 Ladies European Tour members in the Women's World Golf Rankings not exempt under (1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\nAditi Ashok (5), Carlota Ciganda (5,10), Sandra Gal (5), Charley Hull (5,10), Pernilla Lindberg (5,8,12), Azahara Mu\u00f1oz (5), Su-Hyun Oh (5), Madelene Sagstr\u00f6m (5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n3. The top 30 LPGA Tour members in the Women's World Golf Rankings not exempt under (1) as of 3 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\nMarina Alex, Brittany Altomare, Chella Choi, Chun In-gee (10,12), Jacqui Concolino, Lindy Duncan, Austin Ernst, Nasa Hataoka (8,10), Brooke Henderson (8,10,12), Wei-Ling Hsu, Mi Jung Hur, Ji Eun-hee (8,10), Ariya Jutanugarn (8,10,11,12), Moriya Jutanugarn (8,10), Danielle Kang (10,12), Cristie Kerr (10), Kim Sei-young (8,10), Katherine Kirk, Ko Jin-young (8,10), Lydia Ko (8,10,12), Jessica Korda (8,10), Nelly Korda, Lee Mi-hyang, Minjee Lee (8,10), Mirim Lee, Brittany Lincicome (8,12), Park Sung-hyun (8,10,12), Ryu So-yeon (8,10,12), Jennifer Song, Amy Yang (10)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n4. The top 25 on the current LET money list not exempt under (1) or (2) as of 3 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\nRebecca Artis, Silvia Ba\u00f1\u00f3n, C\u00e9line Boutier (5,8), Ashleigh Buhai (5,8), Katie Burnett, Lynn Carlsson, Holly Clyburn, Olivia Cowan, Casey Danielson, Julia Engstr\u00f6m, Jenny Haglund (8), Caroline Hedwall, Kylie Henry, Noem\u00ed Jim\u00e9nez Mart\u00edn, Valdis Thora Jonsdottir, Sarah Kemp, Karolin Lampert, Camilla Lennarth, Lin Xiyu, Meghan MacLaren (8), Florentyna Parker, Marianne Skarpnord, Kl\u00e1ra Spilkov\u00e1, Anne Van Dam, Astrid Vayson de Pradenne (8), Christine Wolf", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n5. The top 40 on the current LPGA Tour money list not exempt under (1) or (3) as of 3 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\nNicole Broch Larsen, Laura Davies, Hannah Green, Jaye Marie Green, Caroline Inglis, Megan Khang, Bronte Law, Lee Jeong-eun, Yu Liu, Mo Martin (11), Ally McDonald, Wichanee Meechai, Amy Olson, Ryann O'Toole, Annie Park (8), Park Hee-young, Jane Park, Pornanong Phatlum, Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong, Sarah Jane Smith, Mariah Stackhouse, Angela Stanford, Emma Talley, Kris Tamulis, Ayako Uehara, Mariajo Uribe, Sakura Yokomine", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n6. The top five on the current LPGA of Japan Tour (JLPGA) money list not exempt under (1), (2), (3), or (12) as of 3 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\nAhn Sun-ju, Mamiko Higa, Misuzu Narita, Eri Okayama, Phoebe Yao", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n7. The top two on the current LPGA of Korea Tour (KLPGA) money list not exempt under (1), (2), (3), or (6) as of 3 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n8. Winners of any recognised LET or LPGA Tour events in the calendar year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n9. Winners of the 2017 LET, LPGA, JLPGA and KLPGA money lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n10. The top 30 in the Women's World Golf Rankings, not exempt above as of 3 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n11. Winners of the Women's British Open, under age 60, provided they are still active.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n12. Winners of the last five editions of the U.S. Women's Open, ANA Inspiration, and Women's PGA Championship, and The Evian Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n13. Winner of the 2017 Japan LPGA Tour Championship Ricoh Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n14. The leading five LPGA Tour members in the 2018 Marathon Classic who have entered the Championship and who are not otherwise exempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n15. The leading three LET members in the 2018 Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open, who have entered the Championship and who are not otherwise exempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n16. The 2018 Women's Amateur Asia-Pacific champion, 2018 British Ladies Amateur champion, 2017 U.S. Women's Amateur champion, 2017 European Ladies Amateur Championship champion, winner or next available player in the 2017 GB&I Order of Merit, and the Mark H. McCormack Medal holder provided they are still amateurs at the time of the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\n17. Any players granted special exemptions from qualifying by the Championship Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Field\nQualifiers: Laetitia Beck, Tonje Daffinrud, Ludovica Farina (a), Cloe Frankish, Rachael Goodall, Linn Grant (a), Lydia Hall, Tiffany Joh, Haeji Kang, Frida Kinhult (a), Brittany Marchand, Inci Mehmet, Hollie Muse (a), Robynn Ree, Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras, Sideri Vanova, Ursula Wikstr\u00f6m", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283775-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open, Round summaries, First round\nMinjee Lee shot a 7-under-par 65 to lead by one stroke over Mamiko Higa. Defending champion In-Kyung Kim shot a 1-under-par 71.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283776-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's British Open Squash Championship\nThe Women's Allam British Open 2018 is the women's edition of the 2018 British Open Squash Championships, which is a 2017\u201318 PSA World Tour event (Prize money\u00a0: 165,000 $). The event took place at the Airco Arena in Hull in England from 13 to 20 May. Nour El Sherbini won her second British Open trophy, beating Raneem El Weleily in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283777-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Challenge Cup\nThe 2018 RFL Women's Challenge Cup was an English rugby league knockout tournament competed for by 21 teams during the summer of 2018. The competition was won by Leeds Rhinos who beat Castleford Tigers 20\u201314 in the final at the Halliwell Jones Stadium on 4 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283777-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Second round\nThe second round ties were all played on 3 June. The shock result of the round was the home defeat of the cup holders, Bradford Bulls, by newly formed team Castleford Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283777-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals of the Cup were made on 6 June. Ties were played on 1 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283777-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Semi-finals\nThe draw for the semi-finals was made on 3 July and ties were played 15 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283777-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Challenge Shield\nThe eight losing teams in the second round entered into a secondary competition, the Challenge Shield. The Shield was won by Bradford Bulls who beat Stanningley 44\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283777-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Challenge Shield, Semi-finals\nThe draw was made on 3 July and the matches played on 15 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283777-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Finals\nThe finals of both competitions were played as a doubleheader at Warrington Wolves' Halliwell Jones stadium on Saturday 4 August 2018. In conjunction with broadcasters Proper Sport and BBC Sport the games were streamed live.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283777-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Finals, Final\nTeams: Castleford Tigers: Backs: Tara-Jane Stanley, Maisie Burton, Courtney Pointon, Lacey Owen, Kelsey Gentles, Georgie Hetherington, Olivia Grace, Lucy Eastwood Forwards: Lucy Eastwood, Sinaed Peach, Jasmine Rowley, Katie Hepworth (c), Beth Weir, Georgia RocheInterchanges: Jasmine Cudjoe, Tamzin Renouf, Grace Field, Emma Lumley, Marie Colley, Katie Tordoff, Shannelle Mannion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283777-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Finals, Final\nLeeds Rhinos:Backs: Charlotte Booth, Suze Hill, Sophie Nuttall, Sophie Robinson, Caitlin Beevers, Hanna Butcher, Courtney HillForwards: Amy Johnson, Lois Forsell (c), Danielle Anderson, Aimee Staveley, Manina Spurr, Shannon LacyInterchanges: Frankie Townend, Madison Laverick, Chloe Kerrigan, Rhiannon Marshall, Ellie Oldroyd", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283777-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Finals, Challenge Shield\nTeams: Bradford Bulls: Backs: Leah Jones, Adara Telemacque, Savannah Andrade, Jess Courtman, Becky Conlon, Danielle Bose, Amy Boardman Forwards: Lauren Hickey, Chrissi Nettleton, Vicky Rhodes, Shona Hoyle, Heather McDonald, Reegan Walker Interchanges: Hayley Hields, Memphis Jubb, Stacey Greenwood, Stacey Wilson, Amy Hardcastle, Kirsty Maroney (c), Beth Sutcliffe", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283777-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Finals, Challenge Shield\nStanningley: Backs: Hayley Fielding, Allana Walker, Sophie Bickerdyke, Elychia Watson, Lauren Waller, Chloe Wainwright-Morley, Laura Dyson Forwards: Rachael Barker, Grace Ramsden, Lyndsey Cunnett, Jodie Davies (c), Olivia Wood, Demi Fisher Interchanges: Markelle Morgan, Louise Travers, Loren Gregory, Leanne May", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283778-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's County Championship\nThe 2018 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 22nd cricket Women's County Championship season. It ran from the beginning of May to the beginning of June and saw 33 county teams and teams representing Scotland, Wales and the Netherlands compete in a series of divisions. Hampshire Women won the County Championship as winners of the top division with Yorkshire finishing runners-up. The Championship was Hampshire's first and was achieved in their first season in the top division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283778-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's County Championship\nThe tournament was followed by the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup and then by the 2018 Women's Cricket Super League, a professional tournament competed for by franchise teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283778-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's County Championship, Competition format\nTeams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned County Champions. Matches were played using a one day format with 50 overs per side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283778-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's County Championship, Competition format\nThe championship works on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the average points of completed games. Points were awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283778-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's County Championship, Competition format\nWin: 10 points + bonus points. Tie: 5 points + bonus points. Loss : Bonus points. Abandoned or cancelled: Match not counted to average. Conceded: -5 points for the side conceding, 10 points for their opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283778-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's County Championship, Competition format\nBonus points are collected for batting and bowling. The bonus points for each match are retained if the match is completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283778-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's County Championship, Teams\nThe 2018 Championship was divided into three divisions: Division One and Division Two with eight teams each, and Division Three with 20 teams divided into five groups of four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283778-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's County Championship, Teams\nTeams in Division One and Two played each other once, while teams in each group of Division Three played each other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283778-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's County Championship, Division Three, Promotion Play-offs\nEach of the teams finishing first in the groups in Division Three qualified for a series of promotion play-offs along with Essex who finished sixth in Division Two. The three winning sides will play in Division Two in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 69], "content_span": [70, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283779-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Cricket Super League\nThe 2018 Women's Cricket Super League, or 2018 Kia Super League for sponsorship reasons, was the third season of the Women's Cricket Super League (WCSL), the semi-professional women's cricket competition in England and Wales. The competition, run by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), consisted of six franchise teams playing in a Twenty20 format. Western Storm were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283779-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Cricket Super League\nSurrey Stars won the competition, defeating Loughborough Lightning by 66 runs in the final. Smriti Mandhana, an Indian player for Western Storm, was named player of the tournament, after she finished as the tournament's top run-scorer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283779-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Cricket Super League, Competition format\nSix teams competed for the T20 title which took place between 22 July and 27 August 2018. The six teams played each other twice in a round robin format, with the top three teams progressing to a Finals Day at the County Ground, Hove.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283780-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup\nThe 2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the third edition of the Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, an annual European beach soccer championship for women's national teams, organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW). The event was revealed on 28 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283780-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup\nSix nations took part in a three-day competition, hosted in the same location as the 2017 edition, Nazar\u00e9, Portugal, between 6 and 8 July, alongside stage 2 of the men's 2018 Euro Beach Soccer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283780-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup\nEngland were the defending champions, but failed to progress pass the group stage, ultimately finishing in fourth place. The championship was claimed by Russia, who won the title at their first attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283780-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Teams\nAll six teams from the previous edition returned, except for Greece, who were replaced by Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283780-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Venue\nAll matches took place at the Est\u00e1dio do Viveiro on Praia de Nazar\u00e9 (Nazar\u00e9 Beach).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283780-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Venue\nThe stadium had recently been undergoing redevelopment, increasing its capacity from 1,600 to 2,200. However, one part of the stadium was still awaiting upgrades, meaning the new capacity figure was yet to be fully reached.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283780-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Draw\nThe draw took place on June 12, 2018, at BSWW's headquarters in Barcelona. The six teams were split into two groups of three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283780-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Draw\nTwo teams were seeded and automatically allocated to the groups: England, as reigning champions, were allocated to position A1 and Switzerland, as runners up in the last edition, were allocated to B1. The unseeded nations were then drawn to accompany them in the two groups, with placement of the nations alternating back and forth between Groups A and B as each team was drawn out in turn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283780-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Group stage\nThe teams compete in a round robin format. The winners of the groups proceed to contest the final. The respective group runners-up and third placed nations play each other in consolation matches to decide third through sixth place in the final standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283780-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Group stage\nMatches are listed as local time in Nazar\u00e9, WEST (UTC+1)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283781-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup\nThe 2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup was the third edition of the Women's Euro Winners Cup (WEWC), an annual continental beach soccer tournament for women's top-division European clubs. The championship is the sport's version of the UEFA Women's Champions League in association football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283781-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup\nOrganised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the tournament was held in Nazar\u00e9, Portugal from 28 May till 3 June 2018, in tandem with the larger men's edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283781-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup\nThe event began with a round robin group stage. At its conclusion, the best teams progressed to the knockout stage, a series of single elimination games to determine the winners, starting with the Round of 16 and ending with the final. Consolation matches were also played to determine other final rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283781-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup\nHavana Shots Aargau of Switzerland were the defending champions, but were knocked out in the quarter-finals by WFC Zvezda of Russia, ultimately finishing in 8th place. WFC Zvezda went on to win their first title, beating Portsmouth Ladies of the England in the final, Pompey's second runners-up finish in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283781-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Teams\n20 teams entered the tournament \u2013 all of whom enter straight into the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283781-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Teams, Qualification\nAs per BSWW regulations, qualification for the 2018 WEWC is achieved as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283781-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Venues\nThree venues were used in one host city: Nazar\u00e9, Leiria District, Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283781-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Squads\nEach club must submit a squad of a maximum of 12 players that includes a minimum of two goalkeepers. Players are to be assigned shirt numbers between 1 and 22 (the number 1 must be reserved for a goalkeeper). Three delegates must accompany the players, including at least one medical personnel. A maximum of three foreign players are allowed to be part of the squad. This was later increased to four, however a maximum of three of these players are permitted to play in a match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283781-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Draw\nThe draw for the group stage took place on May 9 at 12:00 local time in Nazar\u00e9, Portugal at the Biblioteca Municipal de Nazar\u00e9 (Nazar\u00e9 Public Library), conducted by the Mayor of Nazar\u00e9, Walter Chicharro, PFP Director Pedro Dias, BSWW Deputy Vice-President, Gabino Renales and BSWW Head of Competitions, Josep Ponset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283781-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Draw\nThe BSWW organising committee decided to split the 20 teams into five groups of four, conducting the draw as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283781-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Knockout stage\nThe top three clubs from each group, plus the best fourth placed team advance to the Round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283781-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Knockout stage\nIn the knockout stage, the clubs compete in single-elimination matches. Consolation matches are also played to determine the final rankings involving the clubs knocked out of each round of the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283782-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy\nThe 2018 Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy was the 42nd edition of the women's Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy, Europe's secondary club field hockey tournament organized by the EHF. It was held from 18 to 21 May 2018 at Monkstown Hockey Club in D\u00fan Laoghaire\u2013Rathdown, Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283782-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy\nHolcombe won the tournament after defeating Junior 4\u20132 in penalties after the final finished a 1\u20131 draw. Grodno finished third, after defeating Krylatskoye 5\u20134 in the third place playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283783-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship\nThe 2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship was the 19th edition of the tournament. It took place from 19 to 21 January 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283783-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship, Results, Second round, Pool C\nThe result between the teams from the same preliminary round pool were carried over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283784-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II\nThe 2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II was the 12th edition of the tournament. It was held from 19 to 21 January 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283784-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II\nBelgium won the tournament for the first time after topping the pool. Along with Belgium, Austria qualified to the 2020 EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship as the two highest ranked teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283784-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II, Qualified Teams\nThe following teams, shown with pre-tournament world rankings, participated in the 2018 EuroHockey Indoor Championship II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283784-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II, Statistics, Final standings\nAs per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283784-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 111 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 5.55 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283785-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Amateur Boxing Championships\nThe 2018 Women\u2019s European Boxing Championships was hosted and organized by the Bulgarian Boxing Association in Asics Arena, Sofia, Bulgaria in 2018. The event was held from 5 to 12 June 2018. The tournament was organized in association with the European Boxing Confederation (EUBC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283786-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Volleyball League\nThe 2018 Women's European Volleyball League is the 10th edition of the annual Women's European Volleyball League, which features women's national volleyball teams from 20 European countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283786-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Volleyball League\nUnlike previous seasons, the tournament will have two divisions: the Golden League, featuring twelve teams, and the Silver League, featuring eight teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283786-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Volleyball League\nIt also acts as the European qualifying competition for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup, securing two vacancies for the tournament that will then serve as the qualifying competition for the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283787-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship\nThe 2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship was held from 14 to 27 July 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283787-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship\nThe Netherlands won their fifth title by defeating Greece 6-4 in the final. Spain captured the bronze medal after a 12-6 win over Hungary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283787-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship, Qualification\nTwelve teams were allowed to the tournament. The qualification was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283787-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship, Format\nThe twelve teams were split in two groups with six teams each. The first four teams of each group played each other in the quarterfinals in cross group format, the remaining teams played for places nine to twelve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283787-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship, Draw\nThe draw of the tournament took take place on 7 March in Barcelona. The first batch consisted of the teams ranked 1st and 2nd in the 2016 European Championship, the second batch those placed 3rd and 4th, the third batch those placed 5th and 6th. The six remaining teams were placed into the fourth batch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 51], "content_span": [52, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283787-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship, Final ranking\nLaura Aarts, Maud Megens, Dagmar Genee (C), Sabrina van der Sloot, Iris Wolves, Nomi Stomphorst, Bente Rogge, Vivian Sevenich, Kitty-Lynn Joustra, Ilse Koolhaas, Rozanne Voorvelt, Brigitte Sleeking, Debby Willemsz. Head Coach: Arno Havenga", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283788-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers\n2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers are series of qualification tournaments to decide the participants of the 2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283788-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers, Qualified teams\nTeams directly qualified to the 2018 European Water Polo Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 73], "content_span": [74, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283788-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers, Playoffs\nFrom the qualification rond, six of the seven teams advance to the playoffs. These six teams will face the teams classified 7 to 12 in the latest edition of the tournament, the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 66], "content_span": [67, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283789-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship squads\nThis article shows all participating team squads at the 2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship, held in Spain from 14 to 27 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283790-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European championships international draughts\nThe 2018 Women's European championships of international draughts were held from 16 to 22 December in Moscow in main program and in superblitz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283790-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European championships international draughts\nThe winner was Matrena Nogovitsyna, silver was Natalia Shestakova and third was Elena Milshina (all from Russia).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283790-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European championships international draughts, Classic tournament, Rules and regulations\nParticipants played Swiss-system tournament with 9 rounds. To define the places with equal points used of Solkoff truncated coefficient. Time control was 1 hour 20 minutes plus a minute per move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 101], "content_span": [102, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283790-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European championships international draughts, Classic tournament, Participants\n47 participants from 8 countries, including, 8 international grandmasters, 11 international masters and 8 masters of the FMJD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 92], "content_span": [93, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283790-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European championships international draughts, Classic tournament, Participants\nGMIF \u2014 women's international grandmastersMIF \u2014 women's international mastersMFF \u2014 women's masters of the FMJD", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 92], "content_span": [93, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283790-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European championships international draughts, Superblitz tournament, Rules and regulations\nTo define the places with equal points used of Solkoff truncated coefficient.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 104], "content_span": [105, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283790-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European championships international draughts, Superblitz tournament, Rules and regulations\nTime control was 5 minutes plus 2 seconds per move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 104], "content_span": [105, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283790-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's European championships international draughts, Superblitz tournament, Rules and regulations\n39 participants from 4 countries, including, 4 international grandmasters, 7 international masters and 7 masters of the FMJD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 104], "content_span": [105, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283791-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Ford National Hockey League\nThe 2018 Women's Ford National Hockey League was the 20th edition of the women's field hockey tournament. The competition was held in Wellington, New Zealand between 9\u201323 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283791-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Ford National Hockey League\nNorth Harbour won the title for the 4th time, defeating Central 2\u20130 in the final. Midlands finished in third place after winning the third place match 1\u20130 over Auckland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283791-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Ford National Hockey League, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 115 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 3.59 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283792-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Four Nations Cup\nThe 2018 Women's Four Nations Cup was the eighth Hockey Four Nations Cup, an international women's field hockey tournament, consisting of a series of test matches. It was held in Germany, from July 11 to 14, 2018, and featured four of the top nations in women's field hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283792-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Four Nations Cup, Competition format\nThe tournament featured the national teams of Argentina, Netherlands, New Zealand, and the hosts, Germany, competing in a round-robin format, with each team playing each other once. Three points will be awarded for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283793-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Herald Sun Tour\nThe 2018 Women's Herald Sun Tour presented by Let's Go Motorhomes was a women's cycle stage race held in Australia from 30 to 31 January 2018. The 2018 edition was the inaugural edition of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283793-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Herald Sun Tour\nThe race was won by Brodie Chapman, riding for an Australian national team. Chapman soloed to victory in the opening stage, before maintaining her lead in the following day's time trial, won by world champion Annemiek van Vleuten (Mitchelton\u2013Scott). Van Vleuten finished second overall, five seconds down on Chapman, while the podium was completed by Chloe Hosking, 63 seconds behind for the Al\u00e9\u2013Cipollini team. Chapman won the mountains classification, Hosking was the winner of the sprints classification, while the Australian national team won the teams classification. Jeanne Korevaar of WaowDeals Pro Cycling won the other jersey, the white jersey, as winner of the young rider classification for under-23 riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283793-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Herald Sun Tour, Teams\n16 teams participated in the 2018 Women's Herald Sun Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283794-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy\nThe 2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 23rd and last edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy for women. It was held between 17 and 25 November 2018 in Changzhou, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283794-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy\nThe Netherlands won the tournament for the seventh time after defeating Australia 5\u20131 in the final, tying the record of seven titles previously set by Argentina in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283794-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy, Host city change\nWhen the FIH unveiled the event hosts for the 2015\u20132018 cycle, Argentina was chosen to host this tournament. However, in March 2016, the FIH had to terminate all contractual agreements with Argentina as the Argentine Hockey Confederation was unable to fulfil their contractual obligations in regards to television rights, sponsorship and the hosting of events. Changzhou was announced as the host instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283794-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy, Qualification\nAlongside the host nation, the defending champions, the last Olympic, World Cup and World League champions qualified automatically. The remaining spots were nominated by the FIH Executive Board, making a total of six competing teams. If teams qualified under more than once criteria, the additional teams were invited by the FIH Executive Board as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283794-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy, Statistics, Awards\nThe following individual awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283794-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 56 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 3.11 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283795-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy\nThe 2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy was the fifth edition of the women's field hockey tournament. The RaboTrophy was held in Breda from 26 to 30 June 2018, and featured four of the top nations in women's field hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283795-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy\nThe Netherlands won the tournament for the third time, defeating Japan 8\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283795-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy\nThe tournament was held in conjunction with the Men's FIH Champions Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283795-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy, Competition format\nThe four teams competed in a pool stage, played in a single round robin format. At the conclusion of the pool stage, the top two teams contested the final, while the remaining two competed for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283795-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy, Officials\nThe following umpires were appointed by the International Hockey Federation to officiate the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283795-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy, Statistics, Final standings\nAs per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283795-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 46 goals scored in 8 matches, for an average of 5.75 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283796-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey Sompo Cup\nThe 2018 Women's Hockey SOMPO CUP is the first Hockey SOMPO CUP, an international women's field hockey tournament, consisting of a series of test matches. It will be held in Japan, from September 12 to 16, 2018, and will feature four of the top nations in women's field hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283796-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey Sompo Cup, Competition format\nThe tournament featured the national teams of Australia, South Korea, United States, and the hosts, Japan, competing in a round-robin format, with each team playing each other once. Three points were be awarded for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283797-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey World Cup\nThe 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup was the 14th edition of the Women's Hockey World Cup, a field hockey tournament. It was held from 21 July to 5 August 2018 at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre in London, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283797-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey World Cup\nDefending champions the Netherlands won the tournament for a record eighth time after defeating Ireland 6\u20130 in the final, who claimed their first World Cup medal. Spain won the third place match by defeating Australia 3\u20131 to claim their first World Cup medal as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283797-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, Bidding\nIn March 2013, one month after the FIH published the Event Assignment Process Document for the 2014\u20132018 cycle, Australia, Belgium, England and New Zealand were shortlisted as candidates for hosting the event and were demanded to submit bidding documentation, requirement that eventually Belgium did not meet. In addition one month before the host election, Australia withdrew their application due to technical and financial reasons. England was announced as host on 7 November 2013 during a special ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283797-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, Venue\nAlso chosen to host the 2015 EuroHockey Nations Championship for men and women, the tournament will be held at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, England. This venue is part of the legacy from the 2012 Summer Olympics as the Riverbank Arena, where the field hockey events took place, which was scaled down and moved to its current location at Lee Valley Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283797-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, Qualification\nDue to the increase to 16 participating teams, the new qualification process was announced in July 2015 by the International Hockey Federation. Each of the continental champions from five confederations and the host nation received an automatic berth. In addition, the 10/11 highest placed teams at the Semifinals of the 2016\u201317 FIH Hockey World League not already qualified entered the tournament. The following sixteen teams, shown with final pre-tournament rankings, competed in this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283797-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, Format\nThe 16 teams were drawn into four groups, each containing four teams. Each team played each other team in its group once. The first-placed team in each group advanced to the quarterfinals, while the second- and third-placed teams in each group go into the crossover matches. From there on a single-elimination tournament was played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283797-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, Umpires\n15 umpires were appointed by the FIH for this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283797-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, Goalscorers\nThere were 126 goals scored in 36 matches, for an average of 3.5 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283798-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Hockey World Cup squads\nThis article lists the confirmed squads for the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup tournament to be held in London, England between 21 July and 5 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283799-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships\nThe 2018 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships was the 20th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Teams participated at several levels of competition. The competition also served as qualifications for the 2019 competition. For the 2018 program there was no relegation, only promotion, to raise the total at the top level up to ten nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283799-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Championship (Top Division)\nThe tournament was not held due to the 2018 Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283799-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division I, Group A\nThe Group A tournament was held in Vaujany, France, from 8 to 14 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283799-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division I, Group B\nThe Group B tournament was held in Asiago, Italy, from 8 to 14 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283799-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division II, Group A\nThe Group B tournament was held in Maribor, Slovenia, from 31 March to 6 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283799-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division II, Group B\nThe Group B tournament was held in Valdemoro, Spain, from 17 to 23 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283799-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division II, Division IIB Qualification\nThe Group B Qualification tournament was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 84], "content_span": [85, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283800-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Indoor Hockey World Cup\nThe 2018 Women's Indoor Hockey World Cup was the fifth edition of this tournament and played from 7 to 11 February 2018 in Berlin, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283800-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Indoor Hockey World Cup\nGermany defeated the Netherlands 2\u20131 in the final to win their third title, while Belarus secured their first medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283800-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Indoor Hockey World Cup, Umpires\n12 umpires were appointed by the FIH for this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283801-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's International Champions Cup\nThe 2018 International Champions Cup Women's Tournament was the first edition of a series of friendly women's association football matches. It took place from July 26 to 29, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283801-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's International Champions Cup\nFor the first time, the ICC included a women's tournament. Nearly a dozen of the regular ICC participant clubs expressed interest in sending their women's sides, but the inaugural women's tournament featured just four teams before expanding in the 2019 ICC. The 2018 tournament featured the semi-finals on July 26, followed by third place play-off and final on July 29, all four matches being held at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The European participants joined for training sessions at the University of Portland before the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283801-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's International Champions Cup, Teams\nFour teams participated in the tournament. English club Chelsea were originally scheduled to participate, but were later replaced by Lyon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283802-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's International Tournament of Spain\nThe 2018 Women's International Tournament of Spain was the 22nd edition of the Women's International Tournament Of Spain, held in Alicante, Spain between 23\u201325 November as a friendly handball tournament organised by the Royal Spanish Handball Federation as a preparation of the host nation to the 2018 European Women's Handball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283803-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Junior NORCECA Volleyball Championship\nThe 2018 Women's Junior NORCECA Volleyball Championship was the eleventh edition of the bi-annual tournament. It was held in Aguascalientes City from 16 June to 24 June, and featured eight teams. The United States won the tournament and qualified to the 2019 FIVB Women's Junior World Championship. American Logan Eggleston was awarded Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283803-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Junior NORCECA Volleyball Championship, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130: 5 points for the winner, 0 point for the loserMatch won 3\u20131: 4 points for the winner, 1 points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 3 points for the winner, 2 points for the loserIn case of equality in the number of matches won and lost, the tie will be broken according to the following criteria in order of importance:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 76], "content_span": [77, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283804-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Junior South American Volleyball Championship\nThe 2018 Women's Junior South American Volleyball Championship was the 24th edition of the tournament, organised by South America's governing volleyball body, the Confederaci\u00f3n Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV). The top two teams qualified for the 2019 Junior World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283804-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Junior South American Volleyball Championship, Competing nations\nThe following national teams participated in the tournament, teams were seeded according to how they finished in the previous edition of the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 77], "content_span": [78, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283805-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Junior World Handball Championship\nThe 2018 IHF Women's Junior World Championship was the 21st edition of the tournament and took place in Debrecen, Hungary from 1 to 14 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283805-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Junior World Handball Championship\nHungary won their first ever title by defeating Norway 28\u201322 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283805-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, Draw\nThe draw was held on 26 April 2018 at Basel, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 53], "content_span": [54, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283805-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, 9\u201316th placement games\nThe eight losers of the round of 16 will be seeded according to their results in the preliminary round against teams ranked 1\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283806-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's LEN Super Cup\nThe 2018 Women's LEN Super Cup was the 13th edition of the annual trophy organised by LEN and contested by the reigning champions of the two European competitions for women's water polo clubs. The match was played between Kinef Kirishi (2017\u201318 Euro League champions) and Duna\u00fajv\u00e1rosi FVE (winners of the 2017\u201318 LEN Trophy) at the Neftyanik Sports Complex in Kirishi, Russia, on 10 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283806-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's LEN Super Cup\nHungary's Duna\u00fajv\u00e1ros, at their debut in the competition, won the trophy recovering from a 4-goal gap during the last quarter and defeating after the shootouts the European champions and Super Cup title holders of Kinef at their home pool in Kirishi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283807-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's League1 Ontario season\nThe 2018 Women's League1 Ontario season was the fourth season of play for League1 Ontario, a Division 3 women's soccer league in the Canadian soccer pyramid and the highest level of soccer based in the Canadian province of Ontario. Durham United FA won the league championship after beating the previously undefeated FC London and Woodbridge Strikers in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283807-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's League1 Ontario season, Changes from 2017\nThe women's division grew from 11 to 13 teams, with the addition of women's side from the Oakville Blue Devils, as well as Hamilton United (representing the league's first entry from that city) and DeRo United FC (an academy run by former national team player Dwayne De Rosario). Sanjaxx Lions did not field a team in the women's division for this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283807-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's League1 Ontario season, Regular season\nEach team plays 12 matches as part of the season; one match against all other teams. The top four teams advance to the playoffs to determine the league champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283807-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's League1 Ontario season, Playoffs\nThe top four teams from the regular season earn entry into the playoffs, which consists of a single knockout phase containing two semifinals and a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283807-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's League1 Ontario season, Cup\nThe cup tournament is a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all thirteen teams from the women's division take part. It is not a form of playoffs at the end of the season (as is typically seen in North American sports), but is more like the Canadian Championship or the FA Cup, albeit only for League1 Ontario teams. All matches are separate from the regular season and are not reflected in the season standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 40], "content_span": [41, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283807-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's League1 Ontario season, Cup\nThe cup tournament is a single-match knockout tournament with four total rounds culminating in a final match in the start of August, with initial matchups determined by random draw. Each match in the tournament must return a result; any match drawn after 90 minutes will advance directly to kicks from the penalty mark instead of extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 40], "content_span": [41, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283807-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's League1 Ontario season, Statistics, Top goalkeepers\nUpdated to matches played on August 21, 2018. Minimum 360 minutes played. Source:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March\nThe 2018 Women's March was a global protest that occurred on January 20, 2018, on the anniversary of the 2017 Women's March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, About\nIn 2018, women's groups across the United States coordinated mass rallies, attracting hundreds of thousands of participants in hundreds of cities, towns, and suburbs. Events in the United States were accompanied by events in Canada, the UK, Japan, Italy, and several other countries. Some of the largest rallies in the United States were held in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Dallas, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Atlanta. The mission that the march is aimed towards is to gather the political power of diverse women and their communities to create a change in the society. They strive to break down the system of oppression with the means of nonviolent action lead by morality and reverence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, About\nBy January 2018, the #MeToo movement had become \"a galvanizing force at many of the rallies\". The march took place the day after the United States federal government shutdown of 2018 when Senators were unable to reach a \"compromise regarding a short-term spending bill or an immigration proposal\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Participation\nAround 250 marches, rallies, and actions took place on the anniversary of the 2017 Women's March, many coordinated by March On, the coalition of many of the Women's Marches across the country. Women's March Incorporated, a group of some of the women who organized the 2017 Women's March, organized a rally in Las Vegas under \"Power To The Polls. \".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Participation, Washington, D.C.\nIn Washington, D.C. thousands gathered at the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial, although the number of individuals who attended was lower than the previous year's march. Speakers included House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Participation, New York City\nMore than 200,000 people marched in the protest according to an official count by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Speakers included Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Padma Lakshmi, Amy Schumer, Laura Benanti, Amber Tamblyn, Patricia Arquette, Rosie Perez, Piper Perabo, Drew Barrymore, and singers Cyndi Lauper and Halsey", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Participation, Los Angeles\nLos Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti estimated that 600,000 marched in Los Angeles, California. Some women chanted, \"\u00a1S\u00ed, se puede!\" or \"Yes, we can!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Participation, Chicago\nIt's estimated that 300,000 people marched in Chicago, Illinois which grew since last year. Speakers included Democratic donor Tom Steyer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Participation, Philadelphia\nThousands attended the march. The city did not release an official number, but organizers unofficially estimated the crowd to be larger than fifty thousand, the number that marched in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Participation, Seattle\nThousands gathered at the Seattle's Capitol Hill to participate in the second annual Women's March. The march commenced at 10 a.m. at the Cal Anderson Park where Teresa Mosqueda addressed the marchers. U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal had planned to participate, but was hampered by the circumstances in Washington DC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Participation, North Carolina\nIn Charlotte, North Carolina, thousands participated in the march. The march commenced at First Ward Park and ended at the Romare Bearden Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Participation, New Hampshire\nOver one thousand individuals partook in the Women's March outside the New Hampshire Statehouse. Due to the circumstances in Washington DC., a few of the planned speakers were unable to show up, including Senator Maggie Hassan and Congresswoman Annie Kuster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Participation, Virginia\nIn Carytown in Richmond, the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, newly elected Governor Ralph Northam participated in the Women's March. The crowd of over 1,000 individuals broke into cheers when the governor donned a pink pussy hat and when a woman ran down the middle of the street carrying a pink flag with the word \"resist.\" Other large demonstrations were held throughout Virginia in resistance to the presidency of Donald Trump and comments concerning sexual harassment and immigration, as well as recently made administrative decisions regarding those topics made by Donald Trump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Participation, Mar-a-lago\nHundreds of protesters marched outside Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, although the President was not there as planned, due to the government shutdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Participation, Rome\nIt's estimated that thousands of people marched in Rome. Speakers included Asia Argento.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Participation, Las Vegas\nOn January 21, the organization Women's March Incorporated hosted a rally, Power to the Polls, in Las Vegas. The event highlighted their launch of the national voter registration tour to get a million new voters registered. Flipping battleground swing states (such as Nevada) in the 2018 midterm elections was one of the main goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 44], "content_span": [45, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Response\nOn the day of the march, President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter: \"Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Impeachment March\nImpeachment Marches (or Impeach Trump protests), rallies against President Donald Trump, were first held during Fourth of July celebrations in 2017, asking Congress to begin the impeachment process against Trump. They have been described as sister rallies to the Women's March rallies, and were held in select cities in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Locations\nThe 2018 Women's Marches took place in many cities around the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Stories, Sexual assault advocacy\nOn January 20, 2018, in New York City, Halsey delivered a speech to thousands of protesters at the second annual Women's March. The Me Too and Time's Up movements have pushed progressive activists, including celebrities, to demand immediate social and political change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Stories, Sexual assault advocacy\nInstead of a traditional speech, Halsey performed a five-minute poem titled A Story Like Mine, in which she talked about sexual assault and violence she and others had experienced. Her personal narrative included accompanying her best friend to Planned Parenthood after she had been raped, her personal account of sexual assault by neighbors and boyfriends, and women sexually assaulted by Olympic doctor Larry Nassar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Stories, Sexual assault advocacy\nHalsey further expressed her belief that celebrities are more likely to be heard and recognized as legitimately significant in media systems and that they have the power to connect popular culture to political culture, stating \"Listen, and then yell at the top of your lungs, be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Stories, Sexual assault advocacy\nHalsey's speech, along with others, were intended to prompt women to reflect and debate misogynistic and patriarchal societal values. Halsey read, \"What do you mean this happened to me? You can't put your hands on me. You don't know what my body has been through. I'm supposed to be safe now. I've earned it.\" Halsey said, \"Every friend I know has a story like mine.\" Halsey completed her speech by requesting all\u2014\"Black, Asian, poor, wealthy, trans, cis, Muslim, Christian\" \u2014sexual assault victims to listen and support each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Stories, Pussyhats\nFor the 2018 Women's March, some organizers discouraged people from wearing pussyhats because they believed \"the pink pussyhat excludes and is offensive to transgender women and gender nonbinary people who don't have typical female genitalia and to women of color because their genitals are more likely to be brown than pink\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283808-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 Women's March, Stories, Pussyhats\nThe name actually refers to the resemblance of the top corners of the hats to cat ears and attempts to reclaim the derogatory term \"pussy\", a play on Donald Trump's widely reported 2005 remarks that women would let him \"grab them by the pussy\"; the hats have never been representations of genitals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283809-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's National Invitation Tournament\nThe 2018 Women's National Invitation Tournament was an annual single-elimination tournament of 64 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2018 Women's NCAA Tournament. The tournament committee announced the 64-team field on March 12, following the selection of the NCAA Tournament field. The tournament began on March 14 and ended on March 31, with the championship game televised on the CBS Sports Network. In the championship game, Indiana defeated Virginia Tech, 65\u201357.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283809-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's National Invitation Tournament, Participants\nThe 2018 Postseason WNIT field consisted of 32 automatic invitations \u2013 one from each conference \u2013 and 32 at-large teams. The intention of the WNIT Selection Committee was to select the best available at-large teams in the nation. Teams with the highest finishes in their conferences\u2019 regular-season standings that were not selected for the NCAA Tournament were offered an automatic berth. The remaining berths in the WNIT were filled by the best teams available. Teams considered for an at-large berth had overall records of .500 or better.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283809-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's National Invitation Tournament, Bracket\nAll times are listed as Eastern Daylight Time (UTC\u22124)* \u2013 Denotes overtime period", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283810-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's National League (Ireland)\nThe 2018 Women's National League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Continental Tyres Women's National League, was the eighth season of the Women's National League, the highest women's association football league in the Republic of Ireland. Limerick W.F.C. competed for the first time. Wexford Youths were the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283810-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's National League (Ireland), Format\nTeams play each other three times, either twice at home and once away, or once at home and twice away. Each team plays 21 games, either 10 home and 11 away, or 11 home and 10 away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship\nThe 2018 KPMG Women's PGA Championship was the 64th Women's PGA Championship, played June 28 \u2013 July 1 at Kemper Lakes Golf Club in Long Grove, Illinois. Known as the LPGA Championship through 2014, it was the third of five major championships on the LPGA Tour during the 2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship\nPark Sung-hyun won the championship in a playoff over Nasa Hataoka and Ryu So-yeon. It was Park's second major win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field\nThe field included 156 players who met one or more of the selection criteria and commit to participate by a designated deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\nPlayers who qualified for the Championship are listed below. Players are listed under the first category in which they qualified; additional qualifying categories are shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\nLaura Davies (11), Shanshan Feng (4,6,11), Brooke Henderson (3,4,5,6,11), Juli Inkster, Danielle Kang (3,4,5,6,9,11), Cristie Kerr (4,6,9,11), Anna Nordqvist (3,4,6,9,11), Inbee Park (3,4,5,61,11), Yani Tseng (11)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\n3. Professionals who have won an LPGA major championship in the previous five years and during the current year", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\nChun In-gee (4,6,11), Ariya Jutanugarn (4,6,11), Kim Hyo-joo (4,11), In-Kyung Kim (4,6,11), Lydia Ko (4,6,11), Brittany Lang (4,9,11), Stacy Lewis (4,5,6,9,11), Brittany Lincicome (4,9,11), Pernilla Lindberg (4,11), Mo Martin (11), Park Sung-hyun (4,6,11), Ryu So-yeon (4,6,11), Lexi Thompson (4,5,6,9,11), Michelle Wie (4,6,9,11)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\n4. Professionals who have won an official LPGA tournament in the previous two calendar years and during the current year", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\nCarlota Ciganda (6,9,11), Nasa Hataoka (11), Charley Hull (6,9,11), Ji Eun-hee (6,11), Moriya Jutanugarn (6,11), Kim Sei-young (5,6,11), Katherine Kirk (11), Ko Jin-young (6,11), Jessica Korda (6,11), Lee Mi-hyang (5,11), Minjee Lee (6,11), Mirim Lee (11), Caroline Masson (9,11), Haru Nomura (11), Annie Park (11), Jenny Shin (11), Amy Yang (5,6,11)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\n5. Professionals who finished top-10 and ties at the previous year's Women's PGA Championship", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\n6. Professionals ranked No. 1-30 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of June 4, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\n7. The top eight finishers at the 2017 LPGA T&CP National Championship", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\nHeather Angell, Jean Bartholomew, Joanna Coe, Alison Curdt, Wendy Doolan, Ashley Grier, Charlotta S\u00f6renstam", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\n8. The top finisher (not otherwise qualified via the 2017 LPGA T&CP National Championship) at the 2018 PGA Women's Stroke Play Championship", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\n9. Members of the European and United States Solheim Cup teams in 2017", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\nPaula Creamer (11), Austin Ernst (11), Jodi Ewart Shadoff (11), Georgia Hall (11), Karine Icher (11), Catriona Matthew (11), Florentyna Parker, Emily Kristine Pedersen (11), Melissa Reid (11), Madelene Sagstr\u00f6m (11), Angel Yin (11)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\n11. LPGA members who have committed to the event, ranked in the order of their position on the 2018 official money list through the conclusion of the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\nMarina Alex, Brittany Altomare, Rebecca Artis, Aditi Ashok, Laetitia Beck, C\u00e9line Boutier, Nicole Broch Larsen, Ashleigh Buhai, Katie Burnett, Tiffany Chan, Sandra Changkija, Pei-Yun Chien, Cydney Clanton, Jacqui Concolino, Katelyn Dambaugh, Daniela Darquea, Perrine Delacour, Brianna Do, Lindy Duncan, Sandra Gal, Julieta Granada, Jaye Marie Green, Hannah Green, Mina Harigae, Caroline Hedwall, C\u00e9line Herbin, Daniela Holmqvist, Wei-Ling Hsu, M. J. Hur, Daniela Iacobelli, Caroline Inglis, Tiffany Joh, Haeji Kang, Kim Kaufman, Megan Khang, Christina Kim, Lauren Kim, P.K. Kongkraphan, Nelly Korda, \u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir, Candie Kung, Cindy LaCrosse, Bronte Law, Maude-Aimee Leblanc, Lee Jeong-eun, Erynne Lee, Min Lee, Amelia Lewis, Lin Xiyu, Yu Liu, Gaby L\u00f3pez, Lee Lopez, Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Brittany Marchand, Ally McDonald, Wichanee Meechai, Giulia Molinaro, Azahara Mu\u00f1oz, Benyapa Niphatsophon, Su-Hyun Oh, Amy Olson, Ryann O'Toole, Lee-Anne Pace, Jane Park, Park Hee-young, Pornanong Phatlum, Sophia Popov, Morgan Pressel, Beatriz Recari, Robynn Ree, Paula Reto, Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong, Alena Sharp, Sarah Jane Smith, Luna Sobr\u00f3n Galm\u00e9s, Jennifer Song, Mariah Stackhouse, Angela Stanford, Jackie Stoelting, Thidapa Suwannapura, Emma Talley, Kris Tamulis, Anne-Catherine Tanguay, Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras, Maria Torres, Ayako Uehara, Mariajo Uribe, Cheyenne Woods, Sakura Yokomine, Yoo Sun-young", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 1475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283811-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players\n12. The remainder of the field will be filled by members who have committed to the event, ranked in the order of their position on the 2018 LPGA Priority List as of the commitment deadline", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283812-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PSA World Series Finals\nThe 2018 Women's PSA World Series Finals is the women's edition of the PSA World Series Finals (Prize money\u00a0: $160 000). The top 8 players in the 2017\u201318 PSA World Series are qualified for the event. The event will take place in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates from 5 to 9 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283812-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's PSA World Series Finals\nNour El Sherbini won its first PSA World Series Finals title after defeating fellow countrywoman Raneem El Weleily 3\u20131 in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283813-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup\nThe 2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the 17th edition of the annual women's volleyball tournament. It was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from 8 to 14 July. Twelve teams competed and the top five ranked teams at the end of the tournament qualified to the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283813-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup\nThe United States won the second straight title (sixth in history) after defeating the Dominican Republic 3\u20132 in the final. American Lauren Carlini was awarded the Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283813-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20131: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283814-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Regional Super50\nThe 2018 Women's Regional Super50 was a 50-over women's cricket competition that took place in the West Indies. It took place in June 2018, with 6 teams taking part and all matches taking place in Jamaica. Barbados won the tournament, their second 50-over title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283814-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Regional Super50, Competition format\nTeams played in a league of six, playing three matches. Matches were played using a one day format with 50 overs per side. The top team in the group were crowned the Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283814-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Regional Super50, Competition format\nThe group worked on a points system with positions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283814-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Regional Super50, Competition format\nWin: 4 pointsTie: 2 pointsLoss: 0 points. Abandoned/No Result: 2 points. Bonus Point: 1 bonus point available per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283815-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Six Nations Championship\nThe 2018 Women's Six Nations Championship, also known as the 2018 RBS Women's Six Nations sponsored by Royal Bank of Scotland, was the 17th series of the Women's Six Nations Championship, an annual women's rugby union competition between six European rugby union national teams. Matches were held in February and March 2018, on the same weekends as the men's tournament, if not always the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283815-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Six Nations Championship\nAs in the 2017 tournament, the 2018 tournament used the rugby union bonus points system common to other professional tournaments: \"As well as the standard four points for a win or two for a draw, a team scoring four or more tries during a match will receive an additional league table point, as will a team losing by 7 or fewer points\". \"Additionally, to ensure that a team winning all of its five matches (a Grand Slam) will also win the Championship, three bonus points will be awarded for this achievement\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283816-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Softball World Championship\nThe 2018 Women's Softball World Championship was an international softball competition held in Chiba, Japan, from 2 August to 12 August. It was the 16th edition of the tournament, and the third edition to be sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). Previous editions were sanctioned by the International Softball Federation, which governed the sport until its 2013 merger with the International Baseball Federation to create the WBSC. As the winners, the United States earned the right to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics. It was the last world title awarded under the championship format before the WBSC implemented the new world cup 4 year cycle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283816-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Softball World Championship, Competition format\nThe teams are separated into two groups of eight teams each for the preliminary round. Each group plays a single round robin. The top four teams in each group advance to the championship round, while the bottom four teams play in placement games. The championship round is played in a double Page round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283816-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Softball World Championship, Competition format\nThe games were played with the 15/10/7 run ahead mercy rule where a game was called if one team leads the other by 15 runs or more after 3 innings, 10 runs or more after 4 innings, or 7 runs or more after 5 innings have been played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283817-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Softball World Championship Group Stage\nThe Group Stage was the first stage of the 2018 Women's Softball World Championship. Qualified teams were split into 2 groups of 8 teams each following a serpentine system based on the Women's Softball WBSC World Rankings. Teams played a round-robin within their group, the top 4 teams in each group advanced to the playoff round and the bottom 4 sent to the placement round. It was the last time the groups would compete at the same time and location as each other or the final stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283818-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship\nThe 2018 Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship was the tenth official edition of the women's volleyball tournament, played by six teams from 20\u201324 February 2018 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Camponesa/Minas won its first title and qualified for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship in Ningbo, China. Carol Gattaz was elected the Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283818-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship, Competing clubs\nTeams were seeded in two pools of three according to how the representatives of their countries finished in the 2016 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 73], "content_span": [74, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283819-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's State of Origin\nThe 2018 Women's State of Origin was the first State of Origin rugby league match between the New South Wales and Queensland women's teams played at North Sydney Oval on 22 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283819-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's State of Origin\nThe game was the first played under the State of Origin banner. Prior to 2018, the teams played each other annually in the Women's Interstate Challenge before being rebranded as State of Origin. New South Wales defeated Queensland 16\u201310 to record their third straight win over the Maroons. New South Wales centre Isabelle Kelly was awarded the Nellie Doherty Medal for Player of the Match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283819-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's State of Origin, Background\nOn 6 December 2017, the National Rugby League announced that the Women's Interstate Challenge, which ran from 1999 to 2017, would be rebranded as the Women's State of Origin. The game which, was previously played as a curtain-raiser, would now be a standalone fixture broadcast on the Nine Network and Fox Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283820-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Super 3s\nThe 2018 Women's Super 3s, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2018 Toyota Super 3s, was the fourth Women's Super 3s competition that took place in Ireland. It ran from May to September, with 3 teams taking part made up of the best players in Ireland. The teams played 10 matches each, four 50 over matches and six Twenty20s. Dragons won the competition, winning their second title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283820-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Super 3s, Competition format\nThe three teams played ten matches each in a league system. Each team played the other two sides twice in a 50 over match and three times in a Twenty20 match, with all matches contributing to a unified table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283820-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Super 3s, Competition format\nThe league worked on a points system with positions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283820-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Super 3s, Competition format\nWin: 2 points. Tie: 1 point. Loss: 0 points. Abandoned/No Result: 1 point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283821-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's T20 Challenge\nThe 2018 Women's T20 Challenge was the inaugural edition of Women's T20 Challenge, a women's Twenty20 cricket match which took place on 22 May 2018 at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. In an effort to popularise women\u2019s cricket, the BCCI had organised the match ahead of Qualifier 1 of 2018 IPL. The exhibition match was also held by the BCCI as a rehearsal for a Women's IPL tournament, a target which would be accomplished in the future. IPL Supernovas won the match by 3 wickets in a last over thriller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283822-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Tour Down Under\nThe 2018 Santos Women's Tour Down Under was a women's cycle stage race held in Australia from 11 to 14 January, 2018. The Women's Tour Down Under, being held for the seventh time, was held as a UCI rating of 2.1 race, having been a 2.2 race in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283822-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Tour Down Under\nThe race was won for the second year in succession \u2013 becoming the first rider to win multiple Tour Down Under races \u2013 by Mitchelton\u2013Scott rider Amanda Spratt. Spratt placed third on the stage to Mengler Hill, and assumed the race leader's ochre jersey the following day by winning the stage into Hahndorf. Spratt won the race by 41 seconds ahead of Lauren Stephens, riding for Cylance Pro Cycling. 2016 race winner Katrin Garfoot completed the podium, riding for the UniSA\u2013Australia team, a further 40 seconds in arrears of Stephens. With her above finishes on hill-top stages, Spratt won the polka-dot jersey for the mountains classification, while Garfoot won the sprints classification and its green jersey on the final day in Adelaide, winning all four intermediate sprints during the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283822-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Tour Down Under\nThe race's other jersey, the white jersey, went to Grace Anderson of the New Zealand national team, as the best-placed rider \u2013 in ninth overall \u2013 under the age of 25. Mitchelton\u2013Scott won the teams classification, after placing Spratt, Lucy Kennedy and Annemiek van Vleuten in the top-six overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283822-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Tour Down Under, Teams\n17 teams participated in the 2018 Women's Tour Down Under.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283822-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Tour Down Under, Classification leadership table\nIn the 2018 Women's Tour Down Under, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints and at the finish of mass-start stages, the leader received an ochre jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Women's Tour Down Under, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283822-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Tour Down Under, Classification leadership table\nAdditionally, there was a sprints classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the sprints classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 8 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 16\u00a0points, with 12 for second, 8 for third, 6 for fourth, with one point fewer per place down to 2 points for 8th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued\u00a0\u2013 awarded on a 5\u20133\u20132 scale\u00a0\u2013 at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification as noted above. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a white jersey with navy polka dots. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 915]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283822-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Tour Down Under, Classification leadership table\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1993 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283823-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Tour de Yorkshire\nThe 2018 Women's Tour de Yorkshire was a two-day cycling stage race staged in Yorkshire over 3 and 4 May 2018. It is the third edition of the Women's Tour de Yorkshire, organised by Welcome to Yorkshire and the Amaury Sport Organisation - but the first multi-day stage race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283824-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Tri-Nations Hockey Tournament\nThe 2018 Women's Tri-Nations Hockey Tournament was an invitational women's field hockey competition, hosted by the New Zealand Hockey Federation. The tournament took place between 19 and 27 May 2018 in Cromwell, New Zealand. A total of three teams competed for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283824-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Tri-Nations Hockey Tournament\nAustralia won the tournament by defeating New Zealand 4\u20131 in the final. Japan finished in third place, after being eliminated by New Zealand in the Semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283824-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Tri-Nations Hockey Tournament, Teams\nIncluding New Zealand, 3 teams were invited by the New Zealand Hockey Federation to participate in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283824-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Tri-Nations Hockey Tournament, Statistics, Final Standings\nAs per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 71], "content_span": [72, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283825-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup\nThe 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup was the seventh edition of the ACC Women's Asia Cup, organized by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). It took place between 3 and 10 June 2018 in Malaysia, and was the third edition played as a 20-over tournament. The tournament was contested between Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand. India were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283825-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup\nOn 6 June 2018, during the group stage, Bangladesh beat India by seven wickets. This was Bangladesh's first win against India in a women's international cricket match, and India's first ever loss in the Asia Cup. On 9 June 2018, Thailand beat Sri Lanka by four wickets to register their first ever win against a Full Member side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283825-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup\nIndia were the first team to advance to the final, after they beat Pakistan by seven wickets in their final group game. They were joined by Bangladesh, who beat Malaysia by 70 runs in their final match. It was India's seventh consecutive Asia Cup final and the first for Bangladesh. Bangladesh beat India by three wickets in the final to win their first Asia Cup title, and became the only other team to win the title besides India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283825-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup\nA month after the conclusion of the tournament, the International Cricket Council (ICC) retrospectively gave all the fixtures full Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283826-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup\nThe 2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2018 Vitality Women's Twenty20 Cup was the 10th cricket Women's Twenty20 Cup tournament. It took place in June and July, with 36 teams taking part: 34 county teams plus Scotland and Wales. Middlesex Women won the Twenty20 Cup, as winners of Division 1, therefore achieving their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283826-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup\nThe tournament followed the 50-over 2018 Women's County Championship, and was subsequently followed by the Twenty20 2018 Women's Cricket Super League, competed for by regional teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283826-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Competition Format\nTeams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned the Champions. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283826-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Competition Format\nThe championship works on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283826-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Competition Format\nWin: 4 points. Tie: 1 point. Loss: 0 points. Abandoned/Cancelled: 1 point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283826-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Teams\nThe 2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup was divided into three divisions: Division One and Division Two with nine teams each, and Division Three with 18 teams, divided into regional groups of 6 teams apiece; teams in all divisions played eight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283827-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship\nThe 2018 Women's Junior European Volleyball Championship was the 26th edition of the competition, with the main phase (contested between 12 teams) held in Albania from 1 to 9 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283828-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship Qualification\nThis is an article about qualification for the 2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283828-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 88], "content_span": [89, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283828-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, Qualification\nThe winners of each pools and the best three second placed teams qualified for final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 78], "content_span": [79, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283829-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's U23 Pan-American Volleyball Cup\nThe 2018 Women's U23 Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the fourth edition of the bi-annual women's volleyball tournament. It was held in Lima, Peru from 14 to 19 August among eight national U23 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283829-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's U23 Pan-American Volleyball Cup, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20131: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283829-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's U23 Pan-American Volleyball Cup, Final standing\nGaila Gonz\u00e1lez,Vielka Peralta,Camila de la Rosa,Natalia Mart\u00ednez,Angelica Hinojosa,Geraldine Gonz\u00e1lez,Yokaty P\u00e9rez,Yanlis Feliz,Larysmer Mart\u00ednez,Brayelin Mart\u00ednez,Jineiry Mart\u00ednez,Yaneirys Rodr\u00edguez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283830-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup\nThe 2018 Women's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup was the latest edition of the Women's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup, the tournament patronized by Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, The Princess Royal of Thailand for women's senior volleyball clubs, also known as 2018 Sealect Tuna Women's Senior Volleyball Kor Royal Cup Thailand Championship due to the sponsorship deal with Sealect Tuna. A total of 6 teams will compete in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283830-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup, Preliminary round, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283831-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Volleyball Thai-Denmark Super League\n2018 Women's Volleyball Thai\u2013Denmark Super League (Thai: \u0e27\u0e2d\u0e25\u0e40\u0e25\u0e22\u0e4c\u0e1a\u0e2d\u0e25\u0e2b\u0e0d\u0e34\u0e07\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22\u0e40\u0e14\u0e19\u0e21\u0e32\u0e23\u0e4c\u0e04\u0e0b\u0e39\u0e40\u0e1b\u0e2d\u0e23\u0e4c\u0e25\u0e35\u0e01 2018) was the 6th edition of the tournament. It was held at the MCC Hall of The Mall Bangkapi in Bangkok, Thailand from 28 March \u2013 1 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283832-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match\nThe 2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match at the international draughts was held 19\u201330 November 2018 in Riga (Latvia) International Draughts Federation FMJD between world champion 2017 Zoja Golubeva (Latvia) and world champion 2016 Natalia Sadowska (Poland).Natalia Sadowska won second title. Prize money 17 000\u20ac (10 000\u20ac for winner and 7000\u20ac for loser). If score will be 54:54 both players will receive equally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283832-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match, Rules\nFirst game of the micro-matches \u2014 standard game 1 hour 20 min + 1 min per move. For victory 12 points, for lost 0 points 12:0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283832-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match, Rules\nIf draw at 1st game \u2014 rapid game 20 min + 5 sec per move. For victory 8 points, for lost 4 points 8:4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283832-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match, Rules\nIf draw at rapid game \u2014 blitz game 5 min + 3 sec per move. For victory 7 points, for lost 5 points 7:5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283832-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match, Rules\nIf after 9 days score is 54:54 title get to player with better score in standard games, if equality \u2013 title get to player with better score in rapid games. If equality \u2014 deciding tie-break will be played on the next day. The tie-break consists of unlimited number of games until first victory. First four games will be played as a rapid game (20\u2019+5\u201d), since game number 5th blitz games (5\u2019 +3\u201d) will be played until the end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283832-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match, Rules\nIf one of the player will get more than 54 points, match will be finished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283833-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Junior Squash Championships\nThe 2018 Women's World Junior Squash Championships is the women's edition of the 2018 World Junior Squash Championships, which serves as the individual world Junior championship for squash players. The event took place in Chennai in India from 18 to 23 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283833-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Junior Squash Championships\nRowan Reda Araby won the tournament after defeating compatriot Hania El Hammamy in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283834-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship\nThe 2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship was a professional nine-ball pool tournament that took place in Sanya, China from 3 to 9 December 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283834-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship\nThe event was entered by 64 participants who were initially divided into 8 groups of 8 players, in which they competed against each other from December 3 to 5 in a double elimination tournament. Four players in each group qualified for the final round, which was played from December 6 to 9. The event was played under \"alternating break\" format with 3-point break rule and one ball on the foot spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283834-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship\nHan Yu won the title with a 9\u20136 victory over Wang Xiaotong in the final. It was Han Yu's third Women's World Nine-ball Championship win, following her previous in 2013 and 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283834-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship, Preliminary round \u2013 Double elimination\nIn the group stage, the double elimination format was played with race to 7 and alternate break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 81], "content_span": [82, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283834-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship, Main tournament \u2013 Single elimination\nKnockout stage consisted of last 32 players. Defending champion Siming Chen was defeated by Fu Xiaofang in quarter-finals in a hill-hill match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 79], "content_span": [80, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283834-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship, Main tournament \u2013 Single elimination, Final\nFinal was played between two Chinese players \u2013 Han Yu and Wang Xiaotong. Alternate break format was played, Han Yu won the lag. Both players played three break-and-runs: Han Yu in racks no. 5, 12 and 14; Wang Xiaotong in racks no. 6, 9 a 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 86], "content_span": [87, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283835-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Team Squash Championships\nThe 2018 Women's World Team Squash Championships is the women's edition of the 2018 World Team Squash Championships, which serves as the world team championship for squash players. The event held in Dalian, China took place from 11 to 19 September 2018. The tournament is organized by the World Squash Federation and the Chinese Squash Association. The Egypt team won its fourth World Team Championships, beating the England team in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283835-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World Team Squash Championships, Participating teams\n16 teams competed in these world championships from all of the five confederations: Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283836-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's World University Handball Championship\nThe 2018 Women's World University Handball Championship was the 12th edition of this Handball event organized by the FISU. It was held in Rijeka, Croatia at the Zamet Hall, from 30 July to 5 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283837-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship\nThe 2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship was the seventh edition of the tournament and took place in Kielce, Poland from 7 to 19 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283837-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship\nRussia defeated Hungary in the final to win their second straight and third overall title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283837-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship, Qualification\nBrazil was unable to participate and therefore Austria was being named to replace them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283837-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship, Venues\nThe championship will be played at two venues in Kielce. All the venue capacities are the capacity for handball events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283837-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship, Draw\nThe draw was held on 26 April 2018 in Basel, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 52], "content_span": [53, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283837-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship, 9\u201316th placement games\nThe eight losers of the round of 16 will be seeded according to their results in the preliminary round against teams ranked 1\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283837-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship, Final ranking\nTeam roster: Mariia Cherniaeva, Nadezhda Kolesnikova, Elena Mikhaylichenko, Anna Vereshchak, Anna Sheina, Alina Sinelnikova, Sofia Krakhmaleva, Viktoriia Turushina, Ekaterina Skivko, Valeriia Maslova, Elina Sidnina, Valeriia Kirdiasheva, Ekaterina Levchina, Kristina Mukhina, Elena Smirnova, Ekaterina Karabutova. Head Coach: Liubov Sidoricheva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283838-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Worcester City Council election\nThe 2018 Worcester City Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect 35 Councillors to the Worcester City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283839-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2018 World Aesthetic Gymnastics Championships, the 19th edition of the Aesthetic group gymnastics competition, was held in Budapest, Hungary from June 08 to 10, at the SYMA Sports and Conference Centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283839-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners\nDaria Zhdanova, Daria Kuklina, Polina Sosina, Alina Bolbat, Lyubov Palchikoa, Anastasiia Ponikarova, Alexandra Kuznetsova, Valeriya Uryupian, Sofiia Ostrovskaia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 66], "content_span": [67, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283839-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners\nCamilla Berg, Jessica Hakala, Venla Niemenmaa, Emmi Nikkil\u00e4, Siiri Puuska, Eveliina Rajaj\u00e4rvi, Ella Ratilainen, Riina Ruism\u00e4ki, Pihla Silvennoinen, Milja Vuorenmaa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 66], "content_span": [67, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283839-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners\nArina Nikishova, Varvara Kasimova, Evgeniya Shokarova, Daria Rudnichenko, Anastasia Kozhemyakina, Kamilia Suleimanova, Daria Dubova, Vanessa Sim", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 66], "content_span": [67, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283839-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners\nPolina Furtseva, Anastasia Skuzovatkina, Anastasia Antoshina, Iuliia Smagina, Nadezhda Lazeikina, Anastasiia Zrazhevskaia, Polina Salnikova", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 66], "content_span": [67, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283839-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners\nSenja Aaltonen, Enni B\u00e4ckman, Tuuli Kankaanp\u00e4\u00e4, Roosa Koski, Kaisa M\u00e4kinen, Viivi Saarenrinne, Kristiina Steklova, Enni S\u00f6derling", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 66], "content_span": [67, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283839-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners\nNatalia Rodina, Elizaveta Kazantseva, Anastasia Pavlenova, Anna Shumikhina, Arina Maslova, Marina Arzhanykh, Maria Zhilina, Olga Liapina", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 66], "content_span": [67, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283839-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Results, Senior\nThe top 12 teams (2 per country) and the host country in Preliminaries qualify to the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283840-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from 9 to 11 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283841-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Men\nThe Men competition at the 2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships was held on 10 and 11 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283842-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Women\nThe Women competition at the 2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships was held on 9 and 10 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283842-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Women, Results, 3000 m\nThe race was started on 9 of March at 20:24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 72], "content_span": [73, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283843-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships was the 48th edition of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. The competition was held from October 25 \u2013 November 3, 2018, at the Aspire Academy Dome in Doha, Qatar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283843-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nIt was the first time that the competition was held in the Middle East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283843-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nSimone Biles became the first American to medal on every event at a single World Championships and the first woman to do so in 31 years. The last person to complete this feat was Russian Yelena Shushunova in 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283843-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Men's results, Team\nThe top 3 teams from the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283843-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Men's results, Individual all-around\nDefending champion Xiao Ruoteng of China lost the title on a tiebreaker to Russia's Artur Dalaloyan. The tie-breaking procedure in this situation is dropping of the lowest-scoring apparatus from the combined score, and whoever's total score on the remaining five apparatuses is higher after that will rank ahead (74.198 versus 73.465). Dalaloyan became the first Russian man to win the all-around title since Nikolai Kryukov in 1999; they were at that time the only two Russian men to have won the title in the post-Soviet era. Last year's silver medalist, China's Lin Chaopan, failed to reach the final after finishing behind teammates Xiao and Sun Wei in qualifying. Reigning bronze medalist Kenz\u014d Shirai of Japan finished in seventh place after some weaker and lower-scoring apparatuses, namely pommel horse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 894]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283843-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Men's results, Individual all-around\nCanada's Ren\u00e9 Cournoyer withdrew prior to the competition and was replaced by first reserve Artur Davtyan of Armenia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283843-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Women's results, Team\nThe top 3 teams from the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships qualify to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283843-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Women's results, Individual all-around\nSimone Biles of the United States won an unprecedented fourth all-around title on the women's side. Teammate and defending champion Morgan Hurd placed third. Japan's Mai Murakami recorded her country's highest-ever finish in the all-around, and her silver was Japan's first all-around medal on the women's side since K\u014dko Tsurumi's bronze in 2009. Reigning silver medalist Ellie Black of Canada finished twelfth. The 2017 bronze medalist, Russia's Elena Eremina, was unable to compete due to a back injury. This final was one of the most closely contested of all time, with less than two tenths of a point separating the second- to sixth-place gymnasts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 84], "content_span": [85, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283843-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Qualification, Men's results, Floor\nAlthough Artur Dalaloyan of Russia and Kenz\u014d Shirai of Japan both posted the top combined score (14.833) in qualifications, Dalaloyan placed ahead after applying the tie-breaking procedure because he posted a higher E-score than Shirai (8.633 versus 8.033).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 81], "content_span": [82, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283843-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Qualification, Men's results, Floor\nThe same situation with the score (14.333) happened for Kazuma Kaya of Japan, Sam Mikulak of the USA and James Hall of Britain, when Kaya and Mikulak took the final's last two spots after their tied 8th place because they posted identical D- and E-scores while Hall ended up placing 10th, and just missed qualifying for the finals, even though he posted the same combined score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 81], "content_span": [82, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283844-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Club Challenge\nThe 2018 World Club Challenge (also known as the 2018 Downer World Club Challenge was the 26th staging of the World Club Challenge. It took place on 16 February 2018, and featured Super League champions Leeds Rhinos, and NRL winners Melbourne Storm. This was the fourth time the two clubs have met in the World Club Challenge, having previously played each other in 2008, 2010 and 2013. It was the first time since 2014 and only the fourth time since the World Club Challenge began that the game was played in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283844-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Club Challenge\nMelbourne Storm defeated Leeds Rhinos, 38\u20134 to be crowned World Club Champions for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283844-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Club Challenge, Background\nIn October 2017 it was suggested that the 2018 World Club Series could be scrapped completely based on the top Australian teams' reluctance to travel to the UK for the 2017 series which resulted in the Series being scaled back to two games only. In particular the second game of the 2017 series only featured an invited team from the NRL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283844-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 World Club Challenge, Background\nIn addition, the 2017 Rugby League World Cup being played in Australia at the end of 2017, meant that the preseason for Australian teams was going to be unusually short ahead of the 2018 season and therefore they did not want to make the trip to England for the 2018 series. The Melbourne Storm (2017 NRL Premiers) in particular, were reluctant to travel meaning the series was in danger of cancellation for the first time since the 1990s as it is the Storm that was playing in the World Club Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283844-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Club Challenge, Background\nIn June 2017, the Super League announced that the Australian city of Wollongong would host the first ever Super League game outside Europe. Wigan Warriors \"hosted\" Hull F.C. in the game at WIN Stadium on Saturday, February 10,in which the Warriors prevailed, 24\u201310. In addition and as part of this trip to Australia, Wigan and Hull would play two exhibition games against South Sydney Rabbitohs and St George Illawarra Dragons respectively. Early media speculation suggested a switch to Melbourne for the World Club Challenge and that these fixtures could form part of the World club Series; however, as these were separately arranged fixtures they were ultimately not considered part of the World Club Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283844-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Club Challenge, Background\nOn 14 November 2017, it was confirmed that Leeds Rhinos would travel to Australia to play Melbourne Storm at AAMI Park in Melbourne on 16 February 2018, and that the World Club Challenge would return to a single game for the first time since 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283844-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Club Challenge, Background, Leeds Rhinos\nLeeds finished Super League XXII's regular season in 2nd place and went on to defeat 1st-placed Castleford Tigers, 24\u20136, in the grand final, qualifying the Rhinos for their 8th World Club Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283844-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Club Challenge, Background, Melbourne Storm\nThe Storm finished the 2017 NRL season in 1st place and won the Minor Premiership. They then went undefeated through the finals series to claim the 2017 Premiership with a 34\u20136 win in the 2017 NRL Grand Final over the North Queensland Cowboys, qualifying Melbourne for their fifth World Club Challenge, and first since 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283844-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Club Challenge, Teams\nThe Melbourne Storm made their team announcement on 13 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283845-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships\nThe 2018 World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships was the 10th edition of the World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships, and was held in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates from November 24 to November 25, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283846-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Cup of Golf\nThe 2018 World Cup of Golf (known as the 2018 ISPS Handa Melbourne World Cup of Golf for sponsorship reasons) is a golf tournament that was played from 22\u201325 November at Metropolitan Golf Club in South Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia. It was the 59th World Cup. The format is 72-hole stroke play; the first and third days were four-ball (best ball), and the second and fourth days were foursomes (alternate shot) play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283846-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Cup of Golf\nThe Belgian pair of Thomas Pieters and Thomas Detry won with a score of 265, 23-under-par. Australia and Mexico tied for second place, three strokes behind. It was Belgium's first victory in the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283846-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Cup of Golf, Qualification\nThe 28 nations to compete were determined based on the top-ranked player from each country from the Official World Golf Ranking as of 3 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283846-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Cup of Golf, Qualification\nThese 28 seeded players selected a partner from the same country ranked in the top 500 of the OWGR. If there were less than five possible choices in the top 500, the seeded player could choose any of the next five players from that country in the rankings, even if they were ranked outside the top 500. The deadline for teams to be finalized was 20 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283846-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Cup of Golf, Teams\nThe table below lists the teams in order of qualification (i.e. ranking of seeded player on 3 September 2018) together with their World Rankings at the time of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283846-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Cup of Golf, Teams\nThe following players were eligible to be a seeded player but did not commit. The order is based on the World Rankings on 3 September 2018. Five countries with an eligible player did not compete: Argentina, Austria, Chinese Taipei, Chile and Paraguay (withdrew as alternate). They were replaced by Zimbabwe, Malaysia, Wales and Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283846-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Cup of Golf, Final leaderboard\nAustralia, England and South Korea tied for the lead after the first day fourball rounds with 10-under-par rounds of 62. Conditions were difficult for the second day foursomes with rain and gusty winds. Belgium and South Korea led after day 2 on 10-under-par. Mexico had the best round of the day, 70, to lift themselves into 7th place while hosts Australia had a disappointing round of 76 and dropped into a tie for 8th place. On the third day Belgium had their second fourball round of 63 and took a 5-stroke lead, ahead of Italy, Mexico and South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283846-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 World Cup of Golf, Final leaderboard\nOn the final day Australia set the clubhouse lead on 268 after a final round 65. Belgium came to the last with a two-stroke lead. Thomas Pieters put their second shot to four feet, which Thomas Detry holed to give Belgium a three-stroke victory with a final round of 68. Mexico tied with Australia for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283846-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Cup of Golf, Final leaderboard\nRounds 1 and 3 were four-ball (best ball), rounds 2 and 4 were foursomes (alternate shot). Prize money is for the pair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283847-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Cup of Pool\nThe 2018 World Cup of Pool was the twelfth edition of the tournament. The event took place in Luwan Gymnasium, Shanghai, China, from 15 to 20 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283848-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Draughts Championship match\nThe 2018 World Draughts Championship match in international draughts was held from December 28, 2018, to January 13, 2019, in the Netherlands. It was held under the auspices of the International Draughts Federation (FMJD) and played between the current 2017 world champion Alexander Schwartzman and 2016 world champion Roel Boomstra. Roel Boomstra won this match and became World Draughts Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283848-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Draughts Championship match, Rules and regulations\nThe event was played over 12 games with a time control of 80 minutes plus 1 minute per move. The player who has the highest score wins the world title if he wins at least three games. If not, a tie-break will be played. Every victory in a tie-break adds to the total number of victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283848-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Draughts Championship match, Rules and regulations\nPer regulations, a preliminary tie-breaking games were to be played if the first six games ended in a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283849-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Fencing Championships\nThe 2018 World Fencing Championships was held from 19 to 27 July at 2018 in Wuxi, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283849-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Fencing Championships, Host selection\nOn 23 November 2015, Wuxi beat the Japanese city of Fukuoka with 69 votes to 47.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283850-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2018 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Milan, Italy from 19\u201325 March 2018, at the Mediolanum Forum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283850-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Figure Skating Championships, Records\nThe following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283850-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Figure Skating Championships, Qualification, Age and minimum TES requirements\nSkaters are eligible for the 2018 World Championships if they turned 15 years of age before 1 July 2017 and have met the minimum technical elements score requirements. The ISU accepts scores if they were obtained at senior-level ISU-recognized international competitions at least 21 days before the first official practice day of the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 88], "content_span": [89, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283850-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Figure Skating Championships, Qualification, Number of entries per discipline\nBased on the results of the 2017 World Championships, each ISU member nation can field one to three entries per discipline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 88], "content_span": [89, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283850-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Figure Skating Championships, Schedule\nNote: times are local times (UTC+1 from March 21 through March 24 and UTC+2 on March 25).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283850-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Figure Skating Championships, Entries\nMember nations began announcing their selections in December 2017. The International Skating Union published the full list of entries on 28 February 2018. None of the previous year's defending champions competed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283850-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, By country\nTable of small medals for placement in the short segment:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283850-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, By country\nTable of small medals for placement in the free segment:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283851-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Grand Prix\nThe 2018 Ladbrokes World Grand Prix was a professional ranking snooker tournament, taking place from 19 to 25 February 2018 at the Guild Hall in Preston, England. It was the fifteenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283851-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Grand Prix\nBarry Hawkins was the defending champion, but he did not qualify for this edition of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283851-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Grand Prix\nRonnie O'Sullivan won his fourth ranking title of the season and 32nd ranking title overall, beating Ding Junhui 10\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283851-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Grand Prix, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283851-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Grand Prix, Prize fund\nThe \"rolling 147 prize\" for a maximum break stood at \u00a315,000", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283851-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Grand Prix, Seeding list\nThe top 32 players on the one-year ranking list, running from the 2017 Riga Masters until the 2018 Snooker Shoot Out, qualified for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283852-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Grand Prix (darts)\nThe 2018 Unibet World Grand Prix was the 21st staging of the World Grand Prix. It was held from 30 September\u20136 October 2018 at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283852-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Grand Prix (darts)\nThe defending champion Daryl Gurney lost to Michael van Gerwen 1\u20134 in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283852-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Grand Prix (darts)\nNotably during the tournament, Dave Chisnall hit the highest ever losing average in a World Grand Prix match, when he averaged 97.78 in his 3\u20131 defeat in the quarter-finals to Michael van Gerwen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283852-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Grand Prix (darts)\nVan Gerwen went on to lift his fourth World Grand Prix title, defeating Peter Wright 5\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283852-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Grand Prix (darts), Prize money\nThe total prize money remained at \u00a3400,000. The following is the breakdown of the fund:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283852-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Grand Prix (darts), Qualification\nThe field of 32 players was made up from the top 16 on the PDC Order of Merit and the top 16 non-qualified players from the ProTour Order of Merit. The top eight players were seeded in the tournament. The following players qualified for the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283853-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Helicopter Championship\nThe 2018 World Helicopter Championship was the 16th World Helicopter Championship, held from 23 to 29 July 2018 near Minsk, Belarus. Competitions were organized by the Belarusian Federation of Air Sports under the auspices of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration A\u00e9ronautique Internationale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283853-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Helicopter Championship\nTaking part in the competitions were 36 crews from 7 countries, including Austria, Belarus, China, Germany, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Belarusian national teams performed on Mi-2 and Robinson R44 helicopters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283853-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Helicopter Championship\nThe members of the crews competed in navigation, parallel precision flying, parallel fender rigging, and parallel slalom heli-race events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283853-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Helicopter Championship\nRussia took gold in the team standings, Belarus finished second, and Poland came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283853-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Helicopter Championship\nThe annual aviation festival #ProNebo was held as a part of the championship on 28-29 July. Visitors could see more than 30 aircraft, includingairplanes, helicopters, and hot air balloons. Helicopter racing was one of the most spectacular events of the festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283854-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Indoor Archery Championships\nThe 2018 World Archery Championships was the 14th edition of the World Indoor Archery Championships. The event was held in Yankton, United States from 14 February to 19 February 2018 and was organised by World Archery (formerly known as FITA). Qualification and elimination rounds took place at the NFAA Easton Yankton Archery Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283854-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Indoor Archery Championships\nThe programme featured was the same as previous World Archery Championships, with individual and team events in the compound and recurve disciplines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283854-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Indoor Archery Championships, Participating nations\nAt the close of registrations, a 31 nations had registered 207 athletes, 3 fewer country and 55 athletes fewer than in Ankara in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283855-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Indoor Bowls Championship\nThe 2018 Just World Indoor Bowls Championship took place at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, England, on 12\u201328 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283855-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Indoor Bowls Championship\nMark Dawes and Robert Paxton reached the Open singles final with Dawes taking the title on a tie break. Dawes had been the player of the tournament. Katherine Rednall won her third singles title defeating Rebecca Field in the final. The seventh seeds Mark Dawes and Jamie Chestney won the Open pairs final beating Nick Brett and Greg Harlow. Chestney missed the opportunity to win the first set with his last bowl but gained a three count to draw the set 6\u20136; the second set was won 9\u20135, helped by a decisive 5\u20130 count on end five. Chestney also won the Mixed Pairs title with Lesley Doig.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283855-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Indoor Bowls Championship, Draw and results, Open pairs\n+ Furman replaced Paul Foster who withdrew following a family bereavement", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283855-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Indoor Bowls Championship, Draw and results, Mixed pairs\n+ Burnett replaced Paul Foster who withdrew following a family bereavement", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283856-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships\nThe 2018 World Judo Championships was held between 20 and 27 September 2018 at National Gymnastics Arena in Baku, Azerbaijan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283857-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Men's +100 kg\nThe Men's +100 kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 26 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283858-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Men's 100 kg\nThe Men's 100 kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 25 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283859-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Men's 60 kg\nThe Men's 60 kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 20 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283860-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Men's 66 kg\nThe Men's 66 kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 21 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283861-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Men's 73 kg\nThe Men's 73 kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 22 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283862-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Men's 81 kg\nThe Men's 81 kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 23 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283863-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Men's 90 kg\nThe Men's 90 kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 24 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283864-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Mixed team\nThe Mixed team competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 27 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283865-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Women's +78 kg\nThe Women's +78\u00a0kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 26 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283866-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Women's 48 kg\nThe Women's 48 kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 20 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283867-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Women's 52 kg\nThe Women's 52 kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 21 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283868-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Women's 57 kg\nThe Women's 57 kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 22 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283869-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Women's 63 kg\nThe Women's 63 kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 23 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283870-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Women's 70 kg\nThe Women's 70 kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 24 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283871-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Championships \u2013 Women's 78 kg\nThe Women's 78 kg competition at the 2018 World Judo Championships was held on 25 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283872-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Judo Juniors Championships\nThe 2018 World Judo Junior Championships was held between 17 and 21 September 2018 at the Imperial Ballroom in Nassau, The Bahamas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283873-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior B Curling Championships\nThe 2018 World Junior B Curling Championships was held from January 3 to 10 at the Kisakallio Sports Institute in Lohja, Finland. The top three men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams at the World Junior B Curling Championships would qualify for the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283874-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Curling Championships\nThe 2018 World Junior Curling Championships was held from March 3 to 10 at Curl Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283875-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 5\u201311 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283875-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Records\nThe following new junior records were set during this competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283875-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Qualification, Minimum TES\nThe ISU stipulates that the minimum scores must be achieved at an ISU-recognized junior international competition in the ongoing or preceding season, no later than 21 days before the first official practice day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283875-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Qualification, Number of entries per discipline\nBased on the results of the 2017 Junior World Championships, each ISU member nation fielded one to three entries per discipline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 95], "content_span": [96, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283875-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Entries\nMember nations began announcing their selections in December 2017. The International Skating Union published the full list of entries on 13 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283875-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Results, Men\nThe leader from the short program, Alexei Krasnozhon, sustained an injury on his first jumping pass, a quad Salchow, and subsequently withdrew from the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283875-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Results, Ladies\nAlexandra Trusova set a new junior world record for the free skating (153.49 points) landing a quadruple salchow and quadruple toe. She also set the new combined total record (225.52 points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283875-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, By country\nTable of small medals for placement in the short segment:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283875-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, By country\nTable of small medals for placement in the free segment:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283876-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships\nThe 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 42nd edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship, and was hosted by the city of Buffalo, New York at the KeyBank Center and HarborCenter. It opened on December 26, 2017 and closed with the gold medal game on January 5, 2018. It was the sixth time that the United States has hosted the WJIHC, and the second time that Buffalo has done so, previously hosting in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283876-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships\nA preliminary round game between Canada and the United States was played outdoors at New Era Field in nearby Orchard Park, New York on December 29, 2017. It was the second outdoor game held at any top-level IIHF world championship, the first being the opening game of the 2010 IIHF World Championship, and the first one held at a junior level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283876-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top Division, Host selection\nOn July 28, 2015, USA Hockey named the five initial finalists for hosting the event:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 72], "content_span": [73, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283876-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top Division, Host selection\nChicago and Tampa were eliminated on September 15. Buffalo was chosen as the host site on December 3, with a formal announcement on December 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 72], "content_span": [73, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283876-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top Division, Officials\nThe following officials were assigned by the International Ice Hockey Federation to officiate the 2018 World Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283876-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top Division, Format\nThe preliminary round was a two group of five teams each internal round-robin format, followed by a three-round playoff. In the round-robin, two points were allotted for a win, and one additional point for a regulation win. One point was allotted for an overtime or game winning shots loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283876-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top Division, Format\nThe four highest-ranked teams from each group of the preliminary round advanced to quarterfinals while the last-placed team from each group played a best-of-three series, the loser relegated to Division IA for 2019. All other teams will retain their Top Division status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283876-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top Division, Relegation\nNote: \u00a0Belarus was relegated for the 2019 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283876-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top Division, Statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In MinutesSource: IIHF", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 85], "content_span": [86, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283876-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top Division, Statistics, Goaltending leaders\nTOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource: IIHF", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 89], "content_span": [90, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283876-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division I\nThe Division IA tournament was held in Courchevel and Meribel, France from December 10-16, 2017. The Division IB tournament was held in Bled, Slovenia from December 9-15, 2017. As a result of the Division IA tournament, Kazakhstan was promoted to the Top Division, and Hungary was relegated to Division IB. As a result of the Division IB tournament, Norway was promoted to Division IA, and Lithuania was relegated to Division IIA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283876-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division II\nThe Division IIA tournament was held in Dumfries, Great Britain from December 10-16, 2017. The Division IIB tournament was held in Belgrade, Serbia from January 10-16, 2018. As a result of the Division IIA tournament, Japan was promoted to Division IB, and Netherlands was relegated to Division IIB.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283876-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division III\nThe Division III tournament was held in Sofia, Bulgaria from January 22\u201328, 2018. The Division III qualification tournament was held in Cape Town, South Africa from February 5\u20137, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283877-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships rosters\nBelow are the rosters for teams competing in the 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283878-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division I\nThe 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division I consisted of two tiered groups of six teams each: the second-tier Division IA and the third-tier Division IB. For each tier's tournament, the team which placed first was promoted to the next highest division, while the team which placed last was relegated to a lower division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283878-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division I\nThe tournaments were a round-robin tournament format, with two points allotted for a win, one additional point for a regulation win, and one point for an overtime or game winning shots loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283878-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division I\nTo be eligible as a junior player in these tournaments, a player cannot be born earlier than 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283878-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division I\nDivision IA was held in Meribel, France, while Division IB was hosted in Bled, Slovenia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283878-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division I, Division I A\nThe Division I A tournament was played in Courchevel and Meribel, France, from 10 to 16 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 69], "content_span": [70, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283878-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division I, Division I A\nAs a result of the tournament, Kazakhstan was promoted to the Top Division, while Hungary was relegated to Division IB for 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 69], "content_span": [70, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283878-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division I, Division I A, Statistics, Top scorers\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In MinutesSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 94], "content_span": [95, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283878-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division I, Division I A, Statistics, Goaltending leaders\nTOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 102], "content_span": [103, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283878-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division I, Division I B\nThe Division I B tournament was played in Bled, Slovenia, from 9 to 15 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 69], "content_span": [70, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283878-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division I, Division I B, Statistics, Top 10 scorers\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In MinutesSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 97], "content_span": [98, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283878-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division I, Division I B, Statistics, Goaltending leaders\nTOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 102], "content_span": [103, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283879-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division II\nThe 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division II consisted of two tiered groups of six teams each: the fourth-tier Division IIA and the fifth-tier Division IIB. For each tier, the team which placed first was promoted to the next highest division, while the team which placed last was relegated to a lower division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283879-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division II\nThe tournaments were a round-robin tournament format, with two points allotted for a win, one additional point for a regulation win, and one point for an overtime or game winning shots loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283879-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division II\nTo be eligible as a junior, a player cannot be born earlier than 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283879-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division II\nDivision IIA was held in Dumfries, United Kingdom, while Division IIB was hosted in Belgrade, Serbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283879-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division II, Division IIA\nThe Division IIA tournament was played in Dumfries, United Kingdom, from 10 to 16 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 70], "content_span": [71, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283879-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division II, Division IIA\nAs a result of the tournament, Japan was promoted to Division IB, and the Netherlands was relegated to Division IIB.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 70], "content_span": [71, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283879-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division II, Division IIA, Statistics, Top 10 scorers\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In MinutesSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 98], "content_span": [99, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283879-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division II, Division IIA, Statistics, Goaltending leaders\nTOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 103], "content_span": [104, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283879-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division II, Division II B\nThe Division II B tournament was played in Belgrade, Serbia, from 10 to 16 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 71], "content_span": [72, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283879-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division II, Division II B\nAs a result of the tournament, Spain was promoted to Division IIA, and Turkey was relegated to Division III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283880-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division III\nThe 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division III was played with one group of six teams, as well as a three team qualification tournament for the 2019 tournament. Israel won all their games and were promoted to Division IIB. The team which placed first in the qualification tournament was expected to be promoted to Division III, swapping places with the sixth place team in Division III, but the 2019 organizers chose to make Division III a single tournament making these placings irrelevant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283880-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division III\nThe tournament was a round-robin tournament format, with two points allotted for a win, one additional point for a regulation win, and one point for an overtime or game winning shots loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283880-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division III\nTo be eligible as a junior player in these tournaments, a player could not be born earlier than 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283880-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division III\nThe main Division III tournament was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, while the qualification was hosted in Cape Town, South Africa. The qualification was supposed to have the debut of the Turkmenistan national junior team, though they dropped out prior to it starting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283880-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division III, Division III\nThe Division III tournament was played in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 22 to 28 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 71], "content_span": [72, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283880-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division III, Division III, Statistics, Top 10 scorers\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In MinutesSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 99], "content_span": [100, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283880-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division III, Division III, Statistics, Goaltending leaders\nTOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 104], "content_span": [105, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283880-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division III, Division III Qualification\nThe Division III Qualification tournament was played in Cape Town, South Africa, from 5 to 7 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 85], "content_span": [86, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283880-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships \u2013 Division III, Division III Qualification, Participants\nThe tournament originally included Turkmenistan, but they withdrew before the event began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 99], "content_span": [100, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283881-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships\nThe 2018 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place from 2 to 4 March 2018 in Tomasz\u00f3w Mazowiecki, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283882-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Speed Skating Championships\nThe 2018 World Junior Speed Skating Championships took place from 9 to 11 March 2018 in Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City, United States. They were the 45th World Junior Speed Skating Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283883-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Table Tennis Championships\nThe 2018 World Junior Table Tennis Championships were held in Bendigo, Australia from 2 to 9 December, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283883-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Table Tennis Championships\nChina completed a clean sweep of gold medals in all seven events, with Xu Haidong winning the boys' singles title and Qian Tianyi securing victory in the girls' singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283884-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior Wrestling Championships\nThe 2018 World Junior Wrestling Championships were the 42nd edition of the World Junior Wrestling Championships and were held in Trnava, Slovakia between 17 and 23 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283885-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships\nThe 2018 ICF World Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships took place in Ivrea, Italy from 17 to 22 July 2018 under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation (ICF). It was the 20th edition of the competition for Juniors (U18) and the 7th edition for the Under 23 category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283885-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships\nA total of 22 medal events took place, 11 in each of the two age categories. It was the first time that there were no men's C2 events at these championships. The mixed C2 event for juniors as well as the four Extreme K1 events were included in the program for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283886-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Karate Championships\nThe 2018 World Karate Championships were the 24th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Madrid, Spain from November 6 to November 11, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283887-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Karate Championships \u2013 Men's 67 kg\nThe preliminaries and repechages of the Men's 67kg competition at the 2018 World Karate Championships were held on November 7th, 2018 and the finals on November 10th, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283888-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Karate Championships \u2013 Men's individual kata\nThe preliminaries and repechages of the Men's individual kata competition at the 2018 World Karate Championships were held on November 6th, 2018 and the finals on November 10th, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283889-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Karate Championships \u2013 Men's team kata\nThe preliminary rounds of the Men's team kata competition at the 2018 World Karate Championships were held on November 8th, 2018 and the finals on November 11th, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283890-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Karate Championships \u2013 Men's team kumite\nThe first round of the Men's team kumite competition at the 2018 World Karate Championships was held on November 8th, 2018, the preliminaries and repechages on November 9th and the finals on November 11th, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283891-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Karate Championships \u2013 Women's individual kata\nThe preliminaries and repechages of the Women's individual kata competition at the 2018 World Karate Championships were held on November 6th, 2018 and the finals on November 10th, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283892-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Karate Championships \u2013 Women's team kata\nThe preliminary rounds of the Women's team kata competition at the 2018 World Karate Championships were held on November 8th, 2018 and the finals on November 11th, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283893-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Karate Championships \u2013 Women's team kumite\nThe first round of the Women's team kumite competition at the 2018 World Karate Championships was held on 8 November 2018, the preliminaries and repechages on 9 November and the finals on 11 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283894-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Lacrosse Championship\nThe 2018 World Lacrosse Championship was the 13th edition of the international men\u2019s field lacrosse tournament for national teams organized by the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL). As many as 50 countries were expected to compete in the tournament; with the official total coming in at 46, which made the 2018 WLC the largest of all-time. The games were held in Netanya, Israel on 12\u201321 July 2018. The United States won the tournament, its 10th championship in the history of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283894-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Lacrosse Championship, Hosting\nManchester, England was originally selected to host the tournament, but withdrew in May 2017. Instead, the championships took place in Netanya, Israel between 12 and 21 July 2018. This was the first World Lacrosse Championship played outside of the United States, Canada, England, or Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283894-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Lacrosse Championship, Tournament\nOn Thursday, 12 July, the Opening Ceremony and first games were held at Netanya Stadium, a 13,610-seat multi-use stadium which opened in 2012. It served as a home field for the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship and features 36 luxury suites, a VIP seating area, and a modern press box. The stadium serves as the home field of Maccabi Netanya FC, as well as the temporary home of Maccabi Tel Aviv FC and Hapoel Ra'anana A.F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283894-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Lacrosse Championship, Tournament\nFrom Friday, 13 July to Saturday, 21 July, the tournament games will be played at Wingate Institute. Located on 50 hectares (125 acres), the Wingate Institute serves as Israel\u2019s National Centre for Physical Education and Sport. The campus doubles as both the State of Israel\u2019s primary university for the development of physical education teachers, as well as the nation\u2019s official training centre for national teams, the Israel Olympic Team, and national and international sports science conferences. The campus hosts the Israel Olympiada annually and the Maccabiah Games every four years. Wingate Stadium also serves as the home field for the Israel National Rugby Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283894-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Lacrosse Championship, Tournament, Participating Nations\n48 teams initially entered the tournament. They were drawn into 14 groups in March 2018. However Bulgaria and Haiti later withdrew leaving just 46 teams. The world ranking of the teams based on their performance in the 2014 edition is also displayed. The top 6 teams in the 2014 edition are drawn into the Blue Division while the rest of the teams were drawn into the other divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283894-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Lacrosse Championship, Play-in games, Upper bracket\nThe upper bracket includes the 13 first-place finishers from each division as well as the second-place finisher of the white division. These teams can still win the world championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283894-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Lacrosse Championship, 2018 World Lacrosse Festival\nAlongside the WLC, youth and adult lacrosse teams from around the world will participate in the 2018 World Lacrosse Festival at Shefayim Soccer Complex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283894-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Lacrosse Championship, Awards\nThe following awards were given out at the end of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283894-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Lacrosse Championship, Awards\nMVP: Michael Ehrhardt Outstanding Attackman: Curtis Dickson Outstanding Midfielder: Tom Schreiber Outstanding Defenseman: Michael Ehrhardt Outstanding Goalie: Dillon Ward", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283895-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Rodw (talk | contribs) at 20:12, 9 April 2020 (Disambiguating links to Charlotte Morgan (link changed to Charlotte Morgan (runner); link changed to Charlotte Morgan (runner)) using DisamAssist.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283895-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships\nThe 2018 World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge was the 15th edition of the global Mountain running competition, World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships, organised by the World Mountain Running Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283896-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters (darts)\nThe 2018 Winmau World Masters was a major tournament on the BDO/WDF calendar for 2018. It took place from 3\u20137 October at the Bridlington Spa Hall, which hosted the stage element of the event for the second time since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283896-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters (darts)\nThe event was the first time a BDO Major tournament had not been broadcast on television in 28 years after Eurosport decided to not renew the rights to the event. The event was streamed live on YouTube through the channel winmau TV", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283896-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters (darts)\nKrzysztof Ratajski was the reigning men's champion after defeating Mark McGeeney in last year's final by 6 sets to 1, but switched to the PDC straight after last years event meaning he was excluded from taking part. Lorraine Winstanley was the defending women's champion after defeating Corrine Hammond in the final by 5 legs to 2, but she lost 4\u20130 in the quarter-finals to Casey Gallagher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283896-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters (darts)\nAdam Smith-Neale became the 2nd player in 2 years to win the event after starting at the first round (Seeds are given byes to the last 32) after Ratajski managed the same feat last year. He won his first major title by defeating two-time champion Glen Durrant 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283896-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters (darts)\nLisa Ashton won the Women's World Masters for the 2nd time with a 5\u20132 win over Casey Gallagher in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283896-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters (darts), Men's seeds\nThe seedings were finalised on 10 September. For the third consecutive year, there were 16 seeds (a decrease from 32 between 2012 and 2015) with all seeds exempt until the Last 32 stage and cannot play each other until the Last 16 stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283896-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters (darts), Women's seeds\nIt was announced before the start of the event that the Ladies seeds were cut from 8 to 4 for unknown reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283897-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships\nThe twenty-third World Masters Athletics Championships were held in M\u00e1laga, Spain, from September 4\u2013September 16, 2018. This was the second even year of the biennial championship as beginning in 2016 in Perth, Australia, the championships moved to be held in even numbered years. The World Masters Athletics Championships serve the division of the sport of athletics for people over 35 years of age, referred to as Masters athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283897-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships\nA full range of track and field events were held, along with a cross country race and a marathon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men\nThe twenty-third World Masters Athletics Championships were held in M\u00e1laga, Spain, from September 4\u2013September 16, 2018. This was the second even year of the biennial championship as beginning in 2016 in Perth, Australia, the championships moved to be held in even numbered years. The World Masters Athletics Championships serve the division of the sport of athletics for people over 35 years of age, referred to as Masters athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men\nA full range of track and field events were held, along with a cross country race and a marathon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, 5000 metres, M35 5000 metres\n41 athletes, 2 heats timed final. All medalists came from heat 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, 5000 metres, M40 5000 metres\n51 athletes, 3 heats timed final. All medalists came from heat 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, 5000 metres, M45 5000 metres\n51 athletes, 3 heats timed final. All medalists came from heat 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, 5000 metres, M50 5000 metres\n66 athletes, 3 heats timed final. All medalists came from heat 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, 5000 metres, M55 5000 metres\n63 athletes, 3 heats timed final. All medalists came from heat 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, 5000 metres, M60 5000 metres\n67 athletes, 3 heats timed final. All medalists came from heat 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, 5000 metres, M65 5000 metres\n59 athletes, 3 heats timed final. All medalists came from heat 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, 5000 metres, M70 5000 metres\n47 athletes, 2 heats timed final. All medalists came from heat 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, 5000 metres, M75 5000 metres\n33 athletes, 2 heats timed final. All medalists came from heat 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Steeplechase, M50 3000 metres steeplechase\n28 athletes, 2 timed heats. All medalists ran in heat 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 99], "content_span": [100, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Steeplechase, M65 2000 metres steeplechase\n24 athletes, 2 timed heats. All medalists ran in heat 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 99], "content_span": [100, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, 4x100 metres relay, M55 4x100 metres relay\n10 teams, 2 heats as timed finals, all medalists came from heat 1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 99], "content_span": [100, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, 4x400 metres relay, M60 4x400 metres relay\n10 teams, 2 heats timed final, all medalists came from heat 1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 99], "content_span": [100, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, High Jump, M50 High Jump\nSeptember 10, 2018, 35 athletes, 2 flights. All medalists come from flight 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, High Jump, M55 High Jump\nSeptember 10, 2018, 32 athletes, 2 flights. All medalists come from flight 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, High Jump, M65 High Jump\nSeptember 9, 2018, 23 athletes, 2 flights. All medalists come from flight 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Long Jump, M35 Long Jump\n24 athletes. Two flights and final on September 10, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Long Jump, M40 Long Jump\n37 athletes. Two flights and final on September 9, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Long Jump, M45 Long Jump\n35 athletes. 2 flights and final on September 9, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Long Jump, M45 Long Jump\nCapape took second based on second best jump, 6.07 (twice) to Kuhnert 6.06", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Long Jump, M50 Long Jump\n37 athletes. Two flights and final on September 9, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Long Jump, M55 Long Jump\n31 athletes. Two flights and final on September 9, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Long Jump, M60 Long Jump\n40 athletes. Two flights and final on September 10, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Long Jump, M70 Long Jump\n12 athletes. One flight and final on September 10, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Long Jump, M75 Long Jump\n21 athletes. One flight and final on September 10, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Triple Jump, M35 Triple Jump\n10 athletes. One flight and final on September 15, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Triple Jump, M40 Triple Jump\n21 athletes. One flight and final on September 15, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Triple Jump, M45 Triple Jump\n28 athletes. 2 flights and final on September 15, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Triple Jump, M50 Triple Jump\n20 athletes. One flight and final on September 15, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Triple Jump, M55 Triple Jump\n28 athletes. Two flights and final on September 15, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Triple Jump, M60 Triple Jump\n22 athletes. One flight and final on September 15, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Triple Jump, M65 Triple Jump\n19 athletes. One flight and final on September 15, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Triple Jump, M70 Triple Jump\n14 athletes. One flight and final on September 12, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Triple Jump, M75 Triple Jump\n15 athletes. One flight and final on September 12, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Shot Put, M35 Shot Put\n20 athletes, 1 flight and final held on September 6, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Shot Put, M45 Shot Put\n20 athletes, 1 flight and final held on September 6, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Shot Put, M50 Shot Put\n32 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 6, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 138]}} {"id": 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Athletics Championships Men, Results, Javelin Throw, M50 Javelin Throw\n41 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 12, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 89], "content_span": [90, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Javelin Throw, M55 Javelin Throw\n37 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 12, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 89], "content_span": [90, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Javelin Throw, M60 Javelin Throw\n31 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 12, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 89], "content_span": [90, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283898-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Men, Results, Javelin Throw, M65 Javelin Throw\n29 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 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This was the second even year of the biennial championship as beginning in 2016 in Perth, Australia, the championships moved to be held in even numbered years. The World Masters Athletics Championships serve the division of the sport of athletics for people over 35 years of age, referred to as Masters athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women\nA full range of track and field events were held, along with a cross country race and a marathon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Track results, 5000 metres\nHeld September 12, 2018, most divisions as two timed finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 76], "content_span": [77, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Track results, 5000 metres, W35 5000 metres\n30 athletes, 2 timed heats. All medalists ran in heat 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Track results, 5000 metres, W40 5000 metres\n27 athletes, 2 timed heats. All medalists ran in heat 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Track results, 5000 metres, W45 5000 metres\n29 athletes, 2 timed heats. All medalists ran in heat 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Track results, 5000 metres, W50 5000 metres\n34 athletes, 2 timed heats. All medalists ran in heat 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Track results, 5000 metres, W55 5000 metres\n28 athletes, 2 timed heats. All medalists ran in heat 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Track results, 5000 metres, W60 5000 metres\n29 athletes, 2 timed heats. All medalists ran in heat 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Long Jump, W40 Long Jump\n24 athletes. Two flights and final on September 9, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 89], "content_span": [90, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Long Jump, W45 Long Jump\n23 athletes. One flight and final on September 11, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 89], "content_span": [90, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Long Jump, W50 Long Jump\n33 athletes. Two flights and final on September 11, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 89], "content_span": [90, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Long Jump, W55 Long Jump\n28 athletes. Two flights and final on September 11, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 89], "content_span": [90, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Long Jump, W60 Long Jump\n23 athletes. Two flights and final on September 11, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 89], "content_span": [90, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Long Jump, W80 Long Jump\nVitola took 3rd on tiebreaker, Shiu-Yu Lin Pan \u00a0Chinese Taipei also jumped 2.83, 2nd best jump 2.78 to 2.69", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 89], "content_span": [90, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Shot Put, W45 Shot Put\n28 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 5, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 87], "content_span": [88, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Shot Put, W50 Shot Put\n28 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 5, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 87], "content_span": [88, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Shot Put, W55 Shot Put\n31 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 5, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 87], "content_span": [88, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Shot Put, W60 Shot Put\n28 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 5, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 87], "content_span": [88, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Shot Put, W60 Shot Put\nIAAF rule 187-4d was noted in the results for Geremias. No indication she was disqualified for an offense. Rule 187-4d involves spreading a substance on hand or ring to gain an advantage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 87], "content_span": [88, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Discus Throw, W45 Discus Throw\n23 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 10, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 95], "content_span": [96, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Discus Throw, W50 Discus Throw\n34 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 10, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 95], "content_span": [96, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Discus Throw, W55 Discus Throw\n34 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 10, 2018", "metadata": 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Hammer Throw, W55 Hammer Throw\n30 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 6, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 95], "content_span": [96, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Hammer Throw, W60 Hammer Throw\n23 athletes, 1 flight and final held on September 6, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 95], "content_span": [96, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Hammer Throw, W65 Hammer Throw\n27 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 6, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 95], "content_span": [96, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Hammer Throw, W75 Hammer Throw\n20 athletes, 1 flight and final held on September 5, 2018", "metadata": 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"enwiki-00283899-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Javelin Throw, W50 Javelin Throw\n28 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 11, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 97], "content_span": [98, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Javelin Throw, W55 Javelin Throw\n31 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 11, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 97], "content_span": [98, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Javelin Throw, W60 Javelin Throw\n25 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 11, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 97], "content_span": [98, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Javelin Throw, W65 Javelin Throw\n28 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 10, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 97], "content_span": [98, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Javelin Throw, W70 Javelin Throw\n19 athletes, 1 flight and final held on September 10, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 97], "content_span": [98, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Javelin Throw, W75 Javelin Throw\n21 athletes, 1 flight and final held on September 10, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 97], "content_span": [98, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Weight Throw, W55 Weight Throw\n28 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 11, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 95], "content_span": [96, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283899-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Athletics Championships Women, Field results, Weight Throw, W60 Weight Throw\n23 athletes, 2 flights and final held on September 11, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 95], "content_span": [96, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283900-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Orienteering Championships\nThe World Masters Orienteering Championships 2018 was the 23rd World Masters Orienteering Championships(WMOC) organised and held in Denmark with 4200 participants from 45 countries. The WMOC is an annual international orienteering competition and the official world championship for orienteering runners above the age of 35. This is the largest orienteering event ever held on Danish soil. The champions were coming from 23 countries. The Danish organizers were using the WMOC as a promotional opportunity and arranged around the event several local competitions for the Danish public, which attracted participation in all ages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283900-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Orienteering Championships, Sprint\nThe sprint competitions took place in H\u00f8rsholm north of Copenhagen (qualifications) and in central Copenhagen (finals). 25 champions were celebrated the first final day 8 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283900-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Orienteering Championships, Middle distance\nMiddle Final took place in Tisvilde Hegn situated on the north coast of the island Zealand. Famous from numerous big events throughout the history, Tisvilde Hegn is legendary in Danish Orienteering for its special vegetation and characteristic contour features. 24 champions were celebrated the second final day 11 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283900-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Masters Orienteering Championships, Long distance\nThe long distance final took place in the classic Grib forest, which is one of the largest in Denmark. The terrain is typical for eastern Denmark and yet challenging due to its complex varieties of vegetation \u2013 from thick spruce forest to hilly, yet fast old beech forest areas. Despite the fact that wood cutting has been extensive over the previous years, large areas of old spruce still provides for fast running. 24 champions were celebrated the third final day 13 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283901-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Matchplay\nThe 2018 BetVictor World Matchplay was the 25th annual staging of the World Matchplay, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament took place at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, from 21\u201329 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283901-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Matchplay\nPhil Taylor was the defending champion, after defeating Peter Wright 18\u20138 in the 2017 final to claim his 16th World Matchplay title, but he retired following the 2018 PDC World Darts Championship final. For the first time, the winner of the tournament, (Gary Anderson) received the Phil Taylor Trophy, which was renamed in his honour in January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283901-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Matchplay\nGary Anderson hit a nine dart finish in the fourth leg of his quarter-final match against Joe Cullen, which was the seventh nine-dart finish in the World Matchplay and the first since 2014. Anderson overcame Cullen 19\u201317, facing two match darts against him at 14\u201315 scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283901-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Matchplay\nAnderson went on to win his first World Matchplay title, defeating Mensur Suljovi\u0107, 21\u201319 after extra time in the longest final in the tournament's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283901-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Matchplay\nThe first round match between Kim Huybrechts and John Henderson made a piece of World Matchplay history, as it was the first time that a match was won by a single leg since the tournament's inception in 1994. Huybrechts won the match 13\u201312 in a sudden-death leg, the first time the rule had been needed since it was introduced in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283901-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Matchplay\nFor the first time in World Matchplay history, no Englishmen progressed into the semi-finals, resulting in a first Matchplay final without an English player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283901-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Matchplay, Prize money\nThe prize fund remained at \u00a3500,000, with the winner's earnings being \u00a3115,000. Gary Anderson received \u00a345,000 for hitting a nine-dart finish in his quarter-final against Joe Cullen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283901-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Matchplay, Format\nIn previous stagings of the event all games had to be won by two clear legs with no sudden-death legs. However, after consulting the host broadcaster Sky Sports in 2013, the PDC decided that games will now only proceed for a maximum of six extra legs before a tie-break leg is required. For example, in a best of 19 legs first round match, if the score reaches 12\u201312 then the 25th leg will be the decider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283901-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Matchplay, Qualification\nThe top 16 players on the PDC Order of Merit as of 2 July 2018 were seeded for the tournament. The top 16 players on the ProTour Order of Merit not to have already qualified were unseeded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship\nThe 2018 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as the 361\u02da World Men's Curling Championship 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 31 to April 8, 2018 at Orleans Arena, on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship\nIn a rematch of the 2017 gold medal game, the Swedish team led by Niklas Edin beat the defending champion Canadian team led by Brad Gushue to win the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Qualification\nThe following nations are qualified to participate in the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Brad GushueThird: Mark NicholsSecond: Brett GallantLead: Geoff WalkerAlternate: Thomas Sallows", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Zou DejiaThird: Zou QiangSecond: Xu JingtaoLead: Shao ZhilinAlternate: Ma Yanlong", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Alexander BaumannThird: Manuel WalterSecond: Daniel HerbergLead: Sebastian SchweizerAlternate: Ryan Sherrard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nFourth: Amos MosanerSkip: Jo\u00ebl RetornazSecond: Andrea PilzerLead: Daniele FerrazzaAlternate: Fabio Ribotta", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nFourth: Go AokiSkip: Masaki IwaiSecond: Ryotaro ShukuyaLead: Yutaka AoyamaAlternate: Koji Nisato", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Jaap van DorpThird: Wouter G\u00f6sgensSecond: Laurens HoekmanLead: Carlo GlasbergenAlternate: Alexander Magan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Steffen WalstadThird: Markus H\u00f8ibergSecond: Magnus NedregottenLead: Magnus V\u00e5gbergAlternate: Steffen Mellemseter", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Alexey TimofeevThird: Sergey GlukhovSecond: Artur RazhabovLead: Evgeny KlimovAlternate: Artem Shmakov", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Bruce MouatThird: Grant HardieSecond: Bobby LammieLead: Hammy McMillan Jr.Alternate: Ross Paterson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Kim Chang-min Third: Seong Se-hyeon Second: Oh Eun-su Lead: Lee Ki-bok Alternate: Kim Min-chan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Niklas EdinThird: Oskar ErikssonSecond: Rasmus Wran\u00e5Lead: Christoffer SundgrenAlternate: Henrik Leek", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Marc PfisterThird: Enrico PfisterSecond: Raphael M\u00e4rkiLead: Simon GempelerAlternate: Jan Hess", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams\nFourth: Greg PersingerSkip: Rich RuohonenSecond: Colin HufmanLead: Philip Tilker Alternate: Christopher Plys", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Round robin standings, WCT ranking\nYear to date World Curling Tour order of merit ranking for each team prior to the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283902-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Round robin results\nAll draw times are listed in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC\u22127:00).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283903-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Mixed Curling Championship\nThe 2018 Winn Rentals World Mixed Curling Championship was held from October 13 to 20 at the Kelowna Curling Club in Kelowna, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283903-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Mixed Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Anne ShibuyaThird: Claudio AlvesSecond: Luciana Reis BarrellaLead: Erick Santos", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283903-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Mixed Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Mads N\u00f8rgaardThird: Camilla JensenSecond: Asmus Bl\u00e6del J\u00f8rgensenLead: Lina Almind Knudsen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283903-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Mixed Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Thomas Levi KooiThird: Linda KreijnsSecond: Eelco den BoerLead: Bonnie Nilhamn", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283903-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Mixed Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Dave WattThird: Brittany TaylorSecond: Lorne De PapeLead: Glenys Taylor", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283903-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Mixed Curling Championship, Teams\nFourth: Bilal \u00d6mer \u00c7ak\u0131rSkip: \u00d6znur PolatSecond: O\u011fuzhan KarakurtLead: Semiha Konuksever", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283904-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\nThe 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 21 to 28 at the \u00d6stersund Arena in \u00d6stersund, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2018 World Senior Curling Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283904-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, Round robin results, Group D, Sunday, April 22\nChina ran out of time, and therefore forfeited the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283905-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Modern Pentathlon Championships\nThe 2018 World Modern Pentathlon Championships was held in Mexico City, Mexico from 6 to 15 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283906-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Monuments Watch\nThe World Monuments Watch is a flagship advocacy program of the New York-based private non-profit organization World Monuments Fund (WMF) that calls international attention to cultural heritage around the world that is threatened by neglect, vandalism, conflict, or disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283906-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Monuments Watch, Selection process\nEvery two years, it publishes a select list known as the Watch List of Endangered Sites that are in urgent need of preservation funding and protection. The sites are nominated by governments, conservation professionals, site caretakers, non-government organizations (NGOs), concerned individuals, and others working in the field. An independent panel of international experts then select 100 candidates from these entries to be part of the Watch List, based on the significance of the sites, the urgency of the threat, and the viability of both advocacy and conservation solutions. For the succeeding two-year period until a new Watch List is published, these 100 sites can avail grants and funds from the WMF, as well as from other foundations, private donors, and corporations by capitalizing on the publicity and attention gained from the inclusion on the Watch List.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 916]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283906-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Monuments Watch, 2018 Watch List\nThe 2018 World Monuments Watch List of Endangered Sites was announced on October 16, 2017 by WMF President Joshua David. The 2018 Watch List highlights the threats to cultural heritage sites posed by human conflict, natural disaster, climate change, and urbanization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283907-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Mountain Running Championships\nThe 2018 World Mountain Running Championships was the 34th edition of the global mountain running competition, World Mountain Running Championships, organised by the World Mountain Running Association and was held in Canillo, Andorra on 16 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283908-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Nomad Games\nThe 2018 World Nomad Games (Kyrgyz: \u0414\u04af\u0439\u043d\u04e9\u043b\u04af\u043a \u043a\u04e9\u0447\u043c\u04e9\u043d\u0434\u04e9\u0440 \u043e\u044e\u043d\u0434\u0430\u0440\u044b 2018, Russian: \u0412\u0441\u0435\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0438\u0433\u0440\u044b \u043a\u043e\u0447\u0435\u0432\u043d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432 2018) was held in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan from 2 - 8 September 2018 with 37 sports being featured in the games. Featured sports include eagle hunting, bone throwing and kok-boru. The opening ceremony was attended by President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. It was announced during the festival that Kyrgyzstan would not be hosting the games in 2020, saying that Turkey will be hosting the games that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283908-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Nomad Games\n37 sports events were held, with 27 countries gaining medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283909-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Open (snooker)\nThe 2018 HongRuiMa Yushan World Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 6 and 12 August 2018 in Yushan, China. It was the second ranking event of the 2018/19 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283909-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Open (snooker)\nQualifying took place between 6\u20139 July in Preston. Ding Junhui was the defending champion, who defeated Kyren Wilson 10\u20133 in the 2017 World Open final, but lost 4\u20135 to Robert Milkins in the last 32 of the 2018 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283909-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Open (snooker)\nMark Williams won his 22nd ranking title, defeating David Gilbert 10\u20139 in the final. Williams trailed 5\u20139 but won the last 5 frames. It was the fourth time he had won this event, having won it twice when the tournament was named the Grand Prix and once when the tournament was named the LG Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283909-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Open (snooker), Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283909-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Open (snooker), Prize fund\nThe \"rolling 147 prize\" for a maximum break stood at \u00a315,000", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283909-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Open (snooker), Qualifying\nThese matches were held between 6 and 9 July 2018 at the Preston Guild Hall in Preston, England. All matches were best of 9 frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283910-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Orienteering Championships\nThe 35th World Orienteering Championships were held in Latvia in August 2018. The hosts were Riga, Sigulda and Turaida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships\nThe 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was a track and field competition for athletes with a disability open to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) affiliated countries within Europe, plus Azerbaijan and Israel. It was held in Berlin, Germany and took place between 20 and 26 August 2018 at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark. 596 athletes from 35 countries competed during the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships\nFormerly the IPC Athletics European Championships, this was the first edition of the championships since IPC undertook a rebrand of all sports for which they are the governing body, including the 'World Para' title for the committees running each sport. IPC Athletics was rebranded World Para Athletics in 2016; its first World Para Athletics Championships were held in 2017, and the European Championships followed suit in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships\nRussia were unable to compete due to their ongoing suspension from IPC and World Para Athletics. Poland topped the medal table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships, Venue\nThe venue for the Championships was the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark athletics stadium in the Northeast of Berlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 55], "content_span": [56, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships, Format\nThe 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was an invitational championships for track and field events. No combined sports were included and not all events were open to all classifications, no events were contested between classifications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships, Format\nAthletes who came in first place were awarded the gold medal, second place the silver medal and third place the bronze. If only three competitors were declared to compete in an event then no bronze medal was awarded. Some events were classed as 'no medal' events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships, Events, Classification\nTo ensure competition is as fair and balanced as possible, athletes are classified dependent on how their disability impacts on their chosen event/s. Thus athletes may compete in an event against competitors with a different disability to themselves. Where there are more than one classification in one event, (for example discus throw F54/55/56), a points system is used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 72], "content_span": [73, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships, Events, Classification\nRaceRunning, an event using adapted tricycle frames for athletes with a severe balance impairment, was introduced for the first time in the RR category, while 'blade' athletes, using a prosthetic specialist limb were placed in new *61-4 categories, while athletes with lower limb disabilities, but not amputations, remained in the *42-4 categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 72], "content_span": [73, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships, Summary\n36 athletes won two gold medals or more at the event, while the seven listed below won 3 golds or more. Pierre Fairbank of France, with 4 gold medals, was the most successful athlete at the event, with Diana Dadzite of Latvia and Sophie Hahn of Great Britain the most successful female athletes with 3 gold medals..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships, Summary\nThe most successful home athletes were Felix Streng and Johannes Floors, with three gold and one silver medal each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships, Summary\nAlexandra Helbling of Switzerland won 5 medals, a gold, 3 silvers and a bronze, the most medals of any athlete at the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships, Summary, Broken records\n15 World Records were broken in total across all events, with a further 9 European records also falling. Lucyna Kornobys of Poland was the only athlete to break two world records, setting new marks in the women's javelin F33 and shot put F33. Markus Rehm of Germany broke his own world record in the long jump T64 with a distance of 8.48 - a distance that would have won the able bodied event a few weeks earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 73], "content_span": [74, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships, Medal table\nIn a number of events not all medals were awarded, due to field sizes or tied medals. In addition, a small number of rces were deemed 'non-medal' events, and are therefore not included in the final medal table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283911-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships, Participating nations\nBelow is the list of countries who participated in the Championships. Russia were unable to take part due to their ongoing suspension from the IPC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 71], "content_span": [72, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283912-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres\nThe men's 100 metres at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. RaceRunning events (running events involving adapted tricycle frames for athletes with severe balance difficulties) were included for the first time as RR1 and RR3 events. 18 classification finals are held in all over this distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283913-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nThe men's 1500 metres at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahnsportpark in Berlin from 20\u201326 August. 6 events were held over this distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283914-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres\nThe men's 200 metres at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283915-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay\nThe men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 1 event will be held over this distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283916-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres\nThe men's 400 metres at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283917-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 metres\nThe men's 5000 metres at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 3 events were held over this distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283918-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres\nThe men's 800 metres at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahnsportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 5 events were held over this distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283919-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Men's club throw\nThe men's club throw at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 2 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283920-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Men's discus throw\nThe men's discus throw at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 7 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283921-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Men's high jump\nThe men's High jump at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283922-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Men's javelin throw\nThe men's javelin throw at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 9 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283923-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Men's long jump\nThe men's long jump at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283924-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Men's shot put\nThe men's shot put at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 17 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283925-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Universal 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay\nThe universal 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships will be held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahnsportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 1 event will be held over this distance. This is the sole mixed gender event at the Championships (excepting guides in T11 events).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 81], "section_span": [81, 81], "content_span": [82, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283926-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres\nThe women\u2019s 100 metres at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. RaceRunning events (running events involving adapted tricycle frames for athletes with severe balance difficulties) were included for the first time as RR1 and RR3 events. 15 classification finals are held in all over this distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283927-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres\nThe women's 1500 metres at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 4 events were held over this distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283928-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres\nThe women's 200 metres at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 to 26 August. 12 classification finals are held, all over this distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283929-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres\nThe women\u2019s 400 metres at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. RaceRunning events (running events involving adapted tricycle frames for athletes with severe balance difficulties) were included for the first time as RR1 and RR3 events. 9 classification finals are held in all over this distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283930-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Women's 5000 metres\nThe women's 5000 metres at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 1 event was held over this distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283931-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres\nThe women's 800 metres at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 3 events were held over this distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283932-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Women's club throw\nThe women's club throw at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 2 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283933-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Women's discus throw\nThe women's discus throw at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 7 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283934-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Women's javelin throw\nThe women's javelin throw at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 5 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283935-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Women's long jump\nThe women's long jump at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 8 finals were held in this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283936-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Athletics European Championships \u2013 Women's shot put\nThe women's shot put at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin from 20 - 26 August. 12 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283937-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships\nThe 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2018 World Para Swimming Allianz European Championships took place in Dublin, Ireland from the 13th to the 19th of August, 2018. It was the 5th edition of the Championships, the first under the new World Para Swimming branding, and the first time Ireland had hosted. Ukraine topped the medal table for the fourth time in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283937-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships\nFormerly the IPC Swimming European Championships, this was the first edition of the championships since IPC undertook a rebrand of all sports for which they are the governing body, including the 'World Para' title for the committees running each sport. IPC Swimming was rebranded World Para Swimming in 2016; its first World Para Swimming Championships were held in 2017, and the European Championships followed suit in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283937-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships, Summary\n25 Athletes won three gold medals or more at the event, while the ten listed below won 4 golds or more. Ihar Boki of Belarus, with seven gold medals, was the most successful swimmer at the event, with Yelyzaveta Mereshko of Ukraine the most successful female athlete with 5 gold and 3 silver medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283937-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships, Summary\nThe most successful home athlete was Ellen Keane, with one gold and one bronze medal. Her gold medal represented Ireland's first ever gold in the European Para Swimming Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283937-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships, Summary\n22 World Records were broken in total across all events, with a further 9 European records also falling. Liesette Bruinsma of the Netherlands broke three world records in the S11 classification, the most of any competitor; women's 100 metres freestyle S11, 400 metres freestyle S11 and 200 metres individual medley S11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283937-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships, Final medal table\nUkraine topped the medal table in both golds and total medals for the fourth time in a row. Ukraine dominated men's swimming with 22 golds, while Great Britain led the field in women's swimming, with 17 golds. Hosts Ireland finished 16th, with 3 medals including 1 gold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283938-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 100 metres freestyle relay\nThe 4 x 100 metres freestyle relay at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 2 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [80, 80], "content_span": [81, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283938-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 100 metres freestyle relay, Points calculation\nPoints are calculated by adding together the numerical classifications of the swimmers. If a swimmer has two different numerical classifications depending on which stoke they are employing (for example a swimmer may be classified as S9, but SB8 for breaststroke and SM8 for medley), the relevant points value will be for the classification in the stroke being used in the relay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [82, 100], "content_span": [101, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283938-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 100 metres freestyle relay, Points calculation\nThe 20 point relay is restricted to a combined total of 20 points, and is generally composed of a combination of swimmers from the more impaired categories, typically the S2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 categories. No 20 point relay was held in this distance in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [82, 100], "content_span": [101, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283938-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 100 metres freestyle relay, Points calculation\nThe 34 point relay is restricted to a combined total of 34 points, and are generally composed of a combination of swimmers from the less physically impaired categories, typically the S7, 8, 9 and 10 categories, although an S5 swimmer, Antonio Fantin, swam for Italy, allowing that team to include three less impaired swimmers (two S10's and an S9).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [82, 100], "content_span": [101, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283938-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 100 metres freestyle relay, Points calculation\nThe 49 point relay is restricted to a combined total of 49 points, and is generally composed of a combination of swimmers from S11, S12, S13 (visual impairment) and S14 (intellectual disability) categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [82, 100], "content_span": [101, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283939-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 100 metres medley relay\nThe 4 x 100 metres medley relay at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 2 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283939-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 100 metres medley relay, Points calculation\nPoints are calculated by adding together the numerical classifications of the swimmers. If a swimmer has two different numerical classifications depending on which stoke they are employing (for example a swimmer may be classified as S9, but SB8 for breaststroke and SM8 for medley), the relevant points value will be for the classification in the stroke being used in the relay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 97], "content_span": [98, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283939-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 100 metres medley relay, Points calculation\nThe 20 point relay is restricted to a combined total of 20 points, and is generally composed of a combination of swimmers from the more impaired categories, typically the S2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 categories. No 20 point relay was held in this distance in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 97], "content_span": [98, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283939-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 100 metres medley relay, Points calculation\nThe 34 point relay is restricted to a combined total of 34 points, and are generally composed of a combination of swimmers from the less physically impaired categories, typically the S7, 8, 9 and 10 categories, although an S5 swimmer, Antonio Fantin, swam for Italy, allowing that team to include three less impaired swimmers (two S10's and an S9).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 97], "content_span": [98, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283939-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 100 metres medley relay, Points calculation\nThe 49 point relay is restricted to a combined total of 49 points, and is generally composed of a combination of swimmers from S11, S12, S13 (visual impairment) and S14 (intellectual disability) categories. No 49 point relay was held in this distance in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 97], "content_span": [98, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283940-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 50 metres freestyle relay\nThe 4 x 50 metres freestyle relay at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. A single classification final was held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 79], "section_span": [79, 79], "content_span": [80, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283940-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 50 metres freestyle relay, Points calculation\nPoints are calculated by adding together the numerical classifications of the swimmers. If a swimmer has two different numerical classifications depending on which stroke they are employing (for example a swimmer may be classified as S9, but SB8 for breaststroke and SM8 for medley), the relevant points value will be for the classification in the stroke being used in the relay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 79], "section_span": [81, 99], "content_span": [100, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283940-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 50 metres freestyle relay, Points calculation\nThe 20 point relay is restricted to a combined total of 20 points, and is generally composed of a combination of swimmers from the more impaired categories, typically the S2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 categories. However, bronze medalists Germany included an S7, Tobias Pollop, balanced with an S3, Josia Topf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 79], "section_span": [81, 99], "content_span": [100, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283940-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 50 metres freestyle relay, Points calculation\nThe 34 point relay is restricted to a combined total of 34 points, and are generally composed of a combination of swimmers from the less physically impaired categories, typically the S7, 8, 9 and 10 categories. No 34 point relay was held in this distance in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 79], "section_span": [81, 99], "content_span": [100, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283940-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 50 metres freestyle relay, Points calculation\nThe 49 point relay is restricted to a combined total of 49 points, and is generally composed of a combination of swimmers from S11, S12, S13 (visual impairment) and S14 (intellectual disability) categories. No 49 point relay was held in this distance in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 79], "section_span": [81, 99], "content_span": [100, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283941-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 50 metres medley relay\nThe 4 x 50 metres medley relay at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. A single classification final was held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283941-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 50 metres medley relay, Points calculation\nPoints are calculated by adding together the numerical classifications of the swimmers. If a swimmer has two different numerical classifications depending on which stoke they are employing (for example a swimmer may be classified as S9, but SB8 for breaststroke and SM8 for medley), the relevant points value will be for the classification in the stroke being used in the relay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 96], "content_span": [97, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283941-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 50 metres medley relay, Points calculation\nThe 20 point relay is restricted to a combined total of 20 points, and is generally composed of a combination of swimmers from the more impaired categories, typically the S2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 96], "content_span": [97, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283941-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 50 metres medley relay, Points calculation\nThe 34 point relay is restricted to a combined total of 34 points, and are generally composed of a combination of swimmers from the less physically impaired categories, typically the S7, 8, 9 and 10 categories. No 34 point relay was held in this distance in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 96], "content_span": [97, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283941-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 4 \u00d7 50 metres medley relay, Points calculation\nThe 49 point relay is restricted to a combined total of 49 points, and is generally composed of a combination of swimmers from S11, S12, S13 (visual impairment) and S14 (intellectual disability) categories. No 49 point relay was held in this distance in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 96], "content_span": [97, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283942-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres backstroke\nThe men's 100 metres backstroke at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 10 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283943-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres breaststroke\nThe men's 100 metres breaststroke at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. Ten classification finals were held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 79], "section_span": [79, 79], "content_span": [80, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283944-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres butterfly\nThe men's 100 metres butterfly at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. Seven classification finals were held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283945-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres freestyle\nThe men's 100 metres freestyle at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 10 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283946-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 150 metres individual medley\nThe men's 150 metres individual medley at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 2 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [84, 84], "content_span": [85, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283947-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres freestyle\nThe men's 200 metres freestyle at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 5 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283948-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres individual medley\nThe men's 150 metres individual medley at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 2 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 84], "section_span": [84, 84], "content_span": [85, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283949-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres freestyle\nThe men's 400 metres freestyle at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 8 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283950-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 50 metres backstroke\nThe men's 50 metres backstroke at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 4 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283951-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 50 metres breaststroke\nThe men's 50 metres breaststroke at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. A single classification final was held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 78], "section_span": [78, 78], "content_span": [79, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283952-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 50 metres butterfly\nThe men's 50 metres butterfly at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 to 19 August. Two classification finals were held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [75, 75], "content_span": [76, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283953-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 50 metres freestyle\nThe men's 50 metres freestyle at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 11 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [75, 75], "content_span": [76, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283954-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres backstroke\nThe women's 100 metres backstroke at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 9 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 79], "section_span": [79, 79], "content_span": [80, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283955-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres breaststroke\nThe women's 100 metres breaststroke at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 8 classification finals were held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 81], "section_span": [81, 81], "content_span": [82, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283956-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres butterfly\nThe women's 100 metres butterfly at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 5 classification finals were held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 78], "section_span": [78, 78], "content_span": [79, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283957-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres freestyle\nThe women's 100 metres freestyle at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 9 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 78], "section_span": [78, 78], "content_span": [79, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283958-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 150 metres individual medley\nThe women's 150 metres individual medley at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 to 19 August. A single classification final was held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 86], "section_span": [86, 86], "content_span": [87, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283959-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres freestyle\nThe women's 200 metres freestyle at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 2 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 78], "section_span": [78, 78], "content_span": [79, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283960-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres individual medley\nThe women's 200 metres individual at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 9 classification finals were held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 86], "section_span": [86, 86], "content_span": [87, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283961-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres freestyle\nThe women's 400 metres freestyle at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 7 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 78], "section_span": [78, 78], "content_span": [79, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283962-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metres backstroke\nThe women's 50 metres backstroke at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 2 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 78], "section_span": [78, 78], "content_span": [79, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283963-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metres breaststroke\nThe women's 50 metres breaststroke at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. A single classification final was held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [80, 80], "content_span": [81, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283964-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metres butterfly\nThe women's 50 metres butterfly at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 3 classification finals were held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283965-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metres freestyle\nThe women's 50 metres freestyle at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships was held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from 13 - 19 August. 9 classification finals are held in all over this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283965-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metres freestyle, Results, S6\nYelyzaveta Mereshko broke the world record in the women's 50m freestyle S6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 90], "content_span": [91, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283965-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metres freestyle, Results, S7\nDenise Grahl broke the European record in the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 90], "content_span": [91, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283965-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metres freestyle, Results, S11\nMaryna Piddubna broke the world record in the women's 50m freestyle S11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 91], "content_span": [92, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283965-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metres freestyle, Results, S12\nThere was a tie for the gold medal for Hannah Russell and Elena Krawzow in the women's 50m freestyle S12 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 91], "content_span": [92, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283966-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Pool Masters\nThe 2018 World Pool Masters, also known as World Pool Masters XXV, was a nine-ball pool tournament that took place in Gibraltar between 2\u20134 March 2018. It was the 25th edition of the invitational tournament organised by Matchroom Sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283966-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Pool Masters\nDutchman Niels Feijen defeated Shane Van Boening of the United States in the final to win the title for the second time in his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283966-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Pool Masters, Players\n16 players took part in the tournament, including 12 former champions. Two other former champions \u2013 Tony Drago and Francisco Bustamante \u2013 had been scheduled to take part, but withdrew before the start of the competition and were replaced by Karl Boyes and Joshua Filler. Spain's David Alcaide defended the title he won in 2017, but was defeated in the first round by Karl Boyes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283966-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Pool Masters, Tournament, Seeds\nChina's Wu Jiaqing withdrew prior to the start of the competition, and was replaced in the draw by England's Chris Melling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283966-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Pool Masters, Tournament, Draw\nThe draw for the tournament was made on 30 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283967-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of Barcelona\nThe 2018 World RX of Barcelona was the first round of the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmel\u00f3, Catalonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283968-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of Belgium\nThe 2018 World RX of Belgium was the third round of the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at the Circuit Jules Tacheny Mettet in Mettet, Wallonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283969-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of Canada\nThe 2018 World RX of Canada was the seventh round of the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at the Circuit Trois-Rivi\u00e8res in Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283970-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of France\nThe 2018 World RX of France was the eighth round of the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at the Circuit de Loh\u00e9ac in the Loh\u00e9ac commune of Bretagne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283971-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of Germany\nThe 2018 World RX of Germany was the eleventh round of the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at the Estering in Buxtehude, Lower Saxony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283971-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of Germany, Supercar, Semi-Finals\nNote: Timmy Hansen was disqualified for a contact with Anton Marklund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283972-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of Great Britain\nThe 2018 World RX of Great Britain was the fourth round of the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, Northamptonshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283973-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of Latvia\nThe 2018 World RX of Latvia was the ninth round of the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at Bi\u0137ernieku Kompleks\u0101 Sporta B\u0101ze, in the Latvian capital of Riga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283974-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of Norway\nThe 2018 World RX of Norway was the fifth round of the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at the L\u00e5nkebanen near Hell, Nord-Tr\u00f8ndelag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283975-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of Portugal\nThe 2018 World RX of Portugal was the second round of the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at the Pista Autom\u00f3vel de Montalegre in Montalegre, Vila Real.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283976-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of South Africa\nThe 2018 World RX of South Africa was the twelfth and final round of the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at the Killarney Motor Racing Complex in Cape Town, Western Cape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283977-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of Sweden\nThe 2018 World RX of Sweden was the sixth round of the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at the H\u00f6ljesbanan in the village of H\u00f6ljes, V\u00e4rmland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283977-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of Sweden, Final\n* \u00a0\u2014 Mattias Ekstr\u00f6m finished third but was later penalised for a final lap incident with Timmy Hansen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283978-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World RX of USA\nThe 2018 World RX of the United States was the tenth round of the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at the Circuit of the Americas, in Austin, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship\nThe 2018 FIA World Rally Championship was the 46th season of the World Rally Championship, an auto racing championship recognised by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) as the highest class of international rallying. Teams and crews were competing in thirteen events\u2014starting with the Monte Carlo Rally in January and finishing with Rally Australia in November\u2014for the World Rally Championships for Drivers, Co-drivers and Manufacturers. Crews were free to compete in cars complying with World Rally Car and Group R regulations; however, only Manufacturers competing with 2017-specification World Rally Cars were eligible to score points in the Manufacturers' championship. The series were once again supported by the World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3 categories at every round and by the Junior World Rally Championship at selected rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 910]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship\nS\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia started the season as the defending drivers' and co-drivers' champions after securing their fifth consecutive World Championship titles at the 2017 Wales Rally GB. M-Sport, the team they drove for in 2017, were the defending manufacturers' champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship\nAt the conclusion of the championship, Ogier and Ingrassia successfully defended their championship titles for the fifth time in their career and rewrote the title figure to six. Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul finished the season as the runners-up, eighteen points behind the six-time world champions, while Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja placed third, a further twenty points behind. In the World Championship for Manufacturers, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT won their first World Championship title since 1999. Hyundai Motorsport finished second overall twenty-seven points behind Toyota, with defending manufacturers' champions M-Sport World Rally Team in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Calendar\nThe championship was contested over thirteen rounds in Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America and Oceania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Rally of Poland was removed from the calendar after the FIA repeatedly raised concerns about the event's safety. The FIA had previously ordered a review of the event's safety standards ahead of the 2017 event, threatening to rescind the rally's World Championship status if conditions were not improved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Rally of Poland was replaced by the Rally of Turkey, which returned to the calendar for the first time since 2010. The event, which was previously based in Istanbul, return to south-western Turkey. It was based in the coastal resort town of Marmaris in Mu\u011fla Province, with the route running along the Mediterranean coastline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe rallies of Great Britain and Catalunya swapped places on the schedule, with Rally Catalunya becoming the penultimate round of the championship. Rallye Deutschland relocated to a new headquarters with the service park located at the Bostalsee reservoir in Saarland state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Calendar, Route changes\nRallye Monte Carlo featured a heavily revised route from the 2017 event, with half the route being brand new. After starting in Mexico City in 2017, Rally Mexico returned to its traditional start in Guanajuato. The route featured minor changes and included a new Power Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Calendar, Route changes\nThe route for the Tour de Corse was heavily revised, with only two of the seven stages being run as they were in 2017. The headquarters of the event was relocated to Bastia, which hosted the event for the first time since 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Calendar, Route changes\nOrganisers of the Wales Rally GB announced plans for a heavily revised route. The changes were made possible by the passage of legislation by the British government allowing public roads to be used for motorsport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Entries\nThe following teams and crews were entered in the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Entries, Team changes\nCitro\u00ebn reduced its commitment to two full-time entries, with a third car entered at selected events. At the same time, the C3 WRC made available to privateer entrants. The cars are leased to drivers but their operation is run by Citro\u00ebn Racing's sister team PH Sport, allowing Citro\u00ebn to retain control over the cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Entries, Team changes\nFord increased its factory support for M-Sport's programme, with the team officially known as \"M-Sport Ford World Rally Team\". Their support includes engine, chassis and aerodynamic development. Ford is recognised as the manufacturer entry, marking the company's return to the sport for the first time since 2012. Ford's support extends to M-Sport's World Rally Championship-2 programme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Entries, Team changes\nTyre supplier DMACK scaled back its involvement in the championship from full-time competition to supporting World Rally Championship-2 entries. The company had previously supported its own eponymous team before becoming a supplier to and sponsor of M-Sport's third entry in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Entries, Crew changes\nNine-time World Champions S\u00e9bastien Loeb and Daniel Elena returned to the World Rally Championship with Citro\u00ebn. They plan to contest selected rounds of the championship, allowing Loeb to compete in the Dakar Rally and the World Rallycross Championship. Loeb had previously been enlisted by the team to assist with development of the C3 WRC, particularly on loose surfaces, after Citro\u00ebn endured a difficult championship campaign in 2017. With Citro\u00ebn scaling back its commitment to two full-time entries, St\u00e9phane Lefebvre left the championship to contest the World Rally Championship-2 in an R5 variant of the C3 WRC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Entries, Crew changes\nMads \u00d8stberg left Jipocar World Rally Team and moved to Citro\u00ebn, contesting selected events in the team's third entry. He retained ownership of the Ford Fiesta WRC that he competed with in 2017 through the Adapta World Rally Team, entering it separately to his own entry with Citro\u00ebn. Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle were dismissed by Citro\u00ebn after six rounds, with the team citing their disproportionately high number of crashes and a lack of self-control as the reason behind the sacking. Mads \u00d8stberg and Torstein Eriksen were recruited to replace Meeke and Nagle from the Rally Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Entries, Crew changes\nAndreas Mikkelsen and Anders J\u00e6ger returned to full-time competition with Hyundai Motorsport. Mikkelsen and J\u00e6ger, who were left without a seat at the end of 2016 following Volkswagen Motorsport's withdrawal from the sport, contested selected rounds of the 2017 championship for Citro\u00ebn and Hyundai before joining the team for 2018. Hyundai chose to split their third car between Hayden Paddon and Dani Sordo. The team entered four i20 Coupe WRCs in the Rally de Portugal to ensure that both Paddon and Sordo contest seven rounds of the championship each. Sordo also changed co-drivers, ending his four-year partnership with Marc Mart\u00ed. He instead reunited with Carlos del Barrio, who previously drove with Sordo in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Entries, Crew changes\nOtt T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja left M-Sport to join Toyota, where they replaced Juho H\u00e4nninen and Kaj Lindstr\u00f6m. H\u00e4nninen and Lindstr\u00f6m remained with the team, with H\u00e4nninen taking on a test driver role and Lindstr\u00f6m joining the team's management. Following the departure of T\u00e4nak and J\u00e4rveoja, M-Sport promoted Teemu Suninen and Mikko Markkula from their World Rally Championship-2 team. Suninen and Markkula are sharing the car with Bryan Bouffier, who contested the Rallye Monte Carlo and the Tour de Corse. Bouffier was hired for his specialist knowledge of the events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Rule changes\nThe FIA took responsibility for the placement of artificial chicanes in stages, with regulations dictating their placement, width and frequency of use. The changes were introduced following the 2017 Rally Finland where event organisers placed chicanes that were criticised by drivers for being too narrow, poorly-positioned and potentially dangerous.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Rule changes\nPrivateers entering 2017-specification World Rally Cars are permitted to enter their cars under their own team names. In 2017, privateers competing in current-specification cars had to have their entries submitted by a manufacturer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Rule changes\nThe WRC Trophy were no longer be open to privateers entering World Rally Cars older than 2017-specification models.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Rule changes\nIn the week before the Tour de Corse, the FIA approved a rule change that any crew checking in late to the Power Stage forfeits the possibility of scoring points in the stage. The changes were introduced in response to controversies that arose in the Rallies of Sweden and Mexico where crews deliberately checked in late to the Power Stage, incurring time penalties but earning more favourable conditions on the stage for the purposes of setting a faster time to secure more points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo\nRallye Monte Carlo saw S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia start their title defence with a rally victory, recording their fifth victory in the event. Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja finished second on their Toyota debut, with teammates Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila rounding out the podium. Citro\u00ebn number one Kris Meeke claimed fourth with the fastest time on the Power Stage, despite spinning and reversing into a ditch on the opening stage during Thursday night. Hyundai star Thierry Neuville went off the road on the same stage as Meeke, eventually finishing fifth and taking four points from the power stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo\nElfyn Evans and Daniel Barritt were sixth to give their team, M-Sport World Rally Team, an early lead in the manufacturers' championship. Esapekka Lappi made a mistake on the final stage, which cost him half a minute to get back on the road and dropped him from fourth to seventh. Bryan Bouffier, who drove Ford's third car, finished eighth. Craig Breen and Scott Martin were ninth on the board after enduring brake problems on Friday morning. WRC 2 winner Jan Kopecky snatched one point with tenth place overall. Andreas Mikkelsen took three points in the power stage after retiring from Friday due to an alternator problem. Teammate Dani Sordo retired from the rally whilst running in third place when he went off the road in snowy conditions on Saturday morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Sweden\nThierry Neuville won his seventh world rally and his first on snow to take the lead of the drivers' championship by ten points. The Belgian also became only the third non-Nordic driver to win the event after S\u00e9bastien Loeb and S\u00e9bastien Ogier. Craig Breen finished a career-high second after a consistent performance, with Andreas Mikkelsen rounding out the podium. With a one-three finish, Hyundai led the manufacturers' championship for the first time ever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0022-0001", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Sweden\nEsapekka Lappi grabbed fourth from Hayden Paddon, and also took a full five points from the Power Stage to climbed up to fourth in the drivers' championship, on the same points as teammate Jari-Matti Latvala, who was one of many drivers to struggle in the deep snow and finished seventh overall. Norwegian Mads \u00d8stberg drove a Citro\u00ebn C3 WRC especially for the event and finished sixth. Young Finn Teemu Suninen was eighth in a Ford Fiesta, the highest placed amongst the M-Sport drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0022-0002", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Sweden\nOtt T\u00e4nak and Monte-Carlo winner S\u00e9bastien Ogier struggled the most with grip all weekend, as they ploughed a path through deep snow, being second and first on the road order. They were unable to regain lost ground and finished ninth and tenth respectively. Elfyn Evans struggled all weekend and finished outside the points in eleventh, whilst Kris Meeke retired with engine issues after hitting a snowbank during Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Guanajuato M\u00e9xico\nS\u00e9bastien Ogier sealed his second victory of the season, despite receiving a 10-second penalty for cutting a chicane. With the victory, he recaptured the position of championship leader from Thierry Neuville, who finished sixth overall after faring worst in the conditions and losing more than 20 seconds due to a fuel pressure problem and a power steering issue on his i20 on Friday, by four points. Kris Meeke lost second place to Friday leader Dani Sordo after a half roll on Sunday morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Guanajuato M\u00e9xico\nAndreas Mikkelsen finished fourth and snatched two points on the Power Stage, after struggling with his i20's handling throughout. Returning nine-time champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb was fifth overall and took an extra point at the Power Stage after suffered a puncture on Saturday whilst leading. WRC 2 winner Pontus Tidemand finished seventh ahead of Jari-Matti Latvala, who fought back up the leaderboard after retiring his Toyota Yaris on Friday with alternator problems. WRC 2 drivers Gus Greensmith and Pedro Heller completed the top ten. Ott T\u00e4nak finished fourteenth overall, but took victory and five points from the Power Stage. Elfyn Evans withdrew from the rally after co-driver Daniel Barritt suffered a concussion during a crash on Friday morning, whilst teammate Teemu Suninen and Toyota's Esapekka Lappi retired from Friday due to hitting a barrier and crashing out respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 957]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Tour de Corse\nS\u00e9bastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia took their third win of the year in Corsica, ahead of Ott T\u00e4nak and Thierry Neuville, who suffered multiple issues during the weekend. Dani Sordo and Elfyn Evans finished fourth and fifth respectively, separated by just 3.5 seconds. Esapekka Lappi thrust himself into the fight for second on Saturday, but his hopes were shattered when he hit a kerb and was forced to stop and change a punctured tyre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0024-0001", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Tour de Corse\nHe eventually plummeted to seventh, but salvaged maximum bonus points by winning the final power Stage in his Yaris, as well as overhauling Andreas Mikkelsen to climb to sixth. WRC 2 winner Jan Kopeck\u00fd finished eighth ahead of Kris Meeke, who restarted under Rally2 regulations after going off the road when co-driver Paul Nagle read the wrong pace notes. WRC 2 runner Yoann Bonato completed the top ten. Nine-time world champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb finished out of the points after going off into a ditch on SS2 and having to restart under Rally2, but he would claim four points from the Power Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Argentina\nOtt T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja took their first victory of the season and their first for their new employers: Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT. Thierry Neuville and teammate Dani Sordo finished second and third overall, which allowed their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, to move further ahead at the top of the manufacturers' championship. Championship leader S\u00e9bastien Ogier finished fourth, with his lead in the Drivers' championship shrinking to ten points. Andreas Mikkelsen was just four seconds behind in fifth, whilst Elfyn Evans finished sixth in another Fiesta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Argentina\nKris Meeke came home seventh after picking up a puncture on Saturday whilst in contention for a podium. Esapekka Lappi, Teemu Suninen and WRC 2 winner Pontus Tidemand completed the leaderboard. Jari-Matti Latvala was forced to retire from the rally after his Yaris' front right suspension and engine lubrication system sustained significant damage on Friday. Craig Breen was also forced to retire on Saturday after rolling his Citro\u00ebn and damaging the rollcage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally de Portugal\nThierry Neuville took his first Portugal and eighth WRC victory after a four-day battle. Because the championship leader S\u00e9bastien Ogier failed to score any points, he relinquished the championship lead to Neuville. The Belgian left with a nineteen-point lead. Ogier's Ford teammate's Elfyn Evans and Teemu Suninen both finished on the podium to help the team narrow the gap to Hyundai to thirteen points. Argentina winner Ott T\u00e4nak retired from the rally on the first gravel stage due to damaging his engine's cooling system after hitting a large rock, while Kris Meeke crashed his Citro\u00ebn C3 during SS12 on Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally de Portugal\nEsapekka Lappi took another Power Stage win but received a ten-second penalty for displacing dividing bales on SS9's third roundabout, which meant he lost his fourth place to Dani Sordo. Mads \u00d8stberg and teammate Craig Breen finished in sixth and seventh overall, which brought some valuable points to Citro\u00ebn. WRC-2 podium finishers Pontus Tidemand, \u0141ukasz Pieni\u0105\u017cek and St\u00e9phane Lefebvre finished in eighth, ninth and tenth respectively to complete the leaderboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Italia Sardegna\nThierry Neuville snatched victory from the defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier on the last stage \u2014 The Belgian won the Power Stage, which gained him the maximum thirty points from the event, extending his championship lead to twenty-seven points. The difference between the two title rivals was only 0.7 second, the third tightest winning margin in WRC history, shared with the 2017 Rally Argentina. Esapekka Lappi rounded out the podium places in a Yaris, followed by Hayden Paddon in fourth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Italia Sardegna\nWith a one-four finish, Hyundai Motorsport moved further ahead in the manufacturers' championship, twenty-eight points ahead of M-Sport World Rally Team. The two Citro\u00ebn drivers Mads \u00d8stberg and Craig Breen finished fifth and sixth respectively, ahead of Jari-Matti Latvala, who was running under Rally2 regulations because of an alternator problem on Saturday. WRC-2 category leader Jan Kopeck\u00fd came home in eighth followed by Ott T\u00e4nak, who damaged his radiator on Friday and received a forty-second penalty, while Teemu Suninen, who went of the road on Friday, completed the top ten. Andreas Mikkelsen also retired from Friday due to a gearbox issue, but claimed two points from the Power Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Finland\nOtt T\u00e4nak took his second rally victory of the season with a Power Stage win in Finland to gain a maximum thirty points. With a master-class performance in Rally Finland, he closed the gap to the front in the championship to twenty-five points. Mads \u00d8stberg edged Jari-Matti Latvala by only 2.8 seconds to finish second overall. Hayden Paddon completed the rally in fourth place after defending rally winner Esapekka Lappi went off in SS20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0028-0001", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Finland\nS\u00e9bastien Ogier finished fifth place after Ford gave team orders to Elfyn Evans, who finished in seventh overall, on Friday and Teemu Suninen, who finished sixth in another Fiesta, on Sunday respectively. Craig Breen in eighth after Friday's early puncture and late fuel pressure issue. Championship leader Thierry Neuville, who was first on the road on Friday, ended his rally ahead of his teammate Andreas Mikkelsen, who rolled his i20 on Friday, in ninth place. Despite an unsatisfying result, he still led the championship by twenty-one points over the defending world champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, ADAC Rallye Deutschland\nOtt T\u00e4nak achieved back-to-back victories for the first time in his career and claimed his second consecutive win in Germany, to rekindle both his and Toyota's championship hopes. During the first half of the rally his main challenger was S\u00e9bastien Ogier, but that ended when the Frenchman clipped a boulder on the second run through Panzerplatte and was forced to stop and change a damaged wheel, plummeting to eighth in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0029-0001", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, ADAC Rallye Deutschland\nGoing into the final day the battle for second place was now between Dani Sordo and Jari-Matti Latvala, but both drivers would drop out of the rally on stage 16; Sordo when a trip through the vineyards damaged his radiator, and Latvala when his transmission failed. All of this benefitted Thierry Neuville and Esapekka Lappi, who eventually finished second and third respectively, allowing the former to extend his championship lead to 23 points. Ogier claimed fourth after a final day charge up the leaderboard which culminated with a victory in the powerstage, followed by Teemu Suninen, Andreas Mikkelsen and Craig Breen. Eighth place went to local driver Marijan Griebel, with leading WRC-2 drivers Jan Kopecky and seventeen-year-old Kalle Rovanper\u00e4 completing the points finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 856]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Marmaris Rally of Turkey\nThe WRC's return to Turkey saw Ott T\u00e4nak score his third consecutive victory, and in doing so moved him to second in the standings behind Thierry Neuville. T\u00e4nak's teammate Jari-Matti Latvala finished in a season-high second place to also put Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT into the lead of the manufacturers championship, and Hyundai's Hayden Paddon completed the podium. Teemu Suninen took fourth ahead of Andreas Mikkelsen, who had led until his transmission failed. The rally would see many casualties as a result of the very rough stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Marmaris Rally of Turkey\nChampionship leader Neuville had been leading at the end of leg one, but was forced to retire when his suspension failed on Saturday morning. This handed championship rival S\u00e9bastien Ogier the rally lead, and although he managed to repair a broken steering arm after stage 9, he too would go out when he went off the road two stages later. Both drivers recovered to set first and second place times respectively on the power stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0030-0002", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Marmaris Rally of Turkey\nOther casualties included Elfyn Evans who broke his suspension on stage 6, Esapekka Lappi who went off on stage 10, Mads \u00d8stberg who suffered both suspension and turbo failure, and early leader Craig Breen whose car caught fire and burned out. The top 10 was completed by WRC-2 runners Henning Solberg, Jan Kopecky, Simone Tempestini, Chris Ingram and the recovering Ogier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Wales Rally GB\nThis weekend turned out to be disastrous for Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja. The Estonian crew led the rally with a comfortable lead until they damaged the radiator after a landing off a jump during the second pass through Sweet Lamb Hafren. This left former teammate S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Jari-Matti Latvala batting for the victory. Eventually, defending world champion snatched the victory from the Finn by 10.6 seconds to move back on second in the drivers' championship, just seven points behind championship leader Thierry Neuville, who recovered to fifth after he went off on Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Wales Rally GB\nEsapekka Lappi gained another podium to extend Toyota's lead over Hyundai to twenty points. Craig Breen finished the rally in fourth place after enjoying a trouble-free weekend except a spin on Sunday. Mads \u00d8stberg lost two places to Andreas Mikkelsen and Hayden Paddon in eighth, followed by eighteen year-old World Rally Championship-2 driver Kalle Rovanper\u00e4. Teammate Pontus Tidemand completed the event in tenth to cover out of the leaderboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, RACC Rally Catalunya de Espa\u00f1a\nComing to Spain, nine-time world champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb returned to enter the rally with a Citro\u00ebn C3. His experience on tarmac roads successfully helped him achieve his 79th career win. Loeb's victory also marked the longest time span in history between a driver's first and last event win. Defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Ogier finished second with four extra Power Stage points, which elevated him to the championship lead by three points heading to Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0032-0001", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, RACC Rally Catalunya de Espa\u00f1a\nHis teammate Elfyn Evans found his pace and successfully kept Thierry Neuville, who suffered a puncture in the last few kilometers of the event, and Dani Sordo behind. Three more punctured tyres \u2014 one for Ott T\u00e4nak, who was leading the rally on Saturday; the other two for Jari-Matti Latvala, who was fighting for his first rally victory of the season \u2014 completely ruined their incredible speed and also shrunk T\u00e4nak's title chances. The Estonian eventually finished the rally sixth, ahead of his Toyota teammates Lappi and Latvala. Despite winning the Power Stage, T\u00e4nak fell twenty-three points off the championship leader. In the Manufacturers' championship, Toyota's lead over Hyundai decreased to twelve points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Australia\nBefore going to Coffs Harbour, S\u00e9bastien Ogier, who was the defending world champion, Thierry Neuville, who led the championship for most of the year, and Ott T\u00e4nak, who got the most stage victories of the season, were in contention of the drivers' title. However, Neuville clipped a bank and a tree forced to retire, while T\u00e4nak also stopped because of the damage to transmission. This meant Ogier would become the six-time world champion wherever he finishes. At the conclusion of the rally, Ogier finished fifth with a Power Stage victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Australia\nThe event eventually went into Jari-Matti Latvala's pocket. Teammate Esapekka Lappi completed the rally in fourth. The 1 & 4 finish was enough to help Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT won their first manufacturers' title since 1999. With Tommi M\u00e4kinen heading the team, he became the first person in the history of rally driving to win a Championship both as a driver and as a team principal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Season report, Rally Australia\nHayden Paddon and Mads \u00d8stberg rounded out of the podium. Elfyn Evans completed the event in sixth after teammate Ogier, while Craig Breen gained one place from Teemu Suninen, who retired his Fiesta before the final test following an impact in the previous stage. WRC-2 category winner Alberto Heller, local driver Steve Glenney and rally veteran Jourdan Serderidis covered out of the top ten finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283979-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship, Results and standings, Scoring system\nPoints were awarded to the top ten classified finishers in each event. In the manufacturers' championship, teams were eligible to nominate three crews to score points, but these points were only awarded to the top two classified finishers representing a manufacturer and driving a 2017-specification World Rally Car. There were also five bonus points awarded to the winners of the Power Stage, four points for second place, three for third, two for fourth and one for fifth. Power Stage points were only awarded in the drivers' and co-drivers' championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283980-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-2\nThe 2018 FIA World Rally Championship-2 was the sixth season of the World Rally Championship-2, an auto racing championship recognised by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile, running in support of the World Rally Championship. It was created when the Group R class of rally car was introduced in 2013. The championship was open to cars complying with R4, R5, and Super 2000 regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283980-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-2\nPontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson were the defending drivers' and co-drivers' champions. \u0160koda Motorsport were the defending teams' champions. Although \u0160koda Motorsport went on to win the teams' championship for the third year in a row, Jan Kopeck\u00fd and Pavel Dresler succeeded for the drivers' and co-drivers' titles defeating the former champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283980-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-2, Calendar\nThe championship was contested over thirteen rounds in Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America and Oceania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283980-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-2, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Rally of Poland was removed from the calendar after the FIA repeatedly raised concerns about the event's safety. The FIA had previously ordered a review of the event's safety standards ahead of the 2017 event, threatening to rescind the rally's World Championship status if conditions were not improved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283980-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-2, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Rally of Poland was replaced by the Rally of Turkey, which returned to the calendar for the first time since 2010. The event, which was previously based in Istanbul, return to south-western Turkey. It was based in the coastal resort town of Marmaris in Mu\u011fla Province, with the route running along the Mediterranean coastline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283980-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-2, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe rallies of Great Britain and Catalunya swapped places on the schedule, with Rally Catalunya becoming the penultimate round of the championship. Rallye Deutschland relocated to a new headquarters with the service park located at the Bostalsee reservoir in Saarland state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283980-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-2, Calendar, Route changes\nRallye Monte Carlo featured a heavily revised route from the 2017 event, with half the route being brand new. After starting in Mexico City in 2017, Rally Mexico returned to its traditional start in Guanajuato. The route featured minor changes and included a new Power Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283980-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-2, Calendar, Route changes\nThe route for the Tour de Corse was heavily revised, with only two of the seven stages being run as they were in 2017. The headquarters of the event was relocated to Bastia, which hosted the event for the first time since 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283980-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-2, Calendar, Route changes\nOrganisers of the Wales Rally GB announced plans for a heavily revised route. The changes were made possible by the passage of legislation by the British government allowing public roads to be used for motorsport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283980-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-2, Entries, Eligible models\nThe 2018 season saw several new car models become available for competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283980-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-2, Entries, Entry list\nThe following teams and crews were entered in the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship-2:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283980-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-2, Results and standings, Scoring system\nPoints were awarded to the top ten classified finishers in each event. Six best results counted towards championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283981-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-3\nThe 2018 FIA World Rally Championship-3 was the sixth and final season of the World Rally Championship-3, an auto racing championship recognised by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile, running in support of the World Rally Championship. It was created when the Group R class of rally car was introduced in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283981-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-3\nNil Solans and Miquel Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez were the reigning drivers' and co-drivers' champions, while ADAC Sachsen were the defending teams' champions. Enrico Brazzoli and Luca Beltrame won the drivers' and co-drivers' championships. ACI Team Italia won the teams' title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283981-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-3, Calendar\nThe championship was contested over thirteen rounds in Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America and Oceania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283981-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-3, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Rally of Poland was removed from the calendar after the FIA repeatedly raised concerns about the event's safety. The FIA had previously ordered a review of the event's safety standards ahead of the 2017 event, threatening to rescind the rally's World Championship status if conditions were not improved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283981-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-3, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Rally of Poland was replaced by the Rally of Turkey, which returned to the calendar for the first time since 2010. The event, which was previously based in Istanbul, return to south-western Turkey. It was based in the coastal resort town of Marmaris in Mu\u011fla Province, with the route running along the Mediterranean coastline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283981-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-3, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe rallies of Great Britain and Catalunya swapped places on the schedule, with Rally Catalunya becoming the penultimate round of the championship. Rallye Deutschland relocated to a new headquarters with the service park located at the Bostalsee reservoir in Saarland state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283981-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-3, Calendar, Route changes\nRallye Monte Carlo featured a heavily revised route from the 2017 event, with half the route being brand new. After starting in Mexico City in 2017, Rally Mexico returned to its traditional start in Guanajuato. The route featured minor changes and included a new Power Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283981-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-3, Calendar, Route changes\nThe route for the Tour de Corse was heavily revised, with only two of the seven stages being run as they were in 2017. The headquarters of the event was relocated to Bastia, which hosted the event for the first time since 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283981-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-3, Calendar, Route changes\nOrganisers of the Wales Rally GB announced plans for a heavily revised route. The changes were made possible by the passage of legislation by the British government allowing public roads to be used for motorsport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283981-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rally Championship-3, Results and standings, Scoring system\nPoints were awarded to the top ten classified finishers in each event. Six best results counted towards championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283982-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships\nThe 2018 World Rowing Championships were the World Rowing Championships held at the regatta course in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The event was held from 9 to 16 September. Events held were men and women's open class, lightweight class, and para-rowing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283982-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships\nPrior FISA regattas that had been held in Plovdiv include the 1999 and 2012 World Rowing Junior Championships, and the 2011 European Rowing Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283982-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships\nThe 2018 World Rowing Championships were the first world rowing championships where the number of men\u2019s and women\u2019s events was equal. The world governing body made that decision in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283982-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships, Host selection\nDuring 2013, Plovdiv and Sarasota, Florida both applied to host the 2017 World Rowing Championships. In April 2013, a committee of International Rowing Federation (FISA) officials visited the city in Florida and they went to Plovdiv the following month. It was then noted that Plovdiv had hosted the 2012 World Rowing Championships and that the bid documentation for 2017 had not been finalised. Before the next FISA congress, the bid from Plovdiv was changed to apply for the 2018 hosting rights. At the FISA congress held on 2 September 2013, hosting rights were assigned by unanimous decision for World Rowing Championships to Sarasota for 2017, Plovdiv for 2018, and Plovdiv for the 2015 World Rowing U23 Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283983-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's coxless four\nThe men's coxless four competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283983-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's coxless four, Results, Heats\nThe two fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283983-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's coxless four, Results, Repechages\nThe two fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C/D semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283983-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's coxless four, Results, Semifinals C/D\nAll but the slowest boat in each semi were sent to the C final. The slowest boats were sent to the D final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 77], "content_span": [78, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283983-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's coxless four, Results, Semifinals A/B\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 77], "content_span": [78, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283983-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's coxless four, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 69], "content_span": [70, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283984-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's coxless pair\nThe men's coxless pair competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283984-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's coxless pair, Results, Heats\nThe four fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the quarterfinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283984-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's coxless pair, Results, Repechage\nThe four fastest boats advanced to the quarterfinals. The remaining boat took no further part in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283984-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's coxless pair, Results, Quarterfinals\nThe three fastest boats in each quarter advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C/D semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283984-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's coxless pair, Results, Semifinals C/D\nThe three fastest boats in each semi were sent to the C final. The remaining boats were sent to the D final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 77], "content_span": [78, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283984-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's coxless pair, Results, Semifinals A/B\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 77], "content_span": [78, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283984-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's coxless pair, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 69], "content_span": [70, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283985-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's double sculls\nThe men's double sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283985-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's double sculls, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283985-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's double sculls, Results, Repechages\nThe two fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C/D semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283985-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's double sculls, Results, Semifinals C/D\nThe three fastest boats in each semi were sent to the C final. The remaining boats were sent to the D final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283985-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's double sculls, Results, Semifinals A/B\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283985-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's double sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 70], "content_span": [71, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283986-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's eight\nThe men's eight competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283986-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's eight, Results, Heats\nThe two fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the repechage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283986-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's eight, Results, Repechage\nThe two fastest boats advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283986-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's eight, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283987-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight coxless pair\nThe men's lightweight coxless pair competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283987-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight coxless pair, Results\nWith fewer than seven entries in this event, a direct final was held to determine the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 73], "content_span": [74, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283988-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight double sculls\nThe men's lightweight double sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283988-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight double sculls, Results, Heats\nThe four fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the quarterfinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 81], "content_span": [82, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283988-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight double sculls, Results, Repechage\nThe four fastest boats advanced to the quarterfinals. The remaining boats were sent to the E final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 85], "content_span": [86, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283988-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight double sculls, Results, Quarterfinals\nThe three fastest boats in each quarter advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C/D semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 89], "content_span": [90, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283988-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight double sculls, Results, Semifinals C/D\nThe three fastest boats in each semi were sent to the C final. The remaining boats were sent to the D final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 90], "content_span": [91, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283988-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight double sculls, Results, Semifinals A/B\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 90], "content_span": [91, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283988-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight double sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 82], "content_span": [83, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283989-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight quadruple sculls\nThe men's lightweight quadruple sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283989-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight quadruple sculls, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 84], "content_span": [85, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283989-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight quadruple sculls, Results, Repechages\nThe two fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 89], "content_span": [90, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283989-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight quadruple sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 85], "content_span": [86, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283990-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight single sculls\nThe men's lightweight single sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283990-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight single sculls, Results, Heats\nThe two fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 81], "content_span": [82, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283990-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight single sculls, Results, Repechages\nThe two fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C/D semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 86], "content_span": [87, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283990-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight single sculls, Results, Semifinals C/D\nAll but the slowest boat in each semi were sent to the C final. The slowest boats were sent to the D final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 90], "content_span": [91, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283990-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight single sculls, Results, Semifinals A/B\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 90], "content_span": [91, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283990-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's lightweight single sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 82], "content_span": [83, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283991-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's quadruple sculls\nThe men's quadruple sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283991-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's quadruple sculls, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 72], "content_span": [73, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283991-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's quadruple sculls, Results, Repechages\nThe two fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283991-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's quadruple sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 73], "content_span": [74, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283992-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's single sculls\nThe men's single sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283992-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's single sculls, Results, Heats\nThe three fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the quarterfinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283992-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's single sculls, Results, Repechages\nThe two fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the quarterfinals. The remaining boats were sent to the E/F semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283992-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's single sculls, Results, Quarterfinals\nThe three fastest boats in each quarter advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C/D semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283992-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's single sculls, Results, Semifinals E/F\nThe two fastest boats in semi 1 and three in semi 2 were sent to the E final. The remaining boats were sent to the F final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283992-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's single sculls, Results, Semifinals C/D\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the C final. The remaining boats were sent to the D final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283992-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's single sculls, Results, Semifinals A/B\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283992-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Men's single sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 70], "content_span": [71, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283993-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR1 Men's single sculls\nThe PR1 men's single sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283993-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR1 Men's single sculls, Results, Heats\nThe two fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283993-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR1 Men's single sculls, Results, Repechages\nThe two fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C/D semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283993-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR1 Men's single sculls, Results, Semifinals C/D\nAll but the slowest boat in each semi were sent to the C final. The slowest boats were sent to the D final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 82], "content_span": [83, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283993-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR1 Men's single sculls, Results, Semifinals A/B\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 82], "content_span": [83, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283993-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR1 Men's single sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 74], "content_span": [75, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283994-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR1 Women's single sculls\nThe PR1 women's single sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283994-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR1 Women's single sculls, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the repechage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 75], "content_span": [76, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283994-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR1 Women's single sculls, Results, Repechage\nThe four fastest boats advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 79], "content_span": [80, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283994-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR1 Women's single sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 76], "content_span": [77, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283995-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR2 Men's single sculls\nThe PR2 men's single sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283995-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR2 Men's single sculls, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283995-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR2 Men's single sculls, Results, Repechages\nThe two fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 78], "content_span": [79, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283995-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR2 Men's single sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 74], "content_span": [75, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283996-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR2 Mixed double sculls\nThe PR2 mixed double sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283996-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR2 Mixed double sculls, Results\nWith fewer than seven entries in this event, a direct final was held to determine the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283997-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR2 Women's single sculls\nThe PR2 women's single sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283997-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR2 Women's single sculls, Results\nWith fewer than seven entries in this event, a direct final was held to determine the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 68], "content_span": [69, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283998-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR3 Men's coxless pair\nThe PR3 men's coxless pair competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283998-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR3 Men's coxless pair, Results\nWith fewer than seven entries in this event, a direct final was held to determine the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283999-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR3 Mixed coxed four\nThe PR3 mixed coxed four competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283999-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR3 Mixed coxed four, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283999-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR3 Mixed coxed four, Results, Repechages\nThe two fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00283999-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR3 Mixed coxed four, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 71], "content_span": [72, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284000-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR3 Mixed double sculls\nThe PR3 mixed double sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284000-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR3 Mixed double sculls, Results\nWith fewer than seven entries in this event, a direct final was held to determine the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284001-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR3 Women's coxless pair\nThe PR3 women's coxless pair competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284001-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 PR3 Women's coxless pair, Results\nWith fewer than seven entries in this event, a direct final was held to determine the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 67], "content_span": [68, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284002-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's coxless four\nThe women's coxless four competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284002-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's coxless four, Results, Heats\nThe three fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284002-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's coxless four, Results, Repechage\nThe three fastest boats advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boat took no further part in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 74], "content_span": [75, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284002-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's coxless four, Results, Semifinals\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284002-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's coxless four, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 71], "content_span": [72, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284003-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's coxless pair\nThe women's coxless pair competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284003-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's coxless pair, Results, Heats\nThe three fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284003-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's coxless pair, Results, Repechage\nThe three fastest boats advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 74], "content_span": [75, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284003-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's coxless pair, Results, Semifinals\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284003-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's coxless pair, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 71], "content_span": [72, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284004-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's double sculls\nThe women's double sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284004-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's double sculls, Results, Heats\nThe two fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284004-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's double sculls, Results, Repechages\nThe three fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 76], "content_span": [77, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284004-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's double sculls, Results, Semifinals\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 76], "content_span": [77, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284004-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's double sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 72], "content_span": [73, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284005-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's eight\nThe women's eight competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284005-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's eight, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the repechage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 63], "content_span": [64, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284005-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's eight, Results, Repechage\nThe four fastest boats advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 67], "content_span": [68, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284005-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's eight, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284006-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight coxless pair\nThe women's lightweight coxless pair competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284006-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight coxless pair, Results\nWith fewer than seven entries in this event, a direct final was held to determine the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 75], "content_span": [76, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284007-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight double sculls\nThe women's lightweight double sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284007-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight double sculls, Results, Heats\nThe two fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 83], "content_span": [84, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284007-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight double sculls, Results, Repechages\nThe two fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C/D semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 88], "content_span": [89, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284007-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight double sculls, Results, Semifinals C/D\nAll but the slowest boat in each semi were sent to the C final. The slowest boats were sent to the D final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 92], "content_span": [93, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284007-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight double sculls, Results, Semifinals A/B\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 92], "content_span": [93, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284007-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight double sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 84], "content_span": [85, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284008-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight quadruple sculls\nThe women's lightweight quadruple sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284008-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight quadruple sculls, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the final. The remaining boats were sent to the repechage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284008-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight quadruple sculls, Results, Repechage\nThe four fastest boats advanced to the final. The remaining boat took no further part in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 90], "content_span": [91, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284009-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight single sculls\nThe women's lightweight single sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284009-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight single sculls, Results, Heats\nThe two fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 83], "content_span": [84, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284009-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight single sculls, Results, Repechages\nThe two fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C/D semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 88], "content_span": [89, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284009-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight single sculls, Results, Semifinals C/D\nAll but the slowest boat in each semi were sent to the C final. The slowest boats were sent to the D final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 92], "content_span": [93, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284009-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight single sculls, Results, Semifinals A/B\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 92], "content_span": [93, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284009-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's lightweight single sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 84], "content_span": [85, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284010-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's quadruple sculls\nThe women's quadruple sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284010-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's quadruple sculls, Results, Heats\nThe three fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 74], "content_span": [75, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284010-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's quadruple sculls, Results, Repechage\nThe three fastest boats advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 78], "content_span": [79, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284010-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's quadruple sculls, Results, Semifinals\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284010-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's quadruple sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 75], "content_span": [76, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284011-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's single sculls\nThe women's single sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284011-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's single sculls, Results, Heats\nHeat winners advanced directly to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 71], "content_span": [72, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284011-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's single sculls, Results, Repechages\nThe two fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C/D semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284011-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's single sculls, Results, Semifinals C/D\nThe three fastest boats in each semi were sent to the C final. The remaining boats were sent to the D final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 80], "content_span": [81, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284011-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's single sculls, Results, Semifinals A/B\nThe three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 80], "content_span": [81, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284011-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Championships \u2013 Women's single sculls, Results, Finals\nThe A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 72], "content_span": [73, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284012-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Cup\nThe 2018 World Rowing Cup was held over three regattas, or stages, from 1 June to 15 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284012-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Cup, Stage 1\nThe first event of the 2018 World Rowing Cup took place in Belgrade, Serbia, 1\u20133 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284012-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Cup, Stage 2\nThe second event of the 2018 World Rowing Cup took place in Ottensheim near Linz, Austria, 21\u201324 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284012-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Cup, Stage 3\nThe third event of the 2018 World Rowing Cup took place in Lucerne, Switzerland, 13\u201315 July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284013-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing Junior Championships\nThe 52nd World Rowing Junior Championships took place from 8 to 12 August 2018 at the Labe Ar\u00e9na Ra\u010dice in Ra\u010dice, Czech Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284014-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rowing U23 Championships\nThe 2018 World Rowing U23 Championships is the 14th edition of the World Rowing U23 Championships and was held from 25 July to 29 July 2018 in Pozna\u0144.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284015-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Americas Pacific Challenge\nThe 2018 World Rugby Americas Pacific Challenge was the third tournament of the Americas Pacific Challenge, which is a development competition for the Americas and Pacific island nations. The competition was hosted by Uruguay with all games played at the 14,000 capacity stadium Estadio Charr\u00faa in Montevideo. Samoa A won the tournament for the first time, winning all three of their matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284015-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Americas Pacific Challenge, Format\nWith six teams in the tournament and a limitation of three matches per team, a \"split pool\" format was used. The field was split into two pools, with teams in one pool only playing the teams in the other. The competing teams were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284016-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup\nThe 2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup was the thirteenth edition of the Pacific Nations Cup annual international rugby union competition. All matches for the 2018 tournament, played over two rounds, were held in Fiji at the ANZ National Stadium in Suva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284016-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup\nHosts Fiji and fellow Pacific nations Samoa and Tonga were joined by Georgia who competing for the first time in the tournament. Romania was also initially scheduled to compete for the Cup until Samoa's place in the competition was confirmed in May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284016-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup\nFiji won the tournament with two wins from their two matches played. Tonga and Georgia placed second and third respectively with one win each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284016-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup, Fixtures, Round 1\nTouch judges:Graham Cooper (Australia)Cam Stone (New Zealand)Television match official:Ian Smith (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284016-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup, Fixtures, Round 1\nTouch judges:J\u00e9r\u00f4me Garc\u00e8s (France)Jordan Way (Australia)Television match official:Ian Smith (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284016-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup, Fixtures, Round 2\nTouch judges:Graham Cooper (Australia)Cam Stone (New Zealand)Television match official:Aaron Paterson (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284016-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup, Fixtures, Round 2\nTouch judges:Mike Fraser (New Zealand)Jordan Way (Australia)Television match official:Aaron Paterson (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284016-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup, Squads\nNote: Number of caps and players' ages are indicated as of 9 June 2018 \u2013 the tournament's opening day, pre first tournament match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284016-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup, Squads, Fiji\nOn 30 May, John McKee finalised a 32-man squad for the Pacific Nations Cup and their June test match against Tonga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284016-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup, Squads, Georgia\nOn 1 June, Head Coach Milton Haig finalised a 32-man touring squad for the Pacific Nations Cup and their June test match against Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284016-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup, Squads, Samoa\nOn 22 May, Titimaea Tafua named a 28-man squad for the Pacific Nations Cup and Samoa's 2019 Rugby World Cup two-test play-off series against a yet to be decided team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284016-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup, Squads, Samoa\nNote: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284016-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup, Squads, Tonga\nOn 21 May, Toutai Kefu named a 30-man squad for the Pacific Nations Cup and their June test match against Fiji.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284017-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Under 20 Championship\nThe 2018 World Rugby Under 20 Championship was the eleventh annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams. The event was organised in France by rugby's governing body, World Rugby. Twelve nations played in the tournament, which was held in three cities from 30 May to 17 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284017-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Under 20 Championship, Venues\nThe venues that play host to the tournament were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284018-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Under 20 Trophy\nThe 2018 World Rugby Under 20 Trophy was the eleventh annually held international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams, with host nation Romania, along with seven other sides, playing in a group stage followed by a knockout round to determine a champion as well as promotion to the following years' World Rugby Under 20 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284018-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Rugby Under 20 Trophy, Qualified teams\nA total of eight teams played in the tournament. Other than the host nation of Romania and Samoa who were relegated following the 2017 World Rugby Under 20 Championship, six nations qualified through their respective regional qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284019-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Sambo Championships\nThe 2018 World Sambo Championships was held in Bucharest, Romania from 9 and 12 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284019-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Sambo Championships\nThis tournament, marking the 80th of its kind, included 9 weight categories and three disciplines; men's and women's sambo and combat sambo. Around 750 athletes from 80 countries participated. Macau and Saint Lucia participated for the first time. A total prize of $216.000 was awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284020-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Senior Curling Championships\nThe 2018 World Senior Curling Championships was held from April 21 to 28 at the \u00d6stersund Arena in \u00d6stersund, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. Canada won both the men's and women's events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284021-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Seniors Championship\nThe 2018 World Seniors Championship was an invitational senior snooker tournament, taking place at the Baths Hall in Scunthorpe, England, from 21 to 24 March 2018. Qualifying for the tournament was open to non-tour players, aged 40 and over on 1 January 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284021-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Seniors Championship\nIn addition to the winner's cheque the champion received a place in the qualifying tournament for the 2018 World Professional Snooker Championship in Sheffield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284021-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Seniors Championship\nPeter Lines won the 2017 edition with a 4\u20130 victory against John Parrott in the final, but as a tour player he was not eligible for this year's edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284021-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Seniors Championship\nThree of the eight invited players withdrew prior to the tournament. The five remaining seeds were defeated in the opening round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284021-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Seniors Championship\nThe Championship was won by Aaron Canavan, who beat Patrick Wallace 4\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284021-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Seniors Championship, Field, Seeded players\nPlayers were seeded based on the titles won during their professional careers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284021-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Seniors Championship, Field, Qualifying\nEight qualifying events for the 2018 World Seniors Championship took place during the World Seniors Tour 2017/2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284021-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Seniors Championship, Field, Qualifying\nEach qualifier took their place alongside invited players and replacements in the main draw of the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series\nThe 2018 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's 2018 season. The 114th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Boston Red Sox and the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers. The Red Sox defeated the Dodgers in five games to win their fourth World Series title in 15 years dating back to 2004, and their ninth in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 World Series\nThis was the second World Series matchup between the two franchises, after the Red Sox defeated the Brooklyn Robins (later known as the Dodgers) in five games in 1916. The series was sponsored by the Internet television service YouTube TV and officially known as the 2018 World Series presented by YouTube TV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series\nThe Series was televised in the United States on Fox. Steve Pearce won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award, while Alex Cora became the fifth first-season manager and first manager from Puerto Rico to win the World Series. The Series was notable for its third game which lasted 18 innings, a World Series record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series\nThe 2018 World Series was the first since 2000 to feature two teams which had also reached the postseason in the prior year. Additionally, the Red Sox became the first team to win two World Series exactly one century apart, as they had defeated the Chicago Cubs in 1918, while the Dodgers were the first team since the 2011 Texas Rangers, and the first NL team since the 1992 Atlanta Braves, to lose consecutive Fall Classics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Background\nThe Boston Red Sox' most recent World Series appearance was their 2013 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. The Los Angeles Dodgers, who last won a World Series in 1988 over the Oakland Athletics, made their second consecutive appearance, after losing to the Houston Astros in 2017. The two franchises faced each other in the 1916 World Series; the Red Sox won the series in five games against the then-Brooklyn Robins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Background\nRed Sox manager Alex Cora and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts were teammates on the Dodgers in 2002, 2003, and 2004. Although they did not play together on the Red Sox, both managers played and won a World Series championship with Boston\u2014Roberts in 2004 and Cora in 2007. This was the first World Series with two managers of color; additionally, both managers were born outside the contiguous United States, as Cora was born in Puerto Rico and Roberts in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Background\nWhile this was a rare match-up, with the Dodgers-Red Sox having only met 20 times ever, the Dodgers trade deadline acquisition Manny Machado had a long history with the Red Sox. In a game in April 2017, Machado, then with the Baltimore Orioles, aggressively slid over the second base bag and spiked Dustin Pedroia in the knee. Pedroia missed 56 of the remaining 145 games, twice going on the injured list. The Red Sox responded by throwing at Machado throughout the 2017 season, feeling that the slide was a dirty play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 World Series, Background\nSetbacks to his recovery left Pedroia out of the lineup for all but 11 at-bats during the 2018 season. Before the World Series, Pedrioa told WEEI\u2019s Rob Bradford about the slide. \u201cI think about it all the time.\u201d And when Bradford asked if there\u2019s been any contact with Machado since then, Pedroia had a terse response, \u201cno.\u201d In the 2018 World Series, Machado was booed heavily at Fenway Park. By the time of his retirement in 2021, Pedroia said he had forgiven Machado and he was \"at peace with the play.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Background, Boston Red Sox\nThe Red Sox finished with a 108\u201354 (.667) record, winning the American League East division title for the third consecutive season, eight games ahead of the second-place New York Yankees, and were the first team to clinch a berth in the 2018 postseason. The Red Sox surpassed the 100-win mark for the first time since 1946, broke the franchise record of 105 wins that had been set in 1912, and won the most games of any MLB team since the 2001 Seattle Mariners won 116.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 World Series, Background, Boston Red Sox\nThe 2018 Red Sox were highlighted by All-Stars Mookie Betts, Craig Kimbrel, J. D. Martinez, Mitch Moreland, and Chris Sale. Betts led baseball in batting average and slugging percentage, while Martinez led in runs batted in. Sale tossed only 158 innings due to a shoulder injury late in the year, but was otherwise superb, posting a 2.11 earned run average to go along with 237 strikeouts. Kimbrel saved 42 games and struck out 96 batters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Background, Boston Red Sox\nThe Red Sox entered the postseason as the top seed in the American League, and defeated the Yankees in four games in the Division Series. Next, they defeated the defending champion Houston Astros in five games in the League Championship Series. Including their 2004 win that ended the Curse of the Bambino, this was the fourth World Series appearance by the Red Sox in 15 years and their 13th appearance all-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Background, Los Angeles Dodgers\nDespite a 16\u201326 (.381) start to the season and nine losses in an 11-game stretch in mid-August, the Dodgers made the playoffs for the sixth straight year by winning the division in a one-game tiebreaker over the Rockies. At the July trade deadline, the team traded for All-Star shortstop Manny Machado from the Orioles to replace injured shortstop Corey Seager and a former All-Star second baseman Brian Dozier from the Twins. In August, the Dodgers acquired former World Series MVP David Freese from the Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 50], "content_span": [51, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 World Series, Background, Los Angeles Dodgers\nFor the second year in a row, the Dodgers broke their franchise record for most team home runs in a season. With a 92\u201371 (.564) record, the team entered the playoffs as a second seed and went on to beat the Atlanta Braves in four games in the 2018 National League Division Series and the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games in the 2018 National League Championship Series, becoming the first team in either league to win Game 7 of a League Championship Series on the road since the 2006 Cardinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 50], "content_span": [51, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Background, Los Angeles Dodgers\nThe 2018 Dodgers were the first team to make the World Series by winning their tie-breaker game since the 2007 Colorado Rockies, who also faced and lost to Boston in that World Series. This was the Dodgers' fifth back-to-back World Series appearance (Two came in Brooklyn in 1952\u20131953 and 1955\u20131956, and two came in Los Angeles in 1965\u20131966 and 1977\u20131978), and the first time since the 2014-15 Kansas City Royals to win back-to-back League Championship Series. Overall, this was the Dodgers' 20th World Series appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 50], "content_span": [51, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nThe Red Sox started Chris Sale against the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw. Kershaw became the first pitcher to start the first game of the World Series in back-to-back years since Cliff Lee did so in 2009 (for the Phillies) and 2010 (for the Rangers) and the first to do so for the same team since Dave Stewart pitched three consecutive Game 1s for the Oakland Athletics from 1988 to 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nThe Red Sox struck in the first inning when Mookie Betts singled, stole second and then scored on a hit by Andrew Benintendi, who subsequently scored on a single by J. D. Martinez. Boston benefited from Dodgers' first baseman David Freese missing a foul pop-up by Betts, and right fielder Yasiel Puig allowing Benintendi to advance to second base on a late throw to the plate. A homer by Matt Kemp in the second inning gave the Dodgers a run, and an RBI single by Manny Machado in the third inning tied the score, 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nIn the bottom of the third, Steve Pearce grounded into a fielder's choice\u2014which was called an inning-ending double play on the field, but overturned by video review\u2014and the Red Sox regained the lead on an RBI double by Martinez in the following at-bat. In the top of the fifth, a groundout by Machado plated Brian Dozier to even the score, 3\u20133. Sale wound up pitching into the fifth inning, allowing three runs on five hits and two walks with seven strikeouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0010-0003", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nThe Red Sox loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the fifth, and scored the go-ahead run when Xander Bogaerts grounded into a fielder's choice. A single by Rafael Devers off reliever Ryan Madson in the next at-bat made it 5\u20133. Kershaw's final line was five runs on seven hits and three walks with five strikeouts in four-plus innings. The Dodgers loaded the bases in the seventh off reliever Ryan Brasier and scored a run on a sacrifice fly by Machado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0010-0004", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nEduardo N\u00fa\u00f1ez hit a pinch-hit three-run home run off Alex Wood in the bottom of the seventh to make it a four-run lead for the Red Sox, 8\u20134, with no further scoring in the game. Boston reliever Matt Barnes, who finished the fifth inning after relieving Sale, got the win, while Kershaw took the loss for Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nGame 2 featured another matchup of left-handed pitchers; Boston started David Price, who got the win in Game 5 of the 2018 American League Championship Series, while Los Angeles started Hyun-jin Ryu, who took the loss in Game 6 of the 2018 National League Championship Series. The Red Sox again scored first, this time in the second inning, when Xander Bogaerts doubled and then scored on a single by Ian Kinsler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nThe Dodgers loaded the bases in the fourth inning and David Freese scored on a sacrifice fly by Matt Kemp to tie the game; Yasiel Puig then singled to drive in Manny Machado with the go-ahead run. After the Red Sox loaded the bases against Ryu in the bottom of the fifth, reliever Ryan Madson walked in the tying run and J. D. Martinez drove in two more with a single. Ryu's final line was four runs allowed on six hits and one walk with five strikeouts in 42\u20443 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nPrice only allowed two runs on three hits and three walks in six innings while striking out five. Both bullpens prevented more runs from scoring as the Red Sox won, 4\u20132, to take a two games to none lead. Ryu took the loss for the Dodgers, while Price earned the win for Boston with closer Craig Kimbrel getting his sixth save this postseason. It was also the 100th postseason victory in Red Sox franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nAfter two games started by left-handed pitchers, both teams started right-handed pitchers for Game 3; Walker Buehler for the Dodgers and Rick Porcello for the Red Sox. With no designated hitter, J. D. Martinez started in left field for the Red Sox, in place of usual left fielder Andrew Benintendi. The Dodgers scored first, for the first time in the series, when Joc Pederson homered in the third inning. Porcello pitched 42\u20443 innings, allowing the one run on three hits and one walk while striking out five. Buehler pitched seven scoreless innings allowing only two hits with no walks and seven strikeouts. Jackie Bradley Jr. hit a home run off Kenley Jansen with two outs in the eighth inning to tie the game. It was Jansen's first blown save in four opportunities this postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nNo one scored in the ninth after Cody Bellinger was caught between bases to end the ninth and the game went into extra innings tied at one. In the top of the 10th inning, pinch-runner Ian Kinsler attempted to score from third on Rafael Devers's sacrifice fly, but a strong throw by center fielder Bellinger had Kinsler out at the plate. In the 13th inning, Brock Holt walked, advanced on a wild pitch and scored the go-ahead run on an infield single by Eduardo N\u00fa\u00f1ez and a throwing error by pitcher Scott Alexander.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nThen in the bottom of the inning, Max Muncy walked against Nathan Eovaldi, advanced to second on a pop out to N\u00fa\u00f1ez in foul territory (Nu\u00f1ez made a great catch and tumbled into the stands after making the catch, which allowed Muncy to advance) and then scored the tying run after an infield hit by Yasiel Puig and a throwing error by Ian Kinsler. In the bottom of the 15th, Muncy appeared to hit a walk-off home run down the right-field line but the ball hooked foul. Muncy hit a walk-off home run off Eovaldi in the 18th inning to win it for the Dodgers, 3\u20132, to cut their series deficit to 2\u20131. Eovaldi had just begun his seventh inning of relief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nAt 18 innings and seven hours and 20 minutes, this contest became the longest World Series game by both innings and time, surpassing (in playing time) Game 3 of the 2005 World Series, which lasted 14 innings and five hours and 41 minutes, and breaking the record (in innings) first set in Game 2 of the 1916 World Series, when the Red Sox and Dodgers (then known as the Robins) played 14 innings. Muncy tied the record for latest (18th inning) walk-off hit in postseason history, equalling Chris Burke in Game 4 of the 2005 National League Division Series. It was also the Dodgers' first game-winning World Series home run since Kirk Gibson in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. The game took longer to play than the entire 1939 World Series, which had seven hours and five minutes of total playing time over four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nFollowing the longest game in World Series history, the Dodgers started Rich Hill while Eduardo Rodr\u00edguez made his first start of the postseason for the Red Sox. At 38 years old, Hill was the oldest player to start a World Series game since 39-year-old Tim Hudson started two games for the San Francisco Giants in 2014 and the oldest for the Dodgers since Sal Maglie in 1956.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nAs he had pitched in relief in Game 3, Rodr\u00edguez became just the sixth pitcher in history to start a World Series game with zero days rest, and the first since Firpo Marberry of the Washington Senators in the 1924 World Series. The Red Sox had intended to start Nathan Eovaldi, but he needed rest after throwing 97 pitches in relief in Game 3. With no designated hitter, the Red Sox started an outfield of Andrew Benintendi, Mookie Betts, and J. D. Martinez, with Jackie Bradley Jr. on the bench in place of Benintendi, who did not start the previous game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe game was scoreless through the first five innings. In the bottom of the sixth, the Dodgers loaded the bases against Rodr\u00edguez and scored the game's first run on a throwing error by catcher Christian V\u00e1zquez. The next batter, Yasiel Puig, hits a three-run home run to extend the lead to 4\u20130. Rodr\u00edguez slams his glove down on the mound in frustration and was later taken out after 52\u20443 innings, allowing the four runs on four hits and two walks with six strikeouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nAt that point, Red Sox ace Chris Sale made an angry speech that fired up his teammates in the dugout. In the top of the seventh, after striking out Eduardo N\u00fa\u00f1ez with a runner on first, Hill was taken off the mound in favor of reliever Ryan Madson, a decision by Roberts which was criticized by several including then-current President Donald Trump. Mitch Moreland hit a three-run pinch-hit home run off of Madson to make it a one-run game. Hill was charged with one run in 6+1\u20443 innings on one hit and three walks with seven strikeouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0016-0002", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nMadson set a new World Series record by allowing seven inherited runners to score in the series. Steve Pearce hit a homer off Kenley Jansen in the eighth inning. This was the second straight day Jansen allowed a game-tying home run in that inning. Jansen became just the second pitcher in World Series history to allow game-tying home runs in back-to-back games (Byung-hyun Kim for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001 was the other).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0016-0003", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nIn the top of the ninth, Brock Holt doubled off Dylan Floro and was driven in by a single by pinch hitter Rafael Devers to give Boston their first lead of the game. The Red Sox loaded the bases against Floro and Alex Wood and then Pearce doubled to right-center off Kenta Maeda, scoring all three base runners to put the Red Sox up, 8\u20134. They added another run when Xander Bogaerts drove in Pearce with a single. Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez hit a two-run homer off of Craig Kimbrel in the ninth to cut the lead to three. Kimbrel was able to get the last three outs and the Red Sox took a three games to one lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nOn October 28, Los Angeles became the first city to host an MLB, NFL (Rams), NHL (Kings), MLS (Galaxy) and NBA (Clippers) game all on the same day. Clayton Kershaw started for the Dodgers, while David Price started for the Red Sox. Price became the first pitcher to start World Series games no more than four days apart while also pitching in relief between those games since Jack Billingham of the Cincinnati Reds did so in the 1972 World Series. Jackie Bradley Jr. again did not start in the outfield for Boston, but entered the game as a defensive replacement in the bottom of the ninth inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nBoth teams scored in the first inning. The Red Sox scored in the top of the inning after a one out single by Andrew Benintendi followed by a two-run home run by Steve Pearce. David Freese led off the bottom of the inning with a home run for the Dodgers. No one else scored until the sixth inning, when Mookie Betts hit a home run with one out and then J. D. Martinez hit a lead-off homer in the seventh to make it 4\u20131. Kershaw pitched seven innings, allowing four runs on seven hits, with five strikeouts and no walks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nIn the eighth inning, Pearce hit another home run, this time off of Pedro B\u00e1ez. Price pitched into the eighth, allowing only one run on three hits and two walks while striking out five. He became just the fifth pitcher to pitch 6+ innings and allow three or fewer hits in three straight postseason starts. Joe Kelly and Chris Sale pitched the last two innings and both struck out the side, Sale getting Manny Machado to strike out for the last out, the Red Sox winning the game 5\u20131 and the title 4\u20131. Pearce won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award. With the Red Sox winning their ninth title, the 2018 season was over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Game summaries, Series statistics\n2018 World Series (4\u20131): Boston Red Sox (AL) beat Los Angeles Dodgers (NL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 52], "content_span": [53, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Broadcasting, Television\nThe World Series was televised nationally by Fox for the 19th straight year. Joe Buck was the play-by-play announcer, with John Smoltz as the color commentator. Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci were the field reporters. Fox Deportes offered a Spanish-language feed, with Rolando Nichols providing play-by-play and Carlos \u00c1lvarez and Edgar Gonzalez doing color commentary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Broadcasting, Television\nOutside of the United States, MLB International carried the series with play-by-play by Matt Vasgersian and color commentary by Buck Martinez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Broadcasting, Radio\nESPN Radio broadcast all the World Series games in English for the 21st straight year as part of Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio. Dan Shulman called the play-by-play, with Chris Singleton serving as color analyst and Buster Olney as field reporter. Marc Kestecher hosted the pre-game show with Olney and Tim Kurkjian reporting. Jon Sciambi called the play-by-play for Game 5 due to Shulman developing laryngitis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Broadcasting, Radio\nESPN Deportes Radio provided Spanish-language coverage of the Series. Eduardo Ortega called the play-by-play and Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez, Renato Bermudez, and Jos\u00e9 Francisco Rivera served as analysts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Broadcasting, Radio\nLocally, both teams' flagship radio stations broadcast the series with their regular announcers, which were simulcast over SiriusXM radio. In Los Angeles, the broadcast was on AM 570 LA Sports with Charley Steiner and Rick Monday in English, on Univision America 1020 with Jaime Jarr\u00edn and Jorge Jarr\u00edn in Spanish, and on Radio Korea 1540 AM in Korean. The Red Sox broadcast was on WEEI 93.7 FM in English with Joe Castiglione, Tim Neverett and Lou Merloni, and in Spanish on WCCM 1490 AM with Uri Berenguer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Sponsorship\nThe 2018 World Series was sponsored by YouTube TV, the second consecutive year that the service sponsored the series. This sponsorship included logo branding in-stadium and on official digital properties, on the field, as well as commercial inventory during Fox's telecasts of the games. As part of the agreement, YouTube TV will also sponsor the 2019 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Celebration\nOn the morning of October 31, the Red Sox celebration parade began at Fenway Park and made its way downtown to its final destination on Staniford Street. During the celebration, the World Series trophy sustained minor damage from a beer can thrown by a spectator; it was subsequently repaired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Celebration\nAn 80-minute documentary, 2018 World Series: Damage Done, which was produced by MLB and narrated by Uzo Aduba, was released on December 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Celebration\nOn December 3, Red Sox president Sam Kennedy announced that team accepted an invitation to visit the White House. Originally planned for February 15, 2019, the visit was postponed to May 9, 2019, due to the 2018\u201319 United States federal government shutdown. Alex Cora announced that he would not attend, citing the administration's response to Hurricane Maria in his native Puerto Rico. On May 9, various team members along with owner John W. Henry and president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski visited the White House and met with President Trump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Aftermath, Miscellaneous\nDuring the 2018\u20132019 off-season, the Dodgers signed former Red Sox reliever Joe Kelly to a three-year deal. Kelly was marvelous in the World Series against the Dodgers, having struck out ten batters and not allowing a run in five games pitched. Kelly, an Angels fan who disliked the Dodgers growing up in Corona, became a fan favorite with Dodger fans throughout his tenure with the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Aftermath, Miscellaneous\nFour months after the 2018 World Series, the Patriots won Super Bowl LIII, meaning the greater Boston area celebrated multiple championships for the 2018 MLB and NFL seasons. Greater Boston accomplished feat 14 years previously when the Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years, while the Patriots won their third Super Bowl in four years. Like the \u201818 Red Sox, the Patriots beat a Los Angeles team (the Rams) in the Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Aftermath, Boston Red Sox\nThe 2018 World Series would be the peak for the 2016\u20132018 Red Sox, who were the first Red Sox teams in franchise history to win the American League East for three straight seasons. President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski was fired on September 9, 2019, just 10 months after winning the 2018 World Series. On the field, Boston's top three starters in 2018 \u2014 Chris Sale, David Price, and Nathan Eovaldi \u2014 all missed significant time due to injury in 2019. Overall, the Red Sox would finish 19 games behind the AL East-leading Yankees in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Aftermath, Boston Red Sox\nThree significant events happened to the Red Sox before the start of the 2020 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Aftermath, Boston Red Sox\nThe Red Sox would finish the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season 24\u201336 (.400 winning percentage), which was their worst season since 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Aftermath, Los Angeles Dodgers\nCorey Seager returned to the Dodgers after being out for most of the 2018 season due to an elbow injury, while Manny Machado, who replaced him after the All-Star break, signed a record free agent contract with the San Diego Padres. The 2019 Dodgers broke the franchise record for wins at 106, but would experience October heartbreak once again by losing to eventual World Champion Washington Nationals in the NLDS in five games. The Dodgers became the second franchise to lose to the eventual World Series champions in four consecutive postseasons (the New York Yankees from 2001 to 2004 were the first).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284022-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series, Aftermath, Los Angeles Dodgers\nThe Dodgers traded for Mookie Betts during the 2019-2020 off-season and his addition made a great team even better. The Dodgers in 2020 would set the record for best winning percentage in franchise history (.717), win their 8th straight division title, and their first World Series in 32 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284023-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series Rugby season\nWorld Series Rugby was a series of rugby union exhibition matches played in 2018 between the Perth-based Western Force and opposition teams from the Asia-Pacific region. It was the forerunner of Global Rapid Rugby, which commenced in 2019. World Series Rugby was created after the Western Force team was axed from the Australian Super Rugby conference at the end of the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284023-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series Rugby season, Country Stockman tour\nFollowing the 2018 World Series Rugby season, the Australian Country Stockman Rugby team undertook a two match tour to Perth to play the Western Force and Western Force Under-19 sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284024-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Darts\nThe 2018 World Series of Darts was a series of televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. In 2018, there were 6 World Series events and one finals event, which has this year been moved from Glasgow, Scotland to Vienna, Austria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284024-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Darts, 2018 World Series Order of Merit\nThe top eight qualified (highlighted in green) for the World Series of Darts Finals and determined their seeding. The next 8 players qualified (highlighted in cyan) for the tournament, but were unseeded. The players highlighted in yellow qualified by the PDC Order of Merit. (The players who aren't highlighted either withdrew or couldn't make the Finals as late call-ups.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284025-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Darts Finals\nThe 2018 bwin World Series of Darts Finals was the fourth staging of the World Series of Darts Finals tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament took place in the Multiversum Schwechat, Vienna, Austria, from 2\u20134 November 2018. It featured a field of 24 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284025-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Darts Finals\nMichael van Gerwen was three-time defending champion after defeating Gary Anderson 11-6 in the 2017 final, but lost in the quarter-finals to Raymond van Barneveld 8\u201310. This ended a 13-match unbeaten streak and 3 year reign as champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284025-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Darts Finals\nJames Wade won his first World Series Finals title. It was his second title in as many weeks after he beat Michael Smith 11\u201310 in a dramatic final, in which Wade missed two match darts in the penultimate leg and Smith missed five match darts in the final leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284025-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Darts Finals, Qualification\nThe top eight players from the six World Series events of 2018 are seeded for this tournament. Those events are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284025-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Darts Finals, Qualification\nIn addition, the next four highest ranked players from the PDC Order of Merit following the 2018 World Grand Prix final on 6 October 2018 qualify, as will the next eight players on the World Series Order of Merit. Another four places were awarded following a Tour Card Holders' qualifier in Barnsley on 19 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284025-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Darts Finals, Qualification\nCorey Cadby originally qualified through the World Series Order of Merit, but withdrew following a broken arm in a car accident. Royden Lam replaced him. Dawson Murschell also originally qualified through the World Series Order of Merit, but withdrew on the day of the tournament with illness. Max Hopp replaced Murschell as the highest player from the Order of Merit who had not qualified and was able to play, with Mark McGrath, Tim Pusey and Haupai Puha unable to make the journey at such short notice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284026-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker\nThe 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the 49th annual tournament, and took place from May 30 to July 17 at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. There was a record 78 bracelet events. The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 2 and concluded on July 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284026-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker\nThe Main Event, as well as the Big One for One Drop, were again streamed in their entirety on ESPN and Poker Central.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284026-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker\nThe 2018 World Series of Poker featured the announced retirement of ten-time bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Fame member Doyle Brunson from tournament poker, an announcement that came after he registered for the $10,000 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship (Event 23). Brunson made the final table of the event and finished in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284026-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker, Schedule changes\nThe World Series of Poker introduced the Big Blind Ante to eight events. This format made the big blind pay the ante for the entire table. It was utilized for events 13, 20, 45, 54, 74, 77 and 78.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284026-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker, Main Event\nThe $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 2 with the first of three starting flights. There were then 2 day 2 flights (AB and C) and then 5 more days of play before the final table. The final table began on July 12 and played out over three days, with the winner being determined on July 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284026-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker, Main Event\nThe Main Event drew 7,874 players, the second-largest field in the tournament's history, generating a prize pool of $74,015,600. The top 1,182 players finished in the money. Each player at the final table earned $1,000,000, with the winner getting $8,800,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284026-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Performance of past champions\n* Indicates the place of a player who finished in the money", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284026-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Other notable high finishes\nNB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284026-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Final Table\n2009 World Champion Joe Cada made the final table, finishing 5th, making him the first former champion to do so since Dan Harrington finished 4th in 2004. The final table bubble which saw Yueqi Zhu eliminated saw both him and then second place Antoine Labat turn over pocket Kings (Zhu K\u2665\u00a0K\u2660, Labat K\u2666\u00a0K\u2663) while Nicolas Manion turned over A\u2660\u00a0A\u2665. The board ran out 7\u2663\u00a0J\u2666\u00a04\u2663\u00a03\u2660\u00a0J\u2663, and Zhu was eliminated in 10th, while Labat was left crippled and Manion was propelled to the chip lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284026-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Final Table\nHeads up play between Tony Miles and John Cynn lasted for over 10 hours and 199 hands. This set the record for the largest number of hands played heads up during a WSOP Main Event final table. The final table lasted a total of 442 hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284026-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Final Table\n*Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 2018 Main Event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284026-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker, Big One for One Drop\nThe $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop began on July 15. It is the third time the event was held. Antonio Esfandiari won $18.3 million in the first event in 2012, while Dan Colman was the $15.3 million champion in 2014. Elton Tsang won \u20ac11,111,111 in 2016 at Monte-Carlo One Drop Extravaganza in 2016, although since this event was not held at the WSOP, he did not receive a bracelet for it. The One Drop Foundation, founded by Guy Laliberte, received $80,000 from every buy-in. The 2018 event saw 27 players enter, generating a prize pool of $24,840,000. The top five players finished in the money, with the winner getting $10 million. Justin Bonomo won the tournament, and took over from Daniel Negreanu at the top of the all time money list with the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284027-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker Europe\nThe 2018 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) took place from October 9-November 2 at King's Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. There were 10 bracelet events, including a \u20ac100,000 No Limit Hold'em High Roller and the \u20ac10,350 No Limit Hold'em Main Event. The Main Event began with the first of two starting flights on October 27, with the final table taking place on November 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284027-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker Europe, Main Event\nThe 2018 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event began on October 27 with the first of two starting flights. The final table was reached on November 1, with the winner being determined on November 2. The event drew 534 entrants, generating a prize pool of \u20ac5,073,000. The top 81 players finished in the money, with the winner earning \u20ac1,122,239.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284027-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker Europe, Main Event, Final Table\n*-Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 2018 WSOPE Main Event", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284028-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker Europe results\nBelow are the results for the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe, which took place from October 9-November 2 at King's Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. There were 10 scheduled events, culminating in the \u20ac10,350 Main Event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284029-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Series of Poker results\nBelow are the results of the 2018 World Series of Poker, held from May 30-July 17 at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284030-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships\nThe 2018 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships were the 43rd World Short Track Speed Skating Championships and held from 16 to 18 March 2018 in Montreal, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship\nThe 2018 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament held from 21\u00a0April to 7\u00a0May 2018 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. Hosted by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, it was the 20th and final ranking event of the 2017-18 snooker season and the 42nd consecutive time the World Snooker Championship had been held at the venue. The tournament was broadcast by BBC Sport and Eurosport in Europe, and sponsored by betting company Betfred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship\nWelsh left-hander Mark Williams won his third world championship and 21st ranking title, defeating Scottish professional John Higgins 18\u201316 in the final. Williams' victory came 15 years after his second world title in 2003; before the start of the season, he had not won a ranking event in the previous six years. In winning the event, Williams received the highest prize money awarded for a snooker event, \u00a3425,000 of a total pool of \u00a31,968,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship\nAged 43, he is the third oldest winner at the crucible after Ronnie O'Sullivan who was 44 when he won the 2020 World Snooker Championship and Ray Reardon who was 45 when he won the title in 1978. Defending and three-time world champion Mark Selby had won the world title for the previous two years, but lost in the first round 4\u201310 to Joe Perry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship\nThe highest break of the championship was scored by Higgins, who made a break of 146 in frame 13 of his second round win over Jack Lisowski. However, in qualifying for the event, Liang Wenbo scored a maximum break of 147.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Background\nThe World Snooker Championship is an annual cue sport tournament and is the official world championship of the game of snooker. Snooker was founded in the late 19th century by British Army soldiers stationed in India. The sport originated by players from the United Kingdom, and later players from Europe and the Commonwealth. In more modern times, the sport has transferred to being played worldwide, specifically in Southeast Asia, such as in China, Thailand and Hong Kong. The world championship is the final event of the 2017/18 snooker calendar, with the winner of the event being crowned as the professional world champion of the sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Background\nThe world championship sees 32 professional players compete in one-on-one snooker matches in a single elimination format, each played over several frames. The 32 players for the event are selected through a mix of the world snooker rankings and a pre-tournament qualification round. The first world championship in 1927, held in Camkin's Hall, Birmingham, England, was won by Joe Davis. Since 1977, the event has been held in the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Background\nThe event's most successful player in the modern era is Stephen Hendry, who has won the championship seven times. The previous year's championship was won by England's Mark Selby, who won the event defeating Scotland's John Higgins in the final 18\u201315. This was Selby's third championship, having won previously in 2014 and 2016. The champion of the 2018 event would win prize money of \u00a3425,000, from a total pool of \u00a31,968,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Background, Format\nThe 2018 World Snooker Championship was held between 21 April and 7 May 2018 in Sheffield, England. The tournament was the last of twenty rankings events in the 2017/2018 season on the World Snooker Tour. It featured a 32-player main draw that was played at the Crucible Theatre, as well as a 128-player qualifying draw which took place at the English Institute of Sport from 11 to 18 April 2018, finishing three days prior to the start of the main draw. This was the 42nd consecutive year the tournament was held at the Crucible, and the 50th consecutive year the championship was contested through the modern knockout format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Background, Format\nThe top 16 players in the latest world rankings automatically qualified for the main draw as seeded players. Defending champion Mark Selby was automatically seeded 1st overall. The remaining fifteen seeds were allocated based on the latest world rankings (revision 10), which were released following the China Open, the penultimate event of the season. With Selby ranked as the world number 1 entering the event, every player's seed therefore corresponded to their respective world ranking. Matches in the first round of the main draw were played as best of 19 frames. The number of frames needed to win a match increased with each successive round, leading up to the final match which was played as best of 35 frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Background, Format\nAll 16 non-seeded spots in the main draw were filled with players from the qualifying rounds. The qualifying draw consisted of 128 players, including 113 of the remaining 115 players on the World Snooker Tour, as well as fifteen wildcard places allotted to non-tour players. These invited players included the women's world champion, the European junior champion, and all four semi-finalists at the amateur championship. As with the main draw, half of the participants in the qualifying draw were seeded players. Every player ranked from 17th to 80th was allocated one of 64 seeds in order of their ranking, while all of the other participants were placed randomly into the draw. In order to reach the main draw at the Crucible, players needed to win three best of 19 frame matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Background, Participant summary\nEight former world champions participated in the main tournament: Ronnie O'Sullivan (five titles: 2001, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2013), John Higgins (four titles: 1998, 2007, 2009, 2011), Mark Selby (three titles and two-time defending champion: 2014, 2016, 2017), Mark Williams (two titles: 2000 and 2003), Shaun Murphy (one title: 2005), Graeme Dott (one title: 2006), Neil Robertson (one title: 2010), and Stuart Bingham (one title: 2015).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Background, Participant summary\nThis was O'Sullivan's 26th consecutive appearance in the final stages of the World Championship since his debut in 1993, just one short of Stephen Hendry's record of 27 consecutive appearances and four short of Steve Davis's record of 30 total appearances. Five other former world championship finalists also competed: Matthew Stevens (twice: 2000 and 2005), Ali Carter (twice: 2008 and 2012), Judd Trump (once: 2011), Barry Hawkins (once: 2013), and Ding Junhui (once: 2016).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0009-0002", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Background, Participant summary\nThe youngest player to participate in the main stage of the tournament was Lyu Haotian at 20 years of age, while 43-year-old Joe Perry was the oldest; both players entered the main draw through qualifying. Marco Fu made his return to competition at the World Championship, having missed much of the 2017/2018 season after undergoing surgery to repair retinal degeneration and myodesopsia in his left eye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Background, Participant summary\nThree former world champions participated in the qualifying rounds: Ken Doherty (1997), Peter Ebdon (2002) and Graeme Dott (2006). Of these, only Dott succeeded in qualifying for the main tournament at the Crucible. Also, three former world finalists participated in the qualifying rounds: Jimmy White (six times: 1984 and 1990\u20131994), Nigel Bond (once: 1995) and Matthew Stevens (twice: 2000 and 2005). Of these, only Stevens qualified for the main tournament at the Crucible. The youngest participant in qualifying was Jackson Page at 16 years of age, while 55-year-old Jimmy White was the oldest participant; however, neither player qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Background, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for 2018 is shown below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Background, Prize fund\nThe prize for a maximum break in the main rounds was boosted to \u00a340,000, whereas the prize for a 147 in qualifying was \u00a310,000. The latter prize was claimed by Liang Wenbo during his first qualifying round match against Rod Lawler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Qualifying rounds\nThe qualifying rounds took place at the English Institute of Sport from 11 to 18 April 2018. In the first round of qualifying, Liang Wenbo achieved his third professional maximum break, and his second of the 2017/2018 season, in the 10th frame of his match against Rod Lawler. It was the second consecutive year a 147 was made in World Championship qualifying, and the fourth time overall. Liang came very close to becoming the first player to score two maximums in the same match, but he missed the final black after a break of 140 in the last frame. Liang was eliminated in the third round of qualifying; ranked at world number 19, he was the highest-ranked player not to feature in the main draw of the tournament, as both world number 17 Ryan Day and world number 18 Stephen Maguire qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Qualifying rounds\nOnly seven of the 64 unseeded participants in qualifying (players ranked outside the world's top 80) made it through the first qualifying round, and only one of those seven, Adam Duffy, progressed to the third qualifying round. Duffy did not, however, qualify for the main draw at the Crucible. Four players qualified for the Crucible for the first time: Lyu Haotian, Liam Highfield, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, and Chris Wakelin. Lyu was the lowest ranked player to reach the main stage, at world number 68.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, First round\nThe draw for the opening round of the main tournament was conducted on 19 April 2018, two days before the start of the competition. Technical issues delayed the 10:00 BST start time by two hours, to 12:00. The matches for the first round were spread out over six days from 21 to 26 April, and played using a two table setup in the Crucible Theatre. Each first round match was played over two sessions, as best of 19 frames (10 frames needed to win). Players and spectators criticised the two-hour delay to the tournament's first-round draw, which was caused by \"technical issues\". World number 22 Joe Perry called the draw \"an absolute joke\", claiming the delay caused qualifiers to \"have no idea when [they] are playing, have to book hotels and make travel plans\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, First round\nOf the sixteen first round matches, six ended with qualifiers defeating seeded players. The biggest upset of the round happened in the opening match, when Joe Perry defeated the defending champion and world number 1 Mark Selby. Perry won the first four frames before pulling away to 7\u20132 ahead after the first session of play. Selby was unable to catch Perry and was defeated 4\u201310, ending his 10-match undefeated streak in the world championships, as well as his two-year reign as world champion. The next highest ranked player to lose was world number 8 Shaun Murphy, who was upset by world number 51 Jamie Jones in a tight 10\u20139 match, where the scores were level at various stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, First round\nThe other four seeds to lose were the players ranked 10 through 13 in the world. Chinese debutant Lyu Haotian, both the youngest and lowest ranked player in the draw, defeated world number 11 Marco Fu in Fu's return to the Tour after eye surgery. Lyu was the only debutant to advance; he was 6\u20133 up after the first session and went on to win the match 10\u20135. Robert Milkins defeated world number 10 Neil Robertson 10\u20135. Jack Lisowski defeated world number 12 Stuart Bingham 10\u20137, thereby securing his first world championship match win in his second attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, First round\nThe 2015 world champion Bingham stated he was going to take a leave of absence from the sport after the loss. Bingham said he wanted to \"spend some time with the family and put my cue down for a while\". Bingham had spent three months of the season serving a ban for betting infringements; he commented, \"It's not been the best of seasons in general, but on the table I've been pretty good.\" Ricky Walden defeated world number 13 Luca Brecel 10\u20136; he was comfortably five frames ahead at 8\u20133, when Brecel won the next three frames to bring the score to 8\u20136, before Walden won the last two frames of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, First round\nOf the eight former world champions playing in the main stage of the tournament, only three progressed to the second round: Ronnie O'Sullivan (five-time champion), John Higgins (four-time champion) and Mark Williams (two-time champion). All three were top seven seeds and had turned professional in the same year, 1992. Ronnie O'Sullivan trailed 0\u20134 and then 3\u20136 after the opening session in his match against Stephen Maguire but then won seven of the last eight frames to win 10\u20137. The 16th frame of this encounter was O'Sullivan's 1000th frame win at the Crucible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, First round\nThis was also his 15th consecutive first round victory at the world championships. John Higgins defeated Thai debutant Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 10\u20137. Both players attempted maximum breaks: Higgins missed the 14th red ball on 104 in the 8th frame of the first session; Un-Nooh scored 14 reds with blacks, on course for his second career maximum, before missing the 15th red on 112 in the 12th frame of the final session. Mark Williams defeated Jimmy Robertson in his first round match 10\u20135. Williams led 7\u20132 after the initial session, then he hit a tournament highest break (at that point) of 140 in the 13th frame, to go 9\u20134 ahead, before winning the match after two further frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, First round\nIn addition to O'Sullivan, Ali Carter and Anthony McGill both advanced despite trailing by three frames in the middle of their matches. Carter defeated Graeme Dott 10\u20138 in his first round match, despite being behind 3\u20136 overnight. McGill defeated Ryan Day 10\u20138; after trailing 5\u20138 earlier in the match, McGill won the last five frames to secure his place in the second round. He said he could not believe he had won, and the BBC referred to McGill's win as an \"unbelievable comeback\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, First round\nThe closing match of the first round saw the second final frame decider, after Jones's upset of Murphy. Recovering from 4\u20138 behind against Judd Trump, debutant Chris Wakelin won four frames in a row, to draw level at 8\u20138. The two players shared the next two frames, bringing the score to nine apiece, before Trump took the deciding frame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, First round\nThe winners of the remaining matches of the round were Kyren Wilson, Mark Allen, Barry Hawkins, and Ding Junhui. Wilson defeated Matthew Stevens 10\u20133. In the 12th frame, Stevens accidentally nudged the pink ball with his hand and declared a foul on himself, which allowed Wilson to win the frame, extending his lead to 9\u20133. Allen, the reigning Masters champion, defeated debutant Liam Highfield 10\u20135; neither player scored a century, although Highfield came close with two breaks of 99. Hawkins defeated Stuart Carrington 10\u20137, after winning a 55-minute 14th frame. For the second successive year, Ding faced a fellow Chinese player in the first round of the tournament; having defeated Zhou Yuelong in 2017, he faced Xiao Guodong in 2018. Ding came out as a convincing 10\u20133 winner, despite losing the opening two frames of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 888]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Second round\nThe second round matches were played as best of 25 frames (13 frames needed to win), each over three sessions using a two table setup. The first match of the second round was between Mark Allen and Joe Perry, who defeated the defending champion in the first round. After sharing the first two sessions of their second round match at 8\u20138, Allen won all five frames in the third session to go through to the quarter-finals with a 13\u20138 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Second round\nBarry Hawkins defeated Lyu Haotian 13\u201310 in their second round match, to enter the quarter-finals for the sixth consecutive year. The pair were level at 10\u201310 before Hawkins won the last three frames of the match. Ali Carter played Ronnie O'Sullivan in the second round, a rematch of both the 2008 and the 2012 World Championship finals. The two players came into contact and exchanged words after the 19th frame of the match. The pair had brushed shoulders, in an incident the Independent described as a \"barge\". Following the match, O'Sullivan described it as being \"overplayed\" by the media. Having defeated O'Sullivan on only one occasion from a total of seventeen attempts in the group stages of the non-ranking 2010 Championship League, Carter eventually triumphed 13\u20139 to advance to the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 864]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Second round\nKyren Wilson secured a place in the quarter-finals by defeating Jamie Jones 13\u20135, winning all of the last six frames of the match. During a clearance in the penultimate frame, Wilson played a screw shot which jumped the cueball off the table, damaging the head of his cue tip. John Higgins defeated Jack Lisowski 13\u20131, with a session to spare; Lisowski scored his only frame of the match at 0\u201310 behind. In the 13th frame, Higgins scored a break of 146, one point short of a maximum. This was Higgins' highest break at the Crucible (until 147 in the 2020 tournament), and it was the highest anyone scored in the 2018 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Second round\nThe remaining three matches of the second round finished with Ding Junhui defeating Anthony McGill 13\u20134, after having won the first session of their match 8\u20130 and scoring seven 50+ breaks. Judd Trump defeated Ricky Walden 13\u20139, taking a late lead after the score drew level at 8\u20138 following the first two sessions. Mark Williams defeated Robert Milkins, 13\u20137, thereby eliminating the only remaining qualifier in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Quarter-finals\nThe quarter-finals were also played as best of 25 frames, each over three sessions using a two table setup, with the four matches played on 1 and 2 May 2018. All eight of the quarter-finalists were seeded players, with Mark Allen the lowest ranked player left in the competition at world number 16. Barry Hawkins defeated Ding Junhui 13\u20135, to make it through to his fifth Crucible semi-final in six years. Kyren Wilson played Mark Allen, in a repeat of the 2018 Masters final just over three months prior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Quarter-finals\nDespite having lost to Allen in that match, Wilson took an 11\u20135 lead over Allen overnight, eventually winning the match 13\u20136. With this victory, Wilson made it through to his first ever Crucible semi-final, having lost in the quarter-finals in the previous two World Championships. Mark Williams took leads of 5\u20133 and 9\u20137 after the first two sessions against Ali Carter. Williams then won four of the last five frames, with four breaks of 100 or more, to defeat Carter 13\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Quarter-finals\nThe closest quarter-final was the last match, between John Higgins and Judd Trump, which was a rematch of the 2011 World Championship final. Trump gained an early lead in the second session at 7\u20133, but Higgins won the next five frames, and the pair finished the session at 8\u20138. Trump won the next two frames and took a two-frame lead at 11\u20139, before Higgins won the next three frames to retake the lead at 12\u201311. Trump won the 24th frame to force a final frame decider, which Higgins won to clinch the match, later describing it as a \"classic\" and joking that Trump \"must hate the sight of him\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Semi-finals\nThe semi-finals were each played over four sessions, between 3 and 5 May 2018, with the matches played as best of 33 frames (17 frames needed to win) in a single table setup. The first semi-final was between John Higgins and Kyren Wilson. Higgins took an early lead in the opening session, leading Wilson 5\u20133, and retained this lead into the next two sessions, at 9\u20137, and 13\u201311. The pair shared the next four frames to leave the match at 15\u201313, before Higgins won the final two frames to win 17\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Semi-finals\nThe second semi-final was between Barry Hawkins and Mark Williams. Hawkins took a similar lead over Williams, with Hawkins taking 5\u20133, 9\u20137, and 13\u201311 leads, before going into the final session. Williams made a comeback, drawing level at 14 frames apiece, and then again at 15 all. Williams took the lead for the first time in the match at 16\u201315, before winning it 17\u201315. His victory ensured that, for the first time since the World Championship moved to the Crucible in 1977, both finalists would be over 40 years old.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final\nThe two finalists were John Higgins and Mark Williams; both former champions. The final was played as a best of 35 frames match (18 frames needed to win), spread over four sessions between 6 and 7 May 2018. Williams took an early lead in the first session of the match, winning all of the first four frames. Higgins won the second mini-session 3\u20131, so the first session ended with a 5\u20133 lead for Williams. In the second session, Williams took the next two frames to lead 7\u20133, before Higgins scored four consecutive frames to level the score at 7\u20137. Williams then pulled away once again, winning the final three frames to take a 10\u20137 lead overnight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final\nWilliams won the first four frames on the second day of the final, extending his winning streak to seven frames and his lead to 14\u20137, before Higgins pulled two frames back after the mid-session interval. In the second of those frames, Higgins won with a 72 counter-clearance after Williams missed on a break of 65. In the following frame, Higgins started on a maximum break, which had never been achieved in a World Championship final; he potted ten reds with blacks but could not complete the clearance. Nevertheless, he secured his third successive frame with the break of 80, reducing his deficit to 10\u201314. Williams took the last frame to win the session 5\u20133, giving him a 15\u201310 lead heading into the final session of the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final\nHiggins responded by winning the first five frames of the final session to level the match at 15\u201315, including three clearances and a match highest break of 131. Williams then won his first frame of the evening, and followed it up with a 100 break to take the score to 17\u201315, thus requiring one further frame to round off the match. In the 33rd frame, on a break of 63, Williams missed a pink that would have clinched the title; Higgins then cleared the table for a break of 65 to pull the score to 16\u201317. In the 34th frame, Williams held his nerve to make a match-winning break of 69, concluding the match at 18\u201316 and securing his third world title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final\nOn winning the championship, Williams said \"The turnaround in the past twelve months is something I cannot work out\", after not having appeared in the competition in the previous season. Before the tournament, Williams had said if he won the world title he would attend the post tournament press conference naked. Following his victory, Williams entered the conference wearing only a towel around his waist, but removed it when he was safely seated behind a table. Williams then promised that if he was to win the next season, he would \"cartwheel round here naked\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final\nWilliams' victory came fifteen years after his last world title in 2003; this was the longest span between two successive wins in the history of the tournament. At the age of 43, Williams became the oldest world champion since Ray Reardon won the event in 1978 aged 45.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Main draw\nThe numbers in parentheses are players' seedings. Players listed in bold indicate match winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Qualifying\nThere were 128 players in the qualifying competition. The qualifying event was played in three rounds, with the 16 winners of the third round matches progressing to the main stages of the tournament at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Qualifying took place between 11 and 18 April 2018 at the English Institute of Sport, also in Sheffield, in a 12-table setup. All matches were best of 19 frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Qualifying\nA total of 113 tour players (ranked outside the top 16, including Invitational Tour Card holders Ken Doherty and Jimmy White) were joined by 15 amateur players who had achieved success through the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) qualifying criteria. Among the 131 World Snooker Tour players, only Boonyarit Keattikun and Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn (both from Thailand) did not participate in the qualifying rounds or the main draw. Players ranked 17\u201380 in the world rankings were seeded in qualifying. The following 15 amateur players were invited to compete in qualifying:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Century breaks, Main stage centuries\nA total of 84 century breaks were made by 21 players during the main stage of the World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Century breaks, Qualifying stage centuries\nA total of 111 century breaks \u2013 including a maximum break \u2013 were made by 53 players during the qualifying stage of the World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284031-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snooker Championship, Coverage\nThe tournament was broadcast live in the UK by BBC TV and BBC Online, as well as on Eurosport. The event was also broadcast by World Snooker internationally on Facebook, doing so for the second time. Coverage for the qualifying event was also broadcast on Facebook, and the Eurosport Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284032-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Snowshoe Championships\nThe 2018 World Snowshoe Championships was the 11th edition of the global snowshoe running competition, World Snowshoe Championships, organised by the World Snowshoe Federation and took place in Picos de Europa from 2 to 3 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284033-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships\nThe 2018 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships were held at the Jilin Provincial Speed Skating Rink in Changchun, China, from 3 to 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284034-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Men\nThe Men competition at the 2018 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships was held on 3 and 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284035-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships \u2013 Women\nThe Women competition at the 2018 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships was held on 3 and 4 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284036-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Surf League\nThe 2018 World Surf League Championship Tour (CT) is a professional competitive surfing league run by the World Surf League, starting on 11 March 2018. Men and women compete in separate tours with events taking place from late March to mid-December, at various surfing locations around the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284036-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Surf League\nSurfers receive points for their best events. The surfer with the most points at the end of the tour (after discarding their two worst results) is announced the 2018 World Surf League Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284037-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Taekwondo Grand Prix\nThe 2018 World Taekwondo Grand Prix was the 6th edition of the World Taekwondo Grand Prix series. This was the first season where it was five Grand Prix events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284038-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Phospor (talk | contribs) at 23:32, 18 December 2019. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284038-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam\nThe 2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam is the 2nd edition of the World Taekwondo Grand Slam series taking place from 12-16 December in Wuxi, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284038-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam, Events schedule\nThe competition was held from 12 December to 16 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284039-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam - Open Qualification Tournament I\n2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam - Open Qualification Tournament I is an international G-2 taekwondo tournament which allows the winner to be seeded as 9th on the 2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam bracket. It also allows the 2nd and 3rd placed athletes to qualify to the event. The event was scheduled for April 20-22, 2018 in Wuxi, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284040-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam - Open Qualification Tournament II\n2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam - Open Qualification Tournament II is an international G-2 taekwondo tournament which allows the winner to be seeded as 8th on the 2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam bracket. It also allows the 2nd and 3rd placed athletes to qualify to the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284040-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam - Open Qualification Tournament II\nThe event was scheduled for October 26-28, 2018 in Wuxi, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284040-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam - Open Qualification Tournament II\nThis was the second Open Qualification Tournament of the year, the athletes who qualified in this event were ahead of the athletes who qualified on the first event, on the tournament brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284041-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Challenge\nThe 17th World Team Challenge 2018 (officially: Joka Classic Biathlon World Team Challenge auf Schalke 2018) was a biathlon competition, that was held at December 29, 2018, at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The event was visited by 46.412 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284041-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Challenge, Format of competition\nThe competition was held in two stages: mass start and pursuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284041-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Challenge, Participants\n20 sportsmen (10 male, 10 female) competed as mixed teams. 10 different countries were represented at this event. Ole Einar Bj\u00f8rndalen from Norway and Darya Domracheva from Belarus, who were at the moment retired athletes, took part in this competition as a pair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284042-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships\nThe 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships were held in Halmstad, Sweden from 29 April to 6 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284043-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's team\nThe Men's team tournament of the 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships was held from 29 April to 6 May 2018. The draw for the tournament was held at 27 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284043-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's team\nChina defeated Germany in the final to capture the gold medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284043-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's team, Championship division, Knockout stage\nThe group winners of Groupd C and D were drawn, as well as the second and third placed teams. Same for the fourth, fifth and sixth placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 94], "content_span": [95, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284043-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's team, Second division, Knockout stage\nThe group winners of Groupd G and H were drawn, as well as the second and third placed teams. Same for the fourth, fifth and sixth placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 88], "content_span": [89, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284043-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's team, Third division, Knockout stage\nThe group winners of Groupd K and L were drawn, as well as the second and third placed teams. Same for the fourth, fifth and sixth placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 87], "content_span": [88, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284044-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's team\nThe Women's team tournament of the 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships was held from 29 April to 6 May 2018. The draw for the tournament was held at 27 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284044-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's team\nChina won the title after defeating Japan in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284044-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's team, Championship division, Knockout stage\nThe group winners of Groups C and D were drawn, as well as the second and third placed teams. Same for the fourth, fifth and sixth placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 96], "content_span": [97, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284044-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's team, Championship division, Knockout stage, Places 1\u201312\nBefore the match, both teams entered the stage together and decided not to play against each other. Meanwhile, a unified Korean team played in the semifinals. That move was agreed upon by the ITTF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 109], "content_span": [110, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284044-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's team, Second division, Knockout stage\nThe group winners of Groups G and H were drawn, as well as the second and third placed teams. Same for the fourth, fifth and sixth placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 90], "content_span": [91, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284044-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's team, Third division, Knockout stage\nThe group winners of Groups K and L were drawn, as well as the second and third placed teams. Same for the fourth, fifth and sixth placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 89], "content_span": [90, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284045-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World TeamTennis season\nThe 2018 World TeamTennis season was the 43rd season of the top professional team tennis league in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284045-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World TeamTennis season\nThe Springfield Lasers defeated the Philadelphia Freedoms in the WTT Finals to win their first King Trophy as WTT champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284045-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World TeamTennis season, Competition format\nThe 2018 World TeamTennis season included six teams. Each team played a 14-match regular-season schedule with seven home and seven away matches. The top two teams in the regular season qualified for the World TeamTennis Finals. The higher seed was treated as the \"home\" team in the WTT Finals and had the right to determine the order of play. The winner of the WTT Finals was awarded the King Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284045-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World TeamTennis season, Teams and players\nRoster players compete (nearly) the entire season, Franchise and Wildcard players only a limited season. Substitute players are not listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284045-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World TeamTennis season, Standings\nThe top two teams qualified for the 2018 WTT Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284045-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World TeamTennis season, Statistical leaders\nThe table below shows the WTT team and the player who had the highest regular-season winning percentages in each of the league's five events. Only players who played in at least 40% of the total number of games played by their team in a particular event are eligible to be listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284046-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Touring Car Cup\nThe 2018 FIA World Touring Car Cup (known as the FIA WTCR presented by Oscaro for sponsorship reasons) was the inaugural season of the World Touring Car Cup (WTCR). It took over from the World Touring Car Championship and adopted the TCR technical regulations. It was also the 14th overall season of the series that dates from the 2005 World Touring Car Championship. The change of name and new rules follow the declining interest in the TC1 regulations used by the World Touring Car Championship between 2014 and 2017 and the growing interest among manufacturers in the TCR touring car category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284046-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Touring Car Cup, Calendar\nThe 2018 championship was contested over thirty rounds in Europe, Africa and East Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284046-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Touring Car Cup, Calendar\nA provisional calendar was released in December 2017. In March 2018 an additional round in China was added at the Wuhan Street Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284046-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Touring Car Cup, Championship standings, Drivers' championship\nChampionship points were awarded on the results of each race at each event as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 73], "content_span": [74, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284047-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World U-17 Hockey Challenge\nThe 2018 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge is an ice hockey tournament that will be held in Quispamsis and Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada from November 3 and 10. The World Under-17 Hockey Challenge is held by Hockey Canada annually to showcase young hockey talent from Canada and other strong hockey countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284047-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World U-17 Hockey Challenge\nThe round-robin and knockout games will be hosted at qplex in Quispamsis and Harbour Station in Saint John, and the latter will host the bronze and gold medal games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284047-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World U-17 Hockey Challenge, Challenge results, Preliminary round\nGames for Group A will be played at Harbour Station in Saint John, and games for Group B will be played at qplex in Quispamsis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284048-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World University American Football Championship\nThe 2018 World University American Football Championship was an international college American football tournament that was held from June 16 to June 24, 2018 in Harbin, China, at Harbin University of Commerce Stadium. It was the 3rd World University Championship for American football. The tournament was held in round-robin format, with each team facing each other once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284049-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World University Cycling Championship\nThe 2018 World University Cycling Championship was the 8th edition of the World University Cycling Championship. The tournament was hosted by the Portuguese Academic University Sports Federation (FADU), sponsored by the International University Sports Federation (FISU) and sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284050-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World University Handball Championship\nThe 2018 World University Handball Championship was the 24th edition of this Handball event organized by the FISU. It was held in Rijeka, Croatia at the Zamet Hall, from 30 July to 5 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284051-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World University Karate Championships\nThe 11th edition of World University Karate Championships took place in Kobe, Japan between July 19 and July 22, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284052-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World University Wrestling Championships\nThe 2018 World University Wrestling Championships were the 13th edition of World University Wrestling Championships of combined events and were held from 4 to 9 September in Goi\u00e2nia, Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284052-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World University Wrestling Championships\nTurkey claimed 10 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 4 bronze medals. In total 12 nations participated in this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284053-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World University Wushu Championships\nThe 2018 World University Wushu Championships is the 1st World University Wushu Championship organized by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The competition consisted of taolu and sanda events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284054-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships\nThe 2018 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 1 to 10 November 2018. The logo of IWF World Championships 2018 has consisted of abstract illustration of weightlifting athlete designed by Ashgabat based design firm, Belli Creative Studio", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284054-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships\nThis was the first World Championship, after the IWF changed their weight classes and nullified all world records. As a result this World Championship saw a total of 31 senior men's world records set, and 41 senior women's world records set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284054-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships, Medal table\nRanking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284055-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's +109 kg\nThe men's +109\u00a0kg competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 10 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284055-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's +109 kg\nThe International Weightlifting Federation had reorganized the weight categories and 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"metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284057-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 109 kg\nThe men's 109\u00a0kg competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 8\u20139 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284057-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 109 kg\nThe International Weightlifting Federation had reorganized the weight categories and discarded all prior world records;only performances exceeding defined \"world standards\" were to count as new records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284057-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 109 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284058-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 55 kg\nThe men's 55 kg competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 1-2 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284058-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 55 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284059-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 61 kg\nThe men's 61\u00a0kg competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 1\u20133 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284059-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 61 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284060-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 67 kg\nThe men's 67\u00a0kg competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 2\u20134 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284060-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 67 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284061-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 73 kg\nThe men's 73 kilograms competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 2\u20134 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284061-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 73 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284062-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 81 kg\nThe men's 81 kilograms competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 4\u20135 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284062-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 81 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284063-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 89 kg\nThe men's 89 kilograms competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 6 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284063-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 89 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284064-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 96 kg\nThe men's 96 kilograms competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 7 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284064-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Men's 96 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284065-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's +87 kg\nThe women's +87\u00a0kg competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 9\u201310 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284065-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's +87 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284066-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 45 kg\nThe women's 45 kg competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 2 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284066-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 45 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284067-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 49 kg\nThe women's 49 kilograms competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 2\u20133 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284067-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 49 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284068-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 55 kg\nThe women's 55 kilograms competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 1\u20133 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284068-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 55 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284069-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 59 kg\nThe women's 59 kilograms competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 3\u20134 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284069-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 59 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284070-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 64 kg\nThe women's 64 kilograms competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 4\u20135 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284070-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 64 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284071-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 71 kg\nThe women's 71 kilograms competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 6 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284071-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 71 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284072-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 76 kg\nThe women's 76\u00a0kg competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 7 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284072-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 76 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284073-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 81 kg\nThe women's 81 kilograms competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 8 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284073-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 81 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284074-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 87 kg\nThe women's 87\u00a0kg competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 9 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284074-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Weightlifting Championships \u2013 Women's 87 kg, Records\nPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284075-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship\nThe 2018 World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship, was held from November 9 to 15, 2018 at the Kisakallio Sports Institute in Lohja, Finland. The qualification event is open to any World Curling Federation member nation not already qualified for the 2019 World Wheelchair Curling Championship. The event's three medalists, Estonia, Slovakia, and Latvia, join the host and the top eight finishers from the last World Wheelchair Curling Championship at this season's event in Stirling, Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284076-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World Women's Curling Championship\nThe 2018 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as the 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 17\u201325 at the North Bay Memorial Gardens in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The format of the tournament was changed this year, with 13 teams qualifying for the tournament (as opposed to 12 in previous years), and the top 6 teams from round-robin play will qualify for the playoffs (rather than 4). The playoff system were single-knockout, where the top two teams received a bye while the remaining four played the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284076-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World Women's Curling Championship\nThe event was won by Canada's Jennifer Jones rink from Winnipeg; the second world championship for the 2014 Olympic gold medalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284076-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World Women's Curling Championship\nOff the ice, the event was a success and set an attendance record for a women's world championship held in Canada. Jennifer Jones was complimentary of the fans, saying she had never played in a louder arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284076-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World Women's Curling Championship, Qualification\nThe following nations are qualified to participate in the 2018 World Women's Curling Championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284076-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Jennifer JonesThird: Kaitlyn LawesSecond: Jill OfficerLead: Dawn McEwenAlternate: Shannon Birchard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284076-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Jiang YilunThird: Wang RuiSecond: Jiang Xindi Lead: Yan HuiAlternate: Yao Mingyue", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284076-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Anna Kube\u0161kov\u00e1Third: Al\u017eb\u011bta Baudy\u0161ov\u00e1Second: Tereza Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1Lead: Kl\u00e1ra Svato\u0148ov\u00e1Alternate: Ezhen Kolchevskaia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284076-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Angelina JensenThird: Christine Gr\u00f8nbechSecond: Camilla Sk\u00e5rberg JensenLead: Lina KnudsenAlternate: Ivana Bratic", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284076-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Daniela JentschThird: Emira AbbesSecond: Analena JentschLead: Pia-Lisa Sch\u00f6llAlternate Josephine Obermann", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284076-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Diana GaspariThird: Veronica ZapponeSecond: Stefania ConstantiniLead: Angela RomeiAlternate: Chiara Olivieri", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284076-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Tori KoanaThird: Yuna KotaniSecond: Mao IshigakiLead: Arisa KotaniAlternate: Kaho Onodera", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284076-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams\nSkip : Victoria MoiseevaThird: Yulia PortunovaSecond: Galina ArsenkinaLead: Julia GuzievaAlternate: Anna Sidorova", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284076-0012-0000", "contents": 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Donny Schatz defended his 2017 championship by winning his tenth title in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284111-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series\nThe 2018 season was the first to feature live video broadcast of every event available via pay-per-view on DIRTvision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284111-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series\nThe season was marred by the death of Jason Johnson, following the race at Beaver Dam Raceway on June 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284111-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series, Schedule and results\nAll races were broadcast live by DIRTvision.com except the 5-hour ENERGY Knoxville Nationals, which was broadcast live by thecushion.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 71], "content_span": [72, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284112-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World's Best Racehorse Rankings\nThe 2018 World's Best Racehorse Rankings, sponsored by Longines was the 2018 edition of the World's Best Racehorse Rankings. It was an assessment of Thoroughbred racehorses issued by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) on 24 January 2019. It included horses aged three or older which competed in flat races during 2018. It was open to all horses irrespective of where they raced or were trained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284113-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 World's Strongest Man\nThe 2018 World's Strongest Man was the 41st edition of the World's Strongest Man competition. It was held in Manila, Philippines from April 28 to May 6, 2018. The qualifying phase lasted until May 1 while the finals took place on May 5th and 6th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284113-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 World's Strongest Man\nVarious World's Strongest Man events were hosted within and outside Metro Manila. Among the venues were the Quirino Grandstand in Rizal Park; Intramuros, Manila; Bonifacio Global City in Taguig; and the University of the Philippines campus in Diliman, Quezon City. Events outside Metro Manila were hosted in Bataan, Corregidor Island, Coron Island, Davao City, and Tagaytay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284113-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 World's Strongest Man\nEddie Hall, winner of the 2017 World's Strongest Man, did not defend his title. The tournament was won by Haf\u00fe\u00f3r J\u00fal\u00edus Bj\u00f6rnsson of Iceland, the first Icelander since Magn\u00fas Ver Magn\u00fasson in 1996 to win the title. Mateusz Kieliszkowski of Poland finished second and four-time winner Brian Shaw of the United States third. \u017dydr\u016bnas Savickas, also a four-time winner, finished tenth after withdrawing due to an injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284113-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 World's Strongest Man, Heat Results\nThe qualifying heats consisted of six events. After five events, the competitor with the highest score qualifies for the final. The competitors in second and third place take part in the final event, the Atlas Stones, with the winner progressing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284114-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Worthing Borough Council election\nThe 2018 Worthing Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Worthing Borough Council. This was on the same day as other local elections. A third of the council was up for election, meaning a total of 13 councillors were elected from all of the council's wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284114-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Worthing Borough Council election\nDespite suffering a net loss of two seats, the Conservative Party retained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284115-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wrestling World Cup - Men's freestyle\nThe 2018 Wrestling World Cup - Men's freestyle was the last of a set of three Wrestling World Cups in 2018 which took place in Iowa City, United States on April 7\u20138 2018. This event took place in the main indoor of University of Iowa - Carver\u2013Hawkeye Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284115-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wrestling World Cup - Men's freestyle, Background\nInitially the top teams from Russia, Turkey and Iran were to compete in the 2018 World Cup; however were unable to attend, for Turkey had financial difficulties, Russia had visa issues and Iran refused to compete due to a disagreement with the UWW event calendar. Mongolia and India replaced these teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284116-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wrestling World Cup - Women's freestyle\nThe 2018 Wrestling World Cup - Women's freestyle was the first of a set of three Wrestling World Cups in 2018 which were held in Takasaki, Japan on 17\u201318 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284117-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wuhan Open\nThe 2018 Wuhan Open (also known as the 2018 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts between September 23\u201329, 2018. It was the 5th edition of the Wuhan Open, and part of the WTA Premier 5 tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour. The tournament was held at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284117-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wuhan Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wild cards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284117-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wuhan Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284117-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wuhan Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284118-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wuhan Open \u2013 Doubles\nLatisha Chan and Martina Hingis were the defending champions, but Hingis retired from professional tennis at the end of 2017 and Chan could not participate due to a medical condition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284118-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wuhan Open \u2013 Doubles\nElise Mertens and Demi Schuurs won the title, defeating Andrea Sestini Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 and Barbora Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284118-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wuhan Open \u2013 Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284119-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wuhan Open \u2013 Singles\nCaroline Garcia was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284119-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wuhan Open \u2013 Singles\nAryna Sabalenka won the title, defeating Anett Kontaveit in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284119-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wuhan Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284119-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wuhan Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284120-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 2018 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cowboys are coached by fifth-year head coach Craig Bohl and play their home games at War Memorial Stadium as a member of the Mountain Division of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the regular season 6\u20136, 4\u20134 in Mountain West play to finish in third place in the Mountain division. Despite being bowl eligible, they were not invited to a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284120-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming Cowboys football team, Previous season\nThe Cowboys finished the 2017 season 8\u20135, 5\u20133 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for second place in the Mountain Division. They were invited to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl where they defeated Central Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284120-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming Cowboys football team, 2018 recruiting class\nThe Cowboys announced an early signing class of 20 high school student-athletes on December 20. On February 24, they announced the signing of two more student-athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284120-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming Cowboys football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days\nDuring the Mountain West media days held July 24\u201325 at the Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip, the Cowboys were predicted to finish in second place in the Mountain Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284120-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming Cowboys football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days, Preseason All-Mountain West Team\nThe Cowboys had three players selected to the preseason all-Mountain West team. Strong safety Andrew Wingard was selected as the preseason defensive player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 105], "content_span": [106, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284120-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming Cowboys football team, Statistics, Defense\nKey: SOLO: Solo Tackles, AST: Assisted Tackles, TOT: Total Tackles, TFL: Tackles-for-loss, SACK: Quarterback Sacks, INT: Interceptions, BU: Passes Broken Up, QBH: Quarterback Hits, FF: Forced Fumbles, FR: Fumbles Recovered, BLK: Kicks or Punts Blocked, SAF: Safeties", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election\nThe 2018 Wyoming Senate election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, with the primary election held on August 21, 2018. Voters in the 15 odd-numbered districts of the Wyoming State Senate elected their representatives. The elections coincided with the elections for other offices, including U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Governor, and the State House", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election, General Election, Results, District 3\nRepublican Cheri Steinmetz was elected with 80% of the vote compared to Democrat Marci Shaver who received 20% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election, General Election, Results, District 7\nRepublican Incumbent Stephan Pappas won the election with no challengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election, General Election, Results, District 9\nDemocratic Incumbent Chris Rothfuss won the election with no challengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election, General Election, Results, District 11\nRepublican Incumbent Larry S. Hicks was re-elected with 66% of the vote compared to Democrat Lee AnnStephenson who received 34% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election, General Election, Results, District 13\nRepublican Tom James defeated Incumbent Democrat John Hastert with 47% of the vote to Hastert's 37%, Independent candidate Ted L. Barney won 16% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election, General Election, Results, District 15\nRepublican Wendy Davis Schuler won the election with no challengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election, General Election, Results, District 17\nDemocratic Candidate Mike Gierau won the election with 62% of the vote against Republican Kate Mead who won 38% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election, General Election, Results, District 19\nRepublican R J Kost won the election with no challengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election, General Election, Results, District 21\nRepublican Bo Biteman was elected with 64% of the vote compared to Democrat Hollis Hackman who received 35% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election, General Election, Results, District 23\nRepublican Incumbent Jeff Wasserburger won the election with no challengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election, General Election, Results, District 25\nRepublican Incumbent Cale Case was elected with\u00a0% of the vote compared to Democrat Sergio A. Maldonado, Sr. who received\u00a0% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election, General Election, Results, District 27\nRepublican Incumbent Bill Landen won the election with no challengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284121-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming State Senate election, General Election, Results, District 29\nRepublican Incumbent Drew Perkins won the election with no challengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on November 6, 2018. All of Wyoming's executive offices were up for election, as well as a United States Senate seat and Wyoming's at-large seat in the United States House of Representatives. Primary elections were held on August 21, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor Matt Mead was term-limited and could not run for a third term. Republican State Treasurer Mark Gordon defeated attorney Harriet Hageman, businessmen Bill Dahlin, Foster Friess, Sam Galeotos, and physician Taylor Haynes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, Governor\nFormer Democratic Minority Leader of the Wyoming House of Representatives Mary Throne ran for the Democratic nomination with minimal opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, Secretary of State\nEd Murray, who had first been elected in 2014, intended to run for governor, but resigned February 9, 2018 following claims of sexual assault. Governor Matt Mead appointed former Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives Edward Buchanan to fill the remainder of Murray's term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, State Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican State Treasurer Mark Gordon declined to run for a third full term and instead ran successfully for Governor of Wyoming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, State Treasurer, Democratic primary, Candidates\nNo candidate filed to run; however, Chris Lowry qualified for the general election by receiving enough sufficient write-in votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 71], "content_span": [72, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, State Auditor\nIncumbent Republican State Auditor Cynthia Cloud declined to run for a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, Superintendent of Public Instruction\nIncumbent Republican Superintendent Jillian Balow ran for a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 60], "content_span": [61, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, United States Senate\nIncumbent Republican Senator John Barrasso ran for a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, United States Senate\nBusinessman and nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006 and 2008 Gary Trauner ran for the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, United States Senate\nBusinessman Dave Dodson initially ran as an independent, but later ran in the Republican primary and was defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, United States House of Representatives\nIncumbent Republican U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, who had represented the state in the United States House of Representatives since 2017, successfully ran for reelection. She defeated Rod Miller, a former federal land planning coordinator, and Blake Stanley for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 62], "content_span": [63, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, United States House of Representatives\nOil geologist Greg Hunter defeated attorney Travis Helm for the Democratic nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 62], "content_span": [63, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, State Legislature, Wyoming Senate\nOf the 30 seats in the Wyoming Senate, 15 were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284122-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming elections, State Legislature, Wyoming House of Representatives\nAll 60 seats in the Wyoming House of Representatives were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284123-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyoming gubernatorial election\nThe 2018 Wyoming gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Wyoming. Incumbent Republican Governor Matt Mead was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term. Republican nominee Mark Gordon defeated Democratic nominee Mary Throne by nearly 40 percentage points. This was the first time since 1978 that a candidate from the President's party was elected governor in Wyoming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284124-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyre Forest District Council election\nThe 2018 Wyre Forest District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of the Wyre Forest District Council in Worcestershire, England. They were held on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284124-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Wyre Forest District Council election, Ward results, Areley Kings & Riverside\nJames Alexander Shaw was elected but resigned in November 2018 citing ill-health.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 82], "content_span": [83, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284125-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 XB4\n2018 XB4 (also written 2018 XB4) is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid roughly 53 meters (170 feet) in diameter. It was discovered on 13 December 2018 when the asteroid was about 0.125\u00a0AU (18,700,000\u00a0km; 11,600,000\u00a0mi) from Earth and had a solar elongation of 146\u00b0. It passed closest approach to Earth on 1 January 2019. Of the asteroids discovered in 2018, it had the highest Palermo scale rating at \u20133.6. In mid-2019 it was recovered which extended the observation arc to 177 days and was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on 12 June 2019. It is now known that on 22 June 2092 the asteroid will pass about 0.033\u00b10.015\u00a0AU from Earth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284125-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 XB4\nWith a 42-day observation arc, the Sentry Risk Table showed an estimated 1 in 6200 chance of the asteroid impacting Earth on 22 June 2092. The nominal JPL Horizons 22 June 2092 Earth distance was 0.17\u00a0AU (25,000,000\u00a0km; 16,000,000\u00a0mi) with a 3-sigma uncertainty of \u00b1320 million kilometers. A Monte Carlo simulation using Solex 12 with 1000 clones of the asteroid showed that by 2092 the uncertainty region for 2018 XB4 stretched around the entire orbit. NEODyS listed the nominal 22 June 2092 Earth distance as 0.009\u00a0AU (1,300,000\u00a0km; 840,000\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284126-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yadanarbon FC season, 2018 Players squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284127-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 2018 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The season marked the Bulldogs's 146th overall season. The team played its home games at Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut and were led by seventh-year head coach Tony Reno. They were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 5\u20135 overall and 3\u20134 in Ivy League play to place in three-way tie for fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284127-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Yale Bulldogs football team, Previous season\nThe Bulldogs finished the 2017 season 9\u20131, 6\u20131 in Ivy League play to become Ivy League champions for the first time since 2006 (when they shared the title) and to earn their first sole league title since 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284128-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yamaguchi gubernatorial election\nA gubernatorial election was held on 4 February 2018 to elect the next Governor of Yamaguchi (\u5c71\u53e3\u770c, Yamaguchi-ken), a prefecture of Japan in the Ch\u016bgoku region of the main island of Honshu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284129-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yangon United season\nThe 2018 season is Yangon United's 9th season in the Myanmar National League since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284129-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Yangon United season, 2018 First team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284130-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yap elections\nThe 2018 Yap gubernatorial election took place on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia to a four-year term in office. The election coincides with the Yap State general election, including legislative contests to select Senators of the Yap State Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284130-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Yap elections\nIncumbent Governor Tony Ganngiyan, who was elected in 2014, is seeking re-election for a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284130-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Yap elections\n10 seats of the Yap State Legislature were also up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284131-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yas Island Formula 2 round\nThe 2018 Yas Marina FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races held on 24 and 25 November 2018 at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the twelfth and final round of the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship and was run in support of the 2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284132-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yasar Dogu Tournament\nThe 46th Yasar Dogu Tournament 2018, was a wrestling event held in Istanbul, Turkey between the 27th and 29th of July 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284132-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Yasar Dogu Tournament\nThis international tournament includes competition in both men's and women's freestyle wrestling. This ranking tourment will be held in honor of the two time Olympic Champion, Ya\u015far Do\u011fu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284132-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Yasar Dogu Tournament\nWrestling champs square off in Istanbul tournament. Some 300 freestyle wrestlers from 21 countries descended on Istanbul on Friday for a three-day international tournament. The 46th edition of the Ya\u015far Do\u011fu International Wrestling Tournament, named after the legendary Turkish wrestler, kicked off at Hasan Do\u011fan Sports Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election\nYerevan City Council elections were held on 23 September 2018. The snap election was trigged after the resignation of former mayor Taron Margaryan amid the aftermath of the 2018 Armenian Velvet Revolution. Well-known comedian and actor Hayk Marutyan, heading the electoral list of the My Step Alliance, was elected to the office of mayor of Yerevan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Candidates\n979 candidates competed for 65 open seats in the Yerevan city council (also known as the \"council of elders\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Candidates\nA total of 12 parties/alliances participated in the election (numbered below according to the electoral ballot listing):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Candidates\nA pre-election analysis of the top 10 lists from each party or alliance revealed that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Electoral code and voter data\nForeign citizens living in Yerevan could cast their ballots if they had at least a one-year registration before voting day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Electoral code and voter data\nThe electoral code defines one vote per voter and a threshold of 6 percent of cast ballots for parties (50,900 votes at 100% turnout) and 8 percent for alliances (67,867 at 100% turnout), surpassing which is required for consideration during mandate allocations. Only if less than 3 parties/alliances pass the threshold, would all three best performing parties/alliances be allocated mandates. A \u201cbonus\u201d to the political force that wins at least 40 percent of the council seats will allow it to occupy majority of the seats and appoint the new mayor of Yerevan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Electoral code and voter data\nMandates will be allocated according to proportional representation principle, while regarding Yerevan as one multi-mandate electoral district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Election observation\nOnly one international organization, the International Expert Center for Electoral Systems (ICES) was registered for monitoring the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Election observation\nWhile 662 observers from 8 local organizations and 598 representatives of 49 media outlets participated. Ten of the representatives were from 5 foreign media outlets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Electoral fraud prevention and counteraction\nAhead of the September 23 election, in the second and final reading, the Armenian Parliament unanimously ratified a bill criminalizing electoral fraud. The amendments to Armenia\u2019s Criminal Code make electoral fraud punishable by imprisonment whereas before, individuals charged with vote buying or selling were simply fined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 80], "content_span": [81, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Electoral fraud prevention and counteraction\nPolice established a telephone hot line which was used to report electoral fraud on election day. Anonymity of those who report corruption cases will be guaranteed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 80], "content_span": [81, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Election campaign\nThe campaign was marked by bitter accusations by leading candidates. Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, said the elections will be between \"bright\" and \"dark\" forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Election campaign\nAfter some candidates called for public debates and expressed their participation willingness, a debate was scheduled to be broadcast on public TV on the last campaign day, September 21 at 22:25 - just 95 minutes before \"silence day\" begins. The debate was recorded in advance, rather than broadcast live. For this reason, only one candidate, Naira Zohrabyan, representing Prosperous Armenia had declined participation and called for a live debate, while ten candidates confirmed their participation. If broadcast shall indeed end before midnight, assuming equal speaking time distribution to the candidates and taking into amount some time for moderation, it was expected that speaking time per candidate would amount to only about 7 (+-2) minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 803]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Opinion polls\nOn September 11, Gallup International published an opinion poll survey. According to the poll:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Opinion polls\nIf these numbers held, only the top 3 parties/alliances (My Step, Prosperous Armenia, and Bright Alliance) would make it into city council, according to the rule of passing the electoral threshold and requiring a minimum of 3 parties/alliances to be represented in council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Results\nThe My Step Alliance won a landslide victory in the Yerevan City Council elections, according to preliminary data.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284133-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Yerevan City Council election, Results\nWell-known comedian and actor Hayk Marutyan, who heads the electoral list of the My Step Alliance, became the next mayor of Yerevan as the My Step Alliance garnered more than 50 percent of mandates, and according to law, the person who heads the electoral list of the winning political force is considered mayor-elect. Hayk Marutyan assumed office on 10 October 2018. He is elected for a term of 4 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment\nOn 21 October 2018, a passenger train derailed in Yilan County, Taiwan, killing 18 people and injuring 187. At the time, it was Taiwan's deadliest rail accident since a collision near Miaoli in 1991 that killed 30 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Accident\nAt 16:50 local time (UTC+8), a Puyuma express train, service 6432 from Shulin bound for Taitung, derailed on a curve with a radius of 300 metres (980\u00a0ft) when passing through the Xinma station in Yilan County, about 70 kilometres (43\u00a0mi) from Taipei. There were 366 passengers travelling on the train.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Accident\nOf the eight carriages, numbers 3 through 8 toppled over and collided into each other in a \"W\" shape, while the rest went off the track with lesser damage. The front car was seen tipped over at an angle of 75 degrees, and most of the fatalities are believed to have been in this car. Survivor accounts claimed that the driver applied the emergency brake multiple times before the incident, and another claimed that the train sped up after the curve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Accident\nAll trains in the eastern trunk line were halted in both directions, with replacement bus services provided. Hundreds of medics and firefighters, and 100 army troops responded to the scene. As of 21:35 local time all passengers, including the dead, had been removed/evacuated from the wreckage. The derailment is the worst train accident in Taiwan since 1991, when 30 people were killed in a collision near Miaoli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Victims\nAt least 18 people were killed in the accident, with another 187 injured, all on board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Victims\nSix of the dead were reportedly under the age of 18. Taiwan's Railway Authority confirmed that 8 of the dead were of the same family, and the Health Ministry confirmed that 53 injured passengers remained in the hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Investigation\nThe train involved in the accident was built by the Japanese company Nippon Sharyo in 2011, and underwent major maintenance work in 2017. On 22 October 2018, it was reported that the driver of the train reported an issue with the main air compressor just before the derailment. The Chief Secretary of Taiwan Railways Administration, Chu Lai-shun, said that a full failure of the main air compressor would cause insufficient power and problems with deceleration, but should not cause a derailment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Investigation\nIn addition, the train's automatic train protection (ATP) was disabled shortly before the derailment, which, according to the driver was because of an earlier fault which delayed the train. Prosecutors accused him of negligence for not turning it on again afterwards. Investigators believe that without ATP enabled, the train's speed was not properly monitored, which led to the train approaching the curve at a speed of 140\u00a0km/h (87\u00a0mph), almost twice the speed limit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Investigation\nAs part of the investigation, all 18 other Puyama trains in service on Taiwanese railways were thoroughly inspected. No fault was found. Nevertheless, a report by Chinese-language Apple Daily Sunday found that Taiwanese trains were experiencing problems with the ATP system, citing anonymous sources from within the TRA. As the investigation progressed, technical flaws with the connection of the train's protection system to the signalling centre were found with the Puyama trains, and Japanese manufacturer Nippon Sharyo promised the Taiwanese government it would fix the flaw by 11 November, with testing and certification expected to take a month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Investigation, Driver\nThe driver of the train was granted bail of NT$500,000 (US$16,167) on 23 October, after he had been detained for investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Investigation, Results\nThe conclusion of the investigation was announced by a press release on 6 June by the Taiwan Yilan District Prosecutors Office. The direct causes of the incident were found to be excessive speed in the curve and the disabling of the train protection system by the driver, in breach of relevant operating regulations. Issues with the main air compressor were found not to be a contributing factor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Investigation, Results\nImproper management of the testing process of Puyuma trains, which caused an absence of testing of the ATP remote monitoring system, resulted in an indictment of the former Deputy Director of the TRA's Department of Rolling Stock and of the Chief of TRA's Central Dispatch Office. Other staff involved in the incident, such as dispatchers and mechanics, were found not to be liable, and no evidence of corruption or neglect of duty by public officials was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Investigation, Results\nIn response to views that there were shortcomings in the initial investigation, the Taiwanese government converted the Aviation Safety Council (ASC), which previously only dealt with aviation accidents and incidents, into the comprehensive Taiwan Transportation Safety Board (TTSB), which also covers maritime and train accidents and incidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Responses\nPresident Tsai Ing-wen called the accident a \"major tragedy\" and directed the government and military to \"step up\" rescue efforts. The President also called for an investigation into the crash, that would \"make clear the timing and situation of the whole accident\". In addition, \"drastic reform of the TRA to restore public confidence in the safety of railway transportation\" is to be carried out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Responses\nAs a result of the incident, the Democratic Progressive Party and Kuomintang halted campaigning for the November local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Responses\nThe Taipei Blood Donation Centre issued a press release that highlighted local blood donation centres and urged blood donors to donate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Responses, Memorials\nPresident Tsai met with relatives of the dead and injured on 22 October. She joined Buddhist monks in prayer at an altar next to the hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284134-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Yilan train derailment, Responses, Legal\nIn March 2020, three people who worked for the TRA at the time of the derailment were impeached by the Control Yuan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284135-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Ykk\u00f6nen\nThe 2018 Ykk\u00f6nen was the 47th season of Ykk\u00f6nen, the second highest football league in Finland. The season began on 28 April 2018 and ended on 27 October 2018. The winning team was directly promoted to the 2019 Veikkausliiga, while the second-placed team played a play-off against the eleventh-placed team from Veikkausliiga to decide who would play in that division. The bottom two teams were relegated to Kakkonen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284135-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Ykk\u00f6nen, Overview\nA total of ten teams contested in the league, including five sides from the 2017 season, HIFK and JJK who was relegated from Veikkausliiga and Klubi 04 and AC Kajaani who were promoted from Kakkonen after winning the promotion play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 22], "content_span": [23, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284135-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Ykk\u00f6nen, Overview\nOPS, who was refused a license for Ykk\u00f6nen, was replaced by FC KTP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 22], "content_span": [23, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284135-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Ykk\u00f6nen, Overview\nTPS, the champion of 2017 Ykk\u00f6nen and FC Honka, the runner-up of 2017 Ykk\u00f6nen were promoted to the 2018 Veikkausliiga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 22], "content_span": [23, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284136-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yokohama F. Marinos season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284136-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Yokohama F. Marinos season, Squad\nThe official club website lists the club mascot as player #0 and the supporters as player #12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284136-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Yokohama F. Marinos season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284137-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yokohama FC season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284138-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yongchuan International Tournament\nThe Tea Mountain Bamboo Forest Cup 2018 Yongchuan International Tournament (Chinese: 2018\u5e74\u8336\u5c71\u7af9\u6d77\u676f\u6c38\u5ddd\u56fd\u9645\u5973\u5b50\u8db3\u7403\u9080\u8bf7\u8d5b) was the 4th edition of the Yongchuan International Tournament, an invitational women's football tournament held in Yongchuan District, Chongqing, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284139-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 York Region municipal elections\nElections in the Regional Municipality of York of Ontario, Canada were held on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284139-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 York Region municipal elections, Regional chair\nThe election was to be the first-ever direct election of the York Regional chair, but it was cancelled by the Ontario Government's passing of the Better Local Government Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284139-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 York Region municipal elections, East Gwillimbury\nEast Gwillimbury changed its council from 4 councillors elected \"at large\" from the town, to 6 councillors in a 3-ward system, with two councillors elected in each ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284139-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 York Region municipal elections, Markham, City Council, Regional Councillor\nIn Markham, Regional Councillors serve on both the City Council as well as York Region Council. Electors can vote for up to four candidates on their ballots, equal to the total number that may be elected. The four winning candidates are those whom receive the highest number of votes. The candidate with the highest number of votes received also serves as Deputy Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284139-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 York Region municipal elections, York Region District School Board, Trustee - Area 1 (Vaughan Ward 1 & 2)\nAnna DeBartolo submitted her resignation from the Trustee position on January 9, 2019, citing personal reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 110], "content_span": [111, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike\nThe 2018 York University strike was a strike by CUPE Local 3903, the union representing contract professors, teaching assistants, and graduate assistants at York University. At 143 days long it is the longest strike in the post-secondary sector in Canadian history, surpassing the previous record of the 1976 Laval University 108-day strike. It ended on July 25, when the Ontario Legislature passed the Urgent Priorities Act back-to-work legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, Background\nOn March 3, 2018, two days before the beginning of the strike, York University stated in a labour update that if all of CUPE 3903's 110 proposals were accepted, operating labour costs would increase by 57%, up from $70 million to $109 million over three years, out of a total spending of $715 million in labour costs annually.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 York University strike, Background\nIn this case, the $39 million difference between contracts (an additional $13 million per year) would not be possible given York University's annual surplus of only $36.4 million; otherwise, roughly 1/3rd of the annual surplus would be spent on CUPE 3903, which only represents 60% of teachers on campus, thus limiting York's ability to invest in capital projects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0001-0002", "contents": "2018 York University strike, Background\nFor these reasons, York University stated that \"after extensive discussion Friday evening and following careful review of CUPE 3903's lengthy and largely unchanged list of demands shared through the mediator, CUPE 3903's positions remain too far apart from the University's best offer to return to bargaining at this time.\" At this point, both parties understood that a strike was imminent. York declared that the university would \"remain open\" and that certain classes would continue running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, Background\nOn the Friday of March 2, the newly founded Students Against Strike organized a small walk-out demonstration and demanded that undergraduate students deserved their own platform in the conflict between York University Administration and CUPE 3903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike\nThe strike began on March 5, 2018 at 12:01 am EST. Despite the strike, the university remained open (with all major entrances blockaded via hard picket lines), and the few winter term courses that were able to continue, continued to run. Winter term ended on April 23 as originally scheduled. Students that refused to participate in academic activities during the labour disruption were promised reasonable accommodations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Attempted bargaining\nOn March 12, 2018 the Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development, Mitzie Hunter, contacted CUPE 3903 and the York University administration to encourage the two sides to bargain. CUPE 3903 re-affirmed its willingness to bargain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Attempted bargaining\nAfter little movement from either side, on March 18, 2018, York University announced that it would return to the bargaining table. CUPE 3903 was optimistic that the disruption might be resolved but expressed disappointment when York, despite movement from CUPE 3903, issues an ultimatum to capitulate on all important issues, or York walks away from the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Attempted bargaining\nOn March 20, York University presented a revised offer and exercised their statutory power to force a one-time mandatory ratification vote. York made its request on March 27, but the law stipulates a two-week delay between request and vote. The vote was held between April 6 and April 9. The university's offer was rejected by 85% of those who voted, with 2,320 \"no\" votes cast. With the ratification vote defeated, the strike continued. According to CUPE, the proposal under consideration was not meaningfully different from the offer that they rejected at the beginning of the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Attempted bargaining\nCUPE 3903 subsequently filed an unfair labor practices complaint with the Ontario Labour Relations Board. The complaint alleged that York publicly mischaracterized CUPE 3903 demands, incorrectly characterized the demands as illegal, and during a previous labour disruption appropriated the domain name CUPE3903.com to direct internet searches for information on CUPE to the university's own labour page. York responded that the objections were without merit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Attempted bargaining\nCUPE 3903 would learn that \"CUPE3903.com\" was billed to York University by Michael Schiff, an employee in the office of the Faculty of Graduate Studies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Attempted bargaining\nDuring the strike, a coalition of socialist student groups, Students for CUPE 3903, staged an occupation of the University Senate chambers in support of the strike. The sit-in lasted three months. Participants protested potential expense account issues from Lenton's term as Vice President Academic and President, in addition to various other tuition-oriented concerns. Simultaneously, a website publishing documents relating to Lenton's expenses, Yorked.me, was registered under a false identity. Yorked.me was taken down following a copyright complaint from the university, but resurfaced as Yorked.tk, using a free domain name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Attempted bargaining\nEarly demands from Students for CUPE 3903 included the cancellation of classes that were not taught by CUPE 3903 members. The ultimate authority to make academic policy (of which disruption policy is a part), according to the York Act, rests with York's Senate. According to YUFA, the union representing full-time faculty (full-time faculty are not represented by CUPE): \"Senate Executive clearly asserted that course directors are the best judge of how to ensure the academic integrity of their courses and whether those courses can be continued on that basis.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Attempted bargaining\nPresident Rhonda Lenton and the Board of Governors asserted that it was their right to decide whether classes should be suspended or not and decided that there was no reason to do so. Many classes taught by members of York's full-time faculty continued, though many of these classes experienced varying levels of disruption ranging from marking not being completed to classes being suspended entirely. Classes taught by contract faculty were already suspended owing to their instructors being on strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Attempted bargaining\nLenton and the Board of Governor's move to take control of academic policy from the Senate received the unanimous censure of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), an organization representing most all academic staff in Canada. According to CAUT, not only was this in contravention with past practice, but it was also in contravention of the York Act, the act of the Legislature of Ontario that created York University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Incidents of violence\nMinor incidents of violence occurred as students were stopped at picket lines. A video was released by picketers showing a student dismantling barricades at the Northwest Gate picket line in an attempt to attend his Midterm exam. The student was placed in a chokehold by a picketer, upon breaking free the student kicked the picketer in retaliation. A picketer was injured after a vehicle forced its way past a picket line. Protesters demonstrated outside a university senate meeting and attempted to prevent senators from entering. During the melee, a teaching assistant senator was put in a headlock by security and prevented from entering. CUPE 3903 protestors picketed at the house of York University President Rhonda Lenton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Province launches Industrial Inquiry Commission\nOn April 13, 2018, Kevin Flynn, Minister of Labour, appointed labour relations lawyer William Kaplan as the sole member of an Industrial Inquiry Commission. The purpose of such an inquiry is to create a report on the status of a labour dispute, for the minister, and in the process bring the two sides in a dispute together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 88], "content_span": [89, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Province launches Industrial Inquiry Commission\nCUPE revised their offer, with more concessions in favour of the employer. York University in its submission to the inquiry argues that CUPE 3903 is too radical to bargain with, and cites the writings of some of its members (all academics) as proof of a \"mentality\" that York cannot negotiate with. From the start of the labour disruption, York University adopted a hard line on its offer, and urged CUPE to accept it, or agree to arbitration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 88], "content_span": [89, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Province launches Industrial Inquiry Commission\nAt the conclusion of the inquiry, Kaplan noted in his report that \"the parties have reached an impasse and there is no reason to believe that they will be able to resolve their dispute through free collective bargaining. Their history indicates otherwise.\" Kaplan recommended to the Minister that he call upon the parties to enter into \"consensual interest arbitration.\" Kaplan further recommended that \"the government establish a task force on precarity in post-secondary education employment.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 88], "content_span": [89, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Province launches Industrial Inquiry Commission\nThe precise date that the report was made available to the province, the University and CUPE 3903 was not certain. However, details of the report (which was meant primarily for the Minister) were leaked to the press and made public on Friday May 4, 2018. CUPE 3903 maintained its position that bargaining and not arbitration was the means to resolve the impasse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 88], "content_span": [89, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Province launches Industrial Inquiry Commission\nWhile praising Commissioner Kaplan's recommendation for the creation of a government task force on precarity in postsecondary education employment, the Ontario Federation of University Faculty Associations condemned York and Kaplan's position that arbitration was the answer and that CUPE 3903 should be legislated back to work. In addition to undermining collective bargaining \"such legislation subverts the bargaining process by signalling to employers that they can avoid meaningful engagement in collective bargaining by stonewalling and waiting for government intervention.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 88], "content_span": [89, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Province launches Industrial Inquiry Commission\nLeading up to the Industrial Commission, York University claimed that its bargaining priorities had the support of York's academics, without reference or substantiation. The York University Faculty Association objected, and noted that the only basis for this claim was an open letter in support of these prioritise by a group of 152 full-time academics, which YUFA notes comprises 10% of its members. While not claiming that YUFA members are unanimous about various issues at stake in the labour dispute, YUFA rejected the idea that its membership was in favour of the University's position in the labour dispute. One signatory of the letter, Rose Steele, a professor in the School of Nursing, claimed that fear of \"retributions\" from CUPE 3903 and YUFA were suppressing public dissent among CUPE and YUFA members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 88], "content_span": [89, 903]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Summer Terms disrupted\nOn April 19, York University published a statement warning that S2 term (June\u2013August) would be cancelled if the strike continued past April 30. On May 2, York University published a statement announcing they would commence the summer term (SU and S1 terms) on May 22. S2 term was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Summer Terms disrupted\nOn May 7, York University issued an ultimatum to CUPE3903. The university demanded that CUPE accept a revised offer by May 10 at 11:59 EDT, or the university will not implement a back-to-work backpay protocols and would not offer employment to members of striking CUPE units during the summer term. CUPE rejected the university's demands and on May 10, issued a limited-time offer of a \"framework for settlement\" expiring May 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Summer Terms disrupted\nOn July 15, 2018, the strike continued. Criticism among students has been directed at both CUPE 3903 and York University President Rhonda Lenton's poor handling of the dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Attempted back-to-work legislation\nIn light of Kaplan's recommendation, on May 7, the Ontario government introduced Bill 70, the York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2018. The bill was introduced the day before the Legislature was set to be dissolved in preparation for the 2018 Ontario general election. Opposition from the Ontario NDP slowed the passage of the bill through first reading; it was eventually carried with division. The bill died before a second or third reading could be conducted after the government dissolved the Legislature earlier than expected. With the dissolution of the Legislature, the outcome of any legislation would be made after the 2018 Ontario general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 75], "content_span": [76, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, Unit 2 accepts offer\nOn June 14 and June 15, Unit 2 members of CUPE 3903 held a ratification vote on an offer for Unit 2 sent by York University on June 6. CUPE 3903 condemned the offer as \"backroom dealings of certain members of the [Unit 2] Bargaining Team.\" The vote came after the results of a previous vote on the same offer were rejected over alleged irregularities. 231 Yes votes were cast, while 122 No votes were cast. Following the vote, York University announced that Unit 2 members would return to work on the following Monday June 18. CUPE 3903 stated that other bargaining units would remain on strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, New back-to-work legislation\nOn July 16, 2018, the newly elected 42nd Parliament of Ontario introduced Bill 2 into the legislature, formally called the Urgent Priorities Act. The omnibus bill included a clause to end the labour dispute at York University. Premier Ford argued that the back-to-work legislation was for the sake of the students, claiming that they were \"the only people getting hurt\" in the conflict between CUPE 3903 and York Administration. The chairman of CUPE 3903, Devin Lefebvre, spoke out against the legislation claiming that it was a violation of workers rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 York University strike, The strike, New back-to-work legislation\nOn July 25, 2018, Bill 2 received Royal Assent, effectively ending the York Strike. The legislation gives the government the power to fine members of the York union $2,000 each day and fines the Union $25,000 for each day it continues to strike. Back-to-work-legislation had influenced how some students voted in the 2018 Ontario general election and many were relieved that the strike was finally over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, Criticism of York University's handling of the strike\nBy May 2, 2018, several faculties and student groups at York University passed votes of non-confidence in Rhonda Lenton, President of York, and the Board of Governors for creating a crisis of governance and for their handling of the strike. The faculties include Glendon College, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Environmental Studies, and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LAPS), not to mention York University Graduate Students' Association (YUGSA), and a number of departments and student associations. As noted by YUFA, almost half of York's full-time faculty teaches in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, implying that altogether, representative bodies of about (if not more than) half of York's faculty have lost confidence in York's administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, Criticism of York University's handling of the strike\nConcerned academics and some student groups (including York's own full-time Faculty Association) continued to support CUPE 3903 with a call to York to return to the bargaining table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, Criticism of York University's handling of the strike\nAccording to Richard Wellen, York University Faculty Association (YUFA) president, at the time of a press conference bringing together representatives from YUFA, the Ontario Federation of Labour, and York University's Graduate Student Association, it was \"becoming clearer every day that the major reason for the continuation of this strike is the categorical refusal of the administration and board of governors to bargain with the union.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 York University strike, Criticism of York University's handling of the strike\nHe noted that the administration refused to make a new offer to the union, and that it habitually blamed the union for the strike by way of refusing to acknowledge that many union priorities were previously agreed to in bargaining three years ago. Wellen also observed that \"the administration is determined to break the union and is putting that desire ahead of university and student interests\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284140-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 York University strike, Criticism of York University's handling of the strike\nCUPE 3903 added that York Administration had; attempted to replace bargaining with a public relations campaign, misrepresented union processes, had red lines that it refuses to discuss, and that it had decided to not put students first in its labour dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284141-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yorkshire Diamonds season\nThe 2018 season was Yorkshire Diamonds' third season, in which they competed in the Women's Cricket Super League, a Twenty20 competition. The side finished fifth in the group stage, winning three of their ten matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284141-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Yorkshire Diamonds season\nThe side was captained by Lauren Winfield and coached by Paul Grayson. They played two home matches apiece at Headingley Cricket Ground and Clifton Park, and one at the North Marine Road Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284141-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Yorkshire Diamonds season, Squad\nYorkshire Diamonds announced their 15-player squad on 11 July 2018. Age given is at the start of Yorkshire Diamonds' first match of the season (22 July 2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284142-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Youngstown State Penguins football team\nThe 2018 Youngstown State Penguins football team represented Youngstown State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Bo Pelini and played their home games at Stambaugh Stadium. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They finished the season 4\u20137, 3\u20135 in MVFC play to finish in a three-way tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284142-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Youngstown State Penguins football team, Previous season\nThe Penguins finished the 2017 season 6\u20135, 4\u20134 in MVFC play to finish in a three-way tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284142-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Youngstown State Penguins football team, Preseason, Preseason MVFC poll\nThe MVFC released their preseason poll on July 29, 2018, with the Penguins predicted to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284142-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Youngstown State Penguins football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MVFC Teams\nThe Penguins placed six players on the preseason all-MVFC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 81], "content_span": [82, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284143-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yukon Men's Curling Championship\nThe 2018 Yukon Men's Curling Championship was held January 11 to 14 at the Whitehorse Curling Club in Whitehorse, Yukon. The winning Thomas Scoffin team represented the Yukon at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284143-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Yukon Men's Curling Championship, Draw\nFollowing new rules set out by the Yukon Curling Association, championships with 6-7 teams are to have a modified triple knock out format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284143-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Yukon Men's Curling Championship, Playoffs\nSince Team Solberg played in every qualifying game for the playoffs, Team Solberg earns the bye to the final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284144-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Yumbi violence\nBetween December 16 and 18, 2018, at least 890 people, mostly Banunus, were killed in Yumbi and three other nearby villages (Bongende, Nkolo and Camp Nbanzi) in Mai-Ndombe Province, 400 km (250 miles) north of Kinshasa. Some 465 houses and buildings were burned down or pillaged, including some public facilities. Bongende fishing village was worst hit, with many residents mutilated and at least 339 slain. About 16,000 Banunu people were displaced from Yumbi territory, as reported by the UNHCR. About 100 Banunus found refuge on Moniende island in the Congo River, while the remainder fled to Makotimpoko District in the Republic of Congo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284144-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Yumbi violence\nThe Banunus were slaughtered by members of the Batende community in a deep-rooted rivalry over monthly tribal duties, land, fields and water resources. Military-style tactics were employed in the bloodbath, and some assailants were clothed in army uniforms. Local authorities and elements within the security forces were suspected of lending them support. Both the OHCHR and national judicial authorities, have launched investigations into the reported attacks. Reports suggest the clashes started when members of the Banunu tribe wanted to bury one of their traditional chiefs on Batende land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284145-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zagreb Ladies Open\nThe 2018 Zagreb Ladies Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Zagreb, Croatia, on 3\u20139 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284145-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zagreb Ladies Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284146-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zagreb Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nMaria Jo\u00e3o Koehler and Katalin Marosi were the defending champions, having won the previous event in 2011, but neither player chose to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284146-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zagreb Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nAndrea G\u00e1miz and Aymet Uzc\u00e1tegui won the title, defeating Elena Bogdan and Alexandra Cadan\u021bu in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284147-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zagreb Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nDia Evtimova was the defending champion, having won the previous event in 2011, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284147-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zagreb Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nTereza Mrde\u017ea won the title, defeating Paula Ormaechea in the final, 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284148-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zambian Super League\nThe 2018 Zambia Super League is the 57th season of the Zambian top-tier football league. The season began on 17 March and ended on 28 October 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284149-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zamboanga Valientes season\nThe 2018 Zamboanga Valientes season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284150-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhengzhou Women's Tennis Open\nThe 2018 Zhengzhou Women's Tennis Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and part of the 2018 WTA 125K series, offering a total of $125,000 in prize money. It took place in Zhengzhou, China, on 16\u201322 April 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284150-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhengzhou Women's Tennis Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284150-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhengzhou Women's Tennis Open, Doubles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pair received a wildcard into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284151-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhengzhou Women's Tennis Open \u2013 Doubles\nHan Xinyun and Zhu Lin were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Han partnered Vera Zvonareva, but lost in the semifinals to Duan Yingying and Wang Yafan. Zhu played alongside You Xiaodi, but lost in the first round to Prarthana Thombare and Xun Fangying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284151-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhengzhou Women's Tennis Open \u2013 Doubles\nDuan and Wang went on to win the title, defeating Naomi Broady and Yanina Wickmayer 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284152-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhengzhou Women's Tennis Open \u2013 Singles\nWang Qiang was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284152-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhengzhou Women's Tennis Open \u2013 Singles\nZheng Saisai won the title after defeating Wang Yafan 5\u20137, 6\u20132, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284153-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhuhai Open\nThe 2018 Zhuhai Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the third (ATP) and fourth (ITF) editions of the tournament and part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place at the Hengqin International Tennis Center in Zhuhai, China between 5 and 11 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284153-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhuhai Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284153-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhuhai Open, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284154-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhuhai Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nGong Maoxin and Zhang Ze were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Aliaksandr Bury and Peng Hsien-yin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284154-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhuhai Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nDenys Molchanov and Igor Zelenay won the title after defeating Bury and Peng 7\u20135, 7\u20136(7\u20134) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284155-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhuhai Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nEvgeny Donskoy was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284155-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhuhai Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nAlex Bolt won the title after defeating Hubert Hurkacz 5\u20137, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284156-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhuhai Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nLesley Kerkhove and Lidziya Marozava were the defending champions, but Marozava chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284156-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhuhai Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nKerkhove partnered alongside Anna Blinkova and successfully defended her title, defeating Nao Hibino and Danka Kovini\u0107 in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284157-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhuhai Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nDenisa Allertov\u00e1 was the defending champion, but lost to Vitalia Diatchenko in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284157-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zhuhai Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nMaryna Zanevska won the title, defeating Marta Kostyuk in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284158-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League\nThe 2018 Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League is the 39th season of top-tier football in Zimbabwe. The season was initially scheduled to begin on 10 March 2018, but was postponed to 17 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284158-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League\nHerentals College, Bulawayo Chiefs, Nichrut F.C., and Mutare City Rovers were all promoted before the start of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284159-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series\nThe 2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series was a cricket tournament held from 1 to 8 July 2018 in Zimbabwe. It was a tri-nation series between Australia, Pakistan and Zimbabwe, with all the matches played as Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) at the Harare Sports Club. In the fourth T20I, Pakistan beat Zimbabwe by seven wickets, therefore Australia and Pakistan qualified for the final. Pakistan defeated Australia in the final by six wickets to win the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284159-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series\nOriginally, the tour was just going to feature Australia and Zimbabwe, with the two teams playing two Tests and three One Day Internationals (ODIs). In June 2018, the Zimbabwe team threatened to boycott the tour in a dispute over outstanding money that has not been paid to players. Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) paid one of the three months' worth of outstanding salaries, with the players giving ZC the deadline of 25 June 2018 to pay the rest, or face a boycott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284159-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series\nHowever, despite not being paid, the players are likely to call off the protest and play in the series, but the demand for the outstanding salaries payment deadline remains in place. Zimbabwe Cricket assured players that all the outstanding salaries would be paid by 25 July 2018, one month after the players' deadline. A few days later, Zimbabwe Cricket named a 22-man preliminary squad for the series, which was trimmed down to a final seventeen players. Zimbabwe did not initially name a captain, after Graeme Cremer was sacked following the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament. A day before the first match, Hamilton Masakadza was named as Zimbabwe's captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284159-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series, Squads\nAfter the first T20I, Kyle Jarvis was ruled out for the series due to injury and was replaced by Donald Tiripano in Zimbabwe's squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284160-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean Presidential Election Petition\nThe Zimbabwe Presidential election petition 2018 aimed to overturn the Zimbabwe's presidential elections results which declared Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa as victor. The election was held on Monday July 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284160-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean Presidential Election Petition, Background\nOn 20 August Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC Alliance) president Nelson Chamisa filed an official challenge of the results of the election. On August 3, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was declared winner of the elections with 50.8 per cent of the total votes cast to Mr Chamisa's 44.3 per cent. Nelson Chamisa disputed the results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284160-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean Presidential Election Petition, Chamisa's election petition\nPolitical experts said that the appeal faces difficulties because of Zimbabwe's political scene and Judicial idiosyncrasies citing that the Judges' own values, perspectives, and secret personal and monetary interests plays a considerably more decisive role with regards to managing the argumentative issues Some political examiners anticipated that the lawful test had minimal shot of achievement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284160-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean Presidential Election Petition, Respondents\nPresident Mnangagwa alongside the other 21 losing presidential hopefuls and ZEC were altogether referred to as respondents in the prominent request by the MDC Alliance Leader. In his reaction recorded, Mnangagwa contended that there was no substantial election appeal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 59], "content_span": [60, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284160-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean Presidential Election Petition, Judges\nMDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's election petition was adjudicated by the 9 judges of the Constitutional Court. Led by Chief Justice Luke Malaba, the case was presided over by the following judges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284160-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean Presidential Election Petition, Pre-Case Hearing\nThe trial observation mission evaluated the procedures of the petition as far as consistence with regional and global human rights law and principles. Prior to the petition hearing ruling party asserted the issue ought to be rejected in light of the fact that the MDC Alliance vacillated at law by not serving papers to Mnangagwa on time or to his correct address. The ruling party Zanu-PF said it had picked a team of 12 attorneys for the case documented by Mr Chamisa while Chamisa's leading Lawyer, Adv Thabani Mpofu said his team had adequate proof to turn around the result of the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284160-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean Presidential Election Petition, Case Hearing\nBoth Legal advisors for Mnangagwa and the ZEC dismissed the allegations and said Chamisa had failed to provide tangible evidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284160-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean Presidential Election Petition, Ruling\nDuring the case ruling CJ stated that the complaint consisted of general allegations. No allegations of an individual direct control of the procedure was advanced against the first Respondent. All claims were made without identity and particularity. He expressed that no verification or proof was offered, stressing that the court decides matters dependent on facts and proof set before it. Summarizing the unanimous ruling, Chief Justice Luke Malaba said that \"the applicant has failed to place before court clear, direct, sufficient and credible evidence\" of irregularities and fraud during the presidential vote. Therefore, in terms of section 93(4)(a) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was declared the winner of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284160-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean Presidential Election Petition, Aftermath\nMnangagwa's swearing in ceremony was held on 26 August 2018. After Mnangagwa was officially sworn in as the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, some people called for coalition government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election\nGeneral elections were held in Zimbabwe on 30 July 2018 to elect the President and members of both houses of Parliament. Held eight months after the 2017 coup d'\u00e9tat, the election was the first since independence in which former President Robert Mugabe was not a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election\nZANU\u2013PF, the country's ruling party, went into the election with majorities in both the National Assembly and the Senate. The main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change \u2013 Tsvangirai, contested the election as part of the MDC Alliance, a coalition that included the MDC\u2013T and six smaller parties. The election gave ZANU\u2013PF control of both houses in the 9th Parliament of Zimbabwe, though with reduced majorities in each. The MDC Alliance gained seats in both houses, closely corresponding to ZANU\u2013PF's losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election\nIn the presidential election, Emmerson Mnangagwa, who became President as a result of the 2017 coup, ran for election as the ZANU\u2013PF candidate. Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC\u2013T leader expected to run against him, died in February 2018, and Nelson Chamisa, the new party leader, replaced him as the MDC Alliance candidate. In results that were disputed by the MDC Alliance, Mnangagwa won with 50.8% of the vote to Chamisa's 44.3%, giving him the majority needed to avoid a runoff. Mnangagwa won six of the country's ten provinces, while Chamisa won four, including the two metropolitan provinces, Harare and Bulawayo. It was the closest since 2008 that an opposition party had come to breaking ZANU\u2013PF's 38-year hold on power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Background\nThe likelihood of the elections taking place was called into doubt following the 2017 coup. On 22 November 2017, a ZANU\u2013PF spokesman said that Emmerson Mnangagwa would serve out the remainder of Robert Mugabe's term before the elections due to be held; during or before September 2018. On 20 March 2018, Mnangagwa said he was looking forward to holding elections in July 2018. In May, 30 July was set as the date of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Electoral system\nThe President of Zimbabwe is elected using the two-round system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Electoral system\nThe 270 members of the National Assembly consist of 210 members elected in single-member constituencies and 60 women elected by proportional representation in ten six-seat constituencies based on the country's provinces. Voters cast a single vote, which is counted for both forms of election. The 80 members of the Senate include 60 members elected from ten six-member constituencies (also based on the provinces) by proportional representation using party lists; the lists must have a woman at the top and alternate between men and women. The other 20 seats include two reserved for people with disabilities and 18 for traditional chiefs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Electoral system\nAccording to the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the elections are required to be held before the official expiry date of the current parliamentary term, which is due to end on 21 August 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Presidential candidates\nIn 2015, long-term President Robert Mugabe announced that he would run for another term in 2018, and was adopted as the ZANU\u2013PF candidate despite the fact that he would have been 94 at the time of the elections. Following the events of a military coup d'\u00e9tat in November 2017 and his deposition as leader of ZANU\u2013PF, Mugabe resigned amidst parliamentary impeachment hearings on 21 November 2017. His successor Mnangagwa was chosen as the ZANU\u2013PF candidate shortly after taking office. On 29 July 2018 Mugabe announced he would not support Emmerson Mnangagwa or the ZANU\u2013PF party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Presidential candidates\nIt was unknown whether Morgan Tsvangirai, the long-time Zimbabwe opposition leader, would have run in the elections following an announcement on 6 February 2018 which stated that Tsvangirai was critically ill and an MDC party source said \"we should brace for the worst\". Tsvangirai subsequently died on 14 February. Nelson Chamisa replaced Tsvangirai as the MDC candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Presidential candidates\nOn 20 October 2017, the Coalition of Democrats or CODE, a group formed by nine political parties, nominated the leader of the Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe, Elton Mangoma, to be their presidential candidate in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Presidential candidates\nJoice Mujuru, previously the Vice President of ZANU\u2013PF before being ousted from the party in 2014, also registered her candidacy. Former Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khuphe, who leads a breakaway faction of the MDC after falling out with Nelson Chamisa, was also a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Conduct\nOn 18 January 2018 Mnangagwa spoke to the Financial Times in an interview, in which he invited the EU, UN and the Commonwealth to send missions to Zimbabwe in order to monitor the elections. On 29 July 2018, former President Mugabe gave a surprise press conference during which he stated he would not vote for Mnangagwa and ZANU\u2013PF, the party he founded and led for decades. Instead, he expressed the wish to vote for his long-time rival party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Nelson Chamisa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Conduct\nThe credibility of the elections was questioned by both Zimbabwean citizens and the international community. The opposition party claimed that people aged 141 are registered to vote, and in one instance a single address had over 100 registered voters. Academic Tony Reeler argued people should boycott the poll, otherwise they would legitimise the 2017 coup. Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa indicated that his party would participate in the election, but requested the intervention of the Southern African Development Community and African Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Conduct\nThe Zimbabwe Republic Police were accused of requiring officers to cast postal ballots in front of their supervisors, which is contrary to electoral law, which requires them to be a secret ballot. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) removed ghost voters and duplicate voters. In 2015, the ZEC stated that Diaspora voting would be allowed in the 2018 election, but Mnangagwa ruled this out. Elmar Brok claimed that ZANU\u2013PF transported people to vote in an area in which they did not live.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Conduct\nOn 1 August, the opposition accused the government of rigging the vote. Just after the elections, supporters of ZANU\u2013PF attacked houses of some MDC members. In subsequent riots by MDC supporters, the army opened fire and killed three people, while three others died of their injuries the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Conduct\nAlthough the election process was peaceful, the main opposition party MDC Alliance claimed that Zanu PF and ZEC rigged the presidential election results to announce Emmerson Mnangagwa the winner. The party claimed that there was manipulation of figures which did not tally with what was recorded on V11 forms issued at each polling station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Results\nOn 1 August, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission released preliminary results which show that the ruling party ZANU\u2013PF had won the majority of seats in parliament. On 3 August, the Commission declared incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa the winner with just over 50% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Results\nThis was the closest that an opposition party had come to ending ZANU\u2013PF's hold on power since 2008, when Tsvangirai led the field in the first round and forced Mugabe into a runoff (from which he subsequently withdrew due to intimidation and violence by pro-Mugabe supporters), while the MDC-T won a plurality of seats in the House of Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Aftermath\nWithin days after the election, there were protests by the Movement for Democratic Change opposition. The army opened fire on demonstrators and bystanders and killed six people. In the following days, many opposition supporters were arrested, according to opposition leaders and human rights groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Aftermath\nOn 10 August, it was announced that Mnangagwa's inauguration, which had been scheduled for 12 August, would be delayed after Chamisa petitioned to challenge the election results in court, with a ruling due by the end of the month. On 24 August 2018, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe dismissed Chamisa's challenge and officially declared Mnangagwa the winner in a unanimous ruling. The Chief Justice Luke Malaba noted that Chamisa refused both a recount and access to the ballot boxes. Mnangagwa's inauguration and official swearing-in was then held on 26 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284161-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Zimbabwean general election, Aftermath\nTwo Washington-based entities, American International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI), which were involved in the Zimbabwe International Election Observation Mission (ZIEOM) expressed doubts that the poll had a standard accepting value. Manisha Singh, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, told a congressional hearing that until the new government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa shows signs of \"changing its ways,\" the U.S. government will not lift sanctions against Zimbabwe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284162-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Zl\u00edn by-election\nA by-election for the Zl\u00edn Senate seat in the Czech Republic was held on 18 and 19 May 2018 as a result of Franti\u0161ek \u010cuba's resignation. The second round was heldr 25 and 26 May 2018. Michaela Blahov\u00e1 and Tom\u00e1\u0161 Gol\u00e1\u0148 advanced to second round. The election was surprisingly won by Tom\u00e1\u0161 Gol\u00e1\u0148. Voter turnout was very low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284162-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Zl\u00edn by-election, Background\nFranti\u0161ek \u010cuba was elected Senator in 2014 as a candidate of the Party of Civic Rights. He was absent in the Seate since 2016 due to his health. He announced on 15 February 2018 that he will resign on his seat. He resigned on 28 February 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284162-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Zl\u00edn by-election, Background\nParties started to look for its candidates soon after \u010cuba announced his intention to resign. ANO 2011 had its candidate chosen at the time of \u010cuba's resignation but refused to announce his name. Civic Democratic Party was considering possible candidates at the time. Mayors and Independents offered nomination to Mayor of Zl\u00edn Miroslav Ad\u00e1mek. Michaela Blahov\u00e1 was speculated as a candidate of the Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party. Czech Social Democratic Party expressed intention to have its candidate. Czech Pirate Party decided to find a candidate by publishing an advertisement in local media. Tom\u00e1\u0161 Gol\u00e1\u0148 announced his candidacy as a candidate of Sen\u00e1tor 21 on 22 March 2018. He stated he wants to prove that Senate is an important part of Czech Constitutional system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284162-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Zl\u00edn by-election, Background\nNine candidates decided to run for the position. Miroslav Ad\u00e1mek was nominated by Mayors and Independents and supported by the Civic Democratic Party and TOP 09. Other candidates included Michaela Blahov\u00e1 nominated by KDU-\u010cSL, Michal Filip nominated by ANO 2011, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Gol\u00e1\u0148 nominated by Sen\u00e1tor 21 or Radim J\u00fcnger nominated by \u010cSSD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284162-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Zl\u00edn by-election, Campaign, First Round\nMiroslav Ad\u00e1mek was considered front-runner of the election. Michal Filip and Michaela Blahov\u00e1 were considered his main rivals. Tom\u00e1\u0161 Gol\u00e1\u0148 was also viewed as a strong candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284162-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Zl\u00edn by-election, Campaign, First Round\nAd\u00e1mek's campaign cost 300,000 CZK. He published a video spot that received mixed responses and had 15 billboards set up. He refused to have meetings with voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284162-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Zl\u00edn by-election, Campaign, First Round\nGol\u00e1\u0148 had the most expensive campaign. He had installed 17 billboards and three megaboards. His posters were also on 20 Trolleybuses and three Ticket Autommats. He held summer cinema at \u010cepkovo. Gol\u00e1\u0148 himself was very active at social media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284162-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Zl\u00edn by-election, Campaign, First Round\nBlahov\u00e1 focused on personal campaigning and social media. She also had posters at three bigboards, 50 yachts and 12 billboards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284162-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Zl\u00edn by-election, Campaign, First Round\nThe first round was held on 18 and 19 May 2018. Michaela Blahov\u00e1 and Tom\u00e1\u0161 Gol\u00e1\u0148 advanced to second round. Gol\u00e1\u0148's success was unexpected. Miroslav Ad\u00e1mek admitted that he feels disappointment with his result but accepts it. Michaela Blahov\u00e1 stated that her success might be caused by the fact that she was the only female candidate in the election. She noted she will continue personal campaign. Gol\u00e1\u0148 stated that his advancement to the second round was caused by jis campaign. He noted he will lead more intensive campaign for the second round. Communist Party candidate Rafaja admitted he is disappointed with the result as he expected that he could advance to the second round. Ale\u0161 Fuksa thanked Pirate Party for its support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284162-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Zl\u00edn by-election, Campaign, Second round\nBlahov\u00e1 visited bigger towns within the district. It includes Vala\u0161sk\u00e9 Klobouky, Fry\u0161t\u00e1k or Slu\u0161ovice. Her campaign was supported by Pavel Fischer. Gol\u00e1\u0148 also led personal campaign in bigger towns. He visited Fry\u0161t\u00e1k, Vizovice, Slu\u0161ovice, Vala\u0161sk\u00e9 Klobouky or Zl\u00edn. He focused on voters of Miroslav Ad\u00e1mek and Ale\u0161 Fuksa. Gol\u00e1\u0148 received endorsement from the Pirate Party. He launched second phase of his campaign on 24 May when he campaigned in Zl\u00edn. He concluded his campaign on 25 May when he met citizens at Ba\u0165a's institute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284162-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Zl\u00edn by-election, Campaign, Second round\nSecond round was held on 25 and 26 May 2018. First preliminary results showed candidates tied but Gol\u00e1\u0148 started leading when more votes were counted. Gol\u00e1\u0148's supporters started celebrating when 70% of votes were counted and Gol\u00e1\u0148 was leading. He eventually received 5,991 votes while Blahov\u00e1 only 5,148.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284162-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Zl\u00edn by-election, Aftermath\nGol\u00e1\u0148 thanked Blahov\u00e1 for a correct campaign and stated he plans to focus on taxes and opposition to privatisation of some vital resources, including water. Blahov\u00e1 stated she respects the result. She considered her result as a success because no candidate of KDU-\u010cSL advanced to the second round in previous elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284162-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Zl\u00edn by-election, Aftermath\nGol\u00e1\u0148 received appointment decree on 19 June 2018. His term ended in 2020. Gol\u00e1\u0148's victory led to establishment of a new Senate Caucus called Caucus for Liberal Democracy. It consists of independent Senators. He was reelected in 2020 Senate election defeating Pavel Stod\u016flka with 59% of votes. He then joined the Civic Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix\nThe 2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix (formally the 2018 Julius Baer Z\u00fcrich E-Prix) was a Formula E electric car race held before a crowd of about 150,000 spectators at the Z\u00fcrich Street Circuit in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland on 10 June 2018. It was the tenth round of the 2017\u201318 Formula E season, the inaugural running of the event, and the first Swiss circuit race since the 1954 Swiss Grand Prix. The 39-lap race was won by Audi driver Lucas di Grassi after starting from fifth. Sam Bird finished second for Virgin and Dragon driver J\u00e9r\u00f4me d'Ambrosio was third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix\nJaguar driver Mitch Evans won the first pole position of his career by recording the fastest lap in qualifying and he led the opening 17 laps despite reporting rising battery temperatures limiting his ability to harvest electrical energy under braking. Di Grassi gained positions by passing other drivers and he overtook Evans driving into the first corner at the start of lap 18 to take the lead. He maintained the lead for the remainder of the race to claim his first victory of the season and the seventh of his career by 71\u20442 seconds over Bird.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix\nThe consequence of the final positions meant Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne still led the Drivers' Championship despite a drive-through penalty for accelerating before a full course yellow was lifted to clear debris on the track. Bird narrowed Vergne's lead to 23 points and di Grassi's win moved him from sixth to third. S\u00e9bastien Buemi moved to fourth by finishing fifth and Felix Rosenqvist fell to fifth after scoring no points. Audi lowered Techeetah's advantage in the Teams' Championship to 33 points while Virgin maintained third with two races left in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Background, Preview\nComing into the race from Berlin four weeks earlier, Techeetah driver Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne led the Drivers' Championship with 162 points. Virgin's Sam Bird was second with 122 points and Felix Rosenqvist of Mahindra was third with 86 points. Audi's Daniel Abt was close behind in fourth with 85 points and S\u00e9bastien Buemi of e.Dams-Renault was close behind in fifth with 82 points. Techeetah led the Teams' Championship with 205 points; Audi were second with 161 points and Virgin were third with 139 points. Mahindra were in fourth with 108 points and Jaguar were fifth with 96 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Background, Preview\n87 points were available for the season's final three races which meant Vergne could clinch the Championship in Z\u00fcrich. Vergne needed to win the race with Bird failing to score any points to win his first Drivers' Championship. Vergne finishing second would mean that Bird would have to win both New York City races with the former not scoring points to become the champion on count-back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Background, Preparations\nPreparations for a Formula E race in Switzerland commenced in March 2015 when the Council of States backed a motion put forward by the National Councillor Fathi Derder to exempt electric car racing from a long-standing ban on motor racing in the country. The motion was adopted by the Federal Council in December, allowing electric vehicles to race in Switzerland from 1 April 2016 pending authorisation from local authorities with regards to maximum speeds. Organisers then began putting forward their candidacies for cities to hold the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Background, Preparations\nThey plead for the ePrix to be held in Lugano on 7 May 2016 to replace the Berlin ePrix but this was withdrawn because the required funding of \u20ac10 million was not raised and they later supported holding it in Switzerland's largest city Z\u00fcrich. On 21 September 2017, Z\u00fcrich was included on the 2017\u201318 season's final calendar in a FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting in Paris. It was the tenth of twelve scheduled single seater electric car rounds of the 2017\u201318 season and took place at the Z\u00fcrich Street Circuit on 10 June 2018. Prior to the ePrix, Switzerland's last motor race was the 1954 Swiss Grand Prix at Circuit Bremgarten in Bern: Switzerland banned most motor racing in 1955 after the 1955 Le Mans disaster. Organisers of the race expected around 25,000 to 150,000 people to attend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Background, Preparations\nAlthough it was reported in the local press that Z\u00fcrich City Council had granted permission for the race to be run, a spokesperson denied these reports two hours later. However, the city council did give their approval for the race to be held the following month. Preparation for the ePrix commenced, and a three-year contract was signed with the option for an extension to 2024, which was subsequently increased by another three years to 2027. Permits were granted by the office of the mayor of Z\u00fcrich's Corine Mauch to project leader Pascal Derron who led negotiations with local politicians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0005-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Background, Preparations\nDerron ensured those who provided the city's infrastructure services were satisfied the ePrix could be held. In December, a board member of Z\u00fcrich's pedestrian association filed a complaint with Z\u00fcrich City Council concerning the event. He sought for a referendum as the city was paying CHF 2 million towards the race and argued there was a risk of deteriorating the quality of life and disrupting local transport routes. No action was taken by Z\u00fcrich City Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Background, Preparations\nThe layout of the 11-turn 2.46\u00a0km (1.53\u00a0mi) circuit was not designed by a professional planner like other tracks but by the CEO of e-Mobil Z\u00fcri Roger Tognella and his son Andrin by using Google Earth on their home computer. It was officially unveiled to the public on 5 January 2018. Drivers began a lap of the circuit on Enge Harbour at Mythenquai and the layout led back to the harbour via the Stockerstrasse and Alfred-Escher-Strasse streets. The track had different surfaces such as circuit asphalt and new concrete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0006-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Background, Preparations\nSome tramlines at turns seven and nine were filled for the weekend and others were untouched. Because of cobblestones in the pit lane, teams adapted to a new software mode as the speed limit was lowered to 30\u00a0km/h (19\u00a0mph). Construction of the circuit began in late May and local officials ensured the public lost no access to the city's roadside infrastructure. It was dismantled on 12 June, two days after the ePrix. Buemi stated his belief that a low-downforce set-up would provide drivers with opportunities to reach their top speeds on the two long straights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Practice\nTwo practice sessions\u2014both on Sunday morning\u2014were held before the early evening race. The first session ran for 45 minutes and the second lasted half an hour. A half an hour untimed shakedown session was held on Saturday afternoon to enable teams to check the reliability of their cars and their electronic systems at low speed. In the first practice session, held in warm weather, di Grassi used 200\u00a0kW (270\u00a0hp) of power to set the fastest lap of 1 minute, 11.995 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Practice\nJaguar's Mitch Evans, Abt, Nelson Piquet Jr. of Jaguar, Oliver Turvey for NIO, Bird, Vergne, Rosenqvist, Buemi and Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez of Dragon placed second through tenth. During practice, which saw several drivers venture deep onto the run-off areas, Bird was close by the electrical energy conservative L\u00f3pez and was impeded by him at the final corner. L\u00f3pez caught Bird out by braking early and trying to let him through on the main straight and Bird lost control of his car's rear on the bumpy track by locking his front brakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0007-0002", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Practice\nBird crashed into the barrier, damaging his right-rear suspension and steering but returned to the pit lane to switch into a second car. Turvey damaged his suspension by glancing a barrier and St\u00e9phane Sarrazin of Andretti and Luca Filippi for NIO stopped at turns one and two towards the session's conclusion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Practice\nAfter first practice, an annoyed Bird went to L\u00f3pez's garage, confronted him about the crash, and the latter attempted to explain his perspective to Bird. L\u00f3pez then spoke to his team who reviewed television footage of the incident and apologised to Bird through the media. In second practice, Rosenqvist was fastest with a maximum power lap of 1 minute, 12.007 seconds that he set ten minutes before practice concluded. Evans was 0.054 seconds slower in second and the Dragon pair of J\u00e9r\u00f4me d'Ambrosio and L\u00f3pez were third and fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Practice\nThe rest of the top ten heading into qualifying were Virgin's Alex Lynn, Bird, Vergne, Andr\u00e9 Lotterer of Techeetah, Buemi and Piquet. Traffic forestalling competitor's running and several drivers locked their brakes. Some again went onto the track's run-off areas. Buemi spun entering turn four but sustained light damage to his vehicle's rear from contact with the outside barrier. L\u00f3pez locked his rear tyres under braking for turn one and slid sideways into the left-hand side TecPro barrier but he returned to the pit lane with minor bodywork damage. In the session's closing seconds, Lotterer misjudged his braking point and hit the rear of Nico Prost's e.Dams-Renault car at the turn ten hairpin, dislodging Prost's left-rear sidepod.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Qualifying\nSunday's afternoon qualifying session ran for an hour and was divided into four groups of five cars. Each group was determined by a lottery system and was permitted six minutes of on-track activity. All drivers were limited to two timed laps with one at maximum power. The fastest five overall competitors in the four groups participated in a \"Super Pole\" session with one driver on the track at any time going out in reverse order from fifth to first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Qualifying\nEach of the five drivers was limited to one timed lap and the starting order was determined by the competitor's fastest times. (Super Pole from first to fifth, and group qualifying from sixth to twentieth). The driver and team who recorded the fastest time were awarded three points towards their respective championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Qualifying\nIn the first group of five runners, all competitors bar Vergne waited for four minutes to begin their lap times on the bumpy track. Bird paced the session with a benchmark time, ahead of Buemi, Rosenqvist and Abt. Pole position favourite Vergne could not feel the grip in his car and was the first group's slowest driver. Vergne was summoned to the stewards and reprimanded for violating series regulations because his team misread the line indicating the end of the second sector.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Qualifying\nThis meant he intermittently activated the 200\u00a0kW (270\u00a0hp) power mode approximately 100\u00a0m (330\u00a0ft) before then. Evans set the fastest overall lap time in group qualifying in group two of 1 minute, 12.594 seconds. Lotterer took second in the closing seconds of the group, and di Grassi and Piquet were third and fourth. Turvey glanced the turn two barrier with his right-rear wheel, bending a track-rod and he was slowest overall in group qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0010-0002", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Qualifying\nTrack conditions improved as each group passed and attention switched to the third group and whether they could demote the championship contenders further down the grid. However, nobody in group three recorded a lap that put them in the top five as Lynn was fastest, followed by Heidfeld, Edoardo Mortara of Venturi and Andretti driver Ant\u00f3nio F\u00e9lix da Costa. Venturi's Maro Engel made an error and was the third group's slowest driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Qualifying\nIn group four, the Dragon pair of d'Ambrosio and L\u00f3pez were first and second and prevented di Grassi from entering super pole. Prost lost confidence after locking his tyres on his warm-up lap but came within 0.023 seconds of teammate Buemi for seventh overall. Sarrazin and Filippi were group four's two slowest drivers. At the end of group qualifying, Evans, d'Ambrosio, L\u00f3pez, Lotterer and Bird qualified for super pole. Evans was the last driver to set a super pole lap and took a wide line over the bumps at turn one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0011-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Qualifying\nHe took his and Jaguar's first pole position in single seater racing with an error-free lap of 1 minute, 12.811 seconds. He was joined on the grid's front row by Lotterer\u2014his best qualifying performance of the season\u2014who had pole position until Evans' lap. Bird, who was first on-track, clipped the barrier for third and it prevented him from reducing Vergne's lead in the Drivers' Championship. D'Ambrosio appeared to go faster than Lotterer but he lost a tenth of a second at the final turn and took fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0011-0002", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Qualifying\nFifth-placed L\u00f3pez drifted sideways and lost a second as he narrowly avoided hitting a wall leaving the turn one right-hander. After qualifying, L\u00f3pez received a three-place grid penalty for not slowing under yellow flag conditions in first practice. Lynn lost the same amount of positions due to an inter-team miscommunication that caused him to drive into the fast lane of the pit lane before it opened for group three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race\nThe weather at the start of the race was dry and sunny with the air temperature between 27.175 and 28\u00a0\u00b0C (80.915 and 82.400\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperatures ranged from 30.55 to 31.1\u00a0\u00b0C (86.99 to 87.98\u00a0\u00b0F). The hot weather caused teams to prioritise battery temperature maintenance. A special feature of Formula E is the \"FanBoost\" feature, an additional 100\u00a0kW (130\u00a0hp) of power to use in the driver's second car. The three drivers who were allowed to use the boost were determined by a fan vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race\nFor the Z\u00fcrich race, Buemi, di Grassi and Rosenqvist were handed the extra power. Around 150,000 people attended the event. The ePrix began at 18:04 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00) rather than the usual 16:04 because Formula E did not wish to clash with the men's singles finals of the French Open and race organisers held it on a Sunday for better localised traffic management. Evans made a good start and defended his lead from Lotterer on the approach to turn one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0012-0002", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race\nLotterer then blocked Bird from taking second. Di Grassi tried to pass d'Ambrosio on the outside for fourth but no space was left for an overtake. The rest of the field passed through the next sequence of corners with minor contact and it appeared all had escaped without issue. However, as everybody closed up at the Tramstop chicane, Piquet mounted the rear of Abt's car, removing Abt's rear wing and a section of Piquet's front wing. The accident scattered debris on the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race\nAt the end of the first lap, Evans led Lotterer by two seconds and Bird, d'Ambrosio and di Grassi were close by. Vergne overtook Engel to move into sixteenth place while di Grassi passed d'Ambrosio entering the Tramstop chicane around the inside for the fourth position on the next lap. D'Ambrosio lost fifth to Buemi entering turn one at the start of the third lap. By the next lap, Piquet and Abt were shown the black flag with an orange disc, which required them to enter the pit lane for repairs to their cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race\nBoth entered the pit lane on the following lap. In the meantime, Evans reported rising battery temperatures, lessening his ability to harvest electrical energy under braking. On lap eight, one of Mortara's tie-rods on his right-rear suspension sheared on a kerb heading to the Tramstop chicane and forcing him to retire. By the ninth lap, Vergne moved into the top ten with successive overtakes on Lynn, Mortara and Heidfeld entering the first corner as he conserved electrical energy. Similarly, Di Grassi had an electrical energy advantage over the top three due to the better efficiency of his Audi's powertrain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race\nHe used this to close up enough to Bird and overtake him for third place by turning left on the entry to turn ten on lap 13. Di Grassi had enough momentum to provide him with an opportunity to pass Lotterer on the outside into turn ten on the next lap but Lotterer turned right to block him. He tried again on the start/finish straight but Lotterer again blocked di Grassi. At his third try at the beginning of lap 16, di Grassi aggressively overtook Lotterer for second into the first turn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race\nFurther back in the field on the 17th lap, Vergne steered right entering turn one as he to pass the eighth-placed Rosenqvist on his left. Rosenqvist resisted Vergne's attack and the two made contact. He slid wide into a TecPro barrier at the first corner while Vergne continued without damage to his car. Rosenqvist extricated himself from the barrier; debris from his car littered the track and his front wing detached leaving turn two. At the end of the same lap, Evans held off di Grassi driving into the turn ten hairpin, but di Grassi had more usable electrical energy and overtook Evans into the first corner at the start of the lap 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race\nDi Grassi began to pull away from Evans as Buemi overtook Bird into turn one for fourth on the 19th lap. Soon after, Vergne was about to get ahead of d'Ambrosio for seventh when he hit Rosenqvist's detached front wing because the latter was to his left but Vergne avoided picking up a front-right puncture. In response, race director Scot Elkins activated the full course yellow procedure to allow marshals to remove debris from the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race\nDuring the full course yellow, the field chose to make their mandatory pit stops to change into a second vehicle at the conclusion of lap 19. Di Grassi kept the lead from Evans and Lotterer while Vergne lost 12 seconds because he had trouble starting his car when he tried to exit his garage, falling to ninth. Piquet retired with a broken driveshaft on lap 21. Eight laps later, it was announced Evans, Lotterer, Buemi, L\u00f3pez and Vergne were under investigation by the stewards for exceeding the 50\u00a0km/h (31\u00a0mph) speed limit during the full course yellow procedure. The first four were issued drive-through penalties on the next lap. Evans and Lotterer took their penalties at the start of lap 31 while Buemi and L\u00f3pez served theirs at the end of that lap. Vergne received a drive-through penalty on lap 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race\nProst's brakes failed into the turn ten hairpin and he ran straight into the barrier to the outside of the track on lap 33. Vergne took his penalty at the conclusion of the 34th lap. He emerged in 12th place behind Engel, whom he overtook into the turn ten hairpin. Buemi activated his FanBoost to pass Evans into turn one at the beginning of the 36th lap. On the same lap, Lotterer earned one championship point for setting the race's fastest lap of 1 minute, 14.730 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0016-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race\nUnhindered in the final 20 laps, di Grassi opened his lead to more than seven seconds and finished first after 39 laps to claim his first victory of the season and the seventh of his career. Bird followed 7.542 later in second and the drive-through penalties helped d'Ambrosio take his first podium finish since the second 2016 London ePrix race. Off the podium, Lotterer finished fourth, Buemi fifth and Heidfeld sixth. Evans came seventh and F\u00e9lix da Costa had a clean race in eighth. Turvey held off Vergne for ninth by six-tenths of a second. The final finishers were Engel, L\u00f3pez, Abt, Sarrazin, Rosenqvist and Lynn. There were two lead changes among two drivers during the event. Di Grassi led once for a race-high 22 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference. Di Grassi spoke of his happiness over winning and dedicated it to his unborn son Leonardo, adding that \"The weekend was amazing and the event here was fantastic. You could hear the huge number of people cheering all over the track. I tried to save a bit more energy in the first half of the first stint, and then managed to overtake the next three cars.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0017-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race, Post-race\nBird said he was disappointed after qualifying third but was confident he could challenge di Grassi in the New York City ePrix double header, \"We settled into a rhythm in the race and it\u2019s become apparent that I have to lift more than the people around me. That\u2019s just the way it is \u2013 but we\u2019ve got ourselves in this fantastic position in the title fight, and scored second place today \u2013 with a little bit of luck I have to say.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0017-0002", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThird-placed D'Ambrosio said he adapted his strategy to conserve electrical energy, \"It was emotional, but a steady race, I did the best I could to bring it home and that was important. We still have some work to do in the race, especially on my side. In qualifying I\u2019ve done a really good job in the last three races, and we\u2019ve done a tremendous job since Berlin, but we need to better ourselves for New York.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race, Post-race\nAllan McNish, the team principal of Audi, commented on his surprise di Grassi won despite starting fifth, \"When he got up in fourth and then the speed with which he caught Sam [Bird] then I thought, \u2018crikey, this is on\u2019. To be leading coming in to the pit stop was mighty but at the stop there was a worry about an unsafe release but Lucas was flawless in the race. It was a very accomplished win and so deserving for him after the start to the season.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race, Post-race\nRosenqvist spoke to Vergne after the media left the paddock and accepted an apology from Vergne for his lap 17 crash. Rosenqvist said it was a misunderstanding with a serious consequence for him, \"Just as I turned in he dived at the last moment and I had to do something not to hit him. But genuinely, I tried to let him through but it didn\u2019t work out like that as I was the one who lost out and he went free, which is a bit harsh.\" Evans admitted to feeling conflicted after taking his maiden pole position and finishing seventh, \"Our first Formula E pole position was a huge motivation boost for the troupe and showed how far we have come in the meantime, unfortunately the race did not go that way as we had hoped.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race, Post-race\nEvans, Lotterer and L\u00f3pez were later discovered to have not slowed sufficiently by the time the full course yellow was activated on lap 19 while Buemi and Vergne were penalised for accelerating just before the system was lifted on the next lap. Lotterer argued the stewards should improve the leniency in their decision making when no driver gained an advantage and felt the penalty he received prevented him from getting onto the podium, \"It\u2019s the rules, there\u2019s no point complaining about it but it\u2019s super frustrating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race, Post-race\nYou wish that something they would let a few things slide as it didn\u2019t change anyone\u2019s position.\" Buemi said he felt his early reaction to the lifting of the full course yellow was caused by him not being able to hear the race director over his radio momentarily and it prompted him to brake sharply out of uncertainty. Vergne accused Formula E of creating a new regulation during the event to allow for increased suspense in the championship at the season-ending New York City ePrix, \"It's weird, it's five of us getting penalised. We're not daft, we've been racing these cars all year with Full Course Yellows, we never got penalties. Now, suddenly, there are five drivers [getting one]: four ahead of Bird, and me. It's a bit weird.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284163-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 Z\u00fcrich ePrix, Race, Post-race\nThe consequence of the race meant Vergne still led the Drivers' Championship with 163 points but his lead over Bird narrowed to 23 points because of Bird's second-place finish. With 101 points, di Grassi's victory moved him from sixth to third. Buemi's fifth-place finish moved him to fourth with 92 points and Rosenqvist fell to fifth after scoring no points. Techeetah retained first in the Teams' Championship with 219 points. Audi moved to within 33 points of Techeetah and Virgin dropped further back in third. Mahindra and Jaguar maintained fourth and fifth with two races left in the season. The 2019 race was relocated to Bern after Z\u00fcrich city officials expressed concerns about the ability of its infrastructure to handle a series of large-scale events in quick succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids\nThe bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups was the process by which the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) selected locations for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups. The process began officially in March 2009; eleven bids from thirteen countries were received, including one which was withdrawn and one that was rejected before FIFA's executive committee voted in November 2010. Two of the remaining nine bids applied only to the 2022 World Cup, while the rest were initially applications for both.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0000-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids\nOver the course of the bidding, all non-European bids for the 2018 event were withdrawn, resulting in the exclusion of all European bids from consideration for the 2022 edition. By the time of the decision, bids for the 2018 World Cup included England, Russia, a joint bid from Belgium and Netherlands, and a joint bid from Portugal and Spain. Bids for the 2022 World Cup came from Australia, Japan, Qatar, South Korea, and the United States. Indonesia's bid was disqualified due to lack of governmental support, and Mexico withdrew its bid for financial reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids\nOn 2 December 2010, Russia and Qatar were selected as the locations for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups respectively. The selection process involved several controversies. Two members of the FIFA Executive Committee had their voting rights suspended following allegations that they would accept money in exchange for votes. More allegations of vote buying arose after Qatar's win was announced. Eleven of the 22 committee members who voted on the 2018 and 2022 tournaments have been fined, suspended, banned for life or prosecuted for corruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Background\nIn October 2007, FIFA ended its continental rotation policy. Instead countries that are members of the same confederation as either of the last two tournament hosts are ineligible, leaving Africa ineligible for 2018 and South America ineligible for both 2018 and 2022. Other factors in the selection process include the number of suitable stadiums, and their location across candidate nations. Voting is done using a multiple round exhaustive ballot system whereby the candidate receiving the fewest votes in each round is eliminated until a single candidate is chosen by the majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Background, Rotation policy\nFollowing the selection of the 2006 World Cup hosts, FIFA had decided on a policy for determining the hosts of future editions. The six world confederations \u2014 roughly corresponding to continents \u2013 would rotate in their turn of providing bids, for a specific edition, from within their member national associations. This system was used only for the selection of the 2010 (South Africa) and 2014 World Cup (Brazil) hosts, open only to CAF and CONMEBOL members, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Background, Rotation policy\nIn September 2007, the rotation system came under review, and a new system was proposed which renders ineligible for bidding only the last two World Cup host confederations. This proposal was adopted on 29 October 2007, in Zurich, Switzerland by FIFA's Executive Committee. Under this policy, a 2018 bid could have come from CONCACAF, AFC, UEFA, or OFC, as Africa and South America were ineligible. Likewise, no CONMEBOL member could make a 2022 bid, and candidates from the same confederation as the successful 2018 applicant would be disregarded in the 2022 selection procedure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Background, Rotation policy\nThe United States, the last non-European candidate in the 2018 bidding cycle, withdrew its bid for that year; hence the 2018 tournament would have to be held in Europe. This in turn meant that CONMEBOL and UEFA were ineligible for 2022.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Voting procedure\nFor both the 2018 and 2022 editions of the World Cup, the FIFA Executive Committee voted to decide which candidate should host the tournament. The multiple round exhaustive ballot system was used to determine the tournament host. All eligible members of the FIFA Executive Committee had one vote. The candidate country that received the fewest votes in each round was eliminated until a single candidate was chosen by the majority. In the event of a tied vote, FIFA President Sepp Blatter would have had the deciding vote. There are twenty-four members on the Committee, but two of those were suspended due to accusations of selling votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids\nEleven bids were submitted in March 2009 covering thirteen nations, with two joint bids: Belgium-Netherlands and Portugal-Spain. Mexico also submitted a bid, but withdrew theirs on 28 September 2009, while Indonesia had their bid rejected for lack of government support on 19 March 2010. Five of the remaining nine bids, South Korea, Qatar, Japan, Australia and United States were only for the 2022 World Cup, while all the others bid for both the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0007-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids\nHowever, since all of the bids for the 2018 World Cup were from European nations, and FIFA's rules dictate that countries belonging to confederations that hosted either of the two preceding tournaments are not eligible to host, all UEFA bids were forced to be for 2018 only. Four bids came from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), four from Europe's UEFA, and one from CONCACAF. It had also been reported on the FIFA website that Egypt was entering a bid, but the president of the Egyptian Football Association denied that any more than an inquiry in principle had been made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, Belgium and the Netherlands\nAlain Courtois, a Belgian Member of Parliament, announced in October 2006 that a formal bid would be made on behalf of the three Benelux countries: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. In June 2007 the three countries launched their campaign not as a joint bid in the manner of the Korea-Japan World Cup in 2002, but emphasising it as a common political organisation. Luxembourg would not host any matches or automatically qualify for the finals in a successful Benelux bid, but would host a FIFA congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, Belgium and the Netherlands\nBelgium and the Netherlands registered their intention to bid jointly in March 2009. A delegation led by the presidents of the Belgian and Dutch national football associations met FIFA president Sepp Blatter on 14 November 2007, officially announcing their interest in submitting a joint bid. On 19 March 2008 the delegation also met with UEFA President Michel Platini to convince him that it was a serious offer under one management. Afterwards they claimed to have impressed Platini, who supports the idea of getting the World Cup to Europe. Former French football international Christian Karembeu was presented as official counselor for the joint bid on 23 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, Belgium and the Netherlands\nA factor that was against the Benelux bid was the lack of an 80,000 capacity stadium to host the final. However, the city council of Rotterdam gave permission in March 2009 for development of a new stadium with a capacity of around 80,000 seats to be completed in time for the possible World Cup in 2018. In November 2009, the venues were presented. In Belgium, matches would have been played in 7 venues: Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Charleroi, Genk, Ghent and Li\u00e8ge. In the Netherlands, only five cities would host matches: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Enschede, Heerenveen and Rotterdam, but both Amsterdam and Rotterdam would provide two stadiums. Eindhoven would function as the 'capital city' of the World Cup. Euro 2000 was also jointly hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, England\nOn 31 October 2007, The Football Association officially announced its bid to host the event. On 24 April 2008 England finalised a 63-page bid to host the 2018 World Cup, focusing on the development of football worldwide. On 27 January 2009, England officially submitted their bid to FIFA. Richard Caborn led England's bid to stage the event after stepping down as Sports Minister. On 24 October 2008 the Football Association named the Executive Board to prepare the bid, with David Triesman as the bid chairman. Triesman resigned on 16 May 2010 after comments were published where he suggested that Spain would drop their bid if Russia helped bribe referees in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and was then replaced by Geoff Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, England\nThe British government backed the England 2018 bid. In November 2005, Chancellor Gordon Brown and Sport Minister Tessa Jowell first announced that they were to investigate the possibility of bidding. That month, Adrian Bevington, the Football Association's Director of Communications, announced the support of the Government and the Treasury in the bid, but put off definite proposals. Brown reiterated his support for a bid in March 2006, before England's 2006 World Cup campaign, and again in May 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0012-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, England\nThe UK government launched its official report on 12 February 2007, in which it was made clear that its support was for an England-only bid and that all games would be played at English grounds. The venues selected on 16 December 2009 to form the bid were: London (three stadiums), Manchester (two stadiums), Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, Sheffield and Sunderland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, England\nFIFA officials also expressed interest in an English bid. David Will, a vice-president of FIFA, noted England's World Cup proposal as early as May 2004. Franz Beckenbauer, leader of Germany's successful bid for the 2006 World Cup and a member of FIFA's Executive Committee, twice publicly backed an English bid to host the World Cup, in January and July 2007. FIFA President Sepp Blatter said he would welcome a 2018 bid from \"the homeland of football.\" Blatter met David Cameron on two occasions to discuss the bid while paying visits to England. The British Prime Minister showed much support for the bid and was hopeful that the \"home of football\" would host the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, England\nIn an interview the leader of Russia's bid, Alexei Sorokin, criticised England's bid citing London's high crime rate, alcohol consumption among young people and English fans \"inciting ethnic hatred.\" England filed a complaint, though the complaint was withdrawn following Russia's apology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, Portugal and Spain\nThe President of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), Gilberto Madail, first proposed a joint bid with Spain in November 2007. The bid intent was confirmed by FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, on 18 February 2008. However, the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Angel Villar, announced in July 2008 that it was Spain's intention to submit an individual World Cup bid, and that positive contacts had already taken place with the government, through the secretary of sports, Jaime Lissavetzky. No specifications were made then regarding a joint bid with Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0015-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, Portugal and Spain\nOn 23 November 2008, after his re-election for the RFEF presidency, Villar pledged that one of the fundamental objectives of his term was to bring a World Cup to Spain. While he did not mention whether Spain would present a joint bid with Portugal, he did not rule it out when asked about it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, Portugal and Spain\nOn 23 December 2008, Angel Villar restated \"We need to present a strong, consistent and winning bid for the 2018 World Cup.\" He further confessed \"Personally, I think it should be with Portugal.\" Subsequently, in the aftermath of a RFEF meeting board, Spain and Portugal announced their intention to bid together. Spanish sports newspaper Marca advanced some details about the potential bid: Spain would lead a twelve-stadium project with eight of the venues, and the opening and final games would be held in Lisbon and Madrid, respectively. Spain has previously hosted the 1982 World Cup, while Portugal organised the Euro 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, Russia\nRussia announced its intent to bid in early 2009, and submitted its request to FIFA in time. Russia's President Vladimir Putin took a keen interest in the bid and ordered Vitaly Mutko, the Minister of Sports, to \"prepare a bid for Russia to hold the 2018 World Cup\". According to a report earlier submitted by Vitaly Mutko, who also served that time as President of the Russian Football Union (RFU), the country was ready to spend some $10.1 billion on the tournament. The bid committee also included RFU CEO Alexey Sorokin and Alexander Djordjadze as the Director of Bid Planning and Operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, Russia\nFourteen cities were included in the proposal, which divided them into five different clusters: one in the north, centered on Saint Petersburg, a central cluster, centered on Moscow, a southern cluster, centered on Sochi, and the Volga River cluster. Only one city beyond the Ural Mountains was cited, Yekaterinburg. The other cities were: Kaliningrad in the north cluster, Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar in the south cluster and Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Saransk, Samara and Volgograd in the Volga River cluster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0018-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2018 bids, Russia\nAt the time of bidding, Russia did not have a stadium with 80,000 capacity, but the bid called for the expansion of Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, already a UEFA Elite stadium, from a capacity of slightly over 78,000 to over 89,000. Russia hoped to have five stadiums fit to host World Cup matches ready by 2013 \u2013 two in Moscow and one stadium each in Saint Petersburg, Kazan and Sochi, which at the time was due to host the 2014 Winter Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Australia\nIn September 2007, the Football Federation Australia confirmed that Australia would bid for the 2018 World Cup finals. Previously, in late May 2006, the Victorian sports minister, Justin Madden, said that he wanted his state to drive a bid to stage the 2018 World Cup. Frank Lowy, the FFA chairman, stated that they aimed to use 16 stadiums for the bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0019-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Australia\nFormer Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced the Federal Government's support for the bid,and in December 2008, Federal minister for sport Kate Ellis announced that the federal government would give the FFA $45.6 million to fund its World Cup bid preparation. Rudd met with Sepp Blatter to discuss the Commonwealth Government's support of the bid in Zurich in July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Australia\nAt the 2008 FIFA Congress, held in Sydney, FIFA president Sepp Blatter suggested that Australia concentrate on hosting the 2022 tournament, but Lowy responded by recommitting Australia to its 2018 bid. However, Australia ultimately withdrew from the bidding for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in favour of the 2022 FIFA World Cup on 10 June 2010, following comments from the chief of the Asian Football Confederation that the 2018 tournament should be held in Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Australia\nAustralia's largest stadiums are currently used by other major Australian sports whose domestic seasons overlap with the World Cup. The Australian Football League and National Rugby League claimed that loss of access to these major venues for eight weeks would severely disrupt their seasons and impact the viability of their clubs. The AFL in particular had previously advised it would not relinquish Etihad Stadium in Melbourne for the entire period required. On 9 May 2010 the AFL, NRL, and FFA announced a Memorandum of Understanding guaranteeing that the AFL and NRL seasons would continue, should the bid be successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0021-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Australia\nCompensation for the rival football codes would be awarded as a result of any disruptions caused by hosting the World Cup. AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou came out in support of the bid, despite initially not supporting the bid. Franz Beckenbauer indicated that the issue of factional disputes between the FFA, NRL and, AFL were not considered by the FIFA Executive Committee. Although initially Australia seemed to be a popular contender to host the tournament, the final Australian World Cup bid received only one vote astonishing Franz Beckenbauer and experts alike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Japan\nJapan bid to become the first Asian country to host the World Cup twice; however, the fact that they were co-hosts so recently in 2002 was expected to work against them in their bid. Although Japan did not have an 80,000-seat capacity stadium, its plan was based on a proposed 100,000-seat stadium that would have gone on to be a centrepiece of 2016 Olympics, for which Tokyo was bidding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Japan\nJapan also pledged that if it had been granted the rights to host the 2022 World Cup games, it would develop technology enabling it to provide a live international telecast of the event in 3D, which would allow 400 stadiums in 208 countries to provide 360 million people with real-time 3D coverage of the games projected on giant screens, captured in 360 degrees by 200 HD cameras. Furthermore, Japan will broadcast the games in holographic format if the technology to do so is available by that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0023-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Japan\nBeyond allowing the world's spectators to view the games on flat screens projecting 3D imaging, holographic projection would project the games onto stadium fields, creating a greater illusion of actually being in the presence of the players. Microphones embedded below the playing surface would record all sounds, such as ball kicks, in order to add to the sense of realism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Japan\nThe Olympic bid was unsuccessful, coming third in the bidding process that concluded in October 2009. The Vice-President of the Japan Football Association, Junji Ogura, had previously admitted that if Tokyo were to fail in its bid, its chances of hosting either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup would not be very good. On 4 May 2010, Japan announced that it was withdrawing its bid for the 2018 tournament to focus on 2022, amidst rising speculation that the 2018 edition will be held in Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Qatar\nQatar made a bid for only the 2022 World Cup. Qatar was attempting to become the first Arab country to host the World Cup. Failed bids from other Arab countries include Morocco (1994, 1998, 2006 and 2010), Egypt and a Libya-Tunisia joint bid withdrew in the 2010 World Cup bidding process. Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, son of the former Emir of Qatar, was the chairman of the bid committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Qatar\nQatar planned to promote the bid as an Arab unity bid and hoped to draw on support from the entire Arab world and were positioning this as an opportunity to bridge the gap between the Arab and Western worlds. The bid launched an advertising campaign across the nation in November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Qatar\nSome concerns with Qatar's bid deal with the extreme temperatures. The World Cup is always held in the European off-season in June and July and during this period the average daytime high in most of Qatar is in excess of 40\u00a0\u00b0C (104\u00a0\u00b0F), with the average daily low temperatures not dropping below 30\u00a0\u00b0C (86\u00a0\u00b0F). Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the 2022 Qatar bid chairman, responded saying \"the event has to be organised in June or July. We will have to take the help of technology to counter the harsh weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0026-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Qatar\nWe have already set in motion the process. A stadium with controlled temperature is the answer to the problem. We have other plans up our sleeves as well.\" The first five proposed stadiums are planned to employ cooling technology capable of reducing temperatures within the stadium by up to 20 degrees Celsius. Additionally, the upper tiers of the stadiums will be dis-assembled after the World Cup and donated to countries with less developed sports infrastructure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Qatar\nPresident of FIFA Sepp Blatter endorsed the idea of having a World Cup in the Middle East, saying in April 2010, \"The Arabic world deserves a World Cup. They have 22 countries and have not had any opportunity to organise the tournament.\" Blatter also praised Qatar's progress, \"When I was first in Qatar there were 400,000 people here and now there are 1.6 million. In terms of infrastructure, when you are able to organise the Asian Games (in 2006) with more than 30 events for men and women, then that is not in question.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0027-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, Qatar\nQatar's bid to host the 2022 World Cup received a huge boost on 28 July 2010 when Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Mohammed Bin Hammam threw his weight behind his country's campaign. Speaking in Singapore, Bin Hammam said: \"I have one vote and, frankly speaking, I will vote for Qatar but if Qatar is not in the running I will vote for another Asian country.\" Qatar has already hosted the AFC Asian Cup in 1988, FIFA U-20 World Cup 1995 and the 2011 AFC Asian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, South Korea\nSouth Korea bid only for the 2022 World Cup. They were bidding to become the first Asian country to host the World Cup twice; however, the fact that they were co-hosts so recently in 2002 was expected to work against them in their bid. Han Seung-joo, a former South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs, was appointed as the Chairman of the Bidding Committee in August 2009. He met with FIFA President Sepp Blatter in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. In January 2010, President Lee Myung-bak visited the headquarters of FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland to meet Sepp Blatter in support of the South Korean bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, South Korea\nAlthough South Korea did not have an 80,000 capacity stadium, it planned to upgrade an existing venue to meet that capacity. There are three grounds which can seat over 60,000 people\u2014Seoul Olympic Stadium, Seoul World Cup Stadium and Daegu Stadium. Another 70,000 seat stadium is scheduled to be built in Incheon as the main stadium for the 2014 Asian Games. Other venues meet hosting requirements as they were built for the 2002 World Cup. The 12 cities selected to hold the finals were South Korea to win the bid were selected in March 2010 and were Busan, Cheonan, Daegu, Daejeon, Goyang, Gwangju, Incheon (2 venues), Jeonju, Seogwipo, Seoul (2 venues), Suwon and Ulsan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, United States\nU.S. Soccer first said in February 2007 that it would bid for the 2018 World Cup. On 28 January 2009, U.S. Soccer then announced that it would submit bids for both the 2018 and 2022 Cups. David Downs, president of Univision Sports, was executive director of the bid. Other committee members included president of U.S. Soccer Sunil Gulati, U.S. Soccer chief executive officer Dan Flynn, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber, and Phil Murphy, the former national finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0030-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, United States\nThe vice president of FIFA, Jack Warner, who is also the president of CONCACAF, originally said he would try to bring the World Cup back to the CONCACAF region. However, Warner also stated that he preferred the USSF change their plans to make a bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, United States\nIn April 2009, the bid committee identified 70 stadiums in 50 communities as possible venues for the tournament, with 58 confirming their interest. The list of stadiums was trimmed two months later to 45 in 37 cities, and then in August 2009 to 32 stadiums in 27 cities. In January 2010, 18 cities and 21 stadiums were selected for the final bid. The cities were Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston (Foxboro), Dallas, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, Tampa, and Washington, D.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0031-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, United States\nThe cities with multiple qualifying stadiums were Los Angeles, Seattle, Dallas and Washington. With several large American football stadiums, the 21 venues were to have an average capacity of 77,000; none seated fewer than 65,000. Seven of the stadiums seat at least 80,000. Two proposed stadiums would be used by Major League Soccer during the summer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, 2022 bids, United States\nIn October 2010, the United States withdrew from the 2018 bid process, to focus solely on the 2022 competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Cancelled bids\nTwo countries had to cancel bids for the 2018 or 2022 FIFA World Cups before individual evaluations began. Mexico cancelled its bid for both cups, while Indonesia was only bidding for the 2022 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Cancelled bids, Indonesia\nIn January 2009 the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) confirmed their intention to bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, with government support. In February 2009, PSSI launched the \"Green World Cup Indonesia 2022\" campaign. This campaign included a $1 billion plan to upgrade supporting infrastructure beside stadiums to meet FIFA's requirements. The funds to construct stadiums were to come from regional governments. Indonesia had previously made World Cup history when it became the first Asian nation to play in a World Cup, at the 1938 tournament in France under its colonial name of the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia also had tournament hosting experience as the co-host of 2007 AFC Asian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Cancelled bids, Indonesia\nIn the campaign presentation, PSSI president Nurdin Halid said he believed Indonesia stood a chance to win FIFA's approval to host the 2022 World Cup, despite the relatively poor infrastructure, coupled with the low quality of the national squad compared to other candidates. He said Indonesia had proposed a \"Green World Cup 2022\", hoping to capitalise on the current green and global warming movement worldwide: \"Our deforestation rate has contributed much to world pollution. By hosting the World Cup, we wish to build infrastructure and facilities that are environmentally friendly so we can give more to the planet.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Cancelled bids, Indonesia\nThe bid was launched at a moment when there were strong pressures from Indonesian football fans for Halid to step down from his position as chairman of PSSI. There was no official support from the government of Indonesia until 9 February 2010, the deadline for the country's government to file a letter of support for the bid. Secretary General of PSSI Nugraha Besoes did not deny that Indonesia could be disqualified from the bidding process because the Indonesian government did not support the bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0036-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Cancelled bids, Indonesia\nOn 19 March 2010, FIFA rejected Indonesia's bid to host the 2022 World Cup because the government stated that their concern is for the people of the country and so could not support the bid as FIFA requested. As a consequence, PSSI threw their support behind Australia's bid for the 2022 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Cancelled bids, Mexico\nFormer Mexican Football Federation President, Alberto de la Torre, announced their intention to bid for the cup in 2005, but was ineligible because of the rotation policy at that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Selection, Voting rounds\nOn 2 December 2010, FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced the winning bids at FIFA's headquarters in Zurich. Russia was chosen to host the 2018 World Cup, and Qatar was chosen to host the 2022 World Cup. This made Russia the first Eastern European country to host the World Cup, while Qatar would be the first Middle Eastern country to host the World Cup. Blatter noted that the committee had decided to \"go to new lands\" and reflected a desire to \"develop football\" by bringing it to more countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Selection, Voting rounds\nIn each round a majority of twelve votes was needed. If no bid received 12 votes in a round, the bid with the fewest votes in that round was eliminated, and accordingly each remaining bid should receive no fewer votes in subsequent rounds than in preceding rounds. Multiple bids received fewer votes in voting round 2 compared to voting round 1 (Netherlands/Belgium, Qatar and Japan), at least 2 voting members in each of the 2018 and 2022 votes changed their votes between voting rounds despite their initial bid not being eliminated in voting round 1. The actual votes cast were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Selection, Allegations of vote-buying\nShortly after the voting in December 2010, ESPN published allegations linking Qatar's successful bid to Football Dreams, a youth development program that channeled money from the Qatari government to football programs in 15 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia\u2014six of which had representatives on the FIFA executive committee. In February 2011, Blatter admitted that the Spanish and Qatari bid teams did try to trade votes, \"but it didn't work\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Selection, Allegations of vote-buying\nIn May 2011, the former England 2018 bid chief Lord Treisman told a House of Commons select committee that four FIFA committee members approached him asking for various things in exchange for votes. Among the accused were FIFA Vice President Jack Warner, who asked for \u00a32.5 million to be used for projects, and Nicol\u00e1s Leoz, who allegedly asked to be knighted. The Sunday Times further reported that month that Issa Hayatou and Jacques Anouma were given $1.5 million in exchange for their votes in favor of Qatar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0041-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Selection, Allegations of vote-buying\nOn 30 May 2011, FIFA President Sepp Blatter rejected the evidence in a press conference, while Jack Warner, who had been suspended that day for a separate ethics violations pending an investigation, leaked an email from FIFA General Secretary J\u00e9r\u00f4me Valcke which suggested that Qatar had \"bought\" the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Valcke subsequently issued a statement denying he had suggested it was bribery, saying instead that the country had \"used its financial muscle to lobby for support\". Qatar officials denied any impropriety. Theo Zwanziger, President of the German Football Association, also called on FIFA to re-examine the awarding of the Cup to Qatar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Selection, Allegations of vote-buying\nIn July 2012, FIFA appointed former U.S. Attorney Michael J. Garcia to investigate allegations of vote-buying in the selection process. He submitted the report in September 2014, which FIFA at the time declined to release in full. Instead, FIFA released a summary that Garcia described as \"materially incomplete,\" leading Garcia to resign in protest. FIFA ultimately published the report in 2017, after German tabloid Bild announced they would publish a leaked copy. The report detailed dozens of allegations but didn't provide hard evidence for vote-buying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0042-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Selection, Allegations of vote-buying\nIn May 2015, as members gathered in Z\u00fcrich for the 65th FIFA Congress, U.S. federal prosecutors disclosed cases of corruption leading to the arrest of seven. More than 40 individuals were indicted, including 2018 and 2022 voters Luis Bedoya, Chuck Blazer, Nicol\u00e1s Leoz, Rafael Salguero, Ricardo Teixeira, and Jack Warner. The resulting cases led FIFA to suspend many members, including Issa Hayatou, and the end of Sepp Blatter's presidency of the organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Selection, Allegations of vote-buying\nIn April 2020, the United States Department of Justice unsealed further indictments against voters Nicol\u00e1s Leoz, Ricardo Teixeira, Julio Grondona of Argentina, and Jack Warner. The indictments spelled out how shell corporations and sham consulting contracts were used to pay voters between $1\u20135\u00a0million for their support. Other voters who had previously pleaded guilty to accepting bribes, including Rafael Salguero of Guatemala, aided in the indictments, which when included with previous cases, mean that more than half of the voters were accused of wrongdoing related to their votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0043-0001", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Selection, Allegations of vote-buying\nVoter Franz Beckenbauer has also been accused by Swiss prosecutors of embezzlement and money laundering related to voting in the 2006 FIFA World Cup host selection, while \u00c1ngel Mar\u00eda Villar was arrested in July 2017 for embezzlement, after previously being fined for failure to cooperate with investigations into vote-buying in the 2018 and 2022 host selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Reactions\nIn reaction to the announcement there were celebrations on the streets of Russia and Qatar. The Qatar Stock Exchange responded strongly with increased participation in trading following the announcement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Reactions\nIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his Qatari counterpart that hosting the tournament \"is a big athletic event which can promote football in the Persian Gulf area and Middle East region.\" He also said Iran was ready to help Qatar in hosting the event, while saying he hoped its neighbours \"could achieve a reasonable share to attend the games.\" al-Thani \"underlined [a] necessity of cooperation between regional countries to use and take advantage of the sport opportunity.\" He also added that Qatar's initiative would motivate its neighbours to \"promote and develop their football.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Reactions\nRoger Burden, who had been acting chairman of England's Football Association, withdrew his application for the permanent post days after the vote, saying he could not trust FIFA members due to their actions. England's bid executive Andy Anson said \"I think it has to [change] because otherwise why would Australia, the United States, Holland, Belgium, England ever bother bidding again?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284164-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Reactions\nThere was also a backlash from the media in the losing countries; the majority of British newspapers alleged that the World Cup had been \"sold\" to Russia, and the Spanish El Mundo, Dutch Algemeen Dagblad, and the Japanese Nikkei made comments about the financial power of Russia and Qatar's commodity and energy reserves. American newspapers the Seattle Times and Wall Street Journal alleged collusion and corruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284165-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-ICERD rally\nThe Anti- ICERD (International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) Rally or Himpunan Aman Bantah ICERD (Malay) is a rally that was held in Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 8 December 2018. The rally was organised by opposition right-wing political parties Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) and United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), with the support of various non-governmental organisations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284165-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-ICERD rally\nThe rally was held in response to the new Malaysian government's plan to ratify the United Nations convention known as International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). The opposition parties from UMNO and PAS seriously deny the ratification of the convention, as it is contrary to the Constitution of Malaysia. The constitution recognizes special rights for the Malay and Bumiputra . Even though the government has announced that it would not ratify the convention on 23 November 2018, the organiser decided to push on with the rally and shifted its main focus towards celebrating government's decision on not ratifying ICERD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284165-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-ICERD rally, Background\nThe International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is a United Nations convention which commits its members to the elimination of racial discrimination and the promotion of understanding among all races. Malaysia is one of the 18 countries in the world that have not ratified this convention, it is also one of the two Muslim-majority countries that have yet to ratified along with Brunei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284165-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 anti-ICERD rally, Background\nOn 28 September 2018, the prime minister Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad addressed the UN General Assembly where new government has to \"ratify all remaining core UN instruments related to the protection of human rights\", this include ICERD and other five unratified conventions. However, Khairy Jamaluddin debating the UN address that raised concerns about ICERD's impact on bumiputra privileges and special position of Malay and Islam in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284165-0002-0002", "contents": "2018 anti-ICERD rally, Background\nOn 19 November 2018, in Parliament, Waytha Moorthy, who is in charge of National Unity and Social Wellbeing, started speaking on the intention of the government in ratifying ICERD and said that consultations with relevant stakeholders would be held in the first quarter of 2019. This was opposed by the opposition and started to attack him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284165-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-ICERD rally, Background\nOn 23 November 2018, the Prime Minister's Office have announced to not ratify the convention and continue defending the Federal Constitution which contains a social contract that has been agreed upon by all races during the formation of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284165-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-ICERD rally, Participants\nWhile the organizers have set a target of half-million people to attend the rally, the Kuala Lumpur police's official figures have estimated 55,000 people attending the rally (mostly PAS supporters), including PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang and former prime minister Najib Razak. In Kelantan, the state government have declared public holiday on the next day (9 December 2018) to allow Kelantanese people to attend the rally in Kuala Lumpur. The organisers, however, claimed that the amount of participants reached more than 300,000 based on their own estimation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284165-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-ICERD rally, Rally\nOn the day of the rally before the rally started in 2pm, the silat alliance Pertubuhan Gabungan Silat Pertahan Perlembagaan (PERTAHAN) submitted a memorandum to the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong to express their protest over ICERD and other issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284165-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-ICERD rally, Rally\nThe rally started at 2pm with mass crowds marching to Dataran Merdeka from Masjid Negara, Masjid Jamek and Sogo complex and ended early at 5pm due to heavy rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka\nThe Sri Lankan anti-Muslim riots were a series of religious riots targeting Muslims that began in the Sri Lankan town of Ampara on 26 February 2018, spreading to Kandy District by 2 March until its end on 10 March 2018. Muslim citizens, mosques and other properties were attacked by mobs of Sinhalese Buddhists,The Government of Sri Lanka undertook a forceful crackdown on the rioting by imposing a state of emergency and deploying the Sri Lankan Armed Forces to assist the Police in the affected areas. The situation was brought under control by 9 March. Two fatalities and ten injuries were reported among Sinhalese, Muslims and Police. According to the police, forty five incidents of damage to houses and businesses have been reported, while four places of worship have been attacked. The police arrested 81 persons in connection with rioting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka\nRioting in Kandy District began in Udispattuwa and Teldeniya, later spreading to Digana, Tennekumbura and other areas. It was sparked when a middle-aged truck driver of Sinhalese ethnicity was assaulted by four Muslim youth following a traffic accident. The truck driver died of his injuries four days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka\nOn 5 March Sinhalese mobs began attacking Muslim properties in the region, resulting in widespread damage to property while some groups of local Sinhalese youth organized by Buddhist monks protected mosques from attackers; cricketers Mahela Jayawardena, Kumar Sangakkara, and Sanath Jayasuriya condemned the attacks and nearly 300 mostly Sinhalese volunteers rebuilt a Muslim business in Anamaduwa. The riots, the first large-scale Buddhist-Muslim sectarian violence since similar riots in 2014, prompted the Government of Sri Lanka to declare a State of Emergency for a period of ten days, in addition to the police curfew already imposed on the district. The state of emergency is the first such since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka\nSocial media networks including WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram were blocked in parts of the country in an effort to prevent mobs from organizing their attacks and spreading propaganda. However, the block on the social media networks were uplifted after 72 hours and the cabinet minister, Harsha de Silva further stated that the social media networks have been returned to normal conditions by 10 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka\nAfter three days of raid in the main town of Kandy, at least 81 people were reported to have been arrested including the main suspect, Amith Jeevan Weerasinghe by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) of the Sri Lankan police in connection to the incident as the situation has been under controlled by the forces. However, a curfew has been reimposed in the Kandy town until 9 March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0002-0002", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka\nThe police officers state that the unusual situation which prevailed in the country for few days has been brought under control but tight securities have been imposed in few parts of the nation as the predicted threats have been focused on the Muslim prayers on 9 March 2018 which is a Friday. The riots were denounced by Buddhist monks and many Sinhalese and Buddhist monks rallied to protect and help Muslims and Mosques during the prayers across the country. According to the Government, Independent observers, Muslims and Sinhalese in the area the majority of the rioters came from other areas of Sri Lanka to carry out the riots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka\nThe government revealed that about nearly 465 houses, businesses and vehicles were destroyed and promised to compensate for the families who were severely affected due to the communal violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka\nA few weeks after the end of the anti-Muslim riots, new CCTV footage revealed that some police officials aided the rioters. Further politicians of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa's SLPP were seen during the riots and claimed to be trying to calm the rioters while the Government accused them of helping rioters. They were arrested on charges of torching a mosque but were granted bail after it was found that the alleged mosque was not torched. It was confirmed that the deficiencies and ineffective attitudes of the police are to be investigated and questioned by the Sri Lankan government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Background\nDespite mostly coexisting peacefully, many Sinhalese are suspicious of Muslims, believing that their slightly higher birth rates threaten their demographic supremacy, while others view Muslim businessmen as exploiting poor Sinhalese. Some political analysts believe that Sinhalese extremists are trying to transfer remaining hostility against Tamils onto the mostly Tamil-speaking Muslim population. Another factor is increasing Arab influence over Sri Lankan Muslim culture in recent years including the building a number of mosques using money coming from Arab countries and the adoption of the niqab by Muslim women which diverges from traditional dress in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Background\nSri Lanka has seen several communally charged incidents between the majority Sinhala community and the country's Muslim minority. Ampara District had experienced tensions since 2017, with Buddhist groups accusing Muslims of forced conversions and vandalising Buddhist archaeological sites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Background\nThe recent communal violence in Kandy is the first since the Black July violence which occurred in 1983 between Tamils and Sinhalese Buddhists. This violence is also the first time such communal violence has occurred between Muslims and Buddhists in the district of Kandy since the 1915 Ceylonese riots which was incited by the British administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Background, Ampara\nLate at night on 26 February, a group of youths arrived at a restaurant on D.S. Senanayake Street in Ampara town. The meal served by the restaurant contained elements resembling tablets. The youth shared a video of the owner, a Muslim man, supposedly admitting that the food contained sterilization pills. The owner of the restaurant was physically attacked by a mob, who then spread the word about the incident. The police arrested the restaurant owner as a result of the video.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0008-0001", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Background, Ampara\nThe claim made by the video was later proven to be false; the owner had in fact nodded his head in fear of the angry mob, without actually knowing the Sinhala word wandapethi (sterilization pills), and thus without understanding the question he had been asked. according to sources Sinhalese mobs are not arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Background, Kandy District\nAt 2 PM on 22 February 2018, a Sinhalese lorry driver from Ambala, Medamahanuwara was assaulted by four Muslim youths in Karaliyadda, Teldeniya. The victim was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Kandy General Hospital and died on the night of 2 March from his injuries. The victim's assistant (also traveling in the lorry) was assaulted, admitted to hospital, and later discharged after treatment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Background, Kandy District\nThe motive behind the attack has not been clearly established. Some reports state it stemmed from a road accident where the trucker had damaged the wing mirror of an auto rickshaw the assailants had been travelling in while attempting to overtake it; all four suspects were reported to have been intoxicated. The suspects were arrested by the Sri Lanka Police on the day of the attack and remanded until 7 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Riots and violence, Ampara\nAn aggressive mob had launched attacks on several shops in the surrounding area of Ampara. Hotels in the vicinity of the mosque were also attacked by the mobs, with the police unable to bring the situation under control. The Special Task Force and police reinforcements were then dispatched from nearby police stations which led to the mob dispersing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Riots and violence, Ampara\nAreas with larger Muslim populations in Maruthamunai, Sammanthurai, Akkaraipattu, Addalaichenai and Kalmunai in Ampara District were conducting Hartals, as response against the anti-Muslim riots. The protests resulted in 8 buses being damaged, while Tamil media reporters were protected by the police. 31 Muslims were arrested who were damaging public properties and released after warning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Riots and violence, Kandy District\nThe first signs of violence were reported from Udispattuwa on the night of 2 March as the body of the victim was being taken to Ambala. Groups set light to tires on the road as a sign of protest against the killing; the police, anticipating violence, deployed 1000 Special Task Force personnel in and around the area, encompassing Moragahamula, Udispattuwa, Teldeniya and Ambagahalanda. Despite these efforts, two Muslim-owned shops in Moragahamula were subjected to arson on the night of 4 March- 28 suspects were arrested for their involvement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Riots and violence, Kandy District\nGeneral disorderly behaviour and assorted violence associated to the killing by the residents of Teldeniya and outlying areas were also reported. The unrest spread to Digana on the morning of 5 March, when a large mob converged on the town, setting fire to a mosque, shops and houses. In response, police used tear gas and water cannons in an attempt to disperse the crowd, which saw retaliation from the mob through various projectiles while the violence spread to more residences, shops and nearby vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0013-0002", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Riots and violence, Kandy District\nTraffic along the A26 was forced to a halt, and by 3 PM, the police requested the support of the Sri Lanka Army, which deployed 200 troops from the Sinha Regiment base in Digana in the evening. The police then followed up by declaring a state of curfew district-wide in Kandy until 6 AM on 6 March; the same curfew was reimposed on Teldeniya and Pallekele at 8 PM on 6 March, after the body of a 24-year-old Muslim male was discovered within the remains of a shop in Digana. By the evening of 6 March, a total of 4 mosques, 37 houses, 46 shops and 35 vehicles were damaged or destroyed as a result of the riots in both Digana and other locations in the Kandy District; 1 confirmed fatality was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Riots and violence, Kandy District\nOn the night of 6 March, mobs were observed in Lewella and Balagolla, moving towards Tennekumbura and the general direction of Kandy- an arson attack on a mosque in Tennekumbura was reported. High ambulance activity was reported from Menikhinna, and 7 people were arrested there for disorderly behaviour and for causing unrest. The curfew put in place on the evening of 6 March was lifted briefly on the morning of the 7th, but soon reimposed. 7", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0014-0001", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Riots and violence, Kandy District\nMarch also saw Muslim residents of Mullegama barricading themselves inside a local mosque after a Sinhalese mob attacked their homes alleging theft of a donation box from a nearby Buddhist temple; the Muslims accused the police of inaction in the face of the mobs. One Sinhalese male was reported to have died and another injured in an explosion of unknown origin in the course of the Mullegama attacks. Some media reported his injuries sustained in an attack carried out by Muslim men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0014-0002", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Riots and violence, Kandy District\nA reaction that a Buddhist monk at the Mullegama temple said was precipitated by a projectile attack against his temple by Muslims earlier in the day. Katugastota also saw anti-Muslim violence and arson, while a mob assembled in the Ambatanna town center after a rumor of a temple being attacked: the mob then proceeded to damage property and engage in rioting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Riots and violence, Other districts\nSmall incidents were reported in other districts against Muslims. Unknown group burnt a tire in front mosque in Medina Nagar, Vavuniya. However, police and army controlled the situation and gave security to the mosque. Some shops belongs to Muslims were damaged and assaulted on workers on those shops in Ambatenna, Matale. A grenade blast has also occurred in the ongoing communal violence in the nation as a hand grenade has been made to blast by a group of people leaving one dead. The following incident has been reported following few hours after the ban on social media networks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response\nSri Lankan police arrested at least 81 rioters including Amith Jeevan Weerasinghe, the leader of the Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Mahason Balakaya who is believed to be the leading figure among the rioters alongside Suredha Suraweera who was also arrested. Ampitiye Sumanarathana Thera was also seen alongside Amith during the riot and also demanded the release of those arrested by the police but the thera was not arrested. Sumanarathana thera is known for his active participation in violence against Tamils and Muslims. Further the main suspects were brought to Colombo for further enquiries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response\nA panel of three retired judges are set to be appointed by the Sri Lankan President to probe into the anti-Muslim riots to inquire into the incidents which held in areas such as Digana, Teldeniya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response\nThe newly appointed law and order minister, Ranjith Madduma Bandara stated that the current Sri Lankan government is planning to fresh legislation to ensure a code of conduct for the operation of social media networks in Sri Lanka in accordance with the international practices to avoid unethical false claims, rumours which have been spread by many suspicious people through social media. The minister also said that the law enforcement authorities and agencies have arrested people for conducting alleged hate campaigns regarding the ethnic riots between Muslims and Buddhists which prevailed in Kandy for about a week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response\nPoilce raided the Mahason Balakaya office at Naththaranpotha in Kundasale after interrogating Amith Weerasinghe which revealed bottles used to make petrol bombs as well as equipment and propaganda materials such as leaflets, posters, notices, letters, banners, a large number of documents and wristbands, which were used in propagating hate speech. Further the police found computer central processing units (CPUs), several bank accounts, bank slips and several vehicle permits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Ampara\nObstetricians and gynaecologists denied that pills can cause permanent sterility and stressed the need of surgical procedures such as vasectomy on males and tubal ligation surgery on females to cause permanent sterility. Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe also released a statement denying the existence of a method to sterilize a person through pills. Sri Lankan lecturer Dr. Mohamed Najimudeen from Melaka Manipal Medical College in Malaysia has also offered a prize of Rs. 1,000,000 to anyone able to prove sterilization medicines are being added to clothes or food in the country by various individuals. Health minister Rajitha Senaratne also claimed that there are no such medicines ever discovered to sterilize a male.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Ampara\nDr. Razia Pendse, the World Health Organization representative in Sri Lanka issued a state claiming, \"There is no medication or 'pills' currently known or available that can permanently make a human being sterile. The information on the use of an 'infertility pill' or 'sterilization pill' mixed with food is baseless with no scientific evidence\". United Nations Population Fund Sri Lanka Representative Ritsu Nacken in her statement noted that the incidents show the lack of access to accurate reproductive health information in Sri Lanka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Ampara\nSociologists and senior lecturers at University of Sri Jayewardenepura's Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Dr. Praneeth Abeysundara and B.A. Tennyson Perera, called for authorities and media to create awareness and dialogues among community leaders and clerics to counter such paranoia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Ampara\nOn 8 March, the country's Government Analyst's Office confirmed the contents of particles alleged to be infertility/sterilization tablets were carbohydrate-based clumps of flour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Kandy District\nThe Government urged calm on 5 March, while the Ministry of Education ordered the closure of schools in the Kandy District. It also imposed a State of Emergency (the first since 2011) over the country on 6 March for a period of 10 days, granting the state powers to arrest and detain suspects indefinitely, and deploy armed forces at its will. The CID was tasked with an investigation into the event and its background.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Kandy District\nThe police came under heavy criticism for its failure to impose order and its alleged hesitation in preventing property damage at the start of the riots. Several government and opposition MPs criticized the police and its decision-making, while others called for calm and harsh punishments to perpetrators of racially motivated violence. A group of Sinhalese Buddhist citizens and Buddhist clergy held a protest outside the Digana police station on 6 March demanding the release of all suspects arrested for their involvement in the riots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Kandy District\nThe government and the opposition party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna alleged an organized, political effort to inflame sectarian tensions in Kandy. The Bodu Bala Sena, at the center of the 2014 riots, accused the public of unfairly linking it to incidents of communal violence in the country as BBS was earlier accused and criticised by the critics and other political leaders for aggravating the violence between Muslims and Buddhists, which was later revealed that Bodu Bala Sena was unnecessarily blamed for the incident. BBS Secretary General Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara visited the assault victim's home on 4 March, and claimed he had urged residents of the area to remain calm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Kandy District\nIn an effort to prevent mobs from organizing online through social media platforms, internet access to the Kandy District was restricted by order of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC). Access to Facebook was blocked, and the Ministry of Defence instructed the TRC to report on individuals spreading hate speech on social media platforms. The Centre for Policy Alternatives, a think-tank based in Colombo, released a statement claiming videos containing \"false information\" that sought to incite sectarian violence were going viral online.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Kandy District\nFollowing the violence in Kandy, several foreign tourists have cancelled their visits to the historic Kandy town. This was evident despite the attempts taken by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority to provide further updates to the foreign tourists about the country's current situation. But the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority stated that Kandy is returning to the normal situation and foreign tourists could resume their visits to the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Kandy District\nThe riots affected both Sinhalese and Muslim communities in the areas with businesses run by Sinhalese in properties rented from Muslims being also burned by the mobs. After the riots ended citizens of Balagalla joined to help the Muslims affected by the riots. Pathadumbara Thalpotha Dhammajothi Thera the Chief Incumbent of the Balagolla Viharaya organized efforts to provide dry rations to Muslim families displaced due to riots. Many Buddhist monks also visited Muslim churches during the Friday prayers in 9 March to express solidarity with Muslims. An organization with the name, Citizens Against Racism has staged a peaceful protests on 8 March 2018 to combat ethnic minority violence in the country. Hundreds of Buddhists monks from the National Bhikku Front also launched a peaceful protest in Colombo accusing the rioters of destroying national unity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 923]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Kandy District\nIn addition Sinhalese and Buddhist volunteers actively participated in reconstruction efforts and one Muslim owned eatery which was set ablaze by rioters was repaired by over 300 volunteers with around 200 being Sinhalese within 12 hours attracting media attention", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Kandy District\nThe schools in the administrative Kandy District were re-opened on 12 March 2018 (Monday) following the gradual improvement in Kandy after the communal violence. The schools had been closed for about one week since 5 March 2018 due to the imposition of the state of emergency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Kandy District\nAustralia, Denmark, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States issued travel advisories warning their citizens to remain vigilant, avoid large crowds and protests, and to follow instructions by local authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Kandy District\nSri Lankan cricketers including Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene and Sanath Jayasuriya strongly condemned the situation, and asked the populace to come together to make the country united again. Former Sri Lankan cricketer, Muttiah Muralitharan pointed that his family members are feeling safe in Kandy and also said that there is no need to worry about the country following the declaration of the state of emergency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Kandy District\nFormer Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa accused and blamed the government for not acting in a more responsive manner to control the ethnic riots. He further mentioned that some cabinet ministers tried to blame the police officials rather than being responsible to control and manage the unusual situation which has spread in the nation. Further, Mahinda Rajapaksa has also been reported to have met the heads of diplomatic missions of few Islamic countries in order to discuss about the communal violence which erupted in the nation a few weeks ago. In addition, he also went onto visit Kandy on 9 March 2018 to discuss about the current situation in the area following the violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Response, Kandy District\nIndian test cricketer, Ravichandran Ashwin has also deeply expressed his condolences and disarray towards the people of Sri Lanka and pointed out that Sri Lankan people of any cast are generally good. He further mentioned in his Twitter account, Sri Lanka would become great again after sometime. Human rights activist, Meenakshi Ganguly from India has also warned the Sri Lankan government for not taking immediate actions to eradicate communal violences in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Economic Impact\nThe riots negatively impacted the Economy of Sri Lanka as well as the local economy of Kandy. In addition to the destruction of many shops employing both Sinhalese and Muslims many tourists cancelled visits to Sri Lanka which heavily depends on the tourism industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284166-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, Economic Impact\nThe violence in Kandy affected the Nuwara Eliya season in April where there was a 40% drop in tourist arrivals both local and foreign compared to the last year. Tourism Development Minister John Amaratunga planned to invite Ambassadors of the various countries that imposed travel advisories with a site visit for diplomats mainly from the European and Middle Eastern nations on 13\u201314 May with cultural events and tours to assure them about the country returning to normalcy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284167-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 attack on the High National Elections Commission in Tripoli, Libya\nOn May 2, 2018, suicide bombers attacked the High National Elections Commission (HNEC) in Tripoli, Libya, killing at least 16 people, injuring 20 and setting fire to the building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284167-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 attack on the High National Elections Commission in Tripoli, Libya, Responsibility\nThe Islamic State's Tripoli Province claimed responsibility for the attack and declared that it came in response to the recent speech of the group's spokesman to hit election centers and activists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 87], "content_span": [88, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284168-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat\nIn October 2018, there were incidents of attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants; from the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh; in Gujarat after the alleged rape of a 14-month-old in a village near Himmatnagar in north Gujarat. The attacks triggered the exodus of the migrants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284168-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, Background\nThe 14-months old girl from a Thakor community was allegedly raped by a migrant labourer from Bihar on 28 September 2018. He worked at the ceramic factory at Dhundhar village near Himmatnagar, Sabarkantha district in north Gujarat where the incident took place. He was arrested by the police next day. It angered the Thakor community which held protests across Gujarat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284168-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, Attacks and exodus\nOn 2 October, a mob, allegedly led by Kshatriya Thakor Sena members, attacked on the migrant workers in a factory near Vadnagar in Mehsana district. The police had arrested the twenty people for rioting. The next day, Alpesh Thakor, a leader of Koli Thakor Sena and Indian National Congress MLA; had announced the fast from 8 October to seek justice of the rape survivor. He had reportedly demanded the preference to the local people in jobs in industries in the state while addressing the protest. He had also accused the government of filing false cases against the members of his community and demanded their release.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284168-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, Attacks and exodus\nOn 3 October, there was an attack in Chandlodiya, Ahmedabad. There were further incidents of attacks on the migrant labourers and the factories employing them by the Thakor community and others. By 7 October, the six districts were affected including Sabarkantha, Mehsana, Gandhinagar, Patan, Banaskantha, Aravalli and Ahmedabad district. The first two districts were the worst affected. The attacks were chiefly in industrial estates and industrial belts. On 8 October, there were attacks in villages near Vadodara also. No incidents of attack reported after 9 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284168-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, Attacks and exodus\nThe attacks triggered exodus of the more than thousand labourers from Gujarat to their native states. The Director General of Police denied the exodus and attributed the leaving migrants to the upcoming festive season. Uttar Bharatiya Vikas Parishad, an outfit supporting north Indian migrants, claimed that around 20,000 people had left Gujarat by 8 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284168-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, Government action\nBy 8 October, total 55 FIRs were lodged and 431 people were arrested. Ten people were arrested for spreading rumours and hatred on social media. The government of Gujarat provided security to more than hundred factories. Apart from State Police, seventeen companies of State Reserve Police (SRP) were deployed in the affected districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 69], "content_span": [70, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284168-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, Government action\nThe Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) urged the government to restore the peace as the industries were affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 69], "content_span": [70, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284168-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, Political reactions\nThe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Indian National Congress (INC), two major political parties in Gujarat assembly, appealed for peace and harmony. The opposition INC state chief Amit Chavda reasoned the rising unemployment in youth behind the anger and criticised the attackers. INC President Rahul Gandhi called the attacks \"completely wrong\" and attributed it to unemployment and shutdown of the factories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284168-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, Political reactions\nBJP blamed Alpesh Thakor and his outfit for the violence. Alpesh Thakor denied his involvement and appealed for peace to his community. He kept \"goodwill\" fast in Ahmedabad for a day on 11 October. The Government of Gujarat appealed to the migrants to return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284168-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, Political reactions\n\"When Thakor was in Congress, BJP opposed his action against the North Indians. If he joins the BJP and dons saffron stole, will his sins be washed away? We have not forgotten the wounds inflicted by Thakor and his aides on us. Many BJP leaders are keen to see Alpesh in BJP. I think BJP is waiting for LS elections to get over before inducting Alpesh so that its North Indian votes remain intact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284168-0009-0001", "contents": "2018 attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, Political reactions\nMy contention is simple: If Alpesh can spread so much fear being a Congress MLA, imagine what he can do after joining the BJP which is in power in Gujarat and Centre. If BJP gives him entry, it will lose our support. We will protest in Gujarat and North India to stop him from entering BJP.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284168-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, Political reactions\nIn July 2019, after Lok Sabha Elections, Alpesh Thakor joined BJP after quitting INC. Legitimate questions regarding his involvement in violence would disappear slowly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284168-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, Political reactions\nYogi Adityanath and Nitish Kumar, the chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar respectively, spoke with Vijay Rupani, Gujarat Chief Minister for their concerns. Tejashwi Yadav, a leader of Rashtriya Janata Dal, a opposition political party from Bihar; criticised the Central Government led by BJP leader Narendra Modi who belongs to Gujarat, alleging that BJP/RSS had \"turned Gujrat into a nursery of hatred & violence against poor, dalits & minorities.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284169-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 belairdirect BC Men's Curling Championship\nThe 2018 belairdirect BC Men's Curling Championship was held from January 30 to February 4 at the Parksville Curling Club in Parksville, British Columbia. The winning Sean Geall rink represented British Columbia at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier in Regina, Saskatchewan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284170-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 collapse of the rue d'Aubagne\nOn 5 November 2018, two buildings, numbers 63 and 65 in Rue d'Aubagne, collapsed in the center of Marseille. Eight bodies were found in the rubble, when the search for survivors came to an end on 9 November. Over the following days, more than a thousand people, most of whom were from the ethnic minorities living in such buildings, were moved from their houses to safer accommodation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284170-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 collapse of the rue d'Aubagne\nAfter the collapse, the tenants of the houses in the center of Marseille cited laziness on the part of the town hall because most buildings in the center of Marseille are dilapidated and not maintained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284170-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 collapse of the rue d'Aubagne\nDuring a march to honour the victims on 10 November, which gathered 8000 people according to the authorities, a balcony collapsed, injuring three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284170-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 collapse of the rue d'Aubagne\nThe indictments began in November 2020 with those of Marseille Habitat (owner of No. 63), Julien Ruas (close to Jean-Claude Gaudin and his deputy in charge of the risk management and prevention department), and the Liautard firm (co-ownership manager in charge of No. 65). The investigation could last for many more years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284170-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 collapse of the rue d'Aubagne, The Dilapidation of Marseille's Housing\nThe accident revealed the dilapidated state of Marseille's housing (100,000 Marseillais live in slums according to the Fondation Abb\u00e9 Pierre, and 13% of Marseille's housing is considered to be substandard), as well as the mayor's inaction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284170-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 collapse of the rue d'Aubagne, The Dilapidation of Marseille's Housing\nIn 2015, a report from the honorary inspector general of the administration of sustainable development titled \"Private Real Estate in Marseille\" ordered and made public by the minister of housing, Silvia Pinel, had already overwhelmed the municipality. It concluded that \"100,000 people live in unsanitary housing in Marseille.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284170-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 collapse of the rue d'Aubagne, The Dilapidation of Marseille's Housing\nAfter the collapse, the Haut comit\u00e9 pour le logement des personnes d\u00e9favoris\u00e9es (High Committee for the Housing of Disadvantaged Persons) publicized on 21 November a report submitted to President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister \u00c9douard Philippe with the evocative title \"Marseille: From Housing to Humanitarian Crisis.\" In the report, it is claimed that \"the collapses of the buildings on rue d'Aubagne were not accidental and unforeseeable events. They resulted from a continuity of disfunction from public actors,\" thus pointing the finger at the City Council and the French government, reminding that \"the prefect could have given the city formal notice to investigate the claims of the city's insalubrity.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal\nThe 2018 Cricket Pitch Fixing scandal refers to the alleged doctoring of the pitch, a central strip of the playing field, in the home test matches of the Sri Lankan cricket team at the Galle International Stadium, as well as during the home test matches of the Indian cricket team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Revelation\nRevealed by Al Jazeera, a documentary claimed that the groundsmen at these matches deliberately altered the nature of the pitch in order to produce results that favored the home team. The news reports claimed that two of the four-pitch fixing offenses occurred in Galle, with the groundsmen at Chennai being accused of pitch-fixing charges after hosting the final Test Match of the series between India and England in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Revelation\nOn 29 May 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) criticized Al Jazeera for failing to share conclusive evidence of pitch-fixing before broadcasting the documentary regarding the match-fixing allegations. Critics also speculated whether the Al Jazeera news network deliberately revealed false allegations, citing that Al Jazeera's findings may have been edited and modified before releasing its documentary film. However, on 26 May 2018, a shocking development revealed that the curator of Galle International Stadium, Tharanga Indika, had indeed been involved in the operation, with the discovery of camera footage linking him to the scandal. Indika subsequently admitted to doctoring the pitch to manipulate match outcomes. The match-fixing issue remains under investigation by the ICC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Revelation\nThe Al Jazeera news network has continuously refused to provide the pitch-fixing related evidence to the ICC stating that the lives of journalists are at risk. In July 2018, Australian cricketer Glenn Maxwell was indirectly accused by Al Jazeera's documentary as a chief suspect in the possible match-fixing allegations during the third Test match held between India and Australia which happened at Ranchi, a match where Maxwell recorded his maiden test century. However, Maxwell denied all of the allegations leveled against him and replied that he didn't have any need to do such a thing to spoil the moment of cricket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Background\nThe pitch tampering incident involving both India and Sri Lanka is a developing controversy in international cricket following the 2018 Australian ball-tampering scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Background\nMatch fixing scandals in Sri Lanka have flared up in recent times, including alleged misconduct during a domestic first class cricket match between Panadura Cricket Club and Kalutara Physical Culture Club in 2017 with Chamara Silva who was the captain of the Panadura Cricket Club and Manoj Deshapriya being caught and banned by SLC for a certain period for being named in corruption allegations. Manoj Deshapriya, the captain of the Kalutara Physical Culture Club was also found guilty of match-fixing after the unusual scoring rate by Panadura side in a first class cricket match held in January 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Background\nThe match-fixing probe which has raised questions about the legitimacy of test cricket results was revealed by Al Jazeera just a few days after the announcement was made by the ICC that they were scrapping the traditional method of a coin toss in Test cricket matches to determine who would bat or bowl first. With regards to the match-fixing probe, the ICC cited that the host nation had been accused and found guilty of changing the pitch conditions to suit themselves in these longer format games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Background\nThe ICC also introduced a new rule on banning the use of smart watches and other electronic appliances on the field during play and in dressing rooms. The ICC called a ban on smart watches to avoid possible match fixing by implementing the new rule with immediate effect during the test series between England and Pakistan in 2018 barring the Pakistani players from wearing the smart watches during the first test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development\nRobin Morris, a professional cricketer from Mumbai, was suspected by the ICC of playing a major role in match fixing during Sri Lanka home Test series against both Australia in 2016 and against India in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development\nThe Al Jazeera news channel allegedly discovered that the groundsman of the Galle International Stadium and Robin Morris had planned to fix the 1st test match between England and Sri Lanka held in Galle. Robin Morris told the under cover reporters that he bribed the groundsman to monitor and alter the conditions of the pitch in order to guarantee certain outcomes. Al Jazeera's documentary Cricket's Match-Fixers has identified the groundsman and Robin Morris along with another Sri Lankan, Tharindu Mendis, for planning to alter the pitch conditions. Al Jazeera also stated that it would telecast the documentary. The ICC has launched an investigation into the Al Jazeera's findings about the pitch tampering issue. The ICC has also asked for the evidence and relevant material from Al Jazeera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 856]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development\nMeanwhile, Al Jazeera has also claimed that two more Sri Lankans including former Sri Lankan national cricketers Jeevantha Kulatunga and Dilhara Lokuhettige were involved in a match fixing controversy during a T-20 series in the United Arab Emirates. However, in a press release on 28 May 2018, Jeevantha Kulatunga has declined the allegations made by Al Jazeera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development\nThe Pakistani first-class cricketer, Hasan Raza, who did not take part in the conversation with Robin Morris, Tharanga Indika, and Tharindu Mendis, according to the Al Jazeera documentary, has also been identified as the suspect linked to the fixing scandal. He is seen seated near Robin Morris (who he played with during his time at the Mumbai Champs team in the Indian Cricket League) in the Al Jazeera documentary. However, Hasan Raza denied the allegations made against him and replied that his name was unnecessarily dragged into the match-fixing controversy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development\nThe groundsman of the Galle International Stadium who is also the assistant manager of the stadium gave a statement to Al Jazeera that he can manage pitches in such a way that it would favour either batsmen or bowlers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development\nThe Al Jazeera's Investigation Unit also revealed that Hasan Raza, Jeevantha Kulatunga, and Dilhara Lokuhettige were preparing to make money by organizing and arranging a fake tournament in the UAE solely to make a huge collection of money to fix matches in the future. Al Jazeera also claimed that another businessman from India, Aneel Munawar, who also has close connections with crime boss Dawood Ibrahim is assumed to have dealt with a few international cricketers so as to have them underperform on the international cricket level by giving them huge bribes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0013-0001", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development\nAl Jazeera also released photographs which were taken in Sri Lanka's Cinnamon Grand Colombo related to Aneel Munawar, who was standing just some distance away from the former English cricketers, Tim Bresnan and Graeme Swann. Both of them were part of the England's squad at the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 which was held in Sri Lanka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development\nIt was also later identified that the former Secretary of the Galle District Cricket Association, Halambage Premasiri, who was shot dead in 2016 along with his son was also subsequently revealed to have connections regarding Galle pitch fixing. It was evident that Al Jazeera started investigations on pitch tampering incident just before the planned murder of Halambage Premasiri, which still remains a mystery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development, West Indies v Sri Lanka 2018 ball tampering controversy allegations targeting Sri Lankan team\nConsidering the pitch fixing allegations probed by Al Jazeera-based mainly on Sri Lanka, apparent ball-tampering allegations were made by the match officials and umpires against the Sri Lankan team during their test series against the West Indies. Prior to the start of Day 3 of the second test match, the Sri Lankan cricket team marched protests against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, thereby replacing the old ball. The Sri Lankan cricket team, led by Dinesh Chandimal, refused to take the field on the third day of the test match after showing his disagreement on change of the ball, causing an hour delay to the start of the day after the apparent ball-tampering allegations made by the umpires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 153], "content_span": [154, 890]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development, West Indies v Sri Lanka 2018 ball tampering controversy allegations targeting Sri Lankan team\nChandimal was found to be guilty of making ball tampering incidence. Video evidence indicated that on the second day's play, Chandimal was taking sweets out from his left pocket, putting them in his mouth, and applying saliva to the ball within the space of a few seconds. Two on-field umpires Ian Gould, Aleem Dar, television umpire Richard Kettleborough, and match referee Javagal Srinath observed the incidence carefully and charged him with one Test ban and two demerit points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 153], "content_span": [154, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development, West Indies v Sri Lanka 2018 ball tampering controversy allegations targeting Sri Lankan team\nAt the end of the match, the hearing with match referee Javagal Srinath, his team management, and other match officials took place with Chandimal and he wasn't able to recall what it was in his mouth when he polished the ball with saliva. As a result, match referee handed Chandimal the maximum punishment available under the ICC Code of Conduct, which was two suspension points and a fine of 100% of his match fee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 153], "content_span": [154, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development, West Indies v Sri Lanka 2018 ball tampering controversy allegations targeting Sri Lankan team\nHowever, before finishing the match, Chandimal pleaded not guilty for the ball tampering incidence and this caused trouble at the start of Day 3 test match. The conflict started in the morning, where two umpires asked to change the ball used in the previous day with a new ball. Sri Lankan players did not accept that and refused to go into the field for the match. The incidence got worse when coach Chandika Hathurusinghe and manager Asanka Gurusinha also got involved with the match referee and umpires. Over the next two hours, several animated discussions took place between management and cricket officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 153], "content_span": [154, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development, West Indies v Sri Lanka 2018 ball tampering controversy allegations targeting Sri Lankan team\nWith that, Srinath took a decision and asked Sri Lanka to take the field before 11:30 am (the scheduled start had been 9:30), or forfeit the game. Players finally agreed to play the match \"under protest\". The Match referee awarded West Indies five penalty runs in the match after the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 153], "content_span": [154, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development, West Indies v Sri Lanka 2018 ball tampering controversy allegations targeting Sri Lankan team\nOn 11 July 2018, ICC concluded its hearing on the trio, who had pleaded guilty to a level-three spirit of cricket offense. His hearing took place before the start of the first Test match against South Africa, and he was found guilty. He received a two-match ban, with Suranga Lakmal captaining the side in his place. On 16 July 2018, independent Judicial Commissioner handed down a further eight suspension points with maximum possible punishment for their spirit of cricket offense and suspension for four ODIs as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 153], "content_span": [154, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Development, Postponement of 2018 Lanka Premier League\nThe scheduled inaugural edition of the Lankan Premier League which was supposed to be held in August 2018 was indefinitely postponed as a result of the change in country's cricket administration. This was also assumed to have been postponed due to Al Jazeera's claims on match fixing probe in Sri Lanka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 101], "content_span": [102, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Galle pitch fixing\nThe groundsman, Tharanga Indika, who is in-charge of the cricket ground was found guilty for helping the bookmakers to engage in match-fixing after allowing them to doctor the pitch conditions. The allegations were revealed by the Al Jazeera news network which filmed both the groundsman and the other match fixers on their targets of match-fixing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Galle pitch fixing\nRobin Morris was intended to have influenced in fixing allegations relating to Sri Lankan home matches for attempting pitch tampering by the ICC during Sri Lanka's 2nd test match against Australia in Galle and Sri Lanka's 1st test match against India in Galle. Morris was reported to have given bribes to groundsman, Tharanga Indika, who works as the groundsman at the Galle International Stadium to monitor the pitch conditions in those two home matches played by Sri Lanka against Australia in 2016 and India in 2017, and was noticed to have earned from betting after analyzing the Galle pitch conditions. However, he denied all of the allegations against him, as revealed by Al Jazeera. He later revealed that he didn't place money for betting after analyzing the Galle pitch conditions in 2016 and 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 873]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Galle pitch fixing\nOn 30 May 2018, the SLC said that a new pitch was formed replacing the pitch referred by Al Jazeera in its documentary film.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Galle pitch fixing, Sri Lanka v Australia 2016\nRobin Morris explained that the Galle pitch was prepared in favour of the bowlers of the Sri Lankan cricket team during the 2nd test against Australia in 2016 where Sri Lanka managed to win the match by a massive margin of 229 runs. Australia lost all 20 wickets within 3 days and batting 501 balls. The groundsman said that the Galle wicket for the Australian test was prepared deliberately for the bowlers by preparing the pitch poorly without using a roller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0025-0001", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Galle pitch fixing, Sri Lanka v Australia 2016\nHe also ensured the bookmakers that the five-day test match would finish within three days rather than end in a draw. After knowing about the pitch conditions, the match-fixers made money by betting that the match would not end in a draw. The Australian cricket team also raised concerns over the pitch conditions at the time of the test match as they felt that the pitch didn't help the batters. Australian players including Steve Smith, David Warner, and Nathan Lyon complained to the match officials about the poor pitch conditions after a thrashing loss to Sri Lanka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Galle pitch fixing, Sri Lanka v India 2017\nThe Galle pitch for the Indian test was said to be prepared as batsmen friendly pitch where India piled up big first innings score of over 600 in the first innings, and also piled up 240 runs for the loss of only 3 wickets to demolish Sri Lanka and win the match. It was evident that Sri Lanka was restricted under 300 runs in both the innings and lost the match by 304 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Galle pitch fixing, Sri Lanka v England 2018\nRobin Morris, along with Dubai based business person Gaurav Rajkumar, Galle groundsman Tharanga Indika, and Sri Lankan first-class cricketer Tharindu Mendis have also been investigated by the ICC for attempting another pitch tampering at Galle in Sri Lanka's first test match against England as part of the England's series against Sri Lanka in November 2018. Concerns were raised by the English Cricket Board whether to play the series against Sri Lanka over the planned pitch tampering at the Galle Cricket Stadium for the first Test match or not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Pitch fixing in India, India v England 2016\nThe 5th and the final test match between England and India which was held in Chennai with India winning the match by an innings and 75 runs has been accused by Al Jazeera as the findings prove that the certain sessions of the test match may have been fixed by bookmakers. India posted a mammoth total of 759/7 with Karun Nair scoring a triple century in the 2nd innings of the match. The English cricket coach, Trevor Bayliss, denied Al Jazeera's allegations. He stated that the allegations are outrageous and he knew that such a documentary would be showcased in future. English skipper Joe Root also criticized and branded the match-fixing allegations against India in 2016 as ridiculous.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 90], "content_span": [91, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Sri Lanka Cricket\nIn a media release on 26 May 2018, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced that it would cooperate with any kind of investigation undertaken by the ICC following the allegations. The current President of the Sri Lanka Cricket, Thilanga Sumathipala, announced that independent groundsmen would, with immediate effect, be appointed in the future to supervise ground preparation. Sri Lanka Cricket suspended Tharindu Mendis and Tharanga Indika with immediate effect, and reported the case to the Criminal Investigation Department of Sri Lanka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Sri Lanka Cricket\nIn a press meet, the SLC vice-president Mohan de Silva commented that he and the SLC were finding it difficult to believe any of the allegations mounted by Al Jazeera on the Galle fixing scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Sri Lanka Cricket\nThe SLC also refuted some of the allegations made by Al Jazeera, claiming that it is not a strange thing to prepare a turning bouncy track in Galle for test matches. The SLC defended Al Jazeera's claims on preparing a spin-friendly turning pitch to favour the spin bowlers during the 2016 Galle test match between Sri Lanka and Australia where Australia lost 18 out of the 20 wickets to Sri Lankan spinners in the Galle test. The SLC also reacted negatively to the documentary's claims on pointing out the involvement of the Galle groundsman, stating that the person didn't have any authoritative powers to alter the conditions of the pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Sri Lanka Cricket\nThe SLC later revealed that the future test matches scheduled against England and South African cricket team at the Galle cricket stadium in 2018 would be shifted to other cricket grounds following the controversy. However, SLC planned not to shift the matches from Galle due to the unavailability of other cricket grounds to host test matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Sri Lanka Cricket\nDuring the renovations, another problem emerged that threatened to stop the construction. One of the new buildings being constructed blocked the view of the adjacent fort, which is a UNESCO world heritage site. The Galle Heritage Foundation and some other organisations expressed concern over this, pointing out that this may result in the fort being removed from the UNESCO world heritage sites. This issue was later resolved and the construction re-continued after some time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Sri Lanka Cricket, Postponement of SLC Elections\nThe corruption allegations revolving around the SLC Board and the breakout of the pitch fixing scandal has ultimately led a stay order against conducting the SLC Board elections, scheduled to be held on 31 May 2018. The Court of Appeal issued a stay order against holding elections for the SLC until 14 June after a petition filed by Arjuna Ranatunga's younger brother, Nishantha Ranatunga, against Thilanga Sumathipala from contesting in the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 105], "content_span": [106, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Sri Lanka Cricket, Postponement of SLC Elections\nFormer Sri Lankan world cup winning captain, Arjuna Ranatunga, also condemned and blamed the corruption allegations linking SLC Board and the president of the Board, Thilanga Sumathipala, while criticising the ICC's anti-corruption investigation unit for not taking proper actions against corruption allegations after referring to Al Jazeera's findings on alleged spot-fixing row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 105], "content_span": [106, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Sri Lanka Cricket, Postponement of SLC Elections\nPrior to the scheduled SLC elections, the actor and politician, Ranjan Ramanayake, criticized the SLC elections as illegal and called Thilanga Sumathipala as a well known bookmaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 105], "content_span": [106, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Sri Lankan government\nThe Sri Lankan government also requested SLC to inquire into the pitch fixing probe which has damaged the reputation of the history of cricket in Sri Lanka. The newly appointed Sri Lankan sports minister, Faiszer Musthapha, said that he watched the Al Jazeera documentary and told the reporters that he wrote a letter to the SLC on addressing the issue to the CID of Sri Lanka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 78], "content_span": [79, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Board of Control for Cricket in India\nThe Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) stated that it would take necessary actions against Robin Morris who is accused as the main suspect of the match fixing allegations. The BCCI announced that they will take legal actions against him only if he is found guilty in the ongoing investigations conducted by the ICC on corruption charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 94], "content_span": [95, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Pakistan Cricket Board\nThe Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has commenced investigations on the influence of cricketer Hasan Raza over the alleged betting scandal and told that appropriate sanctions would be imposed on him if he is found guilty of being involved in corruption allegations. PCB contacted Hasan Raza and had been reviewing reports whether the disgraced cricketer took part in the spot-fixing allegations. The PCB banned Hasan Raza to take part in the 2018\u201319 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Cricket Australia\nFollowing the release of Al Jazeera's documentary, the CEO of the Cricket Australia, James Sutherland stated that he is not aware of any credible evidence linking the Australian cricket players in connection to the suspected match-fixing allegations in the fourth and the final test match between India and Australia in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Cricket Australia\nThe interim Australian test captain, Tim Paine, uttered that he is confident of the current situation of the Australian cricket team and responded that none of the Australian players would have been involved in such a match-fixing controversy after suffering from a major Australian ball-tampering scandal in March 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, Cricket Australia\nDespite Cricket Australia denying any wrongdoing by its team, Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell was reported by Al Jazeera to have been possibly involved in a match-fixing affair without mentioning his name directly in its documentary film. These accusations were, however, refused by the cricketer himself, and both Cricket Australia and Maxwell went on to say that it was just an act to target him unnecessarily and an attempt to spoil his moment after scoring his first test century against India in the Ranchi test, a match which was suspected by Al Jazeera in its documentary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284171-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal, Response, England and Wales Cricket Board\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) denied the match-fixing allegations reported by Al Jazeera during the final test match of England's test tour in India which was held in Chennai. Former English captain, Michael Atherton, claimed that the allegations made by Al-Jazeera regarding the Australian and English cricketers are ridiculous.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284172-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 deaths in American television\nThe following deaths of notable individuals related to American television occurred in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 elections in India\nElections in the Republic of India in 2018 included by-elections to the Lok Sabha, elections to the Rajya Sabha, elections to of eight states and numerous other by-elections to state legislative assemblies, councils and local bodies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 elections in India\nThe elections were widely considered crucial to the ruling National Democratic Alliance and the opposition United Progressive Alliance in lieu of the upcoming general elections in 2019. In seven of the eight states that went to polls this year, the Bharatiya Janata Party was in direct contest with the Indian National Congress. Further, the election results in the states of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Rajasthan are considered a barometer of the pulse of the public before the general elections. Elections to the upper house where the ruling National Democratic Alliance does not command a majority are by kicking on the part of all the political leaders expected to strengthen its position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 elections in India, Background, Political System\nAccording to the Constitution of India, elections should take place to the parliament and state legislative assemblies every five years, unless an emergency is under operation. Further, any vacancy caused by death or resignation must be filled through an election within six months of occurrence of such vacancy. The elections to the lower houses (in Parliament and in the states) use first past the post system - the candidate with a plurality of the votes wins the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 elections in India, Background, Political System\nElections to one-third of the seats of the upper house of the Parliament - the Rajya Sabha are conducted every two years. The members of the upper house are elected indirectly by the state legislative assemblies on the basis of proportional representation. Members to the state legislative councils (in states which have an upper house) are elected indirectly through local bodies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 elections in India, Background, Political System\nAll the elections at the central and state level are conducted by the Election Commission of India while local body elections are conducted by state election commissions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 elections in India, Parliamentary By-election, By-elections to the Lok Sabha, May\n4 parliamentary seats were contested on 28 May 2018. The counting of votes took place on May 31. This election saw the ruling BJP party lose their majority in the lower house of the Indian Parliament", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 86], "content_span": [87, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 elections in India, Parliamentary By-election, By-elections to the Lok Sabha, May\n3 parliamentary seats had been contested on 3 November 2018 in Karnataka. Results were declared on 6 November 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 86], "content_span": [87, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 elections in India, Legislative assembly elections, Tripura\nElections were held in Tripura on 18 February 2018 in 59 out of 60 constituencies of the Legislative Assembly. The Left Front led by Manik Sarkar sought re-election, having governed Tripura since the 1998 election. The region in general had been under the political control of the Communist Party for 25 years prior to the election, leading to the region being dubbed a \"red holdout\". The incumbent Left Front government was defeated after 25 years of office, with the Bharatiya Janata Party and Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura winning a large majority of seats. The Indian National Congress, which was the second largest party in the 2013 election, lost all its seats and most of its vote share.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 elections in India, Legislative assembly elections, Meghalaya\nElections were held in Meghalaya on 27 February 2018 to elect 59 of 60 members to the Legislative Assembly. The incumbent Indian National Congress government controlled the state in a coalition with smaller parties prior to the election, and sought to retain office. The elections resulted in a hung assembly with no single party or alliance getting the requisite majority of 31 seats in the Vidhan Sabha. Conrad Sangma, leader of the National People's Party, announced that he would form a government with the support of the United Democratic Party and other regional parties. He was sworn in as the Chief Minister, along with eleven other ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 66], "content_span": [67, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 elections in India, Legislative assembly elections, Nagaland\nElections were held in Nagaland on 27 February 2018 in 59 out of 60 constituencies of the Legislative Assembly. The scheduled election in Northern Angami II constituency did not take place as only incumbent MLA Neiphiu Rio was nominated and was therefore declared elected unopposed. The ruling Naga People's Front was challenged by the newly established Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The NDPP and its allies won a majority, with former Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio returning to government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 elections in India, Legislative assembly elections, Karnataka\nElections were held in Karnataka on 12 May 2018 in 222 out of 224 constituencies of the Legislative Assembly. The incumbent Indian National Congress (INC) was seeking re-election, having governed the state since elections in 2013. The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S)) sought to regain office. The election led to a hung assembly, with the Bharatiya Janata Party emerging as the single largest party, with 104 seats, but failing to win a majority of seats and popular votes. The Indian National Congress (INC) won the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 66], "content_span": [67, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0010-0001", "contents": "2018 elections in India, Legislative assembly elections, Karnataka\nFollowing the election, B. S. Yeddyurappa was appointed Chief Minister and tasked with forming a minority BJP government, but resigned two days later on being unable to prove majority in the assembly. Thereafter the INC and JD(S) which had entered into a post-poll agreement formed a majority coalition government. H.D. Kumaraswamy of Janata Dal (Secular) was subsequently appointed Chief Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 66], "content_span": [67, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 elections in India, Local body elections, Jammu and Kashmir\nPanchayat elections and municipal elections were held in Jammu and Kashmir in 2018 from October 8 till December 11. The last time Panchayat elections were held in the state were in 2011 and the last time municipal elections were held were in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284173-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 elections in India, Local body elections, Uttarakhand\nOn 18 November, elections to the local bodies were held in Uttarakhand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals\nThe 2018 end of year rugby union tests, also referred to as the Autumn internationals in the Northern Hemisphere, were a number of rugby union test matches played during October and November, primarily involving countries from the Northern Hemisphere hosting those from the Southern Hemisphere. Also involved in matches are those from second-tier teams. These international games count towards World Rugby's ranking system, with a team typically playing from two to four matches during this period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, Bledisloe Cup \u2013 Test 3\nTouch judges:Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa)Rasta Rasivhenge (South Africa)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 3 November\nTouch judges:Damon Murphy (Australia)Graham Cooper (Australia)Television match official:Damien Mitchelmore (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 3 November\nTouch judges:Wayne Barnes (England)Frank Murphy (Ireland)Television match official:Rowan Kitt (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 3 November\nTouch judges:J\u00e9r\u00f4me Garc\u00e8s (France)Ben Whitehouse (Wales)Television match official:Olly Hodges (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 3 November\nTouch judges:Romain Poite (France)Alexandre Ruiz (France)Television match official:David Ardrey (United States)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 10 November\nTouch judges:Frank Murphy (Ireland)Shuhei Kubo (Japan)Television match official:Graham Hughes (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 10 November\nTouch judges:Luke Pearce (England)Karl Dickson England)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 10 November\nTouch judges:Jaco Peyper (South Africa)Marius Mitrea (Italy)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 10 November\nTouch judges:Romain Poite (France)Brendon Pickerill (New Zealand)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 10 November\nTouch judges:Angus Gardner (Australia)Ludovic Cayre (France)Television match official:David Grashoff (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 10 November\nTouch judges:Matthew Carley (England)Tom Foley (England)Television match official:Rowan Kitt (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 17 November\nTouch judges:Andrew Brace (Ireland)Mike Adamson (Scotland)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 17 November\nTouch judges:Ben Whitehouse (Wales)Sam Grove-White (Scotland)Television match official:Brian MacNeice (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 17 November\nTouch judges:Angus Gardner (Australia)Shuhei Kubo (Japan)Television match official:Olly Hodges (Ireland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 17 November\nTouch judges:Nigel Owens (Wales)Dan Jones (Wales)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 17 November\nTouch judges:Ben O'Keeffe (New Zealand)Frank Murphy (Ireland)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 17 November\nTouch judges:Mathieu Raynal (France)Marius Mitrea (Italy)Television match official:Rowan Kitt (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284174-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 17 November\nTouch judges:Matthew Carley (England)Ian Davies (Wales)Television match official:David Grashoff (England)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284175-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 heat wave\nIn 2018, several heat waves with temperatures far above the long-time average and droughts were recorded in the Northern Hemisphere: The earth's average surface temperature in 2018 was the fourth highest in the 140 years of record keeping. It is assumed that the jet stream is slowing down, trapping cloudless, windless and extremely hot regions of high pressure. The jet stream anomalies could be caused by polar amplification, one of the observed effects of global warming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284175-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 heat wave\nAccording to the World Meteorological Organization, the severe heat waves across the Northern Hemisphere in the summer of 2018, are linked to climate change, as well as events of extreme precipitation. The results were an increase in mortality of the elderly, severe declines in crop yields, as well as the biggest algae bloom in the Baltic Sea in decades. This had the effect of poisoning water both for human and animal use. Additionally, nuclear power plants in Europe were having issues, because the water in the rivers, that is used for cooling the reactors, was too warm. This had the effect of electricity grids crashing across four continents. The impacts were severe, even in the countries that are considered well prepared to deal with the impacts of climate change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284176-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 iHeartRadio MMVAs\nThe 2018 iHeartRadio MMVAs were held on August 26, 2018 outside 299 Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Unlike previous years, the 2018 show aired live at the end of August instead of Father's Day. It was hosted by Awkwafina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284176-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 iHeartRadio MMVAs, Winners and nominees\nNominees were announced on August 1, 2018. For the nominations, most awards categories were changed from being video-oriented to artist-oriented. Two new categories were also introduced: Song of the Summer and Best Collaboration. Shawn Mendes has the most nominations with eight, with Drake behind at seven. Winners were announced on August 26, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284177-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards\nThe 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards were held on March 11, 2018 at The Forum in Inglewood, California. The list of nominations was announced on January 10, 2018. DJ Khaled and Hailey Baldwin hosted the ceremony. TBS, TNT, and truTV broadcast the ceremony in the United States, while the red carpet was broadcast live on the network's social media pages. The telecast aired following the 2018 NCAA Selection Show on TBS. Taylor Swift premiered the music video for her single \"Delicate\" at the show. 2018 marked the show's final simulcast on TBS, TNT, and truTV, as it returned to broadcast television the following year, and aired on new partner network FOX for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284177-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards, Winners and nominees\niHeartRadio presented the winners of seven categories in the seven days leading up to the Sunday telecast. Winners are highlighted in boldface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284178-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in 100 metres\n2018 in 100 metres lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2018 in both the men's and the women's 100 metres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut\nThe year 2018 is the 6th year in the history of the Absolute Championship Berkut, a mixed martial arts, kickboxing and Brazilian jiu-jitsu promotion based in Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 78: Young Eagles 24\nAbsolute Championship Berkut 78: Young Eagles 24 was a mixed martial arts event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on January 13, 2018 at the Sports Hall Coliseum in Grozny, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB JJ 10: Panza vs. Rocha\nAbsolute Championship Berkut Jiu-Jitsu 10: Panza vs. Rocha was a Brazilian jiu-jitsu event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on January 26, 2018 at the Club Hebraica in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 79: Agujev vs. Alfaya\nAbsolute Championship Berkut 79: Agujev vs. Alfaya was a mixed martial arts event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on January 27, 2018 at the Sports Hall Coliseum in Grozny, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 79: Agujev vs. Alfaya\nBackgroundThe card was originally headlined by a title fight between champion Askar Askarov and Rasul Albaskhanov for the ACB Flyweight Championship. On January 13, it was announced Askarov had to withdraw due to heavy angina. The title fight between Askarov and Albaskhanov has been temporarily postponed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 79: Agujev vs. Alfaya\nBatraz Agnaev had to withdraw due to an injury and is not able to defend his Light-Heavyweight title against D\u00f6wletjan \u00ddag\u015fymyradow from Turkmenistan and the bout was canceled. Luis Fernando Miranda will step in as a replacement against \u00ddag\u015fymyradow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 79: Agujev vs. Alfaya\nMagomed Magomedov was to face Walter Pereira Jr. at this event but had to withdraw due to illness. The bout has been temporarily postponed to ACB 81.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 79: Agujev vs. Alfaya\nIslam Isaev, Said-Khamzat Avkhadov, Thiago Bonifacio Silva and Zach Makovsky were injured during training camp. So they were removed from the card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 80: Tumenov vs. Burrell\nAbsolute Championship Berkut 80: Tumenov vs. Burrell was a mixed martial arts event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on February 16, 2018 at the Basket-Hall in Krasnodar, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 80: Tumenov vs. Burrell\nBackgroundThe card was originally headlined by a title fight between champion Mukhamed Berkhamov and Albert Tumenov for the ACB Welterweight Championship. On January 1, it was announced Berkhamov had to withdraw due to a broken arm. Nah-Shon Burrell will step in as a replacement against Tumenov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 80: Tumenov vs. Burrell\nInitially Muhammed Kokov was supposed to face Bubba Jenkins, but Jenkins withdrew from the fight due to injury. The Brazilian Alexandre Bezerra will step in as a replacement against Kokov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 81: Saidov vs. Carneiro\nAbsolute Championship Berkut 81: Saidov vs. Carneiro was a mixed martial arts event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on February 23, 2018 at The Dome - Dubai Sports City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 81: Saidov vs. Carneiro\nBackgroundYoni Sherbatov had to withdraw due to a shoulder injury and is not able to fight against Josiel Silva. Sam Halliday will step in as a replacement against Silva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB KB 13: From Paris with war\nACB KB 13: From Paris with war was a kickboxing event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on February 24, 2018 at the Halle Georges Carpentier in Paris, France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB JJ 11: Ramos vs. Najmi\nAbsolute Championship Berkut Jiu-Jitsu 11: Ramos vs. Najmi was a Brazilian jiu-jitsu event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on March 3, 2018 at the Pavell\u00f3 Ol\u00edmpic de Badalona in Badalona, Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 82: Silva vs. Kolobegov\nAbsolute Championship Berkut 82: Silva vs. Kolobegov was a mixed martial arts event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on March 9, 2018 in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB KB 14: Diamonds\nACB KB 14: Diamonds will be a kickboxing event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on March 23, 2018 at the Grinn Center in Orel, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 83: Borisov vs. Kerimov\nAbsolute Championship Berkut 83: Borisov vs. Kerimov will be a mixed martial arts event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on March 24, 2018 at the Serhedchi Olympic Sport Center in Baku, Azerbaijan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 83: Borisov vs. Kerimov\nBackgroundEfrain Escudero did not reach Baku because of airplane delays in Germany, his fight against Khamzat Aushev was canceled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 84: Agujev vs. Burrell\nAbsolute Championship Berkut 84: Burrell vs. Agujev was a mixed martial arts event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on April 7, 2018 at the Ondrej Nepela Arena in Bratislava, Slovakia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 84: Agujev vs. Burrell\nBackgroundThe card was originally headlined by a fight between Attila V\u00e9gh and Jose Daniel Toledo. On March 30, it was announced Vegh had to withdraw because he torn his meniscus. Ron Stallings will step in as a replacement against Toledo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 84: Agujev vs. Burrell\nLudovit Klein had to withdraw due to injury, Luis Alberto Nogueira will step in to face Islam Sizbulatov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB JJ 12: Wardzinski vs Pena\nAbsolute Championship Berkut Jiu-Jitsu 12: Wardzinski vs Pena will be a Brazilian jiu-jitsu event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on April 14, 2018 at the Almaty Arena in Almaty, Kazakhstan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB KB 15: Grand Prix Kitek\nACB KB 15: Grand Prix Kitek will be a kickboxing event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on April 20, 2018 at theDynamo Sports Palace in Moscow, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 85: Leone vs Ginazov\nAbsolute Championship Berkut 85: Leone vs Ginazov will be a mixed martial arts event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on April 21, 2018 at the RDS Stadium in Rimini, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB JJ 13: Rocha vs. Almeida\nAbsolute Championship Berkut Jiu-Jitsu 13: Rocha vs. Almeida was a Brazilian jiu-jitsu event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on May 5, 2018 at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 86: Balaev vs. Raisov 2\nAbsolute Championship Berkut 86: Balaev vs. Raisov 2 will be a mixed martial arts event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on May 5, 2018 at the Olimpiyskiy in Moscow, Russia .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 86: Balaev vs. Raisov 2\nBackgroundThe title fight between Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov and Ustarmagomed Gadzhidaudov got cancelled due to Gadzhidaudov injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 86: Balaev vs. Raisov 2\nMukhamed Berkhamov had to withdraw due to an injury and is not able to defend his Welterweight title against Beslan Isaev and the bout was canceled. Ciro Rodrigues step up on to face Isaev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 86: Balaev vs. Raisov 2\nEduard Vartanyan had to pull out of his fight against Ali Bagov due to a tore ligaments in his knee. Gleristone Santos step up on short notice to face Bagov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 86: Balaev vs. Raisov 2\nThe fight between Abdul-Rakhman Temirov and Rasuk Mirzaev got cancelled due to Mirzaev injury. Denis Silva step up on short notice to face Temirov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 86: Balaev vs. Raisov 2\nThe fight between Akop Stepanyan and Arman Ospanov got cancelled due to Stepanyan illnesses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 87: Mousah vs. Whiteford\nAbsolute Championship Berkut 87: Mousah vs. Whiteford will be a mixed martial arts event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on May 19, 2018 at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 87: Mousah vs. Whiteford\nBackgroundAzi Thomas, has been removed from ACB 87 after the organisation were alerted to a prior anti-doping rule violation, Thomas was set to fight Regis Sugden. Stephen Martin will step in to face Sugden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 88: Barnatt vs. Celi\u0144ski\nAbsolute Championship Berkut 88: Barnatt vs. Celi\u0144ski will be a mixed martial arts event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on June 16, 2018 at the Sleeman Sports Complex in Brisbane, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 88: Barnatt vs. Celi\u0144ski\nBackground Due to some complications in obtaining the necessary documents to travel and compete in Australia, Thiago Silva could not make the trip. His fight against Chris Camozzi was canceled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 88: Barnatt vs. Celi\u0144ski\nBrett Cooper had to withdraw of his fight against Adam Townsend due to an injury. Kieran Joblin step up on short notice to face Townsend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 88: Barnatt vs. Celi\u0144ski\nLuis Palomino had to pull out of his fight against Andrew Fisher due to visa issue. Rodolfo Marquez step up on short notice to face Fisher. Fisher has also been forced to withdraw from the card on medical grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 88: Barnatt vs. Celi\u0144ski\nRaymison Bruno is out, Andy Young steps in on six days notice to take on Narek Avagyan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB JJ 14: Ramos vs. Lepri\nAbsolute Championship Berkut Jiu-Jitsu 14: Ramos vs. Lepri will be a Brazilian jiu-jitsu event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on June 30, 2018 at the Dynamo Sports Palace in Moscow, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB KB 16: Clash of Titans\nACB KB 16: Clash of Titans was a kickboxing event produced by the Absolute Championship Berkut that took place on July 13, 2018, at the Unirii Plaza in T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 89: Abdulvakhabov vs. Bagov 3\nAbsolute Championship Berkut 89: Abdulvakhabov vs. Bagov 3 will be a mixed martial arts event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on September 8, 2018 at the Basket-Hall in Krasnodar, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 89: Abdulvakhabov vs. Bagov 3\nBackground Due to the cancellation of multiple events, numbering of the future events has been changed. Therefore, the event won't be ACB 93, but ACB 89.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 89: Abdulvakhabov vs. Bagov 3\nMukhamed Berkhamov out with an injury, vacates title. Brett Cooper steps up and will fight Albert Tumenov for the vacant ACB Welterweight Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 89: Abdulvakhabov vs. Bagov 3\nBrett Cooper is out with an injury. Ciro Rodrigues steps up and will fight Albert Tumenov for the vacant Welterweight Championship", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284179-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 in Absolute Championship Berkut, ACB 90: Vakhaev vs. Bilostenniy\nAbsolute Championship Berkut 90: Vakhaev vs. Bilostenniy will be a mixed martial arts event held by Absolute Championship Berkut on November 10, 2018 at the VTB Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284181-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in African music\nThe following is a list of events and releases that have happened or are expected to happen in 2018 in African music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284184-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in American music\nThe following is a list of events and releases that happened in 2018 in music in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284185-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in American soccer\nThe 2018 season was the 106th season of competitive soccer in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284185-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in American soccer, National teams, Men's, Senior\nGoals are current as of November 20, 2018, after match against \u00a0Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284185-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in American soccer, National teams, Men's, U-20\nThe top two teams of each group in the qualification stage qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, with the winners of each group also advancing to the final to decide the champions of the CONCACAF U-20 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284185-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in American soccer, National teams, Women's, Senior\nGoals are current as of November 13, 2018, after match against \u00a0Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284185-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in American soccer, National teams, Women's, U-17\nOn 22 April 2018, four days into the tournament, CONCACAF announced the remainder of the championship was cancelled immediately due to security concerns caused by civil unrest in Nicaragua. On 11 May 2018, CONCACAF announced the tournament would resume play on 6 June and conclude on 12 June 2018, with the remainder of the tournament hosted at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, United States. Six teams will play in the remainder of the tournament, as Nicaragua and Puerto Rico were already eliminated and were set to face each other in their last match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284185-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in American soccer, Club Competitions, Men's, League Competitions\nNote: the table below has no impact on playoff qualification and is used solely for determining host of the MLS Cup, certain CCL spots, the Supporters' Shield trophy, seeding in the 2019 Canadian Championship, and 2019 MLS draft. The conference tables are the sole determinant for teams qualifying for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 70], "content_span": [71, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284185-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in American soccer, Club Competitions, Men's, League Competitions\nAs Toronto FC won MLS Cup 2017, one of the U.S. berths for the 2019 CONCACAF Champions League had to be reallocated, to the U.S. non-champions with the best aggregate record over the 2017 and 2018 MLS regular seasons. As the top ranked team in the table, Atlanta United FC, also qualified for the Champions League by winning MLS Cup 2018, the Champions League spot via the aggregate table was instead awarded to the second-placed team, the New York Red Bulls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 70], "content_span": [71, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284186-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in American television\nThe following is a list of events affecting American television in 2018. Events listed include television show finales and cancellations and information about controversies and carriage disputes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284186-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in American television, Television programs, Television films and specials\nThese television films and specials are scheduled to premiere in 2018. The premiere dates may be changed depending on a variety of factors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 79], "content_span": [80, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284186-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in American television, Television programs, Programs returning in 2018\nThe following shows will return with new episodes after being canceled, ended their run previously, or underwent a hiatus that lasted at least one year:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 76], "content_span": [77, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284186-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in American television, Television programs, Entering syndication in 2018\nA list of programs (current or canceled) that have accumulated enough episodes (between 65 and 100) or seasons (three or more) to be eligible for off-network syndication and/or basic cable runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284187-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in American television network changes\nThe following are lists of changes to American television networks, including changes of station affiliations, that occurred in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284187-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in American television network changes, Television stations, Stations changing network affiliation, Major affiliation changes\nKVMD switched from a non-commercial Spanish religious to a commercial Spanish schedule, replacing KJLA \u2013 which had been the network's only owned-and-operated station since it became a national network in April 2007 \u2013 as the market's LATV affiliate. Although it did not officially switch to Azteca until January 3, KJLA began carrying the majority of the network's programming on January 1 (except for those which aired during time periods KJLA had ceded to air religious programming).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 130], "content_span": [131, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284187-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in American television network changes, Television stations, Stations changing network affiliation, Major affiliation changes\nDespite WYCN's low-power status and city of license, its placement on the full-power signal of WGBX allowed NBC's \"NBC Boston\" (which originates through low-power WBTS-LD) to maintain full over-the-air coverage throughout the Boston market from the area's central television transmitter site in Needham (NBC's full-power lease with WMFP/Lawrence was effectively terminated on April 1 with the move of that station to a channel share with WWDP and a new city of license of Foxborough). WYCN-CD also moved from virtual channel 13 to channel 15 to avert any confusion with WGME/Portland, Maine, which has some signal coverage in the extreme northeastern portion of the Boston market.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 130], "content_span": [131, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284187-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in American television network changes, Television stations, Stations changing network affiliation, Major affiliation changes\nKYOU's addition of NBC programming results in the major four broadcast networks spread across the Ottumwa\u2013Kirksville market's two full-power commercial television stations (Sinclair-owned KTVO operates as a primary feed ABC and subchannel-only CBS affiliate), and leaves Mankato, Presque Isle, Alpena, and Harrisonburg as the only remaining U.S. media markets without a local NBC affiliate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 130], "content_span": [131, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284187-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in American television network changes, Television stations, Stations changing network affiliation, Major affiliation changes\nWMYO's former main schedule with the declining MyNetworkTV programming service moves to the third subchannel, and in reverse loses DirecTV/Dish/U-verse carriage in order to assure full-market coverage for CW programming (the second subchannel is contractually obligated to Cozi TV). Block also ends use of the former channel 34 allocation associated with the defunct Campbellsville version of WBKI with the CW and Movies! subchannels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 130], "content_span": [131, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284187-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in American television network changes, Television stations, Stations changing network affiliation, Major affiliation changes\nWPME's MyNetworkTV affiliation thus moves to the third subchannel of former Ironwood sister station WPXT, with WPME taking the full six-network suite of Ion Television networks. A required call change as part of the deal (WPXT-DT3 will remain branded as \"WPME\") will see the channel 35 spectrum take the new WIPL calls, standing for \"Ion in PortLand\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 130], "content_span": [131, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284187-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in American television network changes, Television stations, Stations changing network affiliation, Major affiliation changes\nWBNX became an independent station, replacing CW weekday daytime and prime time shows with first-run and off-network syndicated programs already in its programming inventory, and syndicated E/I, drama and sports programs on Saturday mornings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 130], "content_span": [131, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284188-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Andorra\nEvents in the year 2018 in the Principality of Andorra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 71]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284189-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Angola, Events, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity\nIris Angola, the country's only gay rights lobby group established in 2013, was given legal status in June. Due to the lack of recognition by the state governments, members of this group had faced discrimination accessing health and education services. This \"historic moment\" allowed homosexuality rights to be defended in Angola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284189-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Angola, Events, Treatment of Migrants\nOver 400,000 Congolese migrants were expelled from Angola in October. President Louren\u00e7o claimed this was to reduce diamond smuggling, but was backed up with nonexistent evidence. Nonetheless, migrants were killed, looted, and forced out of the country, expressing fear and intimidation after the expulsion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 45], "content_span": [46, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284190-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Antarctica\nThe following are events that occurred in Antarctica in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284191-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Argentina\nThe following lists events that happened in Argentina in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284192-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Armenia\nThe following lists events that occurred in 2018 in Armenia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284193-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 2018 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284194-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284194-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Australian literature, Awards and honours\nNote: these awards were presented in the year in question.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284195-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Australian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2018, in music in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284196-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Australian television\nThis is a list of Australian television-related events, debuts, finales, and cancellations that are scheduled to occur in 2018, the 63rd year of continuous operation of television in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284196-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Australian television, Premieres\nTelevision programs which debut for the first time on Australian television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284196-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Australian television, Programming changes, Changes to channel affiliation\nCriteria for inclusion in the following list is that Australian premiere episodes will air in Australia for the first time on a new channel. This includes when a program is moved from a free-to-air channel's primary channel to a digital multi-channel, as well as when a program moves between subscription television channels \u2013 provided the preceding criteria is met. Ended television series which change networks for repeat broadcasts are not included in the list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284196-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Australian television, Programming changes, Free-to-air premieres\nThis is a list of programs which made their premiere on Australian free-to-air television that had previously premiered on Australian subscription television. Programs may still air on the original subscription television network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284196-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Australian television, Programming changes, Subscription premieres\nThis is a list of programs which made their debut on Australian subscription television, having previously premiered on Australian free-to-air television. Programs may still air (first or repeat) on the original free-to-air television channel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284196-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Australian television, Programming changes, Returning programs\nAustralian produced programs which are returning with a new season after being absent from television in the previous calendar year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284198-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Azerbaijan\nThe following lists events that occurred in 2018 in Azerbaijan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284198-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Azerbaijan, Gallery\nIlham Aliyev attended official opening ceremony of Southern Gas Corridor. Sangachal Terminal", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284200-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bangladesh\n2018 (MMXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd\u00a0millennium, the 18th year of the 21st\u00a0century, and the 9th year of the 2010s decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284200-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bangladesh\nThe year 2018 was the 47th year after the independence of Bangladesh. It was also the fifth year of the third term of the Government of Sheikh Hasina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284200-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bangladesh, Economy\nNote: For the year 2018 average official exchange rate for BDT was 80.44 per US$.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284202-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship\nThe year 2018 is the 1st year in the history of the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, a bare-knuckle fighting promotion based in Philadelphia. The season started with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 1: The Beginning. BKFC is available on PPV all over the world and on FITE TV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284202-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 1: The Beginning\n'Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 1: The Beginning' was a bare-knuckle fighting event held by Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship on June 2, 2018 at the Cheyenne Ice and Events Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 95], "content_span": [96, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284202-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 1: The Beginning, Background\nThis was the first bare-knuckle boxing event by Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) and the first sanctioned bare-knuckle boxing event in the United States since 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 107], "content_span": [108, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284202-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 1: The Beginning, Background\nThis event featured the quarter-final of a 8-Man Heavyweight Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 107], "content_span": [108, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284202-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 2: A New Era\n'Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 2: A New Era' was a bare-knuckle fighting event held by Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship on August 25, 2018 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, Mississippi, USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 91], "content_span": [92, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284202-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 2: A New Era, Background\nThis event featured the semi-final of a 8-Man Heavyweight Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 103], "content_span": [104, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284202-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 2: A New Era, Background\nThe inaugural Police Gazette Women's Featherweight champion, Bec Rawlings, was awarded this title by the Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame 3 days after her win over Alma Garcia at BKFC 1, making her fight with Britain Hart her first title defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 103], "content_span": [104, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284202-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 3: The Takeover\n'Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 3: The Takeover' was a bare-knuckle fighting event held by Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship on October 20, 2018 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, Mississippi, USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 94], "content_span": [95, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284202-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 3: The Takeover, Background\nThis event featured the semi-final of a 8-Man Heavyweight Tournament to crown the inaugural BKFC Heavyweight Champion. The event also featured the quarter-final of a 8-Man Lightweight Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 106], "content_span": [107, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284202-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 3: The Takeover, Background\nA planned Lightweight Tournament Quarter-Final matchup between Reggie Barnett Jr and Josue Rivera was cancelled when Rivera no-showed the event causing Barnett Jr to advance to the semi-finals due to forfeit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 106], "content_span": [107, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284205-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Belize\nThe following lists events in the year 2018 in Belize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 69]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA\n2018 in Bellator MMA was the tenth year in the history of Bellator MMA, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. Bellator held 23 events in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Background\nIn addition to airing cards on the newly-rebranded Paramount Network (formally Spike), Bellator would sign a multi-year deal with streaming service DAZN. Their partnership began with Bellator 206, which was broadcast exclusively on DAZN. Bellator would hold its 200th numbered event on May 25, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator Heavyweight World Grand Prix Tournament\nIn 2018, Bellator organised the 2018\u20132019 Heavyweight Grand Prix that will crown the Bellator Heavyweight champion. This belt was vacated in May 2016 by Vitaly Minakov. Minakov had not defended the title since April 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator Welterweight World Grand Prix Tournament\nIn 2018, Bellator organised the 2018\u20132019 Welterweight Grand Prix that will crown the Bellator Welterweight champion. All fights will be five rounds. If Rory MacDonald were to lose, the victor will be declared lineal champion until he loses or wins the tournament and becomes undisputed champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 71], "content_span": [72, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 192\nBellator 192: Rampage vs. Sonnen took place on January 20, 2018 at The Forum in Inglewood, California. The event aired on Paramount Network as the first Bellator event to air on the network since its re-branding from Spike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 192\nThis card featured the first bout in the 2018 Bellator Heavyweight World Grand Prix Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 193\nBellator 193: Larkin vs. Gonzalez took place on January 26, 2018 at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, California. The event aired live in prime time on Paramount Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 193\nA Lightweight bout between Eugene Correa and Joao Paulo Faria was planned for the undercard of this event, but was canceled for undisclosed reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 193\nDespite a 180-pound catchweight limit installed in the main event, headliner Fernando Gonzalez still missed weight. It was his third consecutive weight cut miss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 194\nBellator 194: Mitrione vs. Nelson 2 took place on February 16, 2018 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The event aired live in prime time on Paramount Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 194\nThis card featured the second bout in the 2018 Bellator Heavyweight World Grand Prix Tournament. Matt Mitrione and Roy Nelson previously fought under the UFC banner in December 2012 with Nelson winning by TKO in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 195\nBellator 195: Caldwell vs. Higo took place on March 2, 2018 at the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. The event aired live in prime time on Paramount Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 195\nThe event was headlined by Bantamweight champion Darrion Caldwell making the first defense of his title against Pitbull brothers' protege Leandro Higo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator Monster Energy Fight Series: Atlanta\nBellator Monster Energy Fight Series: Atlanta was the fifth installment of the series held on March 3, 2018 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia prior to the Monster Energy AMA Supercross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 67], "content_span": [68, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 196\nBellator 196: Henderson vs. Huerta took place on April 6, 2018 at BOK Hall in Budapest, Hungary. The event aired on tape delay in prime time on Paramount Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 196\nBellator 196 featured a lightweight main event between Benson Henderson and Roger Huerta, returning to the promotion after a 7 year absence. The original main event between \u00c1d\u00e1m Borics and James Gallagher was cancelled after a wrist injury was sustained by Gallagher during training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 197\nBellator 197: Chandler vs. Girtz took place on April 13, 2018 at the Family Arena in St. Charles, Missouri. The event aired live in prime time on Paramount Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 197\nMichael Chandler was scheduled to face Brent Primus in a rematch for the Lightweight title. However, on March 21, Primus pulled out of the fight due to a knee injury. As a result, Brandon Girtz stepped in as a replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 198\nBellator 198: Fedor vs. Mir took place on April 28, 2018 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. The event aired live in prime time on Paramount Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 198\nRafael Lovato Jr. was originally scheduled to face John Salter on this card. However, Salter was pulled by the Illinois Athletic Commission due to an eye issue on April 24 and replaced by Gerald Harris. Due to the lateness of the rebooking, the bout was contested at a catchweight of 188 pounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 199\nBellator 199: Bader vs. King Mo took place on May 12, 2018 at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. The event aired live in prime time on Paramount Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 199\nThis card featured the fourth and final bout in the opening round of the 2018 Bellator Heavyweight World Grand Prix Tournament as Light Heavyweight Champion Ryan Bader moved up to face Muhammed Lawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 200\nBellator 200: Carvalho vs. Mousasi took place on May 25, 2018 at the SSE Arena, Wembley in London, England. The event aired on tape delay in prime time on Paramount Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 200\nThis card was expected to be headlined by a rematch between Mirko Cro Cop and Roy Nelson. The pair previously fought in October 2011 at UFC 137 with Nelson winning by TKO. The bout was also expected to serve as an alternate bout for the 2018 Bellator Heavyweight World Grand Prix Tournament. However, the bout was scrapped during the week leading up to the event as Cro Cop pulled out of the fight citing an injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 201\nBellator 201: Macfarlane vs. Lara took place on June 29, 2018 at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, California. The event aired live in prime time on Paramount Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 202\nBellator 202: Budd vs. Nogueira took place on July 13, 2018 at the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. The event aired live in prime time on Paramount Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 202\nOriginally Stephanie Geltmacher was scheduled to face Deborah Kouzmin. However, on the week of the event Kouzmin announced that she was injured. Bellator could not find a replacement for Geltmacher in time for the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 203\nBellator 203: Pitbull vs. Weichel 2 took place on July 14, 2018 at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The event aired via tape delay in prime time on Paramount Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 203\nThe main event featured a rematch between Featherweight champion Patricio Freire and challenger Daniel Weichel. The pair previously met at Bellator 138 in June 2015, where Freire won via knockout in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 204\nBellator 204: Caldwell vs. Lahat took place on August 17, 2018 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The event aired live in prime time on Paramount Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 204\nThe event featured Bellator Bantamweight Champion Darrion Caldwell moving up to Featherweight as he fought Noad Lahat in a non-title bout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 204\nJames Gallagher competed at Bantamweight for the first time as he fought Bellator newcomer Ricky Bandejas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 205\nBellator 205: McKee vs. Macap\u00e1 took place on September 21, 2018 at the CenturyLink Arena in Boise, Idaho. The event aired live on Paramount Network and DAZN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 205\nThe event was expected to see a featherweight main event featuring A.J. McKee and former champion Pat Curran, but Curran was pulled due to injury. McKee instead faced John Macap\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 205\nGoiti Yamaguchi was expected to fight Patricky Freire on the card but pulled out before the fight due to injury. Freire instead faced Roger Huerta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 206\nBellator 206: Mousasi vs. MacDonald took place on September 29, 2018 at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. The event streamed live on DAZN in the United States and all other regions previously served by the service, including Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Japan, as part of a new agreement giving the service rights to seven exclusive cards per-year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 206\nIn the United Kingdom, Bellator 206 was televised by Viacom-owned Channel 5, but the telecast ceased transmission at 6:00\u00a0a.m. (in favour of preschool programming) before the main event, due to watershed regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 206\nThe event saw Bellator welterweight champion Rory MacDonald move up to the middleweight division to challenge Bellator middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi for the Bellator middleweight title. MacDonald was attempting to become the second multi-division champion in Bellator history, after former Bellator bantamweight and featherweight champion Joe Warren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 206\nIn addition, former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson met rival and former PRIDE FC middleweight champion Wanderlei Silva for the fourth time in their respective careers. Going into this fight, Silva held a 2\u20131 advantage in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 206\nThis event featured the start of Bellator's inaugural welterweight grand prix tournament. Fighters expected to participate in the tournament are Rory MacDonald, Jon Fitch, Douglas Lima, Andrey Koreshkov, Paul Daley, Michael Page, Neiman Gracie, Ed Ruth, Lorenz Larkin, and Erick Silva, who replaced Yaroslav Amosov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 206\nDon Mohammed and Salvador Becerra were scheduled to face each other in a Lightweight bout on the undercard. However, the bout was cancelled the week of the fight for undisclosed reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 206\nAt weight-ins, Ricky Abdelaziz weighed in at 147.3 pounds, 1.3 pounds over the featherweight non-title fight upper limit of 146 pounds. As a result, the bout proceeded catchweight. Abdelaziz was fined 20 percent of his purse which 10% went to his opponent, Laird Anderson, and 10% went to California State Athletic Commission. The bout between DeMarco Villalona and Abraham Vaesau was cancelled after Villalona did not make weight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 207\nBellator 207: Mitrione vs. Bader took place on October 12, 2018 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The event was live on Paramount Network and DAZN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 207\nThe event saw a semi-final round bout in the Bellator Heavyweight World Grand Prix as Matt Mitrione took on current Bellator Light Heavyweight Champion Ryan Bader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 207\nErick Silva was expected to make his promotional debut at this event facing Lorenz Larkin in a Welterweight World Grand Prix alternate bout, but Silva pulled out due to injury. He was replaced by the Romanian fighter Ion Pascu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 208\nBellator 208: Fedor vs. Sonnen took place on October 13, 2018 at NYCB LIVE, Home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. The event aired live on Paramount Network and DAZN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 208\nThe event saw a semi-final bout in the Bellator Heavyweight World Grand Prix between Fedor Emelianenko and Chael Sonnen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 208\nRobson Gracie Jr. was scheduled to make his professional MMA debut on this card against Jamal Pottinger. However, the bout was cancelled after Pottinger missed weight. A featherweight bout between Frank Buenafuente and James Gonzalez was also cancelled when both fighters came over the weight limit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 209\nBellator 209: Pitbull vs. Sanchez took place on November 15, 2018 at the Menora Mivtachim Arena in Tel Aviv, Israel. The event aired on November 16, 2018 via tape delay on Paramount Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 209\nThe event featured a bout for the Bellator Featherweight Championship between champion Patr\u00edcio Freire and Emmanuel Sanchez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 209\nHaim Gozali fought Ryan Couture at the event. The two met at Bellator 180 where Couture won by a unanimous decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 209\nOn August 20, 2018, it was reported that Olga Rubin is scheduled to meet Cindy Dandois at this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 209\nThe event featured Vadim Nemkov coming off a spectacular win over former Bellator Light Heavyweight Champion Liam McGeary as he returned to face former Bellator Light Heavyweight champion Phil Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 210\nBellator 210: Njokuani vs. Salter took place on November 30, 2018 at the WinStar World Casino and Resort in Thackerville, Oklahoma. The event aired live on Paramount Network and DAZN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 210\nThe event was to feature a middleweight bout between Melvin Manhoef and Chidi Njokuani as the main event. However, on November 1, it was announced that Manhoef had withdrawn from the fight due to injury and was replaced by John Salter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 210\nIt was announced on October 17, 2018, a featherweight matchup between Jeremy Spoon, who makes his Bellator return, and Juan Archuleta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 210\nOn October 26, 2018, it was reported that David Rickels is scheduled to face Bomba Vasconcelos at the welterweight bout at this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 210\nIt was announced on October 29, 2018, a women's flyweight bout is scheduled between Bruna Ellen and Kristina Williams at this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 210\nOn October 30, 2018 it was reported that a middleweight bout between Joe Schilling and Jose Alfredo Leija would take place at this event. Leija was later replaced by Will Morris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 211\nBellator 211: Sakara vs. Kauppinen took place on December 1, 2018 at the RDS Stadium in Genoa, Italy. The event aired live on Paramount Network and DAZN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 211\nThe event featured a light heavyweight bout between Alessio Sakara and Kent Kauppinen as the main event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 211\nA title fight between current Bellator Kickboxing featherweight champion Gabriel Varga and Shan Cangelosi also took place on the card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 211\nOn October 30, 2018, a welterweight bout between Kiefer Crosbie and Orlando D'Ambrosio was announced for this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 211\nA lightweight bout between Italy's Luca Vitali and SBG Ireland prospect Luka Jelcic was scheduled for the event. However, Jelcic withdrew and was replaced by Pedro Carvalho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 212\nBellator and USO Present: Primus vs. Chandler 2 took place on December 14, 2018 at the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii in conjunction with the USO. The event was live on Paramount Network and DAZN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 212\nThe event featured a Bellator Lightweight Championship bout between the champion Brent Primus and former champion Michael Chandler. The rematch was scheduled for Bellator 197, but Primus pulled out due to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 212\nA women's flyweight bout between former title contender Alejandra Lara and Juliana Velasquez was also announced for the card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 212\nOn November 19, 2018, it was announced Sam Sicilia will face Derek Campos at this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 213\nBellator 213: Macfarlane vs. L\u00e9tourneau took place on December 15, 2018 at the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii. The event was live on DAZN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 213\nThe event featured Honolulu native Ilima-Lei Macfarlane defending the Bellator Women's Flyweight Championship against UFC veteran Val\u00e9rie L\u00e9tourneau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 213\nA middleweight bout between former champion Rafael Carvalho and UFC veteran and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida took place at the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 213\nA Bellator Welterweight Grand Prix quarterfinal bout between Neiman Gracie and Ed Ruth also took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284206-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 in Bellator MMA, Bellator 213\nBellator President Scott Coker announced on Monday, September 17, 2018 that King Mo would face former Bellator light heavyweight champion Liam McGeary at the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football\nThe following article presents a summary of the 2018 football season in Brazil, which was the 117th season of competitive football in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A\nThe 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A started on April 14, 2018 and is scheduled to end on December 2, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, Relegation\nThe four worst placed teams, Sport, Am\u00e9rica Mineiro, Vit\u00f3ria and Paran\u00e1, were relegated to the following year's second level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B\nThe 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B started on April 13, 2018 and concluded on November 24, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B, Promotion\nThe four best placed teams, Fortaleza, CSA, Ava\u00ed and Goi\u00e1s, were promoted to the following year's first level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B, Relegation\nThe four worst placed teams, Paysandu, Sampaio Corr\u00eaa, Juventude and Boa Esporte, were relegated to the following year's third level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C\nThe 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C started on April 14, 2018 and concluded on September 22, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C\nThe Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C final was played between Oper\u00e1rio Ferrovi\u00e1rio and Cuiab\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C, Promotion\nThe four best placed teams, Oper\u00e1rio Ferrovi\u00e1rio, Cuiab\u00e1, Botafogo (SP) and Bragantino, were promoted to the following year's second level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 68], "content_span": [69, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C, Relegation\nThe four worst placed teams, Tupi, Juazeirense, Salgueiro and Joinville, were relegated to the following year's fourth level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D\nThe 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D started on April 21, 2018 and concluded on August 4, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D\nThe Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D final was played between Ferrovi\u00e1rio and Treze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D, Promotion\nThe four best placed teams, Ferrovi\u00e1rio, Treze, S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 (RS) and Imperatriz, were promoted to the following year's third level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 68], "content_span": [69, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Domestic cups, Copa do Brasil\nThe 2018 Copa do Brasil started on January 30, 2018 and concluded on October 17, 2018. The Copa do Brasil final was played between Cruzeiro and Corinthians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Domestic cups, Copa do Nordeste\nThe competition featured 20 clubs from the Northeastern region. It started on August 15, 2017 and concluded on July 7, 2018. The Copa do Nordeste final was played between Sampaio Corr\u00eaa and Bahia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Domestic cups, Copa Verde\nThe competition featured 18 clubs from the North and Central-West regions, including the Esp\u00edrito Santo champions. It started on January 21, 2018 and concluded on May 16, 2018. The Copa Verde final was played between Paysandu and Atl\u00e9tico Itapemirim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Youth competition champions\n(1) The Copa Nacional do Esp\u00edrito Santo Sub-17, between 2008 and 2012, was named Copa Brasil Sub-17. The similar named Copa do Brasil Sub-17 is organized by the Brazilian Football Confederation and it was first played in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Brazil national team\nThe following table lists all the games played by the Brazilian national team in official competitions and friendly matches during 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Women's football, National team\nThe following table lists all the games played by the Brazil women's national football team in official competitions and friendly matches during 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Women's football, National team\nThe Brazil women's national football team competed in the following competitions in 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino S\u00e9rie A1\nThe 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino S\u00e9rie A1 started on April 25, 2018 and concluded on October 26, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino S\u00e9rie A1\nThe Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino S\u00e9rie A1 final was played between Corinthians and Rio Preto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino S\u00e9rie A1, Relegation\nThe two worst placed teams, Portuguesa (SP) and Pinheirense, were relegated to the following year's second level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino S\u00e9rie A2\nThe 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino S\u00e9rie A2 started on March 24, 2018 and concluded on July 12, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino S\u00e9rie A2\nThe Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino S\u00e9rie A2 final was played between Minas/ICESP and Vit\u00f3ria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284212-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino S\u00e9rie A2, Promotion\nThe two best placed teams, Minas/ICESP and Vit\u00f3ria, were promoted to the following year's first level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284213-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in British music\nThis is a summary of the year 2018 in British music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 74]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284214-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in British music charts\nThe British music charts are compiled by the Official Charts Company to measure sales of recorded music on compact disc and digital download.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284214-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in British music charts, Charts and sales, Top singles of the year\nThis chart was published by the Official Charts Company in January 2019", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284215-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in British radio\nThis is a list of events taking place in 2018 relating to radio in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284216-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in British television\nThis is a list of events that took place in 2018 relating to television in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284216-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in British television, Top 10 most-watched television broadcasts, BARB consolidated 7-day viewing figures\nThe Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) used this method of measurement until August 2018. Viewing figures details include +1 and HD channels. Highest rated single episode, instalment or match per channel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 110], "content_span": [111, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284222-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian music\nThe following musical events and releases are expected to happen in 2018 in Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer\nThe 2018 season was the 142nd season of competitive soccer in Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, News and events, 2026 FIFA World Cup\nAs part of the United 2026 World Cup bid with the United States and Mexico, the Canadian Soccer Association announced on March 15 that the three potential Canadian host cities were Edmonton, Montreal, and Toronto. The 2026 FIFA World Cup was awarded to the United bid on June 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, News and events, National teams\nJohn Herdman was named as head coach of the men's national team in January, replacing Octavio Zambrano. Mauro Biello was later named assistant coach of the men's national team. Kenneth Heiner-M\u00f8ller was named as head coach of the women's national team following Herdman's departure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, News and events, National teams\nWomen's National Team Assistant Coach Bev Priestman stepped down from her position at the end of August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, News and events, Canadian Premier League\nThe Canadian Premier League announced that it will kick off in April 2019, with Paul Beirne as its president, David Clanachan as its commissioner, and James Easton as its head of soccer operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, News and events, Canadian Premier League\nOn March 28, the Canadian Premier League and the Canadian Soccer Association announced the creation of the Canadian Soccer Business (CSB); an organization \"representing commercial assets and inventory for marquee soccer properties in Canada\", including \"all corporate partnerships and broadcast rights related to Canada Soccer's core assets including its national teams, along with all rights associated with the CPL\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, News and events, Canadian Premier League\nThe Canadian Premier League announced a number of new teams for its inaugural 2019 season, at present including York 9 FC (announced May 10), Cavalry FC (May 17),HFX Wanderers FC (May 25), Valour FC (June 6), FC Edmonton (June 8), Forge FC (July 12), and Pacific FC (July 20).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, News and events, Canadian Premier League\nOn November 14, the Canadian Premier League announced that it had acquired the Division 3 League1 Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, News and events, Awards & Honours\nWomen's national team captain Christine Sinclair, was appointed to the Order of Canada on January 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, News and events, Awards & Honours\nAlphonso Davies and Christine Sinclair were named Canadian Player of the Year, while Davies was also named Postmedia Male Athlete of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, National teams\nWhen available, the home team or the team that is designated as the home team is listed in the left column; the away team is in the right column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, National teams, Senior Women, 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship\nCanada finishes in second place; qualifies for 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 89], "content_span": [90, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic leagues, Division 1 leagues, Major League Soccer\nThree Canadian teams (Montreal Impact, Toronto FC, and Vancouver Whitecaps FC) play in this league, which also contains 20 teams from the United States. It is considered a Division 1 men's league in the United States soccer league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 82], "content_span": [83, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic leagues, Division 1 leagues, National Women's Soccer League\nNo Canadian teams play in this league, though eleven players from the Canada women's national soccer team are allocated to its teams by the Canadian Soccer Association. It is considered a Division 1 women's league in the United States soccer league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 93], "content_span": [94, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic leagues, Division 2 leagues, United Soccer League\nTwo Canadian teams (Ottawa Fury FC and Toronto FC II) play in this league, which also contains 31 teams from the United States. It is considered a Division 2 men's league in the United States soccer league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 83], "content_span": [84, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic leagues, Division 2 leagues, United Women's Soccer\nOne Canadian team (Calgary Foothills WFC) plays in this league, which also contains 21 teams from the United States. It is unofficially considered a Division 2 league in the United States soccer league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 84], "content_span": [85, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic leagues, Division 2 leagues, Women's Premier Soccer League\nOne Canadian team (TSS Rovers FC) plays in this league, which also contains 106 teams from the United States. It is unofficially considered a Division 2 league in the United States soccer league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 92], "content_span": [93, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic leagues, Division 3 leagues, League1 Ontario (Men)\n17 teams play in this league, all of which are based in Canada. It is considered a Division 3 men's league in the Canadian soccer league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 84], "content_span": [85, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic leagues, Division 3 leagues, League1 Ontario (Women)\n13 teams play in this league, all of which are based in Canada. It is considered a Division 3 women's league in the Canadian soccer league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 86], "content_span": [87, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic leagues, Division 3 leagues, Premi\u00e8re Ligue de soccer du Qu\u00e9bec (Men)\nEight teams play in this league, all of which are based in Canada. It is considered a Division 3 league in the Canadian soccer league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 103], "content_span": [104, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic leagues, Division 3 leagues, Premi\u00e8re Ligue de soccer du Qu\u00e9bec (Women)\nFive teams play in this league, all of which are based in Canada. It is considered a Division 3 league in the Canadian soccer league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 105], "content_span": [106, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic leagues, Division 4 leagues, Premier Development League\nFive Canadian teams play in this league, which also contains 69 teams from the United States. It is unofficially considered a Division 4 league in the United States soccer league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 89], "content_span": [90, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic leagues, Division 4 leagues, Premier Development League\nNorthwest Division - Calgary Foothills FC, TSS FC Rovers, Victoria Highlanders", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 89], "content_span": [90, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic leagues, Non-FIFA leagues, Canadian Soccer League\nFifteen teams play in this league, all of which are based in Canada. It is a Non-FIFA league previously sanctioned by the Canadian Soccer Association and is now a member of the Soccer Federation of Canada (SFC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 83], "content_span": [84, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic cups, Canadian Championship\nThe Canadian Championship is a national cup contested by men's teams in divisions 1 through 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic cups, Challenge Trophy\nThe Challenge Trophy is a national cup contested by men's teams at the division 4 level and below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Domestic cups, Jubilee Trophy\nThe Jubilee Trophy is a national cup contested by women's teams at the division 4 level and below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Canadian clubs in international competition, 2018 CONCACAF Champions League\nToronto FC draws 4\u20134 on aggregate, wins 2\u20131 on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 100], "content_span": [101, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284223-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian soccer, Canadian clubs in international competition, 2018 CONCACAF Champions League\nToronto FC draws 3\u20133 on aggregate, draws 2\u20132 on away goals, loses 4\u20132 on penalties, and finishes in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 100], "content_span": [101, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284224-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian television\nThe following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2018. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284224-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Canadian television, Television programs, Programs debuting in 2018\nSeries currently listed here have been announced by their respective networks as scheduled to premiere in 2018. Note that shows may be delayed or cancelled by the network between now and their scheduled air dates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 75], "content_span": [76, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284225-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Cape Verde\nThe following lists events that happened during 2018 in Cape Verde.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284226-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in China\nThe following lists events that happened during 2018 in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284227-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Chinese football\nThe 2018 season was the 68th season of competitive association football in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284227-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Chinese football, Men's Football, League season, China League Two\nShaanxi Chang'an Athletic qualified to 2018 China League One relegation play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 73], "content_span": [74, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284228-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Chinese music\nThe following is an overview of 2018 in Chinese music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284230-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Danish music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2018 in Danish music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284232-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Djibouti, Events\n19 May - Cyclone Sagar makes landfall, kills 2 in Djibouti and affects 20,000 others", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284238-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Estonian football, National teams\nThe home team or the team that is designated as the home team is listed in the left column; the away team is in the right column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284238-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Estonian football, County competition\nEstonian Football Association together with the provincial sport associations and local promoters arrange the Estonian County Competition, where 15 counties and the capital Tallinn have their football teams face each other. All teams will play each other twice (home and away). If a game is drawn, a winner will be founded with penalties, but a draw is put into the protocol and both teams get one point added to the table. Every year every team plays one game. The competition was started in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284238-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Estonian football, Men's football, Post-season games, League winners\nHome teams listed on top of bracket. (AET): At Extra Time", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284238-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Estonian football, Men's football, Post-season games, League winners\nHome teams listed on top of bracket. (AET): At Extra Time", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284238-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Estonian football, Men's football, Post-season games, League winners\nHome teams listed on top of bracket. (AET): At Extra Time", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284238-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Estonian football, Cup competitions, Estonian Cup\nHome teams listed on top of bracket. (AET): At Extra Time", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284238-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Estonian football, Cup competitions, Estonian Small Cup\nHome teams listed on top of bracket. (AET): At Extra Time", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284238-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Estonian football, Cup competitions, Estonian Women's Cup\nHome teams listed on top of bracket. (AET): At Extra TimeNumber at the back of the club indicates the league in which the club played in 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284239-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Estonian television\nThis is a list of Estonian television related events from 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284240-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Ethiopia\nThe following lists events in the year 2018 in Ethiopia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284241-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Europe\nThis is a list of events that took place in Europe in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 74]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global\nThe year 2018 is the 8th year in the history of the Fight Nights Global, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia. The company continues broadcasts through Match TV, Fight Network and is looking for a new US-based platform since the contract with UFC Fight Pass has been terminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 83: Alibekov vs. Aliev\nFight Nights Global 83: Alibekov vs. Aliev was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on February 22, 2018 at the Luzhniki Palace of Sports (SCCH \"Rossiya\") in Moscow, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 83: Alibekov vs. Aliev, Background\nThis event will feature two world title fights, first for the Fight Nights Global Lightweight Championship between the champion Magomedsaygid Alibekov and Akhmed Aliev as Fight Nights Global 83 headliner, and for the inaugural Fight Nights Global Women's Bantamweight Championship between Marina Mokhnatkina and Liana Jojua as co-headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 83: Alibekov vs. Aliev, Background\nThe event will also feature the debut of Dominique Steele with Fight Nights Global organisation against Nikolay Aleksakhin and the return of Khabib Nurmagomedov cousin Omar Nurmagomedov against the cousin of Featherweight standout Goiti Yamauchi, the Brazilian Shyudi Yamauchi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 84: De\u00e1k vs. Chupanov\nFight Nights Global 84: De\u00e1k vs. Chupanov was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on March 2, 2018 at the Hant Arena in Bratislava, Slovakia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 85: Alikhanov vs. Kopylov\nFight Nights Global 85: Alikhanov vs. Kopylov was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on March 30, 2018 at the VTB Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 74], "content_span": [75, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 85: Alikhanov vs. Kopylov, Background\nThis event featured two world title fights, first for the Fight Nights Global Middleweight Championship between the champion Abusupyan Alikhanov and the challenger Roman Kopylov as Fight Nights Global 85 headliner, and for the interim Fight Nights Global Welterweight Championship between Aliaskhab Khizriev and Rousimar Palhares as co-headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 86], "content_span": [87, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 85: Alikhanov vs. Kopylov, Background\nThe card was originally co-headlined by a title fight between champion Alexander Matmuratov and challenger Movlid Khaibulaev for the Fight Nights Global Featherweight Championship. On March 28, it was announced Khaibulaev had to withdraw due to an injury, the fight was canceled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 86], "content_span": [87, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 85: Alikhanov vs. Kopylov, Background\nVladimir Mineev was injured during his preparation for the against Magomed Ismailov. Mineev is out due to lateral ligament rupture, the bout has been temporarily postponed. Ildemar Alc\u00e2ntara stepped in on short notice to face Ismailov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 86], "content_span": [87, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 86: Nam vs. Zhumagulov\nFight Nights Global 86: Nam vs. Zhumagulov was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on April 1, 2018 at the Almaty Arena in Almaty, Kazakhstan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 87: Khachatryan vs. Queally\nFight Nights Global 87: Khachatryan vs. Queally was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on May 19, 2018 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 76], "content_span": [77, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global: Summer Cup 2018\nFight Nights Global: Summer Cup 2018 was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on June 30, 2018 in Bozhou, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 88\nFight Nights Global 88 was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on August 31, 2018 at the Alau Arena in Astana, Kazakhstan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 89\nFight Nights Global 89 was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on September 8, 2018 in Bozhou, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 90: Mineev vs. Ismailov\nFight Nights Global 90: Mineev vs. Ismailov was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on October 19, 2018 in Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284243-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in Fight Nights Global, Fight Nights Global 91\nFight Nights Global 91 was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on December 27, 2018 in Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284244-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Finland, Events\n28 January \u2013 scheduled date for the 2018 Finnish presidential election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284245-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Finnish music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2018 in Finnish music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284246-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in France\nThis article lists major events that happened in 2018 in France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284247-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Gabon\nThe following lists events in the year 2018 in Gabon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 67]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory\nThe year 2018 is the seventh year in the history of the Glory, an international kickboxing promotion. The year started with Glory 50: Chicago. The events are broadcasts through television agreements with ESPN, Fight Network, and other regional channels around the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 2018 Awards\nThe following fighters won the GLORY Kickboxing year-end awards for 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 32], "content_span": [33, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 50: Chicago\nGlory 50: Chicago was a kickboxing event held by Glory on February 16, 2018, at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 32], "content_span": [33, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 50: Chicago, Background\nThis event featured a trilogy fight for the Glory Welterweight Championship between the champion Murthel Groenhart and Harut Grigorian as headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 44], "content_span": [45, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 50: Chicago, Background\nThis event also featured a 4-Man Heavyweight Contender Tournament to earn a shot for a Glory Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 44], "content_span": [45, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 50: Chicago, Background\nThe GLORY 50 SuperFight Series co-headline bout was originally scheduled to be a rematch between heavyweights C\u0103t\u0103lin Moro\u0219anu and Giannis Stoforidis. An injury to Moro\u0219anu forced him from the card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 50: Chicago, Background\nAnthony McDonald pulled from his fight against Haze Wilson due to high blood pressure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 50: Chicago, Background\nDue to a cut suffered in the semi-finals Guto was unable to fight in the finals. Junior Tafa stepped in to face Benjamin Adegbuyi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 44], "content_span": [45, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 51: Rotterdam\nGlory 51: Rotterdam \"Bad Blood\" was a kickboxing event held on March 3, 2018, at Rotterdam Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 34], "content_span": [35, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 51: Rotterdam, Background\nThe event featured the long-awaited rematch between the champion Badr Hari and Hesdy Gerges as Glory 51 headliner and a number one contender fight between Alim Nabiev and the former Glory Welterweight Champion Cedric Doumbe as Superfight Series headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 46], "content_span": [47, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 51: Rotterdam, Background\nThis event also featured a 4-Man Welterweight Contender Tournament to earn a shot at the Glory Welterweight Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 46], "content_span": [47, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 52: Los Angeles\nGlory 52: Los Angeles was a kickboxing event held on March 31, 2018, at the Long Beach Arena in Los Angeles, California, US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 52: Los Angeles, Background\nThe GLORY 52 co-main event bout was originally scheduled to be match between Lightweights Marat Grigorian and Stoyan Koprivlenski. Grigorian had to withdraw due to a neck injury, whilst Koprivlenski took on Josh Jauncey instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 48], "content_span": [49, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 52: Los Angeles, Background\nRobert Thomas suffered a concussion during training and was forced to withdraw from Glory Middleweight Contender Tournament. Following this shake-up, the remaining three middleweight tournament contenders were rebooked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 48], "content_span": [49, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 52: Los Angeles, Background\nSimon Marcus remained on the card, and met Zack Wells in the Glory 52 co-headline bout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 48], "content_span": [49, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 52: Los Angeles, Background\nYousri Belgaroui and Jason Wilnis were originally scheduled to compete in the middleweight contender tournament, but instead squared off as part of Glory 53 SuperFight Series from Lille, France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 48], "content_span": [49, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 53: Lille\nGlory 53: Lille was a kickboxing event held on May 12, 2018, at the Z\u00e9nith de Lille in Lille, France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 53: Lille, Background\nEyevan Danenberg suffered an injury during training and was forced to withdraw from his fight against Cedric Doumbe. Thongchai Sitsongpeenong stepped in to face Doumbe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 53: Lille, Background\nAlso a severe hand injury forced Mohammed Jaraya to withdraw from his showdown with Alan Scheinson, Anghel Cardo\u015f stepped in on a short notice to face Scheinson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 53: Lille, Background\nJason Wilnis was forced to withdraw for medical reasons, Dawid Kasperski stepped in on a week's notice to take on Yousri Belgaroui.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 54: Birmingham\nGlory 54: Birmingham was a kickboxing event held on June 2, 2018, at the Genting Arena in Birmingham, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 35], "content_span": [36, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 55: New York\nGlory 55: New York was a kickboxing event held on July 20, 2018, at Hulu Theater in New York City, New York, US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 33], "content_span": [34, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 55: New York, Background\nThe GLORY 55 main event bout was originally scheduled to be a rematch for the Glory Featherweight Championship between the champion Robin van Roosmalen and Petchpanomrung Kiatmookao. Van Roosmalen had to withdraw due to a shoulder injury, Kiatmookao instead fought Kevin VanNostrand for the Glory Featherweight interim-title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 45], "content_span": [46, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 56: Denver\nGlory 56: Denver was a kickboxing event held on August 10, 2018, at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 56: Denver, Background\nThis event featured two world title fights for the Glory Light Heavyweight Championship a rematch between the champion Artem Vakhitov and Danyo Ilunga and for the Glory Women's Super Bantamweight Championship between the champion Anissa Meksen and Jady Menezes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 43], "content_span": [44, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 57: Shenzhen\nGlory 57: Shenzhen was a kickboxing event held on August 25, 2018, at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center in Shenzhen, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 33], "content_span": [34, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 57: Shenzhen, Background\nZinedine Hameur-Lain withdrew from his scheduled appearance against Felipe Micheletti, and both fighters were rebooked at a later date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 45], "content_span": [46, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 58: Chicago\nGlory 58: Chicago was a kickboxing event held on September 14, 2018, at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 32], "content_span": [33, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 58: Chicago, Background\nThe bout between welterweight Alan Scheinson and Malik Watson-Smith was canceled due to visa issues on Scheinson's part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 44], "content_span": [45, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 58: Chicago, Background\nTroy Jones won the 4-man Welterweight Qualification Tournament as Mike Lemaire could not continue due to his injuries and Justin Moss who won earlier in the evening did not receive medical clearance to fight Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 44], "content_span": [45, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 59: Amsterdam\nGlory 59: Amsterdam was a kickboxing event held on September 29, 2018, at the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam, Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 34], "content_span": [35, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 60: Lyon\nGlory 60: Lyon was a kickboxing event held on October 20, 2018, at the Palais des Sports de Gerland in Lyon, France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 29], "content_span": [30, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 60: Lyon, Background\nGlory welterweight champion Harut Grigorian was unable to compete due to acute gastroenteritis that has forced him from the fight card. Therefore, C\u00e9dric Doumb\u00e9 took on Muay Thai fighter Jimmy Vienot. Vienot was scheduled to fight earlier in that evening, but has seized a short notice opportunity to headline opposite the former champion. His original opponent, Dmitry Menshikov, met Samuel Dbili as part of SuperFight Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 41], "content_span": [42, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 61: New York\nGlory 61: New York was a kickboxing event held on November 2, 2018, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 33], "content_span": [34, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 62: Rotterdam\nGlory 62: Rotterdam was a kickboxing event held on December 8, 2018 at Rotterdam Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 34], "content_span": [35, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 62: Rotterdam, Background\nGlory's No.1-ranked heavyweight Benjamin Adegbuyi of Romania has been named the No. 1 seed in the tournament draw. Seed No. 2 has been assigned to Jamal Ben Saddik of Morocco. Heavyweight champion Rico Verhoeven talks acting career and could be stripped of belt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 46], "content_span": [47, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284251-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory, Glory 62: Rotterdam, Background\nOn November 15, it was announced that Mohammed Jaraya had suffered a hand injury and was pulling out of his bout with Robbie Hageman. Jaraya was replaced by Dmitrii Menshikov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 46], "content_span": [47, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284252-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory of Heroes\nGlory of Heroes by Wanmingyang Media is a kickboxing promotion, The first event in 2018 was on January 6, 2018 at the Wudang International Wushu Exchange Center in Hubei, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284252-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory of Heroes, Glory of Heroes 36: Ziyang\nGlory of Heroes 36: Ziyang was a kickboxing and MMA event held on October 20, 2018 at the Ziyang Gymnasium in Sichuan, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284252-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory of Heroes, Glory of Heroes 35: Meishan\nGlory of Heroes 35: Meishan was a kickboxing and MMA event held on October 12, 2018 at the Meishan Gymnasium in Sichuan, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284252-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory of Heroes, Glory of Heroes 34: Tongling\nGlory of Heroes 34: Tongling was a kickboxing and MMA event held on September 15, 2018 at the Tongling Sports Center in Anhui, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284252-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory of Heroes, Glory of Heroes 33: Shanghai\nGlory of Heroes 33: Shanghai was a kickboxing and MMA event held on July 28, 2018 at the Shanghai Baoshan Gymnasium in Shanghai, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284252-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory of Heroes, Glory of Heroes 32: Huizhou\nGlory of Heroes 32: Huizhou was a kickboxing and MMA event held on July 7, 2018 at the Huiyang Sports Exhibition Center in Guangdong, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284252-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory of Heroes, Glory of Heroes 31: Beijing\nGlory of Heroes 31: Beijing was a kickboxing and MMA event held on May 26, 2018 at the Beijing Police Academy in Beijing, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284252-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory of Heroes, Glory of Heroes: New Zealand vs China\nGlory of Heroes: New Zealand vs China was a kickboxing and MMA event held on March 3, 2018 at the ASB Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284252-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory of Heroes, Glory of Heroes: Chengdu\nGlory of Heroes: Chengdu was a kickboxing event held on February 3, 2018 at the Sichuan International Tennis Center in Chengdu, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284252-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory of Heroes, Glory of Heroes: Qingdao\nGlory of Heroes: Qingdao was a kickboxing and MMA event held on January 27, 2018 at the China University of Petroleum Huadong Gymnasium in Qingdao, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284252-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory of Heroes, Glory of Heroes: Guangzhou\nGlory of Heroes: Guangzhou was a kickboxing and MMA event held on January 13, 2018 at the Guangzhou University Town Sports Cent in Guangzhou, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284252-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in Glory of Heroes, Glory of Heroes: Wudang Mountain\nGlory of Heroes: Wudang Mountain was a kickboxing and MMA event held on January 6, 2018 at the Wudang International Wushu Exchange Center in Hubei, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284255-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Guatemala\nThe following lists events in the year 2018 in Guatemala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 75]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284261-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Hungary\nThe following lists events that happened during 2018 in Hungary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284262-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in ILFJ\nThe year 2018 is the third year in the history of the ILFJ, a Japanese Lethwei promotion and the year started with Lethwei in Japan 7: Yuki. The events are streamed online by FITE TV, AbemaTV in Japan and through television agreements with MNTV in Myanmar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284262-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in ILFJ, Lethwei in Japan 7: Yuki\nLethwei in Japan 7: Yuki was a Lethwei event held on February 21, 2018 at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 38], "content_span": [39, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284262-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in ILFJ, Lethwei in Japan 7: Yuki, Background\nFor the main event, Myanmar rising star Tun Lwin Moe faced UFC, ROAD FC, Pancrase MMA veteran Shunichi Shimizu. Professional wrestler YABU and ZERO 1 athlete Chris Vice competed in the first 100kg bout of the promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 50], "content_span": [51, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284262-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in ILFJ, Lethwei in Japan 8: Samurai\nLethwei in Japan 8: Samurai was a Lethwei event held on June 29, 2018 at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 41], "content_span": [42, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284262-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in ILFJ, Lethwei in Japan 8: Samurai, Background\nThis event marked the ILFJ debut of Myanmar Lethwei Champion Daiki Kaneko and the second fight of heavyweight Chris Vice in the organization. Japanese fighter Tokeshi Kohei defeated Lethwei veteran Saw Gaw Mu Do.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 53], "content_span": [54, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284262-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in ILFJ, Lethwei in Japan 9: Kodo\nLethwei in Japan 9: Kodo was a Lethwei event held on September 13, 2018 at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 38], "content_span": [39, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284262-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in ILFJ, Lethwei in Japan 9: Kodo, Background\nFormer UFC fighter Will Chope made his Lethwei debut against Lethwei veteran Shan Ko. Saw Min Aung vs. Tokeshi Kohei is a rematch from last years Air KBZ Aung Lan Championship that ended in a draw. The event was broadcast live on Japan\u2019s AbemaTV and in Myanmar's MNTV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 50], "content_span": [51, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284262-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in ILFJ, Lethwei in Japan 10: Nori\nLethwei in Japan 10: Nori will be a Lethwei event held on November 14, 2018 at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 39], "content_span": [40, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284264-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Icelandic music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2018 in Icelandic music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284265-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in India\nEvents in the year 2018 in the Republic of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 63]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284265-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in India, Elections\nFollowing elections were scheduled to take place in various states of the country", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 24], "content_span": [25, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284265-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in India, Sports, December\nIn Men's Hockey World Cup 2018 Belgium won the tournament for the first time after defeating the Netherlands 3\u20132 in the final on a penalty shoot-out after a 0\u20130 draw. Defending champions Australia won the third place match by defeating England 8\u20131. [ 4 ]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284265-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in India, Deaths, December\nDecember 17 \u2013 Brigadier Kuldeep Singh Chandpuri, 78, leader in Battle of Longewala, Maha Veer Chakra awardee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284266-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Indian sport\n2018 in Indian sports describes the year's events in Indian sport. The main highlight for this year for India is the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284267-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Indonesia\n2018 (MMXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd\u00a0millennium, the 18th year of the 21st\u00a0century, and the 9th year of the 2010s decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284267-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Indonesia\nDuring that year, Indonesia held multiple international sporting events, including the 2018 Asian Games and the 2018 Asian Para Games. The Indonesian government designated 16 national holidays and 5 religious holidays in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284267-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Indonesia\nIndonesia also suffered major incidents and major natural disasters throughout the year. A string of terrorist attacks occurred throughout Indonesia on May, with the most serious incident occurred in Surabaya from 13-14 May. In terms of natural disasters, the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) recorded a total of 1,999 natural disasters throughout the year, with more than 4,000 deaths. Month of September saw the largest loss of life due to the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, the deadliest earthquake in Indonesia in more than a decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284267-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Indonesia\nMultiple major transportation disasters also occurred on that year. The second deadliest aircraft disaster in Indonesia occurred in October when Lion Air Flight 610 crashed shortly after taking off from Tangerang. One of the deadliest ferry disaster in North Sumatra occurred on June when MV Sinar Bangun sank at Lake Toba. There were also at least two bus disasters that caused more than 20 deaths in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284268-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Indonesian football, League season, Liga 3\nThe second round featured by 16 teams which are the winners and runner-ups from each group of the first round. The second round matches was played from 8\u20139 December 2018. Each winner advanced to third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284270-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Irish television\nThe following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284270-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Irish television\nThe Late Late Toy Show was the most watched programmes on Irish television in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284271-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Israel\nThe following lists events in the year 2018 in Israel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 69]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284273-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Ivory Coast\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Monkbot (talk | contribs) at 00:14, 8 January 2020 (\u2192\u200eDeaths: Task 15: language icon template(s) replaced (1\u00d7);). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284275-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Japan\nThe following is an overview of the year 2018 in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 69]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284276-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Japanese football\nThe 2018 season was the 90th season of competitive association football in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284279-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in K-1\nThe year 2018 was the 26th year in the history of the K-1, an international kickboxing event. The year started with K-1: K\u2019Festa 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284279-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in K-1, K-1 World GP 2018: K'FESTA.1\nK-1 World GP 2018: K'FESTA.1 was a kickboxing event held by K-1 on March 21, 2018 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 41], "content_span": [42, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284279-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in K-1, K-1 World GP 2018: K'FESTA.1, Background\nThis event features six world title fights and an 8-Man Super Featherweight Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 53], "content_span": [54, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284279-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in K-1, K-1 World GP 2018: K'FESTA.1, Background\nWei Rui, came overweight at the weigh-ins and his title was vacated. By winning Koya Urabe was eligible for the title while Wei Rui was ineligible and in case of him winning the title would have become vacant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 53], "content_span": [54, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284279-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in K-1, K-1 World GP 2018: 2nd Featherweight Championship Tournament\nK-1 World GP 2018: 2nd Featherweight Championship Tournament will be a kickboxing event held by K-1 on June 17, 2018 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 73], "content_span": [74, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284279-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in K-1, K-1 World GP 2018: inaugural Cruiserweight Championship Tournament\nK-1 World GP 2018: inaugural Cruiserweight Championship Tournament will be a kickboxing event held by K-1 on September 24, 2018 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 79], "content_span": [80, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284279-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in K-1, K-1 World GP 2018: 3rd Super Lightweight Championship Tournament\nK-1 World GP 2018: 3rd Super Lightweight Championship Tournament will be a kickboxing event held by K-1 on November 3, 2018 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 77], "content_span": [78, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284279-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in K-1, K-1 World GP 2018: K-1 Lightweight World's Strongest Tournament\nK-1 World GP 2018: K-1 Lightweight World's Strongest Tournament was a kickboxing event held by K-1 on December 8, 2018 at the Edion Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 76], "content_span": [77, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki\nThe year 2018 will be the 15th year in the history of the Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Poland. 2018 began with KSW 42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 42: Khalidov vs. Narkun\n'KSW 42: Khalidov vs. Narkun' billed as being \"champion vs. champion\" was a mixed martial arts event held by Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki on March 3, 2018 at the Atlas Arena in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 42: Khalidov vs. Narkun, Background\nChris Fields did not reach Lodz because of storm Emma in Ireland, Iran's Hatef Moeil has stepped in to replace the Irishman and the contest has been switched to heavyweight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 43: Soldi\u0107 vs. Du Plessis\n'KSW 43: Soldi\u0107 vs. Du Plessis' was a mixed martial arts event held by Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki on April 14, 2018 at the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 44: The Game\n'KSW 44: The Game' was a mixed martial arts event held by Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki on June 9, 2018 at the Ergo Arena in Gda\u0144sk, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 44: The Game, Background\nThe original co-main event featured the rematch between Marcin Wrzosek and Kleber Koike Erbst for the vacant featherweight title. However Wrzosek suffered a pectoral muscle tear and was forced out of the rematch. As a result, Marian Ziolkowski stepped in against Erbst in a catchweight fight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 45: The Return to Wembley\n'KSW 45: The Return to Wembley' was a mixed martial arts event held by Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki on October 6, 2018 at the Wembley Arena in London, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 45: The Return to Wembley, Background\nMichal Andryszak got injured, Thiago Silva steps in on short notice to replace Andryszak against James McSweeney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 45: The Return to Wembley, Background\nJohn Smith withdrew from his bout with Akop Szostak. Akop Szostak (3-2) will now face Jamie Sloane, who step in on less than two weeks\u2019 notice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 45: The Return to Wembley, Background\nMax Nunes no-showed KSW's fight week obligations, Lukasz Parobiec steps up on two days' notice to face Wagner Prado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 45: The Return to Wembley, Background\nAkop Szostak vs. Jamie Sloane ruled a no-contest following an accidental eye poke in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 46: Narkun vs. Khalidov 2\n'KSW 46: Narkun vs. Khalidov 2' was a mixed martial arts event held by Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki on December 1, 2018 at the Gliwice Arena in Gliwice, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 46: Narkun vs. Khalidov 2, Background\nBorys Ma\u0144kowski suffered an injury during training and was forced to withdraw from his fight against Bruce Souto. The bout was canceled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284282-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 46: Narkun vs. Khalidov 2, Background\nAlso a severe hand injury forced Gracjan Szadzi\u0144ski to withdraw from his showdown with Marian Zi\u00f3\u0142kowski, Grzegorz Szulakowski stepped in on a short notice to face Zi\u00f3\u0142kowski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight\nThe year 2018 is the 5th year in the history of the Kunlun Fight, a kickboxing promotion based in China. 2018 started with Kunlun Fight 69.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight\nThe events were broadcasts through television agreements in mainland China with Jiangsu TV and around the world with various other channels. The events were also streamed live on the Kunlun Fight app and multiple other services. Traditionally, most Kunlun Fight events have both tournament fights and superfights (single fights).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 69\nKunlun Fight 69 was a kickboxing event held by Kunlun Fight on February 4, 2018 at the Guanshan Lake International Conference Center in Guiyang, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 69, Background\nThis event had the 4-man finals for both the 70\u00a0kg and 100+kg tournaments that were held throughout 2017. Featured on the card were also Kunlun Fight 75\u00a0kg champion Vitaly Gurkov and Buakaw Banchamek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 70\nKunlun Fight 70 was a kickboxing event held by Kunlun Fight on March 11, 2018 at the Mangrove Tree International Conference Center in Sanya, Hainan, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 70, Background\nThis event featured two 4-Man 70-kilogram qualifying Tournaments to earn a spot in 2018 KLF 70\u00a0kg World Championship Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 71\nKunlun Fight 71 was a kickboxing event held by Kunlun Fight on April 1, 2018 at the Mangrove Tree Convention Center in Qingdao, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 71, Background\nThis event featured two 4-Man 70-kilogram qualifying Tournaments to earn a spot in 2018 KLF 70\u00a0kg World Championship Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 72\nKunlun Fight 72 was a kickboxing event held by Kunlun Fight on April 15, 2018 at the Kunlun World Combat Sports Center in Beijing, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 72, Background\nThis event featured two 4-Man 70-kilogram qualifying Tournaments to earn a spot in 2018 KLF 70\u00a0kg World Championship Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 73\nKunlun Fight 73 was a kickboxing event held by Kunlun Fight on May 6, 2018 at the Mangrove Tree International Conference Center in Sanya, Hainan, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 73, Background\nThis event featured a 8-Man 70-kilogram qualifying Tournaments to earn a spot in 2018 KLF 70\u00a0kg World Championship Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 74\nKunlun Fight 74 was a kickboxing event held by Kunlun Fight on May 13, 2018 in Jinan, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 74, Background\nThis event featured a 8-Man 61.5-kilogram Tournaments to earn the 2018 KLF 61.5\u00a0kg World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 74, Background, 2018 KLF 61.5 kg World Championship Tournament bracket\n1Zhao Chongyang was injured and couldn't participate in the second round of the Grand Prix, and was subsequently replaced by reserve fight winner Jiang Feng.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 105], "content_span": [106, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight World Tour: Russia\nKunlun Fight World Tour: Russia was a Mixed martial arts event held by Kunlun Fight and Modern Fighting Pankration on May 26, 2018 at the Platinum Arena in Khabarovsk, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight Macao\nKunlun Fight Macao was a kickboxing event held by Kunlun Fight at the Macau Forum on June 1, 2018 in Macau, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 75\nKunlun Fight 75 was a kickboxing event held by Kunlun Fight on August 5, 2018 at the Mangrove Tree International Conference Center in Sanya, Hainan, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 75, Background\nThis event featured the round of 16 of the 2018 KLF 70-kilogram world championship tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284284-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in Kunlun Fight, Kunlun Fight 75, Background\nSuperbon Banchamek has been forced to withdraw from his scheduled Final 16 bout with Nayanesh Ayman due to an injury. The bout was rescheduled to Kunlun Fight 76. 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The list covers events and releases from Latin regions including Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking areas of Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284288-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Latin music, Best-selling records, Best-selling albums\nThe following is a list of the top 10 best-selling Latin albums (including album-equivalent units) in the United States in 2018, according to Billboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284288-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Latin music, Best-selling records, Best-performing songs\nThe following is a list of the top 10 best-performing Latin songs in the United States in 2018, according to Billboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 64], "content_span": [65, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284290-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Lebanon\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Monkbot (talk | contribs) at 00:12, 8 January 2020 (\u2192\u200eDeaths: Task 15: language icon template(s) replaced (1\u00d7);). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global\nThe year 2018 is the 21st year in the history of the M-1 Global, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 87 - Ashimov vs. Silander\nM-1 Challenge 87 - Ashimov vs. Silander was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on February 9, 2018 at the M-1 Arena in Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 59], "content_span": [60, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 87 - Ashimov vs. Silander, Background\nThis event will feature an interim world title fight for the M-1 Flyweight Championship between Arman Ashimov and Mikael Silander as M-1 Challenge 87 headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 71], "content_span": [72, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 87 - Ashimov vs. Silander, Background\nFinnish welterweight Juho Valamaa got injured and can't fight at M-1 Challenge 87. Levan Solodovnik will take his place against Shavkat Rakhmonov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 71], "content_span": [72, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 88 - Ismagulov vs. Tutarauli\nM-1 Challenge 88 - Ismagulov vs. Tutarauli was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on February 22, 2018 at the Olimpiyskiy in Moscow, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 88 - Ismagulov vs. Tutarauli, Background\nThis event will feature two world title fight, first for the M-1 Lightweight Championship between Damir Ismagulov and Raul Tutarauli as M-1 Challenge 88 headliner, and a Bantamweight pairing between Movsar Evloev and Sergey Morozov for the M-1 Bantamweight Championship as co-headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 74], "content_span": [75, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 88 - Ismagulov vs. Tutarauli, Background\nGiga Kukhalashvili unfortunately got injured 3 week before the event, Khadis Ibragimov steep in to face Stephan Puetz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 74], "content_span": [75, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 89 - Buchinger vs. Krasnikov\nM-1 Challenge 89 - Buchinger vs. Krasnikov was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on March 10, 2018 at the M-1 Arena in Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 89 - Buchinger vs. Krasnikov, Background\nChris Kelades had to withdraw due to visa issues. Oleg Aduchiev will step in as a replacement against Vitali Branchuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 74], "content_span": [75, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 90 - Kunchenko vs. Butenko\nM-1 Challenge 90 - Kunchenko vs. Butenko was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on March 30, 2018 at the M-1 Arena in Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 60], "content_span": [61, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 91 - Swain vs. Nuertiebieke\nM-1 Challenge 91 - Swain vs. Nuertiebieke was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on May 12, 2018 at the Nanshan Culture & Sports Center in Shenzhen, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 61], "content_span": [62, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 91 - Swain vs. Nuertiebieke, Background\nM-1 Challenge 91 was supposed to be held April 21 at M-1 Arena in Saint Petersburg, Russia and featured a M-1 Featherweight Championship. bout between the champion Khamzat Dalgiev and Nate Landwehr, but for unknown reasons the event was canceled the M-1 Challenge 91 event will now be held in Shenzhen, China. The fights from the card Saint Petersburg event will be rescheduled for the upcoming M-1 events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 73], "content_span": [74, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 91 - Swain vs. Nuertiebieke, Background\nDue to visa issues the fight for the undisputed flyweight title between the first M-1 Challenge flyweight champion Aleksander Doskalchuk and the interim champion Arman Ashimov was rescheduled for M-1 Challenge 92.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 73], "content_span": [74, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 92 - Kharitonov vs. Vyazigin\nM-1 Challenge 92 - Kharitonov vs. Vyazigin was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on May 24, 2018 at the M-1 Arena in Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 92 - Kharitonov vs. Vyazigin, Background\nKharitonov win over Vyazigin at M-1 Challenge 95 declared no-contest after the commission gathered by the M-1 Global president Vadim Finkelchtein made the decision to change the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 74], "content_span": [75, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 92 - Kharitonov vs. Vyazigin, Background\nBusurmankul Abdibait Uulu got injured and was replaced by his fellow countryman Aziz Satybaldiev in the fight against Saba Bolaghi", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 74], "content_span": [75, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 92 - Kharitonov vs. Vyazigin, Background\nBair Shtepin got injured and was replaced by Ukrainian Ludwig Sholinyan in the fight against Alexander Osetrov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 74], "content_span": [75, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 93 - Shlemenko vs. Silva\nM-1 Challenge 93 - Shlemenko vs. Silva was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on June 1, 2018 at the Traktor Ice Arena in Chelyabinsk, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 93 - Shlemenko vs. Silva, Background\nThis event has featured a middleweight superfight between the former Bellator Middleweight Champion and Bruno Silva as M-1 Challenge 93 headliner and a Middleweight pairing the champion Artem Frolov and Joe Riggs for the M-1 Middelweight Championship as co-headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 94 - Damkovsky vs. Ismagulov\nM-1 Challenge 94 - Damkovsky vs. Ismagulov was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on June 15, 2018 at the Traktor Ice Arena in Orenburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 95 - Battle in the Mountains 7\nM-1 Challenge 95 - Battle in the Mountains 7 was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on July 21, 2018 at The Mountain in Nazran, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 64], "content_span": [65, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 95 - Battle in the Mountains 7, Background\nAlexander Lunga got injured and was replaced by Zaka Fatullazade in the bantamweight bout against Sergey Morozov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 76], "content_span": [77, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 95 - Battle in the Mountains 7, Background\nAbubakar Mestoev got injured and was replaced by his fellow countryman Khamzat Aushev in the catchweight bout against Jorge Rodrigues Silva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 76], "content_span": [77, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 96 - Mikutsa vs. Ibragimov\nM-1 Challenge 96 - Mikutsa vs. Ibragimov was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on August 25, 2018 at the M-1 Arena in Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 60], "content_span": [61, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 96 - Mikutsa vs. Ibragimov, Background\nMaksim Grabovich was scheduled to face Ruslan Rakhmonkulov at this event. However, Rakhmonkulov missed weight by over 8 pounds and the bout was canceled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 72], "content_span": [73, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 96 - Mikutsa vs. Ibragimov, Background\nMaksim Melnik got injured, Dmitriy Tikhonyuk steps in to replace Melnik against Boris Medvedev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 72], "content_span": [73, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 97 - Bogatov vs. Pereira\nM-1 Challenge 97 - Bogatov vs. Pereira was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on September 28, 2018 at the Basket-Hall Arena in Kazan, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 98 - Frolov vs. Silva\nM-1 Challenge 98 - Frolov vs. Silva was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on November 2, 2018 in Chelyabinsk, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 55], "content_span": [56, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 99: Battle Of Narts 4\nM-1 Challenge 99: Battle Of Narts 4 was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on November 17, 2018 in Nazran, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 55], "content_span": [56, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284294-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 100 - Battle in Atyrau\nM-1 Challenge 100: Battle in Atyrau was a mixed martial arts event held by M-1 Global on December 15, 2018 in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 56], "content_span": [57, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284297-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Malawi\nThis article lists events from the year 2018 in Malawi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 70]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284298-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Malaysia\n2018 in Malaysia is Malaysia's 61st anniversary of its independence and 55th anniversary of Malaysia's formation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284299-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Malaysian football, Domestic Cups, Final\nThe first legs will be played on 8 October 2018, and the second legs will be played on 15 October 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284302-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Mexican television\nThe following is a list of events affecting Mexican television in 2018. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and carriage disputes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284303-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Mexico\nThis is a list of events that happened in 2018 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284304-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Michigan, Population\nIn the 2010 United States Census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 9,883,640 persons, ranking as the eighth most populous state in the country. By 2018, the state's population was estimated at 9,995,915, and the state had become the 10th most populous state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284304-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Michigan, Population\nThe state's largest cities, having populations of at least 75,000 based on 2016 estimates, were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284306-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Montenegro\nThis article lists events from the year 2018 in Montenegro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 78]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284310-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in NASCAR\nIn 2018, NASCAR sanctioned three national series and six regional touring series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284313-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in New York City\nSignificant events in 2018 that occurred in or that pertained to New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284314-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 2018 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284314-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government\n2018 is the first full year of the 52nd Parliament, which first sat on 7 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284315-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Nicaragua\nThe following lists events in the year 2018 in Nicaragua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 75]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284316-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Niger\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Monkbot (talk | contribs) at 00:14, 8 January 2020 (\u2192\u200eDeaths: Task 15: language icon template(s) replaced (2\u00d7);). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284316-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Niger\nThis article lists events from the year 2018 in Niger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 68]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284318-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in North Korea\n2018 in North Korea was marked by attempts by the government to develop its international relationships, particularly in regards to South Korea. In February, North Korean athletes marched alongside their South Korean counterparts under the Korean Unification Flag at the 2018 Seoul Olympic Games. North Korea's Kim Jong-Un met with South Korea's Moon Jae-in three times during the year. Kim also travelled to Beijing to meet with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping, and to Singapore for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284321-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Norwegian football\nThe 2018 season was the 113th season of competitive football in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284321-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Norwegian football\nThe season began in March, and ended in December with the 2018 Norwegian Football Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284321-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Norwegian football, National teams, Norway men's national football team, 2018\u201319 UEFA Nations League C\nDuring the season, the Norway national team played six games in the inaugural edition of the UEFA Nations League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 110], "content_span": [111, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284322-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2018 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship\nThe year 2018 is the 8th year in the history of the ONE Championship, a mixed martial arts, kickboxing and muay thai promotion based in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Kings of Courage\nONE Championship: Kings of Courage (also known as ONE Championship 64) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on January 20, 2018 at the Jakarta Convention Center, in Jakarta, Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Global Superheroes\nONE Championship: Global Superheroes (also known as ONE Championship 65) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on January 26, 2018 at the Mall of Asia Arena, in Manila, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Quest for Gold\nONE Championship: Quest for Gold (also known as ONE Championship 66) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on February 23, 2018 at the Thuwunna Indoor Stadium, in Yangon, Myanmar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Visions of Victory\nONE Championship: Visions of Victory (also known as ONE Championship 67) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on March 9, 2018 at the Axiata Arena, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Iron Will\nONE Championship: Iron Will (also known as ONE Championship 68) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on March 24, 2018 at the Impact Arena, in Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Warrior Series 1\nONE Warrior Series 1 was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on March 31, 2018 in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Warrior Series 1, Background\nThe event was the first in a series that was organized to complement Rich Franklin\u2019s One Warrior Series, a show featuring the ONE Championship Vice President and former UFC middleweight champion, which was created to discover fresh young talent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Warrior Series 1, Background\nRockie Bactol, Kim Woon Kyoom, and Dae Sung Park were announced as the first winners of $100,000+ ONE Championship contracts as overall winners of the reality documentary series at the conclusion of the fight card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Heroes of Honor\nONE Championship: Heroes of Honor (also known as ONE Championship 69) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on April 20, 2018 at the Mall of Asia Arena, in Manila, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Grit and Glory\nONE Championship: Grit and Glory (also known as ONE Championship 70) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on May 12, 2018 at the Jakarta Convention Center, in Jakarta, Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Unstoppable Dreams\nONE Championship: Unstoppable Dreams (also known as ONE Championship 71) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on May 18, 2018 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Unstoppable Dreams, Background\nThis event featured three title fights first a ONE Women's Atomweight Championship bout between the champion Angela Lee and top contender Mei Yamaguchi to serve as the event headliner, secondly a bout for the inaugural ONE Muay Thai Flyweight Championship between Sam-A Kaiyanghadaogym and Sergio Wielzen as co-headliner and finally a bout for the ONE Featherweight Championship, Martin Nguyen makes the first defense of his title against top contender Christian Lee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 74], "content_span": [75, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Pinnacle of Power\nONE Championship: Pinnacle of Power (also known as ONE Championship 72) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on June 23, 2018 at the Olympic Sports Center in Beijing, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 61], "content_span": [62, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Pinnacle of Power, Background\nThis event featured a two title fights first a ONE Flyweight Championship unification bout between two-time champion Adriano Moraes and interim champion Geje Eustaquio to serve as the event headliner, and a bout for the ONE Women's Strawweight Championship between Jingnan Xiong and Laura Balin as co-headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 73], "content_span": [74, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Warrior Series 2\nONE Warrior Series 2 was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on October 11, 2018 in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Spirit Of A Warrior\nONE Championship: Spirit Of A Warrior (also known as ONE Championship 73) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on June 29, 2018 at the Thuwunna Indoor Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Spirit Of A Warrior, Background\nThis event featured a world title fight for the ONE Middleweight Championship, Aung La Nsang of Myanmar makes the first defense of his title against top contender Ken Hasegawa of Japan as ONE Championship: Spirit Of A Warrior headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 75], "content_span": [76, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Spirit Of A Warrior, Background\nThe co-main event featured a Bantamweight bout between top contender Leandro Issa and Roman Alvarez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 75], "content_span": [76, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Spirit Of A Warrior, Background\nThe result of the fight between Sagetdao Petpayathai and Jia Wen Ma was originally a decision win for Petpayathai; ONE FC Competition Committee officially reversed the decision after review Jia Wen Ma is now the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 75], "content_span": [76, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Battle for the Heavens\nONE Championship: Battle for the Heavens (also known as ONE Championship 74) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on July 7, 2018 at the Tianhe Gymnasium in Guangzhou, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 66], "content_span": [67, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Battle for the Heavens, Background\nThis event featured a world title fight for the inaugural ONE Kickboxing Women's Atomweight Championship between Yodcherry Sityodtong of Thailand against Kai Ting Chuang of China as ONE Championship: Battle for the Heavens headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 78], "content_span": [79, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Pursuit of Power\nONE Championship: Pursuit of Power (also known as ONE Championship 75) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on July 13, 2018 at the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Pursuit of Power, Background\nThis event featured a Superfight between top contender from Sweden Zebaztian Kadestam and Agilan Thani of Malaysia as ONE Championship: Pursuit of Power headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 72], "content_span": [73, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Pursuit of Power, Background\nThe co-main event featured a Featherweight Muay Thai bout between top contender Jo Nattawut and Yohann Drai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 72], "content_span": [73, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Reign of Kings\nONE Championship: Reign of Kings (also known as ONE Championship 76) will be a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on July 27, 2018 at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Reign of Kings, Background\nThis event featured a world title fight for the interim ONE Bantamweight Championship, Filipino top contender Kevin Belingon take on the ONE Championship Featherweight and Lightweight champion Martin Nguyen as ONE Championship: Reign of Kings headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 70], "content_span": [71, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Reign of Kings, Background\nThe co-main event featured a Lightweight bout between top contender Shinya Aoki and Shannon Wiratchai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 70], "content_span": [71, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Beyond The Horizon\nONE Championship: Beyond The Horizon (also known as ONE Championship 77) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on September 8, 2018 at the Baoshan Arena in Shanghai, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Beyond The Horizon, Background\nRoman Alvarez had to withdraw due to an injury and is not able to fight against Daichi Takenaka, the bout was canceled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 74], "content_span": [75, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Conquest of Heroes\nONE Championship: Conquest of Heroes (also known as ONE Championship 78) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on September 22, 2018 at the Jakarta Convention Center in Jakarta, Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Kingdom of Heroes\nONE Championship: Kingdom of Heroes (also known as ONE Championship 79) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on October 6, 2018 at the Impact Arena in Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 61], "content_span": [62, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Kingdom of Heroes, Background\nThis event featured a two title fights first a boxing match for the WBC Super Flyweight Boxing Championship between the champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai and Iran Diaz to serve as the event headliner, and a bout for the ONE Kickboxing Women's Atomweight Championship between Kai Ting Zhuang and Stamp Fairtex as co-headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 73], "content_span": [74, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Warrior Series 3\nONE Warrior Series 3 was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on October 11, 2018 in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Pursuit of Greatness\nONE Championship: Pursuit of Greatness (also known as ONE Championship 80) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on October 26, 2018 at the Thuwunna Indoor Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Pursuit of Greatness, Background\nThis event featured a world title fight for the ONE Middleweight Championship, Lebanese top contender Mohammad Karaki take on the ONE Championship Middleweight and Light Heavyweight champion Aung La Nsang as ONE Championship: Pursuit of Greatness headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 76], "content_span": [77, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Heart of the Lion\nONE Championship: Heart of the Lion (also known as ONE Championship 81) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on November 9, 2018 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 61], "content_span": [62, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Heart of the Lion, Background\nThis event featured a world title fight for the ONE Bantamweight Championship title unification, the interim champion Kevin Belingon take on the ONE Championship Bantamweight champion Bibiano Fernandes as ONE Championship: Pursuit of Greatness headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 73], "content_span": [74, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Heart of the Lion, Background\nAngela Lee was expected to face reigning flyweight champion Jingnan Xiong at ONE Championship: Heart of the Lion in an attempt to become the first female two-division champion in ONE Championship. However, on November 5, 2018, Lee revealed that she was forced off the card due to a back injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 73], "content_span": [74, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Warrior's Dream\nONE Championship: Warrior's Dream (also known as ONE Championship 82) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on November 17, 2018 at the Stadium Istora in Jakarta, Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Warrior's Dream, Background\nThis event featured a world title fight for the vacant ONE Welterweight Championship, Swede top contender Zebaztian Kadestam take on the American Tyler McGuire as ONE Championship: Warrior's Dream headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Warrior's Dream, Background\nThe co-main event featured the debut of former Glory Welterweight Champion Nieky Holzken in a catchweight bout against Cosmo Alexandre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Conquest of Champions\nONE Championship: Conquest of Champions (also known as ONE Championship 83) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on November 23, 2018 at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Conquest of Champions, Background\nThis event featured two title fights, first the highly anticipated return of ONE Championship Heavyweight champion Brandon Vera, who returned from a two-year hiatus to face Mauro Cerilli for the ONE Heavyweight Championship as the event headliner. And a bout for the vacant ONE Lightweight Championship between the former champ Eduard Folayang and top contender Amir Khan as co-headliner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Destiny of Champions\nONE Championship: Destiny of Champions (also known as ONE Championship 84) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on December 7, 2018 at the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284323-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 in ONE Championship, ONE Championship: Destiny of Champions, Background\nCharlie Peters was scheduled to face Phetmorakot Wor Sangprapai, but Peters was forced off the card on November 29 he suffered a slipped disk injury during his training. Fellow Englishman Liam Harrison served as Peters replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 76], "content_span": [77, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284327-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Philippine music\nThe following is a list of notable events related to Philippine music in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284327-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Philippine music, Albums released\nThe following albums are to be released in 2018 locally. Note: All soundtracks are not included in this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284328-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Philippine sports\nThe following is a list of notable events and developments that are related to Philippine sports in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284328-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Philippine sports, Events, Mixed martial arts\n\u2013 The country ends the year with five World Champions in Folayang, Vera, Joshua Pacio, Kevin Belingon and Geje Eustaquio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284329-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Philippine television\nThe following is a list of events affecting Philippine television in 2018. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and carriage disputes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284329-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Philippine television, Debuts, 5 (The 5 Network)\nThe following are programs that debuted on The 5 Network:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284329-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Philippine television, Debuts, PTV\nThe following are programs that debuted on People's Television Network:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284329-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Philippine television, Debuts, Other channels\nThe following are programs that debuted on other minor channels and video streaming services:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284329-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Philippine television, Finales, 5 (The 5 Network)\nThe following are programs that ended on The 5 Network:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284329-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Philippine television, Finales, PTV\nThe following are programs that ended on People's Television Network:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284329-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Philippine television, Networks\nThe following are a list of free-to-air and cable channels or networks launches and closures in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284329-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Philippine television, Networks, Stations changing network affiliation\nThe following is a list of television stations that have made or will make noteworthy affiliation switches in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284329-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Philippine television, Networks, Rebranded\nThe following is a list of cable channels that have made or will make noteworthy network rebranded in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284334-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Queensland soccer\nThe 2018 Football Queensland season was the sixth season since NPL Queensland commenced as the top tier of Queensland men's football. This season was also the initial season of the Football Queensland Premier League which occupied the second tier in Queensland men's football in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284334-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Queensland soccer\nBelow NPL Queensland and the FQPL was a regional structure of ten zones with their own leagues. The strongest of the zones was Football Brisbane with its senior men's competition consisting of four divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284334-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Queensland soccer\nThe NPL Queensland premiers qualified for the National Premier Leagues finals series, competing with the other state federation champions in a final knockout tournament to decide the National Premier Leagues Champion for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284334-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Queensland soccer, Men's League Tables, 2018 National Premier League Queensland\nThe National Premier League Queensland 2018 season was played over 26 matches, followed by a finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 87], "content_span": [88, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284334-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Queensland soccer, Men's League Tables, 2018 Football Queensland Premier League\nThe 2018 Football Queensland Premier League was the first edition of the Football Queensland Premier League and is the second level domestic association football competition in Queensland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 87], "content_span": [88, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284334-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Queensland soccer, Men's League Tables, 2018 Brisbane Premier League\nThe 2018 Brisbane Premier League was the 36th edition of the Brisbane Premier League which became a third level domestic association football competition in Queensland with the formation of the Football Queensland Premier League in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284334-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Queensland soccer, Men's League Tables, 2018 Capital League 1\nThe 2018 Capital League 1 season was the sixth edition of Capital League 1 which became a fourth level domestic association football competition in Queensland with the formation of the Football Queensland Premier League in 2018.12 teams competed, all playing each other twice for a total of 22 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284334-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Queensland soccer, Men's League Tables, 2018 Capital League 2\nThe 2018 Capital League 2 season was the sixth edition of Capital League 2 which became a fifth level domestic association football competition in Queensland with the formation of the Football Queensland Premier League in 2018. Following the withdrawal of Redcliffe PCYC prior to the start of the season, the league comprised 11 teams which played each other twice for a total of 20 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284334-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Queensland soccer, Men's League Tables, 2018 Capital League 3\nThe 2018 Capital League 3 season was the sixth edition of Capital League 3 which became a sixth level domestic association football competition in Queensland with the formation of the Football Queensland Premier League in 2018. 11 teams competed, all playing each other twice for a total of 20 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284334-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Queensland soccer, Women's League Tables, 2018 Women's NPL Queensland\nThe 2018 Women's NPL Queensland season was the fourth edition of the Women's NPL Queensland as the top level domestic football of women's competition in Queensland. 14 teams competed, all playing each other twice for a total of 26 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 77], "content_span": [78, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284334-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in Queensland soccer, Cup Competitions, 2018 Canale Cup\nBrisbane-based soccer clubs competed in 2018 for the Canale Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2018 Pig 'N' Whistle Canale Cup. Clubs entered from the Brisbane Premier League, the Capital League 1, Capital League 2 and Capital League 3. The early rounds of the competition were linked to the qualifying competition for the 2018 FFA Cup, where losing teams from successive rounds of the FFA Cup Preliminary Rounds entered in following rounds of the Canale Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 60], "content_span": [61, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284334-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in Queensland soccer, Cup Competitions, FFA Cup Qualifiers\nQueensland-based soccer clubs competed in 2018 in the Preliminary Rounds for the 2018 FFA Cup. The four winners of Seventh Round qualified for the final rounds of the FFA Cup; Cairns FC (representing North Queensland), Gold Coast Knights (representing South Queensland), with Olympic FC and Queensland Lions representing Brisbane. In addition, A-League club Brisbane Roar qualified for the final rounds, entering at the Round of 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284335-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in RXF\n2018 was the 7th year in the history of RXF, the largest mixed martial arts promotion based in Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284335-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in RXF, RXF 30\nRXF 30: Bucharest was a mixed martial arts event that took place on August 20, 2018 at the Sala Polivalent\u0103 in Bucharest, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 19], "content_span": [20, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284335-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in RXF, RXF 31\nRXF 31: Cluj-Napoca was a mixed martial arts event that took place on October 1, 2018 at the Horia Demian Arena in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 19], "content_span": [20, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284335-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in RXF, RXF 32\nRXF 32: Negumereanu vs. Konecke was a mixed martial arts event that took place on November 19, 2018 at the Dumitru Popescu Arena in Bra\u0219ov, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 19], "content_span": [20, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284335-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in RXF, RXF 33\nRXF 33: All Stars was a mixed martial arts event that took place on December 10, 2018 at the Sala Polivalent\u0103 in Bucharest, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 19], "content_span": [20, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation\nThe year 2018 is the 4th year in the history of the Rizin Fighting Federation, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. The season started with Rizin Fighting Federation in Fukuoka. It started broadcasting through a television agreement with Fuji Television. In North America and Europe Rizin FF is available on PPV all over the world and on FITE TV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Background\nNobuyuki Sakakibara announced that Rizin will do 5 events in 2018: May, July, August, September and the December 31st show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 10 - Fukuoka\nRizin 10 - Fukuoka was a mixed martial arts event held by the Rizin Fighting Federation on May 6, 2018 at the Marine Messe Fukuoka in Fukuoka, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 10 - Fukuoka, Background\nBantamweight Grand Prix Champion Kyoji Horiguchi was announced to take on fellow veteran Ian McCall in a much anticipated bout that failed to materialize during the New Years Event. Rounding off the marquee match-ups were the kickboxing phenomenon, Tenshin Nasukawa, taking on DEEP flyweight champion Yusaku Nakamura, and newly-crowned atomweight queen Kanna Asakura, who will face former King of the Cage atomweight champion Melissa Karagianis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 10 - Fukuoka, Background\nYachi Yusuke will face off against UFC-vet Diego Nunes, and the Kunlun Fight strawweight champion Weili Zhang was supposed to face Kanako Murata. However, Zhang suffered an injury on her left shoulder during training and was forced to withdraw from the fight. She was replaced by the former TUF 23 cast member Lanchana Green. This event also saw the return of the former Invicta atomweight champion Ayaka Hamasaki, as well as up-and-coming prospects Manel Kape and Kai Asakura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 11 - Saitama\nRizin 11 - Saitama was a mixed martial arts event held by the Rizin Fighting Federation on July 29, 2018 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 11 - Saitama, Background\nAfter a 9-second knockout victory, Kyoji Horiguchi made a quick turnaround, in a long-awaited rematch against fellow Japanese champion Hiromasa Ogikubo. Ogikubo, the current Shooto bantamweight champion, has not lost since he last faced Horiguchi in 2013. Another rematch took place with Kanna Asakura taking on RENA, who she defeated in the final of the Atomweight Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 11 - Saitama, Background\nOriginally Mirko Cro Cop was scheduled for this event, however on May 21, 2018, while training for a bout in Bellator MMA against Roy Nelson, Crocop suffered multiple injuries to his left leg including an ACL tear, a partial MCL tear, and a LCL sprain. It was revealed that the recovery for these injuries would take a minimum of 5 months, and so he was ruled out of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 11 - Saitama, Background\nOriginally a fight was set between Takanori Gomi and Andy Souwer. However, Souwer was forced to withdrawal due to signing a exclusive contract with ONE Championship. He was replaced by UFC veteran Melvin Guillard at a weight limit of 73.0kg. Guillard weighed in at 73.95kg, forcing the bout to be contested at a catchweight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 11 - Saitama, Background\nOriginally a fight was set between Kai Asakura and Topnoi Tiger Muay Thai. However, Asakura was pulled from the event due to a knee injury and replaced by former Tenkaichi Champion Tadaaki Yamamoto", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 11 - Saitama, Background\nOriginally a fight was set between Rin Nakai and Shizuka Sugiyama. However, Nakai was pulled from the event due to acute nephritis, and the bout was cancelled all together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 12 - Nagoya\nRizin 12 - Nagoya was a mixed martial arts event held by the Rizin Fighting Federation on August 12, 2018 at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 12 - Nagoya, Background\nFormer Jungle Fight Lightweight Champion Bruno Carvalho was expected to headline this event against Yusuke Yachi, but was forced off the card due to an injury. Carvalho was replaced by the undefeated Luiz Gustavo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 12 - Nagoya, Background\nKing Reina takes on veteran Kaitlin Young in a women's featherweight bout. Kiichi Kunimoto will face DEEP Welterweight Champion Ryuichiro Sumimura. Mikuru Asakura (who is Kai Asakura's older brother) is expected to face all-time great, Hatsu Hioki. Former UFC competitor Angela Magana makes her promotional debut against Kanako Murata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 13 - Saitama\nRizin 13 - Saitama was a mixed martial arts event held by the Rizin Fighting Federation on September 30, 2018 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 13 - Saitama, Background\nA champion versus champion affair kicked off the card, as current Pancrase Strawweight Champion Mitsuhisa Sunabe took on reigning DEEP Strawweight Champion Haruo Ochi. Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka looked to continue his winning streak against WSOF/PFL veteran Jake Heun. Brothers Mikuru and Kai Asakura fought Karshyga Dautbek and Topnoi Thanongsaklek, respectively. 4-time K-1 champion Taiga Kawabe made his RIZIN debut against fellow debutant Kento Haraguchi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 13 - Saitama, Background\nMiyuu Yamamoto rematched former King of the Cage Atomweight Champion Andy Nguyen; Nguyen defeated Yamamoto at RIZIN's 2016 New Year Eve card. Manel Kape returned to the RIZIN ring for a 5th time, and faced DEEP Flyweight Champion Yusaku Nakamura. Former Invicta Atomweight Champion Ayaka Hamasaki made her second appearance for RIZIN, this time fighting the current DEEP Jewels Atomweight Champion, Mina Kurobe. UFC veterans Daron Cruickshank and Diego Brandao faced off in a lightweight bout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 13 - Saitama, Background\nMirko Cro Cop returned after a 4-month injury lay-off against DEEP Megaton Champion, Roque Martinez. The first African professional sumo wrestler, Osunaarashi, fought fan-favorite Bob Sapp. The card was headlined by kickboxing sensation Tenshin Nasukawa and Bantamweight Grand Prix Champion Kyoji Horiguchi, in a kickboxing rules bout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin - Heisei's Last Yarennoka!\nRizin - Heisei's Last Yarennoka! was a mixed martial arts event held by the Rizin Fighting Federation on December 31, 2018 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin - Heisei's Last Yarennoka!, Background\nThe card was headlined by former Sengoku, Deep and Pancrase champion Satoru Kitaoka who takes on former Shooto champion Tatsuya Kawajiri in a three-round Lightweight match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 14 - Saitama\nRizin 14 - Saitama was a mixed martial arts event held by the Rizin Fighting Federation on December 31, 2018 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 14 - Saitama, Background\nThe card was headlined by kickboxing sensation Tenshin Nasukawa, who took on multiple weight world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a three-round exhibition boxing match. The match was controversial and drew accusations of match-fixing from both fans and pundits alike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 14 - Saitama, Background\nEmanuel Newton was to face Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka at this event, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was replaced by Brandon Halsey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284336-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in Rizin Fighting Federation, Rizin 14 - Saitama, Background\nRena Kubota was to face Samantha Jean-Francois at this event, but had to withdraw due to Anemia and dehydration. The fight was canceled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284337-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Road FC\nThe year 2018 is the 9th year in the history of the Road Fighting Championship, a mma promotion based in South Korea. 2018 started with Road FC 046 and ended with Road FC 051 XX.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284337-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Road FC, Road FC 051 XX\nXiaomi Road FC 051 XX was an MMA event held by Road FC on December 15, 2018 at the Convention Centre, Grand Hilton Seoul in Seoul, South Korea. The 3rd event 'Road FC 045 XX' of the all-female MMA league Road FC XX was held on the main card. The event streamed live on DAZN in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284337-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Road FC, Road FC 050\nXiaomi Road FC 050 was an MMA event held by Road FC on November 3, 2018 at the Chungmu Gymnasium in Daejeon, South Korea. The event streamed live on DAZN in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284337-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Road FC, Road FC 049: in Paradise\nXiaomi Road FC 049 in Paradise is an MMA event scheduled to be held by Road FC on August 18, 2018 at the Grand Walkerhill Seoul, Seoul", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284337-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Road FC, Road FC 048\nXiaomi Road FC 048 was an MMA event held by Road FC on July 28, 2018 at the Jangchung Gymnasium in Seoul, South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284337-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Road FC, Road FC 047\nXiaomi Road FC 047 was an MMA event held by Road FC on May 12, 2018 at the Cadillac Arena in Beijing, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284337-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Road FC, Road FC 046\nXiaomi Road FC 046 was an MMA event held by Road FC on March 10, 2018 at the Jangchung Gymnasium in Seoul, South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing\nThe 2018 season was the 16th season of competitive kickboxing in Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, Fighters League 2\nFighters League 2 was a kickboxing event produced by the Fighters League that took place on January 27, 2018 at the Sala Polivalent\u0103 in Re\u0219i\u021ba, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, Colosseum Tournament 5\nColosseum Tournament 5 was a kickboxing event produced by the Colosseum Tournament that took place on February 23, 2018 at the Patinoarul Dun\u0103rea in Gala\u021bi, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, SUPERKOMBAT Dream\nSUPERKOMBAT Dream was a kickboxing event produced by the Superkombat Fighting Championship that took place on March 25, 2018, at the Magic Place in Bucharest, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, Colosseum Tournament 6\nColosseum Tournament 6 was a kickboxing event produced by the Colosseum Tournament that took place on April 20, 2018 at the Sala Polivalent\u0103 in Ia\u015fi, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, OSS Fighters 01\nOSS Fighters 01 was a kickboxing event produced by the OSS Fighters that took place on April 20, 2018 at the Sala Sporturilor in Constan\u021ba, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, GFC 4\nGFC 4 (also known as Bulgaria vs. Romania) was a kickboxing event produced by the Golden Fighter Championship that took place on April 28, 2018, at the Varna Palace in Varna, Bulgaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, Colosseum Tournament 7\nColosseum Tournament 7 was a kickboxing event produced by the Colosseum Tournament that took place on May 24, 2018 at the Sala Polivalent\u0103 in Bucharest, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, Dynamite Fighting Show 1\nDynamite Fighting Show 1 (also known as Moro\u0219anu vs. Kemayo) was a combat sport event produced by the Dynamite Fighting Show that took place on July 5, 2018 at the Sala Polivalent\u0103 in Bucharest, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, ACB KB 16\nACB KB 16 (also known as Clash of Titans) was a kickboxing event produced by the ACB that took place on July 13, 2018, at the Unirii Plaza in T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, OSS Fighters 02/GFC 5\nOSS Fighters 02/GFC 5 (also known as Romania vs. China II) was a kickboxing event produced by the OSS Fighters and the Golden Fighter Championship, and co-promoted with Wu Lin Feng. It took place on August 24, 2018, at the Pia\u021beta Cazino in Mamaia, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, Colosseum Tournament 8\nColosseum Tournament 8 was a kickboxing event produced by the Colosseum Tournament that took place on September 17, 2018 at the Sala Polivalent\u0103 in Bucharest, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, APP Fight Night 01\nAPP Fight Night 01 was a kickboxing event produced by the APP Fighting Promotion that took place on October 8, 2018 at the Hotel Lux Divina in Bra\u0219ov, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, Dynamite Fighting Show 2\nDynamite Fighting Show 2 (also known as Battle of Moldavia) was a kickboxing and kyokushin event produced by the Dynamite Fighting Show that took place on October 19, 2018 at the Sala Polivalent\u0103 in Piatra Neam\u021b, Romania. The event was sold out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, Colosseum Tournament 9\nColosseum Tournament 9 (also known as Ghi\u021b\u0103 vs. Poturak) was a kickboxing event produced by the Colosseum Tournament that took place on October 29, 2018 at the BTarena in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, SAS Gym 01\nSAS Gym 01 was a kickboxing event produced by the SAS Gym that took place on November 2, 2018 at the SAS Gym in Bucharest, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, Dynamite Fighting Show 3\nDynamite Fighting Show 3 (also known as Oltenia burns) was a combat sport event produced by the Dynamite Fighting Show that took place on December 14, 2018 at the Sala Polivalent\u0103 in Craiova, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284339-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in Romanian kickboxing, Colosseum Tournament 10\nColosseum Tournament 10 was a kickboxing event produced by the Colosseum Tournament that took place on December 14, 2018 at the Sala Constantin Jude in Timi\u0219oara, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284344-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Saudi Arabia\nThe following lists events in the year 2018 in Saudi Arabia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284345-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Scandinavian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 2018. (Go to last year in Scandinavian music or next year in Scandinavian music.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284347-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Scottish television\nThis is a list of events in Scottish television from 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284348-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Senegal\nThis article is a list of events in the year 2018 in Senegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 77]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284351-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Singapore\nThe following lists events that happened during 2018 in the Republic of Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284355-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 2018 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284355-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in South Africa, Incumbents, National Government, Cabinet\nThe Cabinet, together with the President and the Deputy President, forms part of the Executive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284355-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in South Africa, Predicted and scheduled events\nEvents that are scheduled to occur in 2018 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 52], "content_span": [53, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284355-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in South Africa, Events\nThe following lists events that happened during 2018 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284356-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in South African television\nThis is a list of South African television-related events in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284358-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in South Korean football\nThis article shows the 2018 season of South Korean football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284358-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in South Korean football, K League, Promotion-relegation playoffs\nThe promotion-relegation playoffs were held between the winners of the 2018 K League 2 playoffs and the 11th-placed club of the 2018 K League 1. The winners on aggregate score after both matches earned entry into the 2019 K League 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284358-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in South Korean football, K League, Promotion-relegation playoffs\nFC Seoul won 4\u20132 on aggregate and therefore both clubs remain in their respective leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284359-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in South Korean music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2018 in music in South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284362-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Sri Lanka, Events, November\nNovember-December - Constitutional Court rules that dissolution of parliament was illegal. Mahinda Rajapaksa fails to form a government that commands a parliamentary majority. Mr Wickramasinghe resumes office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284366-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Swedish football\nThe 2018 season is the 121st season of competitive football in Sweden. Sweden participated in the 2018 FIFA World Cup after finishing 2nd in qualifying, and beating Italy in the play-offs. The team reached the quarter-finals, where they were knocked-out by England by the score of 0\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284367-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Swedish music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2018 in Swedish music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284369-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Syria\nThis article lists events from the year 2018 in Syria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 68]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284369-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Syria, Events\nFor events related to the Civil War, see Timeline of the Syrian Civil War (January\u2013April 2018), Timeline of the Syrian Civil War (May\u2013August 2018) and Timeline of the Syrian Civil War (September\u2013December 2018)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284370-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe\nThe following lists events that happened during 2018 in the Democratic Republic of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284371-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Taiwan\nEvents from the year 2018 in Taiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 107 according to the official Republic of China calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284373-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Tamil television\nThe following is a list of events affecting Tamil language television in 2018 from (India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Tamil diaspora). Events listed include television show debuts, and finales; channel launches, and closures; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about changes of ownership of channels or stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284375-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Thailand\nThe year 2018 was the 237th year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It was the 3rd year in the reign of King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X), and was the year 2561 in the Buddhist Era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284378-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Tunisia\nThe following lists events in the year 2018 in Tunisia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 71]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284381-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in UFC\nThe year 2018 is the 26th year in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States and founded in November 1993. This year, the UFC celebrated its 25th anniversary, and an anniversary event was held on November 10, 2018 in Denver, Colorado, the city where the historical UFC 1 was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284381-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in UFC, The Ultimate Fighter\nThe following The Ultimate Fighter seasons are scheduled for broadcast in 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 33], "content_span": [34, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284381-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in UFC, Debut UFC fighters\nThe following fighters fought their first UFC fight in 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 31], "content_span": [32, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284383-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Ukraine, Events, June\nC14 (Ukrainian group) gained international notoriety after reports it was being involved in violent attacks on Romany camps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284384-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in United States politics and government\nEvents in 2018 pertaining to politics and government in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284387-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Venezuela\nThe following lists events that happened during 2018 in Venezuela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284389-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 2018 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284390-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in World Lethwei Championship\nThe year 2018 is the 2nd year in the history of the World Lethwei Championship, a Lethwei promotion based in Myanmar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284390-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in World Lethwei Championship, WLC 4: Bareknuckle-King\nWLC 4: Bareknuckle-King was a Lethwei event held on February 17, 2018 Wunna Theikdi Indoor Stadium in Myanmar's capital, Naypitaw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284390-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in World Lethwei Championship, WLC 4: Bareknuckle-King, Background\nThis event marked the first title defence of middleweight Lethwei world champion Too Too. For the occasion, he faced Ukraine's Vasyl Sorokin, who was one of the fastest rising stars in the world of kickboxing. Sorokin had already been in more than 20 major fights and had recently scored a victory over Thai superstar Sudsakorn Sor Klinmee to earn him the title shot. After 5 rounds, Too Too won by unanimous decision over Sorokin and retained his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284390-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in World Lethwei Championship, WLC 5: Knockout War\nWLC 5: Knockout War was a Lethwei event held on June 2, 2018 in Wunna Theikdi Indoor Stadium in Naypitaw, Myanmar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284390-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in World Lethwei Championship, WLC 5: Knockout War, Background\nArtur Saladiak and Saw Ba Oo contested the main event for the Light Middleweight World LethweiChampionship. Artur Saladiak defeated Saw Ba Oo by knockout to become the first Light Middleweight WLC Champion. Artur Saladiak is Britain's K-1 and Muay Thai champion, with a record of 16 wins, 5 losses and 1 draw. He has been in the Lethwei ring three times, twice with Myanmar's Soe Lin Oo, and once with Alex Bublea from Romania. Saladiak showed impressive Lethwei skills in these fights, grabbing a chance to challenge the WLC's light middleweight world title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284390-0004-0001", "contents": "2018 in World Lethwei Championship, WLC 5: Knockout War, Background\nTaungkalay Lethwei Club's tough warrior Saw Ba Oo, 28, is one of the toughest Lethwei fighters in Myanmar, with 18 wins, 20 draws and 5 losses. The winner will become the WLC's world Lethwei champion in the light middleweight category. Saw Ba Oo's teammate Saw Darwait will go up against Kyaw Zin Latt from the Nine Thaton Lethwei Club for WLC's light welterweight title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284390-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in World Lethwei Championship, WLC 6: Heartless Tigers\nWLC 6: Heartless Tigers was a Lethwei event held on September 29, 2018 at the Thuwunna Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284390-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in World Lethwei Championship, WLC 6: Heartless Tigers, Background\nThis marked WLC's return in Yangon for the first time in 2018, after two events in Myanmar's capital. The event saw the debut of Kun Khmer star Roeung Sophorn who faced off against Myanmar's knockout artist Yan Naing Tun. With a record of 141 wins and 17 losses, the WLC signed Cambodian Sophorn in an attempt to bring the attention of millions of fans in his home country . Pich Mtes Khmang was also in action in a lightweight bout against Mite Yine. In the main event, Lethwei superstar Soe Lin Oo made his WLC return against Zhao Wen Wen of China. Soe Lin Oo defeated Zhao Wen Wen by knockout in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng\nThe year 2018 is the 15th year in the history of the Wu Lin Feng, a Chinese kickboxing promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: World Championship in Shenzhen\nWu Lin Feng 2018: World Championship in Shenzhen was a kickboxing event held on February 3, 2018 in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: World Championship Tianjin\nWu Lin Feng 2018: World Championship Tianjin was a kickboxing event held on February 3, 2018 in Tianjin, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 65], "content_span": [66, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: -60kg World Championship Tournament\nWu Lin Feng 2018: -60kg World Championship Tournament was a kickboxing event held on March 10, 2018 in Jiaozuo, Henan, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: Greece VS China - Gods of War 11\nWu Lin Feng 2018: Greece VS China - Gods of War 11 was a kickboxing event held on March 24, 2018 in Athens, Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: World Championship Shijiazhuang\nWu Lin Feng 2018: World Championship Shijiazhuang was a kickboxing event held on April 07, 2018 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 70], "content_span": [71, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: Czech Republic VS China\nWu Lin Feng 2018: Czech Republic VS China was a kickboxing event held on April 19, 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: World Championship Nanyang\nWu Lin Feng 2018: World Championship Nanyang was a kickboxing event held on May 05, 2018 in Nanyang, Henan, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 65], "content_span": [66, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: World Championship Yichun\nWu Lin Feng 2018: World Championship Yichun was a kickboxing event held on May 19, 2018 in Yichun, Jiangxi, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 64], "content_span": [65, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: Yi Long VS Saiyok\nWu Lin Feng 2018: Yi Long VS Saiyok was a kickboxing event held on June 02, 2018 in Chongqing, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: China vs Netherlands & Russia\nWu Lin Feng 2018: China vs Netherlands & Russia was a kickboxing event held on June 16, 2018 in Shenyang, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 68], "content_span": [69, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: WLF -67kg World Cup 2018-2019 1st Round\nWu Lin Feng 2018: WLF -67kg World Cup 2018-2019 1st Round was a kickboxing event held on June 16, 2018 in Zhengzhou, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 78], "content_span": [79, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: WLF x Krush 90 - China vs Japan\nWu Lin Feng 2018: WLF x Krush 90 - China vs Japan was a kickboxing event held on July 22, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 70], "content_span": [71, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: WLF -67kg World Cup 2018-2019 2nd Round\nWu Lin Feng 2018: WLF -67kg World Cup 2018-2019 2nd Round was a kickboxing event held on August 04, 2018 in Zhengzhou, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 78], "content_span": [79, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: WLF x OSS Fighters - China vs Romania\nWu Lin Feng 2018: WLF x OSS Fighters - China vs Romania was a kickboxing event held on August 24, 2018 in Mamaia, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 76], "content_span": [77, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: WLF -67kg World Cup 2018-2019 3rd Round\nWu Lin Feng 2018: WLF -67kg World Cup 2018-2019 3rd Round was a kickboxing event held on September 01, 2018 in Zhengzhou, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 78], "content_span": [79, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: WLF -67kg World Cup 2018-2019 4th Round\nWu Lin Feng 2018: WLF -67kg World Cup 2018-2019 4th Round was a kickboxing event held on October 06, 2018 in Shangqiu, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 78], "content_span": [79, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: China vs Canada\nWu Lin Feng 2018: China vs Canada was a kickboxing event held on October 13, 2018 in Markham, Ontario, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: WLF -67kg World Cup 2018-2019 5th Round\nWu Lin Feng 2018: WLF -67kg World Cup 2018-2019 5th Round was a kickboxing event held on November 03, 2018 in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 78], "content_span": [79, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: China vs Australia\nWu Lin Feng 2018: China vs Australia was a kickboxing event held on November 04, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: WLF x KF1\nWu Lin Feng 2018: WLF x KF1 was a kickboxing event held on November 07, 2018 in Hong Kong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: WLF -67kg World Cup 2018-2019 6th Round\nWu Lin Feng 2018: WLF -67kg World Cup 2018-2019 6th Round was a kickboxing event held on December 01, 2018 in Zhengzhou, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 78], "content_span": [79, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284391-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in Wu Lin Feng, Wu Lin Feng 2018: WLF x S1 - China vs Thailand\nWu Lin Feng 2018: WLF x S1 - China vs Thailand was a kickboxing event held on December 08, 2018 in Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284393-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Zambia\nThis article lists events from the year 2018 in Zambia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 70]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284394-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in Zimbabwe\nThe following lists events from the year 2018 in Zimbabwe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 75]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284394-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in Zimbabwe, January\n18 - President Mnagagwa announces that observer missions from the Commonwealth of Nations, the European Union, and the United Nations have been invited to monitor the 2018 general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284394-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in Zimbabwe, April\nSibusiso Moyo will be attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2018 as an observer, as Zimbabwe has an intention of reengaging with the international community - including a possible return of Zimbabwe to its status as a Commonwealth republic during 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284394-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in Zimbabwe, July\nInstead, he expressed his wish to vote his long time rival party, the MDC of Nelson Chamisa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284394-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in Zimbabwe, Date unknown\nPresident Mnangagwa has announced that Zimbabwe will seek a return to its membership of the Commonwealth as a Commonwealth republic, which was the case from April 1980 to December 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284395-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in amphibian paleontology\nThis list of fossil amphibians described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of fossil amphibians that were described during the year 2018, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to amphibian paleontology that occurred in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284395-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in amphibian paleontology, New taxa\nA member of Aistopoda. The type species is \"Hylerpeton\" longidentatum Dawson (1876).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284395-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in amphibian paleontology, New taxa\nA frog of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a member of Alytoidea. The type species is E. limoae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284395-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in amphibian paleontology, New taxa\nA relative of Enosuchus. Genus includes new species K. firma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284395-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in amphibian paleontology, New taxa\nA member of the family Albanerpetontidae. The type species is S. isajii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284395-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in amphibian paleontology, New taxa\nAn early tetrapod of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is T. woodi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284396-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in amusement parks\nThis is a list of events and openings related to amusement parks that occurred in 2018. These various lists are not exhaustive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284397-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in animation\nThis is a list of events in animation in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 64]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284398-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in anime\nEvents in 2018 in anime. The final full year of the Heisei era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 77]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284398-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in anime, Releases, Films\nA list of anime that debuted in theaters between January 1 and December 31, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284398-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in anime, Releases, Television series\nA list of anime television series that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284398-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in anime, Releases, Original net animations\nA list of original net animations that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 48], "content_span": [49, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284398-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in anime, Releases, Original video animations\nA list of original video animations that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 50], "content_span": [51, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284399-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in aquatic sports\nThis article lists the in the water and on the water forms of aquatic sports for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284401-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in architecture\nThe year 2018 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology\nThe year 2018 in archosaur paleontology was eventful. Archosaurs include the only living dinosaur group \u2014 birds \u2014 and the reptile crocodilians, plus all extinct dinosaurs, extinct crocodilian relatives, and pterosaurs. Archosaur palaeontology is the scientific study of those animals, especially as they existed before the Holocene Epoch began about 11,700 years ago. The year 2018 in paleontology included various significant developments regarding archosaurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology\nThis article records new taxa of fossil archosaurs of every kind that have been described during the year 2018, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleontology of archosaurs that occurred in the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pseudosuchians, New taxa\nA peirosaurid crocodyliform. Genus includes new species B. neuquenianus. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pseudosuchians, New taxa\nA member of Crocodyloidea. Genus includes new species J. nankangensis. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pseudosuchians, New taxa\nA member of Metriorhynchoidea. The type species is M. fitosi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pseudosuchians, New taxa\nAn early member of Paracrocodylomorpha belonging to the group Loricata. The type species is M. tanyauchen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pseudosuchians, New taxa\nA member of the family Erpetosuchidae. Genus includes new species P. candelariensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pseudosuchians, New taxa\nA member of Eusuchia, possibly the oldest known member of Crocodilia. Genus includes new species P. azenhae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pseudosuchians, New taxa\nA relative of caimans. Genus includes new species P. peligrensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pseudosuchians, New taxa\nA crocodyliform belonging to the family Itasuchidae. The type species is \"Goniopholis\" paulistanus Roxo (1936).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pseudosuchians, New taxa\nA new species of the atoposaurid Theriosuchus and the first known from North America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pseudosuchians, New taxa\nA member of Mesoeucrocodylia of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a neosuchian. Genus includes new species W. egyptensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Non-avian dinosaurs\nMultiple studies were conducted, discoveries made, and taxa discovered related to non-avian dinosaurs, including the Acantholipan in Mexico. Evidence was discovered of cuticle preservation on theropod eggshells from the Nanxiong Group in China and the Two Medicine Formation in Montana, United States is presented by Yang et al. (2018).. A new specimen of Sinovenator changii, including a nearly complete skull and providing new information on the anatomy of the skull of this species, was described from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (China) by Yin, Pei & Zhou (2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Birds, New taxa\nAn early member of Ornithuromorpha. Genus includes new species E. edentulata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Birds, New taxa\nA member of Enantiornithes belonging to the family Avisauridae. The type species is \"Avisaurus\" gloriae Varricchio & Chiappe (1995).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Birds, New taxa\nA basal member of Pygostylia, probably a relative of Chongmingia. Genus includes new species J. perplexus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Birds, New taxa\nA passerine belonging to the group Certhioidea. Genus includes new species K. scandens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Birds, New taxa\nA member of Enantiornithes belonging to the family Avisauridae. The type species is M. eatoni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Birds, New taxa\nAn early penguin; a new genus for \"Waimanu\" tuatahi Ando, Jones & Fordyce in Slack et al. (2006).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Birds, New taxa\nA member of the family Phasianidae. The type species is P. hezhengensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Birds, New taxa\nAn elephant bird. The type species is \"Aepyornis\" titan Andrews (1894). Announced in 2018; the correction including the required ZooBank accession number was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Birds, New taxa\nA passerine of uncertain phylogenetic placement, approximately the size of a great tit. The type species is W. gorskii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Birds, New taxa\nA member of the family Confuciusornithidae. Genus includes new species Y. confucii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pterosaurs, New taxa\nA member of the family Nyctosauridae. The type species is A. elainus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pterosaurs, New taxa\nA member of the family Nyctosauridae. The type species is B. grandis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pterosaurs, New taxa\nA relative of Dimorphodon. Genus includes new species C. hanseni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pterosaurs, New taxa\nAnnounced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2019. Originally described as a species of Coloborhynchus, but subsequently transferred to the genus Nicorhynchus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pterosaurs, New taxa\nA member of the family Rhamphorhynchidae. The type species is K. rochei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pterosaurs, New taxa\nA member of the family Azhdarchidae. Genus includes new species M. maggii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pterosaurs, New taxa\nA pterodactyloid pterosaur; a new genus for \"Pterodactylus\" sagittirostris Owen (1874). Announced in 2017; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pterosaurs, New taxa\nA member of the family Nyctosauridae. The type species is S. robusta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pterosaurs, New taxa\nA pterosaur of uncertain phylogenetic placement, might be a member of the family Pteranodontidae or Azhdarchidae. The type species is T. regalis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pterosaurs, New taxa\nA member of the family Anurognathidae. Genus includes new species V. lamadongensis. Announced in 2017; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Pterosaurs, New taxa\nA member of Azhdarchoidea. The type species is X. curvirostris. Announced in 2017; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284402-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 in archosaur paleontology, Other archosaurs, New taxa\nA member of Dinosauriformes, probably a member of the family Silesauridae. The type species is S. aenigmaticus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology\nThis list of fossil arthropods described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and other fossil arthropods of every kind that were described during the year 2018, as well as other significant discoveries, and events related to arthropod paleontology that are scheduled to occur in the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the family Zarqaraneidae. The type species is A. gracilipes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Deinopoidea and the new family Alteruloboridae. The type species is A. araneoides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA mite belonging to the family Erythraeidae. Genus includes new species B. pankowskii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA mite belonging to the family Smarididae. Genus includes new species B. maryae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the family Zarqaraneidae. The type species is B. amputatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the family Burmascutidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the family Uloboridae. The type species is B. bulla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the family Theridiidae. The type species is B. sinespinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA mite belonging to the family Erythraeidae. Genus includes new species B. joergwunderlichi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nAn arachnid closely related to spiders and to the extinct group Uraraneida. Genus includes new species C. yingi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the family Zarqaraneidae. The type species is C. annulipedes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the family Zarqaraneidae. The type species is C. scutatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the family Zarqaraneidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA scorpion belonging to the family Protoischnuridae. Genus includes new species C. knodeli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the new family Cretamysmenidae. The type species is C. fontana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA mite belonging to the group Prostigmata and to the family Tanaupodidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider of uncertain phylogenetic placement, originally assigned to the family Uloboridae, but subsequently reinterpreted as a member of an early branch of the RTA clade. The type species is E. reliquus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Deinopoidea and the new family Frateruloboridae. The type species is F. bulbosus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA mite belonging to the family Smarididae. The type species is I. chewbaccei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the new family Leviunguidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the new family Leviunguidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the new family Leviunguidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the new family Leviunguidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the new family Leviunguidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the new family Leviunguidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the new family Leviunguidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the new family Leviunguidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the new family Leviunguidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the new family Leviunguidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the new family Leviunguidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the new family Leviunguidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the family Zarqaraneidae. The type species is M. annulatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA member of Thelyphonida belonging to the family Thelyphonidae. Genus includes new species M. knodeli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the family Pholcochyroceridae. The type species is P. incompletus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the family Zarqaraneidae. The type species is P. curvata; genus also includes P. fortis and P. paulocurvata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the family Uloboridae. The type species is P. longisoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Leptonetoidea and the new family Protoaraneoididae. The type species is P. bifurcatum; genus also includes P. bipartitum and P. leni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Leptonetoidea and the new family Protoaraneoididae. The type species is P. cribellatum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA mite belonging to the group Prostigmata and to the family Tanaupodidae. Genus includes new species P. wohltmanni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Leptonetoidea and the new family Protoaraneoididae. The type species is P. longispina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA mite belonging to the family Myobiidae. Genus includes new species P. erinaceophilus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the family Zarqaraneidae. The type species is P. rarus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the family Zarqaraneidae. The type species is R. pauxillus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Araneoidea and to the family Zarqaraneidae. The type species is S. curvimetatarsus; genus also includes \"Hypotheridiosoma\" falcata Wunderlich (2015).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA spider belonging to the group Leptonetoidea and the new family Protoaraneoididae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA pseudoscorpion belonging to the family Chthoniidae. Genus includes new species W. plausus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Arachnids, New taxa\nA whip spider belonging to the group Paleoamblypygi and the new family Weygoldtinidae. The type species is \"Graeophonus\" scudderi Pocock (1911); genus also includes \"Graeophonus\" anglicus Pocock (1911).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA member of Astacidea of uncertain phylogenetic placement, assigned to the new family Amazighopsidae. The type species is A. cretacica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA woodlouse belonging to the family Stenoniscidae. The type species is A. robustus; genus also includes A. mexicanus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Macropipidae. The type species is B. alontensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Leucosiidae. Genus includes new species C. hendyi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab, a member of the family Calappidae. The type species is C. lineamenta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nAn isopod, a species of Cirolana found in association with electric rays belonging to the genus Titanonarke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA hermit crab belonging to the family Schobertellidae. Genus includes new species D. minusculus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab, a member of Grapsoidea of uncertain phylogenetic placement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA hermit crab belonging to the family Diogenidae, a species of Diogenes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA member of Tanaidacea belonging to the group Apseudomorpha. The subgenus includes new species D. chiapasensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the group Raninoida and the family Orithopsidae. The type species is E. gonzagai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab, a member of Dromiacea of uncertain phylogenetic placement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Epialtidae, a species of Hyastenus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA member crab related to Icriocarcinus. Genus includes new species I. tzutzu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Aethridae. Genus includes new species I. guardiae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Inachidae, a species of Inachus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA relative of Tealliocaris. The type species is L. xiaheyanensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Epialtidae. Genus includes new species L. bolcense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Carcinidae. The type species is O. trevisani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Carpiliidae. Genus includes new species O. rotundus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nAn isopod belonging to the family Armadillidae. Genus includes new species P. microsoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA woodlouse belonging to the family Olibrinidae. The type species is P. spinicornis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA woodlouse. The type species is P. mazanticus; genus also includes P. rotundus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Panopeidae, a species of Panopeus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Longodromitidae. The type species is \"Planoprosopon\" thiedeae Schweigert & Koppka (2011).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab, a member of the family Aethridae. The type species is P. zorzini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Mathildellidae. Genus includes new species P. cretacica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA member of Dendrobranchiata belonging to the family Solenoceridae. Genus includes new species P. feitosai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Prosopidae. Klompmaker et al. (2020) considered it to be a junior synonym of Europrosopon aculeatum (von Meyer, 1857).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA member of Tanaidacea belonging to the group Tanaidomorpha. Genus includes new species P. minutus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA member of Glypheoidea belonging to the family Mecochiridae. Genus includes new species R. lophia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the group Heterotremata, possibly a member of the family Eogeryonidae. The type species is R. salesi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Varunidae. The type species is S. kogisorum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA member of the family Luciferidae. Genus includes new species S. marcosi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab belonging to the family Raninidae. The type species is \"Ranina\" propinqua Ristori (1891).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Malacostracans\nA crab, a member of the family Leucosiidae. The type species is Z. vicetinus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Ostracods\nA member of Podocopa belonging to the order Beyrichiocopida and the family Aechminidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Ostracods\nA member of Podocopa belonging to the family Bairdiidae. Originally tentatively assigned to the genus Anchistrocheles, but subsequently transferred to the genus Histriabairdia by Forel & Gr\u0103dinaru (2020).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Ostracods\nA member of Podocopida belonging to the group Bairdiocopina and the family Bairdiidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Ostracods\nA member of Hollinocopida belonging to the family Egorovellidae. The type species is C. rugula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Ostracods\nA member of Hollinocopida belonging to the family Piretellidae. The type species is D. hippocrepicus; genus also includes new species D. claviformis and D. costaventralis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Ostracods\nA member of Hollinocopida belonging to the family Egorovellidae. The type species is G. signata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Ostracods\nA member of Podocopa belonging to the order Podocopida and the family Healdiidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Ostracods\nA member of Myodocopa. The type species is H. retiferus; genus also includes \"Cypridina\" gussevaae Crasquin-Soleau & Baud (1998).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Ostracods\nBrazil\u00a0Gabon\u00a0Hungary\u00a0Israel\u00a0Morocco\u00a0\u00a0Switzerland\u00a0United KingdomPacific Ocean(Mid Pacific Mountains)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Ostracods\nA member of Myodocopa belonging to the family Entomozoidae. The type species is N. striata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Ostracods\nA member of Myodocopida belonging to the family Cylindroleberididae. The type species is S. aurita.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Ostracods\nA member of Podocopida belonging to the superfamily Bairdiocypridoidea and the family Bairdiocyprididae. The type species is W. dushaniensis; genus also includes W. bailouiensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Other crustaceans\nA clam shrimp; a new genus for \"Pseudestheria\" abaetensis Cardoso (1971).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Other crustaceans\nA member of Cyclida. Genus includes new species S. juliae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Other crustaceans\nA clam shrimp belonging to the group Vertexioidea. The type species is U. bounonensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Crustaceans, New taxa, Other crustaceans\nA member of Cyclida. Genus includes \"Cyclus\" miloradovitchi Kramarenko (1961).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Trilobites, New taxa\nA member of the family Phillipsiidae belonging to the subfamily Weaniinae. The type species is \"Carbonocoryphe (Winterbergia)\" amphiro Hahn, Hahn & M\u00fcller (1996); genus also includes \"Carbonocoryphe (Winterbergia)\" sporada Hahn, Hahn & M\u00fcller (2007).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Trilobites, New taxa\nThe type species is D. humphriesi; genus also includes new species D. eppersoni and D. inglei, as well as D. heimbergi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0102-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Trilobites, New taxa\nA member of the family Phillipsiidae belonging to the subfamily Archegoninae. The type species is \"Phillipsia\" granulifera Holzapfel (1889); genus also includes E. aithyia (Hahn, Hahn & M\u00fcller, 2001), E. bathapoikos (Hahn, Hahn & M\u00fcller, 1998) and possibly \"Proliobole\" krambergensis Hahn, Hahn & M\u00fcller (1996).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0103-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Trilobites, New taxa\nA member of the subfamily Cystispininae. The type species is \"Tawstockia\" martini M\u00fcller (2004); genus also includes new species L. sauerlandica and L. weberi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0104-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Trilobites, New taxa\nA member of the family Oryctocephalidae. Genus includes new species L. paiwuensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0105-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Trilobites, New taxa\nA member of the family Phacopidae. The type species is M. renateae; genus also includes M. monachus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0106-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Trilobites, New taxa\nThe type species is M. milsteadi; genus also includes M. knoxi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0107-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Trilobites, New taxa\nThe type species is \"Illaenus\" excellens Holm (1886); genus also includes Neoillaenus atavus (Eichwald, 1857), N. oblongatus (Angelin, 1854), N. kukersianus (Holm, 1886), N. itferensis (Holm, 1886) and N. praecurriens (Jaanusson, 1957).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0108-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Trilobites, New taxa\nA member of the subfamily Cystispininae. The type species is \"Xenadoche\" kalliroe Hahn, Hahn & M\u00fcller (1996); genus also includes X. agenor (Hahn, Hahn & M\u00fcller, 2000), X. elissa (Hahn, Hahn & M\u00fcller, 2000) and X. medusa (Hahn, Hahn & M\u00fcller, 1999), as well as new species X. xenios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0109-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Other arthropods, New taxa\nA member of Thylacocephala (a group of arthropods of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly crustaceans). Originally described as a species of Concavicaris; Broda, Rak & Hegna (2020) made it the type species of a separate genus Paraconcavicaris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0110-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Other arthropods, New taxa\nA member of Aglaspidida. Genus includes new species G. ensifer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0111-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Other arthropods, New taxa\nA possible relative of Sanctacaris. The type species is M. magna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0112-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Other arthropods, New taxa\nA member of Scolopendromorpha of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is P. novokshonovi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0113-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Other arthropods, New taxa\nA member of Scolopendromorpha of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is P. shelleyi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0114-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Other arthropods, New taxa\nA helminthomorph millipede sharing a number of characters with nematophorans. Genus includes new species S. luopingense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0115-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Other arthropods, New taxa\nA millipede belonging to the group Archipolypoda, assigned to the new family Woodesmidae. Genus includes new species W. sheari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284404-0116-0000", "contents": "2018 in arthropod paleontology, Other arthropods, New taxa\nProbably a xiphosuran (order Xiphosura) belonging to the suborder Xiphosurida and the infraorder Belinurina. Genus includes new species X. khakassicus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284405-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in artistic gymnastics\nBelow is a list of notable artistic gymnastics events held in 2018, as well as the medalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284405-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in artistic gymnastics, Season's best scores\nFinalists at the 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships are highlighted in green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284406-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in association football\nThe following were the scheduled events of association football for the year 2018 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284406-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in association football, Events, Women's\nThe final game was called off due to heavy rain and adverse weather conditions. Both The Netherlands and Sweden were awarded first place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284406-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in association football, Fixed dates for national team matches\nScheduled international matches per their International Match Calendar. Also known as FIFA International Day/Date(s).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284406-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in association football, Domestic cups\nIn all tables in this section, the \"last honor\" refers to the champion's previous win in that specific cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284407-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in aviation, Orders and deliveries\nUp from 763 in 2017, Boeing delivered 806 commercial jets in 2018, including 580 B737s and 145 B787s; and won 893 net orders valued at $143.7 billion: 675 B737s and 218 widebodies including 109 B787s and 51 B777s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284407-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in aviation, Orders and deliveries\nAirbus delivered 800 aircraft to 93 customers including 20 A220s (since July 2018), 626 A320, 49 A330s, 93 A350 XWBs and 12 A380s, 11% more than the 718 delivered in 2017; and received 747 net orders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284407-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in aviation, Safety review\nThe EASA reported 530 fatalities in 11 fatal accidents worldwide in 2018 for commercial air transport with large aircraft, up from 67 fatalities in 9 accidents in 2017. The Aviation Safety Network reported 556 fatalities in 15 accidents of commercial aircraft for at least 14 passengers or their cargo variants, excluding military aircraft. The IATA reported an accident rate of 1.35 per million flights, improving from 1.79 for the previous 5-year period, and 0.19 for jets, down from 0.29, with 11 fatal accidents with 523 fatalities for 4.3 billion passengers on 46.1 million flights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284408-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 2018 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284409-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in basketball\nThe following are the basketball events of the year 2018 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284409-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in basketball\nThe following are the basketball events that are expected to take place in 2018 throughout the world. Tournaments include international (FIBA), professional (club) and amateur and collegiate levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284410-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in birding and ornithology, Europe, Britain\nThe British Ornithologists' Union British list stands at 616 species (Category A: 598; Category B: 8; Category C: 10).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284411-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in chess\nMajor chess events that took place in 2018 included the Candidates Tournament, won by Fabiano Caruana, who earned the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2018. Magnus Carlsen won the match on tiebreaks and retained the title of World Chess Champion. There were two Women's World Chess Championship events; the first a match held in May between Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi, won by Ju Wenjun, and the second, held in November, a 64-player knockout tournament where Ju Wenjun defended her title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284411-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in chess, 2018 tournaments\nThis is a list of 15 significant 2018 chess tournaments:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284412-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in classical music\nThis article lists major events and other topics related to classical music in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284413-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in combat sports\nThis article lists the 12 different combat sports and their results for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284414-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in comics\nNotable events of 2018 in comics. See also List of years in comics. This is a list of comics-related events in 2018. It includes any relevant comics-related events, deaths of notable comics-related people, conventions and first issues by title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284415-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in country music\nThis is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284415-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in country music, Top hits of the year\nThe following songs placed within the Top 20 on the Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, and/or Canada Country charts in 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284415-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in country music, Top new album releases\nThe following albums placed on the Top Country Albums charts in 2018:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284415-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in country music, Major awards, CMT Awards\nCMT Artists of the Year (presented on October 17, 2019, in Nashville)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284416-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in cue sports\nIn 2018, championships were held across three continents to determine the best players in major cue sports, including snooker, pool, and English billiards. While these are mostly single player sports, some matches and tournaments are held as either doubles or as team events. The snooker season runs between May and April; the pool and billiards seasons run through the calendar year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284416-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in cue sports\nFour men's adult world championships were held in 2018, Mark Williams won the World Snooker Championship, Joshua Filler holding the WPA World Nine-ball Championship, Sourav Kothari the World Billiards Championship, and Dick Jaspers winning the UMB World Three-cushion Championship. Three women's world championships were also held, with Han Yu winning the WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship, the World Billiards Championship being won by Emma Bonney and Ng On-yee winning the World Women's Snooker Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284416-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in cue sports\nThe snooker Triple Crown featured Ronnie O'Sullivan winning the UK Championship, while the Masters was won by Mark Allen. In pool, the Mosconi Cup was won by the US team, with Skyler Woodward as the most valuable player. Peter Gilchrist won seven events in billiards, while Reanne Evans won six women's snooker events. The events below are professional and pro-am cue sports tournaments from the year of 2018, as well as select amateur snooker events used for qualification to the World Snooker Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284416-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in cue sports, Pool\nThe cue sport pool encapsulates several disciplines, such as straight pool, eight-ball, and nine-ball. Joshua Filler won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship, while the World Cup of Pool was won by China. In events where there was more than one competition, (m) refers to men, (f) to female, (s) to seniors and (u21) refers to under-21 competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284416-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in cue sports, Pool, Euro Tour\nThe Euro Tour is a professional nine-ball series run across Europe by the European Pocket Billiard Federation. The season featured seven events, with six tournaments for each gender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284416-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in cue sports, English billiards\nThe English billiards season ran from August to July. Sourav Kothari and Emma Bonney won the World Billiards Championships for each gender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284416-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in cue sports, Carom billiards\nThree-cushion billiards competitions overseen by the Union Mondal de Billiard (UMB)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284416-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in cue sports, Carom billiards, Three-Cushion World Cup\nThe Three-Cushion World Cup is an annual three-cushion series of tournaments hosted by the UMB. Seven events were held, with the overall winner being Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Caudron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 60], "content_span": [61, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284416-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in cue sports, Snooker\nThe World Snooker Tour season begins in July and ends in May. Mark Williams won his third World Snooker Championship by defeating John Higgins 18\u201316 in the final. Ng On-yee also won her third Women's World Snooker Championship with a 5\u20130 win over Maria Catalano in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284416-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in cue sports, Snooker, Challenge Tour\nThe Challenge Tour is a secondary non-professional snooker tour with events for invited players. Eight tournaments were played from the ten events in the 2018\u201319 season in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284416-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in cue sports, Snooker, World Seniors Tour\nThe World Seniors Tour is an amateur series open to players aged 40 and over. There were four events in the 2018 World Seniors Tour. The World Seniors Championship was won by Aaron Canavan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284418-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series\nThe Rock Band series of music video games supports downloadable songs for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions through the consoles' respective online services. Users can download songs on a track-by-track basis, with many of the tracks also offered as part of a \"song pack\" or complete album at a discounted rate. All songs that are available to Rock Band 3 are playable in Rock Band Blitz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284418-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series\nRock Band 4 was unveiled in March 2015, and released on October 6, 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284418-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series, List of songs released in 2018\nThe following table lists the available songs for the Rock Band series released in 2018. All songs available in packs are also available as individual song downloads on the same date, unless otherwise noted. Dates listed are the initial release of songs on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284418-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series, List of songs released in 2018\nStarting from October 6, 2015, all music added to the downloadable content catalog is exclusive to Rock Band 4. In addition, due to changes in the charting format and gameplay of Rock Band 4, the released songs no longer support keyboard or Pro guitar and bass (future downloadable content will continue to support vocal harmonies and Pro drum charts), and most songs no longer display \"family friendly\" or \"supervision recommended\" ratings. Downloadable content from previous Rock Band titles (excepting The Beatles: Rock Band) is forward-compatible in Rock Band 4 within the same system family (Xbox 360 downloads are usable in the Xbox One version and PlayStation 3 downloads are usable in the PlayStation 4 version) at no additional cost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA brittle star belonging to the order Amphilepidida, the superfamily Ophionereidoidea and the family Amphilimnidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA brittle star belonging to the family Amphiuridae, a species of Amphiura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA starfish belonging to the family Korethrasteridae. The type species is B. fusiliformis", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA brittle star belonging to the family Ophiacanthidae. The type species is B. tolis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA sand dollar belonging to the group Scutelliformes. The type species is C. maquedensis", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA crinoid belonging to the subclass Disparida, to the order Pisocrinida and to the family Pisocrinidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA starfish belonging to the order Kermasida and to the family Permasteridae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA sea urchin belonging to the group Cidaroida and the family Diplocidaridae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA cladid crinoid related to Crotalocrinites. The type species is E. uralicus", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA stalked crinoid, possibly the oldest known member of the family Phrynocrinidae. The type species is E. hessi; genus also includes new species E. bayani, as well as \"Bourgueticrinus\" didymus Schauroth (1855).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA camerate crinoid. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it is not published yet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA starfish belonging to the family Pterasteridae. Genus includes \"Savignaster\" trimbachensis Gale (2011).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA crinoid belonging to the group Disparida. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it is not published yet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA crinoid belonging to the group Cladida. Genus includes new species I. praecursor. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it is not published yet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA stem-sea urchin belonging to the family Proterocidaridae. Genus includes new species L. mirabeti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA basket star belonging to the family Asteronychidae. The type species is L. lamentatiofelium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA starfish belonging to the family Pterasteridae. Genus includes new species L. delsatei", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA brittle star belonging to the family Protasteridae. Genus includes new species L. martini, as well as L. schweitzeri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA basket star. The type species is M. alissawhitegluzae; genus also includes M. arcusinimicus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA crinoid related to Iocrinus. The type species is M. dawanensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA brittle star belonging to the group Ophiurina and the family Ophiopyrgidae. The type species is O. hoybergia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA brittle star belonging to the order Ophiacanthida and the family Ophiotomidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA camerate crinoid belonging to the group Monobathrida. Genus includes new species P. jaanussoni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nAn isorophinid edrioasteroid. Genus includes new species P. tamiformis. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it is not published yet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA crinoid belonging to the group Roveacrinida. Genus includes new species P. sadorfi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA sand dollar belonging to the group Scutelliformes. The type species is \"Abertella\" complanata Brito (1981).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA starfish belonging to the family Asteriidae. The type species is P. janusensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA camerate crinoid belonging to Order Diplobathrida. Genus includes new species P. elegans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA member of Diploporita belonging to the family Aristocystitidae; a new genus for \"Aristocystites\" sculptus Barrande (1887).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA starfish belonging to the family Pterasteridae. Genus includes new species P. amourensis", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA camerate crinoid belonging to the group Diplobathrida and the family Opsiocrinidae. Genus includes new species S. krossi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA heart urchin. The type species is S. caschilii; genus also includes S. arburensis, as well as \"Prospatangus\" thieryi Lambert (1909).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA starfish belonging to the order Hadrosida and to the family Palaeasteridae. The type species is S. keslingi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA pyrgocystid edrioasteroid. Genus includes new species S. lefebvrei. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it is not published yet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA crinoid belonging to the group Cladida. Genus includes new species S. advorsa. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it is not published yet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA starfish belonging to the family Korethrasteridae. Genus includes new species T. fontenoillensis", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA starfish belonging to the family Goniasteridae. Genus includes new species W. intermedius.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284419-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 in echinoderm paleontology, Echinoderms, New taxa\nA member of Edrioasteroidea belonging to the family Agelacrinitidae. Genus includes new species W. poschmanni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284420-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in esports\nList of events in 2018 in esports (also known as professional gaming).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284421-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in film\n2018 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2018, festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284421-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in film, Evaluation of the year\nRichard Brody of The New Yorker said, \"2018 has been a banner year for movies, but you\u2019d never know it from a trip to a local multiplex\u2014or from a glimpse at the Oscarizables. The gap between what\u2019s good and what\u2019s widely available in theatres\u2014between the cinema of resistance and the cinema of consensus\u2014is wider than ever.\" He also stated, \"In some cases, streaming has filled the gap. Several of the year\u2019s best movies, such Shirkers and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, are being released by Netflix at the same time as (or just after) a limited theatrical run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 36], "content_span": [37, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284421-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 in film, Evaluation of the year\nOthers, which barely qualified as having theatrical releases (one theatre for a week), are now available to stream online, on demand, and are more widely accessible to viewers (albeit at home) than films playing at thousands of multiplexes. Yet an impermanence, a threat of disappearance with the flick of a switch, hangs threateningly over independent films that are sent out on streaming.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 36], "content_span": [37, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284421-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in film, Highest-grossing films\nThe top films released in 2018 by worldwide gross are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 36], "content_span": [37, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284421-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in film, Highest-grossing films\nAvengers: Infinity War grossed $2 billion worldwide, becoming the fourth movie to surpass the milestone, and 4th highest-grossing film of all time. Black Panther, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Incredibles 2, and Aquaman have each grossed over $1 billion, making them among the highest-grossing films of all time, with Incredibles 2 becoming the 2nd highest-grossing animated film of all time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 36], "content_span": [37, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284421-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in film, Events, Festivals\nList of some of the film festivals for 2018 that have been accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 31], "content_span": [32, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284421-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in film, 2018 films\nThe list of films released in 2018, arranged by country, are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284422-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in games\nThis page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2018. For video games, see 2018 in video gaming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284423-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in golf\nThis article summarizes the highlights of professional and amateur golf in the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284423-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in golf, Men's professional golf, Other leading PGA Tour events\nFor a complete list of PGA Tour results see 2018 PGA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 68], "content_span": [69, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284423-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in golf, Men's professional golf, Leading European Tour events\nFor a complete list of European Tour results see 2018 European Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284423-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in golf, Women's professional golf, LPGA majors\nFor a complete list of LPGA Tour results, see 2018 LPGA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 52], "content_span": [53, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284423-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in golf, Women's professional golf, Additional LPGA Tour events\nFor a complete list of Ladies European Tour results see 2018 Ladies European Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 68], "content_span": [69, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284423-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in golf, Table of results\nThis table summarizes all the results referred to above in date order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 30], "content_span": [31, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284424-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in gymnastics\nThe following were the events of gymnastics for the year 2018 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284425-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in heavy metal music\nThis is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284426-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in hip hop music\nThis article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284427-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in home video\nThe following films, television shows and miniseries have been released on Blu-ray Disc and/or DVD on the following dates in 2018 in the United States and Canada. Specific details are subject to change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284428-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in ice climbing\nThis article lists the main ice climbing events and their results for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284428-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in ice climbing, World Youth Championships\nThe 2018 UIAA Ice Climbing World Youth Championships were held in Malbun, Liechtenstein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284429-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in jazz\nThis is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284430-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284430-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in literature, New books\nDates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284430-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in literature, Deaths\nBirth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in literature\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology\nThis article records new taxa of fossil mammals that were described during the year 2018, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to the paleontology of mammals in the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Metatherians\nA member of Sparassodonta. Genus includes new species A. leptognathus. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it is scheduled to be published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Metatherians\nA member of Marsupialiformes belonging to the order Archimetatheria and the superfamily Pediomyiodea. The type species is A. marshalli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Metatherians\nA member of Didelphimorphia belonging to the family Protodidelphidae. The type species is B. primigenia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Metatherians\nA member of Sparassodonta belonging to the group Borhyaenoidea. The type species is C. phantasma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Metatherians\nA member of Polydolopimorphia belonging to the superfamily Bonapartherioidea and to the family Prepidolopidae. Genus includes new species C. cardonensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Metatherians\nA member of Stagodontidae. Genus includes new species F. pulveris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Metatherians\nA member of the family Herpetotheriidae. The type species is G. minor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Metatherians\nA member of Stagodontidae. Genus includes new species H. praeceps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Metatherians\nA member of Phalangerida belonging to the new family Miminipossumidae. The type species is M. notioplanetes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Metatherians\nA relative of Anatoliadelphys. The type species is O. nauta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Metatherians\nProbably a member of Polydolopimorphia. Genus includes new species P. ektopos. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it is scheduled to be published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Xenarthrans\nA sloth belonging to the family Megalonychidae. The type species is P. diazgameroi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Xenarthrans\nA sloth belonging to the family Megalonychidae. The type species is U. urbanii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Afrotherians\nA dwarf endemic middle sized elephant from the island of Cephalonia. Athanassiou, van der Geer & Lyras (2019) considered this species to be a junior synonym of the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Afrotherians\nA sirenian of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is S. cardieli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Afrotherians\nAn early member of Embrithopoda. The type species is S. minor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Bats\nA member of the family Palaeochiropterygidae. The type species is A. insularis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Bats\nA species of Mops. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Bats\nA species of Mops. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Bats\nA species of Rousettus. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Bats\nA species of Saccolaimus. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Bats\nA very large fruit bat, larger than all extant fruit bats other than some species of Pteropus and Hypsignathus. Genus includes new species T. harrisi. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Bats\nA New Zealand short-tailed bat. The type species is V. jennyworthyae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Odd-toed ungulates\nA member of the family Equidae. The type species is E. tingae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Odd-toed ungulates\nA member of the family Brontotheriidae. The type species is M. paganus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Odd-toed ungulates\nA member of the family Amynodontidae. The type species is \"Cadurcodon\" zimborensis Codrea & \u015euraru (1989).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Odd-toed ungulates\nA member of the family Equidae belonging to the tribe Hipparionini. The type species is \"Hipparion\" dermatorhinum Sefve (1927).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Even-toed ungulates\nAn early ruminant belonging to the group Tragulina and the family Bachitheriidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Even-toed ungulates\nA member of Suoidea belonging to the family Doliochoeridae. The type species is O. alferezi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Even-toed ungulates\nAn anthracotheriine hippopotamoid. The type species is P. bergeri; genus also includes \"Anthracotherium\" hippoideum R\u00fctimeyer (1857) and \"Brachyodus\" strategus Forster-Cooper (1913).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Even-toed ungulates\nA member of the family Bovidae belonging to the tribe Alcelaphini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Even-toed ungulates\nA member of the family Bovidae. Genus includes new species S. exophthalmon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nA member of Platanistoidea. The type species is A. talen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nA member of the family Cetotheriidae. The type species is C. davidi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nAn early toothed whale, slightly outside the odontocete crown group. Genus includes new species E. osbornei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nA member of the family Monodontidae. Genus includes new species H. japonicus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nA member of the family Iniidae. The type species is K. khoisani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nA member of the family Squalodelphinidae. The type species is M. ukupachai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nAn early baleen whale. The type species is M. nesbittae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nA member of the family Aetiocetidae. The type species is S. meadi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nA cetotheriid-like baleen whale. The type species is T. inouei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nA member of Chaeomysticeti of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is T. guaycurae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nAn archaic baleen whale. The type species is T. waitaki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nA member of the family Kentriodontidae. Genus includes new species W. chinookensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Carnivorans\nAn earless seal belonging to the subfamily Monachinae. The type species is A. atlantica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Carnivorans\nA member of the family Mustelidae belonging to the subfamily Ictonychinae and to the tribe Galictini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Carnivorans\nAn earless seal belonging to the subfamily Phocinae. The type species is \"Monotherium\" aberratum Van Beneden (1876); genus also includes \"Monotherium\" affine Van Beneden (1876).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Carnivorans\nA member of the family Felidae. The type species is K. nightingalei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Carnivorans\nA member of the family Viverridae belonging to the subfamily Paradoxurinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Carnivorans\nA member of the family Mustelidae. Genus includes \"Mustela\" ardea Gervais (1848\u20131852).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Carnivorans\nA relative of the walrus. The type species is N. arandai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Carnivorans\nAn earless seal belonging to the subfamily Monachinae. The type species is \"Monotherium\" gaudini (Guiscardi, 1870).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Carnivorans\nA member of the family Mustelidae belonging to the subfamily Ictonychinae and to the tribe Galictini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Carnivorans\nA species of Panthera. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Carnivorans\nA member of the family Felidae belonging to the subfamily Machairodontinae. The type species is T. adei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Carnivorans\nA relative of the walrus. The type species is T. orangensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Carnivorans\nAn earless seal belonging to the subfamily Monachinae. The type species is V. magurai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of the family Muridae belonging to the subfamily Murinae. The type species is A. aplini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of Muroidea belonging to the subfamily Pappocricetodontinae. The type species is B. dissimile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA relative of the capybara. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA New World porcupine. Genus includes new species C. tetralophodonta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of Erethizontoidea. The type species is K. raimondii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA sigmodontine rodent; a new genus for \"Auliscomys\" formosus Reig (1978).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA caviomorph rodent related to the group Octodontoidea. Genus includes new species L. hartenbergeri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of Octodontoidea of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is M. confluens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of the family Muridae belonging to the subfamily Melissiodontinae. The type species is M. miloshi; genus also includes M. lautus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nPossibly a relative of Reithroparamys. The type species is N. inexpectatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of Arvicolidae. Genus includes new species O. giberti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of the family Muridae belonging to the subfamily Paracricetodontinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of the family Muridae belonging to the subfamily Paracricetodontinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of the family Spalacidae belonging to the subfamily Tachyoryctoidinae and the tribe Pararhizomyini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of the family Spalacidae belonging to the subfamily Tachyoryctoidinae and the tribe Pararhizomyini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA heather vole, the first known European member of the genus Phenacomys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA relative of Zetamys, assigned to the new family Zetamyidae; a possible member of Caviomorpha. Genus includes new species P. mixtecus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of the family Spalacidae belonging to the subfamily Tachyoryctoidinae and the tribe Pararhizomyini. Genus includes new species P. indigenus, P. gansuensis, P. planus and P. pristinus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of Octodontoidea of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is S. paulus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of Erethizontoidea. The type species is S. labocensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of Caviomorpha of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is T. subandinus; genus also includes T. mayoensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of the family Zegdoumyidae. The type species is T. calcareus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Rodents\nA member of Hystricognathi belonging to the new family Tufamyidae. The type species is T. woodi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Primates, New taxa\nA member of the family Omomyidae. Genus includes new species B. cerutti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Primates, New taxa\nA member of the family Omomyidae. Genus includes new species E. walshi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Primates, New taxa\nA member of the family Omomyidae. Genus includes new species G. randalli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Primates, New taxa\nA member of the family Adapidae belonging to the subfamily Caenopithecinae. The type species is N. interdictus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Primates, New taxa\nA member of the family Notharctidae. Genus includes new species R. pulcher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Primates, New taxa\nA member of the family Omomyidae. The type species is W. esmaraldensis; genus also includes W. mcgrewi (Robinson, 1968) and W. shifrae (Krishtalka, 1978).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Other eutherians\nA member of Toxodontidae. Genus includes new species F. aguilerai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Other eutherians\nA relative of Horolodectes. Genus includes new species F. sweeti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Other eutherians\nA basal member of Eutheria. The type species is H. noyon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Other eutherians\nA member of Litopterna belonging the family Macraucheniidae. Genus includes new species L. shockeyi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Other eutherians\nA notohippid notoungulate; a new genus for \"Eomorphippus\" pascuali Simpson (1967).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Other eutherians\nA mesotheriid notoungulate; a new genus for \"Trachytherus\" mendocensis Simpson & Minoprio (1949).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Other eutherians\nA member of the family Leporidae. Genus includes new species S. obscurus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Other eutherians\nA shrew belonging to the subfamily Crocidosoricinae. The type species is S. angustirostris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Other eutherians\nA member of Litopterna belonging the family Macraucheniidae, tentatively referred to the genus Theosodon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Eutherians, Other eutherians\nA relative of Anagale. The type species is Z. ergilinensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Other mammals\nAn early member of Tribosphenida. The type species is B. stardusti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Other mammals\nA member of Haramiyida belonging to the family Hahnodontidae. The type species is C. wahkarmoosuch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Other mammals\nA member of Docodonta belonging to the family Tegotheriidae. The type species is K. yakutensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Other mammals\nA multituberculate belonging to the family Kogaionidae. The type species is L. tholocephalos. Smith et al. (2021) considered it to be a junior synonym of Barbatodon transylvanicus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284431-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 in mammal paleontology, Other mammals\nA member of Eutriconodonta of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is S. aquilonium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284432-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in men's road cycling\n2018 in men's road cycling is about the 2018 men's bicycle races governed by the UCI. The races are part of the UCI Road Calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284432-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in men's road cycling, World Championships\nThe World Road Championships were held in Innsbruck, Austria, from 22 to 30 September 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284432-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in men's road cycling, UCI World Tour\nFor the 2018 season, the UCI World Tour calendar contains the same events as in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284432-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in men's road cycling, UCI Teams, UCI WorldTeams\nThe UCI has granted a UCI WorldTour licence to the following eighteen teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284433-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in modern pentathlon\nThis article lists the main modern pentathlon events and their results for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284434-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 2018 in motorsport, including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284434-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in motorsport, Annual events\nThe calendar includes only annual major non-championship events or annual events that had significance separate from the championship. For the dates of the championship events see related season articles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284435-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in music\nThis topic covers notable events and articles related to 2018 in music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology\nThe year 2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology was eventful. Archosaurs include the only living dinosaur group \u2014 birds \u2014 and the reptile crocodilians, plus all extinct dinosaurs, extinct crocodilian relatives, and pterosaurs. Archosaur palaeontology is the scientific study of those animals, especially as they existed before the Holocene Epoch began about 11,700 years ago. This article records new taxa of fossil archosaurs of the non-avian variety that have been described during the year 2018, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleontology of archosaurs that occurred in the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA member of the family Nodosauridae. Genus includes new species A. gonzalezi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA hadrosaurid ornithopod belonging to the subfamily Lambeosaurinae. Genus includes new species A. arcanus. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA member of the family Ankylosauridae. The type species is A. johnsoni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA mamenchisaurid sauropod. Genus includes new species A. diboensis. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nAn early member of Sauropodomorpha. Genus includes new species B. agudoensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA non-hadrosauriform ankylopollexian ornithopod. Genus includes new species B. perfectus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA titanosaur sauropod. The type species is C. baileywillisi. Announced in 2017; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur belonging to the tribe Nasutoceratopsini. The type species is C. krzyzanowskii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nAn early member of Sauropodomorpha related to Lessemsaurus. Genus includes new species I. prima.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA member of the family Nodosauridae. The type species is I. zephyri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA member of the family Ankylosauridae belonging to the subfamily Ankylosaurinae. The type species is J. sinensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nAn early member of Sauropodiformes. The type species is L. mafube.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nAn early member of Sauropodomorpha related to Unaysaurus. Genus includes new species M. itaquii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA rebbachisaurid sauropod; a new genus for \"Amphicoelias\" fragillimus Cope (1878f).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA member of Stegosauria. Genus includes new species M. exspectabilis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA dicraeosaurid sauropod. The type species is P. faundezi. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA member of the family Ankylosauridae. Genus includes new species P. coombsi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA non-titanosaurian somphospondyl sauropod. Genus includes new species S. astrosacralis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nAn abelisaurid theropod. Genus includes new species T. simonattoi. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA titanosaur sauropod related to members of the group Lognkosauria. The type species is V. simbirskiensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nA small-bodied non-iguanodontian ornithopod. The type species is W. pobeni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284436-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in non-avian dinosaur archosaur paleontology, New taxa\nAn early member of Sauropodiformes. The type species is Y. sunae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany\nThis article records new taxa of plants that are scheduled to be described during the year 2018, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleobotany that occurred in the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Berberidaceae; a replacement name for the previously invalidly published Mahonia sinuata Axelrod (1985), lacking holotype designation when published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Berberidaceae; a replacement name for Ilex sinuata Chaney & Axelrod (1959).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA pollen taxon, possibly a member of the family Loranthaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Aniba; a replacement name for Aniba longifolia Kolakovsky & Schakryl (1958).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Laurales described on the basis of fossil leaves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant described on the basis of fossil leaves, similar to leaves of members of the family Betulaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Vitaceae. Genus includes new species A. dettmannae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Berberis; a replacement name for Berberis lanceolata Givulescu (1985).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Berberis; a replacement name for Ilex ambigua Unger (1847) and Berberis ambigua Kovar-Eder & Kva\u010dek (2004).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA fossil wood showing affinities with members of the genus Berrya. Genus includes new species B. cuddalorensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Bignoniaceae described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species B. americanum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species C. allodapus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Meliaceae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Cladium; a replacement name for Cladium crassum Negru (1972), preoccupied by extant C. crassum (Thwaites) K\u00fckenthal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Clerodendrum; a replacement name for Clerodendrum ovalifolium Baikovskaja in Kryshtofovich & Baikovskaja (1965).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Araceae belonging or related to the subfamily Aroideae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA Trochodendraceae genus. Type species C. kvacekii Manchester, Pigg & Devore (2018) from Oregon C. wehrii Manchester et al. (2018) from Washington state and British Columbia was originally described as a second species of this genus, but subsequently it was transferred to the separate genus Paraconcavistylon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA eudicot of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species C. heteropunctatum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant described on the basis of fossil leaves; a replacement name for the invalidly published Cussoniphyllum Velenovsk\u00fd (1889). Genus includes \"Cussonia\" partita Velenovsk\u00fd (1882).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Cyperus; a replacement name for Dichostylis macrocarpa Mai (1987).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Cyperus; a replacement name for Dichostylis minor Mai in Mai & Walther (1991).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nAn early eudicot; a new genus for \"Carpites\" cordiformis Lesquereux (1892).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Fabaceae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species D. burmensis. The generic name is preoccupied by Diaphoranthus Meyen (1834); Poinar (2019) coined a replacement name Exalloanthum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of fossil leaves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant described on the basis of fossil leaves; a replacement name for the preoccupied Diplophyllum Velenovsk\u00fd & Vinikl\u00e1\u0159 (1929). Genus includes \"Inga\" cottae Ettingshausen (1867), \"Diplophyllum\" cretaceum Velenovsk\u00fd & Vinikl\u00e1\u0159 (1929), \"Hymenaea\" elongata Velenovsk\u00fd (1884), \"Hymenaea\" inaequalis Velenovsk\u00fd (1884) and \"Hymenaea\" primigenia de Saporta in Velenovsk\u00fd (1884).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA fossil wood showing affinities with members of the family Ebenaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Cornales. Genus includes new species E. grandis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a relative of members of the family Dilleniaceae. Genus includes new species E. paleosum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA fossil wood showing affinities with members of the genus Eucalyptus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Euphorbia; a replacement name for Euphorbia cylindrica Negru (1979).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA replacement name for Ficus laurifolia Hosius & Marck (1880).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Ficus; a replacement name for Ficus schimperi Lesquereux (1868).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Ficus; a replacement name for Ficus myrtifolius Berry (1916).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Ficus; a replacement name for Ficus pilosa Ettingshausen (1872).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Ficus; a replacement name for Ficus venusta Saporta (1861).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Ficus; a replacement name for Malpighiastrum venustum Unger (1860).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Ficus; a replacement name for Ficus densifolia Knowlton (1899).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant with affinities to Austrobaileyales or Nymphaeales. Genus includes new species G. portugallicum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Leguminosae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant described on the basis of fossil leaves; a replacement name for the invalidly published Hederophyllum Velenovsk\u00fd (1889). Genus includes \"Hedera\" credneriifolia Velenovsk\u00fd (1882) and \"Hedera\" primordialis de Saporta (1879).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Lythraceae. Originally described as a species of Hemitrapa, but subsequently transferred to the genus Primotrapa by Li et al. (2020).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Hibiscus; a replacement name for the invalidly named Hibiscus splendens Baikovskaja.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA fossil wood showing affinities with members of the genus Hopea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Ericaceae of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes \"Elaeocarpus\" globulus Menzel (1906).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Chloranthaceae. Genus includes new species K. rugosum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, most similar to members of the families Brunelliaceae and Cunoniaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Cunoniaceae. Genus includes new species L. spectabilum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Lauraceae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Laurus; a replacement name for Ficus reticulata Saporta (1863).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of fossil leaves. Genus includes new species L. padillae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Ligustrum; a replacement name for the invalidly named Ligustrum vulgare var. fossilis Baikovskaja.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Pentapetalae of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species L. revoluta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Araceae belonging to the subfamily Lemnoideae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Fagaceae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Fagaceae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Lauraceae. Genus includes new species L. nanningensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Fabaceae belonging to the group Dalbergieae. Genus includes new species L. gunnii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant with affinities to Austrobaileyales or Nymphaeales. Genus includes new species L. choffatii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Lycopus; a replacement name for the invalidly named Lycopus intermedius Dorofeev (1963).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Malus; a replacement name for Malus pulcherrima Givulescu (1980).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Celastraceae described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species M. perforatum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant described on the basis of fossil wood, with a suite of features seen in several families of Malpighiales, Myrtales and Oxalidales. Genus includes new species M. waddellii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Meliosma; a replacement name for Calvarinus reticulatus Reid & Reid (1910).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Menispermaceae described on the basis of fossil leaves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nAn early flowering plant. Genus includes new species N. lingyuanensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA fossil seed with affinities to Austrobaileyales and Nymphaeales. Genus includes new species N. taylorii, N. hopewellense, N. crassum, N. virginiense and N. marylandense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA tupelo; a replacement name for Nyssa maxima Givulescu, Petrescu & Barbu (1997).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Cornales. Genus includes new species O. edenensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Ocotea; a replacement name for Laurophyllum undulatum Weyland & Kilpper (1963).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA monocot similar to members of Amaryllidaceae. Genus includes new species P. billgenseli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Fabaceae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Fabaceae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Apocynaceae described on the basis of fossil wood; a new genus for \"Menendoxylon\" piptadiensis Lutz (1987).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant with affinities to Austrobaileyales or Nymphaeales. Genus includes new species P. hilaris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant with affinities to Austrobaileyales or Nymphaeales. Genus includes new species P. reyi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Trochodendraceae. Genus includes new species P. sternhartae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Photinia; a replacement name for the invalidly named Photinia acuminata Baikovskaja in Kryshtofovich & Baikovskaja (1965).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Pistacia; a replacement name for Pistacia lentiscoides Andre\u00e1nszky & Cziffery in Andre\u00e1nszky (1959).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Pistacia; a replacement name for Pistacia acuminata Reid & Reid (1915).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA Pistacia-like plant described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Annonaceae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant described on the basis of fossil leaves; a replacement name for the invalidly published Grevilleophyllum Velenovsk\u00fd (1889). Genus includes \"Grevillea\" constans Velenovsk\u00fd (1883).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA fossil fruit of uncertain phylogenetic placement; a new genus for \"Anacardium\" peruvianum Berry (1924).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Araceae belonging to the subfamily Lemnoideae. Genus includes new species P. simile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Juglandaceae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Ranunculus; a replacement name for Ranunculus pusillus Dorofeev (1987).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA pollen taxon resembling pollen of members of the genus Pigafetta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant with affinities to Austrobaileyales or Nymphaeales. Genus includes new species R. parvum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Rhododendron; a replacement name for Rhododendron germanicum Mai & Walther (1988).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Chloranthaceae. Genus includes new species R. kvacekii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Polygonaceae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Sambucus; a replacement name for the invalidly named Sambucus palaeoracemosa Baikovskaja in Kryshtofovich & Baikovskaja (1965).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member or a relative of the family Platanaceae described on the basis of fossil leaves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Cyperaceae; a replacement name for the invalidly named Scirpus (Schoenoplectus) isolepioides Mai & Walther (1988).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Scirpus; a replacement name for Scirpus leptocarpus Negru (1986), preoccupied by extant Scirpus leptocarpus Mueller (1855).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Laurales of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species S. lativalva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant with affinities to Austrobaileyales or Nymphaeales. Genus includes new species S. kvacekiorum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Fagales of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species S. cupulata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0102-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Vitaceae; a new genus for \"Vitaceoxylon\" ramunculiformis Poole & Wilkinson (2000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0103-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA phytoclast, possibly a member of Nymphaeaceae. Genus includes S. furcata (Duarte & Arai, 2010).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0104-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA moonseed species. Moved from Diploclisia auriformis (Hollick) Manchester 1994", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0105-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Sterculia; a replacement name for Acer crassinervium Ettingshausen (1869).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0106-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant with affinities to Austrobaileyales or Nymphaeales. Genus includes new species T. hopewellense, T. marylandense, T. drewriense and T. antiquum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0107-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Ericales of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species T. squamata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0108-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA phytoclast. Genus includes new species T. brevifurcatus (probably a member of Campanulaceae), T. duplihelicoidus (affinity unknown) and T. simplex (a dicotyledon of uncertain affinity).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0109-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nTaxon described on the basis of fossil leaves resembling leaves of members of the family Cercidiphyllaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0110-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA eudicot with similarities to members of Dilleniaceae, described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species T. newmexicoense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0111-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Viburnum; a replacement name for Viburnum lantanoides Dorofeev (1977).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0112-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of Cunoniaceae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0113-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA member of the family Menispermaceae described on the basis of fossil leaves. Genus includes new species W. menispermoides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0114-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of fossil leaves. Genus includes \"Dicotylophyllum\" expansolobum Upchurch & Dilcher (1990).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0115-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Zanthoxylum; a replacement name for Zanthoxylum affine Pilar (1883).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0116-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA species of Zanthoxylum; a replacement name for Rutaspermum rugosum Chandler (1964).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0117-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Flowering plants\nA Zelkova-like plant described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0118-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Pinales\nA member of Araucariaceae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0119-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Pinales\nA conifer pollen cone. Genus includes new species C. minutus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0120-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Pinales\nA member of Cupressaceae. Genus includes new species H. cupressoides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0121-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Pinales\nA member of Cupressaceae described on the basis of pollen cones. Genus includes new species M. holbergensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0122-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Pinales\nA pine; a replacement name for Pinus arunachalensis Khan & Bera (2017) (preoccupied by Pinus arunachalensis Srivastava, 2017).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0123-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Pinales\nA pine; a replacement name for Pinus pseudotaeda Saporta (1865).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0124-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Pinales\nA pine; a replacement name for Pinus microcarpa Saporta (1865).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0125-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Pinales\nA pine; a replacement name for Pinus divaricata Saporta (1865).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0126-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Pinales\nA pine; a replacement name for Pinus hokkaidoensis Stockey & Ueda (1986).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0127-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Pinales\nA pine; a replacement name for Pinus deflexa Saporta (1865).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0128-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Pinales\nAn araucarian pollen cone. Genus includes new species R. hispanicus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0129-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Pinales\nA member of Sequoioideae described on the basis of fossil wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0130-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nAn early seed plant. Genus includes new species C. qii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0131-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA pollen taxon, similar to many of the modern cycad pollen types.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0132-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA member of Ephedraceae. Genus includes new species E. chinensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0133-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA cone fossil belonging to the group Cordaitopsida and the family Cordaitaceae. Genus includes new species H. shenii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0134-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA member of Voltziales described on the basis of fossil pollen grains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0135-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA seed plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Interpreted as an early fossil flower by Fu et al. (2018); Coiro, Doyle & Hilton (2019) considered known specimens of this plant to be more similar to conifer cones. Genus includes new species N. dendrostyla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0136-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA member of Bennettitales; a replacement name for Nilssoniopteris angustifolia Wang (1984), preoccupied by Nilssoniopteris angustifolia Doludenko and Svanidze (1969).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0137-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA member of Ginkgoales belonging to the family Cheirocladaceae. Genus includes new species O. ovoides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0138-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA member of Glossopteridales. Genus includes new species P. tayloriorum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0139-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA conifer belonging to the family Podozamitaceae, described on the basis of leaves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0140-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA member of Ginkgoales, described on the basis of leaves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0141-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA member of Ginkgoales, described on the basis of leaves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0142-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA member of Ginkgoales, described on the basis of leaves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0143-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA member of Ginkgoales, described on the basis of leaves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0144-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA member of Pinopsida belonging to the group Cordaitanthales and to the family Rufloriaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0145-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA seed fossil belonging to the group Cordaitopsida and the family Cordaitaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0146-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other seed plants\nA gymnosperm of uncertain phylogenetic placement, belonging to the new order Trisquamales. Genus includes new species T. valentinii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0147-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA moss resembling members of the extant genus Aptychella of the family Pylaisiadelphaceae. Genus includes new species A. fossilis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0148-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0149-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Echinostachyales. Genus includes new species B. candlewaxia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0150-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Echinostachyales. Genus includes new species C. cetenis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0151-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA spore taxon similar to spores of extant members of the families Sphaerocarpaceae, Ricciaceae and Riellaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0152-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA fern belonging to the family Dipteridaceae. Genus includes new species D. repanda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0153-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Echinostachyales and the family Echinostachyaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0154-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Rhyniopsida. Genus includes new species E. gaspiana", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0155-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species E. enigmatica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0156-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA spore taxon; a replacement name for Endosporites parvus\u2009 Men\u00e9ndez (1965).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0157-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0158-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0159-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0160-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0161-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0162-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0163-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0164-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0165-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0166-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0167-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0168-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0169-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0170-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0171-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0172-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Marattiales. Genus includes new species E. christensenioides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0173-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Hypnales of uncertain phylogenetic placement; a replacement name for Hypnum lycopodioides Weber in Wessel & Weber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0174-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA green alga belonging to the group Bryopsidales. Genus includes new species J. bipennatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0175-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae. Genus includes new species K. plaatkopensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0176-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA spore taxon; a replacement name for Leiotriletes tenuis\u2009Azcuy (1975).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0177-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Lycopsida of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species L. chaloneri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0178-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Marsileaceae described on the basis of megaspores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0179-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Echinostachyales. Genus includes new species M. linearifolia and M. attenuatifolia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0180-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales, possibly a member of the family Triploporellaceae. Genus includes new species N. rhaetica, as well as \"Probolocupsis\" sarmeikensis Senowbari-Daryan (2014).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0181-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Lycophytina; a new genus for \"Zosterophyllum\" sichuanensis Geng (1992).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0182-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Echinostachyales and the family Echinostachyaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0183-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Echinostachyales and the family Echinostachyaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0184-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Echinostachyales and the family Echinostachyaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0185-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Echinostachyales and the family Echinostachyaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0186-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA cyathealean tree fern. Genus includes new species R. nishidai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0187-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Echinostachyales and the family Echinostachyaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0188-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Echinostachyales and the family Echinostachyaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0189-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA spore taxon with affinities with the Bryophyta sensu lato.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0190-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0191-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0192-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0193-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA moss belonging to the family Grimmiaceae. Genus includes new species T. crassiphylla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0194-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae. Genus includes new species V. moltenensis and V. gypsensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0195-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0196-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0197-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284437-0198-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleobotany, Other plants\nA member of Equisetopsida belonging to the group Equisetales and the family Equisetaceae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology\n2018 in paleoentomology is a list of new fossil insect taxa that were described during the year 2018, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleoentomology that were scheduled to occur during the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Aepyceratinae. The type species is A. brevicornis; genus also includes A. lingziae, A. elongatus and A. astriatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Tetratomidae. Genus includes new species A. cretaceus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Ripiphoridae. The type species is A. muelleri; genus also includes A. costata and A. fallax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Histeridae. The type species is A. tenax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is A. latus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of Tenebrionoidea belonging to the new family Apotomouridae. Genus includes new species A. fortiscrura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil. The type species is A. scudderi; genus also includes new species A. ovalis, as well as A. packardii (Scudder, 1893), A. provectus (Scudder, 1876), A. deleticius (Scudder, 1893) and A. lacoei (Scudder, 1893).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Curculionidae and the tribe Ceutorhynchini. The type species is B. sontagae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Brentidae, the subfamily Apioninae and the tribe Rhadinocybini. The type species is B. electrinus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Brentidae, the subfamily Nanophyinae and the tribe Nanophyini. The type species is B. crassirostre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is B. cyclops; genus also includes B. tanaops, B. zhenuai and B. glabratus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Endomychidae. Genus includes new species B. albertalleni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Ripiphoridae. The type species is B. nalae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nOriginally described as a member of the family Belidae, but subsequently transferred to the weevil family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is B. jarzembowskii Legalov (2018); genus also includes B. longus Clarke & Oberprieler in Clarke et al. (2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Nemonychidae. The type species is B. kirejtshuki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil, originally assigned to the subfamily Erirhininae and the tribe Arthrostenini; subsequently transferred to the weevil family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. Genus includes new species B. georgei Legalov (2018) and B. setosus Clarke & Oberprieler in Clarke et al. (2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Aepyceratinae. The type species is C. brevirostris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is C. batiatus; genus also includes C. terebrans and C. ursinus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Leiodidae belonging to the subfamily Coloninae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is C. reneae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Endomychidae. Genus includes new species C. tarsalis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of Histeroidea belonging to the new family Cretohisteridae. Genus includes new species C. sinensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Endomychidae. Genus includes new species C. niger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Boganiidae belonging to the subfamily Paracucujinae. The type species is C. cycadophilus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of Cleroidea belonging to the family Thanerocleridae and the subfamily Zenodosinae. Genus includes new species C. fossilis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of Cucujoidea belonging to the family Cyclaxyridae. Originally described as a species of Cyclaxyra; Gimmel et al. (2019) made it the type species of a separate genus Electroxyra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is C. gibbus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is D. gracilirostris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is E. viridescens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Anthribidae belonging to the subfamily Choraginae and the tribe Valenfriesiini. The type species is E. unicus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is E. dentitibialis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Scarabaeidae. Genus includes new species E. beuteli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is E. conicops. The generic name is preoccupied by Elwoodius Colonnelli (2014); Clarke & Oberprieler (2019) coined a replacement name Zimmiorhinus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA soldier beetle belonging to the subfamily Cantharinae. The type species is E. susannaebierae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is E. lophomerus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Curculionidae. The type species is E. brevirostris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of Archostemata belonging to the family Permocupedidae. Genus includes new species F. ultimus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Kateretidae. Genus includes new species F. burmanicum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of Coccinelloidea belonging to the family Anamorphidae. The type species is G. ampeensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is G. brevis; genus also includes G. spinipes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA rove beetle belonging to the subfamily Oxytelinae, tentatively placed in the tribe Coprophilini. The type species is G. planata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of Coccinelloidea belonging to the family Anamorphidae. The type species is G. prutenorum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Nemonychidae and the subfamily Rhinorhynchinae. The type species is G. longitarsis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is H. crassipes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA darkling beetle; replacement name for Hymenorus oculatus Doyen & Poinar (1994).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA soldier beetle belonging to the subfamily Cantharinae. The type species is J. ballingi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Ptiliidae. Genus includes new species K. jason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of Coccinelloidea belonging to the family Anamorphidae. The type species is K. germanicianus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nAn ant-like stone beetle belonging to the stem group of the tribe Scydmaenini. Genus includes new species K. borealis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is L. rastellipes; genus also includes L. barbatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is L. megalops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA soldier beetle belonging to the subfamily Silinae and the tribe Silini. The type species is M. karenae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA sap beetle. The type species is M. typica; genus also includes M. angustitibialis, M. laticollis and M. gracilis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Erotylidae belonging to the subfamily Xenoscelinae. The type species is M. saxonicum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Brentidae belonging to the subfamily Cyladinae. Genus includes new species M. heeri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA soldier beetle known from amber from the Cave of El Soplao. Genus includes new species M. albae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of Tenebrionoidea belonging to the new family Apotomouridae. Genus includes new species M. multispinosus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is M. caviventris; genus also includes M. robustus, M. dentifer and M. diversiunguis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA soldier beetle belonging to the subfamily Cantharinae. The type species is N. dinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA glandulariine ant-like stone beetle. Genus includes new species N. elongata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Aepyceratinae. The type species is N. chenyangi; genus also includes N. albomaculatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is O. binodosus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is O. comans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA soldier beetle. Originally described as a species of Ornatomalthinus; Fanti (2018) transferred this species to the genus Sanaungulus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA rove beetle belonging to the subfamily Paederinae, tribe Lathrobiini and subtribe Medonina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of Coccinelloidea belonging to the family Anamorphidae. The type species is P. viktori.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Endomychidae. Genus includes new species P. foveolatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nOriginally described as an ambrosia beetle; subsequently considered to be unlikely to belong to Curculionoidea by Clarke et al. (2018). Genus includes new species P. femoralis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA soldier beetle belonging to the subfamily Cantharinae. The type species is P. ejersboi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nAn ant-like stone beetle. Genus includes new species P. excavatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Ommatidae belonging to the tribe Brochocoleini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is P. deplanatus; genus also includes P. crenulatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is P. oxycorynoides; genus also includes P. curculionoides and P. cylindricus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Aepyceratinae. The type species is P. beloides. The generic name is preoccupied by Platychirus Agassiz (1846); Clarke & Oberprieler (2019) coined a replacement name Burmophyletis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Ripiphoridae. The type species is P. alissae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nAn auger beetle belonging to the subfamily Dinoderinae. Genus includes new species P. burmaensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA beetle of uncertain phylogenetic placement, assigned to the new family Ponomarenkiidae; a replacement name for Ponomarenkia Yan et al. (2017).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA rove beetle belonging to the subfamily Scydmaeninae and the tribe Cephenniini. Genus includes new species P. carinatum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA rove beetle belonging to the subfamily Piestinae. Genus includes new species P. archaicus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Ripiphoridae and the subfamily Ripidiinae. Genus includes new species P. burmiticus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil. The type species is \"Otiorhynchus\" perditus Scudder (1876).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is R. perplexus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Aepyceratinae. The type species is R. chalybeus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA soldier beetle. Genus includes new species S. curtipennis and S. ghitaenoerbyae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Trogossitidae belonging to the tribe Gymnochilini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Cryptophagidae belonging to the subfamily Atomariinae; a new genus for \"Atomaria\" cretacea Cai & Wang (2013).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Hybosoridae. Genus includes new species S. tridentatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Hybosoridae. Genus includes new species S. cheni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Ripiphoridae belonging to the subfamily Pelecotominae. The type species is S. ruicheni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA water-penny beetle belonging to the subfamily Eubrianacinae. Genus includes new species is S. birmaniasis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA soldier beetle belonging to the subfamily Cantharinae and the tribe Cantharini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA leaf beetle belonging to the subfamily Galerucinae. Genus includes new species T. calcarata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA beetle of uncertain phylogenetic placement; originally described as a whirligig beetle, but subsequently argued to be a member of the family Triaplidae instead. The type species is T. planus; genus also includes \"Triaplus\" sibiricus Volkov (2013).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA rove beetle belonging to the subfamily Staphylininae and the tribe Othiini. Genus includes new species V. adelfiae and V. secretum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0102-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA rove beetle belonging to the subfamily Dasycerinae. Genus includes new species V. burmiticus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0103-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Coleopterans\nA member of the family Endomychidae. Genus was originally named Laima Alekseev & Tomaszewska (2018); however, this generic name turned out to be preoccupied by Laima Gravitis (1981). The type species is Z. andreei (Alekseev & Tomaszewska, 2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0104-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dermapterans\nA member of the family Diplatyidae. Genus includes new species A. leptocercus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0105-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dermapterans\nAn earwig, possibly a member of the family Dermapteridae. The type species is D. corami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0106-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dermapterans\nA member of the family Diplatyidae. Genus includes new species H. cardiophyllus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0107-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dermapterans\nA member of the family Pygidicranidae. Genus includes new species R. calvata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0108-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dermapterans\nAn earwig of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is T. moorei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0109-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dermapterans\nAn earwig, possibly a member of the family Dermapteridae. The type species is V. woodi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0110-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dictyopterans\nA relative of Alienopterus. Genus includes new species A. stigmatica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0111-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dictyopterans\nA relative of Alienopterus or a member of the family Cratovitismidae. The type species is A. ocularis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0112-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dictyopterans\nA relative of Alienopterus. The type species is A. muratai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0113-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dictyopterans\nA relative of Alienopterus. The type species is C. elegans; genus also includes C. vidit \u0160m\u00eddov\u00e1, Vr\u0161ansk\u00fd & Wang in Vr\u0161ansk\u00fd et al. (2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0114-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dictyopterans\nA relative of Alienopterus. The type species is C. brevipes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0115-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dictyopterans\nA cockroach belonging to the family Raphidiomimidae. Genus includes new species F. gracilis and F. qiandaohua, as well as \"Rhipidoblattina\" karatavica Vishniakova (1968).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0116-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dictyopterans\nA relative of Alienopterus. The type species is G. viridifluvius.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0117-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dictyopterans\nA relative of Alienopterus. The type species is M. jinghanae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0118-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dictyopterans\nA cockroach belonging to the family Corydiidae. Genus includes new species N. burmanica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0119-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dictyopterans\nA cockroach. Transferred to the genus Spinaeblattina by Hinkelman (2019).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0120-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dictyopterans\nA relative of Alienopterus. The type species is T. branislav Vr\u0161ansk\u00fd & Wang (2018); genus also includes T. huangi Vr\u0161ansk\u00fd, Mlynsk\u00fd & Wang (2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0121-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dictyopterans\nA relative of Alienopterus. The type species is V. cratocretokrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0122-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the stem group of Lonchopteroidea. The type species is A. lebanica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0123-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of Syrphoidea of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is A. burmensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0124-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the family Ceratopogonidae belonging to the subfamily Leptoconopinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0125-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the family Platypezidae. The type species is B. radicis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0126-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the family Platypezidae. The type species is C. divergens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0127-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the family Platypezidae. The type species is C. biacrosticha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0128-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the family Platypezidae. The type species is C. anomala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0129-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the family Hybotidae. Genus includes new species E. pumilio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0130-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the family Chironomidae belonging to the subfamily Tanypodinae and the tribe Procladiini. Genus includes new species E. hoffeinsorum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0131-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the family Phoridae belonging to the subfamily Sciadocerinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0132-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA non-biting midge belonging to the tribe Tanytarsini. Genus includes new species G. miripes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0133-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of Apsilocephalidae. Genus includes new species I. spinosa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0134-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the family Chironomidae. Genus includes new species L. cynaricaudatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0135-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the family Platypezidae. The type species is L. azari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0136-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA relative of members of the genus Sycorax. Genus includes new species L. dimyi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0137-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the family Ironomyiidae. Genus includes new species M. jiewenae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0138-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of Apsilocephalidae. Genus includes new species M. grimaldii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0139-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of Ptychopteridae belonging to the subfamily Eoptychopterinae. Genus includes new species N. carolinensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0140-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the family Ironomyiidae. The type species is P. gibbera; genus also includes P. burmitica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0141-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA member of the family Phoridae of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is P. dimorion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0142-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA species of Serromyia; a new species established for the specimens originally assigned to the species Serromyia alphea (Heyden, 1870).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0143-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Dipterans\nA species of Sylvicola. The name is preoccupied by Sylvicola punctatus (Fabricius, 1787); Hancock & Kania (2019) coined a replacement name Sylvicola harrisi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0144-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA member of Cimicomorpha, probably belonging to the family Velocipedidae. Genus includes new species A. anthocoroides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0145-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA member of the family Tingidae. The type species is A. ladinica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0146-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA leafhopper belonging to the subfamily Eurymelinae and the tribe Macropsini. The type species is A. obscurus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0147-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA cicada; a new genus for \"Cicada\" aichhorni Heer (1853).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0148-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA member of the family Cydnidae. Genus includes new species C. mixtus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0149-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA relative of scale insects belonging to the family Weitschatidae. Genus includes new species C. longicumulus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0150-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA member of Tingidae. The type species is C. biacantha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0151-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA planthopper belonging to the family Mimarachnidae. Genus includes new species D. trimaculatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0152-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA planthopper belonging to the new family Dorytocidae. Genus includes new species D. ornithorhynchus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0153-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA leafhopper belonging to the subfamily Eurymelinae and the tribe Idiocerini. The type species is E. emarginatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0154-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA froghopper belonging to the family Sinoalidae. Genus includes new species F. xiai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0155-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nAn aphid belonging to the family Isolitaphidae. Genus includes new species H. lancigerens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0156-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA planthopper belonging to the family Mimarachnidae. Genus includes new species J. oligotrichus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0157-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA cicada; a new genus for \"Cicada\" ungeri Heer (1853).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0158-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nAn aphid belonging to the family Juraphididae. Genus includes new species P. munditia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0159-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nA froghopper belonging to the family Sinoalidae. The type species is S. wuhuaensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0160-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hemipterans\nAn aphid belonging to the family Burmitaphidae. Genus includes new species T. caudisetula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0161-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Encyrtidae. Genus includes new species A. schuvachinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0162-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of Apoidea belonging to the family Angarosphecidae. The type species is B. sulcatus; genus also includes B. pilosus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0163-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA chalcid wasp belonging to the new family Diversinitidae. The type species is B. caputaeria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0164-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA wasp belonging to the group Pompiloidea. Genus includes new species B. nuwae, B. fuxii and B. shennongii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0165-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Ichneumonidae. The type species is C. molestus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0166-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA sawfly belonging to the family Xyelydidae. Genus includes new species C. robusta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0167-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA wasp belonging to the family Crabronidae and the subfamily Pemphredoninae. Genus includes new species C. cumcarena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0168-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nKrogmann, van de Kamp & Schwermann in van de Kamp et al.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0169-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Ichneumonidae. Genus includes new species C. tadushensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0170-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of Evanioidea. Genus includes new species C. enervia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0171-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Encyrtidae. Genus includes new species D. vilhelmseni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0172-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA chalcid wasp belonging to the new family Diversinitidae. The type species is D. attenboroughi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0173-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA species of Epyris; a replacement name for Calyoza longiceps Brues (1923).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0174-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Bethylidae; a replacement name for Fushunochrysites eocenicus Hong (2002).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0175-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Bethylidae; a replacement name for Sinibethylus eocenicus Hong (2002).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0176-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of Evanioidea. Genus includes new species E. loculatus and E. latus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0177-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA chalcid wasp belonging to the new family Diversinitidae. The type species is G. barbata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0178-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of Evanioidea. Genus includes new species H. apetiola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0179-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Ichneumonidae. The type species is I. appendicrassum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0180-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Ichneumonidae of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is M. markovici.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0181-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of Apocrita belonging to the superfamily Stephanoidea. The type species is M. lisu; genus also includes new species M. kachin, M. lahu and M. jeannineae Li et al. (2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0182-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nAn ant belonging to the subfamily Aneuretinae. The type species is N. paskapooensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0183-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nKrogmann, van de Kamp & Schwermann in van de Kamp et al.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0184-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Diapriidae. The type species is P. quercyensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0185-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA basal member of Proctotrupomorpha. Genus includes new species P. dolichurus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0186-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA basal member of Proctotrupomorpha. The type species is P. brachyurus; genus also includes P. genalis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0187-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Braconidae belonging to the subfamily Cheloninae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0188-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Ichneumonidae of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is P. bipolarus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0189-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Ichneumonidae, a species of Rhyssella.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0190-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Ichneumonidae, a species of Scambus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0191-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Braconidae. The type species is S. novalatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0192-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of Evanioidea. Genus includes new species S. mira.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0193-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Rotoitidae. Genus includes new species T. pusilla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0194-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Ichneumonidae belonging to the subfamily Labeninae. The type species is T. macrocheirus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0195-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Encyrtidae. Genus includes new species T. cylindrocerus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0196-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Ichneumonidae; a new genus for \"Tryphon\" amasidis Cockerell & LeVeque (1931).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0197-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Pteromalidae. Genus includes new species V. coriaceum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0198-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Ichneumonidae belonging to the subfamily Pimplinae and the tribe Pimplini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0199-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Ichneumonidae belonging to the subfamily Pimplinae and the tribe Pimplini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0200-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nKrogmann, van de Kamp & Schwermann in van de Kamp et al.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0201-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Hymenopterans\nA member of the family Diapriidae. The type species is X. resurrecta; genus also includes X. handschini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0202-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Mecopterans\nA member of the family Orthophlebiidae. Genus includes \"Orthophlebia\" riccardii Petrulevi\u010dius & Ren (2012), \"Orthophlebia\" grandis Martynov (1927) and \"Mesopanorpa\" palmaris Martynova (1948).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0203-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Mecopterans\nA member of the family Permochoristidae; a replacement name for Choristites Hong (2005).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0204-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Mecopterans\nA member of the family Orthophlebiidae. Genus includes \"Orthophlebia\" stigmosa Qiao, Shih & Ren (2012).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0205-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Mecopterans\nA new genus for \"Orthophlebia\" gigantea Tillyard (1933) and \"O.\" haradai Ueda (1991).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0206-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA green lacewing. Genus includes new species A. buryatica and A. pulchella.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0207-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of the family Psychopsidae. The type species is A. triaina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0208-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA relative of antlions and owlflies. The type species is A. lithophorus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0209-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of the family Psychopsidae. The type species is A. scutatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0210-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA relative of antlions and owlflies. The type species is B. tubulifer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0211-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of the family Kalligrammatidae belonging to the subfamily Cretanallachiinae. The type species is B. liui.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0212-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of the family Kalligrammatidae belonging to the subfamily Cretanallachiinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0213-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of the stem group of Myrmeleontiformia. The type species is C. huangi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0214-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of the family Kalligrammatidae belonging to the subfamily Cretanallachiinae. The type species is C. engeli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0215-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA relative of antlions and owlflies. The type species is D. papillatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0216-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA relative of antlions and owlflies. The type species is E. xui.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0217-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of the family Mantispidae. Genus includes new species L. benmaddoxi. The original generic name, Longicollum, turned out to be preoccupied by Longicollum Yamaguti (1935), necessitating creation of a replacement name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0218-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of the stem group of Myrmeleontiformia. The type species is M. electrina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0219-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA relative of antlions and owlflies. The type species is M. unguiculatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0220-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of the family Nymphidae. The type species is N. progenitor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0221-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of Psychopsoidea, possibly belonging to the family Kalligrammatidae. Genus includes new species O. penniformis Chang et al. (2018) and O. grandis Liu et al. (2018), as well as \"Burmopsychops\" groehni Makarkin (2017).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0222-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of the family Panfiloviidae. Genus includes new species O. bonata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0223-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of the family Mantispidae. Genus includes new species O. abbottae, as well as \"Mesithone\" monstruosa Khramov (2013).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0224-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of Chrysopoidea. The type species is P. huangi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0225-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of the family Sisyridae. The type species is S. pennyi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0226-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of Chrysopoidea of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is T. ovoruptora.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0227-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Neuropterans\nA member of the superfamily Chrysopoidea. The type species is T. melqart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0228-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Odonatans\nA member of Epiprocta belonging to the superfamily Heterophlebioidea and to the family Anglophlebiidae. The type species is \"Liassophlebia\" gigantea Zeuner (1962).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0229-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Odonatans\nA damsel-dragonfly belonging to the family Campterophlebiidae. Genus includes new species H. xui.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0230-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Odonatans\nA damsel-dragonfly belonging to the group Isophlebioptera and the family Selenothemistidae. The type species is J. incompletus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0231-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Odonatans\nA damsel-dragonfly belonging to the family Campterophlebiidae. The type species is \"Petrophlebia\" anglicanopsis Zeuner (1962).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0232-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Odonatans\nA damselfly belonging to the family Synlestidae. The type species is M. delpueblo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0233-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Odonatans\nA damselfly belonging to the group Pseudostigmatoidea. Genus includes new species P. deltoides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0234-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Odonatans\nA dragonfly belonging to the family Progobiaeshnidae. Genus includes new species P. liaoningensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0235-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Odonatans\nA damsel-dragonfly belonging to the family Campterophlebiidae. Genus includes new species P. azari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0236-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Odonatans\nA member of Epiprocta belonging to the superfamily Heterophlebioidea and to the family Liassophlebiidae. The type species is \"Liassophlebia\" jacksoni Zeuner (1962).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0237-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Odonatans\nA damsel-dragonfly belonging to the group Isophlebioptera and the family Selenothemistidae. Genus includes new species S. difficilis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0238-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Odonatans\nA damselfly belonging to the family Ponomarenkiidae. Genus includes new species T. transbaikalica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0239-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Orthopterans\nA member of the family Elcanidae. Genus includes new species C. virginiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0240-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Orthopterans\nA member of the family Tridactylidae. Genus includes new species C. lobiferus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0241-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Orthopterans\nA member of the family Elcanidae. Genus includes new species E. diana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0242-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Orthopterans\nA member of Orthoptera belonging to the family Elcanidae. Genus includes new species J. yanensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0243-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Orthopterans\nA member of the family Prophalangopsidae belonging to the subfamily Termitidiinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0244-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Plecopterans\nA member of the family Taeniopterygidae. Genus includes new species B. dui.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0245-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Plecopterans\nA member of Plecoptera belonging to the family Leuctridae. Genus includes new species B. foraminis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0246-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Plecopterans\nA member of Plecoptera belonging to the family Perlidae. The type species is E. ronwoodi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0247-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Plecopterans\nA member of Plecoptera belonging to the family Leuctridae. Genus includes new species E. gillesi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0248-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Plecopterans\nA member of Plecoptera belonging to the group Arctoperlaria, assigned to the new family Petroperlidae. The type species is L. keithrichardsi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0249-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Plecopterans\nA member of Plecoptera belonging to the family Perlidae. Genus includes new species L. acus Chen, Wang & Du (2018), L. arcus Chen, Wang & Du (2018), L. flata Chen, Wang & Du (2018), L. difformitatem Chen (2018), L. dewalti Chen (2018), L. borisi Chen (2018), L. charliewattsi Sroka, Staniczek & Staniczek (2018), L. brianjonesi Sroka, Staniczek & Staniczek (2018), L. micktaylori Sroka, Staniczek & Staniczek (2018), L. billwymani Sroka, Staniczek & Staniczek (2018) and L. crassus Chen (2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0250-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Plecopterans\nA member of Plecoptera belonging to the family Notonemouridae. The type species is P. zwicki; genus also includes \"Perlariopsis\" fidelis Sinitshenkova (1987).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0251-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Plecopterans\nA member of Plecoptera belonging to the group Arctoperlaria, assigned to the new family Petroperlidae. The type species is P. mickjaggeri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0252-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Plecopterans\nA member of Plecoptera belonging to the family Perlidae. Genus includes new species P. yangzhouensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0253-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Trichopterans\nA member of the family Calamoceratidae. Genus includes new species A. mixtus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0254-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Trichopterans\nA member of the family Necrotauliidae. The type species is \"Orthophlebia\" furcata Giebel (1856); genus also includes new species A. haustrum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0255-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Trichopterans\nA member of Integripalpia belonging to the family Dysoneuridae. Genus includes new species B. comosa and B. palpsfurcata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0256-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Trichopterans\nA member of the family Calamoceratidae. Genus includes new species C. revolutionaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0257-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Trichopterans\nA member of the family Calamoceratidae. The type species is C. dongi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0258-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Trichopterans\nA member of Integripalpia belonging to the family Dysoneuridae. Genus includes new species C. circula,C. elegans and C. insueta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0259-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Trichopterans\nA member of the family Philopotamidae. The type species is K. piotri. The generic name is preoccupied by Kempia Mathews (1912), Kempia Kieffer (1913) and Kempia Preston (1913).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0260-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Trichopterans\nA caddisfly of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species L. yinani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0261-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Trichopterans\nA member of the family Philopotamidae. The type species is M. paradoxa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0262-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Trichopterans\nA member of the family Limnephilidae. Genus includes new species M. silvacaliginosus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0263-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Trichopterans\nA member of the family Philorheithridae. Genus includes new species P. sibiricus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0264-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Trichopterans\nA member of the family Polycentropodidae. The type species is P. eskovi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0265-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Cnemidolestida/Cnemidolestodea (an extinct group of insects of uncertain phylogenetic placement, might be related to plecopterans or orthopterans) belonging to the family Sylvabestiidae. Genus includes new species A. kichineis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0266-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Psocodea belonging to the family Psyllipsocidae. Genus includes new species A. andreneli and A. inexspectatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0267-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA lepidopteran, probably a member of the family Crambidae. The type species is B. yantarnia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0268-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Megasecoptera belonging to the family Protohymenidae. Genus includes new species C. testai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0269-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Polyneoptera belonging to the group Eoblattida and the family Blattogryllidae. The type species is C. taschi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0270-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Paraneoptera belonging to the group Permopsocida and the family Archipsyllidae. Genus includes new species D. semota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0271-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of the family Lepidopsocidae, a species of Echmepteryx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0272-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Phasmatodea belonging to the group Euphasmatodea. Genus includes new species E. stictum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0273-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA lepidopteran, probably a member of the family Pyralidae. The type species is E. morsae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0274-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Polyneoptera belonging to the group Eoblattida. Genus includes new species I. attrepida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0275-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Cnemidolestida/Cnemidolestodea belonging to the new family Issatermitidae. Genus includes new species I. parvus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0276-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Polyneoptera belonging to the group Reculida; a replacement name for Kargalia Aristov (2009).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0277-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA thrips belonging to the family Merothripidae. The type species is M. pankowskiorum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0278-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Archaeognatha belonging to the family Meinertellidae. The type species is N. wenxuani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0279-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA collective group name for Lepidoptera fossils that cannot be placed with certainty in any known family. Includes Tortrix? florissantana Cockerell (1907), Tortrix? destructus Cockerell (1916) and \"Tortricites\" sadilenkoi Kozlov (1988).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0280-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Psocodea belonging to the group Trogiomorpha and to the family Trogiidae. Genus includes new species P. fushunensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0281-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA mayfly belonging to the family Prosopistomatidae. Genus includes new species P. rectivenius.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0282-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Amphiesmenoptera belonging to the group Tarachoptera. Genus includes new species R. longella, R. minimella and R. tyloptera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0283-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Polyneoptera belonging to the group Reculida and the family Geinitziidae. The type species is S. batkenicus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0284-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Polyneoptera belonging to the group Reculida and the family Geinitziidae. The type species is S. kirgizicus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0285-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Polyneoptera belonging to the group Reculida and the family Geinitziidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0286-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Cnemidolestida/Cnemidolestodea belonging to the family Sylvabestiidae. Genus includes new species S. nana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0287-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA snakefly belonging to the family Mesoraphidiidae. Genus includes \"Alloraphidia\" obliquivenatica Ren (1994) and a new species S. longioccipitalis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0288-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Polyneoptera belonging to the group Reculida. Genus includes new species T. artenatis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0289-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Cnemidolestida/Cnemidolestodea belonging to the family Tillyardembiidae. Genus includes new species U. udmurtica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0290-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Archaeognatha belonging to the family Meinertellidae. The type species is U. abundus; genus also includes U. bellus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0291-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Palaeodictyoptera belonging to the family Breyeriidae. Genus includes new species V. sassoonae, as well as \"Breyeria\" harlemensis Brauckmann & Gr\u00f6ning (1996).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0292-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Cnemidolestida/Cnemidolestodea belonging to the family Sylvabestiidae. Genus includes new species V. pyriformis and V. laxa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284438-0293-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoentomology, Newly named taxa, Other insects\nA member of Cnemidolestida/Cnemidolestodea belonging to the family Sylvabestiidae. Genus includes new species V. pictus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology\nThis list of fossil fish described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, acanthodians, fossil cartilaginous fish, bony fish, and other fish of every kind that are scheduled to be described during the year 2018, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleontology of fish that are scheduled to occur in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Jawless vertebrates\nA member of Galeaspida belonging to the group Polybranchiaspiformes and the family Polybranchiaspidae. The type species is A. huiqingae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Jawless vertebrates\nA member of the family Psammosteidae. The type species is \"Tartuosteus\" luhai Mark-Kurik (1965).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Jawless vertebrates\nA member of the family Cyathaspididae. The type species is F. elgae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Jawless vertebrates\nA member of Galeaspida belonging to the group Polybranchiaspiformes and the family Gumuaspidae. The type species is N. zengi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Jawless vertebrates\nA member of Galeaspida belonging to the group Polybranchiaspiformes and the family Gumuaspidae. The type species is P. serratus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Jawless vertebrates\nA member of Galeaspida belonging to the group Polybranchiaspiformes and the family Gumuaspidae. The type species is \"Laxaspis\" rostrata Liu (1975).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Jawless vertebrates\nA member of the family Psammosteidae. The type species is \"Psammolepis\" proia Mark-Kurik (1965).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Placoderms\nA member of Aspinothoracidi. The type species is H. jacksoni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Placoderms\nA member of Antiarchi belonging to the family Bothriolepididae. The type species is W. magniforaminis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Acanthodians\nA member of Ischnacanthiformes belonging to the new family Podoliacanthidae. The type species is D. semirotunda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Acanthodians\nA member of Acanthodiformes belonging to the family Cheiracanthidae. The type species is G. tenericostatus; genus also includes \"Cheiracanthus\" talimae Valiukevi\u010dius (1985).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Acanthodians\nA possible acanthodian of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is \"Diplacanthoides\" robustus Brotzen (1934).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Acanthodians\nA member of Ischnacanthiformes belonging to the new family Podoliacanthidae. The type species is K. serratus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA mackerel shark of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species A. karsteni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA member of Neoselachii belonging to the family Anachronistidae. The type species is A. santuccii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA member of Holocephali belonging to the group Cochliodontiformes. The type species is A. multicuspidatus; genus also includes \"Deltodopsis\" bialveatus St. John & Worthen (1883).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA relative of the basking shark. The type species is C. zherikhini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA possible member of the family Falcatidae. Genus includes new species C. ogiveformis and C. noricum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA member of Xenacanthiformes belonging to the family Diplodoselachidae. The type species is H. parva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA member of Hybodontiformes belonging to the superfamily Hybodontoidea. Genus includes new species L. triangulus. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA sand shark; a new genus for \"Odontaspis\" saskatchewanensis Case, Tokaryk & Baird (1990).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA member of Euselachii belonging to the family Protacrodontidae. The type species is M. carrieae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA possible member of the family Ctenacanthidae. Genus includes new species N. trivortex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA member of Euselachii belonging to the family Protacrodontidae. The type species is N. billingsleyi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA member of Rajiformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is O. parva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA sleeper shark; a new genus for \"Paraetmopterus\" horvathi Underwood & Schl\u00f6gl (2013).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA cowtail stingray of Pastinachus. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA member of Hybodontiformes belonging to the family Lonchidiidae. Genus includes \"Parvodus\" tikiensis Prasad et al. (2008).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA bullhead shark. Genus includes \"Acrodus\" semirugosus Plieninger (1847), \"Hemipristis\" bidens Quenstedt (1852) and \"Strophodus\" semirugosus Quenstedt (1852).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA bullhead shark. Genus includes \"Heterodontus\" boussioni Guinot et al. (2013).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA whiptail stingray belonging to the subfamily Urogymninae. The type species is \"Trygon\" vorstmani de Beaufort (1926).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA carpet shark. Genus includes new species S. iniquus, as well as \"Ornatoscyllium\" rugasimulatum Guinot, Cappetta & Adnet (2014).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Cartilaginous fishes\nA member of Cochliodontiformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is W. longicalcus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nPossibly a member of Stomiiformes belonging to the group Gonostomatoidei, of uncertain phylogenetic placement within the latter group. The type species is A. muscogeei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Ichthyodectiformes. Genus includes new species A. goshouraensis. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Actinopteri belonging to the family Haplolepidae. The type species is A. lochlani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Osteoglossiformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is \"Otolithus (Leptolepidarum)\" pentangulatus Frost (1924); genus also includes new species A. torrensi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Elopiformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is A. avitus; genus also includes A. heletzensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nAn early ray-finned fish. The type species is A. manskyi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA teleost of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species B. cavatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nAn early ray-finned fish. The type species is B. mercerensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Actinopteri belonging to the family Haplolepidae. The type species is B. fenestratum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Halecomorphi belonging to the new order Ophiopsiformes. Genus includes new species C. koelblae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Sciaenidae. The type species is \"Sciaena\" moguntiniformis Pana (1977).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA species of Clupea. The specific name is preoccupied by Clupea macrocephala Lac\u00e9p\u00e8de (1803); Yabumoto & Nazarkin (2020) coined a replacement name Clupea hanishinaensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA beardfish. The type species is C. alabamae; genus also includes new species C. amberi, as well as \"genus Polymixiidarum\" beaury Schwarzhans (2010), \"genus Veliferidarum\" groenlandicus Schwarzhans (2004) and \"genus Veliferidarum\" harderi Schwarzhans (2003).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Palaeonisciformes. The type species is C. dongbeiensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Sciaenidae. The type species is C. krambergeri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Stromateoidei of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species C. yanakuzminae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Leptolepidiformes sensu lato of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species D. anguilliformis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Clupeidae. The type species is E. janvieri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Clupeomorpha belonging to the group Ellimmichthyiformes and the family Paraclupeidae. The type species is E. superstes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Beryciformes belonging to the group Berycoidei, of uncertain phylogenetic placement within the latter group. The type species is E. stringeri; genus also includes new species E. compressus, as well as \u201cgenus Apogonidarum\u201d maastrichtiensis Nolf & Stringer (1996) and \u201cgenus Apogonidarum\u201d zideki Nolf & Stringer (1996).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Ichthyodectidae. The type species is F. bonarellii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nAn early member of Ginglymodi. The type species is F. wangi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Pholidophoriformes. Genus includes new species G. ansorgei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA non-teleost bony fish of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species G. problematicus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Pycnodontidae. The type species is H. picteti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA viviparous brotula belonging to the subfamily Brosmophycinae. The type species is K. krumvirensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Actinopteri of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is L. gardineri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Sciaenidae. The type species is L. popovi; genus also includes \"Atractoscion\" elongatissimus Schwarzhans (1993).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Elopiformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Otolithus (Lycopteridarum) rhenanus Weiler (1954); genus also includes Otolithus (Lycopteridarum) acutus Weiler (1954).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Sciaenidae. The type species is \"Genyonemus\" karagiensis Bratishko, Schwarzhans & Reichenbacher (2015); genus also includes \"Otolithus (Mugilidarum)\" azerbaidjanicus Djafarova (2006), as well as new species L. caputoi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Pycnodontidae. The type species is L. wenzi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Osteoglossiformes. The type species is L. colwellae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA relative of snake mackerels and cutlassfishes. Genus includes new species M. casieri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Crossognathiformes belonging to the family Pachyrhizodontidae. The type species is M. sergioi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Gonorynchiformes belonging to the group Gonorynchoidei. The type species is N. sanctibernardini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Cyprinidae related to members of the genus Schizothorax. Genus includes new species P. qaidamensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Serranidae. Genus includes new species P. lakamhae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nAn early ray-finned fish. Genus includes new species P. acanthophorus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Pycnodontiformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is P. pinnatomus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Sciaenidae. The type species is \"Serranus\" acuterostratus R\u00fcckert-\u00dclk\u00fcmen (1996); genus might also include \"Otolithus (Percidarum)\" sigmoilinoides Pobedina (1956).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Elopidae. The type species is \"Otolithus (Leptolepidarum)\" cuneiformis Frost (1924); genus also includes \"Leptolepis\" tenuirostris Stinton (1968) and \"genus Protacanthopterygiorum\" scalpellum Nolf (2004).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Actinopteri of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is P. argentatum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Aulopiformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is P. sagax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Semionotiformes. The type species is \"Lepidotus\" piauhyensis Roxo & L\u00f6fgren (1936)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Anablepidae. Genus includes new species S. calingasta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA relative of Dapedium. Genus includes new species S. saxciput.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Pycnodontidae. The type species is S. giganteus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of Leptolepidiformes sensu lato of uncertain phylogenetic placement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA teleost of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is V. thlotlo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Veliferidae. Genus includes new species W. angeloi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Leptolepididae sensu lato. The type species is Otolithus (incertae sedis) withersi Frost (1926); genus also includes Otolithus (Salmonoidei) oncorhynchoides Weiler (1954).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA member of the family Andinichthyidae. The type species is Y. eocenicus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Ray-finned fishes\nA relative of Pleuropholis. Genus includes new species Z. quijadensis and Z. decollavi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Lobe-finned fishes\nA lungfish related to Ctenodus. Genus includes new species is C. ahlbergi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284439-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleoichthyology, New taxa, Lobe-finned fishes\nA lungfish. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology\nThis list, 2018 in paleomalacology, is a list of new taxa of ammonites and other fossil cephalopods, as well as fossil gastropods, bivalves and other molluscs that are scheduled to be described during the year 2018, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to molluscan paleontology that are scheduled to occur in the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Gyronitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Gyronitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Gyronitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Gyronitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Gyronitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Paranoritidae. Genus includes new species A. awani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA relative of Emericiceras. The type species is B. borroi; genus also includes B. ottohaasi (Sarkar, 1955) and B. mahadevai (Sarkar, 1955).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Proptychitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Hungaritidae. The type species is \"Hungarites\" emiliae Mojsisovics (1882); genus also includes \"Ceratites (Hungarites)\" semiplicatus Hauer (1896).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Neocomitidae. Genus includes new species C. aequalicostatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Xenoceltitidae; a new genus for \"Xenoceltites\" youngi Kummel & Steele (1962).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ancyloceratina belonging to the family Heteroceratidae. The type species is \"Heteroceras\" fuhrae Delanoy (1997).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA relative of Wyomingites Hyatt (1900); both genera are assigned to the new family Crittendentidae. Genus includes new species C. jattioti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA replacement name for Dorsoplanites panderi auct. non Eichwald (1840).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nAn ammonite of uncertain phylogenetic placement; a new genus for \"Dieneroceras\" spathi Kummel & Steele (1962).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Ceratitidae. The type species is \"Ceratites\" angustecarinatus Hauer (1896); genus also includes \"Kellnerites\" bagolinensis Brack & Rieber (1993), as well as new species E. tamasi, E. vaszolyensis, E. pseudocholnokyi and E. spinatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Proptychitidae. Genus includes new species G. eichhorni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Neocomitidae. The type species is G. getensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Ophiceratidae. The type species is G. roohii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Gyronitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Gyronitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Gyronitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Acrioceratidae; a new genus for \"Tonohamites\" multituberculatus Immel & Guoxiong (2002).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Acrioceratidae. The type species is J. bangestanense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Himalayitidae. The type species is \"Subalpinites\" bajarunasi Luppov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Acrioceratidae; a new genus for \"Toxoceratoides\"? haughtoni Klinger & Kennedy (1977).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Paranoritidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Ophiceratidae. The type species is K. hebeiseni; genus also includes \"Meekoceras\" kyokticum von Krafft (1909).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Brancoceratidae. The type species is \"Elobiceras\" arietiforme Spath (1922); genus also includes L. decipiens (Spath, 1922), L. flexicostatum (Spath, 1922), L. irregulare (Spath, 1922), L. szajnochai (Spath, 1922) and L. spathianum (Haas, 1942).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Crioceratitidae. Originally described as a species of Loyezia, but subsequently transferred to the genus Binelliceras by Vermeulen et al. (2019).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Galfettitidae. Genus includes new species M. stephensi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Brancoceratidae; a new genus for \"Sharpeiceras\" goliath Haas (1942).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Mullericeratidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Mullericeratidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Mullericeratidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Strigoceratidae belonging to the subfamily Phlycticeratinae. The type species is N. jantschkei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Hungaritidae. The type species is \"Hungarites\" bocsarensis Arthaber (1903); genus also includes new species N. vinczei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Sirenitidae. The type species is O. bytschkovi; genus also includes O. yakutensis (Kiparisova).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Ceratitidae. The type species is \"Hungarites\" arthaberi Diener (1899); genus also includes new species P. solyensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Paranoritidae. Genus includes \"Koninckites\" kraffti Spath (1934).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA subgenus of Phylloceras; a replacement name for Gyrophyllites Wiedmann (1963). The type species is Phylloceras lateumbilicatum Pervinqui\u00e8re (1907).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Proptychitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Cardioceratidae. The type species is \"Cadoceras (Streptocadoceras)\" arcticoides Kiselev & Meledina (2004).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Sagecerataceae and the family Hedenstroemiidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Mammitinae. A new genus for \"Mammites\" nodosoidesappelatus Etayo-Serna (1979).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Acrioceratidae; a new genus for \"Ancyloceras\" patagonicum Stolley (1912).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ancyloceratina belonging to the family Heteroceratidae. The type species is \"Ammonites\" securiformis Simonovich, Batsevich & Sorokin (1875); genus also includes \"Colchidites\" shaoriensis Djan\u00e9lidz\u00e9 (1926), \"C.\" elissoae Kakabadze (1971), \"C.\" tenuicostatus Kakabadze (1971) and \"C.\" veleurensis Kakabadze (1971).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA replacement name for Stevensia \u00c9nay (2009). The type species is \"Kossmatia\" desmidopthycha Uhlig (1910).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species S. friski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nThe type species of the subgenus is Titanites (Paratitanites) manipulocostatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nThe type species of the subgenus is Titanites (Pseudogalbanites) triceps; the subgenus also includes \"Kerberites\" mosquensis Mikhailov (1957).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Vascoceratidae. A new genus for \"Paramammites\" colombianus Etayo-Serna (1979).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Mullericeratidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Mullericeratidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of Ceratitida belonging to the group Meekocerataceae and the family Paranoritidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA member of the family Collignoniceratidae. Genus includes new species V. vocontiense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Ammonites, New taxa\nA replacement name for Zittelia Tavera Benitez (1985). The type species is \"Ammonites\" eudichotomus Zittel (1868).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA belemnite belonging to the family Megateuthididae. The type species is B. issae; genus also includes B. pseudoishmensis, B. variabilis, B. barskovi, B. gracilis and B. renegata, as well as \"Mesoteuthis\" bajosicus Ivanova (1959) and \"Nannobelus\" parabellus Barskov in Mitta et al. (2004).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA belemnite belonging to the family Megateuthididae. Genus includes new species C. challinori.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA coleoid with mixed orthocerid-coleoid characteristics. The type species is C. inflata; genus also includes new species C. tubulata and C. concavus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA member of Discosorida belonging to the family Taxyceratidae; a replacement name for Cyclopites Zhuravleva (1962). The type species is \"Gomphoceras\" cyclops Wenjukoff (1886).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA member of Coleoidea, possibly belonging to the order Myopsida. The type species is I. parisiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA member of Oncocerida belonging to the family Naedyceratidae. Genus includes new species M. laterobliquum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA member of Aulacocerida belonging to the family Aulacoceratidae. The type species is \"Dictyoconites\" nipponicus Shimizu & Mabuti (1941).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA member of Coleoidea. Genus includes new species N. whitei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA member of Coleoidea. Genus includes new species P. starkensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA member of the stem group of the Octopoda or a stem-incirrate. Genus includes new species P. ilgi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA member of the family Orthoceratidae. The type species is P. srisuki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA member of Coleoidea. Genus includes new species S. compressus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA member of Orthocerida belonging to the family Orthoceratidae. Genus includes new species S. striatum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA member of Orthocerida. Genus includes new species S. taffi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other cephalopods, New taxa\nA member of Orthocerida. Genus includes new species U. striatulum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of Ovulidae. Genus includes new species A. magnolia, as well as \"Cypraea\" vaughani Johnson (1899).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA species of Alvania; a replacement name for Delphinula carinata Millet (1854).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA species of Alvania; a replacement name for Rissoa suturalis Millet (1865).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA possible member of the family Eucyclidae. The type species is B. singularis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Cypraeidae. The type species is B. incisa; genus also includes new species B. gracilenta and B. zamberlani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nThe type species is C. segmentata; genus also includes \"Pachychilus (Pachychiloides)\" lawtoni Perrilliat et al. (2008).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nGroh & De Mattia in De Mattia, Neiber & Groh", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Turbinellidae. The type species is C. ledeei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Pupinidae. Genus includes new species C. multilinea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Proconulidae. The type species is C. nillae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA subgenus of Cymbovula. The subgenus includes Cymbovula transovuloides (Schilder, 1926).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Hyalogyrinidae. The type species is E. microlineata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nFehse (2021) considered this species to be a junior synonym of Eotrivia faracii (de Gregorio, 1880).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA species of Erato. The original specific name was Erato precursor Fehse (2018), which turned out to be preoccupied by Erato praecursor Cossmann & Pissarro (1905).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Pristilomatidae. The type species is E. nordsiecki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Diplommatinidae. Genus includes new species E. naggsi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of Cypraeidae belonging to the subfamily Gisortiinae. The type species is \"Cypraea\" nuculoides Aldrich (1903); genus also includes \"Archicypraea\" degenerata Schilder (1939).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA species of Genota; a replacement name for Pleurotoma insignis Millet, non Edwards, 1861.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Coelostylinidae. The type species is H. arcana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nDe Mattia & Groh in De Mattia, Neiber & Groh", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Proconulidae. The type species is K. robustus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA possible member of Pithodeidae; a replacement name for Foveolaria Szab\u00f3 (2016).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Holopeidae belonging to the subfamily Gyronematinae. Genus includes new species K. klavlia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Ovulidae belonging to the subfamily Pediculariinae. The type species is \"Trivia\" recluzi Cossmann (1897); genus also includes \"Cypraea\" kennedyi Harris (1895).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of Porcellioidea. Genus includes new species M. hedei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Liotiidae; a new genus for \"Solarium\" danae d\u2019Orbigny (1850).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of Limacoidea of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is M. sculpturata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA possible member of the family Goniasmatidae. Genus includes new species M. acuta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of Limacoidea of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is N. pulchra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0102-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Diplommatinidae. The type species is \"Adelopoma\" martensi Andreae (1902).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0103-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Potamididae. The type species is \"Cerithium\" suprasulcatum Gabb (1873); genus also includes \"Cerithium\" suprasulcatum Gabb (1873), \"Potamides\" ormei Maury (1917), \"Potamides\" infraliratus Spieker (1922) and a new species Papposilenus utriculus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0104-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Vitrinidae. Genus includes new species P. occulta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0105-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA relative of members of the genus Erato. Genus includes new species P. pacaudi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0106-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA subgenus of Primovula. The subgenus includes Primovula symmetrica (Aldrich, 1903).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0107-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of the family Helicidae. The type species is \"Klikia\" altenburgensis Binder (1977).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0108-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA subgenus of Pseudosimnia. The subgenus includes new species P. (V.) anteana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0109-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of Mathildoidea; a new genus for \"Loxonema\" mersai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0110-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA species of Rissoa; a replacement name for Rissoa ambigua Harmer (1925).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0111-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA species of Rissoa; a replacement name for Rissoa notabilis Millet (1865).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0112-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA species of Timbellus; a replacement name for Murex trialatus von Koenen (1889).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0113-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nA member of Pyramidelloidea of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is T. saxaquadrata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0114-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nDe Mattia & Groh in De Mattia, Neiber & Groh", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0115-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nGroh, Neiber & De Mattia in De Mattia, Neiber & Groh", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0116-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nDe Mattia & Groh in De Mattia, Neiber & Groh", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0117-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Gastropods, New taxa\nDe Mattia & Groh in De Mattia, Neiber & Groh", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0118-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA bivalve belonging to the family Semelidae, a species of Abra; a replacement name for Syndesmya intermedia Rovereto (1898).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0119-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA bivalve belonging to the family Carditidae. The type species is the Pliocene species \"Cardita\" subrevoluta de Stefani (1888) from Italy; genus also includes new species Akardita iberica from the Pliocene of Spain, as well as extant species Cardita (Venericardia) monodi Nickl\u00e8s (1953) from West Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0120-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA bivalve belonging to the group Anomalodesmata and the superfamily Pholadomyoidea. The type species is A. krystyni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0121-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA bivalve belonging to the family Lucinidae; a species of Anodontia sensu lato.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0122-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA scallop. This species includes new subspecies C. murdockensis druidwilsoni, C. murdockensis murdockensis and C. murdockensis parawatsonensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0123-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA scallop. The type species is \"Zygochlamys\" nicolasi Morra (1985).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0124-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA bivalve belonging to the family Crassatellidae. Berezovsky (2018) subsequently made it the type species of a new subgenus Crassatella (Furvusa).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0125-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA bivalve. Transferred to the genus Chattonia by Berezovsky (2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0126-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA bivalve belonging to the family Crassatellidae. The type species is \"Crassatella\" raricostata Klushnikov (1958); genus also includes \"Crassatella\" woodi Koenen (1865), as well as new species C. depulsor and C. faber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0127-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA bivalve belonging to the family Crassatellidae. The type species is I. collinsae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0128-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA bivalve belonging to the group Carditida and the family Kalenteridae. The type species is K. kosuni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0129-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA scallop. The type species is \"Pecten\" actinodes Sowerby (1846); genus also includes \"Chlamys\" aurorae Feruglio (1954).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0130-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA bivalve, possibly belonging to the family Cuspidariidae. Genus includes new species N. leanzaorum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0131-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA bivalve belonging to the family Naiaditidae. Genus includes new species P. gusevi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0132-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA scallop. The type species is \"Pecten\" quemadensis Ihering (1897).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0133-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA bivalve belonging to the family Gryphaeidae and the subfamily Pycnodonteinae. The type species is \"Gryphaea\" weberae Yanin in Tschelzova (1969).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284440-0134-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleomalacology, Other molluscs, New taxa\nA bivalve belonging to the group Carditida and the family Kalenteridae. The type species is T. gregaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Flora, Fungi\nA fungus described on the basis of pycnidia. Genus includes new species P. epallelus. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Flora, Fungi\nAn ambrosia fungus associated with the beetle Palaeotylus femoralis. Genus includes new species P. entomophila.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Flora, Fungi\nA small, chytrid-like organism. Genus includes new species P. tayloriana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Flora, Fungi\nA fungus belonging to the group Blastocladiomycota, of uncertain phylogenetic placement within the latter group. Genus includes new species R. lyonii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Flora, Fungi\nA fossil fungus found on the surface of fossilized leaf fragments. Genus includes new species V. siwalika.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA solitary coral. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA solitary coral. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Haplaraeoidea and the family Astraraeidae. The type species is A. bachi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA member of the family Rhipidogyridae. The type species is A. giadae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Heterocoenioidea and the family Carolastraeidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Heterocoenioidea and the family Carolastraeidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA solitary coral. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Cyclolitoidea and the family Synastraeidae. The type species is G. alexi; genus also includes G. audiensis (Reig Oriol, 1992), G. haueri (Reuss, 1854) and G. parvistella (Oppenheim, 1930).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Felixaraeoidea and the family Lamellofungiidae. The type species is K. pachysepta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Phyllosmilioidea and the family Phyllosmiliidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Phyllosmilioidea and the family Phyllosmiliidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA rugose coral belonging to the new family Amplexoididae. The type species is \"Ningqiangophyllum\" crassothecatum Cao (1975); genus also includes \"Ningqiangophyllum\" tenuiseptatum irregulare Cao (1975) (raised to the rank of a separate species Neopilophyllia irregularis), \"Ningqiangophyllum\" ephippium Cao (1975) and \"Pilophyllia\" alternata Chen in Wang et al. (1986).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the family Eckastraeidae. The type species is \"Coelocoenia\" exporrecta Weissermel (1925).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Heterocoenioidea and the family Heterocoeniidae. The type species is P. leipnerae; genus also includes P. grandis (Reuss, 1854) and P. fuchsi (Felix, 1903).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Phyllosmilioidea and the family Phyllosmiliidae. The type species is P. magnum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Cyclolitoidea and the family Negoporitidae. The type species is P. uliae; genus might also include P.\u00a0? elegans (Reuss, 1854).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Misistelloidea. The type species is P. winnii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Cladocoroidea and the family Columastraeidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Heterocoenioidea and the family Heterocoeniidae. The type species is S. hellenensis; genus also includes S. brunni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0025-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA tabulate coral belonging to the order Favositida and the family Favositidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0026-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Cnidarians, New taxa\nA stony coral belonging to the superfamily Cyclolitoidea and the family Synastraeidae. The type species is S. wagreichi; genus also includes and S. multilamellosa (Reuss, 1854).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0027-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Bryozoans, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Membraniporidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0028-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Bryozoans, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Bitectiporidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0029-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Bryozoans, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Cleidochasmatidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0030-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Bryozoans, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Smittinidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0031-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Bryozoans, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Celleporidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0032-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA member of Terebratulida belonging to the family Stringocephalidae. The type species is A. coronadosensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0033-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA member of the family Cyrtosririferidae. The type species is \"Spirifer\" latus Abrahamian (1974).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0034-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA member of Terebratulida belonging to the family Stringocephalidae. The type species is C. craigensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0035-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA member of Terebratulida belonging to the family Stringocephalidae. The type species is C. mica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0036-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA member of Atrypida. The type species is D. datnensis (Baranov, 1995).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0037-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA member of Rhynchonellida belonging to the family Uncinulidae. The type species is \"Rhynchonella\" coronata Kayser (1871).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0038-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA relative of Leptothyrellopsis, assigned to the new family Jagtithyrididae. Genus includes \"Terebratella (Morrisia?)\" suessi Bosquet (1859).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0039-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA brachiopod belonging to the group Productida and the family Productidae. The type species is K. spinosus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0040-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA member of the family Rugosochonetidae belonging to the subfamily Svalbardiinae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0041-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA member of Productida belonging to the family Linoproductidae. The type species is M. luisae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0042-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA brachiopod belonging to the group Terebratellidina and to the superfamily Zeillerioidea. The type species is M. goyi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0043-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA member of Atrypida. The type species is M. dogdensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0044-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA brachiopod belonging to the group Rhynchonellida and the family Trigonirhynchiidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0045-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Brachiopods, New taxa\nA brachiopod belonging to the group Rhynchonellida and the family Uncinulidae. The type species is Z. multicostata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0046-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Conodonts, New taxa\nA member of the family Gondolellidae. The type species is G. quadrata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0047-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Conodonts, New taxa\nBelgium\u00a0China\u00a0Ireland\u00a0Italy\u00a0Spain\u00a0United Kingdom\u00a0United States(\u00a0Illinois)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0048-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Conodonts, New taxa\nA member of the family Gondolellidae. The type species is M. salomae; genus also includes new species M. alexanderi, M. cyri, M. julii and M. nebuchadnezzari, as well as \"Neogondolella\" regale Mosher (1970) and \"Neogondolella\" dilacerata Golding & Orchard (2016).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0049-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Conodonts, New taxa\nA member of the family Sweetognathidae. The type species is P. monticola; genus also includes P. vigilans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0050-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Conodonts, New taxa\nAustria\u00a0China\u00a0Hungary\u00a0Italy\u00a0Spain\u00a0Sweden\u00a0United States(\u00a0Nevada\u00a0Oklahoma)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0051-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Conodonts, New taxa\nA member of the family Spathognathodontidae; a new genus for Spathognathodus inclinatus posthamatus Walliser (1964), raised to the rank of the species Walliserognathus posthamatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0052-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Synapsids, Non-mammalian synapsids, New taxa\nA member of the family Varanopidae. Genus includes new species A. nestleri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0053-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Synapsids, Non-mammalian synapsids, New taxa\nA member of the family Edaphosauridae. The type species is G. kraineri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0054-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Synapsids, Non-mammalian synapsids, New taxa\nA biarmosuchian belonging to the family Burnetiidae. The type species is L. wewersi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0055-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Synapsids, Non-mammalian synapsids, New taxa\nA gigantic dicynodont reaching an estimated body mass of 9 tons. The type species is L. bojani. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0056-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Synapsids, Non-mammalian synapsids, New taxa\nA member of the family Varanopidae. Genus includes new species M. parentis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0057-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Synapsids, Non-mammalian synapsids, New taxa\nA dicynodont belonging to the family Stahleckeriidae. The type species is P. goggai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0058-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Synapsids, Non-mammalian synapsids, New taxa\nA non-mammaliaform eucynodont. Genus includes new species P. woznikiensis. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0059-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Membraniporidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0060-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Flustrina and the family Coscinopleuridae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0061-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Flustrina and the family Coscinopleuridae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0062-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Flustrina and the family Coscinopleuridae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0063-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Flustrina and the family Coscinopleuridae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0064-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Flustrina and the family Onychocellidae. The type species is \"Aechmella\" falcifera Voigt (1949); genus also includes \"Homalostega\" anglica Brydone (1909), \"Aechmella\" bassleri Voigt (1924), \"Homalostega\" biconvexa Brydone (1909), \"Cellepora\" hippocrepis Goldfuss (1826), \"Aechmella\" indefessa Taylor & McKinney (2006), \"Aechmella\" latistoma Berthelsen (1962), \"Aechmella\" linearis Voigt (1924), \"Aechmella\" parvilabris Voigt (1924), \"Aechmella\" pindborgi Berthelsen (1962), \"Semieschara\" proteus Brydone (1912), \"Monoporella\" seriata Levinsen (1925), \"Aechmella\" stenostoma Voigt (1930), \"Reptescharinella\" transversa d'Orbigny (1852) and \"Aechmella\" ventricosa Voigt (1924).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0065-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA stem-arthropod related to Chengjiangocaris. The type species is A. mirabilis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0066-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Fenestrata. Genus includes new species A. sotoi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0067-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Tubuliporina and the family Oncousoeciidae. The type species is A. giselae; genus also includes A. mediorubiensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0068-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA graptolite belonging to the group Sinograptina and the family Sigmagraptidae. The type species is C. communalis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0069-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Cleidochasmatidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0070-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA tubicolous animal of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is C. grioensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0071-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cystoporata. Genus includes new species C. sierraensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0072-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA graptolite belonging to the group Dichograptina and the family Pterograptidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0073-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan; a new genus for \"Cribilina\" labiatula Canu (1922).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0074-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA vase-shaped organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a poriferan-grade animal. The type species is G. kushkii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0075-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA member of Tentaculitoidea belonging to the order Homoctenida and the family Homoctenidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0076-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA member of Hyolitha. Genus includes new species K. myliuserichseni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0077-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Flustrina and the family Onychocellidae. The type species is \"Eschara\" latilabris Reuss (1872); genus also includes \"Eschara\" acis d'Orbigny (1851), \"Onychocella\" barbata Martha, Niebuhr & Scholz (2017), \"Eschara\" cenomana d'Orbigny (1851) and \"Eschara\" labiata Po\u010dta (1892).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0078-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA cheilostome bryozoan. Genus includes new species K. kashimaensis, as well as \"Charixa goshouraensis Dick, Komatsu, Takashima & Ostrovsky (2013) and \"Conopeum\" stamenocelloides Gordon & Taylor (2015).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0079-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA member of Radiodonta. Genus includes new species L. chimera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0080-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Lunulitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0081-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA sponge, possibly a stem-rossellid. The type species is M. hemiglobosa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0082-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Microporidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0083-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA hexactinellid sponge belonging to the family Dictyospongiidae. The type species is M. parvis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0084-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA member of Hyolitha. Genus includes new species N. hyptiotheciformis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0085-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nAgglutinated tubes produced by unknown animal. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it is not published yet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0086-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Otionellidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0087-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Otionellidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0088-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA member of Hyolitha belonging to the group Orthothecida. Genus includes new species P. diania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0089-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Smittinidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0090-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA cycloneuralian tentatively assigned to total-group Scalidophora. Genus includes new species Q. spinosus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0091-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA member of Radiodonta related to Amplectobelua. Genus includes new species R. platyacantha and R. consimilis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0092-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Flustrina and the family Onychocellidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0093-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Flustrina and the family Onychocellidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0094-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Flustrina and the family Onychocellidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0095-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA sponge belonging to the class Stromatoporoidea, order Clathrodictyida and the family Anostylostromatidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0096-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA cycloneuralian tentatively assigned to total-group Scalidophora. Genus includes new species S. decorus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0097-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Onychocellidae. Genus includes new species S. tamilensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0098-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA member of Radiodonta belonging to the group Hurdiidae. The type species is S. hirpex. The original description of the taxon appeared in an online supplement to the article published by Caron et al. (2010), making in invalid until it was validated by Pates, Daley & Ortega-Hern\u00e1ndez (2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0099-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA member of Tentaculitoidea belonging to the order Dacryoconarida and the family Styliolinidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0100-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nAn animal of uncertain phylogenetic placement described on the basis of fossil sclerites, possibly representing a stage in paraconodont evolution prior to the development of a basal cavity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0101-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA member of Tentaculitoidea belonging to the order Tentaculitida and the family Tentaculitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0102-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA member of Tentaculitoidea belonging to the order Tentaculitida and the family Tentaculitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0103-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA relative of Hallucigenia. The type species is T. distos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0104-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Celleporidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0105-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nA member of Tentaculitoidea belonging to the order Tentaculitida and the family Uniconidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0106-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other animals, New taxa\nAn ascidian belonging to the new order Khmeriamorpha. The type species is Z. cassianum; genus also includes Z. japonicum, Z. pauciplacophorum, Z. pyriforme and Z. polyplacophorum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0107-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nDunghan FormationLangley FormationLizard Springs FormationNavet FormationRichmond FormationShaheed Ghat FormationThebes FormationUniversidad Formation", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0108-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nCuba\u00a0Egypt\u00a0Italy\u00a0Jamaica\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0Spain\u00a0Syria\u00a0Trinidad and Tobago\u00a0TunisiaAtlantic OceanIndian Ocean(Kerguelen Plateau)Pacific Ocean(Caroline Abyssal PlainShatsky Rise)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0109-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of the family Globigerinidae. The type species is \"Globigerina\" lozanoi Colom (1954); genus also includes \"Globigerina\" prolata Bolli (1957).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0110-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nCuba\u00a0Syria\u00a0Trinidad and TobagoAdriatic SeaGulf of MexicoPacific Ocean(Ontong Java Plateau)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0111-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nAustralia\u00a0Austria\u00a0Belgium\u00a0Colombia\u00a0Cuba\u00a0France\u00a0Italy\u00a0Malta\u00a0Romania\u00a0Spain\u00a0Tanzania\u00a0Trinidad and Tobago\u00a0United States(\u00a0Mississippi)\u00a0VenezuelaAtlantic OceanPacific Ocean", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0112-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of Globigerinoidea belonging to the family Globigerinidae. The type species is \"Globigerina\" ciperoensis Bolli (1954); genus also includes \"Globigerina\" anguliofficinalis Blow (1969), \"Globigerina ciperoensis\" angulisuturalis Bolli (1957) (raised to the rank of the species Ciperoella angulisuturalis) and \"Globigerina\" fariasi Berm\u00fadez (1961).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0113-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA species of Cyclammina; a replacement name for Cyclammina pseudopusilla Hanagata (2003).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0114-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of Fusulinida belonging to the family Schubertellidae. Genus includes new species D. sprucensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0115-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of the group Rotaliida belonging to the family Rotaliidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0116-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nBelgium\u00a0France\u00a0Romania\u00a0Tanzania\u00a0United States(\u00a0New Jersey)Atlantic OceanIndian Ocean(Kerguelen Plateau)Pacific Ocean(Nazca Plate)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0117-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nAustralia\u00a0Austria\u00a0Tanzania\u00a0Trinidad and TobagoGulf of MexicoSouth Atlantic OceanWestern equatorial Pacific Ocean", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0118-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of the order Astrorhizida and the suborder Hemisphaeramminineae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0119-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of the group Spirillinida belonging to the family Spirillinidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0120-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of the group Nodosariacea belonging to the family Vaginulinidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0121-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of Loftusiida belonging to the family Pfenderinidae. The type species is \"Meyendorffina (Paracoskinolina)\" jourdanensis Foury & Moullade (1966).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0122-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of Lituolida belonging to the family Ammobaculinidae. The type species is N. sudalpina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0123-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of the group Spirillinida belonging to the family Spirillinidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0124-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of the group Rotaliida belonging to the family Nonionidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0125-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of the family Elphidiellidae; a new genus for \"Elphidiella\" multiscissurata Smout (1955).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0126-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of the superfamily Soritoidea and the family Praerhapydioninidae. Genus includes new species P. oyonensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0127-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of Globigerinoidea belonging to the family Globigerinidae. The type species is \"Clavigerinella\" nazcaensis Quilty (1976); genus also includes \"Hastigerinella\" clavacella R\u00f6gl (1969).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0128-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of the group Rotaliida belonging to the family Nummulitidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0129-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Foraminifera, New taxa\nA member of the group Rotaliida belonging to the family Uvigerinidae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0130-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nA member of Cyanobacteria; a new genus for \"Omalophyma\" magna Steiner (1994).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0131-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nAn organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of a well-defined irregular oval to circular fossil. Genus includes new species A. janeae. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0132-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nA possible planktonic alga of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species D. rara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0133-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nA large ornamented acritarch of unresolved biological affinity, probably an ontogenetically and metabolically active eukaryotic organism rather than a dormant protistan cyst. Genus includes new species L. grandis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0134-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nAn organic-walled microfossil of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species M. desiccata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0135-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nA torus-shaped organism, similar in gross morphology to some poriferans and benthic cnidarians. Genus includes new species O. coronatus. Announced in 2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0136-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nA member of the family Epiphytaceae (a group of organisms of uncertain phylogenetic placement). Genus includes new species O. freucheni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0137-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nA radiolarian belonging to the family Pseudoaulophacidae. Genus includes new species P. parekklisiense and P. inflatum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0138-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nA sheet-like or funnel-shaped organism of unresolved biological affinity. Genus includes new species R. balticus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0139-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nA macroalga of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species R. longa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0140-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nA tubiform organic-walled segmented microfossil, resembling Saarina juliae but smaller by one\u2013two orders of magnitude. Genus includes new species S. infundibularis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0141-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nA macroalga of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species S. ramosa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0142-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nA large acanthomorph acritarch. Genus includes new species S. ampla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0143-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other organisms, New taxa\nA nematophyte belonging to the family Nematothallaceae. Genus includes new species T. ludfordensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0144-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, History of life in general\nResearch related to paleontology that concerns multiple groups of the organisms listed above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284441-0145-0000", "contents": "2018 in paleontology, Other research\nOther research related to paleontology, including research related to geology, palaeogeography, paleoceanography and paleoclimatology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284443-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in poetry\nMajor poetry related events which took place worldwide during 2018 are outlined below under different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, besides anniversaries and deaths of renowned poets etc. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, India or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284443-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in poetry, Deaths, January \u2013 June\nBirth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284444-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in politics and government\nEvents pertaining to world affairs in 2018, national politics, public policy, government, world economics, and international business, that took place in various nations, regions, organizations, around the world in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284444-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in politics and government\nEvents pertaining to politics, government, public policy, and international affairs, that took place in various nations, regions, organizations, around the world in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284445-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in professional wrestling\n2018 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284445-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in professional wrestling, Title changes, WWE, Raw and SmackDown\nRaw and SmackDown each had a world championship, a secondary championship, a women's championship, and a male tag team championship. Raw also had a championship for their cruiserweight wrestlers, which became exclusive to the 205 Live brand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284446-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in public domain\nWhen a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of works that enter the public domain in 2018. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284446-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in public domain, Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years\nWith the exception of Belarus and Spain (which is Life + 80 for creators who died before 1987), a work enters the public domain in Europe 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the creator's lifetime. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public domain on January 1, 2018. For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 83], "content_span": [84, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284446-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in public domain, Entering the public domain in countries with life + 50 years\nIn most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Belarus, Bolivia, Canada, New Zealand and Uruguay; a work enters the public domain 50 years after the creator's death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 83], "content_span": [84, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284446-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in public domain, Entering the public domain in Australia\nIn 2004 copyright in Australia changed from a \"plus 50\" law to a \"plus 70\" law, in line with America and the European Union. But the change was not made retroactive (unlike the 1995 change in the European Union which bought some e.g. British authors back into copyright, especially those who died from 1925 to 1944).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 62], "content_span": [63, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284446-0003-0001", "contents": "2018 in public domain, Entering the public domain in Australia\nHence the work of an author who died before 1955 is normally in the public domain in Australia; but the copyright of authors was extended to 70 years after death for those who died in 1955 or later, and no more Australian authors will come out of copyright until 1 January 2026 (those who died in 1955).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 62], "content_span": [63, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284446-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in public domain, Entering the public domain in the United States\nThe Copyright Term Extension Act means no published works will enter the public domain in this jurisdiction until 2019. Only unpublished works whose authors died in 1947 enter the public domain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 70], "content_span": [71, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284446-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in public domain, Entering the public domain in the United States\nOn January 26, 2018, Ludlow Music, the music publisher for We Shall Overcome, agreed in a legal settlement that the song is in the public domain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 70], "content_span": [71, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284446-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in public domain, Entering the public domain in the United States\nOn February 27, 2018, the video game One Hour One Life was released into the public domain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 70], "content_span": [71, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284448-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in radio\nThe following is a list of events affecting radio broadcasting in 2018. Events listed include radio program debuts, finales, cancellations, and station launches, closures and format changes, as well as information about controversies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284449-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284450-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in rallycross\nThe following are the rallycross events and series of the year 2018 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284450-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in rallycross\nThe following are the rallycross series which took place in 2018 throughout the world. Championship standings for Supercar class series at national and subregional level are displayed in this article.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Lizards and snakes, New taxa\nA snake belonging to the family Nigerophiidae. The type species is A. sanogoi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Lizards and snakes, New taxa\nProbable member of Anguimorpha of uncertain phylogentic placement. The type species is B. winhtini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Lizards and snakes, New taxa\nA member of the family Dolichosauridae. The type species is P. manduriensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Lizards and snakes, New taxa\nAn anguid lizard belonging to the subfamily Glyptosaurinae. The type species is \"Helodermoides\" mongoliensis Sullivan (1979).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Lizards and snakes, New taxa\nA platynotan lizard belonging to the family Parasaniwidae. The type species is T. nemegetensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Lizards and snakes, New taxa\nA snake described on the basis of a fossilized embryo or neonate. The type species is X. myanmarensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Sauropterygians, New taxa\nAn early relative of pliosaurids. The type species is A. schuberti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Sauropterygians, New taxa\nA relative of Simosaurus. Genus includes new species P. multidentatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Sauropterygians, New taxa\nA placodont related to Henodus. Genus includes new species P. atancensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Sauropterygians, New taxa\nA pliosaurid belonging to the subfamily Brachaucheninae. The type species is S. vitae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0011-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Turtles, New taxa\nA tortoise; a new genus for \"Testudo\" eocaenica Hummel (1935). The generic name is preoccupied by Barnesia Bertoni (1901) and Barnesia Thalmann (1994).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0012-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Turtles, New taxa\nA tortoise; a new genus for \"Cheirogaster\" steinbacheri Karl (1996).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0013-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Turtles, New taxa\nA member of Bothremydidae; a new genus for \"Tretosternum\" ambiguum Gaudry (1890).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0014-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Turtles, New taxa\nA member of the family Carettochelyidae. Genus includes new species E. labarrerei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0015-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Turtles, New taxa\nA member of the family Sinemydidae. The type species is J. lingyuanensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0016-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Turtles, New taxa\nA member of Bothremydidae; a new genus for \"Podocnemis\" olssoni Schmidt (1931).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0017-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Turtles, New taxa\nA member of Pancryptodira. The type species is O. borsukbialynickae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0018-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Turtles, New taxa\nA member of Pleurodira related to Peiropemys. Genus includes new species Y. montealtensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0019-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Other reptiles, New taxa\nA reptile of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a rhynchosaur or a rhynchocephalian. The type species is C. noviportensis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0020-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Other reptiles, New taxa\nA rhynchocephalian belonging to the group Opisthodontia; a new genus for \"Clevosaurus\" latidens Fraser (1993).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0021-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Other reptiles, New taxa\nA member of Lepidosauromorpha, probably a relative of Marmoretta oxoniensis. Genus includes new species F. rozynekae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0022-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Other reptiles, New taxa\nA member of the family Captorhinidae. Genus includes new species L. richardi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0023-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Other reptiles, New taxa\nA member of the family Procolophonidae. The type species is M. nadra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284451-0024-0000", "contents": "2018 in reptile paleontology, Other reptiles, New taxa\nA small reptile of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly an archosaur. The type species is W. ladinicus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284452-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in rock music\nThis article summarizes the events related to rock music for the year of 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284453-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in sailing\nThe following are the scheduled events of sailing for the year 2018 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284456-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in spaceflight\nThis article lists achieved spaceflight events in 2018. For the first time since 1990, more than 100 orbital launches were performed globally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284456-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in spaceflight, Overview, Planetary exploration\nThe NASA InSight seismology probe was launched in May 2018 and landed on Mars in November. The Parker Solar Probe was launched to explore the Sun in August 2018, and reached its first perihelion in November, traveling faster than any prior spacecraft. On 20 October the ESA and JAXA launched BepiColombo to Mercury, on a 10-year mission featuring several flybys and eventually deploying two orbiters in 2025 for local study. The asteroid sampling mission Hayabusa2 reached its target Ryugu in June, and the similar OSIRIS-REx probe reached Bennu in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284456-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 in spaceflight, Overview, Planetary exploration\nChina launched its Chang'e 4 lander/rover in December which performed the first ever soft landing on the far side of the Moon in January 2019; a communications relay was sent to the second Earth-Moon Lagrange point in May. The Google Lunar X Prize expired on 31 March without a winner for its $20 million grand prize, because none of its five finalist teams were able to launch a commercial lunar lander mission before the deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284456-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in spaceflight, Overview, Human spaceflight\nThe Soyuz MS-10 October mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was aborted shortly after launch, due to a separation failure of one of the rocket's side boosters. The crew landed safely, and was rescheduled for March 2019 on Soyuz MS-12. The United States returned to spaceflight on 13 December with the successful suborbital spaceflight of VSS Unity Flight VP-03. The flight did not reach the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line (100\u00a0km) but it did cross the US definition of space (50\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284456-0002-0001", "contents": "2018 in spaceflight, Overview, Human spaceflight\nAs per United States convention, it was the first human spaceflight launched from the U.S. since the last Space shuttle flight STS-135 in 2011. Astronauts Mark P. Stucky and Frederick W. Sturckow both received their FAA Commercial Astronaut Wings on 7 February 2019. The return of the United States to human orbital spaceflight was further delayed to 2019, as Boeing and SpaceX, under NASA supervision, performed further tests on their commercial crew spacecraft under development: Starliner on Atlas V and SpaceX Dragon 2 on Falcon 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284456-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in spaceflight, Overview, Rocket innovation\nAfter a failed launch in 2017, the Electron rocket reached orbit with its second flight in January; manufactured by Rocket Lab, it is the first orbital rocket equipped with electric pump-fed engines. On 3 February, the Japanese SS-520-5 rocket (a modified sounding rocket) successfully delivered a 3U CubeSat to orbit, thus becoming the lightest and smallest orbital launch vehicle ever. On 6 February, SpaceX performed the much-delayed test flight of Falcon Heavy, carrying a car and a mannequin to a heliocentric orbit beyond Mars. Falcon Heavy is the most powerful rocket currently operational. On 27 October, LandSpace launched Zhuque-1, the first privately developed rocket in China; it failed to reach orbit. On 13 December Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo reached 82.7\u00a0km, below the internationally recognized K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line but above the 50-mile definition of space used by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 967]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284456-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in spaceflight, Overview, Accelerating activity\nThe global activity of the launch industry grew significantly in 2018. 114 launches were conducted over the full year, compared with 91 in 2017, a 25% increase. Only three missions failed fully or partially in 2018, compared with eight failures in 2017. In August, China surpassed its previous record of 22 launches in 2016, and ended the year with a total 39 launches, also more launches than any other country in 2018. The 100th orbital launch of the year occurred on 3 December, exceeding all yearly tallies since the end of the Cold War space race in 1991.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284456-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in spaceflight, Orbital launch statistics, By country\nFor the purposes of this section, the yearly tally of orbital launches by country assigns each flight to the country of origin of the rocket, not to the launch services provider or the spaceport. As examples, Soyuz launches by Arianespace in Kourou are counted under Russia because Soyuz-2 is a Russian rocket and Electron launches from Mahia in New Zealand count as USA launches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284457-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in sport climbing\nThis article lists the main sport climbing competitions and their results for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284458-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in sports\n2018 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. The main events for this year were the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284459-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in squash sport\nThis article lists the results for the sport of Squash in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284460-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in stand-up comedy\nThis is a timeline documenting events and facts about stand-up comedy in the year 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284461-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in sumo\nThe following are the events in professional sumo during 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 75]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284462-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in table tennis\nThis page lists notable table tennis events taking place in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284463-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in technology and computing\nSignificant events that have occurred in 2018 in all fields of technology, including computing, robotics, electronics, as well as any other areas of technology as well, including any machines, devices, or other technological developments, occurrences, and items.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284464-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in tennis\nThis page covers important events in the sport of tennis in 2018. Primarily, it provides the results of notable tournaments throughout the year on both the ATP and WTA Tours, the Davis Cup, and the Fed Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284465-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Bahamas\nThis article lists events from the year 2018 in the Bahamas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284465-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Bahamas, Links\nMedia related to 2018 in the Bahamas at Wikimedia Commons", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284466-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the British Virgin Islands\nEvents from the year 2018 in the British Virgin Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284467-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Central African Republic\nEvents in the year 2018 in the Central African Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284469-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\nEvents in the year 2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284469-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Events, May\n8 May \u2013 The 2018 \u00c9quateur province Ebola virus outbreak begins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284469-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Events, July\n24 July \u2013 The WHO declares the \u00c9quateur province Ebola virus outbreak over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284469-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Events, August\n1 August \u2013 Another Ebola virus outbreak was confirmed in Kivu in the eastern region of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284469-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Events, December\n23 December \u2013 scheduled date for the Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 2018", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284472-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Federated States of Micronesia\nEvents in the year 2018 in the Federated States of Micronesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284475-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Netherlands\nThis article lists major events that happened in 2018 in the Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284476-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Northern Mariana Islands\nEvents in the year 2018 in the Northern Mariana Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284477-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Philippines\n2018 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284477-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Philippines, Holidays\nOn July 17, 2017, the government announced at least 18 Philippine holidays for 2018 as declared by virtue of Proclamation No. 269, series of 2017. Note that in the list, holidays in italics are \"special non-working holidays,\" those in bold are \"regular holidays,\" and those in non-italics and non-bold are \"special holidays for schools.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284477-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Philippines, Holidays\nIn addition, several other places observe local holidays, such as the foundation of their town. These are also \"special days.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284478-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Republic of Macedonia\nThe following lists events from the year 2018 in the Republic of Macedonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284479-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the Republic of the Congo\nEvents in the year 2018 in the Republic of the Congo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284480-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the State of Palestine\nEvents in the year 2018 in the State of Palestine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284481-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the United Arab Emirates\nEvents in the year 2018 in the United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284483-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the United States\nThis is a list of events in the year 2018 in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284484-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the United States Armed Forces\nThis is a list of events in the year 2018 in the United States Armed Forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284485-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in the sport of athletics\nIn 2018, no world outdoor athletics championships was held. Major events held during the year included the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships, 2018 IAAF Continental Cup, 2018 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships, and 2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284486-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in triathlon\nThis article consists of the ITU and Ironman Triathlon events for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284487-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in video games\nNumerous video games were released in 2018. Best-selling games included Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Marvel's Spider-Man, Red Dead Redemption 2, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Far Cry 5, God of War, Monster Hunter: World, and Dragon Ball FighterZ. Games highly regarded by video game critics released in 2018 included Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Marvel's Spider-Man, Forza Horizon 4, Monster Hunter: World, Dead Cells, Return of the Obra Dinn, and Celeste. The year's highest-grossing games included Fortnite, Honor of Kings/Arena of Valor, Dungeon Fighter Online, League of Legends, and Pok\u00e9mon Go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284487-0001-0000", "contents": "2018 in video games\nAmong major trends in 2018 included the explosive growth of battle royale games such as Bluehole's PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Epic Games' Fortnite Battle Royale, the resurgence of Pok\u00e9mon Go, ongoing governmental review of loot boxes in light of national gambling restrictions, Sony Interactive Entertainment agreeing to allow cross-platform play between PlayStation 4 and other console users, and the entry of Fortnite-related internet memes into popular culture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284487-0001-0001", "contents": "2018 in video games\nWith Fortnite's success, Epic was able to establish the Epic Games Store for personal computers as a strong competitor to the dominant but criticized position held by Valve's Steam digital storefront by significantly increasing the revenue split it gave to developers. Additionally, with a number of major sudden studio closures, including Telltale Games, there was an increasing call for video game developers to unionize. A nearly year-long freeze on video game approvals by the Chinese government had a major impact on publishers Tencent and NetEase, and is expected to impact future revenues in the industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284487-0002-0000", "contents": "2018 in video games, Top-rated games, Critically acclaimed games\nMetacritic is an aggregator of video game journalism reviews. It generally considers expansions and re-releases as separate entities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 64], "content_span": [65, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284487-0003-0000", "contents": "2018 in video games, Top-rated games, Critically acclaimed games\nHighly scoring games with fewer than 10 reviews included Owlboy, The Banner Saga 3, and the Nintendo Switch ports of Undertale and Bastion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 64], "content_span": [65, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284487-0004-0000", "contents": "2018 in video games, Financial performance\nAccording to industry analysis firm NewZoo, the video game industry was worth $134.9 billion by revenues in 2018, a 10.9% growth over 2017. Of this, 47% of the revenues were generated from mobile gaming, with consoles taking 28% and personal computers taking the remaining 25%. The top five largest video game markets of 2018 were China ($34.4 billion), the United States ($31.5 billion), Japan ($17.7 billion), South Korea ($5.8 billion), and Germany ($5 billion).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284487-0005-0000", "contents": "2018 in video games, Financial performance\nAccording to the NPD Group, total revenue from the video game industry, including hardware, software, and accessories, in the United States grew by 17% to US$43.4 billion, nearly matching revenues for the American film industry for 2018. Of that, US$35.8 billion were from software sales, digital content, and subscriptions. Hardware sales, at US$7.5 billion, were up 15% from 2017, as despite the fact that there was no new hardware releases, several system-exclusive titles helped to drive hardware sales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284487-0006-0000", "contents": "2018 in video games, Financial performance\nLicensed merchandise based on video game franchises generated $20.68 billion in 2018 retail sales, a rise of 6.1% compared to 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284487-0007-0000", "contents": "2018 in video games, Financial performance, Highest-grossing games\nThe following were 2018's top ten highest-grossing video games in terms of worldwide digital revenue (including digital purchases, microtransactions, free-to-play and pay-to-play) across all platforms (including mobile, PC and console platforms). Six of the top ten highest-grossing games are published or owned by Tencent, including the top five titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284487-0008-0000", "contents": "2018 in video games, Financial performance, Highest-grossing games\nThe video game franchise that has generated the highest licensed merchandise sales is Pok\u00e9mon. Other video game franchises with significant licensed merchandise sales include Sonic The Hedgehog, Mario, Call of Duty, Overwatch, Roblox, Halo, Fortnite and Minecraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284487-0009-0000", "contents": "2018 in video games, Financial performance, Best-selling games by region\nThe following were 2018's top ten best-selling video games by region, in terms of software units sold (excluding microtransactions and free-to-play titles) on PC and console platforms, for the United States, Japan, and Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284487-0010-0000", "contents": "2018 in video games, Game releases, Series with new entries\nSeries with new installments in 2018 include Anno, Assassin's Creed, Battlefield, Bloons Tower Defense, Bayonetta, Bit.Trip, BlazBlue, Bomberman, Call of Duty, Darksiders, Digimon, Donkey Kong, Dragon Ball, Dynasty Warriors, Earth Defense Force, Fallout, Far Cry, Forza, God of War, Hitman, Just Cause, Kirby, Life Is Strange, Mario Party, Mario Tennis, Mega Man, Monster Hunter, Ni no Kuni, Persona, Pillars of Eternity, Pok\u00e9mon, Red Dead, Sakura Wars, Science Adventure, Shantae, Soulcalibur, Spider-Man, Spyro, State of Decay, Super Smash Bros., The Bard's Tale, The Crew, The Walking Dead, Tomb Raider, Tropico, Valkyria Chronicles, Warhammer, and Wolfenstein", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284488-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in volleyball\nThe following were the events of Volleyball for the year 2018 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00284490-0000-0000", "contents": "2018 in weightlifting\nThis article lists the main weightlifting events and their results for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 98]}}